Last time, on Planeteers: There was a field trip to Nigeria that surprisingly didn't involve any e-mail scams. (*snerk* But how fun if we HAD been offered 11 million to store in our bank accounts...) (e-mail, e-mail!) Akinyi kept you all from looking like total idiots by pointing you in the direction of the logging. And what logging it was. Soon after, you were rained in, and Tyler, Eui-Tae, and Akinyi stayed in the village to save a woman and her child from drowning. (Im back!) (I know, we're so nice.) Jose and Ziegfried went to check on the Geocruiser, which is probably covered with mud by now. Well, it's really wet, at least. And so are you! ^^ The rain is coming down in sheets. You're in the village, and you just heard something (probably a building) collapse. Session Start * Tyler stands in the rain, looking uncharacteristically (to these people, anyway) abashed. * Eui-Tae looks up at the rain. So. Now what do we do? * Tyler glances back to the woman and her son. * Eui-Tae shrugs... "Maybe we should head for the cruiser." The woman's trying to comfort her son, who starts screaming every time he hears thunder. She has her hands full. The other villagers are milling around, some trying to find ways to keep dry, others yelling over the rain to each other. Um. Maybe I can turn down the rain a bit! * Tyler smiles hopefully. And somewhat cluelessly. (How about really cluelessly? ;P) Heh, wait... isn't rain, according to old thought, supposidly part water and part wind? (kicks the typo demon.) * Tyler holds out her hand. "Feels like water." (According to old thought, weather in general is water + wind. ^^) * Eui-Tae feels his clothes... "Point." * Tyler shrugs and holds her fist up above her head without further consultation. She intones "Water" without being sure of her intent beyond "get water away from self." (If there's one thing we learn from the Planeteers, it's that the American one never thinks things through. :P) (Yeah, tell me about it.) (I think Ard's a little busy on the other end.) Tyler... shoots water into the air. Away from herself. She doesn't hit anybody, though they probably wouldn't notice anyway, as wet as they are. That's smooth. * Eui-Tae chuckles. Well, I guess I can try something out... This thing really is just a glorified water gun. * Tyler glares at her ring. The ring glares back. * Tyler glares harder. * Eui-Tae points his ring up. He says "Wind" with the intend of keeping the rain from hitting him. The ring challenges Tyler to a staring contest. Seems it's winning. (err, intent.) * Tyler puffs on the ring to make it blink. In other words, she's not paying attention to anything outside her own little world. Give me a soul roll, Eui. ;P 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Eui-Tae (2d6) and gets 9. (Bwahaha!) (Darn you to heck Dicesuke!) (As he accidentally sends Tyler skidding through the mud...) A gust of wind forms around Eui-Tae. It keeps water away. It also sends Tyler skidding through the mud (how did you know?) and hits himself, breaking his concentration and sending *him* skidding through the mud as well. (You guys try the most complicated things. ^_^) (^_^_v) * Eui-Tae picks himself out of the mud. "Great, now I'm dirty too." * Tyler turns end over end... well... side over side. She finally picks herself up and BITCHGLARES at Eui. * Eui-Tae backs away from Tyler. * Tyler picks herself up and attempts to wash herself off by more directed blasts from her ring. She succeeds. Now she's clean and wet. (I have to roll here ard!) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeigfried (2d6) and gets 3. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jose (2d6-2) and gets 4. (Of course you give him the good rolls Dicey...) Well, at least I'm clean. * Tyler attempts to wring out her clothes. She fails. Heh, you'd just get wet again anyways. * Tyler grins evilly at Eui. "Care for a hosedown?" Umm... no thanks... Hey, what's that over there? * Eui-Tae points. Something other than the person I'm going to soak. Too late... mother nature already did that. * Tyler points her ring at him and yells the magic words, heedless of the village around them getting more and more sodden. But I can get ya dirty again if you like. (Intent, Tyler?) (Knocking him on his butt. And getting him even more wet.) She does that. :P He's clean now... except for his butt. Didn't hurt much, though. (^_^_v We're such good, focused, responsible heroes.) Oh, you want to play that way? (Aren't you? ^^) * Eui-Tae points his ring back at Tyler and utters "wind." (with the intent of knocking her down.) (We're heading for a DBZ format. Next session will be all about us each training in on Hope Island, then the next five are charging up for the next bout.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jose (2d6) and gets 11. (Yup... gotta blow up the world 10 times over to play in this leuge.) (No!!!!!) (Ha!) (Almost got struck by lighting there...) (Relax Jose... it happens to all of us ;) ) 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeigfried (2d6+2) and gets 10. (Uh oh...) (... and to some more than others.) A gust of wind emerges from Eui's ring and does just that, pushing Tyler over. Now she's dirty, too! ^^ * Tyler brushes her muddy, soaking mass of bangs out of her face, growls as well as she can, and physically launches herself at Eui. She has NO qualms about mudwrestling. * Eui-Tae crabwalks away from her as fast as he can. Ha! Unarmed Attacks (wrestling), Tyler. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tyler (2d6) and gets 6. (Great, the two wimpiest characters in the game are getting in a fight. ;P) Eui, give me an Unarmed Defense roll. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Eui-Tae (2d6) and gets 4. (Oh, this should be amusing.) (Oh yes.) Tyler launches herself at Eui! Amazingly enough, he steps aside at the last minute and Tyler ends up face first in the ground. Fortunately, it's soft mud. * Eui-Tae laughs. * Tyler pushes herself up to a crouching position and lobs a handful of mud at him. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeigfried (2d6) and gets 5. Ranged Attack, Tyler. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jose (2d6) and gets 4. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tyler (2d6) and gets 6. Eui, give me Ranged Defense. ^_~ 2d6 (Man, knock that off, Dicey.) * Dicesuke throws the bones for Eui-Tae (2d6) and gets 7. (This is funny. ^_^ ) Tyler hits Eui in the face! With mud. (NOOO! I'm muddy!) (Like that's anything new.) * Eui-Tae wipes the mud off his face and slings some back at Tyler. You know what to do, Eui. ^_~ 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Eui-Tae (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tyler (2d6) and gets 9. Eui mudslings! ... And misses. * Tyler hops to her feet, the better to aim from. Then her completely unsensible boots slip in the mud and she falls down again. Thanks for not making me make you roll for that, Tyler. ^_~ You know... you really are slipping up alot here. (D'oh forgot a space.) (a lot) * Tyler takes out the intermediary and just launches herself at Eui again. Roll it o/~ 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tyler (2d6) and gets 9. (Crap. :P) (Face in the mud again? ) Tyler misses! And ends up face first on the ground again. Eui has an attack of opportunity! * Eui-Tae slings some more mud at Tyler. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Eui-Tae (2d6) and gets 4. (Dicey! Did I make fun of your mother or something?) Tyler's in a layer of mud. (Oh, right. I stabbed you through the heart.) Well... that was fun... no what the HECK do you think we're supposed to do? * Tyler picks herself up from the mud again and finally looks over to where the woman is. Was? (err, now) * Eui-Tae looks over to where Tyler is looking. She's paying absolutely no attention to you. Now that you're looking around, though, you notice that a good percentage of the village (maybe ten people) have stopped whatever conversations they were having and are staring at you. * Tyler slowly, and with great dignity, gets to her feet and slicks back her muddy hair from her face. She gives her audience a quick nod. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeigfried (2d6) and gets 8. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jose (2d6) and gets 10. (Argh. Dicesuke....) Some of the people seem disappointed that it stopped, and go back to their discussions. The others just look at you blankly for a little longer. * Tyler considers what the proper hero thing would be to say so they can solve this stupid problem and leave this town forever. Hey! Any of you people seen an evil corporation around here lately? You hear another crash. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jose (2d6+2) and gets 12. (Dear god...) * Eui-Tae looks in the direction the crash came from. (You're just not lucky today, that's all Joe) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jose (2d6-2) and gets 6. (He's lucky he screwed up the roll and it's -2 not +2, hehe Eui sees London Bri- er, a house crashing to the ground. It's quite impressive, really. * Tyler winces at the sounds, then asks again, "Evil corporations? Anyone?" Alright, I see what we gotta do... we have to get these people out of here. Or find an evil corporation, that would work too. * Eui-Tae shouts, "Com'on, we know there's one somewhere around here!" Well, we can do the first. I think. (Just look for the guys in the coveralls with the EvilCorp logo. ) One of the people shakes her head. You hear yelling in another language from across the village. * Tyler scratches her head and looks around. "So, uh, where're we going?" * Eui-Tae looks for the guys in coveralls with the EvilCorp logo. Do you know what that is? A few of the people exchange mumurs, but head that way. The woman stands and picks up her son, going that way, too. She looks over her shoulder to you and says, "Kids, you're gonna want to get in." Eui doesn't find any. I mean, come on. :P * Tyler perks up. That sounds ominous. * Eui-Tae hears her. Alright... what do you say we follow her? We should stay out here and wait for whatever's got her running scared. I have a feeling we can't stop what has her running scared. (Ah, phrase re-use) Another building topples to the ground, this one *really* close to you guys. The rest of the villagers panic and run after the woman. Well, we won't know unless we see what it is. I mean, they think it's something these little houses that keep falling down can stop. Do YOU see anything more sturdy they could be heading for? Because... it's the rain, I bet a mudslide's gonna happen any time now. Mind rolls from both of you. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Eui-Tae (2d6) and gets 8. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tyler (2d6) and gets 11. (You right bastard.) There is something more sturdy... there was a fuel station, remember? 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeigfried (2d6) and gets 5. (Tyler, y'here?) * Tyler has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) (Guess not) (I guess not. ^^) * Tyler has joined #planet (Thank you, dear ISP...) (Whew.) Okay, continue in here. * Tyler considers. "Okay, follow the terrified mass of humanity." * Akinyi has joined #planet (Yay!) (Back) (Howdy Dame.) (Hey, what's up Dame.) (K.) The terrified mass of humanity is moving away from you. (Back.) * Eui-Tae follows said mass. * Tyler follows said mass as well, being sure to step more carefully, now. * Akinyi um... follows? The rain doesn't seem interested in letting up. You can feel the ground move beneath your feet. Ah shit... we gotta hurry guys. * Tyler grits her teeth and focuses very, very hard on not falling over and getting any muddier than she already is. (I assume I'm still with Tyler and Eui-Tae) It's not a long walk to the other side of the village, fortunately. You make it to where the crowd is, and hear a shrill voice yelling over it all - again, in that same language you're not familiar with. (Have been the entire time.) Hey, do you understand that Akinyi? (Mainly, we were throwing mud at each other and yelling. I suppose you were watching.) It is, as Eui-Tae predicted, at the enterance to the fuel station, which is actually fairly large, especially for a village this small. People are being let in. (umm... do I?) (*checks languages* No.) Doesn't matter... let's get inside and dry off. (Am I allowed to be in this channel?) * Tyler walks right through the entrances. She tries to, anyway. No, Eui-Tae. I'm from the other side of the continent. Tyler is kindasorta blocked off by a bunch of people just as wet as you are. Wait your turn. ^_~ (I am bored so I take many stupid pictures with my webcam.) * Tyler tries to maneuever through them. (This sounds normalish.) She gets shoved back by an irate mother. She does, however, manage to catch a glimpse of the woman yelling. It's nobody she recognizes, though. * Akinyi taps Tyler on the shoulder. "Antsy about getting inside?" She's an American, she can't stand lines. If I have to go inside some strange fuel storage... thing, I want to do it. Not wait around TO do it. * Eui-Tae smirks. (Hey, Americans have Disney.) * Yonjuuni is now known as Mira (You have a point Ard.) * Akinyi shrugs and leans... sorta, on her bat. You hear another crash as the crowd gradually decreases. You catch a good look at the woman now: Akinyi and Eui-Tae would recognize her as the lady from the restaurant. (What does it look like she's doing?) * Akinyi (tries to remember... the one behind the counter?) She's ushering people in, barking orders in that language. (Yup. Trying to fix the fan.) * Tyler keeps pushing forward, manuevering her tiny form as far forward as she can go. * Woman has joined #planet (Six Flags skills helping?) * Ardweden sets mode: +vvv Akinyi Tyler Woman * Woman eyes Tyler and says in heavily accented English, "Hey, hey. Everyone wants in. Just wait your turn." * Woman ushers couple more people in. From what you can see, it's getting crowded in there. * Akinyi looks around. "Were'nt they supposed to be back with the jet by now?" (Rolls eyes.) Yeah... I wonder what's taking them. (The jet was fleeing! Flee, flee!) They're probably dead. I doubt that. * Tyler shrugs. Or not. See if I care. * Woman lets in the last of the villagers and breathes out a breath. "Okay, kids. Get in. I'm not letting anyone be buried around here." What's going on... mud slide? * Eui-Tae heads in. * Tyler scurries right on in. * Akinyi follows. Looks like it. * Woman glances around, then steps in herself and shuts the door after her. The first thing you notice is that it's hot and wet and smells. A bunch of bodies in a small space during a rainstorm is not pleasant. Cozy. * Eui-Tae looks around. * Tyler wrinkles her nose. It's easily the sturdiest structure in the village - fuel stations have to be, and this one was either built or remodeled fairly recently. So, what happens if the mud surrounds this place and we're all buried in here? Let's take a look around guys... I bet we'll find some answers inside of this place. There's a crash of thunder, and you hear a kid start crying. Wonder who that could be. Um... would you rather be outside Tyler? * Woman sighs. "I just hope that won't happen. There shouldn't be *that* much mud. Besides, these storms come and go quick. Is this place airtight? * Tyler looks around. * Woman shrugs. If it is and we get buried, then, well, at least we know how we're gonna go. You're not gonna get buried. I've seen enough of these to know that. Be nice if we had a fan or something, though. Get a bit of a breeze going. * Woman laughs. * Tyler shrugs fatalistically and leans up against a tiny patch of wall she manages to claim. (Tyler, you're a piece of work. ;P) (Aren't I? ^_^) Hrmm... Think I should try something Akinyi? I don't know. Can you? Sure... * Eui-Tae points his ring in the air and says Wind. A very light breeze starts up, cooling everyone off. * Woman blinks at Eui-Tae. "How did you do that?" * Tyler would make a nice cooling mist, but she'd probably make a nice, drenching deluge instead. Same way she made water come out of the ground. * Eui-Tae points at Tyler. * Tyler waves, then starts trying to wipe mud off. Ah. Uh... I'm afraid I didn't see that. * Woman blinks a couple more times, then shrugs. She looks out the window. (completely incidentally... today is my half-birthday, apparently.) (Happy half-birthday to you. ^_^) Oh yeah... that was in that lady's house... (Congradulations! I think.) (Oops... I need to go soonish, Ard...) (Okay. Want me to just end it here?) (If you could. Must do e-comm homework.) Sure. Session End without cliffhanger!