[Nazi Earth, Day 1] [You arrive in Hoboken, New Jersey, in an alley way between two four-storey buildings.] [Start] (How similar does it look to present day real-earth? (Logan grew up in Hoboken)) * Chess arrives with the others, stumbling slightly and looking ill. She'd been sleeping through most of the informational conversation and woke up in time to leave. (It's a horribly screwed up Nazi prision complex. It's probably cleaner.) * Billie ports in and catches herself on an alleyway wall. "Ugh." [The city doesn't seem imediately different from the Earth most of you are familiar with, but looking out of the alley way you can see that every building has a hanging Nazi flag. Furthermoe, all the people seem to have Nazi armbands. It is also cleaner. And gimme sight rolls.] * Logan gives Chess a quick rundown. (have you read last week's logs?) 2d66+11 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Logan (2d66+11) and gets a natural 51 for a result of 62. (...) * Raxa reaches over to support Chess, even though she's kinda wobbly herself. "Careful... I can't let a jaguar fall. Even when she's a woman." 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+8) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 19. 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Josh (2d6+4) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 9. 2d6+11 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Logan (2d6+11) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 17. 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Syzix (2d6+5) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 14. 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Syzix (2d6+6) and gets 8, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "Fight! For everlasting love and peace!" (Yes) 2d8+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chess (2d8+6) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 19. * Syzix is now known as Yuki 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Raxa (2d6+5) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 10. ( Oh, it's around noon by the way ) (2d6, WD!) 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chess (2d6+6) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 11. * Chess leans against Raxa briefly before catching her balace. "Thanks, I think?" (I keep doing that. >.>;) * Josh picks a random guy on the street and copies his clothes and armband. [Anyone who beat a 10 notices that all the non-caucasions have green armbands in addition to the Nazi red ones. They're similar, but instead of a swastika, these green armbands have between one and four black lines.] * Raxa gives her a sly grin. "I'll accept the thanks, but you don't have to be so uncertain about it." * Logan also copies a man's clothes, but tries to pick a nicely dressed one. * Billie furrows her brown. "What do you think that means?" she asks Raxa, nudging her and pointing at the green armbands. (... That's the second time I've missed by 1 XD) (s/brown/brow) (What sort of fashion are we looking at, Brett?) * Raxa looks up from Chess and over at the people. "I... don't know. It looks like only some people have them." A small pause, then, "The ones who are not pale." ( Pretty much the same as your earth ) * Billie murmurs, "The ones who aren't 'Aryan'." She looks at Raxa. "You and me. We gotta go with the green bands." * Chess copies a red armband for herself and looks at it distastefully. "I'd feel better about this if I paid less attention in history." She's dressed in the khaki shorts and blue tanktop she was wearing before the last world. Wait, what? Aw fucking uniforms. (in that case..) ( Billie's not entirely correct ) * Logan is dressed in pretty much the same outfit as usual, just with the red arm-band. * Josh checks his arm to see if he grabbed an extra armband or not. ( None of the caucasians have the green armbands, not just Aryans :P ) (I know. 'Aryan' is kind of crap anyway. :D) (Logan is white enough for government work) * Yoshiko goes about copying the red armband and not the green one. "Ok, so, first things first. We need to figure out how to get arrested without getting killed, and make sure that we're thrown in the right prison." * Raxa nods slightly and watches the street for a moment, mming to herself before she gets a slight smile and picks out someone wearing a knee-length skirt and a spaghetti strap top. It shows off the fact that she's got what looks like stormclouds tattooed on her neck and right shoulder and upper back. Also the red and green bands. * Billie concentrates briefly, and her normal look is accentuated by a lovely red nazi band and a green band with two lines on it, as well as a "I <3 N Y" t-shirt, for maximum confusion perhaps. ("What's N Y?" "Uh... Nazi... Youth?" "Oh, me too!") "Also, it probably wouldn't hurt to aquire a history textbook to find out the basics of what are expected, and maybe what those green arm-band stripes mean." * Raxa puts a hand on her hip. "Aren't we here to get captured anyway?" ... Please tell me they didn't actually feel the need to number the other races, by like contenent of origion or something stupid like that. "That's what I'm hoping to find out." * Chess pulls a protein bar out of her pocket and starts eating. Hey, I bet we could get arrested just by not having a band! "Yeah, I was thinking that too. But then they probably wouldn't throw us in the GenMod prison. " Is there really no better idea than 'get arrested'? We could break in. Mildly better. At least that way we don't get strip-searched and processed. * Logan sighs. To Chess: "That was my complaint, but apparently we have no way of identifying this person that we're looking for in a jail the size of NYC, so we have to be able to fit in for a long period of time." "Still, I'm totally in favor of trying to break in first." It's a -jail-. We don't even know how well organized things are. Is it a giant concentration camp? Are there discipline problems? Rape? * Chess shivers. * Raxa looks over at Chess, pauses, then says, "You are a very thorough thinker." Personally, I think anybody who tried that on you would deserve suddenly finding himself trying to screw an angry cat. * Chess nods slowly. "I don't really... reach conclusions very well. But plans should be thorough or people can get hurt." "I'm personally all in favor of breaking cover in order to avoid getting raped." Someone tries to rape one of us, I'ma flip out and kill them. Just saying. That's... that's so not cool. Let's go somewhere, anyway. Standing around is driving me crazy. * Raxa nods slightly. "There isn't fire hot enough." Yeah, but we should avoid blowing cover up until that kind of a point, you know?" * Chess follows anyone who starts moving. "We should probably figure out how we're going to get arrested first, so that we don't accidentally get arrested for something more minor first." * Billie stares at Logan for a moment, then says, "Look, if we're going to get arrested for something minor, it'll probably happen no matter what because who knows *what* kind of weird extra strict rules they have in this crazy fascist police state. Right?" All I want to do is not stand in an alley so we get arrested for loitering. * Raxa chuckles and says, "Sounds to me like we should set something aflame." "Right, but then we might not get sent to the right prison." The interview part of the arrest is going to be humorous. Do you think they'll hit us harder if we pretend to have amnesia, or tell them the truth straight off? * Billie points at Raxa. "Vandalism! AWESOME. If you do it with magic, that's totally pseudo-genemod!" * Raxa nods and grins. "See? This is easy. We walk their way, ruin some things, and then give up before we die." "What we need is access to the internet." He peers out of the alley. (Do any of the buildings look like they might have public terminals? I wonder if areas of the jail are seperated based on race... Okay, now I'm wishing I paid -more- attention in history. (Actually...) ( There's an internet cafe on the corner. ) * Logan concentrates for a moment on a fairly typical data-pad. (Bet the 'net's super ridiculously censored. :D) ( Or that works too ) (I know I put those extra points into "stuff" for a reason.) [Logan gets an iPhone (ITEMS ARE SWEET. I don't have any points in item.) * Logan grins, finds a search portal, and searches "what do the stripes on armbands mean?" (I have a bunch of points in item, but I don't really know what to do with them.) * Raxa looks at Logan's device and walks around behind him, peering as she says, "So you do have a lightning network?" Lightning network? * Raxa nods. "The internet." * Billie looks at Raxa strangely, then says, "Lightning... like electricity, then?" "If lightning network means 'gets information without wires' then yes." [Logan finds that easily enough on a number of different sites. The green armbands are for "lower class citizens". The number of stripes is for rank. Japanese are rank 1, other Asians and Hispanics rank 2, Middle Easterners and Indians rank 3, and blacks are rank 4.] Huh, I wasn't expecting that to exist here. (Holy crap, it's 2102, this is an iphone 96!) (So rank 1 is better.) * Raxa nods at Billie. "Yes. Maintaining the flow of electricity was part of what I was trained to do." ( Yeah, lower ranks get more rights ) * Logan next searches for some comprehensive information on the prison: how many people, what kind of criminals get put there, how people are treated/housed etc, whatever might be useful. Also what it's called. * Billie ohs at that information and changes her band to have one line. "Bleh. I think you've got two, Raxa." * Josh yawns and alternates between looking over Logan's shoulder and people watching. (And, in conjunction, what kinds of gen-modding are common and/or can get you arrested.) Why are the Japanese better than other Asians? * Raxa nods slowly and says, "If you say so." She makes hers two. "Hispanic. What a weird word." "They were allies with the Nazis during the war." Wait, what lightning network? Huh? Yeah... basically anyone from Central or South America. You, uh... aren't, obviously, but you look like it. Ah. Not allied enough to be considered first-class citizens, I guess. What's that? To Chess: "Like Jack said, they apparently cut all of their alliances once they won. But I guess they still had a soft spot for their former friends?" (But you weren't awake for that bit... *sigh*) You mean Josh? * Yuki looks around for any city animal life at all. * Raxa nods slightly and looks over at Yoshiko. "Huracan's divine lightning, used to carry information from place to place. Voices, pictures, writing..." * Josh looks over at the mention of his name. "Whadid I miss?" [Gene-modding is pretty readily available, despite "officially" only supposed to be for upper classes. In general it seems as long as the modifications aren't blatantly obvious and not used in public, people can get it done.] * Chess points a thumb at Logan. "He's bad with names." Huh. That sounds like a pretty cool idea. [You get arrested if you display mods without having a liscence for them.] "No, Jack Frost. That's right, you weren't awake for that bit. Apparently, once the Nazis won, they broke all alliances and started conquering everything." Oh, the HeeHo. They're a bunch of jerks. Yeaah, I'm the taller and less sickeningly cute one. Sorry, I forgot he actually had a name. Okay, I'm the one who's bad with names. Bad Chess, no cookie. ( Great news! I need to afk so talk amongst yourselves for a bit :P ) * Chess slaps her own hand lightly, then looks up at Josh. "That probably depends on your tastes." (And just when we'd figured out how to get there!) (How's your head?) * Raxa looks over at Josh and grins slightly. "Come now, Chess, compared to that strange penguin doll, surely he's handsome." * Yoshiko looks outside at the clothes people are wearing, then concentrates to blend in a little better. Less frills, not as bright of a pink. "Do you think I need to worry about that green armband thingy?" * Billie thinks about that cookie thing, and an oatmeal cookie appears in her hand. "Oh, whoops." And she nibbles on it. Well, I dunno. You're blond, but you also look Asian. I'd probably roll with one if I were you. * Yuki hops onto Billie's head and opens her mouth. "Yeah, what Billie said." * Chess blushes slightly and looks between Raxa and Josh. "I meant, he's kind of- and the HeeHo's not really cute, sort of weird, and Josh is- um." The blush gets deeper and she shuts up and watches the wall. * Billie breaks off a small piece of cookie and hands it up to Yuki. (ACtualy, Yoshiko looks primarily English in descent. ^^;) * Yuki omnomnoms. Oh hoo. Good to know I didn't compleatly embarese myself for nothing. Anyway, if you don't like the way you'll get sorted, change the way you look. It's not like we won't be faking gene mods anyway. * Logan grins at Josh and winks. (Does she? Okay, I misunderstood. ;P) (I don't think we can change the way we look... I mean, without make-up) * Raxa laughs slightly and pats Chess on the shoulder. * Billie looks at Yoshiko again. "Actually, bet you'll pass." But you should get a less Japanese-sounding name if you're gonna. * Billie passes up more cookie. Yuki's so cute! That's kinda a relief. Kind of. You're right, maybe, um... hmmm. * Logan pokes the iphone a couple times. "Sorry, this thing takes forever to load. AT&T's service was always pretty slow in NYC. I'll see what I can find out about how they sort people in the jail." (Depends on where you are. In the city's not so great, service in Queens has been fine for me.) (Also, aren't we in Hoboken?) "They'll almost definitely sort us by sex, though, so Josh and I might be on our own. If we can, we should probably try to take Yuki with us." He turns to Yuki. "Can you change into anything smaller than a rabbit?" (Yes, we're in hoboken!) Marisa? I think one of my ancestors was named that. (Quiet, I was making a joke.) Sure, that sounds good. * Chess sighs when Raxa pats her and turns to the others, pulling out a new protein bar. Change? I'm a familiar, not a homonculis. You're adorable, you mean. * Billie picks Yuki up off her head and makes with the pettings, now that the cookie is gone. That much is true. * Yuki absorbs the pettings. "Erm... transform? Shift? Whatever you do to look like an owl sometimes?" Not even a smaller rabbit? I think that's like you turning into a, uh... giant robot? "So just the two forms then. Well, we might want to find a different way to get you in then. You can probably fly in later on. I don't think they'll take kindly to us bringing a rabbit in with us." I'm stealthy, like the ninja... Or I could just teleport. * Raxa mms to herself and runs her fingers over her ears, shifting a pair of jade earrings into place. There's a good plan from the rabbit. Yuki'll find a way in, she always does. I'm starting to think teleporting is the worst thing ever. I hate feeling sick. Not that anyone likes it, but still. Even when she's not supposed to be there. Hey! * Yoshiko sticks her tongue out at Yuki, who raspberries back. * Raxa rubs her shoulder. "At least it will be simple to act. We are angry at the Nazis and so will destroy their buildings." Are you sure that won't just get us killed? "So basically, all we have to do to get arrested is look like we are displaying Gene Mods, without a license. Not wearing the arm-bands will get us noticed quicker. But we can still 'go down' peacefully, so they don't try to kill us. Unless they do anyway, just for fun." Well, check this out. * Billie tugs at her hair. "This is genemodding. For real." Doesn't do anything but be pink, though. Pink hair? Really? I know lots of people with pink hair. ... Knew. "Also! We should probably not all get arrested at the same time and place, so we don't get associated with each other. It'll be easier for us to "meet" on the inside if they don't think we're confederates." * Billie pats Yoshiko on the shoulder. * Raxa rubs her head. "I don't know how you can think about this so much. Why would they care if we were together?" What kind of things look like genemodding? I don't know anyone who's been modded... other than Billie, I guess. 'cuz they're not taking things easy. Well, most people just do things like make themselves better looking... and then there's Hugo and his three extra arms. To Raxa: "They might try to split us up, to keep us from plotting something or organizing." * Billie boggles at Josh. "Really? Three extra arms?" "Or they might not. But it's worth taking into consideration." Geeeeeez. * Chess 's blush is mostly gone. "Something I can easily fake." "In fact, it wouldn't be a bad idea for each of us to just come up with a fairly 'not get killed during the arrest' way of getting arrested on our own, and just do that. Billie and Chess can vandalize things, some of us can walk around without arm bands, whatever. We just need to figure out how to look gene-modded." (Hey, Raxa and I are all about the vandalism!) (Score!) (You bring the fire and I bring the paint, Raxa. We'll be all pyrogangbusters.) (Right, Raxa. Whatever.) (s/Chess/Raxa in Logan's line.) (Or Logan could just have been wrong. He wasn't really paying attention, he was reading.) ( Back ) ( Did you actually leave the alley yet? ) "We can't change our appearances the same way we create items, I don't think, and we don't want to go completely alternate-form. Maybe we can create items that make us look gene-modded? Or can we go partially alternate-form but not all the way?" (No.) (I think we were waiting for you.) (But I'm all ready to go!) I don't think that works very wel. well. (Nope, still waiting for the page on the prison to load, and maybe some more info on what gene mods are possible for inspiration on what we can do to ourselves.) "I mean, we could all wear purple contacts..." He shrugs. I can do this, I just... if things get too... too bad, I might need to head back to the sanctuary, okay? I've never heard anything good about Nazi prisons or concentration camps or whatever on basic-Earth. But I'll come back and figure something out if that happens. * Billie nods at Chess. Hey, you mean purple eyes aren't normal?.. * Yoshiko looks at everyone. * Raxa smiles a little more warmly at Chess. "That may be good for all of us." I guess not. Nope. * Logan nods reassuringly. "Totally down with that. You need any help, you just call and we'll come a-running. No cover is worth what we might go through in there." Okay, well. Raxa and I are gonna get arrested now, okay? [A huge variety of gene mods are available, but a person's body is only able to handle so much. Most people don't have more than 1 mod, a few have 2-3, or maybe a few minor things instead of one big one.] "Uh, sure, have fun. Just make sure you let them know you're gene-modded... somehow..." ...Hey, one sec. Hey? ( orzzzz. Are you splitting up? ) As an alternate plan, if things don't work out, d'you think there's a way to find the deva via the prison's database of prisoners? They won't know it's a deva. (only to get arrested. How much you let us rejoin each other on the inside is up to you.) And we don't know what their powers are. We'd have to have some idea of who the Deva is. And we can't tell who they are, either? Like, looking for someone with specific powers that don't fit normal magic or genemodding. (Err, .) Just as a backup, I mean. (You don't have to do all that onscreen, really, as long as we're not gonna get killed-in-transit.) To Chess: "It's a backup. We might even be able to do it on the inside." * Chess nods and takes a deep breath. "It an idea, anyway, right? Okay, time to break some store windows." * Billie looks at Josh. "Hey, make me some spraypaint." Any color in specific? Why not just throw a rock? Because this is more fun, obviously. And pink is good. Pink IS good. "Ok, so I guess you three are going to go with the vandalism thing?" He turns to Josh and Yoshiko (and Yuki). "You know, for all that, I'm pretty down with some vandalism myself. You three want to go head in the other direction and start ripping down flags?" * Yoshiko giggles. "DO I." * Josh summons up a can of eyeblindingly pink and sparkly spraypaint. "Use it well." * Logan looks down at his arm and tears off the arm-band, creates a lighter, and burns it. I was just going to go wander down the street acting all confused and asking people why my pockets were full of gold coins. * Billie salutes Josh. "I will, sir." And she heads off, waving for Chess and Raxa to come with. "I figure we can be a gang. A gang of AWESOME and FREEDOM." * Chess follows off into the sunset- er, after Billie. Hey. Would fireworks get me arrested? Viva la revolucion! ( You 3 into #Crazypeople ) I've just decided completely randomly that Nazis HATE pink. (The Billie/Chess/Raxa 3?) ( Yah ) * Logan grins at Yoshiko. "I like the way you think." He concentrates for a moment, and comes up with a large box of fireworks that would be completely illegal in North Carolina. * Yoshiko grins. * Logan tosses Yoshiko a lighter and offers one to Josh. "Shall we?" "Oh, Yuki, maybe you want to go keep an eye on the other group, report back to Yoshiko so we know what's going on with them?" * Yuki bunny-salutes Logan and hops of after the others. * Josh catches it. "I can work with this." * Logan , Josh, and Yoshiko wander off down the street, firing off fireworks. Logan aims for buildings that look to be associated with the government, or which have more than the normal number of swastikas. Ok, not actually aiming at buildings, that could be dangerous. (err, there were supposed to be () around that.) * Yoshiko gleefully fires her rockets at any-which direction. Catching fire to flags is a bonus. [You quickly cause a murmer in the crowd. People start to clear the area, many opening cell phones as they go.] ( Yoshiko gimme a soul roll ) * Josh looks faintly amused as fires the rockets randomly into the air. He cheers at a few of them. 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yuki (2d6+6) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 14. (Err, Yoshiko did that.) [Yoshiko hits a Nazi flag and it starts burning.] [Not long after, you hear sirens.] * Logan begins to act drunk. * Logan creates a bottle of... vodka! and takes a small swig. * Logan ...and then staggers around with it, firing off more rockets. "So, I'm going to tell them we just got our new gene mods, who has some good ideas for non-obvious mods?" * Yoshiko pulls out some booze and she swigs it. Heck, she's not even of drinking age, but she drinks anyways! [Shortly a police car shows up, and two officers get out. Oddly enough, they look more like riot cops. They're wearing kevlar, have semi-auto rifles, and weirdest of all, their helmets have metalic visors, making them look like Cobra Commander. In addition to red nazi armbands, they have swastikas on their left breasts and helmets. "Alright, people. It's too early in the day for this."] Drunkenly slurring. "Bu' we're celebratin'! We jus' got 'modded! I's sooo cooool!" * Josh waves absently at the officers and grins. "Would you like some fireworks?" We got some to spare! * Logan points at his arm. "They said in two weeks I'll have biceps the size of... giant muscles!" * Yoshiko giggles. "And I could see into SPACE." [One of them says, "Modded, huh? Let's see your liscenses." Then the other moves closer to Yoshiko. "Hey. Where's your citizen band?"] Citizen band? * Josh places a rocket under one arm and begins to absentmindedly pat down his pockets. * Logan looks down at his arm. "Oh... uh... see, we were kinda... they're... in my other pants..." [They sigh. Their voices sound muffled and metallic behind the masks. "Okay folks, you're coming to the station with us. Let's not make a scene."] Oh, are we going to move the party there? Yay! Party! * Logan looks confused, then smiles and nods. "Oh yeah, that's a good idea. More people to shoot off the fireworks." He offers a rocket to one of the officers, fuse-first. ( K, nevermind the guy's comment about Yoshiko's citizenship band. ) ( It... doesn't really change anything there. ) (No, it doesn't. ^^;) [He takes it. "Good idea, better let me handle these." The other one opens the door to the car, and the first one says, "This way, folks."] * Yoshiko offers one of the officers an unopened bottle of sake and jumps in. "Come on, come on! Party at the station!" Horray! * Yoshiko grabs Josh and tries to drag him. It's... pretty comical actually. * Josh trips over his own feet and stumbles after Yoshiko. (It's time for the party submission position!) * Logan misses the door, trips over the car, slides across the hood, and ends up getting in on the other side. ( In the back? ) (Presumably) (Dude, no.) (I'm getting in the front!) ( Seriously? :P ) (I thought about it, but I don't want to get shot) (Passenger side, not driver's side. She doesn't know what all the controls do.) [One of the cops moves to stop her. "Uh-uh. In the back, with your buddies there."] But but... I don't wanna... "Buddies? Man, I don't even know her. She just wanted some fireworks." ["All the same, you're riding in the back."] * Logan pauses for a second, glances at himself and Josh, then back at Yoshiko. "...She's in the middle." * Yoshiko resists the pushing, but clearly isn't strong enough and eventually gets shoved into the back seat. "Wait, what if they'll do something mean to me! That looks really tight back ther- maybe we could work something out." * Josh blinks at Yoshiko. "Have we met? I'm... I'm hmm. I'm certain I wrote it down someplace. That sounds like something I'd do." [Once you're inside, they lock the doors, then get in the front. "Don't worry, they're not going to do anything to you. Can't speak for your family, though, once they find out the trouble you're in."] * Yoshiko sulks. [They start driving. "Hope for your sake someone finds your other pants," says the driver to Logan. "Else you're looking at jail time."] * Logan looks confused again. "Wha', for fireworks? Man, I been to th' firework jail before tha's not so bad." Oh I hope not. ["Illegal mods, buddy."] Is that b-b-bad? * Logan 's expression slowly changes to recognition. "Oooh... so that's what the guy meant by 'The support package.'" He looks around him, and then down at his arm. "Shit." ["What guy?"] "The guy who set me up with my muscle mods." He pauses, and then looks confused again. "You know he never tol' me his name." [The other guy laughs. "Well, you look like a minor, so probably not as bad as it's going to be for your buddies here."] "I tol' you, she's not my..." He peters off, takes a long look at Yoshiko again, and then looks horrified. "A minor, yeah, uh." He conspicuously scoots so that he's not pressing against her in the tight back seat. Oh dear. ( Aight, finish up :P ) * Josh continues to play it oblivious. * Logan remains quiet for the rest of the trip, except for a conspicuous gulp as the skyline of NYC comes into view. Quietly. "Shit." [There's no C. The skyline is really just an enormous wall. Must be about fifty feet high.] [But you don't go there yet. You go to the police station! Where the session suddenly ends.]