[Day: Tuesday, July 6th. Time: 8:00 p.m.] [You're all in the club room. It's the day after the whole thing with the mall.] [Session Start!] * Maria is on the cieling, pacing in circles. * Chie is there, yes, sitting at the table and looking like she didn't get much sleep at all. Also, she's wearing the red and white t-shirt and olive-khaki cargo pants outfit last seen when they were waiting at the airport. Yes, that long ago. Anyhow. Did I mention she doesn't look well? * Rei half-sits on a desk, looking down at her hands and twiddling her thumbs. She's dressed as clashingly as ever but doesn't seem keen on talking to anybody. * Asanjya is sitting at a desk, flipping through a huge mouldy tome - with her hair. She's taking notes with a hand, and sipping at water with the other. * Chomei is generally being himself, leaning against the wall. He looks somewhat worried over at Chie and Maria every once in a while, but other than that it's nothing interesting. And his clothes, today, are navy-blue, although that probably made his lameness go up. (Are they velvety?) (... No.) * Lazar is flipping through what appears to be a calander book. The title is in an alphabet that none of you likely recognize. * Maria is dressed in her same outfit, but with different patched-up jeans and a different faded t-shirt. * Chie looks around the room, noting the silence. She exhales, then rests her chin on her hands. ...wait. Hey, guys? Did we hear anything back from the people yesterday about what that lizard thing might have been? * Lazar is "dressed" somewhat differently than usual, as well. He appears to be wearing a black button-down shirt, with the top two buttons open, a pair of black slacks, and dressy shoes. * Chie sits back up. * Chomei shrugs. "Not me." Nope. * Maria continues wearing a ring into the cieling. Pace pace pace. Which means they either haven't finished analyzing it or they don't know what it is. * Rei pulls out her phone and dials a number before putting it to her ear. * Lazar continues eyeing the calander thing for a moment longer after Chie's last statement, then closes it up with a sigh and lets it flop onto Peter's desk. * Chie slumps back down again. "I hate this." You're not the only one. There's so much out there that we have to deal with, but we can't 'cause we don't have the information! So damn frustrating. Any ideas on how to find the Belmont guy? Yes. I hate working like this. I thought someone was gonna contact us on that. Would be nice if Peter still around... at least he know where look. Could always call'em. * Maria paces on the cieling some more. I know bit about demons, but no near what Peter know... and no can read books to find, because no read Japanese. Okay, anybody got the number? * Lazar chuckles lightly. "Was hard enough to find Hebrew calender. Obscure demon texts in Hebrew no exactly at corner book store in Japan." What about that guy you know, Laz? The one who we're gonna buy vampire- killing supplies from eventually. He doesn't have stuff like that? ( try the local occult/new age bookstore... I'm sure they have them over there ) * Chomei nods. * Maria sits down on the cieling and pouts. * Lazar shakes his head. "He specialize in vampyres, were-creatures... stuff common in Transylvania. Even there, demons kind of rare." Well, why don't you and Asanjya have a brainstorming session? She's kinda our resident demon expert. * Asanjya sighs. "It's not a demon. Not really." I don't know what else it is, but it is not a demon. Anyone ever try monster? I guess it works? Not really informative, tho. * Rei blinks, hopping off her desk and pacing on the floor, thank you very much. "Yes, hello? This is Rei Ueda. Yeah, SIU Japan. We were wondering if you found anything out." I wanna know what the hell it was doing there. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 4. Me too. You don't get things like that very often. I think. I hope. Looked like it was having lunch. * Rei drums her fingers on her leg, still pacing. "Uh huh. Uh... yeah, we kinda figured that out. What about the woman- no, not that one. The other one." Ew. Shut up, Chomei. * Chomei sighs. "Try and make a joke and look at what they do to you." * Chie throws a random object from her bag at Chomei. "Not funny." Oh. Not the same thing, right? Yeah, I thought so. The supernatural; can it be trained? I mean, is it normal? Normal for a supernatural. Normalish. ... actually, now think about it... remember someone in village talk about monster what kind of similar. * Chomei catches it. * Rei stops pacing for a moment, listens, and starts again. "Okay. No ideas where he went, huh? How about where he came from?" Pause, then sigh. "Okay, okay. Just... keep looking, all right? He's really fucking sick. No, sicker than that." What, seriously? What was it? No smarter than normal animal... just big, angry, and hungry. Very tough to train because of bad temper, but was record of it happening. No remember name... just what said. Big, angry, hard to control. So if someone control it, must be very good at what do. Yeah. Give us a call if you find anything. Actually, we might be out, so give me a call if we are. That's lovely. * Rei rattles off her cell number. "Got it?" She repeats, more slowly. "Okay. I'll check up with you guys soon, all right? Bye." She removes the phone and hangs up. "Stuff we figured out's confirmed, but other than that there's nothing on top of nothing with a giant steaming pile of nothing." Well, could mean we up against guy what good at... what word... monster wrangle? * Chie sighs. "Y'know, I'm *this* close to going out and finding random ghosts and asking *them* if they've seen anything." (*uses Smite Evil on the Typo Demon*) * Asanjya softly closes the book (with the hair! so cool) and looks around. "The demon underworld's got nothing." Xaphan twitches on top of her bun. Sure. Maybe there's a ghost living in the building where the psycho was living. * Rei waves at Xaphan. * Chomei rubs his head. "Sounds like nobody knows anything they're willing to say. Typical." Yeah. I hate being in the dark like this. * Rei eyes Chomei. "Okay, I seriously doubt they're witholding information from us. If you think they are, why don't *you* call them?" * Asanjya looks up at Xaphan waving back at Rei. You find the number of the freak that's after Maria and I will ask him. [The phone rings!] * Asanjya eyes it. * Chie *glares* at the phone. I'll get it. * Chie gets up and gets the phone. "What?" * Maria backs into a corner of the cieling. * Asanjya 's hair twitches unsettlingly. So does Xaphan. "Oh, sorry. Hello! What's going on?" * Chie covers the handset briefly and looks at the others. "S'Ensof." * Maria relaxes. * Lazar nods. "Yeah, well, we had some stuff we wanted to take care of first. Plus, apparently there's this last of the Belmont guys that might have some info for us, 'cept he's rather missing at the moment and Interpol's lookin' for him. Why? Somethin' wrong?" * Rei sighs. She runs a hand through her hair, which ends up just as messy as before. * Chomei pays attention, for once. "Right. Well, lemme discuss this with the group, and we'll get back to you ASAP, 'kay?" "Seeya!" * Asanjya stares half-lidded at Chie, while petting Xaphan with a small braid. * Chie hangs up. * Rei eyes the windowsill, then scrambles over and slams her hand against it. What's up? Okay. Ensof wants to know- Rei? * Maria blinks at Rei. "Fly?" Got a bug! It was gonna suck your blood! Like a vampire bug. You were saying? * Lazar tilts his head. ... right. * Rei wipes her hand off. * Maria nods to herself and looks back at Chie. "So, what's up?" ... Right. * Asanjya continues to look at Chie. Okay. As I was sayin', Ensof wants to know if we're still planning on going to the city. He says that if we don't go soon, then the deal with Moe's off. There's one tiny itsy bitsy problem with that. Maria's eyes are silver. Won't they just try and kill her? Contacts. We can get her gold contacts. Just gotta do it real fast. They're not perscription, right, Maria? Yeah, but then there's the matter of the rest of us. Did we ever figure out what we're gonna do? Nope. And we should prolly get some for some of you others, too. Maybe Rei can pass as one of them. Us. Whatever. She can stick to walls? We've been a bit pre-occupied. * Rei nods and demonstrates by walking up a wall and onto the ceiling. "And I can hide my tail, too! Only I can't go really fast like Maria or anything." Just act like you don't want to? No remember that they kill 'normal' people... just ones of they people with no gold eyes. Yeah, but apparently they don't like humans all that much. They probably aren't gonna take too kindly to a bunch of us showin' up in their hidden village. It doesn't really matter. We can't hide all of us, so we'll just mostly haveta go as is and hope they accept that. We're a buncha times more appealing than vampires, anyway. By a factor of five and a half! Or more. I definately no am going be able pass as quick thing. * Maria fidgets. No illusion spells here. 'Fraid I'm not good at bein' anything but myself. * Chomei shrugs. "Let's go as us, then." Rei right. Just let them choose either have us over for dinner or Dracula. They're sure to pick us! I hope. Okay. Looks like we're goin', then. When do we want to leave? * Rei opens her mouth, then closes it. "I... uh, wanna get in contact with Makoto before then, but if the deal's gonna be off and everything-" Would be good if can delay until Interpol find Belmont guy, but... * Chie smiles sadly at Rei. "I know. I'm worried about him, too, and he hasn't been answering his cell..." Yeah. Yeah. I wish I could be in two places at once. And there's my mom, and- let's just go. C'mon, Maria, I'm gonna help you find contacts. Okay. Laz? Call Ensof and get things set up. I'll call Interpol and ask 'em to contact us if they find out any info on the Belmonts. * Rei winces, just a little. "They probably won't kill *him* for nothing. He's too fucking valuable." She unsticks to the ceiling, hovering to the window and opening it. * Maria nods and hops over to the windowsil. Be careful, you two. * Rei looks back at Chie and gives a weak grin followed by a thumbs up. * Rei hops out! We will. * Lazar takes the phone and calls up Ensof. * Maria hops out too. * Chomei frowns. "Good luck." * Chie pulls her cell out and dials the appropriate Interpol folks. [FF! Some time later, you arrive outside of Moe's. Ensof is there, too, complete with a giant sword strapped to his back.] * Rei wavewavewaves at Ensof. * Maria tries not to attract Ensof's attention. * Lazar waves to Ensof. He, too, has a large sword strapped to his back. Still dressed a bit spiffily, too. * Ensof waves back. "Yo. What kept ya?" * Asanjya nods to Ensof. She's got Xaphan inside her bun, and her staff, and her cloak, and she's all summonered up. * Chomei eyes Ensof. * Rei adjusts her backpack. She has no large sword strapped to her bag, and thank goodness for that. * Chie has two swords, but they're not large, and they're in her bag. Souls got switched into wrong bodies. Then, in wrong body, got bit by vampyre. Took while to get right. Yeah. It's a long story, but we're all fixed now. Good. Oh, and Dracula working with Lucifer. Less good. That's an understatement. Yeah. Let's get going so we can kick Dracula's ass already. And got full runes now. *points to forehead* And Ambition's working with them both and possessed Victoria, which makes it less less good, only I don't think you know all of those people and/or objects. * Ensof shurgs at Rei. "No idea. Let's go." He goes inside. * Chie goes in. * Asanjya follows. * Rei follows like a Reibot! * Maria follows like a Maria. * Lazar follows. * Chomei follows too. [Inside Moe's shop are a whole bunch of items geared towards fighting supernaturals. Where else would you find a store that sells crossbows and garlic in the same section?] [Inside is a guy. It must be Moe. Lazar can confirm.] * Rei looks around, resisting the urge to float to look at the higher shelves. * Lazar waves to Moe, switching over to Hungarian. * Chie watches Lazar and the guy, and ponders studying Hungarian in the future. * Maria looks around. [Moe waves. "Hey there." He looks at Lazar funnily. "" *points to Chie* * Chie is pointed at and waves. "Hi there!" * Rei waves at Moe when he does. "Hi Moe! You are Moe, right?" [""] [Moe nods at Rei. "That's me, Moe Banana. Nice to meet you."] * Chomei waves at Moe. * Asanjya looks around and starts puttering around with some reagents. * Rei beams a smile. "I like that last name. You wouldn't have any around, would you? I'm Rei Ueda." * Lazar switches back to Japanese. "So... we going to Transylvania. Or nearby." "No, but if you're hungry, I sell garlic." He points to some. No we're not. Nope! That's not fruit. And it looks like it could be a little fresher. Thanks anyway. * Chie starts looking around. "Hmm... stakes, holy water... well, at least I have the silver and wards covered." She pulls out a pad of paper from her bag, then reaches for something else and blinks when she doesn't find it. "Hey, Chomei? You still have that pen I threw at you earlier?" We not? I thought you people near Transylvania? Holy water! * Rei goes to where Chie indicated and has a look. I never said that. ... hmm. Going crazy in old age. Nevermind. Yep. Holy water. * Chomei tosses it back. "Yeah." Although Transylvania's closer to it than Tokyo. * Chie catches the pen. "Thanks." She starts writing stuff down. I'm so gonna need to get some of that. In easy to hurl flasks, even. You have couple of cross and some stakes in bag, Chie. Yeah, you want those back? I can get some more. * Ensof says to Moe. "Anyhow, there the ones who want to use the teleporter. Still got it set up, right?" * Asanjya brings some mandrake root, silver flakes, and some cold iron bars up to the counter. "Hello. It's nice to see I can get mandrake without having to mail order to Bavaria." Give me couple stakes later. Crosses more useful to little ones... keep vampyres and some like at bay. "Sure, it's all set. There's nothing at the coordinates you gave me, though." * Ensof shrugs. I figured I could just wear one of my wards... y'know, if we'd had time, I could've worked out some sorta silver chokers or something. Oh, well. We only have time when we *don't* want it, not when we need it. * Maria looks around some more, and has to resist the urge to steal shinies. x_x You're my best friend and everything, but I'm so not wearing one of those wards, Chie. Why do we want something to choke people with? Wards good against spirits, demons. For vampyre, need cross. * Chomei nods. They're not supposed to affect you unless they're active. I don't know why it did that that one time... I'm still really sorry. I wasn't thinking straight. You thought it was the best idea at the time and would help. Nothing to be ashamed of, really... It's not like there's a handbook on this stuff. We can write one. After we're done. ( Why were we going to see Maria's people again? ) It's just 'cause I'm arguably a spirit, I guess, under certain rules, maybe. And a supernatural, too. * Rei flicks her tail. ( 'Cause Dracula wants to enlist them, I think. ) ( Could be wrong. It's been an awful long time. ^^; ) * Chie pulls one of the crosses out of her bag, along with one of her wards. She slips the chain off the ward and through the loop at the top of the cross, then tucks it under her shirt. "Apparently, I have just converted to Christianity." Converted to what? Major world religion. I'll go into details later. Much later. Oh. Okay. [Moe meanwhile sells stuff to Asanjya. Whilst ringing up the sale, he looks over to Chie. "Hey, I'm Jewish, but don't knock it until you try it. As Bugs Bunny would say, 'the stuff woiks'."] Don't worry 'bout it now. * Asanjya sighs and digs into her cloak, then pulls out a very old-looking rosary made of mahogany. She loops it around her hand and ties it off, then nods. Her hair shuffles unsettlingly. * Chie grins at Moe. "Hey, I've got no problems with it. I studied under a Shinto priest, though. Just kinda odd." ( Actually, I was under the impression the crosses were of the large, wooden variety. But's let us just say there was one jewelery-sized one. =P ) (Well, if she didn't have one before, she's buying it now! ^_~) ( He'd have both kinds. ) * Chie grabs a few more stakes and a couple flasks of holy water. "Anybody else need a makeshift necklace?" I could use one, I guess. No. Father Bayer's rosary will do fine. Makeshift how? Oh, crosses? Sure. Yeah, sure. Why not? * Chie de-chains some of her wards and hands the chains out to the others. And make sure, if come across vampyre, to take cross out from under shirt. Needs be exposed to work. Right. And I've got a couple of wooden ones for backup. * Chomei shrugs. * Chie waits until Asanjya's done being rung up before taking her armful of stakes and holy water over to Moe and dumping it on the counter. Also suggest use bigger wooden ones to help keep away from little blood- filled ones. Anything else you recommend, Moe? * Maria takes one and puts it on, leaving it exposed. ( That's probably the most grim description of people ever. "Little blood-filled ones." ) "Well, if you think you're going up against a mummy, you might want a Star of David or two." ...mummies are Jewish? "Or maybe some silver bullets for werewolfs." No, mummies mostly from Egypt. Jews and Egypt no get along very well. So why a Star of David? * Rei blinks, then grabs a cross, a couple stakes, and a few flasks of holy water, takes them to the counter, and plunks them down for the buying. "You really don't wanna see me try to use a gun or something." Why not? Ohhh, gotcha. And no guns. * Chie pays for stakes and holy water! (Don't you love how this group has a No Gun policy? ;P) Ah, that remind... have any silver thing besides bullets? Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition. ( Hey, Lazar shot BatBoy once. ) * Chomei nods. "We don't have any guns on us. The whole 'illegal' weapons thing." Although that doesn't stop most people anyways. [Stuff is bought, and Moe says, "I have some knives and some crossbow bolts. I could special order swords or other weapons, too, but that would take a while."] You do know that it'd be really easy to get a permit if you had to. * Maria shrugs. "Who cares if it's illegal?" Don't have arrows, do you? Oooh, silver sword. I might want one of those in the future. Could you order that for me, please? And in the meantime, I'll take a knife. * Lazar takes out his bank card. "I take knife. In pinch, can beat to pulp, then stab repeatedly." "Will do." * Rei stuffs her purchases in her backpack and puts the cross around her neck, under her clothes. She runs a hand over her stomach and her tail twitches. Thanks. * Chie purchases a silvered dagger. * Asanjya pulls out a flask from her cloak, notes it's half-empty, and gets it refilled with holy water. It has a sprinkler top! * Maria blinks at Rei. "Why not just leave it out?" ( hey, never know when it'll come in handy ) * Lazar buys a dagger! It, along with a coupla stakes, go into his pouch. [Asanjya is wrong. Her flask is half-full.] * Chie gathers up dagger, stakes and holy water and sticks them into her bag. (*snerk*) ( Picky, picky. ^_~ ) * Rei looks back at Maria. "In case I wanna hug my mom." She seems perfectly serious about that. Oh. That's a good reason. * Rei smiles. It's a little sad. "Yeah, I think so." She casts a glance at Lazar, almost daring him to disagree. * Lazar is oblivious! * Asanjya tucks the flask back into her cloak, and nods. She looks up to Moe. "If you could get some of the rarer herbs, like witchbane, I might get you a few more clients." * Chomei taps his foot impatiently. "I'll see what I can do. Mostly I just sell the basic stuff, though." If you could. It's really hard to get some of them. * Chie walks over to Chomei. "Aren't you getting anything?" * Chomei raises an eyebrow. "If I got holy water, what would happen if I got some on myself?" Or is it selective in the kind of 'evil' stuff it repels? * Chie winces slightly. "I'm not sure. Probably better not to find out." * Chie gives him a quick hug. "You're not evil, though. You know that." * Chomei hugs her back. "I know. My heratige beg to differ, though..." * Ensof folds his arms. Doesn't matter what you were. It only matters what you are. Anyhow. Time to go, right? * Chomei smiles and nods. "You just confused me, but yes." Moe: "Teleporter's all set." He then quotes off a figure. Combined with all the junk you just bought, it's a pretty big amount. Teleporter? What take us to where Maria people are. * Ensof grins. "Told you it'd be quick." How else would we get there? * Rei opens her bag and reaches in, pulling out her checkbook. She starts making it out. "I'll see about making sure it's a business expense. Any side effects to teleportation we should look out for?" Hey, cool! How are we getting back, though? "You might feel a little queasy afterwards. No worse than jetlag, though." * Maria fidgets. I figure we can go out the same way from the city. Teleport in, teleport out, then? You comin' with, Ensof? * Rei finishes, signs her name, and tears the check out. She hands it to Moe. Figured I would. You need a guide, right? * Rei grins. "Thanks, really. I didn't think you cared." 'Sides, we gotta deal with the shrooms on the way, too. Shrooms? Do they bite? Shrooms? Nah, just poison. Shrooms? Are they tasty? Lovely. Oh. Poison's not good. That all? I don't know. I never tried to eat one. They would probably get angry. * Asanjya shakes her head. "Wonderful." So where are these poison shrooms? ... were-mushrooms? Myconids. They live in the area before the city. My people keep 'em around to kind of keep people away. Does a good job, doesn't it? Sounds rather effective. Well, it's not like a lot of people go there anyhow, but for the few that do... (And then we get invited to their mushroom homes, do a dance with the guy behind the counter, and summon a white dragon with a drum!) (*cracks up*) (HAha!) ( @_@ Whaaaa? ) * Lazar nods. (SoM!) ( Oh. ) * Maria frowns. "I don't suppose the myconids could keep vampires out?" I seriously doubt it. Don't think poison would affect them much. Yeah, was gonna say. It's not like they get sick normally. If it comes to a fight, we'll probably come out on top anyhow, but why take the risk? Exactly. Is there an antidote we should take with us, just in case? Okay. Then we don't have to worry about us getting past the myconids being part of someone's master plan. Let's just say I'm very big on havin' the proper antidote around. * Asanjya rubs her chin. "You know, if you make mushrooms that shed garlic salt instead of spores...." Nah. The poison's not fatal unless there's a large enough dose. ... I bet you could splice something together, Asanjya. Vampire warding shrooms! Garlic usually no work against more powerful vampyres. Smell awful, though. Okay. Poison non-fatal. This is good. But anyway. Should get going. ( Unless you like the smell of garlic. :9 ) (They exude garlic breath.) Moe heads to the back of the shop. "Follow me." * Chomei follows! * Lazar follows. * Maria follows as well! * Chie walks on back. * Rei does as instructed. [In the back room is a large metal stage. Carved into the stage is a glowing purple smiley face. "Stand there, would you?" Moe says. He himself goes over to a computer.] * Asanjya follows! Then goes! Like sheep! * Maria stands there. * Chie blinks. "...gotta stop being surprised by arbitrary weirdness." * Ensof also stands there. * Chomei raises an eyebrow, then stands there! * Chie stands as directed. * Rei isn't! She heads right up to the smiley face. * Lazar goes. ... is one of more odd magic runes I ever see, but if work... It's like Wal-Mart. Like what? Does this mean we'll be teleported for a price lower than any competitor? [Moe fiddles with a few switches. "Alright. You're all set." He hits a key, and a purple light surrounds you. "Have a nice day!"] * Rei giggles. "Here we go! Hey, that light's purple." ( And now... You guys want to end, or go through the next part? ) Just don't ask. [End!]