[Day: Friday, July 9th. Time: 10:00 p.m.] [Thou hast gonne to yon Asahara structure, wherest thou hast a plan to defeat thy vile nemesis(or -es, depending). Thy entourage gathereth in yon parking lot acrosse from yon building. Thou hath not yet defeated any slimes. Thou hath not gained any experience points or gold.] [Session Start] [Oh, and ye mother of Rei dost not appear to be in ye vincinity.] [Wot wot.] * Asanjya stands there, eyes narrowed and cloak whipping around her, wind or no wind. Angst. Okay, since everyone know what my plan going be if anyone ask, I just going be quiet for time being. *nods sagely* * Rei eyes Asanjya. She hasn't gone astral, no, and her tail twitches nervously. "How'd ya do that? Does your cloak move on its own, too?" * Chomei glances over and shrugs. "Magic, I bet." * Maria looks around. * Chie eyes the building. It may or may not eye her back. She doesn't have her sword drawn, but her bag is slung over her shoulder and she's probably ready to go at a moment's notice. "So. Let's get to it." Yes. Magic. ( Asanjya has a Cloak of Melodrama ) ( +1! ) (+3, motherfuckers.) ( Holy shit. ) * Asanjya twirls her staff idly, and nods. (Dude. *stays away* I've just got Radioactive Sneakers of Offending Light +4.) * Maria is satisfied there's nobody around except the Mystery Club, and starts taking off her street clothes. Don't worry, kids, she's got something on underneath. * Chomei isn't looking, nope. ( And Lazar has a Loincloth of Somehow Not Getting Damaged Despite All The Abuse He Takes. ) (Pfft, like we haven't provided the Obligatory Fanservice Quotient many, many times over. ;p) (It's called the 'Maximum exposure quotent.') * Lazar isn't looking either. What do you think he is, a cad? * Asanjya looks over at Rei with a rather odd gaze, then back at the building. * Rei blinks at Asanjya. "What?" Nothing. * Maria finishes, stashing her street clothes into her pack and zipping it up, pulls on her mask, and she's ready to be invisible. * Rei twitches her tail again. "Yeah, I bet it's nothing. Ready, Maria?" * Maria nods. "Yep." Good luck you two. * Rei grins. "What do you mean, us two? You don't think we're the *only* ones shutting this place down, do you?" * Chomei shrugs. "You are going in first, though." I'm just going in ahead of you, is all. * Maria looks for the guard, first. [Which guard?] (THE Guard. Duh.) * Chie stretches and flexes her arms. Okay, Maria? You go in just a little ahead of us. Take out cameras or at least point them out to me so I can do it. By popular demand, I'm not going astral. * Chomei stretches and cracks his knuckles. "Alright, buttkicking time." * Maria bounds quickly up to the building's side entrance. Any external cameras? If so, she'll disable them. Assuming the door is locked, she's going to take care of that, too. * Lazar stays put. Bo don't know sneaky. Neither does Lazar. * Asanjya watches on, calmly. ( HA ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 1. ( Burglary ) 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-6) and gets 2. [The side entrence consists of two glass doors. Maria spots a camera on the inside, but no guards. However, she does come to the conclusion that disabling the camera will likely call attention anyhow; the guards will wonder why the thing's not working.] * Rei eyes Maria. "You know you have that ear thingie, right?" * Chomei hooks up his radio-setup-earpiece-thingie. * Meethos has joined #BESM hey all * Rei blinks at the passerby. "Um, hi." * Chomei eyes the passerby. (Asanjya neatly chops off his head!) * Maria frowns and once again grumbles about working in groups. She activates her radio. "Rei, I can't disable the cameras without alerting the watcher. You okay with that? Also, sometime you should create a device that puts security cameras in a playback loop or something." ( With her hair! ) * Chie waves to the strange person. "Hey. You might wanna head out of here." * Rei puts her hand to her ear. "I can loop or freeze it, yeah. And I'll see about making something that'll do it for ya after this, Maria. Gonna go astral." * Rei sits down, ignores the OOC people, and closes her eyes. * SpiritRei pops up, beams and waves at Chie, then zips over to where Maria is. ~All right, camera.~ * Chie waves back to Rei. * Maria fiddles with the lock. "Wait for me to get in so I can watch you do it." ~Gotcha.~ * SpiritRei goes right inside, through the door. She floats up to the camera. * Lazar stands around. * Chomei waits. * Chie flexes her fingers and waits. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 5. [Maria unlocks the door.] * Maria opens the door and goes inside, and gets on the wall so she can look at the camera. ~Okay, Maria. This'll be a little tough without light, but hopefully I can pull it off.~ * SpiritRei cracks her little astral knuckles, starts detaching camera, and gets to work. * Maria pulls out a little keychain flashlight. * Maria watches! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for SpiritRei (2d6-3) and gets 1. [The camera clicks. Hope that was a good thing.] ~Didja get that?~ * Maria nods. * SpiritRei grins. ~Good.~ She puts the panel back on. ~I'm gonna get back to the others, and we're comin' in after you. Hope you can take care of any more cameras!~ * Asanjya , oddly enough, hasn't been reading. * Maria shrugs, and heads in the direction of the main elevators. * SpiritRei vanishes! * SpiritRei is now known as Rei * Rei opens her eyes. * Maria keeps an eye out for more cameras. Okay, camera taken out. Let's go in after her. * Chomei nods. * Rei gets up, dusts off her butt, and starts floating thataway. * Chie heads in after Rei. * Chomei heads after Rei. * Asanjya follows. * Lazar tromps off after the others. * Maria finds another camera, watching the elevator, and works to disable it similarly. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Maria succeeds!] (*sniff* I'm so proud. Maria is learning even more breaking and entering techniques from me.) ( Actually she probably knew that one already :P ) * Maria presses the 'up' button and waits for the elevator so she can hold it for the others. [Amazingly, the elevator arrives at the same time everyone gets there.] * Rei opens the door, enters through the side entrance, and... gets there! Sure! * Asanjya walks on the elevator like she expected it to be there! * Rei grins madly and waves! And gets on. * Maria gets into the elevator and gets up on the cieling to make room for everybody. * Rei sits on the ceiling, too. There's room on the ceiling. * Chomei gets into the elevator. * Lazar gets into the elevator as well. * Chie is on the elevator. Yay! [You are on the elevator.] * Maria presses the button for the third floor. [The elevator collapses and you all die.] [I mean, it goes up to the third floor.] (Yay!) (Aww.) (good one) ( Blame Lazar; he's made of granite! Prolly too heavy for the elevator!) [You are on the third floor! It has low lighting and cubicles!] (And evil coffee machines?) * Maria looks around for cameras! ( ooo, evil coffee. :9 ) (Oh no. Not the coffee again. NOT THE COFFEE!) * Rei peeks out and looks for... cameras! (*laughs*) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-1) and gets 5. (This time, I really am setting my pants on fire and singing Stairway to Heaven.) * Lazar keeps his illusion up. No point in broadcasting that normal weapons don't hurt him; let them find out for themselves! * Chie lets those who are better suited to spotting the cameras spot the cameras, though she does take a look around to see if anything seems unusual. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+1) and gets 3, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I love you. Do you love me too? Y_ N_" * Chomei looks around for cameras too, but doesn't get in other's ways. (... 'kay!) * Asanjya follows behind at a respectful distance. * Rei floats out, hesitantly, then looks around for anything out of the ordinary. Like, y'know... secret passageish. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+1) and gets 10. * Rei looks, and looks, and comes back. "Anyone gonna help? There's no cameras but, um..." She rubs at the back of her head. "I'm not finding this sekrit passage, either." Cameras clear? Okay, I'll help look. * Maria exits, and starts heading towards the back of the building. * Rei hovers along after Maria! * Chie wanders around, looking for secret passages and the like. * Asanjya unfurls her hair, and sends Xaphan one way while she goes the other. * Chomei nods and looks around for sekrit passages. [Twoard the back of the building looks to be a break room.] * Lazar unsheaths his sword, just in case, and wanders with the others. * Maria goes into the break room and has a look around. (There's a coffee machine!) [There's a coffee machine! Also three vending machines, a fridge, a water cooler, a microwave, a TV, a phone, some tables, some chairs, and a button that says "Do Not Push"] * Chie refrains from pushing the button. For now. * Asanjya walks into the break room after Maria. "... tempting." (What color is the button, by the way?) [Red.] ( EVIL! ) * Chie looks at the button. "If we push it, will Wyoming explode?" What's Wyoming? * Chomei walks in. "Why would Wyoming explode?" * Lazar pokes his head in. "What Wyoming?" * Rei points at the coffee machine. "Evil!" * Maria pushes the button to find out. Wait, don't push the- you pushed the button. It's a place in the US where no one supposedly lives, so you *know* there has to be something suspicious about it. * Asanjya rubs her temples. Uh, Maria, that may not have been the best move... Do we evacuate now or hope it was the right button? Was she no supposed to push button? It does say "Do Not Push". It was the right button. Why else would they tell people not to push it? ... ah. That no good. It's like a 'Do Not Enter' sign. It means there's something good back there. It could be like the out of order storage closet... It could also be an alarm. Because it could actually be a button that does bad things when pushed, Maria. Often, "Do Not Enter" means "10000000 Volt Generators Inside." ... So if- but- yeah. ... well, did it do anything? * Asanjya looks around, and listens. [Maria pushes the button. A fire alarm sounds!] If it were an alarm, it'd be labeled 'Push in case of emergency'. Or perhaps not. ... Which is why there's sprinklers going off, right? * Asanjya makes a face. Oh, shit. You're lucky it doesn't have one of those ink things that spray your hand purple, or you'd be totally in for it, missy! ( Wait. Shouldn't that be 'push and alarm will sound'? ) ( It just said "Do not push" ) ( You know, like they have in actual buildings? ) Brilliant. Just brilliant. (Well, if they're anything like modern-day fire alarms, it'd be covered in a plastic case to prevent accidental hitting. And also, it'd say 'Fire Alarm', not 'Do Not Touch'.) ( Exactly. ) ( But this is Asahara. they're EVIL. ) (They have evil coffee machines!) ( It sounds like a fire alarm. But it might be a "Someone pushed the button" alarm. ) At any rate. Now we need to leave here. Immediately. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-3) and gets 3. * Maria sighs and disables the alarm. * Rei blinks. [The alarm ceases.] Okay, that's... better, yeah. Or I hold off guards with silly guns which no hurt me while rest of you find secret passage. Once my ears stop ringing! * Chie puts a hand to her forehead. "Okay, what's the damage?" * Chomei shrugs and keeps looking for a secret passage. Maybe in the fridge? * RDMgryphon has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) * Maria goes back to looking for secret passages. I going to elevators. If anything come out, I smash. Call if find passage. Gotcha, Laz. I dunno. The coffee machine looks like it's in working order. ... Working order of EVIL. * Lazar lumbers back to the elevators. * Rei goes on to look for passages and passage like things. * Asanjya keeps looking, too! [There are no obvious secret passages.] * Chie keeps searching for secret passages, avoiding EVIL coffee and buttons that may or may not blow up Wyoming or start fire alarms. * Rei looks for less obvious secret passages. ;P She does, however, get the sudden urge to dismantle the coffee machine. No flaming pants. Aww, but I like flaming pants. * Chie looks for out of order storage closets. Oh, gods, not the pants again. I'm wearing shorts today! * Asanjya raises an eyebrow. "Do I want to know?" No, you don't. But weren't you there last time we raided an Ashara building? I don't believe so. ( Gimme awareness checks, +5! ) (o_o) (Any senses?) 2d6+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6+3) and gets 12. 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (2d6+5) and gets 14. 2d6 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6) and gets 6. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+5) and gets 10. (HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW) 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6+5) and gets 12. 2d6+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6+3) and gets 11. 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+5) and gets 14. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6+1) and gets 6. Hmm. Guys, pay closer attention to the appliances. I think there's probably something there. * Chie goes to get a better look. Appliances? * Asanjya walks up to one of the vending machines. Xaphan settles on her head. * Rei hovers after Chie. Actually, forget that. She goes straight for the coffee machine. * Maria goes back in and checks the fridge, even opening it up. I suppose there's an alarm on there, too. * Rei starts inspecting the coffee machine. It's a coffee machine of EVIL. And it's an appliance, too. * Chie heads over to the microwave. Yes, this is insane, thank you. Hmm? * Chomei goes to check on appliances! ( Maria, awareness check! ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 3. [Maria is aware that something in there STINKS. Eew.] * Lazar just does his thing by the elevators, keeping an eye out to see if they're approaching this floor. * Asanjya pokes at the vending machine critically. ( someone burned the popcorn in the microwave! ) * Maria goes looking for whatever stinks. Clearly, it must be significant. ( Maria is attacked by an animated beefsteak! ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 8. [It's a 2-month old sammich.] * Rei blinks at the side of the coffee machine. "Hey!" How often do people deep fry coffee? * Maria closes the fridge. "hm?" Uhm... never? * Chie proceeds to the TV. "Not that often. Why?" Well, there's a deep fry setting on this machine. ... They don't? I knew it was evil. Interesting. ... Right. I'm gonna push it. If we explode, it's totally my fault. * Rei presses the button! * Asanjya blinks. Okay, I'll make sure to blame you in the afterlife. Okay! Don't worry, at worst it'll just be another alarm. ( *blink* deep... fry... coffee? ) [The phone rings.] ... Who designed this place? Escher? * Chie turns toward it for a second. "Wait. No." * Chie manages to refrain from answering it, although you can tell she really wants to. Who's Escher? I... don't think so. Some guy who really really likes confusing people. ( "Asahara! We bring bad things to life! How may I direct your call?" ) * Asanjya blinks. Well, liked. 'Cause he's dead. Probably. Unless he's, y'know, a zombie. [The phone keeps ringing.] Which is possible! Have you seen the corpse? I am about two seconds from answering that phone. And no, I haven't. * Asanjya picks up the phone. She doesn't say anything. * Chie watches Asanjya get it and pouts briefly. I think we answer the phone next. Although it could just be the security guard calling. But that makes too much sense. And we can't have things making sense around here! * Asanjya looks up. "We need a password." ... I guess Asahara sucks doesn't apply. * Maria shrugs. Somehow I doubt it's the correct one. * Rei looks under the coffee machine, and around, and by the phone for anything that indicates a password. Say something about world conquest, I guess. [Rei sees no password!] * Chomei shrugs. "Password?" It's asking for a password. And I *don't* think it's rosebud, so guys, can you look for something that might indicate a password? * Asanjya makes sure she has her hand over the reciever. * Chie checks the TV. ...who would use "Password" for a password? Someone who's never had their account hacked into before. Yup. (( *blink* Rei and Chomei agree on something? )) * Maria goes back to the fridge and looks for anything written. ( Wow. Next thing you know, she'll get along with Lazar. ) [There doesn't seem to be any indication of what the password could be in this room.] I'm afraid to guess. It might trigger another security system if I'm wrong. Do we have *any* ideas? ( Shoot the phone. "Boring conversation anyway." ) * Maria pulls out some tools. "Forget the password." She goes to work on the phone. * Rei leaves the room and starts looking! * Rei blinks as Maria does that, then returns. "Huh? Oh!" * Asanjya keeps listening to it, but keeps her hand over the mouthpiece. * Lazar is, thankfully, oblivious to all this. He's still keeping an eye on the elevators. And, if he can, the stairs. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-3) and gets 5. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 7. [Maria fiddles with the thing, and one of the vending machines goes into the ground. Behind it is a small button with "Down" written on it.] * Rei blinks. ... good job. * Asanjya hangs up. ( Shoulda known! Who keeps three vending machines in a break room? ) * Rei reaches into her bag, presses a button on the black box, and gets Zelda Puzzle Solved music. Works for me! THAT button we push. * Chomei nods. We need to get Lazar. I'll go get Laz. * Rei laughs. "Yeah, Maria. That button we push. Do you wanna press it, too?" * Maria walks out of the room. When I get back, Rei. * Maria goes and finds Lazar! "Laz, we found it. Come on." * Lazar nods at Maria, and then gives one last look around at the elevators and stairs before following Maria, looking back every so often. He's paranoid! ( Then again, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the GM's not out to get you. ) * Chie walks over to where the vending machine was and the button is. * Maria walks back into the room, over to the button, and once Lazar arrives, she pushes the button marked 'down'. * Chomei follows Chie. * Asanjya follows! [The vending machine zooms downward! It's... very cramped, with all of you on it.] (Laws of physics? Pfft, who needs those.) * Lazar walks into the break room after Maria, and keeps watch by the door as the others do whatever it is they're doing, giving the Golem Grunt of Bettter Safe Than Ambushed. * Rei wrinkles her nose. Someone needs to wear deodorant. (Ladies don't sweat. We perspire.) [Well, it's still cramped.] * Lazar eyes the disappearing floor, then Rei. "Well, that work. Hope they send back up." (TEEN GIRL SQUAD.) * Rei nods. "Yup. I mean, I can just jump in, but I think you falling at nine point eight meters per second could be bad." * Lazar keeps watch at the door. "Let know when elevator thing come back, little one. I keep eye out..." *pauses* "Yes, golem no fly very well." Short jump no problem, but if really deep... well, no want feet break off. That be problem. * Chomei comes on over the radio. ~There's an alarm going on down here.~ * Rei blinks, then activates her radio. ~Well, that's great. Not much we can do about it now, though.~ * Lazar scowls, and fiddles with the radio thingee. "Send elevator thing up so can come down and help." d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (d6+7) and gets 10. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (d6+7) and gets 12. d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (d6+8) and gets 9. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (d6+6) and gets 9. 2d6-9 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-9) and gets -2. ... they no sending up. Rei, tell them coming down, then send up so I can come down. They maybe busy. * Rei looks at Lazar. She frowns. "Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean, what if they're being shot at or something, I could get sho- oh!" Carry me down. * Rei sits down and closes her eyes. ~We've got a turret down here. Gonna try and get the elevator up ASAP.~ * Rei opens one eye. Never mind. ~Gotcha, Chomei.~ ( Body: ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6) and gets 5. ~Coming back up!~ ( Made. Electronics: ) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-3) and gets 8. ( Gah, no. ) * Awaymancer is now known as Segev * Lazar looks at Rei. "Turrent?" Yeah, turret. Automated guns, y'know? That's your calling. Aaaaaah. No knew that word. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-4) and gets 6. * Rei nods and chews on her lower lip. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-3) and gets 5. * Lazar paces back'n forth. "What taking them so long?" I dunno! Maybe the elevator takes a long time. I'm gonna- I'm... I'm gonna go in after them, okay? You can watch me? * Lazar eyes the wall. "If dug hands into walls, you think would slow down enough to let me make fall in one piece?" * Lazar nods. "If that what you want do." (The elevator is on its way back up; I just don't know how long it takes.) ( So it'd be a really bad time for Lazar to jump in, right? =P ) Well, I'd probably be faster than an elevator. * Rei furrows her brow. "But I dunno..." * Lazar nods. "I make sure nothing touch you body, then." * Segev is now known as Awaymancer ... then again, is problem of spirit defenses what place probably have. Aww, shit, that's right. Ask again. Would ripping through wall as fall slow down enough? 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-3) and gets 5. * Rei shakes her head. "I kinda doubt it, sorry." * Lazar curses. "Stupid flimsy walls. [The vending machine comes back up with a *ding!*] It's okay, next time I'm sure they'll make it out of... whatever kinda rock you're made out of. There's our ride! ~Maria disabled it.~ * Rei runs over to get onto it. ~Okay, awesome. We're on our way! Everyone's okay?~ ... that work. Get behind m- okay, that take pressure off. ~Yeah, we're fine.~ * Rei sighs with relief. ~Next time, don't get shot at!~ * Lazar steps onto the platform, trying to make sure none of him is sticking out outside the width of the elevator. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 8. ~Maria's exploring ahead.~ ~Oh, come on, that's *so* not our fault.~ ~Maria, don't get shot at!~ 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-6) and gets 0. *eyes Rei* That mean we better get down now. *presses button* [The vending machine zooms to the bottom, where y'all meet with Chie and Chomei and Asanjya.] Welcome to the party. Yay, you're okay! * Rei hugs Chie! Yep, all fine. Glad you could make it. * Chie hugs Rei back. * Lazar steps out. "Well that reminder of why golem should always go into places first." We took care of it fine. All little ones have proper number of holes? * Chie counts her earrings. "Yep!" ... Yes, now let's go after Maria. * Lazar nods, and leads the way, sword resting on his shoulder. ~Maria, we're following after you. Don't get too far ahead.~ * Chomei follows after Maria. (Well, after Lazar. Who is going after Maria.) * Asanjya follows! * Chie heads along with the others. ( What's the worst that could happen? Twenty of my dad could jump out at you. ... ) * Maria is waiting up ahead, near a door she manages not to eye longingly. [You enter a corridor. It's pretty empty, and has four doors before a T intersection at the end.] ( Hearing checks, +2! ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6) and gets 4. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+2) and gets 5. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (2d6+2) and gets 7. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6+2) and gets 6. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+2) and gets 4, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "o/~I love you... you love me... o/~" (... I made it!) ( Yowza. ) (* Rei channels Katie.) (Made it.) [Whoever makes it hears marching noises coming from around the corners of the T-intersection, fast.] ( Isn't that your second crit this session? Are you on drugs, Rei? ) (I AM ON EVIL COFFEE.) (Her mom slipped her something while you wern't looking.) * Rei looks around, then points the way they're coming. "Four... things. Don't sound quite human, guys." What do they sound like? Mechanical? And they're moving fast. I'm not sure. Just not right. * Chie looks for a good hiding/cover spot. * Lazar drops into a ready stance. "Behind me..." Chance going in one of those rooms or not? * Chie moves behind Lazar. * Rei gets behind Lazar. [There are none! Unless you want to try a room.] * Lazar is, of course, standing in the middle of the hallway. Chance it. * Maria opens the nearest door. * Rei nods at Maria. What I could really use now is a landmine. ( "Welcome to the Tarrasque Storage Facility." "... nice work, Maria." ) Sorry, I'm fresh out. (Hehe.) * Asanjya starts chanting! * Chomei gets ready to give cover fire. [The door does, in fact, open!] * Lazar waits for the others to go through, then heads through the door, closing it behind him. * Rei zips in after Maria! * Maria runs into the room! Whatever it is. * Chie heads through door #1! * Chomei runs in after the others! [Inside the room is an observation area. There's two desks, a computer and some notes. Observation of what? There's a pen on the other side, with a wall of glass seperating you and it. It's dark inside the pen, and you can't quite see what's in there, but very briefly some ugly thing roars and smacks into the glass in an attempt to get to you. It's big and brown, maybe elephant- sized.] [Whatever it is, it keeps bashing on the glass and roaring.] Crap, what the hell is that thing? * Asanjya peers at it. * Chie eyes it. "That can't be good." ... I hope Asahara use good glass. * Lazar leans on the door to keep it shut. "Anyone want figure out what that is?" [The glass seems reinforced and is holding... for now.] Not really. How're things in the hallway? * Maria looks out into the hallway. ( Gimme awareness checks. ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6) and gets 5. If we could get better light on it, I might be able to. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 6. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 4. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Everyone who made it now catches a repulsive flesh smell from in the room. Except Lazar, being Lazar.] Ugh. What's that smell? * Asanjya grimaces, and folds her cloak over her nose. * Chomei blinks and smells for it, then waves his hand in front of his nose. "Man, that's nasty." * Chie coughs and pulls a cloth out of her bag, tying it over her nose and mouth. [The... whatever it is continues to throw itself at the glass. It's amazing you didn't hear this outside. Or is it?] Second idea. Anyone want find if Asahara have emergency way of killing big thing? Knowing them, there probably isn't one. More light, dammit. * Chie pulls out her flashlight and turns it on. * Rei looks around, then sniffs and kinda covers her nose. "Uh." She opens her backpack and pulls out her flashlight. * Rei turns it on! On the beast. Can't hear through the door, so we don't know if whatever we heard is past us yet. * Chie shines it on the creature. * Rei shines it around, looking for the light switch. * Asanjya removes her cloak from her nose, and gags a little. She pulls out a book. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 10. [It's some kind of four legged beast, but Chie catches its' eye: yellow, slit like a cat's vertically and horizontally, to give a cross shape. This seems to irritate the beast greatly, and it charges at Chie, colliding so hard it seems like it might break through. Chie is startled and drops her flashlight.] ( angry digiko ) * Chie gasps and inadvertantly jumps back. ( Watch out for the eyebeams! ) * Rei finds the light switch and turns it on! ...I say we take our chances with the army of Reis. * Chomei shrugs. * Chie gets down and starts fumbling for her flashlight. It's made easier when Rei turns the lights on. "What... the *hell*... is *that*?" 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (2d6-2) and gets 6. Something that wants to kill you, I bet. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-3) and gets 6. What isn't around here? Me? ( That's what you WANT her to think. ) (SHHH!) [The light goes on! It IS elephant-sized, but the face is distorted, with a wide mouth and 8 rows of very pointy teeth. It's disgustingly got human hands growing out -- or attached -- to the side of its head, and two tongues. The light seems to infuriate it more than ever, and it tosses itself at the glass.] * Rei lets out a little squeak and stumbles back. "Eew!" [Neither Asanjya or Lazar recognize the thing at all.] And I thank the gods for that, Chomei. * Chomei blinks at the creature. "Ooookay, kill the lights." * Chie grabs her flashlight but isn't in a hurry to stand up and look at the thing again. ... no know what is, but very ugly. * Rei looks around. Don't kill them! * Rei zips over to the computer. Don't piss it off any further, guys. Nothing. It's not in the Demon Codex. * Rei turns on the computer and starts looking through the notes lying around. Probably genetically engineered for something- what's with the hands, though? Gross. * Asanjya snaps the book shut. "I bet it's a genetic monstrosity." Yeah, that's just naaasty. Ew. [It's hide looks very thick, like it would be particularly hard to penetrate.] ( Boo! Lotsa armor! Boo! ) ( ... wait. Lotsa armor! Yay! ) ( >_> <_< ) Whatever out there, probably no as nasty as this thing. [The computer requires a password to log on!] ( Password? PFAH!) ( Oh, hearing checks +4 for anyone near the door. ) 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6+2) and gets 8. ( Nope! ) 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+4) and gets 9. [You all hear the alarm. Yep, still going off.] 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+1) and gets 11. [Rei can't hack ye computer.] ( Worst. Infiltration. Ever. ) (Blame the dice. ;P) (Don't we always?) * Chie turns to the side so she can keep an eye on the door and *not* look at the Thing. * Rei types away, and types, and grumbles. "I can't get in! What's with this!" [The beasty gets angrier and angrier, apparently.] * Rei eyes the notes. "But whatever it is, it's not what we came for. Uh. Think whatever that thing was is gone now?" ( Gimme awareness checks! ) Okay. Guys? Staying here is looking like a worse and worse idea. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 7. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjya (2d6) and gets 6. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 6. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6) and gets 8. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 9. Yes. Let's try the hallway. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 7. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 8. [Whoever made it notices the glass is starting to crack.] * Rei blinks at the glass. "Uh, holy crap. Kill the lights!" That's what I said before! * Chie dashes to the light switch and turns it off. Well, actually do it this time! [The lights go off! The thing still throws itself at the glass, but less violently.] Why we still in room? I wanted to see if this is connected to the network, but I couldn't, so we'll just have to try another one, because I'm not spending more time at this one. Because you're blocking the door, Laz. * Lazar nods, opens the door, and steps out, sword drawn. * Asanjya looks anxious. "Moving on should be a priority." [Outside is a hallway.] [To be continued!]