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Juliana FP: 1 "I don't doubt it," Juliana said to Shiro with a respectful glance. She still wasn't entirely clear what the other woman's deal was precisely, but she knew that she'd managed to keep up with her in Dubai which, not to be too immodest, was no mean feat. "Personally I'd prefer not to have to fight this thing at all, but if it comes to it he's right about the jump pods anyway...disabling those will make corralling this thing a whole lot simpler. Also it depends on what they want it for. If they're planning some sort of rampage through downtown I'm going to try and stop it however I can. I mean, I'm not really sure what ninjas want with a power suit in the first place, but I'm assuming they stole it for a reason. It could be industrial espionage now that I think about it, steal it and sell it off to the competition or the highest bidder, but usually that sort of thing's a bit more...subtle than this." "I can try running this through facial recognition, see if I get any hits," she went on, pulling up the security footage of what was ostensibly the ninja team's leader. "Normally I wouldn't even bother given he's wearing a mask, but that is a rather striking mustache, I have to admit. Not the sort of thing you're likely to forget." She isolated the image Espinoza had shared with them from the feed and mentally spun up a new connection, a window opening in her heads-up display as she began running the man's picture through the local and federal facial recognition databases as well as Interpol in the hopes that he was already on file with one of them. Rolling Xenodiplomatic Security Services to run a formal check on known criminal mustaches. With Orokos as my witness that's 4dF = +1, +4 for the skill for a total of 5.
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Anna A. 1 FP She glared at Storms; not only was this tacticool army washout looking gently caress talking down to her, he was insulting the two things she treasured more than booze and bullets. Anna had more failings than she cared to count, but her mind and her family were not among them. Not even the machine-gun blitz of coke, pills and alcohol had taken that. If anything, they kept her sharper, kept the inky black of her past from mucking things up. And her parents had done more than most would ever do, certainly more than this rear end in a top hat. She drew his head down so she could blow smoke in his face. "Listen fucko, I've been cracking cases like this since before I had boobs," she growled, "so you best keep the snide comments to yourself." She jabbed at his eyes with the lit cig, standing on his feet so she could reach. "I may owe you my life but I don't have to pay a dead man poo poo, capiche?" With an extra grind of the heel, she stepped off the Goony army goon and went over the surveillance data again. Either it or Anna's vision was too lovely to make out anything useful. The sky was too bright; she couldn't handle brightness on any background other than washed-out black. She wasn't going to get anything else without pounding the pavement or pounding some drinks. The blond bitch was running her mouth like she knew what she was talking about and Shiro was calling the robot -chan. She rubbed her pounding temples and snuck a pull from her flask when nobody was looking. This was why she worked alone. MadRhetoric fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Apr 20, 2013 |
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Maria Santore - FP: 2 Maria chows down on her second wafer while she reviews all this security footage and the others talk specifications. And bicker some more. She waves her hand around a few prompts, does a bit of zoom-in-enhance and slow-mo magic to highlight her observations and flips the video back to Miyazaki. "Bad news, ma'am. Not only do Miami ninjas kinda suck and show up on camera, but they may have had help on the inside. Here, look at all the blind spots in the security they're walking through. You've been inside, none of that should have happened." Maria took a guided tour of that place once. Couldn't take a single step out of bounds without the Hikomaro AI threatening her (with lasers) to stay in line. "Also, they left this behind." The keys come up. "Best I can tell, someone messed around with the security protocols, made a wide breach in the facility for our ninja friends to walk in." She straightens herself and tosses the wrapper aside. "Permission to question facility personnel and take in the keys as evidence?" Like hey, it might lead to a sweet getaway vehicle or something. Mitama fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Apr 20, 2013 |
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Tsukiko Miyazaki "Yes. I can arrange transport and give you the run of the facility if you don't break anything." Juliana The moustached ninja is a wanted man! Galford Armstrong has been known to work as an enforcer for various gangs and is wanted for a series of assaults and robberies (not at the same time, if that helps). Recently he's been seen in the Port of Miami helping Arcane Underground smugglers out. If you are looking for Galford, that's where to start.
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Maria Santore - FP: 2 Don't... break anything? Maria looks to the side for a moment. "Yeah, sure, we won't." Mitama fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Apr 20, 2013 |
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Juliana FP: 1 "An inside job...there seems to be a lot of that going around lately," Juliana remarked dryly as a rapid-fire montage of faces flashed by in her HUD. "I...wait, hang on." The image window had come to a stop, the words POSITIVE MATCH flashing beneath a picture of a man who could only be the person in the surveillance footage given both his mask and his facial hair. "I don't believe it. I actually got a hit," she said, sounding slightly shocked as she sent the results to everyone else's AR displays. "That's our mustache all right, wanted for a variety of ninja-like activities to boot." "So how do you want to do this?" she asked, turning towards Maria who, of everyone else there, seemed like the most take-charge of the bunch. "Hakurei seems more your turf. If you want to follow up with the facility I can head down to the port, see if anyone knows Mr. Armstrong's latest whereabouts or whether he's been by to try and offload a suspiciously new-looking power suit lately."
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Maria - FP: 2 Maria feigns a look of surprise. "Splitting the party so soon?" And they were all getting along so well. She walks down the steps of the shrine towards her bike. "Well, we have two leads and there's six of us (yes, even Sales Guy). Might as well tackle them both right away, yeah. If anyone else wants to shake down some Hakurei techies, I'd love the company." Maria makes a few virtual keypresses to deliver Friend Requests to everyone's AR devices. "Anyway, should be easy to stay in touch in anything goes sour." Sitting on her bike, Maria takes a better look at Galford's mug shot. "I say anyone who's looking for a fight should go with Juliana. That's a terrifying mustache you're going up against."
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Juliana FP: 1 "Yeah, I figured as much," Juliana muttered as Anna volunteered to go with Maria, which was just as well by her. She accepted the other girl's friend request, adding her to her contacts list even as she called up a local area map, tagging the Port with a way-marker. "Anyway, don't worry about us. That's why I'm bringing Espinoza along...he's surprisingly resourceful," she said with a brief smile before nodding at Ando. "Right then, you two ready?" She shifted her briefcase again, shaking the Hakurei representative's hand once more. "Miss Miyazaki, we'll let you know as soon as we find anything."
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Storms 3/4 Storms is feeling nostalgic as he brushes the unfiltered menthol ash off his goggles. Being threatened by teenage junkies within five minutes of meeting them? Smells like Miami. But yeah, the docks sounded like a better bet. Juliana was just as likely to spontaneously shoot him but at least she could hold a conversation better. Also he could do a sight seeing tour! "Port crew, follow me, my ride's up the hill." Storms gestures as the group breaks up to do its various things. Driving the port team to its destination.
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Shiro FP:1 Shiro considers the options while they split off. She would have preferred to stick with Storms but the Port was not nearly as interesting to her as the Yatagarasu Facility (which she had been planning on infiltrating at some point in the future anyway, if she could figure out how to bypass that security system...) A free pass into the place for work was just too good to turn down. "Be careful with my good luck charm!" She calls after Juliana, waving to Storms and Ando before following Maria and Anna.
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Anna A. Being out in the sun made Anna's skin itch; it was delicate and prone to burning even before she stopped going outside during the day. The oppressive Miami heat just made her more irritable. She entertained going with the other group, just so she'd have a better chance of shooting someone. If it just happened to be the blond bitch...it wouldn't have been professional. Anna was a professional "Hey Maria," Anna said, the last ashes of her cig dirtying her coat as she spoke. "I'm guessing she's too big to ride bitch." She pointed at Shiro and smirked.
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 Friday February 10 2119, 3:22PM EST Location: Yatagarasu Facility Aspects: Hakurei Industries Manufactory; Automated Assembly Line; Blazing Hells, It's Hot! (Interior); Getting Down To Business (Tech Village) Yatagarasu would sit on the outskirts of Miami, but the outskirts are mostly just more metroplex. It has to make do with a couple of hills nobody really wanted to pave over. Miyazaki called ahead, so you have the run of the place. Once you're let into the main gate you find yourselves on a street that winds through a technician's village - it's nothing special, just bunch of apartments and offices with very little rad Someone with a lot of foresight has decided to print the backup Moon Rabbit in a different, untouched area so the evidence shouldn't be contaminated around here... ____  Friday February 10 2119, 3:22PM EST Location: Port of Miami Aspects: Big Maze of Shipping Containers, Security Blindspots, It Came From the Ocean The largest container port in the state of Florida and the "Cruise Capital of the World" is not actually much to look at by day. Once you're out of the Miami Port Tunnel and into the Metroplex proper it's basically just a mess of functional offices, cranes, docks and shipping crates. So many shipping crates. There must be some kind of problem or holdup or something because who needs so many of these loving things, honestly? Hopefully you have a better idea than just looking in all of them until Galford turns up. Alright! Feel free to assess these places or pick people to pester (like Hikomaro Yabeno or the guards or whatever) for a bit before I throw something at you.
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Storms 3/4 ...and that's where my 2nd cousin got into a knife fight with the 2nd Street Sickles. And that's where they caught the congressman's sex dwarves being smuggled in a container. The one where they used the dummy one full of drugs to try to throw the dogs off the scent? Yeah..." Its been a 45 minute drive in Storm's SUV, listening him babble about the parts of town they pass through, and suffering through his music collection, which seems to be nothing but power ballad butt-metal and Floridian porn rap. At least the A/C is turned up to max. "...and we're here. Massive blind spot in the security cameras right there, we could literally walk right up. Or we can go bug someone in specific you had in mind." He glances into the rearview mirror and turns on his AR's subvoc mike so he can broadcast to Juliana privately <There's a pair of suppressed GmBh SMGs in a lockbox underneath the back seat. Access code is 8008135. Just in case. No telling what goes on here at night.> Storms places the vehicle in park and waits. Sittin back and scanning Awareness as needed Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Apr 22, 2013 |
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Moriyuki Ando FP:3 Moriyuki spends the ride in quiet contemplation, nodding at what he assumes are the appropriate times. He steps out of the back seat of the SUV the moment it stops, taking a moment to straighten what is already a rod-straight tie. After a glance at his watch, he walks over to the boom gates to the office section and addresses the burliest looking guard he sees. "Good sir, I was hoping I could speak with James?" After receiving a look of blank disbelief, he reluctantly adds: "I believe he prefers the sobriquet 'Jimmy The Fist'" Smugglers were always so melodramatic. Assuming that declaration earlier was fine, otherwise The Fist has other appointments.
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Julianamistaya posted:"Be careful with my good luck charm!" She calls after Juliana, waving to Storms and Ando before following Maria and Anna. "Don't worry," Juliana called back over her shoulder as they departed. "I'll make sure and bring him back in one piece." "'Good luck charm,' huh? Well, it looks like you two have hit it off," she said teasingly to Espinoza as he led them out of the shrine and towards his car. She had a ride of her own but there was no sense in splitting up even further, besides which he seemed more familiar with the city than she was, so she sent a brief command to the company car's AutoNav systems and sent it driving itself back to AEI. Friday February 10 2119, 3:23PM EST Location: Port of Miami Juliana stepped out of the SUV, taking a moment to savor the relative silence of flowing water and heavy industrial machinery. Knowing that Miami was where Espinoza had been born certainly helped explain a lot. ::Thank you,:: she subvocalized back, noting the access code for future reference, ::that's very thoughtful.:: Espinoza was prepared as always it seemed, which is largely why she'd brought him along. It certainly wasn't for his taste in music. Fortunately she'd come prepared as well. In her black pantsuit, sunglasses, and black briefcase in hand, Juliana looked generically official enough to not stick too badly out of place here at the port, which is what she was counting on to get her through the main gates without any hassle. As they entered the port proper, she decided to do a little quiet poking around in the security network to see what she could find. She wasn't really much of a hacker, but one didn't spend five years working for MI5 without picking up a few tricks here and there. AR windows blossomed around her as intrusion programs went to work while, to all outside observation, she merely seemed to be glancing around the port disinterestedly. Rolling Systems to do some sweet and discreet cyber hacking to see what the Port of Miami's patchy security systems might see and have seen. 21:57 <Kai_Tave> !r fudge +1 21:57 <Krysmbot> Kai_Tave, /+++ +1 = 4 21:57 <Kai_Tave> I like you, Krysmbot. You're an okay guy. 22:00 <Davin_Valkri> Krysmbot is a dick
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Maria - FP: 2 Only a moment after she exhausts all speculation about the next episode of CSI, Maria finally reaches the main gate of Yatagarasu Facility. She messages Anna and Shiro that she'll wait for them over there and parks her bike in a nearby lot. Hikomaro doesn't like to see "unauthorized vehicles" run all over the facility (not even in the village!), which is just as well since she doesn't want to accidentally run over any evidence. It's okay, her bike can take care of itself. "...And here we are." Maria tells the other two once they hit the loading docks. "The heart of Hakurei Miami. They're probably building more of those suits elsewhere, so we can just focus on investigating here." She takes quick scan of the place, shotgun in tow. "Not like I don't want to check them out, though. Motorcycles are cool and all, but when you want to cruise through Miami in style..." Her, the mean city streets, and dozen tons of eldritch-possessed mecha making earthquakes with her every step. Would that be a dream? First things first, though! "Heeeey, Hiko." She shouts out loud in the middle of the docks. He's always listening. "I know you're busy grovelin' to the execs and all, but we need help. Do you have any records of any technicians working after hours, maybe during the time of the theft?" (2:12:17 PM) TurninTrix: Hey Ettin, I'm gonna roll Contacts to find a late night technician who might have seen something. (2:12:31 PM) Ettin: Go for it (2:12:39 PM) TurninTrix: !r fudge+2 (2:12:40 PM) Krysmbot: TurninTrix, -/--+2 = -1 (2:12:44 PM) TurninTrix: Welllll. (2:12:56 PM) TurninTrix: They were all drunk. Uh, I'm going to spend an FP to make that a declaration instead.
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Anna A. 1 FP As the dregs of her latest cigarette burned her lips, Anna decided to quit smoking. At this point, her lungs had to be as black as her hair. She'd gone through a pack and it wasn't even happy hour. She had lit three up during the briefing, popping the unfiltered menthols in her mouth like gum. Driving Shiro to the Hakurei labs took her through the rest of the pack. If she kept smoking, she wouldn't have to talk; if that didn't work, hopefully the mint julep miasma would keep Shiro from talking to her. Not that she had anything against the gynoid, she just didn't want to talk. She'd get Shiro to hate her too, somehow, just like the blond bitch. Anna didn't think she could "accidentally" shut her up as easily, nor was she in good enough shape for a straight-up fight. So she kept mum and kept smoking until they got there. They pulled up half a block away from the compound; last time Anna parked in the facility Hikomaro tried to vaporize it. Said it was trash. She shot at him, he shot back. The smell of frying pork still makes her stomach turn. She lit up another cigarette, Singaporean clove from a red-headed witch. Tasted like poo poo, but it kept her focused. She needed to be focused; it was time to get her private dick on. She silently cased the joint with her eyes, an aura of gently caress-off around her. Investigation time, sped up with Quick Eye. 4dF+5 = 5. Welp.
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Maria - FP: 1/2 Maria makes a face. "Man, you guys suck." H-man does good work, even with that low-tech prosthetic, but he's really going to get canned if he keeps this up. Good thing they still have a lead, even if she doesn't recall a Dennis from her last visit here. A new hire, maybe? Exciting. "I guess we'll find out more inside." She tells Asgari and goes back to H-man. "Hiko, can you tell the AI that we're coming in? Also, have him detain Dennis, we just need to ask a few questions."
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haha, that's brilliant Moriyuki Ando FP: 3 "Ah, Master James. A pleasure as always." He reaches out and makes the handshake proscribed in the ExoCute salesman's manual: Two firm pumps, avoid the cybernetics. "I'm seeking something a little different than our regular arrangement today." Ando presses a few buttons on his suitcase and a crisp new photo of Galford Armstrong, posing as best as he can for the security cameras, prints itself from the side. "It has come to my attention that this esteemed gentleman, one Galford Armstrong by name, has recently acquired something of value from Hakurei." "One anticipates that a gentleman of your eminent influence and standing in... the community might have some dealings with him, or a way to put us in contact with him. ExoCute wishes to be in a position to make the first offer on his merchandise. Including a substantial finder's fee for yourself, of course." ____ Never Trust A Salesman (Deceit): 4dF+3 5 Destrado fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Apr 23, 2013 |
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Yatagarasu Facility Maria, Anna In you go! The inside of the facility is all blank corridors, huge rooms full of assembly lines and metal printers, and thick screens churning out reams of data that nobody loving reads because nobody actually physically enters this industrial hellhole if they can help it. The place is hot and smells just a little of molten metal, but Hikomaro has slowed down operations and vented as much hot air out of the ceiling as possible in an attempt to make visitors comfortable. He makes himself known on the screens as you duck under the Hikomaro Yabeno  Aspects: Pervading Hakurei VI; Master of Yin and Yang (Lasers); Just call the Onmyouji, LET'S GO! "Mme Santore, Mme Asagiri! What can this humble AI do for you?" "Dennis is in his computer lab upstairs," he adds. "Or, the scene of the crime is down the hall ahead." Anna A. Anna notes everything! No signs of forced entry or exit, the cameras and alarms still clearly work... there's also a faint shape on one edge of the Shining Eye, like a hand holding something card-sized. Whoever was spraying here didn't move their hand from the wall in time. The keys are a ways down the hall too. Shiro It doesn't take long for Shiro to find something, because behind the manufactory are...  Ninjas! American ninjas. White as hell ninjas. They're making their way through the trees to the back of the place. Shiro can hear a quiet argument: "If the keys aren't here boss is gonna kill you." "I didn't drop them! You had them last!" "I don't remember that." "You are such a douchebag." "Shut up, guys, we're getting close!"
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Port of Miami Moriyuki Ando Jimmy the Fist studies the picture. "Ah, yeah, this guy? You can find Armstrong at the 2101 Odyssey club on the edge of the port. Practically runs the joint, actually. Don't know him personally but he's been cutting into my... boat business." Juliana Juliana actually spots Galford! Facial recognition puts him around the 2101 Odyssey a bunch of times this week with 85% certainty, and last night he was spotted on a dock near the club. If Juliana watches, he waves in a Moon Rabbit-shaped mecha escorted by ninja and, under the cover of darkness, has it hop into a boat and covered in a tarp before the ninja drive it away in a southerly direction. Storms Don't freak out but there's a ninja stalking you guys. 
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Storms 3/4 <Hey Juliana, we got a pajama boy following us around. Any particular advice? Otherwise, I'll take care of it> Storms reaches under the seat, opens the box and pulls out the surpressed SMG, a day vest, a stinger grenade and hahaha, what? Did he still seriously have those? Yeah, a three set of throwing knives while he waits for the guy to get to a blindspot before stepping out to deal with him. "When in Rome and/or Nippon..." Gear: Currently Armor 1, Weapon+2 Spray, Weapon+1 Melee or thrown, Weapon+4 Zone Lesslethal. Waiting before he gets within one zone. Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Apr 23, 2013 |
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Juliana FP: 1 ::Oh really?,:: Juliana sent back, studying the images in her AR display. "Gotcha." And there was the power suit too...it didn't look like it was here anymore though, but the club seemed like a promising place to start looking for where it might have been shipped. ::Well I think I just found where the leader likes to conduct his business and wouldn't you know it, it happens to be close by.:: She quickly sent him a handful of images pulled from the cameras showing the club and the dock where the power suit had been loaded onto the boat. ::He's been in and out of this club all week, and this footage is from last night...they offloaded the suit from that dock there. How about we head on over and see if anyone's in a talkative mood, hm? As for your tail, if you think he's about to be a threat then go ahead and take care of him. Less lethally if you can...they haven't killed anyone so far...but don't take any chances. I promised Shiro I'd bring you back in one piece after all. I'm headed your way now.::
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Storms 3/4 <Roger that. I'll see how close this idiot wants to get, he may make a move when you get into visual range.> Storms wait for Juliana and Ando to get back, and keeps an eye on how close he gets. If he gets within 1 zone, lobbing the stinger at him and taking him down.
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Maria - FP: 1/2 "Yo, Hiko-bot." Maria needs a better way to set these two guys apart. "Does the techie know we're here yet? No? Wouldn't be a bad idea to check out the crime scene first." She thinks about that a moment and adds, "You can go ahead and punch the guy if you want, Asagiri." She jogs through the halls and swipes the most interesting thing on the floor. "Gotcha." The keys jingle in Maria's hands with the most satisfying sound. Kind of interesting that the ninja would leave these keys behind. Wonder if they would come back for it. Eh, finders keepers. She just hopes it leads to a car. "So I get you were compromised last night, from what I heard from Miyazaki." Maria asks Hikomaro through the paint-stained screen. "Kind of a weird question, but where exactly were you during the time of the theft?"
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Anna A. 1 FP What kind of ninja left their keys at a crime scene? Any ninja pulled that in Neo-Tokyo, they'd get their guts pulled out their throats. These must be cheap imitations; plastic toy ninjas to match the scenery. Which means that the inside man ran the show. She cracked her knuckles. "Didn't need your permission, but thanks."
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Moriyuki Ando FP: 2 "Ah, speaking of your successful entrepreneurship, it seems I may require a small nautical favour in the near future. I'll make some inquiries and get back to you forthwith." With that, he makes some overbearing goodbyes to The Fist and gets his contact details. Eventually, Ando comes politely sauntering back to the car with an aggressively pink phone held to his ear. You can tell just at a glance that it has the most annoyingly saccharine ringtone you can conceive of. Hasn't he ever heard of AR? "Ah, Madam Juliana? I have obtained some information regarding Armstrong. He frequents a club called...oh, I see, Madam is already most resourcefully aware and appraised of the situation. I have the small stirrings of an idea as to how... oh, a most intriguing visitor. I'll consult with Sir." Moriyuki leans in the driver's side window, the phone held to his chest, and stage whispers: "Perhaps we should confer with our lurking admirer as to..." He stops dead as he notices Storm's preparations. "Is Sir using GmBh armaments? I am positively mortified. Wounded, even, at Sir's lack of faith in our quality product."
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Shiro FP:1 Shiro hugs the wall keeping as inconspicuous as possible. It isn't difficult, the Shining Eye goons are making enough noise to mask an approaching mech unit. <Well look what we have here!> Ueru laughed madly in her head. <POSERS!> <Yes.> Shiro answers, troubled. <Ugh, fine. Use the flat. It's not like their blood is worth sipping anyway.> The sword's voice is grumpy but not angry. It knows her too well by now. <But can I at least scare them a little bit?> <By all means.> Shiro smiled. Ueru's presence intensified within her as she let him take control of her physical body. She was still in command and could kick him out whenever she liked, but he was very good at being a scary guy, and giving him a chance now and then kept him happy. Ueru quickstepped out from behind the group of 'ninjas', the two handed katana drawn and held at the ready. "Anata no masutâ no mae ni wâmu o furueru! HA HA Hahahaha!" (Tremble worms before your master!) The sword blazed into blue fire as bright as a blowtorch. "Nani ga kiniiranai noda. Anata ni wa, haha kokugo o hanasanai nodesu ka?" (What's wrong? Don't you speak the mother language?) She spat on the ground. "Then talk in your own words. Tell me where it is, and I might just let you all live." ----- [17:29] <mistaya> Trying to be a sneaky ninja: [17:29] <mistaya> !r fudge +3 [17:29] <Krysmbot> mistaya, +--+ +3 = 3 [17:29] <Ryuujin> I am not the one to look to for balanced yet challenging encounters [18:49] <mistaya> Subbing will to scare the crap out of some ninjas via Zen Direction's once-a-scene (Intimidation) [18:49] <mistaya> !r fudge +5 [18:49] <DroidAsmadi7> That's some weird syntax [18:49] <Krysmbot> mistaya, +//- +5 = 5
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Yatagarasu Facility Maria Hikomaro doesn't cough because AIs don't have to do that. "Er... they scheduled a routine system update. I was assured things would be quiet. Rest assured, that won't happen again! Hikomaro is TAKING CHARGE!" Anna A. The technician's computer lab is really just a room with a bunch of computers in it. If their superiors didn't want a technician near the facility at all times they could probably do this at home. Dennis at least has the decency to minimise his game and offer Anna one of his donuts.  "Hey Hiko, check it out, we got a magical girl in here! What's up?" Shiro NINJA WILL: <Krysmbot> Ettin, -+++ +2 = 4 "Wh-where what is?!" one ninja asks. The rest go "aaaah" and try to scatter.
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Storms 3/4 "Not NOW, dad." Storms irritatedly lowers the window and casually flings the grenade behind him into the darkness, where it explodes in a flash of light, stinging rubber balls, and OW OW OW. "Hey Juliana, mind running this idiot down for me?" Setting the maneuver tag "THE WORLD IS MADE OF LIGHT AND PAIN" on the dude. !r fudge+4 <Krysmbot> , +-+-+4 = 4 that work? Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Aug 13, 2014 |
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