5:48:56: [Brad heads to the car, Meri has gone to change, Ana has gone to talk to Steven.] 5:48:59: [Begin] 5:49:06:* Brad gets in his car, turns it on, and waits for the girls. 5:49:19: (Time passes.) 5:50:52:* Meri shows up! She's kind of half-jogging, half-skipping, in a windbreaker, jeans and t-shirt, and sneakers. She's also got a red and white baseball cap on and a star bracelet straight out of Yu-Gi-Oh. 5:51:16:* Meri looks around, spots Brad + Car, and goes over to it. "Cool car!" Because it is. Dude. 5:55:16:* Brad nods. "Thanks." 5:55:56: So where are we going? It can't be too far away. Mom'd get mad. 5:56:17:* Meri goes around the car to get in. And then she does get in. Unless Brad locked the doors, anyway. 5:57:20:* Brad did not. 5:57:24:* Meri sits in the passenger seat! And bounces a little to make herself comfortable. 5:58:00:* Brad turns to Meri. "So where do you want to go for lunch?" 5:58:26: (I didn't see the first post. Hang on) 5:58:45:* Brad shrugs. "Don't know. What kind of food do you want?" 5:59:00:* Meri thinks. 6:00:15: Anything but pizza? 6:01:39:* Ana strides out of the gym, looking happier than she did going in, and makes her way to the parking lot where both her bike and Brad's car are parked. 6:02:21:* Brad waves, "Hey, Ana. Uh... sorry about the room issue. You can follow on your bike or you can try to cram in the back." 6:02:31:* Meri looks over at Ana and waves! 6:03:42:* Ana scouls at Meri in Brads car and walks closer... and closer, unfortunatly you have to be even crazier than Ana is to loom over somebody taller than you. 6:04:01: (But I'm sitting! Oh wait, Ana's that short.) 6:04:23:* Meri tries to keep the smile up, and since she's Meri, she succeeds. "Hi!" 6:05:47: (http://bacon.sandwich.net/BradCar.jpg) 6:06:23:* Ana doesn't even look at Meri at first, but instead across the car at Brad. "Hey, where we going?" 6:06:45:* Brad shrugs. "I think to the deli down the street." 6:08:03: (Methinks Brad has Turrets.) 6:08:35:* Ana looks down the street, or tries too anyway, but there's this gym in the way. "Works." 6:08:51:* Brad nods. 6:09:31:* Ana walks over to her bike and kickstarts it. 6:11:00:* Brad pulls out of the parking lot and heads towards the Deli. "So... How are you handling the power thing, Meri?" 6:11:27: Okay, I think? I haven't gone crazy and killed anybody yet! 6:12:11: But when I found out about it, it was in the middle of the street and stuff, so that wasn't so cool. ... And I didn't know if I could change back. So Ricky's mom found out, but my mom didn't. 6:18:42:*** NicIdleLogging is now known as Nicolas 6:19:44: (Here. I'll just observe and possibly wisecrack, though. I'm just logging. If you need a question answered, I will, but I don't plan on running NPCs or anything unless for some reason it strikes me as absolutely necessary to intervene.) 6:20:18:* Brad pulls into the Deli. "I see. Well that's pretty good. So you can turn into a bat?" 6:20:38:* Meri nods. "Kinda, yeah!" 6:21:36:* Brad nods. "Cool." He turns the car off and gets out. 6:22:07: (We found parking spaces in New York? What happened to realism?) 6:22:37: (It's a power. You burn EP for it.) 6:22:52:* Meri resists the urge to jump out of the car without opening the door. So she opens the door and THEN gets out. 6:24:24:* Brad waits for Ana to show up. 6:24:39:* Ana pulls her bike between Brad's car and the sidewalk and absentmindly chains it there so it'll still be there after they eat. "What's good here?" 6:26:34:* Brad walks into the deli. "The pastrami on rye is pretty good." 6:26:55: (Because if there's one thing that's good at NYC Delis... that's it. Though I don't get it because I hate rye) 6:27:30:* Meri makes a face, but she goes in! Maybe she also hates rye. 6:27:46:* Ana nods and follows her in. 6:28:54:* Brad heads up to the counter and orders a ham and cheese sandwich. "What do you guys want?" 6:29:02: Um... 6:29:05:* Meri looks up at the menu. 6:29:32:* Ana glances at the menu for a second and then says. "The pastrami on rye, duh." 6:29:57:* Brad nods and orders that for Ana. 6:30:39:* Ana smirks. 6:31:38:* Meri keeps looking at the menu. "I'll... have... lettuce, red peppers, hummus, tomato, and cucumber on French bread. Oh, and olives! And a pickle spear." She beams. 6:33:29:* Brad blinks, orders that, then pays for the sandwiches and goes to find a seat. 6:34:01:* Meri lingers at the counter to get herself a Coke, because clearly she needs more sugar. 6:34:11: (Brad's used to ladies ordering what he suggests. Meri and Drea are the only two in the entire game who won't.) 6:34:15:* Ana looks at Meri. "You one of those veggie-freaks?" 6:34:34: What's a veggie-freak? Is that like a zombie that does nothing but eat broccoli? 6:34:46:* Meri takes the Cokie and sips while she goes to the table! Mmmm, sugar. 6:35:29: Wha..? No you fucktard, you don't eat meat? 6:36:23: Not mostly. 6:36:39:* Ana snorts. "Mostly?" 6:36:45:* Meri flops at her seat and delves into her awesome veggie sandwich. "Mmmphm." 6:36:47:* Brad gets up and grabs the sandwiches when they're called. He returns and hands them out, then sits down. "I couldn't not eat meat, personally." He unwraps his sandiwches and starts to eat. 6:37:15:* Ana takes her sandwich to the table so she can sit down to eat it. "You're missing out." 6:37:16: (s/Cokie/Coke) 6:37:59:* Meri chews and swallows. "But I don't like pastrami." Pause. "Or rye. So I don't really miss that!" 6:38:29:* Ana eyes her sandwich. "What's there not to like?" 6:39:02: The taste, the texture, and the fact that it smells funny if you sniff at it too long... 6:39:47:* Ana eyes Meri again. "What ever the fuck you say. More for me." 6:40:09: Kinda, but really, you're gonna eat as much pastrami and rye as you always did, so really, it's just less eaten! 6:40:15: (... So much innuendo.) 6:40:18:* Meri is victorious! 6:40:22:* Meri eats her sandwich. 6:40:37:* Brad just shakes his head and eats his sandwich. 6:40:38: (I'm twelve! I don't know what innuendo means!) 6:40:46:* Ana glowers as she eats. 6:40:53:* Meri TOTALLY WON. 6:41:44:* Meri guzzles Coke. 6:41:59: (This can only end in tears.) 6:42:23: (Hey, you've got a Dicey. You can settle this however you want.) 6:42:25: So... Do you know my little brother Ritchie, Meri? He's about your age, I would guess. 6:42:26: (Ana's adding this to the list of the times Meri got one over on her...) 6:42:42: Mmph? 6:42:45:* Meri swallows. 6:42:51: Ritchie Barker? 6:42:58: Oh! Ritchie! He's got a lisp, right? 6:43:00: (... Is there ANY set-up that Brad knows what school Meri goes to?) 6:43:04:* Brad nods. "Yeah." 6:43:12: (I hope there is, because otherwise that's really hilarious.) 6:43:14: (That's a good question. I don't think so.) 6:43:22: (Ritchie and Meri go to a private school.) 6:43:24: (Brad just assumes that any twelve year old would know his brother.) 6:43:50: (Must be a Barker thing) 6:44:07: (Eh... I wanted something for Brad to do... besides sit here while I talk on the world ranger channel. I can probably justify it by saying he can tell Meri is pretty wealthy. Or that he just assumes everyone knows his family) 6:44:23: (I vote for the second.) 6:44:28: (Brad is totally egocentric.) 6:44:33:* Meri peers at Brad. 6:44:47: (*nods* You could have set it up by asking what school she goes to, but it's funnier if he just assumes that everyone knows his family because they are That Cool.) 6:45:08: You don't look a whole lot like Ritchie. And you don't lisp. 6:46:04:* Brad shakes his head. "Nah." He smiles. "I'm sure he'll grow out of the lisp." 6:46:23: I dunno, he's already twelve. 6:46:32: (I'm pretty sure I said he's only been lisping since losing a tooth recently.) 6:46:36:* Meri says that like twelve is the end, because dude. 6:46:58:* Ana glowers back and forth betwen Brad and Meri. 6:48:05:* Brad chuckles and shakes his head. "So, Ana, how's the sandwich?" 6:48:20: Mrmph. 6:48:24:* Meri bounces and gnaws on her pickle spear. 6:48:28:* Ana chews and swallows. "Good." 6:48:36: (Wow, Ana really is older, eviler, shorter, not as awesome me.) 6:49:08:* Brad nods. 6:49:09: (No, you're the younger, nicer, taller, and even more annoying me.) 6:50:49: (I am not annoying!) 6:50:57: Somethin different about it, dunno what. 6:51:09: (Are too.) 6:51:14: (Am not.) 6:51:15: (Are too.) 6:51:17: (Am not.) 6:51:18: (Are too.) 6:51:19: (Am not.) 6:51:21: (Are too.) 6:51:21: (Are too.) 6:51:21: (Are too.) 6:51:23: (Am not.) 6:51:24: (Am not.) 6:51:24: (Am not.) 6:51:51: 1d2 6:51:51:* Dicesuke throws the bones for Nicolas (1d2) and gets a natural 2 for a result of 2. 6:51:56: (Okay mostly done cracking up.) 6:51:59: (Meri isn't.) 6:52:11: (SEE THE GM AGREES WITH ME) 6:52:13: (Sorry. The dice hate Ana, as always.) 6:52:24: (Curse you DICESUKE!) 6:53:00: (The really funny part is that I can see them having that argument IC.) 6:53:10: (It would end in a food fight.) 6:53:10: (It's why we laugh.) 6:53:15: (Ana would throw the first sandwich.) 6:53:26: (Because Meri is also MORE MATURE THAN HER.) 6:53:29: (EAT MEAT VEGI-BITCH!) 6:53:42: (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!) 6:54:16: (... Right that's Ana's new insult for Meri. Vegi-bat, because that's so mature and Meri would totaly take it as her codename just to piss Ana off.) 6:56:05: Haha, I see it! 6:56:10: (Oops, that should've been in parens.) 6:56:12: (Sorry!) 6:56:19: (Meri suddenly has a VISION.) 6:56:40: (Holy crap. It's crazy beyond the fourth wall.) 6:57:17:* Ana looks at Meri. "What about your... pile of leaves?" 6:57:58: It's really good! Want some? 6:58:00:* Meri offers. 6:58:23:* Ana gives Meir a blank look and then grins. "I'll trade you." 6:58:38: Ew, no! 6:58:43:* Meri goes back to eating her sandwich. 6:58:54:* Ana snorts. "There ya go." 7:00:21:* Meri mrfls and then swallows and says, "But I didn't go anywhere." 7:00:49: Neither did that thing you call a sandwich. 7:01:28: It's a sandwich! See, it has bread and stuff in the middle. Sandwich! 7:02:03:* Brad rolls his eyes and finishes his sandwich. 7:02:38: (Brad's realizing that maybe hanging with them is not, in fact, intellectually stimulating.) 7:02:49: Whatever. 7:02:59: (She started it!) 7:03:07: (Ana CAN'T WIN!) 7:03:33:* Meri beams and finishes her sandwich! Now all she has is her drink. So she drinks it. Mmm, sugar. 7:03:46: (Corn syrup!) 7:04:08: So how'd you guys find out about your zappy stuff? ... And what do you do, anyway? 7:06:35:* Ana shrugs. "I tried to punch out my cousin and I suddenly had a fucking sword. Then I gave it to the fucking cop who showed up to find out what the fuck was happening." 7:07:12: ... Why'd you try to punch her? 7:07:18: (Somewhere, Michael is weeping.) 7:08:41:* Brad clears his throat and looks around the deli. "Uh guys...it's lunch time..." 7:09:06: Yeah, and I finished my sandwich! 7:09:07: (That's Brad's way of saying "THIS PLACE IS PACKED! SHUT UP!) 7:09:12: ( Yes! We're eating.) 7:09:18: (That's Meri's way of saying, "I had lunch!") 7:09:43:* Meri guzzles more Coke. Mmm, sugar. 7:10:50:* Ana eyes both of them and then fails to catch the hint. "Because I'd had a fucking long day and she was being a bitch." She does get a far away look in her eyes. "Was a damn sweet sword though." 7:11:15:* Brad rolls his eyes. "Right. Let's go back to the gym." 7:11:24:* Brad pushes himself up. 7:12:01: (*snerks* Ana can generate a sword here. :P ) 7:12:22: (She's not quite _that_ unaware.) 7:12:39: (Watch 7:12:43:* Ana blinks at Brad. "Kaay?" 7:12:45: ( Watch! I'll show you!) 7:12:57: What? But I'm not done with my Coke yet! 7:13:02: And Ana didn't finish her sandwich! 7:13:08:* Meri points at the unfinished sandwich. 7:13:26:* Brad shakes his head. "We'll bring them back to the gym." He heads for the door. 7:13:45:* Ana does have a sandwich to be pointed at, she looks at Meri. "The fuck's up with him?" 7:13:52:* Meri shrugs. "I dunno." 7:13:59: Maybe he's all weirded out 'cause I know his brother. 7:14:14: (... Ha ha ha. They're bonding over Brad being curt.) 7:14:37: It's not like we're best friends or something. That'd be really weird. 7:15:17:* Ana shrugs. "Ask'm when we get there." She wraps up her sandwich and takes it to her bike to put in her saddlebags. 7:16:13: Okay! 7:16:31:* Meri goes to the car and gets in, Coke securely in hand. 7:19:27:* Brad shakes his head when Meri gets into the car. "Meri... you realize that not everyone in the deli knows about our powers, right?" 7:19:42: ( Well, they do *now*...) 7:19:51: Um, yeah. 7:19:59: That's why I didn't say we had them! I thought. 7:20:09:* Ana unchains her bike. "This is fucking New York. Nobody gives a shit." 7:21:23: ....Ana said she created a sword out of thin air. We're going to look like we're nuts. 7:22:27: ... But I don't think anybody was listening. 7:22:33: People don't usually listen to me when I talk about that stuff. 7:22:55: So they look at us funny, who the fuck cares? 7:24:01: (Yep. Brad's made himself the common opposition to Ana and Meri, thus uniting them.) 7:24:16: Is that why you were all cranky? Not because I know Ritchie? 7:24:22: 'Cause I didn't pick on Ritchie or anything! 7:24:40:* Brad blinks "Uh.... yeah that's why." 7:24:44: Oh, okay. 7:24:50:* Meri beams and settles into the comfy seat. By bouncing. 7:25:06:* Brad sighs and turns the car on. "Let's just go back to the gym." 7:25:17: (Meri is TOTALLY how I acted when I was twelve and felt comfortable enough to do so.) 7:25:31:* Ana half shrugs and starts her bike. 7:26:33:* Brad pulls out and drives back to the gym. 7:27:09: (Unless you guys want to keep going I think it's convenient if we pretty much stop here. People can get final actions in and such) 7:27:57: (Oh, I'm happy, Meri's happy, everyone's happy!) 7:28:13: (Ana thinks Brad needs to hit his head again.) 7:28:52: (She can do that.) 7:29:26: [Minisession End!]