[Day: Wednsday, March 31st. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Raining. It's wet outside. People have umbrellas. Yeah.] [Yesterday, Arisu got beat up. Some of you developed photos for her, Kaede ruined Remi's life again, and Kyon did top secret stuff.] [All in a fine day's work, though. Today you gather at the lockers!] (Oop, wrong Katie charsheet. *switch*) [Oh. Start. Yeah >.>] (Remi ruined Kaede's life. >.> And Jin caused it to happen. Don't pin this on me. >.>) [By the way, Katie got a date with Ken. Laugh.] * Haruko walks down the hall with a fairly serious determined expression. ( I can't till she tells us. ;_;) * Satoshi is at his locker, as usual. He waves to Haruko when she arrives. (She's going to tell you, Ms. I Swore Fealty To Kyon? :P) (We could negotiate this) * Haruko waves back and then frowns a little. "Are you ready, I'm sorry to ask so much of you." It's okay. I can do this. (Oh, and could we get a "Can't come today?" Message from Taki? If you don't have another plan.) ( Sure. ) * Haruko nods and looks a little reassured. "While I'm talking to him, just broadcast anything vital to me. And if for any reason you think it's wise to read me, don't hesitate, I give you full permission." * Satoshi nods. "All right. I hope it works." * Haruko then frowns. "There's one other thing. Could you read him again when the fight's done? If we failed and he's going to strike out again, we need to know." She looks down. "I don't know what we can do but defend that person, but we need to know." * Satoshi nods. "Yeah, I will." * Haruko nods and gives Satoshi a hug for the moment. "We can do this." She sounds like she reassuring herself too. * Satoshi hugs her back briefly. Amazingly, he's not blushing. "We can. We can be strong." * Katie comes walking along, probably just in time to see the hug. Let's ignore the fact that she can hear what they're saying for the moment; she smirks a little. * Haruko lets go. She then grins somewhat. "Although I'd really prefer not to do it with just us two." She then gets out a Tokyo city map and her normal bottle of clear liquid and a smaller one. She hunts around the map until she finds Yushiro's residence. Well, no one said we were leaving right now. * Haruko comments while looking down. "Thanks again for calling, it did the trick." Oh, you're welcome. It was no problem, really. * Satoshi waves to Katie. * Kaede comes shortly after Katie. He's...walking slowly, staring at the patch in front of Katie's feet, one hand in his pocket, one holding his kaban. * Haruko looks up and waves. "Hello Katie, Takeuchi-san." She then looks to Kaede. "Are you alright to use the tape recorder today, just in case of fields?" * Katie waves back and looks Satoshi and Haruko in the eye before going with the book switching thing. * Satoshi looks back at Katie and smiles, then looks at Kaede. "Kaede? What's wrong?" * Haruko glances back briefly, all normal. * Kaede walks up to his locker first, opening it and replacing books and stuff, and closing it...a little harder than usual. He winces as it slams and sighs as he turns his back to the lockers, feet outward so he slumps back against them. He then casually looks at Haruko. "...what?" * Katie finishes, closes her locker, and looks at Kaede with concern before settling on the floor. She doesn't say anything, though. * Kaede glances at Satoshi and waits for a while to respond. Then starts. "...yesterday was the.. third worst day of my life." * Haruko glances around the hallway to see how freely she can speak. She then looks back to Kaede. "We're confronting Yushiro once we're all here. I'd like you to use a tape recorder in case he says anything like a confession." Wait, maybe fourth. Oww. Want to tell us what happened, or would you rather not? ... * Kaede looks slightly away. "...Remi." ...yeah. That'd do it. * Katie blinks. "Remi? What did she do?" Seems this is the first she's heard of it. * Haruko then frowns. "I'm sorry to hear that. Can we help in any way? If you can't deal today we don't need the tape recording." No...I'll do it... * Haruko nods and keeps watching Kaede. * Kaede slowly slides down the lockers and sighs. "Why are girls fucking nuts?" * Haruko lets that slide and goes back to her map. * Katie frowns and tilts her head. "Kaede, what happened?" I don't think Remi is representative of all girls. I don't think she's representative of *anyone*, really, except herself. Satoshi, you've got to keep a better eye on Jin too. [Makoto and Makoto come by!] * Katie lets them come by! And leave, eventually! What, did he get out again? Yep. I spent the worst part of the day trapped on Tokyo Tower. * Haruko frowns. "With her?" * Kaede rubs his forehead. "It's not that it was with her that was the problem. I wouldn't have minded that that much if...well, I hadn't needed to be somewhere else." 2d6-8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-8) and gets -2. But you told her and she got mad? * Kaede sighs. "She's cracked...the only thing I can hope was that not many people I know was listening to her and she came to her senses before it got too late..." * Haruko nods and works on figuring out the route to his house. * Satoshi looks down. "I was hoping we'd be able to *help* her. Maybe we just made it worse..." * Katie shakes her head. "What did she say? Kaede?" I don't know...I don't care. She's not my problem anymore. She's got her hand fixed. That's all that counts. * Haruko draws another circle on the map for the station and tries to find an intercept point. ( Like hell she isn't XD ) (*snicker*) (Hey, let the poor guy live in his delusions ^^;) * Katie watches him do that. "If you're sure. Okay." * Haruko looks to Kaede. "Good. I know I encouraged you to come to the hospital, but she's not there anymore. Just because someone's in love with you, that doesn't make them your responsibility. I know you don't really care what I think, but good luck." * Kaede looks at Haruko and stares. ...you know. You had a pretty good statement there up until the end. * Haruko then looks back to the map and frowns. "This would be easier if we could meet him before he met his... what?" ( Kaede: "How DARE you wish me good luck!" ) (Bwahaha!) * Kaede rubs his forehead. "Nevermind. I'm not going to change your opinion of me anyhow. Do what you feel, Haruko-san." * Katie gets a very faint smile and picks up her camera. She snaps a picture of confused Haruko. * Kaede walks a bit down the hallway, but not far before wall-propping. * Satoshi just shakes his head. He's almost smiling. * Haruko nods and goes back to the map. "Alright, Kyon gets another minute then I'm calling him." Taki? Can't make it. She told me at practice this morning. Oh. Okay. * Haruko frowns. "Hard to lay an ambush if you leave after the person. Maybe we'll just have to deal with Fuyuko. Nothing to do about it. Or we could call him once he gets home and ask us to meet him, but that's really iffy." * Katie blinks. "I'm sorry, what? Are you talking about Taki or Kyon?" Kyon. Oh... Yushiro at the end. * Katie nods. "All right." * Kyon rounds the corner at the end of the hall, holding a large, old book closed by his side with a finger stuck in it. He's got the bag over his other shoulder. * Katie looks over at Kyon, catching his eyes, then the book title (if it's on her side). * Haruko looks to see where Katie's looking and then gets up. She also digs out her Miko garb. (And proceeds to change in the hall, thus defeating the entire point.) * Kaede doesn't glance at Kyon. He's busy brooding. And he's not even bishie. (Are you allowed to do that?) * Haruko grabs the garb and heads off. "I'll just be in the bathroom for a moment. Please be ready to go when I get back." (You should at least go find a brood chair, if you're going to go do it for a while.) [People pass by. And leave.] * Kyon stops, stares unblinkingly down at Katie for a second, then surveys the group. "Got another matter to take care of, as well." What's that? * Katie blinks, but since Satoshi asked, she doesn't. ( He's working on funding for next year, and needs to know if the hockey team needs two mops and three buckets or three mops and two buckets ) * Kyon scowls. "Need to find the Pentacle again." (Actually, we need four mops and one bucket. Is that okay?) Reiji? Reiji? Do we even know what happened to him? * Kyon shrugs quickly. "No. Just disappeared last time. But we can find him, so we will." * Haruko scurries back down the hallway, having apparently changed rather quickly. She's wearing her duster, closed, which disguises her Miko garb fairly well. She then quickly packs her clothes in her bag. Putting the smaller clear water bottle back on top. You have some idea where he went, then? So why do we need the Pentacle now? Do we know what it does now? * Kaede opens his eyes slowly. * Haruko closes her bag and stands up. Still holding her water bottle in one hand. "Okay, rain, outside would be good." She looks to Kyon. "I've got the information on Yushiro, could we stop by his locker and last class in case he stuck around and then go to his apartment? We could talk about the Pentacle on the way." * Kyon shakes his head quickly. "Don't know where he is. But there's got to be a way to find him. Get hold of the situation before anyone else does." * Katie looks briefly puzzled, but she gets to her feet. * Kaede side-glances at Kyon. "You're not answering my question." * Kyon frowns irritatedly. "Right, we're hunting your eyeless kid first." He pushes himself away from the lockers towards a different set more likely to have Yushiro nearby. * Haruko nods and leads in the direction of Yushiro's last class and locker. * Kaede sighs and shrugs, mumbling. "Not what I meant, but hey..." He follows Kyon. [Yushiro is not at his locker.] Think he left already? * Katie shakes her head, but she's tagging along. * Haruko glances again to make sure she can talk freely. "Okay, not the locker. We'll go to the pool by direction of his last class." He was there last time. Sure. * Katie glances at Kyon. Oh, and Takeuchi-san, please take a tape recorder now from Katie, so we don't have to worry about it later. And please let me handle the talking unless someone objects to the plan. * Haruko 's please isn't particularly directed toward Kaede. * Kaede looks off to the side with a "Why me?" expression but holds out his hand for the recorder without saying a word. Tape or video? * Kyon shrugs quickly and heads off that way. "We need to find Reiji because it sounds like we can. I want him back. However he is. If he's gotten bent because of the Pentacle, might still be able to retrieve him." You have video? Hmm.. Audio I suppose, although if you've got both give him both, he might be able to find a hiding placee. Why this sudden concern about Reiji and the Pentacle? * Haruko nods. "We might want to start with Saori." * Katie reaches into her satchel and pulls out both; the video recorder is exceptionally small. Kaede can take whichever. Choose your fate! * Haruko looks and is duly impressed. [Yushiro is not at his classroom!] * Haruko heads on to the pool. (He is NOWHERE!) * Kaede takes the audio. Less suspicious. [Yushiro is not at the pool. Neither is anyone else.] * Kyon smirks. "Got a visit yesterday from my significant other. He wanted to trade the Sword for the Pentacle." So what are we going to do once we get him on tape? Oh, and if anyone wants to carry it, I've got a bottle of chloroform. Seems like a better way to knock someone out if need be than just hitting them over the head a lot. * Katie tucks her camcorder away. And then she looks at Kyon. He what? Wait, he visited you? * Kaede eyes Kyon. "So that's why you want it now..." * Haruko glances back to Kyon. "Oh..." * Satoshi blinks. Then blinks again. "Seriously?" * Kyon shakes his head quickly. "Don't want to trade. But it's obvious he wants it. And he thinks we can get it, where he can't." Huh. Okay, let's hit Yushiro's house. Doesn't seem to be any way to avoid his sister I'm afraid. And going to catch him while he picks her up is probably a lost cause. (Everyone's separate reactions are so humorous. It tells you SO much about each individual character) * Kyon nods at Haruko. "Didn't work last time." * Haruko heads towards the subway, by way of Kyon's bike. What could we possibly have that he doesn't? 'Course he does. We're friends with Reiji, allies, whatever. Does he have the sword? Did he say? * Haruko looks to Kaede. "And I will answer you, once you're done talking to Kyon." * Kaede blinks at Haruko. "What?" * Haruko keeps heading towards the subway. * Kyon shakes his head quickly. "He doesn't, but he said he could get it. Either way, without knowing what they do, I'm not trading anything. But I figure Reiji knows that he's being looked for by Sou-kun. I figure that's why he called her," he nods tersely at Katie, "and not me." Sou-kun eh? [On the way out, you pass the ramen stand, at which Riko Tokuzawa is eating ramen.] * Katie grimaces. "Sou-kun." This is followed almost immediately after by, " You still call him that?" * Haruko looks back and waits until Kyon's done. "I'm going to ask him questions to get him to reveal if he did it via telepathy, ideally on tape too. Then, I, I'll, provoke him to attack. We'll win and maybe that'll discourage him." * Haruko moves faster, she doesn't have time for Riko right now. * Kaede winces at that, then looks over at Riko. [Poor Riko. Nobody wuvs her.] (Haruko does, just not the time.) * Kyon doesn't look fazed by Haruko's plan at all. And he ignores Riko, too; not like she'll help him, anyway. (We can wuv her when we're in less of a hurry.) * Katie vaguely waves at Riko without thinking about it, but she hurries along, too. (Kaede doesn't mind her but she's pissed at him) [You arrive at the subway!] * Kyon looks down at Katie coolly. "Habit." * Haruko rattles out the address to Kyon. "Meet us there?" * Satoshi seems slightly distracted. "Yeah, sure." * Haruko looks somewhat illuminated by Kyon's comment. * Katie just glares at Kyon, but she heads for the train. (Haruko = streetlamp) * Kyon nods tersely to Haruko, and heads off towards his bike. * Haruko heads into the subway and to Yushiro's house. * Kaede gets on the subway too. [Some time later, you get off at the closest stop, about four blocks away.] * Satoshi walks. Over the river and through the woods, to Yushiro's house we go! * Katie still looks furious. Though it's more like she wants to cry now. She's trying to keep it under control. [Over the river is right, there's a stream that takes up nearly half the street.] ( Acrobatics (jumping) rolls! Or just get wet ) * Haruko checks the map, looks around for him, and then gets walking to his house. "Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of his sister? A field would be ideal, but lacking that I think we'll ask to see him alone." (Oh heck. Got the skill.) 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-4) and gets 0. * Haruko plows through the stream, no caring a wit. She seems rather bouyed by the weather in fact. [Katie vaults over the stream.] [Haruko gets wet.] * Kaede sighs. "Figures." He tries to jump it, knowing he'll fail. Such confidence. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 10. (And fail he does!) (With an attitude like that, no wonder you rolled a ten!) (*snerk*) [Kaede tries to jump and splashes in the middle of the stream. He is pants and sock get soaked, and he gets water in his shoe.] * Katie looks back and giggles a little. She wipes at one eye. * Satoshi gets a decent running start and jumps over the stream, landing a lot farther than you'd normally expect. * Kaede sighs and stands in the stream for a moment before walking up. "Not a word." * Haruko glances over to Kaede and makes a gesture as she walks, pealing what extra water she can off of him. Huh. So that one time wasn't a fluke. [Satoshi nearly jumps the entire street] * Haruko glances over at Satoshi. "Nice! You should see if you can leap buildings." * Kaede watches Satoshi and sighs, shaking his head. "That...also figures." Thanks, Haruko-san. * Satoshi looks back at the others. "It's new, I think, or at least recent. And I can't do buildings." * Haruko nods. "Welcome. And not even small ones?" Very small ones, maybe, if I had one of those pole vaulting... poles. Anyhow. That's not why we're here. * Katie doesn't say a word to Kaede and looks to Satoshi. Seemed that cheered her up a little, though. "Jumping to the Sakuragaoka roof could be fun." It could be. * Haruko puts the map away. No point in it just getting wet. She also puts her water bottle away, sorta redundant. It doesn't seem quite as scary as it would've once. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-2) and gets 8. (DR) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-2) and gets 5. * Kyon drives by them, splitting between the group, driving further up towards the place. * Haruko grins a little as he drives by and keeps walking hurriedly. * Katie watches him go. Not a word. (He wouldn't have heard you anyway. =P) (Heheh.) Soliel's ahead. She is? Well...she is Fuyuko-san's friend and all... The French girl? Why's she... yeah, I guess that'd be it. * Haruko bites her lip. "Can you make out anyone elses voice?" * Haruko keeps walking, but tries not to overtake the group just yet. * Katie shakes her head. * Katie keeps going. [As you get closer, you do see Soliel. She's wearing her uniform and carrying a pink umbrella. She's currently leaning over a gate, talking to someone. You can't see who 'cause there's a wall in the way.] * Katie walks along. She doesn't say hi just yet. * Satoshi hangs back a little. * Kyon is further down the street, parking his bike. * Haruko looks to Katie and comments quietly. "Are you sure that's wise?" * Katie looks back at Haruko, curiously. "Why?" * Kaede shrugs and follows Katie * Haruko looks back to Katie. "Might just want to wait them out. Either Yushiro's already there, or we can catch him as he comes in. But if we have to go let them see us, I'm willing." * Katie sighs, but she stops and waits like a good Katie. * Soliel smiles and waves to whoever she's talking too, and continues down the sidewalk, towards Kyon and Yushiro's house. (Kyon and Yushiro's house?) (I didn't know!) (Because Kyon moved in with Yushiro last week.) ( Yeah, they live to gether. Didn't you know? ) (No. I'm always the last to learn these things.) (I didn't know, either.) * Haruko gets walking again. "Did you ever figure out who she was talking to?" She was just asking for directions. Ah. * Soliel walks over to Kyon. If she's here alone, think that means Fuyuko skipped school today? I don't know. Maybe. * Katie keeps heading thataway. * Kaede keeps after her too. Yeah, it's hard to tell. * Satoshi keeps going. * Haruko keeps going. "Well, guess we can't avoid her then." * Katie glances at Haruko. "Avoid who?" * Kaede stops and blinks at Haruko. "Why would we want to?" * Soliel is talking to Kyon. Soliel. If she's unaccompanied she's going to, oh.. doesn't matter. * Haruko keeps catching up. Yeah. I was going to say. * Katie keeps going. * Kaede stalks, I mean walks over to Kyon. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Not from around here, no. Unless you're looking for something big, can't help." [Everyone approaches!] Oh. Non, I am looking for a friend. I... Hm? * Soliel peers at everyone. "Oh! You, from ze nurse's office." * Kaede blinks at Soliel. * Haruko waves. "How are you doing?" * Kyon looks over the group, then shrugs quickly and rocks back on his heels. * Katie smiles sheepishly and waves. "Hi Soliel." * Satoshi smiles. "Good afternoon." Um... Not zo good. I came to zis neighborhood looking for a friend, but I am lost. * Kaede tilts his head to the side. "It's not Fuyuko by chance?" * Soliel nods to Kaede. "Oui." (Argh Kaede. /me tilts her head. "Who? Fuyuko?" YOU WIN THIS TIME.) Didn't she come to school today? (^_^_v) * Soliel looks at Haruko oddly. "Oui. Why, you ask...?" (We've come to interrogate and probably beat up her brother.) ( Le GM 'as no knowledge of ze French language ) * Haruko smiles slightly. "You go to the same school. If she wasn't absent, why would you have to look for her here?" ( And gets it confused with German and Russian >.< ) (Let it be noted, for the record, that Haruko speculated correctly!) (Noted.) (Watch no one care!) (I mean...yay, Haruko!) She 'as forgotten something. Forgotten something? What's that? (It averages out. No one gripped about her getting chloroform so she's not complaining.) (That was rather overshadowed by the whole pentacle thing.) ( I still told everyone.) * Soliel reaches into her backpack. She pulls out a deck of tarot cards. "Zis. I 'ave seen it before, in Parie." That's hers? They're pretty popular. "Or 'er brothar's. I am unsure." * Kaede eyes the cards. "...huh." * Haruko nods. (So, Soleil... *you* don't pull the same card every time you look at a deck, do you?) Probably her brother's. * Kyon looks down at the girl. "Why not just wait till tomorrow for her to show up?" (Because zen I wouldn't be a...how do you zay it? "Plot devize?") * Soliel turns to Kyon. "Monsieur, I know zis zeems a strange zing to do, but zese cards, zey zeem important to 'er. I wanted to 'elp." * Haruko nods. "That's quite kind of you." * Soliel blushes. "Well... I thought it best..." We can give them to her if we see her if you'd like. Unless you wanted to deliver them in person. * Soliel looks at Kaede. "Do you know where it is she lives?" * Katie looks thoughtful for a moment, then winces and shakes her head. We might..not so sure myself though... * Soliel looks disappointed. "Oh." * Haruko looks to Soliel. "We might run into her later today, if not I'll drop them by your school tomorrow. Deal?" Umm... Okay. You will not lose zem? If you didn't know where her house was though, why were you in the neighborhood? * Katie chimes in helpfully, "If she does, I'll hit her for you." Well, she lives zomewhere around 'ere... But I cannot read ze name plates on ze 'ouses. We'll take care of it for you. * Kaede blinks. "That's it? Don't you have a tutor?" * Haruko nods. "I won't." She then holds out a hand. "I'll even keep them in my bag to keep them safely dry." * Soliel looks intimidated by the big scary Kaede. "I... I 'ave not been in zis country long..." * Katie blinks at Soliel. She tilts her head. "I can try to help sometime. I'm not an expert, but I kinda know how you feel." * Haruko keeps the hand out for the cards. Merci, demoiselle. * Kaede winces at that. "I didn't mean to say it like that...I'm just saying...I mean I'm sure there'd be plenty of people willing to help. I'm surprised is all." * Soliel gives Haruko the cards. * Haruko nods and smiles politely, may as well assume that's a happy word. "Enjoy the rest of your day, and hope to see you again." * Haruko then carefully puts them in her bag. But I don't want to take zeir time from zem... * Haruko nods. "She's a very kind girl Takeuchi-san." * Kaede rubs the back of his head. "Are all people in your country that selfless?" * Katie laughs a little. * Haruko coughs politely. "We're making her wait out in the rain Takeuchi-san." Oh...right... * Soliel blinks at Kaede. "Um... I do not zink zo." * Kaede looks ashamed at that. * Haruko bows slightly to Soliel. "I do hope we can meet again." * Katie rubs some water off her face. She doesn't seem to mind so much, since she didn't land in the stream and end up with some in her shoe. "Anyway, we'll see you around, Soliel?" She hesitates a moment, then adds, "If you want to do something, I guess we could trade numbers." Oui. Zen, adieu. Take care of yourself. Oh? Ummm.... Oui. * Soliel gives a number. * Katie puts it in her phone! Yay phone. And she rattles one back, because it was her idea in the first place. * Haruko records it as well. * Kaede doesn't because that'd just be silly. * Soliel is a pretty girl, so of course Kaede hates her * Kyon shrugs quickly, tugs out his phone, and sticks the number in. Just in case. * Soliel bows to everyone. She looks awkward doing it. "Well..." She turns to Kyon. "It was good to meet you, monsieur." * Haruko bows back. * Soliel waves. "Adieu." She starts off down the way you came. * Kyon sketches a short bow, and smirks down as he rises back up. "Yeah." * Haruko waves back as she goes. * Satoshi bows back politely, then waves, then sighs. "Okay. Are we ready to go in?" * Katie waves. "Bye." * Kaede watches her go and rubs at the base of his skull. "Weird girl." ( SHE'S A GIRL! OMG SHE'S WEIRD!! ) (Exactly!) * Haruko nods. "Very nice. And good thought Katie." (At least she's not nuts.) * Haruko looks over Yushiro's house with Soliel safely away. [Yushiro's house is, ironically, the one right behind where Kyon parked.] * Haruko gives it one last look and then walks up to it. [It looms over Haruko as much as a small house in the suburbs is capable of.] (It's like Asanjya's house!) I kinda like her. * Katie keeps up! Yeah, she seems nice. * Kyon adjusts his bag on his shoulder before looking over the place. "Nothing special." * Haruko nods. "Me too." She then walks up to the door and rings the bell or knocks, as appropriate. ( The house eats everyone foolish enough to approach it. All you guys make new characters ) (Whoops! Guess someone else can have my slot, then. ^_~) * Kaede keeps rubbing her head. "That's the problem...almost too nice..." * Kaede shrugs and walks up to the house. [Haruko knocks on the door. The door opened. By Fuyuko.] (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!) (Haruko does not notice and subsequently knocks on Fuyuko.) * Soliel is now known as Fuyuko * Haruko smiles slightly. "Hello Fuyuko. I have a deck of cards you apparently left at school." She digs into her bag and grabs the cards. (Can we come in and interrogate your brother, possibly ending in kicking his ass?) * Fuyuko looks at them in surprise. * Haruko holds out the deck. "Is this yours?" * Kaede waves a little, looking sheepishly * Katie peeks around Haruko and smiles a little. * Fuyuko shakes her head twice and shuts the door. SLAM! ... Yeah, okay. Well. * Haruko glances back. "Hear anyone else inside?" ...well. She's friendly * Haruko adds quietly. "She might be looking to protect us." 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-4) and gets 2. * Kaede rubs his forehead. "I somehow doubt she cares so much." He hit her. How's that? I'm highly tempted to break down that door. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Hard to tell what she wants." He stalks forward and knocks on the door again. And he'll be here in just a moment. ... * Haruko keeps the cards out. "Kaede, start it. Satoshi, be ready." [The door is opened. Yushiro appears!] * Kaede nods and puts his hand in his pocket, starting the recorder * Fuyuko is now known as Yushiro * Satoshi looks at him and starts trying to read him. * Haruko holds out the cards and gives a fairly winning smiles and keeps a friendly tone. "Hello, I believe these are yours. And we were wondering if you could help us discover who attacked some of our friends." * Kyon steps back a bit from the door and rocks back on his heels. * Kaede rolls his eyes. * Haruko doesn't even play with her hair. It's because she's got the thought of kicking his butt to comfort her. * Yushiro opens the door and reaches for the cards. "You're right, they are. And no, I can't." * Satoshi sends to Haruko. ~He's wondering what the hell we're doing here.~ Well, the thing is you knew Kaede's sister was attacked. We were wondering if you could tell us who told you, because we really wish to find the coward that did it. (Kaede would agree with that.) * Haruko lets him reach for the cards, but sticks her foot in the door slightly. (Should I move the telepathy to msg or just keep it here?) ( Keep it here ) (Okay. Unless otherwise specified, I'm only sending to Haruko.) * Yushiro snatches the cards. He looks through them, counting them. "No." ~And they *are* his cards.~ ~He wants to know if they're all there, which is kind of obvious from what he's doing.~ * Kaede looks over at Yushiro from his position. Kaede stare ~Ask him more about the attacks. I might get something after he's done with the cards.~ * Yushiro has a special defense against the Kaede stare: his eye-hiding hair! * Haruko keeps the friendly tone. "Please won't you reconsider? There's someone out there, maybe someone who has real issues with women, happy to hurt them, maybe someone secretly afraid of them, and there's been more attacks." * Katie bites her lip, but she stays mostly neutral. Not my problem. ~Apparently there's a card missing.~ Well, the thing is, we protected your sister once. Maybe we didn't have the right, but that still leaves a debt. We're just looking for the name of who told you. * Yushiro glares at Haruko, one of the few times she can see his eyes. "Where is the Sun?" (Up in the sky. Duh.) * Kaede rolls his eyes to the sky. If there's an implication there, he doesn't say anything. (Does anybody know French IC?) * Haruko looks to Yushiro. "Must have fallen out. You know how the cards can be. We'll make sure you get it." (Just OOC) (So Haruko wouldn't get that. :P) No. Where is it? * Kaede rolls his eyes again and goes over to Katie, whispering something. More so no one else can here than for her to hear only. The cards were left at your sister's schools, we got them handed to us while we were looking for you. I haven't touched them since, I'll happily go back and find it for you. ::pause:: After my questions are answered. ~He thinks you stole it.~ Give it back to me. * Satoshi moves forward to stand closer to Haruko. * Haruko gets out her own deck and holds it out. "I don't have it. Here's my deck as a hostage until I can find that card for you." * Yushiro snatches it. * Yushiro starts counting. "Who did you get my deck from?" ~He's okay with that.~ * Katie frowns a little. * Satoshi sends to the rest of the group, one at a time, ~So far, nothing about the attacks. Just getting upset about his cards.~ * Katie thinks, then concentrates, ~Maybe if Haruko tries to get him to talk about them - lie about them - he'll think of it. Gotta think of the truth to tell a lie.~ * Haruko looks to Yushiro. "Someone found it at your sisters school. I was rather more concerned about finding you at the time so I'm not sure who ended up with it. I'll go back tomorrow and find whoever it was, shouldn't be hard." * Satoshi sends to Haruko. ~Try to get him to talk more about the attacks. If he lies about them while he's speaking, he'll still have to think about the truth.~ Good. Why were you there? * Kaede closes his eyes and thinks back. ~Maybe...something about the police...might get him scared just enough..~ A friend of ours was attacked there yesterday. Named Arisu, heard anything about that? No. * Satoshi sends to Kaede. ~Might want to hold off on that until it's a last resort.~ Pause. ~This'd be much easier if I could just talk to you guys all at once, or connect you to each other somehow.~ ( Reminder, telepathy works one way ) ( You can't think something to Satoshi :P ) (He's sort of scanning the group for responses.) * Haruko follows up. "Have you met Arisu? She goes to our school." Yeah. ~Says she's annoying and doesn't know how to shut up.~ * Kaede thinks Yushiro may have a point. * Haruko nods. "How about Maki, you ever met her? She was one of the other people attacked, though that was at our school." "Yeah." ~Not gonna repeat what he said about her.~ And Nanami? You actually meet her or just hear about her? Who? ~He thinks you're asking too many questions.~ * Katie speaks up. "Why did you slap your sister, Yushiro?" Look...Haruko...it doesn't really matter... Never mind. Guess that just leaves Mamiya Kanae. She's really memorable, red hair and red shoes, quite an attitude? * Yushiro glares at Katie. "None of your business." * Katie looks evenly back. "I'm just wondering. Why did you slap her?" * Satoshi sends to Katie this time. ~He says you have no right to ask it.~ ~Fuck what he says.~ * Yushiro growls. "This conversation is over. Good bye." ~Be careful!~ * Yushiro slams the door! (Haruko's foot is in it?) * Haruko keeps her foot in the door. ~He says it's time to get rid of us.~ * Haruko winces. ~Good.~ * Satoshi sends the last to each person in the group in turn. * Kaede sighs and rolls his eyes. "Well that went well. About as expected really." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 8. (dr) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 3. (Make by 2) * Kaede shuts off the recorder...for now. * Yushiro slams the door closed hard on Haruko's foot. It's a miracle if he didn't break anything. But she keeps the door open. * Yushiro glares at Haruko. "Move." * Kaede blinks and watches Haruko, switching it back on. Do you know Mamiya Kanae? Cause she's taken a great interest in you. In fact she's making it look like you're behind the attacks. * Haruko 's voice is pained but forceful. ~He says he's going to try and shut the door again.~ * Haruko keeps her foot there. * Satoshi walks forward and very casually puts a hand against the door. ~Then hold it open.~ 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets 2. * Yushiro draws the door back. ~Haruko, get back.~ * Yushiro tries to slam the door shut, but can't, because Satoshi is uber. (^_^_v) * Yushiro glares at Satoshi. "I'll call the police." * Satoshi stays leaning against the door. "You do that. We'll make sure they know all about what you did to your sister." Over us trying to talk to you versus you hitting your sisteR? * Haruko draws back slightly and speaks rather loudly, full AoD. "And we can show them Arisu's pictures. They make it look like you beat her up. Did you?" I don't know what you're talking about. ~He says he'll make us regret this.~ Arisu was spying on you and your sister, then she got beaten up, and then her memory was erased so she can't say who did it. Was that you, or are you being framed? * Satoshi concentrates very hard. Cause the pictures make it look like you. That's a shame...because the police don't take too kindly to the sort of thing that you're doing Unless you still deny it. * Kaede pushes his glasses up. * Yushiro lets go of the door. And vanishes into the house. * Haruko looks to Satoshi. "What was he thinking?" ~He's getting a knife!~ * Haruko drops to a defensive crouch. "Anything else?"" * Satoshi sends the last to the others. Not that I know of. Get ready. * Satoshi actually speaks that time. * Katie tenses and looks like she just wants to run in. "Fuyuko." * Satoshi still has the door open. "In or out?" * Yushiro comes back, switchblade clearly in his hands. He walks right up to the door and drives it at Satoshi's hand. * Kaede growls and steps back away from the house, reaching into his coat. "...damn..." 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 6. The hell are you doing! * Kaede eyes Yushiro. "That's first strike..." ~Call the police!~ * Haruko starts gathering up water. And keeps talking, full AoD. "So, a knife, that the same knife you used to cut Arisu and the others?" * Kaede pulls out his wrench. "Anything we do from now on is self-defense." * Yushiro drives the weapon into Satoshi's hand. "I told you to leave!" * Kaede nods over to Katie. "Call the police." * Satoshi lets out a pained cry and grits his teeth, but doesn't let go. * Katie grabs her phone and dials frantically, the wind starting to pick up around her. [Session End!]