[You're inside the Cayiltech complex. Specifically, in Building #2. With you are two unconscious women: Helena Bernelli and Claudia Gonzales. Helena's naked and armless. Oh, and it's raining outside. I think that covers everything.] [Session Start] (Only one armless!) ( She's got one arm less. Hence, armless ) * Roseli has patched up Helena and is checking her bandages one more time. "Should hold. Need to get better care." * Keiko is being suppported by Hotaru, amazingly, and looks a little stunned. She's only got a bit of a cut in the shoulder of her dress, and being soaked. You wouldn't think she'd need THAT much support. * Ten asks Keiko in a demanding tone, "can you stand?" Unless there's something else we desperately need to do, we need to leave now if we want this lady to survive the night. * Luana moves over to Keiko quickly once she sees the crying girl. "What's wrong?" she asks urgently. Luana, by the way, is mostly dry. Comes from being able to summon fire without burning yourself. * Keiko shudders a moment, then says weakly, "I... might be able to get what we need out of her, if we want her information before..." she trails off, glancing to Ten, then finishes, "...now." She stands up on her own and looks to Luana and her voice goes to a quiet murmur. "It's nothing... just a shock." * Hotaru drops her free arm to her side and backs away from Keiko. * Togo looks over at Rosali. "Think she'll survive long enough to get help, or should we try to get the information now?" * Keiko rubs her face with her duck. No more tears! But a wetter duck. * Luana takes a look at Helena and blanches somewhat. "Nasty work," she murmurs. * Keiko thinks back at her, ~Very,~ and rubs her own arm. She'll survive if we move. Have to move. Luana, carry her. Careful. ( Can we assume non-present Heinrick is carrying the Mexican woman? ) * Ten checks in with the guard-bots to see what's going on outside. * Luana veeeerrry carefully takes Helena into her arms. ( Where is Rowyn, anyhow? ) * Keiko takes a step away from Luana. Well, okay, Helena, but. [The guards are still confused.] * Roseli nods... or it looks like a nod, as her head droops forward and then she jerks it up. She blinks blearily and climbs to her feet, catching herself by the wall as she almost falls over. "Have to move," she repeats. ... okay, that ( damn ) ... okay, that's not a good sign. Everyone, let's move out. ( We'll assume Heinrick is carrying the woman for the sake of convenience, okay brett? ) ( Right ) * Togo heads for the stairs, reloading his SMG as he goes. * Keiko nods and sucks in a slow breath as she starts to walk towards the out of the building. She then asks, "Is that it? Do we have enough to go?" The guards are still disorganized and should prove little to no reistance outside. * Roseli closes her eyes. "Mmm." She nearly trips and then opens her eyes again, because falling over isn't cool. "Come on," she says, rather belatedly. Enough or not, the woman's dying and Roseli ain't looking too spry, so we're gone. ( Do you want me to do some FFing? ) * Hotaru moves to stand next to her guardian. ( Sure ) (Works for me.) ( How far? ) (Well, let's see. I think we can all be agreed that we're getting back to the base and getting Helena to a medical facility... no idea about the other chick.) (The other woman was helpful!) ( She'd be questioned, in the non-Gitmo sense of the term ) ( We could potentially move days ahead. ) (To, like, Christmas Eve?) ( Ehh, for now I'll just... ) ( Next day? ) (Sure) ( K ) [Boom. Day: Wednsday, Dec. 23rd, 2081. Time: 8:00 a.m.] [You're in Brifing Room #1, which should really be called a conference room. But I didn't put that on the map, so it's now. Helena had surgery at a hospital in Bremen, and was moved to the Weiss building medical ward overnight. Claudia's in a holding cell. Hopefully someone turned in a report to Lydia last night, too, or she'll be upset. We'll say Heinrick did it. All that remains is to analyze that data.] [Heinrick is Elsewhere.] (The downloaded data and interrogated data? Did I get a crack at Helena?) ( No. She's been in surgery. ) (Nod.) * Luana enters the room wearing a black skirt and a - gasp! - pink shirt! A -bright- color! It must be laundry day or something. Her hair's down and she lets it cover her face from a profile view as she sits down and stares at her lap. * Keiko walks in, wearing a black dress with a high neck today. No pink for her! Her duck looks a bit better than it did yesterday, thank god. And she looks fairly obviously like she slept badly. She shuffles over to a chair and sits, glancing over to Luana for a moment as she does. * Togo is already in the room, dressed as he always is. * Roseli is seated in what is now her usual seat in the briefing room, stirring a mug of coffee. "Good morning, girls," she says as the wards enter. * Luana glances up. "Good morning, Rose." * Hotaru shuffles in, looking slightly less disheveled than Keiko, Ten looks pristeen as ever. * Keiko looks to Rose a moment from her tired sitting position and goes, "Mmm." She then thinks, ~Rose? Friendly already?~ at Luana. Good morning. * Luana thinks back, ~She told me to call her that... I'm pretty sure she did... didn't she!?~ She starts to sound a little more panicked towards the end. * Hotaru makes her way to a chair and starts to slump into it, and then catches herself. ( Luana is eaten by a pre-coffee Roseli. And a grue. ) (Goddamn grues.) * Keiko thinks back. ~I dunno... I don't spend any time with you n'her.~ She rubs her shoulder a moment with a slight wince, then sighs. ~Who knows. Maybe she did.~ * Luana looks over at Hotaru. "Did you ever manage to settle down last night?" she murmurs. * Roseli has a sip from her cup of coffee and doesn't seem startled at all by the familiarity with which Luana addresses her. * Ten shakes her head. "She ws plauged by nightmares." (Which, sadly, probably still doesn't answer Luana's question.) (;_;) (She's just too easygoing. Except when she's smashing your face.) (Yeah, probably don't want your face smashed.) * Keiko looks over at Hotaru directly for a long moment, then looks away from everyone down at her duck, as she says quietly, "Didn't sleep well either." * Roseli blows at the top of her coffee before having another sip. Maybe it was too hot. * Ten snorts. * Luana shifts her gaze to Ten. "I heard. Does that affect you negatively as well?" * Luana suggests mentally, ~Ask for some sedatives next time? You never know when we'll have a mission and need to be well-rested.~ They distract her and weaken her concentration as she becomes preoccupied with them and memories instead of me. * Roseli stops drinking her coffee to comment, "I take it the three of you had a problem with the mission yesterday?" * Keiko shudders and thinks back, ~I don't want to be that far gone.~ Yes, if there are going to be more screamers, I would like to keep Hotaru farther away. Um, I was fine. Hotaru was very restless and woke me up a few times last night, that's all. * Keiko looks over at Rose and says, "Claudia shouldn't have to be who she isn't." She starts to rub her arm idly with her duck. It takes her a few seconds before she starts and puts the duck back on the table. * Keiko finishes, with a perhaps-surprising venom, "Sick men. Sick women. It's ugly." * Roseli nods and pulls a notepad aside, writing something down. "I'm sorry to hear you aren't better rested." She's silent as she finishes her note. Once it's done, she asks, "What do you mean, Keiko?" This business is hard on psychics. Lotsa people whose heads you really never want to peek into. * Roseli doesn't respond to Togo, instead waiting on Keiko's reply. * Keiko looks at Rose as she spits out, "Cayil makes his guards into..." she trails off and frowns as she looks over to Togo. She finally finishes quietly, looking down at her duck, "Claudia didn't always look like that. She was stronger once. And Ellen... she wants to say something. But she wants to hurt people more." Say something... that would help us? * Keiko shakes her head and clutches her stomach. "Maybe. The message. There's a message. I don't know what it was. She didn't say what it was." ( Was it 'Please shoot me repeatedly?' 'cause otherwise I'm not gonna be much help. ) * Roseli nods. * Keiko grips her stomach tighter and closes her eyes. "She definitely... wanted me dead more, though. So that... worked." (*pins 'Understatement of the year' on Keiko's dress.) Helena has the message, though. So we can find out what it is. Getting her to safety was most important, and we didn't want to overtax you. * Keiko reopens her eyes and looks down at her duck, swinging her feet in the air. She's still got her hand on her stomach. After a second she asks, "What about the computer stuff?" ( I realize it was 3 sessions ago, but it's still important!) (*looks at Brett* Good question!) ( You didn't check it yet. ) (I thought we had geeks for this sorta thing!) (Give them data, they spit out good stuff!) I haven't had time to check it yet. ( Oh, I figured Ten was going to, but ok, I can say a NPC did it. ) [Right about then, the phone rings.] I did hand over a copy, though... * Roseli picks it up. "Tavares." *** Rowyn (rowyn2001@71-221-78-217.eugn.qwest.net) has joined channel #mc4 *** Rowyn is now known as Heinrick (Sorry, have I forgotten something? I'm not all here right now) (No, you weren't there that session.) (Hey there!) (Luana downloaded some info in 27.) (ah!) (Heinrick! You missed me being awesome!) (Sorry I'm late. It happens when you're about 70 miles away and take the wrong turn-off. >_<) [Whether or not Roseli does put the phone on speaker, I'm answering it here. "It's Heidi Weber. We've finished looking though the files you took from the Cayiltech complex. I'll send them to the computer."] (In mountain roads no less.) * Roseli nods. "Thanks. Anything else?" ["Helena Bernelli is conscious, too."] Talking, or is she out of it? ["She hasn't said anything yet. Gabriel is with her now."] We'll see her shortly. (Yup, assume this is speaker. Makes life easier.) Are we going to be repatriating her to HESO at some point, or no? If so, I have some contacts there that could smooth things a bit. * Keiko starts at Helena being awake, then exhales slowly and murmurs, in Japanese. ["I can't answer that, sorry. I do know she doesn't have to cooperate with us if she doesn't want to, however."] (Human rights? US?!) * Keiko blinks, then hisses quietly at Ten, * Togo shrugs. "If it's above my pay grade, that's fine." * Ten turns her nose up at Keiko. (XD) (okay, so we got the info, what's it!) ( Someone might wanna pull it up on the computer! ) (Sorry, Ten's not in the mood to volunteer helpfullness right now.) (Luana can cover! She's helpful!) (Lu doesn't do stuff like that unless she's been told to.) (... we're the best wards ever.) ( Look, if you guys aren't up for this tonight, tell me and I'll go do something else. ) (We are the sleepdepriviest wards ever!) Hotaru, pull up those files they sent. Best check them before we meet Helena. (Sorry, half asleep, trying.) As you will it. * Ten feeds them through the overhead projectors and video screens. [The files come up. Most of it is just code for the Emperor, buuuuut... Gimme computer (programming) rolls] 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8-4) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 1. 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-4) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 6. (I did better than Ten!!) (Curse you dicy!) (Actualy no, I blame this on the nightmares!) [Ok, well, Ten and Luana see what looks like the code for the Emperor console that Ten hacked previously. But there's more code there. You two gimme computer rolls again.] (Same spec?) ( Yep ) 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-4) and gets a natural 14 for a result of 10. (Wiffed! ;_;) * Keiko rubs her collar idly, looking a little annoyed, as Luana and Ten play computer. 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8-4) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 0. (Bwahaha!) * Roseli holds her mug with both hands, watching the code with interest. (::Shakes her tiny fists at the sky:: KAAAAAAAAAAAHN!) ( Now give me a soul roll. ) (XD) ( Just Luana. ) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8) and gets a natural 14 for a result of 14. (Obviously that was ment for me) (Well, not like I expected to make it anyway, with a soul of 5.) (Screw it, DR.) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. (*sighs*) (Good try, Lu!) (You need a soul more like mine. 7 soul. I'm a toughie.) (... then again, you can lift a box of kleenex.) (I'da made that second roll.) * Luana suddenly frowns strongly. (Well, we're body, mind, and soul.) (Ten's pretty boring for all that soul, though. *cough*) (You should see what happens when it's not working at cross purposeses with itself.) * Roseli sips her coffee. Mmm, coffee. (Magical flying ponies coming into existance spontaneously?) (Through sheer force of will?) I... I'm not sure if this is relavent, but... I've suddenly experienced an extreme dislike for Chancellor Bauer. I don't even have an opinion about the man, but I can't stand him. * Luana looks confused. * Roseli blinks and looks to Luana. "Any reasons come to mind?" * Keiko looks funny at Luana, and then goes feeling on her mind. Did something just go funny? * Ten tilts her head and looks at the code again. No, just... I'd very much like it if he lost his position, wealth, and everything else he values. ... evil mind-controlling code. THAT old trick. *** Signoff: Heinrick (Ping timeout) Ah, most of this is just coding for the Emperor, by the way. * Keiko frowns and murmurs, "Mind controlling... code? That isn't right..." * Ten sounds angry. "Code is for controlling machines, to tell them what and who they are. Not humans." Particularly since Cayil and Bauer are supposed to be like brothers. * Keiko nods in rare agreement with Ten. "This is very wrong." She then looks at Rose and says with a little satisfaction, "See? I said he hated him." Well, something in there is trapsing around Luana's brain. ~Zarina will be so disappointed, won't she?~ * Keiko thinks back, ~You're right every time you think that, you know...~ (Fortunately, Luana won't actually do anything to hurt Bauer unless ordered to, because she's a good ward. :D) * Ten looks at her priestess's guardian. "I wish for there to be a mission to wipe this aberation from existance." ~I just feel so bad for her!~ You may get your wish. Anything else about the files? * Keiko scratches her cheek. ~Yeah, me too.~ Beat, then, ~Maybe you two can fix it. For fun.~ * Ten goes over the code with a proverbial fine toothed comb, and glances at the rest. ( "COMB THE DESERT!" ) (Well, at least we've found shit.) ( Yes. You should consider reporting it to Lydia. ) ~Maybe. Although I have been wanting to build a new computer, and Togo approves of it... well, I can do both. Have to find the specific parts of the coding that play with the mind first, though...~ Luana's mental voice drifts off into murmured technobabble. * Keiko turns down the 'Luana' channel two notches and pets the bill of her duck. Reminds me of the time several years back when this demonic cult opened a club and used lights and subliminal messages in the music to brainwash the clubgoers into committing random acts of violence. That was a bad, bad week. (Also, I hate to do this, but I'm very tired and am going to need to sleep soon. :() Where was that? (Well, we gots to tell the Head Woman Who Needs To Be Punched In The Face things and talk to the one-armed woman...) ( Let's just end then. Now that you've exposed Cayil, someone can go arrest him and next time we can skip straight to something else. ) (We tell Lydia and she drops the hammer? Neat!) (Can we sit back and get drinks while we watch?) (DOWN WITH THE EMPEROR!) (UP WITH PEOPLE.) (That article's getting clipped and posted on the wall!) (Another notch on the collective wall?) ( Pretty much. ) [End]