[Day: Tuesday, April 5th. Time: 3:30 p.m.] [Weather: Cloudy but warm.] [You teleport to the scene of the last incident. The house has a police line across it, but there's no actual cops there at the moment, since it's been a few days. Shortly after teleporting, Taki complains of not feeling well. She leans on Katie for support and *poof!* they vanish.] [Session Start!] Taki? Katie? * Satoshi looks at Kaede. "Do you think she meant to do that?" * Kaede looks at Katie and Taki, then at Satoshi, then...just sighs and rubs the bridge of his nose. "I suspect not.." And I could try tracking them by phone but if Taki's field's still acting up... * Satoshi sighs. "I hope they're all right. They could be anywhere..." Well, let's hope it goes down and we can get in contact with them soon. They'll be back when they can...you have to have faith in them. * Satoshi nods. "You're right. So... looks like the place is clear, at least for the moment." * Kaede nods and looks it over. He didn't really check out the neighborhood before... * Kaede sighs and steps forward finally towards the police tape. "Is anyone watching?" * Satoshi looks around. "Don't think so." [The police tape does not explode. You should be grateful.] ( But give me awareness checks ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 3. (Yes.) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Neither one of you sees if anyone is watching!] * Satoshi takes another look around. "Yeah, it seems clear." * Kaede nods "Good enough." He ducks under the tape and walks up towards the house, trying to get a better look at it as he goes up. What does he see? * Satoshi follows Kaede, taking care not to accidentally pull the tape too hard and break it. [Kaede sees a house!] [And Satoshi doesn't break the tape. It's pretty durable stuff.] (Thanks a lot ;P High class? Low class? Two story? One story? Oriental design? European design?) ( It's utterly housish in appearance. ) [It's a small middle-class house with a pointed roof.] * Kaede walks up to the window and cups his hand at his brow, trying to peek in. "Satoshi, can you see any hint inside of who lives here? Anything at all that might give it away..." * Satoshi takes another look around, seeking for evidence of the residents. (Awareness check?) ( Yeah ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 10, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "If I go crazy, will you still call me Superman?" (...) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 8. (Kaede sees evidence of space aliens!) (Oh double dear.) (Meanwhile, I see nothing. Nothing!) (Not only does Kaede see something horribly wrong, Satoshi sees no evidence to counteract it) [Satoshi can't tell, but Kaede catches a brief glimpse of some movement. Something with tentacles.] (...) * Kaede peers and tries to get a closer look. ( ^^ ) [Kaede doesn't see it now; it went around a corner inside the house.] * Satoshi shakes his head. "Nothing really obvious... do you see something?" ( It's always you two that I get to have the most fun with XD ) (Because we fail our awareness rolls on a horribly consistent basis. ;p) (But you have to pick something that's believeable sometimes, Brett. >.>) ( What, tentacles aren't believable? ) ( Maybe it's an Arcana! ) * Kaede stares and then, after a while, shakes his head. "No...no nothing." You sure? [Kaede glimpses it again! Just for a second.] * Kaede stares for a little bit longer. Then nods. Even if he did see what he saw, there's no way he'd want to follow it. [Gimme hearing checks! +4!] 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6+2) and gets 9. (Ha. No.) 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6+2) and gets 7. (Woo) [Kaede hears a noise from the cellar, through the door. Maybe tentacles?] * Kaede glances at Satoshi and gestures, heading slowly for the cellar. He whispers, "I think something's down there..." * Satoshi whispers back. "Oh?" He slowly heads for the cellar as well. [The door is closed! It's pretty thick, too!] (Closed or locked? :P) ( Try it and see. ) * Kaede puts his hand in his shirt and tries the doorknob/handle [The door opens, revealing behind it, certain doom.] [A.K.A. Tentacles! A bunch of green tentacles flow out of the door! Kaede, unarmed (grappling) roll!] (...) ( It's believable now! XD ) (Somehow, I don't think that's what he meant.) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 5. ( I'm pretty sure theres a bonus or penalty to tentacles grabbing, too, but I don't have my book >.< ) (...tentacle bonus. Yes. Just in case you forgot you were in an anime RPG system. ^^;) (Hey, it IS a flexible attack) [Kaede gets grappled by the tentacles! They wrap around his waist and wrists.] What the...! ( Betcha didn't see that coming. ) * Kaede grits his teeth and tries to struggle away from them. "Get them off me!" * Satoshi wades in and tries to pull the tentacles off Kaede. ( Gimme a body roll! ) (SS or no?) ( Yeah ) 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-4) and gets 2. (Yep.) ( By? ) (5.) [The tentacles struggle, but Satoshi manages to pull them off of Kaede with some effort.] [They retreat into the room.] And *stay* back! Kaede, you okay? * Kaede takes a step back and rubs his wrist. "Yeah...I'm fine...what the hell WAS that?" I have *no* idea. ( tentacles, obviously. ) I don't think it wants us to go down there, though. * Kaede eyes the cellar. "Perhaps not. But I don't think that's going to stop us." * Satoshi sets down his sports bag for a second and draws his hockey stick. "Okay. I'll go first." * Kaede nods and readies himself behind Satoshi * Satoshi grips the stick tightly and heads for the cellar! [There's tentacles blocking the door.] (I thought they withdrew into the room?) ( Well, since Kaede wasn't in the room when they attacked... ) (But you said they retreated into the room.) ( Well assuming they had, they're now blocking the door. >.> ) (Okay, but the last thing you said before now was that they'd retreated, so hopefully you understand my confusion.) (That having been said...) * Satoshi takes a mighty swing at the evil evil tentacles! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-3) and gets 8. (And misses! Go Satoshi! ;p) [Satoshi hits his hockey stick on the wall next to the door.] * Kaede watches the tentacles. Yep, they're certainly tentacles alright. "There's got to be an explan...Satoshi, you don't sense a field do you?" (I don't know; do I?) ( No :P ) No! If there's no field, there's no way that these could be Arcana...people wouldn't leave them out in the open like this... ( Behind a closed door :P ) * Kaede eyes the tentacles suspiciously. (But Kaede saw them outside ;P) ( Once the door was opened. ) (No, before it was...oh nevermind..) Well, whatever it is, it needs to get out of our way! * Satoshi swings again. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-3) and gets 7. (No. Again.) [Satoshi hits the door this time.] * Kaede puts his hand on Satoshi's shoulder. "Wait..." Okay. * Kaede looks at the tentacles. "What if it's Meimi doing this..?" It's possible, but *why*? It makes as much sense as anything else that has to deal with Arcana, doesn't it? True. Meimi? Is this yours? If it's not...then we have to consider that someone can summon these types of...things. Or someone's messing with our heads.. (*Haruko looks in. "Tentacles? Dang it, my channel was supposed to be the one with sexual tension.") ( I speak for both my player and myself when I say that you scare me.) Great. So in other words, business as usual. * Satoshi eyes the tentacles. "I don't suppose you'll be nice and just let us pass?" [The tentacles move. Inside, at the other side of the room, there's a tall, lanky teenager. He's got black hair, parted down the middle. He's wearing cargo pants and a sleeveless green shirt, as well as riding goggles. "There's nothing here," He says to someone you can't see (the tentacles are in the way). "We may as well..." He stops in mid-sentence and turns his head towards you.] [He stands there, closed lipped!] * Kaede watches the guy watching him. And lets Satoshi do all the talking. Ha! Hi. What the hell is this? [The tentacles regress underneath a white and grey windbreaker, worn by a short girl. She's got big round eyes and short hair, but with a long braid, tied with a ribbon near her knees. She's wearing a red and blue racer's suit, and big thick boots. "Huh?"] * Kaede looks at Satoshi. "I think you could have introduced yourself with a better line than that." Oh, trust me, they're thinking the same thing. * Kaede looks down the stairwell and steps in, looking carefully. "You'll have to forgive us, it's not every day we see a doorway blocked like...well, like that." Yeah, that was... freaky. Really freaky. The girl chuckles. "Ehee. Sorry, they're kinda hard to control. I don't always know what they're doing." ....that must make it really hard on a date... [She blushes, then raises a fist. "Oh yeah?! Like you would know any better, four eyes!"] The goggles guy asks: "Who are you people?" * Kaede walks forward, slowly descending the stairs, but keeping an eye out on both of them. "We could ask you the same thing..." (Kaede made a tentacle sex joke? Whoa.) ( He's a hacker. Hacker = internet user = porn :P ) (Not necessarily, but it could be implied ^^;) (Don't make me break out the Avenue Q sountrack.) (It could also be something that could be interpretted ten times worse than it was meant to. ^_~) (I.e. Almost everything that Kaede normally says) "Yes. But I asked you first." But we have an obvious reason for being here. You, I've never seen before. ( Brett realizes these people should have names. ) He smirks and folds his arms. "Oh? What's your reason?" ( I think what you mean Rowyn is that it could be interpretted ten times worse than Kaede will later claim it was meant to be. :P" * Kaede folds his arms. "We're trying to figure out what was going on here from the last time that we were here. That's what." (Greg: Please. Let ME do the interpretation of my own characters? ^^;) (That takes all the fun out of it. :P) "And what happened then?" * Kaede frowns. "Someone got hurt. What's with all the questions anyways?" "You tell me. I've never seen you before, either." * Kaede finishes going the rest of the way down, eying the guy. And sideglancing at the girl, but mostly the guy. [The girl pulls down an eyelid and sticks her tongue out at Kaede.] Not so fast...why are you here? It's not as if you're exactly lacking in suspicion yourself.." * Satoshi chuckles softly. "Looking for something." * Kaede turns around and gazes at Satoshi. "Must you encourage her?" Sorry, sorry. * Satoshi sends to Kaede, ~They certainly don't trust us.~ * Kaede mutters out of the corner of his mouth. "What? You expected them to?" He turns back to the other two. "Looking for what exactly? Evidence? An artifact? Clues to a person?" He gestures around: "Speaking of people, whoever was hurt clearly isn't here anymore. So why are you here?" Because we want to know why they were taken and who was the one most responsible. I mean... * Kaede gestures to the house. "There must have been someone who put up this house to use for the kidnapping in the first place.." He chuckles. "'Most' responsible?" * Kaede sighs. "There's more than one. I want to know who ordered it. I mean, wouldn't you? Beyond just...lackeys? "I suppose so." "Well, you won't find anything here. The police took any clues with them." * Kaede eyes the guy. "Then why are you here? Unless you suspected they didn't..." "Didn't I mention it already? We're looking for something. Or were. It's pointless to continue, there's nothing here." * Kaede keeps staring. "Which you haven't said what it is." He shoves his hands in his pockets and turns his head to the girl. "Ai, let's go. It's pointless to stay here any longer." [He makes for the door. The girl wanders after him.] ( Which, incidently, is towards you, also. ) * Kaede steps aside and lets them pass like a gentleman. * Kaede doesn't stop staring at the guy though. * Satoshi gets out of their way as well. [Yes he does. As they pass, the girl moves in front of Kaede, sticks out her tongue, puts her thumbs in her ears and wiggles her fingers.] * Kaede rolls his eyes at that but doesn't retaliate. Hmmph. On the way out, the guy turns around. "In case you don't know it already, you're in way over your heads here. I'd advise you to quit before you get hurt any further." * Satoshi looks at Kaede. "When have we *not* been in over our heads?" How do you even know how far in we are? "Probably not as far as you think." * Kaede turns his eyes towards the guy, not losing his expression. "While I appreciate the concern, you don't know anything about me." He adjusts his glasses and looks at him. "Let me handle things my way." "I wasn't saying it for your sake. I'm telling you so you don't get in our way." Oh how wonderful. Maybe it's you who are getting in ours. * Kaede eyes him. "After all, you weren't involved in what went down here that I could see.." "You don't see very far." * Kaede doesn't dignify that with an answer, just going to look at the pipes. " [They go away.] * Kaede lets out a breath. "I thought they'd never leave.." He looks around. "Who still has a cellar like this anyways?" * Satoshi shrugs, as he figures that was a mostly-rhetorical question. "So, what exactly are we looking for?" Mostly anything to tell us who owns this place and why they'd bring Katie here. Did Katie say anything about what she remembered? * Satoshi shakes his head. But if the website traced to here, then obviously the owner of this house must be the owner of that site...I want to know who the hell would put up a picture of Katie, of those other girls, up on the Net... I thought we suspected it was Tenjiro? (It's Arcana-Bay) * Kaede closes his eyes. "That girl....the one with the windbreaker...I wonder if she's on the site too..." We could look it up at some point. Did she look familiar at all? * Kaede shakes his head. "Suspecting something and being certain are two entirely different things, Satoshi. We can't depend on suspicion alone..." He sighs. "That's what Katie and I don't like about Haruko in the first place..." Ah. Right. Even if it was Tenjirou, it leaves us with the mystery of why he'd even make a site like that... Because he's sick and perverted? And egotistical to boot. He's also an idiot. I don't suspect someone like that really knows how to maintain a website. I could be wrong... (Kaede should use the internet more. Many idiots have websites. ^_~) I'd have to look at the code. If it's a carbon copy version of the ones you can just post up, then maybe... (True, but Tenjirou's the type of idiot that seems like he'd think computers were boring. ;P) * Satoshi looks around the room some more. "So we'll look at it when we get out of here." Right. (Point. :P) * Kaede sighs. "But I suspect he's right...I doubt they left anything behind.." And they could've taken something with them, too, although I didn't see anything. Wouldn't you have read that intent too? You were scanning the whole time I thought... I was, but I can only get so much. Just that they wondered who they were and decided we weren't trustworthy. Not much that wasn't evident from the way they were acting. (Oh, and the girl didn't think much of your potential dating skills, but that's irrelevant.) (And obvious ;P) ( She hit right on the money XD ) ( Scan shows signs of intelligent life. So at least we agree on something... * Kaede unfolds his arms and starts to search for any signs of ownership that may have been missed. [Session End!]