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Juliana FP: 2 Lingering Complications - Compel Portraits rapidly cycled in the corner of Juliana's field of vision as positive match after match was returned on her queries. "Well the good news is that whoever put all this up may be unhinged but they don't seem to be homicidal," she said, relaxing as she scrolled through a cascade of AR windows. "The hits I'm getting are mostly all still alive, a few deaths here and there but nothing that suggests any sort of serial killer activity or ritualistic murder. I've got former magical girls, pop idols, service industry employees...the only connection I'm seeing between any of them is an affinity for playing dress-up. I've also got a hit on our lucky number 814, her name's Mizuki Hoshikuma, Japanese national currently attending college in Shanghai." Well that explained what she was looking at (sort of) but not why she was looking at it. The scrawls and equations written across the wall similarly eluded her. Were they looking at some stalker's secret project? Stalkers usually fixated on a single person though, they didn't generally start a collection...and why were all but Mizuki Hoshikuma's pictures crossed out? She was glad that it didn't appear any of them were in danger because of it, but it still left her with more questions than answers. "I'd rather deal with bloody ghosts after all," she muttered, shaking her head she she stepped out of the back room, brow furrowed in thought...then she stopped in her tracks as she saw where Ando had spread out the map she'd found along with several volumes of that comic. No wait, that wasn't quite right, they were from different comics, all from different series'. She picked up the most familiar one, sporting an eerily striking illustration of Ando (complete with purloined mustache) on the cover, then looked down at the map once more. "Miami," she said to no one in particular, setting the book down near the red question mark on the map. "Shanghai," she went on, doing the same with the corresponding volume. Briefly thumbing through the third book revealed that it had been set in Dubai, her eyes widening with realization as she placed it down...right next to where it too had been marked on the map. "These are hotspots," she said, a note of excitement in her voice as she beckoned the others over. "Look! Miami, Shanghai, Dubai...all of them marked on this map, and all of them corresponding to the setting of one of these comics. If the other comics are anything like ours then these are all based on real people, probably other people that have gotten mixed up with Shuizn somehow. That's got to be the connection, it's too coincidental otherwise. But that means...there are over a dozen other places marked here besides those three. Naomi, these are yours? Are there any other series' under this name that you know of?"
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 4 "Oh, there you are." Naomi is a bit too distracted with the ping of electronic life to reply to Juliana at the moment. She pulls out the datapad from the counter and delicately brushes the dust away with a sweep of her hand. As the touchscreen device glows back to life, the cracks on the screen almost form into a small frown. The sight of neglected and perfectly serviceable devices makes her frown as well. "How long have you been down here? You poor thing." She cradles the datapad, with as much care as owner would to her pet. This goes on for much longer than it should. "Yes, yes. We'll find you a new home, Datapad-san. I need you to do me a favor, though. While I understand you're still in shock, right now..." She holds up the datapad, charging it up with an electric charge from her hand. "I need you to help me break in your network." Hacking. /+++ +5 = 8
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Storms 3/4 Supply Van x2 NINJA MOJO: All Natural Herbal Extract x2 "Well that's all very interesting Juli, but uh, what, exactly, are we gonna do with this info?" Storms looks at the package, and to determine what exactly they do, he opens it up and takes a sniff inside. (Rolling to try to figure out what NINJA MOJO does, if anything. I don't know what skill maps to this. Awareness? Scholarship? Sleaze? Either way, +0 to it !r fudge <Krysmbot> -+// = 0) Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Mar 29, 2014 |
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Juliana FP: 2 Lingering Complications - Compel "We've been casting about in the dark with this whole Shuizn business," Juliana said, studying the map as she spoke, "but if I'm right then this map at least helps us narrow down our research. And if we aren't the only ones who've been caught up in all this then maybe some of the others managed to figure out something we haven't yet, like a way to get out from under this thing's attention. It also means that I'm going to be having a nice, long, pointed conversation with Sully once we're back in Miami."
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Anna A. FP: 2/1 Tags: Drunk as a Skunk Anna nurses her drink while she gets information on the store. It doesn't seem to be anything too terribly important, so she decides to get drunk in earnest. Before she casts off sobriety, she sends a message to Juliana. <Store checks out. Popular with maj. Owners both left for greener pastures in similar manner. Could follow money trail. Getting drunk now.> The text sent, she proceeds to follow through with drinking until her life is viewed through a fish-eye lens. Self-compelling Vice Gripped to get the tag Drunk as a Skunk and a Fate Point.
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Storms It's a dodgy herbal "vitamin supplement" that doesn't actually do anything. Looking at the back it seems like it was made and marketed by the Shining Eye before they went bust though. Naomi Naomi finds a complete archive of every original Nyarlathotekku manga volume, movie and TV episode, as well as all the usual databooks and other supplementary bullshit. It's a lot to take in, but luckily there's also an archive of that handy summary site for the modern geek: Vid Tropes & Idioms. It's marked as important!  This is an actual challenge I've prepared for you, by the way:Here is a trope page, try to pry useful information from this troper bullshit. Only one of you has to read it so feel free to wait for someone else to summarise it for you. The other file marked as important is simply titled "incredible_people.txt", and reads: pre:Takumi Itou Haruna Maki Kira Tanaka Shou Watanabe Aoi Kobayashi Shinji Takaya Thanks to Shiro, this is now your base of operations. It is a Shuizn Free Zone. What would you like to do?
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 4 "Akuma... fails, moves to Seattle... starts over..." A pause. She scrolls up a bit, back to Hiro's entry. Sure enough, Seattle again. "Oh, I see now." Naomi sets the trope page aside in AR vision to open up her browser and post in the page's discussion form. quote:Thank god for VidTropes, though. How else would she able to keep up with all the anime she's cosplaying from? "So... I believe this answers your question, Miss Morgan." Naomi tosses the AR data on the others (the hacked datapad for Moriyuki's sake), inflicting them with tropes. "This is your ground zero. nTech classic, if you will. Though aside from the Outsider stuff, sounds like your Shuizn, I don't really know what these have to do with the other manga continuity-wise. I guess there's an electric parapsychic there like me, but that's all I see, I don't know." She mulls for a few seconds, then adds. "Alright, I read Transeldritch a while ago, right up to the current issue. That was kinda creepy, watching myself take Santore-san's place and not realizing it. Let's assume that this is the same phenomenon that happened... is happening?... in Nyarlathotekku. Because if so, there's someone in Seattle who fought some deadpan snarker anti-hero and knows Shiuzn better than we do." Naomi nods to herself, smiling. "There might be more to find in these files... but for now, I'm tapping on reliable contacts to find out who this 'Akuma' is."
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Storms 3/4 Supply Van x2 "..." Storms tosses the packet of garbage back into the store somewhere as he flips through the awful internet B.S. thing in front of him and winces. "Man, I really don't like it when people create cutesy horseshit jargon instead of explaining things in a straightforward manner. I guess since we're tracking down this dude as well as Shiro's project, we might as well hole up somewhere. This place is as good as any, so long as the cops don't come a'knockin on reports of vagrants and whatnot." He pauses as he looks around. "I really hope Shiro's mojo works because the "Cops burst in on Our Heros at worst possible moment." is a trope I can live without."
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Shiro FP:2 "I think I know a way to prevent that, Lucky." Shiro said. She was still sitting in a meditation pose on the broken countertop. All of her instincts pointed to this place being outside of Shuizen's influence, but it would be easy to disrupt that tranquility if the Outsider really wanted to. Unless... She called the store in Miami. "Sully? We need to create some breathing space while we track down some people who might know things. Can you turn the dial to 'Slice of Life' for a while? Thanks."
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Storms 3/4 Supply Van x2 "I AM a tad concerned about what 'Slice of Life' entails for a bunch of paramilitary psyc-*cough* security advisers. Seeing the Dubai and Angola incidents in black and white nerd drawings wasn't exactly the highpoint of my week. In any event, it can't possibly be as weird and annoying as friggen Magical Girl." Storms checks his comm. "Are we waiting for Anna to show or are we just gonna check outside after the next rainstorm to see if she's floating face down in the gutter out front?" Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 4 "Also, if we're going to use this place as a temporary base, we should probably clean it up. Maybe order in some sofas, more computers, clear up all this rubble. Maybe a hire a specialist to assist in the work. Perhaps even a ma-" Naomi glances back at the poster with all the crossed maid faces on it. "...aaaaaaasive bulldozer or something. I don't know. Oh, by the way." She pulls up incredible_people.txt and shows it to everyone. "Any of these names mean anything to you?"
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Storms 3/4 Supply Van x2 "...hey, now that I think about it, I gotta ask; this "slice of life" thing, do they actually mean your typical personal life, or that excruciatingly boring relationship stuff where people go to highschool and normal jobs and have normal people problems?" Storms chucks one of Shiro's Shower-in-a-Prayer-Strip things into the bathroom before he forgets. "I guess what I'm asking is, am I going to shrivel up like an ant under a magnifying glass due to my, ah, 'cultural heritage'? These reality shifts hit me like a sledgehammer, and I have no idea why it affects me more than y'all. I'm guessing its due to the fact that, by fictional tropes, I should have been dead about 50 times in any sort of monster film and/or morality tale." He pauses. "I REALLY hope it isn't due to a lovely horror trope where the monster comes back at the start of every new issue." Storms looks distinctly nauseated for a bit. "Is this what other people call 'introspection'? Because I really, really don't like it." Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Juliana FP: 2 Lingering Complications - Compel "It's an acquired taste," Juliana said. She didn't feel different anyway. Whatever the dial had done now, it was at least more subtle than the last time. Unless she was simply starting to get used to it. "Now there's a depressing thought." She looked over the list of names that Naomi had sent her, flicking through the files she'd accumulated over the last 48 hours. "I'm not seeing anything that stands out, and I'm not really sure how much I can find on someone with just a name to go on," she admitted. Unless... Six names on the list, five protagonists and one primary antagonist in the first one of these comics. The names didn't match, though the number and nationality did, and everything was coming up Seattle lately so it was worth a shot at least. "Hold on," she said, "let me try something. The comic ended in 2115, there was a movie in 2117...all right, so if we look through Seattle Metroplex public records for any instances of those six names between those years, let's just see what pops up shall we? Oh, and Anna won't be joining us, no," she said distractedly as a blur of census data, municipal records, and social media feeds flew past her display. "She's off investigating how quickly she can get drunk, apparently."
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Shiro FP:2 Shiro thought about what Storms had said. "We need a chance to research without any distractions. That means no explosions, no duels with rivals, and no magic. It's a gamble, but if we can't do those things then SHUIZN can't either. You saw how our enemies acted during the Magical Girl and Noir segments. Now, they'll be forced to use mundane methods. And we have ways of getting around those, thanks to Juliana and Naomi." <Hey, I know why it hits Storms extra hard.> Ueru piped up. <It's because it's funny!> Shiro raised an eyebrow. <No, seriously, hear me out. Comedy is all about exaggeration. Storms overreacts to everything anyway, it's part of being an Agressively Normal American. Sure he likes his guns a little too much but he's the only one in your group who isn't magic, a robot, or both.> "That's... true." <It's the same reason it hits me and Kelly so hard. We're not the main characters, and supporting cast is always good for a laugh. Storms is a main character, but SHUIZN's decided he's comic relief.> "Ouch. So what am I then?" Ueru thought about it. <You're the loner on a personal mission.> he decided. <Ugh... That's the guy who always gets killed.> Shiro winced. "Anyway..." she said, trying to get back to the issue at hand. "I don't think it's taken effect yet. There's something special about this shop. SHUIZN isn't here. I think it might be a sort of blind spot. We really should use this place as HQ." She pulled the Vid Tropes page up on her AR and started reading it. Or at least attempting to. It really put a lot of effort into being illegible.
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 4 Naomi hears Shiro's explanation, then starts snapping her fingers really frantically until she could produce a spark with them. She breathes a sigh of relief. "Oh, not all forms of magic. Good." She notes that in her own databook. "I certainly I would prefer to work on this with all my senses functional." She then opens up more sites. "I still think we should find time or some help cleaning this place up, but if we're using this over the Hakurei apartments, I'm going to order in the parts for your sword's speakerbox before I completely forget that plot point." "...detail." She blinks, hoping no one noticed that slip. All this talk about manga and tropes is kicking awake her inner nerd. "By the way, Juliana, shouldn't you narrow it down to Neo-Tokyo rather than Seattle? That's where the story actually happens and..." She frowns very much at the group. "Am I the only one who has actually read the documents?" Mitama fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Apr 3, 2014 |
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Juliana FP: 2 Lingering Complications - Compel "No, I read it too. Unfortunately," Juliana muttered. "But according to this, one of the people involved wound up moving to Seattle afterwards like you said. I figure we can start with whichever one that is and work our way down the list from there if we need to. Also I doubt I'd be able to get very far trawling Japanese databases for these names. None of them seem especially uncommon and I don't have anything else to go on at the moment besides this nonsense here." Kai Tave fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Apr 3, 2014 |
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Storms Supply Van x1 "Man. Well, lets look on the upside; we have to live in a crumbling shithole while hiding from both The Man AND the very essence of reality itself. Think of it like building a treehouse; A little spackle over the ratholes, faraday wiring everywhere to prevent people from peeking in on our AR, booby-traps to prevent unwanted visitors, granite countertop..." Storms begins compiling a mental checklist as he heads to the van to grab some tools before going to search for the breaker panel. Hopefully they left a diagram, otherwise he's going to have to start gouging holes in walls. (So begins the tale of  Craft !r fudge+3 /-+++3 = 4+2supply van tag=6) Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Aug 13, 2014 |
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 4 -> 3 "That may be so. And Akuma certainly is the one we want. Still..." Well, as long as Naomi has an extra datapad on hand, she might as well put that one to work on expanding their search to Neo-Tokyo. It's not like she already has half a dozen other projects cooking up in here. "Just one more favor from me, Datapad-san." She says, charging it up with a new algorithm. Gonna search Neo-Tokyo or something. ---/ +5 = 2 Let's invoke Crash Override to reroll: /+/+ +5 = 7
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Storms Most of the building is intact, so it's not too hard to clear some room for a temporary HQ. There's a staff exit in the back you can sneak in and out of, and you can cover up the front windows and doors to keep people noticing the building is occupied. Some of the shelves have to become load-bearing shelves and there's a nonzero chance some of the power outlets will start a fire, but Storms is pretty sure he can sign off on this sweet deal. You create Mangahaus with two invokes. Nyarlathotekku Classic As far as you can tell, those six people are the comic's characters with less awesome names, and the original comic might be embellishing real events a bit. They all lived in Inubukuro, a neighborhood next to the Neo-Tokyo Arcology. (The comic uses a different, fictional name.) News articles from the time about "gang violence" and "tragic accidents" suggest their adventures happened shortly before the actual series, so by the time Nyarlathotekku became popular most of them weren't around to see it. Here's what you can tell: • Takumi Itou is Hiro Akakami, the comic's protagonist. Like in the comic, he lived near the Obama Arcology before moving to Neo-Tokyo, and he got into fights with gangs in both places - the perfect cover for beating up bad guys! Whether he actually had an ancient woodblock printing that grants wuxia powers is unclear. As in the comic, Takumi hasn't been seen since he left Inubukuro. Any remaining members of his family moved out of Seattle long ago. • Haruna Maki is Maki Akagi, the deuteragonist who loses an arm and gets a sweet robot one. Haruna is still alive, and according to your search she's a popular gadget/gaming vlogger who lives in Shanghai but travels a lot. • Kira Tanaka is Kaijari Suigyomatsu, the lucky kid with the sweet-rear end name who gets beheaded by a • Shou Watanabe is Taro Gennai, who got exploding magic crystal fragments in the brain and turned into a helpful ghost until his comatose body was smothered with a pillow by his mom - except in real life, where they just turned off his life support. Still dead though. • Aoi Kobayashi is Kuzaki Tsuchikuchi. In the comic, she's mission control until the evil Yotsumaru Heavy Industries turns her into a para-psychic; in real life she is listed as a patient of the totally unrelated Sarugami Innovations, who disappeared years ago after losing their CEO in an "accident", being investigated by the OOI, and having the remnants absorbed by former ally Wukong Corporation. Aoi seems to be alive, but has no publicly listed permanent residence. • Shinji Takaya is Akuma, the villain. In the comics Akuma gets his powers from a dude called the Outsider who sounds kind of like Shuizn, but eventually he reforms and moves to Seattle. In fact, he's still here! The apartment block listed as his residence was firebombed in a terrorist attack by some snake-themed cultists a few weeks ago though. • Shiro knows "Death Angel" is comic-speak for Shinigami. In the comics, the group were framed for the murder of a shinigami by Akuma and some shinigami captain who was later killed by his lieutenant when the deception was uncovered—a lieutenant whose abilities and appearance look suspiciously similar to Furezu Mawaru. Also, the creepy trope page suggests Haruna is either a shinigami ally or has some favours owed.
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Juliana FP: 2 Lingering Complications - Compel Juliana's attention, which had been wandering as her systems pored through volumes of data in the background faster than she could, turned back to her AR display as it chimed a notification at her, highlighting a set of documents. "I've got a hit," she said, reading over a local news article from several weeks ago. "Shinji Takaya, that's our local Shuizn expert. Right here in Seattle, just like it said. There's a bit of a problem though," she said, frowning as she read on, "it looks like his apartment complex was firebombed a few weeks ago in a terrorist attack. They're blaming it on 'serpent cultists,' apparently." That figured...everywhere they went lately they were having to deal with ninjas, snakes, racists, or some combination thereof. "The article doesn't say whether he was injured or not, but I think it's safe to assume that someone like this probably isn't going to be too inconvenienced by a handful of cultists. I have the address, it's as good a place to start as any."
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Storms 3/4 Supply Van x1 "Works for me" Storms curses, shoots a few more roofing nails into the wall, and dusts himself off. "This should do fine so long as we don't back the van into it, we don't kick any of the walls too hard or close the door too fast." He washes his hands off in the sink, letting the water flow for a bit to let a good amount of mystery gunk work its way out of the faucet. "We picking Anna up on the way over or just subcontracting out our investigation to her at this point? Quite honestly I could do without the drama."
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Moriyuki Ando FP:2 Moriyuki returns from the front of the store, where he has been carefully cataloguing and reorganising the store's remaining inventory. Sure, alphabetical's okay, I guess, but have you ever considered leveraging Markov chains and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein to create a reactive network of cross-associations between titles that dynamically adapts to content and context? ExoCute has. In some territories a bookshelf casually arranged by an ExoCute executive is considered a sentient being with full voting rights. "We desire the drama, in our circumstances. We're dealing with a narrative construct, any reduction in our cohort is likely to leave us open to an early defeat and a long interval chapter where we are forced to rediscover the power of teamwork. It is best to just nip that in the bud early and pick Miss Asagiri up on the way." "Besides which, she is an integral part of our operation. We would do well to maintain the full compliment of our original party that brought us together in the face of narrative tension..." he nods at Naomi, "...sudden Shuiznate substitutions notwithstanding."
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Juliana FP: 2 Lingering Complications - Compel "We should probably at least make sure she's all right, regenerative powers not withstanding," Juliana said, nodding at Ando. "Even if this place is somehow warded against Shuzin the rest of the city isn't and we did just change the dial." She thought about that for a moment. "On the other hand, maybe we shouldn't tell her we did that."
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 4 -> 3 Naomi pockets the datapad and waves off ExoCute again. "Again, I'm here until I can clear Miss Murazaki's name. Anything I happen to do here is part of that goal and not at all whatsoever because I'm morbidly curious why my face is in a manga and why Hakurei seems oddly unaware of some Outsider entity that's supposedly rewriting reality." She does a good job convincing herself of that. Naomi just really doesn't want to sign Moriyuki's contract. Totally indignant over that salaryman jerk. "I'm going to help find Takaya." She shrugs. "Going by my luck today, I might end up running into him while he summons Shiuzn or something. That would be narratively convenient."
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Shiro FP:2 Shiro kicked off the counter and headed for the door. Something about Naomi's insistence on clearing her name made her want to smile. Of all of them, Shiro was the least concerned about mortal authorities, and even the OOI didn't particularly phase her. Being on a wanted list was an inconvenience. Still, she did appreciate the assistance. "Akuma is our best lead for now. Let's go to the scene of the fire, we'll get Anna on the way. Hopefully alcohol is all she's got in her." <You should get back in touch with Furezu.> Ueru said. <If she was involved in the original incident, she might know something.> Shiro was already on it. TO: Furezu.Mawaru(AT)shinigami.dl posted:Sorry to bother you again so soon, Furezu-San but we've been doing some digging on the original N-Tech manga, which may have been where this all started. It took place several years back in Neo-Tokyo, and several of the real life equivalents to the manga characters have moved to or through Seattle at some point.
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Juliana FP: 2 Lingering Complications - Compel "Don't even joke about that," Juliana said to Naomi as she headed for the door alongside Shiro. "I've been there when people have managed to summon something way above their pay-grade. It's not an experience you want to set your calendar by."
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Storms 3/4 Supply Van x1 Mangahaus x2 "Sometimes they laughed when I wore running shoes instead of boots to some jobs. They're not laughing now, because, you know, they're dead." Storms follows the others out the door, make sure the door locks instead of triggering the sprinkler system, and fires up the van.
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(OOC: not much to say until the gang gets back together) Anna A. FP: 1/1 Aspect: Drunk as a Skunk Anna, to her credit, did not freak out at the changing of the dial setting again. Granted, this was because she was too drunk to remember her own name, but small victories. The soft, warm vibrations of slice-of-life made her sleepy, but that was about it. She passed out into her fourth or fortieth drink, content for once.
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Moriyuki Ando FP:2 "I concur with Madam Juliana. I too have been, err... present during the calling of creatures beyond the mortal ken and... well actually it all worked out fine. There were no conceivable consequences whatsoever. One wouldn't, of course, recommend it... but then one wouldn't not recommend it. Legal liability and all that." Ando primly slides onto the least-stained seat he can find and fumbles around for a seatbelt. "What were we discussing, once again? Investigating the site of the fire, yes. Let's be off then."
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 3 On the way out, Naomi posts in VidTropes again!  "Well, if we're going to assume that some Outsider is turning our world into a manga, we may as well make use of the convention." She answers Juliana with a shrug. "Always assume that we'll be somewhere or with someone in the nick of time. I'm sure that's a trope, as well." She sits next to Moriyuki at the car. After a moment to recollect the tissue paper contact, she decides to palm Datapad-kun into his hands. "Here. You may as well get started with the 22nd century." Mitama fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Apr 21, 2014 |
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 Sunday February 12 2119, 2:03PM PST Location: Shinji Takaya's Last Known Location, Peach Blossom Apartments, Seattle Aspects: Abandoned Wreck This place isn't that bad - it's mostly superficially burned out, with most of the utilities kinda sorta intact. Some parts of it are still habitable. But this place sets itself apart on an otherwise boring street by its rad facade, so the place is shut down until they fix it. You have the run of the place. Kind of dark in here. Shiro Slice of Life means Furezu will tell you anything! Furezu takes a while, but she replies: Shiro.Murasaki(AT)shinigami.dl posted:This is hard, but here goes.
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Juliana FP: 2 Official Sanction x2 Lingering Complications - Compel Sunday February 12 2119, 2:04PM PST Location: Shinji Takaya's Last Known Location, Peach Blossom Apartments, Seattle Their first stop was a downtown bar where GPS had pinged Anna's phone. Once there they found the girl passed out in her seat, surrounded by a collection of shot glasses and bottles, an incongruously peaceful look on her face. Juliana rolled her eyes but didn't have the heart to wake her, even when it turned out that the bartender was expecting one of them to cover the tab. She blamed the dial. After settling things at the bar and carrying the unconscious magical girl out to the van, their next stop was the address she'd found for Shinji Takaya's apartment. It was easy enough to tell when they'd arrived at the burned-out building...whoever had done this had known who they were aiming for, obviously, but based on the article not mentioning any deaths it didn't seem like they'd stuck around to make sure the job was finished. More amateurs? Or possibly a warning of some kind? Thankfully Storms had been as productive as ever while he was out and she helped herself to a handgun before stepping out of the van and heading for the ruined building. Local fire departments and CSI had doubtlessly combed the place over already, but they also hadn't been looking for what they were looking for. She carefully stepped through the doorway, mindful not to cause the damaged structure to collapse any further, and slowly looked around, a few lingering error messages from her earlier shutdown popping up as she cycled through various sensor modes. Gonna look around with Juliana's enhanced senses, thermal, ultrasound, and x-ray vision, see if anything stands out.
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A lot stands out! The first thing Juliana notices is that this place is occupied. A few floors up, in an apartment with a half-missing floor, some guy is blatantly sitting at his computer and drinking some kind of hot drink. The utilities definitely still work there. The second thing she notices is that every conceivable path there has been rigged. There are trip wires connected to rocks, collapsed floors propped up to look safe, webcams taped to the walls, suspiciously precarious debris, jury-rigged motion detectors, nets... nothing harmful, but anyone who wanders in carelessly is guaranteed to set something off that makes a ton of noise and maybe also slows them down too. The mélange of makeshift surveillance extends from a few floors above the apartment all the way to the basement. When Juliana peers down there, she can see another body. This one's not as warm though... Okay, so someone has rigged up a CHALLENGE for you. Here's what you need to overcome quietly: Electronic surveillance: Good (+3) Mechanical noise traps: Great (+4) Finding a way through the ruin in the first place: Good (+3) Optional: Getting past the traps to the basement: Great (+4)
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 3 "Oh, look at-" Naomi pauses, realizing she should probably keep her voice down. Instead, she pulls out her databook and gestures everyone to get on chat for a moment. pre:HakuRaichu: I get the feeling we're not welcome here. Let's stay quiet for a minute
and try to get some element of surprise.
HakuRaichu: I can sense a lot of cameras running all over this place, gonna see if
I can disable them from here. Can you guys handle the rest?
HakuRaichu: BTW, is this part of your dial business? I'm sure this DOESN'T count as
Slice of Life.Overcoming the electrical system with computer powers: -//+ +5 = 5. Mitama fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Apr 21, 2014 |
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