Log: Battle Royale Part 1
Sailor_Mercury enters in a mildly dramatic fashion, holding a rapier in one hand.
Sailor_Jupiter: ...Mini-Mercury.
Luc: "Evening, miss. Nice blade."
CaptainHammer: "Sex... pollen?"
Sailor_Jupiter: Don't ask. Ever.
Sailor_Mercury: "Sex pollen?" Ami blanches.
Lucca: ...Hi. Nice sword.
Guest is now known as Aeon_Phoenix
Dominik_D laughs nervously, popping open his soda.
Sailor_Jupiter: There's none around, don't worry.
Luc: "Sometimes there are drugs or other things around here that make people just....want to have sex." Luc explains. "Let's not get any further into it."
CaptainHammer: "Oooh, another one." Huzzah for short skirts.
Metody looked to Sailor Jupiter. "Sake. Um. Do you want that warmed?" And then Dominik joined him behind the bar. Metody gave the man a cautious smile.
Sailor_Jupiter: Yeah, warm it up for me. Thanks, you're a sweetheart.
Abe_Sapien: A little disturbing, if you ask me. *He has not looked up from that screen once.*
Dominik_D gives Metody a careful smile back.
Sailor_Jupiter: I thought I was the only Senshi with a bladed weapon. Ignoring that one Venus.
Lucca: Senshi?
Sailor_Jupiter: Soldiers. Long story. We kill evil
Dominik_D sips his soda.
Sailor_Mercury is thirteen, jerk. "Grif's been teaching me. It's not powered or anything." She smiles shyly.
Lucca: Ah. Gotcha.
Grif walks back inside from the yard, a seven foot tall SPARTAN in orange MJOLNIR powered armor. He takes off his helmet. "I hear my name?"
Aeon_Phoenix heads towards the bar, hoping that her drink stash is still there
Luc: "Apparently, you're a weapons instructor these days."
Grif: "I've been helping the younger Senshi out, yeah."
Sailor_Jupiter is... Sixteen? Seventeen? Hard to tell with someone that tall. She tops out at just about six feet. "Hey, Grif."
Sailor_Mercury beams at him!
Lucca looks backwards. Full armor. Whooaaaah. "...Uh, hi."
Grif waves. "Yo."
Luc: "That's great. I....haven't done much teaching lately." They...kinda have to learn how to use their left hands and all.
CaptainHammer: Hammer doesn't ask, that way he can claim ignorance if anyone brings it up later.
Lucca is nearly seventeen, and no where NEAR as tall or leggy as Jupiter. She doesn't even have a skirt...
Sailor_Jupiter: I thought you were just teaching them tactics and giving them Shiny Guns, Grif. You don't seem like a swordsman.
Sailor_Jupiter 's skirt is scandalously short, I'm afraid. Apparently just because your legs grow, doesn't mean your skirt will.
CaptainHammer: Yeah, sorry Lucca, Hammer likes the girls that show off. "This is damn good beer."
Luc: "Nothing wrong with having a back-up for all the fancy future weapons and preternatural abilities." Luc comments.
Lucca: *It's Hammer's loss. He has no clue what's under those baggy shirts and tunics, after all.*
Sailor_Jupiter: I always figured that if my powers didn't work, I could rely on my fists.
Grif: "I'm mostly about the guns, but we do have some sword training. I have no idea why, since it's not like we ever get Covenant energy swords to use the skills with, but there you go."
Metody rummaged until he found a bottle of sake. He dithered around a moment, then just poured it into a mug and tucked it into the microwave to heat. A few moments later, he poured it into one of those little stoneware pitches and offered over, along with the tiny cup.
Aeon_Phoenix mumbles from behind the bar. "Beer is the most digusting drink an intelligent race has come up with."
Sailor_Mercury smiles at Makoto. "I can't rely on that as much."
Lucca: Energy swords?? *This is relevant to her interests, yo*
Abe_Sapien: It's not that bad ... once in a while.
Sailor_Jupiter /beams/ at Metody, pouring a little bit of the rice wine into the cup, and sipping carefully. Aah. "You'll be able to, eventually."
Luc: "You've got admire the creativity, ma'am" Luc says to Phoenix. "Fermented wheat juice when everyone else was doing grapes?"
Grif: "Yeah. Alien tech. Only ever seen one, myself, and it was some freaky holy relic that only works for the one guy who picked it up."
CaptainHammer: Well, geeky girl... Allright, Lucca gets a second look. "This all sounds, well, interesting."
Luc , by 'everyone else,' means 'civilized people,' but....
Aeon_Phoenix: *looks up from behind the bar with a glowing bottle Oh I remember those days.
Lucca: ...Whoa. Seems like there's one of those in every world.
Grif: "I've been looking to see if there're any others available, but not even eBay has 'em, and if it's not on eBay, it's just not out there."
Dominik_D finds himself a comfortable chair with his soda, just kind of watching people.
Aeon_Phoenix: But I do have to admit, the egyptians had some good brew.
Luc: "Good stuff. Especially when you have to skip a meal."
Lucca: A... special sword that only unlocks its true power in the hands of the right person, I mean...
Abe_Sapien: Not as rare as one might think.
Aeon_Phoenix opens glowing bottle, sniffs it and makes a face
Grif shrugs.
Luc: "Don't recall having any swords like that at home. What are the qualities that determine the right person?"
CaptainHammer finishes his bottle and leans over to snag another one.
Sailor_Jupiter: Sounds like the Holy Crystal Sword of the Silver Millennium.
Lucca: Or the Masamune.
CaptainHammer: "Or excalibur."
Abe_Sapien: Or Excalibur.
Sailor_Jupiter: Or, branching out, the Silence Glaive.
Aeon_Phoenix: Sounds like a lot of swords I have in my amoury
Sailor_Mercury belatedly frowns at Makoto drinking.
Luc: "Well, I've always heard the Bow of Odysseus story, but that was a bow, and it wouldn't work for anyone else 'cause the other guys were all kinda pansies in comparison."
Lucca: And I don't know myself, what traits they look for. Other than courage, I guess...
CaptainHammer offers his hand to Abe for a high five.
Abe_Sapien blinks at this Captain Hammer fellow. Hm. Clearly from an Earth. Oh, all right. Honestly, why isn't Red here? Hifive it is!*
Metody was unable to repress a sunny smile in return. Then he ducked down to poke around for something for himself. What he came up with was black as tar, so dark and thick that the head on it looked like some kind of chocolate mousse. He leaned against the bar and sipped, some of that constant tension leaving him.
Sailor_Jupiter: Odysseus... Nice guy.
Sailor_Jupiter sips her sake and shoots Ami a 'What?' expression.
Lucca: *Since, in her world, the heroic wielder of the Masamune was a four-foot-high antropomorphic frog, she's got little else to go on.*
Aeon_Phoenix goes back to her stash search
Sailor_Mercury mutters, quietly, "it's not good for you..."
Luc finds Lucca's explanation reasonably sufficient. Magic is hard to understand, and all.
CaptainHammer: "Great minds think alike blue man."
Sailor_Jupiter: I've been drinking since I was your age. Don't worry about it.
Grif: "Failing that, I've been considering getting some sort of regular, non-practice sword... y'know, in case the guns or the crowbar don't do the job," -- Indeed, clamped to his right wrist, running up the forearm, there's a fairly plain crowbar. -- "but haven't quite gotten around to it."
Sailor_Jupiter: I just don't do it often.
Abe_Sapien: *amused Clearly.
Luc: "You might want to try this adamantium alloy stuff, Grif. Keeps...well, quite an edge. Obviously."
Lucca: Adamantium... that's the incredibly-tough metal that's supposed to never break, right?
CaptainHammer: "Everything breaks eventually." Hammer flexes, cause usually it's him breaking it.
Lucca: 'S why I said it's /supposed/ to never break.
Lucca: I know this. Everything has a stress-fracture point.
Lucca adjusts her glasses.
Sailor_Jupiter: Not the Silence Glaive.
Sailor_Mercury: Sounds useful.
Metody looked up from his beer and focused on Lucca with sudden interest.
Sailor_Mercury looks to Lucca as well.
Sailor_Jupiter: It /is/ destruction. And rebirth.
Abe_Sapien returns his attention to the screen. Lots of windows of ancient star charts and zodiac thisthats, spell circles and whathaveyou, some in languages not quite from earth. Mutters something about thermodynamics.*
Aeon_Phoenix: Actually, Adamantium is pretty good for not breaking. Even ham-head over there *points at the Captainwould have a hard time.
Lucca: Hm? *looks around. She's being stared at ...what's going on?
Abe_Sapien: Hmmm. Entropy concentrated in a physical focus.
Njoki is now known as takhys
Luc: "It's certainly very tough, I can say. Having used to cut through something that the best steel barely scratches."
Sailor_Jupiter: Heh.
Lucca: I'd like to get my hands on some of that. To see what kind of tests I can do. If I can figure out the microstructure of that metal...
CaptainHammer: "Not again!" Hammer 's hands fly up to hsi head, checking to make sure it's still right. "No, no, good, no ham. Scared me there, thought the Vegecian might have shown up."
Luc: "I wish I could lend you mine," Luc taps the knife strapped to his left side with his right hand "but we paid a bit much for the things to go finding it's breaking point, and it's not even the pure stuff, anyway."
Aeon_Phoenix: Hrm. If you're serious, I can look through my lab and see if I have any left over. I made a spear with it.
Sailor_Mercury smiles at Lucca almost dreamily.
Grif: o_O "...Wha?"
Dominik_D finishes his soda and heads out again for now.
Grif is puzzled by Hammer's outburst.
Dominik_D is now known as Darksong
Luc glances over to Hammer. "The Vegecian?"
Aeon_Phoenix just thinks Hammer is an idiot.
Metody blinked at Hammer, his thought process effectively derailed, down a gorge, into high waters.
Sailor_Jupiter: ...What.
Aeon_Phoenix: ...
CaptainHammer: "A vegan supervillain. Tends to transform people oddly to advance her cuase. Once turned my head into ham."
Lucca: *to Phoenix REALLY?? That's great! It doesn't have to be a big sample, of course. Just enough to do some stress tests, some burn samples, maybe a magic spectronalysis...
Sailor_Jupiter pours herself another portion.
Sailor_Jupiter: Did it turn back?
Sailor_Mercury: "Could you send me the results?"
Luc will let the scholar get on with her thing now.
Abe_Sapien: *clicketytype. Adamantium. Some sort of improvement on Damascus steel, I should think. *closes said window and goes back to the star charts.*
CaptainHammer: He stares at jupiter. Unfortuneately, his gaze isn't up at her eyes. "What kind of question is that to ask?"
Lucca: --Huh? *to the... awh. The cute blue-haired girl in the skirt ...sure. You... do metallurgical work too?
Sailor_Jupiter: It's a fair question.
Metody sat down on one of the stools behind the bar, lifting the glass to cover his sudden smile, shoulders shaking in silent laughter
Aeon_Phoenix: *To LuccaIt wouldn't be a bother. I think I also have some in its liquid form too.
CaptainHammer: "Does my head look like a hunk of ham? No, it's its normal handsome self."
Sailor_Jupiter doesn't comment. There is sake to sip.
Sailor_Mercury: "Not usually, but it sounds fascinating! And useful." Right, useful.
Abe_Sapien stops himself a nanosecond before saying "you don't mean hamsome?"*
Aeon_Phoenix: *Nix laughs*
Luc thinks you’re handsome, Captain Hammer.
Lucca: *to Phoenix Does that make a difference? The liquid state? *To Ami It does! If it has good conductivity too then who KNOWS what kind of robotoic components you can make!
Sailor_Mercury: "And I had to learn just a little when I was designing the rifles, make sure I had the right background."
Sailor_Mercury nods. "That's only interesting from a hypothetical to me, given my world's situation and the justifications I need to work on my own projects, sadly."
Aeon_Phoenix finds another mysterious bottle. "Well I'm thinking for the kind of tests you have in mind, a hardened piece will probably do.
Abe_Sapien is certain that when he makes it back home and actually /finds/ HB and Liz, they'll ask what the holy hell happened to him.*
Lucca: Rifles, huh? You make weapons? *blinking like the geek that just found out the hot girl in his history class thinks D&D is sexy*
Luc: "So how did you handle the Vegecian, sir?" Luc is ready to talk shop with the reasonably hot preternatural guy, oh yes.
Sailor_Jupiter: ...Mercury?
Aeon_Phoenix: *opens bottle, sniffs and takes a sip*
Sailor_Jupiter: How many different kinds of weapons do you /need/?
Sailor_Mercury blushes. "I... I've just started. It's been something of a trick. I'm... it sounds silly, but I guess I'm a superhero, and... we needed a little extra support."
Sailor_Mercury turns to Jupiter.
Grif: "How many kinds of baddie are there?"
Aeon_Phoenix: . . .
Lucca: Oh, it's not that. See, I'm an inventor, but... I've been thinking about moving into making weapons for a living, if things get slow.
Sailor_Mercury: "Enough to cover every possible opponent!"
Sailor_Jupiter: ...
Lucca: Melchior would probably KILL me if he found out, though.
CaptainHammer: "I hit her in the face." He tosses his empty bottle in the trash. "With a car."
Sailor_Jupiter: I blame you for this, Grif.
Aeon_Phoenix: *spits out a trail of flame, coughs*
Abe_Sapien: *blinks at that.*
Aeon_Phoenix: Well that's another one for the no pile.
Grif shrugs. "Even I find overkill for every problem to be only so useful."
CaptainHammer: "I find it works surprizingly well for most villains."
Aeon_Phoenix blinks back at Abe. "What?"
Sailor_Mercury: "I suppose likely is the better answer. Mostly I just modded the rifles to function under a number of different settings. Melchior?"
Luc: "My. A whole car. Well, with some preternatural abilities, you have to get pretty heavy-duty, I'm sure."
Lucca: *to Mercury I know how it goes. Take a look at this. *She reaches over the side of the couch and grabs... something that looks like a cross between a rifle and a cappuchino machine.*
Sailor_Jupiter: ...
Abe_Sapien: Oh, nothing. *shakes his head, and looks at the screen again.*
Sailor_Jupiter sighs and places a hand over her face. Guns. Senshi. What's the world coming to?
Grif: "What?"
CaptainHammer: "Oh yeah, I can bench... Well, a tank, no problem."
Lucca sets it across her lap, barrel away from everyone. *THIS is Wondershot.*
Luc is known in certain circles, Captain Hammer, for being a bit of an ogler. This is happening. How do you feel? "So is there a lot of variety in people with preternatural abilities where you come from? Besides transformations and all that?"
Sailor_Jupiter: Guns and I don't get along.
CaptainHammer grabs another bottle from behind the bar. Unbeknownst to our good captain, he's grabbing the beer that will actually affect him.
Aeon_Phoenix: *Looks at the gunNow that's just overkill
Abe_Sapien stops typetyclicking and looks at it.
CaptainHammer: "Transformations?"
Aeon_Phoenix doesn't say a damn thing
Abe_Sapien knows that if HB were here, he'd probably snuggle the damn thing.*
Luc: "Well, you have a woman who turns things into other things. That's transformations. And I'm guessing you would have what we at home would consider 'normal' preternatural abilities. Y'know. Really strong. Really tough. Possibly fireproof."
Grif: "Were you ever actually trained on using one?"
Luc doesn't have much to add to the gun discussion. He's not well-informed on them.
Lucca: "Melchior was... one of our mentors while I and my friends were saving the world." So matter-of-fact like.
Sailor_Jupiter: No. They're illegal for civilians where I'm from.
Sailor_Mercury examines Wondershot in fascination. "Have you incorporated PIN technology?"
Sailor_Jupiter: And I've been shot too many times to care for them much.
Aeon_Phoenix grabs another bottle and opens it
Abe_Sapien looks at the gun. Wonders if it actually /does/ make a cappuchino.*
CaptainHammer: "Completely Invincible." So far. "And of course, the nerds. Most of them are Villains, but White Knight works for us. And then you have the reall powerful ones. Like Bad Horse, the thourghbred of sin."
Lucca: Not into this. All this is, is a concentrated solar power-core refracted through a multiplying random spectral field.
Grif chuckles. "Well, maybe if you wore something with some actual armor in it..." He leaves out the And Some Pants, Dammit, but oh, it's there.
Lucca: *it does NOT, in fact, make cappuchino.*
Luc: "Bad horse?"
Luc: "What are his preternatural abilities?"
Aeon_Phoenix: ....What's this about nerds?
Lucca: It's incredibly powerful... but just a little tempermental.
Sailor_Jupiter: The worst one was the first time. They shot me in the head. Bullets don't get through my costume.
Sailor_Mercury: "Still!"
Grif: "...oh."
CaptainHammer: "He's damned fast. And he can mess with your head. And, well, he's got that death whinny of his."
Abe_Sapien reconsiders. An energy weapon just would not be Red's style. Not loud enough. Not enough collateral damage.*
Metody: "The....thoroughbred of sin?" He sounded wondering. If he wasn't so sure that Hammer was certifiable, he'd be laughing. Death whinny?
Sailor_Jupiter: ...death whinny.
Luc: "A Death Whinny. Wow. That's a new one to me."
Abe_Sapien: *No potential for nickna--RECORDSCRATCH*
Aeon_Phoenix: ...
Abe_Sapien: ...
Abe_Sapien: Death... whinny?
Aeon_Phoenix: Hyne above, are you serious?
CaptainHammer: "It's horrible." The Captain shudders, remembering. "It takes you down into the depths of hell, rattles your mind, gives you visions of things that would make your mind curdle..."
Grif would point out that energy weapons can be plenty noisy and destructive, but well, he's not carrying the Gluon Gun at the moment, because backpack-mounted firehoses of molecular disintegration can be a bit bulky for social situations.
Lucca: ^-^ "The Gate Key is what I use to get around. I can get that if you--" Waitaminute... "They shot you in the HEAD??"
Luc: "Ugh. Mental manipulation is awful. Sorry you've had to deal with, it, Captain."
Metody set down his beer and carefully covered his mouth, desperatly trying to keep from breaking into giggling. "Death whinny..."
Lucca: *the second said to Jupiter, obviously.*
Aeon_Phoenix just stares.
Sailor_Jupiter is, admittedly, /much/ more resistant to death rays.
Abe_Sapien: ... Please tell me it's telepathic... *facepalm*
CaptainHammer: "It sounds funny, until you have to deal with it. Plus, he's immortal. You cut off his head, and it just grows back."
Luc: "...Is this some sort of Horse /god/ you're dealing with?"
CaptainHammer: "It's Bad Horse. No one knows for sure."
Sailor_Jupiter taps her skull, a portion buried in hair. "It bounced off of my skull. Knocked me out for a few good minutes, gave me one hell of a concussion, but...
Abe_Sapien flimberts.
Sailor_Jupiter: I was weaker then.
Aeon_Phoenix: Did you ever think about asking?
Sailor_Mercury does a bad job of resisting the urge to hug Jupiter.
Lucca: ...Did you have some kind of protective magic or force-field active?
CaptainHammer: "I don't tend to talk much to villains. i prefer bashing them."
Metody: "Does anyone ever wake up with the severed head beside them?" he blurted out the question before he could stop himself. "Like a super-mob warning?"
Grif snorks. That mental image is awesome, whoever you are.
CaptainHammer: He eyes Metody. "Only that one time. But there was drinking involved."
Abe_Sapien snerks as well.*
Aeon_Phoenix giggles.
Luc: "That must have been quite a party," Luc shakes his head bemusedly....and then leans in a bit. "So, you're American, aren't you, Captain?"
Sailor_Jupiter offers Ami a half-smile and gives her a one-armed hug. "I'm a Sailor Senshi." That's all the explanation she needs.
CaptainHammer: "Yesh, er yes, I am." He eye shis empty bottle, and goes for a fourth.
Aeon_Phoenix will not make american jokes 'cause she's a pseudo brit.
Sailor_Mercury responds by attaching firmly to Makoto's arm before pulling away. "I know."
Luc: "Fascinating place, America."
Metody kept his hand over his mouth, letting out a strangled little noise that was somewhere between a squeak and a laugh.
Luc is entirely sincere about that.
Aeon_Phoenix: *Buuut, she will make her own amusement eyeing the batch of beer Hammer has been drinking*
Lucca: So the... "Sailor Senshi" are just that strong? *she's having trouble wrapping her brain around this...*
Sailor_Jupiter: I'm much stronger than I was back then.
Abe_Sapien heads over to the bar. There is fighting with an esoteric machine. When he returns, he returns with ... cappuchino. Yes, fishpeople drink coffee.*
Luc will just lean in into the very edge of decency. Mm. Muscles. Preternatural muscles.
CaptainHammer: "where are you from?"
Lucca: *To Ami. She's rockig the same outfit after all What about you?
Sailor_Mercury: "She's much stronger than I am." Ami blushes and fidgets.
Sailor_Jupiter: Only because I've been doing this for years longer.
Lucca: Ohhhh.
Luc: "Arista. Little spot in the Mediterranean no one's ever heard of. Great place, though."
CaptainHammer: "Never heard of it! Shay, this stuff is pretty good." He stumbles, bruishing against Luc.
Lucca reaches up and pops her helmet off. Underneith is short-cropped purple hair that doesn't match her orange over-tunic at ALL.
Sailor_Jupiter would say that's an interesting color, but look who she chills with.
Luc: "We're pretty...organized about preternatural abilities. Only professional national security and law enforcement operatives have them." Oh. Brushing. Yay. This may quickly be continued, perhaps escalate to pressing shortly after Luc's hand rests on Hammer's shoulder. "Yeah, the foreign drinks can get pretty interesting."
Abe_Sapien: *When did the Sanctuary grow spinny little deskchairs? Who knows. But he's perched on one now, curled in a manner that makes one suspect he's more chordate than vertebrate, sipping coffee and typing.*
CaptainHammer: "Shay buddy, wash yer name?"Hammers right hand rests on Lucs hip, friendly like, very masculine.
Lucca: I was out for... eighteen months or so, fighting. It was hard to tell exactly how long.
Metody went back to his beer, the giggling gone. He sat there and quietly watched the room, fascinated.
Sailor_Mercury frowns, listening to Lucca's story.
Sailor_Jupiter: How come?
Lucca: Time travel. There was nothing to base our elapsed time from.
Luc: "Luc, sir. Like I saidpleasure to meet you."
Grif: "Aw, man. Time travel. *Somuch hate."
Sailor_Jupiter: Ah.
CaptainHammer: "Pleasure, yah, pleasure man." Hammer closes his eyes. "I'm so trashed. I definitely shouldn' drive the Hammercar home..."
Badge is now known as Phoenix_Wright
Sailor_Jupiter thinks Luc would like to drive something home. Did she just wink at him conspiritorally?
Luc: "They have rooms right to the side here, if you need to sleep it off a bit."
Lucca: It can get pretty bad, yeah. Dodging dinosaurs, having a friend arrested for a crime that he didn't commit because he'd instigated investigations four hundred years ago...
Phoenix_Wright comes in. He's got a bag in one hand, and a box under one arm.
Luc flashes the nice senshi a smile.
Sailor_Jupiter: Ha.
CaptainHammer peers around for the rooms. "where?"
Grif catches that exchange, and quietly stifles a chuckling grin behind one hand.
Luc gestures at one of the sideroom doors.
Lucca: "Getting pounded by mutants in the future, freezing during the ice age..."
Sailor_Jupiter: So! Grif. This reminds me, if I set up a kissing booth, would you buy a peck on the cheek?
Phoenix_Wright puts the stuff down on the bar as he goes to get a drink.
Grif: o_O "Uh."
Sailor_Jupiter 's face /is/ a little red from the sake blush, yes. Why do you ask?
Sailor_Mercury is listening to Lucca pretty intently, but... "WHAT?"
Sailor_Jupiter: It's for charity, don't flip out.
CaptainHammer stumbles towards the rooms, then stops, pulling himself upright. "Hey, buddy can you gimme a hand? The room spins a bit when I walk..."
Lucca: Huh? Which part? The mutants or the best-friend framing?
Abe_Sapien is here, clicking away at a laptop, and looks up as Phoenix walks in.*
Luc: "Happy to, sir." Luc'll slip his arm right around Hammer's torso, right shoulder supporting.
Aeon_Phoenix: *Phoenix better mind Nix's pile of bad alcohol. You may end up sprouting a tenticle*
Sailor_Jupiter is sitting at the bar, a little cup of sake in one hand and a rolled up poster next to her. She's been hitting the sauce. Hups.
Phoenix_Wright: ...what's with this pile of booze?
Abe_Sapien: Someone's been testing it for ... something.
Phoenix_Wright: So avoid it like the plague, in other words?
Aeon_Phoenix looks up from behind the bar. "I'm doing a bit of housecleaning."
Abe_Sapien is clearly the VAGUEFISH today.*
Luc tries to ponder whether Hammer's too drunk to be legal. Aristan law's /really/ loose on that.
Phoenix_Wright blinks. "Ah... Phoenix, right? Like the bird, um."
Phoenix_Wright hasn't seen her in a while, but it's hard to forget the name.
Metody drank, listened and thought, deciding he liked this interesting place.
CaptainHammer: Hammer leans only a bit ont he other man, using him more as a guide. "Right, this one. No lock on the outside? Good." Nope, not too drunk. Just drunk enough, likely.
Sailor_Mercury is freaking out at her alternate's girlfriend setting up a kissing booth, excuse her.
Aeon_Phoenix laughs. "I am the bird actually."
Phoenix_Wright: Oh, r...right, sorry. I'm the "like the bird" in here. Eh heh.
Grif: "I... suppose I could? I dunno." This is not exactly the sort of thing he usually thinks about.
Luc will happily help him inside.
Phoenix_Wright: Hey, anybody in here good at analyzing the electronics of potentially really dangerous devices?
Sailor_Mercury looks over to Lucca.
Sailor_Jupiter nudges Mercury.
Lucca: How dangerous?
Phoenix_Wright: Like "we think it's deactivated, but it could blow on you if you nudge it wrong" dangerous.
Aeon_Phoenix: Ah.
Sailor_Mercury: "I could give it a try."
Sailor_Jupiter: A kiss on the cheek is only one dollar, Grif.
Aeon_Phoenix: So like a supposidly deactivated seamine?
Lucca: I'll help you.
Phoenix_Wright: Um... something like that.
Aeon_Phoenix has experience with that. Not fun.
Phoenix_Wright looks around. Okay, no BR alumni... He reaches into the box and pulls out a small collar.
Grif: "It's not the money that makes this concept weird."
Lucca: That's..?
Aeon_Phoenix stands up from being the bar and puts on her glasses
Phoenix_Wright: It seems the "strawberry that won" had a little souvenir from her experience.
Lucca: This is from the Battle Royale?
Sailor_Jupiter: ...You know I'm legal, right?
Phoenix_Wright nods. "The one verified remaining collar."
Sailor_Mercury frowns at it in concentration. Which is promptly broken by Makoto.
Aeon_Phoenix: Hrm. *Digs through her jeans pocket for a pencil while peering closer*
Sailor_Mercury pulls herself back by slapping her own forehead. "Battle Royale."
Sailor_Jupiter is very good at that.
Abe_Sapien leaves his research and approaches Phoenix.
Lucca: 'Remaining?' Oh, man... *goes to the end table, gets a rolled-up tool bag from her messenger bag-thing.
Aeon_Phoenix: ...Looks like a collar of some kind.....
Grif: "That makes it not criminal, but not un-weird."
Phoenix_Wright nods. "In the Battle Royale, they're rigged to go if people don't do what the folks running it want."
Abe_Sapien: But since she ... for lack of a better term... 'won'...
Phoenix_Wright: It's still intact, yes.
Sailor_Jupiter: Heh.
Aeon_Phoenix: ...
Aeon_Phoenix: *sniffs it*
Lucca: I think we should take this thing out of here. In case it blows. I don't know if any neutralizing field is going to stop it.
Sailor_Mercury only has one tool that'll be any help here, as far as she knows. She summons her visor.
Aeon_Phoenix: There's explosive in it.
Phoenix_Wright: We're hoping if we understand how it works a little better, we might be able to figure out something about the current one going on. Which reminds me, um...
Abe_Sapien headtilts, looking at it. Peels off a glove. He'll reach out to touch it unless someone stops him.*
Phoenix_Wright pulls out the item in the bag. A DVD. "Er, anybody up for a movie?"
Aeon_Phoenix: I think. And if it'll blow I'll get it out of here asap.
Lucca pops on her helmet. At a touch, a green lens extends over her right eye.
Aeon_Phoenix: No thanks. I've seen all the movies.
Lucca doesn't notice Abe as of yet.
Aeon_Phoenix: And I thought my life could get gory..
Sailor_Mercury: "Movie?"
Abe_Sapien is right there, sort of ... holding his fingers over the tiny collar thing.*
Grif: "...Buh?"
Phoenix_Wright sighs. "I'm not really looking forward to watching it myself, but I'm hoping to get a hint on what to look for as far as the island this thing is taking place at."
Sailor_Jupiter: I'll pass.
Phoenix_Wright holds it up. "Guess what? Killgrave doesn't always talk out of his ass." Sure enough, it's Battle Royale.
Lucca is so focused that she doesn't even notice him... until just now. "What're you doing?"
Grif: "Wait. Is this one of those Stuff In The Nexus Is Fictional Elsewhere things we usually don't bust other people on?"
Phoenix_Wright: Yep.
Grif: "Oh, you magnificent bastard."
Aeon_Phoenix: From what I can remember, it's basically people being pitted against each other for survival
Phoenix_Wright smiles a bit. "I try, I try."
Abe_Sapien lightly touches it.Reading it.
Phoenix_Wright: Yeah, pretty much. Which is what is going on somewhere right now.
Sailor_Mercury turns to Makoto. She ought to watch this, to be able to help.
Phoenix_Wright: It's... not really my kind of movie, but I'm grasping at straws here.
Aeon_Phoenix: ...I hope you have a strong stomach.
Metody leaned over the bar to look at Phoenix. "Pardon...how much of the island do they show? Because you can tell all sorts of things about the geology and weather patterns by looking at the landscape, and sometimes, that can tell you where it is."
Phoenix_Wright: That really increases my drive to see it.
Phoenix_Wright: That's a good question. It's why I'm going to watch it.
Aeon_Phoenix: Do you know if they're using the same island?
Lucca: *whirring noise from her helmet I know it's got a signal detonator. Radio, possibly. Polyisobutylene amongst other things in there...
Sailor_Jupiter shrugs at Ami. "I didn't like the book."
Grif stands up and puts his whiskey away. "However, much as I'd love to help, I gotta get going."
Aeon_Phoenix: If they are, I can get satellite pictures
Phoenix_Wright: Not particularly, no. But I'll take what I can get.
Phoenix_Wright: Even if I can't find THEIR island, if I find one of THESE islands, I can look around it, get a feel for the layout of these sorts of things.
Sailor_Mercury: "I think... I think it'd help if I watched."
Aeon_Phoenix nods. "I can get them to you first thing."
Sailor_Jupiter: See you.
Lucca: Alright. *grabs a small screwdriver, pic, and wire cutters from the cluster of tools.*
Phoenix_Wright: That'd be great!
Metody: "I might be able to help too. I focus on the scenery anyway, might as well put it to use." He was willing to accept what the man was talking about, if only as an intellectual exercise. This gave him the greatest idea for some class activities.
Phoenix_Wright nods. "Well, it might be best to watch this somewhere where people with weak stomachs besides me can watch it." Yes, he just monologud in the middle of spoken dialogue. shut up.
Sailor_Mercury blanches. "You're not staying?"
Echo_V appears suddenly, right there on the Sanctuary floor. Young woman with blonde hair that is longer on one side than the other. She's still wearing the grey jumpsuit, whose entire front is covered in blood. Her hair on one side of her head is also coated in blood as is her neck on the same side. She shrieks and curls, covering her head with her arms.
Echo_V: http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70857489/14775707
Lucca: We're looking at the potential explosive power of several times that of gunpowder, judging by the models I'm generating... *She immediately jumps at Echo's screech, dropping her tools*
Aeon_Phoenix: The hell?!
Sailor_Jupiter jerks to her feet. "Shit!"
Abe_Sapien whirls at the sound, the tiny collar now clenched in his hand. Perspectives blend for an instant and he stares.*
Grif puts his helmet on and teleports out.
Phoenix_Wright: !!
Aeon_Phoenix wasn't expecting that
Phoenix_Wright: Get her comfortable! It's another one!
Sailor_Jupiter snags the first aid kit she'd been using. "Here!"
Aeon_Phoenix hops over the bar, heading towards the woman
Abe_Sapien: Wait--I think she's come back with something!
Echo_V isn't injured anymore, but the blood is still there. She hasn't uncurled just yet.
Phoenix_Wright: She has?!
Sailor_Mercury stands, eyes trying to take everything in.
Metody: "Hngh!" He threw his hands up and stumbled back, then gaped in horror, then dashed around the bar to the girl's side. One hand was out.
Phoenix_Wright: Wait! The injuries are probably not even there anymore!
Aeon_Phoenix: *To EchoAre you alright?
Echo_V is breathing very quickly and she peers past her arms wide-eyed. She looks very disoriented.
ChozoIsis: **Echo is followed by another one, the Isis variant. Same jumpsuit and everything, but sans the collar one might expect. She, too, is covered in a -lot- of bloodGUH. *both hands go for her neck, as soon as she realizes she can move.*
Phoenix_Wright: !!
Phoenix_Wright: Jesus, two at once...
Phoenix_Wright: -- ! Wait, it's Isis!
Echo_V also lacks a collar btw.
Sailor_Jupiter: Where's Ami when you need her?
ChozoIsis is easily tellable that she's -not- Eiko's Isis. She's thinner built, more athletic and her hair's in a ponytail. And she starts swearing. A -lot-.
Abe_Sapien peels off the other glove and makes his way toward Echo in a few long strides, and takes a handful of her clothing. You might not have come back with any supplies or the collar, but you didn't come back /naked./*
Phoenix_Wright has met her on occasion.
Lucca: O_O That doesn't SOUND like Miss Isis...
Echo_V snarls at Abe and tries to shove him away violently.
ChozoIsis (and in several languages!)
Sailor_Jupiter: Back off, fishman!
Phoenix_Wright: It's one of her alternates.
Sailor_Mercury is hurt rather a lot by that little reminder.
Lucca: How many does she HAVE?
Sailor_Jupiter: You're going about too fast.
Aeon_Phoenix: Whoa! Hold on there! Everone back off for a sec!
Phoenix_Wright nods.
Aeon_Phoenix: Just let them calm down.
Abe_Sapien: *He steps back. He has enough.*
Echo_V is looking at Abe very, very dangerously. Get the fuck away from her.
Phoenix_Wright nods, bringing out whatever good booze he can find.
Metody quietly scrambled back behind the bar, very happy to be far, far away from the crazy blood-covered woman.
ChozoIsis deep breaths. /Deep/ breaths. She releases her neck, just staring at the ceiling for the moment, trying to get her mind back in some semblence of order.
Sailor_Jupiter makes a mental note never to let Abe around accident victims. Ever.
Aeon_Phoenix tries to get Echo to pay attention to her.
Echo_V is very confused and disoriented, yes.
Sailor_Jupiter holds the first aid kit out to Isis. "Hey. Need some help?"
Lucca: What's going on here? Where did they come from? *pause Where'd the collar go??
Echo_V: Isis? *She croaks, noticing the other woman*
Phoenix_Wright also subtly hides the DVD again.
Sailor_Mercury is just trying to give these people their time to recover. Not sure she should say anything...
Phoenix_Wright: Judging by the way they're reacting... I'd say they exploded.
Aeon_Phoenix: Someone get me some water
Echo_V doesn't correct Phoenix, but no she did not go boom.
Phoenix_Wright nods and gets a full pitcher, then passes it to Aeon.
ChozoIsis shifts to sit up, now. Shaking, "No." She shakes her head, voice cracked and tired, "We got attacked by.. a vampire, I think he was."
Phoenix_Wright: A vamp -- fuck, was it Sri?
Aeon_Phoenix: Thanks. *To Echo and IsisDo you two want a class of water?
Echo_V is trying to stop trembling. "Water. Yes."
ChozoIsis: Don't know his name, water would be--very good. Yes.
Aeon_Phoenix: Phoenix, I need some glasses please.
Phoenix_Wright nods and passes some glasses.
Echo_V didn't catch his name either.
Echo_V: Why are we here? *Her voice has calmed considerably though she's still trembling*
ChozoIsis: Don't know.
Phoenix_Wright: You died, probably, and the game sent you back.
ChozoIsis: ...
Abe_Sapien is unfazed by any vicious glaring.*
Aeon_Phoenix: *pours out a generous offering and hands one to Echo then to Isis*
Echo_V: So that's it? It's all game? *She laughs, half hysterical.*
Aeon_Phoenix: Sadly yes.
Phoenix_Wright looks very unhappy. "As it was last year."
Echo_V takes her drink gratefully and gulps it.
Sailor_Mercury: "Not what most people would think of as a good one."
ChozoIsis drinks it, but making sure to do so slowly before speaking again, "Apparently." She says to Echo, glaring at nothing.
ChozoIsis: I find him out -here-.
Abe_Sapien: Indeed not.
Phoenix_Wright: We're still trying to find out who, and why.
Echo_V: I'll put a bullet in his fucking head.
ChozoIsis: I.. *ngh.And he'll regret it.
Echo_V is not pleasant when she's pissed.
ChozoIsis: I put a unknown language missile in his /gut/.
ChozoIsis: Make him suffer like he did -us-.
Phoenix_Wright rubs his face. "It's not the guy who did it last year, we know that much."
Echo_V: I wasn't here last year. *more drinking*
Aeon_Phoenix: So a copycat then.
Echo_V can barely hold the glass, stop shaking plz.
Phoenix_Wright nods. "Someone who liked what they saw."
Phoenix_Wright: Or, hell, just based on what I've found today, they could've even copied it from the fictional source.
Aeon_Phoenix sees the shaking but doesn't comment. She know how Echo feels
Sailor_Mercury: "/Why?/"
Lucca looks around... finds that Abe has the collar! Heads towards him, dodging people already in eager conversation. "You gonna keep that for posterity, or what?"
Echo_V pauses and looks at the water. "I need a stronger drink." Echo doesn't drink. This is saying something.
Phoenix_Wright: I don't... I don't know. I wish I did, but I don't. I can't even begin to understand.
Aeon_Phoenix: Because some people are just sick fucks.
Abe_Sapien: I'm comparing the information I've gotten.
ChozoIsis: ..PINpoints have comm devices in them, don't they?
Aeon_Phoenix: And I think the last thing you need is alcohol. At least not before you've eaten.
Sailor_Jupiter: ...
Lucca: ...? How? All you did is hold it? Wait... you're able to sense things through the objects, aren't you?
Sailor_Jupiter doesn't mention that her father's castle had gladiatorial fights sometimes. She loved them.
Abe_Sapien: *nods*
Phoenix_Wright sighs. "If it's like last year, PINs are jammed."
Sailor_Mercury: "Why set it all up again, though, including the revival?"
Phoenix_Wright: That's a good question. The revival, especially.
Echo_V stands up slowly, ignoring Aeon, and goes to find a fucking drink.
ChozoIsis: No. I need to contact my AI. Let them know I'm back.
Phoenix_Wright: Just to traumatize?
Phoenix_Wright: Ah... yeah, I told them to let you have a good vacation when you got back.
Aeon_Phoenix: Probably. We wouldn't know for sure until we find whose responsible to ask them.
Echo_V: Isis, do you want something?
Metody gave Echo a faint smile from behind the bar. "Hey. What would you like? And do you want something to eat?"
Phoenix_Wright: Um, can I ask you something? Really, really weird?
ChozoIsis: Something -strong-.
Echo_V doesn't smile back but she is grateful. "Whatever's strong. I don't really have the stomach for food right now." She knows full well she's going to regret this, she just can't care right now.
Aeon_Phoenix: There's suppose to be a bottle of rum. % proof. Grab that.
Phoenix_Wright looks for the bottle and grabs it, pulling it out and passing it over.
Phoenix_Wright: Guys? I have a tiny question about this, if you're up to answering anything.
Echo_V will accept the bottle when it's passed to her, pouring a drink for both herself and Isis
Aeon_Phoenix: Is there ice behind there too? If not I can magik some up.
ChozoIsis stands up as well, shaking, "Ask the question."
Phoenix_Wright looks for ice, finds some, passes it. "Was there any signs in Japanese where you were?"
Sailor_Mercury still doesn't get it.
Metody: "Rum it - oh." He shuffled to the side to give Phoenix lots of room, grabbing up his beer for a sudden, thirsty gulp.
Echo_V passes a drink to Isis after ice. She isn't talking anymore right now. She's going to sit and drink. and her mun is going to be scarce for a moment.
Lucca makes her way back to Ami. "I think Abe's going to do some more work on that device. We don't need to worry about it, for now."
Aeon_Phoenix almost forgot that she still had the water pitcher in her hand, resting it down before taking the ice and snagging a glass for herself
ChozoIsis drinks it heavily. "...Japanese?" ..A bit of an awkward pause. "..A moment." She leans over the bar, pulling a PINpoint out and sending a message.
Phoenix_Wright: ...
Phoenix_Wright crosses his fingers.
Sailor_Mercury nods to Lucca. "Alright. If you say so."
ChozoIsis: **A small device appears on the bar, which she then affixes to her ear.Japanese? *A beat-Ah-. I didn't see any, no.
Phoenix_Wright freezes a bit as this sinks in, then slumps. "Goddamn it. It is a different island."
Lucca: ... ... ...Uh... hey, I don't think I heard your name before. Heh. I'm Lucca Ashtear.
ChozoIsis: It wasn't an island.
ChozoIsis: It was a valley.
Phoenix_Wright: Not an...
Metody: "Is there any sand, or dirt, or stones caught in the treads of your shoes?" For a moment, the timidity is gone, replaced by the light of sudden inspiration.
ChozoIsis: River running through the middle.
Phoenix_Wright puts his head in his hands. "For the -- we're back to square one again!"
Abe_Sapien: A different location... but the same motive.
Aeon_Phoenix: Actually, maybe not.
Phoenix_Wright: Eh?
Abe_Sapien puts the collar down on the bar.
Aeon_Phoenix: I think I can find the location.
Phoenix_Wright: You... you can? Really?!
ChozoIsis chugs more rum.
Aeon_Phoenix: I believe so.
Aeon_Phoenix: Now, think about it for a second. How did they get here in the first place?
Sailor_Mercury: "WHAT motive? I'm Sailor Mercury. Ami Mizuno, in civilian life." It's no secret here.
Aeon_Phoenix: They didn't walk here
Lucca: Hi, Ami. Nice name. ^-^
Echo_V is quietly drinking her own drink.
Lucca: They were probably teleported.
Aeon_Phoenix: Exactly!
Abe_Sapien: Some sort of teleportation. Not a PINpoint exactly, but something that functions similarly.
ChozoIsis: Anubis. How did I vanish? *A few beats...That's odd. He doesn't know.
Phoenix_Wright nods. "If we can find the general location, we can start scanning different worlds. Chances are if we find one that fucks up on the PINpoint, we have our location."
Lucca: So what?
ChozoIsis: According to the scan records, I'm there one second, and gone the next.
Phoenix_Wright: That's how it works.
Aeon_Phoenix: If I'm right, we can trace the energy trail.
ChozoIsis: There's no PIN effect to trace, however.
Lucca: The--
Aeon_Phoenix: Teleportation requires energy.
Echo_V watches and half-listens quietly, eyes strangely dead as she sips her drink.
Abe_Sapien: Does anyone know who a ... 'Jackie C' is? Young, blonde, with an accent from ... liverpool?
Luc will, at length, step out of the sideroom, a little bit ruffled.
Lucca: She's got a point. A portal needs two points...
Phoenix_Wright: Er, no?
Aeon_Phoenix: No sorry.
Echo_V: I met her before. She was in the video they showed us too.
Abe_Sapien: *nods*
Aeon_Phoenix: ....
ChozoIsis: Same.
Phoenix_Wright: ...What?
Aeon_Phoenix: I think we need to find this Jackie C
Echo_V: I spoke to her in the Nexus. At the beginning of the... game, she was in the video explaining it.
Echo_V 's voice is kinda dead too.
Phoenix_Wright furrows his brow. "So we need to find her, too. And trace this energy..."
Echo_V: Excuse me. *She stands, leaving her drink behind, and heads out.*
Echo_V is now known as Darksong
Sailor_Mercury brightens. "Something to go on."
Abe_Sapien eyes the drink. Or, more specifically, the glass.*
Aeon_Phoenix nods. "We may need to split into..." Nix looks at Echo. "We may need to split into two teams as it were."
ChozoIsis: Anubis. PINpoint. *-Her- Pinpoint appears on the bar, and she takes it.I need to go. *Vanish! Sorry, folks, but she needs to, er. ..Go be sick, now.*
ChozoIsis is now known as Matt
Lucca: ...how're you going to find her if the two people who have seen her are gone?!
Phoenix_Wright rubs his face. "Give them time. When they're ready, they'll help."
Lucca: I guess the only thing we can do is trace the portal points, then.
Sailor_Mercury: "As much as I hate to say it, we might have to wait on that. There's the movie."
Phoenix_Wright nods. "Which from the sounds of things might be useless, but we can at least see where the old one took place."
Sailor_Mercury is still stuck on the whole motive thing. "And get a better idea of what we're trying to stop, or... WHY."
Phoenix_Wright: Yeah...
Luc: "Sometimes, Miss, people just want to watch people die."
Phoenix_Wright: Hermes ran it to garner sacrifices, or so he said.
Phoenix_Wright: What's this guy's motive?
Abe_Sapien: It's ... what it seemed like from what I saw.
Phoenix_Wright: ...
Sailor_Mercury: "Then why /save/ them? It doesn't make sense."
Abe_Sapien: Hm?
Phoenix_Wright: Hermes... claimed he needed the experience of sacrifice for it to work, but he didn't want them dead. But this guy... why?
Luc: "The motivation is less united for everyone to hunt him down and kill him two months from now when this is all over."
Phoenix_Wright: If most of them were dead, they wouldn't be able to hunt him anyway.
Luc: "No angry families. No angry shades after you. Just ordinary people whose horror fades to nightmares who might eventually decide it's not worth it. Assuming, as he probably does, taht they won't get to him in the heat of their anger."
Abe_Sapien: Hermes ... was not seen in the first one. It's possible that this time there are agents, as well.
Phoenix_Wright: Hmm...
Lucca: They could be a testing ground. Or an experiment...
Metody: "Or he's some kind of sick freak who prefers the idea of a lifetime of remembered horror to a bit of fear and then death." he quietly commented from the bar. If they wanted a private conversation, they'd be having one...
Sailor_Mercury: "Or one dedicated, dangerous person, twisted and broken enough to make your torture and eventual death a very planned, very real life goal."
Phoenix_Wright feels a bit ill at that.
Phoenix_Wright winces suddenly at that one.
Luc isn't going to say a /word/ about Hermes. He nods a little to Metody. "Could be that, too."
Lucca: Now many people do we know are participating in this thing?
Aeon_Phoenix speaks quietly. "Some people are just like mad dogs. Wanting to just cause chaos just for the hell of it."
Sailor_Mercury: "There's a lot of risk involved in a large group of killers and giving them a reason to hate you. That... the preference is possible."
Abe_Sapien: At least ... a dozen.
Luc: "I'm not saying their logic is the /best/, miss. Just that it could be there. Especially if they revelled in death but particularly feared ghosts or something."
Lucca: Exactly. This person probably doesn't have a reason to personally hate each person.
Phoenix_Wright: Who could it be, though? There's plenty of people like that in the Nexus...
Lucca: So it's... nothing personal.
Phoenix_Wright: Which almost makes it worse.
Abe_Sapien: The individual on the screen seemed ... amused.
Phoenix_Wright closes his eyes, taking a few breaths.
Aeon_Phoenix: I don't think they're afraid of ghost. They probably want to prolong the pain hence the revival
Sailor_Mercury: "Torture." She sounds horrified.
Phoenix_Wright: Excuse me, I... think I need some fresh air for a bit.
Phoenix_Wright ducks out into the yard.
Abe_Sapien: Those who went through the last one still have memories. Nightmares.
Luc nods a little. Then. "Good night, everyone. I have to report home." And he heads out.
Metody gave Aeon a quietly worried look. "If that's the case - isn't there a chance he'll take some of them back?" Let them go, just long enough to realize they'd been rescued, drag them back to the nightmare again...oh, yes, he could believe it of some people.
Lucca has blanched a little too.
Sailor_Mercury: "If -- he just might. We need to figure this out before something like that happens."
Aeon_Phoenix thinks quietly for a few moments. "He'll probably have to get them back the same way he transported them."
Aeon_Phoenix: But I'm basically guessing here
Lucca: He probably would. It's worked so far for him.
Metody: "I realize that it's planning in case of failure - but if it's possible, why not put some kind of tracer on them? It'd speed up rescue if he did manage to grab them." In some dim, shameful part of his head, Metody was proud. He was helping. Ish.
Aeon_Phoenix: Maybe. But there's some fault with that
Abe_Sapien: The signal wouldn't get through.
Aeon_Phoenix: That or what if he doesn't want the same victims?
Aeon_Phoenix: You can't trace the whole Nexus population.
Lucca is still scanning the empty air where the two had materialized...
Nai is now known as naight
Metody: "Are there any commonalities between the victims? It seems unlikely they'd be chosen at random." When he was thinking, he lost that hunched-over posture, his shoulders loosened, and the tension drained from his face. He idly twisted a lock of his long hair around a finger, pondering.
Abe_Sapien: Hmmm. No, none of them seemed to have a common thread.
Aeon_Phoenix: Did they disappear from random spots in the Nexus or in their homeworlds? Maybe they were in a common area. Hrm...
HotAndColdAndAFK is now known as HotAndCold
Abe_Sapien: *shakes his head That, I don't know.
Aeon_Phoenix: We'll that's something for the list.
Lucca: Yeah. If they were taken from their homeworlds, then this guy went through the effort of tracking them down...
Abe_Sapien: *nods*
Metody: "Or were they doing something in common that might have made them easier to take." It almost sounded sane to him, provided he didn't really think about what he was thinking about.
Aeon_Phoenix: *Nods*
Aeon_Phoenix: But since everyone taken is a Nexus regular or I'm assuming they are, I think we can start there
Metody: "That...seems like a heck of a thing to be coincidental." He rubbed his hands over his face wearily. "I admit, I'm new here" - very new - "but from what I understand, it's not exactly common to wander through. If there's a commonality, there's a reason for the commonality. Maybe contact with the same person or organization..?"
Aeon_Phoenix: Hrm. Probably.
Sailor_Mercury jumps up at something and dashes out. "I'm sorry, I'll be back!"
Abe_Sapien: People end up here by mistake rather often.
Lucca: :_:!
Aeon_Phoenix: I'm sorry but I'll have to leave you all in the middle of things. If Phoenix comes back in, could you tell him that I'll still get the pictures for him? They may stil come in handy.
Abe_Sapien gathers his things.I'm afraid I need to leave, as well.
Aeon_Phoenix: Ah. I hope I see you around the Nexus then. Ta! *disappears*
Abe_Sapien: *blinks*
Lucca: Seeya, Abe.
Abe_Sapien: Goodnight. *heads off for parts unknown. There is a kerflop from the other side of the fourth wall as his mun falls over.*
Metody flinched at the sudden motion from Mercury. He politel nodded to Aeon and Abe as they left, then took another gulp of his beer. He was so glad he didn't have to drive far home.
Sailor_Jupiter: ...Mini-Mercury.
Luc: "Evening, miss. Nice blade."
CaptainHammer: "Sex... pollen?"
Sailor_Jupiter: Don't ask. Ever.
Sailor_Mercury: "Sex pollen?" Ami blanches.
Lucca: ...Hi. Nice sword.
Guest is now known as Aeon_Phoenix
Dominik_D laughs nervously, popping open his soda.
Sailor_Jupiter: There's none around, don't worry.
Luc: "Sometimes there are drugs or other things around here that make people just....want to have sex." Luc explains. "Let's not get any further into it."
CaptainHammer: "Oooh, another one." Huzzah for short skirts.
Metody looked to Sailor Jupiter. "Sake. Um. Do you want that warmed?" And then Dominik joined him behind the bar. Metody gave the man a cautious smile.
Sailor_Jupiter: Yeah, warm it up for me. Thanks, you're a sweetheart.
Abe_Sapien: A little disturbing, if you ask me. *He has not looked up from that screen once.*
Dominik_D gives Metody a careful smile back.
Sailor_Jupiter: I thought I was the only Senshi with a bladed weapon. Ignoring that one Venus.
Lucca: Senshi?
Sailor_Jupiter: Soldiers. Long story. We kill evil
Dominik_D sips his soda.
Sailor_Mercury is thirteen, jerk. "Grif's been teaching me. It's not powered or anything." She smiles shyly.
Lucca: Ah. Gotcha.
Grif walks back inside from the yard, a seven foot tall SPARTAN in orange MJOLNIR powered armor. He takes off his helmet. "I hear my name?"
Aeon_Phoenix heads towards the bar, hoping that her drink stash is still there
Luc: "Apparently, you're a weapons instructor these days."
Grif: "I've been helping the younger Senshi out, yeah."
Sailor_Jupiter is... Sixteen? Seventeen? Hard to tell with someone that tall. She tops out at just about six feet. "Hey, Grif."
Sailor_Mercury beams at him!
Lucca looks backwards. Full armor. Whooaaaah. "...Uh, hi."
Grif waves. "Yo."
Luc: "That's great. I....haven't done much teaching lately." They...kinda have to learn how to use their left hands and all.
CaptainHammer: Hammer doesn't ask, that way he can claim ignorance if anyone brings it up later.
Lucca is nearly seventeen, and no where NEAR as tall or leggy as Jupiter. She doesn't even have a skirt...
Sailor_Jupiter: I thought you were just teaching them tactics and giving them Shiny Guns, Grif. You don't seem like a swordsman.
Sailor_Jupiter 's skirt is scandalously short, I'm afraid. Apparently just because your legs grow, doesn't mean your skirt will.
CaptainHammer: Yeah, sorry Lucca, Hammer likes the girls that show off. "This is damn good beer."
Luc: "Nothing wrong with having a back-up for all the fancy future weapons and preternatural abilities." Luc comments.
Lucca: *It's Hammer's loss. He has no clue what's under those baggy shirts and tunics, after all.*
Sailor_Jupiter: I always figured that if my powers didn't work, I could rely on my fists.
Grif: "I'm mostly about the guns, but we do have some sword training. I have no idea why, since it's not like we ever get Covenant energy swords to use the skills with, but there you go."
Metody rummaged until he found a bottle of sake. He dithered around a moment, then just poured it into a mug and tucked it into the microwave to heat. A few moments later, he poured it into one of those little stoneware pitches and offered over, along with the tiny cup.
Aeon_Phoenix mumbles from behind the bar. "Beer is the most digusting drink an intelligent race has come up with."
Sailor_Mercury smiles at Makoto. "I can't rely on that as much."
Lucca: Energy swords?? *This is relevant to her interests, yo*
Abe_Sapien: It's not that bad ... once in a while.
Sailor_Jupiter /beams/ at Metody, pouring a little bit of the rice wine into the cup, and sipping carefully. Aah. "You'll be able to, eventually."
Luc: "You've got admire the creativity, ma'am" Luc says to Phoenix. "Fermented wheat juice when everyone else was doing grapes?"
Grif: "Yeah. Alien tech. Only ever seen one, myself, and it was some freaky holy relic that only works for the one guy who picked it up."
CaptainHammer: Well, geeky girl... Allright, Lucca gets a second look. "This all sounds, well, interesting."
Luc , by 'everyone else,' means 'civilized people,' but....
Aeon_Phoenix: *looks up from behind the bar with a glowing bottle Oh I remember those days.
Lucca: ...Whoa. Seems like there's one of those in every world.
Grif: "I've been looking to see if there're any others available, but not even eBay has 'em, and if it's not on eBay, it's just not out there."
Dominik_D finds himself a comfortable chair with his soda, just kind of watching people.
Aeon_Phoenix: But I do have to admit, the egyptians had some good brew.
Luc: "Good stuff. Especially when you have to skip a meal."
Lucca: A... special sword that only unlocks its true power in the hands of the right person, I mean...
Abe_Sapien: Not as rare as one might think.
Aeon_Phoenix opens glowing bottle, sniffs it and makes a face
Grif shrugs.
Luc: "Don't recall having any swords like that at home. What are the qualities that determine the right person?"
CaptainHammer finishes his bottle and leans over to snag another one.
Sailor_Jupiter: Sounds like the Holy Crystal Sword of the Silver Millennium.
Lucca: Or the Masamune.
CaptainHammer: "Or excalibur."
Abe_Sapien: Or Excalibur.
Sailor_Jupiter: Or, branching out, the Silence Glaive.
Aeon_Phoenix: Sounds like a lot of swords I have in my amoury
Sailor_Mercury belatedly frowns at Makoto drinking.
Luc: "Well, I've always heard the Bow of Odysseus story, but that was a bow, and it wouldn't work for anyone else 'cause the other guys were all kinda pansies in comparison."
Lucca: And I don't know myself, what traits they look for. Other than courage, I guess...
CaptainHammer offers his hand to Abe for a high five.
Abe_Sapien blinks at this Captain Hammer fellow. Hm. Clearly from an Earth. Oh, all right. Honestly, why isn't Red here? Hifive it is!*
Metody was unable to repress a sunny smile in return. Then he ducked down to poke around for something for himself. What he came up with was black as tar, so dark and thick that the head on it looked like some kind of chocolate mousse. He leaned against the bar and sipped, some of that constant tension leaving him.
Sailor_Jupiter: Odysseus... Nice guy.
Sailor_Jupiter sips her sake and shoots Ami a 'What?' expression.
Lucca: *Since, in her world, the heroic wielder of the Masamune was a four-foot-high antropomorphic frog, she's got little else to go on.*
Aeon_Phoenix goes back to her stash search
Sailor_Mercury mutters, quietly, "it's not good for you..."
Luc finds Lucca's explanation reasonably sufficient. Magic is hard to understand, and all.
CaptainHammer: "Great minds think alike blue man."
Sailor_Jupiter: I've been drinking since I was your age. Don't worry about it.
Grif: "Failing that, I've been considering getting some sort of regular, non-practice sword... y'know, in case the guns or the crowbar don't do the job," -- Indeed, clamped to his right wrist, running up the forearm, there's a fairly plain crowbar. -- "but haven't quite gotten around to it."
Sailor_Jupiter: I just don't do it often.
Abe_Sapien: *amused Clearly.
Luc: "You might want to try this adamantium alloy stuff, Grif. Keeps...well, quite an edge. Obviously."
Lucca: Adamantium... that's the incredibly-tough metal that's supposed to never break, right?
CaptainHammer: "Everything breaks eventually." Hammer flexes, cause usually it's him breaking it.
Lucca: 'S why I said it's /supposed/ to never break.
Lucca: I know this. Everything has a stress-fracture point.
Lucca adjusts her glasses.
Sailor_Jupiter: Not the Silence Glaive.
Sailor_Mercury: Sounds useful.
Metody looked up from his beer and focused on Lucca with sudden interest.
Sailor_Mercury looks to Lucca as well.
Sailor_Jupiter: It /is/ destruction. And rebirth.
Abe_Sapien returns his attention to the screen. Lots of windows of ancient star charts and zodiac thisthats, spell circles and whathaveyou, some in languages not quite from earth. Mutters something about thermodynamics.*
Aeon_Phoenix: Actually, Adamantium is pretty good for not breaking. Even ham-head over there *points at the Captainwould have a hard time.
Lucca: Hm? *looks around. She's being stared at ...what's going on?
Abe_Sapien: Hmmm. Entropy concentrated in a physical focus.
Njoki is now known as takhys
Luc: "It's certainly very tough, I can say. Having used to cut through something that the best steel barely scratches."
Sailor_Jupiter: Heh.
Lucca: I'd like to get my hands on some of that. To see what kind of tests I can do. If I can figure out the microstructure of that metal...
CaptainHammer: "Not again!" Hammer 's hands fly up to hsi head, checking to make sure it's still right. "No, no, good, no ham. Scared me there, thought the Vegecian might have shown up."
Luc: "I wish I could lend you mine," Luc taps the knife strapped to his left side with his right hand "but we paid a bit much for the things to go finding it's breaking point, and it's not even the pure stuff, anyway."
Aeon_Phoenix: Hrm. If you're serious, I can look through my lab and see if I have any left over. I made a spear with it.
Sailor_Mercury smiles at Lucca almost dreamily.
Grif: o_O "...Wha?"
Dominik_D finishes his soda and heads out again for now.
Grif is puzzled by Hammer's outburst.
Dominik_D is now known as Darksong
Luc glances over to Hammer. "The Vegecian?"
Aeon_Phoenix just thinks Hammer is an idiot.
Metody blinked at Hammer, his thought process effectively derailed, down a gorge, into high waters.
Sailor_Jupiter: ...What.
Aeon_Phoenix: ...
CaptainHammer: "A vegan supervillain. Tends to transform people oddly to advance her cuase. Once turned my head into ham."
Lucca: *to Phoenix REALLY?? That's great! It doesn't have to be a big sample, of course. Just enough to do some stress tests, some burn samples, maybe a magic spectronalysis...
Sailor_Jupiter pours herself another portion.
Sailor_Jupiter: Did it turn back?
Sailor_Mercury: "Could you send me the results?"
Luc will let the scholar get on with her thing now.
Abe_Sapien: *clicketytype. Adamantium. Some sort of improvement on Damascus steel, I should think. *closes said window and goes back to the star charts.*
CaptainHammer: He stares at jupiter. Unfortuneately, his gaze isn't up at her eyes. "What kind of question is that to ask?"
Lucca: --Huh? *to the... awh. The cute blue-haired girl in the skirt ...sure. You... do metallurgical work too?
Sailor_Jupiter: It's a fair question.
Metody sat down on one of the stools behind the bar, lifting the glass to cover his sudden smile, shoulders shaking in silent laughter
Aeon_Phoenix: *To LuccaIt wouldn't be a bother. I think I also have some in its liquid form too.
CaptainHammer: "Does my head look like a hunk of ham? No, it's its normal handsome self."
Sailor_Jupiter doesn't comment. There is sake to sip.
Sailor_Mercury: "Not usually, but it sounds fascinating! And useful." Right, useful.
Abe_Sapien stops himself a nanosecond before saying "you don't mean hamsome?"*
Aeon_Phoenix: *Nix laughs*
Luc thinks you’re handsome, Captain Hammer.
Lucca: *to Phoenix Does that make a difference? The liquid state? *To Ami It does! If it has good conductivity too then who KNOWS what kind of robotoic components you can make!
Sailor_Mercury: "And I had to learn just a little when I was designing the rifles, make sure I had the right background."
Sailor_Mercury nods. "That's only interesting from a hypothetical to me, given my world's situation and the justifications I need to work on my own projects, sadly."
Aeon_Phoenix finds another mysterious bottle. "Well I'm thinking for the kind of tests you have in mind, a hardened piece will probably do.
Abe_Sapien is certain that when he makes it back home and actually /finds/ HB and Liz, they'll ask what the holy hell happened to him.*
Lucca: Rifles, huh? You make weapons? *blinking like the geek that just found out the hot girl in his history class thinks D&D is sexy*
Luc: "So how did you handle the Vegecian, sir?" Luc is ready to talk shop with the reasonably hot preternatural guy, oh yes.
Sailor_Jupiter: ...Mercury?
Aeon_Phoenix: *opens bottle, sniffs and takes a sip*
Sailor_Jupiter: How many different kinds of weapons do you /need/?
Sailor_Mercury blushes. "I... I've just started. It's been something of a trick. I'm... it sounds silly, but I guess I'm a superhero, and... we needed a little extra support."
Sailor_Mercury turns to Jupiter.
Grif: "How many kinds of baddie are there?"
Aeon_Phoenix: . . .
Lucca: Oh, it's not that. See, I'm an inventor, but... I've been thinking about moving into making weapons for a living, if things get slow.
Sailor_Mercury: "Enough to cover every possible opponent!"
Sailor_Jupiter: ...
Lucca: Melchior would probably KILL me if he found out, though.
CaptainHammer: "I hit her in the face." He tosses his empty bottle in the trash. "With a car."
Sailor_Jupiter: I blame you for this, Grif.
Aeon_Phoenix: *spits out a trail of flame, coughs*
Abe_Sapien: *blinks at that.*
Aeon_Phoenix: Well that's another one for the no pile.
Grif shrugs. "Even I find overkill for every problem to be only so useful."
CaptainHammer: "I find it works surprizingly well for most villains."
Aeon_Phoenix blinks back at Abe. "What?"
Sailor_Mercury: "I suppose likely is the better answer. Mostly I just modded the rifles to function under a number of different settings. Melchior?"
Luc: "My. A whole car. Well, with some preternatural abilities, you have to get pretty heavy-duty, I'm sure."
Lucca: *to Mercury I know how it goes. Take a look at this. *She reaches over the side of the couch and grabs... something that looks like a cross between a rifle and a cappuchino machine.*
Sailor_Jupiter: ...
Abe_Sapien: Oh, nothing. *shakes his head, and looks at the screen again.*
Sailor_Jupiter sighs and places a hand over her face. Guns. Senshi. What's the world coming to?
Grif: "What?"
CaptainHammer: "Oh yeah, I can bench... Well, a tank, no problem."
Lucca sets it across her lap, barrel away from everyone. *THIS is Wondershot.*
Luc is known in certain circles, Captain Hammer, for being a bit of an ogler. This is happening. How do you feel? "So is there a lot of variety in people with preternatural abilities where you come from? Besides transformations and all that?"
Sailor_Jupiter: Guns and I don't get along.
CaptainHammer grabs another bottle from behind the bar. Unbeknownst to our good captain, he's grabbing the beer that will actually affect him.
Aeon_Phoenix: *Looks at the gunNow that's just overkill
Abe_Sapien stops typetyclicking and looks at it.
CaptainHammer: "Transformations?"
Aeon_Phoenix doesn't say a damn thing
Abe_Sapien knows that if HB were here, he'd probably snuggle the damn thing.*
Luc: "Well, you have a woman who turns things into other things. That's transformations. And I'm guessing you would have what we at home would consider 'normal' preternatural abilities. Y'know. Really strong. Really tough. Possibly fireproof."
Grif: "Were you ever actually trained on using one?"
Luc doesn't have much to add to the gun discussion. He's not well-informed on them.
Lucca: "Melchior was... one of our mentors while I and my friends were saving the world." So matter-of-fact like.
Sailor_Jupiter: No. They're illegal for civilians where I'm from.
Sailor_Mercury examines Wondershot in fascination. "Have you incorporated PIN technology?"
Sailor_Jupiter: And I've been shot too many times to care for them much.
Aeon_Phoenix grabs another bottle and opens it
Abe_Sapien looks at the gun. Wonders if it actually /does/ make a cappuchino.*
CaptainHammer: "Completely Invincible." So far. "And of course, the nerds. Most of them are Villains, but White Knight works for us. And then you have the reall powerful ones. Like Bad Horse, the thourghbred of sin."
Lucca: Not into this. All this is, is a concentrated solar power-core refracted through a multiplying random spectral field.
Grif chuckles. "Well, maybe if you wore something with some actual armor in it..." He leaves out the And Some Pants, Dammit, but oh, it's there.
Lucca: *it does NOT, in fact, make cappuchino.*
Luc: "Bad horse?"
Luc: "What are his preternatural abilities?"
Aeon_Phoenix: ....What's this about nerds?
Lucca: It's incredibly powerful... but just a little tempermental.
Sailor_Jupiter: The worst one was the first time. They shot me in the head. Bullets don't get through my costume.
Sailor_Mercury: "Still!"
Grif: "...oh."
CaptainHammer: "He's damned fast. And he can mess with your head. And, well, he's got that death whinny of his."
Abe_Sapien reconsiders. An energy weapon just would not be Red's style. Not loud enough. Not enough collateral damage.*
Metody: "The....thoroughbred of sin?" He sounded wondering. If he wasn't so sure that Hammer was certifiable, he'd be laughing. Death whinny?
Sailor_Jupiter: ...death whinny.
Luc: "A Death Whinny. Wow. That's a new one to me."
Abe_Sapien: *No potential for nickna--RECORDSCRATCH*
Aeon_Phoenix: ...
Abe_Sapien: ...
Abe_Sapien: Death... whinny?
Aeon_Phoenix: Hyne above, are you serious?
CaptainHammer: "It's horrible." The Captain shudders, remembering. "It takes you down into the depths of hell, rattles your mind, gives you visions of things that would make your mind curdle..."
Grif would point out that energy weapons can be plenty noisy and destructive, but well, he's not carrying the Gluon Gun at the moment, because backpack-mounted firehoses of molecular disintegration can be a bit bulky for social situations.
Lucca: ^-^ "The Gate Key is what I use to get around. I can get that if you--" Waitaminute... "They shot you in the HEAD??"
Luc: "Ugh. Mental manipulation is awful. Sorry you've had to deal with, it, Captain."
Metody set down his beer and carefully covered his mouth, desperatly trying to keep from breaking into giggling. "Death whinny..."
Lucca: *the second said to Jupiter, obviously.*
Aeon_Phoenix just stares.
Sailor_Jupiter is, admittedly, /much/ more resistant to death rays.
Abe_Sapien: ... Please tell me it's telepathic... *facepalm*
CaptainHammer: "It sounds funny, until you have to deal with it. Plus, he's immortal. You cut off his head, and it just grows back."
Luc: "...Is this some sort of Horse /god/ you're dealing with?"
CaptainHammer: "It's Bad Horse. No one knows for sure."
Sailor_Jupiter taps her skull, a portion buried in hair. "It bounced off of my skull. Knocked me out for a few good minutes, gave me one hell of a concussion, but...
Abe_Sapien flimberts.
Sailor_Jupiter: I was weaker then.
Aeon_Phoenix: Did you ever think about asking?
Sailor_Mercury does a bad job of resisting the urge to hug Jupiter.
Lucca: ...Did you have some kind of protective magic or force-field active?
CaptainHammer: "I don't tend to talk much to villains. i prefer bashing them."
Metody: "Does anyone ever wake up with the severed head beside them?" he blurted out the question before he could stop himself. "Like a super-mob warning?"
Grif snorks. That mental image is awesome, whoever you are.
CaptainHammer: He eyes Metody. "Only that one time. But there was drinking involved."
Abe_Sapien snerks as well.*
Aeon_Phoenix giggles.
Luc: "That must have been quite a party," Luc shakes his head bemusedly....and then leans in a bit. "So, you're American, aren't you, Captain?"
Sailor_Jupiter offers Ami a half-smile and gives her a one-armed hug. "I'm a Sailor Senshi." That's all the explanation she needs.
CaptainHammer: "Yesh, er yes, I am." He eye shis empty bottle, and goes for a fourth.
Aeon_Phoenix will not make american jokes 'cause she's a pseudo brit.
Sailor_Mercury responds by attaching firmly to Makoto's arm before pulling away. "I know."
Luc: "Fascinating place, America."
Metody kept his hand over his mouth, letting out a strangled little noise that was somewhere between a squeak and a laugh.
Luc is entirely sincere about that.
Aeon_Phoenix: *Buuut, she will make her own amusement eyeing the batch of beer Hammer has been drinking*
Lucca: So the... "Sailor Senshi" are just that strong? *she's having trouble wrapping her brain around this...*
Sailor_Jupiter: I'm much stronger than I was back then.
Abe_Sapien heads over to the bar. There is fighting with an esoteric machine. When he returns, he returns with ... cappuchino. Yes, fishpeople drink coffee.*
Luc will just lean in into the very edge of decency. Mm. Muscles. Preternatural muscles.
CaptainHammer: "where are you from?"
Lucca: *To Ami. She's rockig the same outfit after all What about you?
Sailor_Mercury: "She's much stronger than I am." Ami blushes and fidgets.
Sailor_Jupiter: Only because I've been doing this for years longer.
Lucca: Ohhhh.
Luc: "Arista. Little spot in the Mediterranean no one's ever heard of. Great place, though."
CaptainHammer: "Never heard of it! Shay, this stuff is pretty good." He stumbles, bruishing against Luc.
Lucca reaches up and pops her helmet off. Underneith is short-cropped purple hair that doesn't match her orange over-tunic at ALL.
Sailor_Jupiter would say that's an interesting color, but look who she chills with.
Luc: "We're pretty...organized about preternatural abilities. Only professional national security and law enforcement operatives have them." Oh. Brushing. Yay. This may quickly be continued, perhaps escalate to pressing shortly after Luc's hand rests on Hammer's shoulder. "Yeah, the foreign drinks can get pretty interesting."
Abe_Sapien: *When did the Sanctuary grow spinny little deskchairs? Who knows. But he's perched on one now, curled in a manner that makes one suspect he's more chordate than vertebrate, sipping coffee and typing.*
CaptainHammer: "Shay buddy, wash yer name?"Hammers right hand rests on Lucs hip, friendly like, very masculine.
Lucca: I was out for... eighteen months or so, fighting. It was hard to tell exactly how long.
Metody went back to his beer, the giggling gone. He sat there and quietly watched the room, fascinated.
Sailor_Mercury frowns, listening to Lucca's story.
Sailor_Jupiter: How come?
Lucca: Time travel. There was nothing to base our elapsed time from.
Luc: "Luc, sir. Like I saidpleasure to meet you."
Grif: "Aw, man. Time travel. *Somuch hate."
Sailor_Jupiter: Ah.
CaptainHammer: "Pleasure, yah, pleasure man." Hammer closes his eyes. "I'm so trashed. I definitely shouldn' drive the Hammercar home..."
Badge is now known as Phoenix_Wright
Sailor_Jupiter thinks Luc would like to drive something home. Did she just wink at him conspiritorally?
Luc: "They have rooms right to the side here, if you need to sleep it off a bit."
Lucca: It can get pretty bad, yeah. Dodging dinosaurs, having a friend arrested for a crime that he didn't commit because he'd instigated investigations four hundred years ago...
Phoenix_Wright comes in. He's got a bag in one hand, and a box under one arm.
Luc flashes the nice senshi a smile.
Sailor_Jupiter: Ha.
CaptainHammer peers around for the rooms. "where?"
Grif catches that exchange, and quietly stifles a chuckling grin behind one hand.
Luc gestures at one of the sideroom doors.
Lucca: "Getting pounded by mutants in the future, freezing during the ice age..."
Sailor_Jupiter: So! Grif. This reminds me, if I set up a kissing booth, would you buy a peck on the cheek?
Phoenix_Wright puts the stuff down on the bar as he goes to get a drink.
Grif: o_O "Uh."
Sailor_Jupiter 's face /is/ a little red from the sake blush, yes. Why do you ask?
Sailor_Mercury is listening to Lucca pretty intently, but... "WHAT?"
Sailor_Jupiter: It's for charity, don't flip out.
CaptainHammer stumbles towards the rooms, then stops, pulling himself upright. "Hey, buddy can you gimme a hand? The room spins a bit when I walk..."
Lucca: Huh? Which part? The mutants or the best-friend framing?
Abe_Sapien is here, clicking away at a laptop, and looks up as Phoenix walks in.*
Luc: "Happy to, sir." Luc'll slip his arm right around Hammer's torso, right shoulder supporting.
Aeon_Phoenix: *Phoenix better mind Nix's pile of bad alcohol. You may end up sprouting a tenticle*
Sailor_Jupiter is sitting at the bar, a little cup of sake in one hand and a rolled up poster next to her. She's been hitting the sauce. Hups.
Phoenix_Wright: ...what's with this pile of booze?
Abe_Sapien: Someone's been testing it for ... something.
Phoenix_Wright: So avoid it like the plague, in other words?
Aeon_Phoenix looks up from behind the bar. "I'm doing a bit of housecleaning."
Abe_Sapien is clearly the VAGUEFISH today.*
Luc tries to ponder whether Hammer's too drunk to be legal. Aristan law's /really/ loose on that.
Phoenix_Wright blinks. "Ah... Phoenix, right? Like the bird, um."
Phoenix_Wright hasn't seen her in a while, but it's hard to forget the name.
Metody drank, listened and thought, deciding he liked this interesting place.
CaptainHammer: Hammer leans only a bit ont he other man, using him more as a guide. "Right, this one. No lock on the outside? Good." Nope, not too drunk. Just drunk enough, likely.
Sailor_Mercury is freaking out at her alternate's girlfriend setting up a kissing booth, excuse her.
Aeon_Phoenix laughs. "I am the bird actually."
Phoenix_Wright: Oh, r...right, sorry. I'm the "like the bird" in here. Eh heh.
Grif: "I... suppose I could? I dunno." This is not exactly the sort of thing he usually thinks about.
Luc will happily help him inside.
Phoenix_Wright: Hey, anybody in here good at analyzing the electronics of potentially really dangerous devices?
Sailor_Mercury looks over to Lucca.
Sailor_Jupiter nudges Mercury.
Lucca: How dangerous?
Phoenix_Wright: Like "we think it's deactivated, but it could blow on you if you nudge it wrong" dangerous.
Aeon_Phoenix: Ah.
Sailor_Mercury: "I could give it a try."
Sailor_Jupiter: A kiss on the cheek is only one dollar, Grif.
Aeon_Phoenix: So like a supposidly deactivated seamine?
Lucca: I'll help you.
Phoenix_Wright: Um... something like that.
Aeon_Phoenix has experience with that. Not fun.
Phoenix_Wright looks around. Okay, no BR alumni... He reaches into the box and pulls out a small collar.
Grif: "It's not the money that makes this concept weird."
Lucca: That's..?
Aeon_Phoenix stands up from being the bar and puts on her glasses
Phoenix_Wright: It seems the "strawberry that won" had a little souvenir from her experience.
Lucca: This is from the Battle Royale?
Sailor_Jupiter: ...You know I'm legal, right?
Phoenix_Wright nods. "The one verified remaining collar."
Sailor_Mercury frowns at it in concentration. Which is promptly broken by Makoto.
Aeon_Phoenix: Hrm. *Digs through her jeans pocket for a pencil while peering closer*
Sailor_Mercury pulls herself back by slapping her own forehead. "Battle Royale."
Sailor_Jupiter is very good at that.
Abe_Sapien leaves his research and approaches Phoenix.
Lucca: 'Remaining?' Oh, man... *goes to the end table, gets a rolled-up tool bag from her messenger bag-thing.
Aeon_Phoenix: ...Looks like a collar of some kind.....
Grif: "That makes it not criminal, but not un-weird."
Phoenix_Wright nods. "In the Battle Royale, they're rigged to go if people don't do what the folks running it want."
Abe_Sapien: But since she ... for lack of a better term... 'won'...
Phoenix_Wright: It's still intact, yes.
Sailor_Jupiter: Heh.
Aeon_Phoenix: ...
Aeon_Phoenix: *sniffs it*
Lucca: I think we should take this thing out of here. In case it blows. I don't know if any neutralizing field is going to stop it.
Sailor_Mercury only has one tool that'll be any help here, as far as she knows. She summons her visor.
Aeon_Phoenix: There's explosive in it.
Phoenix_Wright: We're hoping if we understand how it works a little better, we might be able to figure out something about the current one going on. Which reminds me, um...
Abe_Sapien headtilts, looking at it. Peels off a glove. He'll reach out to touch it unless someone stops him.*
Phoenix_Wright pulls out the item in the bag. A DVD. "Er, anybody up for a movie?"
Aeon_Phoenix: I think. And if it'll blow I'll get it out of here asap.
Lucca pops on her helmet. At a touch, a green lens extends over her right eye.
Aeon_Phoenix: No thanks. I've seen all the movies.
Lucca doesn't notice Abe as of yet.
Aeon_Phoenix: And I thought my life could get gory..
Sailor_Mercury: "Movie?"
Abe_Sapien is right there, sort of ... holding his fingers over the tiny collar thing.*
Grif: "...Buh?"
Phoenix_Wright sighs. "I'm not really looking forward to watching it myself, but I'm hoping to get a hint on what to look for as far as the island this thing is taking place at."
Sailor_Jupiter: I'll pass.
Phoenix_Wright holds it up. "Guess what? Killgrave doesn't always talk out of his ass." Sure enough, it's Battle Royale.
Lucca is so focused that she doesn't even notice him... until just now. "What're you doing?"
Grif: "Wait. Is this one of those Stuff In The Nexus Is Fictional Elsewhere things we usually don't bust other people on?"
Phoenix_Wright: Yep.
Grif: "Oh, you magnificent bastard."
Aeon_Phoenix: From what I can remember, it's basically people being pitted against each other for survival
Phoenix_Wright smiles a bit. "I try, I try."
Abe_Sapien lightly touches it.Reading it.
Phoenix_Wright: Yeah, pretty much. Which is what is going on somewhere right now.
Sailor_Mercury turns to Makoto. She ought to watch this, to be able to help.
Phoenix_Wright: It's... not really my kind of movie, but I'm grasping at straws here.
Aeon_Phoenix: ...I hope you have a strong stomach.
Metody leaned over the bar to look at Phoenix. "Pardon...how much of the island do they show? Because you can tell all sorts of things about the geology and weather patterns by looking at the landscape, and sometimes, that can tell you where it is."
Phoenix_Wright: That really increases my drive to see it.
Phoenix_Wright: That's a good question. It's why I'm going to watch it.
Aeon_Phoenix: Do you know if they're using the same island?
Lucca: *whirring noise from her helmet I know it's got a signal detonator. Radio, possibly. Polyisobutylene amongst other things in there...
Sailor_Jupiter shrugs at Ami. "I didn't like the book."
Grif stands up and puts his whiskey away. "However, much as I'd love to help, I gotta get going."
Aeon_Phoenix: If they are, I can get satellite pictures
Phoenix_Wright: Not particularly, no. But I'll take what I can get.
Phoenix_Wright: Even if I can't find THEIR island, if I find one of THESE islands, I can look around it, get a feel for the layout of these sorts of things.
Sailor_Mercury: "I think... I think it'd help if I watched."
Aeon_Phoenix nods. "I can get them to you first thing."
Sailor_Jupiter: See you.
Lucca: Alright. *grabs a small screwdriver, pic, and wire cutters from the cluster of tools.*
Phoenix_Wright: That'd be great!
Metody: "I might be able to help too. I focus on the scenery anyway, might as well put it to use." He was willing to accept what the man was talking about, if only as an intellectual exercise. This gave him the greatest idea for some class activities.
Phoenix_Wright nods. "Well, it might be best to watch this somewhere where people with weak stomachs besides me can watch it." Yes, he just monologud in the middle of spoken dialogue. shut up.
Sailor_Mercury blanches. "You're not staying?"
Echo_V appears suddenly, right there on the Sanctuary floor. Young woman with blonde hair that is longer on one side than the other. She's still wearing the grey jumpsuit, whose entire front is covered in blood. Her hair on one side of her head is also coated in blood as is her neck on the same side. She shrieks and curls, covering her head with her arms.
Echo_V: http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70857489/14775707
Lucca: We're looking at the potential explosive power of several times that of gunpowder, judging by the models I'm generating... *She immediately jumps at Echo's screech, dropping her tools*
Aeon_Phoenix: The hell?!
Sailor_Jupiter jerks to her feet. "Shit!"
Abe_Sapien whirls at the sound, the tiny collar now clenched in his hand. Perspectives blend for an instant and he stares.*
Grif puts his helmet on and teleports out.
Phoenix_Wright: !!
Aeon_Phoenix wasn't expecting that
Phoenix_Wright: Get her comfortable! It's another one!
Sailor_Jupiter snags the first aid kit she'd been using. "Here!"
Aeon_Phoenix hops over the bar, heading towards the woman
Abe_Sapien: Wait--I think she's come back with something!
Echo_V isn't injured anymore, but the blood is still there. She hasn't uncurled just yet.
Phoenix_Wright: She has?!
Sailor_Mercury stands, eyes trying to take everything in.
Metody: "Hngh!" He threw his hands up and stumbled back, then gaped in horror, then dashed around the bar to the girl's side. One hand was out.
Phoenix_Wright: Wait! The injuries are probably not even there anymore!
Aeon_Phoenix: *To EchoAre you alright?
Echo_V is breathing very quickly and she peers past her arms wide-eyed. She looks very disoriented.
ChozoIsis: **Echo is followed by another one, the Isis variant. Same jumpsuit and everything, but sans the collar one might expect. She, too, is covered in a -lot- of bloodGUH. *both hands go for her neck, as soon as she realizes she can move.*
Phoenix_Wright: !!
Phoenix_Wright: Jesus, two at once...
Phoenix_Wright: -- ! Wait, it's Isis!
Echo_V also lacks a collar btw.
Sailor_Jupiter: Where's Ami when you need her?
ChozoIsis is easily tellable that she's -not- Eiko's Isis. She's thinner built, more athletic and her hair's in a ponytail. And she starts swearing. A -lot-.
Abe_Sapien peels off the other glove and makes his way toward Echo in a few long strides, and takes a handful of her clothing. You might not have come back with any supplies or the collar, but you didn't come back /naked./*
Phoenix_Wright has met her on occasion.
Lucca: O_O That doesn't SOUND like Miss Isis...
Echo_V snarls at Abe and tries to shove him away violently.
ChozoIsis (and in several languages!)
Sailor_Jupiter: Back off, fishman!
Phoenix_Wright: It's one of her alternates.
Sailor_Mercury is hurt rather a lot by that little reminder.
Lucca: How many does she HAVE?
Sailor_Jupiter: You're going about too fast.
Aeon_Phoenix: Whoa! Hold on there! Everone back off for a sec!
Phoenix_Wright nods.
Aeon_Phoenix: Just let them calm down.
Abe_Sapien: *He steps back. He has enough.*
Echo_V is looking at Abe very, very dangerously. Get the fuck away from her.
Phoenix_Wright nods, bringing out whatever good booze he can find.
Metody quietly scrambled back behind the bar, very happy to be far, far away from the crazy blood-covered woman.
ChozoIsis deep breaths. /Deep/ breaths. She releases her neck, just staring at the ceiling for the moment, trying to get her mind back in some semblence of order.
Sailor_Jupiter makes a mental note never to let Abe around accident victims. Ever.
Aeon_Phoenix tries to get Echo to pay attention to her.
Echo_V is very confused and disoriented, yes.
Sailor_Jupiter holds the first aid kit out to Isis. "Hey. Need some help?"
Lucca: What's going on here? Where did they come from? *pause Where'd the collar go??
Echo_V: Isis? *She croaks, noticing the other woman*
Phoenix_Wright also subtly hides the DVD again.
Sailor_Mercury is just trying to give these people their time to recover. Not sure she should say anything...
Phoenix_Wright: Judging by the way they're reacting... I'd say they exploded.
Aeon_Phoenix: Someone get me some water
Echo_V doesn't correct Phoenix, but no she did not go boom.
Phoenix_Wright nods and gets a full pitcher, then passes it to Aeon.
ChozoIsis shifts to sit up, now. Shaking, "No." She shakes her head, voice cracked and tired, "We got attacked by.. a vampire, I think he was."
Phoenix_Wright: A vamp -- fuck, was it Sri?
Aeon_Phoenix: Thanks. *To Echo and IsisDo you two want a class of water?
Echo_V is trying to stop trembling. "Water. Yes."
ChozoIsis: Don't know his name, water would be--very good. Yes.
Aeon_Phoenix: Phoenix, I need some glasses please.
Phoenix_Wright nods and passes some glasses.
Echo_V didn't catch his name either.
Echo_V: Why are we here? *Her voice has calmed considerably though she's still trembling*
ChozoIsis: Don't know.
Phoenix_Wright: You died, probably, and the game sent you back.
ChozoIsis: ...
Abe_Sapien is unfazed by any vicious glaring.*
Aeon_Phoenix: *pours out a generous offering and hands one to Echo then to Isis*
Echo_V: So that's it? It's all game? *She laughs, half hysterical.*
Aeon_Phoenix: Sadly yes.
Phoenix_Wright looks very unhappy. "As it was last year."
Echo_V takes her drink gratefully and gulps it.
Sailor_Mercury: "Not what most people would think of as a good one."
ChozoIsis drinks it, but making sure to do so slowly before speaking again, "Apparently." She says to Echo, glaring at nothing.
ChozoIsis: I find him out -here-.
Abe_Sapien: Indeed not.
Phoenix_Wright: We're still trying to find out who, and why.
Echo_V: I'll put a bullet in his fucking head.
ChozoIsis: I.. *ngh.And he'll regret it.
Echo_V is not pleasant when she's pissed.
ChozoIsis: I put a unknown language missile in his /gut/.
ChozoIsis: Make him suffer like he did -us-.
Phoenix_Wright rubs his face. "It's not the guy who did it last year, we know that much."
Echo_V: I wasn't here last year. *more drinking*
Aeon_Phoenix: So a copycat then.
Echo_V can barely hold the glass, stop shaking plz.
Phoenix_Wright nods. "Someone who liked what they saw."
Phoenix_Wright: Or, hell, just based on what I've found today, they could've even copied it from the fictional source.
Aeon_Phoenix sees the shaking but doesn't comment. She know how Echo feels
Sailor_Mercury: "/Why?/"
Lucca looks around... finds that Abe has the collar! Heads towards him, dodging people already in eager conversation. "You gonna keep that for posterity, or what?"
Echo_V pauses and looks at the water. "I need a stronger drink." Echo doesn't drink. This is saying something.
Phoenix_Wright: I don't... I don't know. I wish I did, but I don't. I can't even begin to understand.
Aeon_Phoenix: Because some people are just sick fucks.
Abe_Sapien: I'm comparing the information I've gotten.
ChozoIsis: ..PINpoints have comm devices in them, don't they?
Aeon_Phoenix: And I think the last thing you need is alcohol. At least not before you've eaten.
Sailor_Jupiter: ...
Lucca: ...? How? All you did is hold it? Wait... you're able to sense things through the objects, aren't you?
Sailor_Jupiter doesn't mention that her father's castle had gladiatorial fights sometimes. She loved them.
Abe_Sapien: *nods*
Phoenix_Wright sighs. "If it's like last year, PINs are jammed."
Sailor_Mercury: "Why set it all up again, though, including the revival?"
Phoenix_Wright: That's a good question. The revival, especially.
Echo_V stands up slowly, ignoring Aeon, and goes to find a fucking drink.
ChozoIsis: No. I need to contact my AI. Let them know I'm back.
Phoenix_Wright: Just to traumatize?
Phoenix_Wright: Ah... yeah, I told them to let you have a good vacation when you got back.
Aeon_Phoenix: Probably. We wouldn't know for sure until we find whose responsible to ask them.
Echo_V: Isis, do you want something?
Metody gave Echo a faint smile from behind the bar. "Hey. What would you like? And do you want something to eat?"
Phoenix_Wright: Um, can I ask you something? Really, really weird?
ChozoIsis: Something -strong-.
Echo_V doesn't smile back but she is grateful. "Whatever's strong. I don't really have the stomach for food right now." She knows full well she's going to regret this, she just can't care right now.
Aeon_Phoenix: There's suppose to be a bottle of rum. % proof. Grab that.
Phoenix_Wright looks for the bottle and grabs it, pulling it out and passing it over.
Phoenix_Wright: Guys? I have a tiny question about this, if you're up to answering anything.
Echo_V will accept the bottle when it's passed to her, pouring a drink for both herself and Isis
Aeon_Phoenix: Is there ice behind there too? If not I can magik some up.
ChozoIsis stands up as well, shaking, "Ask the question."
Phoenix_Wright looks for ice, finds some, passes it. "Was there any signs in Japanese where you were?"
Sailor_Mercury still doesn't get it.
Metody: "Rum it - oh." He shuffled to the side to give Phoenix lots of room, grabbing up his beer for a sudden, thirsty gulp.
Echo_V passes a drink to Isis after ice. She isn't talking anymore right now. She's going to sit and drink. and her mun is going to be scarce for a moment.
Lucca makes her way back to Ami. "I think Abe's going to do some more work on that device. We don't need to worry about it, for now."
Aeon_Phoenix almost forgot that she still had the water pitcher in her hand, resting it down before taking the ice and snagging a glass for herself
ChozoIsis drinks it heavily. "...Japanese?" ..A bit of an awkward pause. "..A moment." She leans over the bar, pulling a PINpoint out and sending a message.
Phoenix_Wright: ...
Phoenix_Wright crosses his fingers.
Sailor_Mercury nods to Lucca. "Alright. If you say so."
ChozoIsis: **A small device appears on the bar, which she then affixes to her ear.Japanese? *A beat-Ah-. I didn't see any, no.
Phoenix_Wright freezes a bit as this sinks in, then slumps. "Goddamn it. It is a different island."
Lucca: ... ... ...Uh... hey, I don't think I heard your name before. Heh. I'm Lucca Ashtear.
ChozoIsis: It wasn't an island.
ChozoIsis: It was a valley.
Phoenix_Wright: Not an...
Metody: "Is there any sand, or dirt, or stones caught in the treads of your shoes?" For a moment, the timidity is gone, replaced by the light of sudden inspiration.
ChozoIsis: River running through the middle.
Phoenix_Wright puts his head in his hands. "For the -- we're back to square one again!"
Abe_Sapien: A different location... but the same motive.
Aeon_Phoenix: Actually, maybe not.
Phoenix_Wright: Eh?
Abe_Sapien puts the collar down on the bar.
Aeon_Phoenix: I think I can find the location.
Phoenix_Wright: You... you can? Really?!
ChozoIsis chugs more rum.
Aeon_Phoenix: I believe so.
Aeon_Phoenix: Now, think about it for a second. How did they get here in the first place?
Sailor_Mercury: "WHAT motive? I'm Sailor Mercury. Ami Mizuno, in civilian life." It's no secret here.
Aeon_Phoenix: They didn't walk here
Lucca: Hi, Ami. Nice name. ^-^
Echo_V is quietly drinking her own drink.
Lucca: They were probably teleported.
Aeon_Phoenix: Exactly!
Abe_Sapien: Some sort of teleportation. Not a PINpoint exactly, but something that functions similarly.
ChozoIsis: Anubis. How did I vanish? *A few beats...That's odd. He doesn't know.
Phoenix_Wright nods. "If we can find the general location, we can start scanning different worlds. Chances are if we find one that fucks up on the PINpoint, we have our location."
Lucca: So what?
ChozoIsis: According to the scan records, I'm there one second, and gone the next.
Phoenix_Wright: That's how it works.
Aeon_Phoenix: If I'm right, we can trace the energy trail.
ChozoIsis: There's no PIN effect to trace, however.
Lucca: The--
Aeon_Phoenix: Teleportation requires energy.
Echo_V watches and half-listens quietly, eyes strangely dead as she sips her drink.
Abe_Sapien: Does anyone know who a ... 'Jackie C' is? Young, blonde, with an accent from ... liverpool?
Luc will, at length, step out of the sideroom, a little bit ruffled.
Lucca: She's got a point. A portal needs two points...
Phoenix_Wright: Er, no?
Aeon_Phoenix: No sorry.
Echo_V: I met her before. She was in the video they showed us too.
Abe_Sapien: *nods*
Aeon_Phoenix: ....
ChozoIsis: Same.
Phoenix_Wright: ...What?
Aeon_Phoenix: I think we need to find this Jackie C
Echo_V: I spoke to her in the Nexus. At the beginning of the... game, she was in the video explaining it.
Echo_V 's voice is kinda dead too.
Phoenix_Wright furrows his brow. "So we need to find her, too. And trace this energy..."
Echo_V: Excuse me. *She stands, leaving her drink behind, and heads out.*
Echo_V is now known as Darksong
Sailor_Mercury brightens. "Something to go on."
Abe_Sapien eyes the drink. Or, more specifically, the glass.*
Aeon_Phoenix nods. "We may need to split into..." Nix looks at Echo. "We may need to split into two teams as it were."
ChozoIsis: Anubis. PINpoint. *-Her- Pinpoint appears on the bar, and she takes it.I need to go. *Vanish! Sorry, folks, but she needs to, er. ..Go be sick, now.*
ChozoIsis is now known as Matt
Lucca: ...how're you going to find her if the two people who have seen her are gone?!
Phoenix_Wright rubs his face. "Give them time. When they're ready, they'll help."
Lucca: I guess the only thing we can do is trace the portal points, then.
Sailor_Mercury: "As much as I hate to say it, we might have to wait on that. There's the movie."
Phoenix_Wright nods. "Which from the sounds of things might be useless, but we can at least see where the old one took place."
Sailor_Mercury is still stuck on the whole motive thing. "And get a better idea of what we're trying to stop, or... WHY."
Phoenix_Wright: Yeah...
Luc: "Sometimes, Miss, people just want to watch people die."
Phoenix_Wright: Hermes ran it to garner sacrifices, or so he said.
Phoenix_Wright: What's this guy's motive?
Abe_Sapien: It's ... what it seemed like from what I saw.
Phoenix_Wright: ...
Sailor_Mercury: "Then why /save/ them? It doesn't make sense."
Abe_Sapien: Hm?
Phoenix_Wright: Hermes... claimed he needed the experience of sacrifice for it to work, but he didn't want them dead. But this guy... why?
Luc: "The motivation is less united for everyone to hunt him down and kill him two months from now when this is all over."
Phoenix_Wright: If most of them were dead, they wouldn't be able to hunt him anyway.
Luc: "No angry families. No angry shades after you. Just ordinary people whose horror fades to nightmares who might eventually decide it's not worth it. Assuming, as he probably does, taht they won't get to him in the heat of their anger."
Abe_Sapien: Hermes ... was not seen in the first one. It's possible that this time there are agents, as well.
Phoenix_Wright: Hmm...
Lucca: They could be a testing ground. Or an experiment...
Metody: "Or he's some kind of sick freak who prefers the idea of a lifetime of remembered horror to a bit of fear and then death." he quietly commented from the bar. If they wanted a private conversation, they'd be having one...
Sailor_Mercury: "Or one dedicated, dangerous person, twisted and broken enough to make your torture and eventual death a very planned, very real life goal."
Phoenix_Wright feels a bit ill at that.
Phoenix_Wright winces suddenly at that one.
Luc isn't going to say a /word/ about Hermes. He nods a little to Metody. "Could be that, too."
Lucca: Now many people do we know are participating in this thing?
Aeon_Phoenix speaks quietly. "Some people are just like mad dogs. Wanting to just cause chaos just for the hell of it."
Sailor_Mercury: "There's a lot of risk involved in a large group of killers and giving them a reason to hate you. That... the preference is possible."
Abe_Sapien: At least ... a dozen.
Luc: "I'm not saying their logic is the /best/, miss. Just that it could be there. Especially if they revelled in death but particularly feared ghosts or something."
Lucca: Exactly. This person probably doesn't have a reason to personally hate each person.
Phoenix_Wright: Who could it be, though? There's plenty of people like that in the Nexus...
Lucca: So it's... nothing personal.
Phoenix_Wright: Which almost makes it worse.
Abe_Sapien: The individual on the screen seemed ... amused.
Phoenix_Wright closes his eyes, taking a few breaths.
Aeon_Phoenix: I don't think they're afraid of ghost. They probably want to prolong the pain hence the revival
Sailor_Mercury: "Torture." She sounds horrified.
Phoenix_Wright: Excuse me, I... think I need some fresh air for a bit.
Phoenix_Wright ducks out into the yard.
Abe_Sapien: Those who went through the last one still have memories. Nightmares.
Luc nods a little. Then. "Good night, everyone. I have to report home." And he heads out.
Metody gave Aeon a quietly worried look. "If that's the case - isn't there a chance he'll take some of them back?" Let them go, just long enough to realize they'd been rescued, drag them back to the nightmare again...oh, yes, he could believe it of some people.
Lucca has blanched a little too.
Sailor_Mercury: "If -- he just might. We need to figure this out before something like that happens."
Aeon_Phoenix thinks quietly for a few moments. "He'll probably have to get them back the same way he transported them."
Aeon_Phoenix: But I'm basically guessing here
Lucca: He probably would. It's worked so far for him.
Metody: "I realize that it's planning in case of failure - but if it's possible, why not put some kind of tracer on them? It'd speed up rescue if he did manage to grab them." In some dim, shameful part of his head, Metody was proud. He was helping. Ish.
Aeon_Phoenix: Maybe. But there's some fault with that
Abe_Sapien: The signal wouldn't get through.
Aeon_Phoenix: That or what if he doesn't want the same victims?
Aeon_Phoenix: You can't trace the whole Nexus population.
Lucca is still scanning the empty air where the two had materialized...
Nai is now known as naight
Metody: "Are there any commonalities between the victims? It seems unlikely they'd be chosen at random." When he was thinking, he lost that hunched-over posture, his shoulders loosened, and the tension drained from his face. He idly twisted a lock of his long hair around a finger, pondering.
Abe_Sapien: Hmmm. No, none of them seemed to have a common thread.
Aeon_Phoenix: Did they disappear from random spots in the Nexus or in their homeworlds? Maybe they were in a common area. Hrm...
HotAndColdAndAFK is now known as HotAndCold
Abe_Sapien: *shakes his head That, I don't know.
Aeon_Phoenix: We'll that's something for the list.
Lucca: Yeah. If they were taken from their homeworlds, then this guy went through the effort of tracking them down...
Abe_Sapien: *nods*
Metody: "Or were they doing something in common that might have made them easier to take." It almost sounded sane to him, provided he didn't really think about what he was thinking about.
Aeon_Phoenix: *Nods*
Aeon_Phoenix: But since everyone taken is a Nexus regular or I'm assuming they are, I think we can start there
Metody: "That...seems like a heck of a thing to be coincidental." He rubbed his hands over his face wearily. "I admit, I'm new here" - very new - "but from what I understand, it's not exactly common to wander through. If there's a commonality, there's a reason for the commonality. Maybe contact with the same person or organization..?"
Aeon_Phoenix: Hrm. Probably.
Sailor_Mercury jumps up at something and dashes out. "I'm sorry, I'll be back!"
Abe_Sapien: People end up here by mistake rather often.
Lucca: :_:!
Aeon_Phoenix: I'm sorry but I'll have to leave you all in the middle of things. If Phoenix comes back in, could you tell him that I'll still get the pictures for him? They may stil come in handy.
Abe_Sapien gathers his things.I'm afraid I need to leave, as well.
Aeon_Phoenix: Ah. I hope I see you around the Nexus then. Ta! *disappears*
Abe_Sapien: *blinks*
Lucca: Seeya, Abe.
Abe_Sapien: Goodnight. *heads off for parts unknown. There is a kerflop from the other side of the fourth wall as his mun falls over.*
Metody flinched at the sudden motion from Mercury. He politel nodded to Aeon and Abe as they left, then took another gulp of his beer. He was so glad he didn't have to drive far home.