[Having done a little light shopping for new clothes after a good night at an excellent hotel, the group promptly split up to gather clues. This particular group is investigating a bookstore and the library, to see if Carmen Sandiego left any traces there.] [Session Start] Hey, Ichi? Where do you wanna go first? I don't know...Which one's closer? * They are equidistant. ... hm. Well, they're both equally far apart. Uhm...flip a coin? * Taro flips a silver. Heads is bookstore. Ok. * The silver comes down. You can't tell which is heads or tails, since the markings are the same on both sides. ... drat. * Taro picks it back up ... let's decide this in alphabetical order. * Taro looks at the names of the bookstore and library. * The names are written in Japanese, and are exactly the same characters. By eglish then? 'Bookstore." .... drat. Right! To the bookstore! * Taro heads towards the bookstore, stopping at the crosswalk, hitting the button when necessary, etc. * Ichi follows Taro to the store. * The bookstore is OPEN. It's not particularly busy at all. * Taro enters. * Ichi also enters and looks around. * Taro looks around * Inside are lots and lots of books. * There's a counter in one corner, lots of books in the middle, and nearer to the counter a display with magazines and newspapers. Hmm.... * Taro looks for people * There's a clerk behind the counter. There's also a person browsing the magazine rack. Not very busy at all. *** NPC1 is now known as Clerk * Taro walks up to the clerk. * Ichi shrugs and stands behind him. Can I help you? Hi, we're special members of the police... * Taro shows the badge. Have you seen a woman with brown hair, a long trenchcoat, and a big floppy hat recently? Er... no? ... oh. Any suspicious people at all? ^^: Er... no? So you don't know anything at all about what happend yesterday? What happened yesterday? Carmen Sandiego is suspected of stealing the Tokyo Tower. Oh, that. Eh. It'll come back. ... hm. Say, can you reccomend any world almanacs or anything that might have information on countries? * Clerk points halfheartedly back towards the "reference" section. Thanks. * Taro heads towards there. Thankyou. * Taro looks at the various country reference things * For what? * Taro is looking for a world almanac or hwatever it's called. The things that have basic information on countries, especially pictures of flags. * There are plenty. * Taro picks one out. * Ichi looks around and spots the guy at the magazines. This should do nicely. * Taro rejoins Ichi. * Dude is paging through an adult magazine. * Ichi walks over to him anyway. Uhm...sir? * Dude ignores Ichi. Excuse me? Excuse me sir, have you seen a woman with brown hair, a long trenchcoat, and a big floppy hat recently? Huh? * Dude looks up. * Taro holds out his badge. We're looking for a woman with brown hair, a long trenchcoat, and a big floppy hat. Have you seen anyone by that description lately? Uh... yeah, I s'pose. Excellent... Where did you see her? And what was she doing? Leaving the square. In her car. What did her car look like? Convertible. Hard to tell the color in the dark. * Taro nods What direction was it headed in? Towards the docks, I think. * Taro nods Don't suppose you caught the lisence plate number or anything like that? ...in the dark? Point. Anything else you could tell? Go away. Hm. Sorry. Thanks for your time. Sorry to bother you. * Taro looks for any other people... * There are none. I guess we go to the library now.. Yeah. * Taro walks out the store. * Taro notes the time and scribbles down stuff into his notepad. * Taro stops, * Taro heads back and picks up the book, and brings it to the clerk. I'd like to buy this. * Ichi walks to the entrance and waits for Taro. * Dude scans the book. Fifteen twenty eight. * Taro hands over the thingy the police people gave him for financial stuff. * Sadly, the checkbook was given to Shiho, and Taro is SOL. * Poor Taro-kun. ... crap. Ichi, do you have any of the money from when you sold off the shield? I think so. ::digs through his bag and finds it:: Here you go. Thanks. * Taro hands over the bill. * Clerk makes change. * Taro accepts the change and gives it to Ichi. [Session End] [Having investigated their bookstore and found NOTHING, poor unsuccessful Ichi and Taro proceed to the library.] [Session Start] * Taro enters the library and looks around * The library is relatively small, as city libraries go. It's only two floors high, and the shelves are spaced widely enough for two people to walk down the aisles side by side. There's a big checkout desk right up front, where a librarian is checking in books. * Ichi follows Taro in. * Taro walks up the librarian and takes out his badge. Excuse me, we're with the police, and we're looking for someone Can I hel-oh, hello, officers. What can I do for you? We're trying to find a woman with brown hair, a trenchcoat, and a big floppy hat, possibly owning a convertible... Have you seen anyone by that description? Ah, yes, actually. Why? We believe she is responsible for the theft of Tokyo Tower. O_O Really? Yeah Yes. Oh my... Anyway, can you tell us anything about her when she was here? * Librarian points at a stack of books that are waiting on a small handcart just to one side. * Taro looks at the books Those were the books she looked at. Ah. I was just about to put them back on the shelves. * Taro nods. * Ichi looks at the title of the book closest to him. * Taro looks over the books.. * There's a rather large pile of books, the titles of which include "Kangaroos and you", "The Wonders of Eucalyptus", "The Brave Little Koala", "A tourist's Guide to Australia", "Memoirs of an Outback Survivor"... do I need to keep going? * Don't forget "Crocodile Hunter: A Beginner's Guide" Hmm... * There's also a copy of the entire Crocadile Dundee series of movies. All ten of them. * Taro makes a note of all this stuff * Taro turns to the librarian. Thank you, you've been very helpful. ^_^; No problem, gentlemen. ^_^ I hope you retrieve the Tower soon. * Taro nods. We'll try our best. We intend to. * Ichi looks around at all the books for a bit. Was there anything else you noticed about her other than the books? We're trying to figure out a more specific physical description. ^^; Hmmm... not really. I left shortly after she came in. I'm only here half the day. I remember her car, though. It was a BEAUTIFUL red convertible. * Taro nods It looked like she spent days at a time taking care of it. Hmm. * Taro nods * Taro writes this stuff down. Hm. I think we're done here. Ichi, anything we're forgetting? Since they probibly don't have any books about getting great big towers into teeny cars...I think we're done. Alright. Thanks for your cooperation. ^_^ * Taro puts the badge and notepad away Oh, it's no problem at all. Come back and see me if you get back in town, will you? ^_^ Sure. Sure thing. * Taro heads out of the library Good day to you. ::walks out:: [And so they went to meet with the rest of the group]