Session 47: They finally interrogated someone.

Jan 23 20:07:56 <zooftop>	Last night, you guys found yourselves in a rather hectic situation  After the skirmish wrapped up, and the chaos died down, the festivities started to pick up again - but with not even close to the same gusto.
Jan 23 20:08:33 »»	castfromhp is now known as Rosetta
Jan 23 20:09:21 <zooftop>	Today is the following morning.  You awoke to the sound of wingulls and the rolling of waves, but there doesn't seem to be much commotion aside from that.  It's like the whole town woke up with a hangover.
Jan 23 20:09:39 <Chase>	Hell, they probably did.
Jan 23 20:13:02 <zooftop>	That said, looks like your ship was also a popular crash spot for folks, as there's a lot of familiar faces sleeping here and there.  Folks weren't really keen on being split up after the previous night. What's on your agenda today, Braves?
Jan 23 20:14:23 <Genevieve>	First thing's first. Gen's gonna knock on Chase's door to see if he's awake.
Jan 23 20:14:48 »»	Rosetta groggily crawls out of bed and fumbles at her bag, looking for a can of soda. She looks around to see if anyone else ended up using her room to crash, then checks her phone to see what the official news has been saying about the incident.
Jan 23 20:14:51 <Chase>	Chase heads to the mess to cook breakfast - It's probably his turn by now anyway.  You niggas getting tomatoes, garlic, peppers, and avocade on toast. Or at least that's what he would have been doing if Gen hadn't knocked on his door first thing.
Jan 23 20:15:39 <Chase>	The door opens after a moment - Chase is already dressed and up, it seems. "Mornin'. What's up?" he asks.
Jan 23 20:15:52 <Genevieve>	"Hey, do you have that breeder habitat thing? Can I borrow it?"
Jan 23 20:17:23 <Chase>	"Uh, yeah, yeah. Just a sec." He probably did get it refilled at -some- point, though it's hard to pinpoint it. He shuffles into his room and gets the thing - well, assuming it's portable anyway and not like a little aquarium.
Jan 23 20:18:45 <Chase>	"I got it mostly for you guys, y'know?" he comes back and hands it over. "Since I didn't expect to get more pokemon. Guess that kinda changed, though."
Jan 23 20:18:48 <zooftop>	Gabriella was there, of course - but you also almost step on Dahlia and Annette as you stumble around.  There's an empty bottle of rum in the cat girl's hand, and a lot of empty soda cans and silo cups.  You manage to find one that's still intact though.
Jan 23 20:19:21 <zooftop>	It's about the size of a rice cooker
Jan 23 20:19:26 <zooftop>	the incubator, that is
Jan 23 20:19:36 <Genevieve>	"Thanks. I figure I'll ask Ammy or Yvonne to make sure it's working before I get set on my project. I should see if Jenks is about, too."
Jan 23 20:19:53 <Chase>	He looks down the hall as he steps out. "Man, everyone crashed here, huh..."
Jan 23 20:20:03 <zooftop>	Ammy was with Chase, of course.  She's still zonked out.
Jan 23 20:20:16 <Chase>	"We gotta figure out what we're even doin' today." he sighs.
Jan 23 20:20:29 <Chase>	He nods at her. "Yeah, sounds like a good idea."
Jan 23 20:22:09 <zooftop>	As for the news, Rosetta...
Jan 23 20:22:51 <Genevieve>	"We should at least check on Hendrix and make sure she's okay before doing much else, yeah?" Gen tucks the incubator under one arm and heads for the galley.
Jan 23 20:23:01 <zooftop>	Sure enough, they seem to be trying to paint this as a publicity stunt for a movie, Pirates of Visiwa 2: Electric Bungaloo
Jan 23 20:23:21 »»	Rosetta scrolls down to the comments on the news articles - are people buying it?
Jan 23 20:24:13 <Chase>	He makes sure Ammy's still nice and covered before stepping out of his room and quietly closing the door. "Sounds like a plan. I have one or two things in mind, myself but they can wait."
Jan 23 20:24:49 <zooftop>	The subtitle of the movie seems to be getting a lot of attention and 'they can't be srs.'  There seems to be some skeptism on the event itself, but given how terribly wrong the press conference went due to the Vai cousins, well, people seem to think this might have just been poorly executed.
Jan 23 20:27:27 »»	Chase heads to make a shitton of breakfast for the ship - and you know what, let's add pieces of salted fish to that concoction, but still keep some separate in case there's actually any vegetarians or something here. You niggas gettin' some buljol
Jan 23 20:28:08 <zooftop>	Saryx doesn't wake up to any crazy surprise 'guests,' by the way.  Unless you count the fact he's got Shark Fighter passed out, surrounded by vodka bottles, in his room.
Jan 23 20:28:56 »»	Rosetta saves a few of the articles to Instapaper or something, then closes up her phone. "Geez, why'd everyone pick my room?" She telekinesises all the empty cans and cups into a trash bag and makes sure no one looks like they're gonna end up choking if they throw up.
Jan 23 20:29:38 <zooftop>	Not in the bed, mind you, he's on the floor.
Jan 23 20:31:57 <Chase>	And at this point it's basically just waiting for the other braves to get up and get movin' :V
Jan 23 20:32:32 <Genevieve>	Yeah sure. Gen sits in the kitchen with a tablet and Turing, running through her notes.
Jan 23 20:33:19 <zooftop>	Upstairs is a groggy Shawyun and Mir fighting over a piece of salted fish. Shawyun's got a fork stuck in it and Mir's tugging on it with telekinesis.
Jan 23 20:34:31 »»	Rosetta pokes her head upstairs looking for food. "So, uh, what's the plan now?"
Jan 23 20:34:42 <Chase>	"Man, I dunno if we got enough for everyone..." he says to Gen, looking over at those two. He tries auraing down. <Saryx! Breakfast!>
Jan 23 20:35:48 <zooftop>	"Why the hell are you guys even -here- you weren't even kidnapped or anything last night," grumbles Shawyun.  Mir retorts with. "We've been over this.  UPROAR had the keys and we haven't seen him since the Cherubs showed up last night."
Jan 23 20:36:08 <zooftop>	Shawyun: "And you couldn't mind wizard the door open?"
Jan 23 20:36:17 <Chase>	"Well, first things first we should probably swing by and check on Hendrix. She's probably still at the hospital, yeah? Dunno if the skull kids are being watched over there too or if they're being kept somewhere else."
Jan 23 20:36:40 <zooftop>	Mir tilts her head. "Of course not, we made sure there were countermeasures to a psychic breaking in."
Jan 23 20:36:44 <Rosetta>	"Wait, Uproar's missing now too?"
Jan 23 20:37:53 <Chase>	"Shit." he overhears and looks over at Mir. "He was here with his family, wasn't he?"
Jan 23 20:38:48 <zooftop>	Mir finally relaxes her grip on the fish, and Shawyun flails back from the sudden release of resistance.  "Not exactly.  He called this morning.  Seems he was being held for medical care over night?  He didn't seem very worried..."
Jan 23 20:41:55 <Genevieve>	"As long as it was actually him. Though I know not everyone has an evil clone."
Jan 23 20:41:57 <Chase>	He breathes a sigh of relief at that.
Jan 23 20:42:17 <Rosetta>	"We could swing by with pancakes. That'd eliminate the ditto possibility."
Jan 23 20:42:37 <zooftop>	Eventually a red headed, shirtless Russian joins you upstairs.  He seems a bit tipsy, and shambles over to the table with a welcoming. "VOD."
Jan 23 20:42:55 <Chase>	"Y'all niggas gettin' paranoid. I never known Uproar to sweat the small stuff."
Jan 23 20:43:38 <zooftop>	Shawyun and Mir stare at the guy. "Where the hell did -you- come from!?" Shawyun exclaims before nomming his piece of salted fish.
Jan 23 20:43:41 <Rosetta>	"Or maybe I just want pancakes."
Jan 23 20:44:27 <Chase>	"...Shark Fighter? Are the Bastards sleeping here, too?"
Jan 23 20:45:09 <Chase>	"Well, mornin' in any case. Make yourself at home."
Jan 23 20:45:56 <Chase>	"Anyway, after we visit Hendrix, there's the matter of those kids. I can get information outta them." he says rather casually. "In fact, anyone we can render unconscious."
Jan 23 20:46:37 »»	Chase makes more goddamn breakfast because of Shark Fighter's presence! If it's too much the braves will be eating leftovers. No big deal.
Jan 23 20:46:56 <Rosetta>	"How's that?" Rosetta starts snooping around the kitchen for food, scooping some salted fish onto a plate.
Jan 23 20:47:20 <zooftop>	Miracle Eye and Shawyun both seem to have interpretted that the wrong way, giving Chase odd glares.
Jan 23 20:47:32 <zooftop>	SHARK FIGHTER just stands there, like he's waiting on you guys or something.
Jan 23 20:48:01 <Chase>	"...whaaat?" he looks at Mi and Shawyun oddly. "I meant like, sedating them. And it's the One N'Only's blessin' of Truth."
Jan 23 20:49:43 <zooftop>	"Uh huh. Suuuure."
Jan 23 20:50:11 <Rosetta>	"Sounds shiny, I guess." Rosetta shrugs and keeps eating. She lets out a few of her Pokemon, including ZODIAC.
Jan 23 20:51:33 <zooftop>	"...Maybe that's why that crazy magnetic nega-Gen knocked me out, hrm hrm." Shawyun ponders that.
Jan 23 20:51:55 <Chase>	He rolls his eyes a bit. "What the hell did you think I meant? I'm blessed by his Truth domain. I -can't- lie anymore, and I can get answers from people. It works better when they're unconscious, but it hurts them if they're awake and they try n'lie."
Jan 23 20:52:03 <zooftop>	SHARK FIGHTER and ZODIAC exchange glances and then look back to the rest of you.
Jan 23 20:52:17 <Chase>	He looks over at Shark Fighter. "Somethin' up?"
Jan 23 20:53:03 <zooftop>	Miracle Eye: "Oh I knew what you MEANT, but it was phrased in a...fishy manner." She stabs a piece of salted fish.
Jan 23 20:54:02 <Chase>	"I -just- woke up and it's been a long night, girl. Gimme a little break." he rubs his forehead a bit.
Jan 23 20:54:07 <zooftop>	SHARK FIGHTER coughs. "VOD VOD CAPTURED CAPITALIST PIGS WORK CAMP GO SOON."
Jan 23 20:54:27 <Rosetta>	"What. Gen can you translate?"
Jan 23 20:54:53 <Genevieve>	"Hold on," she looks up from her tablet. "[What are you talking about?]"
Jan 23 20:55:39 <Chase>	He makes sure the stove is off and leaves out breakfast for anyone else that wakes up. "Saryx is probably sleepin' in or somethin'... I guess Shark wants somethin'?"
Jan 23 20:57:08 <zooftop>	There's a long series of gibberish that Genevieve parses as "[I actually came here early this morning to let you know that the higher ups invited you all to help assess what happened last night.]"
Jan 23 20:57:49 <Genevieve>	"[What higher ups?]"
Jan 23 20:57:51 <zooftop>	"[Guess I uh, had too much water on the way over.]"
Jan 23 20:58:44 <zooftop>	"[The Bastard I work for, and a few of the Gym Leaders.  That short guy was there too.]"
Jan 23 20:59:15 <Genevieve>	"Ah, alright. We're supposed to go meet everyone else to talk."
Jan 23 20:59:28 <Rosetta>	"Should we wake everyone else up for this too?"
Jan 23 20:59:39 <Chase>	"Oh, that figures. Arnaldo sounded like he had things covered..."
Jan 23 20:59:43 <Genevieve>	"Probably."
Jan 23 21:00:06 <Chase>	"Arright, let's get goin'."
Jan 23 21:00:42 »»	Chase leaves a note for Saryx in the meantime
Jan 23 21:00:47 <zooftop>	SHARK FIGHTER releases a GATE Unown from a Pokeball.  It floats over to the doorway that would lead outside and starts to expand to the corners of the door, creating a portal.
Jan 23 21:00:58 <Chase>	Humorously, he writes it in breakfast cant.
Jan 23 21:01:00 »»	Rosetta heads downstairs and starts poking at her sleeping guests with telekinesis. "Hey, hey wake up." She shakes Gabby awake herself though.
Jan 23 21:01:15 <Chase>	And then he follows Shark Fighter
Jan 23 21:01:53 <zooftop>	SHARK FIGHTER looks like he's going to wait for the stragglers when they wake up, he just gestures toward the portal.
Jan 23 21:02:03 <Chase>	He nods and goes ahead in.
Jan 23 21:02:13 <zooftop>	Miracle Eye looks over it curiously, "Huh, nifty." And steps through.
Jan 23 21:02:55 <zooftop>	Gabriella groans and stretches. "Nuuuuh.  Why?"
Jan 23 21:03:07 »»	Genevieve gets up and heads through the portal. "Let's get going then."
Jan 23 21:03:37 <Rosetta>	"G'morning Gabby. There's some sorta meeting we're 'sposed to be heading to."
Jan 23 21:04:22 <zooftop>	"Bleh," She starts to crawl out of bed and to the rest room to splash some water on her face.  Shawyun also hops through the portal.
Jan 23 21:05:30 <zooftop>	On the other side, you guys find yourselves in...what looks like a militarized port in a cave.  There's a lot of war ships, and you can see an opening out to sea.  Lot of mariners roaming about, but next to the portal is Seir with her usual clipboard. "Good morning."
Jan 23 21:06:09 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, I know, it's a bit early for this shit. There's some breakfast upstairs next to the Unown portal Shark Fighter's got open for us, so just head there when you're ready, yeah?" Rosetta gives her a quick hug, then heads up through the portal herself.
Jan 23 21:06:23 <Chase>	"Morning, Seir." he nods at her.
Jan 23 21:07:22 <Genevieve>	"Good morning."
Jan 23 21:07:27 <zooftop>	Gabriella 'huh's and hugs back, and continues to get ready as you run up to meet the others.
Jan 23 21:09:10 <zooftop>	Seir takes out a pen and scribbles on her clipboard.  "Welcome to Conscripted Headquarters.  I must say, The Kushvan's gateways are proving quite useful.  Is this all that will be joining us for now?"
Jan 23 21:09:30 <Rosetta>	"Uh, there's a few more still waking up right now. They'll be here soon. I think."
Jan 23 21:09:38 <Chase>	"Uh, more might be on the way, hard to say. Everyone's kind of just waking up."
Jan 23 21:10:27 <Chase>	"And yeah, it's nice to have this kind of thing on our side."
Jan 23 21:11:04 <zooftop>	"Very well.  I'll wait here for them.  If you head down that direction," She points toward tunnel leading deeper into the cave, "You will find Captain Bastard.  But first, a quick synopsis of what we have on our hands here."
Jan 23 21:12:57 <Chase>	He nods, listening.
Jan 23 21:13:45 <zooftop>	"Alice Rhasha was swiftly secured here, along with a few of her friends, during the attack.  We have five prisoners of war - Yvoone Fauxicore is currently securing three of them, and Captain Utsusemi the other two.  UPROAR was brought here for medical examination - the enemy used a rather...questionable weapon on him."
Jan 23 21:14:15 <Rosetta>	"Uh oh, I don't like the sound of that last bit."
Jan 23 21:14:58 <Chase>	"Questionable as in... unidentifiable? Are we back to the weird unown rifles again...?"
Jan 23 21:15:06 <Chase>	"Well, we'll check in with him when we get there."
Jan 23 21:15:11 <zooftop>	"I am unsure what the Kushvan told you, but the high Captains have agreed that those close to the heart of these incidents have a say in things go from here.  I believe Captain Bastard could say more on that than I can."
Jan 23 21:16:07 <Chase>	"Alright, thanks, Seir."
Jan 23 21:16:12 <zooftop>	Mir squints and focuses on Seir.  Then her jaw drops. "They did -what-!?"
Jan 23 21:16:33 <zooftop>	She hurries off in the direction Seir pointed out.
Jan 23 21:16:56 <zooftop>	Shawyun: "Well, uh, that can't be good."
Jan 23 21:17:22 <Genevieve>	"I guess we better go talk to them then."
Jan 23 21:17:40 <Chase>	"Aaand there she goes." he bites his lip. "Alright, to the meeting and then to see Uproar, I guess."
Jan 23 21:18:20 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, let's get going."
Jan 23 21:18:21 <zooftop>	Seir seems a bit annoyed to have had her mind read, but doesn't say anything more than that.
Jan 23 21:19:12 »»	Chase heads off towards where she indicated the captain was.
Jan 23 21:20:33 <zooftop>	You guys walk through the tunnelways, passing a few office rooms on the side until you find Captain Arnaldo sitting in one of them with his feet kicked up on the desk.  He's got a big thermos of coffee and is looking over some paperwork, chanting a song.
Jan 23 21:20:50 <zooftop>	"Black chav, born Visiwa, crossed the ocean on a windward sailboat - fuck I can't get this song out of my head."
Jan 23 21:21:24 <zooftop>	Looks like he hasn't slept at all.
Jan 23 21:22:08 <Chase>	"Morning, captain. Looks like it's been an even longer night for you."
Jan 23 21:24:24 <zooftop>	"And half of it was our little songbug strumming away with some song she'd wrote.  Big mess on our hands, folks.  What do you guys make of it?"
Jan 23 21:24:41 <zooftop>	He doens't look up from his papers, and seems Miracle Eye hurried on her own way, so it's just you four.
Jan 23 21:25:29 <Genevieve>	"I think Jenn isn't worried about tipping her hand or moving in public, which is bad on its own."
Jan 23 21:27:33 <Rosetta>	"I've gotta wonder, it looked like the general public was sorta buying the publicity stunt story we've been pushing, but how have other country's governments been reacting? I imagine there's been some buzzing on that front."
Jan 23 21:27:38 <Chase>	He has a seat across from the desk. "We found a message left by Dandyman after we split up last night, dunno if you heard about it. Written in blood on the wall and all that shit. Seems like they were just testing us. Or want us to think they were. Poking at us, seein' how we reacted."
Jan 23 21:28:14 <Chase>	"Seems like they're gettin' ready for a bigger operation, if you want to know my thoughts."
Jan 23 21:29:47 <zooftop>	"Pretty low hanging apricorn on that one - sure enough we pissed them off mighty for them to finally make a move.  Parliament's flipping shit - this whole thing didn't go quite as imagined, but luckily Lil and her cousin's faux-pas painted the whole affair in a comical light.  I imagine most the foreign regions will be asking the same question - where did Hendrix get them?"
Jan 23 21:31:17 <zooftop>	"Oh yeah, that was fun to try to conceal and clean up.  No one's questioned the kids yet about any of it - we're more concerned with how to keep the little shits contained."
Jan 23 21:31:54 <Chase>	"Did you try pokeballs?" he half jokes.
Jan 23 21:32:40 <Chase>	"More seriously, the only thing I could think of is keeping them fairly sedated."
Jan 23 21:34:04 <Rosetta>	"I could tell when I was fighting some of the kids that they'd fought people with powers like mine before - so fighting the Sons of Grant before getting assigned to this. I guess it means their faction is finally taking us seriously as a threat to their operations now or just don't think the Sons are as big a threat to them anymore. Kinda wish they were still just fighting each other more."
Jan 23 21:34:47 <zooftop>	Arnaldo -does- laugh at that one "Ever throw a Pokeball at another person's Pokemon, Violet?"
Jan 23 21:34:58 <zooftop>	"One that hadn't been through a snag machine?"
Jan 23 21:35:45 <zooftop>	"I got Emile workin' that angle, he was out of em at the moment."
Jan 23 21:36:03 <Chase>	"Nah. But you're sayin' it -would- work, but they already considered that?"
Jan 23 21:36:33 <zooftop>	"No I'm saying we tried shoving the fucks in masterballs and it didn't work cause they are already tagged to one."
Jan 23 21:36:51 <Chase>	"That's what I just said though."
Jan 23 21:37:12 <Genevieve>	"So short of using a snag machine, we'd have to break the original balls."
Jan 23 21:37:30 <zooftop>	"I threatened to do the same to Alice if she didn't stop fucking playing that damned song.  She tazed me for that one pretty good."
Jan 23 21:37:42 <Rosetta>	"I imagine a Snag Machine would be easier out of those two options."
Jan 23 21:38:05 <zooftop>	"Well, Emile's got one, but they work slow as shit.  He'd be pissed if I was just tellin' that to anyone, but eh fuck it."
Jan 23 21:38:32 <zooftop>	"So in the mean time, we lucked out in that three of the kids were psychics, so Yvonne's handling them.  The other two...well, those two are a bit trickier."
Jan 23 21:38:39 <Genevieve>	"It might be faster to depower them, but...I'd need time to figure out how to do that."
Jan 23 21:39:43 <Chase>	"Gigalith and Drapion, right? Fuck me, that rock boy was somethin' else. My aura sphere didn't even scratch'im."
Jan 23 21:39:47 <zooftop>	"As for how the kids fought, well, like I said, we haven't questioned em yet.  That weird green haired girl keeps wanting to get her hands on them though."
Jan 23 21:40:14 <Chase>	"Kali? I bet I know why." he says, after a moment.
Jan 23 21:40:31 <Chase>	"I'm pretty sure I can get some answers out of them too."
Jan 23 21:40:48 <zooftop>	"Funny you guys mentioned all this though - bet Seir didn't say why we have been keeping an eye on UPROAR huh?"
Jan 23 21:41:04 <Rosetta>	"Nah, what's this 'questionable' weapon they used?"
Jan 23 21:41:05 <Chase>	He shakes his head.
Jan 23 21:41:12 <Chase>	"What happened, cap?"
Jan 23 21:41:36 <zooftop>	"According to him, they ambushed him and tried to take his daughter away.  One of the shits tossed an Apricorn Ball at him and it sucked him in."
Jan 23 21:41:43 <Chase>	"What."
Jan 23 21:42:02 <zooftop>	"Seems it didn't work that well though, shattered it and the kids booked it."
Jan 23 21:42:17 <Chase>	"Goddammit, Tialoc."
Jan 23 21:42:47 <Chase>	He shakes his head. "Apricorn balls that can catch people. I have a pretty good idea who's responsible."
Jan 23 21:42:50 <zooftop>	"Yuuup, and the League provided him with the technology to make them.  Just 'shiny', huh?"
Jan 23 21:43:09 <Chase>	"How the hell were we supposed to know what they'd do with it?"
Jan 23 21:43:30 <Rosetta>	"More important, did we find any more apricorn balls like those on the kids we captured?"
Jan 23 21:43:34 <zooftop>	"I ain't blaming anyone.  Saxton took it pretty hard though, big guy's been in cold sweats since he heard."
Jan 23 21:43:36 <Rosetta>	"Or like, recover the pieces of the one that broke?"
Jan 23 21:43:56 <zooftop>	"Saxton's got it at the moment, he's the Pokeball expert around here."
Jan 23 21:44:17 <Chase>	"You're keeping Uproar around until you figure out that it didn't do anything else to him, right?"
Jan 23 21:44:46 <zooftop>	"And you," he points at Shawyun, who points at himself like 'huh me?', "We're going to sit a Psychic down with your ass later too.  Sorta funny how easily she hoodwinked us."
Jan 23 21:45:00 <zooftop>	"Pretty much, yeah."
Jan 23 21:45:13 <Genevieve>	"That's strange. I mean, I understand why they'd work on the islanders, but even briefly working on a full human..."
Jan 23 21:46:25 <Chase>	"Between Tialoc and Jennifer I can imagine they managed to reverse engineer them, maybe even redesign them from the ground up, add tribal magic and maybe the Banisher had something to contribute too, who the hell knows?"
Jan 23 21:46:39 <zooftop>	"You're tellin' me.  Anyway, that's the gist of the situation.  If you guys wanna try browbeating info out of those kids have at it.  Business as usual for you guys, but this stuff is going thermo nuclear pretty fast."
Jan 23 21:46:52 <Chase>	"We already know that the balls that they used on the poke-people are capable of something like complete mind control. That's what we should probably be focusing on. We can't let them capture anyone."
Jan 23 21:48:03 <Chase>	"We'd be looking at fighting our own allies, possibly, or losing our secrets."
Jan 23 21:48:19 <Chase>	"So yeah, this shit is getting real, real fast."
Jan 23 21:48:29 <Genevieve>	"That means the Stag Lords are now our priority target. I doubt Jenn's capable of magicking up anything without them, if she -is- like me."
Jan 23 21:49:12 <Rosetta>	"You know, this might be kind of a funny solution, but if we reverse engineer this, could we just get ourselves registered to poke balls? I mean, I don't imagine they would prepare all of these balls with Snag Machines themselves, so it could catch 'em off guard."
Jan 23 21:49:32 <Chase>	"Man that is a terrifying idea."
Jan 23 21:49:44 <zooftop>	Arnaldo puts his papers down and looks at Rosetta, seriously considering this.
Jan 23 21:50:12 <zooftop>	"That is a hell of a bold strategy.  Also probably a stupid one, but hrm."
Jan 23 21:50:19 <Rosetta>	"No, really, if we don't come with some other countermeasure, that's the best we can get, yeah?"
Jan 23 21:50:48 <zooftop>	"Even -I- got hesitations about that one, sorta.  Also would be sorta funny to toss one at Tilde."
Jan 23 21:51:07 <Chase>	"Anyway, yeah. The Stag Lords..."
Jan 23 21:51:32 <zooftop>	"Lemee digest that one.  I can just imagine the looks on the other's faces."
Jan 23 21:51:44 <Chase>	He takes a deep breath. "Solitude might have been the best thing for Yaretzi after all." he says kind of quietly.
Jan 23 21:52:44 <Chase>	"Digest this, digest that, we're gonna have fuckin' indigestion at this rate. I just hope we ain't bit off more than we can chew, because this is a lot to swallow."
Jan 23 21:52:46 <Genevieve>	"If the balls don't work quite yet, we need to go after them now."
Jan 23 21:53:10 <zooftop>	Shawyun hrms. "Could we get our own signiture luxary balls? That'd be pretty...baller."
Jan 23 21:53:36 <zooftop>	Arnaldo tosses a paperweight at Shawyun's head. "ow!"
Jan 23 21:53:47 <Chase>	"But yeah, I agree, Stag Lords are our priority here."
Jan 23 21:54:07 <Genevieve>	"I'm a little worried about this sounding like genocide, but it'd be a lot easier to just go after every pocket of them with overwhelming force."
Jan 23 21:55:07 <Chase>	"We'll need to think our next move through, a little bit. Anyway... anything else we should cover?"
Jan 23 21:55:22 <zooftop>	"There's only one pocket of em, other than the few blokes that Father Ruth guy convinced to travel with him.  His Flock, the guys who sorta aced the Team Trainer Combat league."
Jan 23 21:55:42 <Chase>	"We probably... -should- consult Ruth first." he looks over at Gen.
Jan 23 21:56:38 <zooftop>	"I'm pretty indifferent on the genocide part, but hey, I'm a Bastard." He shrugs.
Jan 23 21:56:47 <Rosetta>	"I wonder how much of this is Tialoc and how much is the rest of the Staglords. I mean, if we decapitate their hierarchy, who says we can't just sever their ties with Jennifer and Dandy?"
Jan 23 21:56:49 <Chase>	"Yeah let's try to avoid that." he says dryly.
Jan 23 21:58:55 <zooftop>	"In the mean time I sorta got a lot to try to work out here - Hendrix got slashed pretty bad, which pissed off the whoooole fleet of buccaneers here.  So ya'll do what you do best and let us know what you find.  We'll be ready when the time comes."
Jan 23 21:59:03 <Genevieve>	"Obviously, we can talk to Rex first."
Jan 23 21:59:09 <Chase>	"Tialoc is their war chief and also the guy being manipulated by the Banisher. That big deer got him into his service by, from what I could tell anyway, causing a fallout between him and his Siren wife, and then appealing to his fears through dreams, then came in all preachy." he recaps the vision he was given by Oya.
Jan 23 21:59:32 <Chase>	"I'm not sure how many of his people are just following his lead because of his position.
Jan 23 21:59:50 <Chase>	"
Jan 23 21:59:51 <Genevieve>	"Ah. Hence the mind control apricorn balls. He's just an insecure husband."
Jan 23 21:59:52 <Rosetta>	"Sounds like we'd at least get somewhere if we fucked him up."
Jan 23 22:00:05 <Chase>	"Exactly." he says to Genevieve. "That's what I was thinking."
Jan 23 22:00:56 <Chase>	"How is Hendrix recovering, anyway?"
Jan 23 22:01:23 <Chase>	"We had been thinking of stopping in t'see her before we got called. Shoulda figured she wouldn't have just been at the hospital."
Jan 23 22:01:24 <zooftop>	"Way I see it is this Banisher stacked his deck with the best four, and emotionally unstable aces he could get his hands on.  Grant, on the other hand, might be a crazy fuck and the loser in this whole affair, but had his shit together."
Jan 23 22:01:49 <Chase>	He nods, agreeing with Arnaldo.
Jan 23 22:02:16 <zooftop>	"And you don't pick fights with a cornered, rabid monster."
Jan 23 22:02:31 <zooftop>	"You guys are the experts on this though," he shrugs.
Jan 23 22:02:54 <zooftop>	"She'll be okay with some R&R, but those little dolls are nasty shits to cause wounds like that."
Jan 23 22:03:10 <Genevieve>	"We need to clear Grant's holdings, but for the moment, he gets a pass by virtue of not developing mind control weapons."
Jan 23 22:03:23 <Chase>	"He kind of did, though."
Jan 23 22:03:39 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, like...the whole thing with Yanala? And my brother?"
Jan 23 22:03:41 <Genevieve>	"Nothing mass producable."
Jan 23 22:03:55 <Chase>	"I suppose that's true..."
Jan 23 22:03:58 <Rosetta>	"It's about as mass producible as Unown are, which, well..."
Jan 23 22:04:35 <Chase>	He looks to Arnaldo. "We have to do -something-. We can't afford to be too reckless either, though. We'll probably take a little time to think on all of this and plan our next move according to the intel we can get."
Jan 23 22:07:55 <zooftop>	"Do what ya need to, Braves.  The kids are further down - it'll be pretty obvious when ya get to it."
Jan 23 22:08:21 <Chase>	"Thanks."
Jan 23 22:08:29 <Chase>	He gets up and starts to leave the office, then.
Jan 23 22:09:29 <Chase>	"Four questions." he says as he steps out of the office. "Four answers. That's what I can get us with how strong my bond is to the big guy at the moment."
Jan 23 22:10:07 <Genevieve>	"What do you want to ask?"
Jan 23 22:10:38 <Rosetta>	"Let's think about what they'd actually know."
Jan 23 22:10:44 <Chase>	"That's the kicker, ain't it?" he starts walking. "What do they know?"
Jan 23 22:10:46 <Rosetta>	"Probably nothin' that has to do with big complex plans."
Jan 23 22:10:57 <Rosetta>	"But we could get a base of operations outta them or something I bet."
Jan 23 22:11:12 <zooftop>	Further down the hall you guys find several heavily armed privateers standing guard around two security gates.
Jan 23 22:11:24 <zooftop>	Kali is fuming and pacing out here as well.
Jan 23 22:11:39 <zooftop>	Funny enough some of these privateers seem to be wearing ninja-like attire
Jan 23 22:11:52 <Chase>	"Don't we already know where they're holed up, basically? Lil kalfu got kicked out of his own home."
Jan 23 22:12:25 <Rosetta>	"I imagine they've got more than just that."
Jan 23 22:12:39 <Chase>	"Sup, Kali." he says, walking over.
Jan 23 22:12:54 <Genevieve>	"I don't know if Hell is a good place for actual people to live."
Jan 23 22:13:25 <Chase>	He's pretty casual about saying hi to his stalker.
Jan 23 22:15:14 <zooftop>	She stops and twirls to face you, way less cheary than you've ever seen her before.  "Oh! Oh!  YOU'RE here!"
Jan 23 22:16:16 <zooftop>	She darts over and grabs Chase's hands, "Please, you got to help!  Those old hags won't let me question these little brats!  They say I'm emotionally unstable or something crazy like that!"
Jan 23 22:17:42 <Genevieve>	"I'm pretty willing to let her do whatever she wants as long as it doesn't kill anyone."
Jan 23 22:18:30 <Chase>	"Looks like they got the place pretty much locked down..." he looks at the privateers. He laughs a bit as she petitions him. "Hey, they're just doin' their job. They're keeping them in. But sure thing." He just smiles and lets go of her hands, walking over to the guards. "Hey, we're here to question the prisoners. We'd like to go inside. Her too." he indicates Kali.
Jan 23 22:19:58 <zooftop>	The ninja at the door looks over you guys.  He's got a mask over most his face, just showing his eyes.  When he looks over Rosetta, he hrms.
Jan 23 22:20:27 <Rosetta>	"What?"
Jan 23 22:20:32 <zooftop>	"The Captain has the two martial artists contained, for now.  Miss Fauxicore is with the pscionists."
Jan 23 22:21:16 <zooftop>	"The Captain commanded we be leniant if one of her clansmen were to arrive."
Jan 23 22:21:42 <Chase>	"Clansmen...?"
Jan 23 22:22:26 <Genevieve>	"Like a ninja clan, I assume." She looks at Rose, too.
Jan 23 22:22:49 <Chase>	"This was a 'Captain Utsusemi', right?" he hrms at that.
Jan 23 22:23:07 <zooftop>	"The pscionists appear to be younger.  The one with the baseball bat appears to be the oldest of them."  He nods to Chase's question.
Jan 23 22:23:50 <Chase>	He looks back. "Older kid probably knows more, y'think?"
Jan 23 22:24:21 <Genevieve>	"And if he isn't a psion, probably less resistant anyway."
Jan 23 22:24:38 <Rosetta>	"Probably." Rosetta has no idea what the fuck about this clansmen thing.
Jan 23 22:24:44 <Chase>	"Question is, can we sedate them easily enough... I guess we'll see when we get there."
Jan 23 22:26:09 <Chase>	"We'd like to go see the Captain and her prisoners, then, for now."
Jan 23 22:27:04 <zooftop>	The ninja turns, and fiddles with a security measure on the door.  It hisses and slides open.  He steps aside for you to enter.
Jan 23 22:27:11 <Chase>	He walks in, then!
Jan 23 22:27:33 »»	Rosetta follows along, still a little confused but shrugging it off.
Jan 23 22:27:52 <zooftop>	Kali also darts in with you!  Inside...
Jan 23 22:29:32 <zooftop>	There's a thick haze in the room, fogging the already dimmed lights.  The door shuts behind you all as you enter.  The first thing you see is a middle aged Asian woman in a shinobi's garb, sitting Indian style.  Her back is turned to you.
Jan 23 22:31:04 »»	Rosetta slips down her goggles to see if that helps at all. "Heya."
Jan 23 22:31:53 »»	Aori_Radidjiu is now known as Aori_Radisleep
Jan 23 22:32:25 <Chase>	He walks in, a bit curious about the haze.
Jan 23 22:32:43 <zooftop>	"I thought I told them not to let HER in.  Though I suppose those commands were muddled some with the arrival of a member of our order," her voice has an eerie pitch to it, like a wind on a dark, dreary night.
Jan 23 22:33:05 <zooftop>	Kali frumples and remains standing uncomfortably close to Chase.
Jan 23 22:33:49 <Rosetta>	"Huh? ...Oh. oh. right." Rosetta snaps her fingers and nods to herself. "Uh, that's not gonna be an issue, is it?"
Jan 23 22:34:31 <zooftop>	"Keep a leash on her.  I know very well how angry she is about what these children intended for her Captain."
Jan 23 22:34:41 <zooftop>	Thank god Saryx wasn't here, huh.
Jan 23 22:35:00 <Chase>	"Oh, so you do know her?" he looks over to Rosetta, then back at the woman. "Kali's just here to help. She ain't gonna be a problem. Are you, Kali?" he asks her, leaning a liiiittle back from how close she is.
Jan 23 22:35:28 <zooftop>	"Not at all!" :D
Jan 23 22:36:39 <zooftop>	"Whitacre.  Dire circumstances for us to finally meet under.  Dr. Webb and Mr. Violet as well..."  Seems Shawyun didn't enter with you guys.
Jan 23 22:37:32 <zooftop>	"What is your intention, with these children?  Keeping them bound has proven rather dificult."
Jan 23 22:37:50 <Genevieve>	"Interrogation, mostly."
Jan 23 22:37:52 <Chase>	"And you're... Captain Utsusemi? You have us at a bit of a disadvantage. I don't really know much about the captains of Goldcloud... Anyway, we'd like to question them."
Jan 23 22:38:55 <Chase>	"It -should- be pretty quick and painless... have tranquilizers not worked on them?"
Jan 23 22:39:03 <zooftop>	The haze parts enough for you to see the two Cherubs.  Both are heavily bound in dark, leathery materials, and secured to metal chairs.  Rosetta would recognize this looking somewhat like how Yanala was bound.
Jan 23 22:40:16 <zooftop>	"They have, slightly.  They stir at the moment, though their senses have been bound.  They can neither here, nor see us."
Jan 23 22:41:31 <Chase>	He frowns a bit, then looks at Kali, then back at the captain. "I just need the older one unconscious for this. I'd like to use supernatural power to interrogate him. I can probably manage somethin', though..."
Jan 23 22:41:34 <zooftop>	"It takes a lot of concentration to keep them in this state, tell me what you intend to do before you do it."
Jan 23 22:42:05 <Genevieve>	"How unconscious?"
Jan 23 22:42:57 <zooftop>	"Hit em with a hammer! Hard as you can!" chimes in Kali!
Jan 23 22:43:12 <Chase>	"Nah, we'll try something else, I think..."
Jan 23 22:43:16 <Rosetta>	"Let's not do that one."
Jan 23 22:43:17 <zooftop>	She jumps in place enthusiastically.
Jan 23 22:43:55 <Genevieve>	"Cause if it's just a little unconscious, I can try to put him to sleep for a bit."
Jan 23 22:44:40 <Chase>	"If it takes so much concentration just to keep them like this, I'll try somethin', Captain, but he'll need to be able to hear me and be able to respond. Then I'll use supernatural power to make him speak subconsciously. Pretty simple."
Jan 23 22:45:07 <Chase>	He nods at Gen. "I was going to try a bit of a lullaby myself, but if you got that covered..."
Jan 23 22:46:01 <zooftop>	"I know what your power is - SHE made that painfully clear to me earlier.  Putting one to sleep, if anything, just makes my task easier."
Jan 23 22:46:15 <zooftop>	Kali teehee's
Jan 23 22:46:30 <Chase>	"Heh. Alright, that'll work, then."
Jan 23 22:46:37 <Genevieve>	"Done." She blows an air kiss at the older of the kids, creating a spinning pink heart.
Jan 23 22:46:40 <Genevieve>	1d20 Lovely Kiss
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Jan 23 22:48:26 <zooftop>	It auto hits, the kid can't move :P
Jan 23 22:48:52 <zooftop>	His head slumps downward, he's clearly asleep.
Jan 23 22:50:00 <Genevieve>	"There you go."
Jan 23 22:50:24 <Rosetta>	"Shiny. So how does this work exactly, Chase?"
Jan 23 22:50:42 <zooftop>	Kali squees as she pulls out a necklace quite like Chase's "Nice assist! Now it's our time to shine! Lord of Truth and kick ass festivites, extend your powers onto this domain!"
Jan 23 22:51:06 <zooftop>	Both of your necklaces glow purple...and the haze in the room takes a purple tone as well.
Jan 23 22:51:11 <Chase>	He pulls out his own necklace, too.
Jan 23 22:51:20 <zooftop>	BGM: https://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=EsYNcQsSZ7A
Jan 23 22:51:56 <zooftop>	Kali's form starts to...blur.  Her skin reddens, two horns appear from her hair, she suddenly has a demon tail. http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=508050
Jan 23 22:52:14 <Chase>	"Yeah, you heard her, bro. Now then, all we gotta do is ask him questions. If y'all got anything you want to know, now's the time to speak up. Otherwise, here goes nothin'."
Jan 23 22:52:28 <Chase>	He doesn't seem to be too phased at her transformation... or rather, her dropping her illusion.
Jan 23 22:52:30 <zooftop>	Chase's form starts to shift as well, though his is...more eerie.  He's suddenly a skeleton with purple glowy eyes.
Jan 23 22:52:45 <Chase>	That on the other hand, surprises him a bit.
Jan 23 22:52:48 <Rosetta>	"Whoa, what."
Jan 23 22:52:56 <zooftop>	"You go ahead, Chase!  My the hag's sorta right and I'm a bit pissed to think of good questions!" :D
Jan 23 22:52:59 <Rosetta>	"Is this normal with this stuff?"
Jan 23 22:53:32 <Chase>	"Can't say I expected this, but 'kay." he looks over himself a moment.
Jan 23 22:53:32 <Genevieve>	"I don't know. I don't think D.C.'s ever done something like that to me."
Jan 23 22:53:39 <zooftop>	Utsusemi sighs. "Showy as usual with your types.  It was in ages past, until their lords fell from favor...that is starting to change again, however."
Jan 23 22:54:00 <zooftop>	<Oh I got an idea or two> You hear with a cackle, Gen
Jan 23 22:55:37 <Chase>	"First off..." he channels the 1NO's power and focuses on the kid. "Where is your current base of operations?" He asks this just to satisfy Rosetta, mostly.
Jan 23 22:58:40 <zooftop>	The kid mumbles in his sleep. "...Dandy's crib is sort of scary, but we're safe there.  Never been to the Wilding Village...Dandy says Husk has a crib near Venomtalon too...but all commands come from The Lord.  His flag ship.  Dandy says it's by the moon."
Jan 23 23:00:12 <Genevieve>	"Ask him where the apricorn balls are being produced."
Jan 23 23:00:13 <Chase>	"That pretty much confirms they're using Kalfu's realm as a hidey hole, I think." he says to the others.
Jan 23 23:00:43 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, that's a good idea, just to confirm." Rosetta nods to Gen.
Jan 23 23:01:28 <Chase>	"Oh, that's a good one. Alright, kid, what do you know about those apricorn balls you were carrying?" He hopes that question is broad enough to cover that and maybe glean some other things.
Jan 23 23:03:02 <zooftop>	"People snaggers.  We didn't have any...wasn't our goal.  We were trained and prepared to fight you, kill the pirate bitch.  Others did.  Dandy, Holy Mother and The Warlord worked together to make them.  Holy Mother says The Warlord's guys make em."
Jan 23 23:03:41 <Chase>	"Sounds like they're doing it in the wildling village, then." he looks at Gen.
Jan 23 23:03:45 <zooftop>	"They make folks see like we do, realize how great The Lord is.  They say The Warlord uses them to purify the halfbreeds."
Jan 23 23:04:03 <Chase>	That makes him grimace a bit.
Jan 23 23:04:20 <zooftop>	"And that the Grant guy got a few of them.  Seemed he just wanted to see what they did.'
Jan 23 23:04:39 <zooftop>	The kid's starting to sweat in his sleep.
Jan 23 23:05:07 <Genevieve>	"Professional curiosity." Gen walks over to the other kid and takes a syringe out of her bag to draw some blood. "He's crazy, but not stupid."
Jan 23 23:05:20 <Rosetta>	"Well, looks like getting rid of the balls isn't gonna be as simple as shutting down Tialoc then." Rosetta grumbles.
Jan 23 23:06:01 <zooftop>	The other kid isn't asleep, and flinches and tries to shake.  Utsusemi frowns and the kid calms down. "Tell me when you do something like that.'
Jan 23 23:06:33 <zooftop>	"He's practically Dark Type.  Makes this a lot harder."
Jan 23 23:06:33 <Genevieve>	"Sorry, forgot."
Jan 23 23:07:33 <Genevieve>	"What else do we need to know now, then?"
Jan 23 23:07:37 <Chase>	He ponders a moment. "Who are the biggest priority targets for Dandy and the Holy Mother at the moment?"
Jan 23 23:08:15 <Rosetta>	"You think they'd know that kind of intel?"
Jan 23 23:08:29 <zooftop>	The sleeping kid shudders as he speaks. "Grant...scares us. Bad.  Dandy and Holy Mother try not to show it, but we can tell.  They know something that they ain't tellin' us.  Probably don't want us to worry about it."
Jan 23 23:09:13 <Chase>	"You never know what might've slipped through." he shrugs. "At least we know Grant is the bigger fish for them at the moment."
Jan 23 23:09:16 <zooftop>	"Alice Rhasha...naw, we know who she is.  The Lord doesn't think she's a threat or anything.  He wants Grant put down.  After that...you guys."
Jan 23 23:09:30 <Rosetta>	"Shiny."
Jan 23 23:10:11 <zooftop>	That seems to surprise both Kali and Utsusemi. "Huh.  So they know..." Utsusemi mumbles.
Jan 23 23:10:53 <Genevieve>	"To be fair, she isn't a threat at the moment. She's not really on the board."
Jan 23 23:11:01 <Chase>	He nods. "Husk is with them, and it's really hard to tell what he's shared and what he hasn't. I don't think he'd do anything to put his daughter in danger, but..."
Jan 23 23:11:31 <zooftop>	Roll me intuition, Chase
Jan 23 23:11:35 <Chase>	6d6+6
Jan 23 23:11:35 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, 6d6+6: 24 [6d6=6,4,2,1,3,2]
Jan 23 23:11:52 <zooftop>	You get the feeling this kid is really uneasy talking about Grant.  Like he's saying Voldemort or something.
Jan 23 23:11:55 <Rosetta>	"You think they'd know anything about where they were going to strike next then? I mean, these kids are used to fighting Grant's dudes. Wouldn't be surprised if they had another raid already lined up."
Jan 23 23:12:12 <Chase>	"Grant's kind of like a boogeyman to them, from how he's putting it." he says quietly.
Jan 23 23:12:27 <Chase>	"Not surprising if he was once one of the Banisher's but defected."
Jan 23 23:12:30 <Chase>	"Fallen angel, much?"
Jan 23 23:13:35 <Chase>	"I got one left, and then whatever help Kali can offer..."
Jan 23 23:13:51 <zooftop>	"I think I could manage three! But dunno what to ask...um...ummm..."
Jan 23 23:14:10 <zooftop>	You guys notice Chase's form is slowly becoming his normal self as he asks questions.
Jan 23 23:15:51 <Genevieve>	"We can save some questions for later, right?"
Jan 23 23:16:29 <Chase>	"Eh, it's not a one time thing, it's just kind of taxing."
Jan 23 23:16:46 <Chase>	"Probably better to ask all we can think of now, and then more later."
Jan 23 23:17:14 <Chase>	"In fact, Kali can probably stick around and help even if we're not here."
Jan 23 23:17:17 <Rosetta>	"Just ask if they had any activities lined up. We don't wanna be blind-sided if they really were just poking at us to see how we'd react so they could prepare for another operation."
Jan 23 23:17:22 <Chase>	"Would you mind that, Kali?"
Jan 23 23:17:56 <Chase>	Of course that isn't an inquisition question. :P
Jan 23 23:18:06 <zooftop>	"I'd do anything you'd ask me to. ANYTHING." :D
Jan 23 23:18:14 <Chase>	"Uh..huh."
Jan 23 23:19:59 <Chase>	He turns his attention back to the kid. "Were you all preparing for anymore attacks, raids, or likewise coming up?
Jan 23 23:25:47 <zooftop>	"We've been...sorta waitin'.  You guys cornered Grant.  He's got his ship that he's hidin', and his base.  Pirate bitch really upset The Lord, he's tired of this.  There was talk we were gonna conquer the isle with The Talespinner's Shrine, and then try to lure a Librarian out.  Dandy had bait ready."
Jan 23 23:26:09 <Chase>	!
Jan 23 23:26:21 <Genevieve>	"Dammit. We should warn her about that."
Jan 23 23:26:40 <Chase>	Talespinner's shrine... what would Chase know, if anything? Is that a roll?
Jan 23 23:26:43 <zooftop>	"The girl one...uh...musicy name.  He knows how to fuck with her head."
Jan 23 23:27:01 <zooftop>	You guys can roll me Intuition for that one.
Jan 23 23:27:07 <Chase>	6d6+6 okay
Jan 23 23:27:08 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, okay: 26 [6d6=6,4,4,3,2,1]
Jan 23 23:27:44 <Genevieve>	2d6+1
Jan 23 23:27:45 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, 2d6+1: 8 [2d6=2,5]
Jan 23 23:28:02 <zooftop>	Well that'll do.  You saw a shrine of The Banisher on Mirage Isle, and it also had the Unown village with a shrine that had Alice's colors.  Safe to say he's referring to Alice's little god problem.
Jan 23 23:29:04 <zooftop>	With that question, Chase returns to normal flesh and blood.
Jan 23 23:29:30 <Chase>	"That'll be that vanishing island." he says to the others.
Jan 23 23:30:16 <Chase>	"Musicy name... Who could that be though?" he wonders.
Jan 23 23:30:22 <zooftop>	(It's octavia :P)
Jan 23 23:30:28 <Chase>	(IT'S PROBABLY OCTAVIA BUT CHASE DOESN'T KNOW THAT NAME)
Jan 23 23:30:39 <zooftop>	(Why wouldn't he? you guys got intel on this as a group)
Jan 23 23:30:45 <Chase>	(I was typing before you said that. >:B)
Jan 23 23:30:51 <Chase>	(Did we? Shit)
Jan 23 23:31:02 <Rosetta>	"I'm curious what the bait is." Rosetta tilts her head.
Jan 23 23:31:03 <Chase>	(I thought she was brought up by name when Rose visited Roland)
Jan 23 23:31:16 <Rosetta>	(the very first time was when Rosetta broke into the factory actually)
Jan 23 23:31:37 <Chase>	"Wait... music... Octavia, maybe?"
Jan 23 23:32:40 <Genevieve>	"Sounds like they'll be busy fighting with Grant for a bit then."
Jan 23 23:32:41 <Chase>	"I'm more worried about what they plan to do at the shrine."
Jan 23 23:33:10 <Chase>	"We should probably get back there soon and investigate that."
Jan 23 23:33:33 <Rosetta>	"Shark Fighter's got that portal set up, so that shouldn't be too hard."
Jan 23 23:33:37 <zooftop>	"What should I ask, Chase!? What should I ask!?"
Jan 23 23:33:46 <zooftop>	Kali hops in place.
Jan 23 23:34:48 <Chase>	"I'm thinking..." he frowns and looks at Gen and Rosetta. "Think there's a chance he knows more about what Dandy is going to do at the shrine? If they need a librarian then it's something to do with the unowns, right?"
Jan 23 23:35:15 <Chase>	"It all comes back to those little guys, one way or another."
Jan 23 23:36:16 <Rosetta>	"I dunno, the simple answer is that it's just sorta the best way to strike at Grant's leadership?"
Jan 23 23:36:39 <Rosetta>	"Hell, it'd be great if we had one of them, and it's really for no more reason than we can get good intel from them and fuck up Grant's plans."
Jan 23 23:37:47 <Genevieve>	"Theoretically, if we give Grant an assist on this, we might convince him to help us deal with the Banisher."
Jan 23 23:37:48 <Chase>	He thinks for a moment, then says, "Kali, ask him if there's a way to suppress their cherub powers or prevent them from transforming that he knows of."
Jan 23 23:39:26 <zooftop>	"Ooooh that's a good one!" She hops in front of the kid. "Okay, listen up twerp!  So you can transform.  Tell me about how it works and what can stop you from doing it!"
Jan 23 23:40:49 <zooftop>	The kid's quiet for a bit. "Holy Mother hand picked the Pokemon species we'd be bounded to.  I was given my form for the sole purpose of combating The Zodiac Braves.  I was a test.  They had observed a lot of their Pokemon had Rock weaknesses."
Jan 23 23:41:10 »»	Chase looks at Rosetta.
Jan 23 23:41:29 »»	Rosetta frowns. :<
Jan 23 23:42:36 <Genevieve>	"It's not all her."
Jan 23 23:43:15 <Chase>	"I'm feeling sorry for her more than blaming her."
Jan 23 23:43:17 <zooftop>	"...Hope I did well.  The Psychic girl was a big mistake with our squad.  The powers are part of us.  It's not like what shamans do, it's like kung fu, can't really forget it easily.  But...Grant's magic, it does bad, bad things to us."
Jan 23 23:43:48 <zooftop>	"She told us if we ever run into his Dream Demon, run."
Jan 23 23:44:03 <Genevieve>	"That Celia chick?"
Jan 23 23:44:25 <Chase>	"Sounds like it."
Jan 23 23:44:32 <Rosetta>	"That's not really something we can take much advantage of, unfortunately. Unless we look more into that funky fantasy dream world thing he's been pulling shit out of. Come to think of it, Oya still owes me some questions."
Jan 23 23:45:12 »»	Chase waits to make sure the kid is done speaking
Jan 23 23:45:56 <zooftop>	He is.
Jan 23 23:47:04 <Chase>	"It -is- good to know, though."
Jan 23 23:48:44 <Chase>	"Two more... Is there anything -you'd- like to ask, maybe?" he asks the captain.
Jan 23 23:49:12 <zooftop>	"More about this bait would be wonderful."
Jan 23 23:49:56 <Chase>	He nods. "Let's go with that, then. Kali, please ask him about the bait Dandyman intends to lure Octavia with."
Jan 23 23:50:21 <zooftop>	"Yeah that!  What's the plan to make her come out?"
Jan 23 23:55:22 <zooftop>	"The Lord told Dandy a lot about Grant...before he fell from grace.  And he learned a lot about her as well.  He knows why she fights for him - she's trying to help her master - like her teacher or something.  Dandy's going to make it look like her master's shown up in the isles."
Jan 23 23:56:57 <zooftop>	"Think Husk knew her too...old Rune Master soldier lady."
Jan 23 23:57:32 <Chase>	How old did Tentra look, again?
Jan 23 23:57:46 <zooftop>	In her late fifties or sixties
Jan 23 23:58:11 <Chase>	I dunno if she could be described as a soldier, though... Though Chase briefly wonders if there's a connection there.
Jan 23 23:58:15 <zooftop>	Kali's tail *POOF*'s, but she's still got her horns. "Uh oh....one left then."
Jan 23 23:59:05 <Chase>	"Last call for ideas, otherwise I got one for my own curiosity."
Jan 23 23:59:12 <Genevieve>	"Go right ahead."
Jan 23 23:59:55 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, you can rest up and do this again later, right?"
Jan 24 00:01:03 <Chase>	"Yeah, that's no problem." he looks at Kali with a little chuckle as her tail vanishes. "Anyway, I'd like to know what kind of intel he and the other cherubs got on the Braves. There has to be more than just 'they're weak to Rock'. Whether it's combat info or just things they were told about us in general."
Jan 24 00:02:30 <zooftop>	Kali nods. "How much do you know about Chase and his friends?"
Jan 24 00:03:04 <zooftop>	"..." The kid sighs, like this would take a while.
Jan 24 00:04:39 <Chase>	(You don't have to drag this out super long, I'm just looking for what they found notable, really)
Jan 24 00:05:53 <zooftop>	"Holy Mother calls her sister a Doppleganger.  She was really, really freaked out when Genesis met her.  She's really scared of her sister, like everything that ever bad happened to her is all her sister's fault.  WE don't know much about her, other than she's allied to a God The Lord wants to see defeated, and what Holy Mother tells us."
Jan 24 00:06:48 <Rosetta>	"I wonder what's happened with Genesis now..." Rosetta mumbles.
Jan 24 00:07:01 <Genevieve>	"Not what should have happened."
Jan 24 00:07:55 <zooftop>	"Dandyman thinks Rosetta is amusing.  He thought her brother was too, until he used his Shango powers to...I'm not really sure what he did but it really pissed off Dandy, enough for him to try to kill em.  He thought it was sorta amusin' when he found out it didn't work.  Grant's guys didn't fool him."
Jan 24 00:09:11 <Rosetta>	"Amusing?"
Jan 24 00:09:48 <zooftop>	"He finds it really funny that all the soda she drinks keeps Husk's Ditto buddies away from The Braves."
Jan 24 00:10:02 <Chase>	"Pffffft."
Jan 24 00:10:21 <Chase>	"Okay, that is pretty hilarious."
Jan 24 00:10:48 <zooftop>	"I dunno, he always seems amused with her antics.  And her responces to his notes.  Like that one we left for her in Thundercry."
Jan 24 00:11:05 <Genevieve>	"The cavities are worth something."
Jan 24 00:12:23 »»	Rosetta crosses her arms and pouts a little. "I guess that's better than being at the top of the hit-list."
Jan 24 00:13:10 <Chase>	He waits for the kid to continue.
Jan 24 00:14:31 <zooftop>	"Chase Violet...well, I dunno much about Aura but Dandy and Holy Mother respect it enough to realize it's risky.  They said The Warlord was really relieved he didn't see through stuff when they met.  Jerome says his girlfriend's crazy and keeps trying to kidnap him or something - keeps saying he thinks she's a sexual predator, whatever that is."
Jan 24 00:14:45 <zooftop>	"They got someone keepin' an eye on them."
Jan 24 00:16:12 »»	Chase facepalms.
Jan 24 00:16:14 <zooftop>	"Husk really hates Saryx but I don't really know why."
Jan 24 00:16:39 <zooftop>	"Dandy seems sorta wary about him cause he said his dad made his daggers."
Jan 24 00:16:47 <Genevieve>	"Weird, most people know why they hate Saryx."
Jan 24 00:17:23 <zooftop>	"Most of what -I- know is how they fight...their usual Pokemon.  We learn what we need to.  I was trained to fight them."
Jan 24 00:17:33 <zooftop>	The smoke fades back to its normal color, and Kali returns to her normal form.
Jan 24 00:18:34 <Chase>	"Alright, that's good enough I think. Thanks, Kali."
Jan 24 00:18:40 <zooftop>	"Yay I'm useful!"
Jan 24 00:19:22 <zooftop>	Utsusemi speaks up. "This was rather telling...I trust you'll communicate this information to those who need to know - now please get that girl out of here before I gag -her- as well."
Jan 24 00:19:47 <Chase>	He grins a bit. "Sure, captain."
Jan 24 00:20:32 <Chase>	"Got someone keepin' an eye on Ammy, huh... I have a good idea who, now."
Jan 24 00:22:22 <Genevieve>	"Really?"
Jan 24 00:23:15 <Rosetta>	"I guess given all this, Tialoc's still our next target, yeah?"
Jan 24 00:23:42 <Chase>	"Yeah. There's a girl named Rosalind Cabello. Rosetta said she was one of Corbin's friends, but recently Oya told me that she wasn't who she said she was - and Ammy said she keeps seeing her stalking her."
Jan 24 00:23:46 <zooftop>	As you guys make your exit, you find Shawyun having a staring contest with one of the shinobi. "Did you guys win?" he asks.
Jan 24 00:24:01 <Chase>	"Apparently Yanala's last name is Cabello, too?"
Jan 24 00:24:21 <Chase>	"More or less." he says to Shawyun.
Jan 24 00:25:43 <Chase>	"Tialoc... I dunno at this point, Rose."
Jan 24 00:25:54 <Chase>	"Whatever Dandy's planning on the island really worries me."
Jan 24 00:26:04 <Chase>	"Especially if it's enough to 'take over the isles'"
Jan 24 00:26:14 <Rosetta>	"I kinda sorta don't want to get caught in a Poke Ball."
Jan 24 00:26:27 <Genevieve>	"I wonder if Grant's still running internet surveillance on us."
Jan 24 00:26:45 <Chase>	"We have to convene with Rex anyway before we make a move against Tialoc, so there's that."
Jan 24 00:27:22 <Chase>	"Let's catch Arnaldo and whoever else on this business, first."
Jan 24 00:28:55 <Chase>	"And Kali - I actually was going to ask you somethin'... I never really did get a chance to uh, thank you for that album you sent me for my birthday. You really seem to have a talent for photography. ...never noticed you take any of them, not once. I had been thinking I could ask you to use that talent to look into this Rosalind girl, but it's looking more and more like she's one
Jan 24 00:28:55 <Chase>	of Husk's dittos or something. I'm not entirely sure what to do..."
Jan 24 00:29:09 <zooftop>	If you guys swing back by Arnaldo's office, you find him talking with Gabriella and Ammy.  Seems all of the Moon bunch headed elsewhere.
Jan 24 00:29:43 <zooftop>	"Oh you liked it? Yay!  You're talking about the police girl right?"
Jan 24 00:30:02 <Genevieve>	"If you can spill some soda on her surreptitiously, that'd be perfect."
Jan 24 00:30:10 <Chase>	"Yeah, the one that was in the contest with me and Ammy in Veilbeak. That's the last time I personally saw her, anyway."
Jan 24 00:30:22 <zooftop>	"I always ran into her when I was making it!  She WAS sorta rude.  Spill soda on her? Mmmmm...."
Jan 24 00:31:27 <Chase>	"Come to think of it, yeah, if that's the case that would send a message."
Jan 24 00:31:31 <zooftop>	"If you want me to I could!"
Jan 24 00:31:33 <Genevieve>	"Yeah, it'll kill her if she's a Ditto, which will make Chase quite happy."
Jan 24 00:32:01 <Chase>	"Don't necessarily need to kill it, no, but I definitely want the peace of mind."
Jan 24 00:32:30 <Rosetta>	"Try not to do this in public and freak people out though, yeah?"
Jan 24 00:32:55 <Genevieve>	"I should figure out how to make Ditto that aren't so...psychopathic."
Jan 24 00:33:15 <zooftop>	"If she -is- a ditto she'd probably kill me if I did that and tried to run away, but I could handle that?" :D
Jan 24 00:33:25 <zooftop>	"Okay!"
Jan 24 00:33:57 <Chase>	Chase frowns a bit. "I appreciate it very much, Kali. Try not to get hurt, alright?"
Jan 24 00:34:13 <Genevieve>	"Enough soda and she won't have a chance to even try to kill you."
Jan 24 00:34:34 <zooftop>	"Oh! Oh! I think I got a big gulp cup somewhere..." When you guys do finally reach the office and she sees Ammy, she suddenly goes "I'm going to go see if Captain Hendrix needs anything later!" And books it.
Jan 24 00:34:46 <Chase>	"And there she goes."
Jan 24 00:35:11 <Chase>	And into the office he goes!
Jan 24 00:35:57 <zooftop>	"So yeah if you got a special request for your personal person ball make it now," Arnaldo says as you enter.  Gabriella and Ammy seem terrified.
Jan 24 00:36:18 <Rosetta>	"What."
Jan 24 00:36:21 <Chase>	Chase grumbles to himself. "I really hope she doesn't go and get herself killed."
Jan 24 00:36:52 <Chase>	"All I really wanted was a confirmation, but..." he shakes his head. "Oh hey, guys."
Jan 24 00:37:05 <Genevieve>	"Isn't she literally a demon? I think she'll be fine. The Purple One is looking out for her, too, right?"
Jan 24 00:38:28 <zooftop>	Arnaldo looks to Rosetta. "What do you mean what? It was your idea!"
Jan 24 00:38:45 <Rosetta>	"Oh you're just going kinda quick with it is all."
Jan 24 00:39:29 <Chase>	"So, are we talking about saving ourselves from the horrible, horrible fate of being footsoldiers in the Banisher army? Man, this shit got pretty grim fast."
Jan 24 00:40:01 <Genevieve>	"Basically, Dandy and them are about to make a play against Grant via one of his Librarians on Mirage Island."
Jan 24 00:40:17 <Chase>	"Oh yeah, we learned things."
Jan 24 00:40:26 <Genevieve>	"Which means, Ruth's input notwithstanding, we have a chance to go after the Stag Lords while the rest are otherwise engaged."
Jan 24 00:40:59 <Chase>	"Here's the thing, though."
Jan 24 00:41:01 <Genevieve>	"At the same time, I think it'd be prudent to actually try to warn Grant about the trap to bait him into setting up a counter trap."
Jan 24 00:41:21 <Chase>	"When Dandy does that, he's going to try and conquer Mirage Island."
Jan 24 00:41:34 <Chase>	"We don't really want them in control of that place."
Jan 24 00:42:53 <Chase>	"In fact, I'd wager they'd bring Tialoc along to use his special balls to capture the natives."
Jan 24 00:42:53 <Rosetta>	"If we do give Grant a heads-up, then maybe he'll disrupt Dandy's plans enough to stop that while we deal with Tialoc."
Jan 24 00:43:42 <zooftop>	Ammy speaks up, "Um. Can we get cliff notes on what's going on?  This is a lot to take in at once." Gabriella: "Yeah I'm still wrapping my head around the stuffing UPROAR in a ball."
Jan 24 00:43:52 <Chase>	He puts a hand on Ammy's shoulder and squeezes a bit. "Yeah, yeah. Let's all sit down."
Jan 24 00:44:54 <zooftop>	Arnaldo is just silently listening and thinking for now.
Jan 24 00:44:59 »»	Chase has a seat in the office. "Okay so. The people balls are Tialoc's little baby. Same deal as the gijinka balls. The aim is to capture people and mind control them - we learned they -do- have an effect on the captured. Uproar broke out so he's probably okay. We can do a check on him later to make sure."
Jan 24 00:45:21 <Chase>	"Well, more accurately, they were made by Dandy, Tialoc and Jennifer."
Jan 24 00:46:44 <Chase>	"Grant's powers are the only thing they really know of that fucks with the Cherubs' transformations, and it seems Grant is a bigger target than all of us, possibly because that."
Jan 24 00:47:03 <Chase>	"So Dandyman wants to undermine Grant's position, starting with taking out his subordinates."
Jan 24 00:48:31 <Chase>	"He plans on luring out one of them - named Octavia, out to Mirage Island after conquering it, and capture her by fooling into thinking her old master is in Visiwa. If I had to guess, they'd probably then capture as many of the gijinkas as they could, along with Octavia herself."
Jan 24 00:48:58 »»	DiceMaid-9001 is now known as RichterBelmont
Jan 24 00:50:16 <Chase>	"Let's see, what else."
Jan 24 00:50:45 <Chase>	"They're probably making the apricorn balls in the Stag Lord village. They know what Alice's deal is, and we know the general location of some of their hideouts."
Jan 24 00:51:10 <Chase>	"Dandy's is in Kalfu's realm, I think. Husk apparently is hiding somewhere near Venomtalon. And the Banisher has a ship hidden near the moon."
Jan 24 00:51:28 <Genevieve>	"Most of which we sort of already knew."
Jan 24 00:51:54 <Chase>	He shrugs. "Good to confirm at least."
Jan 24 00:53:08 <Rosetta>	"So uh, were we already deciding who gets put into a person ball or something?"
Jan 24 00:53:47 <Chase>	"Oh, and Grant himself has two hideouts left, as far as they know. His warship, and that mountain base."
Jan 24 00:54:00 <zooftop>	Arnaldo swivels in his chair and speaks up. "Fucker wants the island still huh?  So much for my coconut farm ideas.  Could one of you get ahold of that chick who does all the briefs that Peyote makes sure all us fat cats get on this stuff?  I mean, you guys are gonna do whatever the hell you feel is most pertinant anyway, but the rest of us gotta figure out what the fuck to make of the rest of it."
Jan 24 00:54:30 <Rosetta>	"Yeah we can get Peyote on this stuff."
Jan 24 00:55:19 <zooftop>	Gabriella instantly replies. "Easy for me.  I'm going back to that island, either way.  Probably won't be the catharsis I hope it will be, but I need closure."
Jan 24 00:55:56 <Chase>	"Also." he looks at Ammy. "We know they got someone watching you, and without saying I'm pretty sure it's Rosalind. I've got someone looking into that."
Jan 24 00:56:08 <zooftop>	"Did I just say catharsis? Ugh I need to stop drinking with Yvonne."
Jan 24 00:57:10 <Genevieve>	"Vocab never hurt nobody." She taps the syringe of Cherub blood. "Since this is Jenn's work, I'll see if I can make it unwork somehow. Celia probably does magic to it, but science can defeat science."
Jan 24 00:57:47 <Chase>	Looking over at Gabby, he says, "Personally? I'm with you, Gabby. I'd like to go back to the island, myself... but there are people we gotta speak to."
Jan 24 00:58:27 <zooftop>	Ammy nods, but seems lost in thought on this whole matter for the moment.
Jan 24 00:59:28 »»	Genevieve sets the incubator by Ammy. "Also, can I ask you to make sure this is working, please?"
Jan 24 00:59:58 <Chase>	Chase snrks a bit. "Man, no time to rest, huh."
Jan 24 01:00:46 <Chase>	"And... there's stuff I wanted to talk to you about anyway." he looks over at Gabriella again.
Jan 24 01:01:37 <zooftop>	She perks up a bit when she sees the incubator. "Hm? Oh, yeah I could do that when we get back to the docks."
Jan 24 01:02:30 <Genevieve>	"Cool, thanks."
Jan 24 01:04:19 <zooftop>	Gabriella seems to know what this is about. "Bleeeh.  Alright, figured we'd have to eventually anyway..."
Jan 24 01:05:07 <zooftop>	Arnaldo: "So...in the mean time, think you guys are caught up on stuff?  Got work to do?  We done here?"
Jan 24 01:05:26 <Genevieve>	"Work, yes."
Jan 24 01:06:40 <Chase>	He thinks on if there was anything else pertinent in the interrogation that he forgot to go over.
Jan 24 01:06:45 <Rosetta>	"Yeah. I think I'm gonna go pay Oya a visit and ask another of my questions, then see what I can do with that."
Jan 24 01:07:07 <Genevieve>	"I'll go with you, I should ask Oya and Jenks at the same time."
Jan 24 01:08:25 <Rosetta>	"Sounds shiny."
Jan 24 01:08:36 <Chase>	"I think we're good for now."
Jan 24 01:09:39 <Chase>	"In the meantime... if you guys do want to leak Dandy's plans to the Sons, I think I have an idea on that."
Jan 24 01:09:49 <Chase>	"But we need to decide if we're doing that or not."
Jan 24 01:10:28 <zooftop>	"Alright good cause there's a cot with my name on it." he gets up and stretches.
Jan 24 01:10:48 <Genevieve>	"We'll ask Saryx first."
Jan 24 01:12:32 »»	Chase nods. "Later, Captain."
Jan 24 01:13:02 <zooftop>	He strolls on out, chanting "Black chav, born Visiwa, crossed the oce- god damn it!"
Jan 24 01:14:20 <Chase>	He snickers a bit to himself and pushes himself up. So many things to do, so little time...
Jan 24 01:14:42 <zooftop>	Gabby gets up, only to wander over to Rosetta and lean on her. "This suuuucks let's go get pancakes or something."
Jan 24 01:15:21 »»	Rosetta perks up. "You mean you -want- to go get sweet sugary stuff?"
Jan 24 01:17:08 <zooftop>	"Yes. Right meow."
Jan 24 01:17:59 <Rosetta>	"Right meow?" Rosetta tilts her head.
Jan 24 01:19:13 <zooftop>	Ammy gets up but droops a bit. "I think I'm just going to go back to bed.  This has been exhausting."
Jan 24 01:20:09 <Chase>	Chase nods. "Yeah... I may join you, after a bit." he stretches. "Hell of a time..."
Jan 24 01:20:34 <zooftop>	Gabriella tilts back.  "Figured you'd be dragging me to the closest bakery or candy store already."
Jan 24 01:20:53 <Rosetta>	"I'm thinking. Is that funnel cake stand still open?"
Jan 24 01:21:03 <Chase>	"And so much to go..." either way, he starts to leave.
Jan 24 01:21:20 <Chase>	Where did Shawyun go, anyway?
Jan 24 01:21:49 <zooftop>	Shwayun's not really bright so even though he's been tagging along he tends to just nod and pretend he understands what people are saying.
Jan 24 01:21:54 <Chase>	If he's still hanging around, Chase gives him a friendly bump on the shoulder as they go.
Jan 24 01:22:26 <zooftop>	"You're one of those folks who can eat the same meal every day and never get sick of it aren't you? Okay, okay, funnel cakes it is..."
Jan 24 01:23:09 <Rosetta>	"You can get different toppings! Like caramel with apple one day, and maybe the next it's strawberry and whipped cream. Or just hot fudge. Or vanilla ice cream."
Jan 24 01:23:28 <Chase>	And that's pretty much all from Chase tonight!
Jan 24 01:23:42 <Rosetta>	"But yeah, race ya!" Rosetta grins and warps.
Jan 24 01:24:36 <zooftop>	She sighs and chases after, as you guys wrap up a rather revealing morning.
Jan 24 01:24:40 <zooftop>	</session>