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The Evolved - Campaign log
Siraj is driving his taxi, and Sonya Caldwell, an acquaintance of Siraj's from his apartment building, whom works as a Photographer for the Arion Gazette, gets in the taxi. She invites Siraj to dinner and a poetry event. He thinks it's a date, and goes home, changes, grabs some flowers from his rooftop garden, and goes to meet Sonya.
Siraj: "A beautiful woman asks me out? Is she desperate? Oh my, what do I wear? What about my hair? Red light! **Slams on brakes**. Focus, Siraj, focus."
- On the way out, Siraj is about to forget to feed his cat. Siraj thinks about the cat food right before he's going to leave.
Siraj: "Fancy Clothes...check. Hair...check. Cologne...check. Flowers...check. Alright then, I suppose its time Farah. Here I go...Food. Food?" Farah brushes herself against Siraj's leg. "Oh my, I nearly forgot to feed you didn't I?"
He knocks on the door and a man answers. Sonya comes to the door and they leave.
"Oh. I thought...she must...maybe I...but she...oh...here she comes...ditch the flowers...ditch the flowers..."Uh, hi Sonya. Are you ready?"
- They go for vegan food, fairly close to the Up-beat Cafe, which Siraj and Sonya have a bad conversation. Later they go to the poetry show.
Siraj: "So that fellow at your apartment, was he your brother?" Sonya: "No." Siraj: "Your cousin?" Sonya: "No." Siraj: "Oh, um...uh....so how's work?"
-Mean while, Kiyomi is in the dojo taking an Aikido class. After the class, and after further study, Kiyomi begins to meditate.
- The poems go on, and Siraj is convinced by Sonya to go up and do an impromptu poem (since he wasn't prepared). Unbeknownst to himself, he ends up telepathically copying a poem from a thug in blue named Charles Olson, aka "Babydeath". The thug claims Siraj has plagarized him, and shows published proof, that Siraj has recited his poem. They get in a verbal fight, Siraj gets disqualified, Sonya storms out, and the thugs leave, but not before threatening Siraj's life.
Siraj: "Sir, I have composed this poem on the spot. It seems that I....but, sir...you must be mistaken I would never....I....oh my...I didn't mean to...there's no way I could have..."
- Siraj goes out the back after Sonya. Sonya makes it away, as another thug bumps into him.
Siraj: "Sonya wait! There must be some sort of mix up...I...oof...excuse me. Sonya wait!"
- Siraj is surrounded by thugs, whom don't let him run away. One tries to grab him, but doesn't succeed. Babydeath, with rage hits Siraj with a baseball bat. Siraj is sent into a wall.... Literally.
Siraj: "Please, please I didn't mean to steal your poem. I swear that it just came to me, please. What do you want? You can have my wallet, here. I don't want trouble." The thugs being to surround Siraj. Siraj: "Help! Help! Please, I...AAHHHhhhhhh." ... Thump....
- Koyimi comes outside, and is verbally threatened by the crew of thugs. Her thrillseeking and their anger create a fight between them. They told her to go away, but she challenged them. She fights them, successfully dodging their throws, and throwing another guy who charged her. Her luck runs out, and she too is hit with a baseball bat. She is knocked unconscious, and taken to the river. Kiyomi thinks to herself, "What's going on out there?" as she watches Siraj get knocked back through the wall. She grabs her quarterstaff and rushes out, adrenaline pumping and without thinking too much about the odds.
-Siraj wakes up a couple minutes later in a candy shop on the other side of a large brick wall. Before being knocked out, Siraj is able to call for help.
Siraj: "Where am I? What happened? I, uhh....ahh! I've got to get out of here. Those thugs. I...ahhh....ahhh.
Siraj struggles to his feet and the scent of licorice invades his nostrils. He looks around and in the dim light he realizes he's in a candy shop. "How did I get here?" He hobbles toward the door and struggles to unlock it, while the pain in his abdomen grows steadily stronger. He steps out onto the sidewalk and collapses. Siraj realizes his cell phone is still in his jacket pocket. He carefully pulls it out and dials 911.
Siraj: "Please help, I've been attacked by thugs with baseball bats. I'm on Crawford street. Please send help, I think they broke something."
- The next day, Kiyomi wakes up with the fishes. Panicking as she wakes up, she exhausts herself enough, to finally, after a couple minutes, realizes... she can breathe.
After a few moments of extreme confusion, the first thing that goes through her head is: "My Sensei is never going to forgive me for leaving the door unlocked. Am I late for work? But why aren't I dead?? I need to find that Arab guy and talk about this. No one is going to believe me except maybe him."
END SESSION #1
GROUP SESSION #2[edit]
Begins on Saturday, June 16, 2012
Siraj
-The next afternoon after being picked up by an ambulance from his close escape from death, Siraj wakes up in the hospital.
Kiyomi
-Kiyomi wakes up with the fishes. Kiyomi's feet are tied together (rather poorly) to a concrete engineering block, which is keeping her from floating to the top. Kiyomi unties the rope, and swims to the top. When she submerges, there are a few people looking at her, wondering where she came from. Amongst the people on the beach looking at her is an albino guy in a suit, he just watches, contently. They also wondered why she was wearing a soaking wet gi. Once Kiyomi gets to the surface, and finishes coughing up water, she realizes that she doesn't have any of her stuff with her. She wanders to a nearby convenience store, and calls her friend Stacey Ludwig collect on a pay phone. Kiyomi asks Stacey to pick her up, and to bring her a change of clothes. Kiyomi asks somebody where she is, and finds out that she is all the way on Brigantine Island. How she got over she doesn't know for sure. She also finds out that it is 12:30 in the afternoon. Kiyomi has to be at work by 2!
-Stacey picks up Kiyomi, and takes her to the dojo. Kiyomi showers, changes into the new clothes in the women's locker room, and makes it to a nearby parking area where her motorcycle awaits her still. She rushes to Arion City Airport, and makes it to work on time.
-During the day, Kiyomi's boss calls her into his office. He tells Kiyomi to write a post action evaluation of the recent emergency landing of Flight 1581. Kiyomi emails the pilot for information, and gets an automated reply saying the pilot will be back in a few days because he is on call. Kiyomi also emails records for records, as well as the garage for repair information.
-On Monday, Kiyomi returns to the Dojo. Sensei Takahashi and Kiyomi talk in private. He asks her if she has seen his sensei's quarterstaff which he kept on the wall of the practice room, as it should be used for training. Kiyomi tells Takahashi what happened to her, and that the quarterstaff was stolen. He tells herthat she shouldn't have fought so many foes by herself. He also tells her that she is his most potential student, and that he's just disappointed. They walk away and go to the sparring [below]
-After sparring, and after most everybody has left, Kiyomi returns to the shrine room to meditate. She meditates for a few minutes, and then she opens her eyes. It is pitch dark. Kiyomi walks to the door, feeling her way towards it, and opens the door. The lights turn back on, on her way to the door, and she sits back down. Once again she starts to meditate, a minute later she opens her eyes again - the room is once again sheilded in darkness. This time Kiyomi realizes that she can still hear white noise in the background, as well as the weird fact that the candles have gone out. The lights come back on, and the candles are still lit! Thinking she is going crazy, she leaves.
Mick
-Mick wakes up saturday morning, from a long night of playing the video game Oblivian. Mick wakes up, and has been becoming his morning ritual takes some ibuprofen, as he has been getting a lot of headaches recently. It is saturday morning, and every saturday Mick meets "Crazy Dave" Burden for parkour practice. Dave is a messenger, whom carries his package and runs with parkour. While at the university Mick and Crazy Dave had met and Mick agreed to bring Crazy Dave food every saturday. This week it was a 2 quarter-pound hamburgers, with large fries and a drink.
-Mick waits for Crazy Dave to show up at the prechoosen location, this week was across the street from the Compton Engineering building at Bowlers Park. He stretches, and gets ready for the running, and jumping he is about to do. He has no trouble stretching, as he is very limber. Crazy Dave shows up, and he downs the food he was given. Then they practice. "FOLLOW ME", Dave yells. Mick practices his falls, jumps, and other acrobatics. Dave jumps onto a large concrete stone in the center of the park, and jumps from one to another. Mick follows him, the distance is rather far, but Mick knows if he uses all his strength he can make it to the next one. Mick jumps with all the strength he can muster... and overjumps it by nearly two times the distance; nearly colliding into a vertical surface in front of him. Mick practices his uberjumps, jumping as far as he can. He realizes he can jump up to 33'. Then he goes home.
-Sunday is fairly uneventful for everybody.
-Once a month, the Lionheart Martial Arts Academy has a large sparring day. Students from different styles spar each other, in the hopes of becoming better fighters. "Only by learning to flow with all styles will they truly be able to defend themselves" their senseis tell them. Monday, June 18th, is one of these days. Many people show up, but among them include Mick and Kiyomi. They agree to spar, Kiyomi with her quarterstaff, and Mick with his blunt tipped rapier. They spar twice, both times Kiyomi keeps Mick at bay for a few seconds, but then Mick wins. Mick pounces at the end of the second round, with such force that it sends Kiyomi backwards. Kiyomi is thankful that this was just sparring and that she had armor on.
END SESSION #2
GROUP SESSION #3[edit]
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Kiyomi
-The morning air is foggy when Kiyomi leaves to go to the police station. For the first time since Monday, does she feel like she can tell the police what happened. On top of the crazy things that have been happening to her, she also lost her sensei's sensei's quarterstaff. Kiyomi goes to the police station to report it stolen. The person at the front desk sends Kiyomi to the back to talk to another officer. Kiyomi sits down, and Officer Bruce Grey introduces himself. Kiyomi tells him what happened, and reports the quarterstaff stolen. Kiyomi also asks about the name of the Indian guy she saw. He tells her the name, and that he is staying at Calvary hospital.
-Later Kiyomi goes to the hospital. It is not currently visiting hours, and so he is asked to wait an hour. She gets some coffee in the cafetaria and returns to talk to Siraj.
-Siraj and Kiyomi talk. Kiyomi introduces herself. She thinks about the fact that he might have powers, and Siraj hears her. Siraj says he doesn't know what she's talking about. He asks if she was hit on the head, because nobody has powers, and suggests her seeing a psychiatrist. Kiyomi gives him her phone number and then leaves.
-On the way back home, Kiyomi stops by the office of Monica Sanders, for a psych evaluation appointment.
-After resting at home for a few hours, Kiyomi goes to work. During work she investigates about Flight 1581. She calls the record keeper, and finds out that Zachary Vital was checked in the hospital for food poisoning. Kiyomi isn't sure why those other two guys left between flights. She calls baggage in Fort Myers to see if anybody complained about baggage. She called the Director of repairs, and found out that it is odd that the sensor only went off twice. She is also given a tape showing the sensor light go off. She called the pilot as well.
Siraj
-Siraj is in the hospital. Sonya visited him this morning. Siraj called Ezra to tell him he can't work. Ezra says he already knows, and not to worry about it, his shift is being covered until he can make it back. Siraj also calls his land owner, Ms. Jennings, to ask her to take care of his cat. She tells him Sonya asked for the key so that she could.
Mick
-Mick continues to get headaches, but they are getting better. He hears things a lot more clearly than usual. Mick also spends the day studying for his calculus exam, which he isn't doing as well as he'd like in. He also spends an hour or so weight training in the gym to see if he can continue to get stronger.
Alexander Maximus Whigham
-Alexander is working the front desk, as he has to spend half his work days doing. He'd much rather be in the back reading a military text, or translating a book from ancient greek. A 24 year old female, with short brunette hair, a nose ring, and a bright neon bead bracelet comes in and asks for a book. Alexander isn't sure where the book is, as he is new to this library; recently moving here from another smaller one in town. He goes to look up the book location, when he gets as far as putting his hands on the keyboard, and he remembers where the book is including complete call number. He continues to do this throughout the day, and all his fellow librarians seem impressed.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Nothing much happens
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Kiyomi
-At 4 o'clock Kiyomi visits Monica Sanders, for a psych evaluation. Kiyomi talks about the things that have been happening to her lately. After about an hour, and several questions about her parents, her sexuality, and the mugging, Monica Sanders comes up with a diagnosis. Monica tells Kiyomi that she will need to see her some more to truly make an evaluation, but that she is likely schizophrenic.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Alexander
-Alexander is working in his back office, working on rebinding old folio style transcripts. The bookshelves are old, the room kind of dusty, and overall not an OCD friendly work environment. Alexander finishes rebinding the book, and goes to put it back on the shelf. The book belongs on the top shelf, exactly a few inches above the reach of Alexander. He attempts to climb up a shelf, to put the book back. He succeeds, but as he falls the bookshelf starts to fall towards him! He stares at the bookshelf as it is quickly falling, suddenly the bookshelf stops and all the books slide down to the ground. Alexander is able to grab the bookshelf, put it back up. He then dusts himself off, and puts the books back. It is a weird occurence, and Alexander tries to recreate it by throwing something up in the air and stopping it. It doesn't work.
-Siraj returns home today, after Ezra picks him up and gives him a ride.
-Later during the day, Kiyomi and Mick meet for their respective martial arts classes at Lionheart Martial Arts Academy. The night is rather uneventful, but Mick has to turn down his strength as not to hurt anyone.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Alexander
-Alexander goes to the atm to withdraw money. At first he doesn't remember exactly how much he has, but as he touches the atm, he remembers what he has to the cent. He withdraws his cash and leaves.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Not much happens
Monday, June 25, 2012
Kiyomi
-Stacey knocks on the door of Kiyomi's apartment, before using her key, waking Kiyomi up from her nap. "Wake up! Get ready, because we're going to a rave tonight". They go to a rave at the Red-Red Club. It's a pretty happening place, but everybody seems like they are tripping. Stacey and Kiyomi are dancing, and the guys are hitting on them. A man offers them some X. Kiyomi takes 2 hits, as she doesn't realize how much she has taken. The music is pounding, and everybody is dancing like crazy. The group is starting to feel like one giant organism, in tune with each other, dancing to the music. The lights are flashing throughout the building, with strobes, and lasers, and other types of lights. Kiyomi is dancing with her eyes closed just feeling the music, and when she opens them, she notices people are looking at her. She looks down and she thinks her skin is glowing to the music. She must be tripping hard!! Among the people that Kiyomi sees looking at her, is the same albino guy in a suit from the beach. People are asking her how she's doing it, and telling her how cool it is and asking where they can find how do it. Other people are just thinking they are tripping. She goes home with Stacey, and the guy Stacey is taking home. The next day, Kiyomi is still tripping.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Siraj
-Siraj is laying on his sofa, reading the Arion Gazette. He gets up to get something to drink, and as he gets up he nearly trips on Farah. Whoaaa, he scrambles to catch his balance, but is unable to, and he falls into the table. Again, literally, as he is sent through the table, but stops at the floor. He gets up. WTF. He tries to see what happens when he tries to pick up a cup, but everything seems normal. He calls Kiyomi. Kiyomi answers, but is fairly incoherent as she is still rolling from the night prior. Kiyomi gives the phone to Stacey, who tells Siraj that Kiyomi will call him back later.
Kiyomi
-Kiyomi calls Siraj, and they talk. Siraj talks about his phasing ability, and how Kiyomi might be right. Kiyomi invites Siraj to come watch the self-defense seminar happening the next day, so they can talk more, and that they'll meet on the bus.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Kiyomi + Siraj + Mick + Alexander
-Kiyomi and Siraj meet on the bus. They talk about their powers, and Kiyomi notices the spot behind Siraj's neck. She has one too. They keep talking, and Siraj tries to read Kiyomi's mind. He is successful for a few tries, but then starts picking up other incorrect information.
-They go to the seminar, and continue talking in the corner. Mick overhears them talking about powers, and after eavesdropping for a few minutes comes and talks to them. He tells them that he has powers too.
-Alexander is busy explaining a principle to one of the students who came to the seminar. A group is practicing throwing next to him, and a person is sent flying directly towards him. Alexander sees this and is able to stop the person without touching him. He plays it off like nothing happened. However, Siraj was watching him, and saw what happened. He tells Kiyomi and Kiyomi talks to Alexander. Alexander plays off that anything happened, but Kiyomi and Siraj tell him about their powers.
