Yours Truly

A muscly mountain of a man in a suit tips his hat at Julianne after she introduced herself, before he says, "It is a pleasure to meet you Ms. Julianne," with a polite and deep tone of voice, standing up and bowing at everyone before he continues with, "My name is Mr. Richard B. Spencer, I am a tailor by trade, but I have trained in the martial arts in my spare time, and I hope that we will all become firm allies in our quest, thank you." He sat back down the moment he finished speaking, starting to hum a little to a jaunty old tune as he waited for everyone else to introduce themselves.

Edward attempts to step between the infected and Danielle to buy her the time she'd need to back away, and takes a deep breath before bashing the infected in the head.

Jun glances at the door and the surrounding area a bit before she finally says, "Well I don't know about the rest of you, but seeing as I can turn practically invisible, and since the doorway is just another gaping hole in space from outside, I think I'm going to try and scout ahead for a bit, see what's beyond that black door,". And with that being said, he took a couple of steps forward, turned on their stealth cloak, and faded away into their nightmares before passing through whatever it was that lied beyond the door.

Hirata pouted a little as she put the drawing tablet back inside of her bag, not realizing that she had accidentally showed Akihiro one of her more 'special' designs, "Bakaaaaa, of course there's more! All you had to do was flick to the next one, never had any computers in your world or somethiiiing?." She then donned the oxygen kit and took a few deep breaths in before she took out another, camera equipped tablet phone thing, letting out oooh and aaahhhs as she twirled, jumped, and tried to swim her way to the asteroid, taking pictures of space and the rest of the party along the way.

Jun couldn't help but agree with Nader for this, mostly because she didn't really find the idea of jumping down a seemingly bottomless dark pit to be a particularly good one as well, no matter what some of the others were saying, "Honestly, I'm going to have to go with Nader on this one, we have no idea what happened to everyone up here, and I'm not too keen on sliding down a dark psionics absorbing pit to find out what happened to everyone down there just yet.." She started to back away from the pit itself before she continued with, "That and besides, if everyone's in trouble down there, I don't think that we'd be of much help if we all come tumbling down a giant funnel, and if they're not in any trouble, then I think that we can take our sweet time with finding an entrance that doesn't look like a setpiece from a bad horror movie."

Hirata started to hum along to some anime opening no one else could hear as she booted up her drawing tablet and swiftly typed in it's password, smiling a little as she started to flick through it'a gallery, "Weeeeell, if you want to see them then I don't mind if you borrow my tablet for a while...just don't look at anything in the stuffs folder alright?."

Hirata pouts at Akihiro after she heard his response, letting out a slight whine before she said, "I'm not washed upppp, I still have all of my designs with me, it's just that everyone else wants dull stuffs like circular vacuum cleaners or movement assisting exoskeletons made out of boring old solid rods and hydraulics, and they wouldn't even let me add buzzsaws or nanobots to it or anything, because it's 'too complex' or it's 'too creepy to have the vacuum cleaner consume biological matter as another way to recharge itself'." She let out a huff and stretched out her hand, causing her backpack to slide her drawing tablet over to it while she waved at the loaderbots and T1's direction and said, "I want to make kūru robots like those, except even kūrā, but everyone just wants me to build a better mouse trap or something else's that's damu. Bluh, I need some batteries and metal or something, then I can show you."

"Well, I've always wanted to make humanoid robots and giant mecha, so I kinda focused on designing and making those in college, but there isn't really a demand for those after the wars so...I mostly modify appliances these days to be self operating...," she pouts a little and looks away from Akihito for a moment, grumbling something under her breath with a disappointed look in her face before she suddenly snaps back to attention with, "Bbut I can make bigger stuff as well, if I had the time and materials that is.."

Alan smiles to no one in particular as he finishes up a quick and dirty emulator system, and proceeds to try and gather as much usable information about the con itself and the surrounding area into his deck as humanly possible, to try and get a working map and points of interests system up and running.

Hirata meanwhile, seemed to not mind Stella's outburst at all, as she realized that not only did someone want her to explain what a robot is, they also had nowhere else to go...and they were a ninja as well of course. She took a series of very deep breaths as she looked around the spaceship for a specific example, ending up pointing directly at the loaderbots before she practically yelled out, "Robots are just the most amazing things in the world! Like, that's the robot that carried me here," she turned to point at T1 before she continued with, "that's a smaller robot I guess, a giant hydraulic arm that welds things together is a robot, a humanoid maid that does all of your vacuum cleaning and dishes for you would have been a robot if they hadn't chosen the small disk instead...."

"Well, it seems that sliding down there's the only way forward for now, unless anyone else's got a better idea that is?," Jun asked as she paced around for a bit, trying to check if there was anything else of immediate interest in the cave.

Jun stepped aside a little to let Lucine pass through before she cupped her hands around her mouth, and said in a slightly quieter tone, "....you want to get to your dog? Do you have a way to get across the pit on your own? Because we can help you get to him if you want, just...don't walk into the pit."

Jun slowly raises her hands up and stops in place as the child starts to back away towards the seemingly bottomless pit in an understandable attempt to put some distance between himself and the small squad of armed strangers, "Whoa there kid, look, we won't get any closer if you don't back away yeah? We're not here to hurt anyone, we just want to know where everyone else's gone."

Hirata seemed to not mind Akihiro's potential discomfort much as she circled the young trainee ninja, letting out a slight squee as she heard him admit to having trained to become one, "Awww, why did you stop? Ninja training is so cool though, jumping around the place, making signs at things until they explode or you summon spirits and things, I don't get to do exciting things like that....." Her words trailed off for a moment as she stared at a nearby wall and mumbled something indistinctly, before she snapped back into attention and said, "And oh! My name is Doctor Hirata, I make robots and stuff to do everyday chores so that people won't have to..mostly because I don't want to do them myself, eheheh."

Hirata sidled up to Akihiro immediately after the laser beam woke her up again, reaching out to poke the small ninja a couple of times before she asked, "Aaa, are you a reaaal ninja~?," with a starry eyed look in her eyes that might disturb him some.

Jun stopped to turn towards Proditor for a moment, fading into view for long enough to hear the alien out before she abruptly turned back around and activated her suit's wall climbing systems for additional grip as she set down the trail heading up to the cavern once more, and stated, "Well you can come with me if you'd like, could always use the backup if they're the one that caused all of this." She didn't raise an eyebrow at the kid's question, not like there was much of a point in worrying about potential child soldiers being part of their group when you consider the fact that there was a floating psychic alien with multiple sets of limbs standing right there, but she did still see fit to say "Not unless you need to get your walking stick out first kid, just put that boomstick away somewhere friendlier, and come with us alright? Don't get separated," in response.

Jun did some light stretches as she stepped out of the bus, taking in a few deep breaths to get herself a little more used to whatever stench was pervading the air before she said, "Well, this place is a lot deader than I thought it would be...hope we're not too late to help though. I'll scout out ahead, see if I can't find any clues as to where everyone went," and turned on her cloak before she took some careful steps towards the cavern and look around it.

Hirata did what any other lazy bastard would do in this situation, and simply stood there and pouted and whined until one of the loaderbots picked her up and carried her off to the ship anyway, not even paying attention to what the loaderbot was saying by this point as she did her best to curl up and get some more rest. When she finally arrived at the spaceship itself, not even Hirata knew if the yawn she let out was due to the boring corporate spiel, the fact that she was still feeling kinda sleepy, or the fact that the entire fleet of spaceships seemed to have been designed by a singular man with a ruler, and a very steady hand. And her interest wasn't piqued again until she was unceremoniously dropped off by the uncomfortable loaderbot onto the equally uncomfortable ground with a cassette tape thing, and she drifted over to the supply crates to see just what cool scifi guns they apparently had at their disposal. Only to find herself being disappointed by the apparently low caliber of the weapons they had at their disposal, and her flopping over to a nearby seat to take one apart just to find out what made it tick. Potentially to someone else's horror, Hirata almost immediately took out a bunch of rubber bands after she disassembled the submachinegun and tinkered about with the complex gyrostabilizer system, seemingly intent on doing something to 'improve it' as she mumbles to herself about fixing obvious design faults, and rubber band propellers. After a couple of awkward moments passes where Hirata and various handy appendages coming out from her backpack somehow transforms the rubberband and several miscellaneous metal bits that people probably won't be missing into an odd looking, but functional under barrel modification to the Transmurdera, she points the submachinegun at an empty spot, pulling the rubberband motor back while making firearm firing noises, before she engages whatever passes as a safety and tries to fall asleep on the chair with her arms wrapped securely around her new weapon.

Radovan decided that the if the chief was half the man everyone else claimed him to be, then he could take very good care of himself for now, which is why he seemingly callously ordered his Larvitar to, "Larvitar! Get in close and use Screech on the Girl!," as part of the impromptu three pronged offensive that Sena, Radovan, and Emma seemed to be in the process of cooking up, since let's face it, it's going to be hard for her to attack anyone with a face and area full of sand, and ringing ears.

The senator took a moment to scan the room in search of...someone in particular as everyone else spoke, waiting for but a moment before he smiled a little (or at least curled the sides of his lips upwards) and adopted a slightly more genuine sounding 'friendly' tone of voice to state, " Ah, well I hope that you'll excuse my lack of pleasantly Miss Adventure, but lately I seem to be having a great deal of trouble with finding competent help lately, ever since someone tried to shoot me dead in fact," his smile remained there, unchanging as he continued with, "But don't worry, other than a minor mishap that should hopefully be resolved soon, I have been just fine." For a moment his eyes focused on the entrance of the establishment before he quickly flitted them back to look towards the group, " But just where is the librarian of dubious repute hiding at the moment? I was looking forward to meeting him tonight." He let out a slight laugh before he cracked his knuckles and said, "Especially since we have very important business matters to discuss tonight, concerning that clownish acquaintance of yours and that snafu down in Boston, I believe that your clown said that discreet transportation was required?."

Alan gently idles the van's engines to activate the various electronic systems inside of it, before he jacks into his computer and attempts to gather information about the con itself, it's layout, download any local maps to hook up to his commlinks/vans map systems, trustworthy GPS systems, and the world's recent history/any strictly enforced laws that would prevent hin from just sending out his camera drones to survey the area and provide a backup cell system in case of emergencies. He also searches for any channels he could potentially hack into to send out an emergency message in case an outbreak actually happens.

Edward wordlessly nods at the others and stalks after Danielle, if anything was waiting inside of that closet, he would be ready to bat them off of her at a moment's notice.

Jun, previously Alan, soon Alan lazily dispels the sphere as Leo finished his examination, "Well you can thank your student for that then, since that trick of his is what I got it from." Alan found himself struck by an odd set of cryptic visions as he was about to elaborate on the spell itself, causing him to abruptly respond with, "I can understand everything else....but what was up with the guy sneezing?."

The young girl/woman? pouts at Stella some more, hugging tightly to the blanket like cloak that had fully formed over her dress by this point, "Bluh, fineeee, but only because this floor is really dāchī." The former blanket pile starts to unsteadily get up on her two feet before she took a couple of steps closer to Stella and asked, "I'm cold, where are we going anyway? Is it far? I don't really like walking." She examines the rest of the colorful cast a little more before she realizes something, and lets out a slight eep before she starts to try and cover up more of her face and body with her blanket hoodie before she quietly says, "...my name is Doctor Hirata by the way."

Immanuel let out a sigh before he replied with, "Well for one thing, unlike the last group of callers we fought, our uninvited guest was definitely still alive, and a whole lot more powerful than any of them individually, if the three dimensions we had to shatter to get home was any indication. Seemed to have been planning on waiting for us to tire ourselves out getting the card for her before she jumped us." He shrugged slightly before he jokingly suggested, "Although for all we know of the average caller's intelligence, she could as well have been walking through the neighborhood to get some shopping done, and decided to make things up as she went along after getting lost and spotting us with the card, not like we got a chance to ask anyway." He then slowly took the epithet card out before saying, "Also fine, if all of you are fine with it then I guess she can try using the card, just as long as she doesn't ear it that is, here," he reluctantly handed it to Chise, gently poking it onto them due to their complete and utter lack of tac-sight.