Carth's magical adventure, ROUND TWO, MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Carthrat]

"You're out of luck. Flights don't usually last that long, there's usually a stopover point," replies Carthrat, checking the time.

[Anastasia]

It is around 4 30 AM local time.  Rachel yawns as you do this, you remember she couldn't dose off in the airline seats.

[Carthrat]

"We can sleep here," replies Carthrat. "I love this airport, they have rooms for jet lag for like 1000 yen for 8 hours. Come'on, let's go."

[Anastasia]

Rachel nods, yawning again.  Once you pay for a room, she promptly falls onto the simple bed and goes straight to sleep, still clad in her normal clothes.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat, however, is fresh from waking up in the plane, and takes this opportunity to have some coffee and read the paper- particularly the business section, looking for 'Kinomoto Industries'..

[Anastasia]

You find it easily enough. The stock is up about twenty points over the past few months, and is getting attention for an unspecified 'advance in biotechnical fields'.  That's all the information the paper has.

[Carthrat]

"Figures," mutteres Carthrat to himself, grumpily, flipping through the paper in general while waiting for Rachel to wake up..

[Anastasia]

Nothing else of note is in the paper, although you do catch up on the general stock situation in Tokyo. It's still rather poor, but it's showing signs of improving.

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Several hours later, Rachel stirs.  After a short snack, she's ready to go.  "So, where to now?" she asks, glancing at her watch.

[Carthrat]

"To rent a car, then visit Shinjuku," replies Carthrat. "Hopefully they've rebuilt the main shopping district."

[Anastasia]

"Rebuilt? Did some..." she starts. "Oh Selene, you blew it up, didn't you?"

[Carthrat]

"Wasn't my fault," replies Carthrat. "The Mage-bitch did it."

[Anastasia]

"...I was joking, Carthrat," she says quietly, then giggles. "But it doesn't surprise me."

[Carthrat]

Carthrat shrugs. "It's where the whole mess started. Well.. um, at the time, I really did just set out to blow something up. I was kinda pissed off at the world.

But anyway! Look, there's our train."

[Anastasia]

When you are on the train and seated(You got lucky), Rachel brings the subject back up. "So...what exactly did occur?" she pries.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat coughs. "I, uh, used a fake ID as an excuse to impound some illegally importerd property that I wanted. The owner objected, but decided later that I would be a wonderful.. what, dimensional gateway? I forget. Sheer dumb luck I walked into *her* store."