[ We find Some Of Our Heroes in Patrick's basement! That's right; not Patrick's Parents' Basement, he's got his own in this world! *runs and hides* ] [ Er, anyway, it's Pat, Tia, and Will, gathering info and trying to figure out how stuff works in this world. Session Start! ] * Syzix is now known as Patrick * Tia checks on the laundry. * WillS wipes the tears from his eye with a napkin as he reconciles himself with his other self's memory. This world has no Bahamut and no Alci. It stinks. :( * Patrick whistles as he looks at some of the things Tia put on the TV- box. [ Tia finds the laundry is done! ] [ Patrick finds that the people here can forecast the weather. Amazing! ] [ Patrick also discovers YouTube. We could be here for a while. ] * Tia takes out the laundry and hands Will the pile of clean clothes. "All done!" * Patrick doesn't find that TOO amazing. I mean, he could forcast weather back home. * WillS takes the clothes from Tia. "Thanks so much, Tia!" No problem, Will! * Tia skips back over to the bank of computers. "Find anything fun, Pat?" Weather. * WillS takes his cup of soda and wonders over to look at Pat surfing on the internet. Man, the people here have waaaay too much time on their hands. * Patrick shrugs and starts typing various things into it, accidentally bringing up what goes for google here and having it search. Let's see if it's got as much information as you say it does... * Tia smiles and waits. * Patrick goes about searching for various words that he's seen since he's gotten here. In particular regarding the computer box's words. * Tia sits by Patrick and watches. * Patrick goes through a quick tutorial on how Doors does things in regards to operation and basic computer functions, such as how folders and files work, what 'the internets' are (A SERIES OF TUBES), typing, installing stuff, and point-clicking. Wow. People here DO have too much time on their hands. * Tia shrugs good-naturedly. Okay, let's see what people know about me then. Okay! * Patrick does a quick type in for Patrick Klamm. Ooh, ooh! Do me next! Sure. ^___________^ * WillS grins. "Are you famous, Patrick?" I have no clue. But I have a lot of guns. [ Patrick finds absolutely nothing on himself. ] [ This may be deliberate, actually. ] Nothing. Well, I think that's a good thing, don't you? * Patrick types up Tia in the meantime. [ Tia gets nothing. Apparently, tho, her father is famous. And recently deceased. Oh, dear. ] * Tia blinks. "Papa..." Mmmm... * Tia types in Kenji for good measure. [ Kenji is apparently stupidly rich. He inherited the family company - a multibillion dollar electonics and mechanical firm - after his father, a political activist, was assassinated a few months back. ] And Kenji's papa too. [ Seems that not too long after that happened, his mother was found dead and severely burned. ] Huh. Who assassinated them? Any clue? * Tia runs a search on their deaths. * Patrick checks on that, probably getting forums of conspiracy theories. * WillS slams his cup hard on the table. "It was Red Skull." * Tia looks at Will. "Red Skull killed my papa?" Well. That would explain a few things. * WillS nods grimly. "He killed both your dad and Kenji's dad." * Tia bristles visibly. "He's a very bad man! Can't we go back and hit him again?" I only think that's fair. [ He also killed Alci. Don't forget her. ] * Patrick looks up Will and Seylin for good measure. And Alci... What happened Will? Why couldn't she be brought back to life? Kenji's dad was active in the political arena and Red Skull didn't like his ideas on political reform. Your dad too, Tia. Same reason. * Tia looks down at her hands. And ugh... You know, I'd look up my family, but I have a feeling they'd be hidden like I am. * WillS flinches as he recalls more bad stuff. "Kenji's mom went to get revenge and found... ugh. You don't want to know." Think about who Kenji's mom was in our world. This guy is no pushover at all. What'd she find, Will? Hey, Tia, do you know where mission information about our activites is stored on these machines? * WillS shakes his head. "You don't want to know, Tia. I don't want to recall it again." * Tia nods. "Okay. I'm sorry for asking." She pats Will's arm and turns to look for the mission information on the computer. And as for Alci... I don't know. * Patrick starts looking as well. It could be something that Red Skull did to her... Mmmm. Well, remember how Max was able to prevent Sherincal from being raised? Could use a similar sort of spell. * WillS nods sadly. "Yeah. Maybe." * Tia nods and sighs. "Maybe we can fix it." If that's the case, we still might be able to save her then. * Patrick nods. * Tia finds nothing on the computer, so she sits back and tries to think of what she might remember about the situation. * Patrick has a dead search as well and thinks to himself about what happened last. "Well, we went after Red Skull and lost. We apparently didn't leave the city to do it, since our vehicles were all here. Or we took another form of transportation." * Tia nods. It was in this city, that I'm sure of. This is the capital after all. Red Skull wants to strike back at the government, so he stays underground here waiting for his chance. I forgot there wouldn't be any records of it on the system. Wouldn't want other people to hack in and see that stuff, y'know. Mmm, yeah. Also, we weren't exactly heavily armed. I had some body armor and a pistol, but not much else. So either what we took with us was mostly destroyed, lost, or used. Or we didn't take a lot with us in the first place. * WillS hrmms. "I seem to be able to recall quite a bit of my other self's memory. I'm going to go meditate over at the sofa for a bit to see if I can recall more about this place and our last encounter with Red Skull." Okay. * Tia nods. * Patrick checks to see if the computer has anything on it *other* than means to surf the internet. * WillS goes and does just that. [ Patrick seems to keep it well-stocked with things with strange names, like "Half-life", "Unreal Tournament '95", and "Redneck Rampage". ] * Tia is distracted by the games she finds on the computer. * Patrick starts one of the games up out of curiosity, but is soon playing away. [ We have lost Tia and Patrick forever, folks. ] * Patrick puts his name in as The Claminator and starts fraggin people online in UT. Yes folks, he's one of THOSE bastards that uses a sniper rifle and headshots without the scope. [ Something in Tia's pocket starts vibrating and plays a cheerful song. ] [ Within moments, people are claiming that Patrick has a bot doing the aiming for him. ] * Tia blinks and reaches into her pocket. [ Tia pulls out a little pink plastic thing. It seems to be doubled over. ] * Tia unfolds it. * Patrick laughs at the accusations. What've you got there Tia? * Tia puts it to her ear. "Hello?" * Patrick types into the screen. 'Don't hate me because I am awesome. ^_____________________^' * Kenji says VERY loudly from the tiny device, "HELLO, TIA? CAN YOU HEAR ME?" [ Patrick is soon banned because he is awesome. Well, because he is misunderstood. Like a Stu. ] * Tia winces and holds the phone a few inches from her ear. "Oh, hi, Kenji! I can hear you!" * WillS stops meditating, being woken up by all the loud noises. * Kenji says from the little thing, "Oh. Oh, okay." What's up? * Kenji says "Hi, Tia! Alfred told me about this device, he calls it a cellular phone. I'm not certain what that means, but it lets us talk. I wanted to be sure it works." * Tia grins, even though Kenji can't see her. "Yup, it works! I didn't even know I had one!" * Kenji says, "Neither did I. Alfred also says that our last mission was an information gathering one, on a small cult. He said that I said that you said you got quite a lot of useful information. Could you look that up before Seylin and I return?" * Patrick shrugs at being B&. * Tia nods, again, even though Kenji can't see. "We were fighting a guy named Red Skull! He killed our papas!" * Kenji actually lets some emotion into his voice as he says, "Yours too? He got my mother, father, and Alcinoe. We'll get him, Tia. But first, we need information. I have a lot to tell everybody when I get back, too." Okay. What'd you want me to look up? The cult? Yes. The cult, and whatever information you got from it. And anything on our last attempt on Red Skull. Okay, Kenji. We'll keep looking. Thank you. I'll see you all before too long. I think you'll like this place when we bring you here. Yay! I wanna see! Come back soon! [ Tia goes hunting! ] Goodbye, Tia. Bye, Kenji! * Tia flips her phone closed and shoves it back into her pocket, then continues her hunt! So what was that about Tia? Kenji talking to you through that device. ? Seems like it. It's very useful isn't it? I wonder how it works. He wanted us to look up stuff on the cult we were checking up on...here it is! Hmm? * Patrick looks over at Tia's monitor. The cult was following someone called Vecna. Some sorta recently arrived demigod. Seems like he's been trying to leave here for awhile, so he gathered the cult to look for info and resources. Their symbol was a skull engraved with a red thingie, so we thought it mighta been linked to the bad red skull man, but it wasn't. The cult's of a necromancer god of secrets, though, so it has lotsa interesting information. * Awaymancer is now known as Segev * Tia pauses as she looks through some more text. "I dunno how I get all of this so easily, but I guess that's a good thing, right?" She beams. * WillS smiles at Tia. "Yup!" Hmmm. How did we meet up with Red Skull if we were just investigating a necromancer cult? The cult has notes on other storehouses run by the Skull and his guys. They say to stay away from 'em, and they were thinking of changing their church symbol to keep from making the Skull angry. That bad, huh? I bet one thing led to another, Will. * Tia nods. * WillS nods. Yup. Basically we went to raid one of the Skull locations we knew about from those Vecnanites. We ended up running into The Red Skull and took him on. He casted some weird magic, though. I remember what he looked like, too. Was a humanoid except his head and neck had no flesh, and instead of the flesh he had lots and lots of fire that he could shoot around. And he had two henchies with him. A big fighter guy named Crossbones that has a facination with the skull and crossbones, and another guy named Steel that was, uh... Well, made out of steel. Kinda puts your 2 inch armor to shame, huh Will? * WillS blushes. "Well... er... My armor is much better than steel!" * Patrick grins. I miss my mithril armor... Well, you think we're going to get back? I certainly hope so. I'm gonna keep trying at least. Yeah. We need to get back home, but until then we should do our best here. When's Kenji getting here Tia, do you know? We still need to finish what we started in Canyonhome. Things are going to go real bad there if we don't do what we need to. Exactly. Kenji said soon, but he didn't say exactly when. * Kenji rings Pat's phone! * Patrick takes out his phone and opens it in a similar meathod to Tia. "Yo." Pat, open up the doors and traps. Seylin and I are back. Gotcha. * Patrick goes to the secured system to do just that. * The garage camera suddenly shows something big pulling into the garage. * No, bigger than that. Big. HUGE. We're talking M-1 Abrahms Main Battle Tanks for breakfast. Hooo, what'd you bring with you this time? [ Tour bus big. But wider than normal. ] Alfred calls it "the bus." I call it the Siege Crab. It appears to be a sort of traveling command center. * Kenji parks the monstrous thing and heads downstairs with Seylin. Nice. * Patrick re-arms the traps after Kenji and Seylin are safe in the bunker. The chicken he was roasting is certainly done by now as he takes it out and starts chopping it up. [ Chicken smell GOOD. ] * Kenji sniffs the air. Patrick, you have outdone yourself. I'll take that as a compliment. * Patrick smiles warmly at Seylin. "Welcome back. So, what've you found out?" A number of things. This Red Skull must die. He has killed far too many. We are in a strange world. According to Alfred, Will's research showed that it is some sort of multi-dimensional prison for the greatest evils of all creation. That would explain the... extra security on this place. It is, for all intents and purposes, inescapable. There are demigods imprisoned here. Yeah, our previous selves ran aground with one of them, Vecna. Or at least, we hacked their information. Anyways, I don't 'do' inescapable, espically when we need to get back to our own world. I had a cache of equipment that is immediately useful, and given time, I can probably obtain anything we can think of. * Patrick nods. "You're the head of a huge corporation." Who's Alfred? Inescapable...? How did we get here in the first place? A retainer. Completely trustworthy then, otherwise you wouldn't have him. Uh... think of it as a one-way door, Tia. Things go in, but they don't come out. Yeah, but who sent us here? Was it one of the bad guys we were fighting? * Patrick serves roasted chicken, rice, and some corn on the cob. I dunno. * Tia stares admiringly at the food, even though she's already eaten. * Tia blinks. Hey, guys? Do any of you remember breaking a big stone doorway with swirly colors in it? * Tia grimaces at the memory. * Kenji tries to think about it. * Patrick hmms and starts thinking about it. "Not immedietly..." I remember breaking it 'cause it was important. During the fight. I don't think so... * Kenji closes his eyes and grunts. You guys were still fighting, but you were losing, so I went to go do that 'cause I thought it'd keep people back in our world safe. Then something bad happened. That hurts. * Patrick winces. "Yeah." * Tia sighs and leans her chin on her fists, her elbows on her knees. Well, that explains how we got here. I ah... don't recall what happened. But from what Tia described, it sounds like the portal went awry. She must of destroyed it right as it was establishing contact. I'm sorry... Tia, I remember drowning in a vat of acid. It's sorta my fault we're stuck here. You did what had to be done. While we live, there is hope. We have done the impossible before. We can do it again. Yeah. * WillS nods. "And it was good that you did that, Tia. Otherwise the demons would've had an easy way to get to Rokugan." Yeah. Although I hate the idea of flooding another world with them. * Tia nods. "You're right, guys." She smiles a bit. [ This is what we in the bizniss call 'A Heroic Sacrifice'. ] Well, and at least we've got doughnuts here, right? [ There is that. :9 ] [ And delicious ovenbake chicken. ] Yup. And this bubbly drink isn't bad. * Tia sniffs at the chicken. "I didn't know you could cook, Pat!" * Patrick laughs. "Yeah." Oh come on. I cooked all the time in Canyonhome. He did. He's better than I am. [ Seylin is one of those anime girls who can't cook. ] (She can, but Patrick enjoys it more.) * Tia giggles. "Oh, yeah! You made ice cream and pancakes! Yum!" * Patrick nods. "So I think our next step should be preperation to take out this Red Skull fuckwad." Yes. We need to locate Seylin's personal weapon, if she has one. * WillS nods. "And save Alci if it's still possible." My other self left a note to stock up on explosives as well. * Tia nods emphatically. Patrick, would you go to work on missile weapons for everybody? I was planning to do that after we figured out what's going on. So I guess we gotta figure out where he's hiding, huh? By the way, Red Skull packs a couple powerful goons with him. If we can find an easy way to incapacitate or distract them, it could give us the edge we need. Who're the goons? One is a human/construct of some kind called Steel who's main quality is being made out of steel. The other's named Crossbones who is entirely too obsessed with the skull and crossbones motif, and a very capable fighter to boot. Red Skull himself casts some weird spells and can control the fire that he has in place of his flesh. That would be hellfires, Pat. Coulda mentioned that before. What exactly does that mean? Well, it's basically fiery infernal energies that burns right through normal fire resistant stuff. [ Sounds fun! ] [ Session End! ]