[Day: Friday, October 5th. Time: 8:00 p.m.] [Yesterday you raided a box factory. Woo. And Lukas found a computer with a bunch of e-mails on it. Today, you gather at the Infinity Portal... er... the office, rather. Well, some of you.] [Session Start!] * Togo is, as per usual, sitting with his feet up on a desk in the meeting room. He's idly checking the drum cartridge for his machine gun while he waits for everyone who's coming to get here. * Alys walks in, clutching a large cup of coffee and drinking it in small sips. She seems sort of tired, and yawns a bit. Also, she's wearing her shirt inside-out. She sits down in the corner and closes her eyes. Hey Alys. How's the leg? * Alys answers without opening her eyes. "Much better. Pipe guy did a good job healing it. Thanks for asking." Good. Haven't gotten anything from my sources yet on what we found in the e-mails, but there's enough in there that I know about that I wanted to talk to the group a bit. Mmm. 'cause if the 'Head Honcho' is who I think he is, this is some serious shit going down. * Alys squints at Togo a bit. "Who do you think it is? Is this a massive conspiracy put together by aliens? 'Cause I definitely read a comic about that once." * Alys is about to add more to that, but gives up and drinks more coffee instead. * Khalil walks in carefully to the meeting hall. He's a little hunched over this time and sluggish. He walks straight to the nearest comfiest chair or couch and slumps into it, sighing. Not as far off as you'd think. Hey Khalil. Doing any better? I do not appreciate bullets to the back. But yes, it is difficult to have felt any worse rather. Khalil. I am willing to share the gloriousity that is... whatever this is. Miranda said it's the strongest coffee she can make without adding alcohol. But you look like you need some. s'progress. If you're still hurting, lemme know when we're done, and you can use my nano-medpack. I do not drink...coffee. * Khalil does look, though, as if he needs it. * Alys shrugs. "More for me." * Togo shakes his head. "Days like yesterday are why I carry rocket launchers." (Brett and Ten know where to go now!) * Khalil peers at Alys. "...your shirt is on the wrong way." No it's not. Because it was on backwards before, and I already fixed it, and.... * Alys peers down at her shirt. "...Huh." * Alys sets down her cup, grabs the hem of her shirt, and- stops. Looks at Togo and Khalil. And grabs her drink again before walking out the door. * Khalil watches her go with an odd look and then coughs, clearing his throat and shifting his position on the couch. "This is rather uncomfortable." * Lukas does an Alys-dodge, being just outside the door. Eee. Hey Volt. * Lukas finishes his Alys-dodge and goes into the room proper. "Yeah. Hey." He looks around. "Herman gonna be here?" * Lukas is carrying el doll, of course. * Khalil slowly glances up at Volt but doesn't say anything. He's looking at him though. * Togo runs a hand through his hair. "Dunno. Gonna start as soon as Alys gets back, because I can tell that everyone's wiped, and figure we could all do with a decent night's sleep." * Lukas chuckles. "Yeah. Sleep. Sure." He pauses a bit, then says, rubbing his hand idly, "Still haven't apologizzed the right way for the stun dart in the chest." There's a right way to apologize for that? * Ten 's dress of the day consits mostly of shiney leather and a very, very large number of blunted spikes. She's wearing Herman's braclet as a belt and seems to have shortened it a bit so it would fit. (There's = There is) Think Hallmark makes cards for that. * Alys skips back in, shirt on properly. "Hi! The coffee kicked in! Anyone want the rest, I've got about half left, but I kind of don't want anymore, so someone else can have it. Hi Volt! Hi Volt's doll, you pretty little thing." * Lukas snickers. "Cards, and free beer for the wronged party." I...believe the coffee kicked in entirely too much. No such thing as too much! * Lukas looks over to Alys and holds out his hand. For the coffeee. "Uh. Hi." * Alys hands it over. * Togo doesn't comment. He does, however, finish tinkering with the drum clip in his hand, tucking back into his trenchcoat. * Lukas takes the coffee and now his hands are nice and full. He takes a sip. Okay... had a chance to look over the e-mails Volt recovered from that computer again, and I'm pretty sure I know who that 'Head Honcho' guy is. Aside from someone who has poor judgement in his hirelings? Any of you heard of a multinational corporation called Asahara? (They make toothpicks, don't they?) * Khalil shakes his head. ( Gimme a business management roll or an occult roll +3 ) ( Or both :P ) (Or just autofail like I did! o/~) ( Or just autofail like he did. ) 2d8+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8+7) and gets 17. (Er.) ( - Alys :P ) 2d8-7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8-7) and gets -1. (Uh...) ( And was that occult or BM? ) (Convention is you subtract your skill. The +3 is a penalty to that.) (Aaaah. Sorry.) (Tired.) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8) and gets 10. (If that isn't right, I give up. :P) (If you're unsure, just do a straight 2d8 roll and say "Mister GM. You figure it out. ;P) ( Well, I need to know if you're rolling occult or business ) (Business. Although, she has small business, so would that really count?) ( Management & Admin, not BM. Sorry. ) ( Forgot they changed that. ) ( It counts. You just don't get the bonus from the specilization. ) (How does the bonus part work, exactly?) * Lukas does a little pace closer to the window while saying, with a faint smirk, "You'll have to tell us anyway." (You get essentially an extra skill level in your specializations. So you roll with -1 better) ( You get an extra -1 to the roll if what you're rolling uses the specilization. ) They make household stuff, right? Like, random kitchen things and so on. ( If not you still roll, you just don't get the -1 ) * Pocky-kun (Pocky-kun@ACC2050C.ipt.aol.com) Quit (Ping timeout) Doesn't really matter. On the surface, they make all sorts of things. (Thanks!) Below the surface, they're one of the world leaders in illegal genetic experimentation and mutation. * Pocky-kun (Pocky-kun@ACC2050C.ipt.aol.com) has joined #BESM * Khalil frowns. Severely. And, below that... they're one of the world leaders in genetic experimentation on demons and other supernatural entities. ( You're gonna meet a Cyberdemon somewhere in this campaign. I gaurantee it. ) * Alys 's eyes shoot open even wider. "Didn't know that. Wow." ( *wistles innocently( Almost nobody does. Even their top execs don't. The public Asahara business is just a shell to funnel money to the clandestine elements. Sounds like a great party. And below that? (Norii would love it!) * Togo shrugs. "Not quite sure. Hell would be my best guess." 2d8+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8+2) and gets 13. (Jee-zus.) Back in the States, I spent some time as part of a special military task force trying to shut them down. Their Asian and Eastern European operations had been pretty much gutted about twenty years back, but their American and Western European operations, though possessing lesser resources, were still operational. ( Pause till he gets back? ) ( Ok. Gives me time to sort this out. ) (Snicker.) 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-4) and gets 5. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8) and gets 8. ( Ehh... Keep going for now. We'll C&P when he gets back. And, um... anyone logging? ) (Yeah.) (I am.) ( K. ) ( So... unpause ) * Lukas mms, then says, "... didn't they finally kick it, though?" Pause. "Split into tiny little pieces of meat to be gobbled up?" They're very, *very* good at covering their tracks and hiding their research facilities. What happened twenty years ago? (HA.) (IMPACT WOO.) 2d8-2 (*makes a note for line juggling there*) * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-2) and gets 5. Twenty years ago, as I recall, a group of Japanese supernatural hunters pretty much devastated their Japanese branch. And their Eastern European operations got gutted by Dracula. * Lukas sorta stares at Togo. "... Dracula. The Dracula." Those were their two biggest operations centers." *nods at Lukas* "The one and only." * Lukas rolls his eyes and takes a big drink of coffee, before going, "Ggh. Right. This is why I stick to computers. I like my bodily fluids inside my body." Does Dracula not like geneticists, or something? Not sure. Probably wanted to eliminate the competition. Anyway. Since then, from what little we've been able to gather, their American and Western European branches have become more active, if only because they were still standing. And, if the information in those e-mails is correct, I'm pretty sure that the 'Head Honcho' is the guy in charge of Asahara's American and Western European operations. The reference to rebuilding his operations probably refers to the fact that a strike team I was on raided a board meeting of nearly all of their lab heads in the US, and took out the lot of 'em. *pauses; scowls* Weren't so lucky dealing with the 'Head Honcho'. * Khalil looks silent and thoughtful during this whole ordeal. What this all means... I dunno. Still have no clue who the hell the 'Covenant' is. Gonna hafta really hit my sources hard on that. *turns to Volt* Gonna need your help on that, and any details you can get on the theft of that rail gun. Yeah. Sure. *beat* You do know that all the assets weere sold off, right? Wheere 'sold off' is 'Mostly picked up by Zunkuft, inventors of AIs, security bot, and railguns', right? Or don't they keep track of little details like that? Assets from what? * Lukas glances to Khalil. "Probably what was left after Togo and his friends took out all the meat heading their labs. Factories, labs, trade secrets.. I dnnno. I don't keep notarized lists of that stuff in my head. Just the important stuff." ... no, actually. We knew damn little about anything Asahara was doing. Only stumbled onto that board meeting through a lucky break. * Khalil sighs and tilts his head forward, rubbing it. "I do not like coincidences.." Freelancer geneticist who'd done work with Asahara got suspicious they were gonna backstab him, and planted a virus to let him keep an eye on their internal communications. [Funny Khalil should say that, 'cause Togo's PDA beeps.] When we took them down, we found out about the meeting, an- *pulls out his PDA; checks it* [Go go Power Rangers! 'cept none of you recognize the tone.] ( s/them/him ) * Alys is sort of bouncing and listening quietly the entire time. * Lukas shakes his head slightly and takes another sip of coffee. Some of it spills onto his hand, lid or not and he winces. ... god, I hate cryptic bullshit. We've got a job. 'Assist Red Dragon', whatever the hell that means. Is there even a where and a when? (* Twitches* ... That's my brothers AIM handle.) So, if we don't know what it means, how do we assist him? Her? It? ( re. Did my two lines get through? ) ( Yeah. There's a big neon sign flashing over the location. "Red Dragon (RDMgryphon's brother)" ) (Assist Red Dragon is last we got.) ( Good. ) We've got a location, though. *mutters* Small favors... ( afk a sec ) (The next message should be "You must obtain the Maltese Falcon by next sunrise.") * Lukas smiles a faintly and wipes the back of his hand against his jacket. "Great. And here I was hoping for a light night." * Khalil stands slowly and shakes the arms of the robe. "We should trully know better by now." * Togo stands up. "Point of everything I was saying is that, if Asahara or whatever it's calling itself now is involved with what's been going down, this is serious, serious shit." *nods at Khalil; heads out the door* I'm ready! I've had caffeine! Let's go! * Alys follows out after Togo. * Khalil glances at Alys and then at Lukas, shrugs his shoulders, and walks out too. * Lukas goes last, muttering, "I guess so." (That was awesome, Calc. Where can I get a copy of that?) (amazon.co.uk - you'll need a region-free DVD player - or talk to me about a DVD-R copy. :) [Time: 9:30. It takes quite some time to get there, but you finally locate the place, and it becomes obvious that Red Dragon is a Chinese take-out place. It's a small building on a block of small buildings in an area of small buildings near but not on the Thames. The lights are on in the store, but a sign on the door says "Sorry! We're closed."] ( That get through? ) (Thanks!) (ys) (It's the future. Does the sign literally say that?) [It also says it in Chinese, which most of you can't understand. Futuristic bilingual technology!] * Togo just kind of stands there for the moment. "How does one assist a restaurant?" * Khalil looks at the sign. "Well. It says it is closed. So I suppose that is that." Is there a doorbell? Or are we knocking? Either or. * Alys walks up to the door and knocks twice. [No answer!] * Alys knocks harder. * Khalil goes up and inspects the door, lock, and the occassional glance at Alys. [No answer!] * Alys tries to open the door anyway. [It doesn't open!] * Khalil holds out his hands, not taking his eyes from the door. "Might I borrow someone's set of picks?" One sec. *wanders around the side of the building towards the back, if possible* * Khalil then glances at Togo. But doesn't move yet. * Lukas finally mutters, "Carry out orders..." * Alys backs off and glares at the door, which she is holding personally responsible for not opening. This is not the time to wish for Chinese, Volt. * Lukas looks over to Khalil. "No, I meant that's how you can help a resturant." * Togo looks around. Anything noteworth on the side of the building or in back? [Behind the building is a small alleyway and a fairly nice looking red car. It's got twin gold dragons on the hood and along the doors, which is a rather popular design in China right now.] True. * Togo goes back to where the others can see him and motions for them to come towards the back. * Lukas comes to the back. Ten's in the backpack, as usual when he expects 'trouble'. Or maybe that had something to do with his bike ride over. * Alys sees Togo's motion and goes over to where he is. "Find something?" * Khalil follows behind Lukas, keeping an eye on his doll. Car. Too nice to be owned by the owners of a little chinese restaurant. * Ten is quite pretty from the back too, even with a spiky hairband. (Check out the miniature robo-ass.) Uh. Okay... Is this story leadin' anywhere? ( 3 min ping >.< ) We can only hope.. Not sure. ( Is there a back door to the restaurant? ) [There is!] * Togo walks up to the back door, and tries to open it. [It's locked!] * Togo steps aside. "Volt?" * Lukas snickers, pulling out his tools smoothly. "I wonder if this job pays enough for jailtime." Beat, then a frown. "Why are we breakin' in, exactly? I get the feeling we're thinking 'shady deal to stop'." Maybe the people here are in trouble? Since we're supposed to assist them and they're not here to greet us or anything convenient like that. * Togo frowns. "Was a cop for a little while. And the only times cars this nice are in neighborhoods this not nice are when something illegal's going on." * Lukas goes for the pick! +1 illegal points. * Khalil inspects this lock as well and hmms. ( Front or back? ) (Back, where we are.) (Yes) ( K. Normal roll. ) (Gonna lay down and listen to Mecha's Moody Music and try and sleep. =P Night guys) 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-5) and gets 7. (Trying to cut it close, aren't you, you stupid damn bot? c.c;) (Night, Dre.) (de Dre) [Lukas unlocks the door!] * Lukas stashes his pics, saying quieter, "Can't beat the practice, though." * Dreol is now known as Dreamland * Khalil mmms as he watches Lukas' technique. He then sighs. "I suppose you do not trust me then..." * Togo pulls out his revolver and holds it low as he moves past Lukas and opens the door, peeking in. * Lukas glances to Khalil and says quietly, due to open door, "Wouldn't know. Never seen it." ( /me thinks he's pinging out >.< ) (I've got Brett as three seconds back) ( Stealth roll, Togo! ) ( I have 1 min. 14 seconds. ) ( move silently spec. ) 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-3) and gets 3. ( Made by 6 ) [Togo opens the door slightly. Gimme hearing checks!] 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-2) and gets 7. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8) and gets 6. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8) and gets 14. (Whee. Made.) (Armazung.) (hahaha) 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-6) and gets 4. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Khalil (2d8-2) and gets 12. ( Made by 3 ) [Togo, Alys and Lukas hear someone talking. It's a girl. "Eric? If you're there, pick up." Her voice is kind of shakey.] * Togo puts away the gun, pulls out his badge, and walks quietly towards the voice. * Lukas reaches for his (dart)gun as well. Can never be too careful. * Alys follows Togo, hands in her pockets. * Lukas is giving it a little time before following. But Khalil can go right past if he likes! [Togo sees her inside. She's a young, rather short girl; almost two feet shorter than him. She's wearing a long Chinese over-shirt and some not-so-long shorts. Her black hair is tied into a short ponytail that goes down to her neck.She's kind of cute. From the back at least. She's on the phone! "Eric? I'm sorry about what happened, but please pick up if you're there. Ling needs you help!"] * Togo holds up his badge, and clears his throat. "Perhaps we can help?" [She waits a bit longer before snapping her phone shut. As Togo speaks, she whirls about. "Who are you?!"] * Togo holds up his badge. "Friends. Or at least friendlies." *pauses* "Don't let the trenchcoat fool you." (Don't leet the trenchcoat fool her.) [She looks from Togo to Alys and back.] ( It's Ping Night at the Copacabana! ) We got a tip that something bad was going down here. Nobody answered when we knocked, we saw the suspciously nice car out back... * Lukas follows slowly at the lack of gunfire or doom or anything. "That's my c... What tip? Are you Eric's friends?" [Side note, she has hazel eyes. And looks like she's been crying quite a bit.] Law enforcement of sorts. We're here to help, if you need it. * Togo nods at Alys, and steps back, since she's a little less threatening than the Tall Guy In The Trenchcoat. ["Help?..." She looks back and forth again, and laughs. "Fine. I'll take what I can get at this point."] That's the spirit! What can we do for you? * Lukas enters the scene in back. Isn't he nice to be in the scene? [She heads out to the front of the store and motions for you to follow.] * Alys walks after her, trying to seem professional. * Togo follows! * Lukas follows too, rolling his eyes at something. [Out front is a small restaurant-like area, only it looks like it's been trashed. Amidst the carnage is a cleared area, where a man in Chinese clothes is lying with his head propped up by a folded cloth.] * Togo whistles. * Alys turns to the girl. "What... happened here?" Someone did a number on this place. [She wipes her eyes. "You wouldn't believe it."] (I think I'm going to call it a night...I'm too groggy to play anyways.) * Lukas smirks. "Demon turtles. I'd believe demon turtles. Does that guy need a doctor?" ( o.O ) Please, tell us. I promise we'll listen to every word. ["That's Yun, my brother. He..." She pauses and shakes her head, then starts again. "When I got here, he was still conscious. He said a man had done this, and kidnapped our sister Ling."] ( <- modifies stuff 'cause it took much longer to get here than I figured it would :P ) (Lag slows.) Did he describe the man at all? Do you know why anyone would do this? [She pauses. "You'll probably laugh, but my sister is a powerful diviner."] * Lukas starts walking over towards him. "And what do you men, 'was' conscious? Did he just pass out or something?" Oh, a diviner. Cool. No, I believe you. It's a good skill to have. * Togo pulls out his medpack, walks over to Yun, and sets about trying to help the poor fallen schlub. "I don't know. He said he would find out where Ling was, but... He just suddenly collapsed. He seems fine, but he won't wake up!"] ( would should be could there. ) What's your name? * Lukas does basic checky things while Togo overreacts. It's why he HAS Medical (Emergency Response!) ( Medical (diagnosis) rolls! ) 2d8-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-1) and gets 5. (Ba-boom. By 3. Eat that, medical training!) "Lei. Lei Ren." 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8) and gets 7. ( Made exactly ) I'm Alys. We're going to do everything possible to get Ling back, okay? You can trust us. [She nods. "I don't really have a choice. Thank you."] You were talking about someone named Eric, who's that? * Lukas mms faintly and murmurs, "Nothin'. Did he just pass out?" * Togo pauses before turning on the medpack. "... he looks fine. Volt?" [She scratches her head. "Um... Well... He's our partner. We kind of fight m..." She stops abruptly, but then decides to finish. "We fight monsters."] * Togo stows the medpack. "Magic, maybe? Psychic attack?" Any specific kind of monsters? * Lukas shakes his head. "Not my area. Nothing I can do for 'im." [She shakes her head. "Whatever we find, but..." She looks at Chen helplessly. "I don't have any talent for things like this. All I can do is punch and kick."] Every bit helps, kid. * Togo rubs his neck. "Surpised I never ran into your group. Being working the supernatural scene around here for a few years." [She blinks at Togo. "Oh. You too?"] * Alys lets the attention shift to Togo, because she can't think of any other decent questions. Yeah. You ever been to the Dancing Fiend? Most of the decent folks in the local supernatural scene hang out there. [She shakes her head.] * Alys wanders over to Lukas and tilts her head towards Yun. "How's he?" ( Huh. Thought I used Chen for the name. Oh well, go with Yun. ) * Lukas stands up. "Physically? Fine. But... well, if you people are talking magic, my hands are tied." [Incidently, Lei is rather cute, if you'd like to take advantage of her vulnerability.] (Sorry, my name is Ten, not Tim.) Should try it sometime. *pauses* Anyone you can think of that holds a grudge and would come after your brother like this? ( Ten, I think they're saying that they want to see you naked. ) [She shakes her head. "Not that I know of." Mm... nothing I can do about that. Unless you want to try and read his future or past, or something. Can we try to get a hold of Pipe Guy again? He's fine for now. We gotta worry about getting back... Ling, was it? [Lei nods. "But I don't know where to start looking!"] [Session End]