[22:45] [Day: Monday, Time: 12:00 P.M.] [22:46] (So they've been in Hell for... eight days. Whoo.) [22:46] [After a hectic week in Hell, MC reemerges to find only a day has passed in the real world. Last night, they met up with Saki, Sai's old acquaintence, and found out Mei-Yin, who through herself in a really big fire, might not be dead after all.] [22:46] (Or not. :P) [22:47] ( ^^ ) [22:48] [Shig and Chelsea looked through the MC files for information on Mei-Yin's sword, but found nothing. And with no idea of where Mei-Yin is now, or where they could start, they decided to get some rest instead.] [22:48] ( Not to mention it lets me get rid of Ayane :P ) [22:49] [Some of the MC members got together at the International House of Pancakes, where Saki agreed to meet them (not that she necessarily has any new information or anything). The scene opens with Sai, Shig and Chel sitting in a booth waiting for her.] [22:50] [Mini-Start] [22:50] * Yu-Mei has some coffee, and shakes her head as if to clear it. [22:50] ( ... ) [22:50] *** Yu-Mei is now known as Chelsea [22:50] (*kicks Yu into character*) [22:50] * Chelsea has some coffee, and shakes her head as if to clear it. [22:50] * Shigeru yawns, looking about ready to drop dead. Not that it's much of a surprise. [22:50] ( ::is kicked:: ;_; ) [22:53] (Ping?) [22:53] ( Was waiting for you to do stuff :P ) [22:53] ( Pawng. ) [22:53] [After a few minutes, Saki walks in along with a large foreigner that Sai vaguely recognizes.] [22:53] * Chelsea has some more coffee. "So." [22:53] *** Kirby is now known as Saki [22:53] Hi Saki. [22:53] *** SpareKirby is now known as ReallyBigGuy [22:54] * Sai looks at the other guy. "...hm..." [22:54] * Saki makes her way over. "Hey." [22:55] Who's this, Saki? He looks familiar. [22:55] * Saki gestures towards. "This is Richard. I don't know if you remember him, Sai, but he was with us once or twice back then." [22:55] * Shigeru halfheartedly waves in Saki's general direction. [22:55] *** ReallyBigGuy is now known as Richard [22:55] * Sai nods. "I remember, vaguely." [22:55] * Richard waves. "Hi." [22:56] Hi, Richard. Good to know that more of us made it out okay. [22:57] * Chelsea looks up and blinks blearily at the really big guy, then at Saki. "Oh. Good morning, Saki. Pleased to meet you, Richard." [22:57] * Saki grabs a seat in the booths, and Richard brings a chair over and sits at the end of the table. [22:58] * Shigeru looks through Chelsea's eyes and gets a glimpse of Richard. He nods. [22:58] ( Pause a sec ) [22:58] *** Richard is now known as Kirby [22:59] *** Richard has joined #Kirby [22:59] ( Unpause ) [23:00] * Richard gingerly sits in the chair he drags up, and looks relieved when it doesn't break. [23:00] Did you find anything in the files? [23:01] * Shigeru yawns. "Nope. MC wasn't involved in anything with magical weapons, apparently." [23:01] * Chelsea shakes her head. [23:01] Until now, at least. [23:01] * Saki frowns and folds her arms. "Hmm... Dead end. Forensics didn't cough up anything either." [23:02] * Shigeru sighs and reaches around a bit until he finds his glass of water, then gulps some down. [23:04] * Saki slips off her shades. "At any rate, doesn't seem like the flaming bastard has shown up yet, so your friend still has a chance." [23:04] Anyway, Saki, there was something that I needed to ask you. I'm not sure if it's something you want to tell everyone, but these guys already know my end of the story. [23:04] * Saki shrugs. "Go ahead." [23:04] * Richard looks at Sai. [23:06] It's about how everything ended. I hardly saw any of you guys after...after what happened to Jake. And then, when I saw you again, you had your cure...and they were dead. I need to know what really happened. [23:06] * Saki nods. "Fair enough." [23:07] * Richard looks at Saki and nods. [23:07] I suppose I'll start at the very beginning. [23:08] * Shigeru slumps in his seat, not looking any more or less inclined to listen than he has been. [23:08] * Chelsea frowns worriedly at Shigeru and has some more coffee. [23:08] * Saki thinks about how to begin. "Well, Jake was never human." [23:10] * Sai blinks. [23:10] He was some sort of false-supernatural. When he enrolled in the highschool, I was assigned to keep an eye on him. Try to discover his motivations. [23:12] Turns out he was a left-over from the Dairoba incident twenty years ago... You know about that, right? Your club was involved in it. [23:12] * Chelsea nods. "We'd... heard a thing or two about it, yeah." [23:12] Not the whole story? [23:13] * Shigeru looks up at that, not that he can see anything. "I have the whole story. Dairoba's work was partially used to create me, actually." [23:13] I only know a little. [23:14] * Chelsea frowns. "I doubt we've heard the whole story about anything, frankly." [23:14] * Shigeru waves vaguely. "All we have on the computers, then. And what has been told to us over time." [23:17] Well, Dairoba had a number of experiments. Our records are a bit sketchy, but we know for certain that he attempted to create paranormals. [23:17] * Shigeru nods, going silent again. [23:18] Were they always attempting to make psychics? [23:18] Hmm... Not as a major goal. [23:18] They were simply trying to create supernaturals that could fight. [23:19] Psionics just happened to be what they used in Jake's case. [23:19] * Richard nods. [23:19] Alright. And, before we go any further...who exactly is this 'we' you keep referring to? [23:20] * Saki pulls out a wallet and holds it open, so that Sai can see the shiny badge and the big letters ICPO. [23:21] Interpol. The paranormal investigations unit. [23:21] * Sai blinks. "Really." [23:22] * Richard nods. "Yes. Really." [23:22] * Chelsea frowns, has some more coffee, and rolls her shoulders. [23:22] Originally, I was assigned to watch Jake. We thought he might lead us back to whoever activated him. [23:23] But then we ran into Ambition. So Richard was sent as backup. [23:23] * Richard nods again. [23:24] And Mei and I were just innocent bystanders who got dragged into it. [23:24] * Shigeru has another drink of water. [23:25] Unfortunately. Though the Blade of Annoyingness seemed rather pleased. [23:25] Yes, he did. [23:27] At any rate, Jake never did lead us back to his master. [23:27] Once he had gotten that power it was too late. [23:28] And then you killed him. [23:28] * Saki nods. "That's right." [23:30] Doesn't make me feel any better about what happened...but it makes more sense. I never understood why Jake did that. [23:31] * Richard shrugs. [23:31] * Shigeru shakes his head. "Doesn't make sense," he says quietly. [23:31] * Saki blinks. "Which part of it?" [23:32] Jake doing that just because he was a product of Dairoba. [23:32] * Saki shrugs. "He was created to be a war machine. Luckily for us, he was created from an idiot." [23:33] * Shigeru leans back in the booth. "So was I, kind of. And I didn't do the same thing. So it's Jake who did it, not Dairoba." [23:34] Put the blame where it belongs. [23:35] * Saki shrugs. "Maybe it was. So?" [23:35] Just telling Sai that that's not the full reason. That's all. [23:36] Oh, I believe that Jake made the choice himself. I don't know if he was brainwashed to, or if he really wanted to, but I understand. [23:36] It just makes more sense than what I used to think...that he had just snapped. [23:37] * Chelsea frowns and fidgets a bit. [23:37] * Saki shrugs. "I don't know either. And it doesn't really matter." [23:37] That's over and done with, and doesn't have any importants to the current problem. [23:37] ( importance ) [23:40] ( Did I ping out? ) [23:40] ( Nope. ) [23:41] * Chelsea smirks at a thought, but puts it off her face quickly. "So, what do you propose we do about the current problem?" [23:42] Right now? I don't know. [23:44] * Richard nods sagely. "Well. That's comforting." [23:44] ( ... ) [23:44] * Chelsea does that. x_x [23:44] ( Like you know any better, Rich :P ) [23:44] What about the rest of the story? What about what happened after Jake died? [23:44] ( Hey. Don't be mean. ;_; ) [23:44] Hmm... Well, you know that Mei and I were infected with vampirism at that time. [23:45] Yes. [23:45] And Jake became a werewolf. [23:45] * Chelsea raises an eyebrow. [23:46] ( Just a sec. Looking stuff up ) [23:48] We'd learned prior to that that we could cure the vampirism by drinking the blood of a noble vampire. [23:48] In our case, it was some nut calling himself the master vampire. [23:48] Right, I remember that. [23:49] Although I had thought that the one you were going after was the same one that turned you. [23:50] * Saki shakes her head. "No, although recently I've discovered there's another cure involving the blood of the vampire that turned the victim. [23:51] (No mention of the cure where you cook. :P ) [23:51] ( Nope :P ) [23:51] There's a number of ways to go about it, but none of them are particularly easy. [23:52] But at the time, this was the simplest one that we were aware of. [23:52] * Sai nods. [23:52] So the three of us fought him. Wasn't an easy battle, but in the end we won. [23:52] You, Richard, and Mei? [23:52] * Saki nods. [23:53] * Richard nods. [23:53] What about that other guy...Vakachi? Vakochi? [23:53] ( Vorpalchu? ) [23:53] ( Actually, I'd hoped to write him out of existance :P ) [23:53] (Retcon that line, then. :P) [23:53] ( Oh! ) [23:53] ( I got it ^^ ) [23:53] ( Heh. ) [23:54] Vakochi... Well, he showed up shortly after we won. [23:54] Richard had already left, and Mei and I were heading back to the school, when he appeared. Or maybe I should say, when Ambition appeared. [23:54] ( There ^^ ) [23:55] ...Vakochi was Ambition's host? Or Ambition himself? [23:55] I don't know for sure. I'd guess the host. Either way, Vakochi no longer existed by that point. [23:56] Uhuh... [23:56] Unlike this new weapon, Ambition corroded the user outright. As soon as Vakochi had touched it, he was gone. [23:56] * Chelsea frowns. [23:57] So, he had appeared, and Mei and I were too weak from our fight to battle him. [23:58] * Sai clenches his hands into fists at this point. [23:58] * Shigeru just listens. [23:58] So that other weapon we had used its "final resort". Which was complete bull, since all it was was a suicidal charge. [23:59] And they destroyed each other. [23:59] Taking Mei and what was left of Vakochi with them. [00:00] So...that's...how it happened. [00:00] * Saki leans back. "And that's that. Afterwards, Rich left Japan and I was assigned here." [00:01] * Saki blinks. "well, not completely." [00:01] * Saki leans forwards again. "I was assigned here because of the weapon. Of course, I didn't realize it was a spawn of Ambition at the time..." [00:02] * Chelsea smirks again. [00:02] But somehow a certain family, Nishizaka, had gotten a hold of the sword. [00:02] * Sai 's body is incredibly tense. He trembles slightly. [00:03] It fooled them into thinking it was a family heirloom, and it fooled them again into thinking it was stolen later, when it took a hold of the oldest son, Taro Nishizaka. [00:04] He was an upcoming kendoist at our highschool. You might even remember him. [00:04] * Sai nods shortly. [00:04] The takeover was barely noticable, in his case. [00:05] I hadn't realized until it was too late. [00:05] And...he went on a rampage. Right? [00:06] Eventually. [00:06] First he became obsessed with a half-American transfer student. [00:06] (Poor Katie. ;_;) [00:07] ( Yeah. ;_; ) [00:07] It wasn't seemingly unnatural, but he suddenly developed a crush on her one day, out of the blue. [00:07] ...wait. [00:07] A few months later, Ayako Kunoichi... you know, that annoying rich brat, she... what? [00:08] When we were at the school recently, when Suzaku came. There was a girl who looked part-caucasian who knew something about the sword. Would that be her? [00:10] Probably. Her name was Katherine Andrews, I think. [00:10] ( And if it wasn't before, it is now! ) [00:10] ( I love it when a plan comes together :P ) [00:11] Alright...so what about Ayako? [00:11] She held a birthday party. [00:12] Everyone she invited was allowed to bring one guest with them. Taro was invited and, of course, he brought Katherine with him. [00:12] * Sai nods. [00:13] Funny thing is, he had already gone to her mansion and slaughtered everyone, then he came back and brought her there. [00:13] * Sai 's eyes widen. [00:13] Her and another, Jiro Hosukawa. [00:14] Apparently he chased them through the house and cornered them in the parking lot. [00:14] And that's when Suzaku showed up. [00:14] And incinerated him. [00:14] * Saki nods. [00:15] Since then, I've been trying to track the weapon, but Suzaku almost always shows up first. [00:16] How many times has it changed hands? [00:16] * Saki smirks. "I even missed it when it showed up at the school not long ago." [00:16] Since then, I mean? [00:16] Twelve. [00:16] * Saki laughs. "One for each month, I guess." [00:16] * Sai 's eyes widen further. [00:16] Though some lasted longer than others. [00:16] Not a good track record. [00:17] That's because once it went to China. [00:17] I had a hell of a time following it through that. [00:17] China? [00:18] * Saki nods. "A Chinese transfer student somehow got a hold of it shortly before he left." [00:18] (...you're not saying what I think you are.) [00:18] ( Bought it at a souvenir stand, prolly. ) [00:18] ( Wouldn't that be funny? :P ) [00:19] * Sai nods. "I see..." [00:19] ( But no, I'm not. I don't have any idea what you're talking about :P ) [00:20] (Sure you don't. :P ) [00:20] ( Unless you mean Leiu. In which case this happened long before then anyhow. ) [00:20] (Oh. ) [00:21] And it eventually found it's way back to the same school. [00:21] * Chelsea touches her elbow to Shig's side. [00:21] * Saki nods. [00:21] * Shigeru jumps slightly. (Loudest thought, Chelsea.) [00:21] I'd been taken off the case when it went to China. [00:21] Tried to track it on my own, but I couldn't. [00:21] ~You getting all this, Shig?~ [00:22] ~Yeah... yeah, I'm getting it. I don't like it.~ [00:22] I was surprised when it returned to the school. Wouldn't have even known if Suzaku didn't show. [00:22] ~There will be a quiz later, after all.~ [00:22] ~Mmm. Neither do I.~ [00:22] ~Fuck off. ... I didn't mean that. I'm just...~ [00:23] * Shigeru sighs quietly and puts his elbows on the table. [00:23] Lost it again after that. Happened to catch it on the news, though, and tracked it back to your club room. You know the rest. [00:24] * Chelsea looks startled for a very brief moment. ~Right. I understand. Sorry.~ [00:24] ( 'At'sa lotta plot. ) [00:24] Yeah. [00:24] *** Kirby has quit IRC (Quit: Blargh, I'm not needed! ) [00:24] ~It's... okay. Really.~ [00:24] ~...you sure?~ [00:24] So now we have to find Mei before she's consumed or Suzaku decides to move. [00:25] I don't think it can actually consume her. [00:25] Not like Ambition, at least. [00:25] ~Yeah. I mean, I'm not okay, and Mei's not okay, and all of this... it isn't okay. But I didn't mean to snap at you.~ [00:25] It can corrupt her, but not consume. [00:25] Suzaku's the greater danger. [00:26] He'll show up, burn her to a crisp, then leave. The sword will find a new host, and the cycle will repeat. [00:26] And we have no idea why he does this. [00:26] Other than what he told me. [00:26] ~Alright. Lemme know if I can do something to help make you okay. Or Mei, for that matter.~ [00:27] He says he does it to prevent evil. [00:27] But by not destroying the weapon, he isn't preventing anything. [00:27] Just delaying it. [00:27] Yeah. [00:27] ~Yeah, sure.~ [00:28] Damn. [00:28] Do you suppose he's waiting for it to find a speciffic person, or something? [00:29] I don't know. [00:30] What about the remains of Rei and Blade? Is there any chance they...reproduced as well? [00:31] ( Oh, there's a lovely thought. ) [00:31] Don't know. But I doubt it. I haven't heard anything about it. [00:31] We're not killing Mei just to destroy that thing, anyway. [00:32] If they have, they're inactive. And he's right. [00:32] I'm not going to kill her either. I just want that weapon gone. [00:32] If they have and you use them against Ambition's, they'll probably destroy their hosts when they destroy each other. [00:33] Maybe...but they're weaker this time. [00:33] Do you want to take that chance? [00:33] No, not really. [00:33] That's why I suggested throwing it into Mt. Doom...and look where that got us. [00:33] Assuming the remnants exist and assuming we can find them before your friend goes on a killing spree or before Suzaku shows, this is. [00:33] * Sai slumps. [00:35] * Saki stands and puts on her shades. "At any rate, we need a plan." [00:35] I'm going to check in with the labs. It's doubtful, but they might have come up with something. [00:36] * Richard stands and puts the chair back where he found it. [00:36] And I guess we'll have to think of something. [00:36] * Saki nods. [00:37] Talking likely won't work, but maybe you can come up with another way. [00:37] Anyhow, I'm out of here. Let's go, Rich. [00:37] * Saki heads for the exit. [00:37] * Sai smiles sarcastically. "Maybe we can go back to the Rat's. Watching the TV always worked." [00:37] ( Shall I end it? ) [00:38] * Richard follows Saki out. [00:38] (Sure.) [00:38] [Mini End]