You are all sitting around a table in the Cheap But Good Chinese Buffet, enjoying a lunch away from the GCI caffeteria. Clearly, nothing good can come of this. (Every time we eat out, someplace gets taken over.) (Or blown up. Or something else terrible happens.) (Of course.) * Togo munches on beef with veggies. Frankly, that's all the setting needed for now. Enjoy socializing amongst yourselves, while you may. () Heh. Mweheheh. * Asa looks at his sweet and sour chicken, then impales a nugget of poultry on a single chopstick like a kebob, holding it aloft. "Beware, chicken, for now you are MINE! AAAAAAAHAHAHHA!" There is a pause, and then the sound of a laughtrack. * Yoji enjoys the breaded shrimp ball thingies. * Togo tilts his head slightly, adjusts his shades, and continues eating. * Yoji looks up and blinks at Asa. * Shiori eats neatly and quickly. * Rina stops eating rice long enough to laugh. "Are you gonna eat that, Asa, or leave it on the chopstick as a warning to any who dare approach you?" * Sayuri looks sidelong at Asa, and rolls her eyes at him, before plucking a piece of chicken off of her plate and popping it in her mouth. * Asa drums his finger on the desk, putting the 'kebob' on the side of his plate and digging something the size of a discman out of his coat. He pokes at it distractedly. "Okay, you, 'laugh track' is not the right response to manical laughter." He hits it with the palm of his hand, then flips a switch and puts it back in his coat. It was SUPPOSED to be a dynamic conversation-enabled adaptive sound effect provider, or DACSEP. It analyzes the tambre of a conversation's collective pitch and provides sound effects appropriately at the end of the sentence. ...As you can guess, there are some bugs in it yet. * Togo drinks Pepsi. * Rina bites her chopstick and nearly falls over. Um, okay. Yeah. That makes sense. That's...wow, you can actually do something like that? * Asa idly picks up both chopsticks and starts in on lunch. "I was *supposed* to get a thunderclap." * Sayuri continues to eat. Garlic Chicken. Mmm. Tasty. * Yoji goes back to food. * Togo eats a piece of lemon chicken and grimaces. "Spiced it all wrong..." * Asa shrugs. "It's definitely within the realm of science. Granted, I'm a genius, so it's not like Sony's gonna be busting these out inside of a week, but it IS possible." * Shiori finishes in almost record time. * Rina grabs a napkin and wipes her mouth. "But a laughtrack is better than nothing, right?" * Sayuri mutters around her chicken, "And blindingly modest." * Yoji pauses his eating. "Still, it's a really fun idea." * Rina grins at Sayuri and goes back to eating. ( Laughtrack should be the one that plays after saying something like "Prepare to die, villian!" ) (*snerk*) * Asa eyes Rina out of the corner of his... err, eye. "I suppose. Granted, if I were threatening a suspect at gunpoint and suddenly got romantic music instead of a tense song." He frowns at Sayuri. "As opposed to you, the pinnacle of humi-1337-y, right?" ( Or after someone crit fails and slips on a banana peel ) * Sayuri rolls her eyes at Asa. "Of course not." * Rina finishes and sighs happily, pushing her plate away. Then shut yer trap, Elvira, Mistress of the Geek. * Togo eats rice. * Asa continues nibbling at his food. So...do you make a lot of these sorts of things? * Sayuri snickers. Elvira. That's rich. (Considering Elvira's been around in some form since beyond the dawn of man, I feel fully justified in that ref.) * Sayuri snickers to herself some more, muttering, "Elvira... oh man..." * Asa looks at Yoji. "That's what they pay me for." * Togo leans back in his chair, something vaguely resembling a non- scowl on his face. =P Oh. Right. ^_^;; (Heaven forbid.) * Sayuri leans on the table and pokes some more foodage into her mouth. Nightchikins, all. (Night Wombat.) ( Night ) *** Chamelaeon has quit IRC (Quit: I wanna be sedated.... ) ('Night, Ch...denied.) * Yoji goes back to eating, somewhat embarassed. * Rina puts her elbows on the table and cradles her chin in her hands as she stares off into the distance. And lo, did silence reign. Suddenly, there is a bright red flash, followed by a booming noise like thunder. (Well, then! Everyone acquainted. Let's move on.) * Asa shrugs. "I'm eatin--" He sits up and swivels toward the door/front windows. "Whoa, TRIPPY." * Togo snaps out his chair to his feet, looking around. * Shiori looks sharply towards the direction. * Rina jerks up and nearly falls off her chair. "What was *that*?" * Sayuri jumps, mmphs, and looks about nervously. * Yoji turns and stares out the window. "What happened?" Asa's cel phone rings. ...does that happen every time your phone goes off? * Togo cracks his knuckles, and adjusts his shades again. * Asa sits there, staring into space. "Why did I know this was going to happen?" He reaches down and answers it, looking at Yoji. "No, but the two are usually related." He speaks into the phone. "Hail, Il Dejiko!" I think his phone went off after that noise. * Rina giggles. * Sayuri mutters angrily, and starts shovelling food with new purpose. * Asa sighs and stands up, checking guns one handed, which results in a lot of really amusingly disturbing clicks, straps displayed, and the like. "Just Rina, Shiori, Old Stoneface, some guy I don't know, and Morticia Addams. Why?" * Togo eyes the group, eyes the table... then grabs his soda and finishes it off. * Yoji continues looking out the window, looking for any more action. * Togo burps. " 'scuse." * Rina leans over to Shiori and Sayuri. "Wanna bet the OCR guy is back?" Eh? Ah... From the tower? * Sayuri puts her chopsticks down and sighs, before snickering. "If he shows up, I'll give him the same treatment. That is, if someone doesn't decide to interrupt me." Yeah! It started off just like this, remember? * Shiori stares at the floor. * Rina blinks at Sayuri. "It was an accident." There is another red flash, followed by another rolling booming noise. This one sounds a bit closer. * Asa grumbles, waving a hand for people to be quiet, or, at the least, quieter. "Yes, I'd FIGURED that. Can we have some specifics, possibly? I haven't got all day." * Rina jumps in her seat. ( Shiori can't get much quieter :P ) The DACSEP starts playing "Ride of the Valkyries". * Togo leans against a wall, tapping his foot. * Yoji starts a bit at the second explosion. * Sayuri frowns. "She chose to interfere. I'm not blaming her for him getting away. Just for screwing up my plan." * Rina sighs. "You had a plan, she had a plan, so they didn't go together too well. It's not like we had time to sort things out. Let it go already." * Yoji peeeeeeeeers harder. * Sayuri lessens her frown slightly, and looks over at Asa. "So, we going to wait for the world to end, then?" * Asa grumbles, puts the DACSEP on the ground, whips out his DE and shoots it. "Damn thing is annoying anyway... alright, PanPac Building, got it. Hey, you stay safe, y'hear? None of this putting yourself in danger stuff. I'll talk to you once we've saved the world." He hangs up before Dejiko can reply. Lotta things went poorly on that mission. It happens. Live, learn, and don't make the same mistake the next time. * Yoji turns and blinks at Togo. * Sayuri sideglances at Togo's street wisdom, before looking back at Asa. * Rina smiles a bit at Sayuri, then turns to Shiori. "I don't think she's that angry at you anymore. You can stop feeling guilty now," She says quietly as she pokes her in the side. So what's the deal, fearless leader? (Loud restaurant, where a gunshot goes unnoticed. c.c;) * Shiori offers Rina a half-hearted smile before returning her gaze to the floor. (They're probably just wondering where the red flash was that time. :P) ( We're the only ones here :P ) ( That was my point. ) * Rina grins and starts paying attention to Asa. * Yoji turns back from the window. "What did she say?" ( "GCI: Go investigate the flashes." :P ) Our beloved Deej-chan has pointed out that today's flavor of the week has a very large cannon situated on top the Pan-Pacific Building and is naturally wasting entire chunks of the city at a whim. So we're going to go kill him." He looks between Sayuri and Shiori. "No capturing, no sissy-mary reform school kidnappings. If you see him, KILL HIM." ( Not exactly GCI standard operating procedure, but uh, there was a cel glitch. He must have taken down a relay antenna. *cough* ) Kill? *Yoji looks shocked* * Rina blinks once in surprise. Works for me. * Togo unholsters his guns and checks the ammo. "So how do we approach?" Yes. Kill. Throw him off a building, crush his windpipe, disperse his atomic structure, whatever. Subdue if you must, but let's be honest, here. Do these things ever REALLY end in successful captures?" He looks up. "Coincidentally, he's only a block or two away, so we're under his fire arc for now, but I suggest we get moving." * Sayuri frowns to herself and sighs, standing. * Shiori sideglances at Asa, briefly. * Yoji looks at the ground. * Sayuri says softly to herself, "Shoot first. How you know you've run out of sane options." * Sayuri starts walking out the door. Not many sane options when somebody's firing a giant cannon and blowing up the city. * Asa checks his weapons one last time, and says without looking up, "We'll be counting Sayuri's smartass comments. When the meter reaches level 3, we put her in the line of enemy fire as a human shield." *shrug* Ya do what you gotta to complete the job. * Asa looks up and flexes. "It's my patented Shut The Smartass Up Defense strategy!" The DACSEP fails to provide a fanfare, as it's in smoking chunks on the floor. "Alright, let's move." * Rina looks down at her hands. "Let's just go already." She stands up and follows Sayuri out the door. As you exit, there's another bright red flash and loud boom. You can actually see a cloud of smoke rising from the place where the beam impacted, far down the road, now that you're outside. * Shiori follows at the end, as usual. * Togo moves Crap. * Yoji looks up and tries to spot the source of the beam. * Asa shields his eyes, mugging madly. "Oh, COOL! A beam weapon! Woohoo! Secondary objective is to retrieve the weapon for, uh... 'study'." He sets off toward the Pan-Pac Building. * Sayuri mutters as she jogs towards the building. "Crap about covers it, boyo." * Rina stares. "That's nice. Is he just shooting at random?" Hey. Wait for me! *follows* ... wonderful. * Shiori frowns and races towards the building. * Togo runs after, guns drawn. * Yoji hurries after Asa. "Guess we ask when we get there." (If you can't walk a BLOCK, you shouldn't be in the GCI. S'all I'm sayin'. ^_^) The plucky young cadets move towards the Pan Paciffic Insurance building with the speed of segue, and arrive there very soon. Like, now. Flah, boom. You know the drill. Flash, even. ( Cadets? ô_o ) (Okay, Cadets, and Togo and Asa. :P) ( Well, four of us are. :P ) ( Better. =P ) * Asa shields his eyes and looks up the side of the building. "La, sir. If this guy ends up being a postal worker, I am going to LAUGH..." He looks around. "Ideas on methods to hit the top? Besides the obvious route of going in and taking the elevator?" Too many stairs to climb... elevators most likely guarded... Well, there's gotta be stairs. And before you ask, I really don't think I can do a very good job climbing a wall with someone piggyback. Perhaps a fire escape? Or... * Sayuri frowns. "I assume all black helicopters are too busy." Speaking of the black helicoptors, one's circling overhead right now. * Asa hmmms. (How tall is this building?) Well, I haven't managed to actually levitate myself. Yet. (80-90 stories or so.) ... an air approach on a laser cannon would be pretty stupid. Saay, Togo's sharp. * Asa looks at Togo. "Actually, directly from above is pretty safe, for the same reason that we're safe here on the ground. It's *getting* to that point that's suicide." * Asa points a finger skyward. "Any minute now, for example, that helo's going to be raining down debris upon us, so I suggest we get inside." * Togo nods. "So unless we have a teleporting black helicopter... yeah." There is another flash, which misses the helicoptor by scant feet. As it is, part of the helicoptor's surface is rendered red-hot by the near-miss. It retreats. * Rina winces. (Or, if you prefer Carlin's logic, by the near-hit.) At least they got away... * Shiori nods. * Togo checks his ammo. "Guess it's the hard way. Stairs or elevator?" * Sayuri gets her ass inside the building, and looks about for a computer terminal. (What are we talking about police presence, etc.? Did we beat them here?) If he's managed to get a cannon up there, he's probably done something about the elevators... (Asa> You did.) Like cut the cords? Yeah. (They might start showing up any minute, tho.) But that many stairs... @_@ Coulda airlifted it in... that's a bit too big to shove in an elevator. Perhaps... a fire escape? * Asa starts toward the building. "No, you're right. Stairs aren't gonna cut it either." * Togo eyes Shiori, and looks at the side of the building. Nono, I mean that he's probably gone to the trouble of disabling them, somehow. ( Is there a fire escape ) Wouldn't want to make it easy to approach him, right? ( Fire escape = Ladders. You're complaining about stairs, but ladders are okay? ) ( It's pick your poison. =P ) ( I'd rather the stairs, then. At least your arms will be okay. ) ( Why am I suddenly reminded of the Shinra building? ^_^;; ) (Can't imagine.) ( Ha! That had elevators, though. And idle a bit. ) Okay, PEOPLE. Stop 'msging me with questions, unless they're really, really of a secretive and/or personal nature. I guess we could try the elevators first, and then try stairs or something. What if he's trapped the elevators or something? Take the elevator part way up, then the stairs the last few floors... Then we die horribly. Probably painfully too. * Sayuri looks around for a logged in computer terminal, or where security people might have been. Always the optimist, eh, Togo? Realist. Sayuri finds an active computer in the guard's kiosk. ... well, cynic. * Asa looks at the elevators, then hums a little tune and pulls a toy mouse out of his coat. "Okay, Nezumitron. Do your thang." Perhaps... there's an elevator he might not have gotten too, like a freight elevator... Point... * Asa sets the mouse in an elevator, presses the button for the second floor, then runs back into the lobby. "Okay. We'll get a homing beep from the mouse until it's destroyed or we go get it. So. Here goes." Session Time: Mon Oct 22 00:00:00 2001 * Sayuri attempts to access 1) maps 2) cameras controls 3) Elevator trackin (yes, there are really elevator tracking software thingies.) * Rina watches the closed elevator doors and chews her lower lip. Hopefully he's nuts and only thinking about his big gun. *Yoji smiles hopefully* Quite possible, that. Sayuri gets maps and camera controls. The map of the roof can be displayed, but there are no cameras there that respond to this terminal. But, ah, it's not a good idea to assume that... Those who assume get the ass blown off of you and me... Asa's rat-o-meter keeps beeping. * Sayuri does the standard record loop/playback trick on the cameras, and waves Asa over. "Hey, Asa, here's a roof map." * Sayuri also continues to look for elevator controls/lists/etc. * Asa ladedahs. "Well, the Nezumitron is alright." He leans over the console from behind and looks at the map. "Well, it's... a roof. Hmmm." * Asa turns around, then throws a small remote at Togo. "Catch. Take Shiori and... whoever you are, and go up to the second floor. Send the mouse up to, say, the 50's and see if it blows up halfway there." The only elevator control Sayuri manages to get access to is the easy listening music list, although she finds that she can watch elevator progress from here. * Togo qickly holsters one gun and catches the remote. * Togo eyes it, then turns to Shiori and the kid. "I have my hands full. One of you wanna hold this?" I'll take it. * Sayuri scowls at the list in disgust, and notes the elevator progress thing for future reference. Also, if she can see progress, she also has a list of elevators, right? ^^; The roof is mostly flat. It has several maintenance doors at the top, as well as a large central air-conditioner. The four corners of the building feature stylish turret-shaped support columns, which seem to practically scream "Put Guns Here." * Rina fidgets. "His name's Yoji, Asa." Yoji! Good name. Nice and *short*. Easy to remember. Rina, can you come here for a second? * Togo hands it to him, and draws the gun again. "What's yo- Yoji. What do you do?" Sure. * Yoji blinks. "Uh...glad you like it." Yes, there iss a list of elevators. #2 is stopped at the second floor, currently. * Rina does so and looks up at Asa. * Yoji takes the remote. "ESPer. Psychokinetic." ( He's a psycho! ) * Asa glances down at the map, then back up at Rina. "So I know you're not crazy on piggybacking people up sheer surfaces. But how fast do you think you can get up to the roof, alone?" ( /me explodes Shiori's head. ) ... I shouldn't be surprised. Can you defend yourself? I already know Shiori's competant... Yes. Ah... I'm not really... Good. Let's go then. * Togo heads to one of the elevators. * Yoji nods. * Shiori follows after Togo. * Yoji follows Togo. "Weren't we supposed to take the stairs to the second floor?" (No, no, my children. The stairs. We're trying to see if the elevators are trapped.) * Rina bites her lip. "Depends how. I'm a clutz, but if I'm lucky... um." She considers. "They clocked me at something like sixty kilometers per hour at a run." ( Misread. Sorry. ) * Sayuri blarghs at the screen. "Worthless." (Sorry about that, minor lag spike. ^^;) * Togo taps his shades, frowns, and turns back to the stairs * Yoji continues to follow Togo. * Shiori does too. * Asa raises an eyebrow. "Are you telling me you can run *straight up*?" Welcome to the 21st centure, idiots. If things aren't controlled by computer... * Sayuri shakes her head. ( o/" To the stairs we go, de do de do de do... o/" ) No! I mean that's how fast I can run. I never pushed myself climbing stairs! (Century, even. I liek letars.) Oh. I mean up the side of the building, so I guess that defuses that theory. * Asa glances at Sayuri. "Can you get us satellite photos of the roof if I can give you GPS coordinates?" ( o/" Stairs stairs stairs o/" ) ( At that height, the wind would cause you problems even if you had wall crawling :P ) * Rina smiles sheepishly. "I can probably climb the stairs really fast if you need me to. But no, not up the side of the building. I'd need suction feet or something." She eyes her sneakers. ( Never bothers spider man =P ) Upon examining the stairs in this building, one will note that they are for fire escape only. Each is rigged with one of those boxes with the large red push-lever proclaiming that the fire alarm will sound if this door is opened. Make that the door to the stairs, even. * Shiori frowns. * Sayuri snorts. "Of course." (Suction Feet, by CTLRIC Footwear.) ...that sucks. Can we disable them, somehow? * Togo curses. "Can someone deactivate the fire alarm system?" Ah... What if we just cut the power? Good. Now I just need to find my GPS locator... gimmie just a sec... Then we have to do this in the dark. Then the elevators wouldn't work, right? (Ah, the power of crlts.) That too. * Sayuri starts the requisite hackzoring to get there. But the cannon wouldn't either... WOuld it really be running on the buildings power? * Togo shrugs. I mean, that would be a pretty bad idea for him, if it was. It might be run by a generator... But still, it must take a lot of power... * Asa drums his fingers on the counter. "I don't think I have it. We'll have to phone home." He grabs the cel phone and flips it open, dialing 1-800-GCI-LOLZ and hopes his intern is in the office. (Well, you have to admit. Nobody would guess it.) * Togo turns back to Sayuri. "Can you turn off the alarm system from there?" (Aren't you on the second floor? c.c;) (They never made it.) * Sayuri taps her finger... and looks over at Togo. "Lessee..." ( We haven't gone because we don't want to trip the alarms. ^_^;; ) (...Did they fail their stair climbing roll? *looks back*) * Sayuri starts the requisite lookzoring for something to haxor. ( No, we didn't want to activate the HUGE KLAXONS. =P ) ( Klaxons. I like that word. ) * Asa grumbles and hangs up. "Do I really sound like that on the phone?" ( klaxon. kalxoff. klaxon. klaxoff... ) * Rina tugs at the end of her sleeve. "I don't know. Sound like what?" Sayuri findorz a system that'll dizzable the kl4XX0ns. ( @_@ ) * Yoji bounces agitatedly on his heels. Yeah, Togo. Ya want me to? * Shiori checks her equipment. Unless you want the alarms going off when we open this door. Well, why not? * Sayuri turns off the kl4XX0ns. "Go for it, your alarms are off." *shrugs* I don't mind if you don't mind coming with us. * Rina glances around and fidgets. * Togo nods, then opens the doors. "Let's go." Okay! Alright, Sayuri, you need to let me at your machine, if briefly, so I can hack into my machine back in the office. * Sayuri switches tasks to Asa. "So, do you have those coordinates?" And quiet. ... oh. Alright. * Yoji stops himself from bolting up the stairs, then. * Sayuri sighs overloudly and gives Asa the chair. (Over the head... wait, no.) Okay! Task one: get GPS coordinates from the mainframe. Task two: Fire my goddamned intern. ("See the world, they said!" ) ( "OH MY GOD! SAYURI'S IN THE RING AND SHE'S GOT A CHAIR!" ) * Asa sits down and knucklecracks, then looks sheepish. "Why would I have to hack my own machine? It's MINE." *clickety* (And that's not very realistic. Sayuri can't LIFT a chair without power armor.) (c.c;) * Togo makes his way to the second floor door. "Yoji, open the door. I'll roll out and cover, Shiori follows me, Yoji... get behind me if it gets ugly, 'cause you don't look built to take damage. Got it? Right. * Shiori pulls out her pistol and nods. * Yoji carefully opens the door. Asa accesses his own machine wihtout trouble. * Togo dashes out left, rolling into a crouch, guns drawn. * Shiori dashes out quietly (as usual) after Togo. * Yoji cautiously steps out. ( Yu? ) * Sayuri looks around. "As much as I enjoy being cautious, isn't he destroying large swaths of the city while we fiddle, so to speak?" Togo is greeted with variations on the theme of "OH MY GOD PLEASE DON'T SHOOT ME". There are a bunch of office workers who are out of their cubicles, trying to figure out what the heck's going on. Many of them seem to be trying to figure out what that toy rat that came up in the elevator is all about. * Shiori blinks. * Rina nods. "Yeah, I think so," she says quietly. ... police. Don't worry. Just investigating reports of some odd noises. (I'm "fiddling" because Yu doesn't have four hands and two heads.) * Togo stands up. As if to answer Sayuri's question, there's another boom. * Yoji stares at all the people. *whispering* "Don't they realize what's happening?" * Shiori whispers back. "Ah... It doesn't look like... Maybe the elevators are fine? * Togo looks up at the noise. Maybe. One of them gets up the courage to ask Togo if he knows what's going on. If you all would just stay where you are and remain calm... we're not sure yet, but we're about to investigate. (Um. Can we assume I snagged some relatively easy-to-find data from my own machine? ^_^) * Yoji heads over to the elevator and pushes the up button. * Togo walks over to the elevators. "C'mon, cadets." * Shiori follows. We, ah... should probably still take the stairs up when we get higher... Or maybe split up and attack from all directions? Not a bad idea... you ready to send the elevator up, Yoji? ( I'm waiting for it to open. :P ) * Asa scribbles something down on a piece of paper, clears his login trail because Sayuri is in no way trustworthy, and gets up, handing the paper to the hax0r. "S'all yours." The elevators open with a cheerful *ding*. Do it. * Yoji checks to make sure the mouse is there before pressing the button for 60. * Yoji exits quickly. Whoever has the rat-o-meter continues to hear the beeping that says all is fine with the mouse. * Sayuri mutters, "Thanks," and sits back down, typing the GPS position into the previously hacked GPS place. * Togo turns to Shiori. "Stairs're probably the way to go, yeah." Sayuri gets a current image of the top of the building. There is something very big and distinctly gunlike mounted on top of the northeast support column. ( Has it reached 60 yet? ) (It has. Fast elevators in this place.) Well, it seems to be okay... * Togo turns back to Yoji. "Go back down and tell 'em it's all clear. We'll wait here for now." * Yoji eyes the remote. Okay. It's clear for the mouse... But that doesn't mean anything... * Yoji runs back down the stairs to the lobby. "The elevators are clear, so far. (I have, like, 30 minutes. z.z) It means that the elevators won't blow up. Which is what we needed to know. Any goons are another issue, yeah... But.... We weigh more than the mouse does... That might have an effect... * Sayuri waves her hand. "Here's your pic, Asa." * Togo cocks his head. "... point. Head down and mention that to Asa. I'll stay up here by the top of the stairs." * Shiori nods and races down the stairs. It doesn't take long at all. * Togo waits by the top of the stairs. * Asa looks at it. "Well, the gun's on the northeast corner. That's useful. Can we get any closer of a shot? See if he's guarded up there?' Ah... The elevators... might not be safe after all... Huh? Did something happen? * Rina blinks at Shiori. * Sayuri clicky-clikies to attempt to get a closer shot. *** Dicesuke has joined #ChibiRPG Well, I just though... We weigh more than the mouse would... That might have some effect... *** Yu-Mei sets mode: +v Dicesuke Sayuri> There's someone standing near the rear of the large gun. His head is tilted back in maniacal laughter, and so with modern satelite imaging technology, you can actually see his tonsils. * Asa nods vaguely. "Yeah, right, weight, whatever. Someone make sure Rina doesn't touch the floor and we'll be fine." He continues to eye the picture, paying particular attention to the gun. "It's SO MODERN." * Togo eyes the elevators, and chuckles grimly. "Part of a team now..." He looks pretty old. *** HWDebugger is now known as NinjaDebugger Hey, I don't weigh that much! ... I think. * Shiori frowns, then races back up to Togo. ( Does Rina know Asa knows? ) * Yoji follows Shiori back up. * Sayuri frowns and taps her finger. "Well, Asa? Plan? Something?" ( No, she doesn't. ) * Togo turns to Shiori/Yoji. "Hmm?" * Asa looks kinda dazed, then shakes his head and coughs. "Yeah! Right, plan. We take the elevator up, we shoot Obi-Wan ThaLooney full of holes, and I take our little prize home and tinker. Sounds good. To the second floor, my lovelies!" Um... He didn't... Didn't seem to care. ... wonderful. He...seems excited. About the gun. * Sayuri mutters, "Right," and shuts up the computer. * Rina sulks. "Well, I don't." She blinks at Asa. "Er, sure." What leadership skills. *shakes head* *** NinjaDebugger is now known as SleepDebugger The elevators, ah... they're probably fine, but... can we afford to take the chace? * Asa unclips a pair of anklets from around his legs and hands them to Rina. "Here. These are my babies, so be careful. Stick 'em on, then meet us on the second floor." * Togo scowls, and heads downstairs. "Be right back." * Rina takes them and starts putting them on. "What do they do?" * Togo heads to the 1st floor stairwell doorway. "Asa." * Asa passes Togo on his way *up* said stairwell. "Can't talk, saving the world." Shiori has a point; the lack of weight might make a difference. * Togo walks up. * Sayuri follows Asa slowly. * Rina finishes and heads up the stairs, meeting the rest of the group. * Asa shakes his head but doesn't stop walking. "The weight only matters if the elevator feels the weight, which it won't. I've got a plan." He stops and turns back to see Rina. "They're gravity boots. Go ahead, click your heels together three times over here by the elevator door." Rina has gained: Gravity Anklets! *fanfare* (Rina has BORROWED Gravity Anklets. :P) * Rina looks down at them suspiciously, then shrugs. * Rina walks over to the elevator and clicks her heels together three times. * Togo nods. "Do those negate our weights too, by any chance?" * Asa shakes his head. "That's where Yoji comes in. How much can you lift?" Rina floats.Innit neat? ...uh, I can't lift much at all. I said that I wasn't able to levitate myself. Well, that's problematic. (What level Telekinesis do you have? @_@) * Rina looks down and sees her feet not touching the ground. She grins madly. ( 2. Can only move large amounts in bursts. ) Can you create those platforms like you did at Tokyo Tower? (BLeh bleh bleh. Alright, on to plan 2.) * Asa hmms and chews his lip. "Alright, plan B. Everyone around Rina... we'll have to use the same trick we did at the Tokyo Tower. * Togo nods, and turns to Shiori. "He didn't ignore you, apparently." Rina, grab ahold of Shiori and Sayuri, they're light. You can let 'em go in a sec. Togo, Yoji, when I give the signal, jump straight up." Er... okay. * Sayuri gets close to Rina, and smiles nervously. *slight grin* How high? * Asa points at Rina's feet, about a foot off the ground, and fiddles with something on his bracer. "About that high." * Asa glances at Yoji. "You have some kind of force field, maybe?" Um. Yes. Tres bon, mon ami. You're about to make my job easier. * Sayuri hums to herself. I can't make it very big, though. * Rina returns the nervous smile. * Asa mmms. "Big enough for six people to stand on?" He eyes Shiori. "Yo, WOLVERINE JR.! Let's go!" Okay, lemme think. One person piggyback, and I can carry the other one more normalish. Well, I've never tried making it into a wall or anything like that. But I can try. (*rubs his temples* I'm gonna be feeling this tomorrow.) ( Gyah! Lag @_@ ) * Rina crouches down for Sayuri. (Yah, I've been having lag, too. Sorry Asa. ^^;) ( Crouching Rina, Hidden Sayuri? ) (*thwaps Togo*) ( Itai! ;_; ) ( Can I form my forcefield into a barrier? Seeing as that's a lower level of forcefield than what I have? ( If it's lower level than what you have, yes. ) * Sayuri ums, and climbs onto Rina's back, muttering to herself. (Yoji> Suuuure.) * Shiori stands next to Rina. "Ah... What are we doing?" ( I'd assume so. You mean you have Extendable, and putting it into a wall? ) Making it so we're all floating, I guess. C'mon, I have to lift you up. ( I don't think Force Field is meant to work like that... :P ) ( No. I mean, since the lowest is Wall, then Personal, then Extendable. ) Eh? (Shiori: Depends on the force field. Remember, it works with space flight/flight.) ( There's campaign precedent for it, anyway. ) * Shiori blushes and looks from group to group nervously. "Ah... Couldn't I just jump like them?" * Asa looks at Shiori, and rubs his temples. "Have her pick you up. Right. NOW. That's an order." Okay, give me a summary, here. Who's jumping, and who's being carried by who? * Sayuri frowns downward at Shiori, and shifts around. "C'mon." Rina is BRIEFLY picking up Shiori and Sayuri. Togo, Yoji and I are jumping, then when the field's in place everyone's standing on the field except Rina. * Rina moves forward and picks Shiori up. "I feel weird about it, too." ( Girls lifting, guys jumping ) ( Lag ;.; ) * Asa eyes the women with some trepidation. "You'd think there was GCI Leprosy or something. God." Okay. ^_^ Hop to it, then. ;P @_@ (That was bad.) ( Can we jump already! ) * Yoji takes a deep breath. "Hope I can get the timing..." * Rina sticks her tongue out at Asa. * Asa sighs, then looks down at his bracers. "Alright, you two. On the count of three... One. Two. THREE." *jump* Everyone who's jumping, make body rolls. Yoji, you'll need a mind-2 roll. * Yoji jumps, forming a barrier on his way up. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d6) and gets 5. ( Should I roll body, too? ) (Yoji> Yes.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yoji (2d6) and gets 10. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asa (2d6) and gets 9. @_@ ( ... ) (How can you fail to jump straight up?) ( Well, one of you made it... ) Rina, roll 1d6 for luck. o/~ 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yoji (2d6) and gets 6. d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rina (d6) and gets 4. ( I got the shield, though. ^_^;; ) (How many of you actually have a true foot tall vertical leap? ^^;) ( I do! ) ( *raises his hand* ) (A foot? 12 inches? practically everybody. ) (Hell, *I* can jump a foot straight up in real life. (Guys, come on. I really need to get to bed.) ( Ditto... ) ( We're waiting to see if you've still got your legs or not :P ) (Pegleg Togo!) Yoji and Asa collide in mid-air, landing in a heap on Yoji's force field, which hold until Rina sneezes, which with no correpsonding force to balance her, causes her to foll over, dropping Shiori and Sayuri in the process. Togo barely manages to land on anyone else. The elevator stops with a cheerful *ding* and the doors open onto an empty hallway. ( Isn't luck a Soul check? ^^; ) ...ow. Ow. (Demo> Not if I say it isn't, no.) ... @_@ At least it didn't explode... Through all of this, you distinctly fail to die in any way. ... this is why I always worked alone. Didn't think that would work.. * Sayuri attempts to untangle herself from Rina (and everyone else). "Jesus, that was horrible. Good one, Asa." * Togo steps over the bodies and into the hall, guns drawn. ( @_@ ) * Shiori attempts to stand and follows Togo. * Yoji picks himself up off the ground and exits the elevator. ( Oh. ) * Rina untangles herself and gets out of the elevator, then looks down and notices she's still floating. "Asa, how do you turn these things off?" * Asa looks at Sayuri. "If you don't shut the fuck up," he says, getting up off the ground and fumbling for his DE, which he trains on her, "I am going to shoot your ass." He replies to Rina without taking his gaze from Sayuri. "Click your heels three times again." * Rina does so, then removes the anklets and wordlessly holds them out to Asa. * Yoji looks at the ground. "Sorry, Asa-san." Didn't mean to bump into you. * Sayuri stares at Asa's gun, saying nothing. She looks very 'deer in headlights'. * Asa shakes his head, eyeing Sayuri coldly. "No problem. Things happen. Let's get this over with and move on." He takes the anklets from Rina, then heads down the hall after Togo. Your leadership technique is admirable, Asa. * Yoji follows Togo and Asa. * Rina watches Asa go and shakes her head. "I'm sorry, Sayuri. Are you okay?" * Asa doesn't bother to look at Togo. "I'm charitable. In less friendly organizations she'd have been missing body parts long before now. I just happen to be a nice guy." * Sayuri shivers and blinks as she pulls herself off the ground. She mutters, "Fucker," before following with a, "Just fucking great. Come on, they'll probably need you for a metallic shield." * Sayuri starts walking. * Shiori glances at Asa out of the corner of her eye again. * Togo shakes his head. "Whatever you say, fearless leader." The doors to the stairs are down the hall to your left. * Yoji eyes the back of Asa's head nervously. * Rina follows. "Probably," she says almost bitterly. "Must be why I'm not wearing the steel mesh huggycoat yet." Unless you've already gotten there and I just lost it in everything else, which is easy to do. (I'd assume we arrived.) ( None of us wanted to fall off the edge of the world :P ) * Sayuri (will probably be arriving shortly. She's a bit behind.) Suuure. I'll just say you manage to climb the stairs without hurting yourselves, and get to the northeast side of the roof soon. ( Dunno. Better have us roll stairclimbing checks. =P ) ( Yeah, really. :P ) We should probably split up... a few of us could sneak around from the side... (Don't tempt me, Jesse. ^_^ o/~) No, screw that. * Sayuri (can see it now. "Sayuri rolls down the stairs and breaks her neck.") But... He might be prepared... (Nonono. The fall would only hurt your pride. ;P) * Asa looks back at the group angrily. "After all, it's all my 'planning' and 'leadership' that keeps fucking things up, RIGHT?" His gaze falls very pointedly on Sayuri. "I'll rush the operator. The rest of you find somewhere safe to be and provide cover as necessary." Screw that. * Sayuri snorts, but says nothing. * Yoji whispers to Rina. "Is he always like this?" * Shiori eyes the two and gives Rina a helpless gaze. You wanna charge in headlong, fine, but when you get turned to ash, we're short your firepower. * Asa glances at Togo angrily. "Never meant much to any of you, anyhow. See you in hell, cadets." So calm the fuck down and think. Don't be a moron. * Rina just puts her hand on Sayuri's shoulder and glares back at Asa. "I don't know, I haven't seen him that much," she whispers. * Yoji frowns. * Sayuri scans around. "I really don't like this." *** Demotafk has joined #ChibiRPG Be a leader, or be led. Pick one. * Asa snorts. "You don't like anything." With that, he heads around and gets in place to rush the old man. *** Demota has quit IRC (SVSKilled: GHOST command used by Demotafk ) *** Demotafk is now known as Demota The old man is typing away at the gun's controlls. * Yoji puts his shield up around himself. * Sayuri mutters, "Ya damn right," as she pulls out her taser. "Just in case." ... * Togo puts a gun to the back of Asa's head. "No, we're not going to jeopordize the mission and everyone's lives so you can be a moron." He seems rather single-minded in what he's doing. Maybe I can sneak up behind him...? You're a goddamn professional, right? Then act the freaking part. * Rina looks at Asa and Togo, then at the man by the gun. * Yoji boggles at Togo. * Togo lowers the gun. * Asa glares back at Togo angrily. "How about you shut up? Whose lives are in jeopardy with you actually staying back and following orders? Or is it just a matter of you not trusting my ability and needing some kind of 'glory' for yourself, Mr. Bodyguard?" * Sayuri watches the man very paranoidly. She still seems just the slightest bit jittery. * Rina turns to Shiori and Sayuri. "If anyone should rush him, it's me. I can be over there *real* fast." But... Our lives. You run out there and get fried, we're short your rather extensive firepower, and they know we're coming. And yeah, I don't trust you're ability. Gimme a reason to. ( your, even ) * Rina points at the man. "How much longer before he fires? Or looks up? I can do it, but... I wanna know if you think what I'm doing is right." 'They'? There's one man, Togo. One OLD man who I could have bagged by now if you people would leave me the hell alone and let me do my damn job. Or is even THAT too much for you guys now? * Rina hisses. "And hurry!" * Yoji shrinks back from Asa and Togo. Your choice, Asa. Like I said. Act like a leader, or don't. I am acting like a leader. I gave you an order, and that order was to lay cover fire. Which you are choosing not to do, Mr. Procedure. * Sayuri sighs. "I'm just the hacker. Don't ask me." Rina, stay where you are. Fine. Have it your way. * Shiori frowns, makes a decision, and dashes towards the man, swiftly and silently. No. He's gonna look up, and then we're all dead. The man looks up. "Eh?" * Rina runs towards the man. * Yoji blinks. * Togo cocks his guns. "Once more unto the break, dear friends." The man blinks confusedly. (Can I run and tackle/grab in the same turn, Yu? :P) Ah fuck. *runs out* ( Am I there yet? ) (At 60kph? Sure. :P) * Sayuri stays the hell back. (Okay. Rolling.) * Asa sighs and rubs his temples. "Enough of this outfit." He straps on the anklets Rina returned to him, and pitches off the opposite site of the building. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rina (2d6-4) and gets 1. ... that fucking son of a bitch... *** Asa is now known as Todd * Yoji stands in front of Sayuri's position and levels a hand at the old man. Good night. Thanks for 'everything'. *** Todd has left #chibirpg Rina grabs the man in a biiiig bear hug, wrenching him away from the controlls and holding him aloft. * Shiori looks for a way to disarm the cannon. The canon is in "Wait Mode", which probably means that it doesn't shoot things on it's own. * Togo looks over the side of the building, spits, then looks back. "Shiori! What's the deal with the cannon?" Ah... It doesn't seem active. Good. *walks over to the old man and Rina* * Yoji walks towards Rina. * Sayuri looks at the subdued man, and starts walking over to the cannon as well. I, um... I don't think we need to kill him... The old man struggles in vain against Rina's small but mighty arms. Start talking, old man. * Yoji peeeers at the man. * Rina also looks over the side of the building, then at the man. "Y'know, I was told to kill you," she comments. Who're you working for? The old man can't seem to catch his breath for some reason. Oh. * Rina lets the man breathe. * Shiori holds out a pair of handcuffs. "Here..." Change of plans, Rina * Rina nods. What about the cannon? Fearless leader decided to take a header off the building, so I'm unfortunately left in charge... The old man takes in a long, wheezing breath, and after a few moments, says "Work for?!? I work for me, you whippersnapper!" Um, the cannon's not active... It can't fire on its own, so... * Togo grabs his cell phone. "We call base and get the techies to come pick it up." He looks around. "You're not the people the mayor said he was sending to negotiate, are you?" And pick up this guy too. * Togo calls. * Rina smiles brightly. "Nope! But we do like Chinese food." * Yoji GLARES at the old man. "What do you think you're doing, blasting into the city? How many people do you have to kill?" * Sayuri stares off the side of the building, and shakes her head. Insane. ( Thank god I thought to get a cel phone wiht my personal gear. ) ( Heh ) The man blinks at Yoji. "Eh? Look, sonny, I don't have to kill anyone! That's the beauty of it!" * Yoji tries his best to loom angrily over the man, which isn't easy considering his small frame. ( Do I have to make a phone check, Yu? =P ) * Rina looks over to Sayuri. "He's got those anklets. He's probably okay." Togo> No. :P ( w00t! ) Not kill anyone? Then what were those blasts for? No, I didn't think the ass would die. But this whole thing is insane. Yeah. It is. "I just blow up some streets, some park benches, things like that. But I *threaten* to blow up things like city hall and tokyo tower, and they gimme money not to!" He starts cackling maniacally. * Togo puts his hand over the phone. "I'll be damned if I'm taking orders from him again." ... * Yoji turns away from the old man. "You're right. This is insane." Mistakes are one thing. But this kinda unprofessional shit... * Shiori looks at Togo. "Ah... Sorry... I ran out like that..." * Togo pauses, and talks into the phone. After a moment, he clicks it shut. They're on their way. *** Demota has quit IRC (Quit: ) * Rina keeps her hold on the man tight. "I'm not." She nods. * Sayuri just looks out over the edge, and the horizon. * Yoji sighs. * Togo turns to Shiori. "Just don't do it again. Under the circumstances, frankly..." With Asa losing it, you did what you thought was best, and it worked. Save the apologies for when you actually fuck up. I, um... I didn't actually do anything, though... (Shall I call it a game, or would you like to talk amongst yourselves some more?) But you didn't hurt anything, either. *Yoji smiles at Shiori* Doesn't much matter. * Shiori blinks and blushes, and stares at the ground. * Togo nods at Yoji. "Professionals know when to take the initiative. You did there." And you didn't do bad either, Rina. * Rina looks at Sayuri, then back over the edge of the building. "Guess they kept me out of the huggycoat for a good reason, then," she sighs. Thanks, I guess. I... don't know what it was, but I had to do it. * Sayuri snorts as she looks over the edge. "Ya don't need no damn huggycoat. No more so than anyone else around here." Rina...you're not crazy. Why would they put you in one? Stop saying stuff like that... please? (Okay. I guess I'll let y'all keep going, then. ^^; Lemme know when you're ready to stop. ^.^) * Shiori nods. "We've, ah, already gotten the information from the lab, so, um, you should be out of danger..." * Yoji nods vigourously. * Rina smiles sadly at Yoji. "They had to keep me in confinement for a week before I was deemed 'stable'. I bet it almost happened again. I'm just lucky I was put to sleep when I was, so I could wake up with a clearer head." We all have our demons, Rina. As they go, being super strong hardly qualifies you for a padded room. * Sayuri smiles softly, then frowns. "Where the hell are those helicopters." * Togo chuckles mirthlessly. "If they haven't tossed me in yet, you're fine." A strong wind kicks up behind you all, evidence of one of the black helicoptors touching down nearby. But it didn't happen again. So it doesn't matter! ^_^ * Rina eyes Togo for a moment, then shakes her head. ( Aren't we more or less standing in a circle? :P ) (Okay, fine. Behind some of you, in plain view of Rina, who's too short to see over the others. ;P) * Rina blinks at Yoji, then considers something and grins. "Y'know... this sucked. It really did. And it was crazy, and I almost killed this stupid geezer. Let's go get ice cream and forget about it, okay?" * Togo eyes the chopper. "That's our ride. Let's get the hell outta here." * Yoji grins. "Sounds good to me." (Can I end the game now? ;_;) * Shiori nods. ( Yes ) * Sayuri turns and looks at the helicopter. "Thank god. I swear, if Maggie didn't guard her alcohol jealously..." ( I think so :P ) (Feel free!) (Woo!) (Yeah.) [END OF SESSION].