Session 149

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 16

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{Angelo} Hi all guys!
{Verithe} Hi!
{Angelo} How are you doing?
{Verithe} I'm just finishing making lunch.
{Verithe} Good, you? :)
{Angelo} me good too
{Angelo} afk 10min
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{Knockwood} Hi guys
{Verithe} Hi!
{Knockwood} hm, our Hollyhock God is missing...
{Verithe} *sets out cheese and crackers*
{Angelo} Hi knock!!
{Angelo} Baciamo le mani!
{Knockwood} you guys looked at Google Wave yet?
{Knockwood} Hiya Angelo

• Angelo yes sure!
  

{Verithe} A bit.
{Angelo} I set a wave with my gnome sheet
{Verithe} I should finish up my sheet on the wiki and put it on Wave...
{Angelo} and a test one... you are missing on wave...do you need an invite?
{Knockwood} I'm on Wave, I'm just not sure how to use it yet
{Angelo} (house policy: first invite gratis, next are payed. :-P)
{Angelo} uhm are you? I don't see you in my wave contacts! :-(
{Verithe} I thought I saw him....
{Knockwood} OH... almost forgot: my name there is xxx
{Angelo} @gogglewave.com
{Verithe} Nope, I'm just seeing things. Never saw him.
{Angelo} I can't find you
{Angelo} do you have any of us as friend?
{Knockwood} RN, I think...
{Knockwood} Let's just sort it out now. Who's who on google wave?
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{Knockwood} Hi RN
{Angelo} Hi RN
{Random_Nerd} My internet has been on and off all night.
{Knockwood} uhoh
{Verithe} Hi
{Angelo} :-( too
{Random_Nerd} It may be back from now on, but I may spontaneously vanish any moment.
{Knockwood} we were talking about Google Wave.
{Knockwood} My name there is xxx

• Random_Nerd checks his Wave.
  

{Random_Nerd} Yeah, you're in my contacts.
{Random_Nerd} If the internet stays.
{Angelo} I can't see knock :-(
{Angelo} and with law school?
{Knockwood} What's your google wave name, Angelo?
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{BethE} Hi guys! Sorry I'm late.
{Knockwood} Hiya Beth\
{Angelo} xxx@googlewave.com
{Angelo} Hi Beth!!!!
{Knockwood} hm.
{Verithe} hi!
{Knockwood} there you are
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE
{Random_Nerd} So, let's see. If the internet connection dies again, that may be it for the night.
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite
{DanteE} well, you'll both go }Ack!{ if that happens, right?
{DanteE} Is there a storm or something?
{Random_Nerd} There was physical damage to the fiber-optic line a few blocks away, about a week and a half ago.
{Random_Nerd} Connections have been spotty since then.
{DanteE} ah.
{Ftisk} ohhh
{Kite} Lady Grey tea tastes like soap. ._.
{lazarus} (sorry, was saying good night to Sara ...)
{DanteE} what happened?
{Ftisk} seconded
{Random_Nerd} So, let's see. Last session had been mainly Sam and William bringing up in-chancel matters.
{DanteE} and while we're at it let's sync our google wave IDs
{Kite} Sync?
{Random_Nerd} I have everyone's, I believe...
{Random_Nerd} Does anyone not have mine?
{DanteE} also we were prepping for a big Div-Data to sort out the reams of bullshit we've been believing. :)
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian
{DanteE} RN: xxx, right?
{Random_Nerd} Correct. But just remember, it'll only spot contradictions, not false statements.
{Ftisk} I have everyone but Knock :-(
{Random_Nerd} Yes.
{DanteE} xxx
{Brian} I can't remember what the div is supposed to be
{DanteE} maybe it's the upper case that's throwing people
{Kite} I should be xxx
{DanteE} We've been writing various things, people, and theories on index cards.
{Brian} oh right.
{Brian} that stuff.
{Ftisk} at least I add Knock !!!! :-D
{Random_Nerd} Anything before we start?
{Ftisk} The div will tell witch one is true / have various logical contradictions
{DanteE} actually, there's one thing we might consider...
{Theresa} How does one synch?
{DanteE} wiping out the Corrupt Cult.
{DanteE} We _could_ just spend the points and say they fizzled out.
{Brian} have they popped up in-story yet? I want to say I don't remember them, but then there's been a bunch of time that I wasn't around for.
{DanteE} last time we tried anything the game almost fizzled
{Ftisk} they appear one time with rabid mathematician
{Ftisk} one other time with the brick
{Random_Nerd} They haven't really appeared much.
{Theresa} (http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=11234082&postcount=8 The third picture makes me think of a fleshy Ftisk.)
{Random_Nerd} Just on those two occasions.
{Brian} (purple and orange hat?)
{Ftisk} maybe the 4th one?
{DanteE} (He does seem to be sporting a goofy :D expression... :) )
{Random_Nerd} Did you guys want to track them down, do something about them?
{Random_Nerd} You have some out-of-chancel Noble friends, so that makes it easier than it otherwise would be.
{DanteE} Good point, they wouldn't affect Ftisk or Kite. :)
{Ftisk} right! ^^
{Brian} oh, are they the miracles go all foozy?
{Kite} (It looks so happy!)
{Random_Nerd} All Domain and Realm miracles, rather.
{DanteE} yeah, them
{Random_Nerd} Yeah, that's one of the main two effects of the cult.
{Random_Nerd} That, and Excrucians can use them to store miracles.
{DanteE} But, like I said, we could just spend the points and have them disappear off-camera
{Random_Nerd} They can also do some magic that's rather snazzy in human terms, but is utterly pathetic in Noble terms.
{Random_Nerd} Yes, you could do that.
{DanteE} or, punt it until later
{Theresa} But they only effect the Powers that their cult is connected to?
{Random_Nerd} Only Nobles of the Imperator they're connected to, yes.
{Theresa} What else do we have on the table besides the cult?
{Ftisk} so I and kite are unaffected
{Random_Nerd} Enemy-wise, agenda-wise, or what?
{Brian} figuring out what the foozle is going on with the Age thing. Sorta. And Outside. And at some point the Collider gets finished, and things get ... funny.
{DanteE} this on-going prep for the big div, which may help further or start other things, depending on how the cards fall.
{Random_Nerd} Yeah, the Collider is currently in the process of being built.
{Ftisk} go outside and say hi to some excru?
{DanteE} (And I mean that literally, I was picturing winding up with something that looks like a sculpture of cards jammed together. :) )
{DanteE} or just see what the magic paper can tell us
{Theresa} I think let the cult sit for a bit.
{Brian} I think let the cult sit for a bit.
{DanteE} OK.

• Ftisk slap RN with a trout
  

{Kite} No! Not the trout! D:

• Random_Nerd parries.
  
• Ftisk damn!
  

{Random_Nerd} Fool! No trout swung by mortal man can harm me!
{Kite} Eel, on the other hand...
{Ftisk} lol!
{DanteE} AH, but Ftisk is ... no ... mortal ... man!

• Random_Nerd looks at Ftisk, as if expecting him to take off the snail head and reveal a head with flowing golden hair.
  

{Random_Nerd} But... anyway!

• Ftisk enbody! (spider form)
  

{Theresa} He could...it just wouldn't be Ftisk's head.
{Random_Nerd} Shall we start back up?
{Theresa} Sure, I'm ready.
{DanteE} Sure.
{Kite} Let's!
{Ftisk} oki doky!
{Random_Nerd} _________START___________
{Random_Nerd} Imp Running Down The Hall: "Yeeeeee!"
{Random_Nerd} William: "I'll just start working on obtaining those books."

• Ftisk try to understand Dollphanienl
  
• Kite preens.
  

{DanteE} "Let me go grab the little it-from-hell...
{Ftisk} "Weird, with gift of tongue I *must* be able to understand her... right Kite?"
{DanteE} "This leash you gave me is extra-strong, right?"
{Theresa} (Do the books prefer spraying him with holy water or pushing his nose in his messes?)
{Random_Nerd} William looks wistfully at the football pads and the net, but then opens the door and steps out into the hall.
{Kite} "If she's talking."
{Random_Nerd} W: "The net is sturdier than it looks, too."
{DanteE} "Good to know..."
{Brian} "Appropriated from Gladiator arenas?"
{Random_Nerd} W: "And the pads are studded with silver, iron, and elm wood."
{DanteE} "You and I can corner him."
{Random_Nerd} W: "Just in case."

• Theresa checks her Conservatory-twitter. She's hired a few Amyrans to clip stuff off of the internet that concern plants. Today's catches are blue roses (oo! But they're not real blue) and honey made from coal...oh, no, made on coal land, misleading headline...
  

{Kite} "Or, you know, trying to communicate."
{Random_Nerd} W: "He's a demon. It amounts to the same thing."
{DanteE} (Now, Sam's recovering at home, right?)
{Ftisk} "If she is 'broken' then maybe Shadows can fix her?"
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "Screeee?"
{Theresa} (Yep, Sam's at home.)
{Random_Nerd} (Correct. Ftisk dropped him off there, and then came back.)
{Kite} ((How interested would Theresa be in the French Republican Calendar? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar ))
{DanteE} from the hallway: "But, anyway, I was thinking that Ftisk could do his thing with those index cards... c'mere you ....

• Ftisk gently to Dollphaniel: "Hi Dollphaniel"
  

{Random_Nerd} Doll: "Schhrt."
{DanteE} "And maybe it'll tell us what we can do next for the Big Questions... HA! (whump)"

• Ftisk do a data lDiv to try to decipher the answer"
  

{Random_Nerd} (The answer to what?)
{Brian} "You guys mind if I take a bit to check up on the collider construction?"
{Theresa} (ooo, nifty!)
{Ftisk} (the answer she gave me at my hi)
{Kite} "Construction?"
{Random_Nerd} (She doesn't seem to be sapient. Dollphaniel seems to be about as smart as a... a clever German Shepherd, say.)
{Brian} "A collaboration with the Chancel and Earth scientists to build a ... well, infinitely long comes to mind ... atomic collider. Just to see what happens."

• Ftisk pet Dollphaniel a bit
  

{Ftisk} "uhm..."
{DanteE} (Any problem grabbing the imp?)
{Random_Nerd} (She's of the lowest order of summoned creatures. This is also why she used her Gift in a random and haphazard manner when it was relevant.)
{Kite} "I would like to see the construction, some time!"
{Random_Nerd} The imp is easily grabbed.
{Brian} "It's mostly underground. Not much to see."
{DanteE} (and yet she was 'good' enough to photoshop mecha-snail porn. :) )
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "You're not putting me back in the... oh. It's you!"
{Brian} "Especially because it's humans leading the construction effort. If there was much to see, they'd go insane."
{Brian} "Which, well, is only a problem because we want the collider finished in a form that resembles a ring."
{Random_Nerd} (The Gift is "smart" in that it can only create things that might distract Ftisk, and can only do so when Shadows is not sober.)
{Ftisk} (oh well then Dollphaniel fall under machinery?)
{DanteE} "Yep. Keep in mind I still haven't decided what to do with you..."
{Random_Nerd} (Dollphaniel herself, however, could use it only in a random fashion.)
{Random_Nerd} (Yes. She counts as a piece of machinery, and also as a living creature.)
{Random_Nerd} (So you could make her smarter with a Lesser Change.)

• DanteE returns with the Imp on a leash.
  

{Ftisk} (was my line of thought RN)
{DanteE} "Actually, if you're good we might give you a name."
{Random_Nerd} (Also, she doesn't have immunity to direct miracles, as some creatures from Outside do.)
{Random_Nerd} (So there wouldn't be a problem on that front, either.)
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "Rather than 'You there'?"
{DanteE} "Yeah."
{Kite} "So long as it's something being built. There's only a finite number of colliders being assembled.
{DanteE} "That's right, Kite can help you out."
{Brian} "Far as I know, all the other ones on Earth have abandoned their effort to come on board with this one."
{Random_Nerd} (Well, the existing accelerators are being maintained. But it's the only one on its scale being currently built.)
{Theresa} "Oh, that reminds me. Brian, did you happen to..nudge the other Earth one so that you could poach their scientists?"
{Brian} "nope. All this is done on its mortal merits."
{Brian} "At least, on my part."
{DanteE} "While we're at it, I periodically get twinges of fear that the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world..."
{Brian} "Talk to Physics about that one. I think he threatened it once, when drunk."
{Kite} "Fear?

• Ftisk ldiv a realistic doll of the little demon (imp) with eyes that glow in the dark, in William's bedroom
  

{Random_Nerd} Imp: "Can I bite the human with red hair?"
{DanteE} "Well, a dip in Courage."
{Kite} "Oh, right. Of course."
{Random_Nerd} (William has left the room, to go working on getting the books.)
{Theresa} "You're scared about a mortal collider but Brian's grand scheme doesn't?"

• Theresa gives the imp a Look.
  

{DanteE} to the Imp: "No. In fact, no biting people unless one of us specifically says so."
{Brian} (ah, social experimentation by gods. What could be better?)
{DanteE} "Not me, Theresa... when checking up on others."
{Random_Nerd} The imp seems to be thinking.
{DanteE} (Do we smell smoke?)
{Ftisk} (lol)
{Random_Nerd} (The imp smells of /many/ things.)

• Kite peers over Dante's shoulder at the imp.
  

{DanteE} "Ah yeah. Did Ftisk tell you about the group of hell-souls we rescued?"
{Ftisk} "Nes.. I mean not and yes... I mean I don't remember :-( "
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "I can still bite /them/, if they don't do what they're told, right?"
{Kite} "No! Or maybe he did....sometimes all I hear in the reports he sends home is 'ADVENTURE!' several times."
{DanteE} "NO."
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "Are you /sure/? Because that sounds like the sort of thing I'm allowed to do."
{DanteE} "There, not here."
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "So as long as I don't do it here it's okay?"
{Theresa} (I am now imagining a little mechanical Ftisk-shaped email to his family, scurrying around, going whee! and talking at high speed about all he's been doing...)
{DanteE} to Kite: "This guy was thrown in free along with the hell-souls..."
{Ftisk} (and Ftisk can make one!)
{Theresa} *to the imp* "Do you remember the instructions you were given when you arrived here?"
{DanteE} "Worth _every_ centime, I might add..."
{Brian} (WHEEE!)
{Kite} (Make it canon!)
{Random_Nerd} (I am trying to resist making puns about "snail mail.")
{Brian} (too late)
{DanteE} "This guy doesn't even know the concept of 'Be Good', does he?"
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "I will do as I am told!"
{Kite} "Maybe he's been conditioned for a contrary definition of the term?"
{Ftisk} (do you remember if I have used domain MP this session?)

• Brian will head off to his office, make a call to the construction site, just check up on it. See how progress is going, any problems, that kind of thing.
  

{DanteE} (Don't think so...)
{Random_Nerd} (Not sure. Don't think so, don't care enough to check, so I'm declaring that you haven't.)
{Theresa} (The imp is really pushing things, isn't he?)
{Random_Nerd} On the other end of the phone, at the construction site: "Boss... I had a question. Is the whole Mister Science thing a joke of yours?"
{DanteE} (Then again... being an ex-psych student, Dante's probably heard of the feral child Genie, and therefore might have some sympathy for how the Imp was
{DanteE} ('raised'...)
{Random_Nerd} (The difference is that the Imp doesn't have exactly the sort of neurological atrophy that Genie did.)
{Brian} "Mister Science?"
{Random_Nerd} (The way he grew up was "natural" to his kind, at least as far as the proper functioning of their brains and bodies goes.)
{Brian} "I'm Math-Man!"
{DanteE} (Fair enough...)
{Random_Nerd} Jim: "'Stop trying to build the particle accelerator, or you'll have more than birds dropping bread on it. You've seen what I could do with the other one. Signed, Mister Science'"
{Random_Nerd} Jim: "Those words just turned up one day, caved into a table in the foreman's office."
{Brian} "... that ... was not me."
{Kite} "Have you considered demon deconditioning classes?"
{DanteE} "They have those?"
{Random_Nerd} Jim: "Okay. Then... should we be worried?"
{Theresa} (Yes! But all Anchors should be worried...)

• Brian to the group: "Guys, there's a Mister Science (notice the capitalization) sending messages to the construction site. They want to know if they should be worried."
  

{Kite} "Well, they might somewhere. You could try to start them here. I dunno. I just thought it."
{DanteE} "Brian, when you conceived this project, did you let Physics in on it?"
{Brian} "I thought I did"
{Brian} "... what's my fake double's name again?"
{DanteE} (Nairb? :) )
{Kite} (That's MR. Nairb)
{Theresa} (The one from the cult dreams?)
{Brian} (yep, that one)
{Random_Nerd} (That was less a double, and more... the way they saw you.)
{Brian} (true, but the question remains ICly)
{DanteE} (so, it's Brian through a looking glass?)
{Random_Nerd} (Yeah, the mystery cult has... versions of you that don't exactly match who you really are.)
{Theresa} "I don't remember him having a name. I was a big angry tree."
{Random_Nerd} (Except James, at present.)
{Ftisk} (afk)
{DanteE} "yeah, the cultist basically referred to them as us."
{DanteE} (William back yet?)
{Brian} "Hm. I may have to get in touch with Physics, then. Science is an unknown to me, I don't know whether to be worried or not"
{Random_Nerd} (Not yet. He's in his office, trying to arrange to purchase tomes of demonology for you.)
{DanteE} (Does Physics also control Quantum Physics?)
{Brian} (I have no idea :p)
{Random_Nerd} (Probably!)
{Random_Nerd} (Or if he doesn't, then that explains a lot!)
{Theresa} (He may also have a cat.)
{Kite} (Is it dead?)
{DanteE} "You might want to have them put the project on hold until you straighten it out."
{DanteE} (yes and no)
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "Or find who it is, hit them until they stop, then hit them until they can't do anything."
{Brian} "Why do I keep hearing the Imp? It keeps making me think it makes sense."
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "That trick /always/ works."
{Brian} "Nah, I don't think it's worth a Hold at the moment"
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "Or, if it doesn't, you didn't hit them hard enough."
{Brian} (to the phone) "Keep going, let me know if another message appears."
{DanteE} (The Imp's a Munchkin)
{Random_Nerd} Jim: "Okay."

• DanteE looks over the cards on the table...
  

{Random_Nerd} (What do you have written down?)
{Theresa} (The imp is channelling an orc...or ork.)

• DanteE adds 'Physics' and 'sabotage' cards.
  

{Brian} (I'll remind that Brian wanted to have a ... "PC Machinations" card, effectively)
{DanteE} (Basically all the hare-brained schemes we've been coming up with. Alternatively, a group of 'Noun' and 'Verb' cards, to be put together into Something Interesting.)
{Random_Nerd} (So... you've invented Noble Madlibs?)
{DanteE} (Yep! Snail-powered!)
{DanteE} (AFK a minute...)

• Kite looks at the imp.
  

{Random_Nerd} Imp: "I'm not stupid, you know. When you're this short, you don't live long if you're stupid."

• Brian prays to Physics "Hey man, I told you about my collider project, right? ... do you know a Mister Science?"
  

{Random_Nerd} Physics, drowsy sounding: "You mean Mister Wizard?"
{Kite} "You don't have to be stupid to be out of your element."
{Brian} to Physics: "Nope ... my construction crew got a message warning to stop construction, signed by a Mister Science. Someone thought that might've been you, but I expect you'd've signed Physics, and besides which, would have come to me directly."
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "The way people think in Hell works anywhere. Other ways of thinking don't work in Hell."
{Random_Nerd} Physics: "Well, reasoning by analogy, I imagine a wizard did it."
{Brian} to P: "So, that's a no on knowing who Mister Science is, then?"
{Random_Nerd} P: "Well, I mean, if Mister Wizard did science stuff..."
{Random_Nerd} P: "But, no. No idea."
{Brian} to P: "Thanks. I'll let you get back to sleep."
{Kite} "It may work, but there are different things to take into account."
{Random_Nerd} Physics: "Grrrmph."
{Kite} "Migration routes, for one, are completely different."

• Brian goes back to the main room. "Physics confirms: Mister Science seems to be a new entity in the matter. Or, at least, neither of us really know who it is."
  

{Random_Nerd} (That, or Physics is dicking with you and he did it.)
{DanteE} (bak)
{Brian} (... that is an option, but I don't think he'd sabotage it. Though he is known for pranks and red herrings)
{Random_Nerd} (Well, nobody's actually done anything to the accelerator. They just left a note.)
{DanteE} (carved into a table...)
{DanteE} (Y'know, it may not be a Noble.)
{Theresa} (And had a bird drop a piece of bread onto the one key spot that it could do the most damage.)
{Brian} (don't know many who could do that)
{Kite} (Just some paranoid fanatic)
{DanteE} (Ah... scratch that_)
{Random_Nerd} (Well, that was the LHC, not Brian's one.)
{DanteE} (Oh...)
{Brian} (but the threat was more than that)
{DanteE} (The collider is your department. Somebody who's either scared and/or trying to scare people... my department. Machinery being Assembled... our visitors. It's a plot. :) )
{Ftisk} (back, please congratulate with me... I managed to break a teapot in the bed and get rid of the mess too!)
{Brian} (... nice, Ftisk :p)
{DanteE} (Is that a euphemism? :) )
{Theresa} (Wow...)
{Brian} (Dante: My first thought was the cult that we decided to table for now. Admittedly, that we didn't actually include RN :p)
{Kite} (How dastardly of them to include Ftisk and me in this plot!)
{Random_Nerd} You hear a knock on the door.
{Ftisk} (is knock wood!)
{DanteE} "Who is it?"
{Kite} "Pizza!" :)
{Random_Nerd} "Jennifer. Neither of your assistants was in their offices..."
{Theresa} "Oh, Lesson's assistant! Sam must have talked to her." *gets the door and opens*
{Theresa} "Hello! Please, come in!"
{Ftisk} (someone remember the name of the hell-soul female that gave so much problems with her attitude?)
{Random_Nerd} She walks in the door.
{Random_Nerd} (You guys nicknamed her 'Bathory'.)
{Ftisk} (danke RN)
{DanteE} "What's up?"
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer is dressed in jeans, and a T-shirt with a somewhat stylized and cute-ized picture of Lesson's face on the front, and the words "Bureau of Monstrosities" on the back.

• Ftisk lChange Dollphaniel into a reasoning being with a worst attitude that Bathory (-2DMP)
  

{Theresa} (...it has a chibiLesson on it? And he _allowed_ it?)
{Brian} (I get the impression Lesson would've viewed it as quirky and useful in dispensing his duties.)
{Brian} (... he's a strange demon, in my view)
{Random_Nerd} (With what attitude?)
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Theresa? The invisible scarecrow guy said you'd be okay with me stopping by whenever, is this a bad time?"
{DanteE} "The _what_?"
{Ftisk} (an attitude worst that the one Bathory have against nobles)
{Random_Nerd} (Ah! So, a mix of fear, contempt, and scheming?)
{Kite} (I am afraid of where this may lead...)
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Sam? Not the redhead, the other one."
{Ftisk} (more scheming and contempt and scheming too)
{Theresa} "Oh, no, it's not a bad time. We were just discussing Brian's particle accelerator. Would you like to do it in here or in a more private setting?"
{DanteE} "Oh, our resident Dionyl."
{Ftisk} (and I'll betray you all if I have the possibility)
{Random_Nerd} (That works.)
{Kite} "Do it?"
{Ftisk} ( ^^ )
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "Muhuhahaha! Wait, that sounds wrong... huh?"
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel tumbles across the floor.

• Ftisk tap Dante shoulder wit a manipulator "Dante can you give some courage to Dollphaniel?"
  
• Kite watches Dollphaniel.
  

{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "It's all the same to..." *stares at Dollphaniel* "...me."
{Theresa} *to Kite* "I promised an interview." *smile*
{Kite} "Oh, that makes sense."
{Ftisk} "Where are you going Doll?"
{Brian} "Weird stuff happens here. Sorry, Jennifer" *smile*
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Weird stuff happens at work, too."

• Ftisk aspect catches her (Dollp.)
  

{Theresa} "And this is Kite, Noble of Assembly and the snail is Ftisk, Noble of Machinery. They come from Chancel Vulcan."
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Vulcan like the god, or the planet?"

• Ftisk weave a manipulator "Hi Jennifer "
  

{Ftisk} "The God"
{Kite} "'Allo." Kite keeps watching Dollphaniel.
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Cool."
{Theresa} (Live long..and funky.)
{DanteE} "Reminds me... that stuff you remember from mythology, about the world-tree and Olympus and the lands of giants? Those are true."
{Kite} "Some of it. The stories are a based off of reality."

• DanteE does a quick Div-Courage to make sure she isn't losing it.
  

{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Makes sense."
{Random_Nerd} (She isn't actually seeing any miracles, just... weird stuff.)
{Theresa} "How about we talk in the next room? *to the others* Give a call if you need me..."
{Random_Nerd} (She's used to weird stuff.)

• Ftisk pet Dollphaniel and wait for a Dante response on his request for Dollphaniel
  

{DanteE} (What's my Imp doing?)
{Random_Nerd} (She's a little nervous about how to act around the imp.)
{Random_Nerd} The imp is staring at Jennifer's shirt.

• Theresa leads Jennifer to an office next door.
  
• Kite turns to Dante. "You know, even if you don't have demon conditioning classes, you should really look into setting up miracle-conditioning classes for the humans."
  

{Theresa} (Great, Lesson's going to lose face over the imp...)
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "She works for the bigger demon?"
{DanteE} "Makes sense. Then again, so few people directly interact with us..."
{Ftisk} "How do you feel Dollphaniel? DO you like this name?"
{DanteE} to the Imp: "Yes she does. Voluntarily, I might add."

• Theresa gestures for Jennifer to take a seat?
  

{DanteE} (Oh, missed the request...)
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "Go *implausible sexual act* *anatomically impossible sexual act* *topologically impossible sexual act* *logically contradictory sexual act*"
{DanteE} "What did you do to Dollphaniel, exactly?"
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "She wears his insignia... is she property, or a lieutenant?"
{DanteE} "And I doubt she needs much courage..."
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer sits down.
{Theresa} (I see Dolly as actually saying 'implausible sex act', actually...)
{Ftisk} "Here there are some rules, leave these shows for home"
{DanteE} (That does make sense, actually... :) )
{Theresa} "So, what would you like to start with?":
{Ftisk} "Show proper respect to my friends"
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "What do you, you personally and you and your siblings, think of my boss?"
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel sits in the corner and makes little "Scree. Scree." noises.
{Ftisk} (now that is sentient the gift of tongue can let me understand her? right?)
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "Who's in charge, her or me?"
{Random_Nerd} (Yes. But she isn't speaking words, more growling to herself.)
{DanteE} to the Imp: "For now at least, you should consider yourself subordinate to all humans."
{Theresa} "Well, I can't speak for what my siblings think but I can for myself. I admire Lesson. He is working to change his lot in life. He's been maltreated for most of his life and he's been given a new start." *thinks*
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "But I'm in a superior role relative to the humans from Hell!"
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "Except maybe the crew leaders."
{Theresa} "He's tough and no nonsense when work needs to be done. But the rules that we've given him and his connections as Urbanization's anchor have helped him to develop in ways that I doubt Hell would have allowed him."
{Theresa} "I'm glad that he's had these opportunities to find a new purpose for his life."
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Would I be right in thinking that you don't actually have much use for him at this point, so he's mostly finding uses for himself?"
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "Well, leader, now."
{DanteE} to the Imp: "Lesson?"
{Theresa} (Bathory.)
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "No. The human crew leader."
{DanteE} "the ex-king?"

• Ftisk soft over a bit and go to Dollphaniel and cuddle her "little, little one, I really like you but you must behave in the right way here, I'll show you all the correct society rules..."
  

{Random_Nerd} Imp: "No, no. The woman. The one who used to be leader of this kingdom isn't a leader any more."
{Random_Nerd} Doll: "What's in it for me?"
{DanteE} "Damn it... I specifically told her to behave..."
{Theresa} "Hmm. I'm not sure. As my brother's anchor, I don't really have the authority that can tell him what to do without a good reason. And I highly doubt I could tell him to do something against Urbanization or the Chancel. I just don't have the...connection with the Chancel or the cities that would give me a...right to tell him what to do."
{DanteE} "Well, actually...
{Theresa} "Plus, we trust him. He can pick up new projects as he likes."
{Random_Nerd} Imp: "I can go deal with her."
{Ftisk} "'What's in it for me?' ... is the correct way to stay with others"
{Theresa} (But it makes sense that Bathory is in charge, since the exking is off getting hitched.)
{DanteE} "Lesson's in a strange position in that human-level threats aren't too tough, but the threats we deal with are too tough."
{Random_Nerd} The imp turns his head towards Dollphaniel, and mouths the words "Talk to me later."
{DanteE} "Then again, when he first joined us we had him wiping out street gangs."
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer seems to be thinking.
{Ftisk} "Beware Dollphaniel he" *point to the imp* "is a _bad_ subject"
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "You /do/ have the authority to tell him what to do without a good reason. Or at least, he thinks you do."
{Kite} "I've heard that humans ignore similar warnings from their parents, Ftisk."
{DanteE} (oops, I missed the part where they're in another room. :/ )
{Random_Nerd} (You can hear them.)
{Ftisk} "but she is not human... I hope she have more wisdom"
{Theresa} (Yeah, you've just insured that she's going to go out with the Imp. On a motorcycle, in black leather.)
{Random_Nerd} (And if you want, you can speak loudly enough that they can hear you.)
{DanteE} (Well, retcon my comment about Lesson, please.)
{Random_Nerd} (Okay.)
{Ftisk} (well T., is precisely what as player I hope Doll will do ^^ )
{DanteE} "Ftisk, what's with Dollphaniel's attitude?"
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "He /wants/ you to order him around. Any of you."

• Theresa flinches.
  
• DanteE heard that...
  
• Ftisk protectively "She is new to this word Dante, give her some time to adjust"
  

{Theresa} "Is he bored? Does he think we don't appreciate him?"
{Kite} "She may not have the prerequisite experience for that wisdom. What was the inspiration for her design, anyway?"
{DanteE} to the Imp: "You... go over there to the edge of the table and sit quietly."
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "As near as I can understand it, it's a demon thing. That's what my job is, explaining human things to him and demon things to everyone else. It's one of the parts of the way demons think. They want to have a boss above them who tells them what to do."
{DanteE} to Kite: "The angel Ophaniel, actually."
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "They want their direct boss to be as important as possible, because that brings prestige. But they want someone above them."
{Ftisk} "Is not a my creation, was Shadows doing." *proudly* "from outside creation she came"

• Brian goes and hides in his office. Again.
  
• Theresa frowns. "And with Urbanization gone, that diminishes him?"
  

{Kite} "Really? Interesting..."
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Yes. Being his own boss isn't something that fits into his idea of the world."

• Ftisk nod nod
  

{Theresa} (Brian, be careful, last time, the hiding lasted months. ^^ )
{Brian} (that often happens. Look at the company he keeps...)
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "But being the right-hand humanoid of a Noble is the second-best situation he can imagine himself in."
{Theresa} "And I'm guessing the first-best is being a Noble himself?"
{Ftisk} (no being right hand of Kudzu!)
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Yes. Working directly for an angel."
{Theresa} (Bah, Wildlords are better!  ;) )
{DanteE} (OK, can we take a second to straighten out where everybody is?)
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "But he doesn't like angels. He hasn't lost his fear of them, but... right now, working directly for a Noble is the best situation he could be in, from his point of view."
{Theresa} "Has he or the Bureau been given any orders from Kudzu?"
{Ftisk} "Kite, do you have forged any companion while I was away?"
{Brian} (Brian's in his office attached to the meeting room)
{Random_Nerd} (Okay, let's see. You, Ftisk, Kite, Dollphaniel, and the Imp are in the conference room. Theresa and Jennifer are in an office on the same floor.)
{Kite} (I think I'm with Frisk, Dante, Imp and Dollphaniel))
{DanteE} (I'm in the conference room...)
{Random_Nerd} (William is in his office, one floor below you all.)
{Random_Nerd} (Sam is at home.)
{DanteE} (Did the Imp obey me and get to sitting quietly?)
{Random_Nerd} (Yes.)
{Kite} "Nope!"
{DanteE} "Huh. I'll have to remember that..."
{DanteE} "Now, Ftisk, why is your doll suddenly mouthy?"
{Ftisk} "well, you must try is a very special connection. I must organize a meeting with you and Gnomely!"
{DanteE} "I didn't say stuff like that the time I dropped a bookcase on my foot."
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "I don't know why the scarecrow and the butler don't like Lesson, but the main reason he doesn't get along with them is that they're in exactly the situation he wants. He's an Anchor, so he should be above them, for reasons that make sense to him. But they work directly for you."
{Ftisk} "I made some adjustment to her like giving her sentience"
{Kite} "It would be a pleasure to meet my 'nephew'."
{Ftisk} "let's see "

• Ftisk connect with Gnomely
  
• DanteE looks over Dollphaniel
  

{Ftisk} "Hi Sweet one!"
{Theresa} "Well, I believe that the dislike from their end is that demons have a reputation for corruption and deceit. Demon blood itself corrupts what it touches. But Lesson is different from other demons in that his heart is a plant and he's been given some extra Courage, as well as the changes from being an Anchor of Urbanization."
{Ftisk} "When do you return home?"
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel just glares at Ftisk. She doesn't have eyes, or a face, but somehow she manages.

• DanteE picks up Doll...
  

{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "I've known exactly one demon. I've met the little one, but I don't really know it."

• Ftisk is oblivious to any other thing while connected with his anchor Gnomely
  

{Theresa} "It's a complicated flow chart for the ranking. In Noble society, Lesson would be ranked over the Aide Society members since he is an Anchor. But here, Sam and William are just as valuable to us as Anchors because..well...I don't have an Anchor yet. Neither does Dante. It's been helpful to have information from people outside of the Chancel."
{DanteE} "Theresa... can you check and see how much she understands our, ah, situation?"
{Theresa} "Which is one of the reasons why you work so well with Lesson! You don't have any preconceived notions."
{Theresa} (Our situation? If you're wanting me to explain the Ages...  :) )

• DanteE puts the doll on the table...
  

{DanteE} (I mean, we're now embodiments of concepts because Kudzu chose us, etc.)
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "All I know about this stuff is what he's told me. I'm still not clear on exactly what an anchor is. Sometimes it sounds like just a meat puppet, a telecommuting spare body. Sometimes, it sounds like an... executive officer, or something. And sometimes it sounds like some weird religious high-priest thing."
{DanteE} to Doll: "Hello."
{Random_Nerd} Doll: "Hmm."

• Ftisk to Gnomely "Hi?...."
  

{Random_Nerd} (Do you want to handle Gnomely's dialogue, or should I?)
{Theresa} "Those all work...want the quick version of what's going on?"
{DanteE} "So, what are you doing?"
{Ftisk} (I was waiting for your reply but I can handle the dialogue )
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "Yeah."
{Random_Nerd} (I'll take it.)
{Ftisk} (ok!)
{Random_Nerd} Gnomely: "I know that the shoe thing was you."
{DanteE} (What time of day is it?)
{Random_Nerd} (Late afternoon. Three or four.)
{Ftisk} "Right. Do you get the bucks?"
{DanteE} (OK, so Gnomely's probably on the set.)
{Theresa} "Okay...this may need a flow chart of its own but... *explains about the Imperators, enChanceling, Nobles and Anchors. The War is touched on.*"
{Theresa} "So you see, we are each now the embodiment of a specific part of the Universe."
{Ftisk} (is my next question to G.)
{Theresa} "An Anchor is another part of us, in that we can share ourselves and sometimes our powers through that Anchor."
{Brian} (whee, I'm fading. I also am idling IC, so don't worry about me :p)
{Theresa} "And for some Nobles, their Anchors can take over if that Noble dies."
{Ftisk} (good night then? or you remain in irc?)
{Random_Nerd} Gnomely: "I don't know. Been busy with the show. We've got the fifth episode almost done with principal filming."
{Brian} (I'm here in IRC, at least for another while longer.)
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "So, an anchor is to you like a Noble is to an... Imperator?"
{DanteE} (Did Doll respond to me?)
{Ftisk} toG: "do you know when you return home?" *with a sorrowful voice* "I know you stay at Dante place now, " *normal voice* " but I like to present you my brother Celestis"
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "Plotting!"
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "Can... I take that back, and say it again but in a less cute way?"
{DanteE} "Hm. What, and why?"
{Theresa} (Aww... *huggles Dolly*)
{Kite} (Adorable!)
{Brian} (kawaiiiiiii! ^_^)
{Ftisk} (so proud of my daughter)
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "World domination, naturally. But I'm a two-foot ball of gears and spikes, and my only real power is to distract one guy when another guy is drunk."
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "So, it's going to take a lot of thinking."
{Theresa} "Hmm, in a simplified way, yes. The power levels increase as you go up the scale. And each Anchor is something different to that Noble. Our sister Hope has her parents as her Anchors and they help her in her work. Lesson was made an Anchor by Urbanization and given dominion over the cities of the Chancel. Brian's anchor Jim is currently working on the particle accelerator."
{DanteE} (so, it's a more extra-reality pseudo-angelic evil plotter?)
{Kite} "Or a lot of drinking...on the other guy's part."
{Random_Nerd} (Instead of "evil", say... selfish and spoiled, perhaps?)
{DanteE} "How long does it take a Noble to sober up, anyway?"
{Theresa} (It's...Paris Hilton?)
{Ftisk} (lol!!)
{Kite} "Depends on the Noble. There might be some that don't get drunk."
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "But then Lesson's boss went all weird and went away and came back different, and that's not how it normally works, so he doesn't know how he fits?"
{Brian} (Brian can become drunk or sober whenever he wants to :p Sorta, anyway: blood/alcohol content is just another number ;))
{Ftisk} (that is a useful noble ability!)
{DanteE} (well, Ftisk specified 'sentient', so Doll's probably smarter that Paris. :) )
{Brian} (sadly, because you guys are Nobles, so Brian can't do that to you :p)
{Ftisk} (well life's hard Brian!)
{Random_Nerd} (Yeah, Brian can monkey with proportions with miracles.)
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "I want my own office."

• Theresa nods. "It's hard to say what exactly Lesson is at the moment because there has been another Urbanization. And then James came back..changed. But in a way, Lesson kind of has his wish in that he is an Anchor directly connected to Kudzu. As far as I know, Lesson isn't connected to Herb and I'm not sure if he's connected to James any more either. Which doesn't help his hierarchy..."
  

{Kite} "My, she aims high, doesn't she?"
{DanteE} "Well, it does make sense, that makes it easier to plot..."
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "And a personal secretary. And one of those things on the desk, with the clicky metal balls."
{DanteE} (to play with or date? :) )
{Ftisk} (hey she is mine! no click metal ball can have her!)
{Kite} "Oooh! I like those clicky metal balls!"
{Ftisk} ( :-P )
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "Mine!"
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "Ah... I wish to have one?"
{Kite} "Psh! We're not genies."
{Theresa} (Ftisk could LC the balls.)
{Kite} (They're not exactly mechanical, are they?)
{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "Hmm... can you get that one guy to get drunk? I might be able to make my own."
{DanteE} "You do know you're 'destined' to do something else, that's fairly important..."
{DanteE} prayer: #Shadows? You with us?#
{Random_Nerd} Shadows: "Hey."

• Ftisk set for a time and a place to meet with Gnomely (is ok RN?)
  

{Random_Nerd} Dollphaniel: "I'm pretty sure I'm destined to be a shiny distracting thing until some guy sobers up. And he already sobered up. My destiny's /done/."
{DanteE} #We're having _so_ much fun with the doll you sent... you sobered up yet?#
{Random_Nerd} (Yeah.)
{Random_Nerd} Shadows: "Doll?"
{DanteE} #Yeah, the foot-wide replica of Ophaniel that Ftisk wanted?#
{Random_Nerd} Shadows: "I actually did that?"

• Ftisk metaphysically hug Gnomely and cut the connection
  

{Theresa} (This is why you shouldn't drink and LC!)
{Random_Nerd} Shadows: "I was just getting ready to summon one, and I couldn't find my notes."
{DanteE} #Yeah, it's been messing with Ftisk for the past (how long?)#
{Ftisk} (2/3 days?)
{DanteE} (less than that...)
{Random_Nerd} (Day and a half, or so.)
{Ftisk} (really? ok!)
{Random_Nerd} Shadows: "...what did it do?"
{DanteE} "Ftisk, remind me what your original plan for this was?"
{Ftisk} to Dante and Dollphaniel " my plan was to send you " point to Dollp "outside the Weirding Wall as a scout to gather informations"
{Ftisk} to Doll: "ah, first I must anchor you"
{Random_Nerd} Jennifer: "The uncertainty isn't good for him, though. At least, as far as I can tell."
{Random_Nerd} Doll: "You're not my real dad!"
{DanteE} #Remind me to show you what's on its flash drive... anyway, feel up to another cross-wall excursion soon?#
{Kite} "I don't think that matters."
{Ftisk} "But I love you as how if I'm the real one!"

• Kite whispers to Ftisk "Or hates."
  
• Theresa rubs her forehead. "Hmm..so he would like more management. Has he expressed any interests in other functions of the cities?"
  

{Random_Nerd} Shadows: "How about this. I help you with that, and you help me with a little problem that I have here. And do it before the rest of my family notices."
{DanteE} #uhoh, what happened?#
{Kite} (Drunken bender. Knocked the stars out of the sky. Help roll up some new ones.))
{Random_Nerd} Ftisk, you feel a prayer from Gnomely.
{Random_Nerd} Shadows: "It... would be easier to show you."
{Ftisk} I answer the prayer
{Ftisk} toG: "what's up?"
{Random_Nerd} Gnomely: "What just happened?"
{DanteE} #Hang on...#
{Brian} (... bananana...)
{Random_Nerd} Gnomely: "I feel like my internal organs... do I have internal organs? Like they did a dance."
{Ftisk} "I don't understand? What do you mean Gnomely?"
{DanteE} "Guys? Shadows need our help with something, and needs us to be ... discreet about it."
{DanteE} (Aw, crap, the locusts!)
{Kite} "Discretion is my sister-in-law's cousin's maiden name!"
{Random_Nerd} Gnomely: "I mean... what has six legs, or maybe eight, and lives in my torso?"
{Ftisk} toG: "yes you have some internal organs like but Dance? ... "
{Ftisk} toG: "Crap! Locusts. The one Lord E. put there!"
{Random_Nerd} Gnomely: "I think they just wanted me to know they were still there."
{Ftisk} toG: "What was happening when they danced?"
{Kite} (afk)
{Random_Nerd} Gnomely: "I don't know. It felt really weird."
{DanteE} (and for fun, we can't hear this, so we can't point out how Ftisk was a doofus. :) )
{Ftisk} (can I do a div on Gnomely from here?)
{Theresa} (Wow, do they know when Ftisk says the l word away from Gnomely?  :) )
{Random_Nerd} Gnomely: "I was just doing the rehearsal..."
{DanteE} (... or ... who's spying on us for E?)
{Random_Nerd} (Well, Ftisk had been mind linked with Gnomely about fifteen seconds before.)
{Ftisk} (true, but then I said the L word with the mind link closed)
{Ftisk} (...I believe...)
{Random_Nerd} (Yeah.)
{Random_Nerd} (That is correct.)

• Ftisk tries a div on Gnomely to se if he has some miss function
  

{DanteE} "Theresa, did you hear what I said?"
[ERROR] Unknown command ``and.
{Random_Nerd} (Mind if we stop about here? I'm getting braindead.)

• Ftisk add a look at the locusts to see them and the cage
  

{Theresa} *louder* "Hmm? Trouble?"
{Brian} (stopping is ok)
{Theresa} (Brainooze...)
{Ftisk} (ok for me too)
{DanteE} "Yep, Shadows needs our help."
{DanteE} (guess this is as good a place as any to stop...)
{Random_Nerd} ____________STOP_______________
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
{Angelo} good session I like it!
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
{Angelo} mostly the Theresa piece
=-= Brian is now known as Lazarus
{Knockwood} Yeah, but on the other hand all we did was talk to one another & play with our toys. :)
{Lazarus} yeah, but why not?
{Angelo} yeah, sure!
{Lazarus} (incidentally, you guys should go to projectdonut.com, sign up, and download the beta! It's a game about talking to one another & playing with toys ;))
{Angelo} btw how is in full light that Dollp will be a hate anchor?
{Lazarus} (By Luke Crane and Jared Sorensen)
{Random_Nerd} It's seeming that it should work reasonably well.
{Random_Nerd} She's at least annoyed Ftisk a fair bit by now.
{Angelo} true *nod nod*
{Random_Nerd} And is it wrong that I decided to base her personality a bit on a more annoying and little-kid-ish version of Ftisk?
{Knockwood} technically, this 'chapter' has had more nothing than a Seinfeld episode.
{Angelo} No, I'm ok with your choose
{Random_Nerd} Hmm. Want me to get back on the "big world-shaking plot" horse?
{Angelo} the crux is that she is hate-able in this version so that work
{Angelo} what?
{Random_Nerd} I mean, should the next chapter be a more "deal with threats to reality" one?
{Knockwood} well, we've got a plot thread anyway. :)
{Lazarus} We've got a couple plot threads :p
{Angelo} yes
{Lazarus} though I'm not sure I'm not making more of Mister Science than really is there
{Angelo} and some hanging things to do.. like finish the collider
{Knockwood} Depends. Is Mr.S a mundane or Noble scale threat?
{Lazarus} we don't know yet.
{BethE} Well, I don't think 'carvings out of nowhere' classify as mundane.
{Knockwood} well, could just be a sneaky mundane.
{Angelo} can be a ninja
{Angelo} the carving is a mundane action
{Verithe} Or just unobserved.
{Random_Nerd} And there are various levels in between "mundane" and "noble", too.
{Angelo} the breast incident is less mundane
{Lazarus} the what sorry?
{Verithe} The breast incident?
{Knockwood} There's Shadows' thing, there's the excursion to the outside, there's the big Data thing we're planning...
{Angelo} for some reason I think of electricity and copper
{Angelo} is the one that stop the collider
{Knockwood} There's RN leading us toward enNobling Lesson...
{BethE} Bread?
{Random_Nerd} Well, the bread incident actually happened.
{Angelo} yes bread!
{Random_Nerd} Like, in real life.
{Random_Nerd} A bird dropped a piece of bread on the LHC, and it broke.
{Verithe} Oh, bread. Yes.

• Angelo *Embarrassed!!!!*
  

{Random_Nerd} Hit the exact wrong spot, blocked a... well, a small thermal exhaust port... and it overheated.
{Random_Nerd} Oh, it sounds utterly made up.
{Lazarus} reality is stranger than fiction.
{BethE} The Force was with the Bird.
{Lazarus} unless that fiction is Nobilis. Or Sandman.
{Random_Nerd} Of course, on the other hand, how on earth would a bunch of Nobles think that the Bread Incident was utterly mundane?
{Angelo} or hinterby
{Knockwood} hm... no mention in the LHC article on Wikipedia
{Knockwood} maybe it's an urban legend?
{Lazarus} have you guys gone to projectdonut.com yet? :p (there's only 1000 spaces! It's a really cool game! I'm really jazzed about it!)
{BethE} http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/05/bird-drops-bread-lhc-shuts-down/
{Random_Nerd} public.web.cern.ch confirms it.
{Random_Nerd} And that's the real CERN website, as near as I can tell.
{Random_Nerd} http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2009/091106b.html
{Random_Nerd} http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/6604370/Large-Hadron-Collider-ready-to-restart-this-weekend.html
{Random_Nerd} Yeah, it's legit.
{Knockwood} huh.
{Lazarus} another neat LHC point: the novel Flash Forward, written in 1998, used an LHC experiment as a Deux Ex Machina for plot :p Unfortunately, for the show, they excised any of the reasonably interesting bits from the novel.
{BethE} Patterns really stretched for that one.
{Angelo} btw can be Patterns the causes of the carving?
{Random_Nerd} He could. We've seen that written words fall under his estate.
{Knockwood} well, the messages we got from Patterns were _raised_ letters, weren't they?
{Lazarus} on the other hand, sunken is just the inverse of raised.
{Angelo} but this can be only a cosmetic change
{Knockwood} ah, wait... it can't be patterns, he's too paranoid to leave the message behind
{BethE} The table could disappear at any time.  :)
{Angelo} but the message lead not to him
{Random_Nerd} And Patterns is certainly paranoid enough to mask his miracles.
{Random_Nerd} Unlike some Nobles!
{Angelo} :-P
{Verithe} Heh
{Lazarus} RN: I just got to your reposting of the Onion, as I listen to "Clap for the Wolfman" by the Guess Who.
{Lazarus} it's surprisingly hilarious in tandem.
{Knockwood} Now, is it that Ftisk cannot mention the L-word at all without something happening to Gnomely?
{Random_Nerd} Heh.

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{Random_Nerd} He's mentioned it at least once before without any effect.
{Random_Nerd} Twice or more, I believe.
{Angelo} well Ftisk have no the suspicious so he will continue to use the L word when Gnomely isn't here
{Knockwood} oh... so he just can't say it in his presence or with a link going?
{Random_Nerd} That would be plausible given the information you currently have.
{Angelo} btw is impossible, with Shadows being drunken at time, to know what was the exact recipe for Dollphaniel? Right?
{Knockwood} either that or Jennifer is a spy for Entropy.
{Angelo} Right! Burn Jennifer!
{Random_Nerd} Impossible? Probably not. But, really, just think of it in terms of him having been really drunk, and done a weird miracle.
{Random_Nerd} High Summonings miracles are just prone to be weirder than most others.
{Angelo} oh well is not a problem, is not like Dollphaniel will made some problems for us
{Angelo} ... right? :-P
{Knockwood} And at _some_ point we still need to do that Data miracle we've been setting up.
{Random_Nerd} For reference, Dollphaniel is an example of a level 0 HS miracle.
{Angelo} well. we can do it at start next session
{Knockwood} so that RN can tell us "THAT WAY YOU IDIOTS!" without actually saying it. :)
{Lazarus} I keep forgetting to reprint the HS rules so I can actually read them.
{Verithe} Or just tell us a funny story.
{Random_Nerd} She's of the Phasmida, has no "floating character points" assigned to her, and no extra miracle levels bought to cause her to cooperate with Shadows.
{Knockwood} that from the 2nd supplement?
{Random_Nerd} So, she's an example of what a character could do relatively early in High Summonings.
{Angelo} but her ability trigger is wonderfull
{Angelo} is standard? I mean is doable with the rules as they are or need some bending?
{Random_Nerd} Yeah. It's a normal Gift.
{Random_Nerd} You could even take it, if you wanted.
{Random_Nerd} It's just a Gift based on a Domain miracle of a very very specific Domain.
{Angelo} wait? I can take the gift from Dollphaniel. on Ftisk?
{Knockwood} You want a mess-with-Ftisk gift?
{Random_Nerd} No, I mean, you could spend character points to get that Gift, if for some unknowable reason you wanted to.
{Angelo} ahhh
{Knockwood} (I could make a really bad joke there...)
{Random_Nerd} Game-mechanically speaking, it's utterly standard.
{Knockwood} Of course, Kite hasn't done much yet...
{Lazarus} heh. Brian with his ability to be drunk or not-drunk at will, summons a fuck-with-ftisk-while-drunk doll...
{Random_Nerd} Heh.
{Random_Nerd} Oh, and also notice that, as one of the Phasmida, Dollphaniel has incomplete control of her Gift.
{Lazarus} would rapidly switching between drunk and not-drunk make the doll go even more psychotic? :p
{Random_Nerd} It just triggers at semi-random when appropriate.
{Random_Nerd} And with its specific mode of functioning outside her control.
{Random_Nerd} This is typical of a creature of her type.
{Random_Nerd} It might!
{Random_Nerd} It would make the doll act erratically, at least.
{Lazarus} that sounds like fun.
{Knockwood} this doll defaults to erratic
{Angelo} but you can get Shadows drunk you need just a bit of penetration
{Knockwood} No, direct miracle, remember
{Random_Nerd} That's what level 0 summoned creatures do best.
{Random_Nerd} Go around causing trouble and chaos.
{Angelo} a good use of them is to distract a goblin guards when we go to sack the camp
{Random_Nerd} I imagine if Shadows was your enemy, the first thing he'd do is conjure up a bunch of random critters and dump them in Amyra as a distraction or hindrance.
{BethE} I think I should head to sleep too.  :) Good game tonight, guys!  :)
{Random_Nerd} One more thing!
{Verithe} Good night!
{Angelo} Night Beth!
{Random_Nerd} Next week's session is American Thanksgiving.
{Angelo} ohhh
{Lazarus} g'night Beth.
{Knockwood} ah yeah
{Random_Nerd} Game is cancelled then.
{Lazarus} ah, ok.
{Verithe} }.}
{Lazarus} two weeks, then?
{Angelo} we skip that then
{Random_Nerd} Yeah.
{Angelo} okay good turkey then
{Knockwood} we'll be unconscious from the tryptophan, probably...
{Random_Nerd} Mmm. Turkey...
{Verithe} Eat some extra turkey for me! We don't get it here very often...if at all.
{Random_Nerd} Anyway, see you guys in two weeks.
{Random_Nerd} Good session, everyone.
{Lazarus} that reminds me. We've got a turkey in the freezer.
{Lazarus} anyway, g'night guys.
{Knockwood} Yep, the we-survived-let's-eat holiday.
{Knockwood} good night all
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{Angelo} Go Knock before RN steal your T.!
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{Verithe} Take care! :)
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