[Nazi Earth, Day 1] [2 hours pass since dinner, and assuming nobody had any important RPing to do since (which you didn't because nobody mini'd), 8:30 rolls around. The siren sounds, and you're all herded onto a tram, which brings you southward] [Exciting, huh. Somehow you all end up in the same car with nobody else.] [Start] * Logan , as soon as he and Josh get back to their cell, creates a couple granola bars and stuffs his face. Discreetly. (I worked on my social affinity with Fatima.) * Yoshiko talked with Chess about supposedly girly things! (So no, not really.) Hmm, to shake things up or not? "So... I've seen reality television before. I'm going to go out on a limb and say we can't ever assume that we're not being watched or recorded. So, you know, smile for the camera and all that." * Billie is sitting in the tram, assuming there are chairs, with her arms folded. She's staring out the window - assuming there are windows. * Chess nods at Yoshiko and acts appropriately girly. "Did anyone find out more about what we're going to be doing, besides that there might be fighting involved? [There are windows.] There are non-voilent options too, but they don't pay nearly as well. * Raxa glances over at Logan and frowns. "People here spend far too much time watching." She runs a finger along her arm idly. [Not much to see though. Prison and more prison. Some inmates from block 6 are playing volleyball in their courtyard. They stop to stare at the tram as it passes by.] * Billie stares back. It's a contest! "Do we get a choice? Because I'm not really all that concerned about 'points' right now. More about surviving, and not having to kill other people in the process." * Yoshiko looks at the inmates as one of them takes advantage and scores. "Two points!" "Erm.. volleyball. Only one point." Well if we make a big splash and score a lot of points on our first night, we'll get a lot of attention. It's okay, I'm not getting many. * Raxa looks up. "Ah. Speaking of that, actually." We should make our team name Zrho. To Josh: "Yeah, but would our friend have any way of knowing what scores we were getting, especially if he is in another block?" [The tram rapidly approaches the area of Central Park. But it's not a park anymore. There's a huge stadium there instead.] Oh. [Or you could say... colleseum? :O] * Josh smirks. "If we make a big enough splash and wave That name around while doing it, he'll probably find us." * Logan grins at Raxa: "I was going to say the same thing. Less likely to attract unwanted attention in the long run.J" * Billie looks at Raxa. "Sure." "Well, whatever we do, we should probably stick together. Or at least not split up into more than two groups." * Logan looks slightly unhappy about his rapidly dwindling chances of avoiding combat. * Raxa nods slightly at everyone's response, then states, "They will split us however they wish to split us." * Chess is looking out a window now that Yoshiko's stopped talking to her. * Logan concentrates a moment, creates a lampshade, and puts it on Yoshiko's head. "Maybe we'll get lucky, like we did on this tram." I'm in for group vs group combat, it should give the best point return and let those of us who are best at leading from the rear actually do so. * Yoshiko goes back to talking to Chess if she's still receptive... then gets a lampshade on her head. "Hey! What're you doin' you creep?" (...*ducks*) [The tram heads into the colleseum. It stops at a station inside, where the doors open. The inmates start heading out, going through doors at the opposite end. Standing to the sides are several heavily armed guards, and even some bots.] * Yoshiko takes the lapmshade off and throws it at Logan. (The lampshade is gone before the doors open) * Josh makes a mental note to never try to dress Yoshiko. (That's probably a good idea.) * Billie comments, "Never mess with a lady's hair," as she gets off the tram. (We're probably lucky she hasn't killed everyone for making her wear ugly clothing.) * Logan chuckles. "Duly noted." * Yoshiko huffs and turns away from Logan when she gets up. "Come on Chess." * Chess heads out, staying close to Yoshiko. "Kay." * Josh walks out of the tram and looks at the doors for lables or signs or something. "Clearly we need more style." * Raxa chuckles faintly and shakes her head, standing. "You seem very pushy, Logan. She does not seem to like being pushed." She doesn't seem anxious or anything as she walks out. [As you head out into the crowd, some muscular Hispanic guy with winding tattoos along his sides smiles your way and shouts, "Hey Chica! I'm hoping we meet in the arena!"] * Yoshiko walks out and, well, where there's places to go. Then realizes she doesn't know where to go. "Uh, where should we go, you think?" ( There's only one way to go :P ) * Logan shrugs. "Just trying to lighten the mood a little. It was a joke, see, hanging a lampshade on something means..." He sighs. "Well, it was supposed to be funny. I guess I need to work on that." Onward! (Who's he shouting to?) (Yoshiko) ( Someone your direction :P ) * Josh goes through the doors. * Logan follows the crowd, trying to stay close to the others on the off-chance they can get into the same whatever. * Raxa looks over at the guy and yells back, "I will wear your blood on my hands, my friend!" Follow everyone else, I guess. * Logan chuckles. "Well said, Raxa. Well said." * Yoshiko follows peoples then! * Raxa looks over at Logan and grins. "He will learn to show me proper respect." [And you head through some doors into a giant locker room. Everyone here seems to be from your block, since they're all people you saw at the cafeteria. Most of them have already seperated into their own groups. Some are swiping cards through readers on the lockers and retrieving armor and weapons from inside.] "I don't doubt it." [There don't seem to be any firearms or explosives amongst the weapons, though. The long black-haired man from the Ravens has a bow and some arrows, but you can't see any other ranged weapons.] Under his breath: "I don't suppose there's a tutorial mode?" Too much to hope for. * Billie looks around. Is everyone going to be fighting in their orange prison suits? * Chess whispers to Yoshiko, "You think anyone would notice if I made my own weapons?" Probably not. Who wants what from Uncle Josh's Emporium of Sharp Pointy things? Special one night deal, everything is free. (Is Fatima around?) (Because I could ask her. She's competent.) [Most people, apparenltly, but some are getting more protective/ better fitting things from the lockers.] [Fatima is at a locker, pulling out a very big sledgehammer and some shin guards.] * Logan goes up to the friendliest looking person and asks: "Hey, quick question. Say hypothetically we got here a few hours ago and don't have any points. Is there starting armor and weapons, or do we have to go bare-fisted for our first time?" * Billie looks for Sun. * Raxa walks up on Fatima and grins slightly. "So how does one get a place to put such lethal weaponry?" [Fatima buckles on the shin guards. "You buy it. Costs a fortune, but better than going without."] [Sun is by herself, apparently without any special weapons or gear.] * Raxa mms. "Seems like it'd make things difficult on the new fighters." But I suppose you can steal on the field, yes? * Billie walks over to her. "Hey, Sun... is this the arena thing?" [The friendliest guy Logan sees is an average looking dude with a butterfly knife. "Oh man, you're first timers? Bad luck for you."] [Sun nods to Billie.] [And Fatima shakes her head. "You'd think so... But no. Once a battle's over you have to give up anything that isn't yours."] * Billie sighs. "Man... how does this work? Do they pair us up randomly or something?" [The GM struggles to hold up three conversations at once as the man Logan's talking to says, "Too bad you didn't get arrested last week, dude. You could have been in the race and maybe won enough points to buy a weapon."] * Raxa rubs her neck and goes, "Hmm. I guess it is good I don't need weapons." [Sun nods to Billie. "Sometimes it's one on one... Sometimes 2 on 2...." She frowns. "I heard sometimes they put everyone in all at once."] [Fatima nods. "It helps to have mods that are good for this sort of thing."] [Sun continues! "I heard we fight other blocks sometimes too."] "Well, I'm not much good at running either, probably wouldn't have helped much. What's the rate of survival on nights like this, do ya figure?" * Billie ughs. "All sounds pretty awful... I guess you'll do okay, though. You have so far." She looks at all of the others. "Me, I'm not so sure." [He shrugs. "Depends on if you're willing to hurt someone else. The wimps don't live long."] [Sun looks down.] * Raxa nods slightly and says, "Well, I certainly hope not to fight you if I can help it. You have more nazis to kill." Yeah, I don't like this fighting idea, but... if I have to, I guess I can do something. * Billie notices that and gives Sun a hug. * Yoshiko looks at Chess. "What about you?" * Logan gives a startled laugh. "Well... no worries then." He sticks out his hand. "Thanks for the words." * Chess shrugs. "I'm not used to life-or-death fighting, of course, but I've roughhoused with my cousins before. That'll just have to be enough." [Fatima shrugs. "We won't all be fighting. They usually limit it to five matches a night."] I really hate all this, but... my family's really tough. I' ll get through this. [She continues. "But once you're called, you've got to go out. No time to suit up. So you get your gear now, just in case."] * Raxa aahs, then nods. "Of course. We all must fight when called." * Chess smiles weakly at Yoshiko. "We'll -all- get through this, right?" [The guy nods to Logan. "Yeah man, good luck."] * Yoshiko smiles and gives Yoshiko a hug. "I hope so." It's weird having the short one of the pair comforting the tall one. * Josh cracks his knuckles. * Chess hugs Yoshiko back, although she seems a bit surprised. [There's a monitor over a far door. It comes to light with some fanfare, the screen showing: "Arena team deathmatch!"] [You can hear some highly muffled cheering from somewhere.] * Logan steps into the corner and concentrates for a moment. His prison outfit gets imperceptibly bulkier. (Create light body armor) * Josh smirks. "Called it. Let's see if it's pick on the fucking new kids day." Pick on the *what*? * Logan steps up beside Josh, and grins darkly. "Just our luck, right?" * Raxa looks over at Josh, then says, "I would not mind something sharp." * Billie stares. "Deathmatch?" She looks around, panicked. * Josh grins. "It is our first day and all." He turns to Raxa, "About how big?" Um, uh... death? * Chess closes her eyes. "Fuck. Fuck." And I think you're going to be covering for about half the team, so good luck. "It's possible they're just referring to the format, rather than... well, everyone dying. I personally intend to dislocate as many shoulders as possible." [The monitor flashes, accompanied by sound: "Round 1: Joseph Marly and Harrison Carlisle vs. Tina Moretti and Renji Saito."] * Raxa shrugs and says, "It will not be for Huracan... but hopefully Zomegar will appreciate the blood just the same." (/me cues up "For those about to rock") Oh, pairs. That could end poorly. [You see the red-haired Asian man from the Ravens shout, "Yes!!" even as a 40-something heavy set man gasps, "Oh my God..."] (Is the heavyset guy armed?) ( Nope. ) * Yoshiko shivers. "I don't want to go out there." * Logan discreetly passes him a long knife. "Good luck, give that asshole a new windhole." * Raxa smiles slightly and says to Yoshiko, "You will not be alone." [The doors open and four guards enter, standing next to them. One says, "Joseph Marly." And a 30-something black guy with a mace steps forward. He looks resigned.] (And...I'm out of item points) * Chess crouches down briefly, letting her body cover her hands, then stands back up with a pair of metal tonfa in her hands. She looks almost sick. "Like hell if I'm going into this unarmed." ["Tina Moretti," is next. And surprisingly it's not that woman from the Ravens, but someone you've never seen before. She looks somewhat agitated, but not worried. She's unarmed.] * Yoshiko looks at the people getting and making weapons and looks a little worried. ["Harrison Carlisle," is called next. Nobody moves.] (Okay, really worried.) * Josh slides a long knife out of his uniform sleave and holds it out to Raxa hilt first. "Just don't ask where I was hiding it." ["Harrison Carlisle," again. People back away from the heavy-set man. He looks around at them, then at the guards. "Please... I have a wife and kids..."] * Raxa takes it and looks at the edge a moment, nodding to herself. [Two of the guards move forward, grab his arms and drag him through the door as he shouts, "Nooo!"] (Brett: just wanna make sure you caught my passing him a knife just before the guards came in.) (And by him, I mean Harrison.) * Billie winces and looks away. ( K ) [One of the remaining guards says, "Renji Saito," and the red-haired man steps up, grinning.] (Not that it will probably make much of a difference... *sigh*) [The remaining prisoners head through the door.] [There's a wild cheer when Renji steps out. Apparently he's popular.] * Logan follows along with the rest of them. * Josh follows them and asks the crowd in general. "So, where's the place to get the best view?" * Billie sticks by Sun. Yosh- Marissa. We're going to be okay. At the very worst, if we die, we know exactly what happens next. * Yoshiko stays clinging to Chess. "Yeah..." She takes a deep breath and relaxes her hold. To Chess: "Hey, that's the spirit." Logan hums a little snatch of music to himself. In a low, rusty voice: "It's do or die, hey I've died twice..." [The combatants are reintroduced when they step into the arena, a bland central caged area.] * Yoshiko whispers to Chess. "I've got Yuki ready to jump in if we need some backup." Somehow I was expcting giant spikes and twisted rebar. I fee gypped. [What follows is a fairly boring fight. Harrison runs screaming while Tina hangs back, leaving Renji and Joseph to fight. Joseph tries his best with his mace, but Renji is fast -- too fast to be normal -- and ends up behind the guy, slitting his throat with a short knife.] To Josh: "Maybe the cage is electrified?" * Chess runs a hand down Yoshiko's hair. "Awesome. Hey, did you hear me with the cat earlier? I told him not to bother Yuki if they cross paths." [He then advances on Harrison. Harrison brandishes the knife wildly, but Renji disarms him effortlessly. Harrison falls to his knees and begs, "Please... I have a wife... kids...!"] * Billie doesn't seem keen in watching very hard, which is kind of funny since she totally slaughtered a demon fish just a day ago. (Did she makes sushi with it?) (Nah, pressed on time. :/) Oh, really? That's good. One less pest for Yuki to avoid. ... No offense. (Besideds, Demon Sushi is a ninja secret recipe.) * Logan is very obviously covering for his discomfort with snark and black humor, and doing a pretty good job of it. [And then Renji jams the knife through his eye socket. The crowd cheers. As an announcer says, "Red team victory. Double fatality. Rewards: Renji Saito: 2000 points. Tine Moretti: 500 points. ] None taken. [Sun winces.] [GM does to much at a time.] * Yuki glances at the gore, but turns away very quickly when it gets ugly. Pretty clear she's used to combat being much... cleaner, if she fights as much as she's said before. * Josh isn't honestly all that bothered by the spectical. "Well, that was lopsided." (My bad. Yoshiko said that.) [Anyhow, Tina and Renji come back in, where Renji promptly leaves her and high-fives his buddies, the other Ravens.] (So... 500 for winning, 750 for each kill?) [Tina finds a place to sit down. A few peopl approach her.] (Sounds about right.) ( Now lets see here...... ) * Billie murmurs to Sun, "Think I'm gonna be sick." * Chess has been steadfastedly not watching the match. * Raxa doesn't flinch or anything, but she doesn't seem that interested either as it drags on. "What a waste." [Fatima winces. "Poor guy never stood a chance."] d96 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d96) and gets a natural 93 for a result of 93. d95 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d95) and gets a natural 34 for a result of 34. d94 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d94) and gets a natural 50 for a result of 50. d93 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d93) and gets a natural 57 for a result of 57. ( Excitement! :X ) (That's a lotta NPCs) (That IS a lot of NPCs.) [Four more people are called in. nobody you know.] (Wait, so we're actually only having equal odds of getting into the arena? That's... very realistic of you.) [The fight's a bit longer. When it's over though, there's onyl one fatality.] ( At least one of you will end up in there, don't worry :P ) (Let's see if we get to test our immortality!) d50 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d50) and gets a natural 37 for a result of 37. d49 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d49) and gets a natural 44 for a result of 44. d48 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d48) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. d47 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d47) and gets a natural 31 for a result of 31. (Are we holding out on a 1-6 result?) ( Maybe :P ) (Or we could be in alphabetically!) [Fatima's called up for the next one. She sighs. "Well, at least it's more points."] [She enters with three other people you don't recognize.] [They put the match on hold til the GM finds his dice.] [Which isn't very long, apparently.] * Logan has a hard time watching this one. * Josh cheers her on. [Fatima's team wins. No fatalities. She walks away with 1600 points.] (based on the scores of the last three matches, can we get a better idea of what the scoring system is?) ( No :P ) Those scores look totally random. d25 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d25) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 11. * Raxa looks at her coming out and mms slightly. "No death without reason?" d24 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d24) and gets a natural 1 for a result of 1. d23 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d23) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. (Do people who lose but don't die get any points?) d22 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d22) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. ( Hm ) ( That.... wasn't really what I was going for >.> ) (That's Yoshiko and Yuki, I think.) (Points based on awesomeness and lack of dying? Because the dead don't deserve points, obviously.) (Let's fight eachother!) (Then change it!) (You're the GM. :P) (WEESA GONNA FITE) (Yuki's not a contestant. Heck, they don't even know she's here.) (Not the point.) d22 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d22) and gets a natural 20 for a result of 20. [The next match is called: Billie and the long-haired man from the Ravens (his name is Louis Cromby, apparently) vs. Yoshiko and A guy you haven----- Phillip Chang.] (TAKE A DIVE TAKE A DIVE) * Josh winces. "S'good thing we were promised immortality, or this would really suck." [Phillip Change is a short, but pretty good looking man in his mid 30s. He's bald and eyebrow-eyelashless, and sports a pair of butterfly swords.] * Billie takes a deep breath and moves forward when called. ( Yes, I totally invented him on the fly :P ) * Yoshiko takes a deep breath and steels herself. "Well." She smiles to Chess. "See you after the match." (Yoshiko will be called as Marisa.) (That's the name she gave.) (Yoshiko's name is Marisa at the moment. She gave them that to be more, well 'Western'.) [Louis walks up, grinning. The woman from the Ravens shouts, "Kick their asses, Lou!"] * Chess nods jerkily at Yoshiko. "See you. All the luck in the world, both of you." "You kids play nice now." [Phillip heads up, too. He looks like he's trying to be calm, but is too excited.] * Raxa frowns a touch. "Be cautious." I will, Raxa. ( And I'm moving you guys to #Fight. ) (Butterfly knives smack the back of you hand when you open them, butterfly swords smack your entire forearm? I can kinda see it...) ( Everyone should join though. ) (Chess: google it.) [Sun tugs billie's shirt tail. "Um, good luck."] (Nothing like butterfly knives at all! My mental image feels cheated.) * Billie looks back and squeezes Sun's hand. "Thanks. I'll try not to die." She gives her a brief smile before heading out. * Yoshiko heads out carefully with a smile. (It is quite the not flashy.) * Logan heads out to watch with Josh. "You can help them, right?" ( You're not allowed out :P ) ( You get to watch on the monitor ) Not from this far away. ( In this channel >.> ) (Oh. I was misled.) * Logan stands next to Josh, looking at the monitor. "Can you help them from here?" * Raxa taps her foot and runs her finger along her arm. * Chess takes careful, measured breaths as she faces the monitor and watches silently. * Josh shakes his head. "Not really, if I get sent out the other person with me's going to have the best fight of their life though." [Fatima looks at the monitor. "Your friends, huh?"] * Raxa looks over at Chess and leans in, saying softly, "We do not die so simply. It may not look pretty... but I don't think there is anything to worry about except that they will be gone from here." To Fatima: "On opposite sides. It's... less than ideal." They're clever, I'm sure they'll come up with something. I know, I just... even if it was only temporary, dying hurt so much. It was so cold... I don't want any of us to have to go through that. "I've got my fingers crossed." He does. * Chess slowly clenches and unclenches her hands while staring at the monitor. * Raxa reaches over and puts a hand to Chess's shoulder. "Your concern is moving, revered jaguar." [Fatima nods to Logan. "I mentioned before that people form teams, but it's all unofficial. The system just picks at random."] Mhm, for team members I take dives for 1/4 of the winnings. * Chess smiles briefly at Raxa before returning her attention to the screen. * Raxa smiles back at her. [Fatima nods. "They do that. Sometimes they betray their own official teammates. In large battles, of course, they team up and pick on the weak."] ( Exciting :x ) (I throw lightning through the TV!) ( Sorry :P Guess this isn't the most exciting session ) (There's a lack of peanut gallery thus far, but we did just start!) * Josh cheers on Marissa because Billie's up and vanished on him. ( Kinda don't think it'll be a long fight ) (I haven't disappeared!) (I'm just backing up and being non-threatening!) * Josh doesn't do that then! * Logan chuckles in spite of himself. To Chess: "They're not doing so badly, are they? I wish I could shoot lasers like that. I just figured that we needed to transform in order to do magic, I guess some people just got lucky." (At least you know about computers. :P) Some of us picked better mods than others. [Says Fatima, "Never thought your friend would have the same power as Louis."] Man, fighting two invisable foes has got to suck. * Chess says quietly to Logan, without looking away, "Two of my cousins went to school to learn magic, and I have a fake uncle who's kind of famous for being a descendent of Merlin. It's not that weird for me." * Logan raises his eyebrows. "Just like the old vids. I would feel more left out if... well, you know." (Gotta run home. Other People are on backup log. Will be back in a bit!) * Chess shrugs. "I've never had any particular talent for anything, except for languages, and now that's not even mine. But watching other people be talented is something I'm used to." *** Raxa has quit IRC (Ping timeout) * Logan winces as Billie gets point-blank lasered. "Well, Yoshiko certainly made it look good." I certainly wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of that. * Chess takes a deep breath and exhales once before her breathing returns to normal. "Thank goodness they're both okay, though." Good thing too. * Logan walks quickly over to the door as they come back in. "Hey, wonderful performance out there!" He grins at Phillip. "You did ok too." * Yoshiko walks to the rest of her teammates, acting much like a young teenager again. "Hey guys!" Welcome back! I, uh... I think I'm all right. I didn't kill anybody, I'm pretty sure. Congratulations, great job! * Yoshiko smiles and hugs Chess. "Thanks." * Logan doesn't get a hug. It's probably because of that lampshade thing earlier. [Phillip has time to nod to Logan before he's surrounded by his own buddies.] * Chess returns the hug quickly and grins. "Knowing you two did so well kind of makes me feel a little better." You did a good job on both of 'em. But I bet she'll forgive you. ( There is not a Raxa ) ( I'm wondering if I should do the last fight or not. It's late. ) I hope so. I didn't mean to hurt him. (Err, her.) (do it!) (If she's in the fight, do it next week. If not. don't) (Raxa will be back tonight in any case, yeah.) (actally I need to afk for a bit myself. It's cat feeding time) (Fighting is faster when you've got everything already set up.) Maybe ( I'ma just say... ) Maybe I could get some clothes that are better color co-ordinated. Orange is not my color at all. [The final battle consists of 4 people you've never seen before.] (That's an easy way to do things.) Sounds like a good idea to me. What's your favorite color to wear? * Yoshiko blushes. "Pink?" * Logan rolls his eyes and stays quiet. [And then you're sent back where you came from. Session End]