[Day: Wednesday, March 19th. Time: 5:00 p.m.] [Weather: Warm, sunny and clear.] [The hunt is on for Arisu Senada! Or was. Everyone had split up in hopes of finding her, but after scowering the school for an hour, so far nobody has had any luck. Or at least, Kyon hasn't. But he has found someone: Kaede, in the hallway, who evidently had come to school today but just avoided everyone for some reason.] [Anyhow! Hallway, second floor.] [Action!] [I mean, session start!] * Kyon stalks down the hall towards Kaede. He stops in front of him, and looks down mutely, hands jammed in his pockets. * Kaede stops and blinks, pushing up his glasses, looking at Kyon calmly. "Look...if you're going to lecture me..." * Kyon shakes his head bemusedly, and smirks. "Don't have the time to lecture wayward boys at the moment. Looking for the reporter who never stops talking. Need to ask her a few things.@ 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 10. (dr) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 7. * Kaede quirks his head towards Kyon. "Who's this?" * Kyon takes a hand out of his pocket and gestures dismissively down the hall. "Chikako's second in command. Who never shuts up." And you really think she'll be capable of saying anything important? * Kyon shrugs quickly. "If Chikako thinks she can, maybe she can. Alright. Where is she? * Kaede pulls off the wall and starts walking, kaban in tow. * Kyon shrugs again. If Kaede looks closely enough, he could see Kyon's still favoring one shoulder. "Don't know. Somewhere around." * Kaede takes a deep breath and looks out ahead, speaking wistfully. "So we're going without a plan again..." [Ryuji appears! He looks as calm as ever, but seems to be walking faster than usual, heading for the stairs.] * Kaede stops to look at Ryuji and speaks offhand towards him. "Something wrong?" * Kyon doesn't reply to Kaede's comment, but stops and rocks back on his heels, regarding Ryuji coolly. * Ryuji does not go down the stairs. Instead he comes over to you, and holds out a bunch of papers. "Nothing has ever been more wrong." * Kaede looks down on the papers and glances over them to get the gist of it at least before taking anything. * Kyon reaches out to take one, whether or not Kaede was done reading it. [There are three, two of which are actually photographs. One is of Haruko, slumped against a wall. The other is of Eriko, lying on the floor; she looks kind of beat up, and there's a trickle of blood running from her forehead.] * Kaede tilts his head at it and twitches with a frown before taking a look at the non-photographic paper. * Kyon looks up at Ryuji, normal cool expression in place for a few moments, then takes the other paper. He turns it so Kaede can read it too, if he wants. [The paper reads simply: "Tonight," and lists an address of, of all things, a jazz and dance bar.] * Kaede sighs and looks at Kyon. "The Band you think?" I can tell you exactly who is responsible. * Kyon looks it over again, then up at Ryuji. "Yeah?" * Kaede shifts his gaze towards Ryuji, head still pointed towards Kyon. "Please do." The Knight of Swords. * Kaede frowns. "So I was at least somewhat right. Is the whole of the Band behind this or just him?" * Kyon shakes his head quickly. "Hard to think he could do it all alone." He obviously had some trouble with Eriko. But I could not say. * Kyon twitches something a bit out of his pocket. "How do you know? Where'd you get this?" It was in my locker. I found it after kendo practice. * Kyon looks at the picture again. "And no idea who put them there." Probably Shingo himself. * Kyon looks up at Ryuji sidewise. "He wants you?" Why would you care about Haruko-san though? That I don't understand... * Ryuji nods. I mean...no offense to her or anything but I don't think you know each other well enough to the point that the Knight would think threats are effective * Kyon looks at Kaede irritatedly. "So it's probably not for him." He probably knows that the Ace works with us. Shingo doesn't think like that. * Kyon looks back at Ryuji sidewise, and shrugs quickly. "Where were you going?" Into their trap. By yourself. * Kaede tilts his head towards Kyon and then looks at Ryuji. "Well then. I'm in." I searched for Saki. She is not here. * Kyon twitches the object the rest of the way out of his pocket as he folds his legs down under himself. "I'll go. Should get more of a hint, though." * Kyon shuffles his deck a couple of times, then smartly flips off a card and lays it before him. [Kyon draws the Star.] * Kyon looks at it briefly, then breathes in and out deeply, and flips the next one, placing it to the right of the first. [Kyon draws Death!] * Kyon blows out a breath, shakes his head, then breathes in and out deeply a couple of times before drawing a third card, playing it to the left of the first. [Kyon draws the Sun.] * Kyon leans back a bit, and runs a finger in a line under the cards. "Right." * Ryuji waits patiently * Kyon looks it over again, then scoops up the cards and moves a little less smoothly than usual to his feet. "Know any of the people those go with?" Death is Saki's opposite. Otherwise, no. * Kaede looks at his watch. "Strange no time was specified..just "tonight." Is he going to wait there all night?" Quite possibly. The Knight is obsessed. * Kyon rolls one of his shoulders. "Why?" And why with you? We fought on several occasions. He was intent on defeating me on each. He does not realize he can't. And in one desperate battle, he emerged scarred. * Kyon shoves the cards back into his pocket. "You don't mean the one on his nose?" * Ryuji nods. "It was the only way to stop him. * Kyon rocks back on his heels. "When did you do that? Looked like he'd had it for years." It's only been one year. Any idea why he started? 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 4. You might be aware, but Shingo is able to transform any simple metal object into a simple metal weapon, usually knives or swords. This drives his obsession to master them. And what better way to start than by fighting others skilled with the sword? Namely, our kendo team. * Kyon nods tersely. * Kaede pushes his glasses up calmly. "Yes. A lot of Arcana seem to be skewer happy, don't they?" I stopped him when I could, attempting to use as little force as was necessary. But.... * Kyon smirks at Kaede. "It's an honorable weapon." * Ryuji looks at Kaede and shakes his head. "I suppose you're right." ( As compared to your wrench, peasant.) When used honorably. A lot don't seem to. (That's only implied. =P) * Kyon turns back to Ryuji. "But?" For a while, I was able to keep his attention. But that changed when Izumi Hanagawa developed her own powers. ( Gimme a mind roll... +1 ) 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6+1) and gets 11. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6+1) and gets 6. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6+2) and gets 9. [Kaede thinks he recognizes the name, but can't recall much about her.] * Kaede rubs his chin. "Something about that name..." He became obsessed with defeating her. He stalked her and ambushed her when she was unprepared. I had to stop him. And so I did something to make sure his attention would focus back on me. Gave him his scar? That seems...rather underhanded. What does that prove if you attack someone unprepared? * Kaede suddenly stares past Ryuji and gets a cold glare to his eyes, bunching up a fist and unclenching it. Rather the same thing for kidnapping. * Ryuji turns and heads for the stairs. "I'm going to go stop him now." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 7. * Kaede follows Ryuji. * Kyon stalks along easily over beside him. "Who's the girl you mentioned?" She is in the kendo club. She's shy and seems to try to avoid human contact. Also like most Arcana. * Kyon smirks. "But getting whacked with sticks is fine?" 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6-4) and gets 3. * Ryuji shrugs. "I do not know her reasons, nor is it my business to. If she desires to be in the club, she may do so." * Kyon nods quickly. "Can't keep them out. She still in it?" * Ryuji nods. [You get outside.] Know what she can do? No. * Kyon loosens the orange jacket. "But she can developed something, you said." * Ryuji nods. [And so you head off to the rescue. Session End!]