[Day: Unknown. Time: Unknown.] [Weather: Non-existant] [You're outside the upsidedown Tokyo Tower, along with that old bean Winston who's just told you you're all screwed up, The loveable huggable Jin, a cauldron full of tea, and an impending history lesson.] [Session Start!] * Katie stops sketching and looks up when Winston says he'll explain what happened. * Haruko refills her tea and settles into a kneeling position for the lesson. * Winston taps his chin. * Satoshi sits, provided that Taki is willing to sit as well. * Kaede gets some tea, watching the old man curiously. Well, first I should tell you that many of the facts surrounding the war were, well, not factual. * Taki blinks and looks muzzily up at Satoshi, "Mhm? Are we still here?" * Kyon rocks back on his heels, and nods curtly. "That's war." * Taki then yawns loudly. * Haruko sips and listens. (Taki fell asleep while hugging Satoshi. Innit that cute?) * Satoshi nods to Taki. "Yeah, we're still here." * Taki sits with Satoshi and leans on him, "Sorry, I know this is important and changing your life and everthing around us...I just can't stay awake..." * Satoshi almost-smiles. "It's okay. I'd like for all this to be a dream." Quite right. The second thing I should tell you is that I'm not sure how to present it. It's much easier to live through than describe. And I wasn't even near the other Arcana. Easier to live through a nuke than tell the story? ::blinks several more times and shakes her head:: Rather, I was the primary source for British intelligence. * Katie nods. "Do the best you can?" * Haruko nods. "We understand that it's tricky to tell." Well...if we're to believe all the stories. We DID live through it. And die through it. For some reason, that's not too surprising. Have you ever heard of Ultra? Or Magic? * Haruko suddenly looks much more fascinated. * Haruko shakes her head. ( Gimme cultural arts (history)! :P ) (Well, there's this website called m.t.c.f.f. Ultra that I visited once...) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 3. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6) and gets 5. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-3) and gets 3. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 3. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6) and gets 9. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6) and gets 4. [Those who made it recognize Ultra as the codename for the process of intercepting and deciphering encrypted German military messages. Magic was the same thing, except for Americans on Japanese messages, and only diplomatic messages from Japan could be deciphered.] [And you've quite possibly heard about this in any history class that went over WWII, so...] (Dammit, *I* should know that from my cryptology class, but I don't. ;p) (...Now I remember Ultra x.x) (what about Purple?) (I'd heard and forgot. They're dull codenames. Not like ENIGMA) (ENIGMA...mutant typwriter!) * Katie nods. "What about them?" They were a lot of pish-posh, is what. * Kaede just looks at Winston carefully, shifting his glasses but staying quiet. They were code breaking machines right?...Or not... * Haruko nods and then glancecs over at Kaede. * Satoshi knows what Winston's referring to, but he still looks confused anyway. * Haruko then looks back at Winston, slightly less fascinated. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "So they broke them some other way." Indeed. With me. Ultra was nothing more than a lie to cover up my ability. That's handy. * Haruko tilts her head. "You're a human computer?" * Katie facepalms. Is that a power of yours, or are you just a really skilled mathematician? Nice work. I told you before, I have the potential to know everything. * Kyon shakes his head bemusedly. "So they gave it to you, and you just knew?" No. They never intercepted any messages. * Kaede rubs his chin. "How exactly does that work? What shifts it from potential to reality? I told them everything that was going to happen. * Taki stares at Winston. And later, when Roosevelt wanted to enter the war, Britain offered the same service to the U.S. As I said before, it's because of me that we won the war. So you're not just omniscient, but prescient, and everyone used that. * Haruko watches, although she seems a bit disappointed in this new low tech past. And yes, it's very true that Roosevelt desired to enter the war. He enticed the Japanese to attack him as an excuse. Make no mistake about that. But the Japanese aren't exactly blameless, either. * Katie shrugs. "Since they attacked in the first place, and were already in this war, I wouldn't think so." * Haruko sighs. "Don't suppose we could skip over the whose to blame bit?" We had better, or I'll be here for ages. We were fighting before we attack. * Haruko nods and looks relieved. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-4) and gets 5. * Kaede shakes his head at being ignored but he's rather used to it. * Satoshi sighs. So, that was my part in the war. As for the Arcana, they were almost exclusively located in Hiroshima, much like today they are in Tokyo. * Haruko nod. "Go on." Many of them were united in a council. At least half, as many as three-fourths; I'm not sure of the exact numbers. * Taki nods. * Katie mmms and glances off into the distance. * Kyon nods quickly and rocks forward again. "There that many in Tokyo now?" Bloody well near all of them. And those who aren't most likely will be sometime in the near future. Myself excluded, of course. * Haruko comments quietly to herself, "I've got a long way to go to get anywhere near that." ...Of course... 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-4) and gets 3. So they'll be drawn here? * Katie blinks. We'd better move. What? Is something coming? Saki. * Haruko gets up fast letting her tea spill a bit. * Taki stuggles to sit up, and then jumps up at that. * Katie keeps looking that way. "She's walking straight for us. Give her eight minutes?" * Satoshi stands up. "Great." Can we lose her somewhere? * Taki holds her head, "Need more sleep." * Winston ruffles his mustach. "Hrmph..." Any ideas, Winston? We don't have a lot of time. * Kyon looks around him, and rocks back and forth again. "Have a hiding place here, old man?" Even better...have a hiding place I know where is? * Katie closes her sketchbook and puts it in her satchel. * Kaede stands up and lets out a slight frown. * Winston adjusts his hat. "There's nowhere we can hide that the Black won't find us. I'm afraid we'll have to cut this meeting short for now." She's a Black? That's fun. * Katie gets to her feet. "You really have to tell us about it. Why doesn't that surprise me much? * Haruko looks at Winston. "But..." She kicks at the ground. Some other time. As much as I'd love to go home and sleep now, can't we just move farther away for a bit? * Haruko nods. "We have a teleporter after all." It won't work for long. * Satoshi looks at Winston. "Are you sure you couldn't come with us? * Kirbiano is now known as Jin I can never enter Japan. Believe you me, I've tried. * Katie smiles faintly. "Always alone, huh?" * Winston shrugs. "That's my fate." * Haruko reaches into her bag and roots for something. "Don't suppose I could give you my email?" E-mail...? What the devil? Or my address. If you're not really a computer person. Send a letter or something. It's a computer thing. Phone number, Haruko. Most places have a hookup, and I don't think his is an exception. Saki's almost here. * Jin blinks twice in a Jinnish manner. * Winston looks down that way, where Saki is now visible. I... I'd like to come back and talk to you some more, someday. If you don't mind. But for now I think we need to go. How do we go? * Haruko grabs a piece of paper and a pen and starts to jots down all of her pertinent information. "Here's my phone, my address, and my email. Ask someone under twenty about it if you're curious. They'll know." * Winston nods to Jin. "Take them out of here." * Haruko hands over the piece of paper. Like that I guess. * Katie holds her hand out to Winston. "" She offers a grin. "Maybe we can stay longer next time." * Winston shakes Katie's hand. "Perhaps we shall." * Kyon nods tersely to Winston, and turns to look down towards Saki. He rolls his shoulders and smirks. * Kaede bows to Winston. "It was a big help. I didn't expect it to stop being a puzzle though, and of course I'm not disappointed." * Haruko bows, "Pleasure meeting a real British Intelligencce officer. Good to know you live up to your reputation.. Please write or call with information if you get the chance." [And suddenly, you're not there!] [Instead, you're in a rather rundown part of town. Oh my.] * Haruko glances around to check if weather is back yet. ... Okay, Jin, you need to work on your aim. * Taki blinks, "It's different when you're not the one doing it..." * Taki looks around and tries to figure out where she is. Great. Where are we now? [Weather: Cloudy and cool.] * Kyon blinks hard and scans the area quickly, looking for anything dangerous. * Kaede looks around town and then to Katie. "You really think asking him to do anything will be effective?" * Katie snickers. * Haruko pouts. "Damn it, I wanted to know about Isao Komine." * Katie looks around, to make sure Jin's at least still with them. * Jin isn't there! Maybe she made a history book. Well, hopefully we'll be able to figure out how to get back. There's a lot more I'd like to talk to him about, too. * Katie sighs. A *whole* lot more. Okay. Does anyone recognize where we are? No? Not yet. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6) and gets 11. [It starts to rain!] * Haruko glances around. "Hmm.. back home okay...." She closes her eyes and speaks softly to herself, "He saved my life but I don't know who he is or how I can thank him...." * Katie starts walking. "Better find someone to ask for directions. Thanks for the shower, Haruko. I thought I was a little dirty." * Haruko keeps her eyes shut and stays pouty... "I mean sure I could get a picture made.. but would that be religiously offensive?" * Taki blinks at Katie. * Haruko then opens her eyes and looks gleeful. "I did it?" Now, if you're happy, it won't stay. * Katie grins. * Haruko grins broadly and then frowns. "Unhappy thoughts.. uh. Tenjirou's a cup. Eww...." * Kyon stalks in behind Katie, then moves in front, scanning as he goes. * Taki makes a face. * Katie snerks. You're th queen...can't you disown him or something? * Kaede concentrates on looking around the area. "I'm more curious what the point of the suits are." * Satoshi walks alongside Taki, keeping an eye out for things. Nope. Just demote you, Taki. So you can be the Squire of Cups or something. * Haruko nods. "Although, that does make fixing him my responsibilty I guess." Guess which word the emphasis is on. ( Gimme hearing checks! Attt.... +1 ) (*snerk*) 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6+1) and gets 8. 2d6-7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6-7) and gets -2. * Haruko shakes her head. "No! Taki's a surpeb Knight." I'll be good...when I wake up. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6+1) and gets 10. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6+1) and gets 9. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6+1) and gets 10. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-1) and gets 1, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "Fight! For everlasting love and peace!" * Haruko keeps talking to herself. "So if Jin's the teleporter, Yushiro is responsible for the attacks.. Which means it's time to confront him. But I'm not sure how to do that." * Katie pushes her bangs out of her eyes. * Satoshi concentrates, trying to send a message to the others. ~Guys.~ * Haruko then looks determined. "But I'll do it anyways." She then skips around a bit. "I'm sulking in the rain.. just sulking... Wait, less rain too happy. Uh.. Tenjirou." ~People.~ ~Six.~ ( ~doods! ) ~Coming.~ * Taki rubs at her head. Six? The band? * Katie shrugs. We'll find out, won't we? * Katie doesn't stop walking. Alright, so Taki's here. It's not a huge problem. * Kyon scowls back at Satoshi briefly, then returns to scanning as he stalks along. Gotta love run-down areas for that. * Kaede keeps on going, pushing up his glasses. Yeah it is...I don't know where we are....You wanna land in the middle of street...or somebodies house? [And they do! Six guys, all male, all blatantly thuggish in appearance. They sure are thuggy!] * Taki sticks with Satoshi. ( I'm looking forward to Taki's first critfail teleport. You'll wind up in France :P ) (I've got that much range!? O.o;;;; ) (France, cool!) * Haruko glances at the guys and then glances forward and tries to look calm and nonchalant. It's raining a bit harder now though. ( You do when you critfail! ) * Kaede shakes his head and tsshes. "Common. Figures." (Sweet) * Katie is in the rain. And she's walking, walking in the rain o/~ By the thugs, hopefully. * Satoshi tries to look unbothered by the thugs. He possibly succeeds. [The thugs loom at you. Loooooom. "Ain't you supposed to be in school?"] * Taki succeeds at looking mostly asleep, or perhaps stoned. * Kyon eyes them as he keeps going. He smirks as he moves along. "Are you ones to talk?" * Katie snerks despite herself. [They look at each other, then shout, "Get 'em!"] (Roll init!) * Haruko grins brightly. "Field trip? Thanks for... Damn." d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (d6+6) and gets 11. * Kaede eyes Kyon and rolls his eyes, looking at the thugs. "It's never the easy way." d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (d6+6) and gets 12. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (d6+6) and gets 8. 26+7 d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (d6+6) and gets 12. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (d6+6) and gets 7. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (d6+7) and gets 12. [Order: Kyon, Kaede, Taki, Thug1, Haruko, Thug2 through 5, Satoshi, Thug6, Katie] [Kyon's turn!] * Kyon turns fully, rocks back on his heels, and smirks. "Picked a bad day for this. Not in a good mood." He reaches out a hand, where a ball of fire gathers before he pitches it at them. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6) and gets 2, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I'm a child of extremes. Have a crit, and a nice day to go with it." (The love!) (O.o) (Wow. I am impressed.) ( Ohhhhh.... dear. ) (Crispy fried thug!) (ouch) (Um. Kentucky Fried Thug?) (He's NOT going to be feeling that one in the morning) (Not to jinx things, but that's now the fourth of my last five in-battle rolls that have been crit successes. Is that even legal?) (Dicey loves you *way* too much.) [The fireball lands on the ground just before the thugs and explodes, covering three of them in flames. They run around screaming and waving their arms, then fall over. Luckily for them, it's raining pretty hard, so maybe they'll live.] * Haruko flinches at the flames and gets that scared and entranced look she has. [One of the thugs backs off a bit. "Holy crap!" The others, however, don't. "Goddamn it, they're Jackels! Don't pull any punches."] [Kaede's turn!] * Kaede rolls his eyes and curses a little, scowling at Kyon and muttering softly. "Why don't we just have a huge flashing sign that says "Arcana here"?" He pulls a trusty wrench out of his coat and settles it in his hands. * Satoshi blinks. "We're what?" Having a very bad day. Well, yeah, that goes without saying. * Kyon turns his smirk on Kaede. "Feel like making one for us?" [Taki's turn!] * Taki does her best to straighten up, "Allright, if you guys don't want a one way ticket to the middle of Tokyo Bay, I suggest you run now." * Taki teleports a short distance to prove her point. (But mostly to get behind Satoshi ;P) * Kaede grits his teeth. Doesn't look too happy but since when is he usually? [Taki teleports! But the thugs don't back off. Thug one rushes right for Kyon and throws a punch.] ( Which is a hit unless Kyon defends! ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6-2) and gets 4. [Kyon blocks the punch. Meanwhile, maybe Haruko will do something.] * Haruko closed her eyes after the fire and just repeats to herself "Unhappy thoughts... unhappy thoughts." As she's saying this a ball of rain water gathers in the air next to her. [more..] She then flicks her eyes revealing a wild stare that mixes fear and determinition. "Please stop this. I don't want you to be hurt. But I won't let you hurt my friends." ( The rain forms into a glob pecularly shaped like Kirby. ) ( Which then eats Haruko. ) ( ::shrugs:: It's water, she'll deal. :P) * Katie watches this entire show with a strange amount of calm. (Making her even sadder...which makes aqua Kirby more powerfull o.o) [Thug2 looks intimidated, but Thug three does not. He grabs a nearby garbage can lid and flings it at Haruko, who needs to defend!] 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-3) and gets 8. (dr) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-3) and gets 2. ( You people and your DR's :P ) [Haruko ducks under the thing! Duck.] (Crunchy in milk.) [It's now Satoshi's turn to beat stuff up! Try not to kill anyone this time, Satoshi.] (Oh, thanks. ;p) ( I get a kick out of being God :P ) (You've been hanging out with me too long.) (We belive in you! You can do it!) * Satoshi runs up to one of the non-burnt thugs and swings at him. "Leave us alone, dammit!" 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 0, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I love you. Do you love me too? Y_ N_" (*cracks up*) (...) (Woot! Does that mean he's just knocked out and not dead?) ( What did I just say? <.< ) (Where's the nearest lamppost?) (See, I told them they'd get a ticket to the bay? But did they belive me? Nooo :P) (I don't think dicey loves us. Dicey just really hates people we fight. :P ) [The thug flies back and slams into a brick wall, where he stays for a few seconds before falling face first onto the ground. There's a big indentation left in the wall.] [And yet he's already starting to get back up! ('cause Satoshi actually isn't all that strong :P] [Katie's turn!] (Bah. I have unused CP!) ( Indeed. They do a lot of good when they're unused, huh? :P ) * Katie doesn't so much as blink. She pulls one of her knives out of her satchel, removes the sheath, and checks the blade. She then looks up at the thugs and says, as calmly as you please, "You should give up now." (I can make myself stronger with them. ^_~) (That's my turn. No, really.) [Katie pulls out a knife, which is a lot more intimidating then super- strength, teleportation, a floating glob of water and a fireball that just burned most of your buddies. Go Katie.] (You know it!) (Hey, it scared me :P) (Don't forget a monkey wrench!) (Yeah, I think I beat Kaede.) [Katie beat Kaede.] (WOOT.) (Until he pulls out the electricity.) (I'll pull out the wind.) (Are we done yet?) ( ;_;) ( No. ) ( Now quit asking me questions so I can type stuff :P ) (What questions?) ( Nice Katie. :P ) (^_^_v) [The as of yet unhurt thug turns to run, only to be on the recieving end of a punch by a guy who must've showed up during all the confusion. He's got blond spikey hair, green eyes (though he looks Japanese in appearance), is fairly tall and lean, and sorta handsome, but not really anything special. He's wearing a white tank top under a red jacket with the sleeves torn off, red fingerless gloves, a black choker, orange headband, and red jeans.] (Aww. It's not Sum Gai, come to save us?) [There's still three thugs left; one uninjured, two injured.] [It's Kyon's turn!] * Katie glances at the new guy. * Kaede looks over at the newcomer too. [Katie sees a guy with blond spikey hair, green eyes (though he looks Japanese in appearance), is fairly tall and lean, and sorta handsome, but not really anything special. He's wearing a white tank top under a red jacket with the sleeves torn off, red fingerless gloves, a black choker, orange headband, and red jeans.] * Taki blinks at the new guy. (Thank you, Brett. :P) [Taki does too] ( I'm in a silly mood tonight :P ) (but Kaede doesn't?) (You're having too much fun with this. ^_~) * Haruko glances over. "I suppose peaceful discussion would be too much to hope for?" [Kaede sees some guy.] (heh.) (This is the wrong time in this game for you to be feeling silly ;P) * Kaede is less than impressed. [Haruko sees some guy who might be a biker.] * Kyon looks the new guy over appraisingly before turning and stepping quickly to the nearest thug, tossing a nice flaming punch. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6-3) and gets 5. [Fwoosh! Do I really need to say anything more? The thug runs around in flames, then trips over one of the other guys and falls over.] [Kaede's turn!] ( Sun Jian's morale is rising! ) * Kaede shakes his head and regrips the wrench, taking a swing at the nearest thug's gut. * Haruko winces as the flame and keeps the rain high to hopefully extinguish them. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 10, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "The gods giveth, and the gods taketh away. This time, they taketh away." (...) (My faith in the bot has been restored) (Heheheh.) (It's just Kaede. =P) () [Kaede swings his wrench and... accidently lets go of it. It flies by and makes a dent in a plasti-metal wall of a phonebooth.] (Awww... knew I should've put up the shield.) [Taki's turn!] * Kaede rubs his forehead. "This is turning out to be a wonderful week for me." (He needs to learn better wrenchmanship from Haruko. But then he has skill with it and she doesn't, so who am I to talk?) * Taki simlpy screams and throws a punch at the thug Kaede just missed. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 7. [And Taki punches the thug! He's still standing, though.] [Haruko's turn!] (That makes...what...the second...third time Taki's connected?) ( Out of the 3-4 attacks she's made? Probably :P ) * Haruko winces. "Damn it! Just surrender.. It's over, no one needs to be hurtt more." The ball keeps floating there. [Hold turn] [The thug doesn't think so, 'cause he throws a punch at Taki, and hits unless she avoids it.] [Haruko will take her turn then.] [After the dodging] 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 1. (I call that a dodge) [Taki dodges!] [Go ahead Haruko.] * Haruko glares at the guy who attack Taki as the ball of water flies at it him. She says in a normal speaking but angry tone. "Why do you want me to hurt you?!" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 7. [Haruko's water ball splatters on a wall.] [Thug3 throws a desperate punch at the new guy, which he avoids without much trouble.] [That makes it Satoshi's turn! Don't kill anyone this time.] They're thugs. Logic takes too many brain cells. * Satoshi swings at the least injured thug. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6-2) and gets 5. ( My logic can beat up your logic! ) (My logic sends wrenches flying.) (Thug logic. Yep.) [Satoshi beats the guy over the back of the head, knocking him to the ground.] [Katie's turn!] * Katie stays where she is, hopefully unnoticed by the thugs. Really now. [The new guy doesn't do anything either. Kyon's turn!] * Kyon turns back to face the new guy full on, and rocks back on his heels. He ignores the other thug for now. [Kaede's turn!] * SomeGuy takes out a cigarette and lights it up while watching the fight. * Kaede 's still rubbing his head and walks over to the wrench. He doesn't seem to want to participate in this fiasco anyhow. (Man, I *knew* he reminded me of Jason.) (But we already have one firestarter here.) (Well, he's not exactly Jason. If he were Jason, he'd still be fighting.) (True.) * Haruko flits her eyes briefly at the guy, as he loses some of the points he got for maybe being a biker. [Taki's turn!] Just go away! And leave us ALONE! * Taki punctuates that last word by swinging at another thug. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (2d6-3) and gets 3. [Taki hits the guy, and he falls over.] [Session End!]