[Last Time, on El WHAT!?: The group, or what there was of it, participated in the first round of the tournament. Cara racked up a win, but unknowingly violated a rule, and her match is under consideration. Her match also happened to be against Amy, the group's long lost member who switched places with Taro back on Athas... ...Taro racked up a win by submission by using a magical rod to put out his opponent's flame, possibly permanently, while Shiho racked up a close win against a catlike female fighter. It's now the next day, the fighters are just now waking up in their rooms in the arena. The rooms aren't particularly luxurious, but they've got beds, and there are showers, which is always a good thing.] [The group is awoken by a bothersome and horribly annoying strobing light which proves to be Ichi and Daphne deplushifying. Ichi winds up on the floor next to Cara's cot, while Daphne ends up in the bed beside Cara.] [Session Start!] * Taro wakes up. X_x * Cara opens her eyes and stares at Daphne. "Uh...um..." She quickly flushes with embarrassment. * Ichi sits up and streaches. * Daphne deplushifies. o_O * Daphne looks over at Cara. "...no. Don' tell me." * Shiho sits up and yawns. Do NOT tell me I turned intae onea' those little toy dolls again. Yaawwn! I wonder whe..Hey, I'm back! Uh...yeah, you did. ^^; * Shiho mumbles a "'Mornin'" to everyone and stalks off towards the shower. * Daphne gets out of the bed. "Great. Jus' fuckin' great." She shakes her head irritably and growls. "How much'd I miss this time? Where are we?" Well, you missed the opening fights... * Daphne stumbles into the room, rubbing her eyes. This is a distinctly different Daphne from the one that was in bed with Cara. Ach, what's all the fookin' noise? * Taro blinks. * Daphne blinks at the other Daphne. .... It's the next da... * Taro blinks at the other Daphne. * Cara turns her head and blinks. "What the..." THE BLOODY HELL? ... o_o * Cara stares. FUCKIN' SHIT! SHUT THE HELL UP YE BLOODY BITCH! * Ichi looks between the two Daphnes. "You have a twin?" * Daphne clutches her head. "Oog, tha' was abou' the wors' mistake a've made in a while." WHAT'D YE SAY T'ME? * Taro boggles, as a small part of his mind realizes that he and Ichi don't have to share anymore. Not that that's a concious part of his mind, mind you. Just a deep subconcious id area that he has no concious knowledge of whatsoever. AUGH! * Cara remains huddled in her bed with the covers around her. "This is..." ALl this shouting is hurting my head... x.x * Daphne drags a large flask out of her pocket, uncaps it and drinks in one smooth motion. * Shiho comes out of the shower in a fresh change of clothes. She looks from Daphne to Daphne twice. * Rocky does too. "Wow! Daphne's so drunk that I'M seeing double." o.o; * NinjaDebugger polishes off the flask and caps it, stowing it quickly. * Daphne storms over to OtherDaphne and grabs the flask when she's finished, taking a swig in turn. She looks surprised and the anger melts out of her swiftly. "'Ey, thas' good stuff. Where'd you get this?" That must be quite a drink then... What the fook are you doing? I can't be THAT drunk. You can't? * Rocky looks at Taro. "Is that possible?" HOly SHIT. Quiet, 'Coon. * Taro is apparently a heavy sleep. * Daphne turns to Rocky. "Hello, mister raccoon. Are you friends with mister elephant?" Whu-.... whazzat? * Daphne blinks, then cracks up. * Taro stumbles out of bed and kinda... flumps there on the ground A wha- who- now? * Cara speaks quietly to herself "There was another Amy, so now there's another Daphne..." * Ichi looks confused, "No...I do not think we've met any elephants..." * Amy peeks in the door. "Is everything okay in here? There's a lot of shouting and stuff." Mister pink elephant who comes to see me when I'm really drunk. Is it his day off? * Shiho nods to Cara. "Probably. Thinking what I'm thinking?" * Cara looks over at Shiho. "Uh...I'm not sure. I'm still kinda half asleep and confused." I didn't know we got days off! * Daphne turns back to face Daphne. "And YOU! What the hell kind of hallucination are you!?" * Rocky pouts a raccoony pout. If I have to hallucinate myself, why can't I at least be a good looking hallucination? You're fookin' ugly! * Daphne frowns. "Hey, I was serious when I asked where ye' got-- oh, thas' it." * Daphne takes a different flask out and drains it in just over a second. * Ichi blinks. * Amy continues to peek, and anyone who cares to notice might also notice a bear, a wolf and a eagle peeking too. "Err.." * Shiho does too and approaches the two. "Hey, now. Don't start anything." * Daphne smacks Daphne across the face. Gah! @_@ * Cara yawns and stretches her arms, instantly regretting it as she aggravates her injuries from the day before. "Ah-Ow!" No fighting in here, please! Ack! Stupid ugly bitch! * Taro staggers to his feet, and attempts to separate the two. @_@ We have an entire tournament out there for that. Thas' for the 'ugly' bit. Keep it tae yerself if you're smart. Now, really, where'd ye' get this? * Daphne slugs Daphne right across the jaw. * Daphne takes the slug and kicks Daphne in the face. Hey! That's against the rules. No fighting between matches! * Shiho scowls. * Cara looks a bit taken aback. "Daphne? Ugly? No way." She reddens a little bit. * Ichi stands up, "Please stop this." Please, please, stop fighting, nobody's ugly here... @_@ * Amy tries to grab the Drunker Daphne from behind. "Can you guys please hold back your friend?" * Daphne slips on the floor and falls just as Daphne's kick is about to connect. She rolls to one side, her feet catching Daphne's free foot, bringing her to the ground. * Daphne is brought to the ground. >_< * Taro continues trying to separate the two. @_@;;; * Ichi tries to drag the closest Daphne away from the other one. Pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaase. * Daphne is caught from behind and dragged towards the door. "Lemme go, dammit! I'm too ugly to live! And too sober, too!" Come on, do you want to get kicked out? * Daphne slips out of Daphne's grasp, and stands up, snarling. Who cares!? Master Chan never said anything about being THIS drunk! I wonder if he ever got so drunk he fought himself. * Amy turns her head and says something to the bear. Hopefully, it manages to get between the two Daphnes. I sure don't hit very hard. Listen, there ARE two of you. They said something about knowing someone who looked like me. Maybe it's the same thing with you. Probably. * Daphne pulls a clay jug up from where it was hanging at her side, takes a few healthy swigs out of it, and storms towards OtherDaphne holding the jug like a weapon. * Cara nodnods. "Uhuh, that's right." This can't turn out well... * Taro whimpers in a really wussy-sounding way Unuh, I'm not THAT drunk. You ain't pullin' the wool over MY eyes! * Amy says a few more words, and the wolf joins the bear in blocking Daphne's path. "I'm sorry to bother you, but could you possible HELP?" And I'm serious, knock it off, you two. If there WAS another me, there's no way she could be a sober pansy-ass weakling! * Daphne brings the jug down on top of Daphne's head. * Daphne's eyes cross. * Amy shrugs and lets go. * Daphne gets a real ugly look on her face, and then she gulps hard, opens her mouth slightly, and spits flaming alcohol all over Daphne. This is bad, very very bad... * Taro whimpers some more I've had enough. That's just plain mean. I was holding her and you attack... Uh-oh. * Amy glares at Taro. "If it's so bad, why didn't you try to stop her?" * Taro takes out his rod again and points it at Flaming Daphne. I did try! * Ichi draws his sword, "Stop this." * Taro does the stuff and.... You stood there! Try being a bit physical sometime! * Daphne's flames go out. * Cara gets a determined look on her face, and staggers out of bed over to her backpack, only wearing the oversized t-shirt she wore too bed. * Taro puts the rod away. * Daphne barely manages to get out of the way, patting the side of her shirt to put out some of the flames. "Oh, fuckin' PERFECT. It breathes fire, too." Pleaaaaaase stop fighting.... * Shiho fires an arrow right in between the two. "Stop it," she says, her bowstring quivering. "Now." Why the fook did ye put her out? She deserves to burn! Now she's even UGLIER! * Daphne kicks the other Daphne across the face, hard. Stupid bitch attacked me first! I'm just tryin tae get drunk! An' you jus' stay out of this, Shiho. This is between me an' me, and only me an' me. Got it? * Amy says a few words to the bear. * Daphne is kicked while she's helpless. "Damn it to hell, lemme go!" * Cara pulls her sketchbook and pencil out. "Stop it! Or I'll...I'll draw a picture! ...okay, that was a really dumb threat." * Taro grits his teeth, then stands up straight and shouts at the top of his lungs, showing a remarkable amount of spine. * Amy .. uh.. did let her go. BOTH OF YOU, STOP IT. RIGHT NOW. * An enormous bear forces its way into the room and sits on Daphne. "HRRRRRRRRRN." * Shiho growls. "As long as we're here, I'm involved, too." * Taro blinks. ... * Ichi blinks...and puts his sword away. * Amy glares at the other Daphne. "Look, she's stopped. Go now, otherwise a ref might see you and you'll be disqualified." * Taro gets in the way so Daphne doesn't kick Daphne while Daphne is on the floor * Daphne is pinned beneath a bear. "Oh, great. M'day jus' couldn't get worse, I THOUGHT." Fine. I'm goin'. I better not see myself around here again, though, or I'll kill 'er! * Daphne eyes Taro while she's at it. "What, do they have another one'a him, too, or is this the same one we've been with?" Ye kin let me go, whoever ye are. * Amy already did let go. * Daphne stumbles out of the room. * Amy breathes and looks around. "Why didn't anyone try to stop her?" * Shiho stows her bow away and runs a hand through her hair. "Way too damn early for this." I'm sorry, Amy. I had hoped she had the sense to listen to me. Guess I was wrong. I tried getting between them, but they just slipped their blows past me... * Amy waits until OtherDaphne is well gone, then says a few words to the bear. * The bear gets up. * The bear looks at Daphne and licks its chops. * Amy says a few more words. * Daphne gets up, too. "Pah! The sense NOT t'listen to ye, 's more like it." * Cara looks somewhat abashed. "I'm not really in any shape to try to stop Daphne. Not without magic, and..." * The bear yawns widely, showing lots of teeth suitable for eating vegetation OR meat. Because, Daphne is my friend, and I couldn't see any other way to stop them than to hurt them. * Shiho scowls and storms out of the room. "Fine. We can't all be so damned irresponsable." Which is something that I do not want to do. * Daphne grumbles, and takes another drink out of that bottle. * Just as Shiho exits, there's a bellow from elsewhere. "Fighters, gather in the main commons!" ... ah, geez. * Amy runs her hand through her hair. "Is every day this interesting fo.. huh? I thought the next fight wasn't for two days." Weird... * Rocky shakes his head. "Tsk." He hears that and scampers after Shiho, who's already on her way. I wonder if I've been disqualified. * Taro heads there. * Cara blinks. "Erm." * Daphne grumbles. "Great. An' I'll bet I'm not in the tourney, 'cause I was a fuckin' DOLL at the time, right?" "Correction, Fighters and Guests, gather in the main commons!" * Rocky pauses and looks at Amy. "Say, if you see a pink elephant, say hi for me." * Rocky scampers after Shiho! * Amy looks curiously at the raccoon, then heads for the commons herself. * Ichi walks after Shiho. * Cara hurriedly pulls on some underwear and pants, and shrugs her coat on before heading down to the commons, still barefoot. * Daphne heads for the main commons anyway. Damned if she isn't gonna kick SOMEONE's ass today. * It takes little time or effort to find the main commons, you just follow the trickle of fighters and guests who are already heading there. * In the main commons, several referees are gathered at the front, on a small riser, and fighters and guests are taking up positions all through the room, on the floor, on furniture, and on the walls, and occasionally the ceiling. * Amy is sitting on her adorable bear. It's so cute! * Rocky is sitting on Shiho's shoulder. He's so cute! * Daphne spots Daphne across the room and spits in her general direction, barely missing several people in between. * Taro is hit in the crossfire. ... eew. Sticky hand. * Daphne flips Daphne off without giving her so much as a look. * Ichi manages to compleatly miss the other Daphne. * Someone grabs Taro by the back of his collar and yanks him down to the floor, half-choking him in the process. A moment later, Taro's hair is on fire. @_@ GWAH! * Cara blinks, still a little bleary-eyed. "Whuh?" * Amy stares at the Flaming Taromant. What's the matter Ta! * Taro extinguishes it with the rod * Taro quickly puts it away. The hell? * Taro is hairless now. * Taro looks to see who did that ... ugh. I've got my flame back. Why don't you fight me NOW. * Daphne blinks and tries to see who did that. * Ichi hurries twords Taro. "What happened?" Does this happen a lot? ... It's going to take me a long while to grow this back * Cara looks at Amy. "Uh...I guess not everyone takes losing as well as you do." ^^; Oh, very smart. Now, now, settle down, fighters! Urgh. We'll settle the fight after this thing. Whatever reason they've gethered us for * Daphne eyes this Mui person. We've got a few announcements to make, some good, some bad, some... sad. ...sad? * Shiho eyes Mui carefully, then turns her attention to the ref. * Mui is a filipino man, completely hairless, with burn scars in many places. Good.. bad.. sad? * Cara looks a little worried. * Ichi looks up at the ref and waits. * Daphne listens to the ref while keeping a wary eye on Mui. In division one, it was revealed after the round that Cara Carter used arcane magic in her win over Amy O'Neal. It has been decided that in light of the serious wounds recieved by Cara in that fight, she is not capable of fighting again, and so the victory is overturned. Amy O'Neal will advance to the next round. * Cara sighs. "I thought so." * Cara turns and smiles at Amy. "Good luck." * Amy blinks. "I'm.. sorry Cara. I thought they'd just give us a rematch." It's okay. I couldn't beat you without magic. * Amy nods and smiles at Cara. "I'll do my best. .. Sorry again. You shoulda gotten a rematch." * Daphne nods at Cara. "Sorry t'hear of it." Yeah... Thanks guys. I'm just not a fighter like the rest of you, I guess. You have your own strengths. If there's anything I can do to cheer you up, just let me know You're a good mage though! You got me really good. In division four, Calvin Fort has been disqualified for the accidental killing of his brother, Andrew Fort. There will be a funeral date announced in a few days, for those who wish to attend. * Daphne waves dismissively. "Yeah, so. Y'got other talents t'more an' make up for it." Your magic is really useful to all of us. Like possibly getting my hair back. ^^;; * Amy looks upset. "Wow.. killing your own brother by accident. That must be awful." * Taro blinks. .. yeah... * Cara 's eyes widen. "How awful!" * Daphne winces. "Poor sod." If anything ever happened to my sister.... ... I hate fighting... And the sad news... Demeter Spyros, who advanced through the first round by forfeit as her opponent, Daphne McAlpin, failed to show... Hey, I showed, and I didn't fight her! * Amy blinks for a second before realizing... "Oh. That must been your friend, right?" Yes, we have TWO Daphne McAlpins enrolled in this tournament. I'm not sure how it happened. Maybe there was some mistake at registration. * Cara nods. * Shiho nods. ...what's the sad part, though? * Daphne rolls her eyes. In any case, I have the sad duty of reporting that her body was found in her room just thirty minutes ago, half eaten by her goat, that she called Grandfather. ... O.o o_o * Daphne blinks. * Cara boggles. ... that's horrible... Ewww! Shit. Pa's not foolin' when he says goats'll eat anythin'. She seemed so friendly... .. Oh dear.. * Amy looks slightly ill. How..? That's just... That... doesn't make sense. Th.. that's terrible. H.. her goat killed her? But.. goats are so nice.. It has been determined, however, that Miss Spyros' death was not caused by the goat, she was killed by a piercing wound of some sort through the throat. ... no, the goat ate her body ... ... yeah. See? * Daphne makes a face. "Uhg. Shitty way tae go." This means that somewhere in this arena there lurks a murderer. ... it was something else that killed her * Cara 's eyes widen. "Oh no..." * Daphne blinks. * Ichi blinks and looks around. S..someone.. stabbed her? But why? She was sorta nice.. We ask therefore that everybody abide by the buddy system, and go nowhere alone. * Daphne scowls. "An' the hits keep comin'." ... who could have done this... and why.. The tournament will continue as scheduled, however. * Shiho looks down, deep in thought. T.. they're going to keep going? Even with a murderer around? * Taro appears very focused... * Ichi tries to remember something. * Daphne looks around, and wanders over to the nearest posing of the lineup. * Taro scans over the crowd for anyone who looks pretty suspicious. * There are quite a few people who fit the bill. * At least half the fighters who fit the bill are either evil looking, or crazy looking, or both. * Cara looks around nervously. * Shiho frowns to herself, glancing around as well, and waiting for the announcements to finish. These are all today's announcements. You can go now, but please, remember not to be alone. ... hm. * Ichi blinks as he manages to remember why he was there, "So am I disqualified or not?" ... the ref didn't say... * Amy shivers. "Deaths.. they're really terrible, but they're part of the tournament.. but murder... that's mean and unfair. Doesn't even give someone a chance to fight back. " ... I know. No, it doesn't. ... I hope someone can take care of the old goat as well as Demeter did. ...I don't want to think about the goat right now... Poor goat. I wonder if they'll let me take care of it... Taro! C'mere! * Taro blinks, then walks towards Daphne, while telling Amy "You can probably ask about it." * Amy looks a bit more cheerful. "Yeah! .. still, poor Demiter.." Don't worry. I'll solve this problem if I can do anything about it... You will? .... well, I'll at least try. I've been really out of practice. * Cara turns to Amy. "Taro is kinda an amateur detective." Really? Neat. I read a book about a penguin that was an amateur detective once. I might've read that book before. Then again, I've read a ton of detective books when I was a little kid... .... say, Cara? Think you could try drawing my hair back on? ^^; Uh, I guess I could try. But it might not come back how you want it. * Cara twirls a finger in her own currently blonde hair. * Taro frowns. ... urgh. I wish I could get it to grow back faster somehow. ... how's progress on returning your hair to its original color, anyway? ^^; * Amy patpats Taro's bald head. "I donno. Bald heads are kinda cute." * Shiho folds her arms. She looks around at the remaining people in the room thoughtfully. Yeah, but you never see bald detectives. Sure you do! Pen-Pen was bald. Meh. Pay attention, Taro. We've got somethin' else t'worry about. ...and actually, you look alright as a cue-ball. * Taro grumbles. * Amy rubs Taro's bald head for luck. ^_^ But it's like Lex Luthor. Lex Luthor, the bad guy from the old Superman comics, originally DETECTIVE Comics. I look like the Anti-Detective. * Daphne rubs Taro's head for luck while she looks back at the lineup. * Amy looks confused at Taro. Then...people would think that you wern't a detective? Bah. I'm sure Patric Stewart must've played a detective somewhere. ... Action comics. Augh. ... AUGH. I need to start using my brain more. It's atrophying! Great. Now I gotta find someone to be my buddy.. .... is that even a word? AUGH. Yes, it is. I could burn you, if that would help. * Amy rubs Taro's bald head s'more. "How about you? ^_^" Quiet, you! I could burn you anyway. And you can put your brain to work by, oh, I dunno, solving a murder mystery? * Taro scowls at Mui, who is probably laughing. I think you look much better with no hair. Everybody looks better with no hair. Hair is so much fun to burn. Right. Right. I need to check scene of the crime and such... I think you'd look even better with all your skin burned off. * Amy eyes Mui. ".. You're creepy." * Cara glares at Mui. "Go away." * Daphne eyes Mui. "Look, do you wanna be put on ice?" I think he wouldn't. Creepy and annoying. * Mui oozes away out the door, alone. * Taro grumbles. * Amy grins and pulls Taro up onto Bear-chan. "C'mon! You can be my buddy. I'll help you out, like Cat-chan does for Pen-Pen." Augh. I wish I could do something to that guy. Although all he really did was burn my hair off, and it'll grow back. And that's a good idea, Taro. Let's go do that. Wah! Well, let's try to stick in larger groups than just two... At least for now. More safety Isn't Amy coming too? * Daphne holds her forehead. "Uhg." * Ichi nods. * Amy nods. "You've only got five people, and I need a buddy, so I'm gonna come along with you. .. err, if you don't mind?" Sure, you can come along Not at all. * Cara smiles at Amy. "Of course!" The more the merrier. Neat. ^_^ And just in case you don't know, this is Bear-chan, Wolf-chan and Eagle-san! Well, um...can we at least go back to our rooms first? I'd like to have a shower, and get dressed... * The fighters are, in general, not pairing off, though a few have. You happen to note that, among others, leaving alone is the evil-looking and sounding samurai from last night, as well as a man dressed in green and gold bearing an immense scimitar. * Taro nods I gotta check on poor Grandfather tho'. Before some meanie tries to make him into soup. ;_; Hm. Let's all head to the scene of the crime first, then Then we can just head back to our room * Shiho shrugs. "It's not going anywhere." * Mui's voice drifts back to you, "Where'd that goat go? BUrnt goat is GREAT!" Soup? Who would eat goat soup? Lots of people. ;_; Taro and Amy, you two come with me to the crime scene. Daphne, Cara and Ichi can head back to the room, and meet us when you're ready. Alright. * Shiho leads the way! Okay. We can check on Grandfather while we're there. 'Kay. * Amy rides after Shiho, Taro with her. ^_^ * Taro goes along. Yay. * Daphne watches the others go, and shakes her head, sadly. * Ichi waives to the others as they leave. * Cara cocks her head. "What's wrong, Daphne?" Never even crossed their minds. ...what did? Er, didn't? * Ichi blinks. * The others are gone now. * Daphne shrugs. "The fact that they have something approaching a list of suspects right here." She indicates the lineup of fighters with her thumb. Well, yeah, but what're you gonna do? Interrogate all of em? Nah. First I'd do is see which use weapons good for stabbing someone with. If I knew more about the different schools I could tell just by looking at that. * Ichi nods. * Daphne smirks. "But nevermind." She has another swig from her clay jug. "Shall we go back to the room?" * Cara nods. I can't think of anything else to do down here. * Daphne smirks. "I can, but I'll let them do it." She sets off for the room! * Ichi follows a Daphne back up to the room. * Cara heads back to the room. * Back in the group's small room... * Daphne gets back to the small room! * Cara heads to the bathroom and very gingerly cleans herself up. * Daphne has some more drink, and lies down while she's at it. * Ichi sits on the floor near one of the beds and goes about the time consuming chore of sharpening his collection of sharp-pointies. * Cara finally finishes in the bathroom and gets dressed. * Daphne goes into the bathroom to clean up and change an' stuff. [End Gratuitous Shower Scene] [Begin Second Gratuitous Shower Scene] * Ichi puts the cheaper of his sabres away and starts on the other one. * Daphne finishes with her gratuitous shower scene, dries off, gets dressed, then goes back into the room to lie down and drink some more. * Ichi does not give equal-oppertunity fanservice. [End Second Gratuitous Shower Scene] * Cara puts her coat on, and sits down on her bed. "So, are we gonna go join the others?" * Ichi looks up, "You're done?" Uhuh. Sure. Then, I suppose we should go. ::puts his tools and swords away:: * Cara gets to her feet. "Ow. Glad I don't have to fight anymore, after that." * Daphne nods and heads out! * Cara follows after Daphne. * Ichi stands up and follows Daphne out the door, "I'm still not sure if I get to fight or not." * A few minutes later, you arrive in #EW2. Neither'm I, although I doubt it.