<Brett> [Maria climbs up the side of Castle V... ah, the Asahara building. 
Start!]
* Maria climbs! In the rain! She HATES the rain, but she's ignoring that, for 
now!
<Brett> [Maria gets wet.]
* Maria HATES being wet, too. Which is part of why she hates the rain.
* Rei is now known as SpiritRei
* SpiritRei is now known as Rei
<Brett> [Maria reaches the top, eventually.]
* Maria gets to the top! She heads back into the roof entrance, shaking herself 
dryish once she's out of the rain.
* Maria gets all sneaky-like, thankful her hood kept her hair dry. She looks out 
into the hallway!
<Brett> [There is no hallway! There's only stairs that go down.  There's also a 
rather loud alarm sounding.]
* Maria frowns. Looks like the others set it off. The heads down the stairs 
until she finds a door into the rest of the building!
<Brett> [Maria goes down the stairs and finds a door.]
* Maria opens the door if no lock is present.
<Brett> ( Gimme a stealth roll (concealment) at +1 )
<Maria> 2d6-5
<Brett> [Maria opens the door just a bit, so she doesn't alert the two assault-
gun wielding guards that rush by, shouting, "Secure the perimiter! We've had an 
astral intruder!"]
* Maria blinks. 'Had', he said.
* Maria opens the door enough to step out once they've passed. Any sign of a 
restroom? If not, the guards just picked up a tagalong.
<Brett> [There appears to be a rest room guarded by one guard.]
* Maria looks at the guard. Is he armed?
<Brett> [Yep! With an assault-rifle, natch. These guys come right out of a box 
of a dozen.]
* Maria makes a note to steal his ammo clip if he gets uppity, and heads for the 
restroom. Stealthy-like, of course.
<Brett> ( Stealth (silent movement) +3 )
<Brett> [Maria sneaks up to the restroom when the guy isn't looking.  It happens 
to be the men's room.]
* Maria doesn't care much. Does it have paper towels or one of those electric 
blow-dryers?
<Brett> [Electric. It's good for the environment!]
* Maria scowls and starts seeing if she can dry off with this.
<Brett> [If Maria crouches low it might work.]
* Maria does so.
<Brett> [Whirrrrr..... Maria gets hot air blasted on her, but as it's very 
centered, this may take a while.]
<Brett> [Not to mention she'll have to restart the machine six or seven times.]
* Maria scowls. Screw this.
* Maria goes to one of the stalls, gets some toilet paper that doesn't look like 
it's been the victim of a prank, and wipes herself dry. Faster and less noisy.
<Brett> [... That's one way to do it.]
<Maria> ( It certainly is. )
* Maria goes out into the hall once she's done and resumes skulking. How high is 
the cieling? What color are the tiles?
<Brett> [Ummm... 9 feet, white.]
* Maria frowns. Are they the kind you can just push aside, or is she going to 
have to stay in the hallway like all the lame non-wallwalking people?
<Brett> [The game isn't scripted to let Maria do that, so she'll have to stay in 
the hallway. 'Sides, there's rats and maybe greasels up there.]
<Maria> ( *snicker* )
<Maria> ( So I'll have to wait until I find an air vent. Right. ^_~ )
* Maria starts skulking down the hall in the direction the guards went earlier. 
Skulk skulk skulk.
<Brett> ( Stealth roll (silent movement!) +4 )
* Maria so stealthy, she make ninja look shameful.
<Brett> [Maria walks out into a hallway behind several crouching troops, who all 
have their guns pointed at this swirly thing on the wall.]
* Maria blinks. Swirly thing?
<Brett> [Lazar comes out of a wall, and finds himself surrounded by troops 
wielding assault rifles. "Freeze!"]
* Lazar hefts his sword. "No. You freeze!"
* Maria scowls as one of the rent-a-troopers shouts, but doesn't do anything. 
Lazar can handle this better on his own.