Temple of Love

[Carthrat]

Sure. Stick around near the temple. If it's connected, I'm sure *something* will come through there. Sooner or later.

[Brian]

Before Tom or Phil can step through the front door, four identical guys (black suits, no briefcases) storm through the door, pause when they see everyone, then proceed towards the door in the rear of the temple.

[Dracos]

Bjorn, two groups of goons heading down.  We're going to follow.  Rez and I will follow the temple group.  You guys follow the ones heading to the subway route...let's go, casually but quickly, Dracos quickly breaks up the ranks to handle both groups.

Dracos

[Rezantis]

Nathan, concentrating a moment, tries to use his influence to pull skills off his dream-self.  Hopfully he isn't using them right now . . .

Regardless of whether that works or not, he starts moving over towards the rear door of the temple.

OOC:

Drac informs me I should have 23.  Okay, one sec . . .

Dex 14->20 - 18 points
DFC+3 -> 3 points
1 point of rec -> 2 points
Total 23.

If I can pull the dex for less cost by not getting bonus speed, I'd like to do that and add:

1 REC -> 2 points
Acrobatics -> 4 points

[Dracos]

Noticing the confused eyes of Mark, Dracos quickly leaned over and whispered "Stay with Tim and Tom and follow their lead.  Trouble is happening below and we're trying to be in good places to minimize it all."

After that he headed casually after them, hoping to give off a curious tourist vibe.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

"Yeah. Come along, Mark, we're going to the subway," notes Tom, hauling himself over towards the doors.

[Brian]

Phil and Nathan go after the larger group, sending the bulk of their forces after the trio that descended to the subway.

OOC: Nathan realizes that his otherself has no need of lowly DFC, what with having the Ancestral Buster Sword, so those skills can be used.  Tim and Tom now go back to Tokyo Girl, since I don't want to create a third thread.  Nyah.

Ultimately, it very quickly becomes evident that there's no way to 'subtley' and 'touristilly' enter the off-limits areas of the temple.  The sliding door the four dark-suited men used is now locked.  While it could likely be forced easily, it's going to be noticed.

[Rezantis]

OOC: In that case, I also want whatever he's willing to spare me out of Acrobatics, Breakfall, Shadowing and Stealth.

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Rez does several things, in order:

1: Walks up to the door.
2: Produces the warbag.
3: Hands Drac a longsword.
4: Retrieves the bow and longbow.
5: Offhands the warbag.

Kick it the hell down.

[Bjorn]

Through the Dream, Bjorn advises, Don't start anything violent yet.

[Dracos]

Dracos pauses a bit at that, frowning.  Don't?  Huh?  What's going on down there?

Dracos casually delays, staying near a wall and mimicking a tourist scanning through their bag for things, chatting with Rez about the wonderful walls as he slows greatly, no longer moving towards the door and keeping an eye on how many have taken notice of them.

if it's a change of plans, we need to talk about less by the seat of the pants stuff in the future.

Dracos

[Bjorn]

Change in plans?  This is exactly the plan I told you...

There is a pause.

Oh.  No.  I tell you the plan now, but I heard myself telling it when... sorry, guys, I'm really not used to this "non-linear time perception" thing.

The plan is this: the yakuza are mostly opposed to the Cabal, and we know that Tetsuo's yakuza family did have connections to the Cabal, which is probably why they got destroyed -- and then, most likely, on Prometheus' say-so.

Approaching things quietly and conspicuously takes time, and the longer we're in Japan, the better odds that Cabal or Pax notice us.  So we kill two birds with one stone.  I stomp in here, and make a big conspicuous supernatural noise.  The yakuza show up to rescue Michiko, and we go with them to Prometheus.  The yakuza are being pressured by both Pax and Cabal; now they can accuse both sides of hitting their operations.  That gives them an excuse to cool down relations with either side, which Relm implies they want to.  Both Pax and Cabal know it wasn't them.  The reason it needs to be me and Tetsuo on the 'being obvious' front is for misdirection.  The only reason anybody'll remember me is for the side-effects of my new powers, which I've only had for a week and no one outside the Order should know about.  Tetsuo used to work for Cabal, so Cabal will think Pax recruited him and Pax will think he still works for Cabal.  Either way, they start to suspect the other side of sabotaging their relationships with the Yakuza, and we make them just that more mad at each other.

You guys are hiding off in the wings both to make sure that the Order doesn't get linked with this directly, and also to back me up in case something goes wrong.

There's another pause.

I saw myself telling you this right after we set off for the soapland, he adds, apologetically.  Sorry.  For what it's worth, though, once I got here I had a flashback vision to Relm telling us where we'd make contact with Prometheus, and this seems to be it.

[Dracos]

That's phenomenally confusing.  Got Rat, Hal, and Mark in on this too? Dracos catches the intent and packs the bag up, heading towards the exit instead of smashing up the place.

Dracos

[Bjorn]

Don't have an anchor on Mark, so no, you'll have to tell him.  And I haven't told Tetsuo yet, because his past loyalties make him a bit of a wildcard.

There's a pause.

I think I haven't told Tetsuo yet.  I haven't seen the yakuza yet, right?  I'm pretty sure I tell him after I meet them.

[Rezantis]

Oh dear god.  Bjorn, you want to be very damn careful about these plans of yours in the future . . .

[Dracos]

"This place lacks in oranges.  A pity," Dracos lead towards above the subway entrance.

Dracos