keika, you arrie at the hospital. * Keika walks up to the front desk and asks where Dr. Satoshi is. "In the office." * Keika is the very essence of calm when she asks were Dr. Satoshi's office is. "Second floor, middle of the hallway. You can't miss it." Thank you. * Keika goes there and if the door isn't open, she knocks. * Hinako stops the conversation she's having to open the door. "Oh, hello Keika." Can I help you? (What does the person she was talking to sound like?) (Like a recpetionist trying to do her job.) (2nd Soprano if that helps) * Keika nods slightly. "I came to find out if you were ready for the launch." I'm tying up a few loose ends around here, but outside of that I'm relatively ready to go. My stuff has all been packed, and I'm taking a few of our staff along too, because they could use the field experience. Good. Two more questions. Have you heard from Kurata this morning, and do you know what the arrangements for Kei's body and things will be? (belongings, not things) I have not seen Kurata nor do I know of anything related to Kei. Ahh. I probibly do not need to warn you, but Kiku is still upset about last nights incidents and since you had a part in the aftermath... Well, you probibly know better than I. Untill the launch then. Indeed. (game time?) (Probibly, Keika did what she intended and is now going to go talk to NPCs. I hope you enjoyed your two minutes of RP tonight. ^^;) (yeah... no kidding.) (I think I'm going to randomly acquire a CP for a flunky.) Hinako, as keika leaves one of the young men who works with you walks up. His name is kenji Kitaka. "Satoshi-sensei, can I see you fro a moment?" * Keika calls Captain Kurata on the phone as she goes. (Enjoy your new boyfriend o/~) Yes, Kenji? "I'm a bit nervous about going into space. Will everything really be all right? There are rumors. People are saying the mission is doomed. that we're all going to die." (Staying in Tokyo after all the Mechs leave, now that's suicide.) (Indeed.) Well, Kenji, I picked you to come on this mission because I wanted the people that I know could keep their cool when the situation got rough. That's part of being a doctor in the first place. (How talented is Kenji in medicine?) (He's a good doctor, but a bit green.) (Figured.) You've got a good head on your shoulders, and you're definitely top notch at what you do. I want the people who will benefit from this experience the most to come along. "I know that, Satoshi-sensei. And I'll do my best not to let you down. I want to go home, to my friedns, to my family, to Keiko-san. we really have to do this, don't we?" (Keiko...?) (Kenji's fiance. You've met her once. Nice girl.) Yes, and as long as I'm still around, I'll make sure you get back to her in one piece. So as long as you do your best for me, I'll do mine for you. "Arigato, Satoshi-sensei. Well, I have just enough time to call keiko-san, if that's all right. Do you have someone to say boodbye to?" I wish I did. My family all died in a bad accident, and I was the only one who survived. But that was two years ago. Anyone who really matters to me... they're all going on this trip with me. 'With all the hate we are surrounded by, sensei, isn't love the thing we need more than anything? The only thing that will give us the chance to survive?" "If I didn't know Keiko-sna was waiting for me, counting on me, I don't think I could go on." There are three things that will keep us safe on this trip. Faith, hope, and love. You have all of these represented in Keiko, and you are very lucky to have found such a nice girl to be with. But for now, you should go and enjoy the time that you will have left with Keiko. 'Hai!" I'll see you when we launch. *Puts up a bright smile, and turns to go back to the nurse who was there originally (and waiting patiently!). (*Prods her Captain with a steel-toe boot. (Gomen. Multi-tasking.) (Indeed you are.) (S'allright) A voice comes on the phone. "Kurata desu." * Keika speaks into the phone. "This is Keika. I would like to apolgise for my brush off this morning. I am not a morning person." "Not a problem. Your fellow pilots are quite a crew. It's a half an hour to launch. Are you ready?" There is one last thing I would like you to help me take care of. Do you know what is to become of Kei's belongings? "kei? why do you need to know about that?" I have reason to belive that her reports on the Slythe may have been incomplete and that searching through her records and rooms may turn up some information that she was keeping to herself. That and I am also searching for anything that could possible be used to prop up Kiku for a few hours. "her rooms were sealed. Nobody can get in. Not me, not even the Major." On whos authority? "The Mayor of the City-State of Tokyo." (... I have forgotten the gender of the Mayor. @_@) (he) Then I will have to see if I can get him to unseal it in the interests of protecting his little nation while all of his firepower is away. I do not suppose you have his number do you? "No, i don't. Nobody does." (It's the big red phone!) * Keika nods. "You've got... five minutes before this becames a case of asking forgiveness. I am not going to let one idiot woman get me killed for her dreams of glory." * Keika hails a jeep to take her to building Kei's quarters are in. As you arrive at Kei's quarters, tow MPs approach you. "I'm sorry, ma'am. Nobody gets in. You understand." * Karasu looks at the gaurds. The guards draw their pistols. "We're serious, ma'am. You can't go in. If you try, we've been ordered to shoot." I do understand. I was wondering if you understood that that there are things in there that might keep you breathing after every human built mecha in this city departs in a few hours. Now loyalty is all well and good and I can admire that, but you are not serving your cities best interests by stopping me here. The MPs aim their weapons suqarely at your head. "You have ten seconds to leave." * Keika stays her ground. "You will shoot one of your last hopes in the name of justice?" You notice that they are wearing psionic supressors of a different color from what had been standard issue. "Yes we will. Now please go." * Keika shakes her head and turns around. "Fare well then. We will not meet again." The MPs do nto lower their weapons. (Use seduction. :P) * Keika takes a step back twords the jeep that brought her in and shakes her head again. "Of all the luck..." At that moment Captain Kurata's jeep pulls up. "sergeant!" he says. "I need to..." he then gets out of the way just in time as one of the MPs opens fire on him, almost mindlessly. * Hinako drives up in another jeep. "What's going on? I heard gunfire." * Keika swears fluently in English as she pulls out her staff and Karasu flys into the face of the nearest gaurd. Hinako, make a defense roll. the other Mp is shooting at you. 2d6 erm... (fail) (Give me opps) The bullet garzes your cheek for one point of damage. * Hinako draws sword. "That's not cool." Kurata hits the gorund rolling, draws his pistol, and suqeezes off three rounds int he direction of the MP that shot at him. (Burst fire. :)) The Mp is hit and falls to the ground. The other MP barely notices Karasu flapping in his face, but it is blocking his view. (Init or can I just wack this guy?) * Hinako runs up to the now psuedo blinded MP pointing the sword at his chest. Go ahead and attack him. he's just distratced enough that you'll be able to get an attack off before he can react. (hasn't made it yet though.) (bullseye) keika, you hit him squarely in the side of the head. The pistol flies away and he hits the ground HARD. he's out. * Hinako stops running before making it to the MP. * Keika collects Karasu. "Katsu? Door." (Kurata. Katsu isn;'t there.) (Augh! That's twice!) (Kurata? Door.) (gg kids!) (Too many frigging K's in this game. Need to start killing them off.) Kurata nods. "right!" He kicks open the door. (No kidding...) * Keika collapes her staff and pulls a knife out of a pocket as she follows him in. The room is dark, but the monitor on the computer is running. The script it is displaying is NOT Japanese. * Hinako follows Keika in, but watches the back as well. * Karasu looks at the computer screen. Nobody is inside. Well, well, well... Karasu, who has been programmed to at least recognize every form of writing and computer code known on earth, does not recognize this script. * Hinako pulls out a small piece of gauze and starts applying it to her cheek. (I can? Damn I'm good.) (^_^) * Keika puts down the knife and pulls out her phone to call Kiku. Kurata is shocked. "My God. Is that what i think it is?" I'm about to find out. Bets that she sold us out? That tretcherous... "I think they just took it off the board." (Hi. You missed the party) (I got hit. :() (I was expecting to end up with a headshot.) (guess so - will read log later) (I has teh log if Keika doesn't.) ( I log everything.) (As do I, but it never hurts to ask.) * Kiku responds through the phone in a hoarse and weak voice, "Hello?" * Keika does her talking in here too just for the sake of sanity. "Hello Kiku. Is Araki still with you?" * Kiku responds through the phone, through weak sobs, "Yes." * Keika continues, "That's very good to hear. I want both of you at Kei's office." "NOW!" * Kiku 's end sounds like she dropped the phone. Pick up the phone Kiku. I need to talk to you. (Give me a situation update. ^^;) (Um, there are two MPs on the ground outside the office, and there's no one else here as of yet.) (Two wounded MPs outside, door's kicked in, Keika, Hinako and Kurata standing around Kei's PC... which has a screen full of Slythe text.) Araki picks up the phone. "This is Araki. Kiku's sort of out of it. Kei? what happened?" * Keika calms down instantly. "Ah... hello Araki. Kei seems to have traded teams with you." * Kiku pops into existance, all glowy and blue-with-silver-bracelets and anklets and silver earrings. * Kiku isn't completely... solid. There are parts of her that seem to be shifting. Changing. It's like the her isn't stable. (Does she show up to Karasu?) (She's visible.) "I can't say I'm surprised. Is there any writing around in a script you don't undertsand, by any chance?" * Keika is talking on the phone. "Yes, that's why I called the two of you in. When will you be.... That's usefull." * Kiku waves a little ghostily. Hello Kiku. "Soon, but maybe not soon enough. Sned me a pciture of it." * Keika holds the phone at an angle that Karasu can see through it to the screen at. Can you read that? * Kiku 'says', telepathically to everyone, with VERY slight tinges of pain bleeding through, ~Hello.~ (-at) * Karasu aims! * Keika takes the picture. * Kiku tries to look at the screen too... * Keika brings the phone back to her ear. "What exactly is as Katka?" "A means by which the mantle of a planet is excited to the point that it ruptures the crust. it is performed on planets deemed too dangerous to the peace of teh galaxy to be allowed to continue existing." * Kiku 'gasps'. ~Oh god, that's what Kar thought... ~ * Keika snorts. "Kurata? How long will it take your ship to reach their fleet?" "Kei gave them the information they needed in exchange for passage off the planet." "It'll be close -- damn close." Right. People? We're leaving now. Like we have an option. ~We--we're already on the way to the ship...~ Get in the jeep. I have to go back to the hospital to get the remainder of the staff. I'll be there in about 2 minutes. Good. Kiku, I want you to get as much information out of this computer as you can before we leave. * Kiku 'nods'. ~I... I can stay here until the real me passes out.~ ~For real. I.. it's probably for the best.~ I want you to looks and see if there's anything in there about sabotuging our ship. * Kiku floats over. (pretend I can spell) (Secret's safe with me.) (sabotaging?) (Yesh) * Karasu looks around. Kurata looks startled. "What do you plan to do, keika-san? We have five mecha and an uanrmed spaceship against the entire Slythe fleet. And they're bound to know we're coming. what can we do?" In the mean time... where would she have hidden her valuables? (GM! Where would she have hidden her valuables!) * Karasu looks at Kurata. Strike for the head of the snake of course. (Easy. Put in a mix tape of JAM Project and commense the ass kicking :P) (Shew ould keep her valables in a safe under the bed.) (Is it a portable safe?) * Kiku 's dress shifts from blue to black and she says in a deeper voice, ~Under her bed. Safe. She... likes her bed.~ * Kiku reads the screen. Damn, not enough time to get there from here. Have to get them when we get back. (anything worthwhile in here?) Kurata smiles ruefully. "Hilde would love this. The ultimate dramatic confrontation. even if we win, it's unlikely we'll come back. But if we lose, there won't be anything to come back to.' (And anything in the thing to read?) * Kiku says, loudly, and the pain leaking back in again. ~Khahartha. It is that sort of day.~ * Keika starts taking Kei's room apart. "And what does that word mean?" ~Hope beyond hope, insanity, possibility.~ * Keika laughs. "I like that word. It has made my rich more than once." (Am I finding anything on the screen?) * Kiku carefully moves the screen around with very deliberte button presses, and the solidness of the black dress fades away into the shifting form. (A whole bunch of technical details that even msot people with doctorates in planetary geolgy wouldn't be able to fathom.) (But nothing on anything else?) (one thing. euqations on a theory that was once one of kei's favorites -- the transfer of a human mind to a digital form.) (Something she hadn't figured out but did now?) * Keika pauses in her looting and digs out he phone again and dials Katsu. (Or something we both knew but she just gave to the Slythe?) ~... oh god. She didn't.... she... Kei, what were you--~ * Kiku 's form goes full on black dress. ~You cheating bitch! You're not even DEAD!~ * Keika wraps her fingers around the mouthpiece of her phone. "She copied herself into somebody else's head?" ~No, she... she... oh... oh I... think... tired...~ Dig now, talk later. C'mon Katsu pick up the damn phone. "Katsu desu. Kieka-san, ready to go?" * Kiku clutches at her stomach and backs away. ~She copied herself. Computer Mind. Oh god.~ No, I need you to unload Hirameku, I'll be making my own way up and you're going to need an escort... badly. ... "Is something wrong? Did something happen?" ~She gave a copy of herself to the Slythe then confronted us and... oh god. Oh go--~ * Kiku shimmers out. Kei sold us out. Tell everybody to get ready to launch now. "Anything else?" * Karasu looks around. (is Kurata still here?) (Yes he is.) No. that's everything for now. Get to it. "Hai! Have you heard from Kiku?" She's on her way with Araki. * Keika hangs up and turns to Kurata. "And what are you waiting for?" Kurata backs away. "All right, I'm going." And Kurata hops into jeep, not waiting for a driver, and heads for teh Adventure. * Keika streaches and takes her time to finish the job of looting Kei's office, but she doesn't touch the computer. * Hinako and her medical squad arrive at the Adventure, all ready for takeoff.