[Day: Sunday, June 22nd. Time: 9:00 a.m.] [You gather on the shores of the North Sea, about 2 km west of Dunkirk. Why so far away? Because fish people don't like human cities. Blitzkrieg Section 1 is going to use SCUBA gear to get to Site #749, as for Red Team, apparently Gertrude had some plan. But you guys? You get something different.] [Start] (Were we given scuba gear or anything of that sort?) * Togo takes a deep breath. "Sea air. s'been a while." * Jamie 's mostly hiding behind Rose and rubbing at her nose. (Yeah, I'm not quite sure how we're going to breathe or not ruin our clothes/equipment.) * Roseli lets Jamie hide? She's not that much taller, really, if at all. ( Togo has the breathing covered. As for your stuff... you're on your own :P ) ( You can get SCUBA gear if you want, though. ) * Keiko stands there in her outfit, formed into a blue bodysuit, the coat a cloak around her. She murmurs quietly, "It has been a while for me too." * Heinrick has on his own wetsuit. "Well, this is not exactly a pleasure trip." * Jamie has a government supplied wetsuit then horray. * Togo is wearing a dark blue wetsuit, and has adjusted his glasses so they're like goggles, covering his sockets. Also, he's wearing his trenchcoat over the wetsuit. * Roseli is wearing a wetsuit as well, and like Togo, she has a jacket over the suit. She's also has backpack/pouch with equipment strapped on. * Keiko 's fingers drum against her hip. "Do we have... something for Jamie's nose?" * Togo pulls a set of noseplugs from his coat, still in a little plastic packet. "Will this do?" [Off in the distance, a bunch of whales rise long enough to get soem air.] * Jamie rubs her nose again and looks down. * Keiko glances to Togo and lets out a sigh, rubbing her shoulders. "I can do that. I meant something planned." * Keiko looks over to Jamie and adds, quietly, "It'd be worse if it got in your nose." * Keiko floats the plugs away from Togo to in front of Jamie. * Togo looks out into the distance. "Sounds like our ride's here." * Jamie eyes widen a bit and she snatches at the plugs. * Jamie puts them in and looks out at the big blue wet thing. * Roseli raises an eyebrow. "Whales?" Very Old Testament of them, I know. * Keiko looks off and to the side. "The royal retinue, perhaps." (If it takes three days to get there...) Not going to swallow us, are they? * Heinrick rubs his goatee and looks out. "Most likely." * Roseli makes a face. (Off the phone!) I've been swollowed by worse. I hope one of those were not the ones that took your eyes. No, that was an archmage. Burned them out. ( Sorry, had to afk ) Fair enough. [Shortly, they emerge much closer. And since they're much closer, you can see that they're covered in elaborate fabric remniscient of decorations on Indian elephants. Alongside them come dolphins, decked out like Medieval horses. But probably more unusual are the green-scaled fishmen riding them.] * Keiko sucks her lower lip in as she watches. * Jamie watches them nerviously. * Togo steps forward to the edge of the surf, bows his head briefly, then looks back up with a grin. * Roseli blinks once or twice. (Occult roll to know about these dudes?) * Brett has quit IRC (Ping timeout) * Brett has joined #MC4 * ChanServ sets mode: +o Brett ( Fun times ) (Death by ping!) ( where was I? ) (Rose was asking about an occult roll option.) ( They just surfaced. ) 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8-3) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 4. (Made!) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8) and gets a natural 12 for a result of 12. (Haw) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. (LOOK AT ME I'M SMRT) [The sea-dwellers all have green scales, with dorsal fins along their arms and webbing between their fingers and toes, both of which are much longer than a human's. Their eyes are yellow instead of white, their ears are pointed, and they've all got either red or white hair, all at shoulder length.] * Heinrick smirks slightly. "Well then. I suppose you do have the most interesting of contacts." [There's four on the dolphins, each wearing what's probably best described as a cup, and carrying weird tube-like guns that look straight out of a 60s sci-fi movie. Then there's two on the whales, who wear skin-tight blue body suits, circlets of small seashells, and elaborate collars made of coral, that go out as far as their shoulders. They carry tridents.] (... Thanks Brett, I wound up invisioning the cod pieces anyway. x_x) ( Very nice. ) (Cod pieces made out of real cod! ) * Togo grins back at Heinrick over his shoulder. "We live in interesting times." * Keiko keeps rubbing her arms. "A whale doesn't seem agile enough." * Roseli shrugs. How did you get these contacts again? Saved a kidnapped prince. [But perhaps the most unusual one is the guy on the biggest whale. He's wearing a black wet suit. No, not a wetsuit like you're wearing. Just a suit. That's wet. Other than his pointy ears and bizzair eyebrows that, together, resemble an M, he looks quite human. He wears his hair short and slicked back.] * Roseli nods, still watching them approach. * Keiko looks way up at the guy, and murmurs, "I don't think this will be pleasant." * Jamie moves so that Rose is between her and the whales instead of just between herself and the sea in general. [One of the mermen on whaleback shouts, in a gritty, bubbly voice, "All hail the ruler of the oceans! The conquer of the underdeep! All hail Roman, the Sub-Marinator!" The fishmen instantly bow about 90 degrees, stick their thumbs in their ears and flap their hands. "Hail! Hail!"]] Less pleasant than being caught in something mechanical, having it entirely shut down and caught in the path of a particle beam? ... maybe. * Togo bows deeply as well, and motions for the others to follow suit as well. ( As well! ) * Heinrick glances at Togo for a second, oddly, but then follows suit. Might be good not to offend. * Jamie bows nearly to the ground and wobbles a bit as her balance is differant than the last time she had to do this. * Keiko frowns, then puts her hands in front of her and bows from the waist for a moment. * Roseli bows, yes. The not-quite human man folds his arms and looks down at you. "Greetings from Atlantis," he says, though he does it with a sneer. Or does he? It's hard to tell if his mouth doesn't naturally look like that.] [That M-shaped unibrow isn't helping.] * Togo bows his head again. "As I indicated in my initial contact, we are most grateful for your generosity and assistance." ["Indeed, I imagine you would be. The terms of the contract are thus: We shall escort you to that ridiculous structure your people have built in our waters. We shall ensure your arrival without fail, and afterwards we shall return to pick you up. You need only blow in this," he holds up a conch shell ", and we shall arrive."] ["However, we shall not engage directly in human affairs beyond providing passage. Are we in agreement?"] * Roseli looks to Togo. His show, really. ( Op, you can also give me a mil. sci. (equipment) +6 roll if you want. Or just have weapon encyclopedia ) 2d8+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8+4) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 15. 2d8+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8+4) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 10. (No.) (Yes.) 2d8+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8+3) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 12. ( Nope ) 2d8+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8+3) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 14. (10 is a make for me.) 2d8+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8+6) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 13. * Togo nods. "We are." [He nods. "It is thus. You are permitted to ride in the royal whale." The whale he's on opens its mouth. Roman doesn't lose his balance as is goes.] * Roseli stares at the whale. She looks at Togo. Again. * Keiko looks up as the whale opens its mouth, glances to the guns, and then mms to herself as she floats herself off the ground slightly. * Heinrick waits for Togo, but doesn't look too worried. If all else fails, he has acid. * Jamie doesn't do or say much of anything. [Sadly, there's no red carpet or fancy furniture inside the whale's mouth. It is squishy though.] * Togo looks back at the others, a huge grin on his face. "Gods, do I live for this shit." With a bit of pep in his step, he walks into the whale, pulling out a battery-powered lantern and a folding beach chair as he does. (Is the whale close enough to walk into?) ( Yep ) * Roseli watches Togo go, then shrugs to herself, and reaches to her side, putting her hand behind Jamie's back. She leads her toward the whale. (Do we have to swim to get in, or is it semi-beached?) ( It's semi-beached. ) ( Your feet will get wet. ) ( You should feel proud. You could have gotten the economy class whale if things didn't go so well. ) (Ha, that would suck!) * Jamie stops when her feet first get wet, but it doesn't take much to propell her onward. ( We all hafta fit into Shamu. ) * Keiko just floats in with the power of floating. She also finds a pair of noseplugs for herself. Whale! Ew! * Heinrick starts walking after as well, hands behind his back. [Once you're all inside, the whale closes its mouth and starts moving. Luckily no water gets inside. Unless you count saliva.] * Togo turns on the lamp, unfolds his chair, and sits down. [The whale is going somewhere. Presumably. I think we can just skip this part.] (Unless we drown. I think that'd be an important part not to fastforward through) [Time: 11:30 a.m. There's some noise outside the whale, kind of a deep "THOOM!" sound.] ( And then you all died. MC6 submissions due by cristmans.) * Jamie tilts her head. * Keiko looks annoyed, fingers running through her own hair. "Combat?" * Togo hums 'Ride of the Valkyries'. * Roseli shakes her head, bracing herself on, er, whale in case of evasive maneuvers. [Next thing you know, the whale opens its mouth. But no water comes in. directly in front of you is what looks like an airlock on a plastic dome. There's a short, water filled tube between the airlock and the next airlock, and it empties beyond that into what looks like a pool room.] (Billiards? At this time of night? ;p) * Togo turns off the lantern, stows it and the chair, and walks out of the whale. "See? Not so bad." ( Jamie is hit by an 8-ball. ) * Roseli steps out, already opening her pouch and arming herself. (x_x) * Jamie follows Rose and tries to listen as quietly as possible to the electronic minds in the base. * Roseli murmurs to Jamie as she checks her gun, "Mask our arrival." * Jamie shudders and whimpers a bit. * Keiko 's arms rest at her sides, now, as she floats into the airlock. * Heinrick nods slightly as well and then walks forward as well, unzipping his wet suit to have his chemical case at the ready. [You make it too the pool room. Really, it looks just like a public indoor pool, only the pool leads out to the ocean. After you're all in, the whale pulls away, and Roman comes in after you.] * Togo pulls out his silenced SMG as the group gets itself together. [He holds up the conch. "As is the agreement, we shall not be far from this position. We shall wait for four hours. If we do not hear from you by then, we shall assume you are dead."] * Jamie clutches onto Rose and tries... well tries to follow Rose's order without having to listen to to minds she blinding and deafining. * Keiko rubs her stomach, thinking at Jamie. ~Not yours.~ * Roseli lets Jamie clutch her arm and gives her a reassuring squeeze back. She looks to Roman and nods. "Four hours." * Togo takes the conch, and nods. "Agreed." [He nods. "It should also be mentioned that several other humans were spotted approaching this place as we did. They looked ridiculous, trying to swim here. They were attacked; many did not survive."] * Roseli shakes her head. ~ There's so many of- ... I can't. I can't not... I don't want to. ~ * Keiko breathes out slowly. ~Jamie. They're not yours. They are nothing to you.~ Not too surprising ["Finally, there is one other matter." He produces a sub sandwich from behind his back. Somehow, it avoided getting wet during the trip. He holds it out to Togo. "A gift, that High King Arty had me prepare. You shall no doubt enjoy it."] (Aww, and here I hoped he marinated the metal kind of subs.) (And if you don't, I shall keel you.) ( You damn well better enjoy it, or else. ) * Togo accepts the sub. "I'm sure I will. Thank you again." [He nods. "Four hourse." Then he turns and heads out the airlock.] ( His cooking skill is through the roof, man. ) ( cooking +10? Not a problem ) ~ They. They arn't real Ten's. I don't have to not belive in something that doesn't exist.~ * Keiko nods slightly. ~Right. They're something else that looks like Ten. A copy.~ * Togo tilts his head at the sub once he's gone, then takes a bite. * Roseli pats Jamie again, as she's still clutching her. "Not really the time, Togo, unless that's a magic sandwich." 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d6+4) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 9. * Keiko lets out another slow breath and rubs her head with a weak smile on her face. 2d8+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8+4) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 13. ... this is an amazingly good sandwich. * Togo wolfs down the sandwich, burps into his hand, then raises up his gun. "Let's get moving." I do believe it would be best to celebrate culinary master pieces *after* we secure the fate of the world. ( Heinrick's just jealous 'cause he didn't get any. ) ( Annnd... What say we end here? I kinda don't want to get into the next bit this late, plus WD is out. ) * Roseli stares at him, then shakes her head again, muttering something none-too-pleasant in Portuguese. "No shit," she says afterwards, before taking her silenced gun in her hand. (Okay.) (Uh. Okay? o_o) ( Okie ) [End!]