[Day: Unknown. Time: Unknown.] [You're on a stone walkway in front of what's either an old Greek temple or a museum. It's entirely white marble and has a short staircase leading up to a columned entryway. On the other side of the walkway is... nothing. It just stops leading to an infinite abyss.] [The sky is a dark blue, like just after the sun goes down. But there's no horizon. There's no sun or clouds, either. The blueness gives way to black as is goes further down.] [The walkway continues left and right of you, around the Greek building, but it also seems to be surrounded by the abyss on all sides. Nothing makes any sense here. You're going crazy. Agh!] [Which explains why you're surrounded by monsters.] [Start! :D] ( and describe your Metaforms :P ) (...) (We're in M form?) (Are... are our powers on?) ( Yup! ) (.... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha) (Oh dear) [Despite the lack of sun or any noticable light source, you can see just fine! ] (Okay, after checking with Brett, everyone's gonna have to make a Body check, TN 13.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Josh (2d6) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 11. 2d6+9 (Add your body!) * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+9) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 16. (Oh yeah 3rd) (Add your body.) 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chess (2d6+8) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 11. ( Dun worry, if you all die I got another game planned ) (That's an 18) (Oh, nobody's gonna die.) 2d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yoshiko (2d6+7) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 18. 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yoshiko (2d6+5) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 12. (DR1) 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yoshiko (2d6+5) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 8. (DR2) 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yoshiko (2d6+5) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 11. (Ah fuckit.0 (It's not that bad!) (Is there a targeting limitation? Wondering if the familiar would be affected) 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Logan (2d6+6) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 10. (No limitation.) ( AFK for a bit while you folks work this out. XD ) * Logan is tall, medium built Italian guy.  Slacks, white button down, grey vest skinny black tie, a pristine black fedora, and a brown trench-coat which perpetually flutters out behind him, even though there is no wind.  He's clean-shaven, and his hair is short, salt-and-pepper. In place of his right arm is an over-sized, overt cybernetic arm, which occasionally crackles with electricity.  His right eye is cybernetic and glows a (Logan, you got cut: His right eye is cybernetic and glows a ) ...His right eye is cybernetic and glows a dull red.  At his side is strapped a huge brushed-finish revolver, and a speed-loader with bullets bigger than should ever rightly fit into a handgun. (Alright, so right now Chess, Yoshiko, and Logan were all hit?) (Actually, that really depends on what it is. I've got a lot of resistance/toughness/special defenses) * Josh 's a fifteen foot tall ... metal pirate for lack better word. Huge iron plated captain's coat, tricorn hat, cutlass in one hand and the mouth of a cannon peaking out the end of his other sleave. All that's visable of his face are two glowing yellw eyes and a massive bushy black beard. The only things missing are the peg leg and parrot. (Yoshiko's familiar was, she wasn't.) (Add Resistance, that's the body one.) (Also, I totally don't see the first half of Logan's discription ^^;) (ok, so 13 total) (Alright, Attacker wins, I believe, so.) (Actually, attack roll hits, but this isn't an attack roll.0 (It's a roll vs. TN. So the roller wins) (Makes sense!) (Everyone that got hit is, uh, very distracted by the beauty of what I'll be describing as Raxa in a second. -3 to rolls since it's irritant, but hopefully that's not relevant!) (How long does that last?)\ (Margin of failure, but technically it's an aura. Thankfully, it's selective as soon as I know you're all not enemies!) (I figure we might just wanna play it as 'distracted until it gets turned off' for ease? Dunno.) * Billie is an androgynous ninja, just a few inches over five feet tall. No, seriously. The whole ninja outfit, all black, with a hood instead of a tight face mask... but the face is missing, leaving just smoke and shadow in the right general shape and two pitch black eyes. Gray smoke floats up in the tiny gaps there are in the clothes. * Chess is now known as is * is is now known as Chess * Chess is a pure white jaguar, a little over two feet tall and five and a half feet long. Her eyes are an extremely bright blue and are currently staring at her tail, which is flicking back and forth slightly. She seems extremely confused, as far as a large cat can show emotion. ( Resistance probably applies to that roll, I would think ) (Yeah, that's what I said.) (Man, I'm the only one who went for a size change?) (I got 6 inches taller and 100 lbs heavier, does that count?) (Chess turned into a jaguar!) * Raxa is a very non-androgynous... six foot tall woman peacock woman. Her body is covered with iridescent green and copper feathers, except over the interesting bits, which are covered by larger peacock-like feathers. A green crest of featers goes up from her head, and her face has additional yellow and blue tones. The larger feathers also go down her arms and from her back, in a peacock-like fan. * Yoshiko is a short (4'10"), notably cute adolescent girl in her mid-teens. She has wavy medium-length strawberry-blonde hair, adorned and laced with pink and purple ribbons, and she has purple eyes. On her forehead is a star-shaped purple gem, and she's wearing a white and purple dress with a short puffy skirt. She's wearing a sizable amount of jewelry: her white gloves adorned with coin hasps as well as her necklace and shoes... * Logan blinks slowly several times and then pats himself down, obviously expecting injuries and surprised to find none. * Raxa seems to have an... odd, distracting beauty, coming from her shimmering feathers, as well, which some of the people in the group might even be affected by! Wide black eyes look around with surprise as she says, "Xibalba? This is..." her eyes lock on Chess and she bows her head immediately. (It amuses the crap out of me that the one non-familiar person that got hit... was the Jaguar.) * Yoshiko (cont) while her earrings are small stars. On her back are a sizable pair of white feathery wings, and behind that is draped a cloak through which an independently moving starry-sky can be seen. She carries a staff a little taller than her, with a floating star on the end and a number of lucky and unlucky symbols adorning the staff. She's accompanied by a white owl with a unique black and blue feather pattern and missmatched eyes. * Chess notices the bow and inclines her head in return, then goes back to watching her tail. * Josh looks around. "By Davy's own beard, I be in midget hell." (Er. Chess failed the roll, right?) * Yoshiko ... the eyes being green and blue. * Josh blinks, or at least his eyes go dark for a moment. "The hell did I just say?" (Ah, I missed that, sorry.) (Nod.) (Retcon previous) (Also Josh) * Chess notices the bow and inclined her head in return, then proceeds to stare at Raxa and tilt her head to the side. (Nah, Josh dodged it with an 18.) * Billie spins and looks from one person/creature to another, then around, instinctively dropping into a defensive martial arts stance and slowly backing away from the group. (It's the familiar and Chess.) (Ah, I missed the clarification) * Josh doesn't seem particualry frightened by the thigh high monsters surrounding him. * Yoshiko blinks and rubs her head, getting back up from her position and looks around. "Hey, Yuki, I don't remember that explosion being THAT big. What happened?" * Logan mutters to himself: "If this is heaven, those preachy-types have a lot to answer for." * Raxa glances to Josh, but her eyes go back to Chess and she says, quietly, "Revered Jaguar, servant of One Death... is this Xibalba? Are... you my guide?" * Yuki hops around a little bit, then suddenly flaps her wings. The owl talks in a soft voice. "What do you mean? You turned me into an owl! And... Hoo, hey, lookit that." She looks straight at Raxa, signalling. * Josh laughs. "If I made it into heaven I'll eat me hat." * Chess speaks into everyone's minds, her mental voice that of a young, confused woman. ~Why are you so shiny?~ * Yoshiko gets up and picks up the staff instinctively, then starts checking herself over. Then flaps her wings. Wings? "Heeeeeey, Yuki, I feel kinda... weird." And purple. * Billie starts and looks at Chess, and another voice enters your minds, this one barely above a whisper and also female: ~Am I dead? Is this what happens when you die?~ * Raxa looks down at herself, then back at Chess with a slight grin as she gestures with her arm. "Beautiful in life, beautiful in death, my guide." * Logan quickly puts a palm to his forehead. "Oi, hey, watch it with the mental voices thing, this is weird enough already. Some of us just died here." It must be my other soul bonded with me in form... ~I think I have to know where the hell I am if I'm expected to guide people. I require a map. And a human body. Why do I have a tail?~ * Josh looks down at his hand. "Aye, some things be... ARE damnit, hard to live through." Died? Is this what it's like? I'm too young to die! I still have eleventy-billion things to do. At least pretty myself up before I get judged. * Chess sniffs at Logan. ~Shut up, some of us can't talk normally 'cause we have cat mouths.~ * Logan looks over at Chess. "Ah, so one of the voices in my head is a talking animal." He shrugs. "It's not the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me." ~... Or no mouth. All of you died? Really?~ * Billie relaxes. Slightly. * Yoshiko flies onto Yoshiko's shoulder and looks curiously at everyone assembled. (Err... wait.) (Haw haw haw.) * Logan barks out a laugh. "Well, it certainly felt like dying. Not that I've ever experienced it before. But the tri-vids are pretty descriptive." (Yuki does that.) ~And you're talking? The cat?~ * Raxa looks around, then says, "Heaven or hell, I do not know... but a jaguar is here." * Billie looks at, er, the cat. On the whole, being surrounded by midgets talking in me head's far preferable to being on fire. But that's just one man's opinion. ~I was a human until that asshole shot me. Who decided shooting up my sixth form was a good idea anyway?~ * Yoshiko blinks then looks at Yuki. "What, no, really? I'm a what now? What'm I going to do?! I can't take on this many youkai!" "...or being shot. A lot." I think they're all dead though. Maybe they're celestials? That one looks like one of those kappa inventions. * Raxa looks around and brushes feathers over her face. "It must be Xibalba. None of you sound to have died properly." She laughs lowly. "And I've never been proper." * Chess doesn't wait for an answer. ~An asshole, that's who!~ * Billie starts again and looks around frantically. ~Wait... if we're all dead... Are any of you Carolyn? Carolyn!~ * Yoshiko looks over the group. "Who?" (That's who!) ( This is the easiest session I've ever ran. XD ) * Josh looks around. "Never belived in this sortta place... And I've been many a thing, but never a Carolyn." Carolyn? That's an... odd name. Not one I know. * Chess manages to look away from Raxa and goes back to watching her tail. ~Nope, sorry.~ Uh... Hey. I know you're all kinda confused, but... there's a lotta youkai around that building. Maybe we should do something about that? (for reference - Logan: http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs5/i/2004/285/b/a/detective_by_GENZOMAN.jpg Logan's arm: http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i46/richbob/bishop-ARMED.jpg?t=1204770849 and his gun: http://www.themodelmaker.co.uk/sam20%20.jpg ) (Around what building? I don't remember Brett descing, uh, youkai.) (Yuki pretty much calls ANYTHING supernatural a youkai, that's all. Monster? It's a youkai.) ( He means you :P ) ( But since you asked. ) What exactly be a youkai? [Jack Frost pops up from out of the ground, without even leaving a hole behind. "Hee ho!"] (so adorable) (Make a body roll.) (HEE HO!) (HEE HO!) * Billie gazes past the others to see the temple. ~Dammit-~ And then there's Jack Frost, and a shadowy blade appears in her hand. * Yoshiko shrieks and tries to wack Jack Frost with her staff. A... talking snowball? ( Combat tutorial go! ) * Logan reflexively reaches for his revolver, then looks down, apparently realizing for the first time how giant his right arm and gun are. (See it? Kill it! It's a good start.) (You want me to roll?) * Yoshiko smacks the Jack Frost with the staff, knocking it a huge distance back. A lot further than should even be possible with a baseball bat, let alone a little girl with a staff. * Chess lets out a startled noise and suddenly disappears from sight. (Am I the only one who doesn't know who this Jack Frost fellow is? I mean, unless you're referring to the folklore one) ( http://www.atlus.com/ in the upper right corner there ) ( http://orangespeck.deviantart.com/art/SMT-Jack-Frost-Plushie-153108184 ( ( http://elsagatensei.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/art-jack_frost.jpg ) * Yoshiko takes a deep breath. "Yeah, get back you!" (You're gonna probably need to be brushed up on your SMT if this game keeps on with that.) (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_C8C3PZZG_Tg/SeKTGhvwgkI/AAAAAAAAABU/S0SC7uoKnCQ/s320/ jackfrost_atlus.png) (I love that every single one of you found a different file.) ( XD ) Woah. Hey, chill, it's just a snowman youkai. [Jack is whacked by Yoshiko's staff and tumbles head over heels. He sits up, rubbing his head. "Oww! What the hee ho are you doing, ho?"] You jumped in my face. What did you think was going to happen? * Raxa looks away from Chess for a moment at Hee Ho Man, and then when she looks back she's gone. "Guide? Revered Jaguar?" * Yoshiko takes a couple steps back, and looks at everyone warrily a second time, then relaxes her stance. ["Ho... You're cruel. Master said to show you hees the basics, ho, but maybe now I don't wanna!"] * Logan is rather distracted flexing and stretching his new cybernetic arm, occasionally glancing up to make sure that the snowball isn't trying anything. * Billie speaks in Jack's head: ~'Master'? What the hell are you talking about?~ Oh ho? And what master be this? [He stands up. "The master! My master, hee! You're master, ho!"] * Yoshiko sighs. "I'm sorry. This is just odd. I didn't think it'd hit you THAT hard." ( Your ) What, so my master has a master? * Chess reappears and lays down, watching the Jack Frost attentively. This is going to get really silly, really fast. Sillier than usual. ["Ho... You're just lucky I'm just an ephermal manifestation, hee, or I'd really let you have it!"] ~How usual is your silly?~ * Logan nods. "You said it." Then he realizes he's talking to an owl, quirks his eyebrows, and shakes his head. * Yuki ruffles her feathers. "Normal." * Josh points his sword and the stairs at it. "Going nothing. We bloodly well started silly." I don't know. Clothes change is pretty common. I *was* messing around with a new concoction, but it seems to have had a lot more of an effect than expected. * Raxa whews and crouches down, looking to the Jaguar for a moment before she looks past everyone to Jack Frost. She says, "Revered Jaguar, I mean no disrespect, but you're pretty strange for a servant of the gods of death." Hey, it's a kitty! [Jack hops up and down. "You should probably come inside, hee. Unless you rather stay out here, ho!" And he bounds up the steps.] ~I dunno, Mr. Ephemeral Manifestation, my dad is pretty strict about me getting involved in weird things. As in, I'm not supposed to.~ Don't taunt the jaguar. ~Hey Miss Peacock, if I'm a servant of the gods of death, you're the first person to have let me know. It's definitely not on my school transcript.~ To Chess: Uh, kid? You're a cat. A recently dead cat. Who just appeared in an impossible world with a bunch of other dead...people. I think you're stuck with weird for the moment. * Chess follows the Jack Frost anyway. Nothing better to do. ~Meh. Details.~ * Billie watches Jack bound, then runs after him. * Raxa blinks, then smiles brightly. "How someone not divine can wear a Jaguar's form... I do not know. Call me Raxa, Revered One." * Yoshiko walks after Jack Frost. She stretches and almost hits someone with her wings. * Logan follows behind Chess. [You follow the Jack Frost into the temple. Inside it.... doesn't really look Greek. Or like anything, really. It's just a big empty room with white- tiled floors and grey walls. You can still see despite the lack of light source. Jack walks to the opposite wall and turns around, folding his hands behind his back. "Hee ho!"] * Josh walks up the stairs, taking care not to step on any of the teeny people. Maybe some names are in order then? * Raxa then stands back up and dodges the wings as she stalks forward. * Yoshiko smiles. "I'm Yoshiko, an Ordinary Witch, and this is my familiar Yuki." She motions to the owl. Aren't witches supposed to have cats as familiars? ["I don't have a name, but you can call me Jack, ho!"] ~Billie. Billie Tochikura. Maybe this guy knows where Carolyn went.~ Her mom's got a black cat. She's didn't want something the same. That's not it, it's because I met you. Oh, flatter me some more. * Josh snorts. "You may call me Josh, premptive salvage expert. Seem ta be branded with it now." * Yoshiko rubs Yuki under the beak at the neck. "I will." * Logan tips his fedora. "Logan LeBlanc, Privat... well, Logan will do." * Chess sits down in front of the Jack Frost. ~I'm Chess Onedyr.~ She pronounces her last name 'wonder'. ~I was a human sixth form college student until I got here and turned into a cat.~ You look very not-human now. * Yoshiko tries to scritch Chess behind the ears, wondering if she'll get a typical cat response. ["None of you are human now, ho."] * Chess relaxes and almost starts to purr, then pulls away. ~Hey, no touchie!~ ~Nice. I was a med student.~ * Yoshiko giggles.' ~And obviously; I guess we're ghosts?~ * Raxa sighs and flutters her feathers a little. "Except for salvage, none of you speak words that make sense. Especially the hees and hos-er." * Logan quirks his eyebrows at Chess. "Sixth form? Not from America, then? You speak remarkably good English. Though maybe that's just the 'in my head' thing." Huh. ~I'm British, idiot. We invented the language. Get out more.~ ["Ho."] You're all speaking perfectly good Japanese to me. ~Sixth form probably means she's from the UK- yeah.~ A professional pirate as it were. But there wasn't any dressing up in this buffonery. And I'm hearing English, which be a good turn. ... Even if half the time I'm not sure I be speaking it. ~You sound like a pirate.~ Arrr! * Logan grunts. "Indian friend of mine used the term, I figured... anyway." * Billie looks down at herself. ~And I look like I'm in my work clothes. Maybe I'm going to wait tables for the rest of eternity for this 'master' guy.~ She looks at Jack. ~That right too?~ So what are we doing here, Jack? ~You work as a ninja? I've never met a ninja before now. That I know of.~ Does that mean you have all those smoke bombs and stuff? * Raxa shakes her head and strokes her tail feathers with one hand. She shakes her head at all the completely nonsensical talk, and sounds sad as she asks, "Yes... why was I denied heaven?" ~No, I'm a waitress at Ninja: San Fran. No smoke bombs. Just paper and pen.~ * Billie looks at Raxa. ~Most ghosts I talked to just have unfinished business. You die in a bad way?~ * Logan blinks, and then stares at Billie. "No way. You work at that Ninja restaurant downtown?" ~Um yeah? You ever eat there?~ * Yoshiko looks semi-disappointed. "Aww." ["Ho! Master Zomegar brought you back. Someone's done something to seal his power, hee, and he can't come here himself right now, so he made me to greet you instead. Hee ho!"] I guess we're, uh...ascended. Or something exceptional. Most spirits just go to the Sanzu River to be ferried across to their final rest. * Raxa looks over at Billie and laughs faintly. "My business was finished when my blood was spilled, ah... Billie." * Billie nods at Jack. * Logan nods. "A couple of times, back when I was on the West Coast. Never got around to the one in the Big Apple, too expensive." * Billie looks at Logan. ~Yeah, food's stupid overpriced. But that means the tips are good, and I get to sneak up on customers. Er, got to...~ she amends, her voice turning sad. That's okay, I'm sure you can sneak up on us. * Josh peers down at his companions and shakes his head. "The things idiots would rather have than money." ["Ho... You're all accepting the fact that you died remarkably well. That's good! It'll make the next part heesier."] * Yoshiko blinks. "Wait, Zomegar? I don't remember a Zomegar." * Raxa then looks to Jack and walks past everyone to look down at him, crossing feathered arms. "I was denied for this... Zomegar?" [Jack peers up at Raxa. "Hee?"] ~Well, it was pretty OBVIOUS I was going to die when the fucking bastard shoved his claws into my throat.~ * Logan gives a crooked grin. " 'bout scared the hell out of me the first time." I don't remember a Zomegar either. Never hearda him. ["Ho... The master doesn't usually concern himself with the mortal worlds."] * Logan shrugs. "Never much studied theology anyway." ~So why us, and why now? And did he concern himself with Carolyn?~ ~I was the fourth person shot. It wasn't terribly surprising by the time I bit the bullet, so to say.~ [But someone obheeously thinks he's a threat, ho, if they went to such lengths to s-heeal his power! And no ho can do that heeasily!"] * Yoshiko scratches her head. "Was I the only person NOT murdered by someone else?" (If no ho can do it, can a pimp?) (Awwww yeah.) ["As far as I know, you were all picked at random. Hee ho!"] (Aw noo) (*pimpmusic* IT'S ZOMEGAR) * Billie doesn't frown, but she probably wants to. Maybe, maybe no. I was below deck when everything went to hell. ~Lucky us?~ * Yoshiko looks at Jack with a 'You've gotta be kidding me.' look. * Logan chuckles. "Well, I've never been any kind of lucky. So this is either payback, or just a sign of things getting worse." [Jack nods. "If you don't like it, the master can return your souls where they came from and get someone else. Hee ho!"] ["Hee, but opportunities like this don't come along often, ho!"] ~No, I'm good! Cat's better than dead!~ (I suppose the last thing we remember is being mortal, no glimpses of an alternate afterlife?) ( Yep ) * Raxa licks her lips, looking at him oddly, then says, "Mortal world... is this Zomegar a god?" ... Can I get put back, but say... 150k west? And mayhaps not on fire? ["Ho... Some would call him a god. Hee doesn't care, though."] * Billie reaches over, instinctively, and rubs Chess behind the ears. * Yoshiko scratches her head. "Actually, this is kinda cool." Hey, I like having wings. * Raxa 's eyes widen. "Then... we are his chosen? We are his _deva_?" * Chess relaxes into the scratching again, then shakes herself and pointedly walks away from the people who are trying to touch her. * Logan looks down at himself. "Hey, at least he fixed my arm." His arm crackles and electricty arcs across his fingers. "Alright, that's pretty cool too." ~I don't suppose we could tell my family that I'm not totally dead? My auntie knows a necromancer; I don't -think- she'd try to bring me back as a zombie, but you never know.~ * Logan twitches at the mention of necromancers. * Billie doesn't really notice Chess's peevishness. ~... Zombies, seriously?~ We're celestials? Does that mean we're gonna spend all day sitting down and sipping tea? [Jack peers at Josh. "You don't understand, hee. Your life is hover. You can work for the master, hee, or you can go back to being dead." Then to Raxa, he nods. "That's right, you're Heevas!"] Because that's not too different from normal. ... Right. Consider me shangheid. Where be ye wanting me to sign? ~Devas? Heevas? Uh, what does that mean, exactly?~ * Raxa lets out a little laugh and covers her face. "Chosen at random by a god I have never heard of as a deva..." ~Zombies. Seriously.~ ~At least it's not zombies, right.~ [Jack looks to to Yoshiko. "No ho! Master has a very important hee for you to do."] I'm gonna have such a story to tell when I get back. Oh, even better. * Raxa peeks through feathers at Billie. "Chosen of the gods, wielders of their power on earth and in sky for their will." Yeah, we're kinda like messengers. Hey, do we get a flaming sword? [A bunch of images appear on the wall behind Jack. Images of places, people and things you mostly don't recognize. "Hee... Right now, many worlds are approaching alignment. They're reaching a very important point, ho, when something is going to happen to change their heestory."] * Josh sits down crosslegged. "There be a distinct lack of fire on me sword, but that may be an oversight." ~I don't like swords, can I get- well, no, it doesn't really matter, as I'm a CAT.~ * Billie nods to Raxa. ~So... angels. I'm a ninja angel. Bringing the sushi of justice. Got it.~ * Logan snerks at the mental image of a big cat with a sword. [Master Zomegar thinks some hees are trying to make sure the hos go negatively. So your job is to go to these worlds and make sure the turning points have a positive outcome. Hee ho!"] ~Well, at least we're probably good angels.~ [Jack nods.] "Positive is relative." * Chess snerks at Billie. ~Can I get the spring roll of awesome?~ ["Ho, but there's some very important rules you have to follow, hee."] I think ye be speaking for yerself there. Maybe you could get flaming claws. I'm pretty sure I have a spell for that somewhere. ~I mostly worked on the serving side of things, but sure, I can at least cook up a spring roll of decent.~ ~That sounds painful.~ "All I'm saying is that a positive outcome for Hitler isn't necessarily a positive outcome for me." Who? ["Firsthee, you need to influence the people to make the right choices, but don't make them for them, ho, or you could affect things negatively."] ["Secondho, there may be others trying to influence the hees to make the wrong choices, or even make the choices for them. Don't let them do that, ho!"] So other devas? [Jack nods.] To Yoshiko: "Didn't you say you were Japanese?" * Josh drums his fingers on his sword. "Make 'em do what we want and think it twas their own idear." ["Or heemons or gods, ho!"] * Billie starts, slightly. ~Demons?~ * Logan also twitches a bit at the mention of demons. ["Thirdhee, you hos need to blend in to the worlds. That means don't be seen in public using technology not from the world you're on, ho, dress appropriately, hee, and... um..."] ["Ho yes, don't let your true forms be seen in public. Hee ho!"] ~I should dress appropriately, huh? Listen buddy, you're not getting me into cat clothes.~ Aye, I'm not exactly going to be blending in as it were. * Logan glances down again at his arm. "Uh...I mean, not that I'm complaining or anything, but this is going to be hard to hide." * Yoshiko thinks. "That's where I'm from. Katsuki Village on the island of Japan." [Jack nods. "Ho. You'll have to return to human form before you go. In fact, ho, it will be strenuous to use your true forms when you're in a mortal realm."] * Yoshiko looks at her back. "I think I blend right in right now. Wings aren't THAT uncommon for youkai. " Does that mean I'll change back? That be the first piece of good news today. ~I can be human again? How do I do that, exactly? And will I be naked when I turn human again, 'cause that's awkward.~ To Yoshiko: "And you've never heard of Hitler?! I thought the American educational system was a shambles, but you guys where on his side in that damn war!" He sighs. "Maybe I'm just getting old." [Jack nods. "You hees should be able to return to human form if you just concentrate, ho!"] What war? * Josh closes and/or turns off his eyes to think about his human form. [The giant metal pirate turns into a naked man.] * Logan blinks. "The big one? Well, the second big one. World War 2? I don't know, maybe the Japanese had a different name for it. The 1940s, Japan and Germany ganged up on the rest of the world, lots of people died, we blew up Hiroshima?" * Chess averts her eyes from Josh. ~I definitely want clothes before I turn back. And a private area to change into them.~ ( And Italy! ) * Billie eyes the naked man, then averts her gaze as well. ~Put some clothes on!~ Where? I don't know what you're talking about. * Raxa drums her claws on her arm as she waits for information, then grins. "Ah, so this beauty is merely temporary." When Josh changes to human she lets out a laugh, not looking away, and says, "And the big man is mostly human after all! Hmm." * Josh is scruffy and incredibly average looking caucasian male with a deep farmers tan. He's got brown hair, brown eyes, and ... no pants. Hey, I'm back! And... with no fucking pants. Shit. * Yoshiko glances at the naked man then blushes and looks away, almost instantly. "Put something on!" * Josh covers himself with his hands. * Logan snerks and tosses Josh his trench-coat. * Chess makes a huffing sound that might be a laugh. Hey Jack, do I get pants with this flight or we gotta steal 'em? ["Hooo.... Humans are so weird. I'm not wearing any hees besides my hat, and nobody said anything!"] ~You're not human!~ * Josh catches it turns away from the group to put it on. Tell me about it! ~He doesn't even have a hat, though.~ I still don't know how humans wear all that, and I share my mind with one. * Logan laughs. "So let me guess. We've gotta concentrate on our humans selves, but with clothes on." ["You should be able to make clothes if you concentrate, hee, and maybe other hos too if you've got talent for it."] * Raxa laughs and says, "I'm with the strange one, you're all far too worried about this." I told you before. You have fur... and feathers right now. [Jack nods. "Don't forget to wear appropriate clothing for the world you're in. Hee ho!"] * Chess closes her eyes and envisions herself in human form, wearing clothes. * Logan shrugs. "Might as well give this a try." He closes his eyes and concentrates, imagining himself dressed and outfitted as he was right before he died. ( If you change back, describe your human forms :P ) [Jack swings his arms. "There's two more hees you need to ho, too."] * Josh blinks and taps the side of his head, next to his left eye. "That's weird. Well, not weird next to everything else, but still weird." * Logan looks much like his m-form, but about 6 inches shorter, 100 lbs lighter, still fairly tall but lanky instead of built. He's got what looks like fairly perpetual stubble. His clothes are similar, but much less kempt. >> He holds his right arm loosely, as if favoring it, and he has a lazy right eye which can be a little disconcerting if you stare at his face too long. He's got a half-smoked cigarette hanging out of the side of his mouth. * Chess is now a human girl in her late teens with blemish-free, pale skin, pale blonde hair, the same bright blue eyes, and rounded facial features. Her body looks a bit thinner than is healthy, and she's wearing khaki shorts, a blue tanktop, and white sneakers. * Yoshiko glances at Yuki. The owl looks back, and then Yuki concentrates for a moment, envisioning herself as normal. ["Number Hee, you should be finding you have other new powers as well. The ability to influence things just by wishing they would happen. What that is is going to be different for each of you, though."] (And the trenchcoat that Jack is wearing disappears!) * Chess reaches into her pocket, grins, and pulls out a protein bar which she immediately starts eating. (I'm Josh) (Jack just has a hat) (Poor Josh.) (erm... yeah. Josh.) ["And number Ho.... don't knock pelvises with any heemons. You and every ho on the world you're on will be sorry."] * Josh looks down. "Right, today is humiliate Josh day in Hell. Whelp. Once more. With pants this time." * Logan laughs. "So you're saying we shouldn't fall for any sexy devils? STDs from Hell?" * Billie nods, then concentrates on herself with clothes on. The outfit around her melts into smoke which flows down, leaving a half-Asian, half-Caucasian woman in her twenties. She has short, cotton candy pink hair, dark brown eyes, and is wearing cut off jean shorts, a fairly tight t-shirt (though she has no real chest to show it off), and sandals. * Chess swallows her mouthful of what might be considered food. "You're trying to avoid half-demon babies? Probably a good idea." [Jack nods to Logan. "Kind of. Hee ho!"] "So wooing the mortal ladies is kosher?" * Billie has colorful butterfly tattoos on her ankles, upper arms, and one is peeking out from under her shirt in the back. [then to Chess. "Hee. Except instead of babies they'd be unkillable monstrosities bent on the destruction of every living thing, ho!"] * Josh closes his eyes and comes up with a button down shirt, and khaki pants tucked into combat boots. What's the incubation term on those things? Just out of curiousity. [Jack shrugs at Logan. "As long as the hee act doesn't mess up the world's honing point."] * Logan gives Chess an amused look. * Yoshiko changes and stays much like her M-form, at least in stature and body type. Her hair and eye-color stay the same, but the gen on her forehead vanishes in the transformation. Her dress changes to a knee-length pink, short-sleeved frilly dress, with a short white coat and apron over it. The coat has a number of small pockets, and her legs have long white socks on them, with a pair of low-heeled purple pumps on her feet. Right... I'll just be keeping it my new pants then. * Billie punches Josh in the shoulder, cheerfully. "Could knock pelvises with someone here." Brief pause. "Having my voice back is AWESOME." [Jack turns back to Chess. "Twelve months of feeling like your on fire, hee, and abortions are completely impossible, ho!"] Is it because we're devas or whatever, or is this a similar problem when a human woman is carrying the child? Is the product still the same if a male human impregnates a female demon? * Logan turns to Jack. "So you're saying we don't actually get to meet this Zandiguy?" * Raxa clucks her tongue and says, "Clothing it is," before she also changes back. Feathers become brown-red skin, short black hair, and jade/gold necklaces hanging just above a triangular low cut top that she's filling upt better than Billie's, made of cotton that has open sides, cinched with ropes. * Josh rubs at his chin, calculates his odds, and doesn't say anything about how glad he is to have been born male out loud. * Yoshiko is carrying a leather-bound book and a home-made broom, as that's what she has with her typically. Yuki changed from an owl into an albino bunny, staying on her shoulder. Notably, none of her clothes appears to have elastics, so there are a number of ribbons and drawstrings. * Raxa is also wearing pants, or rather a short skirt, and over it all is a bandolier of small pouches. She's not shiny, but she's still quite something. ["Only for heevas. And angels, but those hos are really just heevas with a different name. And yes, it goes both ways. Hee ho!"] * Logan catches Josh's eye and supresses a grin, badly. * Billie then spots Raxa, and says, "You are *still* hot. That is so unfair." * Yoshiko is still notably cute, if people are wondering, and doesn't seem to have changed in age. Maybe she was pretty before? * Chess sticks her hand into her back pocket and pulls out a notepad and pencil, then starts writing stuff down. [Jack shakes his head at Logan. "Hee is conserving his power, ho. Maybe when you start affecting some of the worlds, he'll regain enough to manifest in a way that won't cause your eyes to bleed our of your head. Hee ho!"] * Raxa also has tattoos all over her face, down her left leg, and they're visible at her sides too. "Five minutes in and we're already talking demon babies? You're a rough one." She looks over at Billie and grins. "Don't worry, I don't mind sharing." ["But for now, I'm you're guide. Hee ho!"] * Josh is, as previously noted, painfully average. "I aprove of my eyes not bleeding out of my head, there are so may wonderful things to look at around here." * Logan glances down at his right arm, which looks perfectly normal, and seems again surprised. "This isn't the arm that I died with." ( Wow lag >.> ) No thanks. My last girlfriend died like ten minutes ago... I'd like to find out if she's really gone or not first. And then maybe kill the bastards who did it. It's practical information for some people. Anyway, I've still got questions. Does killing the mother abort the child? ["No ho. But it might put her our of her misery."] Ouch. That's rough. * Yoshiko hmms. "Maybe that's why I never hear about youkai children." [But she'd probably come back to life if she was a heeva, ho."] (Who's Josh talking to?) (Yes, who IS Josh talking to?) * Raxa also has a pair of sharp claws on her index fingers. Billie's response causes her eyes to flick down, then she looks back to her. "Ah, of course... I wasn't meaning to get in the way of your grief. I'm sorry for your loss." * Logan looks up. "Wait, we come back to life if we die? ...again? * Yoshiko looks up. "And you're all tall, too." (Billie) Should any of us avoid sexual intercourse with any other species specifcally? * Billie nods as people more or less comfort her. "Yeah..." She looks down, twisting her fingers. "Unfinished business, you know. I didn't think I'd be coming back as the ghost." [Jack nods. "Hee! It might take some time for you to regenerate, ho, but if you die you come back here.... Unless something destroys or eats or steals your sould, ho."] "Well, that's a good thing to know." [Jack shrugs at Chess. "I don't ho everything. I was only created fifheen minutes ago."] * Chess writes down one last thing. "Thanks. You seem very helpful for a newborn." * Raxa looks over at Chess and grins. "You're a practical girl, when it comes to sex. Always good to get the fundamentals down." [Jack beams. As much as an ever-smiling snowman can beam. "Hee!"] * Logan nods. "Ho." So, recap. We go to the place, blend our way to whoever we gotta whammy, make 'em do what we want and think it was their idea. Cap whoever opposeses us and no screwing anybody while we do it? "Lather, rinse, repeat." [Jack says, "Ho, you've got some time to get used to things here before you're sent on your first mission." He points to the right and left, where three doors have appeared on each wall. "Hee, you'll find whatever kinds of rooms you need through there."] [Jack nods to Josh. "Hee. And find out what the hos are doing that requires them to seal the master's power. Remember, the master doesn't normally get involved in mortal affairs, hee, so it must be something major."] Hey, don't gods need, like... faith? * Logan 's stomach gurgles. "Hey, do we need to eat in this place." I mean, I've never even heard of this guy, nobody has. * Chess smiles back at Raxa. "Auntie has a lot of children, and only the twins have the same father. Sex is a practical sort of topic in her house." [Jack shakes his head. "No ho. Only gods with big egos do. The master doesn't care if any hees know who he is or not."] Oh. Huh. * Yoshiko scratches her head. "That makes sense from the gods I've met." * Raxa chuckles and smiles. "Sounds like a lucky woman, to have such a family." * Josh shakes his head. "You've met gods and I didn't even belive there was one 'till five minutes ago." ["Hee, many goods like to get involved in mortal affairs, but not the master! Gods are especially fond of Earth, ho, since nobody can decide who made it."] * Yoshiko looks at Chess kinda weird. "Dad'd totally flip if I went out with anyone. He'd grill'em like crazy." So then why is he getting involved now? * Logan chuckles. "Not anymore. I mean... unless you were serious about your aunt and the zombies. ... then again, dating a zombie seems unwise." With us, I mean. Random devas or whatever. * Chess rolls her eyes. "It wasn't luck so much as hard work hunting down the most attractive guys she could find and demanding they help her concieve a child. She's -weird-. And my dad definitely doesn't approve, but I try not to be home if I can help it." ["Hee, like I said, someone sealed his power."] 'Cause he's stuck. Right... 'cuz he can't talk to us. * Raxa laughs. "I meant blessed, then. Driven, too!" * Billie rubs at the back of her hair. "Sorry, I'm just trying to follow... so... someone sealed his power, and now we're going to go influence events to... unseal it?" [Jack nods. "Hee's about right, ho!"] * Billie has a bit of a glint of metal, probably from a tongue ring, as she speaks. "Gotcha. And if we manage to unseal it?" ["Ho?"] You never found anyone boys that could keep up with you at anything, though. I know! So frustrating. Do we keep the Diva gig after we've unsealed him, or returned to life, or kicked to some afterlife, or what? ["Ho.... Your lives are over. You can't go back. As for beind a heeva, though, I don't know. The master has never needed heevas before, ho."] * Logan shrugs. "hey, better than nothing." Yeah... hey, any chance we can take care of unfinished business while we do all of this? ["Ho? I don't know."] That's .. .actually more job sercurity than I had before. But there's totally no way I can get resurrected, right? ["I don't know, ho. But I do know resurrection isn't easy on any world. Someone always has to pay a stee-heep price."] * Logan perks up at Billie's suggestion. "Yeah, hearing your stories, I imagine most of us have business to take care of." There are worse kinds of things to come back as. * Yoshiko grins. * Billie shrugs. "Hey, like someone said, pretty much all of us were murdered. Right?" [Jack nods. "Like a ghost or zombie, ho!"] Obvious none of us died of old age. Or disease. ( Or both! ) (Or both!) ( You could have died of old age, disease and murder! ) I wasn't murdered. Was I Yuki? How would I know? I was knocked out before you! (Unlikely.) (Poisoned with a wasting disease?) Your, uh, rabbit is still talking. * Yoshiko looks at Billie, as does Yuki. They both talk in unison. "And?" Yeah, but I don't know if I was murdered or just the victem of one of my wonderfully coworkes deciding to have fun with the tanks on C deck. * Billie holds up a hand. There's a purple and black butterfly inked in her palm. "Just saying. Never met a talking rabbit before." * Raxa mms, but doesn't respond to the whole murder thing. "Well, either way, we should enjoy what we have." [Jack checks a watch that wasn't on his hand before. "I have to go, ho. Feel free to use the facilities and rest or eat. Though you don't need to eat anymore, hee, but you can manifest a dining room and whatever you want anyhow."] aside, to Billie: "I'm beginning to think that she's not from the same Earth that we are." [Jack jumps into the air, "Hee ho!" and falls through the floor.] * Yoshiko smiles and bows to Billie, then takes her hand and shakes it. She's clearly not used to it, but not completely alien. ( I'm about ready to end ) Hey Ja... aw fuckit I'll ask him next time. * Billie asides to Logan. "Looks like it." Then: "Hey, which one of you's the cat? I lost track." * Logan points to Chess. * Chess raises one hand and pulls another protein bar out of her pocket with the other. (Can we continue while you go sleeping? And what're the rooms if we care to use them?) * Billie smiles a little at Chess, then waves her to follow her to one of the rooms. "C'mon, I'm gonna figure out how to use this place to serve you a spring roll of awesome." * Logan pauses, then a little hesitantly to Billie: "You know who Hitler is, right?" * Chess follows Billie. "Cook on, ninja woman." ( Sure. ) Yeah, leader of Nazi Germany in World War 2, with the Holocaust and everything. Why? ( The rooms are whatever you want them to be. But they can't make people or any living objects aside from plantlife. ) What's this world war thing you two keep talking about? * Logan nods, reassured. "Just checking." ( You can mini later, too, if you want. ) Bad, and you're *definitely* from somewhere else. * Josh looks around and then walks over Raxa. "Yo, you sounded like you knew about this Diva stuff beforehand." (Can they make food?) * Logan follows Billie and Chess. (As a reminder, I probably can't be around next week.) (Me neither, at least at the beginning. I imagine the 'rents will go to bed evenetually.) (I probably won't be here for the same reason Billie won't be.) ( K. I may or may not run anyhow. We'll see! ) * Logan turns to Chess. "How about you, then? From Earth?" * Raxa looks over at Josh and says, with an easy smile, "Yes... my world is very close to the gods, and they sometimes bless cities with their deva." ( Actually ) ( We'll see :x ) Earth, England, London. Nice. I've always wanted to go. * Logan smiles. "Well, that makes three of us then. A little bit of stability in this crazy place." (I'm also going to need to drop off to bed once the session endses. :/ So much to do.) Eh. It's not worth it. Too much supernatural crap going around in the shadows, not really enough people to take care of it all. (Yeah, I was having to go as well, but I'd be up for minis the rest of the time.) * Yoshiko laughs. "You know, I one time had sake with a goddess. That was awesome. She was trying to freeze the lakes, because she wanted to go ice skating in July." * Chess looks over at Logan. "Where're you from?" Huh. Never met somebody from another world before. Nice to meet you. Any advice or are we winging this? * Billie eyes Logan. "I'm guessing... American. New York?" "The Big Apple, New York New York. We... don't have quite so much of the supernatural, not enough for most people to notice. 'Cept the ones who poke around in the shadows for a living." He gestures, indicating himself. * Raxa chuckles and steps a little closer to Josh, replying, "Ah, there are many bloody stories of fighting the deva of other tribes, Josh. You.. said you did salvage? We also lived on the sea." ( Session's over, but you guys can keep going til whenever. No leaving the temple though :P ) I'm not sure whether the normals in London notice much or not. My cousins are mostly in the supernaturals business to one degree or another, though. Except Abi. He's a marine biologist. (do we want to break this into two rooms? Or are people leaving soon?) * Billie snerks. "More glamorous than serving from the shadows." (I'm leaving soon, yes.) So Billie. What's this 'earth' you all keep talking about? It's like a lot of you are from there. (Both groups are losing people.) (So.) (Ah is Yoshiko with us?) (I guess so.) (I can hop to the other room. I'm ADD. :P) * Billie blinks at Yoshiko. She didn't notice her there! "Um... it's home? I have no idea what it's like where you're from, so there's not exactly a point of comparison." (Oh, wait. I'm sorry) (I didn't notice you split into rooms. But... yeah.) * Josh snorts. "Salvage is the polite term. Really we "found" the ships, and then sold their cargo and crew back to their owners. But it beat working for a living." (Only it was work!) ( Page updated :P ) * Logan turns to Yoshiko. "It's... well, it's a world, technology-based, not much obvious magic. We have a place called Japan, but people like you are generally a fictional hero in their animated stories." * Raxa laughs faintly. "Oh, really. Are you sure it wasn't work?" (Need some line breaks, sir.) ( fakk ) ( Give me ideas for a new color scheme, too. That one's just borrowing from MCBE :x ) (I have to move, but I'll be back on in 10.) Yeah, anime. I got a lot of that shoved in my head when I was growing up. * Raxa is now known as RaxaAFK You look like something straight out of a magical girl series. ... But with smaller eyes. Magical Girl Yoshiko sounds like a fantastic anime. It does! * Logan grins and nods. "Yeah, magical girl, that's the term." * Yoshiko laughs. "This is how everyone who knows magic is like where I'm from. And the youkai. Hey, if you don't have magic, how do you fight youkai anyways?" (Does youkai translate? Let me see, twenty four hour, on call service for people who can't tell a speaker plug from a motion detector from their great great great great grandfathers million doller candlestick, which will come out of my hide if I so much as breath on it funny... vs six hours in boat with twelve of the worst smelling people in the world. Bash their heads in with blunt weaponry. * Josh wanders off with Raxa to talk. (Effectively, yeah. It's 'spirits') "Like I said, we dont' have a whole lot of overt magic-users, even from the more evil side of things. The 'Youkai' are more rare, and more subtle." I didn't fight them? I just talked to them and kept them company. Ghosts are pretty lonely, generally... and harmless. Generally. If you mean demons, uh... apparently I die to them. Well, yeah. Ghosts are harmless. So are faries. I know a little about magic, but it's all theoretical knowledge. And might be mostly about zombies. * Chess looks a little embarassed. "I only met one demon face-to-face, and I didn't know it at the time. Their followers, on the other hand... well, they lock up or get shot just like the rest of us." * Billie shrugs. "So I don't. I guess magic would have been useful." That saying, she turns on her heel to open the door. On the other side is what looks like a dungeon from a ninja castle turned dining room, lit dimly by torches. "Oh, badass. It really CAN make what you're thinking of." Only one? Well... someone has to keep your village safe from mindless spirits. ( K, I'ma log. Night. ) * Brett has quit IRC (Quit: ) ('night Brettitude) (Night!) (G'night Brett DENIED) (DENIED) * Logan thinks for a moment, turns around, grins, and flops down sideways into a wooden desk-chair and lights a cigarette. "You dames don't mind if I smoke, do you? Apparently even death doesn't cut the habit." This.... is the coolest dining room I have ever seen in my life. No? We're dead. Ain't like I'll get cancer. And yeah, that's... well, that's work, basically. [The dungeon kitchen has also gained a slowly-turning ceiling fan.] (I totally picked the wrong way too hot woman to go talk to. Oh well!) * Billie concentrates, and her clothes turn into a ninja outfit, this one with a face mask. And no smoke - it's clearly Billie under there. She bows to the lot of them. "If you would, honored customers," before leading them to one of the tables. (Hey, she'll be back!) Smoke away. * Chess looks at Billie solemnly. "Billie Ninja, I approve of you. Don't let me down." She sits down in one of the chairs. (Hey, I got the lesbian and the one who was asking all those creepy questions about demon babies, so I think you might still have made off better.) (I'll have you know that I'm not a lesbian!) (Well, until you have me know In Character... *grins*) (But Yoshiko may be...) * Yoshiko takes a seat in one of the chairs. Yuki jumps down and sits on the table. Hey, chairs! Classy. (Hey! HALF-demon babies, okay? :D) (Clearly we should all turn gay so we can boink whoever we want and not have to worry about the half demon babies.) (Whatever, you're also 16) * Syzix has joined #mcdc * Syzix is now known as Yuki * Billie bows again and produces menus out of... uh, nowhere. Apparently she's getting used to this create-stuff thing. She hands one to each of her guests and lets them browse as she pours green tea and water. Hey, chairs! Classy! * Raxa has joined #mcdc (And Zeg discovers why Ten and Karasu had their own channels) * Logan lazily blows a smoke-ring and sighs. "Well, this has been a strange day, and no mistake." (A Raxa!) (You might impregnate a male demon! Demons could be into mpreg, you never know!) (Hey, if Raxa and Josh are running off somewhere else, where are they running so I can eavesdrop?) (Okay! So if I need to be caught up on something, let me know, and if I need to be somewhere, let me know too!) * Yuki goes ahead and reads a menu if she's offered one. Yoshiko does the same. " You're good at that." * Yoshiko has quit IRC (Ping timeout) * Yuki is now known as Yoshiko It really looks like I can come up with anything I remember, so... hey, don't need to cook. Right on. Anything? * Logan peruses the menu. "Last time I skipped the calamari sushi 'cause it was so expensive. How about a roll of that, and... maybe one of the avacado, for old time's sake." * Chess looks over the menu. "Okay, so... one of everything, please." * Raxa shakes her head and half-smiles. "I guess if you're just comparing..." Give me some of whatever is good. Oh, and some sake. * Logan chuckles at Chess. "I like your style." * Billie rolls her eyes. "Making me remember *everything*?" She creates a menu for herself and starts looking it over, and as she does, menu items - mostly sushi and sashimi - start appearing on the table. * Billie also sits on a chair herself. Meh, may as well enjoy her own created food. * Yoshiko goes ahead and eats whatever is offered to her. And starts drinking. And I get to tell insufferably smug people that if they don't pay me lots of money their oh so precious quarterly profits will go down even farther. What's not to love? * Billie skips over some things as she tries to get through the menu. After about two thirds of the items pop up, her brow is furrowed and she's slowing down significantly. "I... uh, I can't do this anymore. I'm getting a headache." * Logan looks around for a second, and then pulls a pair of disposable chopsticks out of his trenchcoat pocket. "I could get used to this, you know." He digs in to the sushi, along with healthy but not completely impolite helpings of soy sauce and wasabi. He even grabs some ginger between rolls. Sorry. I guess it's not a problem anymore, since Jack said we don't have to eat? But I had an overactive metabolism, so I'm used to needing to eat a lot. Why don't you stop and have some too? Yeah... * Billie tosses the menu over her shoulder, pulls off her mask, and makes for the soy and wasabi. "The food is *good*, but it's soooo expensive." * Logan grins in appreciation. "This is pretty good stuff. I wonder, if we don't have to eat, will we still get full?" * Chess plucks pieces of sushi off the platter with her hand rather than any sort of utensil and just eats things one at a time. * Raxa half-shrugs and runs her finger behind her ear, replying, "It sounds like the smell, maybe, mmm?" She laughs again and shakes her head. * Yoshiko looks concerned at Billie. "Well, if you need some headache medicine I could make something." Nah, it was just from trying to come up with so much stuff. It'd probably be easier if I were a chef. * Billie pokes at her soy-wasabi mix, tastes it with the tip of her chopsticks, and grabs some nigiri. (Just out of curiosity, how many points does everyone have in Manifest? Just so we can stay fairly relative to each other in terms of how much stuff we make.) * Yoshiko starts eating the sushi, and eagerly eats. "Wow, it's so... flavorful. It's *really* strong." (What's 'manifest'?) (Manifest?) (You mean Item?) * Josh laughs. "Like I said, I only have, had to put up with the smell for six hours. Keeping those idiots theaters running never stopped. And it payed less." Shoulda quit that job years before I did. (it's what Brett is calling items.) ('Cause, you know, we manifest it.) (Oh, I have 8, for the broom.) (I ain't got none!) (But that's character-dependent, since items can do all sorts of stuff.) (40, because I was designed to hand things out to PCs and NPCs) (I got zero, but it's okay.) (7, just because.) Mmph? You guys don't usually see magic, right? (I mean, I guess we're at the sanctuary right now so it's not a big deal. I just wanted to get a feel for how good people were at creating things. 10 for me, for the record.) (Err, you. She doesn't really use 'guys') Oh man, this -is- really good. * Billie shakes her head at Yoshiko, as her mouth is full. I used to, during summer breaks. Two of my cousins went to a magic school. Why? * Logan sits back after 3 rolls, scoots his chair back and leans it back up against a wall. "Well, that was just about the most tasty, expensive meal I've ever had." * Raxa mms, then says, "Ah, a problem I've never had." How do you keep yourselves busy? * Chess continues to steadily eat her way through the sushi. Oh? What sort of job did you have? * Billie blinks at Chess and swallows. "Magic school?" "Heh. I was a private eye... a detective. For a living. It kept me pretty busy, when business was good." I go to school, and help out at my dad's bookstore sometimes, and proofread my auntie and uncle's translations sometimes, and study my cousins' old magic textbooks sometimes, and train with tonfa. (that was in response to Yoshiko, not Josh, ftr) (Tonfa!) Yeah, Warthog's is like, the best magic school in the area or something. I kept the shop. Shopkeeping. And I did some youkai hunting as well. (...I...you...what.) * Raxa laughs and stands slightly taller. "I was one of Huracan's priestesses. I did what it took to keep our tribe afloat and happy, to protect us from the storms and keep the fire flowing through the city." Wow. And here I just served food and worked my ass off in med school. And tried to maintain a social life. Dad never liked that I was doing that, but... I was the most able magician, so he couldn't really stop. (stop me.) * Josh blinks. "Fire flowing?" * Logan 's eyebrows furrow. "Warthogs? Wasn't that magic school in that trivid from a while ago called Warthog? or...Hogwart, or something like that?" (Blame Brett) * Raxa mms, then says, "Life. Fire. Lightning." A pause, then, "Do those all sound different to you?" (Brett ganks things from popular media sometimes, so the magic school is Warthogs and our helper was Jack Frost.) (We will be visiting 3 kingdoms era China and Kirby.) * Yoshiko giggles. "I also entertained smaller kids when the parents worked in the fields sometime." (Ok, I wasn't sure whether Chess was trying to pull our legs at that point or not) * Chess shrugs. Well, in my mind life and lightning only go together in remakes of oooold movies. "Yeah, you Brits are a lot more open about your magic than we are over in the States. ...were." * Billie shrugs philosophically and creates a bowl of miso soup. I think it's just my family. Lightning, life, fire... (Crossover!) (I'm not in your room.) * Yoshiko drinks again. "Love, luck, and light." (When did we get to Ninja Kitchen?) (When Billie moved us there.) (Truth! But you're not there.) (Raxa and Josh didn't go with) (Ooooh.) (Yeah, we're in the other room.) (God dammit, I keep on crossing them over. We should seperate the rooms. x.x) (She led Logan and Chess there, I'm pretty sure Josh and Raxa went somewhere else. I still don't know where Yoshiko ended up, but I've been assuming she's in the kitchen.) And our country has the descendents of Merlin, so that automatically makes us more awesome magic-wise. (Next time.) * Raxa chuckles and smiles faintly. "Well, let's just say I helped keep my people stay alive and the city floating. I did many things." (Yoshiko followed Chess. Food possibilites.) (I'd have followed, but I expected the session to, you know, end.) (But I haven't sectioned it off very well. :( ) * Logan chuckles. "Fair enough. I'm pretty sure you got the better end of that deal. We have a lot fewer mages, and a lot more creatures of darkness." You clearly need more magicians. I can crash-course you in magical theory for battles if you want. It's simple - if someone chants or throws shiny lights at you, get the hell out of the way. Even if they're only one color. "Heh. Yeah, that one I figured out a few years ago." * Chess grins. "Then you're probably good to go." Only one color? Of magician? A floating city. That sounds like something worth seeing at least once. And there ain't nothing wrong with doing what you've gotta do. * Yoshiko motions, and a few seconds later shiny lights of all colors streak out from a prism she threw into the table. Some of them at other people, some into the air above. See? Colors! * Logan raises his eyebrows. "Shiny." * Chess nods. "Very shiny." "So what about you, Chess? Can you throw around balls of light too?" * Billie whistles. "That's really pretty... can you make butterflies?" Nooo. Strictly theoretical. Maybe? I could make butterfly fireworks, I know. * Raxa laughs lightly and wraps an arm around Josh as she steps besides him. "You might get the chance yet, Josh. Now should we head to see what they all went in that room for, mmm? That... spring roll." (His shoulders.) Theoretical? What good is theory if you don't use it? (Josh: See, I told you) (Awesome for him!) * Josh puts an arm around her waist. "That sounds like the new best thing I've heard all day." * Raxa laughs and starts walking that way. "You're much more relaxed with your clothes on. Is that normal?" Well... okay, so there's this zombie cat. And I started studying up about zombies, but I needed a basic working knowledge of stuff before I could understand any of the zombie stuff, right? And then I read about zombies. And -then- I find out necromancy is super-illegal. So, theoretical knowledge rather than practical. (snerks) Right, theoretical. Good deal. * Billie sips soup. Necromancy. Such a silly art. Not beautiful at all. * Logan looks a bit less comfortable with this talk of necromancy. "So... you're a necromancer? A... theoretical necromancer? That's... interesting." * Josh snorts. "I like to have some say in the public dangling of my dangly bits." It's really interesting! And I'm not a necromancer, that would get me arrested. I just... have read a lot of less than legal literature on the subject. * Raxa walks them into the kitchen/food area, replying, "Well, that's why _I_ waited. Jumping in's fun, but you never know when there's going to be a spiny fish floating about." * Chess stops eating sushi. "Hey guys." * Logan turns around as the other two enter. "That was possibly the best euphemism I've ever heard. I tip my hat to you, miss." He does. * Josh waves with his free hand. "You wern't the one who was twenty feet tall and had the annoying speach impediment." * Yoshiko wave at Raxa. "Hi!" Euphamism? Thank you, sir. (He was talking to Chess or Raxa?) * Billie looks up at the two entering the ninja castle. "Hey, pull up a chair." And then there are chairs. (Oops, nix that.) to Josh: "Oh, so you weren't doing that on purpose? It was rather amusing." to Raxa: "the spiny fish thing. ...you were talking about... You weren't actually talking about spiny fish, where you?" He gives Josh a concerned glance. * Raxa laughs and brushes her hand across Josh's neck as she lets him go. "Well, yes and no. I was giving Josh advice about leaping before he looks." But it is good advice, at least in the ocean I live on. (Josh: Ok, maybe we're even. Theoretical necromancer vs ...spiny fish lady.) * Yoshiko looks kinda confused about the spiny fish, but then turns back to the others. "So some magic's illegal and others aren't?" (I am not a spiny fish lady. Don't make me bleed you out. :|) Anything dealing with corpses and souls is generally illegal in my country. * Josh snags a chair with his foot and holds it out for Raxa. "Only in some places. it's not common enough in America to be recognized by the legal system." And quite good adive it is too. (I've gotta go to bed. Busy day tomorrow.) ('night Billie!) (Night guys. ^^ Assume there's plenty of food!) (Yeah, I'm gonna be stepping away from this Any Second Now.) (Yeah, me too. Only, it's because I've got this mostly constructed computer right here next to me...) (G'night!) (Got some Magic to win.) (Good luck!) (Let's pick this up again at a later date) (So seems like we should pick up laters, yaeh.) * Billie has quit IRC (Quit: Z!) (Yeah. Alright, goodnight guys!) * Logan stretches and puts out his cigarette on the chair arm. "Well, that was a delightful meal, Billie. (too late!) (all right, g'night all.) * Raxa slides into the presented chair with a smile to herself! (Yay game!) [Session End (or maybe just pause.)]