Session 43.75

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 7

BethE: So, where were we...
Knockwood: I'd whomped that whole room of orks while laz backstabbed that big-ass troll.
Random_Nerd: While the lich prepared his fireball?
BethE: Who cast magic missle?
Knockwood: Eth tried, but RN ruled he'd already cast that when he 'attacked the DARKNESS!' earlier.
Etheric: No one ever admits to casting magic missile. But somehow, it always gets cast. >.>
Random_Nerd: Let he who is without sin, cast the first magic missile.
Etheric: I deny everything.
Etheric: Well, might as well tell people now.. I'm working mornings now, interviewed for a second part-time job earlier today. If I get it, my playing schedule will be either erratic or nonexistent for a while.
Knockwood: What time zone are you in?
Etheric: Eastern.
BethE: What hour of the morning?
Etheric: I start my present job at nine, M-F, get off work at 2:30.
Etheric: Thus, if I got the second job I could only do closing shifts.
Etheric: Anyway, I have evil plans worked out with RN to account for any absence on my part, but I wanted to let people know. And, nothing's certain yet -- I'm only hoping I get the job.
Random_Nerd: Only moderately evil.
Etheric: As unlike my current job this one has the possibility of health insurance, and I get cut off from my family's at the end of the year.
Etheric: Moderately evil is about as evil as I get. I am the diet coke of evil, sadly.
Knockwood: so... what do we do?
BethE: Sorry about the health insurance stuff.
Etheric: Right now? We were going to start a new story, I think... Or do you mean regarding potentially having to play with three people in the future?
BethE: We found out about the divine spark stuff and we still have plenty of plot hooks around. Like the missing soldiers.
Etheric: And it's okay, Beth -- I have the option of Cobra but as that's expensive up the wazoo, I want to avoid that if possible.
Knockwood: yeah, plus the guys from GI Joe keep whomping their lower-level guys.
Knockwood: :)
BethE: Yeah, I've heard that a lot about Cobra.
BethE: Both comments. <g>
BethE: So does anyone have a preference?
Etheric: I still like the idea of doing a plot around the divine human spark thing, but as I might be vanishing I don't want to do that unless it appeals to you guys too.
Knockwood: well, that's long-term, right?
Random_Nerd: I'm flexible as to where the game goes, which is pretty much a requirement in a Nobilis game.
Random_Nerd: Correct.
BethE: I see that as being more of an all encompassing/overlying plotstuff.
Etheric: Okay.
Knockwood: what are we assuming has happened in the background?
Random_Nerd: The background of what?
Knockwood: Did we rescue the soldiers, or is that a foreground plot, fr'ex?
BethE: Urm, if we go get the soldiers... *tiny voice* "I have an idea."
lazarus: shall we go IC, then?  :-P
Etheric: Conference room?
BethE: Sounds good to me.

• • • You are now known as Theresa.
      
    • Knockwood is now known as DanteE.
      
    • Etheric is now known as Carrie.
      

lazarus: Anyone have the logs of the last session?

• • • lazarus is now known as Brian.
      

Random_Nerd: I do... but not in a readily accessible way.
Theresa: Oh crud, I forgot to put them up? I thought I had... *roots about*
DanteE: well, you were distracted. :)
Theresa: Very true.  :)
Brian: I have no idea if you put 'em up or not. It's apparently sufficiently long ago I no longer remember what happened :p
Theresa: I do have it available and I can put it onto the Wiki while we get started.
Brian: I remember Brian walked into the tail end of something ... but don't remember /what/
DanteE: more like 'who', Brian.
Theresa: Kudzu was being very nostalgic and more talky than I've ever seen him.
DanteE: >:>
Theresa: And he made a green moon and put Monty on it.
DanteE: so, now we need to explain the new moon to the populace. The local astrologers are gonna plotz....
Brian: nono, it was Kudzu who did it, so the moon's always been there
Theresa: Yep. No DA.
DanteE: oh yeah
DanteE: wouldn't that mean Monty's always been there as well?
Carrie: Well, Kudzu made the Chancel, right? Yet no one forgot about the real world.
Random_Nerd: Not all Imperial miracles are retroactive, but many are.
DanteE: also, we should settle whether we put in the transmogrifier
Carrie: I'm pretty much ambivalent, mostly because if we don't take it as a Weird Science, Carrie can take a Gift that does the same thing.
Theresa: What does it count either way?
Random_Nerd: Count?
DanteE: we have 1 Chancel point to play with IIRC
Theresa: Cost in Chancel Points vs cost to Carrie?
Random_Nerd: I believe that it's a 1-point Weird Science, or either a 1 or 2 point Gift depending on how flexible it is.
Carrie: That's what I remember too.
Random_Nerd: Possibly 3 if you go really crazy.

• Carrie nods.
  

Carrie: But chancel points are worth something like 4 or 5 character points.
Carrie: Loosely.
Theresa: Up to you, Carrie. I just looked at my sheet and remembered I have the Spot Nobles gift...
DanteE: we have loads of people and other beings that want to be something else. If we make it a Weird Science we can have other people use it.
DanteE: Thousands, right?
Random_Nerd: A couple thousand.
Carrie: Hmm.
Random_Nerd: And remember, if you take it as a Weird Science, you can grab the transmorgrifier and take it to earth with you if you want.
DanteE: and, if it is 4 or 5 char points, we can have it so it can tweak _things_ as well
Carrie: Does anyone have a diferent idea as to what to use the spare Chancel Point for?
Theresa: Nope, no ideas at the moment.
Brian: no other ideas
Carrie: Knock, the 4 or 5 figure just comes because we can choose at the end of each story to each get a character point or all get a Chancel point.
Carrie: But it sounds like at least one of us is majorly interested in the transmogrifier, and no one else objects, so transmogrifier it is.
Theresa: Cool!
Random_Nerd: Okay, tell me of this transmorgrifier. What does it look like, and how does it work?
DanteE: it would help with the changed people. And Kudzu might like it.
Carrie: It's a cardboard box, right? Or was that the prototype?  ;)
DanteE: really special, glowing with miraculous energy, cardboard box. :)
Theresa: (There, the WIki is updated.)
DanteE: Then again, for real Mad Science cred it should be a ray.
Brian: but, for Calvin & Hobbes cred, it should be a cardboard box
Brian: ... maybe a cardboard box that shoots rays?
DanteE: how about a big ray that focuses the effects of the box. :)
Carrie: ...Cardboard box with a zappy-gun inside!
Random_Nerd: Well, if it's a Weird Science, and not a weird magic, it needs to at least have the trappings of science.
Brian: there's a button, of course.
Random_Nerd: Well, or the trappings of SCIENCE!, whichever.
Brian: and it makes a "boink!" noise.
Brian: ("Scientific progress goes 'boink!'?")
Theresa: Therefore it is a cardboard box with a Jacob's ladder.
Random_Nerd: That works.
DanteE: thing is, if the selection process is the same as in the original literature there may be problems with its dimensions limiting its utilitym and materials technoology difficulties with extended use.
DanteE: (Translation:
DanteE: (we might run out of room on the side to white the things to turn into and/or the little arrow might fall off.)
DanteE: and we can turn the typo fairy into a slug so we can SMACK her easier...
Carrie: I like the cardboard box concept in general but I don't think we need to follow the comic quite that far.
DanteE: ray, then?
Random_Nerd: There /was/ a Transmorgrifier Gun in Calvin And Hobbes.
Theresa: Yeah, let's nod to the comic as opposed to prostrating naked with a loud Ooooommm.
Random_Nerd: He used it when falling from the sky, once.
Brian: Theresa: where the hell'd that come from?
DanteE: but ... but ... it's Calvin and Hobbes! :)
Theresa: Brian - I do not know...
Theresa: Maybe it uses a ray at times, maybe it doesn't. For stuff that's too big for the box.
Random_Nerd: Any objections to something handheld but bulky, with vacuum tubes, that makes a sound vaguely like an Atari 2600?
Random_Nerd: (Tiny vacuum tubes, of course. This is, after all, high tech.)
DanteE: we could say that the original 'box' form factor was due to a combination of experimental and funding considerations.
Brian: let's go with that ray!
Theresa: (Yeah, very small allowance.)
DanteE: OK. Abilities and limitations?
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Only works on living animals (including humans) but not plants or nonalive things, takes about thirty seconds to function, doesn't have a very long range, blithely ignores conservation of mass?
Carrie: I'm thinking it can change bodily forms but not minds/souls. There might be long-term psychological change from a changed form, though.
Theresa: And makes a cool ZAAAP! noise.
DanteE: can we remove that living-things-only limitation?
DanteE: cuz you know someone's going to try the lead-into-gold thing
Random_Nerd: That's sufficiently thematically different that I think it'd fall into another category.
DanteE: and it could help avoid materials scarcity problems associated with being cut off from the rest of the world.
Carrie: Hmm, the thirty second thing... Does the ray have to be steady and unblocked the whole time?
Brian: I'm seeing a 30s charge up and then a blast.
Brian: at whatever's in the way
Carrie: Ah, that works.
DanteE: what would happen if it hit one of us?
Random_Nerd: Nothing at all.
Random_Nerd: Weird science is blocked by an Auctoritas.
Theresa: Huh. Good to know.
Carrie: It's not considered mundane, then?
Random_Nerd: Weird science is technically earthly magic.
Random_Nerd: p140, GWB.
Carrie: Right.
DanteE: ...could we zap Red with it?
Carrie: What about a Candleflame? Though none of us are one..
DanteE: he did want to travel.\
Random_Nerd: Even Spirit 0 grants a minor auctoritas.
Theresa: But then he wouldn't be a tree.
Carrie: Oh, it does? Hadn't realized.
Random_Nerd: Technically, Penetration 0 and No Penetration aren't the same thing.
Random_Nerd: They cost the same, but they're different.

• Carrie nods.
  

DanteE: oh... what would undo its effects? And would it be affected by changing something back to how it was?
Theresa: No, I just see him being faintly (British-sounding) horrified, looking at himself as a normal-sized human.
Carrie: Well, part of what I meant by suggesting that it doesn't change souls is that those who are changed retain some essential core of what they started out as, even if not visible. Humans remain human, trees presumably remain trees in some way even if undetectable as trees by any mundane means.
Random_Nerd: Well, Nobles could undo the effects with minor miracles, or other weird sciences or earthly magics could do it.
Carrie: Red still might be horrified, though.
Random_Nerd: Powerful mythic spirits could manage it too, and I imagine that the Cams and the Botanists could rig up something.
Carrie: Is that concept okay with all, though? Regarding the soul retention?
DanteE: risking a R0V here: Imagine zapping the bone giant back into the prof. ANy chance he could be zapped back to giant by some kids with a ouija board, or would it 'stick'? :)
Random_Nerd: Ouija board wouldn't do it.
Random_Nerd: They'd have to know what they were doing, magically speaking.
Random_Nerd: But then, a sufficiently capable magician could do such a transformation "from scratch" even on nontransformed things.
Theresa: Carrie - I like the idea of the soul/self retention.
DanteE: so do I
Brian: I like
Random_Nerd: So, changing the shape, but the Four Essences remain the same?
Random_Nerd: Or, hmm. Possible change in Aquatic Essence, I guess.
Theresa: *nod*
Carrie: Remind me what those are? Air, earth, fire, water?
Random_Nerd: Page 172.
Carrie: Thanks.
DanteE: (BTW, does it need a rubber-science explanation for how it works?)
Random_Nerd: Phlogistonic essence is "the fire in the heart."
Random_Nerd: Aetherial is abstract reasoning and thought.
Random_Nerd: Terrene is moral grounding and stability.
Random_Nerd: Aquatic is life force.
Random_Nerd: Spectral is the soul.
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Soul stays the same...
Random_Nerd: But if it's to be able to reverse changes like the giant, it'd have to change the accidential properties some.
Random_Nerd: The giant thinks differently now.
DanteE: what exactly is the 'watery life force'? (Besides caffeine? :)
Carrie: I wouldn't mind it changing other essences over time. I'm just leery of a "zap, you think differently now." If there's any of that it should be a gradual effect from staying in a form.
Random_Nerd: Mmm. Health, connection to the body, that sort of thing.
Carrie: David Eddings' and Piers Anthony's novels cover that kind of thing well, I think.
Random_Nerd: I'd describe psychosomatic illnesses as disturbances in watery essence, for example.
Random_Nerd: So, like the "Turn into a bear, /think/ like a bear" effect?
Carrie: It would be a gradual thing if you didn't change back.
Carrie: Thinking, though...
Carrie: We have humans who want to be something other than human. If they changed into something else, then back into human with a transmogrifier, would they then strt gradualy to lose the desire to be anything else?
Random_Nerd: That'd depend on individual cases./
DanteE: for a lot of the people we'll be using it on they're already parteay down the path, really...

• Carrie nods.
  

DanteE: fr'ex, if we zap the giant, he started out human, and hgasn't gone full ogre yet.
DanteE: similarly, if we zap an 'otherkin', in his mind, we're just matching up his body with his (mind/psyche/soul)
Random_Nerd: Yep.
Carrie: Okay, so... Does it need to affect the mind at all? Just thinking of the potential problems here.
Random_Nerd: Now, some of them may have issues settling into a new body, and a few may even decide that they didn't want to be changed.
Carrie: Though every problem is an opportunity.
Random_Nerd: Are you guys okay with something that affects the mind to the same degree that the existing changes in the chancel do?
Theresa: Hmm..I think that would be acceptable. Heck, I bet almost everyone is wobbly by now anyhow.
Carrie: I wouldn't object as long as spectral remains unchanged.
Random_Nerd: The soul would remain the same.
Random_Nerd: And they'd retain memories.

• Carrie nods.
  

Random_Nerd: But they might find themselves thinking differently, and acquiring new instincts, and so on.
DanteE: hm... we could debate the mind-body-soul connection forever.
DanteE: But I think that would work.
Random_Nerd: Well, here, it's not so much a matter of debating that, as just dictating it.
Carrie: You mean we haven't debated it forever already?  :p
Random_Nerd: How much /do/ you want it to change those things?
Random_Nerd: Because, within reason, it works the way you guys tell me it works.
DanteE: y'all wanna pop some fins and a laser sight on this sucker? :)
Carrie: I think it should change the soul no more and no less than the eisting changes in the Chancel.
Random_Nerd: The existing changes don't change the soul at all.
Theresa: Nah, let's not go crazy with the extras. Next thing you know, you'll want fuzzy dice too.
Carrie: The wolf guy is a special case because Carrie used a miracle on him without telling anyone.
DanteE: and we've been talking about leaving the mind alone./
Random_Nerd: Still, some of the effects of that miracle would've happened eventually, given time.
DanteE: (of course Carrie and I can do some decent mental tweaking on our own...)
Random_Nerd: The existing changes affected the body a lot, the mind mildly to moderately, and the soul not at all.
Random_Nerd: Thus, on a tangent, it'd be a matter for debate whether the Dark and the Light would consider the changed folks to be "human."
Random_Nerd: Some members of either would disagree on that.
DanteE: as opposed to a 'person'?
Random_Nerd: They definitely count as people.
Random_Nerd: All of them have intelligence in the human range and so on.
Random_Nerd: Their humanity is more debatable.
Random_Nerd: But they'd be protected by Entropy's Law, for example.
Carrie: I know Carrie considers a human soul to be the defining thing that makes one human..
Random_Nerd: Hmm. How would she define the term "human soul"?
Random_Nerd: For that matter, since the overarching goal relates to humanity...
Random_Nerd: What do all of your characters think makes someone human?
Theresa: I think Theresa now thinks human with mental quote marks around it. Sentience is the key. To her, Red is a person/human.
Random_Nerd: Makes sense. She's Serpentine, after all.
Carrie: Probably, knowing what she does now, Carrie would say that a human soul is one that both shares the essential traits of humanity, and traces its origin to the creation of humanity.
Random_Nerd: Hmm. So, to Carrie, the giant would count as human, but Red wouldn't? And what about Samuel?
Carrie: As to what traits are essential and what aren't... It would probably have to do with whatever aspects of the spectral soul were unique to humanity. I know a dead human she still considers human.
Carrie: Correct, and Samuel is interesting, but not human.
Random_Nerd: What about a creature that was a human in a past life, but was incarnated into a nonhuman body this time?
DanteE: (afk a minute)
Theresa: Does Carrie know about reincarnation (and how much it happens) yet?
Random_Nerd: I believe it's been mentioned in passing.
Random_Nerd: Yes, on reflection, I know that Lesson's made references to it.
Carrie: She would say that that soul retains a core of humanity. And she doesn't know that much, though as RN says she has a hazy idea of it.
DanteE: (bak)
Random_Nerd: And what about a human whose soul has never previously been human?

• Carrie smiles.
  

Carrie: That, she wouldn't believe is possible until you showed her, at this particular point in time. Though there are contradictions in her beliefs that she's not consciously aware of.
Random_Nerd: Okay.
Carrie: I can honestly say that she's avoiding thinking about them.
Random_Nerd: What about the rest of you? What do you think makes someone human?
Brian: I'm not really sure if Brian cares at all.
DanteE: Dante might go with 'knows it when he sees it'
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Who here is Light?

• Random_Nerd checks.
  

DanteE: me
Carrie: Carrie and Dante.

• DanteE has 30% less calories than a regular Noble. :)
  

Brian: Brian's Heaven.
Brian: with a big emphasis on Wild.
Theresa: So does Dante taste great or is he less filling?
Random_Nerd: Okay, which of the above would Dante consider to be human: J Random Human, Red, the giant, James, Lesson, and Samuel?
Random_Nerd: Err, of the below.
Brian: above, now :-P
DanteE: Yes. No. Yes, unless he decides to stay that way. No, unless he actually has a human soul as implied by his creation, then Maybe. No. Probably not.
DanteE: (assuming Lesson is a creature of Hell as opposed to a fallen human)
Random_Nerd: (Lesson is a demon. Demons are the natural fauna of Hell.)
Random_Nerd: (Fallen souls are different, although some may superficially resemble demons, and vice versa.)
Random_Nerd: Okay, thanks.
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Now, given that this seems to be more of a plotting session than a game session, does anyone else have any comments or thoughts on the game?
Brian: my thoughts right now: "my ankles hurt. I'm tired." ... I guess that would be a no, then :-P
Theresa: Are the MPs reset now?
Theresa: I could throw out my idea for bringing back the soldiers, if folks are interested.
Carrie: I believe so.
DanteE: let's see, how many points do we have?
Random_Nerd: Dynasty points?
Random_Nerd: What's your idea, Beth?
DanteE: cuz, I was thinking of a sword-focus that'd be available to appear and disappear on command, and do other things...
DanteE: then it occurred to me that what I really wanted was a light-saber. :)
Brian: vwoom.
DanteE: hey, courage & blades? I could do that.
Carrie: Ah, but does a lightsaber count as a blade?  ;)
DanteE: can I put a point into a Focus and get a blade that appears & disappears on command, cuts through anything, and as a bonus can deflect projectiles? :)
Random_Nerd: Hmm.
DanteE: cuts through anything, that's a gimme.
Theresa: Well, if I remember right, Dante and Theresa both have Aspect 2. Which is able to guise. We could guise either of them to be older-looking, have them pose at the dethroned nobility of some tiny little European/African country who accidentally lost his/her honor guard while in town. Old, vaguely deaf, not quite there anymore. Once we get close to the soldiers, talk to them in Amyran and John's your uncle.
Random_Nerd: When you say "anything", are we saying "cuts through steel," "cuts through diamond," "cuts through sound," "cuts through abstract concepts," or what?
Brian: not my abstract concepts! The pain!
DanteE: I've got a different thing for the latter 2
DanteE: Metaphor Blade
BethE: *watches as Dante shaves a bit off of a 6*
Random_Nerd: Blocking projectiles is a Aspect 4, Automatic, Local Things Only, Limited Applications, Common gift.
Random_Nerd: Nah, One Trick.
Random_Nerd: Okay, 1 point.
Random_Nerd: A sword that can with sufficient force cut through anything physical could be made with a Lesser Change.
Brian: (Link: http://www.oneswellfoop.net/meta/ccat_trans.png)http://www.oneswellfoop.net/meta/ccat_trans.png
DanteE: appear & disappear on command?
Random_Nerd: Hmm...
Random_Nerd: Do you want to have making it appear and disappear count as your miracles for those rounds?
DanteE: should be on par with drawing a gun...
Random_Nerd: Okay...

• Random_Nerd numbercrunches.
  

Brian: no crunching numbers!
Brian: they don't like being eaten :(
Random_Nerd: 3 or 4, depending on how I formulate it.
Random_Nerd: Or, hmm...
Random_Nerd: Possibly 2.
DanteE: as a focus?
Random_Nerd: Putting a gift in a focus doesn't affect the cost of the gift.
DanteE: I meant CP expenditure.
Random_Nerd: Well, yes. The cost is in CPs.
Random_Nerd: It's the combination of the "cut anythinG" and it not counting as a miracle to use that drives up the cost.
DanteE: what about the 3/1 point break for a focus in return for it being stealable?
Random_Nerd: No, that's not a price reduction.
Random_Nerd: Rather, it gives you one miracle point for each three points of the gift or attribute that's in the focus.
DanteE: ah, I'm so used to Hero-style point shaving. :/
Random_Nerd: Yeah, Nobilis does work in a somewhat atypical way.
Random_Nerd: Hmm...
Random_Nerd: Actually... you only want to be able to have one such sword at a time?
DanteE: yeah
Random_Nerd: You could make one with two lesser change miracles, withput even needing to spend a CP.
Random_Nerd: Just do one LCh with included creation to make a sword that can cut anything, and another on the sword to make the blade able to appear and vanish.
Random_Nerd: Now, things like Nobles would of course have their natural protections against being cut. You'd have to use Aspect miracles to hurt them seriously, and pay the applicable Penetration cost.
Random_Nerd: But with a good chop it could cut through walls and so on.
DanteE: it would still function as a sword inside an Auc, right? Not disappear?
Random_Nerd: Alternatively, if you want something that's a powerful offense even against Nobles, you want something like Marsiglio's Claw.
Random_Nerd: It would still function as a sword inside an auctoritas.
Random_Nerd: Basically, like a mundane but extremely hard and durable weapon.
Random_Nerd: You'd need to use Aspect miracles of at least level 6 with it to give a deadly wound to Durant Nobles, of course.
DanteE: OK, how about missile deflection?
Random_Nerd: That's a one-point gift, based on a Miracle of Aspect 4.
DanteE: (sorry to steal the focus, gang... feel free to think up your own kewl stuff. :)
Random_Nerd: It'd deflect bullets and similar projectiles as long as you have something to deflect them with, but would be trumped by offensive miracles of level 5 and up.
DanteE: a sword should be strong enough to deflect those, right?
BethE: (Nah, I'm good watching you guys work. We can comment on the possibility of daring plan later.)
DanteE: (not a howitzer shell, sure, but bullets)
Random_Nerd: Yep. Although a regular sword would be broken by repeated gunfire.
Random_Nerd: And cruise missiles and so on are Right Out.
DanteE: those I could split in half. >:>
Random_Nerd: Are you okay with the sword being not quite a lightsaber, just a ridiculously hard and sturdy piece of material?
BethE: It's a Katana as rpgers have long drooled over.
DanteE: that works, I can carry it as my cane when not in use.
DanteE: though I'm debating whether I should throw in a fractal blade option
DanteE: what's the CP cost so far?
Random_Nerd: Assuming you make the sword with a pair of miracles rather than taking it as a gift?
DanteE: yes, though I wonder how much trouble it'd be if it gets lost
Random_Nerd: Well, an alternative idea...
Random_Nerd: For two points, you could have a gift that makes it so that whenever you hold something sharp, it automatically becomes invulnerable to everything short of major miracles.
DanteE: sharp too?
DanteE: er, would it become ultra-sharp too?
Random_Nerd: Hmm. How would you define "ultra-sharp"?
DanteE: the cut-through-anything part
Brian: sharper than normal?
Random_Nerd: Well, if you have something sharp and harder than any mundane material, and combine it with Aspect 2 strength...
Random_Nerd: Cutting through stuff is just physics.
Random_Nerd: Might take a little while to cut through a steel wall or something.
Random_Nerd: Is that okay?
DanteE: hm...
DanteE: how about going to someone else whil I mull those options over
Random_Nerd: It'd cut through steel the way an axe being used by a strong guy cuts through wood.

• DanteE buys gift of Zen Typo Fairy Smackage
  

Random_Nerd: Does anyone else have anything?
BethE: Does anyone have anything to say about my soldier-rescuing idea? I can repost it, if need be.
Random_Nerd: Using guising and sneakiness to pose as deposed royalty?
Brian: (Link: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/ExTrioloRes.jpg)http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/ExTrioloRes.jpg <-- Exalted, Storn Cook style
DanteE: ah, that one...
DanteE: do we need to be that elaborate?
Brian: .couldn't we just go up to them, and ask them to come home?
BethE: I thought someone was holding them, police/inteligencia folks.
DanteE: I think they're just lost
DanteE: then again...
Brian: RN?
Brian: do we know their state, yet?
Random_Nerd: They're apparently in Mexico.
DanteE: scared shitless would be a good guess
Random_Nerd: But you haven't seen them yet.
Random_Nerd: And I don't think any of you have divinatory powers that work on soldiers outside of the chancel.
BethE: Ahh. Hmm. Then I'm probably being overly complicated.
DanteE: LDiv of Hope to return to Kaerkoven
Random_Nerd: Put it this way. To a group of Nobles, this is a problem on the scale of a parking ticket.
Brian: I figure we go to where they are, and tell them to come home.
Brian: if anyone tries to stop us, we magic them into helping us.
Brian: done.
BethE: Okay, then if that's taken care of, what next?
DanteE: only difficulty is _getting_ them home
DanteE: build this stuff & try it out?
DanteE: maybe see if the giant wants to be a professor again?
BethE: I think Theresa would like to take some downtime/off-screen time to camp out in the Library and take notes.
Random_Nerd: Okay, Etheric, implement the plan if you're not able to be there next week?
Carrie: Agreed. You-know-what happens offscreen if I can't make it.
DanteE: sounds sinister
Random_Nerd: It hardly involves any maiming of PCs at /all/.
BethE: Hardly any maiming? What a difference from usual! <g>

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