[And over here, Haruko gets back to the Takeuchi bike shop. Akemi waves at her. Kaede's probably still there, too. I mean, he lives there and all.] [Start!] * Haruko waves back to Akemi and then walks over to try to wake up tattoo girl with the smelling salts. Last session, she'd dried off tattoo girl and gotten a shirt on her, so hopefully the conditions are right. * Kaede 's been staying with the girl, checking on her conditioned. He looks around at Haruko as she comes in. * Haruko nods to Kaede as she approaches. Think it'll do to force her out of it. I don't even know what put her in this state. I don't know. But it's not an adreline shot, these won't hurt her. Alright * Haruko holds them by tattoo girls and prepares to hold them by tattoo girl's nose. Oh, question for you. * Kaede looks up curiously at Haruko. My 18th birthday is coming up. I'm trying to decide between getting a diesel motorcycle or diesel car. I'm not sure which would help us more. * Kaede blinks and looks at Haruko. "Birthday?" * Haruko nods, "Yeah, the 23rd. I'll be getting my license first thing." * Haruko shakes the salt's containers a bit and watches for any reaction. * Kaede looks back at the bed, contemplative. "It's weird. With all the Arcana stuff going on, I've kind of gotten to forget about mundane things..." * Kaede stares at the girl, looking for a reaction. "I'm surprised your family can afford either." I didn't say it would be good car. Just a junker I'd fix up. The parking will be tricky, but we'll manage. (Phone) [The girl's power turns her into a gastropod and she dissolves as Haruko slips and pours the salt on her. Oh, the humanity.] (I kill more characters that way...) [Or maybe not. But she does awaken slowly. She blinks a few times, looks at Haruko, looks at Kaede, and screams. Dunno what you were expecting.] * Haruko flinches and then lets her scream for a moment. After giving her a few moments she calmly says. "You're safe. It's okay." [Not quite! She flails and tries to shove, or maybe slap, it's hard to tell, Haruko. Gimme a def roll, Haruko!] * Kaede doesn't make a move or say a word. That's about what he was expecting. (for specialty purposes, is that a strike or what? :P) ( Sure. ) (Make by lots) [Haruko easily defends the flimsy attack.] * Kaede sighs and stands up fully, rubbing his head. "You know. After what we've been going through lately, this is fairly normal." He looks at the girl and softens his look a little. "Hey. Calm down. We're not going to hurt you. In fact, you came here." ( Kaede, gimme a..... seduction roll! ) (...a what now?) ( Nevermind. BESM doesn't have that skill D: ) (It does.) (Actually, I thought it did.) (Chie did it once. ^_~) ( Not the skill I'm looking for. :P ) ( Unless Kaede actually wants to use seduction. It could work! ) (Kaede will critsucceed.) (No, he did make it pretty decently though.) (...close, actually. ;p) ( I wasn't serious >.> I was more looking for some sort of diplomacy skill. ) (Work it, Kaede. o/~) (He's just naturally that mainly. The pale face, the scrawny posture. The glasses...) (*manly) ( Buuuuut.... ) (MANLY!) * Haruko repeats herself, focusing a bit more this time (art of distraction). "You were passed out when we found you. You're safe now." [Haruko notices Kaede suddenly looks much more manly. Wow, there's some kind of hunky charm to his geeky outer appearance.] * Kaede smiles. Is there a ting? * Kaede doesn't really smile, no. ( I didn't think I inhaled the smelling salts.) [As for the girl, she finally calms down enough to shout "What are you doing to me?!" Seems she completely missed whatever Haruko was saying.] * Kaede sighs and looks tired. "Waking you up. You were unconscious as you fell in my shop. And, well, half naked. Fortunately, she rectified that." He thumbs over at Haruko. * Haruko glances at Kaede and snorts, losing her composure for a second as she chuckles. She covers her hand with one mouth and gets control of herself. She nods at Kaede's comment. (Hey, every word of it is true. :P) [She looks from Haruko to Kaede and back, and pulls away. Meanwhile, Akemi comes up stairs. "What's all the yelling?"] * Haruko glances over to Akemi. "Our guest is awake, and very excitable." * Kaede calls to Akemi. "Just the usual "WHERE THE HELL AM I?" situation after someone unconscious wakes up in a strange place. No worries." He turns to the girl. "What can we do to convince you we're not going to hurt you?" [She (the girl, not Akemi) blinks a few times, then says, "You're Haruko Kinsha. And you're Kaede Takeuchi."] Right and right. I'm afraid I don't remember your name. * Kaede stares at the girl and tilts his head. "Yes? And you are?" [Akemi looks sad about not getting recognition. The girl gulps. "Yuki Ijima. I go to your school."] That would explain you knowing us yes. * Kaede then blinks. "Wait. You know me? Nobody knows me." * Haruko nods. "We'd met before, I just didn't remember your name. I'm sorry. (*laughs*) Session Time: Fri Oct 27 00:00:00 2006 ["Where's Yorihisa?"] * Kaede then looks at her more fully. "Not here. Why? What's the last thing you remember?" [Yuki closes her eyes. "There was a boy. With a scythe. He said he finally found me." She takes a deep breath. "He... He tore off my shirt." She pauses, then frowns. "I guess you saw them, didn't you? The tatoos."] * Haruko nods. "He may have been looking for you for a while. That's what Akari was asking about." * Kaede nods slowly. [Akemi adds in, "Those are some neat tatoos."] No strange ideas, Akemi. Think of your career. [Yuki continues! "At first I thought he was going to.... you know. But he was looking for something in them, I think. But Yorihisa saved me before he could find it. We ran and..." She frowns. "That's the last thing I can remember."] And you showed up here somehow. * Haruko nods. "Yorihisa's fought him before. Can I get you anything? Tea? Food?" * Kaede folds his arms and sighs. "Unconscious, and in a field. Unusual situation to be in I'd say." [She shakes her head.] Where were you all? ["Around.... Umm..." She gives an address that's just a few blocks from here.] Do you know what's in the tattoos? [She shakes her head. "I hate them."] * Kaede blinks. "Then why have them?" * Haruko listens. [Yuki looks down. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."] * Kaede folds his arms across his chest. "I think you would be surprised at just what I would believe right now." I would have found a mundane explaination unlikely. * Kaede glances at Haruko. "Do you have your deck handy?" * Haruko digs it out of a pocket. It is now -1 useless interpretation book. * Haruko also removes the cards from their Utena box. (I forget, what's the system. One Arcana shuffles, the other draws? Or does the same Arcana draw and shuffle?) (Who shuffles doesn't really matter I think. Kyon shuffled when most of them first found out.) ( Usually the first shuffles, but it doesn't really matter. ) * Haruko shuffles the deck and lets Kaede talk. * Kaede gestures to the deck. "Care to draw?" * Haruko holds the cards out. [She looks at the deck. "...Why?"] * Haruko sighs. "We really need to make pamphlets." Don't tell me you haven't done this before. Besides, you just fought a guy carrying a scythe who ripped off your shirt. I'd say this is fairly tame in comparison. If you don't know about the cards, you certainly deserve an explaination. [Yuki draws a card, and looks at it. "Aren't these those cards that have been popular lately?"] It might make things a little clearer yes. Yup. I'm associated with the Queen of Cups. What did you get? * Kaede holds out his fingers to take the card she picked. [She hands it over. It's the Empress.] * Kaede whistles low under his breath. "Oh. Wonderful." * Haruko 's eyes widen for a second and then she nods. "That would explain why you have the whole deck." ["Huh?"] * Kaede turns to show her the card. "That's you. It's a little trick. It's not infallible, but it's pretty quick and dirty for people who don't know who they are." * Kaede shuffles the cards as he speaks. "But that's neither here nor there. Why don't you tell us how you got the tattoos and we'll all explain a little better." You've been noticing weird stuff lately, right? Your tattoos, the guy with the scythe, that girl with the tentacles, right? It all ties together. ::Haruko then pauses to await her explaination:: [Yuki tilts her head. "They just... appeared, one day.] Anything special about that day? When you were younger? * Haruko nods, unsurprised. Something traumatic maybe? Aside from waking up with tattoos. [She shakes her head. "Not really... I just woke up one day with them. My parents freaked out. And the whole town found out. It got so bad that they sent me to live in Tokyo."] Ow, that's really unfair. * Kaede sighs. "The Wheel is a cruel mistress sometimes." * Kaede holds out the deck, after shuffling it a while. "Anyhow, try drawing again. Just to show you something." * Haruko nods. "So, there's a fair amount you should know. Draw the card then find a comfortable position, we can't have you fainting again." [She redraws the Empress. "Hey, how'd you do that?"] * Haruko chuckles. "That was easy. You settled?" * Kaede shakes his head. "It's not a trick deck. If you're not thinking about it, you'll do the same every time." With any deck. * Haruko nods and gets out her water bottle and opens it up. "I just like Utena." [Akemi giggles. "You two are becoming pros at this."] * Kaede settles against the wall. "Because that's you." He draws a card slowly and turns it towards her. 2 of Pentacles of course. "Haruko, I think you're right. We really do need pamphlets." * Haruko nods. "It's true. We just haven't dealt with total newcomers in a while." * Haruko also does draw and show the Queen of Cups, just to reinforce what she said earlier. Especially not a major. * Kaede gives a glance at Akemi too. "You don't have to chime in if you don't want to." [Akemi giggles. "You don't want me to?"] * Kaede looks at her strangely. "I don't want to force you into something you'd rather not get involved in..." * Haruko doesn't interrupt the quibbling. She looks to Yuki. "So, you ready for the really impressive tricks?" ["A little late for that, don't you think? Anyway, get to the powers already."] [Yuki quirks an eyebrow. "Tricks?"] * Kaede gestures to Haruko. "Just pay attention now. I *really* hate having to explain things twice." * Haruko nods. "I just don't want her fainting again." She then turns with a frown at the water bottle. The contents float up in the air and then crudely form into the kanji for Yuki. [Yuki stares at it for a second. "Oh. You're like Yorihisa."] Yes. So are you. Yup. He has his shield, we have our own tricks. Probably more so, since you're a major. * Haruko tries to form a miniture Yorihisa, slightly deformed to make his characteristics more recognizable. (Making a powerusage roll) [It's somewhat recognizable, though not a great job.] ["Me? But I'm not like you. All I have are tatoos."] You have something. Or else you wouldn't be the Empress. Just because it hasn't manifested yet doesn't mean it isn't there. I mean...you appeared in a field after all. * Haruko nods. "Scyther probably sought you out for a reason." [Akemi bounces. "My power is incredible boobs, in case you're wondering."] ...actually, I was wondering. [Akemi wags a finger in remonstration. "Not! These are all natural, Kaede!"] * Haruko gives up on her doll and just makes her dove instead. "So, do you know Yorihisa well? Or was ::she snerks at Akemi's statement and then continues:: he just there to protect you this time?" * Kaede blushes deep read and blurts out. "I-I meant what your power really was! Geez, Shiraishi-san!" (*red) [Akemi laughs.] * Kaede looks off to the side and breathes out indignantly, still red. "Honestly..." [Yuki smiles a bit, too, but at Haruko's question, she responds. "Um... I kind of know him. But this is the first time this has happened."] * Haruko nods. "He's helped us out once or twice." She chuckles. "Although he's not really a talker, is he?" * Kaede speaks off to the side. "First time someone tries to kill you is always the hardest." Anyways, we'll give you the rundown on the rest of the stuff you should know. You might want to take notes on your laptop Kaede, we can use the transcript to make those pamphlets. * Kaede snorts. "Sure." [Yuki nods.] (We can probably break here. No need to actually run that all out.) [Ok! Done!]