“So this is New York,” Lopmon said from Eric’s head as the pair walked down mainstreet. “Lots of people around.” “Yes, New York is one of the biggest cities in the states,” Eric replied as the pair weaved around people. A sudden commotion suddenly caught their attention as a man was seen running down the street, followed by an angry girl. “Give my back my purse!” she shouted. Eric stuck out his foot as the crook passed by and he went tumbling to the ground. The pair were atop him, Eric weighing down his back and Lopmon planting the crook’s face directly into the ground by sitting on the back of his head. “Wow, some excitement,” Lopmon said. “This is so cool!” The girl ran up and snatched her white purse from the crook as she glared down on the hapless man who groaned under Eric and Lopmon. “That’s what you get for taking things that doesn’t belong to you,” she said with a huff. The girl then blinked as she looked at Lopmon. “Oh my, a digimon!” <><><> Digital Diaries : Adventures 2003 written by Shaun Garin authorized by Lord Archive.. you know the drill by now. <><><> File 13 : A Canadian In New York “I can’t thank you enough for helping me out there,” the girl gushed as Eric rubbed his head embarrasedly. “Well, I would have done it for anyone,” Eric said. “I’m that kinda guy.” “I see,” the girl said. “Oh, where are my manners? I’m Mimi Tachikawa.” “Eric Stewart, and this here is my partner, Lopmon.” “Hi!” Lopmon waved. Mimi blinked as she looked down. “Um... why are you still sitting on the crook?” Eric looked down and shrugged. “So that when the police pull over, they can book him for a while.” After a few minutes, the police did come as someone in the crowd had phoned the nearest station. After getting their views and remarks, the police cuffed the man and drove off. Mimi smiled at Eric. “Where’s your parents?” “At the Holiday Inn, just down a couple of blocks,” Eric said. “I wanted to take a look around. They’re kinda suffering from Jetlag.” “C’mon, I’ll show you around,” Mimi invited. “Don’t worry about me, I’m a chosen.” Eric blinked and then pulled out his tricorder. After bringing up a file, he blinked again and said, “So you’re the girl with Palmon, from Odaiba.” Mimi looked at the device curiously. “Who made that?” “Carter Windam, another Canadian Chosen.” Eric shrugged. “It’s a scanner, both medical and area focused, it has profiles on all the chosen that are listed, and has Koushiro’s Digimon Analyzer installed in it.” “That’s very handy,” Mimi said as the pair headed into a nearby apartment building. “My friends are waiting for me.” “Are they digi-destined as well?” Lopmon asked. “Yep,” Mimi chirped as she pressed the button for one of the higher apartments. Soon, the doors opened and Mimi lead him to a nearby door where she knocked at it. Soon, the door opened to reveal a tallish blonde boy with glasses and a bit of freckles. “Hi Mimi, who’s the new guy?” “Steve, this is Eric and Lopmon, from Canada. He helped get back my purse from a purse-snatcher.” Mimi indicated the pair as Eric and Lopmon waved. Steve opened the door wide. Inside were a few more people, all young adults. “Come on in, we’re gonna decide what to do tonight.” “Have a seat,” the nearby blonde boy said. He had wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. Eric did so as he stuck out his hand. “I’m Micheal Godwin.” “Eric Stewart, and this is Lopmon.” Lopmon waved. “Hi.” “I’m Maria,” a hispanic girl said from the right. “I’m Sam, nice to meet you,” a africian americian boy said. “Lou,” a american indian boy said, waving. “good to meet you.” “And you know Steve and Mimi,” Micheal said, indicating the pair. “Now that’s settled, we just wanna know one thing.” “What’s that?” Eric and Lopmon chorused. “Why do you have your digimon with you?” Mimi asked. “It’s not often a digimon and partner are in the real world together. Usually they live in the digital world.” “Well....” Eric paused. “Considering that we’ve gone into the digital world a total of two times, we spend most of our time dealing with digimon that enter the real world through digital fields.” “Digital fields?” Lou asked. “What are those?” “Think of it as dence fog, pieces of digital world all smushed together, bringing a few digimon at a time,” Lopmon said. “Carter could explain it better but at the moment, we figure that the digimon can’t seem to exit the field.” “Koushiro must have noticed something like this already,” Steve surmised. “has he?” “So far, Carter hasn’t gotten an email from this Koushiro guy,” Eric said, shaking his head. “I don’t think he can detect it.” “That would be a first,” Mimi said with a giggle. “He always prides himself on being on top of all digital world related incidents.” “He would have a fit for days,” Micheal said. “Weeks even.” “I’d pay good money to see that happen,” Steve said with an evil grin. He then slapped his hands together, rubbing them in anticipation. “So, what should we do tonight?” “Why not try out the new Lord Of The Rings RPG you got?” Lou suggested. “Sure!” Steve exited the room and re-entered with a thick manual and sheets. “Here’s your sheets for everyone. You’ll be playing different charecters.” “Count me out,” Mimi said, frowning. “Aw c’mon oneechan,” Maria said. “Steve’s games aren’t that bad. Besides, it’s Lord of the Rings. What could possibly happen?” “I’m in,” Lou said with a grin. “Me too,” Eric added, Lopmon nodding as well, the others nodding. Mimi sighed. “I’ll listen in for a bit and then jump in later.” “So that’s all of us save for Mimi....” Steve quickly handed out sheets. After the group had read over their charecters, Steve cleared his throat, an impish smile on his face. “Alright. The scene is set in Rivendell, and the fellowship of the ring is ready to march fearlessly from the great city into Legend and Glory.” “I greet my fellow travellers,” Lou said. “I ready my iron rations,” Micheal added. “I prepare my armor,” Maria said. “I ready the healing spells for any enemy encounters,” Sam said. “I get ready my Mace.” Eric said. “I uh....” Lopmon paused as everyone looked at him expectantly. “I kill Gandalf.” Steve’s eyes went wide as dinner plates, his manual popping out of his hand as Eric doubled over in laughter. “YOU DO WHAT?!” Steve screamed incrediously. “Well, lets face it; once the wizard is out of the way, the ring is ours,” Sam said, a grin on his face. “Lets start gutting Gandalf!” Eric added as Mimi looked annoyed, yet amused. Maria was giggling as Steve seemed to be going into shock. Lou was caught between adding something as Steve stood up, placing his palms on the table. “You’re gonna GUT Gandalf the Grey?!” Steve said, unbelieving the fact. “And lets string up Legolas too!” Sam aded, getting into the swing of things, happy that it wasn’t going to become a pitall-gruesome-trap-laden-rpg. “I think we’re in for a good one,” Eric said as Mimi sat in the circle and Steve resumed his poise. “Well then, with the loss of Gandalf, the Ring is lying on the ground. Frodo runs up to you.” Steve’s hands were shaking as he tried to maintain his dignity. “’Friends!’ He exclaims, ‘we musn’t fight amongst ourselves! For all of the good of mankind, peace, honor and bravery, we must...’” “I smite him with my mace of many hurts and SMASH THAT LITTLE FREAKS BRAINS TO MUSH!” Micheal shouted, drawing a wide eyed stare from Steve, similar ones from the rest of the group. Steve’s face went through several shades, his eyes gaining a twitch before he began to bang his head on the table. Micheal shrugged at the amused grins he was getting. “He was never my favorite Lord of the Rings charecter.” Lou was close to bursting out in laughter as he had a wide grin on his face. Maria looked amused and Mimi was shaking in silent laughter. Eric was plotting his next move, Lopmon had moved to the table, Micheal was checking his equpitment and Steve was banging his head on the table. “This is interesting, I have to get in now.” Mimi snatched up a charecter sheet as she proclaimed, “Friends, we must declare war on all of Middle Earth!” “Yee HAW!” Lou exclaimed, surprising everyone with his cry. “Lets set up a conscription program in the shire!” By now, Steve was in catatonic shock as Maria giggled. “This is payback for all of those gruesome traps you set for us.” Steve couldn’t hear, because he shocked himself asleep. “Really?” Eric asked. “I thought this would be normal for him.” “Onward friends!” Lopmon proclaimed as he marched back and forth on the table. “We shall conqour the lands one by one!” “Alright! Sack the villages! Conqour the nations! The Ring is ours!” Eric shouted as the game wore on, Steve, oblivious to all of it as he slept soundly. <><><> “I think he’ll be feeling that bit of payback for a while,” Mimi said as she walked Eric and Lopmon home. “You want to drop by tommorow?” “Sure!” Eric said. “As long as we get to play some more.” “Yeah!” Lopmon added. “it was kinda fun, taking over most of Middle Earth in one evening.” Mimi smiled as the pair walked up the steps of the Holiday Inn. “Well, see you tommorow.” She hailed a cab, got in and waved from the window as the cab pulled away. Eric smiled. “This is going to be an interesting vacation.” <><><> Authors notes : It really happened... really. I had to vamp it up for something that would actually send Steve into a catatonic shock but in essence, it was in the beginning of a game run by our GM, Darth when it all went to hell.... a fun hell mind you but it was crazy. Sadly, I wasn’t there for most of the time but from second hand word of mouth, people had fun killing key charecters and finding ways around it. Basically, we were doing one of those legendary games, sword, sorcery, and really bad puns during the heat of battle with weapons that could slay a god. You know, typical D and D stuff. We started the ball rolling by killing one of the key charecters and it went from there. Part of the reason was after a bunch of us had gotten the Dork Tower Collection and had been passing it around the table when someone said, “I kill Vash.” Then, it all went nuts. Have fun. I sure did with this episode.