[Day: Wednsday, March 12th. Time: 11:10 p.m.] [Weather: Chilly and cloudy, with possible snow around midnight.] [We find (some of) our protagonists in Aoba park, which is in the far southeast corner of Tokyo and some distance from Sakuragaoka. Why? 'Cause Katie got a mysterious phonecall that told her to come here. The phonecall was evidently made by Reiji, who looks like he's been living on the streets for a month. Katie's out confronting him, and Kaede and Satoshi are trying to be hidden off to the sides.] [Though there's lights in the park, they don't illuminate it very well.] [Session Start] * Reiji takes another step towards Katie. "Because I saved it. I've stopped them, for now. For now..." His normal serious personality seems gone, consumed by a madness. * Katie takes a few steps forward, then stops herself. "Reiji! What happened to you?" * Kaede stays hidden with the furry of a thousand hidden things. He does strain to see and listen though. * Satoshi blinks, and whispers, "Reiji? *That's* him?" Is that my name? It's been so long... * Kaede looks back at Satoshi and blinks, whispering back. "Who?" * Katie nods. "You're..." She swallows. "You're Reiji Ozora. The Eight of Cups, and... I knew you. You vanished." ( Katie, body roll! ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6) and gets 10. * Satoshi whispers back. "Kyoko's brother. He's been missing for a while. And now he's..." * Reiji takes a step forwards, but a grimace flashes on his face just before he stumbles onto Katie, knocking them both to the ground. * Satoshi runs out of his hiding place. "Katie!" * Kaede blinks and swivels around, then blinks again. "Katie!" He rushes forward. * Katie yelps, falling backwards. Her head hits the ground with a jarring thud. * Katie grimaces. "Ow." * Satoshi kneels down and tries to (gently) move Reiji off her. (* Satoshi lifts Reiji off and he goes flying into a tree "So much for gentle..") * Reiji is moved. Satoshi notices rather a number of wounds on his back. * Kaede helps Katie up, keeping an eye on Reiji. "Are you alright?" * Katie sits up, rubbing the back of her head, still grimacing. "Yeah, I'm okay. That was an accident." * Satoshi blinks. "Oh my God... what happened to you?" I know... * Kaede keeps an eye on Reiji, without comment, at least thus far. Guys... he's really hurt. * Reiji laughs, ignorant of ... well, anything, it seems. "I never vanished. I just found out. Had to get it before they did. Bef--!" He pulls himself to a kneeling position in spite of the obvious pain and checks the pockets of his coat frantically, then sighs when he feels something inside one. Hey, be careful! Had to get what? * Katie watches him, concerned. * Kaede narrows his eyes, then takes out his cell phone, thrusting it out at Katie. "Katie. See if you can get Haruko here. Tell her we need her NOW." * Reiji notices Satoshi for the first time. He gets to his feet in a hurry. "You! Which one...? No, I mustn't..." Get Taki to bring her here if you have to. * Katie blinks at Kaede, then takes the phone and gets to her feet, dialing away. * Satoshi stands up, too. "Wait, what? Don't move, okay? Just stand still for a second! We're going to get you some help." I'm just afraid...she can't heal a mind... No! I... NO! I'm still not... Agh! * Reiji turns and runs towards the park's entrence, stumbling along the way. * Kaede pushes his glasses up and stands slowly. "Reiji. Remember who you are..." No! Wait! * Satoshi runs after him. * Kaede scowls. "Satoshi, hold him still!" 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-2) and gets 6. * Satoshi tries to stop Reiji. Gently. [Satoshi catches up with Reiji fairly easily, seeing as how one's athletic and the other's hurt, but Reiji still makes it out of the gate before he catches up. Reiji runs into the middle of the street without even checking, and a car screeches to a halt a mere foot before colliding with him.] * Katie grimaces as she hears that and runs out of the park, too, keeping hold of the phone. Guess Haruko will have to wait. * Kaede curses and runs after. * Reiji glances at the car, but tries to keep going anyway. However, he stumbles again, and Satoshi catches up to him. * Haruko opens the door and runs out to the figure. "Thanks the Kami. You're alright! Damn it, look before you run out in the road." HARUKO! Don't DO that! * Kaede blinks and looks at Haruko, then looks back at Katie. "You..didn't call yet, did you?" * Haruko is dressed in a heavy but old looking overcoat and wearing leather driving gloves with fingers. She looks at the group in shock. * Katie slows to a stop, looks at Haruko for a moment, then tosses the phone to Kaede. "No. Call Taki." * Kaede snaps out of it and turns to Haruko. "Haruko! He needs healing. Right away." * Haruko runs up to the figure and grabs a hold of his arm, trying to be gentle. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 12, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "I can recommend some good Dice Cleanser, if you like." (dr) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 11. (DR is your friend.) (But Dicesuke still isn't.) ( Quite ) * Kaede catches the phone and immediately puts it to his ear as he dials. Funny, doesn't look like he actually pressed the buttons. * Katie walks closer to Reiji and puts a hand on his shoulder. "It's okay," she says, as gentle as her voice has ever been. "They're friends. It'll be okay." * Reiji snatches his arm out of Haruko's grip and quickly backs away. "No! Can't trust you! You could be with them! You c- could..." He falls over, apparently unconscious. * Satoshi tries to catch Reiji as he's falling. * Haruko kneels down next to him, starting to heal him as best she can. "Katie, do you have your first aid kit?" * Katie nods. She kneels, opening her satchel and pulling out the kit. * Katie opens it and gets to work on what she can though, admittedly, she has no powers backing her up. * Haruko heals away, doing her best to assist Katie with the convential medicine if she can. * Kaede crosses his arms as he waits for an answer. "Please let her still be up.." * Haruko speaks as she works, though she doesn't look up. "Who is this? What happened to him?" Reiji Ozora. I don't know. This is Reiji, the Eight of Cups. And, yeah. We just found him like this. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-2) and gets 9. He's been missing for a while now, apparently. (... What the hell, Dicey? DR.) * Kaede cups his hand over the phone and looks steadily at Katie. "Didn't..you say he called?" 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-1) and gets 5. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-1) and gets 3. * Katie nods, not looking up from her work. "Yeah. I don't know why he called me instead of Kyon." [Katie fixes him up as best she can.] Because Kyon's out of town? * Kaede blows out a breath. Speaking of Kyonish behavior. "Taki. You know where Aoba park is?" * Katie tucks some hair behind her ear. "No, I mean... before Kyon left, he called me once. It was a warning of some kind." * Haruko comments in a what just might be a disipirited voice, though it's hard to be sure, you've never heard this tone from her before. "So you're the one I've been failing." What? What do you mean by that? * Katie frowns as she fixes Reiji up. She runs a finger along one of the cuts on his back. "Blades?" * Kaede speaks evenly into the phone. "We found the Eight of Cups." * Haruko starts to cry as she heals. "I was supposed to save him. According to the cards. But all I managed was to betray Riko and piss off Katie." * Satoshi tenatively reaches out and puts a hand on Haruko's shoulder. "Maybe you're saving him now." * Kaede covers the mouthpiece and scowls at Haruko. "Haruko-san, it's not your fault. There's nothing you could have done." The cards are... well, it seems that they're vague at best. So... * Satoshi's voice trails off awkwardly. * Katie lets out a faint sigh, then says, firmly, "It doesn't matter." * Haruko keeps crying but in no way lets up the healing. "Thank you Satoshi." * Kaede lifts his hand off the piece and speaks into it again. "Yeah, I think so. Can you get down here?" * Kaede nods. "Good. We'll be by the gate." He shuts the phone off and walks over to the crew. * Kaede kneels down and looks down on Reiji. "Any idea what happened?" * Satoshi shakes his head. "He's badly wounded, but..." * Haruko puts her hand on Satoshi's for just a moment, before going back to keeping both on Reiji. "I'll be alright." She then turns over down to Reiji. "So will you damn it. I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter." She's still crying a bit, but her voice has regained some of it's force. * Katie shakes her head. She points out the freshly bandaged wounds. "He might have just been too tired to stay standing. I think there's been a lot of blood loss." These weren't made from hurting himself by accident. They're too clean. Someone did this to him. I wish we knew what was going on in his hea... * Kaede blinks and looks at Satoshi. What? ...you think it'd work? Oh. Oh! Maybe... I guess it can't hurt to try. You're...sure about this though, right? * Kaede rubs the bridge of his nose. "I don't know except to be a little skeptical.." You figured out what I was thinking, right? ...right now? Back in the cafe. We haven't had a chance to test it since then, but... try it. * Katie arranges Reiji into a more comfortable position on the grass. She removes her own jacket, shivering a bit and proving that yes, she is wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt, and puts it over Reiji. * Kaede nods and looks at Reiji. "I wonder if it'd really work..." ...I don't even know how it'd work. * Haruko bites her lip as she heals, she doesn't seem to be paying attention to anything going around him. "We should probably put him in a hospital I can't heal him anymore. But I don't know how we can keep him safe in one." Well, what did you do when you were reading me? 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 6. Just concentrate. Actually, try Haruko and me first. You don't want to go into it half-ready. I...hell if I kno... * Kaede blinks and looks at Katie. "...you were listening?" * Katie looks up at Kaede. "Can I not listen?" she asks, almost amused. No, it's just...oh fine. * Taki arrives at the gate and looks around. * Kaede tries to concentrate on Katie first. * Taki mumbles to herself, "Please let nobody have seen that." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 7. [It's doubtful anyone saw it; it's late and the streets are mostly clear.] * Kaede blinks then turns to Haruko, thinking about her. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 8. ...not a thought. * Taki sighs and starts to look for the others. Are you SURE about this? [Kaede succeeds in thinking about Haruko. .oO(Yep, that's Haruko)] Well... yeah. Maybe. I don't know. You could pick me up, so why not anybody else? * Kaede is very proud in his accomplishment of thinking about Haruko. Which he celebrates by...having a neutral expression. * Haruko leans a bit closer as she speaks tenderly in a soft voice "How were you even walking? Let alone running..." * Katie smiles faintly. "Satoshi, why don't you try." Are you sure that's how it works? I mean...even when I didn't work with the phone thing, I could FEEL it not working..like something went wrong. ( Gimme hearing checks! ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 8. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 5. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 3. 2d6-8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-8) and gets -4. [Everybody hears footsteps from the direction of the park.] * Kaede stands up slowly and turns around. * Satoshi murmurs. "Someone's coming... we can work on this later, Kaede." * Haruko doesn't look up. * Katie keeps a gentle hand on Reiji and glances back for a look. [Though you didn't notice how quiet it was before, you do now as the footsteps get louder and louder. A handsome-leantoned man exits from the park. He's got sorta-not-really-spikey black hair and is wearing similarly colored leathers.] 2d6+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6+3) and gets 10. 3d6+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (3d6+3) and gets 16. 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6+6) and gets 13. 2d6+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6+3) and gets 6. (Wonders if he should worry that he's not included ^^;) 2d6+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6+3) and gets 10. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6+1) and gets 7. * Katie 's eyes widen, but she doesn't move. Instead, she continues to watch him. * Satoshi blinks. Then blinks again. Then says, very, very quietly. "...Jiro?" * Jiro keeps moving forwards, towards Reiji. * Satoshi stands up to intercept Jiro. * Katie speaks up. "Nice to see you again." Though apparently, it's anything but. "Where have you been?" * Jiro pauses, and looks at Satoshi coldly. "Let me through, and I'll let you live." * Haruko glances up for a moment. She then narrows her eyes and moves so that she's shielding Reiji while healing him. Wait. What's this about? What's been going on? [All of a sudden, it starts to rain.] * Satoshi gets wet, but doesn't move yet. * Katie flinches. Cold rain + no jacket = ow. He has something that belongs to us. I'm taking it back. * Taki finaly notices the people, but not what's exactly happening, and hurries over, "Ack, should have brought an umbrella." Really? Who's 'us'? * Kaede narrows his eyes at the new comer. "And just who are you to order us around like that?" Who's... Yeah, what she asked. * Haruko comments without looking up. "He was yours. Now he's mine, and I won't let you do this again to him." * Jiro moves forwards at that. * Satoshi puts an arm out to stop him. "Jiro... c'mon, man. What's going on?" * Taki comes running up from the side, "Uhm...What's going on?" * Katie wipes some hair out of her eyes and keeps her gaze fixed on Jiro. She's getting soaked. * Kaede reaches in his coat, eyeing Jiro. "Not until you explain yourself." 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 7. [Very suddenly, Satoshi finds that he's bleeding. Jiro suddenly has a daito (a kind of sword) in his hand, and is making his way towards Reiji with a determined look on his face.] * Satoshi clutches his arm. "Ow! Stop!" He runs after Jiro and tries to tackle him. * Kaede curses and draws his hand out, pulling out his wrench and holding it out in a sword-like stance. He eyes Jiro. ( Better roll init ) * Katie gets to her feet, putting a hand in her pocket. What's? ...Satoshi! d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (d6+6) and gets 7. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (d6+7) and gets 10. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (d6+6) and gets 7. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (d6+6) and gets 8. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (d6+6) and gets 9. [Order is Jiro, Taki, Kaede, Satoshi, Haruko, Katie.] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 8. * Jiro makes a lightning fast move, and Kaede suddenly finds his stomach is bleeding. [Taki's turn!] * Taki tries to teleport next to Haruko and Reiji, "Will somebody please tell me what's going on here!?" 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 3. * Kaede tsshes and clutches his stomach wound. "Why you..." It's Jiro! He's gone crazy! What's there to *tell*, Taki! * Haruko looks up Taki. "Get Reiji to safety. Now!" [Kaede's turn.] * Taki nods to Haruko. * Kaede staggers back a second and holds his weapon out, seeming to go into a slight trance. His index and middle fingers run parallel to the wrench as he closes his eyes. A spark jumps from his fingers to the wrench and starts coursing down the length of the weapon. [Now, Satoshi's turn] Jiro, stop this, now! * Satoshi , in one smooth motion, pulls out his hockey stick and attempts to knock the daito out of Jiro's hands. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 3. [Satoshi hits the weapon hard and Jiro loses his balance, but he manages to retain his grip.] [Haruko's turn] [The rain suddenly flies right by Jiro, narrowly missing him, not that he seems to care.] * Haruko turns her body around and sits on Reiji's legs, grabbing one with one of her arms while holding the other out at Jiro. "Leave. Now. I don't want to hurt you." [Katie's turn] * Katie points her hand towards him, palm first, as the wind howls about her. "You're- you're not the Jiro I know." She doesn't move, but the wind rushes toward Jiro, taking droplets of rain with it. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6+2) and gets 12. [The rain falls more normally again, Jiro is unaffected either way.] [Jiro's turn!] 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-3) and gets 4. * Jiro swings at Haruko and viciously slashes her shoulder. [Taki's turn!] * Taki does her best to follow her queen's orders! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 8. (dr) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 2. [Taki, Reiji and Haruko suddenly vanish!] [Kaede's turn!] * Kaede opens his eyes slowly, a look of pure hatred on his face. He's still bleeding but doesn't seem to care. The same lightning now violently streaming up and down the wrench flickers in his eyes a moment. "You bastard. I was just going to bar your passage, but since you seem so intent on a fight, so be it." He rushes at Jiro and swings the wrench full tilt. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-4) and gets 3. [Amazingly, Kaede smacks Jiro in the back, sending volts of electricity through him.] [Satoshi's turn!] (Hey! What's with the "amazingly"? ;_;) I don't know what happened to you, but I'm not going to let it go on. (You suck. Admit it.) * Satoshi swings his stick at Jiro. (;_;) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-3) and gets 5. [Satoshi has considerably less luck as Jiro turns and parries his weapon.] [Katie's turn!] * Katie takes a deep breath and concentrates. The moment Jiro turns to face Satoshi, the wind comes back to life, pushing at him again with as much force as she can muster. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6+2) and gets 8. [Katie can't muster much force.] * Jiro scowls when Reiji vanishes. He glares at the lot of you and attacks... d2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jiro (d2) and gets 1. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 9. * Jiro slashes upwards, fiercely cutting Kaede's elbow. * Kaede grits his teeth against the pain. [Is Taki's turn] 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 teleports back right on top of Jiro's head) (Why can't you give me thoes when I NEED THEM!?) [Taki appears exactly where she wanted to.] [Kaede's turn] * Kaede staggers and the electricity wains for a bit before flaring up back to full force as he slashes at Jiro's midsection. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-4) and gets 3. * Jiro sways back, avoiding the wrenchamathing. * Taki reapears where she was before. [Satoshi's turn!] * Satoshi swings! Again! At full force! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-3) and gets 1. [Satoshi has a bit more luck, smacking Jiro and knocking him to the ground, but he gets right back up] [Katie's turn!] * Jiro looks, for his part, very... not hurt much. * Katie grits her teeth and goes for a different tact. She closes her outstretched hand and yanks away from Jiro. 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6+4) and gets 9. [Jiro feels a nice breeze.] * Jiro then turns his attention to Satoshi, and attacks! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-3) and gets 1. [Satoshi blocks the incoming blade with his hockey stick!] [Taki's turn!] * Taki goes defensive while calling out, "Anybody else need to get to Haruko?" (Total Deff) [Kaede's turn!] * Kaede turns the wrench over in his hands, still controlling the electrical jolt as he swings back, ignoring the rain. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-4) and gets 6. [For all the good it does, Jiro moves out of the way again. He's awfully fast.] [Satoshi's turn!] * Satoshi swings once more! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-3) and gets 2. [Satoshi doesn't have any luck either as Jiro slides out of the way.] [Katie's turn!] * Katie frowns in frustration, then blinks. She pulls her pepper spray from her pocket, glances down at it, and aims it away from her, pressing on the button *hard*. Immediately afterwards, she sweeps her other hand towards him, the wind carrying the mace. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6) and gets 8. (DR2) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6) and gets 6. * Jiro grimaces as the pepper spray gets into his eyes. He staggers back a few steps and rubs at them. [He spends his turn guarding as defensively as he can whilst doing that, too, so Taki's turn] * Taki shakes her head while keeping her own gaurd up, "This night has been insane." [Kaede's turn!] * Kaede steadies his stance, shifting his grip on his wrench. He seems to be huffing a little. "Stay...down...why don't...you..." He rushes forward with another swing. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-4) and gets -2, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "Fight! For everlasting love and peace!" [Ooff. That isn't pretty. Kaede slams Jiro with the electric shock, and that does drop him.] * Kaede stands there, stance wide, huffing with his wrench out in front of him as the electricity slowly winks out and he slumps onto one knee. * Satoshi runs over and *yanks* the daito out of the unconscious Jiro's hands. What....the hell...did I just do...? * Taki runs up Kaede, "Are you allright? Do you need me to get you to Haruko?" Don't know, but it was damned effective. * Katie drops her hands, the spray dangling loosely from her fingers. "You tell us." * Kaede winces and clutches his stomach, cradling his elbow. * Satoshi ignores his arm wound for now. "Kaede's hurt pretty badly. And we need to figure out what to do with Jiro." * Satoshi looks down at the sword in disgust. "And this." * Kaede looks over in Jiro's direction. He's probably still crackling with nasty jolts. [That he is.] * Katie walks over, looking down at Jiro. "What happened to him? Damnit. That wasn't anything like..." She frowns. "I think he's being controlled." I think he must be. ...Call the cops on him? ...Tell Saki he might be in with the drugs? No! No, Taki. He doesn't deserve that... especially if it's not really his fault. But we don't know. We need to find- * Kaede winces as he slowly looks up. "Could anything like that...happen to one of us though?" * Taki nods, "Then I guess we've got to take care of him somehow." Need to find what? * Katie frowns, still keeping an eye on Jiro. "Kaede, try to read Taki and my mind. Satoshi, you too." * Taki grimaces at the memory of a certain Band member. * Kaede looks down towards the ground. "I'll try...but it's a little hard to concentrate with a gaping stomach wound." * Taki then gets draged out of that thought by Katie, "Wha...What have I slept though tonight?" * Satoshi blinks. "Me? But... okay, I'll try." * Kaede looks up and tries to concentrate on Taki. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 5. * Satoshi closes his eyes and concentrates on Katie first. Uhm...can this wait untill after we get to Satoshi's...Oh and can any of you drive? Haruko wanted us to get her car too. No. I tend not to learn something that's illegal for some strange reason. * Satoshi opens his eyes. "Nothing. Besides, it's not me. It's Kaede." Right? * Kaede shakes his head. "I don't think so. I told you. Usually if something doesn't work, I can feel that it failed." * Katie rolls her eyes. "Why are you always so convinced it has to be someone else, Satoshi? Try again. Taki, or something." * Satoshi sighs. "Fine, fine." * Kaede meanwhile tries to concentrate on Katie, just in case. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 8. * Satoshi closes his eyes and concentrates on Taki. * Taki looks up at Satoshi. Then try me. * Satoshi 's eyes snap open, and he stares at Taki. "I... I heard... you were thinking about the car, and wondering what happened?" * Taki blinks at Satoshi, "Yeah...I was." Good. It's a start. Now try me. And now you... yeah... I'm okay, but... * Satoshi blinks several times, then turns to Kaede and concentrates. * Taki raises her hand, "Uhm...As nice as it would be for us to not bleed and drip on Satoshi's carpets...Can we go before Kaede collapes AGAIN?" * Satoshi frowns at Kaede. "When did you hear me?" * Kaede opens his eyes. "A few other times. And it looks like it is you." * Katie wrings her hair out and drags Jiro over to the car. See if Katie can hear you too... But I... I don't... I'm not... 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6+2) and gets 13. * Satoshi takes a deep breath. "Okay." He closes his eyes and thinks at Katie. * Taki points at Kaede "No, getting you to Haruko comes first." ::turns to Satoshi:: "You can prove or disprove yourself someplace warm and dry." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6) and gets 6. * Kaede sighs slightly. "Fine. You don't like me bleeding over the pavement. I can live with that." * Jiro very suddenly gets up and all at once is behind Katie, restraining her arms with one hand and grabbing her throat with the other. He sneers towards the rest of you. "Where is he?!" * Katie starts and looks to Satoshi. "Yeah, I ca-" She's cut off by Jiro's hand on her, her eyes wide. * Kaede scowls and starts to get up, holding his side. "Let her go, you bastard." * Taki says a great deal of unladylike things under her breath. Leave her alone! * Jiro tightens his grip around Katie's windpipe and growls again. "Where is he?!" You want me to go get him for you? I don't *know*, dammit! Let her go! * Kaede grits his teeth but stays where he is. "Why do you want him so badly?" * Katie chokes, tears beginning to form in her eyes. What the hell is so important? * Jiro doesn't answer, just keeps doing what he's doing. * Satoshi stares at Jiro, a look of intense concentration on his face. * Jiro only tightens his grip further. "Bring him here. Now." As you wish. * Taki bows, stands up straight and... * Katie whimpers despite herself. The wind begins to pick up slightly around her and Jiro. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 2. * Satoshi shoots a glance in Kaede's direction. [Taki vanishes!] [... She reappears right over Jiro's head.] * Jiro lets go of Katie when Taki lands on him, and all three fall to the ground. Hah! * Satoshi runs in to grab and restrain Jiro. * Kaede blinks. "Well...that...works." * Katie gasps for breath, suddenly able to breathe, before having the wind knocked out of her as people fall on her. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6) and gets 7. * Taki staggers to her feet, "That...was not the smartest thing I have ever done..." * Kaede rushes forward, well more staggers forward because of his wounds, and goes to pull Katie away. [Satoshi rushes forwards, but Jiro leaps to his feet just before he gets there and takes off down the street, at a speed that must be well over 100 mph.] Shit! I forgot how fast he could run... Let him go. We're all safe. So's Reiji. At least for now. [He's gone by now. Zoom!] * Kaede winces and holds his stomach. "Safe being a relative term." * Satoshi sighs. "Yeah. Let's go get Haruko to fix you up." He eyes his arm. "Us up. Whatever." * Katie lets Kaede pull at her. She seems on the verge of crying. "Let's... just go." * Taki blinks at the vanishing figure, "Yay...Everybody comes with me...then gets healed, then I bring Haruko back for her car if she can still move...Any objections?" No. Satoshi, you get anything before he took off? * Satoshi shakes his head. "Couldn't concentrate." Damn. Sorry. * Kaede sighs. "It's fine..it was a bit of a..hectic situation." Yeah. But...next time it might shed a little light on this mystery. * Satoshi rubs his head. "This is going to take a bit of getting used to." But it can wait. Let's go. * Katie wraps her arms around herself in the rain. "Please?" * Kaede looks at Taki. "Let's go." * Kaede frowns at Katie before putting an arm around her shoulder. * Taki wraps an arm around Katie too, "Let's get out of here." [Session End]