[And the watch stand is actually set up in a neighboring farm. You've got a view of the site, but need binoculars (provided) or to look at the TV screen to get a really good view.] [Mai and Victor are watching from different sides of the viewing stand.] * Tim walks in wearing his usual clothes and holding a pair of Sexy-SAB pennants. The blue is starting to wash out of his hair, but he is walking and waves to Mai and Victor. "Hey, they picked an odd one this time didn't they." [Both wave back but don't really make eye contact with each other.] * Tim looks at each of them in turn. "...Oookay which of you is rooting for Yvonne, and which for Maggie?" * Mai gives Tim a bit of a look. "You're brighter than that." * Kahlya walks in from outside. "Does it really matter, Timmy? More than likely, they're here for research anyhow." She eyes Mai carefully. * Tim shrugs. "Just double checking." * Kahlya leans against the window and looks on from the outside, commenting idly to Mai. "That's an interesting trick you pulled." * Mai looks at Kahlya. "What trick?" Your familiar. * Kahlya turns her back to the window, leaning back and grinning like a cat. "It was a nice gift I assume. I didn't know SAB had any active mages on the roster...well, at least not human ones." * Mai smiles slightly, but also somewhat coldly. "Not my familar, and I have a few talents.' Not yours, huh? Where'dja get it from then? * Tim walks to the center of the seating area and pulls Jin and Jenna out of his pockets before sitting down. He places Jin on the side of him closer to Mai and Jenna on the opposite. "Ask him yourself." * Kahlya blinks and looks at Tim, pouting. "Awww. You just had to interrupt." It's more fun for me this way. Well then why don't you ask him? * Mai's smile gets a bit more warmth as Jin shows. * Saldin walks in from outside as well, although he seems a bit more perplexed about it than Kahlya. * Tim glances at the screen. "Alright Jin, while they're running running around trying to find eachother. You can tell us about yourself." * Kahlya waves slightly. "Heya, Monky." Oh, hey Saldin! I was worried I was the only one who was going to show up. * Kahlya pouts again and points to herself, idly. "Um...I'm here..." * Tim holds up one of the Sexy-SAB flags and waves it at Kahlya. "Yeah, but you arn't officialy on my side, Saldin is." * Saldin glances over at Kahlya and nods slightly. "As far as I can tell, she is, Tim. And I suppose..." he looks at Tim and his flag, "Well, this is Yvonne's fight, isn't it?" [Jin: Mai did make me, but I am not a familar. I am an independent creature that uses power she gave me. My paper body was made through more traditional animating magic.] Good call! I guess fate has something else in mind for Yuri and Eris though. * Kahlya folds her arms and thumbs at Mai and Victor. "I'm not officially on their side ei..." She then eyes Saldin. "Whatdya MEAN "As far as you can tell..." * Tim is unfortunatly not looking at Jin right now. * Kahlya then catches a glimpse of the monitor. "Oh hey, they're starting... what's that?" * Kahlya points to the device Yvonne's holding. * Tim looks. "Uhm... probibly something to keep Maggie from setting her on fire. Your expert opinion Ji.. Oh hey..." He reads. "That works, cool. Thanks again Mai." * Saldin shrugs slightly. "My senses have never claimed perfection. Then again, they do not usually talk to me." He looks over at the monitors himself. * Victor sseems pleased with himself. * Mai does too. Hmm...could have sworn he was a...oh well. Talk to you? * Saldin mms. "Not usually, as I said, young lady." That's a good thing, right? Because if I were me, hearing my senses talk to me would make me think I'm crazy * Saldin mms faintly. "One might be surprised, over time, about that." * Victor glances over to Kahlya. "So who are you fighting for?" * Kahlya smiles and shrugs her right shoulder slightly. "Me, mostly. Although don't worry." She looks out the window. "All I need is to ask my questions, and then Breaker is free with whatever she chooses." I can put in a good word for SAB if need be... * Kahlya looks back at the screen and sighs. "It's like a game of cat and mouse..." * Tim looks. "We get a lot of thoes." Then he blinks. "...Fish?" Yes. Very... odd. Fish. * Victor and Mai both look puzzled. [And the fish do clearly look somewhat demonic for anyone with a single level of occult.] Fish that dodge bullets. Intelligent fish that...well, they'd have to be to be out of water... * Tim poins at the screen. "I don't think that's going to a problem." * Kahlya rubs her chin as if she's thinking of something... Sea and land... bets that birds are next? * Kahlya snorts and folds her arms. "Oh, MINIONS." The last word has about the same distain as if she'd said goons. I'd imagine that they're great for distracting the mad woman with the plasma launcher, but that could just be me. * Mai pulls up a book and starts flipping through the pages * Saldin lets out a slight mmm, and is frowning a little, perhaps. "Certainly an interesting ability." * Tim boggles at the headless thing. "...Oookay that's different." ...Exploding fish. Mmm-hmm. * Saldin chuckles slightly. "I will continue to be impressed by the dedication of everyone in this tournament for a very long time, I think." Exploded Exploding fi... * Tim looks at Victor. "Please tell me there's something besides Maggies good aim and my abilites that's going to keep us from getting shot at." Of course. * Tim peers at the barn in distance and then nods. "Good." I don't think Breaker would put potential tournament candidates in an unsafe place. It'd lead to disqualification. * Kahlya turns towards Victor. "So...question. Just how much background check does SAB do exactly?" * Victor looks sheepish. "Uh, classified." That's the equivalent of saying "little to none" isn't it? * Tim grins. "Sounds that way doesn't it." * Victor doeesn't comment. Mai reads her book, marks a page, and keeps looking. * Tim looks at Mai. "So... you looking up what these things are, or should I just ask Jin?" Looking them up. * Kahlya looks back out the window at the monsters, trying to figure out for herself. * Tim shrugs and goes back to watching Maggie and the big ugly. "Kay." * Saldin nods slightly and says in a quiet tone, "She has definitely been working on her capabilities. I wish she had chosen slightly... less nasty directions to go." * Kahlya pulls away from the window. "Yep. Definitely them. Though why she'd bind herself to those, I have no idea..." ...Off hand... because they seem to be working... But yeah... there has to have been a less fugly way to do this. * Kahlya turns around and throws her hands up in the air. "They're stupid brutes though." She shakes her head annoyed and waves her hands back and forth. "I wouldn't be caught hanging out with 'em, that's for sure." * Saldin frowns thinly. "Most likely not, no." * Kahlya looks at Tim idly. "Still wanna date her?" * Tim looks at Kahlya. "Depends on how much time I'll have to spend around the rest of her friends, or if those are just loaners." * Tim sighs. "I hope they're loaners anyway... if she paid something for those green things it was too much." * Saldin says dryly, "If they're a loan, it's the kind of loan one can never pay back." I think they're usually smarter than that....usually... And you...will you quit being so gloomy? * Saldin looks over to Kahlya with those flat white eyes. "Apparently, you do not know enough about what this signifies. I believe I have earned the right to be... gloomy." * Tim looks at Saldin and humms flatly. "No refunds for something like this?" * Kahlya blinks. "Probably not. Is it...bad?" * Saldin suddenly barks out a laugh. "Oh... oh my... ha ha... well, I give her credit..." ...If this works... I'm going to say real bad. Credit? There's nothing quite like divine power to disable a demon. Oh. * Kahlya eyes widen for a second. "Oh! That." She waves her hand idly. "That's just a misnomer..." * Mai grins. "That I did not see coming." It must be the most accurate misnomer in the plane, then. ...Okay, yeah Yvonne's in trouble. * Victor just looks weirded out by all this. * Mai looks up from her book, wich she now has quite thoroughly bookmarked. "And I've found some information, but most of it has been covered alreaady." * Tim watchs Yvonne for a bit and then looks at Mai. "Whatcha got?" * Kahlya thinks about that. "You know...even with those gone, that gun-toter's still in trouble unless she can find her..." But...still...eww... * Kahlya looks away from Maggie's screen and glances at Mai. * Mai looks to Tim. "She's must have strong connections to a single realm, that's the only way she'd get this much variety. And there's way too many to give the stats on each one." It takes a lot of energy to open portals like that, doesn't it? * Tim nods. "Aahh." It depends how she does it. * Kurt taps Kahlya on the shoulder. "So, what've I missed?" * Saldin has just etched a semi-constant slight frown on as he continues to watch the fight monitors. * Tim blinks. "That was you Ku... whao, glad she didn't do that when I was fighting her that one time." * Kahlya turns around suddenly and eyes Kurt. "Hello Mister Petros. You missed the fish." Fish? Fish. Exploding demonic fish. Impressive. So how's Mags doing? We went to a lot of trouble to get her some good weapons against Yvonne, I'd hate to see 'em do nothing. * Tim blinks and looks up at Kurt. "Weapons? So far just the cross. Which is working very very well." * Kahlya eyes Kurt. "*You* did that?" Well, she and I did it together. Why? And that cross should be working well, but if you think it works well now, just wait'll you see what it does to Yvonne. I'd rather not actualy. Just wondering... * Kahlya thumbs at Tim. "Yeah. Remember, that thing's his girlfriend." Oh, yeah. I totally can't believe you're dating a succubus, dude. Best catch ever. * Kurt slaps Tim on the shoulder. Hey! I resent thing.... And doesn't the fact that I've lived through the second date kinda mean she's not or did I just assume wrong on that? She's not really a succubus, she's just a human that's taken on a lot of succubus traits, as far as I know. But you're still lucky to still have your soul. * Tim blinks at Kurt and then nods. "If you say so." * Kahlya blinks at Kurt. "Wait...wait...so you can pick and choose?" I'm serious. She's been around the block more times than I care to think about. I found a guy who had a trap set for her. He spend thirty years building it, and it had sat there for six hundred. She's a man-eater. * Saldin makes a quiet mming noise. Is it at the conversation? Or the fight? Who knows. * Victor is looking really troubled by this conversation. Mai distant. and I don't know if she got to pick and choose, but she definitely got immortality in the package. I hear hell gives _great_ bennies. ... Six hundred... I figured it was a lot less than that. * Kurt looks out at the fight. "well... fuck. All that preparation and we lost anyhow." Oh well. Anyway, Tim... don't feel bad for dating a granny. She definitely doesn't look her age. * Mai glances to Kurt with a frown. "They'll work equally well in the next fight." * Kahlya tilts her head up and perks her ears. "A cycle?" * Tim looks around. "I figured two hundred on the outside...And I missed it!" Very badly, in fact. Well, at least six hundred and fifty. Probably closer to a thousand, I'd bet. And whoever she works for, she's got some goddamn powerful enemies. * Tim points at the burning forest. "The rest of her allies don't seem to be anything to sneeze at either... remind me not to get her mad." * Saldin slips his hand into the upper part of his robe. * Mai walks over to Victor and grabs the larger and stronger guy and drags him off. "We've got to talk." Victor looks kinda numb. [Go ahead and head over if you like.] They'd better be, she's managed to survive at least six hundred years with a lord of hell pissed at her. * Tim blinks. "That must have taken some work. What'd she do to him?" No idea, but there's a fucking HUGE bounty on her head. Huh. * Saldin 's chest might seem to glow a little. That is, if you're paying attention. * Kurt hops down off the platform. * Kahlya shakes her head. "What I want to know is why would you sell yourself for partway like that?" * Saldin shrugs slightly and follows slowly, not speaking. * Tim stands up. "Must have seen something I don't." He looks down at his magical pets. "Alright, the show's over, back into the pockets with you." But...honestly...isn't showing that sort of...thing in front of Breaker kind of, well, stupid?" * Kahlya watches everyone heading out. "Hey! Wait for me!" Unless she's going to argue a fightig fire with fire sort of thing... [Non porters will take a few rounds to get there.] [Like a minute or so.]