01<@Ardweden> [Day: Sunday, September 12. Time: ?] 01<@Ardweden> [After a stay in Tony's dream, you left under extreme duress to find an irate raven screeching at you. You are now following said raven to a place with sand, or dirt, or something (in theory, anyway), as Kali asked if it could communicate through scratching.] 01<@Ardweden> [So, that's what you're doing! It's flying above and ahead of you, hovering occasionally for you to catch up. You're still in New York Cityish streets.] 01<@Ardweden> [Session Start!] 06* Kali follows along in quick burst of port-jumps, checking her position every once and a while by observing the Raven. One of her bottom arms is instinctively wrapped around her midriff protectively. Occassionally she glances at the city scape to look for any scenery that stands out or dangers lurking around. 06* Imp is hop hovering flying as he went trying to keep up as fast as he could. 06* Hien follows, walking quickly, as it's a little hard to fly in a city. 06* @Joan follows by walking. 01<@Ardweden> [And so, you continue on in silence. The scene shifts gradually from city to a beach... well, a beach with the tops of buildings sticking out of it, or crumbled into rubble by the wayside. The raven keeps flying, though, until it reaches the edge of the ocean.] 01<@Ardweden> [In the distance, you see the rumbling beginnings of what looks like an enormous thunderstorm, but it's not here - at least not yet, right? Around are all sorts of debris, though there's plenty of sand to be had as well. The raven flies down to perch on a sideways shopping cart (one wheel missing), and it tilts its head at you.] 06* Imp looks at the raven. So... what are we doing here again? <@Joan> Good question. 06* Kali plops down on the sand, wincing a bit, her arms going around her waist. She looks at the Raven for a moment. "He said he had a plan. At the very least, it'll be more than we've got right now." 01<@Ardweden> [The raven tilts its head the other way, at Kali.] 06* @Joan moves over to Kali. "'Ere, let me take a look at zat." You understood what he said? 06* Kali looks back at the Raven. "You said you could sketch it, right?" 01<@Ardweden> [The raven blinks at Kali, and caws, in a way that sounds almost like a question. And then it looks at Joan and tilts its head back the first way. Happy to oblige!] 06* Imp kicks at the sand angerly muttering to himself. 06* Kali sighs and relaxes her arms slightly, closing her eyes. "Maybe I'm going crazy. Hoping for too much..." 06* @Joan holds a gauntlet towards Kali, her palm emitting a soft glow. As the light washes over Kali, her wounds start mending, burns fading. 06* Kali starts breathing again as the warm light washes over her. She sounds grateful but sad at the same time. "Thanks. But I still don't think we're in any shape to do this tonight..." 01<@Ardweden> [The raven flies down, and it scratches at the sand a bit, before fluttering to clean sand and scratching in the sand with its beak. After half a minute, it looks up, and it's clearly written the word "ON". It caws twice.] <@Joan> "On"? On what? 01<@Ardweden> [The raven shakes its head. It caws twice again.] No? 06* Kali opens her eyes and watches the Raven go. For a bit of a second, she glances at Tyler. But she doesn't respond. 01<@Ardweden> [One caw, and the raven moves to another relatively clean patch of sand, writing, "SYE." It caws once again, and it looks up at you expectantly.] 06* Imp sighs and flops down." On sye? No eyes? I think he means yes. 06* Kali sighs. "Great. A dyslexic raven." 01<@Ardweden> [The raven actually looks offended at that, shuffling and preening its feathers a bit.] Oh, we can ask it questions and it'll answer yes or no? 06* Kali looks back at the Raven coldly. "Look. You're the one that hauled us in here in the first place. Don't give us that look. If you want us to help, you need to help us too." Is there a way to save him now? 06* Kali quiets a bit and looks at Imp for a moment with what might be a touch of sympathy. It's hard to tell. She is a lot more quiet though. 01<@Ardweden> [It gives a little snort, but it does try to clear the sand as best as it can with its tail, then writes, "I ITNHK OS."] 06* @Joan folds her arms, thinking. I...what/ I think so? 01<@Ardweden> [The raven caws.] 06* Kali watches the Raven, staring at him, and maybe a bit through him. She's letting other people ask the questions for right now though. 01<@Ardweden> [It hops down towards you, below the words it just wrote, and writes, "LIKL YTON FETHAR."] what? Like ton feather? 01<@Ardweden> [It caws twice, then tilts its head.] 06* @Joan eyes the words, then shrugs. 06* Imp looks a bit sick to his stomach The father. Kill the father. That's what you're saying, right? 01<@Ardweden> [The raven caws.] I figured as much... 06* Kali sighs. "If we do that without provocation, we're going to make a lot of enemies here." He's like what not-Javy was before? The one keeping Tony in the dream? Well, it was Nate back then, but you know what I mean. <@Joan> Hmm... I wonder... 06* @Joan looks to Kali. "After all, you made no promise not to 'arm the fazer, oui?" 06* Kali tilts her head and looks at the Raven. "Why aren't you saving him? You saved us. Why is it up to us now?" Because there is an us now, and there wasn't an us for us? 06* Kali then glares at Joan. "I'm not going to break a promise on a technicality. They...we still don't know enough about this side yet." She cradles her arms around herself. "We're...we're the intruders here..." 01<@Ardweden> [The raven stares at Kalli, then looks at Hien, then hops forward and writes: "LHEP EM." It's a little commical, really, that it manages to put a period at the end of each sentence.] 01<@Ardweden> (Kali rather!) 06* Kali then stares at the Raven. "Who are you, exactly?" we talked, we're done with that deal. we should go save him 06* @Joan shrugs. "Zey consider ze promize broke already. Still if you will not do eet... I 'ave made no such promise to zem." 06* Hien traces something in the air with her claws, then looks at the Raven. "Help you?" Or help them? 01<@Ardweden> [It caws at Hien puffing its feathers, then shuffles to one side and writes, "TASCPE." It looks up at Kali.] Escape? ...no, there's no "T" in "escape." 06* Kali stares at the word for some time. "Okay, I'm not sure of that one..." Also two "E's." 06* Kali looks harder. "Cat Pet...no. At..Aspect?" 01<@Ardweden> [The raven caws, puffing itself up again.] 06* Kali blinks. "So it *is* Aspect?" <@Joan> Azpect? Of what? 01<@Ardweden> [The raven shuffles a bit, then moves and writes: "ORTOBPEH." And it looks at you as if to say, 'Good luck with that one.'] 06* @Joan eyes the word. "Oktoberfest? It's a little early in ze year." I don't...think so... 01<@Ardweden> [The raven screeches, and it sounds kind of like laughter. Who knew it had a sense of humor.] 06* Kali searches her memory. What the HELL? I... don't even... what? I...it's gotta be something mythological....I'm pretty sure of it... Otters. Not enough "T's." 01<@Ardweden> [The raven shuffles next to what it just wrote and writes, possibly to clarify, "GIHMANERST." Or maybe that'll just make things more confusing.] <@Joan> 'Torpedos'? Zat would be one way to win... 06* Kali looks at the next one. Her thinking's on a certain track so she immediately blurts out "Nightmares?" 01<@Ardweden> [The raven caws, flapping its wings and bouncing excitedly. You've never actually seen it *happy* before. It's actually kind of cute! In a... demonic dog-sized bird sort of way.] So...the statues bring dreams...you bring nightmares? 01<@Ardweden> [The raven caws twice, but it doesn't write anything this time.] No...hmm... <@Joan> Zen what about nightmares? 01<@Ardweden> [The raven tilts its head at Joan. It seems confused.] He's the aspect of nightmares...or someone related to nightmares. 06* @Joan tilts her head at the raven. She seems confused too! 06* Imp looks blankly. "okay I'm confused" Me too? 06* Kali looks at the Raven. "What are the others? The dream person who looked like Javy. Tony's dad. Puck. Toci. Who are they?" 01<@Ardweden> [The raven blinks at Kali a few times, then moves to write, "OTO NMAY."] Too many? <@Joan> Too many what? 06* Kali pauses. "So...they're not all the same. Is that it?" 01<@Ardweden> [It caws, then looks to the distance, towards the storm.] 06* Kali looks at the storm and frowns a bit. 06* Imp looks confused. Should we be moving? 06* Kali sighs. "I don't know. Do we have one more day? I don't think we can take another hit like that and live through it..." <@Joan> Best finish zis as soon as possible. 01<@Ardweden> [The raven lets out another sigh. It hops down and starts writing, in very large, strangely clear letters: "YES. WAKE UP."] 01<@Ardweden> [Day: Sunday, September 12. Time: 2:37 p.m.] 01<@Ardweden> [You wake up, in your own respective bedrooms, somehow still kind of tired but undeniably starving. Probably because you were asleep for so freaking long! Checking the clock will give you exactly the time I gave above.] 06* @Joan checks the clock. 01<@Ardweden> [2:37! Staring Hank in the face!] 03* Kali is now known as Tiffany 03* Joan is now known as Hank 06* Imp grunts half rolling out of bed, moving for his phone grabbing it and starting to dial up Tony. 03* Imp is now known as Tyler 03* Hien is now known as Sydney 06* Tiffany jolts upright, catching her breath. She immediately jumps out of bed and goes to her dresser and throws clothes out of it, searching for a pad. 06* Sydney sits up, looks at the clock, flops back down, then bolts upright. "Oh, holy crap!" 01<@Ardweden> [Tony's phone rings... and rings... and rings... Tyler gets voicemail: "Hey, this is Tony. Leave a message and I might get back to you. Later." Beep!] 06* Sydney dashes to the kitchen, still in her pajamas, in search of food and/or family members. Fuuuuuuck. 06* Tyler sinks down turning his phone off. 06* Tiffany whips out a pad and finds a pencil, starting to write some things down, then scowls as the lead snaps. Then clicks the pen a couple times, tries it again, only to have the lead snap again. She ends up throwing it against the wall. 01<@Ardweden> [Sydney finds food in the kitchen and a family member in Natalie, who is sitting at the island and eating a sandwich. She looks at Sydney like she's crazy, which she probably is, a little.] 06* @Hank gets out of bed, gets changed and begins morning exercises. Or afternoon, at this point. 06* Sydney practically screeches to a halt. "Did anybody try to wake me up?" 06* Tiffany finds another pencil and ends up writing what she remembers, then tossing the pad on the floor and rubbing her head. She only just now manages to glance at her clock and notice the time and just flumps against the foot of her bed. So tired. 01<@Ardweden> ["Uh... Mom tried to get you down for breakfast, but," Natalie shrugs. "It's Sunday."] 06* Sydney slumps slightly. "Did *not* mean to sleep that long." 01<@Ardweden> [As Hank heads out back, he passes his father in the hall, who waves. "Hank! You're finally up."] 06* @Hank nods. "Yeah. Guess my alarm didn't go off. How come no one woke me?" 06* Tiffany goes up and opens the door carefully, glancing to see if her parents are around. She tries to make her way to the bathroom first, still in her pjs, before getting some food. 01<@Ardweden> ["Duh," Natalie says around her sandwich. "Least it's not like Monday or something." She picks up her plate, with sandwich, and heads towards the stairs.] 01<@Ardweden> ["I did, but you didn't want to be woken up. You were tired." And then the amusement is gone from Mr. Morris' voice, and he frowns. "This ain't because of no activities goin' on that I should know about, is it? Girls or nothin'?"] 01<@Ardweden> [Tiffany's parents seem to be out. At least, they're not about. In the house.] 06* Tyler will finally move to find some food. He has to. 06* Tiffany breathes a sigh of relief and heads to shower, get dressed, then sneak some breaklunch. Mmm, breaklunch. 06* Sydney exhahales. "Yeah..." She heads to the fridge. "Man, what's going to happen tonight?" she says quietly. 06* @Hank rolls his eyes. "No pa. It ain't 'bout no girls. Guess I just worked out too hard yesterday, got tired." 01<@Ardweden> [Natalie doesn't answer. She is so gone.] 06* Sydney makes a larger-than-usual sandwich. It's two meals in one! She figures she's allowed. 01<@Ardweden> ["All right, I trust ya," Mr. Morris says, then claps Hank on the shoulder. "Just wanna make sure there ain't nothin' I should be worried about, right son?" He smiles before continuing down the hall.] 06* @Hank continues on his way. "Yeah..." 01<@Ardweden> [Sydney's sandwich is a double decker, and it would probably make Steve salivate with joy.] 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler ninjas into the kitchen! There is nobody there, though he does hear that the television is on one room over. Sounds like a football game.] 06* Tyler ignores it and starts to raid the fridge. Whatever. 06* Sydney noms and noms hard. 01<@Ardweden> [The fridge matches Tyler's indifference with a decidedly bland selection of lunchmeats and leftovers.] 06* Tyler will make an indifference sandwich with a side of indefference in indifference sauce. 01<@Ardweden> [It's medicore.] 01<@Ardweden> [And so, they went about their half-a-day, waiting for what midnight brings.] 01<@Ardweden> [Session End!]