Session Start: Tue Oct 16 19:54:51 2012
Session Ident: #weirdacademy
03[19:54] * Now talking in #weirdacademy
03[19:54] * DiceMaid-9001 is now known as Jessie
[19:55] <@Mons> if cast is still available for this
03[19:56] * Jessie is now known as DiceMaid-9001
[19:58] <@Mons> fuck
[19:58] <@Mons> did i ruin this
[19:58] <@Mons> by freaking out so much
[19:58] <@Mons> when i just
[19:58] <@Mons> it just passed
01[19:59] <zoofman> he's probably just cooking dinner
01[19:59] <zoofman> recall he never said he -wouldn't- be here just said he'd be late
01[19:59] <zoofman> I'm just brewing coffee in the mean time V:
[20:05] <@Mons> [5:51pm] castfromhp: Okay, so...tentatively, I will actually be here, as my schedule for the day has done some strange swaps that've enabled this. I am not sure whether or not it's a *good idea* for me to be playing game because I still have a shit ton of things to do that the schedule scramble didn't help, but I've never been a terribly huge fan of good ideas anyway.
[20:05] <@Mons> implied to me
[20:06] <@Mons> that if we aren't doing anything he's gone anwyay
[20:06] <@Mons> fuck why did i freak out like
[20:06] <@Mons> that
[20:06] <@Mons> probably because I woke up to two people bugging me for two separate games but :<
03[20:09] * castfromhp (nnscript@sux-16CAECB9.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has joined #weirdacademy
01[20:09] <zoofman> 3:
[20:09] <castfromhp> !dm9001 lastlines #10
01[20:09] <zoofman> I wish you weren't scared of us over this stuff or something
[20:10] <@Mons> i wish i wasn't too
[20:10] <castfromhp> !dm9001 lastlines #30
[20:10] <@Mons> ok. here we go.
[20:13] <@Mons> uu?
03[20:13] * zoofman is now known as Beatrice
01[20:13] <Beatrice> was that what you were waiting for? :V
[20:14] <@Mons> yes
03[20:14] * castfromhp is now known as Mikaela
[20:14] <Mikaela> You could tell us to nick up and be less ambiguous then. :V
[20:15] <@Mons> V:
[20:15] <Mikaela> (btw elec/psy wile with Ralts line aesthetic - speshul high ability options or no?)
[20:15] <@Mons> uhm
[20:16] <@Mons> dammit you stopped my train of thought
[20:16] <Mikaela> (sorry, was just catching up on bookkeeping)
[20:16] <Mikaela> (also mind if I do some quick shopping?)
[20:16] <Mikaela> (that I should've done earlier but :V)
[20:16] <@Mons> You won't need it.
01[20:17] <Beatrice> where we're going
01[20:17] <Beatrice> we only need
01[20:17] <Beatrice> rabu
[20:17] <@Mons> do it when you have time elsewhere.
03[20:17] * DiceMaid-9001 is now known as RichterBelmont
03[20:18] * RichterBelmont is now known as DiceMaid-9001
[20:19] <@Mons> The mist is very slowly clearing, though wisps still remain here and there. You're alone in the remnants of the lab; it seems... darker. A bit more oppressive, colder, but maybe that's because there's nobody else now.
[20:20] <@Mons> ...Actually, can we get Kain in on this? Might just wanna do it as groups and toss Beard on Sunday.
[20:20] <Mikaela> (go for it)
06[20:22] * Beatrice conjures up a ball of light and hovers it above her head, Bella or no bella. "A hallucination? Or...something else entirely?"
[20:23] <Mikaela> "Minmay, rally the others an' gimme an aura scan." Mika whistles for her Mawiles to take formation and scan the area. "Gotta find the others."
[20:23] <@Mons> NOW perception
01[20:24] <Beatrice> 1d20+1 nope.
[20:24] <DiceMaid-9001> Beatrice, nope.: 19 [1d20=18]
[20:24] <Mikaela> 1d20+1 :V
[20:24] <DiceMaid-9001> Mikaela, :V: 21 [1d20=20]
[20:24] <@Mons> <Uh...> <Wah!> <Nnnnnnn> <CHATTER CHATTER> they all seem weird.
[20:24] <Mikaela> "Somethin' wrong?"
[20:25] <@Mons> The sound of a single heartbeat echoes through the chambers. The lights flicker on their own, and faint noises echo in the background before fading.
[20:25] <@Mons> <I--uhm. We really shouldn't do this. It's... harsh in here. Like a bunch of auras that never faded.>
[20:26] <@Mons> Something notable, though... Is that a lot of rubble is cleared out here; even a lot of stuff you didn't know wasn't just part of the caves. This place has seriously opened up.
06[20:26] * Mikaela tilts her head and leans on her rocket hammer. "Gotcha. So whatsat mean anyhow? Strong impressions left here?"
[20:27] <@Mons> Right to your left is an enclosed room with a table and a bunch of weird tools scattered around behind the glass wall; outside are recording machines and a microphone.
[20:27] <@Mons> <Feels really bad.>
[20:27] <Mikaela> "Trice, this sorta thing familiar to ya?"
01[20:27] <Beatrice> "Zat or whatever was here never left.  What an errie sound, as well.  Hm.."
[20:27] <Mikaela> "Feels like...what, unpleasant memories? Hostility? What kinda bad?"
[20:28] <@Mons> <It's quiet...>
01[20:28] <Beatrice> "Ze hallucinating or zis particular sensation?  Yes and no."
[20:29] <Mikaela> "Y'mean this isn't what a haunted place feels like? Or somethin' from that gym you work at...Kinda figured that'd be similar, y'know?"
[20:29] <@Mons> <Different. These... no ghosts.>
01[20:29] <Beatrice> "What ze mawile said."
01[20:30] <Beatrice> "Whatever is haunting us, it's not, well, a haunt!  Zough I suppose we should find ze source of zat sound before it finds us."
06[20:30] * Beatrice walks over to the room on the left for a closer look.
[20:30] <Mikaela> "Then..." Mika taps at her phone. Pokemon radar! 50m radius
[20:31] <@Mons> Static.
[20:31] <@Mons> Is it broken?
[20:31] <@Mons> Static shouldn't even EXIST on any modern technology.
[20:31] <@Mons> sky is the color of the TV turned to a dead channel etc
[20:32] <Mikaela> "Nothin' doin' huh?" Mika reaches out toward the wiring of the area with electrokinesis, feeling for power.
[20:32] <Mikaela> (wait, are we not in an inclosed area? Or are you just quoting Neuromancer for no reason?)
[20:32] <@Mons> Either way, the radar isn't actually working. Maybe something got broken? And another heartbeat surges.
[20:32] <Mikaela> *enclosed
[20:32] <@Mons> No, I'm making a joke
[20:33] <@Mons> That 'the sky is the color of a TV turned to a dead channel' has changed what the weather actually is every time TVs move forward
[20:33] <@Mons> from gray because static to bright and clear because blue etc
[20:33] <@Mons> It'd be night now, yes? :B
[20:33] <Mikaela> As the second heartbeat passes, Mika taps her phone again, this time a stopwatch app.
[20:33] <@Mons> The voices have started up again...
06[20:33] * Beatrice looks over the table applainces. "I wonder, are zese memories of when zis place was used before us? It certainly appears in better order."
[20:34] <@Mons> Voices and noises. Machinery running. Some buttons and readouts, even separated dead ones, flash to life just barely.
[20:34] <Mikaela> "Lemme see." Mika peers over.
[20:35] <@Mons> It's one of those rooms you see in any big lab or recording studio with the glass separating observer and actor.
01[20:35] <Beatrice> (We're on the recording side?)
01[20:35] <Beatrice> (Or observing rather.)
[20:36] <@Mons> The glass broken, of course, it's not hard to climb in. The room itself is silent comparative to the very faint whispers outside, though the weird little tools and 'toys' and raw material inside seem to move ever so slightly when you look at them.
[20:36] <Mikaela> (What kinds of tools and stuff?)
[20:37] <Mikaela> (I'd imagine if it's a recording studio, the equipment there would be familiar to Mika. Or even if it's a mad science lab, given her history)
[20:37] <@Mons> it's sort of...
06[20:37] * Beatrice looks at the 'toys'? "Hmmm...?" (I swear if it's dildos)
[20:41] <@Mons> The tools are... well, basic tools. Wrench, screwdriver, hammer, etc. Also artist's tools--a paintbrush, easel, chisel... Beyond that, there are a couple cute physics toys, probably one of those baby brain builder things. There's also a bunch of paper with babby scribbles scattered around, bits of lumpy clay molded poorly, 'projects' of wood half-assedly nailed together with some wires and useless parts.
06[20:42] * Beatrice examines a few of the drawings. "Hm...."
[20:42] <@Mons> Scribbles, largely.
[20:42] <Mikaela> (style look familiar at all?)
01[20:42] <Beatrice> "Odd mix of items.  Maybe zey were experimenting on humans, or intelligent Pokemon."
[20:42] <@Mons> They get less coherent the more you find. Yes, in that more or less every little kid draws the same way. :V
06[20:42] * Mikaela takes a brief look over everything then turns her eyes to the walls and ceiling, looking for anything odd.
[20:43] <@Mons> Though maybe it's more like the newer ones match colors better and take shape...
[20:43] <Mikaela> "Looks like someone's childhood to me."
[20:43] <@Mons> Lots of torn up padding, bent metal and flaked off paint.
[20:43] <@Mons> Some tools and such are lodged in the metal. Even a crayon is.
[20:43] <Mikaela> (as in sanitorium padded room padding?)
[20:43] <@Mons> Yes.
01[20:44] <Beatrice> "Ominious, but probably will simply become more so as we venture elsewhere."
01[20:44] <Beatrice> "Suffice to say, seems -someone- may have lived in here at some point."  She looks for other avenues around the lab.
[20:45] <@Mons> Going back in, the machinery is still barely-flickering, and the below-indoor-voice murmurs can still be heard.
[20:45] <Mikaela> "Ehhhhh, I 'spose." Mika yanks a tool out of the wall. "Ya ever go through that thing where ya lose control of your telekinesis as a kid and send shit flyin'?" She tosses the hammer or whatever up and catches it again. "Or is that just a movie thing or somethin'?"
[20:46] <@Mons> Looking around the 'main room' again, it seems like this is a sort of factory, or at least was used to make things on some level. Most of the machines are broken and rusted of course, tubes popped open and creations nowhere to be seen...
[20:46] <@Mons> Though there's a slight whiff of chemicals around.
[20:47] <@Mons> Approaching one of the big manufacturing machines it gets slightly stronger, and you can almost hear a hum as if it's turned on, and some worker and loudspeaker chatter.
[20:47] <@Mons> Though there's also a stairway on the other side...
01[20:47] <Beatrice> "Not...really, no, but I suppose I am not very experimental with it."
01[20:47] <Beatrice> "Mostly used it to get books from high shelves or something..."
[20:48] <Mikaela> "Yeah, but you also didn't get locked up in a padded room, y'know?"
[20:48] <Mikaela> "Somethin's up with the past of this place then. Shoulda had Yulia make a sweep 'fore all this..."
06[20:49] * Beatrice gives Mikaela a quizzacle look. "I don't believe you want to know what 'time out' in my home consists of." And then to the stairway.
[20:50] <@Mons> Upstairs?
[20:51] <@Mons> Or searching any of the previous rooms?
06[20:51] * Mikaela stops at one of the machines and holds up a hand, sending a controlled surge of electricity through it and the surrounding mechanisms.
[20:52] <@Mons> Heartbeat. Louder. There's a grinding noise now.
[20:52] <@Mons> The lights flicker brighter.
06[20:52] * Mikaela taps her stopwatch again.
[20:52] <@Mons> A freezing wind blows through, and the voices get louder... It's normal factory chatter.
06[20:52] * Beatrice doesn't really care much for the machines, though the chemicals may have been interesting if they weren't just gasoline exhaust or something.
[20:52] <@Mons> Out of the edge of your vision, you can begin to see shapes moving, bright ones.
[20:52] <Mikaela> "...the more we interfere, the more the old life of this place comes to its own."
[20:53] <@Mons> The readouts and such have become more visible now, and there's a bit more activity everywhere. For a certain definition of 'activity'...
[20:54] <@Mons> Perception!
[20:54] <Mikaela> "Up with Trice, all o'you." Mika motions at her Mawiles. "Cept you an' you, if y'wanna hover 'round instead. Be ready to beat it though." She points at Basara and Sheryl.
06[20:54] * Mikaela bends down, ready to jump, and then sends out another surge of electricity.
01[20:54] <Beatrice> "Mmm...wonder what awaits us upstairs, zen," stairs aho then! after ception
01[20:54] <Beatrice> 1d20+1
[20:54] <DiceMaid-9001> Beatrice, 1d20+1: 20 [1d20=19]
[20:55] <@Mons> Okay wait will I need to do a channel split :/
[20:55] <Mikaela> 1d20+1
[20:55] <DiceMaid-9001> Mikaela, 1d20+1: 10 [1d20=9]
01[20:55] <Beatrice> (god damn.)
01[20:55] <Beatrice> (Only if you really think you'd need to for organization or other reasons, don't really mind it in one place myself.)
[20:56] <@Mons> okay well
01[20:56] <Beatrice> "Something odd about zat grinding noise, Mikaela, it sounds oddly...human?"
[20:56] <@Mons> Another heartbeat. The grinding speeds up... stop, change. Speeds up.
[20:56] <@Mons> The grinding is the heartbeat.
[20:56] <@Mons> Slowed down.
06[20:56] * Mikaela taps again. Does there seem to be some pattern to the heartbeats?
[20:56] <@Mons> Not really.
[20:57] <Mikaela> "So, what, we're in someone's head or somethin'?"
[20:57] <@Mons> The machines have come to life at this point, as have the ghostly people operating them. Back in the previous room, people are actually talking and monitoring the unclear events in the child's... prison?
[20:57] <@Mons> They're making bottles of--of something.
[20:58] <@Mons> Of course they are, most of them ARE liquid containers of some sort... Lots of chemistry in general.
[20:58] <Mikaela> "I could probably bring this whole place back to life if I keep at this." Mika's hand crackles with a few errant sparks of electricity.
[20:58] <@Mons> The people and events sound a little nervous. They're talking about chances, failure, backups, productivity...
01[20:58] <Beatrice> "Who knows.  Maybe," she shouts down as she heads up the stairs.
[20:59] <@Mons> Just looking back and examining, things are pretty tense.
[20:59] <@Mons> It's more or less completely 'populated' now though.
[20:59] <@Mons> And the upstairs...
06[20:59] * Mikaela listens closely for jargon and anything that sounds like codenames and the like. She approaches the hub of activity. "Well, I'm gonna check it out, you goin' on ahead?"
[20:59] <@Mons> Is an office room, lots of people at computers, and computers running.
[20:59] <@Mons> Papers going back and forth, still pretty frantic.
[21:00] <@Mons> Jargon, jargon. This is definitely... biochemistry. Biomimetics? There are a LOT of apparent codewords. A lot of half-scared jokes about abandonment and how shitty 'this place' or 'the island' is.
06[21:01] * Beatrice peeks over a few shoulders of the apparations at their workstations, seeing what they are up to if it's visible
[21:01] <@Mons> Whenever someone mentions 'the project' usually eyes are rolled and disappointed sighs go out, or else people look hopeful for some sort of news.
[21:01] <@Mons> My word this is wordy and numbery.
06[21:02] * Mikaela worms her way in to get a closer look, being careful for now not to bump into any of the phantom people.
01[21:02] <Beatrice> "It's an office up here," She shouts down.  "Zey are...doing something with computers.  I don't quite follow it."
[21:02] <@Mons> Mostly... day to day reports of activities? Especially kid-sounding activities. Some have formulas for results produced or something, some have number crunching...
[21:03] <Mikaela> "Y'want me to take a crack at it?"
01[21:03] <Beatrice> "Sure, let's swap, I am curious about zose chemicals I saw before heading up anyway."
06[21:04] * Mikaela squats down and leaps into the air, making the rest of the vertical distance up to Trice's position with her Air Adept powers.
06[21:05] * Beatrice heads back down, examines these bottles they got lined up.
[21:06] <@Mons> Whatever it is, it's clear something's being examined and tested in terms of ability and development. In other areas, it's mostly an extension of the chemistry downstairs--effects on X or Y, reports on how things react... All very strangely. Details of hallucinations come up frequently.
[21:06] <@Mons> The bottles stink.
[21:06] <@Mons> The machines stink.
[21:06] <@Mons> It's only now that you notice people have sort of gas masks over their nose and mouth.
06[21:06] * Mikaela takes a looksee at the computers.
06[21:06] * Beatrice looks left
06[21:06] * Beatrice looks right
[21:06] <@Mons> the first words was the computers :V
06[21:07] * Beatrice sniffs the bottle again, what exactly -does- it smell like?
[21:07] <@Mons> Though in terms of the 'development reports'... yeah, it's what's expected.
[21:07] <@Mons> The day to day activities, lessons, and ability developments of the project.
06[21:07] * Mikaela reaches down at one of the computers, preferably unoccupied, and tries the mouse and keyboard.
[21:07] <@Mons> Beato: Like... chemical, mostly, Very indistinct.
[21:07] <@Mons> It works.
06[21:08] * Beatrice looks to the machine that's making it for any clues of what's -in- it
[21:08] <@Mons> Whatever it is, it's totally synthetic, or at least the ingredients are being BROUGHT in.
[21:08] <@Mons> Just lots of liquids going into more liquids.
[21:09] <Mikaela> "Alright, let's figure out what the fuck they're doin' here..." Mika starts poking around at the file structure, looking for better or more concise information on what's being done here.
01[21:10] <Beatrice> "..." Looks to the container, more a bottle or a sealed instrument?
[21:10] <@Mons> Most of it at these cubicles are in code... This one seems to be tracking 'downtime'. Likes and dislikes. Wants. What it does with what is offered. A LOT of daily records, and a lot of 'not as expected' or 'progress slow'.
[21:11] <@Mons> bottle.
01[21:11] <Beatrice> She takes off the cap and takes a sip.
[21:11] <@Mons> It feels like something is going down your throat, but there's no actual liquid movement.
[21:11] <Mikaela> Fuck code. Mika metaphorically rolls up her sleeves and gets to work decrypting this. Hacker.
[21:12] <@Mons> Oh no, in CYPHERS
[21:12] <@Mons> or codeWORDS
[21:12] <@Mons> Also a lot of it is super basic.
01[21:12] <Beatrice> ". . . What."  She blinks a few times, then tries to drink a bigger portion.
[21:12] <@Mons> Really you're just... leafing through a really cold, scientifically detatched, disappointed parent's journal of what a kid does in offtime
[21:13] <@Mons> 1d20
[21:13] <DiceMaid-9001> Mons, 1d20: 13 [1d20=13]
[21:13] <@Mons> Same effect
[21:13] <@Mons> Just... more. It's beginning to get really bizarre.
01[21:13] <Beatrice> "MIKAELA IF I PASS OUT DONT DRINK ZIS STUFF," she attempts to chug the rest of it.
06[21:14] * Mikaela looks underneath the desks, in the drawers, all the basic places people would keep passwords noted. If there seems to be a notepad around for the key of a one time pad, she snatches it up. Otherwise, she assumes that the cypher can't have perfect security and starts at trying to work it out. (what are the limits of how I can fluff the hacker feat anyhow?)
[21:14] <@Mons> I'm gonna say like
[21:14] <@Mons> actual passwords stuff
[21:14] <@Mons> and... hacking
[21:14] <@Mons> As opposed to, say, breaking the enigma code or deciphering spytalk :V
[21:14] <@Mons> Which is what this basically is.
[21:15] <Mikaela> (well, it's all essentially the same thing when it comes to cryptography - breaking a cypher. and I know exactly how I would approach this if I were a character capable of this)
[21:15] <@Mons> Yeah but there's really no... basic thing. It's just codewords. The smelly rooster crows inside the house and such.
[21:15] <Mikaela> (decoding a cyphertext for a message is actual loads easier than doing it for a password! Because you can use patterns in the English language to find patterns in the cyphertext for most things like this)
[21:16] <Mikaela> (oh you confused me when you said enigma code, because that's exactly the kind of thing I figured would be under this purview :B)
01[21:16] <Beatrice> (Actually modern hacking has very -little- to do with codebreaking and more how do you trick an internet browser to execute a line of code.  But that's just semantics.)
10[21:16] <Mikaela> (what I mean zoof is the actual act of breaking cryptography, which is how I assume the hacker feat works, because doing something like SQL injections is kind of odd in a lot of circumstances in a PNP)
[21:19] <@Mons> are we done with autism
01[21:19] <Beatrice> chug chug chug.
[21:19] <Mikaela> In any case! Mika is looking for anything that mirrors her own lab reports, or at least something that can give her some more quick insight to things.
[21:19] <@Mons> You're caught in an infinite loop!
01[21:19] <Beatrice> "I....don't -get- it."
01[21:20] <Beatrice> "It -feels- like I'm injesting a liquid but nothing is leaving ze container."
[21:20] <@Mons> Her own? Not particularly. They mostly go along those lines--difficulties making whatever chemicals they're supposed to make, difficulties getting the project to focus and cooperate, difficulties in seeing the results they apparently want... Though what those results ARE is very unclear.
[21:20] <Mikaela> "That's 'cause none of this is really here. It's strong aura impressions or somethin'." Mika yells down.
01[21:21] <Beatrice> "Drinking strong impressions seems like it'd work zough! Maybe." She puts the cap back on and walks back over to where the apparations are suposibly watching a child in a padded room?
[21:22] <@Mons> They're giving instructions and occasional questions, and the tools--
[21:22] <@Mons> Well, they move. Any response to anything from the kid's room is unsettling staticy noises muffling up a very inhuman voice.
06[21:23] * Mikaela looks for personal emails on the computer. Or financial information on the project. Anything that's not just the science. That's where information tends to slip out, she figures, in terms of not being curated and codeworded the way all the lab reports are.
[21:23] <@Mons> You can hardly tell what's being said, though by the comprehensible side of the conversation, it's being very difficult.
[21:23] <@Mons> Financial information... A few computers down has a good accounting boo--WHOA
[21:23] <@Mons> There's a LOT of money going into this.
06[21:24] * Beatrice tries projecting her thoughts into the room. <Yoooohooo, anyone home?>
[21:24] <@Mons> Though some sources have apparently started to run dry. Pull out, maybe? Others have begun to follow.
[21:24] <@Mons> The backers...
[21:24] <Mikaela> Names of sources? "Whoever's behind this, it was a whole lotta cash."
[21:26] <@Mons> The names are all in playing card metaphor, though it's the old version where the face cards are fool, jack, knight, queen and king.
[21:26] <@Mons> Normal playing card suits, though.
[21:27] <@Mons> By far the least consistent funding is from the King of Clubs, and the most is from the Knight of Clubs.
[21:28] <Mikaela> "Looks like a predecessor or inspiration to Masque's theme Trice. Playing cards as a codename scheme." Mika calls down. "How's it on your end?"
[21:28] <@Mons> Beato's thoughts... echo.
[21:29] <@Mons> How do thoughts echo OW
[21:29] <@Mons> They come back to your head full of noise and distortion.
06[21:29] * Beatrice scratches her head, winces a little. "Mmm...seems ze only non-clear apparation is zat of ze child in question. And it is responding...oddly to telepathy. Let's see, how to remedy zat..." She does another scan of the lab.
[21:30] <@Mons> As far as you can tell, there aren't any minds here.
[21:30] <@Mons> Just--huh wait.
[21:30] <@Mons> Something in the far distance.
[21:30] <@Mons> FAR distance, way over in a place you haven't even stepped towards yet.
06[21:32] * Beatrice abruptly pauses, turns toward the 'ping'. "Mmm...come down if you're done...seems we missed something. Someone."
[21:32] <@Mons> Wellll I mean Mike hasn't gone through any of the DOORS yet
[21:32] <@Mons> But at the same time there's more bottom-floor stuff yes.
[21:34] <Mikaela> "Can it wait? I've got more up here..." Mika gets up and looks around for where else she can go up here.
[21:35] <@Mons> Copier/printer room. Break room. Filing room. --Private office?
01[21:35] <Beatrice> "Oh, okay, I'll take a look ahead zen~" she meanders off
[21:35] <@Mons> Okay here's where it gets clusterfucky.
[21:36] <@Mons> There's maaaajor things in both of these directions
[21:36] <@Mons> pls stay consistent
[21:36] <Mikaela> A quick sweep of the rooms in order, mostly peeking in the printer trays in the first, looking for files left out in the second, and then a bit of a more thorough look in the filing room. The private office seems most curious though.
[21:36] <@Mons> ...Or not and I can...
[21:36] <@Mons> well ok.
[21:36] <@Mons> Mostly what's being printed is the reports being written, which are promptly either filed or put in the delivery bin
[21:37] <@Mons> The office...
[21:37] <@Mons> *SOMEONE* is taking calls.
[21:37] <@Mons> It's an indistinct, blurred out figure, talking about indistinct, distorted things.
06[21:38] * Mikaela walks up and starts opening and closing drawers in the desk, rifling through papers, that sort of thing, anything to force her to be more 'in' this scene that's occurring. "Okay, quick peek Minmay, still somethin' wrong with this aura-wise?"
[21:39] <@Mons> <No aura.>
[21:39] <@Mons> The figure reacts and shouts something, hanging up promptly and pushing the chair back.
[21:39] <@Mons> *SKIP TO BEATO*
[21:40] <@Mons> The next room over...
[21:41] <@Mons> The scientists here are more optimistic, in a way, or at least too busy to talk about failures. They're rushing around, talking about physical state, development of ability, keywords like that... The centerpiece of the room, connected to all the machines, is a massive--a massive--
[21:41] <@Mons> Something.
[21:41] <@Mons> It's blurred too.
06[21:42] * Beatrice approaches it, tries to project at it. <Anyone zere? No? Hm...> She examines the machines actually hooked up to this thing.
[21:42] <@Mons> Your head gets full of feedback. The scientists get more frantic--a machine breaks from overload. An alarm sounds.
[21:43] <@Mons> *SKIP TO MIKE*
[21:43] <@Mons> An alarm sounds. The blurred man rushes out of his office. The people outside are panicking.
[21:43] <@Mons> You catch... the tail end of a coat as he rushes out the door. Is he becoming more distinct?
[21:43] <@Mons> *TO BEATO*
01[21:44] <Beatrice> "OOPS."
[21:44] <@Mons> More machines break. People are desperately trying to turn things off, and fix it... The tank is becoming unblurred, and the distorted noise focuses into a primal, unearthly scream.
[21:44] <@Mons> A human, female shape is pounding on the glass.
[21:44] <@Mons> Both: Actions
[21:44] <Mikaela> "Uhh, Trice what the fuck is goin' on down there?" Mika takes a quick moment to snatch anything that looks important in this office.
06[21:45] * Beatrice approaches the glass, looks at the girl, waves, knocks on her side of the glass. Any signs of recognition that she's there at all? "I uhm, fixed it! Sort of. Maybe. I don't know."
[21:46] <@Mons> Roll dex.
01[21:46] <Beatrice> 1d20+1
[21:46] <DiceMaid-9001> Beatrice, 1d20+1: 14 [1d20=13]
[21:47] <Mikaela> (me as well?)
[21:47] <@Mons> You wobble and fall as she flails a fist towards you, the force radiating out from it punching a gigantic hole in the wall behind you.
[21:47] <@Mons> No, you just grab a couple papers and dash out. The blurred man is becoming more coherent.
[21:47] <@Mons> He's middle-aged, though his hair is falling out rapidly... A scientist, not a middle manager or businessman.
01[21:47] <Beatrice> <Aaaah - Calm down, can you see me? Do you want out?  I can get you out, but not if you keep trying to hit me!>
[21:48] <Mikaela> If he's going for the stairs, Mika hops the railing to get a better look at his face and makes a safe landing with her powers.
[21:50] <@Mons> More screamy distortion.
[21:50] <@Mons> You DO get a good look at his face! OBTAINED: MEMORY OF FACE
[21:50] <@Mons> What, it's not like he's anyone you know
06[21:51] * Beatrice gets up, shrugs. <Stand back zen!> She chucks a fireball at the glass.
[21:51] <Mikaela> "Hey Sheryl, read my mind and memorize this for me." Mika concentrates on the look of the guy's face. Totally using PokeGoogle's search by image later.
[21:51] <@Mons> It twists and dissipates. More flailing and breaking machines.
[21:52] <@Mons> The girl dashes out, satisfied at what she's done to THIS room...
01[21:53] <Beatrice> (Oh she got out on her own?)
[21:53] <@Mons> You two meet in seeing people shooting at her, pokemon being torn in half... The science guy is on the radio shouting about the emergency.
[21:53] <Mikaela> "...Trice, what the fuck's goin' on?" Mika looks around at the destruction.
01[21:53] <Beatrice> "I. Uh."
01[21:53] <Beatrice> "Let her out."
01[21:53] <Beatrice> :B
[21:53] <Mikaela> "I'm havin' a hard time believin' she needed help with that."
01[21:54] <Beatrice> "Suppose we should follow?  She -seemed- to register my existance, unlike zese apperations."
[21:55] <Mikaela> "You handle it, I'm gonna see what we can learn 'bout the rest of this place 'fore it all falls apart." Mika turns and dashes off toward whatever scientific machinery and the like is around but hasn't been examined. Or anywhere new on the bottom floor in general.
[21:55] <@Mons> The last products of the factory have spilled.
01[21:55] <Beatrice> "Fiiiiiine," follows the berserk pscionic girl, not exactly fazed by the destruction in her wake."
[21:56] <@Mons> It smells like Isabella.
[21:56] <@Mons> Well, isabella mixed with dead bidoof or whatever's happening right now
06[21:56] * Mikaela remembers that awkward conversation from before. "...Dream smoke huh? Figures."
[21:56] <@Mons> Keeping a safe distance is HARD because of the sheer wreckage happening.
06[21:57] * Mikaela skids to a stop midrun and unhooks her rocket hammer, firing it up. Knocking any debris that comes her way *out* of her way as she proceeds to examine things.
[21:57] <@Mons> But the people who stayed behind and didn't escape are clearing out. Rubble is returning to what it was in the actual lab...
[21:58] <@Mons> Other things are breaking free too.
[21:58] <@Mons> Perception
01[21:58] <Beatrice> 1d20+1
[21:58] <DiceMaid-9001> Beatrice, 1d20+1: 9 [1d20=8]
[21:58] <Mikaela> 2d20+1 let's use a lucky piece
[21:58] <DiceMaid-9001> Mikaela, let's use a lucky piece: 16 [2d20=4,11]
[21:59] <Mikaela> "Ah, that's where the fuck that came outta!" Mika whirs her head around.
[21:59] <@Mons> As more and more bodies pile up and places are ruined...
[21:59] <@Mons> The back of the lab BURSTS open.
[21:59] <@Mons> There's the cave with the ancient village, now also open.
01[22:00] <Beatrice> "Euuuh?" Seems more focused on this one chick.
[22:00] <@Mons> The girl turns to it and the light coming from within over what she's done.
[22:00] <@Mons> She takes uneven steps towards it, eventually breaking into more of a sprint, though it's hard as she moves like an animal.
[22:01] <@Mons> Someone she passes aims one last gun at her but she snaps her head over for a second and his arm twists to shoot himself. She scampers down the tunnel.
01[22:01] <Beatrice> "...What ze hell just happened?"
01[22:02] <Beatrice> "Other zan ze origin of zis place making a bit more sense."
06[22:02] * Mikaela tries to point out the ashuratone.
[22:02] <@Mons> It's gone now. Lab's empty.
[22:02] <@Mons> And more or less how you found it originally, plus or minus a lot of bodies.
[22:02] <Mikaela> "The fuckin'...lunatone solrock thing. It was *made* here. Mad science an' all I guess, y'know?"
01[22:03] <Beatrice> "I...guess ze backers of...zis, came to clean up, and sealed matters away."
01[22:03] <Beatrice> "And now we've found it."
01[22:03] <Beatrice> "...Who is ze girl who got away zen?"
[22:03] <Mikaela> "What'd she look like?"
01[22:04] <Beatrice> GOOD QUESTION
[22:04] <@Mons> I DON'T KNOW MAYBE YOU CAN FOLLOW
[22:04] <@Mons> IT'S NOT LIKE SHE DIDN'T JUST OPEN UP A PATH
[22:04] <Mikaela> "Some sorta...science project like me, I'm guessin'." Mika says uneasily.
[22:04] <Mikaela> Well, we've been observing for a while, or Trice has, so I figure her appearance is something we'd know.
06[22:04] * Beatrice slowly starts up the path. "Between her swinging her pscionic fist around at me and all ze explosions, I missed a good look!"
[22:06] <@Mons> The streaks along the walls caused by her bloodied hands and feet make the cave drawings light up a little.
[22:06] <@Mons> She's struggling back down...
[22:06] <@Mons> Everything's getting into focus.
[22:06] <@Mons> Her hair is green, and body shape is pretty lean. She pauses to examine the drawings every so often as she stumbles down to the bottom.
[22:06] <Mikaela> "Let's catch up then!" Mika fires up her rocket hammer and follows.
01[22:06] <Beatrice> "Like -zis-?  Zat amount of latent pscionic power...well, is enviable, to say ze least."
[22:07] <Mikaela> "Oh, of fuckin' course."
[22:07] <@Mons> She doesn't look notably younger.
[22:07] <@Mons> At the bottom, she looks around.
[22:07] <Mikaela> "That's what I thought, but..." Mika shakes her head as she continues.
01[22:07] <Beatrice> "Eh? Cecelia...but.."
06[22:08] * Beatrice turns back to the path of destruction. "Weird..."
[22:08] <@Mons> Other ghosts, more PROPER specters this time, swirl and rise to meet her. Everything fades back into its normal light, the blood going away, you feel a lurching sensation as it all moves
[22:08] <@Mons> And--you're with everyone else, all witnessing the same scene. She's still there, looking the same--fully clothed now, of course.
[22:09] <@Mons> The ghosts are pushing against her, denying her, tearing at her.
[22:09] <@Mons> *PAUSE*
[22:09] <@Mons> !dm9001 leave #weirdacademy
[22:09] <DiceMaid-9001> Mons, sorry, boss! Leaving channel #weirdacademy!
14[22:09] * DiceMaid-9001 (DiceMaid-9@sux-EADD5C74) has left #weirdacademy
14[22:09] * @Mons (Mons@3B5136B9.6899E271.29E2F553.IP) has left #weirdacademy
03[22:10] * Mikaela is now known as castfromhp
Session Close: Tue Oct 16 22:10:49 2012