[Day: Tuesday, June 21st. Time: 7:00 a.m.] [Chie's still dyin' and the rest of you are still trying to save her. Lazar and Chomei completed their mission in time, but Rei, Maria and Makoto were running late. Still, you all made it back to the office, as did Shig and Eoi. Now you just await the arrival of the ingredient harvested by the clan of supernatural fighters. Fun!] [Start doing stuff] * Chie is still lying there. Very pale. Her breathing has gotten shallow and raspy now. [Rei and Maria got the nightshade, at the expense of having been hit multiple times by pies (don't ask) and somehow losing Makoto again.] * Maria enters! Beware of thieves bearing nightshade. * Lazar looks a little bit better'n Chie, but not by too much. There are still rather large chunks missing all over his body, and a large portion of one of shoulders now seems to be missing. * Lazar is, rather obviously, in his golem form, and slumped down against a wall. * Chomei paces back and forth. He looks just as frazzled as always, but doesn't look like he took any hits or anything. "What else do we need?" * Rei proudly enters, too! She smells rather like pie. Most of it's cleaned off, really. * Chomei turns to Maria and Rei. "You got the Nightshade. Right?" * Lazar looks up at Maria and Rei wearily. "Looks like you get what need. Both okay?" Right here. Warning, keep away from small children. Yeah, we got it. It was kinda messy, though. Pieful. Uh, I think all my me-parts here here. * Rei looks down at herself, then around to check her tail. "Yeah! All here!" * Lazar nods. "Is good. Where Makoto?" * Chomei nods and goes back to pacing. "He probably ran off somewhere..." More like wandered, but yeah. Well, he kinda went off to do something, I think, but then didn't come back. I'm sure he'll be back in time for whatever we need to do if something needs doing, because he always is, because he's like that. * Rei nods. Maybe he go see movie with Peter. If he did... *trails off* * Maria hands the nightshade to Shigster and has a seat on the cieling. * Lazar looks up at Maria. "Is you no ever worried you slip and fall on head?" * Shigeru takes it, glancing at Eoi, and puts it on the desk. He hasn't said a word this entire time, and doesn't look to start now. * Eoi is being unnaturally quiet as well. He watches Shigeru with a grim expression on his face. * Maria blinks at Lazar. "Eh? Nah, I usually land on my feet. ...er, so, we can help Chie now, right?" * Chomei looks over to Shigeru, a serious look on his face. "What else do we need?" A number of things. Most have been taken care of. There's another team trying to get the last piece. Okay. What's the last piece? What is the last thing we need? Really hope they no get into trouble. No feel like I can deal with more getting hit right now. * Rei yawns. * Lazar chuckles. "No can throw good punch with half of shoulder missing." That'd make it tough, yeah. What happened? Fuckin' thing was a trickster... Who liked throwing large boulders and pillars. Oh. Gave you the runaround, then. Boulders no really problem. Annoying, but no really hurt. Finally caught it. Got in bearhug, squeezed while Chomei shot it. Bit it bit chunk out of shoulder while I holding it. ... did kind of hurt when dropped whole bunch of boulders and bury me. Stupid rocks no could take me on own, so ganged up. (That's awesome, Jesse.) Cheaters. They got what was comming to them. * Lazar holds up what kind of looks like a goat's leg. Still dripping from where it was torn off. "Got what needed, though." Eew! I'm not cleaning that up! [It smells pretty disgusting] And I'm not spraying this room with air freshener, either! Or even banana freshener! (Yuck. You couldn't have found an industrial-size Ziploc for it? ;p) * Chomei isn't offended by it in the least. He looks over at Shigeru and Eoi. "You can take care of this, right?" ( Yeah, I keep the ziploc bags in my non-existant pockets. =P ) * Eoi looks over at Shigbo McShigpants. Sorry. No can smell, so no knew it smelled bad. * Maria makes a face. "Ew. Couldn't you at least shake it dry before bringing it in here?" * Shigeru looks back at Eoi, then turns to Chomei. "You mean of the mess on the floor?" That and the leg. Unless Eoi wants to clean up the mess, I think you two are on your own. My Naginata lacks a mop attachment. Sorry kiddos. * Chomei shrugs. "No point in cleaning it until we take care of the leg, though." * Lazar shrugs, and sticks the leg into one of the large gaps in his chest. "Better?" ( ...and now I'm really scared to see your apartment, Chomei.) * Chomei shakes his head. (What? That pizza was good... A few weeks ago.) * Rei looks pretty... disgusted, actually. She turns away. * Shigeru facepalms. "No. Not better." (And what is *with* Lazar and sticking things into himself? It's disturbing! ;P) Lazar, you're disgusting people. You got a kiddie pool or something we could put this in? [Ye ol' phone, she rings!] (Eoi! Get to the phone!) * Eoi grabs the phone out of habit. * Maria watches Eoi get the phone. Yello? * Chomei glances as Eoi picks up the phone. ... what? People no want it drip on floor, so I make sure it no drip on floor. * Lazar looks down. "... oh. I stick bloody severed leg into chest. Okay, that disgusting." That is always good to hear. What's up now? * Lazar takes the leg out, and justs puts it to the side of him, where his rather large frame blocks it from view. ... Yeah Lazar. That is disgusting. * Maria shakes her head. "Er, you guys mind if I go get some air?" Yeah, sure. Go ahead. * Maria heads out the door. Or window. Whichever's more convenient. (Wall.) * Rei blinks. "Whatcha gettin' it for? Hey, don't hog it all!" She hurries after her. That's my air, too! Is not! I stole it first! * Maria dashes! ... Right. Gotcha. Clan rep, in trouble, at this old supply depo. Anything else? * Lazar looks over at Shig. "Just so know... I no forget what you said about information about Transylvania. When this over, we talk." S'long then. * Eoi hangs up. So, what was that about? Okay. The clan rep that was supposed to meet us in Shanghai got shanghaied. Looks like they want us to rescue her. * Shigeru nods. "Of course." He looks at Eoi and blinks. "Who are we rescuing?" * Chomei curses a variety of swears. Didn't get a name. A description? Of course not. That would make things easy. ... You didn't ask, I noticed. * Eoi looks with distaste at the phone. "Didn't even ask about the Naginata and kids first. So impolite." [Unbeknowst to Chomei, a ninja copies down every swear he makes and later uses them for a swear-word thesaurus, a popular book that earns him millions, none of which he has to share with Chomei.] .. Well, point. But ya figure they'd give that information if they had it. * Chomei doesn't care. Because that ninja could probably have listened to Makoto from KS and gotten more. * Lazar bangs his head back against the wall. Gently. * Shigeru sighs. "Return phone number? How about where she needs rescuing?" Eoi, get on that phone and get some *real* information. Oh, we got that. She's at a supply depot at (GM: INSERT LOCATION HERE) You really want me to ask for info? ... A supply depot? * Shigeru looks more annoyed by the moment. "Right. Ask on the way." He opens a drawer, pulls out a cell phone, and tosses it to Eoi before standing. "Let's go." * Chomei nods. "Com'on Lazar. We got a job to do. Again." * Shigeru thinks to Maria and Rei, ~We have a rescue mission to perform. Back into the office.~ * Lazar pulls himself up. "I getting too old for this..." * Maria shows up. "No, you're just getting too worn. " * Rei pokes her head upside down through the window. "Like a rock tumbler. Oop!" she cries as she loses her grip and falls slightly before she floats through. [There's a knock on the door. A rapid one.] * Maria gets the door! * Chomei doesn't notice any door knockage. ( Gimme hearing checks, +2 penalty (though it's actually a bonus; you'll see) ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 10. 2d6+2 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+2) and gets 12. * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Shigeru (2d6+2) and gets 8. 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6+5) and gets 10. [You all get a splitting headache as a combination of trumpet and bagpipes blares into the room. An extravagantly-dressed beautiful blond with a snobbish grin struts into the room with her hands on her hips and surveys the area critically. Roy and Marco march in behind Francine, playing the instruments.] (*cracks up*) ... Right. * Maria covers her ears. "AAAAAA! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!?" * Francine laughes even LOUDER than the music. * Lazar stomps over to Francine, and LOOMS, waving the goat leg. "BE QUIET." * Francine holds her nose closed with one hand and waves the other in front of her face. "Eww. How revolting." Meanwhile, Roy and Marco finish their intro. * Rei slaps her hands over her ears. * Chomei eyes the trio. * Shigeru looks *really* annoyed now. * Maria glances around. "What kind of monster was *that*? Did someone kill it? Please tell me someone killed it?" That can be arranged. * Lazar continues LOOMING. Why? Because he's in a bad mood. =P * Francine maintains her snobbish look regardless. "No worries, I, the great Francine Jameson III have arrived!" No autographs, please. * Francine laughs again. Wonderful. Is there a reason you've come to this department? We have a job to do right now. And why would this make us stop worrying? * Lazar notices his LOOM is not having its desired effect, sighs, and goes back to sitting down against the wall. (Awww. The LOOM failed.) ( He failed his Loom check. ) ( It worked on her last time. ;_; ) ( Probably less effective because he looks like he's had the crap kicked outta him. =P ) * Chomei eyes Francine. "I think someone has a death wish today." I, Francine Jameson, have succeeded against all odds to bring forth the most holy sacred..., um, whatever that weed is... to this place, as per the begging man's request. ...eh? ( Maria's really Canadian! GASP! ) ... Right. * Shigeru raises an eyebrow. "Begging man?" Roy clarifies: "What milady means is we've brought the herb that was requested." So, tell me. Were you sidetracked in a supply depot any time recently? I see no reason to purchase common commodities. I came well prepared as always. * Maria facepalms. Eoi, do you have the return phone number? Tell me you have it. ... so we need go save someone or no? Err.. Nope. We can try (Futristicversionof*69) I guess. * Rei yawns sleepily. (Hee. Futuristicversionof*69. I love it. ^_^) Do that and find out if we were supposed to rescue a Francine Jameson. Ha! As if *I* would need a rescue. * Eoi does so! Futuristicversionof*69, what would we do without you? * Eoi quickly tosses the phone to Shigeru! * Shigeru catches it and puts it to his ear. * Eoi makes "Talk talk!" motions at Shigeru. You're better at all this administrative stuff then I am. * Shigeru rolls his eyes. "Hello?" * Shigeru lets out a sigh, switching to Chinese. "" * Shigeru pauses. "" They're all in awe of my glamour. * Francine laughs annoyingly. * Rei winces. "We're all tired and annoyed! Shut up!" * Chomei eyes Francine. "Shut the fuck up. Now." * Eoi ponders bonking Francine on the back of her head with his Naginata. My, aren't we vulgar? (Go, Eoi!) * Shigeru hangs up. "Damnit. Let's go." He looks at Francine and Company. "If you're willing to help further than the delivering you just did, you're welcome to come with us. I won't guarantee your safety, however." I've not the time to go skipping around the country. And I hardly need you to guarentee my safety. Fine. Not our fault if you die. (...yeah, go help some random person while I lie dying on the floor. See if I care. ;p) (Actually, I'm sure they need time to make my remedy. ^_~) (Actually, we're helping random person so we can help you.) (So shaddup!) (...yessir. ^^;) * Lazar gets up, grabs the bagpipe from whichever of the flunkies is holding it, STOMPS IT DEAD, then looks back at the others. "Now we can go." [Marco looks down at his ruined bagpipe. "... So that's how you do it."] * Shigeru looks pointedly at Francine. "If you haven't come here for any other reason than delivery, please be on your way. This is a private office." Yeah, what Shiggy said. I have more business to attend to. * Chomei nods. He looks back at Chie and mumbles something to himself. "We ready to go?" I guess. * Lazar patpats Fraincine. On the head. With the hand that was holding the goat leg. "You do that, little one. Thank you for delivery." * Francine shrieks and immediately starts fixing her hair. "Well, I never!" * Rei woozes. "Huh? Oh." She checks on Chie. Francine? Out the door. Now. We don't have the time. Should no someone watch Chie? (Hey, I'm not goin' anywhere. ;p) Eh? Uhm, I suppose I could stick around if we need someone to watch her? ( Unless one of our 50 billion enemies decides to pop by. =P ) Nah. I'll look after her... They'll need you there to get by any security. * Maria nods. "Alright." * Rei blinks a few times. "Are you sure I shouldn't stay? I'm kinda... useless in a fight, actually. Really useless. And I'm tired. Actually, maybe someone should watch after me, too... who cares." [It's over!]