[Day: Sunday April 23rd. Time: About 1:00 p.m.] [You're in the Tower Reversed. Masaru is there, too, but it look like he's fallen asleep.] * Dicesuke has joined #arcana ( Kinda like I want to do ) [Regardless of whatever you were doing, that all comes to an end when the elevator doors open, and Hinako steps out, looking disheveled and fairly panicked.] [Fun times, fun times. Session Start] * Taki looks at Hinako. "What's wrong, and did you see Akemi up there?" ( It gets harder and harder to run this game. I'm going to see if I can't speed things up a little, so I can actually end it before I get so sick of it I can't run at all anymore. ) (That's a bad end >.<) ( The alternative is to just stop altogether. ) (That's a worse end!) * Katie blinks at Hinako. * Kyon cocks his head, and regards the woman coolly. "You have a problem?" * Satoshi looks at Hinako. "Or is it just that we're all going to die?" * Kaede glances at the elevator and takes a deep breath, waiting for the response. Like they ever needed us as a motivation to talk. (Speed is good. ^_^) ( Well, I can't keep going. I'm not enjoying the game, and I don't have the free time to devote to something I don't particularly like anymore. Unless someone else wants to run it, it needs to end. ) (*thwaps Satoshi back into char) (Brett: I totally understand. Do what you have to in order to speed things up. And, as I've said before, if you feel you need to quit I'll support it." [Hinako, oddly enough (but not really, this being Hinako and all), ignores you and walks briskly around the Tower Reversed, staring up at the road.] Hinako? * Satoshi lets her do her thing. ( It's like this: I don't want to quit. I've invested a lot of time into this game. But on the other hand, I don't want to run, either. ) ( So the next best thing is to just get an ending out there and be done with it. ) ( Quite sensible. ) ( The more sessions left to the end, the less likely we'll make it and the less fun it will be for you.) * Kaede glances for a second, then goes near the window to look where Hinako's looking. * Taki follows her and looks to see if the Oni/Orochi are still on this side too. [She finishes her examination, and turns abruptly to you, her cloak swaying as she does. "There's no time. We have to do something. You must help me!"] ( Gimme sight checks! ) Sure. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 7. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. 2d6-8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-8) and gets a natural 7 for a result of -1. (wiff!) (Yeah, okay.) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 4. * Kyon rolls his eyes, and glances down at Masaru before looking to Hinako as she talks. "Need more details." (Make) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7. (Nope.) (Yes here.) [Anyone who made it notices the creatures hence designated Oni. In fact, it's hard to imagine how you could have missed them, as they're several feet taller here than they were in the surface world. And they're moving, shambling along towards your location. They pass right through the buildings like ghosts.] * Satoshi frowns at the impending doom. Well. That's not good. * Kyon glances at Kaede sidewise. "What?" * Kaede points out the window towards the approaching doom. "That." [Hinako steps forward, and suddenly she's clutching Kaede's shirt, shaking him as she speaks! "Do you have the sacred objects? Do you?"] * Taki has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) ( They got Taki! ) ( Answer quick, or you could be next! ) * Katie stares. "Oni. They're coming this way." We don't have the wand. Shika has the black pentacle. * WeightofTaki has joined #arcana * WeightofTaki is now known as Taki * Kyon turns to look down at Hinako. "Got the Sword." * Kaede looks down at Hinako evenly. "You know how to use them safely?" We have the Cup, right? I have it. * Katie nods. I don't know how to use it against them. [Hinako stops. "... Just two?"] Does the black pentacle count? ["What?"] Pentacle. Only black. You know the shape. * Satoshi nods. "The gang that called themselves the Black Cards had it." ["I've not heard of such a thing."] * Katie shrugs. Not much to be done about that now. Is the real Pentacle black? They said they used it to manipulate you. [She shakes her head. "But it doesn't matter. It...." She pauses, and glances outside. Her eyes widen, and she shoves Kaede towards the elevator. "We must go! Right now!"] * Kaede 's eyes widen. "Wait! Why me?" * Katie checks outside again. * Satoshi grabs Masaru and heads to the elevator. If we're leaving, we should take Masaru with us. ( Pre-apocalyptic lovin', of course. ) (Move my line up.) [Masaru is grabbed. He remains asleep.] * Taki pushes the up button to open the door again. * Kyon blows out a breath, mutters under his breath in Chinese, checks over his shoulder and then stalks to the elevator, checking whether Katie is following as he goes. [Hinako gets in the elevator and jabs the button for the first floor.] * Kaede tries to pry Hinako's hands loose and looks her in the eye. "Look, I don't care how short you think time is. Explain." * Satoshi nods. Kaede has a good point. [Hinako actually lets go of Kaede when they get in the elevator, so it's a moot point. ] What do we have to do? * Kaede doesn't pry then but is looking icily at Hinako. [As for outside, the shapes are getting closer.] * Kyon rocks back on his heels, and holds the elevator door open. "You have an explanation?" * Katie backs away and scoots for the elevator. * Taki gets in the elevator at some point. [Hinako looks Kyon in the eye. "Do you want to survive?"] * Satoshi is in the elevator. He adjusts his hold on Masaru now that they're in the elevator. Although the boy is still asleep, so obviously he wasn't bothered too much. Looks like Zein was wrong. What a shock. * Kyon blows out a breath. "Yeah." He lets go of the door. "Explain while this is going up." This will make talking to Winston difficult if he hasn't already left. Dying will make talking to Winston difficult as well. Yes. * Katie grabs Kyon's hand and squeezes it. What if an oni gets in the elevator? Trapped! * Satoshi is fairly stoic at this point. [The elevator heads up. Hinako takes a deep breath. "There isn't much time. Somehow they broke the prophecy. The stars are aligning sooner than they should be. Everything... Everything is happening sooner and quicker than it should be."] * Kyon takes in a breath and looks down at Katie's hand, talking as he does. "Right. So what's happening now?" * Kaede rolls his eyes. "That's what happens when you take a prediction as guarentee." * Katie clings. [She clenches a fist. "All these years, and we never thought.... We never thought they could do anything from their side. Inconcievable."] * Satoshi doesn't have anything insightful to add. So he keeps an eye on Masaru. (Must...resist...Princess Bride jokes.) (I don't think that word means what you think it means!) So you're saying the Oni did this and not the reversed Arcana? Why? Why'd they do that? They live here, too. [She looks at Taki. "The Reversed are like us. Different, but like us. They would never help Them. The enemy of mankind."] Good. * Taki looks at Katie. "If they exist to hound us, what better way than to force us to destroy ourselves sooner?" And destroy THEM, stupid. [She glances to a side. "There is so little we know about Them."] Katie's right. They're not going to outright destroy themselves unless they had a plan. [The doors *ding!* as they reach the surface. Hinako steps out. "Listen to me. You MUST find the sacred objects. We must have them all."] They're people, too. * Taki blinks at Katie. "That must have been mentioned before I got there." * Katie breaks from Kyon and pretty much rushes out the door. ( But so's Soylent Green. ) * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Have to learn quickly." He looks around. "We know who has the wand." He breathes out as Katie lets go of his hand. * Katie turns and takes a breath. "Yes." * Satoshi steps out. "Okay." He sighs and gets out his phone. "I guess I'll call Shika. Her Pentacle might be the real thing." Some of us have to get the Wand. Others have to find the Pentacle. [Hinako nods. "Then get it. I'll gather allies. We'll meet back here."] Need to let people know- * Katie nods. * Satoshi makes the call. ["A day, maybe a bit longer... that's all we have. You MUST hurry."] * Kaede runs his hand through his hair. "No pressure or anything." He takes a breath. "That's fine. I'm used to pressure." [Hinako turns. "I'm counting on you." She quite literally runs off, her cloak billowing behind her.] * Katie looks to Kyon. "Any idea where Souichirou would be?" * Kyon shakes his head tersely. "Bet he's trying to find us, though." He smirks. "Can't win without what we have, too." Any way to bait him into acting sooner? Do we wait for him at your apartment then? (We got his number a long time ago.) (I nominate Satoshi to call then.) (Yeah? I forgot. Hmmm...) Hello Shika. This is Satoshi. According to Hinako, everything ends in a day. We're going to need the black Pentacle. We can't *wait* for him to find us. [Shortly, Akemi shows up. "Hey guys! That girl in the funny clothes just told me to be here tomorrow to help save humanity. What's up?"] * Kaede looks up and sighs. "Hey Akemi. There's been...a change of plans. Things are happening faster than we expected." * Satoshi finishes his message. "With any luck, it's the real Pentacle as well. Be here tomorrow. Please text or call back if you get this. Be at the tower tomorrow please." ["That doesn't sound good."] * Satoshi hangs up. "I think we got Souichirou's phone number way back when he was pretending to be you." He looks it up. It's not. * Satoshi 's comment was directed to Kyon. * Kyon shoves a hand in his pocket, tugs out his cell phone, and stabs a few buttons. "Trying to find someone." He looks up at Satoshi. "Yeah? You have it?" * Satoshi shows the number to Kyon. * Taki has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Kaede puts his hands in his pockets and half-gestures to Satoshi. "Right now we're trying to see if we can get all the artifacts together by tomorrow." * Kyon glances at the number, then stabs a few buttons on his phone and presses send. * Satoshi then calls Haruko. Hey Haruko. The world is ending tomorrow. * WeightofTaki has joined #arcana * WeightofTaki is now known as Taki (Blargh!) * Satoshi listens for a moment. * Katie fidgets. (Best message ever.) [Akemi frowns. "Those things are important, huh?"] * Taki nods. "Yes." Hinako seems to think so at least. Yeah, they'll have to look after themselves. ::Satoshi rolls his eyes:: Yes, you should take the Bullet Train up rather than buying your bike there and driving. ::Pause:: Yes, I'm sure you can't drive that fast. Kinda may just stop the world from ending. We hope. [Akemi nods. "What can I do?"] * Satoshi smiles a little. "Right. See you soon." He then hangs up. We need to gather people and the artifacts. Shika may have the Pentacle. The black one. * Kaede frowns a little. "Unfortunately, yes. And information maybe too. We still don't know if that Black Pentacle is the same thing or at least a useful substitute." It might make us crazier or something. If that's possible. I hope Hinako can figure it out. * Kaede rubs his head and sighs. "The hard thing about the end of the world is, if you succeed, no one may know about it and if you fail, no one will be around to know about it." * Kyon raises an eyebrow. "Hey. I'm looking for Souichirou. Is he there?" Well, good thing we aren't in it for the glory. Success is its own reward. * Katie looks out the window. * Taki shrugs. "We get the world." * Satoshi nods at Taki's comment. (Actualy, that should be "You get the world.) * Kyon rolls his eyebrows. "An old friend. He'll remember me. It's important." (Er. He rolls his eyes. Rolling his eyebrows would work, too, but it's harder to picture.) (I was about to say. :P) (Kyon is a man of many talents) * Kaede walks over and puts a hand on Akemi's shoulder. "We'll get through this." * Kyon smirks. "End of the world. So I hear. Where are you?" [Akemi nods. "We better. I don't want my career cut short over something like this."] * Satoshi smiles at Akemi's comment. * Kaede snorts. "If we don't, I'll make sure you get marketing in the afterlife." * Kyon shrugs quickly. "One or the other of us needs what the other one has if we're going to make it through." * Taki blinks and looks up at the sky. * Kyon smirks. "So the only way that'll happen is if you meet up with us." Session Time: Fri May 25 00:00:00 2007 * Satoshi puts Masaru down on one of the couches. Downside of superstrength, you can forget what you're carrying. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Only if you bring the Wand." [Masaru walks off as soon as he's put down. Guess he wasn't asleep after all."] * Satoshi looks mildly put out. "What? No tip?" * Taki looks down and then at Kyon. "You should ask him not to bring the fake Katie." * Kyon flips the phone shut and looks over at Taki. "As long as he brings the Wand, got to go with it." He looks around the group, surveying the area. "Meeting us in an hour. Got an address." * Satoshi looks over to Katie. "You want to skip this one?" * Kaede folds his arms in front of him and frowns. * Taki shrugs. "I remember wanting to kill her, it would be bad if I did now." * Satoshi gives Taki a worried look. "Err... yes." Either today or tomorrow. Makes no difference. * Katie looks at Satoshi like he's crazy. "Why would I skip it?" (Katie bought a special set of knives for the occassion!) Nevermind then. * Kyon looks down at Katie for a second, then reaches over and gingerly pats her shoulder. "Right. Should have you along." * Katie smiles faintly. "I'll go." [Akemi says, "What about me?"] * Satoshi looks to Kaede. * Kaede looks at Akemi. "What do you want to do?" ["What CAN I do?"] You would learn more if you went. Somebody who is not me should tell you what happened in The Tower Reversed. * Kaede shrugs. "I wouldn't mind you going. But I wouldn't want you hurt. We can always call Matthias to gather. We don't always need a personal messenger." * Satoshi gives her the quick run down. Yay for fastforwarding. (quick rundown as to what they found out.) * Kaede thinks. "Besides. We may need someone to talk to Shika about the Pentacle that she trusts." (This is bit where I point out that you missed just as much of it as I did.) (Well, he tells her what he knows. Someone else can fill in the rest.) [Akemi considers. "Maybe I should do that.] Better than any of us. (FF to Souichirou?) Yes. ( We're not gonna have time for that tonight. ) (Okay.) ( We could end early if you guys don't have anything else to talk about. ) (Are we goin to peel Katie off the goup or wait a month?) (Well, we could fast forward to the cusp of the meeting. THat way we can jump right in when we restart.) ( I don't know. ) * Kyon shrugs quickly, and looks over the group. "Can contact people on the way." We'll do that. We don't have a lot of time. * Satoshi has nothing to add. I will go with Kyon. Where is the meeting anyways? * Kyon glances at Kaede sidewise. "By Tokyo Bay." He gives the address. "Easy to get to." (Is that the construciton site?) ( Nope. It's actually on a different side of the bay, away from the warehouse district. ) (Ah) (I fall off again, or are we done?) ( Anyone have anything else to say? ) (I don't.) (Not really. Kyon might call people along the way, but otherwise, he'd probably just get moving.) ( Aight, then ) [Session End]