Meduka 6: Shrouding Dark Cloud

[11:37] <Sakata_Ginko> LAST TIME, ON TOP MEGUCA
[11:39] <Sakata_Ginko> Some say that she made a huge mistake by abandoning her comrades... to the Cookie Monster!
[11:39] <Midorikawa_Misao> A what?
[11:40] <Yuna_Mizuno> Is it not 20XX?
01[11:40] <GeMshuku> It's definitely the year 20XX!
01[11:40] <GeMshuku> Did you know? The first players to memorize the short hop laser wore hats much like this one: http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/561/762/caa.jpg
[11:41] <Sakata_Ginko> Some say she fashioned her sword in her magical costume out of a tree in Lestershire
[11:41] <Sakata_Ginko> all we know is, she's not the Stig, but Ginko!
01[11:42] <GeMshuku> Ginko, in her bravery, decided that it would be a good idea to go out alone. Of course, the question still remains...exactly what is it that she's looking for?
01[11:43] <GeMshuku> Or, at least: what is she wandering towards?
[11:44] <Sakata_Ginko> After Ginko found a motel to drop off her stuff, she wandered toward the park. The park where she met the familiar for the first time. It felt like an eternity ago; indeed, it may as well have been an eternity ago. It was secluded, seldom visited, and stocked with vending machines. Perfect.
[11:47] <Sakata_Ginko> Having sat down on a bench, she tried to gather her thoughts. Information from her contacts had streamed in. Unexplained murders were usually cleaned up by the police quickly after gathering some evidence, and then subsequently forgotten, but the police in the city was rather ineffective.
[11:47] <Sakata_Ginko> Armed with bits and pieces, she attempted to draw a mental picture of where the voidlings have appeared and tried to find a pattern.
01[11:51] <GeMshuku> A familiar sort of familiar, but one that isn't here. So, it is with peace of mind, that you try to add up the parts. ...The deaths had occured...um. ...The north, the south, the east, and the west. On the streets is usually more common, but people had been found dead in their beds. This had happened in very short order, and as a direct result, people aren't going out much anymore...
01[11:52] <GeMshuku> ...not that it stops them. It just means that more people die in their homes. ...The pattern...is there a pattern? Is a solid color a pattern? What a worrisome thought.
01[11:52] <GeMshuku> But, try as you might, all you can really make out is that everyone's dying everywhere, which means these things get around fast or there's a lot of them. ...Probably the latter.
01[11:53] <GeMshuku> ...But with less people, there might be less voidlings...which might be a sort of thing in and of itself...
01[11:54] <GeMshuku> ...Still though, therein lies the question: where the hell are they hiding in the meantime?
01[11:54] <GeMshuku> That, you don't think you'll be able to figure out without the required information.
[11:55] <Sakata_Ginko> "Boy, oh boy," Ginko let out a frustrated sigh and stood up from the bench. In her impatience, she forgot one important fact: these creatures aren't human. They didn't follow human rules. They could disappear in a whim and no human method would be able to find out.
[11:56] <Sakata_Ginko> But does that mean she did that job and broke up with her allies for nothing? She didn't want to go further down that lane of thought. Instead, she refuelled herself with coffee, and attempted something.
[11:58] <Sakata_Ginko> Within an hour, she had arrived at the business district at which she and Akiko encountered those creatures for the first time. Coming to this area was probably not the smartest of ideas, she admitted; there was still the possibility that the creatures lurk in the shadows, more numerous than she alone could handle.
[11:58] <Sakata_Ginko> But then again, if the creatures were still in the area, it saved her the trouble of searching for them.
01[11:59] <GeMshuku> But yet, alone she was. ...Aside from the people inside, working. Times must be hard. ...And then, well, you know, there's...the voidlings that may or may not be there!
01[12:00] <GeMshuku> They sort of snuck up on you once, and now you've only got one pair of eyes and ears looking out. Alone. ...That pink car is still there. Owner's probably dead or something.
[12:01] <Sakata_Ginko> Taking a deep breath, she dodged into a secluded area under one of the buildings at the side of a street, and transformed. Stabbing her sword into the ground with enough force to put cracks into the concrete, she tried sending her power out in a pulse like a radar.
[12:10] <Sakata_Ginko>
01[12:13] <GeMshuku> And with ease, she sent out a pulse of her magical power, far and wide! Surely, if these things were explicitly aware of magical power, they would answer this call! ...And, that assumption would hold quite true, as it seemed like something had answered that call...
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01[12:17] <GeMshuku> ...but, what had come out of one of the buildings was unlike that which she had previously seen before. While the things that had stalked them were small, but this was easily three times your size. A four winged...thing, which practically seems to radiate power, took note of the particularly large magical pulse. While the earlier enemies were dangerous for sneaking up on you, it seems this one didn't feel the need, not like its size would be that conductive to sneaking around.
01[12:24] <GeMshuku> Really, can those even be called wings? It doesn't flap them, and they don't look like they'd be good at flapping anyway. Still, it floats!
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[12:34] <Sakata_Ginko> "Shit, this one's gonna be tight," Ginko grinned with a hint of fear. Taking out the cell phone from her pocket, she quickly texted "come to the pink car" both Akiko and Yuna. Then, she took out her sword, and stood bravely in front of the creature with her sword drawn.
01[12:36] <GeMshuku> ...But, of course, it saw life. And so, with no hesitation, it began to immediately pursue...in all due haste.
[12:38] <Sakata_Ginko> "Yes... come to me, you son of a bitch," Ginko snarled under her breath. Her hand was trembling as she held up her sword. Her eyes were fixated on the mass of twisted evil in front of her.
01[12:39] <GeMshuku> "1,1                       "
01[12:39] <GeMshuku> It moves at a furious speed, unbefitting of its large size!
[12:50] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko, too, moved toward the creature. Starting with a walk, she then broke into a sprint toward it. A gleaming crescent of power shot out toward the creature as she swung her sword!
01[12:51] <GeMshuku> But before it could even reach the thing, the sword wave vanishes, as if it never was.
[12:51] <Sakata_Ginko> done~
01[12:53] <GeMshuku> ...And then it continues moving. With nothing to fear, it occupies the spot in which she exists, then proceeds to make things difficult, VERY FAST.
01[12:55] <GeMshuku> It accomplishes this by...making the very air in front of you stop existing. ...And that air advances. Hooo boy.
[12:56] <Sakata_Ginko> Not difficult enough. Ginko's adrenaline pumped. She dashed backword before she brought her sword down. A massive shockwave appeared; the two burst collided, resulting in a loud "BANG" as the air density neutralized itself. Outside air rushed into the area to fill the void, making her kimono flutter.
[12:58] <Sakata_Ginko> "Heh, you're not so tough," Ginko let out a small scoff of relief. She was panting then. Sweat--she was a little grateful for it not being syrup any more--rolled down her forehead as she made her charge.
[12:59] <Sakata_Ginko> They were in melee range. She attempted to make a swing at the creature's... lower body part.
01[13:00] <GeMshuku> Not tough, but...you could swear that sweat was a bit sweet.
01[13:00] <GeMshuku> I-it's probably your imagination though.
01[13:02] <GeMshuku> A swing and a miss. It wasn't an effortless dodge, it does seem to have taken effort to fly up that suddenly, but yet...it didn't really take much.
01[13:02] <GeMshuku> ...And then, at full power, it rains down a hail that you can't quite register.
[13:06] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko couldn't quite register the hail. Redundant description is redundant. Anyway! Because she couldn't, the hail hit her on with full force! The pain was so much that she staggered.
01[13:07] <GeMshuku> And as she staggered, it simply left more openings. The hailstorm of what she can now fully register as truly nothing tears her apart, as it also focuses fire.
[13:09] <Sakata_Ginko> She was sent flying, though not far enough. Crashing into the concrete of a wall, she fell face-first onto the pavement, blacking out momentarily.
01[13:10] <GeMshuku> At once, she became aware that her situation was...particularly dire. In one swift moment, she goes from full power to hanging by a thread. Was this it? Was this how it was going to end?
01[13:11] <GeMshuku> ...
01[13:11] <GeMshuku> ...
01[13:11] <GeMshuku> ...
[13:11] <Midorikawa_Misao> ...
01[13:11] <GeMshuku> Meanwhile, Akiko and Yuna get texts in very short order! 'come to the pink car', huh?
[13:12] <Sakata_Ginko> Everything hurt. Thanks to her costume, there was nothing serious; at least, her bones weren't jutting out of her arms yet. But, she had a feeling if things go on a bit longer, she'd be... royally screwed.
06[13:12] * Yuna_Mizuno looks at her phone. "Come to the pink car...?" she turns to Misao, "What... I just got a text from Ginko-san"
03[13:12] * Raitaki is now known as Shirayuki_Akiko
[13:13] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Yuna's phone rang once again, and kept ringing! This time, it was a phone call from Akiko!
[13:13] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Uh... wasn't there a pink car when we fought the youma?" Misao tilts her head, racking her mind over what she meant.  "Maybe she we-"
[13:14] <MidorikawaMisao> *little youma thingies
06[13:15] * Yuna_Mizuno picks up the phone, "Something going on Akiko-san?" she picks up the phone,
[13:17] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "I just got a text from Sakata-san, telling me to 'come to the pink car'. Do you remember where we ran into the void youma yesterday?"
06[13:29] * Yuna_Mizuno "Uhhh..." she pauses, trying to remember... she covers the mouthpiece and looks to Misao, "Do you remember where we first saw the void Youma?"
[13:34] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Hrm... alright, I think I remember now.  Let's transform, and fly there!"
06[13:34] * Yuna_Mizuno nods, "We'll be there as soon as we can Akiko-san,"
[13:36] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Alright. I'll see you there." The call ended.
01[13:37] <GeMshuku> You all...well, transform and fly there! Being above buildings and heading towards the same destination, you spot each other in the skies midway!
[13:39] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Akiko nodded in acknowledgement of her friends, and continued. As before, out of her whole magical girl outfit, only the green dress was present. The mantle and scepter was still absent.
[13:43] <Midorikawa_Misao> "I hope onee-san isn't too hurt..."
03[13:44] * Kasuga_Makoto is now known as Satori_Komeiji
01[13:46] <GeMshuku> ...And continue, they did! ...In the distance, is the familiar pink car--and something big. Something also hard to describe with words, though its general appearance is as previously described, like the things that they had seen earlier, sending a storm of...a substance similar to it at something, focusing that fire on the something you can't exactly see from here...though you have an all-too clear idea of who it COULD be. You hear a crashing sound as the firing concludes. Whoever's getting shot is getting shot PRETTY HARD.
06[13:48] * Yuna_Mizuno looks down at the pink car, and she can see a humanoid figure getting the crap beat out of them. "....... I think that's Ginko-san~!" she cries out, rushing down to assist in whatever way she could.
[13:49] <Midorikawa_Misao> "C'mon, let's go!" Misao dives down, rapier in hand and ready to attack the big thing.
[13:51] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "...Sakata-san!?" Akiko shouted as she swooped down to ground level. She...really went to fight these things alone, didn't she. "Mizuno-san, please tend to her injuries!"
01[13:51] <GeMshuku> You dive down, to see exactly as you expected! What's less expected is how it turns towards the newcomers...
[13:52] <Yuna_Mizuno> so what's Ginko's Resolve?
[13:52] <Yuna_Mizuno> (DERP)
[13:56] <Sakata_Ginko> Footsteps. They were not so gentle landings to be inaudible, but Ginko was not so conscious as to know who they were. All she knew was that they were either her executioners, or her angels. Clutching her hands into fists, she tried to used them to help herself up, and does. Her costume was ripped and punctured in many places, but that was not the most concerning part. It was on the verge of disappearing.
[13:59] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Akiko couldn't help but wince at Ginko's dishiveled appearance. They just very barely made it, it seemed.
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[14:05] <Sakata_Ginko> This won't do. This won't do at all. Ginko's costume grew and covered a couple of patches, but it still didn't hide the fact that she was in rough shape. With a fierce battlecry powered by perhaps desperation, she charged again and made a swing at the abominable creature in front of her.
01[14:07] <GeMshuku> It was definitely a better swing! You can sense it making a great effort to get out of the way this time, flying up to get a vantage point, so it could figure out exactly where it ought be shooting now...
[14:20] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Onee-san, we're here!  The kicking is about to begin!" Misao runs up beside Ginko, and follows up her attack with a flurry of stabs!
01[14:30] <GeMshuku> The flurry of stabbing, directly after the first dodge, was a bit too much. She scores several direct hits, sending it reeling!
01[14:31] <GeMshuku> ...It clearly does not appreciate this...and so, it CHARGES UP for a brief moment, before carpeting the entire area in a deadly storm of destruction.
01[14:37] <GeMshuku> At least, the immediate one. Yuna and Akiko are thankfully a bit too far back to get caught up themselves, but they...can certainly see that it's got a wide range of destruction.
06[14:42] * Midorikawa_Misao stands in front of Ginko, a shield in her hand.  She didn't quite expect the double volley of pain, though.
[14:43] <Sakata_Ginko> "Misao," Ginko breathed. Almost reflexively, her sword flew out of her hand. It shattered upon impact from the Witch's attack, but another one had already appeared in her hand.
01[14:43] <GeMshuku> Yeah, it turns out when you take a volley for two, YOU FEEL A VOLLEY OF TWO.
[14:48] <Midorikawa_Misao> "I'm... I'm okay, onee-san," Misao gives the other knight a thumbs-up and a pained smile.  "This thing won't knock me down yet."
[14:49] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Mammon!" Akiko called, and a small drill-tipped stake inscribed with "III" appeared next to her and immediately flew off, bouncing rapidly off the streets and buildings before embedding itself in the youma's back. Then, she followed up with a medieval-era cannon, which launched a cannonball at the youma with a resounding boom!
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06[15:03] * Yuna_Mizuno let out a gasp as Misao took quite a beating from the youma's attack. The end of her staff glowed a pale yellow, then a pale green. Three beams of light shot from the three points on her staff, then swirled around the two injured meguca. The two of them would feel more energized and ready to fight some more.
[15:06] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko's costume somehow grew back to patch its holes and rips. The strength of her magical protection grew from Yuna's "healing" spell. It looks like she wouldn't die in the immediate future. But she wasn't looking forward to the conversation after the fight.
01[15:08] <GeMshuku> Of course, this is assuming there's a talk at all! IN THAT SLEEP OF DEATH, NO WORDS MAY COME. ...The being notices that the warriors before it had restored their strength. ...Also, that there were four of them. ...And two were firing quite nasty things from the back, causing it to falter, and them to rise.
01[15:09] <GeMshuku> ...Obviously, it couldn't have that. As such, the storm of the skies and air resumed once more...but this time, with different targets in mind.
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[15:24] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko eyed both Akiko and Yuna. The attack would surely be lethal for either one of them. Without thinking much, a strawberry-colored circle popped up under her feet and Akiko's, and the next moment, she was in Akiko's place in front of Yuna, taking the full brunt of the blow from the Witch.
[15:26] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Reflexively, Akiko moved in front of Yuna and raised a canvas to defend, but the next moment she found herself suddenly by Misao's side instead, with Ginko being the one in front of the priestess. "Sakata-san!"
01[15:31] <GeMshuku> This time, however, she has the backing of HER FRIENDS. As such, the blow is...a lot less painful than it could be, and...WHATEVER MEANS that Misao used to protect her managed to hit the youma particularly hard! It's...hurt! You can make out that it's hurt.
[15:37] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko grunted as she was hit. The shots stabbed deep into her, making punctures on her costume but inflicting no actual damage. The pain was pretty real, though. Her knees buckled as she almost collapsed in front of Yuna.
[15:42] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Here goes..." Misao leapt up into the skies, a spear in her hand, then descended upon the youma spearfirst, in an attempt to impale it by landing.
01[15:47] <GeMshuku> SHINK. It's harpooned! It attempts to shake the weapon off, making...noise in anger, as its very presence(?) starts to waver! "1,1             VANISH      "
[15:49] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Ooookay, it does not like being stabbed," Misao jumped off the youma, not quite in the mood for a bullride.
[16:06] <Shirayuki_Akiko> This was definitely another battle that can't be allowed to drag on...Gotta move it along quickly! "Belphegor!" Another stake, inscribed with "IV", ricochetted around and impaled the youma's foot (or something), and taking advantage of the opening, Akiko summoned five more stakes, which chaotically darted around the area, grazing the youma countless times before finally disappearing!
01[16:08] <GeMshuku> Well, it's definitely footless. It's got a bottom! It's slashed and dashed after the impale, and it seems to be on its last...wings! It's last wings. All it needs is a decisive finishing blow!
01[16:10] <GeMshuku> ...But, alas, it moves before anyone can really get that last hit in! It doesn't like those shields, but right now it seems to be in a frenzy! The hail of nothing comes down as if a rain of spears, upon Ginko and Yuna!
[16:40] <Sakata_Ginko> The hail of nothing was basically that, nothing. Ginko glowed blood red brightly as she stood up. The world slowed down around her, and the wave of nothing became visible to her blood-shot eyes.
[16:42] <Sakata_Ginko> One, two, three. Her wooden sword met the projectiles one by one and swatted them aside. They made metallic clangs, sickening putts, and dull clacks when they met the environment, but none of them met their intended targets.
01[16:42] <GeMshuku> ...WELL, THAT'S A BIT AWKWARD.
06[16:55] * Yuna_Mizuno sighs as she notices that Ginko was getting herself hurt again. A beam of light left her staff and swirled around Ginko. That same beam of light turned red, then started swirling around the Youma...
01[17:04] <GeMshuku> Scanning, scanning...
01[17:05] <GeMshuku> Name: 1,1XXXXXXX
01[17:05] <GeMshuku> Vitality: 4/42
01[17:05] <GeMshuku> Abilities: 1,1XXXXXXXXXX/1,1XXXXXXXXX/1,1XXXXXXXXX/1,1XXXXXXXXX
01[17:05] <GeMshuku> Notes: Species shows similarities to youma, but this is 1,1XXXXXXXXXXXXX, of a larger order of 1,1XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Classification is mage, likely dangerous offensively. The assumption that there are many classes of them is hard to disagree with. Has a mind to retreat into an underground passage located in 1,1XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Born from the trials and tribulations of 1,1XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, roughly 1,1XXXXXXXXX ago.
01[17:05] <GeMshuku> Additional Notes: Data is hard to gather. This is likely because 1,1XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX--
01[17:06] <GeMshuku> You did try great to read, but some of this stuff is really corrupted. Or full of nothing. You're not sure which.
01[17:08] <GeMshuku> That last bit...seems to suggest the latter.
01[17:08] <GeMshuku> Still, though!
01[17:10] <GeMshuku> The youma takes offense! It gathers strength to give the most decisive blow it can!
01[17:11] <GeMshuku> It prepares to fire upon Yuna and Ginko!
01[17:26] <GeMshuku> ...But it's not bullets that come out. What comes out is a dimensional tear, ripping apart space itself, though the space itself stays notably intact, everything in its path is reduced to literally nothing. It comes towards them at a frightening speed!
[17:29] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Wh-what... is that!?"
[17:29] <Sakata_Ginko> The red haze disappeared from Ginko's eyes. Another wave of spears descend upon her, this time too fast for even her. Her costume glowed as she was hit. Once, twice, thrice, the spears fell onto her like raindrops onto a speeding car's windscreen even as she tried to swat as many of them aside as she could.
[17:30] <Sakata_Ginko> After the onslaught, she fell forward, her treansformation collapsing as she did. At least, Yuna, who was behind her, was not hurt. But the pain from all of the hits had destroyed her resolve to fight, and consequently she reverted to a regular human being.
[17:33] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "...!" Darn it..! So this was the youma's strategy! Going after the weaker targets to force the rest to take hits for them..!
01[17:33] <GeMshuku> However, that was all it could muster. Seeing that one of them still stands, it attempts to flee...but, one of its wings falls off as it tries.
01[17:34] <GeMshuku> It begins losing altitude, and as it tries to fly away, more of it breaks apart, becoming a purple dust in the wind of displaced space.
01[17:35] <GeMshuku> It takes its defeat silently. Eventually, there is nothing left...
[17:35] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Onee-san, are you okay!?" Misao rushes toward Ginko, not quite caring about the Oblivion Seeds for the time being.
[17:36] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Warsp--" Akiko began to call out as the 'youma' attempted to flee, but stopped as it started falling apart, then disintegrate into dust. "...Is it over..?"
01[17:41] <GeMshuku> At the very least, the feeling of danger had passed. If there were reinforcements coming, they'd have probably done it in the beginning of the fight, like some asshole. That's what these things are, after all!
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[18:04] <Sakata_Ginko> "Is... is it over...?" Breathing felt painful. The costume protected her from lethal damage, but it didn't protect from not so lethal damage. Such as cracked ribs or bruises. "Is it... dead...?"
[18:05] <Shirayuki_Akiko> Akiko looked around their surroundings just in case, but everything seemed to be staying quiet and peaceful for now. "...It seems so," she replied, watching Ginko from some distance away, her face impassive.
[18:06] <Midorikawa_Misao> "It's gone, onee-san," Misao knelt beside Ginko, a grin on her face.  "You did it.  Let's get back home, okay?"
06[18:06] * Yuna_Mizuno shakes her head, "I think it just ran away... Speaking of which, I actually learned something interesting about it before it ran..."
[18:10] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "..Hmm? It...ran away? And what did you learn about it?"
06[18:11] * Yuna_Mizuno "I wasn't able to get much..." she says, "But I was able to gather that it is not actually a youma..."
01[18:11] <GeMshuku> Well, if it had such a low level of vitality, and it got beat up like THAT, did it really run away?
[18:11] <Sakata_Ginko> "......" Ginko finally found the strength in her arms to push herself up. Breathing was still painful. She searched up and down her chest with gentle pokes from her finger. She winced when she poked at a couple of her ribs. "...... where is it?" She asked Yuna quietly.
01[18:11] <GeMshuku> Dissolved into a purple mist, too.
01[18:11] <GeMshuku> ...Like every other youma when it dies.
[18:14] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Ehhhh, I'm not sure, Yuna-chan," Misao shrugged as she got up.  "It looked like a youma, smelled like a youma, and even felt like one."
[18:14] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Oh, and it was also pretty dead."
06[18:16] * Yuna_Mizuno pauses for a moment. "Smells...?" shaking her head and disregarding it, she continued, "It apparently is a mage of some sort... trained in offensive magicks. There might even be more types of it than what we just fought..."
[18:16] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Midorikawa-san has a point...it did go down unexpectedly quickly, but that definitely looked like how youma disappear when we destroy them."
[18:17] <Sakata_Ginko> "...... we should get out of here first," Ginko nursed her own legs before standing up. "I'm not sure what's gonna happen if its buddies show up."
[18:19] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "...Good point. Midorikawa-san, could you please carry her?"
[18:25] <Midorikawa_Misao> "R-right, yeah.  Will do!" Misao walks toward Ginko, but suddenly slams her against one of the buildings, and kisses her!
[18:26] <Sakata_Ginko> "What--I don't need carrying--mmmph....!" Ginko was taken aback. The hell was that? She reflexively returned the deep tongue kiss.
06[18:29] * Yuna_Mizuno blushes HEAVILY and hides her face in her hands
[18:29] <Shirayuki_Akiko> ".............--" Akiko stared dumbfoundedly, from her vantage point a few feet from the ground.
01[18:31] <GeMshuku> After a few moments of this, everyone, (perhaps understandably), suddenly feels nauseous. ...Including Misao, and definitely Ginko, who's hardly in the position to not feel nauseous to begin with!
[18:32] <Midorikawa_Misao> Within this nausea, Misao comes to the realization that she was kissing Ginko, and breaks the kiss, blushing quite a bit.
[18:32] <Sakata_Ginko> The kiss broke only when Ginko felt the urge to retch. She pushed Misao away, and then the nausea took over. All she could regurgitate onto the ground beside her was acid, however.
03[18:32] * Yuna_Mizuno is now known as Sylveon
03[18:33] * Sylveon is now known as Yuna_Mizuno
[18:34] <Midorikawa_Misao> "What in the..." Misao shook her head, as if it would shake away the sensation and memory of it all.  "D-did I just..."
[18:34] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "...." Akiko quietly headed back down to a the wall of a building on the opposite side, and retched as well.
[18:35] <Sakata_Ginko> "... Yeah," Ginko wiped the little bit of spit on the corner of her mouth. "I'm assuming it's from the use of magic."
[18:37] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "....Anyways, l-let's get back to what we were doing, and get out of here..."
[18:38] <Sakata_Ginko> "Yeah, and then we could find out why we all threw up at the same time," Ginko commented, but not directly at Akiko. "I got a motel room. We could stay there for the night."
06[18:38] * Yuna_Mizuno was the only one that didn't seem to be affected by the nauseousness... then again she was the cause of it... but no one knew that
[18:38] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Say, did we ever find any Oblivion Seeds?" Misao, who still looked a lot like Ginko, peered about the battlefield that once was.  "There doesn't seem to be any around."
03[18:39] * Yuna_Mizuno is now known as Sylveon
01[18:39] <GeMshuku> And even under closer investigation, twould seem that while it might have (seemingly) died like a youma, there's not a seed to be had for their efforts today...
[18:40] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "..Hmm, doesn't seem so," Akiko replied as her eyes scanned the streets around where the 'youma' met its end, finding no seeds.
03[18:40] * Sylveon is now known as Yuna_Mizuno
06[18:41] * Yuna_Mizuno nods, "This further confirms what I learned from it... That it isn't a youma..."
[18:42] <Sakata_Ginko> "Then what the hell is it!?" Ginko raised her voice. "What the hell is it? Who made it? Why is it around here? Isn't the existence of youma enough?!"
[18:42] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Hrm... yeah, the proof's right there," Misao folds her arms for a moment, then assertively nods.  "Let's go back to onee-san's apartment, then."
[18:43] <Sakata_Ginko> She panted. Inhaling air hurt. "... Yeah, let's go back to the motel... I'll buy food."
[18:50] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Sounds like a good idea!"
[18:51] <Sakata_Ginko> The motel room was absurdly small. There wasn't even a TV in there, not to mention desks. There was a small coffee table with one chair and a bed that was fortunately big enough for two people. The lighting inside was dim. That was for the best, though, because the room screamed "dilapidated and not well maintained" to the group.
01[18:53] <GeMshuku> This wasn't the place they were before, that's for sure! At least the other place could pretend to be nice.
[18:54] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "...Your living conditions got even worse, huh." Akiko commented, looking around the tiny room.
06[18:54] * Yuna_Mizuno looks around the room, "I've seen homeless people with better living conditions than this..."
[18:55] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Onee-san, you're living in here?" Misao leaned against one of the walls, hoping it wouldn't crumble upon contact.  "You should've taken some of the money, at least."
[18:56] <Sakata_Ginko> "Everyone's a critic these days," Ginko sighed and leaned herself against the wall. Soon dinner--consisting of a rather lavish set including at least six dishes from one of the best Chinese restaurants in town--showed up. "So, about the thing Yuna thought she saw..."
[18:57] <Midorikawa_Misao> "I think we're dealing with more than just void youma and youma here.  We should talk with Fate tomorrow."
06[18:58] * Yuna_Mizuno tilts her head, "What do you mean, I thought I saw?" she says, frowning a bit, "I KNOW I saw that thing..."
[19:00] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "It's also possible that it was a similiar threat that the tsukaima only called youma since less people would want to spend time hunting them if they knew they won't get any Oblivion Seeds. Mizuno-san, do you know what exactly they were?"
[19:03] <Sakata_Ginko> Ginko was busy eating and listening at the same time. She felt somehow extremely famished, though it could be due to the vomit earlier, and because she hadn't eat much since she split up with the group
06[19:04] * Yuna_Mizuno "Apparently it's similar to youma, but it isn't a youma... it's a part of a larger group of... something..." She begins. "Classified as a mage, and exceptionally skilled in offensive magicks. When I scanned it, it also wanted to retreat into some sort of underground passage... where the passage was located is something I was unable to determine, however..."
[19:07] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Weiiiiird..." Misao commented inbetween bites of food.  "Wonder if we'll see more of 'em."
[19:07] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "Hm...It wanted to retreat into an underground passage..? But then why kill humans...Do they have to "eat" people or something to survive..?" Akiko pondered this information. There were plenty of gaps, but that didn't mean the parts they did see around these gaps were useless. "...So in other words, if we found out where this 'underground passage' is and secured it, then we might be able to discover something about them or get an
[19:07] <Shirayuki_Akiko> advantage?"
06[19:09] * Yuna_Mizuno "I guess..." she replies, "Half the data was obscured or just plain missing, so it's really hard to tell what's going on with this thing..."
[19:11] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "I see..." There was any number of things that could mean. Akiko didn't really understand the extents of Yuna's magical ability, so she couldn't exactly guess. "What if you could analyze them a few more times?
[19:11] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "
[19:22] <Midorikawa_Misao> "Gahhh, too many questions, not enough answers," Misao clutches her head.  "I think I'm gettin' a headache from thinking about all this."
02[19:25] * Midorikawa_Misao (Midorikawa@gensoukyoueasternstory.net-13A16416.clients.kiwiirc.com) Quit (Quit: http://www.kiwiirc.com/ - A hand crafted IRC client)
[19:25] <Sakata_Ginko> "Well, eating some food will always cheer you up," Ginko spoke while chewing.
[19:26] <Shirayuki_Akiko> "...I guess no matter what we speculate for now, we can't really do anything with these meager scraps of information until we manage to uncover more," Akiko said, putting the topic aside for now. "More importantly..." Akiko said, in a slightly more serious voice, and let the sentence hang for a bit while she looked at Ginko.