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| (2012-12-05 - 2012-12-06) |
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| Reize Seatlan | This has been a brutal day. It's been a brutal night. All through the night, he had a dreadful encounter. Reize barely had much rest during the day. Though, to be fair, it was more of a reprieve than it was during the day. He had wandered through the city, resting temporarily. The night came again, no rest came. Heartless were everywhere. Reize had fought off against the creatures, but the day had left him tired. As he fled the battle, he finally found the place that he was looking for. Gasping, he finally catches his breath and he runs to the door. He leans against it, knocking at the door. He sucks in a breath. "Nghh... this has not been a great couple of days." His encounter with that strange girl provided him good information, but he cannot help but wonder... What was it that drove her to accept the demon. |
| Will Sherman | Will opens the door after a bit of waiting done on Reize' part. The door opens, and Will shuffles him in quickly, taking a quick look outside to make sure nothing was stirring...he couldn't be completely sure, but it was enough for now. Will was looking less injured than he was earlier, but he still had some bandages along his body, things that needed time to heal and Celina had other people she needed to attend to. "Hey. You look a bit rough man." he says flatly to Reize. Leading him upstairs to the main office. "Well, you can rest up here, we got some food." he says, actually haven't really eaten anything solid himself. Which, again, was odd. "Mercade's still missing, and this situation in the city is worse." |
| Deidra | Deidra has heard that something is going on and has come to check things out. She's getting a little less timid about the office as strangerc some. She doesn' take long to come in. Her wings are wraped about heeself to not be like a dog tail on doom for destroying anything they might catch on. "Reize are you all right? What happened to you?" |
| Celina Duvalis | Since Mercade's disappearance, time at the Twilight Detective Agency has almost been completely normal for Celina - she's just cooking the extra-hearty home-comfort food. (Ever try five-cheese mac and cheese? No? It's in the lounge.) That, and she's finding herself awake more often than not, and as such, she pokes her head out of the lounge at the sound of the door. "Will? Deidra? Who is that? Is he okay?" Den mother mode activated. |
| Reize Seatlan | Unfortunately, the Boy With the Long Yellow Scarf is looking pretty rough. He winces to himself, looking up towards the door to see that Will is the one who opens it up. While there is the sight of bandages, Reize offers a faint smile, "...It looks like you had some experience yourself." After a moment, Reize finally makes his way into the main office. As he looks around, he soon moves upstairs, "Thanks. Then, when Will explains the situation regarding Mercade, Reize offers a frown. "...I see.." His head lowers as he contemplates over the matter. The latter part, however, "...I've noticed." He lower his head, "..Aside from the heartless that have been creeping about, I ran into a familiar face." Then, he tuns to see Deidra, offering her a wave, "Ooii! Deidra!" And when the stranger pokes out, the boy chime, albeit weakly, "Oiii!" He winces, "....Ended up running into a girl who drained people. She touchs them and... demonic arms reach out to absorb them." |
| Tom Magnusson | There is a sound at the still-shut door. It sounds like a /THUD./ |
| Will Sherman | Will's blood runs cold, "So she's still here." he says, shaking his head. He doesn't remember what happened specifically between her and him...only that something turned over in it's sleep...and Riku was gone. Will shakes his head a few times, "She's dangerous. Dangerous as hell." he says grunting. He goes to sit down at the couch near the TV. "We don't need her running around right now...especially sense Martial Law was declared." he says and shakes his head. "Also the jerkbag that is responsible for the heartless problem is...gone, and the people guarding him are...gone." taking a breath, "Those men got eaten for nothing." he says, a bit of bitterness in his voice. |
| Celina Duvalis | Celina ducks back into the lounge, makes a platter of snack food and drinks - maybe even juice boxes - and walks past Reize and Will, setting it down on the table. That done, she goes to check the door, to see if that was a Tom or a heartless deciding to run into it. "Hello." She says to Reize over her shoulder. "I'm Celina." |
| Tom Magnusson | The door emits a /THUD/ again, before producing a sound that vaguely resembles oil bubbling on a skillet. And then, it swings open, revealing a relatively more haggard looking Tom Magnusson, with a ball of inky blackness boiling away around one hand. "Hey," he says to the woman at the door. "We've got a bit of an infestation on our hands." |
| Deidra | Deidra says "Her...I have run into her. Mercade left orders shoot or run. Simple as that it's not easy to deal with her. I saw her murder dozens of people in Midgar during black friday." She grimaces about it. "We do a lot of heartless are on the lose now and things are getting worse." |
| Reize Seatlan | "...Will, Deidra" Reize looks very serious, "Who is she?" He furrows his eyebrows, "...I learned a bit about her. Something important." As he states this, Reize's hand moves to his pendant, grasping tightly against it. After a moment, however, Reize follows Will, looking over towards the couch before joining to sit with Will. Reize, feeling a bit exhausted, leans back against the couch. When Will mentions about the kidnapper, Reize frowns. "...I see. So all of them, including that kidnapper were eaten." His head lowers, the antenna hair flopping. He shakes his head, looking more exhausted, especially after Deidra's encounter with that mysterious girl. "The encounter with her, there were gangs fighting back the Heartless. After we managed to send them back a bit, she came and drained the leader. Those arms went after the people, but I cut them off before they could grab anymore." "...And I learned a lot more about her." When Celina laces the platter of snacks and drinks on the table, the boy blinks before gazing at the olive-skinned woman. "Thank!" He brightens, then he reaches for a juice boxes to take a straw and stab it into the spot. He sips. Tastes great. It is something refreshing that he needed. He is able to overhear the conversation downstairs of infestation. Reize cannot help but wince. |
| Will Sherman | "Leida." Will says, "I don't know anything about her." he says, "And I don't want to." he says, looking at the food set infront of him. He looks at the juice box and then back at Celina, as if trying to convey annoyance. However, he starts eating reguardless, just...very very slowly and almost peckish. There is a lot on his mind, and the subject of Leida isn't doing him any favors. "Whatever she is, she's dangerous and needs to be stopped." Then Tom comes up, shaking his head, "Deidra, can you do something with magic to keep us safe? Wards or something? Or are we going to have to sleep in shifts?" he comments. "Man, this reminds me of adventuring...except none of the fun parts." |
| Celina Duvalis | Celina likes juice boxes. They make less mess. So she just shrugs at Will, then turns back to Tom and pulls him in, shutting the door behind him. "Yeah, I think we've realized that by now, Tom." Celina doesn't do sarcasm much there is a -hint- of it in her her tone at the moment. "Great. So we not only lost our leads, but no one still knows where Mercade is." She looks irritable. "I can try to do wards, but I'd need a spellbook to do so and time." |
| Tom Magnusson | As if on call, Tom grumbles and wanders over to the couch. He unceremoniously lifts one end, and fishes out something that Celina would recognize as Her Grimoire from under the short foot of the furniture piece. In its place, Tom puts... A few old pizza boxes. Because those work just fine. Tom chuckles, lifting the book to the woman. "You got any in this one, or is it all about summoning betentacled horrors from beyond the void? If you do, time's somethin' we can probably buy you." He pauses, and then glances to Will. "So Mercade's really missing, huh? Damn. Well, I guess that makes me interim boss. So, first order of business--" he gestures at Reize, "Someone introduce me to the man with the scarf. Second order, we try and get this place all warded off as best we can, make a safe house for the folks who need one." |
| Will Sherman | "That makes ME the interm boss." Will says, flatly, "I'm the oldest member." Will corrects, "Anyway, Celina's going to be handling operations, and coordination. She's better suited, that leaves us to go punch heartless out." Will moves some of his food again, "But it's pointless to argue sematics, Mercade is going to be back soon, whatever is going on, he'll be back with us. So we just gota hold things together before he comes back and shoots whatever is causing this mess." Will continues, he has a lot of faith in Mercade. Looking back at Reize, "He's Reize, one of the Shard Seekers. He's helpin' us out here in Manhattan with the Heartless, some more of his friends are coming soon, so we'll be able to do something." |
| Reize Seatlan | "Leida..." He looks towards Will, almost offering to tell the story about her. However, when he adds that he doesn't want to hear it, Reize sighs and closes his mouh regrding the topic. Reize, however, is famished. He starts picking pieces of the food, stuffing his face. He hasn't had much to eat over the day thanks to his fight and he is exhausted. While listening to Will's added comment regarding Leida, Reize shuts his eyes. A nod is given. He decides to leave that topic and let them move on to the next one. As Tom, the tall man, makes his arrival, the boy tilts his head over curiously. Then, he brightens his smile and he waves a hand. "Oii!" He brightens a smile, then he looks at Will, "My friends will be arriving soon." He considers, "They've likely received my letter by now and are working on arriving as we speak." |
| Tom Magnusson | "Sittin' on our hands isn't going to solve anything, Will," Tom crosses his arms. "You know that. Mercade'll probably be back sometime, but that doesn't mean we should wait around for him while the city falls apart." "For now," Tom gestures vaguely in the direction of the door, "We really should get this place secured. That's something we aught to get done sooner rather than later. After that, we should start clearing the streets, lookin' for Mercade and whoever else might've gone missing out there." |
| Deidra | Deidra says "You didn't get consumed i'm honestly shocked and your darn lucky Reize." She look over to Tom for a moment. She tiolts he rhead and blinks again. "We should something bad is coming I can feel it at this point the heartless may be coming to finish what they started with the rest of Earth or who knows what could be worse than that." |
| Celina Duvalis | Celina, calmly, "Consider this our base. Reize, we have housing here. It's cramped, but I think if we can get everyone together, it'll be safer than having us scattered, especially since some of us -" She points at herself, "Tend to run screaming from solo combat. I'm sort of squishy." She says this honestly. She does take the book from Tom, asking quietly, "How does this keep ending up underneath the couch as a prop? It was on my bookcase last night." She starts flipping through it. "Deidra, do you have any other spellbooks, maybe, that I don't know about?" |
| Tom Magnusson | Tom Magnusson says, "Celina is definitely squishy. It makes her great fun to hug." |
| Will Sherman | "Tom. Half of the TDA is either missing or recovering from a few hours ago. We're not sitting on our hands, we're healing." Will says in response to Tom. "I've also been trying to contact friends outside of the world to see if we can get more help. More are coming, but we can't just go running out into the streets. We have to help people, sure, but we also gota find out what's ATTRACTING them here and put a stop to it. This isn't normal, even for heartless. Something is causing them to come here, because it's not just the ones that escaped that are here." Will takes a breath, thinking. "I already asked Deidra to help ward, with Celina doing it we should be good. We can at least set up a safe place." Will rubs his head and looks back at Reize. A letter? Goddamn it Reize. Will wasn't in a mood for smiling, instead he stands up and walks to a window. His food abandoned again, as he stops halfway through and looks at the coat and hat rack. On top of it is a tophat, for a moment, Will looks distant, and then turns towards the window. "I think I might get into contact with Cirra...see if Arcadia will help." |
| Deidra | Deidra says "I'm afraid I have but this one." She says pulling out the one spell book she keeps on her most of the time. "I'm cautious about translating new spells given what's happened to me the last time I did something blind it wasn't very pretty and I'm lucky to be alive." She looks back to Will for a moment "I'll be fine after a day's sleep. If it doesn't kill me I'll be fine come the time I wake up. I'll be gettin back to work on the wards soon. It be a good idea to get any help we can. We're going to need it. Even with the gear Xanatos ha got the few soliders from the National guard and those warships that were in the harbour. We're pretty hard pressed." |
| Tom Magnusson | "Yeah, half the TDA," Tom murmurs, his hands on his hips. "But I'm still goin'. They can set up the wards while I keep the shadowy devils off our backs. It'll make things easier for the rest of you. Speaking of which-- Where's that Max guy, anyway? I've got a few ideas." He glances to Celina, and then shrugs. "Dunno. I just know that it's the first place I'd look for it if it's gone missing. I mean, it's like thieves n' barrels. First place to check is the barrel. Even if it looks like it's just full of pickles, there could be a bandito hiding in there." Tom knows how it is. "Anyway. Once we get the wards set up, I think I'll head out and take a look around for anyone left out on the streets. Chances are that those monsters are hitting at us to keep us locked up in here, instead of out there helpin' deal with the situation. They probably want us out of the picture." |
| Reize Seatlan | Reize grunts and glances towards Tom with a frown. He then looks back towards Celina, who calmly explains abou the situation. A smile brighten, "Yeah! I've been here once or twice, but it was mostly in passing!" The young traveler is considering everything at hand. "...Unfortunately, I don't have a ward spell." Once Will abandons the food, Reize begins to start eating once more. Even if Cirra is a bi of a mean person, she may be able to help. "I wonder who I can possibly draw for help." He considers, "...Maybe Felix, but... he seems pretty mysterious." He considers, "Or Zia! Mabe she's back here." He sucks in a breath, offering a smile. "I thank you all for your hospitality. ...Once I am able to move, I will make my move about the city to see if help is around and try to find the source of the Heartless." He grimaces, "...It felt like I was dealing with a tidal wave the last time I dealt with them." |
| Tom Magnusson | "It's almost as bad as when I fell off the world," Tom replies to Reize, "At least here, I've got good, solid ground under my feet, instead of just... I dunno. An abyss?" |
| Tom Magnusson | "I'll go with him," Tom says, crossing his arms. "He'll not be alone. But first, we need to get these wards up." |
| Celina Duvalis | Celina takes the offered spellbook, before she settles right down on the floor, frowning as she pulls off her necklace to let it rest on the floor in front of her. Then she digs in her pocket for a bit of floor-safe chalk that washes off, using a large part of the floor to sketch out a pentacle. "Working on it." She says, her voice tight. "I'm not a miracle worker, and there's only two of us, so back off!" Celina so very rarely snaps at anyone that it's probably surprising. |
| Will Sherman | "Don't go out alone." Will says to Reize, "Right now going out alone is too dangerous, even for us. Even with another person you'll get hurt a lot less, and cover more ground." Will says, but Reize isn't a member of the TDA...so what he does is up to him. "I'm not saying we should sit on our butts, Tom. I am saying we shouldn't be doing this sol-." The he throws his hands up. "Well the go ahead." he says to them. He just finds it utterly annoying right now that Tom keeps saying the same thing repeatedly. This must be what Mercade feels like. |
| Tom Magnusson | Of course Tom repeats himself. It's how you get people to do things! You repeat yourself until they see the inherent superiority in your line of thinking. "Anyway. I'll make sure nothing disturbs the warding. Don't want any holes in the walls, right?" Tom chuckles, giving Celina a worried glance, before moving to stand by the door, "How about someone get some pancakes on the stove while we wait?" |
| Reize Seatlan | "...Solid ground is always good." Reize, despite his pain and injury, is still in good spirits. However, his body is still completely worn thanks to the day. It will have to take some time for him to recover before he can set off. And the atmosphere grows tense. His frown is given towards Will. He does bring a good point. That travel by himself was pretty dangerous. Of course, Reize can see the frustrations on Will's face. The young man says, "...I understand. I told the Shard Seekers that they will meet you all here. This place is the rendezvous point. I trust that Shiki will bring Lenn, Lily, and Faruja. Ivo and Skoll will arrive as well in their own way." |
| Will Sherman | Will nods to Reize, it eases some of the stress, but not all of it. Will wants to go find Mercade so bad, but... He won't abandon the city either. His heart is tearing itself in two directions, wanting to do everything, but he can not. Taking a breath, he moves back to the couch and sits down. It sucks having to be responsible, "Alright then. I'll get Avira when she's healed up and go with her. Deidra and Celina should stick together." |
| Celina Duvalis | Celina makes a vaguely upset sort of noise. It is the noise of people bickering when she's trying to concentrate and it's directly aimed at Will and Tom. And it comes with a big frown. A very big frown. That said, she looks back down to the books, flicking through them with her chalk covered fingers. Upset Celina is a terrible thing. |
| Deidra | Deidra says "Just becareful." Celina would find one page has been ripped out of the book in recent years but what's ont he page who knows? She'll let the other get to work on it. This is also the first time anyone might have seen the young Gargyole mage letting the book out of her hands. |
| Han Su Li | /Suddenly/, through the entire building, a loud shout, heavily chinese accented voice blows through. The people on the second floor will only hear the shout, some might recognise it, as well as the whine of a door being kicked open. Those on the FIRST floor will be greeted with the sight of Han Su Li, a chinese young man wearing second-hand clothing, likely earned from a local shelter, battering the door down with a simple, swift kick, shouting at the top of his lungs. A single word comes out of his lungs, a word pushed out with all the air it contians, all the indignation that it can muster. "/MEEEEEEEERCADEEEEEEEEEEEEES/!" |
| Sarafina Carenze | "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!" A /teenage/ girl shouts from a side room. "I want to fight the Heartless now!!" "Not until you tell me how to set this VCR's timer! It is driving me crazy!" An older man's voice shouts in response. "Nobody even uses VCRs anymore!" The teenager says. "Oh I see how it is, a few days in the 'modern world' and all of a sudden you know everything that is to know about technology--you're just like your mother--wait what is that in your hands?" "It's what these people call an 'iPhone'. It only cost a sack of gold coins!" "What! You were supposed to save that!" "But everybody haaaaas one!" "I AM GOING OUTSIDE AND I AM GOING TO FIGHT THE HEARTLESS! BUT YOU MISSY ARE GROUNDED UNTIL WE HAVE TO EVACUATE!" "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!" Dion Carenze steps outside of his room, affixing a helmet on top of his head and holding a very large spear. He opens his mouth to say something when, all of a sudden, Han Su Li busts in screaming Mercade's name. "STAY BACK COMRADES!" Dion says, striding forward. "Clearly Mercade has many enemies! I will do my duty as purchased for 10 dollars an hour as thy door guard! Stay back! This man will be no match for my spear!!" |
| Tom Magnusson | Tom stands next to the door when the SUDDEN CHINA MAN explodes through it. He sighs, and goes to shut the door behind the deranged homeless man, before all-too-casually going to place his hands on Han Su Li's shoulders. "S'ceuse me. Mercade's out and missing, and you just almost broke down our door. So how can we help you, mister man?" Tom glances up at Dion. Uh. "Oh, hey." Tom pauses. "How's it going?" |
| Reize Seatlan | The entire building seems to undergo some vibration as a loud shout blows trough. He blinks, "Buh?!" He quickly looks around, eyes shooting low to see the commotion. Instead, Reize can /hear/ the commotion. And more commotion. His eyes drift over towards the sight of he older man with a large spear. "It look like we have a nice gatheri--ing of people." And it feels like his voice is slipping. His eyes drift over towards Celina. Reize is starting to get up, wanting to help Celina and Deidra with setting up the ward. "I...c..." However, it feels like his will is slipping. Considering that he had been out all day, Reize's body becomes more achey and tired. He collapses against the couch. His eyes start to fall asleep. Tomorrow's another day, after all. |
| Deidra | Deidra pauses as someone runs into the building wait no the door is kicked sown the gargyole seems startled at the suddeness of the entrance. Screaming the name of their boss. Oh this could be bd she's about ready to lunge at Han. Only Tom's reaction that he knows him has her back down. "So umm hi there ummm I'm new?" She tries to look as untrheatening as one of her kind can. |
| Will Sherman | Will's frown somehow grows deeper at the sudden NOISE all around him. Typically, this wouldn't be the case, but the poor kid has been pushed to his limit lately. He sits up, looks at Han, and then back at Dion. "Dion it's okay, I know this crazy person." he says, and then looks towards Han. "Hey. Mercade is missing, stop yelling, Also stop letting in the heartless. Now get up here and let the ladies finish the gosh darned runes!" he snaps at the chinaman. Then he looks at Dion. "Why did you ground her anyway? There are so many heartless out there right now that you might be able to pay for her college tuitition too." |
| Han Su Li | This all seemed simpler in Han's head. Break door down. Catch Mercades flat footed. Can catch and yell his ear off. He wasn't expecting to see this whole bunch of people talking, some young girl, some older guy with a spear, a bloody demon-looking woman, altought he is fully aware of what she is. Also, getting yelled at by that kid that is senior to Mercades. Han is left scratching his head at the deluge of replies. Why did he come here, again? "Oh, no worry about Heartless, demolished the ones right outside." The martial artist says, still scratching his head. "See, just wanted him pay his tab, and know I was savvy to his tricks of not paying tab. But, you know." Han says, tipping an imaginary hat, closing up the door behind him. It dosen't click. He tries a few time, trying to slide it, then finnaly just kick it back into the frame. "Good as new!" |
| Will Sherman | "Alright Han. Right now, the city is swarming with heartless. I mean, litterally swarming. You killed some outfront, great, there are hundreds...thousands more out there." Will says, exhasperaited. "Also, Mercade is litterally missing...so I think you'll have to accept defeate for the moment. Again. Like always." |
| Celina Duvalis | "..." Han. Celina knows Han. The woman waves her hand up to the Chinese man in brief surrender, even as Dion and his daughter come down the stairs bickering. She looks at Deidra, near-cross-eyed, even as she points. "Someone get Reize in a bed." She says, crisply. That done, she starts sketching Latin symbols into the pentacle's area, muttering to herself. |
| Han Su Li | "Don't take me for a fool, Will." Han says, crossing his arms. "I may be hotheaded, but I'm not completly daft. So Mercade's missing? What do we know?" |
| Tom Magnusson | Tom sighs, stepping away from the door to heft Reize over one shoulder. He then starts moving toward the stairs, "Right. I'll go make sure he's set up well. You all stay safe." |
| Sarafina Carenze | "She wouldn't help me with the VCR.' Dion says as if this was rather obvious. "Oh." he adds as Han Su Li explains himself. "Well I suppose that does warrant screaming his name while kicking down doors. He is skeptical about magic being used to /fix/ problems rather than cause them but he keeps his trap shut out of respect to his employers. He frowns faintly as Will describes just how problematic the Heartless can be. "Mm, this is not good. This many Heartless--this world could fall if we're not careful." He cracks his knuckles. "Destroying them one by one is inefficient I'm sure, if only there were a way to use those runes you keep mentioning for hte whole city!" |
| Will Sherman | "That the city is under seige, and he went looking after a kid named Riku. We have no idea where he disappeared to, but right now...the city is more important." Will says, frowning at Celina. He isn't carrying Reize into a bed...wait do they even have any beds left. Shrugging, Tom seems to want to make an OTP with Reize, and Will just can't be bothered to care. It's also notable that Will looks extremly out of sorts right now. He doesn't act like this, ever, but well... "Nobody uses VCRs anymore...why do we even have one?" he says towards Dion, and then sits back down on the couch. Looking at his food again, that is growing cold. |
| Han Su Li | "That do explain my path over here. It was hard to fight way through." Han muses, tapping his chin. "But I agree, city comes first. Mercade is a man, can take care of himself. If we find clues, however, we should act on them." He says, nodding at Celina, frowning for a moment. "I may be able to help with the seals. Not as good as Grandfather was, but still knows the basics." |
| Sarafina Carenze | "It was cheap." Dion says. "Soon I will find these 'casettes' for it, but first I must defeat this timer." He frowns. Mercade may be able to take care of himself but that he's not here at a time like this does not bode well. |
| Will Sherman | Will nods, and looks at Dion, "Everything is DVD now...and uh..." he says, calmly, "Nobody knew how to set the damn clock back when VHS was a thing. At least youd didn't pick up a beta.." he pauses... "It's not a Beta is it?" he asks. |
| Deidra | Deidra looks at han relaxing when he doesn't freak out about her she grins at han and says "Hello I'm Deidra and it's good to meet you. If you have skill in such things and had a proper teacher your likely better than I am." |
| Celina Duvalis | Celina looks up, rubbing the back of her neck. "I've not got much skills, but I make up for it in raw power." She says in a dry voice. "I /think/ I've got it, though..." Think being the operative word here. |
| Han Su Li | Han Su Li smiles over at Deidra. Of course, she speaks. That's fine. Apperances are apperances, sometimes. Still, he comes from a different background. "Well! Celina, Deidra, if you would allow me, I shall teach you the ways of warding against the evil spirits as they did in my home shrine." |
| Will Sherman | "Ugh.." Will groans on the couch, finally eating something, and drinking some of the juice. "I'm sure it's fine Celina.." |
| Celina Duvalis | Finishing something, Celina sighs. "Well, it can't hurt." She says, dryly. "After all, two protections are better than one..." She then smiles, hiding a chuckle as she rubs the back of her hand across her forehead. |
| Sarafina Carenze | Dion doesn't seem to know what this 'beta' thing is and gives Will a strange look. |
| Will Sherman | Finally, after everything... "Zzzz.." Will is out. On the couch. |