[Day: Wednsday, July 7th. Time: 11:00 p.m.] [It's been a long day. But you captured the guy you came here to get, and are now about to leave the island of Nauru. You're all at the airport, excepting Maria. Chie wasn't feeling good from that food she ate earlier, and ran off to the ladies' room. Asanjya went too to make sure she's ok, or sacrifice her to the demons while she's weak, or something.] [You're in a line to check in! It's a very short line.] [Session Start!] * Rei is in line, tail twitching. She's looking pleased with herself, for once. And why shouldn't she? * Chomei is in line too. "So." ( Am I still bear-hugging the werewolf, or have I found something to bind him with? ) We won! * Rei beams. ( They're already loading him onto the plane. ) ( They've got him tied to a movable bed with chains and a straight jacket. ) ( Okie. ) * Lazar flexes, before realizing it's kinda pointless, since he's made outta stone. "Glad to no more have to hold onto werewolf. Fun knocking out first... fifty, sixty, maybe seventy times. After that, just get boring." Maybe I coulda made something that knocked him out consistently every time he woke up. I wonder if a werewolf can build tolerance for that kind of thing. I wonder if I could build tolerance. That sounds like a metaphor. But for what? Practice makes perfect. Werewolves very strong... even weak ones. Heal very fast. Would no be sure would not... what word... adapt. My way work, even if is unpleasant. Yes, a metaphor for practice making- no, that doesn't work. Never mind. Then what is it a metaphor for? [The line moves forwards, and you reach the gate. The a different guy is there, and speaks in English: "Hello! Do you have anything to declare?"] ( "I DECLARE THAT I LIKE CHEESE!" ) "Two out of four ain't bad." * Lazar has no idea what the guy's saying, so he just stands there and stays silent. "Really?" * NinjaDebugger is now known as SleepDebugger * Chomei waits for his turn. * Rei nods. "" She digs in her pockets and pulls it out. (Pay no attention to the zweihander under my illusion. *Jedi handwave* ) (Hehe.) 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-6) and gets 1. "Anything else?" ( Oh, and the silver knife under my illusion... and oh darn! I forgot to check my rocket launcher. ) * Rei thinks, then shakes her head. "Really?" ... Right. He nods. "And? Anything else?" 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 5. ( Chomei doesn't know English. But he heard Rei say his name, so he figured it was an insult. =P ) (All Chomei knows is she said his name. ;P) (This entire session will be Rei making up reasons she's a deadly weapon.) (Actually... Chomei *technically* knows English now, although he's rather craptastic at it. (Someone's been making him remember his English lessons from high school.) :P) He nods! "Ok. Is that everything?" "Okay!" * Rei gives a thumbs up and steps through, then waits for the person behind her to move up! He likes saying 'Okay', doesn't he? He sure does, but that's fine, because he's probably bored! 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-6) and gets 1. Can't imagine why. * Lazar moves up, and looks to Rei. * Rei beams and waits. "" He wants to know if you have anything to declare. (Lazar's up, right?) (Yesh.) * Lazar looks confused. "... like what? Beaches pretty?" For customs. Yeah, customs. Do you have any food, animals, drugs, or weapons you're taking off the island? ... ah. No, no, no, and... no? * Rei looks at the man and smiles. "" ( "Ah HA! A double negative!" "He has photographs?!" ) (I saw that coming.) ( I love that movie. ) * Maria comes running in. "Rei, Rei! I need you to translate for me!" "I see. So you're saying he does have things to declare." He turns to Lazar. "Would you please declare them?" * Lazar tilts his head. (Wow, that didn't make sense.) * Rei blinks and looks at Maria. "Uh, second." See, I found all this money -- oh. Uhm, okay. * Chomei looks back at Maria. "About time you showed up." " "" "" * Chomei shrugs. "Fine with me. This guy's takin' his time anyways." "" "" You're good, Lazar! Go on through. * Lazar steps through, looking thoroughly confused. * Chomei steps up. "Nothing to declare." "" [You finish customs after a while, and Chie and Asanjya come back. Then you're told to board the plane.] [Asanjya boards, finds a seat somewhere, and reads. Don't bug her.] Okay, now Rei, c'mon. Okay! Where are we going? * Chomei raises an eyebrow. "You know where they're going, Chie?" (They don't even know where they're going!) * Chie shakes her head. "No clue. Hey, where are you guys goin'?" [There's still some time before the plane goes away. Er, takes off.] Well, I need to find the leader of the island. Because I have a lot of money to give him. * Maria nods smartly. * Chie blinks. "What?" ... Right. ... was no drug guy leader? No, he was just the owner. ... but would no leader be most likely person who drug guy like? * Rei blinks a few times. "So you took money from the drug guy and are gonna give it to the leader?" But Maria, this is a republic. It'll get stuck in red tape, I think. Well, that's the plan. It'd do a lot of good for the island, and stuff? That's really noble of you, Maria, but I'm not sure it's all that practical. And they're probably gonna wonder exactly how you got it. Well... maybe, but there's no way you can guarantee it goes where you want it to that way. * Chomei nods. * Maria blinks. "Red tape?" She looks back at the island. It'll get stuck up in corporations. It'd probably be better to donate it to non-profit charities. Yeah, they never ask where you got money. Basically, what they saying is that no way to know if leader good guy or bad. If use money for good, or just put in bank for self. * Chie nods. "S'a better idea. It'll still do lots of good, and you won't have to worry about the beaurocrats taking any of it." You can even donate anonymously! Then they can't ask. * Rei smiles. "And people can't track you down." ... like maybe to build nice places for orphans? * Maria sighs. "Fine, fine." Seriously, Maria. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to donate to the island. I think it's pretty cool! But when you do, do it anonymously. You don't wanna make waves, y'know? Plus. if donate to charity, can keep little for self to buy shinies. * Chie smirks. "See? Added benefits." * Maria shakes her head at Lazar, tho. "Orphans have nice places. What they need is... maybe I can do that." * Rei tilts her head. Oh, I'm not keeping any of the cash. I found some other stuff I'm gonna sell, and use that to buy things to help us. * Chomei smirks. "I knew it." * Chie laughs. "Ahh, I see." * Lazar ruffles Maria's hair. "Is very good. If had eyes, would be cry tears of being proud." * Rei smiles. * Maria beams at the compliment. Of course, no have eyes. So I just mess up hair. *musses hair* [Maria's hair gets messed up.] * Maria lets her hair be messy. That works. * Chie snickers. "Cute, Laz. Very cute." * Lazar stops mussing. "I try. Still is bit of person left in golem." Think there's a lot of person left there. Just gotta pull it out. * Chie smiles. "Yeah, I think there is, too." * Lazar shrugs. "We find out when kill Dracula." Why then? * Rei stays quiet during the person stuff. "So, we gonna go now? I'll help you find places to get what you want done if you like, Maria." ... golem legends unclear. In some, golem exist until someone do ritual, erase runes. In some... it crumble to dust when mission complete. I no usual golem, so I no know how work. But will find out after kill Dracula. Yeah, and we'll find out what I gotta live with after all this is over too. But first, we kick Dracula's ass. Oh. * Chie sobers up pretty quickly. * Maria looks around for subject change. "Okay, Rei, thanks. We'll find something nice." ( Bad Chie! No drinking on the job. ) * Chie reaches out and squeezes Chomei's hand. (Damn.) * Chomei has his hand squeezed. He smiles at Chie and starts to the plane. "Oh come on. I don't want to start sucking on my thumb again to cheer you up." * Rei grins a little and gives Maria another hug, then bounds for the plane. "Last one there has to clean up after the victory party!" What will be will be. Is up to God. Or gods. *pauses* I really need to talk to rabbi about there being Hell and many gods. It very confusing. Remember Lazar. Polytheism is in. * Chie laughs at Chomei's remark and follows him onto the plane. * Lazar tilts his head at Chomei, but says nothing. * Maria hugs Rei back, then bounds after her. ( The rabbi sez: "Hell? Gods? Rubbish, I say. Now, let's praise the Buddha." ) [Y'all get on the plane, and before long it takes off! You bid farewell to the island of Nauru.] * Rei settles in comfortably, pulling out her laptop and typing away. Away, away! ( There actually are Jews who incorperate Buddhist teachings. they're kinda odd. ) ( Really? You've just given me a plan for the next game ^^ ) ( ;_; ) * Chie leans back in her seat and sighs. She seems pretty relaxed, then opens one eye and looks over at Chomei. "So, how soon do you think we can get that herb you were talking about? I didn't get scratched all that deeply, but it can't hurt to be safe. It's not *that* poisonous, right?" Moe should have. Is common in monster hunt business. Now, if you bitten by were-gopher... that bit harder. Bet Ensof's got some too. And, nah, it's not *that* toxic. Won't kill you or anything... just make ya sick in the stomach for a day or so. Were-gophers have a habit of digging. Lots. Oh, great. Like I haven't had *enough* of that lately. And eww. I swear, I'm gonna have a stomach of iron when all this is over. And immunity to every possible supernatural disease you can think of. And then some. There's some nasty ones out there. Or were-dolphin... always wonder how dolphin got to Transylvania to become were-dolphin in first place. Nowhere near ocean. Well, I didn't mean we *literally* had to think of 'em now. In fact, I'd rather we didn't. Okay. ^_^ * Maria shakes her head. "Poor Chie." Oh, Lazar? Translvania isn't the only place Lycanthropes exist. I know. But still odd. No like dolphins walk on land. ... or do they? >_> Ever see a were-platapus? * Chie turns her head and grins at Maria, letting the boys have their discussions on supernatural things. "Hey, what doesn't kill me makes me stranger." ^_~ What platapus? * Maria grins back. "If you say so." It looks like the mix between a duck and a... I want to say oversized gopher. ... and there normal aniaml somewhere what look like this? Sure, it lays eggs. * Rei types. And I do! Besides, all that really strange stuff is just stuff I haven't figured out yet. Duckgopher what lay eggs. *pauses* Is it evil? Nope. Well, not normally. It's cute! I like it. It's one of my favorite animals. Is good. With combined powers of duck and gopher, if evil, could... well, no do much, actually. But be very disturbing. It's weird. That's... about it. * Maria blinks. "There's really something like that out there?" ...although I have yet to figure out what platypi are for. Except maybe to be interesting conversation topics. ( They run a secret black market on the 'net. ) * Rei brings up a picture of a platapus and turns it so others can see it. (Platypus. Whatever.) * Lazar looks. "Very odd." Funky, innit? ...weird. Oh, they're also there to throw off the seperation between birds, mammals, and reptiles. I'd ask our resident bio major for more details, but I can see she's got the Do Not Disturb sign up. Or is she biochem? I can't remember. I forget what my major's supposed to be. Every so often I get mail about registering for classes, but I ignore it. You really shouldn't. Yeah, well, I sorta got a business to run when I'm not out saving the world. When do I have time for classes? Hell, I'm still wondering what kinda strings Interpol pulled to get me in, considering I kinda dropped out of high school... Classes are overrated. See? Maria agrees with me. * Maria nods. "I get by fine without 'em." They're more concerned with people who can handle the supernatural than people with a college degree, I think. * Chomei shrugs. "If you say so. And Interpol doesn't need to pull any strings, the- what Rei said." School in Transylvania kind of different from school in Japan, I think. Exactly. So I spent my time indulging in adolescent rebellion while learning how to stab things and deal with seeing dead people. ( I spent it playing Kirby ;_; ) (You missed out. ^_~) That works. Did they dance? Oh! Did they sing showtunes? * Chomei raises an eyebrow at Rei (98). Some of 'em did, yeah. The trouble was gettin' em to shut up. (Snark.) Class was "How to kill this, how to kill that, what to do if this eating you sister, oh yeah, do math homework." * Rei is back to typing. "You guys make my education sound really normal." Well, I'm glad they taught you math. But then maybe it was! Pretty normal, anyway. Kind of. Rei, I hate to say it, but in that respect I'll bet you're the most normal one here. But we love you anyway. ^_~ * Maria giggles. Yay, I'm normal! The thing I've strived for all my life, and now it's finally COMPLETED! * Rei powerposes, then pauses. "It's kinda anticlimactic." (There was a nod to Taki.) So now you have to work on getting weird again. (I was just thinking that looked familiar >_>;) Always gotta have a goal for yourself. Oh, that's... really gonna be hard. I dunno if I can do it. * Rei sighs. "It's a goal. So far out of reach..." She reaches forward. "I can't even see it! I can't see it!" Try wearing cheese hat. That be very odd. Maybe if you looked for it cross-eyed? Nah, I've seen cheese hat done before. I gotta be original! * Rei smacks her fist into her palm. "THE original." Limburger cheese hat. * Maria blinks. ... I wanna be weird, not smell bad. Eew! But it would be weird. You have to admit that. * Rei thinks. "Yeah, but I don't wanna do cheese hat. I have... oh, maybe... Heehehehehe." * Rei grins madly. * Chie grins back. "Spill." No! You'll steal it and use it for yourself! I'm pretty positive she won't. Will you Chie. Nah. I wouldn't do that to my best friend. I promise. * Rei thinks. * Chie raises a hand. "Scout's honor! Not that I ever was one." Well, okay... but we can do it somewhere else. Oh! We can have a makeover day! To promote our inner weirdness! And then we can fight crime! But we already do fight crime. Unless you wanna go into the superhero business, and then we'd need costumes and secret identities and such. I have secret identity. I person. But no, I golem. Is secret. Yeah. Lazar McNormalguy. (Together, they fight crime!) ... no. Lazar Thau. Who Lazar McNormalguy? It's a joke. * Maria frowns. "Why would we want to fight crime?" ... ah. To save the world! For JUSTICE! (That's fun-ny. Aaaaaah!) That too! And it depends on the crime, really. ( Session Title: (Not) Everybody Wants To Save The World ) * Chomei raises an eyebrow (97). "What, no saving cats from trees?" I don't do treeclimbing. I can knock down tree. But that'd scare the poor kitty, and we can't have that! ... oh, you mean normal cat, no were-cat. That different. I'm guessing were-cats can get themselves out of trees just fine. Can. But no like to. Is funny thing... were-cats no like heights. Like toes though. To bite? * Maria blinks. Bite, chew, eat. I've met regular cats like that. My uncle lose two toes to were-cat. Have any toes left? All my toes are present and accounted for. Good. * Rei occupies herself with checking e-mail. Her player's kind of distracted by company. Is why most in Transylvania wear shoes to sleep. Were-cats no really *that* bad... no try kill, and no infect. Just like toes very much. Must be small were-cats, then. Oh, were-tigers and were-lions and like separate. I talking cats. Like housecat. But eat toes. Like I said, small cats. Legend say it because first were-cat was guy what had unhealthy like for feet. I'd get a cat, except I'm never home long enough to check on it. Then again, it's a cat. So long as there's food, water, and a place to scratch, it should be happy. Yup. And many toes. I think I'll stay away from that kind. I think the cat wouldn't get along with Joe. I don't need fights in my apartment. Right, which is why it'll be my cat and your... eye-thing. How's Joe doing, anyway? I don't think a cat would like my place. He's doing okay. He blinked at me yesterday! * Rei smiles. And he ate the cucumber salad I put out for him. Uh-huh. ... animals no like me very much. Oh, gods, Rei, you *still* have those cucumbers? Eew, no! They're old by now. I got new ones. Good. Wouldn't they go o-- right. * Rei makes a face. "I wouldn't feed Joe old cucumbers! That'd be barbaric!" And we can't have that! No, we can't! * Chomei decides to ask the obvious question. "And why not?" * Rei shakes her fist. "Because I'm not an uncultured barbarian! Any non-lame person could see that!" * Chomei raises an eyebrow. "... Right." I think animals no fooled by illusion, and scared by big moving rock. (96?) (96.) (*snerk*) That illusion doesn't cover olfactory (sp) elements, does it? (Did Zeg make a list of them?) ... what old factory have to do with anything? Olfactory, Laz. Means their sense of smell. * Maria is just sitting and listening. ... ah. No think so. Is all visual. No even touch. * Chie reaches out and pokes Lazar gently in the arm. "Yep, you're right." Well, I'll still hug you when I think you need it. ^_~ Just be careful if do after fight. I have sharp edges when hurt. Who, me? I'm *always* careful! Right, guys? Um... * Rei thinks about that. Will you carefully punch me if I say you're not, cause you're not *always* careful, just kind of careful sometimes which doesn't really happen in the end because you carry a sword and you could poke somebody's eye out with that? I have yet to poke someone's eye out. But you could! I have. Few times. Yucky. It's theoretically possible, but I haven't yet and I don't intend to. * Chomei whistles. * Chie eyes Chomei. "Do you know something I don't?" ... if touch Joe, is it no poking him in eye? (Touch Joe like Micheal Jackson? ) (...) No, nothing important anyways. ( BAD TOUCH! BAD TOUCH! ) (NO NOSE TOUCH.) Well, do you know something unimportant, then? ( Okay, I'm restraining myself from making a really, really awful joke right now. ) ( Good. ) I know lots of things that are unimportant. Name one. My shoulder doesn't hurt. I'd say that's pretty important, actually. I mean, if your shoulder *did* hurt, then you'd need to figure out why and how to make it stop. So the fact that it's not means you don't have to worry about all of that. Thus, it's important. Oh, true. Under that logic, I know lots of important things, then. ^_^ ... everything important to some, unimportant to some. It's all a matter of perspective, really. My perspective is bordered with chocolate cream! Tasty. I'm glad you agree. I think so. Only I can't eat it, because it's a matter of perspective. Exactly. You don't want to lose perspective just because you have a craving for chocolate. [And so the plane flew off into the night. Session End!]