Beans?!

Beans?!
Date of Scene:	09 November 2012
Location:	Manhattan
Synopsis:	A stalker has not only been troubling and injuring people late at night, but wherever he goes he always seems to destroy all of the beans in any grocer's nearby. What's the connection? - The mission was one that the Shard Seekers could not do alone. Enlisting the aid of the Twilight Detective Agency, the group set out to find out the mystery of the case.
Cast of Characters:	Reize Seatlan, Lily, Skoll Ulfang, Will Sherman, Mercade Alexander, Minerva, Cirra Constantine

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Reize Seatlan has posed:
It's night time in Manhattan. It is usually the times where the gargoyles tend to be out and the lore of the action happens at night. However, it is also where most of the activities tend to be in the party lifestyle. On the flip side, some normal stores tend to close while 24/7 hour places tend to be less busy.

There have been incidents reported at Fluorgis, oddly enough, regarding culprits injuring people and breaking jars of beans. Most of them have occured in small shops, but have continued to grow over the days.

Deciding to take the job, Reize knew he would not be able to handle this without assistance.

Of course, that means bribing assistance over hot dogs at Manhattan.

At a local hot dog stand, Reize is handling the payment and grabbing the hot dogs for four people. After the big burley man passes the food to the boy, "Here ya go, kiddo."

"Ack!" Reize manages to steel himself, then makes his way out. "Ooiii! Got the hot dogs!" Then, he beams, "And that is why I need your help, guys! It's not something that we can do alone! Besides, this is your hometown as well... I think!"

Mercade Alexander has posed:
Mercade Alexander knows about these events. He's a detective, after all. He takes a hotdog. "You know I'm always happy to lend a hand, Reize. The free food is just a bonus." The Detective laughs, and holds up the delicious food for a moment in a salute before mauing down on it.

He swallows, thinking to himself for a moment. "I just hadn't had time to follow up on it. I hoped the police could look into it but I guess their hands are full." He looks over the others gathered, nodding. "But it looks like we have plenty of people now. So, do you have a plan? Any more information about what's going on? The beans are an obvious pattern, but there's got to be more. IF we figure out what they're doing and where they're going, we can catch the culprit at their next strike."

Lily has posed:
OM NOM NOM! Before Reize even has a chance to get all of those words out, Lily's already nabbed a Hot Dog and has proceeded to turn it all around, looking over the strange foodstuff... then sticking one side of it, bun and all, into her mouth. Nibble chew nibble!

With both hands holding her unusual meal, she starts talking!

... All in muffled sounds, because she's not though to swallow yet, and talking through a solid hotdog isn't very effective. Realizing her mistake, the girl swallow, then leans forward, head tilted at Reize. "I'm still not sure why people eat, but this is yummy! ... what were we going to do to find them again...?"

Will Sherman has posed:
Will looks at the hotdog offered him...

"Only one?" he asks, before sighing, and taking it. Such a cheapskate, Will thinks, before starting to munch on the thing. He starts eating as people starts talking about something. Will, caring little about someone stealing/destroying seeds doesn't seem important to him...it just seems kinda trivial. There are many more important things out there to do...

"So...are we getting paid?" he asks Mercade. "Cuz if we are, then while completely silly, it'll actually help the agency."

"I mean, I am all for irrelivant stuff."

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Bean Bandit Bufuddles Bronx Badges!

That was the message Archadia recieved. It promptly made them question the validity of Manhattan'snews service. However, once they got past the headlines they understood what was going on, and a decided to use the oportunity to show Manhattan that Arcadia is willing to lend a hand, a hand that should eventualyl to benevolent dictator I...I mean friendship, firendship, yeah.

And so Cirra Constantine, the Judge that often has to get sent to other worlds sits down on a crate and corsses her legs.

infront of Benny's Bean Bonanza.

5tLike she has any dang leads on this. She looks pretty miserable.

More so then usual.

Skoll Ulfang has posed:
"Because without food, they die." Skoll answers Lily, walking up behind Reize and putting his arm on his shoulder, leaning on the young adventurer while eating a hotdog. Seems he'd bought one of his own already. "So glad they don't complain if you want ketchup on it here." He complains for a moment, while unknowingly dripping some of the red stuff onto Reize's hair. He then gets off of his 'leaning position' and glances at Lily, then at the others who have gathered.

"Seriously though, who really cares enough about beans to... destroy them. I mean, seriously. They're beans. The man shrugs his shoulders and leans back against a nearby tree and pops the rest of the hotdog into his mouth in a rather comedic manner. It kinda just... like... disappears.

Mercade Alexander has posed:
Mercade squints at Lily. "You don't... eat? How do you survive?" He flicks his eyes to the gem in her forehead. "Or do you run on magic?" He sounds actually curious about it.

Will asks about pay, and he glances over to him. "Will." He says. "We're, uh..." He pauses. "Doing this more or less pro bono." Never mind that Reize looks like your typical penniless JRPG hero that should be getting allowance, not grinding monsters for loot. Skoll pipes up, and he nods. "I know, right? Maybe he's allergic to them? Is it a specific type? Did they all come from the same place? We need something to work off of, even if it makes no sense. There is no effect without a cause."

Mercade looks over the area, thinking as he eats. He catches something out of the corner of his eye. Is that... An Archadian Judge?

Reize Seatlan has posed:
Plans?

That is where the boy offers a frown, "I don't know." He thinks about the situation before taking a bite out of the hot dog. 'Om! "Your lead is the most that I have. For some reason, the culprit has some grudge against beans." He thinks it over, then he lifts his shoulders with a shrug.

"Maybe more will come? I mean..." Lily is looked over and Reize thinks over about food. "It keeps us sustained and it's good!" At Lily's question, Reize slams a hand into his palm. "We will make them apologize to the store owners that they hurt and turn themselves in!" And there is that determination.

And ketchup is in on his hair. His antenna hair flops low as Reize mutters. He begins wiping the ketchup off of him then he looks up and over at Skoll. "Perhaps so, but the culprits will be stopped!"

Will is looked over for a moment and a faint smile is given, "I suppose it would be a good idea to split the munny gained from this. You guys need to keep your place opened and we're trying to get ourselves acknowledged as an official clan."

He sighs, "It's really expensive to get the Shard Seekers put on the board as a clan, but we are almost....."

*WEEEOOOOWEEEOOOWEEEOOOO!!!*

It looks like there are a couple of police vehicles passing by the group pretty quickly. It looks like they are responding to something rather urgently.

"Just in, our largest 24/7 grocery store was just attacked. All staff and shoppers have vacated the perimeter and the police have just responded." The voice is coming from the vendor's radio.

"!!!! It looks like this may be it!" Reize looks towards the group, "We better hurry!"

Will Sherman has posed:
Will looks over at Mercade...

"Huh." he says, and takes another bite of the hotdog.

Then Police cars pass by, Will looks little phased, this is MANHATTAN after all. Another bite later, he looks at Skoll, slowly shaking his head at the guy. Really...out of towners, Ketchup is not for hotdogs! Mustard...Relish...Chilie...oh god, that really sounds good about now.

Will, without even paying attention to what anyone is saying is walking for the nearest place of food...

That is now surrounded by cops.

"...What's going on here, a robery?"

Mercade Alexander has posed:
Mercade Alexander's expression goes flat. "Seriously?" He says. "All right, let's check it out." Mercade turns and begins leading the way. Since they're on foot, they can take shortcuts!

And since he's not Reize, he actually knows where the hell he's going. He stuffs the hotdog into his mouth, eating as he runs.

Lily has posed:
Lily makes a bewildered look again, shaking her head. None of this sustaining made sense. But it DOES taste good! "Oh..." A look between Skoll and Reize is given while she somewhat messily munches down on her hotdog, enthusiastically nodding the moment they get the call!

"Go! Gooooooooo! For the beans!"

... well, at least she's trying to get the hang of this hero adventurer thing! ... even if she really doesn't know what beans are.

Off she goes with the others. DASH!

Skoll Ulfang has posed:
Skoll just kind of /stares/ when suddenly the calls comes for the grocery store being attacked. "Well... this is mightily convenient." He comments, popping the rest of the hotdog into his mouth to make it disappear, and then looks down at Reize; as if he is somehow to blame for this. Reall, he probably is.

So, hands quickly slap along his pants to 'dust off', before he casually just starts wandering... no... he /saunters/ over there. He's clearly not in any rush today. Beans... seriously... and how the heck is Lily able to get so excited about this?!

"Beans..." He mutters again.

Minerva has posed:
Minerva had heard abotu some trouble in this Mahattan and there might be a bounty on it. She grined at the idea from the state of that world barring a few rare resitents like the TDA she's got no fear of anything here. The poor dear has no idea about the third race or the second race either. Still why is someone after beans that puzzels the monk deeply but oh well she might as well go to check it out. So she's just arriving to lend a hand with this problem.

"Why beans this is behildering..."

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Cirra lifts her head to watch the police cars go rolling past, and then theres a bunch of people running after them. She recognizes two of them, Mercade and...

Reize >:|

The Judge stands up and runs after the group. Either this is what she was sent here for or she can express her displeasure at Reize. Maybe even /both/!

Reize Seatlan has posed:
The distance from where they are to where the police vehicles gathered is about five minutes overall. Or, thankfully, wih Mercade's short cuts, it takes them about three minutes.

When they arrive to the scene of the crime, a few police vehicles have surrounded the entrance of the market. All of the police have their weapons out. They were likely told that the culprits were very dangerous.

Suddenly...

WILHELM SCREAM!

The large windows shatter as several officers are thrown out of the window and land against the police vehicles. It's quite the mess.

Reize looks at the crowded mess, "Uhh...." He sweatdrops, rubbing the back of his head. "It looks like we made it."

Will Sherman has posed:
Will totally looks around as cops go flying.

He looks back at Cirra...his eyes looking at the strings...pretty normal, dark, but normal. No worse or better than anything else he's seen...and he's seen some pretty bad shit.

However, then he jumps forward...and into the building.

"STOP! I am Will Sherman, detective of the TDA and hugry as sin! So...mind if I grab some food yo?" he asks, trying to be personable about this.

Mercade Alexander has posed:
"Oh hell." Mercade says as the Po-leese are properly screwed. "Well then." He pulls one of his guns, slamming in a clip. "All right, let's go in. Watch yourself, guys!" He pulls at his collar for a moment, blinking as he feels uncomfortable. Why does he kind of feel like Darth Vader is breathing down his neck- Oh, Cirra is following.

He sighs to himself and DYNAMIC ENTRIES, leaping onto the top of a police car and vaulting, spinning and hitting the ground running as he launches through the window.

He does an epic slide across the tile in the produce section, taking cover behind a stand of bananas. The gun clicks out, sweeping the area. "FREEZE, YOU BEANY BASTARD!" He calls.

He then pauses, and comments to Will, "Only if you're paying for it." Emphasis on 'you're'.

Lily has posed:
Lily has finished much of her hot dog by the time they arrive. Since she doesn't have to breathe except to speak (a thing only those who really, really pay attention to might pick up on,) she somehow seems to have managed 'eating on the run' without choking through some miraculous means.

It doesn't seem unusual to her though. What DOES is...

The horrifying thing that awaits them when they arrive, cops being thrown out of windows and crashing down hard onto bad things to fall on. Lily winces, just imagining how that must feel. A sickening impact.. ugh.

She vaguely remembers such an impact herself.

"What would be this mean?! Is it more monsters?!" But why would monsters go nuts against some weird kind of food? That really doesn't make sense!

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Fortunatly, Cirra isn't breathing down the neck of Mercade directly, rather her huffing breath blows over Reize's head, "/You/."

Then theres the Wilhelm scream. :/ dangit. "I'll deal with you later."

The Judge just ignores the cops and runs right over one of their cars and through the front door of the grocery mart, dropping down to slide kick past the cover MErcade is in and stopping behind the tabloids.

They're much more resilient then vegtables you see.

Minerva has posed:
Minerva is still wargy of these cars tht people use however with Mercade and everyone else it's pretty wuick enough to get there on foot. She pauses at the scream she can't save them all but she can save at least one prehaps two. She moves quickly sprting at speeds someone from Manhattan should not move at. She manages to snag one officer than another saving two of them from a messy end as she lands in a crouch she looks to the two law officers.

"Sers you should be keeping back we'll handle this." She grimaces she couldn't help more however. She's also outside and in the open!

Reize Seatlan has posed:
Don't worry, Minerva. The officers aren't dead. Just unconscious. However, the two that are saved do give her thanks and they break away to warn the other officers to stand back. Unfortunately, they were unable to identify their assailants.

Reize gets that very uncomfortable feeling running down his spine. It feels rather odd. Some oppressive air around him. His antenna hair flops around, twitching a couple of times. It can feel it! It's attune! It's like something is directed at him. Not good feelings. In fact, his antenna hair is picking up that signal.

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WAKE UP IDIOT!

And then it hits him.

'/You/.'

Reize turns towards Cirra, who doesn't look too happy with him, "Oooii!" But then she in. Reize quickly follows the group in, moving for cover around the entrance by the cahsier stand.

He withdraws both boomerangs, ready to deal with the threat. "You guys will apologize for causing harm to the people once we are done with you!"

For the most part, it is silence. Nothing is seen. Nothing is close. However, one thing is for certain...

This 24/7 grocery shop is HUUUGE! It's like a megamart. Aisles after aisles are all around.

It's quiet. Too quiet.

"Wow! This place is huge!"

Will Sherman has posed:
"Eh...not really." Will says towards Reize, "There are bigger places. Should take you to one of the Malls sometime." He says, then remembering that they had been lost to darkness. He sighs...making himself sad at the news.

However, he pushes forward, so it's a decent sized place...

The bean Isle! Where else would bean haters/criminals go.

Then he can get some beans for chilie on the way back...

With Mercade's wallet.

Skoll Ulfang has posed:
Somehow, don't ask how, Skoll managed to catch up to the group. He's thinking with portals... not that anyone else knows that, since he sauntered too slowly, and thus the others 'outran' him. He's holding a bag of doggy bisquits, chomping on them slowly. "Have you tried these?" He asks, coming to a hold in front of Reize not too long after. "These are fantastic." It doesn't look like he's /actually/ seen the baddies though. He only came in fractions of a moment ago.

"They're fantastic. See, they call them Scooby-snacks. After this strange dog-character..." Skoll is kind of on a tangent here. Mostly, he's just not taking this 'quest' very serious.

Mercade Alexander has posed:
There's... no answer.

Mercade peeks up around the corner of the bananas, and blinks. "Huh. Did they get away?"

Mercade frowns. "Okay, we know their MO. Reize, you cover the canned beans on aisle 3. Skoll, you get the coffee beans on 2. Will, you keep an eye on the fresh beans here in produce. I'm going to head for the beans in jars."

He doesn't tell Minerva, Lily, or Cirra anything. Lily's going to follow Reize, inevitably (he knows that 'I am /so totally lost/ look when he sees it) and Cirra will do what she does best. Minerva he doesn't even know.

He heads for the aisle he said he would go, knowing the others would stay mostly on task.

Either that, or it'll just all amount to nothing more than a hill of beans.

Minerva has posed:
Minerva now is making her way inside the food market. She can at least realise what it is, but i's so strange so alien to her from the merchants of her home city. She'd almost gawk for a moment if there was not the sense of trouble as she starts not follow Reize. Nay she sizes up Mercade and has afeeling the man may know more than she does about this bean thing. So she follows after him keeping a low profile and moving suprisingly quietly.

Lily has posed:
Indeed that is what Lily would do! There's no doubt about that. Even as an unknown Judge person bears down upon the group, she just reaches out to grab his arm lightly in her hands the moment they enter, and will break off with him to wherever he goes!

"... wh-whooooooow.... so many colors in here! ... do people really need to eat so much food?! Who... who could fit it in their bely?! This is too much!"

Cirra Constantine has posed:
No fire? No yells? No magic? No mosnters?

Cirra looks puzzled, she pops her head up over the back of the tabloids, which feature every celebrity of the combined worlds in a bad light, except David Xanatos, who is only reported as being the best man ever. Funny that.

She stands up and starts stalking down the end of each isle, alooking downit, and up...
r With a few qucik strides the Judge jumps and leaps up to the top of the isle shelves, hmmn.

Reize Seatlan has posed:
Blink.

"Really?" Reize stands up, looking over towards the scooby snacks. He reaches out to grab a piece, "Let me try!" He holds onto the bisquits and...

Chewchew.

"Wow! These are pretty good!" It hits him and he frowns, "We gotta remain on task here!" He looks at Mercade, "Gotcha! I'll head to aisle 3!" The boy is running over towards the aisle.

Meanwhile, Will is approaching the bean aisle. That is when his vision is clearing up. He will see traces of darkness around. Those strings, however, are faint. ...Something passes by before it's gone.

Meanwhile, when Reize runs towards the aisle, he is making his way around the aisle. There is only silence. And something passes by, but quickly goes away.

As Cirra is on top of the aisles.... she briefly sees a flash of something passing by. ...

Until that disappears just as quickly.

And suddenly....

CRASH! An aisle is knocked over at the breakfast side.

Skoll Ulfang has posed:
Skoll clacks his feet together when Mercade speaks up, saluting and nodding his head. "Roger that, guv'na." He comments, before putting the baggy right into Lily's hands. "You hold onto this for me, will 'ya?" He asks, before nodding his head to Reize. "Isn't it?!" He confirms, and then heads on out towards the second isle to find those beans he was asked to babysit. He ends up climbing the isles, rather than jumping, and kind of just sits on the top edge where all the rest of the food is normally stuck when people are too lazy to keep moving things from the storage room.

Of course, the moment the loud noise eminates from the 'breakfast side', Skoll's eyes quickly focus on that place.

Will Sherman has posed:
Will pauses as he comes towards the bagged beans...

Traces of...dark strings? Well, not traces, faint lines...something with strange fate has passed through here...and Will is actively looking for something.

Then the crash, Will pauses...too easy. He ducks behind one of the isles and waits...watching his area for a moment. Something was about to happened, and that looked like it was going to be a trap.

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Cirra's head turns as she sees something flash by, then the breafast isle crashes down. "Fast..." she jumps from the top of isle to isle trying to chase down the blurr as it's clearly gone across the grocery market.

Mercade Alexander has posed:
Mercade grins at Skoll's chipper response. He'll have to mention the Scooby Snack thing later.

Meanwhile he gets into position, looking over the area, and waiting for whatever it could be.

The crash causes Mercade to jump. He swings his gun in that direction... But his line of sight is blocked. He grimaces at the situation. "This is getting messed up." He says, and sets Will on Trap Mode. Because no one expects Crouching Hobo, Hidden William.

Mercade, however, heads for the breakfast foods. He'll suck up the inevitable trap so Will and the others can get a bead on the speed freak.

Lily has posed:
The little brush of movement is enogh o Draw Lily's attention. She spins about to try and track it... and very nearly trips over her own feet in so doing! "Ah!" in fact she grabs onto the aisles' shelves to steady herself and glance down both directions, then up...

"Reize, something's there!" But what? She can't see it. Maybe she can feel it if there's magic about though...

Minerva has posed:
Minerva is keeping with up with Mercade still he seems to be the one who is the leader of some of the people here. She'll look at Mercade and then to Will. "I see this is not normal for this world." She doesn't say more as the crash comes, also she sounds totally british from her accent. It seesm she'll move in on her own to help capture the person.

Reize Seatlan has posed:
Lily is able to notice the movement. When Lily trips,, Reize winces and kneels beside her, "Lily, are you alright...?"

And then the crash happens.

"Eh?! Lily! Let's go!" He quickly runs ahead. His pendant starts glowing. "...Oh no!"And... when they are making their way towards the breakfast aisle...

"It's a Heartless?!"

It appears to be a single Heartless. It looks like a Chinese hopping zombie, to be exact. It wears the traditional garbs and both arms are stretched out. The paper on its head has the Heartless symbol on it. It is a Nightwalker.

Meanwhile....

Will can hear hopping noises and the roll of a cart.

Soon, the strings become stronger for Will. It is darkness-related. He will notice that the Jiang Shi, or rather, Nightwalkers, are approaching, carting off the giant cart...

!

They've been spotted! They quickly wheel the cart off, making their way to regroup and gather the one at the breakfast aisle.

Seeing its partner approaching, the Nightwalker realizes that the distraction had been foiled! It hops along to the cart, and the group are trying to get away!

Mercade Alexander has posed:
Heartless.

Particularly Eastern Heartless. Mercade's eyes narrow. "All right, you bastards! Get ba-"

They start running. "Ugh, the chase scene already?" Mercade complains to no one in particular. He dives forward, turning a corner and trying to predict their path through the supermarket to cut them off. "HEARTLESS!" Mercade calls. "CUT THEM OFF!"

He takes a quick detour through the Pet Foods area!

Skoll Ulfang has posed:
There's too many Heartless, and these are ones Skoll isn't too familiar with. But the moment his allies go into a sprint in order to run after the fleeing heartless - Skoll moves out a hand and concentrates on one of the ones that is trying to drive the cart forwards... and does what basically comes down to a Sith Mindtrick. He concentrates on the Heartless and tries to force it to stop... while looking completely oblivious to what he is doing. That is to say, he's trying not to let his allies know that he /can/ do this. It tends to raise questions. But at the same time, holding this concentration means he's not getting up and running after them... yet.

Will Sherman has posed:
Will pauses...This is...

Seriously not right for heartless behavior...typically.

Will takes a breath...he has to steel himself...

Those eyes flash for a moment, looking at the heartless...they are jumbled masses of strings...turning in on themselves...twisted and dark...but...beneath all of that...

There has to be a string. A single string connecting them all in purpose...

If he can find that...then he can find the source of these things.

Because Will has seen people control the heartless before to make them do odd things.

Where is it!

Reize Seatlan has posed:
That's right. A chase scene.

"After those Heartless!" Reize cries out, he looks over towards one of those oversized carts, "Lily! Let's go after them!" Reize grabs the cart and he pushes it to get it start off.

"Lily, get on!" He raises an arm, "Chaarrrrrrrggggeeee!!!

Reize hops onto the cart to chase them.

Minerva has posed:
Minerva spots the heartless, she sees a very strange one to be sure. She can't place it however having only been in a remote region of the land of dragons. However she knows it's a Heartless and gets an order barked by Mercade. She'll sprint away moving in to attempt to cut the heartless off. Well at least these one she manges to not crash through any of the stacks of produc. She now springs after them.

"GET BACK HERE YOU SPAWN OF THE DARKNESS!"

Cirra Constantine has posed:
cirra arrives at the shelf top just ahead of the breakfeast isle to find... "A heartless?" she thinks she's seen the type before in the Dalmascan deserts. She turns to look back at where they just came from, the bean isle that has a bunch of running off with carts.

Cirra jumps down and tries to intercept the distraction causing hearltess. "You." she narrows her eyes. "Are not supposed to be here."

"Gravity Bomb" and allows the darkness between stars to be made manifest for a moment in her hand to make gravity around the heartless slam it down to the ground... 'in' to the ground might be more apt term.

Lily has posed:
And Lily hops into the cart without hesitation, although she nearly manages to do so by landing on her head in it. Thankfully, NOT losing her balance all the way means she only wobbles while crawling in, instead of collapsing.

"Heartless... stupid HEARTLESS EVERYWHERE!" She's FURIOUS. Oh so furious. They're behind this too! She's going to probably start blaming them for everything at this rate. Heartless heartless hearltess.

"Poooo on them!" Exactly WHERE she's picked up that word is hard to say. But it's a very fitting thing to say, with her gripping the front end of the cart's inner rails with ANGRY FACE to show for wahtever does show up, and flickers of flame gathering at her fingertips.

Reize Seatlan has posed:
Strangely enough, Will's efforts will find that their strings have fallen under one. In particular, one of the Nightwalkers is a different color from the rest. A blue one, to be exact. Their desire is strong.

DESTROY ALL BEANS! THE SPAWN OF DRIVING DEMONS BACK!

As Reize is trying to chase them, Lily is leading with an angry look on her face.

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 !!!! "HEADS UP, LILY!!" Reize reaches closeby for a broom stick. He pushes up, having the cart launch up. They are safe from the cart tripping and falling.

SLIDE! SLIDE!

And incoming bag of flour!

Unfortunately, the flour hits Lily in the face, having her face all white and full of flour.

Unfortunately for Minerva, she is in the path of getting ran over by the cart. ...BEEP BEEP!

But soon, Skoll manages to stop the cart from moving, keeping the Heartless still. They look rather confused at first. But then, the darkness manifests as a bomb is created. This plants the Heartless into the ground, but they all break away to separate from more of the collision.

They all hop away on foot.

Will Sherman has posed:
Will looks towards it...he can feel it...

His hand starts to burn...he moves, the strings...even on such a twisted creature...so it was some sort of strong heartless? Some strong desire or hatred...

Then he springs, jumping towards that heartless, fists soaring...aiming to not just punch him, but start tearing through the bits of luck that are left. If he hits, random chance will turn against him...things will spill at random into his way, stuff might fall on him, anything to hinder it...but at the same time uncontrolable by Will himself.

However, he just keeps punching it.

Skoll Ulfang has posed:
Skoll sees it now. The dark blue one. As he holds the heartless still for a moment, he gets a good moment to get to understand the situation. The werewolf puts one hand onto the side of the aile-shelf and hops down onto the ground. He grabs for his belt and draws the chain loose, letting it become rich in magic, thanks to its enchanted state. With Cirra having 'bowled' them loose, he figures there's only one thing to do from here. And it's the one thing he is good at. Hunt, and use his chains.

And so, the werewolf goes into a sprint and makes for a long and shallow jump along the aisles, before swinging his chains and sending them down... into the ground.

Moments later, chains suddenly erupt from the ground near the blue heartless, trying to grab hold of it!

Mercade Alexander has posed:
Oh reeeeeeeeeeeeally.

Mercade lunges after them, firing his guns rapidly. "GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE..."

They stop. Mercade looks surprised. "Huh. What's goin-" BOMB. Mercade is promptly blasted backwards from tbe backwash (thankfully not caught inside, else he'd be squishified), flipping as he hits the floor, wounded. "Ugh... What was... that..."

He straightens, as Will gives him a tip. "FOCUS THE BLUE ONE!" Mercade calls, flinging a package towards Skoll as he passes by before lunging out of sight.

The package is labled 'Mar-O-Bonz'.

A moment later, Mercade erupts through an aisle, scattering boxes and cans everywhere as he descends upon the blue jiangshi-alike Heartless, his shotgun leveled at the creature.

It's been stuffed with whole coffee beans. He levels the weapon at the Heartless with one hand, the other flicking up to his brow as he makes the obligatory witty comment.

"Bean nice knowing you."

Comment delivered, the shotgun roars, the slugs erupting from the weapon propelling the beans at high speed for the Nightstalker boss, taking advantage of Skoll's lockdown (ha ha) maneuver.

Minerva has posed:
Chaos reigns in the supermarket at this point and Minerva is infront of an incomming cart. She's not sure whose in it for a second shr shifts her body moving to plant her legs and try to stop the uncoming cart this isn't going to end well for her, not at all.

Lily has posed:
"H-hweh?!" KerPOOOOOOOOOF! It happens without warning. Lily wasn't really paying attention UPWARDS given the warning, expecting an assault to come from the front, so focused she wasn't paying attention to her gut feelings. Ooops.

And so a massive bag of flour smacks her down and explodes into a massive cloud, burying her. The floor's covered in it, she's covered in it, everything's covered in it!

She's basically just a girl-shaped lump of floor in that cart, on her back. As chaos unravels though, she opens her eyes through it all and rises, cascading the baking ingredient like a waterfall and still covered from head to toe in it.

Curious about it, her tongue flicks out to pull in a lick from her cheek... and she immediately makes this most TORTURED face, grabs her neck, and starts coughing it out! "Stupid... HEARTLESS!"

She doesn't need to really make any fancy gestures really. She can FEEL their presences around her, and that's enough to direct her anger.

The air feels different for a moment. Hairs might stand on end, temperatures shifting--

ZOOOOORCH! ... small lightnign bolts fly through the skies at the nearest Heartless up there on the shelves!

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Cirra lets off the bomb, but the Hearltess mostly just scatter. "Tch..." she watches MErcade go flying from the wash of her gravity attack.

Uh, oops. She actually feels a tiny, tiny bit guilty about that one. Just a little.

Ahem, Cirra reaches over her back and draws out her scythe, letting the blade snap into place. with a few long strides she jumps and lands in shopping cart, sending it rolling down the supermarket isle, her scythe spinning between her hands to deliver an upward slash and she jumps out of the cart, summersaulting through the air to drop down as she swings the curved blade straight down!

Cirra hates these refried villian types.

Reize Seatlan has posed:
Reize Seatlan says, "Lily!!" At first, he looks worried. However, that worry fades away. It takes /everything/ for Reize not to laugh. He is stiffling a snicker. Poor Lily. "Lily--" snicker. "Are you.... okay?!"

Annd she is enraged.

"Whoa..."

Reize shifts the broom in front of him, shifting the cart to a halt. As it finally stops, the explosion is pretty strong that it knocks Mercade away.

Now the Nightwalkers are grounded.

This leaves the Heartless out and about to start fighting. The blue Nightwaker stands tall. It hops angrily, motivating the other heartless to jump around him to a formation.

They hop around, ready to fight with their leader.

As Will charges towards the leader, one of the night walkers swoop in front of its leader to act as its shield and even intercept Will. However, the impact will spill over to explode the heartless into munny, but spare its leader.

Chains erupt around the blue heartless, capturing it. Then, the beans are fired from the Mercade's shotgun as an explosive round. It fills the blue nightwalker with beans. It hisses in anger towards Mercade. But it is Cirra who manages to cut it don with the curved blade. It is hacked into two... And then it explodes into munny.

One of the Nightwalkers hop over towards Mercade in vengeance, but Lily's lightning zaps the Heartless and it too explodes into munny.

There are three of the Heartless left.

"HEY, JERKS!" Reize is off of his cart, and he chucks it out towards the Heartless.

It knocks against them, sending them against the aisle nearby. They're temporarily dizzied.
"I guess that was a nice crash course."
""

Will Sherman has posed:
Will starts collecting Munny.

Being in melee range, all the defeated munny collects to his munny wallet.

Sweet.

However, his punch ends up short, the heartless litterally being TORN from the forces of Will's fist causing reality to write itself on it...which causes it to litterally evaporate into darkness or whatever. Will isn't sure what happens when he does that...

Then Mercade applies GUN to the situation, and then Cirra finishes it.

"Oh well." he says, and then looks towards the other heartless.

Suddenly, Will is lifting a large sack of potatoes, and is Launching it at the remaining Heartless.

"EVIL IS WEAK TO THE HEALTHY FLAVOR OF POTATOES!"

Minerva has posed:
So the cart is now gravity. Minerva isn't able to do much about it as she is launched clean across part of the supermarket and she's getting some good airtime. Such is the terror of the purple force of the universe. She's slammed into prehaps what might have been a display of potato chips. It saved her some of the impact but now there's crushed chip dust everywhere ns she's not looking very happy. She rises and quickly she charing for the nearst of the hearltes her fist seemingly coated with ice and freezin the air about them as they move.

Skoll Ulfang has posed:
As the heartless within the chains is destroyed, the things are moved aside for just a moment, before they seem to 'perk up' and turn their ends towards one of the fleeing Heartless and then suddenly dive back into the ground. Skoll walks along to 'give more distance' to the chains, purple sparks constantly running between his fingers and the chains that run into the ground. But by the time they reach out of the ground once more, those purple sparks are gone. Instead, it's replaced by a life-like quality to them as they chase the thing down, running alongside the aisles with it, before coming in for the 'kill' so to say - trying to stab the heartless with chains from multiple directions.

Mercade Alexander has posed:
Heartless began exploding! Mercade likes the whole 'beat Heartless, Get Cash' motif, really. Paying bills by kicking their ass is awesome.

One of them almost smashes into Mercade but he jerks, throwing himself reflexively out of the way as Lily blasts it tino more cash. "OH CRAP LIGHTNING!" Seems he's more worried about THAT for some reason! He stows the shotgun, switching back to pistols as he lays down a fusillade of fire. The potato sack comes in, and Mercade spins, firing at it a few times to make the sack burst, sending poatoey goodness everywhere!

He'll need to add some butter and sour cream. Mmmmm, potatoes. "We've almost got this!" Mercade calls! "Let's bring it home!" He keeps exhorting his allies.

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Cirra watches the blue Heartless vapourize, swinging the scythe up to tuck under her arm. The Munny falling to the ground doesn't seem to interest her very much. Seems like the others are taking care of the last of the Heartless. Cirra turns with scythe over her shoulde,r beginign to walk away.

Lily has posed:
Lily's also out of the cart, and STILL covered head to toe in flour. She's not going to try tastying this stuff again whatsoever! It LOOKED like sugar, at first glance, but it totally was anything but sweet and yay!

Anything but.

Her body sizzles and crackles, static power flickering around her arms and occasionally the rest of her. She sees the flying potatoes, and raises the finishing blow up by one nice chain lightning bolt with a gesture, sizzling power lashing out from her fingers as easy as anyone might breathe or throw a punch!

The lightning is certainly going in the right direction.

It also ignites the flour dust that's floating thickly around her, which goes up in a swift, explosive, but short-lived fireball that miraculously is just hot wind by the time it reaches anything else!

It leaves her ALSO coughing and spluttering...

Will Sherman has posed:
Will looks up, at Cirra, "Hey!" he says, "You almost forgot about your buisness with Reize!" Will says, helpfully.

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Cirra pause, looking upwards slightly.

"Later, I'm going to ask you how you knew that." she turns and starts walking towards Reize.

Will Sherman has posed:
"I overheard you telling Reize that. I have really good hearing." Will explains. He gives Reize a thumbs up! Helpful as always! "Anyway.." he says as suddenly potatoes explode around him. His hand extends, as a perfectly baked (fried) potatoe falls into it. He eats it in one bite.

Reize Seatlan has posed:
As they recover, one of the nightwalkers shove the cart off of them. They disperse, hopping in all different directions. This leads to the first one trying to escape to get a bag full of potatoes on it. That large sack sends it smacking dab into the ground. It explodes into munny.

The other one attempts to escape to the front of the door. As Minerva charges towards that nearest Heartless, that creature is hopping away from her quickly. Its escape is intercepted as the chains chase against it and the gathered stab it from all directions. It soon explodes into munny.

Reize winces towards Lily, who manages to use her lightning magic and fry the remaining heartless. Everything seemed to have cleared out. Well, other than the mess of the potatoes everywhere. ...And the collapsed aisle and stuff all around. Oh well.

"We did it! Good job, everyone!" He gathers a few of the munny and... Cirra is starting to leave.

Oh, whew.

And then Will reminds her.

Crap.

And there she comes right towards Reize. As Reize turns to face Cirra, he sweatdrops. "....Oiii!"

Skoll Ulfang has posed:
The chains rapidly recollect to Skoll's hand, and it's not long there-after that the werewolf is standing besides Reize while putting said chain around his belt again. He overheard the little quip coming from Mercade, and he stands in front of Reize for a moment. For a moment. Just a moment, it looks like he might defend Reize. He even puts his hand on his shoulder... and then raises one foot and makes sure is shoe isn't untied, before he walks right past Cirra and opens the bag that was given to him earlier and starts to chew on the newfound dog-treats.

"Good luck, Reize!" Skoll calls back to the adventurer.

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Cirra looks down at Reize through her helemt. "You got me lost for hours. Had me trek through jungle, wasteland, through monsters and heartless."

"How do you intend to make up for that?"

Reize Seatlan has posed:
Reize can feel the wrath of Cirra upon him. Through that helmet, he can definitely feel her rage. The fact that she has a larger height advantage over him makes her more intimidating. A sweatdrop forms at the back of his head, "Uhh..."

But then Skoll shows up. Skoll, a great ally shows up to stand by his side. A smile grows towards his wolf ally. What a great---

---ally? Skoll abandons him after checking his shoes. Comical tears roll along his eyes.

Back to Cirra. "Uhh..." He rubs the back of his head, looking sheepish. "Ahahahaha ...err.. uhh... and least it was a great adventure! Life is always about finding new things! It is not always about its destination, but the journey!"

While mostly true, Reize is trying his hardest to persuade.

Mercade Alexander has posed:
Mercade peeks out of his cover, looking up at the spattered bananas that went flying everywhere.

Huh. Mental note: Fruit makes bad cover.

He looks back to the others. "Hey, everyone all right?" Mercade asks.

Cirra stalks towards Reize. Mercade watches, sighing.

He's not getting involved in that one.

Minerva has posed:
Minervadoes have a chip opn her shoulder at this point also heartless are exploding which means there's money all over the place. She's still not sure if all of them are done it's just getting worse at this point or is it getting better. She does notice Reize is just got the rate of that one woman directed at him. She sighs for a moment trying to get rid of the chip dust. She sighs "Is this world always like this?"

Lily has posed:
Lily looks between Cirra and Reize several times as she wipes herself off from somewhat charred (and somewhat not) flour, slowly returning to her normal self again. "Oooooh!"

Completely not aware that Cirra is somehow UPSET about this, she gives the armored individual the happiest, most intrigued look ever, happy to be away from all that crazy fighting!

"Except the heartless, that sounds like it was really fun!" ...Because tromping around with Reize is fun! A lot of fun.

... for her.

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Frowns at Reize, you can feel it through her helemt.

Cirra leans down, bendingher knees so she can pick up a Munny off the ground, she holds it between her fingers. "They say tiem is money, or munny as the case may be." She looks at Lily, "You're free to extract whatever enjoyment you wnt from your travels, however."

Cirra thrusters her hand forward at Reie's head resulting in an ear splitting *SHRIEK*

The Munny embedded in the edge of one of the steel shelves behind Reize's head, having been pushed in by her thumb. Thats going to take a pair of pliers to get out of there.

"Don't waste my time again."

Will Sherman has posed:
Will watches the display.

"Hey heyyyyyy." he says. "Lets just chill. Reize didn't mean to get you horribly lost. Look, the man is, as far as I can tell, an unluck elemental. I mean. Being NEAR him is probably unlucky." he says. "I have seen him get sucked into suddenly appearing sand storms, get thrown into Pengins, splattered by fruit...punched by various sorts of females." he says...

"Anyway, Hi." he says, offering the lady a hand. "Will Sherman. King of the Hobos."

Reize Seatlan has posed:
That frown is harsh. Reize can feel it. His antenna hair can feel it. It's scary.

As Cirra picks up the munny, Reize looks down at her and then he looks at her when she holds it between her fingers.

But when Cirra thrusts her hand forward, an ear splitting shriek causes him to wince. Then he turns his head to see the results. It's embedded deep into the steel shelves behind his head.

...Reize is shivering in fear. His ANTENNA hair is shivering in fear.

Sweatdrop. "Ri--right."

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Cirra turns to leave again, but is stopped by Will holding out his hand. She looks down at it and considers for a moment. Well, leaving after that little display might not be... political? Cirra snaps her scythe closed and slings it on her back, one hand taking will's hand while the other reaches up to remove her helmet, letting silver hair fall down her back.

"Judge Cirra Constantine."

Will Sherman has posed:
Will gives her a nod...he pauses...

Will has a way of looking at someone, looking at someone that seems to litterally look right through her...it's odd, but there is just...that feeling when he gazes at you.

For Will...the strings are...infused with something. There is something in there...a string that seems to be made up of other strings...constantly shifting...a piece of string that all string comes from. However, this one has a more glysomer sight to it...the strings of dark are there...but this is not the same as what he's used to seeing. But it also seems somehow stifling to other strings.

"Well, I'd hate for your first stop in our city to be like this...but if you have to go, come back okay?" he says after a pause.

"Thanks for you help."

Cirra Constantine has posed:
Her fate is undecided, though the path to power dominates her destiny.

Cirra has no idea exactly what Will is doing, only that it's like his yes are focusing on a point behind her head, instead of her face. She tilts her head down and turns it to the side a little to trying see if his eyes actually track her movement.

"It's not my first time, but I've only been here twice before." she pauses, letting go of his hand, "You're welcome."

Will Sherman has posed:
They move...but not in the sense that normal eyes should. One moment they are looking at a part of her, the next they are on a completely different part.

But when he talks, he looks directly at her eyes.

"Ah." the hand pulls back, "You have a...interesting web of fate." he says after a moment, "It was nice to meet you."