[Day: Monday, April 4th. Time: 4:00 p.m.] [Weather: Sunny and warm!] [We open on the roof, where Haruko and Katie are dealing with two injured and unconscious people: Saki Morikawa and Toshiki ... whatever his name is. Actually, they're just dealing with Saki, really.] [Session Start!] (She healed yet?) (Or at quota yet that is) * Katie is sitting on the COLD, HARD roof... actually, it's probably slightly toasty, what with the sun shining on it and it being a nice day. By now, she's extracted the wood and knife and started whittling. ( Um.... We'll say yes. But she's still gravely injured. Y'know, shootings and being thrown about and beaten with a staff. ) * Haruko lets go of Saki and stands. "I'll make sure he's not dying. He's not a rapist or a murderer right, just a punk?" Yeah. * Katie blinks, sets her tools down, and removes her uniform jacket. She goes about arranging it as a pillow for Saki (because it's uncomfortable enough already, but come on), then goes back to carving. * Haruko kneels down by Toshiki's leg, she's fairly cagey, in case he's not as unconscious as he looks. How about the crows? What about them? As a name. * Haruko reaches down to touch Toshiki's wounds, she tries to look him over as she does so. She isn't interested in fully healing him, just making sure he doesn't have internal bleeding or the like. ( Med (diagnostic) ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets 5. [Toshiki is not *too* seriously hurt. He'll be aching for days, though.] (Then there's no problem!) (Awesome.) * Haruko smiles. "Alive. Want me to rouse him enough to tell him to get his dumb self out of our territory?" * Katie shrugs. "Why not. If he misbehaves, he's going off the roof." * Haruko stands up and goes to get her bag. "Think I'll get my robes on so I can be sure not to go with him. And you didn't tell me what you thought." * Katie smiles faintly. "Crows might work. We'd have to check with everyone else." * Haruko smiles. "I figure it's fairly ominous, association with bad news and all." She frowns. "And accurate enough." Accurate enough, yeah. * Haruko gets her robes out of her bag and slips them on over her clothes. Some of us really like shiny things. * Haruko laughs. "Anything else I should no about them?" They eat anything from fruit to rodents? * Haruko walks back over to Toshiki, as she does so a puddle near Katie forms into a crow, well, a dove morphed into a crow. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-1) and gets 8. * Haruko 's crow still need some work, though it does have the lessons she learned from the dove. It hops up on Katie's wood holding arm and stares at the knife. Eww, rodents. You can just eat fruit- * Katie blinks at the dove-turned-crow. You'd get closer if you tried a pigeon. [The crow hops around a bit and then pokes at the watch.] * Haruko bends down by Toshiki, the crow hops off and demateralizes. "Well, I'll have to concentrate on him for a bit. What's the difference? Aside from color obviously." * Haruko heals Toshiki, taking care not to help the soreness, just enough that he can be woken with a slap. * Katie laughs. "There's not a very big difference. That's why you'd get closer." * Haruko grins as she continues working over the unconscious and badly beaten body. "I mean between a dove and a pigeon. Don't see any pigeons at the moment so I'm not picturing it." That's what I meant, yeah. Um... * Katie puts her carving and knife away and goes about pulling out her sketchbook. She flips to the part where she was going over the dove's anatomy, then grabs a pencil and starts a rough sketch next to that, emphasizing the differences. * Haruko frowns. "Dang, it'll take a few minutes work. Well, think he'll still be aching in the morning." Good. * Haruko gets to healing, fairly cautiously. She's still injured so she wants to be in good position to go watery if she miscalculates when he wakes up. I talked to Kaede yesterday. Yeah? 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 3. Went pretty well. I do think he's changed, but it is probably for the better. He apologized for what he said that day he had the fight with Nanami. ::Haruko glances to make sure no one is coming up the stairs:: I apologized, for nothing. ::she grins:: * Katie nods. "Okay. So, it worked out?" * Taki appears on the roof and looks around, "Katie? Haruko?" Well, yeah. * Haruko looks to Taki. "What's up?" * Haruko is incidentally wearing her Miko garb now, probably not worthy of Taki comment at this point. * Katie jerks and looks over. "Hi, Taki." * Toshiki wakes up! "Uuuugh." Uh... we've got a bit of a problem, do either of you remember a girl with white hair and an accent? I think it's French. * Katie blinks. "Soleil?" * Toshiki looks around. "Woah, girls. Lots of them." He pulls himself to his feet. * Katie looks back ato Toshiki. "Yeah. Mind getting out of here?" Yeah, that's her name, she ... went to Yushiro and Fuyuko's house after we left... and thinks we intentional attacked them... could you give me a hand expi....Oh no. * Toshiki looks down at Saki. "Fast asleep, eh?" * Haruko glances to the others. "Just a moment." She looks down to Toshiki. "Consider yourself notified to stay off our turf. If your gang wants to talk about your tendency to attack an ally of ours, we'd be happy to." (/me doesn't sound happy when she says that.) * Toshiki laughs. "You wanna fight the Jackels? That's rich." * Katie gets to her feet and looks at Toshiki. "Just get out of here." * Haruko shakes her head and rolls her eyes at Toshiki's comment. Maybe I don't wannna. * Haruko goes watery. * Taki rubs her head, "Look, Saki beat you, she was hurt and she beat you. Go home and try again later or something." * Katie shakes her head. "Sorry. I'm not in the mood to humor your lust." She indicates Saki and looks to the Knight of Cups. "Taki, port us out." Sure she did. She always beats me. * Haruko stays in a puddle. She looks embarrassed for a puddle. * Taki teleports next to Saki, "Ahh, Haruko?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 7. * Haruko reforms in a crouched position and grabs her clothes. She then makes her way over to her bag. She is incidentally still wearing her miko robe. * Toshiki laughs to himself. * Haruko stands over by Taki, she keeps a blank expression. (Katie close enough?) (Considering she's right by Taki, yes.) (Er, Saki. Well, both.) * Taki puts a hand on Haruko and Katie's shoulders, a leg next to Saki and... 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets -1, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I love the smell of a crit in the morning." (Dood.) (...thanks for giving that to me when I needed it!) ( So... where you going? ) (back down to the lab.) * Kaede yells out just as Taki comes in, pointing at Soleil. "I've had my sister nearly raped, assaulted, been crushed by an elevator, been beaten to a pulp, had a good friend have their hand HACKED OFF, been trapped in an insane world, had my best friend locked in a closet...and that's the short end...ever since I found out. You think I don't have reason enough? It's just not in my nature." * Haruko looks oddly at Katie. "Well, that was humiliating." She then sighs, gets her bearings and looks over to the argument. [All youse guys + Saki arrive in the chem lab behind Kaede. Next to him, lying on the ground, is Satoshi. And across from him is Soleil. And he's screaming and stuff, and... yeah.] * Katie shows up, winces slightly at Kaede yelling, gets her bearings. ... Okay, Haruko? Satoshi over there. * Taki comes back with Haruko, Katie, and an unconcious Saki. * Katie points. "Anyone else want to get knocked out today? They should take a number." * Haruko drops her stuff and hurries over to Satoshi. Zat does not give you zee right. None of it. * Kaede looks at where the people are coming and holds up his hand. "Stay back. All of you. I promised there wouldn't be any reinforcements." * Taki blinks, looks, and then whirls at Soleil, "What did you do to him!?" Taki. Just please. Shut up. * Katie rubs at her ears. Ow. * Haruko stops. "I'll just take Satoshi to safety." She drags him a bit away. * Soleil looks to Taki. "I'm well aware of your intent." * Haruko then gets to healing Satoshi. * Kaede then looks at Soleil. "No. It doesn't give us the right. None of it gives us the right. That's why we don't intend to do it. Would killing us make it right either?" * Taki glares at Kaede, and speaks in a much lower tone of voice, "What did she do to him?" * Katie has a seat on a lab table and watches. I did not come 'ere with ze intent to kill. But you would now, wouldn't you? So what makes your change in intent any different than what you accuse us of? * Haruko heals Satoshi and watches quietly. Kaede? ... Why is Satoshi on the ground? Because! Zis is not your home! And unlike you, I can say for szertain that you keeled him! You even zaid so yourself! Looks like he got knocked out, Taki. Shush. * Kaede doesn't answer Taki. He keeps looking at Soleil. * Haruko keeps healing Satoshi she lets him keep speaking his peace. (For once in his life, Kaede's not injured) (It won't last.) ( Kaede suddenly stubs his toe! ) * Taki turns her head to look at Katie for a long moment. Then she clenches her fists and takes a step away from Soleil. * Katie seems calm as ever. She keeps her seat and watches. * Kaede just keeps looking at Soleil. "I fail to see the difference. You speak of us going after with the intent to kill. We sought information. You sought information as well. So it's a similar situation..." The main difference is that we haven't attacked you first. So you claim. * Haruko looks to Kaede. "I think my choices might matter in this, I'd like a chance to speak, but you know what's already been said, so I'll leave that choice to you." * Kaede sighs and shakes his head, then looks to Soleil. "May she speak?" * Soleil nods. * Haruko looks up. "I assume you know about Arcana at this point? It makes a difference." Cards? What about zem? * Katie pulls a tarot deck from her satchel. "Haruko, catch." She tosses. Considering she flung a chair telekinetically at Satoshi a moment ago, I'd say yes. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 6. Did she? Huh. She might have powers, but not know why. It's possible.. Taki did. Oh... that's what happend... * Taki nods. Do not speak of me like I am not 'ere! * Haruko just misses the cards, she then gets them off the ground. "We all have powers because we're Arcana." She takes out the deck and holds it out towards Soleil without stepping closer to her. "If you draw a card now, it will consistently be the same one. This is why you have powers." * Kaede looks to Soleil. "Then we'll ask you. Do you know what happened to Satoshi?" * Katie fishes a digital watch out of her satchel and checks it. Is it working? [Nope!] (For once, I'm glad.) 'E fell over. * Taki blinks, "But Kaede said... chair.' Perhaps I should demonstrate then. * Katie rolls her eyes. From what? * Haruko puts down the deck of cards for the moment. She lets Kaede try his tact before making a show of power though. You do it again, talk like I am stupeed. * Kaede speaks with a tone of infinite patience. No. I talk to you as if I want you to understand something that's so utterly insane that none of us should be a part of it. Which is of course why we *are* a part of it. (I'm not sure that's the reason. ^_~) I didn't believe it at first either... (No, but it's certainly a Kaede-ism.) (That it is) * Taki nods a few times. * Soleil raises an eyebrow. "What are you thinkink now?" * Kaede just holds out his hands. "Do you have a cell phone?" I did not bring it with me. Maybe Haruko should demonstrate. Hers are flashy enough. Then it'll make it difficult for me..I'd much prefer to demonstrate that one than the other... * Haruko grins ever so slightly at that comment. "Allow me then. Soliel. I'm going to demonstrate what we mean, I'll use my power, I won't move towards you or threaten you, just change and change back. Okay?" * Haruko is wearing her miko garb, so no nudity involved. * Kaede snorts. "As if yours aren't flashy enough." * Katie grins a little despite herself. "Yup. No flashing involved." * Kaede steps back and watches Haruko. Again, you do it. Soleil, she's talking to you. * Taki shrugs, "It's confusing, but we are telling you the truth." I 'ave always considered zere are ozers with abilities like mine. Get to ze point. The point is...Fuyuko and Yushiro were also two of them. * Haruko nods. "Alright. Here's the point. We're called Arcana because we're associated with Tarot cards. That's not the important part." And if zey are? * Kaede folds his arms and lets Haruko speak. * Haruko nods. "Yushiro beat three of our friends. One of them was Arisu. You saw what he did to her. The other two were Kaede's sister and a friend of mine. None of those people had powers." And so you keeled him. No. Please, allow me to finish. The proper course would have been to go to the police. There were two reasons we couldn't... * Katie lets out a faint sigh and unbuttons the top two buttons of her collar, letting her breathe a bit better. Also, scar. Haruko, you're beating around the bush. Ze same I couldn't. I'm sure you are aware of zat, too. Right, that's the second the first is that each victim had their memory erased, that's another Arcana's power. She was protecting him, protecting our secret. * Kaede groans. "Haruko...she thinks we harmed Fuyuko and Yushiro on purpose. You are NOT helping." * Haruko looks to Kaede. "Let me talk." * Kaede eyes Haruko silently. * Taki yawns and then walks back to where Satoshi is and sits down next to him. * Haruko looks to Soliel. "We went to verify it was him, despite the photos we had, despite the fact the he gloated about doing it. We had to be sure, and we told him to stop doing. He then attacked us, Satoshi, he's a telepath, told us that when he said aloud he'd kill us, he meant it." * Kaede then snaps his fingers and looks at Soleil. "The tape. We have a tape." * Katie chimes in, softly, "We have it on casette. Yes." You have proof zat he did it, zen? * Haruko nods. "We do. What you won't hear on that tape is that he turned his own sister into a weapon to use against us and that I stayed until right when the ambulance came trying to heal her. That's one of my powers" (Shame there's no proof on the cassette.) (Brett was conveniently vague. ;P) * Soleil frowns. She doesn't look like she buys it. (No. But it'd have the thump of the knife in the door. He didn't stop the cassette when Yushiro attacked) * Haruko nods. "Katie, could you get the pictures?" (Yup. You get to hear the knife and the scream and everyone go, "Satoshi!") (I'm assuming she has them, right?) * Katie nods. She opens her satchel and looks through it before pulling out an envelope. In it are those pictures. * Katie slides off the table and steps over, holding them out to Soleil. * Taki watches Katie, and yawns again. * Kaede takes a deep breath and slumps against the wall. These were the pictures Arisu took on that day. She was trying to figure out if he was behind the attack, she never raised a hand against him, you saw what happened to her. (The reason Haruko's telling it this way is what Kaede said isn't really true for her. :P Not sure if it's true for the rest, but she was ready to give him a beating if that's what it took.) (He knows it isn't :P) (Why do you think he said that what Satoshi replied with wasn't entirely true? ^_^;) (You mean that thing he said before I got here? ^_~) (Yup!) * Soleil holds out her hand, and the pictures float themselves over to it. She looks at them. "Zome strong evidence... But it proves nozing." No it doesn't. Which is why we went to talk to him. * Katie goes back to her seat. * Kaede then looks over at Katie. "What exactly happened...?" * Haruko sighs. "Play the tape. And remember, we had a reason we taped it, it was because we didn't want it to end the way it did. There's no reason we'd make that tape if we wanted to kill him." * Katie blinks at Kaede as she goes. She stops, turns, then sighs. "Okay." She looks to Soleil. "I'll tell you." Unless to prove your innocense. * Kaede 's still looking at Katie, solidly. * Katie isn't looking at Kaede. She's looking at Soleil. "Will you listen to me?" * Haruko lets Katie speak. * Taki blinks a few times, and then stands back up. I will listen, Oui. Thank you. One of my powers is hearing. I can hear things that most people can't... if I try, I can hear a heartbeat from anyone in this room. When we got to his house, I heard him slap Fuyuko, and I heard her crying. * Kaede blinks and stares at Katie for that. He came out, and Haruko asked him questions. I... Really, whether he hurt our friends or not, he shouldn't hurt his sister. So I asked him why, and that's one of the reasons he stabbed Satoshi. Later, he did turn Fuyuko into a weapon against us - that's her power, and it looked like he could control it. He ran away. I chased him. * Haruko nods and pays attention to this next bit. * Katie closes her eyes. "It was raining. I tackled him, and he flipped me... we ended up in a puddle. His hands were around my throat. He said he was going to kill me, and he was doing it." * Taki takes a deep breath and puts a hand out onto the wall. * Katie shudders. "I-" Her voice breaks, and she opens her eyes only to shut them again. "I did everything- I... I tried using my powers, I tried- I tried pushing him off. I tried everything. He was going to kill me." Her eyes open again. She meets Soleil's gaze, and it's obvious she's trying to keep from crying. Do you know what it's *like*, feeling everything go away, knowing someone hates you so much they want you dead? Being completely helpless about it? * Kaede frowns at that but tries to keep quiet about it. * Haruko nods slightly. * Soleil frowns to herself. "More zan you could zay." * Taki keeps watching Katie. We can share stories sometime. * Katie sounds incredibly bitter. "I have more than one." * Kaede sighs and rubs his head, looking at Soleil, trying to gauge her reaction. He's not sure if Katie's finished yet or not. He was going to kill me. And- and there was nothing I could do. Nothing at all, except... I carve. I have the knives, and the wood. * Soleil is glaring, but it looks like she's trying to force herself this time. * Taki shivers and keeps watching. * Katie chokes, and now she is crying. She wipes at her eyes. "And I- I took one out, when I was at the end, and I shoved it in his stomach. He let go." She stops, taking a moment to compose herself. "That's all. Maybe that makes me a killer. But at least you know why. Stop blaming my friends." Stop it, Katie. Just stop it. * Kaede goes over to her and gives her a hug. She looks like she needs a hug. * Haruko looks to Soleil to see her reaction. * Soleil is silent! * Katie starts to say, "You-" She's cut off by the hug and just gives up, bursting into tears. * Taki lets go of the wall, and takes a few steps twords Katie, but Kaede gets there sooner. Did Kaede tell you the reason this all started Soleil? Zat ztory sounds more believable. (Which story? Soleil is confusing!) * Taki closes her eyes for a few seconds and then keeps walking forward, "I ..." * Kaede glances at Soleil, calmly. "It's one I didn't know until now, I assure you." * Katie is muttering something in English. It's very hard to make out, and she's sort of clinging to Kaede in this point. If you still want the tapes though, we have those too... So I see. But zen... Where is Fuyuko? * Taki stops and lookes up in confusion, "Hospital?" * Kaede sighs and shakes his head, looking downward a little. "I didn't want anything like this to happen..and that's the tru--" He looks over at Haruko after Soleil's question. * Haruko looks fairly shocked. "She's not there any more?" * Soleil shakes her head. "I 'ad thought zat you were afraid she would talk, so maybe you 'ad kidnapped her." * Taki shakes her head and then wobbles a bit, before resuming her walk. When she does reach Katie and Kaede she tries to wrap her arms around both of them, "I'm sorry Katie." We... * Katie sure doesn't stop Taki. She whimpers something completely incomprehensible. * Kaede looks at Soleil dumbfounded. "We have no idea." Hopefully she got better. But we'll help you find her, I promise. She didn't deserve what happened to her, she probably hates us, but she deserves a chance at a better life. * Kaede nods. "We owe her that much. And you, Soleil." * Soleil looks at Kaede funnily. * Taki keeps hugging, but tries to keep her voice quite enough so that Katie and maybe Kaede are the only ones who can hear, "That doesn't change anything." * Haruko frowns. "Since she's involved with Arcana affairs, we should always assume the worst. I'll look after Satoshi until he's better, Kaede, do you want to take Soleil and get working on it?" * Kaede nods a little. "What about what we came here for though...?" * Haruko sighs. "Satoshi may take a bit to wake up. Call us when you want us, we'll do work until then." * Katie calms down. Mostly, at least. She shifts, breaking herself from Kaede and Taki's hugs, and looks over at Soleil. * Kaede lets her break easily and looks over at Soleil. "Would you mind working with me? Or do you still hate me with an undying passion?" * Taki lets go of Katie as soon as she starts moving. I will work with you. I will use my own eyes to decide. But do not treat me like I am stupeed. I never meant to...if you felt that way, I apologize. * Katie wipes ineffectually at her eyes and laughs, unsteadily. "No stupider than I am. Maybe we should tell you about all the other stuff that's going on. You might get targetted, since you have powers." * Taki nods and looks at Soleil, "Need to find out what card you are too." * Haruko nods. "The reason Fuyuko was there was my mistake. I didn't imagine she could be used like that, I thought the important thing was that we had to talk to Yushiro before anyone else was attacked. But get going, make sure she's safe. If you decide I deserve punishment for that later, I'll be waiting. * Kaede looks at Soleil. "Does Fuyuko carry a cell phone?" * Haruko hands picks up and hands the deck to Katie. * Haruko then gets back to work on Satoshi. * Soleil shakes her head. "She did, but..." * Katie takes the cards and idly shuffles. But what? But she does not 'ave it with 'er. * Taki ... sits right back down where she was standing. * Kaede sighs. "That's a problem then...I suppose nothing electronic at all then?" * Soleil gives a helpless shrug. Try checking the hospital, there may be some sign. If she got better on her own there should be a record, if someone kidnapped her they probably left a sign. * Kaede nods. "Alright...we'll start there first..." He slips the headband to Haruko before walking over to Soleil. "Come on." * Katie frowns. "Another kidnapping." It's not like Arcana are known for subtlty. With a field, they don't *need* subtlety. * Soleil nods. * Taki nods, and then blinks and checks her watch, "Aha!" * Haruko takes it. "Good luck, I'll keep my cell on. And there's always the fortune teller if nothing else works." I'd already thought of that. But thanks anyway. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 5. * Katie looks at the two groups, then to Soleil and Kaede. "Do you guys want me to come?" She's pulled herself together fairly admirably. * Kaede looks at Katie, then to Soleil. "I think...I'd like a chance to work with her by myself." Good work. Probably don't need to remind you not to mention that it's urgent. ::she smiles sheepishly at that:: * Katie nods. "Okay." Good luck. * Kaede nods and waits for Soleil to proceed. Ladies first and all that. * Taki nods, "If you need anything just call." * Haruko heals Satoshi. "Will do, but I think we can manage ourselves until you need us." * Soleil proceeds! * Kaede proceeds after! * Katie watches them leave, then goes about helping Haruko with the power supressor doodad. * Taki looks at Katie, "Uh... silly question... I had that up the entire time didn't I?" Yes, you did. [These proceedings are adjourned. Session End!]