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Aubrey Murphy FP OOX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] Aubrey grabs Kaiya's arms and shakes her. "Don't say that!" She catches herself and steps away again. "We've got enough trouble without asking for more." "Okay, is anyone else coming along to the computer labs?"
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Aubrey Murphy FP OXX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] Aubrey immediately covers Kaiya's mouth with her hands. "Don't say that. If you say that terrible things will happen." Aubrey reaches into her bag with a free hand and extracts a roll of silvery tape, tears it with her teeth, and tapes Kaiya's mouth shut. "There." "Jia, can you go with Tom and keep an eye on Kaiya? Daigo found the stuff about the computers so he should come with me and Sebastian. Laura, where are you headed?" [20:48] <Krysmbot> Gorbash, +-//+1 = 1 Invoking Badass But Normal to find a mundane solution.
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Aubrey Murphy FP OXX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] "Hi Wong." Aubrey accepts the handshake, trying to be pleasant. She hasn't really gotten along all that way with the Computer Appreciation Society since the time they'd talked her into playing paintball with them. The damage to their pride as FPS players hadn't gone over well, and to be honest, she might have gone a little overboard. "Sebastian's right, we can't really stay very long..."
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Yo, phoneposting at nearly 3 AM, I make no promises of quality FP: 1/3 Hope: XOO "Wong." Daigo takes the handshake warily, as if expecting it to be somehow poisoned. Or rigged to register him in a database of sex offenders or something. Computers! There is little he has to discuss with CAS members, mostly because he sort of shares Konami's stance on computers: beyond internet browsing and word processing, they are sort of strange and powerful things that he does not really think he will ever fully understand beyond sort of clicking around and hoping things work. Command prompt control may as well be a school of magic in and of itself. "We have reason to believe members of your club have been granting all-access privileges to student cards. ...More than usual, I suppose." He puts his hand to his chin in thought. "This would be of little consequence if it weren't for the recent Forbidden Sections breakin. We would therefore request from you permission to investigate this matter with members of your club."
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FP/Refresh: 1/3 Hope: OOO "Maybe?" Tom shrugs his shoulders. "I'm here on a...it's called a 'hunch', right, nya? Like I said, why would Shyubby decide to show up in a library? Place is full of dead things, nya? So maybe he's outside the school at the moment...ooh, sparrow!"
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FP: 3/3 Hope: OOO Sebastian looks around at all the goddamn computers and mutters under his breath. "Oh my god all we have are a few projectors and a Bluray player I hate these guys." And then there was Tsubaki. "Er....Hey. I don't think I've seen you around." He places a hand on the desk and leans in, all film noir style. "So, what's the deal with the keycards? You been giving out some all-access passes?"
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Aubrey Murphy FP OXX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] "Um, hello. It's nice to meet you. Wong said you were the Security Officer...? We have some questions. If you have the time." Aubrey says hello and then lets Sebastian take the lead in questioning the strange girl. She looks around the room casually. Then it hits her that this is totally like the secret command center of the villains in a movie. She looks around shiftily, then carefully starts checking things out for clues. [21:58] <Krysmbot> Gorbash, /-/-+3 = 1 Screw dat. Using my Passion to make it a 5.
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Sebastian Tsubaki trembles slightly as Sebastian approaches her Personal Space. And then he leans in just enough... Before Sebastian knows what's up, Tsubaki's empty chair is spinning on the floor and the Security Officer has all four limbs wrapped around him. Sebastian doesn't know if she's trying to knock him down or bite his shoulder but she's pretty lightweight so it's not too bad. Man she smells like Febreeze though. Quick attack! <Krysmbot> Ettin, /-/-+2 = 0 Tsubaki invokes her The Bad Touch aspect for a reroll! <Krysmbot> Ettin, -/+/+2 = 2 Tsubaki will stop mauling Sebastian once he exits the room or manages to pry her off. Aubrey Okay, so this is clearly Tsubaki's lair and she's a huge dork. Aubrey can see some pretty sophisticated computer technology lying around here too, and she definitely knows how to use it. It looks like she was mostly using her screens to watch dumb cartoons for kids, though. Even worse, some of her shelves contain... Hong Kong action movies! So uncool. As she looks around, Aubrey starts to remember a few things. An urban legend in her class. One of the dorm rooms at the far end of Dunwich Hall is always closed for repairs or something, and supposedly a crazy ghost lives in there. Sometimes people swear they see a mysterious ghost girl wandering to and from the club building at night. All your classes are recorded, and you're pretty sure you can see an empty classroom on one of her screens. You know the school has taken in a few students - some even orphans - from the blighted parts of the world, and some can be pretty messed up. Some of your classes have empty seats. Aubrey is pretty sure Tsubaki Tsubaki is her classmate, with everything that implies. Aubrey discovers two aspects: Zero Cool and The Hikikomori of Class A-3. She gets one free invoke between them!
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Laura Bailey FP/Refresh 1 / 3 | Hope OOO "So we're out here on a hunch, huh?" Laura smirks, then shrugs. "Yeah, that's cool." "But uh... What do we actually know about Shenshasen, anyway? Like, he's some Chinese divine spirit, right? And he accepts sacrifices apparently? And he's somehow related to that... Shub-Niggurath... thing. And he's pretty dangerous, apparently? Is that it? I feel like I'm missing something..." "If I'm not, though, and we're just going on hunches..." The girl points at the weird rock on the horizon. "I bet you if we're going to find something we'll find something there. I mean look at it, that rock's weird and spooky as hell. Probably has tons of spirits on it. And if it doesn't, well, worst case is that we go check out a pretty cool rock. Not a bad way to spend lunch time, I think. What d'you guys think?"
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Aubrey Murphy FP OXX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] Aubrey smiles, even though she's a little disturbed. She goes over to join her at the computer, keeping back enough not to violate Tsubaki's personal space. "Okay, so... Did you give anyone access to the Forbidden Sections recently? A student, I mean. Or do you know if anyone hacked the system recently to do something like that? Oh, and do you recognize this symbol?" Aubrey pulls out the bracelet she found in the forbidden section.
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Zephaniah's Beach [Jia, Laura, Thomas] Konami growls. "That— that's technically true, but...!" "Exactly," Shiro beams. Konami just fumes. Laura finds one of the school boats, and... That One Weird Rock, Zephaniah's Beach People swim out here on a dare sometimes, but they don't stay for long. As far as you know, nobody's gone further than putting something on the beach to prove they were here before running. It takes about a minute to circle enough of the rock to find something - a weird hill out of sight of the beach, with some weird slabs of rock on it and a dirt ramp smoothed out. You haven't seen it before, but you've seen a better designed version... "Told you," Shiro says. "How did you know about this?" Konami asks. Shiro shrugs. "I have a lot of free time. I just observe. That's how I know about your heart." "Stop saying that!" Shiro pads around her legs. "Oh, just own it, girl. It's not a big deal compared to what some of the others have going on. So you have the heart of a devil, you have close connections with Yama Cult members and there's a room near the back entrance to the Forbidden Sections for caging you when you go berserk. It's not a big deal!" "That— you can't— YOU LITTLE poo poo!" Konami points at Shiro. "HE'S TWISTING EVERYTHING SO IT SOUNDS BAD!" Shiro beams. . . .  Time for some compels!Laura (Sparkly Moon Magic With A Dark Secret): Bullshit, man. Like every word Shiro says is one hundred percent accurate, what's her problem? Wait, why are you even letting this lunatic tag along, let alone leave Detention? Jia (Literal Wuxia Hero In Training): You KNEW it! She is TOTALLY a cultist! You don't know whether to kick her off the island or just kick her! Thomas (Catboy of Ulthar): Shiro's a cat! Cats are pretty great. gently caress non-cats. If you roll anything against her, you have a free invoke of that Guilty Gene aspect she picked up. . . . The Real Computer Lab [Aubrey, Daigo, Sebastian] Tsubaki takes the bracelet, contemplates it thoughtfully, and puts it in her mouth. After a moment she spits it out and hands it back, then turns to the computer and starts typing. A few monitors throw up maps of the Forbidden Sections and a login for the security feed - the actual security center is in the Miskatonic labs under the school, but the Computer Appreciation Society gets to act as an auxilary station. How much power do these guys have? Anyway, Tsubaki lets all that stuff load up and pulls up student profiles instead. She seems to have seen it before while watching class feeds, and she has a pretty good memory. She types a single word into a .txt file to communicate with Aubrey: pre:"forever" It's Feixue Guo. She is totally wearing the exact same bracelet. . . . Compels? Compels!Aubrey (Miss Class Rep): It was Feixue! You can hang out with Tsubaki later, it's time to take action! If you're quick you can catch Feixue and grab her before lunch ends and she disappears into the safety of the classroom! Daigo (Only You Can Prevent Eldritch Fires!): Lawbreaker! Forget this creepy computer society with vague Hell subtexts, time to chase down the culprit and give her a piece of your mind! Sebastian (I Think I Saw This In A Movie Once), only if Aubrey or Daigo accept: Oh man, this is going to be the epic confrontation with the culprit, isn't it? You can't miss this! Ettin fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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Laura Bailey FP/Refresh 1 -> 2 / 3 | Hope OOO "God, SHUT UP!" Laura screams angrily. "Shiro might have the patience to deal with existential teenage bullshit, but I don't. At least not for someone with their head stuck so far up their rear end!" She throws her arms up in obvious frustration, turning a bit red. "Wake the gently caress up, Konami! Open your eyes and actually try listening to what he's talking about! He's trying to HELP you! Everything that cat is saying is One-Hundred-loving-Percent True! It might suck, but you know what? Life sucks! It sucks a lot! loving deal with it. I did!" "Why don't you take some of your loving Crazy Pills and calm the gently caress down?! Or did you leave those in your locker? Is that why you've been acting like such a PSYCHO BITCH today?!" Compel accepted.
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You know what...something's up. Compel denied. FP/Refresh: 1-1/3 Hope: OOO Tom looks at Shiro, then at Konami, then back at Shiro again, and then tilts his head to one side. "You knyow, Konami...they say, in the Dreamlands, you can tell how safe you are by how close the cats stay. And for all of Shiro's talking about how dyangerous you are...he's staying awfully close to you. He's been on your lap on the boat ride over, he's been right behind you while we were here...see, he's brushing against your leg nyow, nya!" He kneels down and gets on all fours to look Shiro in the eye. "She's nyat that dangerous at all, is she, nya? You're smiling...mew...~" He smiles and flicks his tail out in a cutesy manner. "The cats at home would be given you a lot myore distance if you were demonic, nya!"
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Jia Jia looks at Konami, watching her temper rise. She makes a decision. With a firm stance, Jia points at Konami. "When we leave this island, you should stay here, and not return until your kung fu is strong enough to resist your anger!" Jia then turns her back on Konami. Omg, that was soooo coooool. she thinks to herself. Compel accepted.
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Feb 25, 2014 13:33
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Alright! I am waiting for one reply from everyone (or until I get bored) so no Computer Lab post yet, but the Beach can have one. Zephaniah's Beach [Jia, Laura, Thomas] "I— I'm not! Don't—" Konami stiffens, her eyes widen, and she clutches at her chest. "don't.... aaaaaaaghh..." Shiro looks between Thomas and the groaning Konami, still smiling. "I'm Laura's cat. I don't usually fear for my safety around humans." Konami sways, drops to her knees and gasps in pain. Shiro starts circling her. "This is un...fortunate. This is the start. First her blighted heart pumps black blood through her system, then she... Hmm. She seems to be resisting the Demon Gene, but she's only drawing the process out." Shiro smiles some more. "She should have taken my advice. Ah, speaking of advice..." Shiro turns away from the doubled-over Konami as she struggles to breathe and starts putting some serious distance between them. "We should move. It's possible that we can leave her here until she calms, at least... What would you advise?" Konami is gaining the aspect Satsui no Hado. You have three choices! Take your time and feel free to talk it over OOC, I'm not replying until I can post something for the Lab team too. • Stay and try to calm her (won't work, might create advantages to use later though) • Hide around the odd hill until she goes away (possibly gaining some valuable clues in the process!) • Take the boat and go
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Aubrey Murphy FP OXX | Hope OOO | Passion O [Requisition Orders: XXXXX] "Feixue?" Aubrey stares. "That doesn't make any sense, isn't one of the group from the detention hall supposed to be the culprit. Unless Lovelace was wrong - argh, whatever! If nothing else she has know something! Come on, let's go!" Without waiting for anyone else, she runs out of the room, nearly knocking over Wong - then runs back in, bumping him again. "Thank's Tsubaki we'll hang out later bye!" Then takes off for real, catching Wong a third time if he isn't quick enough to get out of the way. Compel accepted! Comrade Gorbash fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Feb 26, 2014 |
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