[You're all at the bathhouse near (but technically not in) Izumo! Your mission is to get the blood orb from one Darcy O'Riley. Chomei ate a chili-dog that was REALLY FRICKIN' HOT!! for lunch and thought he wouldn't be able to participate tonight, but he's feeling better now, much to his surprise. You're at your rooms!] [Session Start!] * Chie looks at Chomei. "You sure you're feelin' okay?" * Chomei shrugs. "Yeah, I'm fine." Good. So, I guess it's time to go talk to the vampire, huh? * Chomei nods. * Asanjya is, surprise, reading books. * Lazar is not playing with a Slinky. He's standing in the hallway, 'dressed' in a black button-down short-sleeved shirt and olive cargo pants. * Rei is lying on her stomach in her and Maria's room. BOX is up and running, and two cables are running from it, to... controllers? Yup. She and Maria each have one. * Rei 's tongue is stuck out of the corner of her mouth in concentration, and she's wearing bright yellow shorts and a dark green tank top. Her feet are bare. Apparently, she's stayed away from the yukata because of the lack of a tail- hole, as the tail's twitching in the air while she plays. * Chie gets up and knocks on the door of Rei and Maria's room. * Maria is sitting spread-eagle in front of BOX, wiggling her toes and mashing buttons. She's wearing her usual clothes, but her boots aren't on. "This game is so fake." Yeah, but isn't it great! Super Cow Combo Attack! And come in! * Chomei waits outside behind Chie while she does that. ( Just wait until Rei upgrades... to XBOX! ) * Rei mashes buttons furiously. Her guy on the screen (ordinary looking, white gi, black hair) turns into a cow and... er, bullrushes Maria's character. The people who made it can't know anything about fighting! The guy's style is completely made-up, and he leaves himself so open I could drive a boat into him! (... No.) ( You mean the Xbox^2 right?) * Chie opens the door and pokes her head in. She waves. "Hey! What'cha playing?" * Maria grrs and manages to convince her character that jumping over Rei's character is the right thing to do. * Rei cheers. "Boat follow up!" And the guy drops a boat on the other character's head. Life gauge go down! "Oh, we're playing Kung Fu Combat From Beyond The Stars." Aww! * Maria args as her character does get hit by the boat. * Chie blinks once. "Is it fun?" Sure! See! There's no way a real guy could do that! I'll have to play you later. I think it might be time to move out. You have animals and boats and- hey, someone could do that maybe. Maybe there's a spell that makes you drop boats on people. We should ask Asanjya. (Tim could do that :P) She'd probably know, although they'd be demonic boats. * Chomei raises an eyebrow. "Games later. We've got work to do." * Rei tries to punch Maria's character. "Do demonic boats eat people?" * Maria mashes buttons, but gets punched. * Chie leans against the doorway. Work? Oh, right. The lady with the orb. * Rei doesn't look up. "She's in suite four. I found out last night. Do you think we should try talking to her before the potential property damage?" * Lazar wanders over to Asanjya. "So, with Blood Orb... stake no work, cross no work, only thing work is beat up until no can move, take orb before can heal?" Sure. Talking is good. Or, if nothing else, I could just swipe the thing from her. * Rei presses more buttons. "She's pretty mellow, relatively. I mean, no recent killing sprees. I forget. Does the blood orb keep a vampire from having to feed?" I don't remember. We could promise to give it back when we're done, couldn't we? ... no mean offend, Chie, but that no going work. I mean, if she's not really hurting anybody and is more-or-less minding her own business. We could. Vampyre no going to just hand over thing what make her no killable. * Maria pouts as her character gets KO'ed. * Rei looks thoughtful as she keeps fighting. "I wonder if that'd work for- oh." Well, it depends on who knows she's got it. Never know until you ask. She might not even know she has it. Or, if she's nice, she won't want to hand over the thing that keeps her from having to go out and kill people. If nobody's gunning for her, we can probably have it back to her before anyone else even realizes. Laz, how often do vampires have to drink blood? * Maria sets her controller down. * Rei sets her controller down, then works on packing everything away. She looks around. (Is Asanjya in the room now?) (Gah, was on phone with mom. I was in my and Lazar's room. <_<) Mmm... usually about one time per week. (Well, whenever you get here. ;P) * Lazar waves to Asanjya. "Come out, little one. Have questions about stupid no killable vampyre orb." It depends on the strain of vampire. * Asanjya looks up from a mouldy tome within which she has cleverly hidden The Neutronium Alchemist. "One moment." She puts the books down, and emerges. Yes? ( ...Full Metal Asanjya? Gah! ;_; ) Well, low-end estimate? I'm trying to figure out weather we could get the thing back to her by the time she needs to feed next. If the orb makes her not need to feed. Vampyre can use animal blood, or cold blood from hospital for while, but need blood from real person or else waste away. Again, it depends on the strain of vampire, Lazar. * Rei waves cheerfully at Asanjya. Seems she's not upset with her anymore, if she ever was. "Hi! Can you check to see if the blood orb keeps a vamp from having to feed or not?" ... I know, Chomei. Speaking general. * Chomei shrugs. Sure. And is only way to stop vampyre with Blood Orb to beat until no can move, then take orb while healing? * Asanjya doesn't seem distraught about anything at all. Possibly slightly cheerier than normal, but that's not saying much. Her hair darts inside the room and snags a book. I think we should ask her before we resort to force. She's got a clean rep. * Asanjya maneuvers it around with her hair, flopping it so it's right way up, and it opens to exactly where she needs it. "As I think we went over before, the vampir still needs to feed, and the only remaining weakness is being unable to cross threshholds uninvited." So we're not going to tell her to come stop by. * Chomei nods. * Rei snickers. "Okay. I guess we should talk to her then, and see if we can't come up with some sort of deal. Since if she can walk around in daylight, she's probably awake right now. * Rei grabs her backpack and shoulders it. Yeah. * Asanjya closes the book and tucks it away in her cloak, without moving her hands. Showoff. Works for me. * Lazar frowns. "No really believe in talking with vampyres..." *looks in the others* "But I outvoted, so we try." * Maria walks over to her boots and starts putting them on. I agree. To be honest, I feel less good about it if the orb doesn't take away the feeding thing. But it's still worth a shot, I guess. d&d (mischan; oi) (Hey Arsenal.) * Lazar stares at the odd man with the guns as he walks by again. "Maybe should try to buy some guns from odd guy?" Nah, all he wants to do is play D&D. Dee-en-dee? What's that? It's another game-thing. It's a roleplaying game involving dungeons, dragons, orcs, and pie! We'll explain more later. For now, vampire. ... No pie. * Lazar doesn't ask. "Just... be careful. If hundred-fifty years old, is powerful vampyre, even without orb. With... very much no want get bite." Rather foolish. The Monster Manual contains nothing on Demonic Law. * Asanjya makes a slight smile. (*groan*... the computer interrupted me while typing a /join command...) (Well, just be glad we don't kill you like we did to Cham so many times. :P) (Before he ended up joining us. ^_~) (;_;) ( Asanjya> I think the Book of Vile Cheese does, tho. Or if not that, Faces of Evil: The Fiends, from the old Planescape setting. ) * Chie shudders. "*Definitely* don't want to get bit. Again." (Hey, bad fiction's her mileau. And D&D is nothing if not open-ended bad fiction.) (You could also check the Fiend Folio.) (And, Maria's right. The Book of Vile Cheese has tons on demonic law.) Send Lazar in first, then. ( question is, how accurate is it? ^_^) (Good idea, Chomei!) That is always plan. * Chie snerks. "Not the worst of ideas, no." Okay. Lazar can go first and be a walking brick wall or whatever. * Rei heads off to suite four! Stone wall, Rei. * Chie heads after her. As long as he can keep his stake under control. *smile* * Maria follows! * Asanjya follows. * Lazar walks along. "No matter. With orb, stake no work." (Lazar fails his double entendre check!) * Chomei follows. ... but yes. I no start fight, unless rest of you say is okay. (Lazar needs to work on his accounts payable. ) [You get to the vampire's room. It's one of the large suites in the back corners of the building.] Well, if she hits you first, it's okay. Obviously. * Chie snickers. * Chomei snerks. * Rei knocks! Because she's polite! [No answer!] * Lazar nods, and stands a bit to the side of Rei, giving her a clear view of the doorway while putting himself in position to interpose himself. * Chie leans against the back wall of the hallway and waits. * Chomei waits too. * Rei switches to English. "" [No answer!] She's not in? * Rei frowns a little and looks to the others. "Yeah, maybe she's in the spring. I think I wanna go astral and look inside, though. Or she's not answering the door. * Chie frowns. "Rei, be careful." * Rei nods. "I will." She runs off to her room. * SpiritRei zips by, though only Chie can see her. ~Okay, looking in now! Be back soon!~ * Chie nods and watches her go. * Lazar steps back from the door a bit, and kinda mills about. * Maria loiters. [There's a sign nearby that says "No loitering"] * Maria loiters anyway. She's a rebel! * Chie isn't going anywhere until she sees Rei come back out or knows she's otherwise safe. * Maria cosiders stealing the sign. * Chomei does the loitering thing. * SpiritRei pokes her head through the door, upside down. ~Hey, I can't see a thing. I'm gonna turn on the lamp, so if you hear annoyed mutters, you know why.~ Whatever. * Chie laughs softly. * Lazar nods. * SpiritRei grins and zips back in. * Maria frowns. Maybe she's asleep. Is possible. Or out. * Shadow-afk is now known as Shadow ...she sure is taking her time in there. Yeah, I know. * SpiritRei zips out. ~Okay! Let's go back so I can tell you all about this.~ * Chie is quite relieved. "All right." * Maria blinks. "Go back? To the rooms?" Bad to talk about it here. * Chomei starts back to the rooms. Maybe is getting ready... okay. *heads back towards rooms* * Maria shrugs and heads back to the rooms. [You go back!] * Chie heads into Rei and Maria's room. * SpiritRei is now known as Rei * Rei opens her eyes and sits up, rubbing at the back of her head. "Okay!" * Maria arrives at her room. "How long are we gonna be here? Should I keep my boots on?" We'll see. Here's the deal. It looks like she's wearing the blood orb around her neck. And, yeah, she's asleep. And she's got a big box that says do not open, so I actually didn't open it. Mmm. I could remove it from her neck without waking her up, I think. Or do you want to wait until she wakes up? Well, that is your kinda specialty. On the other hand, she might not take too kindly to it bein' stolen. True. And no want you be alone in room with vampyre if she light sleeper. Yeah, that'd be bad. I suppose. You think we should just wait for tonight when she wakes up, and then go talk to her? * Lazar frowns a bit. "Know my opinion. So leave it up to little ones." I guess the fewer vampires we piss off, the better... on the other hand, if she refuses, she'll probably be more on her guard. That is a problem. * Rei idly tries smoothing her hair. It doesn't work. Yeah, but what're we gonna do otherwise? Attack her in her sleep? * Lazar nods. If it came to that as a last resort... But I'd much rather it didn't. Believe me, a part of me wants to just go in there and kick her ass to take it. But, we really don't need that right now, do we. No. 'Last resort' means we try talking first. If that doesn't work, *then* we kick her ass. * Lazar nods. "Is why I no pressing issue." * Maria nods back. So we are agreed. Wait until night, talk to her, and see her response. * Rei plays with her tail. "Okay, so we wait 'till tonight. Anyone wanna go to the springs?" Yeah, sure. * Maria grins. "Sounds good to me." (More fanservice sounds good for everyone!) (Skin is for showing, not for not showing. ) (Nude Powerbomb! *splash*) [You kill time!] [It's now 7:00 p.m.] * Rei finishes stabbing the time with a butterknife. Actually, she's finishing the dinner they ordered. Yum! :9 (Yay dinner!) (Dinner yay!) * Maria is finishing dinner, too. She eats more than Rei does. * Lazar is just kinda hanging out in his and Asanjya's room, shadowboxing. * Chie is playing Kung Fu Combat From Beyond the Stars on BOX. She asked Rei first. (Hey, the vampire didn't eat her!) (Dang! I mean, yay!) * Chomei is watching Chie play. * Chie is playing as the Obligatory Female Character in Skimpy Costume. Right now OFCiSC is dodging a variety of projectiles thrown by a big, hulking guy, including a kitchen sink. * Rei swallows and says, "With that character, B X Y Z A L down is the lightning ground shock. I think you should try it. It hits everything standing there!" * Chie pushes buttons frantically. "Okay, I'll- dammit, he got me with a pine tree!" Aww, not the pine tree! Yes! * Rei scoots over to watch and help. * Chie sighs. "You want a turn?" She holds the controller out. * Rei shakes her head. "Eating." She holds up her plate. "Chomei should get a turn!" * Chie holds the controller to Chomei. "You want it?" Nah. Guess I'll try it again. * Chie picks the Young, Spunky Martial Arts Girl this time. "Okay, this time I'm gonna kick your ass!" ...she's fighting with a kite. Well, it's a scary kite! It doesn't have to make sense. It's a fighting game. If you get the combo right, it becomes a whole bunch of razor edged kites! No, she isn't. She just wants you to think it's fighting. I know, it has teeth and all, but it's still a *kite*... oh? And then she follows it up by a kick to the teeth! Cool! What's the combo? * Rei rattles off a series of buttons and moves, then, "You can see the movies on the select menu. It pauses. Uh, don't pause when he's in the middle of doing that, though. * Chie pauses before Rei says not to. "Oh, *damn*... I didn't think you could do that with an endtable." * Rei winces. "Yeah. Watch out for the falling china!" * Chie unpauses. "Ow, ow, ow, ow... oh, and a serving tray. That's just wrong." At least it's a plas- look, he's tired! Go go go! * Chie pushes the buttons and does the moves and gets the razor-edged kites. "Yeah! Take *that*!" * Rei cheers, waving her fork! Noodle gets in Chomei's hair. * Chomei raises an eyebrow and takes noodle out of his hair. "... Right. _" * Chie pumps a fist in the air. "I *win*!" VICTOLY! Good job Chie. You've got another fight after that, though. Yeah! Oooh, next round's starting... * Chie blinks. Then blinks again. "Is that a guy or a girl?" You can never tell. It's a girl who dresses like a guy who used to actually be a guy but is now a girl. * Lazar shadowboxes s'more, concentrating mostly on sweeping clothesline-type blows. * Maria eyes Rei. "You're kidding." * Rei shakes her head at Maria. "No! It's her whole storyline! And in the end- um- I won't spoil it!" * Chie keeps going. "At least my girl *is* a girl. I think. Right?" * Rei nods. "Yeah. That one actually is." * Maria finishes eating and sets her plate aside. * Chie pushes more buttons. "Oooh! The kite can carry people up into the air and then drop them." Yeah, isn't it cool? You don't hurt them much that way, but you get style points. Style points? Is that what the thingie in the upper left-hand corner is? Yeah! * Lazar stops after a bit, and wanders over to the others. "Always amaze at how little ones can be relaxed with everything going on." You fill it up all the way and you can pull off a super! * Rei smiles at Lazar. "I'm faking it!" * Maria watches. "I could kick either character's but. And steal their things, too." * Chie works on getting the meter to fill up. "If I didn't, Laz, I'd go fucking nuts." You get desensitized after a while. * Chie ties the boy/girl up in the kite string and sends hir spinning across the screen. "Ooh, more style points!" What happened to Cham Mmm... all good answer. Not really. Huh? ( Shh. Session. ) (JCat: Parens, please.) (sorry) ( s'okay ) (Cham's cable's giving him major problems.) * Rei looks at the lady peeking in the room. "Um, wrong room. Try a different one! Maybe down the hall?" She waves vaguely. "By the way, like your clip on tail." Her own tail twitches. (But congrats; you get a walk-on part. ^_^) * Chomei glances at the woman who just asked something about a 'Cham'. "Yeah." I win again! Oooh, crap, I think this next guy is the cow guy. ...cow guy? COW GUY! * Rei cheers! He can turn into a cow and he smashes things with boats! What, exactly, do boats have to do with being a cow? Oh, that one. ( That my Uncle Moishe! ... ) Wah! * Chie makes her character frantically jump. * Rei thinks. "I dunno. I haven't finished his story- huh? Oh." Watch out for the milk. There's no milk! Only boats! * Lazar peers curiously at the game, obviously not quite following what's going on. The boats can sail on milk! * Chie groans. "He got me. I think I need a break." My fingers are starting to get stiff. Holding a game controller is *not* like holding a sword. * Chie holds it out. "Anyone?" I'll pass. * Rei puts her plate and fork down and grabs the controller. She wipes one hand on her shorts. "Okay. Here we go." * Chie settles in next to Chomei and watches Rei go. * Rei goes through character select and picks a young woman in traditional Chinese dress, with a feather fan and big, fancy hat. Cool hat. (Hee!) Yeah! She's got this many hat attack, where she throws her hat, and there's one under it, so she throws that, and one under that... and it's kinda cheesy, 'cause it stuns the first two or three hits. Anyway! *coughcheesecough* * Rei starts the game and goes up against Cow Guy. "MOO." Kick his ass, Rei! * Rei bites her tongue and starts mashing buttons furiously. "Come on, come on... awww, cow! No! Jump! Jump faster! BOAT!" * Maria watches. * Chomei raises an eyebrow. * Maria looks at Chomei. * Rei makes her jump on the boat, then throw hats at the cow guy, making him fall over, and hitting him with a lightning kick. "Rar! Hat style point. Chie, is the style meter going up?" Oh yeah. *Way* up. How are you getting it to go up so fast? Doesn't matter if you damage, as long as you connect. And you can land *on* the boat? Wish I'd known that. Uh, sorry. Kinda tricky, gotta move just the right speed... * Chie looks over at Chomei. "If I didn't know better, Chomei, I'd say you're pretty familiar with this game." * Rei makes her bat him with the feather fan, doing almost no damage. But the style meter goes up really fast! * Chie looks back at the screen. "Hey, the meter's full!" Three two won blast off! I've played a fighting game or two before. They're pretty much the same. I kinda like this one, though. Even with the cow. * Chie moves so that she's lying on her stomach with her feet in the air. * Rei mashes buttons. And gets hit. Then sticks her tongue out, dodges a couple more, mashes more buttons, and pulls off the Rule The World combo, where the woman points with her feather fan, and a bunch of crazy guards that look kind of like the Chinese mafia run in and beat him up. His life hits zero, and he gets cuffed and dragged off the screen. "Victory!" Nice! Yeah, but now my style meter's gone. * Rei pouts. You can get it back next round? Yeeeah, I guess- oh! Starting! * Rei goes back to buttonmashing. What's this one do? Uh, well- * Rei makes her dodge. "This one likes-" *dodge* "-fast attacks with-" *duck punch roll* "a caged canary." Poor bird! Poor bird! It's a demon bird! Uppercut'em when he tries to jump-attack you. Oh. Yeah, that explains the glowing red eyes. Glowing red eyes are EVIL. What about glowing blue eyes? Not so evil. * Rei does as Chomei suggests, misses the timing, and gets punked. She scrambles her character back to her feet. I try play video game with Peter once. Got excited and crushed controller. Peter no let me play again. ( Peter played video games? O.o ) The *prof* played games? Oh, man! ( It was his secret shame. ) I wonder how he's doin', anyway. You ever hear from him, Laz? ( He's no longer with us, so I'm free to make shit up. =P ) (>____>) Doesn't surprise me, honestly. He did! Awwww, and I never challenged him. Not much, but did sometimes. And no speak to him much more than rest of you do. I'd thought he'd adjust his tie, make some sorta harrumphing noise and say that they were a pointless waste of his valuable time. But that's just me. (Peter != Kaede) (I know. ^_~) Well, that what he did when first caught him playing. After I no buy, he admit. * Rei mashes. "I kinda miss the prof." I wonder how he's doing. Oh! I should send him a postcard! * Chie snickers. "Yeah, I kinda do, too. Although gods know what he'd think of everything we've gotten up to since then." * Rei thinks that over, then frowns and keeps playing. "Hi! We went to hell and back and didn't even get you a T-shirt!" * Chie does not mention the other missing member of the group. * Rei is silent for a bit, then she pipes up with, "Do you even *want* a hellish t-shirt?" I don't think they had t-shirts. Why would he want a t-shirt from hell? Although we should ask Asanjya if we can get her nose outta her book. ... Can't you take a joke? * Lazar frowns. "Plus, we no exactly end on best note before he leave." No! Ooooh. Sorry. I can't take jokes. They're outlawed, you hear me? Outlawed! Anything that I say is to be taken in the utmost seriousness, because it's definitely not in a joking nature, especially when I talk about how you are lame. * Chie sits up. "Mmmh. Think I've got time for a quick soak before we go off to talk to the vampire?" Sure. Only if you take me with you! * Rei finishes off her fight and tosses the controller down. ( Bow chika-wah-wah. ) Sounds good to me. * Chie taps her chin consideringly. "I *guess*..." She grins. * Rei grins back. "Uh huh." Okay, then. Let's go! * Maria heads off for the changing room thingy. * Rei jumps to her feet and runs out. "Last one in the spring is a flying potato!" * Chie stands up and stretches. "Back in a bit... and hey, wait for me!" * Chie runs after Rei. * Maria runs ahead of both of you. Nyah! ... what heck. Can think about how want to do this if come to fight just as well in spring as in room. * Chomei shrugs. "Whatever. Bug me when you're ready to talk to her." He gets up and heads to his room. [Session End!]