Description: Cammy and Naerose are both investigating mysterious events, with neither of them really having much idea what exactly it seems! But after the usual confusing chat, they agree to work together in their investigations in the future. God help us all.
It sure took a while to find this place, but when finally the red witch does find it, she really can't say if it's what she expected. Alone now, no reason to be anyone but herself, so .. what. She adjusts her hat and walks in. Fixes her shades and lets the end of her broom, not the sweeping side, the stick end drag. It's not a house hold broom, it's like she picked up a branch and attached straw to one end, it's very rustic looking. Very old school, but that's always been her broom. No tools, no instruments, what she needs she already has, for this investigation is something inside. The red witch lets out a sigh and remarks to herself,
"Maybe should of let Aranha come after all.. Probably wouldn't of had such a hard time finding this place." But she didn't mind being alone, a few steps in and she just sort of turns her attention around the place. Very..
"Creeeeee-py" she states.
Cammy is really taking a stab in the dark by being here. She's pretty sure some of Rust's acquaintances have gone missing in the past, though without much cooperation from anybody in that little group she's not entirely sure for certain. However, she does have the resources of Shadaloo as well, which includes intelligence on all manner of suspicious, fighter related yet possibly evil or dangerous locations in the world.
Plus the doll is psychic, which helps sometimes. Maybe not this time, as hunches are not always good things.
Cammy steps into the boundary of the temple, boots crunching on the gravel on the floor, senses screaming. Yes, she can see why this place got a note in the databanks, now she's here in person.
Without the aide of psychic powers, Naerose wouldn't be able to sense someone else around, she's left to depend on her other senses, hearing, sight. She doesn't see Cammy, she doesn't hear her yet either. The way she looks around it's like she isn't even trying to find anyone else. Very confident that she'll be fine and not need to worry about anything. So first thing is explore. Yes then she'll get to work.
The red witch had a plan for this place, she knew why she came and knew why she left Aranha behind, she was hoping for relative peace and quiet to pull this off. . So.. how would that do? Well.. first get a feel for the place, then pick a spot. Her thoughts were jumbled and as she wandered around seemingly aimless, she gave into her chaotic nature, the unending torrent of thought, emotion and drive, the one that lacked purpose. Perhaps the heart of Naerose, her greatest power and weakness, something she could indulge or try to control. For now she indulged and just sort of wandered around. Vine with berries on it? Why not taste one. Yecuk! She spits it out.
The greatest weakness part was no exaggeration.
Cammy isn't quite taking the same approach - rather, in her case, it's almost a tickbox system, and tick number 1 she has to tick off on her recon mission is, 'Is anybody else alive in here?'.
And as hears the sound of something being eaten, and spat out, it seems the answer to that is yes.
Not knowing who it is just yet, the doll stealthily approaches the sound, dashing from pillar to post, literally as it happens, until she can peer around the corner of one pillar to see... a familiar shape. And not one she expected to find here.
She sighs softly, and then steps out into the open. "The berries do not taste good, then." she observes.
SHOCU! But seriously, the red witch doesn't let on much, because she's giving in completely to that which resides in her, the primal force of chaos, undeniably uncontrollable and that force is never surprised. How do you surprise that which expects nothing. She turns as if it's to be expected that there is someone standing over there. And what do you know it's. .
"Kathy? What are you doing here?" She asks, and tries another berry. Hey guess what? It tastes as awful as the first. She spits it out again 'YEUCK'. But hey, third times the charm right? fortune comes in threes...?
Nope. Adjusting her shades, which make it actually really hard to see much in here considering well, they're black shades, the witch just smiles at Cammy.
"Kathy?". Cammy advances a few steps on the witch, and shakes her head slightly. "No, not quite. Cammy. Close, though.". She sighs again,a little louder than the last one. "What are you doing here?" she wonders, moving to the first subset tick box under the 'is anybody here' box, which has already been filled in now.
The doll wanders past Naerose, looking over the rest of the temple - down at the altar at first, and then around at each pillar in turn. Looks like they are alone, for now.
The red witch just watches Cammy, her hands mischievously heading toward the berry to try feeding herself another. AS if she was entirely incapable of learning the lesson the first time. Luckily, she doesn't eat it because she's distracted by something else and starts to wander toward one of the pillars with a flower growing out of a vine, aww, its wilted.
"Huh? Well like I dunno, I mean I was just sort of wandering around right?" She asks, as if trying to confirm if this explanation actually makes any sense (it doesn't).
"Wait, hang on, I was totally asking you what you were up to first and you were all like not telling me" She pouts.
Cammy mehs. "I am looking for kidnapped people." she says after a moment. "Or people who have an interest in causing harm to fighters. Not that I am expecting to find any here, but you never know. Maybe there is some evidence around the place.".
It does not seem particularly likely though, as she looks down at a cracked paving stone. "I think you will find that all the berries will taste bad." she notes, not actually looking at Naerose but down at the slab instead, and so not noticing that the goldfish brain has found something else to focus on.
At least for a moment. "The flower probably tastes bad, too.".
"Huh? Flowers aren't food." The red witch replies as if it were obvious but she probably isn't convincing anyone of her knowing what is is or is not food at this time.
"Why would you be looking for kidnapped people?" Naerose asks, seeming puzzled as if well, that doesn't make any sense, but then she decides it probably isn't important or something because she keeps looking around.
"I didn't know you were like some kind of police person or something." She gives a minute little shrug then says,
"Well, I think you won't find much here, but, if you do find something tasty, I'll let you know, right?" She grins as if -this- makes perfect sense. Though she seems to more or less have gotten a good enough feel for the place, losing interest for what is around her. She did come here for a reason and while letting her 1dinfinity die inside her brain decide actions for the time being, she finally chooses a spot just off the pillars and decides to sit down. Sets a hand on the ground and lets out a long 'mmmmmm'.
"No, but that sort of thing does not really stop you in my experience." Cammy replies to Naerose, finally looking over her way now she's established that the temple is, as far as mundane matters are concerned, empty.
"I am not a police person.". She glances down at her blue Shadaloo leotardy thing, with a slight headshake. "I am helping a friend. So. Why are /you/ here?" the doll asks, now that she's been quite polite and spilled the beans first.
"And no, I do not expect to find much either, but it was worthy a try.".
Clever Nae having gotten Cammy to spill first, or was it just by complete accident? Protip: The latter. Still, what is she going to do or say, she seems to think for a moment, or at least pauses for a long time. If you were a psychic you might sense a calming of the red witch, the torrent, swirling chaos of thoughts, ideas and non-sense like a hurricane starting to calm. Clarity gives way to emptiness. It's almost like there is nothing there beyond the chaos, but somehow she speaks,
"Oh me? oh my." Some chaos still, "I'm just.." She pauses again, sounding distracted, "Checking something out for a friend, I suppose, I'm looking for something too, except I'm not looking for that here, this is just a piece of the puzzle.. like.. a piece of pizza." Pause. "Think of it as, well the piece could anything that fits, right, this place is just one of many possibilities in the ether, what I'm looking for will probably mean helping a lot of people along the way, they're the pieces, this is a piece of those pieces and together they'll form a purpose."
Pause. "King of fighters, whatever behind the scenes intrigue is there doesn't matter, it serves a purpose, but if it was not there, then there would just be something else. The purpose is all that matters."
Biiig smile.
" Riight?"
Cammy shrugs. "Theres's always something hidden going on, if thats what you mean. Sounds like you are here for the same sort of reasons as me, I guess.". She walks over to the altar, and looks down at the bloodstains, at least they are presumably bloodstains. "I think if something happened here though it's long since finished. And not even what happened on the altar. Nobody here now, in any case.".
The doll shakes her head slightly. "A bad hunch, I guess.".
Naerose smiles, her shades slide down her nose to reveal her eyes are closed and she waits before speaking,
"Didn't think anyone would be here, was kind of hoping not. I'm not looking for people and what I am looking for, I think I'll find.. In.. just.. a .. moment.."
She draws a deep breath. Trying to relax further, if you could peek into her mind you'd see a further calming of the storm taken over by nothing. It is as if she's trying to cast something out of her mind, everything out of her mind. Then on the flip side it's like she's trying to cast herself, almost like a fishing line into a sea, but what sea, there is no water. Indeed if you could read minds, Naerose's might be interesting at this moment while she seems be sinking deeper.
Cammy can't really read minds, she is just sensitive to emotions and the like. Which in practice just makes up for the brainwashees lack of social skills or empathy, so overall not exactly any different from anybody else.
"It is fortunate that you are here, I guess. Maybe you can find something with your magic that I cannot.". Having seen the broomstick in action, and the star fall thingy, Cammy is somewhat more impressed about Naerose these days. She settles down onto the paving stones crosslegged, and watches Naerose.
Not that there's much chance of any sense coming out of the witch, but it happens, sorta, occasionally... maybe.
Silence for a long time. The red witch seems to be focusing on something, but when she finally snaps back with her head she says,
"Huh? Oh. Well.." She looks around. "Maybe, I don't know if this place is built here because it's significant or if this place is significant because it was built here, but I'm pretty sure the flows of life energy are strong and gather here like they do in various other places around the world." She stifles a yawn,
"Probably why this place was picked for whatever freaked out Aranha so much. And some other people apparently.
"Dunno about kidnapping, unless you mean taking naps in which I would have to say I'm all for it.
"No, I mean kidnapping as in, people disappearing. I think one of Quon's friends has disappeared. I know Rust's address book is missing. I think maybe these two events are linked.". The doll shrugs, lets out a little sigh, stays put where she is, crosslegged on the stone and looking up at Naerose with her bright blue eyes. "I have very little information to work with, as the people I am trying to help are quite... stubbornly uncooperative. I am reduced to guesswork and hunches, unfortunately.".
. . . "Umm, I have no idea who Quon or Rust are, but they sound like kind of funny names. . " The red witch scratches her cheek then says, "Why did you come here though? I mean, this is an abandoned place, why would you think there were any clues or for that matter people here?" Running her hand along the ground she adds, "I came here because Aranha thought there was some significance and I think he was right, but I'm not sure what he is even looking into and me, well I already said I'm just helping him on one possibility continuum." And if that word sounded overly dramatic, Nae ruins it by grinning and saying, "I bet I sound really mystical now."
"You will only forget anyway if I did explain who they were to you, and it is not all that important I suppose." Cammy says. "I am here, because, well.". She thinks about that one. "I do not think I can really answer that in full detail. Suffice to say that this location is also known to me as a potentially significant location. I thought it wise to investigate. And I always thought continuum was a scientific word, so I don't know if that is mystical, exactly. Maybe you are right though.". She shrugs, not particularly caring.
"Why do you think he is correct? You sense something odd here, perhaps?".
"Well.. " She begins, adjusting her hat down over her shades more, "A missing address book is hardly suspicious, you know, but there are points where more of the life energies seem to be gathered, and for whatever reason I think those points are of interest to people, but wither or not this place is such a place I havn't decided yet, or it could be something completely different. Needless to say I think what is done here is already over.."
She nods her head toward the alter,
"Or maybe it hasn't happened yet."
Cammy listens, and then when Naerose is finished, stays quiet, for a good long while. And only speaks after much consideration.
"I do not think you have really said anything of value there." she points out. "But you know magic, so maybe, despite your many eccentricities, you can be helpful. As this is probably a magical place, no? Or... chi. Or whatever. I do not know chi anyway, so magic, chi, all the same to me.".
She stands up, one fluid motion, and takes a few steps towards Naerose. "Why did Aranha want you to come here?".
"You're the one looking for a missing address book in the middle of no where." Naerose points out, then shrugs and adds, "Actually Aranha didn't want me to, he wanted to come with me but I don't know that we would of been more effective together, he just reminds me of food for some reason whenever he's around." She scratches her cheek a little and says, " But what difficulties are you having? I'm not sure I'll get leads here anyway, but maybe we're looking for the same thing and if that's the case I mean like we could I dunno find something?" She seems to be struggling with finishing the thought. "Together for a bit."
"It is not address books I am looking for, specifically, but bad things happening to people who may be in that address book.". And Cammy is making assumptions about just who is listed in it... she shakes her head, again, and reaches up, to rub her temples with slender fingers. This is all very imprecise, very irritating. And Naerose is probably the most imprecise person she knows, as well.
"I just had a hunch about this place, is all. A bad hunch, it seems.". Unless the hunch turned out to be some weird premonition about teaming up with Naerose, of course... "I am really looking for what I infer to be a group of people interested in fighters, and presumably meaning them harm. I'm not sure why Rust in particular would be a target... maybe because he represents a brand new team in the King of Fighters tournament.".
"He has a team.. In the king of fighters." Naerose repeats then says, "Well then lets go find the people who have teams in the tournament and question them." Seems simple enough to the red witch. "I mean, can't we probably figure out what is going on based on .. targeting the targets?" Then again, why does Cammy need Naerose for this.
"Well I supposed you won't need me for that." She says then shrugs a little and lowers her hat back over her shades.
"I am already investigating fighters connected to Rust. I think that is the key, given someone stole his book, they must be interested in the contents of that book, no?". Cammy shrugs. "As for you, I do not know. You have magic, no. Do you not do the thing with the cards? And ... detect chi or something like that? I know I can sense psi users sometimes." she admits.
"Alright, let me finish here and then we can go, I'll help you and you'll help me, you can be a piece of my own puzzle I suppose." She says and lowers her hat a little more over her eyes before saying, "It will only take a little while, and I'll be like totally boring." The silence that falls is uncanny for Naerose as she explores.. something, perhaps a nap? Then maybe she'll explore the actual temple.
"Okay.". Cammy wrinkles her nose at Naerose. "Are you saying I am boring?" the doll asks, a little sadly. "Bah. Judgmental people everywhere." she mumbles, getting quite sensitive about being criticised by everybody she meets! She digs around in a pocket, drawing out a slip of paper. "Here is an email address you can contact me with... it is written down, so you dont even have to remember it." she says helpfully. "Do not eat it.". Passing it to Naerose, the doll heads off. That Naerose headache she gets sometimes is coming back something fierce.
Log created on 11:54:47 02/26/2011 by Cammy, and last modified on 22:59:44 02/26/2011.