combined group stuff

01[21:26] <Oishi> The next morning, one hangover in progress, Midori gets a message. [To: Midori- Hey, um, I want to meet to apologize to you. Where's a good place for that?]
[21:32] <Midori> Midori is already in her bathroom, lying on the floor. She jolts awake at the message, her bionode reboting from being turned off all night. She glares at it in AR. [To: Suriel - ...why--did you talk with Oishi?]
03[21:36] * Spindly is now known as Suriel
[21:36] <Suriel> [Erm...because you two needed a talking town because you were both drunk and out of sorts?]
[21:36] <Midori> [...what?]
[21:37] <Midori> She finally stirs off the floor, willing to venture a go at standing. She shambles towards the kitchen.
[21:41] <Midori> [...I don't... remember," she speech-to-texts.
[21:46] <Suriel> [You snapped at her because she killed some Corpsec. And we tried to explain to you her reasoning.]
[21:46] <Odin> Midori: you feel like absolute hell in between the hangover, the puking, and passing out and sleeping funny.
[21:52] <Midori> [...what does her reasoning matter?] The combination of horrible feelings does not put her in a good mood. She vaguely remembers getting up and feeding Odysseus, then crawling back to the bathroom. She gets a plastic cup from the pantry, opening it with the edge of the door; there hasn't been a knob since the screw tore out. The internet is saying water and electrolytes.
[21:57] <Suriel> [Well, I'm not saying she was right. I'm saying she thought she was right. And to be entirely fair, Japanese corpsec can get really REALLY vicious. Death working your job at least leaves the family better off than coming home a failure. Running is not even remotely black-and-white about stuff.]
[21:58] <Suriel> [Also, mint is going to help with that nausia. So some tea with mint in it will help, fialing that just brush your teeth or chew on some ginger candy.]
06[21:59] * Oishi is still laying facedown on a futon, halfway between waiting on the comm to ring again and falling back asleep.
[22:02] <Midori> [...I don't want to be a part of killing people.]
[22:03] <Midori> [...I'm not going to cross that line. I'm not. And if that means some Japanocorp has more blood on its hands, that's not my fault.]
[22:06] <Suriel> [I respect your devotion, but you have to realize not all of us are going to make the choices you have.]
[22:10] <Midori> [...No. I'm not going to be a part of it. And why the fuck aren't you mad at her? She can't even follow the team's lead on this shit!]
[22:14] <Midori> As her head starts pounding and the room begins to spin, Midori heads for the couch, staggering the whole way. [I'm going back to bed. Tell her she can--if she really wants to talk we can meet--we can meet somewhere, I don't care.]
[22:15] <Suriel> [I was going to talk to her later.]
06[22:17] * Midori gluttonously drinks from her glass of water. [...whatever, my skull is killing me. She just sent me a message, so you can talk to her.]
[22:28] <Suriel> [I'm setting up a meeting. Common ground. Somewhere we can cool our heads and get something to eat.[
[22:31] <Midori> [...waffles. I'm not getting up right now for anything short of waffles.]
[22:32] <Suriel> "The Grim Reaper's has great waffles.]
[22:32] <Suriel> [The Grim Reaper's has great waffles.]
[22:34] <Midori> [...not a place that sounds appealing. Let's just go to Waffle House or something.]
[22:38] <Suriel> [But it almost entirely serves shadowrunners,  so we're less likely to get lonestar up our hoops if we go somewhere a bit less populated by old ladies looking for the daytime special and wageslave families capitalizing off the 'rooty tooty frooty saluty'"
[22:40] <Midori> [Fine. Just... fine. Talk to her.]
[22:49] <Suriel> [Gotcha.]
06[22:57] * Suriel calls up Oishi.
[22:58] <Suriel> [Hoi, Oishi, we're dragging you and Midori to Grim Reaper's for waffles.]
06[22:59] * Midori falls asleep on her couch. Thank god her mom isn't home right now...
06[23:00] * Oishi almost jumps off her futon at the sound of her comm ringing. [Okay, is her comm not working or something?]
[23:02] <Suriel> [No, we want to do this in a public scene so you two can hash this out sober and over waffles.]
[23:02] <Suriel> [The presence of waffles is imperative to the reconciliation process]
01[23:02] <Oishi> [Okay. I'll be there when I get presentable.]
[23:03] <Suriel> [And I will be there with bells on.]
06[23:03] * Oishi gets dressed, putting on some jeans and a t-shirt with a dragon design and some gibberish japanese characters on it. She has no idea why the local stores can't even get the characters right, considering their client base.
[23:04] <Suriel> [Midori: Get your glad-rags on, hun, we're getting waffles.]
[23:05] <Midori> [...can you pick me up?]
06[23:05] * Oishi gets on her motorcycle and drives to the location Suriel sent.
[23:06] <Suriel> [Yes I can pick you up]
06[23:06] * Suriel delivers
06[23:07] * Suriel Arrives some time later with Midori to the runner's dive by way of WIZARD VAAAAAAN
[23:08] <Odin> Three stoned out vagrants are staring at the van when you drive in, somewhat unable to believe their eyes.
[23:08] <Odin> "Izzat... izzat sum Rush album art!?" one of them yells at you.
06[23:08] * Midori wakes back up when he arrives. She's still dressed in the same clothes from last night--they're blessedly free of any stains. Shading her eyes, Midori shambles out of the van.
[23:08] <Suriel> It really doesn't help that it's blaring pink flloyd.
[23:10] <Suriel> "Actually, brother, it's Floyd, but you're close!"
[23:11] <Suriel> "Was THIS close to getting rush on the side though."
06[23:11] * Suriel steps out and opens the side door for Midori.
[23:11] <Midori> "...you could always get like, ARO projectors and switch it up whenever," Midori grumbles, covering her eyes. She's already let herself out.
[23:12] <Suriel> "Yeah but the paint job is part of the magic of WIZARD VAAAAN!"
[23:14] <Midori> "...let's go inside, it's way too bright out right now."
06[23:15] * Oishi is waiting inside, in her screen printed t-shirt and jeans, looking around. She honestly almost looks like a normal girl. Almost.
[23:18] <Suriel> "Righty-o!"
06[23:18] * Suriel hits the car alarm.
06[23:19] * Midori follows Suriel, not about to wander into a runner dive on her own.
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06[23:21] * Suriel heads in and takes a seat in a booth.
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[23:24] <Suriel> "Oishi. Midori. This needs to be adressed."
[23:25] <Suriel> "Oishi, you're an awesome swordsman and I'd rather not lose a combat specialist as good as you. Midori, you have literally done things I didn't know were possible with machines."
[23:27] <Suriel> "This running team is better with both of you."
[23:27] <Suriel> "So I'm going to do what I can to make sure this whole thing can be smoothed over."
06[23:30] * Oishi nods. "I do want to say something first, though."
[23:30] <Suriel> "So here is how we are going to do this."
[23:30] <Suriel> "Oishi is going to talk. Then Midori is going to. If thigns devolve I will stunball the both of you and we can pick up after we've cleaned up your vomit and nose-blood."
[23:31] <Suriel> "Now. Oishi, you were saying."
06[23:33] * Midori orders waffles through AR.
06[23:34] * Suriel orders chicken and waffles because why the fuck not.
06[23:34] * Oishi stands up from her booth, turns to face Midori, and bows deeply, pretty much as deeply as she can without falling over. "I must humbly and deeply apologize for what was said last night, when I had drank too much. It was a very rude thing to say, I think, and so I must ask your forgiveness for saying it."
[23:38] <Midori> "...what? What in the hell happened last night." She says it flatly.
[23:39] <Suriel> "You both said some very hurtful things."
[23:39] <Suriel> "That I think you're honestly better off not recalling."
01[23:40] <Oishi> "To tell the truth, I don't remember what specifically was said, just that it was wrong of me to say...whatever it was."
[23:41] <Midori> "...I don't care what you said. I care about what you did."
06[23:44] * Oishi looks a bit slighted that her apology was ignored, but sits back down.
[23:46] <Suriel> "Oishi, Chill, Mido's more concerned with the fact that she as a pacifist feels you could have taken non-lethal means to dispatch those corpsec."
[23:51] <Suriel> "And Midori, Oishi is speaking from the perspective of someone that's been in japanacorp territory and knows what happens when corpsec agents come home alive and disgraced versus going down fighting."
[23:57] <Midori> "I don't care. The corp can have its blood on its hands. I'm not going to be a part of killing people."
[23:59] <Suriel> "We're not asking you to shoot anyone. We're asking you to understand if one of us feels that's what we need to do."
Session Time: Fri Jan 16 00:00:05 2015
[00:00] <Suriel> "This is a distinctly gray area."
06[00:01] * Midori stares at her waffles when they arrive. "She didn't need to. There was literally no reason. And no, I don't give a damn. I'm not going to be a part of it. I'm not okay with leaving someone without parents."
[00:04] <Suriel> "Neither am I, Midori, you don't have to. But people like me, oishi, and even georgia are looking down gunbarrels every day. And sometimes it's them or us. You can't expect us to not do what we believe is the best course of action because you personally don't want to do it."
[00:06] <Midori> "What, do you think I don't?"
[00:06] <Midori> "Do you think my job is all fucking candy and soda-pop and sunshine and rainbows?"
[00:08] <Suriel> "Nobody said that, Midori. Now calm down."
[00:09] <Suriel> "My girlfriend's a rigger, I know all about dumpshock and black IC."
06[00:09] * Oishi eats her food, calmly and quietly.
[00:10] <Midori> "Everything is black IC for me, Suriel. Everything." Midori's face is flustered.
[00:10] <Suriel> "Midori, I can't imagine how it must be in your position."
[00:11] <Suriel> "But you have to at least try and see where she is coming from."
[00:14] <Midori> "Why? Why do I have to be okay with her cutting people into ribbons because she has no sense of restraint at all?"
[00:16] <Midori> "Why do I have to be okay with you murdering people? I'm not. I won't be. And I'm not going on runs where that's the option of the day."
[00:18] <Midori> "It's not worth saving my mom if it's just going to put more people in her situation. Corps don't pay out pensions for people, that costs money."
06[00:19] * Oishi finally speaks up. "You haven't seen a Renraku killed in action benefits plan, I take it?"
[00:19] <Suriel> "Or Ares'?"
[00:19] <Midori> "I've seen Docwagon's."
[00:19] <Suriel> "That plan put my sister through college after I quote-unquote died in action."
[00:22] <Midori> "...I'm not going to be a part of murdering people."
[00:25] <Suriel> "Midori, sometimes we won't have a choice. A run will go wrong and it will be either kill or die."
01[00:25] <Oishi> "If I may speak somewhat out of turn, this may be the wrong line of work. What do you think happened to the two bodyguards for the principal we left twitching on the roof?"
[00:26] <Midori> "Do I give a damn? No. We didn't kill them."
01[00:26] <Oishi> "I can almost certainly guarantee the both of them are dead by today."
01[00:26] <Oishi> "So you won't kill someone directly, but indirect is fine?"
[00:27] <Midori> "I didn't kill them. In any way."
01[00:27] <Oishi> "Because of our actions, our completing that mission, those two men are dead."
01[00:27] <Oishi> "This is a direct response to what we did."
[00:28] <Midori> "No, it's a direct response to their culture."
01[00:28] <Oishi> "So you're just washing your hands of it because it wasn't your finger on the trigger, even if you loaded the gun and handed it to him."
[00:29] <Midori> "He loaded the gun and handed it to himself."
01[00:29] <Oishi> "He wouldn't have had the gun at all if we hadn't completed our mission."
01[00:29] <Oishi> "But we did, and as a result they are dead."
[00:29] <Midori> "It's not my fault. It's not out fault."
06[00:30] * Oishi sighs. "I know this isn't easy. It took a lot for me to get used to this, but washing your hands won't make them any cleaner."
[00:32] <Midori> "I have nothing to wash off my hands."
01[00:32] <Oishi> "You can deny it all you like, but you understand cause and effect as well as I. You'll have to face it one day."
[00:33] <Midori> "The only cause was his master being a fuckhole."
01[00:33] <Oishi> "You think he did not choose his end for himself? Either of them?"
01[00:33] <Oishi> "You know even less than I thought coming in."
[00:36] <Midori> "...yeah, like the Knights Templar were totally good guys battling evil for God."
[00:37] <Suriel> "Had to bring those guys up didn't you?
01[00:41] <Oishi> "I fail to see the comparison."
[00:42] <Midori> "They were a bunch of fucking crooks who didn't give a fuck about Christ's message."
06[00:42] * Oishi still looks confused.
[00:45] <Suriel> "I'm well aware."
[00:45] <Suriel> "We're not talking about taking back the holy land here."
[00:45] <Suriel> "We're talking about live ammunition and an us-or-them situation."
[00:46] <Suriel> "I am not saying you have to open fire on anyone, but we are professionals that have been in live combat situations before and I need you to trust our judgement."
[00:46] <Suriel> "I don't tell you not to use Psychotropic IC's because I'm morally opposed to hallucinogenic BTL programs."
[00:47] <Suriel> "Because I trust that you will know to make the correct decision."
[00:47] <Midori> "We aren't talking about dealing with like, an MCT zero zone where they're cutting people open. And I'll use psychotropic simsense again if it means we don't kill someone."
[00:49] <Midori> "I'm not talking about putting down rabid animals."
[00:49] <Midori> "I'm talking about murdering people."
06[00:51] * Oishi looks confused. "Are you saying that it's not murder if it's in a Zero Zone?"
[00:51] <Midori> "It's not murder if they're animals."
01[00:51] <Oishi> "Oh, so you can choose who lives and who dies then?"
[00:52] <Midori> "And you can?"
06[00:53] * Oishi shrugs. "Typically they're attacking me."
01[00:53] <Oishi> "I'm not making a moral judgment, I'm in the reality of the moment."
[00:53] <Midori> "Yeah, because you have no restraint."
01[00:54] <Oishi> "That I am here right now, eating waffles and arguing with a child shows otherwise."
[00:55] <Midori> "Can you please at least follow the team's lead on this?"
01[00:55] <Oishi> "What lead? You are the only person who has made specific objections to how I fight."
[00:56] <Midori> "The part where they weren't using lethal magic?"
01[00:57] <Oishi> "Again, you are the only person to make a specific complaint."
[00:57] <Midori> "And the response team was using less lethal."
01[00:57] <Oishi> "They were recovering a VIP against his will, of course they were."
06[00:57] * Midori fumes.
[00:58] <Midori> "And so you just chop them into pieces?"
01[00:58] <Oishi> "I am a samurai. I fight with a sword. Swords do not fire stick-n-shock."
[00:59] <Midori> "So you have no restraint."
01[00:59] <Oishi> "You only hear what you want to hear."
[01:00] <Suriel> "I have an idea."
[01:00] <Midori> "I saw what happened and I had asked you to use a less lethal option."
[01:00] <Suriel> "Oishi, can you use a shock-baton like a sword?"
01[01:01] <Oishi> "No. The weight is different. In addition, I was only trained to use my adept techniques with a sword."
01[01:01] <Oishi> "Well, some of them."
[01:02] <Midori> "So you can't just beat them over the head with the sword still in its sheath?"
[01:02] <Suriel> "Or a Bokken like Miyamoto Mushashi did in that duel with Ieyasu?"
01[01:03] <Oishi> "The weight is slightly different, but it's possible. So how about this. I will use the back of my blade in combat until the moment that you, Midori, take a metahuman life for any reason. None of this 'they deserved it' or 'they're animals' rationalizations. If you take a life for ANY reason, the deal is off and I never want to hear another complaint about how I go to war."
01[01:03] <Oishi> "If you're going to force me to live by your principles, I'm going to force you to live by them too."
[01:05] <Suriel> "How about this."
01[01:05] <Oishi> "Oh, and this only applies to runs with you."
[01:05] <Suriel> "YOu use the back of your sword and do all that, but you and me don't tell Midori if and when we use deadly force."
[01:05] <Suriel> "Yeah."
[01:07] <Midori> "...Just because you don't tell me doesn't mean I can't see. I run aerial recon."
[01:09] <Midori> "...fine, Oishi."
[01:09] <Suriel> "Okay."
06[01:11] * Midori finally takes a bite of her waffles, which are both cold and soggy, now.
[01:12] <Suriel> "Now, Are we settled?"
01[01:12] <Oishi> "I believe so."
[01:14] <Suriel> "Good!"
[01:14] <Suriel> "Now, there's the matter of getting our next job."
[01:14] <Suriel> "Thoughts?"
06[01:15] * Oishi shrugs. "I'm not experienced with that sort of thing."
[01:16] <Midori> "...We could always... Take a look through the drug dealer contacts I've gotten?"
01[01:16] <Oishi> "I have a thing with Renraku I'll have to settle soon. Maybe they'll have something for us, assuming they don't try to kill me when I'm done."
[01:17] <Suriel> "It's cool. I have a thing with Aztech."
[01:17] <Suriel> "Or any organization that destroys the right to free spiritual pursuit or scholarly persuit.
[01:17] <Suriel> *Pursuit, fuck
[01:20] <Midori> "...I mean, we could bounty hunt or something..."
[01:23] <Suriel> "We could.  I'll drop some lines to the rabbi, see what we've got."
[01:24] <Midori> "...Could always see what the Jedi want."
02[01:24] * Disconnected
Session Close: Fri Jan 16 01:24:11 2015

Session Start: Sat Jan 17 20:52:18 2015
Session Ident: #Seattle72
03[20:52] * Now talking in #Seattle72
03[20:52] * Topic is 'Starr 26, Suriel 16,Georgia 15, LAV 13, Proteus 15, MCT 15, Oishi 14, Midori 14, '
03[20:52] * Set by Odin on Thu Jan 08 22:19:31 2015
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03[20:52] * dirkleton is now known as Midori
[20:57] <Midori> It's not until the next day that Midori feels any semblence of normalcy... and guilty. I mean, not that it matters that she's some foreigner from a backwards country, but maybe... maybe that was a childish approach. After wiping the fog from the mirror, she starts running a brush through her hair, fuming. It's not her fault, anyways. She ponders through the whole of her new morning rituals
[20:57] <Midori> of grooming and makeup. It's not until she goes and crashes back on her bed that she starts writing out a text. And then promptly deletes it a few minutes later, starting over again.
[21:04] <Midori> [To: Oishi - Hey... I know that you probably hate me, or at the very least think I'm a child or whatever, but. Listen--I wanted to apologize, I guess. I mean, if I got you to yell at me, then I probably said shit that I shouldn't have, either. And whatever you said, I forgive you for it. And I mean, I guess I also wanted to say thank you for going along with not... hurting people in the
[21:04] <Midori> future.] She sends the text, then ponders, quickly rattling off a second text. [And if there's one thing I have sympathy for, it's saving your mom, so... I guess, as like, an olive branch, I wanted to say that like, whatever help you need with that, don't hesitate to call me.]
01[21:05] <Oishi> [To: Midori- Thank you for saying that. I'm not upset that you don't understand where I come from, but you do not even try to understand. That said, it's interesting that you say you want to help.]
01[21:06] <Oishi> [To: Midori- I just found out that my father is coming here to recruit me for whatever scheme he's cooked up. I need to intercept him and try to talk him out of it.]
[21:10] <Midori> [Well, I can definitely track him down. I mean, I beat FastJack's security. I'll need information on him, though.]
01[21:11] <Oishi> [I'll send you everything I have. I will warn you that this may end in death, but I'm confident that he at least fits your definition of deserving it.]
06[21:12] * Oishi sends a file on her father, which includes almost everything there is on herself and her mother as well. Date Kazuki, his wife Date Seiko, and their daughter, Date Satomi.
[21:13] <Midori> [...Just... don't tell me, okay? ...I'm not going to say you can't keep your mom safe.]
01[21:13] <Oishi> [He sent assassins after my mother when she goblinized into an ork. If he can't see reason, I must prevent him from sullying his family further. And from hurting my mother.]
[21:16] <Midori> [...I get that. That's... why I'm taking the slower road with saving my mom.] She thinks. [...and didn't the Emperor, like, make a decree about how racist shit like that pissed off the spirits?]
01[21:17] <Oishi> [The Son of Heaven did make that decree, but some are stuck in their old ways. I confess I had issue with it at first...until it was my mother who was targeted by their racism.]
[21:19] <Midori> [...Well... I'll definitely help. I'll get to work on finding out whatever I can as soon as I'm out from school, okay?]
01[21:20] <Oishi> [Okay, thank you. If you need help with your own mother, I will help you without question.]
[21:21] <Midori> [...Thanks.] She thinks better of saying that she's hoping to avoid violence. --And besides, what if they won't sell her?