I'm Basil Exposition, from DoD Intelligence! (Prologue >_

[Bean Bandit]

"That's 'cause you've got nothing to tease." Bean replied glibly to Kwok, covering his unease with the situation by distracting his mind. "Hmm...May, should we prepare teams equipped for both? Something like a treasure or scavenger hunt may need deductive work and strength..."

[Bean Bandit]

The woman smiled faintly and nodded sadly to Ra-chan, and the displaced girl heard the woman speak, though her lips didn't move. But Order usually wins, because Chaos isn't focused.

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn spoke up.

"Speaking of teams, it would really help knowing what type of missions we'd be going into.  If you're going to randomly drop us into bodies on different parts of your universe, then teams are moot point.  However, if you have a specific goal in mind, along with intellegence to back it up with, we might be able to do something about it in teams."

[Asrana]

May hummed, frowning. "Normally, I'd say to keep it simple and hope for the abilitiy to reorganize on the spot if that was necessary...however, as long as we're being paranoid, yeah, we probably should set it up for each team to be redundant..."

[Bean Bandit]

Bean nodded. "Yeah...Two teams? Four and five members?"

He paused as Ginn's statement sank in and he turned slightly, blinking in confusion at Ginn. "Didn't she already explain that?"

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn looks back confused.

"Eh?"

[Bean Bandit]

Bean pointed to the woman. "She said that her brother sets the objectives...she doesn't even know them yet, except that the designated objectives are set in stone...we only get to find out when he decides to tell us."

[Ginnezumusha]

"Great.  So how do you know we'll even be able to be in teams?"

[Carthrat]

"We don't," replies Carthrat, "But it's better than sitting around twiddling our thumbs."

[Bean Bandit]

"Oh, I don't know about that..."

A smooth voice, tinged ever so slightly with a manic, hyperactive energy issued from behind one of the Observatory's pillars, audible to everyone as the voice's owner stepped out from behind the pillar.

He was a stocky man, slightly ugly, but with a wild look in his eyes. In fact, he resembled nothing so much as Robin Williams in a fright wig.

The woman sucked in a sharp breath, not quite a gasp, but enough of a gesture of surprise to clash with the calm, dignified image she'd shown so far.

"After all, thumb-twiddling is an art. It's all in the wrist." He informed Carthrat, grinning with a slightly frightening amount of insanity bottled up inside. He turned to the woman and waved...then to the utter suprise of all....he rushed over and hugged her, grinning nastily.

"HI, SIS!!!" he bellowed cheerfully.

[Kwokinator]

A twinkle flashed in Kwok's eyes as who he assumed to be Chaos hugged the surprised woman.

He rushed up to Chaos and hugged HIM (or at least tried to), grinning cheerfully.

"You must be Chaos!" his grin was an echo of the larger man's. "I've heard so much about you!"

OOC:  Ohohoho ^_^

[Bean Bandit]

The man grinned and released the woman, a visible twinkle in his own eye. In fact, it was nearly blinding.

"I like your style! I really do!" Chaos enthused, throwing an arm over Kwok's shoulder, and suprisingly, it didn't pass through. "In fact, you have only one flaw."

Chaos grinned evilly. "You talk too much." He slapped a hand over Kwok's mouth, and when it came away, Kwok's astral form's mouth was gone.

"Yeah, yeah...cheap gag, but effective. Hey, a pun! Anyway, settle down little boy, and let the adults talk awhile, huh?"

[Music-chan]

Ra-chan tensed as Chaos entered the scene.  If she could have squeezed Cy's hand, she would have.  Not that she was scared (okay, that was a lie, she was a little scared) but having something as intensely uncontrolable around such as Chaos always put her on edge.  Would put anyone on edge, really.

Except for Kwok. What an idiot.

"As much as we're thankful you shut Kwok up, why don't you tell us what we're all here for, eh?"

[Bean Bandit]

The woman's voice was icy cold as she added her own voice to Ra-chan's. "I would like to know as well. You were forbidden to enter this room, brother."

The man smiled brightly, his earlier dark edge seeming to vanish under a wave of hyperactive cheer. "Now, now...I followed the rules. I came in through our door, and I haven't killed or injured anyone. Yet. Even your jester over there isn't hurt, and I'm sure everyone will agree that this is for the best, right?Anyway, I'm just checking out the talent!"

He looked at the assembled astral forms, and, zipping around with disorienting speed, he inspected each one with progressively more peculiar methods, until pausing in his examination of Carthrat's teeth. "I'm allowed to stay until I cause a disturbance. Besides, You're not exactly blameless..."

Zip! Now he was beside Ryder, lifting his arm and inspecting the muscle interestedly, then sniffing beneath it. "...Bringing in outside talent isn't against the rules, but is sure is bending them a lot...never thought you had it in you, sis." he smiled admiringly at the woman before inspecting Cy and Ra-chan.

"Heh, cute." He smiled at Ra-chan. "And to answer your question, I'm here to even up the odds a little."

[Carthrat]

"You're going to kill Kwok?" blurts out Carthrat, his eyes taking that glazed look they do whenever he's about to start talking about random crap because he's as freaked as hell..