[Day: Friday, October 5th. Time: 9:00 p.m.] [You're all at the Red Dragon Chinese restaurant. Nice place. Only it's been trashed. Lei Ren, the apparent owner or partial owner or maybe-she- just-looks-like-the-owner-'cause-she's-Chinese, is also there, along with her brother Yun, 'cept Yun's in a coma and not going anywhere anytime soon.] [Herman's not there! Neither is Ashley. Neither is Ling, who's Lei's sister, 'cause she's been kidnapped. By who? Yun knows, probably, but... coma thing.] [Anywho, Session Start!] * Alys fights the urge to poke Yun until he moves, because even she knows it's not nice to poke coma-fied people. * Togo frowns. "We're not gonna be able to do anything unles we figure out who took the girl. Help me look around, see if the people who did this left any sorta clue." * Khalil inspects around the restaurant quietly for any clues. He's been quiet since he's got here. * Lukas glances to Alys and responds to her question, "Well, yeah, we could... " * Ten is cute, and inanimate, and mostly in Lukas's backpack. ( Gimme awareness checks, everyone looking around. ) * Lukas frowns. "But do ya think we should? Since he, uh, didn't show up earlier?" Beat. "Well, okay, _I_ almost didn't show up earlier, so I guess that's not a great indicator." Can't hurt to call and ask, right? The worst he can do is say rude things and hang up on you. 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-6) and gets 7. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Khalil (2d8-2) and gets 10. * Lukas smirks. "Yeah, that's the absolute worst he could do to me." He reaches inside his jacket and pulls a small headset up to his ear/mouth. "Sure it is." Then he makes pressy-button motions inside his jacket! Not finding anything. (Yes, I'm calling Herman. I gots his digits! XD) [Lei nods. "I didn't find anything either."] (As in his fingers?) (Yes. Of course. His fingers.) * Khalil frowns slightly as he looks around. "I do not find anything either." Which leaves us at a dead end. *turns to Lei* Sure you can't think of anyone specific who might come after her like this? Anyone been hovering around the restaurant? * Lukas responds to the phone, "Uh, hey." Pause. "Volt. Missed you at storytime fun." [Lei thinks for a minute, then shakes her head.] * Alys remembers she should probably be looking around, and does so. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8) and gets 9. * Lukas smirks faintly, then replies to whatever was said with, "There's a guy in a coma here, and it ain't one of those natural 'I got brained with a frying pan' comas." Pause. "Was thinkin' maybe you could help, since he's the only one that knows anything about this restaurant-and-supernatural-fighter-team being attacked." * Togo runs a hand through his hair. "Got a source who always seems to know what's going on in the supernatural world, but I'd only give it 1-in-10 odds he'd give us a straight answer." So we have no leads. Was anyone else around during this incident? [Lei: "I'm not sure. I wasn't here."] * Khalil mmms, rubbing his chin. "I wonder..." * Lukas rattles off the address they're at. 'Cause he knows it! Then he says, "I'll try to keep peoples' panic reflexes down while we wait, but there's probably a time limit, so, yeah." Pause. "See you here." Perhaps they left a scent. * Khalil then glances at Lukas, raising a brow. * Alys looks at Lukas. "Panic reflex. Is that anything like when you go to the doctor and he hits your knee?" * Lukas puts his headset away and looks down to Alys. "Only if it involves screaming." Then he speaks up more generally. "Herman's on his way." He looks down at the coma guy. "Hopefully he can take good care of the guy and get him on his feet before something bad happens." * Alys meanders over toward Lei and enjoys the fact that someone is shorter than her. So... yeah. Herman gets here, and the guy wakes up, and we're gold. Or at least pyrite. [Lei is short! You people are like giants to her.] * Togo turns to Lei. "How powerful was your sister, anyway?" [Lei blinks and shrugs. "More powerful that me. I don't know much about magic."] I meant more... could she see the future in detail? Vague images? What could she do? * Khalil eyes Togo as he inquires. "Umm... She had a bunch of spells relating to the five elements. Like, she could set things on fire or make big chunks of metal." [She looks at her brother "Yun's the psychic. He'd be the one who could do what you're asking, I think."] Ah, sorry. *pauses* At the risk of stating the obvious, my guess is that someone wants to take advantage of her abilities. Can he dowse? I tried once, but I'm really crap at it. [She nods. "But who?"] "Umm... I'm not sure. Maybe? He should be able to find Ling if we can wake him..."] * Togo shrugs. "Lotsa people could find use for that kinda power. Good thing is that they need her alive for that." Does he pass out like this often, Miss...Ren was it? [Lei shakes her head. "No. At least, not that I'm aware."] * Lukas just stands there. No need to pester the girl more! If it's a psychic injury, that'd explain why we can't wake him up. * Khalil fiddles with things in the restaurant. "Not aware.." he repeats, lost in thought. "It has to be an injury?" [Someone knocks on the door.] ( Alys! As the exorcist, your job is to get all phones and doors. ) (HAH. She can't do exorcisms! :P) * Alys runs over to the door. "Who's there?" (I dunno, why don't you open it!) (As our ward flinger!) (It could be a monster. Or an evil pizza guy.) (Or an evil monster pizza guy) (or a guy with evil pizza monsters) * Alys glares at the door. "If you don't tell me, I'm not letting you in!" [Someone knocks on the door. Again] * Alys sticks her tongue out at the door and shuns it by turning away. Shun! * Lukas frowns and says snappishly, "Open the door already." Sheesh, fine. (Front door, right? Is it still locked?) ( It's locked, but can be unlocked from the inside ) * Alys unlocks the door and opens it. ( *Alys gets eaten by a vampire.) (x_X) * Herman is on the other side in all his punky glory. His pipe's in his left hand, and his right was raised to knock again. "About damn time," he says, lowering his hand and walking in. You could've just told me who you were. She did ask whom it was. Yeah, and I can hear her through a soundproof restaurant door. I'm not the one with supernatural senses around here. * Khalil eyes Herman at that comment. Er. Sorry, then. * Herman doesn't eye Khalil, instead looking for where the others are holed up. "It's cool." [Lei speaks! "I take it you're Herman?"] * Herman waves at Lei. "Yeah. What's going on? Volt said something about some guy who's in a coma." * Lukas is standing near unconscious-guy, and gestures down at him helpfully. "Here's the man of the hour." * Herman looks over at Lukas at that, then nods and walks over, kneeling next to the man and getting a good look. "What happened to him?" "I'm not sure." Okay. How long's he been out? He's a psychic, he's out cold and he's got no obvious injuries. * Herman checks his vitals, just because. "Yeah, well... I'm not a doctor, so I dunno about injuries. But it doesn't look like he's possessed or under a spell." What kinda psychic is he? [She tilts her head. "Umm... Kind?"] There are different kinds? * Lukas just listens and lets Herman work. Yeah, like, does he see the future, or does he move things with his brain, or does he fry other people's brains, or does he make make spoons bend, or what? "Ummm... He reads minds, and can see people far away, and things like that." * Alys takes some rubber bands out of her pocket and starts playing with them. * Herman nods and sits back. He scratches at the back of his neck. "Maybe he saw something he didn't like and shut down." But we do not know how to bring him back? Thing is, it looks like he got knocked out while the tussle was going on in here. Makes me think someone shut him down. * Lukas glances to Lei then to Togo. "She said he was conscious when she got back, so... unless there's a delayed effect off-switch, not seein' that, Togo." Me neither... [Lei nods.] * Khalil sighs and takes his arms out of his robe, shrugging faintly. "It seems we have, how do you say it. Few avenues to follow?" Point. Was thinkin' more in terms of how a guy who got shot can fall unconcious, but then I dunno much about psychic stuff. * Herman looks puzzled. Okay, what exactly happened? * Herman looks at Lei, because she was... you know, probably around. * Alys stops trying to play cat's cradle with rubber bands and looks at Lei. "Lei, does he need to concentrate for any of the psychic stuff he does? I mean, really concentrate? Enough that he might need to shut down his body a little if he was trying really hard?" "I came home and found the place was trashed. Yun was here. He told me a man came and took Ling, but before he could tell me anything else, he just... collapsed."] [Lei shakes her head. "I don't know. But it's never happened before."] * Herman rubs at his face. "Damn, wish I payed more attention to scrying," he mutters. * Khalil sighs and starts inspecting the room for dust. Anything you can do for him, Herman? Anyway, if the guy did anything to him 'cause he's psychic... that stuff isn't the same as magic. I dunno how to pick up on it. * Herman shrugs. "I can try to heal him, but I don't know what to heal. I can just do the physical." If he's just exhausted from pushing his powers, I guess he'll recover by himself. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8) and gets 10. * Khalil shakes his head at the cleanliness of the restaurant and then glances at Lei. "I wonder if there's any chance..." [Lei looks to Khalil. "Hm?"] I was wondering if you might...leave the room for a moment? [She blinks. "Wha-?"] Yeah, uh... hey. * Dreol is now known as Dreamland Oh it is nothing. Merely...some of us require full concentration in order to be able to investigate properly. * Nimbex eats jerk chicken. * Herman looks back to Lei. "Do you think it might be better if you and... Yun stayed somewhere else? Not here." (Nimbex was in the room and we didn't even know! Bad Lei, ignoring her customers.) (Ha.) (Jerk Chiken isn't exactly chinese.) (It is in THE FUTURE!) [She stares at Khalil. "Full concentration? Why do only I need to leave?"] (THE FUTURE!) He's gotta take his shirt off, and he's shy. * Lukas smirks. * Khalil glances at Togo oddly. * Alys smiles brightly at Lei. "It's okay. You and I can look outside and see if anything's out of place. Maybe there's a clue?" [Lei: "I... guess? But I looked outside already."] Can't hurt to look again. Come on, come on. [She looks unsure, but sighs. "Alright."] * Alys takes Lei's hand and leads her outside. [Lei is led outside.] * Togo looks at Khalil and shrugs. "It's kinda true." * Khalil waits till they get outside and then deflates. "I am not well practiced in getting other people out of the room. We should come up with a system." He walks towards one of the tables and starts slipping off his robe. I could start a fire. That seems a tad extreme... * Lukas snickers. It worked. No need to dwell on it. * Khalil puts his robe in a pile, tail swishing about, and then proceeds taking off his shirt. Well, Togo was right after all. "Hopefully the scent is still fresh." He tosses that onto the pile and walks over to one of the tables. * Herman watches Khalil curiously. Plus, he's cute, so why not? * Lukas just waits. This isn't his bag of bolts. * Khalil picks up one of the pepper shakers and sprinkles it into his hand. He takes a deep breath before throwing it in front of his face. Ahh-aah--ahh---cheeeeee! * Khalil is now known as Griff_Khalil * Herman blinks. * Griff_Khalil wipes his beak with his forearm and sniffs. "There." * Griff_Khalil then sighs, taking a deep breath and turns to them. "I did tell you it was a curse." * Griff_Khalil goes near the unconscious body and sniffs the air there. What happens when you get a cold? Do not hazard to ask. * Herman pauses a moment, then says, "I just did." 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Griff_Khalil (2d8-4) and gets 3. Lotsa tissues, I'd imagine. * Griff_Khalil stands up and blinks. "Someone prop him in a sitting position." * Togo does so. * Griff_Khalil goes in close and inspects the back of Yun's neck closely and carefully, then gives a few more sniffs. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Griff_Khalil (2d8-2) and gets 10. * Griff_Khalil touches the back of the neck. "Someone else see if you can spot anything here.." It smells...odd. Like acid almost. Yet I have not found anything... * Togo examines the neck, feeling around a bit and taking a couple of tentative sniffs himself. 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-6) and gets 7. * Lukas continues standing! Woo. He's a pillar of standing. * Herman looks around, then stands and starts searching. Because he can! ... microchip. That's your cue, Volt. * Lukas blinks. "... you're kidding." * Lukas walks over to Togo and kneels. * Herman stops and looks over to Lukas. Could it be to do with this "Artemis system" we keep hearing about? The what now? (News: I'm going to move once again. To a lutheren rectory.) [Togo points out a small microchip on the back of Yun's neck. Looks like a mole.] * Griff_Khalil looks at Herman. "That is right. You were unconscious..." He frowns. Well, his facial features change a bit. Frowning's hard when you have a beak. The woman who held a gun up to you said something about activating the "Artemis system" moments before she lost her memory. * Togo moves back a step or two so Lukas has some space. Fun. No idea what it is, huh. * Lukas puts his fingers to the chip and looks/feels what it is, frowning slightly. Not my area of expertise. But I assume it would have much the same effect... * Griff_Khalil gestures to the unconscious body. Got some sources looking into it, but nothing yet. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8) and gets 8. 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-4) and gets 7. * Herman nods. "Well, I dunno. The guy who took what's her name's sister was, uh... a guy." No one said this organization had to be exclusively female, did they? I'm just saying that everything doesn't have to do with them. * Lukas frowns slightly at it. * Alys opens the door just a little and calls in, "Can we come back in yet?" No. But a microchip that interrupts the synapses in the brain would be a logical function of the system. * Togo turns to Khalil. "Need a minute to get decent?" * Griff_Khalil glances at Togo. "That is...another problem..." Hmm? Look, Lei's getting jittery, so I'm just going to warn her, and then we're coming back in, okay? There is some...lag time in between forms. I need to wait it out for a bit. Ah. Well... she's seen the supernatural before. And maybe she'll think it's sexy. *grins* * Alys walks back in with Lei. "See? It's really cool, isn't it?" ( There's a really bad 'King of the Jungle' joke her somewhere. ) [Lei walks in and stares. "Uhh..."] * Griff_Khalil just...eyes Togo, staring, then at Lei, sighing and gesturing with his talons. "I apologize about all this." So, didja find anything? We found a microchip on the back of his neck. Not sure what it means yet. Volt's checking it. * Griff_Khalil gestures to Lukas. "He apparently had a microchip on the back of his neck. He probably had it activate recently." ....A microchip. We were looking for psychic injuries, and it was a microchip. That's really freaking weird. * Lukas shakes his head, as if clearing it, and reaches back into his backpack to pull out Ten and his laptop! Ten gets sat down, the laptop gets flipped open. [Lei blinks a few times. "A microchip? Can you get it out?"] Is your brother the member of any odd organizations, Miss Ren? * Ten is still wearing its spiky dress from last session and, Herman might recognize belt she's wearing as once having been his braclet, but it's much shorter now. [Lei shakes her head.] * Lukas pulls a thin wire from his computer to the back of the guy's neck, and then, since noboddy's bothering him (thank god) starts a bit of technomagic! (Which is to say, he's ignoring Alys. ^_~) 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-6) and gets 9. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-2) and gets 6. [The man groans.] * Herman suddenly looks more interested in what Lukas is doing. [Lei rushes to his side. "Yun?" He blinks a few times, and opens his eyes.] * Lukas disconnects the cable and smiles faintly. "We do win. It was a blocking chip of some sort." * Alys cheers. "Volt gets a cookie! Or would, if I had any!" That is a benefit. Do you believe I should get out of sight though? [He blinks a few times, as if clearing his eyes. "Lei? What happened?"] * Griff_Khalil works on doing that anyways. [Yun takes in his surroundings. i.e. You people.] [Lei smiles. "It's okay. They're friends. They helped you."] [Yun rubs his head. "What h..." he looks up suddenly. "Ling! She was kidnapped!"] [He starts to get up, but stumbles. "Unh." Lei catches him.] * Lukas slips the computer away and then puts Ten away as well. * Herman half-sits on one of the tables and watches. Any idea of who did it? ["It was a man. He was a doctor or scientist or... he wore a lab coat." He shuts his eyes and clutches his head. "There's a room, and he's..." His eyes snap open. "ChemicalDyne. He's in a building called ChemicalDyne."] Lady and gentlemen, we have a lead! Finally. What is ChemicalDyne, anyway? 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-2) and gets 8. [Lei shakes her head. "I was hoping you'd know."] Mad scientist. Wonderful. [Yun says, "It must be a business of some sort."] What'd he look like? Besides the lab coat. Is this common, Togo? ["Old. Fifties, maybe sixties. Grey hair, a short beard, glasses..."] He might not be mad. He could be extremely sane. That'd be scarier. Extremely sane is mad. * Lukas smirks. What's not-mad? Is it? It's always a mad scientist. Besides, normal scientists don't charge into Chinese restaurants wearing lab coats and kindapping people. [Lei speaks to Lukas! "Can you look it up? On your computer."] * Lukas glances to Lei, smiles faintly, then nods. "Was gonna wait a tic or so, but since the demand is there..." * Lukas slides the computer out side-ways like. So he doesn't have to take out Ten! He's so considerate. ["Thanks."] * Ten fails to fall out of the bag. I did not think scientists do that period. Only the mad ones. * Lukas walks over to a convenient counter-like thing and flips it open to do the searchin'! 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-5) and gets 9. I dunno. Would you trust hired thugs to put a microchip in someone? (... This is what we call 'dicehate', ladies and gentlemen.) [Lukas finds it not!] * Lukas frowns at his computeer. You sure it's ChemicalDyne? [He nods.] * Lukas looks back to the computer and types a bit more. He looks annoyed. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lukas (2d8-5) and gets 8. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-2) and gets 8. Pharmaceuticals. Nothing big... * Togo shrugs. "Well then. Let's go pay them a visit." Just one building? [Lei helps Yun into a resting position on the ground, and stands up. "I'm going with you."] * Griff_Khalil glances at Lei. "Are you quite certain?" [She turns to Khalil and nods. "Of course! I have to help my sister! And besides, I can help! I may not have magic or psychic powers, but..."] Good. We can always use another fighter. A fighter? You can fight? Agreed. I've got no problem with you coming. * Lukas shrugs at Herman's question and closes the computer. "Maybe they're just usin' it as a warehouse." [Lei poses! She stands on one foot, her other leg out, knee bent. One palm is thrust out, while her other arm is bent over her head. "But I am Lei Ren, daughter of Xu Ren and master of the Wei martial arts!"] (Ha!) * Herman applauds. -Very- cool! "And you need a car, anyhow." * Herman looks to Yun. "Do you wanna stay here? I'm not sure if it's safe." 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-2) and gets 7. We have a van. * Lukas looks at Powerposer Lei a bit oddly. [Yun nods. "Of course I want to go, but I can't even stand."] * Griff_Khalil just....stares. * Togo ignores the poser. "Is there someplace we can drop you where you'd be safeish while we do this?" [Lei stops her pose. "I'll take him to Eric's. He'll look after Yun."] That works. We'll go there with you, and then head over to ChemicalDyne. [She nods.] * Togo walks over to Yun and offers him a hand up. [Yun takes it.] [Lei asks, "Does anyone want to ride with me?"] I want to drive! Can I drive? [Lei deadpans. "... No."] * Herman snickers. Aw. Not fair. * Lukas puts his computer away! "Well, let's hope it's just incidental anyway." Beat and a glance to Lei. "I've got my own wheels, but thanks." You wanna go with her anyway, Ward Girl? Yeah, I will. Her car's much cooler than the van. * Herman nods. Next time, I'll be sure to rent a nice sportcar that only half of us can fit into. * Lukas smirks. "That's what my bike is for." * Alys smiles and thinks about the pretty, pretty motorcycle. I shall simply follow behind... [Lei heads out through the back. "Let's go!"] * Alys follows the short girl, 'cause she's got the nice car. * Herman ... goes, sure! [You all go!] [Session End!]