[In the trailer, today's spread is a range of Nordic dishes. Pickled stuff, warm stews, the like. The heater on the trailer is going full blast.] [Peter and Edge are there.] * Ben's there, in a grey suit. He's not wearing winter gear over it, though maybe the cigarette he's smoking provides some warmth. (Sorry, I thought you started. Maybe you hadn't?) (I had) (Or was about to, doesn't matter) * Edge is wearing her normal minimalist garb but shivering a bit. (Is it heated in there?) (Who is Edge?) (Yeah, but still a bit chilly) (Templar's top fighter) (Has she had her fight yet? I don't think so.) (I can't remember.) (She did against Ren) * Yvonne is wearing her normal minimal garb. She looks a bit chilled, but bearing it. (Okay.) (... There's an obvious joke in there about Yvonne looking chilled.) ( If you say so. ) (No, really, there is, miss 'doesn't wear anything'. ^^;) ( I'm not seeing it. ) (As Summer likes to put it, she's probably 'nipping out'.) * Katherine is there, too. She's dressed warmly, with gloves and a scarf, even. She looks tired, but not freezing... she's leaning on Ben's arm and glancing over the place now. (Edge is minimalist in terms of style/expense, not coverage.) * Peter is wearing pastoral garb with a medium jacket. He's trying some stew after saying a quick grace. * Ben supports Katherine easily as she leans on him. He's also surveying the place idly as he waits for the match to start. (Is Saldin here? Or Yuri?) * MLINK is now known as Saldin * Saldin enters the trailer without the appearance of a door opening, but... not from the door either. Trick of the light? Who knows. She visibly has a number of small cuts on her arms and face, and mini-rips in clothing. Clearly someone wasn't happy with her a bit ago. * Ben turns to look at Saldin as she enters, taking in her tattered appearance. * Katherine glances at Saldin. "Trouble getting here?" she asks mildly. * Peter glances over to Saldin with a smile. "Saldin, how are you? The work not being too hard on you I hope." * Yvonne waves "Hi Saldin! You don't look too good." 'Saldin.' * Saldin smiles back at Peter slightly. "It is as it always is." She nods to Yvonne, and to the Ben/Katherine pair. "It has been a while." Yeah. Where you been? * Peter nods. * Edge looks distrustful of all of you and helps herself to some coffee. * Saldin chuckles to herself slightly. "We saw eachother a few days ago, Yvonne. I was referring to... most everyone else in this place." Her eyes must be looking towards the screens, despite their solid whiteness, because he comments, "Ah, I see." (she comments! Damn.) Oh. * Katherine studies the screen for a moment, then looks for a place to sit. 'Not since we picked up Breaker in the first place.' * Saldin nods slightly in acknowledgement. * Yvonne doesn't. She watches the TV instead. "Tim's fighting now. I don't like that Mak guy. He sucks." * Ben idly reaches into a pocket to determine whether Tim got the grenades by robbing him. [Tim did not.] * Peter glances over to Yvonne. He seems to decide it's easiest to not acknowledge her. * Yvonne doesn't give Peter much of a choice o/~ Why not, Yvonne? * Saldin continues looking at the screens. "Not all are as one would like them." * Katherine finds a chair! She tugs Ben that way and has a seat once she reaches it. * Ben pulls another chair over next to hers and sits in that. 'Cause. He's got that weird grey goop that turns into metal. That's just eeeewwwwww. * Ben looks at the screen, trying to see where Tim will reappear. [For the record, the metal around the grenade seemed to just materialize there.] * Katherine is studying the screen, too, as she settles into her seat. Well, more like slumps, but there is settling involved. * Saldin mms to herself. "Irony." Hm? * Yvonne tilts her head. "What's that supposed to mean?" * Ben absently sets a hand down on Katherine's leg as he glances around the trailer again. * Saldin does not respond. Although she does ooze blood very slowly. * Katherine yawns a little, covering her mouth with one hand. It must be because the fight's boring. * Ben nods slightly at Tim's move against Mak's bike. * Katherine murmurs, probably in response to Ben's nod, "He shouldn't be in this, anyway." * Peter and Edge both watch the fight without much comment. * Ben glances over at Katherine. * Yvonne cheers. "Goooo Tim!" * Katherine has a vague look of disapproval on her face, but her eyes are still fixed on the screen. She does wince a little at Yvonne's yelling. 'Better he survives,' Ben points out quietly. * Katherine doesn't answer that. * Yvonne does her own pointing out. "He'd have an even better chance if you let me do the tests I'd wanted." 'I tried the stake,' Ben says deadpan. 'But did you try the American made car?' Couldn't get one. Did you try the poisonous gas? 'Yes.' * Katherine says, seriously, "I'm sure he would have told you if it worked." No he wouldn't! If it worked he'd be dead! * Saldin doesn't seem to be paying attention to everyone's... uh, confusing wordspeaking. * Peter decides it seems easiest to ignore the non-Saldin people in the room. * Edge ignores no one. She's too worried about ambushes. 'Maybe I am.' Are not. * Ben doesn't bother to reply. His attention turns back to the fight. * Saldin mms and posits, "It seems that there is more here than a simple fight." * Peter frowns. "I shouldn't let him take his personal bike to fights." Well, that won't be a problem anymore. The damage to the bike isn't the problem. * Yvonne looks at Saldin. "There is? But Tim doesn't even know Mak. I don't think." * Saldin dryly replies. "If Tim does not know Mak, Mak certainly knows of Tim." Not surprising. 'Kid left tracks.' Mak takes a special interest in extraplanars. Well, he has his work cut out for him. 'A lot of people end up taking an interest in the kid, one way or another.' He seems to work at that. 'Mostly he seems to work at the opposite. Just badly.' I'm sorry? Work at it? * Katherine frowns again. One of her hands ends up on Ben's, and she sqeezes. * Ben has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Ben has joined #sabwatch (Squeezes. Wow. Brain gone!) * Luke2 has joined #sabwatch * Ben has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Luke2 is now known as Ben 'Mak's losing focus.' Good. Gooooooo Tim! * Katherine actually breaks her concentration to eye Yvonne for a moment. * Ben glances at Yvonne as well. 'Aren't you cold?' Aren't you? * Saldin doesn't look cold in the slightest, oddly. Not even a goosebump. 'Frostbite doesn't bother me.' It's not that cold. * Edge keeps shivering. "I was told there'd be an adequate heater." (* Ben points at a perfectly serviceable egg beater by the food. 'There was a typo.') * Katherine lets out a small huff, getting a view of her own breath before it vanishes. "Only if you're used to living in Canada." (HA. Rimshot!) (I think it was actually Iceland that was decided on?) (What does that have to do with anything?) (True, but if you are used to living in Canada...) (But where are the bears? And the beavers? And the wild eskimo I hear so much about?) (Eskimo Gone Wild!) (Hot. Inuit. Action.) * Saldin idly runs a hand over her arm, smearing the blood slightly and letting out a very small sigh. 'Be glad it's not Antarctica.' Ben pauses for a second. 'Though I rather like it there.' Really? I've never been. * Katherine is watching the fight again. * Ben nods. 'I'll have to take you.' * Katherine smiles slightly. "All right, though I don't like the cold too much." She gestures at the loose scarf she's wearing. 'The kid had better tactics against Crosse,' Ben notes. * Saldin says quietly, "He needed them." 'Might need them here too.' Mak will not prove a threat to his life in the way his former coworker did. 'Those real bullets Mak's firing?' Bullets are pretty deadly, Peter. (Psh. She'd use Mr. whatever the heck his last name is.) (Gibralter) (I just don't know, so I subbed his first.) (Thanks. Fix that in the log?) If miracles are necessary, they'll be provided. (Mister Gibbly.) Session Time: Mon Dec 05 00:00:00 2005 * Katherine looks at Peter like he's crazy. Because he is, too. 'You'll sanitize the kid, but raise him?' Ben's tone is neutral. It wouldn't come to raising. You have a hand in whether or not these bullets hit Tim? I don't help. I can hurt. (provide a helping hand. rahter.) (Uh, to what where?) * Saldin smiles faintly to herself and nods slightly. (I don't provide a helping hand. I can hurt.) 'Mak's guns are running hot. The kid screws up, it could come to raising.' * Katherine nods. "Last I heard, a bullet to the heart would kill most of us." * Ben nods. 'Most,' he agrees. * Katherine turns to look at the monitor again. "Though it doesn't seem to be necessary." It's hard to tell, just from her voice, if she's pleased or not. * Peter frowns and watches the screen a moment. After Mak lowers his gun he looks away. (Saldin, give me a sense roll.) * Ben gives a slight smile. 'He may learn yet.' I hope so. * Yvonne tilts her head, staring confusedly at the monitor. 'Something the matter, Yvonne?' Is Tim giving up? * Saldin turns away from the screens towards the people when the threat is over ignoring the implicit moral fight. "Yes." She bows slightly at the room in general. "To another time." 'Saldin.' Ben nods back at Saldin. Nice seeing you again. * Saldin politely nods to them in acknowledgement, then looks to Peter with a white-eyed gaze. "Peter Gibraltar, may your luck with your student be as good as mine." [Back to main channel]