[You head down the section B path! It heads down some distance, then hits an intersection. There's also an elevator.] Did he say which way we should go? No, but really, we want to shut this whole wing down. He said B9, though. Hopefully the doors will be labeled and stuff. * Chie looks for some indication as to which way B9 is. Yeah, we do. * Rei looks around, then picks the left corridor. "Let's try this way. Top down." [You start down the left corridor. It turns once, and not long after you see some rooms.] * Chie points to one of the doors. "Look in?" [The doors have plates on them. The first is B-1] (Windows on the doors?) ( I'm gonna regret saying this, but yes. ) * Chie peers inside. [Chie sees two scientists and a glass room. In the room, she sees some spotted eggs.] * Chie looks back at Rei and whispers, "Two guys and a bunch of eggs." Yeah, let's keep goin'. * Rei flies down, glancing in windows as she goes. * Chie heads with her, taking the other side. Hey, Rei? ( >.< ) Yeah? ( Do you really think I have descriptions for all these rooms? ;_; ) Did you notice something... different about Chomei? (You can say the lights are off in some of them!) (No. Just let us know if it's something awful or B-9.) Uh... you mean besides him being lame? Oh. That's normal. No. It wasn't that. [Not all the rooms are labs. Some are corridors.] * Chie peers down one of the corridor ones. "Augh. Do we have to go down these?" [The path turns a few times, and it's actually quite a walk to B-9. Gimme stealth checks] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 4. [As you round a corner, you see a guard, but his back is to you.] [He's walking away from you currently.] * Rei hovers. She points out the guard. * Chie whispers into her communication device. ~Think you can disable him without him noticing, or should I try to KO him?~ * Rei whispers back, ~Knock out. If you botch, I'll blind.~ * Chie nods. * Chie sneak sneak sneaks up behind the guard and goes for a KO strike with her sword. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 8. * Rei sets to blind. Readied for after Chie! [Chie misses! The guard turns around in surprise. Go Rei!] * Rei fires! "Now you see me, now you don't!" 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 2. [He's blind! OMG!] (OMG!) [He fires, but misses.] [Go again, Chie!] * Chie tries again! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 1. [Chie hits the man, but he remains conscious. Rei!] * Rei hangs back. She glances around for anyone coming. [Nobody's coming yet, but the guard fires in a spread. He mostly misses, but Chie needs to defend or be shot.] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 8. [Chie's leg is grazed by a bullet! Her turn!] Ow, dammit! * Chie tries to knock him out again, and she means it! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 8. (...) (...this borders on the utterly ridiculous.) [Chie swings short as he stumbles back. Rei!] (Yeah, it's kinda silly.) * Rei flies over and smacks the guy! With her, uh. Foot of fury. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 3. [Rei kicks the guy and he goes unconscious!] * Chie applauds. "Sorry 'bout that." Wow, shades of Maria. I knew watching all those Kirby Ate Hong Kong movies would come in handy. * Rei poses. Then takes a look at Chie's leg. "You gonna be okay?" Yeah, it's only a flesh wound. Fucking guns. Yeah. * Rei frisks the guard for interesting, important things. Like, oh, cards one can swipe and written down codes. [Rei finds a card! But no codes] * Rei takes the card and pockets it. "All right, let's move." And so she does! To B-9! * Chie takes a cloth from her bag and ties it over the wound, then hurries after Rei as best as she can. "Hang on." Huh? * Rei looks back. [You fly and stumble to B-9! It leads into another corridor, one that's kind of dimly lit in a green light.] * Rei opens the door and floats in, looking around. "Whoa. This is straight out of Ghostbusters." No kidding. But I don't feel any ghosts. That's 'cause they already busted them. * Chie frowns. "Yeah. And that's part of what we're here to put a stop to." * Rei nods. [Closer to Half-Life.] * Chie continues walking. "Anyhow..." [The corridor has glass cells. Some are empty, some not. There's some pretty hideous things in some of them, that only vaguely look human.] * Chie tries not to look too closely at the things in the cells. [As you pass one cell, something howls and throws itself into the glass wall towards you.] * Chie jumps back, then draws her sword and turns to face it. * Rei scoots away from it and looks that way. [It wags its long tongue and desperately claws at the wall, looking directly at you.] ...I think we should keep moving. Uh... sorry, but I already have a boyfriend even if he vanished and doesn't really ever show up anymore and might be dead. * Rei keeps going! [You wonder past more cells. As you pass one, someone else bangs on the walls. "Kill me!" He looks vaguely human, but has a whole lot of metal bits, and his left arm seems to have been replaced with what looks like a sattelite dish. There's a cable going from that to his eye.] * Chie stops short. * Rei looks over at the guy, her eyes wide. Then she zips over to the wall. "You can talk!" ["Kill me!" He yells again, banging on the glass with his one actual arm.] I'm- I'm not gonna kill you, but calm down! * Chie just stands there. * Chie looks like she's thinking very hard about something. "You have to kill me! I don't want to live like this anymore!" Maybe we can fix you. Look, we'll get out of here, and we'll take you back to be fixed. Okay? We can try. [He waves the dish at her. "How are you going to fix this?!?!"] * Rei looks at that, and her tail flicks. "Uh, I dunno, but we can try to come up with something..." * Rei looks for a way to release him from his prison, in any event. Rei, he's suffering. Is there a way we can fix this? I- I don't know. But we've got to try. "You don't understand what they've done to me! I can't stand this anymore! Kill me!" * Chie looks down at her sword, then at the guy. * Rei bites her lip. She keeps looking for some sort of switch to open the door. [There's a key pad!] * Rei tries cracking the code. ( Electronics/security, +1 ) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 6. [The glass door opens. The man rushes at Rei. unarmed (wrestling) defense!] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 6. * Rei yelps. * Chie sighs. "I *knew* it..." (So sue me for caring about humanity. ;_;) [He tackles Rei, grabbing her throat with his one arm. "Kill me!" He doesn't seem to realize he's choking her.] Gods dammit! * Rei screams, but she's cut off as her windpipe is. * Chie runs up to the guy and kicks at him, trying to knock him off of Rei. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 4. [Chie manages to throw him off, but he gets up and rushes at her instead. Def roll, Chie!] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 10, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "Sorry, I don't take bribes. No, not even chocolate. No, not kinky sex acts, either." ( unarmed wrestling, natch ) ( >.> ) (Why me? Why?) (...) (I have rolled... what? A 10, two 11s, and now a critfail in here?) [The man picks up Chie (his arm seems to be really strong) by the throat and slams her back into the wall, holding her above the ground. "Kill me! Kill me for God's sake!"] (...I should work on my charsheet, MC2 looks like it's going to be a lot shorter than I thought it would be.) * Chie drops her sword and is slammed into the wall. She struggles to just even breathe. ( Nah, there's more to do after this :P Well, if they live. ) * Rei scrambles to her feet. She's crying, or something, and she just yells, "Stop!" A bright-white light forms in her hands. "Just stop! Disco Nova!" She throws it into his back. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 1. [Rei hits him. He drops Chie and glares at her. But instead of charging, he grabs Chie's sword. "Freedom!" He cries, and drives it into his throat.] * Rei stares. [He both bleeds and sparks as he falls forwards.] * Chie falls to the ground, gasping and coughing. ... Chie? * Rei stumbles over to Chie, giving her a hug. [Awwww.] * Chie manages to gather enough breath to hug her back. "Sorry..." * Rei sniffs. "It's not your fault. But- but we gotta get them out of here." We gotta stop this. We do. * Rei squeezes Chie extra tight, then lets go and goes to the guy. She swallows, turning him over. There's no more dinner or lunch to lose. * Chie slowly stands up. She kneels down next to him and pulls out her sword. "May your soul rest in peace." [Chie's sword is jammed in there pretty good. Body roll -1] 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-1) and gets 6. [Chie does manage to tug it out, with some effort.] * Chie pulls a cloth out of her bag and wipes it off. She bites her lip and tries to keep from trembling. "It'll stop. We'll make it stop." * Rei nods. She looks at the guy. "Sorry. I guess... you got what you wanted." She turns and starts floating down. If we can find a- a network, or something, maybe we can look up all the prisoners and find out what they're doing. We gotta destroy all the data they got. Maybe, although that's far more your department than mine. If I see anything that looks promising, though... I'll point it out. Call in, um, Interpol for clean up after, and- yeah. * Chie walks alongside Rei, her sword still in hand. [You pass more cells, more creaturs and things... And you come across one with Tianyi! She's wearing a ragged white smock and sitting with her knees folded to her chest.] * Rei perks when she sees her. "Tianyi!" She knocks on the wall. * Chie hesitates just in case. [Tianyi looks up. Her pupils are red. "Y-you!"] Oh, shit. * Rei stares. "Tianyi, what'd they do?" Tianyi, snap out of it! [She blinks slowly and rubs her eyes. She stands slowly and staggers towards the glass. "I... I don't know... They kept sticking me with needles, saying something about some experiment... I-I think I'm okay... Just my eyes... I can see in the dark now... I don't think they got too far..."] Okay. Do you know what happened to the others? Can you tell us where they are and are you good to, um, move? Gods. Hang on. We'll get you out of here. * Rei nods. She finds the keypad and starts cracking it, trying the code she used last time first. [The same code doesn't work!] * Rei tries others! * Chie looks up and down the corridor, making sure nothing's coming. ["I... my limbs feel weird, but I think I can... But Nikolai and Kanjiro... they might be worse off... I don't know..."] Okay. We'll just have to see. We'll get you out of here, I promise. [Nobody... or no thing... seems to be.] ( Same roll ) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 3. [The glass opens. Tianyi stumbles out.] * Chie moves to support her. ( Gimme an awareness check, Chie ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 2. [Chie notices a series of numbers on the back of Tianyi's right shoulder.] Huh? Rei, come look at this. What? * Rei goes to look. [Rei notices a series of numbers on the back of Tianyi's right shoulder.] (And the numbers are?) * Rei peers at them. "Tianyi, you've got... uh, something written on your shoulder. Any idea why?" * Rei pulls out a pad of paper and starts scribbling them down. "I... overheard them... say it was my... new designation..." New designation? * Rei looks over at Chie, then back to Tianyi. "Any idea what that means?" Experiment number or something? (How many numbers, Brett?) Fuck that. You're Tiyani, and you'll always be Tianyi. Yeah. * Rei squeezes Tiyani's arm lightly. She looks to Chie. "Experiment number... maybe. Gotta get to the database. Think you can walk, Tiyani?" ["I'll... try..."] ( Um... 3 ) ( We'll say... 110-04-01 ) (Okay.) Okay. Chie can catch ya if you can't handle it. * Rei goes on ahead, checking the place out. Yep. I'll be right here. * Chie walks along, carefully guiding Tianyi if she needs it. [Rei comes across another cell. Nikolai seems to be in this one. He's lying on the floor, some weird purple thing embedded in his chest. He doesn't look conscious.] * Rei stops and stares. "Shit." Guys! Should I open this? Nikolai, he's- like- he's not looking good. * Chie catches up with Tianyi. "I... think you should leave him for the moment." * Rei hesitates, then nods. She makes a mental note where he is and presses her hand against the glass. "We'll be back for you, okay? Just hang in there." * Rei goes back to scouting ahead. "I... don't... know... they did... more with him... then me." "But... where's... Kanjiro?" We'll find him. Yeah. We'll find him. [A few more cells are passed, but they're all empty.] [Or... have stuff in them, but not Kanjiro.] [Rei reaches the end of the line, so to speak.] * Rei looks around. "Dammit! No Kanjiro *and* no research notes!" * Rei kicks the wall. "Where the hell are you, Spikey?" "T-Try... B-10. That's where... where they do things... to us..." * Chie nods. "Okay. We'll head there now." * Rei looks to Tianyi, eyes wide. "B-10. Okay." * Rei presses her hand to hear ear, going back the way they came. ~We got Tianyi and found Nikolai, but he's unconscious and not lookin' so hot. Going to B-10 to see if Spikey's there along with whatever research they got.~ [You head back to the hallway. Tianyi points further down the hall.] * Chie heads that way with her. * Rei nods to Tianyi and goes. [You reach B-10. Throw the window, you see a lab room. Kanjiro is held down to a lab table by iron clasps as a bald doctor readies a needle.] * Rei stares. She opens the door if possible. If not, just blast the thing down. All right, that's *it*! [It's locked! There's a card swiper on the side.] * Rei fishes out the card she swiped (ha ha) and runs it through the activator thing! [The door opens!] * Rei steps in. "Chie!" ( Init rolls! ) d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (d6+7) and gets 10. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (d6+6) and gets 10. [Order is Chie, Rei, Doctor.] [Chie!] You are going to stop *right* there! * Chie draws her sword and charges him, swinging with the flat of her blade more to knock him back (and out) than to severely wound him. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 6. [Chie hits him. He staggers back into some machinery. "Vhat are you doink, you fools!"] [Rei] Stopping you. Isn't it obvious? What the hell are *you* doing! ( Awareness check, +2! ) 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+2) and gets 11. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 5. [Out of the corner of her eye, Chie sees Kanjiro twitch. "You fools! Because of you I could not administer ze mind control serum!"] Mind control? What the hell did you *do* that would need mind control? Rei, Kanjiro's moving! Be careful! * Rei steps in, her fingers twined, pointed at the doctor, and the blackness forming at the tips. She looks at Kanjiro. "Okay." Tell us what you were doing to him. [Kanjiro's veins begin to buldge. His bloodshot eyes flick open and he snarls. His skin begins to turn green. The doctor cries. "If you fools had let me finish, he would not go berserk like now! You haf doomed us all!"] Oh, great, it's the Incredible Fucking Hulk. * Chie looks for the syringe. [The doctor is holding it.] Think he's telling the truth, Rei? [The bonds holding Kanjiro burst, and he looks around maddeningly. Wings sprout from his back, and he grows claws and fangs.] ...well, shit. I don't know! * Rei sees that and backs away. "Shit, I don't know!" * Chie grabs it from the doctor anyway and tries to jam it into Kanjiro's arm before he can do anything. Spikey. Spikey! ( Back into init. Chie, Rei, Kanjiro and Doctor. ) [Chie's turn!] * Chie ...does what she said above. (Melee attack?) * Rei waves with both arms and gets between Spikey and Tiyani. ( Yeah, without your spec ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Chie jams the needle into him. He looks calmer. Rei's turn.] * Rei looks from Chie to Spikey and back, then zips over and changes to charging up a white ball. She faces the doctor. "Don't move." (Holding action for if the doctor tries anything.) [Kanjiro does nothing.] [The doctor smiles. "Thank you for zetting things right." He gives Kanjiro a serious look. "Capture or destroy zhem."] [Chie's turn] Yeah? Capture or destroy this. Disco Nova! * Rei fires at the doctor. It's white and shiny and hurts! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 7. [Rei destroys some valuable machinery!] [Chie's turn!] * Chie motions towards Kanjiro, or the thing that used to be Kanjiro. "Tianyi! Talk to him! Try to get him to recognize you!" Then she charges at the doctor, swinging to wound but not kill 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets -1, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I love the smell of a crit in the morning." [He is soooo knocked out.] [Tianyi stumbles towards Kanjiro. "Kanjiro... It's me... Tianyi..."] [Rei's turn] Yes! Finally! * Rei looks from Chie to Kanjiro. She stays by Tiyani and puts a hand to her ear. "We found Spikey, and it's not good. He might attack us. B-10; left. Hurry." * Rei readies another Disco Nova, eyes on Kanjiro. Again, held action. * Chie kneels down next to the doctor and proceeds to remove his lab coat and tie him up with it. No, he is not escaping on her watch. [Kanjiro rushes at Tianyi, fist held back.] No! Disco Nova! * Rei throws her hands forward, white light bursting to Kanjiro. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets -1, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I wish I got to hand out more of these, really." (Holy.) (...dude.) (Um, not trying to kill him? For the record.) (Did we accidentally shoot ourselves up with something?) (It's the DRUGS!) [The attack slams into Kanjiro's back. He roars and charges at Rei. Gimme a def roll, Rei!] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 6. [Kanjiro socks Rei, sending her crashing into a table.] [Chie's turn!] * Rei screams! And crashes. This is bordering on the totally fucking ridiculous. Spirit Stream! 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 8. [Chie makes a hole in the wall near the door.] [Rei's turn] * Rei coughs and scrambles up, makes to scramble his brains- then pauses and switches tactics, backing away as far as she can and forming blackness at her fingertips. She shoots it forward. "Oh, now you don't." 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 8. [Yes he does! Kanjiro grabs at Chie! Unarmed defense, Chie!] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 3. (Not saying a word.) (Sorry Kanjiro, she's taken.) (^_^) [Chie avoids grabbage. Her turn] Okay, Kanjiro? Do me a favor and don't die. Just get knocked unconscious when I do this to you, okay? Spirit Stream! 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Kanjiro is knocked out!] (Does he shift to normal? Like THE HULK?) Whew. [No, he pointedly does not.] * Chie wipes a hand across her forehead, then runs over to check on Rei. * Rei gasps for breath. She looks around, then stumbles away from the wall she was leaning against. "I'm okay. I'm okay." You sure? Check in Tiyani. I gotta... I gotta find the research. Yeah, I'm okay. I can heal myself later. [Tianyi staggers up to Kanjiro and nearly trips as she kneels down besides him.] * Rei looks around for a computer or something of some sort. Come on, electronic info. And, um, find out his designation. * Chie goes to check on Tianyi and Kanjiro. "Tianyi? How is he?" Are you still feeling okay enough to move? ["He's... I don't know..."] We'll fix him. * Rei sounds certain. [She puts a hand on his chest and looks sadly. "I... can't cry... anymore."] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 9. * Chomei bursts through the door, wielding a scythe and looking like he got beat to hell. But he does have wings. Lazar is holding Asanjya on his back behind him. * Rei looks up from inspecting the machinery and takes an involuntary step back. "Holy shit!" * Chie reaches out to comfort Tianyi, then looks up as the group comes bursting through the door. "Guys! Thank..." And then she sees Chomei, and the scythe and the wings, and she screams. [End!]