Phantasmagoria

<SirGoldFish>	The intercom blares throughout the school. "Students who are interested in a mission, please report to the front gate. Students who have: Combat ability and or high levels of mental acuity are preferred. If you have any previous experience with phantoms or General Bryce, you may be interested."
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia perks up at the sound of that. ~This is one of those missions Malissa told me about. Apparently they give cash reward, and I need money to buy the parts to set up that transmitter...~ Off she goes to earn some money!
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy takes a deep breath as she stands up, dusting off her pants, and adjusting her beige scarf, really she had /nothing/ else to do, or at least wanted to do, and hell, she had Ju's help with mental acuity in the past, and she was one of the best fighters, at least for someone her stature. So why not? With that she moves out of the building and right to the front gate.
<DrabberRogue>	Punctual as always, the school's resident tactician decides to show up at the front gate, crimson trenchcoat and all. He didn't have too much better to do, and perhaps he might be able to lend a hand, seeing as how it was a combat mission.
<SirGoldFish>	At the front gate, there is General Bryce sleeping on a fold up chair, beer still clutched in his hand. A tall think looking individual in a lab coat, holding clipboard. And lastly, a rather plump looking little girl in a dress who is currently twirling around.
<SirGoldFish>	General Bryce is of course, snoring like there is no tomorrow.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia has decided to leave most of her stuff behind for this 'mission.' One of the few things she is bringing along is her 'charging pack.' If there is going to be combat involved, she will need it.
<Kioku>	Aiko is in the middle of changing after a shower when the intercom goes off.  Without missing a beat, she alters course for a different set of attire.  The kind that's more suited to... well... combat ability.  "I've prepped enough for finals anyway," she mutters to herself, checking her cane and slinging on her backpack before heading out to the gate.
<SirGoldFish>	The tall man speaks up, looking over the group of misfits. "This it?" He says, taping the clipboard as if he was doing work.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy stops, looking over the three, giving the snoozing Bryce a small laugh before looking at the tall man, glancing over to the adorable little girl before hand. She ends up also looking over well, everyone else that had came, not really having checked until now.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia looks to her left, and to her right. ~I don't know these people...~
<DrabberRogue>	Jace smiles a bit at the scene before him, as if the tall man had room to complain. But he keeps his amusement to himself as he looks through the crowd, scanning for anyone he kne-...was that Wendy?
<Kioku>	Aiko's nose twitches when she arrives on scene, shifting her weight a little.  She gravitates toward the smell of Wendy, easily recognizable to her, and taps her on the shoulder.
<SirGoldFish>	"Well, excellent." He says, clearly saying it because he knows he has to. "Today you will be going over to a town called Wellington. We have been contracted to deal with the phantoms that infest the town. Your job is to go in, deal with the phantoms, find out why, and get out. Got it?"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy hadn't noticed Jace yet, her eyes being cut off on their little scan of people by Aiko when she taps her shoulder, turning around a smile coming on her face, saying quietly, as i not to interrupt the man. "Hey."
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia hooks her thumbs into her jean pockets, shifts her weight to the other leg, and continues to listen.
<DrabberRogue>	~Ah, good...something I can damage...explains why mental acuity is required. I hope I get to work with a lot of people with attacks that can injure things like that...~
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<Kioku>	Aiko leans slightly against Wendy.  She doesn't like crowds any more than she ever has, and there are people she didn't recognize here.  Wendy, Jace and Bryce, sure, but...
<SavanahHolland>	"You alright?" she asks her in the same hushed voice, her eye going from looking at the man to looking at Aiko everyonce in awhile, back and forth.
<SirGoldFish>	"Also, another item of note. The town's old mayor, an 80 year old named Samuel Thomson is hold up somewhere in the town. We have no idea how he got past all the phantoms but make sure he is safe. Once the mission is over, we'll extract him. Any questions before I have Amelia over here," He points to the little girl. "Teleport you to outside the town."
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia wonders if she should try to get to know her teammates, but understanding the mission was more important right now. She could talk later.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia raises her hand.
<SirGoldFish>	The man nods to Vinnia so she can ask her question.
<DrabberRogue>	~Uh oh...a recovery mission...probably a bit of escorting involved...I hate escort missions, but this could prove interesting...~
<SolongStarbird>	"What exactly are phantoms? Are they like ghosts? If they are, then how do we fight them?
<SolongStarbird>	"
<Kioku>	Aiko nods quickly.  "Yeah, just... you know... but I'm glad you're here."
<DrabberRogue>	Jace tilts his head as he thinks, an idea coming across him. ~But how...could he get past them? I feel like there's something more to that old man...~
<Kioku>	\A teleporter?  I hate teleporting...\
<SirGoldFish>	Amelia stops twirling for second to look at the group. "Hello!" She returns to her twirling. The man looks to Vi. "Phantoms are creatures born of human emotions such as hate and sorrow."
<SolongStarbird>	Vinny raises her eyebrow. "Okay then."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves her hand to take Aiko's reasurringly, giving it a little squeeze with a smile coming on her face, she could probably help with escorting the old man, she was better with children but it really wouldn't be too hard. Just depends on how things go. She lifts up her other hand to give Amelia a small wave.
<DrabberRogue>	"As far as I know, they fight by attacking your psyche, and can't be damaged by physical attacks..." Jace adds on to the mans explaination, tilting his gaze at Vinnia.
<SirGoldFish>	The man looks confused. "Phantoms are very physical beings, sorry to say." He says to Jace.
<SolongStarbird>	"So then-" Vinnia stops. Her question has been answered.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace looks back to the man. "Ah...I must've confused them with something else...I assume their existance is anomalous by nature though?"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy blinks at the man, they're physical beings, well she didn't know much about phantoms in the first place, but she assumed they followed like ghost rules. She then realizes, hey, Jace is her. Glancing over to him for a moment to give him a smile before turning back.
<SirGoldFish>	He nods. "Indeed they are." He looks over the group. "Well, if that is it, Amielia is ready to teleport you all, including General Bryce." Amelia stops her twirling yet again, the plump tenth grader nodding her head rapidly at the group. "Ready ready ready!"
<Kioku>	Aiko smiles and runs a hand over her own hair, still pretty freshly cut just yesterday.  Nobody's probably even seen it yet, since it was after she sense-shared with Sara for that day and she hasn't done so yet today, nor visited anyone else.  "Don't let go..." she whispers.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinny smiles. She likes Amelia's energy.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace inserts his hands to his crimson pockets, satisfied with his answer. He returns Wendy's smile, noting the Aiko attached to her. "Ready." He affirms.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia nods.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy nods, she was ready, hearing Aiko's words and holding her hand tight but certainly not hurting her, she wouldn't let go.
<Kioku>	Aiko takes a deep breath and nods... positively clinging to Wendy's arm.
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<SirGoldFish>	The man goes over to Amelia "Just like we went over, okay?" Amelia nods. "Allrright!" Amelia looks at all the group members and Bryce, her eyes take on a blue glow. She does a dance, oddly similar to the truffle shuffle and a blue light over takes the entire group
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia just about dances along. Dancing is fun.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace raises an eyebrow as he watches, but he keeps still, he doesn't want any parts of his body somewhere they're not supposed to be when they get there.
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<SirGoldFish>	It's a matter of seconds before you are all blinded by white light and land in a new location, inches above the ground. You can not see where you are due to the light still over your eyes, but judging by the sounds and the feeling of concrete under your feet, you are certainly somewhere else.
<SirGoldFish>	You also hear a distinctly bryce sounding. "Oaaf!" as he lands on his butt.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia stumbles a little, but doesn't fall. "Woah..."
<DrabberRogue>	Jace laughs at the sound, at least he's in one piece. ~Well...the teleporter seems pretty good at what she does...that's good...wish I could see though...~
<Kioku>	Blinded by light?  Please.  Aiko is still clinging to Wendy's arm like her life depends on it, but is sure footed and breathes a sigh of relief at feeling concrete.  She slaps her foot against the ground while trying not to focus too much on the data coming in about the power that she couldn't avoid Looking at while it was in use.
<savanah_>	Wendy lands on her feet thankfully, though with Aiko holding on her she breifly uses her as a crutch to get a better stance, trying to hold back a sticker as her eyes keep mostly cracked open from the light, moving a little to Bryce to offer her free hand to help him up.
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<SirGoldFish>	The blinding light leaves your eyes and within seconds your eyes adjust to your surrounding. You are all currently in the center of some sort of empty town. The buildings and cars inform you that this place has been abandeoned for over 60 years. Bryce is currently panicking as he looks around. "Where are we? What's going on? Oh god did they use Amelia?!" She goes over to shake the shoulders of Jace, the grown
<SirGoldFish>	man in a big panic.
<SirGoldFish>	*goes to shake Wendy's shoulders
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<SolongStarbird>	Vinny looks around and absrobs her surroundings.
<Kioku>	Aiko is shaken along with Wendy since she's still on her, but lets go with one arm to grab Bryce's hand.  "D-don't worry, it's fine, it's fine."  \Doesn't he pay attention?\  "Yeah, it's Amelia."  \That's the name the guy said anyway...\
<SirGoldFish>	The group seems to be a mere short walk to the dilapidated building which was once likely the mayor's office.
<DrabberRogue>	"Wellington...apparently..." Jace notes as he looks around, smiling at the general's reaction, before he spots Vinnia. "I don't believe we've met quite yet, I'm Jace." He says in a jovial tone, offering his hand to her.
<SolongStarbird>	"We haven't." She shakes his hand. "I'm Vinnia, Vinny, whatever floats your boat."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy lets out a small 'eek' noise as Bryce shakes her, taking a step back with Aiko and letting out a small nervous laugh. "Yeah.. were you told anything..?"
<SirGoldFish>	"Fuck" Bryce looks around. "I told them it was a bad idea to use a dang special ed student." Bryce grumbles. In the distance, the group can hear an odd howling in the distance, anyone can roll precption to take a closer listen if they want.
<Kioku>	Aiko finally lets go of Wendy's arm, and Bryce's hand, and tugs her cane free and thumbs the switch to extend it.
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 9
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+11
<SavanahHolland>	4d3-8+7 Perpection
<GameServ>	4d3-8+11 = 12
<SolongStarbird>	4d3-8+4 looking around
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<SirGoldFish>	Anyone who rolls higher than 7 will know that is no wolf, while it may sound like it. That is some feral creature that you've never heard. Almost human, but not quite. Anyone who rolled at least a 12 will hear the steps of quadrupeds, running at your position.
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+4
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4 = 2
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 6
<SolongStarbird>	"Sounds like a wolf... Is that what phantoms sound like, or is it a wolf?" Vinnia thinks out loud.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace looks away from Vinnia as he hears the howling, his smile fading. "Seems something isn't happy about us being here...Bryce, can other's who aren't being teleported see that blue light?"
<Kioku>	Aiko shakes her head at Vinnia.  "Definitely not a wolf.  And running toward us..."
<SirGoldFish>	"I dunno, I did not think anyone would be dumb enough to-" He listens in. "Anyone hear something?" Bryce is still somewhat drunk, judging by his speech.
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, it was one orginally, but. Hmm, more steps are joining. Many many more
<Kioku>	Aiko flicks her cane up into a... fencing position?  And then... electricity lights the length of it, running all along the metal.
<DrabberRogue>	"Riiight...let's go off the assumption everything within a few blocks saw us arrive, we should be ready."
<SirGoldFish>	*originally one
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, the creatures running at you are over 20, and these are no small creatures, judging by the stomping.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy takes a deep breath, looking at Aiko, Jace and the other person before her eyes dart around the area, getting into a very loose fighting position, nothing she would fully commit to until she knew they were here.
<SolongStarbird>	"Oh, are you that girl who does electricity too?" Vinnia asks excitedly. Her hands start to crackle.
<Kioku>	Aiko lets out a hiss-click.  "There's a lot... and they're pretty big... we should get to an upper floor."
<SolongStarbird>	"To the mayor's office?" Vinny suggests.
<SirGoldFish>	The most easily accessible building right now is the mayor's office, it looks like it has a roof access.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace looks over at the girl who probably has much better hearing. "That...that is a better idea, let's get moving."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy removes herself from the faint postion, giving them a nod as she starts to move, making sure everyone comes along with them and mostly staying to the back so if they do come she can fight them off.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia follows Wendy.
<SirGoldFish>	Some may spot two creatures just down the road. They are crimson red, walking on four claw like hands that grip its surrounding. It's back is filled with metal jagged spikes that are cutting into the creature (it does not look nice.) Its 'face' looks to be red and reptilain with some subtle human features and a wolf-like nose. Judging by the eyes which are sewn shut. These things are blind.
<SirGoldFish>	Everyone who is running to the mayor's office, give me an agility roll.
<Kioku>	Aiko runs after the others, obviously not seeing the creatures.
<Kioku>	(Just straight agility?)
<SirGoldFish>	(Running and park our help.)
<DrabberRogue>	(Reflexes?...Maybe?)
<SirGoldFish>	(Anything that would help with running, really.)
<SirGoldFish>	(Not reflexes, sadly.)
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+3
<GameServ>	4d3-8+3 = 5
<DrabberRogue>	`roll 4d3-8+3
<GameServ>	Syntax: XdY [ {-|+|*|/} Z ]
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+3
<GameServ>	4d3-8+3 = 4
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 5
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 5
<SirGoldFish>	As the group and Bryce start running toward the mayor's office, creatures begin coming out of the wood work and vaulting at the group at insanely fast speeds. Everyone manages to out pace them, except for Jace. He gets clawed in the back for one health damage, but he eventually gets to the office as well. Bryce goes to block the door with a rouge book case. "You youngin's alright?" He says, drunkness leaving him?
<DrabberRogue>	Jace grunts in pain. "Damn it! THis thing isn't cheap!
<DrabberRogue>	(Damn enter button)
<SolongStarbird>	"Damn those things are scary!"
<DrabberRogue>	Just before entering the safety of the office, Jace slings a bit of Dissonant Counter at the creature that slashed him. Partly as revenge for slashing his coat, partly as an experiment to see if it works.
<DrabberRogue>	`roll 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	Syntax: XdY [ {-|+|*|/} Z ]
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 7
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy catches her breath as they all reach safety, making sure Aiko is okay and then checking on Jace, a little worry on her face as she tries to check if he's alright.
<SirGoldFish>	'calc 4d3+7-8
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+6-8
<GameServ>	4d3+6-8 = 4
<Kioku>	Aiko grounds out her cane and whips around, urgency in her voice.  "Someone get me to a window."
<Kioku>	\Gotta map the room quick, but gotta check them out quicker.\
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia perks up. She looks around, and then says. "There's one over here!"
<SirGoldFish>	The creatures hisses in pain and tries to slash at him, but the door is closed on it. The creatures are all currently pounding on the door. They want to get in. All the windows are boarded up, Aiko. Oddly enough the boards look sorta fresh and new compared to the rest of the building
<DrabberRogue>	Jace chuckles to see that his ability worked, but he winces in pain at the cut on his back. "I'm fine, Wendy..." He says to the girl as he notices her expression.
<SirGoldFish>	The office has two floors. Floor one appears to be sorta an open area with a few turned over waiting chairs and a desk where a secretary likely sat long ago. There is a old news paper sitting on one of the chairs. There is a closed door that leads to some room in the back, and stairs leading up
<SavanahHolland>	Right now wasn't the best time /to/ be worried, but internally she still was, well externally too of course. Moving behind him to look over his back before taking a step back and looking at the windows. "I could try to pry off the boards on the window?"
<SirGoldFish>	Wendy, there are currently creatures uselessly clawing at the boards, the blind hateful things are determined.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia has started to walk around the bottom floor. She eventually finds her way to the newspaper and picks it up to read it.
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, your cut, it smells oddly like coal.
<SirGoldFish>	Vinnia, The header reads: “Eighteen dead in mining accident”. The article goes on to describe a gruesome involving an explosion that came from an unknown source, and a collapse which killed eighteen people. It is rumored that the mine was never examined for safety. The mayor refuses to make any comments.
<Kioku>	\Boards?\  Aiko shakes her head and taps her cane to the floor a few times, then clicks her tongue and stomps.  "We should do that upstairs if we can instead..."
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia carefully examines the article, and then looks to check the date of the newspaper.
<SirGoldFish>	1961, august 12th
<SirGoldFish>	General Bryce says. "Get me to the roof, I think I can provide sniping support up there if ya kidos need it."
<SolongStarbird>	"Hey guys!" Vinnia calls to them. "I found something!"
<DrabberRogue>	Jace sniffs heavily, taking in the coal smell before going to peer over Vinnia's shoulder. "I feel like this might be a good place to look for someone hiding out, it seems pretty well fortified..."
<SolongStarbird>	"Yah, and take a look at this!" she shows him the paper. "Think this is why there are phantoms here?"
<SirGoldFish>	Luckily for you all, the creatures have become... well bored. They leave. Only about 8 of them are still there, trying to get in.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy nods at Aiko, though she probably wouldn't know, while they look around she goes to the stairs, though doesn't go up them, staying at the base as she lets the others handle the mystery.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace takes a second to read it. "That seems to explain it pretty well...which means there's only eighteen phantoms...assuming no one else developed hatred for the mayor before they died..."
<Kioku>	Aiko's nose twitches and she frowns.  \Think what is why...?\  She moves toward the stairs and pokes at the ceiling with her cane, not really expecting much besides /maybe/ to feel if there are decently heavy footsteps or loud voices.  Or someone playing music with the bass up... you never know!
<DrabberRogue>	"Or anyone for that matter..."
<SirGoldFish>	Anyone going up the stairs or just by the stairs, give me precep. (this includes aiko
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 6
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+11
<GameServ>	4d3-8+11 = 10
<SolongStarbird>	"Hmmm... yeah." Vinnia folds up the newspaper. "Those stupid phantoms interrupted our intro. What's your name?"
<DrabberRogue>	"Jace, it's nice to meet you." For a guy who just got slashed in the back, he's giving quite a jovial voice in his introduction.
<SolongStarbird>	"Jace... cool." Vinnia smiles. "Should we follow the others?"
<SirGoldFish>	Anyone who rolled higher than an 8. There seems to be crying and lots of it, but this crying is not human in the same way the howl was not quite human or quite animal. There is also an odd smell of... perfume and... sewage coming from up there.
<DrabberRogue>	"Probably...I think the mayor is likely to be here...somewhere..."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy doesn't hear it sadly, looking to Jace and Vinnia, then Aiko "Should we start going up stairs?" she asks.
<SolongStarbird>	"I don't know... does it sound safe up there?"
<Kioku>	Aiko's nose wrinkles and she ducks away with a frown.  Eww.  She's not sure which of the two scents is more offensive.  Maybe she'll go over to Jace and hope the coal covers it up.  "Ugh... not with that smell up there, Wendy.  And something up there sounds a bit like a Witch from Left 4 Dead."  She says the last part mostly for Jace's benefit.  She didn't like the game much herself, or play it more than an hour, but memory being
<Kioku>	what it is...
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia furrows her brow, and thinks for a second. "Proceed with caution then?"
<DrabberRogue>	Jace gives a slight chuckle at her reference. "Well then, flashlights off and noise down. I'd say that's probably the mayor up there...or another random citizen...or perhaps a smaller phantom. So yeah, caution."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy looks over to Aiko, her hand going to her scarf, which of course smelt like her with how much she used it, like Vanilla. "You can use my scarf to cover your nose if you need it."
<Kioku>	"Something like that.  Hey, you said something about electricity.  Before we got chased off."
<Kioku>	Aiko smiles at Wendy and pulls out... a hand fan.
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<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia looks to her. "Yeah. Are you that other girl that uses electricity?" Vinnia holds up her hand and a few sparks jump between her fingers.
<Kioku>	Aiko snorts.  "I got here before you.  I think that makes you the 'other' girl that does."  Oddly, there's a decent amount of humor in her voice.  "But I don't do it all /that/ much, and I'm not collecting titles, so sure.  You too, then?"
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<SolongStarbird>	"Yeah. Me too." Vinnia smiles. "I'm Vinnia, nice to meet you... erm... Akemi never mentioned your name."
<SirGoldFish>	Something comes through the vents of this old place with a gust. Smells again like perfume along with that wave of perfume, after a few seconds. All of the Red phantoms leave you all alone.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy stares at the hand fan, but while waiting for them to get ready to go she sits down on one of the stairs, a hand under her chin as she waits, then sniffing the air, perfume?
<DrabberRogue>	Jace notes the phantoms leaving as the perfume fills the air. "Yeah, the mayor's definitely here..."
<SirGoldFish>	It smells specifically like old lady perfume. Perfect for making your eyes water!
<Kioku>	\Akemi?\  "Minami," Aiko murmurs in reply, flicking the fan in front of her face, just to get the smell away for now.  She can make the connection though, so doesn't want to clear the room or anything...
<SolongStarbird>	"Nice to meet you..." Vinnia is aware of the smell now too.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy sneezes after she first smells it, she really wasn't a fan of that smell, no pun intended. She stands back up, moving her scarf up so it covers her nose and mouth. "We should head up now."
<SirGoldFish>	As soon as Aiko turns on her little fan to clear the air of that awful perfume, several of the phantoms come back, and they're making a bit of progress through one of the windows...
<DrabberRogue>	"Erm...Aiko, I know the smell's unpleasant. But we kind of need it right now..."
<SirGoldFish>	*Starts using the fan
<Kioku>	\You said that already...\  "Yeah, let's... just be careful.  And try to keep clear of each other."
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia is putting two and two together. She follows the others.
<SirGoldFish>	(So, is then group going upstairs?)
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves in front, just in case, going up the stairs and trying to make her steps light, she already barely weighted much so it wasn't that hard to be quiet.
<SolongStarbird>	"I bet the reason the mayor is still alive is because he uses this perfume to fend off the phantoms."
<DrabberRogue>	"That's probably part of it..." Jace responds as he heads up after Wendy.
<SolongStarbird>	"Yeah." Vinnia falls silent as she heads up after Jace.
<Kioku>	"If he's even the one doing it... could be another phantom of a different sort.  Maybe the source of the crying..."  Aiko keeps the fan and cane out.  She'll take phantoms over perfume and sewage if it comes to that.
<Kioku>	She doesn't flick it again though... yet.
<SirGoldFish>	When they get up stairs, you enter what one can guess to be the old mayor's office. There are several cabinets, some empty, some filled with old articles. A somewhat opulent (Especially compared to the rest of the town) looking desk that the mayor once sat in and floating in the center is the a blue looking creature floating in mid air, looking at the group. It's face is similar to that of a skeleton in an
<SirGoldFish>	exaggerated screaming expression. It is draped in a light blue cloak. You are unable to see its body, assuming it has one. It is not the source of the cries in a traditional sense since the crying seems to permeate the room. (Since it is floating and not technically making any noise, Aiko can not sense this thing what so ever right now.)
<DrabberRogue>	"Mmkay...I think Aiko was right..." Jace whispers to the rest of the groups, trying not to startle it.
<SirGoldFish>	The creature looks at you all, its 'face' contorted with sorrow. Blue, inhuman eyes peek past the black and deep sockets.
<Kioku>	Aiko frowns and turns toward Jace.  "?"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy enters the room first, looking at it as she gets a little nervous, or more freaked out than anything on her features. Wendy then takes a careful and quiet step twords it.
<DrabberRogue>	"Phantom of sorrow, witch, whatever you wanna call it...we should go back down now...slowly..."
<SirGoldFish>	The crying is more intense in this room, but it is not coming from any distinct location.
<DrabberRogue>	He watches Wendy's step forward with wide eyes, but makes no attempt to stop her.
<Kioku>	\Eh?  I don't sense any supernatural presence up here...\  Aiko folds the fan and holds out her arm, shifting her wrist toward Jace.  "Point me."
<SirGoldFish>	The creature just sorta looks at Wendy as she steps froward. Wendy, give me mental defense
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 9
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+8-8
<GameServ>	4d3+8-8 = 9
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia backs away a few steps. ~That is freaky as hell.~
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, you are filled with a brief moment of sadness, but you push through it, being unaffected.
<SirGoldFish>	*Wendy
<DrabberRogue>	Jace takes Aiko's wrist as indicated, pointing her toward the pha-...creature. "I really think we should go back downstairs..."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy bites her bottom lip, feeling kinda depressed from that as a blue flame licks her iris for a brief second before disappearing, she takes yet another step to it, this time much larger, she wants to get closer.
<Kioku>	Aiko sights along her arm, bites her tongue, and Looks.
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 5
<SirGoldFish>	The creature continues staring at Wendy with its black sockets
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, this creature is very powerful and will be a tough fight even for the group, it radiates... sadness that may overcome those with out strong minds. It has the capability of attacking three people at once and its aura effects everyone every so offten.
<SirGoldFish>	Wendy, it does not seem to mean you harm... for now.
<SolongStarbird>	"What is that thing?" Vinnia whispers.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves to take a few steps back, returning to the group, she wasn't planning on touching it, and walking up to it only made her feel kinda sad, she looks at Vinnia, and does sorta a shrug.
<Kioku>	Aiko hisses and pulls her arm back to put away her fan... and her cane, for now.  She'll want a phone out for this.  "This isn't something we want to face," she comments warily.  "It gives off sorrow like a crematory chamber gives off heat, a touhou boss gives off bullets, or FonyX gives off private information."
<Kioku>	Yeah.  She's still mad.
<SirGoldFish>	The fight is totally doable, but...
<SirGoldFish>	Yeah, wont be easy.
<DrabberRogue>	"Right...if we don't have to fight it, I'd rather avoid unecessary mid-bosses." Jace glances at Wendy at the mention of sorrow, a bit of worry creasing his brow.
<SirGoldFish>	The phantoms is sort of blocking the way to the roof, the closet, and another newspaper sticking out of a garbage can.
<SirGoldFish>	Speaking of the closet, everyone hears something, roll precp to tell what was said.
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 4
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 6
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+11
<GameServ>	4d3-8+11 = 12
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+4
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4 = 6
<SirGoldFish>	Everyone but Jace hears the words. "Help me, coming from the closet." Aiko, the closet seems to be the source of the sewage and perfume.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy's ears perk up, someone was in the closet? Her eyes go a little wider as she takes a few steps /to/ said closest, or at least.. as close as she can.
<SirGoldFish>	*"Help me" coming from the closet
<SirGoldFish>	The phantoms turns quickly to the closet door and it begins banging on it, ignoring the clearly placed handle on the door. Phantoms, it seems, are not all that smart.
<SirGoldFish>	(Sorta like Fony.)
<SolongStarbird>	"There's someone in that closet!" Vinnia tries to be as quiet as she can.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace gives a dissapointed sigh. "Well...seems I was right to assume there was someone up here...unfortunately. Which means we probably have to fight it."
<Kioku>	Aiko brings up her phone and watches the phantom, feeling out its movements, still processing the information from her Look, seeing if she can discern something useful if they do need to fight it.  Not to mention whether it's physical...
<Kioku>	(Exploit Defenses: Agility action)
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+9
<GameServ>	4d3-8+9 = 6
<SolongStarbird>	"I could always distract it... Or something."
<DrabberRogue>	Jace starts sizing up the opponent, taking Aiko's information into account. "Distract it how?" He glances to Vinnia.
<SirGoldFish>	Sadly, she finds nothing really worth while about the creature other than the fact that it does not like pictures. The rooms crying becomes intense, and the creature begins to float toward Aiko. Everyone, initiative time!
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 9
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 2
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 6
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+2
<GameServ>	4d3-8+2 = 3
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 8
*	SirGoldFish has changed the topic to: Jace > Sorrow Phantom > Aiko > Vivi > Wendy
<DrabberRogue>	"Never mind then, Wendy and Vinnia offense, Aiko try to spot weaknesses and point them out, I'll try to suppress it's ability to project sadness." Jace whispers urgently to the group as he sets up a Dissonant Counter, preparing to intercept the Phantom's attack with it.
<DrabberRogue>	(Nevermind, he doesn't say anything...just sets up the counter...)
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia's hands crackle. Hopefuly she won't run out of juice...
<SirGoldFish>	First of all, as it comes by, everyone give me a mental defense roll.
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 5
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+9
<GameServ>	4d3-8+9 = 7
<DrabberRogue>	(Um...is that an action on its part or just something passive that happens with proximity?)
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+4
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4 = 5
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+4
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4 = 3
<SirGoldFish>	`roll 4d3+7-8
<GameServ>	Syntax: XdY [ {-|+|*|/} Z ]
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+7-8
<GameServ>	4d3+7-8 = 9
<DrabberRogue>	(Srsly though, action or proximity?)
<SirGoldFish>	(Proxmity!)
<DrabberRogue>	(Well shit...)
<SirGoldFish>	Everyone, recent and painful memories come flooding toward you, filling you with sorrow, and there is always the despair of all of life's problems. You can't help but start crying and feeling lethargic. -2 for defense rolls and -1 for offense rolls and powers.
<SirGoldFish>	Now, Aiko, Jace, and Wendy! Give me a defense roll for this thing's attack.
<SolongStarbird>	~Shit, why am I thinking about my mom?~
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+9
<GameServ>	4d3-8+9 = 10
<DrabberRogue>	(Dissonant Counter, intercept)
<Kioku>	(Ohright, minus 2)
<DrabberRogue>	(Fuck it, overdrive)
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 6
<DrabberRogue>	(Basically Jace trying to shut down the ability before it hits anyone...)
<SavanahHolland>	Tears actually start coming down from her eyes as she stands there, this was probably the worst time to actually have something like that happen to you, expecially with yesterday's events. But that doesn't mean she still can't dodge!
<Kioku>	(Shouldn't it have been +7 then?)  (5 ability, -1 aura, +1 counter, +2 overdrive)
<DrabberRogue>	(Hang on, isn't it attacking with sadness?)
<SirGoldFish>	(No, it's actually physically attacking you this time.)
<SavanahHolland>	(wat roooooll)
<SirGoldFish>	(Agility or brawn defense)
<SavanahHolland>	(close combat work?)
<Kioku>	(Probalby should have said that first. >.<;)
<SirGoldFish>	(You may use close combat)
<DrabberRogue>	(Oh...than it's an offensive intercept, he wants to hurt it in that case...)
<SirGoldFish>	(Sorry sorry.)
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+10
<GameServ>	4d3-8+10 = 9
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia isn't enjoying these tears at all. Her arms are wet with the tears she has wiped away... Aren't tears a good conductor?
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 4
<DrabberRogue>	(Also, counter bonus or no? I'm still a little confused about that...)
<SavanahHolland>	(she got a 7 in that case)
<SirGoldFish>	The thing reaches into the the ground with a long blue arm that seemingly comes from now where and attempts to hit is foes
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 3
<SirGoldFish>	The phantom hits and effects no one, despite the crying!
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko's turn!
<Kioku>	Aiko /can't/ cry, but her recent painful memories are more likely to get a panic attack anyway.  Katlyn pinning her.  Rose kissing her.  And that's just the start of the painful ones.  Through her worries, fears, pain, despair though, Aiko keeps an eye- ... YOU KNOW WHAT SHE MEANS.  Keeps watching it.  ... Ish.  She's still looking for openings, okay?
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+8
<GameServ>	4d3-8+8 = 6
<Kioku>	(vs Agility still)
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia looks at the handle on the door. Is it made of metal?
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 9
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, sadly you find no opening.
<SirGoldFish>	> Vi's turn
<SirGoldFish>	Yes, it is in fact metal!
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia pushes through tears to note that the door handle is in fact metal, and she could fling them open and tell the person inside to run if it came to it.
<SirGoldFish>	(Is that her turn?)
<SolongStarbird>	(Not yet.)
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia charges up and takes a shot at the blue skull.
<SirGoldFish>	(Roll for that please, remember the -1 debuff.)
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+4-1
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4-1 = 3
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+3-8
<GameServ>	4d3+3-8 = 4
<SirGoldFish>	She barely misses the bolt that flies right past the creature!
<SirGoldFish>	> Wendy's turn
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy very faintly shakes, she couldn't get her mind off of it, wiping the tears off her face, rememebering what happened with Akemi, repeating it over and over in her mind and to Akemi. The time Akemi and Katlyn kissed.. in front of her, and she didn't nothing, she could do nothing. Katlyn telling her she could never be enough, only for Wendy to finally realize herself that she coul
<SavanahHolland>	d never be enough, for anyone. She takes a shaking breath before gripping her hand into a fist and taking a running start to punch at whatever the hell that blue thing was.
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+9
<GameServ>	4d3-8+9 = 10
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+7-8
<GameServ>	4d3+7-8 = 9
<SirGoldFish>	Wendy you manage to hit one of its rags, sadly, the hit itself seemed to have little effect on the creature.
<SirGoldFish>	> Jace turn
<DrabberRogue>	Jace takes a couple steps back as he's bombarded with a keen sense of loneliness, idly reaching for Wendy's absent hand as tears threaten to escape his frozen eyes. Regardless of the crushing lone feeling he has, he focuses his dissonant counter on the phantom's sadness aura, trying to suppress it. (Dissonant Counter overdrive)
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 8
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+6-8
<GameServ>	4d3+6-8 = 6
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, your counter works! Not only is the sadness lifted for this turn, he can not use it again to regen it for this turn.
<SirGoldFish>	> Phantom
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 5
<DrabberRogue>	(Erm...the effects tend to last for a number of turns equal to the abilities level...the way it's currently written...)
<SirGoldFish>	(Jace, Aiko, and Vivi, give me physical defense rolls. The sadness aura does not effect any of you.)
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<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 7
<SolongStarbird>	(Brawn or agility?)
<SirGoldFish>	(Either or.)
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+2
<GameServ>	4d3-8+2 = 2
<SirGoldFish>	(Which ever your character is better at!)
<SolongStarbird>	(She is the same for both)
<SirGoldFish>	The creature manages to grapple you, Vivi and you're not able to dodge or push it away. The best way to describe this is being sequzed of energy both, it lets you go and pushes you away. (2 physical damage.)
<Kioku>	(Vinnia, you have Close Combat...)
<SolongStarbird>	(Does that work for physical defense rool?)
<SolongStarbird>	(If so, that roll was a 4.)
<SirGoldFish>	(Yup, it does!) The creature grapples Vinnia but it does not manage to drain anything from her!
<SirGoldFish>	> Aiko's turn!
<Kioku>	Aiko lets out a surprised laugh when she notices Wendy's actions.  "Don't go shadow boxing!  What happened to the Wendy I used to know?  The one who used fire as her first solution rather than force?"  She... might be a little out of it right now, her fears and sorrow stopping her from speaking calmly and logically, making things brief.  Wait, no time to watch that.  Gotta keep seeking out a way to hurt it..
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+9
<GameServ>	4d3-8+9 = 10
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+7-8
<GameServ>	4d3+7-8 = 8
<SirGoldFish>	The creature seems to be weak to elemental abilities (Fire and electricity, included.) Rolling only +3 against them. And its eye sockets are a nice place to hit it. (She gets the usual bonus exploit defense gives.) along with the info
<SirGoldFish>	> V's turn
<Kioku>	"Zap or burn it in the eyes!" Aiko calls out, electricity filling her hands.
<Kioku>	\It'll end up protecting that area if we hit it though... gotta make this count.\
<DrabberRogue>	Jace smiles as Aiko identifies its weakness. ~Good, at this rate we should be able to take it down...agh, I gotta stop tryharding...it's giving me a headache...~
<SolongStarbird>	"Zap it? I can do that!" Vinnia is both happy that she is useful,and happy that the sadness is gone for now.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia goes for another shot, and makes sure to aim for the eyes.
<SirGoldFish>	(Roll for it please.)
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+4
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4 = 3
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+2
<GameServ>	4d3-8+2 = 0
<SolongStarbird>	(Aw sweet thats 2 damage!)
<SirGoldFish>	The creature is fucking shaking as electricy enters its body.  The tears becoming eradicate!
<SirGoldFish>	>Wendy's turn
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<SavanahHolland>	Wendy lets out a small laugh through the few tears left at Aiko's words, 'What happened to the Wendy I used to know?' hurt far more than she could admit, the blue flames finally dying, if only just barely, in her eyes as she jumps back and raises a hand, harnessing the same blue flames as they flow from the vein in her wrist into the palm of her hand, the girl by now shaking a lot le
<SavanahHolland>	ss violently as she whips her hand and the light blue flame is thrown quickly into the creature of sorrow's eyes.
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+8
<GameServ>	4d3-8+8 = 10
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+2
<GameServ>	4d3-8+2 = 3
<SirGoldFish>	The blue flame is sent toward the creature, still in mid seizure from the electricity. The flame melts off the thing's 'face' to reveal a human looking face under the mask, that begins to burn as well as the creature begins to loudly scream, filling the room with its horror and sorrow. After it suffers for only a few more seconds, it explodes in a brilliant display of light. Leaving only behind a tear drop
<SirGoldFish>	shaped ball of white flesh with X's on it (Think a fleshy looking sheet ghost)
<SirGoldFish>	Everyone, who does not put up a big fight, you all feel this welling up inside of you, not enough to effect your tasks. (How intense is up to you, this is just fluff)
<SirGoldFish>	*sadness welling up
<DrabberRogue>	Jace is momentarily stunned by the impressive display, a little smile coming on despite the sudden sorrow welling up in him again. "...Wendy?"
<Kioku>	Aiko nab-hugs Wendy.  "There she is..." she whispers.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy certainly lets the sadness well up inside her, really she isn't much for a fight as she wipes away the tears that somehow kept going even now, hugging Aiko back and the words and looking at Jace, she liked his smile, finally getting at least the tears to a stop.
<SirGoldFish>	The voice of a rather frail man comes from the closet. "Is it safe to come out?"
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia takes a moment to let a few tears fall, but then wipes them up and tries to fling open the hiding place door with her magnetic abilities.
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+3
<GameServ>	4d3-8+3 = 5
<Kioku>	Aiko squeezes Wendy and sighs, Glancing at the teardrop of flesh, then turning toward the closet with her face and camera.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace smiles a little bit more, though he realizes that it's unlikely anyone else knew about them...other than Katlyn and Akemi of course, so he neglected to finish what he was going to say.
<SirGoldFish>	There a man covered in what one can assume to be pisswater and perfume is in the closet. He is well beyond his years, easily 80+ He speaks. "Oh you did it! Quite excellent." He says as he begins to stand up using his cane.
<SolongStarbird>	(Vinnia opened the door right?)
<DrabberRogue>	"I take it you're the mayor?" Jace asks, turning to the old man.
<SirGoldFish>	(Yup, indeed!)
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves away from Aiko after hugging back tightly, glancing to the old man and then the teardrop.. thing, approaching it to see if its safe to even grab.
<SirGoldFish>	"Oh." The man nods shakily. "Yes yes, many years ago. What are you fresh things doing here?"
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia smiles. ~It worked!~ To the others it may have seemed like the man pushed it open from the inside, but Vinnia knew to herself that she had opened it. Perhaps the reason she was happy was that was her less refined ability and she was slowly but surely getting the hang of it.
<SolongStarbird>	She walks up to join the others.
<Kioku>	Aiko grabs Wendy's arm and gives her a look.  It's hard to do with a blindfold, but there it is.  The look says, 'have you forgotten what I've told you?'.  "Gloves?"  She smiles slightly and sighs, shaking her head.  "It should be safe to pick up though."  She contemplates stealing Wendy's scarf because of the smell, but...
<SirGoldFish>	The thing is basically a corpse, a kind of cute corpse as, but one non the less!
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy didn't have any gloves on her, instead bunching up her sweater's sleaves in her hands "This should work just as well as gloves." she says under her breath, a tinge of sadness still there but somewhat passed. She leans down to try to pick.. it.. up.
<SirGoldFish>	Yup, it's really soft, seems to have no bones. Basically just a white dollop of flesh. The man looks to it. "You must destroy it." He says shakily.
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<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia lets sparks jump from fingertip to fingertip. "that shouldn't be much of a problem."
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<SolongStarbird>	(repost for Savy) Vinnia lets sparks jump from fingertip to fingertip "Taht shouldn't be much of a problem."
<DrabberRogue>	"And why is that?" Jace tilts his head.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves to hold it with one hand, her eyes still filled with a blue flame that was now just a spark, trying to ignite in her eyes. She waits for the go-ahead, really it would be easier for her to burn it.. because she was the one holding it.
<SirGoldFish>	"It will come back if you do not destroy it."
<SolongStarbird>	"Cuz I can shock it... or she can burn it."
<DrabberRogue>	"Hmm...In that case...that might be best..." Jace's brow creases as he notices the sparks in Wendy's eyes. "You alright, Wendy?"
<Kioku>	Aiko steps over to the doorway and just feels Bryce before she's about to step on him.  "..."  She snickers and gets out her fan again to wave it at the room.  Specificially the man from the closet.  She hesitates before actually opening it though.  "... Why the perfume?"
<SavanahHolland>	Before Wendy even says anything, well she still doesn't, her grip around the white blob of a corpse tightens, as the blue comes back, a little darker as it surrounds the corpse, the flame burning it completely away.
<SirGoldFish>	"Oh, it masks my scent. The Red ones can not see me nor are very keen on hearing. They are like blood hounds when it comes to scent though."
<DrabberRogue>	Jace slowly makes his way to Wendy, watching her flames burn away the phantom. "Wendy?"
<SirGoldFish>	Just before the corpse turns to cinders, everyone can smell something similar to bacon before its all gone, thing must've been yummy.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia claps her hands together. "I knew it!"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy takes shaking breath, letting the cinders fall through her hand as she flicks whatever was left off of her hand. "I'm fine." she finally says under her breath, she really wasn't, and it was hard to hide it, but for now she didn't want to talk about it, just get this done and over with.
<SirGoldFish>	Bryce begins to stir awake from the stairs. Groaning.
<Kioku>	Aiko nudges Bry- oh, he's waking up!  ... She'll nudge him anyway.  "Found the target.  Extraction?"  \I wonder if they could get the helicopter to the roof of this place or something...\
<SolongStarbird>	"So is that it? Or do we still have to go kill all of those hound thingies?"
<DrabberRogue>	Jace tilts his head, listening just enough to the conversation to understand and analyze it. "Right then..." He looks around the room before locating the newspaper, going over to pick it up and read it. Perhaps Wendy didn't want any concern right at the moment...
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy turns to go join Aiko in talking to Bryce, having by now killed the blue flames that burned in her eyes, just the normal gun-metal blue that was always there.
<Kioku>	Aiko sighs.  Right.  The hounds.  Figures.  "Depends on their idea of 'deal with'..."
<SirGoldFish>	Bryce continues to get up. "Oh, Aiko, what's going on? What happened while I was out?"
<Kioku>	"Oh, you know.  Killed a phantom, found the guy we're supposed to rescue.  The usual."
<SirGoldFish>	"Oh good, I got a plan. There is supposedly a mine. You kids go there. I'll snipe on the roof to deal with the phantoms up top."
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, The header reads “What are we really mining?” it goes on to say “While yes, it is known that we have been mining coal and steel to help how American government. Documents reveal that is only 60 percent of what we bring out of there, the other 40 percent is ‘unknown’ This is extra peculiar due miners reporting mild hallucinations due to this ‘damn fumes’” It goes onto some vapid conspiracyin
<SirGoldFish>	g of what is really going on down the mine, mostly stuff about aliens and government projects..
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy taps her foot on the floor subtly for a second, for no real reason. "Where is the mine?"
<SirGoldFish>	The man goes to sit over in his large mayoral chair. "I will be here, I would like to go home, but do as you wish." He is surprisingly serene.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace raises an eyebrow it what he reads. "Mayor sir...what else were you mining down there? Other than coal and steel..."
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia unfolds her newspaper and looks or any details on where the mine might be.
<SirGoldFish>	Bryce answers Wendy. "No clue, sure there is a map or something around here..."
<SirGoldFish>	"Ohh, you know, the usual stuff." He says as sits in his chair.
<DrabberRogue>	"I'm not really a miner, so no...I don't know..."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy lets out a small sigh, looking to Aiko then turning back into the room, not on a search for a map!
<SirGoldFish>	"Coal and steel, and coal and steel, and cool and steel and coal..." He goes on like this for awhile unless someone interrupts him
<DrabberRogue>	"This paper tells me that's only sixty percent of what you were mining..."
<SavanahHolland>	(*now)
<Kioku>	Aiko sighs and shakes her head.  What's Jace asking about?  And why does Bryce want them going to the mine?  Is that where they're planned to be picked up, or is there more to it?  Then, they were supposed to find the cause of these things... and Jace smelled of coal.. and ah, the paper.  Stupid paper.  That might be a lead for something.
<SirGoldFish>	"Ahh! now. Oh I never put trust into those tabloids." Wendy, not long before you find a map of this place! That will tell you where the mine is, along with a few more places of note such as a hardware store and a diner.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace sighs. "Did you even keep tabs on what was going on down there?"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy looks over the map, pulling out her phone from her fannypack and sending Aiko a picture of said map.
<SolongStarbird>	"Well this place is filled with creatures made of anger and sadness for a reason..."
<Kioku>	Aiko smiles.  Thoughtful Wendy...  she 'looks' over the map, hopefully where they are is on it too so she can plot a route.
<SirGoldFish>	"Oh, well, hmm, there was a man named Caesar. He was a very  persuasive man, indeed. OH! Are you children planing on leaving this place? I'd take some perfume if I were you, don't want the creatures smelling you out. Ohohoho. Could you all be dears and look at my old home. The boys are so rowdy I can not even talk to them, tell them that I love them."
<Kioku>	Aiko slowly turns toward the 'mayor' with an annoyed look.  A very annoyed look.  \He's off...\  It's not like she expects to use or expose the data, and he's in little state to really care.  So she Looks at him for just a second, checking whether he's actually, well, alive and human.
<SirGoldFish>	He is in fact both those things! a typical human! But something may catch Aiko's eye (Roll the power)
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 3
<SirGoldFish>	Nope, nothing catches Aiko's eye. Just a very old and confused man.
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<SolongStarbird>	"What boys? What?"
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<SirGoldFish>	-Pause-
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*	Topic for #Sunnybrook-FireFlies is: Jace > Sorrow Phantom > Aiko > Vivi > Wendy
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<SolongStarbird>	(repost) "What boys? What?"
<SirGoldFish>	"Ohoho, yes, my twins. They're still there in that old house my mine along with some other things that Caesar left me."
<SolongStarbird>	"Okay then...."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy looks over the map, glancing to Aiko, saying in a little of a hushed tone "What's wrong?"
<Kioku>	Aiko grumbles something about "Caesar" and "thinking people still live in this town," followed by a few very unflattering comments as she trails off into Japanese - Wendy probably catches at least part of it.
<SirGoldFish>	Bryce begins making his way to the roof, "Kidos, I'll be on the roof, just get to the mine and I'll start clearing out the red one with my sniper."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves a hand to Aiko's shoulder, letting her get it out and kinda wishing she didn't know japanese with some of the things she says. Poor old man. "So what would be the best way to get to the mine?" she asks, moving a finger to the map.
<SolongStarbird>	"Aight. Don't shoot us though, okay?" Vinny jokes.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace looks a round the room, intending to seardh for more clues as to what happened in the mines, silently tuning into the conversation.
<Kioku>	\Akai...?\  Aiko sighs and shrugs.  Red one is kinda meaningless to her, particularly as there wasn't any 'one' out there.  Just a whole lot of apparently bloodhound-like phantoms.  That they need to get around.  Without using this bloody perfume.  Well, she makes sure not to really /have/ a scent anyway, though the stench is probably stuck in her hair now, so that shouldn't be a problem really... hopefully.  She goes back to
<Kioku>	reading the map.  The best way to reach the mine would be...
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, you find most documents have been ruined by exposure and you're only one name keeps coming up in all these documents. "Cesar, mr Cesar." a few, while not at all readable appears to be a contract of sorts, signed by a few parties and what looks like "Mr. Cesar." Aiko, they're three paths you see. The straight efficient one through the town, one that is longer but goes around the town, possiblity avoiding
<SirGoldFish>	phantoms but loosing Bryce's support. And another through the sewer system
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy looks with Aiko, taking a deep breath. "It might be better to just go straight through.." she mumurs.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia has been thinking. "...Maybe we could roof hop to get there? It keeps us above ground level."
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<Kioku>	Aiko is the efficient sort of gal, and she's seen Bryce shoot - he might be a bit off and unpredictable when kids aren't in danger, but he's reliable when there's something that really needs doing, when protecting students.  "Agreed, we should go straight.  I don't think the buildings are dense enough to roof hop... and I couldn't probably manage that anyway."  \Definitely not taking the sewers.\
<Kioku>	*replace 'shoot' with 'in action'.  And insert a sight pun between 'seen' and 'Bryce'
<SolongStarbird>	"Aight then. Straight it is!"
<SirGoldFish>	The man rocks in his chair. "Please check on my twins. I really would like to know they're okay. I am sure there is candy and toys you can borrow from the house." He looks around and grabs a clear jar of mints. "Have a mint?"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy looks a little pale at the mention of mint, turning away from him and back to Aiko. "Should I take the lead in case?"
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia takes one ot be polite and places it in her pocket. "Where exactly is your old home?"
<SirGoldFish>	"Bring me the the map, and I'll point you to it."
<DrabberRogue>	Jace steps in almost immediately. "I would." He doesn't notice Wendy's reaction...seems he hasn't learned about her aversion quite yet...
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy bundles the map, rolling it up and bringing it to the old man, showing him, secretly shivering about Jace taking one, she might avoid kissing him for a little bit, or being too close in general.
<SirGoldFish>	The man takes about 5 whole fucking minutes. "There, no, there. no Ahhh." His shaking hand eventually points to where they need to go. "There, there is the house, the sweet sweet house. Do not touch the juices please."
<Kioku>	Aiko twitches at how long it takes.  Patient?  Yes.  Patient in a room that smells of sewage and bad perfume while on a mission with Bryce waiting for them?  No.  She takes a picture and bolts for the first floor the moment he finally points it out.
<SavanahHolland>	By the time he's done Wendy's had two fingers holding the bridge of her nose, she wanted to ask about well, juices, but with Aiko bolting she takes the map, thanks him and follows her quickly.
<SirGoldFish>	"Take a mint." He offers again as Aiko leaves.
<SirGoldFish>	"The perfume is in the closet, please don't forget it."
<SirGoldFish>	He continues rocking in his seat.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia grabs the perfume and another mint, saying she'll give it to Minami.
<SirGoldFish>	The 'perfume' is in a rather large bucket. "Just lather that on yourself before leaving and the red ones will leave you alone."
<DrabberRogue>	Jace elects to follow after Wendy, wondering why exactly she didn't take a mint...perhaps it wasn't the best idea to take one himself.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia hesitates, but dips her hands in the perfume. ~I had better be able to wash this off....~
<SirGoldFish>	Vinny, you gotta lather it all over yourself for it to take effect.
<SolongStarbird>	She rubs it onto her legs and arms.
<SolongStarbird>	"That had better be enough..."
<SirGoldFish>	Currently, the group is all at the first floor, you can unbar the door anytime you want. Vinny has the perfume
<Kioku>	Aiko scowls toward the bucket and slowly reaches toward Wendy's scarf.
<SolongStarbird>	"I know it smells horrible, but it's a small price ot pay, right?"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy gives it over to Aiko freely, it smelt just like Wendy, like a bakery, or to be more precise it smelt like vanilla and brown sugar. Wendy moves over to the bucket after Aiko takes the scarf, grimacing at it.
<Kioku>	"There are small prices.  This is not one of them.  This is a massive price."  Aiko smiles to Wendy and wraps the scarf across her face as well as she can and as many times as she can.
<SolongStarbird>	"Think we could mask the smell of the whole group with only a few of us stinkified?"
<DrabberRogue>	Jace wrinkles his nose, removing his coat and setting it aside. "The things I do for a tactical advantage..." He starts applying the abbhorrent substance to himself, grimacing the whole way.
<Kioku>	"Just carrying that bucket around would probably put out enough of it to cover us all up," Aiko mutters... but through the speaker of her phone, not her mouth.  Her mouth is too well covered up.
<SolongStarbird>	"Well then why are we covering ourselves in it?"
<Kioku>	"Because the senile old man said so."  Aiko deadpans.
<SirGoldFish>	The man did say lather yourselves with it
<SolongStarbird>	"True... True...."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy sighs "Yeah, lets just carry the bucket." she looks over to the barred up door, walking to him. "I can probably open it up whenever you all are ready."
<Kioku>	"Maybe if it's heated up it'll spread faster..."
<SolongStarbird>	"Aight... Who's carrying it?"
<SolongStarbird>	(How big is the bucket?)
<DrabberRogue>	"I'm not taking chances." Jace says shortly, putting his coat back on oce he's done with the lathering.
<Kioku>	\Having it in the air or on ourselves should make no difference if it's just perfume.  It's not like putting it on will cover up our scent any more than it just being out there.\
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy raises a eyebrow "How hot should I make it if that does help?" she asks
<SolongStarbird>	"Don't we have it stunk up enouh already? We should be fine..."
<Kioku>	"Shouldn't need to, I hope," Aiko replies through the phone, "we'll have to just see.  If you do, enough for wax to melt, but not enough for oil to boil.  It should still speed along the vapor even if it isn't evaporating more of it."
<DrabberRogue>	Jace shakes his head. "No precaution is too great if it doesn't have dire side effects...on the topic of smell though, do you not like mints, Wendy?" Jace /really/ likes mint, so it's important to know whether or not he can chew it around her.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy blinks at him, it was a little of a strange question, at least at the moment. "I.. don't like mint that much." Well, really she can't stand it, makes her sick, and with how easily she's been able to vomit lately, kissing and getting mint sounds like a very very bad idea. Wendy goes over to the bucket. "Should I wait? We can just bring the bucket.. though it might weigh us down
<SavanahHolland>	with the way we're going.."
<SolongStarbird>	"Oh yeah..." Vinny pulls out her two mints, "ANyone want these?"
<Kioku>	Aiko sighs, though it's very muffled.  "Let me look through the door before we go out there, by the way."  An absurd request for those who don't know what she might do.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace just kinda stares for a couple seconds. "Um...look?"
<SirGoldFish>	You can always contact Bryce through the patches. Aiko, the windows are all still boarded up.
<SirGoldFish>	There is also always the roof access, Bryce is there of course.
<Kioku>	Aiko nods.  "At one of the phantoms out there."  She lifts her phone.  "It'll be quick."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy nods, walking over to the door, seeing a way that would be good to open the door, at least without making too much noise.
<SolongStarbird>	"Well, I say we get movin'!"
<DrabberRogue>	Jace nods at Vinnia's comment. "They can't see and they can't hear, as long as we've got this perfume they also can't smell. We should be fine...provided the mayor knew what he was talking about..."
<SirGoldFish>	(The man said they can't here paticulary well, not that they can't hear.)
<SirGoldFish>	The windows are boarded up very well, you'll have to take one of them out to see out through one.
<Kioku>	Aiko nods.  The chances of the mayor knowing what he was talking about are painfully low, but demonstrated at least some results so far...
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy is looking for a way to open the door, not the windows.
<SolongStarbird>	"So... what's keeping us?"
<SirGoldFish>	Opening the door is simple, just remove the book case that Bryce put there
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy sighs "Nothing." she says, then moving her hands to the bookcase, trying to remove it so they can get to the door.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia goes over and helps her. "Never got your name, by the way."
<SirGoldFish>	It's a trival task for someone like Wendy, she removes the book case quickly.
<SolongStarbird>	(redact the helping then)
<SirGoldFish>	With both Wendy and Vinny, it's a /super/ easy task.
<SolongStarbird>	(nevermind)
<SavanahHolland>	Vinnia and Wendy work well together, plus the fact that Wendy is strong as hell. "Wendy, you said your name is Vinnia right?"
<SolongStarbird>	"Yep. Vinnia, Vinny, Vi, Vivi, whatever works."
<Kioku>	Aiko opens the door slightly and pokes her head and phone out, Looking at the first phantom she can find, and then quickly pulls back again to process the information.  Well, assuming there are any phantoms out there at the moment...
<DrabberRogue>	~Vivi? Where would that nickname come from?~ Jace muses to himself as his eyes sweep the room one more time.
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, no Phantoms out right now, but you instantly begin to hear footsteps coming your way as /soon/ as your head is poked out
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, you spot with your little eye, another newspaper!
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy looked through the door with Aiko, then moving to hand Jace the rolled up map. "There are none out yet, we need to get going." she says opening the door and slowly going out first, making everyone follow.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace quickly takes up the newspaper, flipping it open in the hopes of finding more clues.
<Kioku>	Aiko frowns - covered by the scarf though, there's probably none of her face visible at the moment between it and the blindfold - and waits.  "One is coming... but they weren't moving about before."
<SirGoldFish>	Not just one, about three.
<SirGoldFish>	The header reads “Mayor’s twins die due to careless babysitter.” It goes on to describe a horrendous occurrence  in which a babysitter kills the mayor’s children in some unknown fashion involving blunt force. She dines that she was the killer.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace raises an eyebrow at this...rowdy huh? "If we're going to pay a visit to the 'kids' it's probably best to inform you that they're probably phantoms..."
<SirGoldFish>	*denies
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy looks over at Jace, then Aiko, letting out a small sigh from no one actually moving to leave, she ends up just waiting for them, she needed to be in front, but like hell she's going alone.
<SolongStarbird>	"Huh?" Vinnia steps up to look at the paper. "Well okay then..."
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, if you don't close that door, they keep coming your way, the steps are getting faster and faster
<Kioku>	Aiko puts a hand over one ear and tilts her head to get the other against her shoulder.  She needs to get a glimpse before Bryce's gunshot, but she doesn't want to hear it at full volume...
<Kioku>	(That's kinda the goal though, to get them to come this way.  She's explicitly waiting for them, I said that.)
<SolongStarbird>	"So you said we go straight to get to the mine?"
<Kioku>	"In a minute, I want to know why they decided to start moving just now..." \The smell is strong enough to completely cover any of ours, so why...?\
<SirGoldFish>	The patch comes live. "Are you kidos at the mine yet? I got a couple tangos coming this way, but I don't wanna open fire until you're at the mine, less I lure them all to your location."
<SolongStarbird>	"We're still in the building, or just outside it..."
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, in front of you is one of the creatures described before is coming your way, and fast. Better get the info you need quick.
<Kioku>	<We haven't even had the chance to start moving yet.>  \And even at a run if we left when you got to the roof, we wouldn't be halfway by now.\
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 3
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves so a hand is holding the door for Aiko, it'll close as soon as she needs it to, letting Aiko get the info she needs.
<SirGoldFish>	Not much, other than it wants to attack you and maybe Wendy if she is also by the door, but not the others.
<Kioku>	Aiko pulls her head back as soon as she's caught a look so Wendy can close the door.  (And that... is not the kind of information Aiko's power is capable of getting at all.)
<Kioku>	(She can't divine intent)
<SirGoldFish>	Well, she gets nothing
<SirGoldFish>	"Over and out, tell me when you get there or if you're in desperate need of support."
<DrabberRogue>	"That was odd...lets wait for it to go away, I wanna experiment a bit." Jace says, folding the newspaper and setting it down.
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<SolongStarbird>	"Okay," Vinnia starts to wait with Jace.
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, the phantom is bolting at you, if you do not close the door soon, you'll get hit
<Kioku>	(We already closed it though.)
<SavanahHolland>	(look so Wendy can close the door.)
<SirGoldFish>	The door is closed and the phantoms begin to scratch at the door.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy closes the door as soon as Aiko is out of the way, putting her back to the door just in case, she didn't want to have to lug the bookcase back.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace turns one of the chairs right side up, sitting down in it, he has a theory...
<SolongStarbird>	Vinia leans against the wall.
<SirGoldFish>	Wendy, roll strength to keep the door closed.
<SirGoldFish>	The phantoms begin to slam against the door.
<SirGoldFish>	(Roll brawn, that is.)
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<SavanahHolland>	(just brawn?)
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 5
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<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia jumps a little at the sound of the pounding, and runs over to help Wendy.
<DrabberRogue>	"Wendy, get the bookcase back in place and then back away from the door." Jace says as he moves to the door himself, he isn't very strong, but at least he can lend a 'helping hand.'
<Kioku>	\Well.  Either the things don't exist, or they don't /have/ a physiology and aren't made up of matter and have no presence about them at all... which is basically the same thing as not existing.  And either way, they have some sense that works besides just smell, since it's physically impossible to detect something so faint it basically doesn't exist, when hidden under a cloud of something so strong.\  Aiko takes a few steps away
<Kioku>	and bites her lip, trying to run through possibilities.
<SirGoldFish>	Two are banging at the door at once, so it's not an easy task to keep the door closed
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+7-8
<GameServ>	4d3+7-8 = 4
<SirGoldFish>	She keeps the door closed despite all the banging on the door, if anyone wants to get the book case in place, they may
<Kioku>	\What are they then?  And what's their other sense?\
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia starts to push the case back into place.
<SolongStarbird>	`calc 4d3-8+2
<GameServ>	4d3-8+2 = 3
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy takes a deep breath, moving as fast as she can to get the bookcase back in place like Jace said, hopefully fast enough so they don't have time to bust through while she's not near it.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace steps back. "Wendy, Aiko, I want to test something.  But I need both of you upstairs in order to perform the test."
<SirGoldFish>	(No need for a roll, Vinny you get it in place.)
<SolongStarbird>	"Aaand there!" Vinnia steps back from the bookcase.
<Kioku>	Aiko sighs.  Well.  Perfume doesn't work.  Figures.  How are they supposed to get out without just joining Bryce on the roof and killing them all first?  Actually, that wouldn't be such a bad plan...
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy shrugs very slightly, giving him a nod and moving to get to the stairs, making sure Aiko comes along. "Alright."
<Kioku>	Aiko lets Wendy pull her along, still in a /very/ bad mood from everything that's been happening so far.  "As long as we don't have to go near the office again..."
<SolongStarbird>	"Did you want me down here Jace? Or..."
<DrabberRogue>	"Alright...I'll come get you two once the test is over..." ~Now that I think about it...this is kind of a stupid idea...but it's worth a shot...~ Jace proceeds to wait until the phantoms wander off, he needs them to be out of what he presumes is their hearing range for this to work...
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy makes sure she didn't ramdomly take Aiko's hand and pull, she did what she always did and gave her a second to adjust, walking up the stairs and going to the top to leave them alone, though she stays away from the office for Aiko.
<SirGoldFish>	The phantoms do in fact leave after awhile
<DrabberRogue>	After the phantoms left, Jace effectively performed a rather simple experiment, not even a need for overthinking. He simply had Vinnia push the shelf aside, and stepped out into the fresh air, testing whether or not the latherng matters.
<DrabberRogue>	Shortly after this experiment, a triumphant tactician made his way up the stairs to tell the girls of his findings. "Girls, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that the perfume actually does work, the bad news...is that you /have/ to lather yourself in it..."
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<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia has followed him upstairs.
<Kioku>	Aiko turns toward Jace.  "That doesn't... that doesn't make any sense.  At all.  That's not how scent works, plain and simple."  \Wait, you took all that time to do an experiment when you could have just said what you were trying to find out, and I could have told you a few seconds later?  Assuming there's some property to the perfume...\
<Kioku>	Aiko leans around him and looks for the bucket in order to Look at it.
<Kioku>	(former look being with her phone camera, naturally)
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy sighs, going back over to the bucket, really waiting for Aiko to go first, though she'll go first if needed. She wasn't too affected by smells, besides mint, so it wasn't as bad for her as it was for Aiko, though even Wendy could admit, it stinks.
<SirGoldFish>	Don't even need to roll, plain and simple: This is not perfume. It is a chemical compound, likely synthesized in some lab. Scent is part of it, but not all there is to this substance
<SolongStarbird>	"So what counts as 'lathered?'" Vinny asks Jace.
<SirGoldFish>	It, basically makes you invisible to the phantoms
<Kioku>	\Ugh.  I'm not sure if I want to research what all of the stuff in this does and figure out how it works together to recreate it, or... well if it's actually useful and can be modified to be scentless, who knows?  But then what does it actually /do/?\
<DrabberRogue>	Jace shrugs at Vinnia's question. "Cover youself in it I guess? You and I seem to have a workable amount..."
<SolongStarbird>	"Ah, that's good. I didn't want to put anymore on..."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy frowns slightly, ending up diping her hand in the bucket and starts to lather her arms and legs with it, just enough, or many too little, she really didn't want more than she needed.
<Kioku>	Aiko still doesn't approach the bucket.  "I'll... I'll provide remote support," she says through the phone, voice wavering just a little.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace glances up at her. "Alright, so you want to stay with Bryce then?...This could actually be a good time to set up a communications system between us...other than with Bryce of course, mind if I have your numbers?" Perfect opportunity to get the number of the best source of information in the school, Jace isn't gonna pass that up.
<Kioku>	"You wouldn't want to be placing international calls, and using my number is inefficient anyway.  I can get you a program that'll send a signal that I know to look for and will catch, and link to your phone.  Much faster."  And just then, she links to all three of their phones.  'I see what this sees' is texted to each of them.  \Right, time to make the practice in remote examination a little heavier.\
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<SavanahHolland>	Wendy already has her phone out, having it on camera mode as planning on using it as Aiko's sight. She already had herself lathered, which felt kinda gross but it worked she guessed.
<DrabberRogue>	~Damn...worth a shot...and this is much more efficient for the mission anyway...~
<SirGoldFish>	(Alright, so do they decide to go to the mine, or the house first?)
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<SavanahHolland>	(i wanna say house)
<SirGoldFish>	(Does Jace agree to go to the house along with Wendy?)
<DrabberRogue>	(Sure...though he's a bit reluctant...)
<Kioku>	Aiko heads up to the roof - the scarf helps with the smell, but doesn't completely block it out, and she'd feel safer with Bryce anyway.  Maybe he has earplugs... she should get some to be more prepared for things like this, at the first opportunity.
<DrabberRogue>	(Actually no...it's part of their objective isn't it?)
<DrabberRogue>	(So yeah, he'd agree)
<SirGoldFish>	(They were only ever told to go by the old man.)
<DrabberRogue>	(But aren't they supposed to deal with the phantoms?)
<SirGoldFish>	Bryce nod, seeing Aiko. "Whatdya, doing up here, Aiko?"
<SirGoldFish>	(Do what Jace would do.)
<DrabberRogue>	(He'd probably go...definately)
<SavanahHolland>	(well he needs that info, because if they need to deal with the phantoms he *would* go, right?)
<SirGoldFish>	Alright, so your characters can make their way to the house, if you'd like, you can RP what they do before you get there
<Kioku>	"Can't go with them, there's... there's just a problem, I'd draw the phantoms' attention and I'm almost as good as remote support from here.  Do you have a set of earplugs or something for when you start shooting?  If they don't need me the whole time, I can pull from the power lines and try to help out here besides."
<SirGoldFish>	Assuming, Aiko's not listening, the two do have a private moment....
<Kioku>	Aiko is, in fact, listening through the phone mics.  All of them.  All the time.
<SirGoldFish>	Bryce looks to Aiko. "Sad to say they got lost in the teleport, prolly along with 1000 brain cells." He grumbles.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace stays silent on their little tromp through the town, the phantoms aren't completely deaf after all. Though...he /is/ remaining rather close to Wendy...his hand almost brushing against hers...
<Kioku>	"That... I hoped it was more reliable than that."  And now Aiko feels even more sick, good job Bryce.  "I'll go to the other side of the roof... and cover my ears... with both scarf and hands..."
<Kioku>	\It's not like I need my hands for anything right now anyway.\
<Kioku>	\Then again, keeping an eye out from here would be... I really need to get a few pairs of smartglasses to make people wear.\
<SavanahHolland>	Well, Wendy does take his hand, more of a leading thing anyways.. sorta. She still had to remain focused and vigilant! Or maybe she just had to stay away from the mint. She doesn't say anything really, just getting to their destination.
<SirGoldFish>	"Well, I need to get them to stop using the poor girl. I doubt she even knows what's going on..."
<SirGoldFish>	Well, assuming the two have nothing more to say, they eventually get to the house. The white picket fence that once stood tall is a complete mess, the paint has peeled. Overall the house looks wrecked, wrecked enough for Wendy to be able to force the door open.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace lets Wendy pull him along, he likes it when she's confident... "Well..." He gestures to the door. "Try to be quiet if you can..."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy bites her bottom lip, looking at the door, then moving her hands and trying to force it open and at the same time be quiet as she can, hopefully it'll not be too hard.
<SirGoldFish>	The door basically crumbles at the smallest bit of force, but, this also releases the scent of... booze, and lots of it, almost overpowering the perfume.
<SirGoldFish>	The floor of this two story house has a kitchen with a fridge, a living area, a dining area, a hallway to the backyard, laundry room and bathroom.
<SirGoldFish>	And it has yet another newspaper!
<DrabberRogue>	Jace wrinkles his nose. "Well, we know why the babysitter killed them..." He mutters as he moves to pick up the paper.
<SirGoldFish>	The header reads “Reporter gone mad!” The article goes onto describe how a reporter has gone mad, running naked all throughout the town yelling madly, likely suffering from an extreme case of female hysteria.
<DrabberRogue>	Time for the eyebrow to return to the skies, Jace can't really draw a conclusion from this one...it breaks a bit of a pattern...unless she wrote the article on the mine?
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves a arm to her mouth, coughing into it and entering the room with Jace, looking around, the smell of booze was a little too much, even though she's smelt it before, thanks to bryce. "Should we go upstairs or backyard first?"
<SirGoldFish>	The room is dark, barely any lighting, the TV is still showing static and... what's that? It sounds like something is taking heavy steps up stairs *BOOM* *BOOM*
<SirGoldFish>	Whatever is up stairs bellows out "Bawwahhh!" It sounds deep, yet, you're able to make out something childish about it. Like a monster's voice being overlayed by a child's
<DrabberRogue>	"Well...upstairs would seem to be where the targets are..."
<Kioku>	<That doesn't sound good.>  The text appears on their phones.  <Probably another phantom.  No real reason to investigate the house if it'll put you in danger, or you think that's the source of all this rather than something in the mines.>
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy's breath catches as she hears the noise, reading Aiko's text. "I think we should go, just in case." she says to him, moving over to get to the stairs, trying to get him to follow behind/
<DrabberRogue>	"...Right..." Jace follows /right/ behind her, preparing a dissonant counter to fling at any aura that might try to influence them.
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<SirGoldFish>	The thing bellows "Hheellpp me, he hit you he hit me." before you leave
<SirGoldFish>	"The safe, the safe, its where he puts his hurt..."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy starts up the stairs, keeping Jace behind her at all times, a eye out, and hearing the words she glances to Jace with a look that obviously says. 'What the fuuuuck?' before going back to her walking up stairs.
<DrabberRogue>	"Wendy wait." Jace turns back down the stairs. "The safe, whatever it contains, might shed some light on what happened here."
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<SavanahHolland>	Wendy looks to him as she turns around and follows, somewhat glad they didn't have to go upstairs.. yet. She starts well, looking around, going to the livingroom first.
<SirGoldFish>	On Aiko's side, he begins to hear the old man singing. "Dah, de oh go to the place where dreams are made, you'll be safe. Mom will be there greet her two sunshines." It's not exactly fansastic in terms of tunes, and she probably was only able to hear a muffled version, but the man is sining /loudly/
<Kioku>	\That's one way to get their attention on us and off the others...\
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<DrabberRogue>	Jace begins looking around the bottom floor, looking specifically for a safe, but really going after anything that might be of interest.
<SirGoldFish>	There is not much in the living room, other then a tv that is on after /all/ these years
<SirGoldFish>	(Actually.)
<SirGoldFish>	(Roll perception.)
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 5
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 4
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<Kioku>	(Can Aiko assist them even though she probably can't roll herself? XD)
<SirGoldFish>	(Sadly, with a simple camera, no.)
<SavanahHolland>	(Wendy still has the camera out if that means anything XD)
<SavanahHolland>	(well alright)
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, your leg bumps against something in your search, it's a tiny music box, just under the couch, but it's missing the handle to turn it.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy goes to check out the tv, wondering how it's still even on...
<DrabberRogue>	Jace leans down and picks up the music box, a shiver running down his spine as he inspects it.
<SirGoldFish>	Wendy, you have no clue, considering the thing is not even plugged in. Jace, the music box has an inscription on it. 'For my two sunshines'
<SirGoldFish>	On Aiko's side, you can hear General Bryce downing some alcohol from a water canister, type you'd find in the dessert. "Gotta get ready to shoot these things soon..."
<Kioku>	\Today's weather forecast...\  Aiko reaches out to the power lines in preparation.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy sighs looking at the tv, weird, though she didn't know anything about them. She walks over to Jace, looking over the music box, it kinda reminded her of her own, just for the fact that they were both.. music boxes. "What is that?" she asks.
<DrabberRogue>	"It's...a music box...for the Mayor's two little sunshines..." He says, Wendy's song coming to mind for some reason.
<SirGoldFish>	The creature bellows some more. "Where is mommy, where is mommy, where is mommy!" It statement prgressively becomes a cry
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy stares at it, a little somber look washing over her. Her face going extremely white as she hears the words of the creature, wondering how many times she used to ask her father that. "we.. should keep looking.." she says under her breath before turning around.
<SirGoldFish>	Well, there is always upstairs along with the few other locations downstairs.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace's brow creases with a bit of worry seeing her expression, but he neglects to comment on it as he sets the box aside. "Yeah...we should check downstairs next..."
<SirGoldFish>	On the Aiko side. "Hey, uh, Aiker," The alcohol is already taking effect. "Real sorry about that uh whole thing with uh Sinter clause."
<SirGoldFish>	(There is no downstairs, only upstairs. They've been exploring the ground floor this entire time.)
<SavanahHolland>	(I assumed mis-type)
<SirGoldFish>	(Nope, you may go upstairs if you wish.)
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy goes over to the kitchen, briefly looking around, despite how silly it would be for a safe to be there, and generally checking all of the downstairs.
<SirGoldFish>	Well, if she examines the kitchen and opens the fridge, she'll find it is packed with mostly empty (Some still filled.) beer bottles. Clearly, whatever has a hold of this house is not all that subtle.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace scans the other places down stairs, trying to find the winding implement to the music box...what a nerd, he's running this like an rpg...
<Kioku>	Aiko lets out a muffled laugh.  "Yeah, that was... a bit odd.  They still considering using that design for something else, by the way?  I haven't heard much."  <Be careful, you two.  Especially if it starts thinking one of you is mommy.>
<SirGoldFish>	And in terms of the rest of the house, give me another precp roll.
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 10
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 9
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, with the help of Wendy, you find the handle for the music box on top of some wall cabinets, just out of reach for children and you smell something odd, coming from a very specfic location under the floor. Smells kind of like rot, well, more so then the rest of this place.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy jumps up to grab the handle, giving it to Jace and then, sniffing the air and walking over to the source of the smell with a concerned expression.
<SirGoldFish>	(Only Jace smells something.)
<SavanahHolland>	(dang you)
<SirGoldFish>	(Sorry if that was not clear.)
<SavanahHolland>	(well she does the first part then)
<SirGoldFish>	(Indeed.)
<DrabberRogue>	"You know Wendy, perhaps I should stick to retrieving things from high places? I mean...you might as well let me exercise my specialty at least..." Jace remarks in a joking tone as he pursues the smell.
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, the smell is coming from under the floor, like, under the floor boards.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy lets out a laugh of her own as he says this, despite the disturbing nature of all of this. Following him as he moves "Sorry sorry." she says in the same joking tone he had with her.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace tries to remove the floorboards...by himself...he's not gonna just let his girlfriend do everything for him.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy blinks at him as she goes over to him. "..Need some help?" she asks him, mostly serious but keeping the now joking undertones.
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, you're not a particulary strong man and you have no tools or weapons. You are able to get the floor rug off, but you'll need some help.
<SirGoldFish>	*need help getting the floorboards off
<DrabberRogue>	Jace sighs, this was Wendy's specialty after all. "Fine..." He actually sounds kind of annoyed, but he smiles up at her. "Would you mind?"
<SirGoldFish>	If you work together, you should be able to get the floorboards off.
<SavanahHolland>	"We can probably get it off together." she says with a smile back to him, leaning down to go to the other side and starts lifting the floor boards off, or more so prying them with his help.
<Kioku>	\Silly Jace, don't you know Wendy is the strongest?\  No Aiko, that's... well... maybe the student has surpassed the master.
<SirGoldFish>	Welp, you eventually manage to get the floorboards off to reveal, a skeleton wearing what looks to be a surprisingly new (new when it was made.) sun dress and what appears to be a wedding ring. Aiko, judging by the hips and jaw, that was totes a female.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace grimaces at the grim sight, but he tries to ignore just how grim it is to try to identify the skeleton's age through analyzing it.
<SirGoldFish>	(Jace has analysis? Oh, he knows it was totes a female by the jawline and etc too.) Jace, roll that for me.
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+8
<GameServ>	4d3-8+8 = 7
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy stares at it, she didn't know how to react other than a slightly disturbed look, or rather a completely disturbed look, leaning down on her knees, her eyes going to look at the wedding ring.
<SirGoldFish>	Skeleton is about 50~60 years old in terms of how far away from death. The woman died when she was likely 22 or so.
<DrabberRogue>	"Hmm...I'm betting this was either their mother, or their babysitter...probably the former, judging by the ring and how she's hidden."
<SavanahHolland>	A chill goes up her spine. "I wonder.. how she died.."
<SirGoldFish>	Hmm, maybe an analysis roll could reveal this!
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+8
<GameServ>	4d3-8+8 = 9
<DrabberRogue>	(Forensics!)
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, blunt force trauma to the head, likely using a hammer or a baseball bat. You also notice a hand print over the skull, human sized hand print.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace's eyebrow is certainly getting a lot of flight today as he speaks to Wendy's phone. "Hey Aiko, would you mind having a chat with the mayor? I feel like he's got a bigger part in this than he's letting on..."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy looks to Jace, wondering what's up with the Mayor, though still looking a mix of sad and disturbed from the corpse, tragic. She stands up, not sure what else she can do with it.
<Kioku>	"Yes, I would mind having a chat with the mayor.  We knew this town's been abandoned for a while.  And it'd be better not to let him know that we know anyway, bring it up with the police or something when we're out."  \No way am I going back to talk to that senile idiot again.
<Kioku>	\
<DrabberRogue>	"Aww...why not have a logical conversation with an illogical person?" Jace jokes this time, he had his own frustration with the guy, he can't blame her. "Anyway, I think we've searched the whole floor...so you ready to meet the kids?"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy takes a deep breath and shivers, she /really/ didn't want to, she loves kids, even if she usually wouldn't admit it, it's just how disturbing these ones sounded.. Wendy moves, taking Jace's wrist in her hand and pulling him over to the stairs.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace's brow returns to his forhead just in time to crease, she seems shaken by the situation. Regardless, he still doesn't say anything and allows her to drag him to the stairs.
<SirGoldFish>	To the the left, is what appears to be a kid's room, judging by the paint and dim light. To the right are two doors and the creature, the source of the noise. The creature stands about 7 feet tall, lumbering and bloated. It is wearing overalls that just fit over it. On top of this massive phsiue sits what appears to be toddler heads, the size of basketballs. The heads are identical except for hair styles.
<SirGoldFish>	"WHERE IS MY MOMMY! WAHHH OUCHY OUCHY." The heads are speaking in unison.
<DrabberRogue>	"U-Um, Aiko? Boss analysis?" Jace steps back a bit from the phantom, trying to pull Wendy back a bit with him.
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, you hear the man singing yet again. Same song and tune as last time but he adds. "Bill, George, nice to see you two again."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy, who already looks pale just normally, goes completely white, her eyes wide with actual fear, standing still and only moving back because of Jace's pull. She looks well, about ready to either run, or just do nothing, her facial expression beyond disturbed.
<Kioku>	Aiko tries to focus her ability through the camera.  She's only tried it a couple times before, and it's still a bit... odd, the information harder to grasp and compile.  Her mind just isn't wired that way /enough/ yet.  But still, she tries to give the requested... well... boss analysis.
<SirGoldFish>	Roll the the power
<Kioku>	(Overdrive:)
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+5-2+2
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5-2+2 = 8
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<SirGoldFish>	Well, Aiko, you gleam some info. The thing is well, massive and has a lot of health (25) but it is slow so easy to hit (4 for dodging) it gets two attacks every turn and it can choose its target. He attacks are so hard they can not be blocked and must be dodged.
<SirGoldFish>	(He rolls 7 to hit)
<Kioku>	Aiko relays the information as well as she can as it comes to her, as text on their phones and in very short sentences said in clipped tones, very businesslike.  "Hard to take down.  Low mobility. Moderate attack.  Hard hitting; dodge, don't block.  Expect it to attack often; less than phantom earlier, more than usual."
<Kioku>	As she processes it more, the text becomes more refined, almost starting to look like a cross between a fact sheet and a stat card.
<Kioku>	\I really need to come up with a more precise rating system.  Maybe I'll compare some peoples' abilities and watch them in action to get an idea...\
<DrabberRogue>	"Alright...prepare for combat, but don't engage unless it attacks first..." ~A music box was made for these kids...I wonder...~
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy takes a another step back, she doesn't look exactly up for combat right now, retracting to look more, well look more like how she actually looks, frail as hell, and looking scared out of her mind. She's delt with some really really sick shit, but these were like, toddlers.
<DrabberRogue>	"W-Wendy?" Jace glances over at her, this isn't the time for her to have a panic attack...
<SirGoldFish>	The twins begin to bang their hands on the wall, crying in the mysterious yet childish tone as before, really wendy, you'd be doing these things like a favor
<SirGoldFish>	*heads
<SirGoldFish>	*monstrous
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy shakes in her postion, it was horrifying, something that just might be taking James's first monsters spot in her nightmares. She doesn't even listen to Jace, had had to kill it, she /had/ to kill it. Unclenching her fist and letting a deep almost depressingly mellow red flame into her hand, flicking her hand quickly to the.. monster. She had to kill it.
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 6
<SirGoldFish>	Everyone first, roll initiative (We'll skip to Wendy's attack after that.)
<Kioku>	Aiko grimaces behind her scarf and lets out a quick breath.  Gotta focus, gotta keep track of things for them.
<Kioku>	(Oh, no surprise round? XD)
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 5
<SirGoldFish>	(Oh, that's how it works?)
<SirGoldFish>	(Eh, sounds right)
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 7
<Kioku>	(I dunno, your call, just seems like she'd get to act before initiative order starts due to... well... yeah.)
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+6
<GameServ>	4d3-8+6 = 3
<SirGoldFish>	The phantom is not expecting to get hit, so it barely has time to move by the fucking ball of fire.
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+4-8-2
<GameServ>	4d3+4-8-2 = 0
<SirGoldFish>	(^That was for dodging out of the way.) The thing screams in horror as it goes to charge its attacker "WAhhhh!"
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+2
<GameServ>	4d3-8+2 = 2
<SavanahHolland>	(roll dodge?)
<SirGoldFish>	(That was for iniative)
<Kioku>	(I think that one was init)
<SavanahHolland>	(ahh)
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<SirGoldFish>	Wendy, your turn! You can still hit it, it's p fucking slow
<SirGoldFish>	> Wendy's turn
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy whips her hand back, a rather desperate looking move, but really her actions were just of sheer horror and her first instinct was to kill this abomonation. A black fire collecting on the tips of her fingers and spread together, swiping it at the monster.
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 7
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+4
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4 = 1
<SirGoldFish>	Wendy manages to swipe black fire across the creatures chest, burning the overalls and seering the thing's flesh. "Wahh"
<SirGoldFish>	>Jace
<Kioku>	"Jace, get your phone out, I could really use a second angle here if you don't need both hands free!" comes over the speaker.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace watches with a mix of awe and horror as Wendy flings black flames at the phantom, a color he's never seen her use before. "W-Wendy..." ~Well...I don't have a choice...let's see if this thing acts like gascoigne...~ He decides, in all his gamer wisdom, to play a music box mid fight. "I'll need both hands for a few seconds..."
<SirGoldFish>	The creature stops its rage instantly and the two heads begin to giggle. If it was not in this horrifying form, it might be considered cute.
<SirGoldFish>	>Aiko
<DrabberRogue>	~So it is kind of like Gascoigne...sorta...~
<SirGoldFish>	The creature is also clapping
<SirGoldFish>	With, large, meaty hands...
<Kioku>	\Well, maybe they won't have to keep fighting it...\
<Kioku>	Aiko scans over the target, silently thanking Wendy for keeping her informed, and analyzing what she's already learned to see if she can figure out something useful to offer - she wants to track its movements and notify her allies of something to work with!  (Exploit Defences: Agility) (I assume I should apply a penalty for having a single angle of observation that I can't control?)
<SirGoldFish>	(Apply a -2 penalty, yes.)
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+9-2
<GameServ>	4d3-8+9-2 = 8
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+4
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4 = 5
<SirGoldFish>	>Wendy's turn
<SirGoldFish>	(The pahtom does not attack.)
<SirGoldFish>	To busy being happy and clapy.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy sees the fucking thing giggle, clapping it's hands together, her eyes going wider and by now they look nearly blood-shot. Not really thinking about what she's even doing, most action of instinct really, letting her fear control her. She moves her hand again slashing whatever the hell it is with more black flames.
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 5
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-9
<GameServ>	4d3-9 = -4
<SirGoldFish>	The creature is in utter pain and it stops clapping and it continues its assault and being lucid, it will not be tricked by that music box again... probably.
<SirGoldFish>	>Jace
<DrabberRogue>	Jace furrows his brow, he gets the strangest feeling that he's letting his girlfriend kill an innocent child...which is kind of exactly what's happening. But the music box doesn't seem to be working...which means it's probably going to stop being innocent and start trying to kill her. jace decides to set his morals aside for a moment to kill the monstrosity, pulling out his phone to give Aiko an angle on the thing. He doesn't have to move
<DrabberRogue>	mych to hit something with Dissonant Counter after all...
<DrabberRogue>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 6
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+4
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4 = 7
<SirGoldFish>	Counter scmounter, it wants blood! Wendy's to be exact
<SirGoldFish>	>Aiko
<Kioku>	\From how it moves... maybe... there!\  (Same action)
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+9
<GameServ>	4d3-8+9 = 10
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+4
<GameServ>	4d3-8+4 = 2
<SirGoldFish>	Well, perhaps just destroying the brains might be best in this scenario (-3 penalty) for the creature
<SirGoldFish>	>Phantom
<SirGoldFish>	*creature's defense
<SirGoldFish>	"YOU'RE NOT MOMMY!" It screams out as it goes to slam its fist twice at Wendy, Wendy, give me  2 rolls to doge this thing, reflexes will help
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+7-8
<GameServ>	4d3+7-8 = 7
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3+7-8
<GameServ>	4d3+7-8 = 5
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 8
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+5
<GameServ>	4d3-8+5 = 7
<SirGoldFish>	Fucking, Wendy the dodge master over here. You manage to get out of the way of both the thing's slamming attacks
<SirGoldFish>	>Wendy
<SavanahHolland>	Jace can think of.. that as a innocent child? Wendy certainly didn't think so, but Wendy doesn't exactly seem in the right mind for thinking.. or right mind for anything in the matter. She puts her hands together, a pure black flame with greyish red streaks coming into it as she throws back both hands at throws the flames at it with a small scream coming from her.
<SavanahHolland>	`calc 4d3-8+7
<GameServ>	4d3-8+7 = 6
<SirGoldFish>	`calc 4d3-8+1
<GameServ>	4d3-8+1 = -2
<SirGoldFish>	The thing screams out in pain. "WHY! DADDY, STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT." It goes into a sob. "STOP HITTING US BLARGHHHHH!" The thing buckles to its knees and falls on Wendy. "Why?" The right one says in a calm voice filled with sorrow. The thing, like the last one, bursts into light, but this time it becomes two squishy white flesh drops with Xs for eyes.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace returns his hands, along with his phone to his pocket. He doesn't have a facial expression to speak of at the moment, he just just watches Wendy and the floating flesh drops. Silent, and oddly cold.
<SirGoldFish>	One of the twin sheet ghost looking corpses has numbers written on it. "97-62" Another just just one "11" Written on them, sorta like tatoos.
<Kioku>	Aiko is still in her state of cold calm, analyzing everything she senses, but lacking sight of anything for the moment... Wendy, pick up your phone again!  And please calm?
<DrabberRogue>	Jace suddenly realizes he just blinded Aiko, and so he pulls his phone back out. "Sorry..." His voice seems a bit empty, one could hazard a guess that he isn't exactly happy.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy stares at it, her blood-shot eyes making her not exactly look, in any sense of the word alright. As it dies she feels herself go somewhat drained, as if she just, needs to lie down. Her eyes closing as she just falls to the ground with a 'thud', basically passing out on the floor. Mental trauma is not very fun, maybe later she would wonder why Jace was so calm around it, if he
<SavanahHolland>	even can feel anything about what that thing.. was.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace takes a deep breath, feeling rather useless and bothered by what just happened to Wendy. He calmly returns his phone to his pocket and...proceeds to violantly put a hole in the wall...
<DrabberRogue>	He's frustrated...if you can't tell...
<Kioku>	"... W-Wendy?  Jace?  Vinnia?  ... Are you still there?"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy doesn't respond, mainly because she's sprawled out on the floor, her eyes closed, what's racing through her head is something no one really wants to see.
<SirGoldFish>	Well, from here. They're two rooms past the twin phantoms that you can go to.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace gives a heavy sigh, extracting his now pained fist from the wall. "Yeah...we're still here..." He pulls his phone back out so Aiko can see. He then proceeds to sit himself down next to the curled up Wendy, setting his phone down beside him, still not talking to her yet.
<Kioku>	Aiko goes silent again.  \I... I need to be there... Wendy...\  "I'm... just a minute," she whispers.  She may be afraid of the chemicals, hate the smell, and they'll make it hard to identify people for a few days probably, no matter how she washes for the next twelve hours after the run... but Wendy needs her.  "Bryce, something I've got to do..."  She gets up and runs back to the stairs.
<SirGoldFish>	"Something wrong, anything I can do?" He says to Aiko has she leaves, clearly at drunk at this point. "Be safe, don't want to beasties come for you."
<SirGoldFish>	The chem bucket is right where Vinny left it
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy is shivers, though doesn't move anymore besides that, despite the fact that her body temp was the same, she was still cold, maybe in a sense of a hollow feeling in her chest and what just happening actually being burnt in her mind.
<SavanahHolland>	(there is no *is XD)
<DrabberRogue>	Jace gives yet another sigh before deciding to lie down next to the pyromancer, aligning himself to her and wrapping his arm around her. Perhaps a Wendy would help with his frustrations...
<Kioku>	Aiko pulls on her gloves and puts away her phone once she finds the abominable bucket.  Dammit Wendy, you'd better appreciate this.  She tightens the scarf over her face and starts applying the disgusting mixture, almost panicking for the first few moments at whether it'll burn her, before steeling herself before the task and pushing through it.
<SirGoldFish>	Aiko, your high sensitivity, you feel nauseas. Roll brawn dear Aiko to not vomit.
<Kioku>	`calc 4d3-8+1
<GameServ>	4d3-8+1 = 1
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<SirGoldFish>	(As I said in OOC, that was a joke, you do not have to roll to not vomit.)
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<SirGoldFish>	Aiko can pass through the blind Phantoms without incident, assuming she uses her phone to check her step
<Kioku>	Aiko coughs a lot, and sneezes at one point, pulling Wendy's scarf off of herself to get air... tainted, horrible smelling air that makes her throw up in her mouth a little before fighting down the nausea and spitting it out.  She has a very rapidly forming, rather serious headache and is going to be hella irritable for a while from it, but gets the scarf back over her face again and continues into town, heading for the signal
<Kioku>	from the phones of the others.  Naturally she removes her gloves - they're probably a loss, but she can hope to wash it out - and gets her phone again to find the way.  After all, making noise wouldn't be the best idea at this point, and the concrete and asphalt aren't terribly good for vibrations.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy takes slow and deep breaths while on the floor, having stopped shivering with Jace holding her, which was suprisingly a upgrade from on the cold hard floor alone. So that was nice.
<Kioku>	Aiko gets there after a bit and climbs the stairs, dropping to her knees next to Wendy and Jace and brushing a hand against the former's cheek.  "Wendy... Wendy, please be okay..."  Must be a bit of a shock to see her here, since she didn't exactly say she was coming, and hasn't communicated the last several minutes.
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<DrabberRogue>	Jace holds Wendy a little tighter, looking up at Aiko. "Decided to join the party huh?...I think...she should be fine...though she's likely to have nightmares in the future."
<SavanahHolland>	When Aiko touches Wendy's chest the girl instantly starts coughing, backing herself into Jace a little more, moving a slow hand to her mouth to cover it while she coughs, not opening her eyes just yet.
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<DrabberRogue>	"W-Wendy?" He'd seemed pretty confident when he said she was fine, but his worry shows through pretty obviously when she starts coughing.
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<Kioku>	Aiko leans down to get a hand on Wendy's back and nabs her arm just past the elbow with the other hand to gently squeeze.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy finally stops coughing, letting her head lay on the floor as her eyes open to a squint, the first thing she sees is Jace, and maybe a little glad of it. Her eyes still very much blood-shot and kinda red with very faint light blue flames.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia pokes her head in. "Yeah? Did someone call me?"
<DrabberRogue>	Jace smiles as she opens her eyes. "Feeling better?" He can worry about her little rampage later, right now...she's just Wendy...
<SolongStarbird>	She has been standing guard outside the house the whole time, and has little to no idea what has happened in the house.
<SolongStarbird>	"Dang! What happened in here?"
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<Kioku>	Aiko winces and brings her hand up to Wendy's head to try to brush any dust from her hair.  "I'll let someone who was actually here explain..." Aiko murmurs.
<SolongStarbird>	"Okay, cuz I have no idea at all... No disturbances outside by the way."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy takes a shaking breath, waking up like this was what most people would consider ideal, well maybe not waking up on the ground.. but still. She ends up burying her face on his chest, moving her arms to wrap around him back.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace sighs, he doesn't really want to break his focus from Wendy...or think about their battle. But he figures he shoudl probably explain. "Well, as you can see by the flesh bags floating here, we met the twins...and Wendy incinerated it..."
<SolongStarbird>	"Oh wow... Sorry I didn't come in to help, but I felt it more importnt to guard the rear.... Anyway, you alright Wendy?"
<Kioku>	Aiko bites her lip and puts her head down.  Wendy didn't need her after all this time, she didn't even notice her.  Why'd she go through that horrible chemical bath if she wasn't actually needed?  \Because I thought I was... and it was important...\
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia furrows her brow as she notices the disheartened state of her teammates. "Are all of you alright for that matter?"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy breaths deeply, nuzzling into him for a second, she really wanted to stay like that for awhile, but it wouldn't. She lets go of him, moving back to try to get up, for now just on her knees, then noticing Aiko, maybe as if she had heard the girl's thoughts, wrapping her arms around Aiko and hugging her tightly for a minute.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace lays there for a few seconds after Wendy leaves his arms, giving a dissapointed sigh before sitting up himself. "So, I suppose we should destroy those things?" Jace indicates the flesh drop...thingys.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia feels awkward and slightly guilty for not sharing in her team's suffering and efforts. "I'll do it. It's the least I can do."
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia goes over to the first one and lets dangerous amounts of electricity course through it until it is no more.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace blasts the other with dissonant counter, he's going to do /something/...
<Kioku>	Aiko lets out a tiny "meep" at the unexpected hug.  "H-hi.  You'll be okay... right?"  She trails off into a bare whisper.  "I'm sorry I wasn't here earlier... when you needed me to be..."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy says in a hushed voice, squeezing Aiko a little bit "Yeah.. I just.. couldn't handle it.." she closes her eyes, taking a deep breath. "Don't be.. you're.. you're here.. that's what matters.."
<DrabberRogue>	Jace takes a little more pleasure than he should in watching one of the tear bag...things lose its form. Jace then proceeds to silently want to be Aiko as he sits against the wall, hugging his knees to himself...he may or may not have been entirely done hugging the Wendy...
<SolongStarbird>	Vinni finishes her job and turns around to look at the other three. ~They are so close to each other. I feel like a stranger.~ She sits down next to Jace. "Sooo... Did you guys find anything interesting or important?"
<Kioku>	Aiko squeezes back.  "I'm sorry.  I wish you didn't have to face that.  Any of this..."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy hugs her a little tighter "it's fine.." despite how many times she was broken in by just little times where sanity was the last thing on her mind, she could never really go to a point of never at least pretending to be alright. Looking back over to Jace, she wished she had tails like Akemi so she could hug both at once. Ending up scooting with Aiko and sitting next to him, hugg
<SavanahHolland>	ing Aiko on one side and leaning against him with the other.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia is quiet.
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<SirGoldFish>	-The Run continues- The group is still where they were. Two un-explored rooms ahead of them
<SolongStarbird>	After a little while being quiet, Vinnia stands up, "So... What now?"
<DrabberRogue>	Jace is still leaning against Wendy, not wanting to get up. "Well, there's a couple more rooms to check, I'd like to uncover just a little more about this place."
<Kioku>	Aiko just shrugs.  She doesn't care, she wants to get this over with so she can wash off the disgusting substance she had to smear all over.
<SirGoldFish>	Oddly enough, Aiko, the smell has started to fade, just a little.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy takes a shaking breath, having composed herself from the little break, looking up to Vinnia, due to still kinda hugging Aiko and leaning on Jace, her hug loosening so the girl can get up if she wants, Wendy probably following behind if she does.
<SolongStarbird>	"Really? Which ones?"
<Kioku>	Aiko sighs, she doesn't want to get up, but there's a job to do.  "Well just hurry up and check them then, don't stand around talking about it..."
<Kioku>	She moves to stand, shifting to try to make the floor creak a little along the way.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace stays by Wendy a couple seconds longer before getting up himself. "The two rooms up here." He then moves to the door closest to the stairs and proceeds to open it.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy puts her hand to the wall, using it to help herself up and follows behind Jace, looking over his shoulder as he opens the closest door, she wanted to get this just done.
<SirGoldFish>	There appears to be some sort of private office. There are books, a map of not only the town but this supposed mine. Sitting on the desk is a small green crystal  standing up right, embedded in a bit of rock. In the corner, there is a locked browning safe.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia is right behind them, ready to zap whatever demons are behind the door and redeem herself.
<Kioku>	Aiko pokes her phone into the room to look around.  "Tiberium?" she mutters, poking her head around the door to Look at the crystal.  The rest of the room isn't of much interest, safe or not.
<Kioku>	4d3-8+5
<Servitor-Secundus>	Kioku: 3:6-8+5
<DrabberRogue>	Jace points to the safe as he enters the room, walking over to the map and picking it up. "If any of you are good with breaking open safe, I think whatever's inside may sheed a bit more light on what happened here...at least in the house..."
<DrabberRogue>	*safes
<SirGoldFish>	Sadly, Aiko, you do not get much out of the crystal, other than the knowledge that you've never seen something like this before.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia steps up to the safe. "I could give it a whirl."
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy walks in behind him, doing the same thing as last time and snapping a picture of the mine map for Aiko, sending it to her out of habit. She glances over to Aiko at the mention of a safe, walking over to see if its electronic, as unlikely as that may be in a place like this.
<SirGoldFish>	It's certainly not electronic.
<SolongStarbird>	"I think I've got this." Vinnia crouches down and begins to wiggle her fingers in front of the combination wheel, though not touching it. Seeing if her magnetic abilities can get the wheels inside in place.
<SolongStarbird>	4d3-8+3
<Servitor-Secundus>	SolongStarbird: 5:10-8+3
<SirGoldFish>	With just a little fiddling, Vinny is able to get the safe open. But, something bursts out of the safe! It's a small green imp-like creature that darts out, it's holding what appears to be a gold ingot over its head.
<Kioku>	Aiko's ear flicks as it bursts out, and her deadpan look continues to be deadpan as the camera sweeps that way.  \Wut.\
<SirGoldFish>	In the safe, there is another larger chunk of that green crystal, softly glowing crystal. Some documents, a journal, and another tiny looking creature in the corner, it pill shaped and pure black. And it's crying in the corner of the safe, all alone.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia jumps back, but is on point and determined to redeem herself. She chucks a ball of electricity at the imp.
<SolongStarbird>	4d3-8+4
<Servitor-Secundus>	SolongStarbird: 3:7-8+4
<Kioku>	Aiko twitches.  \Dang jumpy violent 'allies'...\
<SirGoldFish>	!Roll 4d3-8+8 The creature is fast, if nothing else on those stubby little legs.
<Servitor-Secundus>	SirGoldFish, The creature is fast, if nothing else on those stubby little legs. : 8:8-8+8
<SirGoldFish>	It jumps out of the way of the bolt and laughs. "Mwhehehehehe." It's not quite out of the door, yet. Someone could surely take a shot at it.
<DrabberRogue>	Jace quickly looks up at the sound of the imp-ish thing, folding the map and tucking it into his coat, ready for a chase. "Don't kill it, catch it!" He observes the flow of any competition that might be occuring between them, particularly it trying to escape.
<DrabberRogue>	4d3-8+5
<Servitor-Secundus>	DrabberRogue: 5:8-8+5
<Kioku>	Aiko.. just steps into the room and closes the door behind her.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy blinks, maybe a little confused and... trying to hold back a laugh? She takes a step back, letting them handle it, whatever that thing was, compared to the stuff shes seen was fucking hilarous.
<Kioku>	4d3-8+6
<SolongStarbird>	"I'll stun it!" Vinnia runs after the imp.
<Servitor-Secundus>	Kioku: 7:9-8+6
<SirGoldFish>	4d3-8+8-2 (Aiko is right at the door so...)
<Servitor-Secundus>	SirGoldFish, (Aiko is right at the door so...) : 8:10-8+8-2
<SirGoldFish>	Sorry Aiko, you're just not fast enough for this little bugger, it squeeze between the openings of the door, surprising considering the gold ignot should have physically rendered that impossible.
<DrabberRogue>	(Okay...and Jace's competition reading?)
<SirGoldFish>	!Roll 4d3-8+4 The thing is not exactly smart
<Servitor-Secundus>	SirGoldFish, The thing is not exactly smart: 4:8-8+4
<SirGoldFish>	Jace gets +2 for one action against this thing, but sadly, at this point, it's out the door.
<DrabberRogue>	"Door, open!" Jace shouts as he runs after the thing, he's got a plan to slow it down for a bit, but not much time.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia almost runs into the door, stopping herself. "Dammit!... What the heck was that thing?" She jumps back as the door flies open once more.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves back on her feet after holding back the laugh, actually she might be holding back a smile at this point as she jogs behind them.
<DrabberRogue>	(Well I mean...he wants Aiko to open the door...what we don't know is if she does...)
<Kioku>	Well if the thing was already past the other three, there was no point closing the door all the way anyway since it's apparently faster than a cat and can go from the far corner of the room, ignore four people who would try to hinder it, and reach the door in under a second... so when it gets to her, she aborts closing the door and shoves it open again.
<Kioku>	\Might as well leave them to chase at this rate...\
<SirGoldFish>	It was not in the far corner of the room. Everyone is free to chase the creature, if they so choose.
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<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia is off to chase the creature. She'll grab it and shock it to stun it!
<DrabberRogue>	(Can Jace see the thing as he sprints through the door?)
<SolongStarbird>	4d3-8+2 Agility to catch that sunuvabish!
<Servitor-Secundus>	SolongStarbird, Agility to catch that sunuvabish!: 1:7-8+2
<SirGoldFish>	Yes, Jace, everyone is free to chase the imp
<SirGoldFish>	!Roll 4d3-8+8 Get out of the way of the Vinny.
<Servitor-Secundus>	SirGoldFish, Get out of the way of the Vinny.: 8:8-8+8
<SirGoldFish>	Vinny, sadly, is unable to catch the imp.
<SavanahHolland>	(just agility?)
<DrabberRogue>	Instead of actively chasing it, Jace notes that the imp is moving...well...a lot faster than anything should. He figures the thing probably has supernatural speed, and tries to negate said speed.
<DrabberRogue>	4d3-8+7
<Servitor-Secundus>	DrabberRogue: 9:10-8+7
<SirGoldFish>	(If you have anything that might aid, you can add it.)
<DrabberRogue>	~This should slow that thing down if it /is/ an ability...~
<SavanahHolland>	(I'll wait for Jace's thing before I roll)
<SirGoldFish>	!Roll 4d3-8+8 Can not negate me!
<Servitor-Secundus>	SirGoldFish, Can not negate me!: 5:5-8+8
<SirGoldFish>	Jace, you cut the fucking thing's speed in /half/
<SavanahHolland>	(parkour or reflexes?)
<SirGoldFish>	(Either works here, but you may have better luck with just throwing a fireball at it.)
<SavanahHolland>	(Jace said to you know, catch it, not fucking burn it XD)
<SavanahHolland>	4d3-8+5
<Servitor-Secundus>	SavanahHolland: 3:6-8+5
<SirGoldFish>	!Roll 4d3-8+4
<Servitor-Secundus>	SirGoldFish: 7:11-8+4
<SirGoldFish>	Even with its speed literally cut in half, it's not enough. The thing starts sprinting down the steps, it's fucking getting out of here.
<SirGoldFish>	If there are any ranged fighters, you got one more chance to end this thing
<DrabberRogue>	~Oh no you don't!~ Jace jogs after it, tapping back into that elusive flow of battle to try to fog it for the creature, try to make it unsure of where to run.
<DrabberRogue>	4d3-8+5
<Servitor-Secundus>	DrabberRogue: 6:9-8+5
<Kioku>	Aiko sighs in annoyance and throws electricity... right at Vinnia.  \I'm basically immune to it, so if her power is anything similar, it'll be a charge up and redirect, right?\  Aiko, we get that you're annoyed and have a headache, but don't take risks like that...
<Kioku>	(Lending Hand)
<SirGoldFish>	!Roll 4d3-8+4 Thing still not smart
<Servitor-Secundus>	SirGoldFish, Thing still not smart: 4:8-8+4
<SirGoldFish>	-1 For all actions it takes.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia feels the electricity basically recharge her. "Oh yeah!" She unleashes an especially potent bolt at the imp.
<SolongStarbird>	4d3-8+4   Plus the lending hand
<Servitor-Secundus>	SolongStarbird,   Plus the lending hand: 2:6-8+4
<SolongStarbird>	(So... 4?)
<SirGoldFish>	(Yes)
<SirGoldFish>	!Roll 4d3-8+3
<Servitor-Secundus>	SirGoldFish: 4:9-8+3
<SolongStarbird>	(I'll try to keep on top of things...)
<SirGoldFish>	Well, sad to say, unless someone else tries something ranged, the thing escapes. Impossibly squeezing through the doorway to the outside.
<DrabberRogue>	(Jace has an action if he can interrupt...)
<SirGoldFish>	(He can try dissonance counter, if that's what you're asking.)
<SolongStarbird>	(That bolt is ranged... did it miss?)
<SirGoldFish>	(Yup, it missed,)
<SirGoldFish>	(Just barely, though.)
<DrabberRogue>	4d3-8+5 "Fine, I'll get it myself!"
<Servitor-Secundus>	DrabberRogue, "Fine, I'll get it myself!": 8:11-8+5
<DrabberRogue>	(Dissonant Counter)
<SirGoldFish>	!Roll 4d3-8+3
<Servitor-Secundus>	SirGoldFish: 2:7-8+3
<SirGoldFish>	The thing more or less vaporizes and it becomes ash. Leaving another flesh ghost and the gold bar
<DrabberRogue>	"Honestly, haven't you people played tag?" Jace calls back as he slows to a stop next to it.
<SolongStarbird>	"Booyah! Nice Jace!"
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy smiles a little more, this felt nice and light hearted, she didn't even know what the hell that thing was, it was just funny. Moving to stand next to him.
<SirGoldFish>	Yup, it's a tiny version of on of those flesh ghosts and a non-anomalous gold bar. That has the words. "Cesar" written on it.
<SirGoldFish>	*engraved on it
<SirGoldFish>	Anyone checking out the safe right now?
<Kioku>	Aiko snorts and shakes her head, turning to Look at the larger crystal in the safe.  Might as well do something until they come back upstairs.
<SolongStarbird>	"What else was in that safe? Was that it?" Vinnia gestured to the pile of ash and the bar.
<Kioku>	4d3-8+5
<Servitor-Secundus>	Kioku: 6:9-8+5
<DrabberRogue>	Jace leans down brushing the blob of flesh back at Wendy to see if she wants to burn it, carefully picking up the gold bar to examine it. "Cesar...isn't that the guy who the old man said was running the mine?"
<SirGoldFish>	The crystal is magical in nature and to put it simply. This thing exists in multiple planes of... well existences in a sort of quantum state, both in the world and... somewhere else.
<SolongStarbird>	"Yeah. That was the name." Vinnia has gone over to look at the safe and the crystal.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy moves to snap her fingers, a purple flame surrounding her hand as she leans in to throw the controlled fire at the blob, burning it to ashes.
<SirGoldFish>	In the safe, along with the crystal, is a set of contracts and documents, a journal, and a black pill shaped creature, crying in the corner facing away from everyone else.
<Kioku>	4d3-8+5
<Servitor-Secundus>	Kioku: 6:9-8+5
<SirGoldFish>	The creature well, it's likely not a phantom. It's not made of similarly to the others phantoms. It is likely an infantile version of a /much/ larger creature.
<SolongStarbird>	Vinnia looks at the crying pill. "What is that thing?"
<Kioku>	"Something... else.  Not a phantom.  I don't know what..."
*	SolongStarbird is now known as BRB_birb
<DrabberRogue>	Jace smiles as he sees the purple flames...though he's only seen them under one other condition. "Wendy...what determines the color purple in your fire?" He asks as he stuffs the bar in his coat. He'd always assumed it only happens when she's feeling love...but that isn't exactly the greatest force for destruction, no matter what that crazy magician says.
<SirGoldFish>	The crystal, in theory, is able to pull things from other dimensions. Sorta like a bridge between worlds, but you'd need a lot of it.
<SavanahHolland>	Wendy stands back, standing straight as she looks to Jace. "I'm.. not really sure.. I just use my fire and.. it kinda picks the color itself when I don't think about it..."
*	BRB_birb is now known as SolongStarbird
<Kioku>	Aiko's ear twitches at the conversation and works to process the data she's getting.  \If this is from the mine, that'd explain some things... but did he know what it is, what it does?  And why was there a weird little phantom representation of a demon in the safe with it?\  "Wendy, Jace, you going to come back in here?"