[Day: Monday, April 18th. Time: 10:00 p.m.] [Weather: Chilly, cloudy, but not rainy or flooding like it will be on the East Coast U.S. four years from now.] [You're in the playground! Maybe you left for a while to go do something else. Maybe not. Beats me. But you're back there anyhow. Except Katie. She went home for good. The objective is to break into the police station, which still seems plenty active. Aight? Aight.] [Session Start!] * Haruko has her robes on under her jacket. She's got the diagrams of the building's windows in one hand. * Kaede sighs and sits down on the swing, holding the chains but not actually swinging. What a spoilsport. * Taki came back via bus, and wearing long pants and a jacket with her hair tucked up under a hat. * Satoshi is wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and black jeans. Because he is angsty and emo! Or because he thinks it will help him not be seen. Or because he just has a lot of it in his wardrobe. Take your pick. (Because he takes the Duncan route of spying.) * Haruko hands the diagram of the building's windows to Satoshi. "This should help you keep track of where I am." (Is that in the first season? Because I'm not remembering. ^^;) * Satoshi nods. "I'll keep a link open to you." * Taki points at diagram. "Katie said... Sagara was here." (Yeah, I can see how you'd do that. Anyhow. I should shut up before I confuse people more. ^^;) * Haruko nods. "I'll aim for there then. Hopefully it won't be occupied. If it is we'll have to go with someone else's computer." * Kyon comes up, carrying his new sports bag over one dark-grey jacketed shoulder. He's wearing black pants, and a dark blue shirt under the jacket. * Haruko glances over when Kyon arrives and smiles. * Kyon nods curtly over at the building, and looks down at the diagram. "Where are you planning going in?" Roof. I'll scout the ducts in water form. I can make sure the office is empty or find somewhere else if it isn't. The rest of you can then port in. * Taki glances down at her watch. * Kyon glances sidewise at Taki. "Right. We port out if someone comes. Don't chance getting caught." * Taki nods twice. If need be, I can also keep lookout once we're in. If we need to get out fast I might get left behind, but I can always leave by the sewers. Right. * Kyon looks back to the map, then up at Satoshi. "Can you sense if someone is coming close to where we are?" I've never done a general sweep before, but I could try. It'll only work with Arcana, though. * Kyon raises an eyebrow. "Can't get just a surface feel for any regular person nearby?" No. Only Arcana. * Taki looks at Satoshi and blinks. * Satoshi shrugs. "I've tried, okay? Doesn't work for normal people." * Kyon nods tersely, and looks back at the map. "If that's what you have, then she's still the best lookout here." He looks sidewise up at Haruko. * Kaede glances over at Satoshi. "Didn't know it was so limiting." I thought you guys did. I ... don't remember you telling me, sorry. It's... I can do deeper than just surface, I think. Though that might have been a fluke. * Haruko beams slightly. The Arcana she's sworn to follow think she's well suited for a life of crimes. Her parents would be... deeply disturbed. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Just keep working at it. For now, she takes lookout," nodding at Haruko, "we stand by in case," nodding to Satoshi, "and he gets the work done," as he looks sidewise at Kaede. * Kaede nods. "Right." * Satoshi nods. "Got it." * Haruko nods. "I remember. I think we considered using it as an Arcana tester one time. Anyways, I'm ready." * Kyon nods quickly. "Right. Then go. Signal when you're ready." * Taki walks up to Haruko and holds out her hand. * Satoshi sends to Haruko. ~Here I am.~ * Haruko removes her jacket and hands it to anyone that will take it. She then takes Taki's hand. ~And I can't think about Norish--~ ~Oh, you're already here, hi!~ ~Cars cars cars, pay no attention to my early thought~ * Satoshi takes her jacket. ~I heard nothing.~ * Kyon rocks back on his heels, and looks off towards the building. [The lights are all on. It may be less active at night, but it's still plenty active.] * Haruko thinks back to that nice car from early today for a bit, but then focuses on the mission. * Taki takes a deep breath and... 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-2) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 4. * Taki vanishes. * Taki also takes Haruko with her. ( Taki and Haruko, to #Haruko ) * Satoshi shakes his head. "Trying to keep track of her thoughts is... interesting." 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 7. (DR) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 8. (Uh... the other one) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 2. * Taki reappears where she was, only without Haruko. * Satoshi blinks. Field's up. One of yours, Taki? * Taki glances at her watch. "Uh, probably, sorry, I just mess everything up." It isn't like you can help it, Shimiru-san. * Kaede rocks slightly in the swing, glancing at the station. * Taki looks at Kaede. "But I SHOULD be able to! It's my field!" If we understood exactly how or why Arcana got their powers, we probably wouldn't be here. But I CAN controll my teleports! It's easy now! And you can control your powers and Satoshi and Haruko and Kaede and Katie and everybody! * Satoshi looks slightly distracted. Probably talking to Haruko. Geez, talking to other girls while his girlfriend is angsting. ;p * Kyon looks down at Taki and scowls. "Any way to tell if it's not yours?" * Taki glares at Kyon. "If I do this and it goes away it's mine." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 5. * Satoshi looks over. "If it is hers, it'll go down in a bit... right." * Kaede looks at Taki oddly. "Not all the time." * Taki vanishes and reappears to the side. Yep. It's gone. * Taki looks down at her watch and nods. "Yeah... sorry." And... I'm not sure about control, but there are limits to my powers that I don't think I've reached yet. ( The most powerful of them only work when I'm decisive. ...wow. Sucks to be you.) * Kyon shrugs quickly, and looks back to the building. "Good." (*snerk*) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. * Kaede frowns. "It is somewhat dangerous though. It increases the chance of a false negative, now that I think about it." Huh? * Kaede turns to Satoshi and pushes up his glasses. "If we assume it is Taki all the time, there is always a possibility another Arcana did put up a field first and you think you're detecting Taki's." * Satoshi shuts his eyes and puts a finger to his head. "Hang on a sec." * Kyon listens with a cool expression, just watching for anything unusual. * Taki nods. "I'm sorry." * Kaede points at Taki. "And you. Quit apologizing." * Taki looks down and doesn't apolgise for apolgizing. Okay, sorry about that. And yeah, I have been considering that, which is why I told Haruko to watch out regardless. I've tried to pinpoint where a field is coming from before, but no luck yet. Good call. * Kaede thinks for a moment. "You may just be able to detect the effects immediately around you. Like a blanket. That'd explain why the origin isn't apparent. Could you possibly scan for power use?" It's something to try. I could test it. My powers don't always have an obvious effect. * Kaede flexes his fingers in front of him. * Satoshi looks around and sighs. "All this time... the things I can do, I've been trying to ignore them, really. Not the best of ideas." So let's change that. * Taki watches Kaede. "... Yeah." ...oh, hang on a sec. * Satoshi looks at Kyon. "Was Sagara in a cubicle or an office?" * Kaede looks at Taki for a moment. "What?" * Taki shakes her head. "Nothing." * Kaede stares at her for a bit and then waits for Kyon and Satoshi to talk to each other. ($1 says Taki is full of lies! Well, at least one lie. She's mostly full off eggplant. :P) * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Don't know. Didn't see him." Katie said it was an office. Okay. So where were we? * Satoshi smiles sheepishly. "Trying to hold two conversations at once is tricky." * Kaede deadpans to Satoshi. "Discovering your hidden potential." Right. You wanna start right now, or wait until this is done? It'd probably be best not to call attention to ourselves out here. Besides, we might get interrupted by Haruko at any time. * Taki nods. "May... maybe on Saturday?" Works for me. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7. * Kyon shoves his hands in his pockets, and looks back and forth over the building again. * Taki goes back to the swings and sits down. * Kaede takes in a breath. "I hate waiting." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. (dr) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. * Satoshi winces and puts a hand to his head. * Taki looks at Satoshi. "Di... did something happen?" * Kyon looks over at Satoshi sidewise, keeping the building in view still. Anger-fueled telekinesis, apparently. ... Haruko did? or is somebody else up there? * Taki halfway stands up. Nono, it's her. She's causing a distraction. * Taki sits back down. "...Oh." * Kyon nods curtly, and looks back at the building again. (Boost) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 11. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 6. Haruko's trying to pick a lock and get into one of the unoccupied offices. * Kyon nods quickly, and keeps his gaze on the building. I thought we were looking specifically for his. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. Wha... what would we do there? I'm not sure where she is relative to his at the moment. It depends on how exposed she'll be. (There's still a computer. His computer is presumably on the network. It just makes it harder for Kaede.) Has she found any evidence of any hard copies yet? (Boost lockpick) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 1. Not yet. She's not that far. * Kaede then looks at Taki. "Well, it's more likely if he's trying to cover up that the evidence of any deletions would be in his personal files. Any other computers would gather suspicion... But I'll do what I can with what we've got. Oh... Okay. (Hmm. How long were we planning on running tonight?) 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-4) and gets 8, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "Death is temporary, only failure is forever. You may have just done both." (Lovely) She's in the office. * Taki looks at the building. * Kyon scans the building from outside. "Where?" Hang on, something's happening. It's... * Taki trails off and looks at Satoshi. A cop heard her and came into the office. She's hiding under the desk as a puddle. * Taki wraps her hands around the swings chains. "Oh." ...let's hope she's not discovered and mopped up. We could stage a heroic rescue mission to the janitorial closet. * Kyon looks at Satoshi sidewise, and rolls his eyes. "Is it his office?" Yes, it's his office. * Kyon scowls, and looks back. "Then it's harder. Tell her to keep us posted. Can't go charging in yet." * Taki nods voilently. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. They're calling maintenance in to deal with the water in the office. They think it's a leaky AC. ... Maybe... we should come back another night. * Kaede rolls his eyes. Well, they're already suspicious. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Any easy ways out?" * Satoshi holds up a finger to indicate that he's in mid-mental conversation. Okay. She wants Taki to port herself and me in. Then I help her back into the vent and she waits there until it's passed. * Satoshi reaches into his sports bag and pulls out his water bottle. But... what if somebody comes? * Kyon raises an eyebrow. "People in there have already left?" We'll just have to move quickly. [And there's some rain, but Satoshi has a water bottle, so moot point.] [It starts to rain. You get wet.] Yeah, they have. But maintenance will probably be on their way soon, and I'm not sure how far away the other cops are. * Satoshi looks at the sky. "And there's the rest of our emergency backup water, although I don't think she thought about how we'd get it in." * Taki nods. "I... I've got a ... let's go where I can see it from." (If Satoshi concentrates, she figured you'd find a bucket in some sort of adventure game-esque manner) * Taki stands up and starts walking twords the building. * Kyon scowls at the rain, and looks at his jacket to make sure it's beading correctly. "Right. Get in while you have the time." * Satoshi tilts his head for a second, then shakes it. "And she thought we'd find a bucket somewhere. This isn't a video game." * Satoshi follows Taki, describing the room to her as Haruko discribed it to him. ...and if you stand in that corner, you can probably show up without being visible from the doorway. * Kaede sighs and stands up, cracking his knuckles. "Alright." (The rest of the description is implied.) * Taki stops and looks at one of the windows. "I... I think that's it." Hang on a sec. * Taki looks at Satoshi nervously. She's looking out the window. * Taki looks in the window she thinks is the right one. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-5) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 0. See her? [You do see her!] There she is! Let's go! * Taki nods. "Y...yeah." * Taki take Satoshi's hand. [She's at a window of an office on the first floor.] 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 4. * Taki and Satoshi vanish. * Kaede watches her go. "Well, that's smart. Why did Satoshi have to go again?" (To actually get Haruko physically back into the vent. She could technically have stood on Taki's shoulders or something, but that probably would have invited disaster. ;p) * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Someone's got to pick her up." He smirks. "Can't trust the knight to that job." * Kaede rubs his head. "Right, but we're wasting time if we're going to do what we came to do." Or are we just calling it a botch? * Kyon looks at the building, then tugs his hand out of his pocket with his cell phone and checks the time. "Give her a chance to recover. If she can't get a clear line within the next half hour, we pull her and wait till tomorrow for more info." * Kaede shakes his head. "Good luck with that, then." * Kyon looks back at where Haruko poked her head out before. "Got other ways of finding things out than a direct assault." * Kaede sighs and shakes his head. "If there was a computer at the front desk, I probably could have tried breaking into that without them knowing." 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 3. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "That's staffed, and the knight doesn't have good control of her fields. About as much of a risk." * Kaede sighs and holds up his hands. "Do you forget I get at least some information from a computer just from touching it?" * Taki reappears here with Satoshi in tow. * Kaede looks over at the appearing Taki. Okay. She's in the vent, and she'll give us the all-clear signal when she can. * Taki nods and looks down at her watch. "Augh, it's still up." * Taki teleports to the side. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7. * Taki looks down at her watch again. "TURN OFF!" She vanishes again and appears a bit farther away. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 9. Still up. Arrrrgh! 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. Maybe you should rest for a bit and it'll go away on its own? * Taki gnashes her teeth and tries again, with no more luck. * Kyon blows out a breath. "You think you can get the information we need just from a quick touch?" He looks sidewise at Satoshi. "Right. Tell her she's got a half-hour before we pull her out. Don't push it too much for tonight." * Taki sits down on the ground and pulls her knees up to her chest. It seems to have better odds than this fiasco. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Can try it tomorrow if this doesn't work." I can't reach her. I think you'll have to take down the field first. * Taki stands up again. "I would if I knew how!" 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 4. * Taki vanishes compleatly. Okay, that did it. [And now Session End]