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Session 48

Postby Alathon » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:09 pm

Session 48

[18:01] Alathon: I think everyone else is..
[18:01] Yarrow: Bueller?
[18:02] Alathon: pw and DCG are, so, lets get started
[18:02] DCG: am not!
[18:02] DCG: oh wait..
[18:02] Alathon: we left off last game with the party having been attacked. Again. by greyfaces.. again.
[18:03] Alathon: oh, and that armored lady with the huge hammer
[18:03] Alathon: who keeps getting wrapped in roots
[18:03] *** Yarrow is now known as Mani.
[18:03] *** Pale_Wolf is now known as Reis.
[18:03] Reis: Poor poor woman.
[18:03] Mani: armored lady without the huge hammer now.
[18:03] * Reis mourns for her tragic fate.
[18:03] *** DCG is now known as Sheena.
[18:03] Sheena: (hopfully the dice dont rape my blood pressure tonight.)
[18:03] Alathon: their attacked on the party did not go unnoticed
[18:04] Alathon: half a dozen or so harleyriders arrived in time to assist; two were seirously wounded, and one killed.
[18:04] Sheena: (mina saved that one)
[18:04] *** Ala-bot has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:04] Alathon: roll 1d20 test
[18:04] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20 test --> [ 1d20=9 ]{9}
[18:04] Alathon: she's trying to
[18:05] Alathon: he's clinically dead at this point, so she has a chance.
[18:05] Alathon: with that said, the party is free to act
[18:05] Mani: Is it a he or a she?
[18:05] Mani: I think you've said both.
[18:05] Alathon: are you going to choose not to heal them if it's one or the other? ;p
[18:05] Alathon: it's a she
[18:06] Alathon: she's missing some of her neck; you'll need to collect it
[18:06] Mani: "Hmmm..."
[18:06] * Reis is still guarding the pwnt greyface, quite ready to shoot it again if it twitches.
[18:06] * Mani looks around for neccessary missing parts.
[18:07] Alathon: between your enhanced vision and smell, you can reasonably collect them pretty quickly
[18:07] Alathon: roll 1d4
[18:07] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d4 --> [ 1d4=4 ]{4}
[18:07] Alathon: and she's still alive when you finish less than a minute later
[18:07] * Sheena lands near Mani as she working, Dark heart still primed and ready to go.
[18:08] *** Ataru is now known as Kuonji.
[18:09] Alathon: The camp is wholly awake now..
[18:09] Alathon: some riders are spreading out to reinforce the perimeter.. some others are gathering to see what happened.
[18:09] Alathon: or to "reinforce the point of attack" as they'd say
[18:10] * Mani heals the dead rider.
[18:10] Alathon: the sheared away throad mass melds back into her throat... a few moments later, she takes a shallow breath.
[18:10] Alathon: she's still unconscious.
[18:10] Alathon: if you wanna know more, roll medic
[18:10] Sheena: "Sakura i lost track of that mage, what about the ones that ran off on foot?"
[18:11] * Reis doesn't notice, still rather focused on the still-semi-alive greyface. "Most of them got away, senpai."
[18:11] Kuonji: "Hang on."
[18:11] Mani: roll 1d20
[18:11] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{9}
[18:11] Reis: "Mani-san got this one at least."
[18:11] Alathon: ((that's +int, so, 13))
[18:11] * Kuonji speeds off in the direction the enemies fled
[18:11] Mani: (Oh. I thought it was wis)
[18:11] Alathon: She's got a heartbeat, and is breathing shallowly..
[18:12] Alathon: ((I could be wrong, actually))
[18:12] Kuonji: (not pursuing to fight, just seeing if I can spot them)
[18:12] * Mani looks around to see if anyone's nearby.
[18:12] Alathon: spot roll, kuonji
[18:12] Kuonji: roll 1d20+11
[18:12] Alathon: there's five riders nearby.
[18:12] Ala-bot: Kuonji rolled 1d20+11 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{13}
[18:12] Kuonji: (sigh, it's going to be one of those nights_
[18:13] Alathon: You spot a burning Hummer; probably the one you've been driving around in.
[18:13] Mani: (Do they look like they saw what I did?)
[18:13] Alathon: Man: "How is she?"
[18:13] Alathon: another man: "That's Hannah, right?"
[18:13] Mani: (And is the downed rider regenerating?)
[18:13] Alathon: The other five chime in similarly.
[18:14] Alathon: the one you healed?
[18:14] Mani: (Yes.)
[18:14] * Kuonji returns to the others
[18:14] Alathon: it's hard to tell.. all her external wounds sealed over.
[18:14] Alathon: when you healed her that is.
[18:15] Kuonji: "I didn't see them Sheena, but it looks like they blew up our transportation."
[18:15] Mani: "Well, she's breathing. That's generally a good sign. I'll go get a stretcher."
[18:15] Alathon: One of the riders kneels on the other side of Hannah from you, and checks her pulse.. then looks up at Mani.
[18:15] Alathon: Rider: "I coulda sworn.. never mind."
[18:15] Alathon: he hops up, grabs another rider by the shoulder, and jogs off.
[18:15] Alathon: Two of the other riders sit down heavily nearby.. on closer examination, they're wounded, but healing.
[18:16] Mani: "I'll be right back."
[18:16] Alathon: Another few riders head over to the downed Greyface.
[18:16] * Mani gets a stretcher and rushes back.
[18:16] Alathon: Rider, to Reis: "Well?"
[18:16] * Kuonji pokes Sheena
[18:16] Alathon: Rider: "Gonna killit or what?"
[18:17] Sheena: "They what? Fuck."
[18:17] Alathon: Mani will arrive back with a stretcher, in time to have Hannah on the stretcher about the time the other two riders come back with one.
[18:17] Sheena: "Well, good job at any rate sakura"
[18:17] Mani: (Well, I did say I was going to get one. :) )
[18:17] Kuonji: ("Don't patronize me.")
[18:17] Mani: ("Fine. You suck.")
[18:17] Alathon: Apparently they weren't listening, or thought they'd get one sooner.
[18:18] * Reis shakes her head. "Not just yet. Mani-san wanted us to capture it."
[18:18] Mani: (I did?)
[18:18] Reis: ('Capture one'. Reis decided on this one :P )
[18:18] Reis: "I'll be glad to stab it if it looks lively, though."
[18:19] * Kuonji gestures towards Reis with his head "C'mon, let's go see how our "guest" is doing."
[18:19] * Sheena looks around a bit, and finds she has to float up some to do it since there's moving walls of meat all around her.
[18:19] Sheena: "Ok,"
[18:19] Alathon: They look doubtful, but don't shoot it out of hand.
[18:19] * Reis is still standing over the greyface, if that's the 'guest' Kuonji's talking about.
[18:19] Kuonji: (I was talking to sheena, since you're near it, I was gesturing to you)
[18:19] Mani: "Let's get her to a med tent."
[18:19] Reis: (Heh, gotcha)
[18:19] Alathon: Rider: "Right."
[18:20] Alathon: He'll pick up one end; y ou'll make it to a med tent without incident.
[18:20] * Reis blinks and looks around at what Mani's doing... then stares slack-jawed at the fact that the Rider's ALIVE.
[18:20] * Reis relaxes slightly at that.
[18:20] * Kuonji walks over to the downed greyface
[18:21] * Mani checks Hannah in.
[18:21] Kuonji: "I say we bust it's arms and legs, and wrap them through or around something... I'd like to see them try and regenerate in THAT state.
[18:21] Kuonji: "
[18:21] Kuonji: "Bastards."
[18:22] * Reis frowns. "It'd probably work, but the big problem is that they can teleport, remember Sakura-san? I'd bind it right now, but there's little point."
[18:22] Alathon: Mani, do you stay to look over her, or return to the scene of the fight?
[18:22] Mani: (Has it been long enough that I can heal Ken again or does that have to wait until later in the day?)
[18:22] Reis: "We should probably just inflict more trauma if it looks like it might be getting okay again."
[18:22] Alathon: ((has to wait for tomorrow))
[18:22] Alathon: ((since you healed him this morning0)
[18:23] Alathon: ((and it's the middle of the night))
[18:23] Mani: (Ok.)
[18:23] Alathon: It's getting okay again.. slowly, but surely
[18:23] Sheena: "He don't need his arms to talk"
[18:23] * Mani asks the medic to keep an eye on Hannah, regardless of what regenerative powers she might normally have and returns to the rest of the group.
[18:23] Kuonji: "My point exactly..."
[18:23] Sheena: "Question is to we bring out catch in or not?"
[18:23] Alathon: Rider: "Yeah... he ain't, at that."
[18:23] Sheena: *do
[18:24] Alathon: Rider: "You think it'll survive losin' a hand?"
[18:24] Sheena: "I don't much care at this point"
[18:24] Mani: (Btw, when the greys disappear, is there any words/gestured associated with it?)
[18:24] * Reis shrugs and stabs it again in the liver just out of spite. "It probably would, though I'd prefer to get it as intact as possible just in case we want to do 'polite' interrogations."
[18:24] Sheena: "It living long enought to meet the boss is mearly a bonus"
[18:24] * Mani comes over to the grey.
[18:25] Mani: "What's up?"
[18:25] Reis: "The one you went to town on is still alive, Mani-san."
[18:25] Kuonji: "Do we finish it off, or interrogate this one too?"
[18:25] * Mani frowns.
[18:25] Reis: "We've definitely confirmed it by the way, they regenerate."
[18:26] Mani: "If we don't have a way to stop it from leaving, we won't be able to interrogate it."
[18:26] * Reis nods. "Perhaps keeping it in a semi-drugged state?"
[18:27] Kuonji: "Sounds like it's more trouble then it's worth, we might as well just kill it."
[18:27] Reis: (What's the answer to Mani's question, btw? IS there any particular 'action' they took to hop out?)
[18:27] Sheena: "Its in the middle of the night here, so the boss should be up"
[18:27] Sheena: "Shall we ask her if she thinks its worth the troble?"
[18:28] Alathon: YOu haven't been able to identify anything, other than them sort of pausing for a moment in whatever they['re doing
[18:28] Alathon: no hand gestures, chants, glowy sparks, or nothin'
[18:28] * Sheena looks over the grey and magic, (roll?)
[18:28] Mani: "Hmmm. Maybe they'd have a way to stop it from going back home, but as they haven't asked us to bring more prisoners and it shouldn't be *too* hard to get another one, I think we should just finish this one off. If the boss is up and answering calls, I suppose there's no reason we can't ask first, though."
[18:28] Reis: (Righto then)
[18:29] * Reis nods. "Understood. We've at least managed to confirm their regeneration."
[18:29] Mani: "I'll be back in a moment."
[18:29] * Mani goes off to where she left the hammer to make the call.
[18:29] Alathon: The hammer's where you left it, and the tent is still empty
[18:29] Sheena: "Sakura, The boots and two rings are showing up as magic"
[18:30] Sheena: (you mean the hummer thats currently a burning heap?)
[18:30] Reis: "Is Ken-san feeling all right to remove them?"
[18:30] Mani: (Any answer?)
[18:30] Reis: (Nope, the hummer's a burning heap. The hammer's still a chunka-metal ;) )
[18:30] Alathon: answering in PMs
[18:31] Kuonji: "Shit, ken's still out of it..."
[18:31] Kuonji: "Anyone got some baggies?" (actually, do I have any baggies on me?)
[18:31] Sheena: "Lets just remove them for now"
[18:31] Sheena: "Feel free to use your blade"
[18:32] Alathon: You have ziploc bags
[18:32] Alathon: you've been bagging stuff for some time
[18:32] Kuonji: "Think we can manage taking the feet without killing it? If not, we might want to wait for the boss's answer..."
[18:32] Kuonji: "Oh wait, I think I have some on me actually..."
[18:33] Alathon: it's eyes flicker open
[18:33] * Kuonji stabs it in the stomach
[18:33] Kuonji: "FUCK"
[18:33] Alathon: damage (no sneak attack unless you want it))
[18:33] Kuonji: (no sneak, I might have killed it anyway)
[18:33] Kuonji: roll 5d8
[18:33] Ala-bot: Kuonji rolled 5d8 --> [ 5d8=25 ]{25}
[18:33] Kuonji: (or not)
[18:33] Sheena: (lol)
[18:34] Alathon: Your blade cuts into it nicely, and after a spasm and a slight cough of blood, it falls unconscious.
[18:34] Kuonji: "Phew.:
[18:34] Sheena: "I can think of better ways to wake up"
[18:35] Alathon: A couple of hte riders laugh at that.
[18:35] * Sheena has droped her fuku and is back in her uniform.
[18:35] * Reis holds her hand over her heart. "Good reflexes, Sakura-san."
[18:35] Alathon: A couple other riders kinda 'awwww' at that; they liked the leg you were showing.
[18:36] * Reis is still in-fuku, oops?
[18:36] Kuonji: "I hope Mani hurries up, I don't want to have to keep doing this every five minutes."
[18:36] Kuonji: (speaking of, how much time has passed? need to know for my own regen)
[18:37] * Kuonji stands ready in case it happens again
[18:38] Kuonji: "Oh right, I was going to bag that stuff."
[18:38] Alathon: at this point.. four minutes
[18:38] * Reis stands ready as well, and is probably in better shape than anyone else to take the pain.
[18:39] * Mani returns to the group with the hammer over her shoulder. It looks rather heavy for her.
[18:39] Kuonji: "Hey Reis, can I borrow your hair for a second?"
[18:39] Mani: "Sakura, if you'd send our guest on its way..."
[18:40] Kuonji: "Right."
[18:40] * Kuonji decapitates the greyface
[18:40] * Reis blinks. "Um... Okay?"
[18:40] Alathon: You succeed.
[18:40] * Kuonji reaches into Reis hair and pulls out some baggies for the rings and boots
[18:41] * Reis just blinks and pats her hair herself. "That's... still an interesting ability, Sakura-san."
[18:41] Alathon: Yuuno sniggers a little.
[18:42] * Sheena steps to the side keeping her hair away from sakura
[18:42] Alathon: Having mysteriously appeared, he scampers over to Mani.
[18:42] Alathon: Yuuno: "Um, Mani.. would you be willing to spare just an eensy bit of that healing?"
[18:42] Alathon: The reason for the question is obvious; his fur is scorched. Not too badly, there's no bone showing, but he's obviously not 100%
[18:42] * Mani puts the hammer down (making sure to miss Yuuno) with a thud.
[18:43] * Reis blinks. "Sensei, are you all right? What happened?"
[18:43] Alathon: A handful of riders look impressed.
[18:43] Mani: "Sure, Yuuno."
[18:43] * Kuonji attempts to remove the rings first, making sure not to actually touch them
[18:44] Reis: (Ken's going 'blarghle' off in a corner, I guess?)
[18:44] * Mani heals Yuuno in 10 hp increments.
[18:44] Alathon: Ken's still unconscious, yes
[18:44] Alathon: It'll only take two, after which he looks quite good.
[18:44] Alathon: Though there's a patch of fur thats a bit lighter than it used to bel.
[18:44] Alathon: be.
[18:44] Sheena: "GOt a littly toasty there yuuno?"
[18:44] Alathon: Yuuno: "Thank you, Mani."
[18:45] Mani: "No problem."
[18:45] * Mani raises her voice.
[18:45] Alathon: Yuuno hops over to sheena, then onto her shoulder.
[18:45] Mani: "Anyone else have injuries that won't heal on their own in the near future?"
[18:45] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah.. I figured hiding in a tent near the car would be safe enough.. did't work out that way."
[18:45] Alathon: The riders who are looking on look around to each other, but nobody speaks up.
[18:45] * Mani grins.
[18:45] Kuonji: "Hey, at least you weren't hiding IN the car."
[18:45] Mani: "Hey, you're lucky I didn't accidentally drop this thing on you when I hid it."
[18:46] * Reis pats Yuuno. "Um, I'm still not perfect from yesterday and took a little more tonight. But I think I'm tapped out for your healing anyway, Mani-san."
[18:46] * Kuonji moves on from the rings to the boots"
[18:46] * Mani nods to Reis.
[18:46] Alathon: Yuuno: "gaak!"
[18:46] Mani: "Ok. We're going to be having a conference in about half an hour, by the way,"
[18:46] * Sheena reachs up to pet yuuno
[18:46] Sheena: "Ok"
[18:47] * Reis blinks and nods. "All right."
[18:47] Mani: "Can you tell me if this hammer is magical or just heavy, Sheena?"
[18:47] Sheena: "Hmm"
[18:47] * Sheena gives it alook over
[18:48] * Reis notes Sheena's fingers touching hers while they're both petting Yuuno, and flushes slightly.
[18:48] Alathon: Around this time, Kenneth (the rider in charge of the camp.. or at least it's paperwork..) shows up.
[18:48] * Sheena pushs her glasses back up her nose rehidding her eyes.
[18:49] Sheena: "Its just real freaking heavy"
[18:49] * Mani smiles.
[18:49] Mani: "Good. I can keep it as a trophy, then."
[18:49] Kuonji: "Hey sheena, you can ID items, right?"
[18:50] Sheena: "Sure can'
[18:51] * Kuonji holds up the baggies "Wanna give it a shot?"
[18:51] Mani: (Actually, that woman isn't really showing up to fight us--she's just related to Ryouga.)
[18:51] Sheena: (hah!)
[18:51] Sheena: (makes sense)
[18:51] Reis: (Yep. Can even get lost between dimensions... conveniently, when she's losing the fight)
[18:51] Mani: ("Where the hell am I... You! Prepare to die!")
[18:52] Sheena: ("Mani!Becaus of you i have seen hell!")
[18:52] Reis: (One of us probably was REALLY mean to her in another dimension, and that's why she tries to kill us on sight)
[18:52] Alathon: Kenneth hangs back for a few, discussing things quietly with a number of riders.
[18:52] Alathon: Most of the gawkers suddenly have something better to do with their time.
[18:52] * Sheena well check over the magic items, (roll?)
[18:53] * Reis frowns, and would love to help, but can't see shit.
[18:53] Reis: (Why not just take a 20? ;) )
[18:53] Reis: (No stress, after all :P )
[18:53] Sheena: (his had me roll every time)
[18:53] Sheena: (for fun fuckups a guess, like that cursed gender ring we got)
[18:54] Reis: (Heh, true enough)
[18:54] Reis: (Wonder if I can sneak one of those onto Jason...)
[18:54] Alathon: yeah, roll
[18:54] * Mani looks to see if Kenneth's heading their way yet.
[18:54] Alathon: its not just a skill use, it's using a skill to employ an attribute... or something.
[18:55] Kuonji: (hey fuck you)
[18:55] Reis: (Ah, sorry. Rocko-Jason)
[18:55] Kuonji: (what'd I ever do to you, huh?)
[18:56] Kuonji: (oh)
[18:56] Reis: (I meant him :P )
[18:56] Mani: (If you want to do that, Sakura will have to end up wearing it.)
[18:56] Alathon: (what, you really wouldn't wanna chance to fly solo as a chick?))
[18:56] Kuonji: (no, not really, I like my penis waaaay to much)
[18:56] Kuonji: (besides, being a woman seems like it has a lot of drawbacks)
[18:56] Alathon: Kenneth is busy discussing something with one of the older Riders.
[18:56] Mani: (You mean men?)
[18:57] Sheena: (Sakura's probly got an eye full of all of em living with mani and sheena)
[18:57] Kuonji: (among other things)
[18:57] Sheena: Roll 3#1d20+18
[18:57] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 3#1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{21}, [ 1d20=17 ]{35}, [ 1d20=10 ]{28}
[18:57] Mani: (Any unoccupied big riders still nearby?)
[18:57] Alathon: You can't really figure out what the boots are good for
[18:58] Mani: "Hey, Sakura, I don't suppose you have room for this hammer, do you?"
[18:58] Kuonji: "Uhhh..."
[18:58] Mani: "Mmm. And would you be able to even take it out?"
[18:58] Kuonji: (did we ever ditch that armor?)
[18:59] Kuonji: "Probably not without hurting myself."
[18:59] * Reis covers her head, not especially appreciating the thought of Kuonji sticking THAT through her hair.
[18:59] Mani: "Oh, well. Hopefully we'll get another car, then."
[18:59] Alathon: you never said you diched the armor
[18:59] Mani: "Who wants to give me a hand getting this into our tent?"
[18:59] Alathon: and you'd have to ditch the sword too to fit that hammer in
[19:00] Kuonji: (sword? I have a sword?)
[19:00] Kuonji: (when'd I pick that up?)
[19:00] Reis: (Blink. We have a sword in there?)
[19:00] Sheena: "Hmmm, Well this is another ring of lighting resistance, i guess they are coming ready for the riders now"
[19:00] Mani: (From the same angel.)
[19:00] Alathon: uh yeah, a large 2h sword you got from the angel that cut the bus in half
[19:00] Reis: (Damn, Kuonji, your hair is awesome)
[19:00] Sheena: "This other one seems like that climbing ring we found before, but a bit stronger"
[19:00] Kuonji: "I really need to unload at some point"
[19:00] Sheena: "And i dont have a clue about the boots, sorry"
[19:01] Kuonji: "Will you be able to try again at some point?
[19:01] Kuonji: "
[19:01] * Reis frowns. "Maybe we'd do well to wear those if we are in positions we'd likely be shot at by the Riders - for instance, the risks of us flying..."
[19:01] * Mani looks around hopefully for a moment before dragging the hammer to the tent.
[19:02] Alathon: it leaves a nice groove in the dirt and grass.
[19:03] * Reis blinks, and sweatdrops. "Senpai, if I ever consider getting close to that woman, please smack me."
[19:03] * Mani then looks around for the spare tire that was thrown at her and rolls it to a spot in front of the tent if she finds it.
[19:04] Alathon: It'll take a bit of looking, it rolled; but you'll find it.
[19:04] Kuonji: "Hey, I HAVE to if we want to get her helmet off... think how I feel."
[19:04] * Mani rejoins everyone.
[19:04] * Reis winces. "Maybe I could try and project my barrier around you, Sakura-san? That'd be... distinctly more comfortable for you, I imagine."
[19:05] Kuonji: "That's ok, I'll manage."
[19:05] Sheena: "More comfortable? Thats cute"
[19:05] Mani: "So, has everyone else had about as much of that woman as I have?"
[19:05] Kuonji: "She should be held by that point anyway, right?"
[19:05] Sheena: "And ya ill work out the boots in a bit'
[19:06] Reis: ("The GM made a rules revision. She can still attack in a tangle.")
[19:06] Reis: ("It AIN'T gonna be fun.")
[19:06] Kuonji: "Let's make sure our next meeting with her is the last."
[19:06] Alathon: ((like so many of my rule revisions, it was my revising the way I'd deviated from the SRD))
[19:06] Mani: "I agree. Let's take her out quickly and decisively."
[19:07] Sheena: "Haven't we killed her a couple times all ready?"
[19:07] * Reis nods. "This is only my second time meeting her, and I'm already tiring of it..."
[19:07] Alathon: Yuuno: "Um.. if there is a next time, I could try to draw you four and her alone into a barrier."
[19:07] Reis: (Just once, she got away the other time.)
[19:07] Mani: "Hit her with everything, from everyone, before taking care of her friends."
[19:07] * Reis nods. "Not going to try capture? Straight knockout?"
[19:07] Mani: "No, she went down on our first meeting, but we had to leave quickly after that."
[19:07] Kuonji: "Hey taichou, did I tell you? I think I gotta way to get her helmet off."
[19:08] Mani: "She's sturdy and has a ton of armor, Reis. Half measures will just let her escape."
[19:08] Mani: "No, tell me about it, Sakura."
[19:08] * Reis nods. "Understood."
[19:09] * Reis blinks and nods. "Yes, it'll rely on Kuonji-san and a flyer and her being pinned down, but..."
[19:09] * Mani frowns.
[19:09] Mani: "Sounds pretty elaborate. Elaborate things tend not to work well in a battle."
[19:09] Kuonji: "We would have had it if she hadn't ran."
[19:09] * Mani snorts.
[19:10] Mani: "That's the problem to begin with!"
[19:10] Kuonji: "Reis putting her in a hold is pretty much par for the course as it is."
[19:10] * Sheena shurgs
[19:10] Reis: "If we have the timing right, Mani-san, we can do it in five seconds."
[19:10] Sheena: "I did that to her the first time we met, Really seems to piss her off"
[19:11] Mani: "Describe what you plan to do."
[19:11] * Reis looks to Kuonji, it's his plan.
[19:11] Kuonji: "attach hook to helmet, accelrate incredibly fast, laugh as she loses her helmet and gets a nasty case of whip lash before beating her soundly about the head and neck."
[19:12] Mani: "Attach a hook to her helmet? How would you do that?"
[19:12] * Reis nods. "If you're attacking her, Mani-san, she won't have the attention to spare to evade us. Then I can bind her and Kuonji-san can move in."
[19:14] Kuonji: "How? JUst hook it on, it's not exactly difficult if she can't move."
[19:14] Sheena: "Seems like a lot of work for something i can just melt along with the rest of her"
[19:14] * Kuonji looks to Sheena
[19:14] Kuonji: "You can do that?"
[19:14] Mani: "Hook it on to what? It's not like she has a big ring on top of it."
[19:15] Alathon: Kenneth comes over to the group at this point.
[19:15] Alathon: Kenneth: "Um.. ladies and gentlemen?"
[19:15] Mani: "Actually, if you and Reis can get your ..."
[19:15] Sheena: "Eh.. well it would take a few shots, she's strong"
[19:15] * Reis blinks and looks over.
[19:15] * Sheena looks over
[19:15] Kuonji: "Yes?"
[19:15] Mani: "Yes?"
[19:15] Sheena: "wut?"
[19:15] Alathon: Kenneth: "If you don't mind me asking.. what happened?"
[19:16] Mani: "Well, considering this is your camp, I figure you probably deserve an answer to that."
[19:16] Reis: (The details of which, unfortunately, we lack)
[19:17] Alathon: Kenneth looks a little offput at that, but waits for an answer.
[19:17] Mani: "A small force of greys led by a woman we've encountered before approached the edge of the camp and attacked."
[19:18] Mani: "We engaged them and managed to take one of them out, but the rest escaped back to where they came from."
[19:18] Alathon: Kenneth: "Hmmm."
[19:18] Alathon: He tugs on his beard a bit, thinking this over.
[19:19] Alathon: Kenneth: "Greys.. same things as attacked the camp yestereve?
[19:19] Mani: "Yes."
[19:19] * Reis frowns to herself, running over the details in her head.
[19:20] Mani: "They, the woman, and one other man we've encountered have the ability to vanish when things go badly for them."
[19:21] Sheena: "It seems some one on the other side learned we are helping out here."
[19:21] Mani: "Possibly."
[19:21] Alathon: Kenneth: "Think they're the only ones who can do that?"
[19:21] Alathon: Kenneth: "That'd explain... well. Maybe, would explain some of what I've heard."
[19:21] Alathon: Kenneth looks over to Sheena.
[19:21] * Reis shakes her head pretty much instantly.
[19:22] Alathon: Kenneth: "Targeted?"
[19:22] Alathon: Kenneth: "Hmm.."
[19:22] Mani: "It may be that she was here to go after us specifically, but it's also possible that she's also just sent out to take care of problems."
[19:22] Mani: "And we happen to be in places where they tend to have problems. Purely coincedentally, I'm sure."
[19:23] * Sheena shurges her sholders causing an interesting reaction
[19:24] Sheena: "Hell she could just be lost and keep running into us,"
[19:24] Mani: "My guess would be that all greys can vanish and an unknown number of others can, also."
[19:25] Alathon: He mulls this all over for a bit.
[19:27] Alathon: Kenneth: "That's a fair bit to think over.."
[19:27] Alathon: Kenneth: "In the mean time, do you mind if I keep a few squads up nearby?"
[19:27] Mani: "Not at all."
[19:28] Alathon: Kenneth nods.
[19:28] Alathon: Kenneth: "Best for both of us, to quiet down any of these little.. disturbances.."
[19:28] * Mani nods.
[19:28] * Sheena looks over to the burning hummer
[19:29] Sheena: "So.. what do we do about that?"
[19:29] Alathon: Kenneth: "Drag anything nearby a bit aways?"
[19:31] Alathon: Kenneth: "Oh, if you mean when we head out, we'
[19:31] Alathon: Kenneth: "We'll make arrangements."
[19:31] Alathon: Kenneth: "That said.. anything else before I get back to things?"
[19:31] Alathon: ((.. get back to thigns? bleah, that's some wierd word choice))
[19:32] Mani: "No, I think that's it."
[19:32] Alathon: Kenneth nods, then leaves.
[19:34] Mani: "Well, let's get the area around the humvee cleared while we still have some time."
[19:34] * Mani heads over to do so.
[19:34] * Kuonji follows mani
[19:34] * Reis yawns and turns her sword back into a crucifix and her 'armour' back into uniform, following.
[19:35] Alathon: It's a boring but not terribly strenuous job.
[19:36] Alathon: There's nobody asleep in any of the nearby tents, not after the humvee exploded ;p
[19:36] * Sheena lets Dark Heart fade back into jewel form and heads over to help, mmmm fire.
[19:36] Alathon: It's slowly simmering down at this point
[19:37] * Reis covers a yawn and looks at the humvee. "... Nobody left anything in there, right?"
[19:37] * Sheena lifts up her cloak to show her pack on under it.
[19:38] Sheena: "I keep it with me unless its my turn to sleep
[19:38] Mani: "No, I took my stuff into the tent with me."
[19:38] Kuonji: "I keep my stuff stowed."
[19:38] Alathon: Ken's is burned, but everyone else had theirs in their tents.
[19:38] Alathon: Or hair.
[19:38] Sheena: (ken who?)
[19:38] Reis: (That guy who's recently become cool)
[19:38] Sheena: (oh ya...)
[19:40] Alathon: Anyways.. time passes, and unless there's anything someone really wants to do...
[19:40] Reis: (The sun rises?)
[19:40] * Reis doesn't have any especial projects other than sleep and perform her watch whenever the time comes.
[19:40] Alathon: Yuuno: "Don't we have a video conference in, like.. two minutes or something?"
[19:41] Kuonji: "Oh, right."
[19:41] Reis: (Oh, I thought that was a party meeting :P )
[19:41] * Reis blinks and nods. "Right..."
[19:42] Mani: "Pretty soon, yes."
[19:42] Sheena: "Hmm, guess the burning humve makes a niec back drop for it"
[19:42] Sheena: "If any one asks's ken did it"
[19:42] Mani: "Inside the tent would probably be better."
[19:42] Sheena: "awwww"
[19:42] Mani: "Let's get comfortable in there."
[19:42] * Mani heads inside.
[19:42] * Reis giggles.
[19:42] * Reis follows.
[19:43] Mani: "Hm?"
[19:43] * Sheena will of corse follow mani
[19:43] * Reis was reacting to Sheena's comments, not Mani's.
[19:43] Reis: (Sorry 'bout the confusion)
[19:43] * Sheena in the tent she takes off and pack and gets comfortable about a foot off the ground.
[19:44] Alathon: I'll assume you all can manage setting up a video conference; you've had the training ;p
[19:44] Mani: "Oh, as I was about to say before, if you and Reis can perfect your joint attack, Sheena, I think that would make a very nice surprise for our armored friend."
[19:45] * Reis takes a seat if one is available and awaits.
[19:45] Mani: "... just don't hit me with it."
[19:45] * Reis nods. "That'll be especially good... not the _least_, if we can target it at her unarmoured head."
[19:46] * Reis nods and chuckles. "We'll... be very, VERY careful."
[19:47] Sheena: "Thats a program i would like to run by some one more skilled then my current level."
[19:47] Reis: "Should we bind her first, Mani-san? It might get a little dangerous targeting an attack that large while you're in melee combat with her."
[19:47] Alathon: Soon enough, Usagi rings you all up.
[19:47] Sheena: (dont want npc's tossing it around ither)
[19:47] Alathon: ((heh, deflection would hurt just then))
[19:47] Alathon: ((but it's not common, because the deflection rules suck.. so NPCs don't usually take it ;p ))
[19:47] Reis: ("We... are getting REALLY good dodge rolls.")
[19:47] Sheena: (sheena has it..)
[19:48] Sheena: (but ya the rolls for it suck alot)
[19:48] Alathon: ((yeah, and in like.. almost a year, how many times have you used it?))
[19:48] Mani: "Well ... Conference time. We'll discuss it later."
[19:48] Alathon: ((I'm kinda surprised you haven't been chomping at the bit to ditch those feats))
[19:48] Reis: (Once against the Yamahas, and failed :P )
[19:48] Sheena: (hmm, once in the first forest fight.)
[19:48] * Reis nods and turns her attention to Usagi.
[19:48] * Mani accepts the call.
[19:48] Reis: (In Northup too, I believe)
[19:48] Sheena: (since i started with them i didnt think i could)
[19:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Greetings Mani, Sheena, Sakura, Reis."
[19:49] Mani: "Hello."
[19:49] Kuonji: "Hello, Usagi-sama."
[19:49] Reis: "Good... evening? Usagi-san."
[19:49] * Sheena smiles and nods "Hey, boss"
[19:49] Alathon: She allows a moment for everyone to greet her, then continues.
[19:49] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm up to date on everyone's reports, so I'll cut to the chase."
[19:50] Alathon: Usagi: "It's obvious that your team has been explicitly targeted, either for strategic or personal reasons."
[19:50] * Reis frowns, but nods.
[19:51] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd thought the encounter back in that hotel in Carson was targeting me; at this point, I think it more likely that it was targeting 'us'."
[19:52] Alathon: Usagi: "In light of this, and several other factors, I'm afraid your stay with the Harleyriders will be cut short."
[19:52] * Kuonji blinks
[19:52] Alathon: Usagi: "As I understand it, the Riders will be involved in at least one more day of hostilities in the town of... Clinton... correct?"
[19:53] * Sheena takes off her shades and slips them away
[19:53] Mani: "I'm not completely sure that we're being specifically targetted, but it's not unlikely."
[19:53] * Reis frowns, but nods.
[19:53] Mani: "Yes, they'll be at Clinton for at least another day."
[19:54] Alathon: Usagi: "It's not a certain thing, but.. three times is more than I'm willing to chalk up to coincidence."
[19:55] Mani: "Oh, it's certainly not a coincedence. The question is just whether they're coming for us or not."
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi: "In light of the two attacks you've faced in series, and the possibility of a third, Sailor Saturn has agreed to join the team for the remainder of the deployment at Clinton, in the hope that a fourth attack is mounted."
[19:55] * Mani raises an eyebrow.
[19:55] * Kuonji attempts to keep a straight face
[19:56] Mani: "That will ... certainly be an effective way of dealing with further attacks."
[19:56] * Reis blinks and drops her jaw slightly. "... _That_ support would be... very appreciated, Usagi-san."
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi nods slightly at Reis' words.
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi: "Well.. my concern is that it'll be necessary."
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi: "Think about it.. what would WE do if we had a target we wanted gone, and the first two small scale attacks failed?"
[19:57] * Reis winces.
[19:57] Sheena: "Hit is hard, and big"
[19:57] Sheena: "Now that they know that we are here.."
[19:57] Reis: "And probably with a sneak attack from so far away they can't respond."
[19:58] Kuonji: (deathstar-chan!)
[19:58] Mani: "Well, I wouldn't have sent the second small scale attack. Especially not after a group containing the armored woman, another man, and several greys already failed."
[19:58] Alathon: Usagi: "That's a good point."
[19:59] Alathon: Usagi: "The fact that they've, at this point, mounted three seperate small scale attacks againts your team, with all three failing.. doesn't sit right."
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi: "Certainly it doesn't match what we've heard from the Alliance about the Angel's numbers."
[20:00] Sheena: "Could be personal for them? We sure as hell pissed off armorchan a lot"
[20:01] Mani: "I've been considering the possibility that the first attack on the camp came when it was clear Carson was going to be lost and then she was sent when that failed."
[20:01] * Reis nods. "And... tonight, it was _certainly_ directed against us. There was no way that team was strong enough to attack the camp as a whole."
[20:01] Mani: "Rather than being sent because we were spotted."
[20:01] Sheena: "Her line walking up was "When you want something done right, you have to do it yourself" (right?) "
[20:02] * Reis blinks and makes a note to ask about learning that language.
[20:02] * Sheena shakes her head
[20:02] Sheena: "No mani, she was here for us."
[20:02] Mani: "Neither was the first attack, Reis. It was meant to cause chaos and probably get a lot of the troops in Carson recalled."
[20:02] Mani: "What makes you say that, Sheena?"
[20:02] Sheena: "I watched them teleport in and walk past a few tents to reach us"
[20:03] * Reis shakes her head. "But, even the first attack, it was larger than this one. THIS one was only enough to take a small squad such as us."
[20:03] Sheena: "And then that taunting line? She and her team was here to take us out"
[20:03] Alathon: Usagi: "What line, exactly?"
[20:03] Sheena: ""When you want something done right, you have to do it yourself""
[20:03] Alathon: Usagi bites her lip.
[20:03] Mani: "That could have referred to attacking the camp."
[20:03] Alathon: Usagi: "In abyssal, japanese, english..?"
[20:04] * Reis frowns. "That sounds like she's in a command position."
[20:04] Mani: "And an attack on the edge of it wouldn't be nearly as effective as one that starts inside it."
[20:04] * Mani shakes her head.
[20:04] Sheena: "She said it in abyssal, it was a clear taunt from her tone"
[20:04] Reis: "But, why go for the unit you _know_ is strong? Don't you attack the vulnerable points first if you're attacking en-masse?"
[20:05] Sheena: "Mani, she and that team if greys walked around other filled tents and into the clearing in front of us"
[20:05] Mani: "It seems to me that their group was the right size to throw the place in chaos but not a good choice to take on us."
[20:05] Sheena: "They wanted to fight us"
[20:05] Mani: "Well, once they saw us, they could hardly leave us enengaged, for one thing."
[20:06] Mani: "And I'm sure she *would* love to wipe us out."
[20:06] * Reis shrugs. "I'm just thinking... They _know_ how good we are. She's fought us before. So... if she wants to cause chaos, won't her team get much more damage done to the camp by attacking units they know for a fact they can kill?"
[20:06] Sheena: "Sure was over confident, witch is why i was able to hit the alarm and wake you two up"
[20:06] Mani: "Probably. If they don't mind us wiping them out."
[20:07] Kuonji: "Besides, haven't we been fairly certain they were targeting us for a while now? Remember WHY we left Nevada?"
[20:07] Alathon: Yuuno: "If they didn't mind being wiped out, why would they teleport out or whatever?"
[20:07] Mani: "They don't want to be wiped out. And that's why they weren't about to just ignore us."
[20:07] * Reis nods. "But, wouldn't they go _away_ from us, rather than directly towards us?"
[20:08] Mani: "And I said at the time of the attack at the hotel in Nevada that I didn't think they knew we were there."
[20:08] Sheena: "Mabie not that first time"
[20:08] Reis: "Even a five-second delay for us getting into the action against them can let them kill half a dozen riders without consequence."
[20:08] Sheena: "But i watched em walk up this time"
[20:08] Sheena: "Im sure they came here just to fight us"
[20:08] Alathon: Usagi is content to give everyone sufficient time to discuss their ideas.
[20:09] Mani: "With such poor counters to Reis's bind attack?"
[20:09] Sheena: "Hell mani, with her strut an taunt im rather sure armorchan was here for you."
[20:09] Sheena: "Reis's bind is new to them"
[20:09] * Reis shrugs. "The woman was the only one even slightly vulnerable to it. The greys we _know_ are essentially immune."
[20:10] Reis: "And that necklace was... definitely not an idea I was expecting."
[20:10] Mani: "I still don't think their actions, preparations, and tactics point to them coming here for us."
[20:11] Alathon: Usagi speaks up.
[20:11] Alathon: Usagi: "What do you mean, Immune? Reis, that is."
[20:11] Mani: "Of course, what they do now that it's quite obvious that we're here is another story."
[20:11] * Reis blinks and looks to Usagi. "Remember in the hotel, Usagi-san? They teleported out of it as easily as a Sunday stroll and went to work on me."
[20:12] Alathon: Usagi thinks for a moment..
[20:12] Alathon: Usagi: "Oh, right."
[20:12] * Mani looks toughtful.
[20:12] Sheena: "They did that often in this fight as well."
[20:12] Sheena: "And mani, i think your overestmating them"
[20:12] * Reis frowns. "... _Have_ we tried just asking them what exactly they think they're doing?"
[20:12] Sheena: "Or at lest thinking about it in the ways you would handle the attack"
[20:13] Mani: "Hm. What if she was sent here to cause chaos but heard we were here and decided to come after us on her own..."
[20:13] Sheena: "Now that sounds likly'
[20:13] * Reis nods. "That I can certainly see."
[20:13] Sheena: "Sorry reis, talking them to hs been rather useless"
[20:14] Alathon: Usagi: "If they were here to cause chaos... Hm."
[20:14] Sheena: "All i get is shit talking about how there going to fuck us, and other taunts of rape and abuse"
[20:14] Sheena: "Really nasty mouths on em'
[20:14] Sheena: "Thoes guys acting like angles to"
[20:14] Reis: "Winning personalities."
[20:14] Alathon: Usagi: "Correct me if I'm wrong, but they attacked with multiple teams of greyfaces previously.. some of them engaging the riders, and one of them engaging you, right?"
[20:14] Sheena: "The first attack in camp, yes"
[20:14] Mani: "Yes, in the middle of the day."
[20:15] * Reis nods. "That was a large attack... that one I can certainly believe we were engaged randomly."
[20:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Which sounds exactly like a terror strike."
[20:15] Mani: "I imagine they weren't expecting such strong resistance."
[20:15] * Mani ponders.
[20:15] Reis: "That might have been how they heard we were here and sent the hammer team - if we theorize that one WAS for us."
[20:16] Reis: "A number of the greys we fought escaped, right?"
[20:16] Alathon: Usagi: "Whereas the second attack was actually smaller, despite the first having been repulsed with several casualties by your team?"
[20:16] Mani: "Hmmm. Small group in the middle of the night. Could they have been here for assassination?"
[20:16] Mani: "After they were spotted, their initial goal would have been blown."
[20:16] Alathon: Usagi: "Assassination... you'd think they'd leave the armored woman behind, and just use the teleport capable ones for that."
[20:16] Alathon: Usagi: "There's really no way to hide someone swinging an enormous hammer around."
[20:17] * Reis nods. "Yes... Far too small to be for the camp. It wouldn't be much more than a dent. So unless they were facing their own personnel shortages..."
[20:17] Alathon: Usagi: "-- which is possible. Don't rule it out."
[20:17] Sheena: "I think word got around about us being here, armorchan got some "friends" toghter and came here on her own"
[20:17] Mani: "Sending in a too small group would just serve to lose even more people."
[20:17] Alathon: Usagi: "Keep in mind, we know for a fact this isn't a solid force of a thousand, or whatever they now number. It's a composite force."
[20:17] * Reis nods. "It is, but... If they're in dire straights as well, I don't see them engaging the unit they know is dangerous instead of one that could be defeated."
[20:18] Alathon: Usagi: "friends.. hirelings, maybe?"
[20:18] Mani: "Or maybe she tagged along on a stealth mission and the greys weren't about to tell her no."
[20:18] Sheena: "She knew the mage by name, and her fired on her when ordered"
[20:18] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head a little.
[20:18] Alathon: Usagi: "We really can't prove either way at this point, can we."
[20:18] * Reis frowns. "What names do we have, senpai?"
[20:19] Mani: "No. But it doesn't sound to me like an official attempt on us."
[20:19] Sheena: "Official mabie not, but i watched em port in and walk up"
[20:19] Reis: "Unless she is in fact the commander of their forces."
[20:19] Mani: "Oh, I got her hammer, by the way. Heavy as hell, but not magical."
[20:19] Alathon: Usagi: "Officially by who, though? The UST? Or some faction within the forces the UST has retained..."
[20:19] * Reis shrugs. "We just don't know enough..."
[20:19] Sheena: "I think they came for us'
[20:19] * Sheena shurgs
[20:19] Mani: "No, in the last encounter, I got the impression the man was her superior."
[20:20] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[20:20] Alathon: Usagi: "As did I."
[20:20] * Reis nods.
[20:20] Reis: (I forgot that detail :P )
[20:20] Sheena: "Could be another group of mercs hired on"
[20:20] Mani: "My feeling is that there is an organized group that contains the greys, her, and that man."
[20:20] Mani: "Among others, most likely."
[20:20] Alathon: Usagi: "Either way, while we have a lot to mull over, none of it has convinced me that baiting them into a fight with Sailor Saturn would be a bad idea. Though..."
[20:20] Alathon: Usagi trails off for a moment.
[20:20] * Reis nods. "Possibly a squad allied with the UST?"
[20:21] Mani: "The earlier attack on the camp seemed like it was sent with a military objective."
[20:21] Mani: "This last one did not."
[20:21] Sheena: "Can i say something here?"
[20:21] Alathon: Usagi, slightly distractedly: "Sure."
[20:22] Sheena: "Something has stood out to me from watching the UST's battle tactis, the counter plans for the riders, and these raids by the greys"
[20:22] Alathon: Usagi: "Go ahead?"
[20:22] * Reis listens.
[20:23] Sheena: "The UST all ready has a lead in numbers, and it seems there tactis are focusing on droping the ridders by any means neccary. There tossing away hole units just to bring down a couple."
[20:23] Sheena: "And these raids to finsh off wounded"
[20:23] Alathon: Usagi listens.
[20:23] Sheena: "Seems like a war of atration from the UST, and at this rate the riders are gona lose"
[20:23] Sheena: "There just isn't enought of them"
[20:24] Alathon: Usagi looks a little surprised at that.
[20:24] Alathon: Usagi: "At more than three million?"
[20:24] Mani: "Are they? If it's just the UST, it doesn't seem that way to me."
[20:24] Alathon: She looks a little disturbed by that as well.
[20:24] Reis: "They consider odds of ten-to-one a fair fight. And are often hit by even larger ones..."
[20:24] Sheena: "The UST's foces are suposed to be massive as it is, and with all the outside help they are tossing at the riders, just to kill a few at a time?"
[20:24] Reis: (Them Texans breeds like rabbits)
[20:24] * Sheena nods at ries
[20:25] Sheena: "Right, and the riders walk right into it"\
[20:25] Mani: "Since when? In the battles I've seen, the riders use tactics while the UST forces just blindly walk into their doom."
[20:26] Sheena: "Blinding waling to doom with you on the field mani."
[20:26] Kuonji: (huh?)
[20:26] Kuonji: (oh)
[20:26] Sheena: "The fights i was watched do have the UST dieing, but it seems there goal is to take as mani riders with them as they can"
[20:26] Sheena: "Not to hold the ground or win the fights"
[20:26] * Reis blinks and considers that since we'd probably not let them run _anyway_, it's probably the smartest thing they can try.
[20:27] Alathon: Usagi: "...."
[20:27] Mani: "No, if they didn't have us or the UST's extradimensional allies on the field, I think the riders would do just fine."
[20:27] Sheena: "This deal with the city we got going on now? To me its all set up to kill as many riders as they can'
[20:27] Sheena: "But not really hold the city it self"
[20:27] Alathon: Usagi: "Sounds like you're suggesting that the UST's goal isn't to win."
[20:27] * Reis nods. "We have to consider that... The AFS has a limited recruit pool. They use _only_ their metahumans in the Harleyriders. Whereas the UST uses anyone."
[20:27] Alathon: Usagi: "But to inflict a maximum of carnage."
[20:27] Mani: "Seems more to me like it's an exercise in incompetence by the UST. Or blind faith in their angels and allies."
[20:27] Reis: "The UST has its entire population to draw from, and the AFS only has the metahumans."
[20:27] Mani: "Now, I think that *is* their allies' goal."
[20:28] Alathon: Usagi: "Or.. what Mani said."
[20:28] Sheena: "They can win thought carnage tho"
[20:28] Alathon: Usagi: "It wouldn't be the first time in humanity's history."
[20:28] Sheena: "Sonner or later the number of riders will drop to low"
[20:28] Alathon: Usagi: "But can they, SHeena? They weren't, not up until a few months ago."
[20:28] Sheena: "And they can just march right up and take all this land"
[20:28] Kuonji: "What if they're trying something like back in Nevada?"
[20:28] Kuonji: "Err, sorry for interrupting."
[20:28] Sheena: "A mass summoning?"
[20:28] Sheena: "Hell they all ready got the body count for it,"
[20:28] Mani: "No, I don't agree. The AFS was getting on top of the UST before the new allies arrived."
[20:29] * Reis frowns. "Does that require ritual of that sort?"
[20:29] Kuonji: "Yeah, maybe they have some kind of spell that feeds off a high body count."
[20:29] * Reis nods. "The AFS had the advantage... but if they can deplete the Harleyriders, the UST won't even need their allies any more."
[20:29] Sheena: "Right"
[20:30] Sheena: "There isn't nearly as mani riders as they are UST and the help they called in"
[20:30] Mani: (stop saying mani for many...)
[20:30] Reis: "Is there any military training outside the Harleyriders? I didn't get that impression, but am not completely certain. But... if the riders are depleted, the UST has a massive trained military to pit up against the AFS's civilian population."
[20:30] Sheena: "Take a few riders out perfight, blow up some humvee's and soon they are to low on trops to fend off anything, let alone the angles.'
[20:30] Sheena: (heh, sorry, typeing to fast)
[20:30] Mani: "I don't consider most of the UST's forces to be 'trained'."
[20:30] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm not sure they actually have the numbers to accomplish that, though."
[20:31] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd be surprised if they were; they're conscripts, more or less."
[20:31] Mani: "They seem like warm and soon to be cooling bodies thrown into uniforms and handed a gun."
[20:31] Reis: "Well, more trained than a civilian usually is, at least. Though not to our standards."
[20:31] Sheena: "Thoes eve's sure are annoying"
[20:32] Sheena: "And thoes damn angles they got with them"
[20:32] * Reis frowns. "Though we could consider this as a somewhat disturbing thought - the UST _does_ have a trained military, and has simply been sending their conscripts into the meat grinder to gain experience and distract the AFS. I don't necessarily think it, but..."
[20:32] Sheena: "They have been sending trash, and merc to drop the riders numbers"
[20:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Or to raise interdimensional currency."
[20:33] Alathon: Usagi: "Though.. have you seen any evidence of, well.. energy collection of any sort?"
[20:33] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm honestly not sure how to describe it."
[20:33] * Sheena folders her arms
[20:33] Alathon: Usagi: "Magical effects that covered most or all of their troops, perhaps?"
[20:33] Mani: "Or the UST are being used as pawns by whoever's in charge of the extradimensional forces."
[20:33] Sheena: "I havn't stoped any odd magic"
[20:34] * Reis shrugs. "If I were running the UST, that would be what I would do with a conscript army. Use it as a distraction and grind down the enemy's main force, pull back any soldiers that actually get proficient, and reserve the skilled forces for the final blow. I hope they don't think like us."
[20:34] Reis: (Sorry, THAT was continuing on the old point :P )
[20:34] Alathon: Usagi: "It's worth noting that a substantial percentage of their concripts are Confederates rather than UST propper."
[20:34] Sheena: "If that is the interdim currency i don't think this is the normal way to go about getting it"
[20:34] Mani: "If they have a decent force, imagine what *they* could do when combined with angels and greys."
[20:35] * Reis frowns. "That... lends more credence than I'd like to my theory."
[20:35] Mani: "It'd make more sense to have conscripts occupy areas the stronger forces take."
[20:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Occupation..."
[20:36] * Reis nods. "And, this is an offensive action, yet they're just conscripts. ... I would think they had skilled forces _somewhere_, even if only through random chance, but we haven't seen any yet."
[20:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Hm."
[20:37] Alathon: Usagi: "Another possibility is that after more than a decade of continuous war, they may no longer field a substantial number of veterans."
[20:37] Alathon: Usagi: "Especially with the casualty rates that are being reported."
[20:37] Mani: "Especially if ... yes, considering that they don't have the regenerative abilities of riders."
[20:37] Alathon: Usagi: "Though why they don't have more Evangelicals...."
[20:37] Alathon: Usagi trails off.
[20:37] Mani: "Or the technology. Or the powers, apparently."
[20:38] Alathon: Usagi: "What I don't understand is, where are all the UST metas?"
[20:38] * Reis frowns. "The Evangelists?"
[20:38] Mani: "Killed as demonspawn?"
[20:38] Alathon: Usagi: "Certainly one possibility."
[20:39] Sheena: "Im not sure what "god" they are channeling for power but its sure an odd one"
[20:39] Reis: "On that note, we should probably focus on killing them rather than the conscripts. The UST has a thousand more conscripts where each one came from, but the Evangelists likely require at least more training, if not inborn factors that narrow the recruit pool."
[20:39] Sheena: "Some times there attacks are a joke, other times they hit hard"
[20:40] Kuonji: "I always hit the evas first"
[20:40] Alathon: Usagi: "We're drifting a bit far afield here, however. We'll do a drilldown on the overall continental war situation when you all are back home."
[20:40] Sheena: "They have used mental attacks on us, im not sure how the riders deal with it, but any more teams we send here should be ready"
[20:40] * Reis nods. "Sorry Usagi-san."
[20:40] * Sheena nods
[20:40] Sheena: "Sorry
[20:41] Kuonji: ("You should see the look on the conscripts faces when their CO's head just pops off... priceless)
[20:41] Alathon: Usagi looks a little amused.
[20:41] Alathon: Usagi: "It's not like I wasn't discussing it too.."
[20:41] Alathon: Usagi: "However, I have limited time to work with."
[20:42] Alathon: Usagi: "And there's a fair amount of intelligence I'd like to impart before we continue on this topic in earnest."
[20:42] * Reis blinks and nods.
[20:43] Sheena: (ya think people who hang out with pluto would have more time on there hands)
[20:43] Alathon: Usagi: "That said, one concern with my current plan has sprung to mind. Baiting the UST inter-dim forces into attacking the camp is liable to cost them dearly with Saturn there. But while your team can extricate itself on short notice, the Riders can't."
[20:43] Alathon: Usagi continues,
[20:44] Alathon: Usagi: "And I'll be clear on that; if they attack with a foce that numbers in the hundreds rather than the single digits, get the hell out of there."
[20:44] * Reis NODS.
[20:44] Reis: (Though WE know Saturn could take 'em :P )
[20:44] Alathon: ((do you?))
[20:45] Mani: "It seems to me that their forces will attack whether we're still here or not at this point. If they're going to attack."
[20:45] Alathon: ((well.. you could reasonably believe it, certainly))
[20:45] Reis: (We as in the players)
[20:45] Mani: (Sure. She might have to destroy the Earth to do it, but she could do it. :) )
[20:45] Alathon: Usagi: "That hinges on whether such an attack would be targeting your team, or the Riders."
[20:45] Reis: (We know, though whether we know rightly... Well, that's up to you ;) )
[20:46] Alathon: ((how do you know she hasn't respecced out of planet killing to master Tunneling? it's been a thousand years, you know ;p ))
[20:46] Alathon: ((Burrowing, rather))
[20:46] Mani: "Well, once they're here, even if we're not, I doubt they'd just turn around and leave."
[20:46] Reis: (Well... Like I said, whether what we know is in fact correct is up to you ;) )
[20:46] Alathon: Usagi: "No.. but if your team left the camp, that could remove... well. Damn."
[20:47] Reis: "Unless we were a _lot_ more important than I'd ever theorize."
[20:47] Alathon: Usagi: "If they have any interest in the UST actually winning, or breaking even, such a mass of Riders is a fat target either way."
[20:47] Sheena: "Theseguys can move fast if needed, if we warn the camp head they could prep a bit. and hall ass when it gets bad"
[20:48] Alathon: Usagi: "They can't move fast when asleep, though.. and if past experience has been any indication, these port-in port-out attacks can be lightning quick."
[20:49] Alathon: Usagi brushes her hair back in annoyance, thinking.
[20:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Hell.. we can't do anything to ensure their safety. Well.. Saturn can do some, but that depends on her having time to react."
[20:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Moot point."
[20:50] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright. Plan is as stands. Saturn will extract the team no later than the day after tomorrow."
[20:51] Alathon: Usagi: "If an explanation is needed, it'll be that I'm concerned you're drawing unnecessary attention to Harleyrider operations due to past conflicts."
[20:52] Alathon: Usagi: "And that a different team will be inserted."
[20:52] Mani: "Do you want us to warn the riders that we think a strong attack may be coming?"
[20:52] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes."
[20:52] Kuonji: (we have more teams now? sweet)
[20:52] * Mani nods.
[20:52] Alathon: Usagi: "Any further questions?"
[20:53] * Reis frowns. "Just one things. You said there was further intelligence to pass on to us?"
[20:53] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes, back home."
[20:53] Mani: "Is there anything else you'd want us to tell the riders?"
[20:54] Sheena: "Probly not the best place to ask but, How are things coming toghter on that end?"
[20:55] Alathon: Usagi: "Not at this time, and better than they were a month ago."
[20:55] * Reis smiles. "That much is good to hear, Usagi-san."
[20:56] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[20:57] Alathon: Usagi: "You can expect Saturn to arrive before Dawn. Usagi out."
[20:57] Alathon: The conference ends.
[20:57] Mani: "She does hate long goodbyes."
[20:57] * Mani yawns.
[20:57] * Kuonji tries to stifle an ear to ear grin
[20:58] Mani: "Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I need more sleep."
[20:58] * Reis yawns and nods. "Whose shift is it now...?"
[20:58] Sheena: "Still ours i think,"
[20:58] Sheena: "Thats ok, you two get some rest. Just dont bug me when its my turn"
[20:59] Sheena: "I think ill go poke thoes boots some more"
[20:59] * Reis nods. "I'll let you sleep, senpai."
[20:59] Kuonji: "Still our watch?"
[20:59] * Kuonji stands up and stretches
[20:59] Mani: "Still the night shift, yes."
[21:00] Kuonji: "I love this job."
[21:00] * Kuonji grins and heads out of the tent
[21:00] Mani: "I seriously doubt there will be more trouble tonight, though..."
[21:00] Mani: "Still, not a bad idea to have a couple of us awake at all times. Good night."
[21:00] Reis: (And Al reconfigures his session plans)
[21:00] Reis: "Good night, Senpai, Mani-san, Sakura-san."
[21:00] Mani: "Actually..."
[21:01] * Mani goes and heals some crippled riders before turning in.
[21:01] * Sheena stops floating and stands up
[21:01] Alathon: You succeed, and they're thankful.
[21:01] * Mani then goes to sleep.
[21:01] Alathon: One of them is kinda sleepy and hugs you, unless you dodge.
[21:01] Alathon: which youc an, seeing as he's kinda sleepy.
[21:02] * Mani doesn't dodge the hug.
[21:02] * Sheena bends over to adjust things in her pack for a moment and then slips it back on to head out
[21:02] Sheena: "Ok, later reis"
[21:02] Alathon: Anyways.. the pre-dawn glow will come, and soon enough, Saturn will arrive.
[21:02] Kuonji: (yaay)
[21:02] Alathon: let's break here for 10 minutes
[21:02] Kuonji: (sigh)
[21:02] Reis: (Heh, poor poor Sakura)
[21:02] Sheena: (hah)
[21:02] Kuonji: (I'm always late for the 10 minute breaks)
[21:02] Kuonji: (back in 20 ;p)
[21:02] * Reis awakes when the time arrives, yawning.
[21:03] Mani: (No problem. You'll miss Saturn, though. ;) )
[21:03] Mani: (Guess I'll use this break to ... clean the litter box. yay...)
[21:03] Reis: (That's why he's crying.)
[21:03] Kuonji: (eating dinner before 3am is more important)
[21:03] Reis: (Wait, couldn't you just stay at the computer?)
[21:03] Reis: (You wouldn't be late back :P )
[21:08] Sheena: (think ill order something)
[21:09] Alathon: ((you could actually eat BEFORE game))
[21:09] Alathon: ((or order dinner before game and eat during game))
[21:11] Sheena: (sorry, was sleeping then)
[21:11] Sheena: (hey al you gona try wow at all or was that just random musing?)
[21:12] Mani: (I usually bring home take-out before games.)
[21:12] Sheena: (ill just order a taco pizza, dont have to eat now, but i do need to get it before they close)
[21:13] Mani: (Though I went to Pizzeria Uno on the way home tonight instead. Freshly brewed root beer, little caesar salad (w/anchovy), and part of a Chicago classic (also w/anchovy).)
[21:14] Alathon: heh
[21:14] Alathon: anyways
[21:14] Alathon: lets get started
[21:14] Reis: I'm in.
[21:15] Sheena: (here)
[21:15] Sheena: (ordered)
[21:15] Alathon: Alright
[21:15] Mani: (Ready. Litter box cleaned, glass of wine poured.)
[21:15] Mani: (And hands washed between those two...)
[21:15] Alathon: ((good))
[21:15] Sheena: (and caffine reloaded *chug* scratch that im empty again)
[21:15] Reis: And, poor Sakura.
[21:16] Alathon: ((parasites suck))
[21:16] Mani: (But symbiotes are *cool*! :) )
[21:17] Alathon: ((name the powerful alien symbiote that was contracted via cat feces, and I'll buy that ;p ))
[21:17] Reis: (I now am considering giving you one to name in the game :P )
[21:18] Alathon: (("We call this one the fecalato
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Session 48 - part 2

Postby Alathon » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:11 pm

Session 48 - part 2

[21:18] Alathon: (("We call this one the fecalator"))
[21:18] Alathon: When Saturn arrives, it's with a minimum of fuss.
[21:18] Alathon: Saturn: "Hey."
[21:18] Alathon: Saturn: "Would have helped if someone told the bikers I was coming."
[21:19] * Reis stands to attention as she arrives, presuming she wasn't still asleep.
[21:19] Sheena: (err we would have?)
[21:19] Alathon: She doesn't sound particularly irritated; she says this in a normal tone of voice.
[21:19] Alathon: ((SHeena's the only one up))
[21:19] Alathon: ((nobody said they did))
[21:20] Alathon: Er, Sheena and Sakura are up, actually
[21:20] Sheena: "Ahhh.. oops? We didn't expect you so soon. Sorry?"
[21:20] Sheena: "Was waiting on the camp head to wake up before we let him know whats going on"
[21:20] Mani: (Usagi said 'before dawn')
[21:21] Sheena: (she all so said we had a day)
[21:21] Sheena: (so...)
[21:21] Alathon: Saturn: "Ahh."
[21:21] Alathon: Saturn: "Well.. none of them were dumb enough to shoot me or otherwise piss me off, so, no harm, no foul."
[21:21] * Kuonji bows "Welcome, Saturn-sama."
[21:22] Alathon: She looks around a bit.
[21:22] Alathon: She waves one hand slightly to Kuonji.
[21:22] Alathon: Saturn: "Hey."
[21:22] Alathon: Saturn: "So.. I'm guessing we find me a tent?"
[21:23] Alathon: As a side note, she's in her usual uniform, however her glaive is not in evidence.
[21:23] Sheena: "We just got one, but im sure another won't be hard to find"
[21:24] Alathon: Saturn shrugs.
[21:24] Sheena: "Other one kinds burnt down last night,"
[21:24] Alathon: Saturn: "I can share if we aren't going to be cheek to cheek."
[21:24] Sheena: *kinda
[21:24] Alathon: Saturn quirks a smile at that.
[21:24] Alathon: Saturn: "Been having fun?"
[21:24] * Sheena folds and arms and looks a bit pissed
[21:24] Sheena: "Not really no, the stuiped shits keep getting away"
[21:25] Kuonji: "We'll get her next time."
[21:25] Alathon: Saturn smiles knowingly.
[21:25] Alathon: Saturn: "I know what you mean."
[21:25] Alathon: Saturn: "Hmm.."
[21:25] Alathon: Saturn peers up into the night sky.
[21:25] Sheena: "I blast the crap out of em and they just dissapear.. damn annoying'
[21:25] Reis: ("We can't fail with-" Starry-eyed. "-Saturn-sama!")
[21:25] Kuonji: "Even if I have to rip her fucking helmet off and jam a whole vial of poison down her throat."
[21:25] * Kuonji grumbles
[21:25] Mani: (She smiles slyly and says, "The other senshi used to say that about me.")
[21:25] Alathon: Saturn: "Her?"
[21:25] Alathon: Saturn: "Now I'm curious."
[21:25] Sheena: "His talking about armorchan"
[21:26] Alathon: Saturn: "I'm not familiar.."
[21:26] Sheena: "We killed her a couple times all ready and she just keeps coming back."
[21:26] Kuonji: "Like some sort of horror movie reject."
[21:27] Kuonji: "It was really satisfying seeing Mani steal her hammer."
[21:27] Alathon: Saturn: "Killed, huh?"
[21:27] Alathon: Saturn: "Did you dismember her?"
[21:28] Kuonji: "Unfortunatly we didn't have the time."
[21:28] Alathon: Saturn: "Pity, that.. not a sure thing by any means, but it does help."
[21:28] Kuonji: "Every other time she's managed to escape before we can bring her down."
[21:28] Alathon: Saturn: "ooooh.."
[21:28] Alathon: Saturn, sympathetically: "Teleporting villain syndrome?"
[21:29] Sheena: ".... There's a name for this?"
[21:29] Mani: (Aww, once again we just miss TPS.)
[21:29] * Sheena pales a bit
[21:29] Alathon: Saturn: "Oh, yes! It's actually quite common."
[21:29] Sheena: "More?"
[21:29] Kuonji: "Is there an informercial?"
[21:30] Alathon: Saturn: "Mmm.. not that I know of, unless stupid "I'll get you next time, gadget!" speeches count."
[21:30] Alathon: Saturn: "Look on the bright side though.. it's kind of like an excruciating form of foreplay."
[21:30] * Kuonji blinks
[21:31] Alathon: Saturn: "You get so close again, and again, and again... and when you finally spill their life's blood out on the ground, well.."
[21:31] Kuonji: (what kind of kinky sex does she have? and how do I get involved?)
[21:31] Alathon: Saturn takes a breath.
[21:31] * Sheena blinks
[21:31] Alathon: Saturn: "Waay more satisfying than getting them in just one go."
[21:31] Mani: (It just has a regular death at the end instead of a little death.)
[21:31] Reis: (Well... that's one way to look at it. Saturn is now even more awesome)
[21:31] Sheena: "I like a softer touch myself to start,"
[21:31] Kuonji: "I have to admit, I like starting out big myself."
[21:32] Alathon: Saturn shrugs.
[21:32] Alathon: Saturn: "I know, different strokes, and all that."
[21:32] Kuonji: "Something about popping of the head of a CO while everyone starts freaking out..."
[21:32] Alathon: She grins.
[21:32] Alathon: Saturn: "Nothing says 'high morale' like turning their commander into a busted pez dispenser."
[21:32] Sheena: "Hmm, I guess i miss out on that when i just blow the house up"
[21:33] Alathon: Saturn: "Anyways.. I'd best get under cover."
[21:33] * Sheena checks the time
[21:33] Kuonji: (Please, use mine.)
[21:33] Alathon: Saturn: "I suppose the odds of them having spy satellites is pretty slim, but I'd like to do my best to actually be a surprise."
[21:33] Sheena: "We switch in a bit, Mani and Ries should be getting up soon"
[21:34] Mani: ("Please, use me. I mean mine!!!")
[21:34] Alathon: Saturn: "Where're they at?"
[21:34] Sheena: "Should i track down another tent? Other wise it will end up with me and Sakura in there as well"
[21:34] Alathon: Saturn shrugs.
[21:34] * Sheena starts walking to the tent location with sakura and satarn
[21:35] Alathon: Saturn follows.
[21:35] Sheena: "There over here"
[21:35] Alathon: Saturn: "Frankly, I'd rather be a little smushed and have us all close by."
[21:35] * Kuonji silently thanks any and every god
[21:35] Mani: ("The tent with the tire in front of it.")
[21:35] Alathon: Saturn: "If things really light up, I can cover the lot of us as long as we're close."
[21:35] * Sheena after walking a bit..
[21:35] Reis: (Sakura, even with your name, right now, you are the luckiest man alive)
[21:35] Alathon: Saturn: "Though I understand you're under orders to bail at the first sign of a mass attack?"
[21:36] Sheena: "Well, here's our spot. Near the burnt out humvee and pile of ash that was our other tent"
[21:36] Sheena: "And the huge tire.."
[21:36] Kuonji: (hey, should we ask her to heal ken?)
[21:36] Kuonji: (wouldn't hurt to have another gun)
[21:36] Mani: (Don't ask us.)
[21:36] Sheena: "Ya i guess, Whats your idea about mass tho? I wouldnt mind dumping some shots into a group of them"
[21:37] Kuonji: "Ah, Saturn-sama?"
[21:37] Alathon: Saturn: "Hm."
[21:37] Sheena: "Sure dark heart would love to as well"
[21:37] Reis: (Dump a round of pain, then have Yuuno teleport us out :P )
[21:37] Alathon: Saturn: "Well.. I'm sure you could take a few out, the trick is not getting ashed by massed fire in response."
[21:37] Reis: (Try hit-and-run tactics on THEM for a change ;) )
[21:37] Mani: (They lose every fight.)
[21:37] Alathon: Saturn: "You ever do combined energy attacks?"
[21:38] Alathon: Saturn looks over to Kuonji.
[21:38] Reis: ("Just yesterday." ;) )
[21:38] Alathon: Saturn: "Yeah, Sakura?"
[21:39] Kuonji: "Do you think you could take a look at our teammate, Ken? He's been out of action for a few days now, and if we do need to evac, it would be better to have him up and about, right?"
[21:39] Mani: (Just one day.)
[21:40] Kuonji: (shit, can we retcon that then?)
[21:40] Alathon: ((no ;p ))
[21:40] Sheena: "Ahh.. me and ries tried are first go at that just the other day in the city.. It worked great and totaly destroyed the target and heavly wonded another. Problem is i "know" it shouldnt have worked, at lest at first. I felt it go bad..then it just whent right and released. Im a bit scared to try it again"
[21:40] Alathon: Saturn: "Doesn't Mani have some sort of healing power?"
[21:40] * Sheena says this after sakura says his pice
[21:40] Alathon: Saturn: "Pyramid power, crystal power, something like that?"
[21:41] Mani: (Some new age thing...)
[21:41] Kuonji: "She can only heal him a certain amount each day."
[21:41] Alathon: Saturn: "I'm asking because if she's already had a go at him recently, it would be best to wait a bit before I mess with him. Certain amount of strain on the body, and all that."
[21:41] Alathon: Saturn nods.
[21:42] Kuonji: "I don't know exactly how long she has to wait, if can literally just be a new day, or if she has to wait a full 24 hours."
[21:42] Alathon: Saturn: "Same here; not much use havinga whole body when you're dead from shock."
[21:42] Alathon: Saturn: "You know when she last healed him?"
[21:43] Alathon: ((she'll talk to Sheena next))
[21:43] Kuonji: (when was it?)
[21:44] Alathon: ((sometime during the morning))
[21:44] Reis: (Yesterday morning)
[21:44] Kuonji: "I'm not too sure really. I think it might have been in the morning."
[21:45] Alathon: Saturn: "Mm... Hm."
[21:45] Alathon: Saturn: "I'll get Mani up in a couple hours and find out exactly from her."
[21:45] Alathon: Saturn looks over to Sheena.
[21:46] Alathon: Saturn: "And Sheena.. probably best for each of us to do our own thing in that case. I'm quite confident of my ability to eradicate targets at range with extreme prejudice. Focus on staying alive."
[21:46] Sheena: (when saturn was looking up... she really was looking into orbit for sats wasn't she?)
[21:46] Alathon: wouldn't you like to know ;p
[21:47] Sheena: "Ya, I kinda wanted to ask some one with more exerince about this any way"
[21:47] Alathon: Saturn: "Hmm."
[21:47] Sheena: "Me and reis just sorta figered it was a good idea and did it, not the best of moves"
[21:48] Alathon: Saturn: "Well, practice makes perfect, as long as you don't vape yourselves along the way."
[21:48] Sheena: "I see..."
[21:48] Alathon: Saturn makes her way into the tent, finds some space, and lies down with her face up and eyes open.
[21:50] Sheena: "Hmm, wonder how mani and reis will react when they wake up like that?"
[21:50] Alathon: Yuuno: "zzzzzzz"
[21:50] Sheena: "Guess we keep watch thill our shift is up sakura"
[21:50] Alathon: Ferret snores are kinda cute, since they're quiet enough to not wake people up.
[21:51] Kuonji: "Yeah."
[21:52] Alathon: time passes
[21:52] Alathon: the sun rises
[21:52] Alathon: and presumably, Reis and Mani get up.
[21:52] Alathon: while by now Sheena and Sakura are probably quite tired.
[21:52] Alathon: ((you know.. theys hould give you all the pep pills that bomber pilots get))
[21:52] Alathon: ((keep you going forl ike 78 hours or something))
[21:52] Kuonji: (that's how friendly fire happens)
[21:53] Sheena: (ouch)
[21:53] Sheena: (true)
[21:53] Kuonji: (also, what about the suicide pills they give spies?)
[21:53] * Reis awakes, rubs her eyes and looks around. Then realizes she's cramped in a tent with an OMGWTF superiour officer and tries (fails) to snap to attention.
[21:53] Sheena: (that and flying in a huge tin can thats getting shot at tends to keep one aweke)
[21:53] Reis: (Better not mix those two up)
[21:53] Kuonji: (hurry up and relieve us! :P)
[21:54] * Mani wakes up and looks over at Saturn.
[21:54] Alathon: (you all have spec attacks to do that ;p ))
[21:54] Reis: (Actually, being awake is worse than sleeping in those situations. It's only when you're awake but technically dreaming that you see pink elephants wandering around the Canadian forests)
[21:54] Mani: (When everyone knows they're green.)
[21:55] Alathon: She's staring at... the ceiling of the tent.
[21:55] * Mani sits up.
[21:55] Alathon: She blinks occasionally.
[21:55] Alathon: Saturn: "Good morning."
[21:55] Mani: "Good morning."
[21:55] Alathon: Saturn: "When'd you last heal Ken?"
[21:56] * Reis blinks and shakes her head awake, semi-examining Saturn, and nods. "Good morning, ma'am."
[21:56] * Mani thinks.
[21:56] Mani: (You said yesterday morning?)
[21:56] Alathon: ((yes))
[21:56] Mani: "Yesterday morning."
[21:56] Alathon: Saturn: "Hmm.. how long after sunrise would you say?"
[21:57] Alathon: Saturn: "Actually, never mind. I'll head over at noon."
[21:57] Alathon: Saturn: "And, good morning... Raze, is it?"
[21:57] Sheena: (heh)
[21:57] Mani: "So, you'll be taking over his healing, then?"
[21:57] * Mani glances at Reis.
[21:57] Mani: "That kind of fits, actually."
[21:57] * Reis blinks. "Reis, ma'am, good morning."
[21:57] Alathon: Saturn: "Might as well.. as I understand it, it takes a good bit out of you."
[21:58] Alathon: Saturn, a little appologetically: "Ahh.. right."
[21:58] * Reis blinks again, not entirely sure how to take Mani's comment.
[21:58] Alathon: Saturn: "in the mean time, I'll just lie here, stare at the tent, and try to get a vibe for any inter-dim shifs."
[21:58] Alathon: ((shfits))
[21:59] Mani: "Yes... I could do about ten full-powered ones before exhausting myself. But I have an idea for a workaround."
[21:59] * Reis blinks, rather pleased to hear that Sat can do that.
[21:59] Mani: "It'll take some looking into."
[22:00] * Mani pauses.
[22:00] Mani: "I've been healing the riders who've lost limbs and such for the past couple of days. Should I still continue with that?"
[22:01] Alathon: Saturn: "Sure, by all means."
[22:01] * Mani nods.
[22:01] Alathon: Saturn: "In fact, continue doing so.. no reason to diverge from established patterns."
[22:01] Mani: "Do you need to be left in peace to feel for dimensional shifts, by the way?"
[22:02] Alathon: Saturn: "Not particularly, but I'd rather you didn't play any loud music, or a game of charades, or anything similar."
[22:03] * Reis blinks. "I... don't think those'll be much trouble, ma'am."
[22:03] Mani: "Of course. Well, unless there's something you want to say to us, we should relieve Sheena and Sakura so they can get some sleep."
[22:03] Kuonji: ("Hey sheena, want to play charades while listening to death metal?")
[22:03] * Reis nods and heads out in search of Sheens.
[22:03] Alathon: Saturn: "Hmm.. anything else?"
[22:03] Alathon: Saturn: "Just between you, me, and Reis, that 'looking into it' joke really failed. hard."
[22:04] Alathon: Saturn: "Other than that.. nope."
[22:04] * Mani blinks.
[22:04] Mani: "What joke?"
[22:04] Alathon: Saturn: "Exactly!"
[22:04] * Reis blinks. "Um... my joke?"
[22:04] Sheena: ("This death metal sounds interesting, please tell me more")
[22:04] Mani: "I'm looking into a way to not drain myself while healing people."
[22:04] * Reis tries to remember if she said anything like 'looking into'.
[22:05] Alathon: Saturn: "Of course."
[22:05] Sheena: (poor saturn, to be a couple thousand years young. No one gets her jokes)
[22:05] * Mani looks confused.
[22:06] Alathon: Saturn's looking at the roof of the tent, not you.
[22:06] Kuonji: (/me is also confused)
[22:06] Mani: "I'm sorry... I don't understand."
[22:06] Mani: (Well, I can see a bad joke possibility looking at the scrollback, but since Mani doesn't have one of those, she doesn't.)
[22:06] Alathon: Saturn: "That's okay.. think on it a bit."
[22:07] Kuonji: (it'd be even funnier if Saturn was just fucking with her)
[22:07] * Reis is starting to wonder if Saturn's the one joking.
[22:07] * Mani smiles.
[22:07] Kuonji: (saturn fanboys apparantly think alike)
[22:07] Mani: "No, thanks."
[22:07] * Mani goes out to relieve Sheena & Sakura.
[22:08] * Reis heads out as well in search of Sheens.
[22:08] Alathon: You'll find each other
[22:08] * Mani waves to them.
[22:08] * Sheena "Hey"
[22:09] Reis: "Good morning, senpai."
[22:09] Mani: "Good morning. Anything interesting to tell us or do you just want to crawl into bed?"
[22:09] Kuonji: "Mornin'"
[22:09] Kuonji: "Sleeeeeeeep."
[22:09] * Mani smiles.
[22:09] Mani: "Good luck."
[22:09] Sheena: "Im sure you met i guest by now, Aside from needing to tell the camp head whats going on"
[22:09] Sheena: "Im gona get rest a bit
[22:10] * Kuonji waves and trudges off towards the tent
[22:10] * Reis waves to Sakura. "Rest well, senpai..."
[22:10] Mani: "Right. I'll talk to Kenneth."
[22:10] Sheena: "All right,"
[22:11] * Sheena heads off to the tent as well
[22:11] Alathon: When y ou get to the tent, she's lying there, face up, staring at the canvas.
[22:12] * Mani heals a couple of riders, gets some breakfast, then looks for Kenneth.
[22:12] * Sheena just looks at that for a moment.. before moving to the side and removing her pack to rest on
[22:12] * Kuonji waves, then drops onto his bedroll
[22:12] Sheena: "What are you doing?"
[22:12] * Reis will snag food, sit down with a PDA and Swordbreaker, and set to work on stuffs.
[22:12] Alathon: Saturn: "Waiting for an inter-dim disturbance, and counting the threads on the ceiling."
[22:12] Kuonji: ("Hey Saturn..." "What?" "You awake?" "What do you think?" "What cha' thinking about?")
[22:13] Kuonji: (how many threads are there?)
[22:13] Sheena: "Neat, how are you doing it?"
[22:13] Alathon: Saturn: "Which?"
[22:13] Mani: (Saturn: "Hey, Sakura... are you pondering what I'm pondering?" Sakura: "Uhhhh...???")
[22:13] * Sheena lays down with her pack as a pillow and her cloak as a cover
[22:13] * Kuonji idly considers gagging sheena with his bandana
[22:13] Sheena: "Sense inter-dim distrubances"
[22:14] Alathon: Saturn: "Practice."
[22:15] * Kuonji mumbles "If only I had a drum kit."
[22:16] Sheena: "Practice huh? You sound like yuuno"
[22:17] * Sheena yawns andfidgets a bit to get just right
[22:17] Alathon: Saturn: "Yuuno sounds like he has a good head on his shoulders."
[22:17] Alathon: Saturn: "Oh, and Sakura? I don't mind a bit of admiration.. in fact, I'd be kinda disappointed if I was walking around in what amounts to cut-off shorts and didn't get it."
[22:17] Reis: roll 4#1d20+18
[22:17] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 4#1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{22}, [ 1d20=4 ]{22}, [ 1d20=5 ]{23}, [ 1d20=19 ]{37}
[22:17] Alathon: Saturn: "However, if you 'accidentally' roll over onto me, I'll kick your balls so far up that your teammates will be calling you four-eyes."
[22:18] * Kuonji blinks
[22:18] Kuonji: "I have far too much respect for you Saturn-sama."
[22:18] Sheena: "I like to think so, I wouldn't be nearly as good as i am now with out him"
[22:18] * Sheena hmms
[22:18] Sheena: "You know if that is a problem we have this ring..."
[22:18] * Sheena grins at Sakura
[22:18] Alathon: Saturn, disappointed: "Oh.. doesn that rule out trying to get me drunk?"
[22:19] * Kuonji blinks
[22:19] Reis: (... Luckiest man alive, Sakura)
[22:19] Kuonji: "Only if you don't want me to."
[22:19] Sheena: (not that trying part)
[22:19] Sheena: *note
[22:20] Alathon: Saturn: "We can discuss this when there's actually some alcohol handy."
[22:20] Kuonji: (damn, if only I had some booze stored in my hair.)
[22:20] Alathon: Saturn: "In the mean time, go to sleep."
[22:20] Kuonji: "G'night."
[22:21] * Kuonji closes his eyes and drifts off
[22:21] * Sheena sighs as the ring comment is blow off and just settels down to get some rest
[22:22] Alathon: Mani will be visiting crippled Harleyriders and healing them.. Reis is working on Swordbreaker.
[22:22] Alathon: Mani will discover soon enough that Ken is awake, albeit quite weak and not feelign up to moving much.
[22:22] Mani: (And seeing Kenneth.)
[22:22] Alathon: probably that first, so..
[22:23] Alathon: You can tell that Kenneth is a bit irritated by not knowing there was another CT representative coming, but explains that he knew through a buddy who had a brother who was stationed up in chicago, what their uniforms looked like."
[22:24] Alathon: He's trying to mask his irritation, and be friendly.. and appreciates the warning of a potential attack.
[22:25] Alathon: Do you have anything you want to play out there, or move on to Ken?
[22:25] Mani: (Mm, if we're just summarizing, Mani would try to smooth things over.)
[22:26] Alathon: He'll bea little mollified
[22:27] Mani: (Move on from Kenneth to Ken, I guess.)
[22:27] Alathon: Actually, he doesn't really want much, other than an update on how things are going.
[22:28] Sheena: (if we gots leave fast we should get ken ready..)
[22:30] Alathon: time will pass.. around noon, Saturn will ask to be led to Ken's location, heal him some more, then head back to the tent, entirely ignoring all the stares she draws.
[22:31] Alathon: more time will pass...
[22:31] * Mani heals other riders during the day.
[22:31] * Mani plays the harp and chats with Reis a bit, too.
[22:31] Mani: (Is Ken mobile after that healing?)
[22:31] Alathon: Yes, though he's a bit wobbly at first.
[22:32] * Reis chats back as she works on her crucifix.
[22:32] Alathon: After a good half hour of stretching and such, he's pretty close to normal mobility
[22:32] Alathon: afternoon will stretch into evening... evening into night.
[22:33] Mani: (Any more riders missing body parts left?)
[22:33] Kuonji: (I take it we're up by that point?)
[22:33] Reis: (The word was 'Dun-dun-DUNNNNN!', right?)
[22:33] Alathon: harleyriders continue coming and going from campt to town... late evening, a substantial number of riders return, to the point where the camp actually seems to have sveral hundred people in it.
[22:33] Alathon: You run out of them.
[22:34] Reis: (Not a bad thing to run out of)
[22:34] * Mani smiles happily when she sees there are no more left.
[22:34] Alathon: between the extra healing yesterday evening, and regen during the day, you'll get all of them. If you ask if htere's more, they say not likely; they've cleaned out most of Clinton at this point.
[22:35] Alathon: roll 2d8
[22:36] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2d8 --> [ 2d8=7 ]{7}
[22:36] Sheena: (crap)
[22:36] Reis: (This being the number of boss-level enemies we're facing today)
[22:36] Alathon: presumably you all switch guard duty again.. time passes.. and late at night.
[22:36] Alathon: roll 1d20
[22:36] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{9}
[22:37] Alathon: Nothing happens; Ken sleeps peacefully.
[22:37] * Sheena has her shades off and is walking around with her staff in warmode
[22:37] Kuonji: "Hey, Sheena... do you have a bad feeling about tonight?"
[22:37] Alathon: The several squads of riders are a bit jumpy as well, noticing you pace like this.
[22:37] Alathon: several hours later... well.. like five or six hours later
[22:38] Alathon: the sun comes up
[22:38] Sheena: "Bad? No, im quite eager for the fight, and scared of the team getting hurt or killed"
[22:38] Kuonji: "Huh, guess it wasn't tonight."
[22:38] Kuonji: "Maybe we were overreacting."
[22:38] Sheena: "This could really be all set up to just reduce the riders numbers"
[22:40] Alathon: Saturn will round everyone up a couple hours after dawn.
[22:40] Alathon: Saturn: "Well, that was a disappointment."
[22:40] Kuonji: "Yeah, no kidding."
[22:41] Alathon: Saturn: "Though I can't say I mind not having had to fight with a couple hundred others in the line of fire."
[22:41] * Reis frowns. "Not a bad one, but... still."
[22:41] * Sheena looks a bit worn out now that nothing has happened
[22:41] Mani: "Mm. I'll just hate it if the camp is hit after we give up on an attack."
[22:41] * Kuonji yawns
[22:43] Alathon: Saturn: "True.. but, for better or worse, we both have things we need to get to."
[22:44] Sheena: "I gota say, while i hate that there are so many people that would have been hurt, me an dark heart are rather disappointed as well"
[22:44] Mani: "Shall I let Kenneth know we're being pulled out now?"
[22:44] * Sheena looks around a bit
[22:44] Alathon: Saturn: "Yeah.. and yes, Mani."
[22:44] Sheena: "Yo! Yuuno!"
[22:44] Alathon: Nobody answers.
[22:44] Reis: (Bad sign)
[22:44] Mani: "Very well. I'll be back shortly."
[22:45] Sheena: "Hey.. where is yuuno at"
[22:45] * Kuonji blinks
[22:45] * Sheena will head back to the tent and look for him
[22:45] * Mani pauses and tilts her head.
[22:45] * Reis frowns and joins the search.
[22:45] Alathon: He's sleeping in the tent
[22:45] Kuonji: "Lazy rat."
[22:45] * Sheena stick her head out of the tent
[22:46] Mani: (Isn't that where we are?)
[22:46] Sheena: "FOund em"
[22:46] Alathon: I was assuming outside the tent
[22:46] Alathon: since she had everyone together.
[22:46] * Mani goes to see Kenneth.
[22:46] Alathon: Kenneth is up, and at his paperwork once again.
[22:47] Mani: "Good morning again."
[22:47] Alathon: Kenneth: "Thanks.. good morning to you."
[22:47] Sheena: (for a gaint biker gang they sure have alot of papper work)
[22:48] Mani: "I'm afraid I have some bad news, though it doesn't involve an attack this time."
[22:48] Alathon: Kenneth: "Well, let me have it."
[22:48] Alathon: Kenneth: "I suppose everything couldn't be sunshine."
[22:49] Mani: "Our team is being recalled. A new one should be sent out to replace us, however."
[22:50] Kuonji: ("I also have some good news... I just saved a ton of money on my car insurance by switching to geico.")
[22:50] Alathon: He looks a little disappointed.
[22:50] Sheena: (hmm, cars and bikes are very common here, i wonder if they got insurnace?)
[22:50] Alathon: Kenneth: "Well, it's been a pleasure having you..."
[22:51] Mani: (Yes. Handcannon insurance co.)
[22:51] Mani: "And it's been great working with all of you."
[22:51] Alathon: Kenneth: "I don't think I've seen an operation of this scale with as few casualties in the last decade."
[22:51] Alathon: Kenneth's face lights up a bit.
[22:51] Alathon: Kenneth nods.
[22:52] Mani: "It's too bad Lysle and Martha aren't here to say goodbye to."
[22:52] Alathon: Kenneth's face clouds over for a bit.
[22:52] Alathon: Kenneth: "I'd invite Matha up, but, she's busy."
[22:52] Alathon: He pauses for a moment, then continues.
[22:52] Alathon: Kenneth: "Less than four dozen losses, and Lysle had to be one of them..."
[22:52] Alathon: He trails off softly..
[22:53] Mani: "Ahhh... I'm very sorry to hear that."
[22:53] Alathon: Kenneth: "I'll let Matha know, she'd appreciate it."
[22:53] * Mani sighs and nods.
[22:54] Alathon: Kenneth: "Hm. Any way we could get in contact with you/"
[22:54] Alathon: Kenneth: "Will your embassy forward letters and such?"
[22:55] Sheena: (fan mail for mani? win)
[22:55] Mani: "Hmm. Yes, they certainly would. The new team should be able to forward messages, too, but I'm not sure where they'll be assigned."
[22:55] Alathon: Kenneth: "Mmm.. good point. We're certainly not the only bit of the front seeing action."
[22:56] * Mani sighs.
[22:56] Alathon: Kenneth: "Regardless, it's been a pleasure.. best of luck to you, Mani, and the rest of your team."
[22:56] Alathon: He offers a handshake to you.
[22:56] * Mani shakes his hand.
[22:56] Alathon: Kenneth: "Can't expect better than what we've had in these times."
[22:57] Mani: "It's been a pleasure for us, too. And the best to you and yours."
[22:57] * Mani bows and leaves.
[22:58] * Mani returns to the group.
[22:58] Alathon: Saturn: "We ready to roll?"
[22:59] Mani: "Yeah, let's just make sure we have everything."
[22:59] Alathon: Saturn grins a little.
[22:59] Sheena: "Got all my gear and the ferret"
[22:59] Alathon: Saturn: "Don't want to forget your trophy?"
[22:59] * Mani grins.
[22:59] Sheena: "We got all that magic crap we took"
[22:59] Mani: "Yep!"
[23:00] * Reis nods. "I'm ready, ma'am."
[23:00] Kuonji: "Hey sheena, you figure those boots out yet?"
[23:00] Sheena: Roll 1d20+18
[23:00] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{32}
[23:00] * Mani goes into the tent and comes out with all her stuff and lugging the massive hammer.
[23:00] Sheena: (duno, did i?)
[23:00] Sheena: "Well i took a look at em"
[23:00] Kuonji: (7 league plz)
[23:00] Sheena: (7league?)
[23:01] Mani: (One's a boot of 7 leagues, the other's a boot of 3.5 leagues. Nasty. :D )
[23:01] Kuonji: (think I got the name wrong)
[23:01] Reis: (That's something like 'why the heck are you TELEPORTING?' boots?)
[23:01] Kuonji: (or not)
[23:02] * Mani mutters, "Couldn't be a damn epee..."
[23:02] Alathon: Yuuno: "If it was, you probably woulda cut it in half already."
[23:02] Alathon: Saturn: "The ferret has a point."
[23:02] Reis: ("... A magical epee?")
[23:02] Kuonji: "Besides, epees are dueling weapons."
[23:02] Sheena: ".. and they look like some kind of cold weater boots with traction magic in it. Should let you walk on top of ice with out all the slipping"
[23:03] Kuonji: "Ah, I can already do that."
[23:03] * Mani blinks.
[23:03] * Sheena shurgs again
[23:03] * Reis blinks. "... Hm. Wonder why they had that?"
[23:03] Reis: "Maybe they're set up in a cold climate?"
[23:03] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah, no kidding.. it's still only fall."
[23:04] Reis: (Hey... that Yamaha chapter head WAS running all the way to Canada ;) )
[23:04] Sheena: "For another team then?"
[23:04] Mani: "Hey, Ken, mind having Enigma carry this thing once we start going somewhere?"
[23:04] Alathon: Saturn shrugs.
[23:04] Alathon: Ken: "Sure thing.."
[23:04] Kuonji: (aww no 7 league ;_;)
[23:04] Alathon: Ken: "Feels like less than a ton; no problem at all!"
[23:05] Alathon: Saturn: "Alright, gather round, folks."
[23:05] Mani: "Say, have you ever tested whether Enigma can be teleported and if anything it's carrying comes along?"
[23:05] * Sheena will do so
[23:05] Reis: "... We'll find out today?"
[23:06] * Reis gathers round.
[23:06] Mani: "Not with my hammer, we won't."
[23:06] Alathon: Saturn: "I'd just as soon not, regardless."
[23:06] * Mani gathers.
[23:07] Alathon: Everyone is surrounded by a flurry of deep violet sparklies... the world vanishes, and is replaced by walls, ceiling, and floor which are recognizeable as those of a room in Epsionage HQ.
[23:07] Alathon: Saturn: "Allright.. got it in one!"
[23:07] Alathon: She steps away from the party.
[23:07] Alathon: Saturn waves.
[23:07] * Reis wonders just how comforting that statement was.
[23:07] Sheena: "Interesting transfer teqnic, Defernt from Venuses"
[23:07] Alathon: Saturn: "Have fun, and don't forget... foreplay!"
[23:07] Alathon: She vanishes in her own sparklies.
[23:07] * Sheena waves to
[23:07] Kuonji: "When are we going drinking?"
[23:07] Kuonji: "Damn."
[23:07] * Reis blushes and stares. "Fore... What?"
[23:08] Sheena: "Yay.. foreplay? hmm"
[23:08] Alathon: Yuuno: "Um.. so.."
[23:08] Alathon: Yuuno looks around.
[23:08] Alathon: Yuuno: "Which of you was she saying that to?"
[23:08] Sheena: "Where did she dump us any way?"
[23:08] Kuonji: "she's my hero."
[23:08] Mani: (As we realize there are no doors in the room...)
[23:08] Alathon: Heh
[23:08] Alathon: You don't recognize the room, but you recognize the design of the paneling, and the architecture in general, as being that of Espionage HQ.
[23:09] Sheena: "Probly you Yuuno, your not living up to your reputation"
[23:09] Alathon: Yuuno: "Hmmph."
[23:09] * Mani texts a message to Usagi announcing their arrival and asking for instructions.
[23:09] Alathon: Yuuno: "It's not my fault the playing field for magical ferrets is so woefully thin."
[23:10] * Sheena pets yuuno as she heads over to a the door
[23:10] Alathon: She texts back that she's on her way.
[23:10] * Reis blinkblinks at the current topic of conversation.
[23:10] Mani: "Ok, Usagi's on her way."
[23:10] Sheena: "this looks like base, and magical ferrets my but. Your a T&A guy don't denie it"
[23:10] * Mani considers the hammer.
[23:10] * Kuonji is dissapointed he doesn't get to go drinking with saturn
[23:10] Mani: "So, think we should mount this over your bed, Sheena?"
[23:11] Sheena: "Eh? my bed?"
[23:11] Alathon: Yuuno: "For what.. holding off her vampiric fiance?"
[23:11] Mani: "Yeah. I can pick up something from the hardware store and stick it on there."
[23:12] Sheena: "Fianawhat?? err why my bed?"
[23:12] Mani: "Well, it has to go somewhere."
[23:12] Sheena: "Just toss it in our front yard, its not like any one can run off with it"
[23:12] Alathon: Yuuno: "Hah! She's gotta point, you know."
[23:12] Kuonji: "We need a fireplace."
[23:12] Alathon: Ken: "Don't you have a house?"
[23:13] Reis: "Um... Wall hanging?"
[23:13] Sheena: "At the rate mani makes friends the fireplace won't be enought"
[23:13] Kuonji: "Trophy room?"
[23:13] Mani: "Ohh... I'm afraid Lysle was killed at Clinton..."
[23:13] Kuonji: "I'm sure we could afford an addition."
[23:13] Kuonji: "What? Oh... That's too bad."
[23:13] Reis: "Oh no..."
[23:13] * Mani sighs.
[23:13] Sheena: "A tropgy rooms sounds neat... well shit mani. thats a hell of a topic switcher"
[23:13] Alathon: Yuuno: "Damn. Kill the mood, why don't you."
[23:13] Mani: "Yeah."
[23:14] Sheena: "Wonder how many the guy took with him.."
[23:14] Alathon: Ken: "Yuuno! C'mon."
[23:14] Mani: "A lot, I'm sure. There were fewer than four dozen casualties, according to Kenneth."
[23:15] Alathon: Ken: "Wait.. and they thought they were fighting ten thousand or more?"
[23:15] Sheena: "They where"
[23:15] Sheena: "the city was packed"
[23:15] Alathon: Ken: "That's..."
[23:15] Alathon: Ken does some math.
[23:15] Alathon: Ken: "More than two hundred to one."
[23:15] * Reis nods. "I... guess their regeneration mixed with Mani-san's healing for the big things... counted."
[23:15] Mani: "Like I said, I don't think the riders will have much trouble with just the UST forces alone."
[23:16] Sheena: "I think the UST's plan isn't working quite the way they want. There powers of god and getting wuped by fule and mucele"
[23:16] Mani: "Anyawy, sorry for just dropping that in the conversation. I just remembered it and didn't want to forget to tell you guys before we went separate ways."
[23:17] Alathon: Ken: "Well.. yeah, I guess I'd rather know than not.. but still."
[23:17] Alathon: A door opens, and Usagi steps in.
[23:17] Alathon: Usagi: "Glad to see you all back."
[23:18] Mani: "It's good to be back."
[23:18] Sheena: "Ya, great to be home"
[23:18] * Reis nods. "Yes... nice to be home, Usagi-san."
[23:20] * Sheena takes off her pack and sholders it, and trys to crack her back while she's at it
[23:21] Alathon: Usagi: "We've got a lot to discuss.. in a couple hours, after the lot of you have had a chance to get cleaned up."
[23:21] * Reis frowns and nods. "We're... probably not that pleasant to be around right now, I suppose."
[23:22] Sheena: "I think i turned my nose off a couple days ago with out thinking about it"
[23:22] Alathon: Usagi: "I just wanted to greet you all propperly."
[23:22] Reis: (Note to me: NEVER get 'Heightened Senses, Smell' :P )
[23:22] * Sheena is smileing and nods to the boss
[23:22] Kuonji: "Thank you Usagi-sama..."
[23:22] Kuonji: "Oh wow, I just realized I can finally get rid of that sword and armor."
[23:22] Alathon: Usagi: "That said.. by all means. The suites you last used have been made available, along with fresh uniforms, and the rest."
[23:23] * Kuonji looks relieved
[23:23] * Reis nods. "That will be a relief."
[23:23] Sheena: "Ya, lets go drop of the loot then hit the shower"
[23:23] Alathon: Usagi: "If you've got any loot you don't want to drag all over the place, you can leave it in a corner for the time being."
[23:23] * Sheena pulls off her clock and folds it a bit,
[23:23] Sheena: "I should get this cleaned"
[23:23] * Mani starts dragging her hammer to a corner.
[23:24] Sheena: *cloak
[23:24] Alathon: SKKKKKKKRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKK
[23:24] Alathon: The hammer gouges the floor something fierce.
[23:24] * Reis covers her ears for personal comfort.
[23:24] Mani: (Aww, I wanted to see Sheena get her clock cleaned.)
[23:24] * Mani pauses.
[23:24] Sheena: (hah!)
[23:24] Mani: "Ken?"
[23:24] * Sheena links at that
[23:24] Alathon: Ken: "Oh, right;"
[23:24] * Kuonji walks over to the corner, takes off his bandana, and pulls the armour and sword from his hair.
[23:24] Sheena: "Armorchan seemed real eager to hit us with that thing to..."
[23:25] Alathon: After a moment, the hammer lifts up into the air, and slowly spins sideways as it floats over to a corner, land lands head down, shaft leaning against a wall.
[23:25] Mani: (Enigma floats it over to the the corner. Then drops it. It crashes through the floor to the room below.)
[23:25] Alathon: ((tempting, but no ;p ))
[23:25] Mani: "Well, Sheena, getting hit with it rather hurt."
[23:25] Sheena: "DIdn't look like it,"
[23:25] Alathon: Usagi: "I can imagine."
[23:26] * Sheena sets the rod down and types out some stuff in her com for a moment.
[23:26] * Reis stares at the hammer. "That... Well, if I ever start thinking a close battle with that woman is a good idea, someone knock sense into me."
[23:26] * Sheena after a couple moments of typeing and looking the stuff over she sends the message
[23:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Welcome back to Crystal Tokyo.. I'm afraid I've got to get back on schedule. I'll see you all at eleven."
[23:26] Mani: "Will do. But not with that."
[23:26] * Reis winces. "Appreciated, Mani-san."
[23:26] Mani: "Thank you."
[23:27] * Kuonji heads to a suite to get cleaned up
[23:27] * Reis nods. "We'll be there, Usagi-san."
[23:27] Sheena: "Ok, i sent DeVry-san what my field ID's showed"
[23:27] Sheena: "Rest is up to her'
[23:27] Reis: (Time is?)
[23:27] * Sheena nods
[23:27] Mani: "Oh, that's because I can't swing the blasted thing."
[23:27] Sheena: "ya boss"
[23:27] Alathon: a bit before 9am
[23:27] * Mani grins at Reis.
[23:27] Alathon: and, let's End here
[23:27] * Reis smiles back slightly.
[23:28] Reis: (Nooooooo, we have auspicious stuffz to hear from Usagi! :P )
[23:28] *** Kuonji is now known as Ataru.
[23:28] *** Reis is now known as Pale_Wolf.
[23:28] Alathon: Yup, next week
[23:28] Ataru: please, please please give me enough xp to level
[23:28] *** Sheena is now known as DCG.
[23:28] DCG: Weeee
[23:28] DCG: sheena gets tomake her new armor
[23:28] Alathon: while everyone's here, how do people feel about playing on Sunday afternoons at 3pm EST / noon PST?
[23:28] Alathon: since Tarou's game will be coming to a close in two months or less
[23:28] Pale_Wolf: Heh. And Reis gets to finish her stuff. And ask for language lessons.
[23:28] DCG: hmm
[23:28] Alathon: and we'd actually h ave like 8 hours to work with, rather than our usual 5ish
[23:29] DCG: will screw up my raid times
[23:29] DCG: but i dont mind.
[23:29] Pale_Wolf: Hm... That actually sounds rather nice.
[23:29] * Ataru is still having language lessons with sheena
[23:29] Ataru: I dunno
[23:29] Pale_Wolf: I don't mind putting an RP session back on the weekend.
[23:29] Ataru: I'm looking for work
[23:29] *** Mani is now known as Yarrow.
[23:29] Ataru: and sundays are time and half
[23:29] Yarrow: It's good for me.
[23:29] Yarrow: And where did the time go tonight? It hardly seems like we did anythin.
[23:31] Alathon: heh
[23:31] Alathon: did a lot of talking, some of it purposeful, some of it banter
[23:31] Alathon: the talk with usagi took up a goodly chunk of time
[23:32] Pale_Wolf: Heh.
[23:32] Pale_Wolf: Oh, xp?
[23:32] Alathon: 3100 exp
"Last week, I tried praying. But I found I was only talking to myself. Don't worry, I learned my lesson last time. This time, no disciples!" - N. Reynolds, To Tell a Hawk from a Handsaw
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Session 49

Postby Alathon » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:22 pm

Session 49

[18:16] Alathon: anyways, let's get started
[18:16] *** Yarrow is now known as Mani.
[18:17] Alathon: we left off last game after the party returned to Crystal Tokyo at Usagi's request
[18:17] Sheena: (and mani ruined the floor with her new prize
[18:17] Alathon: the party left some of their stuff down at one of the telepads, and went upstairs to get cleaned up
[18:17] Alathon: and yes ;p
[18:18] Alathon: Mani got cleaned up quickly, and left to attend to something
[18:18] Alathon: the party will meet her at the specified conference room, and Usagi as well.
[18:19] *** Ataru has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:19] *** Ataru is now known as Kuonji.
[18:20] * Sheena sent devry a list of her field id's for the loot they left behind and they headed off to clean up and then make some reservations over the CTnet.
[18:20] Kuonji: (sorry, mom wouldn't get off the comp)
[18:20] Alathon: ((heh))
[18:20] Alathon: we pretty much waited
[18:21] Alathon: the party's now in the conference room
[18:21] Alathon: Usagi's already seated, she looks.. a little pensive.
[18:21] Alathon: She doesn't focus on the newcomes until a few seconds after they arrive, but she evendually does.
[18:21] Alathon: Usagi: "Come on in.. have a seat."
[18:22] * Kuonji walks in and takes a seat quietly
[18:22] Alathon: Conference 2569 is much like the others you've used.
[18:22] * Sheena takes a seat while wondering just how many conference rooms they have
[18:23] Alathon: ((answer: lots))
[18:23] Alathon: Usagi: "So.. any pressing concerns before we begin?"
[18:23] Mani: (There's an entire district of them.)
[18:23] Kuonji: ("What kind of liqour does Sailor Saturn like?")
[18:24] Sheena: "No,Ma'am"
[18:24] Kuonji: "No, Usagi-sama."
[18:25] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright then.. let's get started."
[18:26] Alathon: Usagi: "The executive summary of what I've got is this: you're being redployed to offensive missions."
[18:26] Alathon: Usagi: "For a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that we actually have verified targets."
[18:26] Kuonji: (for some reason I missread that as summary execution)
[18:26] Alathon: ((if I want a TPK, I'll do it the traditional way.. with twenty elder wyrms))
[18:27] Kuonji: (why not 20 elder gods?)
[18:27] Sheena: (beats this one session game i had where ever one died to 5 rabbits and a dear)
[18:28] Alathon: ((hahahahaha.. sounds like Rolemaster, or something equally crit-happy))
[18:28] Kuonji: (oh god, isn't rolemaster the one with the big ass crit table?)
[18:28] Alathon: ((one of many with big ass crit tables))
[18:28] Alathon: ((some of which are 'instant death'))
[18:29] Mani: (Imagine combining that with the dicebots on here.)
[18:29] Alathon: Usagi: "I'll start off with the rationale behind this shift."
[18:29] Alathon: Usagi: "We now have several teams which, while not as experienced or combat effective as your own, can do what you all have been doing reasonably well."
[18:30] Alathon: Usagi: "So we actually have the option of redeployment without abandoning our current observsation and research."
[18:30] Sheena: (guess sheena didnt notice any when she comandered the showers)
[18:30] Alathon: ((you have a suite ;p ))
[18:30] Alathon: so, if you did notice someone, they were probably trysting where they shouldn't have been ;p
[18:31] Alathon: .. in the middle of the work day too, for bonus points
[18:31] Alathon: not entirely improbable, but no, you didn't notice anything like that
[18:31] Sheena: (means they have to get punshed... hmm that would be something for reis to walak in on_
[18:31] Sheena: ()
[18:32] Mani: (The punishment or the tryst?)
[18:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Besides that.. I think leaving this particular team out on a protracted observation mission is the equivalent of dangling a baited hook in the water."
[18:32] Alathon: ((who says they have to be seperate?))
[18:33] Kuonji: (did our boss just compare us to worms?)
[18:33] Mani: ("Senpai, what are you doing to those men?!")
[18:33] Alathon: Not directly.
[18:33] Mani: (Could be comparing us to chum or fish eggs or a fake fish...)
[18:34] Sheena: (>_<)
[18:34] Alathon: Usagi: "It's clear that someone has it in for you, whether it's that woman with the hammer or her superiors."
[18:34] Alathon: Usagi: "The logical move is to keep your team moving, and away from where enemy eyes are most likely to be."
[18:35] Alathon: Usagi: "Not to mention that in this evolving world of inter-dimensional warfare, it's painfully obvious that the side that's on the offensive has many, many advantages."
[18:35] Alathon: Usagi stops for a moment, and pours herself a glass of water, and takes a sip from it.
[18:36] * Sheena just crosses her legs and waits for the rest.
[18:39] Alathon: Usagi: "this will also, incidentally, serve another purpose: to get Sheena and Kuonji into Texan territory to investigate something of particular interest to me."
[18:39] Kuonji: (woohoo)
[18:40] * Sheena looks interested at this,
[18:40] Alathon: Usagi: "It should come as no surprise to any of you that we've had the intelligence side of things doing a lot of looking around.."
[18:41] Alathon: Usagi: "There's a lot to cover.. a lot more than I can cover in this meeting, actually, so I'll be trying to hit the high points."
[18:41] Alathon: Usagi: "We'll discuss specifics in the mission briefing."
[18:43] Alathon: Usagi fiddles with a control on the table, and after a few seconds, what looks to be a holographic slide deck comes up.
[18:44] Alathon: The first image shows a large white building; it's a single structure with no expansions or abutting rooms, with a steepled roof and what looks to be a bell tower, albeit without the bell.
[18:45] Alathon: It's painted white, and looks to be wooden in construction; the picture looks to be from the front of the building at a slight angle, and shows the front as two sets of double doors, behind a row of pillars.
[18:45] Alathon: Usagi: "This is a typical Texan church."
[18:45] Alathon: Usagi: "Designs vary somewhat, but largely conform to this theme."
[18:45] Alathon: Usagi: "Variance is largely in their cities, to accomodate larger flocks."
[18:46] Alathon: She flicks throug a series of slides showing hte buidling from other angles, before moving onto a slide of what is presumably the inside of the church.
[18:47] Alathon: Anyone who has studied old world religions will have seen this before
[18:48] Alathon: it's a typical christian church.. rows of pews, twin pulpits at the front, with two sets of bleachers for a choir.
[18:48] Sheena: (thoes evil basterds are making them sit in pews!)
[18:48] Alathon: Behind all this is what looks to be a large metal cross, at least a dozen feet high, bathed in flames.
[18:48] Sheena: (err thats new(
[18:49] Mani: (Real flames or a depiction of flames?)
[18:49] Alathon: They sure look to be real.
[18:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes, those are real flames."
[18:50] Alathon: Usagi: "Real enough to burn, at the least. Probably magical in nature, given that there's no obvious source of fuel, and that the wall it's up against isn't lit up.
[18:50] Kuonji: (some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses.)
[18:50] Alathon: Usagi: "Didn't stop one of our operatives from coming away with blisters."
[18:51] Alathon: Usagi says this ruefullly, and shakes her head a little at that.
[18:51] Sheena: "I belive they tried to light us up once or twice as well"
[18:51] Alathon: Usagi: "Yeah.. they are quite keen on fire."
[18:52] Alathon: Usagi: "To be clear, this is simply a church; not a church of anything in particular, there are no other demoninations in the UST, at least, not that we've been able to find."
[18:53] Alathon: She flicks through a series of slides that show the interior of the church.
[18:53] Alathon: It's pretty nice.. most of the pews are pained white, with the top sections rounded off and naturally stained.
[18:53] Alathon: The cushions are all a vibrant red.
[18:53] Mani: (With blood!)
[18:54] *** Sheena has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[18:54] Alathon: ((nah, that'd be brown ;p ))
[18:54] *** DCG has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:54] Alathon: ((Last line?))
[18:54] *** DCG is now known as Sheena.
[18:54] Mani: (Actually, I was referreng to the stained line)
[18:54] Sheena: 20:52] <Alathon> She flicks through a series of slides that show the interior of the church.
[18:54] Sheena: [20:53] <Alathon> It's pretty nice.. most of the pews are pained white, with the top sections rounded off and naturally stained.
[18:54] Sheena: [20:53] * Disconnected
[18:54] Alathon: ((okay, you didn't miss anything important ;p ))
[18:55] Alathon: Usagi flicks through a few more of these, before showing a closeup picture of the cross.
[18:55] Kuonji: (I fucking hate those padded things you have to kneel on)
[18:55] Sheena: (Usagi: And here's images of there anual mudwrestling compation)
[18:55] Alathon: Usagi: "Look closely at this."
[18:55] Kuonji: (please tell me we get to torch a couple of these...)
[18:55] Sheena: (padded? You had padded?)
[18:55] Alathon: They're already on fire, that'd be kinda futile ;p
[18:55] Kuonji: (sometimes, depends on the church)
[18:56] Kuonji: (not the cross, the church)
[18:56] Mani: (Hmm. Flaming crosses.)
[18:56] Alathon: The close-up of the burning cross has a set of two dark spots on the end of each spar.
[18:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Those indentations there are actually holes. When they 'send someone to the LORD' --"
[18:57] Alathon: She says this with dripping sarcasm.
[18:57] Alathon: Usagi: "They haul 'em up there with wire tied around their ankles, wrists, and under the shoulders, passed through those holes."
[18:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Aside from the burned fingers, we have video evidence that those flames are real. I'll spare you."
[18:59] Kuonji: "It's been a while since I've studied ancient cultures but, uh, I think they may have missed the point..."
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi looks over at Kuonji.
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Well.. if they were trying to be Christian, I'd have to agree."
[19:00] Alathon: Usagi: "They've got the trappings, and some of the mythology, but not much else."
[19:00] Sheena: "And this is common?"
[19:01] Alathon: Usagi: "If by common, you mean there's one in every town, yes."
[19:01] Sheena: "ahh"
[19:01] Alathon: Usagi: "Cities have more."
[19:02] Alathon: Usagi: "I'll get to what gets someone 'Sent to the LORD' in a bit."
[19:02] * Sheena nods and the this to her reasons not to care about wipeing them out, not that she would any way
[19:03] Kuonji: (I'm going to go out on a limb and say 'not much.')
[19:03] Alathon: Usagi: "Moving on.."
[19:04] Alathon: Usagi flips through a couple slides that show the burning cross from different angles, before moving onto another photo, one that shows something a bit less menacing.
[19:04] Mani: (A burning star of David?)
[19:04] Alathon: It's a door, into what looks like a small closet, save that the door is ornamented with a carving of a stylized flaming cross.
[19:04] Alathon: ((hah))
[19:04] Kuonji: (oh, a confessional?)
[19:05] Alathon: ((no, you'll find those in the epic campaign, The Queen's Crusade: Retaking the Holy Land in the Name of the Moon))
[19:05] Alathon: ((the burning stars of david that is))
[19:05] Sheena: (wouldnt usagi's holy land be a 31 flavors?)
[19:06] Alathon: ((not after Usagi deposes her))
[19:06] Sheena: (I dont see the defernce)
[19:06] Alathon: Usagi: "Every church has one of these; a confessional."
[19:06] Kuonji: (actually, in Japan it's 31 aisu)
[19:06] Alathon: ((one's a hippie peace monger, the other is an insane, power-mad monster, obviously))
[19:07] Alathon: Usagi: "Church rules are that everyone confesses their sins, and are assigned punishments to impose on themselves."
[19:08] Sheena: (your giving me flash backs from when i was 10.. before me and my brothers made out excape)
[19:08] Kuonji: (aaaahh, catholic school...I don't miss it in the slightest)
[19:08] Alathon: Usagi: "There's a door on the other side of this thing, where the Evangelical enters."
[19:08] Alathon: Usagi: "Confession is nominally private and secret; how much this holds up, I can't say."
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi: "The interesting thing here is not the building, but the practice."
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi: "IT's widely understood that unburdening onesself of sins is a tiring, even exhausting practice. Ostensibly because we're all so thoroughly ingrained with hateful, sinful behaviors that it goes against our nature."
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi, once again, lays on the sarcasm.
[19:10] Alathon: Usagi: "Multiple operatives who gave confession have described it as more than that. More like, having their will sapped."
[19:10] Mani: "Hmmm."
[19:11] Alathon: Usagi: "These are a couple of things I feel need investigation by this time."
[19:11] Alathon: ((team))
[19:11] Alathon: Usagi: "The exact magical nature of those crosses, and what is going on in those confessional booths."
[19:12] Mani: "Have recording devices been hidden in the booths?"
[19:12] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head slightly.
[19:12] Alathon: Usagi: "None were found.. and frankly, the tech level is such that it'd be very difficult to hide them."
[19:12] Mani: "I meant by us."
[19:12] Alathon: Usagi: ".... assuming technical parity between the Church and society, that is."
[19:13] Alathon: Usagi: "That's.. no. None of our operatives have found any."
[19:13] Alathon: Usagi: "They confessed to an assortment of made-up infractions, were told to fast, says prayers, and the like.. and nothing came of it."
[19:14] Mani: (Are our signals getting crossed? I was asking if we'd hidden any.)
[19:14] Kuonji: "No compulsion?"
[19:14] Alathon: ((yes))
[19:14] Alathon: Usagi blinks.
[19:14] Alathon: Usagi: " Oh... no."
[19:15] Mani: (Yes, they're getting crossed?)
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Er."
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "no, we haven't planted mics."
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Compulsion, we don't know, but suspect not."
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "We do have intelligence on what others have discussed int he booths, however"
[19:16] Alathon: Usagi: "It's pretty much what you'd expect from a repressed society.. impure thoughts, dogmatic infractions, and the like."
[19:17] Kuonji: (impure thoughts, my favorite)
[19:17] Alathon: ((Father, I daydreamed about boning your wife seventy-two times since last week's confession))
[19:17] * Sheena raises an eyebrow at that
[19:18] Sheena: "Impure thoughts?"
[19:18] Kuonji: "The best kind."
[19:18] Alathon: Usagi starts to say something, then giggles.
[19:18] Alathon: Usagi: "Yeah. And.. yeah."
[19:18] Mani: "Impure in what way?"
[19:19] Alathon: Usagi: "Anything vaguely sexual outside the bounds of contracted and monogamous marriage"
[19:19] Sheena: "Oh dear,"
[19:19] Alathon: Usagi: "Anything doubting the Lord's will or beneficence."
[19:19] Sheena: "Well im in troble then arent i"
[19:19] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Sheena, grinning.
[19:19] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd say you've got several months of fasting ahead of you."
[19:20] Alathon: Usagi: "At least."
[19:21] Alathon: Usagi: "That said, we could care less what sort of asinine social strictures they're imposing on themselves."
[19:22] Alathon: Usagi: "Our concern is if there's some sort of life-force pyramid scheme going on here."
[19:22] Sheena: (witty line generator totaly failed there, my bad)
[19:22] Alathon: Usagi: "The same goes for the cross."
[19:22] Mani: (Witty comeback not found.)
[19:22] Alathon: Usagi: "It could just be an icon and a particularly vicious means of execution, but I'm not so sure."
[19:24] Kuonji: (life force pyramid scheme... now there's a phrase you don't hear everyday)
[19:24] Alathon: ((beats the hell out of dollars))
[19:24] Mani: (Kind of strange for them to be using Christian style churches in a pyramid scheme...)
[19:25] Alathon: ((ORLY?))
[19:25] Mani: (Pyramids would make more sense. :) )
[19:25] Sheena: "I can likly get a look at the cross, Im lost as to how to handle that confesionly thing"
[19:25] Alathon: Usagi: "Um... confess?"
[19:25] * Mani glances around at the group.
[19:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Kuonji should observe it too.. if it isn't a magical drain, but rather a drain of life-force, he'd be able to tell.. right?"
[19:26] Alathon: She addresses the question at the end to Kuonji.
[19:26] Kuonji: "I should be able to, I believe."
[19:26] Alathon: Usagi realizes something, and looks back to Sheena.
[19:26] Sheena: "With my eyes and hair? I would probly get a good view of the cross by ending up on it"
[19:26] Alathon: Usagi: "And for pity's sake, don't confess to all your ACTUAL incfractions."
[19:26] * Sheena blushs at that
[19:27] Mani: "Do you think we'll be able to convincingly go under cover in such a setting?"
[19:27] Alathon: Usagi: "No."
[19:27] Kuonji: "Ah, perhaps you should tell us what gets someone "sent to the lord"..."
[19:27] Alathon: Usagi: "Not for more than a few minutes."
[19:27] Sheena: "You mean i shouldn't tell the small town eve how the interdim engerydraining being im dateing uses her toung?"
[19:27] Alathon: Usagi, flatly: "No. Nothing about protracted sex romps."
[19:28] Alathon: Usagi: "With vampiric beings or otherwise."
[19:28] Mani: "Do they have taboos against same sex relations there, too?"
[19:29] Sheena: "I guess whiping out a score of there trops, eve's and a couple of there angles is out to."
[19:29] Alathon: Usagi opens her mouth to answer, then thinks for a moment.
[19:29] Sheena: "hmm.. ill have to make crap up"
[19:29] Alathon: Usagi: "You know.. I don't know."
[19:29] Alathon: Usagi: "If that was in the review, I forgot it after hearing all the other crap."
[19:30] Alathon: Usagi chooses not to answer the bit about killing Evas and texan troops.
[19:30] Alathon: Usagi: "To be clear, this will be a very short term mission. In and out."
[19:30] Mani: "Go in, slip into confession, get out?"
[19:31] Alathon: Usagi: "That's the first half."
[19:31] Mani: ("Torch the church and everyone in it?")
[19:31] Alathon: ((haha.. no ;p ))
[19:32] Kuonji: (awwww)
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "I don't have the slides ready, but the second half amounts to an assassination."
[19:33] Alathon: Usagi waits a moment to see if there's any immediate response.
[19:33] Kuonji: "Who, and how?"
[19:34] Mani: ("Everyone in the church. By fire." Ok... I'll stop now.)
[19:34] Alathon: ((haha.. revenge porn much?))
[19:34] Kuonji: (revenge porn?)
[19:34] Alathon: (.. graphic descriptions of hwat you wish would happen to people you have a beef with))
[19:35] Kuonji: (ah)
[19:35] Alathon: ((i.e... imagine George W. Bush being beaten over, and over, and over with a cat o nine tails made of barbed wire before being dipped in a sludge composed of bourbon and cocaine))
[19:35] Sheena: (Ill pass thanks.
[19:35] Alathon: (that's revenge porn))
[19:35] Alathon: moving on..
[19:36] Sheena: (ill stick with tentaclepron with "THERE 18 HONEST" anime)
[19:36] Alathon: (... a cat is fine too.))
[19:36] Alathon: Usagi: "How, is Judgement from Heaven."
[19:36] Sheena: "What kind?"
[19:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Or the closest we can deliver, courtesy of Reis."
[19:36] Alathon: Reis startles a bit at this.
[19:37] * Sheena frowns at this
[19:37] * Mani nods.
[19:37] Sheena: "Oh right.. My shot woulnd't really make them think holy smite"
[19:38] Alathon: Reis: "A long range Furieriss from the sky?"
[19:38] Alathon: Usagi: "If that's the one that looks like a lance of molten silver, yes."
[19:38] Alathon: Usagi looks over at Sheena.
[19:38] Alathon: Usagi: "And.. yes, what you said."
[19:38] * Kuonji snickers
[19:38] Alathon: Reis: "Um.. I'll need some time."
[19:39] Alathon: Usagi: "Hmm?"
[19:39] * Sheena folds her amrs
[19:39] Alathon: Reis: "I'll need to modify Swordbreaker.. I made some changes in the field. I'll need long range targeting capabilities again, and..."
[19:39] Sheena: "Will we have any time before this op? I really could use some lab time to finsh a project"
[19:39] Alathon: Reis trails off, sort of in space.
[19:39] Alathon: Usagi hmms.
[19:40] Alathon: Usagi: "I... yes."
[19:40] Kuonji: (you need to rename that attack "Divine Retribution")
[19:40] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd been planning on tomorrow, however, a week after tomorrow would work just as well, when it comes down to it."
[19:40] Alathon: Usagi: "And I"m sure you all could use a bit of time to decompress."
[19:40] Mani: "Who is the target?"
[19:40] Alathon: At the mention of 'weeks', you all realize it's Saturday.
[19:41] Alathon: Usagi: "I don't have any pictures handy, but it's Addington."
[19:41] Alathon: Usagi: "If you recall, Myshaella mentioned an employer; he's a high ranking Evangelical."
[19:42] Mani: "Ah. Does he have any superhuman abilities? If so, one attack might not take him out."
[19:42] Alathon: Usagi: "To my knowledge, he has no abilities above and beyond those of the Evangelicals."
[19:42] Alathon: Usagi: "And on the target occasion, he should not be armored."
[19:42] * Mani nods.
[19:43] * Sheena hmms
[19:44] Alathon: Usagi: "This is not the only reason we are targeting him."
[19:45] Alathon: Usagi: "He's a member of the Guardian Council of Texas."
[19:45] Alathon: Usagi pauses a moment.
[19:46] Alathon: Usagi: "Which brings up another topic, the rulership of Texas, since I'm sure that means nothing to you all."
[19:46] Alathon: Usagi pauses.
[19:46] Alathon: Usagi: "Unless you've heard something about them?"
[19:47] Sheena: "It's not something we have come across yet"
[19:47] * Mani shakes her head.
[19:47] Alathon: Usagi: "Nuts, too bad."
[19:47] Alathon: Usagi: "Anyways.."
[19:48] Alathon: Usagi: "The United States of Texas is a theocracy."
[19:48] Alathon: Usagi: "Literally. There is no government that is not clergy, and vice versa."
[19:49] Alathon: Usagi: 'The evangelicals you've fought are 'unlanded' evangelicals, which is to say they have not been granted an assignment to a particular parish."
[19:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Despite that they wield what could best be described as 'ultimate' authority over anyone not consecrated as an evangelical."
[19:50] Alathon: Usagi: "From what we've gathered, it's a matter of courtesy for unlanded evangelicals to report infractions and concerns to the local parish, so they can deal with them, but that's not by any means required."
[19:50] Sheena: (being able to set stuff on fire at will normaly gets people to listen to you)
[19:50] Alathon: Usagi: "Above the evangelicals are the Guardian Council."
[19:51] Alathon: Usagi: "They number forty.. and yes, that number should be familiar to any of you who have studied ancient religions."
[19:51] Kuonji: (err, did she mention what gets you put up on the cross? she said she'd cover it)
[19:51] Alathon: ((no, she has not covered it yet))
[19:53] Alathon: Usagi: "This Guardian Council is composed entirely of evangelicals, landed and otherwise."
[19:54] Alathon: Usagi: "They function as the local 'final authority' throughout the UST."
[19:54] Alathon: Usagi: "For pretty much everything, though I suspect they delegate a substantial amount of accounting and other management responsibilities."
[19:54] Alathon: Usagi: "They answer to the Hand of God."
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi: "And no, I don't have any photos of him, her, or it."
[19:55] Kuonji: "When do we get to kill him?"
[19:55] Kuonji: "Awwww."
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi looks over at Kuonji.
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi: "Who says I don't?"
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi: "But seriously.. no."
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi: "Not yet, at least."
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi pauses a bit, then continues.
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi: "In fact, do not kill the Hand of God, if by some bizarre coincidence you run into them."
[19:57] Alathon: Usagi: "This is an extremely stratified and static society, and I'm not willing to throw the whole thing into chaos. At least, not yet."
[19:58] Mani: "If we're forced to engage the Hand of God, should we take pains to leave it alive, if we are, in fact, winning the fight?"
[19:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Good god.."
[19:58] Alathon: Usagi leans her head back, looking at the ceiling.
[19:58] Alathon: Usagi she snaps her head forwards.
[19:58] Sheena: ( i didnt do it!)
[19:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes. Yuuno can teleport your team out; if you're forced into such a confrontation, do so."
[19:59] * Mani nods.
[19:59] Kuonji: (heh)
[19:59] Alathon: Usagi: "I can't say that I wouldn't mind whoever's at the top of this fucked up shithole of a country dying, but... not by accident."
[19:59] Alathon: Usagi quirks a smile.
[19:59] Mani: "I assume it comes down to a situation of us or him, though, that's a different matter."
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi: "In point of fact, that was one of mom's mandates. No accidental foreign policy if I can help it."
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi sobers a little.
[20:00] * Sheena blinks at that
[20:00] Alathon: Then faces Mani.
[20:00] Sheena: (dont think we're ready to take on Palpatine yet any way..)
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi: "If you are literally incapable of escaping without killing them, than yes. If, for example, they have some sort of teleport dampening capability."
[20:01] Alathon: Usagi: "But I will be crystal clear on this."
[20:01] Alathon: Usagi: "No matter how much you want them to pay, for what you've seen in the AFS or our own embassy, this is absolutely not to be used as an excuse to collect."
[20:02] Alathon: Usagi waits to see how you respond.
[20:03] Mani: (Anyone else going to say anything?)
[20:03] Mani: (Anyone else here?)
[20:03] Sheena: (yes)
[20:03] Kuonji: (nope)
[20:04] Alathon: ((... just say no then, please ;p ))
[20:04] Mani: (Now I don't know which question Sheena was answering...)
[20:04] Alathon: ((god, I hate how humans act when addressed as a crowd, rather than by name0)
[20:04] Kuonji: )hell if I know(
[20:04] Sheena: "Won't be a problem."
[20:04] Mani: "Of course."
[20:04] Kuonji: "Yes, ma'am."
[20:04] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[20:04] Alathon: Usagi: "Good."
[20:05] Alathon: Usagi: "And I should be clear as well.. it's not because this Hand of God doesn't have it coming, at least not in my book."
[20:05] Alathon: Usagi: "It's because assassinating a head of state is not something we will do without explicit authorization."
[20:06] Alathon: Usagi: "That is to say, Queen Serenity and King Endymion's authorization, not mine."
[20:06] * Mani nods.
[20:06] Alathon: Usagi: "That's the sort of thing that.. well. Never mind."
[20:07] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm sure you can all figure out why that would be a Bad Thing."
[20:07] Kuonji: ("But mooooooom, I really wanna assasinate this head of state. Daaaaaaad, mom's being meaaaaaan.")
[20:07] Alathon: Usagi: "Okay. So."
[20:07] Alathon: Usagi: "Don't discuss this with anyone."
[20:08] Mani: ("For the last time, Usagi, you may not assassinate your mother.")
[20:08] Sheena: "Don't that go with outsaying?"
[20:08] * Mani smiles slightly.
[20:08] Alathon: Usagi: "I don't think Crystal Tokyo has been infiltrated, and that's not for lack of New Englander attempts."
[20:08] Mani: "Not any more."
[20:08] Kuonji: "Oh?"
[20:08] Sheena: "Woah, wait. New englander attempts?"
[20:08] Alathon: Usagi: "I suppose it's only fair, we're certainly doing the same."
[20:09] Alathon: Usagi: "To teleport spies in, with poorly copied versions of our own attire? Yes."
[20:09] Alathon: Usagi suddenly looks a little uncomfortable.
[20:09] Alathon: Usagi: "Though that's probably a topic for another day."
[20:10] Alathon: Usagi: "Have no fear, we're regulating."
[20:10] Sheena: (regulators... mount up! *heavy beat*)
[20:10] Kuonji: (/me defects to new england)
[20:11] Mani: (You can pretend to be the princess in exile.)
[20:11] Alathon: (that's always what my brohter said when he was throwing a party and I asked him if he was too drunk to keep people under control... don't worry, I can still regulate)
[20:12] Sheena: (Usagi: We're letting them take bits of culter home.. just some anime for now, later some jpop... Soon ther echildren we be subverted underthere noses and we can start biger plans)
[20:12] Alathon: (we're giving their old men tentacle porn too)
[20:12] Kuonji: (lol)
[20:12] Mani: (And finally Pocky.)
[20:13] Alathon: Usagi: "... "
[20:13] Kuonji: (shit, pocky's like the final nail in the coffin)
[20:13] Alathon: Usagi looks over at Sheena.
[20:13] Alathon: Usagi: "Though if you see someone running around glowing with magic, who isn't in a Marine uniform, report them please."
[20:13] Alathon: Usagi: "The odds of them actually sneaking someone by us are damned slim, but, better safe than sorry."
[20:13] Alathon: (pocky's not that good)
[20:13] Sheena: "Can i have some fun first?"
[20:14] Sheena: "There's so many interesting things to show them"
[20:14] Alathon: Usagi lowers her eyelids almost haflway.
[20:14] Sheena: "Or not.."
[20:14] Mani: "Spies who don't know they've been discovered are very valuable."
[20:14] Alathon: Usagi: "No, Sheena, we don't condone L.A. style arrests."
[20:14] Alathon: Usagi: "Not to mention that.. what Mani said."
[20:15] Sheena: "Aww, i was just gona take em over to that hentai destrick and laught at there reactions"
[20:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Honestly.. I doubt that's going to phase them."
[20:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Not from what intelligence we've gathered."
[20:16] Sheena: (new englanders do it from behind?)
[20:16] Alathon: (new englanders do it with anyone and anything a Charm spell can land on ;p ))
[20:16] Sheena: (hah)
[20:16] Mani: (They've delevoped a Charm Squid spell.)
[20:17] Alathon: (They have.)
[20:17] Alathon: Usagi: "Moving on.."
[20:17] Alathon: Usagi: "You all have the next week off, as leave."
[20:17] Sheena: ("Sir, it's as we feared. They have all the tentacle monsters." "I see.. We must secure some for ourselfs at once!")
[20:17] Kuonji: (fuck you guys >_>)
[20:17] Mani: ( (Link: http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/ ... -the-book/)http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/and-im-giving-you-a-longing-look-everyday-everyday-i-write-the-book/ )
[20:18] Kuonji: (is that tubsquid again?)
[20:18] Mani: (Yes.)
[20:18] Kuonji: (heh, hey al, will be get to go to Arkam at some point? or Innsmouth? :D)
[20:18] Kuonji: (*we)
[20:18] Alathon: ("Owned by a cephalopod. ")
[20:18] Sheena: (damn, that all most took the dudes head out)
[20:19] Sheena: (off)
[20:19] Alathon: (out works too)
[20:19] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Reis.
[20:19] Alathon: Usagi: "Leave, with the caveat that you make whatever modifications are necessary."
[20:20] Sheena: (seriously, right in the mouth. Now that’s accuracy.)
[20:20] Alathon: Reis: "R-right. Of course."
[20:20] Sheena: "hmm, ill be in the labs the hole time to.. got a redesign to finsh"
[20:21] Alathon: Reis: "Would you like some assistance, Senpai?"
[20:21] Alathon: Reis: "After I finish, of course."
[20:22] Sheena: "Sure, i got a lot to do"
[20:22] Alathon: Reis glances at Usagi as she says that.
[20:22] Alathon: Reis: "Alright, I'll be there!"
[20:22] Alathon: Usagi looks slightly amused, but masks it quickly; Reis doesn't seem to notice.
[20:23] Alathon: Usagi: "I think I've covered most of what I'd planned for this meeting, so I'll open it up for questions."
[20:24] Kuonji: "So... What can get you crucified in Texas?"
[20:25] Sheena: ( (Link: http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/ ... its-woody/)http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/mr-potato-head-son-of-a-building-block-its-woody/ this made me lol)
[20:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Good question."
[20:26] Alathon: usagi: "Though strictly speaking, that isn't crucifixion. If anything, it's more merciful."
[20:29] Alathon: Usagi: "I should be clear here, that the answer is, anything."
[20:29] Alathon: Usagi took a moment to think this over, apparently.
[20:29] Alathon: Usagi: "The authority to give someone to the LORD is invested in every Evangelical."
[20:29] Alathon: Usagi: "To my knowledge, they're not answerable to anyone regarding how they use it. Perhaps the Guardian Council."
[20:30] Alathon: Usagi: "However, in practice, it works out that there's two ways it's used."
[20:30] Alathon: Usagi: "In the case where this is imposed as a death sentence, it is almost uniformly due to a perception of systematic misconduct."
[20:30] Alathon: Usagi pauses.
[20:31] Alathon: usagi: "Though I should explain here, that it's considered.. well.."
[20:31] Alathon: Usagi: "Some combination of a mercy and a gift."
[20:31] Mani: "It isn't done as a reward, too, is it?"
[20:31] * Mani makes a face.
[20:31] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[20:32] Alathon: Usagi: "No... but, honestly, that woudln't have surprised me, all things considered."
[20:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Anyways...'
[20:32] Alathon: Usagi: "It's important to explain here that Texan society is, well.. almost entirely faith-centric."
[20:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Everything is about God. Everything is God's Will. Everything is in His name, and everything is for His glory."
[20:32] Alathon: Usagi: "up to and including passing gas."
[20:33] * Kuonji blinks
[20:33] Alathon: Usagi: "That's a divine wind, in local parlance."
[20:33] Kuonji: (LOL)
[20:33] Kuonji: (hahaahahaha kamikaze, huh?)
[20:33] Alathon: Usagi: ".. and no, I'd rather not go into that."
[20:33] Alathon: Usagi: "Moving on."
[20:34] Alathon: Usagi: "Everything is about God, and about trying to make up for humanity's flawed and sinful nature."
[20:34] Alathon: Usagi: "Striving to achieve His good graces, and earn an eternity in a paradise of some sort."
[20:35] Alathon: Usagi: "Giving someone to the lord is considered a gift because it's a free ticket in."
[20:35] Sheena: "Would make a convenint way to collect engery as well"
[20:35] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Sheena.
[20:35] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes. Very convenient."
[20:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Anyways.. it's a merciful gift, because it's largely given to those that people feel have proven themselves constitutionally incapable of doing God's Will on earth."
[20:37] Alathon: Usagi: "Deviants. Cynics. Doubters, and the like."
[20:37] Alathon: Usagi: "People who would be condemned to eternal damnation without the intervention of the Church and it's Evangelicals."
[20:37] Alathon: Usagi: "Who mercifully allow them an immediate, albeit discomfiting, means of repentance."
[20:38] Alathon: Usagi says this straight up.. she can't quite manage sarcasm here.
[20:38] Kuonji: "How thoughtful of them."
[20:38] Alathon: Usagi: "It is."
[20:38] Alathon: Usagi: "That's something to keep in mind, if you're forced into a conversation. It *is* considered a mercy."
[20:39] Alathon: Usagi: "We've already had one blown cover on account of a conversation about this topic."
[20:39] Alathon: Usagi: "That's one of the reasons, judgement from an Evangelical."
[20:39] Alathon: Usagi: "The other typical reason is a request of an Evangelical."
[20:40] Alathon: Usagi: "Usually after something particularly shameful comes to light.. an adulterous relationship, and suchlike."
[20:40] Alathon: Usagi: "Such requests may be granted at the discretion of an Evangelical, if they feel the individual in question has made a compelling case for their inability to do God's Will on earth."
[20:41] Kuonji: (two words: compulsive masturbation)
[20:42] Alathon: (if you're masturbating to imagery of someone being burned to death on the cross, you have Issues ;p))
[20:42] Alathon: Usagi: "So... to address your concerns, the odds of your being assigned such a punishment are highly unlikely."
[20:43] Alathon: Usagi: "From what we've gathered, enemies combatants are typically executed."
[20:43] * Sheena hmms at that
[20:43] Alathon: Usagi: "They only extend this 'mercy' to the civilian population of areas they've occupied."
[20:44] Alathon: Usagi: "Those that don't learn real quick how to toe the line."
[20:44] Kuonji: ("Suits me just fine, Hell is where all the good musicians are.")
[20:45] Alathon: Usagi: "Actually.. this brings up something of a philosophical quesiton."
[20:45] Alathon: Usagi: "Can we co-exist with such a nation on this planet?"
[20:45] Alathon: She asks this of the party, and waits for answers.
[20:46] Sheena: "They can't even co-exist with there nabors"
[20:46] Mani: "Co-existing while having contact with them?"
[20:46] Kuonji: "No."
[20:47] Alathon: Reis restrains herself from saying something, but shakes her head.
[20:47] Mani: "Not as they are now, I'd say."
[20:47] Alathon: Usagi nods slowly.
[20:48] Alathon: Usagi: "And even if we didn't have to deal with them.. knowing what they inflict on their neighbors sticks in my throat."
[20:48] Alathon: Usagi blurts something out.
[20:48] Alathon: Usagi: "If they weren't on Earth, Saturn would kill them all."
[20:49] Alathon: She says this with a certain degree of relish, then realizes what she said.
[20:49] Alathon: ((er, relish and heat))
[20:49] Kuonji: (a woman after my own heart)
[20:49] Sheena: (oh sure, make sheena feel small)
[20:49] Kuonji: (heh... maybe I should say that in charachter :P)
[20:49] Alathon: ((what, sheena could manage it, it'd just take her a lot longer))
[20:49] Alathon: ((wel, say it if you want))
[20:49] * Mani leans back slightly and looks at the ceiling.
[20:49] Alathon: Usagi looks... like she's been caught naked, almost.
[20:49] Kuonji: "Ah, a woman after my own heart."
[20:49] * Sheena sighs
[20:50] * Kuonji has a dreamy look on his face
[20:50] Sheena: "Makes me feel so weak"
[20:50] Mani: "Do *all* of them deserve that or just the leaders?"
[20:50] Alathon: Usagi looks from Mani, to Kuonji, then back to Usagi.
[20:50] Alathon: ((er, Reis))
[20:50] Alathon: Usagi closes her eyes for a couple seconds, then opens them.
[20:50] Alathon: Usagi: "I dunno. Mom would say no. Never in a thousand years."
[20:51] Alathon: Usagi: "She's probably right, too.. regardless of how much they piss me off."
[20:51] Alathon: She says this 'piss me off' bit looking at Kuonji.
[20:51] Sheena: (Usagi would befriend them!)
[20:51] Kuonji: (I'm gonna need to crash soon)
[20:51] Alathon: Usagi: "Saturn would say they're not just participants in an evil empire, but members of a diseased culture."
[20:51] Alathon: ((nod, good for like half an hour?))
[20:53] Kuonji: (I could probably do an hour)
[20:53] Kuonji: (I just gotta get up early tomorrow)
[20:53] Alathon: Usagi: "That the UST exists because of millions of peoples seperate, conscious decisions to toe the line.. to send their kids off to war.. to avoid the hard risks of rebellion, and stick with what they know."
[20:53] Alathon: ((nod))
[20:53] Alathon: Usagi: "She can be a bit harsh."
[20:54] * Mani nods.
[20:54] Sheena: "If there outer dim support gets cut off the riders will likly make sure something like this won't happen again"
[20:54] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Sheena.
[20:54] Sheena: "They seem like that type you can only push so far before they come down hard"
[20:54] Alathon: Usagi: "That's something else we've thought about."
[20:54] Alathon: Usagi: "That's not a small concern, either."
[20:54] Alathon: Usagi: "Suppose we break the UST's back. Cut off their access to an angel horde."
[20:54] Alathon: Usagi: "After the UST butchered whole cities of AFS people."
[20:55] Mani: "From my understanding, the UST chose to begin their crusade before they had access to the angels."
[20:55] Alathon: Uasgi nods.
[20:55] Sheena: "And got steped on"
[20:55] Alathon: Usagi: "Correct. And as I understand it, they never got anywhere. Or rather.. did not make substantial territorial gains."
[20:56] Mani: "Still, it seems that this is what they wanted to do all along but only recently had the backing to do it."
[20:56] Mani: "So, I wouldn't shed many tears."
[20:56] Alathon: Usagi nods slightly in Mani's direction.
[20:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Even if the Riders cut their way south all the way to the Tropic of Cancer?"
[20:57] Alathon: Usager: "That is, through the UST."
[20:58] Mani: "I imagine it'd depend on exactly what the AFS did."
[20:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Suppose they did what the UST has done.. no quarter, no prisoners."
[20:58] Alathon: Usagi: "And wholly justified in their own minds.. after all, they didn't start it."
[20:59] * Mani thinks.
[21:00] Mani: "I think the riders would sicken of it fairly quickly, but if they didn't... I'm not sure."
[21:00] Sheena: "At lest the AFS dont take one look at you and pronounce you a crim aginst there god and atttack"
[21:00] Alathon: Usagi: "We don't really know. I don't, at least."
[21:00] Mani: "It'd certainly be regrettable that an entire nation came to such an end."
[21:01] Alathon: Usagi: "And Sheena.. when the UST's current culture dies, I won't shed a tear."
[21:01] Alathon: Usagi: "The question is the people. Did they ever really know better, raised in a theocracy, with evidence of God's Will all around them? Not to mention, does it even matter? It wouldn't according to Saturn."
[21:03] Sheena: "If there a culture of sheep then smashing the current problems could handle things, or just leave them open to the next idoit that steps up"
[21:04] Alathon: Usagi: "or the next idiot they prop up."
[21:04] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head a little.
[21:04] Alathon: Usagi: "it's a problem.
[21:05] Alathon: Usagi: "And not one I have a simple, magical solution to."
[21:05] Alathon: Usagi: "Not one I'm willing to use, anyways."
[21:05] Mani: "Yes. Eliminating the current leaders is only part of the solution."
[21:06] Mani: "And the rest of it wouldn't be easy to figure out or enact, I'm sure."
[21:06] Alathon: Usagi: "If we blow away their leaders, and blow away their most powerful defenders.. do we assume responsibility for rehabilitating them, and defending them against those they've wronged...."
[21:06] Alathon: Usagi: "Or do we stand aside and let mob justice be done..."
[21:07] Alathon: Usagi: "Better to avoid that, if possible."
[21:08] Sheena: "Trying to assume responsibilty would likly ruin things with the riders, and hell there no way we got the people to do it"
[21:08] Alathon: Usagi: "Nullify the thread to the UST, and take a slower approach to 'fixing' the UST."
[21:09] Alathon: Usagi: "And.. yes. That's likely the reliality of the situation. Regardless of the ability to drive off the Heavenly Host, kill off the Guardian Councilm and butcher their armies, we don't have the people to do a post-war occupation."
[21:09] Alathon: ((reality))
[21:09] Sheena: (we need more pylons and dragoons!)
[21:10] Mani: (And need to spawn more overlords.)
[21:10] Alathon: (or more hero units ;p ))
[21:10] Alathon: Usagi: "All that said, we don't have a final policy decision concerning the UST."
[21:11] Sheena: (we got 9 of them thats not enought?)
[21:11] Alathon: (uh, I dunno, ask Usagi?))
[21:11] Alathon: Usagi: "Either way, we're workign on short term goals at the president."
[21:11] Alathon: Usagi: "Weaken the UST, drive off as much of the Host as we credibly can."
[21:12] Alathon: Usagi: "And get some of our own back for the losses we've suffered from UST backed attacks."
[21:12] Sheena: (err isnt that something usagi should be asking her husdend if she really wants more?)
[21:12] Mani: (It would be if they weren't secretly running a half dozen CTs in other dimensions.)
[21:12] Mani: (And president? :) )
[21:12] Alathon: ((... present ;p ))
[21:12] Alathon: ((probably should have started off with something a little less strong than shots of tequila))
[21:13] Sheena: (Nah!)
[21:13] Sheena: ( be a man, slam the bottle!)
[21:13] Alathon: ((... no, it's a handle))
[21:13] Mani: (Eat the worm!)
[21:13] Sheena: "Do we have more info on this "host?""
[21:13] Alathon: ((and I've already done eleven shots, that's enough for now))
[21:13] Sheena: (so?)
[21:13] Sheena: (Livers are over rated)
[21:14] Kuonji: (damn, you sure as fuck could drink me under the table)
[21:14] Alathon: ((for better or worse, that's likely))
[21:14] Mani: (11 shots in 3 hours?)
[21:14] Alathon: ((I've gone through 1.5 lemons (throwing out one 8th of a lemon because it was discolered), with an 8th of a lemon per shot)
[21:14] Alathon: ((so I'm sure it's the right count))
[21:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Not as much as we'd like, but some."
[21:15] Mani: (I don't think I'd do 11 shots in 3 days...)
[21:15] Alathon: Usagi: "There are other mercenary companies involved beyond Myshaella's Skybolts."
[21:16] Alathon: (that's the sign of a healthy person ;p ))
[21:16] Sheena: (if its good tequila i would)
[21:16] Alathon: Usagi: "Further, we suspect that a substantial portion of those employed are freelancers."
[21:16] Sheena: "Ahh right, her... anything good outa her yet?"
[21:16] Alathon: Usagi: "Hireswords, mercenaries.. whatever. Which is to say, people who aren't trustworthy enough to make better money with a bonded company. Supposedly."
[21:17] Alathon: Usagi: "Likely recruited trhough that poster that.. was reported.. or others like it."
[21:17] Kuonji: (I could do 11 shots in a night)
[21:17] Alathon: (the tequila in question is montezuma brand, so it's middle of the road)
[21:17] Kuonji: (but I wouldn't be coherent anymore)
[21:18] Kuonji: (I'd me fucking slamming my head on the keyboard, possibly puking while doing so)
[21:18] Alathon: ((heh, am I coherent? I wonder sometimes if my DMing suffers, even though I enjoy it more))
[21:18] Kuonji: (*be)
[21:18] Mani: (I don't think I could, but I definitely wouldn't, either way.)
[21:18] Sheena: (your coherent enouht)
[21:19] Alathon: Usagi: "We haven't gotten anything on whether Addington hired other companies, but we're hoping."
[21:19] Alathon: Usagi: "And frankly, one is enough."
[21:19] Mani: (Don't know if it suffers. We'll have to see you DMing at least once while sober. ;) )
[21:19] Alathon: (it used to happen.. much more in the earlier games actually))
[21:21] Alathon: Usagi: "I'll be covering more about Addington, and why we've chosen him as a target, at your mission briefing."
[21:21] Alathon: Usagi: "in the mean time, anything else?"
[21:21] * Mani shakes her head.
[21:22] * Kuonji shakes his head as well
[21:22] Alathon: Usagi: "Allright. I'll set up a meeting on Tuesday or Wednesday."
[21:22] Kuonji: ("Yeah, what does Saturn like to drink, damn it?!")
[21:22] Alathon: Usagi: "So if you're going to do anything self-destructive or hangover inducing, do it before then."
[21:22] Mani: (Human blood!)
[21:22] Alathon: She says this jokingly.
[21:23] Sheena: "Roger that"
[21:24] * Kuonji nods
[21:24] Mani: "I'll see what I can do."
[21:24] Alathon: Usagi: "Allright then. I'm off."
[21:25] Sheena: "Speaking off.."
[21:25] * Sheena pulls out her com and checks the CTnet
[21:25] * Kuonji stands and bows
[21:25] Alathon: Usagi: "Thanks for the time. If you can find the time to submit final reports on the goings-on since you dropped off Myshaella, and haven't already, I'd appreciate it."
[21:25] Alathon: Usagi heads out.
[21:25] Sheena: "I was going to was if any one wanted to join me at the Orange Rocks tommaro"
[21:25] Sheena: (awww sheena would ask the boss to)
[21:25] Alathon: Reis immediately brightens.
[21:25] Alathon: Reis: "ooooh!"
[21:25] Kuonji: (what the fuck did you just say?)
[21:26] Alathon: You saw her sorta hesitate when you said Orange Rocks, but she kept going.
[21:26] Mani: (Orange Rocks?)
[21:26] Sheena: "I was going to ask if any one wanted to join me at the Orange Rocks tommaro"
[21:26] Alathon: You all recognize it as a rather classy and expensive resort/spa/hot springs
[21:26] Sheena: (upper class spa/suna)
[21:26] * Kuonji blinks
[21:26] Kuonji: "Sure, why the hell not?"
[21:26] Alathon: Reis: "Of course, senpai!"
[21:26] Mani: "Hot springs?"
[21:27] * Mani looks dubious.
[21:27] Sheena: "I figered one good day off before i got to work rewriting the laws that goveren the powers that be"
[21:27] Alathon: Yuuno: "You mean me too, right?"
[21:27] Sheena: "Not just hotsprings mani"
[21:27] Mani: ("Aaaah! There's a ferret in the spring!")
[21:27] Sheena: "Corse yuuno"
[21:27] Alathon: Yuuno chirps his approval.
[21:28] Sheena: "All tho we might have to slip that female form ring on you if they don't let you in like that"
[21:28] Mani: "Let me check some things and get back to you tonight."
[21:28] Sheena: "Ok"
[21:28] Alathon: Kuonji's comm beeps.
[21:28] * Kuonji looks at Sheena pointedly "Don't you even fucking try."
[21:28] Sheena: "Im sure its mooncat aproved place"
[21:29] * Kuonji checks his com
[21:29] Mani: (He's being conveniently summoned away so his player can leave.)
[21:29] Sheena: "I was talking about yuuno, oh insecure one"
[21:29] Alathon: ((more or less, yes))
[21:29] Kuonji: (heh)
[21:29] Kuonji: "Hmmm... Looks like I have a family dinner to attend tonight."
[21:29] Alathon: Reis is looking alternately thrilled and apprehensive.
[21:29] * Kuonji replies in the affirmative
[21:31] Kuonji: (right, well, I'm off, good night, I'll catch up on what happens tomorrow)
[21:31] Mani: (Good night and good luck.)
[21:31] Mani: (What kind of job are you interviewing for, btw?)
[21:31] Sheena: "Right, cya later sakura"
[21:31] Kuonji: (meh, just retail)
[21:32] Kuonji: (but it's enough to live off of)
[21:32] Kuonji: (thank god)
[21:32] Mani: (*nods)
[21:32] *** Kuonji is now known as Ataru.
[21:32] *** Ataru has signed off IRC (Quit: ).
[21:32] Alathon: ...
[21:33] Alathon: everything I've heard suggests that retail jobs are soul-killing nightmares
[21:33] Sheena: Its a learning experince
[21:33] Alathon: Reis: "I suppose I better get to work.."
[21:33] Mani: (Beats starving.)
[21:33] Alathon: ((in why all humans should be killed))
[21:33] Alathon: ((two years of working at a gas station have imbued in me the opinion that customers all need to die))
[21:35] Alathon: Reis: "But I'll be sure to make time for the Orange Rocks, senpai."
[21:35] Mani: ("Sugar in your tank, sir?" "Ok--wait, what?" "Super in your tank, sir?")
[21:35] Alathon: She says this happily.. and a little hopefully.
[21:36] Mani: "I'll probably see you at home a bit later, Sheena."
[21:36] * Mani excuses herself.
[21:36] Sheena: "'Ok"
[21:36] * Mani gets her harp back from Sakura before he or she goes anywhere.
[21:37] * Sheena gets up and strechs herself
[21:37] Sheena: "Going to see devry for a while, need parts ordered and we got all that loot from this job"
[21:37] Alathon: alright
[21:38] Alathon: gonna run a bit in PMs for each
[22:16] * Mani comms Sheena.
[22:17] Sheena: *ya?*
[22:18] Mani: *Hey, Sheena, are you home right now?*
[22:18] Sheena: *just arived,*
[22:18] Mani: *Could you check out the kitchen table, please.*
[22:18] Sheena: *you two huh? Ok now im worried*
[22:20] Mani: *Mm. Why don't we keep the line open while you check, then.*
[22:20] Mani: (*Damn it! Ants!* We're all very finely attuned to our home.)
[22:20] Alathon: Female Voice: "Mani, is that Sheena? What's going on?"
[22:21] Sheena: *Wierd shadows check, creepy coolness check, did you forget to pay the bills?*
[22:21] Mani: "We're not sure. It seems we both got a feeling about a table."
[22:22] Alathon: Female voice: "A table? What's.. where?"
[22:22] Sheena: *It was a mental intrusion mani, none damage or alter, it just left that image flaged in our minds*
[22:22] Mani: "At home. We don't know why or how. She's checking it out now."
[22:23] Mani: *Anything on, under, or around the table, Sheena?*
[22:23] Sheena: *getting there.. Odd feeling in the house. Has some one been summing creatures from byound with out me?*
[22:24] Mani: *Be on your guard.*
[22:27] Sheena: *hmm, some one left us a note.. I better blast the table just to be sure*
[22:27] Mani: *What?*
[22:28] Alathon: ((hahhahaa))
[22:28] Alathon: (that's boy scout thinking right there.. always be prepared!))
[22:28] Alathon: ((... or maybe neo-con thinking ;p ))
[22:28] Mani: (*Hey, we bought that table together--only blast your half!*)
[22:31] Sheena: *hmm*
[22:31] Mani: (Sheena: *It's from Tsukasa. She took over another CT and has invited us to visit.*)
[22:36] Mani: *Sheena?*
[22:37] Sheena: you hear a
[22:37] Sheena: *"Dear serenity.. i leave the girl alone for a moment and she's lost to the emo side"*
[22:38] Mani: *What?*
[22:40] Sheena: *Just an over emotinal old friend stoping by, Leaving an echo is sadness here. Bah, silly girl. At any rate its not something we can talk about over the com*
[22:41] Mani: *All right, we'll discuss it tonight, if it's not urgent, then. In the meantime, why don't you say hello to a friend here.*
[22:41] * Mani hands the comm to her.
[22:41] Sheena: *a friend?*
[22:42] Mani: "Unless you'd rather not."
[22:43] * Mani seems to be speaking to the person in the room with her.
[22:44] Sheena: *"Oh, good so im not wasting my time learning that.."*
[22:44] Sheena: *huh? Mani you there?*
[22:45] Alathon: female voice: "She's here."
[22:45] Alathon: voice: "Oh.. and this is Renee."
[22:45] Alathon: ((crap, waited in the wrong window ;p ))
[22:45] Alathon: ((oh well, still sorta works))
[22:45] Mani: (She can always point the video pick-up at herself. :) )
[22:46] Sheena: *"Silly girl.. don't think this proper destiny crap will stop me"* says to herself
[22:46] Sheena: *Renee?!*
[22:46] Sheena: (the hurt women right?)
[22:46] Alathon: Renee: "yes.. newly returned to the realm of the wakened, and all that."
[22:46] Mani: (Yep.)
[22:47] Alathon: ((yes))
[22:47] Sheena: *Thats great to hear.*
[22:47] Mani: (Sheena visited her a few times, yes?)
[22:48] Sheena: (yep)
[22:48] Mani: "Sheena visited when she could, too."
[22:49] Sheena: *Ya, hey as you still at the hospital?*
[22:50] Alathon: Renee: "For a while, yes."
[22:50] Alathon: Renee: "But forget that."
[22:50] Alathon: Renee: "What's going on?"
[22:51] Sheena: *Oh nothing, just a friend stoped by to leave a letter for me and mani, Filled up the house with a emo aura something ferce tho. Hmm i can take care of that*
[22:52] Alathon: Renee, doubtful: "Seriously?"
[22:52] Mani: *Just don't blow up the house when you 'take care of it'.*
[22:52] Sheena: *ya ya,*
[22:53] Sheena: *hey, i can be there in a couple min. Can i stop by?)
[22:55] Alathon: Renee: "Of course.."
[22:55] Alathon: Renee: "if you're sure there's nothing that needs tending to.."
[22:55] Sheena: *Great! See you soon. No.. i think i got it all.. Just prop open a window for me*
[22:56] Mani: *Use the door, please, Sheena.*
[22:57] Alathon: Too late
[22:57] Alathon: she comes through the window.
[22:57] Alathon: Open or otherwise.
[22:57] Mani: (Oy, whatever happened to hanging up first? And is the window open?)
[22:57] Alathon: Only if you opened it
[22:57] Sheena: (sheena would stop if its closed! >_<)
[22:57] Alathon: she's in her battle fuku, so it doesn't matter regardless ;p
[22:57] Alathon: okay ;p
[22:58] Mani: (If I didn't have time to finish the call, I certainly didn't have time to open the window.)
[22:58] * Sheena slams to a halt at dark hearts warning and waves into the window
[22:58] Alathon: ((okay, that answers the question))
[22:58] * Mani retrieves her comm then sighs and shakes her head at Sheena.
[22:59] * Mani opens the window.
[22:59] * Sheena moves to flip in.. gets caught, grunts and then flips in to land on her feet
[22:59] Alathon: Renee looks on, amused.
[22:59] Sheena: "Hi!"
[22:59] Mani: "Use the door next time..."
[22:59] Alathon: ((SHeena, when you enter the room, you'll see Renee seated in a chair next to a small table and another chair))
[23:00] Alathon: ((she doesn't look to bad, but a bit on the thin side))
[23:00] Alathon: ((and weak side))
[23:00] * Sheena smiles and moves to give Renee a huge, Friend hug..
[23:01] Sheena: "We've been worried,"
[23:01] * Mani shakes her head.
[23:01] Mani: "I asked the hospital to send a message to my comm if your condition change, but they didn't."
[23:03] Alathon: Renee returns the hug, gingerly.
[23:03] Alathon: Once Sheena lets go of her, Renee looks a little irked.
[23:03] * Sheena looks puzzled
[23:03] Sheena: "Sorry?"
[23:03] * Sheena has steped back
[23:03] Alathon: Renee: "The hospital thing."
[23:04] Alathon: Renee: "Not you."
[23:04] Sheena: "Ahh.."
[23:05] * Sheena opens up her top a bit then slips out a folded note, after that her fuku dissapears in a small shower of dark mots.
[23:05] Sheena: "Here mani,"
[23:05] * Sheena passes the letter to mani
[23:06] * Mani says, "Excuse me a moment," to Renee and reads the letter.
[23:08] Alathon: PM'd
[23:09] Mani: (Sheesh. Just email something like that next time.)
[23:10] Alathon: ((I probably should have composed it before game))
[23:11] * Mani gives a little shrug.
[23:11] Mani: "Hnh."
[23:11] Sheena: "Leave the girl alone for look what happens, bah"
[23:11] Sheena: "Any way"
[23:11] Mani: "Do you have any objection to me passing this on to Usagi?"
[23:12] Sheena: "Huh? Considering whats in there? hmm.. Well i guess if this world does stand out like that they should know"
[23:12] * Mani nods.
[23:13] Sheena: "Not sure the boss is going to be happy with more to think about, but ya you can pass it to her"
[23:13] * Mani glances down at her chest and then wordlessly places the note in a belt pouch.
[23:13] Alathon: Renee looks kinda.. surprised, and curious.
[23:13] Alathon: Renee: "What's in the letter?"
[23:14] Sheena: "Nothing a good tumble in the sack wouldn't fix"
[23:15] Mani: "Mm, I don't think the contents are something we should share, except with the princess."
[23:17] Alathon: Renee looks a little miffed at Sheena's answer, but it fades when Mani speaks.
[23:17] Sheena: "Ya Renee, don't be in such a rush to get back to work"
[23:17] Alathon: Renee: "Well, whatever...w hat?"
[23:17] * Sheena hmms
[23:18] Sheena: "You know if they didn't call you mani, does venus even know?"
[23:18] Mani: "I would hope so."
[23:18] * Mani looks a question at Renee.
[23:19] Alathon: Renee nods.
[23:19] Alathon: Renee: "She was by the first day."
[23:19] Mani: "Hmph. I suppose she has *slightly* more pull than I do."
[23:20] * Mani smiles at Renee.
[23:20] * Sheena just sorts sits in the air and folds her legs
[23:21] Alathon: Renee looks like she's about to say something, then looks over at Sheena showing off, then back to Mani.
[23:21] Alathon: Renee: "I suppose she does, at that."
[23:22] Mani: "I believe I was about to provide some music before I made that call..."
[23:22] * Mani reaches for her harp.
[23:22] Alathon: Renee glances down to Mani's belt pouch curiously, but doesn't ask.
[23:22] Alathon: Renee: "Yes, I could go for some."
[23:22] Sheena: "Any word on when you will be relased?"
[23:22] * Mani plays and sings.
[23:24] Alathon: Renee, quietly, to Sheena: "A few months of rehab."
[23:24] * Sheena nods
[23:24] Sheena: "Aside from that.. How are you doing?"
[23:26] Alathon: Renee will discuss this with you quietly, in deference to Mani's playing.
[23:26] Alathon: End here.
[23:27] * Sheena if renee is interested sheen will go into detail on how that asshole died.
[23:28] Alathon: she won't ask you
[23:28] Alathon: (she already asked mani)
[23:29] Alathon: a little slow as a session, but I'm hesitant to do too muchw ith half of us gone
[23:29] Sheena: thats fine
[23:29] Mani: Mm.
[23:29] Sheena: save the fanserve and pokes at ataru's insecurty for later
[23:29] Alathon: incidentally, I should mention that there will be no game on September 4th
[23:29] Sheena: hmm, odd but ok.
[23:30] Sheena: wolfies will be back by then
[23:30] Sheena: Are you going any placve?
[23:30] Alathon: I'm going out to orcas island with my parents and an uncle
[23:30] Alathon: we're gonna go sightseeing, hiking, boating, etc
[23:30] Sheena: sounds cool
[23:30] Alathon: do the whole San Juan islands thing
[23:30] Mani: Talking with Renee was entertaining.
[23:31] Sheena: Hopfully mani isnt pissed at sheena about hte house..
[23:32] *** Sheena is now known as DCG.
[23:32] Mani: You did blow it up, didn't you...
[23:32] DCG: ya renee wakeing up was cool
[23:32] DCG: no no
[23:32] DCG: not at all
[23:32] *** Mani is now known as Yarrow.
[23:32] Alathon: haha
[23:33] Alathon: woulda beenf unny if she had
[23:33] Alathon: or just said "fuck the note" and blown it up
[23:33] Yarrow: "You Maniac! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you to hell!"
[23:33] DCG: Its not blown up
[23:33] DCG: tho mani may notice the change
[23:35] * Yarrow was paraquoting. :)
[23:35] Yarrow: I know... the whole place will be pink and covered with ribbons, hearts, and flowers.
[23:36] DCG: well
[23:36] Alathon: heh
[23:36] DCG: it was flooded with depersion and tsuka channeling emo
[23:36] DCG: and now its not.
[23:40] Yarrow: Any xp, btw?
[23:42] Alathon: actually, yes ;p
[23:44] Alathon: 3133 exp
[23:47] Alathon: that actually brings up something else
[23:48] Alathon: I've inflated per-game exp a Bit past where
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Session 50

Postby Alathon » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:21 pm

Session 50

[18:09] Alathon: so, anyways
[18:09] Alathon: we left off last week with the party having split up a bit
[18:10] Alathon: Kuonji off to visit his family, Mani to see a friend, Reis to research, Sheena to hit up Talia, and Ken to who knows where
[18:11] *** Yarrow is now known as Mani.
[18:12] Alathon: this being after the meeting with Usagi, in which she announced her intention to send this team on a combined investigation and assassination mission, in Texas
[18:12] Alathon: Mani and Sheena happened to run into a minor issue of their own, so we'll pick up with them
[18:13] Alathon: who are in a hospital room with Renee
[18:14] Sheena: (i forgot what we where doing, heh)
[18:14] * Mani was playing music when we left off.
[18:15] Sheena: "So when ya getting out of here,?"
[18:15] Alathon: Sheena had arrived, mani read the note, mani said she'd play some music.
[18:15] Alathon: Renee: "I do not know for certain.. but several months at most."
[18:15] Alathon: Renee: "Less, more likely than not."
[18:16] * Sheena blinks at that
[18:16] Sheena: "Damn, seems rather long"
[18:16] Alathon: Renee: "Most of that will be physical therapy."
[18:17] Alathon: Renee lies back a little, listening to the music.
[18:18] Sheena: "Oh,.."
[18:18] Alathon: Renee: "How have your been, Sheena?"
[18:19] Sheena: "Over worked, but it's been good for me."
[18:20] Alathon: Renee grins a little.
[18:20] Alathon: Renee: "I suppose you have not, most likely, found time to find someone in the interim.."
[18:21] Sheena: "Well.."
[18:21] Reis: ("... Uh...")
[18:21] Sheena: "Im "seeing" some one now and then"
[18:22] Alathon: Renee: "Oh?"
[18:22] Alathon: Renee: "Someone you met on duty, perhaps?"
[18:22] Kuonji: (heh)
[18:22] Kuonji: (hehhehehehehe)
[18:24] Sheena: "For the most part, Makes it a bit hard to meet regularly"
[18:24] Alathon: Renee: "I can imagine."
[18:24] Alathon: Renee: "What is the lucky lady's name?"
[18:25] Sheena: "Celeste"
[18:25] Mani: (And then Yuuno pops up to explain all about Celeste. :) )
[18:25] Sheena: "I supose i may see her around town later, before we head out again"
[18:25] Kuonji: (is this where we find out celeste helped burn the embassy?)
[18:26] Alathon: Renee: "Should we have the chance, you must introduce me."
[18:26] Alathon: ((apparently not, but good guess ;p ))
[18:26] Mani: (Nah. She just fed on its life force afterwards.)
[18:26] Alathon: Renee will continue to make smalltalk, inquire about your lives, etc.. for a while.
[18:26] Sheena: (drama=bad!)
[18:26] Alathon: Before she eventually settles down to listen to Mani play for a bit.
[18:27] * Sheena is starting to nod off as mani keeps playing.
[18:27] * Mani takes a break after a few songs in case Renee wants to chat more.
[18:28] * Sheena yawns
[18:29] * Mani will play some more if that doesn't seem to be the case, though...
[18:29] Sheena: "Im starting to fall asleep in my seat here, You ladies mind if i head home?"
[18:29] Sheena: "I would love the chance to crash in my own bed for once"
[18:29] Mani: "Not at all."
[18:29] Alathon: Renee: "Not at all."
[18:30] Alathon: Renee: "In truth, I shall have to leave myself, soon enough."
[18:30] Alathon: Renee: "More PT."
[18:30] Mani: "Ah. Well, at least it'll help you get out of here sooner."
[18:31] Alathon: Renee: "That is my hope as well."
[18:31] * Mani smiles.
[18:31] * Sheena will use the door this time, and leave with wave of the hand and a sway of the booty
[18:31] Alathon: Renee: "Thank you again for your visit."
[18:31] Sheena: "Cya later Renee, message us when ever you want"
[18:31] Mani: "Mind if I drop in again while I'm in town?"
[18:32] Alathon: Renee shakes her head slightly.
[18:32] Alathon: Renee: "not in the least."
[18:32] Alathon: She seems to be in much better spirits than she was several hours ago.
[18:32] * Mani packs up her harp.
[18:33] Mani: "Do you have a regular PT schedule?"
[18:34] Alathon: Renee: "Well, yes and no.."
[18:34] Alathon: She'll go on to explain that she has regularly scheduled sessions, whose lengths vary on how well things are going.
[18:34] * Sheena will wait thill she's outa the building then fly home to crash.
[18:34] * Mani nods.
[18:34] Mani: "Should I call ahead, then?"
[18:34] Alathon: However you can make an appointment to visit easily enough.
[18:35] Alathon: Renee: "That might be best, though I ought to be available after the scheduled blocks.."
[18:35] * Mani gives Renee a smile and nod.
[18:36] Mani: "Best of luck with the PT. And like Sheena said, call any time if you need something--or someone to talk te."
[18:36] * Mani starts heading to the door.
[18:36] Mani: "By the way, how's the food here and can people bring you stuff?"
[18:38] Alathon: Renee: "surprisingly good."
[18:38] Alathon: Renee: "Though I should not mind a home-cooked meal, not in the least."
[18:38] * Mani grins.
[18:38] Mani: "I'll see what I can do."
[18:38] * Mani waves and departs.
[18:38] Alathon: She waves as well.
[18:39] Alathon: So..
[18:39] Alathon: is there anything in particular people need to do before the visit to the hot springs?
[18:39] Alathon: and, how many of you are going?
[18:39] Alathon: (this being at Sheena's invitation)
[18:40] Alathon: (also.. was Ken invited/)
[18:40] Kuonji: (am I still at dinner?
[18:40] Kuonji: )
[18:41] Alathon: No
[18:41] Kuonji: (Sakura will go then)
[18:42] Alathon: Reis said she was going (heh)
[18:42] * Mani will go.
[18:42] * Reis will, naturally, go, though she arrives with her glasses still on and looking a little flustered.
[18:42] Mani: (And only her glasses on.)
[18:42] Alathon: ((oy DCG, was Ken invited?))
[18:45] *** Sheena is ~Pai@c-71-57-59-235.hsd1.il.comcast.net (Pai)
[18:45] *** Sheena is on: #magicalgirlcontract #crystaltokyo *#fukufics
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[18:45] Sheena: (sure, why not?)
[18:46] Mani: (Nah. Invite Enigma but not Ken.)
[18:46] Sheena: (guy did a proper showing of himself, corse he is.0
[18:46] Alathon: Ken agrees to go as well.. he's pretty stoked too.
[18:47] Alathon: Alright then.. not much will happen in the meantime, until you all show up at Orange Rocks.
[18:47] Alathon: I'm assuming you all either travelled together, or managed to arrive around the same time ;p
[18:47] * Sheena is looking better after night of sleep
[18:47] Sheena: (assum away)
[18:48] Alathon: It's a good bit outside of central Crystal Tokyo.. unsurprisingly, since the place is huge.
[18:48] Alathon: roll 1d20
[18:48] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{11}
[18:48] Alathon: Ken's looking pretty sharp too.
[18:48] * Reis arrives, as stated, with glasses still on, looking a little flustered. She calms herself as they arrive and straightens herself up, though.
[18:49] Alathon: The party will be greeted by an attendant; Sheena arranging for payment goes smoothly, she has enough credit.
[18:49] Mani: (But now she can't have kids.)
[18:49] Sheena: "One full day of relaxing, and letting go. mmm hell ya"
[18:49] Sheena: (im ausming we get payed a lot)
[18:49] Alathon: Consequently, the party is handed off to another attendant, this one a young man.
[18:49] Alathon: ((you do))
[18:50] Alathon: ((probably.. 2nd or 3rd highest pay bracket))
[18:50] Alathon: ((due to the innate talents required, physical costs, mental costs, training, not to mention hazard to life))
[18:50] Sheena: (cides, how many cridets does she need for little outerdim babies?)
[18:50] * Reis smiles. "Yes... We've been busy."
[18:51] Mani: (Especially ones that are so easy to feed.)
[18:51] Alathon: He introduces himself, then goes on to explain how things are laid out.
[18:51] Sheena: "And i got that project to finsh before next op... Really gona enjoy this"
[18:51] Alathon: Namely that while there are actual restaurants and such, most of the place is semi-secluded pools of varying sizes, shapes, and temperatures.
[18:51] Alathon: With sauna houses here and there.
[18:52] Alathon: The attendant goes on to explain that the pools are marked by signs with a few important attributes
[18:52] * Reis nods. "There's something I'd like to discuss with everyone that I thought of, but it can wait for now."
[18:52] Alathon: clothed or unclothed, unisex or split or gendered, temperature, pool lining, .. etc etc.
[18:52] Mani: (Anything that doesn't involve water, vaporised or liquid?)
[18:53] Alathon: The split pools being pools with dividers
[18:53] Alathon: He points out that many of the pools have shelves of rock, or grassy spaces, where one can picnic, frolic, or sunbathe.
[18:54] Alathon: Having noticed Mani's crescent, he puts a little extra emphasis on sunbathe.
[18:54] Sheena: "Lot biger then i figered,"
[18:54] Alathon: He also says that he would be glad to find you all a spot, if you want to describe what you're looking for.
[18:55] Alathon: Ken: "So.. we going skinny dipping? I've got a speedo if not, so either's cool by me."
[18:55] Alathon: He looks around the team to see how people feel.
[18:56] * Kuonji shrugs
[18:56] * Sheena grins at that
[18:56] Mani: "Well, I don't plan to stay dressed to sunbathe."
[18:56] Sheena: "Hot water, good drinks, and a place to lay out is my goal."
[18:56] Kuonji: "Sounds good."
[18:56] Alathon: The attendant nods.
[18:57] * Reis blushes at Ken's question. "Um... I don't have anything very specific in mind, senpai's is pretty much perfect..."
[18:57] Mani: "Senpai's what is perfect?"
[18:57] * Mani ask distractedly as she looks around.
[18:57] Alathon: Ken grins a little, and looks over at Sheena, faux-appraisingly.
[18:57] Alathon: Ken: "Well.."
[18:58] * Reis flushes. "Well, I meant her suggestion, but..."
[18:58] * Reis seems to be warming up to be here for a while.
[18:59] Reis: (Aka, someone cut her off before she gets too into it :P )
[18:59] Alathon: Attendant: "So.. unclothed, with a good bit of space..."
[19:00] Alathon: Attendant: "Let's go looking, shall we?"
[19:00] Alathon: He realizes something.
[19:00] Alathon: Attended: "Oh, and forgive me for not introducing myself. I'm Mu."
[19:00] * Sheena grabs a brochure listing the places services as they get going.
[19:00] * Reis blushes and stops talking, nodding at the attendant.
[19:00] Alathon: He offers a quick bow to the party.
[19:00] * Sheena will do the meet and greeat bow
[19:01] Alathon: Services include food, beverages, massage, etc.
[19:01] Mani: "Mu."
[19:01] * Mani gives him a little bow.
[19:01] Mani: (Oooh, etc.)
[19:01] * Reis returns the bow.
[19:01] * Kuonji bows politely
[19:02] Alathon: (no happy ending ;p different establishments for that)
[19:02] Sheena: (hah!)
[19:02] Alathon: (though it wouldn't be too unusual to hook up with the attendants; they're all at least moderately attractive)
[19:02] Sheena: "mmm, massage interesting."
[19:02] Mani: (Bleh. All humans, I'm sure.)
[19:02] Alathon: (sadly, yes)
[19:02] * Sheena unfolds the drink list part
[19:03] Sheena: "Well hellow thar..."
[19:03] Alathon: (while this is an excellent resort, working here doesn't quite have the sort of status that a Moon Cat parent hopes their children can acquire)
[19:03] * Reis cannot understand the sudden chill creeping down her spine.
[19:03] Alathon: There's plenty of drinks.
[19:03] Mani: (Even Mani's career aspirations would have been a lot better received than a moon cat's desire to work at an attendant at a spa.)
[19:03] Alathon: (Indeed)
[19:04] Alathon: Mu will eventually stop at a sign next to a fork in the path.
[19:05] Alathon: Mu: "This is a fine spot, however, the water here is particularly hot. If any of you are looking to soak, another spot might be better."
[19:06] Alathon: Mu: "Would you like to have a look?"
[19:06] Mani: "Water temperature doesn't matter to me."
[19:07] * Kuonji eyes the others in the group
[19:07] Sheena: "We can take a look,"
[19:07] Alathon: Mu: "Alright."
[19:07] Sheena: "Tho a cooler pool would be better for spending the day by"
[19:08] Alathon: He'll lead you something like a hundred feet down a path that curves a bit to the left, to a clearling."
[19:08] Alathon: It's certainly picturesque
[19:08] * Sheena wistles a bit to herself
[19:08] * Reis looks around. "Wow..."
[19:09] Alathon: steaming hot springs with what looks to be a sandy floor, a carved wooden stand off to one side, and a moderate sized green with a picnic table.. maybe a couple hundred square feet"
[19:09] Alathon: Mu: "By all means, test the water."
[19:10] Alathon: Mu: "Though, if you're planning to spend the day, I'll agree a somewhat more temperate pool might be more enjoyable."
[19:10] Mani: ("No pools that require system shock checks!")
[19:11] Alathon: If you test it, it's very hot.
[19:11] *** Stelas has signed off IRC (Killed (Chubbzilla (Happy 50th man~))).
[19:11] * Sheena will check it with a foot
[19:11] Alathon: I'll leave it to you how hot your characters like their water, but this is very, very hot.
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[19:11] Alathon: On the upper edge of what humans would typically use.
[19:12] * Mani likes her water chilled, in a glass.
[19:12] Sheena: "Give me a moment,"
[19:12] Sheena: (hmm, we havnt changed yet have we? heh)
[19:12] Alathon: Presumably not.
[19:13] * Sheena rejoins the rest
[19:13] Alathon: Ken leans over and sticks a hand in it.. he pulls it out around ten seconds later.
[19:13] Sheena: "Would be nice for a lunch break, but not a pool to spend the day by"
[19:13] Alathon: Ken: "I dunno.. I can do this, of course.."
[19:13] Alathon: Ken looks over to Sheena.
[19:13] Alathon: Ken: "Yeah."
[19:13] Alathon: Mu: "Right this way, then."
[19:13] * Reis nods. "Yes..."
[19:14] Alathon: Mu: "I think I know a spot that might suit you all. A little less spacious, but.."
[19:14] Alathon: Mu continues on, describing how much the next spot will kick ass as he leads you.
[19:14] Alathon: When you get there, it does look rather nice.
[19:14] Alathon: The pool is similar, with a little less steam coming off it.
[19:15] Alathon: There's less grassy space, and no picnic table; instead, there's a large flattish rock, with six smaller rocks around it.
[19:15] Alathon: Looking at them (the smaller ones) they seem to have a slightly concave top to them.
[19:15] Alathon: If you test the water, it's still quite warm, but not scorchingly hot.
[19:16] * Reis dips a hand in, and nods. "More comfortable, I think..."
[19:17] Sheena: "Looks good to me"
[19:17] Kuonji: "So, this is it then?:
[19:18] Alathon: Ken: "Looks good to me."
[19:18] Alathon: He dips his hand in as wel, and comes away approving.
[19:18] Sheena: "Think so, unless some one has another idea"
[19:18] Alathon: Mu: "Excellent!"
[19:18] Alathon: Mu: "I honestly can't think of a better spot than this."
[19:18] Alathon: Mu: "Now.. if you could all have a quick look at this.."
[19:19] Alathon: Mu will head over to the wooden stand, and show it off.
[19:19] Mani: (Rules & waiver. :) )
[19:19] Sheena: "Corse with rocks we need extra fluffy towels"
[19:19] * Sheena winks at Mu
[19:19] Alathon: There's no lack.
[19:19] Alathon: He opens the bottom doors of the stand to show off the towels available; several shapes and sizes.
[19:19] *** Stelas has signed off IRC (Killed (Lucca (HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU OLD FART <3))).
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[19:19] Alathon: On the sides, there are looks for clothing and the like.
[19:20] Alathon: There are a couple fold out tabletops to hold 'stuff'
[19:20] Alathon: and on top there are an assortment of tanning oils, sunscreens, and the like.
[19:20] Alathon: as well as a 'request service' button. He explains that they guarantee service within ten minutes.
[19:20] Alathon: after which,
[19:20] Alathon: Mu: "Is there anything else you all would like?"
[19:21] Alathon: Mu: "If not, I'll go mark this spot taken."
[19:21] * Kuonji looks at Sheena "Booze?"
[19:21] Sheena: "Oh ya"
[19:21] * Sheena looks at the gear for a moment,
[19:21] Sheena: "Hey cool, they got the little floaty things for drinks while soaking"
[19:22] Alathon: Mu will wait for a few moments, before deciding you've agreed and heading back.
[19:22] Alathon: Another attendant shows up with an even younger couple just as he reaches the edge of the clearing.
[19:22] Alathon: There's a short exchange, the couple looks around, a little disappointed, then all four head back down the path.
[19:23] Alathon: At this point, you all have pretty much free run of the area
[19:23] Alathon: The springs are quite large, irregularly shaped, but not especially deep.. maybe six feet tops at their deepest.
[19:23] * Mani wanders around the area looking for a suitable place to sunbathe.
[19:23] Alathon: The edges are smooth stone, but it's stone, so don't be too stupid; banging your head will hurt.
[19:24] * Sheena starts to get undressed while humming to herself
[19:24] * Kuonji checks out the various tanning oils and lotions
[19:24] Alathon: There's plenty of low, trimmed grass; looking it over, past the table, there are some folding chairs up against a tree.
[19:24] Alathon: If you fiddle with them, you'll find that four of them are regular chairs, and four fold out with legrests.
[19:25] * Reis stretches out and sits one of the smaller concave rocks, carefully averting her eyes from Sheens with a blush.
[19:25] * Mani apparently finds one that meets with he satisfaction and disrobes, leaving her clothes on a rack or stand.
[19:25] Alathon: There are lots of oils to choose from, and all of them are PABA free.
[19:25] Sheena: (paba?)
[19:25] * Mani sniffs some of the oils.
[19:26] * Sheena ditchs her cloths and pins up her hair, but oddly enought keeps her shades on.
[19:26] Sheena: "Come on Reis, lets soak for a bit."
[19:26] Alathon: Ken disrobes, and rather quickly (and a little selfconsciously) heads over to the spring, and slips in.
[19:26] * Sheena will grab a smaller towel for soaking and fling one at reis
[19:27] * Kuonji strips and neatly puts away his clothes before joining the others in the spring
[19:27] Alathon: Ken: "Hey, they've got seats in here!"
[19:27] Alathon: Ken: "Or shelves, at least."
[19:27] Alathon: He moves around a bit, eventually finding a spot he likes, and leans back, eyes closed.
[19:27] * Reis flushes and takes the towel, slowly-and-as-privately-as-you-really-can undressing, and covering herself with the towel.
[19:28] * Sheena slips into the water as well and will find a place to lay back, useing the towl as a head rest as she soaks.
[19:28] Alathon: Once you all setle into the pool, it's remarkably quiet. There's a minor bit of insect noise, and a few birds, but otherwise it's quite.. well, tranquil.
[19:29] Sheena: "mmm, nice and peacfull.."
[19:29] Alathon: Ken: "Hey.. Sheena. Thanks for inviting me."
[19:29] Kuonji: "Leaving is going to suck."
[19:29] Alathon: Ken says this pretty seriously.
[19:29] Sheena: "So.. any one else expecting armorchan to show up and spoile it?"
[19:30] * Sheena sits up a bit an looks over at ken
[19:30] Sheena: "Hey, no problem"
[19:30] * Reis leans back, sneaking glances at Sheena.
[19:30] Alathon: Ken: "Thanks.."
[19:30] Alathon: Ken: "I know I haven't always been... "
[19:30] * Sheena with sheena leaning back reis woudl be getting a hell of a view
[19:30] Alathon: Ken looks a little worried.
[19:30] Alathon: Ken: "I hope not, I didn't bring a single gun."
[19:31] *** Stelas is now known as Stelazzz|work.
[19:31] * Reis 's eyes are, actually, focused above the water, when she looks.
[19:31] Alathon: Yuuno: "Oh, c'mon.. really, what're the odds of that?"
[19:31] Kuonji: "I almost hope she does."
[19:31] * Mani picks one and begins applying it to herself.
[19:31] Alathon: Yuuno's still dry, perched on a rock on the edge of the pool.
[19:31] * Reis sighs. "Probably higher the more we doubt it?"
[19:31] Mani: (After getting off the phone)
[19:31] Alathon: ((*nod*))
[19:32] * Mani lies down in her chosen spot (killing anyone who lay down it it while she was applying oil, if necessary).
[19:33] Kuonji: (/me teleports to Mani's spot just before she lays down)
[19:33] Alathon: ((telefrag?))
[19:33] * Sheena eyes Mani showing off her flexibitly for a moment before relaxing again
[19:33] Alathon: Ken: "Mm.. it's too nice to worry about that."
[19:33] Sheena: "You do now being able to bend like that should be a crim, eh mani?"
[19:34] * Reis blinks and cocks her head, wondering if NORMAL human limbs do that, or just moon cat human limbs.
[19:34] Mani: "Mmmm?"
[19:34] Alathon: Ken: "Um.. I think most of us usually need to ask someone else to do our back."
[19:35] * Sheena will order drinks and lunch snacks, and gets out of the pool oh so slowly to do so.
[19:35] Alathon: You'll succeed; pressing the button gets you what ammounts to a comm connection with an attendant.
[19:35] * Reis will avert her gaze as the show starts.
[19:36] Kuonji: "Come to think of it, I should probably work on a tan while I'm here."
[19:36] Alathon: You can get pretty much anything drink wise and snack wise, within reason.
[19:36] Alathon: ((do you have your do-rag off?))
[19:36] Mani: ("I'll have an elephant sandwich on rye with mustard." "I'm sorry, ma'am, but we're out of mustard.")
[19:37] Kuonji: (yeah, I do)
[19:37] Alathon: You'll also be offered several 'party' items, such as spreads of hors d'oervs, pitchers of beer and margaritas, bottles of wine, etc.
[19:37] Reis: (Heh. Kuo's gonna get hit on :P )
[19:38] * Sheena is game for the party items
[19:38] Alathon: Ken: "Well, it'd set you apart a bit."
[19:38] Mani: (Isn't she always? ;) )
[19:38] Alathon: Ken: "A tan, I mean."
[19:38] * Mani lies there with her eyes half closed.
[19:39] Alathon: You'll get whatever you order in 6-9 minutes.
[19:40] * Reis orders something tasty.
[19:41] * Sheena heads back to the pook with a jug of margartas and a couple glasses, she will then slip in right nexto to reis
[19:41] Sheena: "Got the drinks, here reis
[19:41] * Mani murmurs, "Have them place a tray of something nice in front of me."
[19:42] * Reis nods and takes it. "Thank you, senpai..."
[19:42] Alathon: Mani gets a selection of meats, cheeses, vegetables, and dip.
[19:42] * Reis leans back with a small smile.
[19:42] Kuonji: "Hey, no hogging the alcohol!"
[19:42] * Mani occassionally eats a tidbit using a little effort as possible.
[19:45] Sheena: "Nahh then some and get some"
[19:45] Kuonji: (then some and get some?)
[19:45] Mani: (She's had a few already. :) )
[19:45] Sheena: *come
[19:45] Alathon: Ken goes and fetches a couple more margarita glasses, and brings one back for Sakura.
[19:45] Kuonji: "Thanks"
[19:46] Alathon: Ken: "Pass this pitcher this way, please."
[19:46] * Reis sips quietly, simply enjoying it, and passes the pitcher on to Ken.
[19:46] Kuonji: ("So, anyone seen that damn salt shaker?")
[19:46] Alathon: He pours himself some, and passes it to Sakura.
[19:46] *** Alathon is ~Ala-bot@67.170.6.240 (Alathon)
[19:46] *** Alathon is on: #fukufics #crystaltokyo
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[19:46] *** Sakura: No such nick/channel.
[19:46] *** End of /WHOIS.
[19:47] * Sheena looks over at yuuno before streching out near reis
[19:47] * Kuonji takes it, pours himself a glass, then sets the pitcher down
[19:48] * Kuonji makes short work of his drink
[19:48] Alathon: Yuuno: "Hey.. could you pour me one? Pretty please?"
[19:49] Kuonji: "Sure."
[19:49] * Reis giggles and gets a glass for Yuuno, takes the pitcher, and starts pouring. "Tell me when it's enough, sensei, I don't know how much you want..."
[19:50] Kuonji: (err. did Reis teleport, or is she closer to Sakura then I thought?)
[19:50] Alathon: (You're all presumably semi-close, no more than a few feet from each other)
[19:50] Alathon: (Unless you wanna be further)
[19:51] Alathon: (It's a big pool, so you could have distance, but it woudln't be as easy to talk ;p ))
[19:51] Alathon: Yuuno: "Oh, fill 'er up."
[19:51] Alathon: Yuuno: "Probably won't be able to drink the whole thing, but who knows."
[19:51] * Sheena checks the skin on her arm and decides she can soak for a bit more
[19:51] Sheena: "Ill have to check out that massage option they have here"
[19:52] Kuonji: "Yeah, me too... Think I'll work on my tan first though."
[19:52] * Reis chuckles and fills it up, then passes it to the ferret.
[19:52] * Kuonji climbs out of the pool, and grabs a towel to dry off before checking out the tanning oils again
[19:53] Alathon: Yuuno: "This place is open pretty late, right?"
[19:53] Alathon: Yuuno: "I suppose we've got all day to tan."
[19:53] Alathon: Yuuno: "And thanks, Reis."
[19:53] Sheena: "indeed"
[19:53] Alathon: Yuuno caaaarefuly starts sipping from the glass, which is almost as big as he is.
[19:54] * Kuonji finds the appropriate tanning oil and starts applying it
[19:54] Alathon: You succeed, more or less; with your dexterity, you probably don't need someone to do your back either.
[19:54] Alathon: Ken: "So.. Reis.. you mentioned something y ou wanted to talk about earlier?"
[19:54] Sheena: "Didn't think it would be right to just dissapear on ever one for the day.. and after a couple weeks of no showers.. Well you cna guess why i wanted some time here"
[19:54] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah, I totally feel you."
[19:55] * Reis blinks and nods. "It's kind of work-related. Something else that occurred to me."
[19:55] Reis: "I thought I should consult with everyone first before trying to start it, though."
[19:55] * Kuonji will then find a nice spot to sunbathe for a while
[19:56] * Sheena checks and skin again and decides sakura has the right idea
[19:57] * Mani repositions herself slightly before resuming immobility.
[19:57] Sheena: "Oh? What is it? And come on reis out of the water for a bit, don't want to prune up"
[19:57] * Reis nods. "Good point..."
[19:59] Alathon: Ken stays in the water for a bit longer, immersing himself almost up to his eyes near hte middle of the pool.
[19:59] * Sheena will head over to the stand with get soeme huge fluffy towels and a bottle of oil, before finding a good rock near mani.
[19:59] * Reis covers herself and stands, looking for a spot to rest. "I was thinking... I _believe_ I can slightly alter the function of a magical object."
[19:59] * Kuonji will be to flip every now and then to get even sun
[19:59] * Sheena speads the towel out and wonders for a moment
[19:59] Sheena: " hmm, hey reis can you give me a hand here?"
[19:59] * Sheena waves the oil
[19:59] * Reis blinks and nods. "What do you need, senpai?"
[20:00] Sheena: "You get me and ill take care of you, ok?"
[20:01] * Reis freezes and chokes slightly.
[20:01] * Reis flushes, and gulps. "A... all right?"
[20:01] Sheena: "Oh good!"
[20:02] * Sheena lays out along her front, "Me first, i am paying after all"
[20:02] Reis: "O-of course..."
[20:03] Alathon: Yuuno calls out, "Be thorough, Reis!"
[20:03] Alathon: Yuuno: "Sheena gets really grouchy when she's suburned!"
[20:03] * Reis takes the oil and starts rubbing it in, blushing an extra shade at Yuuno's comment.
[20:04] Sheena: "Ya, please make sure you get it all"
[20:05] * Reis manages to calm herself somewhat. "So... I thought, given all the magical objects we have acquired, I could alter the less valuable ones to be more useful to us personally."
[20:05] * Reis is TOTALLY trying to distract herself.
[20:05] * Sheena releaxs into it
[20:05] Sheena: "Really? mmm interesting"
[20:05] * Sheena notes that ken is still having problems getting out of the pool
[20:07] Sheena: "What ideas do you have for them?"
[20:08] * Sheena mmmm's and sits up and grabs the oil herself
[20:08] * Reis gets a bit more in. "So... before I started that, I thought I should get a list of what exactly everyone had, and what they might want me to do with it. Especially if there's an item nobody needs too much - I'd rather not blow up something important while fine-tuning my techniques..."
[20:08] Sheena: "Ok reis your turn"
[20:08] * Reis nods slowly. "Y-yeah..."
[20:09] * Reis lies down on her front, crossing her arms and resting her head on them.
[20:09] * Sheena stratles the taller womens back and dumps a good bit of the cool oil on her
[20:09] Sheena: "Well we do have a lot of thoes rings.. can pratice on them"
[20:10] * Reis shivers at the sensation. "Right... I probably won't be able to turn it into anything powerful, but, is there anything in particular someone would want?"
[20:11] Sheena: "Break the curse on that female body ring so i dont have to feel bad about slipping it on sakura while his asleep"
[20:11] Kuonji: "I fucking heard that!"
[20:11] * Sheena hmms to her self as she gets to work spreadign the oil and working it in"
[20:12] * Mani rolls onto her back.
[20:12] Sheena: "Don't get all defencive, if its not cursed you can just slip it off right?"
[20:12] * Reis giggles. "Well... removing that curse would be useful regardless if I can..."
[20:12] Sheena: "Cides.. im wondering how much of a twin to the boss you are"
[20:13] Kuonji: "If you somehow manage it, revenge will be swift and painful."
[20:13] * Mani eats a couple of treats in the process.
[20:14] * Reis nods. "And, well, if I make some kind of horrific error, the loss of a cursed item we'd never have used isn't that bad..."
[20:15] Alathon: Yuuno: "Do you have it here, or did you leave it back with the other stuff to let that DeVry girl look it over?"
[20:15] * Mani mumbles, "'less you curse self..."
[20:15] * Reis winces. "I'm pretty sure I can avoid that."
[20:15] Reis: ("95% sure.")
[20:18] Reis: (Kuonji? Weren't you the one carrying it?)
[20:18] Reis: (Or was that addressed to me?)
[20:18] Alathon: ((it's address to anyone that knows)
[20:18] Alathon: (which is hopefully someone)
[20:19] Mani: (Don't expect to get much out of Mani in this setting. :) )
[20:19] Kuonji: (no clue)
[20:19] Kuonji: "That reminds me, I need to unload this armor and sword ASAP."
[20:19] Mani: (Didn't unload them in the room with the hammer?)
[20:20] Reis: (Yeah, I thought Kuonji offloaded)
[20:20] Kuonji: (... I think I just forgot to take them off my sheet ^^;;)
[20:21] Reis: (Heh)
[20:21] Alathon: Nothing much happens over the course of the morning.. a bit past noon, there'll be a series of soft chimes from the comm.
[20:22] Alathon: They're asking if you want a proper meal.
[20:22] Kuonji: "I could use some food..."
[20:22] * Reis looks at the others. "Hm... I could do with something as well."
[20:22] * Mani adjusts her position several times over the morning, giving anyone who cares a free and very visible show.
[20:23] * Sheena will answer that use they coulduse one"
[20:23] Sheena: *yes
[20:23] Alathon: You'll get one.
[20:24] Alathon: Ken will, incidentally, have gotten out of the water well after he was all pruney.
[20:26] Alathon: Anyways.. lunch is quite good.. there are a number of options. It's fair to assume you get something you like.
[20:26] Mani: (Sorry if I'm not contributing much, but that's just how Mani would be in this setting. :) )
[20:26] Alathon: The only thing they don't have that you could hope for is steak.
[20:26] Alathon: Which might be a bit of a letdown after your time in the AFS.
[20:27] Alathon: (nod)
[20:27] * Reis will, somehow, live on even without.
[20:27] * Sheena signs her and reis up for the massage thing and lays back down for the rest of the time.
[20:28] Kuonji: "Sign me up for one too please."
[20:28] Alathon: Ken: "Yeah, that sounds great."
[20:28] Alathon: Ken: "Um.. "
[20:28] Alathon: Ken looks around the party, before settling on Reis.
[20:28] Alathon: Ken: "Reis, would you be willing to do my back? I think I'm starting to get a little burned."
[20:29] Alathon: He is, there's an uneven blotch where he couldn't quite reach.
[20:29] * Reis blinks and cocks her head. "Uh? Um... all right."
[20:29] Mani: (What? He wouldn't automatically use Enigma for that? :) )
[20:29] Sheena: "SHould have asked hearly silly"
[20:29] Alathon: He'll hand you a tube and turn around, with a towel around his waiste.
[20:30] Alathon: (maybe he just yearns for the touch of someone's hands on his back.. anyones))
[20:30] * Reis groans and gets up from her comfortable position, covering herself and starting to slather the uneven patch.
[20:30] Mani: (Maybe Enigma gets a little too grabby when he does that. ;) )
[20:30] Alathon: ((hah))
[20:30] Alathon: Ken: "Hey, thanks, Reis."
[20:31] * Reis nods. "No problem, Ken-san."
[20:31] Alathon: The afternoon will be pretty much like the morning.. tranquil and quiet, save for the natural sounds of insects, and the water flowing from the pool.
[20:31] * Reis finishes up and lays back down, telling Ken she's done so he can do his stuff now.
[20:31] * Sheena flips over onto her back not bothering to cover up any parts
[20:31] Sheena: "Ahh yes, this was worth it"
[20:32] Alathon: So.. if anyone has anything they wanna bring up for general discourse, now's the time
[20:32] * Reis sighs and relaxes... then, obviously, averts her eyes at Sheena's display.
[20:32] * Reis already brought up her topic.
[20:33] Sheena: "Im likly to be in the labs the next week, any thing we need to get done before that?"
[20:33] Kuonji: "Not that I can think of."
[20:34] Mani: "Nnnn."
[20:36] Mani: Apparently, that means no.
[20:36] * Sheena yawns and strechs
[20:36] Sheena: "Ok then"
[20:39] Alathon: The afternoon passes surprisingly quickly, with nobody ambushign you, shooting at you, stabbing you, or otherwise attempting to rend your bodies in twain.
[20:39] Alathon: Soon enough, it'll be time for the massages that were scheduled, with dinner to follow.
[20:39] * Mani gets up and does some stretching as the afternoon ends.
[20:41] * Reis stretches slightly, yawning.
[20:43] * Mani finds some way to get pampered before rejoining the group for dinner.
[20:43] Alathon: You'll find plenty of ways.
[20:43] Kuonji: (how are the massages?)
[20:44] Alathon: They actually offer grooming for Moon Cats, if you want to let someone else do it for you.
[20:44] * Mani goes for that.
[20:44] * Reis will be somewhat embarrassed about the massage, but eventually relax, then get dressed and make her way to dinner.
[20:44] Alathon: They remind you that, however relaxed the afternoon may have been, there was still some lingering tension that needed releasing.
[20:45] * Sheena all of us?
[20:45] Alathon: The grooming is done by a rather handsome middle-aged woman with what look to be over four dozen different short-bristled brushes and pads of varoius sorts.
[20:45] Alathon: It seems to have worked well, though it leaves you smelling ever so slightly different.
[20:45] Alathon: the massages for everyone else
[20:45] Alathon: unless for some reason, someone wants to try to be groomed ;p
[20:45] Sheena: (no longer has that hint of blood about her? heh)
[20:46] Alathon: (quite possibly)
[20:46] Mani: (So, is it inappropriate to go running around the resort in cat form?)
[20:47] Alathon: You can if you want, it's a little informal around people you don't know.. but it *is* a resort
[20:47] Alathon: so there's a certain laxity in protocol regardless, at least among the guests
[20:48] Mani: (Hm. Is dinner in a dining room or someplace private?)
[20:48] * Sheena is going around in half tossed on cloths so why not go kitty?
[20:49] * Mani rejoins the others as a cat.
[20:50] Alathon: You have the option of a private room if you want one.
[20:50] * Mani votes for a private room.
[20:50] Alathon: Or an open room with larger tables, so people can mix, socialize, etc.
[20:50] Alathon: Ken: "Private's fine by me."
[20:50] * Reis agrees.
[20:51] Sheena: "Sure, sounds good to me to"
[20:51] Mani: "Good. Then I won't need to change for dinner. Unless people would rather I do..?"
[20:51] Sheena: "Don't bother me any"
[20:51] Alathon: A private room it is.
[20:52] * Reis shakes her head. "Whatever's comfortable for you, Mani-san."
[20:52] Alathon: Consquently, when you order, the waiter will offer that Mani's dish be served pre-sliced if she wants.
[20:52] Alathon: Unless of course you go for cat-chow ;p
[20:52] Alathon: ... or a casserole ;p
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[20:53] * Mani orders sashimi (with the cuts a bit smaller than usual).
[20:53] Alathon: shazbot.
[20:54] Reis: Bah.
[20:54] Mani: (Poor Kuonji... trapped in a pocket dimension with the dicebot.)
[20:54] * Sheena gets a good sized load of sashimi and sushi as well
[20:54] Reis: (Wouldn't wish a fate like that on anyone)
[20:54] * Reis goes with the flow and gets sushi.
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[20:55] Mani: It may strike people that this is the first time they've ever seen Mani order fish.
[20:55] Kuonji: (so... what'd I miss?)
[20:55] Reis: (Not much. Mostly our orders)
[20:55] Alathon: ((mani and reis both ordered sashimi)
[20:56] Alathon: (well.. sashimi and sushi, rather)
[20:56] Kuonji: (last thing I saw was me cracking a bit about a happy ending after al mentioned released tension)
[20:56] Alathon: Ken orders some sort of pork dish.
[20:56] * Kuonji orders sushi as well
[20:56] Reis: (We didn't get that, I think)
[20:57] Kuonji: "Gotta have it while I have the chance, Serenity knows the next time we'll have some time off."
[20:59] Sheena: "My thinking as well"
[20:59] Alathon: Ken: "I dunno, the pork chops look really good."
[20:59] Sheena: "Fresh, well preped fish"
[20:59] Alathon: Ken: "I think I saw someone with what I got on the way in.."
[21:00] Sheena: "We probly got some of them wondering about us, not exctaly a normal group"
[21:01] Mani: "What would a normal group be?"
[21:01] * Mani bumps Reis's hand with her head.
[21:01] Sheena: "How the hell would i know? I would ausme many things not like us"
[21:01] * Reis blinks and looks down.
[21:01] Kuonji: "Normalcy is overrated."
[21:02] * Mani looks up at her expectantly.
[21:02] Kuonji: "Normal don't get to blow things up for a living."
[21:02] Alathon: When the food is delivered, everyone finds it quite good. Some of the best they've had.
[21:02] * Reis cocks her head and tentatively strokes Mani's fur, then pauses to see if her guess was right.
[21:02] Mani: It seems to have been correct.
[21:03] Mani: Her fur is very soft.
[21:03] * Reis continues stroking, though obviously she pays enough attention to actually eat.
[21:04] Kuonji: (attention whore :P)
[21:04] Reis: (Cat)
[21:04] Mani: (Well, that was before the food came. I think they'd both pay attention to their food once it arrived.)
[21:04] Reis: (Heh, true enough)
[21:04] * Mani inhales the aroma of her sashimi before eating with pleasure.
[21:05] * Reis enjoys her dinner. "This is nice... I can see why this place is so high-class."
[21:05] Alathon: Ken: "Yeah.. definately a good call."
[21:05] Mani: "Ahhhh."
[21:07] * Sheena takes her time enjoying her dinner
[21:07] Sheena: "Ya, well worth it"
[21:08] Alathon: Ken: "Hey.. there's something I wanted to bring up."
[21:08] Sheena: "When's the last time any of you checked your cridit accounts? All the work we have been doing, and no time to spend any"
[21:08] Sheena: "We're rather loaded"
[21:08] * Sheena looks over to Ken, "hmm?"
[21:08] Kuonji: "Hmm... that's a good point..."
[21:09] * Reis blinks. "We are? Wow..."
[21:09] Kuonji: "Damn, I don't even know what to do with it."
[21:09] Mani: "Bank it for kids."
[21:09] Kuonji: "Kids are a loooong way off for me."
[21:10] Alathon: Ken waits a moment until everyone finishes.
[21:10] Kuonji: "Hell, I haven't even hit tripple digits yet."
[21:10] Mani: "Maybe, but if you stash away enough for them now, you don't have to worry about it later."
[21:10] Sheena: "Kids huh? "
[21:11] Mani: "Of course, you don't need to gather as much at once, what with human reproduction and all."
[21:11] Alathon: Ken: "You've got a point."
[21:12] * Reis cocks her head. "Wow... never even thought about that."
[21:13] Mani: "Do you want to have children some day, Reis?"
[21:13] * Reis blinks. "... I don't know?"
[21:14] Mani: "Oh. Well, you have plenty of time to figure it out."
[21:15] Mani: (Unless you go the way of Tsukasa.)
[21:16] * Sheena sighs and leans back, itchs her chest for a moment as she relaxes
[21:16] * Mani sighs and finishes the last bit of her sashimi.
[21:16] Mani: (What? You didn't ask Reis to do it for you? You're slipping!)
[21:16] * Reis nods, looking a tad relieved. "I just, never actually had it spring to mind."
[21:16] Sheena: (you mean reis is goign to start sending people mental images of out kitchen table as well?)
[21:16] Mani: "I love kids..."
[21:16] * Reis relishes her last bit of food.
[21:17] Reis: (Okay, seriously, I want to know what the heck happened in your PM boxes)
[21:17] Kuonji: "I agree, they're delicious."
[21:17] Kuonji: "slice some up for an okonomiyaki... Yum.:
[21:17] * Reis stares at Kuonji for a moment of horror before realizing he's joking.
[21:18] Alathon: Ken looks startled for a momen, then gets it, but doesn't laugh.
[21:18] Mani: "Mmmm, goat."
[21:19] Kuonji: "Oh, right... Goat... Yes..."
[21:19] * Kuonji keeps a straight face
[21:19] Alathon: Ken: "Um."
[21:19] Alathon: Ken: "There's something I wanted to bring up.."
[21:20] Alathon: Ken: "I just wanted to say that it's been an honor to serve with you all."
[21:20] Mani: ("But I'm leaving to shack up with my other character.")
[21:20] Sheena: "Oh? Making it Sound like you're going some place"
[21:21] Alathon: Ken looks over at Sheena.
[21:21] Alathon: Ken: "Well, I'm not leaving Espionage Operations."
[21:21] Alathon: Ken: "But.. Usagi's working on forming new teams, and is trying to flesh them out with people who have seen some action."
[21:22] Alathon: Ken: "And what with you all switching to operations where you'll need to be a bit more, um, durable.."
[21:22] Alathon: Ken: "Anyways, I'm being transferred."
[21:23] Sheena: "Sending you to watch over some newbies huh?
[21:23] Alathon: Ken looks glad to h ave got it out.
[21:23] Alathon: Ken: "Yeah, pretty much."
[21:24] Mani: "Well, I wish you the best of luck with your new team. You have been helpful to ours."
[21:25] * Reis nods. "Yes... good luck, Ken-san!"
[21:26] Alathon: Ken: "Thank you."
[21:26] Alathon: Ken finishes up the last of his pork.
[21:27] Kuonji: "Best of luck with your new assignment."
[21:27] Mani: (He obviously doesn't fit in with us, anyway. Ordering pork... sheesh.)
[21:28] Alathon: Ken: "And thanks, Kuonji."
[21:28] Alathon: Anyways.. the deserts they offer are all quite good.
[21:28] Alathon: and, I think it's time for a ten minute break.
[21:29] Kuonji: Yes... 10...
[21:29] Mani: Sounds good.
[21:31] Reis: Righto, shall be back.
[21:42] Alathon: back
[21:42] Alathon: who else is?
[21:42] Sheena: me
[21:42] Reis: Back.
[21:47] Alathon: sigh
[21:47] Kuonji: yo
[21:47] Mani: Back.
[21:47] Mani: Sorry.
[21:47] Alathon: Alright.
[21:48] Reis: Well, we beat twenty minutes at least.
[21:48] Alathon: After the dinner, the party is free to do what they want for a couple days, before the meeting on wednesday
[21:48] Alathon: is there anything in particular anyone wants to do, that they haven't already told me they want to do?
[21:48] * Sheena is in her lab from the next day on, only leaving to gather equipment
[21:49] Kuonji: (well, I turned that crap into R&D)
[21:49] * Reis will try to visit her home at least a LITTLE...
[21:49] Kuonji: (Hmmm... I suppose I could pay talia a vist and ask if it would be possible to aerosolize some of my poisons...)
[21:49] * Reis will, otherwise, be fixing up her own device, and popping over to R&D to borrow the genderbend ring.
[21:50] Mani: (Reis: "Stop looking at me like that! I want to test something with it!")
[21:50] * Sheena will all so be bugging mani for odd shaped pices of crystal when now and then
[21:51] * Reis will obviously explain her intent to R&D.
[21:51] Alathon: *nod*
[21:51] Alathon: So.. nobody dies, explodes, or otherwise suffers a character-ending change in the last couple days.. which brings us to the meeting.
[21:51] Mani: (Where all that will happen.)
[21:52] Alathon: (only if you roll poorly)
[21:52] Mani: (Like I said...)
[21:52] Reis: (... We've gotta roll. Oh dear, we're doomed)
[21:52] Alathon: The meeting is, once again, in one of the ubiquitous Espionage HQ conference rooms.
[21:52] Mani: (You're in a maze of twisty conference rooms, all alike.)
[21:53] Alathon: The meeting was updated during the day at the resort to discuss 'recent events'.
[21:53] Reis: (Suppose unless chainmail-chan walks in right now, I'll cover all the stuffs Reis was doing with Al after the session)
[21:53] Alathon: When you all get there, Usagi is actually early.
[21:53] Alathon: (correct)
[21:53] * Reis blinks slightly. "Good morning, Usagi-san."
[21:53] Mani: (Her previous meeting must have been in that room. ;) )
[21:53] Alathon: Usagi: "Good morning, Reis."
[21:53] Alathon: (it's certainly likely)
[21:54] Kuonji: "Good morning, Usagi-sama."
[21:55] Alathon: She greets everyone in turn.
[21:55] Alathon: Usagi: "We have several items on the agenda this morning."
[21:56] Alathon: Usagi: "Reasoning behind this assassination, suggested methodology, and an interesting tidbit which came to light several days ago. We'll discuss the last one first, as it should be the shortest."
[21:57] * Reis blinks and nods.
[21:57] Alathon: Usagi looks to Mani and Sheena.
[21:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Have you discussed the letter with your team?"
[21:57] Mani: "No."
[21:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Allright. Sheena, you found it, correct?"
[21:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Please relate how this happened."
[21:58] Alathon: While saying this, she passes around what looks to be a photocopy of a handwritten note, one for each of you four.
[22:00] Alathon: ... currently trying to upload the note ;p
[22:00] Sheena: "While leaving the last meeting i noticed the mental image of our kitchen table was sticking out in my mind"
[22:00] Alathon: ((so go ahead sheena)
[22:00] * Reis blinks and takes her copy, reading it.
[22:00] Mani: (If you do not send a copy of this letter to 5 other people...)
[22:01] Sheena: "A quick mental scane, and then log check showed a not harmfull image implant"
[22:01] Sheena: "I rushed him and noticed an odd feeling about the house, i quickly changed into my fuku and entered the house making my way to the kitchen table, where i found this letter left by tsuka"
[22:01] Sheena: *home
[22:02] * Reis chokes and stares at Sheena as this filters in.
[22:04] Alathon: (Link: http://www.alathon.net/ctob/note.rtf)http://www.alathon.net/ctob/note.rtf
[22:04] Sheena: "She left an impression on the envorment of the house, cold, sad, ect. .."
[22:04] * Sheena sighs
[22:05] Sheena: "Silly girl should have at lest waited for one of us to get home"
[22:05] Mani: "I'm not sure I agree with that."
[22:05] * Kuonji remains silent
[22:05] Kuonji: (hmm... notes not workin for me)
[22:05] Alathon: Usagi: "Thank you, Sheena."
[22:05] Alathon: ((hm?))
[22:06] Alathon: ((it should try to open the pdf
[22:06] Kuonji: (site wont load for me)
[22:06] Alathon: (....)
[22:06] Alathon: (wierd)
[22:06] Kuonji: (oh jesus, it's a fucking pdf?)
[22:06] Alathon: (no
[22:06] Alathon: ((rtf))
[22:06] Mani: (rtf)
[22:06] Alathon: ((my mistake)
[22:06] Kuonji: (oh thank god)
[22:06] Kuonji: (pdf slow my comp to a fucking crawl)
[22:06] * Reis continues to sputter slightly, not quite connecting all the dots just yet.
[22:06] Alathon: (reis, could you open it?)
[22:06] Kuonji: (though this seems to be doing quite that)
[22:07] Alathon: (firefox or IE?)
[22:07] Mani: (I could open it.)
[22:07] Reis: (Ie, and yep, I got it)
[22:07] Kuonji: (Reis doesn't know about tsuka, does she?)
[22:07] Kuonji: (firefox)
[22:07] Reis: (Nope, she doesn't)
[22:07] Alathon: (also.. do you have Office set to open rtf's? it could be office opening it ;p ))
[22:07] * Reis *processing*
[22:07] Kuonji: "Ah, Usagi-sama... Maybe we should bring Reis up to date on Tsukasa."
[22:07] Alathon: ((fuck's sake.. next time I just email it.. like I'm doing now ;p ))
[22:08] Kuonji: (well, my browser is frozen)
[22:08] Kuonji: (so it might take me a while to get the email)
[22:08] Alathon: (wow that's wierd.. opening a rtf should be trivial)
[22:08] * Reis looks from Sheena to Usagi to Mani to Kuonji. "... What does... Tsukasa... have to...?"
[22:08] Alathon: (should tell Wordpad, or some word processor, to start)
[22:09] Kuonji: (sigh...)
[22:09] Kuonji: (I'll wing it for now)
[22:09] Mani: She was our teammate and housemate.
[22:09] Mani: ""
[22:09] Mani: ("And your previous character.")
[22:09] Reis: ("NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!")
[22:10] Mani: ("Yeah, it looks like you have this whole Inuyashaesque reincarnation thing going on.")
[22:10] * Reis stares. "But... Tsukasa..."
[22:11] * Mani raises an eyebrow.
[22:11] Mani: "Yes?"
[22:11] * Kuonji raises an eyebrow "Should I be insulted it wasn't adressed to me too?"
[22:11] Kuonji: (wolfie copy/pasted for me)
[22:11] Reis: ("Yes, you should. Tsukasa would've at least given him a _mention_!" :P )
[22:12] Mani: "I suppose it was because you didn't live there when she did."
[22:12] Alathon: ((btw you can kill your firefox process if it's still stuck)
[22:12] Kuonji: (I know)
[22:13] Alathon: ((you know.. that'd be fucking hilarious if tsukasa travelled back in time, died, and reis inherited her soul)
[22:14] Reis: (Hey, she DID say she was gonna be stretching the borders of time...)
[22:14] Kuonji: "Still..."
[22:14] Mani: (Have Reis go back in time, too, and be the one to kill her.)
[22:14] Reis: (Wow, this is getting complex)
[22:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Anyways."
[22:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Tsukasa was one of the original four that Sheena and Mani were assigned with."
[22:15] * Reis still seems to be processing.
[22:15] Alathon: Usagi: "The fourth being Amiko Moate"
[22:15] Mani: (The best two stayed on the team.)
[22:16] Alathon: Usagi: "Without going into detail, I'll simply confirm what is now common knowledge."
[22:16] * Reis blinkblinks. "I... suppose she had to have a team, if she was part of the IA program..."
[22:16] Alathon: Usagi: "Tsukasa was a telepath, used her capabilities in an offensive manner, was sentenced to death, and escaped -- presumably to another dimension."
[22:17] Alathon: (Reis realizes that her team is soiled goods)
[22:17] Alathon: (Reis looks over to Kuonji, "So, what'd you do to deserve getting stuck with them?")
[22:17] Mani: (Usagi: "By the way, you now occupy her spot on the team, Reis.")
[22:17] Mani: (Reis: "Eeek!")
[22:17] * Reis nods slowly. "Then... is she related to... what's going on now?"
[22:17] Alathon: ((Ataru, you get the letter?)
[22:18] Mani: (Tsukasa herself sent it to him. Or at least her player did.)
[22:18] Kuonji: (PW copy/pasted for me)
[22:18] Reis: (Though mine was just copy-pasted into his window, so huge beefy chunks were probably cut out of it.)
[22:20] Alathon: Usagi: "I don't know.. but honestly, I doubt it."
[22:21] Alathon: Usagi: "I have grave doubts as to her moral fibre."
[22:21] Alathon: Usagi: "However, that doesn't mean she'd throw in with the UST and their ilk."
[22:21] Alathon: Usagi: "Now, the first question I have is.. do you three believe Tsukasa Kuno actually wrote this?"
[22:21] * Mani nods.
[22:21] * Reis frowns, thinking.
[22:21] Alathon: Usagi: "She was always rather formal, but to be honest.. this doesn't scan much like anything I recall reading from her."
[22:22] Mani: "I can't see a reason for someone to fake it."
[22:22] Alathon: Usagi: "But, does it sound like her?"
[22:22] Alathon: Usagi: "We can work on conclusions in a moment."
[22:22] Reis: ("Well, it had rather more of a flair for the dramatic than she usually did... but, well, she's probably a thousand years older now. And she IS a Kuno.")
[22:22] Mani: (Nah, it sounds like the DM wrote it.)
[22:22] Alathon: (well, answer 'no' if you think it doesn't! that's what she's asking for ;p ))
[22:23] * Mani thinks.
[22:23] Alathon: (there's no need to assume out of character that this absolutely must be from Tsukasa)
[22:23] Mani: "You know, I don't think I ever received a formal letter from her before."
[22:23] Kuonji: "I'm honestly not too sure, my time on the team with her was rather short."
[22:24] Mani: "So, I don't know."
[22:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Sheena?"
[22:28] * Reis is still having technical difficulties.
[22:28] Sheena: (hmm? Soeey for disrcred)
[22:29] Alathon: ((... what?)
[22:29] Reis: (Distracted, I think)
[22:29] Sheena: (duno, what happened there)
[22:29] Sheena: "She gets over emoutonal now and then, i belive it is from her"
[22:30] Sheena: "For the age she hints at in it you figer she would have grown out of that"
[22:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Huh."
[22:32] Alathon: Usagi: "That's a good point, you would expect a certain amount of change.."
[22:33] Alathon: Usagi looks a little unsure for a moment, then continues.
[22:33] Alathon: Usagi: "If there are any.. concerns.. any of you would like to air."
[22:33] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm more than willing to answer questions."
[22:33] Kuonji: (REVOLUTION!)
[22:34] * Mani appears to have no concerns.
[22:34] * Reis doesn't exactly know what to say, all things considered.
[22:35] Sheena: "Aside from finding it interesting how our little world sticks out from the rest, I can't think of much to ask"
[22:35] * Kuonji shrugs "No, not really."
[22:35] Mani: "Well, I'm not taking that at face value, myself."
[22:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Well, that's a relief!"
[22:37] Sheena: "Oh?"
[22:38] Mani: "Assuming that the note was from Tsukasa and that she honestly related her experiences, I can still see reasons not to."
[22:40] * Sheena was wonderign about the bosses relief herself
[22:40] * Mani glances at Usagi.
[22:40] Alathon: Usagi: "Well."
[22:41] * Reis still seems slightly in shock.
[22:41] Alathon: Usagi: "it's not often one reads such a stinging indictment."
[22:41] Alathon: Usagi: "Not just of onesself, but of all their friends.. and of, supposedly, dozens or hundreds of alternate universe versions of their friends."
[22:42] Sheena: "Want me to ask if that parts true at all?"
[22:42] * Sheena shurgs
[22:42] Mani: ("We still love you and all the senshi, your highness!" Sakura: "Especially Saturn! Errr.... I mean...")
[22:42] Sheena: "Not that it maters to me boss, but i could bring it up with celeste if you want another source on it"
[22:43] Kuonji: "Well, given a potential infinite number of worlds, it's not all that surprising we'd all have evil twins out there somewhere."
[22:43] Alathon: Usagi: "I'll admit, I'm curious."
[22:43] * Sheena looks at sakura blinking
[22:43] Alathon: Usagi laughs at that.
[22:43] Alathon: Usagi: "Evil twins.. that's a less depressing way to think about it, isn't it?"
[22:43] * Sheena wonders is she has good twins out there
[22:44] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head a little.
[22:44] Mani: "I think it may also be a case of Tsukasa finding what she's looking for."
[22:44] Alathon: Usagi looks up, and over at Mani.
[22:44] * Reis is rather out of her depth here.
[22:44] Alathon: Usagi: "You could have a point.. she isn't exactly loaded down with reasons to love us."
[22:44] Alathon: Usagi: "Right or wrong, she certainly seemed to believe she was justified in her actions."
[22:45] * Reis frowns. "What... what _was_ her justification?"
[22:46] Mani: "No, and if she runs into many examples that the senshi and rulers of CT are 'wrong', it makes a strong case for her being 'right'."
[22:47] Sheena: "Guy was an enime rider back when we knew very little about what was going on, she figered since he was gona die any way it didn't mater if she took a peak"
[22:47] Sheena: "Or you could go by what the movies say,"
[22:47] * Sheena rolls her eyes at that
[22:47] Mani: (Very close to a *very* unfortunate typo there, Sheena. :) )
[22:48] Alathon: ((peck?)
[22:48] Reis: (Leak)
[22:48] Alathon: (anime?))
[22:48] Alathon: ((hah))
[22:48] Mani: (Let's just say that I wouldn't want to associate with a pack of enema riders.)
[22:48] Reis: (Or that works too :P )
[22:48] Reis: (Heh. We all found different typos)
[22:48] Alathon: (that would have taken a couple more letters ;p ))
[22:48] Mani: ("We don't want your kind around here.")
[22:49] Alathon: Usagi: "more or less what Sheena said."
[22:49] * Reis frowns. "I... see..."
[22:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Though I'd say she went just a wee bit further than taking a peek."
[22:49] Mani: "Though the bigger problem as I see it is her belief that so long as she saw a good reason to do it, the laws of Crystal Tokyo didn't matter."
[22:50] Sheena: "Ok, she gutted the guys head like she was cleaning a fish. Then squished what was left."
[22:50] * Mani frowns at the wall opposite her.
[22:51] Alathon: Usagi looks ever-so-slightly nauseated by Sheena's description.
[22:51] Sheena: "All tho, personaly. With thoes mind workers the riders use, and what thoes eve's try to do.. I wouldn't mind some one with a lot of mental whammy on our side about now"
[22:51] Alathon: Usagi: ".... yeah."
[22:52] * Reis frowns.
[22:53] * Mani lets the wall off the hook.
[22:53] Alathon: Usagi: "That said, I'd rather not have people on our side who can rationalize using such abilities against an enemy."
[22:54] Alathon: Usagi: "It's not such a large leap from 'enemy' to 'person I don't like'."
[22:54] * Mani nods.
[22:54] Alathon: "not in the human mind, at least."
[22:54] Mani: "People with that sort of ability are the ones you need to be able to trust to follow the rules."
[22:54] Alathon: "Not to mention that the entire concept of mental manipulation leaves me.. queasy."
[22:54] Alathon: Usagi nods sharply to Mani.
[22:55] Alathon: Usagi: "Exactly."
[22:55] * Reis nods in agreement with Usagi on the 'queasiness'.
[22:55] Sheena: "We have blocked mental attaks more then once durning our fight aginst eva's in that city"
[22:55] Alathon: Usagi: "And in some cases, failed to block them.. when ambushed by a greyface mage in Carson City, for example."
[22:56] Alathon: Usagi: "It's not something to roll dice with if we have any say in the matter."
[22:56] Mani: (We never want to roll dice if we have any say in the matter.)
[22:56] Sheena: (hah)
[22:56] Reis: (Well, Al, that's your call not ours :P )
[22:56] Alathon: Usagi: "That said, mental combat as a whole is a bit off agenda, and while I'm up to discuss it in the future, we have other items to get to."
[22:56] Kuonji: (my, how meta)
[22:56] Sheena: ( (Link: http://img.4chan.org/b/src/1187761608723.jpg)http://img.4chan.org/b/src/1187761608723.jpg new sign on sheena's lab door)
[22:56] * Mani nods.
[22:57] Alathon: ((heh))
[22:57] Alathon: Usagi: "If there are no objections, I'd like to move on to the reasoning behind my sending you to assassinate a high ranking Texan."
[22:57] Alathon: Usagi pauses for a moment, then continues, rather sardonically.
[22:57] Mani: "If the size of the ... multiverse is as large as Tsukasa implies, a bad neighborhood you wander into could be very large."
[22:57] * Mani nods to Usagi.
[22:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Our ordering assassinations being an excellent topic to follow up a broad accusation of corruption and malicious conduct."
[22:59] * Kuonji stifles a chuckle
[22:59] * Sheena shurgs
[22:59] Alathon: Usagi: "There's a couple data points that are of particular interest."
[22:59] * Reis nods. "Well... if it's any comfort, we agree with this one?"
[23:00] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Reis, slightly amused.
[23:00] Alathon: Usagi: "Glad to hear it, since you're the one pulling the trigger."
[23:01] Alathon: Usagi: "That said, Reichert was with the UST."
[23:01] * Reis nods and smiles slightly.
[23:02] Alathon:
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Session 50 - part 2

Postby Alathon » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:22 pm

Session 50 - part 2

[23:02] Alathon: Usagi: "Confirmed, rather than speculated. There so happens to have been an Evangelical in charge of El Paso by the same name.. one who was announced, not so long ago, to have bodily ascended to heaven by the grace of the LORD."
[23:03] Alathon: Usagi: "One whom parishioners identified from a sketch."
[23:03] Alathon: Usagi: "That alone is enough to justify us taking the gloves off."
[23:04] Sheena: "Grace of the lord eh?"
[23:04] * Sheena arc an eyebrow at that
[23:05] Reis: (So Martin's god now?)
[23:05] Alathon: Usagi: "I prefer to imagine the grace of a flaming, agonizing immolation."
[23:05] Alathon: Usagi: "But that's just me."
[23:05] Reis: (Or do they mean Tsukasa's god?)
[23:05] * Sheena nods
[23:05] Sheena: "Thats about how it happened"
[23:05] Alathon: ((well, Trebek got the killshot, but you could work it either way))
[23:06] Reis: (All righty. One more shared feat, and Tsukasa's God!)
[23:06] Sheena: (and sheena just there for eyecandy eh? *pouts*
[23:06] Mani: (Yes.)
[23:06] Alathon: (what can you say, she's good at being eye candy)
[23:07] Alathon: Usagi: "Another point is a bit more complex."
[23:07] * Reis sighs. "Well... that is a good thing, isn't it? At the least we don't have _two_ interdimensional enemy forces."
[23:07] Alathon: Usagi: "We discussed the rational behind the Texans' willingness to throw away their lives, and the lives of their vassals, to inflict minimal casualties on the AFS Riders."
[23:07] Alathon: Usagi looks over at Ries.
[23:07] Alathon: Usagi: "Right.."
[23:08] Alathon: Usagi: "Well.. the UST's losses are not sustainable. Not by any stretch, and neither are the Confederacy's."
[23:08] Alathon: Usagi: "The Evangelicals are milking both nations for all they're worth in third, fourth, fifth, and sixth sons."
[23:08] * Reis frowns. "So... idiocy, or something more sinister?"
[23:09] Alathon: Usagi: "There's already practically a missing generation of males in the UST."
[23:09] Sheena: "I figered it was something sinister.. but its lookign a lot like inbred idiocy to me"
[23:09] Sheena: "Just that one of them happened to figer out how to contact out of dim agents"
[23:09] Alathon: Usagi: "It could be either, honestly."
[23:09] Alathon: Usagi: "Though.. that's part of why I want those churches investigated."
[23:10] Alathon: Usagi: " If there's some sort of life-force sucking pyramid scheme going on, that would argue heavily in favor of 'sinister doings'."
[23:10] Mani: "I suppose it's also possible that it's true religious conviction."
[23:10] Alathon: Usagi: "Which raises the question.. when they run out of people they can kill by feeding them to a war, due to a lack of traditionally aged and gendered people.. how will they go able killing the rest?"
[23:10] Sheena: "That wouldnt be any better'
[23:10] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[23:11] Mani: "That there's no better course of action than dying while fighting for their lord, even if it means *everyone* dies."
[23:11] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd rank that as a subset of inbred idiocy."
[23:11] Alathon: Usagi: "Though you're right to point it out.. idiocy or not, if that's the case, knowing that would offer us insight into their decision-making processes."
[23:11] Mani: "Perhaps, but knowing just what their motivation is..."
[23:12] * Mani nods at Usagi.
[23:12] Mani: "And, of course, these possibilities aren't mutually exclusive."
[23:12] Alathon: Usagi: "Quite true."
[23:13] Mani: "Their leader can be running an energy pyramid scheme while the people under him are acting out of religious conviction."
[23:13] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[23:13] Alathon: Usagi: "That's why we want to start killing them."
[23:14] Alathon: Usagi: "My concern is this.. our operatives' are reporting that the UST and Confederacy both are near a breaking point, in term of manpower. If they hit that point.. their behavior will change according to their leaders desires."
[23:14] Alathon: Usagi: "If they are sinister, I want to pre-empt that."
[23:14] Alathon: Usagi: "By speeding things up."
[23:15] Alathon: Usagi: "If there is some master plan to this whole war, one which involves millions of deaths, it's likely already well along it's way to completion..."
[23:16] Alathon: Usagi: "However, we can still hope to screw things up by taking out key leaders, and by weakening their command structure to the point where it will be difficult to implmenet anything."
[23:17] Alathon: Usagi: "And if there is no such plan.. well, they still have it coming for their actions in Nevada."
[23:17] * Reis nods. "Kill the people who will be performing the plan before they start?"
[23:17] Alathon: Usagi: "And I'd much sooner they pay int he blood of their leaders, than their peasants."
[23:17] Mani: "And there's also the possibility that some of the mercenaries are contracted to Addington personally."
[23:17] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[23:17] Mani: "If he's taken out, some of those contracts may end."
[23:17] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes. They are, at least, some of them."
[23:18] Alathon: Usagi: "That's another angle that needs to be considered.. this 'heavenly host' of interdimensional mercenaries is a peril in and of itself."
[23:18] Alathon: Usagi: "Chipping away at it's size is a worthwhile goal."
[23:18] * Reis nods. "Yes... just because their employers are gone, doesn't mean they can't decide to set up shop here themselves..."
[23:19] Alathon: Usagi: "There is that. But if it's fragmenting, rather than being cut loose whole, the number likely tos tick around ought to be less. At least, to my way of thinking."
[23:19] Mani: "Maybe. I imagine a lot of them would prefer to do what they love doing *and* get paid for it."
[23:20] Alathon: Usagi: "That's what I hope."
[23:21] Alathon: Usagi: "My greatest concern is that a massed, mobile, and long-ranged army such as theirs is one of two forces on earth actually capable of posing a credible threat to the people of Crystal Tokyo."
[23:21] * Reis nods. "Probably... But there would be an appeal for this dimension, too... We have NO defence against their tactics yet. That alone could be worth coming, to them - the ability to run away without any hope of pursuit. I hope this works as you say, Usagi-san..."
[23:22] Alathon: Usagi: "Well, if there are truely an infinite number of universes, that would suggest an infinite number of such targets."
[23:22] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm not sure we can count on that, one way or another."
[23:23] Alathon: Usagi: "That said, there's another poitn I'd like to bring up."
[23:23] Alathon: Usagi: "Our target, Addington, is uniquely vulnerable over the course of this week."
[23:24] Alathon: Usagi: "He is one of several Evangelicals known to be particularly high in the favor of the Hand of God."
[23:24] Alathon: Usagi: "And is, for most of the year, resident in their capital city of Dallas."
[23:25] Alathon: Usagi: "However, he is officially the landed Evangelical of Fort Stockton, and by tradition spends a bit less than a month there each year."
[23:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Some of his duties are clerical in nature, with the result that he will be unarmored."
[23:26] Mani: (No pun intended. :) )
[23:27] Alathon: Usagi: "Making him a prime target when entering, or especially exiting, his church.. in the full view of much of his parish."
[23:28] Alathon: Usagi: "Moving on.. Reis, you are the best equipped to carry out this attack. Have you completed the necessary modifications?"
[23:29] * Reis nods. "I'm ready for work - I've managed to complete a 'dual' configuration."
[23:30] Reis: "... Are the details up to us, or do you want to dictate the message you want sent?"
[23:31] Alathon: Usagi: "largely they're up to you."
[23:31] Alathon: Usagi: "Have you all come up with insertion and extraction plans?"
[23:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Or for that matter, a plan to get Sheena into one of their Churches?"
[23:32] * Reis nods and salutes. "Understood Usagi-san. I won't disappoint."
[23:32] Mani: "Without having been given the details of the mission, no, of course not."
[23:32] Reis: ("... Uh...")
[23:32] Sheena: "Are we missing an information packet or something?"
[23:32] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head a little.
[23:32] Alathon: Usagi: "No, no missed packets.."
[23:33] Alathon: Usagi: "Never mind."
[23:33] Alathon: Usagi: "For insertion, I see several options."
[23:34] Alathon: Usagi: "With two of you capable of near supersonic flight, and one of mass teleportation, that argues in favor of establishing a series of teleport points for Yuuno, going in, and getting out via Teleport."
[23:35] Alathon: Usagi: "Another option would be a more normal insertion and retrieval, possibly with the assistance of an Intelligence operative."
[23:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Another would be to simply cross the distance in the wilderness, though the timing would make this difficult."
[23:36] Alathon: Usagi: "and I'm certain there are more exotic methods to be worked out."
[23:37] Alathon: Usagi: "How do these options strike you?"
[23:37] Alathon: Usagi: "And do others occur to you?"
[23:38] Mani: "Where is the church we'll be infiltrating?"
[23:38] Sheena: "If we have maps of the area flying in should be easy"
[23:40] Kuonji: (I'm really sorry, but I'm about to pass out)
[23:40] * Reis nods. "Though we'll have to be careful not to pass within sight of any enemies..."
[23:41] Alathon: (9nod))
[23:42] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[23:42] Alathon: Usagi: "...Fort Stockton."
[23:42] Kuonji: "Is it a large enough town to warrant more then one church?"
[23:43] Alathon: Usagi: "You got a look at the Rider's maps of Texas, right?"
[23:43] Mani: "Hmmm. So, if something goes wrong with the first part, it could affect the second."
[23:43] Alathon: Usagi shaker her head slightly.
[23:43] Alathon: Usagi: "no, it's a relatively small town."
[23:44] Kuonji: (I gotta sleep, goodnight)
[23:45] *** Kuonji is now known as Ataru.
[23:45] *** Ataru has signed off IRC (Quit: ).
[23:45] Alathon: ((well, shoot, if he'd given me 30 more seconds..))
[23:45] Alathon: Usagi: "That said..."
[23:45] Mani: "So, this is Addington's own church we'll be looking for information in?"
[23:45] Alathon: Usagi: "I can see we have a lot to go over."
[23:46] Alathon: Usagi; "yes."
[23:46] * Mani frowns.
[23:46] Mani: "I'm not sure that's the best idea..."
[23:47] Alathon: Usagi: "Maybe or maybe not.. however, we'll discuss it in ten minutes."
[23:47] * Reis nods. "If we have... hm?"
[23:47] Sheena: "We should check out another church, as to not interfer with the prim mision"
[23:47] * Sheena 10minwha?
[23:47] Alathon: Usagi: "I need to use the facilities, and I think we could all use a couple moments to stand up and stretch."
[23:47] Sheena: "Ahh"
[23:47] Alathon: Usagi: "And that, is a good idea, Sheena."
[23:47] Alathon: Usagi: "We'll discuss it in a few."
[23:47] Alathon: End here.
[23:48] * Reis nods. "Ah... thank you, Usagi-san."
[23:48] Reis: (Hahahahahaahah! We're closing it out with a bathroom break?)
[23:48] Mani: Yeah, good idea, Sheena... :)
[23:48] *** Mani is now known as Yarrow.
[23:48] *** Reis is now known as Pale_Wolf.
[23:49] Alathon: there *is* something going on here with Usagi's expectations, btw
[23:50] Sheena: oh?
[23:50] *** Sheena is now known as DCG.
[23:51] Alathon: well, she's starting to expect more than just people who will beat shit up when she poitns and says 'go'
[23:52] Yarrow: Enh. Actually give us enough information to plan with, and possibly the idea that she wants us to make plans, and just maybe we'll try to come up with something.
[23:52] Pale_Wolf: Well, that's fair. But, we can't do that if she doesn't give us the information we need :P
[23:54] Alathon: yarrow.. you expect your characters to be told, explicitly, to think for themselves?
[23:54] Alathon: and to think ahead?
[23:54] Alathon: and no, you certainly weren't given all your information
[23:54] Yarrow: No, and we've already been doing that, thank you very much.
[23:55] Alathon: when?
[23:56] Yarrow: If she wants us to suddenly start coming up with plans before the mission starts when we've been given our objectives and a basic plan for achieving them in the past, then I sure as hell do expect to be notified of the change.
[23:56] Yarrow: Every single time we've been out in the field.
[23:57] DCG: We had little to no info to work with, just a goal.
[23:57] DCG: if she was expecting us to make plans would need something to work with. aside from just showing up
[23:57] Yarrow: If she wants us to assume a new role in the planning phase of the missions, that's fine. But she has to tell us that, not suddenly expect us to do it spontaneously.
[23:58] Alathon: well, that's the thing.. maybe she has a different idea of how born leaders express their competence
[23:58] Alathon: by all means bring this up in game if you think your characters will feel they're being judged unfairly
[23:59] DCG: Thing is we had no info
[23:59] Alathon: Usagi's not exactly being subtle.
[23:59] Pale_Wolf: Well, the big problem is, we can't make effective plans when we don't even know where we're GOING.
[23:59] DCG: becides "In texas"
[23:59] DCG: ya no shit
[23:59] Yarrow: Uh huh... And would that be making half-assed planes because we have no solid information or badgering her for information she hasn't given us?
[23:59] Alathon: You weren't given huge amounts of info from Usagi, personally.
[23:59] Alathon: Just a name, a general location, and a purpose.
[23:59] DCG: Al
[23:59] DCG: we didnt get any info.
[23:59] DCG: cies, "there in texas"
[23:59] Alathon: two purposes, actually
[23:59] Alathon: how do you get any distance into texas?
[23:59] Alathon: how do you get back out?
[00:00] Alathon: does this vary from Dallas to El Paso?
[00:00] Yarrow: Depends. Given a map and a name of the place, we might have looked into it.
[00:00] Yarrow: Along with info about existing operations and how they went about it.
[00:01] Alathon: did you inquire in the meantime? dod you inquire of anyone in the UST?
[00:01] Alathon: er, AFS, rather
[00:01] DCG: what people we have near by and stuff, basical we had little to no info, and didnt even we where suposed to be planing.
[00:01] Yarrow: I'm sorry... I must have been under the impression that when we were given a mission that we'd be given the info and tools necessary to accomplish it.
[00:02] Alathon: that's what a beat squad does.
[00:02] Alathon: are you content being a beat squad?
[00:02] Yarrow: I didn't realize we were supposed to run around trying to gather it by ourselves.
[00:02] Alathon: if so, that works.
[00:02] DCG: Totaly unfair and f'ed up to expect that out of no where
[00:02] Alathon: ...
[00:02] Alathon: no, it's totally 100% fair
[00:02] Alathon: it's certainly what's expected int he real world
[00:03] Alathon: if you want to be a grunt you do what you're told, ask when you absolutely need info,a nd keep your head down
[00:03] Alathon: if you want to move up, you take initiative
[00:03] Yarrow: Yep. Absolutely. You see, here's a big secret--we're actually content doing what the princess (and other rulers of CT) think we should do to best serve the kingdom.
[00:03] Alathon: then it's all good
[00:03] DCG: Your thinking is odd, We where told to met later in the week to go over the mission more.
[00:03] Alathon: the only problem you face, if it's even a problem, is that Usagi was thinking you might want something otherwise...
[00:03] Alathon: all you have to do is clear that up, and there's no more problem
[00:03] DCG: Considering the totaly lack of all info i figered it was coming then
[00:04] Yarrow: What's to clear up? From our point of view, she was just acting strange, asking if we'd made plans based on almost zero info.
[00:04] Alathon: in which case the whole "thing" may brush over without ever being touched on in character
[00:04] Yarrow: If it keeps up, I suppose we'll ask her what the hell's going on.
[00:05] DCG: Right, sheens was totaly confused. Aside from some plans on how she can personaly get into the church there wasn't much grand planing done
[00:05] Yarrow: Maybe she thought she'd given us some info but had forgotten.
[00:05] * Yarrow shrugs.
[00:05] DCG: FOr all we knew there was all ready a way into the country as we have ops there now.
[00:06] Alathon: so you were content doing your assigned mission, as it was assigned, per the specs handed down to you
[00:06] Yarrow: No, we were waiting for the specs to be handed to us.
[00:06] DCG: where the hell is this coming from? There was zero clue or reason for any of us to even guess we should set things up.
[00:06] Yarrow: Exactly.
[00:07] Alathon: ... other than four years of your being the premier ops team for External Affairs, and now Espionage
[00:07] Alathon: four and a half years!
[00:08] Yarrow: You know, it's not hard at all for our boss to tell us where we could get more info and that we should try to come up with something.
[00:08] Alathon: does it really surprise you that expectations might change over time?
[00:08] DCG: Change over time? Sure!
[00:08] DCG: outa the blue? just one big wtf
[00:08] Yarrow: Change over two days? No.
[00:08] Yarrow: If she's supposed to be guiding us to take a bigger part of the planning phase, she's doing a lousy job at it.
[00:08] Alathon: you don't think there has been a drift in the sort of missions you've been assigned?
[00:08] Alathon: in terms of how much autonomy you have?
[00:09] Alathon: She's not guiding you.
[00:09] Yarrow: And what's that supposed to have to do with changing what part of the mission planning we get involved in?
[00:10] DCG: This just came up outa no where to us, if we knew we had to plan things from start to finsh our self we would have
[00:10] DCG: LAst thing usagi told us before that meeting was that we where going to have that meeting..
[00:10] Yarrow: And to put it plainly, the only place we could have gotten more info from was through Usagi. Why would we think that she wasn't giving us all the info she wanted us to have?
[00:11] Alathon: if it came out outta nowhere.. well, all I can say is that your views on where leaders come from are different from mine
[00:11] Yarrow: Mind you, we did expect she was going to give us more.
[00:11] Alathon: and yes, you were expecting more info
[00:12] Alathon: but you had your goals, your target, a general location (somewhere in texas), a methodoly for the assassination, specific research goals to fulfil..
[00:13] Yarrow: No, we had *no* research goals to fill.
[00:13] Alathon: ...
[00:13] Alathon: two
[00:13] DCG: I dont remember any.
[00:13] Alathon: examine the flaming cross, and watch or participate in a confession
[00:13] Pale_Wolf: Ah, during the mission, not during the downtime.
[00:13] DCG: Right, thats mission stuff.
[00:14] DCG: Wasn't expecting to have a full ploted spread sheet needed by next meting.
[00:14] DCG: Really, if we had any clue at all it wouldnt been set up
[00:14] DCG: *woulda
[00:15] Alathon: it's hard for me to wrap my mind around people who are in and out of combat, who have a mission inf ront of them.. not even taking some time to bounce around ideas about that mission. Not if they're planning to do anything other than follow orders to the letter.
[00:16] DCG: Coming up with ideas on how to pull every thing off is a lot defernt then expecting us to have soild plans ready for her by the next meeting
[00:16] DCG: Sheena would have had Questions in that case.
[00:17] DCG: We all expect a info dump at the next meeting and to make planes from there
[00:17] Yarrow: And it's hard for me to get the idea that you seem to think we're expected to go running around and trying to plan things without data. And that there's some reason for us to think we're supposed to run around hunting for that data rather than being given it by the person it was all reported to.
[00:17] Alathon: if you're content with a strictly linear game where you get things from your superiors as they deign to hand it out, that's fine
[00:17] * Yarrow rolls her eyes.
[00:18] DCG: Now your beening silly and unfair to us
[00:18] Alathon: ... has it seriously never occured to anyone to do anything as "radical" as take advantage of yuuno's teleport capability to do a visit of your own to somewhere on the north american continent?"
[00:19] Yarrow: Hmmm. Or maybe they could make the info available to us and ask us to get back to them with some ideas of how to handle the mission. I understand that sort of thing works well in many organizations.
[00:19] Alathon: you know
[00:20] Yarrow: No, that sounds like a pretty stupid idea. Let's just run around, popping around enemy territory without clearing it or knowing what other operations may be going on.
[00:20] Alathon: when I get told, "we're talking about so-and-so at a meeting on thursday", you better believe I get at least a fingernail grasp on what so-and-so is before thursday
[00:20] Alathon: ... AFS and Nevadan territory is not enemy territory.
[00:21] Yarrow: What, just go wandering around there?
[00:21] DCG: Rather unfair, You expect us to head over to the stats and wander around blindly? to do what?
[00:21] Yarrow: No, it hasn't occurred to us.
[00:21] * Alathon facepalms.
[00:21] DCG: it takes a day just to get there, and a day back
[00:22] Alathon: You wouldn't have to wander blindly if you went to, you know, one of the cities you've visited, where you know a couple people.
[00:22] Alathon: but again
[00:22] Alathon: this isn't something you have to do.. just one of many things that could be done
[00:22] Yarrow: Why would we do that?
[00:22] Alathon: because you were curious about something and never got a chance to talk about it the last time youw ere there?
[00:22] Alathon: because you found out you're supposed to kill someone, and want to see if the AFS has any public info on that someone?
[00:23] DCG: We fully expected to get the needed info at the next metting, as it has been done every mission before hand
[00:23] DCG: Latly ya we been making our own plans,
[00:23] DCG: but its been from that info.
[00:24] Alathon: well, if the idea of taking the initiative and trying to do that sort of thing is alien to your characters, that certainly works
[00:24] DCG: Now all of a sudden we where suposed to collect that info ourselfs, problem is no one had a clue we where suposed to.
[00:24] Yarrow: I'm sorry, I kind of thought espionage consisted of a fair number of people, many of whom specialize in gathering information which is used to direct where a team like ours goes and what our general mission is.
[00:24] Alathon: I raised this out of game, because I wanted to be clear.. out of game.. that if you wanted more IC responsibility than what you've had so far, you need to do something different to get it
[00:24] DCG: That's all fine and dandy
[00:24] DCG: if we had a freaking clue before hand
[00:25] Alathon: like what?
[00:26] DCG: like the rest of the orgnasation being layed off and that we would need to do all leg work our selfs?
[00:26] Yarrow: You know what, forget it. I have to say I really don't care about this bizarre secret challenge. If Usagi wants us to take part in the initial planning of missions, that's fine. If she tells us that, we'll do our best. If she doesn't, to hell with it.
[00:27] DCG: Usagi made it clear she has ops over there at this time, yet you want us to port over and do what they are doing any way?
[00:27] * DCG is confused
[00:27] Alathon: I have a hard time seeing anythign as a bizarre secret challenge, that's self-evident at work IRL
[00:27] Yarrow: If to you that means we'll forever be no more than a gun that she points and shoots, fine. Whatever.
[00:27] Alathon: no, it just blows me away that you'd never even consider doing it
[00:27] Alathon: or talk about it
[00:27] * Yarrow shrugs.
[00:28] Yarrow: Maybe if this were part of our daily rl jobs, we would look into things more.
[00:29] Yarrow: I can only guess that we see being in Espionage different from that.
[00:29] DCG: You want to group to step up as leaders, but yet you want us wandering around doing leg work.. that makes no sense to me.
[00:29] Alathon: I dunno, that's the think
[00:29] Alathon: thing
[00:29] DCG: i dought usagi is going door to door asking questions.
[00:29] DCG: she's having people feed her info and making choices based on that.
[00:30] Yarrow: We're given the assignments they want us to do. If things that we aren't doing need to be done, we assume they've been assigned to other people.
[00:30] Alathon: ... it never occurs to your characters to ask for more.. or more info about what's going on around them?
[00:30] DCG: ...
[00:30] Alathon: they're really that un-ambitious?
[00:31] DCG: Usagi said it woudl be covered next meeting!
[00:31] DCG: She told us it would be then.
[00:31] DCG: we showed up expecting to learn more about the mission and then make the choices
[00:31] Alathon: it's possible that I was somehow deceptive in my phrasing, but I'm 99% sure Usagi said something along the lines of "we'll discuss the specifics of the mission, and plans for it, at this meeting."
[00:32] Alathon: you showed up expecting to be told what your choices were! That's what I'm saying
[00:32] Alathon: a lot of real people would do that, quite true
[00:32] DCG: Its what we have done ever single time before.
[00:32] Alathon: so?
[00:32] DCG: changing it this one time and expecting us to be ready for it?
[00:32] DCG: wtf?
[00:32] Alathon: it's not changing it this one time, it's actually getting shoved in your faces this one time
[00:32] Alathon: I mean seriously
[00:33] Alathon: between being assigned to multiple autonomous missions
[00:33] *** Yarrow has signed off IRC (Ping timeout).
[00:33] Alathon: being assigned to actually brief the rest of the Operations teams
[00:34] *** Yarrow has joined #crystaltokyo.
[00:34] DCG: And we did all thoes with out a problem, making choices on the fieldis what we have been doing.
[00:34] Alathon: not to mention.. yes
[00:34] Yarrow: Mm, just what should we be ambitious for?
[00:34] Alathon: well, Gee, I don't know
[00:34] DCG: Having us do all the work? Thats just confushing.
[00:34] Alathon: Mani's the one who claimed she wanted to be empress of the Galaxy
[00:35] DCG: And as for ambition, didnt we have to bring that up in game? We have not gotton the chance yet.
[00:35] Alathon: it's only been very, very unsubtly hinted that someone needs to fill the top position as head of Ops
[00:35] Alathon: with Usagi dual-hatting as head of Espionage and Ops
[00:35] Alathon: I *do* expect one in five people at least to notice something like that
[00:35] Yarrow: Ops?
[00:35] Alathon: Operations
[00:36] Alathon: ... that's all been forgotten, hasn't it
[00:36] DCG: where the heck did ops come from? as far as we know its been all espionage
[00:36] DCG: It has been months al...
[00:36] Yarrow: Operations being, what, exactly?
[00:36] Alathon: one of the three branches of espionage
[00:36] Alathon: the one you're in
[00:36] Alathon: the other two being intelligence and analysis
[00:36] Yarrow: Sounds suspiciously like a desk job.
[00:37] DCG: I think we need a refresher on the company.
[00:38] DCG: If usagi's just gona give us a goal, and expect us to get it done our own ways from now on. Thats fine.
[00:38] DCG: but we sure as heck coulda used a clue to see it coming.
[00:38] Yarrow: Anyway, I stand by my position that if she wants us to plan things, give us access to the data and let us know she'd like something from us.
[00:38] DCG: And ya.. that sounds liek a desk job, do we even have other ops teams to work with?
[00:38] Alathon: I've been trying to build up to this over the last few months
[00:39] Alathon: .. obviously I've failed utterly
[00:39] DCG: I think thats the problem al
[00:39] DCG: "Few months"
[00:39] Yarrow: And it's late and I'm tired.
[00:39] DCG: We lost some old data along the way
[00:39] DCG: Cya yarrow
[00:40] Yarrow: Seems kind of as if we've been provided with packs of provisions and gear at the start of each mission and then suddenly when we're about to start the next one, there are no packs and Usagi's looking at us with a raised eyebrow and asking why we haven't gotten our stuff ready.
[00:41] Yarrow: Was xp mentioned while my router had its fit, btw?
[00:42] Yarrow: (And the DM's asking us, "What, did you really think they wanted people who couldn't prepare for a trip working for them?")
[00:43] Alathon: I'll think about that
[00:43] Alathon: because that's certainly not the way I thought I was presenting this
[00:43] Alathon: and one sec
[00:43] DCG: We have been basical doing our own planing for a while now, It's not having any intel and expecting to get that ourselfs that confused us
[00:43] DCG: and really, sheena been locked in her lab working on dark heart and her new uniform the hole time.
[00:45] Alathon: I guess there's an underlying issue when I'm talking about 'taking initiative'
[00:45] Alathon: not just this sort of thing, where I can at least see your point
[00:45] Alathon: but why hasn't anyone asked why the senshi don't get off their fat 1000 year old asses and stop the UST if they want it done?
[00:45] Alathon: or how they could actually NOT have intel on a whole content after a thousand years?
[00:46] Alathon: continent, that is
[00:46] DCG: We really havnt had the chance?
[00:46] DCG: We been working, or venus has been working, or usagi has been working.
[00:46] DCG: its not like we have had time to shoot the hsit
[00:46] Alathon: you've had fifty sessions
[00:47] Alathon: something like half of those have been pure talk, many of them with the Senshi or Usagi, personally
[00:47] DCG: And in thoes sesions usagi has left in under 20 or somin to get something done.
[00:47] DCG: Really, the girl has never just chated.
[00:47] Alathon: how much time does it take to say one line?
[00:48] Alathon: "If this is such a high priority, how come the Senshi aren't getting involved personally?"
[00:48] Alathon: there's like.. 20 other questions along those lines that I would be dying to ask in the characters shoes
[00:48] Alathon: some of them aren't even potentially insubordinate
[00:48] DCG: ya some, heh
[00:48] DCG: most are.
[00:49] Alathon: or how about this
[00:49] DCG: And considering they all ready had one of our team mates "killed"
[00:49] Alathon: that's a fair point there
[00:49] Alathon: though these are things that could be raised in a more politic manner
[00:50] Alathon: its just like.. I feel like there's no drive to do more than just pick up the next shadowru.. er.. mission
[00:50] Alathon: with appropriate interludes between
[00:50] Yarrow: Well, the setting implies a *lot* of respect and confidence in the senshi.
[00:50] DCG: all so consider the two senshi we have been exposed to? Venus was all ways working on something, Usagi as well. Hotaru made it known her time was important.
[00:50] Yarrow: And it's clear that they're pretty overworked.
[00:50] DCG: is it so wrong that we figer all the senshi are out there busting ass as well?
[00:50] Alathon: Hotaru was counting strands of cloth in the ceiling of a tent for 24 hours.
[00:51] DCG: Ok, all of them but hotaru..
[00:51] Yarrow: Yeah? While she was on a mission.
[00:51] Yarrow: It's not like she was lying home in bed doing it.
[00:52] Yarrow: Speaking of which... good night.
[00:52] Alathon: gnight
[00:52] Alathon: exp is 2520
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Session 51

Postby Alathon » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:21 am

Session 51

[18:15] Alathon: anyways, we're all here
[18:15] Alathon: so lets get started
[18:15] *** Ala-bot has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:15] *** Ataru is now known as Sakura.
[18:15] Alathon: roll 1d20 test
[18:15] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20 test --> [ 1d20=17 ]{17}
[18:15] Pale_Wolf: Ah yes, I've got an announcement.
[18:15] Yarrow: roll 1d20 Kick Ala-bot
[18:15] Ala-bot: Yarrow rolled 1d20 Kick Ala-bot --> [ 1d20=7 ]{7}
[18:15] *** Pale_Wolf is now known as Reis.
[18:16] Alathon: fire it off
[18:16] *** Yarrow is now known as Mani.
[18:16] Alathon: I have one too
[18:16] Reis: Tuesdays, my classes eat up the whole day - they end at 8 PM.
[18:16] Alathon: 8pm pacific?
[18:16] Reis: I can reasonably expect to take two hours to get home, so, soonest I can be in and playable is 10 PM.
[18:16] Reis: Eastern.
[18:16] Reis: So, one hour late.
[18:16] Alathon: *nod*
[18:16] Sakura: bummer
[18:16] Alathon: when do classes start?
[18:17] Reis: Next week's the first one.
[18:17] Alathon: *nod*
[18:17] Alathon: so.. another good reaosn to try to get the Sunday afternoon slot
[18:17] Reis: Hm. Possible to delay game start? Or should I just deal? :P
[18:17] Alathon: will pretty much have to deal, honestly, as long as we have 3 people
[18:17] Alathon: we can't really run to 12-1 instead of 11-12ish
[18:18] Alathon: though.. what are peoples mondays and wednesdays like?
[18:18] Reis: Gotcha. Pity...
[18:18] Reis: My Wednesday's taken up by Light's game. Monday's nearly totally free.
[18:18] Sakura: monday is taken up by ellf's game
[18:19] Sakura: wednesdays are free
[18:19] Reis: Heh.
[18:19] Sakura: and sundays... I like this game and all, but if I can work sundays, I'm going to
[18:19] * Sakura isn't going to pass up 14.25/hr
[18:21] Mani: I'm not busy either night, but if I'm involved in your game one night and DCG's the next, I'm likely to start getting surly.
[18:22] Alathon: *nod*
[18:22] Alathon: alright
[18:23] Alathon: we'll have to work with these times.. there are games monday, wednesday, thursday, friday..
[18:23] Alathon: is saturday afternoon an option, in stead of stunday?
[18:23] Alathon: i.e. like 11am or noon PST until 6-7pm PST?
[18:24] Reis: Possible, though we might all be in recovery from my game :P
[18:24] Alathon: there is that
[18:24] Alathon: well, that's just me, you, and DCG, and we're all veteran slee- schedule tinkerers
[18:24] Reis: Heh, yep.
[18:25] Sakura: hmm, maybe
[18:25] Mani: I don't want a sleep-deprived DM. Things will get weird. :(
[18:25] Sakura: but I dunno
[18:25] Sakura: I need to get them to stop jerking me around at work
[18:26] Alathon: you won't
[18:26] Alathon: retail is like that
[18:26] Alathon: they love assigning new hours every week
[18:26] Alathon: it lets them discipline and fire people without having to officially do either
[18:26] Sakura: errr
[18:26] Sakura: not what I meant
[18:26] Sakura: they're barely giving me ANY hours right now
[18:27] Sakura: I was promised at LEAST 25
[18:27] Sakura: I'm giving them till the first week of september, then I start looking for new work -_-
[18:27] Alathon: oh
[18:27] Alathon: *nod*
[18:27] Alathon: alright
[18:27] Alathon: anyways,
[18:27] Alathon: we left off last session with the party in a conference room yet again, in a fairly long meeting with U sagi
[18:28] Reis: (Gah. Been assaulted by the phone)
[18:28] Alathon: having taken a short bio break, with the intent of discussing the specifics of the coming recon & assassination mission
[18:28] Mani: ("Are you all right, Usagi? It seems like you were in the bathroom for a week!")
[18:28] Reis: (Back.)
[18:29] Sakura: (wait, so chronologically, when did the thing with Usagi and Mani go down?)
[18:29] Alathon: (after this meeting)
[18:30] Alathon: (mani will be asked to stay after to discuss something else)
[18:30] Alathon: Usagi returns to the room, shaking her hands in the air a bit.
[18:30] Alathon: ((so now you know, your boss Does wash her hands after using the bathroom))
[18:30] Alathon: She seats herself, and looks arond to see if everyone is ready.
[18:31] Mani: (Depends what she's shaking off...)
[18:31] * Reis awaits.
[18:31] *** DCG is now known as Sheena.
[18:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[18:32] Alathon: Usagi: "So.."
[18:33] Sheena: (did we ever get anything decided last week becided or just a lot of talking?)
[18:33] Reis: (Lot of talking, I believe)
[18:33] Alathon: (there was no decision making, it was all discussion)
[18:33] Sheena: (this meeting needs more HLS, strip ries!)
[18:33] Reis: (... And, I've still got a bunch of IoP modification that Reis actually did over the previous week to handle for you guys)
[18:34] Reis: (... Wait, where did that come in?)
[18:34] Sheena: (As fo that time thing, i can do it when ever.)
[18:34] Mani: (Sheena nodded off for a bit.)
[18:35] Alathon: Usagi: "Sheena, Sakura, I'm guessing you want to do your investigation *before* Addington is offed, correct?"
[18:36] * Reis frowns. "... Perhaps some place entirely different would be better. If problems arise during the investigation, that could blow the entire assassination mission."
[18:36] Sheena: "It would be simpler to do so before hand, But if we wait thill after there is a good chance we can learn how the judgment of god on one of there eva's has effected them"
[18:36] * Alathon nods to both of you, then addresses Sheena.
[18:36] Alathon: "You don't have to worry about observing the social impact."
[18:36] Reis: ("Wow! God acknowledged me!")
[18:36] Alathon: "Intillegence is responsible for that."
[18:36] * Sakura nods
[18:37] Alathon: "What you need to do are the things they can't, the things that require your specific meta capabilities."
[18:37] * Sheena nods
[18:37] Alathon: "And.. splitting up is not necessarily a bad idea."
[18:37] Alathon: Usagi: "In general, I want the whole team there so you have backup, and a well rounded set of capabilities in general."
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi: "Hence Mani going."
[18:38] * Mani nods.
[18:38] Sheena: "Ok, then another church before hand would be best."
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi: "One possibility would be for you to do your investigations in a church in a nearby town."
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi: "Given that both of you are capable of moving at high rates of speed.. this should be manageable."
[18:39] Alathon: Usagi: "Though it'll add the risk of issues cropping up along the way."
[18:40] Sheena: "Would be best to adviod any issues that may pop up, so we dont tip off the target"
[18:40] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[18:40] Alathon: Usagi: "Of course."
[18:40] Mani: "And, of course, teleportation is a possibility."
[18:41] Alathon: Usagi: "How do you plan to insert.. fly in at altitude to establish a teleport point for Yuuno, or something more complex?"
[18:41] * Reis cocks her head. "We need to consider how many teleports Yuuno-sensei has in him..."
[18:41] Alathon: Yuuno: "Two in a row, three in a day total."
[18:42] Mani: "Of course. But we don't have to teleport all the way home when we leave the after the second part of the mission."
[18:42] Alathon: Yuuno: "And a thousand miles is about the best I can do with any sort of reliability."
[18:42] Sheena: "How does our current intill ops reach texas? Or should we find a totaly defernt way to not indanger that one?"
[18:42] Mani: "Can you do more shorter range teleports or is the number the same?"
[18:42] * Reis nods. "Thank you... So, no overuse. Is Stockton within that thousand mile distance of safe lines, Usagi-san?"
[18:43] * Reis looks at the map if one is available.
[18:44] Alathon: Yuuno: "A couple more shorter range ones.. but.. my overall range will be decreased doing short hops"
[18:45] Alathon: The map shows that Fort Stockton is less than a thousand miles from Kansas City
[18:45] Alathon: And that you could get well past enemy lines in a single hop..
[18:45] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head.
[18:46] * Reis cocks her head, thinking and looking for a nearish town that's still in the thousand mile radius.
[18:46] * Sheena wonders if she is going to get answered or was the headshake it..
[18:47] Alathon: ((you don't get an answer)
[18:47] Sheena: (wtf kind boss is that then?)
[18:47] Alathon: (the kind who keeps top secret information segmented?)
[18:48] Reis: "So... If we pre-establish a teleport point, then on the day of the operation, we can insert early in the morning. Yuuno-sensei can drop us off at the smaller town the infiltration group will be working at."
[18:48] Sheena: (...)
[18:48] Alathon: (if you don't like the non-answer, say so in character)
[18:48] Sheena: (what are we bitchs off the street? come on now thats silly)
[18:48] Sheena: "Boss? If that head shake was to me you can at lest say so."
[18:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Well, I don't know iff --"
[18:49] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Sheena.
[18:49] Mani: (No, it makes perfect sense that we don't know things we don't need to. To be honest, it's one reason the idea that we should be poking around on our own seemed off to me.)
[18:49] Alathon: Usagi: "The answer is, that information is restricted to those who are pesonally involved."
[18:50] Reis: "From there, sensei can rest. I can travel to Fort Stockton on my own. Then the infiltration group performs their own mission, and links up with me at Stockton. Perform the hit, then teleport out... Does that work?"
[18:50] Sheena: "Ok, so we make our own way then, Nothing major i just wanted to know all the options"
[18:50] Alathon: Usagi: "For the same reasons that knowledge of the specifics of of this mission is restricted to you four, myself, and my superiors."
[18:51] Mani: (Does Yuuno 'ahem' at the 'you four' comment? :) )
[18:51] Alathon: Usagi: "So.. pick a nearby town to teleport to, do the recon there, travel cross-country to Fort stockton, sanction the target, and withdraw."
[18:51] Alathon: (he apparently doesn't have the balls to ;p ))
[18:51] Alathon: Usagi: "What is the advantage of your going ahead, Reis?"
[18:52] Mani: (Oh, when did Sheena have that done to him? ;) )
[18:52] Alathon: (didn't you notice? she's been busting his balls all game))
[18:52] * Mani looks at Reis curiously, having wondered the same thing.
[18:52] * Reis nods. "I should probably travel in time to make it, just in case the team is delayed. Stay with the group if possible, otherwise leave early."
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi: "Given your capability for high speed travel, and Sheena's.. and your ability to fly.."
[18:53] Sheena: "Is ken comming along for this op? If not we can all move rather fast when needed."
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi: "Why not have the group set up outside.. hmm..."
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi looks up.
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head.
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi: "No."
[18:54] Alathon: Usagi: "Hmm.."
[18:54] * Reis nods. "We should probably plan the infiltration to give the slowest of us time to travel. With sensei reserving one teleport for emergencies."
[18:54] Alathon: Usagi traces her finger along the map, eventually settling on a town southwest of Fort Stockton.
[18:54] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd ask, why even have the group as a whole travel to Fort Stockton?"
[18:54] Sheena: (considering usagi is the only one who can see the map... Or would a normal map of texas work for this?)
[18:55] Alathon: (the map is a hologram visible to all)
[18:55] Alathon: (so, use it if you want
[18:55] Reis: "Support and fast evacuation if sensei needs to teleport us out, Usagi-san."
[18:55] Sheena: (i ment us, heh)
[18:55] Alathon: ((it's available from google maps, more or less ;p )
[18:56] Sheena: "hmm, Reis what speed can you reach?"
[18:56] Sheena: "I have been pushing the sound barrier latly.. how about you?"
[18:56] Reis: "The minimum requirement for the Stockton mission is only me, however if the entire team can be assembled, we'll likely be better off in the event of something unplanned."
[18:57] Alathon: Usagi: "The entire team cannot fly, and you'll be attacking from several miles distance.. with a town full of Texans surrounding ground zero."
[18:57] * Reis looks over at Sheena. "I... really have to push myself, but I can break sound. I can't actually keep myself protected, though..."
[18:57] Alathon: Usagi: "I don't see how you can get either Mani or Sakura close enough to you to matter in a fight."
[18:57] Alathon: ((bleah, that was one of those topics I meant to discuss during the week.. supersonic fligvht, and what it entails)
[18:58] Alathon: (that, and accelleration.. going from 0 to 1000 mph should liquify you)
[18:58] Sakura: "Usagi-sama, I was wondering... Are Sheena and I to remain undetected during our recon, or are we to attempt to blend in?"
[18:58] Sheena: "Right, so Reis smokes the target from low orbit with me as her wingman. Mani and Sakura would be at a rally point to meet at after"
[18:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Ideally, undetected."
[18:58] Sheena: "We nail him, and fly out as best speed, meet the rest and transfer out"
[18:58] * Sakura nods
[18:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Which most likely means sneaking in at night, doing what observations you can at that time"
[18:58] * Reis nods. "Yes, either way, staying together holds the advantage that sensei can transport us all out together, rather than leaving anyone stranded in Texas."
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi bites her lip.
[18:59] Mani: "If the initial attack fails, should they continue it, even if it makes it obvious that it isn't divine retribution?"
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes."
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi: "In fact.. that was something I wanted to bring up."
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi: "In a moment."
[18:59] Reis: "Understood, ma'am. The propaganda point is only secondary?"
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes."
[19:00] * Reis nods.
[19:00] Alathon: Usagi: "My concern is that if you move the whole team, you'll need to traverse close to fifty miles of rough terrain on the ground."
[19:01] Mani: "Because Sakura can't fly."
[19:01] Alathon: Usagi: "I have no doubt that Mani and Sakura can manage it, but.. "
[19:01] Sakura: "I may not be able to fly, but I can still make a good clip over rough terrain."
[19:01] Sheena: "Reis and myself should be enought for the op on the target"
[19:01] * Reis frowns. "Sensei _could_ teleport the team, but I personally would rather he have something left to work with, just in case an emergency crops up."
[19:02] Reis: "They could continue towards a rendezvous point from behind. If the hit is Sheena's and my task, they don't need to arrive on schedule."
[19:02] Alathon: Usagi: "What I'm asking is this.. given that Reis, with Sheena as backup, will be so far into the sky as to be a minute or more from Mani and Sakura, is there any real defensive advantage to having them nearby?"
[19:02] Sheena: "We're not there to fight any way, any attack after the op should be broken off and we make it to the transfer point"
[19:03] Alathon: Usagi: "Keeping in mind that you can both withdraw at great speed."
[19:03] Sheena: (Sheena is sayign they stay behind.. )
[19:03] Sheena: (is that not coming across?)
[19:03] Alathon: ((reis isn't)
[19:03] Sheena: "Reis, we don't need them to move in on foot."
[19:03] Alathon: Usagi nods at Sheena.
[19:04] Sheena: "Having a transfer point set up and waiting for hte two of us may be best, so we can leave fast'
[19:04] * Reis nods. "It would ensure a quicker escape for us, but that's correct."
[19:04] Sheena: "I have a question about one of our reasearch goals"
[19:05] Alathon: Usagi: "Shoot."
[19:06] Sheena: "We need info about what goes on durning one of thoes booths right? So that means im walking into there church durning the day and confessing to a bunch of made up crap."
[19:06] Sheena: "Or will a break in a night and a search of it be all thats needed, hmmm both?"
[19:06] Alathon: Usagi: "Doesn't have to be during the day."
[19:07] Sheena: "Ok, that makes thigns a bit simpler then trying to pass as a local."
[19:07] Mani: "Are there any operatives who have been posted in Texas around that could give us tips on fitting in?"
[19:07] Mani: "Around here, that is."
[19:07] Sheena: "As it is me and sakura will have to dye our hair any way, no sense in sticking out like that"
[19:08] Alathon: Usagi: "You're not going to fit in."
[19:08] Alathon: Usagi: "That's just not going to happen, starting with your accents."
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi: "Which raises a question in my mind.."
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi: "How do we get away with having one or both of you confess?"
[19:09] Mani: "I was just going to ask that..."
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi: "It may be that that's simply not an option, and you'll need to observe someone else confessing. Any ideas?"
[19:10] Sakura: "Hmmm."
[19:10] Mani: "Are the booths big enough for Sakura to be there invisibly while someone confesses?"
[19:10] Alathon: Usagi: "Well..."
[19:10] Sheena: "Sakura should be able to pull that off, asuming the eva's can't see him any way"
[19:10] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Sakura speculatively."
[19:10] Alathon: Usagi: "Just how good are you at wall-climbing?"
[19:10] Mani: "And can you sense life energy through walls, Sakura?"
[19:11] Mani: "If so, you may not have to be in there at all."
[19:11] Sakura: "I can wall climb pretty well."
[19:11] Sakura: (can I sense through walls?)
[19:11] * Mani cocks her head.
[19:11] * Sheena taps the best for a moment
[19:11] Sheena: "You know"
[19:11] Mani: "And don't we have a ring that allows you to meld into a wall?"
[19:11] Sheena: "One of thoes magic rings we recovered lets the user merg with walls"
[19:11] * Sheena smiles at mani
[19:11] Sheena: "yep"
[19:11] Sakura: "Stone walls."
[19:12] Mani: ("Mind reader! No wonder you like Tsukasa so much!!!")
[19:12] Sakura: "But it sounds like the churches are built out of wood."
[19:12] Alathon: ((glad someone remembered that, that coulda been comedy gold at go-time))
[19:12] Mani: "Are any of them made of stone?"
[19:12] * Mani looks at Usagi.
[19:12] * Reis blinks and nods. "Ah... there is also that ring! Remember the one we thought was a ring of gender change? Apparently, it's a _disguise_ ring."
[19:12] Alathon: Usagi: "There may be some.. from what I recall, they're largely wooden, however."
[19:12] Sheena: "Only stone? hmm, well we have rings that assist climbing as well'
[19:13] Sheena: "Ya, problem is reis is that its cursed"
[19:13] * Reis shakes her head. "I checked it in detail... I think we misdiagnosed it in the field."
[19:14] Reis: (Aka, we listened to a drunk and sleep-deprived Al who was joking :P )
[19:14] Sheena: "Thats likly, i was and still am learning to understand the magic i see"
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "STill.. probably something good for Sheena to hold onto during this."
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Sakura can keep himself invisible, of course."
[19:15] Reis: "No, you're still way ahead - you actually could TRY and figure out what it was by sight. Anyone can figure out what it does with enough time and equipment to work with."
[19:15] * Reis nods and hands the ring to Sheena.
[19:15] Mani: (Was there an answer to whether Sakura can see ki through walls?)
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "I can get you pictures of what common texan dress looks like, to mimic."
[19:16] Reis: (By the way, Al, does it cover the voice/accents bit as well?)
[19:16] Sakura: (yeah,, can I see check that stuff out through walls?)
[19:16] * Sheena looks the ring over
[19:16] Alathon: (no)
[19:16] Alathon: (er
[19:16] Alathon: (no, the ring does not affect the voice)
[19:17] Sheena: "Do you have one of thoes pics boss?"
[19:17] Alathon: She fiddles arond a bit, and presents one.
[19:17] Alathon: Looks like a cloth blouse with a leather vest and leather trousers and boots
[19:17] Sheena: "hmms'
[19:17] * Sheena gets a good image of the picture in her head and slips the ring on
[19:18] Alathon: (it's a sixth sense, you can try, it might be harder than on someone youc an see))
[19:19] Sakura: "Well, I can try to do it through walls, but I'm not quite sure I'd get good results."
[19:19] Alathon: ((roll your disguise at +10
[19:19] Mani: "I wonder if we can drill a peephole in a wall or ceiling."
[19:19] Sheena: (soo.. i roll or something? or do i change into ries :P )
[19:19] Alathon: ((cha based skill if you have no ranks))
[19:19] Sakura: (well, I can take 20, right?)
[19:19] Alathon: (as long as you're going for a female of similar age and size, no penalties)
[19:19] Sheena: roll 1d20+16
[19:19] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{23}
[19:20] Alathon: (taking a twenty would be several days of work)
[19:20] Alathon: It looks to the rest of you like she'll pass
[19:21] Alathon: Except for the eyes.
[19:21] Alathon: Those pretty much fail to pass, hard.
[19:21] Sakura: "Colored contacts maybe?"
[19:21] * Reis sweatdrops. "Um... do the Texans use sunglasses?"
[19:22] Alathon: (you can try again, but for future reference, since you've got htat defect, it'll be a -4 penalty on the roll))
[19:22] Alathon: Usagi: "Can you color your eyes with that disguise field?"
[19:22] Sheena: "Im sure gona try"
[19:22] Sheena: roll 1d20+16-4
[19:22] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+16-4 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{30}
[19:23] Alathon: She succeeds.
[19:23] * Sheena stands up and looks her self over
[19:23] Alathon: She looks kinda wierd with normal brown eyes.
[19:23] Mani: "So, do you want to try it, Sakura, to verify the ring isn't cursed?"
[19:23] * Reis blinks and cocks her head, taking in the 'normal' Sheena.
[19:23] Sheena: "How's my voice?"
[19:23] * Mani smiles slightly.
[19:23] Alathon: Your voice sounds like.. your voice. The same as befofre.
[19:23] Mani: "Same as always, Sheena."
[19:24] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright.. you have a fallback."
[19:24] Alathon: Usagi: "Hopefully one that won't be tested."
[19:25] Alathon: Usagi: "Moving on.. Reis, how confident are you, having met the Evangelicals in combat, that you can take a senior Eva out in one shot?"
[19:26] * Sheena slips the ring off,
[19:26] Sheena: "hmm, voice will still caus us problems.."
[19:26] Reis: "Laryngitis?"
[19:26] * Reis frowns. "I cannot be totally certain, Usagi-san. I... well, I remember the one that survived _two_ of our combination attack."
[19:27] * Mani ponders.
[19:27] Mani: "I didn't get a great look at that attack. Does it look wrath of god-like?"
[19:28] Sheena: "It can"
[19:29] Alathon: Usagi: "It'd have to look bright and flamey to look like their God's wrath, when it comes down to it.. Reis' is just an acceptable facsimile."
[19:29] Sheena: "I can pump power to reis as needed, it would be her attack just helped by me"
[19:29] Alathon: "If we can't make it believable, so be it."
[19:29] * Reis cocks her head. "Hm... That charge option may be best, senpai."
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "So."
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Our primary goal is that he ends up dead, and you stay alive and free."
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Does it make more sense to have the both of you attacking him simultaneously?"
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Dont' forget, he has to be more than just down, he has to be dead and gone."
[19:32] Sheena: (im phone a bit, sorry)
[19:34] * Reis shrugs. "I _believe_ I can make a good effort at killing him in one blow. But I don't know precisely how tough he is or if it will succeed. And if I do that, I'll be entirely spent in just five seconds. So... it will have to be either a combination with senpai, or a hail of blows."
[19:34] Mani: "Is your combined attack more than the sum of its parts?"
[19:35] Sheena: "How about both? since we want to adviod all fighting ries, i can just give you all the power you need"
[19:35] * Reis nods. "A great deal more, Mani-san."
[19:35] Alathon: Usagi: "Sheena.. correct me if I'm wrong, but your attacks don't have that much range.. do they?"
[19:35] Mani: "It sounds like that would be your best bet, if it wouldn't look unconvincing and you wouldn't have to sacrifice a lot of range."
[19:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Also.. Sheena, wouldn't your Obsidian Buster attack level pretty much the whole church, anda nyone standing nearby?"
[19:36] Mani: (The lord is *very* displeased. :) )
[19:37] Sheena: "They are adjustable boss, and.. ya good point. "
[19:37] Sheena: "I was thinking of just helping ries do her thing all tho, (aka let me relook up combo attack)"
[19:37] Mani: "I suppose that would be an 'undersireable' result?"
[19:38] * Reis frowns. "I... suppose it is rather too destructive for just an assassination. Should the mission be limited to my efforts from long-range, and senpai stands nearer to intensify the assault if success seems in jeopardy?"
[19:39] Alathon: Usagi: "Hm."
[19:39] * Reis cocks her head. "Or... senpai, would it be possible for you to narrow the beam? And use cartridges to enhance your range?"
[19:39] Alathon: Usagi: "Could you combine your atack with one of Sheena's less.. indiscriminate.. attacks?"
[19:40] * Reis nods. "I believe I could combine with any. Though the problem is that they have even _less_ range."
[19:41] Sheena: "For this i can adjust for all range, and channel my targeting shot into it"
[19:41] * Alathon nods.
[19:41] Alathon: "Via Dark Heart?"
[19:41] Sheena: "This may give a homing abilty to reis attack, wtich may be handle since we are shooting for a couple miles.
[19:42] * Sheena nods to the boss
[19:42] Sheena: "Ya, with dark heart"
[19:42] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[19:42] Sheena: "This will leave me open to close counter attack how ever, I won't be much use if a major fight breaks out"
[19:42] Alathon: Usagi: "That sounds promising... take a shot, if it isn't enough to disintegrate him, take another."
[19:43] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[19:44] Alathon: Usagi: "So.. the mission looks like this."
[19:45] Sheena: (ya know it dont save if we both need massive range power or anything else for combo attack ail, i think its your cal for that)
[19:45] Sheena: (*say)
[19:45] Mani: (My thought would be that the strike needs to fall within the capabilities of all attacks involved.)
[19:46] Alathon: Usagi: "A teleport point is established outside Alpine, Yuuno ports the party in after dark saturday evening. Recon is done that evening, Reis and Sheena handle the hit in Fort Stockton on Sunday Morning, return to the temporary camp outside Alpine, and everyone ports out."
[19:46] Alathon: (a combo attack has all the advantages that all attacks have, and all the disadvantages of any of the attacks)
[19:47] Alathon: (that's my provisional ruling)
[19:47] Sheena: (ok)
[19:48] Reis: (All righty, thanks)
[19:48] Alathon: (which means, you could point out that youc an do a combat attack that isn't spreading)
[19:48] Alathon: (if reis' isn't spreading)
[19:48] Sheena: (was on the phone with an "investor" heh.. hopfully i can get some ready cash to put down on my parts for this box tommaro)
[19:48] Sheena: (insted of waiting 2 weeks for my check)
[19:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Does that sound right?"
[19:49] Mani: "Yes."
[19:49] * Reis nods.
[19:50] * Sakura nods
[19:50] * Sheena is lookign at the map
[19:50] Sheena: "Ya, won't be a problem"
[19:50] Sheena: "How long do you need to transfer us Yuuno? incase me and reis are coming back hot"
[19:51] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well.. this will be only the second teleport in the day, right?"
[19:51] Alathon: Yuuno: "And.. I dunno if we even have to go back to the AFS. We could stage out of Provo."
[19:51] Sheena: "If things work out to our plan, yes"
[19:52] * Sheena re checks the distances on the map, mmm provo
[19:53] Sheena: "Sure yuuno, if thats best for you. Once we are out of the hot zone it would be safe to let you rest up for the trip home"
[19:54] Alathon: Yuuno: "Right."
[19:54] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi: "This sounds workable, and I'm confident the four of you can pull this off."
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi: "If you decide to change anything, message me."
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[19:55] Mani: "Hm. If things go wrong at Alpine, do we have a contingency? Or what if Yuuno is incapacitated?"
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi: "Sheena and Reis can both carry out the attack, and get themselves home, on their own.. when it comes down to it."
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi: "If things somehow go pear-shaped at Alpine, Yuuno could withdraw you and Sakura."
[19:56] * Mani nods.
[19:56] * Reis frowns and nods. "We can probably run faster than anything they have to offer."
[19:57] Alathon: Usagi: "If Yuuno is disabled beyond the point where you can heal him, you're rather boned."
[19:57] Mani: "In that case, Yuuno should stay with us when Reis and Sheena carry out the assassination."
[19:57] Alathon: Usagi: "You'll need to make your way back north, or west, on foot."
[19:57] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[19:57] Alathon: Usagi: "My thinking exactly."
[19:57] Sheena: "Roger that,"
[19:57] Sheena: "The only problems i can see with this is attack by there outer dim allies, and unknows"
[19:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Keep things quiet in Alpine.. and strike quickly.. and it'd be hard for them to interfere."
[19:58] * Sheena nods
[19:58] Alathon: Usagi: "I believe we've covered everything we're here to."
[19:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Mani, if you could remain for a moment?"
[19:59] Mani: "Of course."
[19:59] Sheena: "Oh ya, boss?"
[19:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes?"
[20:00] Sheena: "I was wondering if any one found our field reports, or that vidoe we saved from the city batttle useufll at all"
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi looks surprised, and confused.
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi: "Um.. yes?"
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi: "Both in Analysis, and over in Jupiter's crew."
[20:01] * Sheena wonders about that odd reaction
[20:01] * Sheena gets up to head out
[20:01] Sakura: "I suppose I'll probably head home."
[20:01] Sheena: "Right, was just wondering"
[20:02] * Sakura makes his goodbyes and then leaves
[20:02] Alathon: Alright
[20:02] Alathon: so.. at some later date, Reis will presumably get the party together to discuss some work she wants to do.
[20:04] Sheena: (since i hit level up durning this and we are at base i was going to go with the new outfit, would such a change be feaseable durning our time frame?)
[20:04] Alathon: (yes)
[20:04] * Reis looks at everyone. "So... my own mission-critical work is done, and I thought I could adjust some of our 'haul' to be more useful to our specific needs... I tested it out with this ring, and the techniques I had in mind do work, though not with perfect efficiency..."
[20:05] Reis: "So... given the items we have to work with, are there any pieces of magical gear anyone wants?"
[20:05] Mani: "Hm. How big a change can you make?"
[20:06] Sheena: "Well, i got the cloak, rod, one ring of minoc protection, and this featherfall thing"
[20:06] Sheena: "I still can't belive she tested it by jumping off the building.."
[20:07] Reis: "I can go up to total changes, though my techniques aren't perfect - this ring for instance lost a bit of overall magical power, it was initially one of the protection ones..."
[20:09] Sheena: "Not to sure what you can change on mine, as it is they help me recover my engery faster"
[20:09] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well.. you've got leftover stuff that nobody's using."
[20:09] Alathon: Yuuno: "I think that's what Reis was really asking about."
[20:10] * Reis nods. "This is more about our massive pool of 'unclaimed' objects."
[20:10] Sheena: "You got ideas ries, or asking for some"
[20:10] Sheena: "Ahh that stuff"
[20:10] Reis: "We've already picked out what we want, so this is basically about taking the things we don't have use for and turning them into things we _can_ make use of."
[20:10] Sheena: "Ya know with this upcoming up i could use somethign to help hid, or go invisible like sakura does"
[20:11] * Reis cocks her head, nodding.
[20:11] Mani: "Well, two things that sound useful to me would be a boost to teleportation or strength."
[20:11] Sakura: "Think you could change that smoke bottle to something like tear gas?"
[20:12] Mani: "Or wine?"
[20:12] * Mani grins.
[20:12] * Reis considers.
[20:12] Mani: (Reis fumbles and it produces an endless stream of white zinfandel.)
[20:12] Alathon: (the tear gas one would actually be pretty reasonable, -5
[20:13] Alathon: (wine would be more like -15)
[20:13] Sakura: (Sakura's going to go pick up a gas mask at his earliest conveniance)
[20:14] Reis: (Don't worry, Reis is already protected! :P )
[20:14] Sheena: (tear gas? oh dear)
[20:14] Mani: (cannabis smoke? :) )
[20:14] Reis: (Don't you already have an oxygen mask, Sheens?)
[20:14] Reis: (... Yes. We must make a Weed Bottle.)
[20:14] Sheena: (its a flight mask with minor asist, it dont clean the air anything major)
[20:14] Sakura: (Yes, we must.)
[20:14] Reis: (Would that also disable enemies?)
[20:14] Sheena: (remember sheena all most chokeing to death in carson?)
[20:15] Mani: (Eversmoking bong)
[20:15] Reis: (Ah yes, oops)
[20:15] Sheena: (thats a good point tho, i need to upgrade that mask)
[20:15] Alathon: (oh shit, and eversmokign bong.. damn hat'd be sweet))
[20:15] Sheena: (How would i go about that al? would it cost a CPpoint?)
[20:16] Alathon: (you can make a request to R&D, that sort of thing is well within the realm of ordered gear)
[20:17] Reis: (Okay, the bong would disable them, but take longer to do it. If anyone wants to suggest it, they may, or it's tear gas)
[20:17] Mani: (I already suggested wine. :) )
[20:18] Mani: "Something that would let Sakura fly at need would be great."
[20:19] Alathon: ((do the per-hour rolls, reis?)
[20:19] * Reis cocks her head. "All right... Sakura-san, it would take me about six hours, and I'll be able to make it pretty certainly. The tear gas bottle, I mean. However, there's about a 35% chance of degrading the magic. It would still work, but be limited."
[20:20] Sakura: "Oh? How so?"
[20:20] Reis: (GM's decision :P )
[20:20] Reis: (Three rolls, or just one? Or six?)
[20:20] Mani: (Who's that to, Sakura?)
[20:22] Alathon: (one per cp)
[20:22] Reis: (Three CP?)
[20:22] Alathon: (*yeah)
[20:23] Sakura: (how would it degrade?)
[20:23] * Reis frowns. "Then... we also have the lightning resistance rings. They're reasonably powerful - there's a lot of leeway for me to work with. I could... reasonably assuredly... give them either invisibility functionality or flight functionality. If I tried to make them teleportation capable, there would almost definitely be some degradation."
[20:23] Mani: (What if you tape two together?)
[20:24] Alathon: Yuuno: "Do you even wanna mes with those?"
[20:24] Alathon: Yuuno: "I dunno about you, but those sound awfully useful."
[20:24] Mani: "I'm inclined to agree with Yuuno."
[20:24] * Reis nods. "I wouldn't want to lose them, but they're among the most modifiable items we have."
[20:24] Reis: roll 1d20+19+4
[20:24] Reis: roll 1d20+19+4
[20:24] Reis: roll 1d20+19+4
[20:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+19+4 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{37}
[20:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+19+4 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{25}
[20:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+19+4 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{24}
[20:24] Reis: DR.
[20:24] Reis: roll 1d20+19+4
[20:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+19+4 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{29}
[20:25] Alathon: okay
[20:26] Alathon: what you get is a 1 point IoP which needs plenty of recharge time per use
[20:26] Alathon: it'll create as much tear gas as you want, but will need five minutes of recharge fore very one it's used.
[20:27] Mani: (I suppose we all requisition gas masks?)
[20:27] Sakura: (five minutes for every one minute?)
[20:29] Alathon: (yes)
[20:29] Alathon: Anythign else?
[20:29] Mani: (But it can belch gas indefinitely until stopped?)
[20:30] Alathon: (yes, but only to fill a limited area)
[20:30] Reis: (Leave it out in open air! :P )
[20:31] Alathon: (no, I mean, it'll only belch so much before it stops)
[20:31] Alathon: (i.e., a roughly 100 foot radius 10 feet high or so))
[20:32] Sheena: (shit man, should have got musterd gas or something. heh)
[20:32] Alathon: (that would have been harder)
[20:32] Alathon: (actually.. no it wouldn't)
[20:32] Reis: (The weed would've been just as easy ;) )
[20:32] Mani: (And pretty hard to deactivate/retrieve.)
[20:33] Sakura: (how long does it take to fill that area?)
[20:33] Alathon: (one round for the first fifty feet, 5 rounds for the next fifty)
[20:34] Sakura: (so less then a minute)
[20:34] Sheena: (thats kinda kick ass)
[20:34] Sakura: (:D)
[20:35] Alathon: Anything else?
[20:35] Alathon: if not, we've got lots more to cover this evening
[20:35] Sheena: invislbe ring doable?
[20:35] Reis: (It's doable, question is, do we want to drop the lightning ring)
[20:36] Sheena: (sheena has a cheep prot ring, is that useable?)
[20:36] Alathon: (no, that doesn't have much magic in it)
[20:36] Sheena: "Don't forget, a lot of this stuff is for other teams as well."
[20:36] Sheena: (damn)
[20:36] * Reis cocks her head. "I thought R&D had taken whatever they needed and the rest was returned to us?"
[20:37] Sheena: (is reis good enought to adda jaquse to the rod's weekly move? heh)
[20:37] Reis: (I have NO idea what you asked, but probably not)
[20:37] Sheena: "R&D took stuff they wanted to work on right away, There are otere op's teams in the work how ever. This stuff can be usefull to them as well"
[20:38] Sakura: (I believe he meant jacuzzi)
[20:38] Sheena: (yes, jacuzzi)
[20:39] Reis: (Which leads me to wonder just how you plan to use a jacuzzi installed on a rod)
[20:39] Mani: (No, you mean Jacuzzi(TM)! :) )
[20:39] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah.. though you know."
[20:40] Alathon: Yuuno: "Maybe we should put in a request for any other 'useless' loot that turns up."
[20:40] Alathon: Yuuno: "Stuff like those swimming rings."
[20:40] Alathon: Yuuno: "I mean.. I bet everyone can use rings of protection, but how many of us really need magical backstroke rings?"
[20:41] Sheena: "Well, i could probly use that.. I mean its dog paddle or breaststroke for me"
[20:41] * Sheena did indeed just say that with a straight face
[20:41] * Mani eyes Sheena but withholds comment.
[20:41] * Reis blinkblinks and chuckles.
[20:42] Alathon: Yuuno snerks.
[20:42] Alathon: ((anyways)
[20:42] Sheena: "Yuuno does have the right idea tho, All "extra" loot should be pooled for all operations use if needed
[20:42] Sheena: "I mean, we're doing it."
[20:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah.. we oughta see if some of the IA mage types are taking special orders for item crafting, too."
[20:43] * Reis nods, thinking. "And we could modify them as it becomes more mission-appropriate to whoever needs it..."
[20:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "I mean.. if they're gonna learn, they'll have to practice. And why not practice on stuff we need?"
[20:43] Sheena: "Good ideas,"
[20:43] * Sheena looks at the others
[20:44] Sheena: "... guess im the one thats going to do the write up on it however eh?"
[20:44] Reis: (Plus, offscreen NPCs get the power to take a twenty on all checks, thus succeeding innately)
[20:44] Alathon: (well.. not quite, but, you don't have to watch them fuck up ;p )
[20:44] Sheena: (or blow a hole in the wall, win win all around!)
[20:44] * Reis giggles. "I'll help where I can, senpai."
[20:44] Alathon: Anyways..
[20:45] Alathon: unless you want to do something else
[20:45] Sheena: "These are good ideas, Ill get some stuff writen up on it about them and we can bring it up with the boss"
[20:45] Sheena: (i can't think of anythign else)
[20:45] Alathon: time will pass, the concert a couple of you were invited to on friday night will be enjoyable.. and saturday will roll around.
[20:45] Mani: (play)
[20:45] Alathon: Friday night, rather
[20:45] Sheena: "Reis, got anything to help mani's blades?"
[20:45] Sheena: (doh)
[20:45] Reis: (Did we ever come to a decision on whether we'll drop one lightning ring for that invisibility one?)
[20:45] Alathon: As Yuuno reminds you, he'll need a night of sleep after teleporting you all over to Nevada.
[20:45] Alathon: The decision was no descision
[20:45] Alathon: so I decided we're done with that scene ;p
[20:46] Sheena: (was wondering if Reis could make a 'Keen' ring or something to help mani)
[20:46] Alathon: in the interest of not putting around and doing nothing
[20:46] Reis: (The topic changed before I could do anything about it ;_; )
[20:46] Alathon: you had twenty minutes to do something about it
[20:46] Mani: (Aw, 20 minutes is *nothing* to us. ;) )
[20:46] Sakura: (So, did we go see "Apocalypse Now! The Musical."?)
[20:46] Alathon: we are NOT going to get into a habit of spending 1-2 hours messing around with equipment, so help me
[20:47] Reis: (Heh)
[20:47] Sheena: (bad d&d flash backs there al?)
[20:47] Alathon: (No, it was something about people paying money to stay in other peoples' houses)
[20:47] Alathon: (in a word, Yes)
[20:48] Mani: (Something with intrigue, deception, and a twist.)
[20:48] Alathon: (M.Night Shamyalan: "What a twist!")
[20:48] Alathon: Okay
[20:48] Alathon: last call for stuff done in Crystal Tokyo
[20:49] * Reis will have helped Sheena out with her own modifications and cartridge-making.
[20:49] Mani: (Nothing of import. Just following up on personal things I mentioned for Mani.)
[20:49] Sakura: (Sakura gets a gas mask)
[20:50] Mani: (I imagine we all do.)
[20:50] * Reis needs no gas mask!
[20:50] Sheena: (Sheena would check with R&D about getting a better flight/gas mask)
[20:50] Reis: (... I think, right?)
[20:50] Sheena: (And send out thoes messages she has to... heh)
[20:50] Sheena: (acutly before we leave)
[20:51] Sheena: "Hey reis, hows your flying look with the wepon adjustments done?"
[20:51] * Reis blinks. "You mean... speed?"
[20:51] Sheena: (Hey Al did you say you had some rulls for us for flight?)
[20:51] Sheena: "Speed, a flight shield as well"
[20:51] Alathon: (up to speed of sound, you only need one rank of armor/force field)
[20:52] Sheena: "If your going to hit the high end speeds you need em"
[20:52] Sheena: "Or else a bug shot to the head will kknock ya for a loop"
[20:52] Mani: (Mm, doesn't a power generally provide safe use of itself?)
[20:52] Sheena: (would think so,)
[20:52] Alathon: (Speed specifies that it does)
[20:52] Mani: (Like a super powerd punch SA doesn't splatter your fist.)
[20:53] Alathon: (hm)
[20:53] * Reis nods. "I can... _achieve_ Mach 1.3, but I don't have the reinforcement to withstand that. I can sustain 500 mph with my existing flight shield - though that starts tiring me."
[20:54] Alathon: (you know.. at 4 cp.. that's probably reasonable)
[20:54] Alathon: (and it does specificy in atmosphere or space.. then says you'd need aditional adaptations for space, but nothing about atmospheric flight)
[20:55] Sheena: "The big thing is breaking the sound barrier, after that it smooths out alot. but hmm...)
[20:55] Alathon: (for now, it's one rank of armor or forcefield for any high speed flight.. and I'll revisit if that's even necessary after game)
[20:55] Mani: (I need to go afk for a few minutes. Maybe break here?)
[20:55] Sheena: (ok)
[20:55] Sheena: (i could use a bio...)
[20:55] Reis: (Woo! I can keep it up when I'm at +Mach then, now?)
[20:55] Alathon: (we can actually fast forward to sheena's quick solo mission.. or not
[20:55] Alathon: okay
[20:55] Alathon: 10 minute break
[20:55] Alathon: TEN MINUTES, NOT TWENTY, PLEASE
[20:55] Sheena: what 30? ok!!
[20:56] Alathon: I swear, fucking Dynast Grauscherra will come down from the Slayers universe to sodomize you with a ten foot wide icicle if you take half an hour
[20:57] Sakura: (god damn it, I can't make it to the store and back in 10 >_<)
[20:57] Sakura: (Oh well, time to put on the chastity belt)
[20:57] Reis: ... Wow. That threat was awesome.
[20:59] Mani: And Alathon will give you a rank 6 Gerand Magnet defect.
[20:59] Reis: I think he's already left.
[21:00] Reis: Though THAT would change anyone's mind.
[21:03] Sheena: (how the heck do you know that guys last name?)
[21:04] Mani: They used to work together. They shared a cubicle.
[21:04] Sheena: lol
[21:05] Alathon: all sorts of people end up at MS to get ahead
[21:05] Alathon: Alright
[21:06] Alathon: I'll assume you can all manage the fairly trivial task of island hopping to Provo.
[21:07] Mani: (A dangerous assumption. :) )
[21:07] Sheena: (we just skip by some of the best beachs in the world... What a job. )
[21:08] Alathon: You'll spend a night in a crappy inn... really, really crappy after a suite in Crystal Tokyo.
[21:08] Mani: (In fact, the actual name of the place *is* Crappy Inn)
[21:08] Alathon: the next day,
[21:08] Alathon: Yuuno: "Alright.. Sheena, we ready to roll?"
[21:08] Sheena: (right next to the wtf is that, bar and grill)
[21:09] * Reis awakes and does her get-ready stuff.
[21:09] Sheena: "Ya, im good"
[21:09] Reis: (This is the pre-mission setup, right?)
[21:09] * Mani makes her crescent moon vanish.
[21:09] Sheena: (wait, what am i doing solo now? flying to the next teleport point?)
[21:09] Alathon: (yes. you're not gonna get there otherwise ;p )
[21:10] Reis: (Reis would at least offer to accompany Sheens there - how long a flight would it be at 1000 mph?)
[21:10] Alathon: (and you can do what, 500 normally without magical boost?)
[21:10] Sheena: (ya 500 easy)
[21:10] Alathon: (it's around 800ish miles)
[21:10] Alathon: So you're looking at a bit less than two hours each way.
[21:10] Alathon: at 500
[21:10] Sheena: "Corse ploted dark heart?)
[21:11] Reis: (Hm, so... no frigging way Reis would last all the way ;_; Not at full speed, at least)
[21:11] Alathon: Dark Heart: "xxxxxx"
[21:11] * Reis folds her hands in front of herself. "Good luck, senpai!"
[21:12] * Sheena smiles at reis
[21:12] Sheena: "Thanks, depending on cloud cover this shouldnt be much of a problem. If its clear skys i may have to wait a bit or pick a spot farther away from town"
[21:14] Mani: (We're someplace private right now, I assume?)
[21:14] * Reis nods. "I'll be waiting. And... just... good luck. Stay safe."
[21:14] * Sheena fits on her flight mask (new one?) and glasses before taking a look around
[21:16] Sakura: (VIA CON DIOS!)
[21:16] Mani: (vaya)
[21:16] Sakura: (sorry, I don't speak spanish)
[21:17] Sheena: "No one around? Ok im off then"
[21:17] Sakura: "Watch yourself out there."
[21:18] * Mani nods to Sheena.
[21:18] * Reis nods. "See you soon, Sheena-senpai."
[21:20] * Sheena will fly high to say out of sight and make her way to the target zone.. its a long flight
[21:20] Alathon: one sec
[21:21] Alathon: The two hours or so pass without incident.
[21:21] Alathon: Looking down, you can see that the area outside Alpine on the northeast isn't cultivated very far.
[21:22] * Sheena moves out into the wild abit to make sure no one is around.
[21:23] Sakura: (was there an inflight meal? what about a movie?)
[21:23] Alathon: You saw lots of nature.
[21:23] Alathon: It was nature.
[21:23] Alathon: It mostly sucked.
[21:23] Alathon: You didn't eat any flies, either.
[21:24] Alathon: You had to wipe off a couple though.
[21:25] Alathon: There isn't a whole lot of trees around these parts.. mostly brush.
[21:25] Alathon: But you can find a spot with some decent sized bushes.
[21:26] Alathon: and
[21:26] Alathon: againsta ll odds, nothing jumps you in the hour Yuuno needs to memorize the spot
[21:26] Alathon: I feel kinda disappointed.
[21:26] Reis: (Whaaaaaaaaaaa?)
[21:26] Sakura: (I'm assuming random encounter rolls)
[21:28] Alathon: (they happen now and then)
[21:28] Alathon: Yuuno: "Allright, I'm good."
[21:28] Alathon: Yuuno: "Let's book it."
[21:28] Sheena: "Right,"
[21:29] * Sheena makes sure every thing is secure and then heads away up again before flying back to the others
[21:29] Alathon: roll 1d20
[21:29] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{1}
[21:30] Alathon: sheena, spot
[21:30] Sheena: (oh dear)
[21:30] Alathon: and roll good, cuz yuuno sure as shit didn't
[21:30] Sheena: (spot? crap)
[21:30] Sheena: Roll 1d20+6
[21:30] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{20}
[21:30] Sheena: (ehh... hope thats enought)
[21:30] Alathon: You pick out the teltale glow of an angel ascending to meet you on the way back, around twenty minutes into the flight.. near Texas' border.
[21:30] Alathon: It's got some sorta sword.
[21:31] Reis: (Blah, caught in conversation...)
[21:32] Sheena: (what magic do i see?)
[21:32] Alathon: You can't tell at this distance
[21:32] Alathon: it's a good ways down.. in fact, it's not entirely clear whether it's moving fast enough to catch you
[21:32] Sheena: "Hang on yuuno, we got some one trying ot intercept)
[21:32] Alathon: but it's trying, angling forward diagonally to for an intercept.
[21:32] * Sheena snorts and checks her mask
[21:33] Alathon: Yuuno: "Awww, shit..."
[21:33] Alathon: He snuggles down into your bosom.
[21:33] Sheena: "As if, Dark Heart full burn to the taxes border"
[21:33] Alathon: Dark Heart: "xxx xxx xxxxxxx xxxx"
[21:34] Alathon: At full boosted speed, you'll blow by the angel.
[21:34] Alathon: It angles to pursue.. but you loose it in less than ten minutes.
[21:34] Sakura: (you should have rammed him)
[21:34] Alathon: (oh gee, suicide attack much? ;p; )
[21:34] Alathon: (she's going a helluva lot faster than terminal velocity)
[21:34] Sakura: (doesn't she have a forcefield? :P)
[21:34] Sheena: (that angle was doing need mack? damn)
[21:34] Alathon: (actually you know.. ramming with forcefield could be an interesting tactic)
[21:35] Sheena: (sheena has force and armor)
[21:35] Alathon: (... suddenly I see a flaw in how I specced it)
[21:35] Sheena: (heh)
[21:35] Sakura: (:D)
[21:35] Alathon: .. assume you'll take damage doing a ramming attack ;p
[21:35] Sakura: (bastard :P)
[21:36] Alathon: it's cool and all, but doing like 40d6 damage at will is just stupid
[21:36] Alathon: and reflects a failure on my part to understand how the mechanics work
[21:36] * Sheena knows she isnt the bigest of women so a raming attack never croses her mind.
[21:36] Alathon: You'll make it back
[21:38] Alathon: Yuuno: "Okay."
[21:38] Alathon: Yuuno: "I'm done."
[21:38] Alathon: Yuuno hurls on the ground. It's not a lot, but it's still puke.
[21:39] Sheena: "Ahh come on yuuno, that loopdeloop wasn't that bad"
[21:39] Alathon: Yuuno: "hrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark!"
[21:39] Mani: (The rest of us are out there with them?)
[21:40] Alathon: probably not
[21:40] Sheena: "Would you rather i have took on that angle? While i wouldnt mind a dog fight some time, we do have stuff to get done'
[21:40] * Reis heard the sonic boom?
[21:41] Sheena: "How the heck that guy sense me any way.. So much for stealth running"
[21:41] Mani: (I should hope Sheena isn't making those around populated areas.)
[21:41] Alathon: (the sonic boom was across the rockies, so no)
[21:42] Sheena: (oh damn it!)
[21:42] Sheena: (next time the sonic boom will be on top of that angle i totaly forgot about that)
[21:42] Alathon: Anyways...
[21:42] Alathon: ((hahhahahaha))
[21:42] Alathon: That'll totally work if you do it
[21:43] Alathon: The time will come, soon enough, for Yuuno to teleport the entire group.
[21:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "You all ready to roll?"
[21:43] Alathon: Yuuno is looking bette than he was earlier.
[21:43] * Reis will greet Sheena and Yuuno when they finally arrive.
[21:43] Mani: "One moment, please."
[21:43] Sakura: ("SHIT! I forgot my dice at home.")
[21:43] * Sheena checks her gear, and finshs off a slam of her water
[21:43] Sheena: "Im ready"
[21:43] * Reis checks her gear, and nods.
[21:43] Sakura: (or "I didn't know you played Craps, Yuuno.")
[21:44] Sakura: "I'm ready."
[21:44] Mani: "Reis, I talked with Usagi before we left, and in light of your performance, your restriction on area attacks is lifted."
[21:45] * Reis blinks and nods. "... Thank you, Mani-san."
[21:46] Mani: "All right, if everyone's ready, let's go."
[21:46] * Reis nods. "I'm ready to go."
[21:48] Alathon: You port.
[21:48] Alathon: You all come out in.. wilderness.
[21:48] Alathon: It's pretty much exactly like you'd expect wilderness to be.
[21:49] Sheena: "Welcome to... a lot of nothing."
[21:49] Alathon: For those of you without nightsight, it's very dark, and there's low brush that you can't see, and not much else.
[21:49] Alathon: It's cloudy, so there's very little ambient light.
[21:49] Sheena: "Still lets keep it quite and stay hidden"
[21:49] Sakura: "Well, time to go to work, I guess."
[21:49] * Mani looks happy with the surroundings.
[21:49] Alathon: For those with nightsight, it's just a lot of bushes.
[21:50] * Reis blinks and slips on her new ring just for vision, looking around. "Well... we're here."
[21:50] Sheena: "The towns a good bit off that way, i wasn't sure how they handles farms out here and didnt want to chance getting spoted"
[21:50] Mani: "Right."
[21:51] * Mani keeps her voice low.
[21:51] Mani: (Is there an earbud attachment for the communicators, btw?)
[21:51] Alathon: You could reasonably get one.
[21:52] Alathon: In fact.. you should all at this point, assume you have them
[21:52] Sakura: (this is the future, we should have MGS style shit)
[21:52] Alathon: Assume you can do hands free communication.
[21:52] Alathon: just not terribly quietly ;p
[21:53] Mani: (But just listening should be quiet, yes?)
[21:53] Alathon: Yuuno: "So.. Sheena, Sakura, you both going in invisible?"
[21:53] Alathon: Yuuno: "I guess you can keep track of each other with your life-force and magic..."
[21:53] Alathon: Yes ;p
[21:53] * Sakura grins
[21:53] Alathon: though a character with enhanced hearing could pick up someone elses earbud, maybe
[21:53] Sheena: "Thats the idea yuuno"
[21:53] Reis: (Uh? Didn't we get stampeded through to the mission instead of getting to give Sheens an invisibility ring?)
[21:54] Alathon: She modded Darkheart to do it
[21:54] Reis: (Ah, I sees)
[21:54] Sheena: (Stealth mod baby)
[21:54] Sheena: (that dont seem to work on angles)
[21:54] Reis: (Schweeet)
[21:54] Sakura: "I'm going to suggest radio silence unless absolutly necessary."
[21:54] Mani: "Ok, when you two go in, I think it'd be best if you each keep a channel open to one of us so we can hear if there are any problems. Does that sound good to everyone?"
[21:54] Alathon: (certainly not on the one you were spotted by)
[21:54] Reis: (Well, they've got aura sight like the greybabes)
[21:54] Sheena: (or mabie just angles with huge glowing swords)
[21:55] Reis: "Yes."
[21:55] Mani: "Obviously, *your* comms wouldn't be receiving anything other than an emergency signal."
[21:56] Sheena: "Right, sounds good mani, we can text if needed"
[21:56] * Sakura dissapears abruptly
[21:56] Mani: "What do you think, Sakura?"
[21:56] Sakura: "Let's get this show on the road, that's what I think."
[21:57] Sheena: "Ya, Keep an eye open forany one ocming near
[21:57] * Sheena fades away as well.
[21:57] Alathon: ((sheena, sakura, join #CT2 pls)
[21:57] Alathon: ...the crickets chirp.
[21:57] * Reis nods. "We'll wait for you... good luck."
[21:57] Alathon: Yuuno, softly: "Soo..."
[21:59] Mani: (Soo... I assume xp is being divided evenly for everything? :) )
[21:59] Alathon: ((heh))
[21:59] * Reis glances over. "... Yes, sensei?"
[21:59] Alathon: Yuuno: "I dunno.. It's just too quiet."
[22:00] Mani: "Nice and quiet if you want to nap and recover your energy."
[22:00] Alathon: Yuuno: "You have a point, Miss Mani."
[22:01] * Reis looks around. "Quiet's good... but I suppose it being a good thing is what makes us nervous."
[22:01] Mani: (Does Reis have nightvision?)
[22:01] Reis: (Thermal vision)
[22:02] * Mani shrugs.
[22:02] Mani: "We're nervous?"
[22:02] Reis: (And heightened sight)
[22:02] * Reis shrugs. "Well... isn't that what someone means when they say 'it's too quiet'?"
[22:04] Alathon: Yuuno: "I'm not nervous.. I'm just, uh, high strung."
[22:04] * Mani just makes herself comfortable.
[22:04] * Reis finds a spot and works on relaxing.
[22:05] Alathon: After the first ten or fifteen minutes, it's not so hard.
[22:05] Alathon: The nature sounds are out full force, but they're largely relaxing ones.
[22:05] * Mani stays awake and keeps her eyes and ears open, though.
[22:05] Alathon: steady chirps, hums, and the like.
[22:05] Mani: (Not that I know how to close my ears...)
[22:05] * Reis makes sure not to relax TOO much.
[22:06] Mani: (And then Sheena and Sakura come running back, chased by a mob of Texans. "Start the plane!")
[22:06] Reis: ("We have a plane?")
[22:07] Sakura: (platypodia can close their ears)
[22:07] Reis: (The platypus is not a being native to this earth)
[22:07] Alathon: ((the pilot is fishing)
[22:13] Alathon: Time passes...
[22:13] Alathon: crickets chirp...
[22:14] * Alathon sings, "And birds sing... but I'll die... without you!"
[22:14] * Reis fidgets.
[22:15] * Mani shows her cat nature by just sitting there doing nothing.
[22:15] Alathon: You succed ;p
[22:15] Sakura: (she's not licking herself?)
[22:15] Alathon: very effectively ;p
[22:18] Alathon: There's a crunching sound off to the side.. east-ish.
[22:18] * Mani whispers, "Incoming."
[22:18] Alathon: Everyone can hear it.
[22:18] Mani: (How close?)
[22:18] Alathon: Hard to tell.. but within audible range, and pretyt loud, so not too far.
[22:18] * Reis jerks suddenly to a standing position and looks in that direction, putting a hand on Swordbreaker.
[22:19] Reis: (Does my two current ranks of Heightened Vision show me anything?)
[22:19] Alathon: No
[22:19] Reis: (Ie, give me the range :P )
[22:19] * Mani slowly and quietly rises.
[22:19] Alathon: (but you do see a bloom of heat around 30-40 feet away)
[22:20] Alathon: There's a series of crunches, then the noise stops.
[22:21] * Reis licks her lips, and sends a message on the communicator asking if that's the other two.
[22:23] Alathon: Female voice: "Warrior, we have business!"
[22:24] Sakura: (DUNN DUNN DUUNNNNNN)
[22:24] * Reis frowns and looks to Mani.
[22:24] Mani: (What language?)
[22:24] Sakura: (How the FUCK does she keep finding you guys?)
[22:24] Reis: (So should I presume I got a 'no'?)
[22:25] Alathon: (it sounds like japanese)
[22:25] Alathon: (but without the sort of accents you usually hear from ward to ward))
[22:25] * Reis STARES at that.
[22:26] * Reis activates Swordbreaker, then triggers her Barrier Jacket silently.
[22:26] Mani: (New English) "What sort of business would that be?"
[22:27] * Reis steps closer to Mani.
[22:27] * Mani charges her swords and activates her uniform.
[22:27] Alathon: Voice: "Thrice we have fought, and thrice you have stood against me.. as one of many."
[22:27] Alathon: Voice: "Fight me! Woman to woman, blade to blade."
[22:27] Alathon: Voice: "This challenge I issue!"
[22:27] Sheena: (Oh shit)
[22:27] * Reis blinks.
[22:27] Sheena: (she's callin you out)
[22:28] Sakura: (Seriously, how the FUCK does she keep finding her?)
[22:28] * Reis SENDS A MESSAGE to the missing dudes.
[22:29] Alathon: Voice: "Warrior!?"
[22:29] Sheena: (get her vaderchan!)
[22:29] * Reis awaits Mani's call on that.
[22:30] Sakura: (WAAAAARIORRRRR COME OUT TO PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY)
[22:30] Mani: "Hmm. Single combat, using only our own abilities... Unfortunately, my life is dedicated to the service of my kingdom, so I am not willing to risk it on a personal matter like this."
[22:30] Sakura: (WAAAAARRRRRIIOOOOOORRRR COME OUT TO PLAAAAAAAAYYAAAYYYYYYYY)
[22:30] Mani: "I am not unwilling to fight you, however, if it is not to the death."
[22:30] Alathon: Voice: "I care not for your country."
[22:31] Alathon: Voice: "Face me, or I return with a dozen hired claws to spoil your country's purpose."
[22:31] Alathon: Voice: "Yea, or Nay? Answer now!"
[22:31] Sheena: (hired claws? annoying.)
[22:31] Mani: "What are the terms?"
[22:31] * Reis frowns.
[22:32] Alathon: Voice: "The only true terms, unto death."
[22:32] Sheena: (no fair, shes rezed before)
[22:32] Alathon: Voice: "Yea, or nay?"
[22:32] Alathon: ((that's a fiar point ;p ))
[22:32] Reis: (We'll frakking ANNIHILATE her body this time :P )
[22:33] Alathon: Yuuno, softly: "I can make sure she doesn't wuss out and run away, if you'll let me."
[22:33] Alathon: Yuuno: "I can form a barrier.. but.. it'll tire me out."
[22:33] Sheena: (mani wants to kick her ass, but yarrow fears the dice)
[22:33] Mani: "It seems I have no choice. Are you sure you're not willing to fight until unconciousness?"
[22:33] Alathon: Voice, disdainful: "We fight, not spar."
[22:34] Alathon: There's a crunching sound as she moves forward, and a ripping sound as something tears away a chunk of the underbrush between you.
[22:34] * Reis glances at Yuuno. "... That will be putting us closer to the line... How long will it take until you regain enough power for the extra teleport, if you do it?"
[22:34] Alathon: Yuuno, quietly, "a day."
[22:35] * Reis whispers.
[22:35] Reis: "So... no reserves..."
[22:35] * Reis asks the other team for their status.
[22:36] Mani: "Personally, I'd rather a favor from you than your life if I win.
[22:36] * Mani starts walking toward her.
[22:36] Alathon: Voice, sardonically: "I will discuss this if, indeed, you hold your blade against my throat."
[22:36] Reis: (Does the other team tell me their status?)
[22:36] Sakura: (does it sounds like we are?)
[22:36] Reis: (Or are they busy running away from a Texan horde?)
[22:36] Alathon: You'll find a small area, maybe a couple dozen feet free of the worst of the brush, with only knee-height bushes.
[22:37] Alathon: She'
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Session 51

Postby Alathon » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:22 am

Session 51

[18:15] Alathon: anyways, we're all here
[18:15] Alathon: so lets get started
[18:15] *** Ala-bot has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:15] *** Ataru is now known as Sakura.
[18:15] Alathon: roll 1d20 test
[18:15] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20 test --> [ 1d20=17 ]{17}
[18:15] Pale_Wolf: Ah yes, I've got an announcement.
[18:15] Yarrow: roll 1d20 Kick Ala-bot
[18:15] Ala-bot: Yarrow rolled 1d20 Kick Ala-bot --> [ 1d20=7 ]{7}
[18:15] *** Pale_Wolf is now known as Reis.
[18:16] Alathon: fire it off
[18:16] *** Yarrow is now known as Mani.
[18:16] Alathon: I have one too
[18:16] Reis: Tuesdays, my classes eat up the whole day - they end at 8 PM.
[18:16] Alathon: 8pm pacific?
[18:16] Reis: I can reasonably expect to take two hours to get home, so, soonest I can be in and playable is 10 PM.
[18:16] Reis: Eastern.
[18:16] Reis: So, one hour late.
[18:16] Alathon: *nod*
[18:16] Sakura: bummer
[18:16] Alathon: when do classes start?
[18:17] Reis: Next week's the first one.
[18:17] Alathon: *nod*
[18:17] Alathon: so.. another good reaosn to try to get the Sunday afternoon slot
[18:17] Reis: Hm. Possible to delay game start? Or should I just deal? :P
[18:17] Alathon: will pretty much have to deal, honestly, as long as we have 3 people
[18:17] Alathon: we can't really run to 12-1 instead of 11-12ish
[18:18] Alathon: though.. what are peoples mondays and wednesdays like?
[18:18] Reis: Gotcha. Pity...
[18:18] Reis: My Wednesday's taken up by Light's game. Monday's nearly totally free.
[18:18] Sakura: monday is taken up by ellf's game
[18:19] Sakura: wednesdays are free
[18:19] Reis: Heh.
[18:19] Sakura: and sundays... I like this game and all, but if I can work sundays, I'm going to
[18:19] * Sakura isn't going to pass up 14.25/hr
[18:21] Mani: I'm not busy either night, but if I'm involved in your game one night and DCG's the next, I'm likely to start getting surly.
[18:22] Alathon: *nod*
[18:22] Alathon: alright
[18:23] Alathon: we'll have to work with these times.. there are games monday, wednesday, thursday, friday..
[18:23] Alathon: is saturday afternoon an option, in stead of stunday?
[18:23] Alathon: i.e. like 11am or noon PST until 6-7pm PST?
[18:24] Reis: Possible, though we might all be in recovery from my game :P
[18:24] Alathon: there is that
[18:24] Alathon: well, that's just me, you, and DCG, and we're all veteran slee- schedule tinkerers
[18:24] Reis: Heh, yep.
[18:25] Sakura: hmm, maybe
[18:25] Mani: I don't want a sleep-deprived DM. Things will get weird. :(
[18:25] Sakura: but I dunno
[18:25] Sakura: I need to get them to stop jerking me around at work
[18:26] Alathon: you won't
[18:26] Alathon: retail is like that
[18:26] Alathon: they love assigning new hours every week
[18:26] Alathon: it lets them discipline and fire people without having to officially do either
[18:26] Sakura: errr
[18:26] Sakura: not what I meant
[18:26] Sakura: they're barely giving me ANY hours right now
[18:27] Sakura: I was promised at LEAST 25
[18:27] Sakura: I'm giving them till the first week of september, then I start looking for new work -_-
[18:27] Alathon: oh
[18:27] Alathon: *nod*
[18:27] Alathon: alright
[18:27] Alathon: anyways,
[18:27] Alathon: we left off last session with the party in a conference room yet again, in a fairly long meeting with U sagi
[18:28] Reis: (Gah. Been assaulted by the phone)
[18:28] Alathon: having taken a short bio break, with the intent of discussing the specifics of the coming recon & assassination mission
[18:28] Mani: ("Are you all right, Usagi? It seems like you were in the bathroom for a week!")
[18:28] Reis: (Back.)
[18:29] Sakura: (wait, so chronologically, when did the thing with Usagi and Mani go down?)
[18:29] Alathon: (after this meeting)
[18:30] Alathon: (mani will be asked to stay after to discuss something else)
[18:30] Alathon: Usagi returns to the room, shaking her hands in the air a bit.
[18:30] Alathon: ((so now you know, your boss Does wash her hands after using the bathroom))
[18:30] Alathon: She seats herself, and looks arond to see if everyone is ready.
[18:31] Mani: (Depends what she's shaking off...)
[18:31] * Reis awaits.
[18:31] *** DCG is now known as Sheena.
[18:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[18:32] Alathon: Usagi: "So.."
[18:33] Sheena: (did we ever get anything decided last week becided or just a lot of talking?)
[18:33] Reis: (Lot of talking, I believe)
[18:33] Alathon: (there was no decision making, it was all discussion)
[18:33] Sheena: (this meeting needs more HLS, strip ries!)
[18:33] Reis: (... And, I've still got a bunch of IoP modification that Reis actually did over the previous week to handle for you guys)
[18:34] Reis: (... Wait, where did that come in?)
[18:34] Sheena: (As fo that time thing, i can do it when ever.)
[18:34] Mani: (Sheena nodded off for a bit.)
[18:35] Alathon: Usagi: "Sheena, Sakura, I'm guessing you want to do your investigation *before* Addington is offed, correct?"
[18:36] * Reis frowns. "... Perhaps some place entirely different would be better. If problems arise during the investigation, that could blow the entire assassination mission."
[18:36] Sheena: "It would be simpler to do so before hand, But if we wait thill after there is a good chance we can learn how the judgment of god on one of there eva's has effected them"
[18:36] * Alathon nods to both of you, then addresses Sheena.
[18:36] Alathon: "You don't have to worry about observing the social impact."
[18:36] Reis: ("Wow! God acknowledged me!")
[18:36] Alathon: "Intillegence is responsible for that."
[18:36] * Sakura nods
[18:37] Alathon: "What you need to do are the things they can't, the things that require your specific meta capabilities."
[18:37] * Sheena nods
[18:37] Alathon: "And.. splitting up is not necessarily a bad idea."
[18:37] Alathon: Usagi: "In general, I want the whole team there so you have backup, and a well rounded set of capabilities in general."
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi: "Hence Mani going."
[18:38] * Mani nods.
[18:38] Sheena: "Ok, then another church before hand would be best."
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi: "One possibility would be for you to do your investigations in a church in a nearby town."
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi: "Given that both of you are capable of moving at high rates of speed.. this should be manageable."
[18:39] Alathon: Usagi: "Though it'll add the risk of issues cropping up along the way."
[18:40] Sheena: "Would be best to adviod any issues that may pop up, so we dont tip off the target"
[18:40] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[18:40] Alathon: Usagi: "Of course."
[18:40] Mani: "And, of course, teleportation is a possibility."
[18:41] Alathon: Usagi: "How do you plan to insert.. fly in at altitude to establish a teleport point for Yuuno, or something more complex?"
[18:41] * Reis cocks her head. "We need to consider how many teleports Yuuno-sensei has in him..."
[18:41] Alathon: Yuuno: "Two in a row, three in a day total."
[18:42] Mani: "Of course. But we don't have to teleport all the way home when we leave the after the second part of the mission."
[18:42] Alathon: Yuuno: "And a thousand miles is about the best I can do with any sort of reliability."
[18:42] Sheena: "How does our current intill ops reach texas? Or should we find a totaly defernt way to not indanger that one?"
[18:42] Mani: "Can you do more shorter range teleports or is the number the same?"
[18:42] * Reis nods. "Thank you... So, no overuse. Is Stockton within that thousand mile distance of safe lines, Usagi-san?"
[18:43] * Reis looks at the map if one is available.
[18:44] Alathon: Yuuno: "A couple more shorter range ones.. but.. my overall range will be decreased doing short hops"
[18:45] Alathon: The map shows that Fort Stockton is less than a thousand miles from Kansas City
[18:45] Alathon: And that you could get well past enemy lines in a single hop..
[18:45] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head.
[18:46] * Reis cocks her head, thinking and looking for a nearish town that's still in the thousand mile radius.
[18:46] * Sheena wonders if she is going to get answered or was the headshake it..
[18:47] Alathon: ((you don't get an answer)
[18:47] Sheena: (wtf kind boss is that then?)
[18:47] Alathon: (the kind who keeps top secret information segmented?)
[18:48] Reis: "So... If we pre-establish a teleport point, then on the day of the operation, we can insert early in the morning. Yuuno-sensei can drop us off at the smaller town the infiltration group will be working at."
[18:48] Sheena: (...)
[18:48] Alathon: (if you don't like the non-answer, say so in character)
[18:48] Sheena: (what are we bitchs off the street? come on now thats silly)
[18:48] Sheena: "Boss? If that head shake was to me you can at lest say so."
[18:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Well, I don't know iff --"
[18:49] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Sheena.
[18:49] Mani: (No, it makes perfect sense that we don't know things we don't need to. To be honest, it's one reason the idea that we should be poking around on our own seemed off to me.)
[18:49] Alathon: Usagi: "The answer is, that information is restricted to those who are pesonally involved."
[18:50] Reis: "From there, sensei can rest. I can travel to Fort Stockton on my own. Then the infiltration group performs their own mission, and links up with me at Stockton. Perform the hit, then teleport out... Does that work?"
[18:50] Sheena: "Ok, so we make our own way then, Nothing major i just wanted to know all the options"
[18:50] Alathon: Usagi: "For the same reasons that knowledge of the specifics of of this mission is restricted to you four, myself, and my superiors."
[18:51] Mani: (Does Yuuno 'ahem' at the 'you four' comment? :) )
[18:51] Alathon: Usagi: "So.. pick a nearby town to teleport to, do the recon there, travel cross-country to Fort stockton, sanction the target, and withdraw."
[18:51] Alathon: (he apparently doesn't have the balls to ;p ))
[18:51] Alathon: Usagi: "What is the advantage of your going ahead, Reis?"
[18:52] Mani: (Oh, when did Sheena have that done to him? ;) )
[18:52] Alathon: (didn't you notice? she's been busting his balls all game))
[18:52] * Mani looks at Reis curiously, having wondered the same thing.
[18:52] * Reis nods. "I should probably travel in time to make it, just in case the team is delayed. Stay with the group if possible, otherwise leave early."
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi: "Given your capability for high speed travel, and Sheena's.. and your ability to fly.."
[18:53] Sheena: "Is ken comming along for this op? If not we can all move rather fast when needed."
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi: "Why not have the group set up outside.. hmm..."
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi looks up.
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head.
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi: "No."
[18:54] Alathon: Usagi: "Hmm.."
[18:54] * Reis nods. "We should probably plan the infiltration to give the slowest of us time to travel. With sensei reserving one teleport for emergencies."
[18:54] Alathon: Usagi traces her finger along the map, eventually settling on a town southwest of Fort Stockton.
[18:54] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd ask, why even have the group as a whole travel to Fort Stockton?"
[18:54] Sheena: (considering usagi is the only one who can see the map... Or would a normal map of texas work for this?)
[18:55] Alathon: (the map is a hologram visible to all)
[18:55] Alathon: (so, use it if you want
[18:55] Reis: "Support and fast evacuation if sensei needs to teleport us out, Usagi-san."
[18:55] Sheena: (i ment us, heh)
[18:55] Alathon: ((it's available from google maps, more or less ;p )
[18:56] Sheena: "hmm, Reis what speed can you reach?"
[18:56] Sheena: "I have been pushing the sound barrier latly.. how about you?"
[18:56] Reis: "The minimum requirement for the Stockton mission is only me, however if the entire team can be assembled, we'll likely be better off in the event of something unplanned."
[18:57] Alathon: Usagi: "The entire team cannot fly, and you'll be attacking from several miles distance.. with a town full of Texans surrounding ground zero."
[18:57] * Reis looks over at Sheena. "I... really have to push myself, but I can break sound. I can't actually keep myself protected, though..."
[18:57] Alathon: Usagi: "I don't see how you can get either Mani or Sakura close enough to you to matter in a fight."
[18:57] Alathon: ((bleah, that was one of those topics I meant to discuss during the week.. supersonic fligvht, and what it entails)
[18:58] Alathon: (that, and accelleration.. going from 0 to 1000 mph should liquify you)
[18:58] Sakura: "Usagi-sama, I was wondering... Are Sheena and I to remain undetected during our recon, or are we to attempt to blend in?"
[18:58] Sheena: "Right, so Reis smokes the target from low orbit with me as her wingman. Mani and Sakura would be at a rally point to meet at after"
[18:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Ideally, undetected."
[18:58] Sheena: "We nail him, and fly out as best speed, meet the rest and transfer out"
[18:58] * Sakura nods
[18:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Which most likely means sneaking in at night, doing what observations you can at that time"
[18:58] * Reis nods. "Yes, either way, staying together holds the advantage that sensei can transport us all out together, rather than leaving anyone stranded in Texas."
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi bites her lip.
[18:59] Mani: "If the initial attack fails, should they continue it, even if it makes it obvious that it isn't divine retribution?"
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes."
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi: "In fact.. that was something I wanted to bring up."
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi: "In a moment."
[18:59] Reis: "Understood, ma'am. The propaganda point is only secondary?"
[18:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes."
[19:00] * Reis nods.
[19:00] Alathon: Usagi: "My concern is that if you move the whole team, you'll need to traverse close to fifty miles of rough terrain on the ground."
[19:01] Mani: "Because Sakura can't fly."
[19:01] Alathon: Usagi: "I have no doubt that Mani and Sakura can manage it, but.. "
[19:01] Sakura: "I may not be able to fly, but I can still make a good clip over rough terrain."
[19:01] Sheena: "Reis and myself should be enought for the op on the target"
[19:01] * Reis frowns. "Sensei _could_ teleport the team, but I personally would rather he have something left to work with, just in case an emergency crops up."
[19:02] Reis: "They could continue towards a rendezvous point from behind. If the hit is Sheena's and my task, they don't need to arrive on schedule."
[19:02] Alathon: Usagi: "What I'm asking is this.. given that Reis, with Sheena as backup, will be so far into the sky as to be a minute or more from Mani and Sakura, is there any real defensive advantage to having them nearby?"
[19:02] Sheena: "We're not there to fight any way, any attack after the op should be broken off and we make it to the transfer point"
[19:03] Alathon: Usagi: "Keeping in mind that you can both withdraw at great speed."
[19:03] Sheena: (Sheena is sayign they stay behind.. )
[19:03] Sheena: (is that not coming across?)
[19:03] Alathon: ((reis isn't)
[19:03] Sheena: "Reis, we don't need them to move in on foot."
[19:03] Alathon: Usagi nods at Sheena.
[19:04] Sheena: "Having a transfer point set up and waiting for hte two of us may be best, so we can leave fast'
[19:04] * Reis nods. "It would ensure a quicker escape for us, but that's correct."
[19:04] Sheena: "I have a question about one of our reasearch goals"
[19:05] Alathon: Usagi: "Shoot."
[19:06] Sheena: "We need info about what goes on durning one of thoes booths right? So that means im walking into there church durning the day and confessing to a bunch of made up crap."
[19:06] Sheena: "Or will a break in a night and a search of it be all thats needed, hmmm both?"
[19:06] Alathon: Usagi: "Doesn't have to be during the day."
[19:07] Sheena: "Ok, that makes thigns a bit simpler then trying to pass as a local."
[19:07] Mani: "Are there any operatives who have been posted in Texas around that could give us tips on fitting in?"
[19:07] Mani: "Around here, that is."
[19:07] Sheena: "As it is me and sakura will have to dye our hair any way, no sense in sticking out like that"
[19:08] Alathon: Usagi: "You're not going to fit in."
[19:08] Alathon: Usagi: "That's just not going to happen, starting with your accents."
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi: "Which raises a question in my mind.."
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi: "How do we get away with having one or both of you confess?"
[19:09] Mani: "I was just going to ask that..."
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi: "It may be that that's simply not an option, and you'll need to observe someone else confessing. Any ideas?"
[19:10] Sakura: "Hmmm."
[19:10] Mani: "Are the booths big enough for Sakura to be there invisibly while someone confesses?"
[19:10] Alathon: Usagi: "Well..."
[19:10] Sheena: "Sakura should be able to pull that off, asuming the eva's can't see him any way"
[19:10] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Sakura speculatively."
[19:10] Alathon: Usagi: "Just how good are you at wall-climbing?"
[19:10] Mani: "And can you sense life energy through walls, Sakura?"
[19:11] Mani: "If so, you may not have to be in there at all."
[19:11] Sakura: "I can wall climb pretty well."
[19:11] Sakura: (can I sense through walls?)
[19:11] * Mani cocks her head.
[19:11] * Sheena taps the best for a moment
[19:11] Sheena: "You know"
[19:11] Mani: "And don't we have a ring that allows you to meld into a wall?"
[19:11] Sheena: "One of thoes magic rings we recovered lets the user merg with walls"
[19:11] * Sheena smiles at mani
[19:11] Sheena: "yep"
[19:11] Sakura: "Stone walls."
[19:12] Mani: ("Mind reader! No wonder you like Tsukasa so much!!!")
[19:12] Sakura: "But it sounds like the churches are built out of wood."
[19:12] Alathon: ((glad someone remembered that, that coulda been comedy gold at go-time))
[19:12] Mani: "Are any of them made of stone?"
[19:12] * Mani looks at Usagi.
[19:12] * Reis blinks and nods. "Ah... there is also that ring! Remember the one we thought was a ring of gender change? Apparently, it's a _disguise_ ring."
[19:12] Alathon: Usagi: "There may be some.. from what I recall, they're largely wooden, however."
[19:12] Sheena: "Only stone? hmm, well we have rings that assist climbing as well'
[19:13] Sheena: "Ya, problem is reis is that its cursed"
[19:13] * Reis shakes her head. "I checked it in detail... I think we misdiagnosed it in the field."
[19:14] Reis: (Aka, we listened to a drunk and sleep-deprived Al who was joking :P )
[19:14] Sheena: "Thats likly, i was and still am learning to understand the magic i see"
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "STill.. probably something good for Sheena to hold onto during this."
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Sakura can keep himself invisible, of course."
[19:15] Reis: "No, you're still way ahead - you actually could TRY and figure out what it was by sight. Anyone can figure out what it does with enough time and equipment to work with."
[19:15] * Reis nods and hands the ring to Sheena.
[19:15] Mani: (Was there an answer to whether Sakura can see ki through walls?)
[19:15] Alathon: Usagi: "I can get you pictures of what common texan dress looks like, to mimic."
[19:16] Reis: (By the way, Al, does it cover the voice/accents bit as well?)
[19:16] Sakura: (yeah,, can I see check that stuff out through walls?)
[19:16] * Sheena looks the ring over
[19:16] Alathon: (no)
[19:16] Alathon: (er
[19:16] Alathon: (no, the ring does not affect the voice)
[19:17] Sheena: "Do you have one of thoes pics boss?"
[19:17] Alathon: She fiddles arond a bit, and presents one.
[19:17] Alathon: Looks like a cloth blouse with a leather vest and leather trousers and boots
[19:17] Sheena: "hmms'
[19:17] * Sheena gets a good image of the picture in her head and slips the ring on
[19:18] Alathon: (it's a sixth sense, you can try, it might be harder than on someone youc an see))
[19:19] Sakura: "Well, I can try to do it through walls, but I'm not quite sure I'd get good results."
[19:19] Alathon: ((roll your disguise at +10
[19:19] Mani: "I wonder if we can drill a peephole in a wall or ceiling."
[19:19] Sheena: (soo.. i roll or something? or do i change into ries :P )
[19:19] Alathon: ((cha based skill if you have no ranks))
[19:19] Sakura: (well, I can take 20, right?)
[19:19] Alathon: (as long as you're going for a female of similar age and size, no penalties)
[19:19] Sheena: roll 1d20+16
[19:19] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{23}
[19:20] Alathon: (taking a twenty would be several days of work)
[19:20] Alathon: It looks to the rest of you like she'll pass
[19:21] Alathon: Except for the eyes.
[19:21] Alathon: Those pretty much fail to pass, hard.
[19:21] Sakura: "Colored contacts maybe?"
[19:21] * Reis sweatdrops. "Um... do the Texans use sunglasses?"
[19:22] Alathon: (you can try again, but for future reference, since you've got htat defect, it'll be a -4 penalty on the roll))
[19:22] Alathon: Usagi: "Can you color your eyes with that disguise field?"
[19:22] Sheena: "Im sure gona try"
[19:22] Sheena: roll 1d20+16-4
[19:22] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+16-4 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{30}
[19:23] Alathon: She succeeds.
[19:23] * Sheena stands up and looks her self over
[19:23] Alathon: She looks kinda wierd with normal brown eyes.
[19:23] Mani: "So, do you want to try it, Sakura, to verify the ring isn't cursed?"
[19:23] * Reis blinks and cocks her head, taking in the 'normal' Sheena.
[19:23] Sheena: "How's my voice?"
[19:23] * Mani smiles slightly.
[19:23] Alathon: Your voice sounds like.. your voice. The same as befofre.
[19:23] Mani: "Same as always, Sheena."
[19:24] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright.. you have a fallback."
[19:24] Alathon: Usagi: "Hopefully one that won't be tested."
[19:25] Alathon: Usagi: "Moving on.. Reis, how confident are you, having met the Evangelicals in combat, that you can take a senior Eva out in one shot?"
[19:26] * Sheena slips the ring off,
[19:26] Sheena: "hmm, voice will still caus us problems.."
[19:26] Reis: "Laryngitis?"
[19:26] * Reis frowns. "I cannot be totally certain, Usagi-san. I... well, I remember the one that survived _two_ of our combination attack."
[19:27] * Mani ponders.
[19:27] Mani: "I didn't get a great look at that attack. Does it look wrath of god-like?"
[19:28] Sheena: "It can"
[19:29] Alathon: Usagi: "It'd have to look bright and flamey to look like their God's wrath, when it comes down to it.. Reis' is just an acceptable facsimile."
[19:29] Sheena: "I can pump power to reis as needed, it would be her attack just helped by me"
[19:29] Alathon: "If we can't make it believable, so be it."
[19:29] * Reis cocks her head. "Hm... That charge option may be best, senpai."
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "So."
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Our primary goal is that he ends up dead, and you stay alive and free."
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Does it make more sense to have the both of you attacking him simultaneously?"
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Dont' forget, he has to be more than just down, he has to be dead and gone."
[19:32] Sheena: (im phone a bit, sorry)
[19:34] * Reis shrugs. "I _believe_ I can make a good effort at killing him in one blow. But I don't know precisely how tough he is or if it will succeed. And if I do that, I'll be entirely spent in just five seconds. So... it will have to be either a combination with senpai, or a hail of blows."
[19:34] Mani: "Is your combined attack more than the sum of its parts?"
[19:35] Sheena: "How about both? since we want to adviod all fighting ries, i can just give you all the power you need"
[19:35] * Reis nods. "A great deal more, Mani-san."
[19:35] Alathon: Usagi: "Sheena.. correct me if I'm wrong, but your attacks don't have that much range.. do they?"
[19:35] Mani: "It sounds like that would be your best bet, if it wouldn't look unconvincing and you wouldn't have to sacrifice a lot of range."
[19:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Also.. Sheena, wouldn't your Obsidian Buster attack level pretty much the whole church, anda nyone standing nearby?"
[19:36] Mani: (The lord is *very* displeased. :) )
[19:37] Sheena: "They are adjustable boss, and.. ya good point. "
[19:37] Sheena: "I was thinking of just helping ries do her thing all tho, (aka let me relook up combo attack)"
[19:37] Mani: "I suppose that would be an 'undersireable' result?"
[19:38] * Reis frowns. "I... suppose it is rather too destructive for just an assassination. Should the mission be limited to my efforts from long-range, and senpai stands nearer to intensify the assault if success seems in jeopardy?"
[19:39] Alathon: Usagi: "Hm."
[19:39] * Reis cocks her head. "Or... senpai, would it be possible for you to narrow the beam? And use cartridges to enhance your range?"
[19:39] Alathon: Usagi: "Could you combine your atack with one of Sheena's less.. indiscriminate.. attacks?"
[19:40] * Reis nods. "I believe I could combine with any. Though the problem is that they have even _less_ range."
[19:41] Sheena: "For this i can adjust for all range, and channel my targeting shot into it"
[19:41] * Alathon nods.
[19:41] Alathon: "Via Dark Heart?"
[19:41] Sheena: "This may give a homing abilty to reis attack, wtich may be handle since we are shooting for a couple miles.
[19:42] * Sheena nods to the boss
[19:42] Sheena: "Ya, with dark heart"
[19:42] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[19:42] Sheena: "This will leave me open to close counter attack how ever, I won't be much use if a major fight breaks out"
[19:42] Alathon: Usagi: "That sounds promising... take a shot, if it isn't enough to disintegrate him, take another."
[19:43] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[19:44] Alathon: Usagi: "So.. the mission looks like this."
[19:45] Sheena: (ya know it dont save if we both need massive range power or anything else for combo attack ail, i think its your cal for that)
[19:45] Sheena: (*say)
[19:45] Mani: (My thought would be that the strike needs to fall within the capabilities of all attacks involved.)
[19:46] Alathon: Usagi: "A teleport point is established outside Alpine, Yuuno ports the party in after dark saturday evening. Recon is done that evening, Reis and Sheena handle the hit in Fort Stockton on Sunday Morning, return to the temporary camp outside Alpine, and everyone ports out."
[19:46] Alathon: (a combo attack has all the advantages that all attacks have, and all the disadvantages of any of the attacks)
[19:47] Alathon: (that's my provisional ruling)
[19:47] Sheena: (ok)
[19:48] Reis: (All righty, thanks)
[19:48] Alathon: (which means, you could point out that youc an do a combat attack that isn't spreading)
[19:48] Alathon: (if reis' isn't spreading)
[19:48] Sheena: (was on the phone with an "investor" heh.. hopfully i can get some ready cash to put down on my parts for this box tommaro)
[19:48] Sheena: (insted of waiting 2 weeks for my check)
[19:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Does that sound right?"
[19:49] Mani: "Yes."
[19:49] * Reis nods.
[19:50] * Sakura nods
[19:50] * Sheena is lookign at the map
[19:50] Sheena: "Ya, won't be a problem"
[19:50] Sheena: "How long do you need to transfer us Yuuno? incase me and reis are coming back hot"
[19:51] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well.. this will be only the second teleport in the day, right?"
[19:51] Alathon: Yuuno: "And.. I dunno if we even have to go back to the AFS. We could stage out of Provo."
[19:51] Sheena: "If things work out to our plan, yes"
[19:52] * Sheena re checks the distances on the map, mmm provo
[19:53] Sheena: "Sure yuuno, if thats best for you. Once we are out of the hot zone it would be safe to let you rest up for the trip home"
[19:54] Alathon: Yuuno: "Right."
[19:54] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi: "This sounds workable, and I'm confident the four of you can pull this off."
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi: "If you decide to change anything, message me."
[19:55] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Mani.
[19:55] Mani: "Hm. If things go wrong at Alpine, do we have a contingency? Or what if Yuuno is incapacitated?"
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi: "Sheena and Reis can both carry out the attack, and get themselves home, on their own.. when it comes down to it."
[19:56] Alathon: Usagi: "If things somehow go pear-shaped at Alpine, Yuuno could withdraw you and Sakura."
[19:56] * Mani nods.
[19:56] * Reis frowns and nods. "We can probably run faster than anything they have to offer."
[19:57] Alathon: Usagi: "If Yuuno is disabled beyond the point where you can heal him, you're rather boned."
[19:57] Mani: "In that case, Yuuno should stay with us when Reis and Sheena carry out the assassination."
[19:57] Alathon: Usagi: "You'll need to make your way back north, or west, on foot."
[19:57] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[19:57] Alathon: Usagi: "My thinking exactly."
[19:57] Sheena: "Roger that,"
[19:57] Sheena: "The only problems i can see with this is attack by there outer dim allies, and unknows"
[19:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Keep things quiet in Alpine.. and strike quickly.. and it'd be hard for them to interfere."
[19:58] * Sheena nods
[19:58] Alathon: Usagi: "I believe we've covered everything we're here to."
[19:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Mani, if you could remain for a moment?"
[19:59] Mani: "Of course."
[19:59] Sheena: "Oh ya, boss?"
[19:59] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes?"
[20:00] Sheena: "I was wondering if any one found our field reports, or that vidoe we saved from the city batttle useufll at all"
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi looks surprised, and confused.
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi: "Um.. yes?"
[20:00] Alathon: Usagi: "Both in Analysis, and over in Jupiter's crew."
[20:01] * Sheena wonders about that odd reaction
[20:01] * Sheena gets up to head out
[20:01] Sakura: "I suppose I'll probably head home."
[20:01] Sheena: "Right, was just wondering"
[20:02] * Sakura makes his goodbyes and then leaves
[20:02] Alathon: Alright
[20:02] Alathon: so.. at some later date, Reis will presumably get the party together to discuss some work she wants to do.
[20:04] Sheena: (since i hit level up durning this and we are at base i was going to go with the new outfit, would such a change be feaseable durning our time frame?)
[20:04] Alathon: (yes)
[20:04] * Reis looks at everyone. "So... my own mission-critical work is done, and I thought I could adjust some of our 'haul' to be more useful to our specific needs... I tested it out with this ring, and the techniques I had in mind do work, though not with perfect efficiency..."
[20:05] Reis: "So... given the items we have to work with, are there any pieces of magical gear anyone wants?"
[20:05] Mani: "Hm. How big a change can you make?"
[20:06] Sheena: "Well, i got the cloak, rod, one ring of minoc protection, and this featherfall thing"
[20:06] Sheena: "I still can't belive she tested it by jumping off the building.."
[20:07] Reis: "I can go up to total changes, though my techniques aren't perfect - this ring for instance lost a bit of overall magical power, it was initially one of the protection ones..."
[20:09] Sheena: "Not to sure what you can change on mine, as it is they help me recover my engery faster"
[20:09] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well.. you've got leftover stuff that nobody's using."
[20:09] Alathon: Yuuno: "I think that's what Reis was really asking about."
[20:10] * Reis nods. "This is more about our massive pool of 'unclaimed' objects."
[20:10] Sheena: "You got ideas ries, or asking for some"
[20:10] Sheena: "Ahh that stuff"
[20:10] Reis: "We've already picked out what we want, so this is basically about taking the things we don't have use for and turning them into things we _can_ make use of."
[20:10] Sheena: "Ya know with this upcoming up i could use somethign to help hid, or go invisible like sakura does"
[20:11] * Reis cocks her head, nodding.
[20:11] Mani: "Well, two things that sound useful to me would be a boost to teleportation or strength."
[20:11] Sakura: "Think you could change that smoke bottle to something like tear gas?"
[20:12] Mani: "Or wine?"
[20:12] * Mani grins.
[20:12] * Reis considers.
[20:12] Mani: (Reis fumbles and it produces an endless stream of white zinfandel.)
[20:12] Alathon: (the tear gas one would actually be pretty reasonable, -5
[20:13] Alathon: (wine would be more like -15)
[20:13] Sakura: (Sakura's going to go pick up a gas mask at his earliest conveniance)
[20:14] Reis: (Don't worry, Reis is already protected! :P )
[20:14] Sheena: (tear gas? oh dear)
[20:14] Mani: (cannabis smoke? :) )
[20:14] Reis: (Don't you already have an oxygen mask, Sheens?)
[20:14] Reis: (... Yes. We must make a Weed Bottle.)
[20:14] Sheena: (its a flight mask with minor asist, it dont clean the air anything major)
[20:14] Sakura: (Yes, we must.)
[20:14] Reis: (Would that also disable enemies?)
[20:14] Sheena: (remember sheena all most chokeing to death in carson?)
[20:15] Mani: (Eversmoking bong)
[20:15] Reis: (Ah yes, oops)
[20:15] Sheena: (thats a good point tho, i need to upgrade that mask)
[20:15] Alathon: (oh shit, and eversmokign bong.. damn hat'd be sweet))
[20:15] Sheena: (How would i go about that al? would it cost a CPpoint?)
[20:16] Alathon: (you can make a request to R&D, that sort of thing is well within the realm of ordered gear)
[20:17] Reis: (Okay, the bong would disable them, but take longer to do it. If anyone wants to suggest it, they may, or it's tear gas)
[20:17] Mani: (I already suggested wine. :) )
[20:18] Mani: "Something that would let Sakura fly at need would be great."
[20:19] Alathon: ((do the per-hour rolls, reis?)
[20:19] * Reis cocks her head. "All right... Sakura-san, it would take me about six hours, and I'll be able to make it pretty certainly. The tear gas bottle, I mean. However, there's about a 35% chance of degrading the magic. It would still work, but be limited."
[20:20] Sakura: "Oh? How so?"
[20:20] Reis: (GM's decision :P )
[20:20] Reis: (Three rolls, or just one? Or six?)
[20:20] Mani: (Who's that to, Sakura?)
[20:22] Alathon: (one per cp)
[20:22] Reis: (Three CP?)
[20:22] Alathon: (*yeah)
[20:23] Sakura: (how would it degrade?)
[20:23] * Reis frowns. "Then... we also have the lightning resistance rings. They're reasonably powerful - there's a lot of leeway for me to work with. I could... reasonably assuredly... give them either invisibility functionality or flight functionality. If I tried to make them teleportation capable, there would almost definitely be some degradation."
[20:23] Mani: (What if you tape two together?)
[20:24] Alathon: Yuuno: "Do you even wanna mes with those?"
[20:24] Alathon: Yuuno: "I dunno about you, but those sound awfully useful."
[20:24] Mani: "I'm inclined to agree with Yuuno."
[20:24] * Reis nods. "I wouldn't want to lose them, but they're among the most modifiable items we have."
[20:24] Reis: roll 1d20+19+4
[20:24] Reis: roll 1d20+19+4
[20:24] Reis: roll 1d20+19+4
[20:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+19+4 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{37}
[20:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+19+4 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{25}
[20:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+19+4 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{24}
[20:24] Reis: DR.
[20:24] Reis: roll 1d20+19+4
[20:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+19+4 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{29}
[20:25] Alathon: okay
[20:26] Alathon: what you get is a 1 point IoP which needs plenty of recharge time per use
[20:26] Alathon: it'll create as much tear gas as you want, but will need five minutes of recharge fore very one it's used.
[20:27] Mani: (I suppose we all requisition gas masks?)
[20:27] Sakura: (five minutes for every one minute?)
[20:29] Alathon: (yes)
[20:29] Alathon: Anythign else?
[20:29] Mani: (But it can belch gas indefinitely until stopped?)
[20:30] Alathon: (yes, but only to fill a limited area)
[20:30] Reis: (Leave it out in open air! :P )
[20:31] Alathon: (no, I mean, it'll only belch so much before it stops)
[20:31] Alathon: (i.e., a roughly 100 foot radius 10 feet high or so))
[20:32] Sheena: (shit man, should have got musterd gas or something. heh)
[20:32] Alathon: (that would have been harder)
[20:32] Alathon: (actually.. no it wouldn't)
[20:32] Reis: (The weed would've been just as easy ;) )
[20:32] Mani: (And pretty hard to deactivate/retrieve.)
[20:33] Sakura: (how long does it take to fill that area?)
[20:33] Alathon: (one round for the first fifty feet, 5 rounds for the next fifty)
[20:34] Sakura: (so less then a minute)
[20:34] Sheena: (thats kinda kick ass)
[20:34] Sakura: (:D)
[20:35] Alathon: Anything else?
[20:35] Alathon: if not, we've got lots more to cover this evening
[20:35] Sheena: invislbe ring doable?
[20:35] Reis: (It's doable, question is, do we want to drop the lightning ring)
[20:36] Sheena: (sheena has a cheep prot ring, is that useable?)
[20:36] Alathon: (no, that doesn't have much magic in it)
[20:36] Sheena: "Don't forget, a lot of this stuff is for other teams as well."
[20:36] Sheena: (damn)
[20:36] * Reis cocks her head. "I thought R&D had taken whatever they needed and the rest was returned to us?"
[20:37] Sheena: (is reis good enought to adda jaquse to the rod's weekly move? heh)
[20:37] Reis: (I have NO idea what you asked, but probably not)
[20:37] Sheena: "R&D took stuff they wanted to work on right away, There are otere op's teams in the work how ever. This stuff can be usefull to them as well"
[20:38] Sakura: (I believe he meant jacuzzi)
[20:38] Sheena: (yes, jacuzzi)
[20:39] Reis: (Which leads me to wonder just how you plan to use a jacuzzi installed on a rod)
[20:39] Mani: (No, you mean Jacuzzi(TM)! :) )
[20:39] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah.. though you know."
[20:40] Alathon: Yuuno: "Maybe we should put in a request for any other 'useless' loot that turns up."
[20:40] Alathon: Yuuno: "Stuff like those swimming rings."
[20:40] Alathon: Yuuno: "I mean.. I bet everyone can use rings of protection, but how many of us really need magical backstroke rings?"
[20:41] Sheena: "Well, i could probly use that.. I mean its dog paddle or breaststroke for me"
[20:41] * Sheena did indeed just say that with a straight face
[20:41] * Mani eyes Sheena but withholds comment.
[20:41] * Reis blinkblinks and chuckles.
[20:42] Alathon: Yuuno snerks.
[20:42] Alathon: ((anyways)
[20:42] Sheena: "Yuuno does have the right idea tho, All "extra" loot should be pooled for all operations use if needed
[20:42] Sheena: "I mean, we're doing it."
[20:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah.. we oughta see if some of the IA mage types are taking special orders for item crafting, too."
[20:43] * Reis nods, thinking. "And we could modify them as it becomes more mission-appropriate to whoever needs it..."
[20:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "I mean.. if they're gonna learn, they'll have to practice. And why not practice on stuff we need?"
[20:43] Sheena: "Good ideas,"
[20:43] * Sheena looks at the others
[20:44] Sheena: "... guess im the one thats going to do the write up on it however eh?"
[20:44] Reis: (Plus, offscreen NPCs get the power to take a twenty on all checks, thus succeeding innately)
[20:44] Alathon: (well.. not quite, but, you don't have to watch them fuck up ;p )
[20:44] Sheena: (or blow a hole in the wall, win win all around!)
[20:44] * Reis giggles. "I'll help where I can, senpai."
[20:44] Alathon: Anyways..
[20:45] Alathon: unless you want to do something else
[20:45] Sheena: "These are good ideas, Ill get some stuff writen up on it about them and we can bring it up with the boss"
[20:45] Sheena: (i can't think of anythign else)
[20:45] Alathon: time will pass, the concert a couple of you were invited to on friday night will be enjoyable.. and saturday will roll around.
[20:45] Mani: (play)
[20:45] Alathon: Friday night, rather
[20:45] Sheena: "Reis, got anything to help mani's blades?"
[20:45] Sheena: (doh)
[20:45] Reis: (Did we ever come to a decision on whether we'll drop one lightning ring for that invisibility one?)
[20:45] Alathon: As Yuuno reminds you, he'll need a night of sleep after teleporting you all over to Nevada.
[20:45] Alathon: The decision was no descision
[20:45] Alathon: so I decided we're done with that scene ;p
[20:46] Sheena: (was wondering if Reis could make a 'Keen' ring or something to help mani)
[20:46] Alathon: in the interest of not putting around and doing nothing
[20:46] Reis: (The topic changed before I could do anything about it ;_; )
[20:46] Alathon: you had twenty minutes to do something about it
[20:46] Mani: (Aw, 20 minutes is *nothing* to us. ;) )
[20:46] Sakura: (So, did we go see "Apocalypse Now! The Musical."?)
[20:46] Alathon: we are NOT going to get into a habit of spending 1-2 hours messing around with equipment, so help me
[20:47] Reis: (Heh)
[20:47] Sheena: (bad d&d flash backs there al?)
[20:47] Alathon: (No, it was something about people paying money to stay in other peoples' houses)
[20:47] Alathon: (in a word, Yes)
[20:48] Mani: (Something with intrigue, deception, and a twist.)
[20:48] Alathon: (M.Night Shamyalan: "What a twist!")
[20:48] Alathon: Okay
[20:48] Alathon: last call for stuff done in Crystal Tokyo
[20:49] * Reis will have helped Sheena out with her own modifications and cartridge-making.
[20:49] Mani: (Nothing of import. Just following up on personal things I mentioned for Mani.)
[20:49] Sakura: (Sakura gets a gas mask)
[20:50] Mani: (I imagine we all do.)
[20:50] * Reis needs no gas mask!
[20:50] Sheena: (Sheena would check with R&D about getting a better flight/gas mask)
[20:50] Reis: (... I think, right?)
[20:50] Sheena: (And send out thoes messages she has to... heh)
[20:50] Sheena: (acutly before we leave)
[20:51] Sheena: "Hey reis, hows your flying look with the wepon adjustments done?"
[20:51] * Reis blinks. "You mean... speed?"
[20:51] Sheena: (Hey Al did you say you had some rulls for us for flight?)
[20:51] Sheena: "Speed, a flight shield as well"
[20:51] Alathon: (up to speed of sound, you only need one rank of armor/force field)
[20:52] Sheena: "If your going to hit the high end speeds you need em"
[20:52] Sheena: "Or else a bug shot to the head will kknock ya for a loop"
[20:52] Mani: (Mm, doesn't a power generally provide safe use of itself?)
[20:52] Sheena: (would think so,)
[20:52] Alathon: (Speed specifies that it does)
[20:52] Mani: (Like a super powerd punch SA doesn't splatter your fist.)
[20:53] Alathon: (hm)
[20:53] * Reis nods. "I can... _achieve_ Mach 1.3, but I don't have the reinforcement to withstand that. I can sustain 500 mph with my existing flight shield - though that starts tiring me."
[20:54] Alathon: (you know.. at 4 cp.. that's probably reasonable)
[20:54] Alathon: (and it does specificy in atmosphere or space.. then says you'd need aditional adaptations for space, but nothing about atmospheric flight)
[20:55] Sheena: "The big thing is breaking the sound barrier, after that it smooths out alot. but hmm...)
[20:55] Alathon: (for now, it's one rank of armor or forcefield for any high speed flight.. and I'll revisit if that's even necessary after game)
[20:55] Mani: (I need to go afk for a few minutes. Maybe break here?)
[20:55] Sheena: (ok)
[20:55] Sheena: (i could use a bio...)
[20:55] Reis: (Woo! I can keep it up when I'm at +Mach then, now?)
[20:55] Alathon: (we can actually fast forward to sheena's quick solo mission.. or not
[20:55] Alathon: okay
[20:55] Alathon: 10 minute break
[20:55] Alathon: TEN MINUTES, NOT TWENTY, PLEASE
[20:55] Sheena: what 30? ok!!
[20:56] Alathon: I swear, fucking Dynast Grauscherra will come down from the Slayers universe to sodomize you with a ten foot wide icicle if you take half an hour
[20:57] Sakura: (god damn it, I can't make it to the store and back in 10 >_<)
[20:57] Sakura: (Oh well, time to put on the chastity belt)
[20:57] Reis: ... Wow. That threat was awesome.
[20:59] Mani: And Alathon will give you a rank 6 Gerand Magnet defect.
[20:59] Reis: I think he's already left.
[21:00] Reis: Though THAT would change anyone's mind.
[21:03] Sheena: (how the heck do you know that guys last name?)
[21:04] Mani: They used to work together. They shared a cubicle.
[21:04] Sheena: lol
[21:05] Alathon: all sorts of people end up at MS to get ahead
[21:05] Alathon: Alright
[21:06] Alathon: I'll assume you can all manage the fairly trivial task of island hopping to Provo.
[21:07] Mani: (A dangerous assumption. :) )
[21:07] Sheena: (we just skip by some of the best beachs in the world... What a job. )
[21:08] Alathon: You'll spend a night in a crappy inn... really, really crappy after a suite in Crystal Tokyo.
[21:08] Mani: (In fact, the actual name of the place *is* Crappy Inn)
[21:08] Alathon: the next day,
[21:08] Alathon: Yuuno: "Alright.. Sheena, we ready to roll?"
[21:08] Sheena: (right next to the wtf is that, bar and grill)
[21:09] * Reis awakes and does her get-ready stuff.
[21:09] Sheena: "Ya, im good"
[21:09] Reis: (This is the pre-mission setup, right?)
[21:09] * Mani makes her crescent moon vanish.
[21:09] Sheena: (wait, what am i doing solo now? flying to the next teleport point?)
[21:09] Alathon: (yes. you're not gonna get there otherwise ;p )
[21:10] Reis: (Reis would at least offer to accompany Sheens there - how long a flight would it be at 1000 mph?)
[21:10] Alathon: (and you can do what, 500 normally without magical boost?)
[21:10] Sheena: (ya 500 easy)
[21:10] Alathon: (it's around 800ish miles)
[21:10] Alathon: So you're looking at a bit less than two hours each way.
[21:10] Alathon: at 500
[21:10] Sheena: "Corse ploted dark heart?)
[21:11] Reis: (Hm, so... no frigging way Reis would last all the way ;_; Not at full speed, at least)
[21:11] Alathon: Dark Heart: "xxxxxx"
[21:11] * Reis folds her hands in front of herself. "Good luck, senpai!"
[21:12] * Sheena smiles at reis
[21:12] Sheena: "Thanks, depending on cloud cover this shouldnt be much of a problem. If its clear skys i may have to wait a bit or pick a spot farther away from town"
[21:14] Mani: (We're someplace private right now, I assume?)
[21:14] * Reis nods. "I'll be waiting. And... just... good luck. Stay safe."
[21:14] * Sheena fits on her flight mask (new one?) and glasses before taking a look around
[21:16] Sakura: (VIA CON DIOS!)
[21:16] Mani: (vaya)
[21:16] Sakura: (sorry, I don't speak spanish)
[21:17] Sheena: "No one around? Ok im off then"
[21:17] Sakura: "Watch yourself out there."
[21:18] * Mani nods to Sheena.
[21:18] * Reis nods. "See you soon, Sheena-senpai."
[21:20] * Sheena will fly high to say out of sight and make her way to the target zone.. its a long flight
[21:20] Alathon: one sec
[21:21] Alathon: The two hours or so pass without incident.
[21:21] Alathon: Looking down, you can see that the area outside Alpine on the northeast isn't cultivated very far.
[21:22] * Sheena moves out into the wild abit to make sure no one is around.
[21:23] Sakura: (was there an inflight meal? what about a movie?)
[21:23] Alathon: You saw lots of nature.
[21:23] Alathon: It was nature.
[21:23] Alathon: It mostly sucked.
[21:23] Alathon: You didn't eat any flies, either.
[21:24] Alathon: You had to wipe off a couple though.
[21:25] Alathon: There isn't a whole lot of trees around these parts.. mostly brush.
[21:25] Alathon: But you can find a spot with some decent sized bushes.
[21:26] Alathon: and
[21:26] Alathon: againsta ll odds, nothing jumps you in the hour Yuuno needs to memorize the spot
[21:26] Alathon: I feel kinda disappointed.
[21:26] Reis: (Whaaaaaaaaaaa?)
[21:26] Sakura: (I'm assuming random encounter rolls)
[21:28] Alathon: (they happen now and then)
[21:28] Alathon: Yuuno: "Allright, I'm good."
[21:28] Alathon: Yuuno: "Let's book it."
[21:28] Sheena: "Right,"
[21:29] * Sheena makes sure every thing is secure and then heads away up again before flying back to the others
[21:29] Alathon: roll 1d20
[21:29] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{1}
[21:30] Alathon: sheena, spot
[21:30] Sheena: (oh dear)
[21:30] Alathon: and roll good, cuz yuuno sure as shit didn't
[21:30] Sheena: (spot? crap)
[21:30] Sheena: Roll 1d20+6
[21:30] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{20}
[21:30] Sheena: (ehh... hope thats enought)
[21:30] Alathon: You pick out the teltale glow of an angel ascending to meet you on the way back, around twenty minutes into the flight.. near Texas' border.
[21:30] Alathon: It's got some sorta sword.
[21:31] Reis: (Blah, caught in conversation...)
[21:32] Sheena: (what magic do i see?)
[21:32] Alathon: You can't tell at this distance
[21:32] Alathon: it's a good ways down.. in fact, it's not entirely clear whether it's moving fast enough to catch you
[21:32] Sheena: "Hang on yuuno, we got some one trying ot intercept)
[21:32] Alathon: but it's trying, angling forward diagonally to for an intercept.
[21:32] * Sheena snorts and checks her mask
[21:33] Alathon: Yuuno: "Awww, shit..."
[21:33] Alathon: He snuggles down into your bosom.
[21:33] Sheena: "As if, Dark Heart full burn to the taxes border"
[21:33] Alathon: Dark Heart: "xxx xxx xxxxxxx xxxx"
[21:34] Alathon: At full boosted speed, you'll blow by the angel.
[21:34] Alathon: It angles to pursue.. but you loose it in less than ten minutes.
[21:34] Sakura: (you should have rammed him)
[21:34] Alathon: (oh gee, suicide attack much? ;p; )
[21:34] Alathon: (she's going a helluva lot faster than terminal velocity)
[21:34] Sakura: (doesn't she have a forcefield? :P)
[21:34] Sheena: (that angle was doing need mack? damn)
[21:34] Alathon: (actually you know.. ramming with forcefield could be an interesting tactic)
[21:35] Sheena: (sheena has force and armor)
[21:35] Alathon: (... suddenly I see a flaw in how I specced it)
[21:35] Sheena: (heh)
[21:35] Sakura: (:D)
[21:35] Alathon: .. assume you'll take damage doing a ramming attack ;p
[21:35] Sakura: (bastard :P)
[21:36] Alathon: it's cool and all, but doing like 40d6 damage at will is just stupid
[21:36] Alathon: and reflects a failure on my part to understand how the mechanics work
[21:36] * Sheena knows she isnt the bigest of women so a raming attack never croses her mind.
[21:36] Alathon: You'll make it back
[21:38] Alathon: Yuuno: "Okay."
[21:38] Alathon: Yuuno: "I'm done."
[21:38] Alathon: Yuuno hurls on the ground. It's not a lot, but it's still puke.
[21:39] Sheena: "Ahh come on yuuno, that loopdeloop wasn't that bad"
[21:39] Alathon: Yuuno: "hrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark!"
[21:39] Mani: (The rest of us are out there with them?)
[21:40] Alathon: probably not
[21:40] Sheena: "Would you rather i have took on that angle? While i wouldnt mind a dog fight some time, we do have stuff to get done'
[21:40] * Reis heard the sonic boom?
[21:41] Sheena: "How the heck that guy sense me any way.. So much for stealth running"
[21:41] Mani: (I should hope Sheena isn't making those around populated areas.)
[21:41] Alathon: (the sonic boom was across the rockies, so no)
[21:42] Sheena: (oh damn it!)
[21:42] Sheena: (next time the sonic boom will be on top of that angle i totaly forgot about that)
[21:42] Alathon: Anyways...
[21:42] Alathon: ((hahhahahaha))
[21:42] Alathon: That'll totally work if you do it
[21:43] Alathon: The time will come, soon enough, for Yuuno to teleport the entire group.
[21:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "You all ready to roll?"
[21:43] Alathon: Yuuno is looking bette than he was earlier.
[21:43] * Reis will greet Sheena and Yuuno when they finally arrive.
[21:43] Mani: "One moment, please."
[21:43] Sakura: ("SHIT! I forgot my dice at home.")
[21:43] * Sheena checks her gear, and finshs off a slam of her water
[21:43] Sheena: "Im ready"
[21:43] * Reis checks her gear, and nods.
[21:43] Sakura: (or "I didn't know you played Craps, Yuuno.")
[21:44] Sakura: "I'm ready."
[21:44] Mani: "Reis, I talked with Usagi before we left, and in light of your performance, your restriction on area attacks is lifted."
[21:45] * Reis blinks and nods. "... Thank you, Mani-san."
[21:46] Mani: "All right, if everyone's ready, let's go."
[21:46] * Reis nods. "I'm ready to go."
[21:48] Alathon: You port.
[21:48] Alathon: You all come out in.. wilderness.
[21:48] Alathon: It's pretty much exactly like you'd expect wilderness to be.
[21:49] Sheena: "Welcome to... a lot of nothing."
[21:49] Alathon: For those of you without nightsight, it's very dark, and there's low brush that you can't see, and not much else.
[21:49] Alathon: It's cloudy, so there's very little ambient light.
[21:49] Sheena: "Still lets keep it quite and stay hidden"
[21:49] Sakura: "Well, time to go to work, I guess."
[21:49] * Mani looks happy with the surroundings.
[21:49] Alathon: For those with nightsight, it's just a lot of bushes.
[21:50] * Reis blinks and slips on her new ring just for vision, looking around. "Well... we're here."
[21:50] Sheena: "The towns a good bit off that way, i wasn't sure how they handles farms out here and didnt want to chance getting spoted"
[21:50] Mani: "Right."
[21:51] * Mani keeps her voice low.
[21:51] Mani: (Is there an earbud attachment for the communicators, btw?)
[21:51] Alathon: You could reasonably get one.
[21:52] Alathon: In fact.. you should all at this point, assume you have them
[21:52] Sakura: (this is the future, we should have MGS style shit)
[21:52] Alathon: Assume you can do hands free communication.
[21:52] Alathon: just not terribly quietly ;p
[21:53] Mani: (But just listening should be quiet, yes?)
[21:53] Alathon: Yuuno: "So.. Sheena, Sakura, you both going in invisible?"
[21:53] Alathon: Yuuno: "I guess you can keep track of each other with your life-force and magic..."
[21:53] Alathon: Yes ;p
[21:53] * Sakura grins
[21:53] Alathon: though a character with enhanced hearing could pick up someone elses earbud, maybe
[21:53] Sheena: "Thats the idea yuuno"
[21:53] Reis: (Uh? Didn't we get stampeded through to the mission instead of getting to give Sheens an invisibility ring?)
[21:54] Alathon: She modded Darkheart to do it
[21:54] Reis: (Ah, I sees)
[21:54] Sheena: (Stealth mod baby)
[21:54] Sheena: (that dont seem to work on angles)
[21:54] Reis: (Schweeet)
[21:54] Sakura: "I'm going to suggest radio silence unless absolutly necessary."
[21:54] Mani: "Ok, when you two go in, I think it'd be best if you each keep a channel open to one of us so we can hear if there are any problems. Does that sound good to everyone?"
[21:54] Alathon: (certainly not on the one you were spotted by)
[21:54] Reis: (Well, they've got aura sight like the greybabes)
[21:54] Sheena: (or mabie just angles with huge glowing swords)
[21:55] Reis: "Yes."
[21:55] Mani: "Obviously, *your* comms wouldn't be receiving anything other than an emergency signal."
[21:56] Sheena: "Right, sounds good mani, we can text if needed"
[21:56] * Sakura dissapears abruptly
[21:56] Mani: "What do you think, Sakura?"
[21:56] Sakura: "Let's get this show on the road, that's what I think."
[21:57] Sheena: "Ya, Keep an eye open forany one ocming near
[21:57] * Sheena fades away as well.
[21:57] Alathon: ((sheena, sakura, join #CT2 pls)
[21:57] Alathon: ...the crickets chirp.
[21:57] * Reis nods. "We'll wait for you... good luck."
[21:57] Alathon: Yuuno, softly: "Soo..."
[21:59] Mani: (Soo... I assume xp is being divided evenly for everything? :) )
[21:59] Alathon: ((heh))
[21:59] * Reis glances over. "... Yes, sensei?"
[21:59] Alathon: Yuuno: "I dunno.. It's just too quiet."
[22:00] Mani: "Nice and quiet if you want to nap and recover your energy."
[22:00] Alathon: Yuuno: "You have a point, Miss Mani."
[22:01] * Reis looks around. "Quiet's good... but I suppose it being a good thing is what makes us nervous."
[22:01] Mani: (Does Reis have nightvision?)
[22:01] Reis: (Thermal vision)
[22:02] * Mani shrugs.
[22:02] Mani: "We're nervous?"
[22:02] Reis: (And heightened sight)
[22:02] * Reis shrugs. "Well... isn't that what someone means when they say 'it's too quiet'?"
[22:04] Alathon: Yuuno: "I'm not nervous.. I'm just, uh, high strung."
[22:04] * Mani just makes herself comfortable.
[22:04] * Reis finds a spot and works on relaxing.
[22:05] Alathon: After the first ten or fifteen minutes, it's not so hard.
[22:05] Alathon: The nature sounds are out full force, but they're largely relaxing ones.
[22:05] * Mani stays awake and keeps her eyes and ears open, though.
[22:05] Alathon: steady chirps, hums, and the like.
[22:05] Mani: (Not that I know how to close my ears...)
[22:05] * Reis makes sure not to relax TOO much.
[22:06] Mani: (And then Sheena and Sakura come running back, chased by a mob of Texans. "Start the plane!")
[22:06] Reis: ("We have a plane?")
[22:07] Sakura: (platypodia can close their ears)
[22:07] Reis: (The platypus is not a being native to this earth)
[22:07] Alathon: ((the pilot is fishing)
[22:13] Alathon: Time passes...
[22:13] Alathon: crickets chirp...
[22:14] * Alathon sings, "And birds sing... but I'll die... without you!"
[22:14] * Reis fidgets.
[22:15] * Mani shows her cat nature by just sitting there doing nothing.
[22:15] Alathon: You succed ;p
[22:15] Sakura: (she's not licking herself?)
[22:15] Alathon: very effectively ;p
[22:18] Alathon: There's a crunching sound off to the side.. east-ish.
[22:18] * Mani whispers, "Incoming."
[22:18] Alathon: Everyone can hear it.
[22:18] Mani: (How close?)
[22:18] Alathon: Hard to tell.. but within audible range, and pretyt loud, so not too far.
[22:18] * Reis jerks suddenly to a standing position and looks in that direction, putting a hand on Swordbreaker.
[22:19] Reis: (Does my two current ranks of Heightened Vision show me anything?)
[22:19] Alathon: No
[22:19] Reis: (Ie, give me the range :P )
[22:19] * Mani slowly and quietly rises.
[22:19] Alathon: (but you do see a bloom of heat around 30-40 feet away)
[22:20] Alathon: There's a series of crunches, then the noise stops.
[22:21] * Reis licks her lips, and sends a message on the communicator asking if that's the other two.
[22:23] Alathon: Female voice: "Warrior, we have business!"
[22:24] Sakura: (DUNN DUNN DUUNNNNNN)
[22:24] * Reis frowns and looks to Mani.
[22:24] Mani: (What language?)
[22:24] Sakura: (How the FUCK does she keep finding you guys?)
[22:24] Reis: (So should I presume I got a 'no'?)
[22:25] Alathon: (it sounds like japanese)
[22:25] Alathon: (but without the sort of accents you usually hear from ward to ward))
[22:25] * Reis STARES at that.
[22:26] * Reis activates Swordbreaker, then triggers her Barrier Jacket silently.
[22:26] Mani: (New English) "What sort of business would that be?"
[22:27] * Reis steps closer to Mani.
[22:27] * Mani charges her swords and activates her uniform.
[22:27] Alathon: Voice: "Thrice we have fought, and thrice you have stood against me.. as one of many."
[22:27] Alathon: Voice: "Fight me! Woman to woman, blade to blade."
[22:27] Alathon: Voice: "This challenge I issue!"
[22:27] Sheena: (Oh shit)
[22:27] * Reis blinks.
[22:27] Sheena: (she's callin you out)
[22:28] Sakura: (Seriously, how the FUCK does she keep finding her?)
[22:28] * Reis SENDS A MESSAGE to the missing dudes.
[22:29] Alathon: Voice: "Warrior!?"
[22:29] Sheena: (get her vaderchan!)
[22:29] * Reis awaits Mani's call on that.
[22:30] Sakura: (WAAAAARIORRRRR COME OUT TO PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY)
[22:30] Mani: "Hmm. Single combat, using only our own abilities... Unfortunately, my life is dedicated to the service of my kingdom, so I am not willing to risk it on a personal matter like this."
[22:30] Sakura: (WAAAAARRRRRIIOOOOOORRRR COME OUT TO PLAAAAAAAAYYAAAYYYYYYYY)
[22:30] Mani: "I am not unwilling to fight you, however, if it is not to the death."
[22:30] Alathon: Voice: "I care not for your country."
[22:31] Alathon: Voice: "Face me, or I return with a dozen hired claws to spoil your country's purpose."
[22:31] Alathon: Voice: "Yea, or Nay? Answer now!"
[22:31] Sheena: (hired claws? annoying.)
[22:31] Mani: "What are the terms?"
[22:31] * Reis frowns.
[22:32] Alathon: Voice: "The only true terms, unto death."
[22:32] Sheena: (no fair, shes rezed before)
[22:32] Alathon: Voice: "Yea, or nay?"
[22:32] Alathon: ((that's a fiar point ;p ))
[22:32] Reis: (We'll frakking ANNIHILATE her body this time :P )
[22:33] Alathon: Yuuno, softly: "I can make sure she doesn't wuss out and run away, if you'll let me."
[22:33] Alathon: Yuuno: "I can form a barrier.. but.. it'll tire me out."
[22:33] Sheena: (mani wants to kick her ass, but yarrow fears the dice)
[22:33] Mani: "It seems I have no choice. Are you sure you're not willing to fight until unconciousness?"
[22:33] Alathon: Voice, disdainful: "We fight, not spar."
[22:34] Alathon: There's a crunching sound as she moves forward, and a ripping sound as something tears away a chunk of the underbrush between you.
[22:34] * Reis glances at Yuuno. "... That will be putting us closer to the line... How long will it take until you regain enough power for the extra teleport, if you do it?"
[22:34] Alathon: Yuuno, quietly, "a day."
[22:35] * Reis whispers.
[22:35] Reis: "So... no reserves..."
[22:35] * Reis asks the other team for their status.
[22:36] Mani: "Personally, I'd rather a favor from you than your life if I win.
[22:36] * Mani starts walking toward her.
[22:36] Alathon: Voice, sardonically: "I will discuss this if, indeed, you hold your blade against my throat."
[22:36] Reis: (Does the other team tell me their status?)
[22:36] Sakura: (does it sounds like we are?)
[22:36] Reis: (Or are they busy running away from a Texan horde?)
[22:36] Alathon: You'll find a small area, maybe a couple dozen feet free of the worst of the brush, with only knee-height bushes.
[22:37] Alathon: She'
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Session 51 - part 2

Postby Alathon » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:23 am

Session 51 - part 2

[22:36] Alathon: You'll find a small area, maybe a couple dozen feet free of the worst of the brush, with only knee-height bushes.
[22:37] Alathon: She's on the other side of it.
[22:37] Alathon: ((they may just be trying to be QUIET))
[22:37] * Mani sighs.
[22:37] Alathon: She has no hammer.
[22:37] Alathon: This time, she has a fairly normal looking two-handed sword.
[22:37] Reis: (Indeed, though they COULD text me if the situation allows)
[22:37] Mani: "Such a waste, having a good warrior die."
[22:37] Alathon: Her armor is a bit different.. she has a set which reflects what little light there is."
[22:37] * Reis heads after Mani into the clearing, and stands off to the side.
[22:38] Alathon: Voice, amused: "Better to die standing, than live on our knees."
[22:38] Alathon: init
[22:38] * Reis will be holding action :P
[22:38] Mani: roll 1d20+9
[22:38] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+9 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{27}
[22:39] Alathon: roll 1d20+12 woman
[22:39] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+12 woman --> [ 1d20=16 ]{28}
[22:40] Sakura: (loool)
[22:40] Alathon: She steps forward a few feet, crouches as if to spring.. then stops.
[22:40] Alathon: Mani is up
[22:41] Mani: (Darn. :) )
[22:41] * Reis whispers to Yuuno: "I really want to pin her... but we can't risk this mission, and I don't know whether we'll have the energy to spare. We'll have to trust in her honor this time. We'll likely get another shot."
[22:41] Mani: (Is her action done or just held?)
[22:41] Alathon: YOu don't know
[22:42] Mani: (No? Mani's an experience fighter and should be able to tell how quickly her opponent can spring into action (ie - this round or next), yes?)
[22:42] Alathon: (you know sh e's not done for the rond)
[22:43] Mani: (Btw, you said judge opponent is now a 1/rd free action?)
[22:43] Alathon: (yup)
[22:43] Alathon: (you can use it if you want)
[22:43] Reis: (Whee!)
[22:43] Mani: (What does it tell me about her?)
[22:43] Mani: (Ack. Afk for 1 minute)
[22:45] Sheena: (cats on fire?)
[22:46] Mani: (Nature called. Loudly.)
[22:46] Alathon: (wel, better now than right before the last round of the fight)
[22:46] Alathon: You're about fifteen feet from her
[22:47] Alathon: ((just to be crystal clear here
[22:47] Alathon: ((she made a 5 foot adjustment
[22:47] Alathon: ((you can tell she's still ready to unload a full round attack))
[22:47] Mani: (Ok. I'd like to advance enough so she'll have to come forward more if she wants to attack. Ie- either we both get no more than 1 attack this round if she meets me, or both get a full set next round.)
[22:47] Reis: (Suddenly saddened I didn't get Judge Opponent myself)
[22:48] Alathon: If you advance 10 ft that'll pretty much guarantee it.. you think.
[22:48] Alathon: you'll have moved, and she'll have to move
[22:48] Alathon: of course
[22:48] Alathon: you could force her to approach more
[22:48] * Alathon shrugs.
[22:49] * Mani advances five feet.
[22:49] Mani: "Why does this matter so much to you, anyway?"
[22:49] * Reis examines her armour - are there any weak points like chainmail on it and the like?
[22:49] Alathon: Woman, quite seriously: "Khalesh demands it."
[22:49] Alathon: Woman: "My honor demands it."
[22:50] Alathon: Woman: "My very soul hums with the need of this thing."
[22:50] Alathon: She doesn't advance further this round.
[22:50] Sheena: (Khalesh? why do i know that name..)
[22:50] Alathon: End of round, top of the order.
[22:50] Alathon: ((it's not Slaneesh ;p ))
[22:50] Mani: "And if I win but let you live? What would you honor demand then?"
[22:50] Alathon: ((or whatever the WH40k god was))
[22:50] Sheena: (oh good)
[22:50] Alathon: She growls.
[22:51] Alathon: She steps forward slowly, carefully, another five feet, sword at the ready.
[22:51] Sheena: (grats mani, you just got a interdim Shampoo)
[22:51] Mani: (Will doing the same give us both full attacks this round?)
[22:51] Alathon: Woman: "I challenge you, and you honor the challenge.. so must I honor it."
[22:52] Alathon: (yes)
[22:52] * Mani sighs again.
[22:53] Mani: "Very well, just the two of us using our own ablities..."
[22:53] * Mani moves forward and attacks.
[22:53] * Reis gnaws on her lip, watching.
[22:53] Mani: (I go first?)
[22:53] Alathon: (if you want to)
[22:53] Alathon: (if you advance now, you go first)
[22:53] Alathon: (this round anyways)
[22:56] * Mani slashes three times.
[22:56] Mani: roll 1d20+30
[22:56] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{46}
[22:56] Mani: roll 1d20+25
[22:56] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+25 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{34}
[22:56] Mani: roll 1d20+20
[22:56] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+20 --> [ 1d20=19 ]{39}
[22:56] Reis: (Wait, don't you have two swords?)
[22:56] Alathon: roll 1d20+26
[22:56] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+26 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{29}
[22:57] Alathon: roll 1d20+24
[22:57] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+24 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{42}
[22:57] Mani: (You'd think so, miss-I-can't-see-in-the-dark.)
[22:57] Alathon: roll 1d20+22
[22:57] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+22 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{31}
[22:57] Alathon: ((two connect, one is evaded)
[22:57] Mani: roll 2#4d8
[22:57] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 2#4d8 --> [ 4d8=12 ]{12}, [ 4d8=23 ]{23}
[22:58] Alathon: She hisses, angrily.
[22:58] Alathon: Woman: "What was that@?!"
[22:58] Alathon: She attacks, consequently, angrily
[22:58] Mani: Some golden strands of light are visible briefly.
[22:58] Alathon: power attack 10
[22:58] Alathon: roll 1d20+32-10
[22:58] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+32-10 --> [ 1d20=12 ]{34}
[22:58] Alathon: roll 1d20+27-10
[22:58] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+27-10 --> [ 1d20=12 ]{29}
[22:58] Sheena: (10?)
[22:58] Alathon: roll 1d20+22-10
[22:58] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+22-10 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{13}
[22:59] Alathon: DR
[22:59] Alathon: roll 1d20+22-10
[22:59] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+22-10 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{16}
[22:59] Alathon: roll 1d20+17-10
[22:59] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+17-10 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{15}
[22:59] Mani: roll 1d20+6
[22:59] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{10}
[22:59] Mani: roll 1d20+4
[22:59] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+4 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{20}
[22:59] Mani: roll 1d20+2
[22:59] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+2 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{5}
[22:59] Mani: roll 1d20
[22:59] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{7}
[23:00] * Reis clenches her hands, watching.
[23:00] Alathon: All four slashes hit.. and all four, albeit aimed wildly and with anger, are heavy.
[23:00] Alathon: The sword isn't as powerful as her old warhammer, but it's still a heavy weapon, and backed by strength.
[23:00] Alathon: roll 4#1d10+45
[23:00] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 4#1d10+45 --> [ 1d10=1 ]{46}, [ 1d10=5 ]{50}, [ 1d10=10 ]{55}, [ 1d10=4 ]{49}
[23:01] Mani: (I am so glad I took that hammer...)
[23:01] Alathon: End of round, top of the order.
[23:01] Alathon: Woman, angrily; "What is this! You had not such.."
[23:01] Sakura: (jeeeeeezus)
[23:01] Alathon: power attack 10
[23:01] Alathon: roll 1d20+32-10
[23:01] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+32-10 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{30}
[23:01] Alathon: roll 1d20+27-10
[23:01] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+27-10 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{31}
[23:02] Alathon: roll 1d20+22-10
[23:02] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+22-10 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{13}
[23:02] Alathon: DR
[23:02] Alathon: roll 1d20+22-10
[23:02] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+22-10 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{16}
[23:02] Alathon: roll 1d20+17-10
[23:02] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+17-10 --> [ 1d20=12 ]{19}
[23:02] Alathon: ((and that may just decided it right there, that's all the DR she's got))
[23:02] Sheena: (two full attacks? ouch)
[23:02] Reis: (Nah, this is the next round)
[23:03] Mani: roll 1d20+6
[23:03] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{26}
[23:03] Mani: roll 1d20+4
[23:04] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+4 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{12}
[23:04] Mani: roll 1d20+2
[23:04] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+2 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{8}
[23:04] Mani: DR
[23:04] Mani: roll 1d20+2
[23:04] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20+2 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{4}
[23:04] Mani: roll 1d20
[23:04] Ala-bot: Mani rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{7}
[23:04] Alathon: roll 4#1d10+45
[23:04] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 4#1d10+45 --> [ 1d10=1 ]{46}, [ 1d10=10 ]{55}, [ 1d10=3 ]{48}, [ 1d10=10 ]{55}
[23:05] Mani: (Hey, I critted one dodge.)
[23:05] Reis: (Only three hit, she critdodged)
[23:05] Alathon: ((.. you're right))
[23:05] Alathon: ((skip the 55
[23:05] Alathon: ((my bad for not noticing))
[23:05] Sakura: (jesus, armor bitch gets a lot of max damage rolls)
[23:05] Alathon: ((.. and min damage rolls))
[23:05] Reis: (Her damage rolls don't matter, she has +35 Str)
[23:06] Alathon: ((Nah, +20 strength bonus))
[23:06] Reis: (+something-really-frasking-big Str)
[23:07] Sheena: (crush your head with her thighs level there)
[23:08] Alathon: Her final swing is a heavy one, to Mani's shoulder, and it shears through her crystalline armorw ith a horrible chalk-on-blackboard screech.
[23:08] Alathon: After which Mani collapses.
[23:08] Alathon: End of round.
[23:08] * Reis pales. "Mani-san...!"
[23:09] Sheena: (wtf..)
[23:09] Sakura: (...)
[23:09] Sheena: (that was rather pointless)
[23:09] Alathon: The armored woman reverses her sword, and lifts, it, to slam it down.
[23:09] * Reis holds out Swordbreaker. "Ketzern Reise, now!"
[23:10] * Reis blurs across to Mani.
[23:10] Alathon: roll init
[23:10] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled init --> error: malformed expression
[23:10] Alathon: you get the ketzern reise for free
[23:10] Reis: roll 1d20+18
[23:10] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{20}
[23:10] Reis: (Fuuuuuuug)
[23:11] Reis: (Do I get to move to Mani before she strikes?)
[23:11] Alathon: (no)
[23:11] Alathon: She finishes Mani off.
[23:11] Sakura: (wait a sec... what is init again? dex, right?)
[23:11] Reis: (I just boosted it)
[23:11] Sakura: (uhh... how much init does improved init give?)
[23:12] Mani: (She had a 28 init.)
[23:12] Sakura: (I'm trying to figure out for me :P)
[23:12] * Reis shivers. "You..."
[23:12] Reis: (So, now what?)
[23:12] Reis: (My move, or...?)
[23:12] Alathon: Woman: "She fought well."
[23:13] Alathon: Woman: "You may convey my respect at her ground-laying."
[23:13] Alathon: Your action.
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[23:13] *** DCG is now known as Jane.
[23:14] * Reis pauses, breathes... "Tell me whose respect I'm supposed to convey?"
[23:14] Jane: [01:11] * Reis shivers. "You..."
[23:14] Jane: [01:12] <Sheena> (im failing to see the point of a single fight aginst some one +5 levels ahead?)
[23:14] Jane: [01:12] * Disconnected
[23:14] Alathon: Woman: "Ryba Wintershield."
[23:15] Alathon: She lifts her sword, and swings it quickly, flicking the blood off it, as if it were a light katana or shortsword.
[23:16] * Reis nods. "Well. I _am_ sorry. But I think my own honor just made its own demands. "Alt Forst!"
[23:16] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[23:16] Alathon: ((wtf))
[23:16] Alathon: ffs
[23:16] Jane: (wtf what?)
[23:16] Alathon: ((my fucking dicebot is hosed)
[23:16] Alathon: ((one sec))
[23:16] Reis: (Ah, I see)
[23:16] Jane: (nick serv is hosed to)
[23:17] Reis: (Want me to bring up Fate and try her?)
[23:17] Alathon: and now wtf
[23:17] Jane: (wtf it wont let me boot sheena)
[23:17] Alathon: dicebot joins
[23:17] Alathon: but.. don't see it
[23:18] Alathon: I think there's some sorta netsplit going on
[23:18] Alathon: Mani, you still here?
[23:18] Alathon: god dammit
[23:19] * Reis points her long blade and emits silver spinwheels of light, as roots shoot up from the ground where Ryba stands.
[23:19] Jane: (why would mani hang around after that? I know i would have to go cool off)
[23:19] Alathon: (it was totally fair, when it comes down to it.. an enemy she could kill in two rounds, that could kill her in two rounds)
[23:19] Reis: (Well... unless she wanted to play another character and this was orchestrated :P )
[23:19] Alathon: (which, for that matter, she could have killed in one round with a single crit.. or all three hits landing hard)
[23:20] Alathon: roll 1d20 test
[23:20] Alathon: Okay
[23:20] Jane: I dont see the bot
[23:20] Jane: (and i still get ghost sheena)
[23:20] Reis: (It's up here, though... huh?)
[23:20] Alathon: heh
[23:20] Reis: (Wierd)
[23:20] Jane: (can)
[23:20] Alathon: I can talk to mani on the bot
[23:20] Jane: (cnat)
[23:21] Jane: its a net split then
[23:21] Alathon: god dammit
[23:21] Reis: (Sakura and Mani and Bot 2 and Fate are on the other universe)
[23:21] Jane: and you got an odd idea of fair with 5 attacks at a +45 damage mod.
[23:21] *** Ala-bot has signed off IRC (rpgcafe.nj.us.lunarnet.org obsidian.ab.ca.lunarnet.org).
[23:21] *** Sheena has signed off IRC (rpgcafe.nj.us.lunarnet.org obsidian.ab.ca.lunarnet.org).
[23:21] *** Sakura has signed off IRC (rpgcafe.nj.us.lunarnet.org obsidian.ab.ca.lunarnet.org).
[23:21] *** Stel|DayOff|zzz has signed off IRC (rpgcafe.nj.us.lunarnet.org obsidian.ab.ca.lunarnet.org).
[23:21] *** Mani has signed off IRC (rpgcafe.nj.us.lunarnet.org obsidian.ab.ca.lunarnet.org).
[23:21] Jane: i dont want to see your uber then
[23:21] Alathon: ahhh
[23:21] Alathon: there we go
[23:21] Alathon: hey
[23:21] Alathon: it's a +20 strength attack
[23:21] Alathon: so +30 two handed
[23:21] Alathon: power attacking for 10
[23:21] Alathon: +15 damage two handed
[23:22] Alathon: ... only really works against people who have no dodge or parry
[23:22] Jane: right i under stand how it was done.
[23:22] Reis: (Hey Al, you get my roll?)
[23:22] Alathon: yeah
[23:22] Alathon: I'm holding response until we're rejoined
[23:22] Reis: (Gotcha)
[23:23] Alathon: okay
[23:23] Alathon: 5 minute bio break for servers to reconnect
[23:24] Reis: ... On that note, I really hope you two are nearby, 'cause if I don't kill her nowlike, I might die :P
[23:26] Jane: we are
[23:26] Jane: tho her showing up outa the blue like that just to kill off mani is a big wtf to me.
[23:26] Alathon: um, you could fly up ;p
[23:27] Jane: quyestion tho
[23:27] Jane: how did she get that last low off when 01:09] <Alathon> you get the ketzern reise for free
[23:27] Jane: ries clearly shot first.
[23:28] Alathon: ketzern reise is her dex power
[23:28] Jane: ahhh
[23:28] Alathon: sigh
[23:28] * Jane pokes the servers
[23:28] Reis: (I was TRYING to get to Mani and put my Force Field over her)
[23:28] Alathon: okay
[23:29] Alathon: I'm asking everyone to join us on rpgcafe.nj.us.lunarnet.org
[23:29] Reis: (Thought I'd be able to do that...)
[23:29] Jane: I though tyou said no killing blows any way? that one sworg swing take out 100+ life?
[23:29] Jane: eh.. al we could try disconning and reconnection
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[23:29] Alathon: (no)
[23:29] Alathon: (I['m asking everyone to rejoin this srever, )
[23:29] Jane: oh hey
[23:29] Alathon: (just because.. wel)
[23:29] Alathon: (it's the one my main account is on ;p
[23:29] Jane: heh
[23:29] Alathon: (relogging the bot once mani is back
[23:32] Sakura: ...
[23:33] Alathon: (she quit the other server, she'll be along)
[23:33] Sakura: so, how about telling me what sakura saw?
[23:33] Alathon: okay
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[23:33] *** Mode change "+q Alathon" for channel #crystaltokyo by ChanServ.
[23:33] *** Mode change "+o Alathon" for channel #crystaltokyo by ChanServ.
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[23:33] Alathon: yay
[23:33] Mani: Figures...
[23:34] Alathon: (yeah, right after you reconnect)
[23:34] *** Fate has signed off IRC (Quit: ).
[23:34] *** Jane is now known as Sheena.
[23:34] Reis: (Heh)
[23:34] Alathon: I choose to believe this stupid, poorly timed netsplit was a homage to Mani's soul being shuffled loose the mortal coil.
[23:34] Mani: Brb...
[23:34] *** Mani has signed off IRC (Quit: Mani).
[23:35] Alathon: ((doh))
[23:35] *** Mani has joined #crystaltokyo.
[23:35] Reis: (Well, that's ONE way to distinguish the two battles... anyway, as you'll remember, my roll was 46 ;) )
[23:35] Sakura: ...
[23:35] Alathon: She doesn't bother to dodge. The roots wrap around her.
[23:36] Alathon: Woman, amused; "You do recall how this part goes, do you not?"
[23:36] Alathon: Woman: "If you want a fight.. ask for one. Rather than a <untranslated> shoot."
[23:36] * Sheena will fly up fast the dm figers
[23:37] * Reis growls. "As you wish."
[23:38] Sheena: (so, how did she get mani past crit negive damage any way?)
[23:38] Sheena: (thats suposed to be rather hard)
[23:38] Reis: "Then, let's go, miss."
[23:39] Reis: (CT armour's triggered too, btw)
[23:39] Alathon: (I chose to do it cinematically, rather than her roll four 1d10+45's to slash at her unconscious body)
[23:39] Alathon: Woman: "Agreed. I go."
[23:39] Mani: (Bet you would've rolled a 1 on the first attack. :p )
[23:39] Alathon: Woman: "If you wish to avenge her, seek out Khalesh's representative at the bar."
[23:40] Alathon: roll 1d20+8
[23:40] Ala-bot2: Alathon rolled 1d20+8 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{12}
[23:40] Alathon: She vanishes.
[23:40] Reis: "I can't _get_ there damn you!"
[23:40] * Reis shrieks at the empty bind.
[23:42] Alathon: Sakura and Sheena will arrive roughly two minutes later.
[23:42] Sakura: "Oh... Shit."
[23:42] * Reis swallows, looking around the field. "Mani-san..."
[23:43] * Sheena flys into the field and fades into view.
[23:43] * Reis is simply standing there, limply, tears tracking down her face.
[23:43] * Sakura reappears
[23:43] Sheena: "Ries... what?"
[23:43] Sakura: "She's dead."
[23:43] Sakura: "Taichou is dead."
[23:44] * Reis shakes, gritting her teeth. "Ryba Wintershield. Of 'Kalesh'."
[23:44] Sakura: "FUCK."
[23:44] * Sheena flies over to the body and lands
[23:44] * Sakura clenches his fists
[23:44] * Sheena rather coldly, "I see,"
[23:44] * Reis snaps out, "That _woman_ dogging our steps for this entire campaign."
[23:45] Sakura: "How the fuck does she keep finding us?"
[23:45] Sakura: "What the fuck happened?"
[23:45] Sheena: "Yuuno, Sakura, transfer out, Get mani to the boss asap."
[23:45] * Sakura nods
[23:45] * Reis shakes her head. "Sensei, wait..."
[23:46] Sheena: "Reis, hammer out a quick message to the boss and flag is urgent"
[23:46] Sakura: "You're going to finish the mission, right?"
[23:46] Alathon: Yuuno: "I..."
[23:46] Alathon: Yuuno: "IIi.. right!"
[23:46] Sheena: "Of corse,"
[23:46] Sakura: "And not do anything stupid, right?"
[23:46] Mani: (Sheena: "You know me." Sakura: "And not do anything stupid, right?")
[23:46] Alathon: Yuuno looks over to Sakura, then to Sheena.
[23:46] * Reis shakes herself and nods, pulling out her keypad. "Our only shot at it."
[23:47] Sheena: "We will blow the shit out of that fucker and ill fly escort for reis out of texas"
[23:47] * Sakura nods
[23:47] Sakura: "Yuuno, let's go."
[23:47] Sheena: "If what you saw in the cross was anythig like i did the boss needs to know and the faster we get mani to hre the better the chance is she can recover"
[23:47] Alathon: Yuuno pads over to Mani's no-longer-armored body, and stands there.
[23:48] Sakura: "That cross..."
[23:48] * Sakura shudders
[23:48] * Reis licks her lips and nods, typing out a quick report with all the pertinent and semi-pertinent details.
[23:48] * Reis blinks and looks at Sheena. "... Recover?"
[23:49] Sheena: "You forget who our queen is reis?"
[23:49] Sheena: "Let alone our boss? If any one can help its back at home"
[23:49] * Reis shakes her head. "No... Right."
[23:50] * Sheena shurgs kinda helplessly
[23:50] Sheena: "Me and you are only good at boom, so lets go get our job done"
[23:50] Alathon: Yuuno: "I'll try my best!"
[23:50] Alathon: Yuuno stands still, and concentrates.. concentrates... hard.
[23:50] Alathon: The bright circle of Midchildan magic spins out from under him to encompass both Mani and Sakura...
[23:50] Alathon: And after a moment, all three are gone.
[23:51] Alathon: roll 1d20+4
[23:51] Ala-bot2: Alathon rolled 1d20+4 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{5}
[23:51] * Reis nods. "We'll rendezvous, sensei."
[23:51] Alathon: ((......
[23:51] Reis: (Oooooooooh shit)
[23:51] Alathon: ((for fucks's sake))
[23:51] Mani: (Thanks, Yuuno... can always count on you...)
[23:51] Reis: (Well... we wanted to discover extradimensional magic...?)
[23:51] * Sheena DR's since its her yuuno
[23:51] Alathon: ((shit, I'm cracking up here. this is why I love dice))
[23:51] Reis: (I think we just did...)
[23:51] Sakura: (did sakura just die too? -_-)
[23:51] Alathon: ((sorry man, no way.. yuuno would need to have it))
[23:51] Alathon: ((and no, you didn't die
[23:52] Reis: (Now, now, you're not gonna DIE... just wind up in the wrong universe)
[23:52] Alathon: roll 6d6
[23:52] Ala-bot2: Alathon rolled 6d6 --> [ 6d6=21 ]{21}
[23:52] Alathon: eat 21 damage.. Yuuno eats it.
[23:52] Reis: (Owie)
[23:52] Sheena: (yuuno dies to get them home? fuck)
[23:52] Sakura: (eat as in dies?)
[23:52] Reis: (What a night)
[23:52] Alathon: roll 1d2
[23:52] Ala-bot2: Alathon rolled 1d2 --> [ 1d2=1 ]{1}
[23:52] Reis: ('course, WE don't know :P )
[23:52] Alathon: ((thankfully, yuuno has 23 hp))
[23:53] Alathon: okay
[23:53] Alathon: they vanish
[23:53] Alathon: it's Reis and Sheena's show at this point.
[23:53] Alathon: NOthing's left except the blood on the ground
[23:53] Alathon: ((are we all cool staying up for another half hour ish?))
[23:53] Sheena: (so yuuno just splaters blood all over in the palace?)
[23:53] Alathon: ((no))
[23:53] Alathon: ((nobody explodes or anything))
[23:53] Mani: (I am.)
[23:53] Sakura: (I'm good to stay up)
[23:54] Sheena: "Get ready reis, we're going head out soon."
[23:54] * Reis shakes herself and rises into the air. "Then let's go senpai. Please don't go too far ahead of... me... I can only achieve 100 miles per hour stably."
[23:54] Sheena: "Reis, we got a couple hours, (how much time?)
[23:54] Sheena: "Since we have to fly our see if you can squeez a bit more power for flying out of your systems"
[23:54] Reis: (And how far is it to Stockton?)
[23:55] Alathon: ((50 miles))
[23:55] Alathon: ((you've got plenty of time))
[23:55] Reis: (How plenty?)
[23:55] Reis: (I know it won't take too long to get there, but roughly how many hours?)
[23:55] Sheena: "We are going to have to move fast just the two of is"
[23:56] Alathon: ((half an hour))
[23:56] Alathon: ((you know.. 50 miles at 100 mph?))
[23:56] Reis: (No, I mean to wait)
[23:56] Alathon: ((until around 11am))
[23:56] * Sheena is typeing out a message on her com, letting her boss know what happend and what she saw in the ross, and about mani.
[23:56] Reis: (Time now?)
[23:56] Alathon: ((it's around 11pm now))
[23:56] Reis: (Right)
[23:56] * Sheena flags it Urger, check now, life or death and sends it off, just incase
[23:57] * Reis grits her teeth and settles in on Swordbreaker with her PDA.
[23:57] Reis: roll 4#1d20+18
[23:57] Ala-bot2: Reis rolled 4#1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{24}, [ 1d20=4 ]{22}, [ 1d20=5 ]{23}, [ 1d20=11 ]{29}
[23:58] Alathon: YOu'll promptly get the message acknoweldged, that they're setting up to receive yuuno.
[23:58] * Sheena just waits there with dark heart's glow beating in the darkness
[23:58] Alathon: ((adding what?))
[23:58] * Sheena checks her com on the reply
[23:58] Sheena: "Well thats good"
[23:58] Alathon: Half an hour later.. you get a comm.. they haven't arrived.
[23:58] Alathon: actually scratch that
[23:58] Alathon: Sakura's conscious, he'll comm that things are fukced up
[23:59] Sheena: (wasn't it damage and not a wird location?)
[23:59] Sakura: (both)
[00:00] Alathon: alright
[00:00] Alathon: morning will come without incident
[00:00] Alathon: and you'll reach the outskirts of Fort Stockton unobserved as far as you can tell.
[00:00] * Reis calms down working on Swordbreaker, and tries to squeeze in an hour or two of sleep, then deploys.
[00:01] Sheena: "Dark Heart, plot a evac corse from our target point out"
[00:01] Sheena: "Ready to go reis?"
[00:01] Sheena: "We need to get high,"
[00:01] * Reis nods. "Yes, senpai... this will be a kludge, but it'll work..."
[00:01] * Reis starts rising.
[00:01] Alathon: Dark Heart: "xxxxx".
[00:02] Sheena: "After the kill is confirmed we get high and fast."
[00:03] * Reis nods. "Kill him once, kill him again to be sure, then run as if death itself were on our heels... senpai?"
[00:03] Reis: (Ah, how much EP did we recover?)
[00:03] Reis: (Since I _did_ end up spending a bit...)
[00:04] Sheena: "Oh ya, If any thing tries to intercpet us on the way out just take a shot at it and dont stop"
[00:04] Alathon: over twelve hours?
[00:04] Alathon: uh, all of it?
[00:04] Sheena: "Toss up a simple bind if you want, just to slow em down"
[00:04] Alathon: well
[00:04] Alathon: 12*6
[00:04] Alathon: so you should be full
[00:04] Sheena: "Lets go"
[00:04] Reis: (Yeah, I only spent 9)
[00:04] * Sheena will fly up and wait for reis befoer heading way up
[00:05] * Reis nods. "I had to disable the higher-speed Flight to get something I could sustain, senpai. So I am not good for burst speeds any more."
[00:05] * Reis goes until she reaches the stratosphere.
[00:05] Sheena: "Shit reis, should have taken off power or something.. hows your max now?"
[00:06] Reis: "500 miles per hour, senpai. There was nothing else I could remove - it was all mission-critical..."
[00:06] Reis: "Life support, vision enhancement, flight shield..."
[00:07] Sheena: "Ya, hope its fast enought, lets head to target"
[00:07] * Reis nods. "We should be expending most of our energy on-site anyway..."
[00:07] Alathon: Around this time, you get a comm message from Sakura...
[00:07] * Reis hovers until she stands four kilometers above the church.
[00:08] * Reis keeps a CLOSE eye on the time.
[00:08] Alathon: ... explaining that Yuuno's teleport went off target, and that they don't know wher they are.
[00:08] Alathon: But that they're safe
[00:08] Sheena: (they discovered chocklet again?)
[00:08] Mani: (Oh, good. We're safe.)
[00:08] Alathon: YOu can see that it's been forwarded to Usagi as wel.
[00:08] Alathon: (... safe in the loving embrace of God ;p ))
[00:08] Reis: (Mani... that bravest of warriors, who died that we may have CHOCOLATE!)
[00:08] Sheena: (thats not helpfull as the point was to get mani home asap..)
[00:08] Reis: (Well... at least nobody MORE died)
[00:09] Sakura: (yet)
[00:09] Sheena: (yuuno's about dead)
[00:09] Sakura: (we don't know where we are -_-)
[00:09] Reis: (Hey, that's what we call 'adventure seeds' ;) )
[00:09] Mani: (Sakura, gazing at the sky: "My, what a lovely Earth tonight.")
[00:10] Reis: (Suppose they're still in this universe. Though if they're NOT, those are some badass communicators)
[00:10] Alathon: Time passes
[00:10] Alathon: The sun rises
[00:10] * Sheena is flying to target point with reis
[00:10] Alathon: Soon enough, your communicators indicate it's around 10:30 Mountain Standard
[00:11] * Reis says nothing, and keeps a close eye on the exact scheduled time - peeking now and again with her longer-range sight to make sure he hasn't gotten away.
[00:11] Sheena: (reis have any DR's left?)
[00:12] Reis: (Got the one)
[00:12] Reis: (Plus, Accuracy. I'll be putting our shots on the fucker's HEAD)
[00:12] Sheena: (good, just in case we splat ourselfs again)
[00:12] Sheena: (we need to kill him, not rain blood on every one)
[00:13] Reis: (From this height, the blood would be lethal ;) )
[00:13] * Reis notes the time, and reactivates her distance vision, peering down to seek the target.
[00:13] Reis: (When was the exact time we had for the mission?)
[00:13] Alathon: The services typically end around 11 am
[00:13] Alathon: give or take.. sometimes they run long
[00:14] Alathon: around now.. it's a quarter of.
[00:14] Reis: (Ah, then I don't peer down 'till it approaches :P )
[00:14] Sheena: "Soon"
[00:14] Sheena: "Right in front, in the middle of every one"
[00:14] Mani: (Have no doubt... just before 11 you'll peer.)
[00:15] * Reis breathes deeply, nodding. "We'll get him. We can _not_ fail to do so. Not now."
[00:15] Sheena: "If i have to remove this town from the map, so be it"
[00:15] Reis: (... Just to confirm. We DO know what Addington looks like, right?)
[00:16] Sheena: (ya we had pictures)
[00:16] Reis: ('cause that'd be SOME kind of horrific black humour...)
[00:16] Alathon: (you all know what he looks like)
[00:16] Sheena: (i dont do humor like that...)
[00:16] Reis: (Heh. Yeah, that'd be on the level of James's death)
[00:16] Reis: (Dragon: "Let's play with the statue!")
[00:16] Alathon: he looks a lot like this: (Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:David_Addington.jpg)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:David_Addington.jpg
[00:17] Alathon: ((as I understand it, he was kinda boned after the journey))
[00:17] Alathon: ((though I went outta my way to keep him on a Disk.. but whatever))
[00:17] Alathon: Anyways
[00:17] Alathon: the time comes.
[00:17] Reis: (Yeah, but the dragon took the credit ;) )
[00:17] Alathon: Looking down.. you hear the faint ringing of church bells, almost inaudible at your altitude despite the volume.
[00:18] Alathon: And soon enough, figures stream out of the church, slowly.. mostly in 2's, 3's, 4's, and 6's
[00:18] Mani: (I wonder if it really is that same Addington...)
[00:18] * Reis takes the time, turns on her distance vision, and scans faces. "Time."
[00:18] Sheena: "ya"
[00:19] * Sheena brings dark heart around to reis ready to channel power
[00:19] Alathon: He walks out of the church.
[00:19] Alathon: Addington.
[00:19] Sheena: "Im the battery, its your show"
[00:19] Reis: (How much power ya gonna be pumping in, Sheens?)
[00:19] Sheena: (as much as the attack can take?)
[00:19] Alathon: And takes up a position to the side of th stream of people, shaking hands, talking with couples for a few moments each.
[00:19] Reis: (Well, I mean, how many d8s does your thingy pump out?)
[00:20] Mani: (Hit him while he's kissing a baby! :) )
[00:20] * Reis breathes once, then braces Swordbreaker, taking aim.
[00:20] Alathon: He's wearing white robes, with bright red and solid black styled flaiming crosses on the front, back, and shoulders.
[00:20] Sheena: (7)
[00:20] Alathon: ((are you spending cartridges for range, or to pump damage?))
[00:20] Reis: (I'll take one round to aim)
[00:20] Sheena: "Dark heart, load one, dont release the shell"
[00:21] Sheena: (one shell for damage)
[00:21] Alathon: *nod*
[00:21] Reis: "Set."
[00:21] Reis: (And, yours gives me Homing, right?)
[00:21] Sheena: "ready when you are"
[00:21] Reis: (Or is this the Obsidian?)
[00:21] Sheena: (no homing on this one, but its accurate as well)
[00:21] Alathon: (doesn't add accurate unless both have it))
[00:22] Sheena: (we both have it)
[00:22] Reis: (Okay, we've got Accurate... hope I won't have to worry about Stoppable :P )
[00:22] Alathon: ((alright))
[00:22] Sheena: (no stoppable on this)
[00:22] Alathon: ((reis, you going maximized/))
[00:22] Reis: (Yep, and I just took a full round to aim. Maximized for the first, then see what happened, and fire the second)
[00:23] Alathon: ((first round of attacks you mean,r ight?))
[00:23] Alathon: Alright
[00:23] Sheena: (our dice are the same so go ahead)
[00:23] Alathon: Reis.. roll the to-hits
[00:23] Reis: (No, first attack in the round)
[00:23] Alathon: ((you have to choose
[00:23] * Reis breathes out. "Mark!"
[00:23] Alathon: ((and it doesn't cost more or less to maximize one or two of your flurries))
[00:23] Alathon: ((it's one attack))
[00:23] Alathon: ((cost-wise))
[00:23] Reis: roll 1d20+38 For the head!
[00:23] Ala-bot2: Reis rolled 1d20+38 For the head! --> [ 1d20=18 ]{56}
[00:23] * Sheena lets her power flow
[00:24] Sheena: (oh good, no crit fail)
[00:24] Reis: (... Wait, doesn't it? Aren't I using it twice?)
[00:24] Alathon: ((??))
[00:24] Alathon: ((your attack has fllurry, and costs N.. maximizing it costs N*4))
[00:24] Alathon: ((for the entire attack, flurries included))
[00:24] Reis: (/me blinkblinks.)
[00:25] Reis: (You mean... I've been doublecosting myself for this whole game?)
[00:25] Alathon: ((apparently, yes))
[00:25] Reis: (Hahahahahahahahah!)
[00:25] Reis: roll 1d20+33
[00:25] Ala-bot2: Reis rolled 1d20+33 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{51}
[00:25] Alathon: alright
[00:25] Alathon: BOth hit.
[00:25] Reis: roll 14d8
[00:25] Alathon: Addington gets the same dodge roll Kennedy did.
[00:25] Ala-bot2: Reis rolled 14d8 --> [ 14d8=54 ]{54}
[00:25] Reis: roll 14d8
[00:25] Alathon: Reis
[00:25] Ala-bot2: Reis rolled 14d8 --> [ 14d8=70 ]{70}
[00:25] Alathon: you don't have to roll shit
[00:25] Alathon: you're maximized
[00:25] Reis: (Well, that's Sheena's half)
[00:25] Alathon: I was gonna say she rolled it, but, okay
[00:25] Reis: (You mentioned mine was the only half that maximized)
[00:26] Alathon: *nod*
[00:26] Alathon: ((both your rolls were good, so I doubt she's gonna complain ;p ))
[00:26] Reis: (... Dammit. I shot him in the HEAD)
[00:26] Alathon: so
[00:26] Reis: roll 14d10
[00:26] Ala-bot2: Reis rolled 14d10 --> [ 14d10=89 ]{89}
[00:26] Alathon: ((.. so yeah
[00:26] Reis: roll 14d10
[00:26] Ala-bot2: Reis rolled 14d10 --> [ 14d10=72 ]{72}
[00:26] Reis: (And, add 140 to each of those)
[00:26] Alathon: +14*15=210 each
[00:26] Sheena: (his deader, at lest i really really hope so)
[00:27] Alathon: ((d8, headshot d10, empowered d15, maimized 15
[00:27] Alathon: ((oh wait, not empowered
[00:27] Alathon: ((just so just
[00:27] Alathon: +140 each
[00:27] Alathon: so
[00:27] Alathon: 239 and 222
[00:27] Alathon: respectively
[00:27] Reis: (If he survived THAT, WTF does he NEED a God for?)
[00:28] Sheena: (wrath of god indeed, molten silv deth from above)
[00:28] Alathon: The two streams of brilliant, blinding silver lance down toward their targets, wreathed in purple-black lghtning.
[00:28] Alathon: The first one takes his head off. Literally. It's gone.
[00:28] * Reis smiles.
[00:28] Mani: (The second takes out the crowd behind him.)
[00:28] Alathon: The second one is a little low, and goes through his chest.. with the result that his body, stressed by the forst, explodes backwards in a spray of blood, cartilege, and fractured bown.
[00:28] Alathon: ((bone))
[00:28] Reis: (Nah, I shot him from above ;) )
[00:28] Sheena: (his head took 239 damage? holy shit)
[00:29] Sheena: "That ones for mani, bitch"
[00:29] Sheena: "Ok reis go time,"
[00:29] Reis: "Hm. I think he might be dead."
[00:29] Alathon: Everyone nearby is sprayed with hot blood and bone fragments, most of them falling over.
[00:29] Alathon: his corpse is... nonexistant. Well. He has feet.
[00:29] Alathon: And some legs.
[00:29] Sheena: "COrse set Dark heart,lets fly"
[00:29] * Reis nods and wheels, looking back slightly, then JETS.
[00:29] Alathon: And there might be an arm over to the left a bit.
[00:29] Mani: (Enh, if she cared about him, she wouldn't have left the mission intact.)
[00:30] Alathon: YOu both fly off.. apparently unobserved.
[00:30] Alathon: Mission accomplished.
[00:30] Alathon: End here.
[00:30] Sheena: (there's a hell of a distraction going on.._
[00:30] Mani: yay
[00:31] Sakura: damn
[00:31] *** Sakura is now known as Ataru.
[00:31] *** Reis is now known as Pale_Wolf.
[00:31] Pale_Wolf: Indeed...
[00:31] Pale_Wolf: We've lost a PC.
[00:31] * Pale_Wolf claps twice and mourns for Mani.
[00:31] Mani: Literally.
[00:31] Sheena: crit fail teleport didnt help
[00:31] Ataru: we've lost three
[00:31] Ataru: one's dead
[00:31] Sheena: three?
[00:31] Ataru: two are MIA
[00:31] Ataru: well, Yuuno is an NPC
[00:32] *** Mani is now known as Yarrow.
[00:32] Pale_Wolf: Well... we'll handle that - next session!
[00:32] Pale_Wolf: ... Which is in two weeks ;_;
[00:32] Sheena: two weeks?
[00:32] Alathon: yeah
[00:32] Pale_Wolf: Al's got a family thing, right?
[00:32] Alathon: I'm out of town next week
[00:32] Sheena: ahh
[00:32] Pale_Wolf: You gonna be able to make my session that week, btw?
[00:33] Ataru: ...
[00:33] Ataru: a fucking cliffhanger? fuck
[00:33] Ataru: >_<
[00:33] *** Alathon has changed the topic on channel #crystaltokyo to NO GAME next week, September 4th, I'm out of town. Next game will be on Tuesday, Semptember 11th at 9pm EST / 6pm PST.
[00:33] Pale_Wolf: ... Hm. Maybe you should at least tell Yarrow whether she has to write up a new character sheet or not.
[00:33] Alathon: and if that ain't ominous, nothing is
[00:33] Yarrow: He's already let me know.
[00:33] Alathon: I've already been discussing it with her
[00:34] Alathon: I should be able to
[00:34] Pale_Wolf: Heh, gotcha.
[00:34] Alathon: this week is the iffy one, where I"ll be late
[00:34] Pale_Wolf: Righto, gotcha.
[00:34] Alathon: anyways
[00:34] Alathon: I wanna throw a couple things out there
[00:34] Alathon: one, the "armored woman" was a nasty as hell opponent
[00:35] Alathon: two, much less than that and Mani would have walks all over her
[00:35] Alathon: and three, nothing was scripted beyond her offering a challenge
[00:36] Yarrow: And I would have beaten her, too, if not for those meddling dice!
[00:36] Alathon: it was possible
[00:36] Alathon: it'd certainly have thrown things for a loop
[00:36] Pale_Wolf: But, well, the DR... didn't.
[00:37] Yarrow: Yeah, if the DR roll hadn't been a ... 2, it may well have decided the fight the other way.
[00:37] Pale_Wolf: Wow, it was that one hit that did it?
[00:38] Yarrow: I'd have to go back and check the numbers.
[00:38] Alathon: If she'd gotten another round of e-drains that woulda been it
[00:38] Alathon: she would have been at like.. 4 hp I think
[00:38] Pale_Wolf: Hm. So God was a bitch about it, and thus we kill his servant?
[00:38] Pale_Wolf: Kewlness.
[00:38] Alathon: the one she DR'd was the other 10
[00:39] Alathon: thats a proactive way to look at it
[00:39] Pale_Wolf: Heh, it's one way to go :P
[00:39] Alathon: anyways
[00:39] Alathon: no game next week
[00:39] Alathon: I may try to sneak in a session with Ataru over the next couple weeks
[00:39] Pale_Wolf: ... I seriously wish I'd done half-decent on that init roll.
[00:39] Alathon: that, or his will be played simultaneously with Sheena and Reis'
[00:40] * Pale_Wolf wonders what would've happened if I'd managed THAT.
[00:40] Alathon: ... honestly?
[00:40] Alathon: She had no hp damage on her
[00:40] Pale_Wolf: Yeah... would've been a 'fun' fight.
[00:40] Yarrow: For her, maybe.
[00:41] Pale_Wolf: Well... I DID have a decent defence mod, and good defences set up.
[00:41] Pale_Wolf: MIGHT have been possible.
[00:42] Pale_Wolf: And I don't imagine she'd have gone off and left after she proved her superiourity, eh?
[00:42] Yarrow: She had a +42 to hit.
[00:42] Alathon: +32, but yeah
[00:42] Yarrow: 32 with 10 power attack, yes?
[00:42] Sheena: and insane damage.
[00:42] Alathon: it was 32-10, 27-10, etc
[00:42] Sheena: but its was Fair.
[00:43] Yarrow: Ah, so it was.
[00:43] Ataru: I say sneak away al
[00:44] Pale_Wolf: Actually, maybe I could've tried that. Heft Mani, and jet at 1000 kph.
[00:44] Yarrow: To what purpose?
[00:44] Pale_Wolf: Well, preventing Mani from getting killed?
[00:44] * Yarrow scratches her head.
[00:44] Yarrow: I don't see when you could have effectively done that.
[00:45] Pale_Wolf: Well, if I'd made that Init roll, Mani would be alive today.
[00:45] Yarrow: Ah. Now, making that init roll could have made a difference.
[00:46] Yarrow: Then again, if she hadn't gotten an incredible init to beat my very good init, that probably would have done it, too.
[00:46] Yarrow: (Since I sure wasn't going to charge in and give her a full set of attacks the first round, either.)
[00:47] Ataru: hmm
[00:47] Ataru: I wonder what will happen now
[00:47] Pale_Wolf: Heh, indeed.
[00:47] Ataru: the team will need a new "leader"
[00:47] Yarrow: Gerand.
[00:47] Ataru: Sheena's been on the team longest
[00:48] Pale_Wolf: Well, who knows? We'll see how it develops I suppose. If nothing else, it's not a very tight command structure, so we can get by without a leader for a while :P
[00:49] * Yarrow gets ready for bed.
[00:49] Alathon: 3300 exp
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Session 52

Postby Alathon » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:22 am

Sesssion 52

[12:02] Alathon: alright
[12:03] Alathon: we left off last week shortly after Reis and Sheena completed the mission and assassinated David Addington.
[12:03] Sheena: (assassinated? Dude was a smear on the ground, and many dresses)
[12:04] Alathon: okay, obliterated then ;p
[12:04] Alathon: fragged, if you will
[12:04] Reis: (Pwnzinated?)
[12:04] Yarrow: (Assassinated with great vigor.)
[12:04] Alathon: either way, he's dead
[12:04] Alathon: so is Mani
[12:04] Yarrow: (And dresses?)\
[12:04] Reis: (Hm. This'd be a really bad time to find out he was in fact one of their moderates)
[12:04] Alathon: and in his attempt to evacuate Mani's cooling corpse to the Palace, Yuuno panicked and botched the teleport, landing Kuonji who knows where
[12:05] Sheena: (all the people around him out side the curch yarrow)
[12:05] Alathon: He's somewhere or other.. not dead, and presumably still on this plane, but just where on the planet has yet to be discerned.
[12:05] Alathon: ((heh, the Hiro Yui moment?))
[12:05] Alathon: ((when you find out you just blew away a jet liner full of all the EArth Alliance's most moderate generals and leaders?))
[12:06] Reis: (What can I say, it'd seriously blow. And given how CT's campaign has been going, I wouldn't be surprised)
[12:06] Reis: (... FUCK. I just gave the GM ideas.)
[12:06] Alathon: (you'll find out later)
[12:06] Sheena: (hah!)
[12:07] Alathon: In the mean time, Reis and SHeena were, if I recall, booking it at best speed.
[12:07] Alathon: You're in Texas territory with a very dead Texan leader behind you.. so.. which way do you wanna head?
[12:07] Alathon: north, to the AFS?
[12:07] Alathon: northwest to the mountains and Nevada?
[12:07] Reis: Which way is the nearest border?
[12:07] Alathon: east, into the confederacy?
[12:07] Sheena: (err dark heart ploted the fastest way out of texas)
[12:07] Alathon: south, to who knows where?
[12:08] Sheena: (but never said what that was, as it was so late)
[12:08] Reis: Yeah, we TECHNICALLY already planned this ahead of time, but, we'll decide now :P
[12:08] Sheena: (in this case Dark heart=you, heh)
[12:08] Reis: Nearest border where there'll be nobody trying to kill us.
[12:08] Sheena: (thats the general idea)
[12:08] Yarrow: (No results found. :) )
[12:08] Sheena: (doh)
[12:08] Reis: Nevada, AFS, even south if it's WAY closer. You know which is nearest, so, you tell us ;)
[12:09] Alathon: north is the shortest, but will take you through areas you know are 'hot'
[12:09] Sheena: (im gessing AFS or nevada if we shoot up the rockies)
[12:09] Alathon: west is a bit further, but basically just takes you across country
[12:09] Reis: Hm, I think we'd have gone for Nevada then.
[12:10] Reis: Unless we were planning to go over the AFS border in orbit.
[12:10] Sheena: (i have been thinking of taking 1 point in hyperspace)
[12:10] Sheena: (would make planet hops a lot easyer)
[12:10] Sheena: (hit low orbit, cruse, and then reenter)
[12:11] Alathon: (hyperflight is a bit different, but, you could use it that way)
[12:11] Yarrow: (Oddly enough, I was thinking of the exact same thing recently.)
[12:11] Alathon: (it's not exactly Star Wars style hyperspace )
[12:11] Reis: Dimhoppery? :P
[12:11] Alathon: (nah, that's just dim hopping.. dimension to dimension, rather than place to place)
[12:12] Alathon: anyways... west?
[12:12] Sheena: (yes, west and cose to the mountan)
[12:12] Reis: (I'd say so)
[12:12] Yarrow: (Of course, then you have to get low pressure & no air survival...)
[12:13] Alathon: So, west it is
[12:13] Alathon: The sun is still high, so it's not in your faces yet.
[12:13] Reis: (Air? Who needs air? :P )
[12:13] Alathon: I believe your cruising speeds are 500 mph?
[12:13] Sheena: "Keep your eyes open Ries,"
[12:13] Sheena: (yes)
[12:13] Reis: (Yuppers)
[12:13] * Reis nods. "Yes, senpai."
[12:13] Alathon: In a matter of minutes, without apparent interference, you'll reach foothills.. then proper mountains.
[12:15] * Reis relaxes slightly, but keeps scanning the area with super-zoom vision.
[12:15] Alathon: The weather remains fairly nice.. though you can see clouds off on the horizon.
[12:16] * Sheena is keeping an eye out but not relaxed at all.
[12:17] Alathon: Soon enough, you'll have to make a choice.. high, low, or through the clouds.
[12:17] Sheena: "How high can you hadnle?"
[12:17] Alathon: They're fairly dense, though you don't see any thunderheads.
[12:18] Sheena: (reis?)
[12:18] * Reis frowns. "I don't have pressure control, but I can supply myself with air anywhere we go, senpai."
[12:19] Alathon: hm
[12:19] Alathon: if you have a force field, you could reasonably pressurize that
[12:19] Alathon: though if it let go, well.. that'd be Not Good
[12:19] Reis: (Not in this form)
[12:19] Alathon: (nod)
[12:20] * Sheena she's shelded and arrmoed from it but ries..
[12:20] Alathon: well, people can climb Mt. Everest without their eyes popping out
[12:20] Alathon: so, I'll grant a tentative height cap of 30,000 feet
[12:21] Alathon: which is currently enough to get above the clouds
[12:21] Sheena: (what would be needed for lower orbit or more any way?)
[12:21] Alathon: um
[12:21] Reis: (Low-pressure/vacuum adaptation. Air)
[12:21] Reis: (Cold)
[12:21] Alathon: adaptations or special defenses to not breath, and to survive in a vacuum
[12:21] Sheena: (features or something?)
[12:21] Sheena: (ahh)
[12:21] Alathon: vaccuum would cover the 'cold' aspect.. it's not really cold per se, since there's little to no matter to leech energy from you
[12:22] Sheena: "Ok lets try as high as we can go, if it gets to much we'll drop down to the deck and get low and fast"
[12:22] Reis: (Hm, good to know. So the one adaptation would cover even going up into space, assuming there was air?)
[12:22] Alathon: (i.e. with scuba gear? yes)
[12:22] Yarrow: (It's pretty much spelled out in the rules.)
[12:22] Alathon: (though again, if you go up there with a forcefield and somebody pricks it, you're dead, dead, dead
[12:22] Yarrow: (For the adaption/special defense attributes.)
[12:23] * Reis nods and angles upward. "All right..."
[12:23] Alathon: ((no way you're getting miles down to air before you strangle)
[12:23] Reis: "Where to once we cross the border, senpai? Our planned meeting point?"
[12:23] Reis: (Good thing I've got no need to breath ;) )
[12:24] Sheena: "Negitive, that meeting point had yuuno in mind. We'll get lower and head for (carson?)"
[12:24] * Reis nods. "Understood."
[12:26] * Sheena keep an eye on the cloud level and storm formations
[12:26] * Reis is keeping an eye out for any possible enemies, more than anything else.
[12:27] Alathon: (you could)
[12:28] Alathon: spot checks, pls
[12:28] Sheena: Roll 1d20+7
[12:28] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+7 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{22}
[12:28] Sheena: (woah..)
[12:28] Reis: roll 1d20+6
[12:28] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{9}
[12:28] Reis: (Watch me critfail and also say whoa)
[12:28] Reis: (Hah)
[12:28] Alathon: Sheena, at least, catches the flash of bright green light within the clouds behind them and to the north.
[12:28] Reis: (Oh yes, Heightened Vision bonuses)
[12:29] Reis: (+8 to that)
[12:29] Sheena: (what does magic see?)
[12:29] Reis: (So, 17)
[12:29] Alathon: *nod*
[12:29] Alathon: reis still didn't see it
[12:29] Reis: (Wah! :P )
[12:29] Alathon: No way to tell at this distance if the glow was magical or normal light
[12:30] Sheena: "Head up, There's something to the north"
[12:30] Alathon: it's very difficult to estimate distances with the clouds below you, but it's probably a mile or three off at least.
[12:31] * Reis frowns and angles up, looking back in that direction with a further zoom.
[12:31] Sheena: "A couple miles off there"
[12:31] Reis: (Aka, triggered the magical Heightened Vision)
[12:31] Alathon: Neither of you can miss the flash that's in front of you less than a mile.
[12:31] Sheena: "What the hells that?"
[12:32] * Reis frowns and pulls up for a second, looking ahead to see wtf that was.
[12:32] Reis: (Spot check?)
[12:32] Alathon: no need
[12:32] Alathon: it's still fully obscured
[12:32] Alathon: being a gigantic cloud and all
[12:33] Reis: (Well, I've got thermal vision, so...)
[12:33] Reis: (Any heat sources?)
[12:33] * Sheena changes corse with reis to go around it.
[12:33] * Reis follows Sheens.
[12:33] Alathon: you'd have to have like 2-3 ranks of it to see miles off through stuff
[12:33] Reis: (Darn.)
[12:34] Alathon: so.. go, which way?
[12:34] Alathon: north, south, down into the clouds, up into the sky?
[12:34] Reis: (I'd say higher)
[12:35] Reis: (Ie, go over it - presuming we can breath up there)
[12:35] Yarrow: (So go ahead and say it. :) )
[12:36] Sheena: (up higher to the north? We are headed to nevada but aroud that)
[12:36] Sheena: (and dont have a flight map :P)
[12:37] Sheena: "If that thoes clouds keep acting up go ahead and blast em'
[12:38] Sheena: (hmm)
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[12:39] Sheena: (doih!)
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[12:39] Reis: <Sheena> (up higher to the north? We are headed to nevada but aroud that)
[12:39] Reis: <Sheena> (and dont have a flight map :P)
[12:39] Reis: <Sheena> "If that thoes clouds keep acting up go ahead and blast em'
[12:39] Reis: * Reis frowns. "What if it's a relative friendly in there?"
[12:39] Reis: * Disconnected
[12:39] Reis: (Bah, what'd I miss?)
[12:39] Alathon: (nothing)
[12:39] Alathon: (and.. yeah, discuss in character, it's more fun that way ;p ))
[12:40] Yarrow: (And with the recordings, Usagi will be able to point out everything you do wrong. ;) )
[12:40] Sheena: "We don't have friendly's this high up"
[12:41] Sheena: (about how close are we to nevada now?)
[12:41] Reis: "Not known, but... just because they're not part of CT doesn't mean they aren't neutral..."
[12:42] Sheena: "Im not in a diplomatic mood reis"
[12:42] Alathon: You've been flying for a bit over half an hour
[12:42] Alathon: it's a distance of around 800 miles to Provo
[12:42] Reis: (So we're still in Texas?)
[12:42] Alathon: so, you're 650 miles out
[12:42] Alathon: er
[12:42] Alathon: 550
[12:43] Alathon: you're not really anywhere that's claimed.. the mountains aren't really settled
[12:43] * Reis frowns and nods. "Okay..."
[12:43] Alathon: as far as you know anyways
[12:43] Alathon: and, I should point out.. you'd know from experience that only a very small percentage of Nevadans would be capable of helping in a serious fight with anything that could actually threaten you two
[12:43] Sheena: (the hidden vally of catgirls)
[12:43] Alathon: (Mani perks up, "And catboys?"
[12:44] Sheena: (Problem is the onlythign that survided of the old world for them is reruns of 90201)
[12:44] Reis: (True, but we shouldn't shoot at people who are unaligned, lest they pick a side :P )
[12:44] Alathon: Anyways
[12:44] Reis: (Or kill an ally who wasn't HELPFUL, but was an ally...)
[12:44] Yarrow: (In character, Reis... :p )
[12:44] Alathon: (yeah seriously.. OOC chatter adds nothing, good IC chatter adds everything
[12:45] * Reis frowns. "But... if we shoot a neutral, won't that MAKE them an enemy...?"
[12:45] Alathon: A couple minutes go by.. with nothing.
[12:45] * Sheena is still in a dark mood from loseing mani, its effecting the area around her as well, tho thats normal.
[12:45] Sheena: "Meh"
[12:46] Alathon: The sun is ever-so-slightly lower in the sky to the west.. you're not outrunning the day just yet.
[12:46] Reis: (Next level of Flight!)
[12:47] Alathon: (even then you'd just be keeping speed... 25,000 mile circumferance and all, so you'd need a bit over 1000 mph to keep speed with the sun)
[12:47] Sheena: (sheena can)
[12:47] Alathon: There's another greenish flash.. this one a bit harder to pick out, but, since it's right in front of you both, it's impossible to miss.
[12:48] Sheena: "... Mabie lighitng is green from above?"
[12:48] Yarrow: ("And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking; And racing around to come up behind you again")
[12:48] Alathon: There are four black specks less than a mile in front of you at this point.
[12:48] Alathon: hmm.. both of you have doubly enhanced vision, so.
[12:48] * Reis frowns and peers.
[12:49] Yarrow: (*waits for Reis to disconnect.)
[12:49] Alathon: three grefaces in robes, and an oldish human(?) man (grey wings in what looks likeshort black hair) in some sort of blue and white getup, with a staff which has.. well.. what looks to be a bug zapper on the end of it.
[12:50] Sheena: (did they spot us?)
[12:50] Alathon: They're peering your way
[12:50] Alathon: when they start moving right at you, you can conclude: yes
[12:51] Alathon: they're not moving too fast, though.. the human jets out in front a little, then slows down, glancing over his shoulder, at the three greyfaces who are proceding much more slowly.
[12:51] Sheena: "Shit"
[12:51] * Reis frowns and starts triggering prep-spells.
[12:51] Sheena: "Alter corse some and get ready for a dogfight"
[12:51] Reis: (First, illusions - two of Sheens and one of me)
[12:51] Alathon: Range now is just under 4000 feet
[12:51] Reis: (Second, speed)
[12:52] Alathon: (er, speed won't do anything for you while you're flying)
[12:52] Reis: "Senpai, should we try to run past?"
[12:52] Reis: (Dex boost, I mean)
[12:52] Alathon: (oh, *nod*)
[12:52] Alathon: are you actually stopping?
[12:52] * Sheena shifts dark heart to warmode
[12:53] Reis: (And yes, now there are three Sheenas and two Reises, the illusions working to confuse anyone watching)
[12:53] Alathon: cuz you're gonna overrun them in about 6 seconds if you don't
[12:53] Alathon: *nod*
[12:53] Sheena: stopping no, we changed corse
[12:53] Alathon: going up, rightg?
[12:53] Sheena: and to navada more
[12:53] Alathon: they're in front of you whichever way you were going, but you can certainly change courses
[12:54] Reis: "My dogfight abilities will be minimal if I go for full speed, senpai. Should we attempt to overrun, or fight through?"
[12:54] Sheena: "How fast can you hit?"
[12:55] * Reis frowns. "It's my defensive abilities primarily. Hitting, I can do all right at full speed."
[12:55] Sheena: (Whats your full speed)
[12:55] Sheena: (that was the question)
[12:56] Alathon: The greyface mages look to be just trying to keep up.. the man in blue and white is gesturing, and something glows around him, then fades.
[12:56] Sheena: "I asked you what's your full speed damn it!"
[12:56] Reis: "Full speed in CQC mode is 50 miles per hour. Full speed in this mode is 100."
[12:56] Alathon: (heh, you asked literally something else ;p ))
[12:57] Alathon: (wait.. you're going 100 mph, not five hundred?)
[12:57] Reis: (Ah, doh)
[12:57] Sheena: (1oo? you changed to 500)
[12:58] Alathon: (okay.. you dropped the magic for flight +2 and heightened vision 2, into one rank of flight, if I recall
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[12:58] Reis: <Reis> (Edit that to 100 and 500 :P )
[12:58] Reis: <Reis> (That was my error ^^; )
[12:58] Reis: * Reis frowns. "They're having trouble keeping up... Blow past and duel the human if he can keep up?"
[12:58] Reis: <Alathon> (okay.. you dropped the magic for flight +2 and heightened vision 2, into one rank of flight, if I recall
[12:58] Reis: * Disconnected
[12:58] Reis: (Bah)
[12:58] Sheena: "Dark heart, what would happen if we beached the sound barrier about 10feet away from that group?"
[12:58] Reis: (Half the magic)
[12:58] Reis: (I don't have the Flight +2, but I kept the Heightened Vision)
[12:59] Reis: (Also scrapped the Cosmetic Change)
[12:59] Alathon: Dark Heart: "xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx x xxxx xxxx, xxx xx xx x xxxxxxxxx xx xx"
[12:59] * Reis pauses. "Senpai... I would _not_ be able to keep up with you at that full pace."
[13:01] Reis: "500 miles per hour is my limit at present. We can likely escape the greys with that speed, however, the human I'm not certain of."
[13:02] Sheena: "Damn, ok lets head this way. Don't stop if they atttack just open fire and keep flying"
[13:02] Reis: "If nothing else it allows us to string them out."
[13:02] * Reis nods and focuses on speed.
[13:02] Alathon: alright then
[13:02] Alathon: init
[13:02] Sheena: "Dark heart, protection
[13:02] Sheena: doh
[13:02] Alathon: at the rate you're going, you'll blow by them damned fast
[13:03] Reis: roll 1d20+18
[13:03] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{20}
[13:03] Reis: (Yeah, AND they might not even know who to shoot at ;) )
[13:03] Reis: (Illusions are such fun ^_^ )
[13:03] Sheena: Roll 1d20+2
[13:03] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+2 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{3}
[13:03] Yarrow: (What's Reis's range with those things, btw?)
[13:03] Alathon: roll 3#1d20+4 greyface magi
[13:03] Sheena: (dice hate9
[13:03] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3#1d20+4 greyface magi --> [ 1d20=4 ]{8}, [ 1d20=18 ]{22}, [ 1d20=10 ]{14}
[13:04] Reis: (I dunno, there's no explicit rule on it. I think it's theoretically infinite, but the further away it is, the harder it is to know how it's supposed to be controlled)
[13:04] Alathon: roll 1d20+9 human mage
[13:04] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+9 human mage --> [ 1d20=10 ]{19}
[13:04] Reis: (Of course, GM prerogative)
[13:04] Sheena: "Keep to long range reis, we got the lead there"
[13:04] Alathon: (you need line of sight, for one)
[13:04] Yarrow: (*pulls Ala-bot's mask off to reveal Fate.)
[13:04] Reis: (Yep, to see just WTF to do with it :P )
[13:05] Reis: "I'd have to stop for full-sniper capacity. Binds and ribbons are my repertoire for fast-paced combat."
[13:05] Alathon: Fight order: Greyface #1, Reis, Human mage, Greyface #2, Greyface #3, Sheena
[13:06] Alathon: As you approach, the human mage slows down.
[13:06] Alathon: As a note.. at the speed you're going, you'll be in range for this round only
[13:07] Reis: "Hm. Perhaps a cooperative attack on the human, senpai?"
[13:07] Reis: (Yup, that's fair enough)
[13:07] Sheena: "Thoes Ribbons eh?"
[13:07] * Reis nods.
[13:07] Sheena: "I wouldnt mind you shooting off some of that uniform"
[13:07] Alathon: The first greyface gestures, and hurls a gleaming red-white seed of flame toward the lot of you. It, unsurprisingly, explodes.
[13:07] Alathon: roll 10d6
[13:07] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=31 ]{31}
[13:07] Sheena: (his got some good range...)
[13:07] Alathon: reflex, DC 17 for half
[13:08] Sheena: (considering our speed? +4 bonus)
[13:08] Reis: roll 1d20+24
[13:08] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+24 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{31}
[13:08] Alathon: (hm)
[13:08] Sheena: Roll 1d20+15
[13:08] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{35}
[13:08] Alathon: (irrelevant either way)
[13:08] Alathon: (forgot, you put up an area force field didn't you)
[13:08] Sheena: (yes)
[13:09] Alathon: The fireball explodes, but the flames slide off it (down one rank)
[13:09] Alathon: Reis is up
[13:09] Reis: (And yeah, Sheens, for a level ten mage you get like half a mile of range)
[13:09] Sheena: (hmm, *puts on some topgun*)
[13:09] Reis: "Cooperative attack, or individual?"
[13:10] Sheena: "Targets the human, and don't stop"
[13:10] Reis: (Uh... asking if we should wait for Combination Attack or just shoot him now :P )
[13:10] Sheena: (dont we have to stop for that?)
[13:11] Reis: (Not so far as I know)
[13:11] Reis: (Just have to stop if we're using a Static attack)
[13:11] Reis: (Though, Al's the boss on that)
[13:11] Sheena: (we all most killed out selfs standing still, not sure about at 500 ish)
[13:11] Yarrow: (That's what DR is for. :) )
[13:11] Alathon: You do not have to slow down to make a combo attack
[13:12] Alathon: moving at this speed, there'll be a -8 penalty to accuracy on any targeted attack
[13:12] Alathon: and if you wanna keep moving, no flurries
[13:12] Reis: (Say that then :P )
[13:12] Reis: (Yup, that's not a problem on my end)
[13:12] Sheena: (not for sheena, Would that count for reis as well?)
[13:12] Reis: (I's got AUTOFIRE! :P )
[13:12] Alathon: (but the lowest roll is used)
[13:12] Alathon: (remember)
[13:12] Alathon: (only adds the advantages BOTH attacks have)
[13:13] Alathon: (you'd need two autofire attacks, to do an autofire combo attack)
[13:13] Reis: (Awwww.)
[13:13] Reis: (Okay then)
[13:13] * Reis nods. "Right... engaging individually. Alt Forst!"
[13:13] * Reis points her sword at the human dude.
[13:13] Yarrow: (Besides, do you really want the mage to go before either of you do?)
[13:13] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[13:13] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{36}
[13:13] Reis: (Wow, that roll sucked)
[13:14] Alathon: roll 1d20+26 dodge
[13:14] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+26 dodge --> [ 1d20=6 ]{32}
[13:14] Alathon: You catch him regardless.
[13:14] Alathon: He's wrapped in roots that come out of nowhere..
[13:14] Alathon: roll 1d20+18 concentration
[13:14] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+18 concentration --> [ 1d20=11 ]{29}
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[13:15] Reis: <Alathon> roll 1d20+26 dodge
[13:15] Reis: <Ala-bot> Alathon rolled 1d20+26 dodge --> [ 1d20=6 ]{32}
[13:15] Reis: <Alathon> You catch him regardless.
[13:15] Reis: <Alathon> He's wrapped in roots that come out of nowhere..
[13:15] Reis: * Disconnected
[13:15] Reis: (Wow, the news was so good it peered me)
[13:15] Alathon: He keeps casting.. a bright green ring appears beneath him, spinning, inscribed with runes of some sort... three rings appear around him in midair, spinning, within them balls of brightly glowing green energy.
[13:15] Alathon: PM'd the lines
[13:15] * Reis frowns. "Senpai... isn't that your symbol?"
[13:16] Alathon: After a couple seconds, they launch out, spinning together, trailing a braid of green glowiness.. and explode just short of the lot of you
[13:16] Reis: (Well, we duked it out with a Velkan, and now a Midchildan...)
[13:16] Alathon: roll 3#4d8+10
[13:16] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3#4d8+10 --> [ 4d8=9 ]{19}, [ 4d8=20 ]{30}, [ 4d8=19 ]{29}
[13:16] Reis: (Oh yes, Al. Question)
[13:16] Alathon: (yeah?)
[13:16] Reis: (How much EP recharge time have we had?)
[13:17] Alathon: (practically none)
[13:17] Alathon: (half an hour)
[13:17] Alathon: (so.. half your regen)
[13:17] Sheena: Roll 1d20+16 arcan, Wtf was that!
[13:17] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+16 arcan, Wtf was that! --> [ 1d20=20 ]{36}
[13:17] Reis: (Gotcha)
[13:17] Sheena: (NOOOOO)
[13:17] Reis: (Wow, you know WTF was that)
[13:17] Sheena: (dont use my cirts on that damn you dice!)
[13:17] Yarrow: (Oh, look. There was Sheena's 20 for the session!)
[13:17] Reis: (Session? Dontcha mean campaign?)
[13:17] Alathon: DC 22 reflex for half
[13:17] Alathon: 3x
[13:18] Alathon: well
[13:18] Alathon: 2x
[13:18] Alathon: thef irst oen just blows away the next rank of hte force fiedl
[13:18] Reis: roll 2#1d20+24
[13:18] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 2#1d20+24 --> [ 1d20=10 ]{34}, [ 1d20=4 ]{28}
[13:18] Sheena: we still got personal shelds up to..
[13:18] Sheena: Roll 1d20+16
[13:18] Sheena: Roll 1d20+16
[13:18] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{30}
[13:18] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{19}
[13:18] Sheena: (well had)
[13:19] * Reis is still in good shape, frowning. "Should've shot at his things..."
[13:19] Reis: roll 1d20+6+8 Spot the device
[13:19] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+6+8 Spot the device --> [ 1d20=3 ]{17}
[13:19] Reis: (Or, spot something that COULD be it...)
[13:19] Alathon: (er, you had one rank of force field, right?)
[13:19] Reis: (Wow, same roll for BOTH Spot attempts)
[13:19] Alathon: (in war mode)
[13:20] Sheena: (yes)
[13:20] Sheena: (armor to)
[13:20] Alathon: (that went down from the first fireball)
[13:20] Alathon: anyways
[13:20] Alathon: one more rreflex save
[13:20] Alathon: since all three hit
[13:20] Reis: roll 1d20+24
[13:20] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+24 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{26}
[13:20] Sheena: (no.. first one took down the protection?)
[13:20] Reis: (Whee, one more HP damage)
[13:20] Reis: (Armour rocks)
[13:21] Sheena: Roll 1d20+16
[13:21] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{18}
[13:21] Sheena: (al your loseing track of sheilds)
[13:21] Alathon: (ooohh)
[13:21] Alathon: (okay)
[13:21] Alathon: (you had one rank of area
[13:21] Alathon: (and 3 ranks of personal shield)
[13:21] Reis: (Ah, so Sheens is perfectly fine anyway :P )
[13:21] Reis: (But Reis takes 'em all?)
[13:21] Alathon: (sheena loses the rest of her Protection but takes zero damage
[13:22] Reis: (And Reis takes like 13 damage.)
[13:22] Alathon: Reis takes 9, 15, and 15 damage, before armor
[13:22] Alathon: (CT armor does not apply, this isn't fire)
[13:22] Reis: (Awww.)
[13:22] Reis: (27 damage)
[13:22] * Reis is STILL good to go. :P
[13:23] Alathon: Greyface number two throws another fireball at the lot of you.
[13:23] Alathon: roll 10d6
[13:23] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=24 ]{24}
[13:23] Alathon: DC 17 reflex for half
[13:23] Reis: roll 1d20+24
[13:23] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+24 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{41}
[13:23] Alathon: ((heh, that's a piss poor fireball))
[13:23] Sheena: Roll 1d20+16
[13:23] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{17}
[13:23] * Reis ducks aside and barely feels it.
[13:23] Alathon: (.. and sheena eats it face first ;p ))
[13:23] Alathon: 12 damage pre-armor to Reis
[13:23] Alathon: 24 damage pre-armor to Sheena
[13:23] Reis: (And of course this IS fire, so CT armour counts :P )
[13:24] * Sheena finds out swatting the annoying fireballs is a bad idea
[13:24] Alathon: Greyface number 3 throws up a wall of force in front of the flying Reises
[13:24] Sheena: "Fucking bitchs!
[13:24] Alathon: roll 10d6
[13:24] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=38 ]{38}
[13:24] Sheena: "Down!"
[13:24] Reis: (Both of us? Owie)
[13:24] Reis: (What exactly does that do?)
[13:24] Reis: (Is it a wall?)
[13:24] Alathon: you slam into it at 500 mph
[13:24] Reis: (Ie, that'll stop us from running?)
[13:24] Reis: (Bah. Fuckers)
[13:24] Alathon: you can go around it, it's a plane of force
[13:24] Sheena: (Oh come on, reflex save)
[13:25] Alathon: adn you can
[13:25] Alathon: yes
[13:25] Reis: roll 1d20+24 Ref
[13:25] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+24 Ref --> [ 1d20=7 ]{31}
[13:25] Alathon: you can reflex save for half, DC 19
[13:25] Alathon: so, 17 pre-armor damage
[13:25] Alathon: you glance off it, but you're stopped
[13:25] Alathon: Sheena goes zooming by
[13:25] Reis: (CT counts?)
[13:25] Reis: (Sheens's turn now :P )
[13:25] Alathon: (against that, no.. against the fireballs yes )
[13:26] Alathon: and yeah, Sheena is up
[13:26] Sheena: (eh? Ct armor would work on that if it works on gettin shot)
[13:26] Alathon: you just saw Reis get slammed.. you've got your attack round, after that you'll have to decide whether to stop, keep going, etc
[13:26] Alathon: (it's essentially falling damage, her entire body hits it.. the CT armor protects her about as much as a Kevlar vest protects against being defenestrated)
[13:27] * Sheena stop? Don't be silly, Sheena cranks it up and around in a split S and open fire on the mage with her own dark Midchildan tech
[13:27] Sheena: "Axel Shooter!"
[13:28] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30
[13:28] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{44}
[13:28] Sheena: Roll 1d20+26
[13:28] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+26 --> [ 1d20=5 ]{31}
[13:28] Sheena: Roll 1d20+22
[13:28] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+22 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{42}
[13:28] Alathon: (.. if you're moving, you get one shot)
[13:28] Alathon: (no flurries on the fly)
[13:28] Sheena: (What? Why not?)
[13:29] Alathon: (uh, because you can't make a full attack and still move in a round?)
[13:29] Reis: (I think that kinda counts as 'stopping the escape', but... :P )
[13:30] Sheena: (fine, I guess i stop as i spin around)
[13:30] Sheena: "Get moving reis!"
[13:31] Sheena: (ther all at the mida mage)
[13:31] Reis: (Wait, he's bound anyway.)
[13:31] Alathon: roll 1d20+24 dodge
[13:31] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+24 dodge --> [ 1d20=5 ]{29}
[13:31] Alathon: (er
[13:31] Sheena: (oh? but he got that attack of)
[13:32] Alathon: (one sec, lets see if he can even dodge
[13:32] Reis: (Yeah, concentration check to do it)
[13:32] Alathon: okay, he can dodge, but no dex
[13:32] Reis: (Besides, we'll leave him behind in three seconds)
[13:32] Alathon: so.. that's at a minus 5
[13:32] Yarrow: ("A trapped character has restricted movement and attacks physically at a -4 penalty, cannot defend (ignore Dexterity bonuses for AC), and cannot perform actions that require complex gestures.")
[13:32] Alathon: roll 1d20+17
[13:32] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+17 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{18}
[13:32] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[13:32] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{26}
[13:32] Reis: (Nyahahahahahahah!)
[13:33] Alathon: all three hit, roll damage
[13:33] Yarrow: (Including one crit. :) )
[13:34] Sheena: Roll 2#6d8+4
[13:34] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 2#6d8+4 --> [ 6d8=26 ]{30}, [ 6d8=40 ]{44}
[13:34] Sheena: Roll 12d8+4
[13:34] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 12d8+4 --> [ 12d8=42 ]{46}
[13:34] Sheena: (Thoes are FP as well)
[13:34] Yarrow: (And I suppose I should go get lunch and do laundry... afk)
[13:34] Alathon: Yup
[13:35] Alathon: the first two slam into his body solidly; the third gets him right in the kisser
[13:35] Reis: (Schweeeet)
[13:35] Alathon: All three detonate with momentarily bright magenta explosions
[13:35] Alathon: As the brightness fades, you can see that he's unharmed.. but that the last vestiges of a personal force field have flickered and failed.
[13:36] Sheena: (how much freaking FP was that!)
[13:36] Sheena: (thats insane!)
[13:36] Alathon: (six ranks)
[13:36] Reis: (Owie... Really should've shot at the Greyfaces, eh? :P )
[13:36] Sheena: (crips)
[13:36] Alathon: end of round, top of the order
[13:36] Reis: (And yeah, that was fragging nutso. Ah well, he IS a Midchildan)
[13:36] Reis: (And Al, did I see anything moderately Devicelike on him?)
[13:36] Alathon: roll 1d20+8-8+4
[13:36] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+8-8+4 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{20}
[13:37] Alathon: Yes, he has a short staff with what looks like an electric blue bug zapper on top
[13:37] Reis: (... Doh. You mentioned that at the START...)
[13:37] Alathon: alright
[13:37] Alathon: here's how things stand
[13:38] Alathon: the hostiles are spread out in a rough square, around thirty feet from each other
[13:38] Alathon: Reis is flat up against a wall of force a bit above and to the northwest of them
[13:38] Alathon: the wall of force is past her to the northwest
[13:38] Alathon: Sheena did a slam stop and is...
[13:38] Alathon: wel, where do you wanna be?
[13:38] Reis: (Probably a little past me)
[13:39] Alathon: both of sheena's forcefields are down this round
[13:39] Alathon: the area FF willc ome up at the start of next round
[13:40] Sheena: Sheena would be a bit past Reis, she flips around and opened fire.
[13:40] Alathon: There are four sheena's and three reises total, I believe
[13:40] Reis: (Something around that)
[13:40] Sheena: "Move Reis! Don't wait for me!"
[13:41] Alathon: The first greyface managed to corectly identify which sheena was the real one
[13:41] Alathon: and lightning bolts her
[13:41] Alathon: roll 10d6 reflex 17 for half
[13:41] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 reflex 17 for half --> [ 10d6=32 ]{32}
[13:41] Reis: (In one turn, we'll pretty much TOTALLY outpace their range...)
[13:41] Reis: (Hm)
[13:41] Alathon: A bright blue-white streak of lightning connents them, going through Sheena
[13:42] Sheena: (hmm, can't smash it back?)
[13:42] Sheena: Roll 1d20+12
[13:42] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+12 --> [ 1d20=10 ]{22}
[13:42] Alathon: er
[13:42] Reis: (The bums keep using AoEs :P )
[13:42] Alathon: it's not an aimed attack
[13:42] Sheena: (funny)
[13:42] Sheena: (it sure as hell hit like ones)
[13:43] Alathon: normal aimed attacks don't have reflex saves for half damage :)
[13:43] Alathon: anyways
[13:43] Alathon: 16 pre armor damage
[13:43] Alathon: and, Reis is up
[13:43] * Reis frowns. "Somewhat injured, switching to heavier engagement levels. Senpai, get closer to me and we'll make our break TOGETHER!"
[13:44] * Reis shifts Swordbreaker, and ducks around to the other side of the forcewall. Use their own weapon for cover :P
[13:44] Alathon: *nod*
[13:44] Sheena: "I said move damn it!'
[13:45] Alathon: the human mage is up.. and takes aim at Sheena; this time, instead of glowing green balls, it's glowing green daggers.
[13:45] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[13:45] Alathon: roll 1d20+18 concentration
[13:45] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+18 concentration --> [ 1d20=18 ]{36}
[13:45] *** Reis has joined #crystaltokyo.
[13:45] Reis: <Alathon> *nod*
[13:45] Reis: <Sheena> "I said move damn it!'
[13:45] Reis: <Reis> (If I make more distance past the wall, will that give them a shot at me?)
[13:45] Reis: <Reis> (Or should I cling to it for cover?)
[13:45] Reis: * Disconnected
[13:45] Alathon: roll 1d20+28
[13:45] Reis: "Get behind my cover senpai! I am NOT leaving you alone!"
[13:45] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+28 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{29}
[13:45] Alathon: roll 1d20+23
[13:45] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+23 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{24}
[13:45] Reis: (What'd I miss?)
[13:46] Alathon: ...
[13:46] Alathon: not much apparently ;p
[13:46] Reis: (... Wow. Two critfails in a ROW?)
[13:46] Alathon: well
[13:46] Sheena: (to crit fails?)
[13:46] Alathon: the second one doesn't happen
[13:46] Reis: (But what DID happen?)
[13:46] Alathon: since the flurry fizzles with that first fail
[13:46] Reis: (Or... attempt to happen)
[13:46] Alathon: but the first one sure does
[13:46] Alathon: one of the roots he was straining at happens to loosen just a little, skewing his aim to the side
[13:47] Reis: (Ah, humey made his concentration check and shot at... something)
[13:47] Alathon: roll 1d20+11
[13:47] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+11 --> [ 1d20=12 ]{23}
[13:47] Reis: (Who was he aiming at? Me?)
[13:47] Alathon: and nails one of the greyfaces, who was too slow to get outta the way
[13:47] Reis: (Sheens?)
[13:47] Alathon: Sheena
[13:47] Reis: (Gotcha)
[13:47] Sheena: "Im faster then you!"
[13:48] Alathon: roll 5d8+10
[13:48] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 5d8+10 --> [ 5d8=25 ]{35}
[13:48] Alathon: Greyface #3 gets hurt pretty badly.
[13:49] Sheena: (hey al, did Sheena fuku get the OK or not?)
[13:49] Reis: "I'm already injured just after that first exchange! It'll be almost as bad for you senpai! In a few seconds we'll be out of their range, but I am NOT leaving you to get shot at alone! Get behind my cover, the BOTH of us are faster even at 20% speed!"
[13:49] Alathon: (yes, it did)
[13:50] Alathon: Greyface #2 flies down a bit, and casts something.. he glows brightly for a moment, but it vanishes.
[13:50] * Sheena snorts
[13:50] Sheena: "Fine then"
[13:50] Alathon: Greyface number three turns to the human and spits something foul at him in abyssal, before casting something at Sheena.
[13:51] Alathon: Will save, DC 18, Sheena
[13:52] Sheena: (not this again...)
[13:52] Reis: (Oh yay...)
[13:52] Sheena: Roll 1d20+14
[13:52] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+14 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{21}
[13:53] Sheena: "XXXXX xxx xXXXX"
[13:53] Alathon: Sheena is up
[13:53] * Reis gestures Sheena to get closer.
[13:54] Sheena: (ries didnt get to go?)
[13:54] Alathon: Reis did a staff switch, and moved behind the wall of force
[13:54] Reis: (Had to use an action to form shift)
[13:56] * Sheena brings her staff above her head Dark Heart: Barrier Jack and sheena dissapears in a wave of darkness before reforming in her new armor.
[13:56] * Sheena then moves over to the wall as well
[13:56] Alathon: which side? theirs, or reises?
[13:57] Sheena: Reises
[13:57] Sheena: "Well, how do i look?"
[13:58] * Reis blinks and aaaaaaaalmost chokes. Good thing she's very very focused right now.
[13:58] * Reis nods, smirking. "Great, senpai."
[13:59] Reis: (So, new round ^_^ )
[13:59] Sheena: "Lets blow the shit out of every thing, how about it?"
[14:00] * Reis licks her lips. "We can at least get started. We should be able to _ludicrously_ outpace them once we start running."
[14:00] Alathon: (if they don't just slam you with another wall of force ;p)
[14:00] Reis: (Yeah, that's the reason why I'm leaning towards 'Fuck this, kill 'em all')
[14:01] Reis: (But hey, if they wanna keep giving me cover... :P )
[14:01] Sheena: "Don't hold back reis, Remember your cleared for your full power now"
[14:01] Alathon: anyways
[14:01] Alathon: top of the order
[14:01] Alathon: Greyface #1 casts something, shimmers briefly, and is done
[14:01] Alathon: Ries, you're up
[14:01] * Reis nods, chuckling slightly. "Oh, don't worry senpai..."
[14:02] Reis: (Hm. Are all of them within a 80-foot diameter sphere?)
[14:02] Alathon: um
[14:02] Alathon: diameter? uh... lemme do the math
[14:02] Alathon: yes
[14:03] Alathon: just barely, a couple of them are moving down for better angles on you
[14:03] * Reis peeks out from behind cover and points Swordbreaker. "Quellefrost."
[14:03] Alathon: but they didn't move far enough to be outside that area
[14:03] Reis: roll 1d20+30 AoE baby!
[14:03] Sheena: (what magic am i seeing on them can i tell or roll for it?)
[14:03] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 AoE baby! --> [ 1d20=14 ]{44}
[14:04] Alathon: (right now it's really kinda hard to tell, the magic from their protective spells, and the wall of magical force you're looking through, make any sort of serious assessment impossible)
[14:04] Alathon: alright
[14:04] Alathon: roll 1d20+21 human
[14:04] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+21 human --> [ 1d20=7 ]{28}
[14:04] Alathon: roll 3#1d20+11 greyfaces
[14:04] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3#1d20+11 greyfaces --> [ 1d20=3 ]{14}, [ 1d20=6 ]{17}, [ 1d20=20 ]{31}
[14:04] Alathon: One of them dodges the entire.. damned.. thing
[14:04] Reis: roll 6d8
[14:04] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 6d8 --> [ 6d8=28 ]{28}
[14:04] Alathon: (wait, this is the AE isn't it)
[14:05] Reis: (Yuppers)
[14:05] Alathon: (you know)
[14:05] Alathon: (nm)
[14:05] Alathon: (discuss after game)
[14:05] Reis: (Hm. All right)
[14:05] Sheena: (We get that often)
[14:05] Reis: (Just waiting for the next round and Enduring :P )
[14:05] Alathon: (wait)
[14:05] Alathon: (there's no to-hit roll.. it's a friggin AE)
[14:06] Alathon: (you just hit them)
[14:06] Alathon: (and they save for half)
[14:06] Alathon: (so
[14:06] Reis: (Ah, gotcha. I thought I should roll, but, okey doke)
[14:06] Alathon: (they all get hit)
[14:06] Reis: (Even the one that critted? Rogeroh)
[14:06] Sheena: (do we ever have a casting level?)
[14:06] Alathon: (your casting level is, functionally, your character level)
[14:06] Alathon: (for purposes of antimagic or dispelling)
[14:07] Alathon: (as magical girls anyways)
[14:07] Reis: (Gotcha)
[14:07] Alathon: roll 1d20+13 human mage reflex
[14:07] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+13 human mage reflex --> [ 1d20=20 ]{33}
[14:07] Reis: (... Wow)
[14:07] Alathon: ((btw, the ..
[14:07] Alathon: ((haha))
[14:07] Alathon: ((anyways
[14:07] Alathon: ((DC is 10+8*2 = 26 for half))
[14:08] Alathon: roll 3#1d20+7
[14:08] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3#1d20+7 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{13}, [ 1d20=7 ]{14}, [ 1d20=6 ]{13}
[14:08] Reis: (Ah well, he's bound, not too much of an issue especially since he's probably direct-fire)
[14:08] Reis: (Nyahahahahaha! Eat it!)
[14:08] Alathon: the human is injured slightly, the rest.. not so slightly
[14:08] Alathon: well
[14:08] Alathon: actually
[14:08] * Reis just waits for their next round of pain as the shimmery stuffs continue to float in the air.
[14:08] Alathon: #1 and #2 aren't that bad, #3 is on deaths' door
[14:09] Alathon: (correction
[14:09] * Reis will open the door ^_^
[14:09] Alathon: #3 is dead
[14:09] Alathon: dying anyways
[14:09] Alathon: he's just sorta spinning in midair now
[14:09] * Reis grins and shifts her aim.
[14:09] Reis: (My turn's done)
[14:10] Alathon: The human mage responds with his AE spell
[14:10] Alathon: At this point, SHeena's group FF is up, the other one isn't
[14:10] Alathon: roll 1d20+16 concentration
[14:10] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+16 concentration --> [ 1d20=13 ]{29}
[14:10] Reis: (My shields are up too)
[14:10] Reis: (But won't it risk slamming into the forcewall first?)
[14:11] Alathon: He launches three bright bolts of green light below the forcefield, and just past it, where they explode
[14:11] Reis: (Bah. Humbug)
[14:11] Alathon: roll 3#4d8+10
[14:11] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3#4d8+10 --> [ 4d8=9 ]{19}, [ 4d8=18 ]{28}, [ 4d8=26 ]{36}
[14:11] Reis: (Ah well, against three area forcewalls, they all sputter)
[14:11] Alathon: All three waste their fury on Reis' and Sheena's forcefields.
[14:11] Alathon: Zero damage, all shields down
[14:11] Alathon: Human, "xxxxxxxx!"
[14:11] * Sheena flaps the tiny golds wings a bit
[14:12] * Reis raises an eyebrow. "Better luck next time?"
[14:13] Alathon: Greyface #2 casts a spell, and a bright blue oval of light slightly taller than it slides over it, and it vanishes
[14:13] Alathon: spot checks
[14:13] Reis: roll 1d20+6+8
[14:13] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+6+8 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{20}
[14:13] Sheena: Roll 1d20+2 magical stop check?
[14:13] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+2 magical stop check? --> [ 1d20=19 ]{21}
[14:13] Sheena: (holy shit)
[14:13] Reis: (... Why... can... I not... SEE... ANYTHING....)
[14:13] Alathon: Both of you have the sense to look around.. and up.
[14:13] Alathon: He's above you now, a bit less than fifty feet by your best guess.
[14:13] Alathon: Sheena is up
[14:14] * Reis raises an eyebrow. "Hi. Bye."
[14:15] * Sheena notices the gimp above but keeps her orignal target
[14:15] Sheena: (whats the mod to target that guys device arm? Like blow his sholder off)
[14:15] Alathon: um
[14:16] Sheena: (-4? _8?)
[14:16] Reis: (-4 to arms, right?)
[14:16] Alathon: -8, but you wouldn't be guaranteed a idsarm regardless
[14:16] Alathon: I Mean
[14:16] Alathon: I hit doesn't blow a hole through his chest ;p
[14:16] Reis: (Hm? Isn't it -4 to hit the _device_? Why a -8 to hitting anywhere on the whole arm?)
[14:17] Sheena: "Load cartrage!"
[14:17] Alathon: (if you wanna try a disarm at range, it's -8 period)
[14:17] Reis: (All righty)
[14:17] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 Axel shooter!
[14:17] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 Axel shooter! --> [ 1d20=5 ]{35}
[14:17] Sheena: Roll 1d20+26 Axel shooter!
[14:17] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+26 Axel shooter! --> [ 1d20=3 ]{29}
[14:17] Reis: (Wow, good thing he can't dodge for shit)
[14:17] Sheena: Roll 1d20+22 Axel shooter!
[14:17] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+22 Axel shooter! --> [ 1d20=17 ]{39}
[14:17] Alathon: roll 1d20+21
[14:17] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+21 --> [ 1d20=19 ]{40}
[14:17] Alathon: roll 1d20+19
[14:17] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+19 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{33}
[14:17] Alathon: roll 1d20+17
[14:17] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+17 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{31}
[14:18] Sheena: (oh really?
[14:18] Alathon: He twists and turns and evades the first two, but the third one slams him.
[14:18] Alathon: roll 1d20+1
[14:18] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+1 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{7}
[14:18] Alathon: and he loses his staff, it goes spinning off.
[14:18] Alathon: Human, "xxxxxxxxxxx!"
[14:18] Sheena: Roll 10d8+4
[14:18] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[14:18] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 10d8+4 --> [ 10d8=46 ]{50}
[14:19] *** Reis has joined #crystaltokyo.
[14:19] Reis: Fuck you with something spiked!
[14:19] Reis: <Alathon> He twists and turns and evades the first two, but the third one slams him.
[14:19] Reis: <Alathon> roll 1d20+1
[14:19] Reis: <Ala-bot> Alathon rolled 1d20+1 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{7}
[14:19] Reis: <Alathon> and he loses his staff, it goes spinning off.
[14:19] Reis: <Alathon> Human, "xxxxxxxxxxx!"
[14:19] Reis: * Disconnected
[14:19] Reis: (What'd I miss?)
[14:19] * Sheena dark heart caps off a couple shells as it unloads
[14:19] Alathon: And he does, indeed, get slammed
[14:20] Alathon: He's obviously injured, and smoking a little, but still going strong.
[14:20] Reis: (If lacking a device ^_^ )
[14:21] Alathon: anyways
[14:21] Alathon: end of round, top of the order
[14:21] Alathon: Two bright balls of force circle back towards the human mage for another pass.
[14:22] Alathon: Greyface #1 does something about this, and fireballs them
[14:22] Alathon: roll 10d6
[14:22] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=32 ]{32}
[14:22] Alathon: The explosion is... fucking bright as hell, a mix of bright magenta and deep red flames
[14:22] Sheena: (i forgot what there HP is, but it sure as hell isnt 32)
[14:22] Reis: (Huh. He actually blew 'em, too, didn't he?)
[14:22] Alathon: (I think it's 4 * spec attack rank))
[14:22] Alathon: (so, 24))
[14:23] Alathon: Reis is up
[14:23] Sheena: "These guys have all ways had impressive team work, worth the price to hire em i guess"
[14:23] Reis: roll 6d8 Enduring suckas!
[14:23] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 6d8 Enduring suckas! --> [ 6d8=37 ]{37}
[14:23] Alathon: roll 1d20+13 reflex
[14:23] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+13 reflex --> [ 1d20=10 ]{23}
[14:23] Alathon: roll 2#1d20+7
[14:23] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#1d20+7 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{10}, [ 1d20=14 ]{21}
[14:23] Reis: (So how are #1 and the human now?)
[14:23] Alathon: none of them save
[14:24] Reis: (And is #3... deadER?)
[14:24] Alathon: #1 is hurting, #2 is getting to hurting
[14:24] Alathon: #3 is dripping blood into the clouds.
[14:24] Alathon: er
[14:24] Reis: (Hm? Didn't #2 teleport over this way?)
[14:24] Alathon: yeah, I meant the human
[14:24] Alathon: ;p
[14:24] Reis: (I thought he wouldn't get shot at :P )
[14:24] * Reis pulls herself the rest of the way behind cover, smiles at greyface #2, and works on killing him. "Furieriss."
[14:24] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[14:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=10 ]{40}
[14:24] Reis: roll 1d20+25
[14:24] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+25 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{27}
[14:25] Alathon: roll 1d20+11
[14:25] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+11 --> [ 1d20=12 ]{23}
[14:25] Alathon: roll 1d20+9
[14:25] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+9 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{10}
[14:25] Alathon: he ain't dodging shit
[14:25] Reis: roll 2#7d8 AP 1
[14:25] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 2#7d8 AP 1 --> [ 7d8=21 ]{21}, [ 7d8=28 ]{28}
[14:25] Reis: (Wow those rolls kinda sucked)
[14:25] Alathon: nonetheless, they're almost sufficient to kill it
[14:25] Reis: (Bah, darn almost)
[14:26] Alathon: at this point, having been bathed in AE for two rounds, the human mage manages to free himself
[14:26] Sheena: (i do have to wonder, what the hell these guys are doing up at 28k feet any way)
[14:26] Reis: (Probably chasing us :P)
[14:26] Alathon: (the logical conclusion would be, looking for you.. I Mean, wtf else is there to do?))
[14:26] Sheena: (they where ahead of us)
[14:26] Reis: (They probably teleported after us)
[14:26] Reis: (That'd be the green flashes. My guess at least)
[14:27] Alathon: He looks around at his greyfaces, casts a spell with a bright green disk spinning under his feet.. and vanishes.
[14:27] * Reis frowns. "Pity, I was hoping to capture that one."
[14:27] Alathon: Greyface number two..
[14:27] Alathon: roll 1d20+4
[14:27] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+4 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{10}
[14:27] Alathon: wavers and vanishes.
[14:27] Alathon: Greyface #3 bleeds.
[14:27] Alathon: Sheena is up
[14:28] Sheena: "imprissive fett considering he didnt have his device"
[14:28] Alathon: You've still got one living greyface, and one dying one
[14:28] Sheena: "Hey Reis, mind cleaning up here? ill be right back"
[14:28] Reis: "Should we delay to retrieve it, by the way, senpai? Or just take prisoners and move on?"
[14:28] * Reis nods. "No problem."
[14:28] Sheena: "Im going to retrive that device"
[14:29] Reis: "Understood. I will cover you."
[14:29] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 Single shooter at lone mage
[14:29] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 Single shooter at lone mage --> [ 1d20=15 ]{45}
[14:29] Alathon: roll 1d20+11
[14:29] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+11 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{26}
[14:29] * Sheena then dives off fast where the other guys device fell
[14:29] Alathon: You hit
[14:29] Sheena: Roll 8d8+4
[14:29] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 8d8+4 --> [ 8d8=33 ]{37}
[14:29] Sheena: (sorry)
[14:29] Alathon: You can see it falling towards the clouds pretty fast.. but you'll be able to catch up with it before it reaches them.
[14:30] Sheena: Roll 6d8+4
[14:30] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 --> [ 6d8=32 ]{36}
[14:30] Reis: (Heh, still a sweet roll ;) )
[14:30] Alathon: You set him spinning; dying.
[14:30] Alathon: End of round, top of the order
[14:30] * Reis blinks. "... Hm. Nothing to finish after all."
[14:30] Alathon: Nothing happens.. reis is up
[14:30] * Reis cautiously moves up to the greys and checks on their status - healing?
[14:31] Alathon: which one?
[14:31] Reis: (#1 first)
[14:31] Sheena: "Dark Heat how do i capture or seal that device?"
[14:31] Alathon: it's rather badly injured, but looks to be healing.. in fact.. it's eyelids start to flutter as you watch
[14:32] Reis: "It's surprisingly convenient when you want to capture a regenerator. Never have to worry about medical care."
[14:32] * Reis slices him up a bit.
[14:32] Alathon: Dark Heart: "xxx xxxxx, xxxx xxxx. xxxx, xxxxx."
[14:32] Reis: (Roll? I'm basically using the sword to do more damage than he heals in a turn :P )
[14:32] Alathon: er, what sword?
[14:33] Alathon: your energy blade that does 4d8 or something?
[14:33] Reis: (Swordbreaker?)
[14:33] Reis: (Or should I just use my blaster instead?)
[14:33] Alathon: oh
[14:33] Reis: (Nah, just the mundane blade for now)
[14:33] Alathon: actually, either of those would work
[14:33] Alathon: if you keep cutting him, that will keep him under
[14:33] Reis: (No point wasting EP on him unless necessary ;) )
[14:33] Reis: (Does the cutting put me ahead of his regen any?)
[14:33] Alathon: easily
[14:34] * Reis will take a spare moment once she's built up a bit of a buffer to drag him over to #3 and check on that one.
[14:35] Alathon: Sheena, you can match the falling staff's speed
[14:35] Alathon: it's no longer glowing.
[14:35] Alathon: you'll hit clouds in a round or two, so decide what to do with it.
[14:35] * Reis will stab and hurt #3 if he looks close to waking up.
[14:35] Alathon: #3 is more severely wounded
[14:35] Alathon: but also healing.
[14:36] * Sheena moves to grab it
[14:36] * Reis will make sure not to deal any death wounds, but just cut them each at regular intervals.
[14:36] Alathon: You succeed.
[14:36] Alathon: It feels like it's made of some sort of ceramic, perhaps.
[14:36] Sheena: "Xxx xxxx, xxxxx xxxxx"
[14:36] * Sheena head back to Reis after that
[14:37] Reis: (Warn me if I'm starting to get behind on wounding the both of them :P )
[14:37] Alathon: You can keep them both dying as long as you pay attention
[14:37] Alathon: The staff does not answer.
[14:37] * Reis will continue her prisoner-guarding while waiting for Sheena.
[14:37] * Sheena is fast show gets there soon
[14:38] * Reis nods to Sheena as she arrives, and converts Swordbreaker back to Artillery form. "Shall we drag them home, then, senpai?"
[14:38] Sheena: Roll 1d20+18 magic find and what it does on them
[14:38] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+18 magic find and what it does on them --> [ 1d20=16 ]{34}
[14:38] Sheena: "To risky, well take anything usefull and finsh it"
[14:38] Sheena: "It's not like we can hold them in carson any way"
[14:39] * Reis frowns. "Don't we need a prisoner? The greys have been practically an entire separate faction with their own agenda."
[14:39] Reis: "We could keep a watch and continue wounding them."
[14:40] Sheena: "From what we learned about there race its risky and could end up useless, We may be on our own for awhile if the boss is tracking down Sakura and mani"
[14:41] Sheena: "Now lets see here.."
[14:41] * Reis nods. "But, should we at least find out whether command can do anything?"
[14:42] * Sheena loots necklace and rings from one of them, wondering if its gona fall
[14:42] * Reis kinda wonders that herself.
[14:42] Sheena: "Go ahead and try to call, i belive we got a new setup in carson now"
[14:42] * Reis nods and calls in.
[14:42] Alathon: around this time, something happens.
[14:42] * Reis continues keeping her right hand free to slash the greys at appropriate intervals.
[14:43] Sheena: (fuck)
[14:43] Alathon: Both the greyfaces, almost simulteaneously, start falling
[14:43] * Reis blinks. "... Right."
[14:43] Sheena: (did sheena grab the loot?)
[14:43] Alathon: Yes
[14:43] * Reis dives, pulling one of her rings off, and attempts to put it on grey #1.
[14:43] Reis: (The featherfall one)
[14:43] * Sheena has her hands full of loot and staff, so she works it into her pack
[14:44] Sheena: "Let them go reis, even with that on we're not strong enought to drag it'
[14:44] Sheena: "Just let carson know we are incoming"
[14:44] Alathon: You can put a featherfall ring on it, but it still keeps falling
[14:44] Alathon: Just, more slowly
[14:45] Reis: (Fair enough... but, can we carry them? With 500 mph flight and average strength, there should be SOME power behind our movements)
[14:45] Reis: (Is it at a 'I won't die just from impact' level?)
[14:45] Alathon: well
[14:45] Sheena: (we dont want them, this isnta full team op, this is two girls GTFO)
[14:45] Alathon: yes, at reduced speed
[14:46] Sheena: "Damn it reis i said let them go!"
[14:47] * Reis continues on to try and catch #3. "Senpai, we're _losing_ because of lack of information! They can strike us wherever they want, whenever they want, and we don't even know why they're focusing on us! We need SOMETHING!"
[14:47] * Sheena flys down to reis and grabs her if need be
[14:47] Alathon: you'll quickly be out of shouting range
[14:47] Alathon: you can catch #3 before he reaches the clouds.
[14:48] Reis: (Str check or anything, or, success?)
[14:48] Sheena: "Now is not the time for this!"
[14:48] * Reis continues bleeding him as she rises again.
[14:49] Reis: "Senpai, we can finish them if there's any danger and just go on! But as long as we have the opportunity, we need to seize it."
[14:49] Sheena: "Your wasting time and his going to slow us down, we shoud leave NOW"
[14:49] * Reis slashes #1 again as she rises to his level.
[14:50] Reis: "Grab him and let's. We are still substantially faster than their flight speed even with that."
[14:51] * Sheena glars at ries and then blasts the piss outa 1, Or the guy she isnt holding.
[14:51] Reis: "Twelve times the speed they can achieve, senpai. If they can catch up with us, it will be via teleportation that will work either way."
[14:51] Sheena: 6d8+4
[14:51] Sheena: Roll 6d8+4
[14:51] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 --> [ 6d8=24 ]{28}
[14:51] * Reis nods, snags her featherfall ring off him, and keeps going.
[14:52] Sheena: "We don't need Two,"
[14:52] * Reis continues in the planned direction. "All right then."
[14:52] * Sheena will assist reis with her as they get moving at best speed
[14:52] * Reis slips her ring back on, and starts lugging her dude, slashing frequently.
[14:52] Alathon: He's more injured down.. maybe dead, you'd have to go look.
[14:53] Alathon: and yeah, you can get your featherfall ring back
[14:53] Sheena: "Im giving you one chance at this, if it don't pan out your in deep shit for not listing girl"
[14:53] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[14:53] Sheena: (that dont mean run off!)
[14:53] *** Reis has joined #crystaltokyo.
[14:54] Reis: * Sheena will assist reis with her as they get moving at best speed
[14:54] Reis: * Reis slips her ring back on, and starts lugging her dude, slashing frequently.
[14:54] Reis: <Reis> (That ought to be about 300 mph)
[14:54] Reis: <Alathon> He's more injured down.. maybe dead, you'd have to go look.
[14:54] Alathon: (hah))
[14:54] Reis: <Alathon> and yeah, you can get your featherfall ring back
[14:54] Reis: * Disconnected
[14:54] Reis: (What'd I miss?)
[14:54] Sheena: [16:52] <Sheena> "Im giving you one chance at this, if it don't pan out your in deep shit for not listing girl"
[14:54] Reis: (Eh, he'll probably die from the fall :P )
[14:54] * Reis nods. "Understood senpai."
[14:54] Alathon: (that's quite likely, yeah ;p )
[14:54] Alathon: (it's only like twenty thousand feet or so)
[14:54] Reis: (Yeah, just.)
[14:55] Reis: (I mean, we fall that all the time! :P )
[14:55] * Sheena soooo she flying back helping reis carrie some grey thing back she keeps cutting up
[14:55] * Sheena lets her fuku go as well back to her uniform
[14:56] Alathon: carring the burden together, you're still at half speed, but not as slow
[14:56] * Reis will pace her cutting to make sure not to make him TOO dead.
[14:56] Alathon: around this time.. the clouds to the southeast of you take on a noticeably golden tinge to them.
[14:56] Alathon: It's more or less impossible to miss.
[14:56] * Reis sighs and looks in that direction.
[14:57] Reis: roll 1d20+6+8 Spot
[14:57] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+6+8 Spot --> [ 1d20=15 ]{29}
[14:57] * Sheena pulls out her com and trys the boss, if she don't answer she tries carson offce
[14:57] Alathon: You can spot glowing golden clouds.
[14:57] Reis: (Whee!)
[14:57] Alathon: You'll get the boss.
[14:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Shit.. "
[14:57] * Reis attempts to continue on, and keeps an eye on the clouds.
[14:57] Alathon: Usagi: "I've gotten your messages."
[14:57] Alathon: Usagi: "And.. Mani's."
[14:57] Alathon: Usagi: "What's going on?"
[14:58] Sheena: "We lost mani, Then sakura and yuuno to a rushed transfer"
[14:58] Alathon: Usagi: "I.."
[14:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[14:58] Sheena: "Good new is the mission a secessis, The targets a smudge on some ladies dresses"
[14:58] Alathon: Usagi: "I take it from the background you're flying west?"
[14:58] Alathon: Usagi nods at that.
[14:58] Alathon: Usagi: "At least that's something."
[14:59] Sheena: "We're on rout to carson, should be in navada airspace now"
[14:59] * Reis enhances her sight slightly, and spreads the illusions again.
[14:59] * Reis keeps watch.
[14:59] * Reis stares. "Senpai, angels incoming!"
[15:00] Reis: "MANY!"
[15:00] Sheena: "We incountered a midchildan mage near the bouder along with Three of thoes greymages"
[15:00] Sheena: "Drop the body Reis, full speed!"
[15:00] Alathon: Usagi: "Midchildan...? Oh.. right."
[15:00] * Reis slashes his throat once more for luck and hopefully death, then makes full speed.
[15:00] * Sheena lets go as well and gets up
[15:00] Alathon: if you wanna just straight up killit, you'll succeed.
[15:01] Alathon: YOu can cut his head off, etc
[15:01] Reis: (Roger, he be dead then)
[15:01] Alathon: (you're both in forms that allow 500mph speed, correct?)
[15:01] * Reis monitors the angels. Are they keeping pace, falling behind, catching up?
[15:01] Reis: (Yep)
[15:01] Sheena: "We beat that group and i have the mages device! We're tried to bring a captive home but we now being followed by a hord of thoes angles"
[15:01] Alathon: They're lifting out of the clouds.. hundreds, now.
[15:01] Alathon: Usagi's eyes widen.
[15:01] Alathon: Usagi: "Behind you."
[15:02] Reis: (... Hm?)
[15:02] Sheena: "Don't stop Reis!"
[15:02] * Reis keeps going.
[15:02] Reis: (I'm not stopping, just looking back to see how their speed is)
[15:02] Sheena: "If it isn't to much troble we could use a hand! I can't kill that many"
[15:02] Alathon: They're losing distance while lifting up.. but most of them seem to be keeping pace
[15:03] * Sheena looks back and dont like what she can see
[15:03] * Reis frowns. "We will NEED fire support, we can't run and we can't kill them!"
[15:03] Alathon: Usagi is staring, wide-eyed ofr a moment, before she catches herself.
[15:03] Alathon: Usagi: "I.. fuck."
[15:03] Alathon: Usagi: "Fuck."
[15:03] Alathon: Usagi: "YOu can't outrun them?"
[15:03] Reis: (NEVER expected to see Sheena say such a thing?)
[15:04] Sheena: "Damn, We can't go near carson with tthem after us Reis"
[15:04] Sheena: "I can, but Reis is at top speed"
[15:04] Reis: "We are maintaining a lead, Usagi-san, but it's not widening!"
[15:04] * Reis nods. "Usagi-san, tell us where to run!"
[15:05] Sheena: "Thats insane, did they have a cloud base or something? What the hell are they all doing here"
[15:05] Alathon: Usagi: "Chasing you apparently.. never mind. Okay."
[15:05] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[15:05] * Sheena snorts
[15:05] * Reis frowns. "It's possibly they teleported or dimension-hopped in. I'm not sure what the rules are for that..."
[15:06] Alathon: Usagi sucks in a long breath, lets it out, then speaks.
[15:06] Alathon: Usagi: "Can you tell just how many there are?"
[15:06] Sheena: "We can keep this pace up all night,"
[15:06] * Sheena takes a loot back
[15:06] * Reis looks back and starts counting.
[15:06] Alathon: more than several hundred, less than a thousand.. probably?
[15:07] Sheena: Roll 1d20+14 magic targets to i see
[15:07] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+14 magic targets to i see --> [ 1d20=6 ]{20}
[15:07] Alathon: If you wanna take a while, you can get a general count
[15:07] Sheena: Dark Heart: Target count?
[15:07] Reis: (We've got time for now)
[15:07] Reis: (So I'll take a while)
[15:07] Sheena: (why not ask the compter thing)
[15:07] Sheena: (heh)
[15:07] Reis: "I... THINK less than a thousand. Getting a more accurate count..."
[15:08] Alathon: Dark Heart: "xxxxx xxxxx, xx xxxxxxx."
[15:08] * Reis keeps counting.
[15:09] Reis: "They... have to know they can't close range. Are they waiting for us to tire, or herding us into a trap...?"
[15:09] Alathon: Usagi: "They could very well be waiting for you to tire.. few enough can achieve such airspeeds, much less maintain them."
[15:09] Alathon: Usagi: "Reis, you can keep this up, correct?"
[15:10] Sheena: "We got 762 verfied targets behind us, along with 91 unknown"
[15:10] Alathon: Usagi: "I know SHeena can maintain that sort of speed indefinately."
[15:10] Reis: "No magical drain, no. If I tire, it'll be because I'm falling asleep."
[15:10] Sheena: "I don't have the ammo for that many..."
[15:10] Alathon: Usagi: "Okay."
[15:10] Alathon: Usagi: "And yes.. obviously. do not engage unles you are forced to."
[15:10] Alathon: Usagi says this slightly strained.
[15:11] Reis: "Understood Usagi-san."
[15:11] Sheena: "I don't supose we happen to have one of thoes battle ships near by in the ocean do we?"
[15:11] Alathon: Usagi looks a little surprised.
[15:11] Reis: "Perhaps the AFS riders can provide fire support?"
[15:12] Alathon: ((heh, good call))
[15:12] Alathon: Usagi: "I.. yes. Yes, we do."
[15:12] Alathon: Usagi: "Both the Soyokaze and the Yamato are on duty south of Honshu."
[15:12] *** Stel|Persona3 is now known as Potted_Peony.
[15:12] Sheen
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Session 52 - part 2

Postby Alathon » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:23 am

Session 52 - part 2


[15:12] Sheena: "Ya know what boss, Ever since that shake down cruses i been dieing to see what thoes guns can do"
[15:12] *** Potted_Peony is now known as Stelas.
[15:12] Reis: (... South of Honshu? Won't that take us... days? Well, at least it means we don't have to teleport back to CT...)
[15:13] Alathon: ((at 500 mph))
[15:13] Reis: (I actually presumed we were still over the states by now :P )
[15:13] Alathon: ((you're still over the mountains))
[15:13] Alathon: ((you'd have to cross the pacific
[15:13] Reis: (Gah.)
[15:13] Reis: (Yeah, that'll take days)
[15:13] Sheena: (at 500 mph it would take hours yes, but we can do it)
[15:13] Sheena: (it takes days on a boat going 20nots)
[15:13] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[15:13] Sheena: (not flying at 500)
[15:14] Alathon: Usagi: "There is no way in hell we can muster sufficient force in Carson to oppose upwards of a thousand inter-dim hostiles."
[15:14] Sheena: "Ya, figered that"
[15:14] Alathon: Usagi: "And for that matter, I'd rather not have such a fight over Carson.. or anywhere inhabited."
[15:14] * Reis nods. "I don't suppose the AFS can provide enough fire support either?"
[15:14] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head.
[15:15] Alathon: Usagi: "On a few hours notice? I seriously doubt it.. maybe if they got a few hundred of those lightning throwers together."
[15:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Either way, I don't see it happening in a timeframe which would ensure your survival."
[15:15] Reis: "Then... home it is, if anything. Do we have the firepower to defeat or wound that many?"
[15:15] * Reis calculates the time to CT.
[15:15] Sheena: "We got every buger on the planet after us, If needs be boss we'll splash down over the ocean so no one else gets fucked"
[15:15] Alathon: Usagi's face hardens a trifle.
[15:15] Sheena: "No ries"
[15:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes, yes we do."
[15:16] * Reis frowns. "Can Soyokaze and Yamato do sufficient damage on their own?"
[15:16] Alathon: Usagi: "Doubtful."
[15:16] Reis: (What's the distance to CT, Al?)
[15:16] * Reis frowns. "Where should we go then? Into the ocean? Towards the firepower?"
[15:16] Alathon: (roughly 7000 miles)
[15:16] Alathon: ((14 hours)
[15:17] Sheena: "lets take them over the ocea for now"
[15:17] * Sheena shifts corse
[15:17] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes."
[15:17] Alathon: Usagi: "Head southwest for now.. avoid populated areas. It would be all too easy for such a horde to lay down a little destruction on the go.. and Nevada certainly doesn't have any real means to defend itself against that calibre of threat."
[15:18] Alathon: Usagi: "I.. do you all know where Taiwan used to be?"
[15:18] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[15:18] Sheena: "Right"
[15:18] Alathon: ((knowledge, old world check, DC 15))
[15:18] *** Reis has joined #crystaltokyo.
[15:18] Reis: Fuck you with a SPOON!
[15:18] Reis: * Sheena shifts corse
[15:18] Reis: <Alathon> Usagi: "Yes."
[15:18] Reis: * Reis follows.
[15:18] Reis: <Alathon> Usagi: "Head southwest for now.. avoid populated areas. It would be all too easy for such a horde to lay down a little destruction on the go.. and Nevada certainly doesn't have any real means to defend itself against that calibre of threat."
[15:18] Reis: * Disconnected
[15:18] Sheena: Roll 1d20+3
[15:18] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+3 --> [ 1d20=5 ]{8}
[15:18] * Reis nods. "Understood."
[15:18] Reis: (What did I miss?)
[15:19] Alathon: PM'd
[15:19] Reis: roll 1d20+7 Knowledge Old World
[15:19] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+7 Knowledge Old World --> [ 1d20=5 ]{12}
[15:19] Reis: (Nada)
[15:20] * Reis frowns. "I'm sorry... I can't think of it!"
[15:20] Alathon: Usagi figures out after a couple moments that neither of you do.
[15:20] Sheena: "Damn, not aclue"
[15:20] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright.. it's just to the south of Japan.
[15:20] Alathon: Usagi: "Southwest."
[15:20] * Reis nods. "That direction, Usagi-san?"
[15:20] Alathon: Usagi: "After I disconnect, look it up on your maps, you'll find it."
[15:21] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes, once you're clear of Nevada, fly that way."
[15:21] Sheena: (Why did you shift off the battle ship idea?)
[15:21] Sheena: "Roger that,"
[15:21] Reis: (Because I think we're gonna see SERENITY own them)
[15:21] Sheena: "Will take us over 10 hours to get close"
[15:21] Reis: "Should we report in periodically?"
[15:22] Alathon: Usagi: "I'll be calling you shortly, I Need to make arrangement."
[15:22] Reis: "Understood. Good luck Usagi-san."
[15:22] Alathon: Usagi: "The short of it is this; we'll shift the Soyokaze and the Yamato south, and meet these 'angels'..."
[15:23] Alathon: She says the word with derision.
[15:23] Alathon: Usagi: '-- with as many of the Senshi as I can muster."
[15:23] * Sheena has a grim smile
[15:23] Sheena: "Understood"
[15:23] * Reis nods. "All right, Usagi-san. I look forward to it."
[15:23] Alathon: Usagi: "If it's at all possible, I'll try to get Saturn out to your location to meet you en route."
[15:24] Alathon: Usagi: "I'll call back as soon as possible; Usagi out."
[15:24] Alathon: the comm screen goes blank
[15:24] * Reis nods and looks up Taiwan.
[15:24] * Sheena pulls up the map and sits a flight plan
[15:24] Alathon: ((you'll find it on maps.google.com ;p ))
[15:25] Sheena: ( google.ct
[15:25] Alathon: I think now's a good time for a food break
[15:25] Alathon: how's 20 minutes sound?
[15:25] * Reis helps sketch the map out - through Nevada and to the ocean without meeting any known civilian settlements, then as directly across the Pacific to Taiwan as possible without annihilating any vacation spots.
[15:26] Reis: (All right, gotcha)
[15:26] Sheena: (fine with me)
[15:33] Sheena: (is back, but has food)
[15:36] Reis: (Also back, with foodz)
[15:43] Alathon: alright, good
[15:43] Alathon: lets start up in a couple minutes
[15:43] Alathon: mixing myself a drink
[15:43] Alathon: actually screw that
[15:43] Alathon: more tequila shots sound good
[15:44] Reis: (Heh. Yay, plastered GM!)
[15:45] Sheena: plastered GM and battle ship shots coming up don't sound like a good thing
[15:45] Reis: (Battleship? We're getting SENSHI, man ;) )
[15:49] Alathon: anyways
[15:49] Alathon: lets get started
[15:49] Alathon: by now, it's been a couple hours, and you're out on the open ocean
[15:49] Alathon: you've got a couple hours of ep regen as well
[15:49] Reis: (Two? Three?)
[15:49] Alathon: three
[15:50] * Reis keeps pouring it on, and monitoring the status of the angels behind her.
[15:50] Alathon: You've got roughly eleven hours left.. and the horde behind you is holding steady.
[15:50] Alathon: There are only wispy clouds at this point, and well above you.
[15:51] Alathon: The sun is lower.. not quite in your eyes, but it's getting there.
[15:52] Alathon: Usagi will have checked in with you repeatedly.. calling at several half hour intervarls, before asking that you check in every couple hours, and if anything changes.
[15:52] * Reis shields her eyes as they continue on.
[15:53] * Reis will have reported 'status unchanged, (insert new ETA)' as long as it was true.
[15:53] Alathon: around this time, you'll notice a slight fragmentation in the horde..
[15:54] Sheena: hmmm
[15:54] Alathon: whereas it's largely been moving in contiguous chunks, it's spread out some..
[15:54] * Reis keeps her eyes out to see what they're doing.
[15:54] Alathon: singletons and duos are stretching away from it to the north, south, and above.. and though it's hard to tell, perhaps some of them are closer to you as well.
[15:54] * Sheena coms the boss
[15:54] Alathon: Usagi: "Here. What is it?"
[15:55] Alathon: She looks a little stressed.
[15:55] Yarrow: (Laundry has been defeated.)
[15:55] * Reis compares the pattern of the spread, and if it'll bring them closer to any other targets.
[15:55] Alathon: (you gain 50 exp for killing the laundry)
[15:55] Sheena: "There changing formation, Spreading out and seemly trying srround us"
[15:56] Alathon: Usagi, worried: "Are they gaining?"
[15:56] Reis: "They're spreading out, Usagi-san. It's like a wall across the sky..."
[15:56] * Reis examines their speeds - are they?
[15:56] Sheena: "I can see single and pairs moving away to all sides, Ya like a huge wall fits"
[15:56] Alathon: Some of them might be.. a little. It's hard to say, against a backdrop of hundreds of glowy angels.
[15:57] * Reis frowns. "They... MIGHT be, in small numbers. The mass is remaining behind."
[15:57] Sheena: "Hmm, so we got some fast ones to deal with."
[15:57] Reis: "It's an infinitesimal gain if any at all. I will continue to monitor and calculate the actual rate of closure once it becomes clear."
[15:58] Alathon: Usagi: "WIth your current modifications, can you still make long ranged attacks?"
[15:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Or is that only in your speed form?"
[15:59] Sheena: "I can fire single shots at rage and still keep up speed"
[15:59] Sheena: "Any thing else i need to stop..."
[15:59] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
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[16:00] Reis: FUCK you with a bladed stick!
[16:00] Reis: <Alathon> Usagi: "WIth your current modifications, can you still make long ranged attacks?"
[16:00] Reis: <Alathon> Usagi: "Or is that only in your speed form?"
[16:00] Reis: <Reis> "Not exceptionally long range, Usagi-san. My four-kilometer attacks will require me to stop for a full five seconds."
[16:00] Reis: <Sheena> "I can fire single shots at rage and still keep up speed"
[16:00] Reis: <Sheena> "Any thing else i need to stop..."
[16:00] Reis: * Disconnected
[16:00] Reis: (What'd I miss?)
[16:00] Alathon: ((missed nothing))
[16:00] Alathon: Usagi: "Damn.. alright."
[16:00] Reis: (On the plus side, these Nights of the Peer are certainly doing wonders for my creativity in cursing)
[16:00] Alathon: Usagi: "If they look liike they're closing.. say.. more than a third of the way, discourage them, SHeena."
[16:01] Alathon: Usagi: "But for pity's sake don't stop!"
[16:01] Sheena: "Roger"
[16:01] * Reis nods. "Right, Usagi-san."
[16:01] Reis: "If they close within my range, I will fire binds on the move."
[16:01] Reis: "That should lose them nearly a mile even if they break instantly."
[16:02] Sheena: "Agreed"
[16:03] Alathon: Usagi: "Alright."
[16:04] Alathon: Time will pass.. another two hours, maybe.. before a single angel starts closing.
[16:04] Reis: (EP regain?)
[16:04] Alathon: ((another two hours worth))
[16:04] Alathon: ((five hours since the last fight))
[16:04] Reis: (Roger-oh)
[16:04] Alathon: (no health regain yet ;p you're not resting ;p ))
[16:04] Yarrow: (Oh, just let loose a handful of change and see how he likes running into that. :) )
[16:04] * Reis will calculate just HOW fast he's closing - what's his speed?
[16:05] Alathon: He's coming in fast.. very fast.
[16:05] Reis: (Oooooooh. Forcewall him Sheens, just like greybabe did to me!)
[16:05] Alathon: ((he'd have to come right up to you, but, that's certainly an option if he does))
[16:06] Reis: (Awwwww. Ah well, we can reserve the tactic)
[16:06] Alathon: ((keep in mind, I'm assuming your personal forcefields move with you))
[16:06] Alathon: ((er, personal and group))
[16:06] Alathon: You've got two rounds to prepare before he catches up
[16:06] Alathon: and/or attack
[16:06] Reis: (Heh. If someone gets close, full stop for a second with fields up, splatter him :P )
[16:07] Yarrow: (Would that work if they're not rated offensive?)
[16:07] Alathon: ((eh, keep in mind it's only 10d6 falling ;p ))
[16:07] * Reis monitors him, and keeps an eye on their range - moment the dude gets near her, boom.
[16:07] Alathon: It would be harder witha forcefield centered on you.. since it doesn't just appear in an instant out of nowhere
[16:07] Alathon: at speed 0
[16:07] Reis: (Awww. Ah well)
[16:08] Reis: (Fire away, Sheensinator ;) )
[16:08] Sheena: (hmm
[16:08] Sheena: (hang no)
[16:08] Sheena: (on)
[16:08] Yarrow: (Are these guys actually flapping wings to fly at this speed?)
[16:09] Reis: (Or just angling it and posing dramatically?)
[16:09] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30-4 Wing shot!
[16:09] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30-4 Wing shot! --> [ 1d20=17 ]{43}
[16:09] Reis: (But, that's an EXCELLENT idea Sheens!)
[16:09] * Sheena caps off one shot and keeps her speed
[16:09] Reis: (Was that Obsidian Buster?)
[16:09] Alathon: (they do have wings)
[16:09] Sheena: (no have to stop for that)
[16:10] Alathon: roll 1d20+20 dodge
[16:10] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+20 dodge --> [ 1d20=12 ]{32}
[16:10] Yarrow: (Well, that's why I was asking, too.)
[16:10] Alathon: he ain't dodge shit, roll damage
[16:10] Sheena: (they dont? head shot then)
[16:10] Reis: (Well, are they actually flapping the wings?)
[16:10] Yarrow: (Do does not mean don't.)
[16:10] Sheena: Roll 10d8+4 FP
[16:10] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 10d8+4 FP --> [ 10d8=54 ]{58}
[16:10] Alathon: (they look like it, but.. not as fast as you'd think they'd need to)
[16:10] Sheena: (boom, head shot)
[16:10] Reis: (Well, actually FLAPPING, they'd be like hummingbirds)
[16:11] Reis: (They've got wings, you made the shot at 'em :P )
[16:11] Alathon: You blow the wing off.. it keeps coming.
[16:11] Sheena: (what the hell ever!)
[16:11] Alathon: It's obviously hurt.
[16:11] Alathon: you've got another rond
[16:11] Reis: (Is he in my range yet?)
[16:11] Alathon: no
[16:11] Alathon: he's closing at 500mph faster than you
[16:11] Reis: (Ah well)
[16:11] Alathon: he'll be in range next round
[16:11] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30-8 headshot
[16:11] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30-8 headshot --> [ 1d20=9 ]{31}
[16:11] Alathon: you've got one round in which to prepare, attack, etc
[16:12] * Reis amps up her Dex boost.
[16:12] Alathon: roll 1d20+20
[16:12] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+20 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{37}
[16:12] Alathon: He jerks to the side and avoids it.
[16:12] Alathon: Well.. It.. it's hard to tell at this distance
[16:12] Alathon: anyways.. init
[16:12] Sheena: Roll 1d20+2
[16:12] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+2 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{13}
[16:12] Reis: roll 1d20+18
[16:12] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{27}
[16:13] Sheena: (sigh)
[16:13] Alathon: roll 1d20+5 init
[16:13] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+5 init --> [ 1d20=7 ]{12}
[16:13] Alathon: Combat order: Reis, Sheena, Angel
[16:14] Alathon: Ries, you're up
[16:14] Alathon: It's close at this point, youc an hit it
[16:14] Yarrow: (Or out.)
[16:14] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[16:14] Yarrow: (Out it is.)
[16:14] Sheena: (just like when we started last year)
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[16:14] Reis: <Ala-bot> Alathon rolled 1d20+5 init --> [ 1d20=7 ]{12}
[16:14] Reis: <Alathon> Combat order: Reis, Sheena, Angel
[16:14] Reis: * Reis waves, and her ribbons leap off her back and for the angel's face.
[16:14] Reis: <Reis> roll 1d20+30
[16:14] Reis: <Alathon> Ries, you're up
[16:14] Reis: <Reis> (... FUCK. I'd better not be disconned again)
[16:14] Reis: * Disconnected
[16:14] Reis: * Not connected to server
[16:14] Reis: (Miss anything?
[16:14] * Reis waves a hand, and her ribbons leap off her back and for the angel's face.
[16:14] Alathon: it's close, you can attack it
[16:14] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[16:14] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{46}
[16:14] Alathon: roll 1d20+20
[16:14] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+20 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{26}
[16:15] Alathon: you hit
[16:15] Reis: (4 hits?)
[16:15] Reis: (Is it a vulnerable spot?)
[16:15] Alathon: (hm?))
[16:15] Reis: (I fired for the head)
[16:15] Alathon: ((called shot to head? yes))
[16:15] Alathon: ((so d10's))
[16:15] Reis: roll 4#4d10
[16:15] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 4#4d10 --> [ 4d10=24 ]{24}, [ 4d10=29 ]{29}, [ 4d10=12 ]{12}, [ 4d10=12 ]{12}
[16:16] Alathon: The first two shear through the golden glow around it's hair.. the second two crack against it's halo.
[16:16] Alathon: Some blood drips off behidn it in thin streamers.
[16:16] Alathon: Sheena is up
[16:17] Yarrow: (As the most useless armor in existence finally works to effect. :) )
[16:17] Sheena: (wait, we're fighting the real deal?)
[16:17] Reis: (Heh)
[16:17] Alathon: (well.. it's got a halo)
[16:17] Alathon: (and it's halo blocked Reis's shots.)
[16:17] Reis: (They've got glows and halos. Beyond that, hey, who knows)
[16:17] Alathon: (You can draw your own conclusions)
[16:17] Reis: (And wow, we're shooting back at them with dark power and classic bad guy tricks)
[16:17] Reis: (This game rocks :P )
[16:17] Yarrow: ("They said I was mad when I proposed armor that protects a one inch diameter ring above the wearer's head!")
[16:18] Yarrow: (wide, not diameter.)
[16:18] * Sheena draws a shell from her top and slides it into Dark Heart.
[16:18] Sheena: "xxx xxxx!"
[16:18] Sheena: Dark Heart: Air burst. (Shoot+AE)
[16:18] Alathon: ((nod))
[16:18] Alathon: ((roll damage))
[16:19] Alathon: roll 1d20+10 reflex for half
[16:19] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+10 reflex for half --> [ 1d20=10 ]{20}
[16:19] Yarrow: (One day she's going to reach into her top and accidentally shove Yuuno into Dark Heart...)
[16:19] Alathon: ((and, it takes full))
[16:19] Sheena: Roll 6d8+4
[16:19] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 --> [ 6d8=31 ]{35}
[16:19] Sheena: (thats still FP as well)
[16:19] Alathon: Yuuno: "GaaaaK!"
[16:19] Alathon: ((heh))
[16:19] Alathon: It's noticeably hurt now, smoking.
[16:20] Alathon: It runs up alongside Reis, and takes a swing at her with its burning longsword.
[16:20] Reis: (Reminder, we've got two illusions of Sheena and one of Reis)
[16:20] Sheena: (hey, My homding shot)
[16:20] Alathon: roll 1d20+29
[16:20] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+29 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{36}
[16:20] Alathon: ((hm?))
[16:20] Reis: (I've been keeping them up all the way, unless it'd tire me)
[16:20] Alathon: ((ooh, I didn't describe it. It exploded ;p))
[16:20] Sheena: (that shot i missed with before is homing as well)
[16:20] Alathon: ((nod))
[16:20] Sheena: (from the earler round)
[16:20] Reis: (So is it going for real-me or fake-me?)
[16:20] Alathon: Once again, like practically everything you fight, this thing is seeing through it.
[16:20] Alathon: real you
[16:20] Reis: (Bah. Bastahds)
[16:21] Yarrow: (Angels can always see through to the real you.)
[16:21] Reis: roll 1d20+14
[16:21] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+14 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{28}
[16:21] Reis: (That HURT, Yarrow)
[16:21] Alathon: Your homing shot is stoppable, and hits at the end of the round
[16:21] Reis: (So did that)
[16:21] Alathon: after this dude attacks
[16:21] Alathon: roll 1d8+10
[16:21] Sheena: (if they can see the real us, why are they attacking good alined people?)
[16:21] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d8+10 --> [ 1d8=6 ]{16}
[16:21] Reis: (Oh yay, should I roll a reflex for my own half-damage?)
[16:21] Alathon: You have your forcefields up, right?
[16:21] Sheena: (err well at lest isnt reis flagged as good?)
[16:21] Reis: (CT armour applies?)
[16:21] Sheena: (yes)
[16:21] Alathon: No, I'm assuming you hit it while it was still coming in
[16:22] Alathon: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you (regarding alignment).
[16:22] Yarrow: (Wasn't her homing shot fired last round?)
[16:22] Reis: (I'm using Armour as my flight shield)
[16:22] Reis: (It'd ROYALLY blow if someone smacked it down and I suddenly slammed into the brick wall that is the sky)
[16:22] Alathon: (9ooooooh)
[16:22] Alathon: (I rolled the dodge immediately)
[16:22] Alathon: (it dodged the first pass)
[16:23] * Reis grunts, but isn't too heavily bothered by the cut, simply smacking the fucker in the face again.
[16:23] Reis: (Unless the stoppable attack kills him :P )
[16:23] Alathon: Sheena has a group forcefield up
[16:23] Alathon: it blocks it, but goes down
[16:23] Yarrow: (Hit him anyway.)
[16:23] Sheena: "xxxx xxx xxxxx"
[16:23] Reis: (Ah, okey-doke)
[16:23] Alathon: The field shatters in a spray of what looks lik ebreaking glass, and bits of flame.
[16:24] Yarrow: (Hellfire.)
[16:24] Alathon: The bolt of magical energy Sheena shot last round comes around, and he tries to dodge it again
[16:24] Sheena: (reroll?)
[16:24] Alathon: roll 1d20+18
[16:24] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{34}
[16:24] Alathon: ((no))
[16:24] Alathon: and, this one misses too
[16:25] Reis: (Well, at least it doesn't blow me up too)
[16:25] Alathon: End of round, top of the order
[16:25] Reis: (My turn?)
[16:25] Alathon: Reis is up
[16:25] * Reis slashes her ribbons across his face again.
[16:25] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[16:25] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{39}
[16:25] Alathon: Angel, "xxxxx xxxx xxxxxx."
[16:25] Reis: "He saying anything relevant, senpai?"
[16:25] Alathon: roll 1d20+20
[16:25] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+20 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{37}
[16:25] Sheena: "Bla bla bla, die die bla bla"
[16:26] * Sheena makes mocking moations with her hand
[16:26] * Reis snorts and mentions German for 'fuck off with that flaming sword of yours'.
[16:26] Reis: roll 4d10
[16:26] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 4d10 --> [ 4d10=24 ]{24}
[16:27] Alathon: The ribbon slides under the halo to gash the 'angel's ear.
[16:27] Alathon: Sheena is up
[16:27] Sheena: "Bet this pisses him off"
[16:27] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 BIND!
[16:27] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 BIND! --> [ 1d20=18 ]{48}
[16:27] Reis: (Owie. The brick wall that is the bind)
[16:27] Reis: (This's gonna hurt ^_^ )
[16:27] Alathon: roll 1d20+18 dodge
[16:27] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+18 dodge --> [ 1d20=7 ]{25}
[16:28] Alathon: he ain't dodge it.. and gets yanked back hard by the bands of energy that just wrapped around him
[16:28] Alathon: roll 10d6
[16:28] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=34 ]{34}
[16:28] Alathon: The angel roars in pain.. which promply fades to silence, as it's left behind.
[16:28] Sheena: (a finshing shot?)
[16:28] * Reis draws her blaster and tosses a parting shot into his face if he's still in range.
[16:29] Alathon: you can take one parting shot each if you want
[16:29] Yarrow: (Kind of telling that these angels don't have divine relationship.)
[16:29] Alathon: it's hurting but not really close to dead.
[16:29] Reis: (Hahahahahah!)
[16:29] Alathon: ((heh, make of that what you will)
[16:29] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30-4 headshot
[16:29] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30-4 headshot --> [ 1d20=16 ]{42}
[16:29] Alathon: roll 1d20+15 dodge
[16:29] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 dodge --> [ 1d20=19 ]{34}
[16:29] Reis: roll 1d20+12 headshot
[16:29] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+12 headshot --> [ 1d20=8 ]{20}
[16:29] Alathon: roll 1d20+13 dodge
[16:29] Yarrow: (Why are you aiming for the one strip of armor on its body? :) )
[16:29] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+13 dodge --> [ 1d20=7 ]{20}
[16:29] Sheena: "Finsh it!" Dark Heart: Let sshoo.
[16:29] Reis: (Bah!)
[16:30] Reis: (JUST dodged it)
[16:30] Sheena: roll 10d8+4 FP
[16:30] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 10d8+4 FP --> [ 10d8=38 ]{42}
[16:30] Reis: (You mean d10s, right?)
[16:30] Sheena: (oh woops)
[16:30] Sheena: Roll 6d10+4
[16:30] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d10+4 --> [ 6d10=42 ]{46}
[16:30] Alathon: ((okay))
[16:30] * Reis shrugs and slips her blaster back into her... wherever exactly she keeps it.
[16:30] Alathon: ((yeah, that sounds right))
[16:31] Alathon: ((remmeber it's a 4d8 base damage.. +2d8 from your current Dark Heart form))
[16:31] Yarrow: (Her nose.)
[16:31] Sheena: (right)
[16:31] Sheena: (i got the head shot damage screwed up)
[16:31] Alathon: The energy bolt slams into its face, and sets it spinning backwards.
[16:31] Alathon: If it has anything to say about it, you're too far away to hear.
[16:31] Reis: (Eh, we'll see him soon enough ;) )
[16:32] * Sheena pulls out her com once that things clear
[16:32] * Reis reports the encounter in to Usagi.
[16:32] Alathon: You'll be well clear in a minute
[16:32] Sheena: (heh)
[16:32] Reis: (Well, he's at double our speed, and can break the bind semi-quickly)
[16:32] Alathon: It isn't following
[16:32] Alathon: in fact, it's returning.
[16:32] Reis: (Though, Sheens was right, I TOTALLY forgot about the insta-stop binds)
[16:32] Alathon: to the horde that is.
[16:33] * Reis reports his return as well. Bastich is probably getting himself nice and healed.
[16:33] Sheena: (does the boss pick up?)
[16:33] * Reis will PM it or leave a message if she doesn't.
[16:33] Yarrow: (Fast angel: "Ok, I did it. Now I dare *you* to!" Other angels: "Ooooooooh!")
[16:34] Sheena: (angles: Dude you got beat up by a girl, Hurtguy: Shut up!)
[16:34] Alathon: ((Yarrow's interpretation is pretty close to the mark))
[16:34] Reis: (Hahhahahahahahaah!)
[16:35] Reis: (I can so see that too...)
[16:35] Alathon: Usagi will respond, making sure you're okay, asking about your status.. etc etc.
[16:35] Alathon: Nothing much happens until around twenty minutes later, when a small chunk of angels breaks off from the mass and zips towards you, again quite fast.
[16:35] Sheena: "Hey boss, Im not sure what the hell these things are, but there not greys acting like angles"
[16:35] Alathon: You've got two rounds of prep or attack
[16:36] Alathon: ((okay, conversation first))
[16:36] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[16:36] Alathon: Usagi: "What makes you think that?"
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[16:36] Reis: <Alathon> Usagi will respond, making sure you're okay, asking about your status.. etc etc.
[16:36] Reis: <Alathon> Nothing much happens until around twenty minutes later, when a small chunk of angels breaks off from the mass and zips towards you, again quite fast.
[16:36] Reis: <Sheena> "Hey boss, Im not sure what the hell these things are, but there not greys acting like angles"
[16:36] Reis: * Reis nods. "We're uninjured. Used a bit more magic, but still good to go."
[16:36] Reis: <Alathon> You've got two rounds of prep or attack
[16:36] Reis: * Disconnected
[16:36] Reis: (Blah. What'd I miss?)
[16:36] * Reis frowns and counts the enemies.
[16:36] Alathon: ((PM'd))
[16:36] Alathon: conversation first
[16:36] Sheena: "I blew off one of its wings leaving a bleeding stump behind, It had a freaking halo that took some damage as well"
[16:37] Alathon: Usagi: "Don't put too much stock in appearances.. there's no bird on this planet that can fly more than a thousand kilometers per hour, so it's not as if it's flight was ever natural."
[16:37] Reis: "At the least, they have _vastly_ more speed than any other grey mages."
[16:37] Sheena: "Right, Grey's never moved this fast"
[16:37] Reis: "The normal grey mages were pitifully slow."
[16:37] Alathon: Usagi: "As for the Halo.. Don't rule out magical effects that approximate that in appearance."
[16:38] Alathon: Usagi: "Oh."
[16:38] Alathon: Usagi looks a little worried.
[16:38] * Sheena shurgs
[16:38] Reis: "These ones are as fast as us or faster."
[16:38] Reis: "Normal humans aren't as fast as we are either though, so it could easily be variance."
[16:38] Sheena: "Just felt you needed to know about what's incoming, not like it maters to me"
[16:38] Reis: "But they're not within the same parameters as the ones we've fought before."
[16:39] Alathon: Usagi: "Be careful.. dammit. Saturn should have been there by now."
[16:40] Sheena: "Still running good boss"
[16:40] Yarrow: (Good senshi to have coming to your aid.)
[16:40] Alathon: Usagi: "This is risky enough as it is, bringing them this close to home.. behind you all the way, at that."
[16:40] Sheena: "Oh, we're about 28k feet up"
[16:40] Reis: (... FUCK. Don't tell me I'm peered again ;_; )
[16:40] * Reis looks around for Saturn just in case it's a nice dramatic arrival time.
[16:40] Reis: roll 1d20+6+8 Spot
[16:40] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+6+8 Spot --> [ 1d20=15 ]{29}
[16:40] Reis: (A great roll, but she's probably not there...)
[16:42] Alathon: Nope
[16:42] Alathon: sorry ;p
[16:42] Reis: (Ah well, see anything else cool?)
[16:42] Alathon: Usagi: "I'll tell her. Usagi out."
[16:42] Alathon: anyways
[16:42] Alathon: hm
[16:42] Alathon: actually
[16:42] Alathon: around now, you'll see Hawaii passing below you.
[16:43] Alathon: You might or might not remember it as one of the last states to join the old United States, before they bombed the world to hell.
[16:43] Reis: "We're passing the Hawaiian islands now, Usagi-san."
[16:43] Yarrow: (But fail to see Sakura jumping up and down waving frantically as you streak by overhead.)
[16:43] Alathon: You just get the message through before she disconnects.
[16:43] * Reis frowns. "And now for the long stretch."
[16:43] Alathon: a few minutes later.. the long stretch is interrupted.
[16:44] Alathon: By half a dozen angels closing, again, at high speed.
[16:44] Alathon: you've got two rounds with which to prep or attack, before combat starts
[16:44] Reis: "I suppose we'll have to hit the ocean if we're in any trouble. And hope they need air."
[16:44] * Reis ups her speed again and lets Sheens snipe away.
[16:44] Yarrow: (It'd be kind of funny, actually, if Sakura and Yuuno were just sitting there waiting to recover, and you inadvertantly led a host of angels to them...)
[16:44] Reis: (That's 1/3 our EP regen?)
[16:44] Yarrow: (Well, probably not funny to Sakura & Yuuno.)
[16:44] Alathon: (well, funny to some people ;p ))
[16:44] Alathon: ((no regen, hasn't been enough time)
[16:44] Reis: (Ah well)
[16:44] Reis: (Thought you mentioned 20 minutes before, but, gotcha)
[16:45] Sheena: "Oh look, more"
[16:45] * Reis chuckles. "This is probably going to get repetitive..."
[16:45] * Sheena slides another shell into dark heart
[16:45] Alathon: they're at great range until combat starts
[16:46] Sheena: Roll 6d8+4 Air burst
[16:46] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 Air burst --> [ 6d8=37 ]{41}
[16:46] Alathon: You can catch half of 'em
[16:46] * Reis will just boost her speed before they're close enough to fight, and wait for them to get in range.
[16:46] Alathon: roll 3#1d20+9 reflex
[16:46] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3#1d20+9 reflex --> [ 1d20=19 ]{28}, [ 1d20=4 ]{13}, [ 1d20=20 ]{29}
[16:46] Reis: (... Fugging hell, wow...)
[16:47] Alathon: Two of them manage to evade up and down.. the other just eats it in the face.
[16:47] Sheena: (punks(
[16:47] Reis: (Well, what else would you eat it with?)
[16:47] Alathon: (ask that of the characters in Dark City ;p ))
[16:47] * Sheena slips two shells into Dark Heart
[16:48] Sheena: Dark Heart: Boosted Air Burst
[16:48] Alathon: okay
[16:48] Sheena: 6d8+4 with soem spreading
[16:49] Sheena: Roll 6d8+4 with soem spreading
[16:49] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 with soem spreading --> [ 6d8=18 ]{22}
[16:49] Reis: (... Ow)
[16:49] Sheena: (WAHT THE FUCK)
[16:49] Alathon: ((er.. two ranks of spreading instead of AE?))
[16:49] Reis: (I think he did both - one AE, and a spreading)
[16:49] Sheena: (One rank of spreading added to the AE, biger boom?)
[16:49] Alathon: (eh)
[16:49] Sheena: (or is that a no go?)
[16:49] Alathon: (that's a non-combat really))
[16:49] Alathon: ((spreading does nothing for amn AE))
[16:49] Reis: (Or maybe just two AE's?)
[16:49] Alathon: ((you could get all of em with two AE ranks))
[16:50] Sheena: (Two AE then)
[16:50] Alathon: roll 6#1d20+9
[16:50] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 6#1d20+9 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{10}, [ 1d20=11 ]{20}, [ 1d20=7 ]{16}, [ 1d20=12 ]{21}, [ 1d20=18 ]{27}, [ 1d20=20 ]{29}
[16:51] Alathon: two of em manage to evade some of it.. for the rest, it's just too big a boom to evade much.
[16:51] Reis: (What's with crit-man?)
[16:51] Alathon: and they notice it.. they're not dying, but they notice it.
[16:51] Alathon: ((hmm.. I have a little vodka left.. and milk, because my parents bought it for their coffee.. I oughta make white russians))
[16:51] Alathon: anyways
[16:52] Yarrow: (You're one to ask, Reis.)
[16:52] Alathon: the explosion is quite large, bright.. and while it doesn't stop the angels, it doesn't do them any favors either ;p
[16:52] Alathon: init
[16:52] Reis: roll 1d20+18
[16:52] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=19 ]{37}
[16:52] Alathon: roll 6#1d20+4 init
[16:52] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 6#1d20+4 init --> [ 1d20=7 ]{11}, [ 1d20=15 ]{19}, [ 1d20=10 ]{14}, [ 1d20=13 ]{17}, [ 1d20=7 ]{11}, [ 1d20=6 ]{10}
[16:52] Reis: (I haven't critted for a while, I don't think)
[16:52] Yarrow: (Last night.)
[16:52] Reis: (Hahahahah, true... :P )
[16:53] Sheena: ROll 1d20+2
[16:53] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+2 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{19}
[16:53] Alathon: (hah, complain about that! ;p ))
[16:53] Reis: (Heh.)
[16:53] Sheena: (im shocked and amazed)
[16:53] Reis: (Nah, not complaining, I was just idly curious about his apparent superpowers)
[16:54] Reis: (So, init order?)
[16:55] Alathon: Okay
[16:55] Alathon: yeah, was applying all the AE damage
[16:55] Reis: (Heh, gotcha)
[16:55] Reis: (Who's in the best shape?)
[16:56] Alathon: Fight order: Reis, Angel #1, Sheena, Angel #2, #3, #4, #5, #6
[16:56] Yarrow: (Sheena.)
[16:56] Alathon: Angels 1 and 2 are barely scratched
[16:56] Alathon: number three is pretty good
[16:56] Yarrow: (Angel 1 & Sheena aren't simul?)
[16:56] Alathon: number four and six have taken good hits, but are still good to go
[16:56] Alathon: angel 5 is hurting, but still good to go
[16:56] Alathon: angel #1 had a higher init modifier
[16:56] * Reis turns and aims her sword at Angel #1. "Really should work on my mass combat abilities. Alt Forst."
[16:56] Alathon: so it goes first
[16:56] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[16:56] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=10 ]{40}
[16:56] Reis: (No it doesn't :P )
[16:57] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[16:57] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{31}
[16:57] Alathon: nope
[16:57] Alathon: roll 10d6
[16:57] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=31 ]{31}
[16:57] Alathon: it's slammed to a stop by the roots.
[16:57] * Reis watches him fall downdowndooooooooown. Hopefully.
[16:57] Yarrow: (Mm, why would it be stopped? The roots aren't attached to anything.)
[16:57] Alathon: Nope, he just hangs there, and spits curses.. and hacks at the roots with his flaming sword
[16:57] Reis: (It's a magical bind :P )
[16:58] Alathon: roll 1d8+8
[16:58] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d8+8 --> [ 1d8=4 ]{12}
[16:58] Reis: (... Bastahd)
[16:58] Alathon: roll 3d8
[16:58] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3d8 --> [ 3d8=14 ]{14}
[16:58] Alathon: ... and gets most of 'em, but not all of them.
[16:58] Reis: (Ah yes, Sheens's shield is back up, right?)
[16:58] Alathon: Yes
[16:58] Alathon: Sheena is up
[16:58] * Reis continues to outpace him.
[16:59] Alathon: just remember, no flurries unless you stop ;p
[16:59] * Sheena twirls into a waves of darkness and comes out of it in her new fuku
[16:59] Sheena: "xxx xxx xxxx xx xxxx"
[16:59] Alathon: Angel #2: "Xxxxx"
[16:59] * Sheena laughts at them and smacks her rear in there general direction
[16:59] Alathon: Angel #4: "xx xxxx xxx."
[17:00] Alathon: Angel #6: "xxxxxx xx x xxxxxxx xx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx?"
[17:00] * Reis REALLY needs to learn this language.
[17:01] * Reis awaits the onslaught.
[17:01] Alathon: anyways
[17:01] Sheena: (there potty mouths)
[17:01] Alathon: three of the angels go for Sheena, and two for reis
[17:01] Alathon: Doing flybies, they only get one attack
[17:01] Alathon: roll 3#1d20+23
[17:01] Reis: (Bah, they obviously aren't very well-trained angels)
[17:01] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3#1d20+23 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{27}, [ 1d20=6 ]{29}, [ 1d20=7 ]{30}
[17:01] Sheena: (why isn't the hand of god stricking them down? Urd can't even say dam, heh)
[17:01] Alathon: at sheena
[17:01] Reis: (Because they're bullshitters? :P )
[17:01] Alathon: (I dunno, maybe they aren't really angels?)
[17:02] Alathon: (or maybe god is really sexist and is cool with shit like that?)
[17:02] Sheena: (hah!)
[17:02] Alathon: (That's what the bible says, after all)
[17:02] Reis: (They're even talking a 'demonic' language...)
[17:02] Reis: (I mean, it's not impossible, but likely?)
[17:02] Alathon: anyways, sheena, do some dodging
[17:02] Alathon: melee atacks
[17:03] Sheena: (damn it, im a magical girl not a ninja! )
[17:03] Yarrow: (Who's to say they weren't always demon and the old religious stories are just plain wrong?)
[17:03] Alathon: ((McCoy: "I'm suing you."
[17:03] Sheena: (As we don't have the changes system for this game nmy melee dodge is 3, So i take em)
[17:04] Sheena: ROll 1d20+3
[17:04] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+3 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{4}
[17:04] Sheena: ROll 1d20+1
[17:04] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+1 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{7}
[17:04] Reis: (Owie...)
[17:04] Sheena: ROll 1d20-1
[17:04] Alathon: ((Well.. Dark Helmet said that Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb.. so it would certainly make sense.))
[17:04] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20-1 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{0}
[17:04] Alathon: okay
[17:04] Sheena: (yep i get hit)
[17:04] Alathon: you utterly fail to dodge everything
[17:04] Alathon: roll 1d8+8+3d8
[17:04] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d8+8+3d8 --> [ 1d8=8 3d8=11 ]{27}
[17:04] Alathon: the first attack spalshes against your forcefield
[17:04] Alathon: roll 2#1d8+8
[17:04] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#1d8+8 --> [ 1d8=7 ]{15}, [ 1d8=1 ]{9}
[17:04] Alathon: the next two...
[17:04] Yarrow: (The idea that they were benevolent was just wishful thinking/kissing up. :) )
[17:04] Alathon: slashing.. CT armor counts.. do those even penetrate?
[17:05] Reis: (Splash against your PERSONAL shield! ... I think?)
[17:05] Sheena: (nope)
[17:05] Alathon: They just glance off your new & improved body armor.
[17:05] Alathon: the next two swing at Reis
[17:05] Alathon: roll 2#1d20+23
[17:05] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#1d20+23 --> [ 1d20=19 ]{42}, [ 1d20=12 ]{35}
[17:05] Reis: roll 1d20+14
[17:05] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+14 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{30}
[17:05] Reis: roll 1d20+12
[17:05] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+12 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{30}
[17:05] Reis: (Bah, humbug)
[17:05] Alathon: Both hit
[17:05] Alathon: roll 2#1d8+8
[17:05] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#1d8+8 --> [ 1d8=2 ]{10}, [ 1d8=4 ]{12}
[17:05] Alathon: and both penetrate, correct?
[17:05] Reis: (This is gonna hurt, isn't it?)
[17:05] Alathon: one rank of armor + CT armor?
[17:05] Reis: (Yes)
[17:06] Reis: (Yup)
[17:06] Alathon: roll 2#3d8
[17:06] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#3d8 --> [ 3d8=6 ]{6}, [ 3d8=15 ]{15}
[17:06] Alathon: so, 27 damage total
[17:06] * Reis winces. "Starting to ache slightly."
[17:06] Alathon: End of round, top of the order.
[17:07] Alathon: Angel #1 cuts himself free, and tries to catch up.. but is a round out at this point.
[17:07] Alathon: Reis was first, regardless
[17:08] Sheena: (hmm, nabor called and needs my help)
[17:09] Alathon: ((immediately?))
[17:10] Sheena: (nah)
[17:10] Sheena: (told em im bisy and will be over when i can)
[17:10] Yarrow: (He'll try to keep the fire going until you can get there.)
[17:10] Alathon: ((cool))
[17:10] * Reis fires another bind over her shoulder, and doesn't bother with the 'unbreakable' powering it.
[17:11] * Reis tries to toss it around Angel #2's face.
[17:11] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[17:11] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=19 ]{49}
[17:11] Alathon: roll 1d20+15 dodge
[17:11] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 dodge --> [ 1d20=16 ]{31}
[17:11] Alathon: roll 10d6
[17:11] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=32 ]{32}
[17:11] Alathon: bound, and slammed against the bindings.
[17:11] Alathon: Sheena is up
[17:11] Reis: (Aww, no extra damage for it being focused on his face? Pity)
[17:11] Yarrow: (Too bad you don't have an area version.)
[17:12] Reis: (I know, Reis was just complaining about that herself :P )
[17:12] Reis: (And Al, this is the breakable version, it's only got 8 HP)
[17:13] * Sheena bind is spreading and she hits the angles with it
[17:13] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 Red light!
[17:13] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 Red light! --> [ 1d20=8 ]{38}
[17:13] Sheena: (gah!)
[17:14] Yarrow: (If they all have the same bonus as the last one, it won't matter.)
[17:14] Alathon: ((nod))
[17:14] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[17:14] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=12 ]{27}
[17:14] Alathon: which number was that at?
[17:14] Reis: (Yeah, let's see them eat it in the red light district!)
[17:14] Sheena: (the guy on Reis)
[17:14] Reis: (... Hm. Wrong implication)
[17:14] Reis: (Wait, didn't she say it was spreading?)
[17:15] Yarrow: (Yes. She's trying to kill you.)
[17:15] Alathon: roll 10d6
[17:15] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=42 ]{42}
[17:15] Reis: (I actually meant 'isn't she shooting at all of them?' :P )
[17:15] Alathon: one of the two on reis was hurt seriously.. and is now injured critically
[17:15] Alathon: two swoop in on Sheena with powerful, heavy blows.. one takes a swing at Reis.
[17:15] Alathon: roll 2#1d20+23-10 power attack 10
[17:15] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#1d20+23-10 power attack 10 --> [ 1d20=12 ]{25}, [ 1d20=17 ]{30}
[17:15] Alathon: ((those are vs Sheena))
[17:16] Alathon: roll 1d20+23-5 power attack 5
[17:16] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+23-5 power attack 5 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{32}
[17:16] Reis: (Ow. This is gonna BLOW)
[17:16] Alathon: (vs reis))
[17:16] Reis: roll 1d20+14 Evade like the WIND!
[17:16] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+14 Evade like the WIND! --> [ 1d20=16 ]{30}
[17:16] Reis: (... Grr)
[17:16] Alathon: ((don't you have ketzern reis up?))
[17:16] Reis: (Yeah, that's why +14 instead of +2)
[17:16] Alathon: ((ahh, oh yeah ;p ))
[17:16] Reis: (I have JACK for Melee Dodge skill)
[17:16] Alathon: ((sheena?))
[17:16] Reis: (Unless you'll let me use my Ranged Dodge :P )
[17:17] Alathon: ((vs swords.. no ;p ))
[17:17] Reis: (Awwwww)
[17:17] Sheena: (this is doing a good job of pointing out the system we made for wolfs game is better..)
[17:18] Alathon: ((yup))
[17:18] Sheena: (and what me? I got no dodge)
[17:18] Alathon: ((wel, roll it, maybe you'll get a 20))
[17:18] Sheena: Roll 1d20+3
[17:18] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+3 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{18}
[17:18] Sheena: Roll 1d20+1
[17:18] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+1 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{7}
[17:18] Reis: (Hey, ya might crit)
[17:18] Alathon: Yeah, no.. both hit
[17:18] Alathon: roll 2#1d8+18
[17:18] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#1d8+18 --> [ 1d8=5 ]{23}, [ 1d8=1 ]{19}
[17:18] Alathon: rofl
[17:18] Alathon: if I recall, the first one pierces, the second one doesn't
[17:19] Alathon: roll 3d8
[17:19] Sheena: (right)
[17:19] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3d8 --> [ 3d8=12 ]{12}
[17:19] Alathon: so, 15 damage to sheena
[17:19] Alathon: The first angel jabs and penetrates the armor.. and it BURNS!
[17:19] Sheena: (How can they do power attakcs while keeping speed?)
[17:19] Alathon: The second one takes anothe slash, and it hits hard, but doesn't quite cut through.
[17:19] Alathon: (why couldn't they?)
[17:19] Alathon: roll 1d8+8+5+3d8
[17:19] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d8+8+5+3d8 --> [ 1d8=5 3d8=11 ]{29}
[17:20] Alathon: and, 29 to reis
[17:20] Alathon: before armor
[17:20] Sheena: (Why havnt you made a damn fuku yet?)
[17:20] Reis: (Wait a sec... Darnit... Bah, humbug)
[17:20] Reis: (I do. Want me to slow down and use it?)
[17:20] Sheena: (doh)
[17:20] Alathon: ((sheenas shield will be up next round))
[17:21] * Reis screams, because that HURT.
[17:21] Reis: (20 HP)
[17:21] Alathon: ((hehhee))
[17:21] Alathon: ((don't worry.. if you fall, the sharks will clean up the mess))
[17:21] Reis: (Gee, thanks)
[17:22] Alathon: End of the round, top of the order
[17:22] Alathon: at this point, two angels have been left behind, bound
[17:22] Alathon: the ifrst one bound is just now moving into range to attack again, and is fairly wounded
[17:22] Alathon: It's angling in on Sheena, with the two attacking her already; one is hitting Reis.
[17:23] * Reis tosses another bind back at her friend, and dives as much as she can without falling behind the horde any (which might be none).
[17:23] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[17:23] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{32}
[17:23] Reis: (Fuck)
[17:23] Alathon: (you can always DR it))
[17:23] Alathon: ((though.. it's hard for +15 to beat 32 ;p ))
[17:24] Reis: (Hm. I'll save that for an actual critfail, he's still about 3/4s likely not to dodge)
[17:24] Alathon: roll 1d20+15 dodge
[17:24] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 dodge --> [ 1d20=16 ]{31}
[17:24] Alathon: ((hooooooo.. close))
[17:24] Alathon: Bound, and slammed
[17:24] Alathon: roll 10d6
[17:24] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=38 ]{38}
[17:24] Reis: (How much lower can I get, btw?)
[17:24] Alathon: ((huh?))
[17:24] Alathon: ((altitude wise?))
[17:24] Reis: (I'm trying to drop altitude without losing speed to any of the horde)
[17:24] Yarrow: (Than doing that to angels? You can't get much lower than that.)
[17:25] Alathon: speed is speed.. if you go diagonally down, they'll gain a little laterally
[17:25] Alathon: but be a bit further height-wise
[17:25] Alathon: well
[17:25] Reis: (Darn, no help from Mr Gravity?)
[17:25] Alathon: a bit closer, actually.. since they're all still a bit below you
[17:25] Alathon: the horde that is
[17:25] Reis: (Right... gotcha. No dive then)
[17:25] Alathon: the ones you're fighting are moving in and out of mele range, and staying close
[17:26] Alathon: Angel #1 dives in and swings at Sheena.
[17:26] Alathon: roll 1d20+23
[17:26] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+23 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{37}
[17:26] Reis: (Well, if nothing else, nobody's on me tonight...)
[17:26] Reis: (Or at least, not right this second)
[17:26] Sheena: Roll 1d20+3 weeee
[17:26] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+3 weeee --> [ 1d20=13 ]{16}
[17:26] Alathon: roll 1d8+8
[17:26] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d8+8 --> [ 1d8=8 ]{16}
[17:26] Alathon: It's a solid swing, it connects.. and fails to cut through the black and magenta cloth.
[17:26] Reis: (Woot fuku!)
[17:27] Alathon: Sheena, you're up
[17:27] Sheena: (witch one of em is hurting?)
[17:27] Alathon: at this point, you've got three angels on you.. two have been left behind, and one just got bound
[17:27] Alathon: #4 is the worst off, of those fighting you
[17:27] Sheena: "I got a cat at home that can hit harder!"
[17:27] * Sheena loads two shells and fires a shot off
[17:27] Reis: (Hah, wrong... oh, yeah, not wrong game :P )
[17:28] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30
[17:28] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{32}
[17:28] Sheena: (WTF)
[17:28] Reis: (The fact that we're probably going to hit is awesome)
[17:28] Alathon: hey, at least it wasn't a 1
[17:28] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[17:28] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{17}
[17:28] Sheena: (...)
[17:28] Alathon: ((sigh))
[17:28] Reis: (They've got about a 1 in five chance of dodging that ;) )
[17:28] Alathon: it connects, roll damage
[17:28] Sheena: roll 8d8+4 fp
[17:28] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 8d8+4 fp --> [ 8d8=40 ]{44}
[17:29] Alathon: oooooh, that hurts.. it's not dead, but it's getting there, after the brilliant purple-white explosion that slams into it
[17:29] Alathon: it, and #3, swing in for attacks on Sheena
[17:30] Reis: (Fights like this are why Regen REALLY rocks the house)
[17:30] Alathon: roll 2#1d20+23-10 power attack 10
[17:30] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#1d20+23-10 power attack 10 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{21}, [ 1d20=14 ]{27}
[17:30] Alathon: (I'm kinda surprised you both haven't picked up basic Regen 1 spells
[17:30] Alathon: ((they're stock Nanoha, and sooo useful))
[17:31] Yarrow: (Yeah. I even suggested it to DCG a while back.)
[17:31] Sheena: roll 1d20+3 Most of my skill points and feats are useless, Yay!
[17:31] Reis: (Spell? Right now I'm considering just canning the Flight boost next level for Regen :P )
[17:31] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+3 Most of my skill points and feats are useless, Yay! --> [ 1d20=8 ]{11}
[17:31] Sheena: roll 1d20+1
[17:31] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+1 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{18}
[17:31] Alathon: soo close, but no
[17:31] Alathon: roll 2#1d8+8+10
[17:31] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#1d8+8+10 --> [ 1d8=2 ]{20}, [ 1d8=7 ]{25}
[17:31] Sheena: (havnt had the chance with my box breaking)
[17:31] Alathon: hah
[17:31] Alathon: hte first one cuts through for a papercut, but no more
[17:31] Alathon: the second one hurts..
[17:31] Alathon: roll 3d8
[17:31] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 3d8 --> [ 3d8=13 ]{13}
[17:31] Alathon: 18 points total
[17:32] Alathon: end of round, top of the order
[17:32] Reis: (Who all is close-ish?)
[17:32] Reis: (Just the two on Sheens?)
[17:32] Alathon: There's three angels on sheena still.. two are a ways off, about two rounds out
[17:32] Alathon: free now
[17:32] Reis: (Three, righto)
[17:32] Alathon: one is bound and struggling a bit behind
[17:33] * Reis tags Sheena's most wounded enemy with another bind.
[17:33] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[17:33] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{37}
[17:33] Alathon: #1, #3, and #4 are on sheena.. #1 is pretty good, #2 is in good condition, #4 is hurting
[17:33] Reis: (#4 then)
[17:33] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[17:33] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=12 ]{27}
[17:33] Alathon: roll 10d6
[17:33] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=36 ]{36}
[17:33] Alathon: Slammed.. you can't see what becomes of them, but they're bound.
[17:34] Alathon: Angel #1 tries a moderate power attack on Sheena.
[17:34] Alathon: roll 1d10+23-5 power attack 5
[17:34] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d10+23-5 power attack 5 --> [ 1d10=10 ]{28}
[17:34] Reis: (So gonna laugh if his moderate power attack doesn't even get through :P )
[17:34] Alathon: (it might or might not, b ut he sure as shit doesn't wanna miss))
[17:35] Reis: (... Miss? Sheena? :P )
[17:35] Reis: (Sorry, had to say it at this point)
[17:36] Sheena: Roll 1d20+3 *sigh*
[17:36] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+3 *sigh* --> [ 1d20=5 ]{8}
[17:36] Reis: (Heh, ignore it, he's got like a 1 in seven chance of even scratching you :P )
[17:36] Alathon: roll 1d8+8+5
[17:36] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d8+8+5 --> [ 1d8=2 ]{15}
[17:36] Alathon: damn
[17:36] Alathon: Hits, but slides off.. again
[17:36] Alathon: Sheena is up
[17:36] Sheena: "XXXx xxxx xxxx xxxxx?"
[17:36] Alathon: You better believe he's going full throttle next round.
[17:37] Reis: (Heh. Not complaining about the grace period :P )
[17:37] Sheena: (who's trailing behind us?)
[17:38] Reis: (I think you've got #2 still about to try attacking you)
[17:38] Alathon: 1 and 3 are still attacking sheena
[17:38] Reis: (Three?)
[17:38] Alathon: 2 and 5 are chasing, but are a rond out
[17:38] Reis: (How?)
[17:38] Alathon: four is bound and not moving
[17:38] Alathon: six is bound
[17:39] Reis: (Ah, you said #3 once, then #2 :P )
[17:39] Reis: (Righto)
[17:39] * Sheena sends an air burst at 2&5
[17:39] Sheena: (they are near each other right?)
[17:39] Alathon: um.. honestly, not really
[17:39] Sheena: (fark)
[17:40] Alathon: they're a good bit apart
[17:40] Reis: (Bah. Can still get #3 off yourself, at least)
[17:40] Alathon: being slammed around while moving at 500-1000 mph does that ;p
[17:40] Sheena: roll 1d20+30 bind 3
[17:40] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 bind 3 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{36}
[17:40] * Sheena waves bye bye
[17:40] Alathon: roll 1d20+15 dodge
[17:40] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 dodge --> [ 1d20=6 ]{21}
[17:40] Alathon: no dice.. bound and slammed
[17:40] Alathon: roll 10d6
[17:40] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=33 ]{33}
[17:41] Reis: (I dunno, that looked like quite a few dice)
[17:41] Alathon: Around this time, you'll notice something.. #5 is slowing up.. getting further behind.
[17:41] * Reis raises an eyebrow. "Huh... They're pushing themselves to keep this up!"
[17:41] Alathon: er
[17:41] Sheena: (we got to keep them staggered like this)
[17:41] Alathon: end of round, top of the order
[17:41] Reis: "They can't maintain this speed for long, I don't think."
[17:42] Reis: (What's the general status?)
[17:42] Reis: (Who's nearish?)
[17:42] Sheena: "That or his setting us up for a biger attack, Remember what happened to that bus"
[17:42] Alathon: #1 and #2 both attack Sheena, #5 has turned back, #3,4,6 are still bound
[17:42] * Reis pulls #1 off Sheena. Bind, we love you so.
[17:42] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[17:42] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{38}
[17:43] Reis: (+30 hit mod, we love you more)
[17:43] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[17:43] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{31}
[17:43] Alathon: bound, and slammed
[17:43] Alathon: roll 10d6
[17:43] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=34 ]{34}
[17:43] Alathon: Sheena, you're up
[17:43] Alathon: #2 is closing to attack you
[17:43] Alathon: the rest are bound or fled
[17:43] Reis: ("No he isn't.")
[17:44] Sheena: Roll 1d20+3 i dodge!
[17:44] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+3 i dodge! --> [ 1d20=2 ]{5}
[17:44] Sheena: (or not)
[17:44] Reis: (Well, it's your turn Sheens)
[17:44] Reis: (Bind his ass :P )
[17:44] Alathon: ..
[17:45] Alathon: it's your turn fiirst sheena
[17:46] Reis: (Sheena? DCG? Yo?)
[17:46] Sheena: (ya)
[17:46] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 #5
[17:46] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 #5 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{41}
[17:46] Reis: (#2, right?)
[17:46] * Sheena sends a shot at the one falling back
[17:47] Reis: (Ah, I see)
[17:47] Sheena: (number 5)
[17:47] Yarrow: (You're so helpful!)
[17:48] Alathon: roll 1d20+11 dodge
[17:48] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+11 dodge --> [ 1d20=2 ]{13}
[17:48] Alathon: you hit, roll damage
[17:49] Sheena: Roll 6d8+4
[17:49] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 --> [ 6d8=31 ]{35}
[17:50] Alathon: They get slammed in the back, and fall from the sky trailing smoke.
[17:50] Alathon: End of round, top of the order
[17:50] * Reis wonders what the heck on him is smoking, and binds #2 in the face.
[17:50] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[17:50] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{41}
[17:50] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[17:50] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{30}
[17:51] Alathon: bound
[17:51] Alathon: roll 10d6
[17:51] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=31 ]{31}
[17:51] * Reis waves bye-bye as she and Sheens pull ahead.
[17:52] Alathon: #6 is fre and closing, but is a round out.
[17:52] Alathon: end of round, top of the order
[17:52] * Sheena checks there position on the map and holds corse
[17:52] Alathon: no angel is in range to attack this round, or in range of normal ranged attacks
[17:53] Sheena: (how far now any way?)
[17:53] * Reis takes the turn to call this in to Usagi.
[17:53] Alathon: #6 is closing.. #1, 2, 3 are several thousand feet out freeing themselves
[17:53] Reis: (Like 7 hours out)
[17:53] Sheena: (7? wow..)
[17:53] Alathon: it's been 5 of 14, so, 9
[17:53] Reis: (Yeah, we just crossed Hawaii)
[17:54] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 at 6
[17:54] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 at 6 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{46}
[17:54] Reis: (Ow, oops, miscalculated)
[17:54] * Reis calls up Usagi. "Usagi-san, another half-dozen are approaching now. Believe two confirmed kills."
[17:55] Alathon: Usagi: "Then keep your eyes on them, not me."
[17:55] Yarrow: (I'm starting to think we're not going to get to the planning and builing of the monument this session...)
[17:55] * Reis is just talking into the comm and keeping most of her attention on the fight.
[17:55] Alathon: (by monument, you mean, them buying a cat and naming it Mani?))
[17:55] Reis: "Also, I think they are pushing themselves to maintain this speed faster than ours. One of them fell behind before senpai killed him."
[17:56] Yarrow: (If by buying a cat you mean erecting a giant stone/crystal statue of a cat, yes.)
[17:56] Reis: (So how does #6 dodge?)
[17:56] Reis: (Does he try?)
[17:57] Alathon: nope
[17:57] Sheena: (about how much longer al?)
[17:57] Alathon: (um)
[17:58] Reis: (So roll your damage, Sheens :P )
[17:58] Alathon: (was thinking an hour and change, but I could cut it short after this fight))
[17:58] Reis: (If possible, I'd like to get to finish this chase ;) )
[17:58] Alathon: roll 1d20+11 dodge
[17:58] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+11 dodge --> [ 1d20=20 ]{31}
[17:58] Alathon: haha
[17:58] Reis: (... Huh. He DOES dodge)
[17:58] Alathon: #6 manages to get juuuuust far enough outta the way to avoid
[17:59] Alathon: Sheena is up
[17:59] Reis: (Hm?)
[17:59] Reis: (Isn't he in range?)
[17:59] Reis: (And it's my shot now?)
[17:59] Alathon: #6? yes
[17:59] Yarrow: (Well, the further you get, the better for me, but if DCG has to go do something...)
[18:00] Reis: (So it's top of round?)
[18:00] Reis: (Yeah, dependent on DCG)
[18:00] Alathon: it is now, #6 is moving in to take a swing at you, Reis
[18:00] * Reis binds him in the face.
[18:00] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[18:00] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{39}
[18:00] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[18:00] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{22}
[18:00] Alathon: hit
[18:00] Alathon: roll 10d6
[18:00] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=39 ]{39}
[18:00] Yarrow: (Angel: "Mmph!")
[18:01] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 Bang as well
[18:01] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 Bang as well --> [ 1d20=13 ]{43}
[18:01] Alathon: which one?
[18:01] Sheena: Number 6
[18:01] Alathon: #1 is one round out, as is #3
[18:01] Alathon: #2 just freed themselves
[18:01] Sheena: (since he know has two slaming into him)
[18:01] Alathon: roll 1d20+13
[18:01] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+13 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{17}
[18:02] Sheena: (so both hit?)
[18:02] Alathon: yup
[18:02] Alathon: damage roll
[18:03] Alathon: damage, sheena?
[18:04] Sheena: Roll 6d8+4
[18:04] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 --> [ 6d8=29 ]{33}
[18:04] Sheena: Roll 6d8+4
[18:04] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 --> [ 6d8=25 ]{29}
[18:04] Sheena: (sorry phone again(
[18:05] Alathon: the energy bolt slamms into the bound angel, injuring it badly.. it's hard to tell at this distance, but odds are it's outta commission.
[18:05] Alathon: end of round, top of the order
[18:05] Alathon: Reis is up
[18:05] Alathon: btw sheena, hp?
[18:05] * Reis binds #1 in the face again.
[18:05] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[18:05] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=10 ]{40}
[18:06] Alathon: and, EP for both of you?
[18:06] Reis: "Sorry if this is less than exciting, but it works!"
[18:06] Reis: (20 HP, 43 EP)
[18:06] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[18:06] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{35}
[18:06] Alathon: evaded
[18:06] Reis: (... Oh FUG you angel boy.)
[18:07] Alathon: it comes in, and takes a heavy, two-handed swing at Sheena
[18:07] Alathon: roll 1d20+23-10 power attack
[18:07] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+23-10 power attack --> [ 1d20=5 ]{18}
[18:07] Yarrow: (Actually doable.)
[18:07] Reis: (YEAH, Sheens, you can dodge this!)
[18:07] Reis: (Heck, without critting!)
[18:07] Sheena: me dodge?
[18:08] Yarrow: (Get big hearts in your eyes as you urge senpai to do it.)
[18:08] Alathon: you could if you wanted ;p
[18:08] Sheena: Roll 1d20+3
[18:08] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+3 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{21}
[18:08] Alathon: haha, see?
[18:08] Yarrow: (Toldja.)
[18:08] Alathon: the sword goes by with a WHOOSH
[18:08] * Reis pumps her fist. "Nice move, senpai!"
[18:08] Alathon: btw, what's your hp/ep sheena?
[18:08] Alathon: and, you're up
[18:08] Alathon: #1 just attacked you
[18:08] Alathon: #3 is about to
[18:08] Sheena: (hang on geting the cat)
[18:08] Alathon: #2 is closing
[18:08] Sheena: (cac)
[18:09] Yarrow: (He has a cac?)
[18:09] Sheena: (74/58 hp ep)
[18:09] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 Bind 3
[18:09] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 Bind 3 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{33}
[18:09] Reis: (Wow, you're a tank Sheens)
[18:10] Sheena: (its the fuku)
[18:10] Reis: (74 HP left? Yeah baby, fuku are starting to sound real cool :P)
[18:10] Reis: (Y'know, if I level up while we're still fighting here, I'm SO getting Regen)
[18:11] Yarrow: (Get it as magic w/focus and you can convert 1 ep to 10hp.
[18:11] Yarrow: (Over 10 rounds.)
[18:11] Reis: (Nah, the awesome bit is just sitting there for fifteen minutes and getting totally healed in midfight. No Magic for me, I don't think :P )
[18:11] Alathon: roll 1d20+15
[18:11] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{16}
[18:11] Alathon: roll 10d6
[18:11] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=37 ]{37}
[18:12] Yarrow: (And how many fights last 15 minutes?)
[18:12] Reis: (This one's lasted 5 hours so far ;) )
[18:12] Alathon: end of round, top of the order
[18:12] Alathon: Reis is up
[18:12] Alathon: #1 and #3 are bound and just fell behind
[18:12] Yarrow: (So... 1 out of the entire campaign?)
[18:12] Alathon: #2 is closing in on you
[18:12] Reis: (Hm? Didn't #1 critdodge my bind?)
[18:13] Alathon: sheena got it
[18:13] Alathon: oh wait
[18:13] Alathon: you're right
[18:13] Alathon: sheena got #3
[18:13] * Reis gets #1, and his little dog, too. "Senpai, watch my back!"
[18:13] Reis: roll 1d20+30
[18:13] Ala-bot: Reis rolled 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=5 ]{35}
[18:13] Yarrow: (I want to see Reis develop an Alt Wurst attack.)
[18:13] Alathon: roll 1d20+15 dodge
[18:14] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15 dodge --> [ 1d20=4 ]{19}
[18:14] Alathon: roll 10d6
[18:14] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 10d6 --> [ 10d6=33 ]{33}
[18:14] Alathon: slammed and bound..
[18:14] Alathon: Sheena, you're up
[18:15] Alathon: nothing in range of close attacks
[18:15] Alathon: #2 is closing
[18:15] Reis: (Oh, I thought you meant #2 was in close range by now)
[18:15] Alathon: (it will be next round)
[18:15] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 at 2
[18:15] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 at 2 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{50}
[18:15] Alathon: you hit
[18:16] Alathon: roll 20d6
[18:16] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 20d6 --> [ 20d6=71 ]{71}
[18:16] Alathon: er
[18:16] Reis: (... Ya know, I don't think he will)
[18:16] Alathon: wait
[18:16] Alathon: you're shooting a damage attack.. just roll your double damage
[18:16] Sheena: roll 12d8+8
[18:16] Yarrow: (Take the 71! :) )
[18:16] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 12d8+8 --> [ 12d8=67 ]{75}
[18:16] Sheena: (how about a 75?)
[18:16] Alathon: ((the +4 isnn't doubled, but same diff))
[18:16] Reis: (Why EVER would she want to do that? ;) )
[18:16] Yarrow: (Making it 71. :D )
[18:16] Reis: (Heh)
[18:17] Alathon: The single bolt of bright magenta energy screams into the angel, and with a terrific explosion, sends it cartwheeling towards the ocean.
[18:17] Alathon: end of round, top of the order
[18:18] * Sheena grins, dark heart flashs and a angle goes boom
[18:18] * Reis grins. "Tentatively, that's four kills, two left."
[18:18] Alathon: Reis, you're up.. nothign is nearby
[18:18] Yarrow: (Not off into the sky to disappear in a little sparkle of light? :) )
[18:18] * Reis breathes.
[18:18] Sheena: "Problem is we're still so far away"
[18:18] Alathon: #1 is still bound a ways back, as is #3
[18:18] * Reis takes aim at the one who'll get here soonest.
[18:19] Reis: (Yes, a +30 hit mod isn't enough, I wanna take a whole round to aim to get +34 :P )
[18:19] Sheena: (its all most 8:30 here ail, about how much more we got?)
[18:19] Alathon: ((not much))
[18:19] Alathon: ((less than an hour)
[18:19] Alathon: (you need to leave in 10 minutes?))
[18:19] Reis: (Hope we get to finish off this chase)
[18:19] Sheena: (no, just pointing out the time, Ill like to help the nabors before they go to bed)
[18:19] Sheena: (any way, do i have ashot?)
[18:20] Alathon: You'll figure out soon enough that nobody is getting close.. the two that were bound fly back towards a third bound comrade.. then back to the host.
[18:20] Alathon: You can take a shot if you want
[18:20] Alathon: two, in fa
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Session 52 - part 3

Postby Alathon » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:24 am

Session 52 - part 3

[18:20] Alathon: You can take a shot if you want
[18:20] Alathon: two, in fact
[18:20] Alathon: #3 and #1 and hreading back for one of the others
[18:20] Sheena: "Awww isn't that cute, AIR BURST!"
[18:20] * Sheena sends a black spark off
[18:20] * Reis nods. "All right, Usagi-san, they're pulling back now."
[18:21] Sheena: Roll roll 6d8+4
[18:21] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled roll 6d8+4 --> error: malformed expression
[18:21] Sheena: roll 6d8+4
[18:21] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 --> [ 6d8=24 ]{28}
[18:21] Alathon: roll 2#1d20+9
[18:21] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 2#1d20+9 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{18}, [ 1d20=11 ]{20}
[18:21] * Sheena ejects the mag out of dark heart
[18:22] Alathon: One of them falls from the sky.. the other one moves to catch it
[18:22] * Sheena slams a new one home
[18:22] Alathon: you've got one more shot with your range, if you want to take it
[18:22] Sheena: Roll 1d20+30 +spreading shell.
[18:22] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+30 +spreading shell. --> [ 1d20=15 ]{45}
[18:23] Alathon: roll 1d20+9 reflex
[18:23] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+9 reflex --> [ 1d20=8 ]{17}
[18:23] Alathon: ((oh, spreading)
[18:23] Alathon: roll 1d20+15-1 dodge
[18:23] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20+15-1 dodge --> [ 1d20=6 ]{20}
[18:23] Alathon: hits both, damage?
[18:24] Sheena: roll 6d8+4
[18:24] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 6d8+4 --> [ 6d8=34 ]{38}
[18:24] Alathon: You blast them both from the sky, sending them down to greet the Pacific.
[18:25] * Reis sweatdrops. "Actually, looks like senpai killed what was left."
[18:25] Alathon: Usagi: "Understood, are any more moving to engage?"
[18:25] Alathon: The answer is.. no.
[18:25] Reis: "So six down, and none moving to engage right now."
[18:25] Alathon: In fact.. in 1's and 3's, some of the extended elements of the horde retreat to the horde propper.
[18:25] * Reis cocks her head. "Hm. Seems they're abandoning their spread."
[18:26] Reis: "Some of them are retreating into the main mass."
[18:27] * Sheena smirk fades, bah
[18:28] Sheena: "Could really use some CT time once we make it out of this'
[18:29] Alathon: Usagi: "Agreed. Saturn is looking for you.. and the big glowy golden mass."
[18:29] Reis: "If I had to guess, Usagi-san, I'd say they're deciding not to engage us strung-out and just wait until they run us down."
[18:29] Alathon: Usagi: "Unfortunately, the Pacific is a big place."
[18:29] * Reis frowns. "How far can she dependably see? We can put up signal shots."
[18:29] * Sheena loooks side to side.. yep lota blue
[18:29] * Reis wonders if their communicators have a GPS function.
[18:30] Sheena: "hmm, a way to locate ops will be handy in future jobs"
[18:30] Reis: (... Never mind, we don't even have SATELLITES, of course we won't have GPS...)
[18:31] Yarrow: (Heh. So long as the enemy doesn't figure it out. :) )
[18:31] * Reis chuckles. "Always good to get combat experience, I suppose..."
[18:31] Alathon: Usagi: "pretty far.. but with the glow trailing you, probably not necessary..."
[18:32] Alathon: It won't be that long after this conversation, when a dark speck closes in on you from the north... one readily identifiable as Sailor Saturn.
[18:32] * Sheena has a smile at that
[18:32] Alathon: She moves up beside you both, her microbraids streaming in the wind.
[18:32] * Sheena waves
[18:32] Alathon: Saturn, casual: "How's things?"
[18:33] * Reis smiles and nods. "Good evening, Saturn-san."
[18:33] Sheena: "Doing good, How about you?"
[18:33] Yarrow: ("Divine.")
[18:33] Sheena: (doh!)
[18:33] Alathon: Saturn: "Peachy."
[18:33] Alathon: Saturn: "Haven't had a chance for a massacre like this in.."
[18:33] Alathon: Saturn thinks for a moment.
[18:33] Alathon: Saturn: "Well, not counting that one time.. two hundred years, give or take a few."
[18:34] Yarrow: (Too bad I wasn't there to give that line...)
[18:34] * Sheena holds dark heart up, there both happy for the back up and sad they can't do it them selfs
[18:34] Sheena: "Shame"
[18:34] * Reis raises an eyebrow. "Well, hope you enjoy it, Saturn-san."
[18:34] Alathon: Dark Heart: "xxxxxx xxxxx!"
[18:34] Sheena: "Me and reis have been doing our thing, but *shurgs*"
[18:34] Alathon: Saturn: "Oh, I intend to."
[18:35] Sheena: "Dark Heart Says Fuck em up for her"
[18:35] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm sure Uranus, Mars, Mamoru, and those ships will get their shots in.. but the good money's on me taking at least half."
[18:35] Alathon: ((er, not usagi.. Saturn ;p ))
[18:35] * Reis nods. "Want us to join in once it starts, or just move to safety?"
[18:35] Alathon: Saturn: "Eh, fine by me."
[18:35] Yarrow: (Hmph. And I don't get to see such an incredibly sight, either.)
[18:36] Alathon: Saturn: "Nothing personal, but I doubt you'll steal too many killshots."
[18:36] Sheena: "Mamor... Oh the king? Damn"
[18:36] Alathon: Saturn eyes Reis.
[18:36] Alathon: Saturn: "Though.. you're looking kinda sketchy>"
[18:36] Yarrow: (You can be the peashooters firing next to the big guns. :) )
[18:36] * Reis chuckles. "At least I could imagine I'm contributing somewhat."
[18:36] * Sheena flys over close to ries just above her
[18:36] * Reis nods. "I'm not in great shape just yet."
[18:36] Sheena: "I been telling her she needs a proper Fuku, but noooo"
[18:37] Alathon: Saturn: "Huh. Yeah, not a bad idea, really.. "
[18:37] Alathon: Saturn flies over to Reis, then spins over and hugs her from behind.
[18:37] Alathon: (do you try to avoid?)
[18:37] * Reis chuckles, shaking her head. "I have one. Could've put it up, but I'd have fallen behind."
[18:38] Alathon: She's not grabbing anything ;p
[18:38] * Reis blinks like hell, but isn't quite sure WTF is going on and probably just jerks reflexively.
[18:38] * Sheena smirks at the action
[18:38] Alathon: Soon enough, Reis is healed.. Saturn will repeat the process for Sheena.
[18:38] Alathon: (+80 hp each)
[18:38] Reis: (Kinda scary that that hasn't actually perfectly healed me :P )
[18:39] Sheena: "Thank you"
[18:39] * Reis smiles. "Thank you, Saturn-san."
[18:39] Alathon: Saturn: "Too bad the Usagi wannabe isn't here.. he'd be thrilled."
[18:39] Reis: "Feels a great deal better..."
[18:39] Alathon: She says this amused, rather than spitefully.
[18:39] Sheena: "I been trying to get him to put on this sex change ring to see if his a lost twin or not, but he wont do it"
[18:40] Alathon: Saturn: "Good luck with that! I kinda got the vibe he wasn't too keen on being mistaken for a princess."
[18:40] * Reis giggles. "Yes... he probably wouldn't take it exceptionally well."
[18:40] * Sheena snorts
[18:40] Sheena: "Then he shoudlnt spend so much time on his hair"
[18:41] Alathon: Saturn: "Anyways... plan's simple. We drag them up by the ships, our heavy hitters fly up,and we kill as many of 'em as we can before they get the hell out of dodge."
[18:41] Sheena: "Roger that"
[18:41] Yarrow: (Hmph. Glad everyone's so cheery. :p )
[18:41] Alathon: (it's the adrenaline ;p )
[18:41] * Sheena Take the mag out of dark heart and checks its load before putting it back in
[18:41] * Reis nods. "Understood, Saturn-san."
[18:42] Alathon: Saturn: "If you want to toss in, by all means, just try not to get fried when they unload."
[18:42] Alathon: Saturn: "Mercury and Neptune are on D, but there's no such thing as a foolproof battle plan."
[18:43] * Reis smiles. "I'll stay out of everyone's line of fire."
[18:43] Sheena: "A lot of them seem to be Melee based in attacks, At lest thats who's been keeping up with us'
[18:43] Alathon: Saturn smiles brilliantly.
[18:43] Alathon: Saturn: "The more swordswingers the better!"
[18:43] Reis: "We really need to get Sakura-san to attack us more so we can practice."
[18:43] Alathon: Saturn: "Every one of 'em's one that'll be dead or fled by dawn."
[18:43] Alathon: Saturn looks over to Reis.
[18:44] Alathon: Saturn: "Yeah.. definately a good idea. Keep Mani around, and you can do it for real, too."
[18:44] Alathon: Saturn: 'Always better that way.. you learn faster."
[18:44] Sheena: "Shit reis, practive when? We're on the clock all most none stop"
[18:44] * Reis winces.
[18:44] * Sheena goes grim at mani
[18:44] Reis: "Um..."
[18:44] Alathon: Saturn: "No time? Well, that's a pity."
[18:44] Sheena: "We lost mani yesterday, She didn't win her dule"
[18:45] Alathon: Saturn: "Oh.. well, that sucks."
[18:45] Reis: "'Ryba Wintershield' killed her... I wasn't fast enough..."
[18:45] Alathon: She doesn't seem terribly moved.
[18:45] Alathon: Saturn, as an afterthought: "Sorry."
[18:46] * Sheena "Meh, mission got done. Ill deal with it later"
[18:46] Alathon: Saturn quiets down after that.. kinda killed the mood.
[18:46] * Reis frowns to herself.
[18:47] Sheena: "Any way, What was the reaction when it got around some idoits we're leading an army home?"
[18:47] Alathon: Saturn: "Hm?"
[18:48] * Reis blinks and weakly chuckles at the thought.
[18:48] Yarrow: (To send out a bunch of heavy hitters on some ships. :p )
[18:48] Alathon: Saturn: "Well.. I"m stoked, Uranas was kinda stoked too, Neptune was pissed, Mercury was pissed, Venus was kinda pissed, Mars was downright pissed off.. uh."
[18:48] Alathon: Saturn ticks these off, and continues.
[18:49] Alathon: Saturn: "Mamoru was pissed, Usagi was kinda peeved, and Usagi-chan was just kinda tired."
[18:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Haven't run into Puu or Jupiter, so I couldn't say."
[18:50] Alathon: ((.. again, that was Saturn))
[18:50] Sheena: "Oh great, 5 out of 8 bosses pissed off"
[18:51] * Reis cocks her head and wonders who Puu is, then by process of elimination guesses Pluto.
[18:51] Alathon: Saturn shoots you a smile and a thumbs up.
[18:51] Alathon: She nods a little too.
[18:51] * Sheena sighs
[18:51] * Reis winces. "Could I pass on an apology about the army?"
[18:51] Alathon: Saturn: "Eh, do it in person. Sounds more sincere that way."
[18:52] Alathon: Saturn: "Besides, it's not like I give a damn."
[18:52] Alathon: Saturn: "They're the ones all bent outta shape."
[18:52] * Reis chuckles weakly and nods.
[18:52] Sheena: "Im not quite sure how to say sorry for pissing off an army, but i can give it ago"
[18:52] Yarrow: (That must be one valuable staff. :) )
[18:53] Alathon: Saturn: "Huh, what'd you do to get em so bent out of shape, anyways?"
[18:53] Alathon: Saturn: "Blow up their camp followers?"
[18:53] Alathon: Saturn: "Poison their food?"
[18:53] Reis: "Um... Assassinate their boss?"
[18:53] * Reis sweatdrops.
[18:53] Sheena: "Yep"
[18:53] Reis: "We think?"
[18:53] Sheena: "While he was at church to"
[18:54] Sheena: "Wasn't even a puddle left of the guy"
[18:54] Alathon: Saturn: "Ooh, nice one!"
[18:54] Alathon: Saturn: "So, I take it we're finally getting off our asses and doing something about Texas?"
[18:54] * Reis smiles slightly. "At the least, the mission went off right..."
[18:54] * Reis nods. "So far as I know, I think."
[18:54] Sheena: "I hope so, Thoes basterds have soul sucking crosses in there fuckiing churchs"
[18:55] Alathon: Saturn rolls her eyes.
[18:55] * Reis whips her head and stares at Sheena.
[18:55] Alathon: Saturn: "How cliche.. though I guess it coulda been worse."
[18:55] Reis: "They have WHAT?!"
[18:55] Alathon: Saturn: "Soul sucking books are even worse."
[18:55] Yarrow: ("Isn't that what church is all about?")
[18:55] * Reis blinks and looks at Saturn. "This... is common? Huh."
[18:57] Sheena: "Cliche? Thats just great"
[18:57] * Reis looks at Sheena. "... What did you and Sakura-san see in there, anyway...?"
[18:59] Sheena: "Im not sure what Sakura found out, but the magic i tracked was for gathering, channeling, and holding life engery"
[19:00] Reis: (So. Soul-sucking book? Did they have the Book of Darkness too or something?)
[19:00] Yarrow: (Saturn really loved Harry Potter.)
[19:00] Alathon: Saturn: "Yeah, it's always like that."
[19:01] Alathon: Saturn, sorta to her self: "... such a crock of shit..."
[19:01] * Reis blinks. "... What exactly is so USEFUL about it?"
[19:01] Alathon: Saturn: "To the 'gods'?"
[19:02] Alathon: She says this word with purest contempt.
[19:02] Alathon: Saturn: "Oh, it's the bees knees."
[19:02] Alathon: Saturn: "Give 'em some stupid idol or icon to fondle, and take a little of 'em off the top. get a few hunder, or few thousand.. it's like a pyramid scheme."
[19:02] Alathon: Saturn: "And that's all they ever boil down to. Pyramid schemes."
[19:03] Alathon: Saturn continues on, lecturing.
[19:03] * Reis frowns, nodding.
[19:03] Alathon: Saturn: "You know.. I've fought.. like, dozens of these things."
[19:03] * Sheena nods listing in
[19:03] Alathon: Saturn: "Hell, all the way back before the End of the World, we had shit like this."
[19:03] Alathon: Saturn: "You have some aaaaaaaallllll-pooooowwwwwerrrfullll being."
[19:03] Alathon: Sautrn says this with derisive stage-effect.
[19:04] Alathon: Saturn: "That gets people wrapped around their fingers, pseudopods.. or whatever the hell they have."
[19:04] Alathon: Saturn: "And it's all about the life-force."
[19:04] Alathon: Saturn: "If they aren't sucking someone dry, they're using 'em as pawns to suck a whole bunch of people dry."
[19:04] Alathon: Saturn: "And they hardly ever got anything. Hell, most of 'em got nothing, since as far as I can tell, most of 'em were made up to begin with."
[19:05] Alathon: Saturn: "The ones who had real 'gods'.. oh, they were the ones who really got the shaft."
[19:05] * Reis simply listens.
[19:06] Alathon: Saturn: "It's always like this.. some gimmic to get people touching the same rock, or bowing their heads to the same altar, or whatever..."
[19:06] Alathon: Saturn, musingly: "... though I suppose it kinda isn't. Usually doesn't get whole nations. Something to keep in mind."
[19:06] Alathon: She says the last part pointedly, looking at you both.
[19:06] Alathon: Saturn shakes her head.
[19:06] * Sheena blinks and then nods
[19:06] Sheena: "Right
[19:07] Alathon: Saturn: "Such a crock of shit. Hell, they'd be better off worshipping me!"
[19:07] * Reis nods. "I see... Somewhat..."
[19:07] Alathon: Saturn: "I mean, I'd never do a damned thing, but at least I wouldn't be stealing thier life energies,a nd wouldn't tell 'em what to do and what not to do."
[19:07] Alathon: saturn: "And for bonus points, I'm REAL!"
[19:07] * Reis chuckles slightly. "That helps."
[19:08] * Sheena smirks
[19:08] Alathon: Saturn: "Heh, well.. thankfully, nobody's gone quite far that. Fan clubs, I can deal with."
[19:08] Sheena: "I guess its a location thing"
[19:08] Sheena: "Fan clubs?"
[19:08] Alathon: Saturn shrugs.
[19:08] Alathon: Saturn looks over to Sheena and grins.
[19:09] Reis: "Sakura-san?"
[19:09] Alathon: Saturn: "Look around on the net a bit.. heck, I bet Sakura's got a few pics of me posted by now."
[19:10] Sheena: "Oh dear, well thats soemthing to check out"
[19:10] Alathon: Saturn: "You see.. that's an example of a healthy relationship."
[19:10] Alathon: Saturn: "Anywhere between 'I hate your guts and wanna kill you'."
[19:10] Alathon: Saturn: "And I love you and totally wanna bed you.. that, I'm cool with."
[19:10] Alathon: Saturn: "I worship you? That's just messed up."
[19:11] Alathon: Anyways...
[19:11] * Reis nods, shaking her head. "And the things they're willing to do based on that worship..."
[19:11] Sheena: "I like em near the "Should i take her on the table here in front of the others.." level"
[19:11] Alathon: Saturn will chill a bit, and continue with some friendly banter along these lines.
[19:11] * Reis blushes, no need to say it.
[19:12] Yarrow: (Saturn cocks her head. "Say, aren't you the one with the soul sucking girlfriend?")
[19:12] Alathon: (heh)
[19:12] Alathon: (either she doesn't know, has some tact, or forgot ;p))
[19:12] Yarrow: (I think we can rule out #2...)
[19:12] Alathon: (.. or is saving it for when it'll be funnier to take a dig at sheena over it)
[19:12] Alathon: (yup)
[19:12] Reis: (OOoooooooh yeah Saturn, we know it ;) )
[19:14] Alathon: time passes..
[19:14] Alathon: the sun sets.. which isn't much fun, since you have to shield your eyes for several hours
[19:15] Yarrow: (Sheena has shades. :))
[19:15] Alathon: And.. everything goes as planned.
[19:15] Alathon: Simple as that.
[19:15] * Reis blinkblinks and hopes nobody approaches while her eyes adjust.
[19:15] Alathon: It's a slaughter unmatched in your experience, and it's over in less than a minute.
[19:15] * Sheena passes out shades as the sun sets
[19:16] * Sheena and would want to blast offsome busters with +2 spearding to help
[19:16] * Reis tries to score at least a couple kills/wounds from the sidelines, but largely watches and takes notes.
[19:16] Alathon: You'll each get a couple, at least, and Mars, the Soyokaze, and the Yamato get their share as well.
[19:17] * Sheena cris a little inside that even her 90f wide shot of doom is one of the smaller shots around..
[19:17] * Reis does the math once she realizes that about four Senshi annihilated almost a thousand angels.
[19:17] Alathon: Saturn, Uranus, and King Endymion get the most.. Endymion with brillian balls of golden-white light hurled into their midst, Uranus with dimmer yellow-gold balls of energy, and Saturn with wide cones of darkness not so dissimilar from Sheena's own Obsidian Buster.. and her own hands.
[19:17] Alathon: Oh, they don't get all of them
[19:18] Sheena: (how the heck dont they?)
[19:18] Reis: (Run really really fast)
[19:18] Yarrow: (They split up and flee.)
[19:18] * Reis takes LOTS of notes, and comments on some of the more painful-looking things the good guys do to them.
[19:18] Alathon: They're quick on the uptake.. within twelve seconds of the ambush being sprung, angels started vanishing from this plane by the dozens.
[19:18] Reis: (And dim hopping, heh)
[19:18] Alathon: Some of them stayed and hurled magical attacks, primarily flame based, towards the Senshi and hte boats; they are met with rising spikes of ice and pillars of ocean water.
[19:19] Alathon: Saturn takes responsibility for hte stragglers who have, for whatever reason (read: botch), lost the ability to dim hop out.
[19:19] Sheena: (how do the main ship guns look :P )
[19:19] Alathon: They look not dissimilar from the plasma blaster in Tribes, except way bigger.
[19:19] Alathon: Rapid fire gouts of bright plasma
[19:20] Reis: (9 hours EP regen, minus whatever we blew on the angels?)
[19:20] Alathon: Each ship is mounted with a dual plasma cannon turret at fore, and aft
[19:20] Alathon: (yeah)
[19:20] Reis: (Rogeroh)
[19:21] Alathon: Saturn chases down as many as she can, going with a combination of decapitations with her Glaive, hurling it through hapless angels only to catch it moments later, and grabbing them and spearing her right hand through their torsos.
[19:21] Alathon: Best guess is that, all told, at least a third of the horde perished this day.
[19:22] * Reis watches the show. "We... really need to work on our skills, senpai."
[19:22] Reis: "At least there's room for improvement?"
[19:22] Sheena: "Well.. we havn't even broken our first hundered yet, but i guress"
[19:22] Sheena: *see
[19:23] Alathon: I'll assume you'll land together on one of the ships, as there's really nowhere else other than the presumably uninhabited Taiwan nearby.
[19:23] * Sheena heads over to the boss with ries
[19:23] Alathon: End here
[19:23] Yarrow: (They could land on an angel corpse.)
[19:23] * Reis will land whenever the action dies down.
[19:23] Reis: (Heh)
[19:23] Alathon: Those are armored and tend to sink
[19:24] Sheena: Damn whata session
[19:24] Reis: (Let the looting COMMENCE!)
[19:24] *** Reis is now known as Pale_Wolf.
[19:24] Pale_Wolf: Yeah, that was rather exciting.
[19:24] Yarrow: If you like scouring the bottom of the ocean. :)
[19:24] Yarrow: Lots of xp, but unfortunately, you have to split it with the senshi, Mamoru, and the crews of each of the ships.
[19:25] Sheena: (doh)
[19:25] Yarrow: (That last one is the killer.)
[19:25] *** Sheena is now known as DCG.
[19:25] Alathon: haha
[19:25] Pale_Wolf: On the whole, I'd have to thank you for having him smack me with the forcewall. Gave me two more kills, and reminded us of crash damage ;)
[19:25] Alathon: heh
[19:25] Pale_Wolf: Crash damage was SO fun.
[19:25] Alathon: you can look for that sort of stuff from your enemies, so you should certainly enjoy using it ;p
[19:26] Pale_Wolf: I almost want more high-speed chases.
[19:26] Alathon: and it's not like you have 500mph chase fights very often
[19:26] Pale_Wolf: The ability to do 10d6 damage for 2 EP WINS.
[19:26] DCG: we looted a general midi device
[19:27] DCG: that kcisks so much ass
[19:27] Pale_Wolf: Yup, that was fun. We picked up lotsa loot.
[19:27] Yarrow: A general midi device? It must sound like crap. :)
[19:27] Alathon: you're gonna be disappointed when it comes to the staff, but the rest of the loot is decent
[19:27] Pale_Wolf: Oh, yeah, what ever happened to Myshaella's rings?
[19:27] Pale_Wolf: Well, _I_ don't expect it to be magical, so Reis will be taking a techie-look at it :P
[19:27] DCG: awww
[19:28] DCG: i was hopping it would be a good tech boost for CT
[19:28] Pale_Wolf: But yeah, it's probably just a focus for the normal spells ;_;
[19:28] Yarrow: It's a staff of summoning hostile angel hordes.
[19:28] DCG: or at lest soemthing to get ami unpissed at us
[19:28] Yarrow: She never said they were all mad at *you guys*.
[19:28] Yarrow: Just that they were mad.
[19:28] Pale_Wolf: Hahhahahahahaha!
[19:28] Pale_Wolf: That would SUCK if it were the case.
[19:30] Pale_Wolf: But we're guessing they're mad at us, since we were the dorks that drew a horde of angels out towards home :P
[19:30] Pale_Wolf: Al, XP?
[19:30] Yarrow: 5xp after the split.
[19:31] Pale_Wolf: (Damn you Soyokaze, damn youuuuuuuuuuuuu)
[19:32] DCG: heh
[19:32] DCG: brb
[19:37] Alathon: heh
[19:37] Alathon: had to hit the bathroom sorry
[19:37] Pale_Wolf: Heh, no problem.
[19:38] Alathon: 4125 exp
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Session 53

Postby Alathon » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:25 am

Session 53

[13:15] Alathon: anyways
[13:16] Reis: All righty. Sky thought my peering was because of my laziness in updating. I've updated now, so I'm gonna frigging stab something with Swordbreaker if I get constantly-peered again.
[13:16] Alathon: we left off last week with Reis and SHeena having fought a running battle across the skies of the pacific, driven off or slain more upwards of a dozen angels and angel hangers-on, and dragged the Angel Hoard into an ambush
[13:17] Sheena: (hell of a trip)
[13:18] * Reis lands on... one of the ships, hopefully one on which her commanding officer can be met.
[13:18] Alathon: we'll pick up not long afterwards, with you both walking into what appears to be a shouting match between Mars and Usagi.
[13:19] Alathon: Mars, extremely agitated: "No strategic advantage is worth this!"
[13:19] * Reis blinks in surprise, and takes every effort not to draw either of their attention.
[13:19] Alathon: Usagi, also rather riled up: "I suppose you had a better --"
[13:19] Alathon: Usagi cuts off when she notices you two.
[13:19] Alathon: Mars notices her cut off, and turns to look at you.
[13:19] * Sheena is landed near reis to and.. uhoh
[13:20] Alathon: A moment passes.. and Mars turns back to Usagi.
[13:20] * Sheena lets dark heart dissapear back to a gem
[13:20] Alathon: Mars: "So? You have something to say.. right?"
[13:21] * Reis ... slings Swordbreaker through a loop on her belt, and attempts to stay out of it.
[13:21] Alathon: There's another tense moment, where it looks like Usagi definately has something itchign to let out.
[13:21] * Sheena looks around for a good exit..
[13:22] Alathon: Saturn's voice: "Cut some slack, Mars."
[13:22] Alathon: She comes around the corner.. more or less covered in blood.
[13:22] Alathon: Her uniform is pristine.. anywhere she doesn't have uniform is somewhere between 'splattered' and 'covered' in matted red stuff.
[13:22] Yarrow: (It keeps her skin smooth and supple)
[13:22] * Sheena blinks but decides this would be a bad time to crack a comment.
[13:22] Alathon: Mars turns around to see her, opens her mouth to say something, closes it, then opens it again.
[13:23] * Reis blinks and has the sudden odd thought of 'How did she manage THAT gore distribution?'
[13:23] * Sheena out of combat again lets her fukufade.
[13:23] Alathon: Mars looks a little disgusted.
[13:23] Alathon: Mars: "For pity's sake, at least take a dip in the ocean?"
[13:24] Yarrow: (Saturn: "And get my hair wet?!?")
[13:24] * Sheena looks over at the currently red ocean
[13:24] Alathon: ((her hairs already.. um.. rather wet))
[13:24] Sheena: (oceans bloody right?)
[13:24] Alathon: ((it's actually not red or anything))
[13:24] Yarrow: (Salty? No, already that, too...)
[13:24] Sheena: (damn!)
[13:24] Alathon: ((a few hundred people spread over several miles isn't enough))
[13:24] Sheena: (we'll be better next time!_
[13:24] Alathon: Saturn: "Yeah, yeah. I just finished up... cut me some slack."
[13:25] Alathon: She says the last phrase slightly provactively, and Mars rises to the bait.
[13:25] Alathon: Mars: "Finished butchering their stragglers, you mean?"
[13:25] Alathon: Saturn rolls her eyes.. Usagi tries to get in between them, but Saturn steps up, and so does mars.
[13:25] Alathon: Saturn: "Oh, don't be so uptight. I didn't kill *all* of them, you'll get your cut."
[13:26] Alathon: Mars: "That's not the point!"
[13:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Listen, maybe we should --"
[13:26] Alathon: Saturn: "Oh, I suppose we brought two warships and most of the Senshi out here to go fishing, then?"
[13:27] * Sheena leans to reis and quitly, "We did end up being rather good bait.."
[13:27] Alathon: Mars starts to puff up and say something.. than catches what Sheena said and looks at Usagi accusingly.
[13:28] Yarrow: (Oh, Sheena...)
[13:28] Alathon: Mars: "Well? What do you have to say for yourself?"
[13:28] Sheena: (fragging super hearing)
[13:28] * Sheena stands back up straght
[13:28] Alathon: Usagi gets a sort of defiant look on her face, and marches over to you two.
[13:28] * Reis thinks it wisest not to draw ire or attention from the lady who just slaughtered somewhere around a hundred angels.
[13:29] Alathon: Usagi: "I formally acknowledge your most excellent service this evening; your baiting was superb."
[13:29] Alathon: Usagi does a stiff bow from the waist.
[13:29] Alathon: She softens a little..
[13:29] Sheena: (to us or mars?)
[13:29] Alathon: Usagi: "Good job staying alive, too."
[13:29] Alathon: ((to you))
[13:29] * Sheena looks very confused at the bow
[13:29] Alathon: You hear applause.. it's Saturn.
[13:30] Alathon: Mars: "Cute. Very cute."
[13:30] Sheena: "I err.. we. umm. Yes ma'am?"
[13:30] * Reis closes her eyes and nods. "... Thank you, Usagi-san?"
[13:30] Alathon: Saturn: "Fuck's sake, Mars, couldn't we do this later? After a shower and a meal, maybe?"
[13:30] Alathon: Mars: "Yes. Certainly. Whatever."
[13:30] Sheena: (i forget, do you return bow after something like that or not? if you suposed to sheena would)
[13:30] Alathon: Mars turns and leaves in a huff.
[13:31] Alathon: ((it's a socially awkward situation, superiors don't do stuff like that))
[13:31] Yarrow: (Diplomacy check! :p )
[13:31] Alathon: ((there's no right response))
[13:31] Alathon: (none of them have it ;p ))
[13:31] Sheena: "Well, shit. It's good to be back boss. Thanks for saving our asses."
[13:31] Alathon: Usagi: "I.. right."
[13:32] Sheena: (no right response? lets go with a bad one!)
[13:32] * Reis frowns and nods. "We... sorry for drawing that many back..."
[13:32] Alathon: Usagi: "That's not your fault."
[13:32] Alathon: Usagi: "I should have anticipated something like this."
[13:32] Alathon: Mars, over her shoulder: "Sure you didn't."
[13:33] Alathon: A flash of anger crosses Usagi's face, then disappears.
[13:33] Sheena: "I still have no idea how they found us, At headed north west at 28 thousand feet and used a thunderstorm for cover'
[13:33] Alathon: Saturn walks over behind Usagi and reaches up to squeeze her shoulders.
[13:33] Alathon: Usagi: "I don't know either.. some sort of tracking spell, maybe?"
[13:34] Alathon: Usagi: "Or scrying? Or divine interference?"
[13:34] * Reis frowns. "Sadly enough... 'Magic' is likely a good excuse. Possibly they used scrying/divination."
[13:34] Alathon: Saturn, perkily: "Laser eyes?"
[13:34] Reis: "Personally I wouldn't like to posit anything divine in relation to them, Usagi-san."
[13:34] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head slightly.. but smiles a bit.
[13:35] Alathon: Saturn is working on Usagi's rather tense muslces at this point.
[13:35] Alathon: And consequently smearing blood all over her uniform. Usagi hasn't noticed this yet.
[13:35] Sheena: (heh)
[13:35] * Sheena takes a quick look over the rest of the ship.. Who's waiting to grill us?
[13:35] Alathon: Nobody seems to be.. the crew are studiously avoiding getting involved in this.
[13:35] Reis: (Smart)
[13:36] Alathon: Usagi closes her eyes and leans back into Saturn a bit.
[13:36] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd like to think not either.. but then.."
[13:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Who ever said the gods need to be the good guys?"
[13:37] * Reis shrugs. "Usagi-san, if a god is not worth worshipping, I at the least will never acknowledge them as anything more than an overpowered monster."
[13:37] Reis: "For whatever my own philosophy is worth."
[13:37] Alathon: Usagi: "mm.. maybe so, but if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.. better to call it a duck and treat it like one."
[13:37] Alathon: Usagi: "Especially when it coems to threat assessments."
[13:38] Sheena: "God my ass, I saw thoes crosses. Thats not the work of any good being"
[13:38] Alathon: Saturn: "So? do 'god' and 'good' really have to share anything besides a few characters?"
[13:39] Alathon: Usagi: "It's be nice.."
[13:39] * Reis raises an eyebrow, and pulls her glasses out of... somewhere, slipping them on. "Maybe we need a new term for evil gods?"
[13:39] Alathon: Saturn at this point, hugs Usagi from behind, leaning her head forward to lean her cheek against Usagi's.. at which point, Usagi notices something.
[13:39] * Sheena blinks her pink eyes and slips her own shades on
[13:39] Reis: (The blood)
[13:39] Alathon: Usagi: "WHy not just use evil -...."
[13:40] Alathon: Usagi, suddenly a little.. prickly: "Saturn. Are you smearing blood all over me?"
[13:40] Sheena: "Looks good ma'am"
[13:40] Alathon: Saturn, saucily: "It does, doesn't it."
[13:40] * Reis considers a 'Looks like it', but has a better Wis score than that.
[13:40] Alathon: Saturn leans her head back a bit and whispers something in Usagi's ear.
[13:41] Sheena: (hmm, with this sluahgter that just happened, im left to wonder if Celeste has a boathome)
[13:41] Alathon: Usagi: "I don't care how it look, I care how it --"
[13:41] Alathon: She cuts off.
[13:41] Reis: (Hahahhahahaahah!)
[13:41] Alathon: Usagi just looks a littke irked now.
[13:41] * Reis pauses. "Is very, very sticky?"
[13:41] Alathon: Usagi twists around a bit, squeezing Saturn out to arm's length.
[13:41] Alathon: Usagi: "Let's just get cleaned up, allright?"
[13:42] Alathon: She says this almost plaintively.
[13:42] Alathon: Saturn looks a little disappointed.
[13:42] Alathon: Saturn: "Oh, all right."
[13:42] Alathon: Usagi, a little distracted, looks back and addresses you two.
[13:43] Alathon: Usagi: "Um.. oh, hell."
[13:43] Alathon: She rattles off directions for where you can find a quartermaster to discuss bunking.
[13:43] Alathon: She finishes with a reminder she'll want to discuss events tomorrow, and rather quickly heads off with Saturn.
[13:44] * Reis blinks and nods, absorbing said directions, saying the polite 'goodbye' thing as she leaves.
[13:44] Sheena: "unexpected, but rather cute."
[13:44] Sheena: "eh ries?'
[13:45] * Reis blinks. "Ah, yes senpai?"
[13:45] Sheena: "At any rate, lets go take a "Yay we're alive" nap, I figer we got a lot of questions to answer tommaro"
[13:46] * Sheena will head off to find the quatermaster or anymaster.
[13:46] * Reis frowns and nods. "I..." She shakes her head and heads after the quartermaster.
[13:46] Reis: (At who I will laugh, if you named him Shawn :P )
[13:47] Alathon: The quartermaster, Sean, will get you two a room.
[13:47] Reis: (Heh)
[13:47] Alathon: It's rather tight, with two small bunks, one above the other.
[13:49] * Reis will let Sheena take first pick and basically collapse into the other one, sighing and thinking on something.
[13:49] * Sheena takes off her pack and unhooks the cloak
[13:49] Alathon: You've got a bit of time to talk about things if you want to
[13:49] Sheena: "Well.. it beats sleeping in the field.
[13:50] * Reis frowns and leaves her sword somewhere.
[13:50] * Sheena start folding the cloak,
[13:50] Sheena: "How ya doing ries?"
[13:50] Reis: "... Senpai... I'm sorry."
[13:50] Sheena: "oh?"
[13:51] * Reis sighs. "Mani-san... If I were half a second faster..."
[13:51] * Sheena put the cloak on her pack
[13:52] Sheena: "Ahhh that,"
[13:53] Sheena: "It was her call right?"
[13:54] Sheena: "Just remember something for the future ok?"
[13:54] * Reis frowns, staring at the ceiling (I'll presume she got the top bunk). "To fight, yes... But, she was defeated before I tried to intervene... If I'd been fast enough, I could have..."
[13:55] Sheena: "There's something you and mani forgot out there on the field"
[13:57] Sheena: "We're not the royal merians, We're not her Ladys knights or any other crap like that. Your in espionage, The boss picked us to win and get the job done, Not play fair"
[13:58] * Sheena flops/floats on the bottom bunk
[13:58] * Reis sighs.
[13:59] Sheena: "Cides, im not to good about talking out feelings ya? Well go get drukn off our asses later. After we find out if we still got jobs or not"
[14:00] * Reis nods. "Still... either way, whoever erred however they did... Mani-san is..."
[14:00] * Reis sighs.
[14:02] Alathon: *nod*
[14:02] Alathon: I'll assume you manage to get some sleep.. or at least doze.
[14:03] Sheena: (for one sheena shortness helps!)
[14:03] Alathon: (no kidding)
[14:03] Alathon: (those bunks aren't exactly jumbo sized)
[14:03] Alathon: The next day, your debriefing with Usagi is blessedly short.
[14:03] Reis: (Yeah, Reis is cramped up, I guess :P )
[14:04] Alathon: She asks for (and presumably gets) the details of the happenings of the last two days.
[14:04] Alathon: She doesn't really press either of you on the 'why's of any of the decisions made.
[14:04] * Reis will frown at some point during the briefing. "Usagi-san..."
[14:04] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes, Reis?"
[14:05] Reis: "Is Myshaella still in custody?"
[14:05] Reis: "I would like to ask her exactly what 'Kalesh' is."
[14:05] * Sheena looks over at that.
[14:07] Alathon: Usagi: "She is.. and I can arrange to have that asked of her."
[14:07] Alathon: Usagi: "It doesn't ring a bell, I'm afraid."
[14:08] * Reis frowns. "I have the feeling it is Wintershield's mercenary unit. Or, perhaps a religion of some form? Either way... Wintershield expected it to be common knowledge, so Myshaella may know _some_ information about their reputation."
[14:09] Reis: "They have a representative at 'the bar', as well..."
[14:09] Alathon: Usagi: "Huh."
[14:09] Sheena: "Im still working on the "How" of getting there."
[14:09] Sheena: "as it is we got plenty of why's"
[14:10] * Reis nods. "And, with any luck Myshaella can provide a 'where', such as its coordinates..."
[14:10] Alathon: Usagi: "She already has.. that being one of the locations she recommended arranging a ransom at."
[14:10] Alathon: Usagi snorts.
[14:10] Alathon: Usagi: "Not that they make much sense."
[14:11] Alathon: Usagi: "But I can certainly forward them to you if you'd like."
[14:11] Sheena: "Please do, It might help things on mysend"
[14:12] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[14:12] Sheena: "So.. How much troble we in for last night?"
[14:12] Alathon: Usagi looks surprised.. and almost a shade guilty.
[14:12] Alathon: Usagi: "For what?"
[14:13] * Reis winces. "Will we need to apologize to anybody for drawing them back...?"
[14:13] Sheena: "Bringing home work with us"
[14:13] Alathon: Usagi: "You did as you were ordered. Not only that, but your mission was a success."
[14:13] Alathon: She says the second part slightly bitterly.
[14:13] * Sheena snorts
[14:13] Alathon: Usagi: "Appologize? For what?"
[14:13] Sheena: "Cost to damn much.."
[14:13] Alathon: Usagi: "For not just lying down and dying?"
[14:14] Sheena: "Well.. The quick plan was splashing down and exploading, but the dying parts the same"
[14:14] * Reis shakes her head. "No... but, we very possibly could have evaded."
[14:14] Reis: "If we'd travelled underwater, it might have drawn them off..."
[14:14] Alathon: Usagi: "Or they might have boiled the seas, and you with it."
[14:15] Alathon: Usagi: "They're little enough point in focusing on might have beens."
[14:16] * Reis nods.
[14:17] Sheena: (Now can we talkabout all the experince you high level basterds ate up last night..)
[14:17] Reis: (Heh.)
[14:18] Alathon: If there's nothign else, Usagi doesn't have much else.
[14:19] Sheena: "Any word from Sakura?'
[14:19] Alathon: Usagi: "None since soon after the first contact."
[14:20] Sheena: "Well shit"
[14:20] * Reis frowns. "Damnation..."
[14:20] Alathon: Usagi: "He and Yuuno were both alive, last they contacted us."
[14:20] Alathon: Usagi realizes what she said.
[14:20] Alathon: Usagi: "Obviously."
[14:20] Alathon: Usagi sighs.
[14:21] Alathon: Usagi: "Wtihout some sort of signal, finding him after a botched teleport will be.. time consuming."
[14:21] * Reis nods. "He could be in... New Zealand, for all we know..."
[14:22] Reis: "Or possibly Neuschwabenland. Though he didn't comment on the cold..."
[14:23] Sheena: "uh.. where? At any rate it would be a day or so before yuuno try again i think"
[14:23] Reis: (Heh. Neuschwabenland is a Nazi German colony in Antarctica :P )
[14:24] Alathon: Usagi: "It might be longer."
[14:24] * Reis frowns. "Was he all right?"
[14:24] Alathon: Usagi: "Sakura reported that Yuuno was injured rather severely."
[14:25] Alathon: Usagi: "Sakura was injured somewhat as well by the teleport, but healed. Yuuno will likely need some time.. or risk suffering a fatal injury in the case of another botch."
[14:25] Sheena: "...shit, little runt was rushing as fast as he could to get mani back here"
[14:25] Alathon: Usagi looks down.
[14:25] * Reis frowns.
[14:25] * Sheena is just cold a bout it.
[14:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Anyways.."
[14:27] Alathon: Usagi: "There'll be a memorial service when we get back."
[14:27] Alathon: Usagi: "With Sakura stranted indefinately, it's unlikely.. well. Having a body is a moot point."
[14:28] * Reis nods. "I... There is something I've been asked to pass on at it..."
[14:28] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes?"
[14:29] Sheena: (fucking winamp, Water is playing AKA Aerith DIES)
[14:29] Alathon: ((gotta love it))
[14:29] * Reis frowns. "The 'respects' of Ryba Wintershield..."
[14:29] Reis: (Winamp, you rock :P )
[14:31] * Sheena snorts
[14:31] Alathon: Usagi: "..."
[14:31] Alathon: Usagi: "So noted.."
[14:31] Sheena: "Armorbitch will get hers'
[14:32] * Reis nods. "If I have any say in the matter."
[14:32] Sheena: "So.. What now ma'am"
[14:33] Alathon: Usagi sighs.
[14:34] Alathon: Usagi: "We head home. Mourn. Recover Kuonji."
[14:34] Alathon: Usagi: "The rest will be after that."
[14:35] Alathon: Usagi: "If there's nothing else...?"
[14:35] Sheena: "Home? Right.. Ill be in the ready room drinking heavly. Or the lab"
[14:35] Sheena: "Nothing else, ma'am"
[14:36] Alathon: Usagi: "Right."
[14:36] Alathon: She lets the drinking bit pass without comment.
[14:36] Alathon: She stands up and leaves... and you don't see much of her over the couple days it takes to reach Crystal Tokyo.
[14:36] Sheena: (oh? figered we where in the base)
[14:37] Alathon: ((d'oh))
[14:37] Reis: (Nah, we'd have got debriefed quick while still on the ship :P )
[14:37] Sheena: (Sheena would be on deck then with what ever she could gank to drink)
[14:37] Alathon: ((no, was definately on the boat ;p ))
[14:37] Sheena: (ok)
[14:37] Alathon: The ship is depressingly dry.
[14:37] Sheena: (fuck)
[14:37] Alathon: If anyone has liquor, they're hoarding it.
[14:37] Sheena: (sheena is a emo cloud of darkness on the deck then near a railing)
[14:38] * Reis would have tried to absorb herself in work, among other things putting Swordbreaker back out of its horrid kludge form and the like.
[14:38] Alathon: People stay the fuck away from anyone glowing black.
[14:38] Alathon: ((It's the worst color there is!))
[14:39] Sheena: (There's pink in there to, What the hell is that thing!)
[14:39] * Reis isn't glowing black, or any other colour, but she's broody in other ways :P
[14:40] Alathon: When it takes place.. the memorial ceremony is short.
[14:40] Alathon: Crystal Tokyo culture isn't highly death centered, so the actual ceremonies tend to be short, and to the point.. usually with testimonials by those who knew the departed best.
[14:40] Alathon: Both of you are asked if you want to speak.
[14:41] * Reis will have to say some bits, so...
[14:41] Alathon: It's a 1-2 minute thing, not a fifteen minute speech, that's expected of you
[14:42] Alathon: and you're not really required to say anything; people regularly decline, and simply pay their respects.
[14:42] Alathon: It's considered a truism that "their life spoke better for them than I ever could"
[14:42] Reis: (Yep, but, she's got Ryba's bit to pass on at least :P )
[14:42] Alathon: alright, so Reis speaks
[14:42] Alathon: does Sheena want to?
[14:43] Sheena: (sheena would, but damned if i can come up with is on the spot)
[14:45] Sheena: (hmm, on secound thought sheens keeps it quite. If they didn't know mani well enought thats thier problem. Is it easy to spot her family at all?)
[14:45] Alathon: ((Eh, you don't need a Great Speech if you don't got one))
[14:45] Alathon: Her family are there, they're obvious in that they're moon cats, readily identifiable by the crescent moons on their brows.
[14:45] Yarrow: (Octarine is also a bad colour to glow.)
[14:45] Alathon: Also there are several dozen from the O'Loinsigh clan.
[14:45] Reis: (Wait, there really IS one?)
[14:45] Reis: (O_o)
[14:46] Alathon: Their ages range from young children, to very elderly.. one of them, around you all's age, seems particularly broken up.
[14:46] Reis: (It's Caoillin, isn't it)
[14:46] Yarrow: (Not my fault no one bothered to ask Mani what she was talking about when she mentioned her clan.)
[14:47] Reis: (We thought the O'Loinsigh bits were purely made up and her only family was the moon cat one :P )
[14:47] Sheena: (Shesh, you live and some one so you think you know them...)
[14:48] Alathon: (when you do the mysterious, secretive character thing.. it shouldn't surprise you too much when you succeed adn nobody really knows much about them ;p ))
[14:48] * Sheena is looking at the onehaving the strongest reaction"
[14:48] Yarrow: (She did mention her clan in the AFS arc.)
[14:48] Reis: (I SO say it's Caoillin :P )
[14:48] Sheena: (she all so mentioned it was made up)
[14:48] Yarrow: (Well, when you do the mysterious, secretive thing you kind of expect people to notice when you do let some information slip. :p )
[14:49] * Reis , obviously, never heard the 'O'Loinsigh' name, so as far as she knows they're close friends of Mani's.
[14:49] Alathon: Her name is actuall Erin, if you inquire.. between bouts of crying, she'll explain that she had been friends with her, and helped er 'arrange things' to get out on her own way back when.
[14:49] Alathon: (eh)
[14:49] Alathon: (the trouble is, why should they care? why ask?)
[14:49] * Sheena nuds reis and nods over at the borken up girl
[14:50] Sheena: *nudges
[14:50] Yarrow: (Because of my winning personality.)
[14:50] * Reis blinks and looks over at said girl.
[14:51] Alathon: You'll discover Mani's mothers and fathers names.. Hecate and Marduk, respectively.
[14:51] Reis: (Heh)
[14:52] Reis: (You're gonna run out of moon-deities :P )
[14:52] Alathon: With Hecate being the half-blooded daughter of Selena and an un-named human grandfather.
[14:52] Yarrow: (Marduk isn't a moon deity.)
[14:52] Reis: (Oh? Well, I don't know Sumerian myth that well, so... :P )
[14:52] Sheena: (wait what?)
[14:52] Yarrow: (Wow... the things they put on name tags these days.)
[14:52] Sheena: (heh)
[14:52] Alathon: There ceremony is blessedly short.
[14:53] Alathon: Usagi and Erin both speak; Usagi on Mani's devotion to the whole of Crystal Tokyo, and Erin on her friendship.
[14:53] Alathon: Reis has a turn to speak as well.
[14:54] Yarrow: (Reis lets her gaze pass over the crowd, takes a deep breath, and says, "Who the hell *are* all you people?")
[14:54] Reis: "I... did not know Mani-san for very long, so I'll try not to take up too much of this."
[14:55] Sheena: (hah!)
[14:55] Sheena: (damn shoulda done that)
[14:56] * Reis takes a breath. "My relationship was as a subordinate member of her team. ... All I can truly do, is convey my deepest respects. An excellent commander, who served with distinction..."
[14:56] * Reis sighs. "And, to pass on the words of someone else: a worthy opponent."
[14:57] * Reis will try not to take up too much time, obviously :P
[14:57] Reis: (If that works, that's it. I can't really think of anything more that's tactful to say)
[14:57] Alathon: You see a certain amount of confusion in the eyes of many of those you're facing.. though a couple of the older members of the O'Loinsigh clan seem to get it, and look on approvingly.
[14:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Thank you, Reis."
[14:58] Yarrow: ("And she was the one member of my team who wasn't interested in my body. Wait--I didn't mean to say body! I'm sorry!")
[14:58] * Reis nods and withdraws, hoping she said what she should have and no more.
[14:58] Alathon: Usagi complete the service with a short speech.
[14:59] Sheena: (heh)
[15:00] Alathon: Usagi: "And thank all of you for coming here today, to celebrate the memory of Mani O'Loinsigh."
[15:01] Alathon: Usagi: "A woman who served our nation with distinction and valor."
[15:01] Alathon: Usagi: "Blessed dreams to you, Mani."
[15:02] Alathon: Usagi steps down from the podium, and moves to depart.
[15:03] Alathon: Everyone else departs as well, at varying rates.
[15:03] * Sheena pushs up her glasses and just waits on every one leaving
[15:04] Alathon: ... probably should have described WHERE this service was held
[15:04] * Reis waits with Sheena, uncertain precisely what to do at this point.
[15:04] Alathon: anyways
[15:04] Alathon: it was outdoors, near the ocean.
[15:05] Alathon: at this point, you're more or less free to do whatever.
[15:05] Alathon: You've been granted several weeks leave.
[15:05] * Sheena flys over to the ocean after wards.
[15:05] Alathon: Usagi has delegated the search for Kuonji (and his communicator) to Sailor Mercury.
[15:06] Sheena: (hmm, it's not like sheen can go home now is it? Place is sorta Empty.)
[15:06] Yarrow: (If you hadn't cleansed it, you would have had the emo to keep you company.)
[15:07] Sheena: (>_<)
[15:07] Reis: (Tsukasa is NOT emo... Or something)
[15:07] Alathon: ((she totally wasn't, just.. very emotional))
[15:07] Yarrow: (Not any more. Apparently she shed all of it in our house.)
[15:09] * Sheena don't have much to do so she works a lot, and sleep in the ready room bunks when to tired. When waiting stuff in her labs she will Find work to do if needed.
[15:09] * Reis will be at a bit of a loss and return home, largely working on adjusting. A lot of self-distraction in the labs, as well, and finding every training facility Espionage has.
[15:10] Sheena: "Training? Don't think we have any.. Guess we build some"
[15:10] Reis: (Well, I presume there's SOMETHING)
[15:10] Sheena: (we just got the building when we first started, who would have set it up?)
[15:11] Sheena: (it just us so far becides some intell guys)
[15:11] Reis: (There are a few other teams)
[15:11] * Sheena will remark sooner or later.
[15:12] Sheena: "I really need to get a com for celest or something damn it"
[15:12] Reis: (Go out and visit her boathouse :P )
[15:12] Sheena: (Heh)
[15:13] Sheena: (We really can't move to far ehad with out freaking ataru.. can we?(
[15:13] Reis: (You move at like Mach 2/3, wouldn't take you long to check :P )
[15:13] Sheena: (oh, sheena can do 5000 now.)
[15:13] Alathon: ((you're fine within a 1-2 month span))
[15:13] Reis: (Well, Ataru, conveniently, is in a position where we can do without him for a good chunk of the game :P )
[15:14] Reis: (That's the handy bit about being missing)
[15:15] * Sheena checks with the boss to see about what the comapny needs now to move ahead and getting some training places built
[15:15] * Reis will be hijacking CT Marine training facilities if necessary :P
[15:16] Reis: (Or maybe a room at Infinity Academy :P )
[15:18] Reis: (We waiting on something?)
[15:19] Alathon: What sort of training places?
[15:19] Alathon: Usagi: "What sort of training facilities?"
[15:20] Sheena: (Well al wants us to start taking charge in the company.. And right now sheena would be damn near begginb for more work, papper or not, Recruiting? Preping? building..)
[15:20] Reis: (The main ones Reis is looking for are close-quarters fighting facilities, more than high-end-power ones)
[15:20] Reis: (Ie, she'll borrow a military firing range if necessary, find some swordsmen to beat the shit out of her if possible...)
[15:21] * Sheena ppulls out her com and the list
[15:21] Alathon: If you want to burn time helping out build infrastructure, Usagi is glad to let you.. though she's a little concernen.
[15:21] Alathon: Concerned, rather.
[15:22] Sheena: "Reis is looking for advanced close combat, A high speed fireing range would be usefull, And a magical combat zone as well"
[15:22] Sheena: "These will help prep new teams for high stress field work as well"
[15:22] Yarrow: roll 1d20+3
[15:22] Ala-bot: Yarrow rolled 1d20+3 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{21}
[15:23] Reis: (Lots rolls. Hope that's a good thing :P )
[15:24] Alathon: eh
[15:24] Alathon: Usagi: "We could try to work something in a bit further north, perhaps."
[15:25] Reis: (Hey, we've got armies of mutacows, it's a perfect setup for a combat range! :P )
[15:25] Alathon: Usagi: "I don't think we could find the space in Crystal Tokyo proper... but it wouldn't hurt to build large scale facilities a bit out, for the city to grow around."
[15:26] Sheena: "I got ideas to put to use, Dark Heart knows all kinds of usefull things. Problem is making them work with CT stuff"
[15:27] Sheena: "We are going to expand operations right ma'am? Or are things looking bad?"
[15:27] Alathon: Usagi: "As we get the people, of course."
[15:27] Alathon: Usagi: "The Infinity Academy only graduates so many, though.. and an awful lot of the powers people have aren't immediately combat relevant."
[15:28] Sheena: "Ok, ill help in what ever i can. From papper work to tossing up the buildings."
[15:28] Yarrow: roll 1d20+13
[15:28] Ala-bot: Yarrow rolled 1d20+13 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{15}
[15:28] * Reis will probably frigging call up Kuonji's family and find someone to beat her down with a giant spatula, since that's the first route to a melee fighter she can think of.
[15:28] Reis: (You can tell me if that helped any :P )
[15:29] * Sheena clicks down her come some more.
[15:29] Alathon: heh
[15:29] Yarrow: roll 1d20+8
[15:29] Ala-bot: Yarrow rolled 1d20+8 --> [ 1d20=5 ]{13}
[15:29] Alathon: You can actually get some help from one of the older membes of Kuonji's clan.
[15:29] Sheena: (what the heck?)
[15:29] Sheena: "One last thing boss,"
[15:30] Reis: (Awesome. Well, Reis will try pick up anything they have to teach her, and have them smack her around until she picks up melee defence skills)
[15:30] Alathon: Usagi: "Yeah?"
[15:30] Reis: (Which are gonna be HELL to buy, fragging out-of-class whee...)
[15:31] Sheena: "Mind if i dissapear for a week? I don't think we'll have the land by then will we?"
[15:32] *** Stel|WA5 is now known as Stelas.
[15:33] Alathon: Usagi: "I.. of course."
[15:33] Alathon: Usagi: "You don't have to be doing any of ths.. you've got leave if you want it."
[15:33] Sheena: "To do what ma'am? Go home to an empty house?"
[15:34] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm sorry."
[15:34] Sheena: "I hope you'll forgive me but i would rather do whats needed to get this operation as good as it can be"
[15:35] Sheena: "we havnt had much chance with all the field work needing to be done"
[15:35] Alathon: Usagi: "YOu might spend some time with.. well."
[15:35] Alathon: Usagi: "You have a point. Not since the whole Reichtert thing started up in Nevada."
[15:35] Alathon: Usagi: "Things have been moving fast. Too fast..."
[15:35] Yarrow: (Hey, was Renee at the ceremony?)
[15:36] Alathon: ((Yes, but she didn't speak))
[15:36] Sheena: "It's clear from the offices and rooms here you had more in mind then just one team running ragged to save people"
[15:37] Sheena: "So ill do what i can to get your goals going, Well after a week of fucking celete thill i can't think any more"
[15:38] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[15:38] Alathon: She lets that rather crass comment go without comment ;p
[15:39] Sheena: (heh)
[15:39] Yarrow: (Fortunately not replying that it shouldn't take anywhere near that long.)
[15:39] Sheena: (now that would have been amusing)
[15:39] Yarrow: roll 1d20+8
[15:39] Ala-bot: Yarrow rolled 1d20+8 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{22}
[15:39] Alathon: Usagi: "Just.. take it easy, okay?"
[15:40] Reis: (We've got Yarrow's character fighting for her life in another room, don't we?)
[15:40] Yarrow: (No, I'm looting your lab.)
[15:40] Sheena: (Most of its in abyssal or german, goo luck with that!0
[15:41] Reis: (Hey, Reis should be getting spot checks while she's there :P )
[15:41] * Reis will, at some point, approach Sheena regarding 'Please teach me this language, senpai'.
[15:42] Sheena: "Sure thing, So should i tell reis she can stop getting sakura's family to beat her up? And get her on the training feilds"
[15:42] * Sheena will say, Sure reis, "After i go have sex for a week or more."
[15:43] * Reis flushes. "... Ah. All... all right."
[15:43] * Reis will get beat up by a spatula more.
[15:45] * Sheena gesses the boss isnt gona answer
[15:46] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm not sure what you're asking.."
[15:46] Alathon: Usagi: "It seems like Reis is focusing on training herself to deal better with close melees."
[15:46] Alathon: Usagi: "If she wants to do that now, that's fine with me."
[15:47] Sheena: "Well i was asking if the new buildings are going to happen, but if thats all ma'am"
[15:50] Alathon: Usagi massages her forehead.
[15:50] Alathon: Usagi: "Not immediately, but yes."
[15:55] Sheena: "Right, Im being a pain then i guess? Ill get back to the labs.."
[15:55] * Sheena pauses to look off in the direction of the entrance
[15:55] Sheena: "Or ill get started on that week,"
[15:55] Alathon: Usagi: "It's not like that, it's just.. we don't have pre-fab buildings to throw up."
[15:55] Alathon: Usagi: "These things take time!"
[15:58] Sheena: (didnt mean it like that..)
[15:58] Reis: (Say it then :P )
[15:58] Sheena: "Woah, Sorry boss. I didn't mean it like that"
[15:58] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm sorry.. I.. fuck."
[15:58] * Sheena does pull out her com to and adds a note
[15:58] Yarrow: ("Er... well, good for you. It's really none of my business, though.")
[15:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Let's hit on this after your leave, okay?"
[15:58] Sheena: "hmm, pre-fab buildings.."
[15:58] Alathon: Usagi: "A couple weeks either way won't change things."
[15:59] Sheena: "Will do"
[15:59] * Sheena puts down prefab buildings down near Pylons
[16:04] Alathon: ((shall we fast forward a bit to when Sheena gets back, and you two are researching various stuff?))
[16:04] Reis: (I'm good with that, gives me something to do other than PM :P )
[16:05] Sheena: (works with me)
[16:07] Alathon: Anyways.. fast forwarding about two weeks
[16:07] Alathon: Sakura still hasn't been found, though Celeste has pledged her assistance in searching him out.
[16:07] Reis: (Wait, she really DID have a boathouse that Sheena could easily find?)
[16:08] Reis: (How's Reis progressing on learning abyssal?)
[16:09] Alathon: You can learn the basics in the space of a couple weeks, working with Sheena and Dark Heart.
[16:09] Alathon: It's easier beacuse you're hearing a fiar amount from Dark Heart on the subject of interdimensional travel.
[16:09] Alathon: The coordinate that Myshaella provided make sense, at least to the glowy gem thing.
[16:09] Alathon: And it's doing it's best to explain them to you both.
[16:09] Sheena: "Told you Dark Hearts a harsh teacher..."
[16:10] Reis: (Heh, true enough. Reis's 'dimensional studies' before that probably consisted of 'understand the notes Sheena left')
[16:10] * Reis frowns and works on wrapping her head around it.
[16:10] Reis: (Tell me what I'm trying to wrap my head around :P )
[16:11] Alathon: The idea of plotting what amounts to a magically induced 'wormhole' from one sphere of existance to another
[16:11] Alathon: through what is best described as a sea of unbeing
[16:11] Alathon: basically.. all the non-space outside of actual universes, where there are no physics or other necessary mechanics for the support of carbon-based lifeforms as you know them
[16:12] Yarrow: (You know, the space between the DVDs for each anime series.)
[16:13] * Reis nods (and says this in abyssal as much as is possible). "Hm... So... If there's this huge 'non-space', what causes the physics of our universe? Or is that more a theological question?"
[16:13] * Sheena will talk in abyssal to help ries
[16:14] Sheena: "No idea, not something i have spent time on
[16:14] * Reis is asking the glowy-gem-thing, I'd presume :P
[16:14] Yarrow: (And whenever they talk philosophy/theology, Darkheart promptly raps each of them on the knuckles.)
[16:14] Reis: (... How?)
[16:14] Alathon: Dark Heart does not have an answer for the why.
[16:15] Alathon: And if asked, considers it largely irrelevant, since it IS.
[16:16] * Reis will nod and move on to further topics.
[16:17] Sheena: "Me and dark heart work on the breaking of things, not the making of them"
[16:17] Alathon: ((at this point, if you want to buy dim hop as magic, you can))
[16:17] Sheena: "And damn it, it's what we're good at"
[16:17] Alathon: ((only destinations available so far are earth and this supposed bar))
[16:17] Yarrow: ("You mean like promises and rules?")
[16:17] Reis: (Woot! Do we need to buy two points to be able to return home, or just the one?)
[16:18] Yarrow: (The description implies 1 to me.)
[16:18] Reis: (To me too, but Al's the God)
[16:18] * Reis nods. "Simply that I thought understanding how physics come to be might explain how one is to operate without them."
[16:19] Sheena: (sheena get another location? Reis; hey simpi whats this other set of points? oh wait there's a tag line... "Celeste bed" ..)
[16:19] Yarrow: (Since it says 'can travel between')
[16:19] Reis: (Yeah, but I figure I'll ask Al rather than buy 'The bar', hop out there, and realise I have to get another CP to come back)
[16:20] Alathon: (it also doesn't say anything about bringing people with us, but I'm assuming people want to do that)
[16:20] Alathon: (we'll go over mechanics for it post-game)
[16:20] Reis: (All righty :P )
[16:20] Sheena: (ok)
[16:20] Reis: (And woot we know dimensional physics now! :P )
[16:20] Yarrow: (Oh, it's worth asking. I just think it's usually a good idea to present your case *before* God makes up his mind. ;) )
[16:21] Alathon: ((heh))
[16:21] Alathon: ((hmm.. what other things would you want to research?))
[16:21] Yarrow: (A spell to locate sentient ferrets!)
[16:22] Reis: (Hm... Honestly, one of the biggest bits on Reis's mind is finding out what Myshaella yielded on 'Kalesh' :P )
[16:22] Yarrow: (Ask Celeste, too.)
[16:23] Reis: (Excellent point. Unfortunately, Reis wouldn't have asked Sheena to mention it before her... uh, trip)
[16:23] Sheena: (can ask celste that)
[16:23] Sheena: (reis shoudl check her com)
[16:23] Reis: (So, Sheens would have to do it on her own :P )
[16:24] Reis: (Well, you think Reis WANTS to call up her crush whilst said crush is engaging in a torrid affair? Seriously dude :P )
[16:24] Alathon: (if you want Celeste there for your research, you coulda sk ;p ))
[16:24] Alathon: ((Of course, they'll probably be doing plenty of extra-curricular research too, then ;p ))
[16:25] Sheena: (and how)
[16:25] Yarrow: (Ask if you can play too?)
[16:25] Reis: (Which is part of the reason why Celeste won't enter Reis's thought processes that much :P )
[16:27] * Sheena will look up from her station where she is rebuilding Dark Hearts frame
[16:27] Sheena: "Hey reis did you make a damn fuku yet?"
[16:27] Sheena: "Not that i mind your ribbion dress, but it needs to soak some damage girl. I got plans here on how to pull it off if you want"
[16:28] * Reis blinks. "Well... I can absorb a very good deal of damage with it. The real problem is that I cannot maintain high-speed flight while using it."
[16:31] Sheena: "Hmm, all right. Just remember if we go to this "Bar'place we have no idea whats around it, or if will have room to move much let alone fly"
[16:32] * Reis nods. "I suppose I can adjust the main form as appropriate for a close-quarter battle, or whatever we may end up facing. ... Which might well be an offer of a drink, since it IS supposed to be a bar..."
[16:34] Sheena: "Oh great, We spend all this time learning how to breach the dim wall only to get hit on by interdim drunks?"
[16:35] * Reis giggles. "It's another thing we'll have to be prepared for."
[16:35] Sheena: "If i find tsksuka there im gona strangel her"
[16:35] * Reis blink/glurks at 'teh boogyman' mention, but does remember the sorta-vague-briefing she got on the topic.
[16:35] Yarrow: (What if she comes onto you?)
[16:36] Yarrow: (Sheena: "Afterwards, then.")
[16:36] Sheena: "Ok, im mostly done with my work. Whats left?"
[16:36] * Reis frowns. "Here's one question."
[16:36] Reis: "We can breach dimensional walls. So... can we reinforce them?"
[16:36] Sheena: "We got thoes new buildings to help set up. And... hmm. Ill need to see celeste about stacking up on the local "currency""
[16:37] Sheena: "Now thats an interesting idea"
[16:37] * Reis shakes her head. "Even I'm not ambitious enough to imagine it as some form of perfect defence. But we MIGHT be able to keep someone from leaving."
[16:38] Sheena: "Ya, some one from leaving, or secure key points of the city here"
[16:38] Sheena: "And keep people from just popping the hell in"
[16:38] * Reis frowns. "Depends on how long it can even be kept up. I don't see it as lasting without massive support from whoever casts it... Fine for a short-term fight, but not long-lasting defence."
[16:39] Sheena: "Wish yuuno was back, his knows more about that then i do."
[16:39] * Sheena looks up at the engery field dark heart is resting in while being worked on
[16:40] Sheena: "How about you Dark Heart?"
[16:40] Yarrow: roll 1d20+4
[16:40] Ala-bot: Yarrow rolled 1d20+4 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{24}
[16:40] * Reis will research anyway - essentially, trying to figure out how to take 'travel between dimensions', and then jam it.
[16:40] Reis: (OH yeah)
[16:40] Reis: (That sounds good)
[16:40] Reis: (Of course, with our luck, that was a villain)
[16:40] Sheena: (woah, what the heck was that roll?)
[16:41] Reis: (Yarrow's been rolling all session. Al's running her in a session alongside for her intro, I think)
[16:42] Alathon: *nod*
[16:42] Alathon: Dark heart will explain the very basics of barriers
[16:42] Alathon: that to effectively block any interdim transportation is, frankly, very difficult
[16:42] Reis: (Argh, so many things to buy! :P )
[16:42] Alathon: and requires encapulating your targets within an artificial and termporary dimension under your own control
[16:43] Alathon: encapsulating, that is
[16:43] *** Ataru has joined #crystaltokyo.
[16:43] * Reis frowns and works on 'how the fuck do you MAKE a dimension like that?'
[16:43] Reis: (... ATARU?!)
[16:43] Alathon: to do this, you not only need to create the alternate dimension (pocket dimension, 3+ ranks at least), but also need to force your targets into it (mind/soul spec attack)
[16:43] Reis: (Welcome back, man!)
[16:43] Alathon: ((w00t, sup man)
[16:43] Ataru: (I'M ALIVE!)
[16:43] Yarrow: (And Sakura is found!)
[16:43] Ataru: (unfortunatly not
[16:43] Ataru: (
[16:43] Reis: (Well, do the solo stuff :P)
[16:44] Yarrow: (Sakura's body is found?)
[16:44] Ataru: (I popped on to let you know I hhave net acess, but my dad is supposed to be coming over soon)
[16:44] Reis: (Hm... Wouldn't it be a Linked Attribute attack, Al?)
[16:44] Alathon: (nod)
[16:44] Reis: (They list that as the mechanic, at least)
[16:44] Sheena: (holy shit)
[16:44] Reis: (Your call though)
[16:44] Ataru: (kinda can't play with him here)
[16:44] Reis: (Heh, true enough)
[16:44] Alathon: (so, how's the new place working out?)
[16:45] Ataru: (pretty good, I get along well with my roommate)
[16:45] Ataru: (need to get some mouse traps)
[16:45] Ataru: (and get the landlord to fix some shit)
[16:45] Sheena: (.. Sounds about normal)
[16:45] Alathon: (yeah)
[16:45] Ataru: (also gotta get my room fucking organized... I have like no space to unpack ^^;;)
[16:45] Alathon: (still kicks ass moving out)
[16:46] Ataru: (yup)
[16:46] Alathon: (try to get on during the evenings this week (or hell, later this evening if I'm around) and we can work out a time to do that solo session)
[16:46] Reis: (Yeah, good luck in general)
[16:46] Alathon: (also.. how are you for hours.. does saturday work for you at all?)
[16:46] Sheena: (Im sprised you pulled all that off on that kinda job ataru, Way to go man)
[16:46] Ataru: (I now actually have a place to bring girls)
[16:47] Ataru: (I got 37 hours next week)
[16:47] Ataru: (unfortunatly I'm working saturday)
[16:47] Reis: (Gah)
[16:47] Ataru: (dad's here, gotta run, I'll stay logged on)
[16:47] Reis: (What about regularly? Do you have a stable schedule, or does your boss jerk you around on a random basis?)
[16:47] Alathon: (nod)
[16:47] Alathon: (catch you later man)
[16:48] Yarrow: (Now all you need are the girls!)
[16:52] Reis: (All righty, so... Regarding the Pocket Dimension: wouldn't the 'trap' be an Attribute-Linked attack? That's what I would think, at least)
[16:53] Reis: (If you rule mind/soul, though, that works)
[16:54] Alathon: (yes, except you can't link one magic attack to another)
[16:54] Alathon: (since each is a standard action)
[16:55] Reis: (Gah, true.)
[16:55] Alathon: (trap is for stuff like mines, I believe)
[16:55] Yarrow: (Yeah. You leave the SA lying around and when someone runs into it, it goes off.)
[16:55] Reis: (Well, I mean 'trap' them into the dimension with a Special Attack with Linked (Pocket Dimension) :P)
[16:56] Reis: (Ah well, more mechanics that we can discuss post-session)
[16:57] Reis: (So. Shall we return to our stuff?)
[16:57] Alathon: yeah, trying to speed Yarrow's thing along
[16:57] Alathon: so we can actually have three of us togheter ;p
[16:58] Reis: (Ah, gotcha)
[16:59] * Reis will, most likely, be mixing up an all-new Swordbreaker form out of the 'artillery' model.
[17:00] * Sheena will get working on Pylons to advancve the great sliver empire.
[17:01] Yarrow: (All of her efforts repeatedly result in zerg technology, much to her annoyance.)
[17:01] * Reis will probably participate in training with other espionage teams.
[17:01] Alathon: ((she gets Alliance cannon towers instead))
[17:02] Reis: (Heh. I'm thinking she'll get experience defending herself, and THEY'LL also get some 'combat training' that doesn't involve people actually trying to kill them)
[17:02] Alathon: actually
[17:02] Alathon: if you two wanna take like a half hour food break
[17:02] Alathon: that should give me enough time to wrap up what's going on with yarrow's character
[17:02] Reis: (All righty, thanks)
[17:36] Reis: (Hm. Should we start watching anime while we wait? :P )
[17:38] Alathon: nah ;p
[17:38] Sheena: (.. im farming in wow..)
[17:38] Alathon: but we should be good to go soon-ish
[17:38] Sheena: (how long are we gona shoot for al? Its jus about 8)
[17:39] Alathon: ((was thinking another hour and a half-ish))
[17:41] Sheena: (ok_)
[17:44] Reis: (All righty)
[17:48] Alathon: anyways
[17:48] Alathon: both of you get requests to attend a meeting out of nowhere
[17:49] Alathon: it's out of nowhere because the meeting is scheduled NOW
[17:49] * Reis will blinkblink and wonder WTF is going on. And check who the heck the meeting came from.
[17:49] * Sheena replys that she on her way
[17:49] Reis: (Ie, is it from Usagi, a trusted source...?)
[17:50] Alathon: (yes)
[17:50] Alathon: (it's from Usagi)
[17:50] * Reis will blink more and move her arse to said meeting point.
[17:52] * Sheena does her best to keep the sonicboom far from the city.
[17:53] Reis: (I don't even know if we're meeting in the HQ or what, but, presume Reis goes there :P )
[17:53] Alathon: I'll assume you two meet up at the HQ, and procede to the conference together.
[17:53] Sheena: (assume away)
[17:53] * Reis rather wonders what's going on, but figures the boss will tell her sooner or later.
[17:54] Alathon: When you get to the conference room, Usagi is there, along with someone else.
[17:54] *** Yarrow is now known as Mani.
[17:54] Sheena: "You called, ma'am..."
[17:54] Mani: "Hey."
[17:55] * Reis blinks.
[17:55] * Sheena does a blink blink
[17:55] Reis: (Is it the same Mani?)
[17:55] * Mani is sitting on a chair in cat form.
[17:55] Mani: (Looks like it.)
[17:55] * Reis blinks more. "... Uh...?"
[17:56] * Sheena looks at the boss coldly
[17:56] Sheena: "Im not finding this funny.."
[17:56] * Mani glances at Usagi.
[17:57] * Reis figures waiting for a very good explanation wouldn't be a bad idea.
[17:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Not a joke."
[17:57] * Mani looks back to Reis and Sheena.
[17:57] Alathon: Usagi: "And no, mom wasn't responsible."
[17:57] Mani: "Feel free to come in and have a seat..."
[17:57] Reis: "Um... IS that Mani-san? Or... a very similar-looking moon cat...?"
[17:57] Alathon: Usagi rolls her eyes.
[17:57] * Reis drifts in numbly.
[17:57] Alathon: Usagi: "For the love of.. YES!"
[17:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes, it's Mani. We've already looked into this."
[17:58] Sheena: "oh, well in that case."
[17:58] Sheena: "Mani!
[17:58] Alathon: Usagi: "She's not exactly the first person in Crystal Tokyo to come back from death, you know."
[17:58] Alathon: She's a little irked.
[17:58] * Sheena does a flying glomp and give mani a tast of what yuuno gets
[17:58] Mani: "Notarmoredinthisform!"
[17:58] Alathon: You succeed; nobody can dodge the flying glomp of a short, big-busted girl
[17:59] Mani: (I'd energy drain her, but she'd probably love it...)
[17:59] * Reis nods and smiles at Mani. "It's... very, very good to see you back again, Mani-san... However it happened."
[17:59] * Sheena 's smileing again but does let up on intruducing mani to the wonder if cleavage space
[18:00] Mani: "It's nice to see both of you, too."
[18:00] * Reis quietly rubs her eyes.
[18:01] Alathon: (Mani: immmph nimmph tommph smmph bmpmh omphh ooomph"
[18:01] Mani: "Sorry to cause everyone grief."
[18:01] * Sheena lets the returned kitty go back to herseat and takes one herself
[18:01] Mani: (No, but she was about to simply unsheathe her claws.)
[18:02] * Reis is still kind of in shock here, and simply takes a seat.
[18:02] Reis: "It... how... what...?"
[18:02] Mani: "So, Sakura is missing...?
[18:02] Mani: "Along with Yuuno?"
[18:02] * Reis nods. "They... teleported out... with your body?"
[18:02] * Reis is, obviously, wondering where she got a new one.
[18:03] Sheena: "Umm, ya. Yuuno did he best to rush and save you"
[18:03] Mani: "Oh, that old thing?"
[18:03] Sheena: "it sorta didnt work out that way"
[18:03] * Mani nods to Sheena.
[18:03] Mani: "I appreciate the effort."
[18:05] * Sheena trys to think of something nice to say and blows it
[18:05] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm inclined ot leave the debriefing for later, if you'd all like some time.."
[18:05] Sheena: "So.. How the hell did you get yourself stabbed when me and sakura where only gone for a few minets"
[18:06] * Sheena is happy mani is back but still rather blunt
[18:06] * Reis frowns. "I'm sorry I wasn't a hair faster, Mani-san... Somewhat convenient that you're alive to apologize to..."
[18:06] Mani: "It was more than a few minutes. And accepting her challenge seemed like the best move at the time."
[18:07] Mani: "Faster at what, Reis?"
[18:08] Alathon: Usagi seems uncertain as to whether she she stay or leave.
[18:08] Alathon: She then gets up.
[18:08] Alathon: Usagi: "I'll let you all have somet ime."
[18:08] * Reis frowns. "I was trying to intervene, and bring my defensive shield up to cover you..."
[18:10] Mani: "Hm. That would have made for an 'interesting' situation..."
[18:11] Mani: "I mean, if I survived the duel through outside intervention that I had no part in after agreeing to fight on my own."
[18:11] Sheena: "Ya, about that."
[18:11] Sheena: "I don't remember us singing up for the Lady royal knights, since when are we suposed to play fair?"
[18:12] Sheena: "You shoulda killed the bitch for dareing to walk up on you like that"
[18:12] Mani: "I was trying to."
[18:12] Mani: "The short of the matter is that I believe Reis and I wouldn't have had better odds in taking her out together."
[18:13] * Mani ponders.
[18:13] Mani: "Well, not before she would have left."
[18:13] * Reis frowns. "The problem was that she could escape with relative ease... The constraints of the duel meant she would not be able to run so easily, however."
[18:14] Mani: "Perhaps Yuuno could have managed to hold her in place. But I got the impression that it would have been very costly to him."
[18:14] Mani: "Which would have been a problem for the mission."
[18:14] Sheena: "The furball has had something speacal his been waiting to show us, but it is suposed to be draining"
[18:15] Mani: "Especially as she promised to come back with friends if I didn't agree to duel her."
[18:16] Sheena: "I think she's a bit short on friends now.."
[18:16] Mani: "As for playing fair and all that, no it isn't part of our job description..."
[18:16] Mani: "Doesn't mean it isn't important to me in certain situations."
[18:17] Mani: "She'll probably gain a lot of credibility and respect for killing me. Too bad she's going to lose it and more."
[18:17] * Mani smiles.
[18:17] Mani: "A lot more, if I have anything to say about it."
[18:17] Mani: "How close do you have to be to someone to shield them, by the way, Reis?"
[18:18] Reis: ('Close', says the rulebook. Beyond that, God, do you know?)
[18:20] Reis: (Al? Your ruling)
[18:20] * Reis frowns. "Relatively close. I do not believe I can extend such a field over very far ranges."
[18:21] Reis: (Or, I'll continue on and retcon if proven wrong)
[18:21] Alathon: ((very close0)
[18:21] Alathon: ((um..))
[18:22] Alathon: ((it extends like 25%, so, right next to))
[18:22] Mani: "Hm. And it protects you also?"
[18:23] * Reis nods. "It will protect anyone who stands in its radius."
[18:24] Mani: "Well, if we ever meet her again, I expect having that in play would almost definitely guarantee a different outcome."
[18:25] * Reis frowns. "Would she pull back after discovering she is essentially being double-teamed, though?"
[18:25] Mani: "She had her duel. She doesn't get another one if she still thinks the world is being unfair to her."
[18:26] Mani: "If she pulls back, she pulls back. But she won't have much time to do it."
[18:26] * Mani shakes her head.
[18:27] Sheena: "Turning her into a molten puddle of slag sounds best."
[18:27] * Reis nods. "That's not the issue I care about... the problem is, what if she can escape? She left within five seconds of feeling the need."
[18:27] Mani: "If she's so heavily armored next time, this will probably be faster. I did almost have her in our fight."
[18:28] Mani: "I think I could take her down in about ten seconds, unless she has special protections."
[18:28] * Reis frowns. "That odd technique you were using?"
[18:28] Mani: "But let's talk about other things right now."
[18:28] Sheena: "So.."
[18:29] Mani: "What's been going on with you guys? How are you?"
[18:29] Sheena: "How was being dead and how did you get back?"
[18:29] Sheena: "Ahh.. us?"
[18:29] * Sheena looks to see is reis is banged up by big spatulas again
[18:29] * Reis leans back. "Well... we mourned."
[18:29] * Reis is.
[18:29] Sheena: "Drank a lot.."
[18:30] Mani: "It was interesting, and I don't know, but it left me in New England, leaving me to make my way to Chicago to get home."
[18:30] * Reis doesn't have any melee skills as in-class, so she's probably not very good at it yet.
[18:30] Sheena: "I havnt been home at all, Just sleeping here or at celestes"
[18:31] Sheena: "We got a hell of a lot of work done, Hear about the new trainer and ops center ideas?"
[18:31] * Mani looks around the conferenc room.
[18:31] Mani: "Here?"
[18:31] Mani: "Nope."
[18:31] Mani: "I've been kind of out of the loop..."
[18:31] Sheena: "In the ready genius..."
[18:31] Sheena: *room*
[18:32] Mani: "I just got here a few minutes before you guys arrived."
[18:32] * Reis blinks. "That must have been quite the trip..."
[18:34] Mani: "From New England? It was mostly boring after the first part."
[18:34] Sheena: "Why new england?"
[18:34] Sheena: "We don't even have any one out there do we?"
[18:34] Mani: "Beats me. And no, no we don't."
[18:35] Mani: "I would have been more cautious when first contacting someone there if I'd know where I was, too."
[18:35] * Reis raises an eyebrow. "... Hopefully first contact didn't go too poorly?"
[18:36] Mani: "So, are we ready to ask Usagi to come back in so I don't have to repeat all this to her or do we need a bit more private time?"
[18:36] Mani: "Well, I'm here, so it didn't go as badly as it could have."
[18:36] Sheena: "Private time? Hmm, well you where never interested in that with us furless types. I guess we should get the bosss
[18:37] * Mani nods and goes into the hall.
[18:37] Alathon: When you want to get here, you'll find her nearby.
[18:38] Mani: "We're done sobbing on each others' shoulders."
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi smiles a little at that.
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi: "At first, at least."
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi: "Let's get down to business then."
[18:38] * Mani returns with her.
[18:38] Alathon: Usagi heads back into the conference room, and takes a seat.
[18:39] Alathon: She then looks over to Sheena.
[18:39] Sheena: "I was to skip to from sobbing to hot sex but mani wasn't game"
[18:39] * Reis blinkblinks.
[18:39] * Reis will probably never get used to Sheena.
[18:39] * Sheena said that with a straght face to.
[18:39] Alathon: Usagi: "YOu know, it's a good... never mind."
[18:40] Alathon: Usagi, to Sheena: "Go ahead and summarize what happened after Mani died, to the current date, please."
[18:41] Sheena: "We learned what we could from there crossed, Thoes are some fucked up pices of work. Life draining, posible soul draining as well."
[18:42] Sheena: "After yuuno left withh you and sakura me and ries finshed the mission and turned the target into a smear on his people clothes."
[18:43] Sheena: "We ran into one group on while heading north west, We took them out and captured a device and more magic junk."
[18:43] Sheena: "While cruseing over a storm and talking to the boss we picked up on some angles following us"
[18:43] Sheena: "About 800 or so."
[18:44] * Reis winces. "We ended up running for about fourteen hours to lure them into a trap."
[18:45] Mani: "That couldn't have been pleasant."
[18:45] Sheena: "Had a hell of a time keeping the faster ones off us"
[18:46] * Reis smiles slightly. "Fortunately, the greys we faced just before that reminded me of the concept of 'crashes'."
[18:46] Reis: "Binds were remarkably effective for us."
[18:46] Sheena: "But the boss saved our asses by setting up one hell of an ambush, I have no idea the numbers we got, The area was flooded with so much magic it damn near blinded me"
[18:47] *** Ataru has signed off IRC (Ping timeout).
[18:47] Mani: "Sounds interesting."
[18:49] Sheena: "After that me and reis just kept bisy, i spent most of my time driving usai nuts while trying to get work to do."
[18:50] Sheena: "We have manged to breach the Dimwalls useing the location of that "bar" we havnt tested it yet however."
[18:50] Sheena: "Aside from that there some training ranges been setup, I belive that it."
[18:50] Sheena: "I don't think you and Usagi want to know what i did with celeste.."
[18:51] Mani: "If it's sex, I really don't care about it."
[18:51] Sheena: "Well, We are trying to track sakura with magic. But ya its mostly sex"
[18:52] * Reis blinks about the track Sakura bit, but otherwise, doesn't really want to know.
[18:53] * Sheena pulls out her com
[18:53] *** Ataru has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:53] Alathon: Usagi, to Mani: "Well.. now that we've brought you up to date, I'd like to hear howthings have gone on your end."
[18:53] Sheena: "Some work on moveable engery sorces for the city.. some pre-fab building ideas. How to bring the dead back tolife.. Dark heart but a stop to that one.."
[18:54] * Sheena looks up and puts her com back away
[18:54] Mani: "By the way, did you discover the name of the woman I fought?"
[18:54] * Sheena looks over at reis
[18:54] * Reis blinks and nods. "Ah... Ryba Wintershield."
[18:55] * Mani nods to herself.
[18:55] Mani: "Thanks."
[18:56] Alathon: Usagi: "Odd that it's an English construction.."
[18:56] Alathon: Usagi: "Makes me wonder if it's a use-name, or some such."
[18:56] * Mani looks to Usagi.
[18:56] Alathon: Usagi: "But.. we can investigate that later."
[18:57] Alathon: Usagi: "So..."
[18:57] Mani: "I mentioned to Saturn something I'd learned. Did she pass that on to you?"
[18:57] Alathon: Usagi: "She mentiond that you'd had something of a near death experience."
[18:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Er."
[18:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Death experience, I suppose."
[18:58] Mani: "Near death, but on the other side, perhaps?"
[18:58] Sheena: "Near life?"
[18:59] Mani: (Stuck in the middle with you?)
[18:59] * Reis blinks and watches the wordplay go by.
[19:01] Mani: "Mm. Well, I think I need to pass this information onto the king and queen--not necessarily in person--before I tell others."
[19:01] Sheena: "errr"
[19:01] * Reis cocks her head. "... Sensitive?"
[19:02] Alathon: Usagi is a little surprised.
[19:02] Alathon: Usagi: "I..."
[19:02] Alathon: Usagi: "Well, that is your prerogative. In these circumstances.."
[19:03] Sheena: "hmm, reminds me. Kings got a mean fastball.."
[19:03] * Sheena thinking about the blasts of magic he was tossing out
[19:03] Mani: "They may not object to me telling others, but I believe I need to make sure of that first."
[19:04] Alathon: Usagi, slowly: "All right then.."
[19:04] Alathon: Usagi: "What are you willing to
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Session 53 - part 2

Postby Alathon » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:26 am

Session 53 - part 2

[19:04] Alathon: Usagi, slowly: "All right then.."
[19:04] Alathon: Usagi: "What are you willing to tell us three?"
[19:06] Mani: "I died and found myself elsewhere for a time with no access to my powers and no physical needs. After a time, I felt tired and fell asleep to awaken, alive, in a forest."
[19:06] Alathon: Usagi listens.
[19:07] Mani: "I once again had use all my abilities along with hunger, thirst, and the like."
[19:07] Mani: "I have noticed, however, that once I return to my natural form, I'm unable to take human shape again until roughly ten times the time I last spent in human form have passed."
[19:08] * Mani frowns.
[19:08] Mani: "Hopefully, this is not a lasting condition."
[19:08] Sheena: "Thats rather odd"
[19:09] Alathon: Usagi: "Not something I have heard of, before."
[19:09] Mani: "A serious problem, considering how long I spend in human form."
[19:09] * Reis cocks her head. "That's a bit of a problem... Would need to be planned around, certainly."
[19:09] Sheena: "If it is a lasting condition, we should train you as best you can in the lunacat form"
[19:09] * Mani shakes her head.
[19:09] Sheena: "How good can you sling crystals like that?
[19:09] Mani: "Lousy."
[19:10] Mani: "Anyway, let me finish my story."
[19:10] Mani: "After taking to the air to look for landmarks, I found a pair of ruined highways that converged to the south."
[19:11] Mani: "I followed them, in human form. Unfortunately, I didn't have any clothing aside from my armor."
[19:12] Mani: "After a while, I came to some structures. A small booth near a building. The booth was manned by someone who had both human and feline characteristics."
[19:12] Sheena: (huh?)
[19:12] * Reis pauses. "Um... Mani-san?"
[19:12] Mani: "He was wearing a uniform and a jewelled leather collar. He looked mostly human."
[19:13] Mani: "What?"
[19:13] * Reis blinks and shakes her head. "Ah... never mind."
[19:13] Reis: (I forgot I'd just made her a ring of flight :P )
[19:14] Reis: (... Though wait, what was she doing with it when her body was in Swabia?)
[19:14] Mani: (Why would you make Mani a ring of flight?)
[19:14] Reis: (I thought I'd made you something... Odd)
[19:14] Reis: (Sounds like some wires crossed, but, I'm pretty sure Mani couldn't fly on her own unless you levelled :P )
[19:14] Mani: "He spoke English and asked if I needed help."
[19:14] Mani: (Nope. Wrong.)
[19:15] Reis: (Hm. Ah well, perhaps my memory problem then)
[19:15] * Reis cocks her head, listening.
[19:15] Alathon: (it's more mysterious and secretive character syndrome)
[19:16] Mani: "I asked where I was and he said Stroudsburg station. I asked where that was and he told me York. When I asked where *that* was, he looked alarmed and answered New England and pushed one of the gems on his collar."
[19:16] * Reis blinks. "Communication device?"
[19:17] Mani: "I decided that he was calling for help and figured I had no desire to take advantage of their hospitality after cleary displaying I wasn't from around there."
[19:17] Mani: "So, I thanked him and headed back the way I came and into the woods. Shortly after, several flying people teleported in."
[19:18] Mani: "I quickly decided to teleport away and managed to avoid contact."
[19:18] Mani: "After that, I travelled through wilderness over several days and made my way to Chicago."
[19:19] Mani: "After a brief interrogation by Saturn to ensure I was actually me, I was brought here."
[19:20] Mani: "It seems some people get suspicious when a person known to be dead strolls in and wants to talk to the princess."
[19:20] * Mani shrugs.
[19:20] Alathon: Usagi: "We all have our failings."
[19:20] * Reis giggles. "I can imagine."
[19:20] * Mani smiles.
[19:20] Mani: "That's not a failing."
[19:20] Sheena: "Does that happen often?"
[19:21] Alathon: Usagi: "People dying and coming back? Not often..."
[19:21] Reis: (Damn, I wanted "You'd be surprised.")
[19:22] Mani: "Mm. Ma'am, what with this being Espionage and all, if you think it'd serve a good purpose for people to continue to think I'm dead, I'm willing to go along..."
[19:22] Mani: "If you think there'd be a strong advantage to that..."
[19:22] Mani: "Obviously, I'd prefer not to, but..."
[19:22] * Mani shrugs.
[19:22] Ataru: (GAH Mani's alive?)
[19:22] Sheena: ".. I remember at lest one girl who was broken up rather badly at your service mani, may want to at lest contact her"
[19:23] Reis: (Hahahahahahahahaha!)
[19:23] Reis: (Welcome back to the screen)
[19:23] Ataru: (the anti-christ... I mean my father, is gone now)
[19:23] Mani: "There are lots of people I *want* to contact."
[19:23] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head immediately.
[19:23] Alathon: Usagi: "No."
[19:24] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm sure we could find some use for someone who's supposed to be dead."
[19:24] Alathon: Usagi: " But I'd rather not."
[19:24] Mani: "Good."
[19:24] Mani: (Thanks for the warm welcome. :p )
[19:28] Sheena: "Well im glade ya made it back,"
[19:28] * Reis pauses. "Though... If we're not keeping it a secret, how is this going to be explained?"
[19:28] Mani: "Thanks."
[19:28] Reis: "A number of people attended your funeral..."
[19:28] * Reis shakes her head, amused.
[19:28] Mani: "I came back."
[19:29] Mani: "We'll tell them I'm just that good."
[19:29] Alathon: Usagi: "It doesn't seem terribly productive to try to create some sort of elaborate coverup and pretend she didn't die."
[19:30] Sheena: "To fool who? Armorchan? I don't think she's worth it."
[19:31] Sheena: "When you where in chicago did you hear how the riders are doing?"
[19:31] Mani: "I couldn't really thing of a compelling reason to do so, but I wanted to offer you the opportunity."
[19:31] Sheena: "Figer they would have the upper hand now with most of the greys gone"
[19:31] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[19:31] Alathon: Usagi: "Appreciate it."
[19:31] Mani: "No, I wasn't overly interested in gathering intelligence."
[19:32] * Mani smiles.
[19:32] Mani: "And I appreciate you not taking me up on it."
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "Well.. I'd like to go over a few more things in detail, but, we can do that later."
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[19:32] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd rather give you three the afternoon to spend as you see fit."
[19:33] Alathon: Usagi: "And.. I'll talk to Mom and Dad, and see if they can make some time."
[19:33] Mani: "Thank you. Could I have one moment of your time after the meeting?"
[19:33] Ataru: (and no mention of poor Sakura and Yuuno, stuck in the harsh, unforgiving desert... I see how it is...)
[19:33] Mani: (Been there, done that.)
[19:34] Sheena: (Celeste is lookign for you if it helps any ataru)
[19:34] Alathon: Usagi: "Sure."
[19:35] Alathon: let's end here
[19:35] Sheena: k
[19:35] Mani: Ok.
[19:35] Reis: All righty.
[19:35] *** Reis is now known as Pale_Wolf.
[19:37] *** Sheena is now known as DCG.
[19:37] DCG: Man..
[19:37] DCG: I downed a 2 liter of pepsi and then some to wake up for this
[19:37] DCG: Dont think imn getting any sleep tonight
[19:37] Ataru: so, what's the deal, can CT not triangulate a communicators location or something?
[19:37] Mani: Not without the player online. :)
[19:37] *** Mani is now known as Yarrow.
[19:37] DCG: To triangulate you need a third point ataru
[19:37] DCG: Like say a sat or another tower some place
[19:37] Alathon: well
[19:38] DCG: not just you and the city
[19:38] Alathon: since we didn't have a chance to do a solo session and determine what's going on in Sakura-ville
[19:38] Alathon: official word is that a random encounter pwned your comm
[19:38] Pale_Wolf: Well, CT can theoretically achieve that. But, in basis, Yarrow's right - why bring him around when the PLAYER isn't there? :P
[19:38] Ataru: heh
[19:38] Yarrow: "Stop that rust monster!"
[19:38] Ataru: nah, it
[19:38] Ataru: 's a slime
[19:38] * DCG sudders and cralws into a cornor when rust monster is said
[19:38] Ataru: I'm stuck in Dragon Quest
[19:38] DCG: keep the bad touch away ...
[19:39] Alathon: hehehe
[19:39] * Pale_Wolf blinks and seems to have missed something there.
[19:41] Ataru: oh hey, no more 30 minute breaks from me
[19:41] Ataru: I can smoke in the apartment now :D
[19:41] Yarrow: That's kind of funny. Our breaks are now 30 minutes. :)
[19:41] Ataru: lol
[19:41] Yarrow: Did you say you won't be able to play Saturdays, though?
[19:42] Ataru: I can't this saturday
[19:42] Ataru: dunno if this scheduale will be regular though
[19:42] Yarrow: This upcoming one? Neither can Pale.
[19:43] Ataru: september is one of the busiest months for staples
[19:43] Ataru: back to school and all that
[19:43] Pale_Wolf: Yeah, next Saturday I'm liable to get drawn up to Ottawa.
[19:43] Alathon: heh, staples..
[19:44] Alathon: better them than officemax
[19:44] Alathon: there's the right way, the wrong way.. and the OfficeMax way
[19:44] Alathon: god I hated working there
[19:44] Ataru: heh
[19:44] Yarrow: Oh, just about anything is better than OfficeMax... This is just from a customer's perspective, btw.
[19:44] Alathon: anyways.. hopefully people aren't too disappointed to have Mani back, instead of a new character they'd get to know and integrate into the team
[19:45] Alathon: no kidding
[19:45] Alathon: the OfficeMax way of doing things is generally some combination of "the wrong way" and "the stupidest shit you can think of"
[19:46] * Yarrow changes her nametag form "Sorry, I'm dead" to "Sorry, I'm alive".
[19:47] Pale_Wolf: I wouldn't say disappointed, though I was curious to see what Yarrow would do next. Definitely a nice surprise though :P
[19:48] Yarrow: Well, the only reason I made a mooncat to begin with was because I couldn't think of anything else interesting. :)
[19:50] Yarrow: I think I would have been able to come up with something, though.
[19:50] Alathon: eh.. humans can be interesting
[19:50] Yarrow: Sure. I just couldn't think of one that interested me at the time.
[19:51] Pale_Wolf: Heh, true enough.
[19:51] Alathon: so, anyways
[19:51] Alathon: now's when we do all that mechanics changing stuff
[19:51] Alathon: since we have a gap of several weeks
[19:51] Alathon: and a life changing event
[19:52] Yarrow: It'd be easier knowing the campaign setting better, too, I think.
[19:52] * Pale_Wolf blinks. Wait, not just the Dim Hop stuff, but the total respec to a new set of rules?
[19:52] Alathon: meh
[19:52] Alathon: not that much
[19:52] Yarrow: Feats and...?
[19:53] Alathon: feat costing
[19:53] Alathon: magic from iops
[19:53] Alathon: stat drains
[19:53] Alathon: two weapon attacks
[19:53] Alathon: and combat skills in general
[19:53] Pale_Wolf: Heh, true enough.
[19:53] Yarrow: Do you want to redo combat skills now or do you want to see how well PW's system works first?
[19:53] Pale_Wolf: Are we working with the system we wired over for my game?
[19:54] Alathon: basically, yes
[19:54] Alathon: and, now is a better time than most
[19:54] Pale_Wolf: Heh, indeed it is...
[19:54] Alathon: because battles are starting to get really stupid in terms of how quickly offense wins
[19:54] Pale_Wolf: Ironically, I was planning to dig into Reis's stuff anyway :P
[19:54] Ataru: so what's the deal with Sakura?
[19:54] Ataru: he gonna die out in the desert?
[19:54] Alathon: also, I need to introduce some "untraining" mechanic to reflect unlearning stuff, and learning new stuff
[19:54] Alathon: no
[19:55] Alathon: unless you really fuck up in your solo session
[19:55] Ataru: ^^;
[19:55] Alathon: sheena and reis h ad their shot at dying in last week's session
[19:55] Alathon: you'll get your chance too :)
[19:55] Pale_Wolf: ^_^
[19:55] Yarrow: And I had my chance of having bad things happen in New England. :)
[19:55] Pale_Wolf: So, we've all had chances at dying.
[19:55] Yarrow: And died to begin with...
[19:56] Pale_Wolf: Mani... succeeded. The rest of us so far failed :P
[19:56] Yarrow: I'm special!
[19:58] Alathon: there was something else I wanted to bring up
[19:58] Alathon: dyn sorc
[19:58] Alathon: the Advanced Magic rules for dyn sorc are, IMO, vastly superior to what I've got in game now
[19:59] Alathon: this doesn't immediately affect anyone currently playing
[19:59] Alathon: but it could affect what you gain in the future, or build in a new character, have on your side from NPCs, and face from enemies
[19:59] Alathon: does anyone here Not have a copy of the Advanced Magic pdf?
[20:00] Yarrow: I don't.
[20:00] Alathon: I'll forward it to you
[20:00] Yarrow: Or should that be I do 'not have a copy'?
[20:00] Alathon: I actually own the book, so IMO it's fair game ;p
[20:00] Yarrow: Ok.
[20:00] Pale_Wolf: Heh.
[20:00] Alathon: I mean, we all sure as shit shared D&D books back in the day
[20:00] Alathon: we didn't have six Monster Manuals ;p
[20:01] Pale_Wolf: Ah, question: can we generally respec? Ie, pick up things that we think our character reasonably WOULD have, but couldn't in the existing game system?
[20:01] Pale_Wolf: Or if we get free CP somewhere? :P
[20:01] Pale_Wolf: (Ah, the depths of our character sheets... What wonders they hold)
[20:02] Yarrow: (Reinc?)
[20:03] Alathon: yes
[20:03] Alathon: this is a general respec, at this point
[20:03] Alathon: it more or less needs ot be, to accomodate CP shifting to make your characters do what you want in the new combat system
[20:03] Pale_Wolf: Heh, all righty.
[20:03] Pale_Wolf: Ah, what xp do we have?
[20:03] Yarrow: Do I get to respec my new defect?
[20:03] Alathon: no ;p
[20:03] Yarrow: Hmph. :)
[20:03] * Pale_Wolf figures it'd be REALLY cool if Reis levelled up just in time for the respec :P
[20:04] Alathon: that's something I should add
[20:04] Alathon: if you die and reincarnate, you'll pick up a defect of some sort
[20:04] Alathon: which grants spendable CP normally, and can be kept or not.. but cannot be bought off until the next level-up
[20:04] Pale_Wolf: Oh dear. Yuuno's getting messed up, eh? He lost all his CP from 'I don't fall too far behind NANOHA, at least in supporting her!' to 'I'm a wussy ferret'.
[20:05] Pale_Wolf: That durn Reincarnation :P
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[20:05] Yarrow: Yuuno's defect was obviously critfail at critical moments.
[20:05] Alathon: apparently
[20:05] Pale_Wolf: Heh. Dice are awesome like that.
[20:05] Alathon: also
[20:06] Alathon: this is the end of the first UST story arc
[20:06] Alathon: so there's a grant of 3 cp as well.
[20:06] Pale_Wolf: Whoo!
[20:06] * Pale_Wolf dances.
[20:06] Yarrow: Fun.
[20:07] Alathon: I'd encourage everyone to do there stuff early this week
[20:07] Alathon: so you can have time to fiddle with it, and discuss it with me
[20:07] Alathon: rather than trying to cram it in next friday during PW's game
[20:07] Alathon: and having a half-baked character for the next game
[20:09] Yarrow: Sure, if you give us the exact rule changes.
[20:09] Pale_Wolf: Heh, righto.
[20:10] Yarrow: I hope Mani's combat isn't *too* affected.
[20:12] Ataru: I hope Kuonji doesn't suck now
[20:12] Yarrow: Btw, is there going to be any in-game recognition of the respec or is it going to be like Next Generation Klingons?
[20:12] Alathon: honestly, kuonji will come out way ahead
[20:13] Alathon: heh
[20:13] Pale_Wolf: Oho? How so?
[20:13] Alathon: next generation klingons?
[20:13] Yarrow: Mm. I'll have a lot of cp to play with, at least.
[20:13] Alathon: like 80 years passed from star treg to tng, didn't they?
[20:13] Yarrow: They went from looking like humans in the original series to looking totally different, with no explanation or acknowledgement of it.
[20:13] Alathon: oh, no shit?
[20:13] Alathon: I haven't seen the old Trek episodes since I was a kid
[20:14] Yarrow: Yeah.
[20:14] Alathon: and remember practically nothing from 'em
[20:14] Yarrow: There was eventually one brief mention of it in an episode where some characters went back in time to an old episode, but it wasn't explained and never mentioned again (so far as I know).
[20:15] Alathon: hah
[20:15] Pale_Wolf: I suppose we've all been training to explain any new things we can do? :P
[20:15] Alathon: most of this is essentially out of game mechanics
[20:15] Alathon: now
[20:15] Yarrow: Well, Mani has a good excuse if it comes down to it. :)
[20:15] Alathon: where it intersects with ingame stuff.. like Sakura's stat draining attacks
[20:16] Ataru: oh yeah, kuonji's stat drain attack is getting the axe...
[20:17] Ataru: forgot about that
[20:17] Alathon: easiest wayt o handle that would be to change that into an energy draining attack.. IF you want something like that
[20:17] Ataru: oh?
[20:18] Alathon: well, it'd essentially have the same function.. a non-physical disabling attack
[20:18] Alathon: anyways
[20:18] Alathon: here's the refresher for "how Combat mechanics will work"
[20:19] Alathon: They're more or less being rewritten.
[20:19] Yarrow: I'd really like to see these in a file on your webpage.
[20:19] Alathon: Combat skills are now completely seperate from regular skills
[20:19] Alathon: *nod*
[20:20] Alathon: I will do that, for everything I'm changing
[20:20] Pale_Wolf: Ironically, I am at this very instant updating my own game's House Rules section to account for that :P
[20:21] Alathon: anyways
[20:21] Yarrow: Btw, are we having a session next week if Ataru & Pale are going to be away?
[20:21] Alathon: well crap, PW is away too?
[20:21] Alathon: if we've only got two, no
[20:21] Alathon: bad enough with only 3
[20:22] Alathon: and if saturday isn't gonna work for ataru we're gonna hvae to work something out
[20:22] Yarrow: I don't think there are any other times that Pale could make.
[20:22] Pale_Wolf: Yeah, I announced it last week or so.
[20:22] Pale_Wolf: I'm pretty much limited to Saturday and Sunday.
[20:23] Pale_Wolf: It's my option on whether I go up to Ottawa or not, but, I'm leaning towards it.
[20:23] Alathon: *nod*
[20:23] Alathon: it'd give us a little more time to work over changes to character sheets, etc, as wel
[20:24] Alathon: and work in a couple solo sessions
[20:24] Pale_Wolf: Heh. I'll be gone pretty much just for the weekend - I'll make my game, though since my father wants to leave at noon, I'll have to cut it short enough to get some sleep :P
[20:24] DCG: hmm
[20:24] Alathon: anyways, those who need a copy of BESM d20 advanced magic, I'm throwing it up on my homepage, will post the link when it's up
[20:25] DCG: ok
[20:26] Pale_Wolf: Oh, regarding Advanced Magic:
[20:26] Alathon: actually, question for your game
[20:26] Alathon: how have you costed the +drain save attribute?
[20:26] Alathon: because if everyone's gonna have that, Marius wants some ;p
[20:27] Pale_Wolf: Heh, mainly it's for Device-users, but, you can certainly put it on your character too (Harry'll probably have it whenever I finish his sheet).
[20:27] Pale_Wolf: Anyway, essentially, I took the Fort save that it is, and then chopped the cost in half again. So it's a quarter of a CP.
[20:28] Alathon: so, 1 cp for 4 drain save?
[20:28] Alathon: *nod*
[20:28] Pale_Wolf: Bear in mind, though, that it ONLY applies to the initial check. Control Checks are still as normal.
[20:28] Alathon: ... waaaay too powerful to not have, since it lets a character use metamagic casually. especially quickened spells, wihch double your spells per round
[20:30] Alathon: christ, I can't do something as simple sa get a 6 meg pdf uploaded
[20:30] Pale_Wolf: Basically, I figured: 1 CP gets you a +1 Con bonus and all the sweet stuff associated with it. 1 CP can also improve just your Fort Save by +2 - half-cost for only working in a few of the ways. So, the Drain save was, reasonably, following the same mechanic - half-cost but only applying to one type of check.
[20:30] Pale_Wolf: Anyway, two questions regarding Magic.
[20:31] Pale_Wolf: First, what's the Concentration check required to cast a spell without its appropriate components?
[20:31] Alathon: huh?
[20:31] Pale_Wolf: Ie, if you can't talk, or can't move.
[20:31] Alathon: it's impossible
[20:31] Alathon: you fail
[20:31] * Yarrow smiles.
[20:32] Alathon: if your speech or movement are inhibited, you can make a concentration check.. but if they're blocked, you're boned
[20:32] Pale_Wolf: Ahhhh. Okay.
[20:32] Pale_Wolf: Well, what's the check for inhibition, then? :P
[20:32] Alathon: i.e. tangle inhibits somatic components
[20:32] Alathon: I've been doing them on the fly
[20:32] Alathon: generally speaking, in the ~20 range
[20:32] Pale_Wolf: Just figuring 'that's a really good roll, you succeed'?
[20:33] Pale_Wolf: All righty.
[20:33] Alathon: but that's for fairly mundane stuff like being webbed
[20:33] Alathon: something like trying to cast a spell with a ball gag in your mouth will be much harder
[20:33] Pale_Wolf: Truly being silenced is fuckage? That I don't mind, since I'm the one who does it :P
[20:34] Alathon: other things on magic
[20:34] Pale_Wolf: Second question: Is the 'Dyn Sorc Spells are purchaseable as Magic' rule in effect?
[20:34] Alathon: you know how you were costing flurried attacks as costing ep per attack? I'm pretty sure that's because I told you to
[20:35] Alathon: sure, but you have to work your way up from level 0 spells, and you need a theme that I approve
[20:35] * Pale_Wolf blinks. So, we changing back? I didn't even get a chance to have fun with it :P
[20:36] Alathon: er, that's what the Advanced Magic rules on the "magic" attribute is
[20:36] Alathon: basically, you get a limited rank of dyn sorc for 4 cp
[20:36] Pale_Wolf: Hm? No, here, page 6.
[20:37] Alathon: yes
[20:37] Pale_Wolf: You can pick up specific Dyn Sorc spells as attributes in Magic, following some guidelines.
[20:37] Alathon: "Rank 1: The character may learn spells of DC less than 20 (or 0th level spells) and has a caster level of 2"
[20:37] Alathon: look at the chart below the blurb
[20:37] Alathon: it's not a freebie way to pick up time stop
[20:38] Pale_Wolf: Yeah... I've got that, I'm just wondering... It doesn't SEEM like we need to spend all of that on Dyn Sorc.
[20:38] Yarrow: So, if I don't care about dynamic sorcery, can I go play with my Wii now?
[20:38] DCG: back
[20:38] DCG: So whats going on?
[20:38] DCG: And whats the take
[20:38] Alathon: No mixing of the two
[20:38] Pale_Wolf: Darn.
[20:38] Alathon: well, I was gonna do a rundown of the combat system
[20:38] Pale_Wolf: Ah, well, half-Dyn-Sorc is probably better anyway since it gives me EP too :P
[20:39] Alathon: that's the other thing I was thinking about
[20:39] Alathon: whether ranks of magic should increase EP dice
[20:40] DCG: ...
[20:40] DCG: Would kick ass for sheena
[20:41] DCG: and really make for some hevey spells being slung around
[20:41] Alathon: it'd take some emphasis off having to have high int, wis, AND cha
[20:41] Pale_Wolf: Ooooooh yeah, it'd be quite nice in general :P
[20:41] Yarrow: Make ep drain attacks less powerful. :)
[20:41] Alathon: well, against characterw ith magic, yeah
[20:41] Alathon: dyn sorcs already have substantial EP pools
[20:42] * Yarrow nods.
[20:42] DCG: Would make some of the metamagics usable
[20:42] DCG: as it is sheena can use it once, twice if i wana spend every thing but a bare min
[20:44] Alathon: anyways
[20:44] Alathon: *IF* I did that, I'd have each rank of magic counting as half a rank of Dyn sorc for that purpose
[20:44] Alathon: since it's half the CP cost
[20:44] Pale_Wolf: All righty. I won't complain about getting half instead of nothing :P
[20:46] Alathon: I'm leery of the 4 pt version of Dyn Sorc
[20:46] Alathon: If someone wants to go with that, it's going to be restricted to some sort of theme
[20:46] Alathon: and seperate from Magic
[20:47] Alathon: we can work out what constitutes a valid theme
[20:47] Pale_Wolf: Hm, okay then.
[20:47] Alathon: generally speaking, it'd be something like based off one element, or one school of magic.. etc
[20:47] Alathon: one genuinely restrictive concept
[20:48] Alathon: hmm.. ataru, you here?
[20:49] Alathon: hmm
[20:49] Alathon: guess not
[20:50] Alathon: anyways.. DCG, one of your long time asks has been mechanics for a "gathering" attack like the Starlight breaker
[20:50] Alathon: that's powered by ambient energy from spells
[20:52] Alathon: Here's my thinking on that: a Gather/Charge spec attack costs 4d8, cannot be combined with other spec attack advantages, must have the slow disadvantage, and deals an additional 1d8 damage for every magical power used or spell cast within rank*100 feet in the current scene
[20:53] Pale_Wolf: Niiiiiiiiice.
[20:53] Pale_Wolf: Cool as it is, I think I'll be taking Reis in a different direction :P
[20:54] Yarrow: That will deal incredible damage very quickly in any type of magic battle.
[20:54] * Yarrow needs a break from her computer.
[20:54] Yarrow: Afk.
[20:54] Alathon: *nod*
[20:54] Alathon: I've been working out in my head how this would have worked in previous battles
[20:55] Alathon: the main balancing factor I see, is that it takes two rounds (slow), and cannot have additional advantages applied (no flurry, AP, etc))
[20:56] Pale_Wolf: Hm. For the sake of argument, does multiple shots from a Flurried attack count as one spell, or three?
[20:57] Alathon: I'd say one
[20:57] Alathon: and that ambient energy is absorbed after a gather/charge attack is used
[20:57] Alathon: so the counter is reset to zero
[20:57] Yarrow: Just don't eat your own attack via reflection. :)
[20:57] Alathon: this also brings up the question of forcefield mechanics
[20:57] Pale_Wolf: ... Can AoE be applied to a charge attack like that?
[20:57] Alathon: and how I may have created something painfully stupid by saying they block infinite damage per rank
[20:57] Yarrow: Cannot have additional advantages applied.
[20:57] Alathon: no
[20:58] Pale_Wolf: Oh dear. So it CAN be slung back at you...
[20:58] Alathon: also
[20:58] Alathon: on a slightly different combat mechanics thing.. initiative
[20:59] Alathon: should characters have the option to sit out a round to move their initiative (for the next round ontward) to the top of the order?
[20:59] Alathon: i.e. to be able to use leap attacks, delay their actions to use reflection, etc?
[21:00] Pale_Wolf: Hm. It would make sense to me.
[21:01] DCG: "Go first?"
[21:01] Yarrow: I don't know.
[21:01] DCG: thats a star wars rull
[21:01] DCG: kinda handy now and then
[21:02] Alathon: wel
[21:02] Alathon: suppose it's reis 28, mani 21, greyfaces 19, sakura 17, sheena 15
[21:02] Alathon: with those initiatives, sakura can never leap attack the enemy
[21:03] Alathon: also.. I'm somewhat unclear onw hether you need to delay an action to use reflection
[21:03] Yarrow: You need to have an attack left.
[21:04] Pale_Wolf: Yeah, you basically need to either delay it, or just move later.
[21:04] Alathon: I guess it's mainly a think for leap attacks
[21:04] Alathon: and for characters who can flurry a lot moving to the top of the order, to drag down enemies' defenses so characters with less attacks have a better chance of hitting
[21:04] Alathon: it would at least make that a strategic option, rather than a luck of the dice thing
[21:05] Pale_Wolf: Yeah, Reis generally delays action so as to be able to smack in a bind at the appropriate time :P
[21:08] DCG: You dont need to delay an action to use reflkection
[21:08] DCG: it just uses up for Next action
[21:08] DCG: at lest thats what i got from reading it.
[21:08] Alathon: well, to make an attack you need to have attacks..
[21:08] DCG: yes, the next attack.
[21:08] Alathon: but just to deflect, it's a normal defense
[21:08] Alathon: *nod*
[21:09] Alathon: hm?
[21:09] Alathon: if you've already attacked that round
[21:09] Alathon: it's not gonna spend next rounds attack
[21:09] DCG: Then its totaly fucking useless.
[21:09] Alathon: well, not really
[21:09] Alathon: in a one on one fight, it's golden
[21:09] Yarrow: I'd have to agree with Alathon's interpretation.
[21:10] Alathon: you spend your attacks on reflection, the end result is that your attacker gets clobbered (if you succeed on the defenses and hit) and you take nothing
[21:11] DCG: it dont say one way or the other
[21:11] DCG: i just find having to hold turns on the off chance it will coem up rather silly
[21:11] Yarrow: If it doesn't say, then I don't see it giving special powers to take attacks from the next round.
[21:12] DCG: What the hell ever..
[21:12] Yarrow: Hey, just explaining how I read it.
[21:12] Pale_Wolf: What about your next attack? Ie, if you haven't attacked yet in the round?
[21:12] Alathon: Benefit: If the character makes a successful Deflection defence and a successful attack roll (which uses an attack action
[21:12] Alathon: okay
[21:12] Yarrow: Sure, those are what it uses.
[21:12] Alathon: that's it right there, it requires an attack action
[21:13] Alathon: and if you don't have one available, you can't do it
[21:13] Pale_Wolf: So if you've attacked in the round already, no dice, otherwise, you can? Or do you absolutely have to delay action as well?
[21:14] Alathon: I think the former makes sense
[21:14] Alathon: you don't HAVE to be first in init and delay
[21:14] Pale_Wolf: All right, gotcha.
[21:14] Pale_Wolf: ... Probably not gonna be a deal anyway, but... :P
[21:14] Alathon: any time you get attacked with a reflectable attack, and can still make an attack, you can make a reflection attack
[21:15] Pale_Wolf: All right... Ah yes: Do we spend EP one time or three times to use a Flurried spell?
[21:16] Alathon: if we do the EP for ranks of magic, yes
[21:17] Alathon: if not, no
[21:17] Pale_Wolf: Which? Three times if we get extra EP, and once if there's no Magic-ranks EP dice?
[21:18] Alathon: yes
[21:18] Alathon: like you said
[21:18] Alathon: paying per flurry makes sense, and I remember telling DCG that now
[21:18] Pale_Wolf: All righty, just making sure :P
[21:18] Alathon: but it's hella harsh in terms of EP cost
[21:18] Alathon: when you're looking at like 2-5 per level
[21:19] Alathon: Also, are either of you interested in 8 mp versions of magic wihch have only one limitation (verbal OR somatic)?
[21:20] Pale_Wolf: Indeed. As Reis already observed, 'My EP's going down, down, doooooooown...'
[21:20] Alathon: or a 6mp version where it has neither?
[21:20] Pale_Wolf: Hm.
[21:20] Pale_Wolf: This would be, 'less MP, but still standard EP cost'?
[21:20] Alathon: yes
[21:20] Pale_Wolf: That could be of interest.
[21:20] Alathon: you'd obviously be a lot more limited in terms of what you could buy
[21:21] Pale_Wolf: But could use it with vastly more ease :P
[21:21] Alathon: yes
[21:21] Alathon: and FFS
[21:21] Alathon: er
[21:21] Alathon: though just to be clear, main and alt spec attacks must been from the same pool of magic points
[21:21] Alathon: so no buying one high ranking spec attack with limited magic, then all the rest with unlimited ;p
[21:21] Pale_Wolf: But if we turn it down, no complaining about how our magical concepts shouldn't be tied to that effect? :P
[21:22] Alathon: more or less
[21:22] Alathon: Nanoha mages do both (gesture and call out attacks) pretty much all the time
[21:22] Alathon: so it's not exactly an unreasonable limitation genre wise
[21:22] Pale_Wolf: Hm, here's a question. How would we model a 'true' bind?
[21:23] Pale_Wolf: Ie, one that doesn't just 'muddy down' the movement, but really does stop them cold?
[21:23] Yarrow: Incapacitate.
[21:25] Pale_Wolf: Hm. I can see that, but, Incapacitate looks more like sleep spells and the like - a bind wouldn't really stop someone who can just blink and watch people die, for instance.
[21:25] Pale_Wolf: A custom one that counts as two Abilities? Halfway between the two?
[21:26] Yarrow: So you want them unable to move bodyparts but still have access to nonsomatic abilities?
[21:26] Pale_Wolf: Yep, basically.
[21:26] Yarrow: I imagine they'd get a save against it.
[21:27] Pale_Wolf: Well, they'd get to dodge it to start with :P
[21:27] Pale_Wolf: Otherwise, Al's call on the specifics.
[21:27] Yarrow: Well, think about how you'd feel if you got hit with it and then say whether you think it should have a save. ;)
[21:28] Pale_Wolf: An exceedingly true point.
[21:32] Alathon: heh
[21:32] Alathon: if you want to stop them from actiing it's incapacitate
[21:33] Alathon: if you want them to be "nanoha bound" where they can talk smack but do nothing else, that's fine
[21:33] Alathon: there IS a saving throw
[21:34] Pale_Wolf: Well, I was thinking of one that just keeps them from moving - ie, it has no effect on their innate magical abilities, just pinning them down, and if they can kill me with their mind, 'Oh fuck'.
[21:36] DCG: hmm
[21:36] DCG: interesting gather attack.
[21:36] DCG: I can go with 8mp for rank of magic and take away verbel,tho the movments fits, we gots aim it after all.
[21:37] DCG: Would need a chance to redo my magic tho as it is i can't do that.
[21:37] Alathon: *nod*
[21:37] Alathon: we're essentially doing a full respec at this point
[21:37] DCG: would have to cut the fat
[21:37] DCG: ahh ok
[21:37] Alathon: to accomodate the combat changes, and this stuff
[21:37] Pale_Wolf: Yeah, we're trimming like mad :P
[21:37] DCG: a respect would rock i made some mistakes since sheens's been my first major besm player
[21:37] Pale_Wolf: Ah, Stat drains are fucked out, right?
[21:38] *** Alathon has changed the topic on channel #crystaltokyo to No game next week, work on your updated char sheets! Next game on Saturday, September 29th at 12pm PST / 3pm EST.
[21:38] Alathon: stat drains no longer exist
[21:38] Alathon: I'll mod any Dyn Sorc spells that apply any stackable stat drain effect to do something else
[21:39] Alathon: i.e. no dropping targets to strength 0 with Ray of Enfeeblement
[21:40] Pale_Wolf: All righty. Then... Feat costing, you mentioned in the list? How're we doing that?
[21:41] Alathon: feats are worth 1 cp
[21:41] Alathon: compare them to 1 cp attributes, and they're really right about there
[21:41] Alathon: any Class level which grants a feat, now grants a feat + 1 cp
[21:41] Pale_Wolf: All righty. What about class progressions that give you Feats? Do you get a spare CP as well?
[21:41] Alathon: yes
[21:41] Pale_Wolf: Heh, what timing :p
[21:42] Alathon: feats are still granted at lvls 1, 3, 6.. etc
[21:42] Alathon: if these feats are Incomplete Training'd, they are worth -1 cp as a defect.
[21:42] Pale_Wolf: Gotcha.
[21:42] Pale_Wolf: What about the two-weapon attacks?
[21:42] Alathon: they now do exactly what the SRD suggested
[21:43] Alathon: one extra full BAB attack, that's it
[21:43] Pale_Wolf: Gotcha.
[21:43] DCG: well
[21:43] DCG: since we are redoing sheets
[21:43] Pale_Wolf: What about additional feats that allow them to work for the second round of attacks and the like, ie Greater/Improved Two-Weapon Fighting?
[21:44] DCG: what's it gona cost for Dark heart to do what i asked about ysterday al?
[21:44] DCG: And will i need a pocket space on sheena for it?
[21:44] Alathon: no
[21:44] Alathon: to pw
[21:45] Alathon: because with opposed offense/defense rolls, and degrading defenses over the course of a round, being able to pump out tons of attacks is inherently powerful
[21:45] Pale_Wolf: Gotcha.
[21:45] Pale_Wolf: You also mentioned Magic from IoPs. How's that working?
[21:45] Alathon: to have an IoP which you can recall/summon at will, costs 1 cp per the rank of the IoP
[21:45] Alathon: to have a hammerspace which only one item can fit in costs.. um
[21:46] Alathon: one specific item.. 2 cp
[21:46] Pale_Wolf: Hm...
[21:47] Pale_Wolf: What about an IoP that just shifts its form for carriage purposes?
[21:47] Alathon: that's a 2 cp cosmetic alt form, within the IoP
[21:47] Alathon: which you and sheena both alreayd have had ;p
[21:47] Alathon: to be clear
[21:47] Alathon: summonability and a iop only hammerspace, are attributes the character has to purchase outside of the IoP
[21:48] Pale_Wolf: Yup, gotcha.
[21:49] DCG: ok
[21:49] DCG: hmm
[21:50] DCG: if we are swtiching off bab to skills we mayneed that more magic
[21:50] DCG: As there's gona be a lot of dogeing goning on
[21:51] Pale_Wolf: Hey, at least WE get to dodge once in a while too :P
[21:54] DCG: ya
[21:54] DCG: that will be something else.
[21:55] Alathon: that's one of the reasons I was seriously considering the EP for magic ranks thing
[21:55] Alathon: because there will be a lot more misses
[21:55] Alathon: there's gonna bea draconian cap on +stat magic bonuses as well
[21:56] Alathon: because, frankly, huge +dex spells pooch the deal
[21:56] Pale_Wolf: Yeah, I only snagged that so I'd have SOME kind of short-range defence :P
[21:56] Alathon: *nod*
[21:56] Alathon: I'm thinking +4 to a stat, sicne that's what Dyn Sorcs get
[21:56] Pale_Wolf: +4 bonus, or +4 to the stat itself?
[21:57] Alathon: +4 to the stat
[21:57] Alathon: like I said, draconian
[21:57] DCG: Sheena's at 28char..
[21:57] DCG: hmm
[21:57] Pale_Wolf: Gotcha.
[21:58] Alathon: too bad mind control is such a huge taboo, or you could pick up the Enchantment school of dyn sorc and be a monster ;p
[21:58] DCG: ya no shit
[21:58] Pale_Wolf: Hm. So, how solidly are we going with the reseated version of the system?
[21:58] Alathon: hm?
[21:58] Pale_Wolf: CSP, Alternate Attack skills, etc...
[21:59] Alathon: I'm doing all of that.. and decided to go with the GCB
[21:59] Pale_Wolf: What're we doing for class skills? All in-class, or just all defences in-class?
[21:59] Alathon: on the principle that a character who is substantially higher level, really should be a bitch and a half
[21:59] Alathon: and should require teamwork to down
[21:59] Alathon: all combat skills are in class
[21:59] Alathon: i.e. 3 CSP
[21:59] Pale_Wolf: Oho? We get GCB, all righty.
[21:59] Pale_Wolf: Gotcha.
[21:59] Pale_Wolf: What about noncombat ones?
[21:59] Alathon: number of attacks is based off combat skill alone, not combat skill + GCB
[21:59] Alathon: non-combat skills remain as they have been
[22:00] Alathon: not gonna make any changes there, since nothing feels Too broken
[22:00] Pale_Wolf: All righty.
[22:01] * Pale_Wolf sighs slightly about double-cost for Reis's 'character skills' :P
[22:02] Alathon: not like you won't have tons of skillpoints available now ;p
[22:02] Pale_Wolf: True enough, I think this mechanic just freed up...
[22:03] Pale_Wolf: 93 skill points.
[22:03] Pale_Wolf: *Splortch*
[22:03] Pale_Wolf: Ah yes, guys?
[22:03] Pale_Wolf: (Link: http://www.fukufics.com/viewtopic.php?p=139014#139014)http://www.fukufics.com/viewtopic.php?p=139014#139014
[22:04] Pale_Wolf: That post contains my own version of the rules we're using :P
[22:04] Pale_Wolf: For reference, at least.
[22:04] Alathon: good
[22:04] Alathon: ... post logs imo
[22:04] Pale_Wolf: I'm pretty sure I'm not done yet, but... That's at least got the core mechanics.
[22:06] Alathon: I suppose I really ought to do something about humans in my game too
[22:06] Alathon: they do get gypped pretty hard
[22:06] Pale_Wolf: We humans wouldn't mind in the least :P
[22:07] Alathon: the favored class is irrelevant
[22:07] Alathon: I haven't been assigning any multiclass penalties
[22:07] Alathon: the feat is now worth 1 cp rather than 2
[22:07] Alathon: the +4 skill points / + 1 per level, is worth 1 cp not 3
[22:07] Alathon: in short, they're owed 4 cp
[22:08] Pale_Wolf: Oooooh. Got any ideas?
[22:08] Pale_Wolf: Ah yes, what XP did we get for the session?
[22:08] Alathon: oh shit
[22:08] Alathon: it's been like 2 hours.. forgot
[22:08] Alathon: hm
[22:08] Alathon: lemme go back over that
[22:13] Alathon: 2720 exp
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Session 54

Postby Alathon » Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:15 pm

Session 54

[12:04] Alathon: So
[12:05] Mani: (Devo outfit.)
[12:05] Alathon: we left off two weeks ago with the party having had a meeting concerning.. well.. stuff.
[12:05] Alathon: i.e. Mani no longer being dead.
[12:06] Kuonji: (Sakura's been hauling her god damn corpse around for WEEKS)
[12:06] Alathon: After which people went back to more or less doing their own stuff, at least most of the time.
[12:06] Mani: ("Is this just another mooncat that looks like Mani?" "Yes. We bought a new cat that looks like her just so you wouldn't feel so bad...")
[12:07] Sheena: (lol)
[12:07] Alathon: ((haha)
[12:07] Alathon: Mani had substantial draws on her time for the first couple days, making the rounds to letp eople know she wasn't dead
[12:07] Alathon: answering more or less the same questions over and over
[12:08] Mani: (Knocking on their door around midnight with no advance notice... It was FUN!)
[12:09] Alathon: ((btw, pming kuonji))
[12:10] Alathon: Since then, you've all had time to get reacquainted if you want, etc..
[12:10] Alathon: it's been roughly a week
[12:11] Kuonji: (wait, I thought kuonji had been traveling for weeks... or is this happening at different times?)
[12:11] Alathon: ((timeline wise, it has been three weeks))
[12:11] Alathon: ((wait a sec.. it was three weeks last week))
[12:11] Alathon: ((so it's been four weeks))
[12:12] * Mani invites Sheena & Reis to a party with the clan near the end of the week.
[12:12] *** Stel|MusouOrochi is now known as Stelas.
[12:12] * Reis will pull herself out of various things to go.
[12:12] Alathon: if they choose to go, go ahead and describe what they're like
[12:13] * Sheena looks at Reis across the labs "A luncat party? Well its mani im game"
[12:13] * Sheena will of corse go as well
[12:14] Mani: People are much happier than they were at the last event. Members of the clan are all human, but there are a small number of Mani's mooncat relatives, too.
[12:15] Mani: Lots of homemade ethnic (Irish) food, lots of music played by a number of different guests.
[12:15] * Mani plays her harp with some other people, too. It works much better when combined with other instruments.
[12:16] Mani: Dancing, drink, etc. Fun. That is all. ;)
[12:16] * Reis will listen to the improvement yielded by the ensemble.
[12:17] * Sheena will be wearing a long summer dress, if a bit dark in color with the ever present shades on.
[12:17] Alathon: Several different clan members will approach each of you at one point or another, and request that you 'look out' for her.
[12:17] Alathon: for Mani, that is.
[12:18] * Reis nods firmly to that request.
[12:18] * Sheena would have found the idea of having to look out for blenderchan absurd..last month.
[12:18] Mani: (Hey... I thought I was looking out for them. ;) )
[12:20] * Mani also asks for some instruction in Abyssal at some point.
[12:20] Mani: (Not at the party.)
[12:20] Alathon: ((eventually, the party devolves into a drunken brawl))
[12:20] Mani: (Well, duh... It was right there on the invitation. 9:30 Drunken brawl.)
[12:20] Alathon: Contrary to old world stereotypes, the party does not devolve into a drunken brawl.
[12:21] Alathon: Though a few people do get a mite bit pugnacious, it's nothing serious.
[12:21] * Sheena rats
[12:22] Reis: (Probably not a good idea for a frail mage to get into a drunken brawl. She'll only get through by incinerating people...)
[12:22] * Sheena lets mani know she can stop by there labs at any time if she wants some Abyssal primers.. just smack that unnamed npc around to get them
[12:22] Mani: (Oh, and I'm sure that just about any human at the party would be more than happy to tell Sheena/Reis about the O'Loinsigh clan and its history in great, excruciating detail. Just ask. You might not even have to ask. :) )
[12:23] * Reis will listen if people tell her, but...
[12:24] Sheena: (dont that come right before the drunken brawl?)
[12:25] Mani: ("Ok... who's the wiseguy that trapped Grandma Sophie in a pocket dimension in the middle of her story about how she met Grandpa Ryan?")
[12:26] Alathon: (hbeh)
[12:26] Alathon: Anyways.. the party will, by and large, be a good time.
[12:26] Alathon: If not as raucous as you might have expected, if you knew anything about old world stereotypes.
[12:27] Alathon: several days later, you all get commed with a simple message.
[12:27] Alathon: From Usagi: "Kuonji's back. Meeting in room 3125 ASAP."
[12:27] * Sheena is laughting madly in a darkened part of the lab for no aparent reason when she gets it.
[12:28] * Mani comes to the room in cat form, which she's been spending almost all of her time in since returning.
[12:28] * Reis stares at the message and simply _smiles_, then wraps up and rushes over.
[12:28] Sheena: "Ahh hahahaha Im a genius! errr whats that.. hell ya! Sakura yuuno!"
[12:29] * Sheena runs out of a cloud of darkness and heads to the room fast
[12:29] Alathon: For amusement's sake, you all reach HQ at more or less the same time.
[12:29] Alathon: So, you can procede to the conference room together.
[12:30] Mani: (Mani rushes across rooftops, leaping across gaps with flight-assisted bounds, and arrives rubbing her head and muttering about "invisible blocks".)
[12:30] Reis: (Hahahahahahahahaahha!)
[12:30] Alathon: When you all get there, there's three people in the room.
[12:30] Reis: (Manio?)
[12:30] Kuonji: ("It's a me, Mani.)
[12:31] Alathon: (can you at least throw fireballs now?))
[12:31] Mani: (*grins)
[12:31] Alathon: Usagi's there, as is Kuonji, who looks a little bedraggled and wet.
[12:31] Alathon: There's another woman in the room as well.
[12:31] Reis: (Wow. For a game as mage-heavy as this, it's kinda creepy that nobody can actually throw fireballs)
[12:31] Alathon: She looks a lot like this: (Link: http://www.retrojunk.com/img/art-images/ss50.jpg)http://www.retrojunk.com/img/art-images/ss50.jpg
[12:32] Mani: (She's badly drawn?)
[12:32] Alathon: Save that rather than wearing a bikini, she's wearing an overly large Espionage uniform, draped over her thinner frame.
[12:32] * Reis smiles. "Sakura-san... It's such a relief to know you're okay..."
[12:32] Kuonji: "Thanks."
[12:32] Sheena: "Hey sakura! your... wt? Dude did you swim back?"
[12:33] * Sheena looks around and then under the table some
[12:33] Kuonji: "It's a long story."
[12:33] * Mani hops up onto a chair (or table if they're too low).
[12:33] Sheena: "You didn't eat yuuno did you? Where the heck is he?"
[12:33] Kuonji: "Taichou! It's good to see you, I was so relieved when I heard the news."
[12:33] Mani: "Hello, Sakura. It's good to see you safe and ... wet."
[12:33] Alathon: The woman waves to Sheena.
[12:34] Mani: "And I'm glad you're ok, too."
[12:34] Alathon: Woman: "Sup, Sheena."
[12:34] * Reis blinks and cocks her head. "Um... hello?"
[12:34] Mani: (Just wait till Yuuno gets hit with cold water while down Sheena's shirt.)
[12:34] Alathon: Woman: "It's me. I'm Yuuno."
[12:34] Alathon: ((instant brazier busting fantasy scene.. complete with water droplets!))
[12:34] * Mani studies Yuuno.
[12:35] Alathon: Yuuno: "Really."
[12:35] Alathon: Yuuno looks over to Usagi.
[12:35] Kuonji: "You know, you probably should have stayed in your natural form for this."
[12:35] Alathon: Yuuno: "I guess we need more water."
[12:35] Mani: "I didn't know messing up a teleport could have a result like that..."
[12:35] * Sheena blinks
[12:35] Kuonji: "We ended up in China."
[12:35] Alathon: Yuuno shakes his head.
[12:35] Kuonji: "And kind of picked up some curses."
[12:35] Alathon: Yuuno: "It wasn't my messed up.. oh wait."
[12:35] Reis: O_o
[12:35] Sheena: "Damn yuuno, WHen you screw up you do it major"
[12:35] * Reis stares.
[12:36] Reis: "... Sensei...?"
[12:36] * Reis shakes her head. "Um... it's good to see you back too...?"
[12:36] Kuonji: "See, there's this place called Jusenkyo, it's a valley filled with these springs..."
[12:36] * Sheena moves over to yuuno and starts givening her a good look over
[12:36] Kuonji: "If you fall into a spring, you take the form of whatever drowned there last."
[12:36] Mani: (Now leer at her. ;) )
[12:37] Alathon: Usagi, amused: "Is very tragic story. Ferret fall in spring of drowned hawt elf chick."
[12:37] Sheena: "Hot elf chick indeed"
[12:37] Alathon: Yuuno turns his chair a little to give you a better view and looks up, almost challengingly.
[12:37] * Sheena runs a finger along yuuno's ear
[12:37] Alathon: Yuuno shivers.
[12:37] Alathon: Yuuno: "Don't do that here!"
[12:37] * Reis stares at Yuuno. "I'm... not sure what to say?"
[12:37] * Kuonji blinks
[12:37] Alathon: Yuuno pulls her head back.
[12:37] Mani: "What are the specifics of the curse?"
[12:37] Alathon: Usagi: "Sakura?"
[12:38] Kuonji: "Where exactly did you hear about the springs, Usagi-sama?"
[12:38] Sheena: "Oh dear, And look at all that hair..
[12:38] Alathon: Usagi: "From Mom.. but go ahead and explain."
[12:38] Alathon: Usagi, a little surprised: "Actually.. that one wasn't from mom, was it.."
[12:38] Kuonji: "Well, for one thing, cold water has a habit of seeking out victims of the curse."
[12:38] * Sheena takes a seat near yuuno and listens in while checking out the floor lenth blond hair
[12:39] Mani: "Cold water?"
[12:39] Alathon: Usagi, to Kuonji: "I think you need to explain about the cold and hot water first."
[12:39] * Reis shakes herself and takes a seat, still staring at Yuuno.
[12:39] Kuonji: "When splashed with cold water, you take your cursed state, hot water reverts you to your natural form until the next time."
[12:39] Mani: "Ah."
[12:40] Mani: "It's good that you've gotten an especially useful form out of your curse, Yuuno."
[12:40] Kuonji: "Mine.... not so much."
[12:40] * Kuonji grimaces
[12:40] Mani: ("I thought that form was your curse.")
[12:40] Kuonji: "Definitly could have been worse though."
[12:40] * Sheena holds up some long blond silky hair
[12:40] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah, it is, isn't it."
[12:40] Sheena: "Got great hair to"
[12:41] Alathon: Yuuno: "If you say so.. it keeps getting tangled in stuff."
[12:41] Alathon: Yuuno: "I was thinking about trimming it, actually.."
[12:41] * Reis frowns. "But it looks good, sensei... Tie it up?"
[12:41] Mani: "Ah. I wonder if it will come back at its original length when you change shapes."
[12:41] Sheena: "Ahh, you just need to feed a very tiny bit of magic down it all the time, Keep it free and moving"
[12:42] * Sheena pulls up her own dark red hair
[12:42] Alathon: At this point, the water that Usagi apparently requested is ordered.
[12:42] Alathon: er
[12:42] Alathon: arrives.
[12:42] Sheena: "Just a real small amount, I got the idea from the boss"
[12:42] Alathon: A young-ish staff member brings in a tray with a couple pitchers, one of them steaming.
[12:42] Alathon: He sets them down on the table, bows, andl eaves.
[12:43] Kuonji: "Wow, I'm surprised this one didn't trip too."
[12:43] Sheena: "Trip?"
[12:44] Kuonji: "Like I said, water is attracted to Jusenkyo victims."
[12:44] * Reis blinks. "The 'water is drawn' thing you mentioned, Sakura-san?"
[12:45] Alathon: Usagi: "Might as well go ahead and demonstrate. Not the water magnet thing."
[12:45] Alathon: Yuuno will wait and let Sakura go first.
[12:45] * Kuonji sighs
[12:45] * Kuonji picks up a pitcher of cold water and dumps it on himself
[12:45] * Sheena wonders and watchs not thinking sakura got one as well
[12:46] Kuonji: (you might be better at this al... still not to sure exactly how the new form looks."
[12:46] Kuonji: )
[12:46] Mani: ("Ah, so sad. You fall in spring of drowned fanfic writer. Now you just tell everyone your plans but never actually follow through on them.")
[12:46] * Kuonji digs himself out of his clothes and floats up... "Yo."
[12:47] Mani: (It's Mew!)
[12:47] Alathon: It looks like you.
[12:47] Alathon: Naked
[12:47] Alathon: with white hair
[12:47] Alathon: six inches tall
[12:47] Kuonji: (ah)
[12:47] * Reis blinkblinks.
[12:47] Kuonji: (dudn't you mnetion something about sparks?)
[12:48] Sheena: (spring of drowned unision device?)
[12:48] Alathon: (only when you're pissed off))
[12:48] Mani: "So... do you know what drowned in that spring?"
[12:48] Kuonji: "Nope."
[12:48] Alathon: (heh, apparently)
[12:48] Alathon: Yuuno mutters, "... pixies.."
[12:48] Mani: "Well, I think you got pretty damned lucky, too."
[12:48] Kuonji: "I'm not a fucking pixie!"
[12:48] * Sheena has a disturbing smile on her face
[12:48] Alathon: Yuuno raises her hands in surrender.
[12:49] Mani: "I mean, how many mice, rabbits, snakes, etc. must have drowned in those springs..."
[12:49] Sheena: "I can't wait to get you two into the lab!'
[12:49] Alathon: Yuuno: "Okay, okay, you're not a pixie! I believe you!"
[12:49] Kuonji: "Hey, a snake would be a useful form for a ninja."
[12:49] Mani: "And here, you have a form that can talk, fly, and has a smaller size which can be very useful at times."
[12:49] Mani: "I'm sure it would--if you could change back and forth at will."
[12:49] Kuonji: "There are some better springs I could have fallen into though...
[12:49] Alathon: Usagi: "The clothes thing will be.. difficult."
[12:49] Kuonji: "
[12:50] Mani: "Do you have access to your special abilities in that form?"
[12:50] * Reis continues blinking. "... Wow, Sakura-san."
[12:50] Reis: "You're very cute."
[12:50] Kuonji: "Spring of drowned yeti riding an ox while carrying crane and eel for one."
[12:50] Sheena: "Wait.. what?"
[12:50] Sheena: "How did that happen"
[12:50] Mani: "Spring of what...?"
[12:51] * Reis blinks. "But why would you prefer that?"
[12:51] Mani: "And it sounds big. I wouldn't envy you the first time you changed in a car or other small enclosed space."
[12:51] Alathon: Yuuno: "Wouldn't envy the passengers, either."
[12:52] Sheena: "So why did you ladies hit these springs?"
[12:52] Kuonji: "Ladies? I'm still a guy!"
[12:52] Mani: (So, is chibi-Sakura anatomically correct?)
[12:52] Reis: "The misteleport?"
[12:52] * Kuonji is sparking slightly
[12:52] Alathon: Yuuno immediately looks embarassed.
[12:53] Alathon: Yuuno: "It was a different missed teleport."
[12:53] Mani: "Can you access hair space in that form? And can you cut your hair?
[12:53] Kuonji: "Still have the hairspace."
[12:53] Alathon: Yuuno: "And the stuff in it is normal sized..."
[12:53] Alathon: Yuuno sounds a little amused.
[12:54] * Kuonji is sparking more
[12:54] Kuonji: "Yeah, let's see you try to hold onto a campstove when your six inches tall."
[12:54] Mani: "Do you eventually explode if you get angry enough?"
[12:54] Sheena: "Have you tried blasting anything like that?"
[12:55] * Mani sighs.
[12:55] Sheena: (what do they look like to sheena? The curse, and thoes forms)
[12:55] Mani: "Why don't we ease up on any teasing and barrages of questions."
[12:55] Kuonji: "Do you have any idea what kind of hell we've been through in the last month?"
[12:56] Kuonji: "Ever been to China? Forget the curses, it's fucking crawling with undead chinese amazons."
[12:56] * Sheena Hmms and leans in looking at Yuuno closely
[12:56] Kuonji: "I barely got any sleep."
[12:56] Mani: ("Because of you ... <looks between Yuuno & Mani, trying to decide whose fault it is> I've seen hell!")
[12:56] * Reis blinkblinks. "...Undead chinese amazons?"
[12:56] Alathon: Yuuno looks straight at Sheena.
[12:56] * Sheena looks from Sakura to yuuno for a bit
[12:57] Mani: "I'm glad I didn't see that part of China..."
[12:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Okay, the undead part I more or less understand. But.. amazons?"
[12:57] Sheena: "Aside from looking great.."
[12:57] Kuonji: "Yeah, they were a tribe of warrior women... Real odd laws."
[12:58] * Sheena touchs Yuuno shoilder like she's checking for something
[12:58] Mani: "So, these undead were intelligent and aware--not like zombies?"
[12:58] Kuonji: "I"m just glad we didn't run into any undead Musk or Phoenix."
[12:58] * Sheena hmms
[12:58] Sheena: "You have a tour guild or something sakura"
[12:58] Kuonji: "Yeah, they were pretty smart. They were capable of speaking, though I don't know Chinese."
[12:59] * Kuonji scratches the back of his head
[12:59] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well, they spoke something.. I don't thinkw e even know if it was chinese."
[12:59] Alathon: Yuuno: "Can't speak it either, myself."
[12:59] Mani: "But some of them spoke a language you could understand, I take it?"
[12:59] Alathon: Yuuno: "They certainly knew how to fight as wel."
[12:59] * Sheena pulls off her shades
[12:59] Kuonji: "No, but well, there are these bed time stories my folks used to tell me..."
[12:59] Sheena: "Hey Sakura foat this way some"
[12:59] Mani: "Ah, I see."
[13:00] * Kuonji floats towards Sheena
Session Close (#crystaltokyo): Sat Sep 29 13:00:31 2007


Session Start (irc.lunarnet.org:#crystaltokyo): Sat Sep 29 13:02:05 2007
[13:02] *** Initial topic: Next game on Saturday, September 29th at 12pm PST / 3pm EST. Please finish up any changes you're making to your characters and mail the sheets in soon, ideally before PW's game tomorrow
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[13:02] Alathon: ((sigh, sorry about that.. closed the window, then to fix it, I closed trillian.))
[13:03] * Mani looks to Usagi.
[13:03] Reis: (Heh.)
[13:03] Mani: "So, do you think these curses can be broken if they want to get rid of them?"
[13:04] Alathon: Usagi: "I haven't even begin to investigate them."
[13:04] Alathon: Usagi: "But, I'd think so."
[13:04] Alathon: Usagi: "if not by me, then Mom."
[13:04] Sheena: "It would be past me.. and there's something odd here"
[13:04] Kuonji: "Odd?"
[13:04] Sheena: "I can see the magic on yuuno.."
[13:04] * Sheena looks at sakura
[13:05] * Reis blinks. "Sakura-san doesn't have the curse magic on him?"
[13:05] Sheena: "But you did something else.. there no visible magic around you, on you, or coming from you Sakura"
[13:05] * Sheena shakes her head
[13:05] Mani: "Perhaps his current form has a magic cloaking effect."
[13:05] Sheena: (RETCON)
[13:06] Alathon: ((sigh, my PMing stuff to sheena got interrupted, sorry))
[13:06] Sheena: (ya lost stuff in the drop)
[13:06] Kuonji: (yeah, I was about to say, I've got the detectable defect: Magic)
[13:06] * Sheena rewinds somoe
[13:06] Sheena: "I can see the magic on yuuno.."
[13:07] Sheena: "And now its on sakura as well, but it wasn't before. Thats odd"
[13:07] Mani: (Is Sakura still sparking?)
[13:07] Kuonji: (no)
[13:08] Mani: "So, do you want to tell us your story from the beginning?"
[13:08] Alathon: Usagi: "Actually, I'd appreciate that as well."
[13:08] Alathon: Usagi: "And after that, Mani and the rest can relate what happened to them."
[13:08] Kuonji: (hang on)
[13:09] Sheena: Roll 1d20+17+6
[13:09] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+17+6 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{31}
[13:09] Kuonji: (scumfu.... I mean my dad is on the phone)
[13:10] Alathon: ((/me cues up the music from Rent... "We screen, zoom in on the answering machine."))
[13:13] Kuonji: (woot, red sox won the division)
[13:13] Kuonji: (jesus, he won't fucking shut up)
[13:16] Mani: (At least you didn't fall into spring of drowned him.)
[13:16] Kuonji: (finally)
[13:17] * Sheena runs a finger down Yuuno arm
[13:17] Sheena: "Ok, i know what the curse looks like now.."
[13:17] Sheena: "But chibi-Sakura there has a good bit more to them now then just the body changing magic"
[13:18] * Reis cocks her head. "Really?"
[13:18] Kuonji: "Uh, well, after Yuuno's misfired teleport, we ended up stranded in a pretty arid area."
[13:18] Kuonji: "We started traveling south, not really having any idea of where we were."
[13:19] * Mani nods in sympathy.
[13:19] Kuonji: "It was really odd, I could sense very little in the way of life force, but a lot of... spiritual prescense."
[13:19] Kuonji: "We realized we might be in China, and were attacked by skeletons."
[13:20] Mani: "You mean immediately after you realized that?"
[13:20] Kuonji: "A few hours after."
[13:21] Kuonji: (kuonji may not be running on a time limit, but I am, so cut me some slack)
[13:22] Kuonji: "So we started heading east, where we began to encounter the undead amazons."
[13:22] Alathon: ((what time do you need to leave btw?)
[13:22] Mani: (Hey, I just wanted to clear up whether it was like they attacked as soon as you realized you might be in China.)
[13:22] Kuonji: (I'd say 5:30 at the latest)
[13:22] Mani: (As if it were in response.)
[13:23] Kuonji: "Thenk we hit Jusenkyo... I recognized it almost immediatly from the stories I had been told as a child."
[13:23] Kuonji: "Yuuno, was a bit skeptical."
[13:23] Alathon: Yuuno rolls her eyes.
[13:24] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah, like I said.. my bad."
[13:24] Kuonji: "There were a lot of animals running around, which was in itself strange considering the lack of wildlife we had seen up until that point."
[13:25] Kuonji: "We started traveling carefully through the valley, I could feel the sorrow radiating from the pools."
[13:25] Kuonji: "As we moved through them, they started calling to me, it became more and more difficult to proceed."
[13:25] Kuonji: "We finally made it to the edge of the valley unscathed."
[13:26] Kuonji: (retcon)
[13:26] Kuonji: (I think we might have only made it halfway through... I don't remember.... al?)
[13:28] Alathon: (you made it a bit past the pools))
[13:28] Kuonji: "Anyway, Yuuno decided to teleport us away from the springs, but they apparantly had other ideas."
[13:28] Alathon: ((couldn't remember, but yeah they were pulling at you and you made it past))
[13:28] Kuonji: "We ended up teleporting above the pools and falling in."
[13:28] Alathon: Usagi winces at that.
[13:28] Alathon: Yuuno looks appologetic.
[13:28] Kuonji: "After that, it was more travel, a ton of rain, and a shitload of undead.:
[13:29] Mani: (I made it safely through, and the the damned DM just tossed me into a pool!)
[13:29] Kuonji: "Not nearly as relaxing as Orange Rocks."
[13:29] Kuonji: (eh, I wanted a curse :P)
[13:29] Kuonji: (he asked first)
[13:30] * Reis blinks. "Ouch... Sorry to hear that..."
[13:30] Sheena: "I can see now why you still won't teach me that yuuno"
[13:30] Alathon: Yuuno, peeved: "I didn't even screw it up, either."
[13:30] Mani: (Alathon rolls on the random table. "Oh... um, it seems you fell into spring of drowned carp...")
[13:30] Alathon: Yuuno: "I built it perfectly, and we just.. came out at the wrong place."
[13:30] Sheena: (DR DR !!)
[13:30] Kuonji: (he said he wasn't going to roll, I asked him before hand)
[13:31] Alathon: (not for you, no)
[13:31] Alathon: (Yuuno was pure random goodness)
[13:31] Sheena: "I didn't think it was posible to misdirect this kind of transfer magic"
[13:31] Alathon: ((1d100 for race, 1d2 for gender)
[13:31] Alathon: Yuuno: "It shouldn't have been. But, it obviously was."
[13:33] Alathon: Yuuno: "Anyways.."
[13:33] Kuonji: (heh, too bad we didn't get orky Yuuno)
[13:33] Alathon: Yuuno: "we got dunked, got cursed."
[13:33] Alathon: Yuuno looks over at Kuonji.
[13:33] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well, he got curse."
[13:33] Alathon: Yuuno: "As far as I'm concerned, I got blessed."
[13:33] * Mani nods.
[13:33] Sheena: "Well, im glade you didnt fall into a angry gorrla spring(akane) or something"
[13:33] * Sheena smiles
[13:33] Sheena: "Oh?"
[13:33] * Reis chuckles. "Enjoying your form, sensei?"
[13:34] Alathon: Yuuno: "You know.. yeah, I am."
[13:34] Alathon: Yuuno: "It's weird. Very, very wierd."
[13:34] Kuonji: "Pfftt, now maybe... You should have seen him when he first realized he lost his junk."
[13:34] Alathon: Yuuno: "But fuck being a ferret, I was stuck that way long enough."
[13:34] Mani: "Speaking of which, you want a handkerchief or something, Sakura?"
[13:34] Alathon: Yuuno shoots an irritated glance at Kuonji.
[13:35] * Sheena raises an eyebrow at that
[13:35] Sheena: "Stuck?"
[13:35] * Kuonji shrugs
[13:35] Alathon: Yuuno: "Hey, it freaked me out, allright? I'll bet you would have taken it worse."
[13:35] Alathon: Yuuno looks back to Sheena.
[13:35] Alathon: Yuuno: "What?"
[13:35] Kuonji: "You're right, I would have killed you."
[13:35] * Sheena peers at the neo-elfbabe
[13:35] Mani: (Usagi: "Here." She sticks a post-it on Sakura.)
[13:36] Sheena: "We're going to have a bit of a chat later, i caught that slip up"
[13:36] Alathon: Yuuno: "What slip up?"
[13:36] Alathon: Yuuno looks.. a little confused.
[13:36] Sheena: "I was stuck that way to long" as a ferret?"
[13:36] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well.."
[13:36] Alathon: Yuuno looks, puzzled.
[13:36] * Reis cocks her head. "I'm a little curious... Aren't you a ferret?"
[13:36] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah, I did say that, didn't I.
[13:37] Reis: "How would you be stuck as one?"
[13:37] Alathon: Yuuno: "But I've always been a ferret."
[13:37] Sheena: "uh-huh"
[13:37] Alathon: Yuuno: "I don't remember anything else."
[13:37] Alathon: Yuuno looks a little disturbed.
[13:37] Sheena: "And Dark heart used to stand for all that was good and holy"
[13:37] Alathon: Yuuno: "This curse shit better not be messing with my head."
[13:37] * Sheena thinks for a moment.. err..
[13:37] Kuonji: "Hey, just a minute ago it was a blessing..."
[13:38] Mani: "If I was the only talking ferret in a world designed for humans, I might consider myself 'stuck', too."
[13:38] Alathon: Yuuno looks over to Kuonji, irked.
[13:38] Sheena: "Yuuno, just how long have you been going female? 2 weeks 3?"
[13:38] * Reis frowns. "That's... very strange..."
[13:38] Alathon: Yuuno: "I hope it still is, but if it's messing iwth my head, it's gotta go, that's for sure!"
[13:38] Alathon: Yuuno looks over to Sheena.
[13:38] Alathon: Yuuno: "Um.. a bit under a month. Like, three and a half weeks, I guess."
[13:38] Kuonji: (oh, I forgot to mention Sakura walking in on Yuuno testing out his new body)
[13:39] Alathon: (that's because you have some tact IC ;p ))
[13:39] Kuonji: (:P)
[13:39] Sheena: "Not bleeding and wanting to destroy the world yet?"
[13:39] Alathon: Yuuno: "Um... no?"
[13:39] Alathon: Yuuno then Gets It.
[13:39] Mani: (...)
[13:39] Alathon: Yuuno: "And with any luck, Elves don't have to deal with that."
[13:39] Alathon: Yuuno sounds hopeful.
[13:39] Sheena: "... no fair'
[13:40] * Reis blinks. "... Good luck, sensei?"
[13:40] Alathon: Yuuno: "Whatever. Can we not talk about this?"
[13:40] Kuonji: (bahahahaha, bet Yarrow's ready to strangle you)
[13:40] * Sheena shurgs
[13:40] Kuonji: "So... Can I go back to normal now?"
[13:41] Sheena: "You never seemed to mind my total lack of tact and descency before ya know"
[13:41] * Sheena just corsses her legs and sits normal at the table now
[13:42] Alathon: Usagi: "Go for it."
[13:42] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah, well.. let's talk about it later then."
[13:42] Kuonji: "Errr... I could use a hand with that pitcher."
[13:42] Alathon: Yuuno tries to move the conversation onward.
[13:42] Alathon: Usagi will drench you in hot water.
[13:42] Mani: "Don't look at me."
[13:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "Oh.. um. speaking of."
[13:43] * Kuonji will change back into his damp clothes
[13:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "I'm glad to see you back, Mani."
[13:43] Mani: "Thanks."
[13:43] Sheena: "Hmm, should we test hot water on mani?"
[13:43] Mani: ("I said don't look at me!")
[13:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "Sorry I didn't say anything sooner.. we're a little self-obsessed right now, I think."
[13:43] * Mani chuckles.
[13:43] Mani: "I understand completely."
[13:44] Mani: "And, no, we should not."
[13:44] Alathon: Yuuno: "Thanks.."
[13:44] Alathon: Yuuno: "Anyways.. we both freaked out a little. Then we fished Sakura's clothes, rings, necklace, and the rest out of the pool."
[13:44] Alathon: Yuuno: "After that.. well. Basically, it was a lot of rain, and a lot of stupid fights."
[13:44] Mani: "And if you ever want to chat about the new experience of being able to go from short and furry to tall and human, feel free to give me a call."
[13:44] Alathon: Yuuno looks a little surprised, but nods in response.
[13:44] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah.. I might. Thanks."
[13:45] Sheena: "It's good your back yuuno..."
[13:46] Sheena: "First mani.. then you and sakura.. Well, it hasn't been good month"
[13:46] * Sheena is clearly relifed
[13:46] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah..."
[13:46] Alathon: Yuuno looks over to Sakura.
[13:46] Alathon: Yuuno: "Hmm.. anything jump out at you that we should have covered?"
[13:47] Alathon: Yuuno: "If not, I wanna hear what went down back east."
[13:47] Mani: "Oh... Do you still have my ... stuff?"
[13:47] Kuonji: "Uhhhmm... Other then that we should glass the hell out of China, no, not really."
[13:47] Alathon: Yuuno: "Your... oh. Oh."
[13:47] Alathon: Yuuno looks over to Kuonji, questioningly.
[13:47] Kuonji: "Uh... Yeah."
[13:48] Kuonji: "My communicator broke, so I didn't find out about your... improved condition til Usagi-sama told me."
[13:48] * Mani nods.
[13:49] Sheena: "That reminds me.."
[13:49] Sheena: "Sakura, what did you see in that cross?"
[13:49] Sheena: "What bits i learned seemed bad enought"
[13:49] Alathon: Usagi: "Actually. yeah."
[13:50] Alathon: Usagi: "Thank you for reminding me, Sheena."
[13:50] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Sakura, really interested.
[13:50] Kuonji: "Life, and possibly soul draining energy."
[13:50] * Reis frowns.
[13:51] Kuonji: "I'm still getting used to sensing spiritual energy, so I can't be too sure on the last part."
[13:55] Alathon: Usagi: "So.."
[13:55] Sheena: "There sure wasn't any thing about that crossed magic that was good for you"
[13:55] Alathon: Usagi: "Well, we'll go over this in more detail later."
[13:56] Alathon: ((with only like half an hour left, lets do the 'tell kuonji what happened' part ;p))
[13:56] Alathon: Usagi looks over to the rest of the team.
[13:56] Alathon: Usagi: "You're welcome to go ahead and fill in Sakura on the goings-on since the teleport."
[13:58] Sheena: "Hmm, Well me and reis contined the op. Turn the target into a stain on the ground"
[13:58] * Reis nods. "After that we ended up in a pursuit situation..."
[13:58] Reis: "Something on the order of a thousand angels were after us."
[13:59] *** Stelas is now known as RogueGalaxStel.
[13:59] Sheena: "Yep, Near the texas nevada border over the mountans, hundereds of angle just flew up out of the clouds to case us"
[14:01] Sheena: "Boss worked out a plane to save our buts as we cut acros the ocean, Some of them got dareing and fly up to try and slow us down, Ya know getting hit with a bind at 500ish miles an hour can't feel good"
[14:03] * Reis rubs her nose. "Running into walls at that speed hurts."
[14:03] Reis: "Lots."
[14:04] Sheena: "Usagi, The king, i didnt see all the senshi but satarn met us part way, And two battle ships armed to the teeth"
[14:05] Alathon: Yuuno: "So.. you actually had it out with the heavenly host?"
[14:05] Sheena: "With me and reis flying as fast as we can to get out of the line of fire.. inever bothered to see if there a final count but right now there's alot less angels around now"
[14:05] * Sheena shurgs
[14:05] Sheena: "They started it"
[14:06] Alathon: Yuuno, slightly amused: "I don't think 'who started it' really counts anymore."
[14:06] Alathon: Yuuno looks over to Mani.
[14:06] Alathon: Yuuno: "Soo.. how'd it, you know, work?"
[14:08] Sheena: "what work?"
[14:08] Mani: "Well, I sort of woke up in what felt like my body--this one, not the human one--but I didn't have any special abilities or bodily needs and wandered around in a place I can't really talk about for a while before falling asleep and waking up for real in the wilderness of what turned out to be New England."
[14:09] Alathon: Yuuno listens, very curious.
[14:09] Alathon: Yuuno: "Huh..."
[14:09] Alathon: Yuuno: "Um. If you don't wanna say any more, that's cool."
[14:09] Alathon: Yuuno: "I totally understand."
[14:09] Mani: ("And I can't take human form until you give my body back, so hand it over already!")
[14:10] Mani: "Well, if you want to hear the 'exciting' details of walking from there to Chicago, I can share those with you..."
[14:10] Alathon: Yuuno: "I guess if it didn't involve being ambushed by undead women with huge maces, it must not have been *that* interesting."
[14:11] Alathon: Yuuno: "Um.. what's New England like? Meet anyone, or stick to the wilderness?"
[14:11] Mani: "Pretty boring, other than a brief run-in with some of the area's authorities."
[14:11] Mani: "I stuck to the wilderness after that encounter by the first signs of civilization."
[14:11] * Mani frowns.
[14:11] Sheena: "Hmm, so yuuno's stories about being srounded by hunderds of cute ferret chicks before being draged back here and stuck with us.. seems a bit defernt then what mani did"
[14:12] Mani: "I did discover that after leaving human form, I can't change back for about ten times the length of time I was human."
[14:13] Alathon: Yuuno: "Oh. That must be.. inconcenient."
[14:13] Mani: "Yeah."
[14:14] Alathon: Usagi: "Well."
[14:15] Mani: (It's obviously shapeshifting hijinks week here in CT.)
[14:15] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm sure you all have a lot more to catch up on, but I'm afraid I need to intrude."
[14:15] Alathon: Usagi: "Sakura and Yuuno are due for a protracted physical. Well, two protracted physicals, I suspect."
[14:16] Alathon: Yuuno looks a little 'meh' to that.
[14:16] Mani: (Have fun at the gynocologist's, Yuuno.)
[14:17] Alathon: (and for stuff that needs to be curved, they don't have plastics, so it's cold metal all the way)
[14:18] Alathon: Yuuno: "I guess we'd better."
[14:18] Alathon: ((ataru you here?))
[14:18] Kuonji: (err sorry)
[14:18] Kuonji: (mom called)
[14:19] Alathon: ((uessing she's coming over now?))
[14:19] Kuonji: (no, I'M GOING THERE)
[14:19] Kuonji: (fucking caps lock -_-)
[14:19] Kuonji: (in about 12 minutes)
[14:19] Alathon: (anyways.. I've made excuses)
[14:19] Kuonji: (cool)
[14:19] Alathon: (So you're free to bail for your medical appointment ingame once you've said anything else you wanna say)
[14:20] Kuonji: (nope, sakura's good to bail now)
[14:20] Alathon: (think you'll be back in like 2-3 hours, or gone for the evening?))
[14:20] Kuonji: (I might be back in 3 or so hours, but I dunno for sure)
[14:21] Alathon: ((nod, I won't assume it but I'll keep Kuonji around so you can get back in the game if you do)
[14:21] Alathon: Usagi: "Let's go Sakura, Yuuno."
[14:21] Alathon: Usagi stands up.
[14:21] Alathon: Usagi: "Every one else.. you're still on leave, so it's up to you."
[14:21] Mani: ("We'll watch.")
[14:21] Alathon: Usagi will lead Yuuno and Sakura from the room, presumably to a hospital or maybe R&D for the tests.
[14:22] Alathon: ((you discover that the examination room they use has see-through mirrors for walls, and bleachers))
[14:22] Mani: (And a widescreen tv hooked up to the 'instrument-cam')
[14:23] Alathon: (heh)
[14:23] Kuonji: (well, I'm out)
[14:23] Mani: "Well, I wasn't in the middle of much."
[14:23] Alathon: Anyways.. it's a bit early, but now strikes me as a good time for a food break
[14:23] Mani: (Have fun.)
[14:23] Kuonji: (later guys)
[14:23] Reis: (Fare thee well Kuonji)
[14:23] Alathon: (in a few minutes if you wanna discuss stuff first)
[14:23] Alathon: (later)
[14:24] Alathon: Go ahead and discuss whatever you all want, post Kuonji return, and we'll break for fooda fter that
[14:24] * Sheena heads after Yuuno
[14:24] Mani: "Strange things, those curses."
[14:25] * Reis smiles. "Sakura-san's so _cute_ now..."
[14:25] Sheena: "Hey im coming along"
[14:25] Mani: ("We were just kidding about the observation rooms...!")
[14:26] * Mani watches Sheena head off.
[14:26] Mani: "So, what have you been up to, Reis?"
[14:27] Reis: "Um, I've been training for melee combat, and working on research..."
[14:27] * Mani nods.
[14:27] Mani: "Any interesting developments in either?"
[14:28] Sheena: (sheena made a blade of nothingness and shoved it in dark heart, was neato!)
[14:28] * Reis blinks and nods. "Ah... did you get briefed that we can reach other dimensions now?"
[14:28] Mani: "Not really. I've been busy with personal matters."
[14:31] * Sheena Sheena will use the Rod of spendor on Yuuno since she has nothing to wear from the hosipital
[14:31] Sheena: (bwahahah)
[14:31] Mani: (Ah, I see Reis has acquired the narcolepsy defect.)
[14:32] Reis: (Sorry :P )
[14:32] * Reis nods. "Well... I'm not exactly sure how else to frame it, but, we can. We know how to get to the bar, so far."
[14:32] Mani: "Has anyone gone there yet?"
[14:33] Mani: (Reis: "Well someone must have, or they'd be out of business by now..." Mani claws her.)
[14:34] * Reis shakes her head. "No... we haven't done so yet, though now that the team is back together I'd certainly suggest it if Usagi-san doesn't..."
[14:36] * Mani nods.
[14:37] Mani: (May as well break now, I suppose.)
[14:37] Alathon: *nod*
[14:38] Alathon: let's start up at a quarter past the hour
[14:38] Alathon: or a bit before if everyone is here
[14:40] *** Kuonji has signed off IRC (Ping timeout).
[14:59] *** Kuonji has joined #crystaltokyo.
[15:01] Reis: Whelp, I'm about whenever we need to start.
[15:02] *** Kuonji has signed off IRC (Ping timeout).
[15:03] Sheena: im here with pizza but we lost sakura again
[15:04] Reis: Well, isn't he gone anyway? My understanding was that he had to leave.
[15:11] Mani: Ok, I'm back.
[15:12] Mani: Yeah, he's gone for hours.
[15:14] Alathon: back
[15:14] Alathon: I'm guessing he's got autologon
[15:15] Reis: Probably. It'd help him with his logs, at least.
[15:15] Mani: Until his computer crashed. :)
[15:16] Alathon: I'll have to point him to craigslist
[15:16] Alathon: was looking at the boston listings and there's a few computers in the ~100 range
[15:16] Alathon: htough honestly, I doubt he has a hundred bucks to spare
[15:16] * Mani nods.
[15:17] Alathon: btw dcg
[15:17] Alathon: ... if you have a knockback attack, having flurry on it is kinda pointless unless you're using it as a means to get two chances
[15:18] Alathon: if you hit on the first, the target will be out of range for a second melee attack
[15:18] Mani: That's what you need Elasticity for! ;)
[15:18] Sheena: err
[15:18] Sheena: well i ment to hit a secound target
[15:18] Sheena: but your riht
[15:20] Alathon: anyways, we ready to start?
[15:20] Reis: Yuppers.
[15:20] Mani: Ok.
[15:20] Sheena: k
[15:22] Alathon: After Sakura and Yuuno make it back, it'll be a few days before anything of note happens.
[15:23] * Reis will work on prep work during that period.
[15:23] Alathon: (anything in particular people want to have tried to accomplish during that time?)
[15:23] * Sheena is a lot happer an fisnshs moddin dark heart
[15:23] Mani: (Can they make better swords for me?)
[15:23] Sheena: (sure we can!)
[15:23] Sheena: (tho i dont have the ips for them)
[15:24] Alathon: (R&D is a bit abashed on that.. they've largely switched their research from various melee projects over to the ranged weapon projects)
[15:24] Reis: (I'd have made as many cartridges as I could, and helped train up our new lab assistant :P )
[15:24] Sheena: (any way, aside from that date with celeste, lots of shopping and fun with yuuno.. )
[15:24] Reis: (If Mani asks, Reis will work on it too)
[15:24] Alathon: (as it stands, they have beamsabres which are very similar
[15:24] Alathon: (1d8+strength AP+1)
[15:25] Alathon: (however, they haven't really tried to do better yet, because they're largely ceremonial)
[15:25] Mani: (And they're not crystal, right?)
[15:25] Alathon: (no)
[15:25] Alathon: (they're magnetically restrained plasma)
[15:25] Mani: (Sure, Mani will mention it to Reis, too.)
[15:25] Sheena: (Usagi's got a pair of good looking mad sentists, why the heck dont know one ask us this stuff?)
[15:25] Reis: (Well Al, tell me what Reis can do, possibly working off the base of a beamsword :P )
[15:25] Alathon: (Yuuno will not be terribly thrilled at having anything to do with Celeste)
[15:26] Reis: (Reis would gloss past the topic as much as she can too :P )
[15:26] Mani: (Mind you, she's just interested in crystal swords that are better than what she can personally make.)
[15:26] Sheena: (GAH, DRAMA!)
[15:26] Alathon: (you can add ranks of spec attack to it's damage, essentially, via someone paying for ranks of IoP)
[15:26] Sheena: (err caps)
[15:26] Alathon: (with crystal swords.. probably not so much, since there's nothing really mechanical or electronic about them to work with)
[15:26] Alathon: (reis that is)
[15:26] * Sheena coughs
[15:27] Reis: (Hm... Anything magical that could be done? And how much of them needs to be crystal for Mani?)
[15:27] Alathon: (btw, the +AP spell will NOT stack)
[15:28] * Mani isn't looking for miracles here... just something better than 1d8.
[15:28] Reis: (Well, tell me if Reis can do anything magic-ey to 'em :P )
[15:28] Alathon: Well, they can certainly machine larger weapons
[15:28] Alathon: i.e. if you want a twohanded crystal sword, they can absolutely do that
[15:29] Alathon: (hm)
[15:29] Alathon: (if you take some time to research the magicw eapons you've collected so far, yes)
[15:29] Alathon: (you can replicate that given time, *but* it will cost CP)
[15:29] Alathon: (So yes, Reis could in theory make a magical crystal sword)
[15:30] * Sheena must be chopped liver
[15:30] Mani: (Yeah... I was just hoping that by means of cystal tech or weaponscraft skill, someone could produce a higher quality sword.)
[15:30] Alathon: (and yeah, sheena could too, but Reis is the one Mani is talking to right now ;p ))
[15:30] Alathon: (and reis is probably a lot less busy than sheena this week ;p ))
[15:31] Reis: (Hm, well, Reis could try to make something better, but honestly all she can do is pump in technology or magic. She's no Masamune :P )
[15:31] Mani: (Reis can always consult with Sheena.)
[15:32] Reis: (That idea is an interesting one though, having R&D make larger weapons - especially if you can bank on your strength and dual-wield claymores or something :P )
[15:32] Mani: (So, no luck on any front for getting a mundane crystal 1h sword that's better?)
[15:32] Mani: (It's not all strength. :p Size is a factor, too.)
[15:32] Reis: (You could try using 2h swords one-handed :P )
[15:33] Mani: (Or just grow an extra arm to help with each sword!)
[15:34] Alathon: (better than 1d8 for 1h weapons? no)
[15:34] Alathon: (there's just only so much you can do in terms of "sharp pointy thing" without adding some sort of energy or magical component)
[15:34] Alathon: (and adding those components will cost CP)
[15:35] Alathon: (you can totally get better IoP swords
[15:35] Alathon: (that do 2d8 3d8 etc, or have other stuff))
[15:35] Alathon: (but to have a sword that does that, it's like the CT guns -- they're IoPs))
[15:35] Reis: (Well, Reis can do the magic-ey work if you buy a sharp pointy thing IoP :P )
[15:36] Mani: (Maybe eventually. I don't like investing much cp in things that can be lost.)
[15:36] Reis: (Then Reis yields no results yet :P )
[15:37] Mani: (Ok, nothing more on swords.)
[15:37] * Reis will make as many cartridges as she can and trained up the lab assistant, as mentioned.
[15:38] Mani: (How small do hoverboards get for storage?)
[15:38] Sheena: (there's a blade of negitive engery in the back of the labs right now.. but thats in raging heart)
[15:38] Alathon: (um.. hm)
[15:38] Alathon: (I imagined them being surf board size)
[15:39] Mani: (I have trouble imagining Usagi wandering around Nevada carrying a surfboard.)
[15:39] Mani: (So I assumed they folded or something.)
[15:39] Alathon: The lab assistant you get turns out to be Talia's younger brother, Vanyel, and very much a lab geek type.
[15:40] Alathon: (she put it in stuffspace)
[15:40] Sheena: (doh, DR reroll! ries did this while sheena was away didnt she?)
[15:41] * Sheena advises the new tech not to poke the floating sphears of doom(tm)
[15:41] * Reis blinkblinks and greets the new guy, and works on teaching him how they do stuff while doing it herself.
[15:41] Mani: ("You mean these?" *poke* *ZAP*)
[15:42] Alathon: Vanyel: "If you're sure?"
[15:42] Alathon: He sounds disappointed, like he had been planning to poke them.
[15:42] Alathon: either way, he's largely a faceless extra who can machine stuff for you
[15:43] Alathon: he has a particular talent for taking stuff together and putting it apart (mech genius) but beyond that has no super powers
[15:43] * Mani comes by at some point just to see the labs.
[15:43] Alathon: They're.. well, Sheena and Reis should dsecribe them.
[15:44] Reis: Clean, wide and carefully-separated work areas, each holding specific different projects or pieces of gear.
[15:44] Reis: Scrawled notes in a horrid mismatch of languages in some areas, machining tools in others...
[15:44] Reis: Sheens, stop me anytime, I'm painting my image of how it'd be :P
[15:45] Sheena: Part of it is built up with midichitech that sheena has made to work on dark heart, the other a mix of magic and tech that ries is master minding
[15:45] Sheena: (go for it)
[15:45] Reis: The interdim physics area has a whole batch of diagrams and a LOT of question marks on various theory points.
[15:46] Mani: ("What's bubbling in this beaker?" "Lunch.")
[15:46] Reis: Not many beakers, we're physicists and engineers not chemists :P
[15:47] Reis: There's a large area that Reis has been spending a while in, with a bunch of the machining equipment needed for cartridges.
[15:48] Reis: Sheena's been researching something on how to carry around emitters of energy for Crystal Tech gear - the 'pylons', which Reis has participated in.
[15:48] Mani: "Interesting place."
[15:49] Reis: Sheena also put up a 'how do you bring the dead back to life' area, though it yielded no results and was mostly cleared away :P
[15:49] * Reis smiles. "Thank you, Mani-san."
[15:49] * Mani wanders into that area.
[15:50] Reis: (Sheena, this was your project, so you describe :P )
[15:50] Alathon: Vanyel is off in one corner, working with what looks to be an industrial lathe.
[15:50] Mani: (*pictures a sign saying "How do you bring the dead back to life" over an area that's mostly empty, other than Mani. ;) )
[15:51] Reis: (I can see that, plus a lot of medical research that is very detailed but no further than CT tech normally leads :P )
[15:52] Reis: (And a lot of question marks scrawled on notes)
[15:52] Reis: (A few theory pieces, but no testing performed obviously)
[15:52] Sheena: The new life project has a side note on its board with "Dark Heart say "Bad idea"
[15:53] Mani: (Reis: "Say, Mani, would you mind if we tried to bring your body back to life?" Mani just gives Reis a very hard look.)
[15:53] Sheena: (hah!)
[15:53] Mani: (I assume I get all my important equipment back from it, btw?)
[15:54] Sheena: Sheena's area is currently swamped with blade desisgs that might catch mani's eye
[15:54] Sheena: There's a clear wall bord with somethign sharp and poky on it srounded by abysall and midi magical math
[15:54] * Mani wanders over and examines them (without touching).
[15:55] Sheena: The mesurments are easy enought to read, its a new lance for an armored form of sheena staff, about 3 feet long, but you can't tell what its mad out of
[15:56] Sheena: "Hey mani, Whats up?"
[15:56] Alathon: (yes, sakura had that)
[15:56] * Reis has an area scrawled with similar runes, but a rather different pattern of solving similar equations - she'll have a large triangle scrawled on a sheet with a huge question mark over it.
[15:56] Mani: "Hey. I just thought I'd come by and finally get a good look at your labs."
[15:56] Mani: "They look nice."
[15:57] Sheena: "Thanks, a lot of it is new. Well.. after we lost you and finshed the mission we had a lot of time, ya know?"
[15:57] * Mani nods.
[15:57] Sheena: "And its not like i could just kill time at home..'
[15:58] Sheena: "Any way! See anyhting you like? Im trying to make some of the miditech i laerned from dark heart useable for others"
[15:59] Mani: "See anything that I like? I'd have to understand what I see to know that."
[16:00] Sheena: "Well you wanted to learn abyssll didn't you? I can help there. Not sure how good i would be at teaching the midimagical system tho"
[16:00] Mani: "That sounds good. I think I'll stick with what I've figured out of magic on my own."
[16:01] Mani: "It has the advantage of working for me."
[16:02] * Sheena nods
[16:02] Sheena: "Me and reis still have no idea how you can form cystal and fling it like that at will."
[16:03] * Reis leans over. "I'm pretty sure it's a telekinetic spell."
[16:03] Mani: "Actually, I've kind of moved away from that and redirected that energy to other things..."
[16:03] Reis: (And we do have 'form stuff' abilities, ie we can have our devices reshape themselves ;) )
[16:04] Sheena: "Some of this has to do with enchaneing crystals to work with magic in devices, Mabie i can try something out for you later?"
[16:04] Sheena: (ya but thats normal stuff, mani has wierd magic)
[16:04] Mani: "I figured if I'm reduced to throwing crystal at something, a hurled knife is probably going to be just as effective or ineffective."
[16:05] Sheena: "Good point,"
[16:05] Mani: "So, I'm just keeping some crystal throwing knives on me. ... Of course, I started working on this whole thing before having the problem with shapeshifting."
[16:06] Alathon: There's a hard, sharp SKRRRRRITTTCCCH sounds over from where Vanyel is, followed by the sound of the machine he was using powering down.
[16:06] Alathon: Vanyel: "*&#($&*&#$"
[16:06] Alathon: He busies himself fixing whatever just broke.
[16:06] Sheena: "No luck with that ayeee"
[16:06] * Sheena covers her ears
[16:06] Mani: "I can still make someone notice me up close and personal in either form, though."
[16:07] * Reis frowns and looks over.
[16:07] Reis: (What WAS he working at? The cartridge machining stuff?)
[16:07] Sheena: "I hope that wasn't one of mine!"
[16:07] Alathon: You don't know, but it could be -- the machine he's using would be one of several used for that.
[16:07] Mani: ("How did this tiny crystal wrench get in the gears?" "Weeeell, I think it's time for me to me going...")
[16:08] * Reis moves over. "What's wrong, Vanyel-san?" She'll help him put it back together if he wants.
[16:08] * Sheena picks up dark heart
[16:08] Alathon: Vanyel's explanation is long, involved, and boils down to "user error".
[16:08] Sheena: "Well since your here mani, can i get your openion on somehting?"
[16:08] Alathon: He can take care of cleaning up, but thanks you anyways.
[16:08] Mani: "Of course."
[16:09] Sheena: "Oh mistrss of all things staby"
[16:09] * Reis will nod and go back to the group.
[16:09] * Sheena lets the new Dark Heart stand up.
[16:09] Mani: (Vanyel goes into a long diatribe about how in all future designs, parts should be constructed so they absolutely, positively can only go in ONE way.)
[16:10] Sheena: "Strike Flame," Dark Heart: Open.
[16:11] * Sheena watchs as the pointed end of her staff opens up and a pointed shaft of darkness 2 feet long forms out of it
[16:11] Sheena: "Hows this look for a lance? I think i got the form correct"
[16:12] Mani: "Hm. What's it made of?"
[16:12] Sheena: "Negetive atoms around a gravity well."
[16:12] Sheena: "supringly easy to power with my magic"
[16:13] Mani: "It's short."
[16:13] Sheena: "Really? What do you thinks good'
[16:13] * Reis blinks and stares. "... Senpai, are you planning to destroy any cities with that? How high IS the mass? It must be less than a kilogram, vastly..."
[16:13] Mani: "So, does it physically pierce the target or does it do magical or energy damage?"
[16:14] Mani: "Well, it's short for any sort of lance or spear. It's all how you use it, though."
[16:14] Reis: "The anti-protons interact with the protons of the target mass and mutually annihilate."
[16:14] Sheena: "It's physicall, but the type of engery seems to be highly toxic to anything living'
[16:14] Reis: (Ah well)
[16:14] Reis: (I'm explaining antimatter on a guess - Sheena's right :P )
[16:14] * Sheena nods at reis
[16:14] Reis: (Since Sheena decides what it is ;) )
[16:14] Sheena: "And what reis said if you want the big words"
[16:15] Mani: "So... it sounds like you're counting on it contacting the target and then damaging it through its nature, rather than impact trauma."
[16:15] * Reis nods. "Yes... And senpai, _keep the mass down_. If just a kilogram detonates, that's 43 megatons."
[16:15] Sheena: "So little faith!"
[16:15] Reis: (Yes, obviously this is only TRACE amounts of antimatter :P )
[16:16] * Reis smiles.
[16:16] Sheena: "It's quite soild, and if it loses power it fades away. After all nature wont spport a vacume"
[16:16] Mani: "Well, if all you need to do is touch the target, you could make it look like a fairy wand if you wanted."
[16:16] Sheena: "I don't think the boss would want me building something that blows up half the city ya know'
[16:17] * Reis chuckles. "I can imagine that quite easily."
[16:17] * Mani visibly pictures Sheena in her fuku waving a fairy wand at enemies.
[16:17] * Sheena sighs
[16:17] Alathon: ((Yuuno: "and Kuonji could -" *smack*))
[16:17] Reis: (Be the fairy?)
[16:17] * Sheena dont like main's grin
[16:18] Mani: "Is there any air resistance when you swing or thrust it?"
[16:18] Sheena: "Well im still working on it, the goal is for it to be soild enought to punch into somehting and still carrie force"
[16:18] Mani: "Other than from Dark Heart itself."
[16:18] Sheena: "Yes"
[16:18] * Reis nods. "Slight - there needs to be a field around it to keep the antiprotons from interacting with the air and detonating right there."
[16:19] Mani: "Ah, so you want a combination of damage through physical impact and energy release?"
[16:19] Sheena: "Ya, watching you gave me part of the idea for it"
[16:19] Sheena: "THe rest was making something that would form with my magic"
[16:19] Mani: "Mm. Will it damage the target if it doesn't penetrate its armor?"
[16:19] Mani: (Let me rephrase that...)
[16:20] Sheena: (its not linked)
[16:20] Mani: "Is the energy portion of the attack in a second stage or does it all hit together?"
[16:20] Sheena: "Well... Thats more of a side effect"
[16:21] Sheena: "Just the bleed off from the field turns out to be harmfull to well.. eveyr thing'
[16:21] * Reis nods. "The field releases immediately upon contacting the target. An internal detonation would be useful, but, not ideal at the moment."
[16:21] Mani: "Mm. Well, my opinion is that if you're doing the vast majority of your damage through the energy, you'd want to reduce the mass as much as possible for finer control."
[16:22] Sheena: (damn you mani!)
[16:22] Sheena: "Hmm, thats not what i was wanting at all. I'll have to adjust the forces
[16:22] Mani: "Extra mass will make a weapon hit harder, but also makes it harder to control."
[16:23] Sheena: "It's less taxing to make it soild once.. and use that to battle with, then spending so much engery to aplly damage"
[16:23] Mani: "Well, things like this are always a trade-off. You'll have to find the right balance yourself."
[16:24] * Sheena nods
[16:24] Sheena: "So from a stick this end in the badguy point of view. Is the blade to small comapied to the rest of the staff?"
[16:24] Mani: "Just always question whether what you're gaining is worth what you're giving up."
[16:25] Mani: (How long is DH?)
[16:26] Sheena: (about 4')
[16:27] Sheena: ( (Link: http://picasaweb.google.com/pyroraven/B ... 7786611218)http://picasaweb.google.com/pyroraven/BESMStuff/photo#5103923197786611218 )
[16:27] Mani: "Mmm... depends how heavy it is compared to the staff."
[16:27] Mani: "It's a question of balance, really."
[16:28] Sheena: "Oh im not giving up much, this is a good powersafe mode. With that flight back over the ocean me and reis ran dangroius low on magic"
[16:29] Mani: "And I'm talking about usability, mind you, not how it should be proportioned to make it an official lance."
[16:29] Sheena: "Whight huh? I can adjust that"
[16:29] Mani: "I mean, lances are *long*."
[16:30] Sheena: "Well i do need to fly with it"
[16:30] Alathon: around now, Yuuno will show up, looking around for then finding Sheena.
[16:30] Mani: (Which form?)
[16:30] Alathon: female "elf"
[16:30] * Sheena smiles at yuuno
[16:30] * Mani cocks her head.
[16:30] Sheena: "Hey yuuno"
[16:30] Mani: "How do you plan to use it, exactly?"
[16:30] Alathon: Yuuno: "Hey, Sheena."
[16:30] * Reis greets her. "Good morning sensei."
[16:31] Alathon: Yuuno smiles at Reis.
[16:31] Alathon: Yuuno: "Reis."
[16:31] Mani: "Hi, Yuuno."
[16:31] Alathon: Yuuno: "Good to see you, Mani.. what brings you here?"
[16:31] Alathon: Yuuno: "I kinda got the vibe it was just the two mad scientists and their assistant hanging out here?"
[16:31] Mani: "I wanted to finally come by and see the labs."
[16:32] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah, they're really something."
[16:32] * Mani nods.
[16:32] Alathon: Yuuno looks around, a little amazed herself.
[16:32] Sheena: "And send me back to the beta stage of my new system, ahh well. Strike flame, close"
[16:33] * Sheena lets the top of the staff shut off and close again, but just leaves it free standing next to her
[16:33] Mani: "Tell me what sort of attack you plan to use this for, Sheena."
[16:33] Alathon: Yuuno: "Hmm, new? Mind if I look at the schematics?"
[16:34] Sheena: "I would love it if you did, I didn't want to bug you about it considering.. wel your new enjoyment of life"
[16:34] Alathon: Yuuno grins a little.
[16:34] Alathon: Yuuno: "Of course I will."
[16:34] Alathon: Yuuno will get to that, and become engrossed in it.
[16:34] Sheena: "For my attack mani? Well im not very fast or strong on the ground, But while flying? Thoes are my skys"
[16:34] Alathon: At one point she looks back at sheena, then to dark heart, a little.. frightened?
[16:35] Alathon: But she goes back to reading the schematic.
[16:35] Sheena: "My idea was rushing the target in flight braced with armor and jaming the pointy end into them"
[16:35] Mani: "Ah... Now, that sort of thing is entirely different from my style and has different considerations..."
[16:35] Mani: "How fast do you expect to be going when you do this?"
[16:36] Mani: "Relative to your target, that is."
[16:36] * Reis frowns. "Hm... If you plan to do it at Mach 2 or anything, you'd be better set up for an interceptor role, right? It's not like you can chain attacks together when you shoot past someone in a flash of a second.
[16:36] Sheena: "Err.. well Reis clocked me at mach 5.7(i think thats 5000) at the top end. But i dont think thats a very good idea to run into some one at"
[16:36] Mani: "No. No, it is not."
[16:37] Sheena: "Im thinking what ever speed is need to get me to the target fast"
[16:37] Reis: "It's useful for simply running past and skewering them as you go, though."
[16:37] Sheena: "ya"
[16:37] Sheena: (fearfull? is sheena doing anything right these days)
[16:40] * Mani stares into space and thinks for several moments.
[16:40] Alathon: Yuuno, over her shoulder: "Sheena.. am I reading the wrong, or are you using contained antimatter as a physical weapon?"
[16:40] Sheena: "So longer, and more soild?"
[16:40] * Mani snaps her attention back to Sheena.
[16:40] Mani: "No. Forget the entire lance concept. You're going to kill yourself."
[16:41] Mani: "Ah the speeds you'll be going, a head-on melee weapon is completely suicidal. They'll bury you and your target in the same grave."
[16:41] Sheena: "Is that a problem yuuno? It just seemed easy to form when calling up the blade with this magic'"
[16:42] Alathon: Yuuno walks over and looks like she's about to really get started.. but waits for Mani to finish, and cools down a little.
[16:42] Alathon: It's actually kinda cute, she looks sorta puffed up, and her ears are sticking up at an odd angle.
[16:42] Mani: "You need either something that you're going to launch at your target, like a javelin, or if you're going to stick with a melee weapon, something that attacks to the side."
[16:43] * Sheena it is very cute, but hot elf or not sheena knows when she's pissed off sensei.
[16:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "Or something that won't level a mountain range if
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Session 54 - part 2

Postby Alathon » Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:16 pm

Session 54 - part 2

[16:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "Or something that won't level a mountain range if you sneeze and screw it up."
[16:43] * Reis blinks at the hawt elf chick's look, covering her mouth lest she smile.
[16:43] Alathon: Yuuno: "Why anti-matter?"
[16:43] Mani: "Mind you, if you use a melee weapon one misstep by either you OR your target will result in you smacking right into them."
[16:44] Sheena: "It was there sensei, what did i screw up?"
[16:44] Mani: (Poor Sheena. Getting shot down simultaneously on both aspects of her weapon design. :) )
[16:45] Alathon: Yuuno stops again to give Mani a chance to speak, then starts up.
[16:45] Alathon: Yuuno: "Just..."
[16:45] Sheena: (it was a simple staby thing, gah! I dont belive all this >_<)
[16:45] * Mani defers to Yuuno with a nod of her head.
[16:45] Sheena: (Sheena: Im not trying to kill every one, honest!)
[16:45] Reis: (Well... making it antimatter was the thing :P )
[16:45] Alathon: Yuuno: "Do it with some sort of magical construct that doesn't involve antimatter? It'll work just as well for hitting stuff, and you can channel more magic through it for more damage or whatever you're aiming for.. and it won't explode if you lose containment."
[16:46] Alathon: Yuuno: "Please."
[16:46] Sheena: "Ok, will do"
[16:46] * Sheena looks over to the part of her labs thats darker then the rest, but not from lack of lights
[16:47] Sheena: "But what should i do with the rest of it?"
[16:47] Mani: ("I got that anitmatter in bulk, damn it!")
[16:47] Alathon: Yuuno: "......."
[16:47] Alathon: Yuuno: "You're trying to make me piss myself, aren't you Sheena."
[16:47] Sheena: ("There a hole universe of the stuff! And two wierd olf humans fighting each other.. oddist hting)
[16:48] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[16:48] Mani: (*grins.)
[16:48] *** Reis has joined #crystaltokyo.
[16:48] Reis: <Mani> ("I got that anitmatter in bulk, damn it!")
[16:48] Reis: * Reis blinkblinks. "Um... Wait how much did you make senpai?"
[16:48] Reis: <Alathon> Yuuno: "......."
[16:48] Reis: <Alathon> Yuuno: "You're trying to make me piss myself, aren't you Sheena."
[16:48] Reis: <Sheena> ("There a hole universe of the stuff! And two wierd olf humans fighting each other.. oddist hting)
[16:48] Reis: * Disconnected
[16:48] Reis: (What'd I miss?)
[16:48] Alathon: Yuuno: "Please tell me those are models? Pretty please?"
[16:48] Alathon: ((nothing))
[16:48] Sheena: "No sensei"
[16:48] * Sheena coughs
[16:48] Reis: (How much worse has it got? ^^; )
[16:48] Sheena: "Well they are mockups..Right ill get rid of them"
[16:49] Alathon: Yuuno: "Okay... Alright."
[16:49] Alathon: Yuuno: "We can deal with the hazardous waste disposal later."
[16:49] Reis: (Models?)
[16:49] Alathon: Yuuno looks over at Mani.
[16:49] Sheena: (Usagi: Hey ami, you want any antimater? one of my girls got it in bulk. Ami
[16:49] Alathon: Yuuno: "The problem with this sort of attack at high speed is that she'd rip her arm off, right?"
[16:49] Sheena: (Ami: No, i dont need any.. wait they WHAT?)
[16:50] Reis: (Usagi: "Uh... hehehehh?")
[16:50] Reis: (And yeah, I was planning to have Reis ask which country you were planning on blowing up :P )
[16:51] Alathon: Yuuno is fiddling with a comm unit as she asks this, looking down at it, then back up at Mani.
[16:51] * Sheena smiles at yuuno having a com
[16:51] Sheena: "Rip my arms off? What this pythons?"
[16:52] * Sheena flexs one of her arms.. there really isnt that much to it becides smooth skin
[16:52] Mani: "Well, whether she can stand the stress of the weapon impacting is a consideration. But the main problem I see with using a head-on weapon at that speed is that a fraction of a second after the weapon's tip hits the target, Sheena herself will."
[16:52] Mani: (I don't know how up Yuuno will be looking, as I'm in cat form.)
[16:52] * Reis nods. "Side-on slashing attacks will probably be better... perhaps a longer-bladed lance?"
[16:52] Alathon: Yuuno: "What if she were flying past the target, and the energy component of the lance.. broke off, for lack of a better term?"
[16:53] Reis: "Ripping arms off probably won't be a problem if there's no impact transfer between the lance and the energy blade. A coherent light setup? Heat?"
[16:53] Sheena: (like real lances do... Duh! *smacks head*
[16:53] Mani: "That could work, so long as she doesn't have to fly directly at the target to attack."
[16:54] Mani: "When lances were actually used, people could get away with a spearing attack because they were only going as fast as their horse."
[16:54] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well.. she'd need training, to learn to aim sorta diagnoally.."
[16:54] Alathon: Yuuno nods at that.
[16:54] Sheena: "Ok, so no slaming into stuff."
[16:55] Alathon: Yuuno: "And maybe toning down the speed a bit. fifty or a hundred miles an hour tops."
[16:55] Sheena: "Well..we got the new training facilits been set up"
[16:55] Sheena: "I can go help out and get some melee targets set up for testing"
[16:55] Alathon: Yuuno: "The barrier jacket will give her some support there.. so there's a margin for error."
[16:55] Mani: "An angled attack might be doable, but at high speed, I think it'd still be very risky."
[16:55] Alathon: Yuuno nods.
[16:56] Alathon: Yuuno: "Sheena, you'll practice this slowly, right?"
[16:56] * Sheena starts wriing out notes as they talk
[16:56] Sheena: "Yes sensei"
[16:56] Alathon: Yuuno: "You know.. start out slow, and ramp it up to see how fast you can do it safely?"
[16:56] Mani: "And, of course, the important thing is relative speed between Sheena and her target."
[16:56] Sheena: "Will do"
[16:57] Sheena: "If the design should break off on impact.. then a longer blade is needed..."
[16:57] Mani: "I'd have to say that aerial battles really lend themselves to ranged attacks."
[16:57] * Sheena writs some more down
[16:57] * Reis nods. "Particularly high-speed ones seem almost perfect for binds..."
[16:58] Sheena: "I still got range covered mani, I just felt a mana saving mode was needed"
[16:59] Mani: "Mm. And do the two of *you* have any defenses against binds at high speeds?"
[16:59] * Reis winces. "Dodge? The best we can do is absorb the impact and roll with it."
[16:59] Sheena: "Aside from getting out of the way?"
[16:59] * Reis rubs her nose again. 500mph crashes into solid objects HURT!
[17:00] Sheena: "Ya, it seems armor to take some of the blow is the only way for now"
[17:00] Mani: "Mmmm... I'd suggest adding that to your research list."
[17:00] Alathon: Yuuno: "If you can do it, odds are your enemies can.. and the more you do it, the more likely they are to counter with the same."
[17:01] Alathon: Yuuno: "If they hadn't thought of it first."
[17:01] * Reis winces. "They inspired us."
[17:01] Alathon: Yuuno grins.
[17:01] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yeah, it works like that sometimes."
[17:02] Alathon: Yuuno then gets a sort of surprised look on her face.
[17:02] * Reis cocks her head. "Sensei?"
[17:02] Mani: (She just got her first call with her comm set on vibrate.)
[17:02] Alathon: Yuuno shakes her head slightly.
[17:02] Alathon: Yuuno: "Nothing."
[17:03] * Sheena looks down to check her hands, hmm no random groupe yet
[17:03] Alathon: Yuuno: "It just seemed like deja vu."
[17:03] Alathon: Yuuno: "It passed."
[17:03] * Reis winces. "Either way... 2.5 megajoule crashes _hurt_."
[17:03] Reis: "A lot."
[17:04] Alathon: Yuuno: "I think 'liquify' is the word you're looking for, Reis."
[17:04] Reis: (I just calculated it, and she survived that :P )
[17:04] Alathon: ((that's because I don't have a hardon for real world physics in anime)
[17:04] Reis: (Heh, and she's got enough HP to stand it :P )
[17:04] Alathon: (you don't need to count the joules to know that a 500 mph crash will be instantly fatal for a human, in body armor or otherwise)
[17:04] Mani: "Anyway, if you can develop a low energy ranged attack, even if it's short range, I think that would be a good way to go."
[17:05] Reis: (I know, but it's in-character for Reis to comment on how much energy transfer was involved :P )
[17:05] Alathon: ((in the future, I'll be scaling up crashes like that a bit.. terminal velocity is 120 mph, and that's 10d6))
[17:06] Sheena: (seems silly, like you said, real world physics in anime.. are you trying to get mani killed off?)
[17:06] Reis: (Yeah, I looked through the crashes list and noticed the damage was a little low. I didn't mind not getting hit with that though ^^; )
[17:06] Alathon: Yuuno: "Anyways.. I've got a few ideas for what sort of construct you could use, Sheena, if you'd like to go over them?"
[17:06] Mani: (Me?)
[17:07] Reis: (Killing catgirls, I think)
[17:07] Alathon: okay
[17:07] Reis: (Ie, 'every time you try to discuss real-life physics in anime, god kills a catgirl')
[17:07] Alathon: windows is fuckign up on me
[17:07] Alathon: brb
[17:07] Mani: (For the last time, Mani is not a catgirl. :p )
[17:07] Alathon: short of it is, Yuuno will monopolize SHeena's attention and the scene ends unless someone really wants to add more
Session Close (#crystaltokyo): Sat Sep 29 17:07:56 2007


Session Start (irc.lunarnet.org:#crystaltokyo): Sat Sep 29 17:10:16 2007
[17:10] *** Initial topic: Next game on Saturday, September 29th at 12pm PST / 3pm EST. Please finish up any changes you're making to your characters and mail the sheets in soon, ideally before PW's game tomorrow
[17:10] *** #crystaltokyo: Alathon Reis Mani RogueGalaxStel Sheena
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[17:10] Mani: (Btw, my thoughts on Sheena's lance were my own, but I did confirm with Alathon that my interpretation was consistant with the game's system before giving her final verdict.)
[17:10] Alathon: (nod)
[17:10] Reis: (The... goods, did you say? Oya)
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[17:11] Alathon: roll 1d20
[17:11] Ala-bot: Alathon rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=19 ]{19}
[17:11] Mani: (Still broken. ;) )
[17:11] Reis: (I don't mind)
[17:11] Alathon: Anyways..
[17:12] * Mani expresses an interest in chatting with Yuuno at some point.
[17:12] Alathon: Yuuno promises to find some time to talk to you, then procedes to get wrapped up in an alternate lance design with Sheena that consumes the next couple days
[17:13] Alathon: And before you know it, you've all got an urgent call from Usagi, requesting that you assemble for what she claims will be a short mission.
[17:13] * Reis will frown, clean up the lab, and head to the assembly.
[17:15] Alathon: Yuuno will presumably arrive whenever Sheena does.
[17:15] Alathon: Sakura is absent.
[17:15] Sheena: [19:07] * Ala-bot (~nlennig@c-67-183-109-93.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) Quit (Quit: )
[17:15] Sheena: [19:09] * Sheena will gladly learn morn from yuuno, and slide her hand over to grab the goods knowing reis and mani are probly stuff watching
[17:15] Alathon: ((hahhaa))
[17:15] * Sheena shows up
[17:16] * Reis will have blink-glurked when Sheena did that.
[17:16] * Reis arrives.
[17:16] Alathon: ((you succeed at groping Yuuno without resistance))
[17:16] Alathon: Usagi: "Thanks, everyone, for coming on such short notice."
[17:17] Alathon: Usagi: "I'd hoped I could allow you all a little more leave before shoving you back into things, but we have a minor situation on the west coast."
[17:17] Alathon: ((it's now been a little less than a week since Sakura and Yuuno got back))
[17:17] * Sheena will pull a seat for yuuno and plot into one next to her
[17:18] * Reis frowns and nods. "Is it the Asian city-states, Usagi-san?"
[17:18] Alathon: Usagi shakes her head.
[17:18] * Reis takes a seat next to the group.
[17:18] Alathon: Usagi: "Nothing quite so serious. At least, I hope not."
[17:19] Alathon: Usagi: "Do you recall the amazon zombies Sakura mentioned encountering repeatedly in China?"
[17:19] Mani: (Mani curls up on Usagi's feet under the table.)
[17:19] Mani: "Kind of hard to forget something like that..."
[17:19] * Reis blinks. "Uh... yes, they kind of grab attention..."
[17:19] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes, well, it seems they didn't stop chasing Sakura when Yuuno and him teleported back from the Chinese coastline."
[17:19] Sheena: "... There coming for there husbend?"
[17:19] Mani: (They've walked across the bottom of the sea to demand their husband.)
[17:20] * Sheena will o corse heard stories from sakura
[17:20] Alathon: Usagi laughs.
[17:20] * Reis blinkblinks. "... Husband?"
[17:20] Alathon: Usagi: "Sakura hasn't said anything about remantic liasons, and I'm inclined to believe him."
[17:20] Mani: (Gee. I dunno if Mani would have heard them, too, then.)
[17:21] Alathon: She brings up a hologram of half a dozen humanoid figures moving rapidly up a beach.
[17:21] Alathon: On first glance, they just look rather dark skinned.
[17:21] Alathon: Usagi moves to a zoom.
[17:21] * Reis watches the video.
[17:21] Alathon: Zoomed in, you can see several things.. their skin is leathery and shrivleled tight against their bones, for one.
[17:21] Sheena: "Thats a long walk..."
[17:21] Alathon: Hair is existant, but very sparse
[17:22] Alathon: and they don't have eyeballs.. rather, they have points of red light with a misty red glow arond them, moving within their eyesockets.
[17:22] Alathon: Usagi: "Indeed."
[17:22] Alathon: Usagi: "These recordings were taken by an unmanned observation post."
[17:22] Alathon: Usagi: "They appear to have walked the seafloor."
[17:22] * Reis blinks. "Well. They certainly pass for undead..."
[17:23] Sheena: "Great.. Zombies."
[17:23] * Sheena looks at Yuuno
[17:23] Alathon: Usagi: "Amazombies, yes."
[17:23] Alathon: Yuuno: "Yup, that's them."
[17:23] Sheena: "And you had me get rid of all that antimater"
[17:23] Alathon: Usagi looks over to Sheena.
[17:23] Alathon: Usagi: "... what were you doing with antimatter?"
[17:23] * Reis sweatdrops. "Melee combat."
[17:23] Alathon: She doesn't ask accusingly, but.. she seems pretty curious.
[17:23] Sheena: "umm.."
[17:24] Alathon: Yuuno: "Nothing, that's what. It's been disposed of."
[17:24] Alathon: Usagi: "..........right."
[17:24] Alathon: Usagi: "Anyways."
[17:24] * Sheena mumbles "not my falt there a hole unniverse of the stuff"
[17:24] Mani: ("Sheena! Stop trying to break the universe!")
[17:25] * Sheena coughs and refocuses on the boss
[17:25] Alathon: Usagi: "Sheena.. have you considered the moral implications of sucking part of a universe we don't understand into our own, for the express purpose of allowing it to mix with and annihilate itself and part of ours?"
[17:25] Alathon: Usagi: "never mind, don't answer that."
[17:25] Alathon: Usagi: "Just do it."
[17:25] Sheena: (dont do it you mena?0
[17:26] Mani: (No. Consider it.)
[17:26] Alathon: (think about.. yeah))
[17:26] Alathon: ((never mind answering because you obviously haven't, just do it ;p))
[17:26] Sheena: "Yes ma'am
[17:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Good."
[17:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Now..."
[17:26] Alathon: Usagi: "Moving on."
[17:26] Alathon: Usagi: "These amazombies do not appear to be a meta- level threat."
[17:27] Alathon: Usagi: "They act intelligently when in combat, but otherwise do not appear organized. They travel singly, or in groups rarely larger than half a dozen, and do not appear to be communicating with each other."
[17:27] Alathon: ((it's almost like they're mobile camps of Everquest mobs))
[17:27] Sheena: ((>_<))
[17:27] *** Kuonji has joined #crystaltokyo.
[17:27] Alathon: Usagi: "The Marines have been mobilized, and are already engaging. I've sent Kuonji on ahead; Ideally, he'll be able to meet up with you."
[17:28] Sheena: "Is there any way to check the local sea bad for more of them?"
[17:28] Alathon: ((sup, you there, or is that autoconnect?))
[17:28] Kuonji: (sup, jive turkeys)
[17:28] Reis: (Yo yo)
[17:28] Mani: (Damn. Another lame autoconnect.)
[17:28] Kuonji: (what'd I miss?)
[17:28] Alathon: ((the amazombies came ashore looking for you))
[17:28] Sheena: (mad sience)
[17:28] Mani: (Your wives have come for you.)
[17:28] * Reis nods. "What are they doing, Usagi-san? Simply walking forward?"
[17:28] Alathon: ((sakura was sent ahead, the party will catch up with you soon))
[17:29] Alathon: Usagi: "More or less. They are all moving towards Crystal Tokyo."
[17:29] Alathon: Usagi: "We speculate they're actually moving towards Kuonji; we'll test that theory in the field."
[17:29] Mani: "Hm. Does that mean they could trace Yuuno's teleport or they can sense Sakura?"
[17:29] * Reis frowns. "So they can trace him...? Hm..."
[17:30] Alathon: Usagi: "Anyways.. the Marines are well equipped to handle these amazombies; they have demonstrated superhuman strength and speed, but engaged at range with plasma rifles they have been sitting ducks."
[17:30] Alathon: Usagi: "I'm sending your team out that way to act as backup in case they prove to be a more credible threat than they have so far."
[17:30] Kuonji: (wait, have they (wait.... rofl, they really came looking for me?)
[17:30] Alathon: ((yes))
[17:30] Kuonji: (What, no kiss of marriage anymore?)
[17:31] Mani: (That's what they're coming to give you. ;) )
[17:31] Mani: (You lucky thing, you.)
[17:31] Kuonji: (also, are you going to work in the musk and phoenix anytime soon? :P)
[17:31] Reis: (It's entirely possible that's JUST why they're coming)
[17:31] Reis: (Or the kiss of death, actually)
[17:31] Reis: (They might not know you're a guy)
[17:31] Kuonji: (It sounds like yuuno would appreciate the locking ladle)
[17:32] Kuonji: (so, where have I been sent ahead TOO?)
[17:33] Sheena: (yuuno+rod of speldor=woah momma)
[17:33] Reis: (West coast)
[17:33] Alathon: Usagi: "You should be able to catch up with Sakura at the forward command center;"
[17:33] Kuonji: (are we going to run into any old crones?)
[17:33] Alathon: (what do you think?)
[17:33] * Reis nods. "Should we make full-pace, or simply go at a relaxed speed?"
[17:33] Sheena: (ahh crap)
[17:33] Alathon: (incidentally, now would be a great time to actually finish your combat stats)
[17:33] Reis: (Well, they've gotta be a credible threat :P )
[17:33] Kuonji: (oh, and does Sakura's famioly know he's back?)
[17:34] Sheena: (who me?)
[17:34] Alathon: Usagi: "Best hovercar speed."
[17:34] Kuonji: (.... how the fuck am I supposed to do that in what, ten minutes?)
[17:34] Mani: (After about a week, I'm sure.)
[17:34] Reis: (Ah, if they do, they might have mentioned your coworker coming around :P )
[17:34] Alathon: (yes)
[17:34] Alathon: (it's assumed you've done the welcome back thing with your family.. who were both saddened and highly amused by your curse))
[17:34] * Reis cocks her head. "If you wish, I can get the team there at a pace of approximately 600 miles per hour."
[17:34] Alathon: ((and a little amazed that the old stories were so true))
[17:34] Alathon: Usagi: " How's that?"
[17:35] Kuonji: (ukyo finally kick the bucket, or was she slapping her kids with her spatual saying "I told you so, jackasses")
[17:36] Mani: (Good thing Sakura had Mani's body in a pocket dimension or the amazons would see her and think Sakura can raise the dead. ;) )
[17:36] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[17:36] Alathon: ((Le Sigh ;p ))
[17:36] *** Reis has joined #crystaltokyo.
[17:36] Reis: <Alathon> Usagi: " How's that?"
[17:36] Reis: <Kuonji> (ukyo finally kick the bucket, or was she slapping her kids with her spatual saying "I told you so, jackasses")
[17:36] Reis: * Reis frowns and calculates the range to the beach. "I've refined my flight speed and put more power behind it - I can move at that rate, and carry about three extra people."
[17:36] Reis: <Reis> (That's the case for Teleport rank 3, right?)
[17:36] Reis: * Disconnected
[17:36] Reis: * Not connected to server
[17:36] Reis: (What'd I miss?)
[17:36] Reis: (And yeah, that's my last lines)
[17:37] Sheena: "Whats there comchannel boss? If they call in a emergcy i can be there very fast"
[17:37] Alathon: ((3 people, yes))
[17:37] * Sheena has her com out and gets and ear pice ready
[17:37] Reis: (Ah, and, how far away is the beach we got that video of?)
[17:37] Alathon: ((but seriously, if it's teleporting, it's not flight speed)
[17:37] Reis: <Alathon> Usagi: " How's that?"
[17:37] Reis: <Kuonji> (ukyo finally kick the bucket, or was she slapping her kids with her spatual saying "I told you so, jackasses")
[17:37] Reis: * Reis frowns and calculates the range to the beach. "I've refined my flight speed and put more power behind it - I can move at that rate, and carry about three extra people."
[17:37] Reis: <Reis> (That's the case for Teleport rank 3, right?)
[17:37] Reis: * Disconnected
[17:37] Reis: * Not connected to server
[17:37] Reis: (Oops :P )
[17:37] Reis: (Fair enough :P )
[17:38] Reis: (Sorry about the mispaste)
[17:38] Alathon: (a lot more than 1 mile)
[17:38] Reis: (Ah well, worth a try)
[17:38] Alathon: (CT is on the east coast of Japan, and the amazombies came ashore on the west coast)
[17:38] Alathon: (anyways)
[17:38] Alathon: (either you can teleport, or have flight speed)
[17:39] Reis: (Teleport)
[17:39] Alathon: (if you're teleporting, say you're telpeorting, because it's NOT the same)
[17:39] Reis: (All righty)
[17:39] *** RogueGalaxStel is now known as TengenToppaGurrenStelas27|moon.
[17:39] *** TengenToppaGurrenStelas27|moon is now known as GurrenStelas27|moontube.
[17:39] Alathon: Usagi will pass on the comm channel in question to the group.
[17:40] Reis: (Ah, question - will I need anything additional to perform that series of teleports?)
[17:40] Alathon: (no)
[17:40] Reis: (All righty, gotcha)
[17:41] Alathon: (you just need line of sight on your target destinations.. whicih probably means everyone flying up)
[17:41] * Reis will ask the others to get hoverboards if they can't fly innately, since she's better at teleporting in clear areas like the sky.
[17:41] Sheena: "Well yuuno.."
[17:41] Mani: (It's just Sheena & Mani, both of whom can fly.)
[17:42] Reis: (Well, Yuuno too)
[17:42] Reis: (I figure at least)
[17:42] Sheena: "If your coming how do you want to handle this? As is? Need some hot water?"
[17:42] Sheena: "I supose a uniform and blaster would help a lot now to"
[17:43] Reis: (Considering Yuuno's got like 4 HP, ferret form seems significantly safer)
[17:43] Mani: (Unless there's a lot of cold water around. :) )
[17:43] Alathon: ((yuuno's got more hp now, 41 hp))
[17:43] Sheena: (i guess yuuno is a behind the seens girl now
[17:44] Reis: (Much better, can maybe take a hit :P )
[17:44] Mani: (Depends who it's from...)
[17:45] Reis: (True, but it takes like the average damage from a 10d8 to do worse :P )
[17:45] Alathon: Yuuno: "I'll come."
[17:45] Alathon: Yuuno: "In this form, at least, I'm a lot less anemic magically."
[17:45] Alathon: Yuuno: "I can actually toss a few Struggle Binds.."
[17:45] Alathon: Usagi: "You don't have to..."
[17:45] * Reis nods. "Do you want us to carry you, sensei, or use a hoverboard...?"
[17:46] Alathon: Yuuno: ".. I suppose I can just go as a ferret."
[17:46] Alathon: Yuuno: "easier that way."
[17:46] Mani: "We can always bring one thermos of hot water and one of cold."
[17:47] Sheena: "You have that rod still right yuuno?"
[17:47] Mani: "Or more than one."
[17:47] Sheena: "We get to the field, use some cold water, and you magic up some cloths."
[17:47] Sheena: "But please stay back..?"
[17:47] Alathon: Yuuno: "I.. yeah, I will."
[17:47] * Reis nods. "Right, don't get yourself hurt again sensei!"
[17:48] Alathon: Yuuno: "I'll try to avoid it."
[17:48] Alathon: Yuuno: "I'll have an armorcloth uniform now, and that's more than I had before."
[17:48] Alathon: Usagi nods, to confirm that.
[17:48] * Mani nods.
[17:49] Sheena: "Hmm.. mabie we should run you past some of that "training"you had me do as a kid.."
[17:49] Mani: "You're more likely to be targetted in a fight, though, too."
[17:49] Alathon: Yuuno: "True.."
[17:50] * Reis nods. "We'll have to make certain you're all right..."
[17:50] Reis: (Aka, Defending Others rules! :P )
[17:50] Mani: "We'll do our best, but nothing's certain in a battle."
[17:51] Alathon: Yuuno nods.
[17:51] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well, don't forget.. I bounce back."
[17:51] Alathon: Yuuno smiles, a little grimly.
[17:52] Sheena: "I would prefer not to have you do that again"
[17:52] Mani: (Be careful. Alathon's handing out defects for that now.)
[17:52] Sheena: "Any way, lets get going"
[17:52] * Reis shakes her head. "But... that doesn't matter, it's not something we want to have happen..."
[17:52] Sheena: (yuuno's all reayd got some big defects)
[17:52] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[17:52] * Reis nods and gathers up Mani and Yuuno.
[17:52] Mani: "Very well. We'll back up the marines if they need it."
[17:52] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[17:53] Alathon: Usagi: "Good."
[17:53] Alathon: Usagi: "That's what the mission is; backup if there's a major problem."
[17:54] * Reis nods. "Are we to involve ourselves if there's any trouble, or hold ourselves in reserve until something they truly cannot handle crops up?"
[17:54] Alathon: Usagi: "That's at your discretion."
[17:55] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
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[17:55] Reis: <Alathon> Usagi: "That's what the mission is; backup if there's a major problem."
[17:55] Reis: * Reis nods. "Are we to involve ourselves if there's any trouble, or hold ourselves in reserve until something they truly cannot handle crops up?"
[17:55] Reis: <Alathon> Usagi: "That's at your discretion."
[17:55] Reis: * Disconnected
[17:55] Sheena: "No reason for any one to get hurt out there if we can handle it better"
[17:55] * Reis nods. "Understood."
[17:55] * Sheena puses for a moment
[17:55] Sheena: "hmm that reminds me.."
[17:56] Mani: "My initial thought is to prevent any deaths if we can but not involves ourselves unless serious threat appears."
[17:56] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[17:56] Alathon: Usagi: "Certainly, you could involve yourself on the medical side."
[17:57] * Mani thinks.
[17:57] Mani: "Have we seen signs of more than that one group in the video?"
[17:57] * Sheena stands up and strechs a bit
[17:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes."
[17:57] Sheena: "Ya, do we have any way to check that sea bed for the rest of em?"
[17:57] Alathon: Usagi: "There have been at least two dozen identified, several ofw hich have alreayd been destroyed."
[17:57] Alathon: Usagi: "Not immediately, no."
[17:57] Mani: (Gee, thanks for telling us in advance, princess. :p )
[17:58] * Mani nods.
[17:58] * Reis nods. "Are they vaguely moving together, or heavily dispersed across the area?"
[17:58] Alathon: ((she did.. or at least, she implied it and thought everyone understood when she was talking about multiple groups of up to six, not communicating to each other))
[17:58] Sheena: (brb bio)
[17:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Mostly dispersed.. but, my informaiton may be out of date."
[17:58] * Reis nods. "Ask at the field HQ?"
[17:58] Alathon: Usagi: "Yes."
[17:59] Mani: "All right. If there isn't anything else, we should go. I'll assume human form when we get there."
[17:59] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[18:00] Alathon: Usagi: "Well.. you could hold off until deploying for combat."
[18:00] * Mani nods.
[18:00] * Reis grabs a telescope or binoculars or something of the sort.
[18:00] Mani: "When combat seems imminent."
[18:00] Alathon: Usagi nods.
[18:01] Mani: "Where do you need to start from, Reis?"
[18:02] * Reis shrugs slightly. "All I really need is a clear view of the sky, and both of you ready, then I can get started."
[18:02] Mani: (And Yuuno?)
[18:02] Sheena: "Don't worrie about me ries, ill follow"
[18:03] * Mani nods.
[18:03] Mani: "Lead on, then."
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[18:03] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[18:03] Switchblade: * Reis shrugs slightly. "All I really need is a clear view of the sky, and both of you ready, then I can get started."
[18:03] Switchblade: <Mani> (And Yuuno?)
[18:03] Switchblade: <Reis> (That's the 'both' :P )
[18:03] Switchblade: <Sheena> "Don't worrie about me ries, ill follow"
[18:03] Switchblade: * Mani nods.
[18:03] Switchblade: <Mani> "Lead on, then."
[18:03] Switchblade: * Disconnected
[18:03] *** Switchblade is now known as Reis.
[18:04] Reis: (Anyway, Al, can I get a scope?)
[18:04] Alathon: Yes
[18:04] Alathon: But you don't need one to see a mile
[18:04] Alathon: and a mile is your max range
[18:04] Reis: (True, but I do need one to see four miles :P )
[18:04] Alathon: ahhh
[18:04] Alathon: anyways
[18:04] Alathon: describe what your teleport is like
[18:04] Alathon: You'll be able to find your way to the front via teleport
[18:05] Alathon: there's a road you were gonna follow, after all ;p
[18:05] * Sheena just shoots ahead down the road
[18:06] * Reis collects a scope, and leads the lower-speed ones outside the building, collects the kitty and the ferret, and swings her sword out into its combat form - as a note, it looks a little different now, with a kind of 'revolver ring' right above the hilt, holding what looks like twelve chambers.
[18:07] Reis: Actually, the teleport isn't really 'like' anything. Unlike Yuuno, no show, she simply flashes whiteish and is about half a mile up and somewhat forward. And continues hopping and following the road.
[18:07] Reis: (I figure there's no show since I didn't get Detectable on it or anything :P )
[18:08] Alathon: (nod)
[18:08] Reis: (And, I'm basically carrying kitty and ferret as I go - I'll teleport down once I see the HQ)
[18:08] Alathon: You'll succeed. It takes a fair number of jumps, but you get there.
[18:08] * Sheena checks the merian channel to see how they are doing
[18:09] Alathon: You'll all probably feel vaguely nauseous from having done a bunch of teleports in rapid succession.
[18:09] Mani: "I can't say I much cared for that."
[18:10] Alathon: Yuuno: "Well, it was fast."
[18:10] * Reis pales slightly and lets the others down. "I hadn't predicted that. Good to know for the future..."
[18:11] Mani: "Well, let's go in and introduce ourselves."
[18:11] *** GurrenStelas27|moontube is now known as Stelas.
[18:11] * Mani looks around for Sheena.
[18:11] * Reis nods and stands, pulling out Yuuno's cold water bottle. "Ready to change, sensei?"
[18:11] * Sheena lands right by the group
[18:11] Alathon: The discomfort will fade in a matter of minutes.
[18:11] Alathon: Yuuno: "Before we walk into the camp would probably be best."
[18:12] Reis: (She probably arrived in like 1/10th the time we did)
[18:12] * Mani comms Sakura and lets him know where they are.
[18:12] * Mani also asks where he currently is.
[18:12] Sheena: "Stealthy tansport magic there reis, it don't leak anything and its hard to spot"
[18:13] * Sheena watchs while yuuno takes a soak
[18:13] * Kuonji responds to Mani's comm
[18:13] * Reis averts her eyes since she IS aware of the 'come in naked' thing.
[18:13] Alathon: Elves don't have body hair; we'll leave it at that.
[18:13] Alathon: Yuuno gets dressed.
[18:14] Mani: (What's Sakura's ETA?)
[18:15] Kuonji: (don't you mean what's Mani's ETA?)
[18:15] Kuonji: (Sakura's at the front)
[18:15] Mani: (Already?)
[18:16] Kuonji: (Oh, looks like I missread al)
[18:16] Kuonji: (he's on his way back from scouting)
[18:16] Kuonji: (no clue how long it will take, probably not long at all)
[18:16] * Mani finishes talking with Sakura.
[18:16] Alathon: YOu can meet up where you choose, presumably in the camp.
[18:17] Mani: "Ok, if we're ready, let's check in."
[18:18] * Mani looks for whoever's in charge there (asking people as necessary).
[18:18] Alathon: After a few minutes you'll find who's in charge.
[18:18] * Sheena is in her esponage uniform with shades and staff out
[18:19] Alathon: Turns out to be a Major in the CT Marines by the name of Kato.
[18:19] Alathon: Major Kato: "You are the team sent by the Department of Espionage, correct?"
[18:19] * Reis will be in the normal uniform as well, simply wearing her cross.
[18:19] Mani: "Yes, that is correct."
[18:19] Alathon: A few moments after he greets you, Sakura will pop into visibility a bit away from everyone.
[18:20] Kuonji: "Good thing you're here."
[18:20] Kuonji: "We've got trouble."
[18:20] * Sheena sighs
[18:21] Mani: "Keep making entrances like that and people are going to be unhappy to see you. What's wrong?"
[18:21] Kuonji: "A group of what appears to be Amazon Elders. Real nasty pieces of work if the stories are to be believed, and they've all been pretty acurate so far."
[18:22] * Reis frowns. "Have they been able to engage the Marines yet?"
[18:22] Mani: "What have they been doing and what are their capabilities according to the stories?"
[18:23] Alathon: Major Kato: "Stories?"
[18:23] Alathon: He sounds a little doubtful, but asks politely regardless.
[18:23] Mani: (Afk a moment.)
[18:23] Alathon: Major Kato: "What stories, and in what way are they relevant to the threat at hand?"
[18:24] * Reis pauses. "Um... Apparently Sakura-san's family has history with the not-undead versions of what we're facing out here?"
[18:24] Kuonji: "Pretty much."
[18:24] Reis: (Actually, remove the question mark :P )
[18:24] Kuonji: "The whole reason they're here is most likely because of me."
[18:24] Kuonji: "I just spent the last month making my way across China, hounded by these bastards the entire way."
[18:24] Alathon: Major Kato: "Oh?"
[18:25] Kuonji: "Excellent trackers."
[18:25] Alathon: Major Kato: ".... oh. So noted."
[18:25] Kuonji: "Especially since I don't LEAVE tracks."
[18:25] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[18:25] Kuonji: (and yeah, I have that untrackable movement ability, so they must be DAMN good.)
[18:26] *** Reis has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:26] Reis: <Kuonji> "The whole reason they're here is most likely because of me."
[18:26] Reis: <Kuonji> "I just spent the last month making my way across China, hounded by these bastards the entire way."
[18:26] Reis: * Reis frowns and looks around. A line like that is just PERFECT for an entrance.
[18:26] Reis: * Disconnected
[18:26] Reis: (GRAH! What'd I miss?)
[18:26] Mani: (Ok, back.)
[18:27] Alathon: (heh, quite true)
[18:27] Alathon: PM'd
[18:27] Mani: "Hm... be careful about scouting near them, Sakura."
[18:27] Alathon: Major Kato: "Understood. You plan to engage them before they reach our operational area?"
[18:29] Sheena: "Might be best"
[18:29] Mani: "Their abilities, Sakura?"
[18:29] * Reis nods. "I'd prefer not to let them at the Marines either..."
[18:29] Alathon: Kato looks a little miffed at the comment about 'letting them near the Marines', but lets it slide.
[18:29] Kuonji: "The ones I encounterd are incredibly skilled at melee and ranged combat with conventional weapons
[18:30] Kuonji: "
[18:30] * Reis figures if he WANTS to get the uber-enemies at his unit, he has but to ask.
[18:30] Kuonji: "They're rather strong, and if the stories remain to be accurate, have a number of rather nasty martial arts techniques at their disposal, especially the elders."
[18:31] Mani: "Yes, tell us about the elders in particular, please."
[18:31] Alathon: Kato: "I have no objections. And I'm rather curious about these techniques myself.."
[18:31] Kuonji: (what am I going know al? int roll?)
[18:31] Alathon: Kato: "Chi Blasts, like in King of Fighters LX?"
[18:31] Alathon: (yeah)
[18:32] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[18:32] *** Switchblade has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:32] Alathon: ((go ahead and roll int)
[18:32] *** Switchblade is now known as Reis.
[18:32] Reis: * Reis nods. "Are there any particular sample techniques you know of?"
[18:32] Reis: <Kuonji> (what am I going know al? int roll?)
[18:32] Reis: <Alathon> Kato: "Chi Blasts, like in King of Fighters LX?"
[18:32] Reis: <Alathon> (yeah)
[18:32] Reis: * Disconnected
[18:32] * Reis STABS the internet!
[18:32] Alathon: (didn't miss anything)
[18:32] Kuonji: (yeah roll int?)
[18:32] Kuonji: roll 1d20+4
[18:32] Ala-bot: Kuonji rolled 1d20+4 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{6}
[18:32] Kuonji: (FUCK)
[18:32] Kuonji: (T_T)
[18:33] Reis: (You can use your DR now :P )
[18:33] Kuonji: (can't I just call a family member?)
[18:33] Alathon: (you remember very little, just that they sounjded really impressive.. stuff like ki blasts, yeah ;p ))
[18:33] Alathon: (now that you thought of doing it, yes)
[18:33] Mani: (How many lifelines have you used?)
[18:33] Kuonji: "One second."
[18:33] * Kuonji takes out his com, and dials his father.
[18:34] * Reis will pass on a greeting to Sakura's father as well.
[18:34] Reis: (I figure getting the shit beaten out of me on a frequent basis has established some familiarity with them :P )
[18:35] Sheena: "Im good to go when you are"
[18:36] Mani: "I'd like to know more about these elders before making any decisions."
[18:36] * Reis cocks her head. "Mani-san, do you think we should simply snipe them from extreme range?"
[18:38] Mani: "Again, I'd like to know more about them before choosing a course of action."
[18:38] * Reis nods.
[18:38] Sheena: (we lost sakura?)
[18:38] Alathon: (no)
[18:38] Alathon: (he should be talking right now ;p)
[18:39] Reis: "I'm simply giving ideas at present."
[18:39] Alathon: (he just got off the phoen, forgot to talk in THIS channel)
[18:39] Kuonji: "Right, well apparantly they're capable of hot and cold manipulation, ki blasts, blasts of wind, and making solid objects explode with a light touch."
[18:40] * Reis blinks at that last one. "... Not get touched sounds like a good idea then."
[18:40] Mani: "Hot and cold manipulation? And what's this about solid objects exploding?"
[18:41] Alathon: Kato listens, fascinated.
[18:42] Kuonji: "Inanimate objects, not living things."
[18:42] * Reis cocks her head. "And what did Kuonji-san think about you calling him up to ask about old family lore?"
[18:43] Kuonji: "Well, I did tell them about my little side trip to china."
[18:43] Kuonji: "So it's not like it came out of the blue you know."
[18:43] Mani: "Mm. Can you be more specific about the hot and cold manipulation? Do you mean throwing fireballs and ice beams or something different?"
[18:43] * Reis chuckles. "That's true..."
[18:43] Mani: "Also, where were the elders and what were they doing?"
[18:43] *** Sheena has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[18:44] *** DCG has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:44] *** DCG is now known as Sheena.
[18:46] Reis: (... Kuonji? Livest thou?)
[18:46] Kuonji: "No... Like being able to affect the ambient temprature... Apparantly it lets them use certain techniques."
[18:46] Kuonji: (talking to al)
[18:46] Kuonji: (jeez)
[18:46] Reis: (Ah, gotcha)
[18:46] Alathon: (well.. answer the part you know first, and ask second ;p)
[18:47] Mani: (More coming from Kuonji on the subject?)
[18:48] Kuonji: (more questions?)
[18:48] Alathon: (where are they?
[18:48] Kuonji: (I answered with what I was told)
[18:48] Alathon: (what were they doing?)
[18:48] Kuonji: (oh yeah, shit)
[18:48] Mani: (Well, I wanted to know if he was done on the subject before asking questions over him.)
[18:49] Kuonji: "THe elders were moving towards crystal tokyo, they're a few miles out."
[18:49] Mani: (Ie - if you're just pausing before saying more, I don't want to bombard you with questions you're already answering.)
[18:49] Alathon: Kato: "How fast?"
[18:49] *** Reis has signed off IRC (Connection reset by peer).
[18:49] Mani: "A few miles out from *here*, I assume?"
[18:49] Sheena: "What the heck do are they planing in them rotton heads"
[18:50] *** Reis has joined #crystaltokyo.
[18:50] Reis: <Kuonji> (more questions?)
[18:50] Reis: <Alathon> (where are they?
[18:50] Reis: <Kuonji> (I answered with what I was told)
[18:50] Reis: <Alathon> (what were they doing?)
[18:50] Reis: <Kuonji> (oh yeah, shit)
[18:50] Reis: * Disconnected
[18:50] Reis: (Sigh... what'd I miss?)
[18:50] Alathon: PM'd
[18:51] Reis: (Got it)
[18:52] Alathon: (gonna answer mani, sakura?)
[18:52] * Reis frowns. "That's not too comforting... How direct is their path?"
[18:52] Mani: (And Kato)
[18:52] Kuonji: (I dunno, Al needs to tell me -_-)
[18:52] Alathon: (I already )
[18:52] Alathon: (did)
[18:53] Alathon: [18:43] Alathon: the elders were moving towards crystal tokyo a few miles out, at a stately walk.
[18:53] Kuonji: (isn't that what I said?)
[18:53] Alathon: apparently not
[18:53] Alathon: since two people are asking you questions
[18:53] Kuonji: (well, I didn't mention the walk, I suppose)
[18:53] Reis: (Didn't say the speed - for all we know they could be moving like the hounds of hell are after them :P )
[18:53] Alathon: and
[18:53] Alathon: why would it matter what you said
[18:53] Kuonji: (do you know how hard it is to do this while trying to hold my laptops power in place?)
[18:53] Alathon: peopel asked sakura questions, just ANSWER
[18:54] Mani: (And I'm verifying that they're a few miles out from here rather than a few miles from CT)
[18:54] Mani: (Though I'm pretty sure I know the answer to that.)
[18:55] Kuonji: "A few miles out from here."
[18:55] Sheena: "Thats not a major problem for now then, still we can't let them close to the city"
[18:56] Mani: (I'm going to assume he said at a walk...)
[18:56] Mani: "Ok. If there are any more specifics you can tell us about their techniques, now's the time."
[18:57] Kuonji: "Sorry, that was about all I got."
[18:57] * Reis cocks her head. "Should we try talking? Just in the event they don't actually need to be fought?"
[18:57] * Reis shrugs.
[18:58] Mani: "Ok. Thanks, Sakura."
[18:58] Alathon: Kato: "How you engage them is at your discretion, however I'd suggest against it. Thus far, they've attacked all visible targets."
[18:58] Alathon: Kato: "Time spent talking to them would be time wasted allowing them to close to melee range."
[18:59] Kuonji: "Well, some of us are melee fighters, so that would be necessary anyway."
[18:59] * Reis nods. "Highly aggressive then? Probably can't be talked down anyway..."
[19:00] Mani: "Hmm."
[19:01] * Mani looks at Kato.
[19:01] Alathon: Major Kato: "It's up to you, just let us know what area we need to designate as containing friendlies."
[19:01] Mani: "Have you been having any trouble with the nonelders?"
[19:02] Alathon: Kato: "Not much. AS long as we have time for several salvos at range with Plasma Rifles, they can be downed easily once they get in range of Beam and Pulse rifles."
[19:02] Alathon: Kato: "We've had a couple screwups, but otherwise our scouting has been good."
[19:03] Mani: "Have they displayed any of the abilities Sakura has described?"
[19:03] Alathon: Kato: "They have not."
[19:03] Alathon: Kato: "Thus far, substantially superhuman strength, speed, and leaping capabilities for the most part."
[19:03] Sheena: (Since we're going to fight now, How do we figer out how many attack turns we get?)
[19:04] Kuonji: "Being undead, they may no longer be capable of any techniques requiring ki."
[19:04] Kuonji: (attack turns?)
[19:04] Mani: "In that case, these elders may be an entirely different kettle of fish... Two possible courses of action spring to mind."
[19:04] Sheena: (like bab)
[19:05] Mani: "The first is that my group simply goes out to meet them, since if they're not vulnerable to salvos with plasma rifles, things could get very ugly very quickly."
[19:05] * Reis nods. "Another option is simply that senpai and I bomb them into dust from kilometers away."
[19:06] Mani: "The other is that we could accompany a group of marines to meet them and attempt them from closing to melee range after or during any salvos."
[19:06] Mani: "And there is that..."
[19:06] Alathon: ((its the same as before, based on combat skill))
[19:06] Alathon: ((does not include the GCB)
[19:06] Alathon: ((so if your special ranged attack is, say, +17, you can get up to four attacks.. +17/+12/+7/+2
[19:07] Alathon: Kato: "If you wanta fire squad, I'll authorize that."
[19:07] Alathon: (fire team)
[19:08] Mani: "Mm. I think that might give us the best idea of their capabilities and how to deal with them in the future."
[19:08] Alathon: Kato nods.
[19:08] Alathon: Kato: "I'll see to it."
[19:08] * Mani nods.
[19:09] Alathon: You'll get a team of six marines, all a bit more heavily armed than usual.
[19:09] Alathon: Rather than the usual mix of pulse rifles with a couple plasma/beam, they each have a plasma rifle, with a sling over their shoulders for a pulse and beam rifle each.
[19:09] Alathon: They're commanded by a 2nd Lieutenant.
[19:10] Alathon: So.. what do you do?
[19:10] * Reis greets the marines, and idly takes a look at the rifles - are they the experimental model Ken was using, or the standard?
[19:11] Mani: (Do you want us to skip over any greetings of the marines and all?)
[19:11] Alathon: (yes)
[19:11] Alathon: (they look standard to you, Reis.. none of the extra access panels)
[19:11] Reis: (Just figured I'd check :P )
[19:12] Mani: "All right, let's go out and meet the elders. Sakura, if you could scout and let us know when we're gotting close, that would be good. But be careful, in case they can detect you."
[19:12] Mani: "Especially since you seem to be the entire reason they're here."
[19:12] * Mani frowns.
[19:12] Mani: "Then again, it could be Yuuno."
[19:12] * Mani looks at Yuuno.
[19:12] Alathon: Yuuno grimaces at that.
[19:12] Alathon: Yuuno: "I like the other idea better."
[19:12] * Mani nods slowly.
[19:12] Kuonji: "Good point."
[19:13] Mani: "Especially if they have any ability to redirect teleports."
[19:13] Alathon: Yuuno looks a little haunted by that.
[19:13] Alathon: Yuuno: "Let's hope not."
[19:13] Alathon: Yuuno: "I was thinking I'd probably hang back with the marines, toss out binds and shield them if necessary."
[19:13] * Reis nods and takes her cross, swinging her arm out as her sword forms. "We'll have to be careful... Make sure you're behind us, sensei."
[19:13] * Kuonji turns invisible and begins scouting ahead
[19:14] Mani: (Does Yuuno have a pocket dimension attack? And if so, do we know about it?)
[19:15] Alathon: probably not, since I don't think Sheena ever brought it up
[19:15] Alathon: and he's only ever discussed itw ith sheena
[19:15] Alathon: and yes he does
[19:16] Sheena: "Hmm, cute guns."
[19:16] Sheena: "Ya yuuno, stick aorund with the marines incase something odd happens"
[19:19] Alathon: as a reminder
[19:19] Alathon: Mani is in cat form
[19:19] Alathon: and does not have a comm ready
[19:19] Mani: (I thought I did, which was why I didn't say anything about not having one.)
[19:19] Kuonji: (duuuur, I'm a moron.)
[19:19] Alathon: *nod*
[19:19] Alathon: as a rule
[19:19] Mani: (But apparently it's not ready yeat.)
[19:19] Alathon: going forward
[19:19] Alathon: until I explicitly say "you have this piece of gear", you do not have it
[19:19] * Reis will take care of the comm work then?
[19:20] Mani: (Sheena)
[19:20] Reis: (All righty)
[19:20] * Reis pauses and starts slipping shells into the 'revolver ring' around her sword.
[19:20] Kuonji: (god damn it)
[19:20] Reis: (Al, how many cartridges do I have? Gonna be a while before I USE them, but may as well make sure I can set 'em off ;) )
[19:21] Alathon: (oh god dammit we never did that)
[19:21] Alathon: (a dozen.)
[19:21] Sheena: (later)
[19:21] Alathon: (8 +damage, 4 +ap)
[19:22] Sheena: (just a dozen? we suck as production)
[19:22] Sheena: "Text from sakura, he says they stoped and are just waiting"
[19:22] Mani: "Range and number?"
[19:22] Sheena: "Details are..Little shrivled monkies on sticks"
[19:23] * Reis cocks her head. "Are they waiting for us?"
[19:23] Sheena: "Three targets, That way"
[19:23] * Sheena gives range with what ever system they use
[19:23] Kuonji: (I never ssaid they stopped)
[19:24] Kuonji: (I Said they didn't make much progress)
[19:24] * Reis finishes loading her sword, and spins the chamber before it sets into place with a mechanical klunk.
[19:24] Mani: (How long before we reach them according to the distance given?)
[19:25] Sheena: (lets just get there)
[19:25] Sheena: "Ok we should be closeing in, there moving slow"
[19:26] Mani: "Ok, let's get ready for a fight."
[19:26] * Mani concentrates and shifts to human form.
[19:26] * Reis nods and simply stands ready, walking alongside the others.
[19:27] Alathon: It'll be an hour or so's march to get near them
[19:27] Mani: (*bangs her head against her desk.)
[19:28] Reis: (We'll carry you for half of that or more if you want :P )
[19:28] Mani: (Can I wait until we're closer to change or is it already done?)
[19:28] Alathon: (you can wait)
[19:28] Mani: (Thanks.)
[19:28] Alathon: (you know
[19:28] Alathon: (maybe we should just do this next week
[19:29] * Sheena just flys along, probly carring mani
[19:29] Alathon: (we've already pissed away an hour and a half doing nothing)
[19:29] Mani: (Yeah, I think so.)
[19:29] Sheena: (ya)
[19:29] Reis: (I'm good to finish up :P )
[19:29] Alathon: okay
[19:29] Reis: (But, I can close down too - whichever you want)
[19:29] Alathon: we'll end when the amazombie elders come into view.
[19:29] Alathon: End here.
[19:29] *** Kuonji is now known as Ataru.
[19:29] Reis: Dun-dun-DUNNNNN.
[19:29] Sheena: No sanity checks?
[19:29] Mani: (We seem to be having some slow communications tonight.)
[19:29] *** Reis is now known as Pale_Wolf.
[19:29] Sheena: Roll 1d20+12 OMGWTFBBQ
[19:29] Ala-bot: Sheena rolled 1d20+12 OMGWTFBBQ --> [ 1d20=5 ]{17}
[19:29] Sheena: uhhoh
[19:30] Pale_Wolf: Always comforting.
[19:30] Ataru: right, back in a few, gotta pound some back with my roommate
[19:30] *** Sheena is now known as DCG.
[19:30] Mani: Just for the record, Mani will charge her swords when they're close to the elders. ;)
[19:30] * Mani scratches her head.
[19:30] *** Mani is now known as Yarrow.
[19:30] Yarrow: Did Ataru just say he's going off to have sex with his roommate?
[19:31] Ataru: no, I said I'm going to imbibe some alcohol with him
[19:31] Pale_Wolf: Good to clarify between the two.
[19:31] Yarrow: Oh. Oh, I see.
[19:31] * Yarrow interpreted 'pound some back' very differently...
[19:32] Pale_Wolf: Wow, you did that to my 'Shake it' too.
[19:33] Yarrow: Well, that was just kidding. :)
[19:33] Yarrow: This time, I really wasn't sure.
[19:36] DCG: hmm
[19:36] DCG: wow well there goes the day
[19:47] Alathon: bleah
[19:47] Alathon: forgive me if it feels railroady
[19:47] Alathon: but next time we spend half an hour putzing around I'm fast forwarding
[19:48] Pale_Wolf: Heh.
[19:48] Alathon: man, the auburb / florida game is awesome
[19:48] Alathon: auburn (unranked) is up 17-10 over Florida (4th ranked in nation)
[19:49] Yarrow: Mm... which parts did you consider putzing around, exactly?
[19:53] Alathon: pretty much everything after we got to the camp
[19:54] Alathon: people were trying to do stuff
[19:54] Alathon: but nothing was getting done
[19:55] Yarrow: Ok. So you don't really have issue with what we were trying to do, just that it wasn't happening?
[19:55] Alathon: yes
[19:55] Alathon: as long as it doesn't end up taking too long and making the entire thing boring, I have no problem with trying to go at a fight intelligently
[19:55] Alathon: now, if that's a four hour planning session for a half hour fight, that gets stupid. that's the way stuff is supposed to happen in RL, not in a game :)
[19:56] Alathon: drills like bloodless battles, battles like bloody drills, and all that
[19:56] Alathon: afk for like 10ish
[19:57] * Yarrow grins.
[19:58] Yarrow: Well, hopefully next session won't suffer so much from disconnects and computer issues.
[19:59] * Pale_Wolf STABS the internet.
[19:59] * Yarrow goes afk, too.
[19:59] * Yarrow will not complain if there's xp waiting when she gets back. ;)
[20:14] Alathon: hmm, yeah
[20:15] Alathon: 2805 exp
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