Chuubo-1:11

<BethE> (I so totally am not in a Chuubo stage of mind because of finishing Fable of the Swan. *shifty* Although the other night, we watched an anime that had a main character that completely had an absurdly high Treasure score and possibly enchanted genitalia.)

• Angelo raise hand for Chuubo
  

<@Verithe> Chuubo works.
<Knockwood> Ayep
<@Verithe> What on earth was that anime?
<Random_Nerd> Eden of the East.
<Random_Nerd> Seen it?
<@Verithe> Nope, but I've heard of it.
<BethE> The genitalia bit is because he is naked at the beginning and just has to smile and people gave him stuff. It made me think of Brian.
<@Verithe> Haha
<Random_Nerd> In some ways, it felt like "if Chuubo was also Shounen"
<BethE> He made the Prime Minister of Japan say 'Uncle!'!!!
<Random_Nerd> Anyway! Chuubo!
<Random_Nerd> So!

• BethE is now known as Lili
  

<Random_Nerd> First off, I'd like to remind everyone, SCENES. This is a reminder to myself, as well.
<Knockwood> So, I just volunteered us to fight off Riders.

• Angelo is now known as Soun
  
• Random_Nerd pulls up the quick guide.
  
• Knockwood is now known as deMontreal
  

<Lili> Do we need to go and get suited up or can we fast forward through that? Is it a weekend? Do we..I mean, you all, have classes? And why didn't Chuubo come on this adventure?

• Verithe is now known as Mrs_Senko
  

<@Random_Nerd> Well, do you want to leave Sky and come back here later?
<@Random_Nerd> It's kind of a pain to get back up.
<@Lili> Leo said he had to go home and bulk up.
<@deMontreal> My weaponry is (assumed to be) in my Lab
<@Lili> (Oh and a question for the group. What do you think of Lili's XP action? And if you think it is a poor one, do you have a better idea for one?)
<@Random_Nerd> (That is a good point. It's useful for people to put their trust in Lilli.)
<@deMontreal> It's the stuiff I'm reserving to wipe the school off the map
<@Mrs_Senko> (What is her XP action again?)
<@Lili> (Saying 'go get them' or you can do it or that phrase that Naruto uses but I actually think Lili is more likely to be the type of person to be dubbed into saying 'Believe it!' in an insanely cheerful and hopefully manner.)
<@Random_Nerd> (But basically, I think it's people putting their trust in her.)
<@Random_Nerd> Okay. So, we can do the trip back from Sky, or we can just have you be there.
<@Random_Nerd> I think the way back is easier, and doesn't have a mandatory difficult journey.
<@Lili> (Putting trust in me, thinking they have me beat this time or confident in what I'm going to do and it's going to be good. *points at her* "Ok, you're up!")
<@Random_Nerd> But is there anything else you guys intend to do in Celestia?
<@Lili> That's good. deMontreal needs to get a better warranty on his engines.
<@Random_Nerd> And do you wish to cover the transition in character?
<@Mrs_Senko> Mrs. Senko just wanted to clean it.
<@Random_Nerd> Hmm.
<@Random_Nerd> That reminds me.
<@Lili> Lili wants to fulfill her mission of cleaning the Sky and help Jasper in her need! The Sky needs fixing!
<@Soun> did deM get he destroyer blueprints?
<@deMontreal> Yes. She might make a good maid.
<@Lili> (And Shonen has to keep his catgull. It's qute.)
<@Random_Nerd> If you want to have Senko do her Dear Princess Celestia^H^H^H^H^H Father letters, this is as good a time as any.
<@Soun> yeah catgull is cuute and wanna keep it :-)
<@Mrs_Senko> (All in due time. But, yes, letters....)
<@Lili> (Pastel ponies are not practical.)
<@Random_Nerd> (And then patiently explain that winged unicorns are not only fictitious, but are an irrational hybrid of two unrelated myths.)

• @Mrs_Senko writes: "Dear Father..."
  

<@deMontreal> OK, what do we know about rips like this one?
<@Random_Nerd> (Shall we go to IC?)
<@Random_Nerd> (For the letter?)
<@Mrs_Senko> (Sure)
<@Lili> (Dear Penthouse: I never thought this could happen to me...)

START

<@Random_Nerd> (You don't know anything about rips like this as such. You've never heard of one before. But this is definitely Rider stuff.)

• @deMontreal scopes out the rip.
  

<@Random_Nerd> You've heard of two things that resemble it to some extent.
<@Random_Nerd> First, there's the boundary between Town and Outside.
<@Mrs_Senko> Letter: "Today, I took SNURC to the Sky in order to clean it. I remembered to bring the bluing and the mops! We came upon Celestia where Jasper lives. Celestia is NOT made of cotton candy. It was somewhat disappointing."
<@Lili> (Of course it's Rider stuff. It's creepy, it's dark and there are things Riding around in it.)
<@Random_Nerd> But that's a persistent line, and a "healthy" one, not this, which looks deliberate and pathological.
<@Lili> ("Obviously, Jasper was a disappointment to you and you had me.")
<@Random_Nerd> And second, the rips in reality that certain major Riders can use to come into and out of reality. But those are always things that exist only for an instant, where this one has been held open apparently for months at least.
<@deMontreal> OK, Hypothesis: something is sustaining the rip.

• @Soun yawn and stretches and look around for the missing peoples.. man this Celestial bedroom is well... celestial!
  

<@Lili> (The death of Mrs. Sun?)
<@Random_Nerd> (The two roughly concided, but not exactly.)
<@Mrs_Senko> "While we were there, Jasper showed us a rift where Riders are coming to visit. She seems a bit upset. I'm sure her lack of understanding is why she's such a disappointment to the family. I mean, how exciting is it to have a portal to the Bleak Academy in your own back yard?"
<@Mrs_Senko> "It's very exciting."
<@Lili> (Not In My Back Yard!)
<@Random_Nerd> Leonardo, you think that for you to sustain such a rip using your own methods would take at least as much effort as the Abhorrent Sun-Sustaining Superconductor, and probably more.
<@Random_Nerd> You also now have a better idea of why the Potential DeSolarizing Event tally on the Superconductor keeps incrementing.

• @Soun to the cat-seagull "Go my loyal minion #34 find the others and lead me to them!"
  

<@Mrs_Senko> "Jasper is trying to get the students to fight off the riders and close the rift. I'm not sure that is the best plan of action. "
<@Random_Nerd> Mintion #34: "Squaa-eaow!"
<@Random_Nerd> Minion #34 then looks puzzled. He hasn't met the other minions yet.
<@Mrs_Senko> "I also find it incredibly sad and short-sighted of her."
<@Random_Nerd> He flies over to a chair, and peers at it quizically, as if expecting that it might secretly be a minion.
<@deMontreal> (Is that flying minion near us?)
<@Random_Nerd> (I think you're in separate scenes right now.)
<@Lili> (She hasn't had a good big sister...uhh younger sister...uhh sibling to guide her, Senko.)
<@Soun> to seagull: "I know that puzzled eyes, no, I want you to look for Lili or Luthi or if you really must Leo, but don't bother with teacher Senko"
<@Random_Nerd> (Yeah, defining relationships in this family involves a lot of waving your hands and saying "Well, that depends how you define...")
<@deMontreal> (Hm... do I have a flying spiderbot handy?)
<@Random_Nerd> #34: "Meow!"
<@Random_Nerd> (You only brought the one non-flying bot, as far as I know.)
<@Mrs_Senko> ("This is my little sister, Auntie Grandmother.")
<@Random_Nerd> (That said, the difference is only an exercise in applied ballistics.)
<@Lili> (Arachne was hanging out, but I don't think she flies.)
<@Random_Nerd> (I'm sure they have catapults around here somewhere.)
<@Soun> (yep from my pov relationship are all messedup!)
<@Random_Nerd> (We're not even sure if Shounen's family are fictional, the way Sezhi's are.)

• @deMontreal pulls out some disembodied eyes from nightmares
  

<@Random_Nerd> Whose nightmares?
<@Random_Nerd> Shounen woke up!
<@deMontreal> Everyone's
<@Lili> (I don't even think Lili sleeps.)
<@Lili> (Can you pull them when people aren't dreaming?)
<@Random_Nerd> You need an actual specific dreamer. It's not like Senko's Summon Props ability.
<@deMontreal> What, you don't think I have a few dozen of those handy at all times? :)
<@Mrs_Senko> "Your loving daughter, Mrs. Senko"
<@Mrs_Senko> "
<@Random_Nerd> Eh, I'll allow it this time, but in general, your abilities are not the Gadgeteer-style "I did it thirty-five minutes ago" sort, you have to actually use them on-camera.
<@deMontreal> to Jasper: "Take me to your night shift. But don't wake them up."
<@deMontreal> (OK, scratch that.)
<@Random_Nerd> (Okay, Senko, I think that qualifies for your Quest, and also as a Quick Scene of Walking Your Path.)
<@Mrs_Senko> "PS: I was thinking of adding a first name. Everyone seems to have them, even if they don't use them."
<@Random_Nerd> (So, three destiny into the pool.)
<@Mrs_Senko> Woo!
<@Random_Nerd> (Woo is really more of a family name...)

• @Mrs_Senko rolls up the letter and tosses it to a raven.
  

<@Mrs_Senko> (That's true...)
<@Random_Nerd> Raven: *yoink*
<@Lili> (Dear, you don't get XP in this game.  :) )
<@Random_Nerd> (...Veronica? Sorry, I've been watching Better Off Ted on Netflix lately, and she reminds me of Senko.)
<@deMontreal> "Take me to your catapults."
<@Random_Nerd> The raven flies off.
<@Lili> (And bah, Lili wouldn't use Senko's first name anyhow. That would deminish their complete and firey rivalry as double Mary Poppinses.)
<@Random_Nerd> Skinny Waterfowl-Dude who got detailed to show de Montreal around: "Uh... okay, sir."
<@Mrs_Senko> (Maybe Veronica. I was thinking she'd try out a few names.)
<@Lili> (I haven't watched a lot of the show but it's scary how Senko she is.)
<@Random_Nerd> Crane-dude: "How big of one do you need?"

• @Soun lazly follow the friend searching seagull
  

<@Random_Nerd> The seagull soon finds Lillimund and Jasper sitting at a table, drinking something fizzy in glasses.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "I know you wanted to go out and meet more people, but... de Montreal? Really?"
<@Mrs_Senko> (How dark is the place with the bat people?)
<@Soun> "Very good work seagull!" *pat it*
<@Random_Nerd> (Pretty dark.)
<@Random_Nerd> #34: *Purr*
<@Lili> "It was a very weird...day. There was a..need for a way to make Town and School better and for some weird reason, deMontreal showed up. And proceeded to snark. And stick around."
<@deMontreal> "I need distance over strength. I'm sending a few of these into that rift."
<@Mrs_Senko> (So we could go "clean" it and Leonardo would be able to work his powers?)
<@Lili> "Oh and Luthi's here somewhere. She was on the ship and you know how she is with that cloak of hers. Oh, hi Shonen!"
<@Soun> to he girls "Yawn! Jasper, your celestial bed are celestial" *smile*
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Aren't they? It's easy to have feather-stuffed mattresses when almost all your citizens have wings."
<@Lili> *to Jasper* "You'd be surprised...deMontreal's done very little maniacalness around all of us."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "The little cat-girl? Well, I'm not too shocked."

• @Lili draws on the table absentmindedly in a puddle of condensation. Little hearts...
  
• @Mrs_Senko walks in.
  

<@Soun> "Yes there are many advantages, also fans..."
<@Random_Nerd> de Montreal, the crane-guy leads you to a large catapult, big enough to fit a small human in the... bit of the catapult that throws stuff.
<@Random_Nerd> Crane: "We normally use this to launch hail, but it's not currently in use."
<@Mrs_Senko> "That's ridiculous. The mattresses elsewhere aren't hair-stuffed even though most of the citizens are covered in hair. I checked."

• @deMontreal fires up the multiplexer-visual-feedback-device and loads the catapult
  

<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "But they aren't covered in hair. Only select parts of them. Meanwhile, my citizens are covered in feathers, over almost their entire bodies."
<@Soun> "Then must be a deficit in stuffing procedures"
<@Random_Nerd> J: "So the two situations are not analogous. Sister."

• @Soun nod to Jasper
  

<@deMontreal> (Hm... am I doing a Science scene?)
<@Random_Nerd> J, as an aside to Lillimund, in a stage whisper: "Also, seriously, hair mattresses?"
<@Random_Nerd> (Maybe! Are you?)
<@Random_Nerd> (Do you have a theory? Are you risking something to test it?)
<@deMontreal> (no, wait, Exploration)
<@deMontreal> (I'm trying to spot whatever's keeping that rift open)
<@Random_Nerd> (Okay. You're already in unfamiliar territory, so... discover something neat, scary, or mysterious, and respond to it!)
<@Mrs_Senko> "Perhaps I miscalculated the amount of surface area coverage necessary for mattress making."
<@Lili> *whisper back* "You have to go Shopping more. They have horse hair mattresses! But I would listen to Shonen about mattress quality and standards. He may be able to fall asleep on anything but he knows his stuff."
<@deMontreal> "OK, let's see what's in there.
<@deMontreal> "Can you send these into the left side of that rift?"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper nods, regally.
<@Soun> "Also the best mattress are the one with soft but not too soft stuffing inside .. hairs simply would not be good"
<@Random_Nerd> Crane-Guy: "Hmm. Well, we can't launch hail that far, but that's because it's designed to separate. Let me do some calculations."
<@Random_Nerd> He pulls an abacus out of his white robe and clicks the beads around for a while.
<@Soun> "Oh, Lili, you are absolutly right"
<@Random_Nerd> Crane-Guy: "Into it? No. Only about halfway from here to there."
<@Random_Nerd> Crane-Guy: "Unless it can fly, or glide."
<@deMontreal> "Hm, did I bring the floating eyes of fright or not?"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "What's a horse?"

• @Lili is torn between asking/notasking Jasper about her family/Senko's family or gushing about the Engine.
  

<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Is that those pink and purple things?"
<@deMontreal> (Yes. Yes they are.)
<@Random_Nerd> (I figure... she lives in a country named "Celestia." The name would have caught her eye.)
<@Random_Nerd> (And she only became more confused.)
<@Lili> "Uh, think a bit taller. And less cute."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "And they have hair? For mattresses?"
<@Soun> "A horse is an animal used to walk around quickly. You put a saddle on it and then ride them like a rider"
<@Random_Nerd> She pulls out a little notebook, and writes "Horse. Like strange pony creature, but larger. Hair. Mattress."
<@deMontreal> "Oh, wait... I've got a mass driver in the zeppelin."

• @Mrs_Senko puts away her notebook where she was writing: "Horses...pink and purple...."
  

<@Random_Nerd> Crane: "Oh? Can I help you with it?"
<@deMontreal> "No need.
<@Soun> "teacher did you have one of your book around with an horse picture? would be practical"
<@Random_Nerd> (You do if you want to!)
<@Random_Nerd> (Summon Props.)
<@deMontreal> (Any problem with going back to the ship and firing disembodied eyeballs into a spatial rift? Aside from pure absurdity?_
<@Random_Nerd> (None whatsoever.)
<@Mrs_Senko> "Yes! Of course! This is what a horse looks like."
<@Random_Nerd> (What kind of picture do you pull out?)

• @Mrs_Senko pulls out an elementary biology book and points to a horse picture."
  
• @deMontreal dashes back to the DxM...
  

<@Mrs_Senko> "Huh."
<@Mrs_Senko> "That is a very brown horse."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper writes "Brown?" next to "Mattress."
<@Soun> "They are black, withe and cappuccino too"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper, to Lillimund and Shounen: "How do you guys know all this stuff?"

• @deMontreal fires up the boilers...
  

<@deMontreal> ("We're PCs. It comes naturally. :p ")
<@Soun> "In my places there are horses"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper also writes: "Colors match with coffee. Connection? What is coffee made from?"
<@Mrs_Senko> ((Haha))
<@Lili> ( Pony - http://1.bp.blogspot . com/-mD5TEro0940/T6MANr-n0BI/AAAAAAAAoYo/LN0tst7AMd4/s320/179043+-+artist+Furboz+Chrysalis.jpg No, wait... http://2.bp.blogspot . com/-7gH-haDUWzI/T6L9gXRngBI/AAAAAAAAoUY/XGnAgyxhZPM/s320/my_little_magician_by_bakasan94-d4yf03e.png )
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Ah." She turns to Lillimund: "Do you have places with horses as well, Lilli?"

• @deMontreal checks the feed from the eyes...
  
• @Lili taps her head. "Lots of storage space and the occasional back-up.)
  

<@Lili> "
<@Random_Nerd> The eyes are getting relatively close to the gap... and then being shot down by arrows from a smirking horse-archer. However, you can get a much better look at the rift before each eye is annihilated.
<@Lili> "...not at my home. I have a variety of creatures there but they tend to be small and quick and metallic."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Can you guys explain something to me? It's kinda embarassing, everyone seems to expect I already know about it."
<@Random_Nerd> The shape of the edges of the rift looks... familiar. You're trying to place it.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "It's a biological reaction, apparently involuntary..."

• @deMontreal puts together a mix of eyes, flechettes, and impact explosives.
  

<@Random_Nerd> J: "Have either of you ever... sneezed?"
<@Soun> "actually Yes, why?"
<@deMontreal> "Dodge this." ::Fire!::
<@Random_Nerd> J: "...why? And what was it like?"
<@Random_Nerd> (Are you trying to kill the archer?)
<@Lili> "Ooo! Yes! It was so weird! And kinda cool and it felt like my hard drive had skipped and there were all of these colors!"
<@deMontreal> (Great idea! But I'll settle for making him duck.)
<@Soun> "you sneeze when something get in your nose like pepper of stuff to free it. isan automatic reaction of your body"
<@Mrs_Senko> "Sometimes one sneezes when they are ill."
<@Random_Nerd> Archer-Rider: *pulls out bow, shoots down each individual explosive chunk or flechette with a separate arrow, Aspect-smirk*
<@Mrs_Senko> (Mrs. Senko talked to the school nurse, you see....)
<@Soun> "or for a too strong scent or any other variery of causes"
<@deMontreal> (which means the eyes got through. Thanks!)
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper, louder: "Please bring me pepper. And stuff."
<@Random_Nerd> (Not all the way, but much closer than they did before. You can get within a hundred feet of it this time, maybe closer.)
<@Random_Nerd> (And you've figured out what the shape of the edges looks like.)
<@Mrs_Senko> "If you find that you are simultaneously ill and sneezing, you should consult a doctor."
<@deMontreal> (Which is...?)
<@Lili> "oh oh oh and I've seen people sneeze because of the sun! They go into the sunshine and sneeze and it's loud and it bounces all around the buildings like a thunderclap! But that probably wouldn't work for you."
<@Random_Nerd> (You know how, when you dream too long, the place where you are is overlaid with a world of red flames? It looks like that. The shapes that the starry void takes exactly resemble the patterns the flames burst out into)
<@deMontreal> "You took this from my dreams?
<@Random_Nerd> A moment later, a pigeon-guy comes in, with a tray that has a jar of pepper, several legos, a small rock, and a feather.
<@deMontreal> "... That. Is. MY! TURF!"
<@Mrs_Senko> (legos!)
<@Random_Nerd> He places it on the table next to Jasper, and departs.
<@Random_Nerd> The pepper appears to be from a Town brand.
<@Soun> "let me show you up Jasper" *me take the pepper and spray it around Jasper nose*
<@Random_Nerd> (And with that, de Montreal, you have a Player-Driven Scene. Another 5 destiny into the pool.)
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper inhales the pepper, then waits, curiously.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "How long does it take?"
<@Soun> "is usually near instantaneous" *puzzled look*
<@Random_Nerd> She sniffs in more.
<@Random_Nerd> J: "Doesn't seem to be working."
<@Lili> (Demonstrate, Shonen!  :) )

• @Soun trow some pepper in my nose
  

<@Lili> "Have you sneezed before or just seen other people do it?"
<@Random_Nerd> You sneeze. Magnificently.

• @deMontreal puts the ship in standby and goes back to the others
  

<@Soun> "this is a sneeze!"
<@deMontreal> (Even his schneezes are graceful! :p )
<@Soun> (lol)
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper looks vaguely jealous.
<@Random_Nerd> J: "Mine doesn't work."
<@Random_Nerd> (Leo, you can come in whenever you like.)
<@Mrs_Senko> (My wife would like me to interject that her Noble of Absurdity has transformed into a pink horse which is running by and where her hooves strike, mushrooms grow.)

• @Lili pats Jasper on the arm.
  

<@Random_Nerd> (...what kind of mushrooms?)
<@Lili> (What happens when you smoke or digest those mushrooms?)
<@Soun> "ok Jasper let's try this"
<@Lili> (Make Senko sneeze? ^^ )

• @deMontreal walks in on... what, exactly?
  

<@Random_Nerd> Jasper seems to be snorting pepper and looking disappointed.

• @Soun use -what her heart dream of- on Jasper and Lili to grant them possibility to sneeze
  

<@Mrs_Senko> (She says they are rainbow mushrooms with white dots...and they taste like romano cheese and cause you to burp iridescent bubbles)
<@Random_Nerd> (One moment while I look that up.)

• @Soun throw pepper on Jasper (and lili) nose, again
  

<@Lili> (Lili's already admitted to being able to sneeze.)
<@deMontreal> "Are you snorting ... pepper?"
<@Random_Nerd> (That's the one to apply qualities to yourself... Which one are you using?)

• @Lili 's sneeze hits a weird mechanical note that cracks her (now empty) fizzy drink glass. She looks sad at this.
  

<@Mrs_Senko> "Perhaps not sneezing while snorting pepper is also a sign of illness."
<@Random_Nerd> (Or did you mean Not Just A Dream?)
<@Lili> "Do you sneeze, Senko?"
<@Random_Nerd> (Sneezing is undignified, and unbefitting of a teacher at School.)
<@deMontreal> "There are other ways to lose control.
<@Mrs_Senko> "When it is practical to sneeze, I shall sneeze."
<@Soun> (is to me? Soun shounen make you better)
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "I am attempting to get to the bottom of this 'sneezing' thing."
<@Mrs_Senko> "It is not, typically, practical to sneeze when one is a teacher."
<@deMontreal> "Jump off the cloud, for example."
<@Random_Nerd> (Not just a dream is the one that "brings somebody's wish or fantasy within reach" I think you want that one.)
<@Soun> (yep was that the one I wanted)
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper suddenly has her nose twitch.
<@Lili> "It is practical to sneeze politely when one is a teacher and one has something in one's nose one wishes to dislodge."
<@Random_Nerd> Leo, you see that the muscles that attach to Jasper's nose are arranged in a slightly different pattern than those of any human you have seen.
<@Random_Nerd> Her nose twitches again, and she sneezes.

• @Lili cheers!
  

<@Random_Nerd> Out comes a fine dusting of pepper, and for some reason a small quantity of glitter.
<@deMontreal> "Hold on."
<@deMontreal> (She's Pinkie Pie?)
<@Mrs_Senko> "I am not in the habit of putting things in my nose, let alone things I wish to dislodge."
<@Random_Nerd> (That, or she's been snorting glitter.)
<@Lili> (No, that's confetti.)
<@Random_Nerd> (Also, that.)
<@Soun> "Cool" *Shounen power smile*

• @deMontreal goes up and examines Jasper's nose muscles.
  

<@Random_Nerd> Jasper inhales, and then says "What are you doing, de Montreal? Are you planning to install bat-people in my nose?"
<@Lili> "These things sometimes get there on their own. One day, you may be teaching and a cloud of chalk dust will zoom up your nose! You must remove each particle quickly before they enter your lungs!"
<@deMontreal> "Hardly. They wouldn't fit.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "That is not the sort of factor I would confidently be assured of you taking into account, de Montreal."
<@deMontreal> "The muscles by your nose of different from a human's.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Which human?"
<@deMontreal> "The few I know."
<@Random_Nerd> (...do we even have a human here? Shounen, maybe?)
<@Soun> "too vague as definition Leo"
<@Mrs_Senko> (Shounen's the most human of the lot)
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Are they different from those of your nose, de Montreal?"
<@Soun> (I'm the most charming human of the lot :-P )
<@Random_Nerd> The cat-gull sniffs at the pepper on the floor, and sneezes a little kitty sneeze.
<@deMontreal> (Are they?)
<@Random_Nerd> (Well, would Leonardo have previously examined his own nose-connecting muscles in a mirror?)

• @Soun cuddle the seagull
  

<@Random_Nerd> (Or would he have merely have confidently assumed that he is entirely human?)
<@Random_Nerd> #34 purrs.
<@Lili> "You have a very cute little friend, Shonen."
<@deMontreal> (Depends. Could he put a gun port there? :) )
<@Soun> (new warmain test! Look for nose connection muscles!)
<@Random_Nerd> (Well, de Montreal is invested to a certain extent in the idea that he's human.)
<@deMontreal> (Have to remember that in Amyra)

• @Mrs_Senko secretly sketches Soun cuddling the seagull and prepares to send the sketch to Father.
  

<@Soun> "why, thank you Lili, do you want pet it?"
<@Random_Nerd> (That's why he doesn't fly around on wings of fire and blood, for instance. Humans don't do that.)
<@Random_Nerd> (But if you think he'd have checked, it's your call.)
<@Lili> "I would love to!" *pat pat pet pet pet scritch*
<@deMontreal> (OK, probably didn't think of it.)
<@Lili> "I didn't even know gulls and cats could interbreed."
<@Random_Nerd> (Then of course your facial muscles are entirely within the human norm. It is absurd to suggest otherwise!)
<@Random_Nerd> #34 looks up at Lilli suspiciously.
<@Random_Nerd> His face is oddly expressive for a bird.

• @Soun encourages #34 to trust Lili
  

<@Lili> *to the catgull* "Your parents must be daring and bold! So expressive in their love and their defiance of the norm!"
<@Random_Nerd> The corners of #34's beak curl up in a smile. This is actually a little disturbing to watch.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "So, de Montreal. What did you discover? I heard you sciencing around out there."

• @Lili sighs sadly. The love of a cat and a gull can be, but what about that of a Wishing Engine and a Nightmare Engine...
  

<@deMontreal> "The rift out there is ... similar ... to the flames from my dreams.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "You dream about setting things on fire?"
<@deMontreal> "I intend to eliminate it.
<@deMontreal> "It is ... untoward for them to be using it."
<@Soun> to Lili " Nothing can stop a true love"
<@Mrs_Senko> "You will have to work at it with chocolates and flowers, Ms. Cartaign."
<@Soun> "... and my support"
<@Mrs_Senko> "His support is unnecessary."
<@Soun> "and a kidnap, yes a kidnap make every love story better"
<@Lili> "But..what if it is all a mad scheme of revenge by.." *looks over, indicates deMontreal* "The shame!"
<@Mrs_Senko> "Blood, sweat and tears, Ms. Cartaign. Flowers and chocolates are good substitutes for those in matters of love."
<@Soun> "Your feeling are real? only that matter!"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "I am confused by this untoward display of emotion, Lillimund."
<@Lili> *to Senko* "How did you and your husband meet, Senko? How did you woo one another?"
<@Random_Nerd> ("Woo!")

• @Lili blushes at Jasper. "I..kinda met someone. He's really smart and strong and has the shiniest chrome finish on his casing..."
  

<@Mrs_Senko> "It was a labor of love."
<@Soun> "A miracle of love"
<@Mrs_Senko> "I replaced the blood with chocolate and the tears with flowers. That left me with sweat."
<@Soun> "?"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Is it de Montreal? If it is, do not worry. Just wait right here, and I'll have someone here to grant you a swift and merciful death."
<@Lili> *giggle* "No, not deMontreal. His Engine."
<@Soun> "Jasper how do you thing is Leo? She was thinking you was dating with Leo"
<@deMontreal> "Believe it or not I suspect it's actually worse."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper's Facial Expression: Who in the what now?
<@Lili> (Darn it, this is where having character knowledge is hard. I want to ask Senko if Mr. Senko has chocolate instead of blood...)
<@Random_Nerd> (...The correct answer is 'no'. Because he has something else instead of blood.)
<@Lili> "deMontreal's Nightmare Engine. We met it earlier. Soooo dreamy, in kind of a bad boy sort of way. Although he's younger than me. And yeah, i thought that deMontreal and you were flirting and that's why I was trying to push you two together..."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "How much worse? Should I attempt to kill her myself now, possibly by biting open her arteries like a large predatory cat?"
<@deMontreal> "In any case. I have a few ... toys back in town which may assist with your little Rider problem.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper stares quizzically at Lili's neck.

• @Lili looks very sadly at Jasper.
  
• @deMontreal mulls that over...
  

<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Will these toys, for instance, blight my kingdom forever and usher in a new age of despair and suffering?"
<@deMontreal> (Hm... have Jasper destroy the Wishing Engine... Ultimate Victory?)
<@deMontreal> "Only if misused."
<@Mrs_Senko> "Toys are meant for happiness, Miss Irinka."
<@Lili> (deMontreal didn't do it, so doesn't count!)
<@Random_Nerd> (But then you would not be able to demonstrate your Engine's superiority! People would sniff and call it a mere victory by default.)
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Well, bring what you need, and we shall show it to my generals and see what they think."
<@deMontreal> "I wouldn't worry about her ... 'love'. I'm fairly sure it's not reciprocated."
<@Lili> (Coward! Having your girlfriend destroy me instead of yourself!)

• @Lili turns Sad Eyes on deMontreal. Full Power.
  

<@Soun> "You are fairly sure? Ah! As parent? or what?"
<@deMontreal> (Now, I know IC that something like a Nightmare Projector would be counterproductive, right?)
<@Random_Nerd> (Lillimund: "Nightmare engine! Nightmare engine! Wherefore art thou, Nightmare Engine?")
<@Mrs_Senko> "Studies indicate that the disapproval of parents increases the likelihood that love will be reciprocated."
<@deMontreal> "I suppose 'parent' works."
<@Random_Nerd> ("Deny thy manufacturer and refuse thy operating specifications!")
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "How did Father think when you married Whats-His-Face?"
<@Soun> "Ah! You know better and will shou it how love work right? Well that wil lnot work Leo, if Lili and the engine are menat to mach then are meant to match"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper sniffs: "And why didn't you even invite me?"
<@Mrs_Senko> "Father had his doubts at first."
<@Lili> (He didn't think I had gotten the knees right.)
<@Mrs_Senko> (Though that was mostly due to her choosing to be a "Mrs." before she had a husband..."
<@Mrs_Senko> )
<@Lili> (She could have been a widow.)
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "So, is there anything else? Do you need another mop, Sister?"
<@Mrs_Senko> (Well...that decision wasn't made yet)
<@deMontreal> "Let's see... we need something endothermic that can be a projectile...
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "I was going to say that you should at least stay until Brother arrives, but he's not really your brother, so there's probably no need for it."
<@Mrs_Senko> "Another mop would be helpful. Do you have any ammonia cleaner?"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Like a rather pointy lizard?"
<@deMontreal> "As well as several standard projectiles...
<@Lili> "You have a brother too, Jasper? Wow, I'm learning all sorts of stuff about your family today!"
<@deMontreal> "I can rebuild railguns... increase their yeild...
<@deMontreal> "Create missiles...
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Yes. Night."
<@Random_Nerd> (He's actually probably de Montreal's son! But nobody knows that who's still alive and non-brain-wiped.)
<@Lili> "Oh, do you two switch ruling each day and evening? And wear special crowns?"
<@deMontreal> (Grab a couple nuclear accellerators, cross the streams...)
<@Soun> "Wold be cool!"
<@deMontreal> "Tesla coils...
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "He doesn't actually rule this kingdom, even at night. Not in his own name, at least. But... he's my half-brother, so he sometimes steps in to help."
<@deMontreal> "LOx for fuel-air bombs... yes...
<@Mrs_Senko> "Lox are meant for food, Mr. de Montreal."
<@Soun> "Lox?"
<@deMontreal> "Your supposed lieutenants have a lot to learn about waging a war, Jasper.
<@deMontreal> "That is the kind of thing left to 'mad scientists'."
<@deMontreal> "Liquid Oxygen, you fools."
<@Lili> "What's he like?" *in case the Engine thing doesn't turn out well. Must keep track of the field or will only have deMontreal for breeding. Ew.*
<@Soun> "Doh! Seagull, did you know that one?"
<@Mrs_Senko> "If you mean liquid oxygen, say 'liquid oxygen'. Don't start talking about seafood and expect us to know what you mean."
<@Lili> (Xp for Senko*
<@Lili> )
<@Soun> (seconded)
<@deMontreal> "The only thing left to decide is whether to destroy these riders and their twisted academy...
<@Random_Nerd> (Yeah, agreed.)
<@deMontreal> "or let them live with their shame."
<@Lili> "Shame?"
<@Soun> "Twisted accademy?"
<@deMontreal> "When I metaphorically hand them their heads."
<@Mrs_Senko> "Bleak Academy, Mr. de Montreal."
<@Soun> "Ah, Senko home!"
<@Soun> "teacher Senko I mean"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "This continues to be awkward."
<@deMontreal> "Back to my lab. It is time to break out the materiel I was saving for when the school finally earns its elimination."
<@Soun> "Is that a stab from teacher senko or her father to his not much loved daughter?"
<@Lili> "Which part, Jasper? The inter-familial bouncing around, the love twists or the random talk of murder?"
<@Soun> "why not all three?"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "The fact that I'm pretty sure I'm at war with Sister, de Montreal has signed on to my side, and you're neutral, and yet we're all sitting around this table being sarcastic at each other."
<@Lili> "Oh, that. Isn't it great?"
<@Soun> "So is life... full of curved balls"
<@Mrs_Senko> "Sarcastic?"
<@Random_Nerd> (That's what she said?)
<@Soun> "we are sbarking snurkers!"
<@Soun> snarking even
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Yes! It is the human thing where you say something you do not mean, with a tone that either indicates that you do not mean it or a tone that specifically does not, for purposes of humor or mockery!"
<@Random_Nerd> Something about her tone seems to indicate that this definition was memorized by rote.
<@deMontreal> "Have I mentioned how all of you have earned my utmost admiration?"
<@Soun> "are you being sarcastic now?"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "I don't know! It can be hard to tell!"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "There's another ambiguous one!"
<@deMontreal> "It shouldn't be. Remember it."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Eh, you're no fun."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Why don't you go recite sad poetry about cannibalism with your bat-friends!"
<@Lili> (Senko and Jasper are kind of alike in that respect...)
<@Lili> (No, that's the Empty Child.)
<@Mrs_Senko> "Is that what Mr. de Montreal was doing when he was mentioning seafood but meaning liquid oxygen?"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper can't be drunk, surely. The only thing she's drank in the last hour was non-alcoholic. She does seem vaguely tipsy for some reason, though.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "It does fit, I think."
<@Lili> "No, he was using an abbreviation. L for liquid and o-x for oxygen. L Ox.)
<@Random_Nerd> She pulls out the notebook again.
<@Lili> "
<@Random_Nerd> "Confusion of seafood and liquid oxygen - Sarcasm?"
<@deMontreal> to Senko: "I was demonstrating why you will never teach me anything aside from 'You're insane'."
<@Lili> (Is her handwriting legible like her other writing?)
<@Lili> (Crap. Dear, sneezing does not make Imperators drunk!)
<@Mrs_Senko> "Thus proving yourself a dunce."

• @Soun use shounen vision to glimpse at Jasper issue
  

<@Mrs_Senko> "You should wear the hat now. It is an apt uniform for a dunce."
<@Random_Nerd> To Shounen-Vision, Jasper is surrounded by little scraps of floating paper that say 'Sarcasm' and 'Pepper' and 'Sunset' and 'de Montreal is a poo-poo head'.
<@deMontreal> "Duns Scotus was a man far ahead of his time, who created subtle and amazing feats of logic so esoteric that later so-called 'scholars' didn't understand them.

• @Mrs_Senko brandishes a dunce hat.
  

<@deMontreal> "I would like to believe that you meant the term that way...
<@deMontreal> "But that would require a flash of insight from you.
<@Mrs_Senko> "Then he shouldn't have mumbled."

• @Mrs_Senko places the hat on Leonardo's head.
  

<@deMontreal> "Which is on par with expecting a logical argument from a frog."
<@Lili> "Are you all...feeling okay?"

• @deMontreal takes the hat off and throws it far away.
  

<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "Are you? You're the one who wants to date a... a big hunk of gears and nightmares and... Canadian engineering!"
<@deMontreal> (Canadian?)
<@Soun> "I'm slightly intoxicated by all this family poison... too hard to untie"
<@Lili> (deMontreal.)
<@Random_Nerd> (She probably looked up 'Montreal' in a book from Outside.)
<@Soun> (Montreal)
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper stops.
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "I think I need to sleep."
<@Lili> "Well, yes, but he's not here right now and we're taking it slow."
<@Lili> "Sleep is good. Do you sleep often?"
<@Soun> "Seconded"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "I sleep at night."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "It is a thing... that people do. People, and ME!"
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper: "I sleep now. G'night."
<@Random_Nerd> She wanders off.
<@Lili> "Good night!" *is a little sad because she does not sleep*
<@Mrs_Senko> "If it is almost night, it is time for students, and myself, to go home. Good night, Miss Irinka."
<@Soun> "Sleep well Jasper"
<@Random_Nerd> J: "G'night, Sister. Don't take any... wooden nickels... from a baby."
<@Lili> (Bah, Shonen knows that night is not necessary for sleep!)
<@Random_Nerd> And with that, she leaves.
<@Random_Nerd> The sun does seem to be setting outside.
<@Soun> (Soun is a rare case of sleep everywere at anytime)
<@Random_Nerd> And with that, you're left alone in a vaguely cafeteria-looking room in a strange kingdom.
<@Soun> "So... what other we have to do?"
<@Mrs_Senko> "Well, we should be going home!"
<@Lili> (No, we are not going to take it over.)
<@deMontreal> "Yes. Back to the ship, time to take it back to Town."
<@Soun> "or we can sleep here and make this an extended jurney
<@Soun> "
<@Soun> "and have more time to blue / help / tomorrow"
<@Mrs_Senko> "We do not have the appropriate notes from your parents for that."
<@Mrs_Senko> "We can return tomorrow."
<@Soun> "well, travel to here is .. .weird!"
<@Mrs_Senko> "If you wish to spend tomorrow night, you must bring notes from your parents or guardians."
<@Mrs_Senko> "But possible, Mr. Soun."
<@Lili> "Before we do, you have to take a look at your engines, deMontreal. I do not want to have to double-fist engines again while falling."
<@deMontreal> "What exactly did you do to them?
<@Soun> "and I'll bring on some locks and other .. stuff .. tio secure a room"
<@deMontreal> (cuz that sounds dirty)
<@Lili> ( ^^ )
<@Lili> "Well, first one stopped and I made some...adjustments and just as I finished that one and got it in place, the other one stopped, I cursed your name and then fixed the second one."

• @Mrs_Senko jots down a note that cursing de Montreal's name might, on occasion, fix things.
  

<@Lili> (It fixed my blood pressure a bit...)
<@deMontreal> "From my point of view, you all disappeared.
<@deMontreal> "It was very enjoyable."
<@Lili> "And from mine, you all were busy and the engines started screaming."
<@Random_Nerd> #34: "Squawk!"
<@Mrs_Senko> "You never look up from your work. How would you know?"
<@Random_Nerd> #34: "Squawk squawk."
<@Soun> "from mine you *points to Leo* stole all my shiny bits"
<@deMontreal> (This should be a 'Walking Your Path' scene. It's just that LdM's path leads through hell. :) )
<@Mrs_Senko> "Except for that time you walked away."
<@deMontreal> "Your 'shiny bits'?"
<@Random_Nerd> #34 nods.
<@Soun> "All the pieces of me that shine" *I start to shine *
<@Lili> ((YouTube)/watch?v=4bBD5yyT-s0 makes me think of Lili and deMontreal)
<@Mrs_Senko> "Apparently, he gave them back."
<@Soun> "eh, was really terrible & unnerving"
<@Lili> "The stuff that draws people to Shonen. Maybe Shonen was having a nightmare..and thus even more reason that deMontreal would be involved?"

• @Soun nod "Yes must habe been a nightmare!"
  

<@deMontreal> "Should have told me, I could use more parts."
<@Soun> "oh! you always seek the utilitarism on nightmares!"
<@Random_Nerd> (So, mind if we call it a night here?)
<@deMontreal> (Good idea.)
<@Random_Nerd> (I'll call this whole thing a scene and round up to an XP.)
<@Soun> (good idea)
<@Mrs_Senko> (Sounds good.))
<@Random_Nerd> (Let me check who gets the next one.)
<@Soun> (yay!)
<@Random_Nerd> (Okay, my note say Shounen gets this one.)
<@Random_Nerd> (*XP reference marker* next XP to de Montreal.)
<@Soun> (wow then YAY!)

STOP

<@Random_Nerd> Yeah, the scene system continues to be awkward in play.

• Soun is now known as Angelo
  
• Lili is now known as BethE
  

<@deMontreal> Well, it doesn't help that we don't know what we're doing until it happens...

• deMontreal is now known as Knockwood
  

<@Angelo> seconded, Knock
<@Angelo> we are like hounds sniffing for trails
<@Mrs_Senko> Are the other playtesters having similar problems with the scenes?
<@Random_Nerd> I find myself feeling like I can keep track of the Scene system, or run the NPCs, but not both.
<@Random_Nerd> Rand said that his group is.
<@Angelo> good question!
<@Random_Nerd> I don't know about others.
<@Angelo> rand group is? ok? not ok?
<@Knockwood> Maybe some sort of retroactive scene thing...
<@Knockwood> You know, "Oh, that was a _____"
<@Random_Nerd> But then we get the problem we got with retroactive project stuff in Nobilis.
<@Knockwood> That would help from your POV since you could set up surprise scenes
<@Random_Nerd> Where it just becomes an exercise in creative interpretation to get XP.
<@Random_Nerd> Let's keep trying to use it as written for a few more sessions at least.
<@Random_Nerd> After all, this is a playtest.
<@Angelo> yes sure let's keep trying
<@Knockwood> Yes.
<@BethE> (And Angelo, RN's sentence was that Rand's group is having trouble with the Scene system too.)
<@Angelo> (tnx Beth!)
<@Random_Nerd> Although if any of you have ideas on how it'd work better, please, give me those.
<@Mrs_Senko> okay
<@Knockwood> Hm....