Hey everybody, who wants to talk about...Murders!

[Dracos]

Apr 05 19:33:48 <Kotono>   With a high leap and bloodied all over, Jin dives down towards the cockpit! His blade slices right on in through the tank, a wet gurgling gasp! Abruptly the entire tank vanishes! Behind is the girl that summoned it, now grappling with Jin's sword going through her stomach! "Impos.." she gasps, pawing at the blade! OOC: Free act for the moment.
Apr 05 19:35:25 *   Jin_ is gasping harshly, wounded gravely. "Nothing is impossible...if you really knew your mecha anime, you'd know that." Jin looks over his shoulder at Aisutori. "Ai! Heal this girl up to where she's not in critical condition. I get the feeling she could be *very* useful to us."
Apr 05 19:36:11 <Noriko>   "Your situation is distinctly disadvantageous," Noriko observes. "Cease your struggling or be terminated. Those are your only options."
Apr 05 19:36:24 *   Aisutori is clearly breathing hard despite not having a wound on her, her hair more streaked with white than normal as the temperature around her was simply frigid.  "Thank goodness..." She raised an eyebrow at Jin's order, looking over him and easily made her choice, putting a hand on his shoulder and drawing on her newfound talent, healing waters roaming over his wounds to restore him.  "You're an idiot sometimes, Jin."
Apr 05 19:37:32 *   Jin_ scowls even as he's healed. "But she could be a gold mine of intelligence! I'm not dead yet."
Apr 05 19:39:00 <Noriko>   "We do already have a prisoner from today's events who we have yet to interrogate," Noriko points out. "Is it necessary to take another? I suppose redundancy could not hurt."
Apr 05 19:39:05 <Kotono>   If the wounded girl has anything to say, she doesn't say it. Instead she slides off the blade, bleeding quite profusely.
Apr 05 19:39:51 *   Aisutori frowns back, her hands damn cold as she flicks Jin in the forehead and steps back. "Maybe your mom can patch her up...I don't think I could manage another of those."
Apr 05 19:40:31 *   Jin_ places a foot on her chest and pushes her down to the ground, keeping her firmly immobilized, not daring to let her get away. "Better safe than sorry, Noriko. When big bro gets here...we'll be ok. We just need to keep her from dying."
Apr 05 19:42:27 <Aisutori>   "Big bro?  You know, kicking her probably doesn't help..." She glanced at Noriko, "Do you have some bandages in your house?"
Apr 05 19:42:53 <Kotono>   If she's going to get away, it's going to be a trick. Having an impaled stomach and bleeding considerably is more her order of doing things right now. Her color is turning pale with a rapidness, and a blood pool is spreading around her body.
Apr 05 19:43:17 *   Noriko nods, goes to retrieve a first aid kit (it's good to have one of these around when the head of the house is a mad genius) and promptly returns.
Apr 05 19:43:55 <Kotono>   As Noriko comes back with the first aid kit, Tomoko emerges from below! Slung over one shoulder is a big old tube rocket launcher, a rocket poking out of the firing end. She looks around, "Is the tank gone, Noriko?"
Apr 05 19:44:04 <Jin_>   "Goddammit." Jin kneels down and tries to staunch the flow of blood while Noriko busies herself with the first aid kit. "Yeah, I called the family. Big bro is bringing some...friends and family over to thelp out with interrogation."
Apr 05 19:45:06 *   Aisutori nods, looking more worried at Jin than about the tank girl, but not reminding him of the need to be careful.
Apr 05 19:46:06 <Noriko>   "Yes, mother," Noriko says. "We dismantled it successfully."
Apr 05 19:47:54 <Kotono>   Tomoko nods and ducks away! Meanwhile...OOC: Do you know anything about first aid or medicine, Jin?
Apr 05 19:48:40 <Jin_>   OOC: Not beyond the basics, I assume. No more than what we would have learned in school or I would have learned in the dojo, at any rate.
Apr 05 19:49:38 <Noriko>   OOC: I might? I know lots of useless stuff. I'm a computer!
Apr 05 19:50:08 <Kotono>   OOC: You do have that jack of all traits ability so make a check on that, Jin?
Apr 05 19:50:18 <Kotono>   OOC: Okay, lemme see how  Jin does first, Noriko
Apr 05 19:50:19 <Kotono>   .
Apr 05 19:51:17 <Jin_>   OOC Sec
Apr 05 19:52:18 <Jin_>   roll 2d6 vs 7 Come on, baby!
Apr 05 19:52:19 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Jin_ rolls 2d6 vs 7 Come on, baby! and gets 7." [2d6=4, 3]
Apr 05 19:54:18 <Kotono>   With some effort Jin is able to bind her wounds! She still looks like hell, but at least she's not bleeding out any further.
Apr 05 20:01:57 <Aisutori>   "Wow...I didn't know you knew so much about patching people up, Jin...did you learn that from the hospital?"
Apr 05 20:03:48 *   Jin_ sighs. "Well, you learn a lot from getting the crap beat out of you in both the dojo and going on patrol. I had to pick up *something*." Jin leans back to admire his work. "I wish big bro would hurry up and arrive...I don't like being in the open like this."
Apr 05 20:04:55 <Noriko>   "We can bring her into what's left of the house if it makes you more comfortable."
Apr 05 20:05:38 *   Jin_ looks back at the house and winces. "I guess there's not much point in moving her and aggravating her injuries. Think of what she could know!"
Apr 05 20:06:29 <Kotono>   Soon enough both assassins are immobilized. A little after that's done you get a short chance to rest before Jin's family arrives. Jin's grandfather and brother arrive, the former solemn faced. He gives Jin a brief lookover, "You look like you got ran over," he remarks, "And then blown up."
Apr 05 20:08:07 <Aisutori>   "He did," Aisutori chirped.
Apr 05 20:08:19 *   Jin_ limps painfully to his feet. "Yeah well, *you* try taking on a tank head on all by yourself and see how you look afterwards." Jin smirks. "Oh, we now have two guests. One is defintely a Master, whatever rank that is, and I'm not sure about the other. We need to get the Master stabilized...otherwise she'll die of that sword I kinda stuck through her stomach."
Apr 05 20:09:08 <Noriko>   "Correction," Noriko interjects, "Jin was not by himself."
Apr 05 20:10:01 *   Jin_ glances at Noriko. "Well, I did try to do it myself. Caught some artillery in the chest though." Jin acknowledges Noriko's comment.
Apr 05 20:10:03 *   Aisutori smiles slightly, "Can you convince him to rest up at a hospital for a while?"  She looked at his old man wondering.
Apr 05 20:11:03 <Kotono>   "You're lucky to be alive," Grandfather's observation is cool, "I know men in the last great war who weren't so lucky." Giving Jin a long once over and to his brother, "Get him resting and patched up for the moment. I'll talk to the higher ranking assassin first."
Apr 05 20:11:55 <Noriko>   "Your actions illustrate the foolishness inherent in attempting to solve all problems by yourself, Jin," Noriko agrees. "You should learn from your mistake."
Apr 05 20:12:35 *   Jin_ ducks his head at his grandfather's rebuke. "We caught two assassins though, didn't we?" He muttered rebelliously.
Apr 05 20:13:24 <Kotono>   "It would do little good if you fell doing so," Grandfather stops at that entirely, giving him a stern gaze in rebuke. "A master can fight alone. A wise master chooses not to."
Apr 05 20:14:42 <Aisutori>   "We're not trying to get killed saving people," Aisutori agreed.
Apr 05 20:17:43 *   Jin_ sighs. "Yes, grandfather." He replies in a dutiful tone of voice.
Apr 05 20:19:10 <Kotono>   Soon enough the party, minus Jin as he's attended to, are in front of the tankgirl. With some rousing she stirs, groaning aloud, "Oww...oooooh..."
Apr 05 20:24:52 *   Noriko looms nearby an a tacit argument against further resistance! "You will begin your disclosure by telling us who sent you."
Apr 05 20:25:08 <Kotono>   "Wake up," Jin's grandfather insists, murmuring to her, "That will do. Who sent you and why?"
Apr 05 20:25:10 *   Aisutori quietly watches, her snowy blue eyes peering over her.
Apr 05 20:25:33 <Kotono>   "Enro...Enro Fukatsu..." she rasps.
Apr 05 20:26:22 *   Noriko looks to the others to see if anyone here actually recognizes the name.
Apr 05 20:26:37 <Kotono>   OOC: Both you and Aisutori can make mind checks on that.
Apr 05 20:27:14 <Aisutori>   roll 2d6 vs 7
Apr 05 20:27:16 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Aisutori rolls 2d6 vs 7 and gets 8." [2d6=6, 2]
Apr 05 20:29:31 <Noriko>   roll 2d6 vs 7
Apr 05 20:29:31 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Noriko rolls 2d6 vs 7 and gets 7." [2d6=6, 1]
Apr 05 20:31:02 <Noriko>   "I am familiar with the name," Noriko announces momentarily. "He is a student at our school, though I am not personally familiar with him."
Apr 05 20:31:24 <Kotono>   Licking her blood flecked lips, "Deep cover agent..." Managing to rasp that out as well and then coughing, flicks of blood spraying, "Watching you."
Apr 05 20:35:00 <Aisutori>   "...Why?"  Aisutori couldn't help but ask.
Apr 05 20:35:26 <Noriko>   "That is easily corrected," Noriko says, looking to the others for other questions.
Apr 05 20:36:44 <Kotono>   "Yes, why?" Jin's Grandfather presses. "Why were they being watched?"
Apr 05 20:37:10 <Kotono>   "Because...Leviathan...." She licks her lips again, before going faint and limp, her eyes closing.
Apr 05 20:38:52 <Aisutori>   "We've been brought into a battle while knowing too little.  They're the same, but they know who they need to kill.  But how is it hiring them anyhow?"  Aisutori mused, hypothesizing.
Apr 05 20:39:04 <Noriko>   "This makes our next course of action obvious," Noriko says to the others. "Unless the other assassin has more pressing information. Shall we see if she has regained consciousness yet?""
Apr 05 20:41:11 <Kotono>   With that the others go check on the other girl. She's still out, regrettably. Looks like she'll be that way for a little while.
Apr 05 20:42:02 <Aisutori>   "What do you think we should do, Noriko-chan?  If we confront him, he might just attack us like the others." She walked with her.
Apr 05 20:43:10 <Noriko>   "Then in all probability we will defeat him as the others. Jin, does your family possess the means to hold these assassins for the time being? I would prefer not to keep them in my mother's basement."
Apr 05 20:48:19 <Noriko>   OOC: scratch
Apr 05 20:48:41 <Noriko>   "Then in all probability we will defeat him as the others. Hopefully Jin's family possesses the means to hold these assassins for the time being. I would prefer not to keep them in my mother's basement."
Apr 05 20:50:52 <Kotono>   "We can,"  Jin's Grandfather says.
Apr 05 20:51:59 *   Noriko nods. "Then our business for today is concluded. We should all rest before confronting Enro just in case the encounter becomes a violent one."
Apr 05 20:53:12 <Aisutori>   "A few days at least...let's watch him.  Maybe they're trying to mislead us," Aisutori wasn't very hopeful of that...but she knew she wasn't up to this kind of magic day after day.
Apr 05 20:54:35 <Noriko>   "Yes. In all likelihood Jin will need that time to recover anyway."
Apr 05 20:57:34 <Aisutori>   "We need to help him out somehow...if he keeps getting hurt like this, something permanent might happen," Aisutori wondered a bit worriedly.  "He's been in the hospital more than out of it lately."
Apr 05 21:03:55 <Kotono>   OOC: Okay, 3 days of rest recovered. How are you asking around about Enro?
Apr 05 21:04:45 <Jin_>   OOC: I guess Noriko can do her net goddess thing, and Ai and I will do schoolyard gossip?
Apr 05 21:04:51 <Noriko>   OOC: sure.
Apr 05 21:10:27 <Kotono>   OOC: Mind check for Noriko, and go ahead and make soul checks for your gossip, yout wo.
Apr 05 21:11:16 <Aisutori>   OOC: I'm totally a friendly gossip.  Why wouldn't people want to tell me about someone? :P
Apr 05 21:11:21 <Aisutori>   roll 2d6 vs 11
Apr 05 21:11:22 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Aisutori rolls 2d6 vs 11 and gets 10." [2d6=4, 6]
Apr 05 21:11:33 <Noriko>   roll 2d7 vs 7
Apr 05 21:11:34 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Noriko rolls 2d7 vs 7 and gets 12." [2d7=6, 6]
Apr 05 21:11:45 <Noriko>   roll 2d6 vs 7 blasted typos ignore previous roll
Apr 05 21:11:46 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Noriko rolls 2d6 vs 7 blasted typos ignore previous roll and gets 9." [2d6=3, 6]
Apr 05 21:11:54 <Jin_>   roll 2d6 vs 7
Apr 05 21:11:55 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Jin_ rolls 2d6 vs 7 and gets 7." [2d6=2, 5]
Apr 05 21:14:01 <Kotono>   Noriko works away...hm, what's this? Online...role...playing forums? Gaming...Suffice to say Noriko ends up quite distracted at her work, not getting much of note done. On the better side she has a pretty elf girl named Sohai so it's perhaps not all bad her make believe land. Meanwhile, Jin and Aisutori get the basic lowdown on Enro. Loner kid, comes from a decent family but seems distant. Not much of a social force at all. Polite but keeps to himself, ultimately.
Apr 05 21:21:21 <Aisutori>   "Let's invite him to lunch," Aisutori doesn't mind her friends looking at her like she's insane.  Nope.
Apr 05 21:22:21 <Noriko>   "Are you counting on the possibility that the presence of other students will dissuade him from reacting violently?" Noriko asks. "It would be highly inconvenient for us to have a battle with other students around."
Apr 05 21:23:09 *   Jin_ broods silently, more interested in committing assault than sitting down with their assassin!
Apr 05 21:23:51 <Aisutori>   "No, I meant on the roof.  But something doesn't add up really.  If they were spying on us, why didn't he or another of them kill Jin when he was at the hospital after the weird sword guy?" She wondered. "And why hasn't he acted at all with us asking about him?  A spy would notice."
Apr 05 21:24:53 <Noriko>   "The roof will suffice," Noriko says. "All that is necessary is for him to be alone with us."
Apr 05 21:25:35 *   Jin_ nods, grunting in agreement. "I still think we should kick ass first, ask questions later."
Apr 05 21:26:40 <Noriko>   "Inadvisable, Jin. We may still ask questions before killing him if it comes to that. We cannot interrogate a corpse."
Apr 05 21:27:10 <Aisutori>   "...And you know she could've been lying to the nice people that put a sword through her gut?  Just to spite us?"
Apr 05 21:28:32 *   Jin_ grudgingly admitted that Aisutori could be right. "Yeah well....I just want to track down this nest of vipers and eliminate them once and for all. Not only are we in danger, but our family is as well! This is unacceptable."
Apr 05 21:29:41 *   Aisutori frowns a bit, "I don't think anyone is safe as long as Leviathan is still trying its plans.  It sent a giant squid into the middle of a city and summoned a tsunami."
Apr 05 21:31:09 <Jin_>   "One thing at a time, Aisutori. If Leviathan is behind Crimson Wind then I think they should be first on the list."
Apr 05 21:31:38 *   Aisutori heads up to him after class, "Enro-san, would you care to join us for lunch?"  She smiled, turning on the cuteness.
Apr 05 21:32:51 *   Enro blinks and looks up at Aisutori.
Apr 05 21:33:14 <Enro>   "Uhh.. What class are you from?"
Apr 05 21:33:37 *   Jin_ leans in the doorway, trying not to look menacing or pissed off.
Apr 05 21:36:52 <Aisutori>   "10-C.  Come on..." She gave a gentle tug at his arm, "You're not really going to worry about that, are you?"
Apr 05 21:37:11 <Enro>   "Er.."
Apr 05 21:37:19 *   Enro squints a bit at the strange girl.
Apr 05 21:37:57 <Enro>   "You're the one from that group, aren't you?.. Something with crackers? Why do you want to eat with *me?*"
Apr 05 21:38:23 <Noriko>   "Shouldn't a young man be more excited about a strange girl asking him out?" Noriko wonders to Jin by the doorway.
Apr 05 21:39:12 *   Enro leans back and looks at the new girl.
Apr 05 21:39:21 <Enro>   "It's that strange part that worries me."
Apr 05 21:39:36 *   Jin_ shrugs and whispers to Noriko, "Maybe he's gay?"
Apr 05 21:39:37 <Aisutori>   "Because I felt like it," She a playful look, sticking her tongue out.  "And we're the Rice Crackers...  but that's only after school."
Apr 05 21:41:06 *   Enro looks around the room and notices the other students eyeballing him..
Apr 05 21:41:14 <Noriko>   "Then shouldn't you be the one asking him?" Noriko asks.
Apr 05 21:41:15 <Enro>   "... I.. suppose it couldn't hurt.."
Apr 05 21:41:59 <Jin_>   "Ah, see? Not gay after all. Saves me the trouble." Jin grins at Noriko. "You know you're the only robo-girl for me, No-chan."
Apr 05 21:41:59 *   Enro attempts to flee the classroom to avoid the spectacle that's sure to take place after these strange people leave... Though he knows it'll be worse when he gets back.
Apr 05 21:43:37 *   Aisutori gently grabs his hand, tugging him upstairs.  My, she was going to have to deal with rumors later...but what's a little gossipy spice for one of the school idols?
Apr 05 21:44:34 <Noriko>   "I am uncertain whether I should be comforted by this statement given that I am the only one in school, Jin," Noriko says as they ascend.
Apr 05 21:44:44 <Aisutori>   It doesn't seem to take long before Enro finds himself amidst the three of them enjoying lunch on the roof.  Aisutori was surprisingly hard to 'subtly ditch' when she wanted to be.
Apr 05 21:44:50 *   Enro raises an eyebrow at the girl's refusal to let his hand go, but shrugs it off and relaxes a bit.. One can't deny that it *is* rather nice to have a pretty girl holding his hand after being under the radar for so long..
Apr 05 21:46:02 *   Jin_ eyes Enro appraisingly as they sit down. "You're one of a kind, Noriko. Even if there were more of you, you'd still be my favorite."
Apr 05 21:47:21 <Enro>   "So.. What did I do to get invited to lunch with you?"
Apr 05 21:48:19 <Noriko>   "Perhaps in time my mother will construct more of me and your theory will be tested, Jin," Noriko says, before fully turning her attention to their guest. May as well let Ai keep the lead here.
Apr 05 21:48:42 <Aisutori>   "Mmm...something special," Aisutori nodded.  "Don't you already know?" She wondered, one of the more obviously supernatural in the school.
Apr 05 21:48:45 *   Enro slowly turns to Noriko and looks at her oddly.
Apr 05 21:48:50 <Enro>   "Uhh.."
Apr 05 21:49:04 <Enro>   "Special? I'm a nobody."
Apr 05 21:49:06 *   Enro shrugs.
Apr 05 21:49:06 *   Jin_ replies, reclining on his side, bokken at his back, "Hmmm....hot Noriko-chan clones. I like the sound of that." Jin idly sips some juice as he also lets Ai take the lead.
Apr 05 21:49:36 <Enro>   "I can't think of anything I did differently lately.. So why now? I'm not exactly a new student."
Apr 05 21:51:44 <Aisutori>   "Well... someone said you wanted to kill us all, and that didn't sound right at all...so I figured we'd get to know you and see."  She so casually tossed that out there, it was easy to miss...  "You don't really want to kill us all, do you?"
Apr 05 21:52:11 <Enro>   "Ahh.. Not at all.."
Apr 05 21:52:29 *   Enro now eyes the door *off* the roof rather intently.
Apr 05 21:52:57 <Enro>   "I.. Don't even know you. Why would I want to do anything with you, much less something like that?"
Apr 05 21:53:40 <Aisutori>   "See, just relax...I didn't think so either.  But the person who said that was a pretty obsessed person...so maybe they just wanted us to get into a fight with you for some reason?  You wouldn't have any enemies, Enro-san?"
Apr 05 21:54:04 <Noriko>   "People who do not know us have a habit of trying to kill us," Noriko says.
Apr 05 21:54:27 <Enro>   "Ah, I barely have friends, much less enemies.. And did you really just ask me to relax after casually questioning my desire to kill you?"
Apr 05 21:55:55 *   Jin_ shrugs. "She's a smooth operator, our Aisutori."
Apr 05 21:56:52 <Enro>   "And who are you? None of you have even introduced yourselves and you're asking me about murdering you? Are you on drugs or something?"
Apr 05 21:57:21 *   Enro scoots away a bit and stands up, more than a little wary and nervous.
Apr 05 21:57:54 <Noriko>   "Please forgive our rudeness. The last person we met on the roof tried to kill us. My name is Noriko Matsumoto."
Apr 05 21:58:16 <Jin_>   "Quite right. You'll have to forgive us though. Just a few days ago, an assassin from an organization known as Crimson Wind said that you had ordered our deaths. And I'm Jin Bunkou, by the way. Charmed."
Apr 05 21:58:30 <Aisutori>   "Huuuh...you really are out of touch.  I'm Aisutori," She smiled.  "I sing for the Rice Crackers and help out with Clear Skies in the evening."
Apr 05 21:58:50 <Enro>   "... So.. Someone you met on a roof tried to murder you, and you somehow get the idea that *I* want to murder you, so you bring me to a roof?"
Apr 05 21:59:02 *   Enro stares at them slightly agape.
Apr 05 21:59:17 <Enro>   "I'll, uh.. Be going now.. if you don't mind.."
Apr 05 21:59:21 *   Enro edges around them..
Apr 05 22:00:40 <Noriko>   "There is considerably less risk of collateral damage on the roof than downstairs with the other students," Noriko explains. Surely this will clear up everything.
Apr 05 22:01:21 <Enro>   ".. I'm.. Sure. Look, uh.. Not that this hasn't been.. an *experience* and all, but I'm gonna get back to class."
Apr 05 22:02:08 <Aisutori>   "...Are you really that chicken?" Aisutori raised an eyebrow.  "Well, whatever...I guess it's not important that a cult of assassins knows you by name."
Apr 05 22:03:39 <Enro>   "Chicken? Three people asked me to lunch in a secluded place to ask me about *murder.* I apologize for not finding that normal... And a cult of assassins? You have anything to prove your story?"
Apr 05 22:04:31 <Noriko>   "We have two subdued assassins in captivity. Although we neglected to bring themw ith us to this meeting."
Apr 05 22:04:56 *   Enro eyes Noriko.
Apr 05 22:06:24 <Enro>   "So.. The people who asked me to lunch in a secluded place to ask me about murder now want me to go to an undisclosed place where they have two of the assassins who supposedly want to murder me, and meeting these assassins face to face is the only way they have to prove their story? Forgive my skepticism."
Apr 05 22:08:12 <Noriko>   "You could simply accompany us the next evening we go on patrol. We have a noted tendency to be attacked in short order."
Apr 05 22:08:38 <Enro>   "... Right, so now you want me to go alone with you in the night."
Apr 05 22:09:38 *   Aisutori rolls her eyes.  "Why don't you be a little straight forward with us...you have something special about you too right?"  She formed a beautiful bird out of ice in her hand.  "It's not like there's no reason you wouldn't find a story about people being after you plausible?"  She gave a guess.  "Of course, if you're just plain, then I guess we'd sound a bit out there..."
Apr 05 22:10:28 *   Enro eyes the bird..
Apr 05 22:10:41 <Enro>   "And what about me makes you think I'm special in some way?"
Apr 05 22:10:54 <Aisutori>   The bird flaps easily in her hands, clearly not some sculpture she just palmed.
Apr 05 22:12:18 <Aisutori>   "Because deadly assassins don't tend to know normal people by name.  They aren't important to them," Aisutori sighed, spelling it out.  "We're not dense.  You didn't even shriek at the idea of being cornered up in the roof for trouble."
Apr 05 22:12:21 <Enro>   "And.. Even if I were special in some way, what reason would I have to tell you? I could just disappear."
Apr 05 22:13:17 <Aisutori>   "Well, we do kind of help folks with supernatural problems...  It's kind of our afterschool job," She shared a small business card declaring them members of the local Clear Skies group.
Apr 05 22:13:39 *   Enro takes the card and eyes it..
Apr 05 22:14:45 <Enro>   "... Alright, so I've.. vaguely.. heard of your group. Still.. A group of assassins after me isn't usually what happens.. What exactly are you proposing?"
Apr 05 22:16:30 <Aisutori>   "Isn't usually?" Aisutori wondered.  "Really, I was just hoping you might know more about the Crimson Wind.  They've been giving us a lot of trouble."
Apr 05 22:22:26 <Enro>   roll 2d6 vs. 11
Apr 05 22:22:28 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Enro rolls 2d6 vs. 11 and gets 5." [2d6=2, 3]
Apr 05 22:24:22 *   Enro blinks.
Apr 05 22:24:39 <Enro>   "Those guys are after me? ... That's.. not good.."
Apr 05 22:24:43 *   Enro starts pacing.
Apr 05 22:25:34 <Noriko>   "The last one we met claimed that you sent her and that you were a deep cover agent in their service," Noriko says.
Apr 05 22:25:43 <Aisutori>   "Well, they might be..  but they definitely KNOW you."
Apr 05 22:25:47 <Enro>   "All I know is they're based out of China.. They've got some weird style.. Doppelgangers, I think.. And shapeshifting.. Whoever hired them has money to throw like water.."
Apr 05 22:26:40 <Enro>   "..But why did they target me.. I haven't done anything to get that kind of attention.."
Apr 05 22:27:02 *   Enro stops and looks at them, collectively.
Apr 05 22:27:34 <Enro>   "If I were you, I'd get rid of those two and disappear.. These guys are top-tier people."
Apr 05 22:28:49 <Noriko>   "Killing the previous assailants did not stop more from assaulting us. We may need the last two for information," Noriko explains.
Apr 05 22:30:43 <Enro>   "Well.. If that's how you want to play it, that's fine.. I.. just don't know what I'll do.. I'll have to disappear.. Italy, maybe? Spain?"
Apr 05 22:30:54 *   Enro trails off, mumbling to himself and fidgeting.
Apr 05 22:32:26 <Aisutori>   "...Wow, I wasn't serious before, but you really are a coward," Aisutori stood up, a bit surprised.  "Fleeing the country as a first response?"
Apr 05 22:33:30 *   Jin_ has been silent up till now, thinking like his grandfather has tried to teach him to. "Enro, the day will come when you run out of places to hide. Wouldn't it be better to face your foes head on with allies?"
Apr 05 22:33:31 *   Enro stares at Aisutori flatly.
Apr 05 22:33:37 <Noriko>   "Practically speaking, evading one's personal problems does not solve them. It just makes them take longer to find you."
Apr 05 22:34:34 <Enro>   "I'm just one guy. I don't have an organization of any kind backing me up... And.. My family.. Won't like my getting involved in anything that will draw attention.. I'd rather be somewhere else than homeless."
Apr 05 22:37:28 * Jin gestures to himself and his other two cohorts. "I guess we all got off on the wrong foot, but we seem to have a common enemy. Why not band together and make ourselves stronger for it? And though I really don't know your situation completely, I'd say that a family that's willing to disown you at the drop of a hat isn't woth associating with." Jin pauses, then adds impulsively, "If your family won't accept you, then the Bunkou gladly wi
Apr 05 22:37:43 <Aisutori>   "Well, we could help, but not if you're in ITALY," Aisutori didn't exactly sound impressed with the thought of abandoning everything.
Apr 05 22:38:39 *   Enro shrugs.
Apr 05 22:39:47 <Enro>   "They're.. they're still family. Could you just drop your family like that? I don't exactly *like* the idea of disappearing, but if I get any more attention than I already have, I'm on my own."
Apr 05 22:40:28 <Noriko>   "I could not," Noriko agrees. "It's not in my programming to do so."
Apr 05 22:44:00 <Enro>   "... I don't suppose your Clear Skies would be able to hide my involvement, would they?"
Apr 05 22:47:00 <Noriko>   "Perhaps? It's not as though we're a public organization with official membership."
Apr 05 22:47:15 *   Enro winces.
Apr 05 22:48:00 <Enro>   "..I'd be willing to help.. But I can't really get much attention doing it. My family will disown me if I do."
Apr 05 22:48:43 <Aisutori>   "Disown you?"  Aisutori's voice was a little kinder, trying to picture such a thing.
Apr 05 22:49:36 <Enro>   "Mmm.. They're.. not proud of what I can do, let's say.. They.. They think it goes against the Gods."
Apr 05 22:49:47 <Noriko>   "Then I would advise not telling them, and fabricating excuses if you are seen leaving at odd hours," Noriko says. "Although I would not normally suggest misleading one's parents, it is obviously for the greater good in this instance."
Apr 05 22:52:25 *   Enro sighs.
Apr 05 22:53:00 <Enro>   "Like I said, I'd be willing to help.. But I'd need your help to keep my involvement as unknown as possible."
Apr 05 22:57:01 <Noriko>   "We will do what we can?" Noriko says, glancing to the others here.
Apr 05 22:57:17 <Aisutori>   "Fine..." Aisutori returned flatly.
Apr 05 22:57:40 *   Enro sighs..
Apr 05 22:57:57 <Enro>   "Alright.. I'm in, I suppose."