| Clayton 2005-10-03, 2:32 am |
| > "Okay," Alex replied. "Well, my friends and I will be in town
quote:
> for a while. If you happen to hear anything, please tell us."
>
> "Sure," Keiko noted. "No problem."
>
> Alex walked back to the others and silently sat down. "And?"
> Keaton asked.
>
> "She doesn't know where he is," Alex replied.
>
> "You think she's lying?" Nori asked.
>
> "Possible, but doubtful," Alex noted. "She may have been with
> him earlier; they could have split up on the way into town. At worst,
> it's a half-truth. But whatever the situation, we're here, and we
> have strong circumstantial evidence that Smasher is in the
> neighborhood. I say as many of us as possible take part in the upcoming
> tournament and keep our eyes out for him."
>
> "You aren't saying this because you got your butt handed to you
> last time, are you?" Kitsu slyly asked.
>
> "No," Alex admitted. With a grin, she added, "But that's an
> excellent reason for me to join in, and thank you for giving it to
> me."
>
> Surtur sighed. "<Here we go again.>"
>
> -
>
> "So...you think we should?" Sven asked.
>
> "Should what, enter that tournament?" Peabody asked in reply.
> "Nuh-uh. Bad idea. We're here to do a job. Besides, what's
> stopping someone from connecting us to our group?"
>
> "Very little," Grimlock noted. "Besides, sound like fun."
>
> "Face it, Peabody," Sven noted smugly, "you've been
> out-voted."
>
> Peabody sighed. "Here we go again."
In another area, quite the similar conversation was going on between brothers
....
"Come on, you HAVE to enter!"
"Jeff, no. Anymore it seems like my life generates only slightly less chaos
than the
average episode of Ranma 1/2. I'm not going to tempt fate to further add to the
madness. I don't want to be anywhere near a gang war or luststruck loonies so
long
as I can help it."
"But it'll happen anyway you know"
"Maybe so Jeff, but I'm not encouraging it."
"Maybe Bob tempt fate by no tempt fate," Mimic oh-so-helpfully observed.
"You're not helping," the hybrid breeder replied deadpan to the Ditto.
By this point, the big guns were broken out and Jeff was employing the dreaded
Puppy
Eyes Technique.
"Jeff I can't. If I recall right, the sign-ups are long over, and this is
merely a
technical delay caused by some inexplicable circumstance like possibly a referee
strike.
Either way, I'm too late to sign up but I'll cheer for you. And DON'T you go
getting
some half-cocked idea like trying to sign me up or I'll have to hurt you."
The almost expectant look on the younger brother's face dropped.
"Besides, you have Aerie to duel possibly and I can impart all of my sage wisdom
on you"
#You? Wisdom?# Raffy decided to chime in. #I think I missed that part
somewhere#
"Raffy have point."
"What is this, gang up on me hour?"
*A stage ninja pulls a TBC sign from hammerspace*
[NS: I am of course, going under the assumtion it is too late. Then again,
he'd probably
lie to avoid entering lest attention comes his way, like he said.
On a more realistic note, when are we starting the show, because at this rate,
it could
turn into a Halloween tourney and have some sort of costume element. Or should
I say,
at the rate it's going it'll be Christmas before the show starts.]
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Clayton
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