[Day: Friday, April 8th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Rainy.] [You gather at the lockers. But not Haruko. Go figure.] [Session Start!] * Katie comes walking down the hall. She's looking... well, like her. She's twirling a pencil for no apparent reason. "Hi, Satoshi." Afternoon, Katie. How're you doing? * Katie looks Satoshi in the eye, then shrugs. "As good as ever." She fiddles with her combination lock. * Kaede walks down slowly down the hall afterwards. He has a folded piece of paper inbetween his fingers as he heads on down, looking intently. * Taki walks up the hall and waves to Satoshi and Katie when she sees them. Mmm. * Katie tucks the pencil away and opens her locker when she's finished with the lock. She looks over at Kaede, then Taki in turn, and waves back. * Satoshi waves to Taki. * Kaede stops midhallway and looks around a little more. He lets out a disgruntled breath and puts the paper back in his kaban. "Figures.." What? * Taki blinks at Kaede, looks up and down the hall, and then waves to him too. * Kaede shakes his head. "Nothing important." He halfheartedly waves at Taki as he slips the paper into the folds and closes it back up. * Katie tilts her head, looking at Kaede for a moment, then nods. "All right." She goes about equipping herself for homework. * Taki makes it to the lockers, "Uhm... so is there some rule that nobody told me about that says Haruko and Kaede can't be in the same place at the same time anymore?" * Satoshi looks at Kaede out of the corner of his eye. "Not that I know. Maybe she had to stay late in class or something." What told you that? I didn't make that rule, if it's out there. Knowing her, she probably caught herself drooling over a pretty car...or boy...or pretty boy in a pretty car. ( Hey! Wait, no, that's fair.) * Katie closes her locker and looks to the others. "You could always call her." * Taki looks down for a bit, "Well... Kaede didn't show up yesterday and wanted to go to the opposite place that she did, and then he's here today and she isn't... I've missed a lot latly So... Sorry if I ask weird things." * Kaede flips open his notepad and licks the pen without looking at Taki. "Is it my obligation to be in your sight all the time, Shimiru-san?" * Katie snickers. "No, just Haruko's." * Katie pulls out her phone and dials the mechanic in question. She is the queen after all. * Katie nods, putting her phone to her ear. * Taki waves both hands in front of her in protest. "Nononono I've just been trying to figure out what's been going on that's all." Hi, Haruko? * Satoshi half-smiles. "Well, if we're going to pull rank, don't I trump you all?" But I don't believe in that sort of thing anyway, so. I don't really care. * Kaede then quiets and perks one ear towards Katie's half of the conversation * Taki looks at Satoshi and gives him a very small nod, "Uh..right." * Satoshi rolls his eyes slightly and refrains from mentioning that Kaede was the one who brought it up in the first place. * Katie frowns a little. "Sure. We probably won't be by the lockers then. If there's a problem calling us, try..." She looks between the others. "Satoshi's." * Satoshi nods. * Katie hangs up. "One mystery solved." She busy? Yeah. Kyon called. Oh. Huh. Sounds li... Oh. Kyon... * Kaede frowns slightly. "I'd almost forgotten about him.." Well, don't. Haruko said she was sending him emails about what's been going on. * Katie rubs her face with her hand. "Satoshi, have you seen Jin lately?" I don't forget things *that* easily..don't worry. (Has Jin been at the apartment, or has he been gone?) (and are the chickens still there?) ( The chickens remain, but Jin hasn't been around. ) * Satoshi shakes his head. "Come to think of it, I haven't seen him in a while. I still have the chickens, but if he's come back, it's been when I wasn't around." * Katie blinks. "Huh." Okay. I think we should go to your place. * Taki nods at Katie and then looks at Kaede for a moment and turns to Satoshi. (and doesn't say anything 'cause he just left.) * Kaede looks back at Taki. "What? * Satoshi nods. "Fine by me." * Taki looks back at Kaede and shakes her head, "It's... not important." I highly doubt that. You wouldn't hesitate if that were true. ( Your fly is down.) * Taki looks at Satoshi, "The chickens... are still all over the place right?" Yes. I'm waiting to see what happens with Jin before trying to get rid of them. * Taki nods to herself and then looks at Kaede again, "Uhm...Then... could you maybe build ... like a cage for them or something?" * Satoshi snorts. What? Me? Why me? * Katie shakes her head. Uhm... Because you and Haruko are the only ones with tools... and she's not here right now? I can build one. Actually, they're fairly well-trained. For chickens, at least. So let's worry about housing them later and head off to my place now. * Kaede sighs and rubs his head. "It's not like I could make one overnight...unless it were a wooden one, and I'm sorry to say I'm all out of wood scraps..." I have to admit that I'm getting a little tired of omelettes, though. But whatever. Let's just go. Have chicken noodle soup? They kinda looked at me funny last time I had some. * Taki blinks at Katie, "You can? That'd be... Uh yeah... Uhm... if nobody minds I'd like to walk until I get this field thing a bit more sorted." * Katie nods to Taki. "We can walk." She heads out! * Kaede hefts his kaban and follows Katie. * Taki lets out a sigh and grabs Satoshi's arm and starts walking to his place. * Satoshi shifts so that Taki can hold onto him comfortably, then leads the way. * Katie walks. She walks for Satoshi's apartment. And she's frowning, just a little. * Satoshi walks and walks and walks, and eventually they arrive at his apartment! * Satoshi unlocks the door and lets everyone in, shooing a chicken out of the way. It clucks at him. He ignores it. Would anybody like something to drink? * Kaede looks at Katie oddly for a moment but concentrates on walking * Katie smiles a little, stepping in and slipping off her shoes. She avoids stepping on a chicken. "Yeah, okay. Orange juice or Coke, if you have it." Pause. "Not at the same time." Nah, I don't think it'd be a good combination. And I have both, so which do you want? * Katie laughs. "Coke. Thanks." * Taki lets go of Satoshi to take off her shoes. "Just some juice please." * Satoshi goes to the kitchen to prepare drinks. Haruko is not there, so she cannot complain about the lack of alcohol. ;p * Kaede slips off his shoes without a response. * Satoshi comes back from the kitchen with a Coke for Katie and a glass of orange juice for Taki. He sets them on the small table in the living room, then goes back to the kitchen and gets himself a glass of water. * Taki makes sure there arn't any chickens under the table before she sits down at it and picks up the glass. * Katie sighs, sinking into the couch and takes the glass. "Thanks." She has a sip, then sets it on the coffee table. * Satoshi sits in the armchair and has a sip of water. * Katie sighs. "Okay, so..." We got the reading from Saori. * Taki looks at Katie and nods, "Uhm... She's still mad isn't she?" Really mad, yeah. She doesn't want to see you or Haruko again. * Taki shivers and then nods, "I... I need to find a way to apologize to her." * Katie nods. "Good luck with that." You might want to give her time to cool first. Until then, um... well, the rest of us can talk to her. * Taki nods back. "So... what did she say?" * Katie looks to Kaede. "You've got the spread, right?" * Kaede slumps down in the chair. "That she didn't want to deal with you two ever again..." He digs for his notepad. "But besides that..." * Satoshi sighs quietly. Let's see...Nine of Cups, Chariot, Moon, The Tower, Death. * Katie digs in her satchel and pulls out a rough carving and sheathed knife. It doesn't look like much yet. * Katie unsheathes the knife and turns the wood in her hand before getting to work. * Taki blinks, "... So that's ...Tenjirou... The Chariot, Meimi, Tokyo T..." (Katie's making voodoo dolls...) * Taki trails off at the sight of the knife and then presses on, "Tower and Saki?" Don't always automatically assume that the Arcana means the person. (One of Tenjirou, one of Souichirou, which doubles as Kyon...) But it's possible... (As long as there isn't one of me I approve of this plan.) * Satoshi watches Katie work, trying to figure out what she's going to make. If Tenjirou's still alive, and we think he is... He has to be somewhere in intensive care. He was pretty hurt at the end. Unless he's got some sort of healing ability, or a healer on his side... * Taki nods at Katie, "...Haruko told me what S...happend." * Katie nods. "Or the Cup." Saki has that. One's the where, one's the obstacle, and one's the condition. Chariot's pretty obviously the obstacle. Saori thought the Moon was the location... Or the Tower. ...Meimi's at the hospital... maybe he's there too? (Obviously Haruko needs to build a rocket.) * Kaede looks at Taki. "And you're wrong. The Tower is usually reversed if it refers to Tokyo Tower. I think in this case, it might be the meaning of the cards... * Taki nods at Kaede. "So... bad things happen." Bad things always happen. (That could be the new subtitle. :P) Well Tower so... Worse things? * Katie doesn't look up from her carving. "We should check the hospital and the tower." She pauses, then adds, "Maybe where I was found. The... place with the closet." Also, Kaede? Mmm? Can you hack into student records and find out where Tenjirou lives? Probably...I mostly didn't want anything to do with him but... ...We need to find him. * Kaede opens up his kaban and slips out his laptop. "Even so, the cards don't really point towards his house.." Even so, we should know anyway. It could be useful. * Kaede eyes Satoshi steadily. What? * Kaede shakes his head. "Nothing. I'll check it out." Okay. Thanks. * Katie sets the carving down to pick up her drink and have another sip. * Kaede opens his laptop and boots it up, typing away. * Katie puts the glass back down, then goes back to carving. "So, we have places to look into. Also, we talked to Sumire." She pauses. "Should I hold off on that until Haruko's here?" So uhm... Katie and somebody go to the hospital... Kaede or Satoshi goes to ... to where Katie was..., I ... go to the tower, and Haruko... goes with somebody who isn't Kaede? I think we should go in twos. Even if it does take a little longer. Definitely go in twos. * Taki nods, "Okay... which two places first?" * Kaede meanwhile tries to connect to the Tokugawa school database. Wee! * Katie takes a breath. "The hospital and the hotel." The tower's more likely than the hotel, but if we check that, there's the field. You'll want more people. * Taki nods. "Yeah... I shouldn't... I mean if I accidentally field in there..." If he's at the Tower, someone's probably found him by now. Odd place to go if you're wounded. No, reversed. I know it came upright. But we should check reversed. I meant that. * Katie nods. Still, if Chariot or Ryo's with him... Yeah. * Katie snaps her fingers. "Oh!" Hmm? No. I know where else we should check. Where? * Katie picks her carving back up again. She waves vaguely with her knife. "Remember the construction site?" * Kaede just types and lets Katie talk. Oh, yeah. Where Taki and I first met Saki. Where we first met the Chariot. Where we saw Chariot? Yeah. * Katie pauses. "I mean, the one that eats people. Anyway..." (We'd actually been there recently) We should check there. (We should check again!) (We checked it out back when looking for Katie.) (I know, just reminding as it's easy to forget. :P) Was that where we got attacked that one time, when the Saki we know was investigating the drugs? * Katie nods at Satoshi. * Taki nods, "I remember there... but if all of us go to the Tower it's going to be..." She shakes her head. "Maybe I'll figure it out tomorrow, and then we won't have to worry." Okay. Definitely check that out, then. A *lot* has happened there. ( /me boggles. Can't say I expected this. ) (What? Murder plots?) 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-6) and gets -1. So... we've got four places to look now... And who's going where when? We can look today, if Kyon doesn't take all of Haruko's time. * Taki shakes her head, "Uhm... twos you said right? So two to one place and two to another and we all go to the Tower tomorrow?" What? * Kaede lets off a final keystroke. "And got it." * Katie nods. "But Haruko will be calling or something eventually." * Katie looks to Kaede. Yeah? * Kaede turns the screen towards Katie. It definitely looks like an address. It might even be Tenjirou's! * Taki nods and then looks at Kaede. Already? That was fast... and now we've got five places to look. * Katie thinks. Kaede, check his family status. Parents? Relatives? Can you see if he's been in school lately? * Kaede nods and does so. * Taki takes a sip of juice and ponders. * Katie blinks as her phone rings, and she sets the carving down to pick up, checking ID first. "" * Taki watches Katie and sips more juice. We're at Satoshi's. Okay. Talk to you then, I guess. * Katie hangs up. "Haruko's on her way." She tucks the phone away. Ah ...okay... Uhm... do you want me to tell about Remi... or do you want to wait for her to get here and tell? * Katie shrugs. "If you remember it all." * Taki nods, "There wasn't that much to remember." [Session End]