[Date: October 22, 2020. Time: 12:25 pm. Yvonne is flying away on one of her demons.] [She has Breaker. Currently the PCs are in a helicopter following her.] [The EU Colonel and Rev. Warlow have gone up to the cockpit for the moment.] [Start] * Tim looks at Saldin. "Okay, you really don't remember Yuri's boyfriend?" * Saldin tilts her head slightly. "Could you repeat that?" * Yuri puts her hand to her side idly and whispers, "Not even a trace..." Will Cheng? Movie star? Made lots of really cheesy kung-fu movies? Just got dragged off to hell? * Saldin shakes her head. "No. I don't watch movies." He was in early rounds of the tourney too, man when we get... actually hmm." * Tim pulls out his cell phone and calls Ari. "Hi... yeah, ... no, thanks. Look, could you send me the feed from Yuri's first fight? I'm trying to prove a point. ... Sure, thanks again, bye." [After a few moments Ari pipes through a feed. It involves Yuri fighting a velociraptor. No sign of Will. It's clearly labeled as the round 1 fight.] * Tim blinks in confusion. "Wait, that's not riiiight." [Yuri can feel free to make up how she pulverized the pre-historic predator. Or not, no biggie.] * Yuri shakes her head slightly and looks to Saldin as she says weakly, "Tim, stop. Just... stop." * Tim stops the recording. "The hell?" * Saldin looks at her and then nods slowly. "You... may explain it later. Yuri." She puts a hand to her own head. "Not all supernatural activities are easily known." * Yuri looks to Tim's surprise and chuckles weakly. "At least I'm not crazy. Or maybe sharing." * Tim sits back, scowling and drumming his fingers... Then he suddenly turns white. "Oh shit." Fuck. Fuckfuckfuckfuck. * Yuri is silent, and has gone back to not looking at people. [The helicopter keeps flying after Yvonne, who almost seems as if she's on auto- pilot. Welp, I'm many flavors of toast now. * Saldin looks at Tim in a puzzled manner. "Flowers of toast?" Flavors, many different kinds of dead... well, not until they figure out where that cursed amulet came from, but after? Suddenly hiding in some other hell for a few hundred years sounds like a good idea. * Saldin tilts her head. "You are still making little sense." * Kirby is now known as Yvonne Okay, remember the demons little froggy friend? It didn't start out as a frog. [And about now Yvonne's flying over the shore.] * Saldin waits for someone to stop flying! It'd be great. * Yvonne flies! * Yvonne says to Breaker. "So, like.... where we goin'?" * Tim notices that he's being ignored so he settles back to brood/angst/plot. Uh, up to you and Saldin I guess. [Taking Yvonne to #sabyvonne Make sure any big movements are visible here.] (Actually, you just still weren't making any more sense. ^_~) * Saldin looks towards Yvonne and smiles faintly. "At some point, she may stop." Mhm? Oh, right. The only way I see out of this is to take down the big bad demon so she can't do what ever it was she did to Will to me, and get Will back at the same time. As for where Yvonne's stopping now... * Tim pulls out his phone again and calls Yvonne. * Yuri shakes her head at Tim and then rubs her watery golden eyes. [No answer] * Tim snaps the phone shut. "It's a surprise." * Saldin sighs and says quietly, "The closer she gets to Europe, the harder it will be..." [And Yvonne begins her descent to a landing spot.] [Yvonne is landing on a hill in Western England. It overlooks a highway to the south. The helicopter carrying the rest of you lands shortly thereafter. Gangs all here including Warlow, Breaker, and Vega.] [Resume] ( And M. Bison and Sagat? :O ) (>_>) (Vega-Ortiz, the EU colonel.) * Tim gets out of the copter and walks over to Yvonne. "Yo, we got a plan that doesn't involve dieing horribly?" Wha? * Yuri steps down out of the copter too and takes a deep breath. * Saldin steps out with Yuri, all blue and female. "Tim has been very worried." By what? Oh, I don't know, the reality warping demon, sore losers, oh and my deranged relatives are alway good for a laugh. What do your relatives have to do with this? This? Nothing that I know of. Well, go kill this Kristof guy. You'll feel better. You know, you're probably right. * Breaker nods. "Damn straight." So, Ms. Mozzarella, what's your plan for Breaker's training? * Saldin looks at Yvonne and waits for the all-important answer. Huh? You won. How's the training going to work? * Saldin smiles a little. Comforting! Sure. She can be comforting. I was thinking we'd start by going to a deserted tropical island, where you'd learn to hone your natural abilities. Naturally, this means you wouldn't be allowed to bring any man-made items with you. * Tim points at Saldin. "As I recall, we were going to have hi, er her do it. Don't worry, I don't think getting cursed is actually mandatory." By that, you mean no clothes? * Yuri manages a weak smile. "Pretty indirect, that..." * Yvonne can't hide her grin. Or doesn't bother trying. "Of course! You've got to learn to adapt to any situation with only natural instinct to guide you." [And two seduction(female) rolls Yvonne. Body one has +8 due t not being Breaker's preferred gender. Soul has a +6 due to prejudice. Attractiveness helps on both.] * Breaker looks Yvonne over. And then looks her over again slowly. She grins. "Fine. Saldin or Yuri will be there to keep you in line, right?" They can join in if they like. They're usually naked anyway. * Yuri shakes her head in response. * Breaker grins more. "Oh no... seeing Saldin naked... The horror." * Saldin replies, "Yuri has tasks to perform. If my presence is necessary, I will be there." * Breaker nods. A word in private, Ms. Mozzarella? * Yuri sighs and rubs her eyes. Private? Or..... 'private'? No quotes. * Yvonne pouts. "That's disappointing." * Saldin looks side glance at Vega, frowning slightly and stepping forward. "I would hope you are not trying to influence the outcome of the tournament." I'm sure you'll get your chance later, Yvonne. She won, but I'm afraid it can't wait. Welllllllll... ok. * Vega-Ortiz walks a bit away from the group, still in view, but meant to be out of earshot. She removes a white noise generator from a pocket and turns it on, setting it on the ground. * Tim looks at Saldin. "Any secret monkish training on lip-reading?" * Yvonne floats towards Vega, backwards. "Back in a bit, Tim and gals! Don't let anything happen to my prize while I'm gone! Not that I'm going very far." [Vega-Ortiz and Yvonne to #sabyvonne] * Saldin keeps her slightly displeased look and doesn't respond. She moves closer to Breaker too. * Yuri goes with Saldin and chuckles faintly, bitterly, before saying to Breaker, "I guess we don't need to have that conversation after all." Well, that's suspicious. ::she then frowns:: I hope this won't chafe. Now there's a thought you have more often with Yvonne around. So, doesn't it bother you that she has sex with, well, most anyone? I mean, isn't she your girlfriend or something? Yeah, but I look at it this way: one, I'm having sex with an impossibly hot woman, two, because of her I can have sex with multiple impossibly hot women, often at the same time, and three, I'm all for anything involving numbers one and two. If that means putting up with Yvonne being the flakiest thing since the invention of breakfast cereal? So? * Yuri coughs and looks to Tim with widened eyes a moment, then rubs her head. "Not much for standards, huh/" Eh, standards are for old and mature people. Well okay, I can see the hotness. ::she still looks confused:: * Yuri shakes her head. "I know it makes me sound like Saldin, but one person still should... mean something." * Yuri puts her hand to her forehead, covering her eyes. Or at very least, you should be the player. I mean come-on. Who wants to be in a harem? Yvonne means hot sex, if that's not what you're after, don't try to go out with her. It's that simple. * Saldin murmurs, "She is nothing if not simple," as she continues to look at the white noise field. Really? Nah, you can catch her thinking from time to time. [You can see Vega-Ortiz showing a data pad to Yvonne and then handing it to her.] What's she think about? Hmm, need a good example... Ah! Remember her fight against Maggie? Big scary lady with a bigger and scarier plasma riffle? Yeah. Up till that fight she kept her demon summoning bit secret, so Maggie didn't go in prepared for them and lost completely. Uh huh. Any other secrets I should know about? Yeah, we've seriously pissed off that demon that attacked us today, only she doesn't know it yet. How do you mean? I mean, you threw a warhead at him. It was pretty obvious. Remember the frog? Yeah. That was, odd. The frog's a frog because that amulet it had is cursed. * Warlow chuckles. "You tricked Kristof's top lieutenant into wearing a cursed amulet?! Impressive. How'd you pull that? * Tim grins. "A good magician never reveals all his tricks, but a better one than I wouldn't be worried about how well he covered his tracks right now." Actually, I think that Raleigh chick would be angry at you. Kristof doesn't seem to care much about his people. Fair. [And Vega takes back the pad and shows something to Yvonne.] And the kid's right, if he cared much about her, he'd have removed the curse. Kid? * Warlow smiles. "I don't have to cater to your moods anymore." * Breaker grins. "Crone." Ahh, good, pissed off demonic mages that can't keep their hands out of the candy I can deal with. Kristof's still going to try to kill you. But no more so than the rest of us. * Tim nods and grins. "Fair enough." I stand by killing him first. * Saldin continues looking at Yvonne/Vega! I stand by humiliating him again first and then letting Breaker kill him. Well, when a hell lord dies, control of the realm passes to whoever killed him. So, leaving him vulnerable just sets up a new master. So there'll be a queue, and if we were really good at it we could get them to kill each other off for us and leave a weak and stupid one on top. Not that'ed ever actually work, but I like the thought. We have a ritual that can permanently severe ties with his realm. However, to succeed without paying a very high price, the Hell Lord must be distracted. To avoid paying a high price, he'll need to be dead. * Tim laughs. "I can do distracted." And, it will be a lot easier to make an exit if the Hell Lord's power temporarily pass to one of our people. Fighting your way in will be hard enough. That one you'll need somebody else working on. * Warlow nods. "We plan to." Cool. * Vega-Ortiz shows the pad one more times and then turns off the white noise generator. [Returning from #sabyvonne.] * Yvonne comes back over! * Vega-Ortiz follows. So? * Yvonne points at a remote spot. "Tim, let's go over there!" She goes! * Tim goes there faster! * Tim is GONDED [Back to #sabyvonne.] * Saldin watches her come back before looking to Ortiz. She's still standing near Breaker! * Vega-Ortiz waits as if she's in a profession that regularly demands foul- mooded waiting. ( She's so professional! ) [And I'll allow +4 awareness (hearing) checks. I'm assuming it's a fairly remote spot.] * Tim rubs his face. * Breaker stretches. "Bah, too much talking." * Yuri shrugs. "World changed today, Breaker." She chuckles a little. "We should head off right now." Yuri, good luck. I hope you find him. * Yuri blinks at Breaker and then looks away to say quietly, and a little shakily, "Dammit. I wish I was the only one that remembered. It'd make this easier." * Breaker looks sheepish. "Err... forget what I said." (I really wasn't expecting her to make that check, but she rolled a three. ) * Yuri shakes her head. "No, it's..." she trails off. "You sure you don't want to just hop away from the talking for a little bit?" * Breaker shrugs. "Yvonne won." I mean, technically you guys all won. Bah. This hot sex she keeps talking about had better be good. * Tim looks over at the people. * Warlow buries her head in her hand. * Yuri manages a weak laugh. [Tim and Yvonne return from #sabyvonne for the first time.] * Yvonne comes back over. * Tim teleports. Welp, I've got good news and bad news. Fine, just make it fast. Bored now. * Yvonne nods. "Me too." The cure for that is we're going to go figuratively burn Paris to the ground and wring all the fun out of the city. * Vega-Ortiz watches expectantly. Warlow also watches, but she doesn't have as much of a stake here. When we're done here, you can do whatever you like. Figuratively, of course. I don't actually see how figuratively burning a city to the ground is actually all that much fun. There's a surprise. * Yvonne grins at Warlow. "It means we're gonna sex everyone up." Fine. Your decision? * Saldin looks to Yvonne. Flat white eyes. And blue skin. She's not saying anything. Breaker's coming with us, of course. After all, she's just been sitting around watching all this time and bored out of her mind. Then she gets to go back to SAB, because the EU wants her to train there for some strange reason instead of going with Saldin, but hey if they want to grant us immunity for life? Who am I to argue with a decision like that? What? No, she goes with us, SAB and Saldin our welcome to help, at our facilities. Huh? * Yvonne gets cut off before she can say anything! * Breaker looks to Yvonne. "Okay, Tim confuses me. You try. * Tim shrugs. "Have at it." Okay! * Saldin tilts her head at their inability to even submit to blackmail correctly. * Yvonne clears her throat. (* Cracks up at Saldin's comment.) * Yuri reaches to Breaker's shoulder. After Breaker shows me her boobs - as per prior agreement - she'll go with Vega for joint training between the EU and SAB. And Saldin, too. Saldin can show her how to fight naked while I supervise." * Vega-Ortiz holds out a datapad with that written up. It clearly shows Yvonne announcing herself on the EUs team and makes clear that the EU is the lead in the joint training. * Breaker looks very puzzled but pulls up her shirt. "Okay, but if the EU sucks, you so don't get to see the rest of me. Also, why?" (Signed?) * Saldin is silent a moment, then says simply, "The easiest path is traveled." She turns to walk away. "Yuri. We walk." [Not yet. Yvonne can sign or thumb scan to approve.] * Yvonne pouts at Saldin. "I knew you'd do that." * Yuri frowns and looks to Yvonne before saying, "This is crap. The rules so totally weren't written like that." * Breaker continues to be a B-cup. * Yuri turns too, though. Maybe not for you, they weren't. * Tim glances at it and then at Breakers boobies. "I'd get that bit about Paris in there, and put SAB in charge, but then I like to annoy people." * Yvonne is shortly distracted by Breaker. * Vega-Ortiz looks at Tim. "And you do it very well." * Yuri rubs her head and says, "Whatever, Yvonne. Saldin trusted your ass. Good job fucking up Breaker's life." She seems more annoyed than Saldin the walking. * Warlow glances at the contract. "Huh, affirming she was on the EU team the entire time." Oh fine, put the monks in charge and drop Paris. * Breaker pulls down her shirt. * Yvonne glances at Tim. "Maybe I shoulda just lost that last match on purpose." * Vega-Ortiz continues to hold out the datapad for Yvonne's thumb scan. I dunno, Kristof beat their fighter, wouldn't that mean he'd have won the tourney afterwards? * Saldin puts out her hand to Yuri's shoulder to silence her annoyance. * Breaker rolls her eyes. "Enough talking." * Yvonne sighs. "Gimme a sec. Tim?" She moves away again, beckoning for him to follow. Sure. * Tim follows Yvonne, but on foot this time. [Tim and Yvonne go to #sabyvonne for the second time.] This is the slowest motion backstabbing I've ever seen. Tell me about it. * Saldin stops and turns back to face Vega and Breaker. She is silent and staying emotionless as possible. ( That's because I'm dragging it out just to annoy everybody, it's fun!) * Yuri is less emotionless as she turns around. She's very annoyed. Tim might be succeeding! Or maybe it's a confluence. * Breaker hums the Girl from Ipanema. * Warlow gets out and thumbs through her exorcism bible. * Vega-Ortiz continues to have no idle animation. However, she lowers the datapad for now. * Breaker stops humming. "Anyone got a deck of cards?" * Warlow shakes her head. * Vega-Ortiz tosses one over. I didn't figure you for a gambler. I'm not, you just never know when they'll come in handy. * Yuri shakes her head slightly. * Breaker removes the wrapper from the deck and starts shuffling. Don't forget to take out the rules cards. Oh, right. Who wants in? On duty. Sure. * Yuri shakes her head and says, "Sorry, I... just not in the mood to lose." * Saldin doesn't respond. * Breaker nods and sighs. Warlow sits. "Rummy? You can play that with two." Sure. * Vega-Ortiz finally moves! She goes into parade rest. [Warlow wins the first round.] [Breaker makes a comeback for the second.] [Only to get crushed in the third round.] [Returning from #sabyvonne with Tim for the second time.] * Yvonne heads back! * Tim walks back! [Everyone looks over.] * Saldin was already looking that direction! Saves her effort. So? * Yvonne glances at everyone. "Right, so, uh..." I'm tired of all this deliberation. Breaker can go with who she wants. * Breaker gets up and walks over to Saldin. "Uh, thanks. You may earn nudity rights yet I guess." * Saldin blinks. Twice. * Vega-Ortiz hits a button on the datapad and the screen blanks. "As you like." * Yvonne rubs her head. "What was the point of this stupid tournament anyhow?" * Yvonne could pat her stomach at the same time, but chooses not to. * Tim points at Breaker. "She wanted to see ass kicking." * Breaker nods and adds fairly flatly. "Yeah." * Saldin looks to Yvonne and points a finger at the sky, then she bows her head. "You may visit our temples, Yvonne, should you find a true need." * Tim bows. "We deliver." * Yuri blinks too, and then smiles a little. "C'mon, Breaker. You can, uh, show off another time." I don't even know where they are! And besides, they're all bald. That's such a turnoff." Besides, I gotta go someplace far away now. Very far. * Saldin replies, "Tibet is far." * Saldin then turns again, taking Breaker's hand. The monk has a point, if no hair. But not temples in Europe. Yvonne Nilsdtr nee Lilith nee Mozzarella. I officially inform you that you are wanted for questioning regarding multiple counts of slavery, corruption of minors, and kidnapping. Until these matters are resolved, your properties in Europe are ceased and all inhabitants there-in will be questioned to determine if they are under supernatural coercion. Yeah, but it's kinda hard to hide out if people know where I am. * Breaker takes Saldin's hands. "Let's blow this place." * Saldin nods slightly. * Vega-Ortiz has shifted to a defensive stance but shows no signs of seeking to bring Yvonne in. * Yvonne gazes at Saldin and thumbs at Vega. "See what you guilt-tripped me into doing? Hope you're happy." Just 'cause they can't bribe a teenager as well as a monk can. * Tim shakes his head. * Yuri nods less slightly, looking back to Yvonne to smile weakly. "Uh... really, thanks. It'll be a pain to have you around, but we keep our word."] (Ha, no ].) [Yvonne's cell phone rings.] * Yvonne checks the caller. "Now what?" [Caller ID: Pierre Delacriox] * Saldin just says, "It is not about being happy, Yvonne. I shall see you again." * Yvonne answers. "Hi?" * Pierre speaks in French. * Tim doesn't speak French or tap cell phones as he's not Ten. [Saldin, Yuri, and Breaker fade away.] * Tim doesn't understand what's going on, but gives Yvonne a worried look. A voice cuts in German * German voice. Yvonne? * Yvonne stares at Vega. "You had this planned from the beginning, didn't you?" No. I wouldn't have worked with you from the beginning. (Move Tim's comment down) Let me guess, they just backstabbed you because they couldn't get one girl to put thirty seconds of thought into joining them? Liar. There's no way they could move that fast. And mass exorcism? You said they'd be contained, not banished! Oh shit. Humans will just lose what abilities you gave them. Any extra- planars on your estate will be banished, yes. And yes, the General certainly had an backup plan. * Warlow leaves the cards on the ground and stands up. * Saldin has quit IRC (Quit: When a demon is more moral than the humans, humanity is not winning. ) * Yvonne clenches a fist. "Yeah? Did you plan for this?" * Vega-Ortiz draws a magic-suppression grenade. Of the style we saw Saki use not that long ago. As she pulls it out of her pocket she yanks out the pin with her thumb and holds it in her hand. "No, but I try to be prepared." [She's still holding the charge, but if her grip loosens it goes off.] * Vega-Ortiz frowns and glances at Tim for a split second and then lets the charge detonate. She frowns as Tim just barely manages to snatch it out of her hands. "Fine. Reverend. I assume you don't intend to allow them to murder me." * Yvonne doesn't wait to find out! She rushes at Vega, screaming, and grabs at her, making to... kiss her? Well, this is Yvonne... [Vega, for the record, had enough actions to maintain her defensive stance even while pulling out grenades.] [And is thus easily able to sidestep the attack.] * Warlow keeps one hand on the bible and with the other hand signals to the helicopter pilot who gets the vehicle into gear. "Ms. Mozzarella, she's just the messenger. Do not make me intercede." * Yvonne goes for Vega again. "Yeah, and I'm sending a message!" Kick her ass! [The second attack is harder to react to and Vega just barely steps back in time. She doesn't move unnaturally swiftly, but she seems to be in complete fluid control of her movements at all times.] [Vega completely focuses herself on defense, taking a more sophisticated stance now that she doesn't need to worry about grenades.] * Yvonne attacks, so that works out fine for her. Tim. This will get very bad for your girlfriend if she tries to steal Vega's soul. ::Warlow puts her free hand on her shotgun but doesn't draw it yet:: [Since she's fully focusing on defense, she's able to evade that first attempt without much trouble.] * Tim eyes Warlow and then shouts. "Kick her ass and then send all the pieces back C.O.D.!" [The helicopter's engine is now running and its blades are spinning. Won't start to get off the ground until next round.] * Yvonne does it again. "Hold still, you bitch!" Mia has explained about succubus kisses, hasn't she? [Vega chooses not to oblige and actually has a slighter easy time dodging the second attempt due to good luck. * Tim holds his fingers up, a few inches apart. [And Vega keeps on double full defense.] * Yvonne sighs. "Fine, we'll do it the easy way." She darts in again, throwing a punch. * Vega-Ortiz easily redirects the punch by raising an arm. * Yvonne scowls. "Last straw." She waves her arms, and two monsters appear: Like green-skinned human females, and tentacles instead of arms. "Kiddie gloves are off." * Warlow walks over and jumps onto the helicopter. "Colonel. Deliver yourself into my custody. We're going to have some questions about espionage on British soil." * Vega-Ortiz nods and runs and easily jumps into the copter. Which, incidentally, does have a minigun mounted. * Yvonne moves to block Vega from the chopper >.> [That would be an unarmed (grab)] * Vega-Ortiz easily evades Yvonne's grab. [Vega's now on the copter which is lifting off. Yvonne's second attack?] * Tim shouts at all four of them. "The hell do you think you're doing?" * Warlow shouts back. "Leaving. Ms. Mozzarella, pursue your revenge as you like, but not on the King's territory." [And the helicopter rises. We'll say ten meters up.] * Yvonne glares at Warlow. "I knew you were on the same side!" She has her demons grab the chopper's skids with their tentacles while she grabs at Vega again. * Tim facepalms. [Vega easily dodges. The pilot keeps control but is rising more slowly. Warlow exorcises the demons. Give me a soul rolls for both. Plus two penalty.] [Both lose two points of soul and cease to attack the helicopter and thus fall.] [Helicopter now 15 meters up, so you're going to need flyers, ranged attacks, or a heck of a jump.] * Yvonne just glares a toothy glare. [And the helicopter flies away at full speed.] It won't be the King's Country when I get done with it. I'm going to go get drunk off my ass, wake up hung over and then call Ari so we can go hunt down everybody that just attacked your place alphabetically, coming? She wouldn't help. She's with them. I consider her a more with me. Besides, I don't have nearly enough beer in me to deal with this. Fuck, we won the tourney! The hell is wrong with everybody else? (Okay, make any final comments and I'll end) * Yvonne seethes. [End!]