[Nazi Earth, Day 4] [It's Thursday! As it turns out, the prison events are mainly on the weekends: throughout the week only a few cell blocks actually participate in the deadly prison games. Wednesday passed quick, with almost no time away from your cells.] [Not Thursday though, no siree. At 4:00 p.m. you're led outside, outside being on the rooftop of the building you're in.] * Logan spends the time teaching himself card tricks. Mostly creating and disappearing them. And eating granola bars. [The rooftop is surrounded by a fifteen-foot tall fence topped with barbed wire. There's also a basketball court on the left side.] * Raxa stretches and yawns as they get out in the open air. "Much better under the sun." [Once all of the prisoners are assembled onto the roof, one of the guards moves to speak. Four others stand near the doors.] [Start :X] (Move that all below brackets.) [The speaking guard... uh, speaks. "All right, genefreaks! Listen up!"] * Yoshiko stretches and looks at the sky, smiling. She glances at the guard as he speaks up. * Josh tries to pay attention, but mostly he's blinking at being out in the sun for th first time in ages. * Logan cleans his nails, and looks up absently as the guard starts talking. [He draws a basketball from behind his back. "For those of you from backward territories who don't know what this is, this is a basketball."] ["It's used in the game of the same name. For the next three hours, you're gonna play Basketball. Or else...."] * Yoshiko actually looks kinda cluelessly at the basketball. Given her height, she's... probably not very good at all at it. * Raxa looks at the ball and grins. "Finally, a ball game!" * Logan now looks genuinely interested. "Man, I haven't tossed a ball around since half-court behind the precinct. This might be fun." [He tosses the ball over his shoulder towards the court. "You're not. Frankly I don't give a shit. Do what you want as long as you don't damage prison property or bother the rest of the guards."] * Chess reaches her hands up and stands on her tiptoes, then touches her heels back to the ground and leans back. ["For you flyin' types, though, better keep yourselves grounded. If you go above the fence line... Well, I wouldn't want to be you."] Um. Basketball? I haven't seen a real basketball in years. It's a sport for tall people, or people who can jump high, or both. * Raxa looks over at the people who seem to know. "How does it work?" "In a sentence: the goal is to get the ball through the hoop while preventing the other team from doing the same. ["That's all. Fuck off and don't bother me." He walks to the doors with the other guards, pulls up the only chair on the roof, and pulls out a book.] (How many prisoners are out on the roof?) ( Uh... good question. How many did I say were in the block? XD ) * Billie just looks kind of confused. "Why are we being ordered to play basketball for three hours?" "I don't think we actually are being ordered to. He said he didn't care, as long as we don't damage things." [The guard looks up. "Oh yeah, for those of you who don't know the rules, ask one of your fellow prisoners to teach you. Maybe they'll care more than I do."] * Logan glances around at the other prisoners. "Actually, now that I think about it, getting involved in a contact sport with these guys and gals might not be the best idea. Some of them are a lot bigger and more solid than I." Ah. ( I'm saying there's about 200 prisoners in the block total, and about 50 on the roof right now. ) * Yoshiko thinks about the height thing. Then looks up at everyone else. "I'm gonna be really bad, aren't I?" (But only one court, and one ball. So... about 5x too many people.) ( Yep ) I think I'm going to sit on the sidelines and nominally root for a nominal team. * Chess smiles down at Yoshiko. "You don't have to play. Want me to teach you how to do a handspring?" (Are Sun and Fatima et al around?) * Raxa nods, then says, "Oh, there is contact? That is good." * Logan does the mental math. "Yeah, definitely sitting this one out. I've seen what happens when too many people try to play a game like this at the same time, and we had a reason to be civilized back then." [Some of the prisoners, having nothing else to do, figure they might as well go play basketball.] * Yoshiko smiles. "Sure!" * Billie stretches and has a seat on the floor, out of the way, and settles into watching the game. To Raxa: "Well... there's not supposed to be contact, but there often is anyway. And I don't see any refs out there to blow their whistles when someone hits someone else too hard." [Sun and Fatima are both around. Sun is looking beyond the fence, where you can actually see a bit of the city beyond. Fatima is standing in a corner, arms crossed, staring at the gaurds.] * Raxa grins a bit more. "I will just have to be careful." Hmm, bets on who's going to win? * Logan , without missing a beat: "Raxa." * Chess looks around at the hard ground and says slowly, "Well... probably need a mat to start off on handsprings. Know how to do a cartwheel yet?" ( Will anyone be playing? :P ) * Raxa walks forward to get into the game. (Raxa, I think!) (Raxa's in for ball games! She has ranks in sports.) ( Hokay then... ) * Billie glances at Raxa, who is actually joining the game, and apparently decides not to root for her as she goes to stand next to Sun and also look beyond the fence. (If there are fewer than 10 people playing and they actually ask people to join, Logan might be interested. But only if it stays friendly. Which he is skeptical of.) ( As the GM suddenly realizes he doesn't know how to organize this. ) (It sounds like it's something you'll kinda pose through.) (Also, Billie doesn't want to root for me? :() (Yeah, just make stuff up.) (I figure you can check your opponents/teammates for deva.) (Indeed.) ( Ok, #Game for anyone with interest or playing in the game. ) * Josh tries to find the guy who's running the betting scheeme. (Can I lurk? :D) ( Only if you're paying attention to what's going on in the game :P ) (Okay.) * Logan walks over to Yoshiko. Under his breath: "So, I don't suppose you can create some "Zhro"-shaped fireworks or something? This might be our best chance to communicate with some of the other blocks." * Billie looks out to the city for a little while, then says to Sun, quietly, "It almost doesn't look that terrible from here." * Yoshiko hmms. "I think I've done a cartwheel before. But where I'm from, it's not something people normally do. People normally fly where they want to go."" * Chess frowns at Logan. "We're not supposed to cause trouble. What if they see it's her and she gets punished?" ( Sorry, need to afk a sec >.> ) 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Josh (2d6+6) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 11. * Yoshiko glances at Logan. "I can make all kinds of fireworks. It's what I do when I'm bored." * Chess turns back to Yoshiko. "People don't really cartwheel to get places, it's just to show off a little. I don't want to teach you handsprings when the ground's this tough, but getting your cartwheeling down should be fine." As long as you, you know, don't fall on your head. * Logan shrugs. "Maybe we could cause a diversion? I dunno, I just wanted to find out whether it was possible. We've got to do something, else what's the point of being here? I doubt other blocks are allowed to watch our fights, and if that's the only way we get the name out, this is going to take a while." "I can only speak for myself, but I'm not enjoying our stay here much, and the sooner we locate this guy, the sooner we can hightail it out of here." * Chess rubs her arms. "I guess. I just don't want any of us getting hurt if we can avoid it." I've had Yuki looking for him. But he's hard to find. Blackie hasn't come to me with anything either. Um, that's the old guy's cat. "Especially since we don't know what he looks like, or what he can do, or his name, or... really anything about him except that he's a Deva and probably reacts to the name "Zhro."" ( Back ) Oh, Blackie? Blackie's cute. "The guard did say we could do whatever we wanted unless it damaged something or bothered the other guards." He pauses. "I suppose fireworks might be classified as bothersome." He pauses again. "I suppose that's how we got in here in the first place..." He grins wryly. * Josh makes his way over to a small gathering of inmates. [Sun is silent for a long time, then says, "I wonder how my parents are doing."] * Yoshiko eyes Logan. "Well" [And speaking of blackie, he pads up to Chess & co. and meows.] I- Blackie, hi! Anything new? The cat meows again. * Billie looks at Sun, almost afraid to ask, but she does: "Your parents?" * Logan sighs. Some people get all the cool powers. * Yuki hops up behind Yoshiko, then in front where Yoshiko picks her up and pets her. "Anything interesting?" (Uh... Yoshiko said that. Yuki's staying silent.) [The cat purrs.] Oh, well, thanks anyway. Are you and the old man getting by okay? [The cat meows.] When a deva or diva or whatever was mentioned, do you remember what else was said? * Chess kneels down to by closer to the cat. 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yuki (2d6+4) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 9. * Logan instinctively leans in to hear better, and then realizes that he has no idea what's being said anyway, and looks a little sheepish. ( Sorry folks, stuff gets slow when I have to split my attention so much :o ) * Yoshiko sighs and pets her rabbit. "Yuki hasn't found anything yet." [The cat meows.] It means she's very attractive to other humans. [The cat meows again.] At least we know the deva's a she. And attractive!.. Hey, are you sure Blackie's not talking about Raxa? (I am pretty sexy.) (The question is, what does a cat find sexy?) (Chess said it was human sexy.) [And Sun, who was silent again but managed not to cry this time, says, "My father was the one who got me... the treatment. He and my mother only wanted what was they thought best." She looks down. "But they found out and they took me away."] * Logan chuckles. "I think there may be a language mix-up going on. See.. Diva can mean a sexy super-model type person." (Ah) Thank you for keeping an ear out. Keep listening, and let me know if there's anything I can do for you, okay? [The cat meows.] [Then it pads off to the old guy, who's sitting against the fence some distance away.] * Logan looks expectantly at Chess. "Well, any news?" * Billie puts an arm around Sun and squeezes protectively. "Where did you live before?" Not really. The guards were saying they brought a diva into cell block 5, and that she's hot. Blackie thought they might have said 'deva', but I don't think the guards would know about that, right? Well, it's worth checking out. Maybe Yuki can investigate a little closer. ["Seoul. On the other side of the world. It was hard, but... at least it was a home."] * Logan sighs. "That's what I figured." * Billie is silent for a while, thinking about that, then says, "My parents think I'm dead." She looks at Sun and says, in almost a whisper, "Listen. There are some things my friends and I are trying to do while we're here. But I also want to help you." I know I'm not the best fighter or anything, but I'm capable of some neat stuff, and so if you'll let me, I'll do my best to protect you. And maybe even help you get to them, if I can. If only a message. (AFK for a few) * Billie nods to the distance, which would be Seoul. "So, any other ideas on how we can get our message out?" "I'm not one for just waiting to get lucky." He sighs. "It never happens." [Sun looks at Billie. "How would you do that?"] * Billie allows herself a small smile. "The basketball court has ears," she says, indicating the others on the roof. [Sun looks confused.] * Chess looks to Yoshiko. "Well... fireworks or cartwheels?" "I thought about maybe making some stickers and sticking them on things, maybe in the trams and around the central arena, but I'm not sure what we would put on them." * Billie sighs. "I don't want them," she gestures vaguely at the guards, "or them," and she makes a hand sign like a flapping bird, "to know what I can do." I don't think flinging fireworks would help one way or another. All it'd do is make us a target. And I've been doing enough of that in the contests... [Sun blinks. "Don't they already know? I thought they got that information when they brought you in."] What? Are you thinking sensibly now? * Yoshiko eyes Yuki. * Logan mimes writing on a sticker. "Deva seeking Deva. Me: servant of Zomegar, along with some friends. You: Deva of Zhro, in need of rescue. Contact Logan at Block 14, cell 191." * Billie grins a little. "I'm not on record." "Or! We could put the Ravens' name on it, simultaneously getting the attention from the Deva and making trouble for those damn bullies." (Or we can kill the Ravens in their sleep.) (*sigh* You ninjas have no flair for subtlety.) (Steall all their stuff, donate it to the cat) (Oh oh. We could set it up so the CAT kills them in their sleep!) (Excellent) (And then donates their stuff to us!) (No, wait.) (Steal from the rich and give to the poor! We're poor, some of us don't even have points!) (/me raises hand. No points, no points...) Hey, we don't even know if Zhro's deva is a buddy of ours. [A guy comes up to you. He's lanky, has a soul patch, and looks jittery. "Hey. Hey! I heard you're looking for someone."] (It's Zrho, Logan confused us all.) (Soul patch?) ( Kind of a really tiny beard ) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_patch ) (That awful facial hair that Teal'c had in a couple of seasons near the middle of SG-1) (Aha!) (Is he also bald?) ( No. ) * Logan turns to the new guy, looking him up and down. "It's possible. Are you the person we might be hypothetically looking for?" (Aww.) I hope so. This is gettin' really annoying. * Yoshiko hmphs. ["Naw. Naw man. But I can help you. Oh yeah. You want someone found, I can find him for you."] * Yuki darts off and goes back into hiding. [He nods vigorously.] * Chess acts skeptically, "For how much?" (*asks) (It's a pretty good act too, Logan is totally convinced.) (How do you get "acts" from "asks" anyway? Those middle keys aren't even close to each other.) (I have a tendency to just type words that are similar to each other. My brain processes incorrectly sometimes or something and I type the wrong thing.) ["That's the thing, man. I don't want your points. Naw... I want something better."] * Logan raises his eyebrows expectantly. * Yoshiko glares at the guy. "What is it?" In his best overly dramatic voice: "...Go on...?" [He glances from side to side and leans in close. "Dope, man. Weed, crack... man, I don't even care! Just get me something to get my mind out of this shithole!"] (Well, that's really easy to do! Anyone have chemistry?) (Nope) (Logan can create things he's familiar with, and worked in an inner city police precinct for over a decade.) (I do!) (I lived in a third world port with people with WAAY too much disposable income...) (Also: Natural Poisons specialty. That's got to count for something.) (Raxa doesn't do items.) (I'm a pharmacist. Shrooms are pretty common where I'm from.) (Oh. Also a Chemistry specialty) (But I don't has itams) (So unless you want items that are just level 1 features...) (Yeah, I think Logan can safely hook this guy up with some high quality highs.) * Logan stifles a laugh. "We can probably arrange something. You got a preference?" ["Heroin? Can you do Heroin?"] * Logan grins wryly. "I can get my hands on some. High quality stuff to, at least for a place like this. What can you do for us?" [Meanwhile, Sun says to Billie. "How is it you're not on record? I don't understand..."] * Logan puts on his best "wheeling and dealing" persona. [He clenches his fists in triumph, "Yesssss! I knew it! I knew you were the ones to turn to!" At Logan's question, he says, "Listen, I practically grew up here. I know people. Lots of people. I'm sure I can find your guy. Or girl. Or whatever you want."] ] * Billie sighs at Sun. "Maybe I'll tell you later, when we're back in the cell." She looks out. "Suffice to say, I'm not. And I hate this place." So... you never said, but what was the treatment you got? If talking about it's okay. [Sun looks down, "My arms. I had Kitchson's."] * Logan grins. "This one might be a challenge. We've got powerful little information to go off of. Here's the offer. I give you a gram at dinner tonight, to show I'm sincere. 5 grams when you find us our person. And a 2 gram bonus if it's within the week. You don't tell anyone where you got the stuff. I won't be mobbed or fingered this early. Need to be selective, you know." 2d6+10 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+10) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 17. * Chess wrinkles her nose and turns away from the conversation. (Brett: I know nothing about drugs OOC. Adjust those levels to what would be on the high end of reasonable for something like this.) * Yoshiko sighs and looks at Chess. "So! Cartwheels?" (Edit: LOGAN DRUGS PEOPLE UP RIGHT) ( Like I do? :P ) Totally cartwheels. * Billie thinks, then frowns, and thinks some more. "I'm not... familiar with Kitchson's." She doesn't sound like she *likes* not being familiar. "What is it?" * Chess moves with Yoshiko to the nearest area large enough for practicing. ( I'm not even sure what the difference between dope and weed is :X ) (There isn't one.) (I'm fucking with my search trends by googling Heroin, so it's cool) ( I thought one was one type of drug and one was another ) * Chess raises her hands oabove her head and does a carthweel as slowly as she can, staying in the handstand position for a second before turning back over, facing the opposite direction she started in. (Heroin's really hard stuff.) (Weed's for lightweights.) (Yeah. I think the guy's just desperate for any high.) You'll want to go faster than that and get some inertia going to tip you back over properly, but you basically touch the ground with hand-hand-foot-foot. [The guy nods at Logan, "Yeah man, that sounds good. You're secret's safe with me, man."] (Weed's just marijuana, it was nearly legalized in CA recently. Super lightweight.) [He wanders away, glancing back over his shoulder and grinning.] * Logan looks to the others, to make sure no one has any last-minute objections to telling this guy who they're looking for. (He can't wander away, we didn't tell him what we wanted!) ( Oh right. Duh ) [He not does wanders away, nor does glancing back over his shoulder and grinning.] ( Fix'd ) * Yoshiko follows, keeping her hands steadily out. She's not exactly trained, but due to her stature she doesn't look very bad doing it. That's great! I must've fallen over fifty times when I started out. [Sun says, "It's... Your blood pools into a spot in your body, like acne, but with red blood cells. The growth just gets bigger and bigger until it bursts." She shudders. "And it hurts a lot."] * Logan , seeing no objections, leans in a bit. "Ok. We're looking for a guy, probably been in here a little while, responds to the name "Zrho." Now this is important: his name isn't Zrho, but he is really familiar with the name. He's also probably got more magic-like gene-mods. That's about all we've got at the moment." * Billie 's eyes widen. "God damn. Is it genetic?" [She adds, "And it gets worse. Your nerves eventually get tangled in the mess. If my dad hadn't done what he did, I would have eventually lost the ability to move my arms."] "If you find him, you can tell him the people who are looking for him are friends of Zrho's brother." * Billie nods. "So he- he had your arms replaced?" She looks down at them, too. [She nods. "It was contamination... The Japanese did it to us, before the Nazi's turned on them."] (Man, Logan totally knows where she's coming from. Except his Earth went for cybernetics instead of gene mods.) ["Not replaced, just..... modified."] Right. * Chess makes a piece of chalk discretely and draws two long lines with space inbetween them roughly equal to 10 centimeters. "This is about the width of a balance beam. See if you can do it straight, keeping the center of your hands between the lines." And you want to keep your body as straight as possible when doing it. Well, that's all the kind of perfection you want to aim for, anyway. * Billie 's lips thin. "Genetic warfare. I *hate* this place." She sighs. "Would explain why you were afraid of me earlier too, I guess." [She frowns. "I guess I could have lived with it. It was just my arms. Some people get it with their heads or bodies. They... don't live long."] * Billie nods. ["The Japanese are treated better than any of the rest of the sub-class citizens. And they hate Koreans."] I don't. * Billie grins. "But I like to style myself as American instead of Japanese." * Yoshiko nods to Chess and tries to set it up. "Um, what about when I fall?" [sun blinks. "You're...?"] Off the record. [Meanwhile, the soul-patch guy is like, "Magic-like? Like what, man? He makes wine out of water? Or like dope from gloo? If so, tell him to hit me up."] Um... don't hit your head? If your arms start getting weak, just stop and rest until they don't feel bad at all anymore. [Sun nods. "Don't let anyone know. If they find out..." she gulps.] Not much love, huh. (What is the fence made of?) Oh, okay. * Logan smiles darkly. "If I knew, man, I'd tell you. Like I said, that's all the intel we've got. The name Zrho is the only solid bit. I'm sure you're up to the challenge. You find me at dinner tonight, I'll pass you on the first gram." ( It's a typical wire-frame ) (Barbed?) ( At the top ) [He nods. "Yeah man. Sure."] * Yoshiko sets up to go into a handstand. She's clearly not very good and her balance clearly gets off after a couple seconds, falling back down and landing on her rump. She winces. "Ow!" * Chess winces as well, and holds out a hand to help her up. (Now does he walk off grinning over his shoulder?) Cartwheels help build balance and kind of help with your arm strength. It's a good lead-in for other gymnastics stuff. * Billie looks around again, then says very quietly, "Listen, Sun. I think I know a way we can talk to each other without other people hearing. And if we do that, I can explain a lot more. But..." She hesitates, then keeps going, "You'd have to trust me pretty much completely." [He saunters off, not looking back towards you at all.] [Sun blinks. "I don't understand."] * Billie sighs, then taps her head. "You got psionics where you're from?" * Logan brushes his hands off on his pant seams, though he never actually touched the guy. "Well, that was distasteful." He sighs. "And will likely get rapidly more so. But hey, it's a lead." [Sun raises an eyebrow. "You got it done? That's dangerous!"] * Logan looks a bit worn. "The number of kids I've seen go down that path and never come back... But I guess if you're stuck in here, it can't be much worse." Oh yeah, and everything else isn't? [Sun blinks. "I guess not. But... having someone carve into your brain?" she shudders.] * Logan heads over to Raxa and Josh. * Yoshiko smiles sheepishly and looks at the others. * Billie takes her pamphlet out and starts folding it, sharply. "It's a little more complicated and simple than that. So, you trust me?" I took some gymnastics classes when I was younger. I can't manage much more than walking straight on a balance beam at this point, but I can do most of the basics on flat ground. ["More complicated... and... simple? I don't understand," says Sun."] * Chess follows her gaze. "Wanna go chill with Billie and Sun?" * Billie shakes her head. "It's hard to explain." * Yoshiko pulls the hair out of her eyes and re-does the ribbons. She nods to Chess. [Sun looks ever confused.] * Billie looks back at Sun, folded paper in her hand. "Do you trust me?" * Chess heads over towards Billie and Sun, then. [Sun nods slowly. "I... yes... I think."] * Billie smiles a little, then spots Chess heading over. "We'll talk about it more in the cell, then." She turns. "Hi Chess!" * Yoshiko walks behind Chess a little to the left. Hi! Marisa turned a cartwheel on her first try, I was kind of impressed. Wow, awesome. The best I've ever done is a somersault. * Yoshiko gives a peace sign! How you doing? * Yoshiko looks at Sun, trying to read Sun's emotions. [At this point, the bell rings, signifying dinner time. The guard from before stands up and shouts, "All right, everyone to the cafeteria. Let's go."] * Billie opens her mouth and gets interrupted by the bell. "Apparently I'm hungry," she says after the announcement. * Billie slips the paper away and follows directions, sticking close to Sun. * Yoshiko giggles. "Okay! Food time!" [You head into the crowd.] * Yoshiko grabs Sun by the hand and goes to the cafeteria, pulling her. 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+8) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 16. * Chess heads off after everyone else. 2d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+7) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 14. [Billie suddenly crashes into Yoshiko as she pulls away from a guy trying to stab her with a sharpened spoon.] [Which isn't great 'cause he just tries again!] Holy WHAT THE FUCK, DUDE. 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+6) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 12. (Check /msg Brett?) What the hell! [Billie is lucky enough to scramble away again. Meanwhile Sun starts shrieking and the other prisoners start causing a commotion.] * Yoshiko 's hands flare with light as she turns around and faces the stabbing spoon-man. "Hey! What's the big idea?!" (spooooooooooooooooooooon maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan (+)) * Yoshiko pulls Sun behind her so she's between the stabbyman and her. With her off-hand she prepares to launch some rays of light, but the crowded conditions aren't very good for that. [Then shots ring out as one of the guards fires into the air. The prisoners freeze, and two guards grab the knife guy. "Enough! Enough, buddy! You're gonna be sorry."] * Billie gasps for breath as she gets behind some people, preferably people who don't want to kill her. (Maintenance just hates it when people do that. Do you know how much trouble it is to fix bullet holes in the ceiling?) * Yoshiko whispers to Chess. "He's radiating magic. That's normal 'round here, right?" [The man stops resisting as the guards grab him, but he stares straight at Billie. "We have not forgotten. You, whom cheated death, we shall bring death to you."] (Err, that's not normal.) (whoa whoa whoa) Wh- wait. Wait. (Duude) [Suddenly he screams at the sky, then collapses.] That's totally not normal! Something's... no! (Er, before he screams, please.) * Billie rushes for the guy, seemingly forgetting that he was just trying to kill her dead. And the guards. * Logan arrives, looking befuddled. * Raxa ends up on the periphery of the mess, but can see/hear what's going on now. She looks over at Josh and says lowly, "Does that refer to what it might?" [The guy groans. Then yelps as he's jerked to his feet by the guards. "Hey! Wh-what's happening?"] [They drag him off. "A long night with the Inquisitor, that's what."] No! I... it's okay! [You can hear him as they take him, "What? Why? What's going on? Tell me!"] * Josh gives Raxa a confused look. "I don't have a fucking clue what just happened." [And then he's gone. The annoying guard who's still there says, "All right, excitement's done. Back in your lines people."] * Chess is pale and hugging herself around her waist. "Craaaap. That's all kinds of not good." "At least four." * Yoshiko just looks with her mouth open. She motions for the rest of the crew to gather together so she can talk more discretly with them. * Chess chuckles nervously. "Four out of how many, do you think?" * Billie just stands there, staring off at where the guards just dragged the guy who tried to kill her. And shakes. * Josh starts to get into line and then stops and goes back to Billie. "Hey, you okay in there?" [Sun approaches Billie. "What was that?"] He was- he was- * Billie whirls on Josh, "NO, I'm not okay!" * Yoshiko 's glow dissipates. "I think I know what happened but I really don't like it." Good. C'mon. To Yoshiko: "Well, fill me in, 'cause all I saw was some guy getting dragged off." * Raxa is with Josh, and has her lips pressed together. * Billie clamps her mouth shut and glares. Maybe she'll kill Josh later. * Yoshiko pulls Billie and looks cautiously. "You saw it too?" Yeah. * Yoshiko sighs. "He was literally *glowing* magic before that." "So... he was being possessed or something?" Look, now's not the time to make more of a sceen kay? Disapear for a bit, and then take the guy apart atomically later. * Billie lets out a long breath. "I saw the spirit inside of him." That might be directed to Sun, or maybe to Yoshiko, since they both more or less asked. * Josh blinks. "Wait, was that the guy we were looking for? Fuck that's going to make this a pain." * Billie rolls her eyes. "No." Pause. "At least, I don't think so." Let's go eat. Yeah, that looks like posession. A quick posession before the spirit left. That's why he was completely confused. * Chess is still hugging herself tightly. "Let's talk about this in the caf, okay?" * Billie probably won't eat, but pretending to eat works too. So either he doesn't like us, or someone else KNOWS who we are and doesn't like us. "So we've got another supernatural entity after us. Swell." * Raxa nods and says slowly, "That is a good idea." [Then abruptly the session ended.]