[Day: Thursday, February 26th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Sunny and chilly.] [Two days ago, the school was attacked by bikers for seemingly no reason, until it turned out they were drug addicts. Yesterday you did some talking and walking around. What about today? You gather at... the lockers!] [Session Start] * Katie is seated at a locker, humming and sketching. (And it's probably even my locker!) * Satoshi walks up to his locker and does the usual exchanging of books. He seems pretty happy, though, as evidenced by the smile on his face. * Kaede walks over to his locker, kind of seeming in a daze, looking straight ahead and running his combination on autopliot. * Haruko wanders down the hall, not all that happy looking, but still dramtically better than two days ago. * Taki wanders in from the other direction, and has a worried smile on her face. * Satoshi waves to Haruko. "Hey, how are you?" * Haruko looks up at Satoshi. "Better, the mechanics club put together a short notice competition yesterday, they're so sweet." * Kaede closes his locker and sits against it, folding his arms over his kaban and staring at the opposite wall. How'd you do? * Haruko smirks. So, how are you feeling? You won, huh? That's great! Let's hope we do so well this evening. I'm doing a lot better. Did you hear the news from Chikako? * Haruko nods. "Oh, right, the hockey game, forgot about that. Good luck!" * Katie finishes whatever she's working on and looks up, then gets to her feet and walks over to Kaede. She flips a few pages and hands him the sketchpad. "It's a rough draft of your sign. What do you think?" Thanks. * Haruko tilts her head. "What news? Satoshi isn't the one who killed that biker! * Satoshi suddenly looks embarassed, and sobers quite a bit. "Um... well, about the bikers. They... yeah." Died of a drug overdose, not from getting hit by me. * Taki nods. * Kaede blinks and takes the pad out of her hand, looking at it for a while. "Hmm.." * Haruko looks confused but very pleased. "Oh... That's great!" I mean, it's not *good* that anybody died, but... well... I feel a lot better. * Haruko nods. "Yeah! I mean, death's bad. But that's not something we can do anything about." And I know now to be a lot more careful in the future. I have the feeling that I'm going to need to fight again, so I want to practice aiming. * Taki nods again. I'd like to avoid shots to the face. * Kaede looks up slowly at Katie, adjusting his glasses. "This...this is really good." Can you do it in color? * Haruko grins. "Alright, I can still take the stick off your hands if you don't want to deal with it." * Katie waits, leaning against the wall. "I can work on the characters a little, if you think they're too blocky. Maybe-" She blinks. "Really?" * Kaede tilts his head to the side, regarding Katie cooly. "You don't think so?" * Satoshi shakes his head. "No, I think I can learn to control it. It'll remind me how close I almost came..." * Haruko bounces a bit on the tips of her feet, exuding energy. * Katie grins. "Well, I wouldn't have worked on it for over a week if I didn't mean to make it good. But usually people... never mind. You want it in color?" Right. Good! And now you know about the leather cover, although we should experiment with that some just to be safe. * Satoshi nods. "Yeah. Can practice with it." Yeah...something catchy, but not clashing or blinding..some theme to go with the blossoms... Oh, right, but it wasn't quite done yesterday. Uh.. Let me get something. * Katie hmms, then nods. "Reds, whites, maybe light blue and green." * Satoshi nods. "Okay." * Haruko sets down her bag and peels off, not particularly watching where she's going. * Katie taps at the pad. "How big do you want it? I need to get supplies so it'll be ready by Saturday." * Kaede holds out the pad absently. "Sakura blossoms...I almost forget what it's like.." * Satoshi watches Haruko go and chuckles, then turns to Taki. "So, you ready for the game?" I hope so. * Kaede blinks, then turns to Katie. "Oh..um..standard shop size. About yea big.." He holds his hands to approximate. * Satoshi grins. "Try not to worry too much. You've got all of us to back you up." Probably on wooden slat would be best. * Katie nods, obviously making calculations in her mind. "Got it." She takes the pad back. "Are you sure you don't want anything changed?" I put a lot of work into learning, but I know that everybody else there has spent more than two weeks learning the game. No, it's perfect..really. You're the boss. True, but you've made a lot of progress. I'm really glad you're helping us out, and I'm sure the rest of the guys are, too. * Kaede lets out a little chortle. "You act as if I'm paying you for this...I really wish I could..." * Katie laughs. "It's fine." * Taki nods and sighs, "You needed the help and I gave it, I just hope it's going to be enough." * Haruko runs back, she has two foam cylinders in hand, diameter five centimeters, each little taller than a hand, with a hole running through the middle of them. Welcome back, Haruko. * Katie turns her attention to Haruko, Satoshi, and Taki. * Haruko overshoots Satoshi slightly but manages to spin without much grace and pants for a moment. Welcome back Haruko. Uh... Yeah. Hey..... Hand me the stick for a moment. * Kaede looks at the other wall again with a distant look. You okay, Kaede? * Satoshi nods, unslings his sports bag, and pulls out the stick. (Presumably he went back at some point yesterday or earlier today to retrieve it.) He then hands it over to Haruko. (Silly question time...Is the bag that big or does the stick fold?) Hmm? Yeah, just thinking... * Haruko recieves the stick in one hand. She slips each cylinder over the top. They come to rest at the positions that will eventually be reserved for hand holds, before hand they were just notches in the stick. (Amazingly, the bag seems like it shouldn't be big enough to hold it, but somehow it does. ^_~) (Ahh) (It's a larger than usual bag, but perhaps not that large. ^_~) * Haruko puts the stick down for a moment, and goes to retrieve a water bottle from the bag she put down earlier. * Satoshi watches Haruko with interest. * Katie has a seat next to Kaede and opens her sketchpad again, pulling out a pencil. "Want to talk about it?" * Taki watches Haruko to take her mind off the upcoming game. * Haruko walks back over to the stick and hands it to Satoshi. "Hold it parallel to the ground, and not at the hand holds, please." * Kaede slowly looks over at Katie for a moment, thinking of something, then letting out a slight hmm. "I looked things up like you said...there doesn't seem to be much of a pattern...except.." * Satoshi takes the stick from Haruko and does exactly what she says to do. * Taki watches Satoshi with interest and wonders what Haruko is up to. * Katie glances at Kaede, then starts a sketch. "Hmm?" When did the first disappearances start...? * Katie pauses. "Hrm." I want to say... early January, late December. * Haruko slowly pours water over the two foams. "Slowly spin the stick as I do this, so I can get the whole surface wet." * Satoshi starts spinning the stick slowly. * Taki continues to watch. ( I want to say December. But I'd rather say July! ) * Kaede frowns. "That's what I thought..." (*eyes Brett*) It connects? The first incident of the drugs is early January too...and that's just when it started being distinguished as a particular type.. Before that it was "just another drug" * Haruko carefully pours out the whole contents of the bottle. A puddle forms on the ground underneath the stick, but the whole surface of the foam is now wet. * Katie hmms and nods. "Yeah, that makes sense." Alright, so the next thing to do Satoshi is hold the stick as you generally want to, if you want to allow for multiple positions, hold it for a minute in each. * Satoshi nods and does so. The other thing...I'm not sure if it's a connection. But there have been incidents at all the major schools... * Taki finaly figure it out, "Oh!...It's good thing he's not going to play with this stick, he'd have to use his gloves." * Haruko nods and smiles. "Right, keep at it until its dried off. It'll stay like that once it's dry." There's been other unrelated ones too...restaurants and such...it might just be coincidence * Haruko eeps. "Oh, if you want to fix it with the glove too, then I should redo this." * Satoshi chuckles at Taki's statement. "Yep. This stick isn't for a game, and in a fight, gloves would just get in the way. So it's fine, Haruko." It might. Or those might have been thrown in to throw off the pattern. We can't know yet, but it's something to go on. But Seiryuu, Shunyo, and the one that the Band is from. Aparently all had drug-related incidents. Sakuragoaka the only one I could find was the recent raid. * Haruko smiles. "Right, now this won't be the actual handles, as it would lose form next time it gets wet. But I'll use it to make the actual hand holds. And they will work for the moment. * Katie nods. * Satoshi keeps holding onto the stick unti it dries. "Got it. Thanks, Haruko." * Kaede takes a deep breath. "I don't know..." Just give it to me tomorrow morning or something and I'll finish it. * Haruko thinks for a moment. Okay. * Katie looks fully at Kaede. "We'll figure it out." Oh, and I tried to see if there was anything else about the owner of that mansion, but nothing we don't already know.. Oh, and I sort of guessed at the weight. Most of the proportions are just based off hockey standards, but since this is sort of a special purpose model I just guessed. * Katie sighs and nods. I...suppose you're right. It seems weird to be a detective... It'll be fairly easy to adjust if you like, I can even come with you and fine tune it. It is weird. But it's what we're stuck doing, at least for now. Right now it feels okay. Let's wait until I've had a chance to practice with it a bit before making adjustments. * Katie grins. "Thanks, though." * Kyon turns the corner at the end of the hallway, with his bag in one hand and a baseball in the other. He's turning it into different grips as he looks down the hallway towards them, then starts moving towards them. * Kaede stands up and looks around the lockers. "I've been thinking..." Yeah? Unless he's going to be swinging at peoples feet I think it'd need to be balanced diffrenently than a normal hockey stick anyway. * Katie stays seated, idly sketching again. It's just...do you really think it's...good to talk around here? * Haruko grins slightly. "Ooh, didn't think of that Taki, fortunately the balance can be indepednetly adjusted, so that's not a problem." [Ken comes down the hall!] * Satoshi nods. "True. Well, we can work on it later." He tucks it back in the bag. Nope. * Haruko leans back against the wall, looking as if the weight of the world has just been lifted from her shoulders over the past few minutes. * Katie keeps sketching. If she notices Ken or Kyon, she doesn't give any indication. * Kyon stalks down towards them, looking down at Ken as he goes. Then why do it? * Katie keeps sketching for a bit, then comments, "Because I thought getting everyone together somewhere else is near-" She frowns. "Can't think of the word." [Ken doesn't notice Kyon. He pauses just long enough to pull down his eye-lid and stick his tongue out at Katie, then continues out the door.] * Kaede smirks. "Impossible?" * Katie nods at that, then glances up at Ken and bursts out laughing. * Katie calls after him, "Is that the best you can do, Hibiki?" * Kaede watches Ken past. "That was...childish.." * Haruko watches the interaction, bemused. * Satoshi grins. "I think he's improving." [Ken doesn't look around as he keeps going. "It's all I need for you."] Wow, I'm impressed. Say hi to your floozy of the week for me. * Taki grins and shakes her head. * Kyon shakes his head bemusedly, then stops a couple lockers down from the others and puts the bag down. He keeps rotating the ball in his hand, and looks down the hall towards Ken. [Ken is gone by now.] * Kaede looks down at Katie. "You two have an interesting relationship..." * Katie shrugs, watching where he went. "I don't think so." * Kaede adjusts his glasses slightly and falls back against the lockers, closing his eyes with a deep sigh. I think it's a fairly common one...in the second grade. * Haruko keeps giggling. * Katie goes back to sketching. "Hi Kyon." I can't remember the last time I did that to someone. Probably was about seven or so, yeah. * Kyon nods tersely down at her, then to the others. * Haruko glances up at Kyon then looks over to Satoshi. "Can't remember ever doing it, wouldn't be dignified." * Satoshi chuckles. "I don't think I was worried all that much about dignity back then. Except when I was skating." I know I did things like that, I had no diginty. * Haruko chuckles. * Kaede half opens his eyes, but not looking anywhere but across the way. "So what's on the agenda for today?" * Haruko plays with her hair. * Taki sighs, "Thoes were the days." I don't know. * Haruko glances up at Kyon and seems to be thinking something over. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of not knowing.. * Kyon closes his eyes, opens them again, and looks sidewise at Kaede. "You had questions?" * Kaede raises an eyebrow slightly to Kyon, blinking. "You have answers?" Do you want to talk about this somewhere else? * Kyon nods tersely, tucks the ball into his pocket, and picks up his bag. He starts stalking down the hallway, beckoning quickly behind him as he goes. * Kaede nods. "It'd be a lot better.." He looks at Kyon suspiciously. * Satoshi blinks. "Okay... guess we should follow him." Yep. * Kaede follows, casting Katie a slight glance as he goes, before looking at Kyon's back. * Katie gets to her feet, tucking the pencil in her satchel and closing her sketchpad. She nods at Satoshi, then walks after Kyon. * Haruko tags along. "I don't suppose we could go to the reveresed Tower... I wanna see it!" [Mimi follows too! "Nyah!"] * Katie stops in her tracks. * Katie turns around and blinks at the catgirl. "Haven't seen you in a while." * Taki blinks, "Hi Mimi." * Kaede freezes, then hangs his head. "Nyah to you too.." * Satoshi turns around and looks at the catgirl. "Um... hi. What are you doing here?" * Haruko looks over Mimi. Her eyes narrow. * Mimi grins, arms folded behind her back. "Nyah! It was cold, so I stayed in doors!" Since when do illusions feel cold? * Mimi pouts. "It was illusionary cold!" ...right. * Kaede follows after Kyon, putting his hand to his forehead. * Kyon stops, but doesn't look back. He moves over to the wall, and leans against it, looking down the hallway the other way. [Thankfully, the hall is empty. For now.] Good for you, Mimi. * Haruko watches Mimi. "So, what can we do for you, want imaginary catnip?" * Kaede stops as Kyon does, glancing at him, his voice in a low mutter. "I'm assuming it's not for her ears?" * Satoshi keeps an eye on Mimi as he reaches where Kyon and Kaede have stopped. * Mimi beams and waves her elbows. "Nyah! One hand has something good! The other has something bad! Who wants to be the lucky one to pick?" * Taki blinks. * Kyon smirks, and shakes his head mutely before turning to face Mimi. "Remember what I told your puppet master about games?" * Kaede blinks and adjusts his glasses, looking at Mimi. "...how good and how bad...?" * Mimi tilts her head at Kyon. "... Nyah?" * Haruko looks over at Mim. "Can we get a clue? Games like this are more fun with clues... Cats are clever right, like sphinxes?" Nyah! Too clever to give you clues! * Haruko sticks out her tongue. "Well, if you're so clever, you can give us a clue we can't figure out." So you arn't going to tell us which one you think would be more fun either right? * Mimi grins. "Okay! Don't pick the left hand!" ...right... * Katie facepalms. No.. I'm not picking a hand! * Satoshi just shrugs. I meant..it depends on whether Meimi actually wants us to pick the good thing or not, doesn't it? * Mimi purrs at Kaede. "Nyah!" So, we've got two votes for the right hand and one person who doesn't want to play? * Kyon shakes his head, and scowls at Mimi. "And if we don't pick either?" * Haruko looks at Mimi, "You wouldn't cheat like that right, where would the fun be?" * Mimi smiles. "Then you don't get either!" * Kaede looks at Taki. "I didn't pick a hand..." I vote right. Oh, sorry. One vote for the right. * Kaede rubs his forehead. You know... "Good and bad" could just mean one thing is good for Meimi and the other is bad for us...she wins either way. * Haruko shrugs. "Not playing the game can be more dangerous than playing..." Hey Mimi, after we pick. Will you tell us what the other hand was? Nope! I'll save it for next time! * Kaede sighs a little then shakes his head, rubbing it. "Fine...I'll go along with whatever you decide." * Haruko glances around. "So, I say right, but like Kaede, I'll go with the group. Any other opinions?" It doesn't matter. * Kyon shrugs disinterestedly. Ehh, whichever. Nyah! Who's going to do the actual picking? * Taki shrugs digs a coin out of her pocket and flips it, "Heads is left." d2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (d2) and gets 2. * Haruko shrugs. "I can, I suppose." So...Me, Haruko, and Mimi all say right. * Natsumi is now known as Demota * Haruko walks up to Mimi. "So, if there are no more objections..." * Satoshi watches carefully. * Mimi grins at Haruko. "Are you sure?" * Kaede folds his arms, giving Mimi a stern look and glancing from her to Haruko and back. * Haruko taps Mimi's right hand. * Kyon blows out a breath, and half turns away. * Katie watches. Rather like watching a train wreck, really. * Mimi pulls her right hand out of her pocket and put's a stuffed rat in Haruko's. * Mimi beams. "Nyah! Enjoy!" Then vanishes. * Taki blinks. ..yes, for a cat, that would be a good thing. Well, I suppose that's a good thing if you're a cat... * Haruko blinks and pokes at the rat. "Catnip it is I suppose." But what does it do? Squeaks probably. I think it's just a cat toy. [When Haruko pokes the rat, it squeaks.] Want it Kyon? * Kaede rolls his eyes and turns towards Kyon. "Why don't we go?" * Katie sighs in relief and looks over at Kyon. * Kyon looks at it with a cocked head, then nods tersely and holds out his hand. * Haruko hands it over. * Kaede tilts his head towards Kyon and almost smiles at him. "Play thing for Kumaguro?" * Kyon holds it up to his eyes, and looks at it more closely. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 8. (I hope that roll wasn't for Haruko noticing that the rat was ticking) [As Kyon holds the rat up, it's eyes glow green. It leaps off his hand and scrambles down the back of Haruko's shirt.] * Katie yelps and jumps back, away from the rat. * Satoshi jumps involuntarily. "What the...?" * Haruko yelps, jumps and tries to push the thing down off her back. * Taki blinks and hurries twords Haruko, "Where is it?" * Kaede blinks and looks at it, pushing his glasses. "Figures..." ( Presumeably, Haruko's shirt is tucked in, since that's part of the dress code. Soooo.... ) * Kyon rocks back on his heels, and flexes his free hand. [The rat scrambles around while you're all awestruck. It tickles.] * Kaede unclasps his kaban and takes his laptop and books out of it, setting them out of the way on the floor. * Taki guesses where the rat went and tries to pull Haruko's shirt up. "Get out of there you..." * Satoshi blushes and turns away. Gosh, he's helpful. * Haruko keeps jumping around antsy, she actually giggles a little, "Eep, get it out! Thanks Taki." * Haruko keeps pushing at her back with one hand, with the other she tries to make sure the front of her shirt stays down. [The rat eventually falls out, onto the floor.] There it is! * Haruko blushes and tucks in her shirt again. * Kaede creeps up towards the rat carefully, open end of his kaban pointed downward. [The rat looks around!] * Taki glares at the rat. * Haruko jumps back a bit. * Kaede dives on it, trying to catch the rat inside. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 6. * Satoshi turns back around. "Where is it?" [Kaede captures the rat!] * Kaede holds his kaban down against the floor tight. Kaede just caught it. * Katie claps. * Haruko smiles. "My Her... Eh, I mean good job." * Taki joins in the aplause, "Good job kaede." Ah, okay. Nice work, Kaede. Anyone want to help me close this up without it jumping out? * Haruko steps forward. "Well, I picked it, I suppose I should help." * Kaede lets out a slow breath and shakes his head. What'll I tell Nanami having a rat in my pack? Not to open it. We'll find somewhere else to put it? * Haruko giggles. "That it was a gift from an illusionary cat girl. Obviously." * Kaede scoops up the kaban to the side, careful to close the flap over as he does so so it doesn't jump out. Wait...doesn't that mean that the rat's an illion too? Probably. * Katie looks at the kaban with a tilted head. Probably..but not taking any chances. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-4) and gets 5. d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d6) and gets 6. [The rat hops out of the kaban before Kaede can close it and darts at Taki!] ( Body -2 bonus, Taki ) Yipe! 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-2) and gets 7. * Kaede slaps his forehead and grumbles. "Fast thing." ( Good grief. c.c ) (That's a fail) (You started it. :P) [The rat scrambles up Taki's side and down her shirt! @_@] * Kyon shakes his head irritatedly, and watches the rat jump around at the others. * Katie groans, then runs over to Taki and does the best she can to get the rat out of her shirt. This is getting us nowhere. * Satoshi does the blushing and turning away thing again. Ack! ::untucks her shirt and dances around trying to get the rat back out:: You think? * Haruko scurries up to help as well. [With all three girls pulling at Taki's shirt, they eventually get the rat out.] * Kaede jumps on the rat again when he gets a chance, not daring to look up at Taki. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 7. * Taki haistily tucks her shirt back in, "Thanks for the help." (Dicey likes 9s) [Kaede misses the rat by a hairs-breadth.] * Kyon rolls his eyes and stalks forward to grab the thing. * Haruko nods, she looks a bit amused. "Happy to repay the favor." 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6-2) and gets 7. (Really does, eh? Heh.) d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d6) and gets 5. (realy likes nines) [The rat scampers out of Kyon's grasp, towards Satoshi!] ( Body roll -2! ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Satoshi kicks the rat off when it gets to his foot, and it falls to the floor again.] (There. That was an eight.) * Kaede turns and goes to catch the rat again. Okay, this is getting annoying. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Kaede catches the rat under his bag again.] Where's my catcher when I need it? Somewhere else. * Kaede holds it down firm and scowls. "Alright..just find something to weight down the edges now. I'll get a new bag later." * Haruko looks over the bag. "Hmm.." I wonder if we leave it alone long enough, it'll go back to being inanimate. Or disappear. Or something. Could we just shove it against the wall and then cover the other side with a book or something? * Kaede nods and skids the edge without the flap over towards the wall. "Anyone got a book handy?" * Katie opens her satchel and digs in it a little, pulling out an unfinished block of wood and placing it on one of the flaps. * Haruko takes off her jacket. "We could use the wall trick, and then lift the bag and just catch it in a jacket as it comes out." * Kaede lets go after Katie puts the block on and stands up slowly, letting out a long breath. It's times like this that I want to snap at anyone who says "never a dull moment." * Katie snickers. * Haruko kneels next to the bag. "Although, I suppose its powered by magic, not a little motor." She sighs. * Taki nods, "I think we got the good for Mimi hand." Maybe a magical motor, Haruko. * Satoshi nods. Didn't I say as much? * Haruko 's eye's widen. "I want it!" * Kaede picks up his stuff that now has no home. ;_; * Satoshi eyes Haruko. "Why would you want a magical stuffed rat?" It might have a magic motor! An illusionary magical stuffed rat. * Katie laughs helplessly. * Satoshi nods, as if it should have been obvious all along. "Ah. Of course." I don't know and I don't care. It's stopped, at least for now. So we go where we were headed. Or an illusionary magical motor. I could still study it. I mean it's cute, if... Well, undignified. * Kyon shrugs, then rolls his shoulders. "Better off burning the thing." * Satoshi blushes slightly, then shakes his head. "Right. Now that Meimi's had her fun, what were we doing?" * Taki looks a bit lost but nods anyway. * Kaede eyes Kyon. "You're not burning my pack.." * Haruko puts her knees over the edges of her jacket. "No burning. Could someone push this up against the wall, I'll cetch it if it slides out." Remember what happened last time we tried to scoop it up. We can't leave it there. I have a better plan this time. ::Haruko moves her knees up on her jacket, forming a triangle, with the only entrances being the front:: So anyone gonna push this thing? We can. At least for now. We'll come back..but I'd much rather get this done first. I'll do it. * Kaede shakes his head and throws up his hands. Why does he even bother? * Haruko smiles at Katie. "We'll need something to put it in afterwards, but I think I can keep it in my jacket for now." * Katie shakes her head. "Just toss it out the door and shut the door afterwards." Yeah, cruelty to illusionary rats. ( Kaede bothers 'cause he wuvs them. ) * Katie kneels by the kaban. "Ready, Haruko?" * Haruko pouts. "It's stuffed! You can't be cruel to stuffed things, let alone illusionary ones." (Awww.. Hugs!) * Haruko nods, "Ready" She scoots forward as the bag moves, pushing down the front of the jacket if she thinks it has come into her trap. * Katie doesn't comment. She really doesn't comment. * Taki watches. ( Haruko, body roll -4! ) 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-4) and gets 3. * Katie moves the bag forward, then lifts one end slightly, making sure the only way the rat can go is into Haruko's jacket. [The rat runs right into the trap.] * Katie sighs. "There." * Haruko closes off the front exit. "Could you take over holding down the front of the jacket Katie? Then I'll grab the bulge and have it in my jacket." * Katie does that. * Kaede takes the opportunity to snatch his kaban and stick his stuff back in it. * Haruko grabs the rat under her jacket with both hands, waiting til she has a firm hold to lift it up. [The rat struggles but does not get out.] * Katie picks the wood back up, looks it over, and tucks it away. * Haruko giggles. "I'll go put this in a jar for later study, assuming it doesn't vanish." She then hustles off, holding the rat with one hand and keeping the jacket shut with her other. * Kaede looks at both of them calmly. "Can we go now?" * Satoshi blinks. "Okay. We're done here, right?" ... Yeah, let's go. How are you going to get it into the jar? It's going to try and run the instant you let go of the jacket. * Taki realizes she's speaking to air. * Haruko calls back halfway down the hall. "There are tricks, where should I meet you guys?" Ask Kyon. * Kyon jogs the bag in his hand, and starts stalking off down the hallway again. "Was going to use the council room. But now... the Tower. You know the way." * Haruko nods. * Kaede nods and follows behind, looking a little more intrigued now. * Katie mms and walks as well. "The tower, huh?" * Satoshi walks along. "Have you ever been to the Tower before, Kaede?" * Taki nods slowly. "The problem with the tower is that you never know who else is going to be there." ...yeah. There used to be field trips way back..it's been a real long time though... * Kyon looks back at Taki over his shoulder with a smirk. "Only part of the experience." Oh, I meant this particular one. Well, Kaede. We're going to the other tower. True. * Kaede shakes his head. "That...I haven't been to." It's kinda cool. Just don't look out the window, and watch the elevators. What Taki said is true. You never know who you'll run into. * Kyon heads off outside, then towards his bike. He listens quietly with a cool expression as he goes. But the windows are the best part, especialy when it's snowing. Well, if you're like me, you don't really want to look *down* and see nothing but sky. * Taki nods. "to each their own." * Kaede heads out for his bike. To the Tower! * Kyon hops on his bike, secures his bag, puts on his helmet, and drives off. * Taki heads for the train. To the Tower! * Katie goes to the train as well. * Satoshi heads for the train too. * Haruko meets the group on the way. [Time: 3:10 p.m. You all arrive at Tokyo Tower at the same time.] (Convenient!) * Katie stretches and looks around. * Haruko pouts. "Stupid disappeariong rat. Mimi's a tease." You didn't know? It disappeared? Well, can't say I'm all that surprised. * Kaede looks slowly up at the tower, adjusting his glasses, not turning towards Haruko as she speaks. "You expected different?" Anyhow... you ever been to the Tower before, Haruko? So it was just an illusion...she'll probibly be happy to make another one for you. * Haruko looks at her feet. "Well, I could hope." She looks up. "Y'know, maybe let me see an illusionary magical motor, it was supposed to be good." * Katie just shakes her head. * Haruko shakes her head. "Tower, yes, reversed, no." * Kyon parks his bike, stows the helmet, and takes the bag in hand. He strides purposefully inside, wearing a scowl. * Kaede glances towards the observation deck. "Seems like one of those grade school field trips, doesn't it?" * Haruko nods and chuckles. * Katie walks after him. "Now, kids, I want you to stay in groups of two. Let's use the buddy system so we don't get lost, okay?" Except that nobody's forcing me to go up to the very top, yes. * Demota has joined #Arcana * Kaede lowers his head before getting neckstrain and moves into the tower. Not my favorite spot for trips. [Inside is a small lounge area, with offices to the sides. In the back is an elevator.] (Mimi hands her a small black cube with the words "illusionary magical moter" stencelid on the side in white "Nyah!") ( Yay! ^_^ ) * Satoshi follows the others. * Taki walks next to Satoshi. ( I thought you were trying to dig your way to the Tower Reversed :P ) * Haruko goes up to the elevator an hits the button to summon one. (Summon Elevator: the most powerful spell in BESM.) * Kyon waits off to the side a bit from the elevators. He rocks back on his heels, and looks around. ( Haruko does not have enough MP to summon the elevator. She can only cast Choco/Mog ) Uhm...which button did you hit? ( Yay! Choco/mog!) (*gives Haruko an Ether*) * Kaede watches the elevator, as he was told to do, but stands off to the side. [Nobody you know is around.] [The elevator arrives with a *ding!*. A bunch of tourists exit.] (Never say that our GM isn't listening to our wants! ^_~) * Haruko waits for the tourist then gets in. "The summon elevator button, was there a choice?" You're supposed to hit the down button....I don't think I've seen the actual top... * Haruko looks for the down button and hits it. * Kaede looks at the elevator, then blinks. "We're on the ground floor...aren't we?" [Annoyingly, the elevator wants to go up before down] * Katie gives up and pulls Haruko out of the elevator. * Haruko tilts her head. "I don't get it." * Haruko is pulled. [The elevator goes all the way up! Then comes all the way back down!] * Kaede looks for a down button. * Katie makes sure the down button was pressed, then gets in the elevator. "*Now* we go." [Kaede finds one. He watches Katie press it.] * Kyon waits for it to come back, then steps inside. He moves to the back and leans against the wall. Let's try that again. * Kaede looks again, staring at it a bit, then hurrying to get in the elevator. "Why didn't I notice before...?" * Taki gets in the elevator. * Katie stays next to the doors. "Because it doesn't want to be noticed, I think." * Haruko scratches her head and stares at the down button, then she gets in. * Satoshi gets in with the rest of them. "You mean only we can see it?" ..right. And if I hadn't been through all I've gone through by now, I'd say you were completely out of touch with reality..." * Katie shrugs, wrapping her arms around herself. She hates this part. * Haruko eagerly inspects the elevator, looking for anything out of the ordinary. * Kaede smiles faintly. "I suppose we all are, in a way..." [The elevator moves! You're not quite sure which direction it's going, but you think it's down.] We just played a game for an illusionary cat girl, I think out of touch is a bit of an understatement. * Katie closes her eyes. [It opens on the same floor with a *ding!*] * Katie scrambles out. * Kyon rolls his eyes, then stalks off the elevator into the lounge area. * Haruko looks to see if the emergency exit stuff is in the elevator. [Haruko doesn't see any.] * Satoshi gets off the elevator and looks around to see if anyone besides their group is there. * Taki walks out of the elevator and takes a look around. * Kaede looks at Katie for a moment, "Are you okay..?" He blinks as he steps out. "We didn't go any...where.." He looks towards the window as he speaks. * Haruko sighs and heads out. "I need a g-meter." Welcome to the Tower Reversed, Kaede. * Satoshi doesn't look out the window. He knows what he'd see. [The lounge is empty.] * Katie takes a few deep breaths and leans against the wall. "Yes." This isn't another of Meimi's tricks... is it? * Haruko goes to look out the window. No. Nope. * Kaede walks slowly over to the window, putting his hand on the glass as he looks out. [Haruko and Kaede see the area outside of Tokyo Tower. Which wouldn't look so unusual, except it's where the sky should be.] * Satoshi goes over to one of the chairs and sits. * Taki walks with Haruko, "You should come here when it's snowing...it falls UP!' * Kyon moves over to the windows, and moves himself to rest partly against, partly on one of the sills. He looks over his shoulder out at the view, looking at his bike, and puts his bag down. * Haruko stares out, jaw dropping. * Katie goes over to a chair and flops in it, not caring about politeness or being ladylike. * Haruko takes out a pencil and drops it. * Satoshi smiles sympathetically at Katie. "You okay? I always forget about that." * Kaede looks over his shoulder at Satoshi. "Forget about what?" It's... okay. You don't need to worry about it. * Satoshi nods. "All right." * Haruko scouts out the lounge. "So is it possible to go outside. Or take the elevator up, or, I suppose down, to the top of the reversed tower?" * Kaede walks over to a seat, dropping his kaban by the side of it and slumping down, his chin drooping into his chest. * Satoshi shudders involuntarily. "Don't know, and don't really want to try." As far as I know it only goes back to the lobby of the normal tower. * Kyon looks sidewise at Haruko. "Never tried going anywhere else in the Tower. As for outside..." he gestures, and smirks. "Be my guest, if you want to try." So...I guess this is what you'd call the true face of Arcana? True face? * Kaede shrugs. "It's just...everything else seems...well, not normal but..." Hmm... I don't think that should cause some sort of dramatic change in air pressure and suck us all out. Relative to this though... What, the world hadn't been turned upside-down for you enough already? * Satoshi grins. Maybe, a really long ladder, or a parachute. Could put a little camera on a motorized airplane and check out Tokyo below. If you break one of the windows...who on earth would we get to fix it? Haha, Satoshi. * Kaede looks over at Kyon. "Who else knows about this place? Do you know?" But, seriously... yeah, I kinda know what you mean, I think. It's here that makes me realize that we're something... different. * Haruko looks over at Satoshi. "So do you feel that this is a field, or is this something different?" * Taki blinks, "I never wondered about that." * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Sho. Reiji. Kyoko. Can't count everyone. Ones I haven't met may know, too." * Satoshi shakes his head. "I don't feel anything." * Kaede nods slightly. "Well, it's good to know the people who can walk in on you is narrowed.." * Haruko nods. "So cell phones should work here, right?" Of course, it could be a very special case that my sensing ability doesn't extend to. * Katie looks at Satoshi. "We might be something different, but we're still human." She seems rather adamant about that. * Satoshi blinks in confusion. "Did I ever say that we weren't?" You said we were different. Special perhaps. But isn't everyone that way? Exactly. I certainly wasn't trying to imply that we weren't. * Taki looks up at Tokyo "We might be a little out of range for cell phones." * Katie looks apologetic and shakes her head. She opens her satchel and pulls a block of wood, then unwraps it. Well, if it could detect it lacks reception, that would count I think. * Haruko walks over to the doors to the lounge and stares at them. * Katie digs in her satchel a little more and pulls out a knife, unsheaths it, and gets to work. [The doors do not respond.] * Kyon jams a hand in his pocket, pulls out his cell phone, and looks coolly over at Haruko. "Catch." He lobs it over at her. * Taki does not look at Katie with the knife...no, she is very carefully stairing out the window so she doesn't see Katie with the knife. * Haruko does her best to catch the phone. * Haruko tries the phone, testing out the range of available functions. (All of them? It's a good, Japanese cel phone. =P) * Kaede opens his eyes slowly and leans back in the chair. (Well, a representative sample then. ^_~) [The phone doesn't seem to get any reception at all.] * Kaede leans over to look at the phone and holds his hand out. "Let me see it.." * Haruko nods and walks over to hand Kaede over the phone. "No real function at all." * Kaede picks up the phone and holds it to his ear, his hand clutching it slightly tighter than normal as he concentrates. * Haruko walks back over to the doors. She tries to find something nearby to secure herself to. * Kyon looks back into the room, off towards Kaede with a cool expresesion. [Kaede manages to get the phone working, but still gets no reception.] * Taki likes the view out the window. Yes... * Satoshi watches Katie carve. * Demota is now known as DemoGaming * Kaede frowns a bit at the phone. "So much for that idea..." * Haruko grabs something near the door. "If people don't mind, I'd like to try to open one, may want to hold on to something." Did it work Kaede? * Satoshi looks up. "You mean using your abilities to get it to work?" Phone works, reception doesn't... Didn't work at all for me. * Katie is carving rather intently. The block is slowly taking the shape of something else in her hands, though there doesn't seem to be any magic involved. Too bad. Well, that's something, I guess. ( Katie carves a cute little Kirby sculpture! ) * Kaede snaps it closed and holds out the phone for Kyon. Were you able to get it on Kaede? I couldn't play games or anything. (I do? @_@) * Kyon starts looking irritated, then blows out a breath. "Wasted enough time." He focuses on Kaede, takes the phone, jams it in his pocket, and leans back in the window. * Kaede nods, slightly distantly. You had questions. So ask. * Katie speaks without looking up, "Testing what you can do isn't a waste of time, Kyon." * Haruko nods, "Then it did work, which means I need to teach you to ride a motorcycle." * Haruko tenatively, carefully, tries to open a door, making usre she's holding on to something. * Kaede folds his arms slightly, looking up at Kyon. "Right..." When did you first encounter Judgement? [Haruko opens a door and does not get sucked out of the tower.] * Kyon smirks at Katie. "Not something I needed to be here for, though." * Haruko lies down and stares down, with just her head out of the door, she uses her hand to make sure the door stays open. [Session End!]