[Day/Time: Unknown.] [You're still in Hell. Why? You ought to consider leaving before you get eaten or something. Oh, and you got the demon-killing weapons. Yay!] [MC2.com, session start!] ( My descriptions get better all the time! ) If I haven't said it before... Hell sucks. ...guys? Why're we still in Hell? I think I speak for all of us when I ask... Can we go *home* now? I don't fuckin' know. Where's Rei? * Lazar is just kind of standing around, illusion active, 'dressed' in his usual t-shirt and cargo pants. His two-handed sword is resting, flat of the balde first, on his shoulder. [Rei's there. She's just got little swirly eyes and making whistling noises.] (Heh. Cute.) (What about Makoto?) * Maria looks at Rei. "Depends on how you mean it." ( Makoto got a free ticket out of Hell. ) * Chie looks over at Rei. "Uh, yeah. Physically, she's here. Mentally... who knows? Okay, Asanjya.. You can call for the taxi any time now. * Lazar sighs, and hefts Rei over his free shoulder with the arm *not* holding the sword. "There. Rei ready to go." * Asanjya is sitting, somewhere, toying with the knife. "Oh... oh! Oh, yeah, okay." She pulls out a small book and leafs through it, squinting. ( [Asanjya finds a "Call a cab!" spell.] ) ( "Gone, gone, o form of man! And rise the demon, Et- oh, wait. Wrong spell." "..." ) Ooookay. Um.... Hail, illustrious Gaap, please get your great demon behind down here again so you can complete the bargain and return us unharmed from Hell, et cetera, et cetera. * Asanjya waves her hands a little. * Maria blinks. [A taxi appears out of nowhere and passes you by!] * Maria blinks again. ... I think he miss. Wasn't it supposed to stop? [It screeches to a halt, then backs up.] Ah. There we go. Yeah, here he comes. * Rei wakes up. "Taxi!" She falls off Lazar's shoulder. You okay, Rei? * Chie goes to help her up. ... Right. * Maria helps Rei up. "She's prolly fine." [The door opens, and a big demon kinda like a gargoyle with glowing red eyes opens the door and gets out. It's a wonder how it could have fit in there, being about 12 feet tall.] * Lazar blinks. "... you no supposed to fall off shoulder. Hmm. Grip must be going." * Chie waves to the demon. "Hi there! You headin' back to earth?" [It bellows: "YO!!! DID YOU CALL A CAB?!??!"] * Chie winces. "Err, yeah." * Maria covers her ears. "Maybe!" * Asanjya chirps. "Yup!" [The taxi back door opens and a red carpet is rolled out in your direction. Or... it might be a tongue. Either way, the hint is there.] * Chie takes it and gets right on in. ["AWRIGHT!! GET IN BOYS AND GOYLES!"] Goodbye, hell! May I *never* have to come back again! * Rei is helped up and looks at the tongue-carpet-thing. "It's gonna eat us? I'm gonna be cab food! Taxi fare! Wait for me!" She scrambles after Chie. ... * Maria hops in. * Asanjya gets in, humming. * Chomei walks in calmly behind the hurrying Rei. * Lazar heads in, trying, as usual, to find somewhere to sit where a sharp turn won't lead to him squishing someone. ( ...Taxi fare. HAR. ) [Does Lazar not want to squish anyone when the car turns left, or when it turns right?] ( Lazar doesn't want to squish anyone, period. =P ) [Lazar chooses to stay behind.] (If we need extra room, I can always sit on Chomei's lap. ^_~) (^_^_v) * Maria sits on the cieling to save room. * Lazar sighs, and sits to the left, figuring on holding onto the door for dear life. He puts his sword between his legs so he doesn't stab anyone. Normally a bad idea for a guy, but hey, he's a golem. * Asanjya pulls out a well-thumbed through paperback and reads, still humming. She's next to Lazar. * Lazar eyes Maria curiously, tilting his head to try'n see her right- side up. * Maria reads over Asanjya's shoulder. [The demon gets in once you're all in as well, and bellows "AWIGHT!! EARTH, YOU SAY?!?!"] Yep! Tokyo suburbs, please! Asanjya, maybe you'd better give him exact directions. * Lazar realizes that his neck doesn't bend that way, and settles for eyeing Maria curiously upside down. * Maria tries to maintain concentration on the book and fails. "Suburbs?" [The demon steps on the wheel and the cab screeches off! Zoom! Everyone gimme body rolls, +2] 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6+2) and gets 8. * Atom rolls for Chie (2d6+2) and gets 6. * Asanjya looks up and rattles off some string of numbers that probably correspond to a dimensional location. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+2) and gets 9. 2d6+2 * Atom rolls for Chomei (2d6+2) and gets 7. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6+2) and gets 7. ( SS count for trying to hold onto the door? =P ) (Nope!) 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (2d6+2) and gets 11. * Atom rolls for Asanjya (2d6+2) and gets 8. (... ;_;) (Wait... I DID make that!) 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6+2) and gets 11. * Atom rolls for Maria (2d6+2) and gets 11. (Nevermind, made it. ^_^) (I would tell him if ever I remembered.) (Yeah, Chomei, I was gonna say...) ( ...I hate you both, dicebots. ) ( Brett: SS apply if I was gonna hold onto the door for leverage? ) ( Nope ) ( Shucks. ) 2d6+2 * Atom rolls for Lazar (2d6+2) and gets 9. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+2) and gets 7. ( Oh hell no. =P ) (Wait, didn't you make it?) (With Dicey. Not Atom.) ( Lazar only has a 7 Body. ) (Wow, that's the same as Chomei.) ( ... wait. Dicey was 2nd ) ( Does being able to cling to surfaces apply? ;P ) ( Made it! ) ( No :P ) ( *kicks Atom for confusing him* ) ( Actually, kicking Atom may not be such a bad idea. ;P ) [The ride is much shorter and much bumpier than last time. The cab screechs to a halt somewhere that might be Tokyo. Better hope so, most of you feel pretty sick after that.] [It's currently night time!] (... How would Lazar be sick?) Urk. (Just out of morbid curiousity.) Euuuoui. @_@ That's almost, but not quite, as bad as Francine's driving. ( Karmic sickness. ) ( Lazar is the only one who doesn't have to worry about throwing up. ) (Ooooh. Okay.) * Chomei puts his arm around Chie and looks at her. "You okay?" * Lazar gets out of the cab. "Was no so bad... then again, I no have stomach to be sick to." * Asanjya looks green. "Oog. Shouldn't have been reading." "AWIGHT!!!!! WE IN TOKYO!!! HAVE A NICE TIME!!!!!" * Chie swallows. "Gimme... a minute..." * Lazar hefts his sword back over his shoulder. * Chomei nods and helps her out of the car after he gets out. * Maria gets out of the car quickly. * Rei climbs out, woozes, and nearly falls over. Her looking green from crazy driving is plenty unusual. "Uuuugh." * Chie is helped out. Normally, she'd protest or something, but she's feeling a bit too sick to make the effort. * Asanjya stumbles out of the cab when it's her turn. * Maria has a seat on the curb and takes a few Slow Deep Breaths to calm her stomach. * Chie straightens up once she's outside and takes a few breaths. "Thanks." * Lazar helps prop up the various sickly little ones. "Lean on golem if need. I make good post." * Chomei doesn't look sick. Must have a hardened stomach from that castor oil... * Asanjya takes the opportunity to lean on Lazar, then looks around. "Where are we?" (Yes. You gained invincibility to stomach sickness for the rest of the campaign. ^_~) [The cab driver yells "NO PROBLEM LADY!!!" and drives off, um, downward. The cab leaves an echoing evil laugh in its wake.] * Chomei smiles, then looks around. "Got me." * Maria glances around. Where are we? This isn't where I was expecting to end up. [You appear to be in a parking lot. Nearby is a Suburb, the popular fast-food cold-cut sandwich restaurant chain.] But it's not hell! Definite plus already. * Chomei nods. ... I no think we in Kansas any more... not that we ever in Kansas. Still. Definatly a plus. * Rei wobbles. Rei wobbles some more. "Motion-sickness sucks. I vote I never get it again." * Lazar ponders. "Is anyone ever in kansas anymore?" * Chie points to the sub shop. "We can always go in there and check for a map or somethin'." * Rei holds up her hand. "Seconded!" She falls over, towards Maria. ( Gimme hearing checks! ) 2d6 2d6+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 8. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6+3) and gets 10. * Atom rolls for Rei (2d6) and gets 5. * Atom rolls for Chomei (2d6+3) and gets 9. (Caaan I get a HELL NO?) (Someone turn Atom off. ;P) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 10. * Atom rolls for Chie (2d6) and gets 9. (Nope.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (2d6) and gets 11. * Atom rolls for Asanjya (2d6) and gets 10. (Yeah, really. Atom! You're muckin' up the works!) (...) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 7. * Atom rolls for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 2. ( Nope. ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 5. * Atom rolls for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 4. ( Yep. ) [Those who made it hear a lot of moaning coming from the Suburb.] (If I say, "What kind of moaning?" that might be taken wrong, but really. Is it like a groan or something?) ( Yeah ) Prolly not a good night to eat there. What? Maybe they just came from Hell, too. Or maybe they're zombies! Sounds like the food's giving someone trouble. Or someone could be in trouble. Cold-cut zombies. They're after the salami. ( To help burn extra calories, have a Roman Orgy! ) Huh? What's going on? Evil undead in a sub shop? * Rei points at the Suburb. "Assuming there's good undead, yes. Definitely." ( Subway: Eat Flesh. ) Or maybe someone has food poisoning! * Asanjya looks up, still leaning on Lazar. "Oh, no. More trouble." ( You can't tell me you didn't see this coming :P ) Is no you mom good Undead, Rei? Or maybe the food poisoning turns someone into a zombie! * Chie sighs. "That fits right in with what we usually do. Wanna go check it out?" We should. No is nice to let zombies eat people brains. * Rei nods at Lazar. "Assuming there's good undead, which there is, so yes. I'm glad we agree. Let's go, gang!" * Maria shrugs. "Sure, I guess. Couldn't be worse than Hell was." Okay. Onward! * Lazar taptaps Asanjya. "You okay to go?" * Asanjya stands up, if a bit wobbly. "Yup. I think." ( It's good to note that you're not completely recovered from your hellish war :P ) ... Right. * Chomei follows. (Oh? I thought we had time to get healed. ^^;) ( Depends on how long you spent in Hell >.> ) * Lazar eyes Asanjya warily, the shrugs. "Just stay behind big stone guy. Is usually safe there." * Maria stands and walks into the Suburb. (Well, we did want to get the there out of hell.) (*hides!*) * Asanjya strides forward, leaning on her staff a little. "Will do." * Lazar follows along, and enters... THE SUBURB! * Chie walks! She seems to be mostly recovered from the carsickness, at least. * Chomei keeps pace right behind Chie. * Rei goes, just wobbling a little. She tries doing the Marvin the Marshan walk and nearly falls over. ( Oh, how gallant. Letting the lady go into danger first. =P ) (I know. :P) (Hey, he's the long-range fighter and I'm the melee one. Makes perfect sense to me.) (Are you implying that I should hide behind him? Huh? ;p) ( Chivalry? Is that tasty? ) [Sure enough, upon entering the Suburb, you see several zombie workers, who shuffle, crawl, or otherwise try to move towards you, groaning and sometimes saying, "Brainzzzzzzzz...."] ( Roll init! ) ( YOU try keeping Chivalry alive around her.) Oh, yay! d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (d6+7) and gets 9. * Atom rolls for Chie (d6+7) and gets 11. You mean not haaaaaaaaamm? d6+6 * Atom rolls for Rei (d6+6) and gets 10. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (d6+6) and gets 7. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (d6+7) and gets 10. * Atom rolls for Chomei (d6+7) and gets 10. Or cheeeeeese? Rei, I thought zombies liked cheese. Saaaaaausaaaaaage. Me too! d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (d6+6) and gets 12. * Atom rolls for Asanjya (d6+6) and gets 10. d6+8 * Atom rolls for Maria (d6+8) and gets 13. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (d6+8) and gets 14. It's terribly disappointing. I thought maybe that was the reason they worked at the deli. d6+7 * Atom rolls for Lazar (d6+7) and gets 12. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (d6+7) and gets 8. Damn. Another illusion shattered. ... zombies usually no to dangerous, but no let them bite. And no let them eat brains. ... though second part kind of obvious. Why would zombies want sandwiches, though?> Eh, yeah Lazar. Let's get to the re-killing. I'll try, yeah. * Chomei summons Rownal, if he has a chance to. [Order: Maria, Chie, Chomei, Asanjya, Lazar, Rei, alla zombies.] * Maria wrinkles her nose. "Seriously. It's like refried beans. Why not get it right the first time? Ah well." ( And no, Chomei does not yet have the opportunity. ) [Maria's turn!] (*blinks* I'm going that early?) * Maria leaps at the nearest zombie, kicking at it's head! (called shot!) 2d6-4 (Aww, big meanie.) * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-4) and gets -2, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "Fight! For everlasting love and peace!" * Atom rolls for Maria (2d6-4) and gets 6. (Um... Maria's gonna make heads roll.) (Woo! Go Maria!) ( ::glomps Dicesuke:: ) (Literally.) (*whaps Chomei) (*is whapped) [Maria more or less liquifies the zombie.] [Chie's turn!] (Liquid zombie!) (How many zombies we got?) ( That you can see? 6 ) ( remaining ) * Maria makes a face at the mess. "Yiich." * Chie pulls out her standard sword and takes a slash at the nearest zombie. [Maria is covered in goo!] 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 1. * Atom rolls for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 1. (Made!) Ooh. Nice kick. [Chie slashes the zombie's arm off, although that doesn't stop it.] [Chomei's turn!] Good slash, too. Thanks, but I could do better. * Chomei summons Rownal. (End turn) [Asanjya's turn!] Thanks. Stupid zombies. * Asanjya takes a whack at a zombie brainpan with her staff. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (2d6-2) and gets 7. * Atom rolls for Asanjya (2d6-2) and gets 3. (No. ;_;) [Asanjya somehow misses a slow moving zombie. Go figure.] * Asanjya swings wide and almost falls over. [Lazar's turn!] * Lazar hefts his rather hefty 2-handed sword, and tries an overhand swing at one of the 'healthy' zombies. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 7. * Atom rolls for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 8. ( Made. ) (Lazar with a greatsword. I'm scared.) [Lazar hacks its head off. It doesn't mind.] [Rei's turn!] * Lazar blinks. "... hey! I chop off you head! You supposed to fall down now!" * Rei backs up, a familiar, bright sphere forming between her hands. "Ready, aim, fire! Disco Nova!" And it flies forward at Chie's zombie. 2d6-3 * Atom rolls for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 0. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 7. Give it time. (...) Wow. It's too stupid to die? ( Oh, sorry. ::collapses::) Man, what is with these things? Worst zombies ever. Try bisecting it next time. Maybe it's 'cause they're fast food zombies? [It also flies past Chie's zombie and destroys a slushie machine ;_;] [The zombieses turn!] [Turns. Whatever.] Darnit, Rei, what'd that slushie machine ever do to you? Nothing. It was gonna make her a bad slushy, tho. I could tell from the look in it's mixers. Ahh. Well, we can't have that. Take care of zombies now. Talk about dairy-type deserts later. It was looking at me funny, damnit. I can't have things look at me funny. It's *my* job to look at me funny. [One zombie tries to grab Asanjya, but fails. Three others try to attack Lazar, but it doesn't matter if they succeed or not. One tries to bite Chie, and she needs a def roll!] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 1. * Atom rolls for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 2. (Yep!) [Which she makes quite easily.] Bad zombie! [Three more zombies come out of the restroom.] [Maria's turn!] * Lazar eyes the zombies swarming around him, and shakes his head. "Silly zombies. Golems is no for food." Oh, doesn't *that* figure. I'll let you handle those guys, Laz. (*gets the remix of Asanjya's theme on WinAmp*) * Maria does the Maria Leaping Kick Attack at the zombie pestering Asanjya. 2d6-5 * Atom rolls for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 3. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets -2. ... if want, you guys can just stay back while I do this. May take while, but they no can hurt me. [Maria obliterates half of its head, but that doesn't stop it.] Just lemme take care of this one first. [Chie's turn!] ...yeah, too stupid to die. * Chie spins and takes a horizontal slash at the one she took an arm off of last time. 2d6-3 * Atom rolls for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 7. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 3. [Chie cuts it in half. This seems to be enough to stop it.] [Chomei's turn!] Yep, go for the bisection! Nice. ^_^ (Any more in combat with Chie, Maria or Anasajya?) Well, icky. But good cut. I told ya. ( One's in combat with Asanjya. ) (;-; Gonna pwn me, too.) * Chomei quickly takes aim at the one next to Asanjya and fires off a Energy bolt at it. 2d6-3 * Atom rolls for Chomei (2d6-3) and gets 7. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-3) and gets 7. (Yeah, made that.) [Chomei blows it in half.] [Asanjya's turn.] * Asanjya blinks as her zombie is destroyed, and then smiles at Chomei. "Thanks!" She backs off to safe range and starts chanting. (end turn) Can't let you turn into Zombie food. Hey, we're all about lookin' out for each other. Most of the time, at least. [Lazar's turn] * Lazar steps back from the zombies swarming around him, and uses his sword to try that bisecting thing that's all the rage with the kids nowadays. 2d6-2 * Atom rolls for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 5. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 8. ( ... no. ) [Lazar bisects a nearby half-eaten sandwich on a table. And takes a chunk out of the table itself.] [Rei's turn] Stupid swords. Aww, nice try, Laz. But the sandwich really didn't need to be cut again. Yeah. * Lazar blinks, then makes a rather pathetic attempt to save himself. "... stupid were-sandwich!" Okay. It's blastin' time, take two! Wonder if it's still good? * Chie raises an eyebrow. "Were-sandwich, Laz?" * Rei twirls, pauses for a sec, and creates the light. "Don't look into the light. Disco Nova!" She fires it off at the one Maria's fighting. 2d6-3 * Atom rolls for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 3. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 0. He's just tryin' to save his bacon. Bacon? Augh. What is it with you boys and the horrible puns? * Chie grins. [That one goes 'splodey.] * Maria manages to avoid the zombiegibs! [The zombies attack again! ... I forgot how many are left. Meep.] ( 5. ) [One zombie goes for Maria, the other 4 go for Lazar. Lazar doesn't have to worry about defense, but Maria does. Also, Chomei needs a perception check.] * Lazar shrugs helplessly. "I miss zombie. It embarassing." 2d6 * Atom rolls for Chomei (2d6) and gets 11. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6) and gets 8. 2d6-4 * Atom rolls for Maria (2d6-4) and gets 3. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-4) and gets 0. (Heeeeeell no.) ( Maria made her defense. ^_^ ) [Maria does not get bitten by a zombie. But Chomei does! One crawled out from under a nearby table and chomped his leg.] [Maria's turn again!] Dammit, stupid zombie! * Chie looks over. "Hey! You stop that right now!" * Maria kicks at the jaw of the zombie that tried to bite her! (Called shot!) Bad zombie! 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-4) and gets 0. * Atom rolls for Maria (2d6-4) and gets 5. ( Sucess! Prolly. ) [Maria kicks its jaw off. Doesn't put it down, though.] [Chie's turn!] Yeah. Bite me *now*, corpse-boy. No give ideas. * Chie rushes at the zombie that bit Chomei. She whispers as she goes and her sword starts glowing brightly with a white light that has a bluish tinge, rather than the usual silver. "Got somethin' new for you!" She brings it down in a powerful one-handed slash. "Eidolon Blade!" 2d6-3 * Atom rolls for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 2. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 1. (Made!) (By a good chunk, too.) ...well, normally, yeah, but, I mean, no jaw? Can't bite. Prolly. [Chie cuts the zombie in half.] Can still punch, gouge, choke... gum... ooh, nice! [Chomei's turn] Ha, gotcha! You okay, Chomei? Hey, shiny. ( I briefly parsed that as "Eoidolon". x_x ) (Hah! Nope. ;p) ( Heh. ) * Chomei kicks the head off. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just surprised." He smiles at Chie as he lines up a shot to another Zombie and diverts his attention to shoot it. 2d6-3 * Atom rolls for Chomei (2d6-3) and gets 6. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-3) and gets 1. (Can I get a booyaka?) (Booyaka!) [Chomei leaves a big hole in that zombie, but it doesn't stop it.] ( No. But here, have a huzzah. ) [Asanjya's turn] (Okay. How are the zombies spread now? Like, who's fighting what and are any of them in the clear?) ( 4 are fighting Lazar, although starting to realize they're not getting any brains from him. One's fighting Maria.] ) (I killed one.) ( Yeah, the one eating Chomei ) (Oh, wait, that was the one from the table. ^^; Yeah. Ignore me. ;P) * Asanjya spins to one of the ones fighting Lazar and lets off a Burning Fear, swinging her staff at a Zombie. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (2d6-2) and gets 4. * Atom rolls for Asanjya (2d6-2) and gets 4. (Made.) [The zombie flames. It stays up for a bit before collapsing inna heap.] [Lazar's turn!] * Lazar again takes a step back to make some space for himself, and hacks at one of the remaining 'healthy' sombies with a vertial, 12to-6 slash. 2d6-2 * Atom rolls for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 7. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 3. ( Made ) ( vertical, even ) [Lazar hacks it in two, which is enough to stop it.] ( ... and zombies. Argh. ) [Rei's turn!] Ready, set, spike! Disco Nova, take three! * Rei blasts the zombie Maria so kindly set up. 2d6-3 * Atom rolls for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 5. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 2. [Rei blows it up.] * Maria avoids more zombie bits. [Of the two zombies left, one goes for Maria, while the other is still trying to get at Lazar. Either way they're inneffective.] [Maria's turn] * Maria kicks back at the zombie bothering her. KICK! 2d6-5 * Atom rolls for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 1. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 3. [Maria gets even more gooey as her foot bursts through its chest.] [Chie's turn!] * Chie settles for just a standard slash this time as she goes to help out Maria. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 4. * Atom rolls for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 2. (Made.) [Chie finishes off the last of the Mohicans. I mean zombies.] [Maybe they were Mohican zombies. ] * Maria tries to get her foot out of the formerly shambling corpse. * Chie spins her sword a few times to get the zombie-goo off of it, then walks over to Chomei. "How's your leg?" Ew. Now I'm gonna have to wash my boots. Well, that was invigorating. [Chie gets zombie goo on everyone else.] * Chomei sits down on one of the chairs after making sure there's no Zombies under or around it. "I don't know, wanna look?" (I'd think I'd be a bit more careful than that. -_-;) * Asanjya finds the nearest chair and sits down quickly. Eew, you don't need to get the goo curse on the rest of us, Chie! Now I'm mucky like the Mucky Reiling. ... I'll go check back. Yeah, Rei should probably take a look at that. [Wanna sandwich?] I did? Oh, geez, I'm sorry, Rei. * Lazar heads for... THE BACK! Ew. C'mere a sec and take a look at Chomei's leg? [Lazar, join #theback] I'll give you something to clean off with. * Rei flicks zombie bits offa her. "Oh, sure. I wonder what's in the meat locker." She wanders over to Chomei. * Chie reaches in her bag and pulls out one of her polishing cloths. * Chomei cleans some of the goo off of himself. "Really, you could have at least warned us." I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to do that. It's like some higher power is messing with me or somethin'. * Chie tosses Chomei a cloth and gets another one for Rei. I'm gonna go get some air. It smells like old rotten dead things in here. They're always messing with us. * Rei hmms. "Wonder why. Must've been the limburger. Roll up the pant leg, mister." * Maria heads out! She's sure Rei won't do too much damage. * Chomei rolls up the pant of his bitten leg. * Asanjya leans back. She closes her eyes. * Chie looks around briefly. "Asanjya, you doin' okay?" Veeeery tired, but I think so. Just need a break. And a nap. * Rei peers. How's the wound looking? Yeah, I think we all do. Soon's we figure out what's goin' on here, we can find out where here is and then head home. * Chomei nods. I'd offer to let you crash at my place buuuuut I dunno how my folks would take it. 2d6-2 * Atom rolls for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 4. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 2. Thanks for the offer, but I think I'm gonna want to head to my place ASAP. * Chomei nods. "I need to get home, myself." How's it lookin', Rei? * Chie glances over at her and Chomei. * Chomei looks up at Chie. * Chie smiles at him. "If nothing else, we're home." The biting thing isn't that bad, assuming it doesn't infect you, but geez, Chomei. It looks like you went through a war. * Rei slaps a glowing hand onto Chomei's leg. He did, Rei. And what's this about "assuming it doesn't infect you?" I did. Are zombies infectious? I get conflicting reports and it makes my head go splodey, which is bad, because I needed those brain bits! Like bacon bits. I kinda like bacon bits. Does that make me a zombie? ... Right. (*snicker*) Zombies don't like bacon bits, I think. I don't see any here, at least. And we should find out about the infectious part. THat's a bit more important. Yeah. What do you mean by infectious besides it being a bad thing? Theeeeoretically some zombies turn you into one when you get bitten. Well, that's not good. Chomei, you feelin' a sudden desire for brains? Or cheese? But I think that's stupid. Zombies are dead, right? I mean, if you turned into one when you got bitten then it's not really being dead, more being infected, and then you're not a zombie at all. * Rei pulls her hand away, and now all Chomei has are a few scrapes and bruises. She nearly flops, but stands up instead. "Okay! We have a mystery to solve!" * Rei poses! Just infected with a particularly virulent disease. That makes you crave, apparently, cheeeeese. ( Tell that to vampires :P ) Well, that's what we do, bein' the Mystery Club and all. So, what mystery is it this time? * Chomei puts his hands out to Chie all zombie-like. "Haaaaiiiir dye." We're going to figure out why Mr. Wikkins wanted to kidnap all the cheese in town and hold them ransom from the zombies who decided to search delis. * Chie mock-jumps back, then grins. "Wow, turning into a zombie has *improved* his tastes!" (I intend to!) * Chomei smirks. "We need to figure out who's behind this. Duh." * Asanjya opens her eyes, and looks at Rei. Then she closes them again. So, yeah. Why zombies in a sub shop? * Rei sticks her tongue out at Asanjya before she starts to search the area. Maybe there'll be a clue! * Asanjya notices no tongue, her eyes being closed. * Maria walks back in, wrinkling her nose. "Ew. Still stinks." * Chie reaches out a hand to help Chomei up and waves at Maria with the other. You could get a mop. * Chomei gets up with Chie's help. Hey, she let him help her up earlier. "Because the zombies wanted ham, cheese, and brains." [Lazar comes back in, followed by a man. He's all in black, complete with trenchcoat, gloves, and thick black boots. His hair is brown, parted down the middle, and his eyes are solid gold, much like Maria's. He's got a big, 5 ft.-long-blade sword strapped over one shoulder, and a bundle of throwing javelins over the other.] Hey, this Ensof. He guy what pound letter into forehead with hammer and chisel... *pauses* ... in nice way. * Maria blinks. "Hey, it's you." * Chie looks at the guy. "Your Kabbalist, Laz?" * Rei waves cheerily and does not mention that he's overcompensating for something. * Asanjya looks up. "Nice to meetchu." She flops her head back again. [And he's pretty handsome, too ^^] * Ensof has joined #besm * Lazar looks back at Ensof. "No be offended if no all very enthusiastic. We just get back from Hell." * Chie waves at Ensof. "Glad Lazar finally found you." * Ensof waves with one hand. "Yeah, came here to kill some zombies, but someone beat me to it." * Chomei looks him over and folds his arms, Rownal vanishing into his hand. A Hell. _A_ Hell. Not The Hell. * Asanjya waves her hands about. That'd be us. * Lazar pauses, then tosses the clipboard to Rei. "Found this in back, attached to arm. No can read, though..." * Chie blinks. "Interesting eyes, if you don't mind my sayin' so." * Maria kind of stays behind Chie and regrets not bringing her contact lens cleaner to Hell. Yeah, baby golds or somethin'. So ya killed all the zombies. That's fine. I get paid either way. (You could ask Chie to borrow some of hers, Maria. ^_~) ( She may not know that Chie's aren't real. ;) Who knows with this group, after all? ) (They talked about it in session 38. ;p) (Yes, I remember this exactly. I'm such a geek. ^_~) ( Oh, right. ) So you're a freelance zombie-hunter as well as a Kabbalist? * Ensof nods idly as he starts looking everyone over. "Something like that, yeah." * Rei takes the clipboard. "Jinkies! It must be a clue!" And reads. ... Huh, cool. What's a j...nevermind. I don't want to know. * Chie turns around to look at Maria. "It's just a..." She blinks. "Maria... when did your eyes change color?" Oh, right, the contacts. You told me once. Jinkies. Battle cry of famous demon hunters, the Scooby Doos. [Rei reads! It was apparently written by the manager: "Day 1: Feh. Those kids always told me I was working them to death. Who knew they meant it? They turned into zombies for some reason and I hid myself in the restroom."] * Maria makes frantic shushing gestures at Chie. I mean, come on, she's trying to hide over here! ["Day 2: Oh crap, they broke into the rest room."] ["Day 2.a: My only chance is to make a run for it. They just bit off my arm. It hurts."] * Chie looks sheepish for a second, then turns back around. Nothing to see here! Really! ( Least of all gold eyes. None of those here. No sir. ) ["Day 2.b: Out back now. If I run down the alley, I should be able to make it to the main street, and then aaaaaarghh...."] * Asanjya opens one eye. "Hoooooow did zombies exist in a Suburb in Tokyo for two days without a single person outside of this manager noticing?" [It ends there.] * Lazar is a guy, and thus notices NOTHING! * Ensof shrugs. "You ever try this place? The food's crap." Maybe this isn't a very popular sub shop... yeah. Wow. He actually wrote "aaaaargh." Scooby Doos kill many powerful demons, banish many ghosts. Legends. Talk about a slave driver. Zombie driver. I guess it was their last stand. * Maria tries to stay quiet, but has to ask. "He didn't really write out 'aaaargh', did-- weird." * Rei sighs sadly. "The poor overworked kids." * Chie laughs. A real dead end job. Poor guys. * Chomei looks over Rei's shoulder. "That's just creepy. And weird." I wonder if the infection has spread. * Maria whispers something to Chie and resumes hiding. ... odd. People no usually turn into zombies just from hard work. * Ensof points at Chomei. "Y'know... Have we met before?" * Chie nods at Maria. ( I dunno, I feel like a zombie sometimes :P ) Not as far as I know. * Asanjya opens both eyes and sits up, then looks over to the man in black. She is, however, silent, as he has just engaged Chomei in conversation. Maybe we should lobby for better laws concerning the food industry and higher minimum wage. That way, we don't need to worry about a sudden zombie outbreak at McDougal's or something. * Chie looks back at Ensof. So, any idea why these people turned into zombies? Y'sure? You look fam... Wait a minute. * Rei hands Chie the clipboard. * Chie takes the clipboard, but continues to focues on Ensof, who seems to have taken an unusual intrest in Chomei. Aw damn. You're that Taltosh demon. (No, he's the *other* Taltos demon.) ( *Chelsea chears as Ensof pronounces it right. ) * Ensof draws his sword. "You guys ever know you were travelling with a demon? Ain't good." * Chomei shrugs. "Well, I've never met you, so you must have me mistaken for someone else." * Chie narrows her eyes. "Not all demons are bad." No, it's you. You're the guy I was hired to kill. Hey, hey! He's a good demon! * Rei waves. "You were hired to kill the *other* demon!" Are you sure you haven't got him mixed up with the other one? Pretty damn sure. Who hired you? Besides, he's like my cousin or nephew or something! You can't just up and kill him! I'd get upset! I dunno. Some rich white guy. So you're a demon too? Aw man... * Chie stands in front of Chomei. "You're not killing anyone here." No, she just have odd family. * Chomei sighs. "Look, I'm not going about terrorizing anyone. And I really don't want to have to kill you. Can't you just leave?" * Maria is left without cover. O_O And descendants of Arakus have free will. Until Arakus take over and turn evil. And Arakus dead. * Chie looks very, very calm. It's eerie. So what, are you mind controlling them or something? So he just lame guy with some demon blood now. He's not that kind of demon. And we're working on curing him. Go away and leave us alone. * Chomei rolls his eyes. "Look, if I could mind control, you'd be out the door right now." ... Chomei. Mind control. That actually pretty funny. No I wouldn't, man. It don't work on me. * Asanjya leans back in her seat again, eyes closed. * Maria looks downright frantic and kind of inches off to the side. * Ensof sideglances at Lazar. "How well do you really know this guy?" He save life few times, save life of friends too. And he way too silly and clumsy to be evil. Don't mean nothin'. Some demons do things like that to gain your trust, throw you off guard. So, how much did this guy pay you? * Rei blinks at Maria and edges over. She doesn't seem worried at all. "Hey, what's wrong? You're all skittery like a jitterbug." Man, can you believe this guy? Reminds me of me. * Chomei smirks. A lot. Really, now? * Maria almost jumps! Then turns and whispers to Rei. He's nothing like you, Chomei. Nothing at all. * Lazar shrugs, walks over to Chomei, and gives him a wedgie. "If was evil, he probably get really mad and try kill me for this." * Chomei winces. "Hey! 10 million yen ( 100,000 dollars for you non-converter types) * Chie facepalms. See? He just get mad, no try kill. ( Wait, that doesn't seem right. ) ( Nope, it is. ) (That's because it's not.) (Or it is?) ( It does. About 100 yen to a dollar ) * Chie curses silently. No hope of matching that sum, probably. ( In the future it's 100 yen = 1 dollar exactly. :P ) (You're looking for 100 million yen. ^^;) * Lazar then noogies Chomei. "And if no that, he certainly reveal evil after I do this!" * Rei blinks, then wrinkles her nose and whispers back. (Oh. NM. u.u;) * Chomei gets his underwear out of his crack... "Geeze! You know how much that hurts! You got stone fists!" See? Would evil demon be that whiny? Ya want a serious answer? * Maria gives Rei a pained look and whispers back. Probably, because I running out of things to do to him that no hurt him. * Asanjya is chuckling softly. Look man, I respect ya for speaking the ol' tongue and all, but I ain't sure you know what you're doing here. * Chie is still staring down Ensof. "I think we know perfectly well what we're doing." * Ensof nods to Chie. "Yeah, you seem pretty dead set. Like a good human shield oughtta be." * Chie clenches her jaw for a second. "I'm doing this of my own free will. Because I care about him. He's not evil, dammit!" (Oh, hell. I gotta bow out soon. I'm dead and got work tomorrow.) Sure you are. * Chomei eyes Ensof. * Lazar sighs. "Listen, just because have demon blood no mean always evil. Usually does, granted. But no always." * Rei shrugs and whispers back, before giving her a quick hug. * Chomei looks at Lazar. "Is he always like this?" * Lazar shrugs helplessly back at Chomei. Did it occur to you that maybe the person who hired you is someone *worse*? * Maria blinks and is hugged. Er, thanks. * Ensof shrugs. "And why should I take your word over his? ... hey. Was name of old guy Mr. E? Yeah. White clothes, white sunglasses? Chie, if he's a profesional, do you think he'll care how bad the guy who hired him is? * Ensof nods. "Yep, that's the dude." Him! He tried to kill me before! That twerp? We still owe him! * Lazar facepalms. "That guy who try to kill us repeatedly by raising metal demon." Wonder why. Aww, him. He's so lame. And stupid. And stupidly lame, and I could just kick him... he fucking controlled my brother and made him kill me! Listen, he's bad news. Very bad. ....because 'E' is for 'Evil'? Hey, Ensof. Ever wonder if this guy was controling YOUR mind? ... he no controlling his mind, Chomei. Moron. I already told you it don't work on me. Ensof just given bad info by bad man. * Chomei sighs. "Right, right. I forget these things." * Maria blinks. * Lazar turns back to Ensof. "You ever hear of Mystery Club? Nope. * Rei is paying attention, now, and looking more and more upset. Oh wait, that show about the kids with the dog? Yeah, that was dumb. * Maria doesn't get it. Okay, how about this. *pulls out badge* We Mystery Club. With Interpol. Hunt bad demons and such. Mr. E lead group what try kill us repeatedly. * Chomei blinks. * Ensof relaxes his guard, but shrugs again. "He told me you were the bad ones." Wow, he's gullible. Just ain't stupid. * Lazar turns back to Chomei. "You no HELPING." Aren't you listening? He made my brother kill me! My brother! * Maria tilts her head, suddenly curious. "Wait. And you just *believed* him?" No make me come back there and give you Wet Wilhelm! * Asanjya stands up suddenly. "I think I've got to go. I'm about to fall asleep in zombie muck and you know that's not good." He made him try to kill me, too! Well duh. He gave me a crapload of money. ... Someone pushes a lump of money at you and you don't even check into them before accepting the job? * Lazar sighs. "Okay. Ever hear of cursed sword Ambition?" You're just a fuckin' mercinary. No shit, Sherlock. Lovely. * Lazar turns back to Chomei. "Chomei. I trying to keep nice man with big sword from killing you. SHUT UP." * Maria scowls and whispers to Rei. * Lazar LOOMS over Chomei for effect. Only thing you got going for you is a golem on your side, and even THAT doesn't mean anything; I heard Dracula used them a few times too. You know what? He's beyond all logical reasoning and thought. He's just looking at the dollar bills. I'm a fuckin' paycheck to him! * Asanjya quietly slips out and hails a cab or something. How you know? I in middle of trying to reason with him. Insulting no helping! * Chie walks back and puts a hand on his shoulder. "Chomei. Listen to Lazar." * Rei lets out a frustrated 'argh' and nods at Maria. "Talk his language. I'm gonna go breathe." She turns and storms out of the building before she hurts something. Not like she *can*, but it's the principle of the thing. (Sorry. But _I'M_ falling asleep. ^^;) (G'night, Wombat.) ( G'night Cham ) (Night, Cham.) * Asanjya has quit IRC (Quit: Zoom to bed ) * Maria squirms as she's left out in the open again, but gathers her composure. Most of it. "How much?" * Chomei eyes Lazar, then steps back. "Fine, fine! Try and reason with him." He backs off behind the golem. One mil. Two if I get some kinda magic weapon from him. * Chie clenches her fists. Dammit, he *knows*... * Maria glares at the guy. "One mil to get you off our backs? Fine. I can come up with that before long." Not good enough. I let him go, I maybe wind up causing a lot of people pain and suffering. And that may be good for business, but I don't buy it. Please. Only one suffering if you let 'im go is your wallet and you know it. Your word against theirs, lady. * Chie steps back, still covering Chomei, and lets Maria do the negotiations. She's good at talking money. What we need do to prove our word better? Besides kill many zombies? Yeah, I guess it is. But that's okay, because we know more about them than you do, don't we? * Chomei looks really uneasy. He clenches his left fist. BEcause we've dealt with them, an know what they're like. All you know is that he's got money, and you never stopped to think about anything else, did you? I could go to him and he'd probably say the same thing. Yeah, and as long as he's payin' you'll believe him, too, wontcha? Like I said, your word against his. * Rei comes walking back in about now. She's looking better. You have no idea what you're in the middle of. You have no real knowledge of either side. I suggest you go fix that before you start trying to kill somebody. And I let you go here, you flee the country and cause havoc in Russia or something, and then I gotta track ya down. * Rei climbs onto one of the tables and sits on it, her tail plain to see and flicking nervously. She folds her hands, feet swinging back and forth. "Can I have a turn?" Russia suck. Too much snow. Bolivia, then. Whatever. * Rei waves her hand. "Hello? Ensof? I got a question." Yeah, what is it? What do you want? * Maria is about to say something, then stops and blinks. And then one of her contacts fall out. "Wha-- dammit!" It's not to kill Chomei, 'cause if it was, you probly woulda tried to do something. * Ensof shrugs. "Right now? A beer and a bag of pretzels." (He's a man of simple tastes.) 'Kay, I can cover that. Anything else? * Maria finds her contact, stands, cleans it on her shirt. "We can do that. Chie, can I borrow yer drops?" * Rei catches sight of Maria. "Hey, cool!" * Chie blinks. "Huh? Oh. Contact drops. Sure. Hang on a sec." * Ensof watches Maria. "What, there's more of us out here?" * Chie fishes around in her bag, making sure that she's still in front of Chomei, then looks up at Ensof. "More of what?" Cool? WhaAAAdon'tlookdon'tlook! But it is! ... huh? Us. * Chie finds the contact solution and grabs the bottle. "It is, actually." She tosses it to Maria, then looks back up at Ensof. "Who's 'us?'" I'm not an 'us'. Whatever 'us' is. Fine. Them. Whatever. * Ensof points at his eyes. "Goldies. Ya'know. Well you should, anyway. Ya got one." * Lazar blinks. "Hey, both you have gold eyes." * Maria catches the bottle, cleans the contact, puts it in her eye and blinks it into place. "I know precicely shit about what I'm supposed to be. I'm not even sure I wanna know." Prolly don't. So... how much are you alike? Not a whole lot, apparently. Getting back to the point... You know why I run my business? Fine. They're prolly all evil whackjobs anyway. That'd just figure. Does your immunity to mind control have anything to do with your eye color? Nah. That's an ancient Jewish secret. Or at least, my old teacher's secret. * Chie scowls. Dammit, there goes *that* method of trying proof. * Lazar starts to say something, then stops. * Rei giggles despite herself. You run business because both like money and hate evil? Guess that's a good way to put it. Okay. I ask again. What we need to do to prove we no evil, or under evil mind control? Hell if I know. Don't usually gotta play the jury for these things. Then you're an idiot. You're being duped. Go look into it yourself. Says you. Want come with us to Interpol? Yeah, says me. And I know how business gets done. You're being played by someone who thinks you're dumb enough that they can get away with it. You wanna prove 'em right? I see a bunch of people who are apparently trying their damnest to make me attack them. That way you could pretend I'm the one at fault. You're the one who says he wants to kill Chomei. No shit lady. He's a demon. What's he done? Us? Shit man, you're the assassin here. You're the ones who just came from Hell, yo. We went to hell to get these. *hefts swords* Demon-killing weapons. Yes. To help us kill another demon. Something comes from Hell, tends to be pretty friggin' evil. We're not *from* hell. We just had to go there for a bit to get the weapons. Mr. E's been to hell, too. He sacrificed countless hundereds of souls to get there. * Lazar puts the sword on the floor. "Want to take look? You know stuff, should be able to tell what is." *steps back from sword* Yeah. You ever heard of the Rosetta Stone? * Ensof picks up the sword. "The Napoleon rock." He looks the weapon over and puts it back down. "Yeah, I see, but that don't mean nothing. Evil fights other evil." We get from Chinese tribe of demon killers in hell after we help them kill demon lord Kali. Do you know what it's like to have the pain of hundreds of spirits screaming in your head because they're being sacrificed to open a portal to a demon realm? * Rei twitches and stays quiet. Nope. Never been there for someone opening a portal to a demon realm. It no fun. We try stop, but stupid guy in opera mask stop. * Chie pulls out one of her wards. "I did. Do you think I'd stay with people who did that?" ( I love all of you. ) If you didn't have a choice? (... What brought that about ND?) ( o/~ Hurt by the cold! o/~ ) ( You're just saying that. ) And why wouldn't I have a choice? ( Nothing. Nothing at all. ) * Ensof rolls his eyes. He still think we mind-controlled. Fine. I'll tell ya what. * Ensof resheathes his sword. * Lazar rests his sword back on his shoulder. What? I'll give ya three days. Bring me proof. If you don't, then I have no reason to believe ya. I don't suppose you can do some magic to prove to yourself we're not brainwashed or whatever? What proof you want? Nah. Mostly I just use magic to blow stuff up. Convincing proof. That we good and Mr. E evil? I dunno. Snap a photo of the guy doing something evil or something. Would Interpol record of good things we do help at all? Dunno. What's Interpol? International Police. * Chomei shrugss. "If he attacks us, interpol gets on his ass and he's toast. Simple as that." We work for them. Thus badge. A threat, huh? Lemme tell ya, I hear 'em all the time. * Lazar mutters. "Plus, if we evil, we have better intel, know what we doing sometimes." Got more to worry about from the mafia than from whatever organization yer in. We don't *want* any attacking. Badge could be fake. Ain't like there's no fake badges. That why we inviting you to come with us to Interpol, so can see for self. Hell, if want, I go in alone with you. Yeah. No 'evil demon' to stab you in the back. * Ensof shrugs. "We'll see." It fair offer. If we really working with police, give you chance to see we no bad guys. * Ensof nods. "Ok, let's go to your Interpol thing." Okay! ... anyone remember where headquarters in Tokyo is? I do. * Rei twitches again. "Okay. You guys go. I'm gonna... go home and cook or make mechanical punching pies or something." I'm staying with Chomei. * Lazar nods at Maria. "Can give directions?" * Chomei nods. "You go and check it out. Ensof wouldn't want me there anyways." Nah. Bad with directions. I'm goin' with ya. * Lazar turns back to Ensof. "That okay?" "'S fine with me." Fine. Let's go. * Maria stalks out of the messy sandwich spot. Okay. We go, clear this up, all go out for dinner afterwards and have big laugh... well, except for golem who no can eat or sit in normal chair. So maybe we just stay in, watch movie. [And out they all go! Session End!]