o/~ [Day: Monday, June 6th. Time: 8:00 p.m.] o/~ [Yesterday you beat up the wrong people. Oops. You gather in the clubroom, with little to go on. What's going to happen? Only time will tell.] [Session Start] * Chie walks into the clubroom, half-distracted by the cell phone in her hand. She's punching buttons and scowling at it. "Dammit, let me enter in the number, you stupid thing!" * DemoUplink is now known as Demota * Chomei is sitting in the corner, sketching. He looks up for a few seconds, then goes back to his work. * Lazar is pacing incessantly behind Peter. * Rei isn't there. Doesn't it suck to be you? Argh! I *hate* technology! Rei, can you... hey, where's Rei? * Maria sidles over to perch behind Chomei so she can watch him doodle. * Chomei looks up at Maria. "I know you don't mean anything, but looking over shoulders does bother people." * Chie looks around. "Makoto's not here either? Hmmm..." She considers, then shakes her head. "Nahh." * Maria sighs and hops off the wall, sitting sort of next to Chomei instead. * Rei wanders in, singing Night Fever and... reading a rather large, softcover book. Rei! You're my only hope! No, that's Obi Wan Kenobi! He left about fifteen minutes ago, though. If you borrow the flux capacitator and get to eighty miles an hour I'm sure you can catch him. Eighty-eight, actually. And that's not it. * Chie thrusts the cell phone at Rei. "I can't program this damn thing!" I am rather depressed that I understand your obscure pop culture reference. Tsk. They've improved them since then! * Maria blinks as all the ObCultRefs go right over her head. * Rei blinks and takes it. She looks it over. "What's the problem?" (I am having great fun with Chie's technological ineptness.) ( Chie holds out a modern day cell phone. I guess that explains it c.c ) * Chomei ignores the references. * Lazar is paceing. Pacepacepace. I got this cell phone so I could contact you guys in an emergency, and I'm trying to program some of the numbers into the phonebook. Except... well, I can't quite figure out how to do it. * Rei sets the book on a desk and sticks her tongue out of the corner of her mouth as she pokes at the cell phone. "Oh, okay. No problem. You just want me to enter 'em?" * Rei does that. Which reminds me, I'm gonna need to get all you guys' numbers. And yes, *thank* you. All done! * Rei hands it back. * Maria gets up and walks over to Lazar. "What'samatter?" * Chie blinks. "Wow. That was fast. Okay, crisis averted." She grins. What crisis? You don't know the meaning of the word 'crisis'. It has not yet begun to land on your head! ( That's for sure <.< ) * Lazar grunts. "No like. In Transylvania, no so complex... if it drool, growl, and bite, you hit it. Here, bad guys no make it so easy." * Peter looks at Rei. "Is something going to happen?" * Chie pats the top of her head. "Gosh, I hope not. It'd mess up my hair." * Rei waves her book and an evil gleam enters her eye. "Oh, yeah." But, seriously, *is* somethin' going on? Yeah, that person that's drooling, growling, bitting, isn't trying to hurt you. Really. * Peter looks at the book. * Maria nods at Lazar's response. * Rei tosses it to Peter. It's called 'Fun on Popstar'. And it has a cute little Kirby with a sword on the cover! And Dedede with a bazooka. * Chomei looks at the book. "Oh dear. You didn... Okay, who's GM'ing?" Me! And feel like no making any progress. Golem patient, but made to act. ... What.. on.. earth is this? Your doom! * Chie blinks. "What?" * Rei keeps grinning maniacally. * Chomei looks at her and blinks. "I wouldn't be surprised if you have, but have you ever done that before?" * Maria nods at Lazar. "I hear ya'." She looks over at Rei warily. I goofed off with my brothers, but not really, 'cause most people say, "Look, it's the freak!" and then laugh and walk away and then I dump pastrami on their heads. * Maria blinks. Rei, what is that? ... Erm what's all this now? * Lazar shrugs. "I come to Japan for reason. No feel like doing anything." Are you planning on.. on casting some sort of spell? * Rei waggles her fingers. "Yeah. You're gonna turn into Waddle Dee!" * Chomei gets a good look at the book. "What edition is that anyways? I got out of it durring the second revision... Damn rules laywers." Fourth. Four's a good number, don't you think? I always did. Okay. *Chomei*, what is that? I mean, sure, it represents death, but that's what happens when you get inhaled by the giant Kirby of Destruction! * Lazar is confuzzled. And large. Large and confuzzled. * Peter is confuzzled, but not large. It's a tabletop roleplaying game. The Kirby supplement too... I played a lot of it when I was in junior high, but I didn't know they were still in business. * Maria is confuzzles, and rather small. And cute. But that's besides the point. Oh, an RPG. Okay. Didn't know they made a Kirby one, but I shouldn't be surprised. * Maria blinks. "A whatnow?" And if she's planning what I think she's planning... It bodes. ... how one play roll? Roll bread. Eat roll. Roleplaying game! You make a character and kill monsters and get treasure and inhale strawberry jam! Poorly? ... Yes, this bodes poorly. She's right, except for the strawberry jam. * Chie snickers. "I think it bodes rather well myself. But shouldn't we be trying to figure out important stuff?" I agree. All that game ever did was distract me from my schoolwork. * Maria blinks. "Treasure?" * Maria grins. Yeah! Only I get to make up the treasure. Because in that world, I'm bigger than God! Bwahahaha! In that case, count me in. ... * Lazar chuckles. "God very big." Oh, please tell me Rei. Do they still have TWACO? * ChAnime is now known as Chamelaeon * Peter looks terrified. ( TWACO? To Whack Armor Class Zero? ) Hell no. It's been replaced by the much simpler shiny skin system. If you blind your opponent, he can't hit you! (Yup) ( To Wander About Cuddling Octopi ) * Chie blinks. "Well, hey, sounds fun. And it's not like we have any leads or missions or anything. We could use a break." * Rei goes over and opens the book for Peter. "Okay. This is how it goes. You can be Waddle Dee!" Be careful saying bigger than God. In Judaism, that get you turned to salt lick. Every group needs a Waddle Dee. ( not "Consuming Octopi"? ) Yeah, well, I'm not Jewish, so I'm not a salt lick. So nyah. * Chomei grins. Waddle.. WHAT? Point. (Waddle Dee. You're the halfing bard.) * Maria blinnks. W.. why are we doing this? * Chomei raises his hand. * Maria sighs. "Prolly 'cause we have nothing better to do?" Because it's fun and we don't need to save the world right now and if I don't blow off some steam about my brother being evil and Box being missing I might start blowing up the school and that would be *bad*, now wouldn't it? W..we could be reserching.. or.. or any number of things! ... You wouldn't? Sure! She would. And I might help. * Chomei lowers his hand. "Actually, it's an incentive to get you to work faster. See, if you don't find a lead soon, you're gonna have to play." (Peter the Waddle Dee is a halfing bard with maxed out intelligence.) I need to release stress, too, and since Chomei won't let me work on his hair, it's either this or blow stuff up. * Chie nods emphatically. (Except he'll roll low. Just wait.) * Maria shrugs. "I'm not a blower-upper myself. I'd maybe take some valuables from the wreckage, tho." No blow up school. Is nice fountain statue I want to ask out. * blargh has joined #besm * Chie grins at Laz. "Is she cute?" * Chomei shrugs. "Blowing off some steam would be good. And better here than on the people as the run out." * Maria blinks at Lazar. You're kidding? Of course. * Lazar grins. "I still person. Just in big rock." Heee. Okay, let's play! Who do I get to be? * Maria chuckles. Okay! It's a classless system, so you just choose races, all right? Righto. * Chomei takes a seat. "Well, that's going to be easy to break... if Rei lets me." * Peter continues to stare at Rei with horror. Races? Hmmm. What're the choices? * Rei takes the book and flips through it. "We already decided Peter's being Waddle Dee, right? Right. Chie... um... Paint Roller!" * Chomei clears his throat. "Your species." Okay. Again, what're my choices? And Lazar can be Rick the Hamster. The artist girl? Cool! ... I were-hamster? * Lazar shrugs. "As long as I get were-hamster fire breath." Um, Paint Roller wasn't the artist girl. Paint Roller was just a ball with roller skates and a paintbrush. Yeah! Kinda. Well, without the were part, but you're really big and can carry people around and throw people. Oh. Dangit, I always get them mixed up. Still, painting stuff and having it come to life is cool. ... so I giant hamster? * Chomei nods. "That thing was such a pain in the normal games. Unless you were a UFO that is..." Yup! And Maria, I think Bronto Burt's a good race for you. 'Cause you can fly around and divebomb stuff. ... * Lazar looks back at Peter and shrugs helplessly. Uhm. Bronto what? And... Chomei's Squishy! ( You guys are playing an RPG in an RPG? Please, please say you are. ) * Rei grins triumphanty. * Chie snickers. * Chomei sits back. There's no way off this train, so why try? Squishy? (Yes, we are, and Rei's GMing.) The octopus! That doesn't need to be in water! Squishy? I'm a squid! ( ...dear goddess have mercy on them. They know not what they do. ) Yeah! ^^ * Lazar pokepokes Chomei. "Not squishy. Little poofy though." (Rei threatened to blow up the school if they didn't cooperate.) ( *sputter* ) (^_^_v) * Chomei bats Lazar's hand away. "Not me." * Lazar continues to poke Chomei in the ribs. "You sure he squishy, Rei? Fell like ribs here..." * Chomei oofs. "I'm the RACE squishy in the GAME, not in real life." * Maria pokes Chomei, too. "Doesn't feel too squishy." Squishy the Squid! Now come up with names for yourselves and professions while I roll your stats. Yup. * Chomei begins to mope. "Well shoot." N..names? P..professions? No, no squishy at all. *pokepokepoke* What's your character's name, and what does he do. STOP POKING ME! * Chie is sad, because she's sitting opposite from Chomei and can't get in on the poking. * Rei retreats to a spot near the door so nobody can leave without her sayso. She trusts Maria to guard the window. * Maria pokes Chomei's nose. "But it's so fun." ^.^ Okay, okay. You name be Crunchy? H.. how am I sup..supposed to know? She told me I'm a.. a Waddle-Dee, whatevre that is? * Chomei gets up and runs behind Chie. "Make them stop!" * Chie grins. "Awww, now look what you did. You made him desperate enough to ask *me* for help." She winks. ( "Lazar Ultimate Technique! POKEPOKE! ) * Maria snickers. (Everyone hide. I'm helping Ard roll numbers.) ( Are we doomed? ) (Of course.) (We are *always* doomed. Tonight moreso than usual.) ( Oh. Okay! ^_^ ) Okay... I Putchu the Hamster. My job... eater of evil? Fine. My character shall be.. err.. Professor Alexander Royal the III, professor of psychology at.. Pardon me, Rei.. but where is this taking place? Oookay. I'm a Bronta something. I'll take the name 'Akisu' and the profession of stealing things from people. * Chomei looks at Peter like he knows nothing. (Which he probably doesn't.) "In dreamland, duh." Dreamland? Is that the subconcious landscape? Or perhaps some sort of alternate universe created while people are sleeping? And I'm Pikazzo, trying to be the most famous painter in Dreamland! And possibly take the whole place over through my art. Why not both? ( I think Peter's putting too much thought into this, saddly. ^_~ ) ( It's PETER. What do you expect? ) Is Luxembourg. * Chomei grabs a blank sheet of paper and starts making a character sheet. (You will all be nice and send me a quick text document of what you set your stats as. Got it? Okay.) Or maybe Belgium. ( I have no idea what Peter would do. In all honesty. ) (What stats?) Okay! Got stats! You can allocate them however you want, and then we can make racial adjustments, and then we can do stuff maybe! ( ...you kid. *cracks up* ) Um, let's see... 14 goes here, or not. Maybe I should put that sixteen here... You have to put them in the following categories: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Cuteness! * Maria frowns. * Peter evenly distributes the stats, making sure to focus on Wisdom and Intelligence. ".. Rei, you're kidding about blowing up the school.. right?" * Rei grins at Peter. "Your stats are the following, Prof. 11, 8, 17, 9, 9, 14. Have fun!" I.. what? * Rei points at Maria. "Yours are 12, 11, 10, 11, 16, 16." * Chomei takes a seat next to Peter. "Chie, take care of those two. I'll help Peter over here." Actually, Chomei, I'm almost as clueless as they are. * Chie shrugs. Paintroller, you got 10, 12, 13, 16, 13, 15. Hamster, you got 17, 8, 18, 8, 10, 11. And, um, Chomei! You got 10, 14, 11, 14, 16, 12. Be quick. The night is young, but it gets later and I feel the need to turn on the night light. And then give me your sheet with your character name and stuff and we can get the show on the road. Yup. ^^ ... erm... small problem. I can do my own, but I don't think I'd be much help to anyone else. * Chomei goes to the opposite end of Rei. "Alright. Anyone who doesn't know what they're doing, over here." Can read and speak Japanese. No write. * Retrieving #besm info... Then do American. I'm sure Rei can understand it. * Maria scribbles her sheet out and hands it to Rei. So do it in tally marks or something. And it's called *English*, spikey boy. ... no write English either. * Chie pulls out a sheet of paper and a pencil, and concentrates on filling out her sheet. I from Transylvania, remember? Oh, right. ( "Do you speak Americanese?" ) * Chomei scribbles his stats down, and hands them to Rei. * Chie finishes her sheet and hands it over to Rei. * Lazar sighs, and grabs a pencil... and snaps it in half. "..." * Chie snaps her fingers. "I know what's missing! Snack food! Anybody wanna make a quick vending machine run?" I will. Someone help Laz with his sheet? Sure. I.. would. But I have no idea what's going on. I want to make it clear that I'm doing this under duress. * Rei goes over to help Lazar with his sheet. "Okay, what's his name?" Putchu. C'mon, Maria, let's go grab stuff. * Chie heads out the door. * Maria follows Chie! Putchu! And you're a Rick the Hamster, right? Big hamster, yes. * DiscoKirby has left #besm Don't worry Prof. You'll adapt. Okay, your racial abilities are flattening roll and improved shiny skin. ... wha? And what's your job? What do you do for a living? Erm... eat evil? * Chomei nods and writes "Eater of evil" On under his profession. And what's your stats? ( This is amazingly insane. ) (Thanks!) Okay... Strength 18. Dexterity 11. Constitution 17. Wisdom 8. Intelligence 10. Cuteness 8. (Yup, and it will only get worse.) * Chomei looks at that. "That's good." * Rei puts them down. "Okay, wisdom and intelligence go down by one, and constitution and cuteness go up by one! There." ( Do I still need to DCC you my char sheet? =P ) * Chomei takes a seat nice and far away from the two pokers. (Nah, I got it. ^^) * Rei runs over to Peter. "Got it, Prof?" .. I don't understand anything that's going on, and it's very frustrating. * Rei patpats Peter. It's okay. Tomorrow we'll go back to fighting random supernatural horrors and you'll feel right at home! * Rei points at Peter's sheet. "Now. You've got six numbers, and six stats. Higher numbers go in the stats you want to be better. So just put them where you want." Just put your 17 in cuteness and be done with it. ( [...........] ) (^^) ( Welcome to the nightmare, Mand. ^_~ ) (^^; Com'on Peter. It's not like this is going to have any impact. Really) I.. Cuten.. wa.. (Yeah. With Rei as GM the first, and Brett as GM the second, you'll be fine!) * Rei scribbles down Waddle Dee's racial abilities: Cute Look and Sing. * Chomei gets up and walks over. "Do you wanna do it or do you need wittle old Chomei to do it for you?" ( One of you is going to send me a full log of this. XD ) (Sure! It'll be up on the site, even.) ... Rei, you're kidding about blowing up the school, right? Would I ever kid about something like that? Just play along. * Chie walks back into the room, arms full of junk food. "Heyas again, everybody! We come bearing goodies and Cryptic Messages delivered by Mysterious Persons!" * Chomei leans back. "Oh really? Whatcha got?" * Maria walks in after Chie, also carrying junk food. Hmm? * Chie drops her load on the table. "Maria, the envelope, please." * Chomei drumbrolls on the table. * Maria hands the envelope to Chie after the drumroll. "An envelope that we're not supposed to open until midnight." * Chomei looks at his watch. * Peter jumps up. "Who gave it to you?" * Chie waves the envelope in the air. "Yep! Personally given to us by a purple- haired woman in white robes who has a thing for jumping out of windows and says she's a friend. For now." * Rei looks up. "Whoo, cryptic messa- hey, sit back down and assign your stats, mister!" * Rei pulls the professor back to his seat. Purple hair, white robe. Bland dodgy speaking. [The phone rings!] Sounds evil. I'll get it. (Eoi, answer the phone!) * Chomei checks his cell phone. (I'm Eoi's student! I get the phone!) * Chomei looks over to the phone in the corner. "Oh yeah." * Chie walks over to the phone. "Wonder who's got our number anyway." She picks it up. "Yo." "Who's asking?" "Client? What client?" "What?" * Maria blinks. ( Mystery Club for Men! I'm not just a spokesman... I'm also a client. ) * Chie covers the phone with her hand. "Hey, did we get any calls earlier?" * Rei checks for an answering machine. [The answering machine has no messages] * Chie listens in on the phone again and blinks, then covers the phone with her hand. * Peter waits and listens. Uhh... do we still fufill twenty-year-old contracts? Nope! Uh. Don't believe so. I'm not sure about that. Which one is it? Some guy who says he paid Mystery Club to get rid of a ghost. Twenty years ago. .. Twenty years? ( Oh GOD. Not him! NOT HIM! ) ( Oh dear. Should I be worried? ) Rei? You know anything about this? Sounds like Eoi-sensei and your dad's time. Aww, man! I remember reading about this. It's really stupid. [The man is so loud that everyone can hear him yelling over the phone.] He kept sum- can I talk to him? Great. And I'll bet he'd ask for twenty years' of interest and refused. Here. * Chie hands Rei the phone. And why the hell isn't he dead yet? * Rei takes the phone and yells into it. "QUIET!" You ask him. You haven't paid me anything. You don't even know me. * Chie slumps down in the chair. "Why the hell didn't I just hang up?" * Peter thinks. "I remember hearing about this case." Yeah? Gone back to summoning your daughter again? That really isn't in this time of the year. How long's she been around? If I remember right, Mystery Club got rid of that ghost when you paid them. It isn't our fault if she comes back. If you want us to get rid of it again, you need to pay us again. * Chomei speaks quietly as to not upset the 'client.' "Well I don't. What's up?" Yeah, prof. Spill. They did so! Got records to prove it. * Maria nods. This man is insane. He continued to summon the spirit of his dead daughter, then summon someone to get rid of it. Look man, it's not our fault you're delusional. * Maria blinks. Yeah? And how exactly are you gonna hold up in court? What's he use for the summoning? Didn't we just go over this part? Hmm, yup. I think we did. It's really a pretty cyclical argument. How much did you pay, exactly? A million yen? Don't believe ya. * Rei rolls her eyes. "Sure, but see, we already did our job. You want it done again, you have to pay again. That's the way it goes. Now, I've got better things to do like bother my friends, so if you're done...?" Okay, I've heard twisted, but that's just wrong. You do know that I can stop you from talking to me by hanging up this phone. Right? That's strike one! If you get to three with the words 'dare' and 'pay', I'm hanging up! I guess I should take to wearing skirts, then. * Maria giggles, since she's starting to find this amusing. * Lazar facepalms. * Chie smirks. "Rei's got more patience than I do. I woulda told him to go screw himself by now." Strike two! ... would be illegal to go to man's house and break his jaw, yes? * Chomei leans back. "Hell with that. I'm tempted to go over there and cap the man myself." Sadly, yes. But oh so tempting. Don't askk me. Never been bothered by what's legal. Quite. * Lazar snaps his fingers. "Darn." As agents of Interpol, I think we've got a little leeway. But probably not that much. I love you, too! Insulting people is always the best way to get them to do things for you! Hmm, yup. Obviously. And I think you should be locked in a loony bin. Anything else you wanna add? How about this: We do the job, then take the payment weather he wants us to or not. Strike three! You're out! * Rei hangs up. Rei, what happened? * Maria grins at Chomei. "That could work." [The phone rings!] * Rei walks over to her stuff and opens the Iron Waffle. She ignores the phone. Ignore it. The man is obviously disturbed. * Chie eyes the phone. "Should we even bother?" Oh, the guy yelled at me and insulted me and told me that the group twenty years ago didn't do their job and that we're trying to cheat him out of his money and he'll sue and, oh yes, did I mention he insulted me? I think we should at least... what if, by freak accident, it's not him? And if it is, tell him to screw himself, no? Dunno. How'd he even know we're here? * Rei starts typing. * Chie grins. "Go for it, Chomei." [The answering machine comes on. "How DARE you! I PAID you to get rid of this ghost! You're not doing your job! I demand a refund! I PAID you to do this! I PAID you! Get down here and get rid of that ghost!"] I find it surprising that we've still go the same phone number we did twenty years ago. Prof, could you look into getting a new one? [His ranting goes on until the answering machine stops.] * Maria disconnects the answering machine. * Chomei sighs. * Peter unplugs the answering machine. [Then a few minutes later, the phone rings!] ( Wow, that d00d sucks. Still. ) * Chomei picks up the phone. Ignore it. Heh, check this. Hello? * Rei curses. "That's right, no Box." She throws her computer across the room, but fortunately, she made it super plus resiliant so she can do that. * Chie blinks at the flying computer. Thank you for calling Slasher's house of Horror's. I'm sorry, but we are not in business at the moment, so you'll just have to fuck yourself this time. Bye. * Chomei hangs up. ... crazy man. [The phone rings!] Chomei... marry me. Now. * Maria cracks up. * Chie grins. * Rei blinks at Chomei's statement, then cracks up. * Maria snickers. "No, you can't have him, Chie!" Aww, why not? [The phone continues to ring!] * Chomei sits down. "Who's next? Oh, and Chie, not now. We have a little phoney infestation to take care of." * Lazar sighs and picks up the phone. "Hungarian Embassy, how can I direct your call?" I dunno. Isn't that the way these things work? * Chie grins. Note that Chomei didn't say anything about later. ^_^ * Chie cracks up at Lazar. * Rei keeps laughing. * Chomei cracks up. * Maria laughs more. * Lazar pauses. "... I am sorry, sir, my Japanese no is very good. Please slow down. What is problem?" * Chomei speaks softly. "I'm sorry, that's outside of our jurisdiction. Please call your local angry mob for assistance." * Maria snickers. * Chie keeps laughing. Her eyes are watering by now. "... I think you have wrong number. This is Hungarian Consulate." "What number you trying to reach?" * Maria continues giggling, trying not to laugh too loud, which of course makes the whole thing funnier. * Chomei whispers something to Rei. * Peter smiles for a second, before catching himself. "Mystery what? Sir, if you have business with Republic of Hungary, I can help. If no, then you have wrong number." * Rei blinks, then whispers back. * Rei starts digging hurriedly in her bag. * Chomei grins. * Rei pulls out... the little black box! * Chie wipes her eyes and looks over at Rei and Chomei. * Rei grins evilly at Chomei. "Say when." * Maria blinks, then grins. * Chie looks at what Rei's holding and cracks up again. * Chomei quietly speaks to the group. "We're gonna have a terrorist group 'attack' wherever we are." What? "Charlie Tan? He ambassator to China. Wrong consulate." Ready guys? International incident? Awright! * Rei twists a few knobs. * Rei checks it over a few times, then gives a thumbs up. Well, even if you aren't here it comes. "Sir, if you think Hungarian government owes you money, I can help. But you have to calm down." * Chomei lowers his hand. * Maria covers her ears! * Chie covers her ears as well. * Chomei doesn't bother. "What is it you pay Hungary for?" * Rei slams her hand on a button. The sound of a gunfight - a rather realistic gunfight - comes blaring out of the box, filling the whole room. "Ghost? Oh, you want Transylvanian Embassy. Let me transf- oh no! Austrain terrorists AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" * Peter looks confused again. "Die, you Austrian pig dogs! You no control Hungary no more!" * Chomei speaks loudly enough to get it over the phone. "No, he got me! Obi Wan, you are our only hope!" * Chie screams. "Oh, the humanity!" "No! Morris! Hold on, we get help!" * Maria continues snickering, desperately trying not to laugh for fear of ruining it. Damnit! Where's the flux capacitator! Monk, I need a monk! ... "Sir, we kind of busy. Let me give you number to call, they handle you problem. Okay?" * Chie starts chanting in Pig Latin. * Rei joins Chie's chant! Half a beat behind. "I know sir... FIRE IN HOLE! ... and I sorry. Just call number, and they handle." I have defeated an enemy officer! ( *cracks up, more* ) ( Bah. Shoulda saved that for when I tossed you into Dynasty Warriors :P ) (We can use it again. ^^) (But I have some better ones for that.) "Okay, sir... one second. Let me consult with Minister of Finance." * Lazar puts his hand over the phone. "Almost done. Shut off noise." * Rei turns it off. * Lazar gets back on the phone. "Sir, I sorry. Mystery Club is division of Hungarian Embassy. I new here, so I no know. Very sorry. We send someone right away. In meantime, they say you need do something to prepare." * Chomei shouts in a distant tone. "And if you come back, I shall taunt you a second time!" * Rei grins madly. "Many sorries, sir. Paperwork get lost, I think. Anyway, team will be teleporting in from Hungary at midnight tonight. But they need you to act as beacon so they know where they going." * Maria doesn't get the ref, but giggles anyway. * Chie laughs again, though she's trying to keep it down a bit. * Chomei laughs, keeping his hand on his mouth to cover it. "We have address, but teleport spell need beacon. It faster. If no teleport, take 4 days to get to you." * Rei grins *madly* * Maria grins, too. This should be good. * Chomei grins. * Chie rubs her hands in anticipation. "Nakamura dead. Eaten by were-carp. You want job done tonight, or in 4 days?" * Chie is also grinning madly, but then again, she has been pretty much the entire time. "Tonight is best we can do. Very sorry. Will you act as beacon for spell?" * Chomei snickers. "... actually, sir, your check bounced." * Chie cackles. * Rei falls over giggling. * Maria giggles some more! "Nakamura good fighter, but did banking like sumo wrestler do ballet. Check bounce. We be willing to do anyway, because of delay, but need to wait until tonight. Will you be beacon? It no very hard." "Oh, I see problem!" ( Yeah. The problem is YOU. ) ( Tell 'im that. I dare ya'. xD ) "You have wrong branch of Mystery Club. You want Sweedish branch. They bought Japanese branch, so they have your records." ( Do you guys plan on actually going there at all? c.c;; ) (Why should we? ^_^) "No is problem, sir. Sweedish branch have team just outside city. Just call them, and they be there in half-hour." "Of course there are. No were 20 years ago, but since then Mystery Club spread around world. Sweedish branch can help you. All you have to do is call them." "Yes, but I just secretary. Unless you want me to type, I no can help." * Rei eyes the black box. Want to press button. ( This is an interesting way to kill an hour c.c ) * Lazar nods. "Then no can help. Have nice day, stinking wrinkled whore mother." *hang up* [Almost as soon as Lazar hangs up... The phone rings!] * Chie cracks up. "Oh. Oh man. That was *great.*" * Chie gets up and unplugs the phone. * Chomei cracks up. ... damn. Wanted to give him number of Transylvanian vengence demon. [The phone stops ringing.] * Maria cracks up. [Rei's cell phone rings.] * Chie eyes Rei. "Oh, no way." * Rei blinks. No way in hell... * Rei takes the phone and checks the caller ID. He can't *possibly* have... can he? [*Unknown*] * Rei shrugs and flicks it on, putting it to her ear. "Medusa's House of Waffles. Who do you need flattening today?" * Rei listens. * Rei takes the phone and puts it *on* the black box. Face down. * Rei presses the button. * Rei smiles contentedly as gunshots fill the air. [Chomei's cell phone rings.] * Chomei looks at Rei. "Don't you think there's an easier way? Like hooking the computer directly up the the phone?" * Chie convers her ears and starts laughing again. * Chomei checks the ID. [*Unknown*] * Chomei sighs. * Rei turns off the device, picks up her phone, and puts it to her ear. Hey, Chomei! Do me a favor and get his address. ... * Maria frowns. And find out if the same guy is ranting at you. Actually, just do that. It's not on here... * Chomei picks up the phone. "Yo." * Maria goes over to Rei and whispers to her. [Rei and Chomei hear the same guy ranting.] * Rei glances at Maria and nods, covering her phone at the same time. "Yeah, but I don't have mine." (Is it the same schmook as before?) * Chie stops laughing. "God, this guy's more stubborn that I am, and that takes effort." ( Heck yah. ) [Chie's phone rings!] No, somethin's really wrong here. My phone number isn't exactly public access. * Chie *eyes* the phone. * Chomei nods. "Mine isn't either..." Okay, I just got this one this *afternoon.* * ChaSleep has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Maria frowns, then nods. Not even all of *you* guys know it. None of ours are. Yup! He must be using the dark mystical arts of phone number summoning. [I think that's everyone with a cel, but if not... They start ringing!] Hmm.. Should I even bother answering? Well, I say we go over there and kick his ass in. * Peter jumps and checks his phone. "This is becoming very annoying." I'm with you. I say he could use another haunting. I'd say we go to his place and make him stop, but it feels to trappish for me. * Kaede has joined #besm Well, either way we have to do something. * Chomei turns his cell phone off. [Chomei's cell phone stops ringing.] * Chie tries to turn her phone off, but can't quite figure out how. It's the 'P-W-R' button. * Rei just puts her phone back down on the black box. She doesn't care if he rants or not. * Chie blinks. "Right. I knew that. Really." * Chie turns the phone off. [Chie's phone stops ringing.] Did I mention I hate these things? Okay. We can go over and look, but you know what? I don't have his address, because it's on Box. Can't we sue this guy for harrassment? * Rei grins suddenly. "I got a theory! He's a telephone ghost!" * Chomei facepalms. * Chie blinks. "I'm gonna have to excorcise a *phone system*?" * Rei giggles. * Maria blinks. * Rei picks up the phone and listens, pulling out a sheet of paper. She writes 'dare', 'paid', and 'sue' on it. * Rei starts putting down tally marks for each time he says one of those words. [He continues to rant.] [Rei hears each word a lot.] Hey, mister! You listenin'? You're gonna run out of room on that paper real fast, Rei. * Maria perches on a desk and looks contemplative. Cool. Hey, where are you, anyway? * Rei jots that down. "Great! Thanks." * Rei hangs up and turns off her phone. So? ( Ees no biggie. ^_^ ) * Chie blinks. "What the...?" Guys, there's something here. What? * Chie reaches into her bag and pulls out a ward. * Chomei summons his bow. [A ghostly man in a tophat and overcoat floats through the wall and rubs his forehead.] And did anyone look in the mysterious envelope of mysteriousness yet? * KirbyWithBowTie is now known as Ghost * Chie waves at the ghost. "Hi there." * Rei blinks at the man. "Hey, he looks kinda like me! Um, if I were a guy and wearing a hat and could see myself when I get all spirity and stuff." And I don't think it's midnight yet, Rei. * Ghost speaks with a thick English accent. "Hullo. I'm terribly sorry... This is Mystery Club, is it not?" * Chomei nods slowly. Damnit! But I wanna turn into a pumpkin! Yep. What can we do for you? * Ghost sighs relieved. "Oh my. That's good. I was afraid I'd gotten lost." * Ghost pulls an envelope from his pocket and gives it to Chie. "Here you are." * Maria blinks at the ghost. * Rei peers at the ghost guy. "Um. Who are you?" * Chie blinks and takes the envelope. "Lemme guess. Don't open it until after midnight, right?" * Maria blinks again, this time at the envelope. "Just a messenger. Oh, no! Feel free to open it immediately. It's priorty." Well, I've got to run, wot wot. Why do I have a feeling this is from that ranting Sweed? * Peter boggles. Oh. Pleasure to meet you, Just a Messanger! Have some ghostly tea for me! * Ghost tips his tophat. "Cheerio." Uhm, have a nice day. * Ghost heads back through the wall. Oh, okay. Thanks! Have a nice trip! See ya... I guess. * Chie concentrates on the envelope, trying to sense anything strange about it. [The envelope seems normal :P] * Chie looks at the group. "Well, should I open it?" * Maria shrugs. "Sure." Yeah. Maybe it'll kill us and we don't have to listen to stupid ranty guy anymore! * Chie opens the envelope! [Inside is... A letter!] * Chie takes out the letter and starts reading it. I find this all very odd. Well, yeah. [It's a subpoena. You're being sued for 1 million yen + damages and the pants that Rei Ueda is wearing.] * Chie stares at the letter. "Rei? Did psychoguy threaten to sue your pants off?" Sure! Do I have to wear skirts now? * Chie hands her the letter and nods. * Rei reads. "Hm. He's really starting to piss me off. You don't piss Rei Ueda off. Oh no. You don't." You don't piss Chie Matsuda off, either. Grr. * Maria gives Rei a wry look. "Y'want I should go break 'is legs, bawss?" Yo, Prof! Read this. Is it upholdable in a ghostly court of law? And I'd imagine the same goes for Chomei Tochikura, Lazar Thau, Peter Roivas, and Maria... Maria. * Rei hops over to Peter and sticks it in front of him. * Peter reads it and stares. "This makes absolulty no sense." Damn straight Chie, damn straight. Yeah, I know. Why my pants? My sneakers are much cooler. * Maria nods sagely. "Exactly." * Chie shakes her head. "You know, if he's got that much supernatural influence, why can't he get rid of the damn ghost *himself*?" He's craaaaazy! * Chomei looks down at her sneakers, then quickly turns away. "My eyes. They burn!" As far as I know, it's .. well, legal. You know what? I think he's a ghost. Silly Chomei. Do not behold the Shoes of Brightness. It was twenty fucking years ago. He's got to be a ghost by now. Maybe he wants himself removed? * Chomei nods. "You're probably right. Let's go kick his ass." * Chie sighs. "If he is a ghost, then, yeah, it's quite possible that something's still holding him here." * Rei pauses. I feel like some presense is twisting our hair, leading us by our toes, forcing us to walk into a FIENDISH TRAP not of my own devising! How horrifying! But kinda cool. But horrifying! * Chomei checks his watch. (Is it 12:00 yet?) * Maria snickernods. ( Nah. If it was FIENDISH, it'd be much more than this. ) Wouldn't be the first time we've walked into a trap. But let's go kick ass. [Only about 10:00.] Yeah... I need to vent off some steam. Works for me. He pay for insulting Hungary. * Maria nods. "He's gonna pay for a lot of things." She grins. "Weather he knows it or not." * Chie pulls her shiny new sword out of her bag and raises it over her head. "Onward! To ass-kicking!" Trap and bait. * Rei relates the addy to all of ya. * Chomei looks and nods. "Who wants to have me in tow?" I'll take you. * Chie grins. * Chomei looks at her. "What the hell, I'll try it again." * Maria blinks, then shrugs. [And off they went. Session end c.c]