[Day: Thursday, April 14th. Time: 2:30 p.m.] [Weather: Rainy.] [You gather at the lockers. Woo.] [Session Start] * Satoshi exchanges his books and then waits for the others to arrive. * Haruko walks down the hallway. She's got an air of disquiet, but unlike yesterday her eyes aren't red. She waves to Satoshi. * Satoshi waves back to Haruko. "Afternoon, Haruko." Hey Satoshi. How did yesterday... ::she glances around:: hmm, that could wait until Taki gets here. * Satoshi sighs. "No use repeating it, yeah. Although I can say it didn't go well." * Taki walks slowly up the hall, and she's got her backpack, which is good, but she's also yawning and might be listing a bit which isn't so good. * Haruko frowns but doesn't look surprised. * Satoshi waves to Taki as she draws nearer. "Afternoon, Taki." He looks concerned. "You didn't sleep well last night?" * Taki blinks blearily up at Satoshi. "Hmm? Oh?" She then shakes her head. "Kinda... had 'nother dream 'bout Yoshiko." * Haruko takes a seat and then looks up at Taki with interest. Ohh. Want to tell us about it now, or wait until everyone's here? * Taki pauses to think about that for a bit. "... I don't mind telling it twice... Uhm... do we know who the Seven of Swords is?" Seven... I don't remember. I don't think so. * Satoshi looks at Haruko. "Do... no, you don't either?" * Haruko shakes her head. * Rowyn has joined #arcana * Taki nods and starts to take her backpack. "She ... worked for Sa... Hideo I mean, same as I did. She had blond hair hair... and was good at pretending she wasn't good with a sword... I don't know if that means anything... I... Yoshiko was doing things I haven't even thought of doing with my power." ...is it weird that the blond hair is the part that seems the strangest to me? * Haruko narrows her eyes. "Do you think she might have been the woman Remi described?" What woman? * Haruko glances up to Satoshi. "Remi's had a few dreams. They're troubling her so I need to call the psychologist. But short version is that she's sneaking around a mansion, then she fights a swordswoman in a bamboo forest." * Katie comes walking down the hall! In a different direction than she usually does, in fact. * Taki nods. "It... maybe... I'd have to talk to her... if that was Hideo's mansion it'd make sense." Yeah, it would... * Satoshi seems slightly disturbed. * Rowyn is now known as Kaede * Haruko nods. "And she was a swordswoman." Haruko flinches. "She impaled Remi's counterpart's hand." ...I really hate how these things seem to cycle. * Katie glances everyone in the eye, then goes about opening her locker. * Satoshi has not seen Katie yet, as his back is to her. He's expecting her to come from the other direction, not be sneaky! (Or maybe he does see her now. Curse my typing a bit late. ;p) (I win!) (I'll get you next time!) * Haruko makes eye contact and looks back to Taki. "Anything else? Oh, and I have something to discuss, weird thing in the middle of a street, but it can wait. Just don't let me forget." * Satoshi waves distractedly to Katie. * Taki blinks at Haruko, blinks at Katie, and then rubs her eyes. "Y... yeah." * Haruko nods and waits for Taki to go on. * Katie nods and works on switching books. Book switching is for everyone! ... That... never mind. Hideo spent a lot of time with a ... ::She trails off and looks at Haruko.:: priest. Yoshiko didn't pry... It wouldn't have been honerable. But they went out a lot... and he'd disappear for days. Was the priest Komine-san? * Haruko nods. "It sounded like they knew each other from what Satoshi said earlier." They did. * Haruko isn't pleased about this, but she doesn't seem deeply troubled either. ... I think so... I... didn't spend much time looking at him... In this life I mean. * Kaede comes down from the other, other direction. You know, the one that they're supposed to come down. He's weighing his kaban over his shoulder as he's holding a book in his hand, open. He snaps it closed before he gets too close to the lockers though and tries to slip it in his kaban unnoticed. He then goes on towards the lockers themselves. * Katie glances at Kaede as he slips his book away. * Satoshi absently waves to Kaede, still giving most of his attention to Taki's story. * Taki is oblivious to Kaede and his books. * Haruko gives a nod to Kaede but isn't really observent enough to notice book stuff. "That's alright Taki, you've given us one big clue already." * Taki shakes her head. "They... they were about to tell me something when I woke... and... I'm sorry... I spent most of the dream... cleaning... Hideo had a big house." * Kaede puts things in his locker and pulls things out without paying too much attention to the group. (I find that oddly amusing. She dreams of housecleaning.) (I dream of Steam Genie?) (She was a combat maid in her past life.) (Ha!) * Haruko snickers. "Not really something you can control Taki." * Taki nods and waits for the Ks so she can tell the begining again. (We're here?) (You're both lockering and it gives he a break from talking.) * Katie finishes, closes her locker, and says, "It's Thursday, right?" Yeah. (Yes. For another 45 minutes at least. ;p) * Taki stays silent on that one. * Katie thinks about that. (Taki's tired. It must be Thursday.) Okay. Does anyone need me for something? I don't. * Haruko glances up to Katie. "We need to talk, but if you've got something to do, it can wait." * Kaede shuts his locker. "What kind of question is that?" If you've got something you need to do, we can fill you in on things later. I... no. * Taki shakes her head. * Katie shakes her head. I don't have anything I need to do. But if we're going to talk, we should do it somewhere else. Then why ask if any of us needed you? * Taki nods slightly and waits for things to make sense again. (She's going to be waiting a loooong time) (Ha.) * Haruko looks like she may have a guess, but she decides to hold her tongue. * Kaede starts to respond, then glances at Satoshi. * Katie shrugs. "Because if you didn't, I was going to leave." Okay. We won't keep you here if you don't want to be here. * Katie shakes her head again. If you need me for something, I should stay. If you want to talk to me, that's needing me. Well, you don't really sound like you want to be here. * Taki looks at Katie and then down. And if we don't, what are you going to do? Climb a tree? * Satoshi chuckles softly. * Haruko keeps looking at Katie and smiles a little at her response. "The question is really whether you want to talk things out now or after having a day off. I can respect either, and this isn't going to be easy." * Taki looks back up at Katie again and looks tired and confused. I'll go with you. Alright. Satoshi's? * Kaede is silent for a little while, staring to the side for a moment, then speaks up again. "You need to think?" * Haruko stands up. "That or live a little." She looks to Satoshi. My place is fine. * Kaede half-glares at Haruko for butting in, but doesn't put much heart in it. * Katie looks at Kaede blankly. "I always need to think." * Haruko shrugs at Kaede. "Okay, Taki, you want to tell them about the dream on the subway? I'll bike over." Yes. Yes you do... ...Okay? * Haruko then walks off to Kyon's bike. * Taki picks her backpack back up. "So... we're going now?" Yep. * Katie nods. * Satoshi grabs his bag and starts heading for the subway. (Alright. So I figure if Katie and Kaede want to RP hearing the dream, do that, if not, fast forward) * Taki takes a few steps twords the door, and after Satoshi passes her she picks up the pace a bit. (We can fast forward. Katie'll pretty much lack comments during the ride.) (So will Satoshi, as he's just heard it.) (FF'll be fine.) (Because it's a pointless waste of Kaede's valuable time.) [And so you arrive at Satoshi's saving the GM from needing to come up with a plot.] (Go us?) (Go us.) (We should get a CP every time we save the GM from needing to come up with plot) (We'd be gods by now) (Quite) (Careful, he'd deduct when we make him think) * Haruko comes in with the rest of you and takes off her shoes. She'd have waited inside, but she doesn't have the keys to Satoshi's apartment. And it would be impolite to pick the lock. (Yes, it would. Though I'm sure she's *never* thought of that, right? ;p) (So everybody but Haruko knows that the seven's name is Mariko Arou) (* Haruko blushes. "It's not impolite to think about it!") (Just like Kyon doesn't ever think about how flammable the stuff in his apartment is) * Katie walks in, taking off her shoes and not bothering with slippers. But she's like that. She goes to have a seat on one of the comfy chairs, curling her legs to the side and setting her head against its back. * Katie plunks her satchel down next to it. Plunk! (I took all the comfy chairs out last week. Sorry. We have stiff, uncomfortable chairs, though.) (Damn. I demand meeting in Kyon's place.) ( I do have the keys to there!) (Haruko doesn't even have to pick the locks for it! She's watching the cat!) * Taki walks in, drops her bag by the door, slips off her shoes, and goes to flop onto one of Satoshi's other chairs. (Which hurts quite a bit as she didn't bother to check it for comfyness first) * Satoshi tosses his bag and his uniform jacket into his bedroom, then returns. "Anyone want something to drink before we continue?" * Katie yawns. "Orange juice?" * Haruko glances at Satoshi. "Water would be fine, thanks." * Taki shakes her head. * Kaede heads on in, doing the shoe changer thing and then sets down his kaban in front of the couch. He sits down on the seat of questionable comfort. * Satoshi nods and goes to get drinks. * Katie idly takes off her jacket and drops that next to her satchel. And she goes about undoing the top button in her blouse. She's stripping! No, wait, she stops there. (Aww, poor Taki) (Damn me and being sleepy and looking the wrong way. ;_;) (No stripping in my living room.) (Actually Katie wants a mint julip.) (We're out of mint.) * Haruko settles a bit and takes off her bag. "This should wait, but yesterday Matthias finally asked for my help. We both investigated this weird figure with a white sphere for a head that apparently only Arcana can see. It was just standing in the middle of the street and had no substance." (Satoshi: Not even Taki? ^_~) (And that's a policy that will probably keep Akemi out. Although Satoshi may be okay with that.) (...erm. *^^* Ahem. No.) * Satoshi returns bearing a glass of water and a glass of orange juice. "A what?" * Katie turns to look at Haruko. "O... kay. Was it wearing anything?" * Taki blinks, but doesn't deflop. "I... that... sounds familiar... It's tall, right?" * Satoshi distributes drinks. "Familiar?" * Kaede turns to look at Haruko. This sounds intriguing. Just a black robe with black hood. No real features. Although it could have been a white mask, there were mouth and eye dots. * Haruko looks to Taki. "Great! We can give Matthias something." She sighs. "He thought some of my ideas were good, but I really wasn't of much help." Ideas for what? Theories? * Taki sits up slowly. "It... was someplace weird... and Kyon... and som... Ah! I... er, it's in the World Reversed, but, I think he said it wasn't Arcana." Then what is it? * Kaede looks at Haruko. "Something spiritual?" * Haruko nods at Satoshi's comment. "Ah, World Reversed. That would make sense. We can go there later and see if it is at the same place." * Haruko looks to Kaede. "Err, that was one of my guesses that Matthias wasn't so keen on." 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-2) and gets 7. * Katie shifts. "How would we get there?" * Satoshi sits on the floor. All the chairs are occupied, dangit! I meant the location in the real world. It should look the same. Its real-world counterpart, then. * Taki rubs her head. "It... was standing in the middle of an intersection... and facing twords The Tower." Haruko? That match up? Why would it appear only to Arcana? Near Seiryuu? Yeah, we walked from there. It's....mmm... * Haruko nods. "This one was too. Worth checking if it's the same intersection though." She gets a contemplative look. "I wonder what it faced before the tower." (Was it near Seiryuu?) * Kaede contemplates. "I have an idea. I'd need to know the intersection though..." Whatever the manifestation of the Tower was before Tokyo Tower? Probably. If it even existed back then. It sounds like it's a recent discovery. Does it move from its spot? Not while I was watching. It didn't move or respond at all. * Taki shakes her head. "... I can't remember which one it was.... Sorry." * Kaede nods and opens his kaban, taking out his laptop. "Can you take me to the intersection?" * Haruko frowns. "It was actually near Matthias's school. Well we'll check there and then we'll check the one Taki saw." * Haruko gives Kaede the address. "I'd like to talk over a few things first, but I'm up for doing that right after." * Katie closes her eyes. That's even better....I don't have to leave... Though I'd prefer to see it in person.. * Taki slumps. "I... don't want to walk around today." * Haruko nods. "I do wonder if we can plot out the observor and the towers and it will turn out to be some sort of giant pentagram or something like in X." That's one thing I'm starting...but there's something else to check... What else? The whole Arcana phenomenon got screwed up around World War II time correct? Because a lot of them died in the bombing... yeah... What if we cross-reference a map of today with a map of Tokyo during that time? Sounds interesting. * Haruko nods. "Could be something important happened there. Or some important building was there. Unfortunately it doesn't show up in photographs, well digital photographs, so old pictures will probably only be somewhat useful. * Kaede has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Kaede keeps typing. "It's still worth a check. At worse, I've got a database started on these phenomena." * Haruko nods. "I agree. Probably still worth getting photographs. Just don't hope for much." She then looks to Satoshi and Katie. "So while he's working at that, what happened yesterday?" * Katie blinks open her eyes. "Maybe Satoshi should tell you." * Haruko looks to Satoshi to see if he's amenable. * Taki continues to slump on Satoshi's furniture. [Pause session]