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(2012-12-16 - 2012-12-16)
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Shiki Misaki It'd be a lot easier if we had more than one of these crabs to go after, wouldn't it? TOO BAD.

Our solitary Carcinosamps flinches and scuttles away sideways, so I hope your legs are up to scratch. Time to go chasing after it!

Shiki jumps on a pile of trash and shouts "Come on, Beat!"

The chase is on, and we're going to have to navigate past the chimneys, scaffolding and slippery rooftops to go after this crab. And speaking of slippery, rain begins to fall, a shower starting up, which might make this a little problematic.
Beat Even at the best of times skateboarding a bit risky. You could fall, for example, and seriously scrape your elbows. Skateboarding on rooftops is obviously riskier, and FORGET about skateboarding on rooftops in the rain because there's not a chance anyone would do it.

That is, however, unless you're Beat, who considers this an acceptable risk because A) he's been a skater for a while and B) had his fair share of knocks (to the head).

"I'm comin', I'm comin'," he yells, grinding from rooftop to rooftop and navigating the complex maze of chimneys at a considerable speed. He's having to go the long way, unable to match Shiki's path because of unnavigable bumps. Every time he skids chunks of masonry fly from to the streets below, causing confusion and irritation to those without a sturdy umbrella.
Shiki Misaki More stupid: more fun. The only way to get better at skateboarding is to perform in extreme conditions! Next time, try rail grinding in icy weather!

Shiki, by contrast, treads a lot more daintily, and Mr. Mew goes on all fours for once. Shiki winces with every shout from the people below; darnit, missions are supposed to make civilians' lives better, not worse! She's going to be in mission arrears after this.

Only thing to do, she guesses grabbing her Entanglement pin, is to catch that scuttling crab as soon as possBIRDS

As the crab hangs a right and moves low to the ground, a flock of birds go over the rooftops! In fact, one or two of them are Aerial Knockers, which is going to equal a punch in the face if our partners aren't careful. Run the gauntlet, guys!
Beat As if this was an infomercial to teach little kids at home the dangers of skateboarding on the roof, in the rain, with your shoelaces untied (oh yeah, that's right, they're totally untied) Beat falls from his skateboard, but saves himself just in time and winds up next to Shiki again. Phew.

Wait, wait, wait. Maybe I'm not giving that enough reverence on second thought, because what really happens is a lot more spectacular.

Beat sweeps past another chimney, both dislodging a swathe of tiles and securing an affluent future for the Roofer's Guid in one grind, then stamps his foot down to continue his momentum. At that moment Beat's shoelaces get caught in the back wheels of his skateboard, flipping him up and into the air like a hedgehog thrown underarm style.

Sailing through the air Beat stares down at Shiki with a 'what do I do?!' kind of look frozen on his face before clutching something held in his hand. At that point everything goes kind of nyerrggg.

A great soap-bubble of distorted time washes out from Beat's fist, where he has activated a clutched Lazy Bomber pin, slowing both him down and the Aerial Knockers he's drifting towards. Beat turns, plucking his skateboard out of the air in slow-motion and smacking the Noise on the head with it. This serves the dual purpose of Erasing them and keeping him in flight until Lazy Bomber wears off, at which time he's fully back on his skateboard.

Beat plops down next to Shiki, still rolling, and gives her a nod of the head. He's trying to pass off what just happened as cooly as possible but you can tell by his face is was a complete fluke and scary as hell. "Sup," he says, barely contained exitement on his voice.
Shiki Misaki Mayhem ensues.

Beat flies through the air with the disgracest of ease, riding on a wave of plaster and flying tiles. Shiki, who was previously actually maintaining a degree of grace, flinches in surprise when the guy goes gormlessly flying over her, and subsequently slips, losing her composure completely. Now with her arms flailing, she skids down a rooftop, takes a flying leap to the next, careens helplessly, and continues running on sheer momentum. Furthermore, she's going right for the birds and the Heartless- and explosions take place all around her in slow motion, feathers flying and popping all around her. As this happens Beat presumably continues flying through the air above her tumbling like a ragdoll in a game with a glitchy physics engine.

Finally reaching a dry patch, Shiki tries to grab onto pipes to slow her momentum, eventually coming to a halt, breathing heavily, just as Beat also makes his perfect three point landing.

"I don't even know if you planned that!" she shouts, voice excited with fear and adrenaline, looking briefly from Beat to the left- the last place she saw the orange and green crab go.

tSubsequently, we hear something unfamiliar- someone shouting that's NOT our fault! The samps has summoned up some Orchesprogs to back it up and they're bashing the hard work of one of those aforementioned Roofer's Guild members. Mr. Mew leaps into the fray!
Beat Beat doesn't reply to Shiki's question though his slow, wide-eyed blinking is probably all the answer you need. It's like looking at a rabbit caught in your headlights. He's wise to keep his mouth shut though, since if he were to speak it would probably be in gibberish anyway. Thank God for pins, if it wasn't for them Beat would be dead. Again. And that would be humiliating and inconvinent.

Psychokenesis: Beat's can't do it and his player can't spell it, so it works out for everybody. What would using it be anyway, a skateboard coming to life and beating people over the head? Is that what you want to see? Is it?! Uh, anyways...

Beat activates another psych, rolling boldly into the affray to meet the stuffed cat(?!) as a brother-in-arms, his fists thrumming with power from the Respect pin. "It's clobbering time!"
Shiki Misaki "Don't destroy my illusion of your competence, Beat," Shiki says, and he helpfully complies, so we can all keep our dignity for a little longer.

In the meantime, we can make something good out of this roofing-destroying fiasco because we've got a person to save! Hooray! We're not menaces to the public!

The image of Beat's skateboard flying through the air brings to mind the mental image of the wheels flippin' down into hoverjets and creating a sort of hoverboard, for sweet air moves and cutback drop turns, or maybe just horrible splattery death. Double death.

So instead we're going to just punch things. Mr. Mew and Beat, back to back, brothers in arms and violence, fighting a bunch of evil tadpoles with their bare hands! Life is an adventure.

They might even manage to get in a swing at the Carcinosamps, who, despite its huge claw, isn't all that good at fighting in melee. Perhaps the claw is /too/ large. It retreats again and begins to climb a big ol' tree- Shiki tries to Entangle it, but only succeeds in wrapping her threads around some sturdy branches.

Since it's disappeared, she offers one to Beat when he's done. It's tree or nothin'.
Beat Right after punching his third tadpole right in the eye Beat stays himself, realization focusing on his face. Hold on, he has a pin that can slow time. They're trying to catch up with something that keeps running awa-- THWOMP! Then a tadpole leaps kamikaze style into his head and the thought is gone.

Soon after Beat and Mr. Mew are done severely reducing the infant Frog Noise population, whereupon he notes Shiki holding a threat his way. So they're climbing a tree now?! He heaves a sigh, declines the branch and unstead unfolds his Reaper wings. These have /got/ to be good for something, right?

Sailing high Beat has another thought filter through the volcanic layers of his mind. He's a Reaper isn't he? Maybe he can exert some kind of control over this thing. "Yo!" he says with authority, then cycles through some likely options. "Slow down! Give up your pins! Uhh... Erase yourself!" He bellows down to Shiki. "WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH THIS CRAB AGAIN?!"
Shiki Misaki Let's have a brief moment of mourning for Beat's brain cells.

No, I just mean the ones that died then, not all of them, we'd be here all week...

However, there's enough to generate at least one excellent idea: flying! Shiki makes a 'hey how about that' expression, and drops the other cord.

The Carcinosamps is still scuttling uneasily through the branches, but Beat being able to fly means there's nowhere for it to go. Unfortunately, everyone knows that even when you control someone in that way, you can't force them to jump from a great height! The survival instinct is too great!

Don't you watch sci-fi? It didn't work for the guys in the bone facemasks and it won't work for you.

It DOES, however, slow down, and looks quite confused at Beat's commands, although maybe it's just because this is so bizarre.

And then Mr. Mew drops down on it from above wearing a sort of leaf as a hood, like he was some kind of assassin that's so popular lately.

Look away, it's going to be gruesome.

"Way to go, Beat, it worked!" Shiki shouts, as Mr. Mew holds up a Pop Pendulum. "We got it!"
Beat Beat bats his Reaper wings once, floating backwards a short distance. He makes an awkward face, the kind you would expect somebody to make if they just saw a stuffed cat doll leap from a distance and take out a crab, pulling his wooly crap over his eyes while Mr Mew does what presumably has to be done.

Beat ponders the idea that Shiki is entirely in control of Mr Mew and, in a psychological sort of way, it's doing things she wants to... eh, nah. That's too bizarre. Beat gently falls to the floor, hand already extended to give Shiki a high five. "Nice!" he says, grin spreading over his face. "You sure that's mission completed then? Check your hand!"
Shiki Misaki Nobody will ever know the truth.
Ever.

Shiki holds up her hand: the timer's still there. But she can see from where they are where she /needs/ to be: a shop selling sea-salt ice cream. "Gotta grab a snack for Sho from there. I know, if you think it's petty, try and wrap your head around the fact I've been travelling for five days to get here."

"Tell you what," she says, tossing him the Pendulum. "You go give this to Tenho, I'll wait and grab that as soon as the barrier goes down. Pi-face'll be around for me to hand it over."

Mr. Mew is throwing an acorn at a tame dragon from the safety of the rooftop, meanwhile. Subconcious urges? Naaaaaaaaaaaah.

 
This scene contained 11 poses. The players who were present were: Shiki Misaki, Beat