[Day: Tuesday, June 21st. Time: 11:30 a.m.] [You're in the lobby of Kanghua Enterprises. Some medic is tending to Chomei and Chie while Eoi, Rei and Makoto go off in an ambulence with Shigeru, who, after getting a cracked skull thanks to Lazar and probably losing his ability to have children thanks to Maria, clearly recieved the brunt of the pain. There's a bunch of Interpol troops around, arresting the guilty employees and also dealing with a bunch of the people who knew nothing about what was happpening.] [Francine is telling a bunch of people who probably don't actually care about her great victory, with Roy and Marco being as helpful as normally. Naomi's talking to some guy, who might be Sum Gai, but you don't know because you've never met him. And Kaira is... you're not sure where.] [And I think that's everything you need to know, sooooo....] [Session Start!] [Chie wakes up feeling tired. Chomei wakes up feeling tired. And in great pain.] [And yes, Maria's not a goo-head anymore.] [She's at least a jello-head by now. :P] * Chie wakes up. "Mmmmmmmhhhh... what happened?" * Chomei gets up, then leans back on whatever's back there. If there's nothing back there, he lies down on the bed. "Owwwww... Did someone get the number of that bus?" * Lazar is kneeling near Chie, Chomei, and Maria, looking concerned. "We win, of course." That's good... Chomei? * Maria has been awake, but is keeping her eyes closed. "Remind me to stay far, far away from Mr. Uuu... ooo... Rei's dad. From now on." * Chomei looks around. Presumably he can see. "Yeah? What... happened?" He winces. Rei's dad did something to you, and you charged him, and then he blasted you into a wall. * Chomei rubs the back of his head. "That would explain the pain." * Chie sits up and looks at the others. "What happened to Mr. Ueda? Did we break Ambition's hold on him?" * Chomei blinks and leans up. "Well, if Mr. Ueda's safe... How are you feeling, Chie? And has anyone seen Rownal?" Dunno. He's not trying to kill us anymore, tho. That's good. Reidad start going through team like golem through paper wall. Chomei knocked into wall, Chie fall down, Maria brains turned to lime jello, Rei having nervous breakdown. And I staring at Reidad, who no like golem very much, holding stupid cursed sword what beat crap out of me no long ago. So I grab Reidad, keep him from swinging stupid cursed sword. Makoto hit in head with yoyo, but that just make Reidad mad. He say something about making Makoto have no life on planet. * Chie looks over at Chomei. "I'm okay, just really tired. And, yeah. Did anyone pick up our stuff?" She then stops and blinks at Lazar. "...damn. We're lucky we're still alive." Eh? Makoto's okay, right? * Lazar shrugs. "No know what that mean, but it no sound good, and Rei start to panic, so it *really* no good. Rei try hit dad in man parts, but miss. Maria no miss, though." * Chomei holds his head. "Yeah. Where is he?" I get to that. * Chie starts to scoot over towards where Chomei is, still listening to Lazar. After that... basically, I repeatedly headbutt Reidad in back of head while Maria hit him, try to knock out or break concentration before he do whatever he want do to Makoto. 'Man parts'? ...ow. Meanwhile, Makoto knock stupid cursed sword what never go away out of Reidad's hand, and Rei kick away. Is good. Oh. So, are we gonna... I dunno, put the sword under something really heavy? So nobody can get it? Again. I trying to knock out Reidad with headbutts without hurting too bad, but he no going to sleep fast enough. He about to do bad things to Makoto when Oy show up, do funny glowy thingee what help with being posessed. * Chomei notices Chie scooting over to him, but doesn't try to meet her half way. Something about lotsa pain. Eoi-sensei? He's alive? ( ...Oy. HA. ) * Lazar nods. "He okay. Think he just knocked out before." * Chie finishes making her way over to Chomei. "Here. C'n lean on me if you want." She smiles at him, then turns her attention back to Lazar. "Well. That's at least *some* good news." * Chomei leans. "Remind me not to piss Mr. Ueda off again." Oy manage to break Reidad concentration, give me time to headbutt more, knock out Reidad. He no hurt too bad, I think, but headbutts from golem hurt no matter how much I try. So Rei, Makoto, and Oy go with Reidad to hospital, leave me to watch rest of you. Not while he's got a sword. I hate swords. * Chie adjusts her position so Chomei can lean against her more comfortably. "So Mr. Ueda's free of Ambition. And we're okay. And, Maria, I think you should know that I'm seriously considering switching to a naginata." * Lazar mutters. "If have to, I get sword into big safe, and CARRY to deepest part of ocean. I understand sword cursed, but this getting silly." * Maria nods. Yeah. We can't keep letting this go on. What if it goes after Rei next? Or one of us? * Chomei nods. "Maybe you can drop it into the Marianas Trench.” ( You'll get attacked by a possessed fish! ) So yeah. No think Reidad hurt too bad, so that good. I somehow manage to no get chopped into little golem bits, which odd since I go into fight feeling like I just lose battle to steamroller. Take a shovel, too. Bury it somewhere. ( Fish not a problem. Can't weild weapons. ) I think there should be some concrete involved, too. For burying the sword. And I'm glad you didn't get hurt worse, Laz. * Chomei winces. "I was feeling just fine going into it, and look at me. I think I hurt in places I didn't know I had." ^^; ( It'll be a telekinetic fish :P ) Is good to see you all mostly okay... * Lazar grins. "Maybe I give you all honorary stone skin. Sure no act like little squishy ones." * Chie half-smiles. "We try." Better yet, let's make this thing part of some monument's foundation, or something. Encase it in ten or twenty feet of concrete. Maybe coat it in layers of lead or tin foil or whatever blocks posession. Wards. Lots of wards. Or give me big rock, let me hit repeatedly. I break sword, no more posession. ...*can* it break? Yeah. Can it be destroyed? Because I think if it could, Eoi- sensei and Mr. Ueda would've done it years ago. ... good point. * Lazar shrugs. "We figure something out." I haven't taken a shot at trying to break it. But I bet if they could, they would have. * Chie looks at Chomei. "You aren't going anywhere near that thing." Yeah. Maybe we send it out on a rocket. And hope aliens don't find it. * Lazar eyes Chie. "By the way, you need stop getting knocked out in battle, little one. Is bad habit." *grins* * Chie grins back. "I know, Laz, I know. I'm workin' on it. But I seem to have this streak goin' now." * Lazar turns to Maria. "And you... what I say about no splitting up? You could have been very much hurt... even more than are." Hey, I thought it'd be a piece of cake. I mean, he wouldn't have seen me if he weren't psychic. Really. Talk about unfair. But he is. Yeah. He... what did he *do* to you, Chomei? Before he blasted you into the wall, I mean. You... just charged him. He made 'im stupid. Er. * Lazar shakes his head. "That why splitting up always bad. *Always* run into person what can see invisible, hear what no should hear... I know you sneaky one, and that good, but we see what happen to Rei when she do split up thing. And what happen to you here. Is no good." * Maria sulks. What point of having big stone guy what can hide behind if no use him? I... don't know. I really don't remember anything from that, except I was trash-talking him and then I'm here. With a sudden urge to rest. * Chie shakes her head and grins. "You were trash-talking an incredibly powerful psychic." * Chomei smirks. "You expect something else?" * Lazar shuffles over to Maria and patpats. "No be sad. You just doing what you do good. And that good. But I no like seeing little ones hurt. If going try be sneaky, at least wait until no sneaky ones in position to help if find problem, right?" * Chie laughs. "No, not really." * Maria nods. "Yeah, I know, I know." * Chie looks over at Lazar and Maria. "And, hey, you guys did a good job taking care of the scientists and whatnot. I mean, here I thought we were gonna have to come charging in on a rescue mission, and you were already good to go." She grins. That way, if find big drooling slobbery thing what want eat cute sneaky girl, can call rest of us to keep you from be dinner, no? * Maria nods. "Yeah, yeah." She gives Chie a thumbs-up. Scientists are easy. They're not psychic! * Chie gives Maria a thumbs-up in return. * Lazar nodnods. "Maria even come up with escape plan. Have golem hide behind door, pin guards to wall with door when they step into room. * Chomei smiles and looks around the room. I *like* that kind of plan! Nice job. * Maria does a v-for-victoly. ^_^_v * Chie ponders. "I really do hope Rei's dad's okay. And not possessed anymore." Yeah. 'Specially not possessed. So, in end, all work out, it look like. We all get crap kicked out of us, but no injury what look too serious. Oy okay, Makoto brains no leak out ears, break up secret evil lab, stop stupid cursed sword what no know when to quit... If Eoi-sensei's there with him, though, I think he'll be all right. * Chomei blinks and leans up on his own. He puts his hand out and gestures with it to try and summon Rownal. Chomei? What's wrong? I just hope it's still there... Eh? Oh, Rownal? Uh, you *did* drop it. Did somebody pick it up? Can somebody pick it up if they're not you? I... don't know. Nobody else has ever really picked it up before. Never dropped it. For that matter, where's my sword? And the rest of my stuff? * Chomei holds his head again. "I need to get some rest, but I also need to get Rownal back." * Lazar hrms. He was concious. Where's everyone's stuff? ( Probably still there ) * Chomei sighs. "We're gonna need to get our stuff back. I don't want to find out what happens if someone else messes with Rownal..." Isn't it linked to you, though? * Lazar gets up, walks over to a group of Interpol agents near a table, and returns with everyone's stuff, including Chie's sword and Rownal. "It all here, I think." Aha! Thanks, Laz! * Chie takes her sword and bag. * Chomei blinks. "Well, that answers that question." He puts his left hand over Rownal, having it dissapear into his hand. "Linked... yeah, you could say that." * Lazar stage-whispers to Chomei. "Interpol guys say they give back book with girls what have no clothes what fall out of you pocket in few minutes." * Chie watches Rownal disappear. "I've always wondered how that works-" She looks at Lazar and cracks up. ... Lazar, if you're trying to be funny, you're doing a horrible job. * Maria eyes Chomei. Anyways, Makoto would be the one with something like that. * Lazar whistles. Which is really rather odd, coming from a golem. * Chomei gets back on the bed and leans back. He could've planted it on you, Chomei. Or he could just be 'pulling my leg'. * Chomei eyes Lazar. "And don't you try it." Who, Lazar? Wouldn't that hurt? * Lazar stops in mid-leg-reach. "Who? Me?" * Chie keeps laughing, then wipes at her eyes. "Ehh. I really should take my contacts out. I seem to have this problem with falling unconscious with them still in." * Chomei looks at Chie. "You wear contacts?" * Lazar starts to stay something, then pauses, turns around, and lumbers over to Naomi. ( Duh?) * Chie blinks at him with bright blue-green eyes. "Yep! You didn't think these were natural, did you?" * Naomi is speaking with some guy, who might be Sum Gai! * Chomei smiles softly. "You could have been lucky." ~_^ * Maria blinks at Chie. "Oh. You too, huh?" * Chie smiles back at him. "Well, here, hang on a sec." She moves off into the corner for a second, but then turns and looks at Maria. "Yeah. So you have 'em?" * Lazar finishes with the lumbering! "Hello, Naomi. Please tell me you keeping stupid cursed sword what keep showing up no matter how many times we get Interpol to lock in safe place in very, VERY safe place..." * Naomi turns to Lazar. "No? I thought you guys took care of it." ... * Lazar RUNS back to the room where the fight was. * Chie pulls something out of her bag, then works at removing her contacts. "Are yours cosmetic, or are you nearsighted? I'm 20/30 or so, so I could get away without havin' em, but they help-" She stops when Lazar RUNS out. "Uh. That can't be good." * Maria nods at Chie, suddenly seeming sheepish. "Er, yeah. Normal eyes are weird." ... Oh dear. (...deja vu. What the hell?) * Chie turns back to Maria. "I figured that if I was gonna get 'em, I'd get interesting ones. So. Colored contacts. And, uh, why did Lazar run out of here, Naomi?" (Brett, explain why I'm getting deja vu from YOUR GAME.) (You're a character in it, Cham.) ( Probably 'cause you watched this before :P ) (Augh, we're stuck in Cham's flashback!) * Chomei leans back and closes his eyes. "Speaking of aids, I should get a hearing aid sometime soon..." (...did this happen before? o_O) I think I can guess. * Lazar curses as he runs. "Why people in Japan and China so bad at dealing with cursed swords?!" ( Not this in particular, no :P ) (Maybe I should apply for that open slot as me. >_<) * Chie looks at Chomei briefly. A-ha. Suspicion confirmed. She then blinks her *brown* eyes at Naomi. "...Ambition." (You should!) (Go for it!) ...Ambition. Shit. * Maria RUNS for the room where the fight took place. And she's a hell of a lot faster than Lazar. * Chomei holds his head. "... Right. I'm getting a headache just thinking about it." * Chie can't run. She's too tired. So she settles for going back and sitting next to Chomei. "Thought your head hurt already." [Maria and Lazar arrive at the same time to find an empty room. I don't think I need to start a new channel, do I?] ( Nope! ) ( No. ) ...shit! No sword! Where sword! Do NOT tell me it grew legs and ran off! ... oh, Rei father so going to kill me for this. (Don't look at me! I was unconscious!) Shitshitshit. SHIT. * Maria glances around and searches the room thoroughly. (Oh, yes he is. ^_^ The Ueda clan *loves* you, Lazar!) [Maria finds no-thing!] * Lazar adds several lovely holes to the decor of the walls in the room. * Lazar holds his head in his hands. "I no want to face stupid cursed sword what chop through golem like cursed sword through golem again..." It's not here. Which means it's somewhere else. We don't want it somewhere else. Did Eoi take it? * Maria RUNS back to Naomi. * Naomi is still there! (... If Eoi took it, oh SHIT.) * Chie looks up as Maria runs back in. "You find it?" * Lazar is about to answer Maria when she zips away. Sighing, he starts lumbering back to the group, cursing loudly in Japanese, Hungarian, Yiddish, Hebrew, and a couple of languages he didn't even know he knew as he walks back. ( So Maria, Chie, and Chomei walk into a bar... ) ( Ow!) (Ouch!) (And said "ow-" Damnit!) ( The advantages to being short.) (And ha! ;p) (Curses!) * Maria gets back to Naomi. "Who took the sword?" I thought you guys did. ( I DID. ) * Chie blinks. "Is there an evil cursed sword here?" (Eoi did. Then Chelsea will take it...) ...Oh, shit. More shit. Kaira was here. Where's Kaira? Tell me she didn't take it. ( Eoi would be immune, because it's not a Naginata. ) * Chomei stays lying/leaning against whatever is there to lie/lean against. ( Simple fact. ) Ohhh, that would be *massively* ungood. Who? * Chomei nods. "That would be horridly bad." * Lazar finally catches up, just in time to catch that last part. "... vampyre with stupid cursed sword? Oh crap on stick." Rei's mom or aunt or sister or something. She's a vampire. We don't *know* she has it, Laz. But has anyone seen her since the fight? Don't forget, she's also a Smorfy. Vampire? * Naomi frowns. Yes. A vampiric smorfy whose genetic material was partially used to create Rei. ...a what? Oh, right. The things with the tails. ...it's a really, really long, complicated, and incredibly screwed-up story. You forgot stupid. ... ah, so we no sure she have sword. Well, that... little less completely horrible. (...Vampire SMURF o.O?!) * Rei comes walking in about now. She looks like the dead, only she's alive, and glances around blearily. Her feet are still bare, and her tail's out, as usual. "Whazzis about smorfies and vampires, and is everyone mostly alive?" Yes. That too. Rei! Kaira might've taken the sword. Me- oh shit. You mean you guys don't have it? * Lazar nods at Rei, then does a double take and jumps. Yes, JUMPS. And lands, with a *THUD*. * Rei watches him land. * Chie would jump up and give Rei a hug, except she's tired and Chomei's leaning on her. So she settles for waving, then winces when Lazar lands. * Chomei waves weakly over at Rei. ... since when you take sneaky lessons from Maria? Huh? Uh... never? Not that much? I think. Hi Naomi. * Rei wobbles and nearly falls over, but steadies herself against the wall. * Naomi half waves to Rei. "Hey." She goes back to talking with some guy. * Maria looks miserable. "I don't WANT to fight that damned sword again." Neither do I! ... sorry. I bit tired, bit jumpy, bit scared out of big stone head. You were born on Easter Island- wait, wait. You guys *lost* the sword? You ignored it? I don't know! I was unconscious at the time! ... Right. I didn't know either. I was both out of my mind AND unconcious. I was helping bring little ones to medics. I thought army of Interpol people deal with stupid cursed sword. Uh, yeah. About that. Dad's sorry. I mean, he's not awake to say he's sorry, but I'm pretty sure he is... * Rei frowns. Rei. They were knocked out. I was stupid. Really, really stupid. We couldn't between all of us have the brainpower to think about the sword. * Rei sighs and leans against the wall, sliding to the ground. "Uh huh." * Maria sits down next to Rei. * Chie sighs. ...I don't like China. Neither do I. Let's get out of here. Please. ... is Reidad mostly okay, at least? Yeah. I wanna go *home*. He's really hurt, like he's not gonna wake up any time soon. I just came by to see how everyone else is doing. * Rei plays with the end of her tail. * Maria nods. Oh. An' how about you? Really damn tired. I think we all are... * Lazar nods grimly, then slumps down against the wall himself. "China suck." (China is TEH SUXXORZ!) * Chie sighs again. "Dammit." Yeah. I wanna go back to Tokyo. The buildings there are taller. More fun. * Chomei sighs. "Maybe I've been stressed for too long... I just can't seem to concentrate that well right now." Chomei, you got slammed into a *wall*. That'd do it for anybody, I think. I need go back to Tokyo... any more hits, and golem body ready to fall apart. * Naomi nods. "You guys need to get back to Japan, whether you like it or not." I like, I like! I think, at this point, we all like it. * Chomei blinks. "... Right. How are the rookies holding up?" I just hope Mr. Ueda gets better. * Rei looks like she's about to nod off, but manages to say, "I hope they're okay. The raccoon was cute." Not all that well.. They're strong, but inexperienced, and there's only four of them. Four? I know we met three of them. Who's the fourth? Yeah. I bet the coon counts. ( "We send a Dmitri clone to help them." "..." ) Well, we need to get there as soon as posssible. When is the plane leaving? There's one this afternoon. * Rei looks troubled. "I hope Dad wakes up before then." * Chie looks at Rei. "Me too." That's pretty unlikely, I'm afraid. He took quite a beating. * Lazar doesn't say anything. His expression is kind of hard to read, what with him being made of stone. * Chomei sighs. "You did what you had to Lazar. He should understand that." That sword tends to make beatings inevitable. Wish it'd stop picking people we care about. Yeah, but I wanna... never mind. * Rei plays with the end of her tail some more. "I think it just hates me or something." Oughta go out and possess Batboy or someone we already wanna kick the crap... naw. Why'd it hate you? Because it possessed my mom and my brother and my dad and seems to be getting everyone I care about, maybe? ( Maybe if you'd stop making your family so dang powerful... ^^ ) Your family has just had the most contact with it. (>.>) * Rei shrugs. ( Could be worse. Lazar coulda picked it up. =P ) So, what? Are we just leaving this afternoon? (Nah, I think Shig trumps Lazar by a leetle bit. ;P) ( Brett: What? Make a character that isn't begging the GM to torture it? What would be the point? ) Sounds like a plan. I doubt we have much of a choice. Please tell me we're at least gonna get a couple of days off to rest. We *can't* go on like this. Literally. ( In terms of sheer havoc-creating ability? Definately. In terms of 'Ease of subduing'? I dunno. =P ) You do what you have to. Just remember, when you're not out there stopping supernaturals, someone else is dying. ... gee, thanks for no pressure. Well, first we need to make sure that's not *us*. Yeah. We can't save people if we're dead. Us being dead does nobody any good. 'Scept the bad guys, but we hate them anyways. * Naomi rubs her face. "Whatever. Not in the mood for an argument. I gotta go back to Hong Kong and figure out what to do about this Dracula mess." * Chomei nods. "I think we should head back, rest one night there, then go back to work." ... what mess? Aside from 'He rise, wreak havoc on Transy- oh. That mess. Yeah, you do that. And we'll get back to Tokyo, get ourselves back in shape, and resume saving the city. * Rei speaks up. "Y'know, we do get paid for this. It's kinda our job. And..." She blinks, yawning. "And we gotta do it. We'll get better really fast in Tokyo." Right. Or we can go, get back in shape, then have fun kicking dracula butt. Either way. Let's go home, guys. [End]