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Meanwhile in Tom's Head Again... "..." "Jesus loving Christ-barnacles what the poo poo is wrong with these humans."
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"W-wait!" Konami balls her hands into fists. "I said it's not like that! I'm not a cultist! Please..." She stares at her desk and groans in frustration. A few drops of water patter into it from somewhere. No more consequences, but she gains the aspect Guilty Gene because she feels like poo poo. Meanwhile, Kaiya turns on Madoka. "You just told me it was a gift." Madoka stares at her and Daigo, gulps and tries a winsome smile. "Haha! A gift... from the store. Yeah. I said bought because... I bought some other stuff with it. Legal stuff! So's the wardrobe. And I lost the key. The legal key. After putting my games in it. Legal. Some were pirated. So really there's no reason to go look at all. And, ah, ah, ah..." She puts her head in her hands, defeated. "Oh, efff." Daigo wins! Madoka is reluctant as hell to let people see her game collection but can easily be "escorted" to opening her wardrobe for you. Meanwhile... Fred defense! <Krysmbot> Ettin, +++/+1 = 4 He chooses to gain the boost DOUBLE Misandry!, because I haven't beaten that horse enough yet. "Wah! Hey!" Fred's laptop and desk go flying as he's knocked to the floor; he's too fat for Aubrey's opening blows to do much, though. "Get off me! I was just joking! I'm— wait, what did you do to my locker? — GAH!" Laura distracts him, and Thomas shuts him up! He won't be a problem for now. Unless... The doors swing open and the Libarian steps in like he was compelled to be here. Chandler Norfalcon  Aspects: Head Librarian; Old And Cunning; The Least Anime Chandler is so old he was studying the occult before it went mainstream. Miskatonic sent him here to keep an eye on their books, and he can be amiable or cranky depending on how many students have gotten burger dust on them lately. Right now he looks cranky as hell, probably because he heard a frigging shotgun blast in here. He casts a steely eye over the group, and spies Aubrey wailing on Fred. "What's going on here?"
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Looks like someone from Castlevania, so it's still totally anime. FP/Refresh: 1/3 Hope: OOO "Silence, nyah!" Voice in his head aside, Tom is really enjoying watching Fred freak the hell out. Back home, men like him would be dressed as cotters and taken for purging rituals! There'd be music and parties and enough meat to stuff yourself silly and everything! But that sort of thing is frowned upon here, so this would have to do. He turns his head at the sound of the door opening. "Nyah? You aren't Lovelace. What do you nyeed, nyah?" He looks at Fred, then Aubrey, then the Librarian. "Oh...it's nyat what you think! He started it, nyah!" Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Feb 7, 2014 |
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Laura Bailey FP/Refresh 0 / 3 | Hope OOO Laura rolls her eyes and barely makes an attempt to hide the pack of smokes in her hand. "Pfffff, I dunno what you're even talking about, Pops."
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Aubrey Murphy FP OOX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] Aubrey stops and stares at the Librarian, then at Fred, then back at the Librarian. She opens and closes her mouth silently, then points at Fred and says, "But - he's Fred! He's terrible! He keeps saying awful things to people and then pretending he's the victim when we call him on it!" Comrade Gorbash fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Feb 7, 2014 |
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"It's misandry!" Fred cries. Fred uses his DOUBLE Misandry! boost and this happens: Norfalcon looks skeptical. It's like being glared at by Gandalf. Still, he grabs Fred and hauls him to his feet. "Come on, lad. Putting you in another room should stop all this fighting. And I better not hear another peep out of you bairns or I'm getting the Headmaster." Fred has the decency to not look too smug as he's hauled out. Chandler is taking Fred to another undisclosed location in the Library to serve his time in peace. He'll leave you alone, but rest assured the place he is taking Fred to is slightly nicer than yours. The door closes. Silence falls across the room for a moment. "Soooo," Madoka says. "How about that Kaiya, huh? Went into Thomas' room and got arm scratches? That sounds pretty suspicious."
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FP/Refresh: 1/3 Hope: OOO "Hmph. Jerk. I bet he wouldn't taste good anyway." Tom pouts and hunches, tensing out his tail. "Probably like sugar and salt." His ear twitches a bit as Madoka talks about Kaiya barging into his room, but he doesn't otherwise show a strong reaction. "Arm scratches? Like what, nya?"
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Aubrey Murphy FP OOX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] Aubrey watches the Librarian drag Fred off, seeming to vibrate in place without actually moving anywhere. Just when it seems the only outcome is for her head to literally explode, she lets out a sigh. "Right then." She scoops up her bag and slings it over her shoulder, then grabs the handles of Madoka's wheelchair. "Nice try short stuff, we're going to go check out that mysterious cabinet of yours, no arguing." With that she pushes her out of the room, pausing only to make sure the Librarian and Fred aren't in view any more.
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"maaan" New scene! (Remember your stress resets when conflict ends, guys!)  Madoka's Room, ~11:30AM Aspects: Madoka's Room, Feixue's Second Room; Wheelchair-Accessible Mess; All The Videogames Madoka's dorm room looks like a videogame museum guarded by a lazy person. She has so many of the loving things she's had to move some to shelves she can't reach - she's clever enough to make most of them games she only wants to play multiplayer, at least. There's an umbrella stand near the door stuffed with those animal-head grabby arm things though. Everything beyond the console area is a mess of old pizza boxes, dirty laundry and homework, carefully dumped in places that won't get in the way of Madoka's wheelchair. You're pretty sure Feixue helps her clean this place, but she hasn't been here for a while. Madoka wheels her way through the mess and through to her bedroom, which is just as messy but has a futon, a bookshelf overflowing with manga and a high-tech gaming setup that would make the computer club poo poo their pants. There's also this tall, deep wardrobe sitting in a corner:  Madoka parks in front of it and glances at Daigo. "Okay, real talk... this is seriously a gift from my parents, so whatever I have to do to keep it, let me know. Okay? I'll turn the magic trap off. Um." She puts her hands on the handles and pulls, revealing... Videogames! There's a wall of them in here, just far enough in to stop the doors banging into them. They're mostly old titles from when she was a kid or not even born yet, though the door has inside shelves stuffed with recent titles - dating sims, eroge for girls and similar things she'd rather hide. Madoka takes a deep breath. "Okay. There we go. That it?"
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Jia "Uh..." Jia looks at the wardrobe shiftily. She's had enough bad luck with cabinets today for her to let this pass uncommented upon. "Is it just me or does it seem like it should be deeper than that?" She reaches in and plunges her hand between the largest gap between games. "Is there something back here?" KPrime, ++-/+3 = 4 to forcefully overcome the vidyawall
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Laura Bailey FP/Refresh 0 / 3 | Hope OOO "Wow, nice video game collection..." Laura smirks. "...Fred."
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"WAIT DON'T DO THAT DO THE OPPOSITE THING! UNDO! UNDO!" Jia plunges her hand in, and the video game wall collapses. Behind it, she finds: • Another photo of her parents, only her mother is wearing a sleeveless version of her dad's outfit in the last one and her father is wearing an "I'M WITH STUPID" t-shirt and an even bigger afro • Some magic primers and advanced monster tomes, all legal • A daisho stand with very real, very sharp swords • An Ouya • A whole bunch of talismans • A Japanese outfit in Madoka's size with a red undershirt, red hakama and a white shirt with red stripes stamped with this emblem:  Madoka twiddles her fingers. "Um, so I don't know what you think it looks like, but it's totally not that." Ettin fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Feb 8, 2014 |
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FP: 3/3 Hope: OOO Sebastian raises an eyebrow and glances towards Madoka. "Looks like an Ouya to me."
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Jia Jia looks at Sebastian funny. "A who-what?" She shakes her head and looks back at the rest of the stuff. "This is... this is similar to the demon-fighting gear Wudang Monastery keeps sealed in the cellar and they think I don't know about. Except stupid and islandy." She makes an exaggerated frowny face at the incompetence of those silly island people. "Nice swords, though. Can I see one?"
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Aubrey Murphy FP OOX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] "Do you mean that isn't the uniform and ancestral arms of an ancient secret society of occult warriors that your parents are members of?" Aubrey picks up a game. "Or that you don't have the entire Insatiable Brother's Torment series, not to mention Hadaka Shitsuji, and - wait, is this the new Flower Knights of Hyperborea?" "can i borrow it"
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FP/Refresh: 1/3 Hope: OOO Tom stares at the games, at the console, and just about everything else, eyes wide in unblinking confusion. "Ou...nya?" he starts to sound out. "What's an Ounya? Sounds like something someone who didn't knyow the language of cats would put in our myouths." After losing interest in figuring out the "Ounya", he playfully bats at some of the hanging talismans, before looking at the uniform. "...do hyumans like to decorate everything with skulls, nya?"
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Laura Bailey FP/Refresh 0 / 3 | Hope OOO Laura grabs one of the embarrassing dating sims and starts reading the back cover. "God, between this, the psycho pills, and all the other stuff, we're learning some pretty interesting things about our classmates today." A dumb grin spreads across her face as Laura clearly tries and fails to hold back her laughter. "Oh my God look how buff these dudes are... it's like I'm looking in Konami's locker." Throwing the game aside onto a random pile of junk, Laura grabs one of Madoka's swords and unsheathes it. "poo poo, this kicks the rear end out of Azumi's dumbass wooden sword. You ever actually use this thing?"
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Jia "Hey!" Jia yanks the swords out of Laura's hands, but sorta gently-like. "You don't just do that to a fine blade! You could cause serious irreversible damage to the edge! Besides, it's rude!" Jia respectfully places the blades back on their stand. "Though I am curious as to why you have what is clearly a fine pair of blades, Madoka. It must be an interesting story."
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Laura Bailey FP/Refresh 0 / 3 | Hope OOO "Hey, I was holding that!" Laura grumbles. "You're rude."
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"nothing wrong with buff dudes," Konami says in the background. Madoka stops fidgeting to grab the katana from its stand and clutch it protectively. "Well..." "It's a... kind of a society. An old one. The, um, Shinigami. They protect Japan from evil wizards. Like Conan! My parents are in it, the swords are my birthright. Um, I'm just a trainee though. I mean, I'm not great with the sword yet, but I'm alright at kidō." "What, like this?" Konami channels her ki into her hand and lets it hum with the surging energy she likes to hadouken at people, then closes her hand and extinguishes it. Madoka nods. "Well, I'm not good with hadō, but yeah. Um, sorry I didn't tell you. It's supposed to be a huge secret. Not gonna ask you to swear not to tell but... you probably should? Feixue has, she can back me up." Kaiya blurts out what's on everyone's mind. "No offense, but you don't seem like the occult warrior type? You're kind of..." She gestures at Madoka, who stares at her feet for a while. "My parents sorta gave up," she says quietly. "I mean, they don't say it, but nobody expects the cripple to finish training. I can focus on my kidō once I'm in, but to do that I have to... I have to defeat an evil wizard. Or someone close, like our culprit. Everyone thinks I'm too weak. I probably am." She unsheaths the sword just enough to look at the blade thoughtfully. "But I have to try." quote:Cultist: Tokimeki Shinigami Kaiya opens and closes her mouth a few times. "...I was gonna say "a huge dweeb"."
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FP: 3/3 Hope: OOO After letting the revelation sink in for a few seconds, Sebastian raises his arms and sighs. "Am I like the only normal person here? Seriously. Devil Genes, Shinigami, magical girls, Redditors..."
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Aubrey Murphy FP OOX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] "Hey, I'm normal!" Aubrey crosses her arms. And sticks the game in her bag. "Madoka, you can't just kill the culprit, that would be murder. Well, unless it's Fred. Then no jury would convict you. But maybe... if the culprit is trying to bring back this monster thing, maybe taking it out would count?"
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FP/Refresh: 1/3 Hope: OOO "I don't knyow," Tom pipes up, as if to add "catboys" to Sebastian's list. "I'd say you're obsessed with just watching long lines of stuff. Not even playing with it like string, nya." He cocks his head thoughtfully at Madoka and Aubrey. "Welp! Would Shub-Nyi...Shyub...Shub-Nyiggy count as an evil wizard? And can you get assistance from a Dreamlands cat?" He makes a show with his hand crossing near his head that's supposed to look powerful. It just makes him look like a lazy cat.
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Jia Jia's eyes are sparkling. It's extremely disturbing, to say the least. "An ancient warrior society? Fighting evil wizards?" She clasps Madoka's hands. "Madoka, you are heir to the greatest calling of any lifetime: that of a hero. I, Wudang Jia, Heir to Wudang and the Secret Arts of the Chambers, will do anything in my power to see you through to your destiny." She grins. "I know some wonderful martial styles that don't require use of your legs, too." The effect of the oath is ruined as she immediately goes for her phone. "THIS IS THE SECOND BEST DAY OF MY LIFE" code:K Prime fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Feb 10, 2014 |
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Aubrey Murphy FP OOX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] Aubrey eyes Laura, raising an eyebrow at her. "Killing the culprit is wrong, yes... But it's Madoka's choice as to what she does. Anyways, the problem isn't just that Lovelace is mad. It's that this thing is really dangerous."
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"But they didn't just trespass, they messed... with... um..." "yes sir sorry sir" Daigo places the advantage Command & Madoka on Madoka with two invokes! The trainee shinigami won't murder the culprit after all, and Daigo can invoke the aspect to ask her to help with her keen intellect or kidō or Vita or something. . . . pre:FlyingSno: wait is madoka ok FlyingSno: what did she tell u FlyingSno: do i have to come over there "Hmph!" After a moment she realises she's facing Daigo, and turns again to face the door. "hmph" . . . Alright! You're turning up the cultists, but you need to find a culprit. Luckily, you have some clues! Recapping on request: • Daigo has looked at Council lounge records and turned up suspicious keycard-related matters that implicate the computer club. • Someone dropped a bracelet in a filing cabinet down there and didn't pull it out before they left; you know it's not Kaiya's. • Thomas was told to go to the beach to find out more about Shenshashen. So, what's the plan? You can split up again and keep in touch with your smartphones etc. if that's your thing. Ettin fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Feb 12, 2014 |
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FP/Refresh: 1/3 Hope: OOO Tom can hear the disappointment in Konami's voice. Cats may not be the most social hunters, but they're still social animals, and it must suck feeling excluded like this. He sits down beside her, tweaks his ears, and makes a little "mew", just to show she's not completely alone. After all, she's got the best animal in the Dreamlands on her side! And totally not because he doesn't want her to freak out and go demon, no... "Mew, mew, mew..." he purrs for a few moments. "So, after we get back for our free lunch, where to nyext, nya? Maybe a trip to the beach for...uh...sunning purrposes?"
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FP: 3/3 Hope: OOO "No thanks. I'd rather actually follow up on clues. What we've got so far is some suspicious computer club activities and a dropped bracelet. I'd rather go talk to the computer club, I think that's a more concrete lead."
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FP/Refresh: 1/3 Hope: OOO "I don't mean literally for sunning, nya! (Although that'd be nice...). I mean, you knyow, this Shenyashnyen thing! We didn't see any sign of it in the library, so...uh...maybe...it came up someplace else on the island? Someplace myore...lively? You knyow? Nya?"
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Aubrey Murphy FP OOX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] "I'm going with Sebastian to check out the computer club, but I think searching the beach would be a good idea. Thomas might actually have a lead. Someone should go with him to look into it - and make sure he doesn't fall asleep again."
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