[ We find Seylin and Tia arriving at what they believe to be Patrick's dump. Er, house. ] [ The driver of the yellow creature that they arranged to transport them here has been making suspicious glances ever since Seylin and Tia told him they wanted to be taken to this part of town. It's not hard to see why; it's obviously the 'bad part of town', for although all the houses are quite large and were once glamourous, they are now run-down and shabby, a few even having caved in on themselves. ] [ The one he stops at is no different, save that the painted-on address is fresh enough to still be visible. Well, and all the glass is intact. ] [ But, the man is happy when the pretty ladies give him the green papers, and he is also happy to leave. The neighborhood goes quiet after the great yellow beast with round legs rounds a corner. ] [ And then another beast, this one black, screams around another corner, darts down the street, and spins into a spot right in front of the same house. ] [ Session Start! ] * Seylin has a rather dismayed look on her face as she regards the building, then jumps as the black creature screeches to a halt. * Kenji thumbs the car off, having gained a lot more confidence on his second drive ever, throws the door open, and hops out. * Kenji cackles maniacally. "You see, Patrick? Just like a horse! Only bigger!" * Seylin blinks at the figure. "Kenji? Is that you?" [ Kenji lands in a puddle that seems to have been there for some time. It has stuff in it. Living stuff. ] SEYLIN! [ Tia grins fangily. "Kenji!" ] TIA! It *is* you! Thank the gods! * Kenji slams his door shut, hops bodily over the car, and grabs Seylin and Tia in a hug. * Seylin laughs and hugs Kenji back. Then she stops. "It *is* you... right?" * Kenji is dressed VERY oddly, in a black overcoat with a pair of sunglasses hanging from the pocket, but it sure looks like him, other than that. * Patrick peels around the corner on a smaller black creature that he's riding, much like a horse but with wheels and a whole lot cooler. He peels to a stop with a grin right near the group. "Sey!" * Seylin certainly looks like Seylin, sans wings and dressed rather oddly. * Kenji whispers quietly to both of them, "Yes, it's really us, but behave as if nothing's wrong. We're not entirely sure what's going on." * WillS slowly gets out of the car that Kenji drove and promptly throws up on the sidewalk. * Seylin nods to Kenji. "Okay," she whispers back. She lets go and runs over to Patrick. * Patrick jumps off his bike and runs to Seylin, hugging her when he reaches her. * Seylin kisses Patrick. "Missed you." Hey, hey! Everybody inside -before- the bedroom play begins. [ Other than you five, the whole neighborhood is quiet. ] * Patrick kisses Seylin. "You too. Let's get inside. I don't trust this place." * Seylin blushes a bit and nods. [ *very* quiet. ] [ But not too quiet. ] * Kenji hits the "lock" button on his little thingamabob. * Tia is still looking around in amazement. [ The houses in this area are mammoth, but still dilapidated. Not far from here you can see the towers of the inner city; in fact, you can see the hospital from here. ] Interesting place, this "Sin" * Tia is, by the way, in human form and dressed in a flowy blouse and bellbottoms. * WillS cleans up a bit with a handkerchief and rejoins the group. His face is pale white in color. "Hi Tia and Sey, glad to see that the both of you are all right." Sin? According to Will's diary, you're living with Patrick in someplace called "Sin" That would be here, presumably. * Patrick thinks for a moment. "Hey, Kenji, I think I have a place for us to put our mounts so they're safe from vandals." Yup! Never seen anything like it before! Great. * Seylin looks around. "Well, it's not the nicest neighborhood ever... but it'll do for now." Lead the way. * Kenji unlocks his car and hops in, avoiding the puddle of stuff this time. And glad to see you too, Will! * Tia beams. * Patrick hits a big red button that's marked as 'not the history eraser button.' [ The doors on the side of the house, where the road branches and leads up to it, swing up. ] By the way, guys, my bag is totally full of yummy things and juice! I don't know what happened to everything else, but check this out! * Kenji pulls his car into the large now-open door. * Tia busts out handfuls of candy bars and juice boxes. [ They do so remarkably quietly. Apparently they're well taken care of. ] * Patrick takes his bike into through the door too. He takes a shotgun out of the bike and holsters it, intending to inventory what the heck he's got lying around as possible weaponry. ...it occurs to me... * Kenji tries to open the trunk of his own massive mount. Think you might have some stuff lying in there too? In the storage compartment, yes. [ Kenji has a daisho shrine in his trunk. Go figure. ] ...strangely, I feel more at home now. Home on wheels. Go figure. * Kenji offers a brief prayer to this world's ancestors, and closes the storage compartment. * Patrick heads into the building. "Come on, let's take a look around." [ There's room for much more in the thing's mammoth trunk - you fould fit at least three dead people in there - but that is all empty. ] * Kenji follows patrick inside. * Seylin follows Kenji. * WillS follows Pat in too. ( Knowing Kenji, he probably has a hidden compartment with tarps and bags for -carrying- three dead people in there. ) * Tia hops out and follows Patrick into the house. So, um, do we all live here? No. Where do the rest of us live? Will and I have our own domiciles. As big as it is, I doubt it. I don't know about you. Do you have any identification? Oh. Where do I live? * Tia digs around inside her bag and looks for something like the ID card Seylin had. * Seylin pulls out her wallet. "Do you have something like this in your bag, Tia?" * Tia , alternatively, looks for a wallet. [ Tia finds one! Looks like she's a minor. Would you believe she's six-foot even and sixteen? ] [ I wouldn't. I swear to God, officer, I had *no* idea. ] Look! I found one! * Tia scratches her head. "It says I'm sixteen. I thought I was nineteen, though." A strange difference. * Seylin blinks. "Maybe time runs differently in this world?" * Tia looks for something that looks like an address. [ Tia finds one. ] Hmm, anyone know where this is? [ No. ] [ After you're all in, the garage door closes itself. ...wait, what? ] * Tia jumps. "Whoa. Did that just close by itself?" things do that in this world. I guess? A lot of things are automatic it seems. Magic. [ Patrick looks at the door to the house proper. It's large and wooden and has a badly tarnished brass knob that turns in circles without affecting the door. Something's not right. ] Oh, okay. As long as it's not a trap or anything dangerous! * WillS nods. "Definately magic." ...given that this is Patrick we're dealing with, I wouldn't rule out a trap. Given that it's me, I'd be surprised if there wasn't. Now the problem is I don't know what the trap is. Oh, right. I forgot. This is Pat's house. * Seylin whistles. "Wow. You - or the you of this world - really did a number on this." Acid and flamethrowers and spikes. Oh my. There's a keypad behind a hidden panel. I don't suppose you remember the combination? I feel like I *should*, but... nothing's coming to mind. * Tia blinks. "Good thing we didn't quite open it yet, then!" Mmmm... * Patrick thinks for a few moments. I'm drawing a blank. Sure you don't have any ideas Sey? I mean, it's something both of us should know. * Seylin shakes her head. "I don't think I'd have written it down anywhere." Walk through the wall and look from the other side. Oh! Right! I'd forgotten I could... well, anyway. * Seylin attempts to go incorporeal. * Patrick does the same. [ The other side of the door is an orderly and -- what the hell? ] * Ardweden is now known as Ardle * Ardle has left #canyonhome * Seylin yelps and lets out a stream of "ow ow OW ow ow!" Sey! Are you okay? I think this world's Patrick is even more paranoid than ours. * Patrick yells through the door after a bunch of thunking sounds happen. "Geeze that hurt!" Are you guys hurt?.... Guess that answers it. Open the door, and I'll take care of your wounds. :) * Seylin looks over at Patrick. "Or devious. Definitely more devious. Hang in there." * Seylin checks the door from this side. Remind me to figure out how to set these traps before we get back. I'm pretty sure we could wreak some serious havock on the battlefield if we have some massive traps like this. * Tia frets. "Be careful!" If you two don't open the door within six seconds, I'm going to assume you're dead and break it down. [ That's almost certainly a terrible idea. :) ] Hold on, hold on. Hang on! I wanted to make sure nothing else would happen if we opened it. Just doing a quick search for traps on THIS side too. You know, other than the one we triggered. Ouch. It looks like things are all right. * Tia continues to wriggle fretfully. [ The door slides open. Patrick and Seylin are full of burning daggers. ] * Patrick hits his head. "Okay, NOW I remember the freakin' combination. " * Patrick has already began taking the daggers out of him. * Seylin looks at Patrick as if she wants to stab him with one of those daggers. "Do tell." Ohh, you're both hurt! * Tia winces. * Patrick smirks at Sey. "You think I enjoyed this?" Somewhere out there, your other self is laughing at us both. I would, too. * WillS blinks at the sight of all those daggers. "Ahh.. I think we should get inside and sit down for this." If you can, we could use some serious patching up. Yes, please. Oh no. More traps, I think. More traps inside? * Seylin scans the room intently. Does the combination disarm everything, Patrick, or just the door? * WillS looks around to see if anybody is around before he starts casting spells in plain sight. Sure it doesn't disarm everything. Hmmm... [ Nobody can see but you adventurers. ] * Patrick walks over to a TV attatched to a typewriter. "Do you notice anything, Sey?" * WillS whispers. "Well, doesn't look like any unknown people can see us. Come over here Sey and Pat, I'll take care of those wounds right now." If by "anything" you mean "I think the entire first level is a huge deathtrap maze," then yes. Lovely. Looks like there's another keypad thing here, maybe this'll disable the rest of it. I think I remember how to get to the basement, though. There are traps, but I'm pretty sure I remember how to get around them. Please don't ask how I remember. * Patrick smiles. "Probably the same way I remember the entry combination." Shall I lead on? I wanna see the rest of the house! Please do. Okay. Don't touch anything, and watch where I step, because some of it's triggered by certain spots on the floor. * Seylin carefully weaves her way around and picks out a path. You two had better pray Alcinoe doesn't meet your doubles. Because you are both clearly evil. I don't think I can argue with you on that. * Tia nods. "Okay, I'm watching carefully!" Even if my other self didn't help design this, she at least agreed to it... It's a bit further than I'd ever take it. Wonder what pushed the other me. * WillS looks uncomfortable. "I hope my double is good. Those religous text in the room gave me a wierd empty feeling inside." * Tia copies Seylin's steps like someone playing hopscotch. * Patrick follows Seylin's steps as well, trying to figure more out about the house. * Seylin stops in front of a picture of a man in a military uniform with a large round shield of many colors at his feet. She salutes it and says "Amber waves of grain." It slides into the ground to reveal a staircase down. Don't ask. Please, don't. I wonder who this Steve Rogers fellow is, and why his picture is on your wall. * Patrick shrugs. "Got me." * Kenji blinks. * Kenji taps the side of his head. Nobody could possibly be that insane. Mmm? What kind of insanity results in a nation choosing its leaders through a popularity contest? [ You all suddenly realize this is true. ] [ Well, that that's how this nation runs. You have differing views on whether or not it's insane. ] * Kenji shakes his head and skips nimbly across the floor to follow Seylin down. * Patrick follows Seylin carefully as before, so as to not trip alarms. * WillS follows Seylin down too, careful not to touch anything Seylin didn't touch. [ Down the stairs and into the basement you go! Lights come on automatically as you do, and once you're all through, the painting seals up. And behind it slide in four large metal pannels. A numberpad is on the other side; this one has a number thoughtfully written down next to it. ] [ The hallway leads past an area with what appear to be the modern equivalent of murder-holes in the sides. ] [ And past that is a simple door. With a knob. ] * Seylin carefully examines the door. A well prepared fortress. This one looks okay. * Seylin turns the knob. [ The door opens! ] * Seylin pushes open the door. Well... for one, this place is secure. * WillS nods. "Yeah. It's almost overkill." [ The inside is kind of poorly lit, but cozy. There are numerous dartboards and tables scattered about, there's a bar at one side, well stocked, three large metal cabinets with reminders stuck to them, and a bank of four televisions sitting on top of softly whirring boxes, and with large plaques of buttons in front of them. ] [ Off to one side is a hallway. Off to the other are a pair of doors marked 'men' and 'ladies'. ] [ Oh, and it's got a pool table. ] I have no idea what to make of all this. Um... I think it looks pretty cool. So why is this place hidden behind all those traps and security panals? Take a look around. Fan out, stay alert for more traps. And try not to die. * Kenji picks a direction and goes. * Patrick starts to look around at some of these devices around the room. "I also remember that I have some guest bedrooms lying around here somewhere." * WillS nods and goes to take a look at those notes on the cabinets. * Patrick takes a look around behind various things and at those TVs and button plaques. Given he's supposed to live here, he probably has the best chance of figuring out what they do. Well, at least the kitchen is stocked well enough to keep Tia placated for a few hours. * WillS nods. "Yup. This seems like a cozy place you got here, Pat. Though I still don't know why you hid this place so well." * Tia is amusing herself with the pool table. Hey, Pat, how do you play this game? Uh, hmmm... * Tia comes up with two handfuls of multicolored balls. (Not in a dirty way. x_X) * Seylin walks around the room, examining things. Finally she walks back to the others. "I found some weaponry stashes." Really, now. * Patrick takes a pool cue and chalks it up, walking over and queing up some balls while Seylin starts searching more thoroughly. "That's good, I wouldn't expect this place to be devoid of weapons." * Tia dumps the balls on the pool table. "Is Mr. Axe there?" You don't have him? * Tia shakes her head. * Seylin walks over to one of the walls. "I don't have my halberd, either." She presses on it, and it slides up. * Kenji pales. That is exceedingly bad. Wuffiekins is missing, too. And as you know, I'm using guns instead of a bow. [ The other side of the wall Seylin opened contains a room brimming with swords, axes, exotic weapons, and lots and lots of tubes with handles. ] Beardaxe, Kiyomaro, and Oyobi all missing. This bodes poorly. * WillS nods. "My sword is missing too. I can still cast spells, but may draw unwanted attention since the people of this world doesn't seem to cast spells often." [ And so they armed up and moved out to kick ass! ...wait, no ass to kick yet. ...Oh, they'll figure out something. :) ] [ Session End! ]