Logfile from M3

Tetsuo's Hibachi Grill and Karoake Bar

A large building is illuminated by a neon sign reading "Tetsuo's Hibachi Grill and Karaoke" and the sound of music wafts out to the street, along with the tantalizing aromas of well-prepared food. This is one of the hottest places to be in Neo Tokyo and perhaps even the world. It's also known as a place where opposing sides will clash, errupting into a fight that bad enough to ruin the interior for a number of days. But the management must be good, because Tetsuo's is always open again for business soon enough.

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Gemini Man [Human] [RM]

Ban Joe #0001

Out <O>: Nogaki Commercial District - Neo Tokyo

Sharply dressed in half-hologram human guise, Gemini Man has made the decision--a concious one--to allow the denizens of Tesuos to realize that he is a pair of identical twins. Both Gemini Man look identical in their guises: a thin veil of their true identities, in fact, the holographic noses doing little to cloak their actual faces. A hero could see through this one, and that's part of the fun.

Especially in Neo-Tokyo where you never KNOW who might show up. The twins enter the bustling Tetsuos one at a time, panning around the area in unison.

Following rather carelessly behind is another, albeit /much less/ sharply dressed young man, though no holograms are required here. That's the beauty of a mask. In his blue hair, Akira-Tengu follows the Twin Terrors, letting him do the looking around as he keeps his gaze straight ahead. As if he /really/ cared who else was here. Well, maybe. But not at the moment.

"Hm." One of the Gemini twins nods, after making a cursory examination of the area. "Good. No Maverick Hunters."

"Darn. No Maverick Hunters," says the other, crossing his arms.

"Three at the bar," says the first twin to the host at the door, and, then, just walks in.

"You come here often at all?" the second twin asks of Tengu as he passes his non-twin-brother by.

Tengu Man stops his walk and throws an inquisitive look at Gem #2, and scowls briefly. "Yeah," he says, dropping the scowl as he answers vaguely. He finally takes a look around, getting a good idea of the layout of this place. That's /always/ a good thing to know, right? Plus it's not like he comes here often...

The second Gemini notices the way Tengu cases the joint, and decides that it means his assurance of being a regular isn't nessicarily true. He shrugs, and sits down at the bar. The first twin takes a stool exactly two spaces away, leaving a blank spot for his other brother in the middle. ...These kind of outings were always so unpredictable. "Ok... let us ask you another question, then," Gemini Man says--ingoring his own assessment of Tengu's first answer, while the other twin orders three sake.

Akira-Tengu quirks an eyebrow at the comment. So nice to have a face and eyebrows to quirk with... Slowly he takes a seat in between the two Gems. Okay. So he's surrounded. Despite it, he allows himself to relax, and to have sake ordered for him. He turns to the twin asking and says, simply, "Shoot."

Sword Man arrives from the Nogaki Commercial District - Neo Tokyo.

Sword Man has arrived.

Sword Man marches in, as regal as ever. The White Knight of Wily is here!

Gemini Man One turns around to face the bar, in the same position his twin is already sitting. In a slightly lowered voice, he asks... "So...how are you with chicks, anyway?" He says the pivotal word with kind of a half-cough; it's clear enough to hear it, but maybe he's embarrassed about the question.

Blinkblink. Whooooa. Once again, he's being asked questions /nothing/ along the lines of what he was expecting. If he were drinking sake, he'd choke on it. But he isn't. He's just sitting. His head jerks up, and he looks straight at Gemini. "What?" Blinkblink. "Oh. I-- yeah, I... guess I'm pretty good with women..." A certain girl comes to mind... "Yeah. Yeah I am," he answers with a lot more confidence, and at about the same tone as Gem, with a little more enthusiasm.

Gemini Man blinks at Tengu, just as surprised as Tengu was to hear the question. "Ummm... You have a girlfriend?"

Elec Man arrives from the Nogaki Commercial District - Neo Tokyo.

Elec Man has arrived.

Akira-Tengu fixes his glance squarely on Gem's face, his own expression still blank. Then, slowly, a smile cuts a swathe across his face. "Maybe. I think that's up to...her. We, uh... haven't covered much territory yet." Huh. The conspiratorial glint in his eye and grin on his face still remain.

Elec Man leeeeans in through the door. "Hey, guys! What's up?"

Gemini Man would press the issue, but, two things happen that prevent this. One... his drink arrives, being placed on the table in front of all 'three' Robot Masters present. Two, Elec Man arrives. The second Gemini Man turns first, and squints slightly at Elec before he settles back into his seat. Then, he waves him on over to the bar. The first tips back his sake for a first sip.

Elec Man has disconnected.

Apparently, Gemini's wave is ignored, so the second twin turns to his drink, and shrugs. "Anyway..." he says.

Tengu Man continues grinning at Gem for a second before his sake arrives. Mm. Good ol' Tetsuo sake... He grins at the glass instead, and drowns his smile in a large sip of the rice wine.

As the Asian teen and the dapper business suited twins chat it up, a large mysterious figure in a large brown cloak shuffles in. Underneath the hood of the outfit, the robot (since he's obviously too tall to be human in any way, especially with that build) looks about. He sees the two men chatting it up, but disregards them. Instead, he walks up toward the bar, obviously not hear to eat at the moment. He sits down and says to the bartender, and says in a deep, muffled voice, "I would like a brandy, please." Odd order at a bar, but then again, it's an odd world, so the bartender goes to comply with the order.

The first Gemini lowers the glass first. "Wellll...how'd it happen?"

"Not that we're interested in all the soft stuff. Just that, we're scouting around trying to hook a pair of Japanese twins. We saw this movie..."

"Catgirl twins are also acceptable," says the first twin."

"Provided they're of age," adds the second.

"Or...err...you know what we mean."

Tengu Man almost drowns in his drink as he listens to his brother, coming out of the sip with a nose dripping sake. Smirking, he reaches for a napkin and calmly wipes his nose. "Met on Eurasia, that's about it, really. She liked my hair." He smiles happily. "Not this hair, though. Different face too, y'know?" He shrugs and grins. "Yeah, I know whatcha mean. But...why?" Chipper. Too chipper. Of course, he leaves out all the important parts, like how it's Kalinka, and how he's planning to meet her again... But hey. Chipperness. He notes the big figure out of the corner of his eye, but pays no attention. Not important.

Gemini Man

A man of about six feet tall. Thinly built and well-groomed, he has a bit of a "young business professional" sort of look; it's difficult to tell exactly how young. He's wearing a dark grey suit; the collar buttoned up, but with no tie. It's tailored, but the pants seem to be intentionally a size too baggy. His right arm sports a very expensive-looking watch, gold and mother-of-pearl with several faces and buttons. He has dark eyes, and dark brown, neatly trimmed hair.

http://www.secondtruth.com/gemini/twins1.jpg

Carrying:

Gemini's third object

The cloaked one merely stays quiet, making note of the two...er...three of them chatting, but not really recognizing their presence either. Either he doesn't know who they really are or is making a hard attempt at ignoring them. Well, one or the other, he merely waits for his brandy.

It's best Tengu does leave out the fact that it's Kalkina. Otherwise, Gemini would be highly tempted to beat him up, and that would make an extreme mess all over the bar. "Human chick?" Gemini Man One does ask, taking another sip immediately after.

The second Gemini Man chuckles slightly. "You poor non-holographic people. How long does it TAKE you to get out of the house in the morning?"

Tengu Man chuckles and nods. "Yeah." He brings up a finger and moves it in a circle by his temple, indicating he thinks they're all collectively nuts. He rolls his eyes at the second Gem, not bothering to answer.

"No, seriously. How long?" the second Gemini Man asks, taking another sip. "Somtimes it takes Shadow, like, three hours. He's like a DAMN woman." He looks sideways over his glass at a Japanese man, middle-aged, who is staring at him oddly. Ah, having the open Robot Master conversation in the public place was always so much fun. He narrows his eyes at the man, who figits nervously.

"I can get a DRUNK human chick okay, but they never last long much past sober," Gemini One concludes.

"Probably your stunning personality."

"I think they get freaked by the laser."

[OOC] Sword Man returns to OOCness.

Sword Man has left.

Tengu Man eyes the second Gem. "I just switch out faces, tha's all. Really easy. Redye the hair. Etcetera." He makes it sound as if it's all oh so easy. Tengu does manage a laugh at the Shadow comment. "Why I am not surprised that Shadow would take so long...stupid ninja. Hehe." Nothing like insulting your friends. "Anyway. It's aaaaall in the charm, man. Flaunt if you got it...and I, evidently, got it." He grins. Mm. Arrogance. "Them being drunk works well though, I find. You just hafta not be a freak for a couple days. Easy enough. Especially for us...ahem... non-holographics."

The second Gemini knocks back his sake glass, finishing it off. "Good Wily, switching off faces, that sounds damned painful."

"Riiiight," says the first Gemini Man, responding more or less to Tengu's arrogant statement. Then, he considers. "Not...be a freak for... a couple of days." Seems an innocent enough prospect. Until you look at the second twin, who is busy whisking his fingers through a lit table-candle.

Tengu Man looks back and forth at both Gems, then breaks out in a low laugh. "Yeah. That's all it really takes." He laughs again, and facepalms, still laughing. "Good luck, Gemini. Hahahahahaha!"

The second Gemini Man waves the bartender over. "Hey...bring me another sake, would you, and I'll show you a cool bar trick."

"Naw, we can do that," says the first Gemini Man. He looks off to the side. "Just no...twins in here right now. Damn the luck. Was yours drunk?"

Tengu Man continues laughing, until the sound is lost in another gulp of sake. He comes up snickering... until he steadies himself and stops. "Nooope. Sober as the day is long."

"What's her sign?" first Gemini asks, a half-idle question, even though, believe it or not, he takes this pretty seriously.

The second sake arrives, and the second Gemini Man gets some of it on his fingers, then dips them into the flame of the candle. When he pulls his hand back, it comes away licking with tiny blue flames, which don't seem to be harming him in the least. The bartender seems duly impressed. "It's safe, see? You wanna try?"

Akira-Tengu shrugs helplessly through another sip of sake. "Dunno. Didn't ask. Don't care." He looks around at the other Gem briefly, noticing the fire on his fingers. "Hooooboy." He turns his back so as to speak better to the first Gemini... so what if somebody gets burned? Don't play with fire, you louts.

Gemini Man throws up his hands. "How could you NOT ask? That pickup line has worked for centuries."

The bartender attempts the twin Master's trick, but draws his hands back at the last second. "No, you gotta hold it in there longer." The second twin blows out his hand, and shakes the remaining sake off it, as the bartender tries again. "THERE ya go..." The bartender finally lets out a slight shout of pain, and smacks his hand a couple times on the edge of the bar to extingiush, actual, painful flames. The second twin doubles over laughing at this.

The first covers his mouth, and laughs as well. "I love holograms."

"You gotta keep practicing." The second Gemini composes himself and takes another sip of his drink.

Akira-Tengu breaks out laughing as well, knowing what's going on behind him. "Niiiice," he remarks. "Anyway. I didn't get a chance to. We moved right on to how nice my hair looked." Yeeeeah. He chuckles some more at the whole fire trick. "I remember when ya did that in London. Hilarity, bro." More laughing.

"Yeah, that's right." Gemini leans back against the bar a bit. "You were there when we ran into Kalinka Cossack in the Catacombs." He rolls his eyes. "God, what a freakin' IDIOT, that girl."

Tengu's eyes momentarily go wide, and then he breaks out laughing...again. Maybe the sake is going to his head. Maybe a little... He breaks down, almost, putting his head on the bar and covering it with his free hand, as the other is on the sake glass. His shoulders and back bob up and down as torrents of laughter descend upon the aerial Master. "Yeah hahahaha, an IDIOT, wahahahaha!" So very funny...

The second twin, on his second drink, nods. "Well, yeah, the fire trick IS pretty cool..."

Unsuspecting, the first Gemini just...stares. "No, seriously. She is."

Tengu Man continues laughing, drawing strange looks from several people. He sits up, moving the glass closer to him as he sits back and wipes nonexistent tears from his eyes. "Yeah. Yeah, I know. I know." He chuckles some more, almost wheezing, before he thumps himself on the chest and descends into quiet, chipper murmurs.

Gemini Man waits for a long beat as Tengu settles himself down. Then, finally, he asks, enunciating one word extremely heavily. "Wwwwhat?"

Tengu Man tosses an inquisitive look Gemini's way and half-shrugs. "I said I know. I know, that's it." Simple. Concise. That's Tengu for you.

Gemini Man looks over at Gemini Man, and they both chuckle slightly. Then, one of them walks up to you, and hands you a single cookie, placing it carefully in your outstretched hand. He grinningly states: "Don't worry. It's not tabasco flavored, there's no razors in it, and it's not triggered to explode." Gemini Man smiles at the other Gemini Man again, and then they both wander away laughing. ... To be on the safe side, maybe you'd better not eat that.

You hand Gemini Man a cookie!

"All right. If you say so." The first Gemini looks away.

The second one is turning back to the door, and starts a spark of enthusiasm. "Ah... ah... ah...there we go!"

Gemini One shakes his head, despite not actually looking in that direction. "They aren't twins; one's taller than the other."

"Still, sisters at least!" The second Gemini is admiring two well-dressed girls entering the bar area. "We have a SHOT..."

"Hmm. Well, beggars, choosers... they're not too bad. Want us to pay your tab?" he asks Tengu Man.

Tengu Man smirks, wondering what that whole 'wwwwwhat' deal was about... Idly wondering if Gemini's on to him... The semi-paranoia sets in, and he drops his chipper aura. "Uhuh." He swallows, finishes off the sake and leers at the two sisters who just walked in... "Eh. Not bad. G'luck." He sets the glass down and starts to get up. "Yeah. Please. Do. I'm gettin' outta here."

Gemini Man isn't on to anything at the moment. "All right. We got ya. Later." He starts fishing around in his holographic pocket for the holographic wallet with the holographic money in it. The best things in life are free.