You Wouldn't Pirate a Homicide

Oct 18 12:17:28 <Aori_Radidjiu> Tuesday, June 11th, 11 AM.  It's another bright, sunny day, although the weather forecast calls for some showers later.  Near the various universities, students go to and from class, near the docks, trade is in order, with goods being shipped in and out, and on the boat, things are somewhat calm.  Marie cooked up some French Toast with bacon earlier, but now the galley is quiet,
Oct 18 12:17:28 <Aori_Radidjiu> except for those who got up later.  Thanks to some talking with the local law enforcement, a certain scientist is tied up in the brig.
Oct 18 12:18:29 * Nyamia is now known as Mayuri
Oct 18 12:18:45 * Mayuri is now known as Lymia
Oct 18 12:19:31 * MayuriSakurada (~lymia@Rizon-2C644A09.lightspeed.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net) has joined
Oct 18 12:19:33 * Lymia (~madoka@eien.ni.hachi.sai) has left (Hug~♪)
Oct 18 12:22:06 <Ululane> Lulu paces back and forth about the brig, waiting for the arrival of her partner in torture. Every so often she casts the poor fuck an apathetic glance.
Oct 18 12:24:21 <Knox> Knox didn't return last night, either. But it didn't take him long to wrap up his goodbyes and arrive back on the boat sometime that morning. He grabbed some french toast and rolled a couple pieces of bacon into it, munching on the way down with no real regard for stopping or manners. He's done by the time he gets to the brig, and isn't even messy. ...You can't look intimidating if
Oct 18 12:24:21 <Knox> you have bacon or crumbs on your face, so he doesn't.
Oct 18 12:24:43 * Lymia (~madoka@eien.ni.hachi.sai) has joined
Oct 18 12:25:06 * Ramiel is now known as Lesieli
Oct 18 12:25:21 * Lymia (~madoka@eien.ni.hachi.sai) has left (Hug~♪)
Oct 18 12:28:18 <Knox> His mood is a little improved from last night, though not by much. He enters the brig and has a look around at the place.
Oct 18 12:29:09 <Ululane> "Ah, the venereal, viral viceroy returns." She looks him over quickly, eyes sharper than usual when she's in costume. "Your faithful chef has brought you a surprise!" She waves her hands toward the scientist. "Human sushi!"
Oct 18 12:30:04 <Aori_Radidjiu> A few dim lights, a table with a deck of cards on it, and the cells themselves, with fortified steel bars.
Oct 18 12:30:50 <Knox> He's somewhere in the neighborhood of being both amused and annoyed.  He decides just to smirk, though, for a moment and walks over to the cell where the man is.
Oct 18 12:31:17 * MayuriSakurada is probably currently grooming Pokemon, getting to know a Mawile, and avoiding Ululane and Knox being scary
Oct 18 12:32:55 <Knox> He has a look inside.
Oct 18 12:32:59 <Knox> He still hasn't spoken.
Oct 18 12:34:01 <Aori_Radidjiu> The scientist is tied up, sitting on the ground with her arms tied behind him and his legs tied together.  He's looking up at the ceiling.
Oct 18 12:34:57 <Knox> "Looks like he's awake. Now then."
Oct 18 12:35:27 <Ululane> A sinister pair of eyes watch with a cheshire smile from the man's shadow.
Oct 18 12:38:08 <Knox> He steps through the bars, his body simply parting like smoke and re-forming behind himself. A bit of a refluffed, more elegant acid armor and stops in front of the man. "I suppose given your reaction yesterday that you have some inkling of who I am, or at the very least who we are. But more importantly, myself." His voice is surprisingly even and calm, but there's an edge about
Oct 18 12:38:08 <Knox> it absolutely absent from his normal way of speaking.
Oct 18 12:39:24 <Aori_Radidjiu> He looks at you two as Knox comes in.  His eyes get a little bigger when Knox steps through but his face quickly returns to neutral, and he delivers a "How may I help you?" He laughs a little, his laugh shaky.
Oct 18 12:46:15 <Ululane> Lulu takes to shuffling the cards, looking up every so often as though she were waiting for commercials to be over.
Oct 18 12:46:34 <Knox> "The fact that you're here and we're alive should mean something to you, shouldn't it? Both your prototype and the man that was with you are dead. Unfortunately for you..." he towers over the sitting man. "...That man was an old friend of mine by the name of August. One year ago, Aether ambushed my crew. Again, unfortunately for you, I got away. You following me? This ringing any
Oct 18 12:46:34 <Knox> bells?" His voice is getting lower and lower. "They called me Noxious Nick. I'm a master of all manners of poison. Certainly not just the kinds that kill you, either. You're going to answer my questions, one way or another. Oh, but I would love for you to try and be stubborn." he lets out his Malamar, who has certainly recovered as well as he has, even though he doesn't want to try
Oct 18 12:46:34 <Knox> pushing her in combat yet. "Oscilla, keep an eye on the prisoner's surface thoughts for me. Make sure he doesn't tell me just what he thinks I want to hear."
Oct 18 12:46:42 * Mackenzie is waiting outside the room, out of sight. He's shirtless and has worked himself up a sweat, and is waiting to barge in and bad cop it up.
Oct 18 12:47:24 <Knox> 6d6+5 Intimidate
Oct 18 12:47:24 <PsychoRoll> Knox, Intimidate: 23 [6d6=1,2,2,3,6,4]
Oct 18 12:47:36 <Mackenzie> OOH OOH LET ME HELP HIM WITH THAT
Oct 18 12:48:08 <Knox> How much?
Oct 18 12:48:30 * Lesieli popcorns
Oct 18 12:49:09 <Knox> 6d6+5+3 This is the reroll if needed
Oct 18 12:49:09 <PsychoRoll> Knox, This is the reroll if needed: 33 [6d6=1,5,6,3,5,5]
Oct 18 12:49:32 <Mackenzie> yeah, reroll with +3
Oct 18 12:50:04 * Mackenzie walks in, slowly, and just gives him a very mean look, but probably not mean enough to make him incapable of fleeing
Oct 18 12:50:50 <Knox> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLSZ2Lm588  Knox's expression became something intense at this moment, not like someone interrogating a prisoner, but like a predator - no, a devil - waiting for his prey to show signs of weakness.
Oct 18 12:51:22 <Aori_Radidjiu> He uses his feet to push himself back a little.  "W-well, you know, I have to say, I think we're off to a good start, since 0 answers out of 0 questions is pretty outstanding, yes?"
Oct 18 12:51:51 <Mackenzie> "I don't think you need help kicking his ass, but if it comes to it."
Oct 18 12:52:44 * Telume (vash@Rizon-7BC756F0.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) has joined
Oct 18 12:55:13 <Knox> He gets a punch in the gut for that one. "You really think you're in the position to make jokes or be a smartass to me? I'm setting the ground rules here. I'm not a cop. This isn't an official interrogation. Don't get funny with me. I'm not in the mood for it. But now that you know damn well who I am..." He waits for the man to catch his breath. "Let's hear about yourself. Name,
Oct 18 12:55:13 <Knox> position. What you were working on here."
Oct 18 12:58:12 <Knox> He just nods to MAck.
Oct 18 13:00:11 <Aori_Radidjiu> He gives a bit of a yelp but straightens himself up.  "Well, I have to say I was expecting a cop, but whatever the case...Dr. Morgan Bleak.  I'm a genetic engineer, specializing in Pokemon, so I'm basically an overglorified Pokemon Breeder, and you've seen the main fruit of my work, that Pokemon that your 'August' had."
Oct 18 13:01:06 <Knox> "Go on."
Oct 18 13:02:27 <Ululane> Lulu deals some cards on the table; a 3x3 grid, from top left to bottom right: 3 of Hearts, 9 of Spades, 6 of Hearts, King of Hearts, a Joker, Queen of Spades, 5 of Diamonds, King of diamonds, 10 of Spades. "Oh, things aren't looking good for him at all! Did you tell him we're not exactly bound by laws? That seems worth mentioning."
Oct 18 13:03:35 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Oh, I was expecting you to punctuate my statement with another sock in the gut.  Right then.  I wanted to make something that's incredibly adaptable, and can shift itself to better suit its opponents, so I started wiht Kecleon as a base and made  more and more resilient Kecleon, until finally I got one that was able to completely ignore most attacks.  Then the occult team did
Oct 18 13:03:35 <Aori_Radidjiu> something with it to make it better, I don't know the whole deal with that, I just provided a base for them."
Oct 18 13:03:59 <Ululane> "Occult team?"
Oct 18 13:06:06 <Knox> It's clear he's not finding the scientist's mouthing off very amusing but he just keeps intently staring, waiting for him to extrapolate on Lulu's question.
Oct 18 13:07:48 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I've dedicated my life to the pursuit of some kind of science, so I'm a specialist. The occult team is another set of specialists who do more..well.  Occult rituals and all.  I know they intended to give my finished product the ability to fight gods or whatever, I don't know anything about the process.  I was wary about the idea, but I'd agreed to work with these guys if I wanted
Oct 18 13:07:48 <Aori_Radidjiu> my funding, so I let them do what they want with it, and I have to say, it seemed to work, whatever it was, so I have no complaints."
Oct 18 13:08:23 <Knox> He laughs bitterly. "No complaints. Do you have any fucking idea who you're working for?"
Oct 18 13:08:39 <Ululane> "It seems you're awful at being a hostage: I want a division name for the occult team, a name for each member you dealt with, and descriptions."
Oct 18 13:09:22 <Mackenzie> "Fuck that, just tell me where you've met them."
Oct 18 13:15:06 <Aori_Radidjiu> Siiiigh.  "You'll all pretty impatient.  I know they're part of the Turquoise Terra division, I'm part of the Black Blaze division.  There's some more subdivisions, from what I gather, but I have no clue how their internal subdivisions work.  I've only dealt with one member, Ellen, just gave me first name, not last.  She was...I think Gennisian, from the accent, brown hair, curvy,
Oct 18 13:15:06 <Aori_Radidjiu> usually wore a halter top and skirt, showed a lot of skin.  Wore all black, had a tattoo of a skull just above her behind.  You get the idea."
Oct 18 13:15:11 <Aori_Radidjiu> *You're
Oct 18 13:16:22 <Ululane> 5d6+4+6 Do asskull tattoos mean anything? Presumably ritual magic skill stunt can apply
Oct 18 13:16:22 <PsychoRoll> Ululane, Do asskull tattoos mean anything? Presumably ritual magic skill stunt can apply: 29 [5d6=5,2,6,5,1]
Oct 18 13:17:19 <Aori_Radidjiu> Naw, sounds more like she was just making a statement.
Oct 18 13:17:51 <Ululane> Worthless. "...Can Oscilla pick up anything more than what he's saying aloud?"
Oct 18 13:19:59 <Knox> "Turqoisa Terra, Black Blaze, White Water... the hell is with this naming scheme." he shakes it off though and turns to the Malamar. "Anything besides what he's just telling us?"
Oct 18 13:21:06 <Ululane> "Sounds like a kid's running the thing..." Lulu muses about the possibility of an altworld Mayo being the boss of the fuckwits.
Oct 18 13:22:11 <Knox> "Elements... Earth, fire and water so far. Could be classical elements, could be from the eighteen. Not really the important thing right now."
Oct 18 13:27:24 <Aori_Radidjiu> [Well, let's seeeeee....]  Oscilla concentrates a bit, and then recoils.  [Well.  He slept with her.  She has some sort of floral pattern on her back which is usually under her top, it's all black, like...some kind of rose?  Weird.]
Oct 18 13:27:46 <Ululane> (Is that a shared telepathy or just with Knox?)
Oct 18 13:27:53 <Aori_Radidjiu> Just with Knox
Oct 18 13:28:29 <Knox> He grunts. "That helps with identifying her I guess. Not much useful otherwise. Anyway, we've gotten off-track."
Oct 18 13:29:14 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Right, next question?"
Oct 18 13:29:35 <Ululane> "She actually get anything useful or basically just what he said?"
Oct 18 13:30:07 <Knox> "Just more tattoo information."
Oct 18 13:30:21 <Knox> "We'll discuss it later if you want."
Oct 18 13:30:32 <Ululane> "Fine fine, just break his arm or something."
Oct 18 13:32:31 <Knox> He turns his attention back to Bleak. "So your work was essentially to just make an invincible pokemon that Team Aether could further modify to kill gods, and you didn't really give a shit as long as the money flowed in to your research. Whatever. What did you know about the man in the visor?"
Oct 18 13:34:30 <Mackenzie> "Just the same as each one before.  I'm starting to wonder if this broken record is a lie."
Oct 18 13:35:03 <Aori_Radidjiu> [Doesn't seem like he's lying to me!]
Oct 18 13:35:26 <Ululane> "Well he's not broken...yet."
Oct 18 13:36:26 <Knox> He nods at Oscilla. "This is why we're effective at interrogation. Without a guarantee it's easy for a subject under questioning to lie their ass off, tell the interrogator what they want to hear and try to get off scot-free."
Oct 18 13:36:32 <Knox> "With us, there is no such option."
Oct 18 13:37:45 <Lesieli> Unless he's been trained to fake and/or suppress his thoughts to thwart telepathy screening.
Oct 18 13:37:58 <Knox> Ssh
Oct 18 13:38:08 <Ululane> He could always fuck up, he clearly doesn't have Mindlock.
Oct 18 13:38:23 <Aori_Radidjiu> "He was assigned by the higher ups in my division.  By which I mean I was emailed a notice he was coming and then he came to my door.  Simple."
Oct 18 13:38:41 <Ululane> "Sir Bleak, tell us about your family, give us a reason to care about YOUR existence."
Oct 18 13:39:01 <Knox> He rolls his eyes a bit at Lulu. "This isn't the time."
Oct 18 13:39:28 <Ululane> She gives him a 'just fucking play along with it' look.
Oct 18 13:39:36 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I don't know anything about how they made him the way he was.  I did know he had an explosive rigged, and I unfortunately had to comply with rigging an explosive to my prototype...family?  I don't have a family anymore. The specifics of which I don't think you really care about, really.  I'm sure both you and I would prefer I didn't give you some sob story, yes?"
Oct 18 13:40:20 <Mackenzie> "We spared the last scientist because of his story."
Oct 18 13:40:30 <Ululane> "Granted, he wasn't an asshole."
Oct 18 13:40:32 <Mackenzie> "Rather, keep him locked up but alive."
Oct 18 13:41:01 <Ululane> Lulu has already resigned interest in his tale. Family is fantastic ammunition when you can get a telepath to read their looks and location.
Oct 18 13:41:11 <Knox> "What did your higher-ups have instruct you to refer to him as?" It almost seems like an irrelevant question.
Oct 18 13:42:01 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Oh, his code name?  Nidhoggr."
Oct 18 13:42:07 <Knox> 6d6 Try and hide the fact that he was more concerned about the Kecleon than some underling is pissing him off.
Oct 18 13:42:07 <PsychoRoll> Knox, Try and hide the fact that he was more concerned about the Kecleon than some underling is pissing him off.: 18 [6d6=1,1,4,6,4,2]
Oct 18 13:42:43 <Ululane> "Did it actually seem symbolic, or do they just like pretentious names?"
Oct 18 13:43:13 <Knox> 4d6 Occult for Nidhog
Oct 18 13:43:13 <PsychoRoll> Knox, Occult for Nidhog: 21 [4d6=3,6,6,6]
Oct 18 13:44:29 <Aori_Radidjiu> If you recall correctly, the name is often associated with Zygarde.
Oct 18 13:44:57 <Aori_Radidjiu> It was specifically a name attributed to Zygarde in some fairytales
Oct 18 13:45:09 <Aori_Radidjiu> "They seem the more pretentious sort, if I had to say."
Oct 18 13:45:16 <Knox> "It's a named used for a certain dragon legendary, Zygarde. August was linked with a dragon, but not that one."
Oct 18 13:45:39 <Knox> *name
Oct 18 13:45:48 <Ululane> "Now, the Kecleon being named Nidhoggr makes more sense...were you supposed to be doing something similar with August and the Kecleon?"
Oct 18 13:45:54 <Knox> ":I honestly doubt there was further symbolism."
Oct 18 13:46:17 <Knox> "They probably just went "Oh this guy has dragon powers, let's assign him this name"
Oct 18 13:46:24 <Knox> He grits his teeth a bit.
Oct 18 13:46:52 <Aori_Radidjiu> "He was linked to a legendary?  Interesting, I didn't think they were giving me something so high grade. I think I agree with the 'he's got dragon stuff, call hima  dragon' thing.  Anyway, if he was somebody's experiment, he wasn't mine."
Oct 18 13:47:10 <Knox> Another gut punch.
Oct 18 13:47:24 <Knox> "You don't get to speak about him as an object."
Oct 18 13:47:44 <Aori_Radidjiu> Hrrrk.  "Noted."
Oct 18 13:48:04 <Knox> "Next, I move up to nerve toxins."
Oct 18 13:48:20 <Ululane> "Don't worry about him falling unconscious, by the way, I can always bring him back. Or continue his suffering while he sleeps."
Oct 18 13:48:33 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Next question?"
Oct 18 13:50:16 <Knox> "Has Aether tasked you with other projects during your employ with them?"
Oct 18 13:50:56 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Not really.  Before I got hired, I was trying to find funding for...the same thing I'm doing now.  I was about to be transfered over to Whelk, for what it's worth."
Oct 18 13:51:12 <Knox> "Whelk... Do you know what they're planning to start there?"
Oct 18 13:51:20 <Ululane> "Probably already started it."
Oct 18 13:52:11 <Mackenzie> "They are probably already there, considering we showed up as they were almost fully shipped out."
Oct 18 13:52:41 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I only know it from the perspective of what I'd be important for.  And that's supplying them more of my bred masterpieces, which they were goign to run tests on over by the Chemical Plant.  I dn't believe they have an actual base or any such there, but they definitely were doing something there."
Oct 18 13:52:57 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I also shipped some of my specimens off to Mosaic Cove, although I wasn't told what they were doing there.
Oct 18 13:52:58 <Aori_Radidjiu> "
Oct 18 13:54:02 <Ululane> "What...species are your other specimens?"
Oct 18 13:54:16 <Knox> "Speaking of those... The one we killed is a 'prototype'. Are there 'finished' specimens?"
Oct 18 13:55:36 <Aori_Radidjiu> "That one was the first one I made that worked, thus it was the 'prototype'.  Honestly, it'd probably be a bit better than some of the more mass produced specimens, although I wouldn't be surprised if they started improving on my work.  I've also done some work with Porygon, Greninja, Ditto, and Smeargle."
Oct 18 13:56:04 <Aori_Radidjiu> "They weren't interested in me doing work on Eevee."
Oct 18 13:56:19 <Knox> "Because Eevee's mutability is one way, I assume."
Oct 18 13:56:20 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Said they already had someone on it."
Oct 18 13:56:31 <Knox> Or that. He hrms.
Oct 18 13:56:42 <Aori_Radidjiu> "And yes, its mutability is a bit harder to tweak."
Oct 18 13:56:55 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I heard Team Rocket made one some years back that could switch between a few of its evolutions."
Oct 18 13:57:21 <Knox> "They also tried the invincible pokemon routine, I hear. Do you remember how that went?" he asks, sarcastically.
Oct 18 13:57:56 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Terribly.  I wasn't quite expecting to reinvent the wheel, though."
Oct 18 13:58:26 <Ululane> "...well...I am out of questions for the poor fellow."
Oct 18 13:59:01 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I have one other thing for you, if you have no more questions."
Oct 18 13:59:25 <Knox> "Whelk and Mosaic Cave." he mentions. "I have a couple more. Is Pokemon modification the only directive of Turquoise Terra?"
Oct 18 13:59:27 <Ululane> "If it is a bomb in your head, I'm going to find out how to devour your soul."
Oct 18 14:00:23 <Knox> er
Oct 18 14:00:25 <Knox> *Black Blaze
Oct 18 14:00:29 <Knox> derp
Oct 18 14:01:04 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I don't have a bomb, no.  Black Blaze is interested in general genetic engineering, not just in Pokemon."
Oct 18 14:01:33 <Knox> "So human modification as well. I imagine you're taken with the Sakurada's work, then."
Oct 18 14:02:22 <Knox> *they're
Oct 18 14:02:25 <Knox> Whichever.
Oct 18 14:02:36 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Ah, yes, I've read some of their work.  They're rather talented.  I imagine they don't take shady deals, though, so I won't ever get to work with them.  Anyway.  That actually leads in to what I was going to tell you."
Oct 18 14:02:44 <Knox> "Continue."
Oct 18 14:02:56 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Rogers is a Black Blaze product.  He wasn't made by me, but he's a result of the division's work."
Oct 18 14:03:28 <Knox> He listens.
Oct 18 14:04:02 <Ululane> "Hm? I figured he was a result of occult bullshit...what is he then?"
Oct 18 14:04:17 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I was ordered to supply rejects from my breeding attempts to aid him, it's better if they don't go to waste, after all.  Anyway, I don't know the specifics, but I know they made him...not quite human anymore.  He's partially a Pokemon."
Oct 18 14:04:43 <Knox> He thinks on how the man changed just as they were leaving. "Ditto?"
Oct 18 14:05:10 <Aori_Radidjiu> "That's what I'd guess, but I have no definitive answer."
Oct 18 14:05:39 <Knox> "Frazier, this subject is your deal."
Oct 18 14:05:48 <Ululane> "Speaking of Dittos, August had one on him, anything we should know about it?"
Oct 18 14:06:34 <Aori_Radidjiu> "It's a normal Ditto.  All the ones I've messed with had already been shipped off."
Oct 18 14:06:53 <Knox> "...I'll look after it, if no one else wants it." he says to Lulu.
Oct 18 14:07:03 * Mackenzie sighs, and thinks a moment.
Oct 18 14:08:42 <Mackenzie> "Do you know if anyone in your division has worked with aspects of the dream world?  Every time an actor going that far into a character has shown up, it's been punctuated with claims of some link to the dream world.  That same is true of me."
Oct 18 14:08:59 <Knox> "...That wasn't really what I meant but okay."
Oct 18 14:09:14 <Knox> "Sounds more like what their occult division would do, though."
Oct 18 14:09:28 <Mackenzie> "trust me, I can work with this."
Oct 18 14:09:30 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Yeah, dream world things aren't my purview, or Black Blaze's in general."
Oct 18 14:10:19 <Mackenzie> "That's what I suspected.  He seemed to be as an undead...  Or so I was led to believe.  Taken into experimentation could explain that, however."
Oct 18 14:10:54 <Knox> "He may have been hinting that they saved his life with genetic modification."
Oct 18 14:11:33 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I don't know much about what they've done with him, but I know his moniker he was using here, Rogers, his code name, Doppelganger, and the fact that he's so valuable that he can choose his jobs, and can quit them at will.  That's what he did back with his duel, he's apparently being reassigned and switching to a different identity."
Oct 18 14:12:08 <Knox> "They must have scrambled quickly to distract us so we couldn't capture him."
Oct 18 14:12:15 <Knox> "Mm."
Oct 18 14:12:28 <Ululane> "Ah yes...what were they planning on doing with the channeler they attempted to kidnap?"
Oct 18 14:12:50 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Wasn't my business, I don't know."
Oct 18 14:13:16 <Knox> "Two final questions, then. What other divisions of Aether do you know of, and what do you know of your superiors?"
Oct 18 14:13:36 <Mackenzie> "That's quite fine.  I appeared to have claimed that very identity from him, when I claimed his weapon.  We will do this one role at a time; he was not a very diverse actor."
Oct 18 14:15:07 <Mackenzie> "This probably isn't any of this guy's business, but do know that this means Aether has control over a person who is likely linked with the dream world."  He glares at Knox as he says this.
Oct 18 14:16:24 <Knox> He just nods at Mack, then, now understanding why he asked.
Oct 18 14:17:11 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Divisions...there's 4 main ones, I believe, and then apparently the big leaders are their own division or something.  I don't know about the supposed 'leader division', but I know that the main divisions are White Water, which was mainly associated with studying the mermaids and Kanaloa, they've apparently had some shakeups lately, so I don't know what they do now, Black Blaze,
Oct 18 14:17:11 <Aori_Radidjiu> which is associated with genetic engineering, Turquoise Terra, which deals with general occult rituals and shadow pokemon, and Scarlet Sky, which is focused on mechanical and electrical engineering."
Oct 18 14:17:20 <Knox> "Classical elements, then."
Oct 18 14:17:43 <Knox> "Makes sense. Aether was the fifth one."
Oct 18 14:17:51 <Ululane> Lulu sighs. "I have one final question as well: how do you feel about your actions while employed by Aether?" She gives the man a level of attention not even remotely shown previously.
Oct 18 14:17:53 <Aori_Radidjiu> "That was my assumption as well."
Oct 18 14:18:26 <Mackenzie> "...Mechanical engineering..."
Oct 18 14:19:18 <Knox> Knox's best guess is that the captured crew members have mostly been passed back and forth between TT and SS during whatever happened.
Oct 18 14:22:05 <Aori_Radidjiu> "My actions?  I was hoping to create a pokemon that could evolve to adapt to anything, to transcend what they were, something on the level of Mew...and I took the only path where I could properly realize my research.  My research was being used for terrorism and strife, but I was hoping it could be used for learning how to make humanity evolve.  Whatever the case, I'm in your hands,
Oct 18 14:22:05 <Aori_Radidjiu> and I imagine Aether isn't pleased with me, so I'm damned either way."
Oct 18 14:22:59 <Ululane> "You do not sound particularly remorseful."
Oct 18 14:27:03 <Aori_Radidjiu> "If you want to kill me, so be it.  I'd prefer to keep my dignity rather than beg and grovel for you to save me or that I was wrong or whatever.  Who I worked for did horrible things with my research.  I'm not going to deny it, nothing I do is going to change it."
Oct 18 14:27:12 <Knox> He grunts. "I'm done here. He was barely involved with August and he doesn't know shit.  He may be an unrepentent asshole working with them but at least he's not making excuses. Call the cops or whatever to pick him back up, I don't feel like killing or torturing him."
Oct 18 14:28:32 <Ululane> "...I intended to dispose of him either way. If there are no objections then...I suggest leaving the room."
Oct 18 14:29:46 <Mackenzie> "I want one shot first."
Oct 18 14:30:03 <Knox> "Aether will probably try to do the same soon enough to prevent Lecia from making use of him."
Oct 18 14:30:06 <Knox> "Do as you like."
Oct 18 14:30:17 <Knox> That's to both.
Oct 18 14:33:39 <Knox> He recalls Oscilla and leaves the cell once Mack unlocks it, though turns back to look at the guy one more time. If anything he's just more angry because he wanted to take his feelings out on this guy... but he just can't. He understands him, to a degree.
Oct 18 14:35:30 * Mackenzie closes his eyes and focuses, then flies into the guy with an epic fist to the chin, action lines and everything.
Oct 18 14:35:36 <Mackenzie> 1d20 superpower w/ focus energy
Oct 18 14:35:36 <PsychoRoll> Mackenzie, superpower w/ focus energy: 14 [1d20=14]
Oct 18 14:35:54 <Mackenzie> Dang, not quite a mack crit
Oct 18 14:36:16 <Knox> "If anyone asks, I got carried away down here."
Oct 18 14:36:24 <Mackenzie> 3d12+10+33
Oct 18 14:36:24 <PsychoRoll> Mackenzie, 3d12+10+33: 58 [3d12=1,10,4]
Oct 18 14:36:35 * Knox walks out.
Oct 18 14:37:31 * Mackenzie turns around and starts walking out. "In the end it had little to do with you specifically, but that was for nearly murdering my pokemon."
Oct 18 14:37:43 <Aori_Radidjiu> You slam right into the guy, and he lets out a whimper, but tries his best to keep a straight face.
Oct 18 14:39:33 * Mackenzie walks out.
Oct 18 14:40:06 <Ululane> Once the other two have left, Lulu pulls out her trusty ritual knife. "I had hoped to make use of you...either in body or spirit...but unfortunately...you have proven yourself to be a fuckwit...anything else before I get to business then?"
Oct 18 14:41:13 <Mackenzie> 2d6+2 make the connection that Lulu said things that Melons would know
Oct 18 14:41:13 <Aori_Radidjiu> "I don't have any fancy one-liner to use as my last words, no final requests, nothing, so just go ahead and do it."
Oct 18 14:41:13 <PsychoRoll> Mackenzie, make the connection that Lulu said things that Melons would know: 14 [2d6=6,6]
Oct 18 14:41:17 <Mackenzie> Dammit
Oct 18 14:43:32 <Ululane> 1d20+1 AC2 Hypnosis from Po, it seems like the nice thing to do
Oct 18 14:43:32 <PsychoRoll> Ululane, AC2 Hypnosis from Po, it seems like the nice thing to do: 15 [1d20=14]
Oct 18 14:47:03 * Mackenzie backwards walks back in. "Hey, are you Melanie but with more weird shit?"
Oct 18 14:47:52 <Ululane> Once the man is out, Lulu draws the knife across his neck, pausing momentarily before doing so. But the thought that he's working for the same people that tried to take Mirai away gives her the resolve to continue. Mack's return...throws her off entirely. "...yes...and no."
Oct 18 14:48:44 <Mackenzie> "And you really were a huge fan the entire time."
Oct 18 14:49:31 <Ululane> "...leave."
Oct 18 14:49:42 <Mackenzie> "I knew it."  Exeunt.
Oct 18 14:54:58 <Ululane> Lulu leaves after doing the deed, locking the door to the brig as she wipes off the knife. Should probably dispose of him at a better time...like while in the middle of the goddamn ocean.
Oct 18 15:14:10 <Knox> A bit afterward, Knox goes to find Lulu.
Oct 18 15:14:44 <Ululane> She's in the kitchen putting a knife in the dishwasher. Or washing a knife if we're too shitty to have dishwashers, I don't know.
Oct 18 15:16:36 <Knox> "Hey. You were asking about what Oscilla saw."
Oct 18 15:16:58 <Knox> His entrance is fairly quiet, but not SNEAK UP ON MEL AND SCARE HER quiet.
Oct 18 15:17:17 <Ululane> She looks up like she was caught redhanded. Get it bec- nevermind. "Yes?"
Oct 18 15:18:00 <Knox> "I don't figure it's useful, but apparently the guy was fucking that Ellen chick. On her back, where her top goes is another tattoo. Like, a black rose."
Oct 18 15:19:57 <Ululane> Her eyes widen and she drops a washcloth she was drying her hands off with. After cleaning them, don't worry about blood, geeze. She takes a few steps closer to Knox. "You're ABSOLUTELY sure it was a black rose?!"
Oct 18 15:20:53 <Knox> "Yeah, yeah. That's what Oscilla said. Definitely a black flower pattern. Oscilla said rose." he's surprised by the reaction. "Why, you know about it?"
Oct 18 15:23:15 <Ululane> "It's...a signature tattoo of a specific cult..." Crazy eyes, which she probably normally has as Mel. It almost looks like she's reading an invisible teleprompter. "Higher ranks can control lower ranks through the tattoos...my...mother was in it..."
Oct 18 15:25:32 <Ululane> 1d2 Shenanigan roll
Oct 18 15:25:32 <PsychoRoll> Ululane, Shenanigan roll: 1 [1d2=1]
Oct 18 15:25:49 <Aori_Radidjiu> 1d10
Oct 18 15:25:49 <PsychoRoll> Aori_Radidjiu, 1d10: 5 [1d10=5]
Oct 18 15:25:52 <Aori_Radidjiu> 1d100
Oct 18 15:25:52 <PsychoRoll> Aori_Radidjiu, 1d100: 81 [1d100=81]
Oct 18 15:25:55 <Aori_Radidjiu> 1d1000
Oct 18 15:25:55 <PsychoRoll> Aori_Radidjiu, 1d1000: 181 [1d1000=181]
Oct 18 15:25:58 <Aori_Radidjiu> 1d10000
Oct 18 15:25:58 <PsychoRoll> Aori_Radidjiu, 1d10000: 3401 [1d10000=3401]
Oct 18 15:26:02 <Knox> 1dsilly
Oct 18 15:26:19 <Aori_Radidjiu> >81
Oct 18 15:26:20 <Aori_Radidjiu> >181
Oct 18 15:26:25 <Knox> "I see. Any specifics? You want to talk about it privately or what?"
Oct 18 15:28:58 <Ululane> The rehearsed tone of her voice is gone, and the girl before Knox is unmistakably Melanie in cosplay. "...they...tried to curse her after she left...with a Darkrai...while she was pregnant from m-" Her eyes manage to widen even further. "...I don't...even know if my father is actually my father...and I don't know if the curse...actually affected me or not...I don't..." She puts a hand to her temples as a thousand ridicul
Oct 18 15:28:58 <Ululane> ously plausible scenarios course through her head.
Oct 18 15:29:29 <Ululane> *with, not from
Oct 18 15:31:59 <Knox> He puts a hand on her shoulder. "Okay, relax. Relax." he tries to order her. "We'll look into it and take care of it. Whatever comes up."
Oct 18 15:33:36 <Ululane> "Nodon'tyoufuckingseeIcouldbeafuckingAetherexperiment!"
Oct 18 15:34:43 * Mackenzie wanders in. "Whatever. Melanie is Melanie. Knox is a jerk for keeping me in the dark, but still. Don't go thinking we won't help you, whether it comes to breaking a curse, or killing gods, or rewriting reality."
Oct 18 15:34:59 <Mackenzie> "And actually yes, we all have been affected by Aether, technically."
Oct 18 15:36:28 <Ululane> "Nonono, THIS IS DIFFERENT! You were affected by a REWRITING OF EXISTENCE, not...NOT YOUR ACTUAL CONCEPTION AND BIRTH!"
Oct 18 15:37:18 <Knox> "Half my fucking friends are probably Aether experiments right now." he reminds her in no small tone. "We'll figure out what's going on and deal with it. You're not alone here. Besides, it's more likely that this crazy bitch just joined Aether after their cult fell apart right? Calm the fuck down."
Oct 18 15:38:18 <Knox> He then glances at Mack. "...I kept you in the dark out of respect."
Oct 18 15:38:58 <Mackenzie> "And I was calling you a jerk out of jest."
Oct 18 15:40:30 <Ululane> "I don't fucking CARE whether it's Aether or the cult...I could be...a fucking...experiment...or a curse...even the original me was supposed to be...better..." No calming is happening.
Oct 18 15:43:29 <Lesieli> Another Mel Freakout, yaay!
Oct 18 15:43:32 * Lesieli popcorns
Oct 18 15:43:34 <Ululane> BITE YOUR TONGUE!
Oct 18 15:48:56 * Knox is starting to get really irritated. "What the fuck are we supposed to say? I don't know what your past is. I can't tell you you're not some experiment anymore than you could say for sure that August was some kind of 'shade' or whatever. But what is sitting here and freaking out about it going to do? Are you scared of what 'could be'? I wouldn't fucking blame you. But you're
Oct 18 15:48:56 * Knox not going to find out for sure by losing your cool like this. And besides, you've already outgrown whatever reach they could possibly have on you. You're not -just- Melanie Ipu anymore. You're Ululane. You claimed that right yourself. You are a goddamned goddess, so start acting like it."
Oct 18 15:50:19 <Ululane> 5d6+4 Hide the fact that the implication of potentially being a sleeper agent bothers her most of all.
Oct 18 15:50:19 <PsychoRoll> Ululane, Hide the fact that the implication of potentially being a sleeper agent bothers her most of all.: 19 [5d6=3,1,5,4,2]
Oct 18 15:50:22 <Knox> "Whatever Aether did, whatever this cult did, whatever there was in another world, there is someone standing in front of me that if I was Aether I'd be fucking quaking in my boots if I knew about."
Oct 18 15:51:31 <Ululane> "I...you're..." She takes a deeeeeeep breath and a puff of her inhaler. "I'm...going for a walk..."
Oct 18 15:51:46 <Knox> "That'd probably be best."
Oct 18 15:52:30 <Ululane> She nods to...well it's not quite clear if it's to Knox or herself, but Melanie promptly climbs up on deck to go through a walk about the town.
Oct 18 15:53:27 * Mackenzie just opts to not say anything about it, looking fairly concerned
Oct 18 15:54:06 <Knox> "Give her a bit."
Oct 18 15:54:13 <Knox> "She needs some time to cool down."
Oct 18 15:54:21 <Mackenzie> "She's had worse revelations."
Oct 18 15:54:26 <Mackenzie> "I think."
Oct 18 15:54:52 <Knox> "I'm morbidly curious."
Oct 18 15:55:06 <Knox> "But whatever. I'll check in with her later or something."
Oct 18 15:56:07 * Knox turns to leave the kitchen.
Oct 18 15:56:27 <Mackenzie> "What about you?"
Oct 18 15:56:47 <Knox> "Me? I'm still pissed at the world right now. But I'll deal."
Oct 18 15:57:11 <Knox> "All I need is to stay focused."
Oct 18 15:57:32 <Mackenzie> "I'm going to go groom my pokemon.  You can come if you have any who might appreeciate it."
Oct 18 15:58:15 <Mackenzie> "Or, you know what I mean."
Oct 18 15:58:18 <Knox> "Thanks, but I don't think that'll help too much. At least, not me. ...Come to think of it I don't think I have too many pokemon who would care for grooming. Maybe Frequency..."
Oct 18 15:59:25 <Knox> "Ah, whatever. Sure, I'll bring Frequency over."
Oct 18 15:59:51 <Mackenzie> "Everyone feels better after a good cleaning, you know.  Feeling good is good for loyalty."
Oct 18 16:00:23 * Knox goes to swap out his pokemon, not really answering Mack on that one.
Oct 18 16:04:24 * Mackenzie doth head to wherever he can access a groomer kit, and doth spend a good while grooming. Starting with Veronica and making sure that any wounds and bruises are particularly cared for, then Knox's pokemon, in case he doesn't want to stay.
Oct 18 16:16:52 * Mackenzie could probably BS talk with Knox and/or the pokemon, if we need more filler til otehr people do their stuff