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Chancel Amyra

2015-01-23T02:53:11Z

Angelo.pampalone:

==Chancel Amyra==
''We meet at 8:30pm US Central Time-zone, Thursday nights, irc channel #nobilis on magicstar server, usually for at least an hour and a half to two hours''
aka: /server irc.magicstar.net AND /join Nobilis

*Side note - game started mid-May of 2005.
*Back note - This game is supported by Tpyo, Typo's Regal.

Old notes:
*Front note - 33 dynasty points as of Session 109 - +1 DP as of Session 132
*Sneaky note - Ftisk and Kite, being later additions will receive double CP until they come at par with the other Nobles

Abhorrent Weapons discussed:
*Abhorrent Shiv
*Abhorrent Rock - the first Abhorrent Weapon, used to kill the Thirdborn Angel, the Guardian at the Gates. It's a ''rock''.
*Abhorrent knife - soul-carving knife owned by JbJ

===Player Characters===
Brian, Dominus of [[Amyra:Numbers_v3|Numbers]], played by lazarus

Chytosideron (Kite), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Chytosideron_V3|Assembly]], played by Verithe

Dante, Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Dante_V3|Courage and Blades]], played by Knockwood

Ftisk (aka Conrad (aka Ftisk)), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk_v3|Machinery and Data]], played by Angelo

Theresa, Domina of [[Plants_of_the_Third_Age!|Plants]], played by Beth

Carrie, Domina of [[Amyra:Hope|Hope]], played by Etheric

===Player Characters Holding the horses===

Herb, new Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Herb|Urbanization]], played by Harold

Snow, Domina of [[Amyra:Caprice|Capriciousness]], played by Sara

[[Lil Charachters Sheets|Sam, Will, Gil, King John, Gnomely]]

===Non-Player Characters===
James, former Dominus of [[Amyra:Urbanization|Urbanization]], missing & ..well, huh.

Lesson, reformed demon, anchor of Urbanization

Samuel and William, Aides

Red a sentient redwood

Gnomely, a free will mechanical gnome, anchor of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk|Ftisk]]

===Imperator Kudzu===
''from the first game session:''

A creature shaped much like a man, but build to a larger scale, paces with frenetic energy. His crafter seems to have decided to avoid the more common building materials of bone and flesh. 
His bones are bricks. His fingers are tree branches. His eyes a red light and a green one, seemingly taken from a traffic light. 
He smells of both nature and civilization, jungle fumes and smog. 

Qualities: '''Great Harvest, Cold, Corrupted Mystery Cult, Dim Warding'''

Bought off - ''Demanding''

===Amyra and Kaerkoven===
Amyra: '''Weird Science (Building Seeds at the beginning. Transmogrifier later), Magical Inhabitants, Convenient'''

'''Kaerkoven''': Capital city. King John's palace and the Treasures are here, along with many museums, places to shop and the odd giant sentient redwood walking around. University as well. Chancel Heart is in clockwork room in Tower on university campus. Theresa has taken over the university Conservatory while Carrie has taken over the Administrative Building's upper floors. For the most part, Dante and Brian hang out/live in the clock tower. Lesson had his offices on the second floor while the first floor held Monty for a while. Horse has claimed the Infinite Room now.

Aides are invested nearby (Sam near river that runs through city.) Camms are also in the city. Lesson and his gang/team have taken over some of the industrial places for their work on dealing with the shapechanged Chancel inhabitants.

[[Camm flower chart]]

[[Discussion With Outside]]

==Current Favors Owed==

(as of Session 165)

'''Owed us:'''
*Medium favor from the Cammorrae
*Favor from Physics, for helping restore Quantum Physics
*Favor from Consequences & his family, for helping with the Tam head.
*Papa Legba, Power of Roads, says we can visit him once.

==[[Amyra:Who's Who]]==

==[[Amyra:Untied laces and other unfinished thingies]]==

==Game Logs==

[[Amyra:Chapter_1|Chapter 1]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5206014&postcount=1 Hello Universe]

[[Amyra:Chapter_2|Chapter 2]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5304629&postcount=34 Two-Fisted Tales of Academic Mathematics]

[[Amyra:Chapter_3|Chapter 3]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5737878&postcount=45 Now Hiring]

[[Amyra:Chapter_4|Chapter 4]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6446260&postcount=59 The Battle of Kaerkoven]

[[Amyra:Chapter_5|Chapter 5]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775254&postcount=67 Nobles, meet Parliament. Parliament, Kneel Before Us! Oh, sorry, inside voice.]

[[Amyra:Chapter_6|Chapter 6]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775309&postcount=75 Hi John and Baaaad bunny!]

[[Amyra:Chapter_7|Chapter 7]]: Paaaaarty!

[[Amyra:Chapter_8|Chapter 8]]: Mexican Madness

[[Amyra:Chapter_9|Chapter 9]]: Blood Ties

[[Amyra:Chapter_10|Chapter 10]]: Weekend at Barakiel's (aka You Want ''Who'' Dead?)

[[Amyra:Chapter_11|Chapter 11]]: HG Suggested Title: "Aren't you going to eat the giant?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_12|Chapter 12]]: Who Ya Gonna Call?

[[Amyra:Chapter_13|Chapter 13]]: We Gotz to Go to the Council! or "How Much Is That Hell-Soul in the Window?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_14|Chapter 14]]: So, how fast does this snail travel, exactly?

[[Amyra:Chapter_15|Chapter 15]]: Your Mission, should you choose to accept it...

[[Amyra:Chapter_16|Chapter 16]]: We do random stuff so you don't have to!

[[Amyra:Chapter_17|Chapter 17]]: Hard Science 2: Hard Science With A Vengeance

[[Amyra:Chapter_18|Chapter 18]]: Bring me the head of River Tam!

[[Amyra:Chapter_19|Chapter 19]]: Street Fightin': When Acorns Attack

[[Amyra:Chapter_20|Chapter 20]]: DOGS IN SPACE!

[[Amyra:Chapter_21|Chapter 21]]: A new Aidee

[[Amyra:Chapter_22|Chapter 22]]: Patterns

[[Amyra:Chapter_23|Chapter 23]]: Outside?

[[Amyra:Chapter_24|Chapter 24]]: Too interesting to be interesting.

[[Amyra:Chapter_25|Chapter 25]]: A bird's cult

[[Amyra:Chapter_26|Chapter 26]]: Sueridus superstar

[[Amyra:Chapter_27|Chapter 27]]: The Kaerkoven Ogre Incident

[[Amyra:Chapter_28|Chapter 28]]: Gunboat Diplomacy, Part 1

[[Amyra:Chapter_29|Chapter 29]]: The New Kids In Town

[[Amyra:Chapter_30|Chapter 30]]: Breaking the Sky

[[Amyra:Chapter_31|Chapter 31]]: Dealing with Drama

[[Amyra:Chapter_32|Chapter 32]]: Who You Dare Believe

[[Amyra:Chapter_33|Chapter 33]]: Demonbox 2: Demonbox Harder

[[Amyra:Chapter_34|Chapter 34]]: Silly, silly mammals

[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]: ???

[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]: Lil Aidee Story

[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]: ???

==[[Amyra:Quotes|Game Quotes Page!]]==

[[Category:Nobilis]]

Session 270

2014-08-27T13:45:18Z

Angelo.pampalone: Created page with "Chancel_Amyra Chapter 37 An huge thank you Beth to for the log! <lazarus> we're still missing Angelo and Eth? <BethE> Hi V!<b..."

[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]] 
An huge thank you Beth to for the log! 
 
<lazarus> we're still missing Angelo and Eth? 
<BethE> Hi V! 
<BethE> Yeppers. 
<BethE> And V - Chuubo still lives. :) 
<Knockwood> Turns out we were reading the d20s all wrong and we actually have decent to-hit scores. 
<lazarus> in the D&D game I'm playing, my Sorceress is a much better Sorceress when she remembers how spells work 
<Verithe> Yay! 
<lazarus> (I'm watching the ST:TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer" - I believe this is one of the Kirk Logic Bomb episodes) 
<BethE> I'm dealing with vampires in my Demon game. 
<Knockwood> You guys see my thread asking about Supers games? 
<Random_Nerd> I'm not really into supers gaming. 
<lazarus> not sure, kwd. which thread is that? 
<Random_Nerd> Just tell me it isn't "What's the best supers game?" 
<Knockwood> Well, kind of... 
<Knockwood> http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?731449-Best-Supers-system-for-(whatever) 
<Knockwood> The consensus was "Supers! RED" 
<Random_Nerd> ...there is some sort of cosmic principle making people post that thread, I think. 
<Random_Nerd> That was a joke back in 99. 
<lazarus> depends what you want a supers game for :p 
<lazarus> gritty level, I would say Wild Talents is great. But it's Watchmen-esque 
<lazarus> (in tone, not in power level) 
<Knockwood> Well, Watchmen has everybody at a low level with one huge exception 
<lazarus> I meant in terms of the whole "you really feel a punch" thing, as opposed to a Batman or Superman type "bam piff pow!" type game 
<lazarus> You have powers, definitely, but you're still /human/, and /vulnerable/. (Heroes, perhaps?) 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> So. 
<Random_Nerd> Two things we can do. 
<Random_Nerd> We can have the big meeting with the Wildlords this session. 
<Random_Nerd> Or we can have this be your last-minute prep for that. 
<Random_Nerd> Preferences? 
<lazarus> I vote big meeting 
<Verithe> I vote for the meeting. 
<Knockwood> Well, if there's anything we're good at it's waffling. 
<Random_Nerd> Mmm. Waffles. 
* Verithe stabs the waffles 
<lazarus> waffles! My one weakness! 
<BethE> Meeting. 
<Knockwood> we should do a little prep, though. 
<BethE> Although Theresa will leave instructions for her minions to provide flowers for William's wedding if the Wilds tear us to shreds. 
<Knockwood> Then again, as long as we don't start in medias res we can do that. 
<lazarus> can we retroactively prep in flashback? 
<Knockwood> I thought her minions were the flowers... 
<Verithe> Theresa can have the flowers also be the choir! 
<lazarus> (yep, Kirk Logic Bomb) 
<BethE> Theresa has a few minions at her Conservatory that gather info for her about farms around Amyra and correlate info from out on Earth. 
* BethE is now known as Theresa 
* Verithe is now known as Kite 
* Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
* lazarus is now known as Brian 
<Theresa> So, a little prepwork and then Meeting? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Pre-meeting it is. 
<Random_Nerd> But a short one. 
<Random_Nerd> __________START______________ 
<Brian> "Last minute. Anyone want burgers?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "So, we've booked the stadium for the meeting. Do you know how many wildlords will be coming or in what form?" 
<Brian> "I want burgers." 
<Brian> *calls the burger joint and orders a stadium of burgers to be delivered to the stadium* 
<Kite> "That's a silly number and/or form, Brian." 
* Theresa rubs her forehead. "I hope I do better explaining than I did to HQB." 
<DanteE> "William, the Wildlords probably don't know whether they're coming and in what form." 
<Theresa> "Probably at least 2/3 of the known Wildlords." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "The area /around/ it has already been evacuated." 
<DanteE> "Why are we doing this _downtown_? 
<Brian> "Because Kaiju movies?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Because I don't want to be the one to tell dozens of gods they're meeting in a muddy field." 
<Theresa> "Because it's the nicest area." 
<Theresa> "Oh, reminds me. Has John been notified?" 
<Brian> "No?" 
<Kite> "Muddy fields are nice! Lots of tadpoles!" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "He has been notified." 
<Theresa> "If the area has been evacuated, I would hope that someone told John, especially as to why." 
<Theresa> "Thank you, William." 
<Brian> "Will he be present?" 
<Theresa> *to William and/or Sam* "Has this kind of meeting been held before?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "The police will /try/ to cordon off civilians from the area." 
<Brian> (protect the squishies?) 
<Kite> "Can we assume that civilians who trespass bring whatever befalls them on themselves?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Well, we want them to not bring any dooms down on anyone." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Such as by distracting an antsy Magister." 
<Brian> "Especially because they're _our_ people." 
<Brian> (can I do an Amyra-wide broadcast?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You can.) 
<Kite> "Could a human-grade entertainment thing work? Like....a giant fishing thing or a barn raising? What sorts of things attract lots of humans?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Ever? Occasionally, as near as I can tell. At the Fall, or after the Lost Centuries. When the War began." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Less than once per hundred years." 
<Kite> "Just....to distract the citizenry." 
<Theresa> *to William* "Ah. So hopefully no one will be expecting refreshments." 
<DanteE> "What are you going to tell them? 'Don't come down town, beings from beyond comprehension are gathering to learn a potentially nasty truth about themselves'." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "In theory, Kudzu is hosting this. But he's... delegating." 
<Theresa> "We should probably have Lesson and his group patrol the edges to keep people back. No matter what we organize to keep the populace distracted, someone's going to come stare." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "It's being described as something like a cross between a peace summit and a natural disaster." 
<Theresa> " How about 'Don't come downtown. You know Kudzu? These are his relatives. Lots of them." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "And, Brian, we used your name and likeness rather a lot." 
<Brian> (in that case, broadcast:) "Amyra! Can I have your attention! This is Brian!" 
<Theresa> "What time is the meeting?" 
<Brian> "Downtown Kaerkoven will be experiencing some breaks with reality. For your own safety, I request that you stay away." (Kaerkoven is our main city, yesyes?) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "In theory, in four hours. But Magisters could start showing up at any point, I suspect." 
<Theresa> (Brian - yep.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Brian> (continuing broadcast) "we will let you know when it's safe. And host a public party after." 
<DanteE> "Any specific RSVPs besides Kudzu?" 
<Theresa> "Huh. We may have to keep Wildlords _entertained_ for four hours or less.... I need more caffeine." 
<Theresa> "I can't sneeze that often." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Three hundred cows will be standing by in case they are needed." 
<Theresa> "Oh, Red could do a presentation." 
<Brian> "Shall we be on our way?" 
<DanteE> "We probably should." 
<Theresa> (*to the stadium!*) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Let's see... some hand-picked Monstrosities will be acting as serving staff, as they seemed the most likely to not go crazy." 
<Random_Nerd> (Ready to cut to the stadium?) 
<Kite> (yes) 
<DanteE> (Sure) 
<Brian> (let's go1) 
<Random_Nerd> ____________STADIUM_________ 
* Kite_ (~chatzilla@MagicStar-87C3188A.lightspeed.livnmi.sbcglobal.net) has joined #nobilis 
<Kite_> (Blarg) 
<DanteE> (oops) 
<Random_Nerd> Kudzu is in a larger body than usual. He's at least ten meters tall, and fairly bulky, too. Must have used most of an abandoned building to find materials for this one. 
<Theresa> (Kite's cloned!) 
<Theresa> (No shiny thing is safe!) 
<Kite_> (Bwahahaha!) 
<DanteE> (We'd decided that Theresa should lead, right?) 
<Theresa> (Yep.) 
<Random_Nerd> The assembled wildlords are... varied. A tiny bright hovering light is next to a goat skull with tentacles and a leathery giant with two heads. 
<Theresa> (I didn't cause HQB to blow up, so might as well see if the luck holds.) 
<DanteE> (Any of them have nametags or did they eat them? :P ) 
<Theresa> (Huh. Is Third Age here?) 
<Random_Nerd> Berakha, next to Kudzu, is a large humanoid figure wrapped in layers of bright white cloth. 
<Random_Nerd> (Attaris Ebrot Appeka is /not/ here.) 
<Theresa> (Huh.) 
<DanteE> (She doesn't need to be, technically.) 
<Brian> (that surprises me) 
<Theresa> (Then again...she _would_ know what was going on, wouldn't see. Since it's part of her Age.) 
<Theresa> "Quick question: Do we mention the prophecies?" 
<Brian> "Yes" 
<DanteE> "Wait... this group may do what they say just to be contrary." 
<DanteE> "Since we don't want them to... 
<Theresa> "Sanity, crutch, yadda." 
<DanteE> "I've been hanging around Kudzu too long." 
<Brian> (I'm surprised, coming from Dante. Isn't he still cripplingly honest?) 
<Random_Nerd> There are, also, a few Imperators who are /not/ Wildlords. Ophaniel, and for some reason Ja Phon with his servant/minder. 
<Theresa> "How about not bringing them up unless someone asks?" 
<Theresa> "Holy crap, is that Ja Phon?" 
<DanteE> (Don't forget we decided Dante can do strategic omissions.) 
<Brian> (sure) 
<Brian> (what about the Council?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Only Council representative here is HQB.) 
<Brian> (and Jan ben Jan?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Jan ben Jan couldn't /fit/ here. He's the size of the Moon at least.) 
<Brian> (*nod*) 
<DanteE> to Sam & William: "Who's who here?" 
<Random_Nerd> (But he's probably paying attention to it in some way. He's good at knowing things.) 
<Brian> (What about Patterns? Any sign of him?) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Not every single wildlord on Earth. But more than half, and in most cases, the /right/ ones. The social leaders, tastemakers, and so on." 
<Theresa> (Plus, if he's attuned any to the people who have donated to him, we're a loudspeaker.) 
<Theresa> "..tastemakers?" 
<Kite_> ("Look! It's Wildlady Fashionista!") 
<Theresa> (Lady Gaga is here?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You don't know what he looks like. However, if you look around, you do occasionally notice that some of the shadows seem a little darker and more occupied than you might expect.) 
<Brian> "I have an interesting thought relating to flavour." 
<DanteE> (It's Wildlord Gaga!) 
<Theresa> "Any comments from you all about how we did with HQB? Anything we did with him to avoid?" 
<Brian> "I'm not sure. I'm willing to trust luck." 
<DanteE> "Do we have a more solid idea of what we saw?" 
<Theresa> "Not really. Probably a problem that we're not Imperators, so we can't describe/translate the Deep Mythic and Spirit World like they can." 
<Random_Nerd> (Gaga's just a Noble.) 
<DanteE> (It occurs to me that Wildlords who aren't here in person would send a Noble...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Kudzu asked them not to bring their Nobles.) 
<Brian> (hangon, did you say Ophaniel is here? We saw the vision with Ophaniel, right?) 
<Theresa> *to William and Sam* "Have there been any incidents?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "By the standards of a stadium packed full of divinities? No." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "No one has died, transfigured, or given birth to a six-headed snake." 
<DanteE> "Let's check on the mortal side..." 
* DanteE calls Lesson. 
<Random_Nerd> The mortals present, unless that /is/ Patterns' anchor you saw, are all your folks. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson is clearly uneasy. 
<Theresa> "..what about 5 headed?" 
<Brian> "Ophaniel might have some memory of the vision?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, to Theresa: "I need to... go do... a thing. Because of the Wildlords." 
* Kite_ is now known as Kite 
<Theresa> "Yes, Sam. If that was the Aide equivalent of a Noble sneeze, that question doesn't need to be answered." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "So far, none of them have made any serious attempt to eat each other." 
<DanteE> to Brian: "We could ask before things get started..." 
<Brian> "And can probably translate better from Deep Mythic into Imperator" 
<Theresa> *to Brian* "Maybe. I mean, she's still _there_, talking to us, right now. Maybe she's here to cooperate." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Cows are ready. Screens and related systems set up to project images, sound." 
<DanteE> to Lesson: "Any problems keeping the general population away?" 
<Brian> "Dante, can you make your way over there?" 
<DanteE> (to Ophaniel?) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Not my department. Have been assured by human police that efforts are being made." 
<Brian> (yep) 
* DanteE lifts off and floats over... 
* Theresa is in something important looking and yet easy to run in. 
<DanteE> "Ophaniel?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson shows Theresa the remote. "This one turns on the cameras pointed at the podium. This one is sound. This one turns both off. This one plays pictures of baby animals and soothing music. This one is bright flashing lights and random crashing sounds." 
<Theresa> "And the cows are ready? Is Red here?" 
<Kite> "Oooooh! Flashing lights!" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Could not get Red into stadium without doing lasting damage to it." 
<Theresa> "Ah, thank you for reminding me of that point, Lesson." 
<Theresa> "How long until the meeting will start?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Nearly ready. When everyone has settled in, Kudzu will speak, then Berakha, then you." 
<Brian> ("Friends and relations, wildlords all, lend me your ears" *ears gather up* "... eugh." ... with apologies to Mel Brooks) 
<Theresa> "Oh...tough acts to follow." 
<DanteE> (What's Ophaniel doing?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hovering near Kudzu and Berakha.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel turns to Dante. 
<Random_Nerd> Well... she turns. 
<Random_Nerd> It's tough to tell which part of her is the face, if that even makes sense. 
<Random_Nerd> But she does rotate, sure enough. 
<Random_Nerd> O: "Courage?" 
<DanteE> "Yes. Hello." 
<Random_Nerd> O: "Is this important?" 
<Theresa> (That is a trick question!) 
<DanteE> "A little. Did they tell you how we got the information we'll be presenting?" 
<Theresa> (Three Imperators talking = Much much more Important than you talking unless you are saying that an Excrucian Marching Band is breaking through in the cheap seats.) 
<Random_Nerd> O: "Not in any detail. That is to be part of the presentation, correct?" 
<DanteE> "Yes. We went into the Deep Mythic and talked to, well, you, the day of the Breach. 
<Random_Nerd> O: "Yes, of course. It was only a day ago or so that you talked to me back then, was it not?" 
<Random_Nerd> (And, yes, that is temporally unusual.) 
<Brian> (that is /awesome/ tensing, RN) 
<DanteE> (And I'm remembering that grammar book that they mentioned in Hitchhiker's Guide...) 
<Random_Nerd> (The "future perfect" tense was discarded when it was discovered not to be true?) 
<DanteE> "ah.. yes. Was going to ask if you remembered that, actually... 
<DanteE> (Because of time travel the book was so dense that later editions just stopped printing it half-way through. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> O: "It wasn't the most interesting thing to happen to me at the time, I will admit, but I recall." 
<DanteE> "Er... yesterday or back then? Time travel makes things really confusing." 
<Random_Nerd> "Either?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "What do you mean time travel? That isn't what happened at all." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "You talked with me, in the present, in the context in which I am the me that I was in the past." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "You didn't leave the present time in the sense that I think you mean. But I am not inside time in the same sense that you are." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "It is like poor Barakiel and that creature he ingested" 
<Theresa> (Should I push the flashing lights button, Dante?) 
<DanteE> "You know about that?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Everyone knows about that." 
<Theresa> (Duuuuh. ;) ) 
<Kite> (I think, at this point, Barakiel's been on the front page of every Imperator tabloid and newspaper.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "I have seen Warmains, relatively fresh from the Outside, show signs that they know about it." 
<DanteE> "Suddenly I am so happy Theresa will be taking the lead..." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaiel: "They don't seem to like him very much." 
<Theresa> (Greeeeat. Outside has Twitter.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "And recognized me as related to a thing they really don't like." 
<Theresa> (Ouch.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Which I rather took as an insult, but that's beside the point." 
<Theresa> ("He's adopted.") 
<DanteE> (Hey, _we_ didn't do it! We were just... there. After.) 
<Theresa> (Did we give Shadows some ideas?) 
<DanteE> (Something would have eaten Jupiter by now if we did.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "But what does your conversation with me have to do with all this?" 
<DanteE> "Well, when we went and talked to past-you we also saw the Breach itself." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "It sparked some realization or inspiration?" 
<DanteE> "Yes. We pieced together what was happening and how it related to what happened in the past." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Good for you. I hope it will be what these Magisters want to hear." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson, who had been speaking with HQB, heads back to Theresa. 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Asked whether you are ready." 
<DanteE> "I don't think 'want to hear' is what we'll get..." 
<DanteE> "And I believe they're about to start. By your leave." 
* Theresa nods to Lesson. "Yep. I have left instructions at my Conservatory in case this goes..badly..for me. It's been good knowing you, Lesson." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel revolves several rings at you, Dante. 
* Theresa walks up to the side of the stage or wherever Kudzu and HQB are standing. Don't notice the Noble. 
<DanteE> (Is that a wave?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Maybe!) 
* DanteE flies to position... 
<Random_Nerd> Voice in the shadows, by the podium: "There is nothing that can be done here, including sending them all home, that will not cause some harm and chaos." 
<Random_Nerd> "Also, the Power of Patterns sends his regards." 
<Theresa> (Who was that to?) 
<Random_Nerd> "Don't blow up the world, okay?" 
<Random_Nerd> (All of you could hear it.) 
<Kite> (He says uncomfortable truths, right?) 
<DanteE> "We're trying to prevent that." 
<Theresa> "Trying not to, Patterns. And thank you for the regards. Enjoy the fireworks!" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. Patterns' anchor has the power to say facts that will discomfort or frighten the listener.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So far, they've been true, but not always the whole truth. And the Voice doesn't know what it's going to say before it says it.) 
<Theresa> (Dude, we're in a stadium full of Wild. Discomfort is probably sitting in the front row with popcorn.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Discomfort is of the Light) 
<Theresa> (Of course.) 
<Theresa> (How about Enjoying a Good Show?) 
<Random_Nerd> (That's all of them.) 
<Theresa> (So glad to entertain.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Except Statleriel and Waldorfiel up there at the top.) 
<Random_Nerd> (They enjoy hating a good show.) 
<Theresa> (Oh Creation, please don't let there be hecklers.) 
<Brian> (where's fozzy?) 
<Kite> (We're Fozzy.) 
<DanteE> (It's a stadium full of Wildlords. There WILL be heckling.) 
<Brian> (oh crap :p) 
<Random_Nerd> Kudzu moves to the center, and stands up straight. 
<Kite> (Or there won't! Don't put Wildlords in a box!) 
<Random_Nerd> In this case, it involves reconfiguring his body so he grows about 30% taller and skinnier. 
<Random_Nerd> Kudzu: "As you know, Ha Qadosh Berakha have called you here because of a discovery my Nobles and some associates of theirs have made." 
<Random_Nerd> K: "A few of you know that Berakha had, with of course my permission" *sprouts a small head to glare at HQB for a moment* "tasked some of them with investigating certain aspects of the Wall." 
<Theresa> (I forgot to ask the protocol if an Imperator heckles you.) 
<Random_Nerd> K: "This led to the theory they will now present to you." 
<Random_Nerd> Kudzu slumps back down to his stockier form. 
<Kite> (Sneeze twice?) 
<Kite> (Push the flashing lights and loud noises button?) 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "I wish to say only that while I do not yet have proof that this theory is true, my own investigations have confirmed at least several key facts, and have not yet found any proof of its falsehood." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "For that reason, I strongly believe that it contains at least significant elements of truth." 
<DanteE> (No pressure, T. :p ) 
<DanteE> How's the crowd reacting? 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "Ymera Kudzu and I will be available, afterwards, to discuss reactions to the theory. I will now leave the presentation to Kudzu's and my agent." 
<Random_Nerd> They quieted down a little when Kudzu spoke up. 
<Random_Nerd> And /considerably/ when HQB did. 
<Theresa> (Do we have a PowerPoint presentation?) 
<Random_Nerd> One of the smaller Wildlords is watching intently from the suddenly-still jaws of the other Wildlord that was chewing on it. 
<Random_Nerd> (Do you?) 
<Brian> (of course we do!) 
<Brian> (full of flashy lights, swipes, and hypnotoads) 
<DanteE> (We would if Angelo was here...) 
<Theresa> (No. I would be thrown to the Outside if I inflicted PowerPoint on Imperators. And they would be right to do so.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hypnotoad is the /purple/ button on the remote.) 
<Theresa> (Ah, thank you.) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson nods at you, Theresa. 
* Theresa gets up on the stage, stands at the podium. 
<DanteE> "Break a leg." 
* Kite whispers, "What? No! Don't do that!" 
<Theresa> "I am Plant's Regal, one of Kudzu's Nobles. My Familia discovered what I am about to present with the aid of Imperator Vulcan's Nobles of Assembly and Data/Machinery." 
<Theresa> I will start with information about High Summoning. As a practitioner grows in the art of summoning, they create a fetch. Once you have become a Master of that Summoning, perfecting it and creating your crown that acknowledges your Mastery, that Fetch is considered complete." 
<Random_Nerd> ("The Power of Data is not here because... he... had to do a thing. And not because anyone locked him in a room with a bunch of disco balls and slinkies.") 
<DanteE> (Damn, we totally should have done that, too...) 
<Kite> (And photos of Ophaniel) 
<Brian> (that's what he thought when we said "slinkies") 
<Random_Nerd> (What do you think he's making out of the slinkies and the disco balls?) 
<Theresa> "The Outsiders who practiced High Summoning produced Fetches in Creation. They saw how much Creation had to offer, especially Estates and power. These Summoners from Outside killed themselves and reincarnated in their Fetches in Creation. Please note: It doesn't work the opposite way." 
<Random_Nerd> Little light-blue Wildlord in the mouth of big brown Wildlord: *crawls out* 
<Theresa> "The Warmains in the Outside practiced High Summoning and died and reincarnated over here all at once because of how there is Time on this side of the Wall and not on the other. The day that we Nobles of Kudzu are calling Breach Day was a moment of pressure, a moment when Outside could try and take the Wildlords back." 
<DanteE> (Don't give them ideas!) 
<Theresa> (Crap. Take out the 'Please note: It doesn't work the opposite way. ' as well.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<DanteE> (No, leave that in... that was the point of the prophecy.) 
<Random_Nerd> They continue to watch, listen, sniff... 
<Theresa> (I know, Dante, but we don't know for _sure_ it won't work. Oph said that Imperators don't do High Summoning or reincarnate, but that's not an 'it's impossible to do so'. It could be a 'who would be gauche enough to do _that_?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And you don't want to tell a bunch of Wildlords to /not/ do a thing?) 
<DanteE> (I mean leave in 'It doesn't work the opposite way'... and you might mention why there's a taboo) 
<Random_Nerd> (Because half of them will do it because you're not the boss of them?) 
<DanteE> (oops, good point) 
<DanteE> (But you might consider talking about their SUmmoning taboo and the reason for it.) 
<Kite> (Or just the prophecy?) 
<Theresa> "We determined these points by traveling via the Deep Mythic into the Spirit World to talk Orphaniel, the Angel of the Moon, who was one of those attacked on that day. We have had conversations with her before in the Prosaic World." 
<Theresa> "We believe that the deaths and exodus of the High Summoning Outsiders to Creation to become the Wildlords and ladies is why there is currently a taboo among the Warmains toward Summoning. We have observed this attitude of anathema in some of the Warmain shards that have crossed over into Creation." 
<Theresa> (Anything else?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Are you going to mention any of the Jan ben Jan stuff?) 
<Brian> (At least mention we have talked to Jan ben Jan about this stuff?) 
<Theresa> (Urgh. I don't want to start a panic. I don't want to be known as the Woman who Sent a Bunch of Wildlords to their Doooom....) 
<Theresa> "Part of the reason that we started this investigation was due to buying a series of prophecies from Jan Ben Jan." 
<Random_Nerd> (Voice in the Shadows: "Doooooooooom!") 
<DanteE> (We can keep it in reserve min case it looks like they're going to actually do that...) 
<Brian> (I will sing the doom song now!) 
<Random_Nerd> And then the ground in front of you splits open and a creature made of tentacles and thorns and mirrors and eyes seethes out. Its voice, however, is familar. 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris Ebrot Appeka: "And what did Jan ben Jan say?" 
<Brian> (... fuck?) 
<Theresa> "Hello, ma'am. Let me get the exact words:" 
<DanteE> (And please replace your divot.) 
<Kite> (Just so I know I'm remembering this correctly, Attaris Ebrot Appeka was specifically not here earlier?) 
<Theresa> (Don't tell her that. She'll replace it with pudding and fish.) 
<Theresa> (Indeed.) 
<Theresa> The first prophecy: "The Angel Barakiel will induce the Power of Shadows to summon a Lawbreaker, and will take council with it. From this point on, all his subsequent actions will be outside of morality, truth, and my own sight, and will be dominated by the madness that is a Lawbreaker's price." 
<Brian> (I'm sure Kite would enjoy a fish pudding pond) 
<DanteE> (But up until now she didn't _need_ to be.) 
<Random_Nerd> (She was specifically not there. Except apparently she was underground?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Always the last place you look.) 
<Theresa> The second prophecy: "Magister Ha Qadosh Berakha will discover something, which I cannot see, that will cause him to call into doubt his own loyalty to Creation. This will cause him to disavow all association with yourself and your associates, to renounce his position on the Council of Four, and to seclude himself. I cannot see who will take his place, which is itself disturbing." 
<Random_Nerd> AEA turns 17% of her eyes to look at HQB. 
<Brian> (it's disturbing that she has enough eyes to be measured in percents. However, it is comforting that it is whole numbers of percents) 
<Theresa> The third prophecy: "The Magisters of the Wild will come to believe that if they kill themselves, they will be able to reincarnate outside of reality. One in three will do so, causing the outright destruction of many Estates. They will not succeed in their ambition, for their theory will prove to be entirely backwards." 
<Kite> (Unless she still has just two eyes....) 
<Theresa> The fourth prophecy: "Ymera Entropy, Lord of the Earth, will leave Creation and enter the Outside. If he returns, I do not see it. Unlike Berakha, his seat will remain unfilled." 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris eyes Theresa from many angles. 
<Theresa> The fifth and final prophecy: "The True God Jan ben Jan, lord of the Second Age, will in despair of achieving his goals decide to take the necessary body parts by force, retroactively stealing them from the Nobles and Gods of his age. This will break the rules that he operates by, and remove his abilities of prophecy. Following this, he will attempt to make the divination anyway. The result will be the death of Jan ben Jan, and no usable information." 
<DanteE> (We didn't tell anyone about that prophecy, did we?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which one?) 
<DanteE> (4 or 5) 
<Theresa> "As far as we know, only the first has come to pass." 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "And that part left something out, did it not?" 
<Theresa> (When an Imperator of an Age asks you a question, you answer completely and truthfully and hope to get the fuck out of there alive.) 
<Brian> (that's generally true for any Imperators) 
<Theresa> "I do not know, Ymera." 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: " Barakiel was consumed by madness after that point, true. But no less than he was consumed by it before, was he?" 
<Brian> (retroactivity!) 
<DanteE> (She's got a point... if the Lawbreaker's influence extends through time how did JbJ see him at all?) 
<Theresa> "It is our theory that consuming/integrating with the Lawbreaker caused his madness and actions outside of reason or usual law to be through all of Time." 
<Random_Nerd> (It was as much about Barakiel being partly outside time as the Lawbreaker being so.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And what Jan ben Jan saw happening was true... but it didn't tell the whole story.) 
<Brian> (a Wizard Did It?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Because prophecies don't tell you much about what /already/ happened.) 
<DanteE> (Being an Oracle does that. :) ) 
<Theresa> (True. If a prophecy is about what already happened, it's not a prophecy, it's a newspaper.) 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "But if you spoke with him about that prophecy, might he not have taken the conclusion that he should avoid merging with the Lawbreaker, for fear of receiving harm?" 
<DanteE> (But, we were there the day they did the Lawbreaker summoning.) 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "Yet, in fact, did he not receive no harm that he had not already experienced, and come to a new understanding of his own nature and capacities?" 
<Theresa> (Uh.._did_ we talk to him about that prophecy?) 
<Brian> (that's not the /point/! The /point/ is that we know why Wildlords!) 
<Brian> (and I think we did?) 
<Theresa> (We might have talked to Shadows. Maybe Consequences.) 
<Brian> (and he kinda went "yeah, that's what Lawbreakers are") 
<DanteE> (Aha... JbJ didn't say Barakiel would be _harmed_, just that he didn't know what happens next.) 
<Brian> (and we couldn't really argue with that) 
<Kite> (I think the point might be that Attaris seems to be encouraging the Wildlords to off themselves.) 
<DanteE> (Which makes sense if she's a Mimic.) 
<Kite> (Aaaaaaaah!) 
<Theresa> "The prophecy does not state that Lord Barakiel would come to harm, Ymera. And I do not know what to think about Imperators coming to new conclusions." 
<DanteE> (Has JbJ said anything in particular about the end of the age?) 
<Theresa> (We..didn't really ask him about that.) 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "Your belief that Wildlords are the merged fetches of Excrucians who practiced high summoning. What proof do you have?" 
<Theresa> (...I'm a Noble, fuck you that's my proof!) 
<Brian> (:D) 
<Theresa> (I've been watching too much Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.) 
<DanteE> (We're PCs, that's our proof.) 
<Brian> (My Dresden Files PC is prone to declaring why something is happening, and then behaving as if it's the objective truth. Because of course it is.) 
<Theresa> (Anyone have an answer for me to give on this one? I'm not sure how well a Wildlord would take 'logic' as an answer.) 
<Brian> ("I saw it"? Or possibly "Ophaniel! HALP!") 
<Kite> (Wasn't Dante the one who experienced the Crown stuff most?) 
<Theresa> (But don't say it outloud/IC because I get the feeling that if more than one of us start talking, the entire stadium will want to be heard.) 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "For that matter, even if I believe it, how do you know that /all/ of us have had our other selves die and merge with us?" 
<DanteE> (It parallels what we know about Summoning from this side and follows from the taboo...) 
<Kite> (Dante's Crown stuff is the only proof I can remember) 
<Kite> (or proof-ish substance) 
<Theresa> (...I probably shouldn't point out that it would explain her actions at the beginning of the Third Age, should I?) 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "What would happen if some of us were still being... operated... from Outside?" 
<Theresa> "Would that be what is termed as a Mimic, ma'am?" 
<Brian> (also: MIMIC!) 
<Random_Nerd> That was probably just a blink with that eye there. I mean, she's covered in them, they're blinking constantly. No real reason for the word "wink" to come to mind. 
<DanteE> (C'mon, T, _I'm_ the foolishly brave one.) 
<Theresa> (Darn it! I don't know how to react to an Imperator, a Wild at that!, winking at me!!!!!!!) 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "For that matter, say it's true. The original Summoner is dead outside, but it's also alive, isn't it?" 
<Theresa> (It's a game of 'Mimic or Imperator Fucking With Me?') 
<DanteE> (Channel Ftisk and flirt with her. :D ) 
<Brian> (go aflutter and faint?) 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone is watching you and Attaris. 
<Theresa> (I am not going to flirt with the Third Age. That would be..unseemly.) 
<Random_Nerd> Including Kudzu, HQB, and Ophaniel. 
<Random_Nerd> All three look displeased, but not enough to do anything. 
<Brian> (T is too proper for that.) 
<Theresa> (Plus, I'm giving a presentation. Totally bad protocol.) 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, Attaris is basically the closest known thing to God in the setting, at least for a few more months. 
<Random_Nerd> (She is, for lack of a better term, King Shit of Fuck Mountain.) 
<Kite> (So, if Attaris were a Mimic, would her being the Imperator of the current Age be an attempt to keep more Warmains from becoming Wildlords?) 
<DanteE> (We're not hanging you out to dry, we're trying desperately to think up a good counter...) 
<Theresa> "If what we understand about the Outside is correct, Ymera, yes. But the times that interact with the Wall and Creation would be closest to the Wall. An Imperator soul, I guess you could say, would have to hit a time when the Outside Summoner were alive, when it's probable that the times closest to the Wall are when that Summoner is dead." 
<DanteE> (Did we determine that Exs experience subjective time?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You believe it, based on your conversations with the Shard Trio.) 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "So you're saying that it is probably entirely possible to merge in the opposite direction, just difficult?" 
<Theresa> "In conversations with various Warmains, we believe that Excrucians can experience subjective time during...an example would be of a 'scene' of something happening. But these scenes would not have to be in linear order." 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "So it's only a matter, then, of working out the way to align the right bit of Creation with the right bit of the Outside? If your theory is right at all, I mean." 
<Theresa> "I am not sure, Ymera. I, personally, think that it would be highly improbable that the process could be reversed, Creation to Outside, but I am not entirely sure of the full abilities of Imperators, especially one such as yourself." 
<Theresa> (That would be before her last speaking, if possible.) 
<DanteE> (She’s trying to encourage the prophecy to come true _right now_, you realize that.) 
<Theresa> "I do not know how it could be done, Ymera. I, personally, would not want to lose the Wildlords who have graced our Creation with so many wonders." 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "Perhaps you don't understand my perspective. Many of us have been looking for a way home for a very long time. How old are you, Noble? A hundred?" 
<Theresa> "Actually, ma'am, I'm only about 60 human years. I haven't been a Noble long." 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "Some of us have been trying to find a way for thousands of years." 
<DanteE> (Has she ever intervened in a fight with Exs?) 
<Theresa> "Ah," 
<Random_Nerd> (You don't know.) 
<DanteE> (I'm going to bet she hasn't...) 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "If you say that it's merely very difficult, but we have a working theory that we can experiment with... that is still a great accomplishment." 
<Kite> (So she's never tried to defend creation?) 
<Random_Nerd> Attaris: "Good work, Noble. You have my thanks." 
<Theresa> "I do not wish for any of the Wildlords to die, ma'am." 
<Theresa> (Woudl _you_ want the Age to be on the front lines?) 
<Random_Nerd> (If she dies, it is entire possible that the world ceases to exist.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Like, Heaven, Hell, Tree, the whole thing.) 
<Kite> (True) 
<Random_Nerd> (It would be bad.) 
<DanteE> (Unless we do something _now_ they're going to try it!) 
<Random_Nerd> An arm of glittering thorned vines and eyes like peacock feathers rests on Theresa's forehead. "And you have my blessing." 
<Theresa> (..If I say...well, crap.) 
<Theresa> O.O 
<Random_Nerd> The vast shape of Attaris withdraws within the earth faster than seems possible. 
<DanteE> "NO, it won't be difficult. It will be _impossible_." 
* Theresa looks at Kudzu, wild-eyed? 
<Random_Nerd> Kudzu looks at Ophaniel. 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel looks at HQB. 
<Brian> O_O O_O O_O 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "DO NOT DO ANYTHING RASH." 
* DanteE steps up to the mike. 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE THIS. WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO LEARN ABOUT THIS FOR MANY CENTURIES." 
<DanteE> "Let me mention... what Plants' Regal told you were the exact words Jan ben Jan told us. 
<Theresa> (Let the Imperator talk, Dante! He speaks in Caps! He speaks for the trees!) 
<Brian> (he doesn't speak in SMALL CAPS ... HE SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS!) 
<DanteE> "Note what he said... dying would cause the _destruction_ of several estates, because the theory is exactly opposite." 
<DanteE> "If it were possible... the Estates would survive on the other side of the Wall." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "We're far from certain what Jan ben Jan meant, or even how much this is true and how much is conjecture." 
<DanteE> "The theory he mentioned? The one where the opposite is true? It's the efforts to 'align' both sides and cross over." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "But for the first time in a long while, we have hope." 
<Theresa> (No, actually _we_ have Hope.) 
<Theresa> (She's watching over Ftisk.) 
<Theresa> (Yes, instead of Guarding the Horses, we now have Guarding Ftisk.) 
<Brian> (ack, after midnight. I should pumpkin! But my god, this session!) 
<Random_Nerd> HQB, angling toward Theresa and Dante: "I hope that our Noble hosts will not mind if we wish to speak among ourselves for a time?" 
<DanteE> "The theory of crossing over to the outside is _wrong_. It _will not work_." 
<Theresa> "We defer to our Lord Kudzu in this matter." 
* Kite takes the hint and flies off to....probably Locus Vulcan. 
<Theresa> (And I'm not cutting the mic, because they're Imperators. They can probably hear our cells divide.) 
<Brian> *brian will take his leave* 
<Random_Nerd> HQB, quietly: "The world that Jan described... we are already stepping outside it. All here have heard his words, and will take actions based on them." 
<DanteE> (uhoh) 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "It may be that, because we know that a tempting and intuitive plan is backwards, that we can find another one, that /will/ work/." 
<Theresa> "Again, sir, I do not wish the Wildlords to die." 
<DanteE> "We need every Wildlord, every friend of Creation, _here_ for the Age's end." 
<Theresa> "But it is not for me to think about ordering the lords and ladies of the Wild around." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "Do the Wildlords wish the same, Theresa? Enough not even to risk it, for a chance for our people to discover a way home?" 
<Theresa> "I do not know, sir. I do not know how _I_ would even choose, between death or the possibility of going home. I just know that my heart aches." 
<DanteE> "There _is_ _no_ possibility of going home." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "That is, if I myself don't turn out to be an Excrucian infiltrator, the fetch of a living summoner. I do not know if that prophecy should make me doubt myself even more, or less." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB, to Dante: "How can you know that?" 
<Theresa> (Don't tell a Wildlord that they can't do something. Sanity, crutch, and you're a mortal.) 
<DanteE> "Because convincing you otherwise is what a Mimic would want. 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "Mimics can want as they like. Their wishes do not shape the world any more than mine do." 
<DanteE> "Think: Eprot Appeka disappears, and a not-quite-Eprot appears in his place. 
<Brian> (Ah, and here we see HQB starting to doubt his loyalty to creation) 
<DanteE> "And... has the Lord of the Age ever intervened in a fight with Excrucians?" 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "I myself persuaded her not to. The costs should she be lost would be catastrophic." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "I can tell you that I am sure that she is not a Mimic, though." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "No known mimics were created before the War." 
<DanteE> "How can you know that?" 
<DanteE> (note the ironic echo) 
<DanteE> "Besides, if Time is here, then over there there is no 'before the war'." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "But she has been, as you put it, 'over here'." 
<DanteE> "OK... where was she before?" 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "And to become a mimic, she would have had to die. Her estates would shatter. There would /be/ no Estate of the Third Age, and you and I would not be having this conversation." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "She was Outside. Just as I was, as your own lord was." 
<DanteE> "How would you know if the Third Age survived before it even started?" 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "Because it /did/ start." 
<Theresa> (Ow. My brain.) 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "How do you know you didn't die as you slept last night?" 
<DanteE> "_An_ Age started. 
<DanteE> "Do you know it was _that_ age? 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "It's not the Fourth Age. Ananda would have mentioned it, of that I am sure." 
<Theresa> (You don't take another Lord's Age, man. s' not cool.) 
<DanteE> "If Attaris is a Mimic... she'd inherit the Estate of something-like-the-Third-Age. 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "Yes. But not the real thing, because that Estate would be outside the world." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "But a new age did begin. I was there. I saw it." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "The Phoenixes were reborn. A new Lord took the throne of the world." 
<DanteE> "Yes... the Age of Pain." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "Didn't say I /liked/ it. But the world continues to exist." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "If the Estate was gone, I think that would have been it." 
<DanteE> "I am wondering if it is possible that that was an incomplete echo of the Age That Should Have Been..." 
<DanteE> "Maybe even an age free of War, an Age on Not-Pain." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "Or a world of far greater Pain of which this is only a shadow. Or of an endless Lobster Quadrille." 
<DanteE> "If Ananda were to suddenly _melt_, and someone you've never heard of was there saying 'I'm the Fourth Age now', how would you react?" 
<Random_Nerd> He mutters to himself a bit of the Mock Turtle's Song. 
<Random_Nerd> "What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied. 
<Random_Nerd> "There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. 
<Random_Nerd> The further off from England the nearer is to France -- 
<Random_Nerd> Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance." 
<Kite> (Is an endless Lobster Quadrille such a bad thing, really?) 
* Theresa looks around for Ftisk. 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "I have one other reason to believe she is no mimic." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "We have not lost the war." 
<DanteE> (Attaris, HQB, and RN have manipulated things so that the prophecies will come true.) 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "The power of the Lord of the Age is immense. Were it turned against us, I do not think we would be doing this well." 
<DanteE> "Wouldn't that _destroy_ the Estates they're fighting over? 
<DanteE> "Creation has been losing Estates, one-by-one, yes?" 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "But not all at once." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "All she would need do is let them kill her, and all would be lost. She has not." 
<DanteE> "Because of a subtle hand--or tentacle-- manipulating things so." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "She would not need to be subtle, I fear." 
<DanteE> "That would not be true if it wasn't the original Age." 
<DanteE> "If it's a fake Age... she _needs_ to be subtle, and fight a long war to get everything they're after." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "I see that I cannot convince you. I will say, then, that I do not believe it of her." 
<DanteE> "I... will admit I have no proof. But there is circumstantial evidence. 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "A fake Age, a mimic before the War even began... you can always conjecture something unprovable." 
<DanteE> "And... if the prophecies are true having them come to pass would play right into Their hands." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "Whose hands? Jan's?" 
<DanteE> "Excrucians. 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "He does have rather a lot of hands, I suppose. And he is very nearly plural, at least." 
<DanteE> "Think of this as Pascal's Wager for the modern day." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "But what in the prophecies says anything about Exrucian plans?" 
<DanteE> "You _cannot_ let them come to pass." 
<DanteE> "For all those other reasons, and... we need you here. 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "I think you mean 'should not'." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "And I will keep my own counsel in that regard." 
<DanteE> "And we need every being here to stay on this side of the wall." 
<Random_Nerd> HQB: "I respect you, Courage, but I will not delegate my decisionmaking to you." 
<DanteE> "I wouldn't want it. :) " 
<Theresa> (Don't show your teeth to an Imperator! They might take them!) 
<DanteE> How are the other Wildlords responding? 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel, to all of you: "I think it's time for us to go." 
<Random_Nerd> They're talking among themselves since the speeches ended. 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "They'll want to talk this over between themselves." 
<Brian> "Let us go, yesyes" 
<Theresa> "We will be available through Lord Kudzu if needed." 
* Theresa bows to the assembly and will book it. 
<Theresa> (Hey Brian, shall we drag Dante away with us? :) ) 
* DanteE exeunt. 
<Theresa> (Ah, Dante has his own bears. Cool.) 
<Theresa> (Theresa would like to go and drink heavily but knows she cannot in case she is called upon. Plus, probably not enough alcohol available.) 
<DanteE> "William. DO the Aides have an emergency Attaris-may-be-a-Mimic file?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Just one?" 
<DanteE> "Of course. I want to see them." 
<DanteE> "Also, everything you have on Cneph." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I'll have to talk to Luc, but I think he'll be amenable." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "On that, we have next to nothing." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Some old Imperators say he exists, some say he doesn't, maybe he made the first Angels, nobody's seen him since before Time was invented." 
<DanteE> "And contingency plans in case a third of our guests are dead in the morning." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Our knowledge in detail goes back at best a couple hundred years." 
<Theresa> "Is a copy of this meeting available to the Aides?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "We have recorded it up to this point. I have chosen to have the recording devices shut down now that the Magisters are discussing in private. They might take it amiss." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Shall we gather the materials and meet with Luc tomorrow?" 
<DanteE> "as soon as possible." 
<Theresa> (Good idea not to film the Imperators talking privately...) 
<Theresa> "How much are the Oracle betting pools enjoying this?" 
<Theresa> "And has anyone else ever been blessed by the Lady of the Third Age?" 
<DanteE> "Probably not nearly as much as the ones who created the Aides' Existential Threat Protocol." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I don't know." 
<Random_Nerd> __________STOP_______________ 
<DanteE> Well, no guts no glory. :) 
* Kite is now known as Verithe 
* Brian is now known as lazarus 
* DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Random_Nerd> What'd you guys think of the session? 
<lazarus> Loved it 
<Knockwood> We're all dead, aren't we? :p 
* Theresa is now known as BethE 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and HQB isn't necessarily right. That's just what he thinks, he wasn't being a GM mouthpiece there. 
<BethE> Holy crap. I feel like I'm kind of...responsible if the Wildlords die off. 
<Knockwood> I'm challenging a belief he's held on to for the entire Age. 
<lazarus> And now I has to sleep 
<BethE> But then again, I'm a beth. 
<lazarus> G'night 
<BethE> Night, Laz! 
<Knockwood> Beth: Oh, that's because you are. 
* lazarus (~mmacmarti@MagicStar-4C03AE0B.dsl.bell.ca) Quit (Disintegrated: lazarus ) 
<BethE> I know! Lots of people tell me that I'm a beth! Weird, isn't it? 
<Knockwood> no, I mean responsible 
<Knockwood> Then again, we were manipulated to this point by... well, everybody. Including RN./ 
<BethE> I have been told 'Good job breaking it, Noble.' :P 
<Knockwood> Why do you think I was asking about Cneph? 
<Random_Nerd> So, who thinks that went well, and who thinks it went poorly? 
<Knockwood> Plus, it's on the Nobilis Campaign Checklist and we haven't touched it. 
<BethE> I think that as a session, I think it went well! As for Theresa, she wants to go get drunk. 
<Verithe> I have to run (or, rather, sleep....hopefully) take care, all! 
<Random_Nerd> I mean as a Thing The PCs Did. 
<Knockwood> Yeah... good session. Creation's screwed, but good session. :p 
* Verithe (~chatzilla@MagicStar-87C3188A.lightspeed.livnmi.sbcglobal.net) Quit (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.90.1 [Firefox 31.0/20140716183446] ) 
<Knockwood> BTW.... 
<BethE> Well, it's something Big for the End of the Age. Attaris can't say we haven't been helping on that end. 
<Knockwood> waaaay back when we talked to Attaris, she said the events that would start the ball rolling were coming soon. Has that happened yet? 
<Random_Nerd> What do you think just happened? 
<Knockwood> or is that due to Elastic Time? 
<Knockwood> ... 
<BethE> I think that this. And our Meeting. 
<Knockwood> Anyhoo. See you next week. 
<BethE> Night, Knock! Good job tonight! 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]

Session 269

2014-08-25T13:12:31Z

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<Knockwood> actually, some time back I was thinking of what characters to play if RN even does that one-shot goofy Nobilis he mentioned once... 
<Angelo> Hi guys! 
<Knockwood> you remember, when I showed you guys that "Rub Some Bacon On It" vid. :) Hiya Angelo 
<Verithe> Which one-shot goofy? 
<Verithe> Hi, Angelo! 
<Knockwood> actually he just mentioned it in passing 
<Knockwood> come to think of it, it was in context of that video 
<Verithe> :I 
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<Knockwood> Hiya laz 
<lazarus> hey everybody 
<Verithe> 'Allo! 
<Knockwood> getting early-summer temps here. Highs in 80s. 
<lazarus> of course youtube on ios doesn't have a play in background mode :( 
<lazarus> we're getting about the same here, kwd, although it's about mid-summer weather for us 
<Knockwood> hm, taking a while to load web pages... 
<Knockwood> Hello? 
<Angelo> yes Knock. 
<Verithe> la~ 
<lazarus> pong 
<Knockwood> strange that this is working when my desktop isn't loading web pages... 
<Angelo> firewall magic? 
<Knockwood> it was working yesterday 
<Knockwood> ... and my iPad is loading stuff fine. Winblows screwiness. 
<Verithe> It might just need a close-and-reload in the pants? 
<Angelo> I second Verithe 
<Knockwood> yeah. BRB while I reboot. 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Knockwood) 
<lazarus> I have found a way to youtube in the background :) ... listening to one of my favourite let's players play Call of Cthulhu (the TTRPG) with some of his friends. It's surprisingly fun to listen to. 
<lazarus> (they also did some Paranoia and Burning Wheel) 
<Verithe> hmmm 
<Angelo> (would be too distracting 4 me) 
<lazarus> (look up Kikoskia on YouTube. He's well worth watching if you think you might be interested in watching people play games :p) 
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<Knockwood> That fixed it. :) 
<Verithe> Woo 
<Angelo> Wb tock-tock on a table 
<Angelo> and Woo too 
<lazarus> wb kwd 
<Knockwood> hm. No RN or Beth 
<Angelo> isn't that strange? 
<lazarus> that is weird. 
<lazarus> although sometimes happens 
<lazarus> it would be strange to call the game on lack of GM 
<Angelo> well being there at last moment ever, leave me in the blind at these nuances 
<Knockwood> well, we could talk about what I mentioned earlier... 
<Knockwood> goofy Nobilis you might play for a one-shot silly game. 
<Angelo> well, it/was bound to happen once in 11 years of game 
<Knockwood> Remember that "Rub Some Bacon On It" vid I showed you? 
<Angelo> our setting related or general? 
<Knockwood> and then RN suggested a game in which the Power of Bacon was one of the characters? :p 
<Angelo> power of rubber chicken! 
<lazarus> Power of Bacon. 
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<lazarus> is that why Bacon has been, well, you know? 
<Random_Nerd> Aaaargh. Sorry, guys. 
<lazarus> hey RN :) 
<Verithe> Maybe I'd bring back Rubidora for that. 
<Angelo> power of pirates 
<Random_Nerd> I was frazzled, and lost track of time. 
<Angelo> Yo RN! 
<Verithe> Hi, RN! 
<Random_Nerd> Beth will be here in a moment. 
<lazarus> Bacon, Rhubarb, and Kale? 
<Angelo> We were abount to call off the game for lack of GM :-P 
<Knockwood> Hiya RN 
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<BethE> Sorry! 
<Angelo> Hi Beth! *HUG* 
<BethE> *HUG* 
<BethE> Hope you guys haven't been waiting too long. 
<Verithe> Hi, Beth! 
<lazarus> hey Beth! 
<Angelo> np, we were thinking of nobles to play alternating these one we have 
<lazarus> not over long 
<lazarus> so far, Bacon, Rhubarb, Kale, and Turnip. 
<lazarus> it's turning into a weird salad. 
<Angelo> and pirates 
<Knockwood> (You remember https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=wSReSGe200A , right? :) ) 
<Verithe> Rubidora is Popsicles. 
<Knockwood> Not just food, though. 
<Knockwood> Fr'ex, I was thinking I'd let my munchkin tendencies out (more than usual) with the Power of Butt-Kicking! 
<Knockwood> or, slightly more serious, the Power of Victory. 
<lazarus> I create Victory! 
<Knockwood> Looks & plays like an action hero. 
<lazarus> "ok, your opponent wins without problem" 
<lazarus> "crap." 
<Random_Nerd> So, we were in Deep Mythic Stuff. 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
<Random_Nerd> Did everyone have a chance to review that section of the book? 
<lazarus> right 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<lazarus> ohshit. 
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
<Angelo> nope-nope 
<Theresa> We need to have a good connection to the event we're trying to reach. Which, we haven't thought up yet. 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Brian> my face to face group just started Dresden Files, so I've been worried about learning those rules. I spaced on the Deep Mythic stuff 
<DanteE> we were trying to get a hold of our flashback memories... 
<Kite> The stuff we were working with are okay so long as we know where to go from there, yes? 
<Brian> yeah, we're at a loss as to how to get there! 
<DanteE> or, I was. Theresa might help there... 
<Brian> You are the Crown of Creation! /Jefferson Airplane 
<Kite> Where were we trying to go again? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, so. In the Deep Mythic, everything is made of bacon. 
<Random_Nerd> Bacon constantly rubs up against bacon. 
<Kite> This makes Kite sad. 
<Random_Nerd> This is the engine that drives the universe. 
<Theresa> (All my flashback was is that the phrase 'Chaos and Old Night' is important to me.) 
<DanteE> Kite: back to Breach Day to see what happened 
<Brian> "You want me to eat you?" "Why? Would you rather eat something that didn't want to be eaten?" 
<Kite> Okay! Any particular part of breach day? 
<Brian> (specifically, I thought we were wanting to see Ophaniel guarding the thing?) 
<Theresa> We wanted to be where we can see Oph and/or HBQ fight. We are not going to watch Pattern's' imperator. 
<DanteE> hm... can we lock on to Ftisk's 'feeling' for Oph? 
<Ftisk> (again?) 
<Theresa> We tried that and got Ftisk's version of Oph. 
<DanteE> ah, right 
<Ftisk> nod 
<Kite> That's just the first stop. We can find out where to go from there. 
<Brian> I think we should totally go Jefferson Airplane with Dante's memory. 
<Brian> we're already in a 60's acid dream ... 
<DanteE> OK, look for a yellow submarine. 
<Ftisk> (can you explain that jefferson airplain reference?) 
<Theresa> But wasn't Dante's memory just making a crown? 
<DanteE> not quite, it was _wanting to_ make a crown. 
<DanteE> or possibly earn one. 
<Kite> So we were at Ftisks love for Ophaniel. Does Ftisk have concern about Ophaniel having fought with an Excrucian? 
<Random_Nerd> Shall we take this in-character? 
<Kite> Might as well. 
<Ftisk> okiedokie 
<Theresa> "We need to have a strong connection to where we want to go!" 
<Brian> (Ftisk: Date's was wanting to make a crown made of creation. One of Jefferson Airplane's songs opens "you are the crown of creation".) 
<Ftisk> (tnx Brian) 
<Random_Nerd> _________START____________ 
<DanteE> "Hm... define 'strong connection'." 
<Kite> (I....thought you were talking about an airplane this whole time.) 
<Kite> (A very strange airplane) 
<Ftisk> "I have a strong connection to Ophaniel!" 
<DanteE> (Was Ophaniel hurt, or just fought with?) 
<Theresa> (White Rabbit is an awesome song.) 
<DanteE> "Some... thing fought with Ophaniel then, Ftisk." 
<Random_Nerd> (Ophaniel was fought, but not severely injured.) 
<Brian> (Never listen to 60's acid rock when in the Deep Mythic?) 
<Ftisk> "Oh dear! My Ophaniel!" 
<Random_Nerd> (ALWAYS listen to 60s acid rock when in the Deep Mythic.) 
<Theresa> "We need something that is an important or meaningful about the moment that we want to reach, important or meaningful to us. And Ftisk's feelings for Oph takes us to _his_ version of her that is in his head." 
* Ftisk pout to T. 
<DanteE> "How is it not important enough to us when it seems to link to everything we're trying to find out?" 
<DanteE> Describe the scene? 
<Theresa> "The Deep Mythic doesn't care about _our_ definitions. It has its own rules." 
<Brian> "Mythic links." 
<Brian> "Myth-inc links?" 
<DanteE> (And, actually... from our Aides' POV, we're just sitting around babbling, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Pretty much.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You might disappear at some point.) 
<Ftisk> (not too far from reality) 
<DanteE> (Hm... could ask an aide to bring a souvenir I grabbed...) 
<Random_Nerd> (But mainly, from their point of view you are having a mystical experience where you totally see the interconnectedness of things and really /look/ at your hands.) 
<Random_Nerd> (How would you go about asking them?) 
<Brian> ("Hey, man, could you, like, get that thing?") 
<DanteE> (That way. :) ) 
<Ftisk> (Create a sign made of blades?) 
<Random_Nerd> (But that's like... okay, if you're viewing the prosaic universe, you can't just say 'Hey, brick, how's it bricking' and expect a useful response.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You are much farther from the usual view than border mythic and prosaic are from each other.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I'm not saying you can't do it. You can. But it's not something /trivial/.") 
<Theresa> (Did Caesar come out of one of the holes at Breach Day?) 
<Brian> (You could, for instance, ask one of us Amyra types. Or key into Brian's Miracle to bring us here that gave you a bit of Amyraness) 
<DanteE> (Aren't they, like, there, making sure we don't jump out a window because we think we can fly? Cuz that totally happens, maaaaan... :p ) 
<Kite> (Kite doesn't think he can fly. He knows it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Caesar certainly came from /somewhere/ on Breach Day.) 
<Ftisk> (Ftisk too) 
<Random_Nerd> (And if that somewhere is the Outside, that narrows it down to some kind of hole.) 
<DanteE> (One that would have to be 'near' Ophaniel, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (...why?) 
<Theresa> (And the easiest holes to move open or such would be the ones at Earth.) 
<DanteE> (You're saying something Swiss-cheesed the wall?) 
<Random_Nerd> (There's seven standard holes.) 
<Theresa> (It's always had multiple holes.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Lots of littler ones.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And weird ones like the one in Ja Phon's mind.) 
<DanteE> (Not much of a wall, then... :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> (And probably other weird stuff you don't know about.) 
<Theresa> (That's why Imperators stand in front of them and smack whatever sticks its seeing apparatus through.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah. That's why there's a war.) 
<Random_Nerd> (If keeping the Excrucians out was easy, anyone could do it.) 
<DanteE> (Wait. This breach was different. Memories came through.) 
<Ftisk> (so it is all a giant catch the mole game?) 
<Theresa> (How do we connect that to us, though, Dante?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Did they? Whose memories?) 
<Theresa> (Ftisk - sounds like it.) 
<DanteE> (Kudzu's) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah. Yes. That did happen.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Why do you think it happened?) 
<DanteE> "Kudzu's memories..." 
<DanteE> (Did Shirk come through then, or was he already here?) 
<Random_Nerd> (That was later.) 
<Theresa> (He came in later.) 
<Ftisk> (no Skirt was later, I believe) 
<Random_Nerd> (And Entropy let him in.) 
<Brian> "Memories. Remember the memories?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Whoa.) 
<DanteE> "I was trying to remember mine a moment ago..." 
<Theresa> (Okay, I have an idea.) 
* DanteE tries to get a hold of the crown memory... 
<Theresa> (Premise A: We (Amyrans) are part of Kudzu. B: Part of Kudzu's memories came through the Wall. They shouldn't (usually don't) do that. But this is weirdness. So C: We might be able to focus on the part of us that is Kudzu that connects to those memories and hit the Wall that way.) 
<Random_Nerd> The Crown continues to shine about you, like I totally probably mentioned earlier. 
<DanteE> (and as a bonus, we might learn more about Kudzu if we go back far enough...) 
<Theresa> (One movement at a time. We have to get this to work, first.) 
<DanteE> Describe the crown? 
<Brian> (T, we have beat metaphysics over the head before in this game through the power of LOGIC! ... LOGIC! is to logic as SCIENCE! is to science) 
<Random_Nerd> It represents authority, but also connection. 
<Theresa> (You can't put shiny gears and a pair of goggles on LOGIC!) 
<Random_Nerd> Crowns are most strongly associate with the Noble achievements of Domain and of High Summoning. 
<Random_Nerd> But different crowns. 
<DanteE> (Sure you can. That's the point of LOGIC! as opposed to logic. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Nobles adept in Domain wear crowns made in the shapes of the flowers of Creation. 
<Random_Nerd> Nobles adept in Summoning wear crowns made of various materials of the Outside. 
<Random_Nerd> You are within the part of reality that relates to what crowns mean. 
<DanteE> (So wanting a crown of Creation material relates to Summoning from the other side?) 
<Random_Nerd> Which is why last session I kept spamming random crown facts at you! 
<Random_Nerd> And yes. I just broke the wall. 
<Random_Nerd> Deep Mythic. 
<Random_Nerd> Deal with it. 
<Theresa> (That does seem to be a theme with this part of the game.) 
<Random_Nerd> Fourth Walls are for pikers. 
<DanteE> (T, try your idea IC so we can play along) 
<Random_Nerd> The issue, then, is one of perspective. You know what crowns mean to those of Creation. 
<Brian> (RN: <3) 
<Random_Nerd> What do crowns mean to those Outside? 
<Random_Nerd> And which crowns mean what? 
<Theresa> (Well, we know that Summoning is _bad juju_ to Warmain sensibilities.) 
<Random_Nerd> Aside from Nobles, there's someone else who traditionally wears crowns. 
<Random_Nerd> Kings. 
<Theresa> (If it's a mirror, then those who have high ODomain would wear crowns made of Outside, while those who are good at Summoning Creation stuff would wear crowns of Creation stuff.) 
<Random_Nerd> Yet Shirk wears no crown. 
<DanteE> Shirk isn't an actual king? 
<Random_Nerd> Kingship is near the Crown. Sort of... off to the left. 
<Ftisk> Or we cannot see Skirt one 
<Theresa> (I thought Kings were below the Crown?) 
<Random_Nerd> Nope. Off to the left. 
<Random_Nerd> See? 
* Random_Nerd points. 
* Kite wanders to the left. 
* DanteE checks it out... 
* Theresa looks in that direction. 
* Ftisk sprint to the finger to examine it! 
<Random_Nerd> You currently stand within the Crown. 
<Random_Nerd> Kingship is over there. 
<Brian> (Brian attempts to wear a crown of creation flowers) 
<Random_Nerd> The difference between kings and warlords is legitimacy. 
<Random_Nerd> A warlord has power because he has taken it. 
<Theresa> (...) 
<Random_Nerd> When he dies, chaos is all but inevitable. 
<DanteE> ... Shirk is trying to gain power by doing... what he's doing, and thereby become an actual king? 
<Random_Nerd> When a king dies, there is a system within which succession takes place. 
<Theresa> (A king has lineage. Meaning. He has kept it and passes it on to the people he chooses.) 
<Random_Nerd> Kings exist within a larger context, that was there before them, and will be there after them. 
<Theresa> (The King is the Land.) 
<Random_Nerd> Which raises the question. Are Imperators kings, or warlords? And what of the Excrucians? 
<DanteE> ah, but 'before' and 'after' are concepts of _this_ side of the wall. 
<Random_Nerd> When Shirk and his three peers took the title of Kings, was that a boast, a thread, or a goal? 
<DanteE> all of the above because there's no time there 
<DanteE> (Game of Thrones of Creation? :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> Is Shirk a king in the context of the Outside? Or in the context of Creation? 
<Ftisk> but there can be succession outside? isn’t that related to time too? 
<Theresa> (The Imperators are kings, but also vassals to a bigger one. Excrucians are warlords, trying to take over kingdoms from here. If they can keep them, that adds legitimacy?) 
<Random_Nerd> Off to the side, the Crown continues to gleam. 
<DanteE> (we could ask how would they know what a King even is, but that's a whole other loop) 
* Theresa thinks about her own Domain crown and thinks about it being in her hands. 
<DanteE> (the crown is an Estate?) 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa's crown is on her head, as always. 
<Random_Nerd> If it is within her hands, that is because she has raised her hand to her head. 
* DanteE takes his crown off and compares it to the crown here 
<Theresa> "This is mine. I am me. I am also Kudzu. This is his trust in me, my responsibility. This is part of my connection to him and him to me." 
<Random_Nerd> The crown here is more the idea of crownness. 
<Random_Nerd> And which of your crowns do you take off? 
<DanteE> either one 
<Random_Nerd> When you had your vision, on Breach Day, you made a crown of blades. 
<Theresa> "I have known a king who is one with their people and their land. I am one with my Plants. I cannot remove this, and none shall remove it from me, save that which is already me, Kudzu." 
<Random_Nerd> Wearing it, then, did not satisfy the urge you felt. 
<Random_Nerd> You hold it in your hands now. 
<Random_Nerd> This was important. 
<Random_Nerd> But you don't recall why. 
<Random_Nerd> Only that it was. 
* DanteE tries the Crown of Courage 
<Random_Nerd> This one is part of you, but it doesn't seem as much... the object of desire. 
<Random_Nerd> It's something you have, and are accustomed to having. 
<Random_Nerd> Not something you coveted, and took. 
<Random_Nerd> Which raises the question. Why /did/ Kudzu do terrible violence to an angel to take the Estate of Blades, which was once weaponry? 
<DanteE> (Kudzu _coveted_ Blades, as opposed to needing to take it from Azazel for some reason?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You think so.) 
<DanteE> (Aw crap, he is a mimic. We're dead.) 
<Brian> *Brian considers "home"* 
<Kite> (Or he just really wanted Blades. The Imperators didn't always get along.) 
<Random_Nerd> But this is silly. You know why you wanted Blades. You had a dream where you needed a crown made of the matter of creation. So you decided to make a crown of Blades. 
<Random_Nerd> And you wore it, but it did not satisfy you. 
<Theresa> (Huh. Kudzu was a CSummoner?) 
<DanteE> (I suggested that last time around, didn't get a response from RN) 
<Theresa> (A crown that has nothing attached to it wouldn't satisfy unless you claimed that which the crown is connected to.) 
<Random_Nerd> If he was, how could you tell? 
<DanteE> Can I 'follow' Blades back in time? 
<Random_Nerd> What's time? 
<DanteE> ah yeah 
<Random_Nerd> Blades is near the Crown, because you wear a crown of blades. 
<Random_Nerd> That's /logic/. 
<Random_Nerd> So it's right over there. 
<Random_Nerd> Looks sharp! 
* DanteE examines Blades. 
<Brian> *is now wearing a smart suit?* 
<Random_Nerd> It's a knife, that looks like it was made from a broken sword. 
<Brian> (are more weapons in the vicinity?) 
<Random_Nerd> The knife is large, but the sword was larger. 
<Random_Nerd> And you broke it. 
<Theresa> (Heh. Of course my crown would have strawberry leaves. I'm Plants. Theresa's mental crown probably has those and holly berries and crab apple flowers and dandelions, all twisted with vines and branches that weave in an out of her hair in ways that don't really make sense with where a normal head starts and stops.) 
<Random_Nerd> There aren't any more weapons. There are things that, as it happens, can hurt people. 
<Random_Nerd> But there is nothing in the world whose nature is to be a Weapon. 
<Random_Nerd> You did that. 
<Random_Nerd> Why did you do that? 
<Kite> what 
<Random_Nerd> Not you. 
<Random_Nerd> Them. 
<Theresa> (...Weapons got Exed.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You guys know what happened to Weaponry.) 
<Theresa> (Oh, that was the Giant's dad.) 
<Brian> I want to see the things that used to be Weapons, but aren't anymore. 
<Brian> and, of course, never were. 
<Random_Nerd> That's here. 
<DanteE> (Did they get Excruciated? Because the concept of Weapons still exists...) 
<Random_Nerd> Now they're blades. 
<Random_Nerd> (But the estate does not.) 
<Brian> (but guns?) 
<Brian> (also blades?) 
<DanteE> (or blunt weapons) 
* Theresa is thinking about her crown. "This is my crown. This is my authority. I have this authority through Kudzu. Where is my authority in this place? 
<Random_Nerd> (The concept of people dressed up as ponies for sexual purposes exists, but it doesn't have a Noble.) 
<Brian> (or does this explain bayonettes?) 
<Theresa> (..dear, stay out of the Pony threads.) 
<Random_Nerd> Guns developed after Weapons broke. 
<Random_Nerd> And Guns are an estate. 
<Random_Nerd> They're over... there. 
* Random_Nerd points. 
<Random_Nerd> But they don't look very interesting. 
<Brian> Less linked, but I want to take a quick look. 
* DanteE looks for Bludgeons 
<Random_Nerd> You don't see any such thing, Dante. 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, by her crown, holds both power and authority. 
<Random_Nerd> The Power of a Noble over their Domain is /legitimate/. 
<Random_Nerd> The world acknowledges it. 
<Random_Nerd> An Excrucian, even if wielding a similar power, does not have that. 
<Random_Nerd> They have power, not authority. 
<Random_Nerd> Thus, Theresa is midway between Crowns and Kings. 
<DanteE> When did Kudzu take Blades, relative to his initial appearance? 
<Random_Nerd> Within a hundred years of it. 
<Theresa> (Hmm.) 
<DanteE> (Ack. Either Kudzu attacked Azazel to screw up Weapons, or to divide Weapons into smaller sets.) 
* Theresa asks of the void, "Where do I come by this authority?" 
<Random_Nerd> That fact is easily determined. 
<Random_Nerd> A hundred people died. 
<Random_Nerd> They're over /there/. 
<DanteE> (What are they doing?) 
<Random_Nerd> Being dead. 
* Theresa looks. "You are of Amyra. It is your sacrifice that gave Kudzumyself authority." 
<Random_Nerd> Their sacrifice bound Kudzu to Amyra. 
<Brian> *Brian brings up the memory of Ophaniel talking about O's time on the wall on Breach Day. Focuses on O's words to develop a "place" that is those words* 
<Random_Nerd> From the point of view of an Imperator, the places they guard on the wall are empty save for themselves. 
<Random_Nerd> They work within the Spirit world, in the vast slow tides of influence between Imperators. 
<Theresa> "I am of Amyra and I am bound to Kudzu. You are bound to Kudzu. I am also Kudzu. Did I give Kudzu legitimacy?" 
<Random_Nerd> It is their home, and it is where they hold the most advantage over the Excrucians. 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucians are fast, terribly fast. 
<Random_Nerd> But in the Spirit world, such is irrelevant. 
<Brian> *Focuses, then, on Ophaniel being a guest in Kudzu's home* 
<Random_Nerd> Within the more outer spheres of the world, speed matters. That is why the Imperators created creatures like their enemies, creatures that could fight them on their own terms, if they broke through. 
<DanteE> (Just to check, can we see what Brian's doing?) 
<Random_Nerd> (To some degree. You are near Blades. Theresa is near the sacrifice.) 
<Random_Nerd> Brian is drifting elsewhere. 
<Random_Nerd> Does Kudzu have legitimacy, Theresa? 
<Random_Nerd> Imperators wear no crowns. 
<Random_Nerd> They have no successors. 
<Brian> (this is ... like one of those neat graph viewing applications. Graph, in this case, being of the node and edge type) 
<Random_Nerd> Those are things of the Noble world. 
* Kite sighs and considers building a nest. 
* Ftisk pat Kite 
<Theresa> (We..are why they are Imperators? We give them legitimacy in Creation?) 
<Brian> (a wild nest appears?) 
<Random_Nerd> Brian, the place Ophaniel would guard is a vast, empty place. A tall figure stands there, and its shadow is cast behind it. A thousand other shadows are cast by a thousand other figures, that stand at the edge of the world. 
<Random_Nerd> The place where their shadows meet and twist together, that is the world you know. 
* DanteE takes Blades... 
<Random_Nerd> But when you try to reach beyond it, there is resistance. 
<Random_Nerd> Blades is within Dante, as always. 
<Brian> "Hey, you guys, come here" 
* DanteE floats over to Brian... 
* Ftisk go to Brian 
<Brian> (does the tall figure have any discernible features?) 
<DanteE> (it's Slenderman! :p ) 
<Brian> (or an Enderman?) 
* Kite flies to Brian 
<Brian> "This might be the place." 
<Theresa> (Hmm. An Imperator can have Estates, but can't have Nobles until they enChancle. Once they enChancle, they can have Nobles. The Chanel ties the Imperator to Creation. An Excrucian could have pEstates, but they can't enChancel because they don't have the sacrifice to make that tie and they aren't around long enough in Creation to be able to do the 100 day thing.) 
<DanteE> (Unless they're a Mimic) 
<Ftisk> (so the difference is only on the 100 deaths?) 
<Theresa> (If they were able to, yes, they'd make a Mimic. Unless the Excrucian _wants_ Creation to keep going, which would make them a Wildlord.) 
<Brian> (T: I think one of the differences is that Excrucians don't want to be tied to Creation) 
<Random_Nerd> (And Mimics /can/ have Nobles.) 
<Ftisk> (in your game any big one ca have noble or shards for what matters) 
<Theresa> (Ftisk - I think so, that tie to Creation. That's the difference between an Imperator and an Excrucian. An Imperator ties themself to Creation, while an Excrucian won't.) 
<Ftisk> (then we are one and only specie- our roots are common) 
<Random_Nerd> Not all Imperators enchancel, of course. 
<Theresa> (Indeed! And they're in the bottom of the Wall.) 
<DanteE> (Not really. That's Imperators that come from Outside. 
<DanteE> (That's the difference between a _Wildlord_ and an Excrucian.) 
<Brian> *Brian will focus on Ophaniel's description of the fight* 
<Theresa> (True, but they don't usually have Nobles. They don't have legitimacy in Creation. They're just there. Like a warlord. They have power, but no legitimacy.) 
<Random_Nerd> Brian, you are in her shadow. 
<Kite> (Do full Excrucians bring in Estate-like things the way Wildlords do?) 
<Random_Nerd> When you push on, you do not seem to get any closer. 
<Theresa> (I don't know if they've let any of them in that far.) 
<DanteE> (If my memory is of proto-Kudzu, that means his whole thing came from a power play) 
<Random_Nerd> (And, just sayin', there's a sidebar on this.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Page 101.) 
<Brian> "So, are we in Ophaniel's place? Or are we in Ophaniel-standing-in-for-Kudzu's place?" 
<Random_Nerd> (That was to Brian.) 
<Random_Nerd> That must be a very specific place. 
<Brian> (that's the place I want to find :)) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel is always Ophaniel. But standing in for Kudzu... that is a narrower angle. 
<DanteE> Standing in _at the Wall_... narrower still? 
<Random_Nerd> (Psst! Reaching the spirit world takes either a mortal lifetime of effort, or breaking a level 3 auctoritas!) 
<Random_Nerd> Narrower still. Not as narrow as could be. She has done so multiple times. 
<DanteE> ... when she was attacked? 
<Random_Nerd> That happens all the time when you're at the Wall. 
<DanteE> How many times has she been on the Wall since then? 
<Random_Nerd> At least a few. 
<Kite> (We never asked?) 
<Random_Nerd> Imperators do that. 
<Brian> "Does someone want to spell us there? I think we're close enough now?" 
<Random_Nerd> Her more than most. 
<DanteE> what if we follow HQB, see when they're together? 
<DanteE> "You sure? Don't want to wind up drained..." 
<Brian> "I think we know how to focus the Miracle, and I think we have an anchor here. I think." 
<Brian> "Never been here before." 
<DanteE> (Waiting for a reply from RN...) 
<Random_Nerd> (On what?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Asking what will happen if you do a thing?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Do it and see.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Although she wasn't with HQB at the time.) 
* Theresa thinks some more. I make a statement to the void as a mundane action. "I am Always Useful. (Bond 3) Plants must be useful. (Law of Plants) I am Useful! (Passion 3) It would be useful if I could get us all to the Wall to watch the fight on Breech Day between the Angel of the Moon and what came from Outside." 
<Random_Nerd> (You already know this.) 
<DanteE> "Hold on, let me check out your placement..." 
<DanteE> (Whoops, waiting on T now...) 
<Random_Nerd> (talking with Beth.) 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa feels good about herself. 
<Random_Nerd> But does not get any closer to the looming figure of Ophaniel in the distance. 
<Brian> (do we feel good about T?) 
<Kite> (I thought we always liked T) 
<Random_Nerd> (If you guys. Want to get. To the spirit world. You need. A miracle. With at least. Three points. Of penetration.) 
<Brian> (also, OOC, Brian suggested someone else do this, because he did the one that got us /here/. I believe T was going to do the second?) 
<Theresa> "I will be useful! I will get us there!" I build a bridge with Domain to the Spirit World. (LCreation, Bond of 3 (I am _always_ useful!) 
<DanteE> (We figured she was _doing_ that. :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.) 
<Theresa> (A bridge of plants.) 
<Random_Nerd> (She was doing a mundane action.) 
<Random_Nerd> (*points at use of Passion*) 
<Random_Nerd> The bridge extends through Ophaniel's shadow, to the figure on the horizon. 
<Ftisk> (Woho) 
* DanteE heads down the bridge... 
<Brian> "Thank you T. Let's go!" 
<Brian> *goes* 
* Ftisk land on T. shoulder "great work!" 
* Kite follows 
<DanteE> "We really need to find a balance between figuring out what to do and _doing_ stuff. 
* Theresa mutters as she crosses over about how she is Plants, Creation-bless it, and she will be useful and get things done! 
<Random_Nerd> Being in the spirit world is a little like being in a space ship. 
<Random_Nerd> In a space ship, you only have as much air and heat and so on as you brought with you. 
<Random_Nerd> In the Spirit World, you only have as much /time/ and /space/ as you brought with you. 
<Brian> *hugs T* 
<DanteE> "And yes, I know I'm the one that wants to plan more often. We need to get to the 'right thing' quicker." 
<Theresa> "I got distracted. Existing in a way that I am important and yet just a cog in a greater wheel." 
<Random_Nerd> Which is, let's say, about fifty meters in radius, and about half an hour. 
<DanteE> "... I know what you mean." 
<Theresa> "Okay, now, We will follow this bridge to the Angel of the Moon." 
<Random_Nerd> Beyond that, the world makes no sense. Your primate-brains, even infused with a bit of divinity, can't parse it. 
<Random_Nerd> It's not black, it's more like a 360 degree blind spot. 
<DanteE> "Brian, you sure about the time? ... what there is of it ... ow. My brain." 
* Ftisk amuse myself looking at the far things 
<Random_Nerd> You are searching for something. 
<Random_Nerd> You are lost. 
<Random_Nerd> That means that you are near the Chase and Lost Things. 
<Random_Nerd> Look! Ophaniel! 
<Random_Nerd> She rotates. 
<DanteE> (Ftisk drools.) 
<Brian> "spinny." 
<Brian> "Hi Ophaniel!" 
<Ftisk> (can her hear us?) 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> (It /really helps/ that you are looking for Ophaniel here.) 
<Random_Nerd> (She is, like, uniquely easy to find.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel spins all around you. 
<Random_Nerd> The blades make sounds. 
<Kite> "...." 
<Random_Nerd> "Nobles." "Kudzu." 
<Random_Nerd> "Time." 
<DanteE> "So, how's the Wall?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Space." 
<Brian> "We're a little ... out of our element." 
<Theresa> "Yes. We have come to observe a moment in the past." 
<Random_Nerd> "Which are you?" 
<Random_Nerd> "There is no past here." 
<Ftisk> "Wow! Wow! Wow! Ophaniel you are gorgeous here at work, not that you are not gorgeous ever but here there are less distractions here" 
<Theresa> "We have come to see you battle an Excrucian on the day that you took Kudzu's place at the Wall. And I am Plants, Theresa." 
* Ftisk fly around her trying to look at her from all angles at once 
<DanteE> (Spoilers, T! :) ) 
<Theresa> (Bah! Ftisk can always find distractions!) 
<Random_Nerd> (You guys are not with "Ophaniel at the moment when she fought the Excrucian" because that isn't a moment. Ophaniel is, in a sense, /always/ fighting that Excrucian.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You are with Ophaniel from the perspective of one outside of time.) 
<Theresa> (River Song can kiss my grass!) 
<Brian> (T: <3) 
<Random_Nerd> Time is over /there/. 
<Random_Nerd> But you can't see it, because it's more than fifty meters away. 
<Brian> "We wish to observe a moment." 
<Random_Nerd> All you can see is the rotating blades of Ophaniel. 
=-= YOU are now known as FtiskWith100eyes 
<Brian> "Oh, and I'm Numbers, to give a name to an entity." 
<DanteE> "Or, rather, an event. Dante, Dominus Animus et Gladia." 
<Random_Nerd> "Provide context. In the world you know, how many times has Kudzu died?" 
<Theresa> "None. It is still the 3rd Age. The meeting between Excrucians and Imperators has yet to be." 
<FtiskWith100eyes> "Presentation, right, Hi, one day we will marry, ah, Btw I'm Ftisk" 
<DanteE> "Good question... he eats himself occasionally..." 
<Kite> "I am Kite, Lord Vulcan's Noble of Assembly" 
<Random_Nerd> "Which moment do you wish to find?" 
<Brian> "The moment we're calling Breach Day." 
* FtiskWith100eyes droooooooollll 
<Theresa> "You were fighting something that was prepared to meet a Wildlord." 
<Random_Nerd> "I am fighting an Excrucian. It is not difficult. He is unprepared. He fumbles." 
<DanteE> "Near the end of the 3rd age, you, Ha-Qadosh Berakha and (who else?) were hit with a coordinated attack." 
<Random_Nerd> "In that context, the world has been reshaped." 
<Brian> (Dr. Manhattan scene?) 
<Random_Nerd> "It is not force. There /is/ force. That is not what is unique about the context in which I fight an Excrucian who fumbles." 
<Brian> "What is unique?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Things are made to be like other things." 
<Kite> "By....the Excrucian?" 
<FtiskWith100eyes> (can I become big as Ophaniel?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No. She is bigger than the amount of space that you guys brought.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Feel it." 
<FtiskWith100eyes> (ack!) 
<Random_Nerd> "Feel the context in which it is different." 
* Kite tries to feel it. 
* Theresa will feel it. (Well, try to, but like the muppet said, there is no try.) 
* FtiskWith100eyes fell it 
<Random_Nerd> Imagine... a man opening a door, between air and water. He tries to press out, but water presses in, for water is thicker than air. 
* DanteE tries to feel it. Also make sure Ftisk isn't trying to feel her. :) 
<Random_Nerd> Imagine a man trying to fit a USB cable into an Ethernet port. 
<FtiskWith100eyes> (damn! you found my play Dante!) 
<Random_Nerd> Imagine a man in a foreign country, trying to get the people there to act like he's used to people acting, but finding himself assimilating. 
<Random_Nerd> It's kind of like that. 
<Theresa> (Scary.) 
<Brian> (kind of like ... all three? The last?) 
<Theresa> (...Creation is changing the invader?) 
=-= YOU are now known as OphanielShapeCompatibleCog 
<Random_Nerd> Like all three. 
<Brian> "What is the usual feel?" 
* OphanielShapeCompatibleCog try to integrate in her spinnings circles... 
<Random_Nerd> You talk about Breach day like it's one unified thing, where there was a great pressure at the Walls, and reality shifted, and Wildlords and Warmains acted oddly. 
<Random_Nerd> It isn't. In this context, that is obvious. 
<Random_Nerd> Reality was made to shift. From this, flowed Wildlords and Warmains acting oddly. And from /this/, Warmains pressing into Creation. 
<Brian> (LOGIC!) 
<Random_Nerd> But to the extent that causality matters, the pressure didn't cause memories to flow. 
<Random_Nerd> Memories started to flow, and then the Warmains pushed into Creation. 
<Random_Nerd> And they flowed in both directions. 
<Brian> (oh! That makes some sense. Kind of ...) 
<Theresa> (So people in Outside remembered too.) 
<Random_Nerd> The Warmain who presses through is /confused/. 
<Theresa> (So the question is, what made reality shift?) 
<Random_Nerd> He finds a hostile Angel barring the way. This is not what he expected to find. 
<Random_Nerd> Whatever made reality shift is beyond what you can see. 
<OphanielShapeCompatibleCog> (reality shift because I'm trying to integrate in O.! :-P ) 
<DanteE> (Who went out?) 
<Theresa> (Do we know what he expected to find?) 
<Brian> (I know at one point I kind of had a hypothesis that Excrucians and Imperators were kind of mirrors of each other, like Fetches, but not really. I haven't found anything compelling to support that though :p But this isn't inconsistent) 
<Random_Nerd> (All excrucians and all imperators?) 
<DanteE> (wait, so having it happen at that time was arbitrary?) 
<Brian> (RN: that's the thing. It doesn't make sense for _all_, because Wildlords and Mimics.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Then which ones?) 
<DanteE> (Unless this is part of JbJ's prophecies... weren't two of them about Imperators leaving Creation?) 
<Brian> (Not enough data. Warmains are one of the groups on the Ex side. But ... not enough information.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Jan ben Jans prophecies are /super turbo relevant/ to this.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Some of them, anyway.) 
<DanteE> (We're seeing the future as well as the past... since there's no time here.) 
<Brian> (Jan ben Jan's prophecies are relevant to buying ice cream at the corner store.) 
<Theresa> (Did anyone write down in an easily accessible place what they were? I mostly just remember the thing about Ftisk getting a reason to kill Theresa.) 
<DanteE> (Including the specific prophecies involving Imperators leaving Creation and not returning) 
<OphanielShapeCompatibleCog> (sorry, no) 
=-= YOU are now known as OphCompatibleCog 
<Random_Nerd> There's another reason why the Excrucian is confused. 
<Random_Nerd> This is all turning out /backwards/. 
<DanteE> (On the Wiki. (#1: Barakiel & the Lawbreaker. #2: HQB gets scared and hides. #3: Wildlords go bye-bye. #4: Entropy. #5: Jan ben Jan despairs, cheats, dies)) 
<Brian> ("Entropy"?) 
<Brian> (what does the Excrucian mean by "backwards", also?) 
<DanteE> (That was a summary... hang on, looking for the prophecies themselves...) 
<Random_Nerd> Imagine... hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Imagine someone who's pretty good at tackling people in football. And they charge someone who's pretty good at judo. 
<Theresa> (*WHUMP*?) 
<Random_Nerd> At that moment where momentum moves around and they find that /they're/ the one hitting the ground... 
<Random_Nerd> That's how the Excrucian comes across. 
<Brian> (ah, ok.) 
<Brian> (that kind of backwards) 
<Brian> (also, Judo is magic) 
<DanteE> (Can we see the Ex?) 
<Random_Nerd> Not really. 
<Random_Nerd> You can only "see" within Ophaniel. 
<Random_Nerd> Beyond that, you get impressions. 
<Random_Nerd> Not images. 
<Theresa> (Any other impressions from or about the Exc?) 
<Theresa> (So the Dude was coming in, ready to kick..Kudzu's ass?) 
<Random_Nerd> He might not have even been expecting a fight. 
<DanteE> (Bingo: http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Session_217 ) 
<Theresa> (*blink*) 
<Theresa> (Can we tell what he was expecting?) 
<Random_Nerd> It certainly wasn't getting turbo-threshed by an angel made of sharp gears. 
<Random_Nerd> You are very clear on that point. 
<Theresa> (Well, yes, few beings would expect that.) 
<DanteE> (Which is why she's here) 
<DanteE> (OK, JbJ's prophecies: 
<DanteE> (Jan ben Jan: "The Angel Barakiel will induce the Power of Shadows to summon a Lawbreaker, and will take council with it. From this point on, all his subsequent actions will be outside of morality, truth, and my own sight, and will be dominated by the madness that is a Lawbreaker's price." 
<Random_Nerd> Imagine... your buddy Jim is drunk. He's confused, and maybe a bit fighty, but you want to get him to calm down and let you get him home. 
<DanteE> (Jan ben Jan: "Magister Ha Qadosh Berakha will discover something, which I cannot see, that will cause him to call into doubt his own loyalty to Creation. This will cause him to disavow all association with yourself and your associates, to renounce his position on the Council of Four, and to seclude himself. I cannot see who will take his place, which is itself disturbing." 
<Random_Nerd> And then suddenly, wait, this isn't Jim. This is a tiger. And it's eating your face. This is very much not what you wanted to be happening. 
<DanteE> (Jan ben Jan: "The Magisters of the Wild will come to believe that if they kill themselves, they will be able to reincarnate outside of reality. One in three will do so, causing the outright destruction of many Estates. They will not succeed in their ambition, for their theory will prove to be entirely backwards." 
<DanteE> (Jan ben Jan: "Ymera Entropy, Lord of the Earth, will leave Creation and enter the Outside. If he returns, I do not see it. Unlike Berakha, his seat will remain unfilled." 
<DanteE> ( Jan ben Jan: "The True God Jan ben Jan, lord of the Second Age, will in despair of achieving his goals decide to take the necessary body parts by force, retroactively stealing them from the Nobles and Gods of his age. This will break the rules that he operates by, and remove his abilities of prophecy. Following this, he will attempt to make the divination anyway. The result will be the death of Jan ben Jan, and no usable in 
<Random_Nerd> (At least two of those are relevant to these issues.) 
<DanteE> (Is this where Entropy leaves?) 
<Theresa> (We've seen him since then. We think.) 
<DanteE> (But, if we're seeing the future...) 
<OphCompatibleCog> (last time he or a robber impersonating him, take the nobleInABox) 
<Theresa> (The entirely backwards thing. Would that mean if Excru die Outside, they will reincarnate in Creation?) 
<Brian> "Ophaniel, have you heard of a time where Wildlords believe they will reincarnate outside Creation?" 
<DanteE> (Oph's question about Kudzu dying was referring to something that hasn't happened _yet_, wasn't it) 
<Theresa> (We're seeing at all times.) 
<Random_Nerd> "I only know of two forms of reincarnation. Mortals who die within Creation, and Nobles and mortals who have reached the pinnacle of High Summoning. Neither, so far as I know, applies to Imperators." 
<DanteE> (Maybe all this was caused by Entropy leaving) 
<Brian> "We have a prophecy from Jan ben Jan. *recite about Wildlords*. Anything familiar in there?" 
<Brian> (I'm thinking Barakiel is relevant here, but Brian isn't) 
<Random_Nerd> "That makes no sense to me. I do not know why they would believe that." 
<Theresa> (If Kudzu dies..we'd die too, probably.) 
<Random_Nerd> (If you were really lucky, and another imperator snapped you up fast, you might not.) 
<Brian> "Are you aware of the one-in-three-dying thing?" 
<DanteE> "Have you seen Entropy leaving Creation?" 
<Kite> (Since we have the prophecy, we could let Kudzu know that it's a bogus theory in advance?) 
<OphCompatibleCog> (right Kite!) 
<DanteE> (Part of it may have happened... if it's not coming true, that would mean his Prophecy ability is screwed, which may mean #5 has happened already) 
<Theresa> (So, if the Excrucians have High CSummoning..when they die, they join with their Creation Fetch.) 
<Random_Nerd> (What would that look like, from an in-Creation perspective?) 
<Brian> (That would look like ... Wildlords.) 
<DanteE> (Warmains and other flooding in.) 
<DanteE> (The Breach) 
<DanteE> (For an individual Ex, it may mean they expect smooth sailing to their fetch instead of, say, an angry angel) 
<Random_Nerd> (That would look a lot like Wildlords.) 
<Theresa> (The Fetches would already be here, wouldn't they?) 
<Brian> (... holy fuck ...) 
<Random_Nerd> (New Imperator-scale things would show up in Creation.) 
<Brian> "Their theory is entirely backwards." 
<Brian> "What would summoning from Creation to Outside look like from an in-creation perspective?" 
<DanteE> "Summoners on their side would reincarnate here. 
<Brian> "That I don't quite get" 
<Kite> "Necromancy?" 
<Theresa> (That could be why Summoning is big taboo now. Previously, lots of Excrucians went into High Summoning, died, merged over here. Now it's banned/taboo, to keep Excrucians over there thinking like Excruc?) 
<DanteE> "Thing is... why now? What tied this 2-way exodus to that particular day?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel "I don't know much of summoning." 
<DanteE> "... the Age end?" 
<Brian> "Do you know Barakiel well? What do you know of Barakiel's post-Lawbreaker time?" 
<Theresa> (There isn't any Time there. Or at the Wall. It's something in Creation that shifted reality.) 
<DanteE> When is the date Attaris said she would set things in motion for the Age End? 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Barakiel has always been Barakiel." 
<Theresa> (And Barakiel was after the Breach, but still, time hijinks.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You've reached that date a while ago. Shit is in the process of going down.) 
<DanteE> How long ago? 
<Random_Nerd> (And it wasn't a "it will happen on this day" so much as a "Oh, definitely by that point, I think.") 
<DanteE> (I wonder if what changed was Attaris.) 
<Random_Nerd> (More of a "Yeah, in a few weeks I'll start building that swingset" sort of attitude.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not "At 7:32 PM, on this date, that swingset will spring into being.") 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. So, from what you've seen here, the memory shift came first.) 
<Random_Nerd> (What did it do?) 
<Theresa> (Sent memory into both sides.) 
<DanteE> (Reminded folks of life on the other side.) 
<Theresa> (Was like a pressure lock?) 
<Kite> (Changed the Excrucian trying to get in?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Now, you know that it didn't work the way it was supposed to.) 
<Random_Nerd> (What do you think the Excrucians /wanted/ it to do?) 
<Brian> (I'm also still too much thinking with causality. The Excrucians who are dead are dead at some point.) 
<DanteE> (Either drop the Wall or open a new hole?) 
<Brian> (Who was effected? Wildlords.) 
<Brian> (something about this newfound link?) 
<Kite> (Was the Excrucian an Outiside doctor trying to revive a recently-deceased Outside patient?) 
<Theresa> (Hmm.. Debilitate the Wildlords? Change the minds of the Wildlords..into their Outside selves, who would welcome the Excrucians in with open arms?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Wildlords, Tempered Warmains, Summoners.) 
<DanteE> (Activate sleeper agents?) 
<Brian> (was not expecting a fight.) 
<Random_Nerd> (What did Caesar do, and why did he do it?) 
<Brian> (it's after midnight, my mind is slowing down :) I'm trying to keep up still ^_^) 
<Theresa> (He went home. Because that was what he remembered?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And various Warmains went to enact some grudge of their Tempered shape.) 
<DanteE> (Part of him did. He's a Warmain that tempered ... uh...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or some other goal of it, for that one shard you talked to.) 
<Theresa> (The people affected are all beings who have experience in being someone else. Having memories of other beings.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Who went to help the widow of his tempered form out.) 
<Brian> (Caesar joined with the other part ... huh. Became wildlord?) 
<Brian> (people who O just told us are affected by reincarnation.) 
<DanteE> (Memories of other beings that were blocked by the wall) 
<Random_Nerd> (It was all people who, in one way or another, had memories and selves on both sides of the Wall.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But it affected Excrucians way more strongly.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Kudzu got a bit weird for a few hours.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Caesar came over and had an identity crisis, and various Warmains flipped out.) 
<DanteE> (Sorry, 'Kudzu' and 'a _bit_ weird' doesn't compute) 
<Random_Nerd> (This wasn't what the Excrucians meant to happen.) 
<Theresa> (They expected the Wildlords to be more effected.) 
<DanteE> (Did something here also prompt that Warmain to come and talk to us?) 
<Random_Nerd> (William and Sam prompted him to talk to you.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You sent them to look for a warmain who acted weird.) 
<Theresa> (That's also why the Excrucian was confused. It was expecting a debilitated Wildlord, who might be remembering more of Outside and thus be less fighty toward Outsiders?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And instead, he found himself overwhelmed by Tempered memories, and also, ANGEL IN THE FACE.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It ended badly.) 
<Theresa> (Most Angels in Your Face do.) 
<DanteE> (So, the surprise part was that it wasn't ongoing, and that the breach was quickly closed?) 
<Random_Nerd> (HQB, in comparison, was in fact somewhat debilitated.) 
<DanteE> (Or... that it went both ways?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or just how strongly both sides went.) 
<Theresa> (They weren't expecting it to affect them as much/so much, then? And this is probably what causes HQB to freak out from the prophecy.) 
<Random_Nerd> Imagine... a family in the cold-war-era USSR. 
<Theresa> (affect themselves. I think.) 
<Random_Nerd> They send their son to be educated in the West. 
<DanteE> (That would mean HqB is freaking out _right now._) 
<Random_Nerd> They want him to learn from the capitalists, and come back to bring their knowledge to Mother Russia. 
<Random_Nerd> Instead, he realizes how fucking awesome it is not to have to stand in line for soap. 
<Random_Nerd> And he stays. 
<Theresa> (And he becomes the Imperator of Soap?) 
<DanteE> Did we witness the Coming of the Wildlords? 
<Random_Nerd> You witnessed an attempt to undo it. 
<Random_Nerd> Which worked just as badly as the first plan. 
<Brian> (which was to make them in the first place?) 
<DanteE> (Uhoh... prophecies 2 and 3) 
<Random_Nerd> Because the Outside is /poor/. 
<Random_Nerd> It's far lower in Estates and reality than Creation. 
<Random_Nerd> And every effort they make that doesn't understand that, goes wrong. 
<Theresa> And if you send someone over here, they want to _stay_. Especially if they have power here. 
<Brian> (RN: there's a paper in there. Examining the politics of the Cold War through Roleplaying Games?) 
<DanteE> (Well, they spent all their money on weapons and banquets for Dear Leader.) 
<Theresa> (Brian - play Demon.) 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Brian> (I have no more time in my schedule for games :P) 
<DanteE> So... when I got that Crown memory... 
<Random_Nerd> Imagine... well, not a Warmain, exactly. This was before Warmains. 
<Random_Nerd> He studies arts analogous to High Summoning. 
<DanteE> That was Kudzu planning to defect? 
<Random_Nerd> Eventually, he reaches the peak, and has strong contact with his fetch. 
<Random_Nerd> And he sees how much better his fetch has it. 
<Random_Nerd> He knows that all he has to do, to live that life, is die. 
<Random_Nerd> And then he wakes up in Creation, and that's all he knows. No memories cross the wall. 
<Random_Nerd> That's Kudzu. 
<Random_Nerd> __________STOP________________ 
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<lazarus> :) 
<OphCompatibleCog> (damn!) 
<DanteE> and HQB. Who we need to talk to immediately. 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<lazarus> how long has this been in the books, RN? 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Random_Nerd> And every Wildlord. 
<Theresa> (So, Outside sends the Wildlords over to take over. Doesn't work, Wildlords stay, become part of Creation. Outside sends more into Creation to keep fighting and bring back strays. Doesn't work, Wildlords fight them off ....crap, I'd rather read what RN wrote than think this out.) 
<Random_Nerd> And that's why Warmains don't practice High Summoning. 
<Random_Nerd> Because the ones who /did/, aren't Warmains any more. 
<Knockwood> Thing is, a portion of expatriates are going to miss their old lives... say, one-third? 
<Theresa> (Could be Mimics.) 
<lazarus> I'm also reminded of my vague thinking that everyone has a Fetch. This is also vaguely supporting that. 
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe 
<Knockwood> I was thinking of JbJ's Wildlord prophecy 
<lazarus> except that some have merged with their fetches. 
<Random_Nerd> So, that's where Wildlords came from, and that's what Breach Day was. 
<Knockwood> those that miss the other side might think dying is the way to go 
<Verithe> Kite was immune to the Breach Day weirdness. 
<Knockwood> One question unanswered: 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and the reason why you were more able to see this stuff... 
<Knockwood> what tied it to that day on the timeline? 
<lazarus> We need to talk to HQB and JbJ. 
<Random_Nerd> You guys are partly Kudzu. You were in the context of Breach Day. 
<Knockwood> it could have been any day in history or the future 
<Random_Nerd> So, you were more in touch with proto-Kudzu's memories. 
<Random_Nerd> That's not the way they think, remember. 
<Theresa> All days are the same. 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
<lazarus> it happened then 'cause it happened then. 
<Knockwood> yeah, but from our POV.... 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<lazarus> and kind of triggered the events that end the Age. 
<BethE> Because this is the Age of the Wildlords. 
<Random_Nerd> And it happened there because that's the place where Creation was primed for the beginnings of a cataclysm. 
<Knockwood> ... or ... it happened then, because that's the only way us PCs could see it and do something? :D 
<lazarus> is this an 11-year reveal, or only 6? :p 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Knockwood> oh... so, was there a similar event at the beginning of the last Age? 
<lazarus> kwd: the Fall, the War, and the coming of the Wildlords were the turning of the Age, IIRC. So, yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> The Wildlords came over! 
<Random_Nerd> And the War started. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, can you guess why the War started? 
<lazarus> "give us our shit back!" 
<Knockwood> because we stole their people? 
<Verithe> They want the Wildlords back? 
<BethE> Come home now or I'll give you something to cry about? 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Random_Nerd> They had this great plan to grow their own Estates in Creation, and then bring them Outside. 
<Knockwood> I really hope there are up-to-date logs somewhere... 
<Random_Nerd> And instead, they lost a huge number of people. 
<lazarus> Payoff. It is worth it. 
<Verithe> So maybe that's why 1/3 of the Wildlords off themselves? To end the war? 
<Angelo> We are stealing babies (Wildlords) from outside!!! OMG We are terrible beings! 
<Random_Nerd> At the comparable weak point at the end of this age, they try to undo it. 
<Random_Nerd> And Breach Day happened. 
<BethE> Creation is addictive. 
<Knockwood> no, no, no, they're coming voluntarily 
<Random_Nerd> You didn't steal them. 
<Random_Nerd> You /seduced/ them. 
<lazarus> we're tramps! 
<Angelo> RN that is not better 
<Verithe> We seduced them intentionally, unintentionally or both? 
<Knockwood> 'seduced' implies active... 
<Knockwood> they came over, saw we had food--I mean Estates, and stayed. 
<BethE> Creation Cleavage. 
<lazarus> on that note 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and parts of this are from Breach Day. 
<lazarus> I'm going to head to bed now. Good night! 
<Knockwood> g'night laz 
<Verithe> So should we start warning Wildlords that offing themselves is not the way? 
<Random_Nerd> And some of the details are about six and a half years old, when Unlikely Floweings came out. 
<Verithe> G'night, Laz 
<Angelo> night Laz 
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<Random_Nerd> So, was this a Lost-style reveal, or was it worth the build-up? 
<Knockwood> (thinking) 
<Verithe> I never watched enough of Lost to compare, but I enjoyed the reveal and build-up. 
<Angelo> was worth all the time! 
<Knockwood> How long ago was Breach Day IRL? 
<Random_Nerd> I'm trying to figure that out right now. 
<Verithe> Yesteryear 
<Random_Nerd> My logs don't go back that far. 
<Knockwood> I'll say worth it. Of course, Dante has to deal with where Blades came from... 
<Random_Nerd> That was my old hard drive, that died. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh! 
<Random_Nerd> And when Dante was sharing minds with the proto-Kudzu, that went both ways. 
<Random_Nerd> So when he connected that urge for a crown of Creation, with making a crown of Blades... 
<Random_Nerd> That's why Kudzu stole it from Azazel. 
<Random_Nerd> So the previous Dante of primordial ages you've been trying to track down all this time... was you. 
<Knockwood> wait, I'm the reason Kudzu attacked Azazel? 
<Random_Nerd> Beth says Breach Day was, in real-world time, July 24, 2008. 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, and March of that year was when Unlikely Flowerings came out. 
<Random_Nerd> So it fits. 
<Knockwood> You might want to stat Azazel up, because we need to talk. 
<Knockwood> Also Joe Chill, or whoever slashed my eye. 
<Random_Nerd> Dante doesn't know this yet. 
<Knockwood> ah yeah. Remind me to firewall that if I screw up, please? 
<Random_Nerd> Sure. 
<Knockwood> welp, time to head out. 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Random_Nerd> See you next week. 
<BethE> I need sleep. Great job, dear. 
<Angelo> night RN 
<BethE> Good night! 
<Knockwood> oh, wait... 
<Angelo> Night Beth 
<Verithe> G'night! 
<BethE> Knock- if you mention maps, I will punch you into the Outside. :) 
<Knockwood> I finished the logs for the first Chuubo game: http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Chuubo:the_SNURCers 
<Knockwood> Gotta say, my favorite moment was: 
<BethE> Ooo, thank you, Knock! Want to have a thread that talks about it? 
<Random_Nerd> By the way, and make sure to tell Laz this, each of you gets a Revelation for any project vaguely related to this. 
<Random_Nerd> Only one each. 
<BethE> (Or could link it in the current Chuubo thread.) 
<Verithe> Yay! 
<Random_Nerd> (Per player, I mean.) 
<Knockwood> "If I'm right, Senko will be plowing into something important any moment now. (WHUMP) Called it." 
<Random_Nerd> And since this ties into, like, /all the things/, I suspect you can each come up with one. 
<Knockwood> Hang on... 
<Verithe> I already have one in mind. 
<Knockwood> Here's the current one... 
<BethE> Knock - who said that? Leo? 
<Knockwood> Beth: Yep. 2nd to last session, near the end. 
<Knockwood> RN: No problem, my map has "How they found the truth about the past". :) 
<BethE> It sounded very Leoish. 
<Random_Nerd> That fits! 
<Verithe> Senko: "You can't do anything important without plowing into something important." 
<Verithe> "Which is why you shouldn't do important things." 
<Verithe> "Leave it to me. I'm a grown up." 
<Random_Nerd> I love Senko. 
<Knockwood> Huh... I've had 2 Revelations on that now. 
<Knockwood> Stone time! 
<Verithe> I miss playing her. 
<Random_Nerd> I hear that at some point there will be a Senko novel. 
<Random_Nerd> I am looking forward to taht. 
<Knockwood> Ideas for a good Stone for Dante? 
<Verithe> I look forward to it as well! 
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<Verithe> Which project? 
<Random_Nerd> Later, all. 
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<Knockwood> Finding the Truth About the Past 
<Angelo> I had to go making breakfast for kids, will report on the project that get the revelation next time. ok? 
<Angelo> damn, too slow! 
<Knockwood> OK 
<Knockwood> like I can say that. :p 
<Verithe> Take care Angelo! 
<Angelo> well I gtg, cya guys! 
<Knockwood> cya Angelo 
<Knockwood> and cya next week V 
<Verithe> Well, the information that we discovered could be pretty significant to the Meeting. 
<Verithe> So maybe something related to the meeting? 
<Verithe> and see you next week, Knock! Take care! 
<Knockwood> OK, I'll think about that... bye 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]

Session 268

2014-08-20T11:01:51Z

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<Verithe> H, RN! 
<Angelo> Evening guys. 
<BethE> Hi guys! 
<Verithe> *Hi 
<Knockwood> Hiya RN, Beth 
<Verithe> Hi, Angelo and Beth! 
<BethE> Cool, lots of people! 
<Angelo> well, I skipped some sessions, anyone can do a summary for me? 
<Knockwood> Well, the world's ending. 
<Verithe> Last week was cancelled and the week before was Chuubo's, yes? 
<Verithe> In which Jasper talked to her brother. 
<Angelo> But I was away the week before that one too 
<Verithe> I don't remember if we had game that week.... 
<BethE> We..haven't had a game for a while. 
<Lazarus> (in which Jasper snarked at her brother.) 
<BethE> There's been people gone and sickness and somewhere in there, I switched computers... 
<Angelo> ah, well I was away for a while also 
<Lazarus> and RN had to cope with learning Windows 8 
<Angelo> brrrrrr win8 .... brrr I hope is a least 8.1 
<Random_Nerd> It is. 
<Knockwood> that's what this machine is running 
<Lazarus> and somewhere in all this, I misplaced my iPad keyboard 
<Lazarus> ( :( ) 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
<Random_Nerd> Need a moment to find it? 
<Lazarus> nah. Working on my desktop for now 
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite 
<Lazarus> it's somewhere in my apartment; I'll find it some day. 
=-= Lazarus is now known as Brian 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Ftisk> (that is the right spirit Laz!) 
<Theresa> So we were going to go into the past but we know that it's kind of a crap-shoot to try and do that and hit the right thing, right? 
<Brian> oh yeah! 
<Brian> that! 
<DanteE> I was thinking, as long as we're doing that, we could go back further 
<Random_Nerd> Just watch out for Plan Creep. 
<DanteE> hell, go all the way back to the creation of the Wall. 
<Kite> Kite is wondering if we should plan to, sometime after the Age is over, come back to the present and tell ourselves to chill out. 
<Random_Nerd> Before the zeppelin's on fire and you've lost your hat. 
<DanteE> well, there is that whole saving Creation factor. 
<Kite> Or not chill out. However it goes. 
<Brian> any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan. 
<Random_Nerd> You can't go back to the creation of the Wall. 
<Theresa> How much energy would we need to go back to the WALL? 
<Random_Nerd> This is time travel, and that was /before/ time. 
* DanteE makes note: Give hat to William to hold 
<Random_Nerd> That was during the Unknown Age. Time didn't exist until the First Age. 
<Brian> (impressive. 1000$ to play a game with Will Wheaton at GenCon, and there's 35 / 40 slots still free.) 
<DanteE> hm... well, would we learn anything if we went back and observed the enChanceling? 
<Random_Nerd> Of Amyra? 
<DanteE> yeah 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, you were /there/. 
<Random_Nerd> Already, I mean. 
<Random_Nerd> What would you learn the second time around? 
<Brian> but this would be from an outsider's perspective? 
<DanteE> yeah, but we had no idea what was going on 
<Theresa> We would pull James out and create _Yet Another James_! 
<Random_Nerd> You can /do/ it, it'd be far easier to find than many points. 
<Random_Nerd> Because you have strong connections to it. 
<Random_Nerd> But I'm not sure what the goal would be. 
<Theresa> But this would be a James who hasn't calmed down and who would probably beat up Lesson. 
<DanteE> answering the biggest question of all... why _us_? :) 
<Random_Nerd> Why you for what? 
<Brian> because we're the best for the job? 
<Ftisk> Ftisk is perfectly content to be him 
<DanteE> we could take a huge risk and go to the beginning of the Valde Bellum 
<Theresa> Why us...why not us? 
<Theresa> We don't have that great of a connection there, though, I think. 
<Random_Nerd> Remember, like Canada, if you die in the past, you die in /real life/. 
<Kite> You.....no! That's not how Canada works! It can't be! 
<Brian> It isn't. 
<Brian> you get poutine when you die. 
<Brian> from the poutine festivals. 
<Kite> Whew! 
<Brian> (there's currently a poutine festival going on) 
<Brian> poutine pizza is also a thing. 
<Brian> although a proper Canadian pizza is pepperoni, bacon, and mushrooms. 
<Random_Nerd> So. 
<Random_Nerd> Ready to start? 
<Theresa> Hannibal Lector is vowing not to go to Canada, no matter how polite they are. 
<Kite> I believe so. 
<Brian> I suppose so 
<Ftisk> I think so 
<DanteE> sure 
<Brian> (what do they call pepperoni, bacon, mushroom pizza where you guys all are? I can't really imagine it being a truly Canadian thing. Because bacon.) 
<Theresa> I vote that we go to _one_ spot in the past. I don't know how many metaphysical quarters we have to put into the wayback machine, but I'd like to have some juice left for wedding and meeting. 
<Random_Nerd> (A Supreme pizza. Although it would also have olives.) 
<Theresa> (Supreme would also have green peppers.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And possibly sausage instead of bacon.) 
<Kite> (and onions) 
<Random_Nerd> (Supreme has a lot of stuff in general.) 
<DanteE> (OBTW, I've been putting up Chuubo logs: http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Chuubo:the_SNURCers ) 
<Theresa> (I think they just call it a pepperoni, bacon, mushroom pizza.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, cool. Thanks for doing that!) 
<Ftisk> (Cool Dante!) 
<DanteE> (Might want to check that I didn't ... reveal too much ...) 
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<Theresa> Darn it... 
<DanteE> are you on a tablet? 
<Theresa> Hit the wrong button in mirc. 
<DanteE> ah. 
<Theresa> But so, what do people think of my vote? 
<Kite> I second it. 
<DanteE> Hm... it's the sensible option. 
<DanteE> (so why the heck are we even considering it?!? :p ) 
<Theresa> Can we save the non-sensible for the wedding and meeting? 
<Random_Nerd> (Huh. What do you think William's bachelor party will be like?) 
<Theresa> Serious, I can get Dante a bachelor's party just for him. He's a bachelor, he can get a party. 
<Random_Nerd> (Strippers! Dionyl strippers! Joutun strippers!) 
<Theresa> Dear...it's my turn for the brain. No, wait, you're GMing, you get the brain. 
<Brian> (William’s bachelor party would be tweed suits and turntables) 
<Ftisk> (I think that party will be Ftisk managed.. what can go wrong?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No. Because it will be thrown by his Best Man.) 
<Theresa> No, see, William doesn't get to pick the party. Sam does. 
<Random_Nerd> (And we know who that is.) 
<Theresa> Sam will..have a movie night. 
<Random_Nerd> (Pro Tip: You could be surrounded by Dionyl strippers at this very moment, and you would not know.) 
<Theresa> Does Ftisk know what a bachelor party is? 
<DanteE> and he'll bring his biggest fans. Literally. Kinda like a buffet. 
<Kite> :C 
<Brian> (RN: that's Quote Thread worthy) 
<Ftisk> Nope, Ftisk have no idea! 
<Random_Nerd> _____________START____________ 
<Theresa> (So, agreed that we go back to the Wall as it is breached and watch the fights?) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "...and that's why I never wear pants." 
<DanteE> (And try to figure out what happened.) 
<Kite> (Sounds good) 
<Brian> (score one for the quoted out of context brigade) 
<Theresa> "..that was not the reason I expected." 
<DanteE> "... strangely enough, there's a homeless guy in the park who uses the same reasoning." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Koalas can be /vicious/." 
<Kite> "Why do you wear clothes at all?" 
* Ftisk look dubious 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Style, Dominus." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Style." 
<Brian> "And we all know who styles best, wins." 
* Kite looks unconvinced 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "STYLE." 
<DanteE> (Conference room?) 
<Theresa> (Because Sam spoke at some time when Will thought he was alone and Will threatened him with an hair dryer to swear to always wear something.) 
<Theresa> "Kite, if Sam didn't wear clothes, he couldn't be shiny." 
<Theresa> (Sounds good to me.) 
<DanteE> "All right... I'd still like to have a good idea of what we'll tell the Excrucians at the summit. 
<Kite> (Kite is sick of the conference room. He will perch on the windowsill.) 
* Kite glances at Sam 
<Brian> (Brian has recently increased the shininess of the inlay on the main table.) 
<DanteE> "So... if we go into the Deep Mythic and head back to Breach Day, we might be able to see what happened and maybe what they were trying to accomplish. 
<Theresa> "We might learn something to tell them from the trip through the spirit world." 
<DanteE> "or maybe even who did it. 
* Kite is now splayed on the main table 
<DanteE> (Was that day when Shirk came in, or before?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which day?) 
* Ftisk grab as much popcorn as a small cart can manage to bear 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, Breach Day?) 
<Theresa> (Shirk came in after Breach Day.) 
<DanteE> (Breach Day) 
<Random_Nerd> (Before. Considerably before.) 
<DanteE> (Ah, but Entropy made his big announcement after.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which big announcement?) 
<Brian> (shit, I wonder if the Wall had a temporary shirking of responsibility.) 
<DanteE> (That Shirk is now an ambassador) 
<DanteE> (Brian: if it did, we might see it) 
<Theresa> (Breach Day ---> Shirk came in---> Entropy announcement.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Breach day happened considerably before Shirk. Like 80 sessions.) 
<DanteE> "Only question is, how do we get there?" 
<Theresa> "Sam, William, is any memory lost when travelling in the spirit world?" 
<DanteE> (And it just occurred to me that Etheric was formulating a plan to use Hope to do this.) 
<Ftisk> "Spirit world is funny and full of post-it" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "As I understand it, which is very little, it is... disorienting." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Like being drunk on cough syrup and having a fever at the same time that somebody stole your legs." 
<Ftisk> "And ah, show that I'm under some heavy weights scrutiny" *wink* 
<Theresa> (..yeah, he was.) 
<DanteE> "Reminds me..." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Nobles /can/ operate without time or space in the conventional sense, but I understand that it is difficult." 
* DanteE heads into his vault. 
<Theresa> "Dante, you are not going to cut the Wall with your sword!" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Well, not /without/. Time and space are /there/. Just... sort of off to the side?" 
* Theresa facepalms. "Please, don't let Breach Day have happened because Dante cut the Wall..." 
<Brian> "Interesting." 
<DanteE> "Sure, ruin _all_ my plans..." /sarcasm 
<Random_Nerd> (I have faith in you guy's ability to destroy the world by accident.) 
<Theresa> (You would.) 
<Brian> (All As Planned?) 
<Ftisk> (was NOT Ftisk, is NEVER Ftisk's fault!) 
<Theresa> "I don't like paradoxes!" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Remember, it isn't exactly time travel. Imperators are all slightly outside of causality in the normal sense." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Or causality is based on /them/, rather than the other way around." 
* DanteE comes out holding a small jar. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Right. And everything else is determined by them, but you'll be running on a much smaller supply of causality than usual." 
<Brian> (I love Sam / William banter) 
<DanteE> "William, I'm entrusting you with this. You can probably think of several reasons why." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "So the biggest way to affect things is to persuade Imperators." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Which is never easy." 
<DanteE> The jar has a cut-up eyeball in it. 
<Random_Nerd> William looks at it. 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Is that yours? Or do you just, like, /collect/ them?" 
<Theresa> (You kept your eyeball?!?) 
<DanteE> (Why not?) 
<Brian> (...) 
<DanteE> (Granted, it's floating in formaldehyde...) 
<Theresa> (And is it cut-up into tiny pieces and only you would know it's an eyeball or is it kinda just slashed a bit?) 
<DanteE> (slashed, then professionally removed) 
<Theresa> (You didn't mention the liquid before. I thought it was just rolling around like a ping pong ball.) 
<DanteE> (sorry, T) 
<Brian> (ping pong ball is funnier) 
<Theresa> (It's okay. :) It'a a neat touch!) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Do you have anything particular you want me to do with it?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Want me to shake fish food in the top each day?" 
<Theresa> (Yeah, but I wouldn't believe that it was still good. So to speak. I'd think it'd be dried up eye leather if it wasn't preserved.) 
<DanteE> "Keep a hold of it. It may be a way back if things go wrong." 
<Random_Nerd> William /looks/ at Sam. 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "What? It's a reasonable question! It's made of meat! Meat needs to eat! And, like, it's in the /water/, so..." 
<Random_Nerd> William just keeps glaring. 
<Random_Nerd> Sam stops. 
<DanteE> unsaid: and maybe a way for you to take over if things go _really_ wrong. 
<Theresa> "It's an eyeball, Sam. I don't think it needs to be fed, but thank you for the thought." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Okay!" 
<DanteE> "In fact, the rest of you might want to come up with your own contingency plans." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "If any trouble occurs while you are occupied, who do you wish us to call upon?" 
<DanteE> "Hm... Consequences?" 
<Ftisk> "call Gnomely" 
<Brian> "William: Patterns. Tell him that Entropy said Patterns was a noob." 
<Theresa> "Lesson." 
<Random_Nerd> Writing on the table: "Bite me, Numbers." 
<Ftisk> "Or my bro at channel Vulcan for the biiig things" 
<Kite> "Gil gets my stuff if anything happens to me." 
<Theresa> (I ha! -ed at the table.) 
<Kite> "But he already knows this." 
<Theresa> "I will..leave some stuff at the Grove and let my off-site staff know, for end of life situations, I guess." 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "I was already watching the conversation, incidentally. I will also watch your Chancel, if you wish." 
<DanteE> (Isn't that against the agreement?) 
<Theresa> "Thank you very much, Patterns. We appreciate it and your time spent on it." 
<Brian> (not exactly, Dante) 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "I have been expanding my awareness. It has grown easier to be aware of many places at once." 
<Ftisk> "Cool!" 
<DanteE> "Anyway. Let's get travelling soon." 
<Theresa> *to William* "Does one just simply walk into the spirit world?" 
<Random_Nerd> ( "Very well. I agree, in return, to not invade minds of Amyra, for the period of one year, unless and until a reasonable person with the knowledge I have would believe that I face a clear and present threat from there.") 
<DanteE> (ah, minds, OK) 
<Random_Nerd> (He's just listening to sound here.) 
<Brian> (besides, I kinda want him to keep an eye on us. First off, no one else would really know he was. Second, keeps us honest. Third, possibly a back-up if things really go pear-shaped) 
<DanteE> (It is a little dark for us to be making if-everything-goes-to-hell plans...) 
<Theresa> (I don't think that he can keep an eye on us in the past. But he can keep an eye on home.) 
<Ftisk> (is realistic not dark :-P ) 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns, on the table: "If you die, and I am asked what you died doing, what do you wish to be said? It need not be the truth, if you prefer." 
<Theresa> "The truth will be fine for me. This will be weird enough already." 
<Ftisk> "I want to be remembered dying doing sex with Gnomely" 
<Brian> (I meant I want him spying on us in present-time :)) 
* DanteE rolls his eyes... 
* Kite groans 
<Brian> "Did Ftisk say anything? I can't really tell anymore..." 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "One does not keep a cat, and then act shocked when it acts as a cat will." 
<Ftisk> "Kite, Dante get a partner .. even the same one..." *:-P* 
* Ftisk nod at Pattern " ... wait! What?" 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "To me, he is no stranger than you. You keep your /heart/ in your /body/. Where /anyone/ can find it." 
<Theresa> (Bite me, Leonardo!) 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "And have no redundant backups for the majority of your organs." 
<Theresa> (Sorry, force of habit.) 
<DanteE> ( :p ) 
<DanteE> "Tell them I was trying to find the truth." 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "I will attempt to see that your interests are protected when you are occupied, to the extent that it does not put me in danger or prevent me from fulfilling other obligations of higher importance." 
<Theresa> "Thank you very much." 
<Ftisk> "Wow that is really kind Pattern!" 
<Theresa> "So, shall we make our preparations and then meet back here immediately?" 
<Ftisk> "Next time we meet remember to hug you" 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "In return, I ask a favor." 
<Kite> "Yes?" 
* Ftisk raise an eyebrow 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "You would investigate the day that Warmains acted oddly, correct?" 
<Theresa> "Yes." 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "Do not investigate the attack on Ymera Gamaliel. It is a red herring to what you would discover." 
<Theresa> "Do you wish to have popcorn eaten while your Imperator is beaten up?" 
<Theresa> (Huh.) 
<DanteE> "... how do you know?" 
* Theresa gives Dante a 'duh' look. 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "I know many things." 
<Theresa> (He has more than approximate knowledge!) 
<DanteE> "... OK. I guess that ... simplifies things a bit." 
<Brian> "He is basically the god of graphs." 
<Random_Nerd> (...Patterns is /totally/ voiced by Clancy Brown.) 
<Brian> (who is voiced by Brian Blessed?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Caesar.) 
<Random_Nerd> (No. KUDZU.) 
<Random_Nerd> (TOTALLY KUDZU.) 
<Brian> (both?) 
<Theresa> (You know that Laz has already guessed you in the Demon game.) 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "Graphs are a simplification." 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns: "A tools of those with minds unable to approach data directly, who require a metaphor." 
<Brian> (Beth: how much of a no-prize did I win for that?) 
<Theresa> (And an Excel sheet.) 
<Theresa> (I give you this gigantic internet cookie! Be careful, as since it is from the internet, it probably tastes like cats and porn.) 
<Brian> "Yeah, well, we're ... ok, one of them kind of IS Data, but other than that. Graphs are the most natural analog" 
<Ftisk> (After death by PowerPoint death by Excel!) 
<DanteE> (So, how do we get to traveling through the Deep Mythic?) 
<Random_Nerd> (One moment, let me pull up the page reference.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Page 100 and following in the Nobilis 3rd book.) 
<Random_Nerd> (To do it even vaguely fast requires beating at least a Level 3 auctoritas.) 
<DanteE> (Here we go, box on 101) 
<Random_Nerd> (And then the same again to reach the spirit world.) 
<Theresa> (Ouch.) 
<Theresa> (That's a lot of points.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, you need a relevant bond, or a fair few MPs.) 
<Brian> (do we get to count the discount from in Chancel?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And no, the in-chancel bonus does not apply to this.) 
<Theresa> (What stat does it use? Spirit?) 
<Brian> (ouch) 
<Random_Nerd> (Because you are reaching beyond it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Spirit is no longer a stat.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You just need a miracle that is relevant to what you wish to do.) 
<Random_Nerd> (However you go about that is up to you.) 
<DanteE> ("Passion: Figure out what's going on") 
<Brian> (good thing we bought lots of MPs?) 
<DanteE> (can we go as a group?) 
<Random_Nerd> (A passion is not a bond. It is, instead, equivalent to a skill.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, you can.) 
<Random_Nerd> (A miracle can cover more than one of you so long as it makes sense.) 
<Brian> (I forget - can we pool MPs for such a thing? Group miracle?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Guys. It's 3 Mps. you each have way more than that.) 
<Brian> (true :D) 
<Theresa> (Oh, yes, I have 10 in each stat.) 
<Theresa> (Just have to come up with a miracle.) 
<DanteE> (isn't it 6, since there are 2 barriers?) 
<Random_Nerd> (If you want to go to the spirit world.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But still. MPs are worth nothing if you never use them.) 
<DanteE> (Ah... so we can do what we want to do just from the DM?) 
<Random_Nerd> (If you don't, that part of your character sheet may as well just say "I like bacon" and have little drawings of orcs.) 
<DanteE> "Hm... any opposition in the Deep Mythic?" 
<DanteE> "Debating whether to bring my sword..." 
<Brian> (It looks like it's just the L3 Auct to descend?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Didn't you anchor the sword?) 
<Brian> (no specific miracle level, I mean) 
<Random_Nerd> (It has to make sense, basically.) 
<DanteE> (via Treasure, yeah) 
<Random_Nerd> (Then you can just leave it behind and then summon it with a miracle if you actually need it.) 
<Theresa> (Hmm, how about a Will spent for the Intention: "I will visit the spirit world to view what happened at the Wall on Breach Day.") 
<Random_Nerd> (One advantage of Treasure is that your Cool Stuff is always available at short notice.) 
<DanteE> (Could I use it to cut open the Auc, or would that cause problems?) 
<Brian> (James Wallis in Canon is epic, stabbing Deuteronomy and reducing him to dust.) 
<Random_Nerd> (*looks at official Nobilis answers to such questions* You can try!) 
<Brian> (Careful Dante, you're one step from stabbing the Wall.) 
<Ftisk> (Stab the wall, stab the wall!!!!) 
<Brian> (I think we're better off using our Domains for this. Courage to find out what happened, Data to gather the information, or Numbers to manipulate when we're observing?) 
<Theresa> (Okay, L3 miracle of Aspect. Theresa is Aspect 3 smart and would like to gain more knowledge and thus wishes to visit the spirit world to view what happened at the Wall on Breach Day.) 
<DanteE> (Data is probably the best fit) 
<DanteE> (what would be needed for T's thing to take us along?) 
<Random_Nerd> (A clear explanation of how it will work?) 
<Brian> (oh yeah, Malignancies of Kanonoliths! I forgot how much I loved flipping through this book!) 
<Theresa> (Yeah, my Aspect idea wouldn't work.) 
<Theresa> (One of not-high-Aspect cannot simply walk into the spirit world.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You could use Aspect to change how /you/ see things.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But it's tough to imagine that applying to the others.) 
<DanteE> (Data domain?) 
<Theresa> (I'd think that either Data or Courage would work. Not sure how to word the miracle.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Things Of Amyra?) 
<Theresa> (Hmm. Enter the mythic world of Amyra, which is a thing of Amyra. Then move from there to the spirit world some other way.) 
<DanteE> (Amyra's not involved) 
<Ftisk> (Ftisk could filter what we see in Spirit space and feed it to you like near realtime) 
<DanteE> (Oh, yes it is) 
<DanteE> (Oh, wait. A miracle of Blades based on "are made to go through the medium they're applied to") 
<Random_Nerd> (That's got legs...) 
<DanteE> (Which means I could use Treasure and my sword, technically) 
<Ftisk> (cool Dante) 
<Theresa> (Hey, a property of Amyra is 'has Paths to places'! That could work!) 
<DanteE> (yeah, forests and cities...) 
<Theresa> (Forests and cities still exist in the mythic.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But she isn't talking about using the actual borderlands, but the pseudoestate of Things Of Amyra.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Do we still have Laz here?) 
<Kite> (Could I Assemble a bridge to the Mythic?) 
<Brian> (I could use a Persona miracle to Amyra us up) 
<DanteE> (So, we use that to make a path to Mythic Kaerkoven?) 
<Theresa> (...we don't need a new King.) 
<DanteE> (And it occurs to me we may be letting rules quibbles get in the way of the bleedin' story...) 
<Brian> (but it's actually been a while since we've Ruled it up in here.) 
<Brian> (I'm kinda liking the Persona of Amyra miracle to connect us to a Path to Spirit World) 
<DanteE> (You mean DM?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Gotta get to the Deep Mythic first.) 
<Brian> (*nods* that. Yes.) 
<Kite> (I like that idea too.) 
<Theresa> (Okay, then let's Persona to Amyra in the Deep Mythic.) 
<Kite> (Will this path always lead to Deep Mythic?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And then you could use Persona of Blades to Go Deeper THOOOOOOOOMMMMMMBBBB.) 
<DanteE> (It's a path we can all go down without having to spend our own MPs, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (If it makes sense the way he describes it.) 
<Brian> (My concept is imbuing the "Has Paths to Places" in us, limited-wise to be _we_ have a Path to the Deep Mythic. Hopefully the same place.) 
<DanteE> (and I'm thinking it should start in the clock itself) 
<Theresa> (Okay, then let's go!) 
* Ftisk land on T. shoulder 
* Theresa is ready! 
<DanteE> (OK, presumably we've been talking this through IC so we know what we're doing while confusing the hell out of our aides? :) ) 
<Theresa> (Since it's Brian's Persona, I think you should right it up.) 
* Ftisk put security straps on! 
<Theresa> (Argh. Write. Shoot me.) 
<Brian> (in process!) 
* DanteE puts up his own Auc, just in case. 
<Random_Nerd> (Remember that putting on your auctoritas takes MPs.) 
<Brian> "Ok, guys. Let's get going. Feel within yourselves - you're connected to the Deep Mythic here." 
<DanteE> (Would it last the whole trip?) 
<Random_Nerd> (One scene.) 
<Theresa> (Ooooooommmmmmm) 
<DanteE> (OK, I'll wait.) 
<DanteE> "Should we tell our Aides not to look?" 
<Brian> (this is a Level 4 Persona Miracle to Imbue Paths to Places in the group, +3 Strike to overcome Auctoritas. I have P1 in Amyra. And do I get the discount for doing an Amyra Miracle in Amyra?) 
<Theresa> (Knowing Will and his self-preservation, he's probably already taken cover.) 
<Theresa> (No, because the Mythic is everywhere.) 
<Random_Nerd> (No, they want to watch. From their perspective, you will remain where you are and start acting crazy.) 
<Theresa> (Like Elvis.) 
<Theresa> ('Start' acting crazy? When have we stopped?) 
<Ftisk> (LOL) 
<DanteE> (Good point, Aide training probably has a huge emphasis on poker faces...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Imagine it's like... like a guy in the bar suddenly stands on the table and starts making wrestling gestures as he shouts insults at Aten. And then there's an eclipse.) 
<Brian> (Fuck, I can't find the rules for how to add up MPs anymore. I have enough MPs to cover this, I know, though :) ) 
<Theresa> (That's an interesting description, RN.) 
<DanteE> (aaaaaand it's late enough that I suspect the actual trip will be in 2 weeks?) 
<Brian> ("trip" is right ^_^) 
<Random_Nerd> (I think that sounds about right.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hey! I figured out how Plants can do it!) 
<Random_Nerd> (DRUGS.) 
<Ftisk> (Me too) 
<Brian> (looks like I get a Hard Miracle for 2 MPs + 3 MP for Strike possibly -3 for Chancel Discount.) 
<Theresa> (..but the best drugs come from mushrooms?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Don't hafta.) 
<Ftisk> (lol RN, let's start acting stranger with plant solution to deep mythic travel) 
<DanteE> (We could always shoo our Aides and lock the door...) 
<Kite> (Use morning glories, Theresa. They've got an LSD-like compound) 
<Random_Nerd> (No chancel discount.) 
<Brian> (ok. So, half my PMPs spent!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Rule 1 of having a drug trip/psychotic episode when right next to gigantic clock gears is to not send your sober buddy out of the room.) 
<DanteE> (Aren't we in the conference room?) 
<Theresa> (At least Kite can actually fly. Although, not sure if he can if he's not thinking straight about it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Thought you said you were moving to the clock.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Earlier.) 
<Random_Nerd> Describe your miracle, Brian! 
<DanteE> (That was assuming we needed a place with 'significance'... 
<DanteE> (Considering Kudzu manifests there and he's been all over the Mythics and Spirit World) 
<Theresa> (Oh, huh, the morning glories thing is a precursor to LSD.) 
<Brian> What pretty much happens is that, given that members of the group wish it to happen and don't take a wound, there is a deep pulling sensation in their core. From our point of view, we kind of get sucked inside ourselves and end up in the Deep Mythic in a sort of inversion of self. 
<Brian> (From Will and Sam's point of view, I don't know if we vanish or are still there, staring slack-jawed at each other and the clock) 
<DanteE> (So, that's what my spleen looks like!) 
<Kite> "Hmmm. Yes. Mythicky." 
* Kite looks around. 
<Random_Nerd> The grinding teeth of the Time Binder skitter across your skin. It's almost ticklish. 
<Random_Nerd> You stand inside the right eye of a man whose lower lip touches the earth and whose upper lip touches the sky. 
<Random_Nerd> The Rightfulness Emblem is somewhat ill, but is healing. 
<Random_Nerd> (The orc attacks! Roll initiative!) 
<DanteE> (I knew we needed my sword...) 
<Kite> (I flee!) 
<Brian> (I create a dozen orc clones!) 
<Brian> (... wait.) 
<Random_Nerd> What do you do, and what do you think about? 
<DanteE> Do we recognize the man? 
<Theresa> I try to think about our purpose in travelling. 
<Random_Nerd> Not from inside his right eye you don't. 
<Random_Nerd> The Goat of Impropriety mates with the Undine of Adoration. Messily. 
<Ftisk> I don't think of our naughty bits, I don't think of your naughty bits ... Doooh!" 
<DanteE> (Did we wind up in Ftisk's fever dreams?) 
<Brian> "Um. Guys? What are we doing, and where are we going?" 
<Kite> Kite thinks that he would much prefer the Time Binder's teeth be touching his feathers and not his skin. 
<Random_Nerd> The Goat then tears himself into a million Irreverences, like hairy tadpoles. 
<Brian> "... I don't kinda want to know why the world decided here was the right place. It's kind of weird." 
<DanteE> "For starters, let's stay together. Maybe we should hold hands?" 
<Theresa> (Ftisk doesn't have hands.) 
<Brian> "Rope?" 
<DanteE> "Probably because we started in the clock." 
<Brian> "Like in those D&D games Kite's always playing?" 
<Random_Nerd> Dante's idea about hands flutters around, like a butterfly made of two human hands, flapping. 
<Ftisk> (Ftisk have manipulators! 3 each side) 
<DanteE> "Did anybody bring rope?" 
<Kite> "What?" 
<Kite> "Why would we need rope?" 
<DanteE> "maybe a ten-foot pole as well?" 
<Random_Nerd> The goatspawn cluster around Brian, curious. 
* Theresa will create a Line of Thought to connect everyone. 
<DanteE> (We can all fly here, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You can't tell if you're flying.) 
<Theresa> She thinks about how we are all connected to each other, through bonds of Family and friendship. 
<Random_Nerd> The Obligatories chafe, but are warm, like bacon fresh out of the clothes dryer. 
<DanteE> (Remind me never to eat at your place. :) ) 
<Theresa> (We had good bacon last night.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Admit it, it /would/ chafe.) 
<Theresa> (You'd have bacon all over your dryer.) 
<Brian> (... bacon out of the clothes drier?) 
<Brian> (Is it hot enough to cook bacon?) 
<Theresa> "There." 
<DanteE> (Are we connected now?) 
* Ftisk jump back on T. shoulder 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. By the chafing bacon.) 
<Kite> (We always were. You just weren't thinking about it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which links to the muscles in your arms and legs, as bacon will.) 
<DanteE> "Theresa, see if you can float." 
<Theresa> "Which direction is up?" 
<Kite> "Amateurs." 
<DanteE> "I'd guess away from the nose..." 
* Kite flies out of the eye. 
<Brian> "Pick a direction?" 
<DanteE> "Whoa, wait for us!" 
* Theresa is yoinked by Kite! 
* DanteE flies after Kite 
* Brian gets pulled along for the ride 
* DanteE looks back at the face once we're some distance away 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, do you head toward the goat, the swan, the turtle, or the elephant? 
<DanteE> (Let's see, Brian, Theresa and Carrie can't fly in 'RL', right?) 
<Theresa> (Correct.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Err, Kite.) 
<DanteE> Do I recognize the face? 
<Kite> Unless someone suggests something different, Kite flies toward the swan. 
<Theresa> (I have no idea what each of them symbolizes, so pilot's pick.) 
<DanteE> "Kite, do you know which way you're going?" 
<Kite> "That way!" 
<Random_Nerd> The face looks a bit like Ymir, a bit like King John, and a bit like Kudzu. 
<Theresa> (Heh. :) ) 
<DanteE> (Except for the really stretched lips, I presume.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The lips aren't stretched. They're just huge.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And you can't really get a good look at the face, because most of it extends way past the sky.) 
<Random_Nerd> (In the same way that you can't see what Earth looks like from a hillside.) 
<Theresa> (Which explains the Ymir part.) 
<DanteE> Any indication that we're going back in time? 
<Random_Nerd> What makes you think you are? 
<Theresa> (We haven't yet. We haven't spent the miracle points.) 
<Random_Nerd> The Swan symbolizes fidelity, purity, and holiness. 
<DanteE> That's kinda where we intend to go... 
<Theresa> (We moved to Mythic Amyra. Now we have to move back in time/space.) 
<Random_Nerd> As you move toward it, the world aligns accordingly. The light grows brighter, and more golden. 
<Random_Nerd> The improprieties that still follow become more akin to faceless kittens. 
<Random_Nerd> Their hair grows smoother, softer, not stiff and wirey. 
<Theresa> (We need a connection to Breach Day and the Wall. Just knowing Oph. isn't enough.) 
<Kite> (Personally, I think the Elephant or Turtle are better choices. But Kite thinks the Swan is the superior choice.) 
<Theresa> (Can we use Conrad in Ftisk?) 
<Ftisk> (can we?) 
<Random_Nerd> (How?) 
<Kite> (Because....mammals! Ugh!) 
<Brian> (sorry, I zoned out for a bit there. Back in my own brains :)) 
<Random_Nerd> (Uh... Kite... turtles aren't mammals.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Honest.) 
<Theresa> (He's a warmain. We're focusing on where warmains came through the Wall during Breach Day.) 
<Kite> (Shush! Kite is a bird!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Warmblood. Mammal-kin.) 
<Kite> (Everything else is fish or mammals to him!) 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, there are even mammals that fly.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Mythic Turtle wonders what you mammals are all on about.) 
<DanteE> (... did we leave the map on the kitchen table?) 
<Random_Nerd> From this angle, the sky-breaking giant face looks more like a lion's head. 
<Theresa> (It's hard getting around to the spirit world.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hey, I /told/ you that it was hard to navigate here without a specific connection or meaning to focus on.) 
<Random_Nerd> (What does the thing you want to find /mean/? And what does it have to do with /you/?) 
<Theresa> (We're part of Kudzu. Kudzu's place was supposed to be at the Wall that day. He was not. Oph was. We know Oph. Warmains came through. Conrad the Warmain is part of Ftisk.) 
<Theresa> (Frappe together, serve with whipped cream.) 
<DanteE> (Also, Kudzu had that flashback on that day... in fact, so did T and me.) 
<Ftisk> (But does Conrad came that day through the wall?) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, what are you looking for?) 
<Theresa> (It has to do with us because we are a Wildlord's and it messed with Wildlords. Because they attacked where our lord was supposed to be. Because we need info to give at the meeting.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The landscape responds to things like that.) 
<Ftisk> (I think the flashback is a better lead) 
<Random_Nerd> Remember. 
<DanteE> "OK, hold it." 
<Random_Nerd> Properties of the Deep 
<Random_Nerd> Mythic 
<Random_Nerd> ŠŠ Its locations are ambiguous; 
<Random_Nerd> ŠŠ Its boundaries are ambiguous; 
<Random_Nerd> ŠŠ It is always devouring itself; 
<Random_Nerd> ŠŠ It is always mating with itself; 
<Random_Nerd> ŠŠ Its particulars have free will; 
<Random_Nerd> ŠŠ Attention partially differentiates a 
<Random_Nerd> thing from its environment. 
<DanteE> "Kite, stop." 
<Random_Nerd> The grasping hand envelops you. 
<Brian> (What exactly were our flashbacks from the time?) 
* Theresa looks at the hand. 
* Kite lands 
<DanteE> (uh, what hand?) 
<Random_Nerd> The hand. 
<Random_Nerd> That envelops you. 
<Kite> (The grasping one) 
<Random_Nerd> That one. 
* Ftisk add dirt under the grasping hand's fingernails 
<DanteE> (Oh, from 'hold it'... duh.) 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, something itches in your left hand. 
* DanteE opens his hand... 
<Random_Nerd> The enveloping hand vanishes. 
<Random_Nerd> As something small and shining falls from your grasp. 
<DanteE> what is it? 
<Random_Nerd> You guys, presumably. 
<Random_Nerd> Doesn't matter now. It's gone. 
<Ftisk> (is Dante's hand dirtier?) 
<DanteE> "I'll try to remember that 'flashback' I had..." 
<Random_Nerd> What's dirt? 
<Theresa> (Chaos and Old Night. That was my flashback.) 
* DanteE thinks about the sensation of wanting a Creation-material crown 
<Ftisk> (I typed before: Ftisk add dirt under the grasping hand's fingernails) 
<Random_Nerd> Dirt does not belong to the direction of the Swan. 
<Random_Nerd> It is not a meaningful concept in this alignment. 
<Ftisk> oh, ok 
* Theresa tries focusing on the term 'Chaos and Old Night.' 
<Random_Nerd> Once upon a time, there was nothing... formed. There was matter, potential, but not shape. Meaning. 
* Ftisk look around 
<Random_Nerd> You are on the other side. All is shape and meaning. Shapes change to other shapes, but not to no shapes. 
<DanteE> (That to me or T?) 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. Probably. 
<Random_Nerd> Crowns are a symbol. 
<Random_Nerd> They represent authority, achievement. 
<DanteE> ...control... 
* Ftisk think of the breakday, were would Ophaniel be that day? 
<Random_Nerd> Among Nobles, crowns denote authority of various kinds. 
<Theresa> (True, we could try using Ftisk's love for Oph.) 
<DanteE> (Kudzu is an exiled Ex summoner?) 
<Ftisk> (nod nod to T.) 
<DanteE> (Hello?) 
<Brian> (still here.) 
<Brian> (Brian's letting himself be pulled along on this ride) 
<Theresa> (RN's typing.) 
<Ftisk> (waiting on RN reply) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes?) 
<DanteE> (Nobody think of the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man.) 
<Random_Nerd> You know that, on that day, Ophaniel is at the Wall. 
<Random_Nerd> But that isn't... exactly a /where/ in the conventional sense. 
<Ftisk> I want to reach her, go to the wall to her 
<Ftisk> aren't there feelings, tinglings sensactions/feelings that I can follow? 
<Random_Nerd> Crowns denote mastery, not of the self, but of what is separate from the self. 
<Random_Nerd> A Duke wears the crown of strawberry leaves and gold. 
<Random_Nerd> A Sovereign Beyond wears the crown of glory and unworth. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, when you seek your love of Ophaniel, do you seek it in the direction of the Swan or the Goat? 
<Ftisk> Goat! 
<DanteE> (I'm thinking goat.) 
<Random_Nerd> The world aligns again. 
<Random_Nerd> The light grows darker, redder. The air becomes redolent of musk. 
<Ftisk> cool. 
<Random_Nerd> The kittens once more grow darker, scraggly, thicker hair. Horns curl from their faceless heads. 
<Theresa> (And my thoughts of Chaos and Old Night sound like the Wall to me.) 
<Random_Nerd> The sky is filled with spheres turning within spheres. Like the Ptolomaic universe, epicycles within epicycles. 
<Random_Nerd> A thousand nested spheres of crystal and fire, turning on immense gears. 
<Theresa> (Oph was more rings of metal, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> A voice echos from the sky. "Ftisk, how I love you! How I need you!" 
<Kite> "Really?" 
* DanteE looks at Theresa... 
* Ftisk dart to that voice "Boys Ophanield is calling me! She love meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!" 
<Theresa> (Do we recognize the voice?) 
<Random_Nerd> The crown of ariya adharma, the mark of the Sovereign Beyond, marks a boundary. 
<Random_Nerd> Beyond that boundary, those who die will not return to Creation. They will pass outside, and join with their fetch in deathless eternity. 
<Theresa> (Canada.) 
<Random_Nerd> To pass beyond that, one must become something stranger, alien to their former nature. 
<Ftisk> (the spirits is after the boundary!) 
<Random_Nerd> The voice sounds /somewhat/ like Ophaniel. 
<Random_Nerd> The fire of the spheres glows with smoky red light. 
<Ftisk> Is enough for me to follow to the boundary and beyond 
<Random_Nerd> Somewhat like Ophaniel, but at least as much like someone else you know. 
<Random_Nerd> Another voice you can't quite place. 
<Theresa> (What kind of Noble/Imperator (besides Ftisk) uses the L word openly?) 
<Random_Nerd> As you pass toward the spheres, the massive celestial orrey seems to grow larger and larger, yet pull further away. 
<Ftisk> (Entropy?) 
<Random_Nerd> "How I love you! How I need you!" 
<DanteE> (Imperators would, it's Nobles who might not) 
<Random_Nerd> (And on the word "Love", you recognize the other voice it sounds like. It sounds like Ftisk.) 
<DanteE> (Which means it's Ftisk's-version-of-Oph) 
<Theresa> (I don't wanna watch Ftisk mate with himself! That's for YouTube.) 
<Ftisk> (Me deceiving myself ... is not the weirdest thing) 
<Ftisk> (But I wanna see Ftisk slash Ftisk!) 
<Random_Nerd> "Come be with me! Stay with me forever, my love!" 
<Brian> "Ftisk, I think that's your love for Ophaniel. Or possibly your desire." 
<Random_Nerd> The gears within gears, the great spiral of the starry spheres, made of reddish light, starts to look like a shell. 
<Random_Nerd> "None will understand you like I." 
* Ftisk fly like an arrow's dar... "Wait" 
<Ftisk> "What do you mean Brian?" 
<Brian> "Ophaniel wouldn't /say/ Love." 
<DanteE> to T: "I don't think we can rely on Ftisk's 'image' of Ophaniel, it'd lead us to him, not her. It." 
<Ftisk> "Uhm......" 
<Theresa> "Try a different animal?" 
<DanteE> "You getting anywhere with your 'flashback'?" 
<Ftisk> "Well, uhm, let's try Swan then" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant Sky-Scraping Ftisk: "Love! LOOOOOVE!" 
<Ftisk> toGianr: "shush scam" 
<Random_Nerd> (Mind if we call it a night here?) 
<Brian> (yes please :)) 
<DanteE> (OK by me...) 
<Ftisk> (ok) 
<Theresa> (I think it might be for the best. The snail that yelled Love at the top of the Sky is getting me...) 
<Kite> (Let's)\ 
<Ftisk> (RN, you temped me, this round to have Ftisk run nevertheless to the voice... next best thing is a think when Oph out of the reachable prizes) 
<DanteE> (Although... if that's Ftisk, that would imply that we can get to ourselves this way. 
<Random_Nerd> ________________STOP_________________ 
<DanteE> (Which may mean we could locate the flashback memories) 
<DanteE> I suspect I'm missing a big, obvious clue, aren't I. 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
<Ftisk> (that reasoning have leg Dante) 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> It's not that there's an obvious specific path there. 
<Random_Nerd> It's just that the mythic world is tricky. 
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe 
<Random_Nerd> Especially the deep mythic. 
<BethE> I think that Theresa's flashback is the Wall. But I'm not sure how to make that into a path and it still doesn't get us at the right time. 
<lazarus> this is kinda neat. 
<Random_Nerd> It is organized on principles of relation and perception, not of space and time. 
<lazarus> I like. 
<lazarus> but. I gotta go to bed. 
<Knockwood> RN's throwing me hints about what crowns mean... 
<Knockwood> g'night laz 
|<-- lazarus has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty) 
<Random_Nerd> All that material is from various Nobilis books. 
<Verithe> So, we could, in theory, trace a path to where we want to go by following things we perceive as related? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> That's how you would find your way here. 
<Knockwood> There’s stuff we know is related, like the attack on Jaris and the appearance of Gaius 
<Random_Nerd> But that's a goal. It's not related to where you are right now. 
<Random_Nerd> So you need connections. A path. 
<Random_Nerd> How is the attack on Jaris like Ftisk's dream of Ophaniel? 
<BethE> We are connected to Kudzu. Kudzu is connected to Oph. Oph is connected to the Wall. It's getting the right _time_ that's the thing, because she's been on Wall duty before. 
<Random_Nerd> So, a side question. What did you expect the deep mythic to be like? 
<Verithe> Brick? 
<Random_Nerd> Brick brick? 
<Verithe> Brick! Brick Brick! 
<BethE> I agree with the eminent scholar. 
<Angelo> I expect it to be like a snowball with many flecks each one a lil "world" representing one -stuff- 
<Knockwood> maybe not as acid-trippy, but thinking about it, it fits. :) 
<Angelo> yeah, I like RN version 
<Angelo> is more continuous 
<Verithe> *nod* 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, this reminds me of something. 
<Random_Nerd> http://www. smbc-comics. com/?id=3335#comic 
<Knockwood> debating whether we need to go back and actually bring a physical connection... 
<Verithe> We could still use Ftisk's love for Ophaniel to get back in time to the Wall. We just have to find the right connections. 
<Angelo> -The snail in the sky shouting love- you mean? 
<Knockwood> We need to find the Ophaniel that's trying to rebuff/ignore Ftisk. :) 
<Verithe> Yeah 
<Random_Nerd> The question then becomes, what parts of how Ftisk feels about Ophaniel are really about her, and what parts are really about him? 
<Random_Nerd> And on that question, I leave! 
<Verithe> Take care! 
* Random_Nerd swirls his cape dramatically! 
<Angelo> nigh RN 
<Random_Nerd> G'night, all. 
<Random_Nerd> See you next week. 
|<-- Random_Nerd has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ) 
<Knockwood> g'night RN... 
<Knockwood> dang, missed 
<Knockwood> g'night Beth 
<Verithe> Take care all! See you next week! 
<BethE> Good night! 
<Angelo> Night all! As Verithe said! 
|<-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ) 
|<-- Verithe has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.90.1 [Firefox 28.0/20140314220517]) 
<Knockwood> cya Angelo 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]

Amyra:Quotes

2014-08-20T06:22:48Z

Angelo.pampalone: /* Quotes from the Chancel Amyra Nobilis Game */

[[Chancel_Amyra]]

=Quotes from the Chancel Amyra Nobilis Game=

This is a selection of interesting (and other) quotes from the game, that the players think are fun enough to share... 
 
'''Chapter One:''' 
[Theresa] "But I think he'd rather have room to run around. He could get de...am I debating the mental health of a rabbit?" 
[DanteE] "Yes. A God-touched cannibalistic potentially dinosaur-sized rabbit." 
[Theresa] "Just checking." 
 

'''From Chapter Two:''' 
[Carrie] (Okay, Lesser Div of the professor's hopes, especially what he hopes to get out of the theory?) 
[Hollyhock] (He hopes to be the Most Famous Mathematician Ever, to reshape the field, to be hip-deep in respect and money and loose women, and to answer once and for all the guys who Laughed At Him At The University.) 
[Theresa] (Loose women? Math guys get loose women?!?) 
[DanteE] (No, Math guys ''want'' loose women) 
[Hollyhock] (Well, no. Do you want to be the one to break it to him?) 
 
''(The group is getting a tree--that will become Red)'' 
There's about a 200' one here, it's the biggest and oldest. 
Theresa takes off her shoes in the back of the car and gets out. Digs toes into the dirt with a happy sigh. "This beauty right over here." *''heads over, looking Red over.''* 
Nobody, at the moment, is looking at it. There were some hikers that you passed on your way here, but they're some distance off. 
... 
Theresa takes a look around in Mythic. 
Mythically, it's a big reddish-brown leafy giant, standing stock straight and fast asleep. 
Theresa runs a hand on Red's bark. "Hello?" 
... 
The tree snores. 
[Theresa] (*sniff* Ex''cuse'' me?) 
[Hollyhock] (Trees are immune to cleavage.) 
[Theresa] (I know that. But I'm ''Plants!'') 
 
'''From Chapter Three:''' 
[Carrie] "I think that in the near future our credibility would be best served by doing as Consequences suggested and building our corps of assistants." 
 
"Wild's Lesson and the Bureau of Monstrosities at your service, sir." 
[DanteE] "I'm guessing you're not forming a Punk Rock band." 
 
Red: "May I have several cows, Theresa?" 
 

'''Chapter Six:''' 
[Theresa] (Well, it's just that we _could_ give him that big of a burger, if we wanted. It might even fall under Urban.) 
[Carrie] (Soyburger?) 
[Theresa] (Do you want to give a giant werewolf a veggieburger and hope he can't tell the difference?) 
[JamesUrban] (In no interpretation of my estate would creating giant hamburgers fall under it. Mayor McCheese maybe.) 
[Random Nerd] (Fast food definitely falls under Urbanization, I think.) 
[Random Nerd] (Just like the Power of Horses could probably make a saddle with no trouble.) 
[Random Nerd] (Or, for that matter, Brian could probably make a calculator, or Carrie make an inspirational book.) 
[Brian] (Brian IS a calculator. *raspberry*) 
[JamesUrban] (I can see that. I can see making a fast food place, but not just a giant burger.) 
[DanteE] (James probably creates Starbucks by accident when he sneezes. 
 

'''From the Mexican Madness chapter:''' 
''Courage'': OK, let's review: my fellow Noble--the one being attacked--is cowering in my shirt pocket because of the noisy helicopter we just appropriated which I'll probably wind up flying with no prior experience into a dimensional vortex heading for Mexico to hunt down what may or may not be an excrucian chupacabra. 
''Plants'': And you just had the best cheeseburger possible without magical means. 
''Courage'': ...I'm OK with it. You? 
 

'''From "Blood Ties":''' 
William: "Each Estate, each Noble and Imperator, is a pillar of the world. A brick in the wall of Heaven. Even the 'bad' ones support existence." 
''DanteE: (All in all, we're just another brick in the wall? :)'' 
''Theresa: (We don't need no...Excruciation...)''

DanteE: "How's Lesson doing, as a boss?" 
Random functionary at Bureau of Monstrosities HQ: "He's... he's a freaky demonic monster with a tendency to micromanage. But the hours are good, and we have full dental and medical coverage." 
 

'''From Weekend at Barakiel's:''' 
Shadows: "Causality pretty much works the same way as on earth, if you're looking at the palace-world. It's a little different in the other world, but not too much." 
Shadows: "Now, there's magic here, and things we've changed, but that's only in a few places." 
Brian: "So, giant bunnies still make things go squish?" 
Shadows: "Pretty much." 
Theresa: "Some things are universal." 
Carrie: (For everything else, there's MasterCard.) 
 
DanteE: "Doesn't seem to be mutual. Unless this is all a joke... it's not near April Fools day on the cosmic calendar, is it?" 
Conseq.: "I try not to study what the jokes of Imperators are like, for fear that I might discover that I am one." 
* Theresa ponders that. "That is...incredibly true and deep." 
Conseq.: "Or paranoid." 
Theresa: (Noblity!) (in the tone of "Acting!') 
Theresa: "That too." 
 
Barakiel: "Ah, yes. Then I must ask you a question. You have only been raised above humanity for a short time, and yet you have still seen some of the War. What do you think of it?" 
DanteE: (Uh, we're against it?) 
Brian: "I honestly don't know what to think. The Excrucians seem to be acting somewhat randomly." 
Theresa: "Warmains hit like a bitch, sir." 
Barakiel looks at Theresa with all his eyes, for a moment. "They do, at that." 
 

'''Chapter 11''' 
Random_Nerd: (It counts as Aspect 3 if, when someone asks you how in the world you can manage it, 'I'm Batman' is a sufficient explanation.) 
 
William: "Ah, let's see. Most of you rely rather heavily on your Estates for power, correct?" 
Brian: "Primarily, yes" (Domain 4) 
DanteE: "You could say that." (Domain 2) 
Theresa: "A wee bit." (Domain 5) 
 

'''Chapter 12''' 
A visiting Noble who has had a very very Bad Day, meeting the locals of Amyra: "Please tell me that the horse isn't a Noble..." 
 

'''Chapter 13''' 
Harold: Good to hear you survived the meeting with the Council! 
Harold: Did you meet ol' Bloody Hands? 
Random_Nerd: They sold Herb to Entropy in exchange for twenty bucks and a six-pack. That's okay, right? 
Tam: She hit on DantE like the fist of an angry god, which is more apt than I would care to admit. 
 
Tam: (Of all the times I have to promise not to spill the beans on something, it turns out to be the time when a god from outside known Creation is telling us juicy juicy things.) 
Random_Nerd: (He's actually forgotten about you for the moment. It's more Dante he was talking to.) 
Tam: (-whistles unobtrusively to himself-) 
Theresa: (Swear on Herb's ninja!) 
Tam: (Do I have to hold him over my heart or something? Them ninjas can be slippery.) 
Herbert: (Don't you do anything to my precious ninja! :p ) 
 

'''Chapter 14''' 
Random_Nerd: You arrive at the library. From Dante's right hand dangles a small and irate demon, squirming around like a midsized rabbit would if the midsized rabbit was also highly caffeinated, from hell, and not a rabbit. 
 
Sam: "I don't mean to get snippy, but I'm pretty sure that's not a pigeon." 
Sam: "Pigeons are small birds that live in cities. That's a hole in the fabric of reality. I can tell the difference." 
 
DanteE: "I think Sam can ride in it if he wants..." 
Sam: "I'd rather not, at least unless you can show me some peer-reviewed studies that say that magic demon pigeon reality holes do in fact /not/ hungrily devour dionyl." 
 
Random_Nerd: The lobster in the hat is twice that size, and standing up on his rear legs, his claws held across his chest. This is a pose that indicates that either he's a crustacean contortionist, or else he's probably not a baseline lobster. 
Random_Nerd: The hat and speech were also tips, to be fair. 
 

'''Chapter 15''' 
DanteE: "In about (X) days we'll be appearing before the Council, telling them what he told us and what it all means." 
DanteE: "Well, one theory of what it all means." 
Ftisk: (we try a least) 
Hearth Flame: "I am pleased that you have told me this. I will thus be enabled to stand very far away when the inauspicious moment is upon you." 
 

'''Chapter 16''' 
DanteE: "Well, we have a miniature shadow Ofaniel here with the strength of a Noble and a gift for messing with Ftisk." 
Sam: "It's amazing what you can get on ebay." 
''DanteE: (rimshot)'' 

'''Chapter 25''' 
He starts turning all the pieces picture-side up. 
J: "No, they're pieces of the /same/ image." 
J: "How does that work?" 
J: "This... this is what Assembly is, isn't it? This is what you are?" 
J: "They tried to explain it, but I couldn't get..." 
He looks between the puzzle and Kite. 
"This is a form it takes. Potentially." 

[Kite] "I...mating has nothing to with broccoli!" 

[Brian] (I know, it is a surprisingly bad idea, but it would be fun) 
[DanteE] (the game's motto, right there.) 

'''Chapter 31''' 
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "We've already surpassed the raccoon." 

'''Chapter ??''' 
Shadows: "Brian, would you mind trying to assassinate Lord Entropy? For science?" 

RN: I don't /want/ this to be the kind of game where you can't take a zepplin to Mars. 

'''Chapter 34''' 
Theresa: I am not getting a Noble of Destruction tramp stamp. 

'''Chapter 34''' 
<DanteE> "Uh, it's probably a violation of _something_ to set a living Excrucian-horse on fire." 

'''Chapter 35''' 
<DanteE> "Uh, it's probably a violation of _something_ to set a living Excrucian-horse on fire." 

'''Chapter 37''' 
<Random_Nerd> William: "So... which Fallen do we go with? Or none?" 
<Theresa> "I think Bel (Belphegor). We are already inviting Impending Doom." 

<Random_Nerd> (Pro Tip: You could be surrounded by Dionyl strippers at this very moment, and you would not know.) 

[[Chancel_Amyra]]

Session 267

2014-08-18T12:51:34Z

Angelo.pampalone: Created page with "Chancel_Amyra Chapter 37 -+-+- Thank you to Beth for this piece of log I was missing :-) -+-+- * BethE (~BethL@MagicStar-..."

[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]] 
-+-+- Thank you to Beth for this piece of log I was missing :-) -+-+- 
 
* BethE (~BethL@MagicStar-E12F880F.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has joined #Nobilis 
<Lazarus> hey Beth 
<BethE> Hi guys! 
<BethE> Feeling better, Laz? 
<Verithe> 'Allo! 
<Lazarus> I am feeling better today. Have SG-1 on my old monitor, with my new big giant monitor being used for chat :) 
<Lazarus> I did work until 8:20, though. 
* Knockwood (~Knockwood@MagicStar-D193849F.dhcp.crcy.nv.charter.com) has joined #Nobilis 
<Knockwood> Hi all 
<Lazarus> hey kwd 
<BethE> Hi Knock 
<Random_Nerd> So, this week is Amyra. 
<Verithe> Woo! 
<Random_Nerd> You guys had just finished auctioning off Dante's sword collection on Ebay, and were about to set Theresa on fire. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, wait, that's next session. 
<Knockwood> We'd just found out we're all doomed. 
<Lazarus> we did? 
<Lazarus> is this a different doom? 
<Etheric> I confess ignorance. 
<Random_Nerd> I forget, which doom did you find out about? 
<Lazarus> oh yes, I got the directions to JbJ. 
<Lazarus> and I wanted to go talk JbJ out of his evil rampage. 
<BethE> Also someone claiming to be Entropy took the Bael in a Box. 
<Verithe> http://www. generatorland. com/usergenerator.aspx?id=6452 
<Knockwood> Well, based on our limited info it looks like Ananda is a mole. 
<BethE> I've forgotten this one, Knock. Can you remind me? 
<Knockwood> Well, what we have: 
<Knockwood> On Breach Day, whoever fought Ophaniel was using techniques that just wouldn't work on an angel. 
<Knockwood> Whoever fought HQB was using remarkably effective techniques. 
<Knockwood> Ophaniel was replacing Kudzu at the last minute. 
<Knockwood> Kudzu and HQB are both Wildlords. 
<Knockwood> Wild-Ass-Guess #1: Whoever fought Ophaniel was expecting Kudzu. 
<BethE> (That seems reasonable.) 
<Lazarus> I thought Ananda would have known about the switch beforehand, and so probably wasn't the mole. It was someone below enough but not too far below 
<Verithe> Maybe it was Kudzu's "fetch"? 
<Knockwood> Based on that: someone on the other side has access to the schedule. 
<Knockwood> The schedule created by the Council. 
<Random_Nerd> Let me check a line, so I can make sure I'm consistent. 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel said that the schedule was chosen by Entropy. 
<Knockwood> But, if HQB and Kudzu managed to get defeated, wouldn't that endanger Earth? 
<Random_Nerd> Presumably. 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, there's a reason they guard the Wall. 
<Knockwood> That eliminates half the COuncil as suspects. 
<Knockwood> ... hm, we never did think about Surolam... 
<Random_Nerd> But, I mean... where are you getting that the Council, collectively, makes these assignments? 
<Lazarus> does anyone ever think about Surolam? 
<Lazarus> ... maybe that's why Surolam went rogue? :p 
<Verithe> I am getting so lost. 
<Knockwood> oh, so Entropy's a mole, then 
<BethE> Ah, yes, Surolam is actually the Imperator of the 4th Age. 
<Knockwood> OK. 
<Knockwood> no, Ananda is 
<BethE> Entropy's an ass. Didn't Shirk come over the Wall before Breach Day? He could have gotten the list. 
<Random_Nerd> Shirk was after Breach Day. 
<BethE> My mistake. 
<Random_Nerd> Should we take this IC? 
<Knockwood> Hold on... 
<Knockwood> Let's take a moment to check out Density... I mean Destiny maps 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Knockwood> Then again, weren't you considering trying out Chuubo-style Quests here? 
<Random_Nerd> I do think they work better. 
<Random_Nerd> But not at this exact instant, at least. 
<Random_Nerd> So... 
* BethE is now known as Theresa 
<Lazarus> (btw, who's played Shadowrun: Dragonfall? I'm about in the middle I think, and it's really quite good ^_^) 
<Theresa> So, back at the Tower? 
* Lazarus is now known as Brian 
<Knockwood> Let's see, I could work on "How the Nobles of Amyra (and their friends) Saved the World" 
<Knockwood> OK by me 
* Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
* Verithe is now known as Kite 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> Saving the world is good. 
<Random_Nerd> Ready? 
<DanteE> (Though, actually...) 
<Kite> Oui! 
<DanteE> (If we try to save _Earth_ Kite and I will get corrupted. 
<DanteE> (Paradoxically, if we try to save _Creation_ and leave saving Earth to Entropy we might not.) 
<Theresa> (Save first, worry about corruption later!) 
<Kite> (Psh. Kite's trying to save Creation, not necessarily Earth.) 
* Etheric is now known as Carrie 
<Theresa> (Is Vulcan even on Earth?) 
<Random_Nerd> (His chancel is.) 
<Kite> (Yeah) 
<DanteE> "OK... Sam... William... Here's what we've got. I'll just trust your training not to panic." 
<Random_Nerd> _____START_________ 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, so you're back from the Moon?) 
<DanteE> (Yep) 
<Kite> (Yes! Let's be back from the Moon!) 
<Kite> (Progress!) 
<Theresa> (Yep. And can we have Sam in the room to, to interrogate?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
* DanteE lays out what Ophaniel said and what it could mean (i.e., what I said OOC earlier) 
<Theresa> "It doesn't have to have been Ananda. The Council probably has minions. Secretaries. Someone who gets them their equivalent of Imperator Mocha Lattes with Extra Froth." 
<DanteE> "OK, let's figure this out. If this is right, how could they know Kudzu was supposed to be there?" 
<Random_Nerd> (And, also, HQB.) 
<Brian> "Sam, who works directly for the Council?" 
<DanteE> "Now, is it specifically Entropy that finalizes the schedule?" 
<DanteE> (HQB was attacked.) 
<DanteE> (Unless he's lying about that...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, and he was attacked very effectively.) 
<Random_Nerd> (They knew what to expect with him, too. But did not for Gamaliel.) 
<DanteE> (ITYM Ophaniel, right?) 
<Theresa> (Then to me, that says that the attackers just know how to attack Wildlords.) 
<DanteE> (Or was Gamaliel ineffectively attacked too?) 
<Random_Nerd> (I believe Ophaniel said that Gamaliel noticed nothing out of the ordinary.) 
<Kite> (Did Gamaliel have the same issue as Ophaniel?) 
<Random_Nerd> (So they did not specifically use anti-angel kung fu against him. But they also didn't expect a Wildlord.) 
<DanteE> (Gamaliel actually was on the schedule, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Kite> (Ophaniel: "Too weak!", HQB: "Too strong!", Gamaliel: "Just right!") 
<Random_Nerd> (The only substitution was Kudzu.) 
<DanteE> (When was the attack relative to the breach, when we got those weird memories?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And nobody knows what Barakiel's experience was, because, Barakiel.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That... isn't a meaningful question. The Wall is defended in the deep mythic. Time there is kinda wobbly.) 
<Kite> (Maybe Gamaliel's the mole?) 
<Theresa> (Barakiel's experience was 'fish'.) 
<DanteE> (Then they'd have known it was Ophaniel rather than Kudzu, ne?) 
<DanteE> "OK, wait..." 
<Kite> (*shrug* depends how coordinated they could be) 
* DanteE has 'Entropy' written on the left side of a whiteboard, and the guardians listed on the other. 
<DanteE> "OK, now, figure there's a line of intermediaries... 
* DanteE draws the line. 
<DanteE> "Kudzu bowed out at the last minute, right?" 
<Theresa> "Yep." 
<Brian> "In fact, Sam, can you get an org chart for the Council?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "...there are four of them." 
* DanteE draws '<-Ophaniel' right before Kudzu's name 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "It wouldn't be much of a chart, boss." 
<DanteE> "Now... if Ophaniel's attacker was expecting Kudzu... 
<Brian> "They don't have anyone working for them?" 
<Brian> "Cammorae?" 
<Theresa> "I still think that the Excrucians just _know_ how to fight Wildlords. Heck, they could have even just sent the parts of Kudzu and HQB that exist on the other side of the Wall outside of Time to beat themselves up." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I don't think they have a structured support staff in that way." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Entropy shows up himself, or sends a noble, or grabs someone walking down the hall at the wrong time and sends them to do something if they don't want their soul filled with broken glass and old razor blades." 
<DanteE> "Hm... well, they have to know by now that there are a variety of Ymerae guarding. Why just go after one type? 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Surolam has servitors, but nobody can tell them apart anyway." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "You've already seen how Ha'Qadosh Berakha handles things." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "And Ananda... doesn't really do all that much." 
<DanteE> "Do the other three Council members have any input to the scheduling?" 
<Brian> "So, what you're saying is that there's no real way to know who would have the list and who would have updated the list and so on?" 
<Theresa> "Why not? The Excrucians, so far, have been all about making holes for themselves, not holes big enough for say, an _army_ of them to get through. Plus, Occam's Razor is that Wildlords are the ones they know best how to fight." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "The military assignments aren't a Council thing. They're Entropy... they're him functioning as a general, rather than a judge or lawmaker." 
<Kite> "Maybe Wildlords are the only ones they understand." 
<Theresa> "If you had to fight a human or fight a tentacled being with three brains, seven hearts and a spleen, which would be easier to fight?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "And to his credit, he's very good at it." 
<DanteE> (Did whoever attack Gamaliel try using Wildlord techniques?) 
<Theresa> (And yet General Entropy Patton is using us as weapons..) 
<Random_Nerd> (As far as you could tell from talking to Ophaniel, they did not.) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I would rather fight the thing with the hearts and the brains." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Lot of weak spots. Punch it anywhere, and it's gonna start flopping around on the ground." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Humans are scary durable." 
<DanteE> "Well, wait. If they were only going after Wildlords, Gamaliel would have noticed something." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I mean, all your vital organs are encased in /bone/. You're like walking tanks made of meat!" 
<Theresa> (You've been reading one of the dialogues in the image thread about how humans are the equiv of Space Orcs, haven't you...) 
<Random_Nerd> (There's another one going on?) 
<Random_Nerd> (But Sam would think that about any sapient vertebrate.) 
<Kite> "That's true.....unless Gamaliel was only pretending it was business as usual." 
<Theresa> (Umm.. Spine-ist!) 
* @Kite makes a perturbed face. 
<Random_Nerd> (Humans, by Dionyl standards, are very strong and very tough.) 
<Kite> "I don't want to talk to Gamaliel." 
<DanteE> "Why does ... um ... you-know-who not like Gamaliel?" 
<Brian> (Dionyl standards are very fragile by our standards) 
<Theresa> "He could have thought that he would be showing weakness by doing so. And that would make him look weak, which is not good for Imperators, especially Hell ones?) 
<Theresa> (RN - http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?715301-Images-NSFW-Picture-und-Image&p=17713428#post17713428 ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Dionyl are durable to a few particular things that would work on human. A knife doesn't do much to one. But a solid punch that would maybe knock the wind out of a human could incapacitate a dionyl.) 
<Kite> "I would assume because Gamaliel is a Fallen Angel, but who knows! You can ask when you aren't around to remind people with weak minds who you are talking about." 
<Carrie> "Why not look at it from the other direction. What would Entropy have to gain from letting the Excrucians know when Wildlords were scheduled?" 
<Random_Nerd> (*follows link* Ha!) 
<DanteE> to Carrie: "Well, it would mean Excrucians potentially getting in and threatening his interests on Earth." 
<Theresa> "I think that our friend who does not like to be named but likes puzzles doesn't like Gamaliel because said Imperator tortured him and that usually puts a damper on relationships." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam nods. It totally does. 
<DanteE> "Why'd he do that?" 
<Carrie> "Would the Darkest Lord benefit from eliminating our Lord, or Ha-Qadosh Berakha? It would lend credence to the theory if so, but otherwise..." 
<Theresa> "Uhh, Fallen Angels are dicks? *thinks* Could be that's how he likes to make that particular Noble. Lesson says that he likes to have the perfect person for each estate." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "My understanding is that he and Ymera Kudzu don't get along, but they aren't enemies." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Kudzu probably doesn't even make the top fifty on Entropy's enemy list." 
<DanteE> (Wait, don't we have a knowledge-of-Entropy stone?) 
<Theresa> (I don't even want to be on Entropy's "...interesting." list.) 
<Carrie> "Very well. Perhaps it is some form of foresight, then, similar to our divinations?" 
<Kite> "Who's on top of the list?" 
<Kite> "Anyone we know?" 
<Theresa> "Lobe' 
<Theresa> "Love's Regent?" 
<DanteE> "If he's smart, Entropy." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I have no idea. The Excrucians? Ananda if he's in a bad mood?" 
<DanteE> (AFK a minute. Talk it out! :) ) 
<Brian> (Isn’t someone we know, or are, on the interesting list?) 
<Theresa> "Another theory is that they could maybe 'smell' Kudzu on Ophaniel from him talking with her. Don't tell Ftisk." 
<DanteE> (BAK) 
<Kite> "Huh." 
<DanteE> "Hold on. Whatever happened that day was enough to create some kind of breach... 
<DanteE> "Theresa, I remember you and I both had 'flashbacks'. 
<Theresa> "Yes." 
<DanteE> "And of course, Kudzu wound up, well, 'dreaming'." 
<DanteE> "Sam, William, any record of something like that happening before?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Not that I know of." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "But Magisters of the Wild are fairly private people." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I mean, as giant alien gods /go/." 
<Theresa> "The only way we probably know about is because we're nobles of a Wildlord." 
<DanteE> "And Summoning's been easier ever since..." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "That suggests that this is an unusual event." 
<DanteE> "It almost looks like a lucky hit from a siege engine." 
<Kite> "Maybe it wasn't that the Excrucian fighting HQB was using effective techniques. Maybe HQB was just distracted." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Because Summoning is pretty well documented. If this happened a lot, there would be records of it." 
<DanteE> "... as in, distracted by the breach?" 
<Theresa> "I got a phrase from Milton for my 'flashback'." 
<DanteE> "I wanted to make a crown of Creation material. 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Do we know if the breach went both ways?" 
<DanteE> "I think that tells us its origin." 
<Theresa> "Excrucians don't read Milton." 
<Theresa> "They probably read more..Allen Moore." 
<Brian> "Sam, we don't know, but we suspect it's only one way." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Oh. Okay." 
<Carrie> "That one Deceiver had probably read him, actually." 
<DanteE> "And considering Time doesn't exist out there there's no way to check..." 
<Theresa> "Hmm, that's an idea. Are any Imperators or Nobles missing since then?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Barakiel?" 
<Theresa> "Besides him." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "And some people have /died/." 
<DanteE> "Missing for a different reason." 
<Theresa> "And besides JBJ." 
<Theresa> *to Carrie* "True, you have a point." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Nobody is missing that I know of except for the... people we know... are missing." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "That sounded better in my head." 
<Brian> "Oh, Sam, I have a stick. Can you decipher it?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "A... stick?" 
<Theresa> ("...it's a stick.") 
* Brian hands Sam the stick. 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Yep. That's a stick." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam hands it back. 
<Random_Nerd> (Is... this a /particular/ stick?) 
<Brian> (yeah, the one that what's-his-name etched with the directions to JbJ?) 
<Theresa> (Question: Did Barakiel go Lawless before or after the breach day?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah. You can read that. Nobles know all languages.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sam doesn't!) 
<Brian> (oh. Well, then.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He knows English, Japanese, a couple dionyl languages to the extent that "language" is a meaningful concept on Dionyl, and a few forms of shorthand.) 
<Brian> (let the exchange stand, though, 'cause it's funny) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<Theresa> (Not really surprised with the Japanese.) 
<Random_Nerd> (English and Japanese are the languages all the /movies/ are in!) 
<Theresa> (Well, obviously Brian couldn't read it before because he was holding it upside down. When Sam handed it back, it is now right-side-up and readable.) 
<Carrie> (There you go.) 
<Kite> (Heh) 
<Brian> (What about German?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Nope.) 
<DanteE> (Or, for that matter, Hindi) 
<Brian> "By the way, Sam, you should learn German. You'd love it." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "That's the one the bad guys with the skulls on their hats speak, right?" 
<Brian> "..." 
<Brian> "Also, Germans." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Samuel, we have been over this. World War Two /actually happened/. It was a /real thing/." 
<Theresa> "Okay, so let's think of something weird. Let's say that Barakiel used the breech day to invade Outside. A) Why?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I still think you're gaslighting me on that one." 
<DanteE> "The Lawbreaker?" 
<Brian> "It happened. With less mecha, though." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Tanks are real, though, right?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Yes. Tanks are real." 
<Brian> (quotefile?) 
<Theresa> "Dante, not following you. Do you mean the Lawbreaker part of Barakiel made him want to go to the Outside or something else?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "It is hard to keep track of these things, okay! I know far more about Earth than everyone in this room put together knows about Dionyl!" 
<DanteE> (RN, you never answered Beth's question.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which one?) 
<DanteE> (Was the Lawbreaker thing before or after Breach Day?) 
<Kite> (One of these days, some Noble is going to take the fictional element out of a movie and E.T. will have so totally happened.) 
<Theresa> (He answered me in RL. Barakiel merged with the Lawbreaker after Breech Day, but then time went wonky.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Shadows summoned it afterward. He couldn't get it to work until Summoning got easier.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But the effects on Barakiel were somewhat retroactive.) 
<Theresa> (So, if time went weird, he could have crossed over Lawlessly before he..went Lawless.) 
<DanteE> (OK, wacky idea time!) 
<DanteE> "You know, we could go back to then. 
<DanteE> "If we make nice with Ja Phon." 
<Theresa> (Isn't that the Angel who's nuts?) 
<Random_Nerd> (He /does/ contain a pathway to the outside.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Lightlord, but yes.) 
<Theresa> "Do we have anything he'd want? And are we still allowed to bother him? Or did we get banned from there like so many restaurants?" 
<DanteE> (Of course, if we really charm him maybe we can go all the way back to the beginning!) 
<Random_Nerd> (He's the one who went Outside but came back damaged.) 
<Theresa> (Also Brian needs to read his stick.) 
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<Angelo> Hi Guys! 
<DanteE> (Hiya Angelo!) 
<DanteE> (Time out to get him up to speed?) 
<Random_Nerd> Brian, the stick has a set of somewhat poetic descriptions of how to follow a path through the Deep Mythic to get to a location. 
 
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<Angelo> Hi Guys! 
<DanteE> (Hiya Angelo!) 
<DanteE> (Time out to get him up to speed?) 
<Random_Nerd> Brian, the stick has a set of somewhat poetic descriptions of how to follow a path through the Deep Mythic to get to a location. 
<Kite> (I don't think we've moved far enough that he can't catch up.) 
<DanteE> (I guess Ftisk could bound in from... wherever. :) ) 
<Theresa> (Hi Angelo!) 
<Theresa> (Oh crud. I totally forgot to mention Daylight Savings Time. Angelo, I am so sorry.) 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Kite> (Also we totally mentioned a certain someone out of Ftisk's earshot.) 
<DanteE> (Yeah, that was last Sunday. We're an hour ahead.) 
<Ftisk> (well some times happen, Beth) 
<Ftisk> (next time I will know to start one ahead, what I lost?) 
<Carrie> (We're in the conference room talking at each other.) 
<DanteE> (your marbles, at some point... :p ) 
<Theresa> (We're trying to figure out the Breech Day stuff and Dante has just announced that he is going to have a Wacky Idea.) 
<DanteE> (I just said it, the Ja Phon thing) 
<Theresa> (Well, yes, but I wanted you to explain it to Ftisk. :) ) 
<Ftisk> (the Ja Phon?) 
<DanteE> "How is Ja Phon doing lately?" 
<Theresa> (We go visit the Lightlord who got broken by Outside, again.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ja Phon is a Lightlord who went Outside, and came back cognitively damaged. You found out that he has a connection to the Outside somewhere in his mind.) 
<Ftisk> (ah, the one we go literally inside his head, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> William is startled by the question: "The same I... no, you know. I don't actually know, I was just assuming." 
<Random_Nerd> He puts his finger to the silver sphere in his ear and concentrates. 
<DanteE> (Hm... that would mean he might have experienced something on Breach Day) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "He... actually is doing better. He has been more lucid of late." 
<DanteE> "_Really._" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Not entirely so. He still needs... keepers... to keep him from harming himself or others." 
<Kite> "Should we bring him body parts? What is he missing?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "But apparently he is somewhat more like he once was." 
<DanteE> "Since Breach Day?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I don't know. I'm sorting through a summary in the Oracle. But some time since then, yeah. The process has been gradual, and inconsistent." 
<Theresa> (Wrong J person, Kite. You're thinking Jan Ben Jan.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "But it is at least consistent with that theory." 
<Theresa> "Wow." 
<DanteE> "Maybe we should say Hi. Bring a gift basket." 
<Kite> (Ja Phon was missing parts, wasn't he?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Physical parts?) 
<DanteE> (He was missing _marbles_.) 
<Theresa> "What do you get the Lightlord who lost his mind out in Outside?" 
<Kite> (Yeah.) 
<Kite> "Fish!" 
<DanteE> "... well, it is brain food..." 
<Ftisk> "And sparkling toys!" 
<Random_Nerd> (I actually don't recall if he was missing body parts, but he hasn't appeared in the game for five years. Give me a moment to check some stuff.) 
* Theresa smiles. "That's what we get _you_, Kite. Wrapped in silver paper." 
<Kite> "Yesssss!" 
<DanteE> (He doesn't have Nobles, right?) 
* Brian tosses Kite a tin foil ball 
<Random_Nerd> (Correct.) 
* Kite snatches the ball. 
<Ftisk> "Kite, don't let them gift you, that brought no good in my case with Ophaniel" 
<DanteE> (Does he have Estates?) 
<Random_Nerd> (He has various Aides who're assigned to watch over him. It's not a posting any one person has for a long time.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And there are Nobles who check in on him.) 
<Kite> "I do not intend to be a gift, Ftisk. I belong to Lord Vulcan only." 
<Ftisk> (great reply K.) 
<Ftisk> "Belongness is overrated..." 
<Kite> "It's a duty and a choice." 
<Random_Nerd> (And, yes, he has Estates.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But he lost one, when he was Outside.) 
<Brian> "Ftisk, some people choose to belong only to one" 
<Brian> "For others, that would be a burden. And maintaining that burden can be a virtue in and of itself." 
<Ftisk> "Well, at each their own then" 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, hey, you already knew that it had some effect on him!) 
<Random_Nerd> ( <DanteE> (Logic: Whatever happened on Breach Day affected those with ties to outside. It affected Ja Phon. Which means Ja Phon has ties to Outside. Which he shouldn't... unless he's not the same Ja Phon)) 
<DanteE> "OK, so... two questions. Would it be possible to go back to Breach Day, and would it be worthwhile?" 
<DanteE> "Or maybe just before..." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Go back to it in what sense?" 
<Ftisk> "We need a Delorean!" 
<DanteE> "Temporal, William." 
<Kite> "What is a delorean?" 
<Ftisk> "And possibly some badboy willing to shot us?" 
<Brian> "awesome." 
<Theresa> "Kite, it's a type of car, that, in a movie, was used as a time machine." 
<Ftisk> "A type of car that can travel in the timeflux but only under some strange condictions" 
<Brian> "88 mph." 
<Kite> "Huh." 
<Random_Nerd> (Heh! Luc told you that he was more lucid that day! Five years ago!) 
<Random_Nerd> (�1 <Random_Nerd> L: "Okay, so Ja Phon did not go crazier that day. Rather, for a series of several hours, he was actually quite lucid. Much more than usual."�) 
<DanteE> "and 1.21 gigawatts." 
<Ftisk> "In a movie? wasn't a documentary on time travel? Drat!" 
<Brian> "But we can time travel." 
<Brian> "And I'm sure Kite could assemble a flux capacitor" 
<DanteE> "We can?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "In a sense, yes. By the Mythic." 
<Kite> (Which could imply that he was more connected to the parts he lost Outside on Breach Day.) 
<Ftisk> (afk) 
<Kite> "Show me the specs and I will attempt to help us go back to that day we were already at!" 
<Theresa> "How much power do we need to have to move through the Mythic?" 
<DanteE> (Yep, it seems to indicate his mind is still mostly out there.) 
<Brian> "1.21 gigawatts, obviously." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Well, as it's been explained to me, it's not the same thing as it would be in the movies. At least as far as it concerns Nobles and Imperators and other beings of the Spiritus Dei." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "That it's more like being in a story about the past than like stepping into a time machine." 
<Ftisk> (back) 
<Ftisk> (anyone interested, this offer came with the weekly newsletter: http://rpg. drivethrustuff. com/product_info.php?products_id=56969&it=1&SRC=Newsletter_OFT_text ) 
<DanteE> "We want the prologue of The Battle of Breach Day, then." 
<Random_Nerd> (You actually did this once before. By accident. In Ja Phon's mind, appropriately enough.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You met Ebrot Appeka. The original one, I mean.) 
<Brian> (yep!) 
<Theresa> (And got a cup of..angel blood? Lightlord blood? Forget whose. I gave it to JBJ.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Angel blood.) 
<Theresa> (That's probably why I thought Ja Phon was an angel. I thought it was his blood.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah. No, it was Appeka's.) 
<Theresa> (Ah yes, we got to meet Appeka before the 3rd Age Crumble.) 
<Kite> (Though there were blood things going on with Ja Phon. Just...other blood things.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But the cup of blood wasn't his.) 
<Kite> (Right.) 
<DanteE> "If we really can do sort-of-time-travel, there are a bunch of questions we could find answers to. 
<Random_Nerd> (The other blood was from the Aide who was his current nursemaid, right?) 
<DanteE> "Breach Day, certainly, but several from even farther back. 
<Kite> (Yeah) 
<DanteE> (Did we figure out IC that Kudzu had a Chancel before Amyra, or was that strictly OOC?) 
<Theresa> "But if it takes a lot of energy, we're going to have to ration our trips." 
<Random_Nerd> (A chancel?) 
<Theresa> (He likes Amyra for some reason and I think there was something about a boat being here?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You know that there was a previous noble of Weaponry, specifically. And that Kudzu stole that estate from Azazel.) 
<DanteE> (Yep.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But that wasn't a noble of Kudzu's.) 
<Brian> (I thought we knew that he had a previous set of Nobles? That implies a chancel.) 
<Theresa> (No, I don't think he had a previous set of Nobles. Just that Weaponry was older.) 
<Random_Nerd> (...I honestly do not recall what you are referring to. Am I having a sudden GM brain-failure here?) 
<DanteE> (It may have been OOC talk, which is why I asked. 
<Ftisk> (I _vaguely_ recall all this as an hypothesis) 
<DanteE> (But I think at some point we figured Kudzu had Nobles in the past and somehow lost them.) 
<Brian> (I kinda remember that) 
<Theresa> (No, we got flashback stuff kind of. And there was the 'off' versions of us from the Giant-kiln-blood-cult thing.) 
<DanteE> (That's it. The Cult had to come from somewhere.) 
<Brian> (But I suppose it may have just been inferred, and something that I just held on to for so on.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I really do not think that Kudzu had previous Nobles.) 
<DanteE> (Then who was the Cult worshipping?) 
<Random_Nerd> (It is possible that I just forgot a plotline. But I think that was a theory you had.) 
<Random_Nerd> (They were worshipping their distorted ideas of what you were.) 
<DanteE> (Doesn't the Cult predate the Chancel?) 
<Brian> (That's what we thought at the time, at least) 
<DanteE> (It would have to have caught the Giant) 
<Random_Nerd> (They do.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But they have a connection to Kudzu. So when he enchanceled, it affected them.) 
<Carrie> (I seem to recall, from the Cult's introduction, that they were worshippers of Kudzu originally, and unsolicited.) 
<Theresa> (Hmm, retroactive faces put on ideas.) 
<Carrie> (And then at some stage they had a falling out and became corrupted. Don't think we got the details, though.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah.) 
<DanteE> (Ah, but how could there be a connection if Kudzu didn't have a presence on Earth before?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Excrucians were involved.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He didn't have a chancel.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He was still, y'know, around.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Kudzu's been on Earth for what is, in human terms, a fairly long while. Since the last Age.) 
<DanteE> (OK. Anyway...) 
<DanteE> "All right, then, how can we get to right before Breach Day?" 
* Kite hands Dante some goggles with all the shiny bits removed. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Well, as I understand it, which is /very/ little, time on the deep Mythic works by... affinity, I suppose I'd say?" 
* DanteE checks out the goggles... 
<Random_Nerd> William: "You would pick some person or thing that was characteristic of that time, and would try to head toward it." 
* Kite offers similar goggles to everyone else. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "So, if you were trying to get to the First Age, you might try to seek out the Most Ancient Lord." 
* Ftisk put the goggles on 
* Brian puts the goggles on 
<Brian> "Do we go back in time or to see Jan Ben Jan?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "For only a few months ago... I don't know. It's not a /specific/ process." 
<DanteE> "Would we go through the intervening times while doing that?" 
* Theresa will put on her goggles. You never know if Kite's going to suddenly flash. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "And you wouldn't be able to get to the Prosaic version of that time, because it no longer exists." 
* DanteE puts on the goggles 
<Brian> (but T, the goggles would do nothing!) 
<DanteE> (Any of you play Guns of Icarus?) 
* Kite dons his own goggles....which have all the shiny bits that were stripped from the other goggles attached to it.) 
<Theresa> (Nope.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Nope.) 
<Brian> (Kite: are the lenses "shiny"?) 
<Kite> (Nope.) 
<Ftisk> (nope) 
<Kite> (And yes) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, just so I understand, what's the goal in getting to a pre-Breach area of the Mythic?) 
<DanteE> (Imagine, if you will, steampunk zeppelin battles. :) ) 
<DanteE> (So we can see what actually happened on Breach Day... 
<Random_Nerd> (How?) 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, you were there for it the first time.) 
<DanteE> (and/or see what happened to the schedule on that day) 
<Brian> (Brian wants to see Ophaniel's fight.) 
<DanteE> (Not really. We were in Amyra, not on the front lines.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah. You might be able to find that.) 
<Theresa> (We would have to have the exact moment that 'someone' looked at the schedule. That could have happened at any time once the schedule was made.) 
<Theresa> (Dante - no, we were at Jaris' chancel. That was a front line.) 
<DanteE> (Would there be a hardcopy?) 
<Kite> (Should we station various observers at the events we want to see?) 
<DanteE> (T: ah, but we were visiting the King when we got those flashbacks) 
<Kite> (Poor King....) 
<Random_Nerd> (Finding the exact moment /and/ location that you want will be very, very tricky.) 
<Theresa> (Why would there be a hardcopy? They're Imperators. Entropy says jump, the Imperators say fish.) 
<Random_Nerd> (This is the sort of thing that's more a matter of "Travel back to the Second Age" rather than "Travel back to 1:37 PM on January 27th 1972") 
<DanteE> (So, he tells each one in person?) 
<Brian> (I rather get that it's easier if someone "pulls" you along?) 
<Random_Nerd> (From what William said, he does it himself, or sends one of his Nobles, or tasks a random person.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But Imperators have ways of talking to each other than just being in their physical presence.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I guess the question is... so, you want to eavesdrop on a conversation Entropy had with Kudzu?) 
<Brian> (... kinda?) 
<DanteE> (Hm... if we go through the intervening times when traveling, we could head toward _before_ then, and just get off at the right time) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's not a matter of flipping back a clock.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's a matter of wandering through a timeless fairyland until you find a bit that you recognize.) 
<DanteE> "William, did the guy who attacked Jaris leave anything behind?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Blood, I believe. Scraps of armor. But not a blightstone." 
<DanteE> "Could we use those to go back?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Maybe? I don't know. I'm not a Noble." 
<Theresa> "Wait...I know that we'd have to travel via the Mythic..would we even be able to _recognize_ anything?" 
<Ftisk> "Maybe Theresa" 
<DanteE> "What we see may tell us a lot... 
<Random_Nerd> (On the eavesdropping thing, I'll say this. Eavesdropping on Entropy in the past would be no /easier/ than eavesdropping on him right now.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And it would probably be somewhat harder.) 
<DanteE> "If we see a symbol of great betrayal, then the theory about a mole is right. 
<Theresa> "But Dante, what if it's like the time we looked at a town in the mythic and got a half goat half mermaid?" 
<Kite> "Either that or the Noble of Betrayal is nearby." 
<Theresa> "Okay, how about this. We go visit Jan Ben Jan and then try time-travel?" 
<Brian> "I think, honestly, we can wait on this. We sho .... yes, what T said." 
<DanteE> "All right. 
<DanteE> "Funny thing about time travel, you can _start_ almost any time. :) " 
<Ftisk> "okie dokie" 
<Kite> "Awww." 
<Theresa> "Okay, Brian, what's the directions?" 
* Kite removes his goggles. 
* Brian hands T the stick 
<Brian> "you'll want the goggles, Kite." 
<Theresa> "Don't worry, Kite. I'm sure that there will be shiny on the way." 
<Kite> "Oh, good!" 
* DanteE puts his goggles away... 
* Theresa reads the stick. How difficult is the trip going to be?" 
* Kite puts his goggles back on. 
<Random_Nerd> It will take at least some use of miraculous force to get to the Deep Mythic quickly. 
<Brian> (except that this is Amyra! It has Paths to Places! The Deep Mythic is a Place!) 
<Brian> "Sam! Find us a Path to the Deep Mythic!" 
<Brian> (... it may not Work That Way) 
<DanteE> "Maybe we should bring something we can trade to Jan ben Jan. I'm low on kidneys." 
<Theresa> (I wouldn't be surprised it doesn't work that way.) 
<Brian> "We've got Ftisk." 
<Theresa> "He already has part of Ftisk." 
<Ftisk> "me? What?" 
<Theresa> "I think we've all given something, haven't we?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Boss, that is like a bird asking a slug to hire him an airplane." 
<Brian> "and that is what is good in the Deep Mythic!" 
<Kite> "Hint: we can already fly." 
<DanteE> "Some of us." 
* Ftisk nod nod 
<Brian> (is it easier for me or T because we have Amyra powers?) 
<DanteE> (Maybe this should be next week?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Probably! It's obvious how you would go about it.) 
<DanteE> (Er, 2 weeks hence) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, doing it next session makes sense. We're getting near end time, and this would take a while.) 
<Random_Nerd> (In the meantime, read the section in the Nobilis 3rd book that starts on page 98!) 
<Brian> (we go there now, and start there next session?) 
<Kite> "You're not a bird right now, Dante." 
<DanteE> "Don't need to be, Kite." 
<Brian> (ok!) 
<DanteE> (I can fly, remember?) 
<Kite> "If you want to be who I was referring to, you do." 
<Random_Nerd> (The flying is a metaphor.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sam is not actually a slug.) 
<Ftisk> (ARE we sure Sam in NOT a slug????) 
<DanteE> (OK...) 
<Random_Nerd> __________STOP___________ 
<Ftisk> (Sluuuuuuuug) 
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe 
<Random_Nerd> So, was there anything in that session that was unclear? 
<Random_Nerd> Because it seemed like we were talking at cross purposes for a while. 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
<DanteE> OK, how many wild geese did we chase? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<DanteE> ...All of them! Got it. 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Random_Nerd> I don't understand the time travel thing. It seemed like you fixated on doing that, and then tried to find a way to make it be useful. 
<Verithe> I'm sure we missed a few wild geese. 
<Angelo> I believe is wasted effort to go to Ja Phon, but will go with other für lolz 
<Random_Nerd> But, like, Ja Phon having been affected by Breach Day was a thing. 
<Random_Nerd> It's back in the logs from then, if you look! 
=-= Carrie is now known as Etheric 
<Knockwood> If we could time travel back to the "front lines" on Breach Day--the Wall, basically--we could see what happened. 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
<Random_Nerd> But you already talked to Ophaniel about what happened. 
<Random_Nerd> Or do you think she's lying? 
<Angelo> Knock, the front line then was at the channel were we fought (I believe) 
<Verithe> If the idea was to talk to Ja Phong while he was lucid in order to find out what he knows about the Outside, that might make sense to me. 
<Knockwood> That could also work. 
<Random_Nerd> And she can interpret the Spirit World a lot better than a Noble could. 
<Verithe> As far as figuring out how to share Estates. 
<Knockwood> But, with Ophaniel, we only have one viewpoint. 
<Knockwood> And she didn't know everything that happened with the others. Not first hand, anyway. 
<Random_Nerd> True. So you were going to go watch Gamaliel? Or Barakiel? 
<Knockwood> Well, if we had finer control we could trace Entropy's orders and see if they actually did make it Outside. 
<lazarus> I almost wanted to see Ophaniel being asked to take Kudzu's place. See why and what happened there. 
<lazarus> and who else was spying 
<lazarus> but of course there's also the "if we spy, we might retroactively have been the ones who caused Outside to know things" business. 
<Random_Nerd> Could be! 
<Knockwood> Of course, how exactly did they coordinate the attack if they don't have Time there? :p 
<Random_Nerd> Easy. From their perspective, they're attacking, not a moment, but a /location/. A point of affinity. 
<lazarus> Perfect Timing? 
<Angelo> kindness or association? 
<Random_Nerd> Wherever they attack is, from their perspective, where they attack. 
<Random_Nerd> The people who are doing that thing are in the place and time where the people who are doing that thing are. 
<Random_Nerd> By definition! 
<Knockwood> so, they have Space? 
<Random_Nerd> They have some system of relationships between things. 
<Random_Nerd> For which space is a better metaphor than time. 
<Random_Nerd> Because it isn't sequential. 
<lazarus> and, amusingly, ends up being the right time and the right place. 
<Knockwood> Then again, couldn't they get an account from later and use that? 
<Random_Nerd> They could. 
<Knockwood> Like that old time travel cliche of picking up a history book from the future 
<Random_Nerd> But if it's from later from a Creation perspective, why wouldn't it include the Kudzu-Ophaniel swap? 
<Random_Nerd> Unless whoever gave them the info was deliberately messing with it, I guess. 
<Knockwood> Conclusion: A place without time or space is fucking confusing. QEB. 
<lazarus> /that/ is an interesting question. 
<lazarus> (Quad Est Bizzarre?) 
<Knockwood> (Quite Elementary Bullshit) 
<Random_Nerd> But, yes. It is entirely possible that the information came from anywhere in Creation's timeframe in which it existed. 
<lazarus> (erat. arg.) 
<lazarus> anyway. Good game! 
<lazarus> Good night! 
<Knockwood> g'night Laz 
<Random_Nerd> See you guys next week! 
<Angelo> night laz 
<Verithe> Good night! 
|<-- lazarus has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Always try to be modest, and be proud about it!) 
<Verithe> I shall bid you all farewell as well! Tata! 
<Knockwood> g'night V 
|<-- Verithe has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.90.1 [Firefox 27.0.1/20140212131424]) 
<BethE> Huh. Here's a question: We know that Kudzu switched with Oph from Wall Duty. But do we know why? 
<BethE> I mean, it would have had to have been _before_ Breech Day even happened, so it couldn't have been 'I'm having a Breech Headache." 
<Random_Nerd> I don't think you've asked him. 
<BethE> So, it's possible that..Kudzu is the mole. 
<Angelo> Mimic! 
<Knockwood> Then why wasn't Ophaniel attacked with Angel tactics? 
<Knockwood> Then again, this whole line of investigation assumes that Logic is a thing. :P 
<Random_Nerd> There is an explanation. 
<Random_Nerd> This isn't just an arbitrary sequence of events. 
<Random_Nerd> There is a specific chain of causation here, at least as far as the in-Creation side goes. 
<BethE> Oph wasn't attacked with Angel tactics because Kudzu told them that _he_ would be there? 
<Knockwood> If Kudzu is the mole, there's no reason for there to be a Wildlord-tactics attack at all. Why kill your mole? 
<BethE> Huh, Kudzu could be a double agent. Since he had Oph be at the Wall instead of him, she prevented a full attack but the Breech still happened to get the Warmains more like Creation. 
<BethE> Because not attacking him would stand out, if _everyone_ was being attacked. 
<Knockwood> not if whoever attacked him was just a feint 
<Knockwood> That's a good reason to travel back, to see if someone wasn't attacked 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, here's a question. What makes you think that there's a mole, rather than some other method for them to get the info? 
<Random_Nerd> (I'm not saying it isn't, just analyzing the reasoning here.) 
<Knockwood> because there's no hardcopy 
<Angelo> You (RN) told us that there is a Mimic that we already meet 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Random_Nerd> Anyway! See you next week! 
<Angelo> ok, next week RN! 
<Knockwood> Cya RN 
|<-- Etheric has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Destiny is choice.) 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Knockwood) 
<Angelo> Beth, can you send me your log copy? 
<BethE> Sure, Angelo! 
<Angelo> thx! 
<BethE> Good night, Angelo! 
<Angelo> Night! :-) 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]

Session 266

2014-05-16T08:33:48Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]] 
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> Hi guys! 
<Random_Nerd> Which one was Azalin? 
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo 
<lazarus> Hey Angelo! 
<lazarus> Azalin was the liche king of the thing that became Necropolis. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, right. 
<lazarus> he kept trying to escape Ravenloft, until he broke it 
<lazarus> (I can't remember his Domain's original name! Damnit!) 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
<Angelo> http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Azalin_Rex 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<Random_Nerd> So, we have a Laz, an Angelo, a Beth, a Knockwood, and a Verithe. 
<Random_Nerd> Just short Etheric. 
<Random_Nerd> Shall we wait a few minutes and then start? 
<Angelo> brb: hunting food in the homeSavana 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite 
<Random_Nerd> So, when we last left our heroes, Ftisk had just /flipped out/. 
<DanteE> OK, before Ftisk had his little episode ( :) ), we were putting together a plan to investigate Breach Day, right? 
=-= YOU are now known as FlippedOUT 
<Random_Nerd> Which apparently is due to the fact that Tempering is a little more complicated than it seems. 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Theresa> We were going to go talk to Ophie up on the moon. 
=-= YOU are now known as TemperingIScomplicate 
* TemperingIScomplicate howltotheMOON 
<DanteE> Did we want to visit anyone else? 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Random_Nerd> Of the people who were on the Wall, the rest were either AWOL, or not well disposed to you. 
<DanteE> I mean on the moon. James? Walter? Someone else? 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, right. 
<Theresa> Walter was the doggie? 
<Ftisk> can be a good time to fix James affair :-) 
<DanteE> yep 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> Walter is the sheepdog who works for Lost Things. 
<Brian> we lost James' connection to Creation? ;) 
<DanteE> well, didn't we decide the original James was gone and this James was something else? 
<Random_Nerd> Did you? 
<Random_Nerd> I don't recall that. 
<Brian> ah, so we lost James? 
<DanteE> originalJames got digested 
<Random_Nerd> Nah, James is just hanging out on the Moon so Kudzu doesn't eat him. Again. 
<Theresa> As one does. 
<Ftisk> I don't think so DanteE 
<DanteE> Remind me who else is on the list? 
<Random_Nerd> Which list? 
<DanteE> Watching the wall that day 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel standing in for Kudzu, who had Imperator Flu or something. 
<Random_Nerd> Gamaliel. 
<Random_Nerd> Barakiel. 
<Theresa> HQB 
<Random_Nerd> Ha'Qadosh Berakha. 
<Random_Nerd> And Ymera Notappearinginthis'Game. 
<Theresa> He had to take a Creation Day. 
<Brian> (aptly named, RN) 
<Random_Nerd> This is just for the Earth region, of course. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, Earth/Dionyl. Greater Earth. 
<Random_Nerd> But that's where the Breach Day stuff happened. 
<DanteE> OK, let's see... we technically haven't met Gamaliel... 
<Theresa> Hmm, question. Does Entropy ever take Wall duty? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> When he feels like it. 
<Theresa> Don't want to. Patterns barely trusts us as is. 
<DanteE> Barakiel we're on OK terms with, it's that his Lawbreaker complicates things. 
<Random_Nerd> And you don't know where he is. 
<Random_Nerd> Other than "Outside, maybe?" 
<DanteE> HQB we're supposedly working for. 
<Random_Nerd> But you've already talked to him about Breach Day. 
<Theresa> (Hmm. Okay, whose Breech Day cat is this? http://. wpengine. netdna-cdn. com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/perfectly-timed-photos-part2-5.jpeg ) 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, that's the most commonly used form of Notappearinginthis'Game. 
<Kite> (Mine! Mine. I want it. It's mine.) 
<Theresa> (Maybe the Warmains can get you a kitty.) 
<Brian> oh, I saw some good snail pictures on reddit t'other day. I don't remember much else about it. 
<Kite> (Eee!) 
<Brian> (careful. World breaker's claws.) 
<Ftisk> (well, internet is full of good ones) 
<Theresa> (Another thought. Is there anything that is on _both_ sides of the Wall?) 
<Ftisk> Active writing is 
<Random_Nerd> Should we go in-character? 
<Brian> (snails in the rain or something like that) 
<Kite> (Other than Active Writing?) 
<Kite> May as well! 
<DanteE> Why not 
<Brian> Ftisk: Active writing is when we tunnel it. I think that's what RN said last time I brought it up 
<Ftisk> Ftisk is arguably both sider after tempering 
<Brian> and arguably Summoners 
<Random_Nerd> Being on both sides isn't enough. 
<Random_Nerd> You also have to deal with the Wall. 
<Random_Nerd> To cross stuff over. 
<Random_Nerd> Let's see, other stuff on both sides. 
<DanteE> Caesar’s other two Estates, maybe 
<Theresa> Do Lawbreakers count? 
<Random_Nerd> Anyone who's gotten to the higher mysteries of High Summoning. 
<Random_Nerd> Arguably, anything that's ever been Outside is on both sides whenever it's in Creation. 
<DanteE> That would include everything ruled by a Wildlord 
<Ftisk> right D. 
<Random_Nerd> Not just them. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, okay. So, Barakiel went Outside, right? 
<Theresa> Hmm, that is a point, since there's only Time on our side. But that would mean that Kudzu is still on the other side of the Wall, wouldn't it? 
<Random_Nerd> That means that, from most perspectives, he has /always/ been Outside. 
<Random_Nerd> Because there isn't Time over there. 
<Ftisk> so outside is there a copy of Kudzu? 
<Random_Nerd> Just like how once he was driven partially insane by fusing with the Lawbreaker, then from then on he'd always been like that. 
<Random_Nerd> Depends what you mean by "copy." 
<Random_Nerd> Was Kudzu changed by the transition, do you think? 
<Ftisk> functional working and with miracle power 
<Kite> So.....what if Caesar's former self/selves were both the same entity and was only an Imperator before going Outside? 
<Ftisk> yeah, surely he was changed 
<DanteE> well, K was there before he came here, but since there's no Time over there, he was sort of always there? 
<Random_Nerd> So then there is, in a sense, a being Outside that, when it entered Creation, turned into Kudzu. 
<Kite> Right. 
<Random_Nerd> As far as you've been able to tell, instead of sequential time, for stuff like this they'd only exist in certain contexts. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, if you were interacting in a context where the War was not a thing, that would be in the context where proto-Kudzu had always been Outside. 
<Brian> so kind of an interesting question is is pre-Creation Kudzu always there, or never have been there? 
<Kite> So he went outside to always exist as a Warmain. 
<Random_Nerd> But if you were in a context where the War was on, then that's one in which for those purposes he isn't. 
<Kite> Then came back as Caesar. 
<Kite> Or something. 
<Random_Nerd> The real question is... what would happen if Caesar went Outside now? 
* Kite ends wild hypothesizing. 
<Theresa> (Hmm, another thought. What kind of Excrucian would Kudzu be?) 
<Brian> (none, because Excrucians weren't then?) 
<DanteE> Well, if 'Excrucian' is really a political designation... 
<Random_Nerd> Which type is he most like? 
<Kite> The kind that eats itself. 
<Brian> Strategist, I'd almost say. 
<Theresa> Yes, which type. But I guess it'd be Wildlord, since the types are Warmain, Strat, Deceiver, Mimic and Wildlord. 
<Random_Nerd> And, bear in mind, there are a lot of things Outside that aren't considered Excrucians. Lawbreakers. Bears. Whatever Jeeves is. 
<Theresa> (Yes! Jeeves is the King of the Excrucians!) 
<Brian> birds? 
<Random_Nerd> (And they went to war to get him back!) 
<Random_Nerd> (They just misaimed and hit the wrong century at first!) 
<Kite> He's not a peregrine bear. He's nothing like Cheer Bear. 
<Theresa> But, okay, ready. To the moon? Or do we have more to do with the visitors and Ftisk? 
<Random_Nerd> Kudzu is secretly... a bear! 
<Random_Nerd> A really big bear. 
<Theresa> I always liked Friendship Bear better. 
<Random_Nerd> So, let's go IC. 
<DanteE> (Considering the collateral damage, he may be Oopsy Bear) 
<Ftisk> Kudzu Bear 
<Kite> Cannibalism Bear 
<DanteE> (Which is another MLP link) 
<Random_Nerd> ______________START___________________ 
<Random_Nerd> (So, shall you be already on the Moon, or about to go?) 
<Theresa> "Should we bring a gift?" 
<Theresa> (Or 'Should we have brought a gift?') 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, did you want to bring Lesson?) 
<Kite> (Let's be there or we will never get there) 
<Brian> (on the boon!) 
<Ftisk> "Gift? to Ophaniel? uhm.... Me in a box?" 
<DanteE> "Not sure this is covered by the rules of etiquette..." 
<Kite> "That sounds like a perfect idea, Ftisk." 
* Ftisk do the yappy dance! 
<Brian> "Kite, don't encourage him" 
* Kite whispers to Theresa: "Let's not let him out of the box until we get back." 
* DanteE is a little thankful that he's talking about _all_ of him in a box... 
* Ftisk jump in the first empty box in the tower 
* Theresa whispers back, "You know he'd just break out of the box at any time. Especially at the worst possible moment." 
* Kite sighs. 
<Kite> "You're right." 
<Brian> "We could gild it and ward it and cast spells?" 
<Random_Nerd> There is something of a change in the atmosphere. 
* Ftisk snakeEaterFtiskInABox 
<Random_Nerd> Not literally the air, but in the tone. 
<DanteE> to Kite: "Can you _assemble_ something to put it in?>" 
<Random_Nerd> Normally, the Moon is sedate, calm. 
* Ftisk move around sneakily 
<Random_Nerd> Right now, there's a note of tension in the air. 
<Random_Nerd> Not fear, exactly. 
<Theresa> (Antici...) 
<Random_Nerd> But like when Vulcan is working in his forge, focusing all his attention on completing some project. 
* DanteE steps outside to look at the moon... 
<DanteE> "You feel that?" 
<Kite> "Yes? I can assemble anything, Dante." 
<Random_Nerd> You're in the main entrance to the Moonlands. 
<Theresa> (Ah, it's the 'the boss is really busy but not busy enough that when he gets his head back in place, he won't rip our faces off for goofing off'.) 
<Random_Nerd> It's a huge octagonal room, tiled in pale marble. 
<Random_Nerd> There's various hallways leading to sections of the Moon ruled by various Nobles. 
* Theresa whispers to Kite, "I don't think we can _give_ her Ftisk, anyway. He's technically your Chancel's and Vulcan's." 
<Random_Nerd> This is also the first time you've come and not had someone immediately there to greet you. 
<Brian> "Hullo?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Or, at least, the first time they knew you were coming.) 
<Kite> "She's not allowed to have him." 
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<Brian> (I'll ring the closest thing to a doorbell?) 
<Theresa> "This doesn't feel good. I hope it's not end of the Age planning." 
<DanteE> (Hiya Eth) 
<Theresa> (Hi Etheric!) 
<Random_Nerd> There's a sound like an animal the size of a horse, but with clawed feet rather than hooves, is running down the tiles toward you. 
<Etheric> (Hi everyone.) 
<Kite> (Hi, Eth!) 
<Random_Nerd> Then it turns the corner, skidding a little. 
<Ftisk> (Hi Eth!) 
<Etheric> (No need to pause or slow down on my account.) 
<Random_Nerd> Apparently, it is Walter the Sheepdog. Only he's now the size of a small SUV. 
<Theresa> (We just showed up on the moon.) 
<Theresa> "Walter!" *thinking: "Oh crap, happy to see us SUV...'* 
<Kite> "Walter! You've grown!" 
<DanteE> "Whoa, Walter, you've grown." 
<Random_Nerd> Also, he's got what appear to be military insignia attached to his chest. It's not entirely clear how it's attached, though. 
<DanteE> "What are they feeding you here?" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Sorry about being late. Still getting used to the inertia of this thing. Doesn't corner as fast as I used to." 
<Etheric> (Am I remembering right, it's a diplomatic trip connected to the summit?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Partially.) 
<Brian> (relatively understandable military insignia?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And partially an information-gathering trip.) 
<Kite> (Relating to Breech Day) 
<Random_Nerd> (If you had to guess, you'd say relatively junior commissioned officer. But the specific symbol isn't familiar.) 
<Theresa> (Ophaniel was on the Wall during Breech Day. Only Imperator that a) can stand us, b) hasn't talked to us, and c) we know of.) 
<Ftisk> "Is the insignia that grow you? Or the moon food?" 
<Random_Nerd> (And also, she's one of those going to the Summit.) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Neither. We're preparing for the End of the Age." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Hounds helped me. Apparently, because I chase things as part of my job, I fall into his Estate where a pet wouldn't." 
<Brian> "How? Why now?" 
<DanteE> (When is the date for the start of whatever-will-happen according to Attaris?) 
* Theresa mutters, "Please don't say the meeting.." 
<Ftisk> "Cool!" *pat Walter* 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Because milady thinks that, if the talks with the Warmains don't go well, things are going to get bad." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter sits next to Ftisk, occasionally scratching. 
<Brian> "Doesn't necessarily mean the turning of the Age" 
<DanteE> "That makes sense." 
<Ftisk> "That is surprisingly possible" 
<Random_Nerd> He doesn't have any fleas, though. It's just a habit. 
* Theresa slumps a little, thinking, *I said not to say that* 
<Ftisk> "Walter, can I swim a bit in your fur?" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "My fur is not a liquid, sir." 
<Theresa> "The Lady of the 3rd Age has a sense of humor. I'm sure she'd pick the most inopportune time to change the Age." 
<Ftisk> "But would you let me in?" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "If you do not damage my fur. It is the only fur I have." 
<DanteE> (You're in a box, Ftisk. :p ) 
=-= Etheric is now known as Carrie 
<Ftisk> (damn, right Dante!) 
<Random_Nerd> (He can hover. The box can hover with him in it.)| 
<Ftisk> (retcon my fur swimming request then) 
<DanteE> "Careful, Ftisk, you'll mess up your brother's work with the wrapping." 
<Theresa> (Which is more important...being in the box or swimming in dog fur? Luxuriant doggy fur...) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Have you... talked to Mike recently?" 
<Ftisk> (the box!) 
<Theresa> "Not recently. We've been getting ready for our meeting." 
<DanteE> "Actually, no, not since we visited you last." 
<DanteE> "We probably should." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Just... hoped he's doing alright. All the way out here, I don't hear from his court much." 
<Kite> "Did he need to be talked to?" 
* Ftisk shakes in a no way 
<Kite> "His court?" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "He's just... important. We have to protect him, even now. He's our King." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "You know. Dogs." 
<Kite> "Oh, right." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Woof, and so on." 
* Theresa will LDiv any plants near Mike for info on how Mike is treating the plants in his neighborhood? 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "There's me, and the other Hounds up here, of course. But we're out of the loop, and less than half of the Hounds are actually Dogs." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Still, he said that what we're doing up here is important work." 
<Kite> "It is, Walter. Never doubt that." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Mike and his court are currently in central Australia, appointing viceroys among the dingos. There aren't many plants around.) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Yep! We're preparing to help save the world! You know, if we have to." 
<DanteE> (Well, at least he's all right.) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "But I'm sure your thing will go fine and we won't need to." 
<Theresa> (Darn. Can I tell Walter that part?) 
<Theresa> (That he's okay and in Australia appointing viceroys?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sure, if you want.) 
* Theresa does so! 
* Ftisk yawn, save the world is sooo overrated! 
<Random_Nerd> (And normally you'd have to use a Greater Divination to find him fast like that, but I figure that Sam and/or William keep you somewhat up to date on what important people you know are up to.) 
<DanteE> (Funny you should mention that, cuz that relates to how Kite and I may be able to avoid corruption) 
<Kite> "It's good to have backup plans." 
<DanteE> (Now, did we give Oph Walter before or after Breach Day?) 
<Theresa> (Before, I believe.) 
<Random_Nerd> (After.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Didn't you?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Let me check. That was in Dogs In Space...) 
<DanteE> (Both! OK. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, after.)( 
<Random_Nerd> (Some time after.) 
<DanteE> (Did we tell Walter why we're here?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Breach Day was Chapter 13.) 
<Theresa> (Huh. Breech Day happened about the time that Ftisk found the Amyra Nobles. Very suspicious...) 
<Kite> "Which eventualities do you have backup plans for?" 
<Random_Nerd> (I'm assuming he has some idea that you're there to speak to Ophaniel and possibly James.) 
<Ftisk> (is NOT Ftisk fault!) 
<DanteE> (Suuuuuure) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Not my job to know all that. I just know that I've been tasked to train and guide a large unit of Hounds to help herd humans in urban environments." 
<Brian> (it's clearly /Kite's/ fault) 
<Random_Nerd> (And Dogs In Space is chapter 20.) 
<DanteE> "herd humans?" 
<Ftisk> (rotfl, yeah, Kite's fault!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sorry, I mean, DOGS IN SPACE!) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Yes! Scared ones!" 
<Theresa> "Makes sense, Dante. People in crowds can hurt themselves if they aren't lead to safe places." 
<Theresa> *to Walter* "Are you protected against weaponry?" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "I'm very big, and very tough. But I can still hurt myself. Maybe I'll get extra protections if we have to actually execute the plans? I don't know." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "I just know my part of the plan, not the whole thing." 
<DanteE> "Fair enough. We may be able to help if ... you know." 
<Ftisk> (brb) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "I imagine you'll be really busy if, well, the end of the world happens." 
<DanteE> "Anyway, what's Ophaniel doing?" 
* Theresa pats Walter. "Thank you for being a good dog, Walter. Thank you for protecting people." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "She's somewhat busy, but she says that I can bring you to her when you're ready, and she'll make time." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "I try to be a good dog. It's /important/ to be a good dog." 
<Kite> "And you are. A big, good, big dog." 
<Brian> (I like dogs in this universe) 
<Brian> "I think we'd like to talk with her, if she's ready" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "I've got a job. An important job! The King /said/ that it was important! So I think I'm a pretty good dog." 
<Random_Nerd> He stands on all fours and trots along, leading you. 
<Kite> "And big!" 
* Theresa follows! 
* DanteE follows. 
<Random_Nerd> After a brief trot through the grey-white halls, he brings you to a large silver door. 
<Random_Nerd> It's uncorroded, of course. Because this is the Moon. 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "I don't have hands. Can one of you get it?" 
<Ftisk> (back) 
<Kite> "I don't have hands today, either!" 
* Theresa opens the door. 
<Kite> "Dante, you do it!" 
* DanteE gets the door... 
<Random_Nerd> It's tall enough that a double-decker bus could drive through and not be in danger of hitting the sides or top. 
<Random_Nerd> But, I mean, aspect. You can open it. 
<Kite> "Or Theresa. You can do it too." 
<Brian> (I'll walk in as the two of them open the door ;) ... except I don't have the Aspect) 
<Kite> "One of you hand-entities." 
<DanteE> (I just did) 
<Kite> (But Theresa did it first.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and the doors for places like this have to be that big because Ophaniel is quite large when she isn't contracted down.) 
<DanteE> (OK, then, I'll just keep a hold of the Ftiskbox.) 
<Random_Nerd> Inside, Ophaniel is somewhat extended out, and is going over what appears to be an extremely detailed globe with The Chase, some large and angular quadrapeds, and a guy with an eyepatch that most of you recognize as Ken Duncan. 
* Ftisk watch around for O. signs 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel looks... somewhat weaponized. 
<DanteE> (Ken Duncan?) 
<Random_Nerd> The outer gears and levers are sharp, and some glow red with heat. 
<DanteE> (You're in a box, Ftisk.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You met him... oh, ages ago.) 
<Ftisk> (yeah, but can peek out an eyeball to look around ;-) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (He's the guy who got drunk, hung himself from an ash tree, and came down with knowledge of the Runes, like Odin. Except Odin doesn't exist in this game setting.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So it's entirely unclear who or what gave him Noble-like powers.) 
<Kite> (Oh yeah! Him!) 
<DanteE> (Depends on how extensive a job Kite did when he wrapped the thing...) 
<DanteE> (Oh, him!) 
<Theresa> (Which makes him a bit weird. There were warmains involved. And a motorcyle, I think.) 
<Brian> (Ah, I remember) 
<Brian> (T: the Angel isn't in this game. No motorcycles ;)) 
<Kite> (Colorful wrapping paper, ribbon and a bow! All necessary for assembling a gift!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and he had both eyes the last time you saw him.) 
<Theresa> (Nah, not _that_ motorcycle. This was a completely different one that I think we...destroyed.) 
<Kite> (Also wrapping tape.) 
<Theresa> (Duct tape?) 
<Ftisk> (and enough loose space for a shapechager to put a eye outside) 
<DanteE> (Well, just for the color...) 
* Theresa waves hi? 
<Random_Nerd> He stands up from where he was leaning over the globe, and looks at you. 
* Ftisk look all boxlike 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "Amyra, right?" 
<DanteE> "Ken. Long time." 
<Brian> "Yus" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Indeed." 
<Kite> "No. I mean yes, but also no." 
<Brian> (I just realized. Ftisk could have /turned himself into/ a box) 
<DanteE> "What's with the patch?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "I am relatively busy, but I recognize that the business relating to the Summit is important." 
<Ftisk> (Brian, is funnier this way) 
<Brian> "You were on Wall Duty on Breach Day?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "Needed knowlege. Made a deal. Seemed... appropriate." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "That is what you've been calling the day the Warmains acted oddly?" 
<Kite> "Jan ben Jan?" 
<DanteE> "... with who?" 
<Brian> "Yes" 
* Ftisk nod inside the box 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "Jan ben Jan, of course." 
<Theresa> "How recently?" 
<DanteE> to O: "Actually, should we talk in private?" 
* Kite nods. 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "Under a month, I don't recall exactly. Why? Is it important?" 
<Kite> "I did business with him as well. He has my kidney. 
<Random_Nerd> (And yes, that's after JbJ went into his existential crisis.) 
<Brian> (huh) 
<Brian> "How'd you contact him?" 
<DanteE> "It means we didn't spook him too much..." 
<Ftisk> (existential crisis or a way to keep out us?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "Someone had to direct me, but I took my chariot to where he lives... exists?" 
* Theresa whews. "We were worried that he had went off the grid permanently." 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "Someone said that. But when I told him that I wanted to sell my eye for knowledge, he... wakened, and accepted." 
<Brian> (what was my question that broke him, again?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "I think he gave me a good deal, too. I got /two/ answers for one eye." 
<Random_Nerd> (Let me look up the exact wording.) 
<DanteE> (Brian: IIRC, you asked the 5 important things we'll have to deal with, and his departure was one of them) 
<Theresa> "niiice!" 
<Theresa> (I thought the Barakiel thing set him off.) 
<DanteE> "If you don't mind me asking... what were they?" 
<Brian> (it was something like "how much is enough?" ) 
<Kite> (It was one of the answers to Brian's question.) 
<Kite> (Which was something about Jan ben Jan himself.) 
<Brian> (from when I was poking at the mechanics of reality) 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "I asked if the world was in imminent danger of destruction and chaos. Ragnarok and so on. And he said yes. And I asked what I should do if I want to help prevent or at least mitigate it, and he said that I should go to the Angel of the Moon and offer what assistance I could give. So I did." 
<DanteE> "Ah. Good to know." 
<Ftisk> "Cool!" 
<Brian> "..." 
<Theresa> (When is it not in that danger?) 
<Brian> (I also don't remember the 5 Things We Have To Deal With, and how many have been dealt with) 
<Kite> "Very good!" 
<DanteE> (PC-aura caused plot entropy is 1 through... ah ... 67. :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. The question was, what are the five greatest threats Creation will face in the near future.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sorry, no.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The five greatest threats /to/ Creation that /you/ will face.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Important distinction, there.) 
<Random_Nerd> (http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Session_217 if you want the details again.) 
<DanteE> (Actually, how should we address Ophaniel?) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, in no particular order. The Barakiel thing with the Lawbreaker.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The standard address is Ymera Ophaniel.) 
<Random_Nerd> (HQB discovers something that causes him to doubt his own loyalty to Creation. You don't know if that's happened yet.) 
<DanteE> (uhoh) 
<Random_Nerd> (Wildlords start to think that if they kill themselves, they will be able to reincarnate outside of reality. A lot of them do. It doesn't work, because "their theory will prove to be entirely backwards.") 
<Ftisk> (MIMICCCCCC!!!!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Entropy leaves Earth and goes Outside.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And Jan ben Jan gives up on trying to collect enough body parts for his plan by fair deals, and starts stealing them by force. This breaks his abilities, because it breaks the rules under which he operates. He tries anyway, it doesn't work, and he dies.) 
<Brian> (arg, this platform is very much not good for looking something up at the same time.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And those versions are what happens unless people influenced by this prophecy act to stop it.) 
<Theresa> (That Wildlord thing...crap, *to all other players* Crap, does that mean if Excrucians die, they reincarnate in Creation?) 
<DanteE> (That's us!) 
<DanteE> (Or Ftisk is right, they become something-like-Mimics) 
<Ftisk> (Ftisk will try one day or another) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "So, what brings you to me?" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter goes and stands next to Ken, by the globe. 
<DanteE> "Anyway. Ymera. As part of the preparation for the summit, the age, saving the world, et cetera, we are trying to determine exactly what happened on that day. 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Well, I wasn't there for any of the dramatic parts. Not nearly as much as you." 
<DanteE> "We've heard you were patrolling the Wall on that day. 
<Brian> (and we have some time before the JbJ thing, I think) 
<Theresa> "Did you notice anything unusual at your time at the Wall?" 
<Brian> (actually, I wonder if Ken's being here is roughly related to us all being influenced by the prophecy about JbJ) 
<DanteE> "Well, our working theory is that there was some kind of 'breach' in the Wall. 
<DanteE> "Which is where you were. 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Well, there were several breakthroughs. Is that what you mean?" 
<Kite> "Yes." 
<Random_Nerd> "At least two full Warmains, several Shards." 
<DanteE> "More than usual? 
<Theresa> "Two full Warmains? Did you notice who they were?" 
<Random_Nerd> O: "Well, you don't normally see full Warmains even try. But that was... it was out of the ordinary, but it /happens/." 
<Random_Nerd> O: "...you know that better than I do. You encountered both of them that day. Why are you asking me?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "And that wasn't in my area anyway. That was Berakha's." 
<DanteE> "Something else happened that day... have you seen our report to the Council about the effects of crossing the Wall?" 
<Theresa> "Ah, I was just wondering if there was someone other than those two. I guess I don't think of Caesar as a Warmain, but as more a Wildlord now." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "As far as I could tell, from a distance, he seemed like a Warmain like any other." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Kudzu told me some of it, but I have been busy." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Did you find out something important that I should know?" 
<DanteE> "The short version is, it wipes the memories of whoever crosses. 
<Brian> (oh. HQB seeing something that questions his loyalty. He was on duty in the area of the Breach. ... this is not adding up to good.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Oh, that. Yes, I heard that." 
<DanteE> "Well, on that day, the opposite happened... 
<Brian> "Less wipes and more swiss-cheeses." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "The only odd thing happened /before/ they broke through. To the extent that that even is a meaningful distinction when you're dealing with the Outside and the Spirit World." 
<Brian> "like Quantum Leap" 
<Theresa> "Oh? May we please hear what this was?" 
<DanteE> "Wildlords including Kudzu momentarily reconnected with the memories they left behind." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "It was like this. First, you must know that maintaining the Wall and holding strong is a constant struggle. For the purposes of this metaphor, which is not /entirely/ misleading, it is like wrestling." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "The way the opposition grappled with me was... wrong." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Imagine that you are a wrestler. You wrestle a creature that has never encountered humans before, but has wrestled... let us say, crocodiles." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "So he tries to restrain your claws. To clamp your jaws shut. To roll you onto your back." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "And none of it works, because you are not shaped in the right way. The methods he uses to grapple with you assume that your muscles and bones work in a certain way. And they assume wrong." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "It was like that." 
<DanteE> to the others: "A new player entered the game?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "I do not know. There was... suction." 
<Theresa> (Damn it, Ftisk, do you become a full on Imperator-level Excrucian?) 
<Ftisk> "Suction?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "I assumed it was part of the... grappling. That it tried to use my momentum to pull me outside, but did not understand properly the ways that I would 'move.' " 
<Brian> "Breach could have messed up their sense of what's what, giving them sense of Time temporarily, and other things like that?" 
<Theresa> "Were you able to handle it more easily since it was so wrong?"{ 
<DanteE> "Just to check, are you talking about the Wall itself, or something else?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "But Beraka's experience was nothing like that. He said that it was as though they predicted his every move, countered his every strategy." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "And for the other Angels, they just said that the resistance was much less than usual." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Yes, from my perspective, it was much easier because of the clumsiness of the opposition." 
<Theresa> "That's very weird that they could predict completely a Council member." 
<Random_Nerd> (To be clear, she was talking about Ha'Qadosh Berakha earlier. Not Barakiel, who was also there.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "And predict so poorly another of the guardians, at the same time." 
<DanteE> (Did you see what I asked?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah, missed it.) 
<DanteE> (Is HQB a Wildlord?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "...it would be an oversimplication to answer directly, but... let me say that it was /more/ 'something else' than it was the Wall." 
<Theresa> "Maybe it was something that only could predict one being and they thought they were getting HQB at all points?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "They have defenses of their own, at least as strong as ours. Forces they project to keep us Inside, and to press the attack at times." 
<DanteE> "What if... whatever it was that lost to Ophaniel... was expecting Kudzu?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "But how could they know? They know next to nothing about how we choose our defenses." 
<Ftisk> "Is reasonable to expect Kudzu" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "There are no patterns to exploit. Entropy sees to that." 
<DanteE> "... they _shouldn't_ know of our defenses." 
<Ftisk> "Unless there is a mole" 
<Ftisk> (no, Ftisk is not the mole .. honest) 
<Brian> "When did Shirk appear?" 
<Theresa> "Was the assignments for Wall duty made before or after Shirk arrived in Creation?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "That was later. He did not force his way in. He was... /allowed/ in." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "And I was not on the Wall that day." 
<Brian> "I'm seeing all kinds of bad here. Guys, I think we need to talk to HQB." 
<Brian> "And ... when did he come in, again?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Make sure you don't say anything to make him doubt his loyalty to Creation!) 
<DanteE> "If I'm right, we're looking for someone who knows the schedule but isn't 'in' enough to know about the substitution." 
<Theresa> "No, I mean, could he have influenced the Wall assignments." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "From Outside? Influenced Entropy's deliberations?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "If they could do that, they would already have won." 
<Brian> (anchorspeak to Sam) "Sam, I need you to do two things for me. I need you to set up a meeting with HQB, about Breach Day. And I need to know who was on Wall Duty when Shirk was allowed in." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Both will take time, but I'll get to work." 
<Brian> (to Sam) "Thank you." 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "May I ask why you need to know this?" 
<DanteE> (OK... so... assuming Entropy's clean (HA!), we're looking for someone who could see the schedule after Entropy but before they actually use it.) 
<Theresa> "We wish to collect all of the information that we can about Breech Day in the hopes to have more insight for the Warmain's desire for talks at this juncture." 
<Theresa> (Like a Council Member?) 
<Ftisk> (There is a Mimic in the council) 
<Theresa> (Ah, but is it HQB or Ananda? :) ) 
<Brian> (If it were Ananda, no one would know. No one would look.) 
<DanteE> (So, it's Ananda.) 
<DanteE> (The same thing may happen this Age end that happened last Age end) 
<Random_Nerd> (For that matter, there is at least one other person who had to have known that Kudzu was assigned. Kudzu.) 
<Kite> (I hope the next Age is not a mimic...) 
<Ftisk> (Kudzu is a mimic, face it bros&sis) 
<Theresa> (*whine* But I don't _want_ our Imperator to be a traitor to Creation!) 
<Ftisk> ( /Me offer candies to lil T so she don't whine) 
<Brian> (chibi!T?) 
<Ftisk> (nod nod) 
<Theresa> (Nope. Not going to believe it. The notion has been heard and discarded. Dismissing the claims in fine Mass Effect fashion.) 
<DanteE> "Huh." 
<Random_Nerd> (For that matter, what if they have some other means of gathering this information, other than spies?) 
<Brian> (I'm done with my first playthrough of the Trilogy. It was great :) ... I got to hear that line and it was awesome.) 
<Ftisk> (arg, NO mass Effect spoilers please, I know nothing and like to remain that way 'till I game them) 
<Brian> (PLAY IT!) 
<Brian> (best sci fi series of recent times) 
<Ftisk> (Don’t have the frikking time! :-( ) 
<Random_Nerd> (...are there other sci fi series of recent times?) 
<Ftisk> (Half-life?) 
<Brian> (Saint's Row?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Anyway! Nobilis!) 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Do you need any other information or assistance?" 
<DanteE> "We... need to talk to Berakha." 
<DanteE> "Oh... we also wanted to visit James." 
<Theresa> "I cannot think of anything for me. Is there anything that we can help you with?" 
* Ftisk whisper to Dante "... when you gift me to her?" 
<Brian> "Not at this time, Ymera Ophaniel. Thank you for your time." 
<Brian> "... unless you want to take Ftisk off our hands?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Will you wish to speak with James while you are here? He is... depressed." 
* DanteE hands the Ftiskbox to Kite. 
<Theresa> "We would indeed like to talk to our brother, thank you." 
=-= Kite is now known as Human-Kite 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel: "Walter can guide you." 
* Human-Kite takes the Ftiskbox and holds it closed as tightly as possible. 
<Ftisk> (you suck all the fun out of being a gift box!) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter sits up from where he was conferring with Ken. 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "As you command, milady." 
<Brian> "Oh, Ken, who brought you to JbJ?" 
<Random_Nerd> He doesn't salute her. 
<Random_Nerd> Because he's a dog. 
<Random_Nerd> But something in his posture suggests that he would if dog limbs worked that way. 
<Brian> "We've always been teleported to him, but he hasn't been returning our calls recently, and we wanted to check on him" 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "I asked around, I got directions." 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "But I brought myself." 
<Brian> "Can we get the directions? What price would you ask for them?" 
* Human-Kite bows to Ophaniel before following Walter. 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "I can write them out for you. Oh, a side benefit of... whatever happened to me. I cannot forget any writing that I've seen." 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "Do you have a stick or something?" 
* Theresa lc a stick. Hands it over. 
<Random_Nerd> He takes a knife from his belt and cuts runes into the stick. He's shockingly quick at doing so, for someone with "Aspect: What's An Aspect?" 
<Brian> ("Aspect: what are we playing, FATE?") 
<Random_Nerd> He hands the stick back, and puts his knife back away. 
<Theresa> (He's our Odin. Runes are one of his shticks.) 
<Theresa> "Thank you very much!" 
<Random_Nerd> Ken nods. 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "I do hope the summit goes well. But if it doesn't, well, Ophaniel, me, and some of the other demi-Nobles are working on a backup plan." 
<Theresa> *nod* "Is there anything that we could create or give to you that could help while we are here?" 
<Human-Kite> "I hope everything goes well. For the summit and for you." 
<DanteE> (Demi-nobles?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "Not right now." 
<DanteE> (How many do we know?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. At least two or three.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Depending on how you define your terms.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's not a rigidly defined category.) 
* Ftisk wave the box to Ken as we go 
<Random_Nerd> Ken: "Just... don't screw up." 
<DanteE> (Too late!) 
<DanteE> "We're trying not to." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, via Anchor-Speak: "Boss? I'm not done with the job, but something important just came up." 
<Ftisk> (We have Ftisk on our side, how we can screw up more?) 
<Theresa> "If we die but there's a new Age, at least there's still a Creation.." 
<Brian> (Sam) "Yes? Do we have to run back home?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Entropy's here. I mean, he's actually /here/. And he says he needs the Box back, but he'll return it when he's done." 
<Brian> (out loud and to Sam) "Shitfuck. We have to get home NOW." 
<DanteE> "What happened?" 
<Brian> "Box's owner wants the box back." 
<Ftisk> (WOW! Better that Ninjas entering the scene NOW!) 
<Human-Kite> "Do we all have to go?" 
<Human-Kite> "I wanted to meet your secret brother." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Do you not need to see your brother, then?" 
<Brian> "Not when Entropy is in our Chancel." 
<DanteE> "Ack. Well, since Theresa and I have the tattoos..." 
<DanteE> (Do we still have the tats?) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I... should just say 'Yeah, you can take your Noble back, and while you're here can I shine your shoes', right?" 
<Human-Kite> "He just wants the box back, right?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Theresa> "Ftisk and I can talk to James. We hadn't been playing with Entropy last time anyhow." 
<Brian> (to Sam) "Um. Yes." 
<Ftisk> (I want to ask one thing to Entropy... but can wait) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Okay. Do you want me to try to stall, or try to get him gone as soon as possible?" 
<Theresa> "You guys go home. We'll talk to James and if Entropy blows you up, well...at least you didn't have to go to the meeting." 
<Brian> (to Sam) "We're getting going now. If he wants to speak to us we'll be there in [time]" 
<DanteE> "Theresa, I'm thinking you and I should take care of The Box, but the others can talk to James." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Do you want to just take me over? I understand if you need a presence on the ground right now." 
<Brian> (to Sam) "You can handle it." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "You're the boss, Boss." 
<DanteE> (Aw, gee, can't we ask him which of his fellow Council members is a Mimic?) 
<Ftisk> (Brian, Sam is begging to not be left alone with scary bad Entropy, take over him ;-) ) 
<Theresa> "Alright. Let's go then." *bows* "Thank you for your time, Lady of the Moon and Ken." 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "So, who's going where?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ophaniel whirrs at you. 
<Brian> (Brian just doesn't /do/ that.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ken nods. 
* Theresa pats Walter. "I know that you'll be a good dog, no matter what happens." *smile* 
<Ftisk> "I'm _still_ in a box, can you land me in Ophaniel bedroom?" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "She's... she's a giant network of gears, hinges, and levers. She doesn't have a bed." 
<Ftisk> "And a recharge station?" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "I... don't even know what it would be shaped like if she did. Vaguely spherical?" 
<Human-Kite> "Too bad, Ftisk. Maybe next time." 
<DanteE> to Brian: "Did He tell Sam why he needed the Box?" 
<Ftisk> "Drat, where she rest.... sigh. Right Dante" 
<Random_Nerd> (And, if you're trying to recall what Ophaniel looks like, it's like if a giant metal Hoberman Sphere had a baby with an analytical engine and a circular saw.) 
<DanteE> (Extremely suspicious timing, if you think about it. How long would it take for us to get home?) 
<Theresa> (Whoo, sexy.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Under an hour.) 
* Theresa will pull Dante toward the door out. 
* Human-Kite offers two feathers to Walter. "One of these is for you. Could you give the other to James and tell him I would like to meet him sometime? Careful, they're sharp." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "He's taking the box and leaving. He's... actually carrying it on his shoulder. I've never seem him do physical labor before." 
<Ftisk> (Yes T. Ftisk is literally crazy for her) 
<Random_Nerd> (She is Item #17 on the list of things that Ftisk is crazy about!) 
<Ftisk> (you have a list? ?_? ) 
<Theresa> (Brian, tell Sam that we're coming. And see if that makes him move faster.) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter, to Kite: "I will do that, sir." 
<Theresa> (No, I think a Hoberman Sphere is rather awesome.) 
<Ftisk> (Maybe this Entropy is fake?) 
<Brian> (to Sam) "Can you stall him on the way out?" 
<Brian> "Dante, I don't think he said why." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "He just walked back through the wall." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Do you want me to chase him? Because... I really don't want to do that." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I mean... what if he trips when he's carrying the box? Or gets annoyed?" 
<Brian> (to Sam) "Um. No, don't chase him. Um. wow." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Do... do Imperators trip?" 
<DanteE> (Ask if we'll get it back before the Summit) 
<Brian> "Big E walked through one of our walls." (Dante: he said so already) 
<Brian> "Carrying the box. I didn't think he did that himself." 
<Ftisk> (did we know if E. have worldbreaker hand?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, you know that he does.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's common knowledge.) 
<DanteE> "Huh. Well, I guess he ... needs it ..." 
<Ftisk> (I think we had the box _pilfered_ by a thief!) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Aaaand, he's gone. It... doesn't feel like he's still around, you know?" 
<DanteE> "Yeah, I'd say for Sam, the protocol for Entropy is just 'Stay out of his way'." 
<Theresa> "Then let's go see James. *sigh*" 
<Brian> (to Sam) "um. Well done?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Yay." 
<DanteE> "Yeah, James." 
* DanteE checks to see if he still has the tattoo... 
<Random_Nerd> You do. 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Okay!" 
* Ftisk tries to burst out of the box 
<Ftisk> (did Kite let me out?) 
<Human-Kite> (Never!) 
<DanteE> (and let me remind you you put yourself _in_ the box. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ftiskboxing!) 
<Ftisk> (was a fun idea at that time) 
<Random_Nerd> Walter guides you to where James has been staying. 
<Random_Nerd> Once the door is opened, you find what looks like a gymnasium decorated in the style of the Moon, where James is wrestling a giant wolf. Twice as big as Walter. It's not the /biggest/ giant wolf you've seen, but it's probably in the top ten. 
<Random_Nerd> They tussle a bit more, then James sees you and taps out. 
<Theresa> (In Norse mythology, one wolf eats the sun. Does another eat the moon?) 
<Random_Nerd> The wolf stops, and then sits on its haunches, breathing hard. 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But this isn't that wolf. He just lives here.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And the moon is way bigger than him!) 
<Random_Nerd> (As giant wolves go, he's only midsized at best!) 
<DanteE> "Was wondering if this was planned or not. Hello James." 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, sure, he could probably fit a human in his mouth. But who couldn't?) 
<Human-Kite> (Snow would've eaten the moon.) 
<Random_Nerd> James: "Hey." 
<Theresa> "hi James! How are you?" 
* Ftisk wave from the box 
<Random_Nerd> James: "Okay, I guess?" 
<Theresa> "What have you been up to up here?" 
<Random_Nerd> James, to the wolf: "I'm gonna talk with my siblings and their friends. See you in an hour, Sven?" 
<Random_Nerd> The wolf makes an odd "Grrphm" noise, and walks out. 
<Random_Nerd> James: "So... how's it going?" 
<DanteE> (Oh, all hell's breaking loose. How are you?) 
<Theresa> "William's getting married sometime. We're going to have a meeting with a lot of Excrucians, Shards and Imperators. And the 4th Age is almost here." 
<Random_Nerd> James: "Huh. That is a lot." 
<Random_Nerd> James: "I... I've been getting /really good/ at wrestling wolves. Oh! And racketball. So that's something, I guess." 
<Random_Nerd> James: "So this summit thing that Ophaniel's been talking about, that's you guys' doing?" 
<DanteE> "It kinda fell into our laps." 
<Ftisk> "James, you know her better than me living there... can you advise on how I can slip in her pants?" 
<Random_Nerd> James: "Well, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but..." 
<Random_Nerd> He puts a hand next to his mouth as if to hush it. 
<DanteE> (Does James know Ftisk?) 
* Ftisk float the box near the hand 
<Random_Nerd> James: "Head down the way you came, and then turn right, and then left, and then straight for three crossings, and then left, and then straight for two, and then it'll be the first door on your left." 
<Theresa> "Pretty much. Our friend Ftisk here Tempered a Warmain and we got more involved in dealing with them. And with the entry of one of the Kings from Outside into Creation, there's a lot of disturbance in the force." 
<Random_Nerd> James: "You may have to defeat a sphinx in a riddle contest..." 
<Random_Nerd> James: "And there, past the sphinx, are her pants." 
<Random_Nerd> James: "And no, none of that is true." 
* Ftisk *RUN* as James said! 
* Human-Kite shakes his head. 
<Theresa> (Too late. He's already gone.) 
* Ftisk STOP 
* Ftisk sigh! 
<Theresa> "She doesn't _wear_ pants, Ftisk." 
<DanteE> "How could she? She's _round_." 
<Random_Nerd> James: "I'm just so bored. I don't have an Estate to defend any more. Ophaniel lets me stay here, but doesn't trust me enough to involve me in her plans." 
<Ftisk> "You! you! playing with my fragile feelings! Grrr!" 
<Theresa> (She has no hips!) 
<Random_Nerd> James: "Grr." 
<Theresa> "Did you feel anything recently, about *time of Breech Day*?" 
<Ftisk> toT&D: was a way to say how can I makeout with her without use the F* F word" 
<Random_Nerd> Walter: "Oh! Right!" 
<Random_Nerd> He passes the feather to James. 
<Random_Nerd> W: "I was supposed to give you this!" 
<Random_Nerd> James, to Ftisk: "She doesn't have lips either. Or reproductive organs. Well... I /assume/. I don't really know what angel junk looks like." 
<Theresa> "Ftisk, you could have said 'make out with her'. And there's no F in that." 
<Random_Nerd> James: "By the way, why are you a hovering box?" 
* Ftisk project Ftiskness on James 
<Random_Nerd> James: "I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that." 
<Theresa> (Question of the ages. The box one too.) 
<Random_Nerd> James responds by punching the box at super-speed. 
<Ftisk> (success? failure? wound on James side?) 
<DanteE> "We thought we might give Ophaniel another gift and he volunteered." 
<Random_Nerd> He takes a Wound, grits his teeth, and doesn't get Ftiskier. 
<Human-Kite> "Thank you, Walter." 
<Random_Nerd> You are slammed against the wall. 
<Random_Nerd> But do not take a Wound. 
<Random_Nerd> James: "Stop that." 
<Ftisk> "ouch!" 
<Ftisk> "yeah, yeah, if you let me Ftisk-ize you, you can _understand_ my need to make out with Ophaniel better!" 
<DanteE> "I'd say you still have the physical capabilities you always did..." 
<Theresa> "Ftisk, use your words!" 
<Ftisk> "Words are so constraining!" 
<Theresa> "It's not polite to force yourself onto other people!" 
=-= YOU are now known as JamesClone 
<Random_Nerd> James: "Better, if anything. I know I'm faster, and I think I'm stronger, too." 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, I'll get you out of that box... but if you're wearing lingerie I swear I'm throwing you back in." 
<Brian> "If you're not wearing anything, remember that he's Dominus of Blades" 
<JamesClone> "I'm a shapeshifert, I can wear whatever I want when I want" 
* DanteE opens the box. 
<Brian> (Can we wrap up shortly? It's kinda late for me) 
<Random_Nerd> James: "Is... there anything you guys need done, that wouldn't require being near Kudzu?" 
* JamesClone mime James 
<DanteE> (What does James look like to the Sight?) 
<Random_Nerd> (He doesn't have the ties to Blades and Courage that he did before he came back.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He's obviously Noble/ish/.) 
<Theresa> (He could fit as a demi-Noble. But he's not trusted.) 
<DanteE> (Hm... I wonder if, maybe, not being Noble might help him when checking out Noble activity...) 
<Theresa> (How so?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Should we call it a night here?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And start the next one with you guys talking with James?) 
<DanteE> (That'll work) 
<Brian> (I'd be ok with that :)) 
<JamesClone> (sure) 
<Human-Kite> (Sure) 
<Theresa> (That works.) 
<Random_Nerd> ___________STOP___________ 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<BethE> It was nice seeing Oph and Ken and James again! Ooo, and Walter! 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
<lazarus> yeah 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<BethE> Have no idea what the Entropy thing was about. 
<lazarus> been a while 
<Angelo> was a good session 
=-= Human-Kite is now known as Verithe 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and for the record, I'm using "demi-noble" to mean people without an Estate, but who do have at least a dozen Character Points on their sheets. 
<lazarus> have a good night folkses. 
<Knockwood> OK, so, Ananda is a Mimic mole and we're about to start the disasters that'll end the Age. Good to know. 
<Angelo> and E. was _surely_ a fake one 
<Knockwood> g'night laz 
|<-- lazarus has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: lazarus) 
<Random_Nerd> So, children of Imperators, oddballs like Ken, master alchemists, the rare humans who can do High Summoning, stuff like that. 
<Angelo> night laz 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and the Thing In The Shadows that's working with Patterns probably counts. 
<BethE> Wasn't necessarily a fake Entropy. He is allowed to pick things up with his hands. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, g'night, guys. 
<Random_Nerd> See you next week. 
<Angelo> Night RN 
<Knockwood> Well, we still have the tats... 
<Knockwood> which means if that isn't Entropy he's in big trouble 
<Knockwood> and if he is, why do we still have the tats? 
<Verithe> http://www. nahomilly. com/ueda.jpg 
<Random_Nerd> You could try ordering Baalhermon to wake up and attack whoever's holding the box. 
<Random_Nerd> If you're really sure it's not Entropy. 
<Angelo> I'll do that if I had the tats... 
<Verithe> You totally could! 
<Verithe> Do it, Dante! 
<Knockwood> They're still in Kaerkoven! 
<BethE> Stylish doggies, V. 
<Verithe> They're from http://www. nahomilly. com/kimono.html 
<Knockwood> Well, maybe we can ask Baal if it's E. 
<Angelo> and did you expect it will answer? 
<Angelo> is depicted more like a tool that a being 
<Random_Nerd> I'm not even 100% sure that Baalhermon can /talk/. 
<Knockwood> point 
<BethE> Probably can grunt. 
<Random_Nerd> Anyway, g'night. 
|<-- Random_Nerd has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ) 
<Knockwood> g'night RN 
<Knockwood> oops 
<BethE> Night! 
<Knockwood> well, g'night Beth 
|<-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
<Knockwood> you too V. See ya next week Angelo 
<Angelo> night Guys! 
<Knockwood> and I suspect Eth is asleep/offline. 
<Verithe> Take care! 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]

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== Chapter 37 ==

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]] 
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> Hi guys! 
<lazarus> at the 11th hour! 
<Random_Nerd> Hey, we have an Angelo. 
<lazarus> (*looks at clock* ... well, 10th) 
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> Beth has snail pictures to show you when she gets back to the keyboard. 
<Angelo> ?_? what at 11th hour mean? 
<Angelo> ohhh sweet! 
<lazarus> at the last minute. I don't know why. 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! For you! http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?710244-IMAGES-NSFW-A-New-Image-Thread-Already&p=17538481#post17538481 
<Angelo> well, I have alarm at xx:45 
<lazarus> Beth: I saw the "NSFW" and was wondering why you were sending Angelo a Rule 34 Snail thread. 
<BethE> It's easier to say eleventh hour than eleven fifty-nine. 
<BethE> Laz - ah, but that's because the images have the possibility to be NSFW, so the entire thread is labeled that, just in case. 
<lazarus> so we're finding who was on the wall on breach day 
<Angelo> and I'm sending a message! 
<Random_Nerd> Or, since that's gonna be a lot of Imperators, probably "who, that we already know, was on the wall?" 
<lazarus> anyone sending a "massage"? 
<lazarus> I ... quoted for emphasis. I are ashame 
<Angelo> Ftisk will want one after the message, thank you :-P 
<Random_Nerd> It's okay. We will tell your clan that you honorably disemboweled yourself to keep from shaming them. 
<Knockwood> Rather than the truth, that you mixed up the blender and the vibrator in... Oh, hey, Nobilis time. 
<lazarus> kkwd: that wouldn't be out of the question in Nobilis. 
<lazarus> or Unknown Armies. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, so, shall we begin? 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<Conrad> (last time we were at clocktower with me and Kite just outside, right?) 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
<Theresa> (I think so?) 
<Random_Nerd> Let's say you're all there to start with. 
<DanteE> (Yeah, what were we doing?) 
<Random_Nerd> Returning from the Whispering Library. 
<Random_Nerd> Having developed a working theory about Breach Day. 
<Conrad> (asking Kite kinky questions :-P ) 
<DanteE> OK, so, conference room? 
<Random_Nerd> Sounds good. 
<Conrad> Ftisk is just outside 
<Random_Nerd> ______________START_________________ 
<Random_Nerd> Sam is putting the finishing touches on a sketch of Barakiel portrayed as a small yappy dog covered in eyes when you walk in. 
<Brian> (How do we know it's Barakiel?) 
<Theresa> (It's labelled?) 
<Random_Nerd> (If you've seen Barakiel, it's obvious that this is supposed to be him.) 
<DanteE> "Playing with fire there, Sam. 
<DanteE> "Then again you're here with us." 
<Theresa> "Do we have any information on who was on Wall duty on Breech Day?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Lemme think... historical records like that should be available. It's going to be a lot of Imperators. Do you want me to winnow it to the ones with some connection to you?" 
<Conrad> (RN, I want to spend 2MP? or 3? How we set last time? To send a message from Conrad in Ftisk to Conrad) 
<Brian> "Connections, or at least friendly?" 
<Random_Nerd> (I think we settled on 2.) 
<Conrad> (ok!) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Your call." 
<Random_Nerd> (What do you want it to say?) 
<Conrad> (The message is: 
<Conrad> Conrad? 
<Conrad> Is Conrad here, please relay to my other brothers. 
<Conrad> I set my puppet, F-shit, to excruciate Foxes. 
<Conrad> I’m thorn and weak now and want yours help. 
<Conrad> Help me with this excruciation ... or help me and retake machinery for Vassa. 
<Conrad> ) 
<Theresa> "Yes, someone we know or that would talk to us." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.) 
<DanteE> (Ack.) 
<DanteE> (I assume we have no idea this is happening IC?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You're pretty sure the message went through.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Correct.) 
<Conrad> (good!) 
<Brian> (that's not good) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Okay, submitting the request through the Aides' Oracle." 
<Conrad> (shush Brian! ) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "You're hot stuff with them right now, so it should be quick." 
<Theresa> (I forget, why are we on the Oracle's nice list at the moment?) 
<Brian> (We're famous and don't use the Cammorae?) 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Random_Nerd> (A Project thing.) 
* Ftisk stroll around aimlessly 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Okay. Just defenders on Earth?" 
<Brian> "Sure. Narrow list" 
<DanteE> "Well, we can travel..." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Kudzu was supposed to be, but Ophaniel was filling in for him. Barakiel. Gamaliel. Ha-Qadosh Berakha." 
<Brian> "I don't like that set of names. Actually. I don't think I know Gamaliel" 
* Ftisk look around for my spiderJack 
<Theresa> "HQ wasn't getting out of it? And who's Garnaliel?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "You know one of his Nobles. Patterns." 
<Ftisk> (HQ did it!) 
<Brian> "Ofuck." 
<DanteE> "That... is a very interesting list. 
<Brian> "Actually, aren't those all the list of People Who Are Associated With Us?" 
<DanteE> "You'd almost think we were protagonists in something." 
<Ftisk> (we are PC!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, by the way. Ftisk, you know one other thing about Gamaliel.) 
<Theresa> "How many Imperators are usually on wall duty, including ones that aren't connected or known to us?" 
<Ftisk> (What?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Remember when you made a deal with Jan ben Jan, sacrificing your love for Dante to know the questions that could free you of your non-excrucian nature?) 
<Ftisk> (sure!) 
<Random_Nerd> Jan ben Jan: "The answer is, if you wish to still live afterwards, and as a Noble, you must ask me the best way to cause the Power of Wood to kill his own father. If you wish to live on as a Warmain, you must ask me what Ymera Gamaliel ought to do to preserve his life for the next three months." 
<Random_Nerd> JbJ: "And if you wish to die, you mush ask me what the best possible reason to kill Theresa, Power of Plants is." 
<Random_Nerd> Jan ben Jan: "And if you wish to live on as you are now, you need ask nothing further." 
<Random_Nerd> That's what he told you. 
<Brian> (what did Ftisk do in response? I don't remember) 
<Random_Nerd> (He asked nothing further.) 
<Theresa> (I...don't think I remember that last question.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and Gamaliel also came up in Theresa's question a while further back, about how patterns could be healed.) 
<Brian> (I remember that. There was a debate.) 
<Random_Nerd> ( "He must kill, personally and by his own hand, Ymera Gamaliel, the Power of Inevitability, the three demons who owned him at one time. He must then put all of his hearts back into his own body, and learn to deal with people through physical presence rather than miracles at a distance.") 
<Brian> (and how long ago was this?) 
<Brian> (in-game, I mean) 
<Ftisk> (I need to re-ask to him that very question) 
<DanteE> (Any word on JbJ, BTW?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Month and a half, month and three quarters.) 
<Theresa> (Was there a decision as to the best possible reason to kill Theresa?) 
<Brian> (nope! Nobody asked) 
<Random_Nerd> (JbJ is currently not answering questions from anyone.) 
<Brian> (Month and a half or so to the meeting?) 
<Theresa> (I think he's still drinking over Brian missing killing Entropy and the whole Barakiel thing.) 
<Ftisk> (but we are special snowflackes et all! ) 
<Random_Nerd> (That conversation was about a month and a half ago in character. Maybe more like two months.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Gamaliel is still alive.) 
<Ftisk> (also we broke him! Is us that must fix him!) 
<Brian> (I broke him, I seem to recall) 
<DanteE> "Did Kudzu say why he didn't do it?" 
<Theresa> "Wasn't he still recovering from James stuff?" 
* Ftisk run around the clocktower on spiderJack! "Weeeeeeeeeee!" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, he said something nonspecific when you asked, I believe, and when you saw him later that day he was pretty much on the Imperator equivalent of a heavy fever and a cough-syrup buzz.) 
<Random_Nerd> (How much of that was the /result/ of Breach Day is unclear.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or, for that matter, if the effects started in slow.) 
<DanteE> "... we could ask him." 
<Theresa> (Great, Breech Day is like norovirus or bird flu for Wildlords.) 
<Theresa> "He wasn't very forthcoming about much that happened that day." 
* Ftisk run in horse room (cloppete cloppete? or Skitter skitter? does the spiderJack's galop sound) 
<DanteE> "Well, let's see... we could ask Ophaniel, as long as one of us watches Ftisk... 
<Theresa> "We..did rather just tick off HQ." 
<DanteE> "Barakiel... (to Aides) any word on what he's doing lately? 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "No idea." 
<Theresa> (I think it's skitter.) 
<DanteE> "Visit Shadows and Consequences again?" 
<Theresa> "How about Ophaniel, since we haven't ticked her off recently and we were just talking with Shadows and Consequences?" 
<Brian> "Sounds good" 
<Brian> "We could always stand to remind people of our antagonism." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm?) 
<DanteE> "OK, we'll go to the moon. Say Hi to Ophaniel, James and Walter. :) " 
<Theresa> "Do we really need to have people ringing bells and calling out to close the gates whenever we get near, though?" 
* Ftisk try to outrun the horse in the horse room with spiderJack 
<Theresa> "We'll need to go get Ftisk. He wouldn't forgive us if we didn't take him along." 
<Brian> (T can probably make her voice reverberate throughout the entire clocktower" 
<Brian> (So could Brian, come to think of it, thanks to discount) 
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad 
<DanteE> "How would Ophaniel feel if we took him, though?" 
* Conrad aspect takes horse heart and feed it to spiderJack 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "The gate-signaler is already in the car. Will you need any maps?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Wait, hold on.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You kill the Excrucian horse?) 
<Theresa> (..I was just wondering that too. Wha?) 
<Conrad> (I feed the heart of that horse to my anchored nimblejack) 
<Theresa> (V is going to be in trouble!) 
<Conrad> (hoping to transfer death power to the anchor) 
<Random_Nerd> (...Kite is falling down on the job!) 
<Theresa> (He was supposed to be guarding that horse!) 
<Random_Nerd> You stick your forelimb into the horse's chest to remove its heart. 
<Random_Nerd> Huh. 
<Random_Nerd> It doesn't have one. 
<DanteE> (As was half our cast...) 
<Conrad> (you know better have a good excru siderJack for my business) 
=-= Etheric is now known as Carrie 
<Random_Nerd> It has a skeleton, and muscles... but no organs that you can find. 
* Carrie enters the room with a confident stride. She smiles to Dante. "I have not yet had the opportunity to make Ophaniel's acquaintance. Might I accompany the rest of you?" 
<Conrad> then try for the brain 
<Carrie> ((There, I think that qualifies as Perfect Timing.)) 
<Conrad> (ah!) 
<Random_Nerd> Enters which room? 
<Theresa> (I'm imagining Ftisk rummaging around in the horse, even sticking his head in to look around.) 
<Theresa> (The conference room.) 
<Carrie> ((Yes.)) 
<DanteE> "Certainly... wait, where'd you come from?" 
* Conrad resize spiderJack to max dimensions I can manage 
<Carrie> "I have been conducting research of my own in my sanctum on the college grounds." 
<Conrad> and feed him pieces of horse 
<Random_Nerd> Inside its skull is the nexus-point of a system of silvery wiring that seems to run through all its bones. 
<Theresa> "Hi Carrie! I think that you will enjoy seeing the lost things on the Moon. It's quite amazing." 
<Random_Nerd> So... whatever this is, it isn't a horse. 
<Random_Nerd> Do you start feeding the nimblejack the silver wiring? 
<Conrad> SURE! 
<Random_Nerd> It's nibbling on it. 
<Theresa> (Needs salt.) 
<Random_Nerd> As soon as you take out a piece, the horse-creature starts thrashing wildly with the limbs on its left side. 
<Random_Nerd> This is audible two floors up to anyone with Aspect 2 or above. 
<Carrie> "I would like that very much." 
* Carrie smiles to Theresa. 
<DanteE> "You guys planned something and not tell us?" 
<Theresa> "What..was that?" 
* DanteE checks out the noise... 
<Brian> "What was what?" 
* Conrad rope the horse tightly 
<Random_Nerd> The horse isn't making any vocal sounds, just twitching as bits of its mental structure get removed. 
<Theresa> "It sounded like something writhing. And usually the boss is louder about his writhing than this." 
* Carrie is quite visibly perplexed by the others' reactions. 
<Conrad> (ah, then I ignore him) 
<Random_Nerd> Human-shaped shadows start appearing and then vanishing again in the Horse Room. 
<Carrie> "I will admit, I did not hear anything." 
<Conrad> (cool!) 
* DanteE walks in the horse room... 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, you see Ftisk-Conrad and the Nimblejack crouching over a twitching horse, and the humanoid shadow things. 
<Theresa> "Well, it came from downstairs. Shall we see?" *heads out* 
<Theresa> "And Carrie, we transferred a dog from here in Amyra to the Moon to help with organization structures up there." 
<DanteE> "Ftisk? What the hell are you doing?" 
* Conrad throw Ftiskness on Dante 
<Random_Nerd> And just then, there is the sound of the border of Amyra being tapped, the Chancel equivalent of knocking on a door. 
<Carrie> (Would a Lesser Realm Div suffice to check who's doing the knocking?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. No, because whatever's doing it is outside the realm.) 
<Conrad> (did you, Dante, resist?) 
<DanteE> (yes) 
* Carrie walks with Theresa. "A dog? One with superior organizational skills?" 
* Theresa projects her voice toward the knocking. "Who is it?" 
<Random_Nerd> There's the "knock" again, a sound like a cross between a gong, and a damp finger being run along a wineglass. 
<Theresa> *to Carrie* "Yes, quite! He's apparently quite good at finding things." 
<Conrad> (what wound Dante take to resist?) 
<Random_Nerd> You feel pressure on the border, as if someone's trying to create a gate. 
<Brian> "Should we let them in?" 
<Random_Nerd> (He could use a miracle to resist.) 
<Theresa> (Where on the border?) 
<Brian> "They haven't told us who they are" 
<Conrad> (righto!) 
<Brian> "Sam, are we expecting anyone?" 
<Theresa> "I guess, but if it's invaders, you get to be in their way first." 
<Random_Nerd> (Courage can probably do it, it lets you act like yourself when opposed with emotions and stuff.) 
<DanteE> (I'll do that, then.) 
<Random_Nerd> The part of the border that corresponds to a place a bit outside the clocktower. 
<DanteE> "I say again: What the hell are you doing?" 
<Conrad> (and the 3 strike?) 
<DanteE> what are the shadowy figures? 
<Random_Nerd> (The shadowy figures are the horse trying to do Destructions of Humans on places where there aren't any humans.) 
* Theresa goes out to where the possible gate will be. 
<Brian> "Let's close the borders." 
<Random_Nerd> That is true, you need to beat Ftisk's miracle level, Dante. 
<Random_Nerd> Does anyone do anything to strengthen the borders of Amyra? 
<Random_Nerd> Or to lower them? 
<Theresa> "They were already closed, Brian. This is something knocking." 
* Conrad try throwing Silver at Dante (will not work but habit is habit) 
<Theresa> (I think we should lower them at this spot.) 
<Brian> (I'll strengthen them. I don't remember the Rules for that) 
<Random_Nerd> (Things of Amyra could strengthen or weaken them.) 
<Random_Nerd> (As the borders are a Thing Of Amyra.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, like, preservations, destructions, that kind of thing.) 
<DanteE> (Hold on, an invader would either sneak in or bash through.) 
<Conrad> (Why all that fuss on someone knocking? Go to see who is, an invader will not knock) 
<Brian> (He is trying to bash through, it seems) 
<Random_Nerd> (Brian, Dante, what do you do?) 
<Random_Nerd> (I figure this is definitely a Flurry.) 
<Theresa> (Because we didn't answer the door.) 
* DanteE fires off a L6 Courage to Remain True (1 point right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Your Domain is 5?) 
<DanteE> "Ah, Conrad? Can I talk to Ftisk?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Remember the 3-point discount.) 
<DanteE> (it's 3, but there's that 3-point break in-Chancel) 
<Random_Nerd> (Then it's free.) 
<DanteE> (Well, there's the powers-of-two rule...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Theresa, Brian?) 
<Brian> (I'll go to where T is, and fire off a Preservation of Amyra.) 
* Conrad grin to Dante and show the finger *I'm busy, go away" 
<Brian> (Frell, I forgot to find where I put my cheat sheet ... what level is the Preservation?) 
<DanteE> "Hm. 
<Random_Nerd> (Intended to strengthen the borders, Brian?) 
<Brian> (Yes) 
<DanteE> "I'll be right back. Don't destroy... um ... any more." 
<Random_Nerd> (And Ftisk, the silver will be resolved next Flurry.) 
<Random_Nerd> (This one is while you projected Ftiskness.) 
<Random_Nerd> When the preservation goes in, the gate pressure stops. 
* DanteE leaves to go see who's knocking... 
<Random_Nerd> It isn't just beaten, whoever it is stops trying. 
<Conrad> (ok, my bad) 
<Random_Nerd> How do you do so, Dante? 
<Random_Nerd> Whoever's doing the gate and the knocking is using a Gift, not the normal borderland. 
<DanteE> (OK, so, it's just outside the tower?) 
<Theresa> "It would be nice if someone would just pray or text or call if they want to visit." 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<DanteE> (Or do you mean the silver?) 
<Random_Nerd> (I meant the gate, just then.) 
<Brian> "It would be." 
<Random_Nerd> (Someone is trying to create a gate out on the sidewalk, about twenty meters from the clock tower.) 
<DanteE> (I'll just go there and look. Got the latest rules for that? :) ) 
<Theresa> (Would the gate be considered things of Amyra?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Except they just stopped.) 
<Brian> "Shall we open the border here?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, right now nobody is trying to make a gate.) 
<Conrad> (in the mean time Conrad is feeding horse to spiderJ) 
<Theresa> "We might as well." 
<Carrie> "It seems the courteous thing to do." 
<Random_Nerd> The "knocking" happens again, but in a pattern. Three rapidly together, then three spaced out, then three rapidly together. 
<Theresa> "SOS." 
* Theresa will weaken the borders there. 
<Brian> (I'll drop my preservation) 
<Random_Nerd> When this happens, the gate opens. 
<Theresa> (I guess Conrad. Other Conrad.) 
<DanteE> (Can I assume the miracle I fired off is still up?) 
<Random_Nerd> A hole is sliced in the air by the bonelike arm of an Excrucian you've met before. Conrad's brother, the one who dresses like a musketeer. 
<Theresa> (The one that was hanging form a chandelier by his feet?) 
<Conrad> (Yay Bro!) 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad, and the Shard in a white robe, are standing a bit back. 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "I understand if you do not believe me, but you are in danger." 
<Conrad> (Damn traitor!) 
<Carrie> (Is he speaking to us?) 
<Brian> "Um." 
<DanteE> "Hm. Ftisk is acting stranger than usual and you guys appear. Tell me that's a coincidence." 
<Theresa> "We usually are. What is it this time and does it make thrashing sounds?" 
<Brian> *doubletake* 
<Random_Nerd> C, to Brian and Theresa: "Is the Power of Machinery in this chancel?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "He was not in Locus Vulcan. I have reason to believe that he may currently be a danger to himself and others." 
<Theresa> "Ftisk? He was around here a little bit ago." 
<DanteE> "More than usual, you mean?" 
<DanteE> "Horse room." 
<Conrad> (did spider finished with horse?) 
<DanteE> "Follow me." 
<Carrie> Greater Divination of Things of Amyra. Anybody seen Ftisk? 
<Theresa> "We were about to go get him for a journey. And...horse room? Why would he be in there? He's more likely to play with Monty." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Yes. His Tempering may be damaged in some way. It is a thing that happens, that can cause erratic behavior." 
<Theresa> (Yes, Dante did! :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Can you lead the way?" 
* DanteE leads them to the Horse room... 
<Brian> "This can't be good." 
<Theresa> "How can you tell if a Tempering is damaged?" 
* Carrie follows, gritting her teeth. That darn horse... 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Spooky Excrucian magic." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Does it matter?" 
<DanteE> "I'd guess because the guy he Tempered is right there..." 
<Conrad> (is Ftisk involved -> The tempering IS damaged!) 
<Theresa> (Unspoken - 'especially if it involves Ftisk? How can you _tell_?') 
<Carrie> (Rochefort is the musketeer?) 
<Theresa> (Yep.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. And Elias is the one in the robe.) 
<DanteE> "Sam. Code Yellow." 
<Theresa> "It matters to me because it gives us something to talk about and with Ftisk, _how could we tell_?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Conrad is the one in the metallic blue-green suit with the unusual eyes.) 
<Brian> (The cheese is the musketeer) 
* DanteE shows our guests what Ftisk/Conrad is doing... 
<Brian> (Anchor speak to Sam) "It's actually code red. Well, beyond code red. But keep it to yourself." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias, loudly, when they enter: "Vassa forbids this." 
* Conrad pat spiderJack "good, good, eat all" 
<Brian> (AstS) "Come to the horse room. Arm yourself, mystically." 
<Theresa> "Ftisk..Conrad..what are you doing to that horse and I hope it's not something you learned from the tv." 
<Conrad> (who enter first the room?) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "You act wrongly. It is forbidden to do harm on this visit to Creation. You may not know this, lacking the message we were sent with." 
<DanteE> to T: "That's what the thrashing was." 
<Brian> (not me!) 
<Theresa> (I will! *steps in*) 
<DanteE> "... what message?" 
<DanteE> (Probably me) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "It is natural to follow your inclinations. But you act wrongly." 
<Conrad> (Magic missile to T!) 
<Random_Nerd> Actual Conrad: "To try to arrange for talks with Creation>" 
<Theresa> (Which is what, spitting silver?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Remember, these guys represent the Warmain side of the Summit.) 
<Conrad> "Why! Message? ... Damn!" 
<Brian> (It's more that I don't trust Ftisk) 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Whose horse is that? The lines look familiar." 
<DanteE> to Elias: "Technically, he Tempered Conrad before the Summit was an idea." 
<Theresa> "Our Sister Capriciousness gained it from a warmain we fought." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Ah. So, if the tempering was done improperly, and has hatched, he is as a Shard brought freshly across the Wall." 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Ah. I thought it looked to be from one of our herds." 
<Conrad> "But I'm just trying to enhance spideJack, nothing against creation at all" 
<Theresa> "Temperings..hatch?" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Not if executed properly." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "But it's harder than it might look." 
<DanteE> "... which no one on this side would know how to do." 
* Theresa can feel a headache coming on, mostly with the thought of little Ftisk-like facehuggers involved. 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Something in you spoke out to me, requesting assistance for some form of attack. The message I received was garbled, but caused concern." 
<Conrad> "Foxes"! Yes was getting ready to move against him" 
<Theresa> *flat* "..what?" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "We called on Locus Vulcan first, but Machinery was not there." 
<Brian> "...." 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "/Is/ there a Power of Foxes?" 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad shrugs. 
<Theresa> (What does the Fox say?) 
* Conrad shrugs 
<Theresa> (Brian, ask Sam.) 
<DanteE> "Ftisk? What do you intend to do?" 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Stop that, you two!" 
<Random_Nerd> R: "It's creepy!" 
<Theresa> (*snort*) 
<Conrad> "a) get a horse, b get a sword (Dante one) c get Fox" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "This is why it's a bad idea to let someone kill your brother. It produces no end of awkwardness." 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "I got better." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "And yet." 
<Brian> (AstS) "Sam, is there a power of Foxes? Or Foxiness?" 
<DanteE> (Don't _help_ him! :p ) 
<Theresa> "We have had..similar problems with the Noble of Urbanization." 
<Conrad> "_I_ got better" 
<Theresa> (Well, if there isn't a Power of Foxes, then FtiskConrad has nothing to do.) 
<Conrad> (THAT would be awkward!) 
<Theresa> "And why would you need a horse? Isn't your spiderjack enough?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, leafing through William's books. "There's a Power of Foxes." 
<Random_Nerd> (And Kite... this is kinda your fault.) 
<DanteE> (not here) 
<Random_Nerd> (...Except he isn't here.) 
<Brian> (AstS) "That's not good. Bring the Ftisk-restraints to the horse room please?" 
<Theresa> (Oh, wait, Kite hates the Power of Foxes, doesn't he?) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Which set?" 
<Random_Nerd> (More that he hates foxes in general.) 
<Brian> (AstS) "The set for when he's gone crazy" 
<Theresa> "Why do you want to hurt the Power of Foxes?" 
<Random_Nerd> (And he once suggested to non-Ftisk Conrad that he kill Foxes.) 
<Theresa> (Which level of crazy?) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Ah, the chains and concrete, and get them warming up the steel?" 
<Carrie> (All of them?) 
<Theresa> (Carrie - indeed! :) ) 
<DanteE> (to Ftisk/Conrad) "Conrad? Can we talk to Ftisk?" 
<Brian> (AstS) "That's the one." 
<Random_Nerd> (The Noble.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Conrad: "For the next time I'm over here... is there anyone you'd suggest that I make a go at killing? I need a new Tempering.") 
<Conrad> "I need to excruciate someone once in a while" 
<Random_Nerd> (<Kite> "Foxes.") 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Not today." 
<Theresa> (And not tomorrow either!) 
<Conrad> (to Conrad. Dante, or Brian, but more Dante please) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam comes down, leading two janitors who're carrying a bunch of chains and padlocks. 
<Theresa> (Argh, I must be tired. I read 'padlocks' as 'pickles'.) 
<Carrie> (The two are not mutually exclusive.) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "If you give him into our care, we can try to help him. But I understand if you cannot trust us to do that." 
<DanteE> (You’re thinking Kite->bird->stork->Vlasic. :) ) 
<Theresa> "What will you do with him?" 
<Theresa> (I was having a craving for sweet pickles, because we don't have any at the moment and I'm trying to avoid sweets.) 
<Conrad> "I'll came with you Elias" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "We would try to restrain the Tempering. Ah... there is an awkwardness. The normal method would involve, after it is restrained, having him kill a Noble he respects." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Hmm." 
<Conrad> "Dante!" 
<DanteE> "No." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "I suppose killing one of us would be the equivalent, but... I would rather he didn't." 
<Theresa> "I thought that the 'kill a Noble he respects' _was_ Tempering." 
* Carrie looks at Conrad, then at Dante, then back at Conrad. 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Well, there are sequences. First kill. First Noble. First Noble he respects." 
<Theresa> (Carrie - which Conrad? :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "To replace a tempering, the new one must have greater importance." 
<Carrie> (The not-Ftisk Conrad.) 
<DanteE> "Can you un-do a Tempering?" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Only to replace it with another." 
<DanteE> to the others: "I think we need to split them up." 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "If there's another way, we don't know it." 
<Conrad> "uhm.. maybe Jbj is a better target?" 
<Random_Nerd> (...although, funny thing? You know who does.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah.) 
<Carrie> (Whoops, I meant the Ftisk Conrad. Misread who had what lines.) 
<Theresa> "How much worse does something like this get?" 
<Brian> (RN: do we know we know who does?) 
<Conrad> "Conrad, how we choose a target?" 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort sighs and says "Hold on..." and puts his feathered cap on Non-Ftisk-Conrad. 
<DanteE> (Or, have Vulcan make a new one and restore from backup... :p ) 
<Theresa> (Wouldn't the Triad be able to split such up?) 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad With A Hat: "Does that help?" 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "...yeah, it does." 
<Random_Nerd> (That'd be tampering with the soul of a Noble.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That's really super tricky.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It could work if Ftisk /wanted/ it to.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But he could always take Wounds to stop it.) 
<DanteE> "Kite? Call your 'dad', quick." (Too bad he's not here...) 
<Conrad> (wait) 
<Random_Nerd> Kite totally goes and does that. 
<Conrad> (what would work if Ftisk want to? I get lost...) 
<Theresa> "Wait, we do know how to do split them up." 
<Random_Nerd> Hatrad: "Oh? How?" 
* DanteE dashes to his vault... 
* Theresa looks at Ftisk-Conrad. "You had said that Jan Ben Jan had questions that you could ask. And for one of them, the price would be your Warmain-ness." 
<Theresa> "He can split them apart." 
* DanteE grabs the cut-everything sword and dashes back. 
<Random_Nerd> Do you do anything to stop it from cutting space open as you bring it back? 
<Random_Nerd> (It's still not anchored, right?) 
<Conrad> "No for one of that the price is my NONwarmainness" 
<Theresa> (And then he absorbs or takes in a part of a Warmain and we See What Happens. Yay, Fourth Age!) 
<Theresa> "There were multiple questions." 
<DanteE> (Can I do that without spending MPs I'll need?) 
<Conrad> "pfff!" 
<Theresa> "You just have to ask...the one to get you to who you want to be." 
<Theresa> (I don't remember if Theresa knows about the Theresa question.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You know different questions.) 
<Random_Nerd> (One has as its price your warmainness, one has your non-warmainness.) 
<Random_Nerd> (One kills you.) 
<Conrad> (ack!) 
<DanteE> (The latter involving killing Theresa, right?) 
<Theresa> (The latter is the best possible reason for killing me, yes.) 
<Theresa> (Lovely thought, dear.) 
* DanteE tries his best to not slice up anything important while bringing the sword back to the Horse room... 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, you leave a trail of sundered space behind you. 
<Carrie> (I wonder if Theresa is a noble this personality of Ftisk respects.) 
<Theresa> (You're not going to Solomon Ftisk, are you, Dante?) 
<Random_Nerd> You also, by intersecting the correct invisible line, sever a grudge between a mailman and a dog. 
<Theresa> (Carrie - I..had been wondering that.) 
<DanteE> (Well, you're talking about splitting him. I may be able to do a heavy Miracle and do that metaphorically.) 
<Conrad> "The sword. Good , you save my searching for it" 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Hey, watch how you're swinging that thing!" 
<Brian> "Ftisk? Chains? You like that, remember? Being tied up?" 
<Theresa> *to the Excrucians* "Have any of you every tried dealing with the Tempering problems using a very sharp sword? The Noble killing thing might be easier, though." 
<Conrad> "Later Brian, bed playtoys can wait" 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, so. You can swing the sword at Ftisk, and it will probably do /something/. How are you going to go about making sure you sever the right thing?) 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Ftisk> "Chain me presto!" 
<DanteE> "Ftisk. I think you and Conrad need to ... split up." 
<Brian> "Sam? T? Guys?" 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone turns to look at Ftisk. 
=-= YOU are now known as aRandomOrdinaryCow 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Do you know who you are?" 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Ah." 
<aRandomOrdinaryCow> "mooooo!" 
<DanteE> (Theresa, you've got Aspect like mine, you need to dash in and chain him. I need to control this sword.) 
=-= YOU are now known as squishyOctopus 
<squishyOctopus> *can't breath ... help!* 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Ah. A Proteus Scenario." 
* squishyOctopus flails 
<DanteE> "Got an idea... 
* Theresa will be grab the chains and will chain up Ftisk. "Hold still and I'll get you some water." 
<DanteE> "Ftisk! Tell me what the last digit of pi is!" 
<Random_Nerd> (Ftisk: "Your mom.") 
* squishyOctopus flails some more 
* Theresa will Move a kiddy pool with water to the horse room. 
<Theresa> (How do we know this is Ftisk? It could be a couple of Mimic Octopuses.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That's Cneph's great secret.) 
<DanteE> "(Hat)Conrad... see if you can, I don't know, get the attention of your Tempered counterpart." 
<Random_Nerd> (All of Creation is one mimic octopus on LSD.) 
=-= YOU are now known as toad 
<Theresa> (Oh come on, everyone knows that Jan Ben Jan is actually a mimic octopus.) 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad In A Hat: "Hmm. Lemme think." 
<DanteE> "There may be a way to get the bond between them stretched right across here." 
<Brian> (but on LSD?) 
* DanteE wields the sword... 
<Theresa> (Do toads like water? I thought that was more frogs.) 
<DanteE> (OK, RN what do I need to do to 'claim' this thing as a Treasure so I can control it?) 
<Random_Nerd> (A Treasure miracle.) 
<Brian> ("Toad" as in mushroom person?) 
<Random_Nerd> (This is specifically a Miraculous Anchor, because it has character points.) 
* DanteE is watching for that bond... 
<toad> (yep that toad) 
<Random_Nerd> (So that's a miracle of level... lemme think...) 
* toad faint 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Theresa> (Ftisk...do you have a princess in another castle?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ophaniel is totally in a castle.) 
<Ftisk> (sure her name is Gnomely) 
<Random_Nerd> (Miracle level Treasure 6.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And I'll let you claim it and invoke its power at the same time, if you like, instead of requiring two Treasure 6 miracles.) 
<DanteE> (Got Treasure 2 IIRC... 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, with the in-chancel discount, it's 1 MP.) 
<DanteE> (So, 1 DMP, once I spot the bond between them.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. How do you plan do you that?) 
<DanteE> "OK... Ftisk needs to be extra-Ftisk which Conrad needs to be extra-Conrad. 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and the sword will be your anchor from now on, so its power will be dormant except when you invoke it.) 
<DanteE> "You obviously have some sort of active bond going." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "It's not a bond. That's the thing. It's a way of changing part of yourself." 
<DanteE> "Then you need to take that part that Ftisk took _back_. 
* Ftisk wake 
<Ftisk> *yawn* 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Hmm. It's also a part of him, is the problem. Your friend would be in some measure diminished." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Less than he was before he tempered." 
* Ftisk fly on T. shoulder 
<Ftisk> "who will be diminished?" 
<DanteE> "You would, Ftisk. 
<Ftisk> "oh!" *wave to excruBrothers 
<Ftisk> "ME?" 
<DanteE> "I think you need to give up Conrad." 
<Ftisk> "What?!? is crazy! No way I give up, what do you mean as give up?" 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Hmm. Elias! Lecture him about proper Tempering technique. Your lectures always work on /me/..." 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, _look what you were doing!_" 
* Ftisk looks around 
<Theresa> (And what did the horse stuff do to the nimblejack?) 
<DanteE> "You were talking about killing Foxes!" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias starts using the Drill Sergeant Voice on Ftisk, yelling at him about being a sloppy excuse for a Warmain shard." 
<Ftisk> (lol) 
<Random_Nerd> (ONLY TWO THINGS THAT COME FROM CREATION ARE ESTATES AND PIZZAS! AND I DON'T SEE PEPPERONI AND CHEESE ON TOP OF YOU SO THAT KINDA NARROWS IT DOWN!) 
<Theresa> (*laugh*) 
=-= YOU are now known as theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm 
<DanteE> (Private Pyle? :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "...AND YOU KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR USING IMPROPER TEMPERING TECHNIQUE! I'M EMBARASSED TO BE PART OF THE SAME SOUL AS YOU!" 
<theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm> (yep that one!) 
<Brian> (Impressive) 
<Theresa> (There are many war films. I was thinking either Kurtz from Apocalypse Now or Winstin Churchhill...) 
<DanteE> (Whoops, did he just give something away?) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "YOU ARE ENDANGERING THE MISSION! YOU NEED TO PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER AND HOLD YOUR BARRIERS TIGHT OR I WILL REARRANGE YOUR SOUL MYSELF!" 
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<theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm> "Sir. YES SIR!" 
<Theresa> (Give away what? We already knew that Ftisk had fly by the seat of his shell tempering techniques.) 
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<theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm> (mistery!) 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad In A Hat seems to have to resist doing so. 
<DanteE> (We didn't know that all shards of the same Warmain share a soul, tho... did we?) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Can you hold yourself properly apart and keep your tempering where it belongs?" 
<Theresa> (I thought we did. They're all bits/Shards off of the same big Excrucian.) 
<theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm> "Yes sergeant, I’ll behave properly!" 
<DanteE> (OK, is this helping or not?) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Then drop the tempered form and assume your natural shape and personality at once." 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Theresa> (I'd say so. :) ) 
<Theresa> "How do you feel, Ftisk?" 
<DanteE> (Still waiting for an opportunity to separate them...) 
* Ftisk hug Elias "THANK Youuuuuhuuu!" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias awkwardly hugs back. 
<Ftisk> (aw!) 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Warmains and Nobles shouldn't hug. It's weird." 
* Ftisk jump and hug Rochefort too 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "What if they're drunk?" 
<DanteE> "That's what I was thinking..." 
<Theresa> "It's kind of cute, though." 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Maybe then... oof." 
<Ftisk> "shush is all right!" 
<Brian> "I wasn't sure if warmains hugged to begin with." 
<Theresa> "They have arms." 
* Ftisk jump to Conrad .. then awkwardly stop 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Cousin, you're in some trouble. Do you know what's going on?" 
<Ftisk> "nope, what going on?" 
<Theresa> (The 4th Age is coming, we have that meeting coming up and Ftisk has _nothing_ to wear.) 
<Ftisk> (Oh dear!) 
<DanteE> (Oh, and your brain's being eaten by the bad guys. No big.) 
<Brian> (Rarity to the rescue!) 
<Ftisk> "4th age stuff?" 
<Brian> (let's see. Ftisk is clearly Pinkie. T is Fluttershy. Dante is 'dash. V as Rarity?) 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "I think that when you killed and tempered me, either you did it wrong, or you've been poking at the barrier." 
<DanteE> (Eh, temperament's wrong for Dash...) 
<Brian> (Brash, doesn't lie, overconfident ... ;) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "I don't know if anybody told you, but you're really not supposed to do that. It can cause problems, especially if the person you tempered has a strong personality. Which, apparently, I do." 
<Ftisk> "Poking at the barrier?" 
<DanteE> "So does Ftisk, though." 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Where the rest of you and the part of you that you shaped to be like me meet." 
<Theresa> (Ah, thank you for the clarification. I thought you meant the Wall.) 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "The more you push at that, try to draw things across, the more danger there is that it will begin to grow." 
<Ftisk> (me too was thinking at the wall) 
<DanteE> "You realize that sounds like a tumor." 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Tempering is a gesture of respect, and a useful tool, but it is not supposed to take over your personality to any great extent. That is a sign that something is wrong." 
<Ftisk> "Wait you are giving me advise against being more warmainlike?" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Yes. A tumor. One of the odd ones with hair and teeth inside." 
<Ftisk> "Uhm... " 
<Brian> "... I didn't need that." 
<Theresa> "Oh, I had one of those. It looked like it had a nose." 
<DanteE> "It means they're committed to the peace talks." 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "It's... hmm. You shouldn't push it. Let the knowledge and attitudes come across naturally." 
<Ftisk> "and if I binge in my Ftiskness the other will happen? Will Conrad in me shrink?" 
* Ftisk is worried! 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "And especially don't force it when you're on the wrong side of the Wall. Here in Creation, you shouldn't be getting much from the other me at all." 
* Ftisk nod nod 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Does it ever talk to you?" 
<Ftisk> "But .. but .. can I return 'home' with you after the peace talks?" 
<Ftisk> "YES! it talk to me sometimes! :-)" 
<Brian> "I just had a thought about neat metaphysical concepts that completely don't involve the topic at hand, except that they triggered the though." 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "We can discuss that at the peace talks. Between worlds, there may even be a way to separate you without either part dying." 
<DanteE> (If he does that what happens to Data & Machinery?) 
<Ftisk> (will work on auto) 
<Ftisk> (and Data is my Secondary estate, the issues can came from machinery mainly) 
<Ftisk> "But I DON'T want to be separated!" 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "But right now, both Ftisk and Conrad should have the same goal, to get the peace talk to take place. You're in Creation, so let Conrad sleep while Ftisk acts. Outside, it will wake up, and you can let Ftisk start to dream a little." 
<Ftisk> "Cool!" 
<Ftisk> "now we do the warmainhandshake?" 
<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Yes. Now we shake hands, and salute." 
<DanteE> "If the Conrad in you is screwing with Ftisk to this extent (indicating the Horse) you may have to be separated." 
<Ftisk> "nah! I always wanted a mount that can kill humans" *pout* 
<Theresa> (Me: *flipping the bird* Isn't that the warmain salute?" RN: "No, that's the Strategist's salute.) 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Have you ever tried riding a bear?" 
<DanteE> "Is that Ftisk or Conrad talking?" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "I HAVE HAD IT WITH YOU AND BEARS!" 
<Ftisk> "woow!" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Ah... sorry." 
<DanteE> (don't bears come from Outside anyway?) 
<Ftisk> "must try!" 
<Brian> (drop bears, certainly) 
<Ftisk> (peregrine surely) 
<Theresa> "Dante, probably both sides wouldn't mind having a ride that kills people. The thing is, they've got a spidernimblejack. Who has probably killed plenty of people already." 
<Random_Nerd> (Yep.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Bears are from Outside.) 
<Ftisk> "they? me" 
<Theresa> (And I have a sudden urge to give Rochefort a teddy bear.) 
<Ftisk> (you can make a natural cotton one!) 
<DanteE> (You could...) 
<Brian> (It would be funnier to give one to Elias) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which, yes, /does/ mean that riding a magic bear that can cancel miracles /is/ a thing there are rules for.) 
<Ftisk> (I love Nobilis!) 
<Theresa> "Actually.." *Moves four teddy bears to the horse room. Gives one to each Shard and Ftisk.* 
* DanteE takes a moment to take proper control of the sword... 
<Ftisk> (don't behead the teddys!) 
<DanteE> (I won't, I just don't want to sunder space by mistake...) 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "You have these here, too?" 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Weird." 
<DanteE> (Speaking of which, T, or Brian, don't forget to fix the tears before something Cthulhoid comes through...) 
<Brian> "Leftover from an attack, I'm lead to believe" 
<Theresa> "It's nice to have toys, sometimes." 
<DanteE> "Maybe that's another shared Estate." 
<Brian> (T's better at that, I think. Brian's better at the Persona side, and this isn't really embodying Amyra, but the things it contains) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "The Wanderers aren't an Estate, I don't think. They're just the Wanderers." 
* Ftisk go on HatConrad shoulder 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "And you have to get one to /really/ respect you to get him to let you ride him." 
<Ftisk> "Wow!!!" 
<DanteE> "Probably a silly question, but just to check: Vassa isn't, well, engaging in any 'active campaigns', is he?" 
<Theresa> "Over here, these are a toy version of an animal that lives in the woods. Children sleep with the toys and feel better and safe in their dreaming." 
<Ftisk> "campaign! camp... disturbing thought!" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Our mission is as we told you." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "I do not believe he has sent us through twice in the same place." 
<DanteE> "Just checking. 
<DanteE> "Let's do this... 
<Theresa> (Wait, you're going ahead and cutting them apart?) 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, you can't do anything with Conrad until ... well, further notice. 
<Theresa> (Aren't they more integrated now?) 
<Theresa> (Ah, I misunderstood.) 
<DanteE> "You need to stay Ftisk for a while. 
<Ftisk> "I can’t believe you are grounding me, dadDante?" 
<DanteE> "After this 'party', you bet I am." 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "At least, while you're in here. Outside the Wall, you should feel your Tempering waking up, just as we do when we cross over. But if it wakes up on its own in here, that is a sign that something is very wrong." 
* Ftisk put a tantrum 
<Theresa> (Is the horse dead?) 
<Ftisk> "oh, I wanna go outside asap!" 
<DanteE> "You guys (the Shards), get us an agenda of the questions Vassa wants to ask. We'll try to find the answers you're looking for." 
<Theresa> "Ftisk, you still need to take care of your nimblejack too. You don't want it to get hurt, do you?" 
<Ftisk> "I'll port him with me! And some feeding for him too, and a place where to poop " 
<DanteE> "They're probably the same questions we want answers for." 
<DanteE> to Ftisk: "How about you put him back together first?" 
<Theresa> (Do nimblejacks poop? In the woods?) 
<Ftisk> (is important for the well being of your nimbleSpiderThing to have a place where to pop even outside creation!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Nimblejacks cannot be stopped from pooping. It is inevitable.) 
<Ftisk> "he is healthy and good looking, he just feed on horse, remember?" 
<DanteE> (I meant the horse... is it dead or saveable?) 
<Random_Nerd> The horse is alive, but damaged. 
<Ftisk> (I hope is eated by now) 
<DanteE> "I mean the Horse." 
<Random_Nerd> It was clearly designed to be able to take a lot of damage and remain functional. 
<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack has eaten a fair bit. 
<Ftisk> (old school building way!) 
<DanteE> to the Shards: "You said you recognized the horse?" 
<Brian> (past midnight, I'm fading now) 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "The craftsmanship. This was almost definitely created by... dammit... the knowledge of who made it isn't something I know on this side." 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "But I recognize it." 
<DanteE> "Created for Vassa?" 
<Ftisk> "maybe a Vassa allied warmain" 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "It's a good horse. Look at that redundant design!" 
<DanteE> "What about this sword? You recognize it?" 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Damage to the torso and brain, and it's still alive." 
<Theresa> (We've smacked a lot of warmains. I don't think this belonged to the guy was owed Kudzu a favor.) 
<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Hmm. No." 
<DanteE> "Just checking." 
<DanteE> to T: "Means Vassa has been coming after us for a while." 
<Ftisk> "can we check if horse or nimbleSpider can kill humans?" *sparkle in the eye* 
<Theresa> (Or I may be wrong and this _is_ the guy that Kudzu called in a favor. Bah.) 
<Random_Nerd> He gestures with the bone-blade that ends his left arm. "But I don't use other people's swords." 
<DanteE> to Ftisk: "NO, Ftisk." 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Of course it can kill humans. It's a nimblejack." 
<Ftisk> "SCIENCE have to know!" 
<Brian> "The main feature of a nimblejack is its ability to kill humans." 
<Ftisk> "The horse had the power to disintegrate humans, I wanted to transfer it to the nimblejack..." 
<Theresa> "I don't know about that theory, Dante. Didn't this come from the warmain that owed the boss a favor? And it could just be that horses can be traded around, just like around here." 
<DanteE> (Honestly, always with the 'let's kill humans'. Don't you ever want to just say hi?) 
<DanteE> (And where's this level of enthusiasm when it comes to homework?) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "It did? That is an /odd/ power to grant to one's mount. I wonder what he had in mind for it?" 
<Ftisk> "don't know" 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Horses like that can't be traded around. You receive one as a gift, or take it from a defeated enemy. But you can't /buy/ one." 
<Theresa> "Hmm, interesting." 
<DanteE> "That would mean the guy in Mexico was sent by Vassa." 
<Random_Nerd> (Wait, what?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No he wasn't. Honest.) 
<Random_Nerd> (What makes you think that?) 
<Ftisk> "I don't see the link Dante" 
<Brian> (There's rampant leaping to conclusions happening) 
<DanteE> (Because they pretty much said it was Vassa's horse and that they don't get traded around.) 
<Random_Nerd> (...they didn't.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, they don't /remember/ the name of the horsesmith who made it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And they clearly remember Vassa's name.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's come up like a dozen times tonight.) 
<Ftisk> (nope they say they recognize the creator, but don't remember the name this side of creation) 
<DanteE> (Oh, so, it's a different Warmain?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<DanteE> (OK... rewind a bit?) 
<Ftisk> (k) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, let's retcon out that last line.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. This seems to be winding up. Should we call it a night soon?) 
<DanteE> "You'd remember if Vassa made this horse, right?" 
<Theresa> (I think my brain is fried.) 
<DanteE> (Just a sec...) 
<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Yes. But he doesn't. Make horses, I mean." 
<Ftisk> (yes RN, stopping here is good) 
<Brian> (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzombie) 
<Random_Nerd> E: "It's a special talent that most people don't have. I'd know it if he did." 
<DanteE> "Apparently we're popular with Warmains. How... nice." 
<Random_Nerd> (You know why that warmain attacked, though.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Kudzu put him up to it.) 
* Ftisk thumbs up Dante 
<DanteE> (Ah yeah) 
<Theresa> "I would rather be popular with them than Strategists." 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Me too." 
<Random_Nerd> (Mind if we stop here?) 
<DanteE> to the Shards, friendly tone: "Come on, I'll show you out." 
<Theresa> (I'm good.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah, that's a good last line.) 
<Random_Nerd> ____________________STOP_________________________ 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
<Random_Nerd> So, interesting idea, Angelo. What made you think of it? 
<DanteE> OOps, my misread. :p 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Angelo> booo! boooo! Warmains that help Nobles? 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
<Angelo> kidding. Was fun, interesting and strange! 
<lazarus> (at least twice this week, I fell asleep before 2200 ... and it's now 0018, so ... ) 
<BethE> Neat scene, Angelo! Was this all you? 
<Random_Nerd> You happened to pick the three Warmain shards who /aren't/ here to kill people and break things! 
<Angelo> night laz! 
<lazarus> and yeah, that was great Angelo!! 
<Knockwood> g'night laz 
<lazarus> g'night 
<Angelo> eh, always my bad luck! 
<Angelo> Ftisk - Conrad struggle. That is all 
|<-- lazarus has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: lazarus) 
<Knockwood> Would my plan with the sword have worked? 
<Angelo> also inspired by one of chuubo path/arc/whathever a bit 
<Knockwood> I do basically have 'cut things' as a Persona thing. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, it probably would have worked. 
<Knockwood> at how much damage to Ftisk, tho? 
<Random_Nerd> The details would depend on what wound Ftisk chose to take. 
<Random_Nerd> He'd probably be down a Divine health level. 
<Random_Nerd> Not permanently, but at least until it healed. 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad's a big chunk of him. 
<Knockwood> aren't most of us missing a Divine? Mainly due to JbJ? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Brian is. 
<Angelo> But I want Conrad! Make thing funnier 
<Random_Nerd> I don't think the rest of you are, are you? 
<Knockwood> I'm down a kidney IIRC 
<Random_Nerd> I thought that was a Tough. I'll have to check the log. 
<Angelo> I'm down a eyestalk 
<Knockwood> Oh, OK 
<Random_Nerd> But I don't /think/ you're down a Divine. 
<Random_Nerd> Remember, health levels and levels of wound are related but distinct. 
<Knockwood> Considering I'm the 'fighter' that's probably a good thing. :) 
<Angelo> no, nope, health levels are at top 
<Random_Nerd> So, what'd you guys think about the stuff on how Tempering works? 
<Angelo> was great to know 
<Knockwood> Speaking of which, what's the story with my 'new' sword, rules-wise? 
<Angelo> btw struggle points? Revelations points for my projects? 
<Random_Nerd> It is a miraculous anchor. 
<Knockwood> D'oh, completely forgot about Projects... 
<Random_Nerd> When invoked, it has the power to cut almost anything, if its miracle level is not beaten. 
<Angelo> well that mean, Dante, that you were enjoying the game! 
<Angelo> ^_^ 
<Random_Nerd> Heh. 
<Random_Nerd> And you guys did get stuff done. 
<Knockwood> Just not the stuff we expected 
<BethE> I think that the Tempering stuff was interesting. Does the nuts happen to any warmain that comes through the Wall, just the ones that have tempered others and does it happen every time they come through? 
<Knockwood> (Actually at some point I should make a scabbard and start carrying it around) 
<Random_Nerd> I did not expect /any/ of this! 
<Random_Nerd> I was planning on you guys talking to Imperators, probably Ophaniel! 
<Random_Nerd> But hey, Player Characters. 
<Angelo> this is my second RN don't expect any of this in this game :-D *beam* 
<BethE> What was the first one? 
<Knockwood> Well, I might suggest the plot "Dante visits the Playboy Mansion"... :p 
<BethE> And yes, it's a high honor! 
<BethE> If you want to see bunnies, visit Monty. 
<Angelo> btw cool way you coped with my message 
<Random_Nerd> If GMing this game has taught me anything, it's how to cope with the unexpected. 
<Knockwood> of course, I've also become 'team dad'... 
<Angelo> for Ftisk surely 
<Random_Nerd> For all of you! 
<Angelo> any points for my project "Win Conrad on who is in control outside"? 
<Random_Nerd> (That was assuming that the "for Ftisk surely" was "how to cope with the unexpected.") 
<Knockwood> (That might have been for 'team dad') 
<Angelo> was for team dad 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, huh. Yeah, that's gotta be a revelation. We had a whole session about that issue and some major stuff went down. 
<Angelo> YAY! 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, I had a thought, by the way. 
<Angelo> Revelation = 150423 points, right? right? 
<Random_Nerd> Which do you guys prefer, Projects like in Nobilis 3rd, or Quests, like in Chuubo? 
<Random_Nerd> 10 destiny, and you get... let's say 3 MP, if you spent any. 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone gets the MP. 
<Knockwood> Projects have the advantage that we say what they are 
<Angelo> being too little familiar with quests ... but seem cool from what I know 
<BethE> I kind of like Quests in Chuubo but I'm not sure. 
<Random_Nerd> But Quests have the advantage that we actually seem to like interacting with the system. 
<Random_Nerd> Rather than, at the end saying "Oh, shit! Projects!" 
<Knockwood> What we need then is Projects that look like the Quests 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, I was considering, if everyone likes Quests more, just working with you guys to make Quests for your characters' main stuff. 
<Random_Nerd> It'd be a little extra work, but if it works better it may be worth it. 
<Angelo> I would try Quests 
<Knockwood> BTW, Angelo, why did you bow out of the Chuubo game? 
<Angelo> but beware, wild and crazier ones are expected from Ftisk! 
<Random_Nerd> Naturally. 
<Angelo> Was unable to get the character feeling. Was looping what would him do and unable to choose what to do 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Knockwood> My current Projects: "How Dante and his friends found the truth about the past", "How the Nobles of Amyra (and their friends) Saved the World" and "How Dante Became a True Lord of Amyra" 
<Random_Nerd> Would you want to try another character? 
<Knockwood> (Tempted to say Viktoria...) 
<Angelo> well yes 
<Knockwood> Oh, reminds me. Any word on posting the Chuubo stuff on the RPG.net Wiki? 
<Angelo> RN, look here http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/317455729 
<Random_Nerd> ...I have totally not checked the NDA. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, at /all/. 
<Random_Nerd> Sorry, I've just had stuff going on and I forgot. 
<Random_Nerd> Beth, please remind me to do so! 
<Knockwood> Well, there were those Holidays. :) 
<Angelo> I have a question on the branch 
<Random_Nerd> One moment. 
<BethE> And RN has been sick recently. Him being on cold medicine is quite hilarious. 
<Random_Nerd> Which branch? 
<Angelo> the project "win Conrad on ..." have a branch "investigate tempering with 9 points. 
<Angelo> Then I made a new branch for the points of today 
<Angelo> but neither of these singularly reach 15 
=-= Carrie is now known as Etheric 
<Random_Nerd> Don't make a new branch for today. 
<Angelo> ah, ok 
<Random_Nerd> This is under "investigate tempering." 
<Knockwood> does that mean he has a Stone? 
<Random_Nerd> It does, yes. 
<Angelo> yay! 
<Knockwood> OK, so what'll Ftisk do with it? :) 
<Angelo> hell if I know! 
<Random_Nerd> Spend it on cotton candy and plush unicorns! 
<Angelo> I think one stone is not enough to keep Ftisk in control outside, right? 
<BethE> Unicorns made of cotton candy? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Angelo> Or is a one stone project and let’s no talk more of it? 
<Random_Nerd> Actually, I think it'd be enough for that. 
<Angelo> Cool! 
<Angelo> last question the overflowing 4 point get lost or recycled? 
<Random_Nerd> And if you want to develop the project further, it'd have to extend into weirder stuff. 
<Knockwood> IC, now that he knows what happens if he loses control... 
<Random_Nerd> They go into the next project in that branch, if there is one. 
<Angelo> Can gain out of the wall estate be linked to it? 
<Knockwood> I think that makes sense. 
<Random_Nerd> Sure. 
<Random_Nerd> It's tapping into stuff from outside and so on. 
<Random_Nerd> I'll allow it. 
<Angelo> Cooler and cooler! 
<Random_Nerd> So, it's nearly midnight and I have things I need to do tomorrow. 
<Random_Nerd> But this was a pretty good session, wasn't it? 
<Knockwood> That it was. 
<Angelo> was fantastic! 
<Knockwood> .. you did log it, right? 
<Etheric> I think it was a good session. 
<Random_Nerd> I always log the game. 
<Random_Nerd> As does Beth. 
<Etheric> I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to contribute, myself. 
<Knockwood> Just checking. :) 
<Angelo> logged 
<Random_Nerd> I think Angelo logs too. 
<Angelo> nos 
<Etheric> But I enjoyed watching it. 
<Angelo> nod 
<Random_Nerd> So we have multiple redundant logging systems. 
<Angelo> is good to have multiples 
<Knockwood> Welp, good night all. 
<Random_Nerd> I don't think we've lost a session yet, unless it was one of the ones on my hard drive that died. 
<Angelo> night Knock! 
<Random_Nerd> But anyway, g'night. 
<Angelo> I have to go too 
|<-- Random_Nerd has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ) 
<BethE> Night, guys! 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Knockwood) 
<Angelo> night Beth 
|<-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]

Session 264

2014-01-21T11:22:11Z

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Session 263

2014-01-20T16:07:19Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]] 
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> Hi guys! 
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo 
<lazarus> um. Dec 26 I'm almost certainly unavailable, and Jan 2, I don't know. Probably working really late. 
<Knockwood> laz: you know they're on YouTube, right? 
<lazarus> I've got a project that looks like I need to do 12-13 hour days for the next few weeks. Not that I haven't been already, but. 
<lazarus> kwd: yeah, yeah, but. 
<lazarus> this way I can turn it on and let it go ^_^ 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<lazarus> hey Angelo :) 
<Angelo> lol, Hi again Beth, laz 
<Random_Nerd> So! The game is cancelled for December 26 and January 2. 
<Angelo> okie dokie 
<Verithe> Okay! 
<Knockwood> fair enough 
<BethE> I'll make sure to email Etheric. 
<Random_Nerd> So, we're only short Etheric. 
<Random_Nerd> Give me a moment to check some things, and we can get started. 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
<Angelo> I need a summary of where we are... can't remember nothing :-( 
<Brian> same. 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<Random_Nerd> You guys have been working out the details of the diplomatic mission with the Excrucians. 
<Theresa> We talked to HQB for a little bit. 
<Random_Nerd> You've picked the list of Imperators, pending asking one particular Fallen after Luc warms him up. 
<Brian> oh yeah. He was a little ... offput by T 
<DanteE> then we figured we should find out what happened on Breach Day. 
<Random_Nerd> You've agreed that the failsafe points outside rather than inside. 
<Random_Nerd> You talked some with HQB about his memories of Outside or the lack thereof. 
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite 
<Random_Nerd> You've reviewed what Sam and William told you a long time back in real time. 
<Brian> T wanted HQB to come up with a lie. 
<Random_Nerd> Now, the most difficult feat of all. You must... do karaoke in public while sober! Err, I mean, you must decide what you're actually going to /say/ to the Excrucians when you talk with them! 
<Theresa> No, I wanted him to give us some little true tidbit to give the Excrucians as a show of good faith. :P 
<Brian> truth, falsehood, it's all in the eye of the beholder. 
<Theresa> Oh and we found out/remembered that the attack on Chancel Jaris was personal. 
<DanteE> well, we can't tell them the _truth_ 
<Kite> Kite wants to find a way to safely share Estates with Outside, so maybe we can research that? 
<Kite> Then we can tell the Excrucians what we discover. 
<Theresa> I have no idea of what I want to say at the meeting. 
<Ftisk> Ftisk too is ok to share but want one estate from outside most. 
<DanteE> If we find out what happened on Breach Day we'll at least have some context 
<Theresa> Where else can we go for info on Breach Day? I thought we had hit everyone we could think of. 
<Brian> except for the Excrucians. 
<DanteE> Jaris? 
<DanteE> We haven't really talked to her 
<DanteE> or looked over the site 
<DanteE> Do our Aides have other reports of incursions on that day? 
<Kite> We got that report last time. 
<DanteE> oh yeah 
<DanteE> wait, did we get it or were we waiting on it? 
<Kite> Though I don't remember who replaced Physics, if that was mentioned. 
<Theresa> Not sure what Jaris would have since we found out that it was a personal vendetta. Unless the Breach Day could bring forth something like that. 
<Random_Nerd> Space replaced Physics. 
<Kite> Okay! 
<Random_Nerd> I think an earlier version of this was supposed to use Physics, but then I used Physics II more in the game and the timeline got changed. 
<Theresa> We heard about pre-Physics, who was before the Physics who was ticked off by Brian, who was replaced by the build her own TARDIS Physics. 
<Random_Nerd> But it can't have been pre-Physics, because that doesn't work in light of what you know. 
<Theresa> So it's Space instead. Ah, lady Space. 
<Random_Nerd> So it's Space, and just act as though it's been foreshadowed that that, like Physics, is a revolving-door estate. 
<DanteE> How long was Physics-at-the-party Physics when we had the party? 
<DanteE> (That wasn't awkward at all!) 
<Random_Nerd> (And it's "Space" in the sense of volume and distance and so on, rather than in the sense of Where Stars And Planets And Stuff Are.) 
<DanteE> wait, who's Space? 
<Random_Nerd> Physics-at-the-party was pretty new. 
<Random_Nerd> You have not met the current Space. 
<Random_Nerd> The Space that died was two Spaces ago. 
<Theresa> Do you still support double Spacing? 
<Random_Nerd> (And, again, sorry I didn't realize that the timeline didn't work sooner, in time to build in more references to Space.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ready to start? 
<DanteE> I may be a space cadet, but I'm still not sure who you mean 
<Kite> Double Spacing between sentences or lines of text? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm? 
<Random_Nerd> Who I mean with what? 
<DanteE> He's on second. 
<Theresa> (Two Spaces, Double Spacing...) 
<Theresa> "Marie, Power of Physics, attacked and killed by the Warmain Dacius. The Angel Gamaliel attacked by an unknown Warmain Tempered with the form of the previous Power of Patterns." 
<DanteE> So, something happened with Space-not-Physics on Breach Day? 
<Random_Nerd> Correct. 
<Theresa> She was killed by the Warmain Dacius. 
<Random_Nerd> The Power of Space, who was two Powers Of Space ago, was killed by... yeah. 
<DanteE> OK... now how long has the Patterns we know been Patterns? 
<Theresa> And Patterns' Imperator got smacked around by a Warmain with the appearance of Patterns' predecesor... 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns has been Patterns for a while. 
<Random_Nerd> But there's a Warmain out there who's using the face of previous-Patterns. 
<Theresa> Huh. And Jaris was attacked by an Excrucian with a personal grudge. 
<Kite> Huh 
<Theresa> We need info on Warmain Dacius. 
<Random_Nerd> And there's the Shard you talked to, who was trying to arrange financial stuff for the widow of the guy who he tempered. 
<Theresa> And any connection he might have had with Space or someone related to her. 
<DanteE> and whether they were ever able to ID the guy who attacked Gamaliel 
<Random_Nerd> Shall we start on that? 
<Kite> Should we also talk to the Imperator of Space to see if there was a prior grudge to the Noble at the time? 
<Kite> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> They were able to ID that guy as "Whichever Warmain killed the previous Patterns." 
<DanteE> Well, do we have that report, and if so what's in it? 
<Random_Nerd> But they don't have a name for it. 
<Theresa> (He was IDed as 'a Warmain wearing This Dude's face.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, that.) 
<Theresa> (The stuff I quoted was the report. It was carved into the table.) 
<DanteE> Jaris' attacker was also a Warmain? 
<Random_Nerd> Correct. 
<DanteE> Seems to be a trend. :p 
<Brian> (sorry, had to run AFK for a bit. But I'm back now!) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, if Strategists or Decivers were doing crazy shit, maybe they were just too subtle and nobody noticed! 
<Theresa> And Caesar was a Warmain, right? 
<Random_Nerd> (Except they weren't.) 
<Random_Nerd> Suebi was a Warmain. 
<Random_Nerd> Caesar may or may not be Suebi. 
<Ftisk> Caesar choosed to not be Suebi 
<DanteE> (And actually, there's one more thing we can check... the Windy Library) 
<Random_Nerd> And Caesar, when he arrived, looked like the Domination Sakaroth, who Suebi had killed. 
<Theresa> I've got a theory, but I'll wait till we're IC. 
<Random_Nerd> Shall we go IC to the Library? 
<Brian> (it could be bunnies?) 
<Brian> and sure! 
<Ftisk> sure 
<Theresa> (Nah, Monty's not involved this time.) 
<Theresa> Sure! 
<DanteE> sure 
<Brian> (that would by _bunny_, singular) 
<Random_Nerd> ___________START________ 
<Kite> Yes! To the Librarymobile! 
<Random_Nerd> (...shall we have that have been in-character/) 
<Kite> (Vroom!) 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean... it is Kite...) 
<Kite> (Yes) 
<Random_Nerd> Vroom! 
<Random_Nerd> Library! 
<DanteE> "Been a while since we came here..." 
<Brian> "I almost forgot it existed" 
<Ftisk> "Me too" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam and William glance at each other. 
<Theresa> "So what do we check first?" 
* Ftisk run around feeling the currents in the library 
<Random_Nerd> They /definitely/ didn't deliberately lead you to forget about it, so as to be more important. 
<Random_Nerd> Definitely. 
<Kite> "You have all of the knowledge of your Imperator available to you whenever you want it and you neglect it? I don't understand you guys." 
<DanteE> "Well, let's see if the architecture's changed..." 
<Random_Nerd> It isn't all the knowledge of Kudzu, by the way. 
<Brian> "It's a very weird library." 
<Random_Nerd> It's just stuff that was common knowledge in Noble society at the time that the Amyra PCs were ennobled. 
<DanteE> "I seem to recall part of it changed on that day..." 
<Theresa> "It's just what he thinks we would need to know about." 
<Random_Nerd> Meant to cover for their inexperience in a way that required less effort on Kudzu's part. 
<Ftisk> "That day was the day the lib got secrets passages?" 
<Ftisk> "There was an orc camp also?" 
* Ftisk scratches his head 
<Random_Nerd> William: "The orcs live about a mile and a half to the west. And they mostly prefer 'ogre.'" 
<DanteE> "We whomped the orc camp a long time ago. Remember, we got all those gold pieces and that weird dagger?" 
<Kite> "What? 
<Brian> "I actually don't" 
<Theresa> "So, Library, what connections are known about Marie who was once Lady of Space and the Warmain Dacius." 
<DanteE> "It's a paladin thing, you wouldn't understand. Now where's the new section?" 
<Random_Nerd> Marie, the Domina of Space, and Warmain Dacius are tenative allies, having collaborated in the death of the Power of Things That Are Jagged. 
* Ftisk do a satellite check for orcs 1 or 2 miles to the west 
<Random_Nerd> There appears to be a small village there. 
<Random_Nerd> A lot of cattle and sheep. 
<Theresa> "Huh." 
<Random_Nerd> Because this is the Amyra game, and we have regular product placement by the Beef Council. 
<DanteE> "Who was the previous Patterns?" 
<Ftisk> (no green skinned guys?) 
<Theresa> (Red: "Cows. It's what for dinner.") 
<Theresa> (And the Library hasn't updated since Kudzu created it?) 
<Random_Nerd> The previous Patterns was the one who died before the current one. 
<Random_Nerd> (Not to any significant degree, it seems!) 
<Theresa> "We forgot to hook this up to an updater." 
<DanteE> "Can't argue with that, I guess. What happened to him?" 
<Ftisk> (damn!) 
<Brian> "Ftisk, can you update this here libr'y?" 
<Theresa> "Marie and Dacius worked together in the Power of Things That Are Jagged." 
<Random_Nerd> (Bear in mind, Patterns is an angelic estate. Powers of Patterns tend to get a specific sort of mission.) 
<Ftisk> "I can try!!!!" 
<Theresa> "Library, why did Space and the Warmain want the death of Things That Are Jagged?" 
<Random_Nerd> Bear in mind, the Library doesn't actually hear your questions. Instead, it's saying these things, all the time, and you're able to listen for the one that's relevant. 
* Kite is learning where the shiniest things are 
* DanteE listens for Dacius and Jagged 
<Random_Nerd> The previous Power of Things That Are Jagged was a violator of Entropy's Law, having made unjustified attempts upon the life of the Power of Space. 
<Random_Nerd> "Dacius" is the Creation Usename of a full Warmain. His name is known through his collaboration with Marie of Space. He currently wears the form of the Power of Jagged Things. 
<Theresa> "Interesting." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Do you mind it if I, ah, go out from here?" 
<Theresa> "Oh, no, Sam, it's okay. Don't want you to get sick." 
<Ftisk> "So if one violate Entropy's Law can be fully attacked by a warmain? Interesting!" 
<DanteE> "Hm... two Warmains who've tempered Powers... and Jaris being subject to a personal vendetta." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "it's not... it doesn't matter. I'll be outside." 
* DanteE listens for Jaris 
<Random_Nerd> He moves out. 
<Brian> (anchor-thought-speak) "What's up, Sam?" 
<Random_Nerd> Jaris is the Serpentine Ymera of Seasons, Migrations, and Rivers. 
<Random_Nerd> She is loosely allied with the Dark. 
<Theresa> (Okay, I think I have my theory.) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "It's the patterns of meaningful vibrations in there. It's disorienting when they're happening inside your body." 
<Theresa> (Yeah, putting your hand in a sonicator feels weird. ... Not that I've ever done that. *shifty look* ) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I don't know how Ymera Kudzu made that place, but it's... it's very similar to a very large Dionyl that's nearly mindless but has a very good memory." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "It's a similar pattern of vortices and things." 
<Brian> (ats) "that is ... interesting. I guess I've never thought about Dionyl anatomy." (I'll do so -what does the library have on Dionyl physiology?) 
* DanteE checks out the new rooms... 
<Random_Nerd> ("Dionyl are a humanlike species created by the Angels. They mainly live on the world Dionyl. They are not directly visible to human eyes, being sentient patterns of movement and vibration." 
<Random_Nerd> Everything pretty much looks the same. It's like being inside a cross between a cave and a complicated brass instrument. 
<Random_Nerd> (Say that the Library bears the same relation to a Dionyl that a giant parrot would to a human.) 
<Brian> (Brian will file away this information, but not share with the others.) 
* Ftisk poke some holes in a wall ... does the message in the zone change? 
<Random_Nerd> It does. Some information-streams become quieter. 
<Random_Nerd> Others trail off early. 
<Theresa> "Library, does Imperator Jaris have any experiences or conflicts with an Warmain Excrucians?" 
<Random_Nerd> Not /much/ info is lost, but it does have an affect. 
<Ftisk> "uhmmmm" 
<DanteE> "Fix those, Ftisk." 
<Brian> "Don't hurt it! Just ... give it more memories." 
<Theresa> (Sorry, was treating the Library like my own personal Siri...) 
* Ftisk close the holes 
<Random_Nerd> Ymera Jaris has been attacked by Warmains on various occasions. 
<Ftisk> (can I do a LC to add data to the lib?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You could.) 
<Random_Nerd> But there's nothing there about Jaris having a /particular/ feud with a /specific/ Warmain. 
<Random_Nerd> Just, standard "I am a Warmain, you are an Imperator, it is stabby time now." 
<Random_Nerd> Nothing personal. 
* Ftisk LC of all the slash fiction on us that Amyra's internet contain + all the info we know 
<Brian> (... -_-) 
<Random_Nerd> It's mostly about Brian. 
<DanteE> (urk) 
<Random_Nerd> The slash-fic, that is. 
<Random_Nerd> There's... kind of a /lot/ of it. 
<Ftisk> (no Dante/Ftisk from old days?) 
<Theresa> (Of course. He is Amyra's #1 Dude.) 
<Kite> (I'm curious who Brian is slashed with.) 
<Brian> (Everyone) 
<Random_Nerd> If there's any Dante-Ftisk slash fic, it's stuff that Ftisk wrote himself. 
<Random_Nerd> So... it's probably there. 
<Kite> (An all-Amyra orgy?) 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone. 
<Random_Nerd> EVERYONE. 
<Theresa> (I'm not. Probably everyone, Original Characters, or Theresa given the number of female Nobles we have.) 
<Ftisk> (seconded! Ftisk definitely write some!) 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa. Dante. Elvis Presley. Elvis Costello. Abbot and Costello. 
<Random_Nerd> EVERYONE. 
<Theresa> (I love you, dear.) 
<Brian> (The Brian / Luc ones are scary.) 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<DanteE> "Ftisk? Would you PLEASE remove the slashfic?" 
<DanteE> (How would muggles know about Luc?) 
<Ftisk> "Nooope? Is funnier that way!" *pout* 
<Brian> (Luc's Noble dies in at least half of them.) 
<Theresa> "William, do we have any info at hand about the Warmain we have living on Monty's moon?" 
<DanteE> "That's right, he came in that day too, didn't he." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "He's been quiet. He seems to mostly just focus on building his strange one-celled organisms, as far as we can tell." 
<DanteE> "What's his name again?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I don't believe he is currently using one." 
<Theresa> "Do we have any information about anyone he's Tempered?" 
<Kite> "Let's call him Amoeba Man." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Bear in mind, Excrucian names... aren't their real names. We now believe they don't even know what their real names are. They just steal some random word to refer to themselves from the world they're attacking." 
* Ftisk do a little dance "Amoeba man, Amoeba man you're not a rip of of supaider man!" 
<Theresa> (There's a thought. Who names Wildlords?) 
<Kite> "Spider Man?" 
<Kite> "Is he like Batman?" 
<Brian> "Kind of." 
<Brian> "Listen." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "...somewhat?" 
<DanteE> "Hm. One possibility..." 
<Ftisk> "Supaider ... did you know the jap version with the big robot Leopaldon" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Ask me when we have a slow point, I'm pretty sure I had my collection sent over when I moved here." 
<Brian> (I ... wouldn't have thought that from William) 
* DanteE listens for any word on cross-wall communication 
<Random_Nerd> Nothing there. 
* Kite shakes his head. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Hmm... let me get back to you on that, Theresa." 
<Theresa> (Maybe Sam got him the collection.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "It's trickier, but if he's using a face of someone we know..." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Let me send a copy of his picture to the Aides, and see if it rings any bells." 
<DanteE> (Theresa, what's your theory?) 
<Random_Nerd> William puts his finger to the ear-sphere. 
<Theresa> "And is Jaris known for having any disputes or problems with other Nobles or Imperators who have been killed by Warmains?" 
<Brian> (do we get XP for stating a theory and then testing it exuberantly? ;) ) 
<Ftisk> (wrong Jenna's game, sorry :-P ) 
<Theresa> "So, the Warmain who killed and tempered a Dionyl comes back there to start over again after he comes back through the Wall. A Warmain who tempered a Noble who kept trying to kill Space finally kills her. A Warmain who tempered a Patterns tries to...do something to Patterns' Imperator. But Jaris doesn't have a history with one. And we don't know about...*sigh* Amoeba Man." 
<DanteE> (that's Chuubo. :) ) 
<Theresa> "But my theory is..." 
<DanteE> "Jaris' attack was personal... 
<DanteE> "There would have to be a history" 
<Theresa> "That something about Breach Day cause Warmains to either identify stronger or even _become_ those whom they Tempered. They take the unfinished business of those they tempered." 
<Theresa> "Hence my question about Jaris disputes with other Nobles or Imperators. Someone that a Warmain could have killed." 
<DanteE> "...it also caused Wildlords to reconnect with their Outside selves." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Well, I can answer that one. The Lightlord Kether. Imperator of Pentagonal Resonance, Skorts, and some genre of fiction about alternate-universe Imperial Rome that doesn't exist any more." 
* Ftisk nod nod "as the one fixed for the tempered wife affair did" 
<Brian> "What, what, and what?" 
<Kite> "Oooh, skorts!" 
<DanteE> "Skorts exist... they're rare, but they exist." 
<Theresa> (Skorts are annoying.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I have never had it explained to me in a way that makes sense, some kind of large herd animal like a dodo bird the size of a sheep, and what I understand used to be a really popular kind of fiction." 
<Ftisk> "What is a skort?" 
<Theresa> (Ah, a herd animal is not a cross between a skirt and shorts.) 
<DanteE> "That's a skort? 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Well, obviously not any more." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Warmain got 'em. I understand they were delicious." 
<DanteE> "Oh..." 
<Theresa> "What was his deal with Jaris?" 
<Kite> "That....was not what I imagined a skort to be.... 
<Random_Nerd> William: "They had some old feud. I don't know what it was over, but it had been going for centuries. But there's no evidence that Jaris was involved in causing his death." 
<Brian> (I love the Yakkity Sax sequences in MLP ^_^) 
<DanteE> "So, if the Warmain that attacked Jaris looked like Kether we have the start of a theory." 
<DanteE> "Do you have a picture?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Not with me. But probably in one of my history books, back at the Tower." 
* DanteE listens to the library for Kether 
<Ftisk> (Motion are level 4?) 
<Random_Nerd> A Magister of Light, deceased approximately fifty years ago. 
<Theresa> "Okay, so Warmain side of theory: Warmains gained more memories/feelings/being their last Tempered. Creation side: Wildlords remembered more who they last used to be." 
<Random_Nerd> (Motions are level 6. Summonings are level 4. What do you want to do?) 
<Ftisk> (get the book via Data) 
<Theresa> (I can move his book. Things of Amyra. 2.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Summoning suffices for that.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Plants wouldn't let you know which book.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Data would.) 
* Ftisk summon Will book *poof!* 
<Random_Nerd> Poof! 
<Ftisk> "here look, book!" 
<Theresa> (I don't even know if William has any plants in his office. Sam has a cutting from his guise plant growing in his at least.) 
<Random_Nerd> It's Volume III of a history of the Valde Bellum. 
<DanteE> (What, the books aren't paper?) 
<Random_Nerd> And Ftisk, from the Data miracle that brought it, you know that it's on Page 372. 
<Brian> (Paper ceased to be plants, right?) 
<Ftisk> "page 372 Will" 
<Random_Nerd> We've previously counted dead plant matter as "plants." 
<Theresa> (No, Ftisk grabbed the book first. :) ) 
<Ftisk> (cool, ty RN) 
<Random_Nerd> William opens the book and pages through. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Yeah, that's the right one." 
<Theresa> (Plus William would have to tell me _which_ book.) 
<Random_Nerd> It doesn't look exactly like the Warmain you saw. 
<Random_Nerd> But... 
<Random_Nerd> Well, okay, the picture in question was drawn by an artist, it isn't a photo. 
<Random_Nerd> It's a picture of Kether of the Light, with a large sword, fighting a Warmain with a lance. 
<Random_Nerd> He's armored, though, and his face isn't showing. 
<Random_Nerd> But the armor he's wearing looked similar to the Warmain you saw. 
<Random_Nerd> (Also, it's pretty rare for Imperators to deliberately fight Warmains that are in Creation. They aren't much good at it, actually, they're much better in the Spirit World.) 
<DanteE> "Any other Warmains wear this armor?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "It's not an uncommon style. A lot of Warmains have knightly affectations." 
<DanteE> "Wait... they defeated him, right?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "But still, a distinct minority." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Which they, which him?" 
<DanteE> "Jaris and Orion defeated the Warmain, right?" 
=-= YOU are now known as armoredConrad 
<armoredConrad> "did that armor make my ass look fat?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "On the day you're researching? Yes, they drove him off." 
<Brian> "Yep." 
<DanteE> "Where did he go?" 
<armoredConrad> "argh!" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Unknown." 
<Brian> "You need a tailor." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "He probably left for the Outside, as there were no other attacks by a full Warmain matching his description in the following days." 
<DanteE> "You mean an armorer." 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
* Ftisk fly on T. shouder .. sad! oh so sad! 
<DanteE> "OK... assuming this is the Warmain who Tempered Kether, that's three for three. 
<DanteE> "And Ftisk is the only one on this side who's Tempered anyone from over there... 
<DanteE> "...right?" 
<Brian> "Far as we know?" 
<Ftisk> "Indeed far as we know" 
<Kite> "What I am learning from this is never team up with a Warmain when attacking someone, since the Warmain will temper them and turn on you due to the tempering." 
<DanteE> "Something 'opened the doors' between here and the Outside." 
<Brian> "Isn't that well known, Kite?" 
<Theresa> "It seems like the Tempered all had previous grudges." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Well, they were Nobles and Imperators." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Comes with the territory." 
<Ftisk> brb 
<DanteE> "Hold on... what if these attacks happened when the doors were closed?" 
<Kite> "Not well known enough." 
<Theresa> (I don't think I have a grudge yet. Except Patterns' Imperator should die. :) ) 
<DanteE> "They came in when the doors were open, then forgot why when the doors closed." 
<Theresa> "Is this something that the Excrucians that are coming to the meeting wouldn't know?" 
<Brian> (I think I have one...) 
<Theresa> (Everyone wants to kill Entropy.) 
<DanteE> "When that happened they went back to their Warmain ways." 
<DanteE> (Beth, check to see if RN's laughing at me... :p ) 
<Theresa> "Caesar didn't go back outside. Amoeba Man didn't. The guy who wanted to take care of his ex..kind of...wife didn't." 
<Brian> ( I think RN is constantly laughing at us. ) 
<Theresa> (Why would he be laughing at you?) 
<DanteE> (In case I went off on a completely wild tangent) 
<DanteE> "Right, they didn’t go out. Just _in._" 
<DanteE> "Something let Warmains and Wildlord memories _in_." 
<Theresa> (Nah, he doesn't laugh at that.) 
* Random_Nerd steeples his fingers and tries to angle his glasses for the Gendo Ikari Stare. 
<DanteE> "We need to find out where and how they entered." 
<Brian> (Gendo = EVA? If that's the case, then that's the equivalent of laughing.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Theresa> "Easiest place would be breaches from that day." 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, by the way... http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Session_133) 
<Kite> "Let's do things!" 
<Ftisk> (back, wow you are chatty!) 
<Theresa> (<Random_Nerd> William: "Yes. The interesting thing is that several of the Warmain shards were observed to be acting more like their assumed form than they normally would. Even in the cases of known Warmain shards that have been fought or talked with before." And maybe William: "Well, this is harder to be certain about, because the Mimics always act under a veil of secrecy. But you know how I mentioned that Breakthroughs were greater? There's anothers...) 
<Theresa> (<Random_Nerd> William: "There are no reliable reports of any mimic activity on that day, either independent or in support of the Warmain attacks.") 
<DanteE> "Any of you talked to 'Amoeba Man' since he set up shop on the moon?" 
<Theresa> "Sounds like William has, but I haven't." 
<Theresa> (So, how would finding out where and how the memory stuff is coming in help us out?) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Indirectly. We bargain for resources, occasionally. And... I don't know if you know this, but the moon he's on? Is actually in the atmosphere. High-end airplanes can go there." 
<DanteE> (where can tell us how which could help us with why) 
<Theresa> "...our airplanes? Outside-Chancel airplanes?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Ours. That moon doesn't exist outside the Chancel." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Which may be why it's so low, so it fits." 
<DanteE> "Do people go there besides you?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Of course. I'm not a pilot. But, just the official Amyran military." 
<Theresa> "...and their scientists? Or R&D?" 
<DanteE> "Do they talk to him?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I understand actually pulling off the landing is really tricky, because the way gravity is set up for that moon is definitely not normal." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "They leave him alone unless they're making a delivery, or accepting a payment in purpose-built antibiotics. That's part of the bargain." 
<DanteE> "Hm... Theresa, how fine is the resolution on your Outside-spotting ability?" 
<DanteE> "I want to check and make sure he's not being an extremely subtle bastard." 
<Theresa> "Here's what I'm thinking. First, imagine that like attracts like. Second, that Creation is positively charged and Outside is negatively charged. Third, whatever causes the breaches, memories, personalities, feelings, whatever, got caught up in it. And moved across the Wall. The parts of Wildlords still Outside were pulled across to rejoin memories. The Tempered feelings and so forths were pulled across too, by the abundance of ..." 
<Random_Nerd> (Beth is typing something long, by the way.) 
<Theresa> "...abundance of that body/spirit/whatever that was over here in the Warmains. And with the Mimics, maybe they were quiet because what was part of them was dragged across to the Outside?" 
<Theresa> (And I lost that ability when we switched editions.) 
<DanteE> "Makes sense... 
<Theresa> "So Breach Day may have been a..balancing of pressure, in a sense." 
<Ftisk> "Seem like you hit the right theory T.!" 
<Theresa> "Or a really bad Maxwell's Demon." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Hmm. So, is this a natural phenomenon, or did someone do it on purpose?" 
<DanteE> "And then, when whatever caused that _stopped_, they reverted to being Warmains in Creation, and attacked." 
<DanteE> "With no planning, which is why things like the attack on Jaris happened." 
<Theresa> "No, the attack on Jaris was while the Breach was open." 
<Random_Nerd> (That's correct. The attack on Jaris happened before Caesar arrived.) 
<Theresa> "The attack wasn't the Warmain Excrucian attacking Jaris, it was Lightlord Kenneth in a Warmain body smacking around his rival." 
<DanteE> responding to William: "We'd need to see what happened to figure that out." 
<Random_Nerd> (So whatever was different, was still different.) 
<Theresa> (Yes, I got his name wrong.) 
<DanteE> "Oh... " 
<Theresa> "It could be a form of spiritual osmosis. A balance that needs to be found before the 4th Age starts or something." 
<Kite> "Huh." 
<DanteE> "Wait, the actual breach would probably be when you and I got those weird 'memories' in the castle." 
<Kite> "What role would the other Excrucians play in this?" 
<Brian> (Worldbreaker's Hand is ... not Warmains, is it?) 
<Theresa> "Yeah, but since we don't have any big-deal fetches on the other side, what we gained wasn't all that much. And once you have the balance, you don't need more added, even if the window's still open." 
<Random_Nerd> (Strategists.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, a Warmain /could/ have it, but they wouldn't get it for free.) 
<DanteE> "Uhoh. Strategists would remember why they're here." 
<Theresa> "Possibly none at all. They may be freaking out that their best warriors are possibly being spiritually pulled into Creation and becoming warriors for Creation." 
<Brian> (alright. Was going to wonder about things the things would have but ... ) 
<Brian> "Ftisk, when you're Conrad, can you still Ftisk things?" 
<DanteE> "OK... we need to figure out what caused the opening." 
<Random_Nerd> (That was a tricky sentence, Brian!) 
<Ftisk> (Yeah, I don't understand it) 
<Ftisk> "What Brian?" 
<Brian> "Does Conrad have Ftisk abilities?" 
<Brian> "Or are the powers segregated?" 
<DanteE> (!) "That 'freaking out' may be what brought them to the negotiating table!" 
<Ftisk> "As far as I remember yes" 
<Ftisk> (But I remember only from the tempering on) 
<Random_Nerd> (Remember, Ftisk is /always/ tempered with Conrad.) 
<Theresa> "It would be three factions against one, if they decided that the Warmains couldn't be trusted anymore." 
<Random_Nerd> (He's a shapeshifter, so he doesn't always /look/ like him.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But the tempering is an always-on thing.) 
<DanteE> (Amoeba guy... do we know he's a Warmain?) 
<Ftisk> (nod nod to RN) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not a full one, a shard.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But you're pretty sure he is.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or, at least, he isn't a Noble, a Deciver-shard, or a Strategist-Shard.) 
<Brian> (Yes, but at least the way Ftiskonrad behaves, it's a bit split-personality. So, Brian was wondering how the powers division worked with that, and extrapolated from that to "Then they would have had access to Warmain abilities, and so would have looked like Warmain attacks") 
<Brian> (... bearing in mind that extrapolating from a single point is dangerous) 
<Theresa> (Only if Ftisk wanted to use an attack that was Warmainish.) 
<DanteE> (He did try to use that spit-silver attack) 
<Ftisk> (also FTisk have as project to gain all Conrad abilities) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ftisk does have moments when he feels more Conrady, yes.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Usually when exposed to the Outside in some way.) 
<Brian> "I'm beginning to become a lot more interested in how Tempering works." 
<Ftisk> (nod and a bond that influence that too) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah.) 
<Kite> "Are you going to temper a Warmain also, Brian?" 
<Ftisk> "I recommend a Tempering! Is an experience EVERYONE must do a least once!" 
<Brian> "No, but ... I'm wondering how the Warmains behave when they are Tempered. If Ftisk is representative." 
<DanteE> "Thing is, if her theory's right it makes things... interesting. 
<Ftisk> "I'm representative of myself only Brian..." *pout* 
<DanteE> "Imagine what happens if the doors are thrown open and stay open." 
<Ftisk> "COOL!" 
<DanteE> "Everyone remembers who they are. And possibly we get a lot of Estates back. 
<DanteE> "Which reminds me... any spotting of Deodands or that Law Caesar brought back?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Yes." 
<Theresa> "Everything right is interesting, Dante. It's the end of an Age. And we have a meeting with the equivalent of an elephant full of nitroglycerin for a jump rope contest." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Deodands, at least." 
<Kite> "Remind me if that analogy is supposed to imply a bad thing or a good thing." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "There's an axe I should show you. The head came off and it killed a guy. And then the same thing happened two more times. I have it locked up." 
<DanteE> to Kite: "Depends on your appetite for spectacle at close range." 
<Ftisk> "Wanna SEEE!" 
<Kite> "No, Ftisk." 
<Theresa> "Ftisk..the axe head or the elephant?" 
<Kite> "I am not that interested in finding out what Lord Vulcan's upgrade to your model is like." 
<Ftisk> "I'm not asking your permission Kite .. btw I have to ask something, can we go in a private spot?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "And we know that Active Writing works here. But I don't know how to test for the other estate." 
<Random_Nerd> (Good question, Theresa!) 
<Ftisk> "Axe!" 
<Kite> "Yes?" 
* Theresa mentally fwhews. She doesn't have access to an elephant at the moment. 
* Ftisk walk away with kite outside the library 
<DanteE> "a-HEM. Anyway. We need to investigate and find the source of the phenomenon so we can find out more about it." 
* Kite proceeds with Ftisk. 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and "this axe keeps killing people" is one of those things that Sam and William deal with all the time that don't come up much.) 
<DanteE> "Theories are one thing, but we need to check it and find out how it happened." 
<Ftisk> "Well, I lately have a crave to kill a Noble... any one that come to your mind?" 
<Theresa> (...not it!) 
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad 
<DanteE> (not it) 
<Brian> (!) 
<Kite> "Ftisk, this is not a good thing you are saying...." 
<Theresa> (And he lured you out to someplace private, Kite! Lured, I say!) 
<Brian> "There is one way that we'll see what happens like that Dante. The Meeting will have an open door, as you put it." 
<Conrad> "I mean NOT family but someone that deserve it you know useful channel my feeling and ... stuff!" 
<Brian> "Although I'm surprised that Summoning and Active Writing don't count. Maybe they're like phone lines." 
<Brian> "In fact, probably are." 
<Random_Nerd> ("Don't count?) 
<Brian> (as an "open door" like what Dante was talking about - giving memories back to Outside people. At least, I don't remember it doing so) 
<DanteE> "Good point... the doors would have to be open... 
<DanteE> "Which means the attending Wildlord(s)..." 
<Brian> "... that. ... will ... be interesting" 
<Random_Nerd> (Active Writing doesn't normally go across the border.) 
<Kite> "Ftisk, I know of no Nobles who you could kill and it would not be a bad thing." 
<Conrad> (Kudzu is a wildlord...) 
<Random_Nerd> (It only did on a few occasions when Shadows was deliberately opening a channel for you.) 
<Brian> (oh right, it was that one experiment we did.) 
<Brian> (did we have Conrad at the time?) 
<Kite> "Perhaps we can see if the Noble of Foxes is a fake, but I don't think they are." 
<Conrad> (don’t remember Brian) 
<Conrad> "Foxes, I can work on that" 
<Kite> "Don't kill the Noble of Foxes unless we find out they are a fake. 
<Theresa> (...Noble of Foxes?) 
* Conrad pat Kite "Details, Kite, details" 
<Kite> (Kite doesn't like foxes) 
<Random_Nerd> (So... I'm not crazy, the Noble of Foxes has never been a Thing in this game, right?) 
<Theresa> (Yeah, we may have our Wildlords go into memory download at the meeting. Then again, it could cause every Warmain there to also download their last Tempering..." 
<Brian> (Not that I remember, RN) 
<DanteE> "Now I'm wondering what would happen if Shadows did his channel-making thing with Kudzu in the room." 
<Theresa> (What does the fox say?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Good. I was worried that I was forgetting an important NPCs.) 
<Kite> (It creepy-howls) 
<Conrad> "Ok, thank you brother, want to join the others?" *smile* 
<Kite> "Don't do it, Ftisk." 
<Brian> (We do, though, throw Nobles of Things to the wall and see what sticks.) 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Kite> "But, yes....let's join the others." 
<Ftisk> "Sure bro! Nobles never murder Nobles!" *wink* 
* Kite shivers 
<Ftisk> "We are the good guys after all!" 
<Theresa> (We do horrible things to the Noble of Decisive Actions.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "So, the question now is, did someone do this on purpose or is it a natural result of the turning ages?" 
<DanteE> "If someone did it on purpose the War is _over_." 
<DanteE> "so, we _really_ need to find out." 
* Ftisk walks back 
<DanteE> Does the report have a map of the incidents? 
<Theresa> "Would there be any evidence at breech places? If it was something forced from Outside, wouldn't the evidence be Outside still?" 
* Ftisk land on T. shoulder 
<DanteE> "Well, some evidence would be inside, since they made it in." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "If it was done on purpose, who's a more likely candidate? Us? Or Them?" 
<Kite> "It's worth on-site investigation! Let's go!" 
<Brian> (game-time, how far away are we from meeting day?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Deliberately ambiguous to avoid needless timekeeping, but a week or two.) 
<Random_Nerd> ("Real Soon Now.") 
<DanteE> to William: "Considering the effects... them." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Hmm. Which 'Them', then? And what were they trying to do, and did it succeed or fail?" 
<Brian> "That's an interesting question." 
<Brian> "Why?" 
<Kite> "How?" 
<DanteE> "Well, maybe 'how' will tell us 'why', and 'where' might tell us 'how'." 
<DanteE> "We can start by talking to Amoeba Guy and checking out Chancel Jaris." 
<Brian> "We can so drop into a Spaceballs gag here, but it's not worth doing." 
<Theresa> "When-now or then now or nownow, Brian?" 
<Brian> "I meant the 'WHOOOOO!' one, but that works too." 
<DanteE> "No, that's 'then' and 'now', not 'where' and 'how'." 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, by the way, Dante has a project related to researching Breach Day, right?) 
<DanteE> (Ayep. "How Dante and his friends found the truth about the past.") 
<Random_Nerd> (Revelation.) 
<Brian> (that's a revelation.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Does that give you enough for a Stone?) 
<DanteE> (Hang on, checking my old map...) 
<DanteE> (I think I had 8 points on that one) 
<DanteE> (From the Active Writing talks and helping Ftisk with his explorations) 
<DanteE> (This arguably ties into HQB's ongoing mission as well) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sure, but it's only a revelation for one. Pick which one.) 
<DanteE> (Ah, but my 'simplified' map just has a few branches. It'll be on 'How Dante and his friends...') 
<Ftisk> (arrr I need more revelations! My project stay there taking dust...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<DanteE> (And I think I do get a stone.) 
<DanteE> (Need to drink more water...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, do you want to think about what to do with it between now and next session?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And I imagine we'll be getting more Revelations for a while. It's... that part of the dramatic arc, you know?) 
<DanteE> (Yes. Suggestions from the group?) 
<Ftisk> (service communication, until January 15 or there around no more logs are to be expected online) 
<Random_Nerd> (Mind if I call the session, now? It's late and we've pretty much stopped.) 
<DanteE> (Actually, are we done this week?... oops, you answered. :) ) 
<Brian> (sure) 
<Random_Nerd> ______________________STOP__________________ 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe 
<lazarus> we're on for next week, and then off for the next two, correct? 
<Random_Nerd> So, what do you guys think, now that you've figured out something that'd been bugging you for a while? 
<Random_Nerd> Correct, Laz. 
<Random_Nerd> Next week is Chuubo, then we have a two-week gap. 
<Knockwood> Did we actually figure it out? 
<Angelo> That is good to have revelation! 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
<lazarus> it feels like we should've known this all along. Kind of like it's been there, but never overt and stated? 
<Knockwood> We were dealing with other things 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<BethE> What is the service communication thing, Angelo? 
<Random_Nerd> Basically, you guys were making solid progress on this... 
<Random_Nerd> ...and then Ftisk became a character. 
<Random_Nerd> And then things got sidetracked for a bit! 
<Angelo> that I'll have no time until 15 Jan to do any more log 
<Knockwood> ah yeah, you've been trying to catch up with the Amyra logs on the Wiki 
<Angelo> what RN? Ftisk disrupted something? :-P 
<Random_Nerd> That's fine, Angelo. 
<Random_Nerd> And yeah, he just posted a /lot/ of logs recently. 
<Knockwood> How close are you to real time? 
<Verithe> I don't believe in real time. 
<Verithe> Time is a lie. 
<Angelo> 10 or 12real time is 13 session away 
<lazarus> Lunchtime doubly so? 
<lazarus> or was that an illusion? 
<Random_Nerd> Does the stuff you worked out make sense in what came before? 
<Verithe> Lunchtime is a myth. 
<Random_Nerd> I'm trying to avoid X-Files Syndrome here, and do feel a bit bad about the physics snafu. 
<lazarus> RN: it works quite well. Like I said, it felt like stating something that we already knew. 
<Angelo> well we are connecting the dots 
<Knockwood> Is it in line with your long-term game plan? :P 
* Random_Nerd steeples his fingers. 
<Random_Nerd> Lemme just say that I was hoping you'd figure it out before the summit. 
<Random_Nerd> This is just about the right time, really. 
<Knockwood> reminds me, I think there ought to be more time between 'now' and the summit. 
* Random_Nerd hands a bundle of cash to the Timing Demon. 
<Knockwood> 2 weeks seems a little quick to do everything that needs to be done. 
<Knockwood> y'know, like building a world... 
<Angelo> (and excruciate a Noble) 
<Random_Nerd> The world's built. 
<Random_Nerd> Vulcan is just putting the finishing touches on it now. 
<Angelo> Ftisk: Can we do a tour in the world? Can we? can we? 
<lazarus> Brian: "Ftisk, can we tour the world? Can we can we can we?" 
<lazarus> ;) 
<Knockwood> can we bring Kudzu to it when it's in place just to see what happens? 
<Verithe> "No." 
<Random_Nerd> You can, but when it's in place is when and where the Excrucians will go to it. 
<Random_Nerd> So you can't have just you and him. 
<Random_Nerd> Because the moment it's in place is when and where they will enter, whenever that is. 
<Angelo> because outside time don't exist 
<Knockwood> so, you're setting the stage for when all hell breaks loose? Gotcha. 
<Random_Nerd> All hell broke loose ages ago. 
<Knockwood> heh... Angelo has a point, we can do this any time. :) 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> The time factor is mainly a matter of managing your supporters in Creation. 
<Random_Nerd> And maybe a bit of that you may have wanted to get it done before Barakiel comes back. 
<Random_Nerd> Because... Barakiel. 
<Knockwood> and Jan ben Jan... 
<lazarus> yes. No Barakiel. 'cause Barakiel. 
* Verithe fears the return of Barakiel 
<lazarus> He'll ruin everything. 
<Random_Nerd> True, Jan ben Jan is still currently doing the Imperator equivalent of sitting in a bar with a glass of whiskey questioning his life. 
<Angelo> nah 
<BethE> He'll come into the 'room' with hookers on each arm and then vomit on an Excrucian? 
<Random_Nerd> Jan ben Jan has a /lot/ of arms. 
<lazarus> oh yeah, we screwed up Jan ben Jan. .... .... I think that was my fault, wasn't it? 
<BethE> No, sorry, I was talking about Barakiel and then Jan Ben Jan got alcohol. 
<Random_Nerd> It wasn't really your fault. 
<Angelo> we need to fix JBJ 
<Random_Nerd> It's just that you were asking some big questions, and... well, there was an underlying problem that he didn't know about. 
<lazarus> I don't even remember what it was now. 
<lazarus> months have passed. 
<Angelo> me too 
<Knockwood> fix JBJ. Deal with Barakiel. Make peace with Jerren. Figure out what to do about Entropy. 
<Knockwood> Well, that's what logs are for. :) 
<lazarus> "all in a day's work" :P 
<Angelo> something to do with attainability of what he want to obtain from collecting all the parts 
<Knockwood> and, oh yeah, save the universe. 
<Random_Nerd> Yep! 
<Angelo> never go sleep before save the universe each day, so told me my mom! 
<Random_Nerd> And on that note, I will leave. 
<Random_Nerd> Good session, guys! 
<lazarus> good night! 
<Angelo> night RN! 
<Knockwood> cya next week RN 
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<BethE> Night! *HUGS* 
<lazarus> see all y'all next week! 
<Knockwood> g'night Beth 
<Angelo> Night Beth! *HUG* 
|<-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
<Knockwood> Angelo see you next year, I guess. 
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<Angelo> Yeah, good xMass and happy new year to all! 
<Knockwood> Same to you Angelo 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Knockwood) 
<Angelo> Verithe, did you fear an Ftisk attack as the other did? 
<Verithe> Yes 
<Angelo> awww! :-( Was not my intentions! 
<Verithe> 'salright! :) 
<Angelo> eh, I go, have a great holiday season time! 
<Verithe> You have a great holiday season, yourself! 
<Angelo> :-) 
<Verithe> Take care! 
<Angelo> you too 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]

Session 262

2014-01-20T13:51:36Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]] 
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> Hi guys! :-) 
<Knockwood> We should do some recon stuff. I still want to get some data on what happened Breach Day. 
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo./ 
<BethE> Also, we don't have anything to give the Excrucians. 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<Knockwood> Didn’t I say that? :/ 
<Angelo> as Beth said 
<BethE> How can we recon? The place that the meeting is going to be isn't created yet? 
<BethE> Oh, I understand now. My mistake. 
<Random_Nerd> It's mostly complete. 
<Random_Nerd> It's just not in position yet. 
<Random_Nerd> What, specifically, does Dante want to do? 
<Knockwood> Find out what happened on Breach Day, which may be related to the big questions of where do Wildlords come from and why are they here? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, that's a goal. 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, like, what specifically is he going to /do/ to find that out in the next week or two. 
<Knockwood> urk, been busy planning the Summit... 
<Random_Nerd> Like, what would you say are your most promising leads? 
<Random_Nerd> What angles of investigation look like they might go somewhere with a bit of extra poking? 
<Knockwood> trying to remember... 
<Knockwood> been looking over the logs and seeing stuff I'd complete forgotten we did 
<Random_Nerd> Oh? Such as? 
<BethE> I'm not sure that we have anything like that. All we have of Breach Day is Caesar, Janis, Kudzu regaining some memories...and I think a couple of warmains acting weird that we've already talked to? 
<Random_Nerd> Like when you talked with the shard about it? 
<Knockwood> Well, I was looking at the whole Mike Cook thing 
<Random_Nerd> Yes? 
<Random_Nerd> With the dogs abandoning their responsibilities? 
<Knockwood> yep 
<Random_Nerd> Well, wasn't that more of a Shirk thing? 
<Knockwood> in retrospect, sure 
<Random_Nerd> Okay... 
<BethE> So how does it connect with Breach Day? Because didn't Shirk come into creation at a different time? 
<Knockwood> There's the problem, we don't know squat about what happened on that day, but it was something big. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay... 
<Random_Nerd> But then how does the Mike Cook thing relate to it? 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
<Random_Nerd> (Also, is he a character you guys would like to see again?) 
<Knockwood> well, that's just what I was reading. 
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<Kite> I would not be opposed to seeing Mike again. 
<lazarus> I liked Mike Cook 
<Ftisk> I don't mind him appear or mot 
<Theresa> But he wasn't connected with Breach Day. So, what are we investigating before the meeting? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. I mean, if the plan is "sit and wait for the GM to hand over plot nuggets", well, you'll certainly get some of those at the meeting /itself/... 
<Random_Nerd> But if there's something specific you want to look into, I'm all ears. 
<DanteE> Anybody remember a potential lead for Breach Day? Or anything else? 
<Kite> Oh! Were we going to try looking into how to share Estates with Outside without removing them from Creation? 
<Theresa> "I'm not sure that we have anything like that. All we have of Breach Day is Caesar, Janis, Kudzu regaining some memories...and I think a couple of warmains acting weird that we've already talked to?" 
<Ftisk> well, I wanna that Ftisk get an out of the weirding wall estate 
<DanteE> ah yes, there's Shadows cross-wall communication thing. 
<DanteE> (While we're at it, let's all look at our Destiny maps...) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay! Is there any pattern in who acted weird? Or in /how/ they acted weird? 
<DanteE> Wildlords, obviously 
<DanteE> oh... we haven't talked to any other Wildlords, have we 
<Theresa> HQB 
<Theresa> (The Holy Quarterback) 
<Random_Nerd> On the cross-wall Estate, the question is... okay, you have an example of something that appears to work there. Why does that one work, and others don't seem to? 
<DanteE> did we ask him about Breach Day? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> I do not believe you did. 
<Ftisk> him was busy crying onto himself at the time 
<lazarus> (My main project has been sidelined and I'm totally ok with that. My secondary goals are to figure out how to get Estates to be on both sides of the Wall ... either way, I want to advance plot this session, hopefully ^_^) 
<DanteE> (What's your main?) 
<Theresa> Breach Day - okay, so we have Wildlords who remembered stuff and went awol to handle the memory upload. We have Jaris, whose Chancel was attacked by a Warmain acting weird. We have Warmain shards acting weird (multiple ones). 
<Random_Nerd> (Kill Entropy, I assume.) 
<Random_Nerd> And High Summoning got stronger, both for the duration, and afterwards. 
<Theresa> Oh and we have Caesar who is just plain weird in that he's technically a Wildlord but also an Excrucian and...well, just weird. Although, if the next Imperator is Ananda Caesar, that would be awesome. 
<lazarus> ("How We Won The War" or something like that was my title of it. It's less "murder Entropy" and more "make him irrelevant to Earth's politics") 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm! That, you have a shot at here. Since Entropy specifically /isn't/ at the summit, and his main representative there is a WMD in a box.) 
<DanteE> We need to figure out what we'll present to the Exs at the summit. 
<DanteE> Wouldn't impress them much if we just sat there picking our noses. 
<Theresa> We know that the wildlords are pretty much tightlipped about their memory stuff, even Kudzu, but we might be able to get something out of HQB. Especially if we invoke the whole 'you told us to work on this' thing. 
<Theresa> Hey, nose goblins are a rare delicacy on the other side of the Wall! 
<Random_Nerd> Should we cut to you guys talking with HQB? 
<DanteE> Alternatively, we could look into our past selves and/or the last time Kudzu was around 
<lazarus> oooooooooo .... "Hi Warmains. We brought you a present. *hands over box*" 
<lazarus> ^_^ 
<Theresa> We are not giving them Baelhermon. No. 
<Random_Nerd> That is a question... is it worth considering betraying the Warmains? 
<Theresa> Idea - we get HQB to give us info that we can give to the Excrucians in exchange for whatever. A shiny pony made of Estates and diamonds. 
<Theresa> Theresa won't consider it, at least at the moment. She wants this to be a good-faith meeting, even if she is part controller of The Box. 
<Kite> I want a pony made of Estates and diamonds! 
<DanteE> you just want the diamonds 
<Kite> YES! 
<Kite> THAT IS TOTALLY THE THING I WANT! 
<Kite> ~end caps~ 
<Ftisk> lol 
<lazarus> Brian wants this to be a good-faith meeting. Because the Valde Bellum is another one of the wars he intends to win. This one hopefully by making sure the Excrucians don't want to. 
<Theresa> Oh, reminds me. In the downtime between sessions, Theresa had made the giant his horse. It is a Fine Horse, worthy of him. 
<Theresa> (It is not made of diamonds, though.) 
<DanteE> If you think about it, there's a really big question: are we going to fight, or not? 
<DanteE> Dante may have studied how people cope with siege mentality... 
<Random_Nerd> Should we take this discussion in-character? 
<Kite> (it should be made of diamonds. :C ) 
<Kite> Yes. Let's. 
<Random_Nerd> _________________________________START__________________ 
<DanteE> well, we might be using OOC info... 
<DanteE> (Conference room?) 
<Theresa> (Right now RN and I are also discussing how I made the horse. The latest reasoning included, 'You guys found a Giant Warmain and took his horse!' :P ) 
<DanteE> (Was kinda wondering...) 
<Theresa> (Diamonds aren't comfy.() 
<Theresa> (I was going to use Things of Amyra and have Brian fiddle with the dimensions, but then the horse wouldn't be able to stand up.) 
<Theresa> (The I decided I would have William communicate with the Estate of Horses and I bribe them with stuffs.) 
<DanteE> (could just locate a Clydesdale) 
* Theresa is scribbling on a notepad. 
<DanteE> "So... the Summit is coming together. 
* Kite is using stolen jewelry like a child uses dolls 
<Theresa> (That is not a big enough horse. And he wants a _quality_ horse. The kind of horse that Marv from Sin City if he were into horses would say, 'That's a damn fine horse you got there' and then kill you for it.) 
<Theresa> "Yep. Last minute preparations are in full swing. William's wedding should be just before the meeting." 
<Random_Nerd> (http://www. angryflower. com/rideli.gif) 
<DanteE> "OK... but to quote Robert Redford, What do we do now?" 
<DanteE> (Everyone in the room is in on Entropy's plan, right?) 
<lazarus> (nope!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Indeed.) 
<DanteE> (er, knows about it, rather) 
<Random_Nerd> (Brian, Theresa, and Ftisk are not.) 
<Ftisk> (nope too) 
<Theresa> (Theresa and Ftisk and Brian weren't there for the explanation, but Theresa does have a tattoo of Controlling.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But that's for the Baalhermon thing, not the Shirk thing.) 
<DanteE> "They come in, ask us what's going on with Entropy and Shirk, and we say... what?" 
<Theresa> "Look, a pony made of diamonds?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Look..." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Damn it." 
<Kite> (Kite is trying to forget it because he doesn't want to be Entropy-corrupted.) 
<Kite> "What? Where?" 
* Theresa smiles at Sam. "I've been getting better." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, muttering: "Cheating Nobles stealing my punchlines..." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Don't give them ideas." 
<Theresa> "I think that we should check in with HQB and see if he had any Council information that he can let us leak." 
<DanteE> "That might work. 
<DanteE> "and... we never did ask him what he did that one weird day, did we?" 
<Theresa> "I'm sorry, Kite. I was mentioning the pony as a way to distract the Excrucians, but that would be mean if we didn't give you dibs on any sparkly ponies we created." 
<Kite> "That would be mean! I claim dibs on all sparkly ponies!" 
<lazarus> (Kite's favourite pony is Twilight Sparkle, right? ;)) 
<Kite> (He likes the crystal ponies best) 
<DanteE> (Or Rarity) 
<Kite> (And...yeah, Rarity. She finds all the true shinies.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Rarity and Kite. One True Pairing.) 
<Theresa> (There's a sentence I didn't expect out of this game. 'I claim dibs on all sparkly ponies!") 
<Kite> (Hah!) 
<Random_Nerd> (That's a sentence I /did/ expect out of this game.) 
<lazarus> (But Twilight Sparkle has "Sparkle" right there in her name!) 
<Kite> (Her name is a wicked lie.) 
<Theresa> "William, is it possible to get a meeting with HQB pronto?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Normally... no. Under the circumstances, I imagine so." 
<DanteE> (Would it be too much to ask William to put together Entropy's cover story, so that if we wind up having to answer that question we can?) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "You even already have his emblem." 
<Theresa> "Oh true. But I wouldn't want to just barge in." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "One of you with the marking, come over here, I'll do the prayer." 
* Kite is too busy to humor William. 
<DanteE> "Well, Theresa can just pop his flower into existence..." 
<lazarus> (... I'm apparently caught up on MLP: FiM according to IMDB. Apart from the one on Saturday ... :p. And the movie - is the movie good?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, I'm going to say no to Operation Have The NPCs Come Up With A Plan.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Because if I was going to do that, I'd have to stop inviting you guys to game sessions.) 
* Kite is, particularly, too busy having Miss Amethyst Earring gossip with Miss Engagement Ring. 
* Theresa goes over to William. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "But these, he personally created. Maybe he can feel that through the prayer." 
<DanteE> (No, I mean tell us what Entropy _seems_ to be doing rather than what he's actually doing) 
<Random_Nerd> William puts a hand on the floral image and concentrates for a moment. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Okay, he should know that you need to talk about something relating to the summit. Now, we wait." 
<Theresa> "Thank you, William." 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone with Estate: Things Of Amyra feels a sudden pressure on the world." 
<Random_Nerd> (Err, no ") 
* DanteE reviews some notes... 
<Theresa> "Ah, I believe that is our doorbell. Who is it?" 
<lazarus> (oooo) 
<Random_Nerd> The pressure builds, and breaks. 
<Random_Nerd> And then there's an oversized, semi-human-looking heart nailed to the wall. 
<Random_Nerd> (The heart looks like a human heart, it doesn't look like a human.) 
<Theresa> (Thank you for the clarification.) 
<Random_Nerd> It beats in patterns that are clearly language, splattering a little bit of blood on the wall and floor as it does so. 
<lazarus> (I was going to say) 
<Random_Nerd> Heartbeat: "What is it? I was in the middle of something." 
<DanteE> "And I thought the darkest lord's hands were bad..." 
<Kite> (http://statici.behindthevoiceactors.com/behindthevoiceactors/_img/chars/char_27115.jpg) 
<Theresa> "Ah, Lord HQB. Thank you for responding so quickly. We have picked out choices for the summit and wish to know if you have any information, especially about Shirk, that you could allow us to 'leak' to the Excrucians." 
<Theresa> (Big air quotes around 'leak'.) 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "You're asking me to give you militarily relevant information to leak to the enemy?" 
<Random_Nerd> H: "For that matter, you /know/ the plan about Shirk, don't you? That was my understanding." 
<DanteE> "We do. But we can't tell them that." 
<Random_Nerd> H: "Then you ask for... what, exactly?" 
<Random_Nerd> H: "You're Nobles. Surely you know how to lie." 
<Theresa> "Something to make it worth their time to talk with us before we get to the heart of the meeting. And we do know how to lie. Except the one of us who is Honest and often talks." 
<Theresa> "Also, lord, if you haven't noticed something about us, we are truly horrible liars even without being honest." 
<Random_Nerd> H: "So you called one of the four lords of the Earth here to come up with a persuasive lie that there's a fair chance you'll get wrong even if I hand you one?" 
* Kite tries to pretend he isn't involved in this 
<Theresa> "Yeah, it doesn't sound that great when you throw it back at me. But I thought that it might be worth a shot. Also, we wished to know if you would be willing to share your experiences from Breach Day." 
<Random_Nerd> H: "From what?" 
<DanteE> "Well, it is _wasn't_ a lie it would be easier to 'sell'." 
<DanteE> "The day Chancel Jaris was attacked and Caesar reappeared." 
<Random_Nerd> H: "But you /know/ the truth. Don't you? For that matter, I /don't/." 
<Random_Nerd> H: "Ah. That day. I... do not wish to share the details of my experiences on that day." 
<Random_Nerd> H: "I suppose I can tell you one bit, at least, because it involves you. You recall when I asked you to investigate the effects of the Weirding Wall on memory? My experiences on that day were what provoked me to do so." 
<DanteE> "Did you experience a resurgence of memories from before you arrived in Creation?" 
<Theresa> "If we are thrust into the Outside, I hope we remember to let you know about our experiences." 
<DanteE> "If we're thrust Outside we won't remember anything. 
<Random_Nerd> H: "I did experience memories. I am not sure if /resurgence/ is the correct term, because I do not regard the one who had those memories as being myself." 
<Theresa> "No guarantees, Dante. Caesar was able to remember things. And the warmains may have swiss cheese for memories when they come here but they can still remember some stuff." 
<lazarus> "And some of us have done enough Summoning and such that there's probably a Fetch which may change things" 
<DanteE> "Well, unless there's some strangeness with the Summit World..." 
<lazarus> "And notice my lack of Random Capitaliz...oops." 
<Random_Nerd> H: "My understanding is that Vulcan has built his world so that it will sufficiently partake of the qualities of both Inside and Outside that both sides should be able to reason and recall in their normal fashions." 
<DanteE> "I had a flash of wanting a crown of Creation material, and I was born here." 
<Random_Nerd> H: "I certainly hope he has. I've devoted enough resources to his project that he'd better get it right." 
* Kite has Miss Engagement Ring ride around the table on braceletback. 
<Random_Nerd> (Miss Engagement Ring?) 
<DanteE> (Who else had a weird 'memory' of that day?) 
<lazarus> "He wouldn't be much of a Creation God if he couldn't do that, I would think. And since he IS the Creation God, I'm sure he's got." 
<Theresa> (Well, of course, she won't be _Mrs_ until the wedding!) 
<lazarus> (*raise hand* although I don't remember it as a player, and Brian wouldn't share anyway.) 
<Theresa> (We only talked to Kudzu and Caesar about that day, I think. Besides warmains and they didn't have memory problems, they had personality problems.) 
<Kite> (Kite's treating some jewelry as dolls) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, right.) 
<Theresa> (Oh, you mean with us? I had a slight Kudzu thing/connection but not much of stuff.) 
<Theresa> (Theresa, the phrase "Chaos and Old Night," from Paradise Lost, seems particularly significant for a moment.) 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "Is there anything else?" 
<Theresa> (I don't think I have anything else. Anyone?) 
<DanteE> "Any other guidance on the Summit?" 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "One piece of advice. Do not summon up gods to make up lies for you." 
<Theresa> "Yes, sir." 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "And... just find out what their terms are. If we knew that, it would be something." 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "It is infuriating to be constantly attacked by amnesiac ninjas who don't remember why they're attacking you." 
<DanteE> "Wait... 
<Theresa> "That..is a very appropriate analogy, sir." 
<DanteE> "If there's a conduit to the other side's memories we may be able to answer that now." 
<Theresa> (Hmm..maybe we can give the Excrucians Ftisk as a bribe for coming to the meeting.) 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "A conduit?" 
<DanteE> "You and Kudzu both momentarily 'connected'... 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "I do not know what established that conduit, nor what it was that it connected me to." 
<DanteE> to the others: "That's the key. We need to find out what caused the connection. 
<DanteE> "At the very least it may have been a weakness in the Wall we need to address. 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "Also, why. And what it actually did. I do know that on that day, there were multiple attacks by full Warmains. I do not, however, know whether the gates were more permeable that day, or if something drove them to attack with more than usual force." 
<Theresa> "Terms. Why Breach Day. What did it do, to them and to us." 
<DanteE> "Could you send us details of the attacks?" 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "That, I could have my servants do. I understand you were present at the attack on Locus Jaris, so, the other two?" 
<Theresa> "Yes, please." 
<DanteE> to T: "Maybe I've been in college for too long, but looking at this in terms of a research project is more... comforting." 
<DanteE> to William: "How is Jaris, anyway?" 
<Theresa> (And of course we are leaving it until the last minute.) 
<Theresa> "Thank you, sir, for visiting us. I hope that your work goes smoothly." 
<Theresa> (Never keep the grumpy Imperator on the line more than you have to.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I understand that she has healed from the wounds suffered in that battle, and that the chancel has been largely repaired." 
<DanteE> (Did her fishmen ever go back?) 
<Theresa> (The ones Kite didn't drool over? :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Except a few who wanted to stay.) 
<Kite> (Kite still wants to eat at least one.) 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "Don't screw this up. As before, you may use my name or reputation to accomplish goals. If I agree with your actions, I will retroactively have authorize them. If I do not, then I will be more shocked than anyone that you dare to speak on my behalf." 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "Same arrangement as before." 
<DanteE> ("Don't screw up"? Does he know we're PCs? :p ) 
<Theresa> "Indeed, sir. And besides, if we screw this up, we will probably be thrown outside by our own Imperators." 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "Naturally. Welcome to the exciting and fulfilling work of protecting Creation. Try not to die until we've already gotten enough effort out of you." 
<Theresa> "And if needed, you'll raise us from the dead and keep us at it some more." 
<DanteE> "Well, Ananda has already promised me that I'll see the new Age..." 
<Random_Nerd> Heart: "And if that's all, I will depart. I'm not halfway done with this heart yet." 
<Theresa> "Dante, you might see it when you take a backward glance back at creation when we hit the Wall." 
<Theresa> (Heh. Maybe us getting thrown would start the new Age. :) ) 
<Theresa> "Thank you, sir." (Anyone else have something for the dude?) 
<lazarus> (nup) 
<DanteE> (Just a polite and respectful goodbye...) 
<Random_Nerd> The heart burrows into the wall, leaving only a few blood-splatters and a nail behind. 
* DanteE collects the nail... 
<Theresa> "For your collection, Dante?" 
<DanteE> "We'll need to give a bonus to the cleaning crew. Again." 
<DanteE> "Yep. All right, now that we have a goal, let's figure out how to get there... 
* DanteE heads into his vault to put it away and check on the other stuff. 
<Theresa> "William, have we received the information from Lord HQB's minions yet?" 
<DanteE> (Anything in there growing, pulsing, attempting a coup?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Not yet. They may still be preparing it." 
<DanteE> "Give them a few minutes, Theresa! Sheesh! :) " 
<Theresa> "Well, we can at least invoke HQB's name at the meeting. That's something." 
<DanteE> "We could check out Chancel Jaris, as a start." 
<Random_Nerd> (And you'll get the details from HQB's people next session. I only know the one at Locus Jaris in any detail right now.) 
<Theresa> "I still have to make out my will before the meeting, Dante." *smile* 
<Kite> "I want to check out Chancel Jaris!" 
<Theresa> "Hmm. I hope that Jaris doesn't hold too big of a grudge against warmains." 
<Theresa> "We might have to make sure that everyone stays on their own sides during the meeting or clean the ichor off of the walls." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I... have no response for that." 
<Random_Nerd> (To the "big of a grudge" line.) 
* DanteE comes back from his vault. 
<Theresa> "Oh, yes, Jaris is the one who is bringing popcorn and wants us to fail on our own merits at the meeting." 
<DanteE> "Remind me what Jaris' estates are?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Migration, Seasons, Rivers.) 
<Theresa> "You're right, Sam, that was a stupid comment for me to say." 
<DanteE> "And the reappearance of, let's see, Active Writing, uh... 
<Kite> "Just Active Writing?" 
<Ftisk> "also doom?" 
<DanteE> (something about 'blessed' weapons?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and the attack on Locus Jaris was Session 103, if you want to reread it in the meantime.) 
<Theresa> (Weapons that take on certain qualities, I think it was.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Deodands, I believe I called it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And it wasn't specifically weapons, but things that had killed people.) 
<DanteE> (That's it. Wasn't there a third?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And "The Law of One's Nature.") 
<DanteE> (OK... do those estates have to do with the attack or is this a red herring?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Heh. I forgot some of the stuff that I had the Warmain say, back then!) 
<DanteE> "... 'Deodands', and the Law of One's Nature. Which are now part of Creation... and in theory, outside as well." 
<Kite> "What are Deodands?" 
* Kite looks at Dante expectantly for a better answer. 
<Theresa> "Something that has caused the death of a person. Like if a chair tripped you and you fell and died, the chair would be tried for murder and destroyed." 
* Kite looks confused. 
<Random_Nerd> (A real idea, by the way!) 
<Random_Nerd> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodand) 
<DanteE> "and, let's se, the Law of One's Nature... 
<Random_Nerd> (Afflictions, basically!) 
<Random_Nerd> (The facts about you that impress themselves on the world.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So the change in that that came with 3e was /justified in character/.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Booyah.) 
<Theresa> "Or..okay, so that you swallowed a fish and the bones of the fish caused you to choke and die. Your family could put the bones on trial and then destroy the bones in revenge for you." 
<Theresa> (Dear..your Borgstromancy is..weird.) 
* Kite thinks for a moment. 
<DanteE> "Unless it became essential to fish bones that they choke people. 
<Kite> "Ftisk might do that...." 
* Ftisk pout 
<DanteE> "Then they'd just run around choking because That's What They Do. :)" 
<Theresa> "It would be in loving revenge, though, Ftisk." 
<DanteE> "But in any case. Capital mistake to theorize without data, remember. We need to get data." 
<Kite> "So, we study the other two Estates and how they compare Outside?" 
<DanteE> "No, first we figure out how to get in touch with outside. 
<Kite> "Like summoning? Done!" 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, just as an aside, I'm going to quote one bit from the attack on Locus Jaris that you may have forgotten because it was, like, six years ago or something.) 
<Kite> "Next question!" 
<Random_Nerd> (Random_Nerd: Warmain: "I know you're coming to defend your side in the War, and all that, and I respect that. But this isn't business. It's personal.") 
<lazarus> "Summoning is communing with your Fetch. Although that's weird." 
<Theresa> (Hmm.) 
<Theresa> (Did we get more about how it was personal?) 
<DanteE> "William, Sam, can you ask the aides with Jaris if they found anything weird in the cleanup?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Nope.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You got distracted. There was, y'know, a cataclysmic fight going on with a civilian population present. You focused on saving the fishmen.) 
<Kite> "All of you guys have an outside counterpart. Even Ftisk! I don't have one of those." 
<Ftisk> "Even me?" 
<Kite> "Don't tell me Conrad's not part of you any more." 
<Random_Nerd> (Conrad!) 
<Ftisk> "Ah! Right, right!" 
<Ftisk> "So if I kill myself I get to be an outsider?" 
<Kite> "No." 
<Random_Nerd> (In High Summoning, at least, you have to reach a certain level of connection before that will happen.) 
<Kite> "If you kill yourself, Lord Vulcan will ground you for a century." 
<Ftisk> "Awww Kite! That is mean!" 
<Random_Nerd> (Although he would be interested to unveil the Ftisk 3.0!) 
<Ftisk> (That would be cool!) 
<DanteE> (Oh, wait, they contacted us through the Cammorrae, didn't they.) 
<Theresa> (Yep, grounding with no tv.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, they did.) 
<DanteE> "Wait, do they have Aides?" 
<Random_Nerd> (They who?) 
<DanteE> (Chancel Jaris) 
<Random_Nerd> (They do not.) 
<DanteE> (OK... do we want to deal with the Cams in this investigation?) 
<Theresa> (Well, we have Entropy's help anyhow.) 
<DanteE> (for certain values of 'help') 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Would it be useful, while we wait for Ymera Berakha's people to send their report, for me to find the copy of the one that Samuel and I prepared at the time?" 
<DanteE> "Yes, it would. What happened to it?" 
<Kite> "Did the Imp eat it?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "It's in my office somewhere. Give me a moment." 
<Random_Nerd> (And the stuff that is in it he told you... here: http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Session_133 ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Starting about halfway down.) 
<Random_Nerd> William returns with it. 
* DanteE thumbs through it... 
<Random_Nerd> And about the same time he does so, another report appears on the desk. Well, carved into its surface, really It's pretty brief, though. "Marie, Power of Physics, attacked and killed by the Warmain Dacius. The Angel Gamaliel attacked by an unknown Warmain Tempered with the form of the previous Power of Patterns." 
<Theresa> "Do we have an identity of the warmain that attacked Jaris or were they killed?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Wait, hold on, timeline...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Aaargh, the first one of those doesn't work.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Forgot that you had met Physics then.) 
<Theresa> (Whoa, there was a previous Patterns?) 
<DanteE> (Wait, Marie's dead?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Marie wasn't the one you met.) 
<Theresa> (No, Marie was Physics 0, then Physics 1 was the one who liked to dress up as Entropy and Physics 3 is Tardis-girl.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sorry, I hadn't worked out the details of the other attacks before, and I forgot when you guys met Physics. But you're right, the one you met was already Physics at this point.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It was another high-priority target then. Space, let's say.) 
<DanteE> (It is about session-end time) 
<DanteE> (We could stop here, give you two weeks to pull details out of your ass. :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> (The Physics before the one you guys met /was/ killed by a Warmain. But it can't have happened on that particular day.) 
<Theresa> (Nah, he pulls them out of somewhere else.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, let's call it a night.) 
<Random_Nerd> __________________STOP_________________ 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
<DanteE> 8+1/2 years of history tends to mix things up. :) 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Angelo> yep, all become blurry 
<Random_Nerd> I really should have written up a formal timeline for this stuff. 
<Angelo> you can do it now 
<Angelo> :-P 
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe 
<Random_Nerd> But, yeah, the stuff that William said in Session 133 was relevant. 
<BethE> But that a Patterns was worthy of being tempered, that's pretty cool. 
<lazarus> ... I can't /nick 
<lazarus> oh 
<lazarus> it did 
<lazarus> just =didn't report 
<Random_Nerd> That one is correct. 
<Knockwood> reading that, I came up with the wildfire theory 
<Random_Nerd> That one was Patterns' boss, and it was by an unknown Warmain tempered with the previous Patterns. 
<Random_Nerd> (Who died a /while/ ago. The current Patterns has been Patterns for a while.) 
<Random_Nerd> Patterns' boss lived, by the way, just like Jaris did. 
<Knockwood> so, who were the casualties? 
<Random_Nerd> A lot of fish-people. 
<Random_Nerd> One Noble that can't be Physics, because the timeline doesn't work for that. 
<BethE> (Laz - nick didn't work because you never changed from laz.) 
<Random_Nerd> And then there were various non-full Warmains doing weird and mostly non-lethal things. 
<BethE> Man, it was just an attack. Darn. Then again, Patterns needs to kill the guy himself. 
<Knockwood> timing and scope are wrong for "just an attack"... right? 
<lazarus> (I didn't? arg!) 
<lazarus> (no wonder I'm confused) 
<Random_Nerd> And in Session 134, you talked with one of those shards! 
<Random_Nerd> http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Session_134 
<lazarus> (and in some completely different news, my copy of Ogre Designer's Edition arrived last weekend. It's _big_) 
<Random_Nerd> Is it useful for me to point out relevant logs? 
<Random_Nerd> I figure it's the equivalent of a Previously On Locus Amyra bit. 
<Angelo> yeah RN! Definitely. 
<Random_Nerd> And, I mean, it was nearly five years ago. 
<Random_Nerd> So it makes sense that some of the details have been forgotten! 
<Knockwood> come to think of it... I said 2 weeks, but it'll be 3, right? 
<Knockwood> next week is a no-go 
<lazarus> what's up in the next few weeks? 
<Knockwood> Thanksgiving 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> American Thanksgiving. 
<Angelo> oh, the big chicken stuffed of everything day! 
<lazarus> ah!\ 
<lazarus> we had that last month. 
<Random_Nerd> (Heh, 134 was the one where you guys first heard the orchard analogy. You never did decide what that meant, did you?) 
<Angelo> I think we forgot after a while 
<lazarus> orchard analogy? 
<Angelo> see!?!? 
<Knockwood> we could use the down time to read the logs... 
<Random_Nerd> As to why the war got started, their claim to a right. "If you steal a man's orchard, and pick the apples, who owns them, you or him?" 
<Knockwood> what's available. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, all the stuff from around then is in the archives. 
<Random_Nerd> It's just relatively recent stuff that isn't. 
<Random_Nerd> And I imagine you remember that stuff pretty well anyway. 
<Angelo> last year to now stuff 
<Knockwood> yeah, you sent me 4+1/2 years worth of logs 
<lazarus> ah that thing 
<lazarus> I chalked it up to Cneph having built Creation out of Outside stuff. 
<Knockwood> OK, so... next Chuubo on the 5th, next Amyra on the 12th? 
<BethE> I'm an apple... 
<Random_Nerd> That is correct. 
<Verithe> I want to be a pear. 
<BethE> Dragonfruit's pretty. 
<Angelo> Me banana! 
<BethE> You're a clone? 
<lazarus> on the 6th is my work Christmas party, apparently! 
<Knockwood> Oh, a little announcement... 
<lazarus> ya? 
<Verithe> I only just saw that movie and the shorts this past weekend, Beth. 
<Knockwood> sometime soon, my kid sister will be having her first kid 
<Knockwood> Probably before the next Amyra, in fact. :) 
<Random_Nerd> Will this be your first niece or nephew? 
<Knockwood> niece 
<Angelo> Wow! gratz to her and husband! 
<BethE> Congrats! 
<Verithe> Congrats! 
<Random_Nerd> Congrats, uncle. 
<Knockwood> hey, I didn't do squat 
<lazarus> congrats to her! 
<Verithe> Fortuitousness still gets congratulated. 
<Knockwood> it'd be weird if it happens on Saturday, considering they got married on 10/10/10 
<Random_Nerd> Anyway, it is late here. I shall call it a night. 
<Random_Nerd> Later, guys. 
<Knockwood> g'night RN 
<Angelo> night RN 
<Verithe> Take care! 
<lazarus> good night! 
<BethE> Night! 
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<Angelo> night guys! 
<Knockwood> g'night all 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]] 
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<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> Hey, Angelo. 
<Angelo> Ciao guys! 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<BethE> We're going to tell them what? 
<Etheric> So we want to find out more about Shirk... That's what I was thinking. 
<BethE> And I too would like to see more on Carrie's research. 
<Random_Nerd> So, should we do the current one about Carrie's thing, and then move on to the two I'd planned? 
<Angelo> sure, why not? 
<Verithe> Yes 
<Verithe> (hi Angelo!) 
<Etheric> I'd be fine with that, or we could do like a split thing where half the group is prepping and half is investigative questing. 
<Random_Nerd> That could work. 
<Etheric> But if you guys all want to tag along with my research I'm AOK with that. :D 
<Random_Nerd> How much of an idea do you have of what Carrie's been doing during this time? 
<Knockwood> depends... RN, does it all tie together? :) 
<Etheric> Well, let me divide it up by time. 
<Etheric> Between when Carrie disappeared and when she came back the first time... which constitutes, I think, like two thirds of the downtime? 
<Etheric> Something like that. 
<Etheric> Or, let me clarify... 
<Random_Nerd> Oh? 
<Etheric> After Barakiel's, when Eve was revealed as Carrie's Miss Hyde, I sort of dropped out of the game. But what happened then was that Carrie had fallen into depression, and the Eve persona more or less took over. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. What would you say she was doing at the time? 
<Etheric> Eve does various things at that point, intended to answer questions about the Light and Dark, ultimately leading into the humanity thing. 
<Etheric> (This was an idea I had a while ago, so I'm not just ad libbing it.) 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, you've mentioned that before to me. 
<Random_Nerd> When you came back, I think. 
<Etheric> For the most part, this involved experimenting with other forms of life. 
<Random_Nerd> Any in particular? 
<Verithe> ducks? 
<Angelo> (afk) 
<Random_Nerd> Very small rocks? 
<Etheric> Plant life that thinks but doesn't move around? Semi-aware pollen? And monstrous humanlike forms, to fulfill the Dark tenet about ugliness to human eyes. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Would she have spent any time on Dionyl? 
<Knockwood> That's where Slender Man came from! 
<Etheric> Ultimately, this was supposed to reveal the meaning of the Dark to her, which would (she imagined) answer the question of what the Dark WAS, and that would have answered the question of what Humanity DID to itself and what it had been originally. In theory. 
<Etheric> And that's a "no," on Dionyl, because at the point Eve split off, there were only a couple hints that way. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> So, let's see. Going over related stuff that's currently in the game. 
<Etheric> So, at some point in all of this Carrie's persona regains consciousness, and notices, "Hey, I'm not human anymore, I'm some sort of giant plant... Could we fix this?" 
<Knockwood> if she prays to Theresa... 
<Random_Nerd> The Giant. Part pre-dilution human, part angel. Cain, the only pure human left. Dionyl stuff, Splintering and Domination, for comparison. Martyrs is our main Power of the Dark that's friendly with the PCs. 
<Random_Nerd> Well... friendly/ish/. 
<Etheric> And Eve, who I imagine has a separate character sheet by then with at least a 4 in Realm, says, "Sure, knock yourself out," and makes a human body for Carrie that's identical to the original one, and that's when she showed back up at the Clock Tower with her various crackpot theories about the Light and Lord Entropy. 
<BethE> (I mean come on, I know plant life that doesn't move around and semi-aware pollen, hay-fever sufferers just _think_ it exists...) 
<BethE> (And we know that Matyrs could boink King John is she wanted to.) 
<Etheric> Since then, Carrie's been hitting the books to some extent. I'm willing to assume that most of this was stuff that won't come up in-game, because research has a lot of false starts. 
<Knockwood> (resisting the urge to make a bad joke about sloppy firsts...) 
<Random_Nerd> Anything you'd like for her to have discovered? 
<Etheric> She's been researching what Lightlords and Darklords exist, reading things they have written about themselves and each other, and basically trying to grok the Light and Dark thing. Which may be a false trail, or not! Not passing judgment. 
<Random_Nerd> That's relatively well-trodden soil, really. 
<Random_Nerd> Light and Dark have been around for a while, and their origins are fairly well understood. 
<Random_Nerd> Much more so than, say, the Wild. 
<Random_Nerd> So, taking this into account, should we start with Carrie talking to the PCs about this in-character? 
<Knockwood> Oh! 
<Etheric> And I'm assuming that that's more or less as the books say they are. But the underlying question is, "What was it about original humans that allowed them to create Light and Dark?" 
<Knockwood> That's another way to go... investigating the Wild, and Wildlords, and through that the Outside 
<Etheric> And asking that in character sounds like an excellent way to start. :) 
=-= Etheric is now known as Carrie 
<Verithe> Works for me. 
<BethE> I demand a PowerPoint presentation! I will provide popcorn! 
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<Carrie> (Sorry Beth, I'm terrible at PowerPoint.) 
<Random_Nerd> The Power of PowerPoint is disappointed! 
<DanteE> so, conference room? Which may or may not have a lingering smoky smell? 
<Theresa> (Ah, but Carrie and Eve might not be! :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> ___________________START_________________________ 
<Theresa> (And I know I had asked for before The End, for more info on Kudzu. That might give more about the Wild.) 
<Random_Nerd> The renovations on the ground floor of the Clocktower are nearly complete. 
<Theresa> (It wouldn't have a smokey smell. Will and Sam are professional enough to have everything fixed before we get home.) 
<Theresa> (Ah, I'm wrong.) 
<Random_Nerd> Apparently there was some lingering damage from when Monty sprayed demon blood and iron around or something. 
* Kite uses Assembly to speed up renovations. 
<Random_Nerd> But William has assured you that all is under control. 
<Theresa> (*side eyes* William fibbed at us! ) 
<Random_Nerd> ("Or something" covers many things.) 
<Theresa> (Indeed.) 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, presumably you got that report from Gil on what Vulcan told him. 
* Theresa will have finished the creation of the Giant's new clothes and sent them by courier to him. 
<Kite> (I completely forgot what that was!) 
* DanteE is still mulling over what exactly we can bring to the summit 
* Carrie is at first quite concerned about what happened. When she realizes that no one was seriously heart except the ones that were erased from existence, she is simultaneously relieved and horrified. 
<Random_Nerd> It had to do with the bubble-universe that Vulcan is completing for the summit. 
<Carrie> (Assuming that we can get that much offscreen.) 
<Random_Nerd> Basically, it needs to have a failsafe... but it needs to be decided in which direction it opens. 
<Kite> (Oh, right!) 
<Random_Nerd> If something goes wrong... does it shunt everyone inside into Creation, or the Outside? 
<Random_Nerd> Vulcan wants Kite to decide, and to handle the deadman switch. 
<Carrie> (OOC question about miracles... Would a Greater Creation of Hope be able to, in theory, reach back in time to before the people who were WBHed out of existence were WBHed, and save then?) 
<Random_Nerd> Also, since then, he wants to know where Baalhermon's box should be installed. 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.) 
<Theresa> (So...Kite is going to hold the deadman switch. Dante and Theresa are going to have control over Baehlermon. And Ftisk...is Ftisk.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Maybe? I'd have to look at your estate properties for Hope.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But it's in-principle possible.) 
<DanteE> (Speaking of which... Angelo? You with us?) 
<Carrie> (Alright, sure. There are at least two that might be relevant.) 
<Random_Nerd> (WBH is no more absolute than any other miracle.) 
<Kite> (Kite much prefers the deadman switch to Baelhermon) 
<Random_Nerd> (Kite can discuss the matter with the other PCs, or decide unilaterally. As of right now, only he, GIl, and Vulcan know.) 
<Carrie> Hope empowers. (2) 
<Carrie> Hope draws harmony from confusion. (2) 
<Carrie> Hope makes wonders of the ordinary. (1) 
<Carrie> Hope sustains by connecting. (1) 
<Carrie> Hope is within reach to those who need. (1) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.) 
<Carrie> (The last two are definitely relevant, the first arguably.) 
<Angelo> (Back, my wife waited for me to awake (3.30AM) to do some e-Purchase with my assistance) 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Carrie> (But a WBH is pretty powerful miraclewise as well.) 
<Theresa> (*waves to Mrs. Angelo!* ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, I could see it work. Find the spirits of people destroyed by WBH, and draw them back to the world.) 
<DanteE> (You can get into physics and make #2 work as well. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (In some ways, it'd almost be like a form of summoning.) 
<DanteE> (Would that show us anything about Summoning?) 
<Carrie> (Alright, thanks.) 
<DanteE> (I forget, who had/wanted Summoning skill?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Speaking of summoning, in light of what you now know, do you want to bring Shadows to the meeting?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Consequences is coming either way, as part of a deal you made a while back, but Shadows is an open question.) 
<Carrie> "Give me a moment." To William, after he has answered her frantic questions about the people erased in the incident. 
<Ftisk> (yeah, more Shadows!) 
<Theresa> (Brian had wanted the Summoning stuff. Which ...where is Laz?) 
<Random_Nerd> (That would be Brian.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Didn't Laz say last time that he might have a thing?) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Yes, Domina?" 
<Theresa> (I forget. I have slept since then. And if we bring a Summoner to this thing with Warmains, won't they just nuke the dimension from Orbit?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, they don't hate it unconditionally... but it's a touchy point.) 
* Carrie gestures dismissively at William. 
<Random_Nerd> (But on the other hand, he's also one of your two experts on the Outside.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And the other is Ftisk.) 
<Carrie> (Sorry, assuming that he's just briefed me, but that evidently wasn't clear.) 
<Random_Nerd> William stops mattering right now. 
<Ftisk> (Ftisk know little, sadly) 
<Random_Nerd> Presumably he's still here, if he matters again. 
<Random_Nerd> (More than most!) 
<DanteE> (Hey, everyone matters to someone!) 
<Theresa> (What does William think about while he's just standing, waiting to matter?) 
* Carrie walks downstairs and wanders about the exact place where one of the people disappeared. Then she reaches out, into space, and grasps for a person's hand. 
<Theresa> (Ftisk knows what it's like to temper someone! Very few in Creation know that!) 
<Random_Nerd> (About all the crazy shit that happens here when you guys are busy that he and Sam handle without telling you.) 
<DanteE> ("Damn, that smoke smell is still there...") 
<Carrie> (Going to type up exactly what the miracle is, give me a bit...) 
<Random_Nerd> (And Ftisk has some memories from Conrad.) 
<Theresa> (Does he have memoirs that he's going to write someday?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Given what you know about state-dependant memory, he'd have more if he crossed over.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But less Ftisk memories.) 
<Ftisk> (Well, would be more a memory dump with some slander added) 
<DanteE> "We should determine what we can tell them. It can't be the truth..." 
<Random_Nerd> (Shall we say that Carrie knows about the horse-related trouble, but not why there was a fire, and the rest know less?) 
<DanteE> (Considering both are because there was a demon here...) 
<Random_Nerd> (That happens all the time.) 
<Random_Nerd> (There's a demon who lives here full time! He shines everyone's shoes!) 
<Kite> "Why can't it be the truth?" 
<Theresa> (And makes a good old-fashioned.) 
<Theresa> "It's easier to keep track of the truth, Mr. Honest." 
<DanteE> "Because the Truth is, Entropy is screwing over Shirk in order to win the war." 
<DanteE> "Telling them that would be somewhat problematic." 
<Carrie> (Okay, it's a series of two miracles. First, a hard miracle of Persona for a Greater Emulation, to apply "within reach of those who need" to myself. This might not strictly be necessary, but given that she isn't sure herself if this is possible, Carrie's doing it as a failsafe.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It'll make the whole thing make more sense.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, good idea.) 
<Carrie> (Second, a Greater Creation of Hope as a deep miracle to actually call the people back. And sustained, since she's pulling each of them back individually over a period of several minutes. Which, again, might not strictly be necessary, but I'm doing it. This time for drama reasons. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Do we know who'll be coming on Their side, and how they feel about Shirk?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Because, I gotta say, if some Excrucian revealed that they were screwing over Entropy, a lot of you guys would cheer." 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Subjectively, from Carrie's perspective, this is what happens. 
<DanteE> "You know that saying about 'the devil you know', Sam?" 
<Theresa> "...depends on how they phrased it." 
* Carrie smiles in relief as the first person fades into existence, a golden flicker that quickly resolves into a person she holds by the hand. "You're safe," she tells the somewhat confused firefighter. 
<Random_Nerd> Carrie, you're in a huge, dark, room. Machines above move huge crates around constantly. 
<Kite> "One of their questions was what on Earth Shirk was doing, right?" 
<Random_Nerd> In a dark part of the room, there are a group of things waiting to be stored. 
<Carrie> (I'm not where I started out? Interesting.) 
<Random_Nerd> They're... not human, exactly. They're what's left of a human if you take away body, and mind, and spirit. 
<Kite> "Or, 'What in Creation,' rather." 
<Random_Nerd> But there is something left. Something that is none of those things. It doesn't know what it is... but it's there. 
<Theresa> "And Sam, the Warmains that we have talked to definitely didn't like Shirk. But I don't think they're inviting others. William, do you have the guest list?" 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and everyone else, Carrie vanishes. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I do not. But you have not yet given me your version of it, either." 
<Theresa> "...I do hope she comes back. Oh, heh." 
<Ftisk> "Carrie!?!" 
<DanteE> (I think we're in a different room anyway) 
<Kite> "Does she do that, usually?" 
<Carrie> Alright, since I'm sustaining the miracle, can I include a Lesser Divination to identify the specific person I'm aiming for? 
<Random_Nerd> Carrie, you can tell because of the miracle that that these are the people you're waiting for. 
<Carrie> All of them. Excellent, that saves time. 
<Random_Nerd> Not a lot of people get WBHed. These are the recent ones that haven't been filed, yet. 
<Random_Nerd> Somewhere, in the distance, you hear a dog barking orders at someone. 
<Theresa> (Hey! Our doggie!) 
<Random_Nerd> But that isn't important to your miracle! It's just a thing that is happening. 
<Carrie> (If I weren't Carrie, I would be starting to become aware that I actually am probably in a bit of danger myself, right now. Being Carrie, that doesn't register.) 
<Random_Nerd> So, Carrie. You can do your second miracle to, one at a time, reconnect these people with soul and mind and matter and so on. 
<Random_Nerd> Do you want them to appear where they vanished, or in the conference room? 
<Carrie> (Where they vanished.) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. You, through the estate of Hope, re-establish the ties that were severed by the miracle enacted through the Horse. 
* Carrie will touch each in turn, connecting a golden thread to the lost form. And this thread touches other threads, and gradually, time and place as well as matter and mind and soul resolve around them. 
<DanteE> (Maybe we should ride that horse into the summit...) 
<Random_Nerd> From your point of view, it's a really slow, painstaking process. From the Amyran point of view, people just start appearing, relatively shortly after each other. 
<Random_Nerd> (According to Warmain customs, you guys are entitled to it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You are allowed to take the mount and weapons of a defeated enemy.) 
<Theresa> (Plus, it only kills humans.) 
<DanteE> (Remind me who's coming?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Warmain customs about combat are relatively well-known, as they never shut up about them.) 
<Carrie> (LOL) 
<Random_Nerd> (You'll work that out next storyline! Or this one!) 
<DanteE> (Who's confirmed, then?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Entropy is /not/ coming. Consequences is. Caesar has asked to. Ophaniel at least gets to send a representative.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Surolam is coming.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And Entropy really wants you to have Baalhermon on hand, but has not insisted.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Am I forgetting anyone? I'm not on my usual PC with logs and notes and stuff.) 
<Theresa> (A Dark Imperator, I think. Kudzu is coming too.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, right, Jaris.) 
* Carrie will, when the final person appears, resolve out of golden light herself, a bit breathless, holding his hand as she leads him back into world and sound. 
<Random_Nerd> (Thanks.) 
<Theresa> (I think we were trying to have One of Each Kind at least. Oh, Jerrhyn?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and of course Kudzu.) 
<DanteE> (That's right, we were collecting all the factions and had one left...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Jerren isn't a definite. But he wants to come.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You needed political support from all the factions. Not all insisted that they be on the list.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But you should pick someone from each group.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And ideally not all should be from Earth.) 
<DanteE> (I wonder if we should have an older serpent. Jerren's a baby.) 
<Random_Nerd> (How could bringing the God of Inevitable Doom possibly be a bad idea?) 
<Carrie> (Shall we count the ways?) 
<Random_Nerd> (At least then the doom would be adorable and on your side.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Carrie, do you want to appear in the Horseroom, or with a fireman in the conference room?) 
<Carrie> (Horse room. Speaking of which, is that horse still here?) 
<Kite> (Were we getting the one Dionyl true god?) 
<Theresa> (Argh. Catering this shindig is going to be such a paaaaain...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Drift, you mean?) 
<Kite> (Drift! Yes. I was thinking Blue, Flow and Voice....) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and you don't currently have a Fallen on the list. Barakiel provided your leverage in Hell, and he's... AWOL.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Nor, I believe, do you have a Magister of the Light.) 
<Kite> (We're also probably better off if Barakiel doesn't come.) 
<Theresa> (Which means he may very well shove his way in with a metaphysical cattle prod and a Hunter S. Thompson hat.) 
<Theresa> (Hmm. I thought we had maybe tried to get a Light. The Power of Orchard's imperator, maybe?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Barakiel will be represented by Consequences... but Consequences is just representing Barakiel personally, not Hell collectively.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You were planning on getting a Lightlord, but then Entropy decided to side with you, and everyone just decided that it was going to happen.) 
<DanteE> (Hey, we could just go to hell and recruit somebody. 
<Kite> (Did we ever visit with the Power of Orchards?) 
<DanteE> (They teach basic demonology in the colleges here, right? :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> William is drawing a list on the whiteboard. 
<Random_Nerd> You met her, her aide, and Cain. 
<Random_Nerd> About two weeks ago in-character. 
<Kite> (Right!) 
<Random_Nerd> (They actually do. But as a theological thing.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Technically, King John is probably the top demonologist in the kingdom.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Especially with his recent practical experience!) 
<Theresa> (But I haven't been able to have my talk with Orchards yet.) 
<Theresa> (*shifty look* Would Lesson also count?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, because that was when the Shit Hit The Fan, flower-rite wise.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hell would view that as an insult.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hell is super incredibly interested in hierarchy.) 
<Random_Nerd> (As much as the Angels.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which is saying something.) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "So, that weird new Wildlord, Caesar. You bringing him?" 
<Theresa> (Which would Hell view as an insult? I was suggesting that Lesson could be an expert on demonology, not that he represent Hell.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah. I thought you meant as a representative.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and Aaron knows more about demons than John. Much more.) 
<DanteE> "Hm. Good question. 
<Ftisk> (I don't trust AAron) 
<DanteE> (Come to think of it, has Kudzu met Caesar?) 
<Kite> (Did we neglect to invite Caesar?) 
<Theresa> (No, I remember inviting Caesar.) 
<Kite> "We invited Caesar, yes." 
<DanteE> "Let's break it down by faction. Caesar and Kudzu representing the Wild... 
<Theresa> "Caesar and Flow representing the Dionyl." 
<DanteE> "Though I wonder what will happen when they get close to the Wall, especially when the others come through." 
<Kite> "Caesar, I'm sure, will prefer to not represent the Wild." 
<DanteE> "Consequences representing Barakiel." 
<Kite> "Just himself." 
<Random_Nerd> William writes down the names. 
<Theresa> "Jaris of the Dark. She's bringing popcorn." 
<Random_Nerd> Kudzu of the Wild. Drift, of the Gods of Dionyl. Jaris of the Dark. Caesar, representing himself. Ha'Quadosh Berakha, of the Wild but representing himself. 
<Random_Nerd> (And I don't know why I said Surolam earlier, it was HQB who was your supporter.) 
<DanteE> Surolam, representing Creation? 
<DanteE> ah. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, all of you are theoretically representing Creation. 
<Random_Nerd> But HQB can be a representative of the Earth collectively, since he's on the Council. 
<Theresa> "Jerrhyn of the Serpents." 
<DanteE> Not appearing in this picture: Entropy, Barakiel... 
<DanteE> "We still need to ask him about that." 
<Random_Nerd> Baalhermon, In A Box. 
<Kite> "Ophaniel, maybe." 
<Random_Nerd> William; "Do you know if she wishes to come herself, or send another?" 
<Ftisk> (Ophy? You want Ftisk crazy like a barking dog drooling all around her?) 
<Kite> "I'm not sure." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "A maybe, then." 
<Theresa> (There, Ftisk, you can explain to us the problems with having her there herself. ^^ ) 
<Kite> ("Ftisk, wear this blind-fold for a second.") 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Should you pick a God of Earth?" 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Because Vulcan isn't coming himself, right?" 
<Ftisk> (guys, Ftisk literally lose his mind around her) 
<Ftisk> (right Vulcan will not came to the meeting) 
<DanteE> (and that's different from the usual how? :p ) 
<Kite> "Right..." 
<Ftisk> (lol Dante, well Ftisk will be *more* crazy, if possible) 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Can either of you suggest a reasonable replacement?" 
<Theresa> "Hmm, do we know any personally? I mean, we met that one guy that might have been Odin? And didn't we have something to do with the Power of Roads?" 
<Kite> (Was Jeremiah a True God?) 
<Random_Nerd> (He was a Lightlord.) 
<Kite> (Ymir?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You mean the dog-guy's father, right?) 
<Kite> (Yeah. That was Jeremiah, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Did I have Ymir in this game? I thought Jan ben Jan took his mythic role.) 
<DanteE> (Alternatively, we can try the number that guy called in Ah Megumi-sama... :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, Jeremiah was of the Light.) 
<Kite> (Was Ymir the imperator of the Sky?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, that sounds right.) 
<Random_Nerd> (In the Jerren episode, yes?) 
<Kite> (yeah) 
<Ftisk> (and Pattern imperator? How about asking him?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Let me think.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Pattern's imperator is Fallen. But you don't really have any relations to him.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Only to Patterns. And you have good reasons to believe that Patterns is plotting to kill his imperator.) 
<Ftisk> (but we want a fallen, right?) 
<DanteE> (So, we need a God and a Devil.) 
<Theresa> "How many of the people that we are inviting are people that we have annoyed or ticked off?" 
* Carrie rushes in from downstairs, with a stern look on her face. "That *horse* is going out of this city." 
<Kite> (Papa Legba owes us a favor, right?) 
<DanteE> "Pretty much all of them." 
<Random_Nerd> (He's a Noble, though.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Crossroads.) 
<Ftisk> "Cool!" 
<DanteE> to Carrie: "What happened?" 
<Kite> (But who's his imperator?) 
<Theresa> "And the horse is fine whenever no one enters his domain..." 
<Random_Nerd> (Ymera Not Yet Appearing In This Game.) 
<Theresa> "Or sits on him and points him at humans..." 
<Carrie> "William said it obliterated several of our citizens. I managed to restore all five of them. That is five too many." 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, he /has/ one. Presumably. But he's not yet shown up.) 
<Theresa> "Oh good job, Carrie!" 
<DanteE> "And the fact that you know about those five is because that horse is _here_." 
<Ftisk> "But, but, was cool!" 
<Theresa> "And it's Snow's horse. We shouldn't get rid of it without her notice." 
<Kite> "Huh." 
<DanteE> "It's contained. For the most part. 
* Carrie sighs. "Snow's horse, is it?" 
<DanteE> "If it's out of the city you can't say that." 
<Carrie> "Alright, new plan. Make it impossible for humans to enter the room, and set up a warning if the horse ever leaves." 
<Theresa> "She's the one that claimed it." 
<Carrie> "Very well, carry on." 
<Theresa> (Poor William and Sam. Part of the problem was that a demon entered the room, not just because of humans.) 
<DanteE> (How much did our Aides reveal about what happened?) 
<Random_Nerd> (They told Carrie that the horse had destroyed some people, because Hope seemed the best way to get them back.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The rest of you just know that there was some minor fire damage and they're doing renovations on the lower levels of the clock tower.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and Theresa was asked to make clothes for the Giant.) 
<Theresa> (And John suggested offhand that I make him a nice horse.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "So, we want a Magister of the Light, a God of Earth, and a Fallen. And we need to ask Ophaniel who she'll send." 
<Kite> (Kite wants to know how shiny the clothes and horse will be.) 
<Kite> "Right..." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. A thought, given Carrie's thing. Since you're picking imperator types... do you want to send a representative of Humanity?) 
<Ftisk> "Ophanienl! Oh my!!!" 
* Ftisk drool a bit 
<Kite> "Down, Ftisk." 
<DanteE> "Isn't that us?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Kite, Ftisk, did Vulcan suggest a god?" 
* Ftisk giggle silly-ish 
<Theresa> "Since Consequences is coming on behalf of Barakiel, will asking a Fallen to come as well look bad?" 
<Kite> "No." 
<Theresa> (Aren't we already bringing John?) 
<Kite> (Unless he did, in which case Kite says "Yes") 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Well, if a human is there to represent Hell, that might make things a bit... touchy. But you can probably swing it if you want to." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "And it's not as though bringing a Fallen would be a cakewalk either." 
<DanteE> "William, we haven't done a 'cakewalk' since.... 
<Theresa> "Well, if Ophanienl sends a human, Consequences could work." 
<DanteE> "... damn, I've never done a cakewalk. I just buy cakes." 
<Kite> "Is that a dance?" 
<Theresa> "I have. I have done many school fundraisers. I have supplied far more cakes than I have walked away with them. Large families with toddlers should be banned from the chairs! ... Sorry, touchy subject." 
<DanteE> "Anyway. William. Any Fallen that are on good terms with the Aides?" 
<Theresa> "You have a circle of chairs and many cakes. Music plays and when it stops, the people all find a seat. A number is drawn from a hat and each seat has a number. If your number is called, you can pick any cake that they have." 
<Theresa> (*cough Lucifer cough*) 
<Kite> "Huh." 
<Random_Nerd> (By the way, V, I just paged past it as I was l was looking something else up, and your chibi-serpent remains adorable.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Hmm. 'good' terms." 
<Kite> (Yay!) 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Could you define what you mean by that?" 
<Kite> "Heavy emphasis on the quotation marks." 
<Random_Nerd> William has a sudden horrified expression. 
<Random_Nerd> W:" I have an answer. But you're not going to like it." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "You've met one of their nobles. The Power of Horrible Things." 
<DanteE> "... who's her Imperator?" 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Belphegor. Lord of Horrible Things, Lust, and Discoveries." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "And... well, you probably know this, but different types of Imperators tend to pick their Nobles in different ways." 
<Kite> "How's Belphegor do it?" 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Wildlords do it largely at random... ah... no offense intended. But Angels, of either kind, are very picky. They choose someone they think is exactly the right person for a very specific job." 
<Random_Nerd> W:" So, you've met the Power of Horrible Things. Belphegor is someone who took weeks thinking about it, and decided that the best person he could choose to give the power of a god was her." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "But... Luc lives in his chancel. Personally. So he is definitely the Fallen with whom we have the most pull." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Dammit, now I was Luc /was/ secretly Lucifer. That would be so much easier." 
<Kite> "Well, we can try for that one." 
<DanteE> "Hm. We might also want to talk to Discoveries, considering what we're doing." 
<Theresa> "If we invited Lucifer to this meeting but in as a 'regular human'...I think that he'd either be insulted or fall over laughing." 
<Theresa> (Belphegor...he's the producer of the American Horror Story tv series, isn't he? :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (No. That's Besaliel, Lord of Creepiness, Evil Pregnancies, and Jessica Lange.) 
<Random_Nerd> William writes "Belphegor" and a question mark. And a frowny face. 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Ah, that just slipped out." 
<Random_Nerd> He erases it. 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Would it be a worse idea to try to find Barakiel, and bring him?" 
<Kite> (Jessica Lange is an Estate.) 
<Random_Nerd> William has the expression of a man asked which eye he's least fond of. 
<Ftisk> (a pretty focused estate) 
<Kite> "I would rather Barakiel not come." 
<DanteE> "That's probably a good idea. 
<Kite> "Which he is never to find out." 
<DanteE> "OK, then, William, who's in second place?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I don't know. We don't do a lot of business with Hell." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Most people who hire Aides do it largely because they aren't comfortable working with the Camorra. That... isn't a problem, in Hell." 
<Theresa> "He's probably going to come. We helped to turn him into a nigh-all-powerful being who doesn't have to follow any rules what do ever. So he will show up. So Lawbreakers function the same way on the Outside side of the Wall?" 
<Kite> "Who has Glimmering?" 
<Kite> "Glisting?" 
<Kite> "Whichever that one was." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm?) 
<Random_Nerd> William, to Theresa: "I have no idea." 
<Carrie> So, what Carrie does... First, Realm Lesser Destruction on the Horse Room. As far as any humans who fall under "Things of Amyra" are concerned, it doesn't exist. They can't see it, enter it, or interact with it. Likewise, it can't affect them. I'm assuming that this falls within the limits of a Lesser Destruction. 
<Kite> (Some Fallen Angel mentioned a little before the mortals arc.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Sure. Especially since "has paths to lots of places" is a property of Amyra.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Trying to recall who you mean. Do you remember an estate?) 
<Kite> (Glimmering/Glistening is the only Estate I remember) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Well, there's the Angel of War... wait, doesn't he hate you guys?" 
<Carrie> (Evil Pregnancies is its own estate? Eve probably knows the Power.) 
<DanteE> "We're _not_ on good terms with Azazel..." 
<Kite> (Or some other G word that is shiny) 
<DanteE> "We should be, but we're not." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I think the problem is that all the Fallen Angels we've had much contact with either are real pieces of work, or hate you guys, or both." 
<Theresa> "We have the support of HQB...but I don't think we should force a Fallen to come to our tea party with it." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I think we need to think really good and hard about just taking a statue of an angel, painting it red, and writing 'definitely a real Fallen' on the front." 
<Random_Nerd> William fails to suppress a giggle. 
<DanteE> "It's an opportunity for power and to get 'dirt' on powerful Ymera. We shouldn't need to bribe or coerce." 
<Kite> "William, are you okay? You don't seem yourself, today." 
<Theresa> (Oh, quick question. What was the reactions of the Aides to the spiderJack?) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "The wedding's nearly ready. I have to work on wedding programs and so on." 
<Ftisk> (yeah, that is interesting to know) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Catering. For /humans/." 
<Ftisk> "Can I attend on spiderJack?" 
<Random_Nerd> (William's reaction was to show no facial expression and then remember that he had some paperwork to do somewhere that was not there.) 
<Kite> "Ah." 
<Random_Nerd> (Sam wanted to play with it.) 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, we've talked about not freaking people out." 
<Ftisk> "But but! SpiderJack is well behaved!" 
<Ftisk> "Look here I have even the tool to dispose his poooop!" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Yes. He is the best-behaved nimblejack-turned-spider I have ever met." 
<Random_Nerd> (And what /is/ it with you guys and spiders, anyway?) 
* Ftisk nod nod to William 
<DanteE> (Not sure... didn't it start with Leo?) 
<Ftisk> (I like them, they are sturdy dependable mount! Also spiderwebsssssss!) 
<Kite> "Ftisk, SpiderJack doesn't know the proper dances for weddings." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "So, for a Fallen, all the options are bad ones. Leave them out, and snub a major faction. Or pick one of the options at hand. Belphegor, Barakiel, Azazel." 
<Ftisk> "can learn! Wanna help me train it?" 
<DanteE> (spiders live in dirty places and quietly create elaborate and dangerous things. They're very Leo-esque.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I am delighted to inform all of you that this decision is well above my pay grade." 
<Kite> "No. I don't want it to learn. Ever." 
<DanteE> "Azazel's Fallen?" 
<Random_Nerd> (You could have Puck teach it to mix drinks!) 
<Ftisk> "pity" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Technically, a Watcher. But he maintains his Chancel in Hell. Full-time, not halfway like Barakiel." 
<Ftisk> (RN, that is an AWESOME idea! Speeed spiderJack drinks mixing! What could ever go wrong?) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "But your only contact with him is through his son, who he doesn't care about, and who at best vaguely likes you." 
<Ftisk> "SpiderJack can do the bartender with Puck! Yes Will? Yes?" 
<DanteE> "Considering I'm _Blades_..." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "That would be the other problem." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "He really hates Kudzu. You know why." 
<Theresa> "Perhaps we should invite Belphegor. And make sure that Luc also attends? For Humanity, along with John?" 
<Carrie> After the Horse Room miracle, Lesser Incarnation of Hope to make the hope of keeping humans away from the horse part of me, so that if this hope is endangered, I'll be notified similarly to my Estate being endangered, though less painfully. Subject to this actually working as a Lesser Incarnation, but it seems to fit. 
<DanteE> "Yes I do. But I don't know the backstory." 
<Carrie> (If this seems like a stretch, I can modify it.) 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Kudzu was not, formerly, the Imperator of Blades. Azazel was once the Imperator of Weaponry. Things went really badly between them, and Kudzu ended up partially eating Azazel, and stealing one of his Estates." 
<Kite> "If Luc attends, does that mean Horrible Things has to attend?" 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Well, when you incarnate into things, they start to care about what you care about. It won't be guaranteed, but it would have a decent chance of working. 
<Carrie> (Correction, Greater Incarnation is the one that allows you to divide your consciousness rather than trancing and being the thing for a while.) 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Luc has successfully persuaded her to not attend." 
<DanteE> "partially _eating_? That part I hadn't heard." 
<Kite> "Delightful!" 
<Random_Nerd> W: "How did you think he stole it? Imperators sometimes prey on each other." 
<DanteE> "It does fit Kudzu, though." 
<Carrie> (So I assume indefinitely putting a shard of myself there as an alarm-bell would fall under Greater.) 
<Random_Nerd> W: "The Old Gods did it all the time, but they got overthrown. Now, it's pretty rare." 
<Kite> (Stay away from Cthulu and Chronus.) 
<Random_Nerd> W: "But... yes. To Azazel, if you went to him asking for help, this would be like if you had your leg chopped off, and then someone took the leg and raised it to hate you, and then the leg came to you and said... this metaphor doesn't really work." 
<Ftisk> "Pity, seem like a fun way, I eat you a bit you eat me a bit... " 
<Random_Nerd> (You guys do know one Old God. Jan ben Jan.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He only eats pieces of people after getting permission!) 
<Carrie> (Hey, I think the metaphor works.) 
<DanteE> (And didn't the prophecy he uncovered talk about him leaving Creation?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not exactly...) 
<Random_Nerd> (I don't have my logs right now because they're on my desktop, or I'd post it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Man, we need to put Jan's prophecies on the wiki.) 
<DanteE> (Having him there and having your safeguard open to the outside would be a BAD idea.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Plus, the last you heard, JbJ was in a fit of self-fullfilling-prophecy depression.) 
<Ftisk> (afk) 
<DanteE> (OK, maybe this could be a story tangent. Dante has a Bond to bringing Nobles together and a background in psych. He'll want to talk to all these "people".) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "So... which Fallen do we go with? Or none?" 
<Theresa> "I think Bel. We are already inviting Impending Doom." 
<Random_Nerd> William looks at the rest of you. "Acceptable? Or does someone have a competing suggestion?" 
<Kite> "Yeah. Belphegor." 
<Carrie> (That goes in the quotes. We are still doing a quote page of each session, right?) 
<Theresa> (Whenever one of us thinks of it. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not always, but when... yeah.) 
<Carrie> (Very well, I will make sure it does get quoted.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Dante? Carrie? Ftisk?" 
* DanteE is still thinking about Kudzu and Azazel, and how he's in the middle... 
* Carrie is, as it happens, standing at the back of the room, looking bored. "Who is Belphegor again?" 
<Ftisk> (a chocolate ice cream with whipped cream + chocolate sauce and bits of nuts later... back!) 
<Kite> "The Fallen Angel of Horrible Things, Discovery and Lust." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "The one Luc has the most pull with. Horrible Things, Lust, Discovery. Not... stupid, exactly, but a short attention span." 
<Carrie> "Discovery. Was Discovery a Dark Power, or am I thinking of someone else?" 
<Random_Nerd> W: "And not very nice if you're in his power." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "I misspoke. Discovery. The process of discovery." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Not the things that are discovered." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "He... tends to lose interest by that point." 
<Carrie> "Understood. Who is the Power of Discovery, and what is his Code?" 
<Random_Nerd> (You tell me!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, wait, Discovery.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Imagine the worst traits of Kite and Ftisk, combined." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Add a total lack of social or moral restrictions." 
<Kite> "What?" 
<Ftisk> "Hey! I have NO worst traits" 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Oh! And Sam's worst traits, too." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Hey!" 
<DanteE> (So, he's Chaotic Neutral?) 
<Theresa> "He's a kender?" 
* Ftisk pout at T. 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Oh, and I interviewed that woman you told me about. She terrifies me, and would be a good candidate for the Aides." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I think it's like... okay, Kite sometimes randomly steals shiny things, right?" 
<Kite> "Theresa, may I please force William to make a scale replica of the Taj Mahal out of dried lentils?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "But he wouldn't cut someone open if he heard a rumor that they had shiny things in them." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "...right?" 
<Random_Nerd> He sounds a little uncertain. 
<Kite> "Who has shiny things in them?" 
<Theresa> (Diamond smugglers! Go get 'm! ) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "It might be best to imagine him as the Power of OOH! WHAT'S THAT? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I POKE THAT WITH THIS THING HERE? From Hell." 
<Kite> ("Eat featherblades, diamond smugglers!") 
<Theresa> "I don't think so, Kite. I think William is just trying to give the best description that he can, given who we already know." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I know Horrible Things is a little like that too, but... more so." 
<Kite> "I don't like it." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Like, not as a hobby, but full time." 
<Carrie> "So there's no sign Discovery follows any Code but Hell's? Or is it known?" 
<Theresa> "So.. He’s the power of what does this button do? Oh dear. I take it that Ritalin was a flower rite?" 
<DanteE> "Well, the alternative is to talk with Azazel. 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I understand that, a long time ago, it used to be more the Discovery of sagely scientists and doctors performing careful experiments. But now... Hell changes everyone, even Angels." 
<Kite> "Azazel might try to eat you, Dante." 
<DanteE> "Or go to Hell." 
<Theresa> "Let's go with an Imperator who does not, as far as we know, hate _our_ Imperator's gut-like parts?" 
<Carrie> (Maybe I should do a Lesser Preservation on William just to enhance his ability to follow seventeen different questions at once. Because if I were him, I would appreciate it.) 
<Carrie> (Apologies, RN.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Heh.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "There are other Powers /related/ to Discovery. I believe that three out of five Powers of Physics tend that way." 
<Kite> "We aren't necessarily inviting Balphegor's Nobles if we invite him, right?" 
<Theresa> (Is there a Power of Science! ? ) 
<Carrie> "Physics, still Jack, correct?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Correct. Luc can finesse that." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "No, Jack died. Didn't you meet his immediate successor?" 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Oh, you weren't there." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Power of Physics is... something of a revolving door." 
<Carrie> "I did not. I was somewhat occupied at the time." 
<Carrie> (Being taken over by an alternate personality and turned into a tree and... nevermind that.) 
<Kite> "Jack's girlfriend is now Physics." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "She was last month, at least. I would... have to check if she still is." 
<Carrie> "I shall have to meet her. Brian, are you still on good terms?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Physics gets attacked a /lot/. New powers of Physics are best advised not to start any long books." 
<Theresa> "Ah, yes, Miriam. I wonder if she finished her TARDIS." 
<Random_Nerd> William touches the silver sphere in his ear. 
<Random_Nerd> W: "As of last week, Miriam was still Power of Physics." 
<Theresa> "Good for her!" 
<DanteE> "Hold on, who else is missing from our roster?" 
<Carrie> (Since I only now notice Laz isn't here, assume that Brian is present but not paying attention. Carrie might ask again next week. >.> ) 
<Random_Nerd> W: "That is, actually, impressive. Maybe it was a /good/ idea to pick a Power of Physics who was a liberal arts major." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Hmm?" 
<Random_Nerd> (That, to Dante.) 
<DanteE> "Besides a Power of Hell. Who are we missing?" 
<Theresa> "True God." 
<DanteE> "Shifting focus back to the Summit." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "In some ways, that is less necessary" 
<Kite> "I thought discussing which Fallen Angel to invite was about the Summit." 
<DanteE> "All right, who's a good candidate there?" 
<Random_Nerd> W: "True Gods are less of a monolithic group." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "But we have one of their... species, I suppose, though not of Earth." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "That might actually be best, rather than pick one of Earth that some love and some hate." 
<Kite> "I like Drift." 
<DanteE> (Who's representing Earth, besides us?) 
<Theresa> (John. HQB.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Probably Ha Qadosh Berakha. He's on the Council of Four, and was your first big supporter.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And... I guess, in a sense, Baalhermon.) 
<Carrie> "Would inviting a True God of Earth as well make them more likely to accept any agreement we are able to reach?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Since if anyone's the Ruler of Earth, it's Entropy, and Baalhermon is his Noble.) 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Mmmm.... no." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "No matter who you pick or what agreement you reach, half of them will hate it." 
* DanteE keeps thinking of the term "fireball formation" for some reason. 
<Carrie> "Then the Dionyl True God is probably sufficient." 
<Carrie> (And less likely to turn the other half against us.) 
<Kite> "/Yes!/" 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Yeah. Dionyl's Gods are less... fractious." 
<Random_Nerd> :W: "And you're already obliged to him for helping you." 
<Random_Nerd> W: "Besides, he's reasonable. Reasonable is good." 
<Kite> "So we don't need more True Gods." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Mind if we stop here? ) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's getting late.) 
<Kite> (Let's) 
<Random_Nerd> W: "In my opinion, you do not." 
<Ftisk> (sure, we can stop here) 
<Carrie> (Works for me.) 
<DanteE> (OK) 
<Kite> "Good. Let's not talk about it again." 
<Random_Nerd> ________________________STOP____________________ 
<Random_Nerd> Wow, it's something to think that the summit you've been working on so long is nearly here. 
=-= Carrie is now known as Etheric 
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe 
<Ftisk> Yay! 
<Etheric> If this storyline becomes mostly prep rather than the research, I wouldn't really mind. 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<Etheric> That said, I still do intend to at least start doing it on camera. 
<DanteE> Anyone else thinking having several big names on our side in one place with some Excrucians just maaaaaaay be a bad idea? 
<DanteE> Depending on how devious RN is? 
<DanteE> :p 
<Angelo> I demand Will marriage BEFORE the meeting! 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Etheric> Was this ever in doubt in anyone's mind? 
<Random_Nerd> William’s marriage is the next storyline after this. 
<BethE> Will _will_ get married before the meeting. RN promised me. 
<Etheric> You involve one Imperator, it's already probably a bad idea. 
<Etheric> Two makes it exponentially more likely. 
<Random_Nerd> I wanted to do it that way for sort of thematic reasons, he's prepping the ceremony and reception as you're prepping the peace summit. 
<BethE> No matter what we do, it will be the End of the Age and the start of the new one. 
<Verithe> The purpose for having all these big names is to give our meeting diplomatic weight with the other imperators. 
<Verithe> Right? 
<BethE> Oh and with all of those Imperators around, _NO ONE SNEEZE!_ 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Etheric> Naturally. 
<Random_Nerd> So that, if you and the faction of Excucians you're meeting with come up with an agreement, so you can sell it to the others. 
* Angelo innocent voice on: why? 
<Angelo> (related to sneeze) 
<Random_Nerd> Since, really, there's nobody who's empowered to negotiate for Creation as a whole. 
<Random_Nerd> (It's a Nobilis 2nd Edition reference.) 
<Random_Nerd> (On dealing with Imperators.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Wait, did that get kept in 3e?) 
<Etheric> I would ask, "Do you want to find out," except, see above, Bad Idea. 
<BethE> (Imperators don't understand sneezing. It confuses them, so one section stated that if you can't answer your Imperator, sneeze and run in the confusion.) 
<Etheric> (Yeah, that.) 
<Angelo> (no mention in 3ed but our setting is transplanted from 2ed were the reference existed) 
<BethE> (I think it got kept in the 3rd edition. I have a vague memory of being happy that it was kept.) 
<Knockwood> There's always the possibility of talking with Azazel. 
<Random_Nerd> Ha! It is still there! 
<Knockwood> Cuz, y'know, doing risky crazy things is totally a PC thing. 
<Random_Nerd> For this, I believe I am a causal factor. Jenna said she was gonna dump it, and I spent half an hour telling her that my players loved that sidebar in 2e. 
<BethE> :) 
<Etheric> Wow, it actually is. 
<Etheric> On page 2^8, even. 
<Angelo> WOW 
<Random_Nerd> I probably had no other influence in 3e, but I guess that's something! 
<Etheric> Hehee. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and what did you think of the Fallen Problem, this session. 
<Etheric> Problem as in who to invite? 
<Random_Nerd> I just found it interesting that I didn't need to make up any obstacles, it was all either in the past, or implied by things already said. 
<Etheric> From my perspective, it gave me some interesting info on Kudzu's backstory.. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, having no good Fallen candidate. 
<Random_Nerd> I thought I'd told you guys that stuff five years ago! 
<Random_Nerd> When James came back or so. 
<Random_Nerd> Did I not? 
<Verithe> I remember most of the Azazel stuff. 
<Etheric> See above, re being a tree at the time. 
<Verithe> I don't know if I was there or just back-read it, but I remember it. 
<Random_Nerd> So, we're getting to a point when a lot of longstanding mysteries will get answered. 
<Knockwood> Good! 
<Random_Nerd> I'm doing my best not to pull a Lost here, but we'll see. 
<Verithe> Yay! 
<Knockwood> BTW, I might ask Kudzu about the story of what happened with Azazel. Mainly why. 
<Etheric> I probably should put on my weekly schedule two or three rounds of "catch up on Amyra backstory." 
<Knockwood> should that be IC or background, tho? 
<Etheric> At that rate, I might know half of these mysteries by the time they're revealed. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, spoiler warning: The questions "Why did the Excrucians go to war with Creation", "What are the Wildlords, really?" and "Why are Warmains forbidden to practice High Summoning?" They all have the same answer. 
<Verithe> *gasp!* 
<Angelo> Ü_Ü 
<Etheric> Why must you make it so obvious? :P 
<Verithe> The Wildlords exist because the Warmains dabbled in High Summoning! 
<BethE> *mutter you guys don't have to live with him mutter* 
<Random_Nerd> And maybe the answer isn't "It's magic, a wizard did it!" 
<Angelo> Ä_Ä 
<Random_Nerd> Maybe. 
<Etheric> No, clearly not. The Wildlords exist because Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. 
<Etheric> That trumps all other reasons. 
<Knockwood> that might actually work 
<Verithe> Which is what the Warmains were trying to High Summon. 
<Verithe> And when that didn't work. War. 
<BethE> We have a plant in our town that at least packages Kraft Mac and Cheese. There is a giant noodle sculpture on their property. 
<Random_Nerd> Nope. 
<Knockwood> (Seriously, RN, should I ask Kudzu about Azazel during a session or just say I asked during downtime?) 
<Verithe> We just need to export Kraft Mac and Cheese to Outside and the War ends! 
<Random_Nerd> (Feel free to during a session.) 
<BethE> (http://wac. 450f. edgecastcdn. net/80450F/979kickfm.com/files/2013/08/2013-08-17-18.03.23-630x472.jpg) 
<Knockwood> (Someone remind me next Amyra session, then.) 
<Random_Nerd> Bear in mind, Kudzu doesn't tend to spend a lot of time on Storytime. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, occasionally when you catch him in a weird mood. 
<BethE> (He should hire Rinley!) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, yes. That's what this summit needs. 
<Random_Nerd> Rinley. 
<Verithe> (That would be something in the library, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> Yes, it would. 
<Random_Nerd> You just know Rinley would steal the failsafe remote and feed it to Baalhermon. 
<Random_Nerd> "Because." 
<Knockwood> (... you're right, it would. Except maybe "Why".) 
<Random_Nerd> Kudzu: "Because he was a dick and he had it coming." 
<Random_Nerd> Azazel: "Because Kudzu's a big poop-head." 
<Verithe> That sounds about right. 
<Knockwood> so, Nobilis works like Congress? :p 
<Etheric> No, worse. 
<Verithe> And pretty much the rest of the world. 
<Random_Nerd> Barakiel is Ted Cruz! 
<Random_Nerd> IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW! 
<Etheric> L O L... 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, doesn't he act exactly like he's fused with a sanity-eating creature that places him outside the reach of all law, custom, and morality? 
<Knockwood> the Tea Party are Excrucian? 
<Knockwood> now _that_ makes sense 
<Random_Nerd> Barakiel isn't Excrucian. He hates them more than you do! 
<Angelo> Guys, I go, see you in 2 weeks :-) 
<Knockwood> and we're completely confusing Angelo. 
<Random_Nerd> Eh, he gets to gripe about Italian politics sometimes. 
<Knockwood> cya Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> Fair's fair! 
<Random_Nerd> I gotta go too. 
<Verithe> Take care, Angelo! 
<Random_Nerd> It's half till midnight here. 
<Random_Nerd> And I have petitions for dissolution to write tomorrow. 
<Random_Nerd> G'night, guys. 
<Verithe> Take care! 
<Knockwood> good luck 
<Knockwood> and see you next week. 
<Random_Nerd> Good session, guys. I had fun. 
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<Knockwood> do we have current logs anywhere? 
<BethE> Night, all! *HUGS* 
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<Verithe> Not to my knowledge. I've just been keeping my own records. 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]

Amyra:Quotes

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Angelo.pampalone: /* Quotes from the Chancel Amyra Nobilis Game */

[[Chancel_Amyra]]

=Quotes from the Chancel Amyra Nobilis Game=

This is a selection of interesting (and other) quotes from the game, that the players think are fun enough to share... 
 
'''Chapter One:''' 
[Theresa] "But I think he'd rather have room to run around. He could get de...am I debating the mental health of a rabbit?" 
[DanteE] "Yes. A God-touched cannibalistic potentially dinosaur-sized rabbit." 
[Theresa] "Just checking." 
 

'''From Chapter Two:''' 
[Carrie] (Okay, Lesser Div of the professor's hopes, especially what he hopes to get out of the theory?) 
[Hollyhock] (He hopes to be the Most Famous Mathematician Ever, to reshape the field, to be hip-deep in respect and money and loose women, and to answer once and for all the guys who Laughed At Him At The University.) 
[Theresa] (Loose women? Math guys get loose women?!?) 
[DanteE] (No, Math guys ''want'' loose women) 
[Hollyhock] (Well, no. Do you want to be the one to break it to him?) 
 
''(The group is getting a tree--that will become Red)'' 
There's about a 200' one here, it's the biggest and oldest. 
Theresa takes off her shoes in the back of the car and gets out. Digs toes into the dirt with a happy sigh. "This beauty right over here." *''heads over, looking Red over.''* 
Nobody, at the moment, is looking at it. There were some hikers that you passed on your way here, but they're some distance off. 
... 
Theresa takes a look around in Mythic. 
Mythically, it's a big reddish-brown leafy giant, standing stock straight and fast asleep. 
Theresa runs a hand on Red's bark. "Hello?" 
... 
The tree snores. 
[Theresa] (*sniff* Ex''cuse'' me?) 
[Hollyhock] (Trees are immune to cleavage.) 
[Theresa] (I know that. But I'm ''Plants!'') 
 
'''From Chapter Three:''' 
[Carrie] "I think that in the near future our credibility would be best served by doing as Consequences suggested and building our corps of assistants." 
 
"Wild's Lesson and the Bureau of Monstrosities at your service, sir." 
[DanteE] "I'm guessing you're not forming a Punk Rock band." 
 
Red: "May I have several cows, Theresa?" 
 

'''Chapter Six:''' 
[Theresa] (Well, it's just that we _could_ give him that big of a burger, if we wanted. It might even fall under Urban.) 
[Carrie] (Soyburger?) 
[Theresa] (Do you want to give a giant werewolf a veggieburger and hope he can't tell the difference?) 
[JamesUrban] (In no interpretation of my estate would creating giant hamburgers fall under it. Mayor McCheese maybe.) 
[Random Nerd] (Fast food definitely falls under Urbanization, I think.) 
[Random Nerd] (Just like the Power of Horses could probably make a saddle with no trouble.) 
[Random Nerd] (Or, for that matter, Brian could probably make a calculator, or Carrie make an inspirational book.) 
[Brian] (Brian IS a calculator. *raspberry*) 
[JamesUrban] (I can see that. I can see making a fast food place, but not just a giant burger.) 
[DanteE] (James probably creates Starbucks by accident when he sneezes. 
 

'''From the Mexican Madness chapter:''' 
''Courage'': OK, let's review: my fellow Noble--the one being attacked--is cowering in my shirt pocket because of the noisy helicopter we just appropriated which I'll probably wind up flying with no prior experience into a dimensional vortex heading for Mexico to hunt down what may or may not be an excrucian chupacabra. 
''Plants'': And you just had the best cheeseburger possible without magical means. 
''Courage'': ...I'm OK with it. You? 
 

'''From "Blood Ties":''' 
William: "Each Estate, each Noble and Imperator, is a pillar of the world. A brick in the wall of Heaven. Even the 'bad' ones support existence." 
''DanteE: (All in all, we're just another brick in the wall? :)'' 
''Theresa: (We don't need no...Excruciation...)''

DanteE: "How's Lesson doing, as a boss?" 
Random functionary at Bureau of Monstrosities HQ: "He's... he's a freaky demonic monster with a tendency to micromanage. But the hours are good, and we have full dental and medical coverage." 
 

'''From Weekend at Barakiel's:''' 
Shadows: "Causality pretty much works the same way as on earth, if you're looking at the palace-world. It's a little different in the other world, but not too much." 
Shadows: "Now, there's magic here, and things we've changed, but that's only in a few places." 
Brian: "So, giant bunnies still make things go squish?" 
Shadows: "Pretty much." 
Theresa: "Some things are universal." 
Carrie: (For everything else, there's MasterCard.) 
 
DanteE: "Doesn't seem to be mutual. Unless this is all a joke... it's not near April Fools day on the cosmic calendar, is it?" 
Conseq.: "I try not to study what the jokes of Imperators are like, for fear that I might discover that I am one." 
* Theresa ponders that. "That is...incredibly true and deep." 
Conseq.: "Or paranoid." 
Theresa: (Noblity!) (in the tone of "Acting!') 
Theresa: "That too." 
 
Barakiel: "Ah, yes. Then I must ask you a question. You have only been raised above humanity for a short time, and yet you have still seen some of the War. What do you think of it?" 
DanteE: (Uh, we're against it?) 
Brian: "I honestly don't know what to think. The Excrucians seem to be acting somewhat randomly." 
Theresa: "Warmains hit like a bitch, sir." 
Barakiel looks at Theresa with all his eyes, for a moment. "They do, at that." 
 

'''Chapter 11''' 
Random_Nerd: (It counts as Aspect 3 if, when someone asks you how in the world you can manage it, 'I'm Batman' is a sufficient explanation.) 
 
William: "Ah, let's see. Most of you rely rather heavily on your Estates for power, correct?" 
Brian: "Primarily, yes" (Domain 4) 
DanteE: "You could say that." (Domain 2) 
Theresa: "A wee bit." (Domain 5) 
 

'''Chapter 12''' 
A visiting Noble who has had a very very Bad Day, meeting the locals of Amyra: "Please tell me that the horse isn't a Noble..." 
 

'''Chapter 13''' 
Harold: Good to hear you survived the meeting with the Council! 
Harold: Did you meet ol' Bloody Hands? 
Random_Nerd: They sold Herb to Entropy in exchange for twenty bucks and a six-pack. That's okay, right? 
Tam: She hit on DantE like the fist of an angry god, which is more apt than I would care to admit. 
 
Tam: (Of all the times I have to promise not to spill the beans on something, it turns out to be the time when a god from outside known Creation is telling us juicy juicy things.) 
Random_Nerd: (He's actually forgotten about you for the moment. It's more Dante he was talking to.) 
Tam: (-whistles unobtrusively to himself-) 
Theresa: (Swear on Herb's ninja!) 
Tam: (Do I have to hold him over my heart or something? Them ninjas can be slippery.) 
Herbert: (Don't you do anything to my precious ninja! :p ) 
 

'''Chapter 14''' 
Random_Nerd: You arrive at the library. From Dante's right hand dangles a small and irate demon, squirming around like a midsized rabbit would if the midsized rabbit was also highly caffeinated, from hell, and not a rabbit. 
 
Sam: "I don't mean to get snippy, but I'm pretty sure that's not a pigeon." 
Sam: "Pigeons are small birds that live in cities. That's a hole in the fabric of reality. I can tell the difference." 
 
DanteE: "I think Sam can ride in it if he wants..." 
Sam: "I'd rather not, at least unless you can show me some peer-reviewed studies that say that magic demon pigeon reality holes do in fact /not/ hungrily devour dionyl." 
 
Random_Nerd: The lobster in the hat is twice that size, and standing up on his rear legs, his claws held across his chest. This is a pose that indicates that either he's a crustacean contortionist, or else he's probably not a baseline lobster. 
Random_Nerd: The hat and speech were also tips, to be fair. 
 

'''Chapter 15''' 
DanteE: "In about (X) days we'll be appearing before the Council, telling them what he told us and what it all means." 
DanteE: "Well, one theory of what it all means." 
Ftisk: (we try a least) 
Hearth Flame: "I am pleased that you have told me this. I will thus be enabled to stand very far away when the inauspicious moment is upon you." 
 

'''Chapter 16''' 
DanteE: "Well, we have a miniature shadow Ofaniel here with the strength of a Noble and a gift for messing with Ftisk." 
Sam: "It's amazing what you can get on ebay." 
''DanteE: (rimshot)'' 

'''Chapter 25''' 
He starts turning all the pieces picture-side up. 
J: "No, they're pieces of the /same/ image." 
J: "How does that work?" 
J: "This... this is what Assembly is, isn't it? This is what you are?" 
J: "They tried to explain it, but I couldn't get..." 
He looks between the puzzle and Kite. 
"This is a form it takes. Potentially." 

[Kite] "I...mating has nothing to with broccoli!" 

[Brian] (I know, it is a surprisingly bad idea, but it would be fun) 
[DanteE] (the game's motto, right there.) 

'''Chapter 31''' 
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "We've already surpassed the raccoon." 

'''Chapter ??''' 
Shadows: "Brian, would you mind trying to assassinate Lord Entropy? For science?" 

RN: I don't /want/ this to be the kind of game where you can't take a zepplin to Mars. 

'''Chapter 34''' 
Theresa: I am not getting a Noble of Destruction tramp stamp. 

'''Chapter 34''' 
<DanteE> "Uh, it's probably a violation of _something_ to set a living Excrucian-horse on fire." 

'''Chapter 35''' 
<DanteE> "Uh, it's probably a violation of _something_ to set a living Excrucian-horse on fire." 

'''Chapter 37''' 
<Random_Nerd> William: "So... which Fallen do we go with? Or none?"
<Theresa> "I think Bel (Belphegor). We are already inviting Impending Doom."

[[Chancel_Amyra]]

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== Chapter 36 ==

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== Chapter 376 ==

[[Session 260]]

[[Session 261]]

[[Session 262]]

[[Session 263]]

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[[Session 266]]

[[Chancel_Amyra]]

Chancel Amyra

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Angelo.pampalone: /* Game Logs */

==Chancel Amyra==
''We meet at 8:30pm US Central Time-zone, Thursday nights, irc channel #nobilis on magicstar server, usually for at least an hour and a half to two hours''

*Side note - game started mid-May of 2005.
*Back note - This game is supported by Tpyo, Typo's Regal.

Old notes:
*Front note - 33 dynasty points as of Session 109 - +1 DP as of Session 132
*Sneaky note - Ftisk and Kite, being later additions will receive double CP until they come at par with the other Nobles

Abhorrent Weapons discussed:
*Abhorrent Shiv
*Abhorrent Rock - the first Abhorrent Weapon, used to kill the Thirdborn Angel, the Guardian at the Gates. It's a ''rock''.
*Abhorrent knife - soul-carving knife owned by JbJ

===Player Characters===
Brian, Dominus of [[Amyra:Numbers_v3|Numbers]], played by lazarus

Chytosideron (Kite), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Chytosideron_V3|Assembly]], played by Verithe

Dante, Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Dante_V3|Courage and Blades]], played by Knockwood

Ftisk (aka Conrad (aka Ftisk)), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk_v3|Machinery and Data]], played by Angelo

Theresa, Domina of [[Plants_of_the_Third_Age!|Plants]], played by Beth

Carrie, Domina of [[Amyra:Hope|Hope]], played by Etheric

===Player Characters Holding the horses===

Herb, new Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Herb|Urbanization]], played by Harold

Snow, Domina of [[Amyra:Caprice|Capriciousness]], played by Sara

[[Lil Charachters Sheets|Sam, Will, Gil, King John, Gnomely]]

===Non-Player Characters===
James, former Dominus of [[Amyra:Urbanization|Urbanization]], missing & ..well, huh.

Lesson, reformed demon, anchor of Urbanization

Samuel and William, Aides

Red a sentient redwood

Gnomely, a free will mechanical gnome, anchor of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk|Ftisk]]

===Imperator Kudzu===
''from the first game session:''

A creature shaped much like a man, but build to a larger scale, paces with frenetic energy. His crafter seems to have decided to avoid the more common building materials of bone and flesh. 
His bones are bricks. His fingers are tree branches. His eyes a red light and a green one, seemingly taken from a traffic light. 
He smells of both nature and civilization, jungle fumes and smog. 

Qualities: '''Great Harvest, Cold, Corrupted Mystery Cult, Dim Warding'''

Bought off - ''Demanding''

===Amyra and Kaerkoven===
Amyra: '''Weird Science (Building Seeds at the beginning. Transmogrifier later), Magical Inhabitants, Convenient'''

'''Kaerkoven''': Capital city. King John's palace and the Treasures are here, along with many museums, places to shop and the odd giant sentient redwood walking around. University as well. Chancel Heart is in clockwork room in Tower on university campus. Theresa has taken over the university Conservatory while Carrie has taken over the Administrative Building's upper floors. For the most part, Dante and Brian hang out/live in the clock tower. Lesson had his offices on the second floor while the first floor held Monty for a while. Horse has claimed the Infinite Room now.

Aides are invested nearby (Sam near river that runs through city.) Camms are also in the city. Lesson and his gang/team have taken over some of the industrial places for their work on dealing with the shapechanged Chancel inhabitants.

[[Camm flower chart]]

[[Discussion With Outside]]

==Current Favors Owed==

(as of Session 165)

'''Owed us:'''
*Medium favor from the Cammorrae
*Favor from Physics, for helping restore Quantum Physics
*Favor from Consequences & his family, for helping with the Tam head.
*Papa Legba, Power of Roads, says we can visit him once.

==[[Amyra:Who's Who]]==

==[[Amyra:Untied laces and other unfinished thingies]]==

==Game Logs==

[[Amyra:Chapter_1|Chapter 1]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5206014&postcount=1 Hello Universe]

[[Amyra:Chapter_2|Chapter 2]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5304629&postcount=34 Two-Fisted Tales of Academic Mathematics]

[[Amyra:Chapter_3|Chapter 3]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5737878&postcount=45 Now Hiring]

[[Amyra:Chapter_4|Chapter 4]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6446260&postcount=59 The Battle of Kaerkoven]

[[Amyra:Chapter_5|Chapter 5]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775254&postcount=67 Nobles, meet Parliament. Parliament, Kneel Before Us! Oh, sorry, inside voice.]

[[Amyra:Chapter_6|Chapter 6]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775309&postcount=75 Hi John and Baaaad bunny!]

[[Amyra:Chapter_7|Chapter 7]]: Paaaaarty!

[[Amyra:Chapter_8|Chapter 8]]: Mexican Madness

[[Amyra:Chapter_9|Chapter 9]]: Blood Ties

[[Amyra:Chapter_10|Chapter 10]]: Weekend at Barakiel's (aka You Want ''Who'' Dead?)

[[Amyra:Chapter_11|Chapter 11]]: HG Suggested Title: "Aren't you going to eat the giant?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_12|Chapter 12]]: Who Ya Gonna Call?

[[Amyra:Chapter_13|Chapter 13]]: We Gotz to Go to the Council! or "How Much Is That Hell-Soul in the Window?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_14|Chapter 14]]: So, how fast does this snail travel, exactly?

[[Amyra:Chapter_15|Chapter 15]]: Your Mission, should you choose to accept it...

[[Amyra:Chapter_16|Chapter 16]]: We do random stuff so you don't have to!

[[Amyra:Chapter_17|Chapter 17]]: Hard Science 2: Hard Science With A Vengeance

[[Amyra:Chapter_18|Chapter 18]]: Bring me the head of River Tam!

[[Amyra:Chapter_19|Chapter 19]]: Street Fightin': When Acorns Attack

[[Amyra:Chapter_20|Chapter 20]]: DOGS IN SPACE!

[[Amyra:Chapter_21|Chapter 21]]: A new Aidee

[[Amyra:Chapter_22|Chapter 22]]: Patterns

[[Amyra:Chapter_23|Chapter 23]]: Outside?

[[Amyra:Chapter_24|Chapter 24]]: Too interesting to be interesting.

[[Amyra:Chapter_25|Chapter 25]]: A bird's cult

[[Amyra:Chapter_26|Chapter 26]]: Sueridus superstar

[[Amyra:Chapter_27|Chapter 27]]: The Kaerkoven Ogre Incident

[[Amyra:Chapter_28|Chapter 28]]: Gunboat Diplomacy, Part 1

[[Amyra:Chapter_29|Chapter 29]]: The New Kids In Town

[[Amyra:Chapter_30|Chapter 30]]: Breaking the Sky

[[Amyra:Chapter_31|Chapter 31]]: Dealing with Drama

[[Amyra:Chapter_32|Chapter 32]]: Who You Dare Believe

[[Amyra:Chapter_33|Chapter 33]]: Demonbox 2: Demonbox Harder

[[Amyra:Chapter_34|Chapter 34]]: Silly, silly mammals

[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]: ???

[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]: Lil Aidee Story

[[Amyra:Chapter_37|Chapter 37]]: ???

==[[Amyra:Quotes|Game Quotes Page!]]==

[[Category:Nobilis]]

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Angelo.pampalone: /* Quotes from the Chancel Amyra Nobilis Game */

[[Chancel_Amyra]]

=Quotes from the Chancel Amyra Nobilis Game=

This is a selection of interesting (and other) quotes from the game, that the players think are fun enough to share... 
 
'''Chapter One:''' 
[Theresa] "But I think he'd rather have room to run around. He could get de...am I debating the mental health of a rabbit?" 
[DanteE] "Yes. A God-touched cannibalistic potentially dinosaur-sized rabbit." 
[Theresa] "Just checking." 
 

'''From Chapter Two:''' 
[Carrie] (Okay, Lesser Div of the professor's hopes, especially what he hopes to get out of the theory?) 
[Hollyhock] (He hopes to be the Most Famous Mathematician Ever, to reshape the field, to be hip-deep in respect and money and loose women, and to answer once and for all the guys who Laughed At Him At The University.) 
[Theresa] (Loose women? Math guys get loose women?!?) 
[DanteE] (No, Math guys ''want'' loose women) 
[Hollyhock] (Well, no. Do you want to be the one to break it to him?) 
 
''(The group is getting a tree--that will become Red)'' 
There's about a 200' one here, it's the biggest and oldest. 
Theresa takes off her shoes in the back of the car and gets out. Digs toes into the dirt with a happy sigh. "This beauty right over here." *''heads over, looking Red over.''* 
Nobody, at the moment, is looking at it. There were some hikers that you passed on your way here, but they're some distance off. 
... 
Theresa takes a look around in Mythic. 
Mythically, it's a big reddish-brown leafy giant, standing stock straight and fast asleep. 
Theresa runs a hand on Red's bark. "Hello?" 
... 
The tree snores. 
[Theresa] (*sniff* Ex''cuse'' me?) 
[Hollyhock] (Trees are immune to cleavage.) 
[Theresa] (I know that. But I'm ''Plants!'') 
 
'''From Chapter Three:''' 
[Carrie] "I think that in the near future our credibility would be best served by doing as Consequences suggested and building our corps of assistants." 
 
"Wild's Lesson and the Bureau of Monstrosities at your service, sir." 
[DanteE] "I'm guessing you're not forming a Punk Rock band." 
 
Red: "May I have several cows, Theresa?" 
 

'''Chapter Six:''' 
[Theresa] (Well, it's just that we _could_ give him that big of a burger, if we wanted. It might even fall under Urban.) 
[Carrie] (Soyburger?) 
[Theresa] (Do you want to give a giant werewolf a veggieburger and hope he can't tell the difference?) 
[JamesUrban] (In no interpretation of my estate would creating giant hamburgers fall under it. Mayor McCheese maybe.) 
[Random Nerd] (Fast food definitely falls under Urbanization, I think.) 
[Random Nerd] (Just like the Power of Horses could probably make a saddle with no trouble.) 
[Random Nerd] (Or, for that matter, Brian could probably make a calculator, or Carrie make an inspirational book.) 
[Brian] (Brian IS a calculator. *raspberry*) 
[JamesUrban] (I can see that. I can see making a fast food place, but not just a giant burger.) 
[DanteE] (James probably creates Starbucks by accident when he sneezes. 
 

'''From the Mexican Madness chapter:''' 
''Courage'': OK, let's review: my fellow Noble--the one being attacked--is cowering in my shirt pocket because of the noisy helicopter we just appropriated which I'll probably wind up flying with no prior experience into a dimensional vortex heading for Mexico to hunt down what may or may not be an excrucian chupacabra. 
''Plants'': And you just had the best cheeseburger possible without magical means. 
''Courage'': ...I'm OK with it. You? 
 

'''From "Blood Ties":''' 
William: "Each Estate, each Noble and Imperator, is a pillar of the world. A brick in the wall of Heaven. Even the 'bad' ones support existence." 
''DanteE: (All in all, we're just another brick in the wall? :)'' 
''Theresa: (We don't need no...Excruciation...)''

DanteE: "How's Lesson doing, as a boss?" 
Random functionary at Bureau of Monstrosities HQ: "He's... he's a freaky demonic monster with a tendency to micromanage. But the hours are good, and we have full dental and medical coverage." 
 

'''From Weekend at Barakiel's:''' 
Shadows: "Causality pretty much works the same way as on earth, if you're looking at the palace-world. It's a little different in the other world, but not too much." 
Shadows: "Now, there's magic here, and things we've changed, but that's only in a few places." 
Brian: "So, giant bunnies still make things go squish?" 
Shadows: "Pretty much." 
Theresa: "Some things are universal." 
Carrie: (For everything else, there's MasterCard.) 
 
DanteE: "Doesn't seem to be mutual. Unless this is all a joke... it's not near April Fools day on the cosmic calendar, is it?" 
Conseq.: "I try not to study what the jokes of Imperators are like, for fear that I might discover that I am one." 
* Theresa ponders that. "That is...incredibly true and deep." 
Conseq.: "Or paranoid." 
Theresa: (Noblity!) (in the tone of "Acting!') 
Theresa: "That too." 
 
Barakiel: "Ah, yes. Then I must ask you a question. You have only been raised above humanity for a short time, and yet you have still seen some of the War. What do you think of it?" 
DanteE: (Uh, we're against it?) 
Brian: "I honestly don't know what to think. The Excrucians seem to be acting somewhat randomly." 
Theresa: "Warmains hit like a bitch, sir." 
Barakiel looks at Theresa with all his eyes, for a moment. "They do, at that." 
 

'''Chapter 11''' 
Random_Nerd: (It counts as Aspect 3 if, when someone asks you how in the world you can manage it, 'I'm Batman' is a sufficient explanation.) 
 
William: "Ah, let's see. Most of you rely rather heavily on your Estates for power, correct?" 
Brian: "Primarily, yes" (Domain 4) 
DanteE: "You could say that." (Domain 2) 
Theresa: "A wee bit." (Domain 5) 
 

'''Chapter 12''' 
A visiting Noble who has had a very very Bad Day, meeting the locals of Amyra: "Please tell me that the horse isn't a Noble..." 
 

'''Chapter 13''' 
Harold: Good to hear you survived the meeting with the Council! 
Harold: Did you meet ol' Bloody Hands? 
Random_Nerd: They sold Herb to Entropy in exchange for twenty bucks and a six-pack. That's okay, right? 
Tam: She hit on DantE like the fist of an angry god, which is more apt than I would care to admit. 
 
Tam: (Of all the times I have to promise not to spill the beans on something, it turns out to be the time when a god from outside known Creation is telling us juicy juicy things.) 
Random_Nerd: (He's actually forgotten about you for the moment. It's more Dante he was talking to.) 
Tam: (-whistles unobtrusively to himself-) 
Theresa: (Swear on Herb's ninja!) 
Tam: (Do I have to hold him over my heart or something? Them ninjas can be slippery.) 
Herbert: (Don't you do anything to my precious ninja! :p ) 
 

'''Chapter 14''' 
Random_Nerd: You arrive at the library. From Dante's right hand dangles a small and irate demon, squirming around like a midsized rabbit would if the midsized rabbit was also highly caffeinated, from hell, and not a rabbit. 
 
Sam: "I don't mean to get snippy, but I'm pretty sure that's not a pigeon." 
Sam: "Pigeons are small birds that live in cities. That's a hole in the fabric of reality. I can tell the difference." 
 
DanteE: "I think Sam can ride in it if he wants..." 
Sam: "I'd rather not, at least unless you can show me some peer-reviewed studies that say that magic demon pigeon reality holes do in fact /not/ hungrily devour dionyl." 
 
Random_Nerd: The lobster in the hat is twice that size, and standing up on his rear legs, his claws held across his chest. This is a pose that indicates that either he's a crustacean contortionist, or else he's probably not a baseline lobster. 
Random_Nerd: The hat and speech were also tips, to be fair. 
 

'''Chapter 15''' 
DanteE: "In about (X) days we'll be appearing before the Council, telling them what he told us and what it all means." 
DanteE: "Well, one theory of what it all means." 
Ftisk: (we try a least) 
Hearth Flame: "I am pleased that you have told me this. I will thus be enabled to stand very far away when the inauspicious moment is upon you." 
 

'''Chapter 16''' 
DanteE: "Well, we have a miniature shadow Ofaniel here with the strength of a Noble and a gift for messing with Ftisk." 
Sam: "It's amazing what you can get on ebay." 
''DanteE: (rimshot)'' 

'''Chapter 25''' 
He starts turning all the pieces picture-side up. 
J: "No, they're pieces of the /same/ image." 
J: "How does that work?" 
J: "This... this is what Assembly is, isn't it? This is what you are?" 
J: "They tried to explain it, but I couldn't get..." 
He looks between the puzzle and Kite. 
"This is a form it takes. Potentially." 

[Kite] "I...mating has nothing to with broccoli!" 

[Brian] (I know, it is a surprisingly bad idea, but it would be fun) 
[DanteE] (the game's motto, right there.) 

'''Chapter 31''' 
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "We've already surpassed the raccoon." 

'''Chapter ??''' 
Shadows: "Brian, would you mind trying to assassinate Lord Entropy? For science?" 

RN: I don't /want/ this to be the kind of game where you can't take a zepplin to Mars. 

'''Chapter 34''' 
Theresa: I am not getting a Noble of Destruction tramp stamp. 

'''Chapter 34''' 
<DanteE> "Uh, it's probably a violation of _something_ to set a living Excrucian-horse on fire." 

'''Chapter 35''' 
<DanteE> "Uh, it's probably a violation of _something_ to set a living Excrucian-horse on fire." 

'''Chapter 37''' 
<Random_Nerd> William: "So... which Fallen do we go with? Or none?"
<Theresa> "I think Bel (Belphagor). We are already inviting Impending Doom."

[[Chancel_Amyra]]

Session 259

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]] 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
=-= Topic for #Nobilis is ``Little House on the Galactic Shore'' 
=-= Topic for #Nobilis was set by Verithe on venerdì 4 ottobre 2013 03:24:34 
<Angelo> Hi guys! 
<John> Speak of the Angelo! 
<Random_Nerd> Heh. 
<Random_Nerd> I had literally just said "Okay, I guess we'll have to start without Angelo..." 
=-= YOU are now known as Gnomely 
<John> ... I totally didn't mean that pun. 
<Gnomely> Eh, lost some time scouting for things to eat... 
<John> I'm still cooking supper. 
<Gnomely> cool! a king that cook his meal 
<John> A question: Does John have security details following him and stuff like that whenever he's with Aides and the Noble groups? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> I don't think so, as a general matter. 
<Random_Nerd> He's not really the target of too much violence. 
<John> No one's ever tried to kill John? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, if he's out with the Aides or the PCs, nobody knows where he's going to be anyway. 
<Random_Nerd> And if one of the crazies happened to be there, Sam would be a more obvious target for an attack. 
<FashionDivaSam> hm? 
<Random_Nerd> You're an evil king-corrupting space demon. 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, duh. 
<AideWilliam> Maniacs tend to be jealous of your fashion sense. :) 
<John> I can think of three different reasons why, more than that if William is allowed to put his reasons. 
<Random_Nerd> You are blamed for a 32% rise in the price of scarves. 
<FashionDivaSam> :D 
<John> You're the anchor of the wonderful Brian! If they kill you, they can take your place! 
<MrsWinters> Wouldn't that mean that scarf-makers are rather fond of him? 
* Gnomely nod 
<Random_Nerd> Indeed... but not the scarf-buyers. 
<Random_Nerd> Especially since all clothing in Amyra must now be made internally. 
<Random_Nerd> And it hadn't had that big of a textile industry before Enchanceling. 
<Random_Nerd> So! Cut to the Giant-visit? 
<AideWilliam> OK 
<MrsWinters> Note to self: Design sheep that grow scarves directly. 
<John> Okay! 
<John> You could get Theresa to develop more textile plants. Although she will refuse to create polyester trees. 
<FashionDivaSam> scarf trees? 
<Random_Nerd> ____________START___________ 
<FashionDivaSam> (if you splice the trees at the right time, you can create new patterns!) 
<John> (Sam will want his own garden.) 
<Random_Nerd> So, right now the Giant lives, when he lives indoors at all, in a barn converted to have air conditioning and the like. 
<John> (...no sin, who indulgent, than central air...) 
<AideWilliam> (Does he live with a magic Goth girl? :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> His need for door sizes, structural support and so on made it so that it was easier to have an agricultural building converted than a really big house built. William, you were the one to arrange things with the contractors to have it built. 
<Random_Nerd> There is a rather large pile of cracked cow and sheep bones near the outside. He insists on leaving that there. It's probably a way to scare away potential visitors. 
* Gnomely examine the pile 
<Random_Nerd> They appear to have been bitten open, and the marrow sucked out. 
<AideWilliam> "Someday we must let him know about Cheeseburgers." 
<Random_Nerd> Clearly, the giant's teeth are made of something much more durable than normal ones. 
<Random_Nerd> (You just want a LolGiant.) 
<Random_Nerd> He's clearly moving around in there, you can hear the sound of pacing. 
<John> "I do not know if we have enough cows in the kingdom." 
<AideWilliam> "Lord Brian can always increase the number." 
<John> "Especially as Theresa's tree friend keeps..borrowing the best breeders." 
<Gil> "If you keep the cows together, you get more, right?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Technically, yes!) 
<AideWilliam> (Did we even give him a name besides "The Giant"?) 
<John> "...yes. But it takes time. Years." 
<FashionDivaSam> "On Dionyl, yes, Gil. Remember it works different here." 
<John> (He may have been born before...names.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He refused a name.) 
<Gnomely> "Flesh is made that way, slow to grow in number" 
<Gil> "I know it works different...I just didn't realize how different." 
<Random_Nerd> (He said, pretty much, that he'd have a name when his angelic father got around to caring enough to give him one.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which... don't hold your breath.) 
<Gnomely> "I can have Ftisk explain to you... if you want" 
<John> "If you wish, Gil, I can have you sit in on a human sex education class. Sam has offered to teach one at the university but I believe William stopped the offer." 
<Gnomely> "Why stop Sam?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam and Gil are /aware/ of how this works on Earth, but... eh, imagine if you were living on a parallel world where babies really are brought by a magic stork. It'd trip you up, sometimes, when you're reminded of it. 
<AideWilliam> "Because he was rather... enthusiastic about using certain teaching materials. 
* Gil makes a few embarrassed mumblings. 
<FashionDivaSam> "I keep wondering that. I've been told that it's for the best and to stop questioning." 
<Random_Nerd> That, like, you're just going about your day, and you see a magic bird carrying a little cow in a bundle to some farm. 
<John> (So cute!) 
<AideWilliam> "those he found on the Web." 
* AideWilliam goes up and knocks on the door. 
<John> "Could you not ask your Nobles? Although I do not think it would be wise to ask Lord Kudzu." 
<Gnomely> "Sure king John" 
* MrsWinters just looks at Sam. Then she realizes he's less likely to know what the look means, and purses her lips, wondering what to say. 
<Random_Nerd> The barn doors slam open, and the giant stomps out. He's wearing the third largest pair of pants in Amyra, and carrying a cow leg in one hand. 
<FashionDivaSam> (third largest?) 
<Random_Nerd> He's about fifteen or twenty feet tall when he stands up straight. So, taller than the bone ogre, but much shorter than Red. 
<Random_Nerd> (Largest is when Red wanted Theresa to make him some "Tree pants." It didn't end well.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Second largest belonged to the Giant also. He lost a bit of weight since then.) 
<AideWilliam> "Morning. 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Hello, little dog!" 
<John> (Red's pants are now used for large outdoor functions as tents.) 
<Random_Nerd> It's almost amiable. 
<AideWilliam> "We wanted to let you know there's a poltergeist loose in the kingdom who mentioned you." 
<AideWilliam> "oh, and it likes to set things on fire. Such as clothing and hair." 
<John> "He has claimed one of my subjects as a 'pet', and talks of her as an animal." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "The demon of Azazel? It just left, about five minutes ago. We did not part on good terms." 
<Gil> "What?" 
<AideWilliam> (Is that a 'known' demon?) 
<John> "Oh? And it is connected to your father?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Was, at least." 
<Random_Nerd> (An Angel. One of Barakiel's old friends, and the Giant's father.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Used to have the Estate of Weaponry, before Kudzu took it on less than amiable terms.) 
<AideWilliam> (I mean 'Azazel's demon') 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh. No.) 
<John> "May we ask what his purpose in annoying you was?" 
<Random_Nerd> (But he was a Watcher, he maintained a residence in Hell. Probably had/has demons. Like how Lesson is one of Barakiel's demons, or was.) 
<John> (Azazel is the giant's father.) 
<AideWilliam> "Also, how far did you throw it?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "As the demon said, it and I had so very much in common. We both have contempt for modern beast-men. We both have ties to my father." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "But it did not understand some details." 
<John> "You are a much better dresser." 
<FashionDivaSam> "Do we have to put out any fires?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "First, while I have contempt for you quasi-humans as being almost entirely animal, with only a trace of divine blood... a demon is a creature that never even had that trace." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "And an old lackey of a being that I have never been on good terms with to begin with is not going to be immediately embraced by me as a close companion." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "It made threats, then." 
<John> "Oh dear." 
<Random_Nerd> The giant gestures at the interior of the barn, where there's some mild scorching. 
<AideWilliam> "It left here alive?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "I demonstrated the fact that, while it is not conventionally material, my flesh is more than half that of a god. It fled." 
<John> "Do you know of a way to banish it completely?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "If I got my hands on it and ate it, that would probably... wait, banish alive?" 
<AideWilliam> "Not necessarily." 
<John> "Well, no, _I_ would be fine with it being gone completely, as it has harassed one of my subjects." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "It is not likely to return, unless it is compelled." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "As I said, we did not part on friendly terms." 
<AideWilliam> "Which way did it go? And did it mention any particular destination?" 
<Gil> "Would you be amenable to taking care of it if we could manage to get it back here?" 
<John> "Did it mention any other reasons for being in the chancel?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant, to William: "Oh! Little dog-man. The new supplier of cattle is superior. Tell them that I would, indeed, be willing to make a public statement of my endorsement." 
<AideWilliam> "Ah yes. I will inform him at the first opportunity, 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Something about conquering all the pathetic beast-humans, bringing in its kin... but I didn't listen. It didn't sound like a /plan/. A rant, rather." 
<John> (Hee. Has anyone tried to get any of the cows that feed off of Red?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You don't take the pet cows of a giant animated tree.) 
<AideWilliam> to John: "Bringing in its kin?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "The little creature was angry about something. It thought, for some reason, that I would be a sympathetic listener. It was in error." 
<John> "I...do not know. It could be opening a portal unto Hell, it could have friends that it brings in the same way it entered?" 
<John> "He has been trying to drive one of my subjects mad. We have placed her in a warded room that has stopped him from visiting her. He is angry his toy has been taken away." 
<AideWilliam> "Where in town could it do that?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "I don't know. I don't really care. There are ways to summon such beings, but I never cared to learn them." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "I believe it would take a non-demonic magus of some kind to perform the ritual." 
<John> "We know that he wants Evelyn. However, I loathe to use her as bait. Her grasp on sanity could be too fragile." 
<John> "Hmm..would you have any idea as to what would be required, besides the magus, to perform the ritual?" 
<AideWilliam> Do I still have that dossier of threats? 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Diagrams, sacrifices, things set on fire, that kind of thing." 
<Random_Nerd> Probably, William. 
<Random_Nerd> At least a digital copy. 
* AideWilliam does a quick skim of the dossier to see which groups/people have sorcery backing them up 
<Gil> Would Sam know how to do summonings? He's the portal expert, after all. 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "The plan the demon said, though... the tone was not 'and now I reveal my master plan, just in time for the heroes to stop it.' It was 'I am angry at that man, I will now fetch my companions and we together will beat him.'" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam knows how to work the ways into and out of Amyra. 
<Random_Nerd> Some of them /do/ go to Hell. 
<Random_Nerd> There are cities there, after all. 
<Random_Nerd> But it's not exactly the same as mortal arts of summoning. 
<John> "Hmm. It is quite possible that I am 'that man'. How interesting." 
<FashionDivaSam> "If he knows where to look, because Amyra is connected to everywhere, Amyra is connected to Hell." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Is the information of how to do that written down in any place, or known to any person the demon could access?" 
<AideWilliam> to John and Sam: "Could he get allies from Dis?" 
<John> (Uhh, Sam. :) ) 
<John> (Or his grad students.) 
<John> (....and we warded _William's_ office, not Sam's, so Sam's data is out in the open, so to speak.) 
<FashionDivaSam> "I don't tend to write them down. It's slightly annoying to recalculate every time, but the principle is simple. You just need to know it. And, uh, the base principles are well documented now." 
<AideWilliam> "I'm not sure the poltergeist would know who to go to... but we'd better find your grad students just in case, and check on the portals to hell." 
<John> "How many connections to Hell does Amyra now have?" *worried, because, well, Treasures.* 
<Random_Nerd> Seven. 
<Random_Nerd> There aren't a /lot/ of cities there, and there are no forests. 
<Random_Nerd> Besides, given the distance, a city must be very large to form a sufficient connection. 
<FashionDivaSam> "Seven. And most of those belong to different factions." 
<AideWilliam> ( Not a problem: https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Dis_(Divine_Comedy) ) 
<John> "Such a ritual would take quite the preparation of the site." 
* MrsWinters sends a text message to her contact at the Kaerkoven police warning them about the demon, giving the description and last known location (here five minutes before the conversation started), urging them not to engage if sighted and asking to be notified ASAP in such a case. 
* MrsWinters adds, "May attempt arson or human sacrifice," as an afterthought. 
<AideWilliam> to John: "What would he need to do that preparation?" 
<Random_Nerd> The ways are difficult, by the way. A path to elsewhere in North Africa would be trivial to navigate if you know anything about how this works. A path to Dionyl, harder. A path to Hell would take significant figuring to find and follow. 
<AideWilliam> (Text back: "Entire force says they're 'too old for this shit'. Please advise." :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Police Liason response: "Same demon as before? Tall one? Or different?" 
<AideWilliam> "They should know that the 'known' demons are at least nominally on 'our side'." 
<MrsWinters> (The demon before would have been this one, right? Or do they mean Lesson?) 
<Gnomely> (I believe they mean lesson) 
<John> "I do not think that an actual portal opening would be necessary. The main demon is here already. He would just have to give a list of his friends’ names to a moderately competent magus and have them summoned. Much less muss and fuss." 
<Random_Nerd> (Lesson did get in a fight with the cops, once.) 
* MrsWinters texts back, "Different," and gives a more detailed description. 
<Random_Nerd> (It was seven months ago or so, but... it stuck in their minds.) 
<MrsWinters> (Makes sense.) 
<Gnomely> (damn bias ) 
<MrsWinters> (I'd have texted Lesson, but, I don't think I'd have his cell number. If such a thing exists.) 
* AideWilliam keeps looking for magi in the dossier... 
<John> (I believe that Lesson does have a cell.) 
<AideWilliam> (Didn’t Lesson use a cell phone earlier?) 
<Gnomely> (at least his secretary will have a cell) 
<Random_Nerd> Liaison: "Will advise patrols to be on lookout for possibly invisible goat demon. Will advise not to engage." 
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<AideWilliam> (whoops) 
<Gnomely> (ops dced) 
<Random_Nerd> And that's if you stretch both "magician" and "human." 
<Gnomely> (lost all after "(Didn’t Lesson use a cell phone earlier?)") 
<AideWilliam> "We need to think like a demon... 
<MrsWinters> * @AideWilliam keeps looking for magi in the dossier... 
<MrsWinters> <@John> (I believe that Lesson does have a cell.) 
<MrsWinters> <@AideWilliam> (Didn’t Lesson use a cell phone earlier?) 
<MrsWinters> <@Random_Nerd> Liaison: "Will advise patrols to be on lookout for possibly invisible goat demon. Will advise not to engage." 
<MrsWinters> <@AideWilliam> "We should find a radio that gets the emergency channels, listen for sudden fires or other strangeness." 
<MrsWinters> <@Random_Nerd> William, there aren't a lot of skilled human magicians in Amyra. 
<MrsWinters> <@MrsWinters> (He probably does but that's more William's and Sam's side of things. Helen does the human government and media.) 
<MrsWinters> <@Random_Nerd> A dozen, perhaps. 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "A medium-to-high status demon." 
<AideWilliam> "One that's familiar with life in Amyra if it's been harassing (whoever) for this long." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "It spoke to me as if it was my peer, or even my superior. This was an error." 
<AideWilliam> to the Giant: "If it comes back, would you be so kind as to stomp it?" 
<John> "Would current status of demon suffice or would it have to be status while in Hell?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "I would prefer to eat it. I have not tasted demon in many years. And it is a flavor that, while not pleasant, one occasionally craves." 
<AideWilliam> "Even better. If you like we can supply you with a variety of sauces to enhance the flavor." 
<FashionDivaSam> (Dulcinea point to RN) 
<MrsWinters> (LOL...) 
* Gnomely fell a bit disturbed by the tough of eating demon 
<Gil> (heh) 
<AideWilliam> (What's better on demon than A-1?) 
* John will call Lesson. 
<John> (Hot sauce?) 
<AideWilliam> (redundant) 
<MrsWinters> (Do you really want to know?) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson doesn't have a cell phone of his own, although Jennifer carries one. But right now, the closest phone to Lesson would be one in the Palace. 
<Random_Nerd> You briefly speak to a member of the serving staff, and they transfer the phone to Lesson. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "I am here." 
<John> "Hello, Lesson! We have tracked the demon from William's office to the Giant's barn. There was a small disagreement and apparently the demon was ranting in a 'going to gather his friends and beat up someone' sort of way. What would you suggest his next course of action would be?" 
<John> "And apparently, he talked to the Giant as if he was a peer. This was a mistake." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Is the demon in question intelligent and patient?" He pauses for a moment. "It is not. Would do something easy, requiring little personal risk, that would harm your interests." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, William, your cell phones both go off. 
<Random_Nerd> Apparently there's a fire at the bottom floor of the clock tower. 
<John> (*sigh*) 
<FashionDivaSam> "Fire in the clock tower main floor. Shit. There's our ninjas, though." 
<AideWilliam> "Found him." 
<Gnomely> "is the horse of doom in that floor?" 
<Gil> "Ninjas?" 
<Random_Nerd> The horse of doom is indeed there. 
<AideWilliam> to phone: "Tell the firemen to be careful, there's a demon in there." 
<Random_Nerd> We don't talk about the ninjas. 
<Random_Nerd> All matters relating to present or former Powers of Urbanization are mired in ineffability. 
<Random_Nerd> Because of Reasons. 
<FashionDivaSam> "Rules of cinematic pacing? Can't remember whose quote. Said that if the action's ever slowed down, have ninjas attack. Ninjas." 
<John> "Ah. Lesson, there is a fire at the bottom floor of the clock tower at the moment." 
<John> (Are we going to go there?) 
<AideWilliam> (They are genuine Japanese ninja, not the Chinese knockoffs, though.) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Yes. Like that." 
<John> "What would be the next step? Gloating over the flames? Or moving on?" 
<AideWilliam> to the Giant: "He may be in the Clock Tower. Would you like to come with us?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Does it fear you?" 
<John> "It does not like the wards my ancestors have placed. It fears the Giant." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "What is its level of power and authority?" 
<FashionDivaSam> *makes a prayer to Brian, surreptitiously* 
<AideWilliam> (Don't the Aides have demonic defenses available?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You guys specifically protected William's office from demons.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But not the whole building.) 
<FashionDivaSam> *a few seconds later, looks a little relieved* 
<John> "So far it just seems to do some scorching, burning hair. I do not know the extent of the damage at the clock tower. Authority, it thinks it has medium to high status." 
<AideWilliam> (In any case, we need to get back there) 
<FashionDivaSam> "Let's get going"" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Demon used to being in position of authority, suddenly confronted by equal or superior powers that it does not regard as authority. Hmm. Will try to strike by stealth or treachery, avoid open, even confrontation." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Slash of leg tendon, not direct dominance struggle." 
<AideWilliam> (Which means the burning tower may be a trap) 
<John> "Best way to draw it out?" 
<John> (draw the demon out, I mean.) 
<John> (Which, bring the Giant.) 
<Random_Nerd> Mrs. Winters, you get a phone call from your contact at the Kaerkoven Fire Department. 
<MrsWinters> I pick it up. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Hmm. When it makes attack on you, feign that attack succeeded. Simulate weakness." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "If demon is proud, confident, it will move in to finish things. Act then." 
<MrsWinters> "Helen Winters speaking." 
<John> "Ah, thank you, Lesson! We shall attempt that." 
<John> *tells the others of Lesson's suggestion* 
<Random_Nerd> Fire Department Guy, worried: "This is about the fire, in the clock tower that our Benefactors and their servants work from. Are there protections we should know about? Should we leave the fire be? Three men have vanished." 
<John> "Shall we state that the clock tower has been horribly damaged?" 
<John> (Oh dear. The bigger on the inside room.) 
<Random_Nerd> Fire Department: "We're trying to do what we can with hoses, but things don't make sense. And everyone who goes near the horse just disappears." 
<John> (The ninjas. *sigh*) 
<AideWilliam> (uhoh... did the demon find the horse?) 
<Gil> "Should we hurry? It sounds like we should hurry." 
<Gnomely> "Definitely" 
<FashionDivaSam> "Rules of drama say that we'll get there right when the fire explodes and engulfs the firemen outside, no matter when we get there." 
<MrsWinters> "Evacuate. Get everyone out of there. Keep it from spreading, but don't attack the fire directly. A team of specialists are on their way." 
<Random_Nerd> You get there approximately four minutes before the fire xplodes and engulfs etc etc. 
<Random_Nerd> ____CUT____ 
<John> "But this is not drama. This is real life!" 
<Random_Nerd> Fireman: "The room is... it's too big. It's like there's a football stadium in there." 
<Gnomely> "I bet on the drama rules in real life" 
<Random_Nerd> Fireman: "And I'm not going near that horse. I saw what happened." 
<AideWilliam> (Actually... didn't Theresa shore up the place with roots a long time ago?) 
<John> (Yes.) 
<Random_Nerd> (To repair the damage Monty did?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, but it's still bigger on the inside.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which gives Horse room to run and play.) 
<AideWilliam> "Tell your men to stay out of that room entirely." 
<AideWilliam> (I mean the tower) 
<FashionDivaSam> (oh I remember doing that now) 
<John> "How many men are missing and how many are disappeared?" 
<FashionDivaSam> (that was years ago!) 
<Random_Nerd> Fireman: "We've controlled the fire elsewhere, and we're keeping it from spreading. But if it continues in there, there will be structural damage." 
<Random_Nerd> Fireman: "Three have disappeared. Then we stopped sending people in there and called." 
<Random_Nerd> Fireman: "I saw one of them. He just /vanished/." 
<Random_Nerd> (Everyone remember what the deal with the Horse is?) 
<FashionDivaSam> (nope!) 
<AideWilliam> "The demon and the horse. We may need miraculous protection." 
* John will call the palace and mention that he may be going into danger and to tell his nephew that he loves him and to be ready. And that I have confidence in him. 
<John> (Yes!) 
<AideWilliam> (IIRC, the horse's rider can make living things die at will?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Belonged to a Warmain-shard you guys fought in New Mexico.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's a Focus.) 
<John> (He's a focus with Worldbreaker's Hand.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The person riding the horse can, at will, do Lesser Destructions of Human.) 
<FashionDivaSam> (oh.) 
<FashionDivaSam> (ow) 
<John> (Ah, my mistake.) 
* MrsWinters closes her eyes and prays to Carrie. 
<John> (Send in Sam!) 
<AideWilliam> (Sam, you lead. :) ) 
<FashionDivaSam> (!) 
<John> (And the Giant. Gil's only half destructed.) 
<AideWilliam> (Does the giant count?) 
<FashionDivaSam> (Sam may be close enough!) 
<Random_Nerd> Feel free to do both sides of the conversation. You were out for that session, so we don't know what Carrie was doing then. 
<John> (And could call in Lesson.) 
<Gil> (I don't wanna be half-destructed. :C ) 
<Random_Nerd> (You don't know /exactly/ how close to human you have to be for it to work.) 
<AideWilliam> (Of course, do we know this IC?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You haven't extensively tested this.) 
<AideWilliam> (Gnomely!) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam and William, at least, know what the horse does. 
<FashionDivaSam> (of course not!) 
<FashionDivaSam> (Gnomely, though, I feel good about) 
<MrsWinters> (I'll abstract it out, actually...)) 
<Gnomely> (I can go in) 
<AideWilliam> "If what I fear has happened has happened, nothing human can survive his wrath." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Define 'human." 
<FashionDivaSam> (although, do we know what the properties of Human are?) 
* MrsWinters hands the speakerphone to William and takes about thirty more seconds with her eyes closed. 
<Gnomely> "Then I can go in and found what happen, I'm not human" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Human like me? Or human like you?" 
<AideWilliam> "Definitely human like me." 
<Random_Nerd> (This is based on a Warmain gift, it might not follow the normal rules for what counts as Human.) 
<John> "Oh yes. Whether it is the current definition of human or the more imperial-Human of long ago." 
<AideWilliam> "I don't know about 'human like you'." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant looks around. 
<AideWilliam> "From their accounts it did eliminate several now-humans." 
<Gnomely> "I'm entirely Ftisk made!" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant, to Gil: "Are you human? You smell a bit like it. But you look like a ghost with veins." 
<Gil> "Half human." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Ah." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "What was your father?" 
<Random_Nerd> (And he assumes that the non-human parent was the father, because that's how it was with the other nephilim that he knows.) 
<MrsWinters> Then after about thirty seconds, there's a tangible presence possessing Helen, then Carrie's voice speaks from her lips and says, "You will be protected." 
<Random_Nerd> (Angels don't tend to want to bear a kid for nine months.) 
<Random_Nerd> So, Gnomely, what do you do? 
<Gil> (Which one was Gil's father? Does Gil have something that he considers a father?) 
<AideWilliam> "Who will be protected?" 
<Gnomely> I'll go to the room and take a look searching for Horse 
<MrsWinters> (Correct me if I'm wrong, an Auctoritas can be invoked through an Anchor, and it can protect a group of people as long as they stay together.) 
<John> (Well, one of your parents was human. You pick. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Inside, the room is huge. 
<FashionDivaSam> (Yep! Auct is great this edition) 
<Random_Nerd> (We don't know the details of Gil's parents.) 
<John> (So Gil gets to make them up!) 
<Random_Nerd> (For that matter, given how Triad-based reproduction works, he could have two fathers or two mothers.) 
<Gil> (I want them to both be mothers!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<Gnomely> are there traces I can follow to reach the horse? 
<Gil> (Unless that doesn't make sense for Gil being "male") 
<Random_Nerd> Gnomely, you see the horse. 
<MrsWinters> "Those standing here. Stay by my side, and the Auctoritas of Hope will shield you." 
<Random_Nerd> It's off in the distance. It seems calm, and completely not on fire. 
* Gnomely sprint to the horse 
<Gil> (Wait....one was human. That doesn't matter.) 
<Gil> "I don't have a father." 
<John> (Yes it does, if you have a human Y ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Dionyl have gender, but don't have sexes.) 
<Random_Nerd> (For someone like Gil, there aren't really any standard rules on how it works.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, decide how you like.) 
<Random_Nerd> There's an odd shape on its back. Like an absence of the smoke that's present everywhere else. 
<AideWilliam> "There." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "How were you brought forth, then?" 
<John> (Demon! Deeeeemooooon...) 
<John> (Well, see, my mom knows this stork dude...) 
<Random_Nerd> Gnomely, you see the smokeless shape on the back of the horse point at you, and hear a cackling sound. 
<Random_Nerd> Nothing happens. 
* Gnomely is relieved 
* Gnomely shout "Gna gna gna, oh, poor little demon, cannot kill me? What a pity!" 
<Gil> "I had two mothers. One human and Dionyl. It....makes sense on Dionyl." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Ah." 
<John> (We haven't said we went in yet. Carrie said that we were all protected by Hope and we hadn't gone in yet.) 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "My mother was human. Never knew her, died in childbirth. My father was an Angel." 
<Random_Nerd> Gnomely, you get to the horse. 
<MrsWinters> (So, not sure if it was clear, but I'm using an Auctoritas.) 
<Gil> "I'm impressed she lasted to childbirth." 
<AideWilliam> How's the fire doing? 
* Gnomely try to dismount the demon from the horse 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "She was nearly one-eighth true human. It was what drew the attention of my father." 
<Gnomely> "Leave that toy, can be dangerous in the wrong hands" 
<Random_Nerd> The fire is contained, but continues to spread in there. 
<FashionDivaSam> "Gil, it didn't even make sense on Dionyl." 
<Random_Nerd> Voice, to Gnomely: "What are you, creature? You do not burn, and I cannot find you through the horse, but you do not smell of kin." 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That, to Etheric.) 
<MrsWinters> After the Auctoritas is invokved, Carrie's presence fades, but the feeling of Hope's power is still in the air. 
<Random_Nerd> Gnomely, you grab the demon's leg. It's invisible, but tangible. 
<AideWilliam> ("I ... AM ... (an) IRON MAN!" :) ) 
<Gil> "Shush. They were my mothers. It made sense to me." 
<Gnomely> "Is none of your business demon, dismount now" 
<FashionDivaSam> (Eth: remember you have to spend MPs to make an Auct effect) 
<Random_Nerd> The other leg kicks at you, Gnomely. 
<Random_Nerd> The foot is hoofed. 
* Gnomely pull the demon 
<MrsWinters> (Right, 3 Persona MP if I recall correctly.) 
<Random_Nerd> But you're made of metal. 
<Random_Nerd> (So, the rest of you have gone in?) 
<MrsWinters> (I'll deduct them when we go back to the Familia.) 
<MrsWinters> (Going in now, I think.) 
<John> (Yep, once we're protected. Remember, if I get disappeared, my fave novels go to Rachel.) 
<Gnomely> (I want to use my weight to pull him off the horse and manage to sit on it) 
* AideWilliam brings in some firemen under protection 
<FashionDivaSam> (Before we go in. OOC. How are we going to adopt Azazel?) 
<Gil> (Going...in....) 
<Gil> (We can adopt the Giant's poop after he eats the demon.) 
<MrsWinters> (I think it was Beth who said, "We don't have to catch them all.") 
<Random_Nerd> (Did you cover the demon, as well?) 
<FashionDivaSam> (^_^) 
<John> (We are not going to adopt an Angel. And we're not going to adopt this demon. He hurt one of my subjects. Sucker's gonna die.) 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone, as you go in, you see Gnomely wrestling something invisible, next to the horse. 
<Random_Nerd> The horse seems entirely unperturbed that a metal man is wrestling an invisible demon in a burning basement. 
* Gil looks around for something that can be used as a weapon 
<Random_Nerd> (Err... I misspoke. Etheric, did you cover the giant?) 
* AideWilliam tries to coordinate the firemen's efforts so the tower doesn't get (much) worse. 
<Gnomely> "Here! I catch it! Sort of" 
<Random_Nerd> There's a shovel. 
<FashionDivaSam> *prays to Brian* "The Horse seems to burn less well than normal horses." 
<Random_Nerd> Gnomely, you and the demon are fairly evenly matched in terms of physical strength. 
<MrsWinters> (He was in the vehicle with us, correct? Then I would have.) 
<MrsWinters> (Or, well, beside the vehicle?) 
<Random_Nerd> It seems to be doing something that makes your body grow hotter than even the surrounding fire, but it's not enough to incapacitate you. 
<Random_Nerd> The Giant: "I have known warriors who would kill to own a horse half that good." 
<John> *cheers* "Yes, Gnomely! Smite him!" 
* Gil grabs the shovel. 
<MrsWinters> (I have the mental image that it covers "the party" in the RPG sense and that's more or less what I meant to cover.) 
<Gnomely> "Beware guys the demon is hotter that the fire!!!" 
<AideWilliam> "We need something we can hit the demon with. 
<Random_Nerd> The Giant walks over to where Gnomely and the demon wrestle. 
<John> "I believe that he is the pet of the Noble of Capriciousness. She does not visit as often as she used to." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Was it bred, or made? I have seen no animal that disciplined." 
<Gnomely> (we already meet that noble!) 
<FashionDivaSam> "Yes." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "If your masters made it, tell them that if they could make one of a scale fit for me, I would consider it a boon." 
<John> "I believe that it was the mount of a Warmain that the Amyran Nobles defeated." 
<Gil> "Gnomely! Where's it's face!" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant, disappointed: "Ah." 
<AideWilliam> "All our Nobles know is that when they first saw it an Excrucian was riding it." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "What does the small metal man do?" 
* Gnomely try to strangle the demon " is just up my hands" 
* MrsWinters is a bit more nervous about the horse after hearing this. 
<John> "I believe that it is wrestling the demon who insulted you earlier." 
* Gil tries to hit where Gnomely mentioned with the shovel. 
<AideWilliam> "Could you help him, while I get some ketchup?" 
<AideWilliam> to the Giant 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Indeed. Its technique is sloppy." It squints. "Small metal man! The demon's legs are bent back, like those of a goat! The joints face the opposite directions." 
<Gnomely> "Yay! Is really the kind of help I need atm!" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Oh. Of corse." 
<John> (*makes mental note to make the Giant a horsey.) 
<Random_Nerd> He reaches down and grabs the demon. 
<FashionDivaSam> (The giant is played by Brian Blessed right?) 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Not so fast, once the small metal man has caught you." 
<Random_Nerd> He opens his mouth. 
* Gnomely metalgrin! 
<AideWilliam> to John and especially Helen: "This will get messy." 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, by the way. The giant's shape is mostly that of an overscale human. But when he opens his mouth, it opens far wider than seems possible. He seems able to dislocate his jaw like a snake, and his cheeks are attached oddly. 
<Random_Nerd> So it's almost like watching a cartoon character take a big bite of an oversized sandwich. 
<Random_Nerd> CHOMP. 
<Random_Nerd> The giant stands there, chewing. 
<John> "But so fascinating! My life has certainly become more interesting since Amyra has been enChanceled." 
<Random_Nerd> Based on the movements of his arms, the demon is struggling ineffectually. 
* Gnomely turn and bleargh 
<Random_Nerd> The giant stands, bites, and chews, like he did with the cow leg earlier. 
<John> (That was a great description, RN.) 
* Gil freezes. 
<FashionDivaSam> "Not sure how you meaty folks stand to eat at all." 
<Random_Nerd> And as the demon dies, the pearlescent blackish-green blood around the demon's mouth starts to become visible. 
<FashionDivaSam> "Still." 
<Gnomely> "I.. I don't really believed he will *really* eat it" 
<FashionDivaSam> "Seems rather ... grotesque." 
<AideWilliam> "Well, we usually eat smaller chunks, and with rare exceptions cooked." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant, through mouthful of demon: "Why not? In one day, I once ate thirty head of cattle." 
<Random_Nerd> He finishes. 
<John> (Just the heads.) 
<Gil> (Hehe) 
<AideWilliam> to John: "We should talk about getting a breeding program going. 
* Gnomely turn back toward the giant 
<Random_Nerd> Giant, looking down. "My garments are aflame." To William: "You will have to have more made." 
<AideWilliam> "And, actually, I suspect his 'victim' may be able to enjoy a normal life now." 
<John> "Indeed. I shall ask Theresa and Brian to collaborate on the necessary steps and areas." 
<Gnomely> "wow that is truly a radical way to manage a demon issue" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant, to Gnomely. "I congratulate you on catching the creature. When it was troubling me, it hovered above the ground, and I was unable to firmly lay hands on it." 
* MrsWinters is looking at the burning inferno. Pointedly. Or at least pointed away from the giant. 
<John> "I do hope that this ends Evelyn's terrors. She is a lovely woman but her calm has been seriously tried by this trial." 
<AideWilliam> to the Giant: "Indeed. Once our Nobles return I shall ask Lady Theresa to make you a wardrobe." 
<Gnomely> "well I had the surprise with me" 
<Random_Nerd> (And it didn't do that when Gnomely grabbed it because the demon was riding the horse, and chose to stay on it to use its Gift against Gnomely. Which was a mistake.) 
<Gil> "Guys? The /rest/ of the fire?" 
<AideWilliam> "Ah yes... 
<FashionDivaSam> "Oh right. That." 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "If there are no other demons to eat, I would return home." 
* AideWilliam calls to the firemen: "It's safe now! Get in here!" 
<Gil> "Thank you, sir." 
<Random_Nerd> The firemen come in. 
<Random_Nerd> They seem baffled by the size of the room, but they get to work putting out the fire. 
<John> "I thank you, friend Giant. Thank you for ridding the Chancel of a threat and also for removing the harm being done to one of my subjects." 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and if you guys hadn't reinforced this place in the past, the building would be coming down by now.) 
<AideWilliam> "A moment to let these men stop the fire...." 
<John> "I shall ask one of the Nobles to grant you your boon of a fine horse of your stature." 
<Gnomely> "thank for your help. Did you are interested in a tournament of -I catch you in my spiderweb-?" 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "And in return, small man, thank you for giving me opportunity to deal with one who had offended me." 
<Random_Nerd> The firemen are making progress. 
<FashionDivaSam> (... did he just acknowledge that John might actually be human?) 
<Random_Nerd> Probably the guys who get sent to fires at the Clock Tower are really good. 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, he did.) 
<Random_Nerd> The giant tries to wipe away demon-blood from his mouth, but just gets it on his hands. 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "I go now to find a river, to clean myself." 
* John bows. "It is not right to let such insults go by. They must be dealt with and in a manner that keeps others from assuming higher stature than reality." 
* AideWilliam hands the Giant a towel. 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Ah." 
<Random_Nerd> He uses it. 
<John> (Yeah, I noticed that. Hee! ^^ ) 
<Random_Nerd> (I was going to ask why you had that... but William /is/ a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So I'll allow it.) 
<AideWilliam> (Being an Aide, William always knows where his towel is. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Indeed.) 
<AideWilliam> (Dang, ninjad) 
<Random_Nerd> He hands it back, covered in oily greenish fluid. 
<Random_Nerd> Giant: "Thank you." 
<FashionDivaSam> (besides, William hangs out with Sam.) 
<Gil> to John: "You might want to store that towel in the Vault." 
<FashionDivaSam> (or "hangs out with" at least) 
<John> (Remembering Lesson's blood, we need to burn that sucker.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And this demon was higher-caste than Lesson.) 
<Gil> (And store the ashes in the Vault?) 
<Random_Nerd> The Giant strides out. 
<John> "It shall be burned and the ashes sanctified and the urn and ground blessed." 
<Gil> (So it has better loot?) 
<Random_Nerd> (If there's one thing Amyra knows how to do, it's store demons.) 
<John> (Ehh, the Giant is going to get new clothes and a mount. I'd say not too bad of loot.) 
<AideWilliam> "Good idea. We should do that immediately... considering it's dripping...: 
<Gil> "I'll get a bowl to carry it in!" 
<Gnomely> (If I'm hot enough I can take the towel and burn it on me) 
* Gil rushes to the coffee kitchen 
* MrsWinters is getting a little pale now. It's probably the shock wearing off. 
<FashionDivaSam> "and then we'll burn the bowl and sanctify /it/" 
* John will call the palace for a containment unit and blessing kit. Then will call Lesson and tell him what happened! 
<John> "Are you okay, Mrs. Winters? It is still quite hot in here. Please do tell your daughter that her help in this is greatly appreciated." 
<Random_Nerd> William, your cellular phone rings. 
<AideWilliam> "Ah yes. I should review along with your highness and the authorities procedures and methods for dealing with various demonic entities." 
* AideWilliam answers the phone 
<AideWilliam> "Aide William." 
<Random_Nerd> John, Reginald is fetching the demon-storage materials. Lesson is put on the phone. 
<Random_Nerd> It's Theresa. 
<Random_Nerd> Remember the conversation when you guys met Alice Gadish, and she discussed recruiting her for the Aides? That. 
* AideWilliam tells Theresa about Aides entry requirements. 
<FashionDivaSam> (I'm loving this scenario for showing what the Aides get up to when we interrupt them ^_^) 
<Random_Nerd> And Sam, by Anchor-speak, gets his side of that from Brian, and is briefly disappointed when he discovers that the woman Brian is describing is human rather than Dionyl. 
<John> (Oh come on, Sam, you'd better not say that out loud. You'll insult Gil.) 
<John> "Hello again, Lesson! Thanks to your consultation, we are working on the fire at the clock tower and the Giant has devoured the demon!" 
<Random_Nerd> (It's in anchor-speak, Gil can't hear it.) 
<Gil> (;_;) 
<FashionDivaSam> (Humans just don't have the same fashion sense. Even Gil's is tainted!) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Can the human woman be released, now?" 
<Gil> (I only dress in rhinestone blazers because Kite tells me to!) 
<FashionDivaSam> (Nonsense. It was rhinestone denim vests over tiedie t-shirts with bell bottoms before that!) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Devoured?" 
<FashionDivaSam> (Rhinestoned blazers is a short step to the side from there!) 
<John> "I believe that Evelyn can be told about the ending of the demon, but she may wish to stay in the room longer, and she may if she chooses." 
<AideWilliam> (Where do the lime-green leisure suits come in?) 
<FashionDivaSam> (... besides, everyone knows you need a stetson to pull off the denim vest) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "In how much detail should the frightened woman be told?" 
<AideWilliam> (I'd say 'not much'. Just that the demon's gone.) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "'Situation dealt with'? 'There was a fire, then demon was eaten by giant.'?" 
<John> "Yes. The demon was on the Warmain horse and had disappeared multiple firemen who were attending the fire here at the clock tower. Gnomely wrestled the demon to the ground and, under the protection of Noble Carrie, the Giant was able to grab the demon and eat it completely." 
<John> "Just that the situation has been taken care of. I am sometimes afraid that my subjects will not believe me when I talk of some of the interesting people I have met in the Chancel." 
<AideWilliam> (heh) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Understood." 
<AideWilliam> did Gil get back with that bowl? 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson's authority-dynamic-interaction-gears spin for a moment. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Thank you for providing me with this information." 
* Gil returns with the bowl! 
<Random_Nerd> Because, being Lesson, he has to clarify that he is not taking /orders/ from John, but receiving information from him and choosing to act accordingly. 
<FashionDivaSam> (If ever I run Exalted, the Demons will all have Authority Dynamic Interaction Prana) 
<John> "Thank you, Lesson, for the insight you provided into how this demon would react." 
* AideWilliam dumps the towel in the bowl 
<Gil> "Plastics burn on Earth, right?" 
<AideWilliam> "Depends on the plastic. 
<John> "Is there anything further that you will need in the palace?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "I was glad to provide it..." (Lesson mentally considers, then rejects, "Sire" and "Comrade.") "...colleague." 
<MrsWinters> (If you run Exalted, laz, sign me up. :D ) 
<Random_Nerd> So, that's pretty much it for the action. Shall we do the epilogue in brief, so as to finish tonight and start a new storyline next Amyra session? 
<AideWilliam> "In any case, let's get this burned." 
<AideWilliam> (OK.) 
<MrsWinters> (Works for me.) 
* Gnomely nod "indeed" 
<FashionDivaSam> (sounds good RN) 
<John> (Sounds good.) 
<Random_Nerd> So, let's see. Evelyn goes out of the panic room, and is not further troubled by the demon. 
<Gil> (yay!) 
<Random_Nerd> It remains unclear why it picked her in the first place, and why she could see demons. 
<AideWilliam> The Aides probably take a few minutes to get the tower's interior fixed... 
<Random_Nerd> John carefully prepares and stores the towel. 
<Random_Nerd> The same contractors who installed the windows get to work on repairs. 
<Random_Nerd> Fortunately, the fire damage isn't much visible from the outside, so the Nobles probably won't notice before it's fixed. 
<Gnomely> (LOL) 
<Random_Nerd> The giant feels nauseous for several hours, and then swears to never eat a demon again. This is the thirty-seventh time he has sworn this in the last two hundred years. 
<AideWilliam> Nobles: "So, what happened while we were gone?" Us: "Oh, the usual." 
<John> (How much Febreeze and baking soda is needed to clear out the burnt smell?) 
<Random_Nerd> The Nobles return, with a Nimblejack in tow. 
<Gnomely> (SpiderJack!) 
<FashionDivaSam> (Giving John hysterics when he recognizes it from the book?) 
<Random_Nerd> Overall, not a /bad/ week. Good thing that the stuff that happened three weeks earlier didn't happen at a time like this when the Nobles are unavailable for a long period. 
<Random_Nerd> ______________STOP_________________ 
<AideWilliam> Beth, don't forget to have Theresa give the giant a nice suit. :) 
=-= FashionDivaSam is now known as lazarus 
=-= AideWilliam is now known as Knockwood 
=-= MrsWinters is now known as Etheric 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
=-= Gil is now known as Verithe 
<John> I love the noodle incident. ^^ 
=-= John is now known as BethE 
<Angelo> great session 
<Etheric> Yay! One more thrilling success for the Amyra crew. 
<BethE> Yes, Theresa shall make the Giant some new clothes, including formal attire if he wishes. And she shall make him a Fine Horse. 
<Random_Nerd> And yes, I'm implying that when you Nobles go out to fight a Flower Rite or something, this is just the sort of thing that tends to happen back home. 
<Knockwood> Hey, another candidate for the Other Guys of Nobilis! The Power of Noodle Incidents can join the Power of Bacon... 
<Etheric> This was more or less simultaneous with the Doogle storyline, right? 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Random_Nerd> And the earlier part was simultaneous with the Afghanistan part. 
<Random_Nerd> Overall, this story ended maybe two or three hours before the attack on Machinery did. 
<Knockwood> BTW, Angelo, did you get my Iron Man ref earlier? 
<Angelo> yep Knock 
<Etheric> So the MPs I spent for the Auctoritas would be taken from those I had left in that storyline. 
<Knockwood> Just checking 
<Random_Nerd> But Carrie wasn't doing many miracles then that I recall. 
<Random_Nerd> So, did you guys like doing a little side-story like this? 
<Etheric> I seem to recall I spent Domain MPs there and Auctoritas takes Persona so it should end up working out. 
<Etheric> I really did enjoy it! 
<Random_Nerd> Did I do enough stuff to get your PC involved? 
<Knockwood> Heh, maybe we should think up some Other Guys of Nobilis... the interesting Powers they only call in emergencies 
<Etheric> As sometimes happens, it took me a while to feel like I was getting into it, but this session was a blast. 
<Angelo> Me too, I would like to repeat that sidestorying in the future 
<Random_Nerd> Are there any other NPCs that you guys might, at some point, like to do a side-story involving? 
<Etheric> Hmm, well, Eve is an NPC now. 
<Knockwood> (I'm sure you remember "Rub Some Bacon On It": https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=wSReSGe200A ) 
<Angelo> Ftisk the beta verson in Vulcan channel 
<lazarus> Mystery Men of Nobilis? 
<BethE> Hmm, not sure. My Maple, but he doesn't talk and he doesn't move. :) 
<Verithe> Shadows' family? 
<Random_Nerd> I know! I should have you guys each play someone who was affected by the Curse of James! 
<Verithe> YES! 
<Etheric> That sounds rather dangerous. 
<Random_Nerd> Original Flavor James, New And Improved James, Spicy Excrucian Barbecue James, Herb, Snow... 
<lazarus> Every incarnation of James! 
<Angelo> The Acorn Beth? He is more talkative 
<Random_Nerd> ...and we discover the incredibly cosmically-important stuff they've been doing. 
<Angelo> a group of James would be cool 
<Verithe> Yesyesyes! 
<Knockwood> Hm... 
<Random_Nerd> Might be an amusing way to address that dangling plot thread... 
<Random_Nerd> A bit silly, but this is a rather silly game at times. 
<Etheric> I'm not ruling it out, but someone will have to give me a refresher. 
<Etheric> Because, I suspect that I only know the original flavor one. 
<lazarus> original James was very ... angry, as I remember 
<BethE> Yes, RN will probably have to have a prologue explaining each of the Urbans. 
<Random_Nerd> Heck, /I/ would need to check old logs to brush up. 
<Random_Nerd> The James situation is a mess. 
<Angelo> but would be cool 
<Knockwood> oh, speaking of which... where are the latest logs? 
<Angelo> in my gmail waiting to be put online 
<Etheric> At the lumber site? 
<Knockwood> the RPG.net Wiki is still open 
<Angelo> yep but I have to spellcheck and format them and put them on the wiki 
<Knockwood> in fact, it's now 99.9% junk-free now that it's been upgraded and we put in a better spam-filter 
<Angelo> I can send they as they are to your mail of you want them now 
<Knockwood> Seriously, I used to have to toss a dozen each night. Now I haven't seen a spam in a week. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, by the way, Anglo, I just wanted to say that I appreciate what you do in editing and posting the logs. 
<Random_Nerd> Angelo. 
<Random_Nerd> Hello, Tpyo. 
<Knockwood> hm, should Tpyo be an Other Guy, or their Imperator? 
<Random_Nerd> Other Guy, I think. 
<Angelo> well I *Know* the logs are not updates and is in my to do list to catch up 
<lazarus> Tpyo is a Natural Force. 
<lazarus> beyond just Nobilis. 
<Random_Nerd> I think the Imperator of Typos sits on his Typo Throne eating peeled grapes while Tpyo runs around doing all the work. 
<Random_Nerd> And she's never appreciated. 
<lazarus> going to head off now. good night guys, good storyline! 
<Knockwood> g'night laz 
<Angelo> night laz 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, before you go... 
<lazarus> Hm? 
<Random_Nerd> Since this was an experimental one, what did each of you like most and least about it? 
<Random_Nerd> If I'm to do this again, I want to know what worked and what didn't, so I can improve. 
<lazarus> I liked the behind the scenes, with the hooks into main pcs 
<Angelo> least the starting session, was awkward to not be Ftisk and be without powers. Maybe next round we can add will + intention? 
<Knockwood> Well, the big problem with it is the need to give us all their backstory. 
<Knockwood> Mitigated somewhat by the fact that we know these guys, of course 
<Random_Nerd> I was intending to use that system more, but in practice you guys seemed to be doing mostly stuff I knew you could definitely do. 
<Random_Nerd> Problem as in you need to read backstory, or I need to write it, Knock?> 
<Knockwood> both 
<Verithe> I thought we all got backstory. 
<lazarus> We were behaving as the characters, so didn't need to stat much 
<Random_Nerd> Well, the latter was mostly just me putting on paper stuff that I'd worked out in the past. 
<Knockwood> it's a little tricky not playing Dante. (or Duls. :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> William's background, for instance, has been that way for a while, it just didn't really come up much. 
<Verithe> Ah. 
<BethE> Can we get him married before the Meeting? 
<lazarus> (hell, I am still playing Jasper more like Luthien than Jasper :() 
<Random_Nerd> That's the plan. 
<Random_Nerd> Eh, your Jasper works, at least for me. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and thanks for playing along with the moments of slight railroading to get the conversations with your normal PCs in. 
<Random_Nerd> Anyway, good session guys. 
<Random_Nerd> I had fun. 
<Angelo> me too 
<Random_Nerd> See you sans Angelo next week for Chuubo. 
<BethE> God game! 
<lazarus> Those were fun :). I like the looks into these lives when we contact them 
<Angelo> yep good Chuubo next week! 
<lazarus> And I like that it isn't just weird for weird's sake 
<lazarus> (yes, Beth, Nobilis IS a God game!) 
<Random_Nerd> G'night, all. 
<Knockwood> g'night 
<lazarus> Anyway, g'night. 
<BethE> Good night! *HUGS* 
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<Angelo> night!+ 
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<Verithe> g'night! 
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<Angelo> night 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]

Session 258

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<lazarus> hey V 
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<Random_Nerd> Hey. 
<Verithe> Hi! 
<lazarus> hey 
<Verithe> So, I won't be around next week. 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. Beth and I had been trying to recall if it was this week or not. 
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<BethE> Hi guys! 
<lazarus> I got home about an hour and a half ago -_-; Another 11 hour day at work. 
<Verithe> Well, the time I mentioned before was last week. 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Verithe> Last week, I was on an airplane. 
<Verithe> Next week, we're having an infestation of family. 
<lazarus> Next week, I hope to be working normal hours again :) 
<Random_Nerd> Hope so too! 
<BethE> Eww, infestations. Can you bug bomb them? 
<Random_Nerd> Gotta get 'em before they lay eggs in the walls. 
<BethE> Oooh! Trap them with a line of chalk! 
<Random_Nerd> Isn't that ghosts? 
<lazarus> that's circles, isn't it? 
<BethE> I thought it was ants. No, wait, that's using boric acid. Salt for slugs... 
<Verithe> I'll try the chalk! 
<Random_Nerd> So, since this is an Amyra week, we wait for Knock, Angelo, and Etheric. 
<Random_Nerd> Anything about the game to discuss while we wait? 
<BethE> You could draw a chalk line for them to follow and by the time they come to the end of the line, it's time for them to go home. 
<BethE> If the goat demon is an actual demon, do we have enough firepower to get rid of it? 
<BethE> Oh! And you need to tell V the stuff you said last week about The End. 
<Verithe> ?! 
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<Knockwood> Hiyo 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, talking about the fact that by the current plan, this game will end in a year or two of realtime, with the end of the Age and a brief epilogue. 
<BethE> Hi Knock! 
<Random_Nerd> So I was asking if you guys had issues, plotlines, and so on that you wanted to address before then. 
<Random_Nerd> Characters you want to come back. 
<Random_Nerd> That kind of thing. 
<lazarus> oh, huh, we've got an end time. Earlier than I was expecing. 
<BethE> Oh and we had a picture of a place that was very Assembly-ish..let me find the link... 
<Random_Nerd> Might be two and a half. We'll see. 
<Knockwood> That's still 10 years 
<BethE> (We also explained Brian Blessed to Angelo.) 
<lazarus> still, I think it's probably the longest running Nobilis campaign. 
<lazarus> (AH!) 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, a decade's about long enough. 
<Verithe> I would like to resolve Kite's project for making Vulcan more like the non-god Imperators if possible. 
<Verithe> But he's only completed one project-step of that, so if it's not possible, that's okay. 
<lazarus> The only real plotline that I want to see resolved is Brian's wish to see Outside, and Outside and Creation cooperating. I suspect, though, that that's all primary plotline. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, I'll try to bring in stuff like that, V. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, that stuff is going to be addressed heavily at the peace summit thing. 
<Random_Nerd> Which is probably one or two arcs away after this. 
<Knockwood> damn, Dante's kinda had his head down this whole time... 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, that reminds me. Have I, yet, had Vulcan ask Ftisk and Kite a question regarding the mini-world to be used for the meeting? 
<Verithe> I don't recall him doing so. 
<Knockwood> We'll tell him racing stripes are OK, just don't be too garish. :) 
<BethE> For V - http://forum. rpg. net/showthread.php?700127-NSFW-Images-All-singing-all-dancing-all-new-thread-of-imagey-doom!-(Muahahaha)&p=17150461#post17150461 
<BethE> (Post 281 of the thread.) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> I need to have him do that early next story arc, then. 
<Knockwood> ah yeah, images from the latest Burning Man. :) 
<Verithe> Yay! 
<Knockwood> Oh... there's that thing about Kudzu's past and our past selves. 
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<Knockwood> Hi Eth 
<Etheric> Hey. 
<BethE> Hi Eth! 
<Random_Nerd> Hey, Etheric. 
<Random_Nerd> Now we're just short Angelo. 
<Random_Nerd> Since this would normally be Chuubo week, and he may have missed the email, I'll start in 5-10 minutes either way. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh? What about that do you want to address, Knock? 
<BethE> Well, I had asked for more Kudzu backstory. 
<Knockwood> Mainly that. Plus, I'd like to know what out past selves were doing. And the whole mystery of past-Kudzu's Chancel. 
<Random_Nerd> When you say "past selves", what do you mean? 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, you found out the backstory with Blades and Kudzu a while back, do you mean something related to that? 
<Knockwood> Well, there was that little moment on breach day. 
<BethE> You mean the stuff from the Cult that had like a giant tree for Theresa? 
<Random_Nerd> Ah, that. 
<Random_Nerd> We will be addressing what that meant. 
<Knockwood> I remember wanting a crown of Creation material... 
<Knockwood> oh yeah, and where the Cult came from 
<Verithe> Give yourself a crown of sporks. 
<Random_Nerd> The cult thing is currently wrapped up in... Jamesness. 
<Random_Nerd> If one of you is specifically interested, we can address it, but that whole situation got messed up by me having to retcon it a few times due to successive Jameses and the activity of the Curse. 
<BethE> Perhaps we should name Herb's Ninja as a James. 
<Knockwood> Or audition the Aides. :) 
<Etheric> So when you say Curse, it doesn't actually mean the way that James tends to get dropped as a PC? 
<Etheric> I thought it was an OOC thing... 
<Random_Nerd> No, that's what I mean. 
<Random_Nerd> I had to rework James-related stuff a couple times due to that. 
<Random_Nerd> And it's kinda a mess right now. 
<Etheric> Ah, okay. I misread -- thought you said there's an IC Curse. 
<Random_Nerd> I may go that way, if I bring that stuff back. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, he's an Actual or something and distorts reality around himself! 
<Random_Nerd> Unless that's too meta. 
<Knockwood> Don't be silly. We all do that. 
<Etheric> I wouldn't call it meta exactly, but I have a feeling it would be good to leave it vague for now. 
<Etheric> See, what I just said, THAT was meta. 
<Random_Nerd> *nod* 
<Random_Nerd> It's just that for most of this stuff, I worked out years ago what's supposed to be going on there. 
<Random_Nerd> But the James stuff is a mess. 
<Random_Nerd> So if it doesn't get addressed... eh. 
<BethE> Perhaps James is narrating this whole thing to the next Creation. 
<Etheric> What's life without a little mystery? 
<lazarus> A little Amberish that way 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
<Random_Nerd> Maybe the estate of urbanization is just a weird enigma, like the Estate of Trails in second edition. 
<Knockwood> Aides, remember, 
=-= Knockwood is now known as AideWilliam 
=-= Theresa is now known as John 
=-= lazarus is now known as Sam 
=-= Etheric is now known as MrsWinters 
<John> I'm not an Aide, I'm Royalty! ^^ 
=-= YOU are now known as Gil 
<MrsWinters> I say tomato, you say tomato. 
<Random_Nerd> So! You'd put Evelyn in the Spiritual Panic Room, and tested its effects on Sam, Gil, and Gnomely. 
<AideWilliam> OK, remind me where we were? 
<Gil> Gil did not like the effects. 
<John> Also tested it on Lesson. 
<Random_Nerd> The last scene took place in the palace, in the old wing that isn't used much these days because it has rooms built according to what seemed like a good idea to some half-drunk king a hundred and fifty years ago. 
<Random_Nerd> Yes, also Lesson. 
<Random_Nerd> You still have the conspiracy theorists and the robotkin to worry about. 
<Random_Nerd> Any questions before we start? 
<AideWilliam> what time is it IC? 
<John> So, how do we work out the Robotoics thing or the goat demon thing? Oh, another thing we found out. My ancestor was being stalked by a nimblejack! 
<Random_Nerd> Evening. 
<Random_Nerd> Or at least thought he was, and knew what one looked like. 
<Gil> We tell them the world went weird and the conspiracy theorists think the world went weirder.... 
<John> Which, I mean, for most mortals, the only time they know what one looks like is the few seconds before they die... 
<Random_Nerd> So, should we start? 
<AideWilliam> if he's there to kill him. 
<AideWilliam> If he's there to _watch_ him... 
<Gil> We should definitely start. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, most nimblejacks move fast enough that you don't get a good look at them unless they /want/ you to. 
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<John> (Shall we be in my lounge? We have many beverages.) 
<AideWilliam> (Sure) 
<Sam> (Sam will imbibe a beverage. Kind of.) 
<AideWilliam> (I think I asked for info on the conspirators & groups) 
<Gil> (Gil will also....imbibe a thing) 
<John> "So, these people believe that I have been replaced by a robot. Did they happen to state this time how I am supposed to interact with the Treasures in this way, or is impending doom from Them on the plate as well?" 
<John> (Yes, Reginald and my head of security will be handling that info.) 
<Random_Nerd> Gil, suddenly the world is very strange. Everything around you fades out, replaced by the interior of some massive piece of clockwork, ticking and turning, with loud sounds that could be hammer-blows or just the workings of gears the size of houses. 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone else, Gil suddenly just seemed to space out. 
<Random_Nerd> Loud voice, to Gil: "Gilbert, servant of my child Chytosideron." 
<AideWilliam> (Hm... William would know of old demon, witch or werewolf scares from way back when, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> "I have words that I would have you convey to him, when he is no longer occupied. I expect to be busy at that time, and unable to discuss the matter myself." 
<Gil> "Yes, ah....er....Lord Vulcan?" 
<Random_Nerd> (In Amyra, you mean? Yeah, you can.) 
<AideWilliam> (In general) 
<Random_Nerd> "It is a matter of failsafes. I am finishing construction of a small world to use in his meeting." 
<Random_Nerd> "Which is to stand between here, and the Outside, in a gap in the Wall." 
<Random_Nerd> "But it must be decided... what if it is a ruse, or there is an unrelated attack at that point of weakness? So there must be a failsafe. A trigger." 
<John> (...please don't let Ftisk near the trigger. We already have Baelhermon...) 
<Random_Nerd> "This will be given to Chytosideron. It will cause one of two things. Either this world and all in it, including him and the Enemy that are meeting him, will be swept into Creation." 
<Random_Nerd> "Or into the Outside." 
<Random_Nerd> "Ask him to choose, and contact me when he has done so." 
<AideWilliam> (Gee, I wonder where that will lead...) 
<Gil> "Yes, sir." 
<Random_Nerd> Then Gil is returned to his previous location, and/or stops staring blankly into space. 
* Gil jolts 
<AideWilliam> "This does rather resemble a werewolf scare in some ways." 
<Gil> "What does?" 
<AideWilliam> "The robot-replacement rumors... 
<Random_Nerd> William, you think you have some books regarding that sort of thing in your office in the clock tower. 
<John> "Every society has a werewolf scare. Same with vampires. Some even have getting werewolves _from_ vampires!" 
<Gil> (Gypsies have stories about vampire watermelons!) 
<AideWilliam> "Indeed. Robots are simply the modern version. That or lizard-men from space." 
<Random_Nerd> (John, you know that two of your ancestors or close offshoots from the line of succession were rumored to be werewolves, and one to be a vampire.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sam, you know that the lizard-men from space haven't been seen on Earth since the lost centuries were stolen.) 
<Sam> (...) 
<John> (...was the ancestor staked?) 
<AideWilliam> ( http://boingboing. net/2013/04/15/12-million-americans-believe-l.html ) 
<Random_Nerd> (No, but he vanished under mysterious circumstances.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Possibly related to the less-mysterious circumstance of his brother subsequently inheriting the kingdom.) 
<John> (Oh. _That_ family tradition.() 
<John> (Was he nicknamed Ivor the Immortal, by the way?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Still, the "vampire" probably did at least practice occultism.) 
<Random_Nerd> An officer of the Crown Security stops by, carrying a binder, and waits for John to address him. 
<John> "Yes?" 
<AideWilliam> "The real questions are whether there's deliberate action behind it and, if so, what they want to accomplish." 
<Random_Nerd> "It was requested that a copy of the summary of the information regarding those who regard your Highness as an imposter or pretended be brought." 
<John> "Probably, me off of the throne, more insanely, the Treasures blowing the entire kingdom sky high." 
<John> "Ah, thank you. Please hand it to the red-haired gentleman, if you please." 
<Random_Nerd> He nods, and hands it to William. It's rather heavy and thick. 
<AideWilliam> "Let's see... was there much controversy over your initial coronation?" 
<John> "These groups always have someone they prefer much better to me. Although, to be honest, most people in the kingdom couldn't pick my heir out of a lineup." 
<Sam> "Or your hair." 
<John> "My parents had both died. It was a bit of a rush job." 
<Random_Nerd> According to the materials, the rate of paranoia more than doubled when Amyra was Enchanceled. 
<Random_Nerd> Before that, most of it related to the fact that John is unmarried, and his nephew is his heir. 
<AideWilliam> (Gee, I wonder why...) 
<John> *to Sam* "It's a traditional style. You can see it in the gallery. Doing the rituals so often, you go with a style that does not leave residue and can be fixed easily after fireballs." 
<AideWilliam> "Heh... they included a 'Pick the Queen!' event flyer. 
<John> (Can paranoia be cured by courage or does courage just change paranoia to stupidity?) 
<Random_Nerd> John's relatively well liked, with higher approval ratings than any of the PCs other than Brian. But there are some crazies. And a kingdom getting absorbed into a magical jungle/wasteland and a twentieth of the people turning into mythical creatures makes some folks edgy. 
<Random_Nerd> (Depends on the kind of paranoia.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Generally, it's not a great idea to take someone who thinks the government is spying on him through his dentures, and make him be not afraid of anything.) 
* John grimaces. "There was a run on glass shoes in the fashion stores that month." 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, there's also a section on women and men who are in one way or another trying to stalk John. 
<AideWilliam> "Not long before the enChanceling, I believe..." 
<AideWilliam> (Do they include their motivations?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Largely romantic/obsessive.) 
<John> "If there has been a popular fairy tale about a common girl becoming a princess, at least ten girls have tried some form of it in Amyra. My housekeeper has to go through the ads carefully to find anyone competent." 
<Random_Nerd> (There's a portion of Amyra's gay subculture who thinks that the reason John still isn't married is that he's in the closet.) 
<John> (*shifty*) 
<Sam> (Hee) 
<AideWilliam> "Let's see, we can probably eliminate the erotomaniacs..." 
<John> (I _have_ to wear tights, darn it!) 
<John> (It's part of the gear!) 
<Sam> (Yes, but they don't have to be tie-dye) 
<AideWilliam> (Now we all have to check out that movie.) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, William, you notice something else interesting. In the crossover betweeen paranoid and romantically obsessed, two different people mention John "consorting with a skinless demoness." 
<John> (Amyra is a kingdom that supports equality!) 
<Random_Nerd> The phrase is the same in both. 
<AideWilliam> "Whoops, someone saw you with Martyrs." 
<Gil> "Huh." 
<AideWilliam> The account corresponds to a visit from her, right? 
* John flushes a little. "Rachel enjoys looking through the kingdom's relics, identifying true relics from phonies." 
<Random_Nerd> Probably. They're both from about a month and a half ago, from well after John and Martyrs became acquainted. 
<AideWilliam> "How much of them were fake?" 
<Random_Nerd> But it's unclear which specific visit they're referring to. 
<John> "As they are stored in public places, both she and I cannot hide and I respect her viewpoint on her appearance." 
<AideWilliam> "I should ask Lord Dante about introducing her to the populace." 
<John> "Given that we have enough pieces of the True Cross to build a new bridge across the Nile, most of them are fake." 
<John> "However, we do have the largest collection of _true_ pieces of the Cross." 
<Random_Nerd> William, your cellphone rings. 
<AideWilliam> "More than the Vatican?" 
* AideWilliam answers. 
<Random_Nerd> It's a security system you set off. Something's triggered the motion detector in your office. 
<AideWilliam> "Hm. Something's in my office... 
<John> "We are the main repository for the Vatican. I believe that one of my ancestors dared a Pope to 'come and take it, if he had the balls' and there were at least two Crusades in the making, but we worked out a deal." 
<Sam> "Is it the Imp again?" 
<Gil> "The Vatican still has connections here?" 
<AideWilliam> "Can't tell from here, unfortunately." 
<Sam> "Want backup?" 
<John> "I am not sure, after the enChancelling, but before that, we were much like..the United States and Russia." 
<AideWilliam> "Probably the imp, but we should check. 
<Sam> "Please excuse us, John." 
<John> "They do not send assassins, I do not unleash the Ark of the Covenant upon them." 
<AideWilliam> "And when the Nobles get back we should ask them about physical security for the Clock tower. 
<John> "Of course. More tea, Mrs. Winters?" 
<Gil> "Ah....those are two Earth civilizations?" 
<Sam> "Right, of course, Wil." 
<John> "Two superpowers, who held to a 'cold war' for many years, as they could not attack the other and safely survive." 
<Gil> "Perhaps it is best that the Vatican is no longer aware of you." 
<Random_Nerd> (Part of it's that Amyran Christianity has been separate since before the days of Prester John, and when contact was reestablished with Europe, the Kings of Amyra chose to remain head of their own branch which they considered to be not subordinate to the Pope.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The Pope... disagreed.) 
* AideWilliam heads back to the Batcave... 
<Random_Nerd> (How many of you are heading over?) 
<John> "Perhaps. But I feel sad that the miracles of God's power have been removed from _their_ world. How more dull it must be. How scary to not have concrete proof of a Creator and divine grace?" 
<Sam> (Me and William, only, I think) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<AideWilliam> (Gil?) 
<John> (So, yes, technically we're...what, Orthodox? Protestant? Protodox?) 
<Gil> (It's your office. He'll let you deal with it.)) 
<Random_Nerd> (You're your own thing.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Closer to Eastern Orthodox.) 
<Gil> (There are many, many branches of Christianity.) 
<John> (Ooo, I have a link somewhere that shows all of the branches... I forget where I saw it, though.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Theologically speaking, you're probably Nestorian.) 
<Gil> (Does it have the ones that used to attack armed people in the hopes of being martyred? Those ones are fun.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You totally had some of those.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That's how you got some of the cooler relics.) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, William, you arrive at the office. 
<Random_Nerd> William, the desk is not at all as you left it. 
<John> (Aha! http://funki. com. ua/ru/portfolio/lab/world-religions-tree/ ) 
<Random_Nerd> One of your binders, one relating to Angels and Powers of Hell, is open on the desk, along with several related pieces of notepaper. 
<Random_Nerd> A page turns. 
* AideWilliam checks out the notepaper... 
<John> "What is your opinion on all of this, Mrs. Winters? As one who is out among the public so often, you may have some insight that I am missing." 
<Random_Nerd> It's your notes on the Giant, and some material related to the Watchers. 
<AideWilliam> Are the pages still turning? 
<John> "And yourself, Mr. Gil? Any opinions?" 
<Random_Nerd> Another turns. 
<Random_Nerd> There's a stink in the air of unwashed animals and burnt hair. It was faint, at first, but it's rising. 
<AideWilliam> "Would you kindly show yourself?" 
<John> (Uh oh. Not that I know what that means but uh oh.) 
<Random_Nerd> The smell rises, and William's hair catches fire. 
* AideWilliam puts it out... 
<John> (Big mistake. Not the hair. Never the hair.) 
<Random_Nerd> It's surprisingly hard to extinguish, but you're making progress. 
<Sam> "Um. Hair doesn't normally do that, right?" 
<AideWilliam> "No!" 
<Random_Nerd> Then one of your paperweights rockets over and hits the window, shattering it. 
<Gil> "Well, obviously they misinterpreted your meetings with Martyrs. Perhaps they have been seeing robots as well?" 
<Sam> "That clearly doesn't happen. Hang on." *calls Gil* 
<Random_Nerd> Fortunately, the heavy wind from outside helps extinguish your hair. 
<Gil> "Or were you still talking about the Vatican? Hold on, I have to take this." 
<Random_Nerd> Unfortunately, some of the notes start to seem to be blown out the window, in spite of the fact that the breeze is blowing /inside/. 
<Gil> to phone: "Yes, this is Gilbert." 
<Random_Nerd> And then William's cell phone rings. 
* AideWilliam grabs for the notes... 
<Sam> "We seem to got a poltergeist in Wil's office. Come and observe. Or help. Either way." 
<AideWilliam> "Good thing we have training in everything happening at once..." 
* AideWilliam answers his phone. 
<Random_Nerd> It's Theresa. 
<Gil> "I'm on my way." 
* Gil hangs up. 
<Random_Nerd> She called to ask what you know about people who were Ennobled, but then tried to back out. 
<John> "I shall join you." *grabs spare bag for blessings* 
<Sam> (How much does Sam know about poltergeists? Poltergeist, lots, but the non-movie versions?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, you have them on Dionyl. More basic wind-and-inertia creatures, related to Dionyl in the same way that monkeys are related to humans.) 
<Gil> "Do you know anything about poltergeists, King John?" 
<Random_Nerd> (But you didn't think they had them here, and they don't set things on fire.) 
<AideWilliam> "We know of a few. Pardon the distraction, there's a poltergeist in my office..." 
<Random_Nerd> William, you successfully grab about two-thirds of the sheets of notes, while answering Theresa's question. 
<Random_Nerd> Only missed two or three. 
<John> "A little. Usually it is just part of a mental illness being suffered by a target. But sometimes, there is a psychic component. Ghosts are not as often seen and the ability to actually _move_ objects is rare." 
<John> (Huh. A pyrogeist.) 
<Sam> (I'll try speaking to it in Dionyl?) "Hello?" 
<Random_Nerd> They don't set things on fire, though, Sam. 
<AideWilliam> (You don’t need me to type out the convo, do you?) 
<Sam> (I know. but.) 
<Random_Nerd> Which dionyl language do you use? You know several. 
<Random_Nerd> (Nah.) 
<Sam> (all of them. In succession.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Just wanted you to know what William would hear.) 
<Random_Nerd> It responds in none of the languages, but in a language that you don't recognize. 
<Random_Nerd> William, however, does. Latin. 
<Sam> "I don't recognize that language." 
<Random_Nerd> Latin Voice: "What are you, creature? You do not smell of kin, nor of beast." 
<Gil> "That's....not the sort of poltergeist I am used to, but let's go!" 
<AideWilliam> to Sam: "That's Latin." 
<Sam> "I've been meaning to learn that one." 
<AideWilliam> in Latin: "We are Aides to Nobles. Who or what are you?" 
<Sam> "But I've heard of differing schools of thought on the pronunciation. What school is he using?" 
<Random_Nerd> Latin: "I do not wish to speak to the cattle. What is the other creature?" 
<Random_Nerd> (It's a latin dialect you aren't familiar with.) 
<John> (Oh, great. One of those guys. Bah. Wonder if it's our goat.) 
<AideWilliam> to Sam: "Tell Gil to tell John that the Giant may be in danger." 
<Sam> *calls Gil again* 
<Random_Nerd> (But the accent reminds you of the language Lesson occasionally speaks when he is upset.) 
<Gil> (How close am I?) 
<Random_Nerd> (To the clocktower, or the Giant?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or to John?) 
<Gil> (To the clocktower/Sam) 
<Random_Nerd> (A bit under half a mile.) 
<AideWilliam> Latin: "The Nobles are away, but we have their ears." 
* Gil answers phone 
<Random_Nerd> Latin Voice: "Give me back my pet, and I will not destroy you before your masters return." 
<Gil> "Yes, this is Gilbert." 
<Sam> "William thinks the Giant is in danger. The voice is speaking Latin." 
<AideWilliam> Latin: "What pet?" 
<Sam> "Do you have King John with you?" 
<Gil> "Poltergeists speak Latin?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Gil> "I do." 
<Sam> "Good. Need all the Latin we can get. Remind me to learn it." 
<Sam> "And this one does." 
* John is travelling with Gil. 
<Random_Nerd> Latin Voice: "The sheep-woman that was taken from me. Return it, and I will not put any significant effort into making you suffer, beast." 
<Gil> "Which giant, by the way? Red or the other one?" 
<Random_Nerd> (The other one.) 
<Gil> "Or the other-other one?" 
<Sam> "The other one." 
<John> (*narrows eyes* My subject! Mine!) 
<Random_Nerd> (The Peri.) 
<Random_Nerd> William, the stink of animal and burning is overpowering, to the point where you keep expecting your hair to catch fire again. 
<Sam> "Does John have an exorcism kit with him? Or something that can be turned into a makeshift one?" 
<Gil> "King John, William thinks the giant that is not a tree and does not have the head of a jackal might be in danger." 
<John> (Yes. But true exorcisms take a long time, if you go via the Catholic route.) 
<AideWilliam> "She is not ours to return to you." 
<John> (*mentally rolls up his sleeves* I'll need an old priest and a young priest...) 
<AideWilliam> to Sam: "Tell John to bring his Ghostbusting kit." 
<Sam> "Just did." 
<Random_Nerd> (And the Amyran rite is different, but no less long.) 
<Gil> "We're already on our way!" 
<Random_Nerd> Latin Voice: "Then burn, fool!" 
* AideWilliam motions to Sam to hand over the phone. 
* John is murmuring blessings and St. Patrick's Breastplate and St. Damian's Sword and St. Bridget's Tongue Lashing. 
<Random_Nerd> Your suit catches fire, and the aura of stink sweeps out the window. 
<Sam> "Woah." 
* AideWilliam sheds the suit... 
<Random_Nerd> You /liked/ that suit. 
<Gil> "If William burns to death before I beat him at poker, I'm going to kill him!" 
<John> "I believe. That his. Fiance'. Will be upset. As well." 
<AideWilliam> "Gil. Tell John that his subject's demon is real, and here." 
<AideWilliam> "I need a ward, fast." 
<Random_Nerd> Gil, you pull up outside the clock tower. 
<John> (That's an entirely different exorcism!) 
<Sam> "We need wards. Seems to be a demon. Run." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam and William are on the third floor. 
<Gil> to John: "It appears William found [lady's name]'s demon." 
<Random_Nerd> The Horse neighs. 
<Random_Nerd> (Fortunately, Gnomely is guarding it.) 
<John> "Oh dear. Are they battling it?" 
<John> (*snort*) 
<Gil> "They need wards. They say it's real." 
<Random_Nerd> William, you have only relatively minor burns, and your shirt and tie are scorched. 
<Random_Nerd> The smell is pretty much gone. 
<AideWilliam> (Fortunately he's OK at channeling Dante. :p ) 
<John> "What area do they need warded? A room? The entire tower? Lesson will not be able to cross, if I do this right. And I need to be able to ward an area in completeness." 
<John> "And is it still there?" 
<AideWilliam> (Did it bug off?) 
<Random_Nerd> John, if this had happened a month ago, you wouldn't know what to do. But you've been studying the wards used on the demon-storage room, and more recently on the panic room. 
<Random_Nerd> (As far as you can tell, it headed out.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But there's nothing to stop it returning at this point.) 
<Gil> "Sam, what area do you need warded?" 
<Sam> "Wil's office. The area around the demon. These are ... no longer the same places." 
* John mutters. "I shall need to restock on silver iodide...." 
<AideWilliam> Have they arrived? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> Just now. 
<Random_Nerd> You guys have /really fast/ elevators. 
<Random_Nerd> Side benefit of being friends with the Power of Machinery. 
<AideWilliam> "Invisible demon was going through my notes. Set my suit on fire while I was wearing it." 
<John> "That window will need to be replaced for an effective ward." 
<John> "But I can start on the rest of the work." 
<AideWilliam> "It was looking at notes on the Giant and the Watchers." 
<Random_Nerd> If you want a good one, the best way would be to when making a window, set certain patterns in it in silver and gold wires, while reciting certain prayers. 
<Sam> "I'll handle that." *calls up a contractor we've used before, and explains that Brian needs a window replaced in the Clocktower* 
<John> "Notes on what? And Gil said that this was Elaine's stalking goat demon?" 
<Random_Nerd> Contractor: "Moderate priority, high, or emergency?" 
<AideWilliam> "Said the 'sheep-woman' was hers and wanted her back." 
<Sam> "Moderate-high. The King apparently has some suggestions for design he would want to go over with you." 
<AideWilliam> "If it is Elaine, that means your wards there are working." 
<Random_Nerd> Contractor: "...I'll be there in ten minutes or less." 
<Sam> (Or your pizza's free!) 
<John> "Hmm. As her king, I have prior claim on her. As her religious leader, I am in charge of guarding her soul. This demon shall. Not. Win." 
<AideWilliam> (The Wolf will be there immediately.) 
<John> (Heh.) 
<AideWilliam> "It is invisible, and likes setting things on fire." 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, William, you can tell that only two pages are missing. 
<AideWilliam> "Speaking of which, I need to change." 
<John> "But I am also mildly happy that my ancestor's work has annoyed the demon." 
<Random_Nerd> Your sketches and notes on the giant's apparent physiology, and on the blessing against weapons he seems to have inherited from his father. 
<Random_Nerd> William, you have an entire closet full of suits, right here. 
<AideWilliam> "It has my notes on the Giant, and his weapon invulnerability." 
<John> (...uh oh.) 
<AideWilliam> "I don't know if he's vulnerable to fire...." 
<John> (Knowing someone's description of invulnerability and how and he's interested in Pure people...) 
<AideWilliam> Any strangeness to the fire? We can examine my scorched clothing... 
* AideWilliam tells John what the poltergeist said while he changes. 
<Random_Nerd> The ashes smell wrong. 
<AideWilliam> ("By the way, the Powerpuff Girls boxers were a gift." :D ) 
<Random_Nerd> They smell a bit like the smell Lesson makes when he physically exerts himself. 
<Random_Nerd> Which isn't very nice. 
* AideWilliam returns one minor nervous breakdown later. 
<Random_Nerd> So... 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Random_Nerd> William, for reference, that is the seventh most surprising and unpleasant thing to happen to you this month. 
* John will have begun scratching runes into the doorways. 
<Random_Nerd> Not the top, sure, but it made top ten, which is impressive enough. 
<Random_Nerd> (John, do you want to use your skill and some will for it, or not?) 
<John> (Ah, the Superior Holiness? Yes.) 
<AideWilliam> "Careful, they invite Lesson to the conference room periodically. 
<John> (I have a level of 3 at the moment. How well will that ward this room?) 
<AideWilliam> "Am I missing an eyebrow?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, what's your skill, and how much will are you using?) 
<Random_Nerd> (It will work as per the usual intention system.) 
<John> (Then I will spend 2 Will. I want to Ward this room to the best of my ability and components, especially against demons of multiple levels.) 
<John> "Then. They will have to make sure that Lesson and Dante's little friend know not to come into here. Because once this room is warded, it will be permanent to some extent. And I do not wish them harm." 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. Your attempt will make your life better, move you toward your goals, impress people around you, have a tangible impact on the world, and make you happy.) 
<AideWilliam> "Where is that imp? Anyone seen him?" 
<Random_Nerd> When John carves the final word, the lingering smoke and smell of demon presence are swept out the window by a sudden breeze. 
<Random_Nerd> The imp's usually somewhere on this floor or the next one. 
<Gil> ("Wow, King John!") 
<Random_Nerd> He has a little office in what used to be a janitor's closet, where he polishes people's shoes and the like. 
<John> (*Priest-King flex*) 
<Sam> (We need a Chibi Priest King Flex picture) 
<John> (But I have no talent!) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, by the way, John, did you base these wards on the safe room? 
<John> "What can be done with the information that you have lost? And do we know where the ancient Giant is?" 
<John> (Yes. And my other demon room research....why?) 
<John> (If there's a 'one room only' clause on these, I'm going to throw a royal fit.) 
<Random_Nerd> You have a realization as you do the warding, then. Some of the wards aren't specifically intended for demons, but for other things. 
<John> (Can I tell what the 'other things' are? I'm guessing nimblejack.) 
<AideWilliam> "It was notes on his physiology and his weapon invulnerability. I hadn't come to any particular conclusions, but given that he specifically took those..." 
<John> (Poor Ftisk will be crushed that he can't store his new anchor in Will's office.) 
<Random_Nerd> Not for sure. And your ancestor probably thought of them all as "demons." 
<Random_Nerd> But in the sense of creatures native to hell, they're not the subject of all of those. 
<John> (Yes, but my ancestor possibly also thought of bacteria and other disease causing things as demons as well.) 
<Random_Nerd> (True.) 
<Random_Nerd> Do you include those elements in this ward? 
<John> (Will does not have to wash his hands while in here.) 
<John> (Yes. Because I don't know enough to take out the bits that _aren't_ demon and make sure that it all still works.) 
<Random_Nerd> Gil, Sam, you both get a bit... itchy. 
<AideWilliam> (Careful... if the wards extend to Outside that might affect Ftisk/Conrad) 
<John> (Can deal with that later.) 
<John> (And oops.) 
<Sam> "I'm going to ... stand over there. Outside the doorway." 
<Random_Nerd> It isn't as strong as the safe room, but it's definitely noticeable. 
<Gil> "Me too...." 
<John> *looks sad* "My apologies. My studies have not progressed far enough." 
<Gil> "I didn't like how those wards made me feel, last time." 
<John> (Although...Will is possibly willing to kiss John because now he has a _Sam-proof room_.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Heh.) 
<Sam> (*laugh*) 
<Random_Nerd> (But that means when he wants to talk to Sam, he'll have to do it in /Sam's/ office.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Which is just /tacky/) 
<Sam> (/fashionable/) 
<Sam> (/all the fashionable/) 
<AideWilliam> (Well, we do movie night elsewhere anyway. :) ) 
<John> (That's what phones are for? Will Thinking: *Can I possbily move the wife in here...*) 
<John> (Nah, it's tacky because he is the Senior Aide. But then again, Sam is an Anchor...) 
<John> "Then we must locate the Giant and warn him. I do not know what a demon could do to someone like him, especially with the blood fixation." 
<AideWilliam> "We have a guess..." 
* AideWilliam indicates his singed hair. 
<AideWilliam> "Maybe we should bring a hose." 
<John> "Holy water." 
<AideWilliam> "Even better. 
<Random_Nerd> The Giant lives on the outskirts of Amyra, in what used to be a farm that William arranged for the Nobles to buy, and where he gets regular shipments of livestock to eat. 
<AideWilliam> "Still... that thing seemed to have some kind of connection to Ms. Evelyn. 
<AideWilliam> "If that is who it was referring to. 
<John> "What did he say about her?" 
<AideWilliam> "'Give me back my pet'... 'The sheep-woman that was taken from me'" 
<Gil> "Why 'sheep-woman', I wonder...." 
<John> "Well." *pause* "The short answer is _no_. The long answer is _Mine_." 
<AideWilliam> "I'm guessing the even longer version is "Get out of my Kingdom'?" 
<John> "Given his words about purity of blood, I believe it is a notion that humans are now no better than livestock in the purity of their blood, as compared to 'pure' humans from the time of Adam and Eve." 
<John> "The longer versions involve Latin, gestures and possibly a new box in my demon storage unit." 
<AideWilliam> "... hm. Maybe the Giant _isn't_ in danger... 
<Gil> "Oh. That." 
<John> "Depends on what the demon wants to do with the blood." 
<AideWilliam> "Either way, the Giant is probably involved in the next chapter of this. 
<John> "I admit some curiosity on how different we humans would be if we were still as pure as our closer-to-divine ancestors. But the human race had to continue in some manner." 
<AideWilliam> "Assuming Evelyn is safe, we should go talk to him." 
* John will call his security on the phone. 
<Random_Nerd> They pick up. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and there's a sound you can hear from the broken window of a car pulling into the parking lot at high speed. 
<John> "Hello, gentlemen. John here. Has there been any change in the status at the palace? And is there any change with my guest in the King Leon's Room?" 
<Random_Nerd> Crown Guard: "No change. The... demon sits in his hammock, and reads, and says that there has been no sign of the... other... demon." 
* Gil glances out a window. 
<Random_Nerd> Two men holding a large rectangular thing wrapped in brown paper go to the door. Sam's phone rings. 
<Sam> "Sam. Go." 
<Random_Nerd> "Window's ready. We're downstairs, can you buzz us in?" 
<John> "Ah, quite good. Please inform him that the other demon has been at the Tower, has set William's garments and hair on fire and has taken information on the topic of the Giant out at Northhampton Farms. We will be heading to there soon. The other demon is upset over the taking of his...ahem. Pet." 
<Sam> "Sure." *buzz* 
<Sam> "Room 302" 
<Random_Nerd> They scurry in, and the window is being installed surprisingly soon. 
<Sam> "John, would you care to set up your wards with the window?" 
* John will add some wires in patterns along the window. 
<Random_Nerd> CG: "Tower... garments and hair.. giant... farm... pet. Okay." 
<John> *to phone* "Thank you." 
<John> (Do I need to add more Will and do the wards again?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Nah.) 
<John> (Thank you.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I figure it's the same Intention.) 
<John> *to the glaziers* "Thank you, gentlemen. I appreciate your speed and dedication." 
<Random_Nerd> (So, cut to you guys visiting the giant, continue this scene, or call it a night?) 
<John> (I'm okay with the first or third.) 
<AideWilliam> (Same here) 
<Sam> (Prefer calling it a night. Midnight here, and I've been doing 10+ hour days.) 
<Gil> (agreed on first or third) 
<AideWilliam> (Call it a session, then?) 
<John> (Sounds okay to me.) 
<Gil> (Sure) 
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=-= YOU are now known as Verithe 
=-= AideWilliam is now known as Knockwood 
=-= John is now known as BethE 
<BethE> Hello, Ayu? 
<Knockwood> OK, we know Evelyn's not nuts... 
<BethE> Nope, she's not! 
<Knockwood> we also know she's Important 
<Verithe> At least to the poltergeist. 
<Random_Nerd> She might /also/ be nuts. 
<Knockwood> point 
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<Verithe> mysteryyyyyyy~ 
<BethE> Kind of, kind of not? I mean, it'd be like if you took someone's dog. Some people would be upset because it's a member of the family. Others would be upset because it's their property, their plaything. 
<Random_Nerd> So, do you think the poltergeist is a demon? 
<Random_Nerd> Why or why not?" 
<BethE> It's also a pyrogeist. 
<Knockwood> well, it smells like Lesson 
<Verithe> I think....maybe it's a demon/Dionyl hybrid. 
<Verithe> Or something like that. 
<BethE> John is possessive of his subjects. He's had it knocked into him enough that his first duty is to his subjects./kingdom/Treasures. Do not mess with the King. 
<lazarus> going to go to bed now. g'night. 
<Knockwood> g'night laz 
<Random_Nerd> So, are you guys having fun with the Minons Arc? 
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<Verithe> Yes! 
<Knockwood> SO far. Keep having to remember that 'I' don't have Aspect or Miracles. 
<BethE> Yep! I always wanted to find out more about John and now I even get to make that stuff up! 
<Random_Nerd> But, on the other hand, you're dealing with an issue that your normal PCs could probably resolve in about thirty seconds. 
<Random_Nerd> But, hey, they're off dealing with two flower rites. 
<BethE> Like how he deals with the kingdom being changed and how he feels about his subjects and how his subjects feel about him and the stuff with Martyrs and how he's working with the weirdness added to the kingdom, like Lesson and the Aides. 
<Knockwood> Sounds goofy... we're dealing with murderous demon poltergeists while _they're_ out picking flowers... 
<Random_Nerd> Heh. 
<Random_Nerd> We could switch. 
<Random_Nerd> You could have William go into a restroom and get jumped by a nimblejack! 
<Knockwood> That happens anyway. :) 
<Verithe> The normal PCs would not deal with this in thirty seconds. They would discuss it for days. 
<BethE> Have the Aides developed nimblejack-variety-pepper spray? 
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<BethE> Hmm...if it's in Amyra, then Theresa would have someone create a circle, then Move the demon into the containment circle. 
<BethE> (Things of Amyra.) 
<Knockwood> well, she's not here, so we'll just have to go with the nuclear accelerators. 
<Random_Nerd> Anyway, see you guys next week for Chuubo. 
<Verithe> Take care! 
<Knockwood> Yep, we can try out my new perk. :p 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]

Session 257.5

2014-01-13T11:31:55Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]] 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> Hi Guys! :-) 
<Knockwood> Yeah, I'm in Reno 
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo 
<Etheric> I see. 
<Random_Nerd> That does bear a similarity to Kite's temple, really. 
<BethE> I did not know that! I am only vaguely aware of Burning Man taking place in a some sort of desert. 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<Angelo> Even to you in Reno! :-P 
<Angelo> Or to Beth's burning man knowledge :-P 
<BethE> Well, if you ever need pictures of Kite's temple, dear, there you go. 
<Random_Nerd> So, while we wait for V, any questions on how the game's going? 
<Knockwood> Burning man's location: https://maps. google. com/maps?ll=40.782622,-119.208264&q=loc:40.782622,-119.208264&hl=en&t=h&z=14 
<Knockwood> Zoom out a little and you'll see me. (I'll wave. :) ) 
<BethE> *snort* 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, I did want to mention something, see what you guys thought. I see the Amyra game as about... mmm, 3/4 of the way finished. We're nearly to the peace talks, and after that the turning of the Age. And I see that as pretty much where the game ends, other than epilogue stuff. 
<Angelo> ARGH! Who changed gMaps! O.O !_! è_é 
<Random_Nerd> How does that sound>? 
<Etheric> It makes sense to me. 
<Knockwood> so, sometime in 2016? :) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, I was thinking next year or the year after... but yeah. 
<Angelo> Sound like too short to contain all the things Ftisk wanna do! :-( 
<BethE> Do you see us saving Creation or destroying it? 
<Random_Nerd> Bit of column A, bit of column B. 
<Angelo> I bet on destroying! 
<Etheric> Yes. Yes I do. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and I don't have a planned specific ending. 
<Random_Nerd> I know what the various factions and major players want. 
<Random_Nerd> And how stuff works. 
<Random_Nerd> But what happens.. we'll see. 
<Random_Nerd> Did you guys have any stuff, particularly stuff that hasn't been in the spotlight lately, that you want to make sure gets addressed? 
<Angelo> seem like we are doomed then! 
<Knockwood> We were always doomed, Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> Like, the "Imperial status of Humanity" thing... you still want to do anything with it? 
<Random_Nerd> Or what the deal with Jan ben Jan's plan is? 
<BethE> Would the Excrucians have any info on that? Or could we get that answer for saving Creation? 
<Angelo> I want to have some spotlight on warmain Ftisk <-> dad Vassa relation 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, when we're finally done I'll at least answer questions on where I was going with stuff.) 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm... 
<Random_Nerd> On how shards relate to their parent Excrucians, you mean? 
<BethE> Is Jan Ben Jan off somewhere nursing a migraine because of us? 
<Angelo> yeah, RN 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Angelo> and how the shard - parent relation reflect Ftisk Vassa one 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, I can work that in. 
<Random_Nerd> Anyone else have something? 
<Random_Nerd> Or characters you'd like to come back? 
<BethE> I'd like to hear more of Kudzu's backstory. Like the times he visited Amyra before and why poking at John and so forth. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Excrucian-Shard stuff as it relates to Ftisk, Kudzu's backstory with Amyra. 
<BethE> Will we get Will's wedding done? 
<Etheric> On the Imperial thing, I've been meaning to write that up as a Project for a while now. 
<Etheric> So, that would probably be good to do sooner rather than later. 
<Etheric> But I confess I'm still not 100% clear on how writing up a Project works. 
<Random_Nerd> Will's wedding will probably be the storyline before the peace talks. 
<Random_Nerd> Any specific questions? 
<BethE> (Good. I want the wedding. And cake. And Ftisk throwing the bride...I mean, catching the bridal bouquet. 
<Angelo> :-P @Beth! 
<Knockwood> We'll probably think of a dozen things once the session's over 
<Random_Nerd> Aaargh, I'll really have to do a resolution to the whole James thing, won't I? 
<Angelo> Right! 
<Etheric> Well, you don't HAVE to. 
<Etheric> You could say it's CDaU. 
<Random_Nerd> My plans there have been screwed up about three or four times by successive Jameses and the need to reintegrate and then shuffle them off. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, I may have to. 
<BethE> Have we reached a six-pack of Jameses yet? Can we just have Lesson evolve into a James? 
<Random_Nerd> James is just one of those things that's important in the setting, but I don't really have a good plan for at the moment. 
<Random_Nerd> Dare you tamper with the curse? 
<Angelo> I dare! 
<BethE> But see, Lesson is already cursed and damned, so becoming a James might not do anything to him. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Still no V. 
<Etheric> I thought the daring was Knockwood's job. 
<Random_Nerd> And no Laz, but that's expected. 
<BethE> (Laz was feeling sick.) 
<BethE> Hmm, question. Are there any Nobles who are demons? 
<Knockwood> Yeah, Dante pokes bears for fun 
<BethE> If so, how do they handle hierarchy stuff? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> You've met one. 
<Random_Nerd> One of the Angel of the Moon's. 
<Random_Nerd> Power of the Chase. 
<Random_Nerd> Why? 
<Etheric> So, as for specific questions about Projects, I wanted to reread the Projects chapter before I asked one, so this is a little bit late. But I read it and I'm still confused. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh? Let me pull it up, and we can go over it. 
<Etheric> To begin a Project, what do I do? Just draw a single circle? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes, and come up with what it's about. 
<Etheric> It's clear how they develop after being started, but not how they're supposed to begin. 
<BethE> Well, just because I'm thinking about Lesson and his thoughts on power structures and hierarchy and determining just where he is in the scheme of things and wondering how Noble demons handle it and whether Lesson could handle it or whether his own personal circumstances made him kind of broken to be considered for enNobling. 
<Random_Nerd> It relates to the mind-map character creation thing, kinda. 
<Knockwood> Depends on how far RN is willing to take his character arc./ 
<Random_Nerd> Now, we didn't really do that, officially, because of the character conversion. 
<BethE> (Oh and I woulnd't mind a side-bar about Patterns and whether he does anything to his Imperator/etc.) 
<Etheric> So, for Carrie's, and using the "how" format from the book, it'd probably be "How humanity's Imperial potential was restored." 
<Random_Nerd> But it's already been established that this is one of your character's Things. 
<Random_Nerd> *Nod* 
<Random_Nerd> Bear in mind, that'll take a couple stones. 
<Random_Nerd> It's a setting-shaking thing. 
<Knockwood> Don't forget that getting out of that hierarchy is one of the things we mentioned to him to sell the idea of letting us take out his heart and having him join us 
<Etheric> Oh, absolutely. So that "how" isn't supposed to be in the Heart? 
<Random_Nerd> Well... 
<Random_Nerd> Let me find the bit I'm referring to. 
<Etheric> I'm not saying it should be accomplished now, I just thought the book said that the end goal is where you start. 
<BethE> Knock - true, but he still thinks in that manner, he just doesn't act on it in ways that would be normal for his upbringing. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm... 
<Random_Nerd> Let's start it with something smaller. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, How Carrie Discovered What Remains Of Humanity's Imperial Nature, say. 
<Random_Nerd> And then based on how that gets resolved, move on to the next step from there. 
<Etheric> Then, "How I fulfilled my prophecy and discovered humanity's Imperial nature." Something like that? 
<Random_Nerd> That can work. 
<Random_Nerd> And we've got stuff around that can help with that. 
<BethE> I mean, Lesson, I think, kind of _cares_ for his crew and underlings. And I don't think that is something that would be true if he had a crew in Hell. 
<Random_Nerd> The Giant. Cain. 
<Random_Nerd> Heck, the demon in the current plotline was indirectly taking about it. 
<Knockwood> The trick would be is we could get Lesson thinking outside of the hellish hierarchy... 
<BethE> *grumble call me an animal, you jerk grumble* 
<Random_Nerd> That would be difficult, though not impossible. 
<Knockwood> actually, Eth, do you intend to _restore_ humanity's Imperial nature, or just learn about it? 
<Random_Nerd> His current approach is "think in terms of heirarchy, but with a view where responsibility runs both ways, so a leader is responsible for the care and protection of his minions." 
<Random_Nerd> Learning about it is step 1? 
<BethE> Hmm, that is an effect combination of both old approaches and new for Lesson. And I'd think it could be a very workable way of...working for him. 
<Random_Nerd> Besides, he's currently in a situation where he has people who work for him, and people he reports to. 
<Knockwood> Don’t forget Lesson got infused with Courage when we first met 
<Random_Nerd> If he had to entirely set aside the hierarchical worldview, he'd have no idea what to even do. 
<Knockwood> well, ours is a _different_ hierarchy. 
<Knockwood> The main difference is how we treat each other. 
<Angelo> but is a hierarchy 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, and that's what he's currently using. 
<Knockwood> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_long_spoons 
<Random_Nerd> He doesn't mistreat subordinates, he doesn't constantly expect mistreatment from you guys, and he's civil to rivals and peers. 
<BethE> (Although, I think if Lesson was being literal, he would question the need of spoons when one has teeth.) 
<Random_Nerd> That, or say that he spent his whole life in hell, and nobody has any spoons there. 
<Random_Nerd> So... still no V. 
<Random_Nerd> And no Laz./ 
<Knockwood> ayep 
<Random_Nerd> Well, we haven't missed a session in a while. 
<BethE> Maybe there are spoon shaped demons. 
<Knockwood> that's true 
<Knockwood> If you think about it, the Hell hierarchy is basically "shit rolls downhill... usually." 
<Random_Nerd> Pretty much. 
<BethE> (Argh. I used image search. I got more shirtless...male...bodies than I was expecting.) 
<Random_Nerd> With the occasional coup. 
<Knockwood> The exception being when a high-up demon makes an example of his subordinate for fun. 
<BethE> (http://www. rockpapershotgun. com/images/10/jan/whowillrulehell.jpg) 
<Etheric> Knock, to answer your question, if a bit late... Carrie's goal is to somehow restore it. But the WAY it's restored matters. And I'll have to understand it at least partially in order to make a judgment about HOW it matters. 
<Knockwood> Very true. If it is restored slowly, that's a whole different game. Specifically Aberrant. (or other supers games.) 
<Etheric> I don't really think that superpowers are necessarily anything even close... After all, Imperial miracles are slow and subtle. 
<Angelo> And a big question arise.... what's next? 
<Etheric> It's the Noble miracles that change reality in one fell swoop. 
<Random_Nerd> Next after Carrie's thing, or this storyline? 
<Angelo> I mean after we complete RN Nobilis 
<Random_Nerd> Ah, that. 
<Random_Nerd> I dunno. 
<Random_Nerd> Been thinking of doing a World of Darkness game. Maybe Geist, maybe the new Demon thing. 
<Random_Nerd> Might keep the Chuubo game going, if you guys remain interested in it. 
<Angelo> how is that game going? 
<Knockwood> Which one? There were two 
<Etheric> I'd like to keep doing the Chuubo thing. At least, I anticipate I'd like to continue. 
<Angelo> my question is on last one 
<Knockwood> Oh, reminds me. What I was thinking of for Dulc... 
<Random_Nerd> Oh? 
<Etheric> There's a storyline going on now with nightmare beasties and things. 
<Knockwood> "Slowly regrowing a heart" 
<Random_Nerd> And one with a rat and a biker. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Etheric> And Hisui died and was resurrected. Kinda. 
<Random_Nerd> So, you want to shed Heartless, and replace it with another wound? 
<Random_Nerd> That could work. 
<Knockwood> Not yet. "Slowly", remember. :) 
<Random_Nerd> What sort of powers did you have in mind? 
<Knockwood> Plus, doing it suddenly means I'm no longer perfect or skewerable. :p 
<Random_Nerd> Both in terms of theme, and whether it's the "once every once in a while imperial miracle" kind, or the "do it whenever it's appropriate" kind or whatever. 
<Knockwood> First step might be passion and/or compassion 
<BethE> (Angelo - my character got to be all Matrix-like in a dream, while beating up nightmares. ^^ And now she is off to steal some beer for this biker dude.) 
<Knockwood> Think about what it would take to defend Vik 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Angelo> (Beth your character is the sun kid?) 
<Random_Nerd> Something like the first Glorious ability, only less... paranoid? 
<Random_Nerd> Figure out what people want or need, rather than how they're plotting to destroy you? 
<Knockwood> ooh, that might work. 
<BethE> (No, my character is Rinley, who was not part of the first Chuubo game. She has the title Troublemaker. :) 
<Knockwood> (Either that or turning into Utena. :p ) 
<BethE> (Laz plays the child of the Sun.) 
<Random_Nerd> No, the second power may not be Turn Into A Car. 
<Random_Nerd> No. 
<Random_Nerd> No. 
<Knockwood> aw, why not? 
<Angelo> (Cool!) 
<Random_Nerd> It's Town! Hardly anyone drives! 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, did you pick a perk power? 
<Knockwood> Not yet, I wanted to run the concept by everyone first 
<Random_Nerd> Rinley picked Hammerspace Magic: 2, if that helps. 
<BethE> (...darn it, Knock. Now I have to listen to that Utena AMV that is so totally not modest.) 
<Random_Nerd> What concept? 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, was the Slowly Regrowing for your perk, not a Wound? 
<Knockwood> Right 
<Knockwood> actually it's more character development 
<Random_Nerd> Well, that's kinda how the Wounded Angel thing works. 
<BethE> (Angelo - it's been an interesting set of things going on. Although we really didn't mean for V's character to die. She got better, though. Kind of. Has star eyes sometimes now...) 
<Random_Nerd> It's, like, weaponized character traits. 
<Random_Nerd> You take your paranoid egotism and use it as a danger sense, and so on. 
<Knockwood> so, making her better adjusted would royally screw with the character? 
<Angelo> (star eyes - sometimes? Damn! I feel like that is a lot of fun!) 
<Random_Nerd> It would make her /different/. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, Chuubo has calmness oriented powers. 
<Random_Nerd> While I don't think that quite fits for Dulci... I mean, even if she was less damaged I think she'd still be manic and passionate... 
<Random_Nerd> It's a thing. 
<Random_Nerd> This is the Chuubo game, character traits are represented in part by miraculous powers! 
<Random_Nerd> Exhibit A: Rinley. 
<BethE> (Oh and Jasper, Laz's character, has a beard made of light. A Beard. A Beard of Omens. That got us into a meeting of grizzled old sea veterans. It is theorized that if the beard ever speaks on its on, it will speak with Brian Blessed's voice.) 
<BethE> What? Huh? What about Rinley? I didn't do it... 
<Knockwood> Don't forget "nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything" 
<Angelo> (Brian, Nobilis's Brian?) 
<Random_Nerd> (An actor. One moment...) 
<BethE> No, with Rinley, they _did_ see her do it, it's just that she has a perfectly rational explanation for what she was doing... 
<BethE> (Brian Blessed - http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=FMiLQwKLSQM ) 
<Random_Nerd> (The guy in the beard here: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=23L4AHfd4xc) 
<BethE> (Or http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=-JpKuYbJQK4 ) 
<Angelo> (sad face - All are sleeping. No sound atm) 
<BethE> (Ah. Yeah, not a good idea to have Brian Blessed while people are trying to sleep.) 
<Random_Nerd> Former stage actor. Shouts a lot. Has a very beardy beard. 
<Angelo> eh, side effect of being in a timezone were are 04:39 atm 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. So, Knock, you were wanting to have the new Heart-Regrowing power act to bind or mitigate your own heartlessness? 
<Knockwood> Good question. 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, it's kinda meta, but I'd allow it. 
<Knockwood> Let's see, "Friendless" is what powers "I alone can save you", right? 
<Random_Nerd> Developing powers to protect herself or other people from her /other/ powers is the sort of thing Dulci would do. 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> And one other thing, let me see which. 
<Random_Nerd> And Holding Up The Sky. 
<Knockwood> Thing is, there are some contradictions in how I'm playing her. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and your memory-power! 
<Knockwood> Being Heartless and Friendless, she should have told Viktoria to bug off. 
<Random_Nerd> Eh... 
<BethE> The kid has Powers. 
<Random_Nerd> But it's a particular /sort/ of heartless and friendless. 
<Random_Nerd> Protecting people is supposed to be big for her. 
<Random_Nerd> It's part of how you're going to Show Them. 
<Knockwood> Ah yes... 
<Random_Nerd> That's kinda how Friendless works. 
<Random_Nerd> You don't have /friends/. But you rescue people. 
<Random_Nerd> That's what I Alone May Save You means, subtext-wise. 
<Knockwood> Oh! That's the way to go... either getting better at rescuing people or actually Showing Them. 
<Random_Nerd> Because, deep down, Dulci's creepy, but she's heroic. 
<Random_Nerd> Being the villain would be taking the easy way out. 
<Random_Nerd> Instead, she's gonna be creepy and poke around with Things Highschool Girls Were Not Meant To Know... but still be the Hero. 
<Knockwood> Ah, so I need to figure out something that would make her a better Hero 
<Random_Nerd> If that's where you want to go with her, at least. 
<Knockwood> That's where I _am_ going, kinda by accident 
<Random_Nerd> Like... it's a Batman thing. Batman doesn't live a normal person life... but he protects the people who do. And he does it /by/ being scary and obsessed and violent. 
<Random_Nerd> I think that's the default thing for Leonardo, only with nightmare science instead of punching muggers in a mask with ears. 
<Random_Nerd> But, hey, it's your character. 
<Knockwood> well, it's their character, I'm just using it 
<Random_Nerd> You're playing it, so it's your character. 
<Random_Nerd> Still, it seems like how you want to play it matches fairly well with the default. 
<Knockwood> except for being nice to Vik 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and this aspect of the character is partly why I compared her to Homura Akemi, a while back.) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, Viktoria's going through some of the same stuff Dulci is, in a way. So there's some fellow feeling there. 
<Knockwood> ... protection against nightmares without having to call the Bleak Academy... OK, that could work 
<Knockwood> the Dark Knight of Nightmares. There's the perk. :) 
<Random_Nerd> That works. 
<Random_Nerd> What sort of thing do you want it to do? 
<Knockwood> Hm... 
<Knockwood> WHat are the parameters again? 
<Knockwood> and does anyone else want to chime in on this idea? 
<Random_Nerd> Two things, basically. 
<Random_Nerd> It relates to the powers you use, and either protects people from them, chains things related to them, punishes things related to them, or summons things related to them. 
<Random_Nerd> The former seems to make the most sense here. 
<Random_Nerd> Second, it can be three types of power. 
<Random_Nerd> A Major one, that you can use once a season, or more with MP. 
<Random_Nerd> Basically, like the Engine. 
<Random_Nerd> A smaller one you can use once a week, or more with MPs. 
<Random_Nerd> Or a small one you can use every scene, if some relevant circumstance is true. 
<Random_Nerd> Like the stuff you can do when you're in the dark right now. 
<Knockwood> which tier is something like my heartlessly perfect in the dark power? 
<Random_Nerd> The third. 
<Knockwood> oops, answered. :) 
<Random_Nerd> And I Alone May Save You is an example of the 1/week kind. 
<Knockwood> actually, like you said, I could swap any of those out by changing my Wounds, right? 
<Random_Nerd> Your existing ones? Almost any of them, yeah. Like, not Empowered Wounds itself, but the Heartless, Friendless, Glorious ones. 
<Random_Nerd> One wound is worth two or three powers of these types. 
<Knockwood> but the perk would add to that set while not being swappable, right? 
<Random_Nerd> This would just be a separate thing. 
<Random_Nerd> Not drawing on a particular wound. 
<Random_Nerd> Just something you learned how to do. 
<Knockwood> (No one else has an opinion?) 
<Etheric> I don't really have an opinion, no. 
<Angelo> (not me) 
<Etheric> And, since it's clear by now that there will be no game tonight, I suppose I should be going. 
<Etheric> See you all next week. 
<BethE> Night, Eth! 
<Angelo> Night Eth! 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, if V was going to show, it would have been like an hour ago. 
<Angelo> nod 
|<-- Etheric has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Destiny is choice.) 
<BethE> (And no, I took a bunch of brain cells out to figure out Rinley's new power. 
<Angelo> ah, when we stop I'll run to the beach! Night swimm! weeeee! 
<Knockwood> I thought that was her new power. :D 
<Random_Nerd> So, which of the three power types did you want? 
<Knockwood> Looking at that middle tier. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> Shall we go with the anti-nightmare circle that you were talking about earlier? 
<Knockwood> hm... so, once per session I can zap a circle into existence that nightmares can't enter? 
<Knockwood> or exit? 
<Angelo> Guys, I go, have a great discussion! 
<Knockwood> cya next week Angelo 
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Angelo.pampalone:

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-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<lazarus> hey Angelo! 
<Angelo> Hi guys! :-) 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<Knockwood> any suggestions on what to add to Dulc? 
<Random_Nerd> Ah, Angelo. 
<Knockwood> Or, it can wait now that Angelo's here. Hiya Angelo. 
<Angelo> I want to dispel voices that I'm the zombified version of myself! :-P 
<BethE> Braaains..., oh, wait, that's me. 
<Angelo> eheh 
<Verithe> Hi! 
<Angelo> btw, I'm IN vacation not out of it, the travel to the place is simply ended 
<BethE> Ah, cool! How is the vacation? 
<Knockwood> so you're connecting from somewhere more exotic than usual? 
<Angelo> good, thank you, nope, I want to go to scottish highland but my bro will marry soon so all the PampaClan is meeting at the ancestral turf 
<Knockwood> Then again, we consider Italy kind of exotic. I half-expect you're vacationing in beautiful downtown Dubuque. :p 
<Random_Nerd> Everywhere's exotic to people who aren't from there. Except Canada. 
<lazarus> hey! 
<Angelo> why not Canada? Did Laz did something? 
<BethE> It's the moose. Moose aren't very exotic. 
<lazarus> what about the maple syrup? 
<Random_Nerd> Maples are /everywhere/. 
<Angelo> O.o never seen maple syrup in my life. 
<lazarus> tundra? 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, you poor, sad soul. 
<BethE> The US has maple syrup as well! And ours don't get stolen out of the global reserves, unlike some country's I won't name... 
<Random_Nerd> It's delicious. 
<Angelo> tundra = russia :-P 
<lazarus> :D 
<Knockwood> well, except for a tiny little bit it's probably fake 
<BethE> Nah, RN and I pass a homemade maple syrup place in Ohio when we visit his extended family. 
<Random_Nerd> Let's face it. Canada is what you get if you start up the Country Generator but leave all the settings blank. 
<lazarus> we resemble that remark :) 
<Random_Nerd> So! Nobilis! 
<lazarus> although some find the politeness exotic. 
<lazarus> and yes, Nobilis! 
<Angelo> Nobilis! Gnomely! 
=-= lazarus is now known as SamTheMagnificent 
<Knockwood> (And I'll still entertain input on how to 'grow' Dulc for Chuubo) 
<BethE> Is it true that if you bump into a Canadian, they have to give you a donut? ;) 
=-= Knockwood is now known as AideWilliam 
<SamTheMagnificent> not quite ;) But we might buy one for you /anyway/. 
=-= BethE is now known as John 
<SamTheMagnificent> 'cause, you know, Tim's. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (or, maybe you don't, not being Canadian and all) 
<AideWilliam> No, don't be silly. They'll just _want_ to. 
=-= Verithe is now known as Gil 
<John> (I don't. But I would love to try one. :) Although I'm not a coffee person.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (visit someday, and I'll show you Ottawa. Beautiful town.) 
<Random_Nerd> So! You guys have a woman who either sees invisible demons, is crazy, or both. And Lesson. 
=-= YOU are now known as Gnomely 
<SamTheMagnificent> (I'm betting on both, btw.) 
<Gnomely> (and awkward Lesson) 
<Gnomely> (who is SamTheMagnificent? I want to give him one cookie for the nick!) 
<AideWilliam> Oddly enough she seems OK with Lesson 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Sam is full of himself ;)) 
<AideWilliam> (Laz) 
<John> (John's trying. He's accepted that people who belong to the Chancel are also citizens of Amyra, so Lesson's a subject as well and you don't go around making your subjects feel bad for not a good reason. That way lies goatees and really big rocks over your grave.) 
<Gnomely> (Yep! But is all air in Sam Case! :-P) 
<Random_Nerd> She's not /incredibly/ okay with Lesson, but she's a big John fangirl, so she trusts him. 
<Gil> (I thought we sent Lesson home.) 
<Random_Nerd> He was just walking out at the end of the session. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and Lesson still has a robot problem. 
<John> (So, we have John replaced with a robot, we have a goat demon...what else?) 
<AideWilliam> Robot problem? 
<John> _Obviously_ this whole Chancel thing is crap to hide the fact that John has been replaced with an evil robot. 
<Random_Nerd> And also, he's trying to figure out what being a robot is like, so he can have the Bureau shrinks explain it to people who want to have the Transformo Ray used to turn them into robots. Because there are some of those. 
<AideWilliam> (Dante's take) 
<AideWilliam> (Need to sort out exactly why they want that. If it's just because they look neat they can do a cosmetic change. 
<AideWilliam> (If it's because they want to not _feel_ they need counseling. 
<AideWilliam> (And if they want to do the robot rampage thing... that's a no.) 
<Random_Nerd> For that matter, all the robots we've met so far have emotions. 
<Random_Nerd> So part of the question is... do they want to be like actual robots, or fictional ones? 
<John> (They can if they are very tiny robots. Set them up in a cardboard city.) 
<Gil> (I think it's because they want to form a band.) 
<Gil> (Like Steam Powered Giraffe) 
<Random_Nerd> So, issues to deal with. Demon Problem. Robot Problem #1. Robot Problem #2. Whatever your normal PCs ask you to do. 
<Random_Nerd> Any questions before we start? 
<Gil> Non 
<Gnomely> nope 
<SamTheMagnificent> nope 
<SamTheMagnificent> (but half-afk for a little bit, while I quickly make some food for Sara) 
<John> Ready. 
<AideWilliam> Let's do it. 
<Random_Nerd> ________________START_______________ 
* Gil puts down the strange device he was inspecting. 
<John> (Are we starting back up at John's room?) 
<Random_Nerd> You guys pick a place to start. 
<Random_Nerd> That's fine with me, if you want. 
<AideWilliam> (Who's here besides us?) 
<Gnomely> (no preferences) 
<John> "So, how can I help you gentlemen? I had asked Lesson for help as the demon situation with my guest was...unusual." 
<Random_Nerd> (Presumably demon-lady Evelyn is still with you, unless you went somewhere without her.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Lesson had just left.) 
<John> (No, she was directed out of the room. To a guard.) 
<Gil> (No, I like her still being with us.) 
<Gil> (Oh, okay) 
<John> (To go get some stuff so she can stay at the palace for a while.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That works.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So she'll show up at some later point.) 
<AideWilliam> "Will you have her stay in a warded room?" 
<John> "Indeed. My ancestors have worked hard to have safe places in their living areas in case of supernatural nuclear war since we have started taking care of the Treasures." 
<AideWilliam> "Good to know. 
<AideWilliam> "Anyway, we wanted to talk about this meme that's going around about robot doubles. 
<John> "It just seems so...banal an attempt. Plus, the appearance was all wrong for our culture." 
<Gil> "Appearance?" 
<Gnomely> "Bah, robots are like any other people" 
<John> "Oh? Who is said to have been replaced?" 
<AideWilliam> "You, for one. 
<AideWilliam> "It seems that everyone in power is fake... according to these." 
* AideWilliam hands over some example papers. 
<John> "Oh, yes. Many of the casual demon calls that I get are either djinn-based or else more influenced by Western culture for their version of the Devil. This one seen by my subject did have goat legs but not the..overwhelming stuck on himself that I usually see." 
<SamTheMagnificent> (b) 
<John> (Anything interesting in the papers?) 
<Random_Nerd> (They're totally obsessed with you.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You're probably either a robot, a Reptoid, or both.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Who knew?) 
<John> *looks at the papers* "Including the Nobles or were they robots all along?" *looks at Gnomely* "Saving your father, of course." 
<AideWilliam> (No, that's silly, the Reptoid thing isn't in the game. That's IRL.) 
<Gnomely> "Ftisk is a special case in sooooo many ways" 
<John> "They still have me as being a Reptoid in this. Only now it's a _robot_ Reptoid." *tsk* "I shall have to see if I can still communicate with Elizabeth Windsor and add more money to the betting pool." 
<Random_Nerd> (The Nobles, of course, are alien demon robot communists.) 
<Gnomely> (you forgot child eater) 
<John> "And what are they recommending as a way to deal with robot myself?" 
<AideWilliam> (Hm... would she know what it's about?) 
<AideWilliam> "The usual, really. Humanity uprising, purging the unclean, that kind of thing. 
<John> (It probably wouldn't but John and she used to communicate before the enChanceling. He's still finding bits and pieces that are changed now that Amyra is no longer in the world.) 
<Random_Nerd> At least this isn't as creepy for John as the whole Rastafarian thing. 
<Gnomely> "In Ftisk channel robot are NOT citizen" 
<AideWilliam> "Trouble is, it's coming from multiple sources." 
<Random_Nerd> (Would who know what what's about?) 
<AideWilliam> (If we told Queen Elizabeth that King John wanted to add to the bet) 
<Random_Nerd> (She would no longer remember, most likely.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But before the enchancelling, they had met.) 
<John> (Hey, you have some religion name your dad as God, you try not to get a martyr complex.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not for years, mind.) 
<John> "Multiple sources? But the same things or the same general ideas?" 
<AideWilliam> (Last session, we established that this robot thing is unusual and possibly part of a plot, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Unclear. The same phrases did pop up a lot in seemingly unconnected people.) 
<Random_Nerd> (John's security people don't think he's in any serious danger, though.) 
<AideWilliam> "Have a look at these two here. They seem to use the same language." 
<AideWilliam> "Despite being very different groups." 
-->| Etheric (Etheric@MagicStar-577BA14A.hr.hr.cox.net) has joined #Nobilis 
<John> (Hi Etheric!) 
<Gnomely> (HI! Eth!) 
<AideWilliam> (Hiya Eth) 
<Etheric> ((Evening everyone.)) 
<Gil> (Hi, Eth!) 
<Etheric> ((It's my mom's birthday, so I'm just returning from dinner now. Sorry to arrive late.)) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (hey Eth) 
<Random_Nerd> (Etheric... do you have a character for the Minions And Sidekicks storyline?) 
<Random_Nerd> (I'm trying to recall.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Currently taken are... well, you see. Is there any recurring character you'd like to claim?) 
<John> "Very well. My security has usually deemed these notions as harmless. What do you suggest?" 
<Etheric> (I haven't written her Skills up yet, but I was planning to use Carrie's mom, Helen Winters, who was roped into being a sort of government and media liaison for the Nobles. Does that ring a bell?) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (I remember her :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (That works.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I don't have a character sheet ready for her, but we can probably work one out before next session.) 
<Gnomely> (I don't remember her, but is not important) 
<Etheric> (Sure, no rush.) 
<AideWilliam> (Considering what we're talking about she could really help) 
<Etheric> (Gnomely, if you are Angelo or Verithe, you joined the game after I quit so you'd only know her from the wiki archives.) 
<Gnomely> (Angelo here) 
<John> (I remember her! We've met her a few times and seen her on the TV sometimes too.) 
<Gil> (I know her. I read all the old files) 
<Etheric> (Ah, okay. :) ) 
<John> (Eth, would you be ready to be roped in?) 
<AideWilliam> "I wonder if we could get any existing records on these groups." 
<Etheric> (Sure, go ahead. I'll figure out what's up IC.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Really, it'd make sense for her to get brought in...) 
<AideWilliam> (Yeah right, we haven’t pulled that off in 8 years) 
<John> "I can have my security send you their files, if you'd like." 
<AideWilliam> "Would that include Law Enforcement records?" 
* John raises an eyebrow. "Of course. My security is very thorough. And it's much like the United States' Secret Service. Except they know what would happen if I die before my nephew is ready to take over." 
* Gnomely thumbs up to John 
<AideWilliam> "Thank you, your highness. 
<Random_Nerd> John, your cell phone rings. 
<AideWilliam> "Strange name, that... 'Secret Service'. We know what they do." 
<Random_Nerd> (That's what they /want/ you to think.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> "worst kept secret ever." 
<John> "It is sometimes helpful being the timed fuse for some of the most powerful and...capricious artifacts on the planet." 
<John> "Pardon me." *answers phone* "Yes?" 
<Random_Nerd> It's your valet. He says that Evelyn's arrived with a few bags at the palace. 
<John> "Ah, yes, thank you, Reginald. I'll be right there." 
<John> *hangs up* "It looks that Evelyn has returned with her luggage. I shall need to take her to the...panic room. Would you care to accompany me?" 
<AideWilliam> "Certainly." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Of course." 
<Gnomely> "Sure!" 
<SamTheMagnificent> *dons another fedora* 
<Gil> "Yes, please." 
<SamTheMagnificent> *is now wearing two. Maybe three.* 
<Etheric> (I don't mean to rush things, but would you guys prefer that one of you summons Mrs. Winters, or should she show up on her own initiative?) 
<AideWilliam> (you play Team Fortress?) 
<Random_Nerd> (We could meet Helen there, since it would make sense for Sam or William to have mentioned the crazy person PR issue.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (nope) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (and yes!) 
<AideWilliam> (Good idea) 
<John> (Shall she be outside of the room when we leave it?) 
<Gnomely> (never played TF) 
<Random_Nerd> (That works.) 
<John> (In that game, you can wear multiple hats at the same time.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The modest pile of hat?) 
<AideWilliam> ( http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Towering_Pillar_of_Hats ) 
* John leaves the room and almost runs into Helen. "Oh, pardon me!" 
=-= Etheric is now known as MrsWinters 
<John> "Ah, Mrs. Winters. A pleasure to see you again!" 
<MrsWinters> (John is the king, right?) 
<Gnomely> (yep) 
<AideWilliam> (We were just bringing chips for our big poker game) 
<John> (Yep, king of the kingdom, babysitter of the Treasures, single.) 
<John> (Hey, with the robot thing, they at least wouldn't be expecting heirs.) 
* MrsWinters curtsies, as well as she can manage in her denim skirt, soon returning to a standing pose. "Your Majesty." 
* John looks at the others. "We are on the way to take care of one of my subjects who is under the impression of demonic visitation. Are you on a specific mission?" 
<MrsWinters> "I was, but it ended a few minutes ago. Shall I accompany Your Majesty and colleagues?" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Would be a good idea, Mrs. Winters." 
<Gnomely> "Sure, came in!" 
<MrsWinters> (Where exactly are we having this conversation? Hallway? Sidewalk? And what facility are we within/outside?) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and as you walk down the hall, you see Lesson in a chair, reading a book. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (at the palace, we are) 
<AideWilliam> "Tell me, has anyone asked about robot duplicates?" 
<John> (Hallway, of the palace.) 
* MrsWinters raises her eyebrows, startled. "ROBOT duplicates? I don't think so... but what do you mean by that?" 
* AideWilliam shows her the papers. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "They think John's been replaced." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Strange." 
<John> "Ah, hello, Lesson. Thank you for being patient. We are on the way to bring Evelyn to the safe room and are discussing the robot conundrum. Do you wish to join us?" 
<Random_Nerd> He puts his book down. "Thought I was to avoid the stressed woman." 
<Gnomely> (indeed I believe is better if we leave Lesson out) 
<MrsWinters> (Thank you. Would I know who Evelyn is or is she newly part of the mess?) 
<John> "Ah, yes, but I value your input on the duplicate situation. I think that I should be able to persuade Evelyn to let me take her to a save room while having an entourage." 
<Random_Nerd> (The book, if you're wondering, is the Burton translation of the Thousand And One Nights.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (She's been around John's before) 
<John> (New part. NPC. Thinks she's being possessed by demons.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You wouldn't know who she is.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (but not IC) 
<MrsWinters> (Right.) 
<John> (Gnomely - why not have Lesson?) 
<Gnomely> (because she reacted negatively to Lesson before) 
<AideWilliam> (actually IIRC she responded surprisingly well to him) 
<Gnomely> (my bad to miss remember then.) 
<John> (She was less jumpy than if one of her evil demons had been there.) 
<John> (we'll bring her in and see, how about that?) 
<Gnomely> (Ok) 
<Random_Nerd> As you continue to walk down the hall, you get to where Reginald has brought Evelyn and her bags. 
<John> "Ah, thank you, Reginald." *smile* "Oh and the Aides require an electronic tablet with details on one of our little problems. Please acquire the data for them." 
<John> "Evelyn! I am so glad to have you here at my home! Are you ready?" 
<Random_Nerd> She nods. "I have a week's worth of clothing here, and some books to read." 
<AideWilliam> (Come to think of it, has she seen Sam?) 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald, to William: "Which of the problems will you be needing details on today?" 
<Random_Nerd> (She has.) 
<AideWilliam> "These groups and/or people..." 
<John> "And of _course_, my library is available if you exhaust your books." 
<Random_Nerd> (Lots of people have. Sam and William on TV all the time.) 
* AideWilliam shows Reginald the texts saying they've been replaced. 
<Random_Nerd> R: "Ah, and you'll be needing the security checks on those groups?" 
<John> "And these are some of the people who help me interact with the Nobles who now take care of the kingdom. *introductions all around* 
<AideWilliam> to R: "Yes, if you would." 
<John> "And you've already met Lesson as well. He will be able to help me determine if my ancestors were actually good with magic or just fine interior decorators." 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn looks a bit puzzled at that. 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald nods. 
<Random_Nerd> He then picks up Evelyn's bags./ 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Sam is /fabulous/ on TV) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (or so he thinks, anyway) 
<John> "To the panic room, please, Reginald." *presents his arm to Evelyn* 
<SamTheMagnificent> (there's a Samuel fan club division of the Brian and the Nobles fanclub. Sam started it.) 
<Random_Nerd> Little Known Fact: 17% of Amyrans think Samuel is secretly a djinni. 
<Random_Nerd> The room is just a few doors down the hall from here. Reginald leads the way. 
<John> (Have there been attempts to get him to grant them wishes?) 
<Gil> (Am I remembering correctly that Carrie and her family are Americans?) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (yep!) 
<Random_Nerd> R: "Now, there are a few issues, sir. First, the lavatory facilities in the 'protected suite' are... relatively primitive, although running water was installed a few years back. And there are no telephones or internet connections to the inside, as this would have required boring holes through the walls. 
<John> (Yep, they are.) 
<John> "Well, let's test the most important part of the room first and then we shall worry about the niceties..." 
<AideWilliam> (Could they string a wire under the door?) 
<Random_Nerd> R: "Also, the lighting is in the form of oil lamps, although there is a large supply of oil." 
<Random_Nerd> (The door shuts very tightly.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Part of the protections.) 
<AideWilliam> (hm... wouldn't that use up all the oxygen?) 
<John> (It could break wards.) 
<John> "Can a cellular phone work inside?" 
<Random_Nerd> (The place wasn't really designed for a long-term stay.) 
<Random_Nerd> R: "Sadly, no. The walls are made of layers of silver, iron, and lead." 
<John> "Very well. Lesson, would you be willing to see if you can cross the threshold of the room? I do _not_ wish to cause you any harm, but I do wish to show to Evelyn that the demonic presence shouldn't be able to visit her in that room." 
<MrsWinters> (Correct, Gil.) 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald brings John a small hand-bound book. "Your ancestor's notes on the room. Latin, of course." 
<Random_Nerd> (And yes, you read Latin.) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson walks to the doorway and looks in. 
<Random_Nerd> The door is heavy, incredibly ornately ornamented with religious symbols and prayers, and made of iron. 
<Random_Nerd> The inner edge of the doorway, also metal, is inscribed with what appears to be a variation of the Breastplate of Saint Patrick. 
* John skims. 
<Random_Nerd> Short version, your great great grandfather was really paranoid about supernatural stuff, and took a "throw a lot of symbols at the wall and see what sticks" approach to protecting it. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Works for Harry Dresden) 
<Random_Nerd> The drains and the chimney are lined with holy writings to prevent invasion, and have silver caps to be put on whenever they aren't in use. 
<Random_Nerd> A lot of the stuff is based on copying the demon storage room. The door, in particular, is an exact copy except for the writing along the doorway. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson sticks an arm in. 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Not feeling... wait." 
<Random_Nerd> His arm starts to smoke a dark green color. 
<AideWilliam> (The same one that failed spectacularly?) 
<Random_Nerd> He pulls it back. 
* Gnomely look closely to Lesson's arm 
<Random_Nerd> (After succeeding for a long time, but yes.) 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Odd. Arm went numb." 
* Gil looks nervously at the doorway. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Neat. Do you know which ward did that?" 
<Random_Nerd> L: "No." 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Don't know how I would tell." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "We should experiment some day." 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and John, there is one other interesting thing in the book, a picture of the demon your ancestor was afraid of. 
<John> "I am very sorry that your arm went numb, Lesson, but I am delighted that some of that actually _works_. After that deal downstairs, I was a bit worried that so much of this was _just_ decoration." 
<Random_Nerd> You've seen pictures of the type before, in a book Sam showed you. A "Nimblejack." 
<John> (*shifty*) 
<Random_Nerd> Which doesn't appear in any book of demonology you're familiar with. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (uh oh) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (can the rest of us see?) 
<Random_Nerd> (The book? If you're reading over his shoulder.) 
<Random_Nerd> (...which Sam would totally do.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (... true) 
<SamTheMagnificent> "NIMBLEJACK!?" 
<John> "Oh, Sam! Look! It appears that my ancestor was afraid of a 'nimblejack'! You showed a picture of one to me once! How wonderful to find another connection to your Noble world!" 
<Gil> (If we find the Imp passed out on the floor inside the room....) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson /jumps/ back, and crouches. 
* AideWilliam checks out the book. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "why was your ancestor afraid of a Nimblejack?" 
<John> (*smacks Sam with a newspaper* Do not scare the demon!) 
* Gnomely pat Lesson "hey, is all right" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "That doesn't make sense at all." 
<AideWilliam> "Huh. Accounting for drawing skill... that does look like a nimblejack." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Everyone is." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "and no wonder he was so afraid." 
<Random_Nerd> William, the book appears to be written by someone who didn't really know much real magic, but knew a bit, and had a lot of resources to throw at the problem. 
<AideWilliam> (Can I read Latin?) 
<SamTheMagnificent> *roughly blabbering right now* 
<John> "So, Evelyn, I am sorry that the accommodations are not very modern, but are you satisfied to their at least somewhat demon-prevention-ness?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. You were a medieval history grad student before you were an Aide.) 
<John> (William - I think you have Superior Latin at 6.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sam can't, but he can recognize the picture.) 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn nods. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "IS this enough for a Nimblejack, William?" 
* AideWilliam reads the account... 
<Random_Nerd> E: "What's a nimblejack? You all say that word like it means something to you." 
<AideWilliam> "The body type and legs seem to fit... 
* John shows her the picture! 
<SamTheMagnificent> "This." *moves the book to show her* 
<Random_Nerd> The author of the book had, apparently, grown obsessed with the idea that a small but very fast demon was following him wherever he went, and sneering at him and poking him whenever he went to sleep. 
<Gnomely> "Is a demon type that a powerful imperator use" 
<Random_Nerd> So, he built this room to give him a place to sleep that it couldn't get to. 
<AideWilliam> (Nimblejacks mean Entropy's involved, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Probably but not certainly.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (generally..) 
<Random_Nerd> (Like ogres, most nimblejacks work for him, but not all do.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And this was more true a hundred years ago than it is now.) 
<AideWilliam> (Hm. If he only saw _one_ nimblejack, it may not be... 
<AideWilliam> (I'd think if Entropy wanted to bug him he'd send a bunch.) 
<John> (It sounds more like a personal..bedevilment.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Maybe he saw one once and went crazy) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and it's rare but not unheard of for nimblejacks to torment rather than kill people.) 
<AideWilliam> quietly to John: "Perhaps your ancestor met up with you-know-who." 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn, in a hushed voice: "...Satan?" 
<John> "Oh, no. Someone else." 
<AideWilliam> Not said: potentially worse. 
* Gnomely nod 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald is trying to remain an impassive face. He /liked/ living a life where people didn't talk about demons and monsters like they were real things. And where none of the people talking in front of him /were/ demons and monsters. 
<John> (He's a valet, though. He can impassive face with the best of them.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Superior Impassive Face 10) 
<AideWilliam> (Anyone who couldn't would have run away screaming around the EnCHanceling) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, he's a professional.) 
<John> "If you need anything, Evelyn, just let Reginald or any of the other servants know. And I am afraid that I must leave you now." 
<Gil> (Though it may be harder to ignore when one of the people talking about demons is a demon and another is a bodiless being wearing colorful scarves.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He comes from a line of valets almost as long and distinguished as the actual royal line, and much more so than almost all the nobility.) 
<AideWilliam> "Ah, how will she do that if the door 
<AideWilliam> "is closed?" 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Ah... there is a bell-pull." 
<AideWilliam> (Ah, so, prime suspect, got it. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "I tested it. It is still connected." 
<John> 'Thank you, Reginald." 
<SamTheMagnificent> (... ...) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (we're going to come home with a nimblejack and scare the /crap/ out of King John, aren't we?) 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "And if you notice, on the outer wall beside the door, there is a grate of gold wire. One who speaks at the corresponding point inside can be heard outside." 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "There is also a... sort of dumbwaiter, but designed so that the inner door can only be opened when the outer one is closed, and vice versa." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Airlocks. Dreadful things. No wind." 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Yes, that was something I was wondering about. As near as I can tell, the only source of air is the chimney and the speaking grate." 
<John> (Remind me to remind Reginald to take a vacation.) 
<AideWilliam> "That is rather the point, Sam." 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Still, according to the stories, a person could occupy these rooms for days at a time, so it must provide enough airflow." 
<John> "And the chimneys are clear and well-kept?" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Might be magical air filtering and production in there." 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Yes, as a matter of fact. The room may not be used, but the housekeepers here are... rather fanatical. The fact that a room has been nothing but a curiosity for a hundred and fifty years will not stop them from cleaning it every week." 
* John beams with pride of his people! 
<John> "They take the dust as an insult." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "There's spells for that." 
<John> "But we must continue on. *bows* Evelyn, I hope that your stay here is restful." 
* Gil does the white glove test. 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Well, you don't get to work here if you don't take your job seriously. I hear anyone who's worked for a year on the palace cleaning crew can make a quite respectable salary working in private residences later on." 
<John> *to Sam* "Yes, and there are generations of Amyran women and men who have fought the dust of the desert with their very hearts and souls. That too is a magic." 
<Random_Nerd> The wall doesn't, quite, pass the test. 
<Random_Nerd> But then, there is a lit oil lamp in the room. 
* Gil respectfully hides his glove. 
<John> (Reginald doesn't talk about the ones that twitch still...) 
<AideWilliam> (Maybe we should put a LED lamp in there) 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "So... I'll stay here for a few nights, and you'll... figure out the demon problem?" 
<John> "Indeed." 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "Thank you!" 
<Gnomely> "Exactly" 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "I mean, thank you for talking to me, thank you for letting me stay here, thank you for helping me with my problem!" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Is it ok if Lesson stands guard for you? He'll know a demon better than the rest of us." 
<AideWilliam> unsaid: If you still see demons, you're just bonkers. 
<AideWilliam> "Along with someone who can chase one _in_ if need be." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Can do that." 
<John> "But Evelyn, if you are visited again, we shall know it is not truly a demon. You will let me know everything that happens?" 
<Random_Nerd> He seems to think. Sam is the direct agent of one of the Nobles, like him. But Sam is the agent of an active Noble, not one that is away on the moon. 
<Random_Nerd> Sam is probably a peer in a different area of the organization, so he doesn't have to take orders if he doesn't want to, but would not lose much faith by agreeing of his own free will to help. 
<John> "And Lesson also has other important duties as well, so he may not be here all of the time. I cannot monopolize him when my transformed people still need help." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Hmm. Dealing with demonic or other nonhuman problems... part of duty of Bureau of Monstrosities. Will personally assist, in this case, as no subordinates have necessary skills." 
<John> "Thank you, Lesson. I appreciate it. Is there anything that you require?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Food. Meat, preferably fresh. My sleeping hammock... will have Jennifer bring it. Palace already has books." 
<John> "Reginald, please inform the kitchen of Lesson's requirements, please. And a list of the books in the nearest three libraries on this floor." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson looks at John and Reginald. John is the leader of a very large number of humans. He lacks much actual authority with them, but is treated with respect and given tribute. But Lesson is not one of his subjects. He is analogous to a visiting Noble. 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald is John's servant, but one who appears to be in charge of other servants. He is equivalent to a demon crew chief or sergeant. He is of lower status than Lesson, but does not report to him. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson adjusts his body language accordingly. 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald nods and strides off. 
<John> (I do like how you're giving us more info on Lesson. And cool architecture stuff too.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Is it useful or entertaining to do these brief bits on how Lesson figures out the social roles at work?) 
<AideWilliam> (Any problem with Evelyn going into the room?) 
<Random_Nerd> Nope. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, a question. 
<John> (I just _said_ I liked it. :P ) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, right, Gil already went in. 
<Random_Nerd> Gil, are you still inside? 
<Gil> (If everyone else is outside, Gil will rejoin them after bidding farewell to Evelyn.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (I like it) 
<Gnomely> (me too liked it) 
<Random_Nerd> Gil, as you're starting to head out... you begin to smoke slightly. 
<Random_Nerd> Not nearly as much as Lesson, but some. 
<Random_Nerd> And it's bluish. 
<Random_Nerd> You also feel a light tingle. 
* Gil does not dally! 
<John> (Do the rest of us notice?) 
<Gnomely> "Can I try the smoking ward too?" 
<Random_Nerd> Probably. 
<AideWilliam> What's the smoke smell like? 
<John> "Oh dear." 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm... like flowers, but you can't recognize the species. 
* Gnomely put a hand in the room 
<Gil> "That might be informative, Gnomely, but I don't suggest it." 
<Random_Nerd> And William knows a /lot/ of flowers. 
<Random_Nerd> Including ones that were purpose-designed for some specific Noble. 
<AideWilliam> "Ah, Sam? Try sticking an appendage in there." 
<Gil> (Would Gil or Sam have reason to recognize the sent?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Sure." *Unwraps an arm and sticks it through* 
<Random_Nerd> (Sam doesn't have a sense of smell, by the way.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Gil does, and actually a stronger one than most humans because he can smell with his whole body.) 
<John> (So..his feet _do_ smell?) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam's arm emits an immediate puff of blue smoke. 
<Gil> ("Oh god, why don't any of you bathe?") 
<Random_Nerd> And Sam, you feel the movements of air in your arm slowing. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Ooo. Neat!" 
<Gnomely> (and mine? does it react to me?) 
<Random_Nerd> Gnomely provokes no response. 
* AideWilliam tries sticking an arm in... 
<SamTheMagnificent> *retracts it almost immediately, waves the arm about inside* 
<Random_Nerd> Nor does William. 
<John> "Okay, okay, the magic show is over, we shall let Evelyn get settled!" 
* Gnomely shudder 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, your arm feels weak and sore, like you just spent a lot of time lifting weights. 
<AideWilliam> "Strange that you seem to have an anti-Dionyl ward..." 
<AideWilliam> Any familiar-looking symbols in the wards? 
<Random_Nerd> (Which, for Sam, would be five pounds tops. Most dionyl aren't very strong by mammal standards, and Sam has a desk job.) 
<John> "It may just be a reaction to the magic needed to keep non..what is the word that you have used? Prosaic? non-Prosaic beings from entering." 
<Random_Nerd> (There /are/ warrior dionyl who can swing a heavy sledgehammer. Sam is not one of them.) 
<Gil> "Or non-Earth." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Odd." 
<AideWilliam> aren't demons Prosaic? 
<Random_Nerd> Eh. 
<Random_Nerd> They're not from Earth. 
<Random_Nerd> The same categories don't really apply. 
<Random_Nerd> But they aren't mythic spirits, as a rule. 
<Random_Nerd> At least, no more than humans are. 
<John> "We can continue this elsewhere. Rest well, Evelyn!" 
<Random_Nerd> Still, the reality of Hell is not very similar to the Prosaic. It doesn't have consistent physical laws or anything. 
* Gnomely wave to E. 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn nods. 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Do I close the door now?" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Yes, please" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Have a pleasant evening." 
<AideWilliam> "If you have any 'encounters' tonight, write about them in the journal there. We'll check in the morning." 
<Random_Nerd> She does so. 
<Random_Nerd> From the effort she has to put into it, the door is heavy, but the hinges work smoothly. 
<Random_Nerd> E: "I will do so." 
* John heads back down the hallway toward his office. 
<Random_Nerd> (So, it's late afternoon.) 
<Random_Nerd> (John, you have certain prayers you have to recite in about an hour, but until then you have free.) 
* Gnomely follow the king 
<AideWilliam> Who all do they say is replaced? John, obviously... 
<John> "So, I have an appointment in 45 minutes. What needs the most attention?" 
<AideWilliam> "Well, have you seen accusation like these before?" 
<AideWilliam> "Or, perhaps, other charges from these people?" 
<John> "My security has deemed such concerns as unimportant. And it was being replaced with Reptoids or pod people, I think." 
<John> "Unimportant as unlikely to be a credible threat." 
<AideWilliam> "So, the robot charges are new?" 
<Random_Nerd> John, a few key members of the parliament, possibly others. 
<Gil> "Pod people?" 
<John> (How new? Within the timing of enChanceling or after that?) 
<Random_Nerd> The ringmasters are probably Lesson, Sam, and the people who got changed by the Enchancelment. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Haven't you seen Day of the Triffids?" 
<John> "I believe they gained that idea of podlings from some American movie. Clones grown in giant pea pods." 
<SamTheMagnificent> (... I may be forgetting which book that had pod people that got turned into the movie ...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters? No, that had mind-control parasites...) 
<AideWilliam> "As I recall, those weren't robots, though." 
<AideWilliam> (I think it's 'Pod People') 
<SamTheMagnificent> (the one with the "YOOU!" scene that's commonly quoted, is the one I'm thinking about) 
<Random_Nerd> (Should we call it a night?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or move to you guys at Sam and William's offices?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or what?) 
<AideWilliam> (oh, wait, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) 
<AideWilliam> (Well, we can look over the data on the groups & people. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That's the one.) 
<John> (Invasion of the Body snatchers - http://scarydad. com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1bodysnatchers.jpg ) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (I'm ok calling it a night.) 
<John> (I think I'm ready to call it a night.) 
<AideWilliam> (OK, sure.) 
<Gnomely> (ok stopping here) 
<Random_Nerd> _____________STOP_____________ 
=-= SamTheMagnificent is now known as lazarus 
<lazarus> Day of the Triffids did it better :p 
=-= John is now known as BethE 
<Gil> :P 
=-= AideWilliam is now known as Knockwood 
=-= Gil is now known as Verithe 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<Angelo> Braiiinz! 
<lazarus> but didn't get turned into the movie :( 
<BethE> But yes, I like all of the detail and the social Lesson stuff. 
<Random_Nerd> So, is this side-game thing fun, or should I try to finish it quickly? 
<BethE> So, John is ranked as visiting Noble? 
<lazarus> triffids was written by John Wyndam, who also wrote the Crysalids and the Kraken Wakes. 
<lazarus> and I'm liking this side quest. 
<Knockwood> Well, are we actually pursuing something worthwhile or on a wild goose chase? 
<Angelo> is likeable. And all the info nuggets are yummy 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson has figured that he should treat John roughly as a Noble who he doesn't work for, someone of importance who isn't actually in a position of authority over him. 
<BethE> Knock - I think that it is probably a worthwhile thing, either the demon or the robot thing. Because the demon dude sounded like he was working on the 'humans aren't Imperial' and the robot thing could just be a leading to something horrible. 
<Knockwood> Well, if you think about it, recent fascination with machinery points to one Noble... :) 
<Random_Nerd> Basically, I threw a bunch of things at you, and I don't expect you to focus on all of them, but I'll build on the ones you do poke at. 
* Angelo whistle 
<Random_Nerd> And the ones you don't look into will probably not pop up again. 
<lazarus> I think I'm going to head out now. 
<Random_Nerd> Since they aren't really the sort of issues that your normal PCs have to deal with. 
<lazarus> good night folks! 
<Knockwood> g'night laz 
<Angelo> night Laz 
<Verithe> So all of them are worthwhile, but we aren't expected to deal with all of them. 
|<-- lazarus has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: lazarus) 
<Angelo> is a not vanilla PC perspective 
=-= MrsWinters is now known as Etheric 
<Knockwood> Actually, question for the Chuubo players: 
<Knockwood> suggestions for what I should add to Dulc now that she's finished that quest? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> For the perk, you mean? 
<Knockwood> though RN and I have been talking about other things to do with the character 
<Knockwood> yep. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Lemme look at those perks again. 
<Random_Nerd> Did you want to get a power that deals more directly with nightmares? 
<Knockwood> That's one possibility... 
<Knockwood> basically I want to add to the character. :) 
<Random_Nerd> Because a power to protect people from nightmares, chain nightmares, punish nightmares, or summon nightmares would be an option. 
<Random_Nerd> Of those four, which sounds the best? 
<Knockwood> and seriously, open to suggestions. Recall you guys helped with the Stones in Amyra. 
<Knockwood> what do you mean by 'chain nightmares'? 
<Random_Nerd> Like, you could develop a power that would allow you to restrain nightmare stuff. 
<BethE> What would summoned nightmares be able to do? Could they track? Could they pull a sled? 
<Verithe> That could be useful, since two nightmare entities are loose in Fortitude right now. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, but that won't always be true, presumably. 
<Verithe> True.... 
<Random_Nerd> So it might not be ideal to build your character for this specific situation. 
<Random_Nerd> Of course, perks are swappable anyway. 
<Knockwood> unless 'chain' extends to 'control' 
<Random_Nerd> Eh... 
<Random_Nerd> Maybe a little, but probably not too directly. 
<Verithe> More of a "and you stay /here/" sort of control? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> Or "Leave this place at once!" 
<Random_Nerd> Not "Serve me forever." 
<Knockwood> Well, that's the obvious one, but what else could she do 
<Knockwood> other options 
<BethE> What would be the use of punishing nightmares? 
<Angelo> Scold them to behave? 
<Verithe> Summoning sounds most useful, if you'd always be summoning something under your control.... 
<Random_Nerd> Wouldn’t give you as much of a tool against the nightmares already out there, but it'd probably be more generally applicable. 
<BethE> I'd probably go with the summoning, just for better use all around. 
<Knockwood> Unless you like Nightmare-on-Nightmare action... :) 
<Random_Nerd> So hot. 
<Verithe> That....is not where Hisui gets her jollies. 
<Knockwood> Would that mean I could bring 'living' things out of nightmares as well as inanimate stuff? 
<Random_Nerd> It could. 
<Knockwood> OK... maybe something other than Nightmare stuff. What else? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, you could get a Bond. 
<Random_Nerd> Or a Connection. 
<Random_Nerd> Or one of the mundane perks. 
<Verithe> What else does Dulcinea have? 
<Random_Nerd> She's using the Wounded Angel template, so she mainly has four particular Empowered Wounds. 
<Knockwood> and RN and I were talking about how those can be VPPs. >:> 
<Random_Nerd> Heartless, which gives her advantages and healing in the dark, Friendless, which makes her good at saving or protecting people, Glorious, which makes her good at being paranoid in a useful way, and... Corrupt, I think? Which is bringing stuff out of nightmares, and letting her nightmare world out. 
<Random_Nerd> Speaking of... that's a similarity between Dulcinea and Vitkoria. 
<Random_Nerd> They both have malign nightmare worlds that can invade the real world. 
<Random_Nerd> So you've got that in common with her. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Knockwood> I think Corrupt_ed_ is more accurate 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Knockwood> she has "Cage for a Red World" 
<Random_Nerd> It's something that happened to you. 
<Random_Nerd> Does the Glass version of Dulci have Cage? I thought she had a variant. 
<Random_Nerd> The "They Know Your Scent" perk could be useful. 
<Random_Nerd> Helps keep forces you unleash from hurting people you care about. 
<Verithe> You could do something with the wings. 
<Verithe> If that's in the Glass version. 
<Verithe> I don't know what, though. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, hey! I forgot you had a special power that lets you build a free Connection to Jasper. 
<Knockwood> here we go, 9 characters update, p. 34 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, the Glass version of Dulci has The Sickness Rises instead of Cage For A Red World. 
<Random_Nerd> Do you have the Glass Campaign file from Feb? 
<Knockwood> this thing has their titles rather than dates 
<Random_Nerd> I mean Glass Campaign - Feb 27 2013 - Incomplete 
<Knockwood> ah, here's Sickness Rises 
<Knockwood> this says I can REDACTED 
<Verithe> Oh! I probably won't be around in two weeks. 
<Random_Nerd> From the Land of Rot and Poison? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, you can do that. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Thanks for the heads-up, V. 
<Knockwood> ah, also has Cage for a Blasphemy 
<Verithe> I'm going to head out. Take care! 
<Angelo> night V. 
<Knockwood> cya V 
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<Knockwood> so, if Dulc gets really badly hurt it'll look like when they shut down the containment field at GhostBusters HQ 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> Dulcinea is a very large Twinkie. 
<Knockwood> Beth, tell Angelo about the Twinkie. :) 
<Angelo> Twinkie? a biscuit? 
<Random_Nerd> It's a reference to a movie. 
<Random_Nerd> Ghostbusters. 
<Random_Nerd> http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=pzaQjS1JstY 
<Angelo> we lost the reference in ita translation of the movie 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<BethE> I'm going to have to get to bed. Night, guys! *HUGS* 
<Knockwood> how many pages in the latest Glass? 
<Knockwood> g'night Beth 
<Angelo> we have mini plumcake so twinkies become them 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Angelo> night Beth 
<Random_Nerd> So, translated as the local equivalent. 
<Random_Nerd> The latest glass... 
<Random_Nerd> Let me see. 
<Angelo> nod nod to RN 
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<Random_Nerd> The kickstarter backers' draft is 1133 
<Etheric> Good night, all. 
<Angelo> night Eth 
<Knockwood> that still available? My paycheck will be getting direct deposited any moment now 
<Random_Nerd> But I don't think the version of the character is changed much, if at all. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. I think there's a way to get it... 
<Random_Nerd> Let me ask Beth. 
<Random_Nerd> Ah! 
<Knockwood> uhoh 
<Random_Nerd> It's closed. 
<Random_Nerd> http://imago.hitherby.com/2013/07/fortitude-the-glass-makers-dragon-in-print/ 
<Random_Nerd> I think? 
<Random_Nerd> Maybe ask in the thread. 
<Random_Nerd> Someone would know. 
<Knockwood> Well, I've got a pile of previous versions 
<Random_Nerd> I /think/ you should have just about all the content, spread across different files. 
<Random_Nerd> Not the newest version of the arcs, but as a player you don't really need those. 
<Knockwood> yeah, it's just that accessing it is a bitch. 
<Random_Nerd> *nod* 
<Random_Nerd> Ask in the Chuubo thread, somebody will probably know if there's a way you can still get it. 
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<Knockwood> OK. 
<Knockwood> Well, good night RN 
<Angelo> night Knock 
<Random_Nerd> *nod* 
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<Random_Nerd> G'night. 
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<Angelo> Night RN 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]

Session 257

2014-01-10T13:25:29Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]] 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<lazarus> hey Angelo! 
<Angelo> Hi guys! :-) 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<Knockwood> any suggestions on what to add to Dulc? 
<Random_Nerd> Ah, Angelo. 
<Knockwood> Or, it can wait now that Angelo's here. Hiya Angelo. 
<Angelo> I want to dispel voices that I'm the zombified version of myself! :-P 
[INFO] <irc://irc.magicstar.net/Nobilis> will now open at startup. 
<BethE> Braaains..., oh, wait, that's me. 
<Angelo> eheh 
<Verithe> Hi! 
<Angelo> btw, I'm IN vacation not out of it, the travel to the place is simply ended 
<BethE> Ah, cool! How is the vacation? 
<Knockwood> so you're connecting from somewhere more exotic than usual? 
<Angelo> good, thank you, nope, I want to go to scottish highland but my bro will marry soon so all the PampaClan is meeting at the ancestral turf 
<Knockwood> Then again, we consider Italy kind of exotic. I half-expect you're vacationing in beautiful downtown Dubuque. :p 
<Random_Nerd> Everywhere's exotic to people who aren't from there. Except Canada. 
<lazarus> hey! 
<Angelo> why not Canada? Did Laz did something? 
<BethE> It's the moose. Moose aren't very exotic. 
<lazarus> what about the maple syrup? 
<Random_Nerd> Maples are /everywhere/. 
<Angelo> O.o never seen maple syrup in my life. 
<lazarus> tundra? 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, you poor, sad soul. 
<BethE> The US has maple syrup as well! And ours don't get stolen out of the global reserves, unlike some country's I won't name... 
<Random_Nerd> It's delicious. 
<Angelo> tundra = russia :-P 
<lazarus> :D 
<Knockwood> well, except for a tiny little bit it's probably fake 
<BethE> Nah, RN and I pass a homemade maple syrup place in Ohio when we visit his extended family. 
<Random_Nerd> Let's face it. Canada is what you get if you start up the Country Generator but leave all the settings blank. 
<lazarus> we resemble that remark :) 
<Random_Nerd> So! Nobilis! 
<lazarus> although some find the politeness exotic. 
<lazarus> and yes, Nobilis! 
<Angelo> Nobilis! Gnomely! 
=-= lazarus is now known as SamTheMagnificent 
<Knockwood> (And I'll still entertain input on how to 'grow' Dulc for Chuubo) 
<BethE> Is it true that if you bump into a Canadian, they have to give you a donut? ;) 
=-= Knockwood is now known as AideWilliam 
<SamTheMagnificent> not quite ;) But we might buy one for you /anyway/. 
=-= BethE is now known as John 
<SamTheMagnificent> 'cause, you know, Tim's. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (or, maybe you don't, not being Canadian and all) 
<AideWilliam> No, don't be silly. They'll just _want_ to. 
=-= Verithe is now known as Gil 
<John> (I don't. But I would love to try one. :) Although I'm not a coffee person.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (visit someday, and I'll show you Ottawa. Beautiful town.) 
<Random_Nerd> So! You guys have a woman who either sees invisible demons, is crazy, or both. And Lesson. 
=-= YOU are now known as Gnomely 
<SamTheMagnificent> (I'm betting on both, btw.) 
<Gnomely> (and awkward Lesson) 
<Gnomely> (who is SamTheMagnificent? I want to give him one cookie for the nick!) 
<AideWilliam> Oddly enough she seems OK with Lesson 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Sam is full of himself ;)) 
<AideWilliam> (Laz) 
<John> (John's trying. He's accepted that people who belong to the Chancel are also citizens of Amyra, so Lesson's a subject as well and you don't go around making your subjects feel bad for not a good reason. That way lies goatees and really big rocks over your grave.) 
<Gnomely> (Yep! But is all air in Sam Case! :-P) 
<Random_Nerd> She's not /incredibly/ okay with Lesson, but she's a big John fangirl, so she trusts him. 
<Gil> (I thought we sent Lesson home.) 
<Random_Nerd> He was just walking out at the end of the session. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and Lesson still has a robot problem. 
<John> (So, we have John replaced with a robot, we have a goat demon...what else?) 
<AideWilliam> Robot problem? 
<John> _Obviously_ this whole Chancel thing is crap to hide the fact that John has been replaced with an evil robot. 
<Random_Nerd> And also, he's trying to figure out what being a robot is like, so he can have the Bureau shrinks explain it to people who want to have the Transformo Ray used to turn them into robots. Because there are some of those. 
<AideWilliam> (Dante's take) 
<AideWilliam> (Need to sort out exactly why they want that. If it's just because they look neat they can do a cosmetic change. 
<AideWilliam> (If it's because they want to not _feel_ they need counseling. 
<AideWilliam> (And if they want to do the robot rampage thing... that's a no.) 
<Random_Nerd> For that matter, all the robots we've met so far have emotions. 
<Random_Nerd> So part of the question is... do they want to be like actual robots, or fictional ones? 
<John> (They can if they are very tiny robots. Set them up in a cardboard city.) 
<Gil> (I think it's because they want to form a band.) 
<Gil> (Like Steam Powered Giraffe) 
<Random_Nerd> So, issues to deal with. Demon Problem. Robot Problem #1. Robot Problem #2. Whatever your normal PCs ask you to do. 
<Random_Nerd> Any questions before we start? 
<Gil> Non 
<Gnomely> nope 
<SamTheMagnificent> nope 
<SamTheMagnificent> (but half-afk for a little bit, while I quickly make some food for Sara) 
<John> Ready. 
<AideWilliam> Let's do it. 
<Random_Nerd> ________________START_______________ 
* Gil puts down the strange device he was inspecting. 
<John> (Are we starting back up at John's room?) 
<Random_Nerd> You guys pick a place to start. 
<Random_Nerd> That's fine with me, if you want. 
<AideWilliam> (Who's here besides us?) 
<Gnomely> (no preferences) 
<John> "So, how can I help you gentlemen? I had asked Lesson for help as the demon situation with my guest was...unusual." 
<Random_Nerd> (Presumably demon-lady Evelyn is still with you, unless you went somewhere without her.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Lesson had just left.) 
<John> (No, she was directed out of the room. To a guard.) 
<Gil> (No, I like her still being with us.) 
<Gil> (Oh, okay) 
<John> (To go get some stuff so she can stay at the palace for a while.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That works.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So she'll show up at some later point.) 
<AideWilliam> "Will you have her stay in a warded room?" 
<John> "Indeed. My ancestors have worked hard to have safe places in their living areas in case of supernatural nuclear war since we have started taking care of the Treasures." 
<AideWilliam> "Good to know. 
<AideWilliam> "Anyway, we wanted to talk about this meme that's going around about robot doubles. 
<John> "It just seems so...banal an attempt. Plus, the appearance was all wrong for our culture." 
<Gil> "Appearance?" 
<Gnomely> "Bah, robots are like any other people" 
<John> "Oh? Who is said to have been replaced?" 
<AideWilliam> "You, for one. 
<AideWilliam> "It seems that everyone in power is fake... according to these." 
* AideWilliam hands over some example papers. 
<John> "Oh, yes. Many of the casual demon calls that I get are either djinn-based or else more influenced by Western culture for their version of the Devil. This one seen by my subject did have goat legs but not the..overwhelming stuck on himself that I usually see." 
<SamTheMagnificent> (b) 
<John> (Anything interesting in the papers?) 
<Random_Nerd> (They're totally obsessed with you.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You're probably either a robot, a Reptoid, or both.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Who knew?) 
<John> *looks at the papers* "Including the Nobles or were they robots all along?" *looks at Gnomely* "Saving your father, of course." 
<AideWilliam> (No, that's silly, the Reptoid thing isn't in the game. That's IRL.) 
<Gnomely> "Ftisk is a special case in sooooo many ways" 
<John> "They still have me as being a Reptoid in this. Only now it's a _robot_ Reptoid." *tsk* "I shall have to see if I can still communicate with Elizabeth Windsor and add more money to the betting pool." 
<Random_Nerd> (The Nobles, of course, are alien demon robot communists.) 
<Gnomely> (you forgot child eater) 
<John> "And what are they recommending as a way to deal with robot myself?" 
<AideWilliam> (Hm... would she know what it's about?) 
<AideWilliam> "The usual, really. Humanity uprising, purging the unclean, that kind of thing. 
<John> (It probably wouldn't but John and she used to communicate before the enChanceling. He's still finding bits and pieces that are changed now that Amyra is no longer in the world.) 
<Random_Nerd> At least this isn't as creepy for John as the whole Rastafarian thing. 
<Gnomely> "In Ftisk channel robot are NOT citizen" 
<AideWilliam> "Trouble is, it's coming from multiple sources." 
<Random_Nerd> (Would who know what what's about?) 
<AideWilliam> (If we told Queen Elizabeth that King John wanted to add to the bet) 
<Random_Nerd> (She would no longer remember, most likely.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But before the enchancelling, they had met.) 
<John> (Hey, you have some religion name your dad as God, you try not to get a martyr complex.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not for years, mind.) 
<John> "Multiple sources? But the same things or the same general ideas?" 
<AideWilliam> (Last session, we established that this robot thing is unusual and possibly part of a plot, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Unclear. The same phrases did pop up a lot in seemingly unconnected people.) 
<Random_Nerd> (John's security people don't think he's in any serious danger, though.) 
<AideWilliam> "Have a look at these two here. They seem to use the same language." 
<AideWilliam> "Despite being very different groups." 
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<John> (Hi Etheric!) 
<Gnomely> (HI! Eth!) 
<AideWilliam> (Hiya Eth) 
<Etheric> ((Evening everyone.)) 
<Gil> (Hi, Eth!) 
<Etheric> ((It's my mom's birthday, so I'm just returning from dinner now. Sorry to arrive late.)) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (hey Eth) 
<Random_Nerd> (Etheric... do you have a character for the Minions And Sidekicks storyline?) 
<Random_Nerd> (I'm trying to recall.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Currently taken are... well, you see. Is there any recurring character you'd like to claim?) 
<John> "Very well. My security has usually deemed these notions as harmless. What do you suggest?" 
<Etheric> (I haven't written her Skills up yet, but I was planning to use Carrie's mom, Helen Winters, who was roped into being a sort of government and media liaison for the Nobles. Does that ring a bell?) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (I remember her :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (That works.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I don't have a character sheet ready for her, but we can probably work one out before next session.) 
<Gnomely> (I don't remember her, but is not important) 
<Etheric> (Sure, no rush.) 
<AideWilliam> (Considering what we're talking about she could really help) 
<Etheric> (Gnomely, if you are Angelo or Verithe, you joined the game after I quit so you'd only know her from the wiki archives.) 
<Gnomely> (Angelo here) 
<John> (I remember her! We've met her a few times and seen her on the TV sometimes too.) 
<Gil> (I know her. I read all the old files) 
<Etheric> (Ah, okay. :) ) 
<John> (Eth, would you be ready to be roped in?) 
<AideWilliam> "I wonder if we could get any existing records on these groups." 
<Etheric> (Sure, go ahead. I'll figure out what's up IC.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Really, it'd make sense for her to get brought in...) 
<AideWilliam> (Yeah right, we haven’t pulled that off in 8 years) 
<John> "I can have my security send you their files, if you'd like." 
<AideWilliam> "Would that include Law Enforcement records?" 
* John raises an eyebrow. "Of course. My security is very thorough. And it's much like the United States' Secret Service. Except they know what would happen if I die before my nephew is ready to take over." 
* Gnomely thumbs up to John 
<AideWilliam> "Thank you, your highness. 
<Random_Nerd> John, your cell phone rings. 
<AideWilliam> "Strange name, that... 'Secret Service'. We know what they do." 
<Random_Nerd> (That's what they /want/ you to think.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> "worst kept secret ever." 
<John> "It is sometimes helpful being the timed fuse for some of the most powerful and...capricious artifacts on the planet." 
<John> "Pardon me." *answers phone* "Yes?" 
<Random_Nerd> It's your valet. He says that Evelyn's arrived with a few bags at the palace. 
<John> "Ah, yes, thank you, Reginald. I'll be right there." 
<John> *hangs up* "It looks that Evelyn has returned with her luggage. I shall need to take her to the...panic room. Would you care to accompany me?" 
<AideWilliam> "Certainly." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Of course." 
<Gnomely> "Sure!" 
<SamTheMagnificent> *dons another fedora* 
<Gil> "Yes, please." 
<SamTheMagnificent> *is now wearing two. Maybe three.* 
<Etheric> (I don't mean to rush things, but would you guys prefer that one of you summons Mrs. Winters, or should she show up on her own initiative?) 
<AideWilliam> (you play Team Fortress?) 
<Random_Nerd> (We could meet Helen there, since it would make sense for Sam or William to have mentioned the crazy person PR issue.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (nope) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (and yes!) 
<AideWilliam> (Good idea) 
<John> (Shall she be outside of the room when we leave it?) 
<Gnomely> (never played TF) 
<Random_Nerd> (That works.) 
<John> (In that game, you can wear multiple hats at the same time.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The modest pile of hat?) 
<AideWilliam> ( http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Towering_Pillar_of_Hats ) 
* John leaves the room and almost runs into Helen. "Oh, pardon me!" 
=-= Etheric is now known as MrsWinters 
<John> "Ah, Mrs. Winters. A pleasure to see you again!" 
<MrsWinters> (John is the king, right?) 
<Gnomely> (yep) 
<AideWilliam> (We were just bringing chips for our big poker game) 
<John> (Yep, king of the kingdom, babysitter of the Treasures, single.) 
<John> (Hey, with the robot thing, they at least wouldn't be expecting heirs.) 
* MrsWinters curtsies, as well as she can manage in her denim skirt, soon returning to a standing pose. "Your Majesty." 
* John looks at the others. "We are on the way to take care of one of my subjects who is under the impression of demonic visitation. Are you on a specific mission?" 
<MrsWinters> "I was, but it ended a few minutes ago. Shall I accompany Your Majesty and colleagues?" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Would be a good idea, Mrs. Winters." 
<Gnomely> "Sure, came in!" 
<MrsWinters> (Where exactly are we having this conversation? Hallway? Sidewalk? And what facility are we within/outside?) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and as you walk down the hall, you see Lesson in a chair, reading a book. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (at the palace, we are) 
<AideWilliam> "Tell me, has anyone asked about robot duplicates?" 
<John> (Hallway, of the palace.) 
* MrsWinters raises her eyebrows, startled. "ROBOT duplicates? I don't think so... but what do you mean by that?" 
* AideWilliam shows her the papers. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "They think John's been replaced." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Strange." 
<John> "Ah, hello, Lesson. Thank you for being patient. We are on the way to bring Evelyn to the safe room and are discussing the robot conundrum. Do you wish to join us?" 
<Random_Nerd> He puts his book down. "Thought I was to avoid the stressed woman." 
<Gnomely> (indeed I believe is better if we leave Lesson out) 
<MrsWinters> (Thank you. Would I know who Evelyn is or is she newly part of the mess?) 
<John> "Ah, yes, but I value your input on the duplicate situation. I think that I should be able to persuade Evelyn to let me take her to a save room while having an entourage." 
<Random_Nerd> (The book, if you're wondering, is the Burton translation of the Thousand And One Nights.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (She's been around John's before) 
<John> (New part. NPC. Thinks she's being possessed by demons.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You wouldn't know who she is.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (but not IC) 
<MrsWinters> (Right.) 
<John> (Gnomely - why not have Lesson?) 
<Gnomely> (because she reacted negatively to Lesson before) 
<AideWilliam> (actually IIRC she responded surprisingly well to him) 
<Gnomely> (my bad to miss remember then.) 
<John> (She was less jumpy than if one of her evil demons had been there.) 
<John> (we'll bring her in and see, how about that?) 
<Gnomely> (Ok) 
<Random_Nerd> As you continue to walk down the hall, you get to where Reginald has brought Evelyn and her bags. 
<John> "Ah, thank you, Reginald." *smile* "Oh and the Aides require an electronic tablet with details on one of our little problems. Please acquire the data for them." 
<John> "Evelyn! I am so glad to have you here at my home! Are you ready?" 
<Random_Nerd> She nods. "I have a week's worth of clothing here, and some books to read." 
<AideWilliam> (Come to think of it, has she seen Sam?) 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald, to William: "Which of the problems will you be needing details on today?" 
<Random_Nerd> (She has.) 
<AideWilliam> "These groups and/or people..." 
<John> "And of _course_, my library is available if you exhaust your books." 
<Random_Nerd> (Lots of people have. Sam and William on TV all the time.) 
* AideWilliam shows Reginald the texts saying they've been replaced. 
<Random_Nerd> R: "Ah, and you'll be needing the security checks on those groups?" 
<John> "And these are some of the people who help me interact with the Nobles who now take care of the kingdom. *introductions all around* 
<AideWilliam> to R: "Yes, if you would." 
<John> "And you've already met Lesson as well. He will be able to help me determine if my ancestors were actually good with magic or just fine interior decorators." 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn looks a bit puzzled at that. 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald nods. 
<Random_Nerd> He then picks up Evelyn's bags./ 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Sam is /fabulous/ on TV) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (or so he thinks, anyway) 
<John> "To the panic room, please, Reginald." *presents his arm to Evelyn* 
<SamTheMagnificent> (there's a Samuel fan club division of the Brian and the Nobles fanclub. Sam started it.) 
<Random_Nerd> Little Known Fact: 17% of Amyrans think Samuel is secretly a djinni. 
<Random_Nerd> The room is just a few doors down the hall from here. Reginald leads the way. 
<John> (Have there been attempts to get him to grant them wishes?) 
<Gil> (Am I remembering correctly that Carrie and her family are Americans?) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (yep!) 
<Random_Nerd> R: "Now, there are a few issues, sir. First, the lavatory facilities in the 'protected suite' are... relatively primitive, although running water was installed a few years back. And there are no telephones or internet connections to the inside, as this would have required boring holes through the walls. 
<John> (Yep, they are.) 
<John> "Well, let's test the most important part of the room first and then we shall worry about the niceties..." 
<AideWilliam> (Could they string a wire under the door?) 
<Random_Nerd> R: "Also, the lighting is in the form of oil lamps, although there is a large supply of oil." 
<Random_Nerd> (The door shuts very tightly.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Part of the protections.) 
<AideWilliam> (hm... wouldn't that use up all the oxygen?) 
<John> (It could break wards.) 
<John> "Can a cellular phone work inside?" 
<Random_Nerd> (The place wasn't really designed for a long-term stay.) 
<Random_Nerd> R: "Sadly, no. The walls are made of layers of silver, iron, and lead." 
<John> "Very well. Lesson, would you be willing to see if you can cross the threshold of the room? I do _not_ wish to cause you any harm, but I do wish to show to Evelyn that the demonic presence shouldn't be able to visit her in that room." 
<MrsWinters> (Correct, Gil.) 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald brings John a small hand-bound book. "Your ancestor's notes on the room. Latin, of course." 
<Random_Nerd> (And yes, you read Latin.) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson walks to the doorway and looks in. 
<Random_Nerd> The door is heavy, incredibly ornately ornamented with religious symbols and prayers, and made of iron. 
<Random_Nerd> The inner edge of the doorway, also metal, is inscribed with what appears to be a variation of the Breastplate of Saint Patrick. 
* John skims. 
<Random_Nerd> Short version, your great great grandfather was really paranoid about supernatural stuff, and took a "throw a lot of symbols at the wall and see what sticks" approach to protecting it. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Works for Harry Dresden) 
<Random_Nerd> The drains and the chimney are lined with holy writings to prevent invasion, and have silver caps to be put on whenever they aren't in use. 
<Random_Nerd> A lot of the stuff is based on copying the demon storage room. The door, in particular, is an exact copy except for the writing along the doorway. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson sticks an arm in. 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Not feeling... wait." 
<Random_Nerd> His arm starts to smoke a dark green color. 
<AideWilliam> (The same one that failed spectacularly?) 
<Random_Nerd> He pulls it back. 
* Gnomely look closely to Lesson's arm 
<Random_Nerd> (After succeeding for a long time, but yes.) 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Odd. Arm went numb." 
* Gil looks nervously at the doorway. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Neat. Do you know which ward did that?" 
<Random_Nerd> L: "No." 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Don't know how I would tell." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "We should experiment some day." 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and John, there is one other interesting thing in the book, a picture of the demon your ancestor was afraid of. 
<John> "I am very sorry that your arm went numb, Lesson, but I am delighted that some of that actually _works_. After that deal downstairs, I was a bit worried that so much of this was _just_ decoration." 
<Random_Nerd> You've seen pictures of the type before, in a book Sam showed you. A "Nimblejack." 
<John> (*shifty*) 
<Random_Nerd> Which doesn't appear in any book of demonology you're familiar with. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (uh oh) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (can the rest of us see?) 
<Random_Nerd> (The book? If you're reading over his shoulder.) 
<Random_Nerd> (...which Sam would totally do.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (... true) 
<SamTheMagnificent> "NIMBLEJACK!?" 
<John> "Oh, Sam! Look! It appears that my ancestor was afraid of a 'nimblejack'! You showed a picture of one to me once! How wonderful to find another connection to your Noble world!" 
<Gil> (If we find the Imp passed out on the floor inside the room....) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson /jumps/ back, and crouches. 
* AideWilliam checks out the book. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "why was your ancestor afraid of a Nimblejack?" 
<John> (*smacks Sam with a newspaper* Do not scare the demon!) 
* Gnomely pat Lesson "hey, is all right" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "That doesn't make sense at all." 
<AideWilliam> "Huh. Accounting for drawing skill... that does look like a nimblejack." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Everyone is." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "and no wonder he was so afraid." 
<Random_Nerd> William, the book appears to be written by someone who didn't really know much real magic, but knew a bit, and had a lot of resources to throw at the problem. 
<AideWilliam> (Can I read Latin?) 
<SamTheMagnificent> *roughly blabbering right now* 
<John> "So, Evelyn, I am sorry that the accommodations are not very modern, but are you satisfied to their at least somewhat demon-prevention-ness?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. You were a medieval history grad student before you were an Aide.) 
<John> (William - I think you have Superior Latin at 6.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sam can't, but he can recognize the picture.) 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn nods. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "IS this enough for a Nimblejack, William?" 
* AideWilliam reads the account... 
<Random_Nerd> E: "What's a nimblejack? You all say that word like it means something to you." 
<AideWilliam> "The body type and legs seem to fit... 
* John shows her the picture! 
<SamTheMagnificent> "This." *moves the book to show her* 
<Random_Nerd> The author of the book had, apparently, grown obsessed with the idea that a small but very fast demon was following him wherever he went, and sneering at him and poking him whenever he went to sleep. 
<Gnomely> "Is a demon type that a powerful imperator use" 
<Random_Nerd> So, he built this room to give him a place to sleep that it couldn't get to. 
<AideWilliam> (Nimblejacks mean Entropy's involved, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Probably but not certainly.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (generally..) 
<Random_Nerd> (Like ogres, most nimblejacks work for him, but not all do.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And this was more true a hundred years ago than it is now.) 
<AideWilliam> (Hm. If he only saw _one_ nimblejack, it may not be... 
<AideWilliam> (I'd think if Entropy wanted to bug him he'd send a bunch.) 
<John> (It sounds more like a personal..bedevilment.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Maybe he saw one once and went crazy) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and it's rare but not unheard of for nimblejacks to torment rather than kill people.) 
<AideWilliam> quietly to John: "Perhaps your ancestor met up with you-know-who." 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn, in a hushed voice: "...Satan?" 
<John> "Oh, no. Someone else." 
<AideWilliam> Not said: potentially worse. 
* Gnomely nod 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald is trying to remain an impassive face. He /liked/ living a life where people didn't talk about demons and monsters like they were real things. And where none of the people talking in front of him /were/ demons and monsters. 
<John> (He's a valet, though. He can impassive face with the best of them.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Superior Impassive Face 10) 
<AideWilliam> (Anyone who couldn't would have run away screaming around the EnCHanceling) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, he's a professional.) 
<John> "If you need anything, Evelyn, just let Reginald or any of the other servants know. And I am afraid that I must leave you now." 
<Gil> (Though it may be harder to ignore when one of the people talking about demons is a demon and another is a bodiless being wearing colorful scarves.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He comes from a line of valets almost as long and distinguished as the actual royal line, and much more so than almost all the nobility.) 
<AideWilliam> "Ah, how will she do that if the door 
<AideWilliam> "is closed?" 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Ah... there is a bell-pull." 
<AideWilliam> (Ah, so, prime suspect, got it. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "I tested it. It is still connected." 
<John> 'Thank you, Reginald." 
<SamTheMagnificent> (... ...) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (we're going to come home with a nimblejack and scare the /crap/ out of King John, aren't we?) 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "And if you notice, on the outer wall beside the door, there is a grate of gold wire. One who speaks at the corresponding point inside can be heard outside." 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "There is also a... sort of dumbwaiter, but designed so that the inner door can only be opened when the outer one is closed, and vice versa." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Airlocks. Dreadful things. No wind." 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Yes, that was something I was wondering about. As near as I can tell, the only source of air is the chimney and the speaking grate." 
<John> (Remind me to remind Reginald to take a vacation.) 
<AideWilliam> "That is rather the point, Sam." 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Still, according to the stories, a person could occupy these rooms for days at a time, so it must provide enough airflow." 
<John> "And the chimneys are clear and well-kept?" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Might be magical air filtering and production in there." 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Yes, as a matter of fact. The room may not be used, but the housekeepers here are... rather fanatical. The fact that a room has been nothing but a curiosity for a hundred and fifty years will not stop them from cleaning it every week." 
* John beams with pride of his people! 
<John> "They take the dust as an insult." 
<SamTheMagnificent> "There's spells for that." 
<John> "But we must continue on. *bows* Evelyn, I hope that your stay here is restful." 
* Gil does the white glove test. 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald: "Well, you don't get to work here if you don't take your job seriously. I hear anyone who's worked for a year on the palace cleaning crew can make a quite respectable salary working in private residences later on." 
<John> *to Sam* "Yes, and there are generations of Amyran women and men who have fought the dust of the desert with their very hearts and souls. That too is a magic." 
<Random_Nerd> The wall doesn't, quite, pass the test. 
<Random_Nerd> But then, there is a lit oil lamp in the room. 
* Gil respectfully hides his glove. 
<John> (Reginald doesn't talk about the ones that twitch still...) 
<AideWilliam> (Maybe we should put a LED lamp in there) 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "So... I'll stay here for a few nights, and you'll... figure out the demon problem?" 
<John> "Indeed." 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "Thank you!" 
<Gnomely> "Exactly" 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "I mean, thank you for talking to me, thank you for letting me stay here, thank you for helping me with my problem!" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Is it ok if Lesson stands guard for you? He'll know a demon better than the rest of us." 
<AideWilliam> unsaid: If you still see demons, you're just bonkers. 
<AideWilliam> "Along with someone who can chase one _in_ if need be." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Can do that." 
<John> "But Evelyn, if you are visited again, we shall know it is not truly a demon. You will let me know everything that happens?" 
<Random_Nerd> He seems to think. Sam is the direct agent of one of the Nobles, like him. But Sam is the agent of an active Noble, not one that is away on the moon. 
<Random_Nerd> Sam is probably a peer in a different area of the organization, so he doesn't have to take orders if he doesn't want to, but would not lose much faith by agreeing of his own free will to help. 
<John> "And Lesson also has other important duties as well, so he may not be here all of the time. I cannot monopolize him when my transformed people still need help." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Hmm. Dealing with demonic or other nonhuman problems... part of duty of Bureau of Monstrosities. Will personally assist, in this case, as no subordinates have necessary skills." 
<John> "Thank you, Lesson. I appreciate it. Is there anything that you require?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Food. Meat, preferably fresh. My sleeping hammock... will have Jennifer bring it. Palace already has books." 
<John> "Reginald, please inform the kitchen of Lesson's requirements, please. And a list of the books in the nearest three libraries on this floor." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson looks at John and Reginald. John is the leader of a very large number of humans. He lacks much actual authority with them, but is treated with respect and given tribute. But Lesson is not one of his subjects. He is analogous to a visiting Noble. 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald is John's servant, but one who appears to be in charge of other servants. He is equivalent to a demon crew chief or sergeant. He is of lower status than Lesson, but does not report to him. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson adjusts his body language accordingly. 
<Random_Nerd> Reginald nods and strides off. 
<John> (I do like how you're giving us more info on Lesson. And cool architecture stuff too.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Is it useful or entertaining to do these brief bits on how Lesson figures out the social roles at work?) 
<AideWilliam> (Any problem with Evelyn going into the room?) 
<Random_Nerd> Nope. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, a question. 
<John> (I just _said_ I liked it. :P ) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, right, Gil already went in. 
<Random_Nerd> Gil, are you still inside? 
<Gil> (If everyone else is outside, Gil will rejoin them after bidding farewell to Evelyn.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (I like it) 
<Gnomely> (me too liked it) 
<Random_Nerd> Gil, as you're starting to head out... you begin to smoke slightly. 
<Random_Nerd> Not nearly as much as Lesson, but some. 
<Random_Nerd> And it's bluish. 
<Random_Nerd> You also feel a light tingle. 
* Gil does not dally! 
<John> (Do the rest of us notice?) 
<Gnomely> "Can I try the smoking ward too?" 
<Random_Nerd> Probably. 
<AideWilliam> What's the smoke smell like? 
<John> "Oh dear." 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm... like flowers, but you can't recognize the species. 
* Gnomely put a hand in the room 
<Gil> "That might be informative, Gnomely, but I don't suggest it." 
<Random_Nerd> And William knows a /lot/ of flowers. 
<Random_Nerd> Including ones that were purpose-designed for some specific Noble. 
<AideWilliam> "Ah, Sam? Try sticking an appendage in there." 
<Gil> (Would Gil or Sam have reason to recognize the sent?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No.) 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Sure." *Unwraps an arm and sticks it through* 
<Random_Nerd> (Sam doesn't have a sense of smell, by the way.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Gil does, and actually a stronger one than most humans because he can smell with his whole body.) 
<John> (So..his feet _do_ smell?) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam's arm emits an immediate puff of blue smoke. 
<Gil> ("Oh god, why don't any of you bathe?") 
<Random_Nerd> And Sam, you feel the movements of air in your arm slowing. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Ooo. Neat!" 
<Gnomely> (and mine? does it react to me?) 
<Random_Nerd> Gnomely provokes no response. 
* AideWilliam tries sticking an arm in... 
<SamTheMagnificent> *retracts it almost immediately, waves the arm about inside* 
<Random_Nerd> Nor does William. 
<John> "Okay, okay, the magic show is over, we shall let Evelyn get settled!" 
* Gnomely shudder 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, your arm feels weak and sore, like you just spent a lot of time lifting weights. 
<AideWilliam> "Strange that you seem to have an anti-Dionyl ward..." 
<AideWilliam> Any familiar-looking symbols in the wards? 
<Random_Nerd> (Which, for Sam, would be five pounds tops. Most dionyl aren't very strong by mammal standards, and Sam has a desk job.) 
<John> "It may just be a reaction to the magic needed to keep non..what is the word that you have used? Prosaic? non-Prosaic beings from entering." 
<Random_Nerd> (There /are/ warrior dionyl who can swing a heavy sledgehammer. Sam is not one of them.) 
<Gil> "Or non-Earth." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Odd." 
<AideWilliam> aren't demons Prosaic? 
<Random_Nerd> Eh. 
<Random_Nerd> They're not from Earth. 
<Random_Nerd> The same categories don't really apply. 
<Random_Nerd> But they aren't mythic spirits, as a rule. 
<Random_Nerd> At least, no more than humans are. 
<John> "We can continue this elsewhere. Rest well, Evelyn!" 
<Random_Nerd> Still, the reality of Hell is not very similar to the Prosaic. It doesn't have consistent physical laws or anything. 
* Gnomely wave to E. 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn nods. 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Do I close the door now?" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Yes, please" 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Have a pleasant evening." 
<AideWilliam> "If you have any 'encounters' tonight, write about them in the journal there. We'll check in the morning." 
<Random_Nerd> She does so. 
<Random_Nerd> From the effort she has to put into it, the door is heavy, but the hinges work smoothly. 
<Random_Nerd> E: "I will do so." 
* John heads back down the hallway toward his office. 
<Random_Nerd> (So, it's late afternoon.) 
<Random_Nerd> (John, you have certain prayers you have to recite in about an hour, but until then you have free.) 
* Gnomely follow the king 
<AideWilliam> Who all do they say is replaced? John, obviously... 
<John> "So, I have an appointment in 45 minutes. What needs the most attention?" 
<AideWilliam> "Well, have you seen accusation like these before?" 
<AideWilliam> "Or, perhaps, other charges from these people?" 
<John> "My security has deemed such concerns as unimportant. And it was being replaced with Reptoids or pod people, I think." 
<John> "Unimportant as unlikely to be a credible threat." 
<AideWilliam> "So, the robot charges are new?" 
<Random_Nerd> John, a few key members of the parliament, possibly others. 
<Gil> "Pod people?" 
<John> (How new? Within the timing of enChanceling or after that?) 
<Random_Nerd> The ringmasters are probably Lesson, Sam, and the people who got changed by the Enchancelment. 
<SamTheMagnificent> "Haven't you seen Day of the Triffids?" 
<John> "I believe they gained that idea of podlings from some American movie. Clones grown in giant pea pods." 
<SamTheMagnificent> (... I may be forgetting which book that had pod people that got turned into the movie ...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters? No, that had mind-control parasites...) 
<AideWilliam> "As I recall, those weren't robots, though." 
<AideWilliam> (I think it's 'Pod People') 
<SamTheMagnificent> (the one with the "YOOU!" scene that's commonly quoted, is the one I'm thinking about) 
<Random_Nerd> (Should we call it a night?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or move to you guys at Sam and William's offices?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or what?) 
<AideWilliam> (oh, wait, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) 
<AideWilliam> (Well, we can look over the data on the groups & people. 
<SamTheMagnificent> (Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That's the one.) 
<John> (Invasion of the Body snatchers - http://scarydad. com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1bodysnatchers.jpg ) 
<SamTheMagnificent> (I'm ok calling it a night.) 
<John> (I think I'm ready to call it a night.) 
<AideWilliam> (OK, sure.) 
<Gnomely> (ok stopping here) 
<Random_Nerd> _____________STOP_____________ 
=-= SamTheMagnificent is now known as lazarus 
<lazarus> Day of the Triffids did it better :p 
=-= John is now known as BethE 
<Gil> :P 
=-= AideWilliam is now known as Knockwood 
=-= Gil is now known as Verithe 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<Angelo> Braiiinz! 
<lazarus> but didn't get turned into the movie :( 
<BethE> But yes, I like all of the detail and the social Lesson stuff. 
<Random_Nerd> So, is this side-game thing fun, or should I try to finish it quickly? 
<BethE> So, John is ranked as visiting Noble? 
<lazarus> triffids was written by John Wyndam, who also wrote the Crysalids and the Kraken Wakes. 
<lazarus> and I'm liking this side quest. 
<Knockwood> Well, are we actually pursuing something worthwhile or on a wild goose chase? 
<Angelo> is likeable. And all the info nuggets are yummy 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson has figured that he should treat John roughly as a Noble who he doesn't work for, someone of importance who isn't actually in a position of authority over him. 
<BethE> Knock - I think that it is probably a worthwhile thing, either the demon or the robot thing. Because the demon dude sounded like he was working on the 'humans aren't Imperial' and the robot thing could just be a leading to something horrible. 
<Knockwood> Well, if you think about it, recent fascination with machinery points to one Noble... :) 
<Random_Nerd> Basically, I threw a bunch of things at you, and I don't expect you to focus on all of them, but I'll build on the ones you do poke at. 
* Angelo whistle 
<Random_Nerd> And the ones you don't look into will probably not pop up again. 
<lazarus> I think I'm going to head out now. 
<Random_Nerd> Since they aren't really the sort of issues that your normal PCs have to deal with. 
<lazarus> good night folks! 
<Knockwood> g'night laz 
<Angelo> night Laz 
<Verithe> So all of them are worthwhile, but we aren't expected to deal with all of them. 
|<-- lazarus has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: lazarus) 
<Angelo> is a not vanilla PC perspective 
=-= MrsWinters is now known as Etheric 
<Knockwood> Actually, question for the Chuubo players: 
<Knockwood> suggestions for what I should add to Dulc now that she's finished that quest? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> For the perk, you mean? 
<Knockwood> though RN and I have been talking about other things to do with the character 
<Knockwood> yep. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Lemme look at those perks again. 
<Random_Nerd> Did you want to get a power that deals more directly with nightmares? 
<Knockwood> That's one possibility... 
<Knockwood> basically I want to add to the character. :) 
<Random_Nerd> Because a power to protect people from nightmares, chain nightmares, punish nightmares, or summon nightmares would be an option. 
<Random_Nerd> Of those four, which sounds the best? 
<Knockwood> and seriously, open to suggestions. Recall you guys helped with the Stones in Amyra. 
<Knockwood> what do you mean by 'chain nightmares'? 
<Random_Nerd> Like, you could develop a power that would allow you to restrain nightmare stuff. 
<BethE> What would summoned nightmares be able to do? Could they track? Could they pull a sled? 
<Verithe> That could be useful, since two nightmare entities are loose in Fortitude right now. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, but that won't always be true, presumably. 
<Verithe> True.... 
<Random_Nerd> So it might not be ideal to build your character for this specific situation. 
<Random_Nerd> Of course, perks are swappable anyway. 
<Knockwood> unless 'chain' extends to 'control' 
<Random_Nerd> Eh... 
<Random_Nerd> Maybe a little, but probably not too directly. 
<Verithe> More of a "and you stay /here/" sort of control? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> Or "Leave this place at once!" 
<Random_Nerd> Not "Serve me forever." 
<Knockwood> Well, that's the obvious one, but what else could she do 
<Knockwood> other options 
<BethE> What would be the use of punishing nightmares? 
<Angelo> Scold them to behave? 
<Verithe> Summoning sounds most useful, if you'd always be summoning something under your control.... 
<Random_Nerd> Wouldn’t give you as much of a tool against the nightmares already out there, but it'd probably be more generally applicable. 
<BethE> I'd probably go with the summoning, just for better use all around. 
<Knockwood> Unless you like Nightmare-on-Nightmare action... :) 
<Random_Nerd> So hot. 
<Verithe> That....is not where Hisui gets her jollies. 
<Knockwood> Would that mean I could bring 'living' things out of nightmares as well as inanimate stuff? 
<Random_Nerd> It could. 
<Knockwood> OK... maybe something other than Nightmare stuff. What else? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, you could get a Bond. 
<Random_Nerd> Or a Connection. 
<Random_Nerd> Or one of the mundane perks. 
<Verithe> What else does Dulcinea have? 
<Random_Nerd> She's using the Wounded Angel template, so she mainly has four particular Empowered Wounds. 
<Knockwood> and RN and I were talking about how those can be VPPs. >:> 
<Random_Nerd> Heartless, which gives her advantages and healing in the dark, Friendless, which makes her good at saving or protecting people, Glorious, which makes her good at being paranoid in a useful way, and... Corrupt, I think? Which is bringing stuff out of nightmares, and letting her nightmare world out. 
<Random_Nerd> Speaking of... that's a similarity between Dulcinea and Vitkoria. 
<Random_Nerd> They both have malign nightmare worlds that can invade the real world. 
<Random_Nerd> So you've got that in common with her. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Knockwood> I think Corrupt_ed_ is more accurate 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Knockwood> she has "Cage for a Red World" 
<Random_Nerd> It's something that happened to you. 
<Random_Nerd> Does the Glass version of Dulci have Cage? I thought she had a variant. 
<Random_Nerd> The "They Know Your Scent" perk could be useful. 
<Random_Nerd> Helps keep forces you unleash from hurting people you care about. 
<Verithe> You could do something with the wings. 
<Verithe> If that's in the Glass version. 
<Verithe> I don't know what, though. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, hey! I forgot you had a special power that lets you build a free Connection to Jasper. 
<Knockwood> here we go, 9 characters update, p. 34 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, the Glass version of Dulci has The Sickness Rises instead of Cage For A Red World. 
<Random_Nerd> Do you have the Glass Campaign file from Feb? 
<Knockwood> this thing has their titles rather than dates 
<Random_Nerd> I mean Glass Campaign - Feb 27 2013 - Incomplete 
<Knockwood> ah, here's Sickness Rises 
<Knockwood> this says I can REDACTED 
<Verithe> Oh! I probably won't be around in two weeks. 
<Random_Nerd> From the Land of Rot and Poison? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, you can do that. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Thanks for the heads-up, V. 
<Knockwood> ah, also has Cage for a Blasphemy 
<Verithe> I'm going to head out. Take care! 
<Angelo> night V. 
<Knockwood> cya V 
|<-- Verithe has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.90.1 [Firefox 23.0.1/20130814063812]) 
<Knockwood> so, if Dulc gets really badly hurt it'll look like when they shut down the containment field at GhostBusters HQ 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> Dulcinea is a very large Twinkie. 
<Knockwood> Beth, tell Angelo about the Twinkie. :) 
<Angelo> Twinkie? a biscuit? 
<Random_Nerd> It's a reference to a movie. 
<Random_Nerd> Ghostbusters. 
<Random_Nerd> http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=pzaQjS1JstY 
<Angelo> we lost the reference in ita translation of the movie 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<BethE> I'm going to have to get to bed. Night, guys! *HUGS* 
<Knockwood> how many pages in the latest Glass? 
<Knockwood> g'night Beth 
<Angelo> we have mini plumcake so twinkies become them 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Angelo> night Beth 
<Random_Nerd> So, translated as the local equivalent. 
<Random_Nerd> The latest glass... 
<Random_Nerd> Let me see. 
<Angelo> nod nod to RN 
|<-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
<Random_Nerd> The kickstarter backers' draft is 1133 
<Etheric> Good night, all. 
<Angelo> night Eth 
<Knockwood> that still available? My paycheck will be getting direct deposited any moment now 
<Random_Nerd> But I don't think the version of the character is changed much, if at all. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. I think there's a way to get it... 
<Random_Nerd> Let me ask Beth. 
<Random_Nerd> Ah! 
<Knockwood> uhoh 
<Random_Nerd> It's closed. 
<Random_Nerd> http://imago.hitherby.com/2013/07/fortitude-the-glass-makers-dragon-in-print/ 
<Random_Nerd> I think? 
<Random_Nerd> Maybe ask in the thread. 
<Random_Nerd> Someone would know. 
<Knockwood> Well, I've got a pile of previous versions 
<Random_Nerd> I /think/ you should have just about all the content, spread across different files. 
<Random_Nerd> Not the newest version of the arcs, but as a player you don't really need those. 
<Knockwood> yeah, it's just that accessing it is a bitch. 
<Random_Nerd> *nod* 
<Random_Nerd> Ask in the Chuubo thread, somebody will probably know if there's a way you can still get it. 
|<-- Etheric has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Destiny is choice) 
<Knockwood> OK. 
<Knockwood> Well, good night RN 
<Angelo> night Knock 
<Random_Nerd> *nod* 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Knockwood) 
<Random_Nerd> G'night. 
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<Angelo> Night RN 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]

Session 256

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-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> Hi guys! 
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo 
<lazarus> hi angelo! 
<Verithe> Hi, Angelo1 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<Knockwood> Hey, happy belated birthday! According to Google 
<Angelo> tnx Knock! 
<BethE> Yes, happy belated birthday! *HUG* 
<Angelo> tnx Beth too :-) 
<lazarus> happy belated birthday! 
<Verithe> Happy belated birthday! 
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<Random_Nerd> Hey. 
<Angelo> thank you, thank you guys 
<Random_Nerd> Sorry I'm late, I was finishing the character sheets for you guys. 
<Knockwood> Hiya RN 
<Angelo> Hiya RN. 
<Random_Nerd> I don't have one for Gnomely. Angelo, do you have any thoughts on him? Eight points of skills, three bond/affliction points. 
<lazarus> hey RN 
<Angelo> uhm I'll come with something 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone else, give me a moment, and I'll email you your characters. 
<Random_Nerd> Verithe - Gil, Laz - Sam, Knock - William, Beth - John, right? 
<Verithe> Oui 
<Knockwood> I think so 
<lazarus> yah 
<BethE> Yep 
<Knockwood> Got my sheet 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<lazarus> ding, email has arrived. 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone, take a minute or two to read those, and tell me if you have any questions. 
<Random_Nerd> Sorry they didn't go out sooner, but I just finished them. 
<BethE> Crap, dear. John's making me tear up. 
<lazarus> (I've never seen Pulp Fiction. Will this be a problem, RN?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Nah. One moment.) 
<Verithe> Reading and transferring to a text document for my ease of use. 
<Knockwood> (HERESY, motherfucker!) 
<Random_Nerd> (http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g) 
<Angelo> Can I have a peek at these sheets? or are secrets? 
<Random_Nerd> Sure, I'll forward them to everyone. 
<Random_Nerd> One moment. 
<Random_Nerd> There, everyone should have all the sheets. 
<Random_Nerd> Angelo, any thoughts on Gnomely's skills? I just don't feel like I have a good enough handle on the character to say. 
<Angelo> I have a firm Actor -1 in my mind all the other are in flux 
<Angelo> btw Sam tone is way over the top that the one I was going to 
<Random_Nerd> Oh? How so? 
<BethE> How is Gil only 1/4th human? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm? 
<Random_Nerd> Did I say 1/8th before? I thought it was 1/4. 
<BethE> Ah, no, I had thought that he had a parent that was full human. My mistake. 
<lazarus> (There's already bets on who will succeed Brian? :p) 
<Random_Nerd> If so, then this may be a retcon. But this is the current version. 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, they need to have plans in place and so on.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And... you guys don't seem like the sort of Nobles that live a thousand years, y'know?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Maybe Theresa. Maybe.) 
<Angelo> Ftisk is immortal 
<Verithe> (*cough*) 
<Angelo> more or less 
<BethE> I'm already old! 
<Knockwood> Eh... 
<Angelo> also is just 3 years old, he have tiiimeeee 
<lazarus> ("I have to keep doing this, because if I don't my Nobles will probably oversleep and the world will end" ?!) 
<lazarus> (does he regard us so poorly ;) ^_^) 
<Random_Nerd> I'm pretty sure I've owned goldfish that lasted longer than I expect Ftisk to. 
<BethE> I like the Put Together A Church That Doesn’t End Up On Fire for Gil. 
<Knockwood> That's being realistic 
* Angelo pout at RN 
<Random_Nerd> (He regards you guys largely as unstoppable wizard-gods who would starve to death if he forgot to bring you lunch.) 
<Verithe> Hehe 
<Random_Nerd> (How accurate this is up to you.) 
<lazarus> (That's hilarious. And awesome. And ... rather accurate.) 
<BethE> (I can at least feed myself, thank you, given Domain or sunlight. :P ) 
<Knockwood> (By the way, severe thunderstorm warnings here. Not that I've seen them.) 
<lazarus> (I'd like to know who the other frontrunner is to succeed Brian :p Also, whether there's already bets on the other in the Familia) 
<Random_Nerd> Jim, your first anchor. 
<lazarus> is it normally Anchors who follow in the footsteps of the Noble? 
<Random_Nerd> He knows a lot more math than Sam. But they think Kudzu would like Sam more. 
<Random_Nerd> More often than not. 
<BethE> Great, now I want to anchor William out of pity. 
<Knockwood> Remember, we know none of this IC 
<Random_Nerd> Anything here that's a surprise? 
<BethE> Well, yeah, but I had thought about anchoring William before. Maybe as a wedding present. 
<lazarus> not from Sam / Brian interaction, anyway. 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and William isn't jealous of Sam. He just wishes everyone would stop asking him how he feels about the fact that his partner is an Anchor and he isn't.) 
<Verithe> Because he doesn't want to answer that he's not jealous at all because we're crazy? 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone but him being crazy is William's ground state expectation for reality. 
<Knockwood> His answer may be a variant of 'they're not locked up in here with him he's locked up in there with them" 
<Random_Nerd> Of course, he does work a lot with Sam, Nobles, and Imperators. 
=-= BethE is now known as John 
=-= lazarus is now known as Sam 
<Knockwood> Let's see if the name is available... 
=-= Knockwood is now known as William 
=-= YOU are now known as Gnomely 
=-= Verithe is now known as Gil 
<John> Now, let's see if I can think like a king. 
<William> Okay, time to think like William…'zzzZzzZzzZzzhuh?' 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, ready to start? 
<John> Think so. 
<Gnomely> ready! 
<Sam> I think so. 
<William> Banzai 
<Sam> Not sure if I can do Sam justice, but here goes 
<Random_Nerd> And if you guys have any questions, just ask. 
<Random_Nerd> __________________Start_____________ 
<Random_Nerd> So, remember the time it was in the mainline game? 
<Sam> (not really) 
<Random_Nerd> This is a bit ago. Specifically, this is when you guys were meeting Cain in a diner. 
<William> Poker night. :) 
<Gil> (When we kept calling them and they were busy.) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, a bit before that. 
<Random_Nerd> When you were on your way. 
<John> (There were multiple times we called and they were busy.) 
<William> Aren't they pretty much always busy? 
<Random_Nerd> (Most of those are a little later than that.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But you mean the "It's not a good time... uh, and the magic Horse isn't /unusually/ flammable" and so on stuff, right?) 
<Gil> (Yeah) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, that's soon but not yet.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And bear with me in terms of timing and slight changes and so on, because I can't actually see the future.) 
<Random_Nerd> So, we're gonna start with John. 
<Gil> (*waves at King John*) 
<Random_Nerd> You've just finished doing about ninety minutes of carefully timed and worded prayers in front of the Holy Relics, and changed back into your regular clothes in the antechamber to the Holy of Holies. 
<John> *sits up straight* 
<Gnomely> ( /Me get comf and popcorn full 
<John> *breathes a little easier* 
<Random_Nerd> And when you come out, one of the security guys nods and tries to catch your eye. "She's back, sir. Majesty. Sir Majesty." 
<John> (Do I know which she he's talking about?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not immediately. You know more than one 'she'.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And more than one of them are trouble.) 
<Gnomely> (martyrs!) 
<John> "Thank you, Lt. Which she are you talking about?" 
<Random_Nerd> "The demon-lady. Uh... not the demon's intern, the lady that thinks demons are trying to steal her soul and wants you to do an exorcism personally." 
<John> (Can't be my mom, asking about grandchildren...) 
<Random_Nerd> Great. Her. 
<Random_Nerd> She's been on about this for at least the last year. And you even personally looked into it, and there didn't seem to be anything going on that merited an exorcism. 
<John> *thinks 'I will not think uncharitable thoughts about a subject, I will not think uncharitable thoughts about a subject...'* 
<Random_Nerd> But there is something that's been bugging you. She's been a lot more active lately, and it roughly coincides with when the dead demon got out of the Secure Demon Storage Room. 
<William> (That predates the enChanceling, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> So you're not quite sure whether she's actually onto something. 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Random_Nerd> Could just be coincidence. But that sounds much simpler and less stressful than anything you would recognize as your life. 
<John> *sigh* "Thank you, Lt. I will receive her in the south chapel, thank you." *heads over there* 
<John> *mutters to self* "I'm probably at peak holiness at the moment, if I can keep my mind straight..." 
<Random_Nerd> Security: "I'll... just tag along, okay?" 
<Random_Nerd> ____________BREAK____________ 
<Random_Nerd> William! 
<William> Yyyyyes? 
<Random_Nerd> You're still at your desk, of course. It's only 7. 
<William> Am or pm? 
<Random_Nerd> PM. 
<Gil> (I guess calling an Aide a workaholic would be redundant...) 
<Random_Nerd> Things that still need done. Wedding programs designed and printed. Power of Horrible Things told that she is apparently CCing you on her erotic fanfiction about Lord Entropy. Bio on Papa Legba for the Nobles. 
<John> (Poor William.) 
<Random_Nerd> Research on the new Physics' progress. Oh, and you should probably eat at some point. 
<William> "Let's see… Bill… Brian fan club… Bill… Brian fan club... Dante fan Club… _Dante_ fan club?" 
<John> (Self-insertion fanfic?) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and you need to deal with the crazy people who think that the Nobles are evil space-alien fairy demons who came to steal everyone's souls. 
<John> (Not everyone's. And Kite only wants the shiny ones.) 
<Random_Nerd> Some people just refuse to understand that sometimes when a kingdom is ripped from the world, surrounded by magical thickets and jungles, and a bunch of people get turned into weird creatures, that's just a thing that happens. 
<William> "When can an Aide get an Aide?" 
<Random_Nerd> Their representatives are meeting with you tomorrow morning. Again. And you just don't know what to say. 
* William checks what their propaganda says... 
<Random_Nerd> Sam's still in his office too, but he's either doing incredibly important Anchor-communing with Brian, or he's trying to think up a good LOLcat. 
<John> (And he can't say that we don't want their souls because twenty minutes later, we would need some souls.) 
<Random_Nerd> It's hardly consistent. They don't know /what/ the Nobles are. They just know they're against it. 
<Random_Nerd> Some of them don't even like /Brian/. 
<Gnomely> (omg!) 
<John> (Is that...possible?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Apparently!) 
<Random_Nerd> At least they aren't violent. 
<John> (Heresy!) 
<William> Did I get special training for dealing with Loons? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> It was about 50% of your Aides training, really. 
<Random_Nerd> "Loons" correlates pretty strongly with "Nobles" and /very/ strongly with "Imperators." 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, hey, that's new. Now they think you replaced John with a Talking SynthoFlesh Mandroid. 
<Random_Nerd> Apparently the capitals are very important to them, because that exact phrase occurs seven times in three paragraphs. 
<Gil> (That's an idea....) 
<John> (Huh. Cool! I'm out of here! Sitting on the Amyra beach, drinking fruity drinks for me!) 
* William goes up to see Sam. This looks pop-culture-y. 
<John> (Let me know when the chapter is over...) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam! 
<Sam> (yes?) 
<Random_Nerd> You're in your office. You're trying to work out a nice way to respond to Lesson's emails. 
<Random_Nerd> Apparently, as one of the very few other non-humans in Amyra, he's trying to bond with you. 
<Sam> (hurray) 
<John> (Aww!) 
<Random_Nerd> And it just isn't working. He's not really /evil/ any more, but he's still creepy and kind of a dick. 
<Random_Nerd> And you much prefer relationships where /you're/ the one who's weird and kind of a dick. 
<Random_Nerd> It works for you. 
<Sam> (yep) 
<Random_Nerd> But you don't want to shut him down, and maybe cripple his attempts to develop as a person or something. 
<Random_Nerd> It's... awkward. 
<Random_Nerd> And... he's not a Dionyl. He's not human. He doesn't even really think like a demon any more. 
<Random_Nerd> So you don't know what to think. 
<Random_Nerd> And then William walks in. 
<Gnomely> (mail with Gnomely sent) 
<Sam> "Will, what do you tell a former-demon about socializing with people who are not-me?" 
<William> "Usually, 'don't'. 
<Random_Nerd> (That works.) 
<Sam> "But then he keeps talking to me!" 
<William> "Have a look at this, though... 
<Sam> "Oh? 
<William> "'Talking SynthoFlesh Mandroid' looks... unique." 
<Sam> "Looks like something out of a 70s era Fantastic Four comic or something. Or possibly Doctor Who." 
<William> "And you should remember 'Once is a fluke, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action'." 
<William> "I don't believe he went on to seven." 
<Sam> "Part of that group, isn't it?" 
<Sam> "Why do you pay attention to them, anyway?" 
* William looks through papers. "Ten." 
<Random_Nerd> (And as to why... it's your job. Dealing with Noble-obsessed crazies. Usually it's just the Brian File, but there's others.) 
<William> "One of the great human philosophers once said 'Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups'." 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and there is one person you know who's good at dealing with groups of obsessive people. Kite's anchor, Gil. 
<William> "Plus, imagine how Dante would deal with it." 
* Gil sneezes 
<Sam> "Dante's not really the problem, though. Imagine Ftisk, and how /that/ would go." 
<Gnomely> ( /me sneeze) 
* William imagines, and shudders... 
<Sam> (Drinking game?) 
<Random_Nerd> (And let's switch to Gnomely, with that.) 
<Random_Nerd> ______GNOMELY________ 
<Gnomely> (yay) 
<Random_Nerd> You're /finally/ done with the oil commercial. These ones are a bit of a pain, they're always insisting that you stick to the script. 
<Random_Nerd> But you have to keep them happy, or they won't have the special little petroleum chemistry lab that's devoted entirely to your culinary needs. 
<Gnomely> Eh, Ftisk like these treats 
<Random_Nerd> But anyway, you've gone through the lines, said their stupid slogans about how if anyone knows what good oil is, a machine does, while standing next to the car. And they're happy. 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Where does Gnomely live?) 
<Gnomely> (he and Ftisk rearranged an ex car discard and made a house, some secrets labs a space for the game and so on) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Would Gnomely walk, drive, or have a taxi bring him home?) 
<Gnomely> (walk if nearby ie <5 miles otherwise taxi ... but he weight a lot) 
<Gnomely> (so drive instead of taxi, motorbike, special reinforced) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, you can finally get off the sound stage, and as soon as you get home you'll be able to wipe off the special polish they always have you put on. It itches. You don't know how you even have nerves that could feel it, but it itches. 
<Random_Nerd> But while you're on your way out, you notice a familiar shape. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson. He's... kinda hard to miss. 
* Gnomely wave to Lesson "Hi Lesson!!" 
<Random_Nerd> He waves and tries to catch your eye, in what he clearly thinks is a display of nonchalant friendliness. Rather than looking like a seven and a half foot tall demon waving a claw in the air and baring its teeth. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Had... questions. About being a living machine. For Bureau work." 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and that intern of his is here, too. You didn't even notice her. 
* Gnomely high five him 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson's been coming up with reasons to talk with you a lot, lately. You're not quite sure why. 
<Gnomely> "Oh, ok, what is the question?" 
<Random_Nerd> He awkwardly returns it. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "It is about people who want to not be human." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Most of them, they just want to be... mythical creature. Unicorn, elf, person with wings." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "And we know how to do that. Have people who got turned into that, wanted to turn back." 
<William> (Pony. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "But now... people want to be robot. Nobody got turned into robot. Don't know how to do it. Don't know how to advise on side effects, do counseling." 
<Gil> (I'm curious what the relationship between most popular non-human being is compared to currently popular media) 
<Gnomely> "uhm, ok well I was made this way and that is my normal way of being, but I get to try some other shapes.. btw wanna try different ones? Is Fun, I can arrange something with Ftisk ..." 
<Gil> (*is....what the relationship is) 
<John> (Sparkly vampires, ugg.) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "So you have been meat person before? You know what the difference is?" 
<Gnomely> (is there a code for text I'm only thinking of?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm?) 
<Gil> (Kite wants a list of the people who want to be merfolk or fish-people) 
<John> (I usually use *thinking stuff here* or *thinks: " " *) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Well, in addition to the actual mer-people you had?) 
<William> ( there's always o O (thought) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or an emote. "/me thinks about things, and also stuff.") 
<Gnomely> "I was _also_ meat person as you say but also a butterfly, a pig, a goose a snake... yeah that time Ftisk make us snakes and staged a tree with apples .. was fun" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Can you, soon, talk to doctors? Maybe also to people who want to be robots? We need for them to make... informed decision." 
<Random_Nerd> Jennifer is just standing there, checking off things on her notebook. 
<William> (Dante might sit in, he'd be interested in their motivation.) 
<John> (It's good to have a list of stuff to ask.) 
<Gnomely> "Uhm, sure, I’ll try to find time in my agenda. Ah, did you want to play in the game I'm managing for Ftisk? You'll get to try spider shape!" 
<Gnomely> (and shooting webs!) 
<William> (If it's to stop feeling that would be a bad thing. Or, y'know, the urge to zap people with death rays.) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Was spider, once. To test machine. Didn't like it." 
<Random_Nerd> He gestures at his head. "Eyes. Too many, wrong angles. Disorienting. Reminded me of Hell." 
<Gnomely> "ok, .. and your assistant?" 
<Gnomely> "well chameleon _is_ disorienting with the independent eyes..." 
<Random_Nerd> Jennifer: "I'm just helping out, making sure he mentions everything he wanted to. I've never been a spider." 
<Random_Nerd> J: "But I don't think I would like it." 
<Gnomely> "Then you have to try. Being a car sized spider able to shoot web and climb were you like is so refreshing!" 
<Random_Nerd> Jennifer: "If you say so." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Are all robots... metal? Shiny? Visibly robot?" 
<William> (Remind me to have a talk about DA.) 
<Gnomely> "ok J. came day <insert tournament date and place here" 
<Gnomely> "Robots are all mechanical, no need to be all metal, but is the usual trend" *clap on metallic torso 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "So, no robots that look like people? Want to be able to tell this to angry people." 
<Gnomely> "well if there are no more robot but something else" (cyborgs !) 
<John> (Hmm...increase in robot requests vs Talking SynthoFlesh Mandroid mentions seven times in three paragraphs...) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Because angry people say that, we turn people into monster. Turn monsters into people. Monsters work for us. They say that we are secretly running kingdom. Replace king with robot that looks like person." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "They are getting to be very angry. Sent Samuel email, but no response." 
<William> (Aha.) 
<Random_Nerd> He looks at Jennifer. 
<Random_Nerd> She checks her phone. "Yep, still no response." 
<Gil> (We should start turning random things into random civilians just to screw with these people.) 
<Gnomely> "these peoples are misinformed. Want me to do a lecture on robots?" 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Can't use smartphone. It has... a thing that is called a capacitive touchscreen. And it makes assumptions as to how electrically conductive skin is." 
<Random_Nerd> L: "My fingers aren't right conductivity." 
<John> (Plus, he'd get hooked on Angry Birds...) 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Maybe. Need to think about it. They don't like monster. Probably don't like robot? Were very angry when talking about robots." 
<Gnomely> "uhm, dad can probably make one working for you. Wanna I ask?" 
<Sam> (oh no) 
<Random_Nerd> L: "If you want to. You do not have to. I am not giving you any orders." 
<Gnomely> "I'll ask then." 
<William> (BTW, it's raining here, so there might be a power glitch.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. In theory, I want to do this more organically.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But would you mind if we just cut ahead an hour to all of you discussing this stuff?) 
<Gnomely> "also I'm pretty resilient, an angry mob is not an issue" 
<Random_Nerd> (I don't want a whole session with you guys split up.) 
<Sam> ('s fine!) 
<William> (So, we're all together talking about this?) 
<John> (That would be okay with me. What happened to me with the possibly possessed lady?) 
<Gnomely> (fine!) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson seems to think. "As robot, do you have instincts? Fear response? Aggression?" 
<Gil> (Works for me.) 
<Gnomely> "I'm a being, like you, Jennifer, that person on the other side of the road, sure I have instinct and all the shebang" 
* John calls Lesson's phone. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Ah." 
<Random_Nerd> He seems a bit disappointed. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson's phone rings. 
<Random_Nerd> He pulls it out of his pocket gingerly. 
<Random_Nerd> It's an older one, the kind that still has buttons for everything. He carefully unfolds it and presses a button, then tilts his head and puts it to his ear. 
<Random_Nerd> L: "This is Lesson, the chief of the Bureau of Monstrosities. To whom am I talking?" 
<John> "Hello, Lesson? This is John from the palace." 
<Gnomely> (changing shape didn't help in personal issues ... look at Chuubo! :-P ) 
<Random_Nerd> His words have the cadence of a memorized speech. 
<Random_Nerd> (Turning into a snake is a special case.) 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Ah. Yes. King. What do you want me to do?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson has the calculating look that he always does when trying to figure out how to interact with someone who is not directly superior or subordinate to him. 
<John> "I was wondering if you can detect demonic possession in human beings. I have a subject who has been claiming to be possessed for quite some time now, with no evidence. However, her complaints have been increasing since the...removal from the wards of the...demon boxes room." 
<Random_Nerd> (You know, I think Amyra is probably an old North African word meaning "Place of demons in boxes".) 
<John> (Hee!) 
<Gnomely> (great!) 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Possession." 
<Gnomely> "Cool, can I came?" 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Hmm. There are two things that this might be. Is this when person meets demon, and demon suppresses their will with that of demon? Or when demon physically enters into person, makes person into clothing made of meat?" 
<Random_Nerd> L: "If it is the second one, could recognize it. First... maybe." 
<Random_Nerd> L, to Gnomely: "Do you want to talk to angry lady who does not like demons? I wonder if she likes robots." 
<John> "The subject has not made clear which one it is. I cannot detect any possession, but I wish to try all avenues in case one of the boxed inhabitants have taken hold of an already breached person." 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Can come. Just me, or should bring... tools? Food? Gift?" 
<Gnomely> "ok, will be more entertaining that waiting for Ftisk *hoping he is not courting someone else*" 
<John> "You can bring tools and others with you, if you think it would help. We may have to keep the subject from seeing you or other distracting people in case this is just a more severe form of mental illness that has worsened with the changes in the kingdom." 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Ah. Will take van, come to freight entrance." 
<John> "Thank you very much, Lesson. I appreciate you making time for this." 
<Random_Nerd> L, to Jennifer: "Send another message to Samuel. About angry people. And have dead man bring the van." 
<Random_Nerd> ___________SCENE__________ 
<Random_Nerd> Back to Sam and William. 
<Gnomely> (RN, I love Lesson) 
<William> Right after that, or later? 
<Random_Nerd> Say, five, ten minutes later. 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, your computer dings. It's another message from Lesson. He's asking you about some thing with people who don't like demons and probably don't like robots. And he's mentioning that he'll be going to the palace, which is very near where you are. 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh? What about him do you like?) 
<Sam> "Lesson wants to talk about people who don't like demons, and probably don't like robots, whatever that means. At the palace." 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, by the way. You'll notice that Lesson didn't say to send any of the stuff that makes him seem to be kinda pathetically looking for attention from Sam.) 
<William> "...what?" 
<Sam> "I don't know. Here, look." 
<Random_Nerd> (This is because, for reasons that surpass understanding, Jennifer has decided that she thinks Lesson and Sam would be a cute couple, and wants to set them up.) 
<Gnomely> (wait, is so wrong! <3 ) 
<William> (Heh) 
<Sam> (... she's been anchored by the power of Horrible Things?) 
<John> (Awww. ^^ Then of course, Will needs to go there to chaperone.) 
<William> "Seems to be a theme about robots lately." 
<Random_Nerd> (It's the same people. They actually bug Lesson's guys even more than they do William.) 
<Sam> "I don't remember ... Pacific Rim maybe?" 
<Random_Nerd> (They think that Lesson and Ick are the ones who're /really/ in charge, and the more normal-looking Nobles are just a facade.) 
<William> "Sam, think we could drop in on the palace?" 
<Sam> "Yeah, let's go." 
<John> (If I walk around looking non-human, I get in trouble!) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, yeah. Normally these people wouldn't all be in the same room at the same time. But... eh. Lesson has a reason to talk to Sam, William has a reason to talk to John, John has a reason to talk to Lesson, some of the stuff is robot-centric...) 
<Sam> *Sam will put on a fedora and Yet Another Scarf on his way out his office* 
* William goes and picks up his overstuffed briefcase and stuffs it further with these android papers. 
<Sam> (and also has a bullwhip and a prop pistol strapped on) 
<William> (Title sequence for "The Android Papers") 
<Gil> (Oh mai!) 
<Random_Nerd> When the two groups of you arrive, John is currently talking to the demon-obsessed woman. 
<Random_Nerd> She's talking about how the devil appears to her in the form of a goat-man, and tells her that /she/ is an animal shaped like a human. 
<John> (John will have placed screens at the back of the room where the door is, so that those coming in don't distract the woman who already has demons in her bonnet, thank you very much. 
<Random_Nerd> Really, her thing is charmingly simple. At least she isn't obsessed with demons /and/ robots. 
<John> "What kind of animal?" 
<Random_Nerd> Demon Lady: "He says... different sorts of animal. Cow. Pig. Domestic animals." 
<Random_Nerd> DL: "I don't know why." 
<Gil> (Sounds like he's just calling her names.) 
<William> (Dante would point out that many people believe they are being manipulated by an outside force.) 
<Sam> (Domestic Animals would be a weird insult, though, Gil) 
<John> (Sounds like to me, someone with Imperial knowledge is poking at the whole 'humans aren't Imperial anymore' thing.) 
<Random_Nerd> Demon Lady: "And he says things to me, when I am with other people, to make me react. Sexual things. Violent things. Nobody else can see him. You're the only one who can help me." 
<John> "Is he present right now?" 
<Random_Nerd> John, one of the two security guards in the room listens to something on his headset for a moment, and then walks over and says "Your Highness, the... person you wanted to come over to the palace is here." 
<Random_Nerd> Demon Lady: "No. He never comes to be around me when I'm seeing you. That's why I think you're the only one who can help me." 
<Random_Nerd> Demon Lady: "This kingdom has been /taken over/ by demons. They just walk down the street, the same as anyone else. Sometimes people see them, sometimes they don't." 
<John> "Thank you, Frank. Please extend the screens at the back of the room and lead my guest and his coworkers in. Evelyn, I am consulting with others who are trying to help me to help you, but you must not look at them unless I tell you to." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam, William, Gnomely, you and Lesson are out waiting in a small meeting room, right down the hall. 
<Gnomely> (are we in the same room or in an antechamber?) 
<John> (Antechamber.) 
<Random_Nerd> Demon Lady: "Not like that other king. I've seen him on TV. He's a bad man." 
<William> (Did we hear that?) 
<Gil> (Is she consorting with the Border Mythic?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm... let's say John left the intercom open, muted on your end, so you can hear what she's saying.) 
<Gnomely> (mart move John!) 
<John> "He has repented of his ways, Evelyn. And we all are given multiple chances to change our ways." 
<William> (That, and he explicitly has no power.) 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "He's not a good man. I can see it in his eyes. And he admits that he went to Hell and consorts with demons. And that wife of his is way too young for him." 
<John> "I think about any woman alive would be too young for him, Evelyn. Now, do you notice any times that you are more likely to hear from this goat-man?" 
<Random_Nerd> The security guys set up the screens 
<Random_Nerd> E: "At night. When I'm trying to sleep." 
<John> "In your dreams or when you are awake?" 
<Random_Nerd> E: "My mother always said, some times you'll just see the Devil, walking through the world like he's people, looking at everyone else. And you're not supposed to let him know you saw him, or he'll get mad and hurt you." 
<Random_Nerd> E: "But I guess I did something wrong, because now he knows I can see him." 
<Random_Nerd> She doesn't answer. 
<John> "Does he do anything that manifests in this world? Move objects? Other people hearing him?" 
<Random_Nerd> The screens are up. 
<Random_Nerd> E: "He sets fires, sometimes. He makes people think it was me smoking. But he sets the fires. He only does that recently. I don't know why." 
* William checks ahead to make sure Lesson can come in without anyone panicking. 
<Random_Nerd> The screens are fairly opaque. You can see out, if you look from up close, but not really see in from a distance. 
<Random_Nerd> Like mesh curtains. 
* William signals Lesson to come in. 
<John> (And the security guys should remind you others to keep quiet while in there.) 
<John> "How recently?" 
<John> "And do you smoke?" 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Hardly ever. And never when I'm going to be sleeping. But he sets fires so it makes it look like I fell asleep with a cigarette. Which I don't. I don't do that." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson comes in. 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. We need to get Gil in soon. I'd do it, but I said earlier from his perspective that Sam and William did.) 
<Random_Nerd> He looks intently at her. 
<Random_Nerd> She seems to sit up, suddenly, and sniffs the air. 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Not here. Not with the king. Not here. Not here." 
<William> (We can retcon, say this is odd enough to get everyone involved.) 
* John takes Evelyn's hands in mine. "Now, Evelyn, I want you to describe to me the goatman, what he looks like, what he sounds like. I want you to focus on me and my voice." 
<Random_Nerd> She's mumbling to herself. 
<John> "Evelyn!" *shouts* 
<Random_Nerd> E: "He's coming. He's close. I can feel him." 
<William> (Presumably, we have called all the aides together to talk anyway.) 
<John> "Evelyn, do you believe? Do you believe in God and the Treasures that we protect for all of the world?" 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Can you see demons? Because you're a priest, a king? Can you see them? Can't you feel that?" 
<Random_Nerd> (That works.) 
<Random_Nerd> She's only half-listening. 
<William> Quietly: "Lesson... Step out a sec." 
<Random_Nerd> E: "He's in this room. I can't see him, but the devil is right here, in this room." 
<John> "I know that there is a demon nearby. But he will not harm you, this I swear. Do you hear me?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson steps out, a pained expression on his face. 
* Gnomely pat Lesson 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Demon! Demon!" 
<Random_Nerd> Then she looks confused. 
<John> "Evelyn! Do you trust me?" 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Wait, you're the one I saw on TV. You're not the same one." 
<Random_Nerd> E: "You work with the... the people, who got changed. I just thought you were one of them. But..." 
<John> (Well, crap, what I thought. She thinks the king's been replaced.) 
<William> (Whoops, I meant out of the room, but this works.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Lesson misinterpreted.) 
<John> (It's okay. :) ) 
<Gil> (Lesson is forgiven.) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson looks awkward, and seems to be trying to be shorter. 
<John> "This is Lesson, Evelyn. He _is_ the one who has been helping all of our brothers and sisters who were changed when the kingdom moved." 
* Gnomely whisper to L: a change of shape can help 
<John> "He will not harm you. He is here to help me in helping you. Is that okay?" 
<Random_Nerd> E: "You're a demon. I can tell. I didn't think you were actually a demon. You're... I've seen you on /TV/." 
<John> (*snort*) 
<Random_Nerd> (Gil can be there, yeah.) 
<Random_Nerd> (If you guys would have called him for expertise in religious weirdness.) 
<William> (Should probably hide from Evelyn, though.) 
<Gil> (I've totally got an outside perspective on this) 
<William> (Well, the email did mention demons.) 
<Random_Nerd> E: "But the people who've been changed, they're just people. I can tell. There's a lady up my street who has an extra arm, and she's just a person with a weird arm." 
<John> "Lesson, this is Evelyn. She has been having visions of a goat-man who has been calling her an animal in human shape, been tormenting her around others and starting fires, usually when she is asleep or about to sleep." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Goat-man?" 
<William> ("Animal in human shape"… The giant?) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Do not know any demon in this place that looks like goat-man. Me. Small demon. Demons in boxes. Only demons I know of." 
<John> "Evelyn, as Lesson has been able to work with people of all shapes and kinds, he is in charge of helping everyone obtain the shape that they are most comfortable with." 
<John> (Would John have known of any of the demons in the box rooms that could have had that form?) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Have renounced the ways of Hell and power. Tried to. Hard." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.) 
<William> (Well, all but one were dead at the scene...) 
<Random_Nerd> (There'd be demonology books on them, I'm sure.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Some would be depicted with goatlike traits.) 
<John> "Has anyone else seen the goat-man, Evelyn?" 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "No." 
<Random_Nerd> She looks at Lesson. 
<Gil> "Should we inspect her home, I wonder." 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Everyone can see this demon? Could they always do that, before he stopped being... demony?" 
<John> "Yes, Evelyn." 
<Random_Nerd> She turns to John: "He really is a good person? You can promise me that he is?" 
<John> "However, you seem to be very special." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "No. Not good. Working on 'person'." 
<Gnomely> "He _IS_ good" 
<John> "I cannot judge another, Evelyn. That is up to Our Lord. But I do trust Lesson and I know that he cares deeply for this kingdom." 
<John> "And I have promised that he will not harm you." 
<Random_Nerd> E: "Then, if you're a demon, and it's a demon, why can everyone see you, and nobody but me can see the other one?" 
<William> (William and Lesson don't quite get along, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Magic." 
<Random_Nerd> (Correct.)| 
<Random_Nerd> (William's gotten past just referring to him as 'the demon', but they're certainly not friends.) 
<William> "'Magic'?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "There are things that demons do, other things do, that human people don't do. Could try to explain why, how. But don't know those things. Jennifer says, when I need to explain things like that, say 'magic'." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "So, magic." 
* John nods. "A difference in demonic abilities." 
<William> "So, this is a demon?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "'Demon' is not a thing that is like 'human'. It is more like 'mammal.' Many different, vaguely related things, sharing common ancestry." 
<William> Unsaid: as opposed to schizophrenia or dementia? 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Don't know. Not implausible. But... haven't met any demons, other than little one." 
<John> (Well, she _can_ detect demons.) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Would think that if there was another, would know. But..." 
<Random_Nerd> He shrugs. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Don't know." 
<John> "Evelyn, where do you see these other demons that you say are walking around?" 
<William> (Does William know demonology?) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "Didn't know about demons in boxes, until king mentioned." 
<Random_Nerd> (He knows /about/ it. But Sam knows more about non-Earth stuff on the Ash, and he isn't an expert either.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Gil would know more.) 
<Gil> (Sam's been to....Hell?) 
<Sam> (Yep) 
<Random_Nerd> (Some fallen angels are on Dionyl, and demons and nimblejacks are sometimes involved in their cults.) 
<Gil> (And, yeah, does the goat-headed thing sound familiar to Gil?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Very near it, at least. On Jerren.) 
<John> (He went there on the back of Jerren!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Demons on Dionyl often have traits in common with animals. But... animals on Dionyl, not necessarily Earth animals.) 
<Gnomely> (brb) 
<Random_Nerd> (That's probably because the fallen angels that choose to come to Dionyl had previous ties with it, and that their demonic pets/slaves/food would be related to Dionyl stuff rather than Earth stuff.) 
<Sam> (Sam would probably know the goat-person description of the devil having cropped up a lot, right? Not that I think he knows much more than that) 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "The things that I can see that other people don't... I don't know if they're all demons. This one... it felt like the goat one. More than most of the other ones." 
<William> (Granted, he knows it from Tenacious D videos... :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, he'd know that.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But... yeah. He'd know it from pop culture from the 70s and later.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The actual demons he's seen don't have goat parts. Well, horns. But not the whole deal.) 
<Random_Nerd> William, your phone bleeps. 
* William steps aside to answer it... 
<Gil> (Does this look similar to any symptoms of Dementia Animus?) 
<Random_Nerd> It's Dante. They're coming back, and they'll need a map of Kabul and the surrounding area. Try to have it ready in five, ten minutes. 
<John> "It is quite possible, Evelyn, that you have the Sight. The ability to see things from other worlds. Like how you could tell that Lesson had entered this room." 
<Random_Nerd> (It looks similar, at least.) 
<John> "And it could be that this goat-man is targeting you because you are so special." 
<Random_Nerd> (She's /relatively/ coherent for someone with DA. But on the other hand, if she's been this way for years, maybe she's learned to fake it.) 
<William> "Kabul? How much detail?" 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "That's what I've been trying to say! That the devil visits me and... is it the Devil, or just some other one? Is there a way to know?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson shrugs. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "If it was Lucifer, either we'd already know, or there would be no way to tell. But... doesn't look like a goat." 
<John> (If she got DA from earlier, it couldn't be from us. She's been bugging John about demons before the Chancel.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, this was before you guys showed up.) 
<Random_Nerd> And William, just... the surrounding area. Anything they'd need. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and there are /two/ flower rites on. So it's really urgent. 
<Random_Nerd> Annoying, this. The situations where the Nobles could solve a problem easier than you could, but they're busy doing things you can't do at /all/. 
<William> "Ah yes, those are always entertaining. How far away are you?" 
<Gil> (Would I be able to use Outsider Perspective to help Evelyn alter worldviews to Border Mythic?) 
<Random_Nerd> They'll be stopping the Dantemobile here, probably getting out for a bit, and heading out. Sam doesn't have to make a trip plan, they already worked it out. 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Superior Dionyl would be more relevant.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Outsider Perspective is more about how you approach social situations.) 
<Gil> (Oh, right!) 
<John> (Does the palace have any equivalent rooms to holy bunkers?) 
<William> "I'll meet you there, then." 
<Gil> "If I may, I would like to try and show you how to look at the world through a different perspective, Evelyn, and see if that looks familiar." 
<William> "By your leave, your highness, the Nobles need a map of Kabul ASAP." 
<Random_Nerd> (It has quite a few!) 
<Random_Nerd> (There's the Treasure room, but only you're allowed in there.) 
<Random_Nerd> (There's the Demon Basement.) 
<John> "Of course, William." 
<Random_Nerd> (There's a sort of Spiritual Panic Room that one of your ancestors had installed.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Stuff like that.) 
<John> (Ehh, the Demon basement, we're still having that fumigated.) 
<Sam> tucguhfxyfutdxfytgcjgchvgcjyfi 
<Random_Nerd> (It is a bunker, it's just... the walls face the other way.) 
<John> "Would it be possible for you to be my guest in the palace for a day or two, Evelyn?" 
<William> "Actually, do you have maps in your library here?" 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "In... the /palace/? Your /guest/?" 
<Random_Nerd> You do have maps. You totally have maps. 
<John> "Yes, William. Third door down, west wall." 
<Sam> yfhfmxtsxrybfzsddhmtfhfmdhnfxdtumdtiyfutd 
<Random_Nerd> You like reading about places you'll probably never get to go. 
<John> (Laz, did your cat take over Sam?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Is Sam... gibberishing?) 
<Sam> (sorry, was afk, and Sara took over the keyboard ....) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah.) 
<John> (Ahhh. Hi Sara!) 
* William goes and grabs copies of maps of Kabul... 
<Random_Nerd> You find some, reasonably current. 
<John> *smiles* Yes, Evelyn, here at the palace, as my guest. We have some special rooms that we can see if they can prevent the visitations." 
<William> (And they should be copies, considering it's doubtful they'll come back intact.) 
<Random_Nerd> The Dantemobile is already parked downstairs. 
* William hands off the maps. 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "You're... you haven't been taken over by evil demonic powers, right? Really? It's okay that you have a demon here?" 
<Random_Nerd> The Nobles head out. 
* John looks her in the eyes. "I do not believe so, Evelyn. I have performed my duties to the Treasures this very day, and now, I am taking care of my subjects. You, in particular." 
* William rejoins the others 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and she isn't with the mandroid people. She'd think the stuff they were saying about John was very disrespectful and in terrible taste. And don't they have real things to worry about, like demons?) 
<John> "Lesson is a trusted assistant of myself and the Nobles who protect the kingdom now." 
<Random_Nerd> (The only demon /those/ guys worry about is Lesson, who she didn't think was 'actually a demon'.) 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "So... they're really there? The Ark, and the Grail... you saw them /today/?" 
<John> (Yes, because what's worse than a demon than a demondroid!) 
* John smiles gently. "Yes, Evelyn." 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "I... guess if you can be in there, with them, you can't be possessed or anything. Okay. Could... you have the demon not be near me? It makes me feel really unsafe." 
<Random_Nerd> She looks at Lesson: "Nothing personal." 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson looks to John for a cue. 
<John> "I need to talk with Lesson and his colleagues now about your problem, but we will try to minimize your discomfort. How about some of my security takes you home so you can gather your things and when you come back, I can personally show you to your room here?" 
<Random_Nerd> Evelyn: "I... well, if they're with me. The devi... well, the demon, it's never done anything physical to me when any other people were there." 
<John> "Very well, then." *to Lesson* "How about you and the others talk over what you have heard while I get Evenlyn started?" 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson nods, and walks out. 
<Random_Nerd> Then he stops. 
<Random_Nerd> L: "Did... was... did I interpret what you said? About me coming out. Misunderstood? Your expression on your face..." 
<William> "Well, yes. But it still worked out. 
<William> "Dumb luck, I guess." 
<John> "It was misunderstood, yes. However, I believe that you did what was correct. It was my request that was improper." 
<Random_Nerd> L: "I... regret that I did wrong." 
<Random_Nerd> He walks out. 
<John> "And I regret for making you feel uncomfortable." 
<John> (I can go out and take Evelyn and get her set up if the Aides want to chat?) 
<Random_Nerd> (He'd have heard you on his way out. Lesson has pretty good hearing.) 
<William> "Hm. He's... learning." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Should we stop here?) 
<John> (I'm good at stopping here.) 
<Gnomely> "Did you believe is she pestered by someone?" 
<Sam> (I'm good with that) 
<Gnomely> (Ok good to stop here) 
<William> (What, and miss the excitement of the Meeting? :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson: "She has problems. I do not know what the problems are." 
<Random_Nerd> _______________STOP__________________________ 
<Random_Nerd> So, what'd you think of how it went? 
=-= Sam is now known as lazarus 
<lazarus> interesting 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<Angelo> is different 
<William> Interesting works. 
=-= Gil is now known as Verithe 
=-= William is now known as Knockwood 
<Knockwood> Different set of skills to bear. 
<Verithe> Poor crazy lady. I hope we don't make her crazier. 
<Verithe> At least we're not Nobles this time. 
<Angelo> yes we are not causing DA left and right 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> None of these characters can give anyone DA. 
<lazarus> are all Noble PCs as bad as us? 
<Knockwood> Well... Dante could use his psych training and the Sight to figure out what's happening. 
<Verithe> Some are worse. At least we're not killing all the NPCs and getting kicked out of every Chancel we visit. 
<Knockwood> And they may not give anybody DA, but not for lack of trying! :p 
<lazarus> on the other hand, we adopt every minor NPC we come across 
<Random_Nerd> Horrible Things is worse than any of you. 
<Knockwood> Right. We just adopt why-wolves. :D 
<Random_Nerd> She's worse than a drunk Dante riding a giant Ftisk on meth. 
<Angelo> yay! meth! 
<lazarus> I guess we anchor them in part to protect them from the DA we'd otherwise cause :p 
<lazarus> going to head out. Night! 
<Angelo> night Laz 
<Random_Nerd> So, was all of this just a stupid idea, or was it fun? 
<lazarus> fun! 
<Knockwood> G'night laz 
|<-- lazarus has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: lazarus) 
<Knockwood> Interesting. Want to see where it goes. 
<Verithe> It's fun! I'm eager to see where everything is going! 
<Angelo> too soon to rally know but would like to see this development 
<Random_Nerd> And at least we now have all of you in the same room. 
<Angelo> herding cats... 
<Random_Nerd> So, see you guys next week? 
<Knockwood> For the bomb to go off. 
=-= John is now known as BethE 
<Knockwood> Cya then, RN 
<Angelo> wait in 2 weeks for nobilis, next for chuubo 
<BethE> I am enjoying this one. 
<BethE> And yep, Chuubo next week, then Amyra again. 
<Random_Nerd> G'night, then, guys. 
<Angelo> night RN 
<Verithe> G'night! 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Colloquy for iPad - http://colloquy.mobi) 
<BethE> Night, guys! *HUGS* 
|<-- Random_Nerd has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ) 
|<-- Verithe has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.90.1 [Firefox 22.0/20130618035212]) 
|<-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
<--| YOU (Angelo) have left #Nobilis 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]

Chancel Amyra

2014-01-07T14:23:54Z

Angelo.pampalone: /* Player Characters Holding the horses */

==Chancel Amyra==
''We meet at 8:30pm US Central Time-zone, Thursday nights, irc channel #nobilis on magicstar server, usually for at least an hour and a half to two hours''

*Side note - game started mid-May of 2005.
*Back note - This game is supported by Tpyo, Typo's Regal.

Old notes:
*Front note - 33 dynasty points as of Session 109 - +1 DP as of Session 132
*Sneaky note - Ftisk and Kite, being later additions will receive double CP until they come at par with the other Nobles

Abhorrent Weapons discussed:
*Abhorrent Shiv
*Abhorrent Rock - the first Abhorrent Weapon, used to kill the Thirdborn Angel, the Guardian at the Gates. It's a ''rock''.
*Abhorrent knife - soul-carving knife owned by JbJ

===Player Characters===
Brian, Dominus of [[Amyra:Numbers_v3|Numbers]], played by lazarus

Chytosideron (Kite), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Chytosideron_V3|Assembly]], played by Verithe

Dante, Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Dante_V3|Courage and Blades]], played by Knockwood

Ftisk (aka Conrad (aka Ftisk)), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk_v3|Machinery and Data]], played by Angelo

Theresa, Domina of [[Plants_of_the_Third_Age!|Plants]], played by Beth

Carrie, Domina of [[Amyra:Hope|Hope]], played by Etheric

===Player Characters Holding the horses===

Herb, new Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Herb|Urbanization]], played by Harold

Snow, Domina of [[Amyra:Caprice|Capriciousness]], played by Sara

[[Lil Charachters Sheets|Sam, Will, Gil, King John, Gnomely]]

===Non-Player Characters===
James, former Dominus of [[Amyra:Urbanization|Urbanization]], missing & ..well, huh.

Lesson, reformed demon, anchor of Urbanization

Samuel and William, Aides

Red a sentient redwood

Gnomely, a free will mechanical gnome, anchor of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk|Ftisk]]

===Imperator Kudzu===
''from the first game session:''

A creature shaped much like a man, but build to a larger scale, paces with frenetic energy. His crafter seems to have decided to avoid the more common building materials of bone and flesh. 
His bones are bricks. His fingers are tree branches. His eyes a red light and a green one, seemingly taken from a traffic light. 
He smells of both nature and civilization, jungle fumes and smog. 

Qualities: '''Great Harvest, Cold, Corrupted Mystery Cult, Dim Warding'''

Bought off - ''Demanding''

===Amyra and Kaerkoven===
Amyra: '''Weird Science (Building Seeds at the beginning. Transmogrifier later), Magical Inhabitants, Convenient'''

'''Kaerkoven''': Capital city. King John's palace and the Treasures are here, along with many museums, places to shop and the odd giant sentient redwood walking around. University as well. Chancel Heart is in clockwork room in Tower on university campus. Theresa has taken over the university Conservatory while Carrie has taken over the Administrative Building's upper floors. For the most part, Dante and Brian hang out/live in the clock tower. Lesson had his offices on the second floor while the first floor held Monty for a while. Horse has claimed the Infinite Room now.

Aides are invested nearby (Sam near river that runs through city.) Camms are also in the city. Lesson and his gang/team have taken over some of the industrial places for their work on dealing with the shapechanged Chancel inhabitants.

[[Camm flower chart]]

[[Discussion With Outside]]

==Current Favors Owed==

(as of Session 165)

'''Owed us:'''
*Medium favor from the Cammorrae
*Favor from Physics, for helping restore Quantum Physics
*Favor from Consequences & his family, for helping with the Tam head.
*Papa Legba, Power of Roads, says we can visit him once.

==[[Amyra:Who's Who]]==

==[[Amyra:Untied laces and other unfinished thingies]]==

==Game Logs==

[[Amyra:Chapter_1|Chapter 1]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5206014&postcount=1 Hello Universe]

[[Amyra:Chapter_2|Chapter 2]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5304629&postcount=34 Two-Fisted Tales of Academic Mathematics]

[[Amyra:Chapter_3|Chapter 3]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5737878&postcount=45 Now Hiring]

[[Amyra:Chapter_4|Chapter 4]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6446260&postcount=59 The Battle of Kaerkoven]

[[Amyra:Chapter_5|Chapter 5]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775254&postcount=67 Nobles, meet Parliament. Parliament, Kneel Before Us! Oh, sorry, inside voice.]

[[Amyra:Chapter_6|Chapter 6]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775309&postcount=75 Hi John and Baaaad bunny!]

[[Amyra:Chapter_7|Chapter 7]]: Paaaaarty!

[[Amyra:Chapter_8|Chapter 8]]: Mexican Madness

[[Amyra:Chapter_9|Chapter 9]]: Blood Ties

[[Amyra:Chapter_10|Chapter 10]]: Weekend at Barakiel's (aka You Want ''Who'' Dead?)

[[Amyra:Chapter_11|Chapter 11]]: HG Suggested Title: "Aren't you going to eat the giant?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_12|Chapter 12]]: Who Ya Gonna Call?

[[Amyra:Chapter_13|Chapter 13]]: We Gotz to Go to the Council! or "How Much Is That Hell-Soul in the Window?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_14|Chapter 14]]: So, how fast does this snail travel, exactly?

[[Amyra:Chapter_15|Chapter 15]]: Your Mission, should you choose to accept it...

[[Amyra:Chapter_16|Chapter 16]]: We do random stuff so you don't have to!

[[Amyra:Chapter_17|Chapter 17]]: Hard Science 2: Hard Science With A Vengeance

[[Amyra:Chapter_18|Chapter 18]]: Bring me the head of River Tam!

[[Amyra:Chapter_19|Chapter 19]]: Street Fightin': When Acorns Attack

[[Amyra:Chapter_20|Chapter 20]]: DOGS IN SPACE!

[[Amyra:Chapter_21|Chapter 21]]: A new Aidee

[[Amyra:Chapter_22|Chapter 22]]: Patterns

[[Amyra:Chapter_23|Chapter 23]]: Outside?

[[Amyra:Chapter_24|Chapter 24]]: Too interesting to be interesting.

[[Amyra:Chapter_25|Chapter 25]]: A bird's cult

[[Amyra:Chapter_26|Chapter 26]]: Sueridus superstar

[[Amyra:Chapter_27|Chapter 27]]: The Kaerkoven Ogre Incident

[[Amyra:Chapter_28|Chapter 28]]: Gunboat Diplomacy, Part 1

[[Amyra:Chapter_29|Chapter 29]]: The New Kids In Town

[[Amyra:Chapter_30|Chapter 30]]: Breaking the Sky

[[Amyra:Chapter_31|Chapter 31]]: Dealing with Drama

[[Amyra:Chapter_32|Chapter 32]]: Who You Dare Believe

[[Amyra:Chapter_33|Chapter 33]]: Demonbox 2: Demonbox Harder

[[Amyra:Chapter_34|Chapter 34]]: Silly, silly mammals

[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]: ???

[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]: Lil Aidee Story

==[[Amyra:Quotes|Game Quotes Page!]]==

[[Category:Nobilis]]

Lil Charachters Sheets

2014-01-07T14:20:18Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]] 
Sam 
 
You’re a Dionyl. City-bred, and spent all your life in a city-state named Brightness. It was relatively cosmopolitan as Dionyl cities go, which is to say, there may have been as many as two hundred and fifty humans, in a city of eight hundred thousand Dionyl. You always found them fascinating, especially the ones who’d brought recordings of TV and movies with them. Something about the idea of a piece of fiction that’s always exactly the same each time, rather than storytellers or actors fiddling with the formula a bit, just captivated you, and you watched as much as you could, probably being a bit of a nuisance. 
When your class at the Academy did the usual tests for Aides applications, and you turned out to be good at both adjusting to the prosaic world (which you attribute to all of the static-form fiction you watched) and at geomantic math, you jumped at the chance to get stationed on earth. Four years later, after your training was done, you got to go there for your first long stay, doing various temp work for Nobles who just needed a temporary assistant. It was then that you first got partnered with William. Your first real assignment was to a bunch of new Nobles who were friends of the Power of Consequences, and the rest is history. 
Your real name isn’t “Samuel”, of course. It’s something that only very high-Aspect Nobles can even pronounce with human vocal organs. They told you to pick a human name, and you picked this one because you really liked that one guy in Pulp Fiction. You actually flipped a coin on whether to go with “Samuel” or “Jules.” Your actual body is invisible, and you usually dress in a complicated assortment of brightly-colored scarves wrapped around and through it. Putting these on is easier nowadays, since Ftisk made a machine to help you arrange it. You still sometimes do it by hand. 
 
Skills: 
Superior Dionyl 2 (Applicable to changing your perspective between prosaic and border mythic, to resisting DA, and to stuff involving quirks of Dionyl bodies and senses.) 
Trained By The Aides 3 (Usable for geomancy, for knowing stuff about the Tree, for dealing with Nobles, and stuff like that) 
Fashion 0 (For a Dionyl, this is practically crippled.) 
Active Writing Programmer 1 
Human Pop Culture Knowledge 2 
Actual Knowledge Of Life On Earth 0 
 
BondFlictions: 
Bond: Brian is my Noble, and he seems like a pretty decent guy (2) 
Affliction: Brian did that one thing that one time that made me not so affected by strong winds (1) 
 
 
William Henderson 
 
When you were a kid, you swore you’d never become like your dad, a guy who threw everything he did into his job, always working late hours at the law firm, only to come home, eat a reheated dinner nearly wordlessly, and collapse to bed, only to get up and do it all again. You were going to be a teacher, and have a good work-life balance. 
Then when you were working on your master’s degree in medieval history, something about you caught the eye of a recruiter, and you got asked to join the Aides. And you found out that the continued existence of the world is incredibly precarious, and is almost entirely in the hands of a group of people who can wrestle dragons and travel backwards in time, but can’t be counted on to remember names or plan a schedule. That if you set out to be a really good personal assistant and PR guy, you could probably meaningfully contribute in an indirect support-role sort of way to saving the world. Or, hey, you could always finish your degrees and teach history in college. 
That was years ago. You’re 35 now. This is your first permanent Aide assignment. It’s a fairly prestigious thing to be working for Nobles directly at this stage in your career. On the other hand, your partner has already been Anchored and is currently believed to be tied for frontrunner to succeed the Power of Numbers, and you... aren’t. 
You’re engaged to be married to a woman named Lisa. You’ve told her a fair bit about what you do, and she’s actually starting to believe it. 
You’re six foot two, with almost implausibly red hair that is just starting to go grey at the temples. When you’re on the job, you always wear a dark business suit, which is another way of saying you always wear a dark business suit. 
 
Skills: 
Deal With People 3 
Trained By The Aides 2 (Usable to know stuff about Nobles or Noble society, and resist DA) 
Sketch and Paint 1 
Function Without Sleep 2 
Good Work-Life Balance -1 
 
BondFlictions: 
Bond: I have to keep doing this, because if I don’t my Nobles will probably oversleep and the world will end (2) 
Affliction: I no longer age, and only rarely get sick (1) 
 
 
GIL 
 
Yes, you do have a circulatory system, and a rudimentary digestive one. Yes, you do need to eat food and absorb motion. Yes, you’re one-quarter human. Yes, that’s a thing that can happen, at least on Dionyl. No, most humans don’t look like you, they have skin and bones and stuff. 
Like most Dionyl recruited into the Aides, you were raised in a Domination context. Unlike most, rather than spending your whole childhood in the same city-state, your parents (One father who was an ordinary Dionyl, the other one being half-human) were rootless folks who tended to gravitate toward the newest god or Noble setting up a cult. This was how you were eventually recruited by the Aides, by an Anchor who happened to be chatting with the High Priest Of The Month noticing you. You still think about being an Aide and an Anchor in a largely religious mindset. 
After they recruited you, they found out that you were really good at seeing how Dionyl mystery cults worked. Some combination of participating in as many of them as you did, and the outsider status your human appearance gave you, added up to make you good at breaking down what did and didn’t work in the social structures, although you left the worldsight engineering thing to specialists. You’d frequently been asked to consult on a Noble putting together a new mystery cult, and expected that this job would be just another one of those. But then it turned out that the Noble that hired you wasn’t even Dionyl, and before you knew what was what, you were one of the leaders of a surprisingly successful new religion and you were anchored. 
One thing it’s hard to adjust to when visiting Earth is that everyone thinks of you as a Dionyl, whereas on Dionyl everyone thinks of you as human, and you used to identify as human before you started spending time with actual humans. 
 
Skills: 
Superior Dionyl 1 (This is low. For most folks it’d be 2, and for someone scary like the Spear it’d be at least 3. Used for worldsight stuff and Dionyl physiology stuff) 
Put Together A Church That Doesn’t End Up On Fire 3 
General Aide Stuff 2 
Recruit People 2 
Outsider Perspective 2 
 
BondFlictions: 
Bond: I’m loyal to my Noble, Kite, although I’m not sure if he wants me to worship him or not (2) 
Bond: My job is important (1) 
 
 
John XXIII, King and Lord Protector of Amyra, And High Elder of the Nestorian Orthodox Church of Amyra 
 
It turns out that, Mel Brooks aside, it isn’t actually good to be King. You always suspected it, when you realized that it meant that you had nicer clothes than most people but had to spend all your time studying Latin, Greek, and Hebrew instead of playing outside. But part of you thought that when you actually were king, something you thought would happen some time around when you turned sixty, maybe it would be better then. 
Then when you were 27 both your parents died in a plane crash, and you haven’t really had a personal life ever since. Most people don’t wake up one morning and have to deal with finding out that both their parents are dead and that they’re now the Head of State and that they’re in charge of a fair-sized denomination and that if they don’t put these robes on and say the words they’ve been practicing for the last ten years, the Holy Lance might get angry. That must be nice. 
Then, just when you felt like you’d gotten a handle on this stuff, a giant made of plants and bricks asked you if you wanted to be... a god? An angel? You weren’t entirely clear. And you had to laugh, because it was too funny to even be scared. Another job of world-shaking importance? You already have three. Fortunately, the giant wasn’t too offended, and it picked someone else as the Power of Gardens. You met her a couple weeks later, and you think she does a much better job than you would have. 
There is one nice thing about all the changes that happened. You have more friends now. The Nobles, Sam and William, Rachel (the Power of Martyrs), even Lesson The Demon, all of them have so much stuff going on with them that the fact that you’re the king isn’t really such a big deal for them. You’d missed that. 
It’s not that you get to spend a lot of time with them. The king stuff is bad enough, but the head of the church thing isn’t just a theoretical thing like it is for the Anglican church, it’s a full time job in and of itself. And even the Pope doesn’t have to worry about the Ark, the actual Ark of the Covenant, looking at him funny if he stumbles on a prayer. But every Tuesday evening, you try to make a few hours where you can just talk with friends, play pool, or read a book. It’s nice. 
 
Skills: 
Superior Holiness 3 (You’ve been saying long complicated prayers and doing complicated spiritual meditative exercises since you were eleven, and for the last few years you’ve done it in the actual presence of holy relics. Some of it’s rubbed off. Use this for prayers, religious rituals, and just seeming like a calming and relaxing person to be around) 
Priest-King 3 (This one’s more the public-facing side of things, the parts that involve people) 
Study And Hard Work 2 
Interact With People In Ways That Involve Neither Religion Nor Monarchy 0 
 
BondFlictions: 
Looking after Amyra is my job, even if I’m not up to it 2 
In spite of everything I’ve seen, I still believe in God 1 
 
 
Gnomely 
 
Gnomely is one of Ftisk’s anchors. He was made by him and then anchored. 
He like to enjoy the nature, trekking and outside life as much as possible but currently is recording third season of a (not too good) TV show and managing the organization of “I catch you in my net” game second championship of the worlds (Amyra + Grotto) matches so he have not all the time he wishes to go out... or stay with Ftisk. He also try to keep order in Ftisk life and demand to be his only romantic interest. 
 
Skills: (8) 
Actor -1 
Boy scout 3 
Shot spiderwebs when in spider form 1 (not really sure of this one) 
Cope with Ftisk weirdness 2 also used to resist DA … Ftisk is a great training for this 
Superior Robotic body 2 
 
Bonds: (3) 
I like to live outside 1 
I log to share more moments with Ftisk 2 
 
I catch you in my net 
Is a game Ftisk designed that can be played in 2 players or in 2 teams up to 16 players each. 
Each one is metamorphed in a robotic spider. 
The goal is to lay web traps in a delimited game territory and catch the other team players in your webs. Very tactical and wargamish. 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]

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2014-01-07T14:19:40Z

Angelo.pampalone:

== Chapter 36 ==

[[Lil Charachters Sheets]]

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2014-01-03T14:57:32Z

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Chancel Amyra

2014-01-03T14:57:20Z

Angelo.pampalone: /* Game Logs */

==Chancel Amyra==
''We meet at 8:30pm US Central Time-zone, Thursday nights, irc channel #nobilis on magicstar server, usually for at least an hour and a half to two hours''

*Side note - game started mid-May of 2005.
*Back note - This game is supported by Tpyo, Typo's Regal.

Old notes:
*Front note - 33 dynasty points as of Session 109 - +1 DP as of Session 132
*Sneaky note - Ftisk and Kite, being later additions will receive double CP until they come at par with the other Nobles

Abhorrent Weapons discussed:
*Abhorrent Shiv
*Abhorrent Rock - the first Abhorrent Weapon, used to kill the Thirdborn Angel, the Guardian at the Gates. It's a ''rock''.
*Abhorrent knife - soul-carving knife owned by JbJ

===Player Characters===
Brian, Dominus of [[Amyra:Numbers_v3|Numbers]], played by lazarus

Chytosideron (Kite), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Chytosideron_V3|Assembly]], played by Verithe

Dante, Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Dante_V3|Courage and Blades]], played by Knockwood

Ftisk (aka Conrad (aka Ftisk)), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk_v3|Machinery and Data]], played by Angelo

Theresa, Domina of [[Plants_of_the_Third_Age!|Plants]], played by Beth

Carrie, Domina of [[Amyra:Hope|Hope]], played by Etheric

===Player Characters Holding the horses===

Herb, new Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Herb|Urbanization]], played by Harold

Snow, Domina of [[Amyra:Caprice|Capriciousness]], played by Sara

===Non-Player Characters===
James, former Dominus of [[Amyra:Urbanization|Urbanization]], missing & ..well, huh.

Lesson, reformed demon, anchor of Urbanization

Samuel and William, Aides

Red a sentient redwood

Gnomely, a free will mechanical gnome, anchor of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk|Ftisk]]

===Imperator Kudzu===
''from the first game session:''

A creature shaped much like a man, but build to a larger scale, paces with frenetic energy. His crafter seems to have decided to avoid the more common building materials of bone and flesh. 
His bones are bricks. His fingers are tree branches. His eyes a red light and a green one, seemingly taken from a traffic light. 
He smells of both nature and civilization, jungle fumes and smog. 

Qualities: '''Great Harvest, Cold, Corrupted Mystery Cult, Dim Warding'''

Bought off - ''Demanding''

===Amyra and Kaerkoven===
Amyra: '''Weird Science (Building Seeds at the beginning. Transmogrifier later), Magical Inhabitants, Convenient'''

'''Kaerkoven''': Capital city. King John's palace and the Treasures are here, along with many museums, places to shop and the odd giant sentient redwood walking around. University as well. Chancel Heart is in clockwork room in Tower on university campus. Theresa has taken over the university Conservatory while Carrie has taken over the Administrative Building's upper floors. For the most part, Dante and Brian hang out/live in the clock tower. Lesson had his offices on the second floor while the first floor held Monty for a while. Horse has claimed the Infinite Room now.

Aides are invested nearby (Sam near river that runs through city.) Camms are also in the city. Lesson and his gang/team have taken over some of the industrial places for their work on dealing with the shapechanged Chancel inhabitants.

[[Camm flower chart]]

[[Discussion With Outside]]

==Current Favors Owed==

(as of Session 165)

'''Owed us:'''
*Medium favor from the Cammorrae
*Favor from Physics, for helping restore Quantum Physics
*Favor from Consequences & his family, for helping with the Tam head.
*Papa Legba, Power of Roads, says we can visit him once.

==[[Amyra:Who's Who]]==

==[[Amyra:Untied laces and other unfinished thingies]]==

==Game Logs==

[[Amyra:Chapter_1|Chapter 1]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5206014&postcount=1 Hello Universe]

[[Amyra:Chapter_2|Chapter 2]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5304629&postcount=34 Two-Fisted Tales of Academic Mathematics]

[[Amyra:Chapter_3|Chapter 3]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5737878&postcount=45 Now Hiring]

[[Amyra:Chapter_4|Chapter 4]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6446260&postcount=59 The Battle of Kaerkoven]

[[Amyra:Chapter_5|Chapter 5]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775254&postcount=67 Nobles, meet Parliament. Parliament, Kneel Before Us! Oh, sorry, inside voice.]

[[Amyra:Chapter_6|Chapter 6]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775309&postcount=75 Hi John and Baaaad bunny!]

[[Amyra:Chapter_7|Chapter 7]]: Paaaaarty!

[[Amyra:Chapter_8|Chapter 8]]: Mexican Madness

[[Amyra:Chapter_9|Chapter 9]]: Blood Ties

[[Amyra:Chapter_10|Chapter 10]]: Weekend at Barakiel's (aka You Want ''Who'' Dead?)

[[Amyra:Chapter_11|Chapter 11]]: HG Suggested Title: "Aren't you going to eat the giant?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_12|Chapter 12]]: Who Ya Gonna Call?

[[Amyra:Chapter_13|Chapter 13]]: We Gotz to Go to the Council! or "How Much Is That Hell-Soul in the Window?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_14|Chapter 14]]: So, how fast does this snail travel, exactly?

[[Amyra:Chapter_15|Chapter 15]]: Your Mission, should you choose to accept it...

[[Amyra:Chapter_16|Chapter 16]]: We do random stuff so you don't have to!

[[Amyra:Chapter_17|Chapter 17]]: Hard Science 2: Hard Science With A Vengeance

[[Amyra:Chapter_18|Chapter 18]]: Bring me the head of River Tam!

[[Amyra:Chapter_19|Chapter 19]]: Street Fightin': When Acorns Attack

[[Amyra:Chapter_20|Chapter 20]]: DOGS IN SPACE!

[[Amyra:Chapter_21|Chapter 21]]: A new Aidee

[[Amyra:Chapter_22|Chapter 22]]: Patterns

[[Amyra:Chapter_23|Chapter 23]]: Outside?

[[Amyra:Chapter_24|Chapter 24]]: Too interesting to be interesting.

[[Amyra:Chapter_25|Chapter 25]]: A bird's cult

[[Amyra:Chapter_26|Chapter 26]]: Sueridus superstar

[[Amyra:Chapter_27|Chapter 27]]: The Kaerkoven Ogre Incident

[[Amyra:Chapter_28|Chapter 28]]: Gunboat Diplomacy, Part 1

[[Amyra:Chapter_29|Chapter 29]]: The New Kids In Town

[[Amyra:Chapter_30|Chapter 30]]: Breaking the Sky

[[Amyra:Chapter_31|Chapter 31]]: Dealing with Drama

[[Amyra:Chapter_32|Chapter 32]]: Who You Dare Believe

[[Amyra:Chapter_33|Chapter 33]]: Demonbox 2: Demonbox Harder

[[Amyra:Chapter_34|Chapter 34]]: Silly, silly mammals

[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]: ???

[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]: Lil Aidee Story

==[[Amyra:Quotes|Game Quotes Page!]]==

[[Category:Nobilis]]

Chancel Amyra

2014-01-03T14:56:11Z

Angelo.pampalone: /* Game Logs */

==Chancel Amyra==
''We meet at 8:30pm US Central Time-zone, Thursday nights, irc channel #nobilis on magicstar server, usually for at least an hour and a half to two hours''

*Side note - game started mid-May of 2005.
*Back note - This game is supported by Tpyo, Typo's Regal.

Old notes:
*Front note - 33 dynasty points as of Session 109 - +1 DP as of Session 132
*Sneaky note - Ftisk and Kite, being later additions will receive double CP until they come at par with the other Nobles

Abhorrent Weapons discussed:
*Abhorrent Shiv
*Abhorrent Rock - the first Abhorrent Weapon, used to kill the Thirdborn Angel, the Guardian at the Gates. It's a ''rock''.
*Abhorrent knife - soul-carving knife owned by JbJ

===Player Characters===
Brian, Dominus of [[Amyra:Numbers_v3|Numbers]], played by lazarus

Chytosideron (Kite), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Chytosideron_V3|Assembly]], played by Verithe

Dante, Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Dante_V3|Courage and Blades]], played by Knockwood

Ftisk (aka Conrad (aka Ftisk)), Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk_v3|Machinery and Data]], played by Angelo

Theresa, Domina of [[Plants_of_the_Third_Age!|Plants]], played by Beth

Carrie, Domina of [[Amyra:Hope|Hope]], played by Etheric

===Player Characters Holding the horses===

Herb, new Dominus of [[Chancel_Amyra:Herb|Urbanization]], played by Harold

Snow, Domina of [[Amyra:Caprice|Capriciousness]], played by Sara

===Non-Player Characters===
James, former Dominus of [[Amyra:Urbanization|Urbanization]], missing & ..well, huh.

Lesson, reformed demon, anchor of Urbanization

Samuel and William, Aides

Red a sentient redwood

Gnomely, a free will mechanical gnome, anchor of [[Chancel_Amyra:Ftisk|Ftisk]]

===Imperator Kudzu===
''from the first game session:''

A creature shaped much like a man, but build to a larger scale, paces with frenetic energy. His crafter seems to have decided to avoid the more common building materials of bone and flesh. 
His bones are bricks. His fingers are tree branches. His eyes a red light and a green one, seemingly taken from a traffic light. 
He smells of both nature and civilization, jungle fumes and smog. 

Qualities: '''Great Harvest, Cold, Corrupted Mystery Cult, Dim Warding'''

Bought off - ''Demanding''

===Amyra and Kaerkoven===
Amyra: '''Weird Science (Building Seeds at the beginning. Transmogrifier later), Magical Inhabitants, Convenient'''

'''Kaerkoven''': Capital city. King John's palace and the Treasures are here, along with many museums, places to shop and the odd giant sentient redwood walking around. University as well. Chancel Heart is in clockwork room in Tower on university campus. Theresa has taken over the university Conservatory while Carrie has taken over the Administrative Building's upper floors. For the most part, Dante and Brian hang out/live in the clock tower. Lesson had his offices on the second floor while the first floor held Monty for a while. Horse has claimed the Infinite Room now.

Aides are invested nearby (Sam near river that runs through city.) Camms are also in the city. Lesson and his gang/team have taken over some of the industrial places for their work on dealing with the shapechanged Chancel inhabitants.

[[Camm flower chart]]

[[Discussion With Outside]]

==Current Favors Owed==

(as of Session 165)

'''Owed us:'''
*Medium favor from the Cammorrae
*Favor from Physics, for helping restore Quantum Physics
*Favor from Consequences & his family, for helping with the Tam head.
*Papa Legba, Power of Roads, says we can visit him once.

==[[Amyra:Who's Who]]==

==[[Amyra:Untied laces and other unfinished thingies]]==

==Game Logs==

[[Amyra:Chapter_1|Chapter 1]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5206014&postcount=1 Hello Universe]

[[Amyra:Chapter_2|Chapter 2]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5304629&postcount=34 Two-Fisted Tales of Academic Mathematics]

[[Amyra:Chapter_3|Chapter 3]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=5737878&postcount=45 Now Hiring]

[[Amyra:Chapter_4|Chapter 4]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6446260&postcount=59 The Battle of Kaerkoven]

[[Amyra:Chapter_5|Chapter 5]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775254&postcount=67 Nobles, meet Parliament. Parliament, Kneel Before Us! Oh, sorry, inside voice.]

[[Amyra:Chapter_6|Chapter 6]]: [http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6775309&postcount=75 Hi John and Baaaad bunny!]

[[Amyra:Chapter_7|Chapter 7]]: Paaaaarty!

[[Amyra:Chapter_8|Chapter 8]]: Mexican Madness

[[Amyra:Chapter_9|Chapter 9]]: Blood Ties

[[Amyra:Chapter_10|Chapter 10]]: Weekend at Barakiel's (aka You Want ''Who'' Dead?)

[[Amyra:Chapter_11|Chapter 11]]: HG Suggested Title: "Aren't you going to eat the giant?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_12|Chapter 12]]: Who Ya Gonna Call?

[[Amyra:Chapter_13|Chapter 13]]: We Gotz to Go to the Council! or "How Much Is That Hell-Soul in the Window?"

[[Amyra:Chapter_14|Chapter 14]]: So, how fast does this snail travel, exactly?

[[Amyra:Chapter_15|Chapter 15]]: Your Mission, should you choose to accept it...

[[Amyra:Chapter_16|Chapter 16]]: We do random stuff so you don't have to!

[[Amyra:Chapter_17|Chapter 17]]: Hard Science 2: Hard Science With A Vengeance

[[Amyra:Chapter_18|Chapter 18]]: Bring me the head of River Tam!

[[Amyra:Chapter_19|Chapter 19]]: Street Fightin': When Acorns Attack

[[Amyra:Chapter_20|Chapter 20]]: DOGS IN SPACE!

[[Amyra:Chapter_21|Chapter 21]]: A new Aidee

[[Amyra:Chapter_22|Chapter 22]]: Patterns

[[Amyra:Chapter_23|Chapter 23]]: Outside?

[[Amyra:Chapter_24|Chapter 24]]: Too interesting to be interesting.

[[Amyra:Chapter_25|Chapter 25]]: A bird's cult

[[Amyra:Chapter_26|Chapter 26]]: Sueridus superstar

[[Amyra:Chapter_27|Chapter 27]]: The Kaerkoven Ogre Incident

[[Amyra:Chapter_28|Chapter 28]]: Gunboat Diplomacy, Part 1

[[Amyra:Chapter_29|Chapter 29]]: The New Kids In Town

[[Amyra:Chapter_30|Chapter 30]]: Breaking the Sky

[[Amyra:Chapter_31|Chapter 31]]: Dealing with Drama

[[Amyra:Chapter_32|Chapter 32]]: Who You Dare Believe

[[Amyra:Chapter_33|Chapter 33]]: Demonbox 2: Demonbox Harder

[[Amyra:Chapter_34|Chapter 34]]: Silly, silly mammals

[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]: ???

[[Amyra:Chapter_36|Chapter 36]]: ???

==[[Amyra:Quotes|Game Quotes Page!]]==

[[Category:Nobilis]]

Session 255

2014-01-03T14:54:22Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]] 
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> Ciao guys! ^_^ 
-->| Random_Nerd (Random_Ner@MagicStar-13A3B9AE.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has joined #Nobilis 
<Random_Nerd> Hey. 
<Angelo> Yo RN 
<Verithe> Hi, Angelo and RN! 
-->| Knockwood (~Knockwood@B10B75B1.EED62214.DFE6B3CE.IP) has joined #Nobilis 
<Random_Nerd> Hey. 
<Knockwood> Hiyo 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, give me a moment to get stuff together, and we can start. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh! While I'm thinking of it... how do you guys want to be listed on the playtesters list for Chuubo? 
<lazarus> Hm. 
<Angelo> don't mind either way 
<Verithe> Name (Character Name; Character Name), perhaps? 
<Verithe> or is it not the format that you're asking about? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> Like... do you guys want both characters you played listed? 
<Knockwood> I'm OK with that. :) 
<lazarus> Yeah, I would 
<Verithe> Yes 
<Angelo> only the first one please? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> So, could each of you type it the way you want it, so I can paste it into the email? 
<Knockwood> What will the end product look like? A box set? 
<Random_Nerd> I don't know the details on that. 
<Random_Nerd> But, I think, three books. 
<Random_Nerd> Wish Granting Engine, Fortitude, Glass. 
<Angelo> on ks she always talked of 3 books 
<Verithe> Alexander Benekos (Mrs. Senko; Hisui Watanabe) 
<Knockwood> actually, considering these are all "stock characters", there will probably be a bunch of people on each character 
<Verithe> Like that? 
<Angelo> Angelo Pampalone (Shounen) 
<Knockwood> Travis McCord (Leonardo & Dulcinea) 
<BethE> Beth Eves (Lilimund the Wishing Engine/Rinley Yatskaya) 
<BethE> (Or Rinley the Troublemaking Engine) 
<lazarus> Mike MacMartin (Luthien, and Jasper) 
<Random_Nerd> OKay. 
* Random_Nerd sends an email. 
<Knockwood> hm... (Leo the Rival & Dulci the Witch)? :) 
<Knockwood> I'd feel better about it if I actually contributed something... 
<Random_Nerd> Well, I sent some reports regarding our game, and I believe Angelo posted logs of our first one to the Eos forum, right? 
<Angelo> right Boss! err RN! 
<Random_Nerd> Still, it wouldn't be a bad idea if you guys were to put together your thoughts on it and email Jenna. 
<Knockwood> Maybe just some notes on how to get Loner Leo/Dulci to interact with the others 
<Angelo> I mailed her when abandoned playtest with my reason :-) I get my .. bases covered ;-) 
<Random_Nerd> Which way do you want it, Knock? "Leonardo and Dulcinea" or "Leo the Rival and Dulci the Witch"? 
<Knockwood> The latter has their roles, really... Leo as Rival, for instance. The latter. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> You have her email address, right, Knock? 
<Knockwood> send it to me just in case 
<Random_Nerd> xxx@yyy.zzz 
<Random_Nerd> Anyway... Nobilis! 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<Random_Nerd> So! You guys had talked to the leader of the interface design team, and found out that there was something odd going on with the recalibration in three specific areas. 
<Random_Nerd> One of these was the one where you saw the Strategist taking part in the recalibration. 
<Ftisk> we found also that these areas are covered by the same excru, right? 
<Random_Nerd> It seems so, yes. 
<DanteE> Well, she did identify him. 
<Random_Nerd> You've not seen signs of anyone else helping. 
<Random_Nerd> And it's the guy she saw. 
=-= Verithe is now known as Human_Kite 
<Random_Nerd> So, the evidence you have points to there being only one active Excrucian. 
<Random_Nerd> But you don't know where he is. 
<Ftisk> we can go to one of these places and wait for her :-) 
<Random_Nerd> So, do you guys wish to plan IC or OOC? 
<Ftisk> IC! IC!" is funnier! 
<DanteE> We should do a little OOC first 
<Theresa> (IC is okay, if we can actually come up with a plan in the first half hour...) 
<DanteE> IC just makes us look like idiots. 
<DanteE> (More than usual) 
<Theresa> If we're high Aspect, can we really be idiots? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. Just... savants? 
<DanteE> Definitely. 
<Ftisk> as RN said 
<Random_Nerd> So, really, there's two things you need to figure out. 
<Random_Nerd> How to stop the attack on Machinery, and how to keep the Strategist from preventing you to do the first part. 
<Human_Kite> If Jerren didn't distrust us, I would have suggested we send [Alice?] to him. 
<DanteE> We could check the two remaining places to see which one is more active. 
<Random_Nerd> (Alice, yes. Right now, you guys have asked Luc to talk to her and figure out what to do.) 
<Ftisk> I know how stop the attach OOC but need a good time to do it IC: Greater Motion of Machinery: LV7 aka 4DMP aka every time someone try NOT Google glasses it get nausea after 10 minutes 
<Ftisk> aka excru :-P 
<DanteE> Still remember that it's machinery rather than data. 
<DanteE> Which is a little odd, considering it's a computer on the head that's doing it. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, what's you guys' theory on how the flower rite is working? 
<Ftisk> Yeah, but go against Machinery properties to get a living being used as a computer piece 
<DanteE> That's it, it's about a person being part of a machine. 
<Ftisk> mine is that the excru is going against the property that machines cannot being living being (leaved out purposefully to pave the road to cybernetics estate) 
<DanteE> So, if he grabs Cybernetics, does that mean he can take over the mechanism of attack? 
<Random_Nerd> Potentially. 
<Ftisk> I want to grab Cybernetics is my desired project result for this attack as stated some sessions ago 
<Random_Nerd> I guess part of the question is, does Ftisk want to establish that this sort of thing definitely /is/ a kind of Machinery, or that it /isn't/? 
<Ftisk> I want to establish that is not a kind of machinery is a kind of cybernetic 
<Random_Nerd> So, how would it not being machinery work? 
<DanteE> Rules-wise, what does it take to fundamentally change an Estate? 
<Theresa> (Once we get as to how to solve the problem, we might get Ftisk to pinpoint which of the three places 'hurt' the most. That might indicate the Excrucian up and working again.) 
<Ftisk> well each player each session can declare new properties for one estate 
<Random_Nerd> Oh? How would you change Machinery? 
|<-- Human_Kite has left irc.magicstar.net (Ping timeout) 
<Random_Nerd> (Angelo is right. During downtime, you can change your estate properties.) 
<Ftisk> I don't want to change Machinery properties, I want to add a new estate that cover the loophole of living being + machinery 
<Ftisk> being machinery things that are not alive and cybernetics things that have machinery properties but are alive 
<Ftisk> so the excru attack fall inside that other estate 
<Random_Nerd> Well, the current version is playing two Machinery properties against each other. It's taking something that is a machine, using it to enhance someone's abilities, but by doing so making them a part of a machine. 
<DanteE> (As an aside, I like the voice recognition on the iPad.) 
<Ftisk> so "Machinery tend to enhance someone abilities or grant new ones. [2] " vs "Machinery can't be sentient. [2]" 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Theresa> But if you become Cybernetics too and the attack goes to Cybernetics..won't you still be hurt? 
<Brian> (holy crap, but the Shadowrun Returns soundtrack is amazing. I am glad to have it separate from the game :) ) 
<DanteE> (Any bands I've heard of?) 
<Ftisk> Good point Theresa for this reason I plan to give nausea to peoples trying it with a great Animation so that peoples don't try to do it and that that property is permanent) 
<Brian> (I think it was just the two composers from the SNES and Sega games) 
<DanteE> Well, wait, if it goes to cybernetics then it won't be an attack. 
<DanteE> That's how cybernetics is supposed to work. 
<Random_Nerd> At least potentially, depending on how you guys do it. 
<Ftisk> is an attack because is done by an excrucina, if it happen "natually" I believe will not hurt 
<Theresa> Well, let's go with that idea and see what happens! 
<Ftisk> yeah! 
<DanteE> That would mean the Ex helps Creation. :) 
<Ftisk> lol, true! 
<Brian> Poke the properties of Creation! It is what we do!, 
<Ftisk> but is a secondary (tertiary really) estate, someone with it as primary can already exist 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, so, your plan is to create a new Estate? 
<DanteE> When we're not poking dangerous things with a stick. 
<Random_Nerd> How, uh, do you plan to do so? 
<DanteE> Right, our plan for dealing with this attack is to fundamentally alter the nature of reality. What could possibly go wrong? 
<Ftisk> THAT is a great question, if no other nobles exist with Cybernetics estate, does Ftisk is the "owner" of it? 
<Ftisk> My plan was to get enough point in the Cybernetic estate project to wave hands and make it happen :-P 
<Random_Nerd> How many points do you have in it now? 
<Ftisk> zero (0) points now, declared that project when the attack being 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Random_Nerd> That... I mean, do you want to stop this attack on Machinery /soon/? 
<DanteE> Ah, we need a short-term plan, don't we. 
<Ftisk> Yep I plan to use the gAnimation miracle 
<Ftisk> that attack is the spring that a) set Ftisk to get a new estate, b) set Ftisk to increase control on Machinery and Data 
<Ftisk> c) set Ftisk to change properties of Data 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, so, the attack will be diminished, but it won't actually stop for some time? 
<Ftisk> what did you mean with diminished? 
<DanteE> Also, the bad guy will respond. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, you won't have actually resolved it. 
<Random_Nerd> Just, weakened it by taking the pressure off it. 
<Theresa> Well, it wouldn't be over until you took over Cybernetics, right? And you don't have the points to cause it now. 
<Ftisk> ah, yes yes right 
<DanteE> Could the rest of us help out somehow? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Possibly. 
<Random_Nerd> What are you thinking? 
<DanteE> We're talking about the creation of a new estate, after all. 
<Ftisk> beat excru is always a relief source! 
<DanteE> Oh, wait... Vulcan! 
<Ftisk> (resist urge to joke long life and ...) 
<Ftisk> well fit thematically with Vulcan the Makers. I planned to go to cybernetics from when Ftisk was thinked, it fit 
<DanteE> (Although, come to think of it, wouldn't Kite be a better match for Cybernetics?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. How so?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Assembly, you mean?) 
<DanteE> (Yeah, human + computer) 
<Theresa> (We could just negotiate with the Excrucian. That would give Ftisk time to get his points for Cybernetics and we're going to be negotiating with the Outside soon anyhow.) 
<Ftisk> (from facebbok: Verithe's computer just went kaput. He is trying to Assembly it back into working, but it is taking some time. ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah.) 
<DanteE> Oops 
<DanteE> ... Then how'd he post to Facebook? 
<Theresa> (Ipod? Phone?) 
<Random_Nerd> Smartphone, maybe? 
<Ftisk> (suggestion relayed) 
<Theresa> So, what's our plan? 
<DanteE> We can do Adventurer Plan A.... 
<Random_Nerd> Bullshit? 
<Ftisk> GRab the excru, talk her into some agreement. IF that don't work beat the crap out of her? 
<DanteE> 1) Find trouble 2) Stick sword in it 3) repeat 
<Random_Nerd> (In Beth's Buffy game, plan A is bullshit, plan B is violence, plan C is cowardice, and plan D is all three at once twice as hard.) 
<Theresa> (We often hit D.) 
<Ftisk> (no smarthpone/ipads etc at all in Kite place) 
<Random_Nerd> So, the Excrucian. 
<Theresa> (And Ftisk, it's a guy Excrucian.) 
<Random_Nerd> How do you plan to grab him? 
<Theresa> See which of the three places 'hurts' Ftisk the most? 
<Ftisk> (ugh! Was supposing all the time was a she, my bad!) 
<DanteE> You're thinking of the executive we've been talking to. 
<Ftisk> can work to locate him, right? 
<Theresa> Or else, Ftisk can send him a message through the glasses, asking for a meeting. 
<Ftisk> Cooler Theresa way! 
<DanteE> That might just show us where the attack was most advanced, though. 
<Theresa> I mean, he can just delay us until Ftisk is too hurt to recover and plus, we're so busy with these, we can't get ready for the meeting. Let's get this over. 
<Ftisk> well the places are only 3 not a countable but infinite ones, we can go in a place and wait 
<Random_Nerd> And when you get in contact with him, what do you do if he tries to run again? 
<DanteE> We could dismantle what's already there in those places… 
<Ftisk> fair threat, will take time to rebuilt 
<DanteE> Ftisk's miracle would do more, but dismantling what else is there should do something. 
<Random_Nerd> So... if he doesn't stop the attack, you will make it harder for him to continue the attack? 
<DanteE> Also attract his attention 
<DanteE> Let's go monkey wrenching! 
<Random_Nerd> So, switch to IC? 
<Ftisk> yeah, we are serious we can stop it now if we want, but we are kind and want to talk. That is the message we want to get to him 
<Theresa> Yep. Shall we fast forward to one of the places? 
<Ftisk> yep! 
<Random_Nerd> Sure. 
<DanteE> OK 
<Random_Nerd> Same one you hit before, or another? 
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad 
<DanteE> We know he's not where he was, we chased him away 
<Theresa> Another. 
<Random_Nerd> So, biggest one that has not had a bulldozer through it? 
<DanteE> OK 
<Conrad> Sure 
<Theresa> Sounds good to me. 
<Brian> Sure 
<Random_Nerd> _____________START________________ 
<Random_Nerd> This one's a bit different. A lot less... Apple-keynote-address-y, for one thing. 
<Random_Nerd> But then, the location's different. It isn't at the engineering department of a big university, it's a smallish community college. 
<Random_Nerd> And they're specifically looking for art and humanities majors as beta testers. 
<Conrad> (I bulldoze, you bulldoze, him bulldog .. err) 
<Theresa> "Ftisk, what are we going to with your spiderjack?" 
<Random_Nerd> But it's just operating out of a small brick building near the main college building. 
<DanteE> (Who were they looking for in the last place?) 
<Random_Nerd> The people there seem less... manic and evangelist-y, than the other ones. 
<Random_Nerd> (Engineering and tech students.) 
<Conrad> "SpiderJack can wait a block away" 
<Random_Nerd> Spidernod. 
<Random_Nerd> Spiderjack climbs a tree, and lurks. 
<DanteE> (Or he could stay there and pretend to be an art installation) 
<Conrad> (I think he can spiderGnaw a car or two) 
-->| Human_Kite (~chatzilla@MagicStar-87C3188A.lightspeed.livnmi.sbcglobal.net) has joined #Nobilis 
* Theresa will walk into the store. 
<Random_Nerd> (Welcome back!) 
<Theresa> (Hi Kite! We picked a plan!) 
<Random_Nerd> (I heard you had computer trouble?) 
<DanteE> WB Kite 
* Conrad run in circles hailing Kite 
<Human_Kite> (Bleeeeeh) 
* Theresa will look around inside the store for which way to the adjustment room. 
<Human_Kite> (could some one send me what I missed?) 
<Random_Nerd> There's only three rooms in there, excluding bathrooms. 
<DanteE> "OK, Ftisk, you've already thrown a monkey wrench into the gizmos' works, right?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Mostly, a lot of OOC planning.) 
<Random_Nerd> (They're gonna attack the Excrucian with hummus.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Element of surprise, see.) 
<Human_Kite> (Ah!) 
<Theresa> (Estate of Surprise.) 
<Conrad> (we planned OOC mostly Kite, we now want to try to talk an agreement with the excru) 
<Random_Nerd> So, front room, which is basically a tiny office waiting room with a receptionist. Two rooms you haven't been in. 
<Random_Nerd> The receptionist looks at you with a bored expression on his face that he doesn't even bother pretending to try to hide. 
<Random_Nerd> What would you have told him? 
<Conrad> (can I use cool to get to these rooms?) 
<Theresa> ("We want to negotiate. Let the receptionist know that you are expecting us.") 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, so you sent the message over the glasses already?) 
<Random_Nerd> (How did you send it, to make sure he'd get it?) 
<Human_Kite> (What was the message?) 
<Theresa> (Could put it hidden into the data of the glasses where he could see it.) 
<Conrad> (lesser animation of Machinery, All glasses show a message each 5 minutes "We want to talk, we are heading to your place, don't freet") 
<Conrad> (think of all the support calls!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. That works.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It'd at least get his attention.) 
<Conrad> (Ftisk has NEVER been the subtle type) 
<DanteE> (That and the initial counterattack would mean this place shouldn't be quiet...) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. The receptionist recognized you when you came in, and has told you that the person you wish to see will be there any minute now. 
<Random_Nerd> Let's say it's been... five minutes since then. 
<Theresa> "Thank you!" *smile* 
* Conrad nod at receptionist message 
<Random_Nerd> And then, a woman you don't recognize walks out from the back and smiles at you. 
<Random_Nerd> Woman: "We don't have a lot of office space here, do you mind if we walk and talk?" 
<Conrad> (with start in the eyes like me?) 
<DanteE> To Ftisk: "What kind of data traffic are you sensing here?" 
<Random_Nerd> No stars. 
<Conrad> (to RN? what a lesseDiv Data show here?) 
<DanteE> Contacts? 
<Theresa> "Sure, but we do have some other appointments to keep. Please, lead on." 
<Random_Nerd> (A lesser divination of data shows that this woman got an email telling her to talk to you, see what you want, and then call a particular phone number.) 
<Conrad> (in the sight her register as mundane or noble?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Also, her name is Gwen Larson, and she writes Star Trek Deep Space Nine slash fiction.) 
<Theresa> (The poor thing.) 
<DanteE> (We need to trace that number.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So... pretty deep cover, if she's an Excrucian.) 
<Human_Kite> "Oh come oooooon! It's not like any of us is Filibusters." 
<Theresa> (Yeah, I'd expect an Excrucian to write Lovecraft fanfiction.) 
<Random_Nerd> She walks out of the building and along the sidewalk. 
<Conrad> "uhm, ok let's go" 
<Conrad> Me recount my finding to Dante 
<Brian> (C'thulhu/Nyarlathotep O_O) 
<Random_Nerd> For visual reference, she's in her early thirties, Hispanic, quite tall, and dressed in the third blandest-looking grey pantsuit you've ever seen. 
<Random_Nerd> Gwen: "So, I understand that you've been... trying to contact someone?" 
<Brian> "yes." 
<Human_Kite> "Er....do humans know what filibusters are?" 
<Conrad> "indeed" 
<Theresa> "Indeed. We had met earlier today but lost touch. We'd like to negotiate." 
<Conrad> "I have a direct ... interest in someone ... actions" 
<DanteE> "It's a follow-up. We were dealing with him earlier." 
<Random_Nerd> Gwen: "Okay. I'm supposed to ask what you want, and pass it along even if it's weird. Uh... is this, like, one of those Alternate Reality Game things?" 
<Brian> "sort of" 
<Human_Kite> "Yes. Definitely one of whatever those are." 
<Brian> "only yours is the alternate. You just don’t know it" 
<Theresa> "Kind of like a LARP, really." 
<Random_Nerd> Gwen: "O...kay. So, tell me about your... vampire politics thing or whatever." 
<Brian> "Nobilis" 
<Conrad> "sorta. I would like, figuratively, that the big stick in my a.. aehm to have some pain eased" 
<DanteE> "We'll, before we get too far... 
<DanteE> "Did your benefactor seem a little... Off to you?" 
<Theresa> "We want him to stop his attacks. What does he want in return?" 
<Random_Nerd> Gwen: "I don't... recall thinking about that." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Okay. Anything else?" 
<Conrad> "peace on heart?" 
<Theresa> "Earth, Ft..Conrad." 
<Human_Kite> "I think that was pretty much all of it without being able to have a dialogue with him directly." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Okay. I'll make a call and get back to you." 
<Conrad> "Right T." 
<Theresa> ("Oh and Ftisk, don't let your spiderjack eat her head as she passes under his tree...") 
<Human_Kite> "This.....this having to communicate through a human is tedious." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Yeah, yeah, vampire-boy." 
<Random_Nerd> She walks away some distance, enough that you wouldn't be able to hear if you had human senses. 
<Theresa> (Aspect 3!) 
<Human_Kite> (Aspect 2...) 
<Brian> (Aspect 0!) 
<DanteE> "And, Ftisk, ready that trace..." 
<Theresa> (Bah, Kite would so totally be..something WoD that is not a vampire, but I can't think of something good at the moment.) 
<Random_Nerd> She calls the number, and the voice of the excrucian you saw earlier is heard. 
<Conrad> "nah, would be impolite Dante" 
<Human_Kite> (er...1. Aspect 1) 
<DanteE> "So are attacks." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "So, I talked to your friends or whatever. They're... rather weird. And they said to ask, uh, what you want in return for you to 'stop your attacks'." 
<Random_Nerd> There's a pause. 
<Human_Kite> (Kite doesn't understand because he does not eat humans.) 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian voice: "Complete surrender." 
<Conrad> "But we want to talk now, let's hold on a moment D." 
<Human_Kite> (At least, not humans who don't also happen to be fish.) 
<Random_Nerd> G: "O...kay. You're rather weird t..." She stops talking for a moment. "You are perfectly ordinary, and this is not an unusual thing that I am doing." 
<Theresa> (Man, someone got up on the wrong side of Creation this morning...) 
<Brian> (Jedi. Damn.) 
<Conrad> (can we see the miracle with the sight?) 
<Theresa> (We can hear her change her mind and we know he's a Strat.) 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, because you're looking when it happens. 
<DanteE> (Trace him now, Ftisk. We should get the cell tower he's closest to.) 
<Random_Nerd> Definitely a Destruction of some kind. 
* Conrad traces the call 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. The Excrucian is talking on the cell phone of what is probably another person, given that it's registered to a thirteen year old girl. The cell phone tower it's connected to is the one nearest you, so he's probably somewhere within a few miles of your current location. 
<Theresa> (Unless the spiderjack! Uhh, you have given him a sense of smell, right, Ftisk?) 
<Human_Kite> (That phone-thieving villain!)) 
<Random_Nerd> Gwen walks back to you. 
<Conrad> (yeah, an eagle beak and smelling) 
<Random_Nerd> G: "So, I'm supposed to tell you that he wants 'complete surrender'. Which is an ordinary thing for me to be saying at this time." 
* Theresa sighs. "That's his answer? That is disappointing. We're going to have to spend more time on this." 
<Conrad> "Uhm, is not an option at the time, right guys?" 
<DanteE> "No it isn't." 
* Conrad call spiderJack 
* DanteE casually takes her phone and checks the number... 
<Human_Kite> "Why do you qualify it as being an ordinary thing for you to be saying?" 
<Theresa> "We can give him a copy of the song Surrender by Cheap Trick..." 
<DanteE> "Your guy is using the phone of a thirteen year old girl." 
<Brian> "But we would need to finish it first." 
<Random_Nerd> The phone number is the one Ftisk looked up. And the Excrucian really didn't look like much of a Sally Zhang. 
<DanteE> (Er, Ftisk told us that, right?) 
<Conrad> (sure!) 
<DanteE> "And he doesn't look like a Zhang." 
* DanteE hands the phone back. 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Thirteen year old girl. Sure. Whatever." 
<DanteE> "Your operation is helping The Enemy. 
<Human_Kite> "How much is he paying you for this?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Called the spider how?) 
<Random_Nerd> G, to Kite: "This is an ordinary thing for me to be doing." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "I do not want to /not/ do this. So I am doing it." 
<Conrad> (can contact anchor via anchor link?) 
<Theresa> (He's not World-Breaker's Handing all of her brain at the moment. That's sort of a payment.) 
<Human_Kite> "Oh, you poor, poor human." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Whatever, vampire-boy." 
<Theresa> "Can you up the negatives in that sentence?" 
<Random_Nerd> She starts to walk off. 
<DanteE> Create-Courage in her to counter the WBH, if possible 
<Human_Kite> "I do not understand the vampire thing." 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Counter it in what way? 
<Random_Nerd> As near as you can tell, what he's done is remove her doubts, skepticism, and resistance to doing what he wants. 
<DanteE> Give her the courage to not do ... Whatever 
<DanteE> Oh. 
<Human_Kite> (Courage to do something wild and crazy and not a normal thing?) 
<DanteE> (I've got to learn that...) 
<DanteE> "The Ex is close, right?" 
<Conrad> "right" 
<Human_Kite> "I'm going to check the closets." 
* Human_Kite proceeds to look for closets. 
<Random_Nerd> You're... outdoors at the moment. 
<DanteE> "I'm thinking the local database and connections need to go away." 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and Ftisk, you're in the brain of your nimblespider.) 
<Human_Kite> (then, er, change "closets" to "trees") 
<Random_Nerd> There are many trees. 
<Random_Nerd> Many, many trees. 
<DanteE> (Are we dealing with a Shard?) 
<Random_Nerd> A lot of the yards nearby have trees planted in them. 
<Conrad> to nSpider: "the prey is near! Maybe you can sniff it! Go try to catch!" 
<Human_Kite> (Kite will be busy until someone calls him from his search.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Unknown.) 
<Random_Nerd> (If it is a full Excrucian, though, it's a cowardly one.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Of course, the other simultaneous attack was a full Deceiver, if a new one.) 
<DanteE> (Like that excludes any of 'em...) 
<Theresa> (Warmains aren't cowards.) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and if any of you are looking up at the sky, something's noticeable. Bits of cloud are vanishing, one at a time. 
<Conrad> (after the breach think go weird) 
<Theresa> "Uhh, miss? How are we supposed to contact him to let him know our answer?" 
<Random_Nerd> She doesn't say anything. She seems to have forgotten that you're there. 
<Random_Nerd> The bits of cloud that /aren't/ disappearing appear to be in some kind of pattern. 
<Human_Kite> (Conceivably, Kite can see sky while looking up into trees) 
<Random_Nerd> Letters. 
<Theresa> ( "Surrender Dorothy.") 
<Random_Nerd> Specifically, "SURRENDER, DOROTHY." 
<Random_Nerd> (...dammit, yes.) 
<Human_Kite> (haha) 
<Conrad> (is a citation?) 
<Theresa> (I love you, dear. ^^ ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Wizard of Oz.) 
<Human_Kite> "Who's Dorothy?" 
<DanteE> "Huh. Damn shame none of us are named Dorothy." 
<Random_Nerd> (The Wicked Witch of the West writes it in the sky at one point.) 
<Human_Kite> "I don't mind sacrificing a Dorothy." 
<Theresa> "Ah, but see, _this guy_ used punctuation." 
<Conrad> "me too Kite" 
<Brian> (in book?) 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, have your whatsit fetch a bucket of water." 
<Theresa> (In the movie, at least.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Just in the movie.) 
<Human_Kite> "I wonder if there are any Dorothys nearby." 
<Conrad> (did spiderJack catch some trace of the excru?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No.) 
<Conrad> "Dante, spiderJack is sniffing around for the excru" 
<DanteE> "Which cell tower was he hooked to?" 
<Conrad> "the nearest to us" 
<Theresa> *calls out* "Still want to negotiate?" 
<Random_Nerd> There is no response. 
* Theresa will LDiv plants in the area to look for the guy with stars in his eyes. 
<DanteE> "If he gets called again, can you trace the signal?" 
<Conrad> "yep" 
<Random_Nerd> None are found. However, there are seven guys wearing sunglasses. 
<Random_Nerd> (And you do have the phone number of the phone he was using.) 
* Conrad do a lesser incarnation to reach him via cellular network 
* DanteE calls. 
<Conrad> (I'm the call! :-P ) 
<Random_Nerd> Conrad, as you do your lesser incarnation, you find yourself as... yes. The call. 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "So, what? Noble Caller ID?" 
<Human_Kite> (I wonder if this means this Excrucian melts in water...) 
<Theresa> (We would not be so lucky.) 
<Conrad> once reached the phone I'll reappear 
<DanteE> Here or there? 
<Conrad> lCreation of flares to signal the place 
<Conrad> (I reappear were the excru is) 
<Human_Kite> (Someone who isn't Kite should try it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, Incarnation doesn't really give you physical transportation.) 
<Conrad> (damn!) 
<Random_Nerd> (But, on the other hand, you can play as the phone call if you like.) 
<DanteE> "Feel like an old-school throw down, Theresa?" 
<Conrad> (but I can look around to see the place, right?) 
<Conrad> "Hello? I'm the noble you are attacking with this glass project" 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "So, let me be blunt. You can't stop me, you can't catch me, I am superior to you in a vast majority of ways, you smell bad, why would I wish to talk to you?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, you can. Because the phone he stole has a camera.) 
<Conrad> (then I take a look around to locate the place) 
<Random_Nerd> (You can see a street sign. You're pretty sure if you checked a map, you could find out where he is.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Also, the phone has GPS.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So there's that.) 
<Theresa> *to Dante* "I'm annoyed and want to go home. The sooner this attack is over, the sooner we are home. We've too much other stuff to do than waste our time on some shadow-lurking doucheweasel." 
<Random_Nerd> (He's about two miles north by northwest of you, near the outskirts of town.) 
<Conrad> "I can stop you but I'm a polite being. Having stars in my eyes does not count for you?" 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "Why? Will it make you give up and concede your Estate to me?" 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "Because if not, you're the traitor, not me." 
* Conrad relay that info to spiderJack asking to guide the other there 
<DanteE> "You realize the best way for this to go away is victory." 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "Yes. My victory." 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblespider starts muttering an address. 
<Conrad> "we can share the estate if that is so important for you" 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "...hmm? How do you propose that?" 
<Conrad> "I'm trying to collaborate with these nobles to find a way that avoid loses to us" 
* Theresa will listen to the address and head thatta way. 
* Human_Kite follows Theresa 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "I suppose, if you let the attack finish... this one isn't going to take all of Machinery. Not even a quarter, the way it's going right now. If you let it work, I guess that's like sharing it..." 
* DanteE does the same. 
<Random_Nerd> Ex: "is that what you're proposing?" 
<Random_Nerd> (How are you travelling? By Dantemobile?) 
<Conrad> "they already found a way to share active writing ALL active writing with us" 
<Theresa> (Walking/running. You said it was close.) 
<Conrad> "AND are working on how share other estates" 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. Using miracles?) 
<Conrad> "not like winning an attack to get a tiny winy bit" 
<Brian> (I guess I follow too :)) 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "That was a special case. Whatever that Domination did to that Warmain, I don't think we could replicate it." 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "Unless you know something I don't." 
<Theresa> (Not using miracles. Aspect 3.) 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "Besides, that involves arts of summoning... wait. What are you?" 
<DanteE> (I presume Ftisk is broadcasting the call to us while we're running over there?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, he could do that.) 
<Conrad> "I know they are using summoning to create connection, right that" 
<Conrad> (yeah, relaying to everyone and to Shadows if my signal can reach him) 
<Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "I can tell that you're kin, but you can't be a Warmain if you're proposing the use of summoning techniques, you're not my kind, and if you were a Mimic, I would know..." 
<Random_Nerd> He hangs up. 
<DanteE> "So, no peaceful solution then?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you snap back to your body. 
<Conrad> "I'm Conrad, tempered with one of them Ftisk" 
<Theresa> (How close are the runners?) 
<Random_Nerd> About halfway there. 
* Conrad aspect 2 run to the place "Damn he hang up!" 
<Human_Kite> (Ooooh! He knows all the Mimics! This one's valuable!) 
<Random_Nerd> His previous location was about a mile from you. 
<Conrad> (juicy juicy infos!) 
<DanteE> "Time we showed them what we. 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, so you guys are running at Aspect 2 and 3?) 
<DanteE> "Are made of... 
<Theresa> (Yep.) 
<Conrad> (me A2) 
* DanteE picks up Theresa and flies there. 
* Conrad lDiv all the camera in local place to keep an eye on the excru 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, you get to where he had been. You can tell you have the right spot, because he left the cell phone there. 
<Brian> (A0... But running all the same) 
=-= Human_Kite is now known as Kite 
<DanteE> (IIRC, you don't have a travel power, right?) 
* Kite flies also 
<Random_Nerd> (At Aspect 3, Theresa is at least as fast in a straight line as a flying Dante.) 
<Random_Nerd> So, Theresa and Dante are at where the Excrucian was. 
<Theresa> (I do not. Just Aspect.) 
* DanteE checks the place with The Sight... 
<Random_Nerd> Well, the place certainly shows up to Courage sight. 
<Random_Nerd> Because you are standing in the place where someone confident got scared. 
<Conrad> ( O.O ) 
<DanteE> "We're making an impression..." 
<Theresa> (Can you track the scared?) 
<Conrad> (also cameras all around see him?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You can recognize them. But it doesn't let you see through trees and houses and stuff.) 
<Random_Nerd> (There aren't cameras all around, here. It's the outskirts of a small town.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, big town, very small city, take your pick.) 
<Kite> (What? Cameras don't grow in trees here? I'm disappointed.) 
* DanteE tries to trace the guy. 
<Random_Nerd> (There's a camera at the gas station two blocks down. And one at the ATM a quarter mile up. Neither has seen him.) 
<Random_Nerd> Tries how, Dante? 
<Conrad> (the phone is dropped here or still with him?) 
<DanteE> The trail of fear. :) 
<Random_Nerd> He dropped it. 
<Random_Nerd> He isn't leaving a trail of fear, as such. 
<Random_Nerd> But if you saw him, you could spot him instantly by it if he's still this scared. 
* DanteE flies up for a better view. 
<Random_Nerd> Mostly, what you're seeing is the phone, which was the thing that carried the message that scared him, and so is connected to your estate. 
<Random_Nerd> As you fly up, you see that the cloud message is changing. 
<Kite> (We need to rescue the phone from that mean man!) 
<Random_Nerd> Parts of the word DOROTHY are going away. 
<Conrad> "Dante can you see when he got scared?" 
<Kite> "We haven't even found a Dorothy yet!" 
<Conrad> "like when I talked of summoning or that I was a excru too or like?" 
<Random_Nerd> The word fully goes away. Then bits above the Surrender start vanishing. 
* DanteE looks around from on high for him... 
<Random_Nerd> It goes away until it just shows the letter I. 
<Random_Nerd> So, "I SURRENDER." 
<Conrad> (the rite to follow the miracle makers is gone in nob3ED,right?) 
<Kite> "Huh." 
<Random_Nerd> (Correct.) 
<DanteE> "...huh." 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, wherever he is, it isn't visible from the sky where you are. 
<Conrad> My estate still hurt right? 
* DanteE pray to Ftisk: "anything changed?" 
<Brian> "huh." 
<Random_Nerd> It is still hurt. But it's diminishing. 
<Conrad> "pain is diminishing! Yay!!" 
<Theresa> "..." 
<Brian> (pray to Ftisk) "What did you do?" 
<DanteE> Can I trace the clouds to his position? 
* Conrad ldiv a batzooka and fire some batFireworks 
<Theresa> (What _is_ it about Summoning that freaks everyone Outside about it?) 
<Random_Nerd> How? 
<Random_Nerd> (Not everyone. Specifically Warmains.) 
<DanteE> That miracle-tracer 
<Random_Nerd> (The... thing that isn't in Nobilis 3rd?) 
<Theresa> (Then what freaked this Strat out? Did Entropy suddenly come up and lick his ear?) 
<Conrad> (lol hard at Theresa) 
<Kite> (Maybe summoned things are Warmain babies) 
<Conrad> (Warmains taboo) 
<DanteE> (D'OH... Misread what Conrad said) 
<Theresa> (Then I would recommend that the parents of the Pigeon try not to reproduce anymore.) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, Ftisk. The attack hasn't fully gone away, but it just got diminished severely. 
* DanteE flies back to the others... 
<Random_Nerd> (You know what I hate about you guys' Do Random Things Until The Problem Goes Away plan? When it works.) 
<Theresa> "Usually if you surrender, you give up _in person_." 
<Conrad> "Yay! The attach is fiminshed, diminshed, is hurting less!" 
<Random_Nerd> It stops diminishing, but it doesn't get any stronger either. 
<DanteE> "OK, so where is he? Anyone know?" 
<Random_Nerd> (I do!) 
<Conrad> (BUT I'm sad! I had ready plan B (miracle it away)) 
<DanteE> (cool, tell us!) 
<Theresa> (He was the nimblejack all along!) 
<Random_Nerd> (...I totally should have done that.) 
<Theresa> (And that would mean that Ftisk isn't just part Excrucian but he also anchored one!) 
<Conrad> (that is partially scary!) 
<Random_Nerd> (I know you had a plan, but... what you said... this is what he would do. It wouldn't make sense to continue the attack.) 
<Conrad> (but I wanna anchor an excru in my outside trip!) 
<DanteE> "Well, he says he surrenders..." 
<Random_Nerd> (I know this seems kinda weird. But... this is what he would do.) 
<Theresa> "And Ftisk is doing better." *sigh* "Chalk this one as a 'kind of done' and keep an eye on the region?" 
<Conrad> (Aw, I hate to don't have all the info so his comportment make no sense but I trust you) 
* Kite lands 
<Conrad> "I think so Theresa" 
<Random_Nerd> (This... is something we'll be getting to soon. Really.) 
<DanteE> "So, under certain circumstances we can just show up and go 'boo' and they'll run?" 
<Brian> "parantky" 
<Theresa> "Or at least have Ftisk Conrad talk to them a lot." 
<Conrad> "Uhm, this experience show me that I need to rethink my estates" 
<DanteE> (Who recovered the phone, BTW?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Any of you who want to have.) 
<Conrad> "Wow throwing random shit to give you time to hit him worked really strange this round" 
<Kite> (you were the one fear-tracking it, Dante) 
* DanteE grabs the phone for his collection... 
<Conrad> (Dante achievement: ex excru phone! ) 
<DanteE> "So is the attack over, or still going?" 
<Random_Nerd> The attack is still there, but you think you could probably fix it relatively easily if he wasn't trying to stop you. 
<Conrad> "is hurting but a lil bit, like when you close your pinkie in a drawer, softly not like your heart is melting" 
<Conrad> "Also I believe I can rearrange my estates, do some spring cleanup and fix it all at the same time!" 
* DanteE doesn't obviously react at the 'heart is melting' comment... 
<Conrad> (what did I miss with the heart is melting?) 
<Kite> "...." 
<DanteE> (Our background, where you used to love me? :p) 
<Conrad> (already forgotten Dante, get a life! :-P ) 
<Kite> "Ftisk, I.....has your heart melted before? Did you not tell me this?" 
<Random_Nerd> So, what do you guys do? 
<Conrad> "was a figure of speech Kite, not really had a heart melting .. still uhm I wonder what do you feel during it ..." 
<DanteE> Quickly: "Let's go and dismantle what they've already got here." 
<Brian> "dismantle good" 
<DanteE> "And at that third site." 
<Theresa> "Okay." 
<Conrad> (to be clear, Ftisk remember his love affair with Dante, but all the feeling, the desires are gone to JbJ ) 
<Random_Nerd> (You know, it totally throws off my pacing when you guys do something that completely changes the climax of the plot.) 
<Conrad> "Ok, Bulldozers! We can run a contest who bring a place down faster, ok? ok?" 
<DanteE> "Then we can run the names and details by our Aides, see what they know." 
<Kite> (We could still splash water on the Wicked Excrucian of the West, if you like) 
<Brian> (:p at RN) 
<DanteE> (If we could find him, sure.) 
<Conrad> (did you forget RN: no plan survive PC contact!) 
<DanteE> (Come to think of it, how does he know about the Wizard of Oz?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Unknown.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Most Excrucians wouldn't.) 
<DanteE> (Should run that by Sam.) 
<Kite> (I just assume he watched the movie.) 
<Conrad> (let's assume the places are rumbles now?) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, uh. We could play over Ftisk fixing the remaining things...) 
<DanteE> "Let's hold off on the physical destruction around squishy people and just junk their data, OK?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, when you get there, you can find that all the people with the devices are connecting with them the way Alice Gadish said they should, not the freakishly near-telepathic way they actually were working.) 
* Conrad shudder 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and Kite can tell that this was as a result of a bunch of Lesser Destructions of Assembly, ironically enough.) 
<Theresa> (Oh, yes, attack the brother of the estate you were attacking, after you surrender...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Assembly is still doing fine.) 
<Kite> (It isn't destroying the sanctity of the Estate, just instances of it) 
<Conrad> "So what remain to do?" 
<Random_Nerd> (How much time will Ftisk spend tidying up the details? A day?) 
<Conrad> (mostly, top 3 days, but if all can be good enough in a day a day will be) 
<Random_Nerd> (The tidying up, basically. Getting rid of the devices that are too tuned in still, and delaying the overall release until after you can get Cybernetics set up.) 
<DanteE> (I think we should just make it look like a failed product. Google will be thrilled. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh. Do you want the overall release to take place, or not?) 
<Brian> (Brian does) 
<Conrad> (so I remove all the offending devices, the "good" ones can still remain, and the release is ok , it will not hurt me and once cybernetic is in place all will be ok) 
<DanteE> (Actually, if it's released under your control...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, shall we call it a night? I know this is kind of a lame conclusion, but... players happen.) 
<Theresa> (Players happen!) 
<DanteE> OK. 
<Brian> (ok) 
<Random_Nerd> _______________STOP_______________ 
<Conrad> I want to report that to Shadows 
<Random_Nerd> So... what do you guys think happened there? 
<Conrad> hell if I know 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<lazarus> I think we're scary ;) 
<Knockwood> It looks like the guy found up what he was up against and buggered off 
<Angelo> or we have reputation backed by lord E. or the summoning is really like killings babies to all of them 
<Random_Nerd> <@Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "That was a special case. Whatever that Domination did to that Warmain, I don't think we could replicate it." 
<Random_Nerd> <@Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "Unless you know something I don't." 
<Random_Nerd> <@Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "Besides, that involves arts of summoning... wait. What are you?" 
<Random_Nerd> <@Conrad> "I know they are using summoning to create connection, right that" 
<Random_Nerd> <@Conrad> (yeah, relaying to everyone and to shadows if my signal can reach him) 
<Random_Nerd> <@Random_Nerd> Excrucian: "I can tell that you're kin, but you can't be a Warmain if you're proposing the use of summoning techniques, you're not my kind, and if you were a Mimic, I would know..." 
<Random_Nerd> <@Random_Nerd> He hangs up. 
<lazarus> We do know something he doesn't. And that is scary to him 
<Theresa> He thinks you're a Deceiver? 
<Random_Nerd> But that wouldn't fit either. Ftisk's been using Domain left and right. 
<Random_Nerd> Deceivers can't do that. 
<Knockwood> Notice he talked about what the Domination did to the Warmains. 
<Angelo> He fear I did the same? 
<Knockwood> That might mean Gaius is more Dom than Warmains 
<lazarus> Calling it a night now. Night! 
<Knockwood> G'night laz 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, before you go... 
<Angelo> Gaius struggled to being what he is atm 
<Verithe> Night, LazQ 
<Random_Nerd> Laz will be playing Sam, right? 
<Angelo> night Laz 
<Random_Nerd> V as Gil, Beth as King John... 
<lazarus> Ya 
<Verithe> Yes! Gil! 
|<-- lazarus has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: lazarus) 
<Random_Nerd> Knock is the Imp? 
<Knockwood> Oh, that's next time? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, next week is Chuubo. 
<Random_Nerd> But after that, yes. 
<Random_Nerd> Or is Knock William? 
<Angelo> and me Gnomely 
<Knockwood> Was I the Imp? I thought I was the King... 
<Knockwood> Been a while. ;/ 
<Random_Nerd> Beth's playing the King. 
<Random_Nerd> Right? 
<Knockwood> I might be William 
<Theresa> Yep, I'm John. 
<Random_Nerd> I think one of you was William, and one was John. 
<Random_Nerd> And I thought the latter was Beth. 
<Random_Nerd> Unless you guys would like to trade. 
<Knockwood> I think that's it, I 
<Knockwood> Am playing William 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Verithe> Suddenly I want to play William's fiancee.... 
<Verithe> but not really 
<Random_Nerd> You can, if you want. 
<Random_Nerd> Up to you. 
<Verithe> No. I want Gil. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> And normally a mortals-level game would be a problem... except you guys have been playing Chuubo, and so are more up on those rules! 
<Knockwood> So, we'll all be going to a bar and bitching about our bosses? :) 
<Theresa> What's this 'we', peasant? :) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, you'll have stuff to deal with. 
<Random_Nerd> And, because of the bits that I've revealed ahead of time, I will mildly railroad you. Hope that's okay, I just don't want to cause a rift in the time-space continuum. 
<Verithe> Makes sense. 
<Knockwood> Why not? We can handle continuum rifts. 
<Angelo> RN, I add project to raise my estates, that can raise their value over 5? 
<Knockwood> :D 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Raising them over 5... that might be tricky. Let me think about that and get back to you, okay? 
<Random_Nerd> I need to figure out if that would break anything. 
<Knockwood> Oops, I'm not sure I got any destiny... 
<Angelo> ok, and that is a place where say no is ok 
<Random_Nerd> And, goodnight. 
<Angelo> I fix the excru attack did I get some destiny? 
<Theresa> Night, guys! *HUGS* 
<Random_Nerd> Well, you fixed your problem. 
<Angelo> personal or project related? 
<Knockwood> Good night RN 
<Angelo> night Beth 
<Verithe> Night! 
<Random_Nerd> So, I mean... you accomplished a goal. That's good. 
<Random_Nerd> It doesn't have to give you Destiny. 
<Knockwood> You too Beth 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. This may count toward... what's your Outside-related project, Angelo? 
<Angelo> ok, Was asking to be sure 
<Angelo> outside related: gain out of the weirding wall estate 
|<-- Theresa has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
<Angelo> Win Conrad on who is in control outside 
<Angelo> blur outside and inside 
<Angelo> --end 
<Knockwood> He did try to talk the Ex into sharing an Estate 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. This counts as a victory toward "blur inside and outside." 
<Angelo> super! 
<Knockwood> Personally, I thought flying was faster than walking... 
<Angelo> well fly vs aspect walking isn't fair 
<Verithe> Aspect 3 walking is pretty fast. 
<Knockwood> Heh 
<Random_Nerd> Flying is faster than walking. 
<Random_Nerd> But Aspect 3 miracles have the timing thing. 
<Random_Nerd> That... makes it complicated. 
<Knockwood> Ah. 
<Angelo> like the beat a laser if you really want to outrace it 
<Knockwood> OK. See you for Glass next week. :) 
<Random_Nerd> So, this isn't flying being bad. 
<Random_Nerd> It's Aspect being good. 
<Angelo> see you can normally run at like 200mph but if you really wanna outrace a laser beam you can do it, just not normally 
<Random_Nerd> Doing things just in time is something Aspect is better at than other stuff. 
<Angelo> ok night Knock 
<Verithe> Take care! 
* Angelo nod at RN 
|<-- Verithe has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.90.1 [Firefox 22.0/20130618035212]) 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Colloquy for iPad - http://colloquy.mobi) 
|<-- Random_Nerd has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ) 
<Angelo> night RN 
<Angelo> nest Nobilis session I'll came with new Data name & properties 
<Angelo> and maybe new prop for machinery too 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]

Session 254

2014-01-03T12:15:30Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]] 
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> Hi guys! 
<Verithe> Hi, Angelo! 
<Angelo> Is everyone fine? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, more or less. 
<Random_Nerd> Nearly done moving. 
<Angelo> Good! 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! *HUG* 
<Angelo> Btw the old and the new apartment are near each other? 
<Angelo> Hug Beth! 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm? 
<BethE> They're about a mile apart from each other. Maybe more. 
<Angelo> you are moving so you have old place and new place. Did them are one near the other or like in two different cities? 
<Random_Nerd> They're pretty close together. 
<Random_Nerd> It's just that this one doesn't have a feral landlord. 
<BethE> Same city. 
<BethE> .. landlord wasn't feral, dear. Just..predatory. especially toward college students and people who are on study abroad. 
<Random_Nerd> Not just her. The whole CPM structure. 
<Knockwood> Hm, let me look up feral landlords in the Monster Manual... 
<Angelo> eh, I remember you talked of that landlord. 
<BethE> Well, when you told her that some of their stuff was illegal and she only replied, "It's our policy.'...that's at least Lawful Evil. 
<Verithe> "It's our policy" does not excuse illegal. 
<Knockwood> Yes, because Policy can _never_ be wrong... 
<BethE> They are used to dealing with college students and people who do not speak or read English very well. 
<BethE> So they prey on them, who do not know their rights. 
<BethE> I am sure that they will be happy to see Eric go away. :) 
<Angelo> eh, a people that stand to his right? a PITA! 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> I'm just glad that we live in the half of this city that actually has decent landlord-tenant laws. 
<Random_Nerd> If we lived a mile and a half west of here, we'd have practically no rights. 
<Random_Nerd> Cities are weird. 
<Verithe> For serious 
<BethE> Yeah, our landlords could come in any time they wanted..instead of having to give at least 24 hours notice. 
<Random_Nerd> For serious. See, this city is technically two cities stuck together. 
<Random_Nerd> Mostly, that doesn't matter. 
<Random_Nerd> But for some stuff, it does. 
<Knockwood> You could argue Reno and Sparks are the same way 
<Random_Nerd> It's just weird when people talk like this stuff is universal across the whole country, and I have to say "Dude, there's places with different laws on this within jogging distance of me." 
<Random_Nerd> So! 
<Random_Nerd> Nobilis! 
<Random_Nerd> We were doing... uh... things! 
<Random_Nerd> With... stuff? 
* Random_Nerd checks some stuff. 
<Knockwood> For the guy? 
<Angelo> yeah last session was so long ago that I cannot remember a thing 
<BethE> For Ftisk! Who has his nimblespider. Spiderjack? 
<Verithe> We had just.....convinced a bunch of people that the [not Google] devices caused hallucinations and brain damage. 
<Knockwood> We had just "taken care of" the attack on Ftisk by our usual Precision Bumbling. 
<Angelo> Nimblespider 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, you haven't taken care of the attack yet. 
<BethE> We had kind of stopped the attack but Ftisk was still hurting. 
<Knockwood> ah. 
<Angelo> a new mount for my loved Ftisk 
<Random_Nerd> You've stopped it from getting worse, perhaps. 
<Knockwood> We're becoming awesome at being less-than-awesome. 
<Random_Nerd> But you haven't really resolved the contradiction. 
<Knockwood> Maybe that's our thing. 
<Random_Nerd> So! You have a nimblejack in spider form! You've put out damaging news reports about the AR technology! 
<Angelo> we find the/one excru followed him a bit and get a nimblejack shaped like a spider 
<Random_Nerd> (Speaking of... do any of you follow Questionable Content?) 
<Knockwood> not lately 
<Angelo> (nope just started homestuck) 
<Verithe> (not for some time) 
<Verithe> (I'm surprised you have time for us, Angelo!) 
<Random_Nerd> However, Ftisk is still hurting, and you haven't grabbed the Excrucian. 
<Random_Nerd> Nobody is, at the moment, trying to kill you. 
<Angelo> (why Verithe? The timeslot from 03:30 am to 07 am seem like is usually free) 
<Random_Nerd> WHAT DO YOU DO NOW? 
<Random_Nerd> ____________________________START_________________________ 
<BethE> ( Today's current Questionable Content has a Google glasses thing that RN thought that right afterwards, the nimblejack and us would run by..) 
=-= Verithe is now known as Human_Kite 
<Angelo> "We can ride *point to the spider* to the factory and stuck our finger around a bit. I believe the excru will show up if we mess stuffs enough..." 
<BethE> (I..Change my name!) 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
* Human_Kite collects disposed devices. 
<DanteE> The authorities are there 
<Theresa> "Will your new friend be able to live in Vulcan?) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, since you guys have a moment of relative peace, now might be a good idea to come up with a plan more structured than "Mess with things until the problem resolves itself.") 
<DanteE> (Why? It's worked so well so far.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That's one opinion!) 
<Human_Kite> (Well, Kite is planning to assemble a mecha with the disposed devices.) 
<Theresa> (So, what about all of this messes with Ftisk? What is the contradiction that has to be fixed?) 
<Ftisk> (I have a plan! With a greater Animation I can make Machinery *hurt* anyone that try to assemble machine and flesh all the messing around we still are doing is for flavor :-P ) 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
<Human_Kite> (I'm not quite sure how it will fix the problem, but that's Kite's current plan.) 
<Random_Nerd> (What do you guys think is the problem?) 
<DanteE> (We can use the gathered devices and the thing they were talking to check the hypothesis) 
<Human_Kite> (I think the problem is that the devices are "thinking".) 
<Brian> (sorry, had to go AFK for a bit without warning ... but I'm back now) 
<Human_Kite> (Or that one attribute of machines that I am associating with thinking.) 
<Ftisk> (I believe the issue is that a machine cannot be sentient and that a -device- that is made my human + tech toys will contraddict that machinery property) 
<Random_Nerd> Kite amasses a pile of those devices that have been discarded in your vicinity. 
<Random_Nerd> It's not a huge pile. Most people, even seeing the news, seem to want to keep theirs. 
* Human_Kite wonders where the nearest jewelry store....I mean parts shop....is. 
<DanteE> "We should decide if these things will still be here... maybe just a bit less capable so they don't hurt Ftisk." 
<Theresa> (I..don't think you can make a good mecha out of diamonds..) 
<Random_Nerd> Two blocks south, one block west, Kite. 
<Random_Nerd> You saw it earlier when you were running around. 
<Random_Nerd> And I assume you would remember it. 
<Human_Kite> (Kite will make it happen!) 
* Human_Kite runs off to the jewelry store with his devices. 
<Theresa> "Is there a central computer or system that runs all of the devices?" 
<DanteE> "Weren't they talking to something in the building we demolished?" 
<Ftisk> "I believe most of the calculation is done outside of the device" (right RN?) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, there isn't a central place that /runs/ the devices. There's a certain amount of cloud computing, but that's distributed. 
<Random_Nerd> And most of the actual computation is, as Ftisk said, internal. 
<Random_Nerd> However, there is a central database that keeps the information the devices report. 
<DanteE> "Wait, can't you trace where the signals are going?" 
<Ftisk> "we can make a virus to destroy the database" 
<Random_Nerd> (It has backups, mind. !Google isn't /stupid/.) 
<Ftisk> "yes I can find the place" 
<Random_Nerd> (How do you expect destroying the database to help?) 
* Human_Kite makes sure no one is watching after he arrives at the jewelry store. 
<DanteE> "Wait. Once you find it, you should figure out what they're _doing_ with the data." 
<Ftisk> (it will delay the excru effort, in the long run will simply be rebuilt but when done will cause some disruptions) 
<DanteE> "That will tell us what’s happening." 
<Theresa> (What do nimblejacks eat?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Your tears.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, not canonically. But maybe.) 
<Theresa> (No, that's what they drink.) 
<DanteE> (Too bad none of us ever cry.) 
* Ftisk use persona to be the data and follow them to the central database 
<Random_Nerd> (They put them in a bottle and wait for them to crystalize.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you are a bit of data about movements and eye tracking! You are, even now, being transmitted home to a big database! 
<Theresa> (Do you let us know that's what you're doing, Ftisk, or do you just disappear?) 
<Ftisk> (doh, forget to explain, you see Ftisk poof away! sorry!) 
<Random_Nerd> You're stored and archived and indexed! 
<DanteE> (Do we get a bad feeling about that?) 
* Human_Kite Assembles a mecha from all the available jewelry in the store, the store's alarm system and the disposed devices....when no one is looking. 
<Random_Nerd> (Using Domain?) 
<DanteE> (Ah, considering those are Ex-touched, do you really want to do that?) 
<Human_Kite> (Ja) 
* Ftisk exit the server and look around to find where is the server place 
<Random_Nerd> Dante has had a bad feeling about things for, I figure, about the last nine months of his life. 
<Random_Nerd> That sound right? 
<Theresa> (Hmm...Affliction: I have a Bad Feeling About This. ?) 
<DanteE> yeah it does 
<Ftisk> (lol hard at RN joke) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you feel that you and all the data like you is being collected and prepared for some great purpose. You feel the program looking through you for relevant facts. 
* Theresa looks around. "So, no Ftisk. Kite is making a mecha who knows where. And Ftisk left his nimblespider. There's a thought. Nimble, can you find Ftisk?" 
<Theresa> (Relevant Fact: This is the Noble of Data.) 
<Random_Nerd> Facts about where people walked, but even more than that, what they looked at. 
<Brian> "Ftisk would never leave his nimblespider." 
<Human_Kite> (Would that be a L. Motion or L. Animation?) 
<Theresa> "He would if he was not moving in the physical world." 
<Random_Nerd> And there's something in particular that they seem to be looking at in the eye tracking data. 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider tries to sniff the air, and then realizes that as a spider he doesn't have a nose. 
<Brian> "true, but." 
<Human_Kite> (Or...er....Creation. Creation of Assembly) 
<Random_Nerd> He sulks, dejected. 
<Ftisk> what are they looking for in eyes? 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. I could see an argument for creation.) 
<Random_Nerd> They appear to be looking for... when people look at commercial products and advertisements. 
<Random_Nerd> And then, the company's evil plan is clear. 
<Brian> "He'd do his best to take it with him, wouldn't he?" 
<Random_Nerd> They're collecting and studying all of this data... to sell it to advertisers! 
<DanteE> (BTW... Whose Line returns Tuesday.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Thundercrash sound!) 
<Brian> (!) 
<Random_Nerd> (With Aisha Tyler hosting, right?) 
<DanteE> (KILL THEM.) 
<DanteE> RN: yep 
<Random_Nerd> (Good. She's hilarious.) 
* Human_Kite rides his ShinyMecha back to the group. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you see no attempts to use the data for anti-Noble purposes or anything like that. 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider touches the front of his head where a nose would be if he had one. 
<Random_Nerd> He vaguely suspects that he smells terrible. 
<Theresa> ( ... Can I go live somewhere else, now?) 
<Ftisk> Weird, I would have bet that these data would have been used for Nobles related stuff" 
<Brian> (I thought you just made that happen? :p) 
<DanteE> (Hm... could the Exs have just taken an existing thing for their own ends?) 
<Theresa> (But I'm still living with _him_.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, from the documentation you read, the company was working on this for years.) 
<Theresa> (Yeah, sounds like the Excrucians found this and decided to poke it into more funding.) 
* Ftisk pray to Theresa "Ftisk here, I'm in the central evil computer, but seem like it is not evil as I believed first, they process gathered data ... for advertisements .. what a letdown!" 
<Theresa> (Work smarter, not harder.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you feel your info-belly tingle as you are assessed for indicators of customer interest in Mountain Dew Code Red. 
<DanteE> (Which arguably means destroying it would be against the rules...) 
<Theresa> ( Umm. I like Code Red.) 
<Brian> (oh god, Baby Weeping Angels ... -_-; ) 
<Human_Kite> (:C) 
<Theresa> Theresa, to the others: "Ftisk just prayed....apparently the glasses..are to determine data for advertisers." 
<DanteE> "Ah, Kite, what are you doing with this?" 
<Ftisk> (for not US peoples, is a kind of beverage?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Theresa> (Are you watching a Dr. Who, Laz?) 
<Brian> "What else would they be for?" 
<Brian> (I am. The Angels Take New York.) 
<Theresa> (It is a cherry-ish flavor of Mountain Dew.) 
<DanteE> "Something less mundane..." 
<Brian> (Code Red Mt. Dew is delicious) 
<Brian> (Wish I could still get it here) 
<Theresa> (Ah. Know what happens in it, but haven't seen it.) 
<Human_Kite> "I'm riding it. 
* Ftisk give them all kind of fake data usage on mountain dew code red .. for fun! 
<Random_Nerd> You feel the intense scrutiny of intricate search engines. 
* Ftisk put on some solar screen with uva+b filters :-P 
<Random_Nerd> And then... you are discarded from the database as an outlier that looks faked! 
<Theresa> "Well, data scavenging isn't truly Evil, but it's not all that nice." 
<Ftisk> Outrageous! 
<Random_Nerd> And instead listed with a bunch of fake data. 
<DanteE> "Can we check out the remains of the distribution center?" 
<Theresa> (Ah, in with I.P. Freely's data. And Elvis.) 
* Ftisk can find the physical server location? 
<Random_Nerd> You only knocked down, like, half of its walls. 
<Random_Nerd> You can. 
<Theresa> "Sure. Let's head that way. " *holds out a hand to Nimble* "You can ride on me, if you like." 
<Random_Nerd> It's in-state, but about fifty miles away. 
* Ftisk get the physical address, look up it against fake places and then pray to Theresa the place location 
<DanteE> (I forget, do we have the Dantemobile here?) 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Brian> (wanna go for a drive?) 
<Ftisk> (isn't Dante mobile anchored? You can summon it if you need it) 
<Random_Nerd> The location is at a notGoogle facility, that's outside of any big cities but right along a fiberoptic backbone cable. 
<Brian> (actually, Brian will say that aloud) "Wanna go for a drive?" 
<DanteE> (Yeah, let's just have a whip pan and say we're there.) 
<Human_Kite> "May my mecha drive?" 
<Random_Nerd> Which there? 
<Random_Nerd> The distribution center, or the physical server location? 
<DanteE> (Want to grind some mobs or skip straight to the boss fight) 
<Human_Kite> (Boss fight!) 
<Ftisk> (skip ahead Dante) 
<Human_Kite> "I promise I'll stay off the sidewalks this time! 
<Brian> (Pathfinder game I was playing in - Kingmaker path - we generally went in a beeline for the boss. Always accidentally or randomly.) 
<Brian> (I believe once we didn't. When we were actually trying to get to the boss fast.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But who's the boss here?) 
<DanteE> "Does your mecha have driving ability?" 
<Human_Kite> (No idea!) 
<Theresa> (Tony Danza.) 
<Random_Nerd> (NotGoogle, the Shard that ran away from you, or someone else?) 
<Human_Kite> "I want to test it and see if it does!" 
<Theresa> (Noble of Commerce or Advertising?) 
<Ftisk> (the shard for me) 
<Human_Kite> "I also want to see if it has a sitting-in-the-car ability." 
<DanteE> (Let's go to the !Google place and try to stop the attack) 
<Ftisk> (what is the mecha look kite?) 
<Human_Kite> (It looks too big for a car, mostly made of jewelry.) 
* Ftisk ?apparate? in the real world near the server that stored me (is apparate a word?) 
<DanteE> (Ftisk: manifests) 
<Random_Nerd> (I believe it is a word, but an archaic one.) 
<DanteE> (means 'becomes real') 
<Ftisk> (ty) 
<DanteE> "I'm not sure your mecha can fit in the driver's seat. 
<Human_Kite> (An archaic one? I should stop using it, then...) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay! You're in a car, driving to the NotGoogle Server Farm. 
<Theresa> (Let's go to the NotGoogle Place.) 
<Random_Nerd> Is there anything you want to do while along the way? 
<DanteE> (Didn't we get SUVs at one point?) 
<Ftisk> (anyway what I see around? a datacenter or what? Peoples?) 
* Human_Kite follows in the mecha 
<Random_Nerd> Mostly, it's just a group of three large buildings and a couple smaller ones. 
<DanteE> (ah, how would seeing that mecha affect mundanes?) 
<Random_Nerd> (DA, yeah. It's an active Noble miracle, that can't be easily rationalized.) 
<DanteE> (Maybe it should ride in the trunk) 
<Random_Nerd> It mostly just looks like a somewhat artsy-looking industrial park, that happens to be in what looks like the middle of nowhere off a highway. 
<Human_Kite> "I'm an engineering student." 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and the mecha can totally drive. Just not... well. Still, nobody died. 
* Human_Kite flips his hair out of his face in a not-very-engineering-student sort of way. 
<DanteE> (Hey, did I ever get that 'Jedi Mind Trick' thing, or was that in limbo?) 
<Random_Nerd> (I don't recall you actually completing that project.) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, so. Big parking lot. Three major buildings, plus a few storage buildings and so on. NotGoogle logos on everything. 
<Random_Nerd> High-status nerds walking between buildings, or talking on benches next to the lake. Of which there is one. 
<DanteE> "OK, Ftisk, where is... whoops, not here. 
<DanteE> "Kite, can you localize the attack on your brother?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you feel some twinges of the attack, but it's weaker here than at the place you were at last. 
<Random_Nerd> Maybe 60% as strong here. 
<Human_Kite> "I.....don't think that is a thing I can do, but I can ask Ftisk." 
<Theresa> *to the nimblespider* "I'm sure that he can set you up with a nose or a sense of smell once this problem is dealt with." 
<Human_Kite> prayer to Ftisk: "Ftisk! I have a mecha! It's shiny!" 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider nods its body. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you're in a server room. 
<Ftisk> pray back "Kite! Is wonderfull! Came here! We have to throw a party!" 
<Random_Nerd> Lots of computers. Lots of fans. 
<Random_Nerd> Very few people. 
<Theresa> *to Nimble* "Do you use other senses to find your prey?" 
<Human_Kite> to Ftisk: "Also, Dante wants to know if you can localize the attack on you." 
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad 
<Random_Nerd> So far, nobody's noticed you, probably due to noise from the cooling systems. 
<Conrad> (changed shape to Conrad shape) 
<Random_Nerd> The computer with the main copy of the AR database is #37, out of more than three hundred. 
* Conrad quietly exit the room and start looking around 
<Conrad> (forget it) 
<Conrad> (can I use a treasure miracle to guide spiderJack to me?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. How's Conrad dressed?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, you can.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Do you want him to start coming toward you, instantly appear there, or what?) 
<Conrad> (as Conrad is usually dressed. yellow and blue color) 
<Conrad> (I want to guide the other to me following the spiderJack) 
<Random_Nerd> A few people whisper as ConradFtisk walks past them in the hall. "Who's that guy?" "Investor, I think. Yeah, we met the day before yesterday." 
<Human_Kite> (!!!) 
<Theresa> (Ftisk/Conrad just has that kind of face.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You can guide him to you with Treasure 2.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or possess him and puppet him with Treasure 1.) 
<Conrad> (ok I spend 2 mp then to guide the others to me) 
<Conrad> (wait puppet him is more fun) 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone else, the spiderjack suddenly stands still. 
<Theresa> (What's that, Lassie? Ftisk feel down a data well?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, do you just have the nimblespider run straight to you, or what? 
* Conrad scramble forward a bit silly and point toward the building were Ftisk is 
<Brian> "Spiderjack?" 
<DanteE> (Are we going to adopt this guy? :) ) 
* Conrad run straight to were I'm 
<Human_Kite> (I think Ftisk already did.) 
<Brian> (already did, I believe :p) 
<Conrad> (I anchored the spiderJack, is already adopted) 
<Brian> (ninjas!) 
<DanteE> (ah) 
<Conrad> (Mine mine mine mine) 
<DanteE> "Follow that spider, then..." 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblespider runs with fast but mundane speed. 
<Random_Nerd> You can keep up as long as you run. 
* Theresa runs. 
<Conrad> (actually anchoring a miraculous creature *DEPOWER* it!) 
<DanteE> "Oh, Kite? Can you keep the thing you built under wraps so that people's brains don't explode?" 
* Human_Kite follows in the mecha! 
<Brian> *runs!* 
* DanteE follows the spider 
<Human_Kite> "What are you talking about? Just tell them it's my engineering project." 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, it does when you don't spend MPs. When you do, it powers it up.) 
<DanteE> "Of course, considering we're following a giant spider that's probably a moot point anyway." 
<Random_Nerd> (Like, a nimblejack on its own is never ever gonna use an Imperial miracle. An anchored one might.) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, not a /giant/ spider. 
<Conrad> (yeah RN but anchor and treasure 0 don't mingle well together :-P ) 
<Random_Nerd> Tarantula-sized, say. 
<Theresa> (It isn't that big. Ftisk shrank to ride it.) 
<Random_Nerd> Spiderskitter. 
<DanteE> (Then why are we running?) 
<Random_Nerd> The spider comes to a locked door at the outside of one of the buildings! 
<Random_Nerd> (Because the spider is running!) 
<Theresa> (Because it's a very fast skitter.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And it's still, mundanely speaking, fast.) 
* Human_Kite unlocks the door with his mecha! 
<Brian> (with your mecha's face? Fist?) 
<Random_Nerd> Unlocked! 
<Theresa> "Let's try not to break this building too much, right, guys?" 
<Random_Nerd> Skitter! 
<Human_Kite> And by "unlocks" I mean "smashes"! 
<Random_Nerd> (No, no. "Performed a manual override.") 
<Brian> ("Percussive Maintenance") 
<Human_Kite> (Yessss.....) 
<Theresa> *sigh* 
<DanteE> "Remind me to acquaint you and Ftisk with the concept of 'subtlety'" 
<Random_Nerd> When you do /that/, a guy in slacks and a polo shirt, but with rather more muscles and about four inches of height more than the rest of the guys here, starts walking toward you. 
<Random_Nerd> Do you respond, or keep chasing the spider? 
<Conrad> (why I'm totally fine with leaving a smoking mess of the building) 
<Theresa> *calls out* "Sorry, research and development issue! We'll be on our way, soon!" 
* Human_Kite makes sure the guy has more important things to do, like Assembling a bookcase. 
<Random_Nerd> ...how? 
<Brian> (keep chasing the spider) 
<Human_Kite> (Which is a L. Animation/Creation of Assembly?) 
<DanteE> (or, Assembling a comprehensive report on the current state of security) 
<Human_Kite> (Involving the guy) 
<Theresa> (Still chasing spider.) 
<Random_Nerd> (A creation would make things assemble. An animation would create a self-perpetuating process of assembly that does what you want.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm... motion of assembly? To take a particular assembly, and put it in his mind?) 
<Random_Nerd> The guy starts jogging after you. "You can't just smash down doors with your robot, we have rules here!" 
<Human_Kite> (That works. I want Assembly to be happening and him to be involved in making it happen.) 
<Theresa> "Do we have to use your robot?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. Level 6 miracle.) 
<Human_Kite> "Oh! Well we didn't know. We'll obey that rule the next time!" 
<DanteE> "Send us a rules summary!" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "That's not... oh well, bookshelf isn't gonna make itself." 
<Random_Nerd> He turns back. 
<Human_Kite> "Mecha!" 
<Brian> (awesome) 
<Human_Kite> (1 DMP spent!) 
<Theresa> (Ftisk has probably heard us coming.) 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone else looks at you oddly. The shiny ambulatory robot suits weren't supposed to begin alpha testing for another seven and a half months. 
<Brian> (!) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, Ftisk's senses are currently in the spider. 
<Brian> (surprisingly ambulatory robot suits) 
<DanteE> (We should consider talking to these guys later...) 
<Random_Nerd> The spider leads you to where Ftisk is standing. 
<Conrad> (I'm busy running to myself!) 
* Theresa keeps following the spider. 
* Human_Kite follows! 
* Conrad returns into myself 
<DanteE> "Hey, Ftisk. What did you find?" 
<Conrad> "NimbleSpider!" *hug* 
<Random_Nerd> Two engineers are standing hear him, trying to figure out why the investor-guy suddenly stopped in the middle of the hallway, and if it would be rude to flick pieces of paper at him, and then about the scoring rules for a game of flicking paper at Ftisk they are in the process of inventing. 
<Random_Nerd> Female Engineer: "No, no. Nose /has/ to be more points than ears. There's just one of it!" 
<Theresa> (Instead...big spider out of nowhere!) 
<Random_Nerd> Male Engineer: "But the ears aren't near each other, so either individual ear is a comparably hard target to the nose..." 
<Theresa> (Sure, taunt the poor nimblespider with Conrad's nose!) 
<Conrad> "yeah yeah, noes and nostrills, I'll look at them at onc-... oh, guys, I find the server, would you like to follow me?" 
<Random_Nerd> Female Engineer: "They're testing the mobile robot suits already? I thought they weren't even done prototyping!" 
* Conrad lead to the server #37 
<Random_Nerd> Male Engineer, suspicious: "What's the power source on that?" 
<Human_Kite> "Yes! Server!" 
<DanteE> "Magic." 
<Human_Kite> "It's confidential. 
<Random_Nerd> Male Engineer: "Fine, fine, not my department." 
<Brian> "You want to know what's worth the most points? He's got a small bald spot right on the top of his hair, right where his hair spirals out. It's invisible to the naked eye, but if you hit it? Must be a win." 
<Human_Kite> "But not magic, because you humans don't believe in it anymore." 
<Random_Nerd> Server #37 is... a server. A big computer with a lot of hard drives, a lot of cables attaching to it, and no interface devices to speak of. 
<Random_Nerd> The label "#37" is handwritten on a sticky note. 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, so... I'm really not sure what the plan is.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Care to let me in?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you feel no twinges of pain from the server. 
<DanteE> "Hm. You'd think there'd be a note saying this is the glasses project server." 
<Brian> (I'm assuming unplug it) 
<DanteE> (Hold on.) 
<DanteE> "Now, is this the source of the attack?" 
<Conrad> (I wanna Kite to unAssemble the server database so that is impossible to assemble it again) 
<Random_Nerd> It is not. 
<Random_Nerd> The pain seems connected with the devices themselves, not with the server. 
<DanteE> "Hang on. The glasses may not have been from Outside. 
<Conrad> "This server process data from the glasses. If we make it unusable the glasses will stop to work. Maybe" 
<DanteE> "Let's zero in on the attack itself." 
<DanteE> "and _then_ figure out what we can do." 
<Brian> "But what is it about the glasses that's the problem?" 
<Random_Nerd> The attack is weaker here than at the university town you came from, but it's still partially here. 
<Brian> "Because if the server doesn't hurt, then it's not the data." 
<DanteE> "Ftisk is the only one who can tell." 
<Conrad> "See I wanna disrupt the glasses in more that one way. In that way no one would resume that idea again" 
<DanteE> "Well, it is an advertising database... 
<Human_Kite> "It is? 
<Conrad> "The attack is partially from here, the other place is more directly involved Dante, but it send info here to be processed" 
<DanteE> "...can you set it up so that it says none of the annoying ads around work worth a damn?" 
<Theresa> (So..Ftisk is going to create a miraculous version of AdBlock?) 
<Random_Nerd> A combination of Data and Assembly could do that. 
<Brian> (:D with fairy dust, pixies, and unicorns? Nevermind the oxford commas.) 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. It'd take an animation of Assembly to make it /keep/ doing that as new data comes in. 
<Human_Kite> (Lesser Animations are trivial for me!) 
<DanteE> (Or, he can write-lock it so that it no longer accepts new data, which would screw with the attack) 
<Conrad> "here there is the central database that process all the glasses data, it is also an ad database but that is secondary to being the central database for glasses anyway" 
<Random_Nerd> (That'd be easier to do.) 
<DanteE> (You sure the _glasses_ are the primary? :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, it processes the data that the glasses send /out/.) 
<DanteE> (Business, remember. Ads first, everything else second.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It isn't what sends data /to/ them. That's a bunch of other places, not really centralized.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, the incoming data is mostly ordinary searches.) 
<DanteE> (OK, so where's the NSA tap? :p ) 
<Conrad> (well if investor see not returning data the project will be seen as a failure no matter how much users love it) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not in place yet. This is new.) 
<Conrad> "Se Kite, a combined miracle , I believe can take care of that database, right?" 
<Conrad> (combined machinery + assembly Animation will work, rightRN?) 
<Human_Kite> "Sure thing!" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. So, what do you want to accomplish?) 
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<Theresa> (So, once this is taken care of, we head back to the place that was causing more pain to Ftisk than here?) 
<Knockwood> (sorry about that) 
<Conrad> (I want to use a Data animation to redirect the glasses data from this database to another one kite will make with assembly) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah. Do you just want to make a copy, or to prevent it from going here at all?) 
<Conrad> (prevent to go in that central database, instead they go in our one) 
<Conrad> like on the road they find a miraculous deviation sign) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. Yeah, you can do that.) 
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<Conrad> (cool!) 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<Random_Nerd> Done. 
<Conrad> "Ok guys, now that the miraculous side is done, who want to make this place a smoking mess?!?!" 
<DanteE> "Well, wait. It might be better to have it available as a resource." 
<Brian> "There's a fun thing to do with changing the speeds of hard drives. Releases the magic smoke really quickly." 
<DanteE> "Plus, destroying it would hurt the people here." 
<Conrad> "woot Brian!" 
<Theresa> "Do you feel any better, Ftisk? Does this take care of the attack?" 
<Random_Nerd> This doesn't affect how Ftisk feels. 
<Human_Kite> "I'm fine with no smoking mess." 
<Conrad> "Dante Dante, we have a _tradition_ did you think you can go against them? WE go in a place; that place go Boom!" 
<DanteE> "In fact, if they think we're investors they'll be inclined to tell us all about this project." 
<DanteE> "When we _intend_ to, sure. 
<Random_Nerd> One of the people in the room starts walking quickly out of it. 
<Conrad> (We were not alone in the server room?) 
<DanteE> "I say we try a not-as-destructive strategy this time." 
<Random_Nerd> (I mentioned that there were other people in there earlier. Not a lot of people, but it's a big room.) 
<DanteE> to the guy walking out: "Stop!" 
<Theresa> (There were at least the two engineers.) 
<Conrad> "fine fine, ok. My Estate still hurt, can we go back to the other place and fix it there also?" 
<Human_Kite> (We certainly have a better track record of not leaving a trail of smoke and corpses than the campaign I HGed....) 
<Brian> "Ftisk, when they're looking at you, change form." 
<Random_Nerd> The guy: *starts walking faster* 
<Random_Nerd> He leaves the server room. 
=-= YOU are now known as dragonTisk 
* dragonTisk fly to the guy and eat him! 
<Human_Kite> "Ah......" 
<dragonTisk> (aspect 2) 
<Brian> "I ... didn't suggest eating him ..." 
<Random_Nerd> Does anyone wish to intervene? 
<DanteE> "Damn it, we're not _supposed_ to be homicidal lunatics unless it's warranted..." 
<Random_Nerd> And if so, what do you do? 
<Theresa> (I expect the nimblejack to applaud.) 
* Human_Kite tries to catch Conrad with the Mecha. 
* DanteE tackles the guy first. (Aspect 3) 
<Random_Nerd> Dragontackle. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, wait, the guy. 
<Random_Nerd> Uh, you're trying to stop him, but not trying to stop Ftisk from eating him? 
<dragonTisk> "roar! Well you want to stop him! roar!" *outrage for the tasty humansnack negated!* 
<Random_Nerd> _____Pause________ 
<dragonTisk> flurry? 
<Random_Nerd> Looks like! 
<Random_Nerd> What are each of you doing? 
<dragonTisk> ^_^ 
<DanteE> A3 first? 
<Brian> nada. 
<Random_Nerd> Dante is trying to tackle the guy. 
<Theresa> I'm not doing anything. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk is trying to eat the guy. 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa and Brian are doing nothing. 
<Random_Nerd> V? 
<dragonTisk> me is going dragonTisk and aspect fly to the guy and eat him. Head first 
<Human_Kite> Trying to catch Conrad with the intent of not letting him eat the guy. 
<Theresa> (I'll just be over here with Nimble and a bucket of popcorn.) 
<Random_Nerd> What miracle level? 
<dragonTisk> my aspect is 2 
<DanteE> Create-Popcorn is 4, right? :) 
<Random_Nerd> And Kite? 
<Human_Kite> Does Aspect apply to the Mecha? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, it applies to you. 
<Random_Nerd> I figure, if you have to, you can just overpower the mecha with your superior noble muscles, or hop out of it on your way, or what have you. 
<Random_Nerd> So... what do you do? 
<Theresa> Dante - and I have Domain 5. :) 
<Human_Kite> Hmmm....does my Mecha count as part of my collection of shiny things? 
<Random_Nerd> It could. 
<Random_Nerd> Doing something with Treasure? 
<dragonTisk> (is the mecha made, also, of diamond, right?) 
<Human_Kite> Treasure miracle of guidance? 
<Random_Nerd> To do what? 
<Random_Nerd> (Partially, yes.) 
<Human_Kite> I mean "Getting Some Help" to grab Conrad and stop him from eating Guy. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Ftisk is using Aspect 2 to eat the guy, Kite using Treasure 2 to stop him from eating the guy, Dante using Aspect 3 to tackle the guy. 
<Human_Kite> (So Treasure 4) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, Getting Some Help. 
<Random_Nerd> Sorry, thought you meant Guidance. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Treasure 4, then. 
<Human_Kite> (If it's more appropriate.) 
<Random_Nerd> Does anyone wish to change their action? 
<DanteE> I'll change 'tackle' to 'grab', I think. 
<dragonTisk> nope mine are fine 
<Human_Kite> I'm good with mine 
<Random_Nerd> ____________UNPAUSE_________ 
<Random_Nerd> Dante tackles the guy. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk is caught in mid-lunge by Kite And His Mecha. 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, no! No eating people!" 
<dragonTisk> "Ahh, Rules rules! Are you sure your imperator is a wild one?" 
<Random_Nerd> The Guy doesn't actually shit himself yet. 
<Human_Kite> "Our Imperator is not!" 
<DanteE> "Yes. And he doesn't like unnecessary death, remember." 
<Random_Nerd> But he looks like he's thinking about it. 
<Random_Nerd> Since a dragon tried to eat him and was stopped by a shiny mecha. 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, yeah. 
<dragonTisk> "I was talking to Mr. Rules here *point to Dante* not to you Kite" 
<Theresa> (He is going to have the best facebook post ever later...) 
<DanteE> to the guy: "You. Whatever's in Server 37 is Really Important to people who can do _this_. 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Uh... I have twenty bucks. You want it?" 
<Brian> "What do you do here?" *loom* 
<DanteE> "No, I want you to tell me all about the glasses project. 
<dragonTisk> "are them tasty?" *pout* 
<Human_Kite> "We don't need money in YouDidn'tSeeThisLand!" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "I dunno! I'm not on that! I'm fine-tuning the thing that can tell if you have the flu by how you search for porn!" 
<Brian> "ok, you've gotta tell me how that works." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "...computers are involved." 
<Theresa> (Search for porn? ) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "It's complicated." 
* dragonTisk grab spiderJack 
<DanteE> "That's easy, if you're doing it instead of working and really slowly, you're ill." 
<Brian> "I don't think you can do that." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "I can totally do that." 
<Brian> "How." 
* dragonTisk muzzle, cuddle and give popcorn stealed from Theresa and Dante to him 
<Random_Nerd> (Google actually does have a thing that spots flu epidemics based on people's internet activity.) 
<DanteE> "_Anyway_. Who's on the glasses thing?" 
<Brian> (I know. It's insane :D) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "That's the Gadish lab, I think. Wait, you want the physical device stuff, or the stuff on correlating the advertising data?" 
<Theresa> (But I didn't think that it was from seeing if you're searching for porn. It's searching for flu symptoms and doctors...) 
<Human_Kite> "Physical device stuff." 
<Random_Nerd> (I'm not sure that it is.) 
<Theresa> (I can be wrong.) 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, which one? ... And can you un-dragon yourself before you knock over something important?" 
<Random_Nerd> (I think it may also be stuff like searching from home when they think you'd be at work.) 
<Theresa> (Ah.) 
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Yeah, that's Gadish. Down the hall, take a right, third door on the left." 
<DanteE> "Good to know. 
<Theresa> "Thank you!" *heads that way* 
* Conrad follow 
<Human_Kite> "Thank you. Would you like to work for us? You might get your own mecha one day." 
<DanteE> "Oh, and for your own sake... you've probably been playing too many video games. Figure that's what you saw here." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy, as you leave: "So I can keep my lunch money, then?" 
<Conrad> to spiderJack: "nose uhm.. did you have any preferences on the type?" 
<Human_Kite> "You eat money?" 
<Random_Nerd> Spiderjack: "...pointy!" 
<Conrad> "to Kite: "if tasty sure!" 
* Theresa knocks on Gadish's door. 
<Random_Nerd> Spiderjack gestures with three limbs. 
<DanteE> "Yeah, we don't need it." 
* Conrad add an eagle nose to spiderJack 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, there's two doors that seem relevant. The one he mentioned is to the Augmented Reality Development Lab. The next one down the hall is Alice Gadish's personal office. 
<Human_Kite> (YES! EAGLE NOSE!) 
* Theresa listens at each door before knocking, then. 
<Conrad> to sJ: "is this one ok?" 
<Theresa> (*facepalm* Eagle-eagle or aquiline eagle?) 
<Theresa> (I listen for any people in each lab, Aspect 3.) 
<Random_Nerd> The former door has at least nine people working in it. 
<Random_Nerd> The latter has one person, sitting quietly. 
<Conrad> (eagle eagle , a beak) 
* DanteE checks out the place with The Sight 
* Theresa will go and knock on the personal office door. 
* Human_Kite mecha-knocks on Ms. Gadish's door. 
<Random_Nerd> Spiderjack With A Beak: "That'll do." 
* Conrad pat him happily 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, nothing particularly related to Blades or Courage, other than the fact that all but one person in the lab have multitools with at least one blade. 
* Human_Kite scratch my action 'cause Theresa totally knocked first. 
<DanteE> (what size is the spider?) 
<Random_Nerd> And someone nearby is scared. 
<Random_Nerd> (Tarantula-sized.) 
<DanteE> (Where we came from?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No, Not counting that. In the office next to the lab.) 
<DanteE> "...someone's scared in here." 
<Random_Nerd> A voice from in the Gadish office: "Who is it?" 
<Theresa> "Visitor!" *goes on in* "Hello! We were wanting to talk to you about one of your projects!" 
<DanteE> to T: "They think we're investors..." 
<Random_Nerd> As you come in, you see a frightened-looking woman in T-shirt and jeans. She's middle-eastern looking, could easily pass for Amyran. 
<DanteE> to Ftisk: "Anything in here?" 
* Human_Kite follows Theresa 
<Conrad> (normal eyes?) 
<Random_Nerd> She presses a button on a handmade-looking device on her desk, and stuff falls from the ceiling onto you. 
<DanteE> stuff? 
<Random_Nerd> A bunch of stuff. Silver jewelry pieces, holy symbols of seven different religions, rowan wood, and an iron horseshoe. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and garlic. 
<Theresa> (...well, darn, we've lost Kite. :) ) 
<Human_Kite> "OH BOY!" 
* Theresa blinks. "I prefer balloons." 
<Conrad> "stop it!" 
* Human_Kite starts collecting all of the shiny bits. 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Well, it was worth a try. So, now it's time to shut us down, now that we did whatever you wanted?" 
<Brian> "... I'm not a vampire, but I'm honored." 
<Conrad> "you'll scare my pet spider!" 
<DanteE> "OK, so, I'm guessing you've had dealings with interesting people?" 
<Random_Nerd> She looks interestedly at Kite. 
* Conrad look at her with the sight 
<Theresa> "We are not..vampires or fae...although our colleague here likes shiny things." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I'm not stupid. I know that the technology wouldn't be there for these for at least five more years, maybe ten. The miniaturization, see. Can't get that much sensory and computing hardware in a device that size." 
<DanteE> "Huh. 
* DanteE grabs a chair and sits. 
* Conrad nod "spot on my timeline " 
<Theresa> "And you expected vampires or fairies to do miniaturization of silicon chips?" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "So, when we worked out how to do it, I checked. And as near as I can tell, someone actually made some slight but noticeable changes to the laws of physics, relating to electron flows in impure silicon." 
<DanteE> "Would you kindly tell us about the people who started this project?" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Uh... that would be me. It's my project. Has been for years." 
<DanteE> "Physics?" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "The... system of physical laws that..." 
<Random_Nerd> She gestures vaguely. 
<DanteE> "I mean, whoever seems to have tweaked physics." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "PHYSICS." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "It wasn't you?" 
<Theresa> (*shifty look*) 
* Conrad look at Brian 
<DanteE> "No, we know Physics. She's still finding her feet." 
<Random_Nerd> Are you still a dragon, Ftisk? 
<Theresa> "This will probably sound strange but..we know the person who is in charge of setting the laws of physics." 
<Conrad> "We can pray and ask" 
<DanteE> "... long story. Tell us about Mr. Supernatural you were expecting." 
<DanteE> (Any miraculous influence here?) 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I don't know. I knew that something impossible had been done. And there seemed to be other... signs of manipulation. Problems just disappeared. So I got paranoid. I put a camera in the server room, some in the lab... and whatever happened to the data collection server triggered one of my alerts." 
<Random_Nerd> You don't see any signs of miraculous influence. 
<DanteE> "Just now?" 
<Theresa> "Ah, that would be our friend over there. He traced your servers. What is so special about your data glasses?" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "A couple minutes ago. So I looked at my camera feed. And then you" *turns to Conrad* "turned into a dragon while you" *turns to Kite* "chased him in a robot suit. And those won't be ready for... ah! You're switching your patronage to a different project?" 
<Brian> "I haven't altered the laws of physics since that one time. How long has your project been going on?" 
<DanteE> "We're different people." 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I don't know! I mean, it's a really cool project, but I didn't expect it to attract the attention of, like, supernatural forces." 
<Ftisk> "really different" 
<Theresa> "Well, see, there's sometimes no line between natural and supernatural." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "This happened... months ago? It's tough to tell when the actual changes happened." 
<DanteE> "Let's try this: 
<Brian> "Well, do you have your source commits?" 
<DanteE> "Where did the physics-tweaking stuff come from?" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "And, yes. We went from a prototype the size of a laptop, to all those devices made, in three and a half months. That does not /happen/ if something hinky isn't up." 
<Brian> (how long has New Physics been Physics?) 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I don't know how I'd be able to tell how changes in the laws of physics happened, or from where." 
<Random_Nerd> (A little longer than that.) 
<Ftisk> "There is a ... faction .. that is taking advantage of these devices to attach me" 
<DanteE> "Are they made next door?" 
<Brian> (can I pray to New Physics?) 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "No, there are factories or something. That's just where we're working on developing them." 
<Random_Nerd> (You can.) 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, where's the attack?" 
<Brian> *prays to New Physics* "Did you make any changes to the miniaturization abilities of silicon and such about three and a half months back?" 
<Theresa> "Did you ever meet any of the investors or patrons as you call them?" 
<Ftisk> "The place where it is stronger is the other one, the one from where we came" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I guess? They were, y'know, suits." 
<DanteE> to Ftisk: "Here, or next door?" 
<Ftisk> "The place where we find the excru" 
<Random_Nerd> New Physics: "Oh! Hey! You're... Mathematics, right? Yeah, I totally did. Near as I can figure, Moore's Law should now have transistor density doubling every /nine/ months. You're welcome." 
<Theresa> ( O.O ) 
<Human_Kite> (Well, that settles that....) 
<DanteE> (That may be coming from RL, actually) 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "And there was weird stuff going on with the interface, too." 
<Theresa> (So...can that affect Data as an attack?) 
<Theresa> "How so?" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "It shouldn't work this well. Not this fast. And it doesn't... in /some/ places." 
<Brian> *to NP* "Numbers, actually. Math is sort of a side effect. Anyway. Good to know. We think some Excrucians piggybacked on that to attack our fellow, Ftisk - Data, that is. We've got a woman here who probably wants to thank you for her success, too. Unrelated, mostly, to the attack, anyway." 
<Ftisk> (I believe it will just change the time factor of the attack ie now instead that in some years but not that the attach is unfeasible) 
<Theresa> "What kind of places?" 
<Brian> *to NP* "and to see if you can help her work out how to fix bits." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "As near as I can tell, some of the places we're beta-testing, it takes weeks to get even a decent interface. But in others, it's always perfect by the time the first recalibration is done." 
<DanteE> "Do you have a map?" 
<Brian> "Well, yeah. Physics went and rewrote the laws of silicon miniaturization, about three and a half months back." 
<Random_Nerd> She pulls out a tablet computer, and looks around on it for a moment. 
<Random_Nerd> AG: "Here. There, there, and there." 
<Brian> "So, that explains that." 
<Random_Nerd> She points out three towns, one of them the one you just came from. 
<DanteE> "These are where it works better or doesn't work?" 
<Theresa> (Hmm. Could it be that Excrucians are 'helping' in those sites?) 
<Ftisk> "we have targets, let's nuclear strike them!" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Those are where they mysterious work perfectly." 
<DanteE> "Ftisk. Collateral damage _bad_." 
<Random_Nerd> Mysteriously, rather. 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "So he's, what, Ftisk the Nuke-Happy Dragon?" 
<Ftisk> "le sigh!" 
<Human_Kite> "No, Ftisk." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Dammit, I should write a children's book about that. Kids would love that." 
<Ftisk> "also was figurative, I have no nuke atm" 
<Theresa> "When we saw an Excrucian, he was messing with the recalibrations on someone. Those three places may each have their own Excrucian or a well-travelled one. Heck, the one we were tracking could be at the other ones." 
<DanteE> "OK, where _don't_ they work?" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish, speculating: "Would have to change the name, though." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Everywhere else. And, I mean, they /work/. But they don't, y'know, instantly automatically figure out what you want before you do." 
<Ftisk> "I would love to be in a book!" 
<Brian> "I could make a nuke." 
<Theresa> "We are not nuking the United States. Please." 
<Ftisk> "nah, anyone can make a nuke, what's the point?" 
<Random_Nerd> The places are close enough together that a single Excrucian could be commuting between them. 
<Ftisk> Exp with world breaking hand 
<Brian> "I could cause a cascading fission explosion from Hydrogen. I won't, but I could." 
<DanteE> "Could be one industrious Excrucian." 
<Random_Nerd> (Lesser destruction of traffic problems! Lesser destruction of that guy who didn't use his turn signal! Lesser destruction of my car's need for gasoline!) 
* Ftisk pat Brian, "way to go man!" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "So, you guys. What are you?" 
<Brian> "I was going to say Oxygen, but exploding the subatomic particles in Hydrogen is more impressive. For the very short amount of time you get to experience it." 
<Brian> "Oh. I'm Numbers." 
<Brian> "She's plants, he's Data, Assembly there, and Blades. Err, Courage, I mean." 
<Ftisk> "I'm machinery and data but you can call me Ftisk, this is my ride, my spiderJack!" 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish, to Brian: "Do it with iron, and I'll be impressed." 
<DanteE> "Guys. When we're at DefCon 1, then you can screw with megadamage. _Not until then_." 
<Brian> "To be fair, Physics would be quite mad at me. And she's crazier than I am, right now." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "So you're, what, magic gods of random shit?" 
<DanteE> (oops, that was a USism...) 
<DanteE> "... close enough." 
<Ftisk> "/me nod and wink 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Okay. Where do I sign up?" 
<Ftisk> "uhm.. you have to ask our boss" 
<DanteE> "Not that simple." 
<Theresa> "We're the physical manifestations of..stuff. Depends. What do you want to do?" 
<Brian> "Could be that simple." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I'm really smart, smoking hot, and I smell rather nice. What more do I need in the way of qualifications?" 
<Brian> "Probably not, though." 
<Brian> "um. A Domain?" 
<Random_Nerd> She's actually only a bit above average-looking. But she /does/ smell rather nice. 
<Brian> "and all the good ones are taken." 
<Theresa> "Hmm. She could be an Aide." 
<Ftisk> "an anchor?" 
<Theresa> (She's got _confidence!_) 
<DanteE> (or the Power of Ego) 
<Human_Kite> "Well, that depends on who's hiring. Some would prefer to hire a tree." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Racists." 
<Theresa> "Hey, Red is a guard!: 
* Human_Kite shrugs. 
<Ftisk> "or a magma stream" 
<Ftisk> '"perhaps are you a magma stream?2 
<Human_Kite> "Maybe she should talk to the Aides. Some of them become Nobles, yes?"" 
<Brian> "Sometimes." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I'm 1/32 magma stream. On my mother's side." 
<Brian> "The Cleave is also sometimes hiring. How are you with plants?" 
<Theresa> "Okay, so we don't give out megapowers. We can anchor someone, that connects them to us in a magical way, and if we kick the bucket, if you know the job well, you might get it. Or we can set you up in contact with a group that does consulting work with lots of people like us." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Consulting work as in highly paid and trusted, or as in sent out on beer runs?" 
<DanteE> "Both." 
<Theresa> "yes." 
<Theresa> "But this would be beer of the gods." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "The system by which you're organized and trained... it's rather a mess, isn't it?" 
<Brian> "Yep." 
<Theresa> "Yes. Because the people who do it aren't human." 
<DanteE> (She seems to both know and not know about us...) 
<Brian> "But hey, immortality is often part of the pay." 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Yeah, I'm pretty sure I could do better. Put me in touch with whoever's in charge. God, or whoever. Don't worry, I'll put in a good word for you." 
<DanteE> "Hold on. How did you hear about all that?"" 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Hmm?" 
<DanteE> "Most people can't wrap their minds around us at all." 
<Theresa> (..yeah, let's give her to Luc.) 
<Random_Nerd> G: "I mentioned that I'm really smart, right?" 
<Brian> (:D) 
<DanteE> "You're not panicking. Why not?" 
<Human_Kite> "There's not....really....one entity in charge...." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Should I be?" 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Ah, that's why it's such a mess." 
<Human_Kite> "Yeah, pretty much." 
<Human_Kite> "Also, there's a War." 
<Brian> "C'neph apparently buggered off." 
<Theresa> "We're part of a giant war with beings from elsewhere that could mean that existence itself will end." 
<Human_Kite> "That screws with the order a bit." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Yeah, so maybe you should bother doing it properly?" 
<Brian> "Also: Heaven and Hell are things." 
* Theresa will call William. 
<Brian> "Also dicks. But things." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "The universe... tell it to me straight, we're in trouble, right?" 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Figurative dicks?" 
<Brian> "Not really." 
<Brian> "And yes, figurative. Some literal, but those guys are weird." 
<Random_Nerd> William picks up: "Yes, Theresa?" 
<Human_Kite> "Earth may or may not be. But right now we're dealing with a minor skirmish." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Okay. What's the problem, and what's your plan?" 
<Human_Kite> "I hope it's a minor skirmish anyway." 
<DanteE> "OK, here's the short version: 
<Theresa> "We have a potential Aide candidate. Where do we send her and I have a bet on how soon she will be rising in the ranks." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Human?" 
<Theresa> (Oh, crap, we don't tell her our plan. I don't have Snark armor right now.) 
<DanteE> "Whatever you're doing with the glasses and the adjustments in those towns is hurting dragon-boy here. 
<Theresa> "Think so." 
<DanteE> "We want to stop that, of course. 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Recalibrating augmented reality devices hurts dragons." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "...please don't tell me the thing about God killing kittens is true." 
<DanteE> "I just want to do it with less violence than he does." 
<Ftisk> "Violence is fine" 
<Theresa> (No, but using the word Love around a god could get you killed...if you're lucky.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Okay. Normally we recruit out of universities and graduate programs. Does she have at least a bachelor's degree?" 
<Human_Kite> "I know of at least two who kill kittens." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "No, I mean... never mind. Internet thing." 
<DanteE> (Do we know the Power of Cats?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I... think? The Power of Cats was a major NPC in my /last/ Nobilis game.) 
<DanteE> (We've met Hounds.) 
<Theresa> "She's a major research developer in a search engine facility that created augmented reality glasses that hurt Ftisk and was savvy enough to be prepared if someone came after her." 
<Human_Kite> (Laugh at William. I demand it) 
<Ftisk> (and the power of lolcat? exist here?) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Okay. And she's not an Excrucian anchor?" 
<Brian> (We've met the Prince of Cats, in another life) 
<Human_Kite> (Kite's got enough former lives without adding Hisui to it. D: ) 
<Theresa> "Uh, didn't check. She hasn't mentioned anything about them. One moment.." *to G: "Have you ever seen people with stars falling in their eyes? They'd be really hot." 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, you See anything weird here?" 
<Random_Nerd> (For the record, William was recruited during his pre-doctoral studies in medieval literature.) 
<Human_Kite> "Like Ftisk but not Ftisk." 
<Ftisk> (I asked when we entered if there was anything with the sight) 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Stars? Eyes?" 
* Human_Kite points to Ftisk's eyes. 
<Random_Nerd> G: "What would it look like? Would it be obvious, or would they just have unusually shiny eyes?" 
<Random_Nerd> She looks. 
<Random_Nerd> G: "No. Not like that." 
<Ftisk> "like mine but 2" 
<Ftisk> (uhm..." 
* Ftisk add 4 other eyes on my head 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Hmm. I did meet a guy with full-eye contact lenses." 
<Ftisk> (did them have falling stars in them?) 
<Theresa> "What did his eyes look like?" 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Two weeks ago. Just before the rollout of closed beta testing." 
<Random_Nerd> G: "I don't know. He was WEARING FULL-EYE CONTACT LENSES." 
<Human_Kite> "Is that a normal thing or not a normal thing?" 
<Theresa> "..what did the contact lenses look like?" 
<DanteE> "Hm... Ftisk, how about a picture of the guy we were chasing earlier?" 
<Random_Nerd> G: "Pretty realistic. But the veins didn't quite look right, and the pupil width never changed. Brown eyes." 
<Ftisk> "sure" 
<Random_Nerd> Just going to put a copy on her tablet, Ftisk? 
<Theresa> *to William* "Don't think so, but she may have met one. She's got confidence and snark like Mt. Everest." 
* Ftisk lCreate a picture of the excru on her pc 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Oh. That may not be good. Like... how many tenths of a Samuel?" 
<Random_Nerd> She looks at it. "Yes. Him." 
<Theresa> "Hmm..ah, I know. Hey Brian, as Numbers and Sam's boss, you should know: how many Samuel's is this lady in confidence and snark?" 
<DanteE> "There's the link. Who was he with?" 
<Brian> "I should know. Let me see." (*pinging LDiv!*) 
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "He was just... I don't know, some executive vice president in charge of bullshit and things I don't care about." 
<Random_Nerd> How many significant digits you want, Brian? 
<Brian> (scientific notation :p) 
<Brian> (4 will be plenty :)) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, then let's say 1.579 * 10^0. 
<Brian> "Over one and a half Samuels." 
<Brian> "Impressive." 
<Human_Kite> To G: "Did he give you a business card?" 
<Brian> *anchorspeak to Sam* "Hey Sam, I know you won't believe it, but we've just met a woman who's over one and a half times as snarky as you are." 
<Theresa> *to William* "Uh-oh. Brian says she's at about 1.5 full Samuels." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "And she's human? That's not good. I don't think Sam would have made it through recruitment at the Earth Branch." 
<Theresa> "Because snark gets you killed?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "A... dionyl woman?" 
<Brian> "Human. Sorry to disappoint." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Or turned into something nasty. Or you get in an argument with your Noble and neither of you notices the Warmain with the big axe." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Tease." 
<DanteE> (Business card?) 
<Theresa> "Hmm. Good point. Where would you recommend that we send her? As she wishes to join the cause...but is more than likely going to take our place over our corpses." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "...hmm. Call Luc?" 
<Brian> (Always my favorite response. Hey, Luc, remember us? Too crazy to be anchored by? We've got a new recruit for you!) 
<Theresa> "Could you transfer me, please?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "By the way, boss, it's not a /big/ deal if a human breaks his leg, right? Those heal?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Just a moment..." 
<Brian> "Eventually, if set right. If set wrong, they heal in a very interesting manner. I recommend setting it correctly if you like them." 
<Human_Kite> (I was about to say that I'm glad things seem to have calmed down with our Anchors....but then Sam had to go and ask that.) 
<Theresa> (As long as Sam knows what a leg is...) 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "And if a human doctor has already set it, it's pretty much okay and not something for someone to be really upset about or anything?" 
<Brian> "Depends on the story of how it got broke." 
<Theresa> (This is why we can't have nice people...) 
<Brian> "If it's a good story, there's nothing to be upset about." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Uh... okay. Then it's fine. Thanks!" 
<Brian> "... ok, then." 
<Brian> *worried look to the rest of the group* 
<Ftisk> "What happen Brian?" 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, a groggy Luc picks up the phone. "Luc Ginneis, butler to the gods and best anchor ever. Is Lord Entropy on fire?" 
<Brian> (Laugh Point to the GM) 
<Brian> "Nothing that I care to know about." 
<DanteE> (and if not, WHY NOT?) 
<Theresa> "Not that we have done so, Luc. This is Theresa, Plant's Regal, and we have a person here with a snark of at least 1.5 Samuels who wants in on the cause." 
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "One moment, please." 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, your high-Aspect hearing catches the sound of him putting the phone down, opening a window, sticking his head out that window, and yelling "AAAAAAARGH!" very loudly. Then he returns, and sounds more awake. 
<DanteE> (and Luc mutes the phone to laugh and/or scream...) 
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Talented?" 
<Ftisk> (lol to RN!) 
<DanteE> (called it_) 
<Theresa> "She notices things and she is the head researcher on a search engine aug realty device that attacked Data." 
<Brian> (Our game is weird, btw.) 
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Hmm. Notices things?" 
* Theresa will Move a bag of Amyra's best coffee beans to Luc's nearest table? 
<Random_Nerd> You don't know where he is. 
<Theresa> "I can send you some coffee beans from Amyra, if you don't mind." 
<Brian> (does she know where his night table is?) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and Alice looks /really/ bored and annoyed by now. 
<Random_Nerd> (Nor that.) 
<Human_Kite> "So no business cards?" 
<DanteE> "What was the name he gave?" 
<Theresa> "She noticed that one of her visitors wore all eye contact lenses and was savvy enough to be ready when a server check by weird things pinged." 
<Random_Nerd> Alice: "Don't remember. Didn't think it was a big deal at the time, so I wasn't paying attention to that. Just those weird contacts." 
<Brian> *whispers* "Don't forget the realization that physics itself had changed." 
<Theresa> "And she noticed that Physics changed a few things about transistors and silicon stuff." 
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Ah. I was /afraid/ you'd say something that would actually merit my attention. Have your Aide send me what you have on her, and I'll look it over." 
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Not that I actually run the Aides or anything. But I can put a word in if she's good." 
<Ftisk> "T. say to luc that I don't forget and that a year pass quickly, please" 
<Human_Kite> "Did you tell him about her organization? 
<DanteE> "And if you could let us have your card, we can pass that on to him (points to phone) and talk about _maybe_ getting you onto our side." 
<Human_Kite> *organization plans/skills 
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Now, if at least one of the Council of Four is not on fire, I need to go back to sleep. I am sorry, Domina, but my new mistress keeps me very busy." 
<Theresa> "Okay. I'll let her know that you think that she's not that hot of stuff. She also claims to be hot and smells nice. Good sleep to you, Luc." 
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Thank you, Domina. Good night." 
<Ftisk> "tell him T." 
* Theresa will hang up. "Ftisk, don't set any of the Council on fire." 
<Ftisk> "Why?" 
<Theresa> (I seem to have misinterpreted.) 
<Brian> "Luc will never love you if you do." 
<Human_Kite> "You'll lose everything you love." 
<Human_Kite> "Both of those things. At once." 
<Theresa> (Take out the 'hot of stuff' bit. I thought he was being sarcastic about being afraid. I thought that he was being snarky.) 
<Ftisk> (I asked Theresa to remind Luc of our agreement that if I'm alive after a year I meet Luc, he will agree to become my anchor (once he is free)) 
<Random_Nerd> (Usually he's not that blunt, but he's running on very little sleep, and does not currently have a Preservation of Wakefulness on, since he finds they make him get a bit weird after more than a week.) 
<Theresa> "Because Luc needs his sleep. His current boss is keeping him busy and you don't want to get Luc hurt by him being low on sleep at a crucial moment." 
<Theresa> "Alice, good news!" 
<Random_Nerd> Alice: "So... what do we do now?" 
<Ftisk> "bah, ok ok" 
<Theresa> "I need all data that you would present for an interview with a man who could hire you to work for your President while having the personal power to order every person in your state to do the lambada on pain of death." 
<Random_Nerd> Alice fiddles with her tablet for a moment. "What format do you need it in?" 
<DanteE> "That, and everything you know about your mystery backer." 
<Ftisk> (can we stop soon? like when finished with her?) 
<Random_Nerd> She reaches into her desk: "That, I keep in hard copy. Longhand. Don't want people seeing it and thinking I'm crazy. I checked. I'm not." 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, I figure at the end of this scene.) 
<Theresa> "Scannable .pdf right now is fine for your data. Please send it to *writes down William's public email address*. Please add to it 'per Theresa's request.'" 
* DanteE grabs one of her business cards and her notes 
<Random_Nerd> She taps on her screen for a bit. "Sent." 
* DanteE skims the notes... 
<Random_Nerd> She then opens the notebook, where she has notes on changes in physics, improbable removals of delays, and the weird recalibration thing going on in the three towns. 
<Random_Nerd> Looking for anything particular, Dante? 
<DanteE> on first glance, interactions with the Ex. 
<Random_Nerd> There's very little about that. 
<Random_Nerd> She hadn't linked the guy with the contacts with the one making the changes. 
<Random_Nerd> She also made the false assumption that the same force was behind the physics stuff and the calibration stuff. 
<Random_Nerd> So, should we stop here? 
<Ftisk> (is ok) 
<Theresa> "Thank you, and you will be hearing from them, hopefully shortly." 
<Human_Kite> (Sounds good) 
<Theresa> (Sounds good.) 
<Brian> (please :)) 
<DanteE> Any specific guidance she got re: building the glasses? 
<Random_Nerd> Alice: "Don't blow up the world by mistake until I'm able to help you fix it." 
<DanteE> (And I'm OK with stopping after the answer. :) 
<Random_Nerd> On the glasses, it's mostly that the way it's working in the three towns is exactly how she'd hypothesized a fourth-generation version of this technology might work, a decade and a half from now. 
<Human_Kite> "We look forward to having someone help keep it from blowing up." 
<Brian> (have we had a session where we don't recruit an NPC?) 
<DanteE> (A few...) 
<Ftisk> (single session of course yes, single adventures, maybe yes) 
<Human_Kite> (Maybe. Then again, we recruited an acorn.) 
<Random_Nerd> ______________STOP_______________ 
<Random_Nerd> So... thoughts? 
<Ftisk> guys, I'm deep fried! 
=-= Human_Kite is now known as Verithe 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> That one didn't really go the way I planned. 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Angelo> how did you planned it? 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
<BethE> A Scottish acorn. 
<Verithe> Dr. Alice is fun. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, at the beginning of the night, I wasn't even sure Alice would /appear/, and I hadn't bothered to come up with a personality for her yet. 
<Knockwood> should I be suspicious about how well she's handling things? 
<Random_Nerd> Dunno. It is weird. 
<Random_Nerd> But on the other hand, she was already pretty sure supernatural stuff was up when you walked into her office. 
<Verithe> Kite likes Dr. Alice. She gave him gifts. 
<Random_Nerd> So she was more prepared than most civilians. 
<Brian> gnight. (I'm already on 3.5h of overtime this week, looking at more tomorrow. And then more next week!) 
<Angelo> I don't like her 
<Angelo> night Beth 
<Verithe> G'night, Brian! 
<Angelo> ! 
<Angelo> ops Brian 
<Knockwood> g'night Beth 
<Knockwood> oh, Brian. Sheesh 
<Random_Nerd> I'm going to bed too. 
<Random_Nerd> G'night, all. 
<Random_Nerd> Good session. 
<Verithe> G'night! 
<Brian> Failed to nick change it seems 
|<-- Brian has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Brian) 
<BethE> Does Kite need another anchor? On the other hand, I don't think she'd be okay with being just an anchor for long. 
<Angelo> she is aiming to be next C'Neph 
<Verithe> Kite doesn't need another Anchor. He could easily take one, but I'd rather work on boosting his Treasure first. 
<Knockwood> Dante may consider getting an anchor... 
<Verithe> He'll probably like her less once he finds out that the gifts were a one-time thing. 
<Angelo> I already have too much 
<Knockwood> Though I might get that Jedi Mind Trick thing. Speaking of which, Destiny? 
<Angelo> ah, Destiny! 
<Angelo> I keep thinking that this attack will bootstrap my new estate Cybernetics but... 
-->| RN (Random_Ner@MagicStar-AC01BDE6.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> wb RN! 
<RN> Ah. Irony. 
<Angelo> ah, Destiny! 
<Angelo> I keep thinking that this attack will bootstrap my new estate Cybernetics but... 
<Knockwood> oops 
<BethE> I am going to bed. Night, guys! 
<BethE> *HUGS* 
<Knockwood> g'night Beth 
<Verithe> g'night, Beth! 
<RN> Anyway, I am going to bed. Goodnight, all. 
|<-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
<Angelo> night B.! 
<Verithe> G'night, RN! 
<Knockwood> g'night RN 
<Angelo> night RN! 
|<-- RN has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ) 
<Verithe> I'm out too. Take care! 
<Angelo> night V! 
<Knockwood> g'night V 
|<-- Verithe has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.90 [Firefox 22.0/20130618035212]) 
<Knockwood> cya Angelo 
|<-- Random_Nerd has left irc.magicstar.net (Ping timeout) 
<Angelo> night KnockWood 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Knockwood) 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]

Session 253

2014-01-02T15:03:49Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]] 
=== 1 unknown connection(s) 
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
=-= Topic for #Nobilis is ``Automatonic Electronic Harmonics'' 
=-= Topic for #Nobilis was set by Verithe on 14 giugno 2013 03:26:06 
<BethE> I see your giraffes and raise you a bear footrest. http://springpad.com/?_escaped_fragment_=/BrianCarr/notebooks/ultimateguysgifts/blocks/bookmark/179bearfootrest#!/BrianCarr/notebooks/ultimateguysgifts/blocks/bookmark/179bearfootrest 
<Angelo> Hi guys! 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<Verithe> Hi! 
<lazarus> hey Angelo 
<BethE> So, need your opinion: Should I have strawberries with goat cheese, strawberries with sweetened condensed milk or strawberries infused with balsamic/apple cider vinegar? 
-->| Knockwood (~Knockwood@41FBB6F9.1AE4DF44.D8F2CF9B.IP) has joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> first and last one Bet 
<Angelo> Hi Knock 
<Verithe> That broke me, Beth. 
<BethE> Hi Knock! 
<BethE> V - which part? :) 
<lazarus> hey kwd 
<Verithe> The deciding 
<Knockwood> Hi all 
<BethE> Ah 
<Knockwood> May Be a little distracted, I've got family over. 
<Random_Nerd> So, anything before we start? 
<Angelo> YES! My last project finished now? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm? 
<Angelo> I mean the project to project Ftiskness obtained 15points for it step2 add strike! 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. Okay. Then yes! 
<Verithe> Woo! 
<Random_Nerd> That's based on a Persona miracle, or a Domain one? 
<Angelo> I don't remember :-/ 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
<Random_Nerd> Shall we call it an Enchantment of Ftiskness, then? 
=-= Verithe is now known as human-Kite 
<Angelo> I'm ok calling it an enchantment 
<DanteE> It sounds like persona 
<Angelo> yes was persona based, right Dante 
<Random_Nerd> Then, some time, could you come up with some properties for the pseudoestate of Ftisk? 
<Angelo> sure! 
<Random_Nerd> Doesn't have to be right now. 
<Angelo> better! 
<Random_Nerd> But that way we have a clearer mutual understanding of what it does. 
<Theresa> (The vinegar strawberries are pretty good.) 
<human-Kite> (Yay!) 
<Angelo> well quickly it project Ftisk personality onto someone overriding that that one had 
<Brian> (mozzarella, tomato, and fresh Basil is a thing I have been having recently) 
<Theresa> (Strawberries with goat cheese, not too bad. The goat cheese is from a local farm that also makes gelato out of the goat's milk.) 
<DanteE> Sounds exotic 
<Angelo> and now this gift have strike attached! :-) ... how much strike? 3 points? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm... one moment. 
<Random_Nerd> You've just completed the second Stone in it, right? 
<Angelo> ah, here is called an Ftiskness enchantment http://www.mindmeister.com/61277752 
<Theresa> Aww, the gelato is _awesome_. So many flavors. So tasty... 
<Angelo> yes, the first one gave me the base gift 
<Random_Nerd> Then, yeah, three Strike. 
<Angelo> Cooolooo! :-D 
<DanteE> Careful, that may mean you're out :) 
<Random_Nerd> That was not a good pun, but I did laugh. 
<Brian> that makes it a good pun :) 
<Random_Nerd> No. It does not meet my rigorously defined Good Pun Guidelines. 
<Angelo> ok my actual project now is get a new estate: Cybernetic from that excrucian attack 
<Theresa> (And he does have them. Because he's married to me.) 
<Angelo> _is_ a good pun 
<Brian> (alternately: There Are No Good Puns) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Theresa> So when we last left off, we had just let a nimblejack loose on the city and it has a pair of sunglasses now? 
<Angelo> and was running in circles 
<Brian> that sounds bad :) 
<Theresa> Oh yeah, did you miss last time, Laz? 
<Brian> I think I did. Wasn't feeling well. 
<Theresa> We kind of lost the Excrucian. Gained a nimblejack, who likes Dante's fingers. 
<Angelo> brb, making some nutella's panini 
<Random_Nerd> Dante's were the third tastiest fingers he had ever chewed on. 
<DanteE> Only third? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> But you try harder. 
<Random_Nerd> There's a hurts-hertz joke in there somewhere. 
<Random_Nerd> But I don't really care to work out the details. 
<Random_Nerd> Left as an exercise to the listener. 
<Brian> academic jokes are best left as an exercise for the reader :) 
<Random_Nerd> So, are we ready to go? 
<DanteE> Please. Did anyone actually do the exercises? 
<Brian> (ooo, Charmed is on Netflix! Got my background noise!) 
<Random_Nerd> Depends if it was an interesting textbook. 
<Brian> I'm ready 
<human-Kite> Ready! 
<DanteE> Ready. 
<Theresa> I'm ready, but only if the nimblejack gets some sort of theme song from The Who. 
<Brian> YEAAAAAAH! 
<DanteE> "His name is Bill and he's a head case" 
<Random_Nerd> Nah. The Nimblejack is currently hunting to the tune of Eye Of The Tiger. 
<Angelo> back, chomp, ready, chomp 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Random_Nerd> ______________START__________________ 
<DanteE> As I recall, I'm floating over the city looking for him, right? 
<Random_Nerd> So! You chased an Excrucian into a bathroom! A nimblejack is now hunting him, but with little idea of where to look! The Estate of Machinery is still under attack! 
<Random_Nerd> Yes! 
<Theresa> I am running to keep up with the nimblejack. 
<Random_Nerd> What miracle level are you using, Theresa? 
<Ftisk> I'm over T. shoulder as usual 
<DanteE> Now, what's a nimblejack's tracking skill? 
<Theresa> Aspect 3. 
<Brian> (where's Brian been Guarding The Horses?) 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejacks are not very good at tracking. 
<Theresa> (And can I do a GDiv of the plants in the area for signs of the Excrucian?) 
<Brian> (they're more good at hurting, aren't they?) 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<DanteE> Pray to the others: "Maybe we should help him find it." 
<Random_Nerd> Once they see the thing they're chasing, they can usually catch it. 
<Random_Nerd> But if they don't really even know where to start, it's not their strong suit. 
<Brian> (Just like Every PC Ever, actually) 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, they're not /bad/ at tracking. They have a bit of skill in it. They have Aspect 1 or so. 
<DanteE> (He's a PC? That explains everything!) 
<Random_Nerd> They're better than /I/ am. 
<Random_Nerd> But he doesn't seem to be finding the Excrucian's trail. 
<human-Kite> (The excrucian sank into the floor of the bathroom, right? Did we check for a basement?) 
<Random_Nerd> Possibly because the excrucian can do Lesser Destruction of Signs Of Where I've Been at will! 
<Random_Nerd> (You did. There isn't one.) 
<Random_Nerd> (At least, not immediately below the bathroom.) 
<DanteE> (No, we followed the nimble jack.) 
<human-Kite> (Kite followed the clumsy jack.) 
<Ftisk> (I lookend around and asked the vicinity's camera) 
<DanteE> (AutoCorrect.) 
<DanteE> (Connecting via my iPad.) 
<Brian> (...) 
<DanteE> (On the other hand, it does have voice recognition.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack work for Lord Entropy and then get kidnapped by a Strategist.) 
<Random_Nerd> So! What Do You Do? 
* DanteE flies down to the nimblejack. 
<Theresa> (I do a GDiv of area plants, looking for the Excrucian.) 
<Ftisk> (Follow hurting to the NOTGoogle glass plant?) 
<DanteE> "Do you actually know where he is?" 
<Random_Nerd> The Excrucian hasn't gone anywhere near plants, since he went underground. 
<Random_Nerd> Although, that says something. Plants are in lots of places. 
<human-Kite> No roots? 
<Random_Nerd> None that got a good look at him. 
<Random_Nerd> But roots can't see through dirt. 
<DanteE> And we are in the city. 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> But it's a college town, with a fair number of trees and the like. 
<Random_Nerd> If he was above ground and on the streets, plants would have seen him. 
<Theresa> "I'm not seeing him and my plants can't either. He's underground and I can't see through dirt." 
<DanteE> (Are we together?) 
<Theresa> (Probably, given time to catch up.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Brian and Kite are near the bathroom, you, Ftisk, and Theresa are following the nimblejack.) 
<Brian> (then I might as well be in-scene too?) 
<Brian> (sure, ok :)) 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack is getting outside Theresa's ability to keep up, anyway. 
<human-Kite> "Brian. Where did they go?" 
<DanteE> "Maybe he made like in every FPS ever and went to the sewers." 
<Theresa> "Probably. Do you want to lose the nimblejack down there?" 
<Random_Nerd> The sewers aren't big enough for a human being of normal size to run through. 
<Brian> "Um. Which they?" 
<Ftisk> And machines, machines are everywhere, he is in a place with a switch? a light? Something made of 2 or more pieces? (Greater machinery divination) 
<DanteE> "We definitely don't want him loose here." 
<Random_Nerd> He is not. 
<Random_Nerd> So that seriously narrows down where he is. No machines, no plants. 
<DanteE> A cave? 
<Random_Nerd> (It also implies that he knows what you guys' estates are.) 
<Theresa> "Should we just let him go? We need to make sure Ftisk is fixed up." 
<Ftisk> (is still hurting) 
<Theresa> (And he knows that we are highly susceptible to something weird running across our paths.) 
<Ftisk> "I still feel the pain Theresa, is not over" 
<Brian> "The Excrucian went that way *points* but I don't know where it is, and the rest of the Team is over there *points*" 
<Random_Nerd> You still haven't really done anything to stop the damage or rectify the harm that's been done. 
<Theresa> (And here's a thought to ponder...how are we going to send the nimblejack back?) 
<DanteE> (You talking about the attack or the nimble Jack?) 
<Theresa> "Let's bring the nimblejack back to the Glass place and fix both him and Ftisk." 
<DanteE> ( Glass place?) 
<Ftisk> "I approve!" 
<Random_Nerd> The Ungoogle place is currently roped off and being evacuated by firemen. 
* DanteE flies off to grab the nimblejack 
<human-Kite> "Let's go back to the....the....oh molt." 
<Random_Nerd> How? 
<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack is currently moving very fast indeed. 
<Theresa> (The place where the google glasses were from.) 
<Random_Nerd> Your flying gift is fast, but not Aspect 7 fast. 
<DanteE> He's going in circles, right? 
* Theresa will do a LAnimation of plants around or near the Nimblejack to tell him to return to Plant's Regal. 
<Random_Nerd> Spiral, more. 
<Random_Nerd> So you can keep him in sight. 
<Random_Nerd> But catching him is a little trickier. Just stopping him, for one thing. 
* human-Kite looks around for the closest person with the ungoogle device. 
<Random_Nerd> And he's moving erratically enough, leaping from building to telephone pole to power cables, that it's hard to predict where exactly he /will/ be in twenty seconds. 
<Random_Nerd> I'm not saying you can't do it. But I am asking how. 
<Random_Nerd> What are you having the plants say? 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa. 
<DanteE> Because I didn't put anything into parkour skill 
<Theresa> They will say "Nimblejack. Nimblejack. Nimblejack. Return to Plant's Regal." 
<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack stops in mid-leap, tilts his head for a moment, and then races back toward Theresa like a grim and gritty reimagining of Sonic the Hedgehog. 
<human-Kite> (Scratch previous action. Kite is going to find a place to discretely transform into a bird.) 
* DanteE rejoins the others. 
* Theresa will head back to the others as well. 
<DanteE> (Too bad you don't have phonebooths anymore.) 
<Random_Nerd> Duck back into the bathroom! 
<DanteE> Or go through a revolving door really fast! 
* human-Kite ducks back into the bathroom. 
<human-Kite> (Sadly, Kite doesn't have superspeed without cost.) 
<DanteE> (Name that reference.) 
=-= human-Kite is now known as Kite 
<Theresa> (Hmm, forget the revolving door.) 
<Brian> "welcome to your true form again Kite. Where are we off to?" 
<Theresa> (Have we gotten back to Brian and Kite?) 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack leaps down from a roof and lands at Therea's feet. 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack, bellowing in a loud but high-pitched and scratchy voice: "VOILA!" 
<DanteE> Remind me what they look like? 
<Theresa> (...) 
<Theresa> (Damn it. GM point.) 
* Ftisk spill some oils/blood in a conjured cup 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Like half-human-half-monkeys with really long arms and legs, and demonic traits in their faces and hands. 
<Brian> (so not quite like the Thin Men from XCom?) 
<Theresa> "Hello! The Excrucian is in a place where there are no plants and no machinery, so he is probably in the sewers. We can return you to the place you were resting before the Excrucian moved you to the bathroom, if you wish." 
<Random_Nerd> (Haven't played the new one. *googles*) 
<Random_Nerd> (No, not really.) 
<Random_Nerd> (More like what you'd get if you crossed Lesson, a monkey, and the Slenderman.) 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "...Hunting!" 
<Random_Nerd> It skitters back and forth. "Hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt." 
<DanteE> "So, we're going to deal with the attack and deal with the attacker later?" 
<Random_Nerd> It sniffs Theresa's feet. 
<Brian> (brick brick brick brick brick?) 
<DanteE> "Well, we know he went down from the bathroom." 
<Theresa> (Crap, I've got the Huntsman theme in my head now...) 
<Kite> "Can we make it so that lengthy use of the device can cause hallucinations? 
<Theresa> "Yes, but we can't pass through solid ground into the sewers." *to Kite, Brian and everyone* "Should we let the nimblejack loose in the sewers?" 
<Ftisk> "yay, wanna be super" 
<Random_Nerd> (How can that possibly go wrong?) 
<Brian> "There's so very many worse places to let loose a nimblejack." 
* Kite shrugs. "It's better there than up here." 
<DanteE> "Including where we're standing." 
<Brian> "And few better." 
<Brian> "on the other hand, it is best not to let loose a nimblejack." 
<DanteE> Who's around? 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack looks up at you, puzzled. You have gone close to a /minute/ without telling it to hunt something or trying to kick it. 
<Brian> "If you care about things like civilians and the scenery." 
<Random_Nerd> You're in the storage room at the florist's. The clerk appears to have gone somewhere else. 
<DanteE> "Theresa, can I get a backpack?" 
<Ftisk> (the clerk was Ftisk-ed last session) 
<DanteE> "Student style." 
<Brian> (you like hunting, don't you, nimblejack. Well, see the Excrucian? See him? You want him? Go! Hunt! ... */talking to puppy voice*) 
* Theresa will look around for a way down into the sewers. 
<Random_Nerd> (Yep. You don't know where she ran off after that.) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, there's plumbing. 
<Theresa> "How big of a backpack, Ftisk?" 
<Ftisk> (but are tiny real like tubes or like film ones?) 
<Ftisk> "uh? bigger is Better T!" 
<Theresa> (Brian - small problem. He (and we) doesn’t know where the Excrucian went to. And he can pass through solid matter.) 
<DanteE> "Big enough to hold our friend here discreetly." 
<Brian> (yeah. No telling it to hunt :)) 
<DanteE> (Me, not Ftisk) 
<Theresa> (The Excrucian can pass through the solid matter, not the nimblejack. I think.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The nimblejack is much faster, but can't pass through walls.) 
* Theresa makes a backpack that can hold three Ftisks. And a can of energy drink. 
<Random_Nerd> (At least, without a sledgehammer and some time.) 
<Ftisk> (I can resize the njack) 
<DanteE> To the nimblejack: "Tell you what – we'll go look for something you can hunt and then we'll let you after it. 
* Theresa will go outside to look for a manhole cover. 
<DanteE> "But first you have to hide, so" you can sneak up on it. 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack nods. About thirteen times, in under a second. 
<Random_Nerd> He looks like a very affirmative woodpecker. 
* Ftisk change nimblejack shape to a rat size Spider 
<Brian> (wow :)) 
<DanteE> "Okay, Hide in this backpack." 
<Random_Nerd> It leaps in. 
* DanteE puts on the backpack. Just your average college student. 
<Theresa> (... Guys, we are not going to keep him. No one is going to look at Theresa and explain how it followed us back home...) 
<Random_Nerd> Then it starts chewing on the interior of the backpack. But not trying to gnaw a hole through, just for something to do. 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa finds a manhole cover! 
<Brian> (... stop denying it :D) 
<Ftisk> "T. can you make a saddle for MY nimbleSpider? 
<Theresa> (Someone has to get a nimblejack chew toy. Or something for it to cuddle.) 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider Chew! 
<Brian> (Ariadne! ... but the not alive ariadne) 
* Ftisk give my oil to the nimble spider 
<Theresa> (Oh guys, this is hilarious here in real life, listening to RN. :D ) 
<Random_Nerd> (The nimblejack has wound levels, it could resist with one. But it doesn't bother.) 
<DanteE> "What's your name, by the way?" 
* Kite Assembles a toy cat from floral wire 
<Brian> (what's he saying IRL?) 
<Kite> "Here." 
<Random_Nerd> The Nimblespider? 
<Random_Nerd> "Hunt hunt hunt hunt ambush jump hunt rawwwr!" Very softly. 
<Theresa> ("What is _with_ you guys?!? It keeps _happening_!!!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, me.) 
<Ftisk> (yep, I'll anchor my new mount) 
<Brian> (that's hilarious. And I think it's Nobilis, not us) 
<Theresa> "Ftisk, I can't make a saddle. Those are made out of leather." 
<Random_Nerd> (Quick! Kill a cow!) 
* Theresa will pull up the manhole cover and call for the others to come over. 
<DanteE> "Do you have a nickname?" 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack doesn't seem to respond. 
<Theresa> (_Can_ you anchor a nimblejack?) 
<Random_Nerd> (What bond to the nimblejack do you have?) 
<Ftisk> "Wery well , I'll ride him nature" 
<Random_Nerd> (Also, be aware that it would count as a miraculous anchor, because it has character points and so on in its own right.) 
<Ftisk> (no bond at the moment, will change mine to add one like I really like my new mount!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, the "take a wound to get a bond" trick. What's your new bond?) 
<DanteE> (Careful, you're about to fight !) 
<Ftisk> (no, the reshuffle your bonds and make space for this new one trick, I believe is doable, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Let me see.) 
<DanteE> (You want to respec on the fly?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You can do that during downtime.) 
<Ftisk> (IF Possible I'll lower my to gnomely 4 to Gomely3 and add to my nimbleSpider 1) 
<Random_Nerd> (But on the fly, you have to take a wound.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Page 209.) 
<Ftisk> (ah, then I take a wound) 
<Random_Nerd> (And page 176.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. What's your new Bond?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Does Ftisk have any Surface wound levels left?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Err, Normal health levels.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sorry, mixing up wound levels and health levels for a moment.) 
<Ftisk> (I real ... yes I have one normal left) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. Bond!) 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider skitter! 
<Ftisk> (new bond: my nimbleSpider) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay! Ftisk anchored a nimblejack! Theresa found a manhole! 
<Ftisk> (woot!) 
* Kite steals some scissors and colorful foil from the florist 
<Theresa> (Hey V, you're the artist...can you picture in your head a snail with one Excrucian eye riding a spider-sized nimblejack?) 
<DanteE> (I have a nimblejack in my backpack! Life is weird!) 
<Theresa> "Come on, guys, I have a way down into the sewers!" 
<Ftisk> (the spider is rat size! don't forget!) 
<Brian> "Life is the way it is every day" 
<Kite> (I thought the nimblejack was turned into a rat-sized spider....but yeah.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It /so/ should have.) 
* DanteE makes sure he knows which direction he went 
<Random_Nerd> How? 
<Ftisk> to Theresa: "Ok, no saddle, but bridles? Spider the size of a rat fitting ones?" 
<DanteE> Well, he ran Into the bathroom and then went down through the floor. So, that way. 
<Random_Nerd> (But presumably there's two ways he could have gone from there...) 
<DanteE> Let's just say I keep track of where we are starting. 
<Kite> "Do I need to assemble a drill?" 
<Theresa> "Right now, I think that he would chew through them, Ftisk. You would need to figure out a way to communicate with him until we can find something he won't chew through." 
<Theresa> "Kite, I hope not. We'd probably hit a gas or water main." 
* Theresa will go down the manhole into the sewers! 
<Kite> "Meh." 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Ftisk> "uhm... well .. yeah.. communicate, right!" 
<Random_Nerd> It doesn't smell very good down there! 
<Brian> "..." 
<DanteE> "Oh, this will end well." 
<Random_Nerd> As for the actual sewers, you could crawl through them, or really hunch your shoulders, but not move quickly on foot. 
<DanteE> "Anyway, right underneath the bathroom is over here." 
<Kite> "Give him the manhole cover to gnaw on." 
<Random_Nerd> Unless you're a nimblejack. 
<Kite> Bird Kite is shorter than human Kite! 
<Random_Nerd> Kite can do it. 
<DanteE> "Come on out, Muncher." 
<Ftisk> "Free my mount! We will check the place in no time!" 
* DanteE lets the nimblejack out 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack skitter! 
* Kite descends. 
<Random_Nerd> It's even creepier now, somehow. 
<Random_Nerd> Imagine a really big spider, moving at ten times normal spider speed. 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider: "Screee!" 
* Ftisk jump on the spider back "Joho! Silver! Hunt the excrucian!" 
<Brian> "..." 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay! So... you're doing a Treasure miracle now, I presume.) 
<DanteE> Okay, how can us human-sized folks get through there? 
<Brian> "wow." 
<Random_Nerd> Stop being human-sized, stop being human-shaped, turn immaterial, uh... lie on your stomach and hover? 
<Ftisk> (nope with treasure 0 I will not do a treasure miracle atm. just fluff) 
<Kite> "Its name is Silver, now?" 
* Theresa will Elemental turn into a walking tree of appropriate size! 
<Random_Nerd> (Then it's not going to be very fast.) 
<Ftisk> "Isn't Silver the lone ranger's horse name?" 
<Kite> (It is! Kite has never watched the Lone Ranger.) 
<Kite> "Is it?" 
<Ftisk> "IT IS!" 
<Random_Nerd> (When it's a miraculous anchor of yours, unless you trigger the Treasure 6 miracle, it isn't going to help you out.) 
<Kite> "Why is your spider named after a horse named after a metal?" 
<Kite> "No wait. I don't have time to know this." 
<Ftisk> "Is a nick name, later will came to a good name for him" 
* Kite proceeds through the sewers. 
<Ftisk> "like why all cats are called here here lil kitten?" 
<DanteE> "Why is a metal snail writing a nimble Jack morphed into a rat-sized spider? 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblespider runs, but at normal spider speed. 
<Ftisk> "Because is cool?" 
* DanteE tries floating through the corridor horizontally 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
* Theresa will Ent her way through the tunnel. 
<Random_Nerd> I'm going to just skip past the logistics of you guys searching the sewer, and cut to the part where you find something interesting. 
<Random_Nerd> A hole, going straight down, carved into the bottom of the pipe. 
<Ftisk> (this is a case were dimension count!) 
<DanteE> (Thank you.) 
<Ftisk> "Anyone? who want to be miniaturized? I can do it!" 
<Theresa> (May I, using roots that grab into any crevice and can hold, climb down the side of the hole?) 
<Brian> "nope. nope nope nope. Not with that thing." 
<Kite> "I'm not certain, but I think this hole will disrupt how the water should flow." 
<Random_Nerd> It totally is. 
<Random_Nerd> Stuff's draining down that isn't supposed to. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm... yes, Theresa can. 
<Random_Nerd> The hole is about big enough for an adult human. 
<Random_Nerd> If it's an adult human who doesn't have to worry about being splattered. 
<Kite> (Is the hole large enough for Kite to glide down?) 
<Random_Nerd> It's about a meter wide. 
<Ftisk> I'll and my spider will walk on one hole's side and descend 
<Random_Nerd> What kind of bird is Kite? 
<Kite> He's most similar to a great blue heron....with metal feathers. 
<DanteE> Can I carry someone while flying? 
<Random_Nerd> Sure. 
<Random_Nerd> Eh. I can't really envision a heron gliding down a meter-wide hole without it ending badly. 
<Random_Nerd> So, you'd have to use Aspect or a flight skill. 
<DanteE> "Brian, Hop on my back." 
<Kite> Makes sense. 
<Ftisk> (I can reshape Kite for free) 
<Brian> "I still don't quite like the idea of being around a spiderjack." 
<Random_Nerd> Spiderjack: "Scree!" 
<Ftisk> (like miniKite) 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, what's your Aspect? 
<Brian> "see?" *shudders* 
<Kite> "Ftisk! Please make me a..." 
<Kite> (1) 
* Ftisk pat spiderJack 
<Brian> (afk) 
<DanteE> "The spiderjack wouldn't like being around us if he knew our reputation." 
<Kite> (I have Heron-like Bird as a skill...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Mmm. You can do it, but it's gonnna be really awkward-looking, Kite.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah. Then only moderately awkward-looking!) 
<Kite> (Does his Passion of "I like to explore" (1) help?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not at the same time as the skill.) 
* Ftisk reshape Kite into a heron big like a robin 
<Random_Nerd> (But this'll suffice, and you won't look quite like a duck in a tumble-dryer on the way down.) 
<Kite> (Yay!) 
<Random_Nerd> So! You guys reach the bottom of the hole! 
<Random_Nerd> It goes all the way down to bedrock, and some distance into that. 
<Random_Nerd> No water seeping into it, though, other than that from the sewer. 
<Kite> "Hmmm..." 
<Random_Nerd> Possibly he did something to cause that. 
* Theresa will Entwalk down the hole. 
<Random_Nerd> At the bottom, it turns into a smooth-walled tunnel, tall enough for an adult human to run in. 
<Brian> (b) 
<Ftisk> "Weird tube... Silver did you smell it?" 
<DanteE> "Well, this isn't ominous." 
* Theresa will go back to human. 
<Kite> "Shall we run?" 
* Ftisk reshape back Kite to kite shape 
<Ftisk> "Run I say!" 
<Kite> "Thank you, Ftisk." 
* Ftisk smile at Kite 
<DanteE> "Should make your mount bigger first." 
=-= Kite is now known as human-Kite 
* human-Kite runs down the corridor. 
<Random_Nerd> There aren't any footprints, but there's only one way he could have gone... 
<Random_Nerd> Until you get to the point where the tunnel forks. 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack shakes its head as much as a spider can. 
<Random_Nerd> In response to ftisk's comment. 
<Ftisk> (with treasure 0 can I communicate with my anchor?) 
<Ftisk> (always skipped treasure sections on the rules :-/) 
<DanteE> "We need to be careful, we'll be on his turf." 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, you can.) 
<Theresa> "Yeah, but he has a head start!" 
<Ftisk> "Spider, let's split! We can stay in contact and follow each one a led. Who go with me and who go with him?" 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider skitter. 
<DanteE> "You want to split the party?" 
<Ftisk> "why not, this is real life not D&D" 
<human-Kite> "Ftisk can communicate with his spiders." 
* human-Kite follows Silver 
<Brian> "Remember, Dante plays D&D every Tuesday with Lesson and company. He knows Tunnel Etiquette" 
<Ftisk> "And we can pray to each other if we need/wish" 
<Ftisk> "Dante, who have the tank? Lesson? The Imp? Nah, the imp is the trickster, uhm..." 
<Theresa> (Yes. Tunnel Etiquette calls for the expendable one to go first. ^^ ) 
<Random_Nerd> Down the Ftisk tunnel, about a hundred meters in, one of the walls is flat rather than rounded, and letters are carved into it. "DISTRACTION" 
<Random_Nerd> Same distance down the other one. "YES. I CAME THIS WAY." 
<Theresa> (I will be going the way opposite of Ftisk.) 
<Ftisk> "Distraction ... well, that leave the other one" to Silver "Your tunnel is the right one. RUN and catch the excrucian!" 
<Brian> (I'll go with Ftisk) 
<Brian> "Ftisk, it's the distraction that's the distraction 
<human-Kite> "This....what? Silver, please relay this carving to Ftisk." 
<Theresa> How's the other tunnel? 
<DanteE> (I'll have gone with Silver...) 
<Theresa> (Oh, never mind.) 
<Random_Nerd> Other than that, and that they go off at 90 degree angles from each other, the two tunnels are identical. 
<Ftisk> "The distraction tunnel, finish there ? or continue?) 
<Random_Nerd> Both continue onward. 
<DanteE> "I'm thinking this is way too obvious." 
<Theresa> "Probably, but all we can do is follow. Although he could have gone through the walls at any time." 
<human-Kite> "I don't know how many levels of deceit this Excrucian is working with." 
<DanteE> (And I guess I'm with Theresa) 
<Ftisk> "return back or is that a bogus signal? 
<DanteE> "Still think this guy knows Ftisk's associates?" 
<Ftisk> "the other tunnel have also a message Brian that say that the excru was there" 
* human-Kite slips into border mythic 
<Random_Nerd> In the border-mythic, you are... in a tunnel! But it's a slightly more dungeony tunnel. 
<Brian> "'s a bogus symbol Ftisk." 
<Random_Nerd> It's still not exactly exciting. 
<Ftisk> "well, let's continue then" 
<Random_Nerd> Looking for anything in particular, Kite? 
<Theresa> "Dante, can you tell in which direction we're heading in?" 
<human-Kite> Looking for the attitude of the tunnel....unless I'd have to go full mythic for that. 
<DanteE> "You're confusing me with a dwarf." 
<Random_Nerd> Neither tunnel has any particular history to it. They both got carved out less than an hour ago. 
<Random_Nerd> Mmm... the bedrock /hurts/. 
<Random_Nerd> Having Worldbreaker's Hand used on you doesn't feel very nice. 
<human-Kite> "Hmmm..." 
<Theresa> "Pshaw. I haven't asked you about gold _once_." 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you get to the end of your tunnel. 
<Random_Nerd> It stops abruptly and then goes straight up. 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, yours does the same. 
<Ftisk> "Brian did you have a mean to climb?" 
<DanteE> "I wondered where the exit was..." 
<Brian> "Um. No?" 
* human-Kite sighs. 
* Ftisk resize Brian so he can ride my spider too 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and at the end of the "distraction" tunnel, in small letters "BY THE WAY, I WAS TELLING THE TRUTH EARLIER." 
<Random_Nerd> At the end of the other one, "BY THE WAY, I WAS LYING EARLIER." 
<DanteE> "I think this leads to either a trap-filled lair or the surface. 
<Brian> "Ack!" 
<Theresa> "Could be both." 
* Theresa will change back into Entness and climb up. 
* DanteE picks up T and the spider and flies up 
<Ftisk> I let the spider climb carring me and Brian 
<DanteE> Spider's with us, Ftisk 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, it opens out in the middle of the street. You don't actually get hit by a car, because you have superhuman timing and hearing. 
<Ftisk> (damn, you are right Dante) 
<Random_Nerd> The other one... same thing. Just, a different street. 
* DanteE drops the others 
<Random_Nerd> (Kite has the spider.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ftisk doesn't.) 
<human-Kite> (Right) 
* Ftisk fly up and then reshape into a ladder for Brian 
<human-Kite> (I thought Dante came with me and the spider.) 
<human-Kite> (Oh....wait.) 
<human-Kite> (nevermind) 
<DanteE> Pray: Ftisk, where are you? 
<Brian> (erm. That's odd.) 
<Ftisk> to Dante: Yo Dante, I'm climbing a tunnel upward 
<Theresa> "We _were_ quite distracted after this guy went into the bathroom." 
<DanteE> Pray back: We did the same thing, wound up in the street. Don't get run over. 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone makes it out. Nobody gets hit by a car. 
<Random_Nerd> You're about a mile away from the original location, and a third of a mile apart. 
<human-Kite> "I don't like this town. When this is over, may we try to convince a Fallen Angel to enChancel it" 
<human-Kite> ? 
<Ftisk> "ahah, nah, never liked to become roadkill, Me are better steamed and then served in a plate! arr arr!" 
<DanteE> "No need for that, it's just the bad guys are making it bad." 
<DanteE> "Speaking of which... Muncher? Any sign of the Excrucian?" 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and of course, a fair few people in the area have their notgoogle glasses on. 
<human-Kite> "Then maybe we can get a Fallen Angel to enChancel the bad guys." 
<Ftisk> (I can let the spiderJack grab that town as his lair) 
<DanteE> "They are trying to." 
<Random_Nerd> (You guys have better senses than the nimblejack does.) 
* human-Kite waves to the people with the glasses on. 
<Brian> (Noogle?) 
* Theresa will GDiv plants in the area for the Excru. 
<Brian> (Nugle?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Eh... Moogle.) 
<human-Kite> (Name get!) 
<Random_Nerd> What are you checking to see if they've seen? 
<human-Kite> "Haven't you heard? The Moogle center went under lockdown just after they discovered that the Moogle glasses cause hallucinations and brain damage!" 
<human-Kite> "I was there when it happened!" 
<Random_Nerd> They look at you strangely. 
<Theresa> To see if they've seen the Excrucian/someone with stars in their eyes/someone who came out of this tunnel (or the other one) besides us... 
<Random_Nerd> Some seem to subvocalize a bit. 
<Random_Nerd> No plants saw someone come out of the hole. 
<Random_Nerd> No plants saw someone with stars in their eyes. 
<Random_Nerd> No plants saw someone meeting the description of the Excrucian. 
<Ftisk> (say that to Ftisk, I can fill the net with that true story!) 
* human-Kite prayerphones to Ftisk: "Can you make a news story on a news website about the Moogle device causing hallucinations and brain damage?" 
<Ftisk> prayback "Sure!" 
<human-Kite> F: "Thanks! Let me know the site!" 
<Theresa> "Crud. No plants saw the Excrucian. We may have to just take care of Ftisk and go home." 
<DanteE> "Obviously kite has something in mind." 
* Ftisk do 12 lesser Data Creation on the 12 most popular news sites with the report that Moogle glass cause hallucinations and fits on the users 
<Random_Nerd> Done. 
<DanteE> Question: could Theresa make that stuff that grows on rye and causes hallucinations? 
<DanteE> Ergot 
<human-Kite> F: "We may have to fabricate some data from scientific tests to back it up later." 
<human-Kite> (The fungus?) 
<Theresa> (Hmm..it's a fungus. No chlorophyll.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Theresa can only make stuff that photosynthesizes.) 
<Ftisk> "Yep, that is not a problem K" 
<DanteE> "Maybe not, if we can cause some symptoms..." 
<human-Kite> to the Moogle users: "Seriously! Check the major news sites!" 
<DanteE> Quietly, to T: "Maybe something that causes symptoms but won't stay?" 
<Random_Nerd> Some of them seem to be checking it. 
<Random_Nerd> One guy reaches up to take his off, hesitates for a moment, and then does so. 
<human-Kite> "Or don't, because the device will wreck your brain." 
<Random_Nerd> He seems a bit disoriented afterward. 
<DanteE> "Hit one or to people with it in very public settings..." 
<human-Kite> "You alright, guy?" 
<Theresa> "Or could just have them see a flying snail and then their data-playback doesn't show said snail..." 
<Ftisk> (I record the difference in that peoples hat remove Moogle glass for future uses) 
<Ftisk> *that 
<human-Kite> "You aren't seeing any giant spiders or talking birds or anything?" 
<DanteE> To Kite: "I think we'll need to hit their infrastructure, just in case." 
<human-Kite> "Agreed, Dante." 
<Random_Nerd> (Record what difference?) 
<Random_Nerd> The guy appears mildly confused, and increasingly agitated. 
<DanteE> "Wait, you can do that." 
<Random_Nerd> He keeps starting to whisper things to himself, and then stopping. 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "I... need to go home." 
<Ftisk> (the difference in brain work from a normal not moogle glass wearing people and one that just removed one) 
<Random_Nerd> He looks around confusedly. 
<Theresa> "Could it be possible that they become addicted? Or that it becomes like DA?" 
<human-Kite> "Drink some chamomile tea. I hear it helps with things." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. How are you checking brain activity?) 
<DanteE> "You can become addicted to anything pleasurable. 
<Ftisk> (with Data?) 
<DanteE> "That's how humans... How _we're_ wired." 
<Random_Nerd> (Mmm... let me look at the estate properties.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Eh, it's not really stored information, and it is "live." I don't think it really counts.) 
<DanteE> (OBTW don't forget my ongoing struggle with keeping my humanity. :p ) 
<Ftisk> (ok, nevermind then) 
<Ftisk> "addiction, that have potentia Theresa" 
<Ftisk> "Erm, I mean Dante, sorry" 
<human-Kite> (Kite thinks it's a silly struggle, Dante. :P) 
<DanteE> "Do you really want them to go through withdrawal, though?" 
<Theresa> (Well, if they start seeing spiders crawling all over them...) 
<human-Kite> "They have organizations for that, right? Like Alcoholizers Omnibus?" 
<Ftisk> "Sure why not, is for the better of my estate" 
<human-Kite> "But we can deal with the withdrawal later." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.) 
<Random_Nerd> (We're pretty much on the transition between the "chase the Excrucian" scene and the "figure out what to do" one.) 
<DanteE> "Alcoholics Anonymous. And those 12-step things don't work long-term." 
<Random_Nerd> (Should we keep going, or call it a night soon?) 
<Brian> (call it a night, I suggest) 
<Ftisk> "I can make so that wearing a Moogle glass will cause peoples to see spiders crawling on them." 
<DanteE> (Well, what we're doing is screwing with him.) 
<Theresa> (Call it a night soon. I'm out of brain juice and strawberries. (I recommend the sweetened condensed milk.)) 
<Ftisk> "Better nibleSpiders! I have the perfect model!" 
<Ftisk> (call it a night!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. Anything before we stop?) 
<Brian> (I want strawberries and sweetened condensed milk, now, Beth. >_<) 
<DanteE> (Okay, we can call it a night.) 
<human-Kite> (I don't have anything to add.) 
<DanteE> (OOC I can advise them on the "best" symptoms) 
<DanteE> (Er, off-screen, not OOC) 
<Theresa> (Brian - *pat pat pat*) 
<human-Kite> (sounds good to me if Dante advises on symptoms) 
<Random_Nerd> ____________STOP_______________ 
<Theresa> So once again we take a background character and drag them into the front and love them and hug them and call them George? 
<human-Kite> (sounds good to me if we stop :P) 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
=-= human-Kite is now known as Verithe 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<DanteE> You mean Muncher? :) 
<Angelo> 1) playing ill is hard 
<Verithe> and Silver 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Angelo> 2 the nimblespider is not programmed 
<Knockwood> Same char 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
<Angelo> 3 never read a line on how treasure work 
<BethE> Oh I'm sorry to hear that you're not feeling well, Angelo. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, now that you have a miraculous anchor, it may be useful to do so! 
<Knockwood> Severe pasta deficiency. :p 
<Random_Nerd> Unless we'd rather just treat him as a wondrous anchor. 
<Angelo> nah, I really want the spider for coolness, that is a miraculous anchor is something like a side effect. 
<lazarus> so, what were you muttering about, exactly, earlier, RN? :p 
<Angelo> but reading a bit on treasure is in order now 
<Angelo> yes, we want to know! 
<Random_Nerd> Muttering about when? 
<Random_Nerd> I mutter a lot. 
* Random_Nerd mutters. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, right. 
<Angelo> when Beth write that you was muttering 
<Random_Nerd> That whenever I introduce an NPC that's moderately evil, you adopt it as a pet. 
<Knockwood> That part about traveling cross-country and murdering your players 
<Random_Nerd> No, that was last session. 
<lazarus> :D ^_^. Admit it, you enjoy it, RN, making them cute and such? 
<Angelo> seconded 
<BethE> He doesn't have to travel that far to kill all of them... 
<Knockwood> Hello? 
<Random_Nerd> It just kinda happens! 
<Angelo> yes knock 
<Random_Nerd> Really, you guys are oddly kinda close to the new version of Hell. 
<Knockwood> No rep she 
<Knockwood> No response for a while. 
<Knockwood> And what do you mean? 
<Verithe> For serious! 
<Verithe> We love all the painful things 
<lazarus> well, we don't hurt them, unlike the Hellites. 
<Random_Nerd> New Hell is about loving the things that are screwed up. 
<Random_Nerd> Just as they are. 
<Angelo> don't tell to Ftisk .. he may even convert to try it for a bit 
<Verithe> I really like New Hell. 
<Verithe> I actually really like most of the new versions of the factions. 
<Knockwood> Oh yeah 
<lazarus> going to log out now. good game guys, see you next week. 
<Random_Nerd> G'night. 
<Knockwood> Cya laz 
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<Angelo> nigfht L 
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<Verithe> G'night! 
<Knockwood> G'night guys 
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<Angelo> nn all 
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<BethE> Night, guys! *HUG* 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]

Session 252

2014-01-02T14:32:40Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]] 
Thanks to Random_Nerd for providing the log I lost. 
 
Session Start: Thu May 30 20:36:49 2013 
Session Ident: #Nobilis 
* Now talking in #Nobilis 
* Topic is 'GASPS ABOUND! ' 
* Set by Verithe on Thu May 30 20:26:28 
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<Random_Nerd> Hey., 
<Etheric> Evening, all. 
<BethE> Hi Etheric! 
<Etheric> I studied. When's the pop quiz? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay... 
<Random_Nerd> What does Divine Mantle do? 
<BethE> Spend up to your Domain in any MP and you get Miraculous and Mundane Edge for that scene and for four hours. Reflexive action. And you're Awesome. 
<BethE> The Edge is up to that Domain amount. 
<Verithe> I did not brain it that well. Beth's summary has enlightened me. 
<Random_Nerd> Heh. 
<Random_Nerd> Any questions on the rules? 
<Etheric> I'm a bit unclear on how Aspect and Treasure are supposed to work together. 
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<Knockwood> HI guys 
<BethE> Hi Knock! 
<Etheric> You can use them together if you sustain one miracle, but doesn't that take a miraculous action to sustain it? 
<Etheric> in which case you'd only have a mortal action and couldn't use Aspect... 
<Etheric> Or am I reading it all wrong? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. How to put it. 
<Random_Nerd> You can use a treasure miracle, and then use aspect to guide it. You can't activate both at once. 
<Random_Nerd> If you're doing that, you /aren't/ doing anything else, as that's your two simultaneous actions. 
<Random_Nerd> You /can/ activate a treasure miracle and a mundane action to use it, at the same time. 
<Random_Nerd> Lemme find something I once wrote on this. 
<Random_Nerd> http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?603181-Nobilis-Elegant-Discussion-Thread-Part-the-Ninth&p=15843586#post15843586 
<Random_Nerd> Note that for the mundane action part, I neglected to mention the three miraculous Will you would get for the action. 
<Etheric> Thanks, that helps. :) 
<Etheric> So, is this saying that you can sustain an action and it won't count as an action? Because that's contrary to the chapter on actions... 
<Random_Nerd> What do you mean by "count as an action"? 
<Knockwood> Are you sustaining the bunny's existence? 
<Random_Nerd> In Nobilis 3e, you can be doing up to two things at a time. These may be two mundane actions, two miraculous actions, or one of each. 
<Random_Nerd> But the point is, at any given moment of time, you are not doing more than two things. 
<Random_Nerd> So, you can sustain a bunny's laser eyes, and at the same time use mundane or miraculous actions to manipulate them. 
<Etheric> In all the examples on page 303, sustaining an action counts as one of those two things. 
<Random_Nerd> But you can't do anything else at the time, including stuff like "talk." 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Etheric> You can sustain one mundane action and do one miraculous action, right? Or the converse. 
<Random_Nerd> No. That's... a different thing. 
<Random_Nerd> You can /initiate/ one mundane and one miraculous action at the same time. 
<Random_Nerd> But you can /sustain/ any combination of two. 
<BethE> Ah, I see. The first one is Sustain + Mundane carving while the second one is Sustain + Aspect whittling. 
<Etheric> Er, I'm kind of lost now... 
<Random_Nerd> So, for the aspect whittling, you have to first initiate the laser eyes, and then, later on, use them. 
<Etheric> Are you saying that the two-actions-at-once thing is tracked separately for mundane actions and miraculous actions? 
<Random_Nerd> But with a mundane action for the whittling, you can go from zero to laser-bunny-manipulation in an instant. 
<Random_Nerd> No. The thing about "one mundane and one miraculous" is only about what you can /start/ doing at a given moment. 
<Random_Nerd> It is not the same thing as the rules on what you can be doing at the same time. 
<Knockwood> He's saying 'sustain' is not an 'action' 
<Random_Nerd> This is two different rules, and how they interact, not one single rule. 
<Etheric> RN, is Knock correct? 
<Random_Nerd> Pretty much. 
<BethE> The Second Sustain isn't. 
<Etheric> Because I more or less thought I asked if that was what you meant and you said no... 
<Etheric> but I clearly am not understanding something here 
<Random_Nerd> Like... there are not really "turns" in Nobilis 3e. But there is a "you do a thing, and then the GM describes what happens." 
<Random_Nerd> That "do a thing" can be any of the following. Initiate a miraculous action. Initiate a mundane action. Initiate a miraculous action /and/ a mundane action. 
<Etheric> So, by two rules, you mean the rule that limits actions to two at a time, which includes Intentions, and the rule on sustaining actions? 
<Random_Nerd> But it cannot be two miraculous or two mundane. You cannot start doing those at the same time. 
<Random_Nerd> Note, THIS IS NOT THE RULE THAT YOU CAN ONLY BE DOING TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME. 
<Random_Nerd> See, /that/ rule doesn't care about action types. 
<Etheric> ...That rule was the whole point of my question, though... 
<Random_Nerd> Which one? 
<Etheric> The rule that you can only do two actions at once. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. You can be doing two mundane actions at a time, or two miraculous, or one of each. 
<Etheric> I asked, "Isn't that three actions?" about your example from the RPGnet thread. 
<Random_Nerd> Yes, but not three actions at a time. 
<BethE> You only have to Sustain the bunny the first time you use him. After that, he's always Sustained until you turn it off. 
<Random_Nerd> In the example, first, you do two things at once. Activate laser eyes (Which you sustain) and use them to write your name (which you do not.) 
<Random_Nerd> Next, after that, you keep doing the laser eye thing, and then do an Aspect miracle to whittle a bunny. 
<Random_Nerd> So, three actions, but only two at any specific time. 
<BethE> So you Sustain the bunny, carve the name in the tree with mundane action. Huh, I think I will carve that branch over there into a bunny. So Aspect miracle and carve the bunny across the glen. 
<BethE> Then cancel the Sustain and the bunny is normal and you dance the Macarena. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, I'm explaining this badly, I guess. Lemme find a post on this to link. 
<BethE> (mundanely) 
<Etheric> Alright. Now I'm still confused, but it might be getting a bit clearer. You say that sustaining is not an action. The problem is that Page 303 says otherwise... 
<Etheric> And, to be clear, I'm not saying that to disagree. I want to understand what I'm missing. 
<Random_Nerd> Sustaining is one of your two actions at a time. 
<Random_Nerd> ...of your two actions you can /be doing/ at a time. 
<Random_Nerd> But it doesn't count toward the "actions you can /initiate/ at a time." 
<Etheric> The text that contradicts is, "Specifically, you can maintain ("sustain") one action at a time with no ill effect. You can sustain two actions as long as you don't do anything else." 
<Knockwood> so you can /start/ doing two things, and /keep/ doing two things... 
<Etheric> That directly states that you cannot initiate an action if you are already sustaining two. 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. But you can initiate an action if you are sustaining one. 
<Random_Nerd> And both of /those/ can be miracles, or mundane. 
<Etheric> Right. 
<Knockwood> so, that carving the name thing was _so_ last round. This round I'm carving. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, it's not a matter of "rounds", but basically yes. 
<Random_Nerd> http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?687982-Nobilis-Elegant-Discussion-Thread-Part-Ten&p=16821707#post16821707 
<Knockwood> Maybe if you applied it to us... 
<Etheric> So, there is no longer a limit of one mundane action and one miraculous action. It's just a hard cap of two actions, total? 
<Knockwood> Let's say I think a situation is imperative enough to use that cut-anything sword in my vault o'doom. 
<Random_Nerd> There is a limit in /what you can start doing at one time/ of one mundane and one miraculous. 
<Etheric> Alright. Thanks. 
<Knockwood> How would that work? 
<Random_Nerd> There is not such a limit of what you can /be/ doing at a time. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. You've anchored that sword as a miraculous anchor, right? 
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<Knockwood> Not yet, in game 
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo 
<angelo> Hi! 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, V, I'm going to say some things, and stop me when they stop making sense. 
<Etheric> I have it now, thanks. The two-action limit always applies, but you can sustain a Treasure miracle and then activate an Aspect miracle because that's only two actions. 
<Random_Nerd> Err, Etheric. 
<Verithe> Shoot. 
<Knockwood> STOP! :) 
<Angelo> pew I made it! What I miss? 
<Knockwood> rules discussions 
<Random_Nerd> 1. There is a rule on what you can /start doing/ at any given time. We'll call this Rule A. Rule A says that at any moment, you can start doing one miraculous action, one mundane action, or one of each. 
<Angelo> uhm, ok :-/ 
<Random_Nerd> 2. When you initiate actions like that, you can only do them for a moment, or you can /keep/ doing them. This is called sustaining. 
<Etheric> Right. 
<Knockwood> OK 
<Random_Nerd> 3. There is a rule that you can only /be doing/ up to two actions at a time. We'll call this Rule B. Rule B does not care what the types of the actions are. 
<Random_Nerd> 4. Therefore, if you want to be doing two miraculous actions at once, you can't start all at once. First you have to start sustaining the first action, and then later on start the second action. 
<Verithe> I get it! 
<Verithe> (I think) 
<Verithe> (but I'm pretty sure) 
<Etheric> Okay, yes, that makes sense. :) 
<Random_Nerd> 5. The same applies to two mundane actions. 
<BethE> Angelo - we're going over the types and number of actions you can be doing at one time. 
<Knockwood> wait, can't you 'draw' something and use it in the same round? 
<angelo> I see 
<Knockwood> like your rabbit? 
<Random_Nerd> Not unless one of those actions is mundane, and one is miraculous. 
<Knockwood> oh, that's right... 
<Random_Nerd> Unless drawing and using is the same action. 
<Verithe> Mundane drawing and miraculous use! 
<BethE> Mundane draw and Aspect speed/aim shoot or Aspect speed draw, mundane aim/shoot. 
<Knockwood> carving your name was mundane 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Etheric> Isn't it the same action? It's one Intention. 
<Random_Nerd> Carving the wooden bunny was the aspect thing. 
<BethE> Probably because you're just writing your name on a tree and not carving scrimshaw on an ant. 
<Random_Nerd> Depends how you describe it, I'd say. 
<Etheric> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, "take my gun out of my briefcase and shoot a guy", I'd call that two actions. 
<Random_Nerd> "Draw my sword and slash a guy, using that samurai quickdraw thing I once saw on the Discovery Channel" is probably one. 
<Knockwood> although, what does it mean to sustain a Treasure miracle? 
<Random_Nerd> A lot of treasure miracles related to bringing out the abilities of your anchors. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, if you anchor your everything-cutting sword, then when it's activated and you sustain that activation, it cuts everything. 
<Random_Nerd> When you aren't, it doesn't. 
<Random_Nerd> Or at least it doesn't do so in a way that helps you, or changes things. 
<Knockwood> (Of course, that sword seems to do OK cutting everything without my intervention...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sure... but that's because you haven't anchored it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And, I mean, the fact that right now it's always on is why you never use it.) 
<Knockwood> OK, so, if I have this right... 
<Knockwood> I feel I'll need it for this fight. Round 1, Treasure miracle to summon it... 
<Knockwood> But I can't aspect-swat someone with it this round. 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Knockwood> I can, however, mundanely kick them in the nads. :) 
<Random_Nerd> And you'd need to anchor it to summon it with Treasure. 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Knockwood> 2nd round, I sustain its cut-everything ability... 
<Knockwood> and I can Aspect-swat somebody with it. 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. You don't even need to be holding it to do this. 
<Knockwood> But that takes too much concentration for another nad-stomp. :p 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> And note that this is mechanically different from using "weaponizing anchors" to attack him with it. 
<Knockwood> Huhwah? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, there's the Treasure 5 miracle. "Weaponizing anchors." 
<Random_Nerd> What it does is to say "My anchor helps me, by hurting someone or changing things." 
<Random_Nerd> This doesn't require a mundane or aspect action to use it. It's all one act. 
<Knockwood> Would that mean I can make my sword a 'dancing sword', and do other things? 
<Etheric> ((Forgive me, but I have to AFK a few minutes to get dinner ready.)) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, the "I hurt X, with my anchor" is a discrete act, like "I stab him with my letter-opener." 
<Random_Nerd> This was used against you, recently! 
<Random_Nerd> By the Deceiver. 
<Random_Nerd> He'd anchored the soldiers who listened to him. At one point, he used the "Weaponizing anchors" miracle to get them to shoot you guys. 
<Knockwood> So, I could sustain the dancing sword and do _one_ other thing? 
<Random_Nerd> He did it this way because his Aspect was way worse than his Treasure. 
<Random_Nerd> You could. Although the sword would keep doing the same thing, it wouldn't change it up on the fly. 
<Random_Nerd> Because this is the equivalent of "I keep punching the door" not of "I tactically employ various methods of unarmed combat to subdue my enemy." 
<Knockwood> BTW, I finally did read over the Destiny section 
<Random_Nerd> Because to react on the fly, you need to stop doing the thing that is no longer the right thing, and start doing something more useful. 
<Angelo> wait I believed weaponizing anchor grant the anchor some smartness on how attack the target. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, it does in the sense that the act of attacking, rather than the capacity, is miraculous. 
<Knockwood> I'm thinking in the case of an intelligent anchor it enables them to effectively attack the target... 
<Angelo> like for example anchor Sam and anchor the cutting sword. 
<Random_Nerd> It's often relevant, here, what part of the action actually is the miracle. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, say you have your Wondrous Vorpal Sword. It's very good at cutting things. But you're wielding it with a mundane action. 
<Random_Nerd> This means that the only part that's a miracle is the capacity to cut, not the way you're swinging it. 
<BethE> http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=ILX&region=b4&lat=40.11253738&lon=-88.24627686&label=Champaign%2c%20IL 
<Angelo> Random_Nerd So it's entirely plausible that another Noble could use a less fancy weapon, but an Aspect miracle, to defeat the mundane actions being used to wield it. 
<Angelo> And in anchor Sam case? you upgrade his attack to miraculous?, right? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<BethE> Hey Knock, how does one link to a non-wiki page on the RPG.Net Wiki? 
<Knockwood> oh, that's nice 
<Verithe> If it gets bad, feel free to ditch us and take shelter or something. 
<Knockwood> double square brackets. 
<Random_Nerd> That's the advantage of using Weaponizing Anchors. It makes the miraculous part of the Treasure miracle include the "...and it hurts him" part. 
<BethE> V - no problems. :) We're in a half basement apartment anyhow. 
<BethE> Might lose power, though. 
<Random_Nerd> You don't really need to do that, if you have good Treasure /and/ good Aspect. 
<Verithe> Yay, basements! 
<Random_Nerd> For instance, it wouldn't really make sense for Dante to do it. 
<Random_Nerd> But for folks like the Deceiver, it's a good option. 
<Knockwood> Beth: You can do [[http://link|link text]] IIRC 
<Angelo> and for Ftisk with aspect 2 is also a good option if(when) he use treasure 
<Knockwood> that's a pipe between the link and the text 
<Random_Nerd> *nod* 
<BethE> Heh, looks like when the power flickered was when the National Weather Service announced we were under a Warning instead of the earlier Watch. 
<BethE> Knock - thank you! 
<Knockwood> Anyway, I've created a new Destiny Map... 
<Random_Nerd> Oh? 
<Angelo> question: reading the forum seem like sometimes is better to go with a mundane action instead of a miraculous action .... That clash against my idea that miraculous actions always trump mundane ones... what I'm missing? 
<Knockwood> and considering one of the things is "How (we) Saved the World"--as a Project that supposedly we're all contributing to--it might be a group project itself 
<Random_Nerd> Depends what you want to do, Angelo. 
<Knockwood> (What's your email? I'll share it) 
<Angelo> can you give an example were the mundane action is better? 
<Random_Nerd> For instance, if you're conflicting with a good Auctoritas, and you don't have any relevant bonds, it may be easier that way. 
<Random_Nerd> Or if you want to activate your Abhorrent Goat-Shaving Razor's miraculous ability /and/ start shaving a goat /right now/. 
<Random_Nerd> Also... mundane actions aren't as good as miracles at /succeeding/. But they can be comparably good at /getting you what you want/. 
<Angelo> please explain 
<Random_Nerd> With really high intentions, maybe better. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Is everyone familiar with how mundane actions work? 
<Random_Nerd> Because, see, it isn't a binary succeed/fail thing, like with miracles. 
<Angelo> you have 8 will/day +the ability on sheet 
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<BethE> (Knock...do you know that your anti-spam pictures have consistently asked for the kitten image? Are you sure that some Internet AI that springs forth _wouldn't_ be able to pick out a kitty?) 
<Random_Nerd> See page 151. 
<Knockwood> Damn that's a far-reaching storm 
<Knockwood> (Beth: that's the package. It's called KittenAuth, after all) 
<Random_Nerd> Like, if you have a level 5 intention, your mundane action if not stopped will make you happy, accomplish a task, impress people around you, move you closer to your goals, and make your life better. 
<BethE> (heh. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> This may be more useful, in terms of accomplishing your character's long-term goals, than an Aspect miracle, which just successfully does a thing. 
<Knockwood> (At some point we should make it specific to us... 'Click the d20' or somesuch) 
<Angelo> (how pages work on kindle?) 
<Random_Nerd> Aspect can say "I chop his head off, unless a better miracle says otherwise." 
<Random_Nerd> But Aspect can't say "My attempt to cut his head off makes my life better." 
<Random_Nerd> Okay... uh... search for the text string "the basic chart of difficulties." 
<Random_Nerd> Note, too, that stuff like "makes your life better" doesn't necessarily mean that you succeed in what you're trying to do. 
<Random_Nerd> It just means that you do /something/, and that helps you. 
<Angelo> (found! ty!!!) 
<Random_Nerd> For instance, you could /fail/ at chopping the guy's head off... but then realize that he's your long-lost father in an Excrucian-mask. 
<Knockwood> How would it know? 
<Random_Nerd> It? 
<Angelo> is like an inevitability. No matter how good the action will be that will result in something good for your character. Cool! 
<Knockwood> if you succeed at something Difficulty 5, shouldn't it do what you want rather than arbitrarily fail because of something you're unaware of? 
<Random_Nerd> Nope. None of them say "does what you want." 
<Random_Nerd> It often will... but that's not guaranteed. 
<Random_Nerd> Not in the way it would be with a miracle. 
<Angelo> that part is in RN hand 
<Random_Nerd> Miracles, if they don't get stopped by a better miracle, just work. 
<Random_Nerd> They do what you said you were trying to do. 
<Knockwood> Well... if I've put all that effort into Doing That Action, what is it that determines whether I do it or not? Time? Fate? Destiny? 
<Random_Nerd> Mundane actions don't work that way. 
<Random_Nerd> The GM. 
<Knockwood> oh, all of the above. OK. 
<Random_Nerd> Based on your level of success, and what makes sense. 
<Angelo> ok get it, my hamster with intention 5 can make my life better in some --RN choosed -- way 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Random_Nerd> This is the difference between mundane and miraculous actions. 
<Random_Nerd> Mundane actions will never be guaranteed to successfully do what you wanted to do. 
<Random_Nerd> Miracles will never be guaranteed to make your life better, or do "the right thing". 
<Verithe> Ah 
<Angelo> Action defines an outcome without a path to the result. Miracles do an action "better" without guaranteeing an outcome. 
<Random_Nerd> Pretty much, yeah. 
<Angelo> :-D 
<Random_Nerd> In a weird sort of way, high-end mundane actions are more like imperial miracles than noble miracles are. 
<Knockwood> That would mean we should be doing mundane stuff more often 
<Random_Nerd> Perhaps! 
<Random_Nerd> Depends what you want to do. 
<Knockwood> (And I just sent you a link) 
<Angelo> well there is still treasure 9 - aka Imperial Miracle 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> And some miracles are a bit more like this, like the Treasure 6 "weaving destiny" one. 
<BethE> Okay - my updated Plants page, along with a link to a Google-drawn Project Map. http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Plants_of_the_Third_Age!#Plants 
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<Etheric> ((Back.)) 
<Knockwood> WB 
<Random_Nerd> One moment, need to free up a mind map. 
<Angelo> great graph Beth 
<Knockwood> Actually, like I was telling RN, the Save Creation thing is shared among all of us 
<Knockwood> so it should be 1 big project 
<Etheric> Mind map? Graph? 
<Angelo> Not with me. I have not save creation project 
<Angelo> :-P 
<Random_Nerd> Besides, projects can't really be shared in that sense. 
<BethE> Etheric - I updated my Plants page and added a link to a Google Mind map. http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Plants_of_the_Third_Age!#Plants 
<Random_Nerd> You can have a project that other PCs care about... but at the end of the day, it's only on one person's character sheet. 
<Random_Nerd> So, shall we do at least some in-character stuff? 
<Verithe> Sounds good. 
<Random_Nerd> So! You guys had just walked into the room where the guy you'd talked to was getting his device recalibrated. 
<Random_Nerd> And apparently, this process involves the presence of someone with stars in his eyes! 
* Angelo is now known as Ftisk 
<Ftisk> a sister! 
* Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
* Etheric is now known as Carrie 
<DanteE> she's attacking you, Ftisk. 
<Ftisk> she don’t know/I has been fooled 
<DanteE> ... not that that means she can't be a sister, come to think of it. 
<Ftisk> need to iron out that wrinkle 
<Random_Nerd> [23:37] <Random_Nerd> Mr. Gantry is chatting with two technicians as he adjusts how the glasses-unit sits on his face. 
<Random_Nerd> [23:37] <Random_Nerd> One of the technicians has stars in his eyes. 
* Verithe is now known as human-Kite 
<Random_Nerd> Ready? 
* BethE is now known as Theresa 
<Ftisk> nod nod 
<Random_Nerd> __________START____________ 
<Ftisk> *pointing* YOU! 
<Random_Nerd> Technician With Stars In His Eyes: "This is a private calibration session, you can't just... ah." 
<human-Kite> "Ah?" 
<Random_Nerd> Other Technician, Who Has Normal Eyes: "Hmm?" 
<human-Kite> "Ah?!" 
<Ftisk> "Your eyes! .. my eye ... " *smile* 
<Ftisk> "can we talk? 
<Random_Nerd> Stars: "Clearly we can. But I'd rather not. Makes things too... complicated." 
<Random_Nerd> He starts to walk towards a wall. 
<Random_Nerd> Do any of you do anything? 
<Ftisk> "Wait!" 
* Ftisk follow her 
<Random_Nerd> Stars: "No." He walks through the wall. 
* DanteE flicks some daggers so that they stick in the wall and block hir path. 
<Random_Nerd> (Miraculous Action: Worldbreaker's Hand, Destruction of Solidity! Mundane action: walking!) 
* human-Kite glances at the Other Technician. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Your daggers stick in the wall. But since he's removed his solidity, they don't block him. 
<Random_Nerd> The other technician is freaking out. He just saw his co-worker walk through a wall. 
<Theresa> "Is (guy that we were talking to last week) going to be okay?" *to the Other Technician* 
<Random_Nerd> He's currently backing up, and his eyes are wide. 
<Random_Nerd> Other Technician: "But... he... you..." 
* Theresa will block OT's view of what used to be the wall. 
<human-Kite> "Ah, hallucinations. A reaction to the [not Google Glass]." 
<Random_Nerd> The wall is still there. 
<Theresa> "Just calm down. Can you tell me how my friend here is going to be?" 
<Random_Nerd> The excrucian did his miracle on himself, not on the wall. 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "He's... uh..." 
<Theresa> (Ah, thank you. Block the Ot's view of that wall.) 
<DanteE> to our friend: "It's probably best if you stick to a not-Ipad, really." 
<Random_Nerd> From outside, a miracle! The Excrucian is attempting to destroy the other technician's short-term memory. 
<Random_Nerd> Do any of you do anything to stop it? 
* human-Kite removes his own device. 
* DanteE gently takes the not-GG off him. 
* Ftisk lc a bulldozer and break the wall 
<Random_Nerd> The guy doesn't resist. 
<Random_Nerd> Bam! Bulldozer! Wall! Hole! 
<DanteE> "Dementia animus, Ftisk..." 
* Theresa will Aspect run to the Excrucian and mundanely yell at him that we need to talk to him! 
<Ftisk> "pressing issues Dante!" 
<Random_Nerd> The technician with stars in his eyes doesn't seem to be visible on the other side, which is an interior hallway. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, since none of you stopped the miracle, the other technician's eyes go blank for a moment. And then he looks at the bulldozer-hole. 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, how do you find him? 
<human-Kite> I would like to raise my auctoritas magister 
* Ftisk follows and break the next walls until I meet the excru or reach the outside 
<Carrie> Lesser Preservation of Hope on the guy's hopes that are bound up in the memory. 
<Theresa> (Theresa runs out to the front door that we entered the building into.) 
<human-Kite> to block the miracle... 
<Random_Nerd> Other Technician starts freaking out /again/. 
<DanteE> to the tech: "For the sake of your sanity, that was an earthquake." 
<human-Kite> or...not... 
<Theresa> (And that tech is there.) 
<Random_Nerd> No... okay, backtrack. 
<Random_Nerd> Using any Strike on that? 
<Random_Nerd> (Remember, you can do that, the "Oh no you didn't" interruption.) 
<Carrie> Two Strike. Hard miracle. 
<Random_Nerd> How are you getting the strike? 
<Carrie> If I understand the rules right, I can spend 2 DMP to add 2 points of Strike, right? 
<Carrie> The lesser preservation is just within my own Domain stat... 
<Random_Nerd> You could in 2e, with Penetration. 
<Random_Nerd> I do not believe you can do that with Strike. 
<Carrie> Ah, that was my error, then... No Strike, I guess. 
<Random_Nerd> Wait, hold on... 
<Random_Nerd> The rules are ambiguous on this point. 
<DanteE> (Actually, considering his short-term memory would screw with him, maybe you should let it through) 
<Ftisk> (can Carrie get them from an anchor?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ah! You can spend MP to add strike on /some/ miracles. 
<Random_Nerd> Or... hmm. 
<Random_Nerd> Until I read through this better, I'll say you can spend two MPs to give two Strike. 
<DanteE> (And you yell as us for not reading the book! :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> So, Lesser Preservation, Two Strike. You successfully prevent him from losing his memory. 
<Random_Nerd> (The book is ambiguous!) 
<human-Kite> (Yay!) 
<Carrie> Okay, as I'm preserving the hope in the memories, I want to strengthen and reinforce a positive perception of the immediate situation. Is that acceptable as part of the miracle? 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah, found it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You can indeed spend MPs on Strike.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Page 319.) 
<Random_Nerd> Mmm... yes, because it's a Preservation of Hope. 
<Random_Nerd> Hope does stuff like that. 
<Carrie> Great. :) 
<Random_Nerd> Other Technician: "Ah! Uh... what's happening, here?" 
<DanteE> "Like I said... it's best if you believe it's an earthquake." 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you break out into the street with the bulldozer. 
<Ftisk> (did I find the excru? Or Ftisk made holes until he meet the outside?) 
<Random_Nerd> You manage to do this without actually hurting anyone. 
<Theresa> (Did Theresa go to the right place?) 
<Random_Nerd> But when you make it to the outside, there's a lot of people running around, but none of them looks like the excrucian. 
<Carrie> "In a manner of speaking, it is. The ground is unstable." 
<DanteE> "In fact, you should probably shut the place down until further notice." 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, you make it outside. There's a lot of people running around, probably because a bulldozer just came out of an office building. 
* DanteE dashes out after the others. 
<Random_Nerd> How do you look for the Excrucian? 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, where is he?" 
* Ftisk shout the bulldozer bell 2 times and start making new holes perpendicular from where I came 
<Random_Nerd> Holes in which walls? 
* Theresa asks the plants in the area if they have seen anyone with two eyes and there are stars in both eyes. 
<Ftisk> the building ones so to do a + holes in the building 
<DanteE> to T: "Remind me to ask our aides about liability insurance." 
<Theresa> (GDiv, Level 5. Free!) 
<Random_Nerd> In the same building? 
<Ftisk> "Dante, still searching him" 
<Ftisk> yep, in the same, like if him turned after leaving the first wall I will try to catch him in this way 
<human-Kite> ((People running around as in, they are running in a harried manner?)) 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, you find that a ficus in an accounting firm half a block north of here saw a guy with stars in his eyes run through the office, passing through walls on his way. 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, don't run anybody over!" 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, this time as you knock another wall down, someone's leg is crushed. 
<Theresa> *calls to the others* "He's heading north! Ftisk, don't go through walls, just head out with us! No bulldozer!" 
<Ftisk> "Ops Dante!" 
<Random_Nerd> She looks to be one of the customer service people, and below the left knee it's just pulp and rubble. 
* Theresa will head toward the ficus. 
<DanteE> "Hang on..." 
* Ftisk run to Theresa 
<Random_Nerd> How are you proceeding, Theresa? 
<DanteE> to the victim:"close your eyes. It looks worse than it is. 
<Random_Nerd> Woman, clearly in shock: "MMmmng!" 
<Theresa> Running, Aspect 3 toward the area of the ficus. 
* DanteE zap-heals her when her eyes are closed and nobody's looking. 
* Theresa Aspect 3 Parkours like you would not believe! 
<Random_Nerd> She blacks out at about the same time that you heal her. She's left with just minor scratches, unless you want to heal those too. 
* Ftisk flying to T and then landing on her shoulder in snail form 
<DanteE> She'll be OK, right? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Theresa, proceeding along the rooftops of buildings, you see a brief flash of a guy up ahead running through two brick walls in an alley. 
<Random_Nerd> A little emotional trauma, but physically, yeah. 
* DanteE goes after the others. 
<DanteE> (Anyone looking? I could fly) 
* human-Kite follows Dante. 
<Random_Nerd> He's still going in a straight line, more or less, and seems to be trying to pass through as many buildings as possible. 
* Theresa heads after him. Stupid Excrucian... 
<Random_Nerd> Lots of people are looking, and running around. 
* Ftisk shouts in her ears "catch him! Came on good girl catch hiiiim!" 
<Random_Nerd> In fact, there's a siren in the distance. Fire truck, it sounds like. 
<DanteE> Crap. A3 Parkour after T, then 
* human-Kite Assembles the people running around into a search party to find the Excrucian. 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa's about ninety seconds ahead of you, but she's gaining on the target. 
<Theresa> (...I am not a horse for the Hunt! :P ) 
<Random_Nerd> Until, at the time she'd expect him to pass out the far wall of a building, he doesn't. 
<Random_Nerd> So either he's stopped, turned invisible, or something else. 
<Ftisk> (:-P shush! and I need a saddle and a whip for that!) 
* Theresa looks at the building to see if there are any signs of what's in it. 
* DanteE looks for an entrance... 
<Random_Nerd> The building is a florist's shop. 
<Random_Nerd> Two storey. 
<Theresa> "On the one hand, heh. On the other hand, crap." 
<DanteE> (This is either a cunning trap or a huge screwup on his part...) 
* Ftisk does a lesser divination of security camera to look around for the excru 
* Theresa will calmly walk into the florist's shop. 
<Random_Nerd> There aren't any security cameras inside the florist's. 
<Ftisk> ( :-( ) 
<Random_Nerd> Florist: "Hey, are you friends with that guy?" 
<human-Kite> (Er...would Assembling all the runners into a search party be a Lesser Animation or a greater Animation?) 
<Theresa> "Which guy?" 
<DanteE> (Are we both in the shop?) 
<Carrie> I'd divine his direction, but that's his own Hope and not part of my Estate, right? So, hmm... 
<Random_Nerd> Florist: "The guy who just ran in and said he needed to use the bathroom." 
* Ftisk whispering "tell her yes, ask where him go" 
<Random_Nerd> You arrive in, Dante. 
<Random_Nerd> The fire truck is getting closer. 
<Theresa> "Let me guess, for paying customers only?" 
<DanteE> "Depends. Did he use a door?" 
<Random_Nerd> Florist: "Yeah, I was about to say that. But then I didn't." 
<Random_Nerd> Florist: "Use a door?" 
<Theresa> (Carrie - you could divine our hope that you will catch up? :) ) 
<DanteE> "Long story. Where is he?" 
<Random_Nerd> Then suddenly her eyes start to go blank for a moment. 
<Random_Nerd> It's the destruction of memory again. Do you do anything? 
<Carrie> (Fair enough. <.< ) 
<Ftisk> (damn mind trick!) 
<DanteE> (Let this one through.) 
* Theresa will throw an Auctoritas around her to block the memory wipe. 
* Ftisk fly to the bath room 
<Random_Nerd> What level? 
<Theresa> (2) 
* Carrie walks in the door of the shop just in time to notice the ebb of memory. She uses the same miracle to block it, but this time as a simple miracle, no Strike. 
<Random_Nerd> Two auctoritas successfully blocks the miracle. 
<Random_Nerd> She points at a door that says "Employees only." 
<Carrie> (Or, looks like Theresa has it well in hand. <.< ) 
<Theresa> "Pardon us!" *runs for the door* 
<DanteE> to the clerk: "There's been an incident nearby--you can hear the sirens. You should probably close the shop and head home. Now.") 
<Theresa> (Nah, I probably needed it. Auctoritas 2 is a bit puny.) 
<Random_Nerd> Clerk, a little annoyed: "Nah, they have people pulling the fire alarms all the time. Students, see." 
<DanteE> "Building got destroyed down the street. This one's real." 
<Random_Nerd> On the other side of the door there are various plants and plant-related tools, and in a straight line from the door, a unisex bathroom. The door is currently closed. 
<DanteE> "And that guy's involved." 
* Ftisk throw project my Ftiskness on the clerk. Ftisk will close the shop and go watching the sirens.... 
<Random_Nerd> Clerk: "Ah, he's the one that pulled the alarm?" 
<DanteE> "Nope. Worse." 
* Theresa GDiv's the plants in there if the guy went through and into the bathroom or if he went elsewhere. 
<Random_Nerd> He did go into the bathroom. 
<Random_Nerd> There are no plants in there to check, though. 
<Random_Nerd> But at least he ran in. 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, is he in there?" 
<Theresa> (Didn't figure there were. And so what if he ran in. He probably has Gatemaker. :P ) 
<Random_Nerd> The projection of ftiskness fails. 
<Random_Nerd> The clerk's still in Theresa's Auctoritas. 
<DanteE> (If he had Gatemaker he wouldn't need to run through walls) 
* Theresa will mundanely head over the bathroom door and knock, while taking off the Auctoritas from the cleark. 
<Ftisk> (I’m at the bath door not inside) 
* DanteE fires up his own Auc 
<Random_Nerd> There's no response when you knock on the door. 
* Theresa will try the knob. 
<Ftisk> (count as a failure for the get strike on the projection project?) 
<Random_Nerd> There's a slight skittering sound. But it doesn't sound like human feet. 
<Random_Nerd> More like a spider the size of a bobcat. 
<Random_Nerd> The knob is locked. 
<DanteE> "You still want to parlay?" 
<Theresa> (Great, the spider's learned how to work locks on knobs. :P ) 
<Random_Nerd> Clerk: "Look, I'm gonna call the cops, and let them sort it out." 
<Random_Nerd> She reaches for the phone. 
<DanteE> (He's in the wrong game. Get back to Town!) 
<Theresa> (Ftisk, try again!) 
* Ftisk try again to project my Ftiskness on the clerk 
<Random_Nerd> What are you trying to accomplish with it? 
<Ftisk> make him more Ftisk like and go see the building with holes instead of staying here 
<Ftisk> (you know lights, fireworkers, all the fun!) 
<Random_Nerd> The florist clerk suddenly has her eyes dilate and a weird grin show up on her face. 
<DanteE> (Impart ADD.) 
<Random_Nerd> She runs out into the street. 
<Random_Nerd> She's still holding the phone in one hand, dragging it behind her. 
<Ftisk> (yay!) 
<DanteE> "Again: want to parlay, or are we past that?" 
<Random_Nerd> Then the cord reaches its end, and she stops sharply. 
<Random_Nerd> She drops it, and runs out while shouting "Fire truck!" 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, what are you doing? 
* Ftisk cut the cord "let’s that bird fly free" 
<Theresa> (Is there still a speech that everyone understands?) 
<Ftisk> (bravo RN!) 
<Random_Nerd> (No, but you can speak any language.) 
<DanteE> (He was speaking English.) 
<Carrie> Level 1 Curse with Persona on the lock of that bathroom door. It tries hard, but today it just can't seem to stay closed. Is that an appropriate miracle? 
<Theresa> *speaks spider* "If we have to come in there, it will be to squish. Speak and live." 
<Ftisk> "We came in peace" *do the Vulcan salute* 
<Theresa> (I take that back.) 
<Random_Nerd> I don't think spider-speech allows for concepts that complex. 
<Random_Nerd> Something inside scratches at its side of the door. 
<Theresa> (Imagine a boot falling on a spider...forever.) 
<Random_Nerd> Hmmm. 
* DanteE opens the door... 
<Random_Nerd> What property are you removing from the door? 
<Random_Nerd> Well... I guess I get that. It works. 
<Random_Nerd> The door opens. 
<Random_Nerd> SUDDEN NIMBLEJACK ATTACK! 
<Random_Nerd> What do you do? 
* DanteE grabs it out of the air. 
* Theresa will go flat on the floor. 
* Ftisk squee! And project Ftiskness on him 
<Carrie> Let's see, with my Perfect Timing gift I am already in place to hide behind Dante. 
<Theresa> (Do we really want a Nimbleftisk?!?) 
<Random_Nerd> Actually, no! Turns out the Nimblejack has a Bond that interferes with that the grabbing! 
<Ftisk> (yes pretty yes!) 
<Random_Nerd> Bond: "I am fast enough to catch you!" 
<Random_Nerd> And it has at least some aspect. 
<Random_Nerd> Unless you use a lot. 
<Random_Nerd> How much do you use? 
<Random_Nerd> (Nimblejacks are /fast/. 7 aspect for speed, plus they have that bond.) 
<DanteE> Base 3, which I suspect means I grab air. 
<Random_Nerd> You grab air. It grabs your face. 
<Random_Nerd> It's kinda clinging on with both hands and feet. 
<Ftisk> (is it Ftisked?) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's small, about the size of a twelve-year-old.) 
<Random_Nerd> You absolutely cannot tell. 
<DanteE> to the Nj: "Do you mind?" 
<Carrie> What else is in there, besides a nimblejack? 
<Random_Nerd> If there's a difference between ftisky and nonftisky nimblejacks, you are not clear on what it is. 
<Random_Nerd> A toilet. A mirror. A sink. 
<Random_Nerd> No excrucians. 
<Carrie> ..Right. 
<human-Kite> (12-years old=mad crazy growth spurts) 
<Ftisk> (Dante is durant?) 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, the nimblejack tries to eat your face. 
<DanteE> (Sacrosanct, remember) 
<Random_Nerd> It... doesn't actually work. 
* Ftisk lc another bulldozer and run on dante+ninblejack 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack mutters something in helltongue about cheating. 
* DanteE grabs it while it's otherwise occupied. 
<Random_Nerd> You successfully grab it, this time. 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, you do have nimblejack spit on you. 
<Random_Nerd> It doesn't melt your flesh like acid or anything. 
<DanteE> calm: "now, what was that about cheating?" 
<Random_Nerd> But it feels totally gross. 
<DanteE> "and would someone hand me a towel?" 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack, in heavily-accented helltongue: "Cheating! I get to eat your face now! It's the rules!" 
<Random_Nerd> There are paper towels. 
<DanteE> "Why, exactly?" 
<DanteE> "I mean, I didn't even know I was playing." 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "I caught you! I get to eat you!" 
<Theresa> "Why are you here? Why did Lord Entropy send you?" 
<Carrie> Lesser Divination of hope. What gave the nimblejack the hope to eat Dante's face? (I.e., is it just attacking the first person it sees, was it specifically sent for us, or what?) 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "You got caught by me! So I get to eat you!" 
<Ftisk> "Came on! You are _talking_ with him! Is not FAIR I want to bulldozerize him!!!" *sad face* 
<Random_Nerd> He tries to bite your hand. Do you resist? 
<Carrie> Er, make that not actually face-specific. 
<Random_Nerd> Carrie, the Nimblejack believes that anyone it catches, it gets to eat. 
<Random_Nerd> Those are the Rules. 
<DanteE> No, it'll keep him distracted. 
<Carrie> Fair enough. Lesser Destruction of its hope to harm any of us. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, the Nimblejack bites your hand with a level 3 miracle and 4 Strike, from a bond. 
<Random_Nerd> What's the level of your Sacrosanct miracle? 
<DanteE> It's between Durant and Immortal... 
* Ftisk fly on Theresa shoulder "T. Dante don't let me buldozerize the ninblejack!" 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. That means it's below level 7, right, since that's Immortal? 
<DanteE> Guess so. 
<Random_Nerd> No, wait, even immortal is level 6. 
<DanteE> But when does Carrie's thing go through? 
<Ftisk> (mum, mum, the bad Dante don't let me play with his new shiny toy) 
<Random_Nerd> Carrie's miracle kicks in... 
<Random_Nerd> But the biting is too strong. 
<Random_Nerd> Because of the Strike. 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, you take a surface wound. 
<Random_Nerd> What is it? 
<DanteE> "Ow. Damn. That got through..." 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Didn't send!" 
<Theresa> "Ftisk, nimblejacks only work for Entropy. So that means that he sent this to here. And we need to know why, first." 
<Theresa> "Then aren't you breaking the Rules, nimblejack?" 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Woke up in bathroom. Smell humans. THAT MEANS I GET TO EAT THEM." 
<Random_Nerd> He tries to bite your hand again, Dante. 
<DanteE> I'm still holding it, right? 
<Ftisk> "But but!" /me do a tantrum 
<Theresa> "_We_ are working for Entropy. You are not. Nimblejacks work only for Entropy, yes?" 
<human-Kite> "You're still human, Dante?" 
<Random_Nerd> Yes, you are. 
* DanteE turns the nimblejack around so it's biting air. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, if you don't specify the surface wound, I will. It bit one of your fingers down to the bone. It kinda hurts. 
<Random_Nerd> Bond(1): My Finger Hurts. 
<Random_Nerd> What miracle do you use? 
<Carrie> I'm sustaining that Lesser Destruction miracle, even if I can't defeat the Strike. 
<DanteE> Do I even needs a Miracle? I'm holding it." 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, it's using an aspect miracle to bite. 
<Random_Nerd> If you want to turn it around before it can, you'll need to beat its miracle, or make it irrelevant. 
<Ftisk> (destroy / change his courage to bite Dante) 
<DanteE> (Carrie's miracle should do that) 
<DanteE> Aspect 5 for +2 AMP. 
<Random_Nerd> It should, but right now its "You have brought this on yourself." is providing enough Strike to beat it. It believes that anyone it has managed to catch, it gets to eat. 
<DanteE> (I hope I don't need those points later...) 
<Random_Nerd> Using any Bonds, Dante? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack bites with a slightly weaker miracle this time. Aspect 2, 4 strike. But that still manages to bite your finger before you can spin it. 
<Random_Nerd> A different finger this time. 
<DanteE> Well, there's the 20-point Bond "Quit biting me, asshole!" 
<DanteE> Ah... how about Cool? 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack, to Theresa: "I'm off the clock!" In Helltongue, this sounds oddly obscene. 
<Random_Nerd> Cool doesn't stop miracles. 
<DanteE> Bond: I don't _do_ fear. -2 
* Theresa will LC vines around the nimblejack to keep him still and unable to thrash around. 
<Random_Nerd> He's not trying to scare you, so much as eat your hand. 
<Random_Nerd> Another surface wound. 
<DanteE> Passion: Impress people. Harder to do with a monkey bite. (2) 
<Random_Nerd> You are out of Normal health levels now, though. 
<DanteE> Not to mention there's an aspect of "I can handle this." 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Well, if you try to deal with him in a cool way, that'll apply. 
<Random_Nerd> What do you do? 
<DanteE> Smoosh him into a wall. "Down. Stay." 
<Random_Nerd> Miracle level? 
<human-Kite> "Can we turn him into a fish?" 
<DanteE> A5 +2 from any of those. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, Theresa's miracle was first. Okay, the vines wrap around the nimblejack. He's not particularly strong, so he can't struggle through them. 
<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack is wrapped in vines, and then Dante smashes him into a wall. 
<DanteE> not really smash as much as hold 
<DanteE> but if he tries biting anything it'll be plaster 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Uh... surrender! I surrender!" In helltongue, 'surrender' has creepy overtones. 
<DanteE> "Good to know. Now, what were you doing here? 
<Theresa> "Where were you before you woke up?" 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Somewhere dark. Forest. Was chasing a human. Then I was here." 
<DanteE> "Sure it was a human? Any starry eyes?" 
* Ftisk ld on security cameras around, did any of them catch the excru? 
<Carrie> (Now that he's no longer actively opposing it, can the Lesser Destruction remove all his lingering willingness to hurt us?) 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Couldn't see the eyes. Dark. And was behind him." 
<Random_Nerd> Yes, it does. 
<Random_Nerd> Because his "I get to eat you" idea doesn't apply any more, now that he's surrendered. 
<Random_Nerd> So he has no way to beat your miracle. 
<Carrie> (Alright. Once I feel it does that, I stop sustaining it.) 
* DanteE points to a first-aid kit and holds out his hurt finger. 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "You're fast, for a human. And too chewy." 
<Random_Nerd> It licks some of Dante's blood from its lips. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, no security cameras around here saw him. 
<Random_Nerd> He definitely ran in here, but there's no sign of him going out anywhere that there are cameras. 
<DanteE> "Now, can we talk to you without you going all rabid-mutt on us?" 
<Ftisk> "Ach! No security camera here around say the excru!" 
<Theresa> "Drat. Well, we at least temporarily stopped whatever that Excrucian was doing. But looks like we lost him. He must have pulled this nimblejack in to keep us busy." 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, that attack still going on?" 
<Ftisk> (is going on?) 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Ftisk> "Yes Dante" 
<DanteE> (And would one of you please bandage my finger? I'm holding this thing.) 
<Ftisk> "Why we don’t destroy the factory?" 
<human-Kite> "Can we round up the ones that can still remember any Excrutian freaky activity?" 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. Ftisk, you can find the ones that saw him pretty easily. 
* Theresa will do it, as she has had experience in doing so. But she is fighting the urge to remind Dante that one _asks_ for help, not just points and hopes one can read minds. Which she can't. 
<DanteE> (Got a lunatic nimblejack with sharp teeth to deal with.) 
* Ftisk start looking for these one "Want to help me Kite?" 
<human-Kite> "Yes!" 
* DanteE turns the nimblejack around to look it in the eye. 
<Carrie> "Very well. I'll go calm the panic outside." 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, there aren't a /lot/ of security cameras around here. But he got glimpsed by a gas station camera, one on an ATM machine, and four cameras on the NotGoogle building itself. 
<Ftisk> "can we assemble them in a excru radar?" 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack lies limp in your hands. 
<DanteE> to N: "You just helped an Excrucian get away and continue his attack on Creation. 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Didn't see any excrucian. Just saw you." 
<DanteE> "I don't think I need to tell you that's a bad thing." 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "And the thing that crawled into the floor." 
* Carrie steps outside the building, looking and listening. 
<DanteE> "What thing?" 
<Carrie> (Crowd's still agitated? Siren's still going?) 
<Random_Nerd> There are four police cars, one fire truck, and two ambulances outside the NotGoogle building. 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Didn't get a good look at it." 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Tall, like a human, but crawling into the floor." 
* DanteE checks out the bathroom floor... 
<Random_Nerd> It looks solid enough. 
<Theresa> (Destruction of solidity.) 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "There, next to the shiny white thing." It points at the toilet. 
<Carrie> If there is still an audible alarm or siren, I will use a Lesser Enchantment of Hope on the sound. "Hope draws harmony from confusion." 
<Theresa> "Want to help hunt an Excrucian, nimblejack?" 
<Random_Nerd> As Carrie's miracle sinks in, people stop running around, and switch to walking briskly, except the firemen evacuating the building. 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Want to hunt." 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "Don't care about details." 
<human-Kite> (What did you have in mind for the Excrucian radar, Ftisk?) 
<Theresa> "Dante, put him down and cut open the floor." 
<Ftisk> (nothing really, was just fluff to write something) 
<DanteE> "Agreed. Don't forget to de-vine him." 
* DanteE hands the Nj over to Theresa. 
* Carrie steps back inside and looks the nimblejack over. "Good hunting." 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "So, who do I hunt?" 
<Ftisk> (can I ride the NJ?) 
<DanteE> "Question is, is he passed through the floor, how far down did he go?" 
<Random_Nerd> It's about the size of a big badger. 
<Random_Nerd> Or a medium-sized dog. 
<Carrie> Another Lesser Enchantment of Hope. Simple miracle. This time I'm using "Hope empowers" to empower the nimblejack to find that floor-crawling guy. 
<DanteE> "There a basement in this place?" 
<Theresa> "We'll see." 
* Theresa devines the nimblejack. 
<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack twitches as the miracle kicks in. 
<Random_Nerd> (Good thing it's not beauty, love, or justice!) 
<DanteE> (If there's another way down there I'd rather do that, save MPs) 
<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack starts to skitter toward the door. 
<Carrie> (I'm using simple miracles.) 
<Carrie> (No MPs needed.) 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack, Maybe Still A Little Ftisky: "Hunt! Hunt hunt hunt hunt!" 
<Random_Nerd> It bolts out at about seventy miles per hour, if none of you stops it. 
<Theresa> "Only the Excrucian!" 
<DanteE> "Does he know where the Excrucian is?" 
<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack, voice lowered by doppler shift: "HUUUUUUUUUUNT!" 
<Theresa> "Nimblejacks can hunt anything, I think." 
* Theresa will follow it! (Aspect 3!) 
<Ftisk> (don't be picky with your Nj T. a bit of positive encouragement is in order) 
<Carrie> Let's see, this counts as the next moment, right? So I use my other action to do a Lesser Emulation. 
* DanteE follows the thing. 
<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack is skittering across the rooftops and telephone posts at Aspect 7 speed. 
<Carrie> "Hope sustains by connecting." Carrie sustains our pursuit of that Strategist by keeping the nimblejack in sight. 
<Random_Nerd> If you're gonna follow it, you're gonna need to pull out something impressive. 
<Ftisk> (me and Kite returned with all the evidence?) 
<DanteE> (What's my flight speed?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. What miracle do you use to fly?) 
<Carrie> The miracle takes effect unless it's contradicted, right? So wouldn't that include keeping up with it? 
<Random_Nerd> (Sure, Ftisk.) 
<DanteE> (The standard one from the book) 
<Random_Nerd> What miracle are you using? 
<DanteE> (Oh, that's a change-location, isn't it) 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Well, with that flight, you can't keep up. But if you go straight up, you can probably keep him in /sight/ for a minute or two. 
<Random_Nerd> You have good eyes. 
<Carrie> Lesser Emulation. If it's too weak, I can make it a Greater. 
* Theresa will be impressive by using vines from nowhere to Tarzan-swing her way around the buildings, following the nimblejack. 
<DanteE> I'll do that then 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Well, that emulation won't let you keep up with him. But it will let you keep track of where he /is/. 
<Random_Nerd> By feeling the tugging of the connection. 
<Carrie> That suffices. 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, the nimblejack seems to be accelerating. 
<Carrie> Going to follow as best I can with my Timing gift, then. 
<Ftisk> "wow everyone is gone!" 
<Random_Nerd> Have you ever played Prototype? He's about three times as fast as that. 
* DanteE dive-flies after him 
<Carrie> Haven't heard of the game, no. 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, the nimblejack isn't running in a straight line. He seems to be circling. 
<Random_Nerd> Otherwise you'd probably have lost sight by now. 
<Theresa> (Urg. I've watched RN play it. Tentacles and using blood-use for jet propulsion..) 
<Random_Nerd> He doesn't seem to be moving to a particular location, so much as spiraling out and looking for a sign. 
<Random_Nerd> Still, he's covering a lot of ground. 
<DanteE> "Damn, he doesn't have a bead on him." 
<DanteE> Ftisk nearby? 
* Ftisk pray to T. "were you are?" 
<Random_Nerd> You're some distance from Ftisk right now, Dante. 
<Carrie> In order to follow him, I suppose I need to stop sustaining the "empower" miracle since I'm sustaining the "connecting." And that just means that it's no longer explicitly sustained, right? It doesn't reverse the empowerment? 
* DanteE prays to Ftisk: "That nimblejack doesn't know where the Excrucian is yet. You're the one who can help find him." 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. You can just throw an empowerment at him, and have it change him. 
<Random_Nerd> You don't have to sustain that. 
<Carrie> Alright. 
<Random_Nerd> Might want to with the connection, though. 
<Ftisk> prayback "tell me where you are and we'll catch" 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, you don't want that to just automatically be true that you're connected with a nimblejack. 
<Carrie> Yep. <.< 
<DanteE> pray back: "The nimblejack is (wherever)" 
* Ftisk guide Kite to the place 
<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack pounces down off a roof at something. 
* DanteE tries to catch up... 
<Ftisk> (can we stop here?) 
* human-Kite follows Ftisk 
<Random_Nerd> It jumps at the face of a person, rips off a pair of sunglasses, stares at his eyes, and then leaps back up. 
<Random_Nerd> I'm fine with stopping here. 
<Random_Nerd> Anything you guys want to do before we stop? 
<Theresa> (*facepalm*) 
<Theresa> (I think I'm good for now.) 
<DanteE> (Can talk a little OOC?) 
<Random_Nerd> The man whose sunglasses were ripped off just has a look like someone who just had Cthulhu leap into his shower with a kitchen knife. 
<Random_Nerd> _______________________________STOP__________________ 
<Random_Nerd> Sure. 
* Ftisk is now known as Angelo 
<DanteE> Did you look at my new map? 
* DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Carrie> I will do one thing before we stop. 
* human-Kite is now known as Verithe 
<Random_Nerd> Oh? 
<Theresa> For Ftisk! https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/971367_452261621535170_297375511_n.png 
<Random_Nerd> I looked at it some. 
<Random_Nerd> Which of these are the projects? 
<Random_Nerd> The dark grey ones? 
<Angelo> (lovely Beth!) 
<Carrie> Miracle of Lesser Preservation. I don't want that guy harmed by the experience he just went through. So, preserving the hope of his coherence and sanity and all that. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
* Carrie is now known as Etheric 
<Knockwood> Right now it's the two, though I'm considering splitting off the shaded section into "How (we) Found the Truth About the Past" or somesuch 
<Etheric> Wow, that was amazing. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm? 
<Knockwood> Mainly, do I have it right, or closer to right? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, this looks closer. 
<Random_Nerd> Thanks for going over the rules. 
<Random_Nerd> I appreciate it. 
<Etheric> Just, compared to the previous several sessions, I feel like we're on top of things and doing things a lot more proactively. 
* Theresa is now known as BethE 
<Angelo> me too 
<Knockwood> Actually ,I goofed... the new Flight without wings is base 4 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Knockwood> Lesser Animation 
<Random_Nerd> It's an Animation of Self, right? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Etheric> It makes me think, "You should give us homework more often." <.< 
<Random_Nerd> Heh. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, I couldn't have done this chase scene properly if we weren't up on the rules! 
<Etheric> Fair enough. 
<Knockwood> Then again, can I get that Jedi Mind Trick? :D 
<Angelo> ah, my project Ftiskness count for my project to empower project ftiskness? 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. One trivial failure, one trivial success. 
<Angelo> 3 and 2 pts, right? 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Random_Nerd> That sound fair? 
<Angelo> :-) 
<Angelo> nod nod 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and Knock, were you going to do any Struggle stuff with Dante? 
<Random_Nerd> You'd talked about it earlier. 
<Knockwood> Oh, heck, I don't have anything I can add to this time... :/ 
<Random_Nerd> Well, if it's any consolation, you got covered in demon-spit. 
<Knockwood> Well, if I read the rules right, those are short-term, right? 
<Random_Nerd> That's... not actually much consolation. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Knockwood> Like, a session or two of angsting 
<Angelo> afk, making latte, waking kids, prepping panini etc etc 
<Random_Nerd> A storyline or so, I'd say. 
<Random_Nerd> Given the length of these sessions. 
<Random_Nerd> Equivalent of an episode or two of a TV show. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, did anyone have any questions about the rules stuff in this session? 
<Etheric> not I. 
<Knockwood> Oh, I'm sure we'll have many opportunities to screw up the rules. :) 
<Random_Nerd> Heh. 
<Random_Nerd> Really, you guys did really well with them tonight. 
<Random_Nerd> Thanks for taking the time to go over them. 
<Random_Nerd> I do appreciate it. 
<BethE> Night, guys! 
<Knockwood> g'night Beth 
<Random_Nerd> G'night, guys. 
* BethE (~BethL@MagicStar-49CDADDD.hsd1.il.comcast.net) Quit (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair? ) 
Session Close: Thu May 30 23:38:14 2013 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]

Session 251

2013-12-31T10:55:59Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]] 
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=-= Topic for #Nobilis is ``This week on Nobilis, the secret* Google plot to rule the world! Now with additional strings attached.'' 
=-= Topic for #Nobilis was set by Etheric on venerdì 10 maggio 2013 03.24.40 
<lazarus> and there he is 
<lazarus> hey Angelo 
<Angelo> Hi Guys! 
<Random_Nerd> Hey, Angelo. 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<Angelo> I'm on wife's laptop so expect more than usual typos 
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<Knockwood> Hiyo 
<lazarus> Hey kwd 
<Angelo> yo Knock 
<Random_Nerd> Hey, Knock. 
<Knockwood> so, who's doing the NW MMO? 
<lazarus> I'm thinking of it 
<Angelo> I'm in NW 
<Random_Nerd> NW? 
<Angelo> Never Winter a place in forgotten realms ; a setting of D&D 4ed 
<Random_Nerd> New Weasel? Nacho Wars? 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Angelo> (Game published by cryptic that share the chat with Champions online and Star trek online) 
<Verithe> New Weasel would have been fun... 
<Angelo> so peoples ask questions for NW and other in champions thing ?_? that is crazy! 
<Knockwood> and Star Trek Online, as well 
<Angelo> nod 
<Knockwood> so you have weird conversations about nailing Klingons with Magic Missiles 
<Random_Nerd> Bah. The Old Weasel was good enough for my grandfather, it was good enough for my father, and by golly it's good enough for me. 
<Angelo> lately on STO most conversation are on the new Romulans expansion 
<Etheric> The ghost pirate ship is called the Old Weasel? That explains so much... 
<Knockwood> kinda going around, really... 4th ed was D&D trying to be WoW, now it's competing with it directly 
<BethE> http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?688193-The-Weasel-Dance 
<Angelo> ah 
<Angelo> before we start 
<Angelo> I wanna add a new project to Ftisk 
<Angelo> I feel that I want to get a new estate covering intelligent machines -> cybernetic 
<Angelo> how would phrase it as a project? 
<Knockwood> Would that include AIs? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, what does Ftisk want to accomplish? Does he just want to have a new domain stat for a new ability, or does he want to turn something that is not an estate into an estate? 
<Angelo> well is a lot of time that I think that a cybernetic estate would be cool to add to Ftisk, now I see that that probably would help fight the flower rite against him so is a good time to get the estate 
<Etheric> (Have to go AFK. Feel free to start without me if I'm not back once the Project is figured.) 
<Random_Nerd> Because... hmm. Making it actually be a new estate is a bigger thing than just being able to do miracles of it. 
<Knockwood> trouble is, acknowledging AIs would screw with his existing Machinery Estate 
<Random_Nerd> That's the sort of thing that could potentially create Imperators and stuff. 
<Angelo> I would like to have a new estate, why Knock, Machinery is expressly made so to avoid thinking beings. Cybernetics can be the bind of a living being and some hardware that enhance him 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Then that's going to be a multi-stage Project. 
<Random_Nerd> Is it important that, if it becomes a new estate, it becomes one of Vulcan's estates? 
<Verithe> Since Vulcan is a true god, maybe we can get him to somehow grow the new Estate. 
<Knockwood> yeah, but you could argue Cyborgs are really Machine+Human 
<Verithe> It could mix well with Kite's Make Vulcan More Like the Angels project. 
<Angelo> uhm... would be preferable, you know with all the things happening in channel Vulcan 
<Knockwood> which I think is what you mean... (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cybernetics) 
<BethE> Hmm, wonder what you get if you mix a Dionyl and cybernetics... 
<Knockwood> (vs. 'cyborg' -> bionic human) 
<Random_Nerd> ...how? 
<Verithe> Redefining the semantics of what cybernetics is shouldn't be a problem. 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, do you mean, like, a computerized leaf floating around in a Dionyl? 
<BethE> I'm not sure. For some reason, I thought Kite was involved and a lot of shininess. 
<BethE> Or I could have just been thinking of Sam in a mecha. 
<Verithe> Hehe....Sam in a mecha 
<Knockwood> Sam would need to be an adolescent with emotional issues and/or a ridiculous hairstyle. 
<Random_Nerd> Because, bear in mind, for most Dionyl, having solid objects intersect with their bodies is seriously bad news. 
<Random_Nerd> Equivalent of, like, having all the veins in one of your limbs blocked. 
<lazarus> Dionyl cybernetics = Ioun stones? 
<Random_Nerd> IOUN. 
<Random_Nerd> Spell it right! 
<lazarus> all uppercase? :p 
<BethE> But see, if Sam is in a mecha, he's not necessarily having things intersecting into him, so it's better... 
<Random_Nerd> ALL UPPERCASE. 
<Random_Nerd> Like in the Dying Earth stories. 
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<BethE> But that's not cybernetics. Just cool. 
<Random_Nerd> So, the cybernetics thing. 
<Angelo> Knock, but my definition of machine fall short of machine + human with the rule that machinery are not sentient and that are being made of one or more pieces. SO under machinery a being + his rig to enhance his view is not a machine nor machinery can work on it 
<Random_Nerd> What do you think should be the first stage of the project, Angelo? 
<lazarus> (I want a copy of The Dying Earth :(. I could only find book 2 so far :() 
<Angelo> Acknowledge that Vulcan have that estate too? 
<Random_Nerd> Growing a new estate for Vulcan would be step 2, I think. 
<Random_Nerd> For 1... hmm. Making it so they're more of a thing in the real world, with the side effect of Ftisk getting one or two points in Domain: Cybernetics? 
<Angelo> will work 
<Knockwood> (laz: even on Amazon?) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. It won't be done this storyline, mind, so it can't really be the solution to this problem. 
<Random_Nerd> That said, this situation will probably give ample opportunities to start on it. 
<Angelo> and feel like the right time to start it 
<lazarus> (haven't looked on Amazon; just the local used book shops.) 
<lazarus> (Although I did find the Amber book. The one that collected all of the novels together. That was great.) 
<Knockwood> (that's the best place to look.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Bam! http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Dying-Earth-Jack-Vance/dp/0312874561) 
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<Angelo> wb Etheric! 
<Etheric> Hey. 
<Knockwood> Hiya Etheric 
<Random_Nerd> Welcome back. 
<Knockwood> (Would it be worthwhile to have everyone check their Destiny maps before we roll?) 
<BethE> What happened last time? I missed that one. 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
=-= Verithe is now known as Human_Kite 
<lazarus> (I don't remember where I put mine, but I'm not a driving force behind the current events, and I'm ok with that.) 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
=-= Etheric is now known as Carrie 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<Carrie> (Beth, Kite and Ftisk tested the device by having one installed in them, and that was about it.) 
<DanteE> (What's the number of points per stone again?) 
<DanteE> (Beth did?) 
<Ftisk> so in my destiny map I put: "Make a new Vulcan's estate: Cybernetics" 
<Theresa> (No - Beth: Kite and Ftisk....etc) 
<Carrie> (Saying to Beth, that Ftisk and Kite did.) 
<DanteE> (Oh) 
<Random_Nerd> 15. 
<Theresa> (And no one blew up? :) ) 
<DanteE> Ftisk's isn't _quite_ syncing up 
<DanteE> (and my 'Struggles' branch has 26 points-1 stone. Kewl) 
<Ftisk> yep, and is receiving evil glares from the devices 
<Human_Kite> Kite gave evil glares to his. 
<Carrie> (I should really make one of those map things sometime...) 
<DanteE> WE now have official confirmation that Ftisk is weird. :) 
<DanteE> Carrie: mindmeister.com 
<Random_Nerd> ...struggles branch? 
<Random_Nerd> That's not how it works. 
<Ftisk> nah, is only the excru device that is weird 
<Random_Nerd> Can you link your mindmap to me? 
<DanteE> http://www.mindmeister.com/xxxxxx 
<DanteE> well, that's more my 'Personal' branch 
<Random_Nerd> That's not a project. 
<Random_Nerd> I don't even really think that's a thing. 
<Random_Nerd> Like... what's the project? 
<DanteE> That reminds me, where are the logs? 
<Random_Nerd> You've got bits of like six different things in there. 
<Ftisk> I have been _a bit_ behind in logs releases :-( 
<Random_Nerd> Some of those might individually be projects. 
<Random_Nerd> But the whole thing isn't a single one. 
<DanteE> Well, that branch is stuff focusing on me rather than on others/the outer world 
<Random_Nerd> Okay... 
<Random_Nerd> But the branch isn't, itself, a project. 
<Random_Nerd> "Avoid being corrupted by Entropy" is. 
<DanteE> ah, but that branch is labeled 'Who am I?' 
<Random_Nerd> ...and therefore? 
<Carrie> Hmm, is that how it works? But Lifepath sheets are Projects and they're not so specific... 
<DanteE> there's the meta-project 'Be a better Me'. :p 
<DanteE> without interference 
<Random_Nerd> But most of those don't have much to do with that. 
<Brian> Lifepath sheets I see as having a pile of projects related to a single goal or cause - that is, the PC. 
<DanteE> There you go. 
<Brian> I've got a couple Projects going on, but I don't remember what they're called -_-; One is about the Nobilis Civil War, and the other about exploring the universe or such. They each have a lot of bubbles on them. 
<Random_Nerd> Knock... if you just want some extra character points or something, we can talk about that. Is that it? 
<DanteE> Anyone looking at how much we've accomplished in such a short time, and the impact it has had, would have to agree that we have universe-level forces looking out for us and guiding our actions. 
<DanteE> In other words, we'd have to be PCs. :D 
<DanteE> Actually, part of that branch is 'Personal Destiny', which are spend-anywhere points, right? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. Personal destiny can be spent on any project. 
<DanteE> That's it, it can be considered where I'm recording my Personal Destiny. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, but that uses different rules from Projects. 
<DanteE> presumably those are ways to get that, right? 
<Random_Nerd> Look.... 
<DanteE> oops 
<Random_Nerd> Guys, we've been playing 3e for like two and a half years. 
<Random_Nerd> But sometimes it feels like I am the only one who's read the book. 
<Ftisk> reading book is démodé! :-P 
<Random_Nerd> Knock, we spend something like five hours a year talking about this stuff, but when's the last time you just read the ten pages or whatever that deals with this? 
<Carrie> From my standpoint, the book is very confusingly vague on Projects. YMMV. 
<Random_Nerd> I'll give you an extra point in Aspect or Domain or something if you destroy that "struggles" branch and I never have to look at it again. Does that sound okay? 
<DanteE> ... I'll rewrite it when I have a few minutes free. Maybe just make it a list of unspent Personal Destiny, and move some of those things elsewhere... 
<Random_Nerd> I just get the feeling that you want to accumulate Destiny, but that you don't really have specific goals in mind. 
<Random_Nerd> So your sheet develops all these random catch-basins for points to fall in, but with no rhyme or reason to how they fit together. 
<Random_Nerd> Am I off-base? 
<DanteE> uhhhh... it's an RP thing. Dante is still struggling with how to be a Noble. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> That, we can work with. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, look at page 348. 
<Random_Nerd> What, specifically, is he struggling with? 
<DanteE> the fact that he's slowly moving--or being moved--away from Humanity. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. So his problem is "should I fight to stay human, or keep moving further away from it"? 
<DanteE> also, 'Should I move to a leadership position or stay in the shadows?' 
<Random_Nerd> Well, I think it makes more sense for Dante to be struggling with one particular issue at a time. 
<Random_Nerd> Otherwise it just gets muddled. 
<DanteE> That's part of the 'Lord of Amyra?' branch 
<Random_Nerd> Which is bigger, for him, right now? 
<DanteE> they're related. Being not-human throws him into a leadership position. 
<Random_Nerd> Could you phrase it as one conceptual thing, then? Your words, not mine. 
<DanteE> Doing some rearranging now. 
<DanteE> But anyway. Play time? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> But, before we start... is my feeling that you guys aren't really all that up on the rules accurate, or just GM delusions of persecution? 
<Ftisk> depict myself faulty 
<Carrie> I won't deny it in my case, just in the sense that I'm still checking the rules every session to try to internalize just what Persona can do. 
<Random_Nerd> Because it sometimes feels like, for instance, when you guys are in a situation trying to figure out solutions, you just spin your wheels until I point out a thing you can do. And that just feels like I'm playing chess against myself. 
<Brian> I had a bit of "hadn't used the rules in a while and realized they were more complex than I thought", combined with "I haven’t made a summary" 
<DanteE> iiiiiits an ongoing test ... to check the feasibility of Nobilis as a pickup game. Yeah, that's it. 
<Theresa> It's accurate with me, I'll admit that. 
<Random_Nerd> So, what do we do? Would you guys rather we just turned this into a freeform game in the Nobilis setting, but with no rules? 
<Carrie> Please don't do that. 
<Ftisk> no, strip the rule and lost Nobilis 
<Random_Nerd> Because this... this isn't working for me. I can't be the GM and the one coming up ways to stymie the GM at the same time. 
<Carrie> Personally, I really enjoy thinking up ways to deal with problems that come up. 
<Theresa> I don't want to strip the rules. I'll reread the book and actually take notes. 
<Carrie> And I have been doing that in some cases, like in Afghanistan. 
<Random_Nerd> Then could you guys please re-read the book by next session? 
<Brian> I can do that. 
<Random_Nerd> True. With the suicide bomber guy. 
<Brian> I've been wanting to do so, anyway. 
<Theresa> *nod* 
<Ftisk> well, I'm too slow and have too little time to re-read all the book by next sessions 
<DanteE> OK, but it's a big book. :p 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. But at least try. 
<Random_Nerd> Because right now, it feels like I might as well just do all the mechanical stuff in a separate channel, with none of you present. 
<Carrie> I'll be checking it anyway as a reference, so I might as well reread the whole thing. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> So... Nobilis! 
<Brian> I have a printer working again, now, too, so that's a bonus. I may have physical copies of stuffs so I can actually reference things -_-; 
<Ftisk> (brb) 
<Theresa> SO how are Kite and Ftisk hooked up to these things? Glasses? 
<Random_Nerd> Glasses, motion sensors, microphones. 
<Random_Nerd> So! Last session! 
<Random_Nerd> You guys researched the devices! You experimented with them! You met a guy with a knife and disagreed with him! 
<DanteE> We found that damn orc camp. 
<Random_Nerd> Any questions? 
<Theresa> Oo, guy with a knife? 
<DanteE> Remind me what knife-guy did as the session ended? 
<Carrie> He happened to show up on Dante's divination radar. 
<Random_Nerd> He swore at you! 
<Random_Nerd> And he hoped that he wouldn't urinate on himself, as discovered by Carrie! 
<Random_Nerd> Kite had concluded that he had nothing to do with the excrucian plot. 
<Brian> I think I vaguely remember that. 
<Brian> goddamnit I need to start reviewing logs 
<Theresa> Cool! I'm back from guarding the horses! 
<Random_Nerd> Any other questions before we start? 
<Theresa> Ready! 
<Brian> I'm good 
<Human_Kite> Ready! 
<Carrie> Go right ahead. 
<Random_Nerd> _______________START__________________ 
<Random_Nerd> So! There are wearable computers! Kite's works pretty well, but Ftisk's only vaguely does relevant things at all! 
<Theresa> (Did the guy with a knife go away?) 
<Theresa> (And is Ftisk in human form?) 
<Random_Nerd> (The guy with a knife has nothing to do with anything, honest, so shall we just say that Dante shooed him away?) 
<Theresa> (okie-dokie!) 
<DanteE> (Sure. I also may have mentioned that if I hear about him waving knives around again... well, never mind that.) 
<Theresa> "So, what all do these machines do?" 
<DanteE> (BTW, are our aides with us?) 
<Human_Kite> (He should only wave knives righteously!) 
<Random_Nerd> So, you guys had three leads. Alice Gadish. The alleged Excrucian sighting on Green Street. And the fact that Kite's device seems to be able to tell when he's /about/ to use a miracle. 
<Brian> (Sam is not with us. Sam is off doing Sammy things) 
<Theresa> (No, they're in Amyra. They're having their own session.) 
<DanteE> (that was a v2 Dante vs. v3 Dante thing, remember) 
<Theresa> (That third one is...weird.) 
<Brian> (IIRC we were on our way to Green Street?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Current Dante wants people to wave knives with foul intent and while high on at least three different controlled substances!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Wait, that's the alternate universe where Dante and Ftisk changed places.) 
<Random_Nerd> Yes, you were. 
<Theresa> (Kite, do you get a little paperclip pop up that says, 'I see you're about to do a miracle. Would you like to spend a miracle point?' ?) 
<Human_Kite> "Green Street is this way!" 
<Random_Nerd> The sighting was on a conspiracy-theory tumblr kind of thing. 
<Random_Nerd> (Not that... but when he was about do a divination, relevant results popped up.) 
<Human_Kite> (It...yeah) 
<DanteE> "Actually, what does that site say an Excrucian _is_?" 
* Theresa follows Kite! 
<Ftisk> (back) 
<Random_Nerd> Apparently some non-Noble folks are vaguely aware of Excrucians, but only in the sense that they're aware of reptoids, Bigfoot, shadow people, and the Slender Man. 
<Ftisk> (I'm in snail form) 
<Human_Kite> "That's a good question." 
<Theresa> (Huh. That supports a theory of mine, then, Ftisk.) 
<Ftisk> (witch theory T.?) 
* Ftisk land on Theresa shoulder 
* Human_Kite checks on the theories the visitors/curators of this site have about Excrutians. 
<Random_Nerd> "Excrucian" appears to be roughly interchangeable with "Black-eyed children", except that it seems to be more likely to involve a sighting of an adult. 
* DanteE checks over the place with The Sight 
<Theresa> (That this is an AI gaining sentience and it's trying to learn how to be more human/how to predict human behaviors for reaction by studying humans. You're not in human form, therefore, it doesn't want to learn from you.) 
<Theresa> (Crap, are those kids Excrucians?) 
<Random_Nerd> It's mostly a weird sighting thing. You see a guy with weird eyes, he says or does something mysterious, and then leaves. 
* Human_Kite checks "Black-eyed children" 
<DanteE> (so why hook that to the name 'Excrucian'?) 
<Random_Nerd> Whether these sightings involve actual Excrucians is unknown. 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, anything on your attack?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Unclear.) 
<Random_Nerd> You get this: https://www.google.com/search?q=black-eyed+children&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a 
<Theresa> "So, what are we looking for? I'm a little foggy." 
<Random_Nerd> Except it's not google, because it isn't Google that makes the device, honest. 
<Ftisk> "Yes! It hurt!" 
<Human_Kite> (Weird) 
<DanteE> "More acute than chronic, Ftisk." 
<Random_Nerd> (You were looking for where the Excrucian sighting was.) 
<DanteE> "As in, direction and range." 
<Ftisk> (any spike to the attach hurt RN? maybe while wearing the device?) 
<Random_Nerd> (There wasn't a picture of the Excrucian, but there was of the place where he'd allegedly been previously.) 
<DanteE> (And how are you wearing that in snail form?) 
<Random_Nerd> Using the device does nothing to your pain, Ftisk. 
<Random_Nerd> But being around when Kite uses it is starting to. 
<Random_Nerd> More than it did at first. 
<Ftisk> (I previously wear it in human form) 
<Random_Nerd> (No pain from using it then, either.) 
<Human_Kite> "Should I stop using this, Ftisk?" 
<Random_Nerd> (From Kite, but not from you.) 
<Ftisk> "staying around Kite's device is becoming painful" 
<Ftisk> "no, wait, let me do some divinations on it first" 
<DanteE> "Any way your devices could have been switched?" 
<Theresa> *looks around* "So, where was this sighting at? Maybe they really like lattes." 
<Human_Kite> "Okay." 
<Human_Kite> "No, Dante." 
<Random_Nerd> It was in the parking lot of a bar, up about two blocks. 
<Ftisk> "we already tried to swap devices and don't work" 
<Human_Kite> "We tried switching them. Mine works better for me." 
<Human_Kite> "Almost there." 
<DanteE> "Sooooo... somebody came out of a _bar_ and saw something weird?" 
<Brian> "Weird is worth investigating." 
<Theresa> "It wasn't a opium den, Dante." 
<Human_Kite> "Yes." 
<Brian> (actually. LDiv Number of people who saw the supposed Excrucian?) 
<DanteE> "This close to a college?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Who saw it on that occasion? Or ever?) 
<Theresa> "It would more likely be pot." 
* Human_Kite checks for nearby colleges. 
* DanteE does a Div-Courage to see if anyone nearby just got spooked... 
<Brian> (on that occasion is what I was thinking of) 
<Random_Nerd> (Three.) 
<DanteE> "or MDMA." 
<Human_Kite> "There are three nearby colleges. 
<Random_Nerd> Just got spooked? Just now? 
<DanteE> yep 
<Brian> "Three people saw the supposed Excrucian." 
<Random_Nerd> (No, that was to the "how many people saw the supposes excrucian.") 
<Human_Kite> (Haha....scratch my response then.) 
<Random_Nerd> This is a university town, and it's in an area of California that is pretty much lousy with colleges. 
<Random_Nerd> Green Street is basically flat in the middle of where college kids here go to drink or eat. 
<Theresa> (What was the Excrucian described as doing?) 
<Human_Kite> (Crossing the street, I think.) 
<DanteE> (OK, I'll bite... why did the Excrucian cross the road?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Because the road crossed him first.) 
<Carrie> (To try to take over the world.) 
<DanteE> (To eat the concept of 'the other side') 
<Random_Nerd> The "Excrucian" was described as "Looking at me with those freaky glistening eyes and telling me to, like, fuck off, human." Only with worse spelling.) 
<Ftisk> (lesser divination equivalent in persona: The Sight can show if there are alterations on machinery properties of the not google glass?) 
<Theresa> (Man, you get a hangover as an all-powerful being and you get cranky.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. It can tell whether they have a connection to Machinery, or Data. They do. And they look weirdly... gleaming... when in use. Except yours. Yours didn't gleam.) 
<Human_Kite> (Maybe it's his thing.) 
<Ftisk> (mine didn't work) 
<DanteE> (That may mean you got 'made') 
<DanteE> (Wait a sec... does that include Kite's? It may be because they're new) 
<Random_Nerd> It does include Kite's. It doesn't gleam as much as any other one you've seen in use, but it gleams some. 
<Theresa> "Hmm..*steps into Kite's line of sight* *waves* Hello! If you're an intelligent being who is studying humans, please let us know as we would like to converse with you and might be able to barter knowledge with you." 
<Brian> (Brian may be overheard muttering to himself about biological or physiological responses to preparing to use a Miracle...) 
<Carrie> I'm spending 2 MP to do a Greater Divination of Hope. Have any hope-spirits noticed this Excrucian? 
<Random_Nerd> How are you defining "this Excrucian"? 
<DanteE> (Theresa uses Rationale! It's ... how effective?) 
<Random_Nerd> Any Excrucian around here? The specific event described on the website? 
<Carrie> One in or near the bar, in the past... when was the website event? Since around one week before that. 
<DanteE> (Are we there yet?) 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. Hope spirits have seen a man with Excrucian eyes in the area on several occasions in the last two weeks. The web post is one week old. 
<Random_Nerd> You're there. 
<Human_Kite> "Here it is." 
<Random_Nerd> The parking lot looks only slightly less dingy in the light of day than it did in the phone-camera picture. 
<Brian> (can the hope spirits describe him?) 
<Carrie> Did he seem to be doing anything specific, beyond hanging around? 
<Random_Nerd> (Male. Human. Between four and seven feet tall. Dressed mainly in dark colors.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He seemed irritated bordering on angry each time they saw him.) 
* Carrie relays this info. 
<DanteE> Anything visible to The Sight? 
<Theresa> (Maybe these machine things annoy him so much, he's attacking Machinery to get rid of them.) 
<Random_Nerd> No fresh major miracles. Several shards of glass qualify as blades. 
<Ftisk> anything visible to my sight? 
<Random_Nerd> No particularly courageous people. 
<Random_Nerd> Data everywhere, from the wifi and cell phone coverage. Machinery everywhere, in the form of cars and tumbler locks on doors and cell phones and bikes and so on. 
<Random_Nerd> Seven people wearing the beta-test wearable computers. 
<Random_Nerd> All but one are painfully gleamy. 
<Random_Nerd> One is not, barely brighter than Kite's. 
<Carrie> That gleam thing is visible to any of us? 
<Theresa> (Who's got that one?) 
<Ftisk> "There are 7 peoples wearing the Device, one didn’t not gleam painfully." 
<Random_Nerd> It's only visible to Ftisk. 
=-= YOU are now known as humanFtisk 
<Carrie> Alright, thanks. 
<Human_Kite> "Should we talk to that one first or to the seven?" 
<humanFtisk> I go to the one not gleaming 
<Brian> "I suspect he's got his most recent. Let's talk to him." 
<Brian> "Or her, I suppose." 
<DanteE> "Always good to check what's different..." 
<Theresa> "Let's talk to the one out of place." 
<Random_Nerd> He looks irritated, and is muttering to either himself or to his device. 
<Random_Nerd> In the time it takes to walk across the street to him, he presses the red button three times. 
<Random_Nerd> (Are either of you wearing your devices?) 
<humanFtisk> "Hi! Any problem with that device?" 
<Brian> (No! Bad device! No cookie! :p) 
<humanFtisk> (I'm not wearing mine but keep it in my hands) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Yeah. The damn thing keeps showing me pictures of giraffes colored blue. I'm gonna take it back in to be reset, and if that doesn't do it, I'm quitting the test." 
<Random_Nerd> He presses the red button. "No! No more giraffes!" 
<DanteE> "When did that start?" 
<Brian> "How did you answer the questions during the scan? That has a large bearing on how well tuned these machines are" 
<humanFtisk> "Mine too is not working, my friends one here instead have no issues" 
<Random_Nerd> Again. "No! Understand the word emphasizes! I did not say 'No, /more/ giraffes.'" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "And that was an example! I didn't actually mean..." 
<Random_Nerd> He turns it off. 
<DanteE> "Can we see that?" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Don't break it. I think if I break it, they get to sell me to a dog food company." 
<Human_Kite> "Deprive it of food until it obeys better." 
* humanFtisk data divination of his memories of the test. 
<Random_Nerd> He takes off the glasses part and hands them over. 
<Random_Nerd> He's had his device for two days. 
* DanteE looks through the glasses... 
<Human_Kite> "You're a slave?" 
<Random_Nerd> It's worked only slightly better than Ftisk's does. 
* humanFtisk data divination of his memories of all the meeting + setup of the device. 
<Random_Nerd> "I don't think so, but I didn't read all of the beta tester agreement. So... maybe?" 
<Random_Nerd> "There wasn't a bit about slavery in there, right?" 
<Brian> "It's not that bad." 
<DanteE> "I wouldn't worry, nobody reads EULAs." 
<Brian> "You would just owe them more than most people make in three lifetimes, I think it was." 
<DanteE> what do I see? 
<Human_Kite> "I don't understand why that is cause not to worry." 
<humanFtisk> did him lied to the test or did the test was different that the one we did? 
<Brian> (I could /totally/ check that, but I'm not gonna.) 
<DanteE> (You could. EULAs aren't like the Necronomicon, despite how they look. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Through the glasses, you just see that it's finishing powering down. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, two things. First, he's only been in one to set up the device, and his experience was a lot like yours. 
<Random_Nerd> Second... something about the way his memories is arranged feels wrong. It's like he's on a different file system than most people. 
<Brian> "What's your major?" 
<humanFtisk> but my data divination still work 
<Random_Nerd> Yes, it works. 
<Random_Nerd> You just notice the strangeness at the same time. 
<Theresa> (Aspect 3. How are his body movements/expressions compared to an average person?) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Neurobiology." 
<Human_Kite> "So....blue giraffes?" 
* DanteE checks what happens when he powers it up... 
<Brian> "I heard they're limiting the rollout, but I thought it was more toward the techy end." 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, from the way he moves, he's got some sort of mild nervous system disorder on his left side, and he's at least partially blind in that eye as well. 
<humanFtisk> data div of relevant facts of his life, is there something that he remember that explain why is memory is strange? Like some medical check or like? 
<Brian> "interesting device, isn't it? Shows some neat implications for the way peoples' minds work - I don't mean individuals, but more the aggregate of humanity." 
<Theresa> (Hmm, maybe stroke, but he's young for it.) 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, it shows: "Body language error. Eye tracking error. Please return to distribution center for recalibration." 
<Random_Nerd> What are you checking for facts of his life? 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Maybe, but the thing doesn't work at all for me." 
<DanteE> (If you tell me IC, I can heal him, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Depends what the issue is.) 
<Theresa> (For the guys who were there for the set-up of the machines, would they have caught and calibrated for the lack of sight in the one eye?) 
<humanFtisk> like discovering that he have cancer or that at 8 was diagnosed that he have a brain bolted upside-down 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. They were at least that thorough.) 
<Brian> "Neurobiologists tend to think different than most, I suspect. That may be enough to throw it off." 
<Random_Nerd> From his memories, you can tell that as a young child, he had /severe/ epilepsy, and that as a result, he had to have a Hemispherectomy, which is exactly what it sounds like. 
<Brian> "I'm not in on how they built these machines, but I've got my own theories about how something like that would work. Want to grab a drink to talk some of it over? On me." 
<humanFtisk> (yikes!) 
<Theresa> (...huh.) 
<DanteE> "Well, it's doing the spazzing properly when I try to use it..." 
<DanteE> (That would mean, if the thing burrows into his brain it would have problems.) 
<Random_Nerd> Really, he got pretty lucky. Average or slightly above intelligence, and only minor physical symptoms. 
<Brian> (If I can LDiv time, I want to LDiv the time of day the Excrucian was seen around here) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy, to Dante: "Oh?" 
<Theresa> "Dante, don't use that insult, please." 
<DanteE> "Yeah, 'body language error' and 'eye tracking error'. 
<Random_Nerd> (You know that from the web post. About eleven at night.) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Oh. That. Yeah, it does that whenever you try to wear someone else's one." 
<DanteE> to T: "The noun's an insult, the verb is accurate here. 
<Brian> (good enough, I guess.) 
<DanteE> "But if you insist change that to 'glitching'." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Look, I was going to go back to the center to have the thing reprogrammed. You wanna keep talking, let's walk and talk." 
<DanteE> to Guy: "They did the scan when they gave it to you, right?" 
<Brian> "Sure. Got the time" 
* DanteE hands it back 
<Theresa> *to Dante* "Call it a habit from teaching children not to use a word like that." *smile* *to student* "So, why neurobiology?" 
<Brian> (though Brian wants to be back here in the evening. On the off chance of actually seeing the Excrucian) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Yeah. But they told me because of... okay, when I was a kid, I had some neurological trouble. That because of that, it might not work for me." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Look, if you'd had the life I've had, you'd be interested in how brains work too." 
<DanteE> "What kind of trouble?" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "The personal kind." 
<DanteE> (Let's see, what kind of degree did I say Dante had...) 
<humanFtisk> (with persona 2 can I do a trip in this guy mind?) 
<humanFtisk> (persona 2 DATA ...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. You want to inhabit one of his memories?) 
<Theresa> "Did they say whether they have done much work with this device with non-neurotypical brainsets?" 
<Brian> *eyeroll* "excuse my friends here. They're after knowing how these things tick. I wanted to talk to you about how you'd figure to build one - how the neurology may interact with the device, and what that may imply for the aggregate they've got going on." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "They said they were trying to work out how to do it, and they offered me five hundred bucks if I tried the device." 
<Brian> (eyeroll back at Dante's comment) 
<humanFtisk> (I want to inhabit the memories of him interacting with the device then compare to ones of another guy with a working device and seek for differences) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "How I'd figure to build what?" 
<Random_Nerd> (You can do that, but it'll take time to find the right memory to inhabit.) 
<humanFtisk> (Ok I do that while the others talk to him) 
<Random_Nerd> (And your body wouldn't have you in it while you do it.) 
<DanteE> (Hold on. If his brain's half gone that means memories are in different than usual places... 
<Brian> "Say I came to you with the idea for something like this - that I could make an AI, but I needed some neuroscience backing. What's the best approach? With the backing of an immense data store, even." 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, because the half he has had to learn to do double-duty. They can do that, if you're young enough.) 
<DanteE> (which would be a problem if the thing is relying on certain memories and/or certain functions being in certain places) 
<Brian> (Brian primarily wants to engage him in conversation so that Ftisk can do his Ftisky things. Also, 'cause AIs and such are fascinating) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "I'm not a programmer. But... well, the thing can't work from brains directly. It's gotta work from indirect cues." 
<DanteE> "They mention eye tracking." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "But the good thing about that is, half the work's already done. The part where you use it, I mean, not where it knows what to do." 
<humanFtisk> (well the others can cover me while away from my body) 
<Theresa> (Let Theresa know and she can steer you. Or hey, Ftisk could pilot you around like a mecha. ^^ ) 
<DanteE> (Ftisk, you could just do a div-Data on him and the 6 guys here with working machines) 
* humanFtisk whisper to Theresa: I want to inhabit his memories so to discover more. Can you hide my snail form? TY" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "See, humans are good at that. It's part of the whole tool-user things. Any tool we use just gets to feel like part of our bodies. There's even some interesting work lately in 'new senses', where someone, like, puts a little magnet in their finger, so they can feel magnetic fields." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Brains can adapt to that. Brains are /good/ at adapting to that. To lots of stuff." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "So, if it works the way it's supposed to, like, rather than the way it works for me? It'd be like it becomes part of your mind." 
<DanteE> "To a point. If you had a dog's sense of smell your cortex would smoke after a while." 
<humanFtisk> (I'm not sure to get the same informations Dante) 
* Theresa will LC a cotton scarf and wrap Ftisk up in a modified bottle sling/wrap. 
<humanFtisk> I go away from sight and change to snail 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<DanteE> (You realize RN is feeding us clues, ne? :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "What I'm wondering is... when the test ends, but before the general release... what happens to the people who got used to them? Even the little sense-stuff is disorienting if you take it away. But this... this is huge." 
<Brian> (of course :)) 
* Ftisk dive in Theresa scarf + doing the inhabitations 
<DanteE> "My money's ona zombie zerg-rush." 
<Theresa> "It does sound..addictive." 
<Random_Nerd> (No! You just happened to run into a neurobiology student with an interest in neuroplasticity! It could happen!) 
<Human_Kite> "We can't let zombies be a thing!" 
<Human_Kite> "I am adamant on this!" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Slow zombies or fast zombies?" 
<Human_Kite> "Any zombies." 
<Ftisk> (fast!) 
<DanteE> "Maybe if you did the initial configuration again? Whatever you did when you first got it?" 
<DanteE> "Or, you know, something simple." 
<Human_Kite> "Evolution would convince the slow ones that they could be fast, eventually." 
<Ftisk> (or they can get rollerblades) 
<Theresa> "What do you think could be done with all of the information gathered?" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "I did the whole routine. Since clearly it didn't work right, because" *turns to yell at device* "I AM NOT OBSESSED WITH BLUE GIRAFFES... I'll try it again. Because, hey, five hundred bucks!" 
<Ftisk> (rollerZombies!) 
<Human_Kite> (The zombies evolved roller blades!) 
<Theresa> (I'm not sure how well zombies are coordinated, Ftisk.) 
<Ftisk> (fast one coordinate pretty well) 
<Theresa> "Do you still get the money if you can prove that their device doesn't work for you?" 
<DanteE> (OK, RN, do the blue giraffes mean anything, or is that pure colon extraction? :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Information gathered? Oh, that? Well, I asked about that, and they said they'd make the results available, less any personally identifiable info. Could be big. You don't usually get these sorts of brain activity scans for random slices of the population." 
<Brian> "I suspect that their matching algorithms are very much designed around the neurotypical. Which would explain why one of our friends' isn't working right either *smile*" 
<Theresa> (Well, there's a difference between coordinated and can't stand up.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<DanteE> "Any chance you know meditation?" 
<Theresa> (Aha! Someone else who has yet to learn the Zen of Don't Ask RN Two-parted Questions! (Sorry, wife-rant. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Oh?" *turns to Kite* "Do you have something... odd going on upstairs too?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Ftisk, you're still searching for the right memory to be.) 
<Ftisk> (okie dokie) 
<DanteE> "Well, when did that thing start with the you-know-whats?" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Hmm?" 
<DanteE> "the oddly colored animals I don't want to directly say." 
<Theresa> "Long necks..." 
<Brian> "Not him. Our other friend, who seems to have wandered off. I'm sure you'd love to examine him, too." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "The day I got it. Giraffe giraffe giraffe. They said it'd have learned by now not do to that, but that if it didn't, I was to take it back in for recalibration." 
<DanteE> "What did you try to get rid of them?" 
<Carrie> Lesser Divination of Hope. What capability is this guy's brain lacking that the other testers' brains have? 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Pressing the button. Pressing the button really hard. Swearing. Trying to make the guy who made it explode with my mind. Well, girl. Whatever." 
<Human_Kite> "I'm human!" 
<Brian> (explode with your girl? ... ) 
<Brian> "Of course you are, Kite." 
<DanteE> "Hm... try this: calm down, center yourself, and slowly and clearly say 'do not return giraffes'." 
<Human_Kite> "Yes! Of course I am!" 
<Random_Nerd> While his brain lacks some capabilities, he's uncoordinated and has somewhat impaired visual processing, you don't think that's why it's doing it. 
<Theresa> ( :P The girl who made this, I take it. Is that the girl's name from earlier in the list of tonight of stuff to check out?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you've found the memory. But you're not experiencing what it was like to be him in that memory. Instead, you're experincing what it's like to /be the memory itself/. 
<Brian> "There's no way you're a strange mechanical bird." 
<DanteE> (Is the eye it's tracking the one controlled by the remaining brain half?) 
<Random_Nerd> You're jammed in in a poorly-arranged space, in a pile of your siblings, and you can't quite move correctly. 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Tried that too. Didn't work for long. At best, I got only pictures of very small blue giraffes." 
<Brian> (Beth: yep) 
<Carrie> (Who knew that being a memory would be like being a kitten?) 
<Ftisk> (I can compare this experience with how being other peoples memory fell like?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You looked up before that the head of the project was an Alice Gadish.) 
<DanteE> "Small blue giraffes?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, you'd probably have tried this before. And it doesn't feel the same. Like... hmm. It's like the difference between sleeping in a pile of people, and sleeping in a bunk bed in a densely packed barrack.) 
<Brian> "Why /blue/?" 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Yes. Which wasn't much of an improvement. Though some /were/ adorable." 
<DanteE> "And why giraffes?" 
<Theresa> (Carrie - don't get Ftisk started on kittens or he'll never come back.) 
<Ftisk> (ok, I return to my body) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Dunno. Because pink ones would be /silly/?" 
<Random_Nerd> You've reached the place where you got your devices. 
<Brian> "Now I'm thinking of the elephant ghost scene from Dumbo." 
<Random_Nerd> The guy look up at you as you come in. To Kite: "Problems already?" 
<Theresa> (RN - yes, yes they are. http://www.clker.com/cliparts/h/K/A/8/0/X/blue-giraffe-hi.png ) 
<Brian> (it would be hilarious if Kite's started playing that scene and he became traumatized :D) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy You Came In With: "No, it's me. I need recalibrating." 
* Ftisk fly out of building and change to human form 
=-= YOU are now known as humanFtisk 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service: "Oh! You're the... tester from the other day. Yes, certainly, let me tell them you need recalibrating." 
<Human_Kite> "Elephant ghost scene from Dumbo?" 
* humanFtisk join the others 
<Theresa> "You don't want to know, Kite, at least for now." 
<DanteE> "Ask Sam when we get back." 
<Human_Kite> "You should know, Theresa, that that phrase always makes one more curious." 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service Guy stares off into space for a moment and slightly moves a finger. 
<Brian> "Your glasses can play it for you ..." 
<Theresa> "Indeed, I do." *smile* "But I trust that you can wait until Ftisk's problem is over before indulging your curiosity." 
<Random_Nerd> Blue Giraffe Guy rolls his eyes, which don't /quite/ roll in sync. 
* Human_Kite ponders playing a scene about ghost elephants and a dumb bo. 
<humanFtisk> Do a data divination on the memories of the guys again searching for info on his interaction with the device 
<Carrie> "Dumbo is a cartoon movie. There is a scene with pink elephants that are hallucinated by one of the main characters. A musical scene. With visuals that are a bit freaky." 
<Human_Kite> "Ah." 
<Random_Nerd> They seem fairly similar to your interactions with it, but if anything he had a little more trouble than you did. 
<Random_Nerd> Giraffes /everywhere/. 
<Carrie> (It's a stampede) 
<Random_Nerd> Like, for a while he had trouble walking because giraffes were overlaid over all of his vision. 
<Carrie> (It really is a stampede, huh?) 
<humanFtisk> poor guy 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service: "Okay, our medical technicians can see you now, Mr. Gantry." 
<Random_Nerd> (But he's a grad student. He really wants the extra cash.) 
<Random_Nerd> He nods at you guys, and heads to the door at the back of the room. 
<Carrie> (Poor guy) 
<DanteE> "Blue giraffes. 
<Theresa> (The ground state of a grad student is poor.) 
<DanteE> "Does that mean anything?" 
<Brian> "Why blue giraffes? That's a little odd." 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service Guy: "Hmm?" 
<DanteE> "Oh, that's what he was seeing when his glasses glitched..." 
<Brian> (Brian's idle curiosity brings him to LDiv the number of blue giraffe pictures out there. I don't care, but Brian would. He often idly does that.) 
* DanteE watches the CSG to see if he's reacting to that. 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service: "Oh." 
<humanFtisk> (can with a lesser animation Data change the way one of the store guy with a device store memories? I want to check if that will send ko the device) 
<Random_Nerd> (On the internet? On the Earth? Or total?) 
<Brian> (total.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Seventy-eight billion.) 
<Brian> "There are seventy eight billion pictures of blue giraffes in existance." */spock* 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm... yeah, I guess you can do that. What change do you want to make?) 
<DanteE> "and how many of them invoke Rule 34?" 
<Brian> "I'm not even going to check." 
<humanFtisk> (the filesystem it use to store them, I'm inspired by the guy I was a memory for a bit) 
<Random_Nerd> (Two point nine billion!) 
<Brian> "two point nine billion." 
<Brian> "Thank you Dante." 
<Brian> "I didn't need to know that." 
<Random_Nerd> (You're changing the way the guy's brain stores memories?) 
<humanFtisk> (nod nod!) 
<Brian> (he may not be able to access them after...) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Hmm? I just checked and my search is only finding seven milligurrgglel." 
<Human_Kite> (...to be like the way Mr. Gantry's memories were saved?) 
<Random_Nerd> He slumps over. 
<humanFtisk> (and the way memories already existing are stored so he will remain functional) 
* Human_Kite mocks a gasp 
<Theresa> "Ftisk..did you just blue screen of death him?" 
<Random_Nerd> (You can change the way his existing memories are stored, but you can't change the way his brain accesses memories with a miracle of Data.) 
* humanFtisk fell _slightly_ embarrassed 
<DanteE> "Either that or a really bad reaction to Rule 34 giraffes." 
* DanteE checks on the guy 
<Random_Nerd> The guy begins to drool on his desk. 
* humanFtisk restore the guy 
<Random_Nerd> Guys from the back /dart/ out. "Jim? Are you okay? Your computer sent a... holy shit!" 
* humanFtisk restore the guy memory back to original work 
<Random_Nerd> The guy stops drooling, looks confused for a moment, and sits back up. 
<Random_Nerd> Jim, Apparently: "What?" 
<DanteE> "Don't think I've heard of that error code..." 
<Brian> "When experiencing temporary operating system failure, a hard reset is sometimes in order. Apparently." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy From The Back: "Jim... I think you need to take your device off at once, until we've recalibrated it. That... wasn't normal." 
<Random_Nerd> Jim: "No! Uh, I mean, that's not necessary. I just... nodded off for a moment." 
<Human_Kite> (Teehee!) 
<Brian> "Don't froogle Rule 34 blue giraffes. Elephants may be safe." 
<Theresa> (Every programmer and IT person knows the 'holy shit' error.) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy From The Back: "At least come back and let them check you over. It... dude, it looked like you were having a stroke." 
<DanteE> "'safe' is a stretch. Rule 34, after all." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy From The Back: "I'll call Sarah, she can fill in for you. She owes me one. One and a half, really." 
<DanteE> "... these things keep an eye on your brain?" 
<Human_Kite> "All of this talk of blue giraffes, blue screens, ghost elephants and dumb bows is confusing me." 
<Brian> (*raises hand* I've said it myself, too) 
<humanFtisk> (damn! I was so near to stop the device! :-( ) 
<Random_Nerd> Guy From The Back, to Dante: "Yes! They can actually often spot a seizure minutes before it happens!" 
<DanteE> (Yeah, but they don't literally say that. :p ) 
<Brian> (... um... *raises hand meekly*) 
<DanteE> "That's pretty much the definition of intrusive." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "It's just a matter of body language, eye movements, and stuff. Besides, if you're gonna have a seizure, wouldn't you want to know?" 
<Theresa> (There is a difference in nuance between a holy shit error and a fuck error...) 
<Random_Nerd> He leads Jim to the back. 
<DanteE> (You never see a printout with "Holy shit error. Fix the fucking input, assmunch.") 
<Theresa> "Does the device then send for help?" 
<Brian> (... yes I do. ... in testing only, but still. Yes I do ^_^) 
<humanFtisk> (inverse test time! Lesser enhancement, let's add a duplication of memories, all will have a echo like effect in the same guy that before was hit) 
<Random_Nerd> (Do you mean creation or enchantment?) 
<DanteE> (please don't cause head crashes in mundanes?) 
<humanFtisk> (the level 4 effect the enanchment) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, something that happened in the back of the building just /hurt/, estate-wise. 
<Human_Kite> (He'll fix them. Honest!) 
<Random_Nerd> (What estate property are you adding, and to who or what?) 
* humanFtisk dart to the spot "Guys, hurt, follow me!" 
<humanFtisk> (brb the fish tank made some strange sound) 
<Random_Nerd> The layout is the same as before. Hallways, closed doors, people in vaguely medical outfits moving around. 
* Theresa follows Ftisk? 
<Random_Nerd> What are you looking for? 
* DanteE follows Ftisk... 
* Carrie goes along as well. 
* Human_Kite Lesserly Divines any Assembly going on that might notice or be involved in something that could be effecting Ftisk. 
<Human_Kite> (in the building) 
<DanteE> (affecting) 
<Random_Nerd> Girl In The Hall: "Hey! Where are you going?" 
<Human_Kite> (right) 
<Random_Nerd> What are you looking for, in terms of affecting Ftisk? 
<Theresa> "This-a way!" 
<DanteE> "Where we need to go." 
<Random_Nerd> Because there are a /lot/ of assemblages here. 
<humanFtisk> (back, my fish is save, filter engine ko) 
<Random_Nerd> Including, interestingly, yourself and your device. 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, got a bead on it?" 
* humanFtisk follow the hurt and scan all with the sight and divination to get the right spot 
<Theresa> (Oh no, Angelo! :( ) 
<Human_Kite> (Probably more of something that looks unique compared to our previous experiences while getting these devices ) 
* humanFtisk do a machinery divination to know if them see what happen 
<Human_Kite> (If that is specific enough...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Well, Mr. Gantry is now an assemblage with his device. That's new, he definitely wasn't five minutes ago.) 
<humanFtisk> (T, I will purchase a new fish tank pump later today, now it is powered off and the gold fish seem ok) 
<Theresa> (Ah.) 
<DanteE> (Is he in the direction we're going?) 
<Human_Kite> (anything going on with Jim that I can divine?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<DanteE> (Paydirt. It's the mind-machine fusion that's doing the attack.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Jim is now doing okay, he's mostly just shocked and annoyed.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Gantry is down the hall, fourth door on the left, the same PET machine room you were in earlier.) 
<humanFtisk> (that fusion is violating one of my estate properties) 
<Theresa> (Hmm...wonder if the glow is of how much in tune you are with the device. I don't think the device could really keep up with Ftisk. :) ) 
<humanFtisk> (can we stop here? I have kid's breakfast to do) 
<Random_Nerd> (Almost.) 
<DanteE> (impromptu sushi? :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> Do you go to that room? 
<Theresa> (I would if I had been here before. :) ) 
<Brian> yah 
<humanFtisk> (Dante that is bad!) 
<Human_Kite> Into the room! 
<humanFtisk> (and gold fishes have too much bones to be good sushi :-P ) 
<Human_Kite> Human etiquette be damned! 
<Random_Nerd> Mr. Gantry is chatting with two technicians as he adjusts how the glasses-unit sits on his face. 
<Random_Nerd> One of the technicians has stars in his eyes. 
<Random_Nerd> ____________STOP___________ 
<humanFtisk> (I _run_ to that room) 
<Theresa> Whee! 
<humanFtisk> woot! 
<Brian> fun! 
<Random_Nerd> Aren't you glad you took that extra minute? 
=-= Human_Kite is now known as Verithe 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<DanteE> Ayep., 
=-= Carrie is now known as Etheric 
<Verithe> Woo! 
<Brian> yep :) 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Etheric> The plot has officially thickened. 
<Knockwood> Of course. 
<Theresa> http://fieldmuseumphotoarchives . tumblr . com/post/50014436683/todays-photo-is-something-of-an-oddity-when 
<Knockwood> BTW, RN, what do you think of the changes I've made to my map so far? 
<Angelo> au contraire, now is simply a bashing exercise before was the yummy piece 
<Random_Nerd> Well, it might be worth looking at the rules first. 
<Random_Nerd> For one thing, the Struggle stuff doesn't really accumulate points in order to be completed. 
<Random_Nerd> And that's what the lower-right one is supposed to be, right? 
<Knockwood> No, I took your advice and made it a proper struggle, I think. 
<Knockwood> The Personal Destiny is upper-left now 
<Brian> Gonna head off now. Night! 
<Knockwood> g'night 
|<-- Brian has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Brian) 
<Random_Nerd> What's the Dante, Lord Of Amyra one, then? 
<Knockwood> it's in the bubble. 
<Etheric> Night everyone. 
<Knockwood> g'night Etheric 
|<-- Etheric has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Destiny is choice.) 
<Knockwood> you might need to reload 
<Verithe> I'm going to head off too. Take care! 
<Knockwood> g'night V 
<Theresa> Night, all! *HUGS* 
|<-- Verithe has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.90 [Firefox 20.0.1/20130409194949]) 
<Random_Nerd> But is it a project? 
<angelo> night guys 
<Knockwood> it's a Struggle. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. Those don't work like that. 
<Random_Nerd> Page 348. 
<Knockwood> hang on, my iPad is glitching 
<Random_Nerd> It's page 350 of the PDF. 
<Random_Nerd> Because of the cover, I think. 
|<-- Theresa has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
<Knockwood> Well, the Struggle is kind of like Dr. Manhattan's 
<Random_Nerd> No, I mean, struggles literally don't work that way. You don't accumulate victories and failures and stuff. 
<Random_Nerd> That is not mechanically how they work. 
<Knockwood> although, at the moment, that's also a place for some of the points we've been getting... 
<Knockwood> so I need to clean that up 
<Random_Nerd> Well, we can go over it next Amyra session, that'll give plenty of time to review the rules and tidy it up. 
<Random_Nerd> That sound good? 
<Knockwood> OK. Though... 
<Random_Nerd> Mmm? 
<Knockwood> that offer of a random buff still good? >:> 
<Knockwood> One that makes sense would be 'Jedi Mind Trick' (Dest-Courage to resist suggestion) 
<Random_Nerd> Only if the whole set of things that had been under that part of your character sheet goes away never to be heard from again. 
<Knockwood> Well, do I have the Personal Destiny part right? 
<Random_Nerd> What do the point values in it represent? 
<Knockwood> Well, the one in the middle is from a few sessions back... 
<Knockwood> where we 'won' because we were deemed too pathetic to attack. 
<Random_Nerd> No, I mean, when you have it say "5 points", what does it mean for there to be five points there? 
<Knockwood> 1 Failure 
<Random_Nerd> Then no, you don't have it right. 
<Random_Nerd> Go over the rules again, and then look at this stuff. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay? 
<Knockwood> OK. 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. See you next session. 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Knockwood) 
|<-- Random_Nerd has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ) 
<--| YOU (Angelo) have left #Nobilis 
 [[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]

Session 250

2013-12-30T15:15:20Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]] 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<Angelo> hi guys! :-) 
<Etheric> Hey, Angelo. 
<Knockwood> you could argue that's the problem with Chuubo /Glass... too much structure 
<Verithe> Angelo! Hi! 
<Knockwood> Hi Angelo 
<Etheric> Well, Knock, I love the idea of Scenes in the abstract. 
<lazarus> Hey Angelo 
<Etheric> I just could tell they weren't working in practice. 
<Angelo> Chuubo issues? Still scenes? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. We're only short one player, so we can go ahead. 
<Random_Nerd> Just give me a moment to take care of stuff. 
<Knockwood> Where's Beth? 
<Etheric> Angelo, we were talking about how Glass and pre-Glass Chuubo were different. 
<Etheric> And I mentioned Scenes, and how in my opinion they hadn't really worked before. 
<Angelo> right where is RN S.O.? 
<Etheric> And how they probably will work better with only three or four kinds depending on the genre. 
<Angelo> so in the later versions of Chuboo scenes were fixed? Cool 
<Etheric> Beth is ill, unfortunately. 
<Angelo> Vibes to her! 
<Etheric> Ah, yeah, they're all still there in the rules, but the HG picks a genre for the campaign and depending on the genre, you keep track of three or four specific Scene types. 
<Etheric> The rest can occur, but they don't matter mechanically. 
<Angelo> uhm, interesting 
<Etheric> Sorry, am I rambling? 
<Angelo> nope 
<Knockwood> yeah, but we're used to it. :) 
<Etheric> :P 
<Etheric> Where were we? 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> Back. 
<Random_Nerd> Sorry, had to deal with something sick-wife-related. 
<Angelo> last time in Nobilis we meet the EVIL Google glass like thingies that is attaching machinery 
<Angelo> np RN 
<Etheric> Everybody send more positive vibes to Beth. :) 
<Random_Nerd> So, you have come to a fictional college town, and found out about a type of implausibly-advanced wearable computer being put out by Not Google Honest. 
<Knockwood> and somehow it's part of an attack on _Machinery_ 
<Random_Nerd> A couple of you wanted to participate, but were told that this would require brain activity scans for calibration. 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. Not Data. 
<Angelo> and that thing bite Ftisk in machinery! 
<Etheric> We could go by Stein's Gate's setting and use "Goodle." 
<Random_Nerd> I kinda like Doogle. 
<Etheric> Nevermind. 
<Random_Nerd> Ready to start? 
<Angelo> AND we suppose the culprit is machinery property " Machinery can't be sentient. [2] " 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
=-= Etheric is now known as Carrie 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Ftisk> ready 
<DanteE> or, Machinery is tangible 
=-= Verithe is now known as Human_Kite 
<Random_Nerd> Of course, from when you looked at the data from the wearable computer thing, it was smart for a computer, but it didn't seem like a full AI. 
<Ftisk> yep can be that too 
<Random_Nerd> __________________START_________________ 
* Ftisk scratch head 
<Ftisk> are you sure for the scan? 
<Random_Nerd> Smiling Customer Service Dude: "So, as I was saying, if you're to participate in this project, we'll need to do a medical examination to check for any risk factors, and some brain activity scans for calibration." 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
<Human_Kite> "What sort of medical examination?" 
=-= YOU are now known as humanFtisk 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service Dude: "Basically, we just want to check you for predispositions to strokes, heart attacks, that sort of thing. Now, we have no reason to believe that the product can /cause/ any of that stuff. But we don't want someone who was going to have a stroke anyway having one while using the device, and suing us." 
<DanteE> "I'm a little concerned about the nature of the test and where the data goes..." 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service: "Don't worry, all personally identifiable data will be kept private." 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service: "It'll just be used for customizing your interfacing with your own personal device, and as a part of aggregated data." 
* humanFtisk do a lesser divination to look at the path the scanned data will take 
<humanFtisk> (are these infos really used for calibration and then anonymized?) 
<DanteE> (Actually, does anyone see a way to get Destiny from this?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. The computer hooked up to the PET scanner appears to use the data for two things. One of them is to set a huge number of settings on a device associated with that data. The other reports it, by customer number, to a central database located somewhere outside of town.) 
<Human_Kite> "Can we do the medical test now and come by for the scan later?" 
<Random_Nerd> (It's more or less how the guy's saying, although he isn't mentioning how /much/ data we're talking about here. Whoever's storing this will need to be devoting some serious hard drive space to it. And some of it appears to be designed to tell how well you respond to various sorts of advertisement.) 
* DanteE examines the place with The Sight 
* humanFtisk whisper to kite "Data are really used to customize the machine" 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service: "It's a bit... unorthodox, but I don't think it's impossible." 
<Random_Nerd> What are you looking for, Dante? 
<DanteE> If there are any 'interesting' people or recent miracles around 
<Random_Nerd> Nothing here appears to be particularly affiliated with Blades, other than a couple of the staff having multitools in their pockets. Nor courage. 
<Random_Nerd> Nobody here looks Noble. 
<Random_Nerd> No recent major miracles seem visible. 
<DanteE> quietly, to Ftisk: "Anything with your Estates here?" 
* humanFtisk look around in the sight 
<humanFtisk> (anything that pop up?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, this place is /full/ of connections to data and machinery. 
<Random_Nerd> It's positively filled with complex tools and various forms of data storage. 
<Random_Nerd> Also, the wearable computers themselves, at least the ones that are turned on and in use, look... wrong. 
<Random_Nerd> The unpleasant gleam, from earlier. 
<Human_Kite> "I forgot whether the professors or the students designed these...." 
<Random_Nerd> But for you, the problem is too much input here, rather than too little. 
<humanFtisk> "nothing too strange but the wearable device, Dante" 
<Random_Nerd> It's like casting Detect Blade Of Grass on a football field. 
<humanFtisk> ok like too much white noise 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. Nothing stands out, except the turned-on computers, like on the guy talking to you. 
* DanteE grabs some of the forms... 
<humanFtisk> can I discover the out of town location data are sent during the scan? 
<Human_Kite> @CustomerServiceMan: "Are they going to name a building after the person who thought of these?" 
<DanteE> (And it occurs to me you might get more info if you float above the rooftops and look/do Divs from there) 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service: "So, we'll get you your medical checkups, and then see when we can schedule you for a scan?" 
<Random_Nerd> Customer Service: "A building? I don't know. Besides, it wasn't just one person who made them, it's a pretty big team." 
<humanFtisk> (don't think so Dante, if something stand out will stand out even here) 
<Human_Kite> "Yes, please. Who was head of the team?" 
<Random_Nerd> In terms of where it's sent, from the network data it's about a hundred miles here, at what seems to be a cloud data aggregation center. 
<Random_Nerd> He thinks for a moment, then glances at the printer. It starts printing. 
<humanFtisk> and that center is out of my machinery hurt place? 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "I'm printing out our materials on how the project was developed." 
<Random_Nerd> Oddly, no. The harm seems to be much stronger here than there. 
<Random_Nerd> Here as in this city, not this room. 
* DanteE checks out the project data... 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "We're just getting started on that. It's here, and a couple of other college towns in the region." 
<Human_Kite> "Is it...is it possible for us to observe someone else receiving a scan?" 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "We're specifically looking for engineering and computer science students, although there's another project for elderly patients with a few degenerative brain conditions." 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "I'm sorry, but all scans are private. You wouldn't want a bunch of tourists watching /you/ go through one, would you?" 
<humanFtisk> "hell, we are _again_ demonboxing. Please scan and dress me now. I can't stay still wasting time!" 
* humanFtisk walk to the scanning device 
<Human_Kite> "Well, not if all of the data is going to be physically visible, no.....or if it is particularly painful." 
<DanteE> "That may be a bad idea... 
* humanFtisk nod at Dante and do the ok sign 
<Human_Kite> "Or are you saying people are scanned nude?" 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, it's mostly a publicity piece, on how awesome and innovative their stuff is. The lead developer is some woman named Alice Gadish, who apparently has about five PHDs in various improbably-specialized areas of interface design. 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "Not nude, but you will have to wear a hospital gown, and remove all metal objects and all clothing above the waist." 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "So, you see, somewhat of an awkward situation to be observed by needless strangers." 
<humanFtisk> "ok gimme the gown" 
<Human_Kite> "..." 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "Still, our techs are very professional..." 
<DanteE> Any interesting names in the group, or the location of their lab? 
<humanFtisk> (ok gime a techie .. .:-P ) 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "We need to give you your medical checkup first. Company policy." 
<Random_Nerd> (What would Dante consider interesting?) 
<Human_Kite> "Are metal teeth bad? Metal plating? Metal replacement bones?" 
<humanFtisk> "nope nope nope" (alter accordingly my body to be full vanilla human) 
<DanteE> (Anagrams of known Exs, for one. Or other things.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, one of the guys is named Jebediah. That's a rare name...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Nothing that looks obviously Excrucian. No names that are obviously associated with long-dead european tribes, or ancient kings.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Nobody named E. X. Crucian.) 
<DanteE> (OK, where's their lab?) 
<DanteE> (Or, the factory where these are built) 
<Random_Nerd> (Where it was developed? Or the medical lab?) 
<Human_Kite> (We can start with Alice. Who knows, it's a pretty old name itself.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Factory-wise, they appear to have parts built in various places, largely out-of-country, but the assembly done in-state.) 
<DanteE> (Either. Whichever one's in or near town, if the attack's here.) 
<Random_Nerd> (The medical facility where they do the scans is here, down a hallway and through a few sets of doors.) 
<Human_Kite> "So, which way to the medical exam? Do I just sit right here?" 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "Let's see. Metal teeth shouldn't be a problem. Metal bones... I don't know, you would have to ask the PET technician." 
* Human_Kite goes to move some parts out of the way 
<Random_Nerd> CS: "If everyone who's signed the papers will just come with me while their friends wait here..." 
<Random_Nerd> He walks toward a door in the back of the room. 
* humanFtisk follows 
* Human_Kite follows 
<DanteE> (Gears in your guts, maybe.) 
<Brian> * follows along * 
<DanteE> (Any risk of the scan revealing his nature?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Which he? Kite, or Ftisk? Or Dante?) 
<Human_Kite> (Both Ftisk and I have mostly normal human bodies.) 
<DanteE> (I haven't signed up. Either of them.) 
<Human_Kite> (We're just missing some parts) 
<Random_Nerd> (Either of them... hmm. They don't have a lot of Aspect, so they won't have to hide that. But both are non-humans in human bodies.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Their brain activity probably would look pretty weird if they didn't do something to change it.) 
<humanFtisk> (nod nod) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not OMG WTF IS THIS weird, but "Huh. That's weird.") 
<DanteE> (Yeah, they're just strolling into the obvious trap...) 
<humanFtisk> (a known trap is not a trap) 
<Random_Nerd> (But if they were trying to spot you guys... wouldn't it be easier just to distribute photos?) 
<Human_Kite> ("What do humans think about? Hmmm..... BeerCoffeeCarsCarsGuns") 
<DanteE> (Not if we can guise) 
<Random_Nerd> (But Ftisk's in his regular Conrad look, isn't he?) 
<Human_Kite> (Kite's human form is always the same and he's used it often enough.) 
<Random_Nerd> The medical exam is pretty normal and boring. A lot of questions about family histories of various things. Strokes, heart attacks, scizophrenia, dementia, that kind of thing. 
<Random_Nerd> Similar questions on your neurological backgrounds. 
<Human_Kite> "I sold my kidney!" 
<humanFtisk> (nope I'm in a generic vanilla human shape/body, not the Conrad one) 
<DanteE> (You want to be no where near the truth...) 
<Random_Nerd> And some basic physical tests. Blood pressure. Reflexes. That kind of thing. 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah.) 
<Random_Nerd> What are you guys' aspects? 
<DanteE> (3) 
<humanFtisk> (mine is 2) 
<Human_Kite> 1 
<Brian> (0, still, I believe) 
<Brian> (Rated, but barely :)) 
<Human_Kite> (Brian! Your /bones/!) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. Kite will, unless he tries to cover it, appear to be in very good physical shape. Ftisk will appear to be at an olympic-athlete level of fitness. 
<DanteE> (Hm, haven't been the brick in a while. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Do you do anything to make yourselves seem less physically capable? 
<Human_Kite> Kite sees no reason to. 
<humanFtisk> nope, I'll show in all my glorious weirdness 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, the guy seems clearly impressed when taking your blood pressure and pulse rate. 
<DanteE> If we're in the lobby, how far away are they? 
<Random_Nerd> Doctor: "Athletic scholarship, I assume?" 
<Random_Nerd> About a hundred feet or so, and around the corner. 
<humanFtisk> "nope, wildsex 3 times a day, each day" 
<Random_Nerd> Through a couple doors, but they don't seem to lock. 
<Human_Kite> (That must be some pretty wild sex.) 
<Random_Nerd> Doctor: "Ah." *writes 'three times a day' on clipboard* 
<humanFtisk> (lol indeed) 
<Random_Nerd> Other than that, the checkups are uneventful. 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, Brian, Carrie, do you just wait, or do something else? 
* DanteE is still playing spot-the-plot-point in the lobby, with the forms, with the people... 
<Random_Nerd> What are you looking for? 
<Carrie> (For the moment, I'll just wait.) 
<Random_Nerd> Let's see, Dante's academic background is non-technical, right? 
<DanteE> Ftisk's attack is here, I'm looking for that. 
<DanteE> Yeah, soft sciences/ 
<DanteE> Well, all academic backgrounds have a little tech 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Your main conclusion from what you see in the printed materials is that this stuff is implausibly advanced. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, iPhone in the 1980s advanced. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, Kite, did you want to get brain scans now, or later? 
<DanteE> ah... don't forget I'm a Psych grad. I'll be checking out how people react to using the things. 
<humanFtisk> now 
<Brian> (Brian had intended to get examined; if he didn't get going in, then he's just going to wait for Kite and Ftisk's results) 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. 
<Human_Kite> Kite wants to wait. 
<Random_Nerd> You can basically see three categories of people using them. 
<DanteE> (Brian, the machine will spot your endoskeleton) 
<Random_Nerd> One is the people who just got theirs. They seem awkward, mouthing words to themselves, pointing at things, pressing buttons on their watch-things. 
<humanFtisk> (Ftisk finished his patience and want to see someone (himself) with a device activated) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or, at least it will if he doesn't cover it in some way.) 
<Random_Nerd> Category 2, the people who're here to have their calibrations adjusted. They're much less active in how they use them. Very little subvocalizing. No button-pressing. 
<Random_Nerd> Category 3, the people who work here. 
<Brian> (Dante: Brian doesn't really see that as a problem. If they ask, he'll tell them, the way he's supposed to. Otherwise, they shouldn't be so beholden to their ideas about how humans are supposed to be shaped :p) 
<Human_Kite> (so Ftisk is getting the scan now?) 
<Random_Nerd> Other than when they're specifically showing off, like pointing at the printer, they do next to nothing that would be visible to someone without Noble senses to control their devices. 
<DanteE> (a PET scan won't be able to see your brain, I think) 
<Random_Nerd> Instead, the devices seem to be responding to slight shifts in posture and eye movement. 
<DanteE> (Looks like the attack is on the tangible-thing rule) 
<humanFtisk> (yes I want to be scanned now) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, Kite, you're given mildly radioactive tracers, and asked to wait for a while. 
* humanFtisk wait 
<Human_Kite> "Blech!" 
<Human_Kite> "Do humans normally drink this stuff?" 
<DanteE> (You're thinking of Barium) 
<Random_Nerd> (PETs use tracers too, but of a different kind.) 
<Human_Kite> (I was thinking of iodine, but that's used for other things) 
* humanFtisk wait idly creating cloned profiles of my and Kite scan all wildly different 
<Random_Nerd> After those have had time to hit your brains, you're asked to remove all metal objects and your shirts, given hospital gowns to wear over your chests, and your heads are fed into a machine that looks a lot like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ECAT-Exact-HR--PET-Scanner.jpg 
<Random_Nerd> Do you do anything to make your brain scans appear normal? 
<DanteE> (THAT'S A HINT) 
<humanFtisk> (nope but I’m creating dummy profiles one weirder that the other) 
* Human_Kite thinks "Cars, guns, coffee, coffee, guns, I'm human...." 
<DanteE> (Actually, Ftisk, are you closer to the attack source?) 
<Random_Nerd> (...what's a hint?) 
<Human_Kite> ("Human, human, human. Just look at my neck!") 
<Random_Nerd> (Just trying to think humany thoughts, but nothing miraculous, Kite?) 
<DanteE> (Your "Do you do anything..." :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Knock, I think your spider sense may be tuned a bit too high tonight.) 
<Human_Kite> (Right) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. In both of your cases, the tech doing the scan looks a bit confused. 
<Random_Nerd> This is particularly true of Ftisk. The tech asks you repeatedly if you've ever experienced brain damage, or been diagnosed with an autistic-spectrum disorder. 
<Random_Nerd> The scans have basically two parts. 
<humanFtisk> (nope, nope, just normal Ftiskness) 
<Random_Nerd> First, they seem to be trying to take a baseline. Asking you to try not to think about anything out of the ordinary. 
<Human_Kite> (+ Conradness) 
<Random_Nerd> And second, they ask you to perform various tasks while in the machine. 
<humanFtisk> then I think of Gnomely 
<Random_Nerd> Do math problems. Think about your mother's maiden name. Think about where you live. Think about calling someone on the phone. 
<Random_Nerd> (For whatever reason, Kite's brain activity seems to be much closer to the human norm than Ftisk's.) 
<humanFtisk> or the catch me in spider form tournament I organized back home 
<humanFtisk> (Ftisk is born as a machine Kite as a bird, that maybe is the reason) 
<Human_Kite> Kite thinks in lies. 
<Random_Nerd> So, he thinks about, say, somewhere he doesn't actually live, but does think about a place? 
<Human_Kite> (Kite also has a few human memories, now.) 
<Human_Kite> Yes 
<Brian> (it'll be interesting to see how the miscalibrated devices work :p) 
<DanteE> (May not get to that point...) 
<Human_Kite> Maybe he'll channel some of the memory bits he got back from Jan ben Jan 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, do you cooperate with the instructions? 
<DanteE> (Oh yeah, if the scan is weird enough they may bring in their leader.) 
<humanFtisk> nope, I do externally as told but thinking all the strangest thing I can think 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you keep being asked to repeat things, and your scan takes about twice as long as Kite's does. 
<Random_Nerd> After you guys are done, you're asked to return to the waiting room while your devices are personalized. 
<humanFtisk> (I'm trolling the scan ) 
<DanteE> "Find out anything new?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Asking Kite and Ftisk, or the others here?) 
<humanFtisk> "Yes I’m more interesting that Kite, my scan take longer!" 
<DanteE> "Well, we knew that..." 
<Human_Kite> "You humans drink some gross stuff." 
<DanteE> "for certain values of 'interesting'" 
<DanteE> "Only when being scanned, Kite." 
<Random_Nerd> About twenty minutes after Kite's scan is done, one of the guys from the back comes out and says "(whatever fake name Kite gave)?" 
* Human_Kite looks doubtful 
<Human_Kite> "Yes?" 
<Random_Nerd> "You can come back for your fitting now. Your friends can come too, if they want." 
* humanFtisk follow "Sure" 
* DanteE will tag along this time 
<Brian> *follows along* 
<Human_Kite> "Alright..." 
* Human_Kite comes back 
<Random_Nerd> They bring you back to a big table with the various components of the wearable computer arranged. 
<Random_Nerd> Glasses-visor. Wrist-pieces. Ankle-rings. Earpieces. And the smartphone-sized "brain" unit, which has all of one button on it, and no displays. 
<DanteE> (Ftick, which piece is the most painful to _look_ at?) 
<Random_Nerd> Right now, none of them are painful to look at at all. 
* Human_Kite lesser divs how they are to be assembled 
<humanFtisk> (become weird once turned on) 
<Random_Nerd> Basically, they each go where they look like they go, and then you press the button on the pocket unit to turn them all on., 
<Random_Nerd> Technician, looking at a clipboard: "Now, at first, the system will seem very awkward. You'll have to whisper what you want it to do, point at things on the overlaid visual HUD, and so on. But it learns. In a few weeks, you shouldn't even notice that you're using it. Things you want to do will just happen, as naturally as moving your arm." 
<Human_Kite> "Huh." 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "I see here that your synch rating starting out may not be ideal. If you have problems, and if after a week the interface isn't improving, please come in in a week and we can do a fine-tuning." 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "Any questions?" 
<Human_Kite> "Why do you say my synch rating may not be ideal?" 
* humanFtisk keep div what the pieces do while Kite wear and activate them 
<DanteE> (No problem, fight a few angels and you'll be fine. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "Your... well, it's not that there's anything /wrong/ with your brain. But you aren't right at the middle of the bell curve, the way a lot of our users are. So it may take more fine-tuning for you, because we have less expertise at setting it up for people who think like you." 
<Random_Nerd> He hands you the pieces, one at a time, starting with the bracelet-things. 
<Human_Kite> "Ah." 
<DanteE> "You're saying he Thinks Different?" 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "That's good! Thinking different is what led to our developing this technology!" 
<Random_Nerd> He appears to not get the reference. 
<Brian> "Hasn't improved your grammar at all." 
<Random_Nerd> He looks puzzled. Isn't grammar for humanities majors? 
* Human_Kite puts on the pieces as he's given them. 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "And, now that you've got all your pieces in place... time to press the button!" 
<DanteE> (Should we duck?) 
<Human_Kite> "Ho ho ho!" 
<Human_Kite> "/Buttons!/" 
* Human_Kite presses button 
<humanFtisk> (kite register like a machinery now?) 
<Random_Nerd> The device in your pocket warms slightly. 
<Human_Kite> "!" 
<Random_Nerd> The eyepiece starts showing bootup screens. 
<Human_Kite> "!!" 
<Random_Nerd> Kite does not appear to be a machine, and the devices he's wearing do. 
<Random_Nerd> Which... looks different from other uses you looked at. 
<Random_Nerd> For them, especially the long-term uses, all of them looked kinda like a machine, but even the specific components didn't look entirely like one. 
<Random_Nerd> Kite's device finishes booting up. 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "We only have a few basic applications on these, to start with. GPS maps, music, email, phone, schedules, that kind of thing. 
<Human_Kite> "Now do I order it to do things?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Plus, of course, our *not google, honest* search engine." 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "What do you want it to do?" 
<Brian> (elgoog. It's a thing.) 
* Human_Kite thinks 
<DanteE> (Fire those up one at a time until it gets weird to Ftisk.) 
<Human_Kite> "Search nearby fishing spots." 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "At first, it'll just respond to what you tell it to do. After a while, it'll start to guess. If it guesses right, press the green button on your left bracelet. If it guesses wrong, press the red one." 
<Human_Kite> "Ah." 
<Random_Nerd> When you say "fishing spots," an hourglass icon appears in your peripheral vision, and then you start seeing hovering labels overlaid on that eye's sight. 
<Random_Nerd> They move along with your head's movement, with no discernable lag. 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "Now, when you did that, you didn't just say it. You also had various bits of eye movement and body language that you associate with fishing." 
<Human_Kite> "Hmmm....I'll have to go there later." 
<Brian> (salivating at the thought of tasty tasty raw fishies?) 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "In a few weeks, when you make those tiny invisible motions, the device will know that you're thinking about fishing spots. And it'll bring them up, without you having to do a thing." 
<Human_Kite> (yes) 
<Random_Nerd> And at that time, another technician with a clipboard and several boxes comes in. 
<Random_Nerd> Technician: "(Ftisk's fake name)?" 
* humanFtisk go to the tech 
<Random_Nerd> Technician #2 is female, short, but still very much of the generic-tech-nerd-in-business-casual-for-the-job mold. 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "We... had some issues, with calibrating your device. You're still eligible for the beta test, but I have to warn you that the service may have... issues." 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "I've also been told to ask... would you or any members of your biological immediate family be interested in participating in a related study?" 
<humanFtisk> "urhm, ok if something weird happen I'll power off everything" 
<humanFtisk> "what kind of related study?" 
<Human_Kite> "We can do that, right? Emergency power off?" 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "Don't worry, you should be in no danger. But there is a risk that the device will be no smarter in responding to your intentions than a conventional smartphone." 
<Human_Kite> "..." 
<humanFtisk> "what a let down" 
<Random_Nerd> #1: "Yes. Hold the button on the central unit down for twelve seconds, and the device will power down. For a non-hard shutdown, just tell the device to power down, or later on just think about it shutting down." 
<Human_Kite> "This is waterproof, right?" 
<Brian> "Can you have the thing record your dreams?" 
<Random_Nerd> #1: "It's water /resistant/. Rain shouldn't be a problem, but don't wear it in the shower. I... know that many users find taking their device off for that period to be disorienting, but it's safest for you and your device." 
<Brian> "Or, at least, your motions while asleep?" 
<DanteE> (RN, did you steal this plot from a Batman movie?) 
<Human_Kite> "Oh, good." 
<Random_Nerd> (Which one?) 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "I know that a lot of users like to wear them in their sleep, but we don't currently advise that. There are ergonomic issues and... user activity issues." 
<DanteE> (It's the Riddler's plot to find Batman, adapted to creating an AI.) 
<Human_Kite> (Is that a noncommittal yes or a "why would you think that?") 
<Random_Nerd> (Haven't seen the third one.) 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "See, the device isn't always good at distinguishing between awake intentions and asleep ones." 
<Brian> "So there's no 'passively record' setting?" 
<Human_Kite> "Ah." 
<DanteE> (They're feeding all the mind-reading data to one big computer.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Non-committal. They'd rather you not use them while swimming.) 
<Brian> "A soft-off, if you would." 
<Carrie> (Heh, dream intentions. That could be awkward.) 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "Oh. Yes, there is. But if it's turned off, there's no need to wear the wrist and ankle pieces, and the earbuds, and so on." 
<Random_Nerd> #1: "And you don't want it imprinting on your dream state. That might have interface problems while you're awake. Responding more to subconscious than to conscious intentions, for instance." 
<Random_Nerd> #1: "Now, you can deal with that by flagging such actions as red. But it would slow the acclimation process. And the disorientation when removing the device isn't /that/ severe even in long-term users." 
<DanteE> "You make it sound like it can read his mind." 
<humanFtisk> "ok cristal clear" 
<Random_Nerd> #2 sets out the pieces of the device. 
<Random_Nerd> (For Ftisk.) 
<Random_Nerd> #1: "Mind... well, it doesn't read your /brain/. But it does read your body language, your eye movements, all that stuff. And it tries to learn what you mean by it. It's like how some dogs can tell if you're going to have a seizure." 
* humanFtisk take them one at time and ldiv machinery them, anything strange? 
<Human_Kite> "Shall we go test these out in the field?" 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "Actually, I heard that some studies said that wasn't..." 
<Random_Nerd> #1: "It's like how that would work if it were actually a thing." 
<Random_Nerd> #1: "You can. Your friend will need to be fitted with his device, and we'll want to see how it works for him." 
<Random_Nerd> When you say "field", Kite, it overlays locations of various farm fields on your vision. 
<Human_Kite> "No, device. Not that kind of field." 
<Human_Kite> "Unless there are frogs." 
<Random_Nerd> It makes a red sad-face in the corner of your vision, and then shows you locations of ponds and aquatic pet stores. 
<DanteE> (Ftisk, is Kite's thing currently glaring?) 
* humanFtisk wait and look at kite device for glare 
<Random_Nerd> (Only very very slightly. Hardly perceptible at all. Nowhere near these two's devices.) 
<Brian> (I'm amused by the red sad face. I can only assume there's some kind of sound effect that goes with. Especially 'cause Kite.) 
<Random_Nerd> #2, to Ftisk: "Were you interested in participating in that brain imaging family study?" 
<Random_Nerd> (A very quiet "bloop" sound.) 
<humanFtisk> to 2 "no sorry, I'm not interested" 
<DanteE> (Your machines would explode if you tried to scan Vulcan.) 
<Human_Kite> "Not quite, but that's good to remember." 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "No problem. Either way, we strongly suggest that you come in a week later for recalibration if you're having any issues.." 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "Now, did you already hear the routine on how it works?" 
* humanFtisk nod "ok, I'll remember" 
<Random_Nerd> She looks at #1. 
<Random_Nerd> He nods. 
<humanFtisk> "I heard what him told to my friend" 
* Human_Kite fiddles with the red button 
<Random_Nerd> Dante, since you were paying attention to body language, you notice something. 
<Random_Nerd> The look to him, and the nod? Those were for show. 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "Okay, then. Let's get you fitted, then!" 
<Random_Nerd> She starts handing Ftisk device-pieces. 
* humanFtisk help fitting myself 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "Now, you /should/ notice significant interface improvements within a few days, and it should be semi-reliably guessing what you want within a week. But if it isn't, I strongly suggest coming back in for recalibration." 
<DanteE> (For show as in, they'd already communicated before that?) 
<Random_Nerd> (That's what it seemed like.) 
<humanFtisk> "ok, I'm eager to try it in a walk" 
<Random_Nerd> (Like, they're not a hivemind. That would look different. But they communicated with each other without the need for those gestures.) 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "Then... power it up!" 
* humanFtisk power it up 
<Random_Nerd> Like Kite, Ftisk sees standard-enough semi-opaque bootup screens in the eyepiece. 
<Random_Nerd> And in thirty seconds, it's booted up. 
* humanFtisk look around 
<DanteE> (and in ten seconds the smoke starts...) 
<Human_Kite> (If Ftisk uses this device to assimilate all the devices into his being, giving him the ability to control all the humans wearing them....I'd be amused.) 
<Random_Nerd> #1 pushes two closed boxes across the table. "Here's your chargers." 
* humanFtisk grab one 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, right now, it doesn't seem to be doing much. 
<humanFtisk> is glaring at me? 
<Human_Kite> "Chargers..." 
<humanFtisk> "ah, it have not his own mini nuclear reactor?" 
<Random_Nerd> #1: "Remember, all components must be charged, every night. You should have up to 36 hours of battery life, but that number will go down with substantial data use or computation." 
<Human_Kite> "Oh, yes! Of course." 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, when you say "chargers", it shows a picture of the charger, and also brings up sports news on the San Diego Chargers. 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button 
* humanFtisk try some searches 
<Random_Nerd> Sad face. Bloop. 
<Random_Nerd> What do you say to it, Ftisk? 
<humanFtisk> "pond, field, cow, angel, demon, hell, haven, transmutagenic field" 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "We're hoping that the production models should have at least 48 hours of battery life." 
<Random_Nerd> "pond" and "field" give the same results Kite got. 
<Human_Kite> "That sounds ideal for a first production model." 
<Random_Nerd> "cow" shows you a big picture of a cow, which vanishes, and then a different picture of a cow, and then locations of leather goods stores and steakhouses, and then the first cow picture again. 
<humanFtisk> "check mate, bdsm, gnomely, tv shows, Chuck Norris" 
<Random_Nerd> "Angel" and "Demon" flick through dozens of images, mostly of books and movies, too fast to really get a good look at any of them. 
<Human_Kite> "Maybe we should be going before you reveal all your fetishes to the world." 
<Random_Nerd> "Haven" brings up a list of people named "Kevin." 
<Random_Nerd> No response at all to "Transmutagenic field." 
<Brian> (faster than Aspect-perception can see?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No, but much faster than a regular human could parse.) 
<humanFtisk> (yes Ftisk find chuck Norris a great comedy actor) 
<Random_Nerd> #2 looks concerned. "Is it working?" 
<humanFtisk> and interface keep speeding? 
<humanFtisk> "transmutagenic find nothing but is mostly working" 
<DanteE> "Nobles." 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, it seems to be trying to show you what you like, and them assuming that it got the wrong thing and trying something else, very rapidly. 
<Brian> "I'm fairly certain The Goog doesn't have anything on transmutagenic fields, Ftisk. I'm not even certain most journals have got that yet..." 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, Ftisk, when Dante says that, it has a "would you like to search on 'Nobles'?" blurb. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk's immediately vanishes. 
<Human_Kite> "I'm not searching for your fetishes in front of these people, Dante." 
<humanFtisk> can I look at the routine in the device that is guessing? 
<Random_Nerd> With Data, or with Machinery? 
<Human_Kite> "No." 
<humanFtisk> both 
<Random_Nerd> Kite's vanishes. 
<Random_Nerd> What are you looking for? 
<Random_Nerd> How it makes its decisions? 
<Human_Kite> "Shall we get going?" 
<humanFtisk> (wait, I cannot see kite or the other cannot see him?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No, kite's window closed.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You can see him.) 
<Human_Kite> (Kite cannot see the prompt on Nobles) 
<humanFtisk> yes how the decision are made 
<Random_Nerd> Basically, when it brings something up, it's watching your eye movements and seeing if you look at it, and for how long. 
<Human_Kite> "Thank you very much!" 
<Random_Nerd> But your eye movements keep being flagged as errors. 
<Random_Nerd> Additionally, in its internal settings, it's flagged you as possibly having Tourette syndrome. 
* Human_Kite begins to walk out. 
<DanteE> to Ftisk: "How bad does it mess with your field of vision?" 
<Random_Nerd> #2: "Call us if you have any problems that the device can't resolve on its own?" 
<Brian> "Kite, ask it to find Main Street." 
* humanFtisk wave "bye, and thanks" and go out 
* Human_Kite whispers, "Take me to your leader." 
<Random_Nerd> When Brian said that, another "would you like to search for 'Main Street'" 
<Human_Kite> "Yes. And then take me to your leader." 
<humanFtisk> "Dante is strange but a bit a letdown, it think I have turret syndrome.. but I'm not a turret" 
<Random_Nerd> And then, in various parts of your vision, a picture of the current US president, a picture of an alien in a science fiction movie, and a picture of a silverback gorilla./ 
<Random_Nerd> Do you focus on any of them? 
<DanteE> "You mean Tourette's?" 
<humanFtisk> "yep that one" 
<Human_Kite> Kite focuses on each of them in turn. 
<Random_Nerd> When each is focused on, it expands and shows related activity. 
<Random_Nerd> The president one, when you look at it, expands and shows various local and national political leaders. 
<Random_Nerd> The alien one shows various movies and books that used the phrase "take me to your leader." 
<Random_Nerd> And the gorilla shows popular-press articles on leadership patterns in humans and animals. 
<Human_Kite> "Bah." 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button 
<DanteE> "Maybe there's a built-in README file." 
<Brian> "Find the central server" 
<Random_Nerd> Sad face. Bloop. 
<humanFtisk> "The server is out of town Brian but he attach is here" 
<Human_Kite> "Dante, were there any names we can start with in the print-out?" 
<Random_Nerd> When you say "print-out", it shows you a list of network-accessible printers, and a question mark. 
<humanFtisk> (Alice was on the print out) 
<Human_Kite> (If a random printer starts printing out the entire Divine Comedy, I will be amused.) 
<DanteE> "No obvious ones, but the team leader is Alice Whateveritis." 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, yours keeps randomly showing pictures of kittens, for half a second every seventeen point three five seconds. 
<Random_Nerd> Different kitten each time. 
<humanFtisk> "picture of snail, the xxx ones" 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button. 
<Human_Kite> "Find Alice [last name]." 
<Random_Nerd> When Dante says the name, it brings up a publicity blurb. 
<Random_Nerd> The same one Dante saw in print, earlier. 
* Human_Kite checks the blurb for any relevant info 
* humanFtisk do a lesser data div on Alice <name> for social insurance number and datas 
<Human_Kite> "Stop listening to other people talk, device." 
<Random_Nerd> The "find Alice Gadish" shows her blurb on the Not-Google company website. 
<Random_Nerd> No phone numbers, but an email address, a photo, and a brief biography. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you find two social security numbers associated with people of that name, but only one is the right age. 
<DanteE> (Could look for her Facebook profile) 
<Human_Kite> "Ftisk, does Alice Gadish have any address or office data anywhere?" 
<humanFtisk> and an address? 
<Random_Nerd> Also, Ftisk, when you do the miracle, your device brings up her company profile. 
<Random_Nerd> No address for her. 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, the miracle. 
<Random_Nerd> The miracle finds a home address and an office address. 
<humanFtisk> (is normal for USA records?) 
<Random_Nerd> While the device says "Personal addresses of Doogle staff are not publically available. If you wish to contact one, please use our public contact number." 
<humanFtisk> "I find her social number and 2 addresses, adr1, adr2" 
<DanteE> (The device picked up the miracle?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Apparently.) 
<Brian> (fascinating) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, when it does that, do you respond in any way? 
<Human_Kite> "I would like to see her workspace, if possible." 
<Brian> (green button!) 
<humanFtisk> "Weird, the device recognized I did a miracle" 
<humanFtisk> "uhm lil device, why?" 
<DanteE> "... that is weird., 
<Random_Nerd> Kite's device displays a blurb on the sunny and conveniently layed-out workplace at Doogle's many prosperous locations. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk's device displays a large letter Y, in flashing pink. 
<Brian> "I suspect that the device's anti-Machinery powers picked up the Data miracle." 
<Brian> "Either that, or Ftisk's miracles work by sending Data around the air, and that's what the thing picks up." 
<humanFtisk> "Nope device, I'll do as I will, bow to your master!" 
<DanteE> "Is that thing smart enough to respond to 'Why did you do that'?" 
<Brian> "Or /how/ did it do that?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk's device flashes through various people bowing to other people, and then brings up a "Mature content warning, would you like to proceed" on the other side of the visual field. 
<DanteE> "Kite, could you try a Miracle and see if yours does the same?" 
<humanFtisk> "shapechange, any opinion on it device?" 
* Human_Kite lesser divination on nearby bird nest assemblies. 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, it brings up pictures of bird nests a good two seconds before you actually use the miracle. 
<Random_Nerd> Obviously, the miracle has better information about nests, however. 
<humanFtisk> (mind reading!) 
<Human_Kite> "Huh." 
<humanFtisk> (better, precog reading) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, Kite's device just /gleamed/. Painfully. 
<DanteE> (SO, these things might be using the mind reading to build an AI) 
<humanFtisk> "Wait! Kite, your device gleamed at me!" 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button. 
<Human_Kite> "Bad device. No gleaming." 
<humanFtisk> "can we swap devices Kite?" 
<Brian> ("I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that, Dave.") 
<DanteE> "Ask it why it did that" 
<humanFtisk> "Device, why you gleamed at me?" 
<Random_Nerd> When you say swap, it brings up a thing on yours that says "trading devices between uses is not advised! It may require a full recalibration!" 
<Random_Nerd> For a second. 
<Human_Kite> "We can try. Maybe yours can take us to its leader." 
<Random_Nerd> Then back to random kittens. 
<humanFtisk> to my device "No kittens! Snails!" 
<Random_Nerd> Now, it's about one snail to every three kittens. 
<Human_Kite> "Anyway, let's go to Alice's office." 
* humanFtisk then hard power off the thing and de-fit it 
<Random_Nerd> Same blurb on how it won't provide such info about employees. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk's device, before it powers down: Big red sad-face. 
* humanFtisk pout 
<DanteE> (How about if you elgoog "Excrucian attacks"? :) ) 
* humanFtisk give the device to Kite, waiting for Kite’s one 
<Brian> "Kite, what does it have to say about Excrucians?" 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button 
<Human_Kite> "Device. Any Excrucians nearby?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sadface. Bloop. 
<Random_Nerd> Device: "Did you mean 'Excruciating'?" 
<Human_Kite> "No." 
<Brian> ((Search for "Excrucian". "I'm feeling lucky." "No excrucians found." "Good!") 
<Random_Nerd> Device: *sadface* "Did you mean 'screw jeans'?" 
<Human_Kite> "What? No!" 
<Random_Nerd> Device: *sadface* 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button 
<humanFtisk> (kite, swap device with me, see if on you mine work ok) 
<DanteE> (Your thing's gonna get a complex...) 
<Random_Nerd> Device: "Did you mean 'Excrucians'?" 
<Human_Kite> "YES!" 
<Random_Nerd> Green happy face. 
<Brian> (ding!) 
<humanFtisk> "is like a puppy training" 
<humanFtisk> "device sit!" 
<Random_Nerd> It brings up conspiracy theory websites that talk about Excrucians, Reptoids, Sasquatches in black supersonic helicopters, and the International Jewish Conspiracy. 
<Human_Kite> "Any local instances of Excrucians?" 
<humanFtisk> (brb) 
<DanteE> "You got something?" 
<Random_Nerd> It flags a post on Facebook made by someone who said he saw an Excrucian on Green Street at 3 AM. 
<Random_Nerd> It's about a week old. 
<Random_Nerd> The spelling and grammar... well, they aren't great. 
<Human_Kite> "Green Street, last week at 3 AM." 
<Random_Nerd> It reads like it was written on a cellphone by a cat wearing mittens. 
<Human_Kite> "I think." 
<Random_Nerd> When you say "Green Street" it brings up a map overlay on your vision. 
<DanteE> "Where's that office we're looking for?" 
<Brian> (knowing this game, it may well have /been/ a cat wearing mittens. Or possibly cat-wearing mittens.) 
<Random_Nerd> It's a couple miles from here, apparently. 
<Human_Kite> "Which is that way." 
<Brian> "Let's check it out" 
<Human_Kite> "Not too far." 
<Brian> "Couldn't hurt." 
<Random_Nerd> The office you're looking for is about four interstate exits south of here. 
<DanteE> (How about her home?) 
<Human_Kite> "Green Street first, [office address] next?" 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, it highlights first the overlay of Green Street, then directions to the address. Then a blue question mark, for a moment 
<Random_Nerd> Then it just shows Green Street. 
<Human_Kite> (If home is closer, we could try that out first. Her office seems more worthwhile, since we could also check out her colleagues.) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, it just gleamed again. 
<Random_Nerd> Her home is closer than the office, but farther than Green Street. 
<Human_Kite> "Yes, device. Very good." 
<Random_Nerd> Green smiley-face. 
<Human_Kite> "I will let you charge tonight." 
<Random_Nerd> It brings up a page on the battery status. 
<Random_Nerd> You currently have 98.87% power. 
<DanteE> "Yes. You have to promise to feed it and walk it and clean up its messes if you're going to keep that thing." 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button 
<Random_Nerd> Bloop. Sadface. Battery display goes away. 
<Human_Kite> "Don't push it." 
<Random_Nerd> It brings up a music video of "Push It", by Salt-n-Pepa. 
<Human_Kite> "AUGH!" 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button 
<Random_Nerd> Then it pauses for a moment as it downloads Adobe Flash Player. 
<Random_Nerd> Bloop. Sadface. Flash stops downloading. 
<Brian> (and then it crashes your mind) 
<DanteE> ("Did you mean: 'D'OH!'?" :D ) 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button 
<Random_Nerd> Flash starts downloading again, then stops again. 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button 
<Random_Nerd> The display goes blank. 
<Human_Kite> "...." 
<Human_Kite> "Okay, so Green Street was this way." 
* Human_Kite takes off the device and trades with Ftisk. 
<Random_Nerd> Display: "It seems like you're trying to: Walk To Green Street. Would you like directions?" 
<Brian> (damnit clippy!) 
<Random_Nerd> That, just before you take it off. 
<humanFtisk> (back) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, do you put Kite's eyepiece on? 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, do you remove the other components? 
* humanFtisk scan Kite devices for a glow source 
<Human_Kite> Yes 
<Random_Nerd> Now that they're off Kite, there's no gleam. 
<humanFtisk> (first I scan it and compare to mine then wear it) 
<humanFtisk> then I wear it and power it on 
<humanFtisk> and scan again for gleam 
<DanteE> (So, it's machine + user that messes with you) 
<humanFtisk> (is a parasite? using piece of user for himself?) 
<Random_Nerd> When you wear it and power it up, it brings up a display: "Error, body language not compatible with designated user. Are you (Kite's fake name)?" 
<humanFtisk> to device "Yes" 
<humanFtisk> any gleaming? 
<Random_Nerd> Device: "Body language error. Eye tracking error. Please return to distribution center for recalibration." 
<Random_Nerd> No gleaming. 
* humanFtisk do a ldiv of machinery around ... any gleaming? 
<Human_Kite> "How are your mind control skills coming along, Ftisk?" 
<Random_Nerd> What are you divining for? 
<humanFtisk> "keep giving error that dumb device" 
<humanFtisk> not important something like where are the machines around me 
<humanFtisk> to see if it gleam 
<Random_Nerd> You find all the machines near you. It's... a lot of machines. You're in the campustown area of a university with a strong tech department. 
<humanFtisk> and the device gleamed? 
<Random_Nerd> It includes seven of these wearable computers, not counting yours and Kite's. 
<Random_Nerd> The device does not respond in any way to the miracle, save to blink the "Error" screen again. 
<humanFtisk> "Kite, my device work with you?" 
<DanteE> (These devices are attuned specifically to their users to the point where they can spot miracles) 
* Human_Kite puts on Ftisk's device. 
<Human_Kite> "Take me to your leader." 
<humanFtisk> (or Ftisk lack something the humans have and the device use to work correctly with them) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk's device, on Kite, gives the same "Error, body language not compatible." 
<Human_Kite> (Kite's google-fu is weak....) 
<Random_Nerd> It display a map to the nearest distribution center. 
<Human_Kite> "Not really, no." 
<Human_Kite> "Wait...." 
<humanFtisk> "then we can swap back these device, I like to keep an eye on a working one" 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, Kite's device says "Error, powering down in 30...29..." 
<Human_Kite> (Is that where we got these?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
* Human_Kite takes off Ftisk's device 
<Human_Kite> "Trade back?" 
* humanFtisk return Kite device to Kite 
<DanteE> (Were we walking to Green Street as this happened? :) ) 
<Brian> (anyone know of any good recent old-school beat'em'up video games?) 
<Human_Kite> (yes) 
<Random_Nerd> You're about halfway there. 
<DanteE> (a la Street Fighter?) 
<Brian> (More Golden Axe, Battletoads, Contra, &co) 
<Random_Nerd> When you put your devices back on, it gives a screen that says "Warning, your device appears to have been worn by an unauthorized user. Were you aware of this?" 
<Human_Kite> (no idea) 
<Human_Kite> "No." 
<humanFtisk> "really? Nope device" 
<humanFtisk> (chronicles of Mystara) 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, yours then shows details on the time that it was in use by an unauthorized user, and approximate details on the unauthorized user's height. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, yours displays a large picture of a snail. 
<Human_Kite> "Must've been that kid from the elementary school." 
<humanFtisk> green button 
<Random_Nerd> Green happy-face. 
<Random_Nerd> More snails. 
<humanFtisk> green button all 
<Random_Nerd> Kite, yours shows locations of nearby elementary schools. 
<Human_Kite> "That school. Report that a student from that school stole and used my device." 
<DanteE> "OK, so where was that Excrucian sighting?" 
* DanteE searches the area with The Sight... 
<Human_Kite> "Also, reload data of the Excrucian sighting on Green Street" 
<Random_Nerd> Kite's Device: "It seems like you're trying to: Send an email to (The Police/[School Name])" Do you want help?" 
<Random_Nerd> The Facebook post and the overlay of Green Street both show again, lower in your visual field. 
<Human_Kite> "No. I want you to send a report." 
<DanteE> "You know, if those weren't potentially Excrucian dongles o'doom they sound kinda helpful." 
<Random_Nerd> The Clippy window vanishes. "It seems like you're trying to: Send a beta test report. Do you want help?" 
<Human_Kite> "Forget the report." 
<DanteE> (Wait...) 
<Random_Nerd> The window goes away. 
<Carrie> (Chestnut Law violation averted) 
<DanteE> (That report would go to the people who are building these things.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sadface. Bloop.) 
<Random_Nerd> What are you looking for, Dante? 
* humanFtisk watch for gleaming and when one appear I ldiv machinericity of Kite and of the device 
<DanteE> (Then Ftisk can track it) 
<DanteE> signs of Excrucian/Noble/miracle activity. 
<Random_Nerd> Nothing obvious. Though, a guy down the street has an /improbably/ large knife concealed in his jacket, and a conspicuous amount of courage. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, when you try the divination, it gives you a picture of the device, and then "It seems like you're trying to: email a friend." 
* DanteE checks out knife guy... 
<humanFtisk> and what return the divination? When the device gleam it or Kite register as machines? 
<Random_Nerd> He's wearing a tattered leather jacket, and is obviously intoxicated. 
<DanteE> "'Scuse me a sec..." 
<Random_Nerd> According to the divination, Kite's device is about 90% a machine. And Kite is about 2% a machine. 
* DanteE goes to knife guy 
<humanFtisk> "aha! The device register as 90% machine when it gleam to me!" 
<Random_Nerd> Knife Guy is jumpy. Knife Guy backs away when Dante gets close, his back to the wall of an optometrist's office. 
<Random_Nerd> Knife guy: "Who... who're you?" 
<Human_Kite> "Where'd the other 10% go?" 
<Random_Nerd> His Courage lowers for a moment, then goes up. He steps forward, and puts a hand in his jacket. 
<DanteE> "Me first. What are you going to do with that knife?" 
<humanFtisk> "Is what I was wondering" 
<Random_Nerd> His courage goes up more. He pulls it out. "Getting inqui--- question asking strangers to shut up, that's what!" 
<Random_Nerd> The knife a big, deer-skinning kind, but it's not very well maintained. 
<Random_Nerd> Looks like he tried to open a few cans with it or something. 
<DanteE> "That is so _cute!_ But you're badly mis-using it." 
<DanteE> "And... 'inqui-'what?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Who... who're you, Crocodile Dundee?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Inquisi... sivitive... asking questions!" 
<Random_Nerd> He waves the knife. 
<Random_Nerd> Passerby start backing away. 
<DanteE> (Any chance you've played Arkham City?) 
<Random_Nerd> (No, but I did play Arkham Asylum.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Why? Are you batman?) 
<Human_Kite> "Heeeeey, device! Any records on that guy?" 
<Brian> (Are they good? Better to play on PS3 or PC?) 
* Human_Kite stares at knife-wielding vagrant. 
<Random_Nerd> Device highlights blue circles on the faces of Dante, the knife guy, and about three other guys. 
* DanteE grabs the knife and does a AC-style 'interrogation' on the guy. 
<Random_Nerd> Each brightens if you look at it. 
<humanFtisk> (I played on Wii U, the touch screen is a nice thing in Arkham City ;-) ) 
<Random_Nerd> Then it brings up a picture of knife-guy's arrest for meth dealing. 
<DanteE> (Which in this case means, grab him by the throat, lift him up and ask him nicely.) 
<Random_Nerd> Mugshot, newspaper entry. 
<Human_Kite> "Dante, he's just a druggy." 
<Random_Nerd> Knife Guy flails wildly. 
<DanteE> "Tell me what you know about Excrucians in the area." 
<Random_Nerd> Knife Guy, Who Apparently Is Named Bud, Seriously What Kind Of Name Is That: "Fuuuuuuucck YOOOOOOOOU!" 
<Random_Nerd> He tries to kick you. A very high effort-to-success ratio. 
<Random_Nerd> Kite's Device: "Would you like to: Call the police?" 
<Human_Kite> "Bud, Bud, Bud. We could've given you gifts." 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button. 
<Random_Nerd> Kite's Device: "Would you like to: Record video?" 
<Human_Kite> "Bad device." 
<Random_Nerd> Bloop. Sadface. 
* Human_Kite pushes the red button. 
<Random_Nerd> Bloop. Slightly sadder face. 
<humanFtisk> (can we stop here? I need to start making breakfast for kiddies) 
<Random_Nerd> (That works for me.) 
<Carrie> Hmm, staying out of sight, but Lesser Divination of Hope on the knife guy. 
<DanteE> "Wrong answer... Bud, is it?" 
* Human_Kite removes the device 
<Brian> (also, I have to go to bed :)) 
<Random_Nerd> Bud: "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..." 
<Random_Nerd> _______STOP__________ 
<Carrie> Ah, we can do it next time if it's easier. 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
=-= Carrie is now known as Etheric 
<DanteE> Nice timing on that stop. :) 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<Random_Nerd> Bud really hopes he doesn't urinate on himself. 
=-= Human_Kite is now known as Verithe 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> Really, really strongly. 
<Angelo> lol 
<Random_Nerd> Like, full on a dream is a wish your heart makes stuff. 
<Random_Nerd> If this were a Disney movie, he'd be on the third verse. 
<Etheric> Heh! Is there any hope he's actively moving toward with his argument with Dante? 
<Angelo> is the Google thing a symbiot? 
<Random_Nerd> He also doesn't want to lose face, and he doesn't want to get arrested. 
<Angelo> (like carnage / venom) 
<lazarus> I'm gonna head out now. g'night! 
<Random_Nerd> But that's secondary in his mind. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, it's not alive. 
<Angelo> night laz! 
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<Random_Nerd> G'night... 
<Random_Nerd> Dammit. 
<Knockwood> Y'know what, is was the 2E version of Dante that had a thing for 'the proper use of blades' 
<Etheric> Ah, that works then. I wasn't sure if he had something he was hiding, but that makes it seem less likely. 
<Etheric> If I want to know more, I'll use Persona next time. 
<Knockwood> Are they trying to make an AI? 
<Random_Nerd> He seems like an ordinary petty thug that Dante happened to notice because he pinged for both estates to the Sight. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Interesting. 
<Etheric> Ah, gotcha. 
<Etheric> I didn't quite follow all of that, so that makes more sense now. 
<Knockwood> Ah, so, no connection to The Plot at all? 
<Random_Nerd> Nobilis 3e Sight pays a lot of attention to connections to your estates. 
<Angelo> I keep thinking that I want to come out of that attack with a third estate: cyborgs/cybernetic 
<Random_Nerd> This appears to be a matter of that. 
<Random_Nerd> Well, if you want to do that... 
<Random_Nerd> Time to start a Project! 
<Angelo> yay! 
<Knockwood> You'd have to modify Machinery 
<Angelo> was in the back burner for a bit, some hint in the channel description 
<Knockwood> then again, with Data and Machinery you should already have it 
<Angelo> and not, I think not, a cyborg is a living machine or an extension of a living organism, machinery don’t cover it (purposefully) 
<Knockwood> As for the Batman connection... ( :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> At least, a lot of those miracles. 
<Random_Nerd> But conceptually... yeah. 
<Knockwood> Remember in AA you could find maps to the Riddler's puzzles? 
<Random_Nerd> Vaguely. 
<Random_Nerd> There were green question mark things, and you had to find some obscure batman thing they were near? 
<Knockwood> in AC, you do that by finding Riddler's known associates in the crowd... 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Knockwood> Beat up everyone else around them, then 'interrogate' the henchman. 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. Well, right now, you haven't worked out a way to see who to interrogate. 
<Knockwood> 'interrogate' meaning 'Grab and threaten.' 
<Angelo> anyway, I go, see you in 2 week, vibes to Beth. 
<Knockwood> In that case, I can just say 'If you misuse a blade again, I won't be happy. You won't like it if I'm not happy. Now blow." 
<Etheric> Later, Angelo. 
<Knockwood> cya Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> Do you have a Bond for misusing blades? 
<Random_Nerd> If so, make sure to use it. 
<Knockwood> looks like this version doesn't... 
<Random_Nerd> Oh well. 
<Random_Nerd> Anyway, it's late, I must go sleep. 
<Knockwood> it was a Bond in the 2E version 
<Random_Nerd> See you all next week. 
<Knockwood> good night RN. 
<Random_Nerd> Except Angelo. 
<Knockwood> And give our vibes to Bethy 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. I will. 
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<Knockwood> Eth, V, see you next week. 
<Etheric> Sure, see you! 
|<-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Knockwood) 
<Etheric> And check out Carrie's wiki article in thirty minutes or so 
<Etheric> bah, missed him 
<Etheric> well, if either of you feel like it, check out the wiki 
<Etheric> Because, I was doing that instead of roleplaying <.< 
<Etheric> It's not quite finished yet, but it's close to where I'll save it 
<Verithe> Yay! 
<Verithe> I need to update Kite's he's had STORY since then. 
<Verithe> That sentence was supposed to be two. :I 
<Verithe> Anyway, take care! 
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=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix 
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=-= Topic for #Nobilis is ``MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN'' 
=-= Topic for #Nobilis was set by Verithe on 29 marzo 2013 02:24:55 
<Angelo> Hi guys! :-) 
<Verithe> Hi, Angelo! 
<Random_Nerd> Huh. Angelo! 
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> I thought you wouldn't be here. 
<Angelo> I was unsure if I can be. 
<Angelo> But André has been a good boy so I made it :-) 
<lazarus> yay Angelo! 
<Knockwood> oh, your kid? 
<lazarus> (I, myself, am on the tail end of a sick. Arg.) 
<Angelo> yep the big one of the two got fever today and so was possible that I would have been so tired to not even show up. 
<Knockwood> I wondered, your email looked like a bad auto-translation. :/ 
<Random_Nerd> Well, if you're too tired, or you have stuff to do, it's okay. 
<Angelo> nono no need for bad auto translation, my English is bad enough by itself! :-P 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, that reminds me of something I'd been meaning to ask. A random thought I'd had... what would you guys think of, at some point in the future, trying to do the game via voice chat rather than text? 
<Random_Nerd> Because I was noticing that we tend to either sit around waiting for everyone else to talk, or all talk over each other. 
<lazarus> I wouldn't mind that. 
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<Angelo> well, today we will start looking into Ftisk's estate attack... I feel compelled to be there 
<lazarus> I have good enough internets. 
<Knockwood> you realize that would get worse over voice 
<BethE> HI guys! *HUGS* I will be bouncing between computer and kitchen. Making a low-carb carrot cake. 
<Angelo> I fell like not torturing you with my voice. 
<lazarus> clam chowder starts with salted pork? Huh. Did not know that. 
<BethE> I hope the child is doing better, Angelo? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, worse in some ways. 
<Verithe> I'd rather not do voice chat. 
<Random_Nerd> But it would be less the "conversation splits into seventeen fragments." 
<Random_Nerd> That's fine, then. 
<Random_Nerd> Just a random idea I had. 
<Angelo> TY Beth he is enduring. 
<Random_Nerd> I forget... how old is he? 
<Verithe> It's not a bad idea. It's just....our apartment has thin walls and we're usually still playing after my wife goes to bed. 
<Angelo> André is 8. 
<Angelo> And on the voice I can try from the kitchen if we want to have a test session to test the water 
<Random_Nerd> *nod* If it's not feasible, that's fine. 
<BethE> There, cake in the oven 
<Random_Nerd> So. Last session, you'd resolved the first estate attack in an unexpected way with strange and frightening long-term implications! 
<Knockwood> as usual 
<Angelo> ditto 
<lazarus> How did we do it, again? 
<Random_Nerd> Now, you have another one, halfway across the world! 
<Knockwood> Well, we accidentally convinced the guy that we were too pathetic to keep attacking. 
<Verithe> We convinced the reverend that we would be civilian casualties. 
<Random_Nerd> Basically, you convinced the excrucian that Nobles are, basically, just dupes in the whole War thing. So he's left to go work on a way to deal with things without hurting you. 
<Angelo> being so lowly to move to compassion the deceiver. He believe we are gonzo peoples fooled by their imp 
<lazarus> oh right 
<BethE> We made a Deceiver think we were so pitiful that he let us go and is probably going to work against Kudzu. 
<Random_Nerd> By your imperator, that is. Puck the Imp is, of course, not an evil mastermind who influences your every action from the shadows. 
<Knockwood> cuz we're AWESOME like that 
<Random_Nerd> That reminds me. For the storyline after/during this... do you guys want to call dibs on NPCs? I know V wanted Gil... 
<Verithe> Gil! Gil! Gil! 
<BethE> (Puck wouldn't be able to stay quiet in the shadows.) 
<Angelo> dibs on Gnomely! 
<lazarus> I could do Sam 
<Random_Nerd> Makes sense, with the whole anchor thing. 
<Random_Nerd> So, Knock? Beth? 
<Knockwood> Hm... 
<Angelo> who will play the demon? 
<BethE> Not sure yet. Who do you want, Knock? 
<Knockwood> well, who else would be involved? William is obvious... 
<BethE> Lesson's pretty good as an NPC, I think. 
<Random_Nerd> John... 
<Knockwood> ah yeah, forgot Lesson. 
<Random_Nerd> Lesson, or his various sub-minions. 
<Random_Nerd> The imp. 
<Angelo> or Lesson assistance 
<Verithe> Will's fiancée 
<Angelo> there are really many, many npc here! 
<Verithe> Red 
<Random_Nerd> That's why I wanted to do this! 
<Angelo> !_! Is there also Theresa man 
<Knockwood> so, choices: William, Lesson, Puck, John, Red, William's fiancée... Lesson's human assistant... 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, right, with the memory thing... 
<BethE> We haven't met your refurbished Theresa's husband yet. 
<Random_Nerd> How about not him. 
<Random_Nerd> I... may have plans involving him for later. 
<Random_Nerd> Hypothetically. 
<Random_Nerd> You can prove nothing. 
<Knockwood> Please ignore the maniacal laughing. 
<lazarus> suspect, though? 
<Angelo> mine? no no T, is your, all your! /me evil grin :-P 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah! That's not demonic laughter, it's just... a car backfiring. Yeah. 
<Random_Nerd> (I almost typed "a cat backfiring.") 
* Angelo pats RN 
<lazarus> "cat backfiring"? 
<Knockwood> well, can you tell us the basic story you're planning? 
<Verithe> Hah! 
<lazarus> (I read it as that anyway, RN :p) 
<BethE> If your cat is backfiring, there are problems... 
<Knockwood> quit feeding it beans 
<Random_Nerd> The basic story is... okay. For the PCs, everything crazy is happening at once. Two simultaneous flower attacks, all that. So you're out of home for a while. 
<Random_Nerd> Normally, when stuff like this goes on, you only see your minions when you specifically bring them, or call them to ask them to do things. 
<Random_Nerd> So, the idea is to do a cross between a day in the life for them... and their own equivalent of "when everything goes wrong at once." 
<Angelo> cool! 
<Random_Nerd> So, remember! Anything you ask your minions to do now... you may have to deal with that next storyline! 
<Knockwood> Beth, what if we play William & fiancée? 
<lazarus> oh hurray, we get to solve our own problems 
<Random_Nerd> The idea was, there'll be one big thing to deal with, and then each of you will likely have minor personal stuff as well. 
<Random_Nerd> Like, Gnomely's TV show. William's upcoming marriage. 
<BethE> I think I'd rather play John. 
<Knockwood> Actually, I was thinking earlier... William is unaging now, right? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Verithe> Is he? 
<Random_Nerd> I think that Brian did that a while back. 
<Knockwood> one of the things we gave him when he took the contract 
<lazarus> seem to recall it 
<Random_Nerd> Not the full gift, but a preservation miracle. 
<Verithe> Sweet! 
<Angelo> weird side effects of Noble's employments :-P 
<Knockwood> slight glitch in that his fiancée isn't 
<Random_Nerd> Nope. 
<BethE> Would be common, I'd think. And he could probably get an equivalent for his bride. Heck, we could do that as a wedding present. 
<Random_Nerd> And she's... /aware/ of the whole Noble thing, but she doesn't really have a gut-level grasp on how big a deal it is. 
<Knockwood> I could play William, and part of the plot could be considering whether to ask the regular PCs to make his fiancée unaging 
<Random_Nerd> That'd work. 
<Random_Nerd> And yes, that's a very William thing to worry about. 
<Verithe> A good husband discusses this with his wife-to-be before asking the volatile Nobles for the gift. 
<Knockwood> (I do OK with making plots for others to resolve. 
<Knockwood> (Should see the community MLP fanfics I started.) 
<Random_Nerd> Huh. William as the Twilight Sparkle to you guys' Princess Celestia. 
<Angelo> Ftisk is more pinky pie-ish 
<Knockwood> Not really, the princess knows what she's doing. 
<Random_Nerd> Nah, she just gives that impression. 
<lazarus> MLP is on Netflix here in Canada now :) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. So, we have Angelo as Gnomely, Laz as Sam, Beth as John, V as Gil, and Knock as William. 
* Angelo nod 
<Knockwood> laz: my fav is still "Winter Wrap-Up" 
<Angelo> woot is a real long time Gnomely don't get some show time 
<Knockwood> and it's somewhat appropriate now 
<lazarus> haven't seen much beyond the first season, I think. 
<Random_Nerd> Damn you, now that song is stuck in my head. 
<Knockwood> Means less brains devoted to our enemies! Muahhahhahhah! 
<lazarus> the theme is stuck in my head, but that's ok, Brian's a little airheaded at times :) 
<Angelo> yep! I approve 
<Random_Nerd> So! Estate attack on Machinery! California! 
<Angelo> so to the Dante mobile! To California! 
<Knockwood> (Come to think of it, if our aides are home, how do we know how to get there?) 
<Random_Nerd> You're all in Afghanistan, about half an hour from Kabul and the nearest gateway to Amyra. 
<Random_Nerd> (You can use Things of Amyra miracles to find out, or contact Sam and get him to check.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And you know where the gateway you used to get here is.) 
<lazarus> (I can Lesser Div the thing) 
<Random_Nerd> Ready? 
<Angelo> (or waaaaaaalk alooong waaay) 
=-= Verithe is now known as Human-Kite 
<Knockwood> hang on, everybody check your destiny maps 
<Angelo> ready! 
<Human-Kite> Ready! 
<Random_Nerd> For that matter... doesn't Brian have Persona for Things Of Amyra? You can make gateways of your own that way if you want. 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
<Random_Nerd> ______________START___________________ 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<lazarus> (yeah, that too) 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
<Brian> "How fast an exit do we need?" 
<DanteE> (Well, we're surrounded by soldiers who no longer know what we're doing here...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, they've had about a day to consolidate the attack...) 
<Random_Nerd> Around you, everyone is relatively calm. 
<Random_Nerd> I mean... considering. 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, how are you feeling?" 
<Ftisk> we can calmly take the car and run away 
<Random_Nerd> The Chapliscrutian probably did some kind of miracle to make them stay calm. Which, to be fair, is kinda his thing. 
<DanteE> (IC, the attack's over, right?) 
<Ftisk> "I fell an ache here " point to some place in the shell 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. You're still a bit sore, but you can tell that it got resolved.) 
<Brian> (could someone play Tpyo?) 
<DanteE> (OK, but do we know why IC?) 
<DanteE> (Me! Em! mw! 
<Theresa> (She would be too awesome for our mortal tries.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He did a miracle of Persona to make them forget what he'd told them, basically.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So the source of stress was removed, and he won't be adding more as far as you know.) 
<Theresa> (Yeah, we know that he said he would quit his attack. You felt better.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's a bit of a crude solution, but inelegant or not, it worked.) 
<Ftisk> (is mindmeister no more free? he ask for money to access my map) 
<DanteE> "Hm. The attack on me has stopped, but for some reason I don't think this qualifies as a 'win'." 
<Brian> "We survived. Win enough for now." 
<DanteE> (Ftisk: you're limited in the number of maps you can get for free, I think) 
<Random_Nerd> (Huh. I don't know, I haven't used it in a while...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah.) 
<Theresa> "You're alive, the soldiers are alive, let's go save Ftisk." 
* Ftisk nod nod 
<DanteE> "Agreed. All aboard." 
<Human-Kite> "All of the soldiers?" 
<Ftisk> damsel voice on: "please save me!!!" 
<Human-Kite> "Yes, my sibling!" 
<DanteE> "Cute. Now where's the attack coming from?" 
<Random_Nerd> None are currently dead because of you. Some were... mostly dead... for a while. But that got fixed. 
<Ftisk> (I know is from California, right?) 
<Theresa> *to V* "Dante used his healing magics and Carrie has some skills as well." 
* Human-Kite sighs. 
<Random_Nerd> Even the car-bomber guy is alive, although he did get grabbed. 
<Random_Nerd> (Correct.) 
<Theresa> (It was still a lovely bomb, Kite. *pat pat*) 
<DanteE> (Be more specific, though, California is huge.) 
<Ftisk> "My bad feeling came from California! Ouch!" 
<Random_Nerd> (You'll be able to narrow it down when you're there by the feel, if you don't have any other way to be more specific.) 
<Human-Kite> "As long as this attack is off, it's alright, I guess." 
<Human-Kite> "Awww....Ftisk hurts in the California...." 
<Brian> "Where's our best stop out in Cali?" 
<Ftisk> "Mit?" 
<Human-Kite> "I forget, is California ruled by a despot or a parliament or what?" 
<Brian> (My US geography is terrible. I want a place roughly central California.) 
<DanteE> "First stop is back to Amyra... back the way we came." 
<DanteE> (Sacramento.) 
<Ftisk> "Silicon valley? The prairie were fake boobs grow?" 
<Brian> (Sacramento will work.) 
<Brian> "... wrong silicon, Ftisk." 
<DanteE> (pretty much dead center) 
<Ftisk> "duh!" 
<Theresa> (Well, San Fran would be big enough city-wise.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Silicone Valley is a /different/ place in California.) 
<Theresa> (Fake boobs are also grown in Hollywood!) 
<DanteE> (Well, they both have big cities.) 
<DanteE> (Anyhoo, any problem going from Kabul to Amyra?) 
<Brian> (what kind of miracle does making a path from here to there count as? ... awdamnit, I still haven't made myself a reference chart) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. "Amyra is full of portals to various places", right?) 
<Ftisk> (I cannot access mine :-( ) 
<Brian> (something like that. I think I used Paths to Places, but) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, an enchantment to make another place have paths to various places.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Or... an emulation to make /Brian/ contain paths to various places.) 
<DanteE> (Wouldn’t that stick around after we left, tho?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yep!) 
<Brian> (Probably wouldn't with a Lesser.) 
<Brian> (or, that would be cool) 
<Human-Kite> (Heck, we could do that with the Dantemobile. File in, then file right back out....) 
<Brian> (... I want to do that.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But bear in mind, all these Amyra paths exist when you aren't using them. It's just that most people don't know how to find or use them.) 
<Random_Nerd> (There are tricks to do it, but most folks don't know 'em.) 
<DanteE> (Well, heck, why not give the Dantemobile the full TARDIS treatment? :) ) 
<Brian> (didn't we do that to the trunk?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, you can do that with "has a varied and interesting geography...) 
<DanteE> (Not explicitly. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Man, this estate has really weird persona possibilities.) 
<Ftisk> (yeah, I believe the Dante mobile is already able to do that) 
<Brian> (That was part of the reason that I took it - I thought it would be neat and weird. We haven't really explored it yet, though) 
<DanteE> "OK, so we need to get to central California in the United States." 
<Ftisk> (found it! I had to DOWNGRADE my account to the basic one) 
<Random_Nerd> ("My pants now have a rich religious history! My favorite brand of hamburger is sometimes hard to find!") 
<Theresa> (There, cake out of the oven.) 
<Human-Kite> "Oh! California is one of /those/ places!" 
<DanteE> "Yes, in several ways. Wait, what do you mean?" 
* Ftisk shape like "?" my eye 
<Human-Kite> (That's really strange, Angelo.) 
<Human-Kite> "One of those United States places." 
<Ftisk> ( /me nod @Verithe) 
<Brian> "United States feels like a Chancel. Or a series of Chancels." 
<DanteE> "OK, back to central Kabul, then back to Amyra, then we'll call Sam and get a path there..." 
<Brian> "I can short-circuit that, and we can go from here over to Sacramento, if you want." 
<Theresa> (I think Sam will be busy...) 
<Ftisk> "Sure why not!" 
<DanteE> "Considering it's an attack, that's probably a good idea. 
<Theresa> "I think we should go straight to California. Who knows how hard it will be to help out Ftisk?" 
<DanteE> "Theresa, check to make sure nobody's looking..." 
<Brian> (I'll link outside-of-Kabul to just outside of Sacramento. Preferably the "main entrance", if there happens to be one in that city.) 
<Random_Nerd> You can just drive up the road half a mile and nobody will be near enough. 
<DanteE> (And can you set it up so we can just magically drive there? :) ) 
<Brian> (and spend N PMPs, where N is a number that is the closest power-of-two to miracle level - 1, I think.) 
<Theresa> (Brian, please do not leave the door to California open so that a large number of Afghans end up invading the US...) 
<Random_Nerd> (What's your Persona? Enchantment is 4.) 
<Brian> (I shall pull that up. I think it's 1, which makes the cost 4, yeah?) 
<DanteE> "Actually, can you do your thing to the car itself?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah. 4... but you have 8 PMPs. Man.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Wait, ten.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, you can afford to spend a couple!) 
<Random_Nerd> (But if you do it to the car itself, the car will /be/ the path.) 
<Random_Nerd> Or, at least, contain it. 
<DanteE> (Well, heck, why not do a Major Whatever of Numbers so that our # of problems equals zero? :p ) 
<Brian> (yeah. I have ... lots of MPs. That temp MPs is a bit out of date. I can't remember refresh rate and stuff like that, but there's enough.) 
<Random_Nerd> Like... you could do it on the glove compartment. So you could crawl through to San Francisco. 
<Brian> (Dante: because that hits on one of the Laws ;)) 
<Random_Nerd> But the car would still be left by the side of the road in Afghanistan. 
<DanteE> (When you're fighting for your life, screw the rules!) 
<Theresa> (Urg, not the glove compartment. Theresa has enough concerns about her weight already, thank you.) 
<Brian> (I'm more amused by the idea that if you drive this way at this place at this time at 88 MPH, you will end up in Sacramento) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, Hubris Law.) 
<Ftisk> (lol) 
<Random_Nerd> ("Got 99 problems, and an Actual is totally one.") 
<DanteE> (We'd probably need to drive to the site once we get to Sacramento anyway.) 
<Brian> (actually, do I have any things to drive the MP cost down? *hunts through Bonds list* ... probably not, but worth checking :)) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, where do you make the path?) 
<Random_Nerd> If you were in Amyra, that would reduce it. 
<DanteE> (And we're arguing mechanics at the expense of the bleeping story, I think.) 
<Random_Nerd> Bonds give you Strike, they don't lower the cost. 
<Brian> (oh, wait, Bonds don't do that anymore, do they?) 
<Random_Nerd> But you have 10 PMPs. 
<Human-Kite> (Someday, we can give the Dantemobile teleportational capabilities) 
<Random_Nerd> You'll be fine. 
<Random_Nerd> I don't think you've ever used six in one story. 
<Ftisk> (the tardis treatment!) 
<Theresa> (And besides, we can't leave the Dantemobile. Dante would not leave it behind.) 
<Human-Kite> "Drive on!" 
<Brian> "Dante, to the left a bit, need to go due West. And speed up. We need to hit, oh .... 88 miles per hour. Because I liked that movie. Just go." 
<DanteE> (Considering how much of a pain paying for it was, absolutely. :) ) 
<DanteE> "bit tricky on roads with bomb craters, but I'll improvise." 
<Ftisk> "yay cool movie!" 
<DanteE> (long as we're doing movies...) 
<DanteE> "Hang on to your lunch pail, this may get a little weird..." 
* DanteE takes off 
<Human-Kite> "Woooooooo!" 
<Ftisk> "weee" 
<Random_Nerd> From the way it feels, it's like you hit the right spot and fell through a hole into a set of tunnels. 
<Random_Nerd> But unlike the borderlands of Amyra, this isn't full of vines and decaying masonry, but sand, and sandstone in oddly geometric shapes. 
<Ftisk> (the gophermobile!) 
<DanteE> (Any resemblance to the Stonecutters' tunnels from the Simpsons is purely coincidental.) 
<Random_Nerd> Also, while you're in it, the sun looks square. 
<Human-Kite> "Huh" 
<Brian> "I wasn't expecting this." 
<DanteE> "Did you put us in a Minecraft world?" 
<Ftisk> "Cooler that lsd!" 
<Brian> "I didn't intend to, that's for sure." 
<Ftisk> "Can I go around and mine?" 
<Random_Nerd> It's a short path, too, compared to most of the ones you've taken before. Five minutes, tops, and the Dantemobile comes out of the back of a tool shed that it definitely couldn't have fit into. 
<Human-Kite> "No, Ftisk. We have to fix your Estate." 
<DanteE> "Wait... Data and Machinery. Ftisk." 
<Brian> "Where is it, Ftisk?" 
<Random_Nerd> (It's Machinery that's hurt.) 
<Ftisk> "Bla bla always complains! .. Ouch, uhm well " 
<Human-Kite> "Where in the California does it hurt most, Ftisk?" 
<DanteE> "Gimme a direction before we hit this intersection..." 
* Ftisk concentrates to pin point directions on feelings 
<Random_Nerd> It's moderately close to here. West, near the bay area. 
<Random_Nerd> Maybe an hour's drive or a little more, if you observe posted speed limits and use no freaky magic. 
<DanteE> (Yeah, sure.) 
<Ftisk> "toward the bay area Dante" 
<Random_Nerd> (Also, now if anyone drives into that shed going 88 miles per hour, they will end up in Afghanistan!) 
<DanteE> (Don't we still have the cut-through-traffic mojo on this?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Possibly, years from now some drunk driver will have the weirdest blackout ever.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm... yeah, probably.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Although it's less relevant here, because the situation is different.) 
<DanteE> (Depends on the time of day and conditions on I-80. Banzai.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But you can probably effortlessly merge into and out of traffic and so on.) 
<DanteE> (We're Nobles anyway. Speed limits are for sissies.) 
<Random_Nerd> Brian, you feel a prayer-itch at the back of your mind. 
<Human-Kite> (Especially if we can change the numerical values of those limits.) 
<Ftisk> (these are not the nobles you are looking for? to the cop) 
<Brian> (prayer-answer) "Brian here." 
<Theresa> (Hey, we _are- back in California! Isn't that where your first anchor is, Brian? And where Red is from?) 
* Ftisk keep giving directions to Dante 
<Brian> (... yes, yes it is.) 
<Random_Nerd> You hear Sam's voice in your head. "Boss? If I ask you a question, can you not make a big deal about it, and not let William know I asked?" 
<DanteE> (Kind of a shame, cuz a Ghost-LDest-Courage in v2 made a great Jedi Mind Trick.) 
<Brian> (quiet anchor-speak) "Yeah, definitely." 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "The horse you took from that Excrucian, the one that lived in the basement... is there any reason to believe it would be /particularly/ flammable? I mean, compared to a regular horse?" 
<DanteE> (Of course, his first Anchor is SE of San Diego... which is technically Mexico.) 
<Brian> "... not that I know of?" 
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Good to know. Okay, carry on." 
<Random_Nerd> (You assume the borders are the same as in the real world!) 
<Brian> "Hey guys, is there any reason to believe that that horse is more flammable than a normal horse?" 
<Human-Kite> "The strange Excrucian horse you guys have in the room of giant plants?" 
<Ftisk> "is horse the excru-horse?" 
<Theresa> "..." 
<Brian> "Yeah." 
<DanteE> "Well, depends on how the Excrucian treated... wait, what?" 
<Theresa> (Do we know it can kill, in character?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.) 
<Ftisk> "Is him now well dry, will burn good" 
<DanteE> (We saw it do it) 
<Human-Kite> "We can test the possibility when we get back." 
<Ftisk> "Yay for SCIENCE!" 
<Theresa> "It shouldn't be. But who knows what it might do at that last moment of life?" 
<Brian> "Ok" 
<DanteE> "Uh, it's probably a violation of _something_ to set a living Excrucian-horse on fire." 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, status?" 
<Theresa> (For one thing, PETA will be ticked.) 
<Random_Nerd> You're most of the way there. 
<DanteE> (and my last statement should probably go in the quote file. :) ) 
<Ftisk> "Ouching a lot! Ah, on the way captain oh my captain!" 
<Random_Nerd> You're going to want to turn south off the interstate somewhere near the bay. 
<Random_Nerd> Cut to arriving in roughly the right area? 
* Ftisk lC a compass with Ftisk as needle 
<DanteE> (Sure.) 
<Brian> (sure) 
<Ftisk> (sure) 
<Human-Kite> (YES) 
<DanteE> "Oh, Brian, can I get a GPS in here that takes the portals into consideration?" 
<Brian> "Um?" 
<Brian> "We'll work on that." 
<Random_Nerd> The closest you can get, city-wise, is Centralia, CA. It's mostly a college town, a satellite campus of UC Berkeley. It also doesn't exist in the real world. 
<Human-Kite> "I'm sure Ftisk and I could help with that." 
<DanteE> "Sam might be jealous, though." 
<Ftisk> "nah, Sam will be relieved " 
<Brian> "I'll set him and his team to work on it, and he'll be thrilled." 
<Random_Nerd> Whatever's going on is somewhere in the campustown area, but the pain-sensing isn't more precise than that. 
* DanteE pulls into a visitor parking lot... 
<Human-Kite> "Oooh! Is this that town where the ground underneath it is on fire?" 
<Ftisk> "Ok, is in that area, don’t know were specifically but is in this zone" 
<Random_Nerd> (In the real world, this would be Walnut Creek.) 
<Theresa> "I think that place is on the other side of this continent, Kite." 
<Brian> "ground under ... what?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Centralia, PA.) 
<Human-Kite> "Oh." 
<DanteE> (That's Centralia, Pennsylvania) 
<Theresa> (That's Silent Hill. ^^ ) 
<Ftisk> "we _have_ to go there after!" 
<Human-Kite> (right. Kite's USA geography is not so good) 
* DanteE hops out of the car and checks the place out with the Sight. 
<Random_Nerd> (Huh. There /is/ a Centralia, CA in the real world. But it's in Orange County, not here.) 
<Random_Nerd> What are you looking for, Dante? 
<Theresa> (How new is that page you just checked? :) ) 
<Ftisk> "The campus! Is always around universities that excru attack .. uhm are universities so linked to estate warping creation eating beings?" 
<DanteE> (Any signs of Excrucian activity and/or screwiness involving Ftisk's Estates.) 
<DanteE> "You could argue. 
<Brian> "Universities are places of exploration of knowledge ... which leads to, well, screwing with knowledge-based or process-based Estates, such as ours" 
<Theresa> (...and now I'm remembering that they just started up a new supercomputer here at _our_ university this week...) 
<DanteE> "It's a 'bubble' where people can do research without _too_ much interaction with the real world. 
<Ftisk> "We can check for the courses here and go with the more suspicious?" 
<Random_Nerd> Let's see. People's connections to courage are pretty much typical for a city like this. Nobody in sight is obviously an Excrucian or Shard. 
<Random_Nerd> No major miracles have been cast recently that you can see. 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, which of your Estates is getting hit?" 
* Ftisk look with the sight too 
<Ftisk> "Is machinery" 
<Random_Nerd> (Machinery.) 
<DanteE> "In that case, let's check out the Engineering department." 
<Ftisk> "maybe is some factory process related attack?" 
<Ftisk> "Yep!" 
* Human-Kite concentrates on the border mythic 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, your Sight (picking up as it does Machinery-specific things) notices one significant thing that Courage-sight does not. There are a surprising number of people wearing what appears to be some kind of wearable computer device. 
<Brian> (I can so see us going up to the university center information booth "Where's the most likely place for an attack on Machinery?") 
* Ftisk shapechange from snail to human 
<Random_Nerd> And something about those looks painful to you. 
<Random_Nerd> Like the sun's glinting off them and into your eyes. 
=-= YOU are now known as humanFtisk 
<humanFtisk> "ouch! That one, that one and these ones too. they all wear a personal computer that hurt meeeeee!" 
<Random_Nerd> To the border-mythic, there's one notable thing in particular. Some of the people appear to be carrying a copy of themselves around on their shoulders, and the two are fused. 
* DanteE checks that out in realsight... 
<humanFtisk> "T., can you inquiry them where they bought one?" 
<Human-Kite> "Do we wrestle them to the ground and peck their eyes out?" 
<Human-Kite> "Oh, that's a better idea." 
<humanFtisk> "Please do Kite!" 
<Random_Nerd> Also, the shape of a giant dead goat looms over the bay like an angry god. 
<DanteE> "Diplomacy first, Ftisk." 
<Human-Kite> "Nah. I'll wait for the inquiry." 
<Theresa> (Oh crap.) 
<Theresa> (Not that goat again!) 
<Brian> (that's never a good sign. _never_.) 
<Random_Nerd> That's new. Last time the goat had no head. 
* humanFtisk pat Dante 
<Human-Kite> "This place gives me the creeps, though." 
<Random_Nerd> But Kite wasn't there for that. 
<humanFtisk> "Did you see the death goat hovering the area?" 
<DanteE> (Did I see the goat?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Let me dig up the quote...) 
<DanteE> "The what?" 
* Theresa heads over to someone with the little computer thingie and smiles at them. "Hello! I was wondering. What is that computer that you're wearing?" 
<Random_Nerd> (From the first storyline.) 
<Human-Kite> "That's what is giving me the creeps." 
<Random_Nerd> ("Depending on the angle you look at it from, Silicon Valley looks like a young man with a gleam in his eye, a shining white tower, a disfigured crone, and a headless goat. No obvious reason that this should be so presents itself.") 
* DanteE checks out what Kite is referring to... 
<humanFtisk> (I wasn't here then) 
<Random_Nerd> Weird. The dead goat has a head now. 
<DanteE> (So, is it the valley or the bay?) 
<Human-Kite> (The Bay Area) 
<Random_Nerd> (The part where you see it is across the bay to the south.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's pretty far away, but it's also huge.) 
<Human-Kite> (Ah) 
<DanteE> "Weird. We should ask our Aides about the goat when we get back." 
<Brian> "There's some symbology in effect." 
<Random_Nerd> Woman With Computer Thingy: "Oh! It's the beta thing! The internet goggles." 
<humanFtisk> "applied symbology " 
<Human-Kite> "Internet goggles? Could you explain?" 
* DanteE checks bulletin boards and ads for 'internet goggles' 
<Brian> (evil Google glass / augmented reality hurts Machinery?) 
<Random_Nerd> How do you check? 
<Theresa> (Crap, we're fighting Google Glasses.) 
* humanFtisk scan all the web sites for internet googles" 
<DanteE> (Go over to a bulletin board--there should be one around here somewhere--and look over the papers posted.) 
<Brian> (Augmented Reality is /such/ a cool concept, btw. I loved it since I read it in SR4, when that came out ... which was years ago now.) 
<Theresa> "Where did you get one? They're very interesting looking. How do you like yours?" 
<Random_Nerd> Woman: "The..." Her eyes go unfocused for a moment. And then she recites a spiel on how they're going to revolutionize augmented reality and human interface technology, but are not yet available for sale. 
<Random_Nerd> Then her eyes come back to normal. "I take it you're not from here?" 
<Human-Kite> "Is there a place where we could sign up for the beta?" 
<Human-Kite> "We're moving in." 
* humanFtisk do a lesser divination of data on the woman for information on where she take these googles 
* Theresa smiles again. "What gave it away, the accent?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and for the goat location thing... say you're a bit west of where Walnut Creek is in the real world, and it's roughly where Sunnyvale or Cupertino is.) 
<DanteE> (Alternatively, with the unfocusing, it might be worthwhile to do a Div on the spiel itself.) 
<humanFtisk> (Buffy's sunnyvale? Oh crap!) 
<Random_Nerd> (To the extent that geometry makes sense in the mythic.) 
<Random_Nerd> Woman: "Oh, you'd have seen them before. If you were from here." 
<Random_Nerd> (That's sunny/dale/.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Right?) 
<Brian> (yep) 
<Theresa> "Ah. Can you point to where you got yours?" 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, the goggles apparently are being distributed as part of a regional test of the technology with people affiliated with the engineering or computer science departments. 
<Random_Nerd> She squints, and closes the eye that doesn't have the heads-up display, and then turns around, points her arm out, adjusts the angle, and then says "there." 
<Theresa> "Thank you!" 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, are you sure it's _Machinery_ that's getting hit?" 
<humanFtisk> (can I peek at the AR data her is receiving with Data?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, he is.) 
<Random_Nerd> (A Data miracle could do that, yes.) 
<humanFtisk> "Yep, definitely machinery" 
* humanFtisk peek at the AR data she is receiving, is anything weird in them? 
<Random_Nerd> Based on that, these things are pretty high tech. They're getting data on stuff via a cellular connection, of course. But interestingly, it's getting at least as much data off her. There's a system of three different cameras looking at her eyes and face, and the accelerometer is enough to detect even slight changes of posture or head tilt, much more finely than would normally be required 
<Random_Nerd> for even a high-end smartphone.) 
<Random_Nerd> Also, there's microphone hookups, and a pretty advanced speech recognition program going on there. 
* humanFtisk wait T. finish with the girl 
<Random_Nerd> So, you can tell that every eye movement, sound, or change of posture that she makes causes the device to notice, interpret, and supply information that seems relevant. 
<humanFtisk> "That thing get so much data from a cellular connection that from the user. He register face, voice and have an accelerometer for head movement 
<Theresa> (I'm done with her, unless you guys want more.) 
<humanFtisk> "All is much more advanced that what is needed" 
<DanteE> quietly: "If it's Machinery rather than Data than it would be more with the thing itself rather than what's going back and forth from it." 
<humanFtisk> "and from the preliminary look, no probeOdeath :-( " 
<Human-Kite> "Thank you, miss! Bye!" 
<Random_Nerd> She nods, and heads off. 
<humanFtisk> "Why we don’t follow her direction an find out more?" 
<DanteE> (Uhoh... Ftisk has "Machinery can't be sentient" in his Estate properties.) 
<Brian> (huh.) 
<humanFtisk> (yep) 
<Random_Nerd> For those with Aspect 2 or better, you can hear the faint sounds of Angry Birds coming from the earphones she's wearing. 
<DanteE> "We could follow the Data." 
<Random_Nerd> (Basically, they have noise-cancelling earphones... with microphones on the other end, so it passes through most sound.) 
<humanFtisk> (A machine must be done by 2 or more pieces working together. [2] 
<humanFtisk> A machine is an object. [1] 
<humanFtisk> Machinery can't be sentient. [3] 
<humanFtisk> Machinery tends to execute the action they are designed for. [1]) 
<Theresa> "She pointed out the direction of where she got the device." 
<Random_Nerd> And she pointed it out with surveyor-like precision. 
<DanteE> "Now, is that actually related to the attack or a wild goose chase, though?" 
<humanFtisk> "Possibly?" 
<DanteE> "The tech center of America is right over there, remember." 
<Theresa> "If it's an attack on Machinery, I would think that the device would be the first machine part." 
<DanteE> "And we seem to have a bunch of those around." 
<humanFtisk> Or is a piece, like a limb of a greater machine" 
<Human-Kite> "Are we going to drive into the building?" 
<DanteE> (Div-Machinery, Ftisk) 
<humanFtisk> "Head first" 
<Human-Kite> "We never drive into buildings, except when we drove out of that shed." 
<Random_Nerd> In the distance, the looming mythic goat of doom changes into a white tower... but struck by lightning and crumbling, like the Tarot card. 
<DanteE> "Yeah, we're pretty much the Anti-Subtlety Squad." 
* humanFtisk do a machinery divination on someone with the googles to get more data 
<Random_Nerd> What info are you looking for? 
* Theresa starts to move in the direction that the girl had pointed in. 
<Human-Kite> (That's....supremely ominous.) 
<Random_Nerd> Last time, it was just a tower. 
<humanFtisk> if is a stand alone machine or a piece of a greater one 
<Random_Nerd> Depends how you look at it. 
<Theresa> (Kite - nah. You should see us try to decide on a wall color for paint. It's blue, no it's grey, no it's tentacles...) 
<Human-Kite> (.....I want to paint my wall tentacles, now.) 
<humanFtisk> why? RN is the machine able to work stand alone? 
<Random_Nerd> If you look at just the stuff she's wearing, it's several machines. There's the visor-thing, the earphones, little pickups on her wrists and shoes, and the brain of the device is in a featureless grey box about the size of a smartphone in her pocket. All that stuff's connected via a short-range network. 
<Random_Nerd> And, of course, the brain is connected to the internet. 
<Random_Nerd> Without internet access, it'd probably lose a lot of its capabilities. 
<humanFtisk> brain her brain or machine's brain? 
<DanteE> (Both!) 
<Random_Nerd> The machine's brain. CPUs, memory, etc. 
<humanFtisk> ok 
<Random_Nerd> Her actual literal biological brain is presumably in the usual place. 
<Random_Nerd> Presumably. 
* humanFtisk switch to the mythic view 
<Brian> (afk) 
<Random_Nerd> To Ftisk, when he looks at her, it's like she's wearing the person-equivalent of... say, the lifting exoskeleton from aliens. Like she's embedded in the chest of a larger person, which amplifies her movements and senses. 
<humanFtisk> "hi interesting and not by any change done by an evil creation hating being!" 
<Theresa> (Kite - https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRt57eSQ3fCV8WFZeHvv4xG6_TDQ3VikHHibqD-s_kF4AuA1TGxDQ ) 
<Human-Kite> (That is awesome!) 
<humanFtisk> (seconded!) 
<DanteE> (heh) 
<DanteE> "Is that really what we're looking for, then?" 
<Theresa> (You can also get tentacle art for your walls. http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtAkimbo?ref=seller_info ) 
<humanFtisk> (the google don't reply?") 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, of the people you see... perhaps seven are wearing these wearable-computer devices. 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm, Angelo?) 
<Brian> (b) 
<humanFtisk> (I wrote some line back: "hi interesting and not by any change done by an evil creation hating being!" talking on the mythic view to some of the machines) 
<DanteE> (Well, IC I don't know about the glare effect Ftisk saw from those things with The Sight.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Ah, Ftisk, you talked /to/ the goggles.) 
* Human-Kite looks for any signs indicating a building for the engineering department 
<Random_Nerd> Goggles: "I don't work for you. I'm not supposed to talk to strangers." 
<humanFtisk> (I think they will register as something in the mythic) 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. What's Kite's aspect? 
<DanteE> (Not to _me_ apparently.) 
* Theresa keeps walking in the direction the girl pointed in. There's got to be a point where the machine people will be flowing out of a space.... 
<Human-Kite> (I think it's 1, but let me check) 
<Human-Kite> (Yes, 1) 
* DanteE follows Theresa... 
<humanFtisk> "Nevermind googles" 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, following the path takes a bit of zig-zagging, as you're following an "as-the-snail-flies" path on roads that are laid out in more or less a grid. 
* humanFtisk follow Theresa grumbling "What uncooperative googles we have also them glare offensively" 
<Random_Nerd> But based on the angle that she pointed at, and the slope of the land, you think you've found the right place. The fact that there's a big sign up front that says "Tech students, get your goggles here!" is a tip-off. 
<DanteE> "They glare at you Ftisk?" 
<humanFtisk> "Yep, I see them with a hurting glare, didn't you see that too?" 
<Random_Nerd> It's a storefront, apparently, although the only "product" being shown in the front window is the wearable computer system. 
<DanteE> "No I didn't... but if they're hitting you with a glare, that's a bad sign." 
* humanFtisk nod 
* DanteE checks out the personnel with The Sight 
<Brian> "Not normally a good sign, anyway" 
<Random_Nerd> They don't look that way to you, Dante. 
* Theresa enters the store. 
* humanFtisk enter the store 
* Human-Kite follows 
<Random_Nerd> The personnel appear to be regular humans. Three of the four visible are carrying multitools with one or more blades on them, but they're small. None are particularly brave or cowardly. 
<humanFtisk> "Hi, what a cool tool you sell! How can I get one?" 
<Random_Nerd> Annoying Cheerful Red-Headed Guy: "Hi! Are you students!" 
* Human-Kite checking out border mythic 
<Brian> (oo, store) 
<Theresa> "Visiting from a different campus." *smile* 
<Brian> "No, we're not students. I teach." 
<Human-Kite> "I'm a student, though!" 
<Brian> (... both statements from Brian are true) 
<humanFtisk> "I'm just cool" *giggle* 
<Random_Nerd> To the border mythic, all of the AR-things present that aren't being work look like piles of limbs. But not severed, more like they're waiting to be put on a torso. 
<Brian> "These guys wanted to see your machines." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful Guy: "Did you get a beta test invitation from a faculty member?" 
<Human-Kite> "Yes!" 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Excellent! Have you read the accompanying information?" 
* humanFtisk nod 
<Human-Kite> "I skimmed it." 
<humanFtisk> "Who read the manuals?" 
<DanteE> "Could we get a copy of that information?" 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Then we'll just need a signed copy of the beta-test user agreement, and your invitation number!" 
<Random_Nerd> All of them are, of course, wearing the devices. 
<Theresa> ("My boyfriend is in law school and I've picked up the habit of actually reading the documents before I sign them or else he will somehow _know_ and call me...") 
<DanteE> "Who's giving these out?" 
<Brian> (:D) 
<Theresa> (_number_) 
<Random_Nerd> He says: "Sure! I'll print out a copy for you!" 
<Human-Kite> "Ftisk, I handed those to you, right?" 
* humanFtisk lCreate the data in their db using a lDiv to get to the db 
<Brian> (hm.) 
<Random_Nerd> He points at a nearby printer, which starts printing. 
<Brian> (I'll do an LDiv of Unused Invitation Numbers) 
<Brian> (I'd like to get us each one) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk and Brian each have an unused invitation number in their minds, now. 
<DanteE> (The potential Excrucian thing?) 
<Random_Nerd> The printer keeps going. The agreement appears to be about twenty pages, double-sided. 
<humanFtisk> "We have invitation number <insert invitation numbers here>" 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Well, technically they're being loaned out, not given out. You'll have the option to choose to purchase your device when they go public at a discount, however, and more importantly you'll retain all of your personalization settings and all your mindspaces and stored data." 
<humanFtisk> "mindspaces?" 
* DanteE looks over the agreement to figure out 1) who's doing it and 2) if there's anything odd in the agreement. 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful mouths the invitation number, waits half a second, and then smiles again: "Yes, that is in order. Please follow me to the back, so we can do your personalization." 
<DanteE> (My first born? ... Oh, that's normal.) 
* humanFtisk follow 
<humanFtisk> "T, dear, can you hold my hand in the back?" 
<Random_Nerd> The main odd thing in the agreement is that in the data that they retain and reserve the right to share minus identifiable connections to specific people includes body language, eye patterns, and personalization PET scans. 
<Theresa> "I..think I'll wait a bit on mine. I want to see how you guys do with yours first." 
* Theresa doesn't want everyone to be mind zombies in case this is all a dastardly Excrucian plot. 
<DanteE> "PET scans?" 
<Brian> *will go in back for the personalization too* 
<humanFtisk> (What is a pet scan?) 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Mindspaces are... well, you'll have to see to really get it. But it's how it learns how you think about various subjects, so it can provide the relevant information to you immediately, before you have to ask." 
<Brian> (fancy medical scan) 
<Theresa> (Like a CAT scan.) 
<humanFtisk> (Theresa you have an excuse to follow us in the back) 
<DanteE> (IIRC it checks which parts of your brain are being used when you think) 
<Theresa> (Positron emission tomography ) 
<humanFtisk> (wow!) 
<DanteE> (Which means it'll spot the snail!) 
<Human-Kite> (Except instead of just cats, it's also dogs, parrots and goldfish?) 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "We'll need to give you a basic checkup, but it'll take some time for your body to absorb the radioactive tracer, so it won't really delay anything." 
<humanFtisk> (Do you think? when Ftisk is in human shape it become human, right RN?) 
<Theresa> "Whoa, radioactive?" 
<DanteE> "Hold it. Radioactive tracer?" 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Just hand me your signed forms, and..." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Don't worry, it's a safe dose." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Perfectly normal procedure." 
<Brian> "Radioactive tracers are a normal part of a full complete medical exam. Need to see the insides, too." 
<Human-Kite> "I'm missing a kidney. Will that be a problem?" 
<DanteE> "Not for a computer it isn't." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "But without it, we won't be able to see your friend's brain activity patterns for calibration of his device." 
* DanteE grabs Ftisk's arm. 
<humanFtisk> uhm, wait a sec" 
<DanteE> "You know what, we should check with a physician before doing the whole radioactive-tracer thing." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "No, but we want to make sure you're in good health before we begin, to avoid any potential side effects. Epilepsy, for instance, would be a problem." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "We have three physicians on staff at the moment, actually!" 
<Brian> "And I can verify the dose, too, remember." 
<DanteE> "And actually, wouldn't the missing eye mess with the device's operation?" 
<humanFtisk> "Right, we both have one eye..." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Don't worry, the device only requires one functioning eye, although lacking two would limit your ability to access stereoptical information. It's not actually connected to your brain, of course!" 
<Random_Nerd> Slightly rehearsed chuckle. 
<humanFtisk> "can I check one before activation?" 
* Human-Kite looks skeptical. 
<DanteE> "There are some fairly serious medical concerns here, really." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Check what? Without calibration, it won't be able to tell what you're thinking, and the interface won't work." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "That's why we have doctors!" 
<DanteE> "Yes, doctors paid by you." 
<humanFtisk> "one that is not active, like just out of the box" 
<DanteE> (Does the agreement say who's making or distributing these?) 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Well, doctors won't work for free, silly. But feel free to go to your regular physician for a second opinion if you wish. We'll send a full copy of our data on the effects on human users." 
* humanFtisk ldiv of the cheerful goggles and of a power off one to compare differences 
<Brian> "What about non-human users?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. It's a major internet company that Dante has heard of but that ISN'T GOOGLE, HONEST.) 
<Brian> (Google can't exist in universe - Ftisk hasn't made it) 
<humanFtisk> (yep and would be Foofle if Ftisk made it) 
<Brian> (and, as we all know, a google search is a LDiv Data) 
<Random_Nerd> When they're not being worn, they're just a small computer, and a really extensive set of video, audio, and accelerometer input-output devices. 
<humanFtisk> "Can we contact the maker to ask some security questions?" 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Well, of course there were tests with non-human users, although obviously they were limited. Still, I hear that a bonobo fitted with a device was able to accurately use a computer keyboard and type at thirty words per minute. Mostly, uh, in requests for food and for other bonobos to have sex with." 
<DanteE> "Heh. That's bonobos for you." 
<DanteE> "Can I see that medical data?" 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Don't worry, your private data will be kept entirely confidential, save as you've agreed in your beta test agreement." 
<Random_Nerd> Cheerful: "Certainly! Where should I send it?" 
<DanteE> (Good question. CandB@nobles.net? :p ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Heh. So, you give him an email address?) 
<Theresa> (Hope you have good spam filters.) 
<DanteE> (One that can't be traced direct to me just in case.) 
<DanteE> (Spammers who hit nobles.net tend to have... problems. >:> ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<Random_Nerd> He points a hand at you like a gun and cocks his thumb. "Sent!" 
<humanFtisk> (anyway we have the makers address, let's fade to us at the maker's place?) 
<Brian> (oh god, what was that from ... ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, do you want to get fitted for devices?) 
<Brian> (Brian does) 
<Random_Nerd> "So, who wants to test a wearable computer?" 
<humanFtisk> (nope atm, they glare at me) 
<DanteE> (Any chance of him getting spotted by the check?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Mind if we stop here? Beth and I need to get up early tomorrow morning.) 
<Human-Kite> (Kite doesn't mind being measured, but he's not consuming anything or getting anything attached just yet.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Spotted by the check?) 
<Brian> (stopping is fine) 
<Human-Kite> (I'm also fine with stopping) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Ftisk isn't guised, he's actually shapechanged into a human.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He wouldn't get tripped up by a physical unless he wants to be.) 
<DanteE> (Whether the PET or whatever else they do to him will reveal that he's a Noble. 
<DanteE> (And stopping's OK.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You don't know whether a brain scan can spot a noble brain or not.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But even if it can, there are easier ways to see one.) 
<humanFtisk> (yep was my question ) 
<humanFtisk> (ok to stop here) 
<Random_Nerd> ___________STOP____________ 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
<Human-Kite> (Brian's skeleton isn't human anymore, ja?) 
=-= Human-Kite is now known as Verithe 
<DanteE> oh yeah, forgot about that. 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
<lazarus> I thought it still was ... or ... oh, wait. I got it replaced by plants. Right! 
<humanFtisk> me forgot too 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
<lazarus> I wonder how they'll react ^_^ 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<Random_Nerd> Jan took it. 
<Random_Nerd> Remember? 
<Random_Nerd> For the big question set. 
<Angelo> and now what Brian skeleton is? 
<Knockwood> Come to think of it, I'm missing a kidney as well. 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk in any form is missing an eye, Theresa some fingers and toes... 
<lazarus> I do remember it now :) I had forgotten while playing. Which does mimic's Brian's not really caring or realizing it might be an issue... 
<Verithe> "None of us has a complete body...." 
<Angelo> argh, here a years will pass in 10 rl years! 
<Random_Nerd> Main issue it causes in play is that you're currently down a big health level. 
<BethE> *sings* "Cause IIIiiiiii ain't got no boooooody!" 
<Verithe> Hehe 
<Knockwood> big? 
<BethE> Angelo - heh. I'm not even a year and a half for Shadow Creek yet and it turns 10 this fall. 
<Angelo> wow! 
<Knockwood> well, what was the date on the Celestial Calendar when the game started? 
<Knockwood> it'd be pretty much by design that the game goes slow until The End. 
<Random_Nerd> About eight, nine months ago. 
<Knockwood> coming up on 8 years 
<Knockwood> real-time 
<Angelo> I'm aboard from year 3. I believe 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<lazarus> I missed a year or two in the middle. And we went through three Jameses in the first year or two. 
<BethE> (I get to blame my game on RN. We started dating and he thought it would help my confidence (and be fun) if I ran a game.) 
<Angelo> Beth, your game _IS_ fun, if I was in Us will have asked to join 
<BethE> Thank you! *bow* 
<Random_Nerd> So, I gotta go. 
<Random_Nerd> See you next session! 
<lazarus> I'm going to say good night. And so does Sara. 
<Angelo> nn RN! 
<Knockwood> g'night laz 
<BethE> Night, all! *HUGS* 
<Angelo> nn to you bith too 
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<Angelo> *HUG* Breth, nn 
<Knockwood> g'night RN, Beth 
<Angelo> *Beth 
<Verithe> G'night! 
<Knockwood> good night Tpyo 
<Random_Nerd> G'night. 
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<Knockwood> cya next week V 
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<Verithe> Take care, guys! 
<Angelo> guys, I go too. have fun next week! 
* Verithe wave 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]

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=-= Topic for #Nobilis was set by Etheric on 15 marzo 2013 02:29:53 
<Etheric> If you were Haruhi Suzumiya, then even arriving early, I might be called late, so this game is quite low-stress by comparison. 
<Angelo> hi all! :-) 
<lazarus> does anyone know if Rankin/Bass ever did Return of the King? 
<Etheric> Hey Angelo! 
<lazarus> hey Angelo! 
<Angelo> :-) at Eth & Laz 
<Etheric> And, am I the only one here who has zero idea exactly what laz is talking about? <.< 
<Angelo> me too Eth 
<Etheric> Heh, okay. :) 
<Angelo> a public Thank You to Beth for her reminders eMails :-) 
<Random_Nerd> Etheric, had you been here for the recent Amyra ones? 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! *HUG* 
* Angelo counter hug 
<BethE> Rnakin Bass did a Lord of the Rings cartoon. 
<lazarus> Apparently they did actually do Return of the King. 
<Etheric> So, does that mean that a Rinkin Bass is a type of fish that does cartoons, or what? 
<Random_Nerd> Froooodooo, of the Niiiiine Fiiingers... 
<Etheric> And as for the game, I was here when we broke down negotiations with the Deceiver or shard (whichever he is) and Dante got bombed. 
<Etheric> I think I wasn't there for the full session though. 
<lazarus> You left before we ended it, I think. 
<lazarus> I don't /remember/ much beyond that, though. 
<BethE> Well, the Deciver's buddies got bombed by Kite... after we had shook hands and wished him good luck and such. Theresa's fault, she mentioned a bomb earlier that night. 
<Etheric> <.< Ah, enthusiastic, that Kite is. 
<Angelo> there was an exchange of uneducated words then of uneducated punches & uneducated miracles 
<lazarus> (Can't help it: "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!") 
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<Knockwood> Hiyo 
<lazarus> Hey kwd 
<Angelo> Hiya Knock! 
<Etheric> Hey Knockwood. 
<Random_Nerd> Hey, Knock. 
<Knockwood> So, what did I miss? 
<Etheric> A brief, incomplete recap. 
<Knockwood> of course. 
<Etheric> Which left me less filled-in than confused, but that's normal with this group. <.< 
<Random_Nerd> Any questions, Etheric? 
<Angelo> :-P 
<BethE> The recap was : BethE: Well, the Deciver's buddies got bombed by Kite... after we had shook hands and wished him good luck and such. Theresa's fault, she mentioned a bomb earlier that night. 
<BethE> But this isn't fair! Kite started it! He's not even here yet! 
<Knockwood> wished him good luck? 
<Etheric> I don't really understand who actually got bombed with what when, but it might be simpler just to play it out. 
<Random_Nerd> We don't really know why Kite decided that it was 'splosion time. 
<lazarus> everyone got bombed. 
<Knockwood> cuz we hadn't had one in a while? 
<lazarus> and this keyboard doesn't want to work when I hold it that way. 
<Etheric> So, "everyone," meaning the American troops and the PCs and some assorted Taliban and any theoretical innocent bystanders? 
<Angelo> well kite planted a bomb in the deceiver helped soldier camp 
<lazarus> pretty much, Eth. 
<BethE> Knock - we parted on good terms, no swear of vengeance at the time. 
<lazarus> three different bombs or so 
<Etheric> And how big a bomb exactly? 
<lazarus> (one of them was /technically/ a car) 
<Knockwood> has the attack on me stopped? 
<Etheric> No, it hasn't. 
<Etheric> The Deceiver was polite and evidently had once been human and didn't really understand what he was doing to you except on an academic level, but he wasn't willing to call it off. 
<BethE> Nope, we weren't getting anywhere with him. We decided to leave and regroup or such and on the way down the road at the checkpoint, there was a large kaboom. 
<Etheric> So we ended negotiations in order to plan another line of attack, and then got car-bombed. 
<Random_Nerd> Which was in response to Kite's thing. 
<Knockwood> OK, I think I puzzled out the nature of the attack last time, but that was a while ago. 
<Etheric> Ah, so I did miss a session. 
<Random_Nerd> So, shall we start, and V gets here when he gets here? 
<Etheric> Works for me. 
<Knockwood> hold on... 
<Knockwood> anyone remember the nature of the attack? 
<Etheric> Um, the car-bomb attack? 
<Etheric> I wasn't here for the aftermath. 
<BethE> The attack on you was removing being afraid from courage. 
<Random_Nerd> Which attack? 
<Knockwood> Beth got it 
<Etheric> Oh, that. Guess I didn't miss a session after all. 
<Knockwood> one of my things is "Courage counters fear" 
<Etheric> The Deceiver is teaching American soldiers some sort of technique that removes their ability to feel fear as an emotion. 
<Knockwood> which means no need for Courage since there's nothing to counter 
<Etheric> So they respond rationally and not emotionally, and if I followed it right, that's winning them battles. 
* Angelo nod nod 
<Random_Nerd> And you defined Courage as having to be necessary. 
<Etheric> The Taliban were also for some reason wasting their lives needlessly, which I think was related? Although I'm not clear on how the causation works. 
<BethE> It also helps that the Deceiver has been messing with the natives as well to remove their fear and making them stupid. 
<Etheric> Ah, that would be why. 
<Random_Nerd> Ready to go? 
<Etheric> So, for the soldiers, replacing fear with rational caution, and for the Afghans, replacing fear with blind ignorance. 
<Etheric> I think that covers it, probably. 
<Knockwood> OK, so, we stopped negotiations with the Chaplain-slash-Deceiver Shard to regroup, and then they got bombed by Kite? 
<Angelo> yep 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
=-= Etheric is now known as Carrie 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
<Brian> (oh right, I was going to get myself a Miracle chart! Oops!) 
<Theresa> Yep while we were at the checkpoint. The Deceiver has sent an undying dude after us and he's coming in bird form. 
<Brian> Does "the Party" count as a target for Auctoritas? 
<Ftisk> raven if I remember well 
<DanteE> What were you having Dante do while I wasn't here? 
<Random_Nerd> As a target for auctoritas? 
<Brian> Auct protects you or a target. I'm not sure what the intent of that was. 
<Brian> I think we had "the room" before 
<Theresa> You were guarding the Pillar of the Universe called Guarding the Horses. 
<Carrie> Guarding the Horses is a Root of the World -- that explains so much! 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, yes, you can do that on a group. 
<DanteE> One thing: IC, does Dante know what Kite did? 
<Brian> alright. Just double-checking these things :) It's been a while since we used them. 
<Theresa> If you woke up while we were driving away, then yeah, we mentioned it and the incoming and the undying dude. 
<Random_Nerd> The Excrucian mentioned it. 
<Random_Nerd> And I /think/ Kite acknowledged it. 
<DanteE> The Chaplain? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. 
<Theresa> I think it ended with a 'What Have You Done?!?' 
<Random_Nerd> And those of you who took wounds or spent MPs have those recorded? 
<Ftisk> yep in my mindchart 
<Brian> I spent no MPs, but I believe I took a wound? 
<DanteE> I did the miracle on the car... 
<Random_Nerd> I believe so, but I don't have the level recorded. 
<Theresa> Yeppers. 
<DanteE> I think someone took a surface wound at one point 
<Brian> I think it was a normal wound, RN. I don't remember what hurt me, though :( 
<Random_Nerd> Well, let's get going. 
<Random_Nerd> ____________________________start_________________ 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain Rhinehart, currently in the form of a large and angry bird, approaches your vehicle. 
<DanteE> (Why? We're not pigs!) 
<Theresa> "Well, crap. I apologize for the mention I made of bombs back at that camp. I'm guessing talking will not work this time." 
<Ftisk> "Stop! Why you are attaching us?" 
<Theresa> (And we have the other guy coming?) 
<Random_Nerd> The attempted car-bomber is crawling towards you, but he's not going to live much longer. 
* Theresa will tie him down with vines coming out of the ground. Hope it's far enough away from the nuclear bird. 
* DanteE checks out the bomber with the Sight. 
<Random_Nerd> The birdscrutian caws at Theresa, and flicks out a Persona miracle at her. Lesser Sacrifice, to remove the ability to get things done in a productive fashion. What do you do? 
<Brian> I want to set up an Auctoritas Magister on the Party. Spending 2 MPs to do so. 
<Random_Nerd> (The bomber guy is definitely connected to Courage, more so than most things you've seen lately.) 
<DanteE> "Brian, Theresa, you remember that thing we did in Mexico?" 
<DanteE> (Connected how?) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, the miracle penetrates the Auctoritas, but it is successfully set up. 
<Theresa> (Persona 2 myself, what would I have to spend to up the protection of it?) 
<Brian> "Which thing when in Mexico? And I thought we agreed never to talk about that?" 
<DanteE> "The _other_ thing. The shower of arrows." 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, what wound do you take? 
<Ftisk> (wasn't here for the Mexico thing :-( ) 
<Brian> (I personally don't remember it) 
<Random_Nerd> (Deadly Wound, affliction level 2.) 
<DanteE> (Remember? Wood + Blades + Numbers conjunctive miracle=shower of arrows) 
<Brian> (Ah, ok, yes, vaguely) 
<Ftisk> (wow would have been cool) 
<Brian> (I don't have a good tracker here, but I probably have enough MPs to make that happen) 
<Ftisk> "Can we add a mechanical arrow launcher?" 
<Ftisk> (I can add machinery :-) ) 
* Theresa has trouble concentrating. "Ooo, shinny pebble..." 
<DanteE> (Hold on. RN, is that possible in v3, and what would it do?) 
<Random_Nerd> (What do you want to do?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, a conjunctive miracle?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Those are no longer a thing.) 
<DanteE> (Nail him with enough arrows to blot out the sun) 
<DanteE> (urk) 
<Ftisk> (damn!) 
<DanteE> "So, we've moved from Carter-style negotiations to Kissinger style, or straight to Bruce Willis style?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Well, you started this by blowing up my friends." 
<DanteE> "No, you started this by attacking me." 
<Random_Nerd> "I still don't even know what you mean by that." 
<DanteE> "... you don't get that at all, do you?" 
<Theresa> (We spent the whole time talking to him last session and no, he does not get it.) 
<Random_Nerd> "Honestly, it all sounds rather insane, and right now I am not inclined to trust you on it." 
<DanteE> (Would I still be protected if I flew up?) 
<Theresa> "You're flying as a bird and you think we sound insane?" 
* DanteE flies up to get into his face. Beak. 
<Random_Nerd> (You have to stay at least kinda near the other people in the Auctoritas for it to apply.) 
<DanteE> (Well, I'll probably be back in a moment...) 
<Random_Nerd> "You talk a bunch of what sounds like a made-up religion, we agree to disagree, then you kill some people I knew. Yes. You sound insane." 
<DanteE> "You and I have been made 'special', Chaplain. 
<Random_Nerd> (It'll apply again when you get close.) 
<DanteE> "Fate has placed us on opposite sides... 
<Random_Nerd> "Fate? Or your choices?" 
<DanteE> "And considering we fight for the continued existence of Creation, that puts you on the _wrong_ side." 
* Ftisk fights the urge to shout "Creation is overrated!" 
<Random_Nerd> "You still haven't given any reasons why that's a good thing... yeah." 
<DanteE> (Let's see, it's assumed I go around with a ridiculous number of blades on me, right? :) ) 
* Theresa works on polishing the left side mirror of Dante's car. 
<Random_Nerd> (Sure.) 
<Random_Nerd> "You talk a good game, but it seems like it's all about principles, and not at all about people." 
<Random_Nerd> "I'm helping my friends. You're hurting them. And not in vague metaphysical ways, in literal fire and shrapnel ways." 
<Random_Nerd> "And I don't know how to bring dead people back." 
<Carrie> "Look who's talking. You can look straight at the person you're killing and claim that his pain is all metaphysics?" 
<DanteE> "Never underestimate the forces of good, Shard. _I do._" 
<Random_Nerd> "...how do you think you're the forces of good? You're the ones who did the unprovoked murders!" 
<Random_Nerd> "You know you're the bad guys here, right?" 
<DanteE> "Sit there and watch this." 
* DanteE flies down, grabs the bomber, and heals him. 
* Theresa mutters to Carrie. "It's my fault. I mentioned bombs earlier. And then something blows up..." 
<DanteE> "You're not seeing Paradise today, creep." 
<Random_Nerd> It works. 
<Ftisk> "Yatta!" 
<Random_Nerd> He hovers. A bird with his wingspan shouldn't be able to hover, but he manages in a way that seems vaguely impossible. 
<DanteE> to bird: "You say Fear has no place? Watch me prove you wrong." 
<Random_Nerd> The guy's clothing is still torn up, but his flesh patches back together. 
<Random_Nerd> "So, it's a shakedown? I do what you want, and you heal some of the people you hurt?" 
<DanteE> to Bomber: "You. You go back to your little hellhole and tell them we have workers of Miracles on our side. 
<Random_Nerd> Bomber-dude sits there blinking. 
<DanteE> (Here's where I'm going: Fear does have a place... in the ranks of the enemy. 
<Carrie> (Ah, and then, Courage can still overcome fear!) 
<DanteE> (Counter it in our troops, sow it in their troops, and the battle ends.) 
<Ftisk> (clever!) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, how does this counter the "Courage is unnecessary, there are better ways to get the same result" attack?) 
<DanteE> (Because by _countering_ fear, you basically multiply it by -1, rather than leaving it at zero. High score wins. :) ) 
<Random_Nerd> (...I can't really parse that.) 
<DanteE> (His thing is, if there's no need for courage, then you wind up with nothing, and status quo wins. 
<Theresa> (Yeah, I'm not sure I get it, Knock. Can you reexplain for me?) 
<Ftisk> (and me) 
<Brian> (I think I vaguely get it, but I don't see that as his argument) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, that.) 
<DanteE> (But, if you're countering a negative thing, by definition you have a positive thing. 
<Random_Nerd> (You're making an argument in favor of countering fear. But that was never the issue.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's about methods by which one counters fear.) 
<Brian> (What you really need to do is define "all ways of countering fear /are/ Courage") 
<DanteE> (I'm going to prove that acting with courage just plain works better than acting with nothing, and therefore is necessary. QEB.) 
<Carrie> (Okay, then this is to set up the demonstration?) 
<Random_Nerd> (But you have to actually prove that. Like, is his thing actually a kind of courage? Or is courage better than his thing in some way?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Either of those could be viable approaches.) 
<DanteE> (Yep, he sows fear in his group--there's a guy there that can fly, and can prevent you from going to Paradise! 
<DanteE> (We sow courage in our group so that they're motivated (Courage is motivating) to end this stalemate once and for all.) 
<DanteE> (They meet, Creation wins.) 
<Theresa> (But you can't do Courage on any of us.) 
<Random_Nerd> "What you did for that guy... does it work on people who're recently dead? With no side effects?" 
<DanteE> (I don't need to.) 
<Carrie> (Hmm, the only problem I see with that is that it just avoids the specific case. It doesn't prove that Courage was truly needed, only that it can be helpful.) 
<DanteE> "Yes. Yes it does." 
<DanteE> (AH, but his plan means that Courage would have no value.) 
<Random_Nerd> (No, just that it's second-best.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Where your estate definition requires that it be the only game in town.) 
<Carrie> (As I understand it, the attack is on the trait, "Courage is necessary.") 
<Carrie> (So just showing that it can help would be insufficient.) 
<Random_Nerd> "Are there side effects?" 
<DanteE> (Are there? 
<DanteE> (and I thought it was on "Courage counters fear") 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh. No, not really.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And no, there aren't side effects other than possible DA.) 
<DanteE> "None that I know of." 
<Random_Nerd> (But he can probably counter that.) 
<Carrie> (Worst comes to worst, I can counter it.) 
<Random_Nerd> "Then I propose a cease-fire. You come back, you bring back everyone who was hurt, as good as they were before. And then we see where we stand." 
<DanteE> (Wait, is this an attack on "Courage counters fear" or something else?) 
<Theresa> (I think it's on Courage counters fear. (Courage is Courage: 
<Theresa> is motivating [2] 
<Theresa> is inspiring [1] 
<Theresa> counters fear [2] 
<Theresa> is essential to (self-)sacrifice [1] 
<Theresa> is essential to the truth 
<Theresa> counters mindless fleeing or cowering [1] ) 
<Carrie> "Alright. Please accept my apology for our friend's unwise act." 
<DanteE> ("He's a birdbrain sometimes. :) ") 
<Ftisk> (biter that being a snailbrain :-P ) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, it's kinda the intersection of that and the self-sacrifice and truth bits.) 
<Random_Nerd> He flaps down, lands next to your vehicle, and turns back into a person. 
<DanteE> (Though I would note I didn't put a point value by the Truth one) 
<Random_Nerd> There isn't any moment of shapechanging, it just looks like it was done in video editing, where one frame he's a bird, and the next, a person. 
<Theresa> (We shall punish Kite by sending him to guard the Pillar of Guarding the Horses.) 
<DanteE> "Back to camp." 
<Theresa> (Hey, all I have is what I get off of the website. :) ) 
-->| Verithe (~chatzilla@MagicStar-846EFD68.lightspeed.livnmi.sbcglobal.net) has joined #Nobilis 
<Random_Nerd> And so you go. 
<Carrie> Correct me if I do this wrong since I still am not 100% sure I get what I can do with Persona, but I'd like to do a Lesser Enchantment to help Dante's demonstration thing along. 
<Verithe> o.o 
<Brian> (Hey V) 
<Theresa> Speak of the demon bird! 
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. What estate property are you using?) 
<Theresa> (Hi V!) 
<Kite> (Hi!) 
<Ftisk> (hi Verithe!) 
<Theresa> (We've been maligning Kite in parentheses.) 
<Kite> (Ohmai!) 
<DanteE> (Quick question: what happens if a mundane sees me make a guy's wounds close?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Potential DA.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But if it happened to one of the guys who's been listening to his pep talks... less likely.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Similar in effect, if not in means, to the way Carrie can block it.) 
<Ftisk> (and if he proclaim to be the oiled by God and being able to bring back deaths?) 
<DanteE> "Theresa, you still have that healing plant for the lesser wounds?) 
<Carrie> Before the bomber leaves, Lesser Enchantment of Hope on the message he carries, so that it spreads throughout the group. "Hope sustains by connecting." The warning will connect with them and they will understand it to be something that will sustain, as in save, them if they need it. 
<Carrie> Does that make sense? 
<DanteE> (I like it!) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, so it's not on him, it's on his narrative of these events?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, that works.) 
<Carrie> Right, his story. 
<DanteE> (Remember that, I could use it a little later.) 
<Random_Nerd> The bomb casualties are currently receiving medical attention, at least those that are still breathing, or recently so. 
<Random_Nerd> Eight dead, about a dozen badly wounded. 
<Theresa> Theresa looks away from the cord she was tying in knots. "Oh, the bullet plant? Only back in Amyra. I'm not even sure how well it would work outside of Amyra. I can try to move some here, if you want." 
<DanteE> quietly: "Dammit Kite, you need to talk to us before you do something this drastic." 
<Kite> "What?" 
<Kite> "What did I do?" 
<Brian> "Impressive blast though." 
<Theresa> (You... uh... bombed them.) 
<Kite> (But I never told anyone) 
* Ftisk punch Kite on head "Is not fair that I'm the responsible one atm! I'm not used to that!" 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, but it was obviously one of you, and the rest knew it wasn't /them/...) 
<Theresa> (And Ftisk wouldn't have been able to keep quiet about it..) 
<Ftisk> (true true) 
<DanteE> to Theresa and Carrie: "You help and distract the wounded." 
<Random_Nerd> The chaplain watches as Dante heals some of the guys. "So, how does that work, exactly? How do you go about doing it?" 
<Brian> "Magic." 
<Ftisk> "Is a courage infusion, isn't it?" 
<DanteE> "Easy. We fight on the side of Creation, we get benefits like this." 
<Kite> "Courage magic." 
<Random_Nerd> (I thought Dante was Honest.) 
<Brian> (we keep talking over each other) 
<Carrie> (Online game. Nature of the beast.) 
<DanteE> (He is. He got the ability because he's a good soldier for Kudzu.) 
<Carrie> As each one is healed, Carrie uses a Lesser Preservation on those present to prevent DA. 
<Theresa> (So, given the healing plant of Amyra. I can move some of those leaves from there to here, but how well will they work outside of Amyra?) 
<DanteE> (One day he figured having a healing ability would help there, and through hard work he got it. :) ) 
<Carrie> (Is it a Gift or a Courage miracle? Just out of curiosity.) 
<DanteE> (Gift) 
<Carrie> (Ah, okay.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, an Excrucian could have the same Gift.) 
<DanteE> (An Excrucian wouldn't _want_ the same gift.) 
<Brian> (This guy would) 
<Random_Nerd> (Some would, but probably less of them.) 
<Ftisk> (there are excru and excru...) 
<Carrie> (We don't necessarily know that about Excrucians.) 
<DanteE> (This guy may not be 100% Ex.) 
<Random_Nerd> (And this guy's new enough that he doesn't really know what he can and can't do, yet.) 
<DanteE> (He doesn't know the nature of what happened to him.) 
<Theresa> (An Excrucian would if it fit his personality/goals. They're not all raging pschyo hosebeast narcissists like some Excrucian Deceivers we may have seen pictures of.) 
<Carrie> (If you're conjuring this from Amyra, wouldn't an included Lesser Preservation make it work here still? Or is that Change miracle territory?) 
<DanteE> (Come to think of it... Carrie, your Connection thing. Imagine if you could re-connect him to Creation.) 
<Random_Nerd> "So. To get back to earlier, you said that what I'm doing is hurting you. I still don't understand that. Can we work out a way that I can keep doing this, without causing that?" 
<Theresa> (Carrie - checking what the plant originally did, it healed bullet wounds/stopped bleeding. This is major organ damage. I don't think the plant would help with this.) 
<DanteE> "I could. I'm not sure you could, though." 
<Theresa> (But I can make gauze like you wouldn't believe.) 
<Ftisk> "Was what we were trying to do!" 
<Kite> "If your way can co-exist with the existence of Courage, maybe." 
<DanteE> "This is heavy-duty metaphysics that you've been caught up in, so I'm going to play fast and loose with some details... 
<DanteE> "That being you saw? Something like a demon. 
<Random_Nerd> "Being I saw?" 
<Random_Nerd> "That wasn't how it was." 
<Theresa> "Please be careful, Dante. Playing fast and loose got Brian in trouble with Physics, remember?" 
<Random_Nerd> "It was... everything." 
<DanteE> "I'll try, Theresa." 
<Kite> "Can you describe everything in terms you think we'll understand?" 
<Carrie> (It would probably go beyond what I can effect, given how Nobles and shards are beyond direct miracles. But I could maybe try with a Major Something-or-other) 
<DanteE> "It was one view of everything... 
<Theresa> "Rewriting reality at times crosses one's eyes." 
<DanteE> (OK, trying to remember his account...) 
<DanteE> "Did it seem to be a view from _outside_?" 
<Random_Nerd> "It's... it was a mystical experience. Real St. John of the Cross stuff. And you can't just explain that to someone who hasn't seen it. I tried, earlier, and it didn't work." 
<Carrie> "What Dante means is that a demon has given you this vision... although admittedly "demon" is a misnomer. We call them the Dark Horsemen, and they come from outside All That Is." 
* Theresa will help Carrie as much as possible with gauze and stents and vines and oo, is that a bit of liver over there? 
<Random_Nerd> "It wasn't the perspective, it was... seeing /through/ everything. To what it really was, under all the crap and glitter and distractions." 
<Theresa> (St. John of the Cross? I know a dude, man, gooood mushrooms...) 
<Random_Nerd> "All the stuff that just gets in the way." 
<DanteE> (Remember, you may just need to cover the wounds up until I come along./) 
<Brian> "And we must be clear: The Excrucians are only at odds with us because they want to unmake Creation, and not because they are fundamentally from Outside." 
<Ftisk> "Not all of them" 
<Carrie> "I believe I said before, peel away enough layers and you are left with no onion." 
<Theresa> (My mistake. Wrong St. John.) 
<Carrie> "For better or worse, Creation is like that." 
<Carrie> "We have lost... far too much already." 
<Kite> "And your army people....they are 'real' things?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Then that would make me one of them, right? Because, all this stuff on top of what's really going on /does/ have to go." 
<Random_Nerd> "I just want to work out a way to do that without hurting anyone." 
<DanteE> "What did that experience say was under that facade?" 
<DanteE> "What 'really was'?" 
<Random_Nerd> "The way things really are. Well, people, at least." 
<DanteE> "And what is that?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Like... have you read Plato? Aristotle?" 
<Random_Nerd> (..."MORONS!") 
<Carrie> "Well, completing your vision 'without hurting anyone' may be tricky, given that the Estates themselves are alive. And their removal, or destruction, would slice apart the being of the gods we serve." 
<DanteE> "A little bit." 
<Brian> (RN: what was that? Doctor reference?) 
<Kite> "I think I actually met them once...." 
<Random_Nerd> (Princess Bride.) 
<Kite> "Those memories are fuzzy, though...." 
<Brian> (ah, right. Been a while since I watched it :)) 
<Random_Nerd> "So, you know the idea that any given thing has its essence, but then it's got the accidents too, right? The details?" 
<Carrie> "The theory of forms. Humans can grasp the thing itself by first observing real things, then discovering the forms of which real things are shadows." 
<Random_Nerd> "Like, with the whole transubstantiation idea, if you're Catholic. That the host looks like it's unleavened bread, but it's /really/ the flesh of Christ." 
<Kite> "Blech. Really?" 
<DanteE> "But... did you actually see what was underneath?" 
<Carrie> "I do not personally believe that 'accidents' are in the theory Plato put forth. But as for one thing bearing the essence of another, like the bread... each of us lives that as truth." 
<Random_Nerd> "Yeah. And it was better than all this." 
<DanteE> "What was it?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Reality... reality is like a homeless drug addict. The drugs, and the booze, and the living on the streets, and the personality damage stuff... that's all things that happened to the guy." 
<Theresa> *to Kite* "Be careful talking about it, though. Some devout Catholics get very annoyed if you call them a cannibal. Or talk about zombies... just... yeah." 
* Ftisk raise hand "I'm hedonistic not catholic" 
<Random_Nerd> "But the real guy is under there, somewhere. And with enough help, and enough time, maybe he has a shot at being what he used to be." 
<Theresa> *to Carrie* "But...if you peel an onion away, there's an onion, even in the middle...." 
<DanteE> "See, unless you can come up with something specific and say 'this is better than what we have' then all you really have is someone else's assurance that it's 'better'." 
<Theresa> (Oo, that reminds me. Is Ftisk in parrot mode again? :) ) 
<DanteE> "Let me tell you a little history lesson. 
<Random_Nerd> "All this stuff... gravity, and light, and potatoes, and Thursday... that's just the stuff that's hurting everyone. Keeping them from being what they're supposed to be." 
<Ftisk> (nope last time was a dragon then returned to a snail) 
<Kite> (Oh, right....I'm still human) 
=-= Kite is now known as Human-Kite 
<Carrie> (Is there really? I never actually personally peeled an onion. But I thought it was layers all the way down.) 
<DanteE> "You know who Schliemann is?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Look, there's something pretty much everyone agrees about, right? That the nature of the world is suffering." 
<DanteE> "Wrong." 
<Random_Nerd> "Original sin, Dukkha, whatever you want to call it." 
<Theresa> "Heh! Potatoes get a _bad rap_, especially since that one doctor came out against them and it's not _fair_, they didn't _ask_ to be high index..." 
<Carrie> "Hardly everyone. And I in particular would disagree." 
<Human-Kite> "The nature of the world /includes/ suffering." 
<Ftisk> "Nature is a buffet of fuuuuun!" 
<Theresa> (There's a middle that is kind of where the shoot grows out of for propagation, but this is mostly Theresa still being affected by the Serious Wound she took when birdboy took a shot.) 
<Brian> "I think there's a Noble of Suffering. He's a bit of a bastard sometimes, but he means well." 
<Theresa> (She is very flighty and scattered at the moment, and thus everything is catching her mind at the moment.) 
<Human-Kite> "....." 
<Random_Nerd> "Like, look at the world. Look at what the average person has to deal with. Have you seen the way that people around here live?" 
<Theresa> "Which world?" 
<DanteE> (Careful, going against Original Sin is going against the religious dogma he's built his life around.) 
<Random_Nerd> "And this is better than a lot of places." 
<Carrie> (Ah, alright. After this outing, Carrie can ask about the mysteries of onions offscreen.) 
<Theresa> (Theresa can give you a bonsai onion. And a jar potato.) 
<Random_Nerd> "Even in first world countries, most people lead lives that are only moderately tolerable. And they're the lucky ones." 
<DanteE> "_This_ is better? ... ahem. Anyway." 
* Ftisk fly to a kitchen and return with some onion 
<Human-Kite> "Which world is the first world?" 
<Carrie> "To be honest, the cruelty that exists in the world could be avoided." 
<Random_Nerd> "Yes. I'm working on that." 
<Random_Nerd> "Give me five years, and we'll see." 
<DanteE> "Schliemann was the guy who was out looking for the city of Troy. You remember the Iliad?" 
* Ftisk stat peeling down one ... and crying 
<Random_Nerd> "So, I'm trying to peel away all this stuff. And you tell me, for all those things, there's a person who'll be hurt if it's dealt with." 
<Theresa> "No, I mean, we've been to other worlds. Are you going to change a specific one or all of them?" 
<Random_Nerd> "This is the only world I know." 
<DanteE> "Calling his an 'archaeologist' is being generous, though. Treasure hunter would be better." 
<Human-Kite> "Were one of you guys trying to look into making humans Imperial or something like that?" 
* Ftisk throw onion to the chaplain "peeling it down make you cry!" 
<Carrie> "Yes. Another time, please, Kite?" 
<Human-Kite> "Well, I was just thinking maybe you could recruit him to help." 
<DanteE> "He found a likely site, dug, dug... blasted... destroyed stuff. Then when he found a few trinkets he claimed he found Mythical Troy." 
<Random_Nerd> "And it's like... okay, so the terrorists are using human shields. In this case, the terrorists are reality-as-it-appears. The phenomenal world. Is there a way I can attack that false world, without hurting you or people like you?" 
<DanteE> "Except... later on, when more qualified people looked, they figured what he'd found was from a city that was on the same site but earlier than Homer's Troy. 
<Random_Nerd> "I really don't see where you're going with this." 
<DanteE> "And since he'd been using indiscriminate digging and dynamite blasting to get to that, that meant the Troy everyone was looking for may have been destroyed." 
<Carrie> "You would either end up hurting us, or killing the Ymerae, and the latter would simply drain the life from the world." 
<DanteE> "The point is... which Troy were you seeing? 
<Random_Nerd> "So, you're telling me that there's no way to do it without hurting people like you?" 
<DanteE> "And how much would you destroy if you 'dug' to what you saw?" 
<Brian> "Possibly. You'd have to find a register to see who is in charge of what. To know if you'd hurt anyone." 
<Random_Nerd> "It's not a matter of discovering the truth, though. I already saw it. It's about removing the stuff that's been piled on the truth's back." 
<Carrie> "Only if you limit your definition of 'person' artificially, and even then it would be unwise." 
<DanteE> "The things that empowered you are the ones who want to metaphorically dig everything down to bedrock and leave nothing behind." 
<Carrie> "As I said, the Estates are alive, and intelligent, more so than any human." 
<Random_Nerd> "Nothing empowered me, other than myself." 
<Random_Nerd> "That isn't how it was." 
<Ftisk> "look at the onion ... see? no onion all the layers gone, the truth is -no peoples-, all the layer are gone if you do your plan" 
<Random_Nerd> "Nobody came to me and told me this, gave me these powers. I saw something, and now I can do things. That's all." 
<DanteE> "OK... then where did the Fear-is-worthless thing come from?" 
<Random_Nerd> "There would still be people. Take away the matter, the flesh, the bone, the pants and hats and bicycles... people would still be people." 
<DanteE> "_No there wouldn't_" 
<Random_Nerd> "It /is/ worthless. Can't you see? It's just obvious." 
<Carrie> "To be honest, this is the first I heard of a Deceiver who was once human. But I do know the nature of the vision you saw, and it is something they all believe." 
<Random_Nerd> "Surely you of all people understand that." 
<Brian> "I'm not so sure that's true. But I haven't seen that yet." 
<Ftisk> "... I like pants, for a time liked being Dante" *point to Dante* "pants" 
<Random_Nerd> "'Decevier'?" 
<Carrie> "It is obvious to you because you have been transformed by this truth, which I say is illusion." 
<Brian> "A moniker" 
<DanteE> "No, it isn't worthless. It can end this battle. It can stop the killing. And I can prove it." 
* Theresa shakes my head. "No, I don't understand that. Because that would mean that I am worthless or I am not a person. So, no." 
* Theresa will make Ftisk another onion and toss it to him. 
<Brian> "Actually, hang on. I have a though. Um. Give me a second. Oh, yes. Without, say, me, there would be no people." 
<Random_Nerd> "I don't think we would even /have/ this battle, if not for fear." 
<DanteE> "Soldiers! Gather around!" 
<Brian> "Because you wouldn't be able to distinguish many from none" 
<DanteE> (Aspect 3 I Am In Command aura. :) ) 
<Carrie> "'Deceiver' is the name we give those who claim that the forms are lies, and that they wish to free us from them. That is, principally, because they wield miracles of deception and impersonation. I have not observed those in you, however." 
<Ftisk> *smile* *thumbs up* to T. 
<Random_Nerd> A few people wander in. 
<Random_Nerd> "That's a rather ironic name, isn't it? Someone comes and tells you that they've been outside the cave, and seen that the world that you live in is a lie, a trick that's been played on you." 
<Random_Nerd> "And you, naturally, call him a liar." 
<DanteE> "Who among you wants to put an end to this constant fighting horseshit and do something you can tell your grandkids about?" 
<Carrie> "We call them liars, mainly, because they can pretend to be us, and in so doing steal our powers." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy #2, near the back. "Don't have any grandkids." 
<Random_Nerd> Guy #57: "Who are you?" 
<Ftisk> "But you want to have a day!" 
<Human-Kite> "There are others who come from outside the cave and want what we have for themselves." 
<Random_Nerd> Girl #28: "We don't need any, we already have enough." 
<Theresa> (If they ask for women to have sex with to make kids who will then have grandkids, I am out of here...) 
<Ftisk> (But sex is fun!) 
<DanteE> (Hm... did they already get drained?) 
<Carrie> "It is also true that our philosophies are at odds, and inconsistent, but that is not the reason for the name." 
<Carrie> "Consider that you are telling us that what we hold dear all amounts to an illness or a deceit." 
<DanteE> (And would a Create-Courage to get things rolling be cheating?) 
<Random_Nerd> "Yes. I may be /wrong/, although I don't think I am. But I'm not being dishonest." 
<Random_Nerd> (What do you want it to do?) 
<DanteE> (Start that big battle we talked about earlier... our courage vs. their fear.) 
<Human-Kite> "We can change the name, then. At least among our group, and call you Missionaries." 
<Random_Nerd> (But nobody here is afraid, particularly.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Bored, or annoyed, or the like. But not afraid.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That's the whole problem, in a way.) 
<DanteE> (Remind me of the level of a GC-Courage?) 
<Random_Nerd> "Do you know where any others like me are, then, so I could talk to one?" 
<Random_Nerd> (8.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Wait... 7?) 
<Random_Nerd> (7.) 
<Human-Kite> "Not....not any living Missionaries, no." 
<Carrie> To Kite. "Not a bad idea, provisionally." To the chaplain. "Forgive me. I know of them, but you are the first I have met. However, I do know someone who would know others." 
<Theresa> "We haven't met anyone just like you. We've met a different type of a similar group... those folks fight more and they take the appearance of worthy enemies that they have defeated. That's how Ftisk got his starry-eye." 
* Ftisk nod nod 
<DanteE> "You know how you end fights? 
<Random_Nerd> Guy #23: "Violence!" 
<Ftisk> "YAY!" 
<DanteE> "More fundamental than that, soldier. 
<Brian> "A fight is normally made of violence" 
<Brian> "Ending it is ceasing violence." 
<Brian> (muttermutter) 
<DanteE> "You make the other guy go away! 
<Random_Nerd> #24: "I find that violence is quite fundamental enough for me" 
<Random_Nerd> #31: "Genius! Okay. Go away. Or else dance for our amusement." 
<DanteE> "You can only shoot a few of 'em. But you know how to make them all go away? 
<Carrie> (Probably linking this guy up with Conrad is more prudent than leaving him, even if my Bad Idea Sense is tingling.) 
<DanteE> "You scare the shit out of 'em that's how! 
<Ftisk> "Yay yay!" 
<Theresa> (Well, it might work better than trying to get Conrad to meet with a Strategist. Warmains hate those guys.) 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "So, how did you come to represent these things? Courage, or whatever." 
<DanteE> (Dumb luck.) 
<Theresa> "Chosen by a god-like being. Don't know why, it was his choice." 
<Random_Nerd> #23: "No, violence works much better than scaring them." 
<DanteE> (Oh, Carrie... can you trace that miracle you did earlier so we know where to send these guys?) 
<Random_Nerd> #24: "Yeah, that's why we have guns instead of scary masks." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "And these beings... do they have your best interests at heart?" 
<Ftisk> "I was custom made by the paternal loving and uncanny Vulcan, the Greek god not the star trek race" 
<Carrie> (Ah, sure. Consider it done, retroactively, if that works.) 
<Theresa> "Well, which 'your' do you mean? The me me or the Plants me or the part of me that _is_ part of that god-like being?" 
<Carrie> (Lesser Div of Hope to see who all has heard the news.) 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "The part of you that's just some person who got chosen." 
<Brian> "Not really existing anymore." 
<DanteE> "What do you mean, you don't have scary masks? 
<Random_Nerd> (Which news?) 
<Random_Nerd> #24: "Just the regular comedy and tragedy ones. Why? Have you come to sell us scary masks?" 
<DanteE> (Are these guys Marines?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Some are.) 
<Theresa> "Oh." *thinks* 
<Ftisk> "custom made :-)" 
<DanteE> "You are U.S. Soldiers! YOU DO NOT NEED SCARY MASKS! 
<Carrie> "I would say that they have the interest of the universe at heart, and that it is in my own best interest to live in a world made rich by the existence of cities and plants and Hope. With no cities, for one thing, I personally would likely not have been born." 
<DanteE> (Also, using Guising to sound 100% American. :) ) 
<Human-Kite> (I thought they were mixed-forces) 
<Random_Nerd> #24: "So, what you're saying is you /want/ to sell us scary masks, but you're all out?" 
<DanteE> (OK, what the hell are these walking testosterone factories doing being sensible? :p ) 
<Carrie> (Wow, are these guys for real?) 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "So, they mostly just help the universe, and any helping of people is as a side effect of that?" 
<Theresa> *smiles* "I think so. I trust Kudzu and I know that I have my free will. That's very important. I make my choices." *creates and hands the Chap a lily* "I'm human that way, still, I guess. It's hard to think right now because of what you did to me." 
<Brian> (Aiki chits to the GM) 
<Carrie> "It pays dividends. A rising tide lifts all boats. But essentially, yes." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "And what would happen to you, personally, if 'Kudzu' died?" 
* Carrie winces. 
<Ftisk> "all ko-ed" 
<DanteE> "You want to know who we are? We know where these motherfuckers are hiding! 
<Carrie> "That's not strictly true, Ftisk..." 
<Random_Nerd> #23: "Can we, like, put in a mail order or something? For the scary masks, I mean." 
<Ftisk> "How many nobles have survived an imp death?" 
<Human-Kite> "Yes." 
<Random_Nerd> (And, yes, some of these guys are drunk.) 
<Theresa> (RN has watched Generation Kill. There are intelligent highly-testoroned men in that show. Just watch out for someone of them on caffeine, lack of sleep and around your better looking livestock.) 
<Brian> "How many scary masks do you want?" 
<Random_Nerd> (It's not unheard of for Nobles to survive an Imperator's death.) 
<DanteE> (Oops, did some of them get into Theresa's stash?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Although usually an imperator doesn't die without something happening to the Nobles first, if only because they defend them.) 
<Carrie> (If the Noble survives, though, the Estate survives.) 
<Carrie> (And can be adopted.) 
<Random_Nerd> #24: "Seventeen!" 
<Random_Nerd> #83: "Fifty-seven!" 
<Theresa> "If Kudzu died, that would mean that I'm already dead. And probably Plants have been destroyed throughout the universe." 
<Carrie> (In theory the Noble could exist as a free agent, but if I recall correctly, the strong implication is that the Imperators don't tolerate those.) 
<Brian> "Alright. We can do that." 
<Theresa> "42, you degenerates!" 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "But you, personally, you'd be alive? Just, without being Plants?" 
<Random_Nerd> The people are starting to wander off again. 
<Carrie> "Actually, that can't happen." 
<Human-Kite> "That is not an insurable condition." 
<DanteE> to the others: "OK, suddenly what happened at my last thesis defense makes a lot more sense." 
<Carrie> "If I ceased to be Hope, it would be like pulling out my heart. I would die. It wouldn't even be something I could survive like a transplant... more like... removing the DNA from all my cells?" 
<Theresa> "No, I'd be _dead_. Because _I_ am _Plants_. You can't take that away without my life being taken away too and you can't take me away from Plants. Whomever becomes Plants after me will have that bit of me formed around the core of being Plants...like the layers of the onion.: 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "The people, who get picked, like you. Do any of them ever decide not to do the job?" 
<Ftisk> "Sure, John" 
<Theresa> "Yes! The king of our country actually turned it down." *smile* "He's a wonderful guy." 
<Human-Kite> "Before or after they are given the job?" 
* Ftisk nod nod "but with a biting tongue sometimes" 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "After. When they're like you and me." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "When the 'imperator' does whatever it is that they do." 
<Brian> "Some try not to do the job." 
<Theresa> "I'm glad that John turned it down. He has a very important job with the Treasures." 
<Brian> "Then some Excrucian comes and makes life excruciating until they figure out how to make that stop." 
<Theresa> "Well, we know a guy who hates his Imperator and his family and is dedicated only to his own interests and his Estate. Won't have anything to do with his boss." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "But he still protects his Estate?" 
<Carrie> "Even if you tried to decline, it's not something that you can choose. You'd stay a Noble unless your Imperator revoked it. At which point..." She makes an apologetic shrugging motion. "You'd die, and someone else would be chosen." 
<Brian> "If you say the name Patterns in a pattern, you'll meet him." 
<Carrie> "Mind you, I've never heard of that happening. More likely, the Imperator would bring you around." 
<DanteE> "... oh, hell, I'm completely using the wrong approach." 
* DanteE goes back to the soldiers. 
<Carrie> "Just like your vision, they can be quite convincing." 
<DanteE> "Who wants to win this game?" 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "And they /always/ bring you around, don't they? Anyone who gets made like you, they decide to do their job." 
<Theresa> "He protects his Estate because it's who he is. I think that some Imperators pick their people on a whim but others pick someone based on the Estate that needs them." 
<Theresa> "One moment...I'll check my notes." *pulls out cell phone* *calls William* 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "Okay... I think I'm persuaded, at least as far as this current situation goes." *turns to Dante* "What do I have to change, to keep from hurting you further?" 
<Carrie> "I don't think so. Understand, there's nowhere I can go to find "the records of all Nobles," and in theory, an Imperator could hide himself completely if he wanted to." 
<Carrie> "So all I can tell you is that I, personally, have never heard of it being refused after Commencement." 
<Random_Nerd> After a few rings, William picks up the phone. There's a weird sound, like he's in a wind tunnel or something. 
<Theresa> (Oh yeah, the next section will be us playing the folks back at the Chancel..) 
<DanteE> "I embody Courage, Chaplain. If you keep going around and telling people Fear doesn't exist, there might not be a need for me. 
<Brian> (Has he joined the Avengers? By which I mean the Emma Peel version?) 
<Theresa> "Hi William! Quick question: have there been any Nobles that have refused their Estate or enNobling after being EnNobled?" 
<Random_Nerd> William: "What do you mean, refused?" 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "If I just stop here, then. Will that do it?" 
<DanteE> "My 'thing' is to _counter_ fear. To know it exists, and go on despite it. The two of them together make us human. 
<Theresa> "Uh, become a Noble of Something (William should be able to hear upper-case letters as a Gift, all Aides get it) but turned it down, didn't do the job, tried to give it back, etc?" 
<DanteE> "You shouldn't be telling your charges to ignore fear. You should be encouraging them to beat it down like a little bitch." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "I'm not interested in the argument at this time. I just need to know, what action that I can take will stop you from being hurt further?" 
<Ftisk> (brb) 
<DanteE> (Good question. What specifically is he doing that's attacking me?) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Hmm. Well, not all of them do a very good job..." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "But... you mean who just don't do it at /all/? Don't even try?" 
<DanteE> (Theresa: you want someone who _resigned_.) 
<Theresa> "Yep. Or resigned, but I guess that would mean that they probably died on the spot." 
<Random_Nerd> (Basically, what he's doing is putting conceptual strain on a weak point in your Estate. If he just stopped here, you'd still be hurting, but it wouldn't get any worse, and it'd gradually get better as your estate mends.) 
<Random_Nerd> William: "I can't think of any. Even Nobles who seriously go rogue still always defend their Estates, as far as I know." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "Take Pa... a particular Noble that you have spoken with in the past. I'm pretty sure he's plotting to kill his Imperator and all his siblings. But he still defends his Estate." 
<Theresa> "Okay, I'll run with it. Thank you, William! Be well!" 
<DanteE> (The weak spot being how essential it is?) 
<Ftisk> (back) 
<Brian> (It's late, and I'm falling asleep. Good night folks, and I'll see you next week!) 
<DanteE> (G'night Brian) 
|<-- Brian has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Brian) 
<Theresa> *to the Chap* "As of at this moment, our personal assistant cannot recall any Nobles who fit your request, but this was not a complete and exhaustive search. Just the memory of a very knowledgeable man." 
<Random_Nerd> William: "You too." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "Hmm. As I expected." 
<DanteE> "Well, we were specifically chosen by a being that can look deep into our hearts." 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, that. Right now, that weak spot is rubbed raw... but it can heal, if no further pressure is put on it.) 
<DanteE> "For the most part." 
<Random_Nerd> (Normally, this would be because the Excrucian doing it got ganked and his plan got blown up. But it would probably work if one just... stopped.) 
<DanteE> to the Chaplain: "Here's the thing: Fear exists, it is a part of the world. Because of that, Courage must exist to counter it." 
<Theresa> (You have a Courage-blister on your soul. You need to get some nice mole-skin on it.) 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain, as if ticking items off a mental list: "And your Imperator's name is 'Kudzu', correct?" 
<DanteE> (Uhoh. Did we just give Intel to the enemy?) 
<Theresa> (It wouldn't take much to find out who the Imperator of Courage is.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Eh, this information is available.) 
<Theresa> "Yep! He's a Wildlord." 
<Random_Nerd> (It's just that he happens to be really out of the loop.) 
<Theresa> "They're high on free will and doing things your own way and sanity is a crutch..." 
<Random_Nerd> (But, I mean, the Warmain Shard Trio knew exactly who to look for when they got sent over.) 
<Human-Kite> "Which means he's also from outside the cave." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "But they're part of the system, now. So they have those principles, but they also pick people to 'ennoble.'" 
<DanteE> "It is entirely human nature to be scared of things. It is entirely rational to counsel them against irrational fears. But facing the rational fears is what I'm here for. 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain, to Dante: "Are you trying to persuade me? Because if you are, it's both unnecessary, and also not working." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "I'm going to stop this, not because I agree with you, but because you're just a victim here too." 
<DanteE> "Fear exists, and Courage has a place. Remember that as you do your work, and I think we can work together." 
<DanteE> "Plus, we'll come back once we've done our urgent business and help you straighten it out." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "No, I think I have an idea on how to do that." 
<Theresa> (... if he's going to start preaching against Kudzu, then we're just going to be back here soon anyhow. Heck, he could start up an Anti-Kudzu cult.) 
<Random_Nerd> He shouts, clearly using Aspect to do so. Given what you saw of him earlier, he's probably spending some MPs, too. 
<Random_Nerd> "Everyone, you know who I am. You know what I've told you. I want you to forget about both. Forget about me, and forget about everything I've told you." 
<Ftisk> "What?" 
<DanteE> (He's using a Deceiver Miracle to help us) 
<Human-Kite> "Not you, Ftisk." 
<Ftisk> "Ah!" 
<Random_Nerd> And everyone, you're at Ground Zero for a Greater Sacrifice miracle. Probably some strike on it, too. It's setting out to basically do what he said, make everyone forget, and it probably isn't specifically aimed at you. What do you do? 
<Theresa> (Auctoritas with a strike of 4 would cost what?) 
* Ftisk let the miracle work 
<Human-Kite> (Can I Aspect plug my ears?) 
<Theresa> (I want to throw up an Auctoritas around all of us.) 
<Random_Nerd> The voice isn't actually a carrier for this. He just thinks it is. 
<Random_Nerd> It's the Persona miracle that's doing the actual work. 
<DanteE> (Brian's is still up, isn’t it?) 
<Human-Kite> (Oh, well....Auctoritas then.) 
<Theresa> (That was out at the car in the desert, though.) 
<Random_Nerd> That was a previous scene. 
<Carrie> Let's see, Greater Preservation of Hope would still be below his miracle level unless I used a Word of Command. 
<Random_Nerd> Or if you used a Bond or something to add Strike. 
* DanteE resists the effect on him while letting it go to the soldiers. 
<Carrie> Would an Auctoritas block anything without Strike? 
<Random_Nerd> So, you take a wound to resist it? 
<Random_Nerd> Any Auctoritas would beat it if it has no strike. 
<Random_Nerd> If it does, you need to beat the strike level. 
<DanteE> (Then Theresa's should help us all?) 
<DanteE> (Now, if that hits the soldiers it undoes the attack, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. What's your Persona, Theresa?) 
<Theresa> (2) 
<Random_Nerd> (It should, yeah.) 
<DanteE> (Er, if his thing hits them it undoes the attack on me) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, although it'll take you a day or two to fully heal.) 
<DanteE> (I'm thinking, let it hit them, take him somewhere safe so we can get his intel.) 
<Theresa> (We need to go take care of Ftisk, Dante.) 
<DanteE> (He obviously hasn't bought into the Ex philosophy, but knows something about their methods.) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, Theresa puts up a level 2 auctoritas. 
<DanteE> (I know. I mean after. Plus, if they forget about him he has no home.) 
<Carrie> (Actually, I think he's bought it pretty solidly to a version of it.) 
<Ftisk> (you can retold all what happened later to Ftisk) 
<Theresa> (..we already have a Warmain.) 
<Carrie> (Just with a lot more altruistic and humanistic motives than we're used to.) 
<Random_Nerd> That's just barely enough to keep the effect from hitting you. 
<DanteE> (But not a Deceiver. And we're running with the hypotheses that they're separate 'parties'.) 
<Theresa> (We can't keep collecting excrucians! The Council will just need to wipe out our Chancel and be done with the war!) 
<Ftisk> (you want to start an excru collection hobby?) 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone suddenly starts returning to where they had previously been, with the group who were near you looking vaguely confused for a moment. 
<Ftisk> (like the ccg :-P ) 
<Carrie> (Wouldn't work. Lands Beyond Creation follow no logic of Creation, after all.) 
<Theresa> (This is not Pokemon! We do not have to catch them all!) 
<Random_Nerd> And the Chaplain disappears. 
<DanteE> (I'm not suggesting take him home, but we're obligated by the Kudzu code to help him now, and we're obligated by the war to find out more about him.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You still remember him, though.) 
<Carrie> (But it's fun!) 
<Human-Kite> "Does this mean they won't be expecting masks?" 
<Theresa> (It's only fun until you try and figure out how to get Baalhermon out of the little ball.) 
<Ftisk> (does anyone have to retold thing to me (yay!) or I remember (boohhh!) ? ) 
<DanteE> "If they smoked what I think they smoked they'll be too busy counting their toes." 
<Carrie> (Huh, he vanished, Might be a moot point, but...) 
<Random_Nerd> (Anything before we stop the session?) 
<Theresa> "And he's gone. Dude, you can get a ride with us at least." 
<Human-Kite> "I was looking forward to making masks." 
<Random_Nerd> __________________STOP____________________ 
* Ftisk pat Kite "well, maybe next time kite..." 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
=-= Carrie is now known as Etheric 
<DanteE> so is he gone, or coming back later? 
<Random_Nerd> So, that was not how I expected this to go. But this way is more interesting! 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
=-= Human-Kite is now known as Verithe 
<Random_Nerd> He will definitely appear again in the game. 
<Etheric> That was fun! Mind you, I still want to use a miracle to find him. 
<Angelo> :-) 
<Knockwood> Well, priority goes to the attack on Ftisk now. 
<Angelo> yeah, RN throws us rarely boring or dull "enemies" 
<Angelo> nod nod 
<Random_Nerd> You can, if you want. 
<Etheric> Point, Knock. RN, is it okay to ask how you expected it to go? 
<Random_Nerd> What miracle would you do? 
<Random_Nerd> I expected that you would either persuade him that what he was doing was wrong, or stop him using violence. 
<Etheric> Ah, I was thinking another persona one working off "sustains by connecting," to keep a connection to him. 
<Random_Nerd> Hmm. You can do that. 
<Angelo> you are relying too much on our logical power 
<Random_Nerd> What thing would you be making "sustain by connecting?" 
<Random_Nerd> Him, you, or something else? 
<Theresa> Instead we showed him how pathetic we are and how once we were EnNobled, we care about our Estates but that's about it, at least. 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
<Knockwood> So, what we did instead was impress him enough to put his plans on hold? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, it's more that you got him to see you as civilian casualties that would result if he continued his plans as he had been. 
<Etheric> I'm still not sure on that count. 
<Etheric> Yeah, that was an interesting angle. 
<Random_Nerd> And, like I said, not how I thought this would end. But it fits! 
<Knockwood> ... we're too pathetic for him to hurt? 
<Angelo> yep 
<Random_Nerd> Not so much pathetic, as that... 
<Knockwood> goofy? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, you know how Dante thought that this guy had been mind-whammied by an Excrucian into doing what he was doing? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, now he thinks that of /you/. 
* Knockwood facepalms 
<Random_Nerd> That you were just random people who Kudzu dragooned and mind-controlled into working for him. 
<Angelo> lol cool 
<Random_Nerd> And so he sees you as innocents in this struggle. 
<Knockwood> we kinda are 
<Angelo> Ftisk IS innocent! 
<Random_Nerd> It's true... from a certain point of view. 
<Etheric> Ah, I think it'd be myself, with 2 MP for a Greater Emulation. 
<Random_Nerd> I mean, being Ennobled /does/ bring built-in loyalty for your estate. 
<Knockwood> Did anyone get Destiny? 
<BethE> But not necessarily for your Imperator. :) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, so the miracle would be "Carrie sustains things by connecting?" 
<Angelo> nope 
<BethE> I need to get to bed. Night, all! *HUGS* 
<Angelo> night Beth 
<Etheric> Yeah, I think so. It allows me to influence exactly what that means, to a point, right? 
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<Random_Nerd> Well, to specify what it means now. 
<Knockwood> AHh! 
<Random_Nerd> But not to control the implementation on the fly. 
<Knockwood> I have "Be AWESOME!" in my Personal Development branch. 
<Angelo> I too go to bed, see you in 2 weeks. Happy Chuboo next week :-) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and a question. What do you guys think he was? 
<Knockwood> This is either a squeaker victory or a hard fail there. :p 
<Random_Nerd> Does... this count as a non-trivial failure? 
<Etheric> Alright. I want to sustain the... I guess the best word is the mutual respect we had with him. 
<Random_Nerd> I think this is a hard fail there. Which means more points! 
<Random_Nerd> Okay. That is a viable miracle, Etheric. 
<Knockwood> a n00b Shard? 
<Random_Nerd> 5 destiny toward that branch, Knock. 
<Etheric> I think he's probably a shard, somehow. 
<Knockwood> On it. 
<Knockwood> The bird thing is probably too much for an Anchor 
<Random_Nerd> Well, as it turns out, he's a full Decevier. Just... a new one. 
<Verithe> He did seem to have a pretty recent Breakthrough 
<Etheric> They aren't usually born from humans, are they? 
<Random_Nerd> Actually, they are. 
<Knockwood> he's the equivalent of our side's new Serpent whose name I'm forgetting? 
<Random_Nerd> Huh. Yeah, he kinda is the Excrucian equivalent of Jerren. 
<Etheric> Huh, that's what's in the Antithesis book, then? 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Random_Nerd> Good book! 
<Random_Nerd> Before it, I never really /got/ deceivers. 
<Etheric> Would this be something that is generally known among Nobles but our crew managed to miss learning? 
<Verithe> Awesome book. Every human should buy it. 
<Random_Nerd> Eh... 
<Etheric> It is currently in the Want to Buy Once I Have the $ List. 
<Random_Nerd> I'm not sure. 
<Knockwood> maybe if they deal with Deceivers often? 
<Random_Nerd> For most Deceivers, it's just backstory. 
<Verithe> Our crew is either new(ish) or out-of-touch. 
<Etheric> True enough! 
<Random_Nerd> If you're fighting Coriander Hasp, does it matter if he was once human, came in from Outside riding a horse, or sprung full-formed from the head of Zeus? 
<Random_Nerd> It's just that this time, it mattered. 
<Random_Nerd> Although the details of how this works are better explained in the book than I did here. 
<Random_Nerd> Partially because he doesn't really understand it himself. 
<Knockwood> OK, why the heck isn't that book on my iPad... I'll have to fix that 
<Random_Nerd> So, next week is Chuubo. But after that... 
<Random_Nerd> We have two things we can do. 
<Random_Nerd> We can do Ftisk's estate attack. 
<Random_Nerd> Or we can do the Aides And Assorted Minions game then. 
<Random_Nerd> Which would you prefer? 
<Etheric> I'm all for the Minions game. 
<Knockwood> well, we don't want to leave Angelo hanging.... 
<Verithe> This can be Angelo's choice, if there's a possibility of the game focusing on Ftisk. 
<Etheric> And I will probably play Carrie's mom, because the "She's been a contact point for the mortal government all this time" thing has grown on me. 
<Knockwood> BTW, would my plan have worked? 
<Random_Nerd> I wasn't really 100% clear on what your plan was. 
<Random_Nerd> What was it, again? 
<Etheric> There was a plan? 
<Etheric> And here I thought we just muddled through. 
<Knockwood> make it clear that Courage has value and Fear has a place by motivating the soldiers to end the stalemate 
<Etheric> Oh, right, that. 
<Etheric> Actually, we can still do that. 
<Etheric> It's probably less urgent now, though. 
<Knockwood> then again, artificially boosting their Courage was an option, but it felt like cheating. :) 
<Verithe> I think the Chaplain just thinks Dante believes the lie. 
<Etheric> Yeah, that seems to be his take. 
<Random_Nerd> It might have worked, depending on the details of how you did it. 
<Knockwood> but it's his side that's the lie. Trouble is he's living the lie. Literally. 
<Knockwood> there's the Anakin option, where we try to reconnect with the good person inside... 
<Verithe> So he's a Mormon and you're a Jehovah's Witness, in this situation. 
<Verithe> Or....some analogy that works better. 
<Knockwood> Well, we can put that off for a little while 
<Knockwood> and enjoy the 5 Destiny. 
<Knockwood> Which is kinda like turning that mortar hole into a fashionable skylight, but it works. 
<Etheric> That reminds me -- I still need to write up Carrie's Project, for the human divinity thing. 
<Random_Nerd> Heh. I'll have to dust off my plans for that! 
<Etheric> And also, probably eventually, a Project for character advancement. 
<Etheric> But I haven't even spent all of the ones I got from the third-ed conversion, so that's less urgent. <.< 
<Etheric> the CP, I mean 
<Random_Nerd> Well, I gotta go sleep. 
<Random_Nerd> See you guys next session! 
<Etheric> Night, RN! 
<Knockwood> looks like I've got 1 stone 11 on my Personal branch 
<Knockwood> g'night RN 
<Random_Nerd> And this was a good, if weird one. 
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<Etheric> Now, what's this about a new Serpent? Can someone fill me in? 
<Knockwood> while you were gone we met a newborn Aaron's Serpent, Jerren, Ymera of Impending Doom. 
<Knockwood> And then later we antagonized him. Mainly me. As we do. 
<Etheric> Heh! 
<Etheric> Not a former human, though, right? 
<Verithe> Kite helped! 
<Verithe> No. 
<Knockwood> No, born of the Tree. 
<Etheric> I thought so, but wanted to ask to make sure how far the "He's the Deceiver Jerrin" goes. 
<Verithe> The parallel we were drawing was that Jerren and the Chaplain were both brand new. 
<Knockwood> what are his other estates? 
<Verithe> Inevitable Betrayal was one, right? 
<Knockwood> sounds right 
<Verithe> I forget the third one.... 
<Knockwood> where the heck are the logs? 
<Knockwood> oh well. See you guys for Cthulhu... I mean Chuubo next week. 
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<Etheric> Later all! 
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<Verithe> Take care, Angelo! 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]

Session 247

2013-12-05T10:21:12Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]] 
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix 
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis 
<lazarus> (btw. New XCOM? Got it last week ... between Sara and I, we have 42 hours played so far ...) 
<Angelo> hi all! :-) 
<lazarus> hey Angelo! 
<Etheric> Well, here's a question -- is this guy really making courage unnecessary, or just making people believe it isn't? 
<Verithe> Angelo! 
<Verithe> Hi! 
<Etheric> Because it seems to me, a lot of people are dying with this plan of his... 
<Angelo> laz, Verithe 
<Etheric> Hey there Angelo. 
<Angelo> Ciao Etheric :-) 
<Random_Nerd> It's a warzone. A lot of people are gonna die. Just... different people. 
<Angelo> I'm happy to, finally, see you all 
<Angelo> is everyone fine? 
<lazarus> I am! 
* Angelo go around shaking hands and patting shoulders 
<Etheric> More or less. 
<Random_Nerd> So. 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! Getting any sleep? 
<Verithe> I'm so-so. 
<Random_Nerd> This is to be Amyra. We are short Knock, but... I'm kinda sick of cancelling sessions because we're missing someone who's involved in the plot of the current one. 
<BethE> And it seems that mostly only natives are dying, not the UN soldiers. 
<Angelo> yep Beth! Deathline is passed so return to normal 8hours at day at work :-) 
<BethE> Yay! 
<Random_Nerd> Well, some of them are. Just... less. 
<Random_Nerd> (For that matter, a lot of the insurgents aren't actually from that country.) 
<Angelo> so the excru tactics can be seen as effective in this scenario 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah. I mean, it's working. 
<Etheric> Either way, we defuse their Rite if courage starts being effective again, right? 
<BethE> Which is why it's hard to fight! It's doing good for the soldiers! And he's well-reasoned! 
<Random_Nerd> Well, it has to be... let me see the wording. 
<Verithe> Hmmm....maybe we should check with our Aides to see if there are any Nobles of Fear who might want to take action as well.... 
<Angelo> AND Ftisk feel sympathy with the excru !_! 
<Random_Nerd> It has to be essential to self-sacrifice and to "the truth." 
<Random_Nerd> Or, this thing that's happening has to be somehow turned into a kind of courage. 
<Random_Nerd> Or... something I haven't thought of yet. 
<BethE> I like the idea of turning it into a kind of courage. 
<Angelo> me too Beth 
<Etheric> Is it possible to do that without a Courage miracle, I wonder? 
<Angelo> is ... tricky? 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. That. 
<Etheric> I mean, if nothing else, we can try various things and see if it helps... 
<lazarus> perhaps the best way to handle this is to show them they're really still afraid of death, even if they rationally believe that it won't happen 
<Random_Nerd> Are they, though? How could you tell? 
<lazarus> that is the tricky question - but how much does that have to be to metaphysics? 
<Angelo> they subdue to the ritual to avoid fear is a statement that fear _is_ there 
<BethE> Courage: 
<BethE> is motivating [2] 
<BethE> is inspiring [1] 
<BethE> counters fear [2] 
<BethE> is essential to (self-)sacrifice [1] 
<BethE> is essential to the truth 
<BethE> counters mindless fleeing or cowering [1] 
<Etheric> Huh, good point, Angelo... 
<lazarus> (are we supposed to know what property they're attacking? we-as-players, I mean? I can't remember) 
<Random_Nerd> (Not really.) 
<Angelo> can this link to Courage: counter fear 
<Random_Nerd> (Dante knows how he defines Courage. But you guys... probably not? Would you have talked to him about it?) 
<Angelo> (Ftisk will have not, definitely :-( ) 
<Random_Nerd> Well, the idea here is that what he does removes fear as an emotion. So it's not there for courage to counter. 
<BethE> Well, taking the dude's words, he's attacking 'counters fear' definitely. Maybe the last three. 
<BethE> Huh. What if we found a way where one is courageous without fear? 
<Etheric> A decent question. Saying courage counters fear isn't the same thing as saying it's meaningless without fear. 
<Etheric> After all, light counters darkness without needing darkness to exist... 
<Angelo> but light don't state explicitly the it counter darkness 
<Etheric> Doesn't it? It might. 
<Etheric> Either way, our characters at least have the general idea that he's undermining courage by eliminating fear. 
<Random_Nerd> To some degree attacking "counters fear" and to some degree the two "is necessary" ones. 
<Angelo> right 
<Etheric> Why don't we take the discussion IC? Dante being incapacitated would actually be rather appropriate, with the Flower Rite ongoing. 
<Random_Nerd> So far, you guys's approach has been to arguing him into believing that what he's doing is bad, and he should stop. 
<BethE> So, truth, self-sacrifice and fear. 
<BethE> And it hasn't worked at all. 
<Etheric> I am not surprised. 
<Angelo> beating some sense in him, the old fashioned way will help? 
<Random_Nerd> It could. Want to find out? 
<Angelo> IF we'll find out dibs on his heart! 
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian 
=-= Etheric is now known as Carrie 
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad 
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
<Conrad> (kite or humankinte?) 
=-= Kite is now known as human-Kite 
<Theresa> (And Ftisk is still a parrot?) 
<human-Kite> (Thanks! I almost forgot.) 
<Conrad> don’t remember, ty) 
=-= YOU are now known as parrotTisk 
<Random_Nerd> Anything else before we start? 
<parrotTisk> on witch shoulder I was? 
<human-Kite> I don't recall. 
<Theresa> Doesn't matter. 
<Random_Nerd> Pick one! 
* parrotTisk fly in circles around and land on Carrie's shoulder 
<Random_Nerd> And Dante is currently "reeling from the pain of estate-friction" in a way we will specifically try to not think about too much, because to do so would be an attack on Guarding The Horses. 
<Random_Nerd> _____________START___________________ 
<Random_Nerd> "So, I don't really see why I should stop what I'm doing." 
<Theresa> (Do we know what _he_ thinks Courage is?) 
<Brian> "Because." 
<Random_Nerd> ("Obselete.") 
<Random_Nerd> "Because /what/, though?" 
<Brian> "Not because /what/, but because /why/" 
<parrotTisk> *squeack* "Because!" 
<Random_Nerd> He paces. 
* parrotTisk clean some feathers 
<Carrie> "You say that your way is better, because fear is unnecessary, and therefore courage is obsolete. Do I understand you correctly?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Yes. This way gets less of my guys killed." 
<Brian> "But what happens to the fear after acknowledging that it is unnecessary?" 
<Random_Nerd> He gestures vaguely. "Can't you guys /see/ how everyone is just.... doing it /wrong/?" 
<Carrie> "How so, wrong?" 
<Random_Nerd> "It's just... you can't see it? I couldn't, either, but now it's just so obvious." 
<Brian> "Um. No?" 
<Brian> "How is it obvious. Explain it, please. I'm curious." 
<Random_Nerd> "All this. All this /stuff/. It's just wrong. It gets in the /way/ of what's really there." 
<Theresa> (_Duuuude._) 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and the reason that the Noble of Fear isn't here is that his estate isn't actually under attack. Sure, fear is being locally opposed. But it's not being made to turn on itself.) 
<Carrie> (Right, Deceiver...) 
<Random_Nerd> "See, there's the world as it really is, what's really going on. But there's all these /things/ layered on top of it, and they make it so we can't see straight." 
<Random_Nerd> "I used to think Buddhism was pretty crazy, all that world-denying stuff. But they're on to something. Can't you see it?" 
<Brian> "No?" 
<Brian> "All I can say is ... you're wrong?" 
<parrotTisk> "Fear is a healthy thing, it help you react to the violence you are the target of" 
<Carrie> "Strip away too many layers and you have lost what you originally seek." 
<Brian> (hrm. Maybe we can make /him/ afraid that his philosophy won't spread, and then have the courage to try spreading it anyway ... that would be a neat solution!) 
<parrotTisk> "avoid you avoid reaction" 
<Random_Nerd> "There are other ways to react." 
<Random_Nerd> "Sure, the adrenaline-response is useful in /some/ situations. When you need to run away from a bear, say." 
<Random_Nerd> "But when what you need to do is correctly drive a truck, or shoot a gun, or give CPR?" 
<parrotTisk> "Polly want a biscuit aside, fear is the bases, fastest, sharedest reaction in human and not humans being" 
* human-Kite messages Gil, either by brain or by Tinker-Toys: "Is there a Noble of Fear we could contact?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Sure. And in today's world, it's so counter-productive, isn't it? It hurts things we need, and helps stuff that only rarely matters." 
<Brian> "Then you want Courage. Courage surpasses fear" 
<Random_Nerd> (A question. After this, when we do the "play as your minions" storyline, will you want to use Gil?) 
<parrotTisk> (after this wasn't Ftisk turn to fight his estate attack?) 
<Random_Nerd> "But your hands are still shaking, and your heart is beating too fast, and you've got tunnel vision!" 
<human-Kite> (I....<3.....yes!)) 
<parrotTisk> "Tunnel vision is a type of television?" 
<Brian> "Not necessarily. Only if you let the fear response overwhelm you." 
<Random_Nerd> "That's like saying that the best way to keep from getting killed by a tiger is to learn to ride tigers. No. The best way to avoid being killed by tigers is to make sure there /aren't any tigers attacking you/." 
<Carrie> "And yet if you eliminate fear, you eliminate the very impulse to avoid threats." 
<Brian> "As our currently-unconscious brother would say, courage is the way you make sure there aren't any tigers. By stabbing them with swords." 
<Theresa> "But what if you're supposed to be fighting tigers?" 
<Carrie> "You aren't getting rid of tigers, just making them invisible." 
<parrotTisk> "But tigers, in you example are like biscuits, anyone _NEED_ some around!" 
<Brian> (... no, he wouldn't say that. Ssh.) 
<Random_Nerd> "Nah. There's other reasons. Even calm people know that being killed would make their family sad, being shot would hurt." 
<Random_Nerd> (You anchored Gil, right?) 
<human-Kite> (Yes) 
<Theresa> "What if they don't care about being shot? An example of someone believing that they're dead already, so who cares if they get shot at? Is that courage or delusion?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Are they?" 
<Random_Nerd> "Dead already, I mean." 
<Theresa> "Does it matter?" 
<parrotTisk> "And so why being fear lees (or want biscuitless or any other emotion-less for the mater) is a state needing specialized help?" 
<Random_Nerd> When you drop into Gil's head, he's somewhere in Amyra. He's scared, clearly. 
<Random_Nerd> To Ftisk: "Hmm?" 
<Random_Nerd> And to Theresa: "Sure it matters. If you believe true things for good reasons, it's not delusional. If you don't..." 
* human-Kite "Gil? What's wrong?" 
<Random_Nerd> Gil: "Boss, this really isn't a good time. What do you need?" 
<parrotTisk> "I'm talking of sociopath peoples that can relate to others and/or are working bad in a society (like anyone not wanting a biscuit, parrotTisk want a biscuit!)" 
<human-Kite> "Tell me if why you're scared is something that I can help with. Otherwise, I need to know if there is a Noble of Fear we can contact and how to do so." 
<Random_Nerd> Gil: "And... is there anything special I need to do in a hostage situation? I came over to Amyra because they asked, but I don't see how I'm being of any..." 
<Theresa> "How would you finish that? "If you believe true things for bad reasons, it's delusional'? 'If you believe false things for good reasons, it's delusional'? 'If you believe false things for bad reasons, you're delusional.'?" 
* Theresa will give Ftisk a whole grain biscuit. 
<human-Kite> "Hostage situation? 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: “Don’t sociopaths still experience fear?” 
<Random_Nerd> (Huh. Weird.) 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain, to Theresa: “You can be delusional and correct, I suppose. Like, the guy with the delusion that his wife is cheating on him, who drives her so nuts that she actually does it to get back at him.” 
* parrotTisk love Theresa and munch happily the biscuit! 
<Theresa> "So it becomes true after the fact." 
<Random_Nerd> Gil: “We’re on it. We know you guys have, like, /two/ attacks on reality going on. Just... what do you need?” 
<parrotTisk> "that is a short circuit of the delusional situation!" 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: “It can.” 
<Random_Nerd> (One moment. Let me reload my IRC program.) 
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* parrotTisk wait and munch cheerily 
<Random_Nerd> (Let's see...) 
<Random_Nerd> ("") 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, it worked.) 
<human-Kite> "Just info on a Noble of Fear. If you need any help on the hostage situation, I can pass info on to Theresa or Brian." 
<Theresa> "But there is always the point that it was not true until she made it true. It was not true to begin with and would not have become true if he had not driven her to it." 
* parrotTisk nod nod to T. 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "I... I don't really know where you're going with that." 
<parrotTisk> (brb) 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "If this is just a chance to have circular conversations about the nature of delusion, I really have more important things to do." 
<Theresa> "It is a delusion, but only because he denies the truth." 
<Brian> "are you afraid of a circular conversation about the nature of delusion?" 
<Theresa> "He does not have the courage to face the truth." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "Afraid? Or bored?" 
<Brian> "Because it sure looks like you're running away." 
<Brian> (... *pokes the scrunchie* ...) 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "No, it's not a delusion because he denies the truth. It's because, even if he's right, it's by chance. The difference between a marksman and a lucky shot." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "This is rapidly growing childish." 
<Theresa> "And yet the target is still dead." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "So... what's your point, exactly?" 
<Theresa> "What would you consider evidence of your truth?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Which truth? What are we talking about, at this point?" 
<Theresa> "The truth of your belief about fear and courage." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "If you mean that my way is better... how about that less of my guys die, and they seem to get less PTSD?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "That looks an awful lot like evidence from where I'm standing." 
<Random_Nerd> (Kite, what's the last thing you said to Gil?) 
<Brian> "How does their effectiveness compare?" 
<human-Kite> "Just info on a Noble of Fear. If you need any help on the hostage situation, I can pass info on to Theresa or Brian." 
<Theresa> "I guess they're just lucky. They're still getting shot at. They're still seeing people die. They're still away from their families and normality. You're not keeping them completely sheltered. And this may just be considered a fluke. A lucky time when the natives go nuts. I hear fungus can do that." 
<Random_Nerd> Gil: "I think we can handle this. Noble of Fear. Uh... I'll go get William's books. Check with me in fifteen minutes?" 
<Brian> "Have you seen what slime molds can do? They're fantastic!" 
<human-Kite> "Thank you, Gil. 
<Carrie> "So if in the long run your methods caused more deaths... you'd agree that they're worth changing?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Deaths of who?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm only responsible for my guys, here." 
<Theresa> "Wow, that's pretty lucky of them. They have you. All of the other squads don't." 
<Theresa> "They are your monkey sphere." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Some... gentleman... with an improvised bomb... I'm not too concerned if he gets shot." 
<Theresa> "Would you give your life for your guys?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm still learning how to do this properly. I've only even known that there were other supernatural beings for, like, a week. But I'm trying to work out ways to make this better." 
<Random_Nerd> C, to Theresa: "Hmm. Depends on the circumstances. I don't think the situation would arise, though. I mean, I'm pretty hard to hurt, now." 
<Theresa> "Yeah, I mean, someone could drop a bomb on this place and you'd be the only one to survive." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm still learning what I can do, now. But I hope that we can spread this past just us, long-term>" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Can you help?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Drop a bomb how? They have pipe bombs, not bombers." 
<Theresa> "Who said that it was the locals?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Are you threatening me? Or... the 
<Random_Nerd> troops I'm looking after, I guess?" 
<Carrie> "Of course not! We're discussing hypotheticals here." 
<Random_Nerd> He looks a bit angry, for the first time. 
<Theresa> "Nope. Just wondering how much your commitment to them extends. Because they're all going to have to go home. And will your influence fade." 
<Brian> "Hm. Anger. An emotional response." 
<Theresa> "On the one hand, if your influence fade, their memories of their time here are still there." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Still working on that one. After I finish with fear, it should probably be next." 
<Theresa> "If it doesn't, they could get themselves into big trouble back in the civvy world." 
<Brian> "So you're working on being bland?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "So far... sometimes, when I do it, it fades. Sometimes, it doesn't. I'm not fully sure of why, yet. Do you know?" 
<Brian> "How boring. Droll." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Not bland. Calm." 
<Brian> "Like I said. Bland." 
<Theresa> "It's dependent on you. How your feelings and beliefs are." 
<Brian> "I try it from time to time. Never holds for long." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Many emotions are useful things. But fear? Anger? Do you really think the world is better because of them?" 
<Carrie> "I think that a world without them would be a foreign place." 
<Theresa> "Fear of the loss of your loved ones, so you hold them tight in your mind and heart? Anger against injustice?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Yes. And a /better/ place." 
<Theresa> "Why be angry at how the world is? It's better to just be calm and let it flow around you?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "You don't have to be afraid of something to work to prevent it. If you had heart surgery, would you prefer that the surgeon was afraid?" 
<Brian> "Anger has driven revolution." 
<Brian> "I actually would. Fear focuses." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Yes, anger is more complicated. It may have favorable characteristics. Like I said, I'm still working on it." 
<Theresa> "I would prefer that the surgeon be cautious. I would prefer he be not arrogant. And I would prefer that he had a medical degree." 
<Carrie> "In any case, it seems we won't convince one another. I wonder, though, if some sort of proof might be set up." 
<Theresa> "So you believe that fear has no favorable characteristics? And thus neither does courage?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Look, if you want to help me do this properly, please, your help is welcome. But if you're just going to say that what I'm doing is wrong... why, because it goes against some religion of yours that I've never heard of..." 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, I have a question. Are all of you talking over each other, right now? What would this scene look like, as a live action thing?) 
<Brian> (It would look like MASH, the movie.) 
<Carrie> (Er, huh. I'm not sure.) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm not even sure what you want to convince me of." 
<human-Kite> (Kite is done talking to this guy.) 
<Theresa> *points at Dante* "He is Courage, embodied. You are killing him. We want to convince you to stop killing him." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "It seems like you know your conclusion, that I should stop, but you're trying to make up reasons after the fact." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Well, I bear him no ill will. But isn't there some other way that he can be saved?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "And if there isn't... I guess I'm not personally responsible for him. I am, for the guys that I'm looking after. I have a duty to them." 
<Brian> "If you agree that your approach is, in fact, courageous without fear, that may help." 
<Theresa> "Each of us embodies a different aspect of the universe. He defines what courage is. He would have to change the definition of courage." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Then talk to him, not to me." 
<Theresa> "And you understand that we have a duty to him. We would, but your attack has caused him to lose consciousness in a way that makes us unable to communicate with him in any way." 
<Theresa> "So, we have to work with what we have. You understand?" 
* human-Kite is pondering enlisting some soldiers in an Assembly of a poorly-constructed bomb. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "So... where do we go from here?" 
<Brian> (kite: doo eet) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "You haven't convinced me, and I haven't convinced you." 
<Brian> "You haven't stated anything other than zen." 
<Theresa> "Yep. And we can't communicate with Dante. And if he dies, all Courage does. Even the stuff about it that you like." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Well, we can make a better one after it does, then." 
<Carrie> "If it worked that way, the world would yet be a much richer place..." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "The courage and fear that we have now are pretty well adapted to life as a caveman, maybe. But not to the world we live in." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Let's get rid of them, and make something better. Join me, I need the help." 
<human-Kite> ((I forgot what level that would be...)) 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. What do you want to do?) 
<Theresa> "So, you want us to kill our brother and friend?" 
<Carrie> "Then what kind of courage would you say is fitting for the world we now inhabit?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "What I'm advocating, if you want to call it courage. Calm assessment of the situation, and taking right actions in accordance with your goals." 
<Theresa> "So, if it's not calm, it's not courage? How would you enforce this calm?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "So far, I have to talk to people to get them to see it this way. Maybe there's another way." 
<human-Kite> ((I would like it to cause some of the Chaplain's soldier friends to Assemble a bomb....poorly....and blow themselves up. Further away from this tent.)) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm still learning about how all this works. So, how many kinds of supernatural creature are there?" 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Creation, probably.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, level 4 miracle.) 
<human-Kite> ((I've got Domain five, so can I add 2 DMP to bump it up to 7?)) 
<Carrie> "More than you or I could count... although I suppose there are a number of broad, distinct kinds." 
<Random_Nerd> (What do you want to do with that?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Have them make it very quickly?) 
<Theresa> "Multiple kinds. Some are entrusted humans or what used to be human. Brian probably knows. He's Numbers." (The C can hear the capital letter.) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Like, you aren't the same kind as me? And what kind are the ones with no skin? Like me? Like you?" 
<Brian> "The ones with no skin are different things." 
<parrotTisk> (back) 
<Brian> "Where do you find them?" 
<human-Kite> ((Just to make the miracle more powerful.....am I forgetting how Strike works?)) 
<Theresa> (He's talking about his Excrucian buddy, I think.) 
<Carrie> (Would I know what he means by no skin?) 
<Random_Nerd> (To make it difficult for other miracles to counter?) 
<parrotTisk> (actuals?) 
<human-Kite> ((Yeah)) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "One showed up about a week ago. It watched me, and nobody else seemed to notice it, and then it went away." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "So, what was that?" 
<Carrie> (If he's an Anchor, and not a shard, would he still have those stars in his eyes?) 
<Random_Nerd> (He would not.) 
<Theresa> (Wait a minute. We know someone with no skin...) 
<human-Kite> ((Could it be Martyrs?)) 
<Random_Nerd> (She's sometimes missing a lot of skin.) 
<Carrie> (She would have an interest here, wouldn't she...) 
<human-Kite> (A bit, yeah.) 
<Theresa> (The dude has been creating a lot of martyrs out of the natives.) 
<parrotTisk> (let's call her and ask then) 
<Theresa> (Stupid martyrs, but none the less...) 
<Carrie> "I don't know for sure, but that may have been another of our kind. If so, she is unique." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "So, like you, not like me?" 
<Theresa> "Possible. There's lots of different supernatural beings out there, all of the time. Better chance that it's like us than you. It's easier to tell your side by the stars in the eyes. Ftisk, here, has one, because he's part your group." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "How many more of you are there, out there?" 
<parrotTisk> "Some thousands?" 
<parrotTisk> (exist a nobles census?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Nope. The Aides try, but theirs is very incomplete.) 
<parrotTisk> (aka did 3ed say something on Nobles number on heart?) 
<Random_Nerd> C, to Ftisk: "And of me and you? How many are there of us?" 
<Carrie> "On Earth, hundreds, to be certain. On all the worlds, thousands, most probably." 
<Random_Nerd> (Even if it does, it might not be canon in this game.) 
<parrotTisk> "Our kind numbers are unknown but I feel an order less is reasonable so some hundreds" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "So... you've said your piece. I've said mine. But I really do have work to do." 
<Random_Nerd> (So, Kite, do you still have the guys make the bomb?) 
<Random_Nerd> (How many people do you want it to kill?) 
<Theresa> (Argh. I feel like I'm completely missing something about how to convince this guy and I _can't_.) 
<human-Kite> (Yes....maybe 10-12ish.) 
<parrotTisk> (me too is so hard to talk reason to him!) 
<Carrie> "Very well. If we come up with a way our purposes might still mesh, we may return." 
<Random_Nerd> (And if you do it as a greater creation, you can have it built really fast, so... pretty much it goes off whenever you want it to.) 
<Carrie> "Thank you for your time and patience." 
<Random_Nerd> (Say when.) 
<Theresa> (And now I'm feeling bad because of suggesting a bomb.) 
<Random_Nerd> He nods. "It was interesting to meet you. Let's talk again, in a week or two." 
<Theresa> "If our brother is still alive." 
<human-Kite> (That works for me. It can detonate once we leave.) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Is there anything I can do to help with that, without stopping what I'm doing for my guys?" 
* Theresa motions to Brian to help pick up Dante. "Who gets to drive? Not Ftisk." 
<parrotTisk> "Whhhyyyyyy not meeee?" 
<human-Kite> "Me! 
<Brian> "Ftisk, you'll just drive it into a dragon again." 
<Carrie> "If there is, I mean to find out." 
* Carrie curtsies. 
* parrotTisk land on T. ashamed 
* human-Kite flounces out to the car. 
<human-Kite> "I want to be the driiiiiverrrrrrr!" 
<Random_Nerd> (Say "boom" when you want it to go off.) 
<Theresa> "Unless you know a way that you can counter fear, tell truth and counter fleeing or cringing without making courage absolutely irrelevant and helpless, we would appreciate it." *holds out hand to him* "Thank you for protecting your group." 
<Brian> "Carrie, you get to drive this time." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I... will think of that. Is there a way I can contact you, if I do?" 
<Carrie> "Me? Alright." 
<Random_Nerd> He reaches out to shake your hand. 
* human-Kite sighs 
* Brian will shake his hand. 
* parrotTisk stay camped on T shoulder 
* Theresa creates a card in her hand with a 'contact me once' plant prayer on it. "Here. Good for a call. I'm Plants, by the way." 
<Random_Nerd> He takes it. 
<Theresa> (The bomb thing is making me queasy.) 
<human-Kite> (Awww) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Ah... okay. I'm Jeremy." 
<Random_Nerd> He starts to walk off again. 
<human-Kite> "Let's go! 
<Theresa> "And I'm Theresa. I don't suppose that we could just have a physical fight and if I win, you put off using your stuff until we can find a way to save my brother?" 
<parrotTisk> "Mud fight!" 
<human-Kite> "We need to deal with Ftisk's problem!" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "How would violence settle anything?" 
* Carrie hushes Ftisk. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "You can't punch your way through a philosophical disagreement." 
<parrotTisk> "Mud fight are entertaining!" 
<Theresa> "It would make me feel like I'm doing _something_ to save my brother!" 
<parrotTisk> "Show the Hand T.!" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Look, you want to save him, and I want to save the guys who I'm supposed to be caring for." 
<Theresa> "You wanted to save your group, I want to save him and I can't and thus I'm trying to buy him some more time!" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Are you arguing that his life is more important?" 
<Theresa> "_Every_ life is important!" 
<parrotTisk> yolder style: "YES!" 
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<human-Kite> "Ftisk, where is your problem?" 
<Etheric`> ((How much of what I just typed in the last 40 seconds or so got through?)) 
<human-Kite> (Yay! Kite gets to drive after all!) 
<parrotTisk> "uhrm? what did you mean Kite?" 
<human-Kite> (Wait, no.) 
<Random_Nerd> (You hushed ftisk.) 
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<Etheric`> (Ah, that's all?) 
<Theresa> "And at the moment, he is part of a world that needs him to protect against the stuff from the Outside trying to get in, the beings that want to take Courage and Hope and Plants and turn them into nothing at all!" 
<Random_Nerd> (I think so.) 
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<Random_Nerd> C: "And this is bad?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Why?" 
<Theresa> "Do you sacrifice an entire other battalion for one of your soldiers?" 
<human-Kite> (Wasn't Ftisk getting an Estate attacked also?) 
<Theresa> (Yes.) 
<Random_Nerd> (He was.) 
<parrotTisk> (ah! in that sense not in the conversation with C. related one) 
<human-Kite> (right) 
<Theresa> "Because _you_ *point* would die! All that oxygen you're breathing, no plants, zip! All of those people you're protecting, gone." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm... not sure that that's /true/, though." 
<Theresa> "Because I have people depending on me. Because I have people I haven't even _met_ depending on me." 
<human-Kite> (*Kite holds up a globe* "Ftisk, show me on the Earth where the bad man hurt you.") 
<Theresa> "So, now you're making it so that your guys don't need air along with not needing fear?" 
<parrotTisk> (RN, what I feel on my estate attack?) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Say, I'm not convinced that people /have/ to need oxygen. I think that's just... you know, stuff." 
<Theresa> (California, I think.) 
<human-Kite> (Oh, my!) 
<Carrie> "Theresa, we will save him. We will." 
<Brian> (this sounds like a shirk-effect) 
<Carrie> "Right now, though, talking isn't leading anywhere. We need to regroup." 
<parrotTisk> (If Rn don't contradicts T California is fine as attack place for me) 
<Theresa> "Fine!" *pats Dante down, gets a knife* "Here. Try to kill me now. You think that air is just stuff, that _I'm_ just stuff, do it. I'm afraid but you can't do a damn thing about it." 
<Theresa> *holds the knife out* 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, it's California.) 
<Random_Nerd> (I had thought I'd been more specific, but I hadn't.) 
<parrotTisk> "Is something that sting from like California's like Kite" 
<Brian> "T..." 
<Brian> "Let's go to California ..." 
<Random_Nerd> Jeremy: "/People/ aren't just stuff. But the stuff gets in the /way/ for them." 
<Random_Nerd> Jeremy: "You can be a person without there being all these distractions." 
<Theresa> "First it's fear, then it's air, then it's being human at all." 
<Random_Nerd> Jeremy: "Are you human? Am I?" 
<human-Kite> "That's a ways away. We need to hurry if we're going to make the.....plane....thing." 
<parrotTisk> "I'm not you" *point to Jeremy* "once was" 
<Theresa> "And who are you to decide what a person is? I know I'm not, not anymore. I don't know what you are. And you'll eventually decide that the people you're protecting aren't what you thought they are and you'll change them until they are and then how are they the people that you wanted to protect? They're just stuff." 
<Random_Nerd> Jeremy: "I'm just a guy who saw something, and I'm trying to fix problems when I see them." 
<Random_Nerd> Jeremy: "People are real. Stuff isn't." 
<Random_Nerd> (Am I the only one who read the Deceivers book.) 
<parrotTisk> (not even purchased, sorry) 
<human-Kite> (I did) 
<Theresa> (No, I haven't . So I am obviously missing something.) 
<Brian> (Haven't had the money when I remembered it existed) 
<Carrie> (Probably, but I'm familiar with the concept.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Some of your art's in it, isn't it, V?) 
<human-Kite> (Yes) 
<Random_Nerd> Jeremy: "So, how did you become able to do things, like make that card?" 
<Theresa> *creates an apple* *hands it over* "I was chosen by my Imperator, my boss. And I became Plants." 
<Random_Nerd> Jeremy: "Ah. Different, then. Me, I saw something. Which is why you can't make me doubt that people will still be important, without all the stuff." 
<Brian> "What did you see?" 
<Random_Nerd> Jeremy: "How things really are. Just for a moment, though." 
<Random_Nerd> J: "And after that, my eyes looked like this, and I can do things." 
<Brian> "I need to know. What /exactly/ did you see?" 
<Random_Nerd> J: "Words don't... really work. But it's how everything really is, under all the /stuff/." 
<parrotTisk> "Can I read from your mind that experience?" 
<Random_Nerd> J: "The world is what it is, but there are all these... /things/ imposed over it. Layers, filters, whatever. And they keep it from being what it's supposed to be." 
<Random_Nerd> J: "It's like... have you seen a tree that had fence wire wrapped around it?" 
<Random_Nerd> J: "And it distorted how it grew?" 
<Random_Nerd> J: "It's like that." 
<Random_Nerd> J, to Ftisk: "I don't know. Can you?" 
<Brian> "It sounds like you saw Creation from Outside." 
<human-Kite> "May he try?" 
<Random_Nerd> He shrugs. "Sure. I guess." 
<parrotTisk> "If you agree I can try, I'm sure enough I can" 
<Random_Nerd> J: "Sure." 
* parrotTisk do a Data divination to retrieve that memory with a creation to put the memory on a dvd 
<parrotTisk> (is successful?) 
<Random_Nerd> His mind... doesn't feel right. It seems like it isn't there at all, that he's just a mindless animated flesh robot. 
<Random_Nerd> You can't find any data in there at /all/. 
<Theresa> (Dun dun duuuuun.) 
<parrotTisk> "Woooot! Your mind is not like any other I meet before! There is no data _at all_ here! Wow!" 
<Random_Nerd> J: "Huh. What do you mean by data?" 
* parrotTisk run in circles a bit 
<parrotTisk> "Data are all the information/memories any one experience and store in the brain" 
<parrotTisk> "and in books and in dvd and in .... yadda yadda" 
<Random_Nerd> J: "But I have memories." 
<parrotTisk> "And you are an exception, like a remote drived Jeremy" 
<Brian> "Technically not memories I guess?" 
<Brian> (... can I LDiv the # of memories in his head?) 
<Random_Nerd> J: "Huh. But I thought you were... like me." 
<Random_Nerd> (Memories aren't discrete in that sense.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's like trying to divine the number of water in the ocean.) 
<Brian> (true, I suppose.) 
<parrotTisk> "I meld with one like you I'm 50% and 50%" 
<Theresa> "There are different kinds of beings like you, Jeremy. Ftisk is part Warbringer. You are..something else." 
<Random_Nerd> J: "Ah." 
<parrotTisk> "There are warbringer, strategist, ninja, kittens and world warping lairs" 
<Random_Nerd> J: "...kittens? Ninja?" 
<Brian> "And larpers." 
<parrotTisk> "ninja stealth here and staz under cover 'till can strike and advance THE cause" 
<Random_Nerd> J: "Hadn't you guys said goodbye to me twice? You're starting to remind me of my mother." 
<human-Kite> "We did. To California!" 
<Brian> "Three times, even." 
<parrotTisk> "To California, we can get even a tan! Maybe..." 
<Theresa> "Bye, Jeremy." 
<Brian> "Like the cops from that infernal nonsense, Penzance." 
* Theresa will trudge to the car, carrying Dante. 
<Brian> ( ;) ) 
* human-Kite flounces back to the car. 
<human-Kite> "Carrie, may we drive quickly? My brother is in pain." 
* parrotTisk stay on Carrie shoulder and suggest to roadkill all the ones we meet, for lulz" 
<Random_Nerd> (So, Kite, when does the bomb go off?) 
<Brian> (Ftisk is the devil on the shoulder. Always.) 
<parrotTisk> (right Brian!) 
<human-Kite> (Once we leave. Sort of a walking-away-from-a-bomb scene....but in a car.....driving swiftly.) 
<Theresa> (I prefer to be like Columbo, in my cop/detective work.) 
<Carrie> "Yes, of course." 
<Random_Nerd> (So, as you leave. Will you be going through the checkpoint again and so on, or just Aspect-driving in a frantic car chase all the way to Kabul?) 
<Brian> (The latter sounds more fun :D) 
<human-Kite> (We can checkpoint first.) 
<Carrie> (If I'm driving, the checkpoint route.) 
<parrotTisk> (aspect drive let the car surpass her speed limits?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. Then getting back is another forty minutes or so, if you don't do anything fancy to get there sooner.) 
* Carrie uses the drive to discuss strategy. 
<Random_Nerd> Boom! 
<Random_Nerd> What do you talk about, specifically, as you drive? 
<parrotTisk> "My plan is ... wow! Nice explosion!" 
* human-Kite pretends to be shocked. 
<Carrie> "I'm thinking there should be a way to defuse the Flower Rite on courage. Manipulate things so that it's no longer a threat to the Estate." 
* Brian ignores the explosion 
<Random_Nerd> Also audible to people with Aspect 2 or higher: people rushing around, providing medical attention, searching the camp... and no panic. 
<parrotTisk> "wow, His way is effective... no panic in the explosion place!" 
* Theresa _is_ shocked. "What in the...I didn't mean that we _should_ bomb them!" 
<human-Kite> "Maybe they're calmness was just too much for them." 
<Random_Nerd> About five minutes later, as you're driving to the checkpoint, a car breaks out of the line and heads straight for you. 
<parrotTisk> "Who did the bomb? Damn was a cool idea! I wish I had it!" 
<human-Kite> "We've got someone on our tail!" 
<Carrie> Lesser Div of Hope. What's the driver's goal? 
* Theresa LC plant matter filling the gas tank and engine compartment to stop the car. 
<Random_Nerd> To kill the six of you. 
<parrotTisk> oh! Finally something straight! 
<Random_Nerd> The car doesn't accelerate any more, but it's still heading towards you. 
<Theresa> "Kite, could you please disassemble that car?" 
<Random_Nerd> If you're going to do anything to stop it, it's going to have to be now. 
<Brian> (Arg, I want to do something fun like change the combustion temperature of gasoline fumes in the car's engine, but I can't remember mechanics right now! Arg!) 
<Random_Nerd> Three. 
<Random_Nerd> Two. 
<Carrie> Lesser Destruction of Hope 
<human-Kite> (can I?) 
<Carrie> Remove its ability to progress 
<Random_Nerd> On what? 
* parrotTisk lCreation of a gunpla to crash the car at 
<Carrie> Remove the car's ability to impact us. 
<Random_Nerd> You feel your miracle being blocked in some way by a stronger one. 
<Random_Nerd> The car impacts. 
<Brian> "Brace for ow!" 
* parrotTisk fly out 
<Random_Nerd> Which of you don't have Durant or a stronger equivalent? 
<Carrie> "Aah!" 
<Carrie> (I do not.) 
<parrotTisk> (Durant) 
<Random_Nerd> Those who do not, take a Normal wound. 
<human-Kite> (I have Durant) 
<Brian> (I do not, I believe. And I don't remember my wound tracks - would anything have healed recently enough?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, as you fly out, you see that a large bird is flying towards you. 
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<Random_Nerd> A raven, perhaps, or a big crow. 
<Random_Nerd> Looks very out of place here. 
<Random_Nerd> (The only wound you currently have is the Divine one you're missing, from the thing with your bones for JbJ.) 
* squidDragonTisk shoot myThought as molten silver (a gift I'm trying to learn) 
<Theresa> *Yells* "Ftisk! There are civilians around!" 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, it splutters, and a few streams of silver splatter out a few inches, and then fall. 
<Random_Nerd> (Minor failure.) 
* squidDragonTisk ignore Theresa and roar angrily 
<Random_Nerd> The bird is flying pretty quickly towards the stopped car. 
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and if not for what Theresa did to the engine and gas tank, the car would have also exploded.) 
<Theresa> (Only _we_ get to cause the cool explosions here!) 
* squidDragonTisk fly to intercept the bird 
* human-Kite throws a feather at the driver 
<Random_Nerd> The guy who was behind the wheel of the car is pretty beat up, but he starts to crawl out the windshield, and clutches a large shard of glass. 
<Theresa> (Hmm. I wonder if the pain of losing some of his protected buddies could have amped Jeremy's abilities...) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you feel a miracle starting to take hold on your mind, something that would alter your motivations. What do you do? 
<Theresa> (Is anyone paying attention to us?) 
<squidDragonTisk> I'll try to resist the miracle 
<Random_Nerd> (You're some distance from the checkpoint, but it's a flat road, and people can see you from about half a mile in either direction.) 
<Random_Nerd> How do you try to resist? 
<Random_Nerd> Do you take a wound, or use a miracle? 
* Theresa LC vines at the glass-dude's feet, to trip and hold him down. 
<squidDragonTisk> take a wound 
<Random_Nerd> They spring up, and he starts cutting his way through them. He seems to be doing so surprisingly quickly, especially given that he looks like he should be dead. 
<human-Kite> (Did the feather not hit him?) 
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, if you were not a noble, you would be affected by a miracle that would make you try to resolve this situation in a calm and reasonable manner. 
<Random_Nerd> What affliction do you take to resist this? 
<Random_Nerd> (Normal wound level.) 
<squidDragonTisk> reckless sound right as affliction 
<Random_Nerd> The feather hit him, and hurt him, but he seems to be running on crazy amounts of adrenaline right now, so it's not slowing him down. 
<Random_Nerd> He'll probably be dead within five minutes, though. 
<Random_Nerd> Bird, bellowing: "What is the meaning of this? What have you done?" 
<Brian> (Can I do a Miracle to change the amount of time he has left? I know that's a bit meta, but hey ^_^) 
* Theresa will vine him again. She can do this all day. 
<Random_Nerd> (What type of miracle?)_ 
<Random_Nerd> (Domain? Persona?) 
<Brian> (I'm thinking Persona would be appropriate, with a Motion?) 
<Random_Nerd> (...that's not a Persona miracle.) 
<Brian> (It isn't? ... Domain, then.) 
<Brian> (I'm mixed up -_-) 
* squidDragonTisk project Ftiskness on the raven to make him like me and stop attacking and start partying! 
<Random_Nerd> (Domain.) 
<Random_Nerd> Have you completed that project yet? 
<squidDragonTisk> yes version 1 without penetration is completed, working on step 2: add penetration! 
<Brian> (Well, I will try it with no Strike. What's the level of Miracle?) 
<Random_Nerd> Doesn't work, with no strike. 
<squidDragonTisk> can I add strike on the fly on gift? 
<Theresa> (Ftiskness isn't a Domain or really a Persona miracle, is it?) 
<squidDragonTisk> (never thinked of the mechanics, that side of the gift is all in RN hands) 
<Random_Nerd> One of the soldiers in a jeep about half a mile down suddenly raises his rifle and shoots at Ftisk. 
<Random_Nerd> (Fly on gift?) 
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<Random_Nerd> (I'm back.) 
<Random_Nerd> (It's an Enchantment of Ftiskness, as a Gift.) 
<Random_Nerd> Does anyone do anything to stop the bullet? 
<Theresa> "Crap, they're shooting at Ftisk." 
* human-Kite tosses a feather to intercept the bullet. 
<Random_Nerd> (What miracle level and strike are the feather?) 
<Carrie> ((Sorry, but I'm dozing off.)) 
<Carrie> ((Please finish the scene without me.)) 
<Brian> (Same. I'm trying to remember how Auctoritas works, and failing hard.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.) 
<human-Kite> (I.....have it costing 7 points and I think I have it based off Marsiglio's claw but....lesser?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Let me see your sheet, one moment.) 
<Carrie> ((Thanks for the game everyone. See you next week.)) 
<squidDragonTisk> (nn Eth) 
|<-- Carrie has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Destiny is choice.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Aspect 5 pen 3.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That suffices.) 
<Random_Nerd> The bullet is slashed out of the air by a thrown feather. 
<human-Kite> (Yay!) 
<Random_Nerd> The guy with the glass finally collapses. 
<squidDragonTisk> (ty Kite) 
<Random_Nerd> Bird: "Which of you did it?" 
<squidDragonTisk> (my project Ftiskness worked?) 
<Random_Nerd> (It didn't, it hit an Auctoritas of at least level 1.) 
<squidDragonTisk> (seem like not) 
<Random_Nerd> From the way the bird swoops, you can see that it isn't using any Aspect to do so. 
<Theresa> *softly* "Crap. This is _not_ calm." 
<Random_Nerd> "Which of you is the murderer?" 
<Random_Nerd> ________STOP____________ 
<Theresa> *falls over* 
=-= human-Kite is now known as Verithe 
<squidDragonTisk> awww! I want to project to the shooting soldier 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus 
<Theresa> I understand him. And yet I do not have the urge to point at Kite and yell, "It was all him!!!" I need to hang out with kindergarteners more. 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
<Random_Nerd> The shooting soldier is being wielded with a Treasure miracle, at the moment. 
<Random_Nerd> That was a Weaponizing Anchor attack. 
<Random_Nerd> But Kite beat it down with superior Strike. 
<Angelo> so at least violence ... and we are really rusty on that 
<Random_Nerd> Might be useful to review the rules in the next two weeks, then 
<Angelo> nod nod 
<lazarus> and I just found it :p Auct protects against Miracles, activate up to Persona rating, 1MP per point coming from somewhere. Needs to be overcome with Strike. Can protect a focus. Takes an action to create, and sustained action to keep it up 
<Random_Nerd> Yep. 
<Angelo> the shooter will be influenced by DA? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, he might. 
<Angelo> good 
<lazarus> so, RN: had I raised an Auc, would it have stopped the bullet? 
<Random_Nerd> Of course, it would be less likely if he were under the effects of some miracle that causes him to view everything calmly and dispassionately. 
<Random_Nerd> You know, hypothetically. 
<Random_Nerd> Depends on the level. 
<Random_Nerd> It had /some/ strike on it, but you know from Kite's action that it had three or less. 
<Angelo> ok, I have to start change shape each turn just in case... 
<Random_Nerd> Remember, there aren't "turns" in a 2nd edition sense. 
<Random_Nerd> Instead, unless there's a flurry, it goes "One of you guys does something, an NPC does something, one of you guys does something, an NPC does something", more or less. 
<lazarus> I need to remember to get myself a miracle level chart, as I no longer remember them. 
<lazarus> *hangs head in shame*\ 
<Angelo> each time I act then 
<Angelo> funny is I have all at my main pc 
<lazarus> (ooooo, PoD of the Deceiver book in color ...) 
<Angelo> now on the lil one I'm a bit lost 
<Verithe> (Yes!) 
<Verithe> The crow? 
<Random_Nerd> Lil one? 
<Angelo> usually I play from my pc in the living room but with Gio’s mother here sleeping there I had to take the notebook and play from the kitchen 
<Verithe> Oh! 
<Random_Nerd> Ah. 
<Angelo> so no handy printed sheets with charts and stuffs 
<lazarus> I'm going to call it a night (half past midnight; worked late tonight, possibly working late tomorrow ...) 
* Angelo pat laz 
<Random_Nerd> G'night, guys. 
<Angelo> nn lazarus 
<Random_Nerd> Next week is Chuubo. 
<Verithe> G'night! 
<Random_Nerd> After that, Amyra. 
<Angelo> and how is chuubo going? 
<Angelo> Night all the ones leaving 
<Random_Nerd> Nearly to the end of the story arc. 
<Verithe> Sorry that Kite punched Jeremy in the feels! 
<Angelo> nice to hear, have fuhuun next week :-) 
<Angelo> how many point a normal failure grant? 5? 
<Random_Nerd> Well, you had a trivial failure, and I believe that is 3. 
<Random_Nerd> (It'd be a major failure if you devoted significant on-screen time and effort to it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (But since you just tried for a moment and it didn't work, trivial.) 
<Angelo> ok , trivial for spray molten silver and trivial too for the project Ftiskness, right? 
<Random_Nerd> You know, I really like the Quest rules better than the Project ones. 
<Random_Nerd> Both, yes. 
<Verithe> Yes? 
<Angelo> but quests have sense if you have a pre gen char with a known backstory you can custom these Quest to and then are there player made-able ones? 
* Angelo add 3 to both projects 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, hey, V, I hadn't noticed that you did the Milkmay art before. 
<Random_Nerd> I like it. 
<Random_Nerd> Not as much as the Chibi-serpent, but still. 
<Verithe> Yes! Thank you! 
<Random_Nerd> And the other two flower ones. 
<Random_Nerd> Nice work. 
<Verithe> Thanks! 
<Random_Nerd> Anyway, it's nearly midnight here, so I gotta go before my brain turns into a pumpkin. 
<Random_Nerd> Later, guys? 
<Verithe> Take care! 
<Random_Nerd> Err... . 
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* Angelo making breakfast for Angelo&kids 
<BethE> Night, guys! *HUG* 
<Angelo> night all! was great meet all again :) 
|<-- BethE has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
* Verithe waves. :) 
|<-- Verithe has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.90 [Firefox 18.0.2/20130201065344]) 
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[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]

Session 246

2013-12-03T11:45:49Z

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[[Chancel_Amyra]] 
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]] 
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo 
<Verithe> Hi, Angelo! 
<BethE> Hi Angelo! 
<Angelo> I hope everyone is fine. 
<BethE> V - yeah. I'm trying to think if there's a type of Noble or Imperator who would send that sort of kitten. 
<BethE> And is there a Noble of Sneezing? Or is that an Excrucian estate since Imperators don't get sneezes? 
<Verithe> She's a Noble of the Darklord Lachesis. 
<BethE> Ah, the middle Fate. 
<Verithe> Yes 
<Random_Nerd> The one that... measures? 
<Angelo> middle fate? 
<Verithe> Yup 
<Verithe> Lachesis 
<BethE> The three fates, maiden, mother and crone. Forget the other two names, off the top of my head, though. 
<Verithe> Clotho and Atropos 
<Knockwood> Chronos and Atropos, I think 
<Knockwood> ah, V's got it 
<BethE> One who spins the thread of life, one who measures the length of your life and the last who cuts it off at the appropriate time. 
<BethE> Yeah, Chronos was Time. 
<Angelo> cool 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and... excrucian kitty: http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l179/RandNer/ExcrucianKitty_zps2c4c9078.jpg 
<BethE> *iz wiped out of existence* 
<Verithe> But the Noble was Leda, the hamster Noble of Absurdity. 
<Angelo> cuuute! Ftisk want 10 of them! 
<Verithe> omg kitten 
<Knockwood> aw, what a kyoot little enemy of Creation! 
<BethE> Sure, kitten, you can have my Estate! 
<Angelo> So kitten vs Plant win? :-P 
<BethE> Kitten vs Beth = Kitten wins. ^^ 
<Random_Nerd> So, start in nine minutes, with or without Laz. 
<Angelo> I need a recap... 
<BethE> Your estate is under attack. Sorry. :( 
<Angelo> 2 estates are if I recall correctly 
<Random_Nerd> Yes. 
<Random_Nerd> You and Dante are both under attack. 
<Knockwood> Ayep. 
<Knockwood> And since I was here and you weren't we're going after mine first 
<Angelo> make sense 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and it's Machinery, not Data, that's under attack. 
<Angelo> and we are in an university with alien bees? 
<Verithe> Wait, again? 
<Knockwood> Separate attack, but two at the same time is very suspicious 
<Angelo> oh, machinery... damn! My principal one! 
<Angelo> And Dante's attach is on courage or on blades? 
<BethE> At the moment, we are in Kabul, Afghanistan. 
<Random_Nerd> You have led a soldier to believe that you're trying to sell contraband to soldiers, and he's told you who to talk to do that. 
<Knockwood> Although you could argue that if, like you said, there's no W on this world, then there's no reason to have US soldiers here. 
<Random_Nerd> Eh, it's Afghanistan. There's always /some/ kind of war going on there. 
<Random_Nerd> I think it's an Estate Property or something. 
<Knockwood> Yeah, but without W there's no reason for the US to be involved 
<Random_Nerd> 9/11 may have still happened. 
<Random_Nerd> If it was Iraq, sure. 
<Random_Nerd> But Afghanistan actually kinda had a reason. 
<Knockwood> Probably not. If someone who wasn't... special... was in charge they probably would have caught the Saudi and Yemeni guys who were interested in flying but not landing. 
<Verithe> We can always assume Something happened, anyway. It's not like we have been terribly involved in American politics in this campaign. 
<Knockwood> True 
<Random_Nerd> Indeed. 
<Angelo> *nod 
<BethE> There are soldiers, they speak English, enough said. They could be Canadian. 
<Verithe> Noooo! Someone pissed off Canada! 
<Angelo> australian, british.... 
<Knockwood> That takes a lot. 
<Verithe> South African, Kiwi.... 
<Knockwood> Aussie I'd believe. "Why are you here?" "They looked at us funny, mate" 
<Angelo> lol 
<BethE> They insulted the beer? 
<Random_Nerd> But, at any rate, NATO troops are there, largely fighting an insurgency. 
<Random_Nerd> Any questions before we start? 
<Knockwood> OK 
<Angelo> How much pain Ftisk feel? 
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa 
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE 
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite 
<Random_Nerd> It hurts, but it won't be excruciating... uh, so to speak... for another day or two. 
=-= Kite is now known as human-Kite 
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk 
<Random_Nerd> Say, like a bad headache, right now. 
<Ftisk> ok, thank you 
<Random_Nerd> _____________START_____________ 
<DanteE> (What's Ftisk look like?) 
<Theresa> *whispers* "Is it weird that all this calm is making me really nervous?" 
<Ftisk> (one parrot, on T shoulder) 
<Random_Nerd> So, you're in the Dantemobile, outside a semi-permanent military encampment. From the guy you talked to earlier, you have a way to make contact with someone who will think you're selling drugs, porn, and/or food. 
<Theresa> (Drugs, food, I can handle. Someone else gets porn duty. :) ) 
<Ftisk> "Craaa! Ftisk want a crackers! craaa! Ftisk want an analgesic!" 
<DanteE> (Ftisk.) 
<Ftisk> (I volunteer for porn!) 
<Theresa> (True. Data covers that.) 
<DanteE> (As for Drugs... you might want to start distributing them now to get rid of any resistance later.) 
<Theresa> (Would an aspirin help Ftisk or does that not go with metal snail physiology?) 
<Theresa> (I think openly handing out weed as we walk around will probably get the MPs on us.) 
<DanteE> (Willow bark has salicylic acid IIRC) 
<Ftisk> (I don’t know but Ftisk is willing to risk) 
<Random_Nerd> So, do you go to try to contact Sally and say that Jim sent you, or do you have other plans? 
<DanteE> (Jim is the soldier who sent us here?) 
<Theresa> (I'm for that Sally part.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. Or, at least, he said to say that Jim sent you.) 
<Random_Nerd> (May not be his real name, you didn't check.) 
* Theresa offers Ftisk some willow bark with high high concentrations of salicylic acid to see if that will help the pain any. 
* Ftisk chomp the bark hastily 
* DanteE has his sword that looks like a cane 
<Theresa> (Did we get directions to Sally?) 
<Random_Nerd> (A basic description of what she looks like, and where to look for her.) 
* Theresa will head toward Sally! 
* Ftisk chirp! 
<DanteE> "Just to stay incognito, how about if you create some stocks of fruit in my trunk." 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, at the fence outside the encampment, there are several soldiers who appear to be on guard duty, and several more who appear to be just hanging out. 
<Random_Nerd> The overall mood is attentive, but casual. 
* DanteE checks out the scene with The Sight. 
<human-Kite> "You have a trunk?!" 
<Theresa> "Got it." (Hee, to V. :) ) 
<DanteE> "The _car's_ trunk, Kite." 
<human-Kite> "The car has a trunk?!" 
<Ftisk> "T, my infiltration plan: go before a soldier, transmute into a pink elephant -> make it nut. Repeat as needed" 
<Random_Nerd> The main thing you see is that Courage in the area is... hmm, like a limb that's had the circulation cut off for long enough that it's gone numb, and is starting to die. 
<DanteE> "Ftisk, we've told you, making mortals lose their marbles is a bad thing." 
<Random_Nerd> No Noble beings in sight, no active major miracles, but a glimmer that suggests the presence of recent minor ones. 
<Ftisk> "BUT is 4 a good cause" *pout* 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, you see a woman in the "hanging out" group who appears to match the description "Jim" gave you. 
<DanteE> "Shall we?" 
<human-Kite> "Yes." 
* DanteE pops the trunk and steps out of the car. 
<Ftisk> "Engine full on!" 
<Theresa> "Ftisk, soldiers who get DA will probably kill other humans in the area, given that these folks are highly trained to be able to do that. And we're not supposed to get regular humans killed." 
<Random_Nerd> There is a fence separating you from the area with the big tents and so forth, but you could probably drive over it if you wanted to. 
<Ftisk> "bah, details!" 
<human-Kite> "What's in the butt, Dante?" 
<Random_Nerd> Alternatively, Theresa has spotted Sally. 
* Theresa gets out of the car. "*waves* "Uh, Sally?" 
<DanteE> quietly: "Not to mention we're not supposed to sow DA." 
<DanteE> I'm assuming, among other things, a basket of oranges 
<Ftisk> "legal ropes to bind us all" 
<Theresa> (Year. And pomegranates. Apples too.) 
<Random_Nerd> She looks at you with a curious but calm expression. 
<Random_Nerd> S: "That's me. What do you want?" 
* DanteE takes the oranges over to Sally. 
<human-Kite> "Are there fish in the carbutt?" 
<Ftisk> "cirp! Ftisk want a fig!" 
<Random_Nerd> The two on active gate duty don't actively point their guns at Theresa, just rest hands near them in a casual fashion. 
<Theresa> "Jim sent us! We have a nice assortment of fruit and other plant-based substances." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "And we do love our plant-based substances." 
<DanteE> Anything 'special' about Sally? 
<Random_Nerd> She catches the eye of one of the on-duty guys, and nods. He returns to his previous posture. 
<Random_Nerd> Special in what sense? 
<Theresa> (Worship me!!! *evil laughter* Sorry, I'm enjoying good hot chocolate...) 
* Ftisk look at sally with one eye and the other alternatively 
<DanteE> (anything that show up on The Sight or Mythic) 
<Theresa> "No, Kite." *slips Ftisk a fig* 
* human-Kite sighs 
<DanteE> "Who wants fresh oranges?" 
* Theresa takes a couple of bags of apples and heads toward the break in the fence. 
* Ftisk munch merrily 
<Random_Nerd> To the Sight... no, not really. She's human, but doesn't have any particular connection with Courage. 
<Random_Nerd> Although that is noteworthy in itself, in the "curious incident of the dog in the nighttime" sense. For soldiers in an active war zone, none of these guys seem to have particular connections with Courage. 
<DanteE> (did I tell you I've read the SH stories?) 
<Random_Nerd> Mythically, her face is the same, but her clothes are those of a middle-class renaissance Englishman. 
<Random_Nerd> (You're a nerd. Haven't we all read them?) 
<DanteE> (Depends on the specific nerd type) 
<Ftisk> (SH stories?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Sherlock Holmes.) 
<Random_Nerd> Sally: "Walk with me, and let's talk about what you can bring." 
<Ftisk> (ah) 
<human-Kite> (I was an Agatha Christie nerd.) 
<Theresa> (I was both! ^^ ) 
<Random_Nerd> Clearly she has some kind of arrangement with the guys guarding the gate, because they don't seem to have any problem with you going in with her. 
* Theresa will walk and talk with Sally. "Be right back, guys. Keep bringing stuff in." 
<Random_Nerd> You don't look particularly terroristish, but still. 
<DanteE> (RN ref'd one. "(I direct your attention) to the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident.") 
* Theresa looks like your average kindergarden teacher! 
* DanteE looks like a white recent graduate. 
<Random_Nerd> Sally: "So, where's the accent from? South African?" 
<DanteE> "Little north of there. Well, it was." 
* human-Kite looks a little flamboyant. 
<Theresa> "Yep. Specializing in imports/exports. We had heard that there were some troops in the area, thought we'd give a try of some of our goods." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Ah, one of those little countries that has revolutions about twice a year?" 
<DanteE> "Not quite." 
<Theresa> "The owner of the country has changed recently." 
<DanteE> to a soldier: "Don't forget the limes." 
* human-Kite looks for more things in the car to bring in. 
<Random_Nerd> "Well, anyway. So, you sell food, legit-type stuff, as well as anything more sensitive?" 
<DanteE> "They go well with tequila, after all." 
<Theresa> (I can't do alcohol very quickly, Dante.) 
<DanteE> (Booze will find a way. :) ) 
<Theresa> (It takes time. I can do agave nectar and _wait_.) 
<Theresa> "Well, I do have some herbal... remedies." 
<Theresa> "For those who subscribe to alternative medicines." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Uppers? Downers? Pot? More exotic stuff?" 
<human-Kite> (morning glory seeds....like LSD!) 
<DanteE> (Poppy seeds=Heroin.) 
<human-Kite> (Or just opium) 
<human-Kite> (marijuana's easy) 
<human-Kite> (peyote) 
<Random_Nerd> (Opium's actually going to be in oversupply here.0 
<Theresa> (Opiums easy around here. Weed is scarce.) 
<DanteE> (Point.) 
<Theresa> "Mostly pot. Some peyote." 
<human-Kite> (Right) 
<Random_Nerd> (But, let's see. Peyote. Pot.) 
<DanteE> (She can do mushrooms?) 
<Random_Nerd> (LSD's out, that's from ergot and requires some chemical work.) 
<Theresa> (No photosynthesis.) 
<human-Kite> (But the morning glory seeds?) 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Peyote? That's pretty far from home." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. She could do some hallucinogens. Salvia divinorum doesn't take much lab work.) 
* Theresa smiles. "I like to keep my hand in a variety of unusual plants." 
<Theresa> "Oh and I can do caffeine." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "And it is amazing what decent pot costs here. And you'd be surprised how many guys here used to smoke the stuff a lot back home." 
* Ftisk cirp "Dude that stuff is f....ing good!" 
<Random_Nerd> S: "So, if you've got it, I can move it, in pretty high quantities. Peyote... I'll have to talk to some people about that, see who's interested." 
<Theresa> *nod* "What's the mood in the camp? Anyone who would make a big deal about it or that I should be wary that I'm moving in on their turf?" 
<DanteE> "Indeed, we'd like to get to know our customers. What's happening here?" 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Well, the officers will pretend to care, and if you actually get yourself caught, it would be really bad for you. But unofficially... they know that this happens, and as long as guys aren't stoned when they're on duty and they keep it to themselves, the brass don't care that much." 
<Theresa> "Do the chaplains care? Some of the ones back home can be on a big 'no drugs' kick at times." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Everything's pretty calm here. The (pejorative term)s appear to all be taking stupid pills, and a few of their idiotic attacks have actually worked, but most are like being mugged by a clown with a seltzer bottle." 
<Theresa> "Weird. If they're on something, I've got to get me some." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "But really, everyone's pretty chill." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Whatever it is, it's gotta make your balls grow to three times their natural size and try to eat your brain." 
* Ftisk chirp "Braaaaaaainz!" 
<Theresa> "Darn, the best I've got is only two times natural size and has a warning if that goes on for more than four hours..." 
<DanteE> "Any talk about going to them?" 
<Random_Nerd> S: "So, what kind of volumes are we talking, here? Dime bags? Backpacks? Or will I have to arrange for you to bring a truck in?" 
<Random_Nerd> S, to Dante: "Going to who?" 
<DanteE> "Taking the fight to the insurgents." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Well, that's why we're here, in theory. But right now, all we have to do is send some guys around, and watch some asshole with more nuts than sense go crazy and try to stab them with a fork." 
* Ftisk chirp "fork .... fork ... Ftisk want some pork!" 
<Theresa> "Backpacks at the moment." *looks around* "Guy at the gate said there was a cool preacher dude around. Can we meet him?" 
<human-Kite> "A fork?" 
<DanteE> quietly, to T: "Courage is motivating." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Oh, Rhinehart? He'll be starting up in half an hour or so. Just wait for the bell. I'm sure he'd be fine with you showing up, even though you're outsiders." 
<human-Kite> (does parrot Ftisk have a little pirate patch over his missing eye? Because that would be awesome.) 
<Theresa> "He have a problem with civilians?" 
<Ftisk> (sure!) 
<human-Kite> (Yessss!) 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Well, you're not /us/, y'know? But still, you're not trying to kill us, and you had a welcome from Jim, so..." 
<Theresa> "Understandable. Can we walk around or should we stick close to you?" 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Stick with me, at least until I can make some welcomes for you and some of the customers." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Oh, you said you can get food, too. I gotta ask... twinkies? Any way you can get some serious quantities of those?" 
<Theresa> "Cool. My parrot here might fly around sometimes. Hope no one takes a pot shot at him." 
<Theresa> (Hmm. A) Does Amyra have twinkies. And B, can I move them from Amyra to here?) 
* Ftisk chirp "Scumbags! Slit their throats and piss on their hea... harrr harr harr!" 
<Random_Nerd> S: "No promises. Still, he looks cool. Proooobably won't get shot." 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Yes, and what's your Things Of Amyra Domain?) 
<human-Kite> (Maybe the loss of Amyra is why Hostess went bankrupt?) 
<Random_Nerd> (You probably have off-brand Twinkies, though.) 
<Theresa> (3) 
<Theresa> (Ack. 2) 
<Random_Nerd> (I can't imagine Little Debbie having factories there.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Err, Hostess.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Summoning is a level 4 miracle, I believe.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Lesser Summoning could get you a single crate, I figure.) 
<Theresa> *looks around, shifty* "I have a crate of them in the trunk of the car, but they're pricey." 
<DanteE> (Excuse the inattention, Family Tech Support) 
<Random_Nerd> S: "The real thing, or some weird Chinese brand or something?" 
<Theresa> "Off-brand but English-speaking country-quality. High fructose corn syrup and everything." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "How big of a crate?" 
<human-Kite> "I'll grab it!" 
<human-Kite> "Is it in the carbutt?" 
* Ftisk cirp "yeah butter!" 
<Theresa> "Go for it, Kite." 
<Theresa> (How big? Box of paper big?) 
* human-Kite flounces to the car 
<Theresa> (Lesser Summoning, Amyran Twinkies, box twice the size of a banker-box.) 
* Ftisk look like want to fly on Sally shoulder 
<Random_Nerd> She waves a hand irritatedly at Ftisk. 
* Ftisk chirp "seed?" 
* human-Kite brings the box back. 
<Random_Nerd> She looks at the size of it, and her eyes gleam with avarice. 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Hmm. Big box, but offbrand... how fresh are they?" 
<Theresa> "Just delivered to our supplier." 
<Random_Nerd> She calculates mentally. "Three hundred bucks American, if they're as good as you say." 
<DanteE> "Well, they're Twinkies, so 'good' is relative." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Hey, and if they aren't, I can probably have you shot. Won't even have to make up a story, just say you lied about Twinkies. Some things are /sacred/." 
<Theresa> "It is your right." 
<Random_Nerd> And with that, someone starts ringing a big bell, in front of one of the larger tent-structures. 
* Ftisk chip at Dante "Twinkie are da rule!" 
<Random_Nerd> People start heading over from all over the encampment. 
<human-Kite> "I heard that some people worshiped those things, but I never knew it was true until today." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Listen, we can finish negotiating later, I gotta go. Come with, if you want." 
<DanteE> "She's exaggerating, Kite." 
* Ftisk chirp "Mortar!!! Goddam mortar!!! Take cooover!" 
<human-Kite> "Oh. It has yet to be confirmed, then." 
<DanteE> to Ftisk: "Don't panic the soldiers, please." 
* Theresa will follow. *whispers to others* "If need be, we can throw the crate and get away in the scrum." 
* Ftisk chirp " 'key bossSSss" 
* human-Kite follows Sally. 
* DanteE follows Sally with a basket of oranges. 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone files in and sits down in metal folding chairs in a big pavilion. 
* Theresa will take a seat at the back. 
<Random_Nerd> Up front is a man standing at a podium that appears to have been handmade by people with more enthusiasm than carpentry ability. 
* human-Kite also sits in the back 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone who's come in is sitting quietly. There's no joking, swearing, spotting of tobacco, or /anything/. It's uncanny. 
* Ftisk looks around in the view 
<DanteE> "We should be off to one side and let them do their thing, I think." 
<Random_Nerd> And then the man walks in and stands at the podium. He's dressed in a military uniform that's halfway between desert camo and full dress uniform. He's about average height, and in his late twenties or early thirties. 
<Random_Nerd> And he has stars in his eyes. 
<Theresa> (If we stand when everyone else is sitting, we stand out." 
<Theresa> (Crapola.) 
<DanteE> (Paydirt.) 
<Random_Nerd> He doesn't talk for long. On paper, everything he says would seem trite and facile. 
<Random_Nerd> But people seem to be responding. 
<DanteE> (Silly question: what's he look like to Sight & Mythic?) 
<human-Kite> (Responding in what sort of way?) 
<Random_Nerd> (It makes you a little queasy to look, Sight-wise.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Mythically, he looks the same, but about thirty feet tall, and wearing a crown of thorns.) 
<Ftisk> (a crown? another king?) 
<Random_Nerd> Above all else, he talks about how they don't have to be afraid. That they don't even have to worry about overcoming their fear, because they can just stop feeling it. That's an /option/. That they can do without it, and just be calm and careful and professional. 
<Random_Nerd> (He doesn't have the same enormous, offputting presence as Shirk does.) 
<Ftisk> (can be a shard then) 
<human-Kite> (This doesn't sound like Shirking, though) 
<Random_Nerd> The whole idea that you can just decide to stop having an emotion, and act rationally instead, is silly. But nobody says that. 
<Random_Nerd> Instead, they listen intently. 
<Ftisk> (or a misguided poor fated, tempered noble that Ftisk will want to help) 
<Random_Nerd> Okay, each one of you, you feel a miracle trying to take hold on you. It's trying to remove the emotion of fear from your minds. What do you do? 
<DanteE> (What effect would it have on me?) 
<Random_Nerd> You can resist it with a miracle of your own. You can take a wound to not let it take hold. You can allow it. Or you can do some crazy-ass Player Character thing that I haven't thought of. 
<Random_Nerd> As far as you can tell, the only effect would be to prevent you from feeling fear for somewhere from a couple days to a week. 
<Random_Nerd> What do you do? 
<Ftisk> (Ftisk have little use for fear so let it do its work) 
<DanteE> (Let it go.) 
<Theresa> (Take a wound.) 
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, mark down a Surface wound. 
<DanteE> (He might notice that.) 
<human-Kite> (Theresa: "Stigmata") 
<Random_Nerd> Kite? 
<Ftisk> (Theresa in our tank) 
<Theresa> (I _do_ have a tendency to get hurt in our scuffles. :) ) 
<human-Kite> (Is there a way to have Aspect fear of this affecting Kite and therefore blocking it?) 
<DanteE> (And is the nature of the attack specific to my thing that "Courage _counters_ fear"?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Starting to seem like that's at least /part/ of it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Doesn't explain the crazy insurgents, though.) 
<Random_Nerd> Everyone, even the normally scheming and sardonic Sally, looks up with reverent eyes. 
<DanteE> ("is essential to (self-) sacrifice") 
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Yeah, you could use Aspect to try to get yourself scared, and so resist it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (What level of miracle do you use?) 
<human-Kite> (hrmmm) 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and Dante, as you feel the fear stripping itself from your mind, you feel something else at the same time. A sudden stab of pain. 
* DanteE bears it without flinching 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "I hear a lot of people talking about courage, how it's all about overcoming your fear and doing good in spite of it. But I say that courage is obsolete. You don't /need/ it when you can just get your head straight, and evaluate the dangers with a calm and level mind." 
<human-Kite> (Aspect 3?) 
<DanteE> (There's the attack.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Do you use Aspect 3 or some other level, V?) 
<human-Kite> (Aspect 3!) 
<human-Kite> (Final answer.) 
<Theresa> (Someone's been drinking the Fear is the Mind Killer coffee a bit much.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Doesn't work. It isn't even close, and since you'd be able to tell if that was a major miracle, that means he's using Strike.) 
<Random_Nerd> (So, accept the effect or take a Wound, Kite?) 
<human-Kite> (Take a Wound) 
<Random_Nerd> (Mark down a surface wound, then.) 
<human-Kite> (done) 
<Theresa> (Hmm, he's doing this a lot. So he can't be spending MPs on it.) 
<Random_Nerd> (That means a Gift or a Bond.) 
<Random_Nerd> The chaplain with stars in his eyes finishes his pep-talk, and then stands and waits while various soldiers and support staff come up and talk with him. 
<DanteE> (We'd know if it was WBH, right?) 
<Random_Nerd> Sally: "Didn't I tell you?" 
<human-Kite> "Yes." 
<DanteE> "You did indeed." 
<Theresa> "He is impressive." 
<Random_Nerd> (This doesn't feel like that. It's not a Destruction at all, it's something else.) 
<DanteE> "Now, he's the one we should talk to about... distribution, yes?" 
<Random_Nerd> (It's not about destroying fear, but about turning people into the kind of people who don't feel fear.) 
<Random_Nerd> Sally: "Well, don't mention... anything too spicy to him. Cool or not, he's still a preacher-man." 
<Random_Nerd> She stands up, looking a little lightheaded for a moment, and then stretches. 
<DanteE> "Yes, indeed. Later we should definitely debate some of the finer points of theology." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Oh, he's always happy to talk with anyone." 
<Theresa> (Yeah, the finer points. Our God can beat up Your God.) 
* Ftisk chip "Theology is for the fools, whores are for true pirates!" 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Hell, a week or so ago I'd almost gotten shot, and I had the shakes, y'know, and I got him up at... must have been three in the morning. And he was fine with that!" 
<human-Kite> "Why did you joint this force, Sally?" 
<Random_Nerd> S: "You could tell he was tired, even with those weird dark eyes of his, but he still... yeah." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Because somebody convinced me that a life as a small-town pot dealer was going nowhere fast. This way, I might even be able to go to college, if I want to." 
<human-Kite> "Ah." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "And, sure, sometimes people try to shoot me here. But somebody tried to stab me once or twice back home, and I'll take bullets over blades any day." 
<Random_Nerd> S: "Best decision I ever made, not that that's a particularly competitive ranking." 
<DanteE> (Sure, go after my other Estate.) 
<Random_Nerd> The last few people talking with the chaplain are starting to head out, and the pavilion is mostly empty at this point. 
<DanteE> (What's the pavilion made of?) 
* Ftisk whisper to T "gang up and attack him in the night" 
<Random_Nerd> (Canvas, wood, and aluminum.) 
<DanteE> to Ftisk: "Hang on, let him explain himself. Don't forget the last 'attack'." 
<Ftisk> "Better tie him up first then, put a dressing of concrete and then talk" 
<Random_Nerd> Sally: "So, off-brand twinkies. Three hundred bucks sound good?" 
<DanteE> "We may be able to get more boxes... 
<Theresa> "Sounds fair to me. Want the box now and the cash at the end of the whole deal?" 
<Theresa> (I am not going to go through all of my MPs smuggling Twinkies when we're going to have a fight soon. :P ) 
<Random_Nerd> Sally: "Good, that'll let me sell some of it to get the cash together." 
<DanteE> "While you're at it, why not sell some of these (oranges) as well." 
<DanteE> "For those who eat healthy. 
<Theresa> (No one's going to buy oranges when there are _twinkies_.) 
<Ftisk> (point and set to Theresa) 
<DanteE> (They gotta run out sometime) 
<Random_Nerd> Sally: "People who want healthy can get... acceptably foodlike substances... from the mess. Twinkies and pizza, now there's a market." 
<DanteE> (And... it gets the mundanes the hell out of the tent.) 
<Theresa> (The people who buy oranges are going to be the ones who can't afford twinkies.) 
<Random_Nerd> The chaplain, starting to head out, nods in a friendly way at Sally. 
<DanteE> "Ah, chaplain? 
<Random_Nerd> He stops. 
<DanteE> "We've brought food. I wonder if we could talk in private..." 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "Certainly. Ah... you're out of uniform, and I don't know you." 
<DanteE> "Yes you do." 
<Random_Nerd> He holds out a hand. "Jeremy Rhinehart." 
* Ftisk chirp "look at my eye bro" *wink* 
<DanteE> (Everyone else out of here?) 
<Random_Nerd> A few stragglers, Sally's still hanging out near Theresa, but mostly empty. 
* DanteE shakes the hand. "Dante." 
<Theresa> *to Sally* "You go ahead with the twinkies, we'll meet up after a talk with the rev here and I can show you the rest of the stuff." 
<Random_Nerd> She nods. "You find me, or I'll find you." 
* DanteE picks up an orange. 
<Random_Nerd> Chaplain: "Did you just get transferred, or are you a civilian visiting our little oasis in the desert?" 
<DanteE> "We brought some fresh foodstuffs." 
<Theresa> "Civvies, visiting. We noticed the fine preaching and had to stop by." 
<DanteE> "And we wanted to hear your little sermon." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Ah. Food. Okay, you're some of those guys. Well, the troops do need help keeping their morale up, I suppose. Even with fear out of the equation, there's still boredom and tiredness, and I haven't figured out how to make /those/ go away." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "What'd you think?" 
<DanteE> quietly, to the others: "Everyone out, seal the doors." 
<DanteE> "Well, I do think there are some alternate interpretations that you might consider." 
* Ftisk fly to the doors and start sealing them 
<human-Kite> "We should have brought video games." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Oh?" 
<DanteE> "You know what, I should introduce myself further. Dante, Dominus Animus. 
<DanteE> "Not tell us what the hell you're doing here." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I... is that a Catholic thing?" 
<Theresa> "Do you happen to know that you have stars falling in your eyes?" 
<human-Kite> (Tent or pavilion) 
<Ftisk> "like the ones in my eyes Dante" 
<DanteE> "It's a _defender of Creation_ thing." 
* Ftisk shapechange in Conrad shape 
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Yeah. That happened... like, a month back. Still trying to figure it out... yes! Your parrot does..." 
* human-Kite sighs 
<Random_Nerd> C: "So it happened to you, too! I'm glad to finally have someone else to talk with about this!" 
* DanteE calms down a bit. "What happened, exactly?" 
* Conrad bring a chair for the rev 
<Theresa> (A month back...was breach day?) 
<Theresa> (No, that was longer ago.) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah.) 
<human-Kite> (....Deceiver?) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Ah, yeah, you haven't heard enough of these to hear the whole story. Well, when I first got sent over here, I was afraid all the time. Every sound in the middle of the night, every dirty look from one of the guys I was supposed to be helping." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "But then I... had this dream. And I saw this /thing/. It was..." 
<Random_Nerd> He gestures vaguely. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "It was this /thing/. And I realized that I don't have to be afraid any more. That /nobody/ does." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "And ever since then, I can /do/ things. Crazy things. But mostly, I just... tell people about what I found out. That they don't have to be afraid any more." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Was that how it was for you?" 
<Random_Nerd> That last, to Ftisk. 
<Conrad> "I fight an enemy of creation and then eat his raw heart and melt with him" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "...so, no, then." 
<DanteE> "There are ... several ways." 
<Random_Nerd> He looks sad. 
* Conrad pats him 
<DanteE> (Wait, we have that touch-thing, right?) 
<Conrad> "light up, you still haven't destroyed nothing .. still" 
<Random_Nerd> (I don't think that's a thing in 3e.) 
<Theresa> "What other things can you do?" 
<Random_Nerd> C, to the rest of you: "Did something like that happen to you?" 
<DanteE> (Dim Warding.) 
<human-Kite> "I guess, without fear there would be an increase in crime...." 
<Random_Nerd> C, to Theresa: "I can turn into a /bird/. Really. Like he did, so I thought..." 
<DanteE> "Well, thing is you have it basically wrong. 
<human-Kite> "But there might also be an increase in crime fighters." 
<Theresa> (There would be an increase in a lot of things. Without the fear of getting caught, about anything could happen.) 
<DanteE> "You can't eliminate fear, that make someone less human. 
<human-Kite> "What sort of bird?" 
<Conrad> (and that is a cool thing) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "And one time, someone shot at me, and I'd swear that it hit me, but I didn't even feel it, it was like it just passed through." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Sure I can. I just did." 
<Theresa> "Huh. You vision friend was a bird." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "It works." 
<DanteE> "But courage can _counter_ fear. 
<Theresa> (Kite can outbird him!) 
<DanteE> "Well, I mean in general. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "But if you don't have fear, you don't /need/ courage. My way is better." 
<Conrad> (go kite go!) 
<DanteE> "Yes, but at the cost of humanity. 
<Conrad> "But him is the embodiment of courage" 
<DanteE> (OK, Psych degree going in...) 
* human-Kite magical transformation sequence! 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Humanity... I'm not even sure what that means, any more." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Maybe it's just holding us back." 
<DanteE> "Fear is, unfortunately, necessary. It's what 'encourages' the soldiers to avoid fire. 
<Random_Nerd> Either he's good at faking it, or he really believes what he's saying. 
<Random_Nerd> Of course, Excrucians are often good at faking it. 
<human-Kite> "Holding them back from what?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "They know that they don't want to be shot. You don't need that visceral twist in the gut to know that bullets hurt." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Besides, sometimes you have to do something that means you might get shot. Then fear just gets in the way." 
<DanteE> "So, _fear_ of pain?" 
<DanteE> "You're contradicting yourself." 
<human-Kite> "What if that something is a crime?" 
* Conrad light a cigar and enjoy the metaphysical debate "T. some popcorn please?" 
<human-Kite> "What if that something gets innocent people hurt?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Nah. You can know that you would prefer something, without getting all emotional about it." 
<human-Kite> "What if someone wants to commit a crime, but they've been afraid to?" 
<DanteE> "If there is no fear, what is heroism, then? 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I think that they get hurt less, this way. They're clear-headed, and they can think straight when they're in trouble. Less men have died since I started telling them this than died before. A fair few less. I've been keeping track." 
<Conrad> "no emotional like robot-like people? we have them on Vulcan, don’t work that way, sorry" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "But it /does/. Didn't you feel it when I was talking?" 
<DanteE> "You realize, technically, the insurgents feel the same way." 
<human-Kite> "That's because the other side is still afraid, right?" 
* Theresa hands Conrad a bag of popcorn. 
<Random_Nerd> He has a sly look. "Ah, no. No, they don't. See, I've been talking to them, but I've told them... something different." 
<DanteE> "At least one side has to know fear, otherwise there is no end to battles." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "They're /very/ big on courage." 
<Conrad> "Thank you T." *munch munch* 
<Theresa> "Oh?" 
<Conrad> "and increasing courage in a side and removing fear in the other will settle this?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Problem is, these days they're plenty brave... but they're still not clear-headed." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "It's helping my side. My guys are safer, now, and they're getting more done. The other guys aren't hurting as many people." 
<DanteE> (OK, just to check... is this guy the source of the attack?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Well, he's obviously connected with it, and he has stars in his eyes.) 
<human-Kite> "So, you're telling a lie to one side and manipulate the truth on the other to force the lie to seem correct." 
<Conrad> "Bravo!" 
<Conrad> "Sorry, he" point to the rev "is just so good at that" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm telling the truth to my side. The other side... I mean, when this happened, I figured that I /could/ just walk over and try to kill them all. But... I don't want to do that. Even if I'm bulletproof, I... don't want to hurt people, like that." 
<human-Kite> "How do you want to hurt them?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "But if I just talk to them, and get them to get their spirits up until they've got more guts than brains... they're just doing things that they already wanted to do, and not even succeeding at them." 
<DanteE> "Then why are you making sure the fighting continues?" 
<DanteE> "If you don't want to hurt people?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm not! I'm trying to help my guys win, so they can go home!" 
<DanteE> "But if you're encouraging the other side, the fight continues." 
<human-Kite> "Isn't there a way you can convince the other side to not want to fight?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I don't know. I tried, it didn't work. I'm... still trying to work out how this all works." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I can't just say anything, and make people believe it. It... it has to /mean/ something to me." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Is that how it is with you?" 
=-= human-Kite is now known as Kite 
<DanteE> "Mine's more thematic." 
<DanteE> (and does that mean Deceiver-Shard?) 
<Kite> (Forgot to magically transform my name....) 
<Conrad> "Nope, I, we have domain over some pieces of existences" 
<Conrad> "like roller-coaster, or hooks or courage" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "So... what's my piece of existence, then? Calmness?" 
<Kite> "I'm afraid not." 
<Conrad> "BTW you are hurting Courage with your action, and that is from impolite to a war declaration" 
<DanteE> (There a mirror nearby?) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "But... but my way is /better/. Can't you see that?" 
* Conrad lCreation of a rotating mirror 
<DanteE> "Is it? You're _removing_ a piece of their humanity. 
<Kite> "I can see how you might think that." 
<DanteE> "If nothing else you're killing the appreciation of roller-coasters forever. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "And replacing it with something better. Nobody has to come to my meetings, but people keep showing up." 
<DanteE> "What, exactly? You're just removing something, twisting something else." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Horror movies, too. Like six guys have told me they don't like those any more." 
<Kite> "That is because you twisting their brains." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I tell them, up front, that I'm going to try to help them not be afraid. And the guys /want/ that." 
<Kite> "Psychically." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "They're all adults, here. Nobody's twisting their arm." 
* Conrad munch some more popcorn 
<Kite> "/Brains/." 
<DanteE> (Hm.) 
<Kite> "/Psychically/." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm not sure that's what it is." 
<DanteE> "It is. 
<Kite> "It's because of the stars in your eyes." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "That's not what it feels like. I saw... the /thing/, the /real/ thing. And now I can help people understand." 
<DanteE> "Did you notice whatever you dreamed about seemed to be from .. elsewhere?" 
<Conrad> "Don’t start with star in your eyes = eviiil tirade please!" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "No! That's not how it is. It's here, it's right /here/. But we can't see it, because there are all these /things/ in the way. But the real thing is /down/ there, under it all!" 
<DanteE> "Look at your eyes." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Yeah, I have stars in them. I /saw/ it. That kind of thing changes you." 
* Conrad thumbs up to the rev 
<DanteE> "Where everyone else has 'windows to the soul' you have _voids_." 
* Conrad slide his chair to rev side 
<Conrad> "and so?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Oh, I have windows to the soul. I just have a more interesting soul, now." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "My eyes aren't /blank/. There's /light/ there, shining /through/. Look." 
<DanteE> (Need help here...) 
<DanteE> "I see the lifeless night sky there. 
<Kite> "No. He means your soul is in the Void. It doesn't belong to the order of this World." 
<Conrad> "and the stars?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Not to this order. Not all that stuff, getting in the way. But the real truth behind it all." 
<DanteE> "Tiny, tiny points of light far, far away." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Everything else just gets in the way. You can't see the stars, during the daytime. But they're still there." 
<Conrad> "So I'm too are a lifeless corpse? a.. a... zombie? A pariah from my old self?" 
<DanteE> "So, the things that make the world the world... are in the way?" 
<Conrad> "use less clutter" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "For me, it was fear. Fear got in the way of /everything/. I couldn't think straight. Now, I'm /free/. And everyone else who wants to be, can be free too." 
<Kite> "Your truth is in the Void. It doesn't belong here." 
<DanteE> (Why isn't the power of fear here?) 
<Conrad> (is there a power of fear?) 
<Kite> (Bound and gagged?) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "The stuff that gets in the way, it's not the real world. It's just... it's like that TV show, with the hoarders. It's stacks of old newspaper, and cat feces, and broken telephones from the seventies." 
<Kite> "I haven't seen that show." 
<DanteE> "The stuff in the way _is part of the world_. 
<DanteE> "That's the key... 
<Conrad> "for some definition of world" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "But not the best part. Not the true thing. Haven't you seen the true thing?" 
<Random_Nerd> He turns to Ftisk. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "/You/ saw it, right?" 
<Conrad> "A glimpse, only once" 
<DanteE> "See, the beings out there are dedicated to eliminating all of Creation, one piece at a time. 
<Kite> "Look. We can try to get you out of this world entirely, if you would like." 
<DanteE> "Everything--even the things you don't like, like fear--is a brick in the wall of Heaven. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "The real stuff, the important stuff? Or just the things that get in the way?" 
<Kite> "It would be more real for you out there." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I can't just leave. My guys are depending on me. They need me," 
<DanteE> (you may recognize the Ironic Echo. :) ) 
<Kite> "We can take over." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "And while there's a lot of stuff that doesn't matter in this world, people matter. My friends matter." 
<DanteE> "Where we're from, we have a plethora of spiritual guides." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "But you don't understand!" 
<Conrad> "truly there is another myself that can bring you outside this world were we belong" 
<Kite> "Dante. Are you willing to make some martyrs?" 
<DanteE> "You realize you're sounding like a cultist, right? 
<DanteE> to Kite: "I'd rather avoid it, if possible..." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm just someone who saw the truth, and I'm trying to share it. Like the guy in the Analogy of the Cave." 
<Kite> "It might be your best option." 
<DanteE> "That is 'truth' according to the beings that want to end everything." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "You're threatening me, just because you don't agree with me?" 
<DanteE> "No. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Surely we can talk this out like rational people." 
<DanteE> "Let's try this... 
<DanteE> "In the abstract, you would agree that it is better to create than to destroy, yes?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Nah. Neither's better, on its own." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "To create a bad thing is worse than to destroy a bad thing." 
<Conrad> "Listen, you here are like a swan in a mudpot, you cannot be yourself here. Take our offer to go outside. Is the best course" 
<Kite> "What if destroying a bad thing also destroys a hundred good things?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm not here to be myself. I'm here to help my guys see the truth, like I saw it." 
<Random_Nerd> C, to Kite: "But, exactly. That's why you can't just say that creating or destroying is intrinsically good. It all depends on the details." 
<DanteE> "Describe this 'truth' to me." 
<Theresa> (Sorry, guys, but I have a splitting headache. Save the world without me! :) ) 
<Kite> "Have you weighed everything that destroying fear might also destroy?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I... I don't have the words for it. That's why I haven't gotten more than a bit of it across to the guys. But I'm getting better at it." 
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE 
|<-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?) 
<DanteE> (g'gniht Beth) 
<Conrad> (night T. thake some asp... too late) 
<DanteE> "Wait.." 
<DanteE> "You said you were trying to set it up so that they don't need courage. 
<Random_Nerd> To Kite: "But how? Butterfly flaps his wings, and there's a storm in China. All I can do is look at the results that I can see, and make my decisions accordingly." 
<DanteE> "Does that mean you intend to eliminate courage? 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Well, like how I'd like to eliminate chemotherapy." 
<DanteE> "Courage is a bad thing now?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "No more cancer, no more need for expensive drugs that make you sick and weak." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "It's... it's like an aspirin, when you have a toothache." 
<Kite> "He's saying it's a cure that would be obsolete." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "It's better than not having it, but better still would be to take out the diseased tooth." 
<Conrad> "But I once loved courage, he is still one of my dearest friends, Courage must remain!" 
<DanteE> "If it's obsolete, though, then what?" 
<Random_Nerd> He shrugs. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm not sure I know what you mean." 
<DanteE> "See... this thing that talked to you... 
<DanteE> "It is something like a demon. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "It didn't talk to me. I just... /saw/ it." 
<Conrad> "affected you C." 
<DanteE> "Only rather than heaven and hell, it's existence vs. nothing. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "And, for a moment, I felt like I understood it. And I'm trying to piece that back together, but it's hard." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "No. It isn't about that at all." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I'm sure of this." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "It's about one kind of existence versus another kind." 
<DanteE> "Then why is it encouraging you to _destroy_" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "To remove the bad. What's hurting people, confusing them, blinding them." 
<DanteE> (and it occurs to me that we could get great intel...) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Pull the sick tooth, before the patient gets blood poisoning." 
<DanteE> (He was a chaplain before being 'turned', right?) 
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. And, from what he said, he wasn't a very good one.) 
<Kite> "Cut off the leg before the gangrene spreads...." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Yes!" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Exactly!" 
<Kite> "No. That is why we have to stop you." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Maybe missing a leg isn't ideal, but if the leg is sick, and can't be cured..." 
<Conrad> "Seem like we are unconciliably here" 
<Random_Nerd> He shrugs. 
<Kite> "You are the gangrene." 
<DanteE> "Ah, but, doesn't the Bible say people should face adversity, so that they can renew their bond to God?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "I can't just take your word for it." 
<Kite> (Turns out he's a Buddhist chaplain....) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "The Bible says a lot of things. Some days, I feel like I understand it less than I do the True Thing." 
<Random_Nerd> (It's getting late, here. I'm going to have to call it a night pretty soon.) 
<Kite> ('Salright) 
<DanteE> "Tell me, if you remove the trial without giving them a chance to call upon God, doesn't that go against his plan?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "God wants to come and tell me what his plan is, I'll listen. Until then, I'll do what seems to me to be right, as well as I can." 
<DanteE> (Is it clear where I'm going?) 
<Conrad> (we can stop before the fight erupt, just at the cliffhanger we are on now) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Can't you see that I'm /helping/ people?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Ask anyone!" 
<DanteE> "If what you saw was in Darkness, then logically it can't be God, right?" 
<Kite> (I still think making his friends into martyrs would be best.) 
<Kite> (Due to an excess of courage) 
<Random_Nerd> C: "It was in the dark, but it wasn't the dark." 
<DanteE> "If it was God _there wouldn't be dark._" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "The dark just meant that you could /see/ it. Because there wasn't anything to block it. For a moment, I saw it straight on, not filtered through all this..." *waves hand* "/stuff/." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "'Now the earth was formless, and dark, and the spirit of the LORD hovered above the waters.'" 
<DanteE> "This 'stuff' was created by God." 
<DanteE> "Are you saying he made a mistake?" 
<Random_Nerd> C: "And maybe it was good, once. But now, it's sick." 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Not all of it, but a lot of it. It's sick, and it hurts people." 
<DanteE> (Hm. Guess we can stop here, give us 2 weeks to figure out an argument. 
<Random_Nerd> C: "Like, isn't that something that everyone agrees on? The nature of the world is to cause suffering." 
<DanteE> (Are we getting anywhere?) 
<Kite> "I like the Warmains better." 
<Conrad> "I like him more" 
<Random_Nerd> (Depends. You're not persuading him, as such, but you're getting at why he believes what he believes.) 
<Random_Nerd> _____________________STOP___________________ 
<Random_Nerd> Would you have preferred Coriander Hasp? 
<Kite> (Maybe Ftisk should temper him too!) 
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe 
<DanteE> OK, so if I have it right, he was visited by a Deceiver in such a way that he believes it's The Truth, and he's been spreading that truth to everyone here, and it's screwing with my Estate. Right? 
<Verithe> No! I actually really like this guy. 
<Conrad> You! You make all these enemy that you fill compelled to convert instead of fight!. Is _not_ fair!| 
<DanteE> I considered the Ape Dynamics approach. 
<Verithe> Kite just prefers that the Warmains are a little bit more aware of their situation. 
<DanteE> This way we get more, though. 
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood 
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo 
<Angelo> to be clear I like more the RN way that throwing at us some fodder to punch 
<Random_Nerd> That's... partially right. 
<Knockwood> We could leave a trail of bodies in our wake, but that would go against Kudzu, Entropy, and our own humanity. Those of us with it. 
<Angelo> well, Ftisk care little for humanity 
<Verithe> Hahahahaha! Kite laughs at your humanity. 
<Knockwood> ... dang, I'm the only human here right now. :) 
<Angelo> RN is not human? O.o 
<Verithe> RN is the almighty HOLLYHOCK GOD! 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and if you're wondering why the Noble of Fear isn't here, while this guy is mainly trying to wipe it out at least locally, he isn't actually poking at any weaknesses or contradictions in it, just removing instances of it. 
<Knockwood> RN is the forces of Creation arrayed against us 
<Random_Nerd> Muhuhahaha? 
<Random_Nerd> (Like how cutting down trees doesn't really hurt Plants much.) 
<Knockwood> The attack is either him redefining Courage (a la Unknown Armies) or trying to set things up so that it's no longer needed. 
<Verithe> Someday, I want to play UA. 
<Random_Nerd> UA's really fun. 
<Random_Nerd> My second favorite RPG. 
<Random_Nerd> And the way you defined Courage, Knock, it /has/ to be essential. 
<Random_Nerd> If it's just one of a set of options, then the estate doesn't work. 
<Random_Nerd> Which is why what he's doing is hurting it. 
<Random_Nerd> Not because he's attacking it directly, but because he's presenting another option. 
<Knockwood> those parts I had with 'is essential...' ? 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, largely. 
<Random_Nerd> With his sort of fear-removal thing, someone could engage in self sacrifice, for instance, just by calmly deciding that it was the proper course of action. 
<Random_Nerd> And courage wouldn't even enter into it. 
<Knockwood> so what I had earlier about the necessity of fear... 
<Angelo> was truly necessity of courage 
<Random_Nerd> His main response is "necessary for what"? 
<Random_Nerd> As far as the Estate works, yeah. 
<Knockwood> But going the other way has the problem that the elimination of Courage isn't evident. 
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, that's how this is different from a Warmain attack. It's... lateral. And interestingly in this case, the actual attack is almost accidental. 
<Knockwood> (and for extra fun, I'm an atheist arguing for God. :/ ) 
<Random_Nerd> Courage is an innocent bystander that was standing too close to Fear. 
<Random_Nerd> Anyway, it's practically midnight here. 
<Random_Nerd> See you next week! 
<Angelo> night RN! 
<Knockwood> oyasumi-nasai 
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and good session, guys. 
<Verithe> Good night! 
<Random_Nerd> I like that we can get into these sorts of debates in the game. 
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<Knockwood> V, where are you now IRL? 
<Verithe> EST 
<Angelo> I bet on usa 
<Knockwood> I keep thinking you're still in Japan 
<Verithe> MI 
<Angelo> Est? Estonia? 
<Verithe> Not anymore. :( 
<Verithe> Eastern Standard Time 
<Knockwood> Angelo: Eastern Standard Time 
<Angelo> MI? Milan? 
<Angelo> ah! 
<Verithe> Michigan 
<Knockwood> basically the eastern 1/4 of the continental US 
<Angelo> a state as big as 1/4 of all USA :-O 
<Verithe> The reason why I've been missing so much is that I'm not used to gaming on Thursday nights yet, so it keeps slipping my mind. 
<Knockwood> could set an alarm like Angelo does 
<Verithe> Beth and RN have my phone number now. 
<Angelo> I'm setting 2 alarms atm, one is still too little 
<Verithe> Also, my wife set her watch alarm to remind me. 
<Verithe> Because she's nice like that. 
<Angelo> your wife is cool 
<Knockwood> well, next week guys 
<Verithe> Take care! 
<Angelo> night guys! 
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<Angelo> bye Verithe. 
<Verithe> Bye, Angelo! 
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