[Day: Wednsday, Oct. 18th. Time: 7:30 p.m.] [It's a cool, windy night. Racing through the sky after Alys's dad's rented van is Khalil, who's carrying Herman by his armpits, just like in a good comic book.] [Herman and Khalil are flying after a van. It takes a while, 'cause the van has a good headstart, moving along a country road at a swift pace.] (And us?) ( Your head turned into an accordion and some Polish people kidnapped you to force you to play polka for them ) (Of course they did.) [Lukas and Alys and Ten are there too, but have you ever tried to talk on a motorcycle before? Doesn't work so well.] [You're well out of London by now, but the van's moving pretty fast. Will you catch it? Let's find out!] [Session Start] ( Why does my polka music sound like techno? I mean, o/` o/` o/`) (Ha.) * Herman calls up to Khalil as they fly, "Shit! Where's a bloody door?" * Lukas is driving. He has, unsurprisingly, not been talking too much. He does wear a helmet! Safety first. Well, for him. [In the middle of the country, like this, you can't find a door.] * Lukas has been tearing things up as fast as he can, too, without breaking any laws he thinks he'll get caught for. They have cameras nowadays, you know. * Alys is holding onto Lukas and doing her best not to fall off. She's also trying to brood, but the awesomeness of being on a motorcycle at high speeds is interfering with that. It makes for interesting facial expressions. (Ha.) (*snerks*) ( I was riding so fast I almost forgot to BROOD!) * Ten is currently stuffed into luggage compartment on the back of the bike. ( Lukas, gimme a driving roll. Khalil, gimme a body roll. ) ( Dad death motorcycle doom whee!) 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-4) and gets a natural 12 for a result of 8. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Griff_Khalil (2d8) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. [Khalil and Lukas both begin to catch up with the van! ... Now what?] That is a good question. * Lukas says through the helmet, "Perfect." * Griff_Khalil tries to peer around for a barn or something nearby. [If by nearby, he means a half-mile away from the road... he finds one!] * Lukas rings up Herman. * Griff_Khalil peers and points. "Over there. It is a ways off though. Lukas is still tracking?" (Ring ring ring ring... banahaphone?) ( He's also several miles above ground where it's very windy. ) (Question is, does Herman really want to squirm too much when he's being held thousands of feet in the air by the shoulders?) (Yeah, that's not really happening. ^^;) (Yes, and it's got to be bloody cold up there.) * Herman hears his phone ringing. "That's just great." * Griff_Khalil lets out a breath. "Did they really consider how you are going to answer this in such a position?" (No, he didn't!) [You're around Northampton by now.] I take the ringing as a no. I could land, but we may lose valuable time. Yeah, just keep going. I'll give 'im a ring when we got time. * Lukas tries to hang back so he's not, uh, spotted. Boy, that's gonna work. * Griff_Khalil nods and keeps his eyes on the prize. That is, the van. And any potential houses nearby or ahead. [The van follows the road for quite a while, before it begins to head towards a town.] It seems that Allah is with us. Or at least someone is. Yeah. Get us ahead so I can do this. Can you slow the van in any manner? * Herman thinks. "Maybe, but it's kind of obvious." ( "How obvious?" "Giant anvil." "... quite obvious, that." ) It may be necessary. I think we are going to be discovered eventually anyhow, and it would be best if we were discovered when it was just him than if he had a chance to regroup. I will try to get ahead and find an ideal place to land in the meantime. * Griff_Khalil flaps a little harder, coasting down towards the city road. ( Body roll, Khalil ) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Griff_Khalil (2d8) and gets a natural 15 for a result of 15. [Khalil finds it difficult to pull ahead of the van. Dangit.] [The van heads into the city. "Welcome to Coventry!" says a sign. Guess that must be what the city is.] (Quick, bomb it. Don't worry, Churchill won't warn them!) * Lukas follows, yep. Still silent with Alys riding behind him! * Alys is watching the scenery pass by very very quickly. It's entertaining enough that she's not bothering Lukas. [The van moves through the city! It passes shops and buildings and other fun city stuff.] * Griff_Khalil grits his beak. "The winds are making it difficult to keep up." [It doesn't run over anyone yet.] (Does it ever stop? At, like, a stop sign?) (No! It's having too much fun violating traffic rules!) [It stops at a stop sign!] (Or a stop light, or get stuck behind a slow moving van) (How busy's the street otherwise?) ( Not very. But it's not, like, deserted, either. ) * Lukas follows, yep. Hopefully getting as close as he can without getting pegged as an evil follower. * Ten opens the lid to her compartment on the bike and climbs out. She hasn't been wasting her time in there and changed out of her slightly tattered clothes into a new dress that seems to be made of very lightly cured leather. She climbs up and around Alys, and then Lukas as she heads for the front of the bike. [The van passes through the intersection after confirming nobody is coming at the stop sign and pulls into the parking lot of a large corporate tower.] * Ten makes a stab at a flying leap off the bike and onto the back of the van. Hey mabe those wings of hers actually have a reason. * Griff_Khalil narrows his eyes and curses mildly. "Should I just land then?" (Wow. We're doing fantastic with order of operations.) Looks like. (Yes. Yes we are.) (We're awesome like that.) (The idea was for Khalil to get ahead, but he never did, so oh well!) * Griff_Khalil lands on the roof of the building, slowly letting Herman down first. (How tall is this tower? When you say coroprate towers, you're talking a lot more than a one stop sign town.) (He went to one stop-sign and got through the rest with green lights!) ( It happens to be on the edge of the town. ) * Herman is set on the roof of that building, and he looks down at the office and surrounding buildings. ( It's twenty stories, though it houses different corporations. ) (What are the options for doors, Brett?) ( You get your choice between Starbucks, Luigi's Pizza, Good Chao Chow Chinese Takeout, Dr. Arthur Smith's office, and Joe Joe's Travel Agency. ) (What's closest?) (To the corporate whatsit.) ( They're all about the same distance. ) (There's no doors on the roof?) * Lukas follows and parks a ways away in the parking lot, with the Ten already launched. Maybe he wants a latte. 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-3) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 7. (We're, like, 5 minutes ahead of Ten. Ha ha.) (There aren't? There usually is, I thought...) (I thought so too.) ( There is, but it's probably locked. ) (We have a gryphon and a mage, what do locks matter?) * Herman looks around for the door. He spots it, walks over, and tries to open the thing. [Ten makes it onto the back of the van, for whatever she was trying.] [Yep, locked.] That was amazing! I want one, I'd go and learn and get a license and everything if I could have one! * Ten goes back underneath to separate the fuel line from the fuel tank. * Herman reaches up to the lock and starts murmuring in Anglo-Saxon, and it begins to glow and vanish into nothing. * Lukas pulls off his helmet, smirking. "Yeah, I like it too." He looks off towards the building. "Dammit." Is he taking, say, people out of the van? * Griff_Khalil lets out a brief chuckle as he watches Herman and crosses his arms. "With people like you, I wonder why we even bothered to have lock picking experts in this group. How come you never showed that trick before?" * Herman finishes, pulls his hand away, and begins to trace runes on the door, still chanting in that language. After about a minute, they flash deep green and then white. He grins at Khalil. "I didn't have to," he says, then opens the door to the familiar white portal. "Two minutes; we'll be out from the pizza place." Probably invisible. * Herman steps in and closes the door behind himself. (Anyway. Any people moving from van to inside, or no?) * Griff_Khalil nods. "Should I sail down there and wait then? I may cause a little stir.." (Uh, hopefully asked before Herman disappears. ^^;) [Meanwhile, Alan gets out of the van an jogs towards the building entrance.] [He doesn't take anyone out of the van as he goes.] * Alys tugs at Lukas's shirt. "Come on, I bet Alex's still in there!" (Any sort of visible security or other people?) ( There's a guard inside the building, but he looks like he's pretty much there to make sure people sign in, which Alan does. ) (What kind of doors on the place?) * Lukas nods slightly and heads for the van, satchel in hands. "One less problem if he is..." * Alys starts running to the van. [Automatic.] * Griff_Khalil shakes his head and then looks down at the situation below. When he notices Lukas, he shakes his head and flies down towards the lot. [The van does not flee from Alys. It's very courageous.] (Okay, he only does that once.) (It is a van of courage!) (More courageous than most vans.) * Alys looks through the windows of the van and tries to open the door. "Alex, Alex?" * Ten makes sure the van isn't going to go anywhere for a while then. [The door is locked, and the rear windows tinted!] [But nobody responds to Alys.] Dammit! Volt, can you pick the lock or something? (And if she's got time, and can see them, tries to figure out what floor the AlysDad goes to) [He takes an elevator. Ten can't see what floor from here.] * Lukas pulls out some basic lockpick stuff, while Alys panics. "Yeah, I can." And then he gets to work with a muttered, "Be in there, 'Kaela." * Herman steps out of the nearby pizza place, though probably invisible, given Ashley's presence. (Is there anywhere she can move to where she can see?) ( She'd have to go into the building itself. ) * Griff_Khalil lands next to Alys and drops his head a little. "There wasn't much luck getting ahead of him on our end. I am sorry." Um, well, Alex might be in the van, so Volt's trying to open it, so no distracting him! * Togo steps out as well, also presumably invisible, and waits to follow Herman's lead. * Ashley is there! Everybody within a decent range of him is invisible. Herman should be back with the group any minute now. * Alys keeps looking between Khalil and Lukas's lockpicking. "Good, because, we need more people, and, are you going to be able to open it?" So, Herman. Where's the party? * Griff_Khalil nods. "If all else fails, I could try ripping the door off." * Alys nods and fidgets. ( Lukas gimme a lockpick roll at +1 ) * Herman points. "Right over there." 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-4) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 5. Let's move, then. I have a plane to catch. * Herman does move. To the van! * Togo follows. [You all crowd around the van.] [Best hope the security guard doesn't look outside.] (Ashley's invizzin.) [Lukas opens the door too the van! Inside is a nice-smelling leather smell from the seats, and the pockets in back are packed with tour guides, road maps and other junk nobody reads. One thing that's not in there is people.] (... Pwnt) * Lukas mutters, "Fuck dammit." Fuck! Bloody fucking... Ooh, an empty van! This would be perfect for marijuana parties. 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-4) and gets a natural 15 for a result of 11. * Griff_Khalil sighs. "Thinks are never that easy." Okay. Where's the guy? * Lukas hits his fist against the bottom of the van before responding, "Inside." (http://data.4chan.org/b/src/1139634504502.jpg WOBBUFFORLY) * Alys takes a moment to compose herself before saying, "Dad's inside, so, we need to go in, and where's Ten?" Let's go get him, then. * Ten 's voice comes from under the van. "I'm, like, down here!" * Alys bends over and looks under the van. "Aren't you getting dirty under there?" * Griff_Khalil looks around. "Kind of you to join us." There needs to be shag on the walls, though. * Ten walks out and in a brown leather outfit. "Like, yeah, but this dress can take it!" We can remodel the van later. Let's go. Remodel later, yes, but plans happen now. * Ten points at the building. "Like, he's in there, but I dunno which floor 'cause the door closed before I could get in!" * Griff_Khalil shakes his head and starts to sniff for Alys's dad's scent from earlier. Best case, he hadta sign in. Worst case, I go in, flash my badge, and ask. Like, if you get me inside I might be able to ask the elevators an stuff, but I can't do anything from over here! It's better if we go low profile though, right? So they don't get warned and kill Alex? * Griff_Khalil starts walking towards the building. "I have the scent. At least of her father. Come on." * Ashley follows, rubbing his chin and murmuring about bubble windows. * Lukas scoops Ten up. "Yeah, but... uhf. Today's been too damn long." I shall also wonder why you always forget to use me as a bloodhound, Togo. * Alys follows quickly and continues to fidget. * Ten gets carried along. * Togo shrugs. "Bad habit. Just not used to having that option available." * Lukas looks over the building as he rubs his temple with his free hand. * Herman glances at Ten, but he keeps the question in. [The doors don't open and the guard doesn't look at you.] * Griff_Khalil looks at Ashley. "We wait until someone walks by then follow them in, then?" (Solid people + illusion of closed door!) * Lukas smirks a little as he realizes the doors aren't gonna open. "Low tech meets high tech." Do you want to talk, or do we remain sneaky? * Ten flails her arms. "How come you can't guard and not the door?" I believe it would be best if our presence remains unknown as long as possible. (you can't fool the guard and not the door.) (Where'd that word go? o_O) * Alys says quietly, "Can I go through uninvisible and ask for a bathroom, and you guys follow?" (Also, he CAN, but he doesn't give a fuck about this, so he's asking.) (Go him! Ten doesn't know that so she's gonna whine!) Sneaky, if possible. Who knows if Asahara's got cameras, or if the guard's working for 'em. (*makes Ten into a rutabaga*) Right. (I'm high in vitamins!) I think the truer phrase is "who knows how many cameras and how many guards." * Ashley waves his hands. The guard now sees a static door, but the touch hiding is removed. That too. You can! That's awesome Ashley! * Ashley shrugs. "I do birthdays, if you're looking." * Griff_Khalil blinks at the thought and turns to Lukas. "Does Ten even celebrate birthdays?" Like, if I had one, I'd so invite you! * Togo motions for people to, y'know, MOVE. And, to start the trend, does so himself. * Alys moves, because it (Well, the door didn't open.) (The door, I would hope, opens now.) * Alys moves, because it's trendy. * Lukas glances to Khalil for a moment, then back forward as they... move? [You go inside!] * Griff_Khalil follows the movement, since he's kind of leading the charge. * Herman is inside. And invisible. Woot. * Ashley follows, nonchalantly. * Lukas looks around -inside- now as he mutters, "I hate going in blind." Can you access the elevators, Ten? Gimmie a sec, kay? *to Lukas* Eh, you get used to it. 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-4) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 5. (Made like pie) (Mmm, pie.) 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-2) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 7. * Lukas glances to Togo for a moment, then a short chuckle. "Dark humor." Beat. "Come on." He starts walking, uh, down a hallway! Yes. Towards a place. A wonderful place. Floor thirteen, which is kinda weird since most buildings don't have floor thirteens for some reason, but he went there and stuff! Figures. Easy enough. We take the stairs then, I assume? * Togo grins. "I try." *to Khalil* "Prolly, unless there are objections." Fine with me. (Am I being followed?) * Griff_Khalil goes towards the stairs then. (Or did I just wander off towards semi-undescribed place on my own?) (I think you did...) * Herman walks after the others. He doesn't have much to add. (In which case cut my comment) (Whatever works. As long as nobody sees me go vis, I'm signed in. Yep.) * Alys follows after the other followers. ( It'll all depend on where Ashley goes ) (That is possibly the single worst clue that a session has gone awry.) (When Ashley's pivotal? I dunno! I said come on! Nobody came on. ;_;) No objections, so stairs it is. (I don't know how far away my destination _is_, but I find it very important!) * Togo heads for the stairs! (We're not in tune with you, man.) * Ashley gets heads on the toss, so aims for the stairs. [Everyone heads for the stairs, 'cept Lukas.] (And Ten!) (I'm with Lukas!) * Griff_Khalil turns slightly as he reaches the stairs. "Wait, where is everyone?" * Lukas glances to the group for a moment, then shakes his head and continues towards his goal, which takes him towards the back of the building! [Totally called, man.]