[It's night. There's a big commotion going on outside, but you guys are stuck in a room on the second floor of the Hoshimoto castle with Tairan's brother or sister (you're not sure which) and a buncha chicks, one of whom is leading Millie out of a side door. In fact, Millie, join #sidedoor. Otherwise, you're on your own.] [Ready go!] * Mikoto pinches the bridge of his nose briefly, then sighs. "Alright. Time to make our way out of here." Right. Not without my sword. * BishiGuy watches Millie and the woman leave, waiting until the door is closed. Without looking, he replies. "Yes, you'd better hurry; I'm going to have to hunt you down soon." Our weapons are included in the process of "making our way out of here," at least as far as *I'm* concerned. * Mikoto glances at the Androgimoto. "Or we could settle it now, if you prefer." * Fanfan coughs at Mikoto. "As Sakura pointed out, we are rather lacking in several departments at the moment." * Sakura looks at the guard's katana she is borrowing. "No, I simply don't wish to waste time we could be using finding my sword." * BishiGuy turns to look at Mikoto, and loosens his sword. "We could. It would save me the trouble of hunting you down later." * Mikoto smiles thinly. "You're right." Well? Will you fight now, or won't you? Not to sound impatient, but it is rather a priority to retrieve our weapons and leave. * Mikoto shakes out his arms. "I don't particularly like the option. I'd hoped to be able to escape with a minimum of bloodshed. But, I think this will be time well spent in the long run." * BishiGuy smirks. "If I fight you, you won't have to worry about getting your weapons back." * Mikoto shrugs. "That remains to be seen." * BishiGuy shrugs back, and draws his sword. Anyone wanna make a cultural arts (weapons) roll, go ahead. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Mikoto (2d6-2) and gets 9. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-1) and gets 6. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fanfan (2d6-1) and gets 7. [Nobody notices anything unusual about the sword.] * Sakura holds her katana in a ready stance. Surrender now, and you can avoid being hurt. We'd rather not fight. We don't really have any quarrel. Oh, but we do. * BishiGuy points to Sakura. "I cannot allow a hideous monstrosity like that to live. If you can call that living." * Sakura twitces. How is she a monstrosity? * Mikoto snorts. "It's a shame you have such limited perspective. It must be a family trait." He drops into a ready stance. "Let's get this over with." * Sakura motions Mikoto away. "He is mine." [The women with him/her scowl. They let their kimonos drop, revealing Eastern-style tunics beneath, with daggers strapped across their backs.] Too cowardly to fight on your own? There is no shame in sharing battle with comrades of great beauty. You may call me ugly, but you are the ugly one. Your soul, inside, is dark and ugly as a festering wound. * Mikoto rolls his neck a bit. "Lucky for you, I'm an egalitarian." He squares off with Random Geisha #1. * Fanfan faces off with the leftover girl, shaking out her tessen. "Gehh." [I should remind you guys that Mikoto's at 20 EP, Sakura's at 49 hp.] (*shrug* We run away, he runs after us, we fight him anyway. Might as well get it over with.) ( Roll init ) d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Mikoto (d6+6) and gets 11. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fanfan (d6+7) and gets 13. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (d6+6) and gets 10. ( Order = Fanfan, Bishi, Mikoto, Red Ninja (Mikoto's), Sakura, Blue Ninja (Fanfan's) ) [Fanfan's turn] ( Red Ninja can use low level ninja techniques. Blue Ninja can learn techinques from enemies. *sagenod* ) (...) (But Red Ninja can use white *and* black low level ninja techs.) ( Yes! Thus, the red ninja is obviously superior to a regular ninja. ) (However, the Red Ninja never gets the uber techs.) * Fanfan slashes at the blue girl's wrist. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fanfan (2d6-3) and gets 7. ( Sorry, no fun acrobatic stuff yet...very very tired day. x.x ) [The ninja backflips out of the way of the attack. She's up for fun acrobatic stuff.] * BishiGuy charges at Sakura, wielding his katana with one hand. He slashes at her as he approaches, and she needs to defend.] 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-4) and gets 1. [Sakura parries the attack.] [Makes it Mikoto's turn] * Mikoto sighs. "I'm sorry about this." He lashes with a kick at the ninja's stomach. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Mikoto (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Mikoto kicks her in the stomach. She tries to avoid, but it don't work.] [Being unhappy about being kicked in the stomach, she draws her dagger and slashes horizontally at Mikoto's. He needs to defend!] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Mikoto (2d6-2) and gets 1. [Mikoto moves back and avoids getting cut.] [Sakura's turn!] * Sakura does the Sunshine Flash, which the player is way too woozy to describe. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-4) and gets -1. [The GM doesn't remember what it looks like, so we'll just say it hit.] (The bishy burns. We laugh.) [And the blue ninja draws her own dagge and slashes vertically at Fanfan's torso.] ( Yay. The bishy is on fire. I hope his stupid hair burns off. ) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fanfan (2d6-3) and gets 4. (... You do know, he's gonna get *so* pissed that you marred his perfect face.) (Good.) [And Fanfan avoids getting cut.] [It's her turn] ( The effect of the sunshine flash is actually somewhat lessened, seeing as how it's night time. ) * Fanfan kicks at the blue girl's wrist to disarm. (If I had breasts, we could be Charlie's Angels.) ( No you couldn't. You haven't met Charlie yet. Or even Bosley. ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fanfan (2d6) and gets 9. [Fanfan's kick misses.] (*fingersnap*) * BishiGuy is, meanwhile, not very happy about getting cut. He charges at Sakura again, his blade leaving a blue trail behind as he slashes. ( Defend! ) ( Item! ) ( Attack! ) 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-4) and gets 1. ( FLEE! ) ( Magic! ) [And Sakura parries the weapon aside.] [It's Mikoto's turn!] ( Freaky, but it works out so that you opponents' inits are all opposite of your own. ) (Isn't that funny?) * Mikoto grimaces. "Seriously. We don't have to do this." NOW he goes for the disarm. ( Hee hee hee. ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Mikoto (2d6-2) and gets 4. ( It's like when my ex-Nemesis and I had identical inits in 7L. That was almost predictable. ) (Ex nemesis because you offed him?) [Mikoto succeeds in knocking her off balance, but the ninja retains hold of the weapon. She makes a sloppy stab at him, but it's close enough to target, and he needs to defend!] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Mikoto (2d6-2) and gets 3. [And Mikoto avoids the blade.] (Angelus must have built me up some karma.) [Sakura's turn!] ('Course, that's probably true for Gail too. Sorry, Tairan/John/Jinx) * Sakura goes for the Midnight Shadow this time. Enemy is gonna have a hard time dodging (hopefully) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-3) and gets 6. (I say when we win, Sakura takes the bishy's skin and wears him like a robe.) ("Aren't I pretty?" "...") ( Sounds fun to me. ) [You would think so, but he jumps and twists around over the attack, landing on his feet.] ( Hee hee he--geez. ) ( These people are *really* making me look bad. x.x ) [The next ninja slashes at Fanfan again. She'd better defend!] (That would be disturbing.) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fanfan (2d6-3) and gets 4. (Totally appropriate, though.) [Fanfan dodges the knife again! Now, it's her turn!] * Fanfan tries a fancy flashy disarm thing with the tessen this time. Ahaha! haha! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fanfan (2d6-3) and gets 7. [Fanfan disarms the ninja; her dagger goes skidding across the floor.] * BishiGuy slashes at Sakura again, his sword trailing blue light behind! Defend, Sakura! 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-2) and gets 1. [Sakura dodges; whatever was going to hit her doesn't.] [Mikoto's turn!] * Mikoto goes for an open-palm strike to the chest. "Seriously. Please just surrender. All we want is to leave in peace." 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Mikoto (2d6-3) and gets 4. ( Lots and lots of peace. NOT pieces. ) [Mikoto touches her chest. Ok...] ("We want to leave in peace! *smack*) ( That makes it sound a lot more like Mikoto was copping a feel. ) ( Would you rather he miss? :P ) [The woman isn't to happy at this, and throws a kick at his genitals. Gimme a def roll, Mikoto!] 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Mikoto (2d6-3) and gets 4. [Mikoto avoids the kick. Lucky him.] [Sakura's turn!] * Mikoto suddenly blushes as he spins out of the way. "Er... sorry." ( Be glad she didn't use the knife :P ) * Sakura goes all out with a Sunset and Moonrise. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-4) and gets 1. * BishiGuy blocks Sakura's strike! ( How does he block it? It's Armor Piercing x2? ) [The ninja Fanfan is fighting throws a kick at her wrist! she needs to defend.] 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fanfan (2d6-3) and gets 5. ( He could have parried, one supposes. ) ( Avoids then. Whatever suits your fancy. ) ( Or he's got a really spiffy sword. =P ) [Fanfan blocks (or avoids) the attack! It's her turn!] ( Unless his sword has a force field, I can't image. ) ( He's got a force field composed of the drama element ) (Magic weapons tend to be very, eh, durrable.) (Yeah, seriously. he's YOUR brother, where's our inside info? Or our RESCUE? Hurry it up. :P) [Just as Mikoto complains OOC, the door opens!] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fanfan (2d6-2) and gets 6. (Seriously, Tairan. You got some Lucy-class 'splainin' to do.) (From what I've heard, his problem was *not* specifying his family. In that now the GM's get to decide who they are.) [From the side, you can see Tairan peeking in. And John over him, like a bad movie. Taking up most of the door is the really, really big guy you met with Lord Hoshimoto earlier, only now he's dressed for battle and carrying a double-bladed sword. Millie's there, too, though she's hard to notice around all the beef.] * Fanfan flips behind the blue ninja girl and holds the blade of her tessen close against the ninja's throat. (Bad movie!) ... what the FUCK are you doing in here?! [Jinx peeks around Tairan about now. Triple bad movie!] * Fanfan looks up and at the others. "Oh, hello." * Mikoto risks briefly looking at the door. "Escaping. Somewhat poorly. Could you go get our weapons?" * BishiGuy attacks Sakura again, blue light trailing behind his sword. It's unclear of whether he saw the new peeps or not. She needs to defend! (magic) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-2) and gets 1. ( Dodge again! ) [Sakura dodges!] [Mikoto's turn! If he's gonna do anything] [The big guy sighs, then walks in, completely calm with all the craziness around him. "Aki, you can stop now."] Aki! Cut it out before I go show everyone your collection of womens underwear! * Mikoto holds action, still facing the ninja 'cause she's got a knife, but his normally calm facade cracks ever so slightly at THAT. * BishiGuy is now known as Aki * Jinx does his best to slip in the room. If he can manage it. (He sure does!) You have a really fascinating family, Tairan. [The ninja does likewise. Sakura's turn!] So, not only are you a foul and terrible person, but you wear the undergarment of the opposite sex. I should have known. * Fanfan tilts her head at Tairan, raising an eyebrow curiously, though her grip on the girl and the tessen doesn't slip. * Tairan eyes Makoto. "Don't get me started..." * Sakura goes for another Midnight Shadow. Man, thank god for Focus. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-3) and gets 2. [The big guy facepalms. "Okay. Tairan, hold back the scarred woman."] ... hello? Everyone? Stop fighting! * Aki parries aside the attack, his face a mask of rage. * Mikoto looks at the ninja. "I didn't mean to touch you inappropriately. My sincerest apologies." [Fanfan's ninja doesn't do anything; it's her turn!] ["Because they're not going to stop on their own."] * Jinx sighs in a rather tired manner and hangs his shotgun on his back. "I'll help you Tairan." If Tairan tries to hold back Sakura, Jinx does too. * Fanfan looks at Tairan, then cross-eyed at the ninja, then spins away gracefully, managing to keep the girl's hands pinned somehow. "This is a rather confusing situation." Is this a coup d'etat, or are you just very, very lucky? * John tries to slip in behind Jinx. "No kidding." * Tairan moves to hold Sakura back. "Sakura! Fight over! Let's go get your sword and hunt some bandits!" [He walks around the pseudo-duel between Sakura and Aki, turning to face Aki's back.] * Aki slashes at Sakura again, the same blue light behind his sword! He doesn't seem like he's even watching the others. And Sakura must defend!] * Jinx moves with Tairan and does the same, he leaves the talking to him. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Sakura (2d6-2) and gets 6. * John moves to hold Aki back. If Nakoto moves to stop him, he does too. * Tairan speaks as he moves to restrain Sakura. "Ain't a coup, and I damn sure ain't lucky. We're getting the fuck outta here." * Fanfan tosses the ninja girl into Aki's path. "Would you happen to know where our weapons would be?" * Mikoto decides if the red ninja wanted to attack him, she'd have done it by now. And he apologized. He turns to Tairan. "We have to get their weapons back, but I agree. It's time to go." * Aki slashes Sakura's shoulder. A bluish glow emits from where the wound is, followed by streaks of small lights that arc out of the wound and strike random parts of her body. It's ouchful. * Tairan grits his teeth. "One problem at a time, people..." [Right when that hits, the big guy scowls and grabs Aki by the arm, forcefully pulling him away from Sakura. "I said that's *enough*."] * Aki struggles! "Let me go! I'll destroy that atrocity! Let go!" * Jinx tries to do the same for Sakura if it looks like she's going to attack the held Aki. Do not interfere! This foul demon must be expelled from this world! * Tairan takes that opportunity to grab Sakura. "Fight later. Get sword now." [He rolls his eyes and very does not let go.] * John eyes the larger man. "Do ya need help?" * Sakura does not strike, because hitting a held person is dishonorable. She doesn't come down from battle stance though. * Fanfan wipes off her tessen and puts it back. "Let's go." Sakura! Do you want your sword, or do you want to continue this pointless fight?! He has insulted my honor. This is not pointless. * Mikoto looks around the large man's shoulder. "Many thanks for your assistance. I'm glad to see there are men of integrity left in the province." * John sighs. Honor this, honor that. Well I'm gonna insult my foot up your ass if you don't stop acting like an idiot. He insulted your beauty, not your honor. ( Ah, Tairan. Ever the diplomat. ) I don't see any corilation between the two, myself. ( Well, look at how far *my* diplomacy skills got us. :P ) * Aki struggles less and less as he's held, but he still looks royally pissed off. Now, let go of him so that we may finish this. Nakoto, any idea where their stuff is being kept? * Jinx waits for an answer to that. It's already finished. Do you want your sword or not? * Mikoto pops out from behind the man presumably named Nakoto and smiles at Aki, hands clasped behind his back. "It IS a shame that such a good swordsman is a complete and total sociopath." * Mikoto glances at Sakura, and mutters, "It must come with the territory." [The big guy, behind Aki, nods at Mikoto. "It really is," he says with a completely straight face.] * Fanfan glances at Mikoto a bit distractedly. "Hm? Did you say something?" Not a word. Oh. Huh. (Make this easier on me.) [The ninja women don't do anthing, except Blue retrieves her dagger. Oh, and there's a green one there now, too.] * Fanfan shakes her head. "Must be getting tired." (Easier on who?) (Me!) (THIRD BASE.) (^_^) * Nakoto waits for Aki to settle a little more, then lets go. * John keeps watch on Aki, in case he goes psycho again. * Jinx is ready to grab Sakura if she tries to take a swing. * Tairan grabs Sakura by the arm, and starts pulling her towards the door. "Fight's over. If you wanna continue it another time, fine by me. Right now, I'd like to get out of here sometime *before* the large army realizes that rather loud distraction was just a distraction." (It's like positive Sakura and negative Sakura.) (Aki's the Anti-Sakura.) (Now, only if he was a bandit and named Arukas.) (The meeting of the two forces is causing a rift in time and space. Soon, you'll all be hurtling into the Twilight Zone.) [Tairan drags Sakura out. That's why she's not here now.] * Mikoto clears his throat, mainly addressing Nakoto. "I'm sorry everything came to this. I was unprepared. It's my fault. Please accept my apologies." * Aki scowls at the doorway while wiping the blood off his sword. He resheathes it and holds his palm to his face. There's a blue glow, and the burns caused by Sakura's attack are gone, complete with any scaring. * Jinx draws his gun again, never know when that army's gonna come back. Apologize later. Run now. *looks back at Nakoto* Their stuff? Yes please. [The ninja women crowd around Aki like a crowd of ninja women crowding around a bishi.] * John moves out! Stupid bishi. * Mikoto nods. "Agreed." He pauses a moment, then adds: "I am in enough of a position to relate meritorious service to the Court. I'm glad I'll be able to do so for SOMEBODY around here." * Nakoto nods. "This way." He looks to Aki, ignoring the ninja. "I'm doing one last favor to Tairan. Care to come along?" * Aki mutters bitterly, "Fine." * Jinx gets going moving after Nakoto away from the reflective simile. * Nakoto looks faintly amused and walks out, presumably towards where the weapons are. * Fanfan follows out with a faintly-noticeable bounce to her step. Swordies come back? Yay? * Tairan follows, dragging Sakura along. * Jinx follows after Nakato, looking a bit more tired and onedge than he had been a few minutes ago. * Aki follows, leaving his harem behind for now. * Mikoto strolls along behind Tairan, crossing his arms behind his head. "Took you long enough. What did you do, dynamite a wall?" (They're ninja. They follow in sekrit.) Yup. And I could say the same thing to you. You guys ended up in jail in record time. * Tairan grins. Blame your psychotic father. It was a trap from the get go. * Fanfan nods. They knew she was associated with you. * Mikoto glances at the (thankfully unconscious) Mary Anne. "I suspect our employer's tongue was a little loose in her panic." * John shrugs. "Danger by association, sounds like." And there were those from Daigoro's group of men that recognized some of us, apparently. * Jinx mutters quietly to himself. "Wonder where the he is...." ... we really need to put a leash on her. And a gag. Maybe a boulder... * Mikoto glances at Tairan, looking him over briefly. "Did you get your sword back?" * John notes that he grabed Mary Anne if nobody else did. <.< Chances are, keeping the citizens calm. There's a near-riot out there. Nope, and not planning to. Stealing it, as satisfying as it was, gave the old man the moral high ground. He don't got that anymore. * Jinx nods at Mikoto's comment. * Mikoto looks thoughtful a moment, then nods. "That's a very mature attitude. I'm sure we'll find you a better one." ( One with ribbons! And sparklies! And a pony! ) (I say we take Aki's.) (Ask him for it! I dare you!) (No.) I doubt it. But hell, whacha gonna do? * Nakoto leads the way back down, towards the cells. He takes a different path, though. * Aki gradually loses his bitter look. He takes the time to look the rest of the group over, eyes lingering on John. o/~ (Heh. Mweh heh.) (... Ohshit. Since WHEN was being pretty a bad thing?! ;_;) (SINCE NOW.) * Jinx comments to Mary Anne's current transporter. "Let me know if you need to trade off carrying her." (I'm pretty. He hates me. ;_;) (If I knew that I'd have bought a level of extra attacks...) ( All the rest of us have appearance 1? Except for Sakura? ) (...wait. Why am I crying?) (Jinx has -1) ( Oh. ) (Jinx has INNER BEAUTY.) (I feel the level of slash rising. Aaanyway.) (And money.) ( Never mind. ) (We have no idea who has Mary Anne.) (Yup Mikoto, and outer scars :P) * Jinx notices that Mary Anne's current transporter is getting tired and takes over the job. (^_^) * Mikoto walks forward at a quick clip, running even with Nakoto. "Is it safe to say... we might not be able to count on your assistance in the future, my lord?" * Jinx doesn't look so hot himself, but she's not heavy. * John shrugs and lets him. "When we come to Hazel, just put Mary on'er." Gladly. (And I'll assume Hazel is at the last location where it was feasable to have her.) As long as my father runs this land, Tairan is dead to me. Officially. You can put it on record. * Jinx snerks, quietly. * John could comment, but doesn't. * John *does* smirk, however. * Aki could comment too, but also doesn't. He's more interested in John. * Mikoto nods once. "It's a position I can understand, at the very least." * John , for his own good, HASN'T noticed Aki staring at him. * Tairan just nods silently. * Fanfan notices Aki's staring and half-snerks, shaking her head. ( She's just jealous :P ) * Nakoto finally reaches the end of the long hallway he's been leading you down and opens the door there, stepping in. The room is large and shelved all around, confiscated weapons and items lying on them and the tables that line it as well. He gives it a cursory glance before walking over to a table on the far end. "I think these are yours." ( Ha. ) * Mikoto blinks, looking around as he walks in. "...incredible." ( "Oh wait, those belong to the mimes we captured last week. These over here are yours." ) (Aww, you ruined it!) ....oh, my. ... You are naturally suspicious, aren't you? * Fanfan begins to get sparkly-eyed. * Jinx scans the room has he walks in. In case they stored on the shelves anything that was his... err could be his. ... how did I not remember this room? You got hit on the head one too many times. * John nods sagely. Yeah, that's probably it. * Mikoto grins faintly. "I'm almost sorry I took up the martial arts. This is a weaponmaster's dream come true." * Mikoto looks for Tifa weapons on the sly anyway. <.< >.> * Nakoto shrugs. "Take what's yours. Nothing else. And leave before Father finds out." He glances at Aki. [Mikoto finds a leather miniskirt confiscated from some Teckian.] (Well... yes, I suppose that would qualify.) * Fanfan sighs faintly, but picks up her swords and her dagger. * Aki looks disdainly to one side and doesn't say anything. * Jinx keeps casing the joint, albiet subtly. * John glances once around the place. "Nice collection." * Tairan ever so subtlely elbows Jinx in the kidneys. * Mikoto frowns briefly. "The horses, too, but that shouldn't be difficult in the disarray." * Jinx mutters very quitely. "No violence I don't mind... but really, you're a killjoy Tairan." He stops scanning though. I know where the stables are. They're actually on our way. * Fanfan remembers her promise to Millie and picks up what Millie brought. [Sakura gets her sword back. She loves her sword.] (Was the sword kinda 'off' to the side. :P) * Jinx retrieves his revolver from Millie. "Well then, let's get going if there's nothing more to do here." * Mikoto nods. "Agreed. We've lost a lot of time." Yes. Let's. Too much time. [Oh, and for the record, no one ever saw Jinx loan Millie a revolver. She'd been holding John's, which he also regained] * Jinx gets moving towards the door, but lets Tairan take the lead. Thank you again for your assistance, Lord Nakoto. [Millie recovers her stuff, and I really don't remember what she lost, so yeah.] [You turn to leave, only to spot Akira in the doorway, dressed for combat. He smiles triumphantly, hands on his weapons. "Surprise, surprise. All of my rebellious sons in one place."] [Session End]