[Day: Wednsday, March 26th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Chilly. Very cloudy.] [You're all gathered by the lockers. Nothing else to say to that.] [Session Start] * Taki is gathered by the lockers, it's amaizing what three days of effort will do to a persons ability to arrive on time. * Haruko wanders up slowly. * Satoshi is at the lockers as well, since he doesn't have any makeup exams that he forgot to tell people about today. Aheh. ^_^; * Taki waves at Haruko. * Haruko then sits down by the lockers, carefully at first, she then smiles and finishes in a more natural manner. "Hi Taki, hi Satoshi!" * Katie comes walking down the halls, preseumably with Kaede. She looks the others in the eye once she reaches the lockers: her own are rather bloodshot. * Kaede walks slowly and lets out a slow breath, swapping stuff in the lockers. * Satoshi waves to Taki, then nods to Haruko. "Afernoon, Haruko." He then looks Katie in the eye when she arrives, as is the custom now. He sighs almost imperceptibly; Katie would be able to pick it up, but the others wouldn't, most likely. * Taki lookes into Katies eyes for a moment, surpresses a wince, and continues to look back. * Haruko looks back at Katie for a moment, before getting out her robe and getting to work again. (From now on, I'll just trust you guys to tell me if something's out of the ordinary. I don't wanna repeat the question over and over. ^^;) (Check) * Haruko then threads her needle using the wire, and gets sewing again. (Sure, but it's Kyon you need to hear that from :P) Sorry I forgot to tell you guys I was going to be late yesterday. * Robo-Kyon is now known as Kyon * Taki grins, "I found you anyway." Yeah, you did. But I didn't mean to worry anyone. * Katie swallows. "It's okay." She slumps over to her locker and opens it, playing the book-switch game before sitting on the floor. * Haruko looks up at Satoshi. "Kyon was going to confront Yushiro today, would you be willing to go with him, and, scanning him?" * Satoshi blinks. "What?" * Kaede slumps against the lockers and puts his hand up to his forehead. "Kyon's been busy, I see." Looks that way. (You would know! I saved your business! =P) (Not necessarily :P) * Haruko looks down for a moment and then back up. "I think it would be better to violate his privacy, perhaps with a surface scan, then to be wrong about this." What are you looking for? What's Kyon going to confront him about? I'd like an explanation before I go poking in someone's brain. If that's what I decide to do, even. * Haruko then takes a deep breath and looks over to Kaede. "I've called Arisu and asked for her help investigating him. Would you prefer I leave out Nanami entirely?" * Taki blinks at Haruko. * Katie closes her eyes and leans her head back against her locker. * Haruko stands up, with a slightly frustrated look. "Beating up Nanami, gloating about it afterwards, then beating up Maki. He pestered a girl yesterday for trying to befriend his sister, he may hurt some relation of hers when she persists." * Taki nods, "I just wish there was some better way to get proof than pokeing around in his head." And then what do we do? Justify beating him up? * Katie rubs at her eyes and opens them. "Isn't that justification?" * Haruko looks down. "I don't know, maybe get him to say something on tape, blackmail him with it. I'm hoping Kyon will have a better idea." * Taki nods at Katie, "it is, but that only lasts for so long and then he's still mad at us for making him look bad." * Satoshi considers things. "All right. I'm willing to look in his head to gather proof. But I'm not going to escalate things physically unless I really think we have no other option." * Haruko nods. "I agree with you about that. Thank you Satoshi." (* Satoshi produces a go board and sets it before Yushiro. "Best of three, loser never looks at your sister again.") * Kaede looks up at Haruko and stares at her. "What are you talking about?" (Arcana no Go. >_>) * Haruko then sends off a quick text message to Kyon. Satoshi willing to come with you. Do scans. Leave Nanami out? Out of what? * Kaede rubs his head. "Haruko..." * Haruko looks over to Kaede. "Out of the investigation of Yushiro. He beat her up too." We think. Even if we do get a scan, how will it be considered proof of anything? * Haruko looks back. "The difference is, we'd know. And I want to know for sure, whether it'd stand up in court or not." Sure we'd know. But he could easily counter it. It's nothing tangible. But...I guess it'd be good to know. It'd be one less thing to wonder about. * Haruko nods. "And if I'm wrong, then we'd have to find out the real culprit." Alright...alright.. * Haruko then takes a big breath and sits down again, getting back to work on the robe, after about ten seconds of work she speaks again. "So, do I leave Nanami out of Arisu's investigation?" * Katie pulls out her new sketchbook and pencils, and... stares forward, at nothing in particular. * Satoshi watches Katie, still keeping an ear on Haruko and Kaede. * Taki takes a seat next to Satoshi and waits for word from Kyon. * Kyon sends a message back to Haruko. " Right. At the front gate now." (*cracks up* He used it!) * Haruko looks at her phone. "He's at the front gate, go ahead Satoshi." (Okay. I need to get Satoshi a text message-capable phone now. This is too much fun.) (That's your fault Ard?) (No, I came up with it.) (Not entirely. ;P) (I need to come up with a better one for Taki) (It's better than DancingQueen. =P) (Psh.) * Satoshi nods. "Right. See you guys in a bit." * Satoshi waves and heads for the front gate. * Haruko sends back: Satoshi coming, rest hang back unless called. What's going on? * Taki waves at Satoshi, "Good luck!" * Katie blinks. She looks at the leaving Satoshi. * Kaede rubs his forehead again. "What are you investigating with her anyways?" (FlamingQueen?) He's going to try and find out if Yushiro is the one who's been attacking people. * Haruko looks over at Kaede and tilts her head and nods. "If you want Nanami left out, I'll just tell her about the assault on Maki. Not with Satoshi, with Arisu. You're not really considering bringing her into this, are you?" I'm not telling her about the Arcana stuff, she's not one, we could just say the memory loss was from a concussion, it's plausible. * Taki stands up and then sits down again next to Katie, "There's nothing I can do to help over there, so I'm going to stay here with you." * Kaede keeps rubbing his head. "We still won't have any proof. Sure we could know ourselves, but what are we going to say? That our resident hockey player had a premonition from Yushiro's mind and that's how we know? The article would be laughed off the page." * Katie blinks again, looking at Taki. "Thanks, I think." She yawns. * Haruko frowns a little. "She's a reporter, a good one, and I don't think Yushiro's a master criminal." No, but what if we don't find any evidence at all? This is Arcana we're dealing with. It could have all happened in a field and there's nothing *to* be found. You're welcome. And I think you need a nap. But that's just me. Then we wasted some time, but I'm betting Yushiro has made mistakes, maybe if not this time than some earlier assault on someone else. * Kaede keeps rubbing his head. "So we're going to just randomly try to pin something else on him if we can't find anything out about this. Brilliant. * Haruko frowns deeper. "No, I mean some earlier assault he committed. I doubt he started with Nanami." * Kaede looks up. "No, but that's none of our business, Haruko. I don't get why you choose to continue on this course. I don't like him either, but if we can't find anything out about him harming those close to us..." Then we have to look somewhere else. * Haruko stops sewing and digs a hand into the ground. "It's our business if it's proof we can use against him. I don't care what you think of the plan, I just want to know whether you want me to keep Nanami out." * Haruko then slaps her forehead and sends. Do you want a tape recorder? * Kaede rubs his head. "So you're not going to listen to me no matter what. Fine. If we can find something on Nanami, feel free to put her in it, but I'll choose if it's getting to be too much." * Kyon sends back. How old is your phone that you can't record on it? I'd like to see Kyoko sometime. * Taki shrugs, "Can go now...should probibly ask Kyon first, it's his appartment." * Haruko looks at her phone and giggles for a moment. "Right..." She then looks up at Kaede. "That works, I'll keep you updated or directly involved in the discussion, as you prefer." * Katie looks a little nervous. "It's probably best if he's here. And he's with Satoshi, right? Doing whatever." * Haruko then puts the phone down in front of her, smiles to herself, and calmly proceeds to continue sewing. Talking to Yushiro, and if they need us, all they have to do is call. * Kaede frowns. "We really should see Kyoko when we can. We've still yet to make a dent in the drugs...which is to say nothing of all the other things we have bothering us..." * Kaede looks over Katie. "Are you really doing okay, Katie?" * Taki shakes her head at Kaede. * Haruko looks over to Katie. "Would you like to go hang out by a tree or something? No reason we have to wait here." * Katie looks startled. "A tree? Um... I'd like that, yeah. Where's Chikako?" * Kaede frowns. "That's a good question..." Probibly handing out newspapers. We can go check out the office. * Haruko nods. "We could walk there on the way to the tree." * Haruko gets to putting away her robe. She leaves the cell out though, in case of further messages from Kyon." * Taki pushes herself to her feet and then offers a hand to Katie, "Shall we?" * Katie tucks her art supplies away and accepts Taki's help. She looks around for Chikako. * Haruko stands up and gets walking to the office, moving a bit faster than yesterday, but still not that quick of a pace. She keeps her eye on her phone for updates. * Taki glances around a few times for signs of a brunette reporter, and then takes a few steps after Haruko. * Kaede gets up and shakes his head, pushing his glasses on and walking with the rest of them [It's empty!] (I forget, does Chikako have a phone?) (Yes, she does.) (The right question is, does Haruko have Chikako's phone number?) (Probably, I mean, she's Chikako, she's the only one in the group Haruko knew before joining. Not like she'd be secretive about it.) ( It's not secretive so much as she wouldn't have thought to tell you if you didn't ask :P ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6) and gets 2, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I love the smell of a crit in the morning." * Haruko looks over to Katie "You have her number?" (Go Satoshi, I don't know what you're doing, but you're doing good at it! :P) (She just got the phone very recently. Like Katie. Kyon's been getting people phones. =P) (Oh, okay) * Haruko gets walking to some climbing tree reasonably near the front gate while she waits for a response, no point just standing around. * Katie blinks, then opens her satchel and digs around in it, pulling out a little cell phone with a blackbird. She fumbles with it, turning it on and dialing Chikako's cell number as she tails Haruko (even if it is in the directory). * Haruko calls back. "Oh, what's the number, so I can put it my phone?" And what's your number? * Taki blinks at Katie pulls out a phone that isn't the one she left with her. * Katie puts the phone to her ear and listens to it ring. "Hmm? Oh." She recites a couple numbers. * Haruko puts in both numbers. Whoo! * Haruko then keeps walking. There are days when I think I'm an idiot, and weeks when I know, anyway, do you still have my phone, or should I start poking the lost and found at the hospitol? * Kaede takes out his phone and looks at Katie. "Mind if I get those too? * Haruko recites them for Kaede. * Kaede blinks at Haruko then inputs the numerals. [The phone rings a few times and gets no answer.] * Katie reaches into her satchel and pulls out another phone. This one's Taki's. She smiles sheepishly as she hands it over. "Sorry, I forgot." * Katie lets it ring some more as they keep heading out of the building. * Taki grins and shakes her head, "No, I'm the one who kept forgetting to ask for it." Oh.. while I'm thinking about it, while Katie climbs, we should make sure we've shared all the numbers we have, in case something happens to our phones or we aren't there when we need to make a call. * Taki tries to turn on her phone and discovers that the batteries arn't quite good for an entire week, she sighs and puts it in her bag as she follows the others. * Katie sighs, too. "No answer." I'd love to, but it's been too long since I've plugged this in. * Taki blinks at Katie, "I wonder..." * Haruko nods. "Dang... She's probably alright, she's been out of contact before. Well, Taki, ,you and I can sync up later. How about you two?" I hope Chikako's okay. How about us what? How about we sync up our phones. I think I'm the only one with Sumire and Souichirou's number, and you may have some I don't. Same with Kaede. Make one gaint list of phone numbers. * Haruko nods. "Also, I should give you guys my Dad's number since he knew about this Arcana stuff even before I told him. He may be helpful if I'm unavailable for some reason." He knew? * Katie blinks a couple times. "Why?" Wait, what? * Kaede turns to eye Haruko. * Taki blinks several times, "Wha?" * Haruko blinks. "Oh, right, I just told Taki about that." * Katie facepalms. (And apparently not even she remembers!) * Haruko looks over to Taki. "I thought I told you about that." * Taki shakes her head, "Sorry, I'm still trying to think too much, you tell the story again and I'll go check something. I'll be right back." * Taki walks back twords the newspaper office. * Haruko plays with her hair and looks sheepish. "I.. didn't ask. I mean, he's my father, he knows things. Maybe the Kami told him or something." * Kaede narrows his eyes. "You didn't even question it?" * Haruko looks a bit embarrassed. "Well, I made sure he was really my father. I figured if it was important, he'd tell me." Maybe the Kami... oh... * Katie sighs and just keeps walking. Tree. Not everyone's like you, Haruko. Not even people related to you. And it's not like you always tell everyone what's important. Well, he's more responsible than I am, he's my father, he'd... I'll ask him. You two sync up phones while I do it, may as well use the time before we get to the tree. * Haruko calls up her father. Probably won't be there, but worth trying. * Taki comes running back with a newspaper in one hand, "Well, it looks like we just missed them." [Haruko gets no answer!] * Katie rubs at her forehead. She blinks, looking back. "Chikako and Arisu?" Arisu's there? * Haruko turns around. Dang, he's not at the phone. * Taki holds up the newspaper, "I didn't see anybody, but somebody has to have put this out." Oh... * Haruko turns around again. * Taki opens it and loooks for bylines from either of them. * Kaede sighs and pushes up his glasses. "Haruko, I've said this before but I want to make sure you understand this. What we're going through isn't *normal*. Normal people aren't supposed to know about it. Not even if they're connected to the Kami." * Kaede then turns around to look at Taki. * Taki is attempting to walk and scan a newspaper at the same time, this could be painfull. * Haruko notes the lack of phone syncing. "True enough, I'll ask." She holds out her phone to Kaede. "Would you like to sync them, or should I?" (Whump!) * Kaede takes a deep breath and takes the phone, hooking them up. [There's not much in the paper of relavence. The beauty contest has been cancelled, however.] * Haruko then goes to look over Taki's shoulder as she walks, something to do during the syncing. "Aww.. I wanted to watch Akemi win." (Yes, but did Chikako or Arisu write anything...and is Meimi still making predictions?) [Chikako wrote an editorial on some restaurant, Arisu has a new column "Conspiracy Theory", and Meimi is still making predictions.] * Haruko pokes at the paper over Taki's shoulder. "What's Arisu writing about?" * Taki sighs, "No beauty contest, no hockey game..." * Taki just passes the newspaper to Haruko. * Haruko takes it and reads the column of the reporter she'll be putting her hopes in. * Kaede blinks at Haruko. "Watch her win what?" He glances at the paper. Beauty contest. It's off. * Katie opens one of the back exit doors and steps through. There aren't trees inside. * Haruko reads and follows Katie. * Taki follows Katie out the doors and holds them open for the rest. * Haruko gives Taki an appreciative nod. [Arisu's column is about the likelyhood that Principal Quentin Nagawa is a part of a corporation that secretly deals in advanced technologies and possibly "unethical experiments on human beings" that's trying to either take over the world or destroy it (the article isn't too clear). Arisu's argument seems based on the fact that Quentin is a young bishonen martial artist, and since when are those people principals?] * Haruko snickers and then laughs out loud, and then sighs. Well.. if Chikako trusts her... * Kaede blinks. "It's been cancelled? She would have definitely won. It'd have been good publicity." * Haruko nods. "Yeah, it's a shame. Akemi so deserved that win." I guess Takako's crushed. * Haruko snickers again. "I didn't see much of her, but I think she'll survive. Anyone else want the paper?" But not as crushed as she'd be after Akemi won. I *hope* Takako's crushed. Preferably under a boulder. (Or an elevator? ;p) (Or an elevator ^_^;) * Haruko folds up the paper and gives it to anyone who asks. * Kaede doesn't ask, he just takes. Bad Kaede. * Haruko lets him take it without comment. * Kaede unfolds it to the article. "I still need to ask her about that manager thing.." No, if she survived she'd just spend the rest of her life talking about how no one else could have survived, and if she doesn't you'd feel at least a little guilty. See, we need Akemi to beat her fair and squair...maybe that's why the contest got canned. * Haruko nods in agreement with Taki. * Katie blinks, glancing back. Then again even when she looses legit she just doesn't accept it, when Satoshi and I were running the dunking booth... [Katie sees... Hair! Long hair. It's Yushiro! He's stalking along from the direction of the poolhouse, hands in his pockets.] (Well, damn.) * Katie 's eyes widen, but she quickly masks that. "Yushiro. Hi." * Haruko blinks at that and looks up at Yushiro, with surprise, and then anger. She doesn't mask it. * Taki blinks, "No, he wasn...wait." * Kaede glances up and retains a cool expression, leaning back a little as he regards Yushiro. * Yushiro walks along, ignoring you! * Taki turns around and sees Yushiro, and looks less confused. * Haruko lets him pass. * Taki keeps out of his way. * Katie fumbles with her phone again, this time dialing Kyon. * Haruko reaches for her phone, and then remember Kaede has it. She then see's Katie dialing and relaxes slightly. * Taki waits. * Kaede watches Yushiro walk along. * Yushiro gets away! Up next week: "Okay, now that we found him, what do we do?" (Hey, it wasn't my idea to find him in the first place. ;P) If you want, a couple of you can go see what he was just doing at the pool. ( We get Kyon and Satoshi. Kyon'll know what to do!) (We don't have our proof yet, and if we didn't need it we'd have beaten him up and shaved his head by now) * Haruko nods and then scurries off. Not a full speed scurry, but still a little quicker than her walk. * Haruko comments quietly. "Hope Riko's alright." * Katie frowns a little at the mention of Riko, but doesn't comment as she waits for Kyon to pick up. * Taki nods at Katie and then turns to Kaede, "You done with her phone yet?" * Kaede nods and hands off Haruko's phone. * Taki takes it and runs after Haruko, and since her queen isn't walking all that fast she catches up shortly. * Kaede sighs. "And I'll go if you want me to. * Haruko looks over and takes it. "Thanks Taki, you better stick with them, in case they need fast transport. If anyone's hurt, I can handle it and call for backup." * Haruko keeps moving to the poolhall at her midpaced scurry. * Taki nods, "Sure thing." * Taki runs back to the K's. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6) and gets 10. * Katie grabs Kaede by the arm to make him stay even as she talks into the phone. "Kyon? Yushiro's here. He just left the pool." * Katie watches him walk off some more. * Kaede blinks and looks at the pressure on his arm, then to Katie, sighing and saying softly. "Alright.." Sure. I just don't know where, exactly. I asked Haruko and Taki to check where he just was; that's what they're doing now. I have no idea. For all I know, he could be going off campus. * Haruko sends a message to Katie and Kaede. No one's here, but pool / women's lr check out. Keep looking? * Katie keeps talking on the phone. She isn't looking at it. * Kaede looks at his phone and sighs, typing in a message. See if you can find anything. (No, he's not original in his screen names ^^;) * Haruko sends back. Checking men's LR. I guess. And... I want to see Kyoko sometime. If it's okay. * Kaede blinks at that...and slaps his forehead but doesn't respond. (I saw that coming. ;P) * Taki blinks at Kaede, "What's wrong?" (Yeah, cause she checked the pool and the women's. Men's is what's left. :P) ( Men seem pleased. ...) (HA.) (*laughs) Haruko's being...Haruko. * Taki blinks, "Oh...dear...maybe I should have stuck with her." Not really. Unless you want to go in the men's locker room too? * Katie sounds a little annoyed now, and fiddles with her satchel zipper. "I wasn't, but I was still worried about her, and... I said I'd try to help her." * Taki turns pink, "...No." * Haruko sends a bit later. No one there. Whew. Out of ideas, unless well hidden. * Kaede turns to Katie and watches her carefully. What's the matter? It's hard enough at hockey practice whe... * Katie looks at Kaede and opens her mouth, but stops before she actually says anything. * Taki trails off as she notices that Kaede has more important things to worry about. * Kaede tilts his head towards Katie. "Come on now...you haven't been acting....yourself..." He stops himself at that... * Taki rubs her face. * Katie rubs at one of her eyes, looking away from Kaede now. "Okay. Maybe tonight. I'll let you get back to looking." * Kaede frowns and keeps looking at Katie. "Tonight? When?" * Katie hangs up and sighs, slipping her phone back in her pocket. "I don't know. Sometime... I'm not going there by myself." * Taki nods, "I'll take you if you want." In the meantime I think you were heading for the trees and an attempt to relax. * Kaede keeps looking at Katie. "We need to plan a time." * Katie flinches. "Okay." And then she nearly bolts for the trees. ( run from your fears for a bit and regroup. Face them head on. GO AWAY you make my head hurt!) Right, you're in charge Kaede. * Taki runs after Katie. * Kaede blinks and startles, looking after Katie. "Ka--" He looks at Taki. "Wha?" He groans as she runs off. "Hey wait!" (Actually, I think you're missing it ^^;) (*just giggles madly*) (That was cute. ^_^) (it's probible) * Kaede puts his hands in his pockets and walks slowly after them, looking back at the phone for any messages as he goes, pondering * Haruko emerges from the poolhall, slowly walking towards the trees. * Katie reaches the closest, climbable one and starts scrambling up. * Haruko eventually reaches a tree, sits down by it, and gets to sewing again. * Taki reaches the tree Katie just climed up and and puts a hand on it to steady herself while she catches her breath again, too much running around today. * Katie reaches a thick branch a bit above the middle and sighs, arranging herself so she's leaning against the trunk. * Kaede pushes his glasses up and watches her go up very carefully. * Taki sighs and sits down under the tree. * Katie stays right where she is, looking up to the higher branches. Did any of you talk to Kyoko? I didn't have a chance. Why do you want to talk to her anyways? * Taki blinks and looks up twords Katie, "No, last time I saw her she was still out of it." Well, I- I just haven't talked to her for a while. * Katie looks down at Kaede. "I mean, yeah, she tried to kill me once, but..." She swallows, uncomfortably. "She disappeared. I don't know what she's like now." * Taki blinks, but doesn't say anything. * Haruko looks up at Katie. "She was sleeping when I healed her." * Haruko then goes back to her sewing. * Satoshi has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) (Wah! Ping killed my ..uhm...er...friend. >_>) (Your boooooooyfriend?) * Kaede keeps watching Katie. "Really. Is that the only reason?" (Well..he is a boy, and my friend) (Yours too) * Katie snaps, "Maybe I just want to see how she's doing, okay? If Kyon's the only person who's been talking to her, maybe she thinks he's the only one who might care." ( Nah. This is a Shounenai game between Satoshi and Jin. I thought you realized that. ) (;_)) ) (You're just that pesky girl everyone hates who gets in the way.) * Haruko nods. "Good thought. I'd be happy to come along if you want me." * Taki nods, "He isn't, but I think us dropping in out of the blue would be a bit of a shock." * Kaede stares at Katie. "I'm not letting you see her while you're like *that*" * Haruko redoes a stitch. She opens her mouth at Kaede's comment and then shrugs and closes it again. * Taki glares at Kaede. I suppose you've got some Arcana power hidden somewhere that can suddenly erase the past three weeks? (Kaede has the power of Denial!) * Kaede glares at Taki. "No, I don't. But she's also been through a lot. We don't want to freak *her* out too." He bites his lip and doesn't say anything further. (No, that's Taki. She's the one who refuses to admit that Satoshi and Jin are ment for eachother :P) * Kaede gives Katie another glance in the tree. We need Satoshi here. What? But... * Katie waves wildly, and since her position's fairly secure, doesn't even teeter. "What am I supposed to be like?" * Kaede looks up at Katie. "You'd usually give me a better reason than..." He narrows his eyes and looks harshly at Katie. You're supposed to be like Katie, and since you are Katie anything you do is like that. I don't know...ARE you really Katie? * Katie stares at him. * Taki glares at him. * Kaede doesn't notice Taki because he's meeting Katie's gaze. [Session End]