[It's early to mid noon. Sun's still high in the sky and shiny as ever. The sky, for the record, is fairly clear. And you have two friends with you! Yay! An Injun named D and a Shomuran named... uh, you never asked. But in any event, you're outside the castle and contemplating going in, your cohorts are in there somewhere but you don't know where, and...] [Session Start!] * Sakura wakes up suddenly, and gets to her feet, drawing her sword and looking around quickly. She spots the new people and gets into a fighting stance. * MaryAnne looks towards D while pulling out her hand fan and, while holding it above her lips, she leans toward Millie and whispers in her ear. She then looks back towards D, lowering her hand fan, and giggles while smiling at him. * John shakes his head. "Look, we really don't have the time for you. Can you bother us some other time?" * Shomuran waves cheerily at Sakura. "Hey, it's the lady I dueled the other day! Remember her? She's pretty good, for someone who doesn't use a Naginata." * John glances back at Sakura, then at the Shomuran. "You two know eachother?" * D smiles coyly at Mary Anne and Millie. Then looks over at Sakura. "Ah, how 'bout that?" * Millie leans over a bit to Mary Anne and shrugs slightly, slinging her rifle for the time being. * Sakura does not move from her stance. "You challenged me to a duel. Are you ready to finish it?" * MaryAnne nods her head up and down once and then looks towards Sakura. * Eri idly stretches. "Any time you want. But like I said, this isn't about you. It never was." * Millie blinks over at D and rolls her eyes, letting out a faint smirk and waves with her lashes fluttering a bit. * D rubs his forehead. "Oh great. Here we go." * John puts his hand to his head. "Oh boy. Look, while you two are dueling, our team's down there gettin' all the glory. Millie, care ta come?" John starts walking to he castle. * Millie smirks slightly and speaks up in a honey-sweet voice. "Right behind ya, Johnny-dear!" She winks at the rest. "Toodles, y'all." She walks after John into the castle. * MaryAnne looks back towards D and says "Coming Mister D?" * Eri blinks. "Hey. Heyheyhey! No bandit huntin' without the bandit hunters!" * D hurries after. "Ah-ah! Not so fast." * Eri heads after, too. First, honor dictates we must finish our duel. ... * Eri glances back at Sakura. Do you *want* to do your job or not? You're with them, right? * MaryAnne waits for D to get ahead of her and then follows, leaving Sakura and her friend to work things out. Yeah, we're a bit busy to be duelling. ... fine. But after we are finished, you will duel me. * John follows the path that the rest of the company set, which goes down stairs and down corridors and all fun stuff! * Sakura puts her sword away and follows the others. * D shakes his head. "You people and your duels." He looks at the stairs. "Hey, not so fast. How do you know she went that way?" Sure! We'll have a grand old time, right... er, what's your name? Don't think I ever caught it. * Millie unslings her rifle and keeps it in-hand at the ready as she follows behind John, keeping up so she doesn't lose him. * MaryAnne follows behind D. Sakura. * John speaks quietly to Millie as they start going down, and is sure he's out of reach of everyone else. "I don' trust'em as far as I can throw'em. Keep an eye out for a doublecross." * Eri grins. "Sakura! Great name. Not as good as Naginata, I'll admit, but nobody's perfect." * John looks back at D. "Ya wanna check somewhere else, go somewhere else." * Millie speaks back in the same tone of voice, quiet, not turning back to the rest of them. "Neither do I. An' believe it or not, even Mary's suspicious too. Which makes ya wonder..." * John nods, and speaks back quietly. "'bet they're part'o the gang. Don' hesitate if they turn on us." * Millie smirks slightly. "Since when have ya ever known Millie Reinhart ta hesitate when someone bothers her?" * John smiles, his teeth glinting. "Since ya met me." When the undead are involved. * Eri eyes John. "Shinetastic." * D shrugs. "Fine. We'll go check upstairs, then. But if ya see Jan, don't fight her until ya come get us. Didn't come all this way to miss out on the reward. * MaryAnne looks towards the Shomuran girl and giggles. * D heads off in another direction. Hey, if we find her and we start fightin', chances are we won't have the option ta get ya. You'll know when we start shootin'. * Millie starts to respond but blinks and swivels around, puffing out her cheeks at Sakura for a moment, then back to John. "Hmmph." * D halts. "Ok, maybe we better work out a deal here and now." * Eri stops, too, and glances quizzically at D. * Millie smirks and stretches her back slightly. "Deal? We were here first. What's there ta deal?" * John doesn't stop walking, but does look back. "Ya comming or not? We really don' have time ta waste." If ya run into her up there, she's all yours. Look, ladies, as much as I'd like ta give you the benefit of the doubt, I'd rather have the money. The hell you were here first. * Millie turns back to John and walks quickly to catch up. "Hey! At least wait for your OWN team, pretty boy!" * Millie is ignoring D as she's concentrating on catching up with John. She's got an irritated expression alright though. * John shrugs and waits up a little. "We were, and we're goin' the way our team went. You could look up there, for we haven't. If you *do* find her, you get the reward, no complaints from us." Oh, but you'll have to take her out ta get the reward, too, won'tcha? I'm sayin' we should agree on a split now. Before things get ugly. * Eri nods. The grin's more or less vanished from her face as she leans on her naginata. * John sighs and rolls his eyes. * Millie catches up and turns around, rifle barrel on her shoulder as she looks casually at D and the Naginata girl. "Fine. What do ya want outta this then?" Fifty percent. * John continues walking at the sound of that. "No deal." Fifty percent for y'all an' there's two of ya...fifty percent for us an' there's 7 of us. An' ya might not even find her up there an' actually DO anythin'..that don't seem raight." * MaryAnne smiles and looks briefly towards D and says "I get the tablet and all others that help against the robbers get an equal share of any reward money that is offered. Fair enough?" * John raises an eyebrow. "There's eight of us, Millie." You might not even do anything yerselves. * D shrugs. "Don't care 'bout no tablet. I jus' want the money." Is there? Musta lost track. Could be nine or ten for all I know. * MaryAnne says "Well, then, it's settled. Let's continue onward before we lose any further ground." The fact that we came this far alone entitles us to a larger share. Gettin' through the ghosts? Wan't easy. * Millie shrugs and puts her rifle behind her neck, stretching her back. "But we ain't got time ta deal really. Even splits all 'round. No more, no less." * MaryAnne says "Quite. Let's be off." * D holds out his hand to Mary. "Fifty percent?" * John snickers. "It'd be fifty percent of her share." ... Lemme restate that. $17500 for each of our groups. Deal? * MaryAnne says "Equal shares among each of those that help against the robbers and I get the tablet. It's not our fault that you have less manpower afterall." * MaryAnne continues "Please cease in your delaying tactics." * MaryAnne says "We have robbers to catch." * D looks at Mary Anne coldly, his face completely different from before. "It may not be your fault, but it's sure as hell gonna be your problem." Yeah. While you're bickerin', Jan's probably gettin' 'way an' ya get zero. * John is still walking. "I don' care what you're sayin'. 'D'. I'm goin' down and you'll have ta nagotiate with *all* of us when we do all of the work." I'm goin'. * MaryAnne smiles at D "And if they escape because you are insistant on delaying us, then you get nothing." * MaryAnne continues on also. * Millie turns around and follows John, rifle still behind her neck. **WALK WALK WALK** (Geez, Mary, you walk loud. ^_~) (It's her ladies boots ; ) ) 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (2d6+4) and gets 16, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "I can recommend some good Dice Cleanser, if you like." (... The universe FUCKIN' hates me!) ( ... Can I just commit suicide now? ) (Um...oww) (As long as you take John with you.) 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (2d6+4) and gets 6, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I love the smell of a crit in the morning." ( Okay, did John take "Unique Defect: Only get criticals."? ) (Dicey? I take back my previous statement!) () (Unique Defect: Only gets NATRUAL criticals.) [Very suddenly, John has an arrow sticking out of his hand. Behind, D's bow is ready, and Eri's just about to charge. "I told ya, didn't come all this way to lose the money."] ( Roll init ) d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Millie (d6+7) and gets 9. 1d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for MaryAnne (1d6+5) and gets 7. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (d6+7) and gets 10. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (d6+6) and gets 8. (And which hand was that?) d2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d2) and gets 2. ( Right ) (Okay. Doesn't matter, I can use both of them equally, but still..) * Millie turns to John and turns around, smirk lost on her face. "Well now, that ain't nice.." (Odd that a Bow and Arrow and out draw a pistol) (My Naginata doubles as a bow!) You should have let me kill them. Well, now's your turn. [Order: D, John, Eri, Millie, Sakura, Mary] Kill kill kill. Blood blood blood. Blah blah blah. Don't you talk about *anything* else? Come on, Sakura! Seems ya came all this way ta lose more than jus' money then..ain't even gonna be from Janny either. * D reloads his bow and fires at John with amazing speed! * John has flipped around and smirks. "Try that again, hot-shot." * John has his heavy pistol in his left hand in an instant, and tries to shoot the shot out of the sky. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (2d6-5) and gets 1. [John shoots it out of the sky alright. Now it's his turn!] * John aims his heavy pistol at D's bow, firing to shatter it. (Called shot.) 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (2d6-4) and gets 3. * D takes a page from John's book and fires an arrow. The bullet pings off the arrow and into the wall. [Eri's turn!] * Eri darts in, alarmingly quickly, using her naginata to its fullest reach in a downward slice at Sakura. "But since you wanna kill me so bad, how 'bout another shot?" 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-4) and gets 3. [Sakura blocks the naginata slice as it comes down.] [Millie's turn!] She is mine. Concetrate on the bowman. * Millie smirks slightly at D and takes her rifle off her shoulder, dropping it into her waiting hand and levelling it at D. "Now this is all real cute an' all, but let's see ya do that again." She cracks off a shot as her gaze sets on him to aim. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Millie (2d6-3) and gets 5. [Millie's bullet grazes D's side. He grimaces a bit.] [Sakura's turn!] * Sakura leaps into the air, and her blade catches the noon sunlight with a flash of light to rival John's teeth. The blade catches on fire and she brings it dowards towards The terrible Eoi clone. "Sunshine Flash." 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-4) and gets -1. ( Oh, hell yes. ) (*waits for the fireworks to start up.) * Eri brings her naginata to block, is just a little too slow, and catches it down the chest of her armor. She bursts into flame, but is still awake, kicking, and... smiling? "Oh, you wanna play *that* way!" [Mary's turn!] * MaryAnne says "Oh my goodness gracious!" as she takes cover behind something (such as a nearby large rock, outcropping, or alcove.), crouches down, and opens her umbrella open and points it towards the combatants. * Millie sighs irritably and shakes her head. "Geez, why don'tcha jus' give it up already? Is the reward really worth all this?" Or do you wanna loose *your* hand? (I think Millie should be more concerned about reloading her oneshot rifle =P ) ( Bah. Mary Anne should do something useful! ) You gonna give us fifty percent? (Not with One Bullet Left. :P) Ya gotta earn it. (MaryAnne's not a warrior - that's what she hired the others for ; ) * D rushes forwards, firing an arrow at Millie. "Then I guess that's what we're doin'." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Millie (2d6) and gets 4. [Millie does not get shot!] [John's turn] * Millie smirks slightly. "Gotta do better than that." * John runs to the right, trying to flank D between Millie and himself. While he does so, he shoots a shot *at* the ground, intending to have it ricochet up and hit D in the hand, effectively disarming D. (That's 3 GB abilities right there. <.<) (...John you freak. :P) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (2d6-2) and gets 7. (Made it.) ( =D ) [John very nearly hits D, but he twists and avoids the bullet.] [Eri's turn!] (He'd be SO toast if I could use both hands.) * Eri smirks. She's still on fire, and she doesn't seem to care! A golden light gathers on the blade of her naginata as she hops back, spins, and slices at Sakura's midsection with a scream of, "Ultimate Naginata Technique! Eri Blade!" ( Gonna need to defend that, Sakura. ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-2) and gets 1. (Wow. Dicey loves you guys.) * Sakura spins out of the way of the blade quickly. [Ummm.... Next is....] [Millie!] * Millie makes a move as if to reload her rifle. "Oh...an' ya know that whole thing outside with me reloadin' with this thing.." She points the rifle at D with a wide grin on her face. "Ah lied." She fires straight at D again. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Millie (2d6-3) and gets 4. * D shoots Millie's bullet out of the air with an arrow. "'S fine by me." [Sakura's turn!] * Millie blinks. "HEY! Ya ain't s'posed ta do that!" * Sakura splits into multiple Sakuras, who surround Eri. As one, they stab forward. Just before the blade hits, they reform into a single Sakura, coming from the side. "Midnight Shadow." 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-3) and gets 4. * Eri glances around, then closes her eyes and snaps her naginata to one side, deflecting Sakura's blade. [Mary's turn.] * MaryAnne tries to blast D with a lightningbolt **BUZZAP!** 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for MaryAnne (2d6-2) and gets 5. [Mary Anne zots D with a rather puny lightning bolt. Still, better than nothing, eh?] [D's turn!] * D suddenly has a tomahawk in his free hand. He slices at John! (Do I need a def roll?) (And does he have lightning draw for weapons? :P) ( Yes and yes. ) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (2d6-1) and gets 6. ( For both, in fact ^^ ) (What, you thought this was going to be easy? :P) (I'm already operating on one hand. <.<) (And I'm also wondering how good this guy is at defending with a tomahawk against ranged weapons. :P) (He'll throw it and deflect your bullet - don't ya know =) ) (...darn it, you beat me to it, Elfy :P) (Then he'll pull out another one from his underwear ; ) ) (Ah, of course. I forget how slow gun-fire really is. :P) (yup - shoot like gun like molassas) * D slashes John across the torso. "Maybe in the afterlife you'll learn how to make a deal!" ( Not that John's dead. :P ) (Nope. But we're working on it!) [John's turn.] * John runs almost full-tilt away from D, but still brings his left arm back to shoot at D. In the head. "Maybe, but I plan on having you go first." 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (2d6-4) and gets 7. (Hit. Thank you Steady hand/Dead Eye!) * D swirls his tomahawk, deflecting the shot. "I'm thinking the same thing." [Eri's turn] (Deflect Bullets too? How many defects does that guy have? <.<) ( Two. :P ) * Eri spins her naginata in place, in an almost hypnotic pattern. A funnel of angry wind forms as she does so. "Eri Tabushi special technique! Swirling Naginata Slash!" The funnel forms itself around the naginata, blade, hilt, and all, and she dashes with stunning speed at... and by Sakura, slicing at her as she goes. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-2) and gets 9. [Sakura suddenly finds a rather nasty wound has opened in her side.] [Millie's turn] * Millie grumbles as she breaks open her gun, rolling two bullets in between her fingers and jamming them both into the rifle, one after another. "Maybe you'll learn how ta be reasonable..." She snaps the rifle closed, eyes glaring on D. "Why tha hell ya need 50 anyhow? There's jus' two of ya! An even split's reasonable. 'Specially since ya know we're both good. We're wastin' time!" [Sakura's turn] Enough. * Sakura does the big complicated movement for Sunset and Moonrise that Atom is too tired to type out. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-4) and gets 4. (Isn't Eri still burning?) (Yeah. She's like that.) * Eri shrieks as the attack comes down and nearly bisects her, cutting through her armor like it was nothing. She falls to the ground, an unconscious, fiery, bleeding heap. * Sakura places her sword into its sheath. * MaryAnne tries to blast D with another lightningbolt **BUZZAP!** 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for MaryAnne (2d6-2) and gets 7. [Mary Anne zaps the wall nicely] (He's moving so fast! =D) * D curses. "Shit. I guess we're out of luck." He lowers his weapon to a non- threatening stance. "Look, we'll forget about it, ok?" * Eri doesn't comment. She might even be dead; the way she fell, it's hard to tell if she's breathing or not. (Well, she's on fire, so unless she is uneffected by it, I imagine she will soon be dead, if not already ; ) ) * Millie drops her rifle and lets out a slight sigh, adjusting her hair and hat. "Finally. Does it always take someone fallin' to tha ground screamin' for people ta be reasonable?" [The fire eventually goes out.] * John squints his eyes at D. "Forgeting about it won't fix my hand. And drop the weapon if you're done, I know how quick you can be with it." * D sheathes his tomahawk and bow. "Yeah, yeah. I needed the money. But it's not worth our lives." He goes over to check on Eri. Johnny, let it go. We need ta see what's goin' on with the rest of 'em. Fine. But next time we meet, it'll be different. Are you sure we should not finish this? * D waves John off as he lifts Eri. "Yeah, yeah." * Millie glances over at D. "Again, the name's Millie Victoria Reinhart. Remember it." She swivels on her heels and turns to follow John. * D makes his way out with Eri, lest you're gonna stop him. * Sakura closes her eyes. "Fine." She opens them and looks over at D. "Next time, I shall not be so merciful. Warn her." * John breaks the arrow, careful not to cause splinters. "We do have bigger priorities." * John pulls each end out of his hand. "Someone help me bandage this?" * Millie nods. "Let's go." * Sakura follows after John, holding the wound on her side. Overall, she came out of it a lot better then Eoi-chan did. * MaryAnne backs away along with Millie and John, keeping her umbrella pointed towards D, but she really prefers to have no killing if possible. * MaryAnne turns around and follows after John, Millie, and Sakura while closing her umbrella. * John pulls out some cloth and tries as best he can to bind the wound, then starts heading in. "Good to see your priorities are straight." He smiles *ting!* * John also has the mind to reload his gun. [Oddly, as you head that way, you don't hear any sounds of combat.] * Millie frowns a bit. "...it's too quiet." * MaryAnne says "Perhaps." Yeah... Somethin's up. And I gotta bad feelin' about it. * MaryAnne continues "But all we can do is push on to the others and see." * MaryAnne adds "I pray for their safety." * John nods and motions for everyone else to be quiet as they press on. * Millie quiets and walks forward slowly behind John, rifle still out carefully. (We're in the tunnel by now, right?) ( Yeah ) ( Gimme stealth rolls ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (2d6) and gets 5. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Millie (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for MaryAnne (2d6) and gets 8. (Boom boom boom go the steps of Miss Reinhart) (MaryAnne isn't good at stealth stuff - it's just not ladylike ; ) ) (All those skirts get in the way) ( =) ) (Ya think? :P) [John is nice and quiet! Millie kicks a pebble that bounces along *clack, clack, clack), and Mary Anne steps on a rat's tail, causing it to squeak rather loudly.] * John shakes his head. Where's Sakura? ( Gimme hearing checks ^^ ) * MaryAnne rears up on one foot and says "EEK!" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for John (2d6) and gets 6. * Millie winces and stops, whispering. "Sorry..." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Millie (2d6) and gets 4. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for MaryAnne (2d6-2) and gets 2. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6) and gets 5. [Everyone who made it (which is everyone except maybe Sakura) does hear an exchange going on in the room, but can't tell what's being said.] * John nods and motions to Sakura to come up front. [Sounds like your group is talking to their group. Maybe they've got a deal goin' on.] * Millie frowns even more, still in a whisper. "They shouldn't be jus' talkin'...this ain't raight. This ain't raight at all.." * John speaks in a hushed whisper as well. "Yeah. I don' like it..." * Sakura moves up and listens. * MaryAnne keeps quiet. * Millie readies her rifle at the door, taking a step slightly back to allow Sakura room. * Sakura draws her sword and motions towards the door, in a "shall we" sort of way. * John aims his pistol at the door as well, waiting for Sakura to open it up/kick it down. ( The door is open. ) * Sakura doesn't open it up, but instead walks in, sword drawn! * Millie nods, cheek against her rifle. * John walks in right behind Sakura, pistol drawn. * MaryAnne falls in last. * Millie steps to the doorway, rifle levelling.