[Day: Tuesday, July 6th. Time: 8:30 p.m.] [You stepped in a teleporter and wound up someplace very dark. You can't see. Aieee!] [Session Start] ...well, this is great. ... Great. ... is bit dark in here. * Chie fumbles around in her bag for her flashlight. "Hang on. I've got a light." I can't see. * Chie pulls out her flashlight and turns it on, pointing it towards the ground so it doesn't accidentally go off in anyone's face. * Ensof is there! Chie sees his feet. And also stone ground. * Chie shines it up a bit. "Okay, we're... here. Wherever here is. Everybody okay?" ( His feet? Oh no, not again! ) ( Is this gonna be a Yoi/Koi thing? ) As okay as ever. I'm fine. Mostly. Rei? Asanjya? * Ensof chants some kinda spell, and the area around him lights up. "No reason you shouldn't be. You all ready to go? * Chie blinks once, shuts her flashlight off, and puts it away. She looks around for the two who haven't said anything yet. * Rei is on the ground, and she rolls over. "Are we there yet?" A little bit later and she's on her feet. Ah, light. Is better... *looks around* ... Asanjya? * Chomei looks around too. * Maria blinks. "What, is she not here?" * Rei looks around, too. "Asanjya?" She raises her voice. "HEY! Asanjya!" Get your demon-summoning butt back here! She ought to be... Maybe she went off on her own? How could she not be here? She got lost again. She does that a lot. Or she just didn't get in the teleporter. * Chie yells. "Asanjya! Don't make us come looking for you!" Maybe we went past the teleporter's maximum weight limit, or something. That'd be really stupid! Asanjya wouldn't do that! I mean, not generally, unless someone lured her away with musty tomes of occult knowledge or something. ( Asanjya is our Mary-Anne! But not nearly as annoying. ) * Chomei thinks. "Yup, possible." ( Our who? ) (RSP.) * Chie sighs and puts a hand to her forehead. "I don't believe this." ( I thought Francine was your Mary-Anne ) (Nah. Francine's useful and doesn't go getting kidnapped all the time.) ( Kidnapped? So, our Shigeru? ) (She's not angsty enough.) ( True. Asanjya doesn't angst. ) Weight limit? *looks down at self* Nobody mention weight limit... ( At least, not when there's others around to see her do it. ) * Chie looks around. "Well, if she didn't come with us, we can't exactly go back for her." Nope. Nope! Only one way to go. So I guess we have to keep going, and hope that she can catch up with us. * Ensof starts walking. "This one, in fact. * Maria follows. * Chie starts walking after him. * Chomei shrugs and follows. * Lazar lumbers after. * Chie keeps alert for things! Asanjya, random monsters, what have you. * Rei floats after. "Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean, we could be leaving her behind, and I really don't want her to get hurt or something like that, because that'd be bad, and it's not like she can dial 119 - well, she can - but I'm not sure about reception or even where we are, exactly!" * Ensof leads you down a cave. Deffinately down; you're going downhill! You wanna wait for her? Why would she dial 119? Emergency help number. Oh. Fire, police, hospital, stuff like that. * Maria doesn't know, 'cause she fell through the cracks of the education system. In a big way. Hopefully our cell phones *do* work around here, and she's catching up, and she'll call us. Neat. Maybe I should snag a cell phone when we get back. I hate to admit it, but they're pretty handy. * Rei nodnods. "They are! In a big way. Thiiiiiiis big." She spreads her hands wide. * Maria nods. "I'll make sure to get one from someone who can get another real easy." ... Right. Gotta pay for phone service, you know. You do! Unless you can hack or something, and I'm not gonna do that for you, Maria. ...I do? Lame! Sadly, yes. * Rei nods sagely. ... this something can be discussed after finish mission, I think. Maybe I can get a company phone. Oh. So what do you wanna discuss now, or are we s'posed to be quiet because you're an brooding hunk of rock? Well, we should prolly be quiet because we're sneaking around in the dark and it'd be bad to be noticed. Yeah, yeah... But with you guys, that's prolly unavoidable. I should give you all sneaky lessons one day. Might be fun. Definitely could come in handy. * Lazar would stink out his tongue at Rei, but he really doesn't have one. So he just imagines doing it. Nyah. (You could use the illusion's tongue?) ( Also, the quieter we are, the more incentive Brett has to fast forward. =P ) I can be sneaky! When I'm not exactly here. ( "Fast forwards! You're in the body of a tunnel worm. Whatcha gonna do?" ) ( Maybe, maybe not. This is funnier. =P ) So, how much farther is it? * Lazar stays quiet for the moment, simply lumbering along. * Ensof points to the ground up ahead. "Hmmm... Myconids. Dead ones." That mean something's beaten us here? Sure looks that way. Shit. Dead ones? That's bad. * Maria looks them over. Any obvious wounds? [A creature shaped like a cross between a man and a mushroom rushes out at you! Everyone, ranged defense +1!] ( Well, at least it didn't start screeching. ) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-1) and gets 4. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-1) and gets 6. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+1) and gets 8. ( If you don't make it, body roll +2 ) 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+2) and gets 8. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 6. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+1) and gets 7. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6+2) and gets 8. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+2) and gets 9. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6+2) and gets 12. [Whoever didn't make the defense gets hit by spores! Whoever didn't make the body roll suddenly has their feet and arms stop working.] * Chie jumps out of the way of the cloud of spores. (Except Lazar, who has no nose. He gets covered in yellow gunk instead.) ... eew ... Fuck. * Maria is hit by spores, but only sneezes. "Echew!" Should hit it, Ensof? Echew! * Ensof darts out of the way and in the blink of an eye slashes it diagonally with his greatsword. It gets dead. (The shroom, not the sword) ( No, no! LChu! ) ... guess that no. Everyone okay? Chomei? Rei? Echew! ( Suddenly Chu appears and transmogrifies Lazar into an .mp3! ) It's some kind of paralysis crap. * Rei yelps, but she's still floating. "What the hell!" She tries moving her arms, then sounds more panicked, "I can't move! I mean, I'm flying, but I can't move! My arms. Or..." She twitches, and her tail twitches, too. "Fingers." I can't carry you guys. ... ahem. Ensof, how long until that stuff wears off? Shouldn't be too long. Better carry 'em, though. Right. Laz, be careful with them, okay? * Maria almost sneezes again, but stifles it this time. * Lazar grabs a rock and scrapes the spores off of himself, then grabs Chomei over one shoulder and Rei over the other. * Chie draws her sword and heads for the front. "I'm not gonna let that happen again." * Chie does cast a worried glance over her shoulder, though, just to make sure Laz picked them up gently. * Ensof replaces his sword and starts walking again. "They don't have much by way of intelligence. About as bright as cavemen." * Lazar follows along, trying his best not to bounce Chomei and Rei on his rather stiff shoulders. "If uncomfortable, let know, and I shift position." * Chie keeps hers out. "Yeah, well. Are there more of them out there?" * Chomei grunts. * Rei yelps as Lazar grabs her. "Hey! I might be able to fly! Maybe. But it's not like you get tired from carying me, and I know that from experience, so..." Probably. Hell, in an hour those spores are liable to sprout into new ones. You feel like rock, Lazar. Please tell me how that's not gonna be uncomfortable. Lovely. We'll have to remember that for the way back. Warn us next time? Well, if, for example, I have jagged chunk on shoulder digging into belly button. ( Ew ) That what I worried about. Or if have sore ribs I need be careful of. Normal "Oh, you no soft and fluffy" can no be avoided. * Maria hops up to the cieling and continues there. Do they make golems soft and fluffy? Or are they all rock-hard avengers of wrongdoing and stuff? Pillow golems! No make proper golems that way, no. So they'd be improper golems? Jello golems. People besides Jews sometimes make things like golems, out of... different material. What flavor Jello? Flesh, wood, and iron are pretty common among those other kinds of golems, right? Aww, dammit, you went and got serious again. And here I thought we'd finally managed to convert you. None are common... but yes, those ones featured in most stories like that. ... do remember story about giant marshmellow golem in New York many, many years back... no sure if that true, though. * Chie grins over her shoulder at Chomei for a second. * Chie then laughs. "No, Laz, that's a movie. We should all watch it sometime. It's great fun." Anyhow. Back to mushroom hunting. Actually that did happen once, 'cept it was cheese, not marshmellow. ... ah. Good. Evil marshmellows no be good. Mmmmm, marshmallow. Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS! Only there's no ghosts to bust, and I'd feel kinda sorry doing that, and it was cheese? What kind of cheese? Cheddar? Swiss? Meunster? Meunster, of course. Were there any zombies around? HA! I make funny! American. ... Eew. It was New York. Zombies do love cheese after all. And yes, you did, Laz. There may be hope for you boys yet. What's a ghostbuster, Rei? It's gonna be American or maybe Mozarella. It's someone who busts ghosts! Like me! You know, from that Italian part of America. Kinda. Yeah, only Chie doesn't have the vacuum cleaner! You could make one for me, Rei. But who'd I test it on? Myself would just not be good. Yeah. We'd have to go find unfriendly spirits, and that's really the kinda thing I like avoiding. Italian part of America? ...no, nevermind. ( Also known as "New York City" =p ) Kinda like my neighborhood. It's mostly Chinese. This'd be like that only in America, and with Italians. And probably on a larger scale. But most other golems you meet no going be nearly as pleasant. I think Jewish golems only ones which usually created for good. Others... Oh. Do Italians talk weird like the Chinese do? Yeah, only it's a different kind of weirdness. They speak another language, so if that means they talk 'weird' or something, then yeah. ( Talk weird? Fuhgeddaboudit! ) Oh. * Chie takes another look around for mushrooms. [No shrooms!] How're you doin, Rei? Chomei? [And the paralysis wears off.] Pretty good. Think I can move again. * Rei twitches her tail, then her fingers. "Heeeeey, I can move! I'm free! FREE!" * Chomei hops off. * Rei starts kicking aimlessly. Hope nobody's behind her. It's weird. I thought the mushroom-people would have, like, a city here or something. This is just a cave? All right! * Chomei shrugs. Cave could lead to the city. * Rei squirms out of Lazar's grip and touches ground, walking along. Pretty much. They live in caves in the cave. Oh. Ensof say they smart like cavemen. Cavemen live in cave. Make sense I don't like caves. Not enough room. [The room suddenly gets wider. You're standing on a narrow ledge. Below are some very large shrooms.] Like this one. But you can hang from the... whoa. * Rei looks down. "Aww, no. Tell me we can avoid most of them." * Ensof heads down a narrow path to the side, towards another exit. A veeeery narrow path. Yeah. Oh. * Rei follows Ensof, but instead of touching ground, she floats. * Maria heads along the path, too, not having any trouble balancing. * Chie tucks her sword back in her bag and slowly follows Ensof, one hand on the wall if there's a wall next to the path. * Lazar goes at the end of the group, walking slowly and carefully, testing to make sure the path'll support hit weight. [Some stones crumble of the edge and fall below. But it might. Maybe.] * Lazar sees no other way, and tries his luck, making sure he's a bit behind everyone so nobody else tumbles down if he does. * Chomei walks along... ( Everyone gimme body +3 - acrobatics (balance) ) 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6+1) and gets 11. ( 'Cept Maria and Rei. :P ) 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+5) and gets 9. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6+1) and gets 6. [Chomei makes it across, as do Maria and Rei, being able to fly. Chie and Lazar nearly lose their balances and retreat back before they fall.] Whoa! * Chie nearly slips off, but manages to make it back to the other side. * Rei looks back across. "Guys? Can you make it?" * Chie exhales. "Dunno. I'm gonna have to take it really slow, I think." I can get you across! Yeah? * Rei pauses. "At least, I'm pretty sure I can." Aw fuck... Yeah, maybe Rei can carry you. Yeah! Gimme a sec. ... I think I boned. Or me. Laz... uh... hm. * Rei has a seat on the other side and closes her eyes, going perfectly still. * Rei is now known as SpiritRei We could throw something shiny past the myconids to distract them? Everyone likes shinies. * NinjaDebugger is now known as SleepDebugger * SpiritRei floats up and over to Chie, who can conveniently see her! But the rest of you can't. ~Okay, I'm gonna try to carry you across! I'm pretty sure I can lift you in this form, even if I can't normally.~ Ensof, how strong is big mushroom things? Is danger at all aside from poison spores? * Chie looks at Rei. "Okay. Anythin' you need me to do to make it easier?" Not from the shrooms themselves, but they keep acid jellies as pets. * SpiritRei grins. ~Try not to flail? You can't hold onto me, so I bet it's gonna be kinda creepy.~ She floats around and lifts Chie up. * Chie is lifted. "I'm flying! Kinda." ~Yeah! You're SUPERMAN! Girl. Woman. Whatever. Chie the flying squirrel!~ ... okay. Walking on path no option. Should just try walk through mushrooms, ignore? That's twisted... 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for SpiritRei (2d6-2) and gets 5. * Chie seems to be enjoing it. "I'm not a squirrel. I don't have a tail!" I wouldn't do that. They'd come after you. ~I do, but nobody else can see it, so maybe we can say you're borrowing it for a little bit? You had a tail for a short time a while ago!~ * SpiritRei floats Chie across, carefully. I did, and that was fun. You could. (Yeah, don't want Lazar training us. ;P) But like said, no can really hurt me. Right? * Maria giggles. "Have fun flying, Chie?" * Chie "lands." "Yeah, that was cool. Thanks, Rei." Unless there other path, only options is walk down there or fall down there. ~Welcome! Sorry, Lazar, but I don't think I can carry you.~ * SpiritRei zips back into her own body and wakes up. * Chie looks across the gap at Lazar. "Yeah, this is a problem." * SpiritRei is now known as Rei It's a serious problem. I guess.... * Lazar draws his big ol' sword. "If you have other suggestion, I happy to take. But if hacking through is only way..." Do you know a spell that could float him across, Ensof? No... I never needed one. * Chie frowns. "I can't think of anything." ( Brett, will walking across where the 'shrooms are get me to where I need to go? ) Never needed one and you have collapsing tunnel? ( There's a path up the other side. ) ... okay. Would normally ask for distance fire from you guys, but no want them getting to close, making you no able move. So only do if I really in trouble, okay? ( And how big are these 'big' shrooms? ) * Chie draws her sword. "You got it, Laz. Be careful." * Chie backs off a few steps. [Big, but they don't look like they move. They look like houses more than anything.] (Smurfs!) (Sorry.) * Lazar nods, and does his best to lumber stealthy through the area, putting as much distance between himself and the big shrooms as possible. ( Lumber stealthily. Heh heh... ) ( Body - stealth (move silently) ) 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+1) and gets 10. [Lazar is shwarmed!] * Maria sighs. "Can they even slow him down, really?" * Lazar tries to hack his way through. I don't know. Does this count as "really in trouble?" ( While making as much foward progress as possible. ) They won't follow if we get to the gateway. How far's the gateway? * Rei peers. "Way to go, Lazar. Gateway?" * Ensof points. "Thataway, some distance." 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+2) and gets 10. 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-6) and gets -2. Okay. Let's get moving before we get swarmed or something even more than we have to. Lazar is slowed, but hacks on through. * Ensof nods and starts down the path. * Lazar keeps on hacking. "I just want pass through. Go away..." * Maria heads that way, too. * Chie waits until she's sure Laz is through, and then hurries after Ensof. After five minutes, the shrooms give up and gather around a shroomtable. * Chomei waits, then follows. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 9. [They're doing something! Lazar has no idea what!] * Lazar tries to take advantage of their giving up by lumbering as quickly as he can to the other side. [But whatever it is, it's more interesting than he is.] ( Forget fighting! It's GO FISH NIGHT! ) ( ...run, Lazar, run! ) [Lazar catches up! And just in time, because a short distance from the shroom village you find the remains of skeletons and corpses. The corpses are apparently a few days old.] * Lazar does, in fact, run. Not like the wind. Not even close to the wind. More like the rock. * Lazar scrapes himself off with a rock, trying to get the bigger clumps of spores off, before he rejoins the group. "... that rarely good sign." Not really. Nope! But we've got to go in there so we're not out here! * Maria shivers a little. Nah, can't be. Can't be what? Hmm... Guess we missed a fight. Can't be a good thing. * Chie adjusts her grip on her sword. "Yeah. So. Onward?" ( They were all lawyers. ) (Depends on the type of lawyer. ;p) (Okay... So maybe it can.) Go. I watch rear, in case mushrooms follow. * Chomei nods. * Chomei summons Rownal, while he's at it. Can't be too careful. * Maria just keeps walking. She seems nervous. [You walk and walk! Eventually, you come across a grey stone wall, with a gate shaped like a keyhold. It's open and unguarded.] This is the gateway, I take it? It's really... gatey. Yeah. Normally it's very secure. But? Well, it ain't now. Great. Really great. Wow. A gateway. Never coulda guessed. Any idea why it's not secure? I suspect it has to do with all the dead things we've been seein'. ...did someone actually break in? ...and then leave the door open? Sloppy. * Ensof goes through. "Seems like it. They got through here at least. That likely no is good sign, since person most looking for you people is Dracula. That is sloppy, though. * Rei peers. "Okay, who got through? Bad people? Good people? Clowns?" We think it's bad. Oh. So it's either the bad people or the clowns. [And then a clown attacked! Roll init!] (Seriously?) ( Seriously :P ) ( ... ) ( ^_^_v ) d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (d6+7) and gets 11. (this is do not give the GM ideas night) d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (d6+8) and gets 11. Rei? You were right. Next time, don't be right. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (d6+6) and gets 10. d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (d6+8) and gets 12. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (d6+7) and gets 8. Why not? I like clowns! [Order: Chomei, Chie, Maria, Clown, Ensof, Lazar.] ...clowns? [Chomei's turn!] * Chomei eyes the clown. "What... the fuck." My feelings exactly. Send in the clowns o/~ * Chomei aims his bow at the clown, but doesn't shoot. (Hold action.) [Chie's turn!] * Chie shrugs, gets a running start, then jumps and strikes at the clown with her sword. (Chanbara Master) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 2. [Chie slashes the clown! Ouch... Hope he wasn't a good guy.] ( Send in... the clowns... ) [Maria's turn!] ( If he was a good guy, we wouldn't be rolling init. =P ) (He attacked us.) (Besides, he's a *clown.*) ( He didn't attack yet. He can't until it's his init. ) ( Good thing nobody has Phobia: Clowns. ) (Semantics. ;p You know what I mean.) * Maria seems confused. (Holding action.) [The clown's turn!] [The clown is unhappy about being cut by Chie. He quickdraws a pie and a seltzer bottle! (Chie and Chomei, ranged def rolls at +1!)] 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-1) and gets 8. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-1) and gets 7. ( Worst... dual wield... EVAR! =P ) (Bizarrely effective, though.) ... [Chie is hit point blank in the face with a pie! Chomei meanwhile loses his aim from being squirted with the seltzer bottle! And the pie smells SO good that Chie can't concentrate on anything but that.] [Rei's turn!] (What kind of pie?) I can't believe I'm seeing this. ( Apple and cream ) (Evil Pie!) Mmm. Mmm! This is really *good* pie! I hope it's not better than the pie I make, or I'm gonna have to double- work extra hard to make better pies! * Rei tosses something underhanded at the clown. Or not. It doesn't look like anything. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-1) and gets 7. * Chie wipes her chin off, then licks her finger. Mmm, pie. [Ensof's turn!] * Ensof stands there and tries not to laugh. Much. [Lazar's turn!] ... Right. Chie! Apologize to the nice clown for hitting him. * Chie seems distraced by the pie. Pie! Pie pie pie pie pie pie pie. * Lazar is very confused. Regardless, he tries to punch the clown. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-3) and gets 1. [Lazar punches the clown! ... Or so he thought. But the clown isn't there now; he's been replaced by a giant rubber nose, that goes "HONK!" When Lazar hits it.] [Chomei's turn!] ...okay, that's just creepy. Alright, that's just annoying. (ninja clown!) ( Clownarimi no jutsu ^^ ) * Chomei takes aim at the clown and shoots it! (*snerk*) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-3) and gets 5. ... I seen creepier. [Chomei shoots the clown through the side!] [Chie is distracted by pie!] [Maria's turn!] * Chie has pie! It's almost as good as drugs! (*nearly dies*) ( So the pie makes you crit? ) * Maria just stands there. Seriously, how can you just attack a clown? [Clown's turn!] [The clown produces two new objects: A red nose like the one he's wearing and a hoop. (Lazar, melee defense +1. Rei... uh.... Soul roll? Yeah. Soul roll - mind shield.] 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-1) and gets 6. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 5. [The clown puts the red nose on Lazar's and honks it. "HONK!" It stays there. He then holds up the hoop and looks at Rei expectantly, but nothing happens.] * Rei beams and waves. [Rei's turn!] * Lazar looks really confused now. ... I have big red honky nose. So, Mr. Clown! What're you doing here? Maybe you should go meet your buddies; they ran off in a clown car. I think there's only eight... there should be more room! ...he is so not a threat. * Rei points down towards the shrooms. [Ensof's turn!] * Ensof chuckles. "Sure is amuzing, though." [Lazar's turn!] Should I hit? No hit? ... silly question. Yeah, but why are we fighting him? I mean, he sure didn't kill all the mushrooms, right? * Lazar tries to punch the clown again. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-3) and gets 0. [Whack! Lazar punches the clown in the rubber nose.] * Chie consumes pie. [Chomei's turn!] ... Right. Someone tell me what the fuck this clown is doing here? I think he's getting beat up by Lazar. But not really, since the nose is in the way? If someone have better idea... [Chie comsumes pie!] Swap jokes with him? Go around him? [Maria's turn!] Ignore him? Are you sure he isn't a mime? He hasn't said anything. ( Clownmime! ) * Maria continues not hurting the poor clown. * ImpAtom is now known as Atom * ChanServ sets mode: +o Atom If he no threat, get to stop attacking, then I stop punching. [The clown tips his hat to Rei and walks towards the shrooms. But then he turns around and taps Chie on the shoulder. Hmm? PIE! [The clown hits her in the face with another pie, then zips off towards the shrooms!] * Rei cheers! Mmmm. * Chie consumes more pie. :9 S'good stuff. * Chie then notices everybody else looking at her. "What?" See? Nice clown. He will give the mushrooms pie. * Chomei chuckles. "Nothing." S'very good pie. Anyhow. * Rei giggles. "Those shrooms won't know what hit 'em." Have they never had pie? * Chie finishes, then wipes the last of it from her face with one of her handy cloths. * Maria steals some of Chie's pie. ... okay, it not just Japan that messed up. Entire world messed up. * Maria nods. * Ensof chuckles. "Well, I didn't see that coming, that's for sure." Yes, but it has pie. That makes up for a lot of things. Does it make up for being utterly annoying? Not entirely. But it can help. That is good pie. :9 Isn't it? * Chie grins. * Maria nods. Weirdness follows us like weirdness to a pie contest. * Rei pauses. Clowns to a pie contest! Yeah, that's what I meant. ... so, what, gate to you people opened by clown? That doesn't make sense, Rei. Clowns like pie? Chie likes pie! Therefore, Chie is a clown. I am not! I have no idea. Are so! But, y'know, if you were to make a pie, and bring it to a future meeting, I wouldn't object too much. But that doesn't make me a clown. ... we should probably find out, then, no? I'd need, y'know, somethin' like wildly-colored hair... oh, wait. Well, I don't have a squeaky red nose, at least. * Maria pokes Chie's hair. "That's covered." [Lazar retains a red rubber nose, by the way.] * Maria walks over to Lazar, hops up, and plucks his nose off. [The nose honks, but doesn't come off.] * Chie snickers. "See? Laz 's the clown, not me." ... hmm. * Rei giggles. * Maria blinks. * Lazar shrugs. "It silly looking, but... it no trying kill me." * Maria is now dangling by her hold on the clown nose. "This is different." That's what you think. Haven't you ever heard of were-clowns? Chomei, that's two jokes in one night. I think that's a new record for you. * Chie grins at him. [The nose "HOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNKKKKKKS" as Maria does that.] ( Oh. My. God, Chie. Look at that nose. He looks like one of those clown- guys.. students, or something. ) (Hehe.) (*laughs*) * Chomei smiles. * Maria lets go of the nose and drops to the ground. Always knew you had it in you. [The nose stops honking as Maria lets go.] * Lazar tries to yank the nose off himself. [The nose honks, but doesn't come off.] * Lazar shrugs, and lets go. "Is no big deal. Let's go." All right. * Ensof nods. "Alright. We're almost there, yo." He goes through the gateway. * Chie picks her sword back up and heads for the gate. * Maria follows! [Session End!]