[Day: Thursday, July 1st. Time: 10:30 p.m.] [You're in the club room! Lazar (in Chie's body) got bit by Rei's vampire mom, and if you don't find a cure soon he'll be joining her family. Don't need to say much more than that, do I?] [Ready GO!] * Asanjei is scribbling like mad in her notebook, prepping incantactions and rituals for her demon summoning binge tonight. She's also on the ceiling. * Chisanjya is sitting at the table, staring blankly off into space. She's been doing that for a while. * Choria is leaning against the wall, looking a bit more concerned than he has over the course of the game. Meaning he's just pissier. * Reizar keeps looking at his computer. "So, yeah. Like I said, maybe call the China branch, or something." Right, yeah. Somebody should do that... * Lazie walks in. "Calling China branch definately good idea." * Asanjei mumbles something about a hanging fruit basket. * Chisanjya whirls around. "Laz! Where did you go?" * Mamei walks in and idly waves hi to everyone. Went to see Moe. * Reizar looks up and waves at Mamei. Oh. Sorry. I... haven't exactly been with it tonight. But it's understandable, right? Right? Asanjya tell me to go talk to Moe. So I do. He actually have many ideas on how to cure bein vampyre. He does? Great! What are they? How many leave the vampyre alive? * Lazie waves. "Hey Maria. I have vampirism. How you doing?" Yeah? Lemme guess, kill the vampire, sacrifice a loved one, eat horrible cooking. Err, victime. Victim. No sacrificing. None. * Lazie raises an eyebrow at Rei. "No, those just standard ones, none of which doable. Moe from Transylvania. He know less known ones." You have whozawhazzis? * Reizar shrugs. Lazie's got his full attention. "Okay, let's hear them." * Lazie looks back at Maria. "Rei mom visit. Bite. Now trying find cure before I go evil." In *my* body. Yeah, isn't it lovely. ...well, that sucks. Like we didn't have enough on our plate. * Mamei sulks. ...y'know, that smells funny. ... okay. Moe mention many things which work once, but none seem like good ideas. Nobody want turn me into lich, right? NO. No. Right. So, that leave three choice. * Reizar puts a thumbs down. "Vetoed. Okay." I intend to come back to that body, so I want it the way it was! First, make deal with demon. Probably easiest, but cost... no likely be fun. Asanjya? * OmegAway is now known as OmegaDarklight I assume any demon what powerful enough to cure going demand soul or eternal service of evil, right? Don't we have a demon who's part of Rei's family or something? Not necessarily, Lazar. She demon. We need DEMON. Like Beezlebub, or Lucifer. Some of them are weird and want things like the full run of Archie comics between 1982 and 1990. Yeah. Aunt Chelsea. I dunno if she can cure vampirism, though. * Reizar shrugs. "Well, we helped Lucifer out already." Hey, we actually did Lucifer a favor. * Mamei fidgets. "Oh." * Lazie shrugs. "If one willing to do cheap, that great. Look into?" * Choria nods. Asanjya? What do you think? I'll be all over it tonight... and that is a point. We did help out the big man. That could sweeten the deal on our side considerably. Second method is similar... find pagan god who feeling generous. Cost probably no as big, since no EVIL... but also less likely to help. A god? * Lazie nods at Asanjya. "As around, see what big guys ask in terms of price." * Asanjei holds up the list, covered in archaic symbols and demon names. "Already on it, like I said." And third method? Third method... there actually is antidote. But making it very hard. * Reizar nods. "Okay, antidote. That's handy." Antidote? What kind? Most ingredients can be found. One is bone from stupid goat-man-thing we kill in China. That where China Branch come in handy. How hard? Goat-man-thing? What was that? Thing what we kill to cure you poison. * Reizar blinks. "Oh, yeah. That. Okay." No can remember name. Yeah. What else do we need? Nectar of Gods. Oh. The last time you guys had to save me. * Chisanjya looks down at the table. "At least I can actually *help* this time..." Can only get from Greek Gods. That tough one. ( Sense a reaccuring theme here? :P ) So we gotta talk to some Greek Gods, or visit them, or something? * Choria holds his head. "Okay, so basically we have to contact a higher power." ... much harder. Geek Gods? Wha? * Chisanjya looks up. "The Greek Gods?" Zeus have Nectar. He give out if give gift, do three trials, and do favor. Problem is, favor is probably he want boink me. ... * Asanjei raises her eyebrow. ...you're joking, right? Zeus horny god, alas. BUT! You're not joking. Other gods can steal from Zeus, and can go to them. Yeah, but... you'd might as well just get it from him. Maybe there's another way around it. And they trials probably even be easier. But favor be bigger, since they taking risk. * Choria nods. * Mamei blinks, clearly confused. "He want what you?" * Reizar opens his phone and starts dialing. "Anyway. I'm gonna call the China branch and see if I can't get us the bone." Thanks, Rei. ( Zeus is actually Makoto. ) (*snerk*) * Lazie turns to Maria. "He want stick he penis in hoo-hah." ...ew. Exactly. * Chisanjya resists the urge to throw something at Lazar, because she'd really only be hurting herself there. Yeah. That's not happening. * Mamei gets all red. "Geeze, you coulda' told me not to worry about it or something." * Reizar puts the phone to his ear. Waiting, waiting. No want Chie to get body back, only to be pregnant with Zeus baby. ... ... sorry. No mean to be so blunt, but... well, need be blunt. We need figure out risk and reward. And risk with going to Zeus way too big. * Chisanjya puts her head down on the table again. * Asanjei drops her pencil and curses in Enochian. * Chisanjya is beaned in the head with Asanjya's pencil. "Ow!" Sorry. Hand that up to me? Not used to this yet. * Chisanjya bends down, picks it up, and holds it out to Asanjya. "What's wrong?" * Reizar blinks. "Dad? Um, hi." Other gods... Athena probably be pretty reasonable. Ares probably want me to kill all French... which no be so bad, actually, but... * Choria nods... Um, nothing, really. Well, kinda. I cursed cause I dropped the pencil, but I dropped it cause I had a sudden temptation for us to have a half god to play with. (What's mythology fall under? Cultural Arts?) Well, we gotta have someone powerful who owes us a favor? ( Hmm... ) * Asanjei smiles sweetly and goes back to her scribbling. NO, Asanjya. Oh. Oh! No, I'm Rei. It's a long story. I know I sound like Lazar, it's just kind of a mess, our bodies got switched and we have to stop Dracula but we have a bigger - er, not bigger, but more immediate problem. You wouldn't know how to cure vampirism, would you? You don't want to get me annoyed at you right now, or I'll pierce your navel or something. I could do it. Hera a possible, especially if could convince that Zeus trying boink me. Oh no, I'm already doing that, and we've found a possible solution. Hang on. I'll put you on speaker. I wouldn't mind, but my parents might... ( I'll say... Social Sciences (Theology) ) Bah. It's no fun if you don't mind. * Chisanjya *almost* smiles. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chisanjya (2d6) and gets 9. * Reizar puts the phone down and hits a button. (Okay, Chie doesn't know mythology.) * Chisanjya sighs. "I really wished I knew more about the Greek gods than that movie I watched a long time ago." Okay, Dad, you're on speaker now. ( "It's got skeletons!" "... They look fake..." "SKELETONS!" ) * Shigeru speaks over the phone. It comes out fairly clear, all considered. "Sounds like it. What's this about greek gods?" Hi, Mr. Ueda. Greek gods have Nectar of Gods. Ingredient to cure. Hi, Mr. Ueda. It's Chie. Even if I don't sound like it. We got our bodies switched, Lazar's in mine, and he got bit by a vampire. We need it fixed. Okay. I can go through the common cures, but you must've found those by now. Nectar of the Gods? And I'm sorry to hear it, Chie. Common cures no good, because no can stake Rei mom. * Chisanjya laughs weakly. "Thanks, Mr. Ueda." * Shigeru is silent for a moment, then, "Kaira? She bit Chie?" * Asanjei looks ... down from her scribbling and listens. "Hi Rei's Dad." And me. Yes. Uh, yeah. It was kind of an accident, I think. Bloodlust, or something. Yeah, she got overtaken by blood rage or something. She wasn't herself. * Lazie mutters in Hungarian. * Mamei pokes Lazie. "Psst." * Choria nods. * Shigeru manages to keep bitterness out of his voice: "It happens. A lot of us don't have much of a choice in what we are." So yes. No can do normal cures. Still, I'm surprised. Someone like Kaira would try to keep herself under control. She did. ( "But it was just stupid humans!" ;_; ) Any idea why would come here if hungry? Yeah. I thought that was fishy. * Lazie is scowling now. * Chisanjya blinks. "Come to think of it... yeah." * Choria shrugs. I'm not sure. She stopped by the room twenty years ago, but usually only when she was in serious enough trouble to need help from stupid humans, or to give us a warning, or... Could Dracula put her up to something like that? I mean, do vampires have some big social ranking thing or whatnot? * Shigeru trails off for a moment, then continues, "She might have wanted to talk to Rei for some reason." * Reizar blinks at Mamei. "I don't think she'd want to talk to Dracula or deal with Dracula or have anything to do with Dracula. Would she?" ... then is good thing she 'talk' to me before she 'talk' to Rei. Shut up, Lazar. I don't need this right now. * Mamei fidgets. "Would she have a choice?" * Asanjei drops her shoe on Lazar. * Shigeru grumbles. "Body switch, huh." He raises his voice. "She might not. I don't know how she would have changed now that she's a vampire, but." But? She's always been stubborn, even when she started to trust us. ( Shig was a penguin once. ) (He was!) (Ha, yes!) * Lazie flinches at the shoe. "What? You rather it you body what bitten?" Yes. Now shut the fuck up. Laz, quiet. * Lazie scowls s'more. "Anyway... on cures." We looking into deal with demon... no like, because of cost, but might be able to get on sale. If so, good. If no... try something else. Could also try random pagan god, because probably ask for less, but also less likely to want help. Yeah. Chelsea might have grown in power enough to be able to do that, but in twenty years, I don't think so. She could try to pull a few favors for you. Hmm. D'you think the god or demon might also be able to get our bodies switched back, too? I mean, that'd *really* help. No. Yeah. Sort of a "while we're at it" thing. Why not, Asanjya? * Chisanjya sighs. "Figures." Well, they might, but that'd really cost. And I went looking before, anyways, and nobody'd do it. Most reliable option hardest... there is antidote. Need some rare, but gettable things. Also need bone from goat-man-thing we kill in China for bone to cure Chie. * Chisanjya sighs again. "Well, first things first. Un-vampire Lazar, and then we worry about things." Also need Nectar of Gods. Can only get from Greek Gods. They ask gift, three trials, and favor. Easiest to get is from Zeus, but he most likely want make whoopie with Chie body, and that no option. Can get other gods to steal from Zeus, and trials probably no be *so* bad... but favors probably big, since they taking risk. * Shigeru can be heard typing on the other end. "Right. How quickly is she turning?" 20 hours? We have slightly less than 24 hours. * Lazie checks his/her watch. "23 hours, now." We're going to slow it down, though. * Mamei blinks. "We can solve this with stealing from someone?" * Lazie blinks. "Huh?" You might want to stall that. No matter how fast we get you there, one day's pushing it. That'd be good, yes. ( It's not "exactly" 24 hours >.> ) You said 'get other gods to steal from Zeus'. ( I know. Handy reference, though ) Asanjya has a way of slowing it down. Does it have to be a god doing the stealing? Well, Rei does, but I've got the ingredients, probably. ... no can steal from Zeus, Maria. No can *get* to Zeus. Stealing from gods when you're not a god would be a bad idea. Huh, I don't recall meeting her. She new? There's nobody named Asanjya on the roster. * Mamei pouts. "What, like it's that hard?" Yeah, they're not hard to get at all. At least, they look like they're not hard to get. Probably. Oh, yeah. She's the one whose body I'm in right now. She joined us a couple weeks ago. * Shigeru is silent for a moment, then, "A unpaid member, then?" You might want to see about going through the proper channels, Asanjya. It's bad enough when you get paid. ( Says Shig, but notice what he decided to do with his life :P ) * Lazie looks at Maria. "Unless have magic to teleport to home of gods, yes." * Mamei nods. "What they consider 'payment' is... funny, actually." (Says Shig, and he'd know! He gets paid!) * Mamei blinks at Lazar. "Oh." * Asanjei looks confused. "Proper channels?" * Lazie patpats Maria. "Appreciate thought, though." Interpol. In any case, looking up what I'll do for you. I might want to get Eoi off his lazy ass; if we're not too busy, we'll take a trip over to Japan and see if we can't find out what's wrong with Kaira. Otherwise... Yeah, how's Eoi-sensei doing? * Reizar snickers, just a little. ... well, before anything, you need get bone of goat-man-thing. Without that, Nectar of Gods just thing what worth several hundred billion dollars. * Mamei goes sparkly-eyed. "REALLY? That much?" ( There you have it. Leave Lazie to die and you'll be rich! ) * Chisanjya eyes Maria. "*First*, we cure Lazar with it. Then, if there's any left over, we can sell it." Eoi's doing fine. He's out taking care of some rogue spirits right now. He's drinking? * Mamei grins and rubs his hands together. "Oh, I never thought of not curing 'im. I could prolly swipe some on the side, tho." * Chisanjya looks at Chomei and actually laughs. "No, Chomei. Freelance exorcism, that kinda thing." * Shigeru coughs. "In any case. Here's what I can do for you- what? No. He never touches the stuff. Stop distracting me." * Choria smirks. * Mamei continues plotting her get-rich-quick scheme. Sell Nectar for Fun and Profit! Especially Profit. * Chisanjya still has a faint smile on her face as she turns her attention back to Shigeru-on-speaker-phone. * Asanjei is scrill scribbling, though now she's drawing. I'm calling in some favors and reserving a flight for you. Black chopper, should be there in... a few hours or so. And yes, there's plenty of paoxiao bone left. If someone could send me the ingredients, I can get experts working on the potion for when you get the nectar. Thank you *so* much, Mr. Ueda. Whoa, hours? What I want you guys to do is *not* panic. I know body switching and vampirism is crazy, and it's easy to blame each other and everything else. Who said anything about blame? * Lazie takes out the recipe and hands it to Asanjya. "This list of ingredients." ( Too late! ) Wait a minute, how am I supposed to make a potion and summon a crapload of demons in that time? ( "I blame Kaira!" ) (I know. :P) * Reizar looks up and holds his hand out for the ingredients. "Gimme. I'll send it to him." * Chisanjya blinks at the speakerphone. "We'll try? I mean, I kinda already panicked." * Lazie shrugs, and gives it to Rei. "One less thing what you need do, Asanjya." * Shigeru continues typing. "Want me to hold it off?" * Asanjei takes the list, then drops it on Rei. * Reizar snatches it, however it's handed to him, and starts looking at the sheet and his computer, sending the formula to his father. Hold what off? [Reizar telepathically sends a formula! ... Er, wait.] * Asanjei flips through her notes. "Unless you can make the potion and provide me a wide flat area preferable in a basement or in a tower, it's gonna have to be like early morning." ( Via the computer, I assume. ) Tomorrow morning it is, then. Six your time? Sooner we get there the better, I think. It's sent, Dad. * Asanjei muses. "Gimme a sec to think." Alright. Skip the demons, I can do it there. On the grass or whatever, if I have to. Need a lawn chair, though. Demons get picky. I'll need an hour at most for the potion. We can get a chair. No problem. Then bring one. So back to the original time? I think so. Guys? * Choria nods. * Asanjei nods and starts reworking the notes. We still need to figure out what to do with the gods, though. I say we talk to Zeus. As squicky as that might be, at least if we do what he wants, there won't be any iffy chances on if we can get it or not. ... actually may no be bad idea. If Zeus *say* he want boink, can go to Hera, say "Save me from boink!". And since she like piss Zeus off... Can we at least ask about the body-switching? Do you think that would hurt? Well, one way or the other we have to go to Greece, right? We can ask. They are gods after all... I would love to not be in this body anymore. I really, really would. * Lazie turns to Chie. "No hurt ask... but it probably make cost very much more." * Choria nods. "Likewise. Having a constant back pain is really starting to piss me off." I don't think it'll hurt you to ask. He's a god, not a demon. Gods can be pains in the asses, but they're usually not out to trick you. Well, unless you get a trickster god. Which ones are the trickster gods? ( "Well, first there's Makoto." ) ( "Ashton Kutcher." "..." "He's in the LAME pantheon." ) If you're talking the Greek pantheon, Hermes might try to fool you into something. Or he might like you. Greek gods are pretty straightforward, all considered. My source seemed think Athena or Hera may be best bet. Or Ares, if willing to conquer country for him. You don't have time to conquer a country. (Not even France?) (Or Italy?) Exactly. So Athena or Hera. Hera, like say, maybe best if she get jealous at Zeus. * Shigeru keeps typing. "Keep in mind that this is a seven hour flight. You're crunching for time, no matter what happens." But Athena probably most fair. Athena... what's she goddess of? Wisdom. Sounds nice. Wis- yeah. She likes to piss Ares off, too. ( Lazar just doesn't wanna sleep with Aphrodite :P ) Oh, hey, that's what my name means. ( If only Makoto were here. :P ) (She's the hottest goddess there is!) (Makoto would make this so much easier. ^^;) We should go with her. Well, it's your... uh... if you want to, sure. * Choria shrugs. ... could maybe ask Aphrodite, but point of avoid Zeus is to avoid boink. Nah. Whatever you guys think is best. I was just rambling. Athena might not be too hard. I think. Well, wisdom, that's kinda tough. She's tough but fair, if you want to go with her. If her myths are to be believed, anyway. Just *don't* say you're better at anything than she is. And Hera? * Asanjei drops off the ceiling and floats to the floor, snapping the notebook shut. "We can decide on the plane, can't we? We're not going to get to it immediately. And we have more pressing concerns." If she wants to annoy Zeus, she might get it for you just because he'd throw a fit once he notices it's gone. If she's feeling like being on his side, though... a lot harder. But she probably no wnat be on his side if he try get us into bed. * Choria nods. Which means asking Zeus first anyway. Like I said, the chopper's on its way. Give it another three hours. It'll land in campus. You had better get ready. Asanjya and Mr. Ueda are right. We should get ready. We can figure it out on the way. I'll look for alternatives, just in case. As for the body switch thing... no, twenty year old meatbuns wouldn't work. Never mind. Twenty... yeah. I'll have to ask you and Eoi-sensei about that one later. * Asanjei walks toward the door. "Chie, I need to borrow my body to get into my house. And Rei, I might need Lazar's body. Got to carry a lot of books." ( But they've got magical mold! ) * Reizar nods. "Sure. I'll help however I can." It's a long story about the end of the world. Again. Figured as much, Mr. Ueda. And sure thing, Asanjya. Meet back here in three hours? You know how to contact me. Keep in touch. One more thing, too... ... could also do Dionysis. He god of wine... hope he happy drunk. What's that one more thing? Hmm? Sorry about the Ambition incident. I have no idea when or where I picked that sword up; I don't remember. And I wasn't in control, but I could have easily broken one of you, so I apologize. Yeah, whatever. Is you mostly recovered now? * Asanjei blinks, and quirks an eyebrow. Just don't do it again. I'm just glad you're back at the branch. I was worried about you. Considering I'm not trying to destroy everyone I hold dear, yes. ... meant physically, but that good too. * Reizar fidgets. "We knew it wasn't you, Dad." Anyway. Get going. You don't have much time. Right. Thanks again, Mr. Ueda. See you soon, Mr. Ueda. Thanks for help, Reidad. Thanks. Thanks, Dad. And yeah. We'll see you soon, I hope. * Asanjei stands anxiously at the door. * Shigeru laughs. "Reidad. I thought only Eoi did that." He hangs up. (Haha!) * Chisanjya heads for the door. She doesn't look happy, per se, but she doesn't look nearly as dispirited as she did earlier. There's hope, now. * Choria follows, intent to kick ass and take names. * Reizar looks down at the phone for a long while, then closes it and tucks it away. * Mamei gets up and follows! Because she doesn't know what else to do here. * Asanjei walks out and heads to her house! * Reizar lumbers after, like a good golem. [Session End!]