[Day: Sunday, November 2nd. Time: 12:30 p.m.] (We finally left October!!!) [It's a nice day out, and you three have just finished training. It's about time for lunch. As an added bonus, your guardians got called away by Lydia for some talkings-to. They may be busy for a while. Anyhow, you're on your way to the cafeteria.] [Session Start] [Times up! You all lose a life.] * Hotaru walks up the hall carrying Ten on her tray, her hair is damp and currently held up with a large claw type hairclip. (Did the possible extra life from the last game carry over? ;_;) ( Nope. You didn't enter a password. ) * Luana is wearing a brown skirt and shirt. She's staring at the ground as she walks into the cafeteria and asks for spaghetti. When she recieves it, she goes over to a table quietly and begins eating. Her hair falls over her face as she eats, and she keeps having to move it out of the way. (Dammit!) * Keiko is in black, plush carried close in one hand, the metal plate in the other, slowly. Sigh. Metal plates. She doesn't look to be enjoying carrying it. Then again, she never really does. ( Also, any changes to your... well, to Keiko's character sheet don't count for this session. 'Cause it's not January yet. ) (We're working on it, but Ard's kinda pressed for free time.) (^^; Can't do my sheet until I get a hold of Shary!) (I know.) ( Free time is illegal in Illonois. ) ( Ill o' noise ) [You're ambushed on the way to the cafeteria!] (I am?) (Bastards!) (But... spaghetti!) [Seriously. Karin Oswald from the other group ambushes you as you walk into the cafeteria. "Hey gals!"] * Luana pauses and stops daydreaming about eating. "Um, hello." * Ten looks at Karin. "Good afternoon." * Keiko is carrying a heavy plate! She looks at her, in her very black look, slightly annoyed. "Hello." She then brings the plate up and thunks it on the table with a loud noise. "Uhf..." ["Looks like your bosses are going to be tied up for a bit, soooooo...." Karin grins. "Anyone wanna go shopping?"] I don't... really like shopping. I cannot leave here. [Karin blinks. "Really? You don't wanna get out of this place for a while?"] * Luana shakes her head. ( Guess instead of a boring shopping session, we'll have a boring eating session :O] ) [Karin sighs. "Man... I'm so bored."] * Keiko blinks, the shift from her slight annoyance to surprise apparent, her eyes widening. "You're going to... you have permission?" * Ten shrugs. "I am not ready." * Keiko narrows her eyes and does a slight head scan. "I cannot believe..." [Karin beams at Keiko. "Yep! From the boss herself. She thinks it would be a good idea for you to familiarize yourself with the city."] ( selves ) ( Though it may wind up being self. :P ) ["And besides, it's a chance for you to buy new clothes and things. You can't not want that." Karin doesn't seem to mind using double negatives.] * Ten blinks at Karin. "Yes, I can?" Outside's not safe, anyway. And there's spaghetti here. ["It's not like this is the only place to get spaghetti, you know."] * Keiko looks funny at Luana. ~You really don't... want to go?~ When I ready, I will go. ~I don't want to hurt anyone by accident. And out there, I'm not normal.~ [Karin slumps. "Shopping by yourself is no fun." She sighs, and straightens up. "Alright, fine. Maybe next time."] * Keiko smiles a little. ~In here, you're not normal either.~ Maybe. ~More normal than outside.~ ~I'm wanted here.~ * Keiko then walks off to get herself some food. "I'd be... okay for it." * Luana continues on to the cafeteria. Fooood. * Keiko tosses back, ~If I were out there, you'd be wanted out there too, huh?~ * Hotaru follows Luana twords the food. [Karin heads away from the cafeteria. "See ya later."] * Luana sounds startled. ~I... what? Really?~ [Stein delivers food! It's his life's passion. Well, not really. In fact he doesn't relaly cook it, he just provides it. It's probably from a package or something.] ( Gimme awareness checks! ) ~Well, yes. Me, at least.~ 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8-4) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 5. (What sense?) ( Sight I guess ) 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-2) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 1. (Woo! Awesomeage.) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7. (Yay for being a cheating bastard! Made mind by one) [You notice four guards, three men and a woman, at a table when you enter. The woman and one of the men take one look at you and hurriedly finish their food, then get up and leave.] * Ten orders... a sandwich! Without mayo for some reason. [The remaining two are having a hushed conversation. Maybe about you. Maybe about football. You don't know!] (What's the hearing roll to overhear them?) * Keiko orders whatever doesn't look awful. ( Umm... +4 ) 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-4) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 3. [Keiko gets some kinda soup.] * Luana gets her damn spaghetti and sits down somewhere. (Totaly made) [Turns out they're talking about football.] [Not the American kind, either.] (I need more food than just soup!) [Keiko obtains grapes!] * Keiko ALSO gets a sandwich. A sandwich is fine. Sheesh! She takes it back to the plated table. ( You don't like your soup'n'grapes? ) * Ten ignores people talking about unimportant as sports. ( Right, so, I'm tapped for ideas >.> ) (We've got conversation to have. Although Hotaru sux.) (If you'd talk out loud I'd participate.) (I would, if you listened in the head!) (If you'd stay out of half of it, she'd be fine with it) * Keiko goes to the table with Luana, and says, after a moment, quietly, and slightly annoyed, "I don't understand why you and both so afraid of going outside. At least you don't have people beating on your mind the entire time." * Luana mumbles, "I just... don't want to hurt anyone." ( Go outside nub ) * Ten looks at Keiko. "Too many things I do not understand, too many noises for Hotaru. Neither us are ready yet." * Hotaru takes a bit out of her sandwich. * Keiko says, tiredly, "Yes, I know, I just don't..." she trails off. If you wish to go, I will not stop you. * Keiko replies, "Well, I don't think you can," and asks, to Luana, ~Have you hurt anyone you don't want to... since coming here?~ I may lack power, but I do know how to apply what little I have. ~I don't think so... I mean, they were wearing flame retardant outfits when I first got here....~ ~Well, in the other building. I mostly had control once I got -here-.~ * Hotaru continues to take small bites out of her sandwich. * Keiko glances to Ten a moment and says, with a bit of bite, "Are you going to attack me to keep me from going outside? You don't even want to." * Keiko replies, ~See? No problem. It's been weeks. Nothing's burned up yet.~ A pause, then, ~Maybe.~ * Ten snorts. "Of course not. If I wanted, I'd trip every alarm in the building. I do not want to." * Luana 'accidentally' flicks a noodle onto Keiko. "Oh, I'm sorry!" (Onto her clothes?) * Ten blinks at Luana. "Maybe she would?" (Sure, why not?) * Luana protests to Ten, "It was an accident." * Ten shrugs. "I belive you." * Keiko looks down at her clothes a moment, funny, letting her mind glance against Luana's to check that its not an accident. ~... what was that for?~ She doesn't seem pleased. * Luana thinks firmly, ~I haven't accidentally burnt anyone in two months.~ Definitely not an accident. * Keiko is quiet a moment, then, ~Sorry. I didn't know. But then... why afraid? If you know?~ * Luana suddenly becomes much less firm. ~I just... the people here, if I hurt anyone, they know it's an accident. They won't throw me out or anything. Outside is different.~ * Hotaru sets the sandwich down and starts to reach for the cup of juice her player just decided she got, but then she freezes. She grabs a napkin and wipes her mouth instead. * Keiko picks the noodle off her dress and sighs a little, murmuring, "Not..." she trails off, then, ~Outside's always different. But you can't just..~ she trails off there too and lets out a louder sigh, before eating some soup-like soup. * Ten watches Hotaru take a small sip of juice. * Luana continues eating spaghetti, without wasting it on a mini-food fight. * Ten looks at Keiko. "If you were to go out. What would you do?" * Keiko smiles a little. "What wouldn't I?" I don't know. * Keiko puts a grape in her mouth. "Exactly." Please enlighten me. * Keiko looks to Ten a moment, then Hotaru, then, "I don't feel like it." A small smile crosses her lips. * Ten nods. "Is there a way to change your mind? Some sacrifice that I could make?" * Keiko puts another grape in her mouth, then smiles a little. "You could stop complaining about talking in your heads." I only complain when you talk in her head. * Keiko is silent a moment, then says, "You both have the same head to me. Mostly." She picks up sandwich and eats. * Ten looks at Hotaru. * Keiko chews slowly, thinking at Luana, ~I don't like Ten, Luana. I really don't.~ * Ten looks at Keiko. "Part of me has been forced into that head, but not all of it. It was too much to expect that your power could see all of a goddess. I am sorry." * Keiko laughs faintly, dabbing at her lip, then says, low and bitingly, "Is that why you had to tell her that you weren't the same?" She might just forget? ~That's okay. Youy're not rooming with her, so it's not -too- important, is it?~ (*you're) ... Stay out of her head Keiko. The line between us blurrs, but it is there. * Keiko has an faint smirk, unhappy, on her face. ~She's... like a lid on Hotaru. I don't like lids." ~Presumably, Hotaru consented to it.~ ~Just like you consented to burn?~ * Keiko meanwhile, smiles faintly, because 10 mind is MULTITASKING POWER. "You sure I wasn't in yours?" She picks up the sandwich and takes another bite. * Ten snorts. "You just said you can't see the difference." * Luana thinks in a tone that implies it's something she's memorized, ~My ability to burn things is a gift. Just because I have trouble with it sometimes or people outside don't understand doesn't make it a bad thing.~ * Keiko replies, casually, "And yet, I could see you. Minds are... funny things." A pause, then more quietly, "You see enough of them... you learn to know." I suffer for my ignorance. * Keiko is silent a long moment, for both of them, as she eats. She looks angryish, strangely. Then, finally, she takes a deep breath and thinks at Luana, ~I don't tink it's a bad thing, no... but it's not choice.~ ~I guess. Yeah, you're right.~ * Hotaru takes another sip of juice. * Keiko chuckles a little. ~But who needs it anyway, right?~ She leans back in her chair and floats the metal plate a little. "Your german is getting better." * Ten sounds prideful as she taps her tiny chest. "When I know what I must do, I do it. German is essential now." * Keiko mms slightly to herself and nods a little. "Feels good." Beat, then, "Must make your guardian pleased." * Ten snorts. "Pleasing our guardian is as easy as drinking a cup of chocolate." * Keiko laughs faintly and says, "You're lucky." Roseli's very nice, isn't she? I like her a lot. * Ten nods. "She is ..." She waves a hand vaugly and finishes, "hard to dislike." Yours, I could hate. Mine? ( AFK. Yes, I was still paying attention x.z ) (Heh.) He reminds me of my high priest, compleatly with one or two things, and ignoring all else. My ignorance is his fault. (I was about to give you something to do. KEiko felt like trying to steal something.) (Compleatly obsessesed with) (Gah, left out the important bit) (Oops!) Oh no, Dr Kerner is wonderful! I'm so glad he's my guardian, I can't imagine working directly under anyone else. (Luana cracks me up.) *** Signoff: Keiko (Read error: Connection reset by peer) (As does the fact that my guardian really did turn out to be the nice one.) *** Moondrop (mlink@ip68-229-191-99.om.om.cox.net) has joined channel #mc4 *** Moondrop is now known as Keiko * Keiko starts to look a bit annoyed, glancing off to the side a moment, away from either of the other girls. * Ten smiles and shakes her head. "I am happy for you then, we were not so lucky." * Hotaru folds her hands in her lap. ( Back ) (Bedtime. Night, guys.) (G'Z.) ( Laterz ) *** Signoff: Ardweden (Quit: Gikathud.) * Keiko lets the metal plate slam down on the table. "I think... I'll be back in a moment." * Hotaru winces. * Luana looks up, startled. "Are you okay?" * Keiko says, still sounding annoyed, "Yeah. Just... yeah. Be back in a bit." She starts to walk off, leaving the plate there on the table. Along with her food. Poison time! [Keiko goes somewhere.] * Ten shakes her head. "We are like magnets, constantly pushing against eachother." *** Signoff: Keiko (Quit: Moving.) * Luana sighs. "I wish the two of you could get along, but it looks like it won't happen." She expects to be inside every mind, and I want her to stay out of one. Imagine if I had not agreed to stay out of your laptop. *** Signoff: Luana (Read error: Connection reset by peer) ( orz ) (Or don't! See if I care!) *** Luana (WD@71.88.203.126) has joined channel #MC4 (re!) (back!) * Luana sighs. "I wish the two of you could get along, but it looks like it won't happen." She expects to be inside every mind, and I want her to stay out of one. Imagine if I had not agreed to stay out of your laptop. * Luana briefly looks annoyed. "I see your point." * Ten starts to pace. "I must work with her, but it will be difficult like this." *** Keiko (Mechalink@ip68-13-21-94.om.om.cox.net) has joined channel #mc4 * Ten stops and looks at Luana. "What would you do?" I... I don't know. I always just avoid people who seem to dislike me. ( Lydia comes down the isle! Roll to avoid, Luana! ) (Does she count? She doesn't like anyone.) ( It is a mystery! club ) * Ten nods. "That won't work. Perhaps her guardian should have her improve her ... whatever it is she uses to see minds." Then she could talk to me, and not Hotaru. You could ask him. * Ten nods. "I should also ask Ms. Tavares if she knows a way for me to better protect Hotaru's mind." ( Put it in a jar and hide it! ) ( Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.) * Luana smiles. "This could work out after all." That would be for the best. * Ten looks around. "Although, it seems she has found something more interesting than us. I wish I was allowed to use the security system." * Hotaru snakes an arm out and picks up her cup of juice to take a very small sip from it. It's just lunch. It is... right there, I can feel its weight and its power. Each of its cameras, the heat sensors, the motion detectors, each and every lock that surrounds us, hear it pulse and count to itself, but I cannot touch it. Perhaps it is how she feels, but I will not touch it unless I must. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. She has no restraint. I'm glad I don't have that form of a burden. (I'm really tired and have a headache, I need to go to bed.) ( orz. ) (Aww. And I'd almost finished getting myself 40 lashes!) * Ten nods. "You have the burdon of being you, and you have your own control." (Good night then, perhaps we can continue this later?) ( Want to end? ) (Sure) Thank you. I really ought to go train now, if you'll please excuse me... Of course. * Luana smiles brightly at Ten and takes her tray to wherever before leaving. (Aaaand, goodnight. ^^) [Session End]