Last time, on Planeteers! You tried to sneak around to get Fatima's things. Tyler evaded the law and nearly caused an international incident, not to mention got shot at. Ziegfried was found asleep in the back of the Geocruiser, though how he got there is anybody's guess. (Hey, for all I knew, they were bandits! In uniforms!) ( ... ) (What can I say, anything for a good nap.) (Ninja bandits with banjos, even!) ( It's because Tyler and Zieg secret snuck off for a night of forbidden passion. ) (...) Now all of you, except Fatima, are stuck in a cell- er, well appointed guest room. With guards at the door. Tyler has just been escorted in, as has Ziegfried. Despite Tyler's protests that the Geneva convention does not apply to him, since he isn't technically human honest, they didn't seem keen on listening to her. Session Start. (I'm sorry, my head is about to explode.) Hey guys. ( Error: Tyler was disconnected (Reason: Exploded head.) Now, I shut up and get back to GMing my own game. ((_@ ) ( ... ) (Bah. You know you love us.) * Tyler mutters something by way of a greeting and leans against a wall. * Eui-Tae is fragging peeps left and right in his UQ3k3 (Praise the death of the Calculus Ghost!) * Jae-Eun is doing the same. And she gets a lucky kill on Eui-Tae. "Ha! Sucks to be you!" You guys doing okay? These guys are seriously bullet-happy. Oh, I'll get you next time. Fatima saved us from becoming bullet sponges. How's the Geo? * Ziegfried yawns and looks around, "So, when's lunch?" * Eui-Tae re-pops, wastes Jae-Eun with the weakest weapon in the game, then grabs her rocket launcher. "Eat that!" ( *rubs her face* I can't wait for you to meet Daddy. ) * Jae-Eun sulks. Flyable. One of the jackbooted thug types ripped an air hose, sounds like. * Tyler shrugs. "But it can take to the air. We'll need a repair before we head over any oceans, though." * Eui-Tae snaps out after his character gets killed by a lucky sniper online. "Ripped the airhose? That's not good." ...did they salvage the things onboard? Huh, what happened? I was sleepin'... I gotta link the cruiser to the network we have here. * Tyler shakes her head at Eui. "But intake, not the exhaust. I'm assuming, since the pressure stayed fine up to 4000 feet but I wasn't choking on CO." That's good, or not. Either way we have to fix it. * Eui-Tae thinks. "Fix it and make sure it can't happen again." Yeah. But we can get out of here--eventually--and off to somewhere safer before we need a repair job. It's touchy on the stick, though. Took all I had to set her down. Good thing you are alright. I trust you can handle the driving then. Do you think we'd need new parts? They may not be so easy to find here. Yeah, we'll need new parts. But I'm good until then. It'll turn out alright. We're on a mission from God. ( *A* god. ) * Tyler raises an eyebrow at Eui, then walks over to a pile of pillows and flops down. So, where's our lovely host? Talking with her daddy. ( With her father, discussing JUSTICE! TOOH! ) (If it's A God, wouldn't it be a god then?) * Jae-Eun oofs as the bed shakes a little when Tyler flops. But she stays where she is: lying on her stomach and playing on her computer. Hey, Jae. Did you see the layout of this place? It's a goldmine for a FPS map. (Dumb question of the moment... where the hell am I?) Yeah, it is. I'm too lazy to program it in, though. 'Sides, you'd probably want to ask Fatima for blueprints or something. Yeah, you're right about that. ( Oh god. "Welcome to Illyria! I like fragging." I hate you. ) A map of this place? Any exits besides the obvious? (...grah! Die, Todd!) * Jose starts checking the walls. (Hee!) ( Hah! ) * Eui-Tae puts his glasses back on and starts fragging again. "Haha! Eat plasma sucka!" (Todd, you are so dead.) There's a knock on the door o/~ (Anyone?) * Tyler hops back to her feet and adjusts all the little bits of leather on her that would look far more imposing on someone not roughly the size of a doorstop. (lol) Body roll, Tyler. * Jose walks over to the door and opens it. * Eui-Tae is sitting in one of the chairs at the moment, with his laptop set up on the desk. He's playing via his personalized interface at the moment. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tyler (2d6) and gets 5. ( Atom! We need you to turn yourself on. ) ( Or that. ) ( You forgot me? ;_; ) (/me patpats Dicey. Not forgot, just didn't remember. Wait, no...) Tyler tries jump off the bed, to her feet, in one motion... and ends up sprawled on the floor. * Tyler groans. "I hate Illyria." (Existential!) (We hate you, too.) ( ...*snicker* ) (2 points!) ( Unlike pansy western nations, we have the gravity set to 2 G's here. ) (It makes you twice as strong!) (Someone's been watching too much DBZ.) * Tyler climbs back to her feet and dusts herself off. (Sands herself off? What would be on the floor here?) (Hay.) (Or perhaps woodchips.) ( I am going to kill you, Tamale. Shut yer yap. ;) (No sand. No dust. Just carpet.) (I was about to say...) The knocking's a little more insistent this time. (Okay, so I carpet myself off. On a magic carpet ride! I can show you the world!) * Ziegfried walks to the door and looks for a peephole (/me starts humming "Magic Carpet Ride") There isn't one. * Tyler stomps over to the door and flings it open. If they're finally going to shoot her, just get it over with. ( .. Terrifying image. Especially after playing Kingdom Hearts. ) (Oh man! I sooo gotta get that game!) * Ziegfried is now behind the door. Oh well. (/me hits himself for not buying it for this long.) On the other side is... Fatima and a rather short, stocky middle eastern man, wearing a suit, with a moustache and a stern look to his eye. Neither of them look like they're about to shoot Tyler. ( You didn't have to actually make him look like Phil, Ard. ;_; ) (But I couldn't help it. ^_^) (The sultan from Aladdin.) * Tyler smiles a bit too widely. "Hey, Fatima. Nice place you got here." * Ziegfried sticks his head out from around the door. "'lo" (Face it, Fatima. This city's called Agrabah.) Hey Fatima, are we ready? * Eui-Tae says a few words in-game and shuts down the UQ3k3 server he was running. He looks up through his glasses at the people at the other side of the door. "Oh, Hi Fatima." He waves. * Jae-Eun looks up and blinks. She types a few keys on her computer, then turns her full attention to you people. * Fatima folds her hands in front of her. "I'd like you to mee Sultan Rashid Shendaoui of Illyria... my father." She indicates the man behind her. "He wanted to meet all of you." * Jose waves hello. ( For the record, << >> is the ring. ^_^ ) * Rashid nods and looks at each one of you, his eyebrow raising a bit at the sight of Tyler. "May we come in?" << I am begging all of you, try to act civilized. The only reason you're not in a cell is because you're here with me. >> (Yay, he ISN'T named Haseeb...) (Yes, but the fun part is you have to say "heart" every time you use it. ^_~) * Tyler considers for a second, then bobs a quick, very awkward curtsey. Her mom's business taught her that much. (ROFL!!!) * Fatima is caught muttering "heart..." under her breath. (That woulda been funny... Haseeb the Sultan. We could all go up to him and slap him around all day!) ( .. and "Glory Haseeb" is a scary image, if he looks anything like described above. ) (Yes, one of the guards will be named Haseeb and he will have a freak "accident.") ( "Hey, Arwen's a robot. Did anyone else know Arwen's a robot?" ) * Tyler moves! Off to do something! Lean against a wall or something! * Eui-Tae puts his computer back in his backpack and puts the backpack on. ( Yes! Roleplay. Ahem. ) Good evening Sultan. You wanted to speak with us? (I missed the robot incident. Someone must explain. Later.) * Ziegfried holds the door open, from behind it. * Eui-Tae gets out of his chair. "Oh, and please do come in sir." I just wanted to meet these friends my daughter thinks so highly of. If she's going to run off with you, it would be best if I spent some time making sure she's in capable hands. Don't you think? * Tyler fluffs up her hair all nice and purty. * Rashid doesn't give any indication he noticed Fatima mumuring under her breath. * Fatima coughs. "My father is not an unreasonable man. But all of you must know..." she gives Eui and Jae a NICE long glance here "...that our story is a little unbelievable." * Jae-Eun mutters under her breath, "I'm still not sure I believe it." * Tyler coughs a bit and mutters, "You have no idea, chica." * Eui-Tae nods. "Oh, I can vouche for that." Uh, yeah. So, hi. I'm Tyler Wright. * Tyler waves a bit at him. I am Jose Montoya of Caracas, Venezuela. * Tyler blinks. San Francisco, USA. Right. I'm Eui-Tae Kim, from a suburb of Seoul, South Korea. * Jae-Eun waves and smiles a little. "Jae-Eun Kim, also from South Korea. Only I'm not really with the group, more like a tag along-" She realizes she's rambling. "Um, yeah." * Ziegfried nods, "Ziegfried van Braush. Germany." * Eui-Tae glances over at Jae-Eun. * Rashid nods politely to each of you in turn. "Quite a group. A pleasure to meet you all." * Jae-Eun tries to hide behind her laptop. * Fatima is smiling in a totally plastic manner. Daddy's got his diplomat face on. It's obviously unnerving her. So... well... how's the technology industries here? * Tyler smiles weakly and searches for common ground of discussions. * Fatima coughs into her hand politely. "The Geocruiser will need repairs, won't it? I'm sure we can find something in the city." * Rashid nods. "With your permission-" He looks over the rest of you. "I will see to it that it is in working condition." * Eui-Tae whispers to Tyler. "Ex-nay on the ech-tay." * Tyler whispers back. "What? Trying to engage the guy in conversation about the economy of his nation is bad? That's what political types DO." * Fatima mutters 'heart' again suspiciously. << We don't exactly live in YURTS, Eui. But I think... my father is sold. For the time being. >> And technology is not, unfortunately, one of our main exports. ( *sics a horde of yaks on the Koreans* ) * Rashid glances at Fatima, but doesn't say anything. That is good to hear. Mr Shendaoui, could you briefy tell us what types of Environmental Protection programs do you have in your kingdom? * Tyler considers this. "Ever considered hiring a tech consultant?" * Tyler grins. I have a few. * Rashid smiles slightly at Jose's comment. "Actually, Mr. Montoya, I was about to ask that of you." * Eui-Tae does a little typing. I'm glad we have some common grounds for discussion. What did you want to ask of me specfically? * Ziegfried stands calmly and quietly against the wall. Less talking, less effort... This group. * Rashid waves vaguely. "It's an environmental protection program, is it not?" * Fatima cringes a little. She knew this was coming. You can say we are an international effort for dampening evnironmental destruction. * Eui-Tae looks at the rest of the group. * Rashid nods and walks in, having a seat at one of the chairs. "Do go on." (What country in Africa was we in? Nigeria I thinks...) (Yes.) (That's WERE) ( Werewolf? There wolf! ) (Welcome to Rhet 105 Joe... =) Well, one of our recent projects landed our team in Nigeria where we were tracking some illegal logging activities. As of right now we are still investigating the entities involved in that activity. (See, Ziegfried turned into a zombie that only ate burgers, and then we were attacked by a vampire and stole stuff from a church...) (Wrong line Ard.) (And I have a ring that shoots out holy water...) Fatima was very eager to join our team, but she wanted your approval first. She has shown valuable skills that we would love to integrate into our team. * Rashid shakes his head. "While admirable, you do not need to protect her, Mr. Montoya. My daughter can speak for herself." My apologies. * Fatima chuckles. "I already have, Father. Don't be so hard on them." I was merely explaining the situation Sir... * Rashid softens a little when he looks at Fatima. "It's my job. As a father and the ruler of this country." He looks back over to Jose. "Who sponsors this team?" (Your momma!) (Yeah!) * Fatima pales a bit. "Uh..." The sovereign of a small south Pacific nation. * Fatima nods brightly. "Exactly." * Ziegfried contemplates speaking up. (Nice save!) (It's... privately funded...) Global warming has threatened her island, and she's understandably concerned. * Rashid nods. "I see. Do you have a way for me to contact her?" (Telepathy!) (Email?) (Snail mail!) ( CLick your heels three times ) (Someone has a cell right?) Uh... maybe our plane? * Tyler smiles hopefully. (Follow the yellow brick road?) * Rashid looks at Tyler skeptically. "A plane can contact her." (Have we used the neo-Gaiavision on the Bus yet?) * Eui-Tae clears his throat. "I think the idea is you would have to actually go and meet her." * Fatima goes wide eyed. Oh, that's not a good idea. "I don't think it's wise for my father to leave the country on such a trivial matter." * Eui-Tae nods. "I agree." (Zieg, you have a cellphone right?) Nonsense. There is no matter more important to me than the welfare of my daughter. No. Shouldn't there be a ... screen or a private line or something? Our operations take us to many locatios all over the world, and a permament contact is very difficult to maintain... (What's a locatio? * Fatima frowns. "If you accuse me of being careless, father, I doubt your advisors would see that as a legitimate excuse." Heehee, now she gets to be stern. You're absolutely correct. My advisors would insist I keep you here. * Fatima blinks. Damn. (I win! ^_^_v) (*snerk*) (Oh, Victoly goes to Ard.) * Tyler hrms. She sidles up to Fatima and whispers, "Any way to Heart whatsername and get her to talk to your dad that way?" * Fatima blinks and hmmms. "It... might work. It also might make him lock me in a tower and never let me out." Well, what about the welfare of your daughter's dreams? Would you deprive her of doing good deeds for the planet while travelling the world? Would you rob her of that once-in-a-lifetime experience? (and the answer is yes...) * Eui-Tae holds his head. Jose is either brilliant or an idiot. * Rashid eyes Jose. * Fatima also eyes Jose. * Eui-Tae realizes the answer. He's neither, he's a moron. * Rashid speaks in stern, clipped tones. "I have not once said, or even insinuated, that I will or ever have held Fatima here against her will." * Eui-Tae facepalms. Well, the tone of your voice when you mentioned your advisors' decision... * Fatima breathes out. "Jose, it's fine. You don't have to advocate for me." She glances at Rashid. "I... may be able to let you speak with Cybele." (Dah you catch me way too late...) * Tyler grins and pats Fatima on the shoulder. With rather too much force, but what're you gonna do? * Fatima would stumble, but thankfully, it's Tyler. * Eui-Tae walks over to our resident good-for-nothing and whispers to him. "I really hope this works." (based on previous confrontations, I'm still trying to figure out why we're letting him do the talking. But hell, I ain't sayin' nothin!) Cybele? Ah, so that's her name. (Watch out, or I'll nudge you vaguely with my combat boot.) * Rashid pauses. "I can't say I've heard of her before." (/me waves fist at Zieg.) * Fatima coughs. "I think the term is 'Banana Republic'." * Fatima holds her hand to her chest and mutters, "Heart." Cybele speaks in Fatima's head. ~Fatima? Is somethin' wrong?~ << How possible would it be for you to... contact my father? As, er, 'leader' of Hope Island. >> ~Contact? Um, I sorta lack phones here. You know the deal. No technology in seventy or so years.~ She laughs nervously. ~It'd be great to talk to your dad and stuff, but- don't you guys normally get freaked by voices in your head? I know Tyler did.~ * Fatima coughs. << I already told him you were claiming to be the Spirit of the Earth. It's all or nothing at this point. >> (You gave me an aneursym, woman! Well, almost.) (What timing... Santana's Maria pops into the playlist.) (Sets the mood for convincing a princess's father to run away with us.) * Ziegfried quietly closes the door if it is still open. Very, very quietly. ~Sure thing. Just, uh, catch him if he faints. Or something.~ * Fatima nods, opens her eyes, makes sure her father is sitting down, and says << Ready. >> (wanna be prophet coming up in 5... 4... 3...) (here comes the two...) (--Nuclear launch detected!--) * Rashid jerks, and his eyes fly wide. "What? I- who are you?" * Ziegfried looks quizzically at Rashid. I... I see. But Fatima, will she be safe? It's... * Rashid winces. << Cybele! >> (Canyoneroooooooo!!!!!) ~Ow! Don't yell so loud!~ * Tyler winces at Rashid's wincing. Oh, here we go again. << You're hurting him... >> ~No I'm not. I shouldn't be. Hang on, let me finish here. Everything'll be okay. I hope.~ No, I... I understand. Yes. * Rashid pauses. "Yes, I was going to allow her to go anyway. You will... let her keep in touch with me? And- any time she wants. All right." ~There, see, done? Quick and painless. Don't freak out like that. It's not healthy.~ (Now, go and pray old man! Pray that the daemon known as Cybelle have mercy on your soul!) * Fatima looks a little worried. She's not used to her father being less than in control of the situation. * Rashid slumps back and smiles at Fatima weakly. "You can go. It's obvious something greater is going on here." * Fatima folds her hands in front of her. "You won't regret that decision, Father. I'll keep in touch always." * Eui-Tae looks over. "Is it over? I wish it was that easy with my mom..." Thank you for making your decision Sir. * Rashid stands and walks over to Fatima, putting his hand on Fatima's shoulder and smiling. "I should hope so." He looks over at Jose. "It wasn't my decision to make." I'll have the repairs begin. Please, stay here as our guests until it is finished. * Fatima coughs. "I hate to sound rushed, but... everyone else's parents are waiting to hear from them too. We should leave as soon as possible." Thanks for the accomodations. Your hospitality is most appreciated. * Tyler raises at eyebrow at Jose despite herself. (an eyebrow, even) * Rashid nods at Fatima and walks on out. He waves for one of the guards to accompany him on his way. * Jae-Eun lets out a biiiiig sigh. "Tense!" Nothing alittle classy talking couldn't resolve. * Jose smiles. * Ziegfried closes the door. * Fatima nods and breathes out. "That went over well, if a bit extended. And we learned a good lesson about telling the truth upfront." * Ziegfried contemplates killing Jose, but decides cleaning up the mess is too much work * Eui-Tae does the same. "I hope they doesn't screw up anything in the cruiser. Re-calibrating that thing will be a bitch if they do. (I hope they doesn't either :P) (This guy are sick.) I tried to do that with my mom, but she, well, you were there. * Fatima coughs. "At least we tried." * Tyler smirks. "Well, at least I'll have an easier time than you guys." * Eui-Tae shrugs. So three down, two to go. My parents and Zieg's folks. (Sure you will, Tyler. *cackle*) (Uh...) * Eui-Tae corrects Jose, "Two down, three to go." You forgot about Tyler. * Tyler nods. "And I'm last on our grand tour. Nothing like a Pacific view from your bedroom." Tyler's parents? I don't remember meeting them at her house. But anyhoo. Wow way to blow things back to normal eh? * Jose stands up proud of his math skills. I'll show you blow things back to normal... * Ziegfried sighs * Eui-Tae boots up the server again and starts waxin' peeps. * Jose snerks. Bam! That's back to normal. * Tyler cracks her knuckles. "So, Germany. Good. I could use a beer." * Ziegfried laughs, "Ja, we are known for that!" * Fatima rubs her forehead. "I'm going to stay in my own room for a bit. Ask the guards, and they'll tell you where it is. I'm a bit tired." (And I think the drinking age there is low enough for it to even be legal, hah!) (Sleepover at Fatima's!) (You think she cares? Ha) Alright... Do, you... know where to... get some... plans... for the... palace? * Eui-Tae is playing a FPS, what do you expect? * Fatima eyes Eui. "We're... not in the habit of handing out the floor plan, in today's political climate." (Drinking age for Germany is sixteen.) (I figured closer to three, but that works too. (Rounds for everyone... but Jae.) (Nigeria has no minimum drinking age, incidentally. :P You guys missed out.) * Eui-Tae nods. "Okay... I'll.. just... have to... use an... artistic liscence... then." (Bah. Tyler has no minimum drinking age.) (No, Jae missed out.) ( "If not drunk, apply beer regularly." ) * Fatima seems about to ask, then changes her mind. "Just ask the servants if you need anything." (Eighteen for Venezuela and South Korea.) Ja, wait... where can I get a burger? I'm starvin'! I could go for some fruit. Hey, Jae. I got somethin' for you. I could go for some couscous. * Eui-Tae thinks. "Just get me some food." ( You are not getting a burger in an Muslim home. c.c ) (I'll settle for a cold one and fries.) * Jae-Eun looks up. "Huh?" (No beef for you.) Here, catch. * Eui-Tae sends a file. * Jae-Eun blinks and takes a look. Wow, cool! (It's his aimbot! No wonder he always wins!) ( Somehow I think we're done. Unless we need to watch Ard and her brother act out their real lives in character. ;) * Jae-Eun turns up the volume, and all of you can hear people arguing. Yourselves, even. * Tyler blinks. * Fatima blinks. * Jose stares at nothing. * Ziegfried looks up, shrugs, and figures out which bed is the biggest. He promptly lays claim to it and lies down. Cleaning people... do they carry blowtorches? Or an interrogation chamber? Just kiddin'. * Fatima blinks. Uh... (Oh man) Servants down this way. Um... we need a distraction or something. * Eui-Tae chuckles. "I remember that." Right. So they pack uzis instead? Throw a rock. No no. Water- You didn't think I wouldn't record everything, did you? * Jae-Eun cuts it off. "'Course not. That means you don't need me to record everything, though." She pouts. Well, your camera is a little obvious, if not cute. * Ziegfried yawns. "I think I missed that part. Well, wake me up when food gets here." I'd rather not become a TV star, thanks. Who would watch this? (Half the viewership of MTV.) Five teenagers with magic rings trying to save the environment? It's not exactly the stuff of popular culture. ( The Amazing Race, Planeteers Edition! ) Wise words, Fatima. Wise words. Session End.