[Day: Tuesday, Oct. 17th. Time: 8:00 p.m.] * Dreol has joined #besm (My Internet has magically returned and as such I'm going to bed. Goodnight) (Night Dre.) (DeDre.) [It's been two days since the escapades in Ireland. The Interpol crew left town, informing you they would keep the Rosetta stone in a safe place (it's not safe at the museum, obviously). You've all had a rest, and tonight you gather at the office.] [Session Start!] * Herman is in the office, gathering. His chair is backwards, as usual, there's the pipe nearby, as usual, and his hair is spiked and he's covered with leather, as usual. It's Herman at his usual. * Segev has left #BESM * Ashley is dressed in a long brown leather coat with an upturned collar. He's wearing dark sepia sunglasses, black slacks, and leaning back in a chair. He is not at his usual, as he is still being rather taciturn. * Bucher has quit IRC (Quit: Bye! ) * Togo is sitting at his usual place behind the desk, replacing the spring in one of his machine gun drum clips. * Khalil 's already in the office, probably getting there pretty early. He seems to be brooding over something and staring at the coffee table corner. He's tapping his finger against the side of his chair. * Lukas walks in the door with a less-than-perfect looking coat. Good old paint and duct tape patching on it. Other than looking tired, it's the same old Lukas. * Alys is sitting in a corner with her legs pulled close to her chest, watching everyone. Silently. Her hair is in one of its usual odd styles, but it looks messy. * Herman clears his throat, breaking up the brooding session. "So." ( Before I forget, everyone gets a CP for last session. ) * Lukas looks around at all the silent people and smirks faintly. "Yeah. Rough weekend, huh?" (Oh, dude. *adds that*) (Whee!) * Ten rides along in his arms, and has decided to complement the beaten leather look, only sans the ducttape. Aged leather jacket, leather laced skirt, burnished metal belt, and matching wings. (Schway) What happened to everyone? ... And people need to come over and help clean the huge fucking mess everybody left. I can so help! Was about the ask the same question. I wanna do a quick debrief, to make sure everyone's clear on what happened on the three missions. (CP are awesome!) * Alys mumbles into her knees, "I hurt somebody." ( How many have we gotten so far? ) (4) ( Danke ) * Khalil doesn't look up but responds after Ten. "I...um...I believe I need your help as well." * Herman blinks at Alys. "What?" * Ten looks at Khalil. "Kay!" * Lukas glances to Alys for a moment, then to Togo. "All means." A chuckle. "And the blood's not coming out after setting, Herman." * Khalil looks up slowly. "You did not even ask what about." I got no plans tonight, other'n a few rounds at the Dancing Fiend, so I'm free if anyone needs a hand. But if it's something you're asking me for help with, then, like, isn't it going to be something I can help with? I mean it'd make negative sense for you ask me for help with something I can't do, you know? * Alys looks at Herman. "I aimed right and he stopped choking her but it just hurt her more. I thought she might die. It sucked." [Togo's phone rings!] Did she die? * Togo pulls out his phone and answers it. "Togo." You saved her from death, Alys. It is not your fault. If anything, it is mine for giving them a chance. ... Okay, I think I'm gonna need the whole story here. I didn't even think the ward would hurt her. And now I feel bad and it sucks. * Khalil then turns back to Ten. "Ten? Can you run a search on the name.." He glances at Alys for confirmation. "Balthazar, Was it not? The guy was all, "Grawr, I'm going to choke you!" and Liadan couldn't breath, so I threw a ward at him because he was all misty, right? But it went through him and hit Liadan and it started burning and I had no idea it would do that! * Ashley turns his head and looks out the window. * Lukas rolls his eyes. "Oy. Don't tell me someone's using that old cliched name." * Khalil looks at Lukas. "Yes. Me apparently." But now I feel bad and coffee won't fix it. * Ten blinks. "Wow, you've got a nick you didn't even know about? That's kinda nifty!" "Captain Rickman! How you doin'?" * Lukas pauses a second, then goes, "Uh... yeah." * Herman eyes Alys, then rolls his eyes. Not you too. Huh? Look. You didn't know it'd do that, and you were trying to help her. There's nothing to upset about. Just don't do it again. (+be) Well, not me exactly. But this...griffin inside of me. One of them called me Balthazar "Damn. For a second, was able to convince myself you were just calling to join me for a pint. What's going on?" * Alys looks skeptical, but says, "Kay," and looks over at Khalil. "I want a nickname. How come you get one, and I don't?" * Ten looks at Alys. "Like, don't do it again." Then she turns to Khalil. "I'm getting lots and lots and lots of bible stuff." It is *not* me. But that fellow knew about it. And I wish to know why. * Lukas 's eyes flick over to Alys. "Just pick a nick. S'how it works." He heads over to a chair and slams down in it hard. "Uhf." * Alys stands up and heads out the door. "Be right back, I'm getting more coffee." * Khalil closes his eyes. "Hijaz." And salads, and mesuems, and some restraunts. * Khalil opens them again and looks at Ten. "Try adding references to the Hijaz mountain region and Saudi Arabia." "Yeah. Part of some dumbass all-woman merc group called the Covenant. Mindwipe their flunkies if they get captured. What's up?" ( Ten's like Google. In a dress! ) (How right you are!) * Nordom-I-PWN-1 is now known as Robin (And not even bite sized.) * ChanServ sets mode: +o Robin (I'm byte sized! *flees*) * Herman apparently decides he's not going to get an answer as to what exactly is going on, so pulls a thin, glass rod out of a jacket pocket and leans forward, examining it. (Also, Cham? WTF?) (Always needs to be a moment of nerg.) (*pokes Brett in the other channel) (Hey, I can't clue you in on anything, cutie-pie.) (We were doin' the same junk. ^_~) * Ashley looks over towards Khalil. "So you're not actually half-gryphon." (He is a gryphon(half) Not originally, no. It is a curse. Bad luck. "Damn... hold on a sec..." *turns to the group* One of the Covenant chicks that we thought was an amnesiac wasn't, and she escape from prison. Good for her. It was good luck for my village. It scared some raiders away. But... * Khalil sighs and closes his eyes again. "I do not mind it that the guardian wished to be awakened. I just wonder why it had to awaken in *me*" * Alys walks in with her coffee as Togo says that. "So, we gotta get her back or something?" * Lukas chuckles darkly to himself, then, "Good luck's never as good as it looks, man." * Ten looks at Togo. "Cool!" Then she looks at Khalil. "That narrows it down to like, lots of people with the same name." Like I said. Bad luck. * Herman rolls his eyes. Again. He's looking legitimately annoyed now. *back on phone* "Probably magic or something. Anything on video?" * Khalil shakes his head. "I guess if it were that easy, I would have heard it a while before." * Alys settles down next to Lukas. "Hey Volt, can you fix watches?" * Ten nods. "Sorry." * Lukas blinks before replying, "Uh, depends what they're made of. Probably not much more complex than the small wonder over there." It is fine. I have lived this long without knowing about it. Living a little longer will not have any ill effects. * Alys pulls out a silver pocketwatch with a rabbit on one side and a girl on the other. "It's broken, Ten said you might be able to do something about it." Now you're just being ludicrous. * Ashley looks back towards the window. "Appreciate the heads-up. We'll be more careful on checking their amnesia before bringing them to you. Lemme know if you find anything." Who is? * Lukas takes the pocketwatch and stuffs it in a pocket. "Gimme a night and we'll see, alright?" He rubs his eyes. * Dreol is now known as Dreamland * Ashley doesn't look back, but says "You." * Khalil blinks. "Excuse me?' * Alys sips her coffee. Caffeine! "Thanks." * Togo puts away the phone. "It was one of the women you fought when I got kidnapped. Helga." All right. Is she the one with the armor that didn't fit? 'Cause that's not right, wearing stuff that other people can't steal properly. (She IS the one with the armor that didn't fit.) Captain Rickman's gonna call us back if he finds anything, but I think she was magic'd out. Tapes are scrambled, cell's intact. [The phone rings!] * Ashley looks back to Khalil. "You can't really believe that you can make it go away by ignoring it." ( Togo's, that is ) * Lukas rubs his head. "Shit. Maybe that's the new version of Artemis." I did not say that. I merely was saying that I can wait longer without understanding the puzzle. * Togo glances down towards his phone, cocking his head a bit, before picking it up. "Togo." * Lukas looks to Togo. "A fakeout or some shit." I wish we could get a sample of this "Artemis system" to test how it works. But, like, wouldn't we have to erase somebodies memory? That is the issue. I like my memory where it is, thanks. * Togo covers the phone. "It's M." *uncovers* "Hey." * Lukas mutters, "Ah, hell," and glances to Herman. * Herman shrugs at Lukas. "One second, lemme just check with my team." *covers phone* She wants the orb tonight. 'bout an hour. Fuckin' christ. Great. Who's got it? Lukas, I think. We can make it by then. Let's go. * Lukas snorts. "Are you kidding? Give the invincible vampire magical item to Miss Emogoth Spurned Lover?" Well, what the hell are you going to do with it? It makes a shitty Magic-8 Ball. ( Can't argue with that, yo. ) Like, we could give it to interpol, or make a paperweight out of it! I prefer pet rocks. Problem with not giving it to her is her attacking us to get it. She *knows* we have it. If we hand it off to someone else, she'll still come after us. What *were* we going to do with it in the first place? Give it to her. Her info was good. * Lukas nods. "Yeah, pet rocks get you less dead." He reaches back to his backpack and pulls out the orb for a moment. That was the plan. Give it to her, yeah. Oh, come on. Someone had to have it before the person we stole it from. It can't make her absolutely invincible. * Lukas rolls his eyes and looks at Togo. "Do you know anything about her at all?" We give it to her, and it goes somewhere else in time. No problem. (Togo knows he has a crush on her!) (She's also lesbian.) ( Different vamp. =P ) (What does *that* have to do with anything?) ( Gay people are evil, duh :P ) (Well, Herman is played by me, so.) (He goes after the unabtainable ones, Ashley never had a chance. ;p) Very little. (Are gay mugs evil too? ;_;) (I'm afraid so.) Yeah. Very little's the very big problem. (But it's okay. As you catch the gay, you'll notice less.) ( Only if manufactured after 1965 ) (Ashley would sleep with anyone who asked. Almost. ;_;) (See? That's his problem. He needs to play hard to get.) The old man directed her to me. He's not the kind to help out the bad guys, so I'm inclined to take her at her word. We could auction it? And then we would actually make money, which would be sort of neat, though I guess she might hunt us down or kill us or something. * Alys drinks more coffee. (Lukas has been more naked than Ashley thus far.) * Khalil responds dryly. "Perhaps we could get to know more about her over tea." Coffee's better. And you don't drink tea. Also, auctioning it has a good chance of it being put in the hands of someone even more evil. That does not mean I could not get to know her over it. * Lukas pauses while people talk, then flips the orb to Togo. "Catch. Next time you want me to bleed all over something, don't give it away to a psycho. In fact, leave the bleeding and burning the fuck out of it. Christ." This is England. If you serve tea, you drink it, or you get killed. It's a law or something. * Ten nods. "I like plans that don't have him getting all burny!" * Togo catches it with his free hand, uncovering the phone. "We'll be there." I am not English. * Alys eyes Lukas. "You got burny? You don't look it." Yeah, I fixed him. * Lukas nods at Herman. "Magic hands." Oh, good. * Herman smirks and waggles his fingers. "We'll be there." They're awesome! Yes, and I got numbed. It was not fun. ( Wait, already said that. RETCON! ) "See you in forty minutes or so, then." (With me and Kevin!) (And ND, too.) (SEE I AM RIGHT.) (MECHA IS A WHINY BITCH.) (I am not. >_<) (I hate you all.) (You are *so*.) (I am not. >_<) (Including me? ;_;) (HUGBEES!) ( I can, actually. ) ( and have. ) ( None. ) * Togo puts away the phone. "I'm not crazy about it, Volt, but burning good sources of info is bad mojo." * Lukas flexes his fingers for a moment, then, "Yeah, I know. But the 'doesn't want to fucking die' in me was fighting with the professional. It happens." Understood. I'll tap into some of my other sources, keep tabs on her in case she starts something. In the meantime, we're... hmm. Burning people, in general, is "bad mojo" as you say. Yeah. * Togo shakes his head, and stands. "Okay. To the Dancing Fiend, I guess." * Lukas rubs his neck. "Can we get back to the recap? Did anyone ELSE get ran into by a HESO squad?" HESO? ... HESO? You ran into HESO? What the fuck were they doing in Ireland? Dunno, but we ran into them anyway. Not seeing us. Having a firefight in a building mostly! My guess? Yeah, throwing around burning vamps. They wanted what we got. * Togo turns to Khalil. "The big European anti-supernatural group. They used to operate here, but there was a big fight over them shortchanging the UK on resources, and they broke off relations." Bully for them. Wasn't part of the deal that HESO'd move on vamps so Ireland didn't get fucked sideways? I...see. * Ashley stands up. "I hope the drink special is a two-pint neat scotch." * Togo shrugs. "Undercurrent of the split was that England's not majority Catholic, and that was suspected to be a reason for the shortchanging of resources. Ireland is majority Catholic, so maybe their backers thought they had a responsibility there." * Alys starts making a rubberband chain from the ones on her wrist. * Lukas rolls his eyes and stands, slowly. "Whatever floats your goddamn supernatural boats." So this is a religious group. * Herman gets to his feet and reaches down, picking up his pipe. (Our next villain needs to be the Disgruntled Fat Man of Yucca Flats.) ... you're right, though. She did say she was gonna give HESO tips on the other big vamps in Ireland, so they could clear it out. Maybe she didn't just make a deal with us... But, there were there with the ones we were fighting... You so coulda told her they got it! Hello? We could be having alcohol while we're arguing, you realize. * NinjaDebugger is now known as SleepDebugger (Night ND) ... we still could, technically. * Alys holds up her cup brightly. "I have coffee." * Lukas smirks. "Probably not now." Beat. "On the lying, not the drinking." See? See? Awww. * Ten looks down and swings her feet. The "let me ask my team" part kind of deters that kind of possibility, yes. Let's just go. She knows we have it. Just a thought. *nods at Herman* Yeah, let's. *gets up; heads for the door* * Lukas pats Ten. "I know, its the most interesting game." He starts walking towards the door. * Herman goes. It was his idea! * Khalil picks himself up and heads after. * Ten goes with Lukas! * Alys follows, and grimaces when she realizes her cup is empty. * Ashley walks! [Time: 9:00. You arrive at the Dancing Fiend! The usual unusual patrons are present. Al, the big rock-hard demon, is playing bouncer as usual, etc etc....] ( Magnolia is prossibly inside. ) * Togo gives Al a quick salute and a nod as he passes by and heads in. [Al nods back.] * Ashley walks straight to the bar and orders a moderately large scotch. * Lukas dismounts the hog, unpacks Ten, and heads in. He doesn't look even remotely cheery. Gasp! [Bella, who's working at the bar, gives Ashley a scotch. Woo! M. is at the bar also, wearing a formal business suit. She turns her head toward the lot of you as you enter.]] * Khalil walks on in and looks around sheepishly. * Ten does her 'mostly inanimate object' act. * Alys looks around for Penny. * Ashley ignores M. and starts working on the scotch like it was his job, hobby, and sole reason for existence. * Togo nods at M, then turns to Bella. "Finora's not working the bar tonight?" (No Ashley, sex with beer mugs is bad. You should get a keg for that.) ( Whoops! I got them messed up. ) ( Exchange Bella with Finora :P ) ( Okay, then retcon my statement... ) * Togo nods at M, then turns to Finora. "How's business, lass?" [Penny is there too, at a table eating buffalo wings. Her zombie cat is eating a pile of god knows what, but it sure stinks. You can smell it from over there. ] [Finora smiles. "Been pretty good lately."] (Yet another moment when I'm glad my nose is purely decorative.) * Alys goes over to Penny's table and sits down. "Hi Penny, hi Harvey! How've you guys been?" * Khalil sits down at the bar and is secretly glad he's not a griffin-half now. Been out in Ireland last few days. Beautiful place, aside from the people shooting at me. [The cat mews in response. And by "mews", I mean "braaaaaains." Penny grins. "Hi Alys! Hey, guess what? I've been working on a new spell for super zombies! The badger didn't turn out so well... But I think I'm on the verge of a breakthrough!"] * Lukas glances to Alys' stupidity and then just sits at the bar, setting Ten down there too. [Finora smiles. "Really? I haven't been to Ireland in years. Sounds lovely."] * Alys pets Harvey carefully. "That's awesome! Anything I can do to help?" * Ten sits on the bar and looks cute, and that's about it. Usual fun. Impending apocalypse and such. Anything new on the grapevine? [She shakes her head. "Not recently. I heard Leroy gave up trying to be a dark sorcerer and became an accountant, but that's about it."] [Meanwhile, Penny taps her chin. "Hmmm... Well, got any dead animals lying around that you don't need anymore?"] * Ashley slams the empty glass on the bar. "Another. I can still feel above my neck." Not really. If I see roadkill, though, I'll let you know? Except you don't have a phone. Really? He always seemed so dedicated to his work... go figure. So it's been quietish? ["Ahh, roadkill's no good. Half the body is squished."] * Khalil raises his finger for a water. Yes, he's the person at bars tenders love to hate. Oh, right. Aren't there any pet cemetaries around or something? [Finora nods as she poors Ashley another drink. "Yeah."] [Penny shakes her head. "None that I can use."] (pours) Oh. Well, I'm out of ideas. Hey, have you had a chance to make me a zombie cat yet? ( Right, right ) * Herman sits by Ashley and eyes him. "Not you, too. What're you getting drunk over?" (I think one of the worst insults ever would be to have a restraining order against you against pet cemetaries.) ["Not yet... I could make you a skeleton cat, though, maybe. But it would get kinda messy every time it ate something."] Nah, I'll wait. Thanks, though. [Ok!"] * Ashley looks at Herman. "Over? ... blast, are you saying I have to have something to get drunk about? I've been going about this all wrong for two hundred years." Are your parents necromancers too? * Lukas chuckles a little to himself. * Togo eyes M, and motions for her to join him at a booth. "Be right back, lass. Business." (Actualy they're chartered accountants.) ["Kind of. They're dentists."] [M nods to Togo and follows him over to the #booth.] How'd you start doing it, then? It's such neat magic. The only thing I can do is use wards, and I'm not even good enough to make them for myself. * Herman snerks. "You've been really... uh, out of it lately. So yeah. Maybe you do." [Penny shrugs. "Oh, you know. I needed a way to take over the world and everything."] * Khalil eyes across the bar. "You seem abnormally concerned about someone of his standing for someone who carries around a pipe of iron." ( Directs Togo and logger to #booth ) ( Not #booth. :P ) * Ashley looks at Herman, then takes off his sunglasses. "Been a little dark lately. Sometimes meeting family's not so nice." (Pfft.) Yeah, tell me about it. Seems like a good way. Are there books or something? I'd kinda like to learn. I mean, I need something to do besides beat up bad guys and sell books, right? * Herman eyes Khalil. "I guess I could hit you with the pipe instead." It was simply an observation. * Khalil shakes his head. "You are lucky. At least you escape via alcohol. I swore to myself I would avoid such vices." * Lukas chuckles and says to Khalil. "If you think he's lucky, you're not all that escaped." ( My only escape is crystal meth. *smokes* ... ) [Penny nods. "Well, I started with books, but lately I just experiment on my own."] (Now his brain runs at the same speed mine does!) * Ashley shoots a glance at Khalil. "You worry about your own puzzles, thanks. He does plenty of worrying. * Khalil looks over after Lukas. * Lukas is drumming his fingers on the bar idly, his glance moving to the #booth people. * Alys fidgets. "Um, do you think I could borrow the books sometime? Maybe? I'd give them back properly and everything, I'm good with books." * Herman would probably say something snarky there, but he's not paying attention to Alys. More's the pity. * Khalil then shakes his head and winces, flexing his shoulder. "I just wish I knew what it was that Darcy threw at me." You guys did beat her, right? [Penny taps her chin. "Gee, I don't know..."] Barely. It would have been more doubtful if the other next to her had not run. * Ashley sips his second scotch. * Lukas replies idly, "Take what you can get, I say." Please? I really want to learn stuff, but my brother's useless for this kind of thing, and it'd be so neat to be able to do real magic. He was the one Alys was referring to. The one who turned into mist and attempted to choke Liadan. As well as the one who called me Balthazar. I wonder. Does Alys know how those wards work? She seemed surprised. Why don't you ask her? She's right there. * Herman points Alys out. ["I'll have to think about it..."] Alright. Well, thanks in any case. She seems to be busy talking about deceased animals. Can I have a wing? ["Okay!"] A good hobby for a young girl. Keeps her focused on her own mortality. * Ashley sips again. * Alys takes a wing and starts nibbling on it. * Khalil just looks at Ashley, then thinks better of responding, waving Alys over. "Take a seat." * Alys says bye to Penny and goes over to Khalil with her buffalo wing. "Hey, what's up?" I was curious about your wards. Who taught you about them? My dad, why? * Ashley looks to Herman and smiles. "I'm feeling better already. This was a great idea." Because there must be a reason it would have hurt Liadan and the best way is to find out all you know about how they work. * Herman snerks. "Welcome." Well, I haven't really... I mean... my parents left when I was ten. And Alex doesn't do anything with magic. I never really used them much until I joined up with you guys. I kind of just figured they hurt things that weren't really human, you know? Her mom's a fae. That would do. *frowns* That probably would mean they may work on me. * Alys blinks. "Oh! Oh, I knew that, and I completely forgot! I'm such an idiot! I should send her an apology letter or something." We could test it, if you really want. * Lukas smirks a little. I would prefer to find it out in a safe environment than by "accident," truth be told. * Alys pulls out a ward and sets it on the bar. * Ashley backs up a pace. He takes his drink with him. * Alys rolls her eyes at Ashley. "Oh, please. Like I'd hurt you on purpose." * Herman shrugs. He's been sitting next to Ashley, and he carries around an iron pipe. * Khalil eyes it. "Just try to touch it, then, I suppose..." * Khalil reaches out for a moment and then puts his fingers on the ward. On purpose isn't the part I'm worried about, love. [Khalil's fingers burn.] * Lukas blinks, not looking at the bru-ha-ha, and instead looks towards Ten. * Khalil curses in Arabic and pulls his fingers back, shaking, then sucking on them. * Alys looks upset and pockets the ward again. "Are you okay? Hey, bartender, could we have some ice water?" I am fine. It was my idea. At least now we know. And here I held this vague hope that I still counted as mostly human. [Finora comes over with some ice water. "Here you go. And between you and me, don't bring those out again. If a customer saw one, it could lead to problems."] Okay, I'm sorry. * Khalil winces while he says that, then keeps shaking his hand and puts his fingers on the cold glass. "Thank you." * Khalil shakes his head. "Will you stop apologizing for something that is not your fault?" * Lukas clears off the bar area in front of him with his arm, shifts slightly, then pulls his laptop out of his backpack and thunks it down on the bar. * Togo rejoins the group at the bar. "Transaction's complete. M's heading to Latin America for some much-needed sun, and we're gonna go stomp the Covenant's England HQ." I just... this job is so weird. I think I'm not really used to it yet. I like being able to fight things, though. * Alys blinks. "-What-?" * Khalil looks at Alys, hands still on the glass. "You...like being able to fight things, yet you are upset because you hurt someone." Final part of the deal. She gave me the location of Covenant's HQ. * Khalil then turns to Togo and rubs his face with his free hand. "Oh wonderful. Is our next mission to skydive without a parachute then?" ( No, that comes after. ) Granted, that would work for *me* just fine, but... Not if you didn't have any pepper handy. ( Sorry Khalil, you're scheduled for the deep-sea without SCUBA mission. ) * Alys looks back at Khalil. "Well, everything we fought's tried to hurt people, so it's good that we smack them back. But I hurt Liadan by accident, and she and her mum are really nice, so I feel bad. And you're really nice too, and I guess I knew you could get hurt by it, but I wasn't really thinking like that." (;_;) * Ashley moves back as the ward disappears. "You hit the Covenant you're going to have problems." * Lukas glances to Togo, then back to his computer, typing on it. Good multitasking capability! * Pocky-kun has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) (Not as good as Whizkids.) * Togo turns to Ashley. "How d'ya mean? Aside from the obvious they're-gonna- fight-back issues." * Khalil just blinks at Alys and stares for a bit at the whole statement. * Ashley shrugs. "The Mysterious Hand of the Fae is in this mess somewhere. If they have fae backing gods only know what else they have." * Alys shrugs. Demons, right? They're in on this, too. * Lukas 's smiles a little to himself, all by himself. A rapid mood change. But it only lasts a moment. Point. But if we hit 'em hard enough, they might not have time to call in those resources. We can't go on with them constantly popping up and taking potshots at us. And how long before those resources come directly after us? It's not a question of calling them in. The fae know what we're up to. * Khalil mmms and taps his fingers against the bar. "Is there a way we could weaken the alliance?" * Herman looks at Ashley. "Are you out?" he asks, figuring this is the more important question. * Togo shrugs. "I always prefer to be on the offensive when possible, but I see where you're coming from." * Ashley sips his scotch and is silent for a second. "For a few days. I need to think." Yeah, okay. * Herman looks at Togo. "I'm in." * Khalil nods to Togo. "If there are no better solutions that present themselves. However, we cannot run into this situation blind." Fair enough. I need a little time to get some supplies together anyway. And I'm gonna want Volt and Ten to get as much info on the place as possible before we hit it. *turns to Volt* It's a castle on the Isle of Wight. Can you see what you can figure out? We should make flowcharts! * Lukas is staring at his computer, a look of growing horror apparent on his face. * Khalil coughs and then looks a bit away from Togo. "No offense meant." ... Uh, Lukas? Anyone want to hit Milan? Fantastic this time of year. It's on me. None taken. Please. Hold. What country is Milan in? ( Oh no! Ten's been taken over by the Demon Lord of Customer Service! ) Italy. * Khalil turns suddenly towards Lukas, answering "Italy" nonchalantly. * Lukas takes a deep breath, then he scans the screen again. He sorta replies absently, "No, don't want a drink..." Sounds fun! I'll go. Unless you're going to skip out on all this, and then I really can't, 'cause I want to help out. ... why's everyone looking at Volt? Because he's staring at something, and whatever it is probably isn't good. I'm looking at Ashley, he's prettier. 's a good reason. Yes. Would you care to let us in on this, Volt? * Lukas blinks a few times, looking away from the screen. "A-ah what? What's going on?" Or... Lukas, was it? 2d8+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8+2) and gets a natural 15 for a result of 17. The screen. (.....) * Lukas says quickly, "Nothing to you. Can you give me a minute?" He doesn't wait for the response, typing in on his own. * Ashley looks at Alys. "You're welcome to catch a flight back whenever no matter what I decide." ( looks like Ten lost her Rozen Maiden battle. ) (>_>) (My Rozen Mystica! ;_;) * Khalil takes a sideglance of "Are you sure?" at Herman, then glances at Lukas again before turning back to Alys. "Are you not coming with us then?" * Herman shrugs at Khalil. He turns and orders something to drink. Because everyone can use a drink. * Alys looks back and forth at Ashley and Khalil. "Um... how long until everyone's doing whatever they're doing?" 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 9. I am not certain. Togo? * Lukas frowns and types more frantically. "Come on," he mutters. * Togo shrugs, glances over at Finora, and facepalms. "Damn. Almost forgot..." *pulls out 3 bottles of Hockey Moose Genuine Canadian Maple Syrup (TM); waves over Finora* 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-2) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 8. [Finora makes her way over. "Is everything alright?"] * Togo holds up the three bottles of syrup. "Almost forgot to pay my tab." *grins* (Everything. Is. Fine. Please. Do. Not. Panic.) (Why put it in parens, ya big liar?) (It's not a lie. Everything's fine in OOC land!) [Finora grins. "Ah, Togo. I like a customer who pays his debts." She takes the bottles.] Well, anyway, Italy for a few days sounds like fun. * Lukas smacks his computer slightlly and then closes his computer. "Right. What do you want me to do? Emergency situation." * Lukas puts his hands together to keep them from shaking, which they actually were. Wanted you to get info on a Covenant HQ on Isle of Wight. Anything we can help with? * Herman eyes Lukas but keeps from commenting. Barely. * Lukas looks between them all carefully, finally settling on looking at Herman. "Depends. I... I might need your contacts." Beat. "God. Any of your contacts." Your computer died, yes no? * Lukas presses his hands together. " No. I--I think HESO fucked up hard. One of... their agents just sent me something about a meet. She was barely coherent." * Khalil blinks. "Meet?" Sounds like the perfect time for a trip to Milan. ... What are you talking about? * Khalil slaps his forehead. "So we are going to have to be covering not only Covenant, but HESO's folly as well? Wonderful." * Lukas looks at Khalil and snaps, "I didn't say you had to. This is nothing to do with the current shit." Beat, then he stands up. "Isle of Wight, right? I-- I'll get you something." * Khalil blinks and actually shrinks back a little at the outburst, silently. * Herman downs the rest of his drink and stands, too, snagging the pipe with his right hand. Don't shut us out, Volt. If whatever this is is a problem, we'll deal with it. (Togo? You suck at intervention meetings.) ( Well, duh. ) * Lukas takes the computer under one arm and snags Ten by the main body. "It's not your problem, man. Not yet." Perhaps--perhaps I had best leave. * Ten gets lifted! (Ah, Lukas. You're so rampantly closed. You need a beating sometimes.) * Khalil downs his water quickly and gets up from his stool. * Ashley polishes off his drink. "Alys, I'll give you a call later and we'll set a time for the limo to pick you up." Anyone else wants to come along, you've got my number. Alright, thanks. * Togo shrugs. "Your problem, my problem. Lemme know when you find something." 2d8-1 Sure, Ashley. I'll keep it in mind. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-1) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 8. * Herman sounds like he means it. * Lukas nods, then waves his hand at Khalil. "Don't let me ruin your night... or whatever, Khalil. I'm goin'... as if I wasn't gonna be bad enough company already." (He's Male!Sayuri.) (Of course he's bloody closed.) * Lukas turns and starts walking out of the bar. Get over yourself and just go. Christ. (Ha ha.) * Khalil just watches Lukas and seems frozen. * Herman waves. "See you guys." * Ashley waves, cheerily. "Bye." He follows Lukas out. (Do any of you have PDAs?) * Togo waves, and takes a seat at the bar. (No, sadly.) ( I do. In-game. Or did you mean IRL? ) (In game.) ( Yup. ) * Herman leaves, as advertised! (Nope! Not even a cell phone.) (Alys lives in the past.) Right, I guess I'll go home, then. See you guys later! * Lukas steps off to the side of the door once he gets outside and stuffs his computer away as he heads to his motorcycle. * Alys leaves as well. ( End? ) (I think so.) (Togo and Khalil: Drinkin' buddies!) * Khalil sits down, heavily, in the stool, turns around for a moment and shakes his head before heading out himself. [Session End!]