Log:Scavenger Scavenger Hunting

Scavenger Scavenger Hunting
Participants Haruki Rorschach Miranda	14 May, 2017 Haruki, Rorschach and Miranda participate in the scavenger hunt. Scavenger Hunt
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"So, first we've to grab a form," Haruki says. He already has one. "And you need to get someone to witness you taking each item. Since it's meant to be something you do with friends, not on your own. And there's all these clues that need to be solved. Only I don't want to spoil the hunt for you, since I've already got five items." Rorschach blinked and looked at Haruki when he said someone needs to witness him. He reached over the edge of the bar and sprayed whipped cream over his mouth in absense of silver spraypaint. There was a perfectly mute battle roar right before he was hit in the side of the head by one less than pleased barkeep. A hand crept up to remove the towel. He eyes the ready-whip, the barkeep. And eeeever o carefully barely licked the side of the can with a defiant nod. His now. The right of 'dibs' was complete and ownership was inarguable. That done he took a form at random and scanned it. He signed <<Dude, if I can help you win? Awesome. If I find stuff, cool, if not? Cool. However, I am a professional scavenger. You might have found the very best bloodhound a burger can buy>> He nodded once before someone tiredly asked for the bar rag back. He held it out to the side at arm's length and it was snatched back. Haruki watches Rorschach with that cannister, completely without judgement. Okay maybe there's a little 'eww' but it's mostly smiling. "I think one's at the Paintball place, and ones at Dave's Family's bar. But I can't really check out either. Kseniya wanted the stuffed dinosaur and the butterfly pin, but I just can't work out those clues." He smiles. "Did you want a burger?" Rorschach signed. <<Always. But!>> He held up a finger very formally, <<Work first.>> With that he scavenged the list for hints and tropes before nodding. <> He beamed <<Aaaaand the mood ring! Might keep that for Zillah.>> The roach smiled and he beamed back to Haruki and offered an elbow in jaunty fashion. <> Haruki smiles. "I have the mood ring! But we can totally go and get you one. It's really near. Max was super smart working out the clue. I'd never have got it. I thought it was like a boxing ring." He looks at the list. "The tape? Oh that's all the way over the other side of town, isn't it? It's kinda near Desrochers though. Um, could you maybe check and be sure that Dave's not around? Or his family? Or... um.. one of the bartenders didn't like that I was gay." He checks over the list. "Stuffed tiger?" Rorschach paused and looked around at the bar poking his head behind it again and justhelping himself to take a peek at the crockery before they sashed off. He signed <<Cyclone mug. ANd my guess would be cemetery, not boxing ring. And I'll totally go in. He wants to start shit? Won't go well. I'll totally make a fucking scene that he didn't seem to care for giving me fifty bucks to hang off his junk can call him Big Boss that time>> Hard to tell if he was even serious, and if so about which part. Heeeere mug mug mug.... There's no Cyclone mugs in Cyclone. "I asked Paige, and she said nothing in here," Haruki says. He nods. "Yeah, Max guessed cemetary too. We can walk there. They didn't want to know about the tree." What about the tree? He does look confused by Rorschach's outburst. "Um...?" Probably better change the subject, not ask questions. He steps outside. "So I spoke to Nathania yesterday. She's so really, really nice." Rorschach walked and looked around. His hands went into his pockets looking, a littlenervous at the mention of Nathania. There was a nod of agreement though. It's hard to imagine why one would be nervous about her as she was jsut a delightfully lovely person. He signed <<Gisa wants me to talk to her. Went well then?>> "Oh," Haruki says. "I think you'd like her a lot. She's shy and gentle and just so very nice. She's so easy to talk to. I think I maybe overshared a bit. About myself I mean. Not about stuff I'm not meant to say. But, I felt like I could trust her. That she wouldn't tell anyone else. She's just so sweet." He's smiling as he says that, walking southwards through the streets, getting distracted by shop windows. Well not the butcher, he doesn't look in that one. It does remind him though. "This woman showed up with a rabbit to the scavenger hunt. Poor thing. She thought we'd to bring scavengers I guess. I don't hink rabbits really are though. Then she just let it go. I hope it's okay." Rorschach signed as they walked <<It's okay> I think... I scared her. Good reason all things considered. She's important though. Want to make sure she's okay or this whole city falls.>> He paused and looked up at the sky blinking once. <<So weird ain't it? Anyways, she... helps people. Like us.>> he pointed to he and Haruki. The rabbit got a twist of a grin from his scarred lips and the gaunt, excessivly unhealthy bug (His normal mode) rolled along in deep red hoodie with Haruki. Don't mistake that his mantle didn't absolutely chew teh rest of teh colour in the scenery in film noir bleak fashion as the shadows of a moonless night fell around them. But the hoodie was there. Haruki nods at Rorschach. "She's important." He agrees. "She explained a little. But she's going to need people to look after her too. That's one of the things." He steps towards the graveyard. "So, mother's day tomorrow." He says. "I've sent my mom flowers. She loves fresh flowers. I hope they actually get there. And I'll probably skype her. Do you have plans?" Rorschach signed back <<Taking flowers out to mom. She's at Shady Oaks. Bringing flowers. Zillah. Damion coming too. GOnna tell her about hte wedding. If you're free? You I'd let go. I hope>> he paused and furrowed his brow <<She's on tomorrow. Good though that you sent youmom flowers. It's important to keep some standards. At least you didn't send her a pineapple though> S eem redundant. Being in Hawaaii and all>> Haruki smiles at Rorschach. "I'd love to meet her too. Would it be overcrowding her though?" He laughs. "Yeah. I could have sent her a pineapple and a can of spam. But nah, I got her this beautiful bouquet. It's all white flowers." As they walk down the street his gaze goes to crossroads cafe first. He's almost on autopilot as he starts walking that way. "So, Damion going to be your best man?" Rorschach shrugged and signed <<I dunno. But I thought table withthe four of us wouldn't be too bad. Also if she starts specking Czech that's okay. That's jsut... a thing>> It was weird discussing any of his history and he caught himself before the fall into some quagmire <<From there originally, ya know. Moved here when she was little. As for best man? I dunno. Zee and I were thinking cemetery at like the middle of the night. Have someone do the thing and just have like a fistful of the people who've been... ya know involved in our weird little family just be there. Us. You guys. The dead. Good times. Tresspassing of sacred ground. Minor felony. No big deal.>> Haruki smiles at Rorschach and nods. "Do you speak Czech?" He nods. "If that's what you want? You know anyone who's ordained then? You doing it all legal like? Or illegal like? Should we dress in black? Or will I wear sparkles? It'll be very you." Haruki's walking towards the graveyard with Rorschach. They've got one of those scavenger hunt sheets with them, and so are clearly playing the game. Rorschach looked to Haruki and signed blinking at him <<Yeah, can't you tell by my accent?>> The blink was incredulous. He grinned to Haruki letting him know that yeah, there was no way to tell but did sign <<It was my first language. I'm thinkin red. It shows. Zillah really liked it, and I got that new coat that's pretty fuckin bitchin.>> The upright cockroach man in punk's clothing walked with the yet-to-be bedazzled Japanese gent. <<She wants dark red. Kinda zoomin on dark red right now>> He grinned amused at this as it was the only colour to make any appearance near the Roach within a 15' radius. Haruki laughs at Rorschach, all bright and happy. "I can definitely do dark red. I love those colours, all rich and dark, or bright and shiny. It's one of my favourite colours!" Rorschach bent and picked up a mood ring not far from where the picnic was the other day and stuck it on his finger. His eyes narrowed and his head tilted before realizing it would never change colour near him. Fingers raked through his cropped hair shoving his antennae momentarily back. <<It's weird. Something that's not fucked up looking forward to. I dunno things ever actually worked out before. It's...weird. Really cool. Weird>> So much sign language coming from the Bug man. He pulled out a list and consulted it <<Hotel I think>> Haruki's gaze flicks to the coffee shop again. He nods at Rorschach. "Okay. We can drive out to the hotel. Will you, um check the bar for me first? I think it's that bar." He's looking a bit anxious. "You deserve all the good things to look forward to. All the happiness and love and joy. And to give hope, to everyone else, that maybe one day they'll have even half of that." Miranda is on her way into the town square, her attention falling upon the odd couple after a few moments, and whatever path she may have been heading on before she turns to approach the pair, "Hello again." She says with little finger waggle of greeting. Rorschach blinked at Miranda and then looked behind himself and then to Haruki whom he patted on teh backand pointed to him curiously, <<That's all you buddy>> Looking up at teh bar he nodded and held up a finger to Miranda like hi, I'll be right back "Hi!" Haruki greets Miranda cheerfully. "Have you met my friend, Rorschach? Rorschach this is Miranda. She's been doing the scavenger hunt too. We were just going to drive out to the Hotel and to the bar, and hopefully see if there's any more items there. You want to come?" "The Hotel and a bar?" Miranda asks with a slight tilt of a head, "And I've met him before, briefly yeah, he wrote me a nice little note even." She says with a wisp of a smile at Rorschach, her attention shifting back towards Haruki, "I don't understand the hand gestures though, I'm afraid." Rorschach ducked into the cafe and looked around. The first placehe looked was on teh ground where a certain woman was repute for throwing them. Alas it was cleaned up already. He was not, however, shy about finding used glasses in the bussing tray, dug it out and got a napkin an- oooh coffee still in it. He drang what was left to teh morose chagrin of the woman at table eight, and started drying it off. Said woman received a rather belacose and confrontational look given to her like say somehting lady. I'll drink yours too! "Oh!" Haruki says. "It's ASL. I can translate maybe? Only I'm not that good." He steps in to the cafe with them. "You need the one marked with the logo," he says to Rorschach. "Not just any mug." There are indeed some of the cyclone logo ones still behind the counter though. Rorschach turned the mug around to Haruki to show it did actually say Cyclone on it and it was grabbed. Miranda, though, he blew a kiss to a tad theatrically. Because someone had a flare for drama this week. He did turn the list around to show her what they were up to. Scavenger hunt! "Oh, I know!" Miranda says with a little grin, fishing into her jacket for her own list, which she flashes back at Rorschach, "That would be lovely though, if you would translate when he needs, though, he's quite good at getting his point across anyway, I've noticed." Haruki laughs at this. He shakes his head, amused. He nods at Miranda's words, then asks Rorschach. "So where to next?" Rorschach fished into his own pocket and put the list away before flashing a Queen of Diamonds at Miranda. Huh. Well it looked like an ordinary playing card. He tapped the side of his temple and tucked the card away again like <<I know, you have something there we shoudl talk about>> Haruki's a magician. As such he does spot that card, although he knows better than to ask questions. He heads for the door instead. Rorschach signed back to Miranda with a bemused look in the black pits of his eyes with those flecks of blue watching her reaction, and letting Haruki translate as they went. He paused and rubbed his long fingers across a creased forehead clarifying <<Don't want to trade favours. Just the card. You wanted a higher one. I'm a bottom feeder.>> "You said something about a hotel, right?" Miranda asks with a little glance over at Haruki, glancing back at Rorschach and the flashed card, flashing a slight grin, which is followed by a shrug, "I believe you had an idea where to next yeah?" That look goes from Rory's signing, then to Haruki. Haruki's the worst translator ever. He doesn't actually translate what Rorschach's saying about cards. In truth he doesn't really understand it, and doesn't feel like he should be asking. The cards maybe make him feel a bit left out? He's seen a few around. "He wants to swap cards. He likes your bottom." Okay. He nods. "Desrocher's bar, and then to the Red Clover Hotel. They're a bit of a drive though. My car's really near though." He'll lead the way that way happily enough. Rorschach held up a finger to coffect and then signed << No Haru- well yeah that too.>> He read the page one more tinme and furrows a brow and quite animatedly, dug pencil out of back pocket and scribbled Not red or green. Club Violet? Maybe not Red CLover hotel? Try hotel anyways. Free coffee.. Bugs, man. Total mooches. Miranda ahhs softly, glancinb back over her shoulder a lit slightly, "It is quite nice, isn't it. And we can talk about that later, of course." She says to Rory, "We can check the Hotel, I think it makes sense, and it's Red not green, not not red or green, I think." She says, glancing at her little sheet she holds. "I've not been to club violet," Haruki says. He pulls out his phone and starts checking. "It's in the other direction though." He smiles. "Free coffee. They can be good for free breakfasts too." He looks at the sheet and nods at what Miranda says. He leads the way to his car. Haruki doesn't talk while he drives. In fact he's dreadfully dull. There's not even the radio playing. He focuses on the road and just the road. He keeps to the speed limit. He's not at all fun in any way shape or form. And finally they get here. Rorschach tapped the dash twice and was.. hey the assassin was excited. He's got a spot of colour in his mantle now, and things were going well. Hell he was even able to help folks find shit! That was a bonus. It was really rather nice to be doing this for not survival pourposes. Clover? Check. Red? eeeeh it wasn't green. He was distracted a bit though running his fingers over the bits of red trim and brick on teh facade of the building. Wooooah. Okay he was spacing slightly, but what does one excpet from Moon Court really? With some searching there was a wave of hands. They were close. Miranda spent the ride from town to city in the back, painting her nails, a quiet ride along the way, it seems! Once they arrive she steps out and lets her gaze wander aroudn slowly, "So, where would I be if I were a casette tape.." "It says outside?" Haruki says. "And that it sits outside. Hmm what'm I even going to do with a casette tape? Are there any benches? Or things that can be sat on? It does say sits, that seems like an odd choice of wording." Rorschach could answer that last question easily and handed Haruki his pencil. Now if he knew how those related was another issue. He considered and since he was freinds withteh feds on a want to know basis, checked for a mail box if they did such things for businesses. Hrmmm "Yeah, a bench or some sort of seating sounds likely, a bus stop maybe? Let's go check all the benches and stuff nearby." Miranda says at the suggestion from Haruki, and she goes off in search of one of the nearby benches. Haruki has no idea how those things relate. Nope. He checks the benches near the building, and then he spots something, close to where Rorschach is. "There?" he asks, pointing to a bench, which has a plastic box underneath it. "Are there any left in?" he starts dashing over in order to grab one. Rorschach tilted the box and YES! There were a few and... he was going through them? Debbie Gibson? Nah. Scorpions? eeeeeh nah. Ooh, Def Leopard Hysteria. SScore. He kept the Def Leopard one and passed the pile to the others. His head popped up and he clapped twice to herald attention to Miranda and waved her over with a skeletal grin. Fuuuuck yeaaaaaah! Casate tapes! Haruki looks at the box of casettes. He just grabs a random casette. "Do you have a player for these? Do you want mine once we're done?" He uses the pencil to sign the others forms and then waves his about to get a signature. Although by sign, he's been mostly jsut scribbling at random something that doesn't really look like much other than an H. Maybe. "Ahh, good eyes!" Miranda says as Haruki finds the box of casettes, moving over and crouching down to reach for her own box, grinning just a bit and moving to tuck her tape away into her coat. "That's a nice casette you've found there.. I don't know that I have anything that'll even play mine anymore." Rorschach grinned and stood up straighter. <<Hang on to them. We find a casette player next. I say meet at Hazel's for breakfast and see how we do?>> he looked between the watery woman lobbing scimitars at their heads... wait... it wasn't an election year. She wasn't Lady of the Lake this week. THE NAIAD and the magician (he looked between them) a nd signed what turned up to be an offer to continue hunt post lunch.