01<@Ardweden> [Day: Tuesday, September 21. Time: ?] 01<@Ardweden> [Joan just killed her sister-turned-werewolf, and woke up as Hank to see if she's okay in the waking world. Some teenaged kid in a labcoat named Franklin just ran up to check on said sister-turned-werewolf, and he is now being threatened by Kali who is pointing swords at him, and to a lesser extent by Susano-O, who is pointing an arrow at him.] 01<@Ardweden> [How do you guys even get in these messes? Well, the Walrus did warn you about imaginations bleeding, or something...] 01<@Ardweden> [Kali just demanded he show her these 'top secret' experiments, and he's hesitating, possibly given they're top secret.] 01<@Ardweden> [Session Start.] 06* Kali 's continuing to point her swords, tip first, at Franklin, tilting her head slowly to the side to look at him questioningly as she does so. Her free arms seem a bit antsy and don't really appreciate being idle. 06* Susano-o doesn't seem to be getting tired of aiming his bow. 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin hesitates, then says, "I, uh, I really don't think they'd like it... I mean, you're scary, but- like- uh."] You can trust us, though. Both of us. We're good at secrets. 06* Susano-o glances briefly at Kali, swallows, and then mutters "Mostly" under his breath. 06* Kali straightens her head a little bit as she looks at Franklin. "Huh. You're brave, I'll give you that." She makes quick gesture and lunges to cut his lab coat. 01<@Ardweden> [Kali slices the edge of Franklin's coat off neatly as he jumps back, yelping, then turns to RUN down the hallway. Aw, man.] 06* Kali hisses and teleports in front of him. Or tries to anyway! 06* Susano-o takes in a breath, and follows him, keeping the arrow trained on him. 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin runs smack into Kali, falls backwards, and then starts shouting and struggling as the mist seems to reach up, curling around his limbs and pulling him down.] 06* Kali reaches down with her two free arms, keeping the swords out of the way, to yank him away from the mist, half hissing out, half yelling. "We're not trying to *hurt* you, Franklin. We just want answers." 06* Susano-o releases the tension and takes the arrow away, and reaches down to help pull him up, too, keeping the bow and arrow in the other hand. 01<@Ardweden> [With their combined effort, Kali and Susano-O pull Franklin up a bit from the mist, but it doesn't seem willing to relinquish his coat. He squirms, and assuming one of the pair lets go of him, he manages to remove his coat and let the mist eat it before it pulls him back down.] 06* Susano-o will let him go enough for that. Kali's got two hands on him, anyway. 06* Kali looks down at Franklin, trying to keep him up above the mist, tilting her head questioningly again. "You want us to keep helping you, you'll tell us, alright? I can let go..." 01<@Ardweden> ["I'm just trying to cure lycanthropy," Franklin says as he squirms; seems he doesn't like being held by crazy red ladies, either. "That's all I'm doing! I'm really sorry about that one; I was going to sedate her as soon as I realized she was gone!"] 01<@Ardweden> ["Why, you do guys have a condition? I mean, uh, obviously *you* have a condition, I don't remember anyone doing anything for red skin and a bazillion arms, but maybe we could look into it?"] So what's causing lycanthropy, eh? And you have more? 06* Kali leans down and hisses, her teeth bared. "No. One of my friends just may have killed someone important to them without knowing it so *forgive* me for being a little less than jovial right now." 01<@Ardweden> [He flinches, then yells back, "Well, forgive me for trying to fix the problem!"] 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin squirms quite impressively, but Kali manages to keep her grip.] 06* Kali gives him a cold stare. "Are you willing to cooperate now?" 06* Susano-o looks down at him, standing ready to help. 01<@Ardweden> [He looks at Susano-O. "Is she your girlfriend?" Well, that was random.] 06* Kali gives a look at Susano-O too, before he answers. If looks could kill, oy. 06* Susano-o looks rather flummoxed by the question. "Uh. I... that's not really the topic." 01<@Ardweden> ["Does that mean you don't know?" Despite being grabbed by Kali, Franklin's gaining in confidence, or at least what passes for it.] 06* Kali moves one of the swords next to Franklin's neck without cutting it. Also without loosing her grip. "Any more questions?" 06* Susano-o starts to answer, but stops, and nods to Kali. "I... I know it's not what we need. For talking about now." 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin swallows. "O- okay."] So there are more? Of the werewolves? 01<@Ardweden> ["I- uh- yes? I think?"] 06* Kali draws the sword back and takes a breath. "Right now we need to know how you got these test subjects too." 01<@Ardweden> ["I told you, I didn't get them! I just work here!"] But you work on it. You have their information. 01<@Ardweden> ["No I don't. What part of 'top secret' don't you get?"] 01<@Ardweden> [He tries to shake his arm free from Kali's grip again. At least it doesn't look like he's going to start running.] So it's top secret even from you, is that it? 06* Susano-o glances at him uneasily. "I thought that was for us. Not for people who are involved." 06* Kali looks at the floor. Does the mist still look like it's going to eat him if she releases him? 01<@Ardweden> [Nope, it's settled down.] 06* Hien manages to squeeze her way up the stairs from the floor below. 06* Kali does release her grip on Franklin, so long as it seems he's not going to run. 06* Imp is coming up behind Hien, not that any one can see or tell. 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin sees the giant dragon thing and yelps, backing up against the wall. But he's not running!] Found you guys. What's going on? 06* Kali puts her swords away, though quick enough that it does look like she could get them out at a moment's notice if need be. "Werewolves. Joan's gone. We'll fill you in in a bit." 06* Susano-o nods. "This guy is involved in testing on them, too." 06* Hien makes a hrm'ing sound and folds her arms. 06* Kali nods and looks at Susano-o. "Keep an eye on him will ya?" She goes over towards Hien and makes sure that she keeps her voice low enough to be out of Franklin's earshot. "One of 'em looked like Susanna. He had to wake up to check and make sure..." Shit. 06* Hien growls a bit, startled. "Ahhh." 06* Imp tries to move around Hein to look. 06* Kali glances at Imp. "You said it." 06* Susano-o stands over Franklin, and holds his bow up, looking at Franklin stolidly. 06* Kali sighs, one of her hands going absently towards hair that isn't there before realizing it. "So how about on your end?" Nothing serious. Alien tourists and giant fountains. 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin is guarded. Or threatened. Something like that. He tries not to fidget.] 06* Kali frowns. "So...this whole dream's a heap of superstitions and conspiracy theories?" ummm... how did you get that from giant fountain? I suppose you could look at some of it that way. I got that from werewolves and alien tourists, dumbass. I don't even know whose dream this is anymore. 06* Susano-o leans down closer to Franklin. "So you spend all your time here?" he asks neutrally. 06* Imp flips Kali off. "I don't think the alieans were conspiracy" 06* Kali sighs. "Might be his. Do we know a Franklin at our school? Around town?" 01<@Ardweden> ["Since I got out of high school," Franklin says, sounding a bit proud. "But they're kinda short on people who aren't turning into werewolves."] So it's spreading? 01<@Ardweden> ["Unfortunately, yeah. It's pretty much taken over all the major cities in the west coast and good chunks of the midwest."] Where are we now, then? Somewhere east? 06* Hien shakes her head. "I don't remember any Franklins." 01<@Ardweden> ["Yeah, but honestly I'm not really sure myself."] 06* Susano-o frowns. "How could you not know? Did you travel here in secret, too?" 06* Kali blinks and stares at Franklin for a moment. okay what do the werewolves want? 06* Kali facepalms with her lower right and mumbles. "Yeah...geez, I wish I'd recognized him before. It would have saved a lot of headache with the Susanna thing." 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin looks a little relieved when Kali makes with the facepalm because that means she's not STARING AT HIM anymore.] Ah, so you do kind of know him? 06* Kali sighs. "Yeah...I'm pretty sure I've seen him around. He probably just has a crush on her and that's how she worked her way into his dream." At least *that's* a relief if that's it... That makes a certain amount of sense. wait, what? He goes to our school. I've seen him in the library before. I bet he's a freshman too. 06* Susano-o waits a bit, and says, "Um... hello?" 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin blinks at Susano-O, distracted from watching the others. "You guys don't look like high school students."] who else would look like this? 06* Susano-o shakes his head. "We look different here. But where is this? How did you get here?" 01<@Ardweden> ["I... uh... told you."] 06* Kali sighs and walks over to Franklin. "It....looks like you may been the target of a misunderstanding. My apologies." No, you said you didn't know, but... 06* Susano-o blinks up at Kali. 01<@Ardweden> [He blinks way up at Kali. "... Thanks?"] 06* Kali sighs and looks at Susano-o. "We can keep asking, if you think it'll help, but we might be lost." 06* Susano-o looks at her questioningly. "Lost? Like... how lost?" It's okay. Happens to the best of us. Happens to me all the time. Like...wrong place lost. It's completely possible. 06* Susano-o looks down at Franklin. "So it's the wrong dream?" This whole city could belong to a bunch of different people. 01<@Ardweden> ["You're not making any sense," Franklin decides. "Can I get back to work now?"] 06* Kali looks at Franklin. "Can we see the lab?" 06* Hien looks at Franklin, then at Kali. 01<@Ardweden> [He sighs. "Yeah, I guess so. Come on." And he heads down the hall.] 06* Kali waits a bit for Franklin to get out of ear shot, then glances at Susano-o. "Yeah. But I was trying not to say it in front of him." She walks after him. 06* Imp will just follow. 06* Hien follows! 06* Susano-o nods a bit sheepishly, and follows along, as well. 01<@Ardweden> [You follow Franklin down a series of misty corridors, gleaming white and sterile. A few scientisty sorts can be seen bustling back and forth, with labcoats like what he wore. Eventually he gets to a door and presses his thumb to a pad while he lets his eye be scanned, and it slides open. He goes in!] 06* Kali glances at the scientists. Any others recognizeable? 06* Imp will follow more! 06* Susano-o looks around more at the structure of the place, how the building's put together. 06* Hien continues with the following! 01<@Ardweden> [Inside is a large room, with monitors and various scientific equipment, mostly looking like it belongs in a biology or chemistry lab. One werewolf - strapped in *quite* securely - is passed out on a table, and a twenty-something year old woman is looking at a monitor and taking notes on a clipboard. Franklin turns to the others. "Here it is."] 06* Susano-o finds the place rather offputting, even beyond the werewolf, and looks around with uneasy curiosity. That... is definitely a werewolf. 06* Kali nods as she looks around, then looks at the werewolf. "Anything else you're researching?" 01<@Ardweden> ["Not personally," he says with a shrug.] 06* Kali nods. "Aliens? Bigfoot? Loch Ness? That sort of thing?" 01<@Ardweden> ["Those are other facilities. Probably." Pause. "Zombies, too. And vampires."] Are the things just attacking or what? Ghosts? 01<@Ardweden> ["Why not?" Franklin asks with a grin. "But we're kinda tied up with the werewolf stuff right now." He looks at Imp and nods.] 01<@Ardweden> ["Most of the time, people are fine, but when they wolf out they lose it completely. So we're trying to find a way to fix it without hurting anyone. It's hard, though."] 06* Kali gestures at Franklin and turns back to the group. "See? Conspiracy stuff." She doesn't mention how odd *they* are to prove the conspiracy stuff. Nope. 06* Susano-o looks as if he's missed some information here, but he doesn't want to ask now. you haven't said if they want anything or are just mindless 06* Hien nods. 01<@Ardweden> ["Want?" Franklin looks confused. "They want to be *cured*. When they're human, anyway."] So you know who that is? 06* Susano-o points at the one on the table now. 01<@Ardweden> [He shrugs and walks over to a table, picking up a clipboard and glancing at it. "Cheryl Anderson."] 06* Hien lets out a soft breath of relief. It is faintly smoky. Why do they want cured? 01<@Ardweden> ["... Dude, why are you even *asking* me that question?"] They get speed and power. Why do they want it gone instead of harnessing it? 06* Kali *stares* at Imp. 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin puts a hand to his forehead. "They go *crazy*, okay?" He glares at the others. "Any more questions?"] 06* Susano-o looks at Imp oddly, then back to Franklin. "Um. Do you have a list of who your subjects are? Beyond this one. We're looking for someone." 06* Kali looks at Franklin with all the sympathy she gives anyone who's just dealt with Tyler brain. She then glances at Susano-o. 01<@Ardweden> ["Sure, as long as you don't go around threatening people." He doesn't add "like you already have" to that.] 01<@Ardweden> [And Franklin walks off to print out a list, presumably.] 06* Kali watches Franklin go, then glances at Imp. Then looks away and flicks him on the back of his head with one of her lower arms. 06* Imp looks confused. He hasn't threatened any one yet today. Ow! What was that for? For asking stupid questions. 06* Susano-o follows Franklin enough to take it around when it's done printing. I wasn't the one with the arrow to his head That's not a question. 06* Kali looks over at Hien. "If we *are* in the wrong place, are you up for trying to find it again? Or should we wait a night?" Do we have any idea how much time has passed? No. And we're down someone. But it might be good to know the dream that we're looking for. Just so that we can know if we find it again. Then let's try to find it, and if I can't we come back tomorrow. 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin returns! With a list. He hands it to Susano-O.] 06* Kali nods, then sighs. "I'm sorry." 06* Susano-o thanks him, and pages through it, looking for stray Raynersons. 01<@Ardweden> [Susano-O can't really make heads or tails of this list, unfortunately.] 06* Susano-o frowns, and passes it back to Franklin. "I'm having some trouble with this. Do you have a Raynerson on here?" 01<@Ardweden> [Franklin thinks for a bit, then says, "Not as far as I know."] Good. 06* Kali speaks up. "How about a Morris?" 06* Susano-o looks over at Kali questioningly. Don't we know that already...? 01<@Ardweden> ["Well, there *was* a Susanna Morris..."] 06* Susano-o nods, and quickly says, "Okay. Thanks. And sorry about all that. Nice lab. Um, could use some windows, though." 01<@Ardweden> ["Sure?"] Right... 06* Kali sighs. "I figured. Thanks. And...uh...sorry about the subject." 01<@Ardweden> ["Yeah..." And Franklin sighs, going about to research, or whatever it is he does there.] 06* Susano-o finally puts away his bow, and looks at the rest of the group. "So we should go now?" I'm going to make one more try at finding Nat. If I can't, we come back tomorrow. Sure. So we go back to the Haven? Sure. I guess. 06* Imp shrugs. 06* Kali nods slightly. "If it's that easy." Uh, okay. Unless you think we'll still find her here. She was somewhere in the city, but she could be anywhere. You're sure of that? Yeah. Come on. Lets go 06* Kali nods. "Okay...so we can check the city a bit while we're here..." 06* Susano-o nods. "Let's get going." He looks around the lab one more time, and heads off. 06* Hien heads out! 01<@Ardweden> [Session End!]