[It's bright and early in the morning. You were leaving Hoshimoto City with some new gear and well-wishes from Tairan's re-official brother. Only while you were leaving, who would be there but Crazy Feathers? And Aki! Fortunately, both didn't appear at the same time, or we would have had you roll soul to see if your brains exploded.] [After some hard bargaining, you learned where Kojiro was headed. And John was looking at the shiny bullets, and Sakura was looking at masks, and Aki was looking at beauty potions and trying to convince Tairan to buy one.] [He could use it. It must be why he lost Tamiko!] [Session Start.] * John checks the bullets over. In reminder and repetition from last week, how many are there of what kinds? (A giant sign appears in the sky: [LOADING. PLEASE WAIT.]) ( Oh, an X-Box game. ) [There are two red bolt-action rifle bullets, a blue heavy pistol bullet, a green light pistol bullet, a yellow light pistol bullet, and a white repeater bullet.] ( Technically, RSP is a TV show ) * John looks at the three pistol bullets. "How much ya chargin' for each bullet?" ( Like there's never been a video game made from a TV show, though... ) * CrazyFeathers points at them in order. "75 kanmon, 60 kanmon, 110 kanmon." * John hmmms... "I'll give you 200 kanmon even for all three." * CrazyFeathers shakes his head. "No lower. Already sell at cheapest price. Is value right item." Well, if their valuable is so variable, what exactly are the effects? Crazy Feathers does not know. * John raises an eyebrow. Not Crazy-brand item. For all I know you could be selling me bogus merchandise. Not saying you would, but we don't know, do we? And I'm not particularly in need of those bullets, so... Hey, guys, ready to head out? [A dustball bounces across the street. Odd, since the street's so busy.] * John looks back at all the people in the party who *haven't* said anything yet. * Sakura watches quietly. She obviously needs to stab something. Maybe Tairan's brother will offer. * Fanfan shrugs, looking warily at Aki and Sakura. "We may as well." [Aki is busy looking over the pretty merchandise and by and large ignoring you, especially Sakura.] Thanks for the offer Crazy Feathers. I'll pass for the time being, though. * John smiles. *ting!* Remember, you need stuff, you go Crazy. I'll keep that in mind. ( But if he's ESPECIALLY ignoring Sakura, that means that he's paying attention to Sakura because he's putting extra effort into ignoring her! ) (Either that or he's just paying more attention to the pretty people. Like me.) ( Maybe, but to you it just looks like he's ignoring you :P ) [You spend ten minutes standing in the market place doing nothing.] So, where did Millie and Jinx head off to? * Fanfan looks around. * John blinks. "And the people on their horses." ( So are they truly GOOOONE? ) [No, actually, they're over -> there.] ( Oh. Well. ) * Fanfan points over -> there, then. :P If none of you plan to do anything, I believe we should go hunt bandits. * John nods. "Let's at least start heading west and do what we were hired to do." * John rides over to where the other two (four?) are. * MaryAnne comes stomping into view, muttering something. I believe the Hoshimoto bandit-hunting parties do enough of that, at least in the area. Perhaps when we are further afield, though. * Fanfan winces at the idea of heading west, but keeps still for now. [Mikoto and Sakura are standing there, Fanfan is wincing, Mary Anne is stomping and muttering] * MaryAnne looks like she's about to say something as John rides over there with Mikoto, then stops and just folds her arms. * Sakura looks over at Mary Anne and rolls her eyes. "You obviously wish to complain about something. Get it over with." * MaryAnne eyes Sakura, then turns away with a hmph. "You'll likely threaten to kill me again." I already promise Tairan that I would not threaten. Then perhaps you'll actually try. * Sakura shrugs. Either talk about it or stop huffing. You are being annoying. * Tairan rides up to the group on the back of Lightning. "Jinx lost an argument with an awning, so he's gonna be riding with Millie. MaryAnne, I guess you'll be riding with me." *offers a hand* * MaryAnne ignores Sakura and accepts Tairan's help up with a distant "thank you". * Millie rides up shortly after and looks out to the west with a wistful eye. * Fanfan shakes her head and mutters to Sakura. "Western women...all so insane..." * John rides back, an almost unconcious Mikoto on his horse. "Ready ta head west?" * Tairan pulls MaryAnne up with a grunt. "I'll do my best not to curse while you're riding with me if you promise not to yell in my ear. Deal?" I don't yell in people's ears. Yes, you do. * MaryAnne settles herself on the horse. "But you have a deal, Mister Hoshimoto." Then we have a deal. *grins back at MaryAnne* * Mikoto blinks, a good long while after the question is even asked. "I'm sorry, did you say something?" * Tairan pauses. "... Mister Hoshimoto. Like the sound of that." It's your name. I'd hope you'd be happy with it. * Millie shakes her head and pulls the reigns to the side towards the west, Pepper whinnying in the process. "Are we goin' or ain't we?" * Fanfan eyes Mikoto. "You seem tired." Well, it wasn't my name for a while. s'nice to have it back. ... 'fore we go, just wanna say one quick thing. * Mikoto glances at Fanfan, also in partial slow-mo. "Hm? Not tired, no." * John changes direction to the west too. "Yer tired and we all know it." * Millie turns her eyes on Tairan and looks out at him under her lashes slowly. * Mikoto faces forward. "If I were tired, I wouldn't be on the horse." * Tairan clears his throat. "Ain't what we came here to do, but still... we did good here. Not just that the old man's gone... he was the driving force behind the rebellion against the Ki clan. With him gone, the rebellion's likely to fizzle out." * Fanfan snorts. "Shall I be expecting a medal then?" So we're largely responsible for quelling a rebellion, and bringing peace to the region. Not a bad few day's work. Plus... you got me my name back, my sword back, and at least a bit of my life back. So thanks. * John snirks. "Good ta hear we did somethin' good. Let's get goin' then." Has someone been down ta Hell recently? Cuz I think I jus' felt the temperature drop. Promise to punch your annoying brother in the face at some point, and it shall be even. * John starts riding torward the west gate. (and out west if we were at the gate already) * Millie snaps the reigns and grins a little at Tairan. "Except, I'm the one who's gotta thank you." She rides out. * Sakura rides, like the wind. The masked wind. [And off they go, in search of more adventure. Would they ever find it? Maybe.] [End]