[Day: Thursday, March 20th. Time: 8:00 a.m.] [Weather: Cloudy, humid, misty, chance of rain later on.] [You all gather at the lockers. Only these are the lockers in the train station. It's a perfect day for skipping school and going to the other side of the country to save the world.] [Session Start!] * Haruko is leaning against the lockers, she's wearing a jeans and fairly boring shirt and has a coat and bag. * Satoshi waits at the lockers. He's wearing jeans, a heavy jacket, and has his sports bag slung over his shoulder. His hands are in his pockets, and he's looking around nervously, as if expecting random passers-by to just walk up to him and demand, "Why aren't you in school?!" * Kyon stands leaning against a locker, holding a long day bag. He's back in his grey jacket again, and looking very rested. Especially with his eyes closed the way they are now. * Kaede walks up to the train station and takes a deep breath, wearing overalls and a black shirt. He's got his kaban slung over his shoulder as per usual as he makes his way to the group. His eyes still look a little bloodshot though. * Taki comes walking in from the direction of the stations entrance. She's wearing a pair of losefitting black jeans, a dark blue blouse under her jacket, and a worried expression as she looks around for everybody else. * Satoshi unzips his jacket and rubs his forehead. Underneath he's wearing a dark grey shirt with a white stripe across the chest. * Katie is... not there. * Haruko walks over to Kyon. She doesn't have quite the usual bounce in her step. She says quietly "I'd still like to ask a favor of you at some point." * Kaede scratches his head underneath his front lock and takes a deep breath. "Is this really so important that we have to miss school? I mean...not that it really matters anymore..." * Kyon doesn't open his eyes. "What?" * Satoshi looks over at Kaede. "If the Hermit thought it was worth coming to talk to us for, I think that it is." * Haruko sighs and continues softly. "I need to ask you in private." * Kaede makes a face that shows he's not thoroughly convinced and looks off to the side. "I suppose..." Nanami already thinks I've lost it...what's another day away from school? I mean even if I did call in sick.. * Taki spots the others and walks over, "Wish there was a better way to do this." * Haruko turns over to Kaede. "Thank you for coming." She then looks back at Kyon. Well, it's either do this or wait until somebody else gets it and then comes after us. * Kyon opens his eyes and looks down at her coolly, and then nods tersely. "Right." He looks sidewise to Kaede. "Can make it up. Once I'm back, I'll talk with the president." He smirks. "Trips like these have educational value. Going to a museum, after all." It's not that that I'm concerned about...it's...nevermind. It doesn't matter. Where's Katie? * Taki blinks at Kaede and then looks around. * Kyon pushes off the lockers. "Couldn't get a hold of her last night." * Taki then sighs, "She was...more than a little upset yesterday...maybe she decided she needs a break from all this..." She knows where we're trying to go anyway... * Taki slumps against the locker closest to Satoshi. I'm going to call her. * Haruko shrugs. "Well, we buy our tickets, maybe give her a call..." * Kaede starts dialing before Haruko even finishes that statement. * Haruko nods at Kaede's statement. "If she can't make it, she can't make it." * Taki looks up at Haruko, "How much is this going to cost us anyway?" * Haruko sighs and toys with one of her bangs. "A lot. Functionally about 5 kph. I can chip in some for your ticket if you need it." * Kaede turns into the phone and speaks quietly. Since Katie's not there, there's no real chance of eavesdropping. Harr! (Kaede turned into a phone? ;p) (In the direction where he has the phone...yeesh) * Satoshi leans back against the lockers and closes his eyes. He's not terribly talkative at the moment, it seems. * Taki nods at Haruko, "I'll probibly need it...Why can't I have a nifty power like making money?" * Kyon takes a few steps down to the ticket machine, and punches in a bullet train ticket round trip to Hiroshima. * Kaede frowns at that and looks up for a second, then back to the phone. [The phone has not changed appearance within that second.] * Haruko walks over to the ticket machine and looks at the prices. "Err.. 10 kph. And you've got a much better power actually. Once this is over, you'll easily be able to be a very rich woman, even legally." (Hey, with Meimi around you never know) * Haruko buys two roundtrip tickets. ([Kaedes phone turns into a dead parrot just prove his point.]) (Haruko's wallet has one of those cute little moths fly out. =P) * Haruko then hands over one of the tickets to Taki. As what? A delivery girl? A hocky pla... * Kaede looks contemplative for a second, then speaks into the phone again. * Taki trails off and stares at Haruko for a second before taking the ticket. * Haruko shakes her head. "Instanteous transport, even across cities could be incredibly valuable." ...Thanks... * Kaede hangs up the phone and scratches his forehead, looking down a little. "She hasn't been home since last night." What? Just what I said. She never came home yesterday. * Taki swears in a most unladylike fashon. * Haruko nods. "Even more so because you can move people. Obviously you'd have to be selective, maybe only government or rich executives." She then looks over at Kaede. That's bad. Really bad. * Kyon blows out a breath, tugs out his phone, and calls Chikako. What happened to you guys yesterday? I haven't seen her since when we talked to the Hermit in the tea house field. Thing. And then we all split up to go home. She took off when we got got back... * Taki looks down at the ticket she's holding. * Haruko nods. "Can you think of any reason she wouldn't go home directly? Did the hermit thing upset her?" * Satoshi mutters something. ...She...was upset before the hermit...that just made it worse... Maybe she thought if she went home she wouldn't... No, she could just leave and pretend to go to school. Oh? Her mother, at least I think it was her mother, said this happened before. But I assume that time she was referring to when we went to the reversed world This time...I don't know. * Satoshi shakes his head. "I can't think of a good reason why she'd stay away from home." Unless she went to get something in preparation for today and got held up somehow... somewhere... * Kyon narrows his eyes, rolls the dial on the phone up one, and calls Chikako's house. Which isn't good. I don't know either. But she doesn't have a cell. That I know of anyway. * Taki nods slightly. No, she's always borrowed mine when we need to use them. Let me check my messages. * Haruko looks down. "We all have to cope somehow." She then looks back up. "Did she know what train we were going to catch?" * Satoshi pulls out his phone. If only there was an Arcana tracking power... * Kaede then looks up. "Satoshi?" Yeah? * Taki shakes her head, "She...didn't want to go today...and Kyon couldn't reach her..." Any idea on the range of your telepathy? If it's far enough...well, can't be sure you could scan through the whole city... * Kaede furrows his brow and thinks. Not sure. But I could at least try reaching out, see if I could get an answer... It's a very very long shot though... A long shot's better than no shot at all. Besides, making difficult shots is what I do. (It's a waste of ammunition.) * Kaede doesn't respond to that and goes back to thinking. ( Well, I do have a little invention I've been working on, I like to call it Cerebro. ... What, I've got to do something when I'm not practicing hockey, busy with my love triangle, or feeling guitly.) * Kyon speaks into the phone. "Good morning, Mrs. Kurita. This is Kyon Sorata. Is your daughter around?" * Satoshi closes his eyes and tries to extend his senses, seeing if he can pick up anything that feels like Katie's mind. (*snerks*) (You have time left after that? I don't) (Satoshi thinks he picks up something like Katie, but it turns out it's only a small puppy.) (That's Taki) ( How is that like Katie? :P ) (It's cute and adorable, but can chew up your slippers and widdle on the carpet without warning?) * Kyon nods quickly as he talks. "Yes, it is. Might I ask if you've seen her friend Katie recently?" ( Well Taki, to understand the timing, perhaps it's time I told you about my slightly more good twin. I mostly use him for the feeling guilty. And grocery shopping. But mostly guilty, got a lot of guilt.) (Katie is a housecat, cute, adorable...and likly to hamstring you if you look at it wrong) (My cat, then. =P) (No. Kumaguro doesn't need you to look at him wrong to hamstring you.) (Don't need to wonder why Katie and Kumaguro get along so well.) * Kyon jams his free hand in his pocket. "Right. She usually keeps her phone on, though, right?" * Kyon smirks. "But if I know her, she keeps it on till right before, right?" * Haruko just stares at her ticket for a minute and then sighs. "Well, if we have to ditch for a rescue mission, it'd mean I might be able to get back to the hospital today." We might have to do both. I mean...this is dire, isn't it? * Kaede frowns. "I don't like that possibility..." * Kyon nods quickly. "Right. Well, I have to be off, Mrs. Kurita. Thanks for your help." * Taki finaly lookes up at Haruko, "Rescue mission? Kyon mentioned something like that last night..." Rescue mission? Hospital? What have you guys been doing? * Kaede then looks at Kyon as he finishes up. "Any luck?" * Haruko looks over at Kaede with a very worried expression. "You might be right." They had to go save somebody, but thats' all Kyon told me. * Kaede points to Haruko. "Her and Eriko." * Taki stands up, "What!?" Wait, what? When did you need rescuing? And from what? * Kaede sighs and adjusts his glasses. "You heard me." * Haruko thinks. "We'd need a combat crew for Katie, that'll mean Satoshi and Kyon. I should be able to handle getting the item from the museum, but if we face opposition I'm screwed." I... Wait wait...why Satoshi and Kyon? * Haruko sighs. "Look, I'll go over it in a minute. We need to know what to do here first." And why didn't you call me in? * Kyon says, "Goodbye," then stabs the button on the phone and looks off at the ticket gates. "No. It means him and him." He points at Satoshi and Kaede. Because we were talking to the Hermit. Ohh. Okay, that answers my last question. * Haruko looks over at Satoshi. "You weren't..." She then nods. "Taki's probably right." * Kaede then blinks and relaxes at Kyon's statement. Kyon's right. I should probably take Taki with me. If we can't steal it together, can't be done, and if we meet trouble we can run away. Right...but if there was some computerized security... * Taki sighs, "I...want to go look for Katie...But I'm also probibly one of the last people she wants to see right now..." * Kyon looks sidewise at Haruko. "I need to be there because I'm the wand." He smirks. "I know Reiji is a good guy, but you shouldn't try to end up like him." I could check and see what kind of security they have first if you'd like... * Kaede slips open his kaban and reaches in for his laptop. "You said a museum in Hiroshima, right? Any name?" Art museum. Did we find out the specific name? * Haruko nods. "Wait.. yeah. So should Taki stay? Did he tell you I figured out how to go liquidy?" Haruko then gulps for a moment. "Should be easy with you with me." * Kaede blows out slowly. "Yes. Well, I'm sure there's DOZENS of art museums in Hiroshima. I could try crossreferencing it with a wand, but that might not get the results we're looking for." No...? * Taki looks dazed and confused. * Kaede loads up his browser while they're discussing. Argh. Try "Hiroshima Museum of Art." * Satoshi rubs his forehead. He said it wasn't on display, but was on one of the top floors. * Kaede tries looking up keywords: Hiroshima Museum Art Wand when his browser loads. * Haruko walks over to Taki and gives her a quick hug. "There's a lot to handle, don't try to take it all on at once." She then looks over at Kyon. "What team do we put her on?" * Taki hugs Haruko back, and then quickly shakes her head, "I'm sorry, I'm just having a bad couple of days...Not that you haven't had worse...I need to get it together." * Taki takes a deep breath and then lets it out slowly. * Kaede frowns. "Anything else to narrow it down?" * Kyon shrugs very gingerly and much slower than usual. "Mine. We know we'll have to leave somewhere quickly; they don't know they'll need to escape." [Kaede finds 418 matches.] I think he said "Hiroshima Museum of Art." Right. (* Grysar goes to google and snerks) * Kaede enters "Hiroshima Museum of Art" in quotes and keeps the Wand in there * Satoshi sighs. "Just because he's all-knowing, does he forget that other people need more information?" ["Your search did not match any documents!"] * Haruko nods. "Alright, you'll come with us then Taki. You'll have a lot of time to sort stuff out on the train." 'Course, I was *there* and I didn't think to ask. For more specifics, that is. ...I kinda figured there was just one... Me too. * Kaede scowls and takes out the Wand part [965 matches. Luckily, the first few apparently are all for the same place, different pages for different exibitions.] * Kaede clicks on the first page and starts a-browsin' for anything that looks like a wand. * Taki nods absently at Haruko. (And how many of those do you want to bet are porn sites? :P) [There are several exhibitions dealing with wand-like objects. Or at least, have wand-like objects in them. Or something.] * Kaede frowns even more as he looks at it. "Did he give any clue as to what it looked like?" ...It's a Wand. Yes. There's LOTS of wands here ...One that's not on display? No. Just that it was on one of the top floors. * Kaede checks for exhibits on the top floors. [Mostly paintings up there.] * Kaede hmms. "Was it supposed to be a painting?" No, in fact, he said it *wasn't* on display. * Kyon rocks back on his heels. "If it's like Reiji's reaction to the pentacle, I'll know it when I'm near it." * Kaede pays a little more attention to the ones that aren't paintings. * Satoshi conveniently ignores the fact that both he and Taki have mentioned it once already. ;p * Satoshi looks over at Kyon. "I was wondering about that." Not on display, hmm? Well, it'd still have to be in the records, wouldn't it? If it's in storage. Well then probably won't be on the webpage. But it'll probably under less security, once we get past the doors." Maybe. Who knows how it got there? I hope so. Good question... It's probably in their records, but I doubt they'd advertise something they aren't showing. * Kaede tries to see how well he can access their records from here. ( Hacking roll, Kaede! ) 2d6-7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-7) and gets 3. [Kaede breaks in without trouble.] * Kaede flips through the records, hmming as he looks for the records of items that came in recently. Specifically ones not on display and specifically ones that are wandish in nature. * Haruko watches Kaede with a fairly impressed look. "And I suppose we could always call in computer support if we desperately need it. Hopefully won't come to that." ( Database roll +1, Kaede! ) Yeah. I don't know if I can shut down the security system from here, but I can try when you get there. * Taki nods absently again. 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-6) and gets -2. [There's not a single one.] * Kaede frowns. "It's definitely something under the table then..." * Kaede goes and sees if he can get a schematic and what kind of access he can get to the security systems. ( Quite literally. It's supporting the short leg of the table. ) (*snerk* Best way to hide something.) ( A schematic of what, specifically? And hacking roll +4 ) (Security measures) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-3) and gets 5. ( Another hacking roll at +4, then ) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-3) and gets 4. [Kaede gets both. He is now doing something highly illegal that you amoral people don't need to care about :P] * Haruko looks even more impressed. Doesn't really seem to understand what's going on, but she thinks it's cool. * Kaede notes that while he looks for any potential difficulties (well ordinary difficulties) they might face when they get there. * Haruko also doesn't show any signs of being bothered by this. [You might trip on the stairs.] * Satoshi is relatively clueless as to what Kaede's doing. Yay for technological ignorance! ... * Taki is both clueless and non caring at this point. [And there may be a surprise encounter with a rogue band of ninja terrorists. But for the most part, there shouldn't be any problem as long as you don't do anything blatantly illegal.] (Like breaking into the vault and stealing a priceless artifact?) (I thought we were charged with stealing something. Isn't that in itself blatantly illegal? :P) * Haruko looks over to Taki. "Ooh, remind me to have you carry my lockpicks once we get in. I haven't mastered carrying stuffy while I go liquidy. Spent most of last night trying" (But there's stealing and then there's stealing! ( We'll give it back! Wait, ,no we won't. Yup, that's illegal.) ( It's only blatant if you're caught. ) * Satoshi looks at Haruko. "What's this about liquid?" ( Haruko has master the art of changing quickly, though ) * Taki ...just nods. * Kaede looks it over and shakes his head. "Seems I just broke into a museum database for nothing...this security system's a joke... * Kaede disconnects from their server before he's caught. Could you send the schematics to my phone? If you store the map as a jpg I should be able to read it. But you shouldn't need to worry about anything other than probably guards or other Arcana. Which I couldn't help you with anyway from here. ...Yeah. * Haruko nods. "Thank you." * Kyon shrugs slowly. "Better than otherwise." He hefts his bag higher, and takes a couple of steps towards the gate before looking back over his shoulder. "Let's go." * Kaede shrugs and starts converting what he saved. * Haruko looks over at Satoshi. "I think it is how I got out of that gave me these." She points to her burn marks. "Ooh.. gotta go, tell you later." * Haruko walks over to Kyon. Okay. Good luck, you guys. Be careful. * Taki takes another deep breath and walks over to Satoshi, "...When you find Katie...Call...No....after you find her and talk to her, call me...please?" * Satoshi looks at Taki. "I will." Thankyou. * Satoshi smiles a little. "Take care of yourself." * Kyon waves back over his shoulder without looking back as he goes through the gates. * Taki nods, "I'm sorry I dragged you into a mess like this." * Haruko looks quizically at Taki for a moment. She doesn't say anything though. * Kaede nods and uploads the file to Haruko's phone. "There. Good luck." Not your fault. * Haruko gives a quick bow. "I really appreciate this." (Ha. Satoshi telling someone not to feel guilty.) * Taki glares up at Satoshi, "Yes it was, but that's not what's important right now. Take care of yourself." I will. We'll find her. * Taki gives him a quick hug and then goes chasing after Kyon. * Haruko quickly checks her phone to make sure she gets the map. * Kaede slips his laptop back into his kaban and adjusts his glasses, taking a deep breath. "Just go. Be in the same mental state when you get back, alright?" * Satoshi quickhugs back. (You don't want Kyon to be insane but nicer to you? =P) (We already dealt with that, remember?) * Haruko laughs for a moment and then covers her mouth. She then grins "I'll do my best." * Haruko then scurries after Kyon, glancing back regularly to see if Taki is following yet. [The rest of you climb onto a platform, where an automatic ticket-taker is waiting to automatically take your tickets.] * Kyon feeds in his ticket. * Taki feeds her ticket to the machine. * Haruko puts in her ticket. "And you do realize Taki, that in an emergency you have an easy way around these things?" * Taki snorts, "That's about all I've ever done with it." * Haruko grins. "Good girl." [The machine beeps and you can go through! The train has not yet arrived, but should in a few minutes.] Oh, Kyon, the favor I want to ask. Could you use your business savvy to help Kaede? Not giving him money or anything, just, I don't know..." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6) and gets 6. * Taki blinks. * Kyon heads through the turnstiles and stalks down a good 100 meters, before stopping to wait. * Taki shakes her head again and walks after Kyon. * Haruko scurries to keep up, occassionally taking double steps to match Kyon's stride. * Kyon looks down at Haruko. "Got a lot of jobs already, and I doubt he wants help." * Haruko shakes her head. "He'll take it if you phrase it right, or work through Akemi. Heck he accepted me working at the store, the trick was making him think he's doing you a favor." ( You were. You had to deal with Miho :P ) * Taki silently stares down the tracks and waits for the train. * Kyon smirks. "No phrasing in the world can make him think that me helping him is a favor." * Haruko shrugs. "Oh, and he likes me better? Anyways, work through Akemi. He's smart but he has tunnel vision, he's so burdened he can't see beyond immediate circumstances. Maybe he needs to get a loan, or government aid, or do web sales, or just drop the shop and make money as a programmer. I don't know these things." (Kaede should just find a big company and start embezzling) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 11. (Banks! Nobody'll miss .000001 of a cent.) (Just don't make a decimal error) * Haruko anxiously watches Kyon, occassionally looking to see if the train's here yet. * Taki is just watching for the train and wishing there was something she could do for the other group...but since Satoshi's over there, nobody here could know that. * Kyon slowly looks more and more bemused. "Maybe what he needs is to capitalize on what he already has." * Haruko twists one of her bangs around a finger. "Yeah.. capitalize. See, you know this stuff. But is it a deal? He'll be a better ally if he's less streessed and I'll owe you a big favor, anything that doesn't violate my moral code." (Well, you could always take over washing Kumaguro... you'd never know something that size had that many sharp bits...) (/me cries for Haruko.) (Must remember, five of the six ends are pointy) [The train arrives! That was sudden! But it's a bullet train; it's supposed to be fast.] * Taki blinks, "Wow..." 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6+1) and gets 5. * Haruko smiles broadly as it deaccelerates by her, relishing the wind. 2d6+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6+3) and gets 12. * Haruko then gets on. * Taki is a few steps behind Haruko. * Kyon shakes his head bemusedly. "Missing the point." He looks contemplative for a moment, and shrugs slowly. "Get me his books, and I'll work it out. With his sister. Not worth the effort it takes to get him." He alights. * Haruko nods. "Are you willing to work with Akemi or just Nanami? Not sure which will be easier." * Kyon shrugs disinterestedly. "Don't care. It's your favor." * Haruko nods and then bows. "Thank you." She then goes looking for set of seats, ideally ones without any other people in easy earshot. [The train stops and the door opens. The intercom yells, "Now boarding for Hiroshima! Now bording for Hiroshima!" And a crowd of people battle to get off the train against a crowd of people battling to get on.] (Wow! We all got on before the doors opened! ^^;) * Haruko does that getting on and looking for a seat stuff now. She's aggressive about it, if polite. (I must have accidently teleported everybody in.. Ooops :P) * Kyon follows along behind, looking around somewhat disinterestedly. Sets of seats, single seats, whatever. * Taki follows in the wake of her larger friends to get into the train. * Haruko tries to at least find a double with Taki. She has what she needs from Kyon. :P [There are seats! Not only that, but there are even unoccupied seats!] * Haruko prefers unoccupied seats. :P * Kyon looks for those unoccupied seats, as well. * Taki has enough romantic problems without sitting in somebodyelses lap so she joins in the hunt. [You find them! In fact, by the time the doors close, there are only 13 people in your car besides you.] * Haruko finds a nice set of seats, mostly away from the other people so eavesdropping isn't a risk. And as in her own way she's rather selfish, she snags a forward facing window seat. Go need for speed! * Kyon tosses his bag up on top of the rack, and sits motions for Taki to sit next to Haruko. (This train have rearfacing or adjustable seats?) (It's a bullet train, so they'd be adjustable.) [The seats are adjustable, because Kyon knows more about it than me.] * Taki fiddles with the seat in front of Haruko untill it's facing her and then sits down in it. [A few minutes later... zoom! The train takes off at a high speed!] * Haruko grabs a few things from her bag, and then puts it up. * Kyon then proceeds to fall asleep nearly instantaneously. * Haruko looks around. "Right then, you want to know about yesterday?" * Haruko looks glances out the window for a moment and grins as the city goes by, then she looks a little woozy and looks back at Taki. Hmm? Oh yeah...Kyon said he had to go save somebody instead of look for the reporter, he didn't say it was you though. * Taki glares at Kyon for a second. How'd that happen? * Kyon doesn't wake up. He probably wouldn't have cared, anyway. * Haruko giggles at the glare for half a second. "Well, he showed up to save me, so don't be too mad." I don't know exactly. Shingo or Tenjirou or Miho must have jumped me, I don't remember how it happened. Shingo? But he's...in the Band...right. * Taki manages not to shudder at Tenjirou's name this time...too many other things to worry about. * Haruko nods. "But no one else from the band was there. I think they might be estranged from the rest, Miho seemed to think differently." * Haruko then looks out again for a moment. "We were tied up when I woke up, Eriko was out cold. I managed to resist Tenjirou's power though." * Taki makes a face, "Lucky you." ...I wonder how Miho does it...or if she just stopped trying. * Haruko keeps looking out the window, and her voice gets a bit colder, with a slight under current of fury. "Oh, and Natsuko, she's dead wrong about him. His part of the deal was getting to keep the women. His sneer made quite clear he didn't care if his power worked." * Taki has also gotten are cold and hard voice, "I shoulda killed him back then, people around or no...It's only been a few weeks since Satoshi beat him, and he's allready back at it." * Haruko then looks back at Taki and says in a disturbingly relaxed tone. "I've thought about it, we should definately capture him. I think we could give him the choice of confession and jail or castration. That should do the job, if it doesn't....." You don't know what it's like when that bastard is messing around with the inside of your head. ( It's pleasant and happy! ) Castrating him would just make him angry at women. He'd still have his power over them...and he'd probibly want revenge. * Haruko nods and then looks right at Taki. "No, you're right, I don't. But do you really want to be responsible for a death if there's still a choice?" * Haruko sighs. "You might be right about that." * Taki looks straight at Haruko, "No...No I don't, but for him I'll make an exception." * Kyon mutters something nearly unintelligible that could be a name, presses himself restlessly to one side against the aisle armrest, and ends up with his head on Haruko's shoulder. (Aww! ^_^) * Taki eyes Kyon, "I'm glad somebody isn't worried." * Haruko blinks but doesn't move. "I.. didn't realize he was so hurt." She then puts a hand on his leg. Way down his leg. Like, his knee or soemthing and gets to healing. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (d6+6) and gets 11. * Haruko looks back at Taki. "We'll stop him, I'll swear that to you. Just don't let him make you change your rules, not if it's not absolutely necessary." * Kyon just keeps sleeping. He's breathing softly. ...In case you hadn't heard the story, I didn't get much of a choice about changing my mind last time I ran into him, but that's another thing I'd like to not think about. * Haruko nods. "But you have a choice now. But enough of this..." * Taki nods, "So what happened after you woke up?" * Haruko glances out the window again for a moment and brightens slightly. "The whole thing was a scheme for Shingo to draw out and beat Ryuji. I thought his weapon might be Miho, I first was afraid Tenjirou had gotten Saki or something. Turns out he had a gun." How'd he get his hands on one of thoes? * Taki thinks for a second, "Probibly made it." Or if he could put up a field, he could have just walked onto a plane, gone to america, and stolen one at a mall or something. Or from an army base. * Taki blinks, "I'm fairly sure there are closer places than America to get one...probibly not as easy though." * Haruko shrugs and looks out the window. "Arcana can get a hold of a lot worse stuff than guns. Anyways.." (Yeah. Like anchors. Brrr.) * Taki nods and is still looking at Haruko, but she's lost most of her anger. So I tried to scare them or divide them or to get them to spill their plans, Shingo was apparently really obsessed with Ryuji, wouldn't even call him by name. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 7. I think Ryuji may have given that scar, probably for a good reason. ::Haruko sounds pretty confident in that statement:: Huh, the other Shingo didn't react like that at all. (Hmm.. I think he may have showed a scar. If he didn't change 'that scar' to 'a scar or humilitated him') (Oh, he had the mask off when she came back, so she'd have seen it, ne'er mind.) Wonder if Meimi didn't know... But we're getting away from the story again. * Haruko shrugs. "Meimi seems to see only some sides of people. So I tried to talk up sleepy here." She looks over at Kyon with a bemused expression. "How he'd burn us all if he had to show that hostage taking wouldn't work." Huh, why not Saki? ( Saki would probably eat you all. ) (exactly!) * Haruko looks uncomfortable with Kyon on her should for a moment, then it passes. "Because of the fire. They didn't buy it, but I managed to scare myself. I thought that power had fear and fire triggers. Probably being tied up helped too." (that power->that my power) * Taki doesn't respond to that for a moment and then, "...I see." * Haruko goes back to looking at the window. "I got burned in a garage fire before you got to the school. Always thought I got out thanks to the Kami, maybe still did, but I think more specifically I managed to go liquidy and escape down the drain." * Taki blinks several times, "Oh, that's handy...But you have to be scared for it to work?" That's not so good. I practiced a lot last night with a candle and fire scens in action movies. I got better at it. Sides, most of the time I need it I'll be scared anyways. ::she gives a half grin at that, but it quickly fades:: It'd be usefull for going under doors and things. So I manage to escape, but Miho comes after me with a mop and I need to go human again to open the door. ::she blushes a little and looks out the window:: But I haven't figured how to carry stuff with me yet. * Taki blushes a bit on Haruko's behaf, "That coudn't have been fun...couldn't you just go under it or something...but then you still wouldn't have your clothes..." (I never! And I'm eternaly thankfull to Satoshi and Kaede for making that possible >.>) * Haruko shook her head. "It was too tight. So I get to a phonebooth and try to call for help, but everyone was busy. And then Kaede shows up, Kyon and Ryuji went straight into to rescue Eriko but Kaede apparently saw me first." Haruko does look at the sleeping Kyon with a smile as she says this. Oh dear...Kaede isn't very good at handling things involving women and you were... * Taki turns several shades of pink. * Haruko then frowns for a moment and looks back at Taki. "Exactly, well to shorten a long story, we take down Miho with water and electricity, and I got his coat." ...Not in that order I assume. And congrats on getting out of there. I'm sorry I wasn't around to help.. I stuck with her and healed her until the I heard the ambulance for her coming, then joined the rest, by then the battle was already over and Ryuji had been shot three times. No need to apologize, you would have been if you could. * Taki starts to yell about what Shingo had done before realizing where she is and starting over in a lower voice, "Shingo shot him three time?" * Haruko nods. "I think.. I hope he'll be okay. I bandaged him up and stuck with him when the ambulance showed up. I wasn't able to finish healing him, but claiming I was his girlfriend let me do more than I could have otherwise. All three of them are in the ICU now." * Taki slumps into her seat, "We need to stop putting our friends there... * Taki brightens up a bit, "Who knows, maybe you'll have another date or three and that will be the truth." * Haruko nods. "Least Eriko got out, and when I get back I'll see if I can slip in and give him more healing." * Haruko smiles. "Who knows, a girl can hope. I'll also see if I can do anything for Miho or Shingo, but Ryuji's definately first." * Taki actualy grins for the first time that day, "Sometimes hope's all we've got, but first we've got to find this wand." * Haruko then blushes slightly and looks out the window. "I just hope he doesn't come too while I'm healing him, that'd be a little too forward I think. Maybe I could do it in liquid form, or use a curtain." * Haruko nods. "Yup, but between you and me, heck with your skills alone, the wand part should be easy." ...Or you could just find out where his room is and let me take care of the in and out part. * Taki grins a bit wider. * Haruko brightens up a lot. "Good idea! Cause, that whole no clothes thing, definately not for a third date. Not even with Ryuji." * Haruko giggles. "Though I really shouldn't count the ambulance ride as a date." Yeah, second date is definatly a clothes on affair. * Haruko giggles louder. * Haruko then calms down a bit. "RIght.. well, this is all a bit presumptive anyways." [Session End!]