Start of #Youkai buffer: Thu Apr 30 21:55:49 2009 [17:39:10] [Sunday passes. You all do your own thing on your first day off from class. Or hang out with each other if you like.] [17:39:17] [Monday, the first day of the second week of school.] [17:40:11] [The morning classes pass easily. Now it's time for lunch.] [17:40:42] [Today's menu is curry rice. Not too imaginative, but tastynonetheless.] [17:40:44] [SessionStart] [17:41:03] * Kentaro whistles as he gets his bag off the back of his chair. "Hey, Berny, want to head down and- Holy damn! When did you start coming to school again, Kale?" [17:43:23] Sure - whoa, hey, Kale! [17:43:32] * Megumi heads down to the cafeteria. She blinks as she notices Kale. "Don't I know you from somewhere?" [17:44:30] * Kale yawns and pulls himself out of his seat. He stands up straight in surprise at Kent's sudden exclamation. ["I jus-"] He pauses, "Sorry. I just got back." He rubs his brow, "Dad wanted to-" He pauses, at greetings all around, suddenly overwhelmed, "Hahaha, well, like, it hasn't been that long, has it? Haha. Dad had a business trip, and it was baseball opening season back in the States, so I- [17:44:37] -tagged along." [17:44:56] * Kale inclines his head, "Good to see you all." [17:45:13] Good to see you too. We thought you might've been sick or something. [17:45:23] So yeah, we're glad it was just a vacation thing. [17:45:39] * Megumi grabs her lunch and sits down. "Nah, no way he could've been sick." [17:46:02] * Kale plops down with the group. "Anything exciting been happening?" [17:46:45] * Emmy had got up from her table where she was eating lunch with a bunch of people surrounding her. "Look, I know you said that it's a real haunted picture, but I've already proved that it's just the place you picked to take it." She said annoyedly, and rather loudly. "There's no way that your so called 'Mystery Club' has any evidence about magic or mysteries that isn't just accidental if they hit you in the face!" [17:46:58] * Kentaro sits down at the table, unpacking his lunch. It consists entirely of blue-died noodles and a series of sausages cut to look like octopi. [17:48:10] * Kale boggles at blue noodles (really? blue?) - then boggles at the other sudden exclamation coming from nearby. [17:48:22] * Megumi leans back, smiling smugly. "Yeah, you didn't miss much. Just me beating the hell out of the strongest student in school. Nothing big." [17:48:36] * Kale blinks at Megumi, "Really? You?" [17:49:18] ...what, like that's unbelievable or something? [17:49:49] * Berny eats her usual lunch silently, but she's listening in to the conversation about the haunted picture. [17:50:35] * One of the guys at the club looks over at Emmy. "How do you explain the face, though?" [17:51:29] "No, no, just, aren't you a little young to picking fi- No, you know what? Never mind, the important thing is that you won. Right? Right." Maybe he can avoid bumbling around Megumi for once. Kale smiles to Berny and Kent, "How about you two?" [17:52:10] Hmph. Besides, I didn't even have to pick the fight this time. [17:52:49] Huh? Me? [17:52:56] * Berny was clearly distracted by the other conversation. [17:53:04] Oh, ah, you should've seen Megumi! She was awesome! [17:53:15] Oh, not much. We kinda had a thing going on with the fields for the last couple days. We met a delicious tree. [17:53:22] * Emmy looks at the few mystery club members surrounding her and made an 'ung' sound and threw her hands up with a roll of her eyes. "Look, did even go back to take a look at the place? There were like, hole all over the place. What you took in the picture was nothing more than just the light coming from the second floor and reflecting off some shreds of cloth. There's absolutely no proof of magic or ghosts or other supernatural stu [17:53:32] But really, the coolest thing was Megumi taking some dude down [17:53:43] * Megumi grins. [17:53:49] (ff) [17:53:58] Oh, yeah, the tree. I ate all my leaves, else I'd share some with you. [17:54:35] * Berny is still looking over toward the other table with great curiosity. [17:55:15] * Kale smiles. It's been awhile, but it makes him feel good that the three are so receptive to his return. "Well, good job, shortstuff, I hope you're proud of yourself!" - He too, though, is paying some attention to this disturbance. [17:55:31] * Emmy pulls one of the guys closer, who's likely to be the president. "Look, even my own Light Magic Club is mainly about harmonizing nature with the inner spirit new age stuff. I don't go prancing around holding some picture and say it's a ghost picture. It doesn't exist, and I can prove that it doesn't exist. Ask any of the other clubs that gave me anything like this before." [17:56:06] * Berny whispers. "Wow, there's -magic- clubs at this school? No way." [17:57:00] Huh! I mean, I never heard of that before. Not that I was looking, but you know. [17:57:24] * Megumi looks over at the other table. "Man, they sure are loud." [17:57:26] Maybe it's new. [17:57:40] "Now, is the club studying magic, or is it like, the club itself..." [17:57:45] * Berny nods. "Yeah. They're arguing about some kind of 'haunted picture.'" [17:57:47] * Kale scratches his head. He takes this question very seriously. [17:58:19] * A tall Western girl with long blonde hair and green eyes smiles. She's pretty blatantly flouting the uniform code with her business attire, but no one really seems to notice. She also looks too old to be a student. At least, at this school. She's got to be a recent college graduate, at least. "I heard those students over there know an awful lot about this stuff." She gestures to Kentaro et all. [17:58:24] * Not one of you have seen her before. [17:59:17] * Megumi stares at the girl. "Wait, what the hell is going on now?" [17:59:28] * Emmy tip toes to look at the people she's pointing to. "Oh really?" She says before pushing the guy she was holding off to a side (carefully) and walking up to the group. "Well now, let's hear it." [17:59:36] Are- Are we getting dragged into this? [17:59:42] Is she another exchange student? [17:59:45] * Berny whispered that. [17:59:55] * Kentaro did as well, for that matter. [18:00:27] * Berny watches the girl walk up to them, and she blinks at her slowly. "Huh? Hear what?" [18:00:35] * The strange foreign girl looks over and smiles. [18:00:41] * Kale blinkblinks, "I knowwhahuh?" [18:01:13] * Emmy looks at the group carefully before shrugging. "I guess I should introduce myself first. Call me Emmy-chan. I'm a second year student here, and president of the Light Magic Club. We actually specialize in showing that enlightenment does not come from the existance of magic. You all?" [18:03:21] * Megumi stares at Emmy blankly. "I have no idea what you're talking about." [18:03:39] Um, I'm Berny. I'm not in any clubs yet. I think. [18:04:07] I'm Wantanable Kentaro. I'm in the drama club. We specialize in improvisation excercises. [18:04:31] * Emmy lifts an eyebrow and her eyes sort of light up when she hears Berny isn't in a club yet, but let the others introduce themselves. [18:05:00] * Kale stares blankly. @__@ [18:05:09] "Uh. Kale." [18:05:20] "Is MY name." [18:05:52] * The blonde girl finishes her curry rice, picks up a briefcase, and heads for the cafeteria exit. [18:06:16] * Berny whispers to Kentaro and gestures to the blonde girl now leaving. "Who's she?" [18:07:39] * Emmy quickly kneels besides Berny with a wide grin and says, "So... Berny, right? Join the Light Magic Club. We're always looking for members and you look perfect." [18:07:44] "I don't think I'm in clubs. Was that what I was supposed to say?" He's watching the blonde walk off... [18:07:55] * Kale clearly distracted. [18:09:50] I'm Megumi. No clubs, and not interested. [18:10:19] "...She looked nice." [18:10:41] * Kentaro shakes his head. "No clue." [18:11:17] * Emmy quickly turns to Kale with the recruiting drive as well. "The Light Magic Club is about exploring so called supernatural phenomenon to find what can be truely called magic! But it's too bad that there's so many fakes or just natural occurances that people take for magic, that we end up disproving much of it." [18:12:42] ...uh...huh. Why does this school have so many weird clubs? [18:13:48] * Kale moves his eyes up to Emmy, "Hnwhaah...? Uh. Cool! Right, magic stuff! Well, these guys were just telling me about this tasty tree- that's like, phenomena, right? Ha. Yeah..." He doesn't really get this stuff yet. He just, you know, carries a bat. [18:14:08] Light Magic Club, huh? Looking for real magic? That sounds pretty neat, actually. [18:14:59] * Emmy has completely forgotten about the Mystery Club by now. "But while it's true that many of the so called occult is fake, we still believe that we can acheive perfection if we can even find a fraction of what will be known as true occult!" She declares in a bold voice, trying to entice them to join. "Oh, and the school allows any kind of clubs as long as you fullfil some requirements, so there could be bad clubs like that Myste [18:15:34] (that Mystery Club." [18:16:06] Hey, uh, what were you talking about over there earlier? Something about a haunted picture?" [18:17:21] "Oh, that? They showed me this picture that had something that looked like a ghostly head in it, but I went to the place where he took the picture and found out the truth." [18:17:55] A... ghostly head? [18:17:59] * Kentaro seems interested. [18:18:14] * Berny looks curious too. [18:18:57] * Kale tilts, "Like, a severed head? With blood?" [18:20:00] * Emmy just shakes her head and says, "Uh, give me a second. I'll grab the picture." She goes back to the guy who she had pushed, and said a few words to him. He was shaking his head, but she took something from his hands and came back to the group. "This picture." She gives it to Kentaro. [18:20:14] * Megumi peeks over. [18:20:45] * The picture is of a group of students, posing in front of the camera. In the background, you can see a transparent face behind one of the people. [18:21:12] * It looks like an old man. [18:21:32] * As an aside, Kale is in the background of the photo doing his own thing. [18:21:39] * Berny stares at it and blinks. "Huh. Anyone you guys recognize?" [18:21:52] * Kale laughs, "Look at me." [18:21:54] Besides Kale. [18:21:56] * Kale sobers. [18:21:58] * Berny laughs. [18:22:20] * Emmy looks at them and says, "Well, it's pretty much a picture of the Mystery Clu... wait, that does sort of look like you. Huh." [18:22:51] Huh. [18:22:55] That's interesting. [18:25:04] * Kale tilts his head, "Wait." [18:25:16] * Kentaro slowly turns towards Kale, shifting his entire body [18:26:11] * Emmy glances at Kale and asks, "What?" [18:26:14] * Kale coughs, "Um, do you midn if I take a closer look?" [18:26:52] * Emmy shrugs. "Go ahead. It's not like it's mine." [18:27:17] * Megumi shrugs. "So he's in the picture. So? I mean, unless this was taken while he was back in america, so what?" [18:28:07] * Kale takes the picture, holding it so close that it almost touches the tip of his nose. "That's so weird." [18:29:06] * Kale puts the picture back down on the table, then reaches into his pocket for his wallet. Out of the wallet he takes an old baseball card, yellowed, and places it down beside the picture. [18:29:45] * Megumi blinks at Kale. "What?" [18:30:19] * Emmy asks, "What is? I took my own picture to prove it was just a fluke of light, so I don't really know what's so weird unless you mean you're in it." She puts down a night-time picture of her in that place with some fuzz around the picture that looks like light coming from one of the classrooms. [18:31:31] * Kentaro looks at the card, arching his eyebrows [18:32:15] * Megumi looks at the card. [18:32:51] * Kale points. The old card reads "Homer 'Homerun' Masterson," and while the figure on the card is younger than the figment of the old man in the picture, there is an uncanny resemblance. "It looks like Grandpop." [18:33:29] Oh, wow. Yeah, it doe.s [18:33:32] * Megumi stares at the card, then at the photo. "Wait, WHAT?" [18:33:35] Wow. That -is- weird. [18:33:47] * Kale laughs, "Yeah, especially 'cause he's been dead for years!" [18:33:56] * Kale beats. [18:33:57] * Kale sobers. [18:34:33] Um. This isn't, like, Photoshopped or something, is it? [18:34:47] * Emmy looks at the card, frowns a bit, then laughs. "I'm sure it was a coincidence. But anyways, since you guys seem to like looking for supernatural stuff, I'm sure if you join my club you'll get many more chances to do so!" She says while she goes ahead to pick up her photo and the Mystery Club's photo. [18:36:03] * Kentaro shifts uneasily, looking over to Kale. [18:37:25] * Kale slips the card back into his wallet, "That's kind of funny, huh? Almost like we have our own club." [18:37:41] Yeah, huh. We sort of have meetings and everything. [18:38:07] I'm sort of curious about Emmy's club, though. How can she be the president of a magic club and not believe in ghosts? [18:38:14] Yeah. We don't get our own room, though. [18:38:17] * Kentaro looks sad. [18:38:53] * Emmy grins. "Come on. I'll show you the club room after class if you meet me at the 2nd floor stairs." [18:39:51] "I-I'd be up for that." He'd like to know more about ghosts... [18:40:18] Oh! Sure! Thanks for inviting me. [18:41:17] * Kentaro bites his lip. "I appreciate it, but I gotta see if there's anything going on at drama today." [18:41:35] I don't want Miki to break up with me any sonner than she's gonna, you know? [18:42:04] * Emmy makes a V posture and says, "No problem. Just make sure to be there, and I'll lead the way." She gives an additional wink before saying, "I'm going to finish my lunch and get these jerks off my back. I'll talk to you all later!" She practically ignores Kentaro's excuse, going back to arguing with the guys near her table. [18:43:02] * Megumi sighs. "Well, I guess I'll come along." [18:43:29] * Kentaro frowns. "Already got one hu-nam girl telling me where I need to go after school." [18:45:14] * Kale chuckles at Megumi, "Don't sound so excited, kid." [18:46:47] * Megumi glares at Kale. "Stop calling me kid." [18:47:00] * Kale wasn't even thinking about it, "Wha?" [18:48:24] * Berny waves at Emmy as she leaves. [18:48:58] [Lunch ends shortly after. After school...] [18:49:51] * Emmy is where she said she'd be to meet anyone who wanted to check out the LMC room. [18:50:55] * Miki is at the drama club. Her eyes light up when she sees Kentaro show up. "It's about time." [18:51:48] * Berny wanders up to Emmy. "Hi." [18:52:34] Hey, lady! How's all the emotin' and frontin' and poppin' and lockin' going? [18:53:16] * Kale has tagged along with Berny. [18:53:32] * Emmy cheerfully greets Berny. "Hi! You're the first ones here. Anyways, how was class?" [18:53:41] It's... uh... going well. We're having a bit of a handful with the first years. [18:53:59] Oh no! [18:54:03] * Berny shrugs. "Class was okay. How was yours?" [18:54:52] * Megumi hangs back a bit, looking uncomfortable. [18:54:56] What seems to be the problem? [18:55:13] Nothing too serious, they're just a lot more enthusiastic than hard-working... ... hm. [18:55:44] * Emmy shrugs. "Boring. But, oh, is that everyone?" [18:56:10] * Kentaro nods. "I know how that goes." [18:57:03] Megumi, are you coming? [18:57:14] Yeah, yeah. [18:57:53] I guess that's everyone. [18:58:12] * Kale scratches the back of his neck, "So, Light Magic, huh?" [18:59:34] Yeah, we were sort of wondering about that. [19:01:16] * Emmy leads them towards the club room while she explains, "Well, I made the club near the end of last year cause there's few things that happened that couldn't really be explained, so I thought why not go look for answers and maybe find out if the supernatural was real or not." [19:01:36] "And any 'black magic' or 'mystery' or 'occult' is so cliche, you know?" [19:02:10] * Berny nods hesitantly. "I guess so. But what makes you so sure it doesn't exist?" [19:02:40] "What about 'heavy' magic? Haha ha. Ha..." [19:03:14] * Emmy leads them to a room that when entered, the first thing you see is a large rectangle table with space for about 12 people. On the wall is a large map filled with red pins, many of which is near the location of the school or on it, and off to the far end is another large desk with a PC on it. [19:03:25] * Berny glances over at Kale questioningly. "Heavy magic?" A moment later, she slaps her forehead. "Aw, geez." [19:03:37] "Well, I'm still not convinced that it doesn't exist, but so far I haven't found anything to prove that it does." [19:03:53] * Kale smiles weakly at Berny, then balks at Emmy. [19:03:57] * Emmy enters and leads them to the table. "Take a seat. Want something simple to drink?" [19:04:33] * Megumi plops down in a seat. She looks over at the map. "That's...uh...a lot." [19:05:53] * Emmy points to the many red pins on the map and says, "Ya... I've been following any rumors since the beginning of the year, and so far almost all of them were fakes." There are, however, a few white pins on the map. [19:07:32] * Berny sits down. "I guess I wouldn't mind some water. What were the real ones you found?" [19:07:45] What's with the white pins? [19:07:51] * Kale nods, "Water, would be good." [19:09:05] * Emmy goes towards one of the corners of the room and takes some glasses and a pitcher from there. "Well, I don't know about real or not, but the white ones are places were I found things that I couldn't quite explain, but could probably be explained. Like the ones near the school. Before the school year began, a lot of plants just randomly died." [19:09:55] * Emmy quickly comes back with the pitcher of water and glasses. "I don't know if it is related to the supernatural, but it could easily be done by some random person who hated plants." She gives each of them a glass and places the pitcher near them. [19:10:05] * Megumi blinks. "Re-really>" She glances nervously at Berny. [19:11:28] Thanks, Emmy. [19:11:41] * Berny taps thoughtfully at her lip and returns Megumi's glance. [19:12:10] * Kale listens, and sips at the water. [19:12:15] * Emmy takes a seat at the other desk and says, "No problem. So, have any of you experienced anything of the paranormal? Please, don't worry about whether you think it's real or not, just mention it. I'd be interested to hear it at the very least." [19:13:13] * Megumi shakes her head. "No. Never. Not at all." [19:13:25] "Espers, ghosts, youkais, whatever that isn't exactly the norm. There's a whole world out there, so I'm sure someone's got to have had some weird experiences." [19:13:52] Well, um, ah-- [19:18:07] * Emmy focuses on Berny. "Come on, don't be shy! It's not like I'm judging you all or anything. If you experienced something you feel is paranormal, that's fine for you. I'm only here to see if it is really true or not, not to judge you." [19:21:40] * Megumi swallows nervously. [19:25:14] * Kale sips on the water, "Well, there was this really messed up cucumber in the doc's office..." [19:29:30] "Cucumber?" [19:30:04] "Yah, apparently he likes to eat them." [19:30:24] * Emmy looks stumped for a moment. "And?" [19:31:24] "Well, it smelled pretty bad." Kale considers this, then goes back to drinking the water. [19:32:00] * Emmy thinks for a moment. "What's his name?" [19:34:40] "The school doc? Kawa... saki...? Kawa- shiro? Ono... nah..." [19:35:45] * Emmy makes an 'ah hah!' kind of motion. "OH, you mean our school's doctor! Ya, he is kind of weird. But I'm pretty sure he's not that weird." [19:37:19] * Emmy asks, "So... anyone else?" [19:37:49] No, he's pretty damn weird. [19:37:51] * Megumi shrugs. [19:39:25] * Emmy sighs. "And after you were suggested too. Oh well." She sits at her table for a moment before shrugging. "Anyways, now that you've seen the club room, how is it?" [19:39:47] "Oh!" [19:40:29] Hey, look, I don't know who the hell that was or why she told you to talk to us. [19:41:00] "She was kinda pretty." [19:41:07] "I mean, yeah, though, no idea who she is." [19:42:36] "That kid, Daisuke." [19:42:39] "Really? Why would she suggest you guys then? Maybe she knows about you but not vice versa?" [19:44:27] Um...about us? What's there for her to know? [19:44:31] "He has that little... skeleton thing." [19:45:21] * Emmy shrugs, but then her attention is caught by Kale. "Skeleton thing? Like, those ones used in the science room?" [19:46:03] * Kale shakes his head, "No, no, it was like an animal." He huffs, "Uh, I don't know how to describe it." [19:47:45] * Emmy looks thoughtful. "Could you introduce me to this Daisuke person? I'd like to take a look at... whatever you're trying to describe. I could think of a few things off the top of my head that's like that, but I won't know till I see it." [19:49:11] * Megumi suddenly brightens. "That's a GREAT idea!" [19:51:00] "So, when can we go see him?" [19:51:23] "Um, I don't know. He's usually hanging out in his club room, I think." [19:51:33] Yeah, he'd probably still be there. [19:52:16] "So, let's get going? Lead the way!" [19:54:24] * Kale looks to Meg, "You wanna take us there?" [19:54:34] Yeah, sure. [19:55:12] * Megumi gives a furtive glance to Kale and Berny, then leads the way to the cryptozoology club. [19:55:16] * Emmy gets up and opens the door for them. Outside, on the opposite side of the door, is a sign that says, "Emmy-Chan's Confessions. 100Y/hour" [19:56:18] * Kentaro is standing outside the door, ready to knock. He grins. "Hey, Megumi!" He pauses. "Hey, people with Megumi!" [19:56:32] * Kale grumps, "Good to see you too, Kentaro." [19:57:14] * Emmy is eagerly bouncing around to see this possible paranormal thing. "Oh hi. So, is this the place?" [19:57:14] * Megumi blinks. "Uh, hi." [19:58:45] So, uh, Megumi, the drama club has an offer for you. How would you like to have a big fight at the school cultural festival? [19:59:20] Because we're putting on a production of Michishita Soushirou and the 99-Night Feast - maybe you've heard of it - and we needed an oni. [19:59:24] So I thought of you! [19:59:42] * Kale stares. "Seriously? You, uh, thought of Megumi?" [19:59:54] Wha-wh-what? [20:00:25] * Emmy also stares, but then looks at Megumi before turning back to Kentaro. [20:00:50] Because out of all the people who're like oni I know, you're totally the best at being an oni! [20:01:12] "Well, I suppose in a list of criterion, that's pretty good reasoning..." [20:01:24] * Megumi freezes up. "At...the cultural festival? ...for...the drama club? In...in front of people?" [20:02:02] * Emmy mutters, "Oh ya... it's about that time..." [20:02:36] Yeah! [20:02:59] * Kentaro gives a thumbs-up! And then, noticing that Megumi isn't yet convinced, adds another thumb! [20:05:10] Are...are you nuts? No way I could do something like that! [20:06:28] Oh, come on! [20:06:59] I mean, I guess maybe we could find someone else to play an oni. Maybe that guy you fought on Saturday. I bet he'd *love* to be a better oni than you. [20:08:07] "You might be pretty good at it, Megumi." [20:09:14] * Megumi 's face reddens. "Him? No fucking way, as if he could ever outdo me!" [20:10:45] * Kale is in awe of Megumi. "Like a little volcano..." He murmurs under his breath. [20:11:21] * Emmy looks at Megumi curiously. [20:11:26] * Kentaro adopts an expression of mild suprise. "Well, I mean, if you insist, I *guess* we could find room for you. And here I was, all set on Choutarou." [20:12:07] Yeah, I'll do it. Damn right. [20:13:41] * Kentaro nods, smiling, and starts heading back to the drama club room [20:14:00] "ummm... about that Daisuke person?" [20:14:32] Oh, right, yeah, that. [20:15:39] * Megumi gets back to leading the way to the club room, still flustered. [20:16:33] Just find me when you're ready, Megumi! I'll make sure that Miki doesn't go ahead and give Choutarou every part in the meantime [20:17:15] * You find the Cryptozoology club easily enough. It's a small club with maybe 7 members. All boys of varying degree of geekitude. [20:18:05] * Megumi just barges in without knocking. "Yo, Daisuke, someone here who wants to meet you!" [20:18:20] * Emmy follows just as blatently. [20:18:24] * Daisuke looks up. Or down. "Oh, hey." [20:19:52] This is Emmy, she wants to know about that rat thing you found. [20:20:17] O-oh. Yeah, that. I found it buried near a river. [20:20:17] * Kale is trailing behind the two. [20:20:35] * Emmy waves. "Hi. I'm the president of the Light Magic Club. Your friends here mentioned some weird skeleton something or another and I was wondering if I could take a look at it." [20:20:55] Oh, sure. [20:21:35] * Daisuke takes out some photos and sketches. "Here you go." [20:22:38] * Emmy looks at them. "Hmm. This does look interesting... Have you sent the bones to some specialists to get them checked out?" [20:22:56] * THe photos and sketches depict a skeleton, maybe 4-6 inches long. It looks like a canid of some kind, but it's the size of a mouse. And fully grown, too. [20:23:06] Dropped it off this Sunday, in fact. [20:23:56] "That's good. If you hear from them, could you give me a shout? I'm rather interested in things like this as well." [20:26:53] Yeah, we want to hear what they think it is. [20:27:04] Yeah, sure [20:27:38] "Just curious, but do you have a copy of these photos?" [20:28:25] Not yet, but I could make more copies. I'll mail them to everyone, then they can pass it onto you [20:29:16] * Emmy smiles and thanks him. "I'd apperciate it. Thank you." [20:35:26] * Emmy asks, "So, are you two still interested in joining the Light Magic Club?" [20:35:50] * Berny nods. "Sure. I guess I don't really see why not." She smiles shyly. [20:37:05] * Megumi blinks, caught in the middle of sneaking out the door. "...huh?" [20:37:28] * Berny blinks at Megumi. "Oh, do you have to go?" [20:38:43] * Kale is lingering outside the club room, and lifts an eyebrow at the sneaking Meg. [20:38:51] I, um. Not exactly... [20:39:12] * Kale sees the blonde woman in a suit from before standing further down the hall. She's got a cell phone to her head [20:39:46] * Kale blinks. He starts to speak to Megumi, then stops, and moves towards the blonde. [20:40:08] * Berny whispers. "Hey, it's her again." [20:40:15] She doesn't look like a student. I wonder who she is. [20:40:28] * Megumi turns to look. "Okay, that's starting to creep me out." [20:41:35] * Kale pauses near her. "Hello?" [20:41:44] * Megumi starts out into the hall. "Hey! You!" [20:41:46] It's almost like she's following us. [20:41:53] * Berny follows Megumi out the door. [20:42:35] * The woman turns around. She points at her phone wordlessly. She looks a little annoyed. [20:43:34] * Emmy follows behind in curiosity. [20:43:42] * She turns back around and continues listening. [20:44:04] * Kale blinks, and lingers near the woman, waiting patiently. [20:44:25] * Megumi storms right up to the woman and completely fails at getting up into her face. "Who the hell are you, anyway? You following us or something? You're starting to piss me the hell off!" [20:44:56] Hang on a sec. [20:45:03] * She pushes a button on her phone. [20:45:28] I'm sorry, following you? [20:46:51] First you were in the cafeteria tellin' that girl she should talk to US if she wants to know about weird stuff goin' on, and now you're here again. The fuck is your problem? [20:48:01] "Megumi..." [20:48:10] Oh. Yes. Lots of problems. Don't worry, I'm working on fixing them. [20:48:22] * She gives a friendly smile. [20:49:39] * Berny headtilts wonderingly. "Who are you, anyway?" [20:52:39] * Megumi scowls. "You're not gettin' off with being miss cryptic bitch." [20:53:05] "I'm, uh, Kale." [20:54:26] Used to be lots of people. But for now... [20:54:30] I am Elle. [20:54:57] * Berny scrunches up one eye. "'Used to be lots of people'? Are you a secret agent or something?" [20:55:47] * Emmy stands off to the side behind the group, bitting her lower lips while listening in. [20:56:08] Oh. I guess if you were, you probably wouldn't answer that anyway. [20:56:50] * Megumi folds her arms, continuing to give Elle the death glare. [20:57:19] Don't worry about me. [20:57:51] Who said anything about worry? I'm not worried. I'm _pissed_. [20:58:10] What about? [21:00:00] * Megumi 's scowl deepens. There's a hint of a growl in her voice. "You, obviously. The hell do you want? If you DON'T want anything, then piss off." [21:00:33] If you say so. [21:00:53] * She walks off, talking on her phone agian. "Sorry about that." [21:00:59] Hey, wait! What're the problems you mentioned, anyway? [21:01:09] * Berny trails after the woman half-heartedly. [21:02:57] * Berny can't catch up to Elle with a pursuit that weak in spirit! [21:03:13] * Berny slows to a stop and returns sheepishly to her friends. "Nevermind, I guess." [21:04:03] * Kale rubs the back of his neck, "Huh, weird." [21:05:03] I wonder what she meant by that, though. Problems? Like the plants thing? [21:05:25] * Emmy wanted to say more, but ends up just saying, "Good luck with your problems! If you need anyone to talk to, it's 100 yen per hour at Emmy-chan's confessions!" [21:06:58] * Megumi scowls after Elle as she watches her leave. [21:08:24] So, um, Emmy...-chan. You take people's confessions for money? [21:08:44] * Kale stretches and folds his arms behind his head. "Well. I think maybe I'll take off and do some asking around - maybe some other people know who she is..." Secret agents are cool. [21:09:06] Good luck with that, I guess. [21:09:09] * Berny nods. "Okay. Good luck." [21:09:17] "Oh yes. I hold a completely confidental confession booth for 100 yen. The money helps with the club funds and makes people understand it's an exchange and absolutely confidential." [21:09:18] Good seeing you back at school, too. [21:09:54] * Berny puzzles over Emmy's answer. "Why would someone pay 100 yen to tell you a secret? Has anyone done that yet?" [21:10:22] * Megumi blinks at Emmy, scratching her head. "What, like...a priest or something?" [21:11:31] * Emmy shrugs. "A few. It varies from place to place. And yes, like a *nun*." She brings out a small cross from within her clothes. "My... uh... father is the local father. (It never gets less weird however many times I say that...)" [21:12:13] Oh, wow. You're a nun? [21:12:41] * Emmy shrugs with a grin. "I like to think of myself as a priestest, but it's close enough." [21:13:32] * Emmy thinks for another moment. "Ya, a priestest (miko)." [21:13:42] * Berny nods. "Oh, I see." She scratches her head. "I guess you're not of a religious sect that thinks magic is all evil and all that." [21:14:06] Huh. [21:14:18] "What." [21:15:24] You know, you're president of the Light Magic Club. [21:15:56] "And you thought we were a religious sect that thinks magic is evil and stuff?" [21:16:35] No, but a lot of religious Christian folks seem to have a thing against magic. [21:16:38] * Berny shrugs. [21:17:33] "Oh. Ohhhh. Oh, no. My father was actually Shinto, but he changed religions when I was young, so I do have some training in both religions." [21:18:10] Oh, neat. It doesn't clash? [21:18:25] * Emmy shrugs. "We kinda ignore anything that clashes." [21:18:57] * Berny nods thoughtfully. "I gotcha. So why'd you start the Light Magic Club exactly? What's your interest in supernatural stuff?" [21:20:03] "Well, both Shinto and Christianity has mentions of things that isn't really scientific, and I figured that I want to see them for myself. And, both promotes the well-being of the self, so I figured why not combine the two or something?" [21:21:20] * Berny nods again. "That makes sense, I guess." [21:22:01] So, um...you were asking earlier about that. Have you, ah, met anyone at school who's had supernatural experiences or something? Maybe heard something from a confession? [21:22:54] "Well, I've heard people say they experienced something paranormal, but you saw my map in the club room. Mostly just people who mistakenly took something for another thing." [21:23:11] * Emmy mutters under her breath, "Especially drunks." [21:23:18] You're sure all those were fakes? [21:24:17] * Megumi pipes up. "Why wouldn't they be?" [21:24:24] "Oh, I checked all of those I could check out myself. Nothing really out of the ordinary. Mysticism tend to not appear at random, you know." [21:26:39] So what about the haunted picture? Did you mark that as a fake already? [21:27:19] "Not yet. I was going to earlier, but I forgot to since you guys came. I'll be doing that as soon as I got the time, though." [21:28:56] * Megumi sighs. "I should probably go see Kentaro, see what he's tricked me into agreeing to." [21:29:05] * Megumi wanders off towards the drama club. [21:30:17] "I'm going to clean up the club room. Last person who uses it cleans it up, so... if you guys find anything, don't hesitate to tell me! Or use my confession services! I'm normally in the streets after 6!" [21:30:40] * Megumi nods, waving. [21:31:02] * Emmy waves back and skips back to the club room. [21:41:04] * Berny waves to Emmy and follows Megumi toward the drama room. [21:54:48] [Session End] End of #Youkai buffer Thu Apr 30 21:55:49 2009