[Day: Tuesday, June 22nd. Time: 8:00 p.m.] [You're back in Japan! Man, that took a while. But anyhow, you took a day off, and now it's back to the ol' familiar clubroom. The recruits, meanwhile, are going to rest up today before heading back to their respective countries tomorrow. So now what?] [Session Start] * Maria sits on the cieling, looking hale and hearty. ^_^ [Chie and Rei are still a bit tired, Lazar's still a bit hurt, and Chomei is still a bit injured and tired.] (I'm both hurt AND tired.) (You're lame.) (And lame.) * Makoto leans against the wall, spinning a yo-yo with a spiral painted on each side. He appears content to be back in his familiar spot. "Well," he says after a while. "China was fun." * Lazar is sitting cross-legged on the floor, playing with his Slinky. He has his illusion active again, but it was down when you all first came in, and the gaping chasms in his stony frame were looking significantly less chasmy. No it wasn't. Yes, like slow-dance with were-skunk. * Rei comes running in frantically, fully and clashingly clothed (thank you) and tail trailing behind her. She looks around. "Makoto! I gotta talk to you for a second!" She pauses. "And what color's your shirt?" Sure it was. There were all of those-- Hi, Rei! Okay, we can talk. * Makoto looks down at his shirt. * Chie strolls into the clubroom. She's looking a bit different from usual, as she's wearing a white v-neck T-shirt, blue denim overalls, a black leather jacket, and black work shoes. She looks cute, in a "but I will still gladly kick your ass" way. And her hair is bright orange now! Great! Bye! Nice hair, Chie! That's orange, right? Or is it red? Yellow? * Chie waves to the group. "Hey, guys!" * Chie grins. "Orange, yep!" It's indigo. * Maria giggles. Oh, okay. So Chie's hair is indigo and Makoto's shirt is orange. Got it. * Chie sticks her tongue out at Makoto, then looks over her shoulder. "Did I lose him on the way in?" * Rei grabs Makoto by the arm and kindasorta attempts to drag him out of the room. Hi, Chie. Nice hair. And Rei... as interesting as it might be to-- wah, being dragged now... * Makoto allows himself to be pulled out of the room. * Chomei follows Chie into the clubroom, wearing similiar attire to before. He waves to the amassed people somewhat tiredly as he enters. "Hey guys." * Rei waves at Chomei on her way out. Dragdrag. * Chie watches them go. "Okay..." She pulls a chair out and flops into it. Hi, Chomei. Bye, Chomei! * Chomei smirks. "Bye Makoto." And Rei too. * Makoto disappears into the hallway behind Rei. It's so good to be back. I missed Japan. And my bike. * Maria heads over to the part of the cieling right next to the door. * Lazar looks up at Chie. "Hello many little ones what enter room at same time. Bye bye one of entering little ones and one what here before." * Chomei leans against the wall, as usual. "Good to be home." I missed my pad. And my fridges. And my snack foods. And understanding people. * Maria listens through the door. Don't evesdrop, Maria. What they do is their buisness. * Chie takes off her jacket and drapes it over the back of her chair. * Maria sticks her tongue out at Chomei. He's lame. Who cares what he thinks? So, Laz, how're you feeling? * Chomei cracks his neck and stretches, wincing a little. Apparently, he still has some sore spots. Much better. Still look like spent few hours asleep in construction site, but nowhere near bad as before. Well, that's good. Great! How all you doing? I've been better, but definetly much more able than before. I got home from the airport, and I slept. Then I woke up and did my hair, then I napped some more. Then I shoved all my clothes that aren't ruined beyond repair into the laundry. Then I picked up Chomei, and came here. So, overall I'm good. Just a bit tired still. And I need to go clothes-shopping at some point. * Chie makes a face. I'm feelin' pretty good, actually. Glad I'm home. * Chomei smirks. "We could just go fabric shopping instead... I do hope we don't have anything too dire to take care of today." * Chie looks at Chomei. "You'd make stuff for me? Cool! And, yeah, not dire would be good." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6) and gets 5. Is good, is good... you change hair, Chie? Yep! The universe apparently doesn't like it when I have yellow hair. I was overdue for a change, really. * Lazar nods. "Different clothes, too. No as... well, black as usual, no?" Like I said, most of my stuff's either in the laundry or somewhat irrepairable. But, hey, everything good needs replacing. * Chomei shrugs. "It's the least I could do. Anyway, maybe you could help me design something. I think I'm due for a change..." Well, we can always get new clothes. 'S not like it's hard. * Chie grins at Chomei. "But of course! I'd be happy to." * Lazar eyes Chomei warily. "You knit? What you, my grandmother?" He sews, Laz. And he cooks, too. I think. * Chie looks at Chomei. "Hey, do you clean, too?" ... of course, my grandmother once kill zombie by throwing knit needle through head, so no is so bad thing. ( Lazar's grandmother could take y'all on. :P ) * Chomei smirks at Chie. "Don't push it." * Chie snaps her fingers. "Was worth a shot." * Maria hops down to the floor and paces a bit. * Lazar blinks at Chomei. "You cook too... you is my grandma!" *runs over to Chomei; glomps* * Chie cracks up. "Hey!" * Maria blinks, confused. * Chie collapses into helpless laughter. * Chomei urks. "I'm no grandma. Now, let go before my face turns the shade of my hair." * Lazar picks Chomei up, and rotates him left and right a bit. "Grandma, what big hair you have." 'Grandma' is gonna kick your ass if you don't put them down. <.< * Chie nearly falls out of her chair. All the better to dye it with, Laz. * Maria doesn't seem to get it, but is giggling anyway since it's just plain weird. * Lazar puts Chomei down gently. "No kick golem ass. Is good way to break foot." * Chomei brushes himself down. "I agree completly. And I may be a cook, but I'm not a good cook." If you cook at all, then you've still got me beat. * Chie winks. I no could cook even before I no more needed to eat. * Maria yawns again. "Wonder what they're gonna have us do today. ...and who's gonna have us do it." Dunno. If nobody calls soon, though, I'm seriously considering having movie night at my place. You guys up for it? * Chomei shrugs. "Sure. But tomorrow, I think we should bid farewell to the recruits, if not only for holding down the fort." * Maria grins. "Sure." It beat sitting alone and meditating to get missing golem pieces back. Yeah. They did a good job. No major disasters in our absence! ( That's what WE think... ) Yeah. City's in one piece, at least. Or as many pieces as we left it. Tokyo Tower's still standing. (And right side up!) * Lazar nods. "They do good. No as good place to learn as Transylvania, but Japan no half bad." *grins* * Chie drums her fingers on the table. "Oh, yeah. I need to talk to the prof sometime." 'bout what? Well, when I was out because of the lizard poison thing... I had these dreams. Or maybe hallucinations. Or maybe I was really there. I don't know. They were weird. Oh, that's right. You were gonna explain them... But it'd be best if the Prof was here too. * Maria blinks. "What kinda' dreams?" Makoto said he transferred to the archives division, though. I don't think he's coming back. So I'm gonna have to call him, maybe get him to look into 'em. But, yeah. Weird dreams. I was in this room, then I was wandering through a forest, and I came across this old guy. He said somethin' about a path of power, and a path of knowledge, and disaster if I didn't choose one. ...Cool! ... power good. But knowledge good too. So I picked the path of knowledge. Which seems kinda weird, now that I think about it, but it made sense at the time. I guess I'd rather earn my own power than have it given to me. ... what is saying? Knowledge is power? * Maria shrugs. "Well, knowledge is a sort of power in itself, really. " * Chie grins. "Yep. Which is true." ... hey, no sneak into head and steal thoughts! *shakes fist at Maria* * Chomei nods. ( That's Shig's job :P ) I mean, if you know what you're up against, you know how to take care of it. 'S how I managed, lately. And sneakin' and stealin' is just what I do, Laz, so nyah. ;P (o/~) Anyhow, after I walked for a bit, I came across a buncha doors. And a note, saying that I had to take one. Signed by Seiryuu, the (shudder) water god. So I went through, fell for a bit, then ended up in a hall of mirrors. Made my head hurt. Need put better locks on head... *muttermutter* * Chomei snerks. I found another door, and walked though... and this is where it gets really weird. Laz, you know that thing you're always playin' with? The slinky? There was one there. And it talked. * Maria grins. "No lock good enough." She continues listening to Chie, tho. ...talking slinky? Talking slinky. My subconscious is *really* screwed up, apparently. Are you sure this was wyvern poison and not some street drug the wyvern just happened to puck up? ... Right. It could be either. I really don't know. * Lazar eyes his Slinky warily. "You no go and get posessed on Lazar, right?" You guys ready for the strangest part? I guess. * Maria sits on the floor, just to make sure she's sitting. Let's hear it. * Rei comes marching in. "Ooh, secrets. Spill!" Chomei appear in tutu and sing about flowers and candy? Well, first it told me I was dying. Which might've been possible, I guess. I *was* poisoned, and you guys fixed me. Which, by the way, I haven't had a chance to thank you for. * Maria laughs. * Chie looks at everyone. "So, thanks." She smiles. And *no*, Laz. * Lazar gives Chie a thumbs up. Hey, you'd do the same for us. ~_^ * Makoto enters the room right behind Rei, grinning faintly as he closes the door behind him. He doesn't say anything, but judging by the way his gray eyes dart back and forth among the people who are talking, he's trying to catch up with whatever bits of conversation he missed, as quickly as possible. Woulda been interestin' though... anyhow. I argued with it for a bit. Told it I wasn't goin' anywhere yet. Which turned out to be right. But then... Well, you know that I'm supposed to have some sort of mysterious powers, right? [But then the phone rang, because we're runnin' out of time :P] Yeah? Oh, phone. (Phone Get!) Oh! * Chie jumps up and runs for the phone, out of instinct. * Rei grins. Hmmm? * Chomei looks up at the phone. * Chie grabs the phone. "Hello?" ( Curse you, Eoi-sensei.) This is the part where, if we listened to the rest of Chie's dream instead of answering the phone, we would have saved ourselves millions of yen in property damage and hospital bills, averted the near-destruction of the world, and gotten a free pizza all at once. ... phone. Maybe it Naomi, offering us pay raise. A pay raise would be good. (...is it too late to get an extra CP for Easily Distracted: Phone? ;p) "Depends. Who're you lookin' for?" ( Yes. Although that would be funny when you were in combat :P ) ( Hehe. Somebody's cell phone rings in the middle of Chie's attack. She drops her sword and fumbles for the phone. "Hello? Yes, this is--AUGH! Don't hit me, can't you see I'm on the phone!?" ) (*cracks up*) "That might be us, yeah. Who's this?" No! We can't miss the free pizza! ( If you used a naginata, you could talk on the phone and fight at the same time! ... be quiet, sensei. ) Pizza? Where? Makoto's just playin' with your head. * Chie switches to Chinese. "" * Rei tilts her head. * Maria frowns. "Awww. Not more Chinese." "" It's not somebody in China, so don't worry. "" Okay, maybe you can start worrying now. * Makoto sticks his tongue out at Chomei. "Says you, and we all know that you're a dirty wiz-- a noble archer. So I guess you're right." * Chomei breathes a sigh of relief. "Good. I'm not goin' back there anytime soon." "" * Chomei smirks. "And you're just a nasty lit- Respectable citizen of society. So you're just having good fun." ( Hey, no fighting while I'm on the phone! Wait until I get off! And make sure there's some clothes-ripping in there!) * Rei has a seat on a desk and tries to pay attention to Chie. Not Chomei and Makoto. ( If they clothes-rip, can they get started before you get off the phone?) ( Only if they save the good stuff for after I'm off.) "" * Lazar blinks at Chie, then looks over at Rei. "What going on? What worry about?" * Mechalink has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) I dunno yet. I'm not telepathic. That's my dad. * Makoto mutters. "Yeah. You wouldn't know much about having fun though, would you?" * Chie swtiches back to Japanese. "Yeah, hi. This Matthias?" * Chomei eyes Makoto. "I heard that." (He *did*?) Good. Maybe it'll give you something to think about. I'll check back with you in an hour to see whether you've figured out anything past the first word. Maybe I should have fun ripping your heart out. (Oh, go out back and beat each other up already. That's what guys do, right?) ( Sure. 'Cause they're MANLY. ) (Wow. Chie is totally missing this because she's paying attention to the phone.) (And they're not as MANLY! as I am.) * Rei tries to keep paying attention to Chie, and fails, because the Makoto/Chomei conversation is a lot more interesting. * Makoto smirks. "Do you have an arrow for that, too?" "Right, sorry. What's going on?" * Chomei smirks back. "I could always make one. Don't tempt me, I don't want to distract you too much from your 'studies'." "Damn, that's freaky. So, you have any idea where this creep might be?" (Yes. Kate and I are truly MANLY!) (^_^) * Maria thwaps Makoto and Chomei upside the head. "No fighting indoors, boys." Hah, I hope you ~do~ make an arrow for it. With your aim I wouldn't have anything to worry abou--oof. (Can't decide if I should laugh, or try to bean both of you with a hockey stick and then grunt :P) (Aww, you met me, Gryph! I'm MANLY! ^_~) (I thought I was the one who smacked people with hockey sticks.) "Lovely. And Matthias and Xiang-Fei went on ahead? Swell. Okay, where should we meet you?" * Chomei hmphs and pays more attention to Chie's conversation. (Makes a note to find a way to get his stick to Acen) (Ack. ^_~) Yes. No fight or next time I smack sense into you two. "Okay, but where should we be headin' then?" "Gotcha. Here's my cell number." *recites number* "We'll catch you later, Shiho. Be careful." "Will do." * Chie hangs up the phone, then turns to the others. "Story time'll have to wait 'til later, guys. We've got a job to do." What's up? No free pizza? Job first, pizza later. Awww. But pizza's tasty. While we were gone, there's been this guy who's been killing people and taking their eyes. Matthias thinks he's a wizard, planning some sorta ritual involving a maiden's heart. And he's got people workin' for him. Possibly drug dealers. But what if it's possessed pizza? With hungry pepperoni? It'll find *you* tasty, and your sho- wait. Eyes? ( ... it's Togo! ) Eyes, yeah. And heart. Can you do a search on that, Rei? What kinda proof does he have? Eyes? Ew. * Rei is already on it, pulling BOX out of her backpack and typing away. Proof? Aside from dead eyeless people? * Makoto wrinkles his nose. Wizards. Oh, you mean the wizard. That, I don't know. Anyhow, wizard or no, this guy does have people workin' for him, and that's what they want us to check out. ... no nice to mess with dead. Unless they undead. That different. But if they're undead, they're not dead. Right? * Rei eyes BOX. "Damnit! It's the twenty-first century. You'd think they could afford a better processor. Or search engine. Or both. Maybe some new computers. Better connections? It's not like I always have tons of time here." Undead like dead, but un. Xiang-Fei and Matthias headed out already, and Shiho wants us to check out Not a nice place, so we should be on our guard. Not like we aren't already, but, y'know, never hurts to be extra careful. * Makoto nods thoughtfully. * Rei goes back to typing. Do you have any more information about this, Chie? Should I disguise myself as a thug? Yakuza? Slum lord? Or are we just going natural? * Chie reaches into her pocket and pulls out her cell phone. "Anybody know how to set one of these so that it doesn't ring real loud? The quieter the better. This's how they're gonna contact us, so I don't want it alertin' people." * Chomei nods. "We have a job to do. And hand it over here Chie." * Chie turns to Rei. "Lessee... drug dealers, wizard, eyes, maiden's heart, location... no, that's about it." * Chie tosses her cell to Chomei. * Chomei catches it, sets it to vibrate, and tosses it back. He turns his cell- phone off. It'll vibrate if someone calls ya now." Drug dealers, huh? Shouldn't be too hard to find. * Chie catches it and slips it back into her pocket. "Thanks. Vibrate, huh?" She smirks briefly. * Makoto absently produces his own cell phone from one of his pockets, and sets it to vibrate as well. [Makoto's cell phone vibrates!] Eh? * Chomei shrugs. "Gets the job done." * Makoto answers the phone. "Hello?" Hey, if it works, it works. Found anythin' out, Rei? Huh. I need to get one of those. [Some guy with an accent says loudly. "Hello?! I am liking to buy bowl of cheese dip! Please to be processing order for delivery!" ] Right, certainly. Just let me pull up the menu, sir... (*click*?) * Makoto rummages around for a pen and a piece of paper. "Okay, I'm ready. Can I have your full name and credit card number, sir?" (Bwahaha.) (Makoto, you are my hero.) * Chomei chuckles softly. * Lazar tilts his head at Makoto. * Chie stifles a snicker. * Maria grins. * Rei sighs. "Okay, we got a problem. It looks like everyone *loves* using eyes and virgin hearts for spells or dimensional portals or cheese dip or whatever the hell- hmm, must be some evil cheese dip." Swell. Anything that matches the location I gave you? "Yes, my name is-" He sneezes. "Credit card number is 1234567890?1. Please to be processing and sending order now!" But is it tasty? (Question mark is a number?) Okay, will do sir. If I can have your address and phone number, I'll complete the order and your cheese dip will be shipped out right away. [He blurts out an address and a phone number.] * Rei scratches the back of her head. "Is there s'posed to be something special about that place?" Dunno. Coulda been used for a lair of darkness in the past or somethin'. If you can't find anythin', that's okay. We should probably head out soon. * Makoto writes them down as best he can anyway. "Thank you very much, sir. We'll get that order out as soon as you call the right number. This isn't a cheese dip store. Thanks for the credit card number, though." "Nonono! This is right number! Please to be sending my cheese dip!" * Rei blinks, then nods. She gives it a quick look up. ( Makoto: Worst criminal EVER. ) * Maria is giggling. GIGGLE. I was just playin' with you, sir. We're a very light-hearted cheese dip store. I'll, uh... get right on this order. Honest. Bye! Enjoy your dip! * Makoto hangs up. That was ~WEIRD.~ * Chie snickers. "I'll have to think about doin' that next time I get a wrong number." She smirks. * Lazar is confuzzled. @_@ We should see if that number works. In other news, nothing on that place, outside of that it's slums and nobody goes there. Which would make it great for murdering small children. * Chomei shrugs. "I wouldn't, but certainly amusing." Hey, Rei, can you cross-reference this address with whatever you're looking up? It's probably nothing, but maybe--just maybe--this insane man's desire for evil cheese dip is some kind of clue. * Makoto hands the slip of paper to Rei. * Rei snickers and takes a look. And when you're finished, I need that back. I want to get some ground effects for my car without actually paying for them. * Rei hands it back. * Makoto pockets the paper. I am in awe of your evilness, Makoto. Nothing we can use. The address exists, though. * Chie winks. * Makoto winks back at Chie. "I live to serve, Chie." Ah, well. It was worth a try. Maybe I'll check it out in my own time some day. Suuure you do. Anyhow. Yay, slums. * Rei snaps BOX shut and tucks it away. "Sure, I'll come with! I can make some cheese dip." * Maria hums. "Slums and nobody goes there? What area? I might know it." * Makoto whistles a bit of that hit song from two years ago: "Who Need Rich Girls When You Can Slum?" (*facepalm*) (*sigh) ... what word 'slum' mean? Crappy neighborhood. [Said song climbed past any of that junk that Me First and the Gimme Gimmes ever did.] Part of the city that nobody cares about. Now, where exactly are they? Ah, okay. So we go find drug dealers, beat up until they tell us were wizard guy what steal eyes is? * Makoto reaches up to put a hand on Lazar's shoulder. "It is also a verb that means dating girls or guys who are in a considerably lower income bracket than you are. The idea, see, is--oh... you probably don't care." * Maria EYES Makoto. _ * Rei watches Makoto, her tail twitching slightly. Anyhow. How're we gettin' there? Getting where? I can drive! One person. And you can drive one person. And Makoto can drive more than one person. And Lazar... uh... hrm. * Lazar blinks at Makoto. "Who care how much money they have? In terms of what look for in woman, that rank somewhere between projectile vomit distance and nose hair length." * Chomei eyes Makoto. "On your own time. Right now, we have a *ehem* local to check out." And Lazar can wreck Makoto's suspension. Yay! Ah... yes. Ahem. I could probably get Lazar in my car, just not too often. 'kay, I'm gonna guess that you'll be ridin' with me, Chomei? * Chomei nods. "Probably safest ride here." * Chie laughs. "That's scary." Or maybe I just don't want to put any more pressure on Makoto's car than Lazar is. Hey, I no that hea- well, yes, I is. * Makoto grins. Okay, okay. I think we have a plan. Ready to go? Yep! * Rei hops to her feet. "Okay! Maria, wanna come with me?" Manic grin back into place and all. (( Let's please forget about that thing that I said that made everybody disgusted with me. )) * Maria grins. "Sure! I still don't know where we're going, but I guess I'll find out when we get there!" ( How come nobody give me brownie point for saying gentlemanly thing? ;_; ) It'll be like an adventure, only with a capital A! So Adventure! ( I would have given you a brownie point, Lazar, but you probably wouldn't want one from me anyway. ) ... Right. Let's go. (I dunno, Makoto can be the right gender if he wants.) Adventure! What's that? Going! ( True. ) * Chie heads out the door. * Chomei follows! Gone! * Makoto goes, too! We'll get there first! * Rei opens the window and waves for Maria to follow her, then jumps out. They're insane. (Cheaters!) * Lazar lumbers out the door after Makoto. Why? Because when you're 800 lbs, you don't traipse. =P [And off they head to save the world! Will they succeed? You'll just have to find out next time.] [Session End]