Anime 2030 Game Log W2

Week 2 – Day 1

Monday morning Anya finds Sainen before class starts and confronts him about how he is not a team player. He says “The club isn’t really a team, yet” She argues “If everyone acts like you just did, we will never become a team.” To settle the matter she challenges him to a target shoot at the range after school.

As the day goes on, the rumor about the challenge circulates. By the time Anya and Sainen arrive at the range, there is quite a crowd gathered to watch. A lot of guys are there to cheer for the tall blond Amazon. ( Although she does not know it yet, Anya has a fan club ) The contest is judged by the Gun Club’s VP. It is close but the match goes to Anya.

Meanwhile Terra is alone in the Occult club room, wondering where everyone is. Just as she is about to go home, the group arrives. They are in high spirits and plan to go to the local mall. Terra thinks it’s a great idea for the group to get to know each other better, but she has work to do.

At the mall everyone has fun, window shopping and playing games in the arcade. It is the first time for both Anya and Sainen being in a mall. Anya coming from a small rural Canadian village has no real experience with giant shopping centers. Sainen on the other hand had been living under a monastery and never had cause to visit a mall.

As the group was walking to the food court, it happened. The attempted assassination of Ellsa “Foxtrot” Kumiyagi – captain of the school’s Red Team in paintball. A man with a pistol tried to shoot her in the back of the head, as another man with an SMG backed him up. Things got very messy, very fast.

Ellsa narrowly avoided getting her head blown off, then returned fire from the floor.

Anya drew her pistol and tried to disarm the gun-man, but the crowd of people was just starting to react. Their erratic movements ruined her shot.

Sainen took a second to coordinate with his sidekick Somni. The monk would jump around healing people as needed. Sainen would try to take down a bad guy with a good old flying tackle. ( The high-tech suit he had on under his school clothes, gave him an edge in combat but it was no true battle-suit )

Kimi and Shine, with no real fighting skills, did the smart thing and ran for a hiding spot.

Aoki used one of her powers to send a chair flying at the guy with the SMG.

Hadohi ducked under a table and pulled out her phone, to start recording the fight.

Most of the bad guys were killed by Ellsa, who took head shots.

Anya shot one of the gun-men several times, but he did not go down thanks to his armor.

Hadohi first tried to burn one guy with her powers, then after setting a wall on fire, she used her ice ability to freeze him.

Kimi and Shine noticed that there were suspicious looking men covering the exits, as they ran into one of the shops to hide. The entire event was starting to look like a very well organized hit.

Sainen scuffled with and knocked out the frozen gun-man. Who turned out to be the only bad guy captured alive in the entire event.

Aoki having spotted a suspicious guy in the crowd of terrified by standers; hit him with a chair. She then tied him up, once all the shooting had stopped. ( However the police let him go because there was no connection found between him and the incident – he seemed to them to be just another innocent by-stander. )    

The entire fight only took about 30 seconds, but it seemed a lot longer. The mall security guards, who were armed only with batons and tazer-guns, started reacting after the first few shots, but they quickly dove for cover after a burst of auto-fire was sent in their direction. The other security guards, on the upper levels, did not enter into the situation until the fighting was all done.

The police arrived several minutes after everything was over and the heroes had run off. Sainen had asked Ed to delete the security camera footage of the event. But there were still dozens of eye witnesses who saw everything happen.

Ellsa stayed behind to talk with the police, because she was already well known to them and because she had been the real target of the attack. She strongly suspected that the gun-men were from the Ren-Raku Corporation.

Week 2 – Day 2

During home room, our heroes are told that they must report to the Principal’s office as soon as the lunch brake starts. The teacher makes no mention about yesterday’s mall madness, but the rumors are flying.

Principle Ozen demands to know exactly what happened at the mall. He does not tell the students how much he actually knows about the events. He lets them explain things as if he knew none of the details. For the most part Sainen does the talking.

After a brief lecture on responsibility, the Principle assigns the group to detention that afternoon. The teacher in charge of the afterschool discipline for the group is of course Miss Saim, the chief weapons instructor.

Unlike some schools where detention is a matter of sitting quietly and counting out the time until freedom, at OEAOE the time is put to more constructive use. In this case, Miss Saim reviews the entire battle, step by step, on a map of the mall. She points out in brutal honesty what the group did right and what they did wrong.

“Everything is a learning experience, but when you are using live ammo in a crowd of civilians, you can’t afford to make mistakes.” She stresses the point several times.