Start of #Magicalgirls buffer: Wed Feb 16 20:30:16 2011 [17:59:55] [A few days have passed since that strange event where you prevented the disappearance of the school.] [18:00:48] [At 8 PM that day, nothing happened, and the newspaper from tomorrow changed.] [18:01:04] [None but you remember that newspaper ever reporting differently.] [18:02:39] [What have you been up to since them?] [18:04:34] * Tetsuko 's gone to her kendo club and was reminded to do some of her homework so her grades are up for the week. [18:05:12] * Maya has been furiously exploring just what her watch does since, in-between reading up on her latest novel and prepping fixin's for some mean curry later on. [18:05:30] * Natsumi attended soccer practice, and has been paying extra closer attention to her fitness. [18:06:51] * Emily 's been spending her time reading, filling out reports, and noodling on her guitar. In her spare moments, she's been investigating the properties of her watch as best she can without risking breaking it. [18:06:54] * Saede carries on much as usual, doing the bare minimum necessary for schoolwork whilst playing sales rep for her dad's operation. She keeps her watch close though, and looks at it on occasion. [18:07:24] * Saede also begins to note the movements of her new acquaintances at school whenever she can. [18:10:07] * Suzu has been experimenting with the watch, occassionally wandering around town and looking at things through the lens, but otherwise carries on as normal. She does seem a bit jumpy, and has been mostly avoiding the other girls. [18:12:47] [Shortly after school, on this day, Suzu's phone rings.] [18:12:52] [Session Start] [18:14:01] * Suzu answers the phone. "Hello?" [18:15:19] * LadyCrystal is now known as Maya [18:15:41] Ah... Hi Suzu... I was wondering. If... well, since you like singing and all... there's a karaoke place, Light Music... I was wondering if you wouldn't mind going... if it's okay, I mean. [18:20:05] * Suzu frowns. "Sorry Mika, I'm busy today." [18:20:32] Oh... okay... maybe next time... [18:21:13] * She hangs up [18:24:12] * Elsewhere, Maya sees Mika hang up her cell phone, looking a little down. [18:25:29] * Suzu pockets her phone, grimacing slightly. [18:25:29] * Maya wanders over, curious. She doesn't turn off her tablet -- looks like she's reading some iffy fantasy nonsense. "Something the matter?" [18:25:56] * Mika looks up. "Oh... I was hoping to see if Suzu might want to go to karaoke after school today, but she's busy today." [18:27:13] Ah... is there anyone else you can ask? [18:28:16] Well, if you're interested... [18:30:28] I... ah... [18:30:44] * Maya makes a face, but seems to not want to let Mika down any more. "I can come, y-yeah..." [18:31:10] * SHe brightens up. "Really?" [18:34:00] Oh, do you know anyone else who might come? [18:34:23] Uh-huh. I need to get out more, anyway... ah... well... maybe some of my friends, but they might be busy... [18:38:15] * Mika nods, but looks hopeful. [18:39:15] * Maya looks to her phone (everyone has one!) and nervously starts dialing the few numbers she has -- she's got to be able to find someone... [18:39:34] * Saede's phone rings. [18:42:07] * Saede blinks. "Ah?" She pulls her phone from her bag and looks at the number. She cocks her head and flips the phone open. "Yo." [18:43:28] Hey, Saede... uh. I was invited to go out for karaoke, and I was wondering if you were interested... [18:44:51] Ohhhh... hmmm... [18:45:34] * Saede smiles slowly, looking up at the ceiling. "Wallflower, right? Sure. Sounds interesting. Sure, I'll go." [18:47:18] Cool, thanks! [18:47:27] * Maya looks to Mika. "Directions?" [18:47:48] * Mika gives directions [18:49:21] * Saede nods. "I know the place. I'll see you there then." [18:49:39] * Saede hangs up. [18:49:50] * Mika looks on hopefully. [18:52:00] Saede said she'd come! [18:52:07] * Maya sounds like she succeeded at something for once! [18:52:53] * Mika smiles! :D [18:53:38] ANyone else? [18:54:57] Uh... [18:56:45] * Maya shoots out an text message to the others, making the offer for karaoke fun! [19:00:44] * Some time later, Maya, Mika, and Saede end up in front of the karaoke club. Tetsuko and Natsumi run by and spot them. [19:00:59] Hey, it's them! The others. And what's her face. [19:01:39] * Tetsuko looks. "It looks like a normal face to me." [19:01:56] Yo [19:02:22] * Saede looks around and cocks her head. "We're missing two." [19:03:20] * Natsumi walks up. "Hey, hey, good to see you." [19:04:13] I did the best I could... which is... rather good, given what I usually do. [19:05:51] * Mika looks pleased. "Thanks for coming." [19:08:08] * She steps towards the building. As she enters, the sign briefly flickers to say "Sound Institute", then back to "Light Music". [19:08:49] * Tetsuko follows. [19:09:27] * Saede squints at the sign a moment before entering, following behind Maya. [19:09:29] * When Tetsuko enters, Mika is nowhere to be seen. [19:10:07] * Tetsuko stops near the door and looks around for the missing girl. [19:10:42] * Maya notes the flicker, and her concern rises. As soon as she's in, she looks around as well. "Uh... Tetsuko?" [19:11:01] Huh [19:11:14] * Tetsuko turns around. "Where did Mika go?" [19:11:59] * The inside looks perfectly normal sa far as karaoke places go [19:12:13] Dunno... did she go further in? [19:12:17] Maybe she booked a room already... ? [19:13:01] One way to find out. [19:13:09] * Saede heads for the desk and asks around. [19:13:58] Ah.. [19:15:46] * The person at the desk shakes her head. "Sorry, I haven't seen her. You're the only people I saw come in." [19:16:05] * Maya sticks with Saede, since she always seens to know what she's doing... but as soon as she hears that, she swallows audibly. [19:16:10] ... wait a moment. [19:17:51] * Saede smirks. She turns to Maya. "Well, that was quicker than even I thought." [19:18:06] No... one second. [19:18:32] * Maya walks back outside, and immediately puts her watch into scanning mode, fiddling with it while focusing the lens on the karaoke joint. [19:18:45] What's going on? [19:19:00] I think I went into the wrong place. [19:19:10] * Tetsuko goes back outside to try and find the right one. [19:19:29] * Saede looks thoughtful. "Well, maybe one of us did..." [19:19:31] * Maya doesn't see anything in particular, but she's noticing that the karaoke place, when viewed through the lens, has a weird red tint to it. [19:20:17] No, I think this is the right one... just.. something's wrong with it. [19:21:30] * Saede looks through her own watch. [19:21:42] * Saede sees the same thing [19:21:49] We should fix it then. I don't want to keep Mika waiting. [19:22:29] Any ideas? [19:23:00] Go in and look around, I guess? [19:23:24] We were just in there. Hold on. [19:23:28] * Saede gestures at Maya. [19:23:31] Try calling her. [19:27:12] Right! [19:27:20] * Maya pulls out her phone and does just that! [19:27:58] We're sorry. The number you have dialed is not available at this time. Plese try again later. [19:28:29] * Saede judges from Maya's face that that was a dead end too. [19:28:38] Hmmm. More and more interesting. [19:30:26] Did her phone get eaten too? [19:32:28] Eaten by what? A cannibal karaoke club? [19:32:54] ... nothing. [19:33:03] * Maya heads back inside, frowning deeply all the while. [19:33:24] Shoot, we gotta let the others know, don't we? [19:33:37] This wasn't my fault, by the way. [19:33:47] * Saede looks from one girl to the next. "You do what you want to. I'm going to go look around." [19:33:58] * Saede slips inside and into one of the halls. [19:34:30] I'm not sure. [19:37:04] * Maya is poking round already, checking to see if she can spot the missing schoolgirl. [19:37:32] * No sign of her. Rooms rae either locked or empty. [19:38:15] * Saede looks at Natsumi. "Alright then. The others. Do you know HOW to let them know?" [19:38:31] Well... uh... did you get Suzu's number? [19:38:44] Maybe with our new magic watches. Didn't we hear them through it last time too? [19:39:02] I dunno how to work that thing! [19:39:14] Still nothing. This has to be an anomaly... thing. [19:39:43] * Saede jerks her head towards Maya. "Ask the Wallflower. It looks like she's been playing with it." [19:40:05] Hey, Maya, you know how to get Suzu? [19:42:45] * The only thing of note seems to be a few vending machines and the occsaional magazines and other reading material in the lobby. [19:46:30] * Saede suddenly remembers. "Wait. I think she gave her number to me for an emergency too." [19:46:42] * Saede pulls her phone out and calls Suzu. [19:47:26] * Suzu's phone rings, assuming she hasn't turned it off or set it to silent [19:47:38] * Tetsuko leafs through the magazines in case they mention people disapearing in karaoki bars. [19:48:09] * They don't mention anything along those lines [19:48:24] * Suzu picks up her phone, eyeing the name that comes up with some curiousity, and then answers. "Hello?" [19:48:50] Yo. Remember me? [19:49:26] I remember. Is there something I can help you with? [19:50:49] Listen. You remember the others too, right? One of their friends are misisng, and it looks like it involves the weird stuff with our watches. We're at a light music karaoke joint. [19:51:08] Think it might be something you could help us with? [19:51:24] * Suzu frowns. "Someone went missing? Do you know who it is?" [19:51:46] Her name was Mika, I think [19:52:20] * Suzu pales. "I...did you say Mika?" [19:52:52] * Saede looks at Maya, eyebrow raised. "I dunno, she's HER friend. Hey, Wallflower. Mika, right?" [19:58:27] Yeah, same gal [19:58:27] * Let's just say Maya nods. [19:58:29] Why? [19:59:21] * Suzu practically yells into the phone "I'll be right there!" before hanging up and taking off at a dead run. [20:00:23] * Before long, but not before Suzu has to call back to actually get directions, Suzu arrives. [20:01:12] * Saede waves at the others with a flourish. "And no one else has disappeared!" [20:01:22] * Saede deadpans. "Now what?" [20:01:28] I don't know. [20:01:39] * Suzu arrives at the karaoke place, gasping for breath, having run full speed the whole way. "Where...what...what happened?" [20:02:40] The karaoke club ate her or something. [20:03:29] * Suzu leans on the wall for support. "Mic-Mika just...vanished?" [20:03:54] * Tetsuko nods. [20:03:56] * Saede shrugs. "Nobody knows where she went and we can't find her. Also..." [20:04:16] Look at the place through your watch. It's this weird red color [20:04:38] * Saede scratches her chin. "And just before all that... the sign changed somehow." [20:04:46] It said one thing. And then it said something else. [20:06:27] * Suzu finally catches her breath. "Emily isn't here yet?" [20:07:28] Well, I guess the watch didn't go off or anything [20:07:34] * Tetsuko shakes her head. [20:07:49] Tch. Foreigner girl? She doesn't look like she'd have a phone, does she? [20:08:01] * Saede looks up. "Or come to places like this." [20:08:20] * Suzu takes hers out and opens it, tapping angrily on the glass. "Hey! Schroedinger! How do I talk through this thing?" [20:09:06] * The cat's face slowly fades into view. "Oh, hello." [20:09:31] Hey! Hurry up, I need to call Emily somehow. [20:09:59] Oh, there's no need to worry. I let her know that you will have had called me to ask her to come. [20:10:15] * The cat does an imitation of a bow. [20:11:17] * Suzu blinks, trying to process that, and then glares. "Thanks." she adds, irritably. [20:11:56] * Emily steps out of an old timey limousine that just pulled up on the curb, all its glass heavily tinted, and smoothes her dress. As soon as she shuts the door, the limousine eases into traffic again. "My apologies, I got caught up in traffic. I understand you were having difficulties?" [20:13:03] * Tetsuko nods. [20:13:19] It...looks like more weird time stuff. We gotta hurry, Mika vanished into there! [20:15:03] * Emily nods, and begins scrolling back through time with her watch, looking for the moment of disappearance. [20:16:12] * Suzu does the same, her knuckles white from how hard she's clenching the watch. [20:17:58] C'mon.... [20:18:18] * Tetsuko watches Suzu and Emily. [20:19:26] * It takes some time, but as you scroll past the fifteen minutes ago mark, the red tint vanishes and returns, a lot like flipping past an out-of-place frame in a flip book [20:20:04] * Emily frowns. "Was she lost fifteen minutes ago?" [20:20:25] Just about [20:20:28] We're looking at a point where it was briefly in phase with our timeline, it seems. [20:20:51] She walked into the wrong door? [20:21:01] She walked into the right door in a different universe. [20:21:44] Barring any sudden revelations from Time Cat about what this means, it seems like our best bet might be to find a way to force it back into phase long enough to mount a rescue operation. [20:22:13] Great. No wonder we couldn't find her. We've been looking in the wrong universe [20:22:17] Or, perhaps, convince that dimension to give us its Mika to restore the balance. [20:22:22] Can you look forward until it's that door again? [20:22:37] For all intents and purposes, it should be a practically identical girl. [20:22:48] * Emily nods, and begins winding her watch forward. [20:23:02] Practically identical? [20:23:09] So she's...trapped in another timeline? Or... *she looks back at the watch* Schroedinger, that's the worst that could happen, right? [20:23:13] * Saede glances at Suzu. "Think that's good enough for her?" [20:23:16] * Suzu sounds sort of desperate. [20:23:44] * Emily frowns. "...Probably not. I suppose we'll have to find this universe's iteration of the girl." [20:25:11] * Saede mmmmmms, a sound not unlike purring. "Just say when." [20:26:03] * Suzu looks up at Emily, her expression inching towards horrified. "We have to save her, not some other girl who's almost the same!" [20:26:52] * Suzu looks away, her voice trailing off. "She's probably so scared right now..." [20:27:11] * Emily frowns and looks away. "I... I was just presenting our options." [20:27:58] If we're lucky, Girly Girl, the way this works, we could find her and take her back before she even knows she was gone. [20:27:59] Very well. We'll retrieve this universe's Mika. [20:28:08] * Saede bites on a finger solemnly. [20:28:10] Maybe. [20:28:11] If we can recover that universe's Mika as well, we can consider it a bonus. [20:29:40] * Maya (Darkheart@fl-67-235-204-88.dhcp.embarqhsd.net) Quit (Quit: Bluh bluh wait I don't read MSPA.) [20:29:51] [Session End] [20:29:54] * Saede (Mads@68-115-25-151.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com) Quit (Quit: ~ Trillian Astra - www.trillian.im ~) [20:30:04] * Suzu is now known as Yon End of #Magicalgirls buffer Wed Feb 16 20:30:16 2011