[Day: Monday, April 18th. Time: 10:30 p.m.] [Weather: Chilly and cloudy. Light drizzling.] [You're still at the playground! You've been there a while, as maintenance is cleaning up a non-existent problem in officer Sagara's office in the police station across the way. Taki went home, but maybe she'll be back. Katie also went home but probably won't.] [Haruko's inside!] [Session Start] The coast is clear. * Satoshi looks around, then sighs. "Taki's still gone?" * Kyon stands near the edge of the playground, his bag next to him, still watching the building attentively. "Yeah. No sign yet." We can't exactly just walk in there, now can we? * Satoshi shakes his head and pulls out his cell phone. "Let's hope she answers." He dials Taki's cell number. * Taki picks up in the middle of the third ring. "He... Hello Satoshi, di... did things go back to normal?" Yeah, things are okay now. The field's gone, and the janitor's left. Come on back, please? * Taki makes a rustling sound over the phone. "I... Is it raining there too?" Yes. Okay... I'll be there in a bit. * Taki hangs up and goes to fetch her umbrella. * Satoshi hangs up and puts his cell phone away. "Okay, she'll be back soon." * Kaede looks at the others. "Anything else specific you want me to look into before I start digging into confidential files?" * Satoshi shrugs. "Nothing that I know of." ( Yeah. My police record. .... ...what?) (Haruko's suggested that we check out our police records. :P) (I ...no, wait, I might have one. Never mind. ;p) (We're going to need dice, unless you just want me to assume that I make my teleport just fine.) * Dicesuke has joined #arcana 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 1. * Kaede has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) * Kaede has joined #arcana * Taki reappears near the swings and quickly opens an umbrella while she looks around for the others. * Satoshi spots her and waves her over. * Taki also belatedly checks her watch, but it's still working. Then she waves back and walks over to Satoshi and Kaede. "I... I'm sorry I ran away, it's just... I couldn't think of anyotherwaytogetthefielddownanditwasjustsofrustrating." She actually has to stop for a moment and catch her breath after that one. It's okay, just... we can work on it soon. But we need you here now. * Kyon looks over at her over his shoulder, and shrugs quickly. "As long as it's gone." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 11. * Taki nods and looks at Kyon. Then she holds up her left wrist to show him her watch. "It... it's still running so there's no field." * Kyon glances down at it, then nods curtly and looks back at the building. "Keep working on it. But not now." * Kaede nods. "Now is the time to get in there while we can." * Taki nods and starts to walk towards Kaede, then she stops, walks to Satoshi, hand him the umbrella and then walks to Kaede. "Rr... right." * Satoshi takes the umbrella. * Kyon nods quickly, and turns halfway to look at them. "Know where to go?" * Taki nods. "I've been there already." She holds out her hand to Kaede. * Kaede checks his pockets for a moment then takes the hand. "ready." * Kyon looks over the two of them, and nods quickly. "Be ready to pull out if you're going to be found." 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets -1, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "My momma always said, you gotta take the good with the bad. Here's some good." * Taki nods and vanishes with Kaede. * Haruko is above you guys in the vent still. * Haruko slowly flows down into the room, now that everyone is here. As she then flows from the desk to the floor she rematerializes. [Satoshi and Kyon are left alone in the playground. Maybe they'll make out.] * Satoshi gazes upon Kyon passionately... okay, no. He stares intently at the window to Sagara's office. (The problem is that I really can't think of anything that Satoshi would actually say to initiate a conversation with Kyon.) * Kyon blows out a breath and watches the building again. (And Kyon is more than likely just to watch.) (I can do random small talk. That's about it. Although Satoshi was having a telepathic conversation with Haruko.) [An ice cream truck goes by.] ( There you go ) ( Get some ice cream :9 ) (Satoshi's player is sad. There is no real ice cream.) (Driven by Masaru) * Kyon looks at the truck, and smirks. "Late for ice cream trucks. No business plan." Unless they're spying on us. Which I really doubt. (The ice cream truck has the words "Frozen Bowled Ice" on the side.) ( Mmm, Haruko and Satoshi into #telepathy ) * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Right." He turns his smirk on Satoshi. "You want some?" No thanks. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. (You should send out lots of cops. The late shift cops all love ice cream.) [Four cops come out of the building for ice cream.] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 5. * Satoshi says quietly, "Maybe we should move a bit." * Kyon looks over at the playground. "Yeah." He smirks. "Want me to push you?" * Satoshi shakes his head, half-smiling. "I think I'd break it." 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 9. * Kyon shakes his head quickly. "I'm doing the pushing. Won't break anything. Need to do something that looks like we belong here," he says in a low voice. I don't think that seeing me get pushed on a swing is going to make us look any *less* suspicious. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 4. * Kyon smirks wickedly. "Either agree to playground activities, or we leave to find cover until the truck is gone." ( Kyon is cruel. ) * Satoshi half-smiles. "Okay, fine. But if anyone asks, you're the one explaining this." ( [Satoshi's entire hockey team walks past.] ) * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Right. Go get on." He leans down to pick up his bag, and starts stalking over towards the swings. 2d6-7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-7) and gets 5, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "Death is temporary, only failure is forever. You may have just done both." (...haw. Hell.) * Satoshi heads towards the swings and sits down on one. He looks up at Kyon expectantly. (Ahh, the slash vibes.) * Kyon adjusts the bag across his back, looks at Satoshi gingerly, and pulls back the swing a bit using the chains, then using them to push it forwards. * Satoshi swings, using his legs for momentum. * Kyon stands back a bit as Satoshi starts moving up more, and he watches, hitting the chains on it occasionally to help it forward. God, I haven't done this in... a really long time. * Kyon smirks. "Aren't you glad we came?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 3. It's something to do. * Kyon shrugs quickly, and stands back a bit more, watching Satoshi and the building at the same time. "Never go with the knight?" I'm not the one on the swings. And no, not really. (Am I the only one who find the mental image of Taki trying to push Satoshi on the swings hilarious?) (I figured it would go the other way around.) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 7. 2d6-7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-7) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 1. * Kyon shrugs quickly, and pushes the swing seat as it comes back. "Not all that close?" She's never really asked if we could go, or suggested it, or anything. (Hey, Taki's asked Satoshi for dates at least three times, we just keep never having them) * Kyon nods curtly, and smirks. "No interest in carefree fun?" (But she has not asked if we could go to the playground!) (True.) No time, it seems like. Every time we think about doing something, some other crisis comes up. * Kyon nods quickly, and gives another push. "Got to make time. Always something else to do if you don't." * Satoshi sighs. "I know." * Kyon looks back towards the building, and the truck, then back. "Seems to care more about our Page than about you, though." * Satoshi nods slowly. "I've noticed." * Kyon looks at his back for a beat, then back towards the building. "Okay with that?" Not exactly. I think we're gonna have to talk sometime. * Kyon smirks, and pushes Satoshi forward again. "Sooner's better than later." Mmn. Yeah. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 4. * Kyon looks back towards the truck. "How long does it take to buy ice cream?" [Oh, those guys are gone by now.] * Kyon notices that the truck is gone, and steps out from behind the swing. "Had enough?" Suppose so. * Kyon smirks. "Can keep going, if you want." No thanks. It was fun, but I had enough. Unless you want me to push you for a bit. ( Oh man. Slashtastic ) (No kidding.) * Kyon shakes his head quickly, and moves his bag back across his shoulder. "No. Might push me into the building. Can't chance it." I'm careful. I haven't had any problems controlling my strength yet. * Kyon shoves his hands in his pockets. "Right. Still. Better to be ready now that there's no need for cover." ( No touching!) (Well, there is that, too. Hey, he was careful.) Yeah, hopefully they'll be done soon. Apparently Kaede's found something. * Kyon looks back at Satoshi sitting on the swing. "Yeah?" Don't know what yet, but it sounds like things are going fairly well. * Kyon nods quickly. "They have a time estimate?" Dunno. I'll check. Not much longer, apparently. * Kyon nods again, and turns back to look at the building again. 2d6-7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-7) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 1. They're on their way out. * Kyon nods quickly, and rocks back on his heels, glancing around him. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 1. * Taki reappears, holding hands with Haruko and Kaede. Welcome back. Um, your field's up. * Taki closes her eyes and sighs. "Maybe I'll just go home." * Kyon turns to look at them. "Get what we need?" * Haruko grins over at Kyon. "Harder than expected, but the plan succeeded. The paper records confirmed most of the police know fairly little. Any good data we have is thanks to Kaede. * Kaede sighs. "We need to get that figured out..." * Kaede nods curtly. "He definitely knew something. Sadly, he was trying to alter any files containing anything about Akari. But I got what I could." * Haruko also quickly describes the older woman she saw in the picture. "She's probably family and not an Arcana. But you never know." * Kyon nods quickly. "Right. Should talk this over somewhere else. Can get some food." * Kaede takes out the disk. "I'll need to get my laptop first if we're going to do that. I didn't have time to do anything more than skim." * Taki tries to extract herself from Haruko and Kaede. "I need to figure out how this stupid thing works." ( I think I'm falling asleep z.z ) * Haruko ponders that. "Are you going to need to process the data Kaede? We might just want to get some sleep and confer tomorrow." (I think we're almost done.) * Kyon nods quickly. "Can split up for the night." * Kaede nods. "I'll look over what I can. Do some cross-referencing in case something new comes up." * Kyon nods again. "Right. Can save going over it multiple times, too. So we'll go over it tomorrow." He smirks. "Go home." * Haruko nods and beams a bit. She loves it when a plan comes together. Particularly one of her plans. This may be a new experience for her. (Unfortunately, she wasn't the reason it came together!) * Taki looks up and brightens at the mention of going home. "G'night everybody, see you at practice tomorrow Satoshi!" Then she vanishes. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 5. * Kyon turns on his heel and stalks off to get his motorcycle and go home. (She came up with the Plan B too.) * Kaede heads off as well! * Haruko snags a ride with Kyon if he's feeling generous. * Satoshi heads for home! [Session End!]