[Day: Tuesday, Oct. 9th. Time: 7:30 p.m.] [After discovering you had to travel to a place in Norway to meet yet another of Ashley's acquaintances, you found out Sarah only remembers one door in the entire country, and it's at the top. Doh. So instead she tried to teleport using a mental image provided by Lukas.] [Lukas must have lived in a place that was awfully like Herman's apartment, because as you step out of the portal, it's almost as if you're back there. There are even two Asian kids that look a lot like Lukas and Alys.] [Session Start!] Wow. Deja vu. I'm going to get sick if we keep switching climates, you know. * Ashley blinks and looks around. "Now look, this can't possibly be right." * Lukas comes out looking panicked and says immediately, "Mom, don't panic, it's..." his eyes fall on Lukas-body. "... Me? Shit." [Sarah blinks a few times and looks around. "It's you alright... I don't think it worked."] [Xuan waves. "Hi!"] * Alys waves back. "Hey!" * Herman comes walking over from the living room. "Now what's-" She blinks. "You're back." * Khalil looks about. "What were we trying to do again?" We were try'n to get to someplace Lukas remembered, but we didn't! * Togo shrugs. "No harm, no foul." * Lukas looks annoyed. "Yeah. At least we didn't end up in Antarctica." Out of curiosity, where WERE we headed? [Sarah nods. "Yeah..." She wipes her forehead and sighs. "I'm pretty beat."] Care to take over teleporting duties, Herman? * Herman smiles a little, and up, at Sarah. "Been doing a lot of casting as me, huh? I know how that feels." Pause. "Am I really that tall?" * Lukas smirks for a second and then fades. "I was hoping for Stockholm." He looks over to Herman and says with more of a smirk. "Hey, think how I feel over here." [Sarah nods. "Well, we have been traveling a lot... Am I really that short?"] Yeah. You are. * Alys takes a cookie out of her pocket and holds it out to Herman. "You're all annoyingly tall. Liaden's mum gave us yummy things, do you want one?" Cookies are good! [Mitsuji types away. "The others aren't back yet."] * Herman takes the cookie distractedly. "Uh, sure." This is not a place that he remembered? So didja find Ashley's friend? What's his name. * Khalil looks around with an odd expression. No. It's been one bloody thing after another. * Alys hums and gives cookies to Mitsuji and Xuan as well. Poor cookie-less people. Wales to Scotland to bleeding Norway and back again. And we need to get back to Norway. *pauses* I think we're the first people who've ever needed to go to Norway. * Lukas shakes his head. "I can think of worse places to end up out of my head." [Mitsuji takes a cookie with his free hand and munches without even looking up from his screen. It'd be funny if you had put mustard or something on it.] [Xuan also accepts a cookie. She seems happy.] * Herman has a bite out of her cookie and mmrphs, listening. * Ten nodnods. "Like, anywhere they're shooting at us from is worse!" We've got to get back to Norway, however. Little place south of Oslo. If you can get us close.... Do we -have- to? It's cold. Oh, it's not that bad. We can buy coats! * Ashley blinks, then scowls and snaps his fingers. "Bloody hell! I can't make money if I don't bloody well have a glamour on!" * Lukas glances to Ten. "You don't need to buy coats." * Herman chews and swallows. "Never been to Norway," she says before having more cookie. * Khalil sighs "I suppose we have no choice." Yes we do! The rest of get cold and it sucks! Then it looks like we're taking a jet. * Alys makes a face and tells Herman, "You're not missing much." * Herman mmphs again. She swallows more cookie, then looks to Sarah. "How'd you figure you could doorway off of something Lukas remembered?" I meant as far as going to Norway. I did not wish to go to Norway. [Sarah rubs her forehead and turns her gaze to Herman. "Sorry? Oh... Mitsuji has telepathy, so we thought if he sent me an image, maybe I could do it."] * Ten nods. * Lukas looks at Herman and says, "Yeah, my idiot idea." He looks over to Mitsuji-him. "God knows I can do a hundred other things that make no sense now." Can you do it with your port? Er, my- whatever. ["I... Maybe? I've never tried to teleport that far before."] We could give it a shot. With the doorway, it's more like a... uh, presence thing. I coulda told you that you can't get it off of a picture someone gives you. * Ashley flops in a seat and pinches his nose. * Herman polishes off the cookie. She must have been hungry. So, like, it just defaulted back to your apartment? That's kinda cool. [Sarah nods. "I guess so.... But if you don't mind, I'll stay behind. Maybe I'll go pick up Liadan while you're away."] Does anything we do really make much sense? Sure. Probably best that one of us stays behind. How will we get back then? * Alys glances around and ends up just watching whatever Mitsuji's doing. * Herman looks at Khalil blankly for a moment, then says, "I take us back." [Mitsuji is apparently working on something veeeery important. Or maybe not important at all. Alys can't tell, since he's doing it in Japanese.] * Khalil looks back at Herman. "Yes, but I was concerned about the range." ( Don't worry, the North Sea isn't THAT big. ) * Herman grins. "No idea." So we are gambling? Yup. Hope that doesn't offend your god. * Alys asks Mitsuji, "Whatcha doing?" * Lukas smirks and murmurs to himself, "Lots of things I do make sense. Except ever taking this job." He glances to Khalil, "Sure, why not? Put your life in his-slash-her capable hands." Very well. I simply wanted to be certain of where I stood." * Ashley rolls his eyes. "It's not like we're travelling to another planet. It's NORWAY." But Lukas, except for the sucky parts it's been totaly awesome! [Mitsuji mumbles, "Working."] * Khalil looks at Lukas and nods. "There has to be a better way to earn college tuition." * Alys shouts, "There are aliens in Norway!" before looking back at Mitsuji's work. * Herman eyes Alys. No aliens. Just a disturbing number of blonde people. (Alys was just in Norway. Alys is an alien. Therefore her statement is not completely inaccurate.) * Herman stretches and walks off, returning shortly with Sarah's staff. "Ready?" No. But that has never stopped us on this job before. * Khalil steps forward. * Togo frowns. "Was hoping Justanius would be here, so I could get a few of my guns... ah well. Ready." * Lukas looks to Herman and walks closer. "I guess. If it doesn't work this time, I'm done trying to shove memories at people." * Khalil looks at Togo. "I could still protect the party if need be." Ready as ready gets when you're in someone else's body and going to a very cold place! * Ten goes and gets in close enough for Sarah's teleport spell. "I still think we should get warm clothes!" * Lukas sighs with annoyance. "Do you really want normal sized clothes coming out of your clothing budget for your real body?" * Alys walks back to the group to be teleported with everyone else. So ready. [Sarah sits down in the beanbag chair and waves..] * Herman withdraws a set of tarot cards from her cleavage. "Project away, Lukas." She looks to Sarah-in-Herman's-body and smiles crookedly. "Good luck." * Ashley stands up and walks over with the group. Actually, I believe she wants to not die of frostbite as her first experience in a human body. But, but, Liadan would so totally use it! * Togo nods at Khalil. "I can, too, even if my hand-to-hand is really, ridiculously rusty." Then we'll hoof it fast. * Lukas shakes his head and closes his eyes. "Maybe you should take her clothes shopping, then." * Khalil looks at Lukas. Then blinks once. Then blinks twice. "Point taken." But I'll still be cold noooow! * Herman starts a little and looks at Lukas. * Ashley scowls and mutters under his breath. Pipe Girl, maybe you could loan us some jackets or something? What do I look like, the fucking salvation army? Sarah's already got my jacket. * Khalil shakes his head slightly and tsks. "Such language out of a lady..." * Herman 's eyes unfocus, and she stares into the distance. "We're going now," she says, and she sweeps the tarot cards outwards. They spread around the group in a wide circle, and she starts to chant in Latin. Awwwwww. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Herman (2d8-2) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 11. (Oh, this won't end well.) (For the love of Christ, can we just fly next time?) (Suddenly in Atlantis...) [You arrive at a roadside atop a snowy mountain. There's a checkpoint nearby with a guard stationed.] * Herman blinks as she gathers the cards with a wave of her hand. "Not where I wanted..." * Lukas reopens his eyes and mutters. "Marvelous. I give up. This brain is defective." That's not quite what I was wanting to hear. * Ten looks around. "I miss my GPS too. I want that back too! Where are we?" * Khalil looks around for a little while, taking in the surroundings. "He could have lied, Ashley." Would've been a lousy lie. * Alys gives Lukas an odd look. "The brain of a kid who can type on two computers at once is defective?" Yes, but it would have been what he wanted to hear. It's not like we've got there and he's not there. We can't even get bloody close to the place! "Where are we" would be a good start though, I agree. * Herman tucks her cards back into her cleavage and treks along the road to the guard station. * Lukas looks over and up at Alys. "Sure. Ever hear of autism?" [It's cold around here. Brr.] * Ten rubs her arms. "So, totally should have gotten coats." We could be close horizontally. Just not so close vertically. [The guard station is a single room with a lazy-looking guard watching a portable TV. He's average size and build and has a 'stache.] Yes, actually. Huh. Maybe he is. (It's-a me! Guardio!) * Herman knocks on the... uh, window? Maybe? We could be in Canada, Togo. [The guard jumps with a start. He rolls down the window and asks a question... in Swedish!] * Togo pauses. "That wouldn't be so bad. They have good beer." * Lukas holds his arms without rubbing close to his body and started following Herman, then blinks. "... well." We don't bloody well want to BE in Canada! ... Uh, do you speak English? Granted. Just saying that the beer's good, so it wouldn't be a total loss. (Ack, no I took Swiss) They speak French in Quebec. It'd be neat. (A few SP worth having.) (Curse you Germanic tribes!) (Hey, you got a problem with Germanic tribes?) [He looks at Herman and shrugs.] * Khalil starts rubbing his arms. "If it were that, I could understand it. Though it is actually a dialect of French." (Yeah, I keep getting Sweden and Switzerland mixed up! >.>) * Lukas walks more forward and speaks up... in Swedish! Wow. * Herman hears that and steps back. She rubs at her arms and looks around. Her boobs are gonna freeze. ... that sounded Nordic, so I'm assuming we're at least in the right region. [He gives Lukas a funny look, and responds.] * Ten grumbles to herself. * Lukas smirks a little and replies again. * Ashley tucks his hands in his pockets and mutters to himself. [He jerks his thumb west as he speaks.] (Man, I put another point into languages and I'm going to have twenty something.) * Lukas nods and asks the man something. [He responds!] Soon as I get home, I'm studying. We've got a decent languages section, there's gotta be some self-teaching books. * Ashley looks levelly at Herman. "No joking, mate. Next time we fly. Alright?" [He nods, then asks a question.] * Lukas whistles and nods again before looking over/up at Herman. "Well, I guess now you know you can't quite make it on range. We fell right on the Norway/Sweden border." He then looks back more group ward. "40 miles from Oslo." If we continue to bungle things like this, it may be useful. * Lukas chuckles and looks at the guy for a sec to respond to him. So can we 'port the remaining distance? If we get our bodies back, it's a damn sight cheaper, too. It's coooooold Lukas! [He nods and goes back to his TV show.] * Herman shivers and hugs herself. "I could give it a try, I guess..." * Togo hands Ten his trenchcoat. "Should help a bit, kiddo." * Lukas turns back away from the guy and says, "Then let's get walking so you can warm it up?" * Alys blows and watches her breath. * Ten puts on the brown(?) trenchcoat over her green dress and hopes it doesn't clash too horribly. Then she does up all the fasteners. * Togo nods at Herman. "So let's get some distance from the guard and 'port before my nipples poke through this damn suit." *looks down; shakes head* ( Mariah's trenchcoat is defined as 'dark', so brown is acceptable. ) * Herman snickers. She starts walking down the road, then. Into Norway, really, if she can. ...I did not need that kind of information. * Lukas eyes Togo suspiciously and then shakes his head. "Military. Oy." He walks Norwayish too! * Alys starts walking. "Welcome to womanhood!" * Ashley follows Herman, since he is currently the plane. He's muttering. * Ten grins. "It's nice in here!" [You take 5 steps and woo! Norway!] * Ten goes to Norway! [It looks kinda like Sweden.] * Khalil also follows behind. Really, this is ridiculous. I could put someone's eyes out with these things. *turns to Alys* Doesn't that get really annoying? * Herman is in Norway! Ah, breathe that fresh Norway air. And keep walking. * Lukas mutters. * Alys eyes 'Togo''s chest. "You're much larger than my real body or this one, so it's not as bad. Be happy you're not all bloody and gross, -that's- a pain." * Khalil walks forward. He seems to be trying to purposely ignore Togo. [You get some distance from the checkpoint before this gets out of hand >.>] ( /me idly wonders how drunk he'd have to get Brett to have him allow a called-shot attempt to poke out an enemies' eyes with his nipples. ) * Lukas tosses up his hands and says, "I can't walk fast enough." Before they, uh, walk far enough. ( I am so going to 7 hells just for LISTENING to this sort of thing.) ( I hear the 6th one's the best. ) * Ten walks and is warm, too bad for all those other people. * Togo pauses in mid-stride, and his eyes go wide. "Forgot about that." *walks faster* "More motivation to get back into my body fast. If I had a hat, I'd be tipping it to you, Alys." * Herman glances back, then stops. "Okay, let's try this again." I can only do this maybe two more times, so cross your fingers. * Togo says a quick prayer. ( Because, really, nobody wants to see PMS Togo. ) (Nobody wants to hear about Togo's combat tits either. c.c;) * Herman removes the cards from breastspace and wastes no time in tossing them. She closes her eyes, tilts her head back, and starts chanting. * Khalil does pray. He forgot his rug but he does turn. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Herman (2d8-2) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 8. * Ten crosses her finger and hopes. [You reappear in a mid-sized town! Woo! There's still snow all over the place.] Where are we now? * Ten looks around. Who cares, let's just get inside somewhere. I agree with that statement. * Khalil does not add "before we see if what Togo says is true." * Herman sneezes. She looks at Lukas. "Well, it's your memory." * Lukas shrugs helplessly. "It's my memory from when I was younger. Sorry if I'm not tip-top on place recognition." (Is there someone walking by?) * Togo lets Volt take the lead, since he seems to know languages. [Someone walks by. Woo.] What the heck where you doing in Norway? Really young. * Lukas says Hi to someone! In SWEDISH. Hopefully it works? [The guy in question is about 6'5" and has bulging muscles. He must be a wrestler. He flexes as he responds.] Well. It is better than nothing. * Ten watches Lukas from the warmth of Togo's coat. [He changes his pose and responds to Lukas.] * Lukas just holds his arms as he talks to Super Macho Man. * Alys sighs and rubs her arms while watching the conversation. ( If he flexes his biceps at you, dodge right! ) * Lukas blinks and looks back to Ashley. "So where is the guy you were looking for?" (His jaw's the weak point. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!) Because whoever was looking out for us put us smack in Skien. Thank fucking Christ. Now we get to ask random people, because Tyr was less than specific. Why not ask him? He already speaks Lukas' language. * Lukas spins his hands around in a circle and says, "Just tell me what we're looking for." Then he turns back to the guy and speaks. * Ashley holds his hand out about four feet off the ground. "Yea high, frizzy white hair, enormous bleeding glasses, name of Dohrbran." Probably has tabs at every bookstore in town. So, like, we go to the bookstores! * Alys looks at him. "Bookstores? Yay! I'm good with bookstores!" [He changes his flex pose as he responds.] * Lukas says out of the corner of his mouth, "Does anyone have a piece of paper?" * Lukas then shakes his head and talks back to the guy. * Ten checks Liadan's wallet! * Khalil checks his pockets and such. [Liadan only has money in it. And it's in yen and pounds, so you can't even use it.] * Togo pulls out a stack of post-its, and hands it to Volt. [Khalil finds a postcard of a desert in one pocket. That kinda works.] * Alys doesn't bother to check her purse. Her body is her notebook. [He pauses for a bit, then responds.] * Lukas looks down to the post-is, grabs one, and says, "Alys, do you have a pen?" * Ten puts the wallet away. * Alys checks. "Um... I think I got one from Xuan." [She does! Yay!] * Alys hands it over. "Here you go." * Herman sneezes again. * Lukas takes it and the post-it note and hands it to the guy before saying one last thing to him. * Khalil glances at Herman. "Sick?" Just cold. I'll be fine. * Khalil smiles slightly. "You are speaking to the person of whom which colds are a bane." See? See? We shoulda gotten warm clothes for everybody! It's not cool that only one of us can be warm at a time! [The guy smiles as he writes on the note. His teeth sparkle.] Be careful. Chest cold for Sarah could be lethal. * Herman eyes Togo. * Togo grins. * Khalil eyes Togo as well. "Not amusing." * Herman smacks Togo/Mariah upside the head with her staff. Ow. *rubs his head* * Alys blinks at the sparkling teeth and refuses to believe she just saw that. * Khalil then blinks at the staff whacking. "Although, strangely, that part *is*." * Ten grins. ( It's John! Except not! ) [He finishes writing and hands the note back to Lukas, winking as he says something else. Then he reaches out with a big meaty hand and ruffles Lukas's hair.] * Lukas takes the note and then bites his lip for a second to keep from responding to being tousled. He rubs his head after the guy lets go and responds with a wave of his note-holding hand. [He waves back and continues down the street.] Tell me you got directions and not just his phone number. Can I mess with your hair too, Volt? Perhaps he got both? * Lukas looks down at his hand and says, "Sorry, autograph. On a saner day, I might wonder why I am holding the autograph of the Grand Mongoose in my hand." He looks over at Alys with an annoyed look, then, "Let's find a damn bookstore." Christ. * Ten giggles. "To the books!" * Ashley trudges off in a likely-looking direction! * Alys snickers and walks in a direction! * Herman follows the book-hunters. (I wonder if anyone's heard of him or if he's just a local lunatic.) * Lukas stuffs the autograph away in his bookbag and follows. 2d8-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ashley (2d8-1) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 9. * Togo follows along. * Ten goes that way. [After some walking, Ashley just happens to notice a familiar short blond teenage girl who looks familiar, sitting in a cafe drinking a can of Corke. Woo.] * Khalil shrugs and walks himself. * Ashley blinks and grinds to a halt on one heel. "HE-llo." * Ten blinks and stops. "Dija find him? Huh?" * Alys bumps into Ashley's back. "Oof. Don't do that." * Herman looks at where Ashley's looking. "Oh Christ, Ashley, not now." ( The eternal search for classy dames!) No, but I found something almost as good. * Herman furrows her brow, studying the girl. "Wait." * Khalil bumps into Alys since she stopped. "Oof." (* Alys enjoys it!) * Ten stops looking for the dwarf and looks at the girl they did find instead. ... So you did. * Lukas doesn't bump into anyone. He just looks slightly annoyed and can't see anything. "What's going on?" * Ashley sweeps his purple-coated self in towards the girl. "Brigid! Lovely to see you." * Herman pads after Ashley. (*achem* IT'S A TRAP!) ( So they're getting down and dirty? ) (We get to enter the cafe, right?) (Where it's WARM?) * Alys walks in hurridly. "Warmth! Blessed warmth! Oh heating system, I will never take you for granted again, except maybe when you go all wonky and turn on in the summer." [She looks up as you approach. "And how lovely it is to see you, too!... Wait, who are you?"] (I was assuming so. Hence my "in".) Ashley. Don't laugh. It's a long story. At this point, very long. * Ten follows people into the cafe! * Ashley has a seat. * Herman sighs once she's in the cafe. * Lukas goes in too and lets out a loud sigh as well. He also gives Alys a funny look, but only a short one before he finds a seat. Seats are good. * Khalil goes in to the warm cafe and rubs his hands, looking away from Alys. * Ten stands since she's not used to having chairs in her size. * Alys sits down as well. Seats and warmth! It doesn't get much better! ["Ashley? I love what you've done with yourself." Her eyes scan the rest of you. "So you hang out with war heroes these days?"] * Togo heads in as well. * Togo pauses, waits until nobody else is looking, and shivers HARD before regaining his composure. * Lukas takes advantage of being able to sit to pull out his laptop and check things he hasn't been able to seriously touch on in a while. * Ashley blinks. "War heroes? Oh, hells. Look - we swapped bodies with the original owners. We've been running around all Christendom and some parts it forgot looking for Dohrbran. You know how bloody hard he is to get ahold of. I've been to see Aine and even Tyr." He pauses. "Don't go visit him for a while." ["Oh?"] You know how he gets. * Ashley twirls a finger around his temple. ["So you didn't come find me to... you know?"] * Ashley grins. "Ordinarily, I'd love to. But the body's kind of on loan, you see, and the chap who owns it is a bit of a stickler." * Lukas glances over to Ashley/Brigid and then looks back to his computer. [She pouts. "Aww. He's kind of sexy."] * Khalil EYES Ashley. * Ten discovers that knees get sore after prolonged periods of standing still and sits down. * JesseLman is now known as Togo * Ashley looks down and smiles. "In a strange Rastafarian demon wizard sort of way, I can see it." * Herman looks totally unsurprised. She has a seat at a nearby table, though. This could take a while. [She sips her drink. "Well, if you want the old man, I might know where he is."] (Look if I was in my original body I'd sex her up right quick and it'd be done, but I have to do it the hard way. ;_;) * Alys stares at the ceiling and finds it very interesting. That's fantastic. * Herman taps her fingers against the table, then brushes some hair out of her eyes. Stupid hair. Where? [She smiles. "Isn't it. I imagine this information would be pretty valuable to you. So.... what have you got to trade?"] (Time for Ashley to pimp his teammates.) (*snerk) ( *points at Khalil* He's hunky. Want him? ... ) * Ashley's smile fades just slightly. "Time never really changes all that much about us, does it?" He sighs. [She smiles. "I like you, Ashley, but you know how silly it would be to just give something away for free."] Of course. I'm afraid I'm a little light on trade goods at the moment. Being someone else for a while tends to have that effect. ["Hmm, I guess it would."] * Khalil calms down after the initial reaction. "What is the usual barter?" [She sits back. "I know! I'll tell you where to find the old man if you promise to arrange a date with the owner of your body."] * Ashley looks to Khalil. "That, often. Or similar." He turns to Brigid. "Hm." * Khalil blinks. "That does not seem much to trade.." * Herman looks up. "Want me to call and ask?" * Ashley looks to Herman and nods. "Tell him it's going to happen to the body whether he's in it or not, so he might as well be." * Ashley looks back to Brigid and winks. * Herman shrugs and pulls Sarah's phone from her cleavage, dialing her own number. Er, Herman's number. Which Sarah has. Right. * Herman puts the phone to her ear. [Brigid smiles.] Hi, Sarah? This is Herman. Is Dante around? * Ten only listens to half the conversation because she's human like that. Great. Put him on. * Togo finds a chair and kicks back a bit. ( So when is Togo going to turn into a golem? ) Hey, this is Herman. Look, we have a lead that'll eventually get us all in the right bodies again. But we're gonna need your help. (Yesss. Play it as democratic. "You've got to do your part! And maybe her!") (But on the bright side there won't be another booty call till you're 85!) ( So ask not what you can do for your country... ask WHO you can do for your country! ) [Bridgid leans back.] * Herman leans back in her chair. "It's not that bad. After you get your body back, you just have to go on a date with one of Ashley's friends." She glances at her. "She's pretty." ( Would you share a bed with her? ... define 'share'. ) * Ashley half-heartedly covers his mouth and stage-whispers "She's good in bed!" * Herman waves for Ashley to be quiet. "Why not?" She doesn't sound pleased. Are you telling me you have no interest in getting your bloody body and abilities back, not to mention the rest of your bloody group's bodies back? * Ten blinks. * Lukas frowns, oh yes he does. * Khalil watches Herman's conversation with a hard look. * Ashley frowns too! Selfish bastard. * Herman sounds very annoyed. "That's why I'm asking, dammit. It's not like the deal's for you to have *sex* with her. You take her to a movie and show her a good time, or I don't know, sit in your room and meditate with her. Whatever it is you do on a date." * Alys is still watching the ceiling. ( Sarah, your fiancee's an ass.) Perhaps he does not know how. * Togo sighs. "Kids nowadays. With their reluctance to go on dates with attractive young women..." (Hey now, these are wizards we're talking about. Remember Midsummer Night Dream.) (Dante's hardly a wizard.) (Herman and Sarah, Cham.) So you'd rather have everyone be stuck in other people's bodies - and your friend stuck in a bloody *doll* - because you have no fucking clue what to do on a date. (aha.) (...I find it amusing that Khalil called it.) * Ten leans towards Alys. "Hey Alys? How come he doesn't wanna do it?" * Ashley looks to Brigid and shrugs. "You think you can handle a first first date?" Hell, I'd go on a date with her if it meant we could get out of these bodies, and I'm fucking gay. (... and move that question up three lines to when I wasn't distracted ^^;) [Brigid grins. "Of course. Those are the best."] * Alys blinks and looks at her. "Some people aren't confident with themselves, I guess. Ow, crick in my neck." If she is anything like you, Ashley, you would scare him. * Lukas raises his hand at Herman. "Seconded!" She didn't ask for me. (God, Dante's selfish.) * Khalil again eyes Herman. Oh, thanks. * Herman doesn't care about the eyeing. * Ten sits back upright. (Uh, duh? Did you consider whose pupil he is?) (Yeah. I bet his group's really going to love him. ;P) (Hey, you guys needed Asanjya.) Tell him to act like it's just like going out with his friends, or something. (And I bet these schmucks need Dante.) (Right now they don't.) (Okay, so that's true.) (Snicker. In the main team, though, he's clearly their theoretical magic big gun.) You wanna bring along some cold iron? I have some in the apartment. NO. No bloody cold iron. * Khalil raises a hand and looks at Ashley. "If I may offer a suggestion, my body's occupant seems as if he would be more than willing..." (Haaa ha ha haha.) (XD) * Herman leans back in the chair. She continues to ignore the others, including Ashley. "Then draw out exact terms and have a contract." ( ... I'm so proud. ;_;) Great. Thanks. * Herman removes the phone and hangs up. She looks to the others. "Dante agreed, I think. Gotta wait a few hours for him to come through with terms." Terms? What the bloody he -it's a DATE, not a bleeding court proceeding!" [Brigid finishes her Corke. "My, sounds like an overly cautious one. We're not in the Faery realm, after all."] (Ashely and Asanjya get in an argument in Cham's head.) * Ashley sniffs. "Treating a fair fae like you like a common demon. The nerve." Hey, you should be amazed he agreed to it at all. It sounds like it. [Brigid snickers. "Actually I find it flattering."] * Khalil sighs and rubs his right temple. "All this is giving me a headache." * Ten leans back in her chair and swings her legs. ["Well, I suppose as long as you promise he'll go through with it, I can tell you where to go."] * Lukas snickers to himself and stretches while says jokingly, "Whatever happened to awkwardness, social confusion and using alcohol to get over fear? I mean, really." As long as we got a way to contact you, lady. Oh, blind dates. They make for such great stories. [She writes down a phone number on a scrap of paper, handing it to Herman. "Here you go. I wouldn't worry, though. It'll happen. It's a promise, after all."] * Ten grins. "Yay!" * Herman takes it. "I don't think it counts until he comes up with that contract," she says doubtfully. Brigid, you're a darling. [She smiles. "I haven't forgotten everything, dear."] ["Anyhow, Dorhbran's not far from this town, just a few miles northwest in a tower on the mountain ridge. It's kind of in the middle of nowhere," she laughs, "But that's just like him, huh?"] Perfectly like him. * Ashley frowns. "He's not mined it or anything, has he?" How so? * Herman absently tucks the number, along with the phone, in her cleavage. * Lukas closes up his computer! Whew. Progress. ["Hmm... Well, he doesn't like to be disturbed, you know."] He's not gonna be all mad at us is he? ["Probably not." Her smile fades, "But for what you're asking, you'd better be prepared to offer something valuable. He's one of us, after all. He won't do it for free."] Yeah. I've had enough of crazy people getting angry at us for today. * Ashley sighs. "Of course. I hope I can find a nice twelve-year scotch in this town - I'll need a peace offering just to get him to listen." ( And one overly friendly people :D ) [She nods. Then smiles. "Oh well. Even if you're stuck in that body forever, Ashley, I won't mind."] Isn't this the wrong country to find scotch? (Tyr is full of love.) Don't you think his other body looks better, though? * Khalil looks at the others and starts to say something, then thinks better of it at this time. His other body looks like whatever he bloody well wants it to look like. * Herman rubs at her eyes. [She nods. "Looks only go so far, and all."] * Ashley smiles. "Maybe I'll reprise the body if I come back." * Lukas chuckles. "Could always make it look like the other guy. Save some effort." He stands and rubs his neck. * Alys shrugs and looks yearningly at people with their warm drinks. * Togo stands as well. "We headin' out?" * Ashley stands up. "Come on, then. To a liquor store, and then to find a taxi. I'm not walking that." Like, can we go now? An get coats so people don't freeze? * Ashley turns to Brigid. "Thanks again, love. I'll be back before long. Promise." He winks. [Brigid waves. "Say hi for me."] (I'm good. Besides. We've got the ultimate bargaining chip. An autograph!) (THE MONGOOSE!) More cold? I could go crazy from all this cold. Then you'd have to deal with a crazy girl on the team. * Lukas says in a dry voice. "Yeah. We would." Yes. I am certain that the difference would be noticeable. * Herman stands, a little reluctantly, and stretches. She walks after them. "Taxi's good." She nods to Brigid. "Good meeting you." Would anyone sane be as calm as we are in this situation? So we get warm clothes and then go get swapped back! I bet they'd get all mad if we froze their bodies. [She waves. "You too!"] ( "So sorry! Hope you didn't need those toes!" "..." ) Wrath is a vice better left untouched by the hands of man. * Togo eyes Khalil. "I'd be a very bad Muslim. More power to ya for being able to follow a code like that." * Khalil just watches Togo carefully and fairly evenly. * Togo shrugs at Khalil. "On too many days, wrath is the coal in my furnace. I wouldn't be able to live by the codes you live by." (Togo has to stand in a river of boiling blood for all eternity.) [So...] Uhm? Are we going to go, or like argue about anger? 'Cause like, we could go buy coats and then come back for you! I understand that. I was just wondering why you would follow with such an act. Such thoughts are not distinct to faith alone. * Khalil turns to Ten. "Let us go. * Ten stands up. "Yay!" * Togo grins slightly. "As a wise man once said... 'I am what I am, and that's all I is.' " ( Toot. Toot. ) * Khalil ignores Togo and just goes on his way! [You head to a liquor store and buy booze, then get some warm coats, then journey up a mountain. Session End!]