[Day: Thursday, Dec. 3rd, 2082. Time: 7:00 p.m.] (Keiko the body builder would have been damned creepy.) (It woulda definitely been weird. But you're the one with the gene vat.) (I almost gave Hotaru Super Strength.) (No lie.) (She did try ;_;) [After a hard day of training, you gather in the cafeteria for a late dinner. Big news!: Red team has been on two missions over the past few weeks, and are out on a third right now.] [But you're not. Session Start] (Huzzah! I found my updated char sheet!) (Also, I thinkwe just lost Rose) *** Signoff: Roseli (Ping timeout) (Yep) (That confirms it!) *** Roseli (ardweden@12-207-214-234.client.mchsi.com) has joined channel #mc4 (Somebody catch me up? ^^;) (Nothing happened!) (You missed pretty much nothing.) * Keiko is wearing one of her crazy dresses that covers most everything. It's green. And she never had any vat down time in the past few weeks! Yay for her? Perhaps. * Keiko is currently floating her duck behind her as she gathers food onto a tray. Because it's just not dinner without food. * Luana is eating spaghetti like she's incredibly hungry but still trying very hard to be polite. Slacks, bland T-shirt, and a ponytail, as usual, except for the last few inches of her hair, which are blonde. * Heinrick is already sitting and eating salad. He doesn't seem very hungry at this time. Or talkative for that matter. (... wait, her hair's now two-tone? From what, brown?) (Yeah.) * Hotaru must have gotten some vat time in somewhere, and all of it away from Red team, yeay. She's also collected most the most bland meal possible out of her choices. Her appearance hasn't changed since before, but she's gotten a new very pale blue dress. *** Signoff: Luana (Read error: Connection reset by peer) *** Luana (WD@24-151-190-56.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com) has joined channel #MC4 (*sigh* Someone catch me up, please?) * Keiko drifts over to the tables, glaning at Heinrick before sitting where Luana is. She exhales slightly and puts two of her fingers to the middle of her forehead. * Roseli appears at the door. Look, she's alive! She doesn't appear any worse for wear, even. "Something wrong?" she asks as she walks by Heinrick. (The hair thing is new as of today, by the way.) * Heinrick doesn't look up as he picks at his salad taking in a deep breath. "Not particularly. Simply not my ideal time of day is all. It would be so much easier if I were a vampire." He checks his watch for a moment and then stabs a piece of lettuce, bringing it to his mouth. * Keiko sits there a few moments, the duck floating behind her. There's a glance to Heinrick before she says, slowly, "It is only just after seven." * Roseli smiles humorlessly. "Be glad you're not." She goes to get some food. * Heinrick glances up at Keiko slightly. "You seem to be quite intune with the clock. I suppose that idea I had to install an internal chronometer in your brain proved unnecessary after all." * Ten snorts. * Keiko looks down to her food and replies, idly, "I am sure you approve of me being aware." She forks herself some food and takes a bite. ~Are you okay? Do you need some orange juice?~ * Heinrick takes another bite. "And respectful as well." * Roseli returns with a tray o' food - spicy stuff, since she went with Indian today - and has a seat. * Keiko just gives Heinrick a faint smile, before replies mentally, ~I'm fine. Just a headache. What else would you expect?~ (before replying) * Heinrick rubs his head and picks himself up a little more. [Annoyingly, an announcement comes over the PA system. "Blue team, please report to Briefing Room #2. Blue team, please report to briefing room #2 immediately."] *** Signoff: Luana (Read error: Connection reset by peer) *** Luana (WD@24-151-190-56.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com) has joined channel #MC4 * Hotaru stands up and puts her food tray away before picking up Ten's and walking twords the door. * Luana puts her tray away and waits for Keiko before following her out. * Roseli is immediately on her feet and walking out, reaching into her pocket for some gum. * Heinrick looks up at the announcement. "Well well. This is sudden." He stands up and cleans his area before sticking his hands in his pockets, waiting to make sure the wards are on their way first. [The announcement is invisible!] * Keiko frowns and stands up silently, glancing to Heinrick and his sudden statement. She picks up the tray with her hands, and the duck floats around her as it was before as she heads off, just in front of Luana, apparently! ~No respect for the dead,~ she thinks at Luana. *** Signoff: Luana (Read error: Connection reset by peer) (This is rapidly reaching RDM level.) (But not quite wireless me level.) (True) *** Luana (WD@24-151-190-56.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com) has joined channel #MC4 (She hasn't pulled your pinging out before logging in trick yet) * Luana smiles a bit and suggests mentally, ~No rest for the wicked?~ (My wireless should please get the hint that it is not alive and therefore can't -actually- catch my cold.) (Maybe it's achieved sentience.) (That'd be worse, I think.) [You head up to briefing room #2! Lydia is there, waiting.] * Keiko replies, managing a small smile, ~You're not very wicked.~ And then travel! * Roseli is chewing on gum at this point! "Problem?" [Lydia gets to the point. "We have a situation."] What do you wish us to do about it? * Keiko sits down and lets her duck hover down to the table, putting her fingers to the middle of her forehead again. We might wish to hear what the situation *is* first. [She flicks on a TV, where a news reporter, well, reports: "...where not far from here at the Kirby story in Berlin, a rampaging maurader is wreaking havoc. Police have yet been unable to contain the suspect, and have formed a perimiter around the area. They advise all civillians to keep well away, as there's no telling what-" Lydia flicks the TV off.] * Keiko glances to Tentaru oddly for a moment, but then looks back to the screen. *** Signoff: Roseli (Ping timeout) Do you know what the source is? *** Roseli (ardweden@12-207-214-234.client.mchsi.com) has joined channel #mc4 (Argh, someone catch me up.) * Heinrick glances at the screen for a moment. "What's the damage assessment so far? Hostages?" (Done.) (Also done) [She speaks! "Twenty minutes ago, there was a terrorist attack on Berlin citizens. The suspect is an American tourist named Michael Hagen. Reports indicate that he announced genetic modification was a poison using a loudspeaker, and that he intended to show what would happen if Zukunft continued to persue the science. He then drove a syringe into his neck, and transformed into this:"] [She hits another button, and a screen pops up, probably from a security camera inside the store. It shows a very muscular, ten foot tall humanoid with greyish skin, wearing the remnants of clothes made for a much smaller man. It's smashing everything in sight, including people. Plenty of screams fill the background.] Cute. Known abilities? [Lydia allows it to play for a bit longer, before speaking again. "Section 1 already sent in a team to deal with the threat."] * Roseli raises an eyebrow. That could end poorly. [Lydia looks at you over the top of her glasses. "They failed. Section 1 has lost contact with the team, and we presume they're dead."] (Damnit! I can't SMIRK!) (I can!) * Roseli nods once. ( Smirkless in Berlin. ) When and where was contact lost? ["Only moments ago. Same location."] Understood. Do we investigate or neutralize? ["Hagen's current form seems resistant against small arms, and I shouldn't have to mention his strength is greatly enhanced."] * Heinrick rubs his chin. "Any noticeable weakpoints?" ["No."] (Evil goatee stroke!) * Roseli just now glances around and asks the obvious: "Gottlieb coming?" [Lydia folds her hands behind her back. "You weren't originally supposed to partake in real missions until January, but things have changed, and I believe you're ready. Your objective is to defeat Michael Hagen."] [Lydia answers Roseli in such a way that the GM doesn't actually have to answer that question.] (Heh.) * Keiko 's lip curls slightly in an odd smile, then it fades and she closes her eyes. * Roseli nods again, then asks: "Preferred alive; dead acceptable?" ["It doesn't matter. Take him alive only if you can achieve it without losses. He's a madman who's already killed enough civilians, and we don't know what else he's capable of."] Understood. Transport? ["Take what you need from the garage."] * Heinrick gives a short nod. "Understood as well." * Roseli waves for the wards to come with her. "Let's go," and she heads off to pick up some communication devices (so she won't have to YELL OVER EVERYTHING to give orders to Hotaru), then to the garage. (Ha ha.) [Lydia nods. "This is your chance to prove your effectiveness. Make it good."] We will not let you down. * Heinrick nods and then looks over at Roseli. "I will meet you at the garage. There's something I have to take care of first." Make it quick. * Keiko stands up and walks right to Heinrick, before his leaving, and says, "Headache pills." It will be. * Luana nods to Lydia, then heads over to the garage. Luana, give me a quick run down of your abilities. Any I might not be aware of. * Heinrick glances at Keiko for a moment and lets a small smirk grace his lips. "Indeed. You can go with Roseli. I'll be there." He heads up towards his office. Your guardian isn't here; you need to trust my judgement, so I need to know what you can do. * Keiko puts her hand to her head and is silent, then. *** Signoff: Luana (Read error: Connection reset by peer) * Ten waits with Rose and Luana. (Making the home run. Back in 15 or less. Assume I don't disappear. ^_~) (And could be here a while o/~) ( x.x ) (No choice!) *** Signoff: Keiko (Quit: Aiee driving!) *** Luana (WD@24-151-190-56.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com) has joined channel #MC4 (Luana's abililities apparently include the Blink ability.) (:P) * Luana nods as she walks. "Of course, ma'am. Firestarting at touching distance, pyrokinesis, tai chi as well as some other mixed martial arts, shooting guns, and the ability to change my appearance within certain limits. I can drive both cars and motorcycles, although I'm better at the latter." * Luana she touches her hair as she talks, and the blonde tips fade back to brown. (minus the 'she') Dr. Kerner has had me practice changing small parts of my appearance and holding them, as it requires a slight amount of constant concentration. * Roseli nods slowly. "Very good. How far does your pyrokinesis extend?" Thirty meters, ma'am. * Roseli picks up those devices and hands them out to the girls, as well as getting ones for herself and Hendrick. (-d) (+i) * Luana takes the communication device and carefully puts it in her ear. Can you hotwire vehicles? (HENDRICK. XD) No ma'am, sorry. * Roseli starts walking quickly for the garage. * Hotaru follows her. ( Anyone can hotwire vehicles. Can you hotwire rocks? ) * Luana follows! To the blitzkriegmobile! [You get to the garage! Mechanics are running around all frantic like. Robert jogs up to you as you arrive. "Hey. The vehicles are prepped and ready to go."] I'll have to recommend it to Gottlieb. * Roseli nods to Robert and looks around. "We'll take them all, if we can," she says. "Hotaru, how many helecopters can you control?" * Luana goes over to her motorcycle and touches it lovingly. "Of course, ma'am," she says, her voice soft. ["Uhh... No, just take what you need to get there."] Nine, but I belive we only have six of them at the moment. * Heinrick arrives at the garage shortly after, arms in his pockets a little stiffly. "I'm sorry for the delay." * Luana puts on her helmet and a long leather jacket, both of which had been resting near the bike. * Roseli gives Robert a stony look. "Control said we can 'take what we need'. This is not a time for half measures." * Heinrick shrugs his shoulders slightly. "Or, we could just say we were following procedure and have him continue to run amok because we were ill-prepared. I'm certain that Control would like to hear of your involvement in that." [Robert raises an eyebrow. "What are you going to use more than, say, two cars at most for?"] * Heinrick smiles slightly. "Nothing. If we don't *need* them." (Explosions!) (Shhh, he'll cry!) I have a great deal of support equipment. I request an enclosed trailer to transport it. *** Keiko (Mechalink@ip68-13-21-94.om.om.cox.net) has joined channel #mc4 ["Fine. I'll talk to Ms. Sohn in the future, ask her to impose some sort of limit."] (Keiko, I might get to set cars on -fire-!) (I do need early recap. Up to 'Uhh, No, ust take what you need to get there.) (Gotten.) * Roseli nods and gets a-movin'. They probably can't actually take them *all*, but there's going to be plenty of ammunition if it comes to needing sheer flaming vehicular force to take this guy down. (/r/ "If all else fails, throw a car at it" as session title.) * Keiko smiles faintly at Robert and says, in a familiar manner, "I'll try not to let them destroy any of your babies." If they do go, it will not be in vane, I shall see to that. (vain) (Danke) (No, he means they won't be turned into weather vanes. [Robert fixes Ten with a hard stare. "Yeah. So will I."] Good. Well then. Shall we be on our way? Who else can drive? I, you, Hotaru, Luana. Keiko, can you? (Oh yes, let the blind girl drive) * Heinrick glances at Keiko. "She's been learning to work on them at least." (She can!) * Keiko puts her hand to her forehead again and says, "If you need me to, I can attempt it, but I have yet to get permission." She looks back at Heinrick. (Remember, kids! Don't dream and drive! Oops, too late.) * Heinrick narrows his eyes at Keiko. "That does not answer the question. Are you able or not?" (It's a secret to everybody.) * Keiko closes her eyes. "I've never driven a real car before. So I can't say." * Heinrick nods and closes his eyes slightly. "It would be best not to have your first experience be on a mission then. However, we will make sure that we can teach you." * Keiko doesn't respond immediately. The duck continues floating. Then she finally says, "Let's... just go." * Roseli nods and does so, leaving Heinrick with another one of them communication devices and climbing into a car. * Luana mounts her motorcycle and starts the ignition, waiting patiently. * Roseli starts the engine and speaks over the com, "This working?" Luana here. I can hear you, Roseli. * Ten 's voice comes over all of them. "Yes." * Hotaru gets into whatever vehicle the helecopters and tank were loaded into. Good. The excess number of vehicles should be obvious: they're weapons, should we need them. We won't take them all the way to him - then they'd be traps for us. Just close enough so they're in easy range for Hotaru. * Heinrick climbs into a car as well! "I hear you." ( Sooo... how many vehicles are you taking? ) * Keiko follows Heinrick. She murmurs, "It's working." And she specifically does not pick the Mazda, because Roseli's gonna wreck shit, and the Mazda is not for wrecking. With any luck, it won't be necessary. Keiko, you're our first bet. How likely is it for you to be detected in an attempt to scan and control a mind? (Um... two cars, a cycle, and that trailer, I think. And whatever it is Ten decides to bring. :P) (Ten's traveling in the trailer, driving is for the pleebs ;p) (I meant in addition to just a trailer. o_o;) * Keiko replies over comms, in a low tone, "Either great or awful. You'll find out when we get there." Then she says to Heinrick. "Did you bring any medicine back or not?" * Heinrick sighs and rubs his head. "Well, it's not exactly that..." (All six helecoptrs and the tank) I want to coordinate the mind control attempt with full attacks from Luana and Ten; if distracted by one, he'll hopefully fall to the other two. You may have to take a moment to generate fire if there's none on site, Luana. Understood. * Heinrick nods. "I agree. Hopefully his mind won't have any such barriers. He did appear more brawn than brain but we cannot count on that for certain." The fire can be provided. * Keiko doesn't respond. To Rose, anyway. She exhales noisily at Heinrick, though, before saying, "I mean for me." She then mutters something under her breath in Japanese. Attack from three sides, so he can't target all of you at once. I do not want *any* of you to engage him in close combat, or get anywhere close. We should stay clear at all times. Understood? * Heinrick looks on ahead. "I knew what you meant. There wasn't time for that." Yes, ma'am. * Keiko is silent, then, the duck settled on her lap. She folds her legs up in the seat and lets Heinrick do his driving thing as she calms her mind. *** Signoff: Roseli (*.irc.sandwich.net *.irc.sandwich.net) *** Signoff: Hotaru (*.irc.sandwich.net *.irc.sandwich.net) (Sourdough dies.) (Yep) *** Roseli (ardweden@12-207-214-234.client.mchsi.com) has joined channel #mc4 *** Hirameku (Snak@cpe-76-173-216-126.socal.res.rr.com) has joined channel #mc4 *** Signoff: Roseli (Ping timeout) *** Ten is now known as Hotaru ( Should we end here? I didn't expect this to take multiple sessions, but it's getting late and I dunno if it'll end quickly. ) *** Hotaru is now known as Ten *** Hirameku is now known as Hotaru (I'm fine.) (I'm good to keep going) (I'm all for going) ( Hokay, maybe I can speed this up a bit. ) * Ten speaks over the radios. "What are we waiting for?" [You drive on down to the location, a small shopping district with the Kirby store in the center. You wind up at a police barricade. Apparently they've got that block and each block adjacent to it barricaded. Beyond, you can see fires around the storefront.] *** Roseli (ardweden@12-207-214-234.client.mchsi.com) has joined channel #mc4 (Right. Catch me up? ^^;) (Done) (Sent) (Hokay!) (Anyone at the barricade?) [Yep! Cops are!] * Keiko stays silent, with her eyes closed. Instructions? * Heinrick steps out of the car and walks towards the police to talk to them. In a non-threatening manner of course. [One of the cops is motioning angrily at a reporter. "I said stay behind the line!" He turns to another cop nearby. "Mueller, get that reporter out of here." Mueller goes off, and he turns to Heinrick. "I'm sorry, sir. I'm going to have to ask you to move back."] * Heinrick raises an eyebrow and pulls his ID out of his pocket, showing it to the cop. "Well, we can't all be reporters at least. Is there someone I could speak to?" [He frowns. "I'm the officer in charge."] * Roseli says over the com, "Wait." She gets out of her own car and walks after Heinrick, reaching into her pocket and getting some more gum. Never know when you have to blow an officer's brain's out. * Heinrick nods. "Heinrick Engels. What is the current situation then?" (-') * Ten waits for orders. ["A genetically modified terrorist is tearing apart anything he gets a hold of, and our weapons have no effect. Some guys like you went in about twenty minutes ago. They never came back out. Right now we're holding position and directing civilians away from the area."] What weapons did you use? Anything more powerful than a handgun? * Heinrick nods. "Where exactly is he currently? And how fast is he moving away?" * Heinrick smiles slightly. "Her questions first." * Roseli looks vaguely amused and offers Heinrick a stick of gum. ["We tried shotguns. No effect. He's currently still in the Kirby store."] * Keiko thinks at Luana, annoyed, ~They know nothing. They're too scared to think.~ * Roseli nods, thinking. "Refuses to leave?" ["Don't think so. I think he's just not done trashing the place yet. Look, there could still be people alive in there. You're wasting time, talking to me."] * Luana sounds practically zen, she's so calm. ~Can you tell Dr Engels so we can just go ahead in and take care of it?~ Right. Let's move. *** Signoff: Luana (Read error: Connection reset by peer) * Heinrick sighs slightly. "We would also be wasting our time, rushing in completely blind. But thank you." He gives a short nod to Roseli and walks back towards the cars. (How big is the Kirby store?) *** Luana (WD@24-151-190-56.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com) has joined channel #MC4 ( Pretty big. Takes up a good portion of the block. ) * Roseli heads back to the cars, too, and leads the rest in there, while saying over the coms, "He's still in the store. I'd hoped he moved to the open by now." * Keiko just mentally replies, to Luana, ~They figured it out.~ Hotaru, access the security cameras and try to narrow down where he is and the quickest way there. I don't think he cares about being seen. * Ten speaks over the comms. "That will limit my utility." (Scratch that) * Ten hits the cameras. Confined location. Keiko, your range wouldn't be enough to identify how many minds are inside there, would it? (Are we even close enough?) (We're still at the _Barracade_.) ( Guys, I gotta end it. I'm fallling asleep. ) (For Ten to get what she needs? Yes.) (She's got quite a range. ;P) (Okay, Brett.) (Aw, okay.) (Phoo) [Session End.]