[Day: Friday, April 2nd. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Sunny and warm, but a little humid.] [After a rather unexciting day in which no April Fools jokes were told, Kyon went to China, Katie went more insane, Chikako went somewhere not around anyone, and the rest of you went home. Today, everyone gathers at the lockers! Except Kyon and Katie.] [Session Start!] * Satoshi is seated in front of his locker, waiting for the others. Every so often he glances down the hallway. * Haruko wanders down the hall with a definate spring in her step. Notably there's a fairly sleek looking dark blue motorcycle helmet hanging from her bag, on its back is a light blue water drop with a light blue lightning bolt running through it. * Satoshi looks up at Haruko. "I can see why you're so happy." * Haruko smiles back. * Satoshi looks tired, still, and isn't really smiling. "Seen Katie?" (Oh, I'm going to say Haruko made a point of giving everyone another healing session last time. Wouldn't be hard.) * Haruko drops the smile. "I'm afraid not." I wonder if she came in today... * Taki walks up the hall, not as late as she sometimes is, but not the soonest she's ever shown up either. She looks like she managed to get to sleep the night before and didn't have to play catchup in class, "Afternoon Satoshi, hi Haruko... Did your parents finaly give in?" * Kaede walks down the hall, with his kaban over his shoulder and looks about each hall as he goes. He's stepping kind of awkwardly as he goes, as if his mind is somewhere else. And there is a distinct lack of Katie with him this time. * Satoshi waves to Taki. * Haruko looks to Taki. "I'm just looking after Kyon's bike until he gets back." * Taki waves back at Satoshi and starts to grin untill she sees the Katieless Kaede, this time she manages to wait a bit to see if she's just trailing behind agian, "...Oh." * Haruko looks to Kaede. "I guess she didn't." * Kaede looks straight on the group, searching around. "Have any of you seen Katie today? At all?" No. We were just wondering about that. * Taki stares at Kaede, "...Didn't you stop by her house this morning?" I did...there wasn't an answer...I was hoping that she'd come late to one of her classes but... N-not even her parents? I've been trying to look for her all day whenever I got the chance.. Do you think she's not there? Or did she just not feel like answering? * Kaede shakes his head at Taki. I--I can't be sure. * Haruko sighs. "Hopefully they're on vacation or something." Oh... her mom would have been there at least, wouldn't she? Oh, no... Mayabye it's just something like when my grandfather... * Haruko gets out her phone to try to call Katie. * Haruko sighs. "Circuts busy. Well, I'll keep trying." * Taki swallows and nods a few times. Please do... Yeah. * Satoshi looks worried, but who doesn't? * Haruko sighs. "Alright, so we'll try this for a few minutes. This doesn't work, we got to Saori." * Taki nods again, "Too bad Kyon left, he's got the most practice figuring what what the readings mean." I need to learn how to do that. * Kaede shakes his head. "While that may be true, good chance on getting him to share what he knows." Which is why having someone else who could do it would help. I just... well, where do you start trying to learn these things? * Haruko looks oddly at Kaede. "He wouldn't hold back when it came to rescuing an ally." All of us should probibly learn a little bit... A bookstore? Ask Saori where she got hers? Saori would say that fate demands many yen first. * Haruko sighs. "They aren't hard to find, and I need a new one." * Taki looks distant and worried for a moment, "...I'm forgetting something again." * Kaede looks back at Haruko and rolls his eyes. "Probably not, but you never can tell with him.." I've been trying to look up on it...there's some sites about tarot and the like. I think I've just lost track of this whole conversation. * Satoshi looks at Kaede. "Okay, what have you found?" ( "I've been looking on the Arcana the RPG webpage to start.") ( Really? Was it helpful?) * Haruko looks over to Taki. "Can you remember now?" She then looks back to Kaede, she says with some confidence. "He wouldn't hold that back." ( It's like looking into a mirror.) (Well, it's a few years ago, so only early sessions. :P) ( I hate looking into mirrors.) (...dear god, I think we *have* reached the point in game time where we were actually playing.) (It started in early 2002.) (March, I think.) * Haruko looks down at the phone. "Still circuts busy." * Taki shakes her head, "Something about Satoshi and him with the cards, it'll come to me in a bit." * Kaede sits down and takes out his laptop, starting it up. * Haruko reboots her phone and keeps trying calling. "Oh Takeuchi-san, did you consider what I said yesterday?" * Taki starts to pace, a look of concentration on her face. * Kaede tilts his head and looks at Haruko carefully. "What? About the store?" * Haruko nods, she varies her gaze between looking at Kaede and a disappointed look at her phone. (At least it's not the other way around for once) (*snerk*) (ha!) * Satoshi looks up at Taki. "Remember anything?" * Taki stops her pacing, and looks at Satoshi, "Could you...stand up?" * Satoshi looks slightly puzzled. "Okay." He stands up. * Kaede turns to look at Satoshi and Taki curiously. * Taki walks up to Satoshi and stops about a pace from him, then she nods and sighs. "I was short in my last life too." * Satoshi shakes his head. "That doesn't mean anything." I mean, it's nothing you should worry about. Hideo...was the one who told Yoshiko that she was the Knight of Cups...same pick a card game that Kyon did. He... did? * Haruko watches the interchange with some interest. * Satoshi considers this. "Well, I mean... it would make sense if he could sense Arcana." So does that mean I can do it, too, and I just haven't remembered how yet? Or was he just doing it at random, hoping he'd find them? * Taki nods, "Her family...was having some money problems and he offered her a job...he had another Arcana working for him too, could make himself like stone...and he knew I...she was Arcana...but not which one." Not completely relevant, but what kind of job? * Haruko puts the phone to her ear. "Answering machine." She puts it down and turns it off. "Alright, I'll head to Saori, you guys may want to stop by Katie's house first, I'll then see you there." * Satoshi nods distractedly at Haruko. * Taki shakes her head, "I don't know...I don't want to know." * Satoshi blinks. Then his eyes widen, and he rushes over to Taki and hugs her. I thought it was going to be housework. * Kaede sighs and rubs his forehead. "We're never going to talk to Fuyuko at this rate..." He shuts down his computer since the conversation seems to have taken another turn * Taki gets hugged, and Satoshi discovers that she's trembling ever so slightly. * Haruko comments quietly. "She's in a coma, there's not much to talk about." * Satoshi holds her gently. * Haruko then turns to walk off, detaching her helmet from her bag as she goes. * Kaede looks at Haruko for a moment and narrows his eyes a little. * Satoshi says, softly, "Why is it that the more I find out about Hideo, the less I like him?" * Taki sniffles, "Haruko's the only one who likes who she was, I hate Yoshiko." * Haruko looks back and meets Kaede's gaze. "Something to say?" ( Katie liked who she was. ;_; ) * Kaede shakes his head slightly and pushes up his glasses. "I doubt we'll like all of the things our other souls have done.." He sighs and leans back against the lockers. "So I'm the only one without a dream yet, aren't I...?" (Katies a bit weirded out by her past life, and Taki's trying to not to think about her while she's in Satoshi's arms ^^;) But you aren't Yoshiko. You know that. * Kaede isn't looking at Haruko any longer. Whatever it was that bothered him for the moment must have fleeted away from his mind. * Haruko shrugs and walks off. "Talk while you port." Not, not while I'm asleep. * Satoshi glances briefly at Kaede. "You're the lucky one, then." * Haruko heads off to Kyon's bike. [Haruko turns around only to find her path blocked by a certain familiar person.] * Toshiki waves. "Yo." * Satoshi glances warily over at Toshiki. (RDM has totaly blanked on who he is, and he's not in the people guide ^^;) ( The guy who beat you up once :P ) (The Jackal.) (Whups! ^^;) * Kaede glances over at Toshiki and gives an exasperated look at Toshiki, giving him a two fingered lazy wave. "Yo." * Haruko walks a bit closer to Kaede. She asks in a friendly tone, "Can we help you?" Nah. Just passing through. Got a date waiting to happen. * Toshiki walks past Haruko, towards the interior of the school. Great. Visiting Saki then? * Satoshi moves so that he has one arm around Taki and is standing just slightly in front of her. "Ah. Have fun, then." Of course. * Taki turns around, trying not to break Satoshi's hold on her, "S.Saki?" (Let's see, whose number do we have among the roof crew? Have fun then. Good luck. (I've got Saki's) * Kaede goes back to his computer. No need for a confrontation. * Haruko gets out her phone after Toshiki is a small distance away. "Dang, I need to get the number of one of them." Hopefully no one's getting thrown off the roof this time. * Taki digs her phone out of her bag, and then dials the number Saki gave her two days ago. * Haruko looks over at Taki and copies the number into her phone. Ask her if she wants backup. * Taki nods slightly. * Kaede closes his computer. "I wouldn't worry about it." He looks at Haruko. "We've got more pressing matters to attend to. I think Saki can take care of herself." * Kaede frowns. "It's Katie I'm more worried about...especially after what happened yesterday..." * Haruko looks back to Kaede. "They're our allies, and if this is Souichirou, we'll need them soon enough." * Taki nervously speaks into the phone, "Ssaki? This is Taki...Ahm do you remember Toshiki? He's looking for you agian." * Kaede narrows his eyes at Haruko and speaks in a rather chilling tone. "Excuse me. Did I not hear you right? Did you just imply that you would give "allies" more priority than your friends?" * Satoshi eyes Kaede and Haruko. * Haruko looks at Kaede like he's an idiot. She then looks back to Taki and listens to the conversation. * Taki contines to speak into the phone, "Just thought you might want to know a bit before he shows up." * Kaede snorts and folds his arms. "You're acting just like Kyon. No wonder you two have been getting along so well lately." He starts to walk towards the entrance of the school. Enough of this. * Haruko watches Taki. "And ask if she wants backup, just to make sure he doesn't get away once she beats him." * Taki nods again, "And Haruko wants to know if you'd like a hand...so he doesn't run away again." * Satoshi thinks to Haruko, ~Do we really *have* to get involved in this?~ (perfect timing. AFK for a little bit) * Taki shakes her head at Haruko, "Right, right." ~She'll probably say no, but she'll remember we offered. And if it's Souichirou, we are going to need all the help we can get.~ ~Idiot, doesn't he see we can't get her alone~ ~I hope she's okay~ * Satoshi whispers this time to her. "Where does Souichirou fit into all this, anyway? That's the second time you mentioned him." * Haruko whispers back. "Katie's missing, the duplicate is in his group, we can't exclude that." Well, good luck. * Taki hangs up. * Haruko looks to Taki. "Thanks, I appreciate it." She eyes Kaede as he walks away. "Be sure to grab him, teleporting will be faster. I'll see you at Saori's, you should have time to hit Katie's first if you want." * Haruko walks off at a hurried pace, finishing the job of removing her helmet from her bag. (I don't think Taki's ever been to Saori's ^^) ...she really is turning into Kyon, isn't she? (Then say so quickly. :P) (She might not have been.) * Taki nods and then blinks, "Wait! Haruko!" * Haruko turns around, losing her composure slightly and looking worried before regaining it a half a second later. "Yes?" I...don't actualy know where Saori's stand is, everybody else has been there a few times but... * Satoshi wonders why Taki couldn't have just asked them. * Haruko looks sort of sheepish. "I, uh, sorry, I sort of assumed. Okay, Satoshi, you try to catch Takeuchi-san, check out Katie's first. I'll take Taki by motorcycle to Saori's, she'll then pick you up." She looks over both of them. "Sound good? We all have our phones if anything goes wrong." (because teleporting blind is an inivation for a sidetrip to northern europe) (With chicken.) (Only if we run into jin there) Two helmets? Okay, fine. We'll meet you there. * Haruko smiles and hands Taki her helmet. "Knight wears the armour. Let's go." * Taki nods, and looks up and over her shoulder at Satoshi, "Call me when you get there." * Satoshi nods. "Will do." He goes off to catch up with Kaede. * Taki walks twords Haruko, "Thanks." [No sooner do you all get outside, then you run into Hinako Arai, the lady with the cloak and the buckles. She's attracting a great deal of attention from the students and returning very little of it.] (Ah! It's Boogiepop's Phantom!) * Satoshi blinks. "Arai-san?" He starts walking over to her. * Hinako is standing in the middle of the walkway, watching the school. When Satoshi starts for her, she starts towards him, too. * Haruko takes a moment to recognize Hinako, she then follows after Satoshi. Arai-san, what are you doing here? * Taki follows Satoshi instead of Haruko, but since she's going the same place it's hard to tell. * Hinako grabs Satoshi's hand. "You need to come with me to somewhere private. Quickly." Ken (who just happens to be nearby), whistles. * Kaede 's waiting outside, looking as Satoshi gets out...he starts to say something but as he sees him walking towards Hinako he hmms and walks over towards him. * Satoshi ignores Ken. "Wait! Just me, or all of us?" All of you. * Kaede blinks and looks to Satoshi, having lost the air of hatred towards Haruko. "What exactly's going on now?" I...don't know yet. Okay. My place? Anywhere we can talk. * Haruko nods. "Good idea." * Kaede looks from Satoshi to Hinako and shakes his head irritated. "We don't have time for this..." * Haruko looks to Kaede. "Remember the last time she came through for us? She may well be of great help now." * Taki looks at Kaede, "...I'll take everybody to Satoshi's and then us to Katies." This might be very important and relevant to what's going on, Kaede. Let's go. * Hinako turns her head towards Kaede. "It is a matter of life or death." (And the lightbulb in my room just burnt out. Ominous? Nah.) * Haruko nods. "Go for it Taki." * Kaede sighs. "You're right..it's just..." He deflates. "Alright." * Taki glances around, "But...not in the middle of the schoolyard." Then let's got to the hallways, we walk until we find an empty one or use a room. Right. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 6. [So, after leaving the yard of gawkers and finding an empty room, you arrive in Satoshi's apartment. *pop!* Count the chickens.] (Have they hatched?) ( There's 6 chickens and a bunch of eggs. ) (Okay. I'll say there's 6 then, since, y'know.) * Haruko looks to Hinako. "Go ahead." * Taki looks at Hinako, "Ahm...I'm going to go look for Katie, unless it's her life." Yes, please. * Kaede looks at Hinako. "At least let me know what this is about...I'm not sure what exactly this means..." He sighs faintly. (My last comment was directed at Hinako.) * Hinako withdraws a deck of tarot cards from her cloak. She selects a single card, and tosses it face up on the coffee table. It's the Page of Swords. * Haruko looks both slightly relieved and more worried at the appearance of the card. * Kaede eyes the card, and sits down in the seat slowly. "...yes, I'd say this is important." * Satoshi nods slowly. "Definitely..." * Taki stares at the card for a bit...and then sits down hard on the nearest bit of furnitature, not checking for chickens or eggs first. ( Hmmmm.... Nah, that'd be too mean. ) Your friend is about to be in more danger than ever before. * Taki shivers. * Kaede looks at Hinako evenly, shifting his pose and putting his arm along the back of the chair. "Is this anything to do with Yushiro or something else entirely?" What danger? * Haruko switches to solidly worried. She's going to be kidnapped. It's already too late to stop it. She'll have to be rescued. W-where? What? Who's doing this? * Haruko just watches, her questions have already been asked. * Kaede rubs his forehead and mutters under his breath. "She's going to go mad. I know it.." I don't know. But there's only one person who can find her, and only two who can save her. * Haruko nods. "Who?" * Haruko gets out her cell again. * Taki shakes a bit more and leans forward. * Hinako draws another card, throwing it on the table: The Devil. There. Find her. Tell her the situation. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 7. * Haruko manages to resist shooting a I told you so look at Kaede. Who are the two who can save Katie? * Kaede narrows his eye at the card. "...I don't believe this." Saki and who else? (I highly doubt Haruko's that psychic to tell him that. ;P) (She said keeping our allies happy would be useful. :P) * Hinako tosses another card to the table: Four of cups. "And this is the man who will provide the means to find her." ...it just gets better. Hirokazu? And? (True, but she didn't say "Keeping our allies happy would help save Katie." That's an important distinction. ^_~) Well, he'll probably do whatever I tell him. I know not how he is to do it. I'm not sure if even he knows...he barely believes he's Arcana. * Haruko nods. "And the last person? Or was Saki in both groups?" You needn't worry about him. I'll talk to him myself. In the meantime, you must convince these other two. * Haruko nods and calls Saki. Who is he though? I'm unable to tell you. * Taki tries to nod at Kaede and not take her eyes of Hinako. Why? I simply am. * Satoshi looks doubtful, but doesn't press her. * Haruko puts the phone to her ear, waiting for Saki to pick up. Okay. Haru- * Satoshi stops when he realizes she's on the phone. Unable to? Just why are you helping us? This...This isn't like the time Mimi tricked us right? I can't tell you that, either. * Haruko hangs up. "No answer." Nor can I remain any longer. There's no time. You seem not to be able to tell a lot... Not that I'm surprised... I-- Neither am I. Back to school, then. Back to the school, need to go back to the school. * Haruko nods. "Well, let's get to the roof." Haruko takes a moment to put on her Miko garb. * Kaede looks at Hinako for a moment, then gives a meaningful glance to Satoshi. * Hinako nods. * Taki stands up and waits for people to get close enough. * Haruko pulls up the pants and walks closer to Taki as she puts on the jacket. * Satoshi doesn't get the meaning of Kaede's glance! But he's sure it's significant, and he can find out later. He gets into teleport range. * Kaede stands, looking back at Hinako for another moment then moving over to Taki. * Taki looks at Hinako, "Are...are you coming too?" * Hinako nods. * Kaede frowns slightly at that but doesn't comment. Uhm, could you come a bit closer then? * Hinako gathers her cards and does that. (If that's everybody ve go pooflike...unless I suffer horrible dibilitating dicehate) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 6. (You'll have to hate harder Dicy, I still made that) (Don't encourage him.) ( Satoshi, gimme a melee defense roll at +1! ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 2. ( Kaede, gimme a melee def roll! ) ( At +1 ) (Any specialty?) ( Staff. And actually Satoshi's should have been unarmed, but I'll let him keep that. ) (That adds +1 to mine, but I would've made it anyway.) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-1) and gets 7. (Don't think so) (eyes iTunes, "this bodes...poorly.") [Poof! You're on the roof! And Satoshi nearly gets slugged in the tooth! He backs away in surprise before he even knows what's going on, avoiding Saki's punch. Kaede isn't so reactive, however, and gets clubbed in the gut by Toshiki's staff.] (I'm on random, 4000 songs, Sho's theme just poped up.) (Hey, I'm missing one already. What's another? ;p) * Haruko tries to pull Kaede out of the way. * Saki stares. "What the hell?" * Hinako almost immediately heads towards the stairs. * Hinako is now known as Toshiki * Taki erks as she drops people into the middle of a fight. * Kaede winces and keels a bit from the hit, clutching his stomach. "Figures..." * Satoshi backs off. "We need to talk to you." You've...got to work on your aim, Taki.. Sorry, sorrysorrysorry. * Haruko pulls on Kaede's arm until he's at least a foot away from the fight, assuming he's not resisting. * Taki raises her hands and backs away from the fighting. * Toshiki steps back. He's breathing kind of heavily and bleeding from a wound in his forehead. "Hm. Didn't see that coming." He grins. "Sorry, my love. We'll have to continue another time." He heads for the stairs. * Kaede doesn't resist. Being whacked suddenly kind of halts any resistance to someone trying to keep you from being whacked a second time. * Saki is also breathing heavily, and clutching her shoulder. She yells some curses after him, but doesn't give chase. * Satoshi eyes Toshiki and shakes his head. * Haruko walks up to Saki holding a hand out tenatively to touch her shoulder. "How bad is it?" * Saki winces. "Friggin' hurts. Fucker got me good. Got careless." * Kaede winces as he sits down against the convenient railing/wall/whatever. "He's...got an awfully funny way...of asking for a date..." * Taki lowers her hands slowly and looks around for Saki's two friends. [They're not there.] * Haruko rests her hand on Saki's shoulder and starts healing her. "If you'd like us to do something, even just make sure he stays around to so you can finish things..." We don't have time for that, Haruko. * Satoshi looks at Saki. "You remember the Heirophant?" He's... He's right..we don't. Who? * Haruko nods. "I didn't mean now." But she stays quiet after that and lets Satoshi handle it. * Taki looks at Haruko and Saki for a bit, and starts to speak, but gets cut off by the others. Hinako Arai. The girl who sent us to get the Cup when everyone else was... incapacitated. * Saki gives Satoshi a blank look. Oh. Right. Yeah, I remember. So? * Kaede looks around for her, now that she's mentioned. She did teleport them after all. She's come back. She's told us that Katie is being kidnapped, and somehow you're the only person who can find her. * Kaede then glances at Saki. "It's about...Katherine Andrews." [She's gone!] (She went down the stairs.) (Boogiepop is a ninja!) * Haruko just heals Saki for now. * Kaede notices that and then looks at Satoshi with the same look he gave earlier. Well, almost. It's touched with the wince of the pain he's in from having the wind knocked out of him. And yes, that was all she said. I know it's not terribly helpful, but it's all we have to go on. Satoshi... * Satoshi looks over at Kaede. "Yeah?" I am, huh? * Kaede picks himself up slowly off the ground, holding his stomach. "You said her name was Hinako Arai right? The Heirophant...?" * Taki nods. Yes. Next time....next time we see Winston...we ask about her. Everything he knows about her... * Kaede staggers forward towards Saki slowly. * Satoshi nods and turns back to Saki. You wouldn't happen to have some sort of method for sensing Arcana, would you? * Haruko looks oddly at Kaede and then back to Saki. "And apparently Hirokazu will provide the means for finding her." * Taki looks at Saki, "Ah, do you know where Eriko is? Hirokazu is yeah." Hell no. Saki, I know you don't really like working with others...but we do need you on this... Didn't think so. It would've been too convenient. But Hirokazu's probably down in the computer labs... * Haruko nods. "Or the garage. Finding him will be easy." She then looks to Saki, still healing her. I know we owe you a lot already. We-we need both of you to help, what can we do? And I'd like to say that all we need this time is just a few minutes, but these things... well, if there's anything you think you'll need from me in return, all you have to do is say it. * Saki rubs her head. "Stop begging, for starters. All that ever does is get people to walk all over you." * Satoshi exhales. "Yeah, I know." * Haruko nods and adopts an even tone. "Alright, so is there anything you can tell us?" Hell if I know. You know her better than me. * Taki looks down, "Can't just order you to do it." Might as well go find Hirokazu. * Kaede smirks slightly. "I only ask once." * Haruko bites her lip for a moment. "Do you draw the Devil or Death lately? The card may have referred to one of your dopplegangers." * Saki eyes Kaede. "Yeah, I remember last time you asked with that drummer girl. If you want my help this time, you better damn well need it or I'm gonna be pissed off." We damn well need it. Have that on good authority. Haruko, you go to the garage. I'll check out the computer labs. The rest of you can go wherever you need to...but those are the best places to start. * Saki nods. "Fine." She looks at Haruko. "Hell if I know. Haven't touched those things in ages." Doesn't matter. We don't know the other one. At least if we do...wouldn't be in a pleasant way. * Taki looks up and then around, "She had a set of the...Where'd she go?" * Haruko nods. "Anyone got a deck." She looks to Kaede. "It does matter, if it's her, we'll need to find her somehow. Anyone got a deck?" ( "Oh, did I say only Saki could save Katie? I meant eat Katie." ) Yes, but if it's not, we'll find that out. It's better to go on definite knowledge than vague assumptions. No deck here. * Kaede reaches into his pocket and pulls out his deck. He carries it with him everywhere he goes. Let's find Hirokazu and work from there. Kaede, I'll go with you to the labs. I don't. * Kaede tosses it to Haruko. "Here. You can do it as you move. But we need to go." He heads down off the roof. Using the stairs, preferably. ( As opposed to the other, faster method. ) * Haruko takes the deck and shuffles it one handed while looking at Saki. "Care to come with me?" * Saki shrugs. (I'm insulted that he doesn't trust me anymore, I only dropped him into one fight! :P) * Satoshi goes with Kaede. * Taki stays with Haruko and Saki. * Haruko leads Saki on to the garage, after a bit she's got the deck shuffled and offers it to Saki so she may draw a card. (He didn't say you couldn't come!) ( Ok... Who's going where? ) (Satoshi and Kaede, computer lab. Everyone else, mechanics club I believe) (Correct) (No, not that, she's the fastest way off the roof!) (True, but the mechanic's club is further away, and more likely to need a teleporter) * Haruko then pauses. "Actually, Taki, have you walked behind the garage before, that should be safe." (It's on campus, so she's probably cut by it before.) ( Hokay.... Haruko and Taki into #Mecha ) ( And Sato too, natch ) [Mean-st while, Kaede and Satoshi head to the computer room.] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 9. * Kaede heads quickly to the computer room. As quickly as someone with a potential bruised rib can. He looks around as he gets close and lets out a heavy breath he didn't know he was holding * Satoshi walks with Kaede. He doesn't bother to ask what's wrong because really, what isn't? [There are (they can see through the door window) three people there: Eriko and Hirokazu watching something on one computer, while Yorihisa is typing away at something obviously less interesting at another.] * Kaede more or less ignores good old El Presidente, stalking over to Eriko and Hirokazu. He's learned from Kyon well. ( The Prez explodes, messily destroying his side of the room. Good call Kaede! ) * Satoshi does not stalk, but he ignores Yorihisa, too. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 4. [Hirokazu looks up and fumbles a bit as he sees you start to come over. He calls out a merry, "Hey!"] * Kaede waves at Hirokazu, pushing up his glasses. "We need to talk." "Huh?" * Kaede sighs. "It's important and we need your help with something." "Oh." He minimizes everything he was doing and turns his swivel chair to face Kaede more fully. "Like what? Does it involve those babes you're always hanging out with?" * Satoshi resists rolling his eyes. "Yes. In a way." (Yes, we'll feed you to !Saki when we're done.) * Kaede blinks at that. He was actually going to use that card, but this'll be easier than he thought. "Um...well...it does, actually. Haruko can fill you in on the details." [He brightens at that. "Really? Where is she?"] At the mechanic's club. We can take you there. "Cool!" He jumps out of his seat. "Are you going to come too, Eri-chan?" Eriko blinks. "Hm? Er... No, I don't think so." Hirokazu shrugs. "Suit yourself." He grins at Kaede. "Ok, let's go!" * Kaede frowns a little and looks at Eriko for a moment. "Not sure that's such--" He gives her a bit of a glance. "Satoshi, could you guys start? I'll catch up in a moment." [Satoshi's phone rings.] Yeah, sure. Uh, wait a sec. * Satoshi answers the phone. "Satoshi here." "Yeah, we found him. Meet here?" * Kaede eyes Satoshi for a moment and edges a little closer to Eriko, whispering something near her ear. "Okay. Eriko's here, too. So's Yorihisa. Nobody else." * Satoshi puts his phone away. "They're coming." 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 1. Eriko shrugs. "Fine, maybe I'll stick around a bit." * Kaede nods slightly and takes a deep breath. * Satoshi blinks. "A field?" * Kaede looks at Satoshi. "So did any random, interesting characters show up down there or do those sorts of things only happen when I'm aroun--what?" Hirokazu: "No thanks. I just ate." * Kaede looks around and reaches into his coat. "...I guess I just answered my own question..." The universe loves us, apparently. * Taki arrives with Haruko and Saki in tow, and wobbles a bit, "Back." * Satoshi ignores Hirokazu and looks over at Taki. "We've got a field. Is this one of yours?" * Taki shrugs, "Maybe?" * Haruko scans the room. She's still wearing her Miko garb incidentally, although the mechanics have seen her in it before, so not a big surprise for them. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 10. * Haruko looks to Taki. "Do try to remember how it feels, we may need it before long." I wish I could pinpoint who made them when I'm sensing them. * Kaede relaxes as she enters the room, rubbing his head. "Don't scare us like that. You do know we get jumpy whenever we get a field without notice." [Hirokazu gawks as the ladies enter!] * Saki twitches. * Taki doesn’t flicker this time. "It still here?" * Haruko waits for the field to go down and Eriko to reappear. [Yorihisa stops what he's doing and lets out a frusterated sigh. Hirokazu... keeps on gawking.] * Haruko looks to Hirokazu. "What have I told you about gawking? If you're going to look, at least try to be less obvious about it." "Uhhh... Right." [Hirokazu does some less obvious gawking. At least, he looks like he's trying to be less obvious about it.] * Haruko nods. "That's a start, but keep working on it." Her tone isn't entirely displeased. * Saki twitches. Hirokazu's eyes are mostly on her. * Kaede just eyes Hirokazu and grumbles. "He's absolutely hopeless. I don't see why you bother trying to train him." ( Haruko's teaching him how not to get caught! ) Yes, no, maybe? * Kaede gestures at Saki. "Morikawa-san's method would be more effective." * Haruko doesn't really look at Kaede. "I'm a slow learner with hopeless cases." She then looks to Taki. "There's no Eriko, so it's probably still up." Yes, it's still up. * Taki nods, visably concentraits, (burning 10 ep she can't afford to spair), and ... 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 8. * Haruko keeps healing Saki for now. * Taki flickers again, "Now?" * Saki gets healed! * Haruko looks for an Eriko. [Field goes down, and Eriko's there!] It's down. Of course, you could tell that already. * Kaede pats Satoshi on the shoulder, and says without hesitation. "You're a handy radar all the same." * Taki sighs and sits down, "I need to figure out what does that." Eriko: "So what'd you need from the lech?" * Haruko breaks contact with Saki. "I'll be right back." She then walks over to Eriko. "May I speak to you in private for a moment." She gestures towards the corner of the room that's farthest from everyone, particularly Hirokazi and Yorihisa. * Satoshi almost laughs. "Thanks." Eriko shrugs. "I guess." ( Satoshi and Haruko, into #Private ) (Don't need a seperate chan or anything, really for the benefit of NPC evesdroppers. :P) (But I'll take one. ^_~) [Eriko heads thataway] So now we have the people we need...did Arai-san tell us where to meet her? * Taki shakes her head. No, but I'm willing to bet she'll know. I am as well. I say we head back outside when we can. Chances are we'll find her there again. And if you don't, then what? * Kaede looks at Saki. "Then we figure out what to do on our own." * Taki doesn't look up, "we try...what he said." We don't try. We do it. It's plain and simple. * Kaede looks at Saki. "But to do that, we may need to find out what you know or what you can do.." He turns his gaze from her to Hirokazu. "Both of you." * Saki chuckles. * Kaede looks over at Taki and Satoshi. "If she's not out there, the best place to check is her house again. There may have been something I missed.." * Taki nods, following the change in subject perfectly. (Whose house?) (Katies) (That's what I thought, and then for a minute I thought Hinako. Gah.) First "she" being Arai-san and second being Katie, right? (Hinako is the she, Katie is the her, if Taki wasn't obsessing right now she couldn't have made that leap. :P) * Kaede nods to Satoshi. "Of course. Unless you happen to know where Hinako-san's house is." * Kaede 's voice isn't dripping with sarcasm, really. No. She may not even have one. (I attribute this to being tired. ;p) We can check and see if we can find her. Haruko-san will catch up eventually. * Satoshi nods. "Okay." * Haruko and Eriko head out of the corner. (Well, Haruko does, I assume Eriko does too. :P) ( She does! ) * Kaede starts to head out, glancing at Haruko as she comes. "Oh, you're ready?" * Haruko nods. "All done." * Taki glances at Haruko and then at Kaede and Satoshi. [Through all this time, Hirokazu hasn't done anything except stare at the girls. He might not even have heard anything you've said.] * Haruko grins slightly. And snaps her fingers to get Hirokazu's attention. "Here boy." Hirokazu blinks. "Huh?" * Haruko smiles. "We're going to teleport out of here, get over here." * Taki blinks, "We are? Oh right." * Taki stands up. Uhm...the roof again right? * Kaede walks over to Taki, rolling his eyes and muttering something about "perfectly good feet." [Hirokazu heads over.] * Haruko looks to Kaede, looking less confused and more as if she's starting to piece things together. * Taki waits for everybody who's going to get close enough. [End]