It's morning. keia, you are waking up in your new quarters, which you are not quite used to but you still got a decent night's sleep. Kiku, you're making your way to where your own quarters are after having spent the night -- elsehwere. You think you know where you're supposed to go. (Nod!) Keika, are you actively looking for any of the others? Kiku, make a Mind roll. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kiku (2d6) and gets 7. (Made by 1.) (Nah, exploring the base, just to see what's where ^^) (Sorry distracted by parents having computer troubles) You soon find your quarters, espeically since they have a little pink Gojira with the word "Kiku" on it on the door. (... This...feels totaly backwords, but whatever.) (Heh.) At least Katsu will have no trouble figuring out where to find you.... (Aww, we didn't run into eachother in the halls? Darn.) keika, you come across Kuiku standing at her door. * Kiku wanders around manages to make her way to her quarters! Which is good, because she sure looks a mussed up mess in her JSDF uniform. And is that a faint smell of beer? Nah. Can't be. * theBird stares at Kiku instead. * Kiku stares at the door and giggles, and brings up an almost violently twitching hand to touch it. The door handle regonizes your palm print and unlatches. * Michael is now known as GM ... I am not even going to ask what happened to you last night. Do you want to open the door? * theBird makes a disaproving noise. (crap, 4 second lag >.<#) * Keika actualy turns her head to adress the bird sitting on her shoulder, "And you stay out of this." * Kiku looks over at Keika and smiles. "Hiya? Um... I can open it.' She looks at it. You ahve no trouble opening the door. * theBird looks at the door for a moment. Try pushing. Inside is a bad, a sink, a table, a chair, all your plushies, a well=decorated windwo, a TV/DVD combo, and a shower. There's also a closet with about six clean unioforms. Kiku, you are overwhelmed by how nice this room is compared to your cell. * Kiku opens the door and almost cries. "Oh, look at all this stuff!" ... Kiku, you suddebly notice how hot and sticky you are. It's a hot day, and you haven;t had a shower yet this morning. * Kiku turns towards Keika and asks, "Do you have all this stuff too?" No. No I do not. You however smell like you could make use of some of it. Actually, keika, your quarters are similarly equipped, just with no plushies. You have a TV/.DVD too, your own shower, and all that. * Kiku tosses the plush onto the bed, and then turns to Keika. "I... smell?" She sniffs, then her eyes widen and runs over to the closet and grabs the first thing she can and then dashes for the shower. (* Stands firm by her statement!) Are you going to do anythign while Kiku showers? * Keika shakes her head once, and then walks directly to Kiku's chair. * theBird hops to the ground and starts inspecting the plushies. On the table is a magazine thre size pof a phone book. The plushies are all in the shape of giant monsters. Yhere's a FGojira, a Rodan, a Gidarah, a Gamera -- you get the idea. * theBird waits a short while, and after running out of plushies to look at flies up to the table where it's mistress reaches over and opens the magazine for it. It's a trashy manga. * Zegon (zegon@c-24-15-245-98.client.comcast.net) has joined #deathblossoms (Porn! Score!) (*thwaps her bird) (Ha!) * GM notes the real thing was better. (*points GM at /msg* Vaguely relevant question, in the scheme of things.) * Keika flips ahead a few dozen pages, and then a hundred or so, and then just about takes her birds head off slamming it shut. Kiku, you hear the book slammed shut in the shower. * Kiku turns off the water, then comes out of the shower with a towel wrapped around her. She's flushed and still mostly wet and is carrying the two JSDF suit she went into the bathroom with. You're pretty clean by now, ready to cahnge into your uniform. * theBird watches Kiku walk into the room. * Keika simply does her best to ignore her. * Kiku throws the dirty one aside and grabs some other clothes out of a dreser drawer. She murmurs, "Spooked me." Kiku, are you sure you wan Keikia's bird to watch you dresss? (No. I just forgot some things. @_@) Forgive me, you will not have to worry about me doing that again. (for very narrow values of that :P) (Heh.) * Kiku nods at her and says, with a frown, "Good!" She looks over all the plushies to make sure that the bird didn't eat any, then she takes her clothes with her back into the bathroom and changes where the creepy plushie-eating bird can't see. (Grrrr!) * Keika drums her fingers lightly on the table and her bird watches them intently. * Kiku comes out a bit later, probably in a JSDF suit that fits her no better than the last one, but at least it, and she, are CLEAN. She's brusing her hair with her mostly steady one hand, because the other is not behaving. "No dress today, I don't think!" she says semi-absently. There's a knock on the door. * Kiku continues brushing her hair and says, "Keeeeika, can you get that?" She smiles at her cutely. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kiku (2d6) and gets 5. (Woo empathy check on Keika.) Keika, how are you feeling? (She's annoyed, and just the teeeniest bit flustered by the manga.) You sense this, Kiku. (Way ahead of you ^_^;) (Come on! Tell her you won't open the door, you big meanie!) You hear Katsu's voice on the other side of the door. "Kiku? Are you home?" * Keika stands up and collects her mechanical bird, "....I belive that it would be best for you to be the one to greet him." * Kiku blinks, and says, "Yes, Katsu, but Keika won't open the door for me!" Brush brush brush. She starts staring at other things in the room. Stuff. *_* Or not. You notice the picture on the coiver of the manga. it;s of two bishonen. You figure Katust had better not see that. Katsu. * Keika walks to the door and pulls it open with a jerk, "Hello." * Kiku eeps and runs and grabs a plush and puts it on top of the book. Smooth, Kiku. Smooth. (It's not a very good place either. Shaky hand.) "Ah, I see she has company. I don;t want to inerrupt, but I was sent to fetch Kiku. You, too. YOu ahve a mission debriefing session in half an hour with Captain Hiratsuko." * Kiku then turns to Katsu and smiles. She's still brushing her hair. There was nothing to interupt. Katsu smiles. "You still fill out that unfirm pretty well, dear. I see you cahnged into one that bit better." * theBird swings it's head around to stare down at Katsu. You were the one responsible for that? * Kiku walks over near Keika (and Katsu) and nods, saying with a small blush, "Thank you." Katsu turns to Keika. "By the way, the officers get breakfast in the Officer's Mess. It's about a quarter-lick south of here. I understand they get pretty good grub over there." * Kiku 's eyes widen and she stammers, "I... is Keika an officer?" Katsu leads over to Kiku and gives her a kiss on the forehead. "Don;t you worry about a thing, Kiku-chan. Everything is going to be fine." No, I have no rank that would matter here. Katsua laughs. "Of course! So are you, kiku! All the pilots are officers! You even draw a bigger pay envelope than a mere non-com like me!" I stand corrected. "Even Nova is going to draw a pay envelope, even if she is A>R>E>S> "property" Gee i wish they wouldn;t do that to Toobies." "They're just as human as anyone else, and they;re treated like slaves. it's not right. But what can i do about it? I just fix mecha." * Keika snorts, "Perhaps she will do something about it herself, perhaps she will not." * Kiku makes a wow face. "I'm an officer." "Oh, speaking of which -- keika, your new gun is in place and has been tested. Hopefully it won;t burn out on the first shot this time." That is something to look forward to. * Kiku still looks sorta stunned. "Well, I've got to run. Prveentative maintanence on your mechs to take care of. Kiku-chan, if you're free tongiht I'd like to show you how the video system works. It connects to a base-wide database of over 16 million movies, TV shpows, and Original Video productions from 1914 on. Even the foreign films are subtitled in japanese. YOu could really veg out in a place like this if you didnt;l have a job to do." How...nice. "All the quarters have it from the non-coms on up. You might want to give it a try. Broaden your cultural perspective. Can your bird decode visual images for you?" "Anyway, we've also got something like 200 songs in 17 languaages in the database as well. So you can liosten to a lot of different music." He's such a usefull bird, isn't it? * theBird preans. * Kiku nods at Katsu slowly, then says suddenly excited, "Movies sound great!" "If you want to use the Internet, there are computers in the Officer's Mess. With foirty gig wireless connections. Fastest things on the planet, but you have to watch out for the censorware." Katsu smiles. "Maybe we can watch one of those kaiju movies you seem to love so much. We even have the original Gojira." * Keika shrugs. "Well, see you later, ladies! See you tonight, Kiku!" Katsu gives Kiku a kiss and leaves. One thing before you go. Where would I find a uniform that...fits? * Kiku takes the kiss graciously, enjoying it a little more than she should and beams at Katsu as he answers questions. "the quartermaster. Half a klick north in the big white building. They have a lot of unfiroms there. You can even egt your new unit oatches there." patches ...Well then. * Kiku looks slightly confused, as she tries to put together all the things she has to do now. "And... where's that meeting thingy?" "The headquarters. Three-qyarter clicks west in the big black hall." * Kiku smiles again now that everything makes sense. At least, until her stomach rumbles and she ohs. "Well, we should eat Katsu if we're going to get debriefed so bye!" She waves, but it's with the twitchy hand. Weird. Yes, do you remember which building the officers mess is? Katsu gives you accurate directions. * Kiku does remember, but Katsu repeats himiself so she doesn't have to! He's so nice. "Come on, Keika, we better hurry!" She grabs the plushie off the book and slips her very soft slipper-shoes on. If you well excuse us then, we will attempt to eat before we become late. "I;'ve got to get back to work too. Later!" Katsu leaves and lets you two leave before closing the door, which locks itself. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kiku (2d6) and gets 9. * Keika waits for the count of ten or so and then reaches for the door, "We do not have much time." (We are outside the door. ^^) (I thought we were all still inside. @_@) * Kiku looks after the leaving Katsu and carries the plush she randomly grabbed, which looks like a godzilla clone, except with tentacles and three eyes and blue skin. She giggles, then looks over at Keika. "Yep! You're right." It has been known to happen on a rare occasion. * Kiku frowns in slight confusion. "Soooo... are you going?" * Keika starts to follow the instructions to the officers mess, walking fairly slowly, "yes." * Kiku follows Keika. Like, actually follows, half step aside and a step behind. * theBird seems to be having a hard time deciding if it wants to watch Kiku or the hallway ahead, but straight ahead eventualy wins out. Can we come back after a short break? I have something I need to take care of. You two can interact among youselves and send me the log later. Roll dice as needed. (Sure) (Sure!) * Kiku follows! Every so often she makes a slight noise of discomfort, and eventually blurts out, "So, um... Officer Keika, what's your full name?" * Keika sighs, "You are also an officer, so calling me by that title is unessisary. And that is all of my name that there is." ... Oh. But I thought... um... well, okay. * Keika stays silent for a bit, and after a light headbutt from her bird asks, "And yourself?" * Kiku says, cheerily, "Kiku Eriko, that's me." She looks slightly confused. "But a lot of people know my name without asking. I guess you don't." (That was english-form, because I type in english, and I am dumb.) (...Eriko is her family name?) (Yes. Yes, Cap already told me it was dumb. ;_;) (I'll second him, but we can just say that we have strange people in the future) I spend most of my time in a place where news of what was going on in the world was mostly rumor, and much of that false. Oh. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kiku (2d6) and gets 8. * Kiku walk along some more. "Um... oh, I forgot to apologize for yesterday. Right." No, you have forgotten that you apologized. * Keika stops for a moment to open a door, she reaches directly for the handle and pulls it open. * Keika steps through, and while shoving it slightly farther open as she does so, doesn't actualy hold it for Kiku. * Kiku pauses for a second, then exclaims, "Oh!" She stops when Keika stops, at the same spacing, even, and then follows through, catching the door herself instead. "I wonder what we'll get debriefed about. We went there, blew up a bunch of stuff, and came back." * Kiku makes a face. "They always ask too many questions." Why did you attack eachother. Why didn't you listen to us. Why this and why that. * Kiku frowns, then ohs. "Well, that one is easy. Because they are evil and dumb." She seems pleased with her answer, and even looks down at the plush as if to check with it on the response. She then makes some more of those discomfort noises. * Keika grins underneith her blindfold, "That does work for all the questions." And if your new boyfriend was right, we should be there soon. (Were you going to eat or to debrief?) (to eat) * Kiku blinks, then nods. "Grea--" she then blushes furiously when Keika says boyfriend. * Kiku mumbles, "He's no... Kei always said I couldn't have one." And where is this Kei now? And where are you? * Kiku whips her head around, as if looking for Kei, then says, "She's not here." Beat. "And I am." So, why does it still matter what Kei said? * Kiku looks like she's thinking hard about that, if the bird is watching. * theBird is looking forward, and has been sitting very still for quite a while now. * Kiku finally says, "'Cause... it does. So... um, he's not my boyfriend." She then quickly adds, "But he thinks he is, which is almost as good?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kiku (2d6) and gets 7. (I'm just not empathic today.) What happens when he finds out that he isn't though? That will make him unhappy...Or is that something that you do not have to worry about? * Kiku looks confused again as she walks. "Um... but... er... oh! I know. Can I be his girlfriend? Then it'll be OK, right?" Possibly, but I do not think your Kei will see it that way. I could be wrong. * Kiku pouts. "That's not fair." Life is unfair, it's just nicer when it's unfair in your favor. Could you get away with not telling her? ...Or is she the sort who would simply know? * Kiku says, nervously, "I haven't seen her for..." frown. "... a while. But she said not to!" Beat. "But I want to." More confusion. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kiku (2d6) and gets 7. (... definitely not empathy day.) You are not Karasu, I cannot make up your mind for you. You will have to decide between them, or try for both and risk loosing both, or choose neither and definatly loose both. It is that simple, and that difficult. (I'd say you had my dice love, but you haven't rolled enough 11s) (Heh.) * Kiku thinks, then her stomach rumbles and she says, "Is the food close yet?" Soon, soon. (As in I can't get there untill the GM comes back ^^;) (Heh.) You're at the door to the Officer's MEss. * Kiku nods a little and continues following just behind her. (Yay!) * Keika pulls that door open, "Now, now." A sergeant opens the door for you and escrots you to your seats. A few minutes later a traditional japanese breakfast is brought to you, complete with rice and miso soup. Kiku., it smells delicious, but there are only chopsticks to eat with.] * theBird hops onto the table and watches Keika intently. * Kiku gets lead to eat! This, she knows how to deal with, and she starts... trying to eat. She tries to pick up the chopsticks a few times with her right twitching hand, but it doesn't work. * Keika reaches for her chopsticks and pauses when Kiku can't eat. * Keika leans back and calls out, "Serivice!" * Kiku almost seems at the verge of tears and whispers, "Why won't they let me have drugs?" * Keika speaks in a much quiter tone, "Because, they are evil and stupid." * Kiku looks at Keika and nods a little. She looks at the plush and slowly sets it down before trying to preess her right hand on the table so it can't go wiggling about on her. Unfortunately, she's not good at picking up chopsticks with her left hand either, but at least she's not _dropping_ them. * theBird flies onto it's owners shoulder as she stands up. I shall be right back. * Keika walks away from the table, with her birds head swiveling around. * Kiku nods, and looks at the soup. She raises her hand off the table as if to lift the bowl, but the second it's off, the twitching is back. She sniffles. * Keika has a few quite words with the recrute on KP who gave them their food, and few moments later comes back with a set of western flatware, which she places on the table in front of Kiku. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kiku (2d6) and gets 7. (... I only need a 6, dicebot.) (Dicy hates you in an average sort of way) (Yup, average.) * Kiku looks at the flatware and then beams at Keika. "Oh, thank you." She picks up a spoon with her left hand, which she can actually manage, and begins eating! She acts like she's found the holy grail. * Keika sits down again and takes her chopsticks in hand and begins to eat quitly. * theBird hops off of her shoulder and stands on the table again. * Kiku mms and aahs at the food. "Katsu was right, the food IS good! Mmmmm..." It is, do try not to spill any this time. * Kiku nods and says, "I won't! Otherwise we won't make it to the meeting." She eats a little faster, and says through a mouthful of food. "Sho whea aa hu from?" * Keika chews and swallows, "I am from many places, most recently the sea." * Kiku 's eyes widen. "The sea? Does that mean you're a mermaid, or a monster?" * Keika grins at a point a few degrees to the side of Kiku's head, "There are many who have called me a monster, fortunatly for me, they do not know who I am. And even if they were to find out, the whole of Tokyo's army is between me and them." Which is quite fortunate for them. * Keika picks up the bowl of soup and sips it quitly. * Kiku looks a few degrees to the side of her head, and dosn't see anything. She looks back at Keika. "So... it's just... a metaphor. Right?" (I'm halfway tempted to roll intimadation on that ^_^) (Ha!) (I think we can stipulate that you are scary and leave it at that.) * Keika puts down the bowel, "Are our mecha not in the form of the monsters that you watch? Great and terrible, and with expansive effects budgets." * Kiku looks thoughtful, then nods. "You're right! I wonder if Katsu does special effects too." She giggles to herself and continues eating. She's almost done now! Must have been very hungry. (She had quite a workout and didn't get much sleep last night o/~) (o/~) * Keika is a little less than halfway done, she's been eating much slower and Kiku had a head start. * Keika places her chopsticks across her soupbowl, "It seems that we do not have enough time to finish." * Kiku is down to very little food, but pouts anyway. "No fair! If I had had my drugs, I would be done by now!" She puts her flatware down and picks up her plush and generally looks sulky. You can stay and finish if you like. * Kiku blinks, then shakes her head and grins. "Nope! I need to be debriefed. We have to say how stupid they were. It's important!" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kiku (2d6) and gets 9. * Keika holds out an arm for her bird which hops onto it and then walks crabwise up to her shoulder, "Of course." * Keika stands up and walks out of the mess, and looks around for a hand source of ground transportation. * Kiku stands up too and follows Keika out in the same way she came in. (handy) (...and I don't do the looking. Karasu does the looking >_> <_<) (*prods Michael a few times.) A jeepo-like vehcile poulls up to take you to debreifing. Since Nova will be debriefed too, we'll run the debriefing at the next scheduled session.