Thread: Gantz RPG off mission

Originally Posted by dharmabums

8:16am (Andre)Before you could put in a word Max hangs up. That's 'fast talking Max' for you. The lady gets up and hands you her business card; Andrea Zuckermann - Manager.

Andre thinks to himself. This is just getting way to strange. That b@stard (Max) doesn't even have any family. Guess he just wants to go screw someone else up and he's doing it to me again, throwing this tw@t in the mix.How is it even possible I can still fight? Guess the league didn't can me after all. Then Andre reluctantly takes the business card from the mysterious women making sure he touched hand. After he closely looks it and her over, Andre chuckles to himself at the unlikley sequnce of current events.

Andre faces the women then looks in her eyes and says, So tell me Mrs Zuckerman, how in the hell does a BLACK women wind up IN Japan working as a FIGHT manager? Huh? Before she can answer, Andre quickly raises his hand with a defiant finger and says. “No wait... don't tell me. I really don't want to know. With all the crazy ass s#!t I just saw, it probably wouldn't hold my interest., no offense. You know what happened in my last fight right? Who'll fight me now that the yakuza knows I won't play their little childish games? You know this right? I mean if you're any kind of successful in this game, and you look like you are, you gotta be on their payroll or you gotta be on their payroll. So we'lI just assume you got connections.But before we even get into that, what do YOU bring to the table? Then Andre moves within inches of the women intentionally going deep into her personal space. So close Andre can feel her body heat. Andre brushes the card on the woman's hand. Then he says, What other assests do you have that could possible be use to me?

8:50 am

As Sean unpacks most of his stuff, from sketch pads to pencils and pens, he notices his best and only friend Hayaki getting off the elevator. At first Sean smirked thinking bout time he showed up I wonder what stories he got for me today. At first Sean is somewhat happy to see Hayaki but it quickly turns into anger and resentment as his mind flashes back to the restaurant; Sean couldn't remember everything but bits and pieces of that night and he remembered Hayaki was there so Sean assumed he had a hand in his "death".

As he waited for his boss to walk in Sean lets his mind wander and begins sketching and doodling.

(OOC: dharmabums, I'll let you decide what he ends up drawing)

7:35 am:
Tomoe takes a shower in order to wake herself up making sure to keep her suit within reach. As she begins to exit the shower and reaches for her towel next to her suit the raw memory of Koi's death from not having a suit comes to mind. She sits on her bathroom floor and sobs.

After crying she dries off and puts on her suit paranoid about the possibility of being sent to the room once more. She was determined not to end up like Koi. Her phone rings and she freezes while imagining one of the people from the room and the horrible things that might be wrong.
By the time she worked up the nerve to answer her phone she noticed her brother's name on the caller ID and ignored it.

She dresses in a long skirt and a loose black t-shirt to look less like a fetish model and weighs going to work against meeting up at that bar with the others at noon.
Since the thrill of risking her life made things like her job bearable one option far outweighed the other.
Tomoe exits her apartment and walks toward the subway.

8:20am(Andre)
Andrea smiles at Andre, before reaching down and sinking her fingernails into Andre's balls. It hurts! (sorry but i didn't know how else to describe it) "First off, It's Ms. Andrea for you and i'm half Japanese like you." She tightens her grip on Andre's balls and continue's, "Second, i'm your manager. Not you little playthings. I didn't work my ass off the whole night to get you off the hook with the Yakuza just to F_ck you. You want to know why? Cause the crowd loves you and that means more profit." At that point she releases him and walks back towards the couch before she starts talking a a more reassuring tone.

"As for the Yakuza, don't worry about them for now... i've pulled a few strings for you. They should be off your back, the strange thing was i heard that they took care off you last night but here you are... care to explain why? I've never know the Yakuza to let people off so easily."

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8:55am(Sean)
As Sean's mind wonders about the events of last night, unconsciously his hand starts doodling... The more he thought about it the angrier he got; What the hell happened last night? Didn't i die? F_CK... didn't Hayaki try to help me? B@stard, did he try to F_cking kill me? Now he comes strolling in like nothing ever happened? B@stard, B@stard As he continues doodling on the paper, Hayaki comes over... Sean looks at him with anger in his eyes. Hayaki starts talking to Sean nervously, "errr... Gai Jin,... what happened to you last night? You dissapeared on me... mmm... i went to get help but when i got back you were gone."

Sean stops working on his doodles... Hayaki looks at the paper but doesn't get what Sean has been doodling. (A stick figure, with lines slashing across the body.. over and over again till the figure isn't recognizable.) Sensing that Sean seems hostile he backs off and walks towards the toilet. "Errr.. i'll chat with you later Gai Jin."

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8:53(Tomoe)
The walk to the subway takes about 15 minutes, travel time which is stretched further as she grabs a quick bite (a prawn mayo sandwich) from the convenience store. The old man at the counter smiles at Tomoe, a regular at his store but doesn't talk to her. Of course Tomoe thinks that the man is a little creepy, always staring at her. As she heads towards the subway entrance which is about a 5 minute walk from the store she hears a man scream out, "STOP THAT KID, STOP THAT F_CKING THIEF!"

Tomoe looks back and sees the old man at the store running towards her, next to him are a some cops. What? Me? thinks Tomoe. Just as Tomoe is about to speak out, a body slams into her sending them both down the stairs leading to the subway. Tomoe's suit protects her from. She looks up cursing... "What the Hell! Idiot!" It's a kid, somewhere around 15 -16 years old... His bag has opened up and thrown his clothes all over the ground, some of it looked like it survived a fire. The kid scrambles to collect his clothes... and then reaches towards Tomoe's legs. She coils back her legs in reflex and knocks a can of tuna which the kid quickly grabs. He looks at Tomoe as she looks at him... In that split second, Tomoe recognizes him.... It's one of the kids from the room, the one who smokes too much. The kid gets up and starts running again.

The old man and the police officers reaches to where Tomoe is seconds later..."Hey miss where did the kid go?" asks the cops as the old man grumbles about his stolen cans of Tuna.

Originally Posted by dharmabums

8:20am(Andre)
Andrea smiles at Andre, before reaching down and sinking her fingernails into Andre's balls. It hurts! (sorry but i didn't know how else to describe it) "First off, It's Ms. Andrea for you and i'm half Japanese like you." She tightens her grip on Andre's balls and continue's, "Second, i'm your manager. Not you little playthings. I didn't work my ass off the whole night to get you off the hook with the Yakuza just to F_ck you. You want to know why? Cause the crowd loves you and that means more profit." At that point she releases him and walks back towards the couch before she starts talking a a more reassuring tone.

"As for the Yakuza, don't worry about them for now... i've pulled a few strings for you. They should be off your back, the strange thing was i heard that they took care off you last night but here you are... care to explain why? I've never know the Yakuza to let people off so easily."

Andre slowly walks over to wear Andrea is sitting. The floor makes a load creaking sound with each step he takes. When Andre reaches Andrea he flops down right beside her, his weight sinking him deep into it's cushions . Andre tilts his head back, takes a long deep breath and looks at the ceiling. He's thought about what to do all night and now it's time to do it. Andre lets the air rush out of his lungs and turns to Andrea. Andre slaps his hand right on Andreas meaty thigh. Okay here's what I need YOU to do for me:


I need you to find my brother Ryunosuke. He never showed at the after party before and I'm just a tad bit concerned. Andre needs to put some things together from that night and Ryu might be the one to help him do just that.

I need you to get me a good fight. A legit match with a legit organization. Dream or K1, something like that you know. NO UFC crap. Dana still owes me money, b@s+arD.

I need you to find me two or three hot girls. All the girls I know are played out, All their friends are played out too. I want some new stuff AND NOT NO GROUPIES EITHER. You know someone like Reika. Now she's got some assets I would love to use.

I need you to have plenty of sour cherry suckers around. Short of putting them in your coochiee, when I ask you for one you better have one to give me.

But right now I need you to tell me what family put in the double cross in my last fight, Sumiyoshi-kai or the Yamaguchi-gumi? I know you don't know but maybe your contact does. So call 'em or start puling on strings or what ever you do.

I'll wait...Andre begins to tap his fingers on Andreas upper thigh like one does when impatiently waiting for something to get done...

Oh BTW to answer your question, I don't know what you heard but YOU CAN'T BRING ME DOWN.

ooc: there are some reasons in Shin's flashbacks to why he did what he did, but I'll let you know when I think of a good way to write a flashback. I'm also assuming one of the vets told him not to tell others about the hunt after the aftermath thread before he left the room too

Shin paused as the journalist talked and instead centred his vision on the beauty with her back to him walking out the room. Shin sighed to himself.
"Guess we're not going to have round 2 after all..." he thought to himself.
With her out of the room, Shin remembered the guy on the phone;

"Yeah, I'm Shinno Shima, but if I were dead I couldnt be on the phone to you now, could I? I'm gonna be busy today meeting some friends and trying to clear up the mess the hospital got me into. Tomorrow at noon is fine though. If thats a problem, you got my number."

Shin hung up the phone. He couldnt tell this journalist he was going for hunt training with a bunch of people like himself and he sure wasnt going to put his head in the firing line of that black ball back in that apartment.

Shin laid back in the bed and put his arms behind his head. "Hey, I'm not going to be heading out for another 3 hours! Dont get ready yet!"

Originally Posted by dharmabums

The old man and the police officers reaches to where Tomoe is seconds later..."Hey miss where did the kid go?" asks the cops as the old man grumbles about his stolen cans of Tuna.

8:53 pm

Tomoe points in the opposite direction she saw the smoking kid. If he had a weapon on him things could turn ugly for a few cans of tuna.
That one mis-direction was as far as she wanted to get involved. She imagined if she did the shopkeeper and cops would have to die.
In Tomoe's mind there was a hiearchy and those people were below any of the people from the room she shed blood with.

Life had become an anime and the majority of the characters in don't know their own insignifigance. At times, she pitied them for not having the opportunity to fight and kill for their life to show just how precious life in general was.
Tomoe decided that more people should have the chance she and the others had.

She stepped on the subway and naturally at least three men surrounded her and used the crowd and movement for "accidentally" brushing up against her.
She stood in place and reassured herself about having her left hand on the uncollapsed sword in her coat pocket.

ooc: Just a warning this post is kinda dark...

As Shin laid back in the bed waiting for a reply, he started to loll into a sleep again and dream of events past;

Early April, a few days before the Hunt, the annual Cherry Blossom viewing...

Shin and all his friends including Ryu and his sister Emi and her friends had come to a wide park near the tower to drink the evening away while watching the cherry blossom trees. As Shin downed some Shochu he stared across to Emi who glanced breifly back at him. Shin sighed a little. He had taken a vast amount of pain killers before arrivign at the park to chill the agony of his lump. He guessed he'd have to see a doctor eventually, but for now he was hoping the Shochu wouldnt make him sick and he could ask Emi out finally.

Some hours later; Ryu walked Shin to a cab to the subway station. Shin was shaking and sweating violently. Emi looked over, concerned. Shin hadnt asked her out before this.
"Go get some rest, Shin-O, hope you get better soon..." Ryu whispered into Shin's ear as he threw some cash to the cabby.

The next morning;
Shin was piled into a car by his father and his latest girlfriend drove him to his grandma's to stay until he got better. His father said it would be until he got better but he knew him and his girlfriend were planning to get rid of him, just one last link to his past before they could be "happy". Happy for the man to be this married woman's piece on the side whilst he himself had two other women on the go. A woman he had taken on holiday using Shin's inheritance because his mother was too ill to make a will before she died. Shin felt deserted, a remnant of the past left to pasture. At least he wouldnt be the brunt of his father's drunken abuse anymore...

3.00 am, after the hunt, roughly 5 and a half hours before the present.
Shin had walked to his parent's house from his grandma's. He used a pair of jeans and turtle-neck jumper to cover his Suit and he carried a shoulder bag too. No-one noticed when Shin picked up an errant xgun from the room's floor and holstered it an hour ago...

ooc: So the dark path was opened up to Shin by the Black Ball and the Room. What happened those few hours before? It will all be revealed soon!

8:55 am

Sean was pretty shocked at Hayaki's nervousness towards him; he thought serves him right he's guilty I know it. Sean could only chuckle to himself as he looked at what he drew. "Not my best work I could do better. Ok Sean calm down you got five minutes before the boss walks and you still got some free time". Sean takes a deep breath, clears his head of negative thought and lets his mind wander as he puts the pencil to the pad and draws something else.

(OOC:dharmabums, once again I'll let you decide what Sean ends up drawing...)

8:23am (Andre)
Andrea picks Andre's hand and places it back on his own thigh and says, "Maybe you're not listening well enough. I'm your boss and YOU WORK FOR ME, or has all this thumping in the arena give you brain damage? Just because the crowds love you, don't mean you're a superstar... yet. That i can do. I can give you fame and fortune... but don't forget, i can take it all away easily. There's plenty of fighters willing to take your place."

She pulls out her cell phone again and starts punching in a series of number before continuing speaking, "I can get you cherry suckers, I can get you all the loli idols you want (if that's what you're into... get caught and you're on your own). You want clean fights? No problem... but you have to listen to me." Andrea pauses and lifts the phone to her ear, "As for your brother, i could do that. I could help you find your brother but you'd have to be in my debt. Something like this ain't gonna come cheap. If you're willing to follow me then say the word and i'll press the call button right now, you'll get all the help in finding your brother... So what'll it be?"

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8:45am(Shin)
As Shin starts reminiscing about the past, Sa-chan was in the bathroom - doing god knows what. She shouts out from the bathroom as Shin continues lying on the bed, "Look i can't wait 3 hours, unlike you i have a job to get to. So i really need the cab fare now..." there's a pause followed by the toilet flush being activated. Sa-chan emerges back at the bed next to Shin, and continues putting on her office uniform. "Hey, there's something wrong with the bathroom. I don't know... but it smells odd. Like something died in there (isn't that where Shin's dad was killed!). Anyways can i have the cab fare now?" as he's about to call his phone rings again! Who the hell is it this time?... The name on the phone says Emi.

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9:01am(Sean)
It's pretty much 9am and for sure, Sean's boss hasn't turned up yet. Sean start doodling again while waiting for his boss to show up so he can take day off. Taking a deep breath, and clearing to mind of all the angry thoughts; his hands start to move against the drawing pad... the lines soft and grace up. He pauses and looks down on the image on the pad,... it's the 'stripper' aka Tomoe. Looking at the beautiful features and busty cleavage Sean blushes.
(OOC: I'm surprised that Sean doesn't want to take revenge on his friend. Ok, stop asking me to decide on what Sean doodles... It's your character... so decide yourself :P I hope that you don't intend to keep waiting for the boss to show up.)

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9:01am(Tomoe)
Tomoe moves towards the train lines, clutching the sword tightly as men seem to 'accidentally' brush against the attractive woman. If only i could use the sword on these... perverts. Annoyed with the constant daily harassment of 'Chikans', Tomoe moves towards the end to the station waiting for the all ladies compartment of the train. As she waits, Tomeo feels anxiety rush her... was she feeling paranoid? She could feel eyes peering into. It felt dirty as if she was a victim. Tomoe looks around the station, there were a few men staring at her. She didn't like the glaces even since when she was in high school, when breast started to grow. Boys would stare at her chest it hasn't changed much since then. Thankfully the train arrives. As the trains starts to depart... Tomoe still feels as if someone is watching her. It was an all ladies compartment, so it couldn't have been those perverts at train platform. Who was watching her? or was she starting to feel paranoid?