[Day: Sunday, Oct. 15th. Time: 5:00 p.m.] [Having finished their ferry ride and been delayed a li'l. by an old friend of Ashley's, the group makes its way into Dublin. The sun is quickly dropping, and it won't be long now before the 'terrorists' emerge to turn the city to shambles. Fortunately, Herman managed to get an address of a (supposedly) safehouse from Sarah. Unfortunately, he got seasick on the way over.] ( That get through? ) (Yeah) ( And is someone logging? ) (Also yeah) [Herman scribbled down the address on a Post-It! note and either gave it or stuck it to Togo, then retreated to the back of the group to deal with his seasickness. Khalil's back there with him in case he falls over and dies or something.] [The rest of you are heading towards the suburbs. Action!] * Tripon (sonny_tain@cpe-66-27-205-194.socal.res.rr.com) has joined #besm ( We walking? Driving? ) ( Walking. It's not far from the port. ) * Lukas is walking with his bike. Because he had it last time! >_< * Ashley is walking along, head down and not really focusing on much. Not saying anything, either. * Togo has presumably given the post-it to someone else, since reading ain't one of his strong points, and is currently walking in the middle of the group. "How much longer 'till the sun's down, you think?" * Ten is still wearing green! Not that anybody could tell because she's currently inside the luggage compartment of the bike along with a stuffed hippo. (We won a hippo. It's so hippotastic.) * Alys is walking as well, because it's the cool thing to do. Well, a sort of skipping slash bouncing kind of walking. It still counts. ( sk/sl eh? ) * Lukas glances up, then says, "Probably inside an hour." * Togo nods. "Let's keep up this pace, then. Being chased by a horde of vampires is not fun, especially when you don't have access to a really great choke point and an automatic grenade launcher." * Lukas mutters, "And that makes it fun?" [Speaking of getting places fast, it seems most of the people on the street are hurrying along, too.] ... kinda, yeah, I have to admit. brb (GAME!) * Togo rubs his neck. "Wasn't much of a happy-go-lucky time for me, but I remember sorta enjoying that." [Suddenly an allegator crawls out of the sewers and tries to eat Ashley!] [Nah, just kidding. That doesn't happen yet.] * Lukas rolls his eyes and bikewalks on. "Well, that's great for you, I guess." (That's good. I'd hate to have to hurt Mecha.) (What!) (You're here and Brett's not.) (That's dumb. You're dumb.) (Your mom etc STFU GO GET FUCKED IN EYE BY ROBOT AGAIN) * Togo shrugs. "Not saying it's a *good* thing. But it's me. Or was me. Bit of both." [Eventually you get to the house! Which is good, 'cause it hits dusk pretty quick.] (Lukas is right! Hoooray!) * Ashley looks up at the building, makes a muffled indistinct noise, and then looks back down * Lukas doesn't respond to Togo right now. There's always more time for anti-military sentiments later. ( Damn Frank Sinatra distracting me, sorry. ) * Togo notices that what few people are still on the street are *really* making an effort to get the hell off said street, assumes that means nightfall is near, and pulls out his shotgun and a wooden cross. "Volt, you wanna do the honors?" (... it's locked?) [The house in question is a cottage-type dwelling. All of the houses along this street are, in fact. They're fairly sparsely populated along this street, too; you'd almost think it was some country town if the city wasn't directly behind you.] [There are lights on, though. And it seems there's a fire going inside.] * Alys skip/bounces over to Ashley. "Hey, you feeling any better? Can I help? I know a great story about space ninjas." * Lukas looks at him funny for a second. "Honors of what?" Knocking? Not particularly, Alys. * Lukas blinks, then smirks. "Usually when you say that it involves picks or a disc. Didn't think I was the only one with knuckles." He rolls on up and knocks. [The door is opened by a man you've never seen. He looks to be in his mid-to-late twenties, and has short brown hair and green eyes, standing about average height, and looks fairly well built. He's wearing black jeans and a black leather jacket. The jacket's only half zipped, though, and he's got nothing on beneath it. He has two crucifixes, as well. One's around his neck, one's worn as an earring.] ( Annnnnd.... Gimme sense rolls. ) 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-6) and gets a natural 4 for a result of -2. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ashley (2d8) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 5. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7. (MAde.) ( Made by 9 ) (Which sense?) * Lukas smirks at him. "Door-to-door computer technician." ( Not one you have. ) 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-2) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 6. (I can, uh, awaresness good.) ( Is sense the same as awareness? if not, made by only 3 ) (Ah, well... since I think I'm still in the bike, I think I'll pass here.) (>.< Have to reboot, be back in a minute.) [You're all hit by the smell of garlic from in the house. Woosh] ( @_@ ) ( paws! ) * Alys (user@wingdance.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu) Quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) * Alys (user@wingdance.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu) has joined #besm ( unpaws! ) (Sorry 'bout that.) hey Alys [The guy looks Lukas up and down, and politely asks, "Who the hell are you?" Ok, maybe not so polite. He's got a notable Irish accent.] ( orz. Game, yo ) (*slaps Meethos with a fish. GAME ON) (sorry) [At Lukas's unresponsiveness, he looks the rest of you over quickly. Especially Togo, the guy with the shotgun.] Sarah said you had a spare room for people who hate bloodsuckers? * Lukas just looks him over and smirks to himself. ["Ah. You're the help, then." He leaves the door open and heads back into the cottage.] Something like that, yeah. *eyes the street one last time, then heads in* * Lukas parks his bike right in front and pulls Ten out carefully, muttering to himself, "Mister Helsing must be a fan of shirtless vampire deflection." * Lukas also pulls out the hippo. They did win it! * Meethos (Meethos@24.238.80.100.res-cmts.sth.ptd.net) Quit (Client closed connection) * Ashley follows Togo in. * Alys walks in and looks around. New house! Even if it does smell weird! * Lukas glances to Herman and Khalil as they hopefully don't be moronic and stand outside, and follows 'em in, closing the door behind everyone. [The room inside is a cozy looking den with a white-and-black zebra skin rug, a fireplace, some second hand furniture, and bushels of garlic in every corner. There's an alcove in the back that suffices for what must be the kitchen, with a stove and a sink and a fridge and not much else, an eating area next to that, and stairs up next to that. There's also sleeping bags strewn about the den.] ( That get in? ) (Yes) (Yes.) [The guy heads towards the stairs, and you can see he'd been holding a guitar by the neck, hidden behind the door. He calls up the stairs, "Lassie, your friends are here," then strides over to a couch and takes a seat, tuning his guitar. "There's some cheese and beer in the fridge, if ye' hungry."] [The place most deffinately does smell of garlic.] Ooh, cheese. Does anyone want a beer, I'll grab one for you. (I feel sorry for Khalil, and very glad that my nose is only a decoration) * Ashley looks up. "I'll take a dozen." * Lukas glances to Ashley, then smirks and waves his hand. "I'll be a lightweight and only go with one. No desire to prove I can outdrink anyone tonight." [Shortly after, Liadan comes down the stairs. She waves. "Hey guys!"] * Alys goes over to the fridge and gets some cheese and several beers. She hands one to Lukas and two to Ashley. * Lukas takes the one and nods to Liadan. * Ten waves back at Liadan. "Hi!" [The fridge is pretty much full of cheese, beer, a can of coke or two, some ham slices, and.... Tofu?] * Togo waves to Liadan, pulls a Guinness out of his coat, and takes a swig. "Where're the others?" (Tofu is a byproduct of evil.) Who's having a contest? I'm just trying to outdrink my brain. Sounds like a contest to me. ( Calc likes tofu. He's made of evil now? ) * Ashley pops open the beer and drinks half of it, after which he sways slightly. "Clearly... you've not been paying attention." (Only if he actually makes the tofu by being evil.) Not sure what you mean there. Was too busy getting a hippo. A shame you couldn't sleep with the pretty one, but someone has to be the wingman. * Ashley takes another drink. * Ten blinks. "Wouldn't sleeping with a hippo be kinda uncomfortable?" * Lukas pauses a second, then rubs his head. "O... kay, then." * PrincessSakura is now known as Ked [Liadan stays where she is at the stairs. Which is good, 'cause shortly Herman approaches her and asks for a place to lie down. She tells him to go upstairs, which he does, and Khalil follows. Then she turns back to you. "Sarah and Mariah are trying to gather more data about Darcy's compound. The others are on patrol."] * Lukas raises his beer. "Thank god someone's actually going in on the ground." [She nods. "They left me here with Evan to meet you. How was your trip over?"] Got a hippo. Bloody horrible. The ocean was cool! It was... well, watery, and stuff. But very neat looking. * Ashley finishes the beer. Did less sightseeing than I wanted. *smirks* * Lukas glances to Togo. "Oy." ~ It was fun! ~ (Wrong tags, T!) (Whups!) [Liadan smiles an uncomfortable smile at Togo. One of those 'I don't know what do do here, so I'm going to guess I should smile' smiles.] * Togo shrugs. "Sense of humor is still a work in progress, I know." * Lukas chuckles at Liadan. "Eh, don't worry about it. None of us get him either." He takes a sip. "Well, at least it's easier to talk to you now that I'm not shorter than you." [She changes the subject! "Well, based on what you've told us, we've tried to find out more information about Darcy. We found a few things." She frowns. "Some of them not pretty."] In progress like the bloody M25. What'cha get? Huh? Huh? Were any of them pretty? Or shiny? * Lukas rolls his eyes. * Ked (kerryms@64.255.113.173) Quit (Quit: Just imagine... Gunslinger Daioh!) [Evan chuckles humorlessly, not looking up from his guitar "For starters, they got that they're not going to find anyone else to help. Everyone's either too chicken or too dead."] * Ashley is, for the record, sitting down on a couch, which was never mentioned before. He is slowly sliding down so as to become more sprawled. ( Or too undead? ) Considering the security? * Lukas takes another sip. "Pretty smart." [Liadan blinks at Lukas, then turns her gaze towards everyone else.] [Evan nods. "Yeah. Guess so."] Well, you've got us helping! And we're awesome. We so are! * Ashley twists open the second beer and says nothing. Wasn't counting on extra backup anyway. *pauses* Though a couple of batallions of stake-wielding friars wouldn't have been bad. ["Smart people would have cleared the country, aye? Let the vamps have it an' all. But we still 'ave people who think they'll be alright if they go out. Oh, no. They'll be fast, and nothing will happen to them. The 'terrorists', as most people still think the vamps are, the terrorists wouldn't attack them."] [He does look at Togo at that. "Yeah, we had two. All dead."] ["'Cept me, that is."] * Lukas takes another sip of his own. Far slower than Ashley! Wise, that. * Togo frowns. "Sorry. No more glib Togo tonight." [Liadan explains. "Evan came here with some others from the Morris Foundation for Vampire Slayers."] There's a foundation? Huh. Impressive. They've got a helluva rep, even back in the States. [He chuckles again. "Yeah. Not what you'd think, though. All it is is an organization that provides supplies and stuff to what amounts to mercenaries."] ["And that means most of the members take the high paying jobs. You'd think this hell hole would be one, aye? But then you get some crazy priest trying to ressurrect Dracula in Romania for the upteenth time, and all the hunters flock there instead."] * Ashley takes a swig. "Christ, again?" * Grysar (Grysar@pool-68-163-65-233.res.east.verizon.net) has left #besm [He laughs. "Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last."] * Lukas stands slowly, saying idly, "Yeah, sure," as he gets close to one of the windows, Ten in tow. ["Me, I opted to come back to me homeland with two dozen others who don't want to deal with the Transylvanian crap, and most of us get slaughtered."] Is it sheer numbers, or are the vampires around here actually organized? ["They all follow Darcy, but they aren't military or anythin'."] And it's mostly young vamps, right? [Liadan interrupts, "But there's a lot. And they can make more when they need to."] [Evan nods at Liadan. "Here's where it starts to suck."] 's vampires. What they do, and all. [Liadan frowns. "They've got a plant. For making humans."] Making humans? Like breeding? Cor. Must be bluffing. [Liadan nods. "It's not a lie. Darcy got a hold of Asahara's old cloning technologies. She's been raising humans in controlled environments."] Whao, I totaly didn't know they were cloning entire people! * Togo facepalms. "Always Asahara. Always." *pauses* "Heavily guarded, I assume?" 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-3) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 7. * Ashley turns and sinks back into his beer. [Liadan nods. "As far as we can tell, though, Asahara isn't dealing with them directly, but still...."] * Lukas mutters to himself. Asahara! We do bad things! Need a creepy way to be evil? Come to us! Can't they just do normal things for once? [Liadan nods. "That's about the size of it."] ... much as the idea of taking that place out appeals to me, we gotta focus on taking out Darcy and getting the Blood Orb and the Rosetta stone. Without a leader, it'll be easier to make progress 'gainst the vamps here. [Liadan shakes her head. "We have to take it out. We can't ignore it."] [Evan shrugs on the couch. "There's seven of you, aye? And seven of Liadan's friends. With me, that's fifteen. Ought to be enough for a three-way strike, right?"] * Ten grabs onto Lukas's jacket with both arms. [Liadan looks down at Ten. "What's up?"] * Lukas glances to Liadan and puts a hand on Ten. "Nothing. You want three teams? We need to hit the computer room AND the vault." Like, I just found out something totaly uncool! (Ack, delete that) (I shouldn't try to code and play at the same time, I'm sorry.) [Liadan's eyes linger on Ten before shifting to Lukas. "We have to! If we only go for the vault and for Darcy, the security around the plant will tighten to the point where we can't get anywhere near it. And if we go for the plant first, that will just alert Darcy that something's up."] * Lukas snorts. "No, _I_ need to be at both places." * Ten nods, but doesn't let go. * Ardle is now known as Ardweden * ChanServ sets mode: +o Ardweden ["No you don't. Ten could go, or Mitsuji."] ["Ten would be better though. I think? Because she doesn't need to be right at the computer to use it."] (... pause.) ( pause ) * Lukas snorts, then says, "If Mitsuji loves the computer room and cameras so much, he can have them." ["Well, no, it wouldn't be easy. That's why I said Ten would be better."] * Lukas narrows his eyes, turning towards her moreso. "And she wouldn't, so leave it." [Liadan blinks. She looks down. "I thought you came to help."] Okay. Vault needs a computer person and enough firepower to take out a few vamps and a high-level demon. Darcy needs enough firepower to take out a large group of vamps. And the plant team would need enough firepower to take out a whole buncha vamps, plus a computer person. We have enough computer people to go around. Do we have enough firepower? * Ten pouts. * Lukas looks down at her for a second, then snorts and turns back away, muttering, "A few days in her body doesn't make you the expert on Ten." * Ashley slumps further down into the couch, on the home stretch of his second beer,. [Liadan turns to Togo. "Well, maybe not. Maybe we could sneak into the plant and destroy it without being noticed?" She sounds more hopeful than certain.] * Lukas idly says, "Don't forget the double codes. Apparently it's 'impossible to break in without getting both'." The quoted part is in sarcasm. * Alys sighs and takes out her tarot deck to play solitaire. Double codes? [She looks down again, then back up and smiles. "Sorry. It's too much to ask. Too dangeous. We shouldn't have asked you to come here."] * Lukas nods and turns back to the room slightly. "The vault is locked by codes that change every 4 hours, and are supposedly only accessible from two very different physical locations. I, personally, think that's crap, and that the generator has to be somewhere." Oh, for the love of Christ, tone down the goddamn melodrama and help us figure out if it's logistically possible. As does the transmission. If insert-deity is on our side, the computer room would tell us that. * Ten nods. * Ashley burps. * Sharyna (sharyna_t@vhe-765107.sshn.net) has joined #besm (Of course, not knowing where the codes are in relation to any of this discussion makes the logicstics planning hard.) [Liadan winces. Evan tunes his guitar. Then he looks down it as though he were looking down the sight of a rifle.] (Have you decided that yet, Brett?) ( Lessay computer room #1 is on the west side of the first floor, and #2 is on the north side of the second.] ) (And main computer room is?) ( What main computer room? ) (Where's the vault?) We're here. If there's a way to do this, we'll find it and get it done. But we're not gonna do it if splitting up three ways means we don't get any of the three missions done. (Where's the beef?) (... We've only ever TALKED about one computer room existing.) (And one vault room. And two 'code' rooms.) ( Ummmmmm... I don't remember that >.> ) (I do. This is the first instance of a 'plural' computer room.) ( I'm pretty sure I mentioned the two codes being created by computers in two seperate locations. ) (Yes. Which does not make either of them the main computer room.) (Which we discussed, at some length, last session.) * Ashley gets up and heads into the kitchen, returning with a few more longnecks. ( I don't see it. ) ( I see computers (plural) mentioned about 5 times in the mini. ) (... god forbid someone have more than one computer. c.c;) ( There is no mention of a "main" computer room. ) (Hence the incredibly obvious (and continued) assumption of a 'computer room', which was reinforced when Tene and I _got the schematics_ and ASKED about the main computer room) * Ashley sets them down on the table, opens a third, and flops back into the couch with a palpable whump. (Oy.) ( Send me the ten/lukas log by gmail so I can read it, then. ) [Liadan turns to Togo. "Mariah is good at sneaking. Maybe she'll know what to do about the plant."] * Lukas adds, "If we have to hit this many places quietly, you might just have to send in some people on their own." I'm open to ideas. *turns to Evan* Don't suppose you happen to have a line on a ridiculous amount of explosives we could get our hands on? [Liadan speaks again, "Mariah carries some. I mean, not a lot, but maybe there's a generator or a... I don't know, something that she can blow up with them."] ( John has the explosives! *hides* ) I carry enough grenades to take out a small army, but I was more asking about something that could take out a building. * Ashley falls into a light snooze. (For the record he is well into his third bottle.) ( Ok, somewhere you assumed there was just one computer room. I thought you were making typoes and forgetting the s on the end of rooms. ) (I assumed there was a MAIN computer room, and two code rooms.) But yeah, if they're running Asahara tech, especially something like cloning... that's energy intensive. There's gotta be something big and combustable in there. (Because everyone has a main computer room. For the main freaking computer.) [Liadan nods.] ( Well there's not >.> ) ... if we could split things up to get enough firepower on each team without me, and there's a way in and something to blow up, Mariah and I could handle the factory. s'a lotta ifs, though. (Good. Then it's easy to spoof.) [Evan puts his guitar aside and cracks his knuckles. "I can pack a pretty punch meself, and the lassie here's certainly no stranger to violence." He turns his gaze towards Liadan. "Beggin' yer pardon."] Don't worry about us vault people. We have to split up anyway if we're playing the 'get the codes' game. * Togo turns to Alys. "You up to carrying a bit more of a load in terms of dealing out he punishment?" * Alys looks up from her cards. "Sure, sounds good. Who's gonna be on the team I'm on?" * Dreol is now known as Dreamland Can I be with Xuan? Please? She's coming too, right? [Liadan nods. "Of course she is."] * Alys smiles happily. "Good! I've got stuff I wanna talk about, it'll be fun." [She smiles. "I'm sure Xuan will look forward to it, too."] * Togo frowns. "This isn't final yet. I wanna know that there's a way into this factory, a way out, and something that'll go boom before it's green-lit." * Cyndane (oblorn@216-229-75-230-cablemodem-roll.fidnet.com) Quit (Quit: Sleep.) * Jexless is now known as Jex [Liadan nods. "I'm sure the others will have more information when they return. Or..." She glances at Ashley. "Maybe you can take him with you?"] If all that's a yes... then maybe we can really make a dent around here. [She sighs. "I'm sorry I'm not much help. I'm not much use except for fighting."] Fighting's what we need... how're you with a pointy stick? * Lukas is looking frustrated and thoughtful, then sighs slightly. "How many fighters can you spare for us, anyway? Or can we just have Ashley?" [Evan offers some different information: "Maybe this isn't the best time, but this house only has three bedrooms, and one of them's mine. Hope ye don't mind the floor."] [Liadan blinks at Togo. "I guess I'm okay? I usually fight unarmed, but I could stake them once they're down."] Floor's fine, thanks. ["Justinius was in the Military, Mariah's pretty good, Dante's got powerful spells..." She sighs. "Well, you guys know what we can do, like we know about you."] ["Which... I guess makes everyone a fighter but Ten?"] ["And Mitsuji... but don't tell him I said that."] ["And Sarah, I guess.... I mean, she's good in a fight, but she can't fight. I mean..... You know what I mean?"] * Lukas smirks to himself. "I don't do fighting either, so I guess I can sympathize with the poor kid." [Evan adds, "Morris Foundation's all about fighting. Count me in."] [Liadan blinks at Lukas. "You can't? But what about your powers?"] * Ten nods. "Like, if this was in a video game, I'd so totaly be better than all of you, but it's not so... I'll cheer you on!" * Lukas glares down at the woman. AGAIN. "My powers of shooting people with darts don't do jack." Volt has powers? When did you get powers? * Jex is now known as Jexless ( If Ten were made of wood, we could stake vamps with her! ) (No!) [Liadan blinks at Lukas again, and decides to change the subject, "Well, I think we've got plenty of fighters either way."] [Evan nods. "Plenty of vampire fighting gear, too. Got stakes, garlic, and the sink in the downstairs bathroom's full of holy water."] * Alys has a little smile as she gives Lukas a suspicious look. * Lukas takes a breath, then glances to Alys for a second before rubbing his temples. If you think there's enough muscle to go around, I'll take your word on it. Just gotta wait on the intel. ( Anyone mind if we end soon? Holiday hours at work mean I have to be up in 6 hours ) [Liadan nods. "They shouldn't be too much longer, I don't think. Well, Mariah and Sarah, at least."] ( We can end when you're ready. ) ( I'm pretty ready. =P ) (I staked my claim! We get Ashley.) ( Ok, then. ) ( Last lines? ) This just might work... ( You're supposed to say "It's crazy, but" before that! ) (Shar fails. ) ( You ruined the whole thing! Now you're doomed. ): ) [Session End!]