[Day: Wednsday, April 19th. Time: 3:50 p.m.] [Weather: Clear, warm, sunny.] [Katie, Haruko, and Kaede chased after Hiroaki, brother of Izumi, who's friend had gone missing. It could be drug related! Or not. Anyway, now that that's done, they start to head back.] (Oooh, wait, should I be in the other channel?) [Wouldn't you know it, but they bump into Satoshi and Taki on the way back, who are following Hiromi's goons, who are following Hiromi and Kyon.] [And then before anyone can say or do anything Taki makes a hurried apology and chases after the goons before they get out of sight.] ( How's that work for ya? ) ( Fine ) (Well, that depends on whether they're going to follow the goons and Hiromi and Kyon, but Taki could have gotten lost along the way. She is Taki, after all.) (Works for me! And that's... very much in character.) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6-2) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 8. ( One sec, hit the cascade button x.x ) (For Taki, I mean.) (Understood) [Ok! That's what happens!] [Session Start!] * Satoshi watches Taki run off, a slightly confused look on his face. Heya, Hiroki wasn't much help. Although we did get a description of his missing friend. Bye Taki? * Satoshi shakes his head and turns back to the others. "Oh yeah? What's he look like?" * Kaede puts his hands in his pocket and looks over at Kyon. "How'd things go on your end? Get any numbers?" (Oh wait. NM) (Kyon isn't there.) (Yep.) (Right. I noticed that.) (Ask Satoshi that and add "Kyon" in front of get.) * Haruko checks the paper she wrote notes on. "Five foot eight, black kinda shorta hair. Apparently optimistic and maybe having a girlfriend. Good at math and likes art." I don't know if he has. He went off to a cafe with her, and that's where we're headed now. * Katie nods. "That'll be fun to watch." * Kaede blinks. "We're all heading there to spy on Kyon?" Well, Taki and I were because we could act like we were on a date, so it wouldn't look too out of place. With all of us, though... And Taki ran off. You could always date Katie. * Katie beams at Satoshi. ( Katie becomes Xiang-Fei :O ) * Satoshi chuckles. "And that would put you with Haruko, Kaede?" No. (I love how fast her answer was. ^_~) (Not hard to anticipate the coming line) You wound me. But if we have something else to investigate, now would be the time to do it. Kyon can-- * Haruko beams at Kaede. * Kaede looks at Katie for a second and drops it for a second. (Only one seconds in there.) I can go with Kaede. We'd be cute together. I see. You were using me all along to get to him, weren't you? * Haruko looks at Katie as if she's insane. Then she remembers that Katie is insane and that it doesn't merit a special look. ( A van drives up and a popular talk show host delivers readymade dates for all of you! ) Yes. That's it. * Rowyn has joined #arcana * Katie reaches over and takes Satoshi's hand, looking up at him and in the eye. "I'm sorry, Satoshi, but it would never work out. I really have a thing for guys with glasses who don't know how to laugh." * Kaede turns to Satoshi. "Have you ever tried to read an unwilling subject? Can they detect it at all?" * Satoshi pats Katie's hand gently with his other. "It's all right. I won't stand in your way." Oh. * Katie sniffles, then gives Satoshi a big hug. "You're such a good friend!" * Kaede has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Satoshi hugs her back. "I try. But excuse me for a moment, I think Kaede had a question." * Haruko looks bemused by the spectacle. Sure. * Katie lets go. * Kaede rolls his eyes. "I picked Satoshi because he's a mind reader. I picked you because you can pick up on conversation. Neither Haruko nor I have any such thing." * Satoshi turns to Kaede. "Well, it depends on how unwilling. I've read people who weren't aware I was doing it. I'm not sure about what would happen if they were actively trying to resist." If you're asking about Hiromi, I did get a brief read on her earlier. What'd you find then? Complaining about guys, wanting ice cream. So she's a typical girl with a reputation. She wants a reputation. Possibly. How does ice cream relate to having a reputation? * Katie shrugs. "They're not tough, Kaede. They're just trying to be. She doesn't have the reputation she wishes she did." * Kaede sighs deeply and slumps his shoulders a bit. "Reminds me of Nanami. At least she hasn't turned yet. I don't think she will. She's got a good head on her shoulders." Everyone knows about girls who like ice cream, Haruko. Where have you been? ( OMIGAWD! Satoshi made a joke! ) * Haruko snickers. (This is what happens when I'm awake, apparently. I actually do well in RP. ;p) * Kaede shakes his head. "I don't understand these girls at all." You're not the only one. (Satoshi gets to act MANLY! for once!) ( * Kaede shakes his head. "I don't understand girls at all." ) ( Fixed ) * Kaede gets up slightly and looks at Katie and Satoshi. "So are we going to continue to make fun or are we actually going to go after Kyon? Maybe while he's on that, we can see if we can dig up more information on his friend." * Katie nods. "That would work." She looks at Satoshi. "Want to go on a date, at least until Taki shows up? I'll pay." If you really want to. I don't think there's anything that says a group of friends can't go to one of these places, though. Or would we arouse too much suspicion as a group? Whatever we're doing, we should probably decide soon. I don't think so, but we can't look like we're watching. I'm going, anyway. * Katie goes. Okay, then. * Satoshi goes too. * Haruko shrugs and tags along. * Kaede glances at Haruko. "We could do a computer search. Though if you want to go..." * Haruko glances over. "What were you thinking?" Well, you've got a description, right? There's still police reports. True enough. * Haruko waves at Satoshi and Katie. "Have fun." * Satoshi waves back. "Okay. Good luck searching!" * Kaede calls out. "One of you has a cell phone, right?" Yep. Good. Call if anything comes up. * Satoshi nods. [Satoshi, Katie, and whoever's logging, into #notadate] (Not a date! Really!) * Kaede frowns slightly after they leave then turns to Haruko. "I didn't want to mention this, but there's also Saori. If we can find her." True. Although might be easier if I hid around the corner. * Kaede raises an eyebrow. She doesn't like me, remember? * Kaede remarkably doesn't make a snide comment. He instead shakes his head. "She's a business woman. There's always certain types and you have to be able to appeal to that." A buisness girl perhaps. I'd be willing to try again, I just think my presence would make things harder. She's also one of the better resources we have regarding Arcana. Ambiguous, perhaps, but you can't discount resources. * Kaede snorts. "Yeah. Like I'm that great talking to people." He takes in a deep breath. "Anything from the reports you got yourself? Do you remember?" * Haruko thinks. (Anything Brett?) ( Huhwhaga? ) (Anything in the files about Hiroki's friend?) (We have a description of Masami now, so wondering if any of the reports coincide.) ( Ummm.... ) ( We'll say ... ) ( An investigation was planned, but thanks to Sagara, it never happened. ) (Does it give a site?) (Scene of the crime?) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 9. (Well, if Sagara kept it from getting into the files, then Haruko wouldn't have known.) (But Kaede might!) (Yup!) * Haruko shakes her head. "I didn't see anything. I was looking for disappearances and such, so I think I'd have noticed." * Kaede thinks for a minute. "Let's go outside." Sure. ( You are outside ) (Let's go inside and then come back out again.) * Kaede is outside! Isn't modern science convenient? * Kaede looks for a bench then. [There happens to be one!] If he was an Arcana, it seems like Hiroki hadn't noticed. Could be he hid it well. Could be he hadn't manifested yet. * Kaede sits down on the bench and opens up the laptop. "It's hard to say. There are normal drug dealers at least. Do we know for sure that the sales are just targetting Arcana though? I wouldn't see much of a point unless you wanted to manipulate another seller. If I'm remembering correctly, the Black cards are using Arcana as a source of the drug. * Kaede nods. "Control of the masses is possible too. Even Arcana can't necessarily fend themselves off of dozens of drug crazed lunatics. * Kaede types away in his computer and opens up the search, narrowing it to the email files he downloaded from Sagara's computer. "Give me the description again?" Five foot eight. Black kinda short hair. Optimistic, good at math, might have a girlfriend, but those aren't that helpful. * Kaede types all of it in. Mostly the physical description, because he doubts the police would care if he was optimistic or not and starts the search. It's hard to guess Sho's main motivation with the drugs. But he's certainly been quite effective at staying behind the scenes, building up power, and turning gangs against one another. I hope this doesn't end up with him wanting to rule the world or something like that. [Kaede finds a case where an investigation was scheduled but, thanks to Sagara's meddling, never actually happened.] Got something. * Kaede looks at the details. If there are any. Hard to say. Oh? [That's pretty much it. He went missing some time ago and his parents filed a missing person case.] Not much. It doesn't even say where he was last seen. His parent's filed it. Why didn't it get filed? (filed->put in the file cabinet) * Kaede sighs and leans back in the bench. "It was never investigated. Damn Sagara." Hm.. well. That at least tells us something. Well we can't exactly go to the parents and ask them. And we can't exactly go to Sagara...*takes a deep breath* I would so like to give him a good scare. Yeah, but I doubt he'd know anything. Whoever is manipulating him probably doesn't share. Well, know anything about this case specifically. * Kaede nods and turns to Haruko. "How do we freak this man out?" Not that hard. We know his secret. The question is, what's the goal? We want him to do his job? To work with us instead? * Kaede has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Rowyn has joined #arcana * Rowyn is now known as Kaede We also don't want him to contact the rest of the police. Mmm, blackmail could work, probably. But they'd ask how we got the files in the first place... * Kaede leans back more. "Personally, I think the police are incompetent. I'm sure Katie would agree. So just them doing their job wouldn't be enough..." Well, we can threaten anonymous reporting. If we blackmail him while keeping our identity a secret, he'd have a hard time getting back at us. I wonder if I could scramble the signal... * Haruko grins. "I'd bet you could. Now, the main thing we need is everything he knows about his blackmailer. Ideally we can trace when he, she, or they call. If we make a deal to protect his girl, he'll probably want to help us." And his phone number if we don't want to call him at the office. * Haruko nods. "Yeah. Although we might want to find out more about what the Jackals are up to first. We're still going in somewhat blind." * Kaede has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Rowyn has joined #arcana * Rowyn is now known as Kaede * Kaede nods and stands up. "Sounds like an idea. Better than a date at least." (Because dates are a pointless waste of valuable time!) [Kaede is suddenly kidnapped by a bunch of hawt models in bikinis in one of those limos with a jaccuzzi in the back! Oh noes!] [Or maybe not.] (With Haruko, they're more than just a pointless waste of valuable time. They're a hazard to health.) * Haruko nods. "Much." * Kaede snickers. "I assume you still have leather?" * Haruko gives him an odd look for a second, and then realizes that they are no longer on the date topic. "Of course." (....HA.) Very well. I need to go home and change as well. I'll meet you in a half hour or so? Sure. Where? Subway station? Alright. * Kaede closes his laptop and heads off to change. * Haruko heads off as well. ( I'ma gonna end this channel. Aight? ) (Are you available for mini Rowyn? (Mmm. Saturdays aren't good for you, right?) (Unless you can do it real early.) (Probably not. We're visiting the tea gardens on Saturday.) (Tea gardens? Oooh, those sound nice!) (Neat) (Yeah. ^_^ We wanted to get it in before I had to move up.) [Either way, Session End]