[Day: Thursday, Oct. 26th. Time: 9:00 p.m.] [Having just finished a raid on Asahara's HQ in Hamburg and taking down their sooperkomputar, you escaped to Herman's pad, along with Claire, Ensof and some chick in a freezer. Apparently Alys's mother was rescued by Jacqueline, Lazar and some mysterious 3rd party, but they're at the farm.] [Khalil keeps timing out.] [Anyhow, them's the circumstances.] [Session Start] * Herman leans his pipe against the wall and tosses his jacket over one chair before looking for a good sized bowl. * Ten is so there. She's there like there, and, since things have slown down a bit she's getting a description! Long silver hair, blue and silver feathered wings, mismatched blue and silver eyes, and just to continue the theme she has a blue and silver dress with gloves and boots that seem to be made entirely out of ribbons. * Khalil gets to working on the freezer. "I would hate to know what kind of demonry they were working down below." * Lukas looks positively fucking beat, clutching his arm and stumbling. "Do I... uhf, get frequent bleeder points?" He glances to his arm, then grits his teeth and lets go of it to try to pull off his shirt. It, uh, doesn't go well, 'cause his arm's all spiked. "Ow! Fuck. Ow. Can't you do this with the shirt ON?" * Alys starts pulling a paperclip out of her piercing and putting it back in repeatedly while looking around. * Ten is also looking at the fridge. "We've gotta get her out! People don't go in boxes! Awesome presents go in boxes!" What would you do with the points, though? Get enough and you get a full draining? * Togo takes out his 3 broken guns and sets about unjamming them. * Lukas slumps down on the couch and looks over at Alys. "Dunno, but if you give out points, they gotta be good for something." A free transfusion! * Ashley is looking back and forth between Lukas and the fridge. "Shirtless Hot Pants... or possibly naked freezer lady. What is a well-meaning fae to do under such trying circumstances?" We cannot just take her out. She would have to be properly released or she would die of shock. At least I believe. Like, how do you do that? * Khalil tries to look in the freezer again. "It is a her, yes?" ( YES. MY EYES! ) (XD) Hey, Pipe Guy, can I use a phone? I should probably let Alex know what's going on. (Actually, his ears would be bleeding too from hearing boobs talk. ;P) * Herman returns, large plastic bowl filled to the brim with water in hands. Some of it sloshes over. "Yeah, gimme a sec." He sets the bowl down by the couch and pulls out his phone, tossing it to Alys. [Claire and Ensof are talking to each other. That's conveninet.] * Alys catches it and dials the bookstore. "Ringing, ringing..." * Togo sets about replacing a spring in the drum magazine of his machine gun. "... Valmont is a lot more powerful than last time." Yes. Did we even touch him? * Lukas snorts. * Ten gets to work sifting the data like a good PC. (Do I need to roll anything?) Last time, his main defense was a force field, and I almost managed to breach it by emptying an entire belt from a machine gun into it. It was all he could do just to maintain the shield. Now... I have bullets that're supposed to affect incorporeals, and they passed right through him. * Ashley turns his attention to lukas. mmm, !shirt. (I'm not stripped yet!) * Alys sighs. "Alex, it's me. There's a lot of stuff going on but I want to actually talk to you when you find out, so I'll call back later. I might be home late or not at all; I'll call in the morning if I'm not back already. Love you." She turns it off. (Because my arm's sorta not working.) (Well, not working well.) * Khalil nods and flexes his fingers. "It is certainly more than that." * Herman sets Lukas on the couch, then sits in front of him, scooping generous handfuls of water over the bleeding spots. Hot guy on guy action, just for Ashley! I am not sure where mine comes from, but I've always suspected the Guardian. I felt that should have affected him as well, but it did only when it was a heavy hit. * Lukas at least mostly shrugged off his jacket as he sits there. Supposedly the damage was mostly on his arm? * Togo finishes fixing his machine gun, and sets about replacing the bullet- damaged barrel of his shotgun. "Just can't believe that, after hunting this guy for the past few years, I finally track him down and I can't do jack shit." I might as well have been throwing fucking pillows at him. 2d8-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-1) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 9. * Lukas mutters, quietly, "Since when did I become the first target for angry enemies? My luck is fucking miserable." Not to be a downer, but I didn't have much hope for hurting Valmont in the first place. He's really fucking scary. * Khalil looks at Alys. "What happened the first time you attempted wards on him? I know you have used them before..." * Alys looks down at the floor. "It went through him and hit Liadan. So she stopped choking, but the ward was frying her anyway." * Ten nods to her self. As long as Ashley or I are not nearby, I would say to try it again though. The worst that can happen is it is ineffective. ... gonna need to call back home, see if they have anything gathering dust that'll hurt this guy. (You're just waiting for 'Vuln: Trophies', aren't you?) (I thought we were supposed to never mention that game ever again?) (I am able to mention that game because it doesn't make me scream in pain. ^_~) [There's a woman in a fridge. Whatcha gonna do?] ( It's the Green lantern's girlfriend! ) (Star Sapphire?) (or Katma Tui?) * Khalil searches around the fridge for any release thing. * Lukas looks to Herman and mutters at him, "Z'a great day, innit." * Ten also looks up how to open the fridge! * Ten calls out to Khalil. "There's a button!" ( Random non-powered girl. Got chopped up and left in the fridge by a villian. ) (Oh, that.) Will it work safely? Uuuuuuhh... * Herman heals Lukas away, whispering in Anglo-Saxon and carefully pulling the shrapnel from his arm as wounds start to close and reject it. Try it anyway! (Sorry, uh... was in the bathroom for a while.) * Khalil takes in a deep breath. "Alright, alright." He searches for the button. It's the one on the back! * Lukas winces at the pointy play. Stupid pointies! He says half-jokingly, "Nurse, they go out, not in." * Khalil pushes it once he finds it. * Herman snerks and comments, "You want to keep these to put over your fireplace or something?" He starts washing down another cut. * Togo looks up at Lukas, forcing a bit of a grin. "Get shot a few more times, and I'll see about getting you a medal or two." [The fridge opens, revealing quickly dethawing a naked woman. Score! Or something.] * Lukas winces again and then goes, "Depends. You think it'd get me--ow!-- laid? Otherwise, I got more than enough metal around." Hello? Ready, willing, and totally able, _right here_. * Alys hurries over to the woman. "Hey, somebody, coat or a blanket! Something covering!" Awesome it worked! And she so needs a towel or something! * Togo pulls out a few thermal blankets, and tosses them over to Alys. * Ashley then is distracted by nekkid. * Alys holds them up in front of the woman until she responds and takes them, or something. Also, she purposely blocks Ashley's view. * Khalil averts his eyes, but tosses his coat on top of her. It's a little short, so blankets might help too. * Lukas says at Ashley, "That defeats the damn point of keeping the metal around." He but glances to the woman before studiously looking away. Aww. * Ashley wrenches his eyes from Alys backside, now, and looks back to Lukas. "Well, I'm sure we could be creative about their use." * Togo frowns. "There will be no using purple hearts as sex toys." * Ashley looks BACK to Alys. "Look, just tell me if she has huge knockers." * Khalil growls. "Ashley!" * Lukas groans. "I meant the metal, not meDAL. Je--ow!-sus." * Ten looks at Herman. "Like, do you have painkiller spells? Pain is made of suck and fail." * Ashley looks to Khalil. "WHAT? I chipped a nail!" Back to Lukas. "Aww, you started without me!" (SUFFER, MORTALS, FOR IT IS HAMPSTERDANCE) d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d8) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 4. ( For the record, she has average knockers. ) ( :( ) ( Don't blame me, blame Dicey! ) (8 = bigger than her head.) * Herman shakes his head and keeps muttering, reaching for the last spike. He pulls it out with a quick tug. ( Sarah has a 10 :o ) * Ten pouts and goes back to sifting. * Khalil shakes his head. "This woman was almost experimented upon and all you can think about is s-s.." He grits his teeth but doesn't reply.. * Herman immediately covers the gaping hole with a wet hand, saying a few more words. He pulls it away, and all of Lukas' wounds are healed. [The woman groans and blinks a few times.] * Alys continues holding the blankets up. "Hi! I'm Alys. You feeling alright?" * Khalil turns towards her, gesturing and still a little heated. "I mean she is..." He blinks slightly. "Inas?" * Lukas yelps loudly and says, "Fucksakes!" Beat. "Couldn't you have, like, slapped me in the damn face first to distract me?" * Ashley stares at Khalil. He enunciates every word clearly. "I. Chipped. A. Nail. *pause* She's. NAKED." [She looks around for a bit, then down at herself, and screams. Then starts mumbling in Arabic.] [Claire and Ensof stop talking to each other about now and take in the situation.] * Khalil looks at Ashley with cold eyes. "I could give less than seven damns about your chipped nail." He turns back and kneels next to the woman, speaking calmly back to her. "" * Herman looks over his shoulder. "Oh, she's awake." (She's got a jacket and Alys... had blankets.) * Lukas replies, "It looks like they already got the blanket..." Khalil, tell her to take the blankets, please. Nakedness is probably kind of embarrassing for her. [She focuses on Khalil, blinks a few more times, and speaks! In Arabic.] (Oh, good, so he's just going to continue sitting close to me!) (Khalil threw his coat on her.) * Khalil reaches for the blankets. "Alys. Here." * Lukas rubs his arm and mutters a moment before looking to Herman. "Thanks." He glances to Clare a moment, then back. "Great day, really." * Ashley throws up his hands. "By all the high courts of Fae! Does nobody around here ever screw?" * Alys hands them over. "So you know her?" * Khalil blinks and talks rapidly, respond back to her. He seems very disturbed from the tone of things as he hands her the blankets. (So tempted to have Ten yell "I have lots of screws!") (You could say, "Lukas has to screw with me all the time!") * Herman looks at Ashley and grins. "I do. But I usually stick to people in my own species, y'know?" (That'd be far worse.) [She responds!] * Alys turns around and tilts her head. "If I had sex with you and got pregnant, would the babies be half-faeries?" Speciesist. * Togo !glares at Ashley. "Chicks don't dig the sockets." * Khalil looks up, a little shaken. "S-she...she is from my village. She doesn't remember what happened. Naila..." He turns back and waits for more of the woman's conversation. * Lukas smirks and says, "Besides, oatmeal man, you come on awfully strong." [She shudders.] * Ashley blinks. "I'm not certain I can get you pregnant. Like, even in the theoretical." Really? Huh. That's disappointing. I think it works the other way? But most of the time I'm more hoping for the opposite effect. * Lukas glances to Alys a moment, then mutters to Herman in an exasperated tone, "God, why is she my niece again? ( Because you thought it was cute at the time.) (She's so thoughtful.) ( Now you'll just have to commit incest. But don't worry, I'll forgive you this once.) Fuck if I know. * Togo decides to disregard the side conversation, and goes over to Khalil. "What's she saying about the attack?" * Khalil puts his hands on her shoulder, speaking frantically in Arabic. * Ten checks to see if there's anything in the data about this woman and how they got her! [She responds!] * Herman leans back on the couch, watching the conversation. Noooo idea what's going on. So I'm thinking when I'm absolutely fluent in Japanese, I'll work on Arabic. So I can know what the heck is going on. [She shudders again.] * Khalil drops his head a little and looks at the floor. He responds. Slowly, and carefully. And in English this time. "My sister. Naila is my sister. This woman is from my village. Apparently she was..." He blinks and looks at the woman, starring at her response. (*staring) * Khalil responses, first in English, "That can't be..." and apparently says the same thing in Arabic. (Can't=cannot.) * Ashley raises an eyebrow. * Lukas rolls the skateboard with his foot for a moment, on the floor, then puts his feet to the ground and stands slowly. "M'gonna get something to drink." Beat. "Wash the taste of dead out of my mouth." He heads towards the kitchen. [She points at herself.] Grab me a brew if Herman has any! * Herman says without looking Lukas' way, "'s on the top shelf. Get me one." I think--she said... she saw Naila transform with the same curse that I had. But Naila was never affected! [Now she starts crying.] Like, is it one of those family things? Do your parents turn into griffons when they sneaze too? [She speaks between sobs.] * Khalil responds in Arabic and starts shaking Inas a little as she starts crying. * Khalil shakes his head. "The whole thing was...an accident. We were investigating a place we should not have been. Those men...the foreigners did not belong in the village." * Herman mutters, "It'd explain why they're bloody foreign." * Khalil looks at Herman. "You do not understand. They were searching for something in the village they had no right to." Was that what Valmont was talking about with that Baltha-whatchit thing? How there were two parts, and you were one? More of those Asahara gits then, right? * Khalil takes a deep breath. "Yes. Apparently, the soul of Balthasar infused within me. But I do not know if it was Asahara at the time. Maybe..." * Khalil turns back to the woman and lets off a quick response. [She shakes her head.] Lukas, where the devil is my alcoholic sanity increaser? * Ten stands up and walks over to Herman. "Like, gotta sec?" * Herman looks over at Ten. "Like, totally," he says, trying to mimic her speech and failing. Awesome! Pick me up? * Alys sits down on the floor and snaps her rubber bands against her arm idly. * Khalil lets go of the woman and stands slowly. "Herman. We have to go back." [Ensof steps over. "Back? Are you kidding? Security's going to be pretty tight for a while."] * Khalil swivels around. "We are going *back*! If they are holding my sister there, I am not standing idly by while they experiment on her at their own whim!" * Herman picks Ten up and sets her on his knee so she can watch. Relax a second, Khalil. Like, didn't the other group save some people maybe she was one of them! You should call and find out! * Alys nods and says hesitantly, "I'd like to, um, see my mum soon, if we could." * Khalil yells. "You let *him* run off while his sister was in danger." He points to Lukas. "Why not I? If you will not take me..." (Lukas is in another room.) (Then point in the general direction of Lukas then. The intent still stands.) [Claire: "It's possible she's already been rescued. We did manage to free a number of Arabic prisoners. If so, she'd be at the farm."] See? See? Then it'd all be cool! If she transforms as I do, then I suspect she would be much better protected. You could go there and find out! If your sister's still there, we'll get her out, Khalil. But let's find out if she's among the rescued before we start planning another attack. * Khalil nods and looks at Herman. "Send me there." * Ten looks up at Herman and speaks more quietly. "Like... Lukas can't find the beer, could you go give him a hand?" * Herman looks down at Ten. "I will," he says, quietly, "if you give me a sec first." He gets to his feet, sets Ten on the couch, and heads over to the door. He starts muttering in Anglo-Saxon, sketching a set of runes. * Alys gets to her feet and smiles. * Rowyn is now known as Khalil * Khalil takes in a deep breath. "Thank you. I do mean that." * Ten follows Herman over. [Ensof steps forward. "I'll go with ya."] I'm going too! Where the HELL is my BEER? * Herman says one last word, and the runes flash from deep green to a brilliant white. He opens the door, the same white streaming through. "All aboard who's coming aboard." * Togo hands Ashley a cold pint of Guinness from his coat. Drink. Then door. Call me if you need me. Now get out of here. ... I categorically refuse to drink that which emerges from the coat. Wah! Suck! They moved her! * Herman smiles a little at Khalil and nods. ... huh? Like, I just pulled her file, and they moved her, but they didn't record where yet when everything melted. Take care of Inas for me as best you can. I know language is an issue, so if she gets upset, you can call. * Alys runs through the doorway. ( Aight, people going to the farm.... #Farm ) (Not #eieio?) * Ashley walks into the damn kitchen. ( Of course not. It's a German farm. ) * Khalil looks at Ten for a moment, moments from entering. "Who? Naila?" YES! * Ten flails her arms. Where? * Khalil frowns and closes his eyes. "I am calmer now. It would still help to check on who we did rescue. Ten, keep tracking where they moved her to. For my sake at least. * Khalil steps through the portal. I dunno! It's not in the file! It's all confidential and classifed or something! * Togo goes with Khalil. "I'll be back. Gonna make sure he doesn't do anything enormously stupid." * Togo steps through the portal! * Lukas is in the kitchen. Not having sex. With beer already out, one of which he's drinking. He glances to Ashley and groans. "Ten needs to work on her convincing." Look, dammit, beer! Right there! * Ashley grabs it, opens it, and takes a drink. * Lukas rolls his eyes and mutters, "Congratulations, you can detect a lie when it's smacked into your face." Who needs lies? I need *beer*. I can't get laid, I can at least work on getting plastered. * Lukas mutters, "I'm almost surprised you can even GET plastered." By the grace of the gods. * Ashley takes another drink. * Lukas sighs and mutters, "Well, we're alone now. Here's hoping Carrie's too busy with the naked chick to bother us." Do you think we could actually kill her? * Ten attempts to sneak into the kitchen. * Herman shuts the door now that everyone's gone and starts gathering clothes for the recently dethawed chick. Me? Nell no. * Lukas takes another drink. "Stupid of me, but never much been into murder." She's hardly human. Did you see her HAIR? * Lukas snickers. "Couldn't miss it." Likely visible from orbit. She is clearly a mutant. Thus, her death serves a greater biological good. * Herman finds some sweatpants and a shirt which hopefully won't fall off of her and returns to the girl. He hands her the clothes and points out the bathroom so she can get dressed in privacy. If she wants. If she doesn't, no big deal. * Ashley nods, straight-faced. Then drinks. [Claire's doing her best to make the naked chick more comfortable. Not easy when she apparently doesn't understand the language.] Got it covered, Claire? [She nods. "I think so, yeah. Thanks." She directs the woman towards the bathroom Herman indicated.] * Herman nods and heads to the kitchen to get his own damn beer. Trouble finding it, huh? * Herman grabs a beer of his own and pops it open. * Lukas shrugs. "What can I say? Ten, she's not a born liar." He reaches out and grabs Ten, one way or the other. * Ten pouts and then gets lifted. * Ashley finishes off the beer. "She clearly needs a tutor." It shoulda worked! I mean it was totally plausible and woulda gotcha here by yourself if everybody didn't suddenly want to leave! Instead, you delayed my access to beer, Ten. * Ten flails. "That's so not my fault!" Not! Not! Not! * Lukas shakes his head and says, "It doesn't matter. You're drinking, and she'll be here in a moment." He looks to Herman. "They don't really have anything legal on you guys, you know." What, to arrest us? * Ashley grabs another brewski. "They could if they tried hard enough. I was pretty lazy on the whole Glamour issue through the 50's." * Herman sits on the counter. "Seriously, it's not like they're trying that hard anyway." ( Gimme hearing checks. And gimme margins ) 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-2) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 3. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Herman (2d8) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ashley (2d8) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 13. (Where's Katie when you need her?) (Failing her rolls too, likely.) (She has a -12 to hearing) (I'm sure she could fail the opposed roll if she tried hard enough. ^_~) * Lukas nods slightly and says, "Yeah, well, my guess is that Claire's not a hardass." He exhales noisily. "The important thing is that they can probably nail me, and nail you as accessories to me, if they want. So... yeah." He exhales noisily. "I'm all for disappearing. The stuff Ten and I got..." he trails off. Like, we can put the good stuff in a data dump for ya! You want to vanish, I can keep us hidden. Gods know I need a vacation. * Lukas chuckles. "I'm not sure I want you trying to grab my ass while I'm hiding." * Herman swallows more beer. You'd never know. I meant more long-term, but your scenario sounds appealing. * Lukas takes another big drink, then says, "I don't like it at all. Disappearing for a few years is 'Kaela's thing, not mine." He gestures with his bottle. "Such is life, right?" * Ten nod nods. * Ashley shrugs. "Could still use a vacation." Yeah, couldn't we all. * Lukas smirks slightly. "My other jobs are languishing." Pretty sure I'm fired, but hey. Waiter jobs are a dime a dozen. Jesus, could you be any more stereotypical? Aww, getting fired sucks. Do they hunt you down and try to kill you if you mess that up too? Yes. I could surf. * Ashley takes a drink, You're telling me you don't? Absolutely horrible at it. Like a bleeding octopus on a four-by-eight. * Lukas glances towards the door a moment. "You're so damn colorful." Aww, it looks like fun. * Herman has another swig of his beer. "Look, Lukas, if you wanna hide, go ahead. Up to you." Just give me a way to let you know if I finish this favor I'm doing for you. You know where I live. you want to boogie in Bermuda, drop on by. * Lukas looks to Herman for a moment, then nods, looking back towards the door. "Yeah." Beat. "Just be ready to make a gate if we ever get the time. D'like to get my bike. It'd make it easier." Sure, but you gotta know that I can't cast it instantly. There's no hurrying a ritual. * Lukas nods... then frowns a little and snaps more loudly, "You want to come in instead of hanging out out there, you can probably cop a beer. Herman's a freaking gay saint." So, like, you can't cast most of it, and then cast the last bit when you're ready to go? That'd be awesome. Gate in a can! I think you technically have to be dead. * Ashley grabs another beer. Unless the Gay Pope's got some different rules. [The door opens itself. Claire is outside, leaning against a wall, looking in your direction.] (OH SHI-) Well, if it isn't what's-her-name. * Lukas gestures absently with his mostly empty bottle. "Claire, Ashley. Come on, you'd think you could remember a woman's name." He regards her with a steady gaze. "Can't hear the girl freakin' out anymore." * Herman is nonplussed. "Want a beer?" * Ten flials her arms silently. ["She's taking it easy for the moment. And yes, I would. Please."] * Herman leaves his own bottle on the counter and slides off, going to the fridge and pulling another beer out. "Catch." He tosses it to Claire. It's symbolic, Lukas. Though if she's in for some of the old fermented barley she can't be all bad. * Lukas rolls his eyes. "You just say that because alcohol's the universal lubricant." [The beer hovers over to Claire, and she just picks it up out of the sky. She takes a sip, then speaks, "So, planning to rabbit on us?"] Lubrication is fantastic stuff. * Lukas turns to Clare and smirks. "Was it that obvious? Really? That I don't want to be arrested?" * Ten glares up at her. (What manner of crack is this Cham?) (It's awesome crack.) (It's crack that's over ;_;) (KINKYBOOTS) ["Running tends to make things worse, you know. Resisting arrest, and all."] * Lukas laughs. "What, you're going to go from 'Five to fifteen in multiple countries' to 'Five to fifteen in multiple countries and a resisting arrest charge?'" He shakes his head. "You don't even get the real issue here, missy." He finishes off his beer. [She chuckles. "I don't? Why don't you explain it to me, then."] * Lukas smirks a little. "You're all so smart. You tell me why I'd not want to be arrested." 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8-4) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 7. * Ten climbs up a chair and sits on top of it. ["How about this? I'll tell you I don't give a damn. You want to run? Fine, go ahead. You obviously don't know anything about our missing agents."] * Lukas throws up his hands. "Congratulations, you are exactly right! We don't, and we never DID. I mean, would you assume we were all chummy with you just because we went all sneaky on Asahara with you? Christ." He exhales noisily. ["I never thought that. Why would I? But I've got a job to do. It involves stopping several madmen from turning our world inside out. You're no help to me, so why should I care?"] Excellent! See? Beer has made her sane! * Herman toasts. "All hail beer." * Lukas replies, "Seriously. And you'd think that because you assumed it of us. You know, with all that 'Tell us about the others' crap. And fuck, lady. I cut up computers for these people, and get the crap kicked out of me, for miserable goddamn pay. I don't stop whatever the hell you think is happening." He licks his lips and runs his hand back through his hair. "Uhf. Why do I bother." Hail beer! * Ashley raises his beer. "Hear hear." * Lukas has no beer! He raises his empty a moment after his mini-rant, though. ["Cry me a river. But do it after someone you trust puts someone close to you in a coma." ( Not a problem, I trust no one.) I was in a coma once, I think. (You were thinking that too?) ( *Ten puts Mikaela in a coma ) ( WAAAAAH! I didn't mean to do that! I'm so sososososososososososoooooo sorrry!) ( * Togo puts Ten in a comma. ) (* Ten gets better.) * Lukas is silent a moment, then, "I'd be far less into crying if you were far less into arresting me." Beat. "Christ, what proves that they did it? Were you there? Did they have tattoos on their foreheads that said 'Not actually fucking evil clones?'" There's a lot of fucking evil cloning going around, you know. * Ashley looks to Herman. "What do you call it when you're asleep for, like.... a week. Is that a coma, or just alcohol poisoning?" * Ten nods. "Like, I've probably got data on that project in here somewhere." ( People are fucking their evil clones? Why wasn't I invited?) (Seriously! :( ) (The clones started making out with each other and you couldn't be reached.) [She laughs. "Wouldn't that be nice. I wish it was clones. I really do."] ["But no, it's not clones that put my mother in the hospital."] * Lukas shrugs. "Everyone else is a clone. Except the Covenant's holy bloody lady-slash-sacrifice-slash-whatever." Trusting your eyes is just not in this month. ["We know what their plan is because they told us."] * Ashley tips his beer to her. "Way to believe what the evil people were saying." I have several hundred bridges I could sell, if you're interested. * Herman rubs his eyes. "Y'know, Ashley, I'd normally say it's a coma. But now I have no fucking clue." See, I thought it was a coma, too. I mean, I didn't drink THAT much. For a hippopotamus. [She glares at Ashley. "What defines evil? One could certainly call you evil. You were just talking about banging an already traumatized and possibly physically unstable woman over the fact that you broke a nail. That sounds pretty evil to me."] * Herman says with a straight face, "He didn't need to break a nail to want to bang her." * Ashley rolls his eyes. "Seriously." But it ain't rape if it ain't rape. ["It's certainly taking advantage, though."] * Lukas chuckles, then eyes her a moment. "Ashley bangs anything." Beat. "You're still not convinced. You think they hurt your mother, and you're still not convinced." I didn't even say right then, did I? Nope. * Herman guzzles the rest of his beer. ["That's not the point. I can understand why Mitsuji and the others want to do what they're doing. I understand that they have good intentions. But I also know it's wrong."] * Ashley chugs his. "Remind me to buy you a six pack. Or maybe a keg, and we can share. 70/30." * Lukas is silent a moment, then, "Yeah, I get it too. But we can't help you. We seriously never knew a damn thing." ["Yeah, I get that."] Keg works. We can throw a bloody party. * Herman grabs another bottle. Yay beer! Excellent! I can invite these thirty-seven women with large breasts I happen to have names and addresses for. Fuck, does it have to just be women? * Ashley pauses and looks at Herman. "I was about to say, I think I can find us some leather-clad males." Or at least some in kilts. Do you fancy tartans? * Lukas groans. "Can you two just fuck and get it over with?" Please? Keep trying, Ashley. * Ashley snaps his fingers. "Damn and blast." [Claire drinks her beer.] * Lukas snorts and then looks at Claire one last time. "Sorry, Claire. Nothing I can do for you. Asahara didn't even know anything about this." He rubs his neck and mutters, "Not that I buy it, but I'd rather not the world end either." ["It's our problem, anyway. If you can't help, you can't help."] * Lukas nods slightly and pushes off the counter. "Mind if I steal your bed for a few, Herman? It's been a long day, and my money's on it getting longer." Go ahead, if Khalil's sister doesn't have it. * Herman looks to Claire for confirmation. Like, I think that was somebody who knew Khalil's sister. Whoever. The chick I don't understand. ["She's sitting on the couch, watching TV."] Ah, a woman after my own heart. Or lack thereof. ["Yeah."] * Lukas nods a little and waves his hand. "Then I'll see you all in a bit. Or not." He heads towards the bedroom. * Herman watches Lukas go. "Hope he doesn't open the closet," he mutters before working on getting more drunk. * Ten stays on the chair. (Where Herman keeps all his dead bodies!) (It is, at that!) (And his collection of sex toys) (Wait, same thing.) (... ew. Dunno if I wanna sleep with you anymore, Herman.) (SCORE.) (Snerk.) (I mean, at least keep the dead people in the freezer!) (Herman's got a new one now just for that purpose!) * Herman tries to think of a new conversation whatsit and settles on, "So what now, Claire?" [Claire drinks beer. She finishes and just lets go of the can, letting it hover there in midair. "I don't know... We still don't know where they are. They'll need some place to perform the ritual, but they can theoretically begin at any time now."] [She frowns. "We're running out of time."] * Herman shakes his head. "Still sounds bloody crazy. They - Sarah, at least - have too much sense to do something this stupid." [Claire sighs. "It's not a simple issue. They were my friends, too, once. But now..."] So totally clones! Or like, evil duplicates from another dimension! * Ashley waves his hand. "Don't care. Going to watch TV." He wanders into the other room. * Ashley leans back in, snags another beer, and ducks out again., ["It'd be so simple if they were clones."] * Herman eyes Ashley. "How many's that?" he yells after him. * Shad-Asleep is now known as Shadur ["But Asahara clones don't care about reviving their dead comrades."] * Ashley shouts back "Like.... three?" There's other groups making clones now! [The woman in the other room covers her face when Ashely enters and goes to hide in the bathroom.] * Herman yells back, "Okay!" He looks to the rest of the conversation. ["They're not clones."] * Ashley rolls his eyes, flops on the couch, and changes the channel. But, like, the real ones so wouldn't blow up the world! Maybe they're illusions! Could've had a suggestion. * Herman looks thoughtful now. "Nothing major, but just a little nudge in a direction they were kinda thinking about. It'd be a pretty easy spell." Ooooooh! [Claire blinks. "You could do that?"] * Ten claps her hands. Uh, no. I'm not really into mind control. But I could if I took the time to figure it out. [Claire shrugs. "We thought we'd already figured it out. But if you really want to try it, go ahead. Maybe we'll get lucky and be wrong."] That'd be awesome! You're awesome Herman! It's just totally bizarre. And we've been neck deep in totally bizarre for a while. [Claire hesitates for a second, then asks, "Can I get another beer?"] * Herman opens the door, grabs another bottle, and tosses it to Claire. [It floats over to Claire.] Nice trick. You can do it for more than bottles? [Claire nods. "I don't like to brag, but... Oh hell, of course I do." She takes a deep drink and grins, "I'm one of the strongest known telekinetics on the planet."] Oh wow. Like, can you... lift the whole building or something? If you can, don't. It might mess with my spell. ["Maybe a small house. I think this apartment's a little too big for me, though."] ( Claire is Jean Grey. ) That's aweeeesome. * Herman nods. "Some trick," he comments before having another gulp. [She smiles. "I'm proud of it."] ( Except Claire hasn't died and come back evil. YET. ) It's something you were born with, right? Not... * Herman waves vaguely. ["I was, yeah. Jackie, though..." She pauses. "Well, that's not for me to tell."] ["Either way, our family's been in this business for a while."] * Herman nods, then stretches. "Whelp. You're not so bad when you've got a beer in hand, so I guess you can stay until whenever." [She chuckles. "Well thanks. I think."] You're awesome as long as you don't try to arrest us, then you suck again! * Ten leaps off the chair and runs to the bedroom. * Herman snickers. "She's got it about right." He finishes off the rest of his bottle and puts it by the old one. I swear, that doll has bloody ADHD. [She shakes her head. "Nah. I told you, that'd be pointless..." She blinks, as her cell phone rings, and picks it up. "Claire Kusanagi."] (Oh dear. She's coming for me.) (With a knife.) [Claire's expression darkens. "Alright. I'm on my way."] * Herman waits for Claire to put the phone away, then asks, "What's up?" [Claire puts her phone away. "I need to get to the farm, immediately. Something happened with one of the prisoners we rescued."] [She glances at the doorway. "Better bring your friends, too."] ... Bloody well figures. Someone's got to tell Khalil's not sister not to go wandering outside while we're gone... well, whatever. Finish your brew and then let them know; I'll get to making the gate. * Ten comes back. "I could download an Arabic language patch!" ... Yeah, why don't you do that? And tell Lukas, okay? * Herman stalks over to his door yelling as he goes, "Ashley, got some sort of emergency!" Once there, he starts casting the same spell he did before. [Claire nods, and drinks it down quickly.] Uhuh! ( I don't have enough Super Points!) ( We can end here if we need to ) (Everybody shows up and Jackie'll be like, "Claire, why were you drinking?" "It was peer pressure!") * Ten scurries back to the bedroom. "Luuuuukaaas! ~ [End here!]