[Day: Saturday, April 17th. Time: Late] [Weather: None.] (It's Chie's birthday! Too bad this is the wrong game. ;p) [And so you're chasing after a Black who has a hold of the black Pentacle. Shika is with you! Katie saw him for dart around a corner some number of blocks away, then lost track of him. It'll take some time to get to him, probably, so....] [Session Start!] * Haruko attempts to quietly follow Katie while idly tapping at the side of her head. * Satoshi sends to Haruko. ~Yes?~ * Shika follows at a distance. "So... you got a plan for fighting this guy?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 5. * Katie shrugs as she sneaks quickly along. "I'm not much of a fighter," she says softly. Didn't stop you last time. ~Grr... Katie's rushing into combat again.~ ~We should have a car, then this sort of thing would be simpler~ ~She blew it last time.~ ~Gah, she's probably right at the moment, I'm too hard on her.~ ~Anyways, just be ready to say stop if we need to.~ (Haruko's not being that subtle, so not borrowing with other chan.) * Haruko keeps moving quietly and drops the tapping. * Kaede walks along, glancing at Katie and Shika for a moment. "Do we even know any of his abilities?" ~I don't think we could rely on cars here.~ No clue. Guess better than ours. We have numbers. (Satoshi done reading?) * Kaede blows out a breath. "Perfect. So generally our usual situation." (Yeah.) Work with Haruko, Kaede. And do what? Water and sparks. (Signal again if there's something else you want him to hear.) Well, that was pretty much a given. * Haruko 's nods with a sad expression. "If I find water." Sewer, maybe. (Kaede and Haruko working together was pretty much a given? ^_~) You can always be your own puddle. * Shika folds her arms, closing her eyes a long moment. * Haruko nods and speaks quietly. "I'll try sewer first." (In this case, yes.) * Haruko does get out a piece of paper from her backpack though as she walks. She slowly begins folding it into a paper wand. She's not worrying about doing a great job of it. (By the way, in the event that we do end the game, please don't turn us all to goo. ;p) (Except Haruko. She can turn back. :P) (He'll turn us into peacocks instead.) (Why peacocks?) ( I'm more likely to nuke Tokyo. ) ( It'd be like Hiroshima all over again! Good times! ) * Katie glances back to make sure everyone's keeping up. * Shika is keeping up. Though still at the rear. "Hope you've got some good ideas. I won't kill anyone." (Why not peacocks?) (Point.) (I need to make a Hera themed character some day.) * Haruko nods without comment at Shika's statement. She keeps working at her wand. * Satoshi sighs. "So are we going to just confront him or try to sneak around?" And surprise him. * Kaede glances at Shika briefly then turns ahead. "Where did we last see him? * Katie says, slightly annoyed, "Trust me." * Haruko is content to do that for the moment. Her paper wand is increasingly developing a WWW shape. (WWW not meaning world wide web, just zig zaggy.) ( Aww ) Sneak around and surprise him. That's facing too, right? Just with the advantage to us. If he's who we're looking for, he probably won't like us living. * Haruko nods. * Haruko , as an obvious after thought adds, "Thanks for elaborating." Her tone is genuine, not caustic. I'm getting pretty used to that. If it works. It's something. Do you have a better idea, Shika? * Kaede looks at Shika again and shakes his head. "We improvise. It's what we're good at." * Haruko snorts at that. Not really, but it's something. Not particularly. Okay. * Katie sneaks! She tries to keep an eye out for places for Haruko to get water. * Shika follows! * Haruko finishes her wand. She tries focusing on controlling the water beneath the street in the sewers. * Satoshi keeps an eye out for things! What kind of things? Well, mainly things that might possibly be trying to kill them. Which could be a lot. (Satoshi's good like that.) * Shika cracks her knuckles. * Haruko frowns and tries concentrating harder. She seems to be paying less attention to where she's going. * Kaede reaches into his coat and pulls out a wrench as quietly as he can. As usual. * Katie speaks up. Again, the voice is soft: "Remember, Winston said Blacks aren't human. If it's anything like the one we've met before, we can't talk with it, and it might be very tough." * Kaede speaks back softly. "Well, that's comforting." * Haruko looks up at Katie and then to Kaede as they speak and doesn't notice a raised edge in the sidewalk. Hm. ... Well, that and it's helping to kill us all. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. * Haruko then loses her balance and flails a bit as she trips and falls. Her wand has a neat fluttery effect as she does this. Otherwise, not so impressive. * Satoshi notices Haruko start to trip and reaches out to steady her, but he's just a bit too late. * Satoshi helps her back up instead. * Katie winces when she hears Haruko fall. She stops and looks back. * Haruko blushes and speaks quietly. "I think I'll need to be by a manhole to reach the water." She's helped up. "Thank you Satoshi." * Katie nods. * Katie waits for Haruko to recover, then she gets back on the trail, looking for a good way to cut whatever it is off and be by a manhole cover, both at the same time! Be careful. * Haruko nods and pays more attention to where she's going. * Shika rubs her chin in thought. She sighs in frustration. Hm? * Shika shrugs. "I don't know what to do." What can you do? * Katie stops a moment, listens, and then takes a right, still moving quietly. * Satoshi follows. * Shika answers hesitantly. "A lot." Do you think you can stop it if it wants to kill us? * Haruko listens for now, and walks. * Shika nods. "Yeah." She sounds hesitant, however. You don't want to overdo it? * Katie glances back again. * Kaede looks at Shika when she talks, watching her carefully. * Shika turns toward Haruko. "I won't kill," she says with an air of finality. Then don't. * Haruko nods. "Do those creatures count?" * Kaede sighs. "Will you protect yourself?" Yeah. I don't know what they are. Could be human souls, for all we know. I won't take that chance." And... I won't let you kill, either. So come up with a plan, and make it a good one. * Haruko smiles slightly. "Alright. What card are you then? Makes a difference with the Pentacle." You tell me yours, and I'll tell you mine. Queen of Cups. ( King of Cups. ...dammit.) (Nah, she's the Ace.) * Kaede taps his foot, waiting for exposition. She didn't answer his question, so... * Shika waits. "All of you. I don't intend to reveal my own card without knowing yours." * Katie shrugs. "I'm the Page of Swords." * Satoshi sends to Katie. ~What should I tell her?~ * Katie thinks back, ~Whatever you want. I don't think she's after Judgement, if you want to tell the truth.~ ~Lying would probably get us in more trouble.~ ~It might.~ * Kaede unfolds his arms and shrugs. "I didn't think you'd take just one. Two of Pentacles." * Haruko frowns at the all request. * Katie doesn't seem to care very much, for some reason. * Satoshi takes a deep breath. "Judgement." * Shika straightens. "High Priestess." * Katie blinks. Huh. * Kaede stares at Shika for a moment. "...really..." * Haruko lets out a breath. "You can't handle the Pentacle then. I suggest you focus on getting it away from our assailant. If I have water, I can help hold off the summons." * Kaede glances at Satoshi for a moment. * Satoshi looks back at Kaede. "Yeah?" * Kaede shakes his head and rubs his forehead, though half tapping his temple while he does it. "Oh, nothing. Just forget it." Right. * Satoshi sends to Kaede. ~Yes?~ ~I still can't get used to this. Gah, this is insane.~ * Katie nods and gets to business. "Haruko holds off the things with her water. I'll try to knock... it... over and pin it. If it turns out too tough, I don't know what else I can do, exactly. Kaede has to grab the pentacle once it's unconscious or pinned. Satoshi and Shika, can you cover for him?" ~Everything's insane.~ Yeah. * Kaede starts and looks at Katie. "What, ME? Why--well, yeah of course. I have to be the first one to go crazy..." It's a Pentacle, Kaede, and you're the only one we've got. * Kaede then stares back at Satoshi. ~You do realize that someone's out to kill her, right?~ * Katie smiles a little. "We're all crazy here, Kaede." (Did Kaede ever mention that to us?) ~Shika? Who?~ (Not Katie, I know.) Yeah, I can do that. * Haruko thinks. "That works, but if your power doesn't work after a couple of tries Katie, I think Shika and Satoshi should take over trying to get it away." Yeah, I was going to say. I'm not the strongest Arcana. ~Don't know. We overheard a phone call down at the bridge. Me and Soliel. The man... he was older by quite a bit. I'm not sure if he was the one who hired or the killer. Probably the one who hired the killer if all Arcana are our age...~ ~But he was a foreigner...~ ~And they're after the High Priestess?~ * Kaede suddenly reaches into his pocket and starts flipping through a small notepad. Right. So for my end, we need to get a manhole nearby and make sure my wall can protect the rest of you. If the summons don't go away immediately when we have the pentacle, run. I can hold them off and then escape later to the sewars. * Katie nods. "If we have to use the black pentacle to make them go away, Kaede's our best bet." * Shika scratches her cheek. Yeah. But using it might be dangerous. Our top priority is making sure they can't make more. I'm just saying. * Haruko nods. "You're right. If we have to use it, Kaede's our best bet." * Haruko looks to Shika. "Got it?" * Kaede looks up slightly at Katie. "And you think we'll have to use it?" * Shika nods. "Yeah... I got it." One more thing. If it's holding the pentacle and doesn't have a strong grip, I'll try to knock the pentacle away. That'd be lucky. So be ready for that, too. * Satoshi nods. * Shika nods. * Haruko takes off her bag. "I should put on my robes now." She gets them out and puts them over her clothes. Once she does that she puts her wand in a robe pocket. * Kaede sighs and puts the notebook away. "Well, if by any chance I lose all train of rational thought once I touch that thing, I would like to say for the record that it was nice knowing you." (And by you, I mean Katie. Screw the rest of you. :P) * Katie gazes at Kaede for a moment. Her eyes soften, and she takes a few quick steps over and ruffles his hair. "You'll be okay." You're just saying that because you want to mess up my hair again. Maybe. * Satoshi smiles a little and chuckles softly. * Katie grins. * Haruko puddlefies. Her backpack and clothes land in a pile. She then reforms, still with robe and wand, and packs away her clothes. * Kaede straightens his hair and sighs. "Let's just get on with it." He also sends to Satoshi. ~Dammit, it's not here.~ ~The information on the conversation you overheard?~ ~Well, if we get through this, then we can worry about it.~ * Katie nods once. She steps away, presses her finger to her lips, and starts stalking through the city again to cut their prey off in a defensible place, careful not to make a sound. * Haruko offers her bag to Satoshi, if he's willing to take it. * Satoshi takes the bag and slings it over one shoulder. ~Winston actually. He was a foreigner. He might have been one of the representatives too...but dammit, we don't know what age the Arcana actually have to be, do we?~ * Haruko smiles in thanks. * Kaede 's thoughts are mildly peppered with the ~So I'm gonna die~ rhetoric as well. It seems half-hearted though. (Yay, his heart is not entirely in dying. :P) (Only half o/~) (But it's something.) [Session End]