[Day: Saturday, June 11th. Time: 8:00 p.m.] [Yesterday you went to a warehouse and fought someone 'cause she said she wanted to and she was too adamant to let you refuse. Oh, and Katsu and Virgil were there too, but they didn't stay long. Anyhow, you're all at the club room, and it's Rei's birthday, even though she wanted to keep it a secret. It's too late!] [Session Start] * Maria leans against the wall, with a large, inexpertly-wrapped box next to her. * Rei is putting up decorations, humming some birthday song or another. She has a bright pink party hat on (yes, the shiny kind with an elastic chinstrap). * Chie walks into the room with her bag slung over her shoulder and a large thermos tucked under her arm. "All right! Let's get this party started!" * Makoto bustles around the room, helping Rei with decoration. He wears a red and gold hat much like hers. Chie, Maria! Hats! * Lazar is sitting in his usual spot, playing with the Slinky. He has a large rectangular something in his lap, about 4 feet long and a foot high, wrapped in newspaper. Uhm, okay. * Peter is reading or something. * Rei grabs a pair of party hats out of a plastic bag and throws them at the girls. * Rei grabs another pair and throws them at Peter and Lazar. Without warning. * Maria picks up a hat and puts it on, promptly looking rediculous. * Chie walks over to the table with the food (assuming there is one), and sets the thermos down. She then catches the hat and puts it on. "Woo!" * Chomei walks in the room. "Did I mis-... Oh yeah." HAT! * Rei throws one at Chomei, too. * Lazar gets thunked in the head with a party hat. He doesn't notice, because Slinky is shiny. *_* * Chie digs around in her bag and pulls out a small black box tied with a silver cord. "And present! Where shall I put the present?" * Chomei catches the hat with his left hand. "... Right." Uh, wherever? Put it on the table, by the cake, I guess. * Rei points there. All righty. * Makoto grins. * Chie does so. Mmm, cake. * Chomei looks suspiciously at the cake. "What's in it?" Oh, you know. Stuff. ( dancing girls ) * Maria heads over to the food. She can't resist food for long. * Lazar blinks, puts the slinky down, and goes to put his gift on the table. The hat, unnoticed, rolls away. Banana! And chocolate. And more chocolate, really. And it's cake. You'll like it, honest. * Chomei shrugs. "Stuff, eh?" * Rei picks up the hat, walks over to Lazar, and tries putting it on his head. * Maria has some cake! :9 ... what you doing, little one? * Chie points to the thermos. "I brought drinks. A drink, actually. Was gonna bring something alcoholic, but I didn't want to scandalize the professor by brining alchohol on campus. Gotta set a good example and all." She grins. So, instead, we have strawberry iced tea! Made with real strawberries! * Chomei puts his hat on. "Yeah, sure it isn't alcoholic." And, no, I didn't make it. Which is good, 'cause otherwise we'd be picking seeds out of our teeth all night. Called in a favor from a friend. Don't worry, Chomei. They're strawberries pickled in rum. * Rei grins madly. "Cool! Oh, check this out. I got myself a birthday present." She digs in her pockets and pulls out a plastic card. "Ta daaaaaa!" Good. * Maria blinks. "Whazzat?" * Makoto peers at the card. * Chie unscrews the top of the thermos, grabs a cup, and pours some of the iced tea into it. It's dark red. She holds it out to Chomei. "Here, try it." ( It's blood! ) * Lazar grins bemusedly at Rei's attempts to reach his head. "You trying to put hat on golem?" Cool! It's from the Kirby-mon Silver series! No, it's a new nose. Yes, a hat! Put it on, okay, Lazar? It's a birthday, and you wear party hats on birthdays. * Chomei tries it. "Tangy, yet sweet." * Peter rubs his head and wonders if these people are insane. * Rei blinks and looks over at Maria. "Oh. My driver's license." She gives a v for victory. * Maria grins and gives a v-for-victory back. * Chie pours herself a glass, then looks over at Rei and blinks in surprise. "Your what?" * Lazar shrugs, and puts the hat on. He looks silly. Not as silly as if the illusion was inactive, but... =P My license! What, I just turned eighteen today, it's not like I could get an honest to goodness license before. ... You didn't have a license before? Wait, how did you get it consid-... I have lost all faith in the Japanese driving system. * Maria giggles. And has more cake. :9 Silence, Chomei. I prepped her for the exam. That was my present. Oh yeah? Well, it lost all faith in you! In fact, it never had any! * Lazar lumbers over to Peter. "Put hat on. Then we all look ridi- reda- odd." I am shocked, Rei. Shocked that you would even think of doing such a thing. * Demota is now known as DemoAC * Chie grins madly. I refuse. What, getting a license? I know, completely out of character for me. I should've blown it off- aww, come on, Prof! * Maria walks around Peter's desk and puts a hat on him. * Rei is over at Peter's side in an instant, looking at him with big, purple eyes that would be much more persuasive if she weren't grinning as insanely as she is. "Put it on!" * Chomei shrugs. "Prof. If I'm doing it, you gotta too. It's her birthday, show that you're at least somewhat glad." * Makoto lets everybody else try to convince Peter. He knows good and well what the professor thinks of -him-. Oh, I almost forgot. ( Out of character? Must be that whole having to pass a test thing... ) (Bah. Rei can pass a driver's test without any trouble. ;P) * Chie sips at her drink and watches the others try and convince the prof. No matter what happens, this oughtta be good. * Peter eyes you all. "Why on earth are you trying to make me wear that?" Not trying. * Maria points at the hat that she's actually put on the prof's head. Strapped on and everything. Because it's fun! And you're already wearing it, so I guess that's it! Is tradition. Be glad this no Transylvanian birthday party, or you have to fight were-sheep bare handed. * Chie wonders exactly how she missed that. * Chomei pulls out a present for Rei out of his backpack. It's heavy, and obviously a bunch of books from the look of the careful wrapping. He places it on the table next to the rest of the gifts. * Peter removes the hat. "Honestly!" * Maria giggles again. Peter looks silly! o/` * Rei blinks. "So you don't want to wear it?" * Makoto arches an eyebrow and looks at Lazar. * Lazar cheerfully LOOMS over Peter. "No, he want to wear it. RIGHT?" I don't see the point really. Can't I be just as.. err.. cheerful without it? Prof, wear the hat, or you'll make Rei sad. And it's her birthday. You don't want to make Rei sad on her birthday, do you? No. Your cheer is insufficient. Do you eat were-mutton after fighting were-sheep? * Lazar turns to Makoto. "No, we eat cake. Stop being silly." ( Maria said insufficient! The world will end soon! ) Oh com'on. Give him a break. He's gotta be mopy for the rest of us now. * Makoto facefaults. I see. [There's a knock on the door!] Ah, well. Let's just keep going. 'S only his fault if... eh? I'll get it! * Chomei sits down, leans back in a chair, and starts drinking some of that raspberry iced tea. "Let him be grouchy if he-." Were-sheep very old tradition. Very odd, too. I'll- never mind. I don't see what the point of not wearing the hat is, Prof. It's not like going to my party isn't- door! * Rei runs and opens door. * Makoto runs for the door, and flings it open. * Chomei looks over to Makoto. "Get what?" * Rei runs into Makoto. Ow. * Chie looks at Chomei. "The door. Didn't you hear the knock?" Someone knocked? * Makoto is less ow-ed than Rei, but probably because he's bigger than she is. * Chie looks at Chomei oddly. "Yeah." Oof. Whoops! Sorry, Rei! * Chie then grins at him. "Gotta pay attention, y'know." * Chomei smiles back. "Yeah, I guess so." The poor ends of my hair! But they forgive ya. [Behind the door is... A delivery guy!] * Kirby is now known as DeliveryGuy * Maria blinks. * Rei waves at him. "Hi!" * Chie eyes the pileup at the door. "And I think Rei and Makoto need to do that, too." Uh... Hi. Wow. There are people here this late. * Makoto smiles at Rei, and then turns to give the delivery guy a thorough looking-over. * DeliveryGuy peers into the room. "Rei Ueda?" ( "Flowers for Negaduck!" "... I didn't order any flowers..." "... er, scowls for Negaduck!" ) That's me! What's up? * Peter looks up. * DeliveryGuy holds up a small package. "Mail. Sign for it." * Rei shrugs and does that. Mail, at this hour? ( Oh look, it's a bleeding heart. ) Maybe it's that new Kirby Express Package Delivery. Ten minutes or less, y'know? ( No, no. It's a bomb. ) (BRAINS!) Hey, neither sleet nor snow nor late nights nor freak lightning storms and all that. Yeah, what she said. Ah. What if it's more than ten minutes? Can we strap the tardy party up by the ankles and beat him with a stick until candy comes out? I think we're well within our rights to do that. * Chie nods emphatically. * DeliveryGuy holds out a pad for Rei to sign, and hands her the package. "Kriby express? Sorry. Just regular Divided Postal Service." Candy good. * Rei snickers and takes the package from the poor delivery guy. "Nah, 'cause if that happened then people would beat them with sticks anyway, and that'd cause a huge mess with- Oh, okay. Well,. thanks!" * DeliveryGuy nods. "Uh huh." He heads down the hall. * Peter continues to look curiously. "It could very well be a trap. Be cautious." I say you should beat them with lead pipes. Lead pipes are awsome for that. * Rei looks the package over. A trap? * Chie eyes Chomei. * Makoto peeks out into the hall and watches the delivery guy, in case he (the delivery guy) does anything suspicious. * Chomei looks back at Chie. "What?" [The package does not say "Trap"] (It must be a clue!) * Rei shrugs and opens it! Didn't realize you had such a vicious streak. I'm shocked and horrified. I am. Really. ... how do all people know how to find us here? Is there neon sign outside? * Chie smirks at him, then turns her attention back to Rei. Yeah, I put it up this morning. Ah, okay. I think we must be listed in the phone book or something. * Maria shrugs. * Chomei smirks and looks to Rei. Look in the Yellow Pages under... actually, I don't think we can be categorized. * Maria frowns. "Listed in the phonebook? That's no good." [It's a Trap! It really is! Inside the package are two boxes of Baozhen Crunchies, Trap-flavor. And a card.] Ooh, Baozhen Crunchies. Cool. * Rei sets those aside, then opens the card. * Makoto peeks back into the room. "We are in the phone book, actually. Under 'Arkham Asylum for the Mentally Unsound.'" * Maria blinks at Makoto. "Really? ...no, you're kidding. Aren't you?" No way. We make plenty of sound. If we were unsound, we'd absorb sound. Suck it all up like a tasty crispy snack. We all is sane... just no understood. * Peter mutters something. [The card reads: "Rei, happy birthday. Enjoy the Crunchies. It's basically Hong Kong's version of Pocky" - Naomi"] * Rei cheers. "Thanks, Naomi!" she cries, even though the girl can't hear it. Com'on Peter. You're way too uptight sometimes. Naomi sent you a present? Aww, that was sweet of her. * Chie smiles. Yeah! They're like pocky, only not. We should break them out after cake time, I think. * Maria grins. Cool! Sweets from Nao-chan. Yes. Cake time! And present time! Lead on, birthday girl! Present time! Isn't it always cake, then present? It's whatever she wants it to be. * Maria blinks. "Wait, there's a designated time for cake?" [There's another knock on the door!] * Chomei shrugs. "That's how I always did it." * Rei grabs presents and takes them to the middle of the room, making a few trips to do it. She blinks at Chomei. "It is? Really? Do you have the instruction manual for birthdays, 'cause- door!" * Makoto turns around and flings it open. ... Again? So for your birthday, we'll do cake first. Easy enough. * Rei goes and manages to stop herself from running into Makoto this time. * Makoto points a finger accusingly out the door. * Peter blinks. "Another present?" Who goes there? * Maria blinks again. * Chomei pulls out some paper and a pencil. He begins scribbling on the paper. (Yeah, Peter's shocked that anyone would give Rei presents. ^^) [It's Victoria. She's grinning and wearing a party hat.] * DeliveryGuy is now known as Victoria Hi hi! I'm not too late, am I? Hey! Who invited the hottie? * Rei stands on her toes, looking around Makoto. "Oh, hi Victoria! I didn't know you'd actually come." * Chie frowns briefly and mutters. "Aww, damn. She was serious." She then goes back to a mostly-cheerful grin. * Maria whaps Makoto upside the back of his head. "Don't mind him." Nah, I was about to open presents. C'mon in. * Lazar does the Golem Growl of Displeasure. * Makoto lets his head whip forward and backward like one of those leather boxing bags. "Oof." * Rei grabs Makoto by the arm and pulls him to one side so Victoria can, y'know, actually go through the door. * Chomei looks up, mumbles something, and finishes his writing. * Victoria walks on in. "I said I would, didn't I?" She holds out a small package towards Rei, about 1 ft x 1 ft Hey, cool! Thanks. * Peter simply leans over and clutches his head. [It's wrapped in pink-bubble paper with a yellow bow!] * Rei takes it and puts it with the rest of her pile, then plunks behind them. She cackles and rubs her hands together. "Now, which one first." * Maria hops up to the cieling and has a seat. * Chomei eyes the package. He is obviously not pleased about this turn of events. (Ooh, dressed like me!) ( Chomei just wants presents :P ) * Makoto allows himself to be pulled aside. (Why would I want presents from THEM?) ( Chomei wants to feel loved. ) (:P) (Chomei's present is... a pie in the face!) (Mmmm... Pie is good.) (Yay! Pie!) (Chomei is the only one whose present I *don't* have figured out. ^_~) (:P) * Rei picks up the large, badly wrapped one. "Okay, whose is this!" Don't open that one! It's full of grues! * Chie turns her full attention to Rei and the presents. This will be fun! * Rei gasps. "Grues? You serious?" No, I'm not. * Makoto grins. That's mine. * Victoria starts to snicker, then pouts when Makoto says that. "Aww..." G'wan! Open it! Grues? What're those? Aww, man. Well, maybe we wrap up grues for somebody else's birthday. Like Chomei's! He could use a grue or three. * Rei opens the present. * Victoria grins widely, showing her small fangs. "I'll keep it in mind." Don't you dare. * Chie smirks. "Aww, but I thought you liked Chomei, Victoria." Yes, dare! And we can make Chomei open it in a dark room. ... What the hell is a Grue anyways? Well, Chomei... turn around. * Chomei leans back, looking at Makoto over the back of his seat. * Peter rubs his head. Everybody, see that disgusting, pulsing thing on the back of Chomei's head? That's a grue. ( It's a blender! The best sort made! It looks expensive. ) ... * Chie mock-gasps. "OH, the horror! Shall I slay it?" ... I thought that party hat? (Oh, even) Yes, do! The grue is hiding under Chomei's party hat now! * Chomei takes off his party hat and trows it at Makoto. "Watch out, it's comming to get you." Waugh! Grue! Put it in the blender! * Makoto tosses Chomei's hat at Rei. ...what's a Grue? ........is it tasty? * Rei cheers and hugs it. "The Blendermax 3000! Your my new bestest friend! I'll put you next to the knife set and the other blender and the other other blender which is actually in a cabinet because I really don't have room for it on the counter, sadly." She blinks. "Grue!" she shouts as she stuffs it in the blender. * Victoria pulls off her party hat and blinks at it. "So that's what they call it." * Chomei chuckles. * Chie giggles. * Makoto grins cheekily. I wanted to get you something chef-y. Er, I don't know much about cooking, tho. Naw, it's really a party hat. I think. Unless you got a grue that looks like a hat? * Rei gives Maria a thumbs up and a grin. "I love it! And I can teach you how to cook sometime." She sets the blender (with hat) aside and picks up another one. Lazar's gift. Whose is this! * Victoria looks at it from all sorts of angles. "I dunno." Is mine. * Maria grins. ( Lazar's, duh. You just said so :P ) (Yeah, but Rei doesn't know. ^^) Okay. * Rei opens! * Rei goes starry eyed and holds up the giant neon Tang sign. "TANG!" Oh, *awesome*! You rule, Laz. You really do. ... Niiiiice. * Lazar grins. Woah! * Maria giggles. "Nice, Laz." Nice work, Lazzie. * Rei scrambles to her feet and props it across a few desks, then plugs it in. It flashes TANG. I shoulda brought Tang, too, along with the strawberry tea. Oh well. Mix the Tang in with the tea. You got zing then. This. So rules. It does! Thanks! * Victoria tilts her head. "I don't get it. Are you gonna eat that?" * Rei unplugs so as not to cause a fire hazard and goes back to the present pile. * Lazar noogies Makoto. "No call me Lazzie. No am dog what saves stupid boy." Oh, naw. It's just a sign. Raises my freak factor to the fifth power. * Chie eyes Victoria. "They eat neon signs where you come from?" Gwah! Golemnoogies! No. That's why I thought it was so silly! Who's gonna eat my sign? I'm not gonna eat my sign! Are you gonna eat my sign? I don't think so! * Chie relaxes a bit. "Us? Silly? Never!" She can't help but grin. * Rei picks up Victoria's gift. "This one's from Victoria, right? Right." She proceeds to open it. Don't mind them, they're just wacked. * Victoria grins in anticipation. Oh, sure, and you're not. * Chie looks at Chomei. "They? I think you mean we." You're wacked, I'm weird. There's a difference. * Chomei smirks. * Lazar steps back and goes back to playing with the Slinky, eyeing Victoria suspiciously. * Maria shrugs. [Rei opens the gift and a giant eyeball floats out, looking around wildly before settling its gaze on her.] * Chie laughs. "You just admitted you're weird. Wow. This *is* a special day." She winks at him and then goes back to watching Rei open presents. * Rei blinkblinks at the eyeball. * Maria stares. * Victoria grins. "Isn't it cute?" * Makoto boggles at the eyeball. What... is it? What -is- it? ... Cool. What's it do? Can it roll over and play dead? * Chie stares. "What?" * Lazar scowls. ...I'm not the only one who hasn't seen one of these before, am I? It's a new one to me. * Chomei scratches his head. Okay. Good. * Lazar looks over at Peter. [The eyeball blinks at Rei. It doesn't have eye-lids; it's more like the pupil blinks. When it does, a drop of blood drips out and falls on a small bowl in the box (which is incidently fairly filled)] ... * Rei looks down at the bowl. "Uh... it's not crying blood, is it?" * Chie frowns at this. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-3) and gets 3. * Makoto looks down at the bowl and sneers. Oh, don't worry. It's house broken. 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (2d6-6) and gets 4. Gross. Where does it come from? Housebroken? ...so, what, it knows to only bleed in the bowl? Uh huh. Well, it tries. * Lazar turns to Peter. "Is that eyele?" You know, can't always be sure there'll be a bowl around to bleed in. Yeah, good point. I'm gonna have to set bowls for that around the apartment. It doesn't hurt it, does it? I've never seen one of these before. ...right. I ...think I need to get some air. * Victoria grins. "Nope! It does this regularly." Is low-level demon. Scout, mostly. For demons with lot of psychic power. * Chie fights the urge to stab the thing. Or stick a ward on it. Or ask Victoria what the hell she's thinking, because "hell" is probably about right. It's a demon? * Chomei eyes Victoria. " Demonite, yes. It's a *what*? ( Chomei is speechless ^_^ ) What the hell were you thinking? Huh? * Chie eyes Chomei briefly. He didn't read her mind. It's just a coincidence. That's all. Well, I wanted to get something nice, and I couldn't find a box big enough for a meese, so... A meese? I don't think it's gonna hurt anyone. It has no teeth to bite me with, really. And it's kinda cute... in an eyeball kinda way. I wonder if it'd hurt to pet it. Hey, I heard of those! Are they the moose/mouse things that are like horses in hell? It bleeds blood, and you don't even know if that thing is scouting us right now. * Maria pivots on the cieling, facing away from the bleeding eyeball thing. * Victoria gives Rei a questioning look. "I dunno. What's a horse?" They're like... uh... gimme a sec. [The phone rings!] * Makoto rushes over to the phone, glad to be away from the skin-crawlingly weird... pet... Rei's just received. I'll get- never mind. * Rei drags out BOX, turns it on, types some, and flips the screen over to Victoria so she can see what a horse looks like. * Lazar turns to Victoria. "I be honest... I am very no sure we can trust you. Others more sure, so I go alomg. But giving demon as gift is kind of... odd." * Makoto picks up the receiver. "Hello?" Oh, it's just a demon. What's the worst it could happen? Someone takes it away 'cause it doesn't have a collar? I'll be honest. I don't trust her. * Victoria humphs at Lazar. * Maria sounds like she's trying to laugh and failing. Says you. You just gave some flashing sign that may or may not be edible. Victoria! Horse picture here. * Rei points. * Makoto blinks, and then lowers his voice. He cups his hand over the receiver, covering his mouth and talking in a hushed voice. After some quiet conversation, and nodding, he hangs up. * Chie looks like she's trying to make light of all this, but it's hard. I have to go, guys. You do? Why? You do? Aww. * Rei looks a little disappointed. What's up? * Makoto hurries over to Rei, gives her a quick peck on the cheek, and turns to go. * Victoria looks at the picture. "Kinda like that, uh huh. Do these 'horses' go berserk too?" * Chie blinks at that, and grins. Madly. * Lazar tilts his head at Victoria. "You did shoot Lazar, remember. And bleeding floating eye is... creepy. Like thing that would be trying to hurt us." Later, Mako. * Chomei eyes Makoto as he leaves. "... Right." Emergency. I'm really sorry, Rei. I'll tell you more as soon as I can! Not really, nope. Well, unlessy you get them mad, but that doesn't happen all that much. Bye, Makoto! * Chie waves. * Rei nods at Makoto. "Yeah, okay. Talk to ya later." * Lazar waves at Makoto. * Victoria waves to Makoto. * Makoto waves over his shoulder as he rushes out the door! So? You hit me too, but I'm not complaining. * Makoto is now known as Schneeble * Chie then grins at Rei, and makes a mental note to ask her about that later And it's not creepy! It's cute and cuddly-wuddly! [The eye blinks again, shedding another tear of blood.] * Chomei raises an eyebrow. "That's cute? I wonder what you call ugly." ... okay. What it do? I know eyele act as scout... * Rei pulls the bowl out of the box and puts it elsewhere so the eyeball can bleed somewhere farther away from the presents. "Hey, Victoria? Do I have to feed it anything? And, um, nobody's gonna be spying on me through it, right?" Those things you have up here... Bunnies. Ew. ( And, on cue, the Buffy theme song comes up on PsiAmp. =P ) ... * Victoria blinks. "Do? It floats and looks cute." (~/o There's nothing we can't face... except for bunnies. o/~) (Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes! They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses!) * Victoria nods to Rei. "It eats once every two days. Anything edible is fine, just don't watch it while it's trying to eat or it won't do it." (And what's with all the carrots, what do they need such good eyesight for anyways?!) (~/o Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies! ~/o) Oh, okay. How far is it in its meal cycle? Just ate before coming. ( Hey... Victoria gave Rei the Evil Eye! ) (Great, the only creature that she can have attack is the evil eye!) * Victoria grins. "Although I'm sure it'd like some cake!" * Rei grins. "Cool. Two days from now, then. Thanks, I thought the apartment was getting kinda empty without a pet... gonna need to think up a name, though." She grabs the next present and looks at it. "Whose is this!" Oh, everyone'll like cake! I made it myself. That's mine. Okay! Present from Chomei! Yeah, the cake's good! ...er. Looks good. * Lazar shakes his head, and mutters something in Hebrew. * Rei unwraps. I suggest Fluffy. * Chomei watches her unwrap, but keeps an eye on the eye. I'd say Squishy, but that's the name of an octopus. Oh, cool! * Rei holds up the books and cackles. "Fun on Popstar will never be the same again!" * Maria blinks. * Maria pivots back to see what the book is. ( The expansion pack :P ) We've got the Meanie Manual and the Programmer's Guide and... ooh, Fun on Popstar World Expansion... Wow. That's impressive. ( It covers Butter Building and Orange Ocean! ) (Yup!) Hey, you can't be a proper Programmer without the guide and the menies to throw at people. (I like Grape Garden best myself. It has good music. ^_^) (We already have Green Greens, right?) Well, I could just make some up. But yeah, this is really gonna make things easier on me and harder on you. Ha! * Lazar wanders over towards the eye, and tilts his head at it. ( It comes with Green Greens ) Ah, we are doomed now. * Chie grins. [The eye turns and blinks at Lazar, shedding another tear.] * Rei grins back. "Don'tcha know it, sistah. Yo. Thanks, Chomei!" * Lazar stares at the eye. [There's a knock on the door!] No prob. I just hope we can continue the game later. Door! [The eye stares back!] * Rei hops to her feet and runs and opens it, now that Makoto isn't here. * Chomei stares at the eye from a different angle while Lazar's starring at it. [Outside is... nothing!] * Chie doesn't even bother to get it. Man, Eoi would be so disappointed in her. Missed the phone and *three* door knockings. ( Chie gets demoted. ) (Your moves are lame.) * Rei blinks. * Rei looks up, then down, then all around. "Huh. Prank knocking?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 8. * Maria blinks and heads over to the door to look out. [Rei spies a funky wooden staff with a ram's skull on top. There's a yellow bow tied around the middle.] * Rei blinks a couple times. "Hey, anyone order a staff?" [Maria spies Rei spying a funky wooden staff with a ram's skull on top. There's a yellow bow tied around the middle.] ...what the hell is that thing on there? * Chie walks over to the door and looks out. "What the hell is that?" * Victoria peers. "Looks like a staff." Is that a skull or something? And what of? * Lazar looks away from the eye. "..," ( Why does Rei get Skeletor's staff for her birthday? ) A ram. I think. ... * Rei peers at it. ( ...ha! ) * Rei looks for a card or tag or something. [Nothin'!] How weird. Wonder who dropped it here. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 5. I wouldn't touch that thing. Yeah, well. My family's got such a *great* track record with cursed weapons and stuff. Staffs with skulls can't possibly be good. Hey, they can too! I rest my case. * Maria blinks at Victoria. "This another one of yours? Nope! * Lazar hrms. "No recognize it, but staff with skull no is generally used to bake cookies." ( Right. You need an antimatter oven for that. ) * Chomei gets up. "What is goin- Oh." Who uses a staff to bake cookies? But we can't just leave it here. Somebody else might find it and pick it up and that could be bad. I do! Could zap them with one, but that would probably char. A staff chef? * Rei blinks at Victoria. "You do? You've gotta show me how that works sometime." Sure. Come on down anytime! * Lazar mutters, then goes to pick up the staff and bring it into the club room. 'Down'? You live to the south? I've got an invitation to Hell! Or Heck. Probably Hell. [Lazar's arm falls off! Nope, not really. But I bet that's what you expected :P] ...oh. I didn't know there was a definite direction to Hell. ( ... damn. Anyone have spackle? ) You could say that. * Chie blinks. "Please don't go to hell, Rei." ( Spackle! ) Wow, you're the first person who's told me *not* to go to Hell. * Rei grins. That's the first time I've ever told somebody that, actually. * Lazar leans it on a wall near Peter's desk. "Maybe Prof know what it is... when he wake up." * Chie grins back. [Peter fell asleep again. Go figure.] Maybe it's just a staff with a skull on top. Does prof get enough sleep at nights? * Rei closes the door and goes back to the last present. * Chie looks over at Peter. "Wow. What kind of classes do they make that poor guy teach?" 'Parently not. Nah, he's always too busy cramming. Okay! Last present, so I predict... Chie! Got it in one! You saved the best for last! * Chie grins. * Rei giggles and opens it. * Victoria pouts. "Did not." (It's a beaded necklace. The beads are made of all different types of small polished stones, in all different shapes and colors. It'll match anything Rei wears. ^_~ In the center is a small silver charm, made to look like BOX.) (Match meaning clash? Yay!) (It's got almost every color that gemstones and other such minerals come in, so, yes. ^_~) * Rei oohs. "Pretty! And BOX! Thanks, Chie, this is really neat." * Chie beams. "I'm glad you like it! I was really hoping you would!" * Chomei blinks. "Hey, that looks just like something Rei would wear." Made it myself! How couldn't I like it? You made it, didn't you? Didn't you? You did! Ha! * Rei puts it on and poses. "How do I look? Fabulous?" Most definitely! * Chomei gets a good look at Rei for the first time today, and instantly turns his eyes away. "You look like Rei, yup." And we all know that Rei equals Fabulous! * Rei grabs a hat and puts it on the sleeping Peter's head. * Chie whaps Chomei on the arm. "Don't be insultin' my work! Or you get no present for your birthday, and no job, either!" * Chie is grinning the whole time, though. ( Mental note: Chie likes her work insulted. ) * Maria giggles. (*whaps the GM over the head* You definitely get no present. ;p) * Chomei looks at Chie. "Hey, I didn't say it was bad." ( Fine. I won't run the game ;_; ) * Chomei is smiling as well. You would not behold! Behold! * Chie grabs Chomei's arm and turns him to look at Rei. * Rei powerposes. * Chomei looks at Rei and holds his head. "I think I'm getting dizzy." He starts to make like it too, but he's grinning the entire time. ( Chomei requites a Fortitude save (DC11) to not go blind. o/` ) * Chie lets go of Chomei's arm and grins at Rei. "Yay! We're breaking Chomei's head!" It was already broken! Oh. Maybe we're fixing it, then! Y'mean it wasn't alread... yeah. ^_^ * Victoria pouts now that everyone's ignoring the eye. Okay, cake time, cake time. * Maria whistles innocently. * Rei goes to the table and uncovers the cake, which is a whipped cream, banana, and nut covered thing. She grabs some candles and starts sticking them in. ( ; ) (But it'll get cake!) (And we can play Name the Eye later.) ( ^ ) * Chomei sits down in his chair. "See, that's why I don't look directly at Rei's clothing. It makes you see spots. And I mean spots other than the ones on her shirt." (*snickers*) Hey, I don't have any spots on my shirt! Today. At this moment. * Victoria peers at the cake eagerly. "What kinda cake is it?" Oh, damn. So if I asked you to make me an outfit like Rei's, you'd say no? I dunno, but there's cocolate in it. I could work on it one piece at a time, if ya want. Mmm... chocolate. But I'd have to model the complete outfit. Does it have angst, too? Banana-nut chocolate cake. And the angst is optional. I'm pretty sure you can fit some in. * Victoria grins. "I love angst. It's so tasty!" ...I dunno. ( Rei made a Badass Cake! ) (o/~) ( Wai! Badass Cake! ) * Lazar eyes Victoria, then goes back to staring at the eye thingee. [The eye stares back at Lazar, blinking occasionally.] * Rei lights candles, then dims the lights. "... I don't need to prompt people to do the next thing next, do I?" ...Uhm, maybe? Nope! Let's eat! * Chie ponders telling Victoria where the Goth Poets hang out, then decides against it for now. Now is the time when we sing! You want us to eat, right? We sing! * Rei sweatdrops. "No, you sing." It's been a while since I did one of these. Oh... Oh yeah, singing. I forgot. * Victoria clears her throat. * Chomei grumbles. "Oh yeah... sing." * Chie grins madly. "You think I'd miss a chance to sing?" o/~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY WHERE'S THE FOOD?! o/~ * Rei pulls out a conductor's wand and waves. "Oooh, nice range, Victoria!" * Maria hops off the cieling and whispers into Chie's ear. "What do we sing?" * Chomei pretends not to hear that. (Notice, pretends. :P) * Victoria grins. "Thanks. I'm good at singing." * Chie whispers back. "Just follow my lead." * Maria blinks, then nodnods. So, can we eat now? Nah, everyone else didn't sing. We have to wait for them? ;_; * Chie sings. In true Chie fashion, it's loud. And off-key. And she's loving every minute of it. "o/~ Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Re~i! Happy birthday to you! o/~" * Lazar attempts to sing along. * Victoria tilts her head at Chie. "She's off key. And she got the words wrong. * Chomei sings along, if not grudgingly. * Maria attempts to sing along with Chie, and may even do alright with it. * Chie sticks her tongue out at Victoria. "The words are whatever I want them to be. It's the sprit of the thing that counts!" ( Let's find out! performing arts rolls! ) You summon spirits with that song? * Lazar patpats Rei. "As we say in Transylvania... congratulations on no getting eaten this past year." * Victoria beams. "Cool! Teach me how to do it!" * Chie blinks. "Hey, I never thought of that. That might be a cool idea!" * Rei beams. "Thanks, Lazar." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6) and gets 8. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 4. ( I made it. o_O ) ( That's a no. Maria's vocal moves are lame. ) (I'm failing this stage again. o/~) [They impressively all sing off key. Except Lazar! Lazar sings well!] (This is the part where Chomei is happy that he's mostly deaf. ;p) * Rei doesn't seem to mind, as she's waving that baton with much abandon. Then she tosses it over her shoulder, accidentally thonking Lazar with it, and makes a wish. ( What?) * Maria only gets about half the words right, too. * Rei blows out the candles. It just takes her a couple tries. Wah! * Lazar barely notices, 'cause he's made of stone and all. You blew the candles out! ... Yeah. Well, yeah. That's what you do. Isn't it? You make a wish and then blow the candles out. We don't eat fire. No! Now you're gonna be haunted by jelly monsters ;_; * Rei yelps. "Jelly monsters?" It's okay. I can keep them away! * Chomei chuckles. * Victoria nods. "In seven different flavors, too." You can? Really? Thanks, Chie, you're a lifesaver. * Lazar groans. "No another jelly moose..." Does it include pineapple? How about lime? And grape! * Rei pulls out the candles and sets them aside. I dunno. It's seven different flavors each time. Kinda like ice cream, only jelly and monsters. Right? Oooh, yum! * Chie smirks. [The cake already has a big chunk taken out of it. 'Cause Maria couldn't wait. :P] * Rei blinks at the cake. "Heeeeeey. Did somebody already eat some of this?" * Maria fidgets. ( Hey, it's not a big chunk! It's a dainty chunk. ) Not me. I just drank some strawberry tea. I was very thirsty. Kinda, except they melt you in their mouths. Not in their hands? * Chomei looks at the cake, then up at Maria. "Was it good?" Like M&M's! Speakin' of that tea, Chie, would you mind- Maria! Would I mind Maria? I dunno, Rei, I think she can look out for herself pretty darned well. * Chie winks up at Maria. Uh, no, would you mind pouring some for everybody and Maria, couldn't you wait for everyone else before you decided to try the cake? And didja like it? * Maria chuckles nervously. That I can do. Did you add angst? Er, yeah, it was great! And I'm sorry. Didn't know I wasn't supposed to. * Chie busies herself pouring cups of strawberry tea. * Chie refills her own cup, and Chomei's too. * Rei blinks a couple times, then shrugs. "Okay. Least you didn't eat half of it or something." She grabs a knife and starts cutting cake into even slices, putting them onto paper plates. * Lazar sorta shuffles off to the side. * Rei cuts six slices, then pauses. "Hey, Lazar. You... can't eat anything, right?" He can't? No wonder he's always so grouchy ;_; * Lazar shakes his head at Rei, then glares at Victoria. Um, do you want a piece anyway? * Lazar chuckles. "What I do with it?" * Chie walks over to Lazar and whispers something to him. I dunno. Smell it, smear it on Chomei's face, the usual. * Chomei glares at Rei. "Why my face? Why not the Prof's?" Because you're so much more fun! ... Right. * Rei grabs one of the slices and grins at Chomei. "Maybe I should demonstrate. Want me to? You know you do." * Chomei grabs a slice of cake and starts eating. * Chie grins madly at him. "But you are!" * Lazar patpats Chie, then shrugs. "No thanks. No like hold food, really." * Victoria grabs a slice and eats. * Chie grins up at Lazar, then walks back to table to get some cake. * Rei hands a slice to Maria, then takes another one and puts it next to the eyeball. * Maria eats more cake. n_n * Rei runs back and takes her own slice, munching away. She gets through the third bite before she pauses. "Aww, crap! I knew I forgot something!" [The eyeball startes at it and blinks.] * Lazar looks away from the eyeball. What'd you forget? Eye of Beholder? * Chie stops eating for a second. "What'd you forget, Rei?" The ice cream! ...! Oh. * Rei groans, putting the back of her hand to her head and staggering backwards. "I forgot the ice cream!" * Rei oofs as she runs into the wall. Ice cream! We have no ice cream? Well, it's okay. We'll manage somehow. Fear not! Uhm... I could go swipe some? [The phone rings!] I'll get it! ( And Chie's training finally kicks in. ) (Chie has to make up for the ones she missed.) * Chie dashes for the phone and picks it up. She's gonna make it this time. * Chomei being the lazy ass he is, just sits through it. * Chie balances the cake plate in one hand and the phone in the other. "H'lo?" "I'm sorry, who are you looking for?" * Rei goes back to eating cake, but she looks curiously at Chie. * Maria eats her cake and is happy. * Victoria eats her cake and is... pleased :P * Chomei is munching at cake. :9 "What number were you trying to dial?" * Chie sets the cake plate down and fishes a pen and paper out of her pocket, all the while listening to the guy on the phone. "Okay, and where are you?" * Sonny has joined #besm * Chie writes something down. "Oh, whoops. Sorry. I'm used to answering the phone at my day job. I make deliveries. Sorry about that. Mind slipped for a minute." "No problem. Sorry for the mixup. Hope you find what you're looking for." * Rei finishes her slice. "Who's up for seconds?" * Chie hangs up the phone. She then looks at the piece of paper and grins madly. She walks over to Lazar. "Laz, I've got something for you. Mind steppin out in the hall for a sec?" * Chomei finishes his cake. "Sure. Great stuff by the way." * Lazar blinks, then follows Chie. I am! * Victoria looks around. "Where's the second cake?" * Maria chuckles nervously. "I've already had seconds." * Rei beams. "Gladja like it. Turned out better than I thought." She blinks. "Oh, naw. Another piece of cake, Victoria." * Rei cuts more cake and distributes pieces. * Victoria looks disappointed. "Oh." What, you were gonna eat the whole cake? [While nobody was looking, the cake near the eye vanished.] Sure! * Rei giggles. "Well, we'd better save some for the prof for when he wakes up." She blinks and looks over at the eye. "Hey, he ate it! She. It. Does it have a gender?" I dunno. Aww, darn. Neither do I. That might make naming it kinda difficult, but not really. ( Blinky! ) * Rei takes her second slice and starts eating. (Bl1nky!) (*kills Chomei*) (x_x) ( *pointlaughs at DeadCho* ) (Donate Chomei's body to science, and earn $30 bucks. ) ( Heck with that. Bury it for exp! ) ( You need gold! Because, uh, shineys rock. ) ( Animate it and kill it again. Then you get more exp ) (...) ( Sorry ^^; ) ( Chomei agrees. ) * Rei chews thoughtfully. "What to name it, what to name it. Hrm." How about Joe? * Chomei scratches his head. "Iris?" * Rei giggles. "Iris. I kinda like that one. Joe Iris!" Yeah, okay! * Rei goes over to the eyeball and sits in front of it. "Your name's Joe Iris. That fine with you?" [The eye blinks] * Rei blinks back, then snaps her fingers. "One blink for yes, twice for no." [The eye stares at Rei.] I think that's one blink. I'll rule that as an I Don't Know, so I'll just pick your name then, and it's Joe Iris! Okay! Or maybe it's just You're Insane, but I get that all the time. * Victoria grins. * Chomei chuckles. * Rei finishes eating her cake and sets the empty plate aside. "What's taking Chie and Lazar so long? They're not making out in the hall, are they?" (*whistles*) (Curses, Chie, getting some before I do!) (What about you and Makoto, huh?) (Uh... <.< >.> I plead the fifth.) ( That's upstaged by Chie and Makoto :P ) Should I go look for 'em? * Chie walks back into the room. Look for who? * Chomei looks at Chie. "What was up? " * Lazar follows, holding a piece of paper. * Rei waves at Chie. "Hey! You weren't making out with Lazar, were you? 'Cause if you were, I want details!" * Chie picks up her cake plate and starts to take a bite, then starts choking at Rei's comment. Were they fighting without me? ;_; * Rei grins madly. * Chie thumps herself on the chest a few times, then cracks up. * Lazar lumbers over to Rei, picks her up, and spins her around a bit. * Rei yipes and is spun! ( Uh... The club room's not that big c.c ) * Lazar sets Rei back down. * Chomei finishes his second helping. "So what's up Chie?" * Rei wobbles. "I'll take that as a yes." She falls over. ( Doesn't have to be. =P ) ( Ouch. Poor Rei ) (I'm so put upon. ;_;) * Lazar hrms. "... do people do birthday punches in Japan?" * Chie wipes her eyes a few times, then walks over to Rei and speaks quietly to her. "You know, Rei, you and Makoto have been awfully friendly lately. Maybe I should be asking you about that, hmm?" She winks. ( Isn't it obvious? Chie proposed. ) (I do have the rings, yes!) Huh? Oh, that. Um, he asked me on a date earlier today. * Rei stays on the floor. Dizzy. @_@ * Victoria stands up. "Well, I gotta be going." * Chie squeals and hugs Rei. "Oh, that's so *awesome*! I *knew* you guys were gonna get together! And if you weren't I was gonna get you two together! But it's better that you did it on your own! I'm so *happy* for you!" * Rei looks up. "Awwww. Bye, Victoria. And thanks for Joe Iris!" * Rei is hugged. "Oof!" * Chie waves to Victoria. "Bye, Victoria. Have a safe trip back wherever." * Chomei looks at Victoria. "See ya." Uh huh! I'm glad you liked it. * Victoria smiles and waves to everyone, then heads out. * Chie turns back to Rei. "Details. I must have details! Well, whatever you're comfortable with telling, at least. * Lazar does the Golem Grunt of Noncommital Goodbyes. (I really do need to pick that up in Linguistics. ^_~) Okay okay can you let go I'm losing lung power very... rapidly. Can't breathe! Turning some color other than the color of my skin! * Chie eeps and lets go. "Sorry!" * Rei giggles. * Rei takes her glass of raspberry iced tea and sips. "This is really good. Really really good. You have Rei's Stamp of A-Proval." * Chomei scratches his head. "How'd you be able to tell?" Yay! Except I didn't make it. But I do have the recipe, if you want it. Really? Honest? That's great! I'd trade you recipies, if you wanna know how to make the cake or something. Sure! We can swap recipes and talk girl stuff! It'll be fun! * Chie giggles. * Maria has no recipes to trade. Lament! I sound so silly, don't I? * Rei grins. "Niftiness." She turns to Maria. "You want in? For girl stuff, I mean." But I'm having fun. * Lazar steps over to Rei. "Could you do Lazar favor, little one? Have phone number, need address..." * Chie looks at Maria. "Yeah. No recipes required, honest." Lazar and Chomei and Makoto can go bond with their maleness. Eh? Oh, sure! * Chomei leans back. "You know what they're talking about Lazar?" * Rei blinks and turns to Lazar. "Oh, you want me to trace?" * Chie looks at Chomei, then at Lazar, then cracks up. Need address, yes. Oh, my. Male bonding. *snicker* * Lazar hands Rei the paper with the phone number. * Rei takes and looks, then drags out BOX. She opens her trusty computer and gets to work. ["Hiiiiiii!"] * Chie gets a mental image of Lazar carrying a very drunk Chomei and Makoto home. ( ... ... ... *WHAP* Ow! ... ... ) * Rei ignores that. Kirby's not so bad once you get used to it. "What do ya need it for, if ya don't mind me askin'?" ( I feel so much closer to you all now. We hug! ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-2) and gets 1. * Rei takes the paper and flips it to the other side, then jots something down on it. She hands it back to Lazar. "Here ya go!" Is address of Kabbalist. *takes the paper* Kabbalist? * Maria blinks. "Kabbalist?" A guy who's gonna make Lazar a full golem. Jewish mysticist. Only one that can carve runes into golem. Ooh. That's great! I think it's great. Your soul will stay intact if it happens, right? Ah. ...so you're gonna get a tatoo? Runes serve as channel for might of God into golem. More runes, more power... * Lazar shrugs at Rei. "No know. Never been golem with soul before, or one with too few runes." *turns to Maria; pulls a hammer and chisel out of the pouch at his side* No, use these. Weird. It's not a tattoo, Maria. If tattoos made somebody a golem, I'd have been one years ago. * Maria blinks. "Doesn't that hu... no, nevermind." ( Chie turns into a golem when she says that! ) ( *grunts*) ( See? They were made for each other. ) (*facepalm*) * Rei frowns a little at that. "Well, I dunno if it's such a good idea for you to go through with it, I mean, if you don't know what's gonna happen to you." I say it's up to him. Personally, I think it's risky at best, but if he's willing to risk it. Well, is there any other way for him to find out? * Lazar shrugs. "No have choice. Need power of full golem to deal with bad things we facing. Plus, need to be full golem to complete task that I created for." Oh? What' What's that? * Chie looks at Lazar and smiles, perhaps a bit sadly. * Maria frowns. * Chie doesn't really have much to say, since she talked about this with Lazar earlier. * Lazar furrows his brow. "Entire village slaughtered. I last one alive, except for gypsy magess. She transfer soul into incomplete golem, animate it. My job to avenge." Gypsy? * Chomei frowns. "That is some total suckage man." Oh. Um, if that's your job, what're you doin' here? No offense or anything, 'cause I'm really glad I met you, but... * Chie blinks, and really does look sad now. But not surprised. ( Easiest way to find badguys: Join MC :P ) * Lazar shrugs. "All Kabbalists in Transylvania dead. Gypsy told me to find Peter before she died, said he might be able to help find other Kabbalist." So I walked to Japan, and here I is. I see. That... really sucks, Lazar. We'll do what we can to help. ...and we finally found them. * Maria nods in agreement with Rei's statement. * Chomei nods. "Who slaughtered your village?" * Chie nods at Rei's comment. "Yeah. We will. Whatever we can." * Lazar eyes Chomei. "If knew that, would not be standing here. Was horde of demons and undead, but no know who sent by." And thank you. Help is appreciated. Hmm... yeah. Sorry for bringing it up then. * Lazar nods, looking kinda... blank, for lack of a better term. Hey, it's the least we can do, right? Well, not really least, but it's something we can do and you're our friend or at least friendly acquaintance and it's the right thing, more or less, so we've got to! Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, I guess so. * Maria tries to make sense of that, then shrugs. "Well, yeah. How could we not help a friend?" * Lazar nods. D'you... um... can any of us come with you when you go see the Kabbalists? Or is that not allowed? 'Cause it helps when you have a friend along when you go and do... stuff. Like this. I think. Is probably best I go alone. Kabbalists often... odd people. * Maria frowns, and then nodnods, assuming Chie to be right on this. Okay. Not that odd people would bother me, but I'll go with your decision. ( Got that right *plots* ) Odd people? I don't know many of those! Everyone I know's perfectly normal. * Maria giggles. Like us! We're very normal! They invented the word normal to describe us! ... Right. * Rei turns to the eyele. "Innit that right, Joe?" You named it Joe? Yeah! Joe Iris! * Chie grins. "That's kinda cute, actually." * Rei nodnods. "See, Victoria said I should name it Joe, and Chomei said I should name it Iris, and Joe Iris is two perfect parts of a perfect whole of an eye!" * Maria snickers. * Rei finishes her glass of iced tea, then hops to her feet and goes to look at the staff again. * Chie frowns. "Don't touch that thing, Rei. We don't know where it's been." But Lazar already did. I wonder who sent it, anyway. I don't usually get funky staves for my birthday, honest. * Chomei takes a look at it. "Yeah, but knowing your family..." You absolutely sure? * Rei thinks for a moment. "Well, there was that one time... nah, I'm sure." She grins. ( The cake is made by Rei? It must be poison. ) (Hey! ;_;) * Chie walks up and concentrates on the staff, making sure there's no spirit attached to it or something. (Nah, it's just got radioactive coloring in it. Like her outfits) Meh. 'S not even shiny. (Ah, so we can distract Maria with shiny things! Why did I not know this when we were fighting over Chomei? ;p) ( No, the shiny things have to be expensive. ;) ) (You didn't know? You were fighting?) (I have expensive shiny things. ;p I'll trade you this necklace for Chomei. Done.) ( Today's session of Mystery Club was brought to you by the letter "e", the punctuation mark left parenthesis, and the punctuation mark right parenthesis. ) ( *dresses Brett like Big Bird* ) * Chie shrugs. "Don't feel anything, but doesn't necessarily mean it's not cursed or something. Just that there's no spirits attached to it." Well, yeah. * Rei tugs at the bow, trying to undo it. "Maybe there's a tag or something in here. I dunno why somebody'd send a present without letting me know who sent it." * Chie frowns. "How safe to you think it would be to just leave it here?" Who knows. [Rei unties the bow.] I mean, nobody comes in here but us, right? And the prof probably has keys or something. [It is now a staff without a bow tied to it.] (It looks much less pretty now. ;_;) * Rei looks at the bow, and then the staff. "Aww, I guess not." Well, I dunno. I could take it home. It's not like I ever really sleep anyway, and Joe could keep an eye on it. No pun intended really, please don't hurt me. * Maria smirks. I could just stash it somewhere, if you wnt. * Chomei cracks his knuckles. "Would we do that?" We do not hurt for puns. But I don't like the idea of you carrying that thing around, Rei. * Chomei looks at it suspiciously. "Yeah, I say we leave it up here. Better to be safe than sorry, right?" * Chie turns to Lazar. "Laz? What do you think?" * Rei considers, then nods. "I guess that's about right, yeah." She ties the bow back on, 'cause the staff looks prettier with it. Leave here. Maybe Peter can look at it later, or early tomorrow. * Maria nods. Or when he wakes up, 'cause I'm gonna need a ride home. I could take... oh, yeah. You've got lots of stuff to carry. Yeah! And Joe Iris, which'd look awfully funny coming down the street. People might even stare at him more than me! * Chie chuckles. "And we can't have that." * Maria giggles. Just make sure he doesn't drip on the seats. Blood's hard to get out. Think we should put down newspapers? Just use a bowl with some newspapers, right? [Speaking of which, the eye sheds another tear, and the first bowl is awfully full.] Yeah, probably. Just in case the van jostles or something. * Rei looks down at the bowl. "Uh... gimme a sec." She grabs it and scoots out to the bathroom. Should prolly empty the bowl out, too. * Chie eyes the eye and puts an empty cup underneath it. Where do you suppose we dispose of blood? It's not something you really want to dump down the drain, is it? Maybe you could donate it. * Rei returns, bowl empty and cleaned. "Yeah, but we'd need to test to see what blood type Joe is." She moves the cup and puts the bowl back down. YEah, I guess so. (Hm. I realize that we are playing an anime-style game and I haven't determined my character's blood type yet. ;p) And then they'd ask where I got the blood and that would be kinda messy, y'know? ( Does it matter? :P ) (Likewise.) ( And I look at MC more like a console RPG, personally. ) It was just a joke, relax. (Well, in anime and manga and such they're always giving the character's blood type. RPGs, too, actually.) * Rei blinks. "I'm not relaxed. Am I relaxed? I think I'm relaxed. It's my birthday and the clubroom hasn't blown up, which is a definite plus, and I got a lot of really cool presents." And we had fun celebrating. We'll have to do this again. Who's got the next birthday? * Maria grins. Dunno. It's not me. Mine was in April. * Rei grins. "Makoto, I think." Yeah? When's his? The twenty-second! * Chie blinks. "Of this month?" Sure is! Wow. I'm gonna have to start working on his present, then. * Maria giggles. "Woo! I'll need to swipe something for him, too." * Chomei scratches his head. "Man, I really don't know what to get him." Well, see, that's why you need to bond with him in that guy way, so then you can find out what he likes! * Chie grins. "I have something perfect in mind for him, I do. Have something in mind for all you, actually." She looks at Chomei. "Well, most of you, at least." * Lazar hrms. * Chomei looks back at Chie. "Am I that mysterious?" ( Get him a foot demon! ) (Victoria can get him a foot demon. ^_~) ( It's much more useful than an eye. It kicks people who annoy you. ) (But it's not as cute.) * Chie looks at him. "Yes, Chomei. You're a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an enigma. People stare at you as you walk down the street and go, "Who *is* that mysterious person?" You are the international man of mystery. Either that, or I just can't think of anything yet." * Chie grins. * Maria giggles. * Chomei chuckles. "Yeah, that must be it." He smirks. Of course, you could always drop hints. Although I'm not sure how good you are with hints. * Chie smiles innocently. Probably like a sledgehammer through a barrel full of french fried cheezits. * Maria grins. "Prolly not very." (Or tries to. And probably fails.) Yeah, clues... right. All this could be a non-issue, though, because for all I know your birthday could have been the day before you met us all. In which case, I have a whole year to come up with something. Which is fine by me. Gives me time to plan... * Chie grins madly. Plan eeeeevilly, you mean. Is there any other way to plan? * Maria giggles. "Evil!" * Chie grins. No, no. EEEEEEEEVIL! See? I didn't think so. Ooooh. EEEEEEEEVIL? * Chie grins and looks at Chomei from the corner of her eye. "Of course, you could just not tell me at all. Which is fine. Then, one day, when you least expect it..." * Chie rubs her hands together. Yeah! Now you're getting the hang of it, Maria! And that goes for all of you whose dates of birth I do not know. You could just be walking into the room one night, not suspecting a thing, and then- BAM! Present for you! * Rei cackles. [Session End]