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Voyages Of The Blue Rosie: Johan Darche

2019-12-07T17:43:18Z

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A character played by Darad Zhall in the [[Voyages_Of_The_Blue_Rosie|Voyages of the Blue Rosie]] game run by LatinaBunny

==Johan Darche==
'''Race:''' Human Mariner 
'''Gender:''' Male 
'''Age:''' 24 
'''Class:''' Level 4 Adept 
'''Calling:''' Judgement/Atonement for One's Self 
'''Destiny:'''Knight of Pentacles/Determined 
'''Fate:''' Five of Swords/Cruel 
'''Background:''' Johan was born and raised on an island in Gaelenir’s Necklace in the Shatterstar Archipelago. There he was brought up in a large family that prefered a sinple life, one in harmony with nature and the elements. From an early age Johan showed great promise as an Adept, and by the time he reached adulthood he had become an exceptional Shaper of the elements. With his great talents he began to feel cramped on his little island, and as soon as he was able to he enlisted with a small merchant ship with dreams of seeing the world. But with new sights and experiences came new vices. Johan soon found himself addicted to all the various pleasures he had been denied due to his humble upbringing. Every display of his power bolstered his ego, and every indulgence intensified his hunger. He was strong, powerful, capable. Why shouldn’t he be allowed to take whatever he wanted? Who could stop him? One coup later and the merchant ship he signed up on soon had a new captain. Casting aside his past life and taking up the name Hullbreaker Johan waged a long campaign of terror on the high seas; using the powers he was taught to respect and revere to decimate any who got between him and his desires. Word of his cruelty spread, and the sight of his ship Fate’s Fangs became thing of nightmares. One day while locked in battle with am Aldis fleet the weather took an unexpected turn for the worst and caught Johan completely by surprise. Whether it was divine retribution of just bad luck who can say? Johan suffered his first and last defeat as his fleet was destroyed with Hullbreaker presumed dead. Miraculously Johan managed to survive, clinging to some remnants of his ship. After what felt like an eternity Johan washed up on shore. His time adrift had broken his body and his mind, but being at sea for so long gave him plenty of time to reflect on everything he had done. He decided then that Hullbreaker had indeed died at sea, and Johan would spend the rest of his days trying to attone for all the attrocities he had committed.

==Abilities & Focuses==
{| class="wikitable"
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|'''Accuracy'''||2||
|-
|Communication||0||
|-
|Constitution||2||Stamina & Swimming
|-
|Dexterity||0||
|-
|Fighting||1||
|-
|'''Intelligence'''||4||Shaping
|-
|'''Perception'''||2||
|-
|Strength||3||Intimidation & Might
|-
|'''Willpower'''||3||Courage
|}

==Combat==
{| class="wikitable"
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|'''HP'''||42/45
|-
|'''Defense'''||10
|-
|'''Armor'''||1
|-
|'''Speed'''||10
|-
|'''Conviction Points'''||3
|-
|'''Fatigue'''||0/4
|-
|'''Wpn Groups'''||Brawling & Staves
|-
|'''Staff(Accuracy)'''||1d6+3
|-
|'''Fist(Accuracy)'''||1d6+3
|}

==Talents==
'''Lore''' (Novice) 
'''Unarmed Style'''(Novice) 
'''Arcane Training'''(Novice) 
'''Shaping'''(Journeyman)
*Move Object
*Psychic Shield
*Second Sight
*Plant Shaping
*Water Shaping
*Wind Shaping
*Weather Shaping
'''Water Shaper Specialization''' (Novice) 
'''Heroes Armor'''

==Relationships==

Season 1

2010-06-24T16:41:02Z

BethDragon:

==='''Intro'''===

Shadow Creek, MT. Used to be a small logging community, now, thanks to a newish computer factory and the general 'suburb' movement, big town comforts with a small town feel. Museum, high school, a small state-sponsored college, a few cleared strips of land for the skydivers to take off and land on. A lake a bit north of the center of town. Town landmarks, mom and pop eating places, a mall that seems to be requisite of any largish community these days...all surrounded by woods that loom over the now much-tamed creek that gave the town its name...or maybe it only looks tamed.

For Shadow Creek, like any town, has its secrets...its stories...its things that won't stay buried. Literally.

From an aerial viewpoint, Shadow Creek is normal in layout and sprawl. But if one could look with eyes fastened on the ethereal plane...Lines criss and cross over and under buildings, nodes well up like hillocks, and sinks darken streets like spilled tar. For Shadow Creek is a crazed spiderweb of ley-lines, mystical energy. For the most part, the energy goes on its natural way, causing little interaction with your average Creeker. But for the past few years..decades..centuries, someone (or something) has been tampering with the lines, causing some of them to pool their energy under the center of town. Right under the high school, that bastion of learning and angst and childhood trauma. Go Fighting Lumberjacks! To the average Creeker, this information means about as much as the languages printed in the backs of the manuals that come with your VCR/DVD player. But to others, this points to a sinister motive.

For with the 'right' feeding and vitamins, this pool could collapse...goodbye Shadow Creek high school, hello Shadow Creek Hellmouth. But there are people who keep an eye on such things, who watch and wait just in case. To put up "Do Not Feed the Lil' Hellmouth!" signs in a way. To keep an eye out for growing trouble. Interesting people are attracted to such places...

===[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1910380&postcount=18 Theme Song]===

==Season 1 of Shadow Creek==

[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1911863&postcount=25 Pilot Episode] - not done in character. Was mostly thrown together from tidbits from players as we started the game with everyone already knowing each other and that the World is not as It Seems.

[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1940485&postcount=57 Episode 1]

Season 1

2010-06-24T16:40:29Z

BethDragon:

Season 1

2010-06-24T16:39:46Z

BethDragon:

==Season 1 of Shadow Creek==

'''Intro'''

Shadow Creek, MT. Used to be a small logging community, now, thanks to a newish computer factory and the general 'suburb' movement, big town comforts with a small town feel. Museum, high school, a small state-sponsored college, a few cleared strips of land for the skydivers to take off and land on. A lake a bit north of the center of town. Town landmarks, mom and pop eating places, a mall that seems to be requisite of any largish community these days...all surrounded by woods that loom over the now much-tamed creek that gave the town its name...or maybe it only looks tamed.

For Shadow Creek, like any town, has its secrets...its stories...its things that won't stay buried. Literally.

From an aerial viewpoint, Shadow Creek is normal in layout and sprawl. But if one could look with eyes fastened on the ethereal plane...Lines criss and cross over and under buildings, nodes well up like hillocks, and sinks darken streets like spilled tar. For Shadow Creek is a crazed spiderweb of ley-lines, mystical energy. For the most part, the energy goes on its natural way, causing little interaction with your average Creeker. But for the past few years..decades..centuries, someone (or something) has been tampering with the lines, causing some of them to pool their energy under the center of town. Right under the high school, that bastion of learning and angst and childhood trauma. Go Fighting Lumberjacks! To the average Creeker, this information means about as much as the languages printed in the backs of the manuals that come with your VCR/DVD player. But to others, this points to a sinister motive.

For with the 'right' feeding and vitamins, this pool could collapse...goodbye Shadow Creek high school, hello Shadow Creek Hellmouth. But there are people who keep an eye on such things, who watch and wait just in case. To put up "Do Not Feed the Lil' Hellmouth!" signs in a way. To keep an eye out for growing trouble. Interesting people are attracted to such places...

===[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1910380&postcount=18 Theme Song]===

[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1911863&postcount=25 Pilot Episode] - not done in character. Was mostly thrown together from tidbits from players as we started the game with everyone already knowing each other and that the World is not as It Seems.

[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1940485&postcount=57 Episode 1]

Season 1

2010-06-24T16:39:30Z

BethDragon: Created page with '==Season 1 of Shadow Creek== '''Intro''' Shadow Creek, MT. Used to be a small logging community, now, thanks to a newish computer factory and the general 'suburb' movement, big …'

==Season 1 of Shadow Creek==

'''Intro'''
Shadow Creek, MT. Used to be a small logging community, now, thanks to a newish computer factory and the general 'suburb' movement, big town comforts with a small town feel. Museum, high school, a small state-sponsored college, a few cleared strips of land for the skydivers to take off and land on. A lake a bit north of the center of town. Town landmarks, mom and pop eating places, a mall that seems to be requisite of any largish community these days...all surrounded by woods that loom over the now much-tamed creek that gave the town its name...or maybe it only looks tamed.

For Shadow Creek, like any town, has its secrets...its stories...its things that won't stay buried. Literally.

From an aerial viewpoint, Shadow Creek is normal in layout and sprawl. But if one could look with eyes fastened on the ethereal plane...Lines criss and cross over and under buildings, nodes well up like hillocks, and sinks darken streets like spilled tar. For Shadow Creek is a crazed spiderweb of ley-lines, mystical energy. For the most part, the energy goes on its natural way, causing little interaction with your average Creeker. But for the past few years..decades..centuries, someone (or something) has been tampering with the lines, causing some of them to pool their energy under the center of town. Right under the high school, that bastion of learning and angst and childhood trauma. Go Fighting Lumberjacks! To the average Creeker, this information means about as much as the languages printed in the backs of the manuals that come with your VCR/DVD player. But to others, this points to a sinister motive.

For with the 'right' feeding and vitamins, this pool could collapse...goodbye Shadow Creek high school, hello Shadow Creek Hellmouth. But there are people who keep an eye on such things, who watch and wait just in case. To put up "Do Not Feed the Lil' Hellmouth!" signs in a way. To keep an eye out for growing trouble. Interesting people are attracted to such places...

===[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1910380&postcount=18 Theme Song]===

[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1911863&postcount=25 Pilot Episode] - not done in character. Was mostly thrown together from tidbits from players as we started the game with everyone already knowing each other and that the World is not as It Seems.

[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1940485&postcount=57 Episode 1]

ShadowCreek:Main Page

2010-06-24T16:34:10Z

BethDragon:

==Shadow Creek==
''Shadow Creek is a weekly/once every two weeks Buffy:RPG game played at 7:00pm US Central Time-zone, Tuesday nights, irc channel #shadowcreek on magicstar server, usually for two hours. Viewers are welcome as long as they are not disruptive.''

*Note: Game started in October of 2003. GM - BethDragon

===PCs===
Nelson Rosamond - played by Random Nerd

Billy Roundtree - played by Dan Davenport

Ella Channing - version 1.0 and 2.0, played by Jason P.

Dr. Caine - played by BillChuck

===Former PCs===
Donovan Scott - Watcher with a secret. Now deceased. (Again.)

Erika Kirkpatrick - Nelson's girlfriend

Kate - Shadow Creek girl with body time-sharing with hyena demon (Murphy)

Violet - Slayer, not a Slayer, now really not a Slayer? Plays the violin.

===Regular NPCs===
Allison - Billy's girlfriend.

Kare' - NPC picked up on the road trip and brought home. Currently living with Ella. See Season 2 for more details.

Nell - Ella's grandmother. Writer. Witch.

Vincent - He Who Runs the Magic Company. Ella's dealer, in Buffy-show terms.

==Easy Episode Guide Links==
*[[Season 1]]
*[[Season 2]]
*[[Season 3]]

==[[Places Seen and Heard of]]==

==[[Villains, Victims and Who Was That Dude Again?]]==

====[[Random]]====

[[Category:Buffy]]
[[Category:Shadow Creek]]

ShadowCreek:Main Page

2010-06-24T16:28:51Z

BethDragon:

==Shadow Creek==
''Shadow Creek is a weekly/once every two weeks Buffy:RPG game played at 7:00pm US Central Time-zone, Tuesday nights, irc channel #shadowcreek on magicstar server, usually for two hours. Viewers are welcome as long as they are not disruptive.''

*Note: Game started in October of 2003. GM - BethDragon

===PCs===
Nelson Rosamund - played by Random Nerd

Billy Roundtree - played by Dan Davenport

Ella Channing - version 1.0 and 2.0, played by Jason P.

Dr. Caine - played by BillChuck

===Former PCs===
Donovan Scott - Watcher with a secret. Now deceased. (Again.)

Erika Kirkpatrick - Nelson's girlfriend

Kate - Shadow Creek girl with body time-sharing with hyena demon (Murphy)

Violet - Slayer, not a Slayer, now really not a Slayer? Plays the violin.

===Regular NPCs===
Allison - Billy's girlfriend.

Kare' - NPC picked up on the road trip and brought home. Currently living with Ella. See Season 2 for more details.

Nell - Ella's grandmother. Writer. Witch.

Vincent - He Who Runs the Magic Company. Ella's dealer, in Buffy-show terms.

==Easy Episode Guide Links==
*[[Season 1]]
*[[Season 2]]
*[[Season 3]]

==[[Places Seen and Heard of]]==

==[[Villains, Victims and Who Was That Dude Again?]]==

====[[Random]]====

[[Category:Buffy]]
[[Category:Shadow Creek]]

ShadowCreek:Main Page

2010-06-24T16:27:58Z

BethDragon: /* Former PCs */

==Shadow Creek==
''Shadow Creek is a weekly/once every two weeks Buffy:RPG game played at 7:00pm US Central Time-zone, Tuesday nights, irc channel #shadowcreek on magicstar server, usually for two hours. Viewers are welcome as long as they are not disruptive.''

*Note: Game started in October of 2003. GM - BethDragon

===PCs===
Nelson Rosamund - played by Random Nerd

Billy Roundtree - played by Dan Davenport

Ella Channing - version 1.0 and 2.0, played by Jason P.

Dr. Caine - played by BillChuck

===Former PCs===
Donovan Scott - Watcher with a secret. Now deceased. (Again.)

Erika Kirkpatrick - Nelson's girlfriend

Kate - Shadow Creek girl with body time-sharing with hyena demon (Murphy)

Violet - Slayer, not a Slayer, now really not a Slayer? Plays the violin.

===Regular NPCs===
Allison - Billy's girlfriend.

Kare' - NPC picked up on the road trip and brought home. Currently living with Ella. See Season 2 for more details.

Nell - Ella's grandmother. Writer. Witch.

Vincent - He Who Runs the Magic Company. Ella's dealer, in Buffy-show terms.

==Easy Episode Guide Links==
*[[Season 1]]
*[[Season 2]]
*[[Season 3]]

==[[Places Seen and Heard of]]==

==[[Villains, Victims and Who Was That Dude Again?]]==

====[[Random]]====

[[Category:Buffy]]
[[Category:Shadow Creek]]

ShadowCreek:Main Page

2010-06-24T15:56:09Z

BethDragon: Created page with '==Shadow Creek== ''Shadow Creek is a weekly/once every two weeks Buffy:RPG game played at 7:00pm US Central Time-zone, Tuesday nights, irc channel #shadowcreek on magicstar serve…'

==Shadow Creek==
''Shadow Creek is a weekly/once every two weeks Buffy:RPG game played at 7:00pm US Central Time-zone, Tuesday nights, irc channel #shadowcreek on magicstar server, usually for two hours. Viewers are welcome as long as they are not disruptive.''

*Note: Game started in October of 2003. GM - BethDragon

===PCs===
Nelson Rosamund - played by Random Nerd

Billy Roundtree - played by Dan Davenport

Ella Channing - version 1.0 and 2.0, played by Jason P.

Dr. Caine - played by BillChuck

===Former PCs===
Mr. Donovan - Watcher with a secret. Now deceased. (Again.)

Erika - Nelson's girlfriend

Kate - Shadow Creek girl with body time-sharing with hyena demon

Violet - Slayer, not a Slayer, now really not a Slayer? Plays the violin.

===Regular NPCs===
Allison - Billy's girlfriend.

Kare' - NPC picked up on the road trip and brought home. Currently living with Ella. See Season 2 for more details.

Nell - Ella's grandmother. Writer. Witch.

Vincent - He Who Runs the Magic Company. Ella's dealer, in Buffy-show terms.

==Easy Episode Guide Links==
*[[Season 1]]
*[[Season 2]]
*[[Season 3]]

==[[Places Seen and Heard of]]==

==[[Villains, Victims and Who Was That Dude Again?]]==

====[[Random]]====

[[Category:Buffy]]
[[Category:Shadow Creek]]

World of Warcraft:Tips

2008-11-16T00:08:34Z

BethDragon: /* Priest */

==Chatty's Guide to Looting and Plunder!==

So you've butchered yourself a trogg, and perhaps feasted upon its innards. But LO! What's this? A fine dagger of unparalleled sharpness? One dagger, five soldiers... What to do, what to do? Well, fleshies, there are two main categories of loot of which we need to be aware. When you have a look at an item, pay attention to its binding properties: Bind on Pickup, or Bind on Equip.

Items that Bind on Equip (BOE) are quite desirable! They can be sold at a profit in the auction house, or - preferably - traded amongst each other to keep our power within the family!

What should you do when faced with a BOE item?

Simple. If you can equip it, and it's better than what you have already, roll Need. Don't be shy! Otherwise, roll Greed or Pass, depending on how you feel and how full your bags are. Remember, these items will not bind to you immediately, so if it turns out that somebody in the group needs it more than you do - and we should always be mindful of each other, oh yes! - you can always discuss that and hand it to them afterward, perhaps after exacting all manner of disquieting concessions for your magnanimity!

If you win a greed roll for an item you don't need, you can sell it, disenchant it, or send it to Xaan - the choice is yours. However, there are some items that are definitely worth keeping in the guild - occasionally, a powerful BOE Blue item will drop. These are worth a great deal of money if you don't need them, but talk things out with the guild first. It could be that somebody within the guild could make great use of your new find, and is willing to compensate you for it.

But wait, what's this BOP thing I keep hearing?

Some items are bind-on-pickup. Pay very special attention to these, as they cannot be traded to anyone once they're picked up. If an item drops that is BOP (and they tend to be held by dangerous instance bosses), everybody in the group should pass! Even if you need it, pass! Thereupon, the group will discuss what to do, and who needs that item most. Don't pick it up off the boss monster's tasty, steaming corpse until you're satisfied that anybody else who can make use of it has cleared you to do just that!

If nobody in the group needs the dropped BOP item, there are two things you can do. You can always roll greed and sell the item to a vendor if you win(remember, it can't be traded, and therefore cannot be auctioned). If there is an enchanter in the party, however, the item could be used much better. Nobody needs it, after all! Better to disenchant the item for a shard or some essence. Shards can be tricky to come by, and the guild's enchanters will thank you!

So, to reiterate:

BOE

Better than what you've got? Roll need! Don't be shy.

Do be mindful that someone in the group might make better use of it than you. Some items are of use to everyone, but of MORE use to certain someones. Warriors can use agility, for instance, but be mindful of any rogues or hunters in your party. You should still roll need if it's better than what you have - if another person wants it, they'll pipe up and ask you for it, and you can discuss amongst yourselves how to resolve the issue. Do also be mindful of the attributes you need an item to have. Strength is as useless to a mage as a bonus to arcane damage is to a rogue.

BOP

Pass, and discuss. If several of your companions desire the item, show off what you have on in its place. It may be that someone in the group has a substandard item on, and that should be kept in mind. If multiple players still want the item after discussing, you can /roll on it, and trust in fate.

It's especially important with BOP items to keep in mind your party makeup. Many, many classes can use daggers, but some - like, say, mages - will not be meleeing with them anywhere near as much as a rogue, and some. That doesn't necessarily mean rogues should get every blue dagger that drops (after all, shamans, warriors and hunters can often make good use of them as well). But it does mean that they should be allowed a bit of priority.

Preferred items by class:

Warrior: Shields and all weapons. Mail before 40, Plate afterward. You want: Strength, Stamina, DPS, some Agility, proc effects.

Rogues: Daggers, sometimes maces and swords. Leather. You want: Agility, Stamina. Strength is tertiary. DPS, proc effects.

Hunter: Bows and guns, almost all weapons (but melee weapons are more of a priority for all other classes - you only fight up close when things go badly; likewise, melee classes that can make use of bows and guns should cede them to you if they're better than what you have). Leather before 40, mail afterwards. You want: Agility, Stamina. Strength and Intellect in smaller amounts. Procs on melee weapons are not as useful as stats, as you shouldn't be meleeing much.

Shaman: Shields, some weapons. Leather before 40, Mail afterwards. You want: Statistics are dependent on build, but usually a goodly mix of all of them. +Nature and +Healing are handy.

Druid: Some weapons. Leather. You want: Statistics dependent on build, but you don't need to mix it up as much as shamans. Caster druids will want caster stats and possibly some strength, feral druids will want warrior stats. Weapon procs and dps are meaningless for ferals, as they won't factor into your animal-form attacks. Attribute bonuses carry over. +Healing, +Nature and +Arcane can come in handy.

Mage: Staves, some 1-h weapons, off-hand items. Cloth. You want: Intellect, Stamina, Spirit tertiary. +fire, +ice and +arcane and +mana regen can be handy, but are of more use at higher levels than low.

Warlocks: Itemization as per mage. You want: Stamina first, THEN intellect. Spirit's just about useless, as you can Tap your health for mana. +shadow and +fire are handy. +mana regen... meh.

Priests: Itemization as per mage. You want: Intellect/Spirit, Stamina. +Shadow and +Healing are handy as well.

==Tips, Tricks and Quirks: Advice for the Fledgling Adventurer==

Have some knowledge to share? Do it! Edit the stubs as you like

For general information, visit www.wowwiki.com. All the content of the official forums, none of the aggravating 12-year olds!

===Class Advice===
====Druid====

Druids can be very squishy, but the real plus of the class is it's versatility. There is a bear form (basically a warrior class form), cat form (rogue-like, complete with stealth), water form (very helpful for both sea travel and breathing), and a travel form that lets you go 40% faster than normal running.

Druids are natural healers and can be very useful in groupwork, as long as you keep your eye on your team members health bars.

When questing alone, make sure to keep an eye on your own health bar, and don't be afraid to heal yourself in the middle of a fight. It can make all the difference.

====Hunter====

Hunters are probably the best class for soloing in the game. However, when you're in a group, you need to make some changes to your style of play.

The following tips will go a long way to solidifying your place in a group, and keep other playerse from yelling at you.

'''Marking Targets'''

Your Hunter's Mark is quite useful for guiding other players to a target. Use it to mark a target, so everyone can focus on the same mob and bring it down quickly. If there is a Mage in the party who can sheep, quickly discuss whether or not he thinks that target should be sheeped first instead. In some cases, Mages may be marking sheep targets with Detect Magic (a spell that causes no aggre, and creates a brief white swirl of light around a mob), so watch for those. Attacking a sheepmarked target is not a good way to make friends with the Mage, let alone the rest of the group!

Consider that a Mage's role in a group is crowd control as well as DPS, and they often have a better idea than you as how to go about their role; a good Mage isn't watching the target he's throwing spells at, he's watching for adds, or he's watching the sheep to make sure it isn't broken early, or both at the same time. If a Mage feels a target should be sheeped, it may be wise to defer to him or her and select a different target for pulling.

'''Pet Management'''

Part in qutes below is copied from [http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-hunter&t=703162&p=1&tmp=1#post703162 here] because it's expressed better than i can do it.

"DO NOT lose control of your pet. Perhaps the greatest source of peoples' trepidation about inviting Hunters to their groups is past experiences they had in which a Hunter's pet wiped them. Regardless of your talent choices, you are a master of wild beasts! Always know where your pet is.
Always know what he's attacking and what he's going to attack when his current target dies.
ALWAYS keep a firm leash on him and make sure you don't let him go anywhere that he'll aggro mobs you don't want to aggro.
'''ALWAYS''' leave your pet on Passive mode in instances. If he is on Defensive mode, he will often react to things you don't want him to. Aggressive mode is right out of the question! Manually choose your pet's target and hit Ctrl-1 to make him attack. Pets also travel using the same system as NPCs, meaning that if you jump off a cliff, your pet may not. He could aggro a lot of mobs by taking the long way. If you have any doubt that your pet will follow you as you want him to, you can (1) tell the pet to stay and whistle for him later, (2) despawn him, or (3) use Eyes of the Beast to manually make him jump off a cliff ahead of you. If your pet ever does get away from you and aggro mobs, do whatever you can to make him stay away from you. You might be able to stay out of combat and let your pet die rather than train half an instance to you."

Nothing gets your groupmates more angry at you than a pet running wild, who then do thing like break sheeped mobs who automatically aggro on the mage, or running loose in an area with three, four or more mobs, who then aggro onto your group.

If you can't manage your pet, then perhaps you should consider a different class, or consider that you shouldn't be grouping until you can.

====Mage====

'''Tips for a great deal of damage'''

The mage... The mage is the best class on WoW that can make very much damage...
The best way that a mage can stay alve is to spend all ur talent points in FIRE so u can kill or be killed. END

In other words: KOOL CLASS

Mage is very item dependant, not as much as a warrior but still items can make you a killer. As a mage and GM of an end game instance raiding guild, if I look to add a mage to our family, after personality fit I check their gear to see that they understand what makes a good mage. In PvE end game content, a mage should never draw aggro and hence stamina is not the end all. I'd look that they've researched items such as the Spiritshroud Leggings, Dragonrider Boots and Rod of the Ogre Magi. this shows they know what it takes to be a good mage - damage output. Next I'd check they've got a fair few pieces of their Magister to ensure they've had experience at 60 for a while. Finally I'd have a look that they've enchanted their everyday pieces and done so intelligently. Fire talent is the way to level a mage but end game, you have choices. Fire will make you run out of mana quite quickly and are useless against Geddon and Ragnaros in Molten Core and Vaelastrasz, Firemaw, Ebonroc, Flamegor and Nefarian in BWL. This is a generalised statement on Nefarian as the dragonkin before he becomes 'active' can often be hit by fire dependant on the brood colour of same. Frost won't hit as hard but will give you longevity across a longer fight without as many mana potions or evocation uses. It's individual style of play that counts and if you're a heavy farmer with lots of money, fire is still viable (just beware that arcane missiles don't have the range of your fireball or a frostbolt with arctic reach applied so on some encounters you'll be closer than you'd normally like as a fire mage - think ragnaros)

====Priest====
'''Tips for Healing in this post 3.0 world'''

As you level, practice healing in instances. Have a healing set even if you're specced Shadow because you can heal when off-spec if you have a good set of gear. An addon like DrDamage is great for seeing just how much your stats will let you heal for in both strength and duration. Get a feel for your heals and how much oomph they have compared to how long it takes to cast one. With no downranking and one mana potion per fight now, you will have to see what healing response is needed versus what your stats (mana, mana regen, +spellpower) can provide you.

The unspoken rule for instances as you level is "If the tank dies, it's the healer's fault. If the healer dies, it's the tank's fault. If the DPS die, it's their own fault." It's based on a series of agreements: The tank agrees to keep the aggro off of the healer. The healer agrees to heal the tank through the damage of keeping the aggro. The DPS agree not to take the threat off of the tank, thus taking a lot more damage that the healer has to heal which means that there is less healing (mana) available for the tank and also the greater threat generated by the healer when they try to keep the DPS from being a smear on the instance floor. (And everyone agrees to not stand in the fire.) As part of the agreement, there are the gear factors: If the tank is undergeared, you'll have to heal a lot more. If the healer is undergeared, you won't be able to keep the tank healed. If the DPS is overgeared, they will draw aggro and if they are undergeared, the mobs/boss might not die before the healer runs out of mana. Know your limits and watch the rest of your group. If you have a tank that can't keep aggro through small heals or your DPS can't keep from spamming their max damage every single pull, then it is better to save yourself the grief and the repair bills and bow out gracefully. Also be ready to bow out gracefully if _you_ are the problem.

Raiding - The addons Grid (or some raidframe equiv), Clique and possibly MendWatch (for seeing who has the Frisbee and for how long) are fantastic whether you're Holy or Disc.

For a good way to see what healing in a chaotic situation is like, try healing in an AV. (Yes, you will die. But that's not the point. It's seeing how to heal when everything is blowing up around you, how to triage. When you have 20 people all taking damage around you, who do you heal first? In a raid, who have you been assigned to heal? Has a healer that had a different assignment died? Can you keep your assignment up and have the time/mana to spare to help other healers? All big questions.)

Healing meters are bunk. Repeat that again. Trying to compare healing for a fight is like trying to compare apples and murlocs. You have who you're healing, how much damage they are taking, what's happening to the raid and a variety of other things like spec, how much spellpower you have and mana regen. For healing, the questions that you will ask/be asked: Did the boss die? Did your assignment stay alive? Did you run out of mana at the very end or in the middle of the fight? If the answer to the first one is yes, then congratulations! Everything else is fine-tuning your personal healing style and stats to the best that you want, whether it's jaw-droppingly huge heals or a mana regen that gives back more than you spend.

Just remember that in a raid, you are part of a team. Be ready to help out other healers if the situation calls for it. If other healers are needing to keep helping your assignments out, you may want to look at your healing style, stats and spec to see where work needs to be done.

====Rogue====
====Shaman====

====='''Mana Efficiency and You'''=====

You may have noticed by now that a couple of your big spells will drain your mana pool dry so quickly it will leave your head spinning. Even elemental-specced shamans with lots of +int gear will find their mana pool does not allow for prolonged battle... and a shaman without mana is very often a dead shaman.

Analyze your spells to see how much damage (or healing) they do per mana point spent. The ratios can change over time (lightning shield, for instance, starts off inefficient compared to everything else, but that changes quickly).

On the whole, you should find that efficiency scales like so: Searing totem, given enough time ---> healing ---> lightning shield ---> lightning bolt / chain lightning, given enough targets ---> flame shock, given enough time ---> other shocks. Earth Shock and Frost Shock are your big damage, but even fully synergized, they barely do more than 1 damage per mana. That's a shame, because the spell interrupt of ES, or the snare effect of FS are quite handy. It's a good thing the 30ish-mana Earth Shock 1 still interrupts spells then, innit?

So what does this all mean?

Well, if you don't want to drink every two minutes - and I say that without a hint of hyperbole - learn to use your mana efficiently. Spamming your shocks leads to big damage, but drains you dry. Unless you really need to put something down fast, stick to Lightning Bolts, Lightning Shield, Searing Totem and melee.

And never, ever leave home without water.

====='''Weapon Buffs'''=====

I don't want to go into the mathematical analysis of it all, but here's the gist.

You have two weapon buffs. Rockbiter, and Windfury. But wait! What about Frost Brand? What about the fire buff?

Forget them. Frost rarely procs, and you can FS at will (cooldown permitting) to snare, or drop an Earthbind Totem. Flame? Well, it has its uses in the early game, but Rockbiter will always do more or equal damage.

Rockbiter grants you a lot of extra attack power, and it causes extra threat. That's great if you're (off-)tanking or soloing, but a liability otherwise. The fire buff should replace this in situations where you don't want aggro, until you get Windfury.

Windfury has a 20% chance of granting you two extra attacks with more attack power than the norm (although your base attack is not improved at all), and doesn't cause additional aggro. When it procs, you get a HUGE damage spike. When it doesn't, it's the equivalent of tapping your opponent on the shoulder. It's handier in PVP than Rockbiter, due to the bursty nature.

Over time, the damage improvement of Windfury and Rockbiter are more or less equal. Mathematically, Windfury can appear to come out a little bit ahead on the damage curve, especially with slow weapons. That doesn't take into account the fact that it's extremely unreliable, and - perhaps more importantly - it doesn't take into account the fact that Windfury can proc when you don't need it. Most shamans joke that it only ever goes off when your opponent is down to 3% of his hp and fleeing. Maybe it's selection bias, but I've noticed that too. Rockbiter is always the more dependable choice.

-TS

====='''Dealing with Crowds'''=====

One-on-one, shamans are a match for almost any foe. But when the numbers are stacked against you, things get a little bit uglier. Shamans have more trouble with multiple foes than most classes, but with a bit of creativity, you can win or - at worst - get away.

Your main crowd-control option is Stoneclaw Totem (Earth), which is similar to an engineer's Dummies, but not as hardy or long-lived. Stoneclaw will "growl" at nearby enemies, and inspire them to attack it. It has a reasonable-ish amount of hit points, and will last until those are depleted or its 15 seconds of fame are up. Here's where you stop worrying about efficiency. Let Stoneclaw distract your adds, and nuke the bejeezus out of your attacker.

Apart from Stoneclaw, your only CC option is creative kiting, with Earthbind and Frost Shock. If you have the space, and are not likely to run into more aggro, you can keep one mob off you by Frost Shocking it and dragging the other around at full speed. Earthbind Totem (Earth) is less selective, but allows you to keep both mobs at range (it's an AOE snare and one of your most important tools - keep it easily accessible). It's the superior option if you're fond of doing damage with your spells. Do keep in mind that Earthbind and Stoneclaw are both earth totems. Dropping one will destroy the other.

If you can't divide-and-conquer, you can slug it out. I hope, first of all, that you're carrying a shield. Two-handed weapons are handy against spellcasters with poor melee skills, but shamans are a tad squishy themselves; a good shield will offset that nicely. Remember that you can heal yourself, and always keep some mana around for Lesser Healing Wave.

AOE damage is an option, but it's not a GOOD option until level 32 and Chain Lightning. Magma Totem (Fire) and Fire Nova Totem (Fire) are extremely expensive, and painfully inefficient. What's more, they draw aggro themselves, so if you haven't done something to attract the attention of every mob that's attacking you, one's bound to break off and kill the totem. There's nothing quite like spending a third of your mana to drop a Fire Nova totem, only to have it killed before it even goes off.

Tauren have a significant advantage in this area. Warstomp will stun mobs attacking you for 2 seconds. That may not sound significant, but consider this: Lesser Healing Wave casts in 1.5 seconds. So does a fully talented Chain Lightning.

Finally, know when to run. You may not be a druid, but you're no slouch when it comes to getting away. Drop an Earthbind or a Stoneclaw, or toss around some Frost Shocks, and run like hell. If you put enough distance between yourself and your attackers, you can cast Ghost Wolf (with 2 talent points, it casts in one second; if you have Nature's Swiftness from the Restoration tree, it can be cast instantly).

-TS

====='''A primer on totems'''=====

Over the course of your shamanic career, you'll come into possession of totems. Dropping a totem is an insta-cast spell, and it puts the totem right where you're standing. Most totems are buffs of one kind or another and affect party members within a fairly generous radius. Sort of like the paladin's auras. Unlike the paladin's auras, totems fade away... and they have 5 hp. That's not usually an issue in PVE (fire totems are the exception), but in PVP some folks are smart enough to take your totems out. Good thing most of them are cheap.

You can drop up to four totems at a time, one for each element. Dropping a new totem of the same element as an existing one will destroy the original.

Few totems are useful in solo play. Or rather, they can be useful, but are normally too costly to use on simple grindy fights. After all, why drop a Stoneskin when you can save that mana and use it on healing? In a group setting, however, they can be very useful.

'''Earth'''

Stoneskin is an odd duck. A totem that decreases the damage you take by a flat amount, it can be a significant defensive improvement at lower levels... but doesn't scale at all well, and is expensive to boot. If you're soloing, you're best off dropping this totem only if you intend to use it over the span of more than one fight, or if you're fighting an enemy that hits often, but for small amounts of damage (rogues, cats, etc.).

Earthbind is glorious. It halves the running speed of all enemies in its area, lasts 45 seconds, and is on a relatively quick cooldown. Handy in getaways, very useful for elemental shamans who want some room to cast spells unmolested, and wreaks all sorts of havoc in battlegrounds.

Tremor is an anti-CC totem; once it's dropped, it has a chance to remove Sleep, Fear and the like from party members within its AOE. It's not useful all the time, but it's a lifesaver when it is. This is one of your key skills in Battlegrounds.

Stoneclaw is sort of like CC, but not that powerful. That said, it's all you have. See the section on crowds above.

Finally, Strength of Earth is a handy strength buff. If you've a lot of meleeists around, dropping one of these can't hurt.

Earth in summation: Earthbind is great. Tremor is great. Stoneskin can be handy. Stoneclaw is mostly worthless, but hey; it's all you got.

'''Fire'''

Searing Totem is a basic DOT totem. It shoots a tiny little fireball at your target every two seconds or so, doing unimpressive damage that can nonetheless add up. It's also pretty efficient, given enough time, and is very, very cheap.

Magma totem and Fire Nova totem suck, for reasons described in the Crowd Control section. They have their uses (Fire Nova can be handy in PVP, especially if talented), but everything they can do, Chain Lightning does better.

Frost Resistance totems are great, if you're fighting someone using frost magic. Think of them as Stoneskin against Ice Mages, but cheaper.

Flametongue totem (which grants an effect similar to yor Flametongue self-buff to all party members in its area) is misunderstood and unloved, usually because it's compared to the superior Windfury totem. That comparison isn't so bright. See, air has lots of useful totems. Fire doesn't. If you have a lot of meleeists around, it may be a good idea to drop this.

Fire in Summation: Searing Totem is small but free damage. Flametongue Totem is better than you think. Resistance is nice. The "big damage" totems are terrible.

'''Water'''

Healing Stream is the ultimate in non-scaled crap! By the time you get the first rank, it's already obsolete. As you move up through the ranks, it's still obsolete! Save your mana and cast a heal spell. This one doesn't do enough to matter. Especially when you consider the likelihood of everybody taking tiny amounts of damage, instead of a tank taking big hits.

Mana Spring, however, is handy. It restores a humble amount of mana to everyone in the totem's area. At first, the mana spring costs you more than it restores over time, but it soon becomes more efficient, giving back slightly more mana over time than it costs to drop. This is not relevant in solo play (the difference between mana cost and mana restoration is much too small for it to be used as an anti-downtime tool), but it's a nice thing in groups.

Mana Tide is a beefed up Mana Spring - and Restoration's 31-pt talent. Most shamans won't see this totem for a long time, but for those that spec to restoration for the end-game, it's an incredible tool. It doesn't last long, and it's got a hefty cooldown, but it restores a significant amount of mana quickly. Between this totem, mana spring and a class trinket called the Enamored Water Spirit (which is like a mini-Mana Tide on a 3-min cooldown), you can be an endless mana battery.

Poison Cleansing is useful against rogues in PVP, and any and all beasts that use poison in their main attacks. In for a long fight? Don't bother casting Cure Poison individually every time the warrior gets bitten. Just drop yourself one of these and let it do the work.

Disease Cleansing is exactly like Poison Cleansing, but disease is far less commonly used. I've never dropped this totem in my life, electing instead to Cure Disease manually.

Fire Resistance is groovy.

Water in summary: The totem that seems like it would be most useful is in fact least useful. The mana restoration totems are what you'll probably be using most often in a group context (later in the game, at least), but Poison Cleansing and Fire Resistance also get their moment in the sun from time to time. None of these totems (apart from Mana Tide) are handy in solo play, however.

'''Air'''

Grounding Totem doesn't work the way the tooltip says it does. Instead of absorbing enemy spells for a while before it disappears, it absorbs one and dies. This means the enhancement talent to improve its effect is broken, by the by, so don't take that. Despite all that, this remains a GREAT totem. Between Grounding Totem and Earth Shock, you can shut down a caster completely; it's also handy in group play if you're worried about aggroing with Earth Shock (that said, level 1 Earth Shocks still interrupt, and cause very little hate - don't be afraid to use them in parties).

Grace of Air is a big agility boost, and a wonderful thing to drop if you've got meleeists and hunters around.

Windwall is a stoneskin for ranged attacks. It sucks.

Windfury Totem is somewhat like Flametongue totem. It gives all of your party members a chance to proc a Windfury effect. Obviously, this is a big deal if you've a lot of meleeists in the group, but be aware that it can be a tricky thing with regard to aggro management. After all, if the rogue procs a Windfury for big damage and the Warrior doesn't, he may peel the warrior off. This totem is a HUGE damage boost for meleeists, but it can be undependable. If you're warrior-heavy, it's great. If you're rogue-heavy, Grace of Air and Flametongue are probably a better choice.

Nature Resistance is exactly what it sounds like. Note that it also affects poison resists, which makes it slightly more versatile than the other two resistance totems.

Tranquil Air is new, as of 1.9. It's an AOE aggro reduction.. but be VERY CAREFUL where you put it. You don't want your party's warrior to fall into the AOE while the priest doesn't. This is the best air totem to drop if you're heavy on the back-lines, but again: be careful with it.

Finally, Sentry Totem. Buh? You might say? Of what use is this? Battlegrounds. Watch the tunnel and the main room in WSG, or keep a clear view of the mine in AB. This is a useful and underestimated totem.

Air in summation: After some of the other elements, air is an embarassment of riches. There are MANY good choices here, and your party composition will influence the decision quite a bit. Keep grounding close at hand for solo play.

====Warrior====

=====Murglor's Guide to Tanking=====
'''(Or, 'Ow to Make Monsters Kick Yer Ass Even If Ya Can't Do Damage Worth Squat)'''

Now, I know Murglor doesn't do too much standin' in front of things gettin' hit fer the good o' the unit these days, but the ol' brain hasn't lost a beat. Listen well, and you'll get all the battle scars an' broken bones yer heart could possibly want.

So what, ya might be askin', is this Tankin' thing I'm chatterin' about? Well, it's a fine an' ancient art, which we call Tankin' on account of it's hard and t'ankless work, except when certain young Orc lasses 'ear about yer bravery and give ya a special kind o' thanks, like this one time in Redridge when - ah, well, ya won't be needin' to hear the details on that one. Anyway, Tankin' is all about makin' a enemies waste their time an' energy chewin' through yer thick armor rather'n just chompin' up the Mage lightin' 'em on fire or the priest keepin' ya alive.

The bad news is, ya gotta work at it. Unlike the sissies runnin' around in their dresses (and certain good-lookin' ol' Orcs what learned they like givin' more than takin', and got an 'ost of dirty ol' tricks to get it done), ya ain't exactly gonna strike terror into the 'earts o' monsters with yer fearsome attacks. All things bein' equal, the monster's gonna go straight after the person 'urtin' it most.

The good news is, all that pricy warrior trainin' isn't a complete waste. Ya got a lotta skills that'll piss a monster right off, no matter 'ow much actual 'arm ya do with 'em.

Let's go over the basics, eh?

'''Sunder Armor:''' think ya paid a lot fer that shiny suit o' plate or mail? Just imagine ya gotta grow it back whenever it gets busted. Monsters don't much like it when ya tear up their defenses, and makin' yer friends kill the bugger faster ain't exactly a bad thing neither. If ya ain't done this to a mob yet, do it - and a few more times fer good measure. Sunder armor is the meat an' potatoes o' the noble Tankin' profession.

'''Revenge:''' there ain't nothin' a monster 'ates more than bein' denied a tasty snack and then slapped upside the snout fer 'is trouble. Revenge ain't gonna be available all the time, but ya'd better use it when it is so ya don't miss the chance. It's got a damn big effect for 'ow little Rage it costs.

'''Shield Block:''' let's face it, shields ain't what they used to be. They're all well an' good for the pansies o' the monster world, but real enemies'll laugh 'em off and go straight through 'em. Still, this nifty little trick is the best way to make sure ya get a chance to fire off Revenge - no sense usin' it early in a fight, when ya still gotta use Sunder Armor to get the bugger's attention and Rage is 'ard to come by, but it's not bad later on.

'''Heroic Strike:''' it ain't very good. Oh, yeah, a warrior what thinks 'e's some sort o' rogue'll use it a lot, but that's not tankin'. Rage doesn't do no good at all if ya ain't usin' it, and this is one way to use up extra rage, but that's about it.

'''Taunt:''' now we're talkin'. This skill will get ya a monster's attention for a bit, but ya gotta smack 'im a few times if ya want it to stick once the stuff ya said about 'is mother starts to fade from memory. Great for lockin' down an enemy that's nearly dead so ya can start poundin' 'is friend, too.

'''Bloodrage:''' ya might not think this is a skill for tankin', but trust Ol' Murglor on it. Every point o' free rage ya get is good for about 5 points o' actually smackin' an enemy around, and then ya get to use the rage to piss off the enemy some more.

'''Last Stand:''' not every warrior is gonna have this skill, but it's a good one. Ya see, the first part o' tankin' is makin' sure the monster's attackin' ya instead o' yer friends. But the other part - and it's an important part - is stayin' alive. Last Stand gives ya a quick 'eal, good for 1/3 of yer life, but it's the sort o' first aid that isn't wasted if one of yer priest friends does get a spell in at the same time. It generates a fair bit o' fury from the monsters, and for a little bit, you're even tougher than ya were before usin' the skill.

Now, let's talk about puttin' it all into practice. First, I'm gonna talk about keepin' just one monster on you an' not lads in fine dresses.

[TO BE CONTINUED]

===Macros and Interface Tricks===

''Languages''

You may have noticed that some of us like to assault the guild chat with various languages! If you've ever wanted to discuss the succulence of a party member's braaaains with your fellow undead in privacy, click on the speech bubble in your chat tab. You should see a set of headings pop up; one of them is language. Just pick the language in which you'd like to speak, and chat normally.

Orcish is the common language of the Horde, and the only one we all can understand. It's also the only language orcs can speak, making you green lot subpar conspirators. Trolls, Undead and Tauren all have the option of speaking Orcish and their racial language.

Currently, there is no way to learn languages other than the ones available to your race by default.

'''Macros'''

Scripting macros is easy. To access your macro menu, type /macro. You should see a screen with (now) two divisions. General macros apply to all your characters, character-specific ones only to the toon in question. Hit New Macro, choose an icon, and type in a name. Then, in the box at the bottom of your macro screen, type in the commands you wish to script. You now have an icon that can be dragged to your quickbar!

''Text Macros''

Need a macro to tell your party that you're in trouble? Perhaps a battlecry to strike fear into the hearts of quillboars? Easy as pie. Just type in a regular chat script.

For instance, if you're a squishy priest whose healing has aggravated beasties, macro something like this to warn your party:

/p Healer has aggro!

Or, if you're the bloodthirsty type, you can broadcast a battlecry for all around you to hear. The %t below is a switch that will return the name of your target:

/s Prepare to die, %t!

It's possible to combine a text macro with a skill to warn your party and do what you need to, like so:

/s I'm sheeping %t
/Cast Polymorph

''Trash Sales''

Activate this macro while talking to a vendor, and it will search your bags and sell all grey items in your possession. A god-send.

/script for bag = 0,4,1 do for slot = 1, GetContainerNumSlots(bag), 1 do local name =
GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot); if name and string.find(name,"ff9d9d9d") then
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Selling "..name); UseContainerItem(bag,slot) end; end; end

'''Useful Mods'''

www.curse-gaming.com is your best source of interface mods for WoW. If you have favourites, list them here:

''Auctioneer'' allows you to database the auction house, and then see average buyouts, vendor sell prices and the like in the tooltip when you mouse over an item. HIGHLY recommended.

''Clique'' is a mouse-binding addon that lets you use mouseclick combinations directly with your raid frames.

''Cosmos/Khaos'' is a very popular user interface package that includes a vast array of neat features including auction tracking, mob health tracking etc. However, Cosmos makes extensive custom modifications to the user interface and frequently gets broken by patches.

''CTMod'' is one of the more popular user interface packages and includes a number of useful but not necessary features such as tracking your HP/MP regeneration, chat time stamps, tracking locations of herbs and minerals, etc.

''CTRaid'' from the makers of CTMod is a raid tracking program that helps you keep track of large raids. It's unecessary for lower levels where raiding is rare but higher end and end-game raid groups may encourage you to use it.

''FlagRSP'' flags you as a roleplayer, and allows you to enter a description, a surname, and other such RP stuff.

''Gatherer'' marks nodes you've visited (herbs, ore and chests) on your map, and remembers where they are.

''Grid'' is an example of a raid frame addon. A great help for healers in raids to keep an eye on as many health bars as possible with the minimum amount of screen space used.

''Scrolling Combat Text'' shows damage and effects with floating text that appears above your character, allowing you to track damage done/taken and the casting of special effects such as buffs or debuffs. Useful for warriors for the "Overpower" text that appears when enemies dodge, so you don't have to stare at your Overpower button all day.

''Totem Timer'' Shaman-specific; allows you to see how much time is left before your dropped totems disappear.

''WeaponSwap'' Best for warriors, but anybody can use it. Allows you to make macros to switch between multiple weapon loadouts at a single click. For instance, for a warrior to switch from a 2-hander to a 1-h and shield.

'''Related Software'''

''Teamspeak'' or TS is a stand-alone software that works with multiple games to allow voice chat. Like CTRaid, it isn't needed at lower levels but well organized high-end instances and Battlegrounds groups will frequently use it.

''Ventrillo'', also known as Vent, is similar to TS but apparently less popular.

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BethDragon: /* Macros and Interface Tricks */

==Chatty's Guide to Looting and Plunder!==

So you've butchered yourself a trogg, and perhaps feasted upon its innards. But LO! What's this? A fine dagger of unparalleled sharpness? One dagger, five soldiers... What to do, what to do? Well, fleshies, there are two main categories of loot of which we need to be aware. When you have a look at an item, pay attention to its binding properties: Bind on Pickup, or Bind on Equip.

Items that Bind on Equip (BOE) are quite desirable! They can be sold at a profit in the auction house, or - preferably - traded amongst each other to keep our power within the family!

What should you do when faced with a BOE item?

Simple. If you can equip it, and it's better than what you have already, roll Need. Don't be shy! Otherwise, roll Greed or Pass, depending on how you feel and how full your bags are. Remember, these items will not bind to you immediately, so if it turns out that somebody in the group needs it more than you do - and we should always be mindful of each other, oh yes! - you can always discuss that and hand it to them afterward, perhaps after exacting all manner of disquieting concessions for your magnanimity!

If you win a greed roll for an item you don't need, you can sell it, disenchant it, or send it to Xaan - the choice is yours. However, there are some items that are definitely worth keeping in the guild - occasionally, a powerful BOE Blue item will drop. These are worth a great deal of money if you don't need them, but talk things out with the guild first. It could be that somebody within the guild could make great use of your new find, and is willing to compensate you for it.

But wait, what's this BOP thing I keep hearing?

Some items are bind-on-pickup. Pay very special attention to these, as they cannot be traded to anyone once they're picked up. If an item drops that is BOP (and they tend to be held by dangerous instance bosses), everybody in the group should pass! Even if you need it, pass! Thereupon, the group will discuss what to do, and who needs that item most. Don't pick it up off the boss monster's tasty, steaming corpse until you're satisfied that anybody else who can make use of it has cleared you to do just that!

If nobody in the group needs the dropped BOP item, there are two things you can do. You can always roll greed and sell the item to a vendor if you win(remember, it can't be traded, and therefore cannot be auctioned). If there is an enchanter in the party, however, the item could be used much better. Nobody needs it, after all! Better to disenchant the item for a shard or some essence. Shards can be tricky to come by, and the guild's enchanters will thank you!

So, to reiterate:

BOE

Better than what you've got? Roll need! Don't be shy.

Do be mindful that someone in the group might make better use of it than you. Some items are of use to everyone, but of MORE use to certain someones. Warriors can use agility, for instance, but be mindful of any rogues or hunters in your party. You should still roll need if it's better than what you have - if another person wants it, they'll pipe up and ask you for it, and you can discuss amongst yourselves how to resolve the issue. Do also be mindful of the attributes you need an item to have. Strength is as useless to a mage as a bonus to arcane damage is to a rogue.

BOP

Pass, and discuss. If several of your companions desire the item, show off what you have on in its place. It may be that someone in the group has a substandard item on, and that should be kept in mind. If multiple players still want the item after discussing, you can /roll on it, and trust in fate.

It's especially important with BOP items to keep in mind your party makeup. Many, many classes can use daggers, but some - like, say, mages - will not be meleeing with them anywhere near as much as a rogue, and some. That doesn't necessarily mean rogues should get every blue dagger that drops (after all, shamans, warriors and hunters can often make good use of them as well). But it does mean that they should be allowed a bit of priority.

Preferred items by class:

Warrior: Shields and all weapons. Mail before 40, Plate afterward. You want: Strength, Stamina, DPS, some Agility, proc effects.

Rogues: Daggers, sometimes maces and swords. Leather. You want: Agility, Stamina. Strength is tertiary. DPS, proc effects.

Hunter: Bows and guns, almost all weapons (but melee weapons are more of a priority for all other classes - you only fight up close when things go badly; likewise, melee classes that can make use of bows and guns should cede them to you if they're better than what you have). Leather before 40, mail afterwards. You want: Agility, Stamina. Strength and Intellect in smaller amounts. Procs on melee weapons are not as useful as stats, as you shouldn't be meleeing much.

Shaman: Shields, some weapons. Leather before 40, Mail afterwards. You want: Statistics are dependent on build, but usually a goodly mix of all of them. +Nature and +Healing are handy.

Druid: Some weapons. Leather. You want: Statistics dependent on build, but you don't need to mix it up as much as shamans. Caster druids will want caster stats and possibly some strength, feral druids will want warrior stats. Weapon procs and dps are meaningless for ferals, as they won't factor into your animal-form attacks. Attribute bonuses carry over. +Healing, +Nature and +Arcane can come in handy.

Mage: Staves, some 1-h weapons, off-hand items. Cloth. You want: Intellect, Stamina, Spirit tertiary. +fire, +ice and +arcane and +mana regen can be handy, but are of more use at higher levels than low.

Warlocks: Itemization as per mage. You want: Stamina first, THEN intellect. Spirit's just about useless, as you can Tap your health for mana. +shadow and +fire are handy. +mana regen... meh.

Priests: Itemization as per mage. You want: Intellect/Spirit, Stamina. +Shadow and +Healing are handy as well.

==Tips, Tricks and Quirks: Advice for the Fledgling Adventurer==

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===Class Advice===
====Druid====

Druids can be very squishy, but the real plus of the class is it's versatility. There is a bear form (basically a warrior class form), cat form (rogue-like, complete with stealth), water form (very helpful for both sea travel and breathing), and a travel form that lets you go 40% faster than normal running.

Druids are natural healers and can be very useful in groupwork, as long as you keep your eye on your team members health bars.

When questing alone, make sure to keep an eye on your own health bar, and don't be afraid to heal yourself in the middle of a fight. It can make all the difference.

====Hunter====

Hunters are probably the best class for soloing in the game. However, when you're in a group, you need to make some changes to your style of play.

The following tips will go a long way to solidifying your place in a group, and keep other playerse from yelling at you.

'''Marking Targets'''

Your Hunter's Mark is quite useful for guiding other players to a target. Use it to mark a target, so everyone can focus on the same mob and bring it down quickly. If there is a Mage in the party who can sheep, quickly discuss whether or not he thinks that target should be sheeped first instead. In some cases, Mages may be marking sheep targets with Detect Magic (a spell that causes no aggre, and creates a brief white swirl of light around a mob), so watch for those. Attacking a sheepmarked target is not a good way to make friends with the Mage, let alone the rest of the group!

Consider that a Mage's role in a group is crowd control as well as DPS, and they often have a better idea than you as how to go about their role; a good Mage isn't watching the target he's throwing spells at, he's watching for adds, or he's watching the sheep to make sure it isn't broken early, or both at the same time. If a Mage feels a target should be sheeped, it may be wise to defer to him or her and select a different target for pulling.

'''Pet Management'''

Part in qutes below is copied from [http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-hunter&t=703162&p=1&tmp=1#post703162 here] because it's expressed better than i can do it.

"DO NOT lose control of your pet. Perhaps the greatest source of peoples' trepidation about inviting Hunters to their groups is past experiences they had in which a Hunter's pet wiped them. Regardless of your talent choices, you are a master of wild beasts! Always know where your pet is.
Always know what he's attacking and what he's going to attack when his current target dies.
ALWAYS keep a firm leash on him and make sure you don't let him go anywhere that he'll aggro mobs you don't want to aggro.
'''ALWAYS''' leave your pet on Passive mode in instances. If he is on Defensive mode, he will often react to things you don't want him to. Aggressive mode is right out of the question! Manually choose your pet's target and hit Ctrl-1 to make him attack. Pets also travel using the same system as NPCs, meaning that if you jump off a cliff, your pet may not. He could aggro a lot of mobs by taking the long way. If you have any doubt that your pet will follow you as you want him to, you can (1) tell the pet to stay and whistle for him later, (2) despawn him, or (3) use Eyes of the Beast to manually make him jump off a cliff ahead of you. If your pet ever does get away from you and aggro mobs, do whatever you can to make him stay away from you. You might be able to stay out of combat and let your pet die rather than train half an instance to you."

Nothing gets your groupmates more angry at you than a pet running wild, who then do thing like break sheeped mobs who automatically aggro on the mage, or running loose in an area with three, four or more mobs, who then aggro onto your group.

If you can't manage your pet, then perhaps you should consider a different class, or consider that you shouldn't be grouping until you can.

====Mage====

'''Tips for a great deal of damage'''

The mage... The mage is the best class on WoW that can make very much damage...
The best way that a mage can stay alve is to spend all ur talent points in FIRE so u can kill or be killed. END

In other words: KOOL CLASS

Mage is very item dependant, not as much as a warrior but still items can make you a killer. As a mage and GM of an end game instance raiding guild, if I look to add a mage to our family, after personality fit I check their gear to see that they understand what makes a good mage. In PvE end game content, a mage should never draw aggro and hence stamina is not the end all. I'd look that they've researched items such as the Spiritshroud Leggings, Dragonrider Boots and Rod of the Ogre Magi. this shows they know what it takes to be a good mage - damage output. Next I'd check they've got a fair few pieces of their Magister to ensure they've had experience at 60 for a while. Finally I'd have a look that they've enchanted their everyday pieces and done so intelligently. Fire talent is the way to level a mage but end game, you have choices. Fire will make you run out of mana quite quickly and are useless against Geddon and Ragnaros in Molten Core and Vaelastrasz, Firemaw, Ebonroc, Flamegor and Nefarian in BWL. This is a generalised statement on Nefarian as the dragonkin before he becomes 'active' can often be hit by fire dependant on the brood colour of same. Frost won't hit as hard but will give you longevity across a longer fight without as many mana potions or evocation uses. It's individual style of play that counts and if you're a heavy farmer with lots of money, fire is still viable (just beware that arcane missiles don't have the range of your fireball or a frostbolt with arctic reach applied so on some encounters you'll be closer than you'd normally like as a fire mage - think ragnaros)

====Priest====
====Rogue====
====Shaman====

====='''Mana Efficiency and You'''=====

You may have noticed by now that a couple of your big spells will drain your mana pool dry so quickly it will leave your head spinning. Even elemental-specced shamans with lots of +int gear will find their mana pool does not allow for prolonged battle... and a shaman without mana is very often a dead shaman.

Analyze your spells to see how much damage (or healing) they do per mana point spent. The ratios can change over time (lightning shield, for instance, starts off inefficient compared to everything else, but that changes quickly).

On the whole, you should find that efficiency scales like so: Searing totem, given enough time ---> healing ---> lightning shield ---> lightning bolt / chain lightning, given enough targets ---> flame shock, given enough time ---> other shocks. Earth Shock and Frost Shock are your big damage, but even fully synergized, they barely do more than 1 damage per mana. That's a shame, because the spell interrupt of ES, or the snare effect of FS are quite handy. It's a good thing the 30ish-mana Earth Shock 1 still interrupts spells then, innit?

So what does this all mean?

Well, if you don't want to drink every two minutes - and I say that without a hint of hyperbole - learn to use your mana efficiently. Spamming your shocks leads to big damage, but drains you dry. Unless you really need to put something down fast, stick to Lightning Bolts, Lightning Shield, Searing Totem and melee.

And never, ever leave home without water.

====='''Weapon Buffs'''=====

I don't want to go into the mathematical analysis of it all, but here's the gist.

You have two weapon buffs. Rockbiter, and Windfury. But wait! What about Frost Brand? What about the fire buff?

Forget them. Frost rarely procs, and you can FS at will (cooldown permitting) to snare, or drop an Earthbind Totem. Flame? Well, it has its uses in the early game, but Rockbiter will always do more or equal damage.

Rockbiter grants you a lot of extra attack power, and it causes extra threat. That's great if you're (off-)tanking or soloing, but a liability otherwise. The fire buff should replace this in situations where you don't want aggro, until you get Windfury.

Windfury has a 20% chance of granting you two extra attacks with more attack power than the norm (although your base attack is not improved at all), and doesn't cause additional aggro. When it procs, you get a HUGE damage spike. When it doesn't, it's the equivalent of tapping your opponent on the shoulder. It's handier in PVP than Rockbiter, due to the bursty nature.

Over time, the damage improvement of Windfury and Rockbiter are more or less equal. Mathematically, Windfury can appear to come out a little bit ahead on the damage curve, especially with slow weapons. That doesn't take into account the fact that it's extremely unreliable, and - perhaps more importantly - it doesn't take into account the fact that Windfury can proc when you don't need it. Most shamans joke that it only ever goes off when your opponent is down to 3% of his hp and fleeing. Maybe it's selection bias, but I've noticed that too. Rockbiter is always the more dependable choice.

-TS

====='''Dealing with Crowds'''=====

One-on-one, shamans are a match for almost any foe. But when the numbers are stacked against you, things get a little bit uglier. Shamans have more trouble with multiple foes than most classes, but with a bit of creativity, you can win or - at worst - get away.

Your main crowd-control option is Stoneclaw Totem (Earth), which is similar to an engineer's Dummies, but not as hardy or long-lived. Stoneclaw will "growl" at nearby enemies, and inspire them to attack it. It has a reasonable-ish amount of hit points, and will last until those are depleted or its 15 seconds of fame are up. Here's where you stop worrying about efficiency. Let Stoneclaw distract your adds, and nuke the bejeezus out of your attacker.

Apart from Stoneclaw, your only CC option is creative kiting, with Earthbind and Frost Shock. If you have the space, and are not likely to run into more aggro, you can keep one mob off you by Frost Shocking it and dragging the other around at full speed. Earthbind Totem (Earth) is less selective, but allows you to keep both mobs at range (it's an AOE snare and one of your most important tools - keep it easily accessible). It's the superior option if you're fond of doing damage with your spells. Do keep in mind that Earthbind and Stoneclaw are both earth totems. Dropping one will destroy the other.

If you can't divide-and-conquer, you can slug it out. I hope, first of all, that you're carrying a shield. Two-handed weapons are handy against spellcasters with poor melee skills, but shamans are a tad squishy themselves; a good shield will offset that nicely. Remember that you can heal yourself, and always keep some mana around for Lesser Healing Wave.

AOE damage is an option, but it's not a GOOD option until level 32 and Chain Lightning. Magma Totem (Fire) and Fire Nova Totem (Fire) are extremely expensive, and painfully inefficient. What's more, they draw aggro themselves, so if you haven't done something to attract the attention of every mob that's attacking you, one's bound to break off and kill the totem. There's nothing quite like spending a third of your mana to drop a Fire Nova totem, only to have it killed before it even goes off.

Tauren have a significant advantage in this area. Warstomp will stun mobs attacking you for 2 seconds. That may not sound significant, but consider this: Lesser Healing Wave casts in 1.5 seconds. So does a fully talented Chain Lightning.

Finally, know when to run. You may not be a druid, but you're no slouch when it comes to getting away. Drop an Earthbind or a Stoneclaw, or toss around some Frost Shocks, and run like hell. If you put enough distance between yourself and your attackers, you can cast Ghost Wolf (with 2 talent points, it casts in one second; if you have Nature's Swiftness from the Restoration tree, it can be cast instantly).

-TS

====='''A primer on totems'''=====

Over the course of your shamanic career, you'll come into possession of totems. Dropping a totem is an insta-cast spell, and it puts the totem right where you're standing. Most totems are buffs of one kind or another and affect party members within a fairly generous radius. Sort of like the paladin's auras. Unlike the paladin's auras, totems fade away... and they have 5 hp. That's not usually an issue in PVE (fire totems are the exception), but in PVP some folks are smart enough to take your totems out. Good thing most of them are cheap.

You can drop up to four totems at a time, one for each element. Dropping a new totem of the same element as an existing one will destroy the original.

Few totems are useful in solo play. Or rather, they can be useful, but are normally too costly to use on simple grindy fights. After all, why drop a Stoneskin when you can save that mana and use it on healing? In a group setting, however, they can be very useful.

'''Earth'''

Stoneskin is an odd duck. A totem that decreases the damage you take by a flat amount, it can be a significant defensive improvement at lower levels... but doesn't scale at all well, and is expensive to boot. If you're soloing, you're best off dropping this totem only if you intend to use it over the span of more than one fight, or if you're fighting an enemy that hits often, but for small amounts of damage (rogues, cats, etc.).

Earthbind is glorious. It halves the running speed of all enemies in its area, lasts 45 seconds, and is on a relatively quick cooldown. Handy in getaways, very useful for elemental shamans who want some room to cast spells unmolested, and wreaks all sorts of havoc in battlegrounds.

Tremor is an anti-CC totem; once it's dropped, it has a chance to remove Sleep, Fear and the like from party members within its AOE. It's not useful all the time, but it's a lifesaver when it is. This is one of your key skills in Battlegrounds.

Stoneclaw is sort of like CC, but not that powerful. That said, it's all you have. See the section on crowds above.

Finally, Strength of Earth is a handy strength buff. If you've a lot of meleeists around, dropping one of these can't hurt.

Earth in summation: Earthbind is great. Tremor is great. Stoneskin can be handy. Stoneclaw is mostly worthless, but hey; it's all you got.

'''Fire'''

Searing Totem is a basic DOT totem. It shoots a tiny little fireball at your target every two seconds or so, doing unimpressive damage that can nonetheless add up. It's also pretty efficient, given enough time, and is very, very cheap.

Magma totem and Fire Nova totem suck, for reasons described in the Crowd Control section. They have their uses (Fire Nova can be handy in PVP, especially if talented), but everything they can do, Chain Lightning does better.

Frost Resistance totems are great, if you're fighting someone using frost magic. Think of them as Stoneskin against Ice Mages, but cheaper.

Flametongue totem (which grants an effect similar to yor Flametongue self-buff to all party members in its area) is misunderstood and unloved, usually because it's compared to the superior Windfury totem. That comparison isn't so bright. See, air has lots of useful totems. Fire doesn't. If you have a lot of meleeists around, it may be a good idea to drop this.

Fire in Summation: Searing Totem is small but free damage. Flametongue Totem is better than you think. Resistance is nice. The "big damage" totems are terrible.

'''Water'''

Healing Stream is the ultimate in non-scaled crap! By the time you get the first rank, it's already obsolete. As you move up through the ranks, it's still obsolete! Save your mana and cast a heal spell. This one doesn't do enough to matter. Especially when you consider the likelihood of everybody taking tiny amounts of damage, instead of a tank taking big hits.

Mana Spring, however, is handy. It restores a humble amount of mana to everyone in the totem's area. At first, the mana spring costs you more than it restores over time, but it soon becomes more efficient, giving back slightly more mana over time than it costs to drop. This is not relevant in solo play (the difference between mana cost and mana restoration is much too small for it to be used as an anti-downtime tool), but it's a nice thing in groups.

Mana Tide is a beefed up Mana Spring - and Restoration's 31-pt talent. Most shamans won't see this totem for a long time, but for those that spec to restoration for the end-game, it's an incredible tool. It doesn't last long, and it's got a hefty cooldown, but it restores a significant amount of mana quickly. Between this totem, mana spring and a class trinket called the Enamored Water Spirit (which is like a mini-Mana Tide on a 3-min cooldown), you can be an endless mana battery.

Poison Cleansing is useful against rogues in PVP, and any and all beasts that use poison in their main attacks. In for a long fight? Don't bother casting Cure Poison individually every time the warrior gets bitten. Just drop yourself one of these and let it do the work.

Disease Cleansing is exactly like Poison Cleansing, but disease is far less commonly used. I've never dropped this totem in my life, electing instead to Cure Disease manually.

Fire Resistance is groovy.

Water in summary: The totem that seems like it would be most useful is in fact least useful. The mana restoration totems are what you'll probably be using most often in a group context (later in the game, at least), but Poison Cleansing and Fire Resistance also get their moment in the sun from time to time. None of these totems (apart from Mana Tide) are handy in solo play, however.

'''Air'''

Grounding Totem doesn't work the way the tooltip says it does. Instead of absorbing enemy spells for a while before it disappears, it absorbs one and dies. This means the enhancement talent to improve its effect is broken, by the by, so don't take that. Despite all that, this remains a GREAT totem. Between Grounding Totem and Earth Shock, you can shut down a caster completely; it's also handy in group play if you're worried about aggroing with Earth Shock (that said, level 1 Earth Shocks still interrupt, and cause very little hate - don't be afraid to use them in parties).

Grace of Air is a big agility boost, and a wonderful thing to drop if you've got meleeists and hunters around.

Windwall is a stoneskin for ranged attacks. It sucks.

Windfury Totem is somewhat like Flametongue totem. It gives all of your party members a chance to proc a Windfury effect. Obviously, this is a big deal if you've a lot of meleeists in the group, but be aware that it can be a tricky thing with regard to aggro management. After all, if the rogue procs a Windfury for big damage and the Warrior doesn't, he may peel the warrior off. This totem is a HUGE damage boost for meleeists, but it can be undependable. If you're warrior-heavy, it's great. If you're rogue-heavy, Grace of Air and Flametongue are probably a better choice.

Nature Resistance is exactly what it sounds like. Note that it also affects poison resists, which makes it slightly more versatile than the other two resistance totems.

Tranquil Air is new, as of 1.9. It's an AOE aggro reduction.. but be VERY CAREFUL where you put it. You don't want your party's warrior to fall into the AOE while the priest doesn't. This is the best air totem to drop if you're heavy on the back-lines, but again: be careful with it.

Finally, Sentry Totem. Buh? You might say? Of what use is this? Battlegrounds. Watch the tunnel and the main room in WSG, or keep a clear view of the mine in AB. This is a useful and underestimated totem.

Air in summation: After some of the other elements, air is an embarassment of riches. There are MANY good choices here, and your party composition will influence the decision quite a bit. Keep grounding close at hand for solo play.

====Warrior====

=====Murglor's Guide to Tanking=====
'''(Or, 'Ow to Make Monsters Kick Yer Ass Even If Ya Can't Do Damage Worth Squat)'''

Now, I know Murglor doesn't do too much standin' in front of things gettin' hit fer the good o' the unit these days, but the ol' brain hasn't lost a beat. Listen well, and you'll get all the battle scars an' broken bones yer heart could possibly want.

So what, ya might be askin', is this Tankin' thing I'm chatterin' about? Well, it's a fine an' ancient art, which we call Tankin' on account of it's hard and t'ankless work, except when certain young Orc lasses 'ear about yer bravery and give ya a special kind o' thanks, like this one time in Redridge when - ah, well, ya won't be needin' to hear the details on that one. Anyway, Tankin' is all about makin' a enemies waste their time an' energy chewin' through yer thick armor rather'n just chompin' up the Mage lightin' 'em on fire or the priest keepin' ya alive.

The bad news is, ya gotta work at it. Unlike the sissies runnin' around in their dresses (and certain good-lookin' ol' Orcs what learned they like givin' more than takin', and got an 'ost of dirty ol' tricks to get it done), ya ain't exactly gonna strike terror into the 'earts o' monsters with yer fearsome attacks. All things bein' equal, the monster's gonna go straight after the person 'urtin' it most.

The good news is, all that pricy warrior trainin' isn't a complete waste. Ya got a lotta skills that'll piss a monster right off, no matter 'ow much actual 'arm ya do with 'em.

Let's go over the basics, eh?

'''Sunder Armor:''' think ya paid a lot fer that shiny suit o' plate or mail? Just imagine ya gotta grow it back whenever it gets busted. Monsters don't much like it when ya tear up their defenses, and makin' yer friends kill the bugger faster ain't exactly a bad thing neither. If ya ain't done this to a mob yet, do it - and a few more times fer good measure. Sunder armor is the meat an' potatoes o' the noble Tankin' profession.

'''Revenge:''' there ain't nothin' a monster 'ates more than bein' denied a tasty snack and then slapped upside the snout fer 'is trouble. Revenge ain't gonna be available all the time, but ya'd better use it when it is so ya don't miss the chance. It's got a damn big effect for 'ow little Rage it costs.

'''Shield Block:''' let's face it, shields ain't what they used to be. They're all well an' good for the pansies o' the monster world, but real enemies'll laugh 'em off and go straight through 'em. Still, this nifty little trick is the best way to make sure ya get a chance to fire off Revenge - no sense usin' it early in a fight, when ya still gotta use Sunder Armor to get the bugger's attention and Rage is 'ard to come by, but it's not bad later on.

'''Heroic Strike:''' it ain't very good. Oh, yeah, a warrior what thinks 'e's some sort o' rogue'll use it a lot, but that's not tankin'. Rage doesn't do no good at all if ya ain't usin' it, and this is one way to use up extra rage, but that's about it.

'''Taunt:''' now we're talkin'. This skill will get ya a monster's attention for a bit, but ya gotta smack 'im a few times if ya want it to stick once the stuff ya said about 'is mother starts to fade from memory. Great for lockin' down an enemy that's nearly dead so ya can start poundin' 'is friend, too.

'''Bloodrage:''' ya might not think this is a skill for tankin', but trust Ol' Murglor on it. Every point o' free rage ya get is good for about 5 points o' actually smackin' an enemy around, and then ya get to use the rage to piss off the enemy some more.

'''Last Stand:''' not every warrior is gonna have this skill, but it's a good one. Ya see, the first part o' tankin' is makin' sure the monster's attackin' ya instead o' yer friends. But the other part - and it's an important part - is stayin' alive. Last Stand gives ya a quick 'eal, good for 1/3 of yer life, but it's the sort o' first aid that isn't wasted if one of yer priest friends does get a spell in at the same time. It generates a fair bit o' fury from the monsters, and for a little bit, you're even tougher than ya were before usin' the skill.

Now, let's talk about puttin' it all into practice. First, I'm gonna talk about keepin' just one monster on you an' not lads in fine dresses.

[TO BE CONTINUED]

===Macros and Interface Tricks===

''Languages''

You may have noticed that some of us like to assault the guild chat with various languages! If you've ever wanted to discuss the succulence of a party member's braaaains with your fellow undead in privacy, click on the speech bubble in your chat tab. You should see a set of headings pop up; one of them is language. Just pick the language in which you'd like to speak, and chat normally.

Orcish is the common language of the Horde, and the only one we all can understand. It's also the only language orcs can speak, making you green lot subpar conspirators. Trolls, Undead and Tauren all have the option of speaking Orcish and their racial language.

Currently, there is no way to learn languages other than the ones available to your race by default.

'''Macros'''

Scripting macros is easy. To access your macro menu, type /macro. You should see a screen with (now) two divisions. General macros apply to all your characters, character-specific ones only to the toon in question. Hit New Macro, choose an icon, and type in a name. Then, in the box at the bottom of your macro screen, type in the commands you wish to script. You now have an icon that can be dragged to your quickbar!

''Text Macros''

Need a macro to tell your party that you're in trouble? Perhaps a battlecry to strike fear into the hearts of quillboars? Easy as pie. Just type in a regular chat script.

For instance, if you're a squishy priest whose healing has aggravated beasties, macro something like this to warn your party:

/p Healer has aggro!

Or, if you're the bloodthirsty type, you can broadcast a battlecry for all around you to hear. The %t below is a switch that will return the name of your target:

/s Prepare to die, %t!

It's possible to combine a text macro with a skill to warn your party and do what you need to, like so:

/s I'm sheeping %t
/Cast Polymorph

''Trash Sales''

Activate this macro while talking to a vendor, and it will search your bags and sell all grey items in your possession. A god-send.

/script for bag = 0,4,1 do for slot = 1, GetContainerNumSlots(bag), 1 do local name =
GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot); if name and string.find(name,"ff9d9d9d") then
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Selling "..name); UseContainerItem(bag,slot) end; end; end

'''Useful Mods'''

www.curse-gaming.com is your best source of interface mods for WoW. If you have favourites, list them here:

''Auctioneer'' allows you to database the auction house, and then see average buyouts, vendor sell prices and the like in the tooltip when you mouse over an item. HIGHLY recommended.

''Clique'' is a mouse-binding addon that lets you use mouseclick combinations directly with your raid frames.

''Cosmos/Khaos'' is a very popular user interface package that includes a vast array of neat features including auction tracking, mob health tracking etc. However, Cosmos makes extensive custom modifications to the user interface and frequently gets broken by patches.

''CTMod'' is one of the more popular user interface packages and includes a number of useful but not necessary features such as tracking your HP/MP regeneration, chat time stamps, tracking locations of herbs and minerals, etc.

''CTRaid'' from the makers of CTMod is a raid tracking program that helps you keep track of large raids. It's unecessary for lower levels where raiding is rare but higher end and end-game raid groups may encourage you to use it.

''FlagRSP'' flags you as a roleplayer, and allows you to enter a description, a surname, and other such RP stuff.

''Gatherer'' marks nodes you've visited (herbs, ore and chests) on your map, and remembers where they are.

''Grid'' is an example of a raid frame addon. A great help for healers in raids to keep an eye on as many health bars as possible with the minimum amount of screen space used.

''Scrolling Combat Text'' shows damage and effects with floating text that appears above your character, allowing you to track damage done/taken and the casting of special effects such as buffs or debuffs. Useful for warriors for the "Overpower" text that appears when enemies dodge, so you don't have to stare at your Overpower button all day.

''Totem Timer'' Shaman-specific; allows you to see how much time is left before your dropped totems disappear.

''WeaponSwap'' Best for warriors, but anybody can use it. Allows you to make macros to switch between multiple weapon loadouts at a single click. For instance, for a warrior to switch from a 2-hander to a 1-h and shield.

'''Related Software'''

''Teamspeak'' or TS is a stand-alone software that works with multiple games to allow voice chat. Like CTRaid, it isn't needed at lower levels but well organized high-end instances and Battlegrounds groups will frequently use it.

''Ventrillo'', also known as Vent, is similar to TS but apparently less popular.

Session 82

2007-10-18T01:47:26Z

BethDragon:

Random_Nerd: Oh, and advance warning, I'm running on a very high caffine-to-sleep ratio right now. if the game seems weirder than usual, that's why. 
BethE: Sanity, crutch! 
lazarus: Noble Knight only has the LARP supplement (should finish reading that some day). 
lazarus: RN: what she said :p 
Knockwood: what, is Monty going to start singing Purple Haze? 
Etheric: Do we have any idea what next? Or should we decide that IC? 
BethE: *listens to what RN is babbling while he's pacing* Ack! 
lazarus: Etheric: request a visit with ... JBJ. 
BethE: We can decide IC and go from there. 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
Knockwood: John Bon Jovi? 
Knockwood: :D 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
Brian: that was our (well, Brian's) plan 
DanteE: let's see, for _some_ reason you didn't want me doing any negotiating... 
Brian: no, I just figured that you were most interested in chatting with the Nobles here. 
Theresa: (The crest of our game would be a brown carved-wood crutch upon a field of green. Surrounding the crest is the molecular structure of caffeine.) 
Random_Nerd: So, let's see. How had you wanted to split up the party? 
DanteE: (BTW, heard or seen anything from RSB recently? Any posts or chats?) 
Theresa: I think that last week, when asked what people would ask JBJ, Brian asked about what is' like to be the Imp of an Age while Dante wanted to know 'What happens when you die?" 
Random_Nerd: (Nope, nothing lately that I can recall.) 
Etheric: Wouldn't the latter be in the Library? 
Etheric: Oh, when he dies. Not when "you" die. 
DanteE: Well, the point of that is wondering if you really need an Imperator watching over something for it to exist. 
DanteE: If you don't, mang goes Barakiel 
Theresa: (And no new Hitherby since Jul.) 
DanteE: er, bang goes Barakiel's plan 
Brian: (Isn't she a professor still?) 
Theresa: For all we know, estates that don't have visible Imperators or Nobles, they just don't have Chancels or Imperators visible yet? 
DanteE: (Hm. One more week and we'll be obligated by internet tradition to start a rumor that she died...) 
Random_Nerd: Dante, yes, you do need to have an imperator, unless it's something at least partly imperial. 
Random_Nerd: Like an imperator, a noble, an anchor, and so on. 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and different rules apply outside of Creation. 
Random_Nerd: But things native to Creation exist only with an imperator sustaining them. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. I guess the only other example is sometimes, for Wildlords, the estates can show up before the Imperators do. 
DanteE: then how can new ideas and concepts exist? 
Random_Nerd: But for that, the Imperators are outside of Creation at the time, so weird rules apply. 
Random_Nerd: Sometimes new concepts can create Imperators. 
Random_Nerd: In particular, Light, Dark, and True Gods. 
Random_Nerd: And sometimes new Imperators show up, and then so do their estates. 
Random_Nerd: This way is more how it works with Serpents and Angels. 
DanteE: hm... 
DanteE: if we don't know how much work it takes to create an Estate outside Creation... that opens up a whole new way of thinking about the War. 
Random_Nerd: So far, nobody in the setting has any clue how Estates work Out There. 
Random_Nerd: There might not even /be/ Estates. 
Brian: it's almost as if no one really has any clue how Estates work In Here, either ... 
Random_Nerd: How so? 
Random_Nerd: They know a lot of how things work. Like, all the above stuff? People know that. 
Random_Nerd: At least, Imperators and Nobles, and sone Anchors, do. 
Random_Nerd: Some. 
Brian: and that's really what Brian wants to find out. Like, what causes them, why the Estate selection is what it is, and things like "Estate of the Age, what is it, really?" 
DanteE: maybe Creation is a petri dish for Estates and Imperators 
Random_Nerd: Estates of Ages are one of the areas that's the least well-known, since there are very few of them, and some of the usual methods for finding out about estates and imperators don't work on them. 
Theresa: Then who's the penicillin? And whose cheese sandwich? 
Brian: I suppose what I'm after is not what they are and what they can do, but the why of it all 
Random_Nerd: Ah. That's less well known. 
Random_Nerd: Different theories exist, but there's little proof. 
Random_Nerd: You guys ready to start yet? 
DanteE: Theresa: Excrucians are the Penicillin 
Etheric: This is really interesting, but I'm pretty spacy right now and I'm wondering if I can actually play. But I don't want to cause the game to be canceled or anything. 
Etheric: Weird sleep patterns lately, to make a long story short. 
Theresa: I'm ready. 
Brian: let's go play, then? 
DanteE: you actually sleep? 
Random_Nerd: Which scene shall we start with? 
Brian: that's more tricky :p 
Etheric: Yes. =P 
DanteE: discussion of what we're going to do? 
Brian: when we do that, we never actually /do/ anything ;) 
Theresa: Discussion. Either that or someone gets to do a voice-over. And we keep the discussion to 5 minutes. 
Random_Nerd: If nobody has a preference, we'll go to you guys giving Monty a foot rub. 
Brian: ha! "How'd we get here?" 
Brian: "Scene cut >_<" 
DanteE: "So... you want to go look for Jan Ben Jan?" 
Brian: I'm fine with a short discussion scene. 
Theresa: (That's a big foot.) 
Brian: (*dodges the flame war*) 
*** Etheric has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Sorry, can't do this. Have to get some rest. Really sorry to do this, guys.). 
Random_Nerd: Okay. So, to your suite, with William and Lesson there? 
Theresa: (Eep.) 
Theresa: (Sure.) 
DanteE: whoops... 
Theresa: "If we can find him. For all we know, he doesn't want visitors at the Old Gods Home." 
Random_Nerd: __________________START__________________ 
Brian: "So, any clue on how to get in contact with JBJ?" 
DanteE: "Or... Attaris?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "We could send a messenger to his chancel, or we could try to work out some web of favors where someone he listens to owes a favor to someone we could do a favor for." 
Random_Nerd: W: "First approach would be less likely to work, second would probably require you doing something to get in with Jan's friend." 
Theresa: "Messenger might be the quicker route and favors of favors might get intangled with the Wild code." 
Random_Nerd: W: "Hmm. Or, you could pray to him. Or show up unannounced." 
DanteE: "What exactly do you hope to accomplish, though?" 
Brian: "I'm interested in talking with him over the nature of the Estate of an Age" 
Theresa: "Does he have a code that is known?" 
DanteE: "Wait... the Imperator of the First Age is dead, right?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "I actually don't know that, Domina. One moment, please." 
Random_Nerd: He touches his silver ear sphere. 
Random_Nerd: W: "And yes, the Most Ancient Lord is dead." 
DanteE: "Well then, why isn't the First Age gone from the history books?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "Okay, it seems that as a True God, Jan Ben Jan has a private code. And as a god with no Nobles to follow it, and with a secretive disposition, he's not made it known to the public." 
Theresa: "Hmm." 
Random_Nerd: W: "I don't know. You'd think it would be." 
Theresa: "It could be that since that Age is past and Imperial, it has become part of the bedrock of the world?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "But the best theory I have is that it's not really recorded, except in the minds of Imperators and a very few Nobles." 
Random_Nerd: W: "And /they/ can still remember it. They can even tell people about it." 
Brian: "Aren't they also able to visit it? How would that work?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "Yes, they are, in a way involving the Spirit World. And we don't understand that at /all/." 
Random_Nerd: W: "I don't even think any Nobles really understand that place." 
Random_Nerd: W: "Have you ever seen it?" 
Brian: "Me? Don't think so." 
Theresa: 'I don't think so." 
Brian: "Do we know what Jan Ben Jan's flower is? Or otherwise the best way to contact him?" 
Random_Nerd: L: "What's the spirit world? The thing you do where you talk to trees and rocks and things?" 
DanteE: "Nope..." 
DanteE: "Yeah it is, actually." 
Theresa: "No, Lesson, that's the mythic world. Earth can't handle looking at what it thinks is reality and what spirits think is reality, so Nobles have to shift viewpoints." 
Random_Nerd: W, in a tone that sounds like reciting something memorized by rote: "Jan Ben Jan represents himself with the periwinkle, flower of memory." 
Theresa: "The spirit world of the Imperators is where most of the Imperator just...is." 
Brian: "T, can I have a periwinkle, please?" 
* Theresa Creates. 
Brian: "Thank you *beams*" 
DanteE: "How about Attaris?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "Ymera Attaris Ebrot Appeka represents herself with the begonia, flower of warning and deformity." 
Theresa: "Deformity? Huh." 
* Theresa creates an angel's-wing begonia flower, waxy and delicate. 
* DanteE takes the begonia... 
DanteE: (Can we use this to locate Attaris without contacting him?) 
Theresa: (Her.) 
DanteE: (My bad.) 
Theresa: (And we can't locate her completely well, due to Auctoritas?) 
Random_Nerd: (I can't see how you would do that. If you can, I don't know what method you would use.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, how would you look, Theresa?) 
DanteE: "We'll hold this in reserve as a backup plan." 
* DanteE sticks it in his lapel." 
Theresa: (Well, if we were in Amyra, I could check there. But not the whole world.) 
* Brian prays to Jan Ben Jan: "Jan Ben Jan, I am Brian, Noble of Numbers, and wish to speak with you regarding Ages. My home Chancel is Amyra, and Luc's Aides organization know how to get in touch with me." 
Brian: "Well, no response yet, but who knows how long Imperators take to answer requests from us Mere Nobles." 
Theresa: "Depends on how busy he is or whether he cares, I guess." 
DanteE: (Well, I suppose it beats "Breaker 6-6-6, this is Da Calculator looking for Big 3...")_ 
Brian: (Dante: laugh point.) 
DanteE: (Big 2, I'm a doof) 
Theresa: (I was wondering... :) ) 
Theresa: "So you're thinking about going to talk to the Wildmistress of the current Age with Carrie while Brian and I talk to JBJ?" 
Theresa: "Oh and William, does anyone have locations on any of the Phoenix family at the moment?" 
Random_Nerd: You hear a loud commotion outside the door. Sounds like one of the two guards is thrashing about wildly and the other is trying to calm him down. 
DanteE: "We might.... hm?" 
* DanteE checks out the door... 
Theresa: (Who ordered pizza?) 
Random_Nerd: W: "We have not seen any of the Phoenix family in... seven years, I believe? Seven or eight." 
Random_Nerd: One of the human/demon guards by the door is writhing on the ground in what seems to be a seizure, and talking a mix of angelic and gibberish. 
Theresa: "And if they were gone-gone, everyone would know?" 
Theresa: (Hey, we speak that!) 
DanteE: (That and Klingon) 
DanteE: (OK, what's he saying?) 
DanteE: "You (other guard), grab Shadows, tell him what happened." 
Random_Nerd: "Thanahtha. Thnta. Numbers. Othanathatatq. Heard message. Aarara, thatnahra pterna. Accept audience, tniapyra sharana. Will answer questions,thathatn lgnarha, for a cost. Hatatah." 
Random_Nerd: He contorts himself and drools, and bleeds from a broken nose where his head hit the wall. 
Theresa: "Oh, huh, nifty. And cost is worrisome, but oh, sorry about the nose." 
* DanteE heals the nose... 
Random_Nerd: The node reknits itself together, but the lunacy continues." 
Theresa: (*has weird thought*) 
Random_Nerd: (err, no ") 
DanteE: (node or nose? :) ) 
Brian: (and nose?) 
Random_Nerd: (Err, nose.) 
Brian: (T: what's your weird thought?) 
Random_Nerd: He gibbers on, with the words "Pay for each question" and "Not ask casually" mixed in. 
Random_Nerd: The other guard rushes off. 
Brian: "Hm. I don't think the entire message got through" 
Theresa: "I think it did. We're not children. And Imperators do not waste their time. The costs will not be cheap." 
DanteE: "And I kinda doubt you'll get a deal on 4 questions for $49.95" 
Random_Nerd: He stops talking, and just quietly twitches. 
Brian: "... Either we're expected to ask the guard, or that would be the wrong thing. I also suspect asking the guard to clarify would count as a question with a cost." 
Random_Nerd: The shadow of the writhing guard suddenly pulls itself off the floor and onto a wall, and says "What's going on?" 
Brian: "..." 
DanteE: "Your guard's been promoted to intercom. 
Theresa: "Hi Shadows. We received a message from an Imperator that we're wanting to speak to. Unfortunately, he sent the message through your Chancel member." 
DanteE: "My bad... I thought it was another loose whatsit." 
Random_Nerd: Shadow: "How damaged is he?" 
DanteE: "Physically, he's fine..." 
Brian: "He seems to be gibbering and writhing." 
Random_Nerd: "He seems as though he may hurt himself. Is the message complete?" 
Theresa: "Not sure. We were not informed of a meeting place. It's possible that the link is still active." 
DanteE: to guard: "Please tell us where we can meet." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Okay, I don't have time for this now, but I'll send people to relieve him." 
Random_Nerd: Guard. "Kanhatototota. Meet you. Janahranh, ahtan. Burn my flower, yananahwah, and say my name, shatnalahihihi. And I come for you you you you you." 
* Theresa looks at Brian. "We shouldn't do it in this Chancel. That would be very rude to their boundaries." 
Random_Nerd: The guard stops twitching, curls up into the fetal position, and starts to cry. 
Random_Nerd: For anyone looking at the hell-world, it's rather disconcerting to see a bulky and deformed demon curl up and cry. 
Brian: (it's disconcerting to see ANY of this happening) 
* Theresa has seen it before, though. *kneels down to comfort the demon* 
Brian: "You're right, T. We've got that Grove in our Chancel, that should be a reasonable place that won't damage anyone else, right?" 
Theresa: *murmurs* "It's okay...it's okay...he's gone now. You are yourself. You are your own." 
Theresa: "Do we want him in _our_ Chancel either?" 
Random_Nerd: Guard: "I can still see him. Still see him. So cold. So cold." 
Random_Nerd: The guard mumbles "cold" to himself. 
Brian: "Not really. But if he's coming to us, it's unlikely he'd welcome a visit." 
* DanteE hits the guard with a ghost-Courage 
Random_Nerd: The guard stops mumbling, and shifts his position a bit. 
Theresa: "What did he look like?" 
Theresa: *to Brian* :Well, true, but it might be better to have him visit us on neutral territory to both of us. So he doesn't destroy anything important to us." 
Random_Nerd: Guard: "Cold. Dark. Bigger than everything. Bigger than the world. And he saw me." 
DanteE: "... is he gonna fit in the Grove?" 
Theresa: (That's good storytelling, RN.) 
Random_Nerd: (I try.) 
Brian: "In our Chancel, we can fix things easier. I wouldn't inflict this on anyone, willingly." 
Theresa: "The Grove is in the middle of the city, though. Last time we had something bigger than everything..." 
Theresa: (Oh, wait, gettign clarification.) 
Theresa: (Okay, nix my previous. The Grove's in the outskirts.) 
Brian: (in my mind: "Guard saw Cthulhu?") 
Theresa: "We'd have to open up the borders to him. And let the Boss know he's coming. Otherwise we might get a ticked off Wildlord breathing down our necks." 
Brian: "Sounds like a plan. Shall we be off, then, T?" 
Random_Nerd: (And Jan Ben Jan is a New God. The Old Gods are older and stranger than this.) 
Theresa: *sigh* "Yeah, let's get home. For all we know, this visit may be too weird for even the Boss to handle." 
Theresa: *thinking, 'On the other hand, he may want front-row seats with popcorn.'* 
DanteE: "Is there such a thing as Too Weird for Kudzu?" 
Theresa: "Sanity, crutch!" *grin* 
Theresa: " 
Theresa: Plus he wasn't too keen on the idea of inviting the Angel of the moon over for the party." 
DanteE: "Maybe she handed him his concrete ass in tennis." 
DanteE: "What about our 'mission' here, though?" 
Theresa: "Don't get killed, Dante." 
Brian: "*glances at Carreve* [appropriate name] and I have pretty close to real time communication wherever we are, so that's how this all works." 
Theresa: "And we're still working on the mission. We're just having to take side-trips for extra ingredients." 
Random_Nerd: L: "Don't like this. Isn't like how Imperators I know of work. Seen Angels, Kudzu. Powerful, important, but not like this." 
Random_Nerd: W: "Yes. The Divine Imperators tend to be... strange. Each following some unique set of moral laws that makes sense only to him." 
Brian: "William, Samuel, either of you have a preference on whether you stay here or tag along for the visit?" 
DanteE: "Divine Imperators are strange, Wildlords are strange. Are any Imperators normal?" 
Random_Nerd: S: "Serpents." 
Random_Nerd: S: "I like Serpents. They're big, and powerful, but they make sense." 
Theresa: "What definition of normal? because I'm sure Dionyl imperators seem normal to you, Sam. " *smile* 
Random_Nerd: W: "I don't think it makes any difference to me." 
Random_Nerd: S: "I'd rather be out of this Chancel, if that's possible. This place feels wrong." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Worse than Earth." 
DanteE: "OK, then... what about Theresa and I?" 
Theresa: "We have a responsiblity to keep you two and Lesson safe. Given how that guard reacted...I'm not sure how perceptions would be for nonNobles seeing this Imperator." 
Brian: "You seem more interested in things here - talking with Consequences and so on - and I don't think you're needed. I think Theresa should come with me." 
Theresa: "We need to make sure that the prices we agree to affect the least amount of the Chancel or ourselves. Even with the Wild code, this Imperator will be hard to bargain with." 
Brian: "We have no idea what his prices are." 
Brian: "For all we know, they could be, like, a pie chart." 
DanteE: "All right... and Kudzu wanted Monty and Lesson here specifically for whatever he's planning. So, me, Carrie, Lesson, Monty and William here, you two, Samuel, and sleepyhead (Snow) back home?" 
Brian: (for the record: (Link: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/02/hilarious-piechartvi.html)http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/02/hilarious-piechartvi.html is what I was referencing ;)) 
Random_Nerd: (Ah, yes. I like that one.) 
Theresa: "Yeah, we should take Snow home. Who knows what trouble her horse has gotten into." 
DanteE: "... didn't she bring her horse?" 
Theresa: (No, we left the horse at home in Monty's old room, I thought.) 
Random_Nerd: (I think Horse is in the chancel.) 
Random_Nerd: (And he's certainly well-guarded today.) 
Brian: (she asked if she could come along) 
Theresa: (And I think we said no.) 
Random_Nerd: (So, how are we going to split up the party?) 
DanteE: (I just said it) 
Random_Nerd: (Sure, but the other folks would presumably have to agree.) 
Theresa: (As was said. Although Theresa doesn't want Sam along for the JBJ visit.O) 
Brian: "Dante, sounds fine by me. We'll meet back together after meeting with JBJ - either here or in-Chancel, as needs require. Sam, do you think you could survive a visit from Jan Ben Jan?" 
Random_Nerd: S: "I don't know. Probably, if he doesn't want to hurt me." 
DanteE: (le's just hope Samuel doesn't get turned into a box of Kleenex...) 
Brian: "Are you willing to risk it?" 
Random_Nerd: (So, shall we play through the folks leaving saying goodbye to C and S, or just handwave that?) 
Theresa: (Do you know how much our insurance is going to go up if Sam gets dinged?) 
Theresa: (Handwave is fine with me.) 
DanteE: (Handwave, I think...) 
Brian: (handwave is fine) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay. Shall we have the narrative go with the people leaving, then?) 
DanteE: (OK.) 
Theresa: ('s fine with me. Come back with us arriving back home?) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, now, Dante, your character is behind, but Lesson's going with them, and John's back in the chancel. Do you want to take over either as your temp-PC?) 
Brian: (I thought Lesson was staying here? Sam's coming, though) 
Random_Nerd: (Err, I meant Sam.) 
DanteE: (Hmmm...) 
DanteE: (Wait... you mean King John?) 
Theresa: (Yep, that John.) 
DanteE: (I'll just kibitz. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah. Since he's fleshed out enough to work as a stand-in PC, and he's in-chancel.) 
Brian: ("Ok, now we're home, and I'm hungry..." *calls up pizza place* ;) :-P) 
DanteE: (Actually... I'll try playing Samuel. Send some RP notes?) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, then let's cut to you guys arriving.) 
Random_Nerd: (Ah, one moment.) 
Theresa: (Theresa will want to talk to Kudzu about the trip and the upcoming summoning.) 
*** DanteE is now known as Samuel_Dionyl. 
Brian: "So. What do we tell Kudzu?" 
Theresa: "That we know Barakiel's plan, for the most part and that we need to talk to JBJ to put the kibosh on Barakiel's plan best?" 
* Samuel_Dionyl seems just a little ... well, 'swirlier' than usual. 
Brian: "Sounds good. Would you prefer to do all the talking, or would you rather I do?" 
Theresa: "For all we know, the boss will think Barakiel's plan is cool." 
Samuel_Dionyl: "What would you have me do? 
Theresa: *shrug* Up to you. I can fill in the gaps if need be." 
Theresa: (Have we told Sam everything? Is it safe telling the Aides about B's plan?) 
Samuel_Dionyl: "I believe Dante said something about a video camera?" 
* Brian *blinks* 
Random_Nerd: (They were in the same room as you for a lot of the discussion.) 
Samuel_Dionyl: "He may have ... done that thing where you say something you don't actually mean?"{ 
Brian: "Right, well, anyway." 
Brian: "Kudzu, are you around?" 
Random_Nerd: Some random bush. "Yes." 
Theresa: (Back in the clock towe...okay.) 
Theresa: (I guess not.) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, if you're indoors, then some random brick.) 
Brian: "We're sort of back. Our mission's not yet complete, we're here to report what we have so far, and to talk with Jan Ben Jan, who we will be, uh, summoning, I guess, later." 
Samuel_Dionyl: (So, bush or brick? :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (Eh. Say you're in the tower, so, brick.) 
Random_Nerd: A different brick: "Making any progress on the mission?" 
Brian: "Barakiel's plan seems to be to assassinate Ananda, and thus to halt the turning of the Age. I wish to talk with Jan Ben Jan to find out if that is, as I suspect, an incredibly bad idea." 
Samuel_Dionyl: (Actually, have the council vote for his execution... which is worse) 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "That's... that's quite a plan. Roughly equal quantities of moxie and hubris, I'd say." 
Theresa: "I think he wants us to get you to approve of it so you can talk at least one of the other Council members to vote for Ananda's death." 
* Samuel_Dionyl swirling seems to be slowing down a bit... 
Brian: "I take it you still want us to stop it?" 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Yes. And get him to renounce it if you can." 
Theresa: "Renounce it?" 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Say it was a bad idea. Directly work against it." 
Theresa: "Ahh. Just wanted to check." 
Samuel_Dionyl: (in other words, join us) 
Theresa: "He seems to have been working on this idea for quite some time. Says he's tired of watching Imperators die to the War. So he's going to stop the next Age from coming." 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Well... I can sort of see where he's coming from. It's not too far from the sort of plan I might have come up with. But if it's his idea, there has to be a horrible flaw." 
Brian: "Seems he let himself get a bit tunnel-visioned." 
Samuel_Dionyl: (so did Kudzu) 
Brian: "Do you have any idea where to look for the flaw? I'm going to ask Jan Ben Jan what he knows about the Age Estates, so that may help, but otherwise ..." 
Theresa: "He doesn't know for sure that killing Ananda will stop the Fourth Age. Or that the next Age will be all that worse." 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Nah, but you know the plan better than I do. I'm sure you'll find the flaw." 
Theresa: (Besides the fact that we'd have to kill Ananda/convince the Court to pronounce sentence?) 
Brian: "I'm glad we have your confidence." 
Theresa: "Do you know much about the turning of the Ages, Boss?" 
Brian: "Now, we wanted your permission to summon Jan Ben Jan here - well, in the Grove - before we actually went and did it. So, is it ok?" 
Random_Nerd: K: "Not really. I've only seen it happen once, and when it did, I was new enough to Creation and busy enough with other things that I didn't really understand what was happening." 
Brian: (*points to permission question*) 
Random_Nerd: K: "If you think it's a good idea, I trust your judgement." 
Brian: "Thank you. Well, we'll be in the grove if you have need of us." 
Theresa: 'Have you heard of him, Boss?" 
Random_Nerd: K: "That's what you guys are for. Do things in my name. If it works, then you did good. If it doesn't, well, at worst I can replace you with someone who'll be a better bit of me." 
Random_Nerd: K: "Heard of him, yes. But never met him." 
Samuel_Dionyl: (do you want to? :) ) 
Theresa: (after the guard's description, no, but it's part of being a Noble. :) ) 
* Brian bows, and heads to the Grove. 
Theresa: "See you later, Boss." 
Random_Nerd: K: "Go do awesome things in my name, Plants." 
Theresa: *to Sam* "Oh, Sam, can you get an APB out to the police near the Grove to make sure that everyone within a 5 mile radius is evacuated?" 
* Brian burns the flower in the middle of the grove, after having ensured that it's presentable. 
Brian: (Someone forgot to tell Kudzu again that he's not the Unconquered Sun >_>;) 
Theresa: (Aww, I liked the parting shot from Kudzu.) 
Samuel_Dionyl: "Ah... I believe Carrie's father can help..." 
* Samuel_Dionyl calls Me. Winters. 
Samuel_Dionyl: (er. Mr.) 
Random_Nerd: (Don't tell him that. If you do, he might try to make Solars, and that would not end well.) 
Random_Nerd: He answers the phone. 
Samuel_Dionyl: (Let's see, can we handwave clearing the area and jump to the grove?) 
Random_Nerd: Mr.W: "Hello?" 
Random_Nerd: (Sure.) 
Brian: (Ha. Kudzars!) 
* Samuel_Dionyl makes arrangements to clear the area... 
Brian: (spiffy Jan Ben Jan summoning cutscene and then break for the week, given it's 11:30?) 
Random_Nerd: (Sounds good to me.) 
Samuel_Dionyl: (OK.) 
* Theresa will check the preservation on the Maple before the summoning to make sure he's still okay and that if it's worn off, it is renewed.) 
Random_Nerd: (The preservation still stands.) 
Theresa: (Good. Don't want him hurting my tree!() 
Brian: (:) <3) 
Samuel_Dionyl: "I'll stay in the background, I think. Should I really have a camera?" 
Brian: "Might explode." 
Theresa: "Probably not, but if you can get a good look, you might get to tell the whole thing to Dante once we meet again." 
Theresa: "Buit seriously, Sam, your safety is a priority. If it looks bad, get the heck out of Dodge." 
Samuel_Dionyl: "He could see through my eyes. If he wanted. You know?" 
Samuel_Dionyl: "Dodge? 
Samuel_Dionyl: "Is that was Dante's car is?" 
Samuel_Dionyl: *what 
Brian: "I've never really understood that expression, either" 
Theresa: "It's an American town, I think. Popular with gunfighters and men in trenchcoats." 
Theresa: "People who were causing trouble would be told to get out of there, because the people of Dodge didn't want trouble. And I think Dante's car was a Chevy." 
Brian: "Buick, wasn't it?" 
Random_Nerd: (Man. You guys really don't want to summon him, do you?) 
Theresa: "I'm not good with cars." 
Theresa: (Okay, okay, so Hastur, Hastur, Hastur, already. :) ) 
* Brian summons Jan Ben Jan by the instructions. 
* Samuel_Dionyl has Dante's keys... 
Random_Nerd: Everyone there, you feel a seizure starting to overtake you. 
Random_Nerd: You twitch madly, can't think or see straight... and suddenly it feels like the world turns inside out. 
Random_Nerd: The dome of the sky is filled with Amyra. 
* Samuel_Dionyl looks like confetti... 
Random_Nerd: Directly above you is the Grove, and everything else spreads out to the sides. 
Random_Nerd: LIke it was inverted onto a dome. 
Random_Nerd: Under you, a vast dark shape turns. 
Random_Nerd: You can feel it drawing the light and heat out of the world above. 
Samuel_Dionyl: (Damn I hope that's localized...) 
Random_Nerd: And you can feel it watching you as you hang suspended between it and the dome of the world. 
Samuel_Dionyl: (Any effects specific to me?) 
Random_Nerd: (No.) 
Theresa: *bows* "Greetings, True God Jan Ben Jan." 
Random_Nerd: In a voice like tectonic drift, it says "What do you wish to know of me? Be aware, any questions you ask will have a price." 
Random_Nerd: "These are my rules. You can ask me about the present, the past, or the future. I will answer if I can. If I cannot answer, there is no price." 
Brian: "We have two questions, then. What does an Estate of an Age mean, and what will happen if Ananda dies?" 
Random_Nerd: "If I answer, the cost is a piece of your flesh, something obvious, that anyone can see. A finger, and eye, a nose. And two promises. First, not to regrow it or replace it with living flesh for a year and a day." 
Random_Nerd: "And second, to tell any who asks about it that it was the price for a question put to me." 
Random_Nerd: "If you do not think the answer I give is worth the price, you need not pay it, but then I will answer no more questions to you until the age turns." 
Random_Nerd: (Mind if we stop here?) 
Samuel_Dionyl: (Hm... maybe I should ask) 
Samuel_Dionyl: (lose a scarf or two. :) ) 
Theresa: (Stopping here is fine.) 
Brian: (questions have been asked, fine for stopping, though I want to know his answers :-P) 
Theresa: (And Theresa is all over this one. :) Her arm previously...) 
Brian: (also, I'm hungry, so that's a vote for stopping ;)) 
Samuel_Dionyl: (OK.) 
Random_Nerd: _______________STOP________________ 
*** Samuel_Dionyl is now known as Knockwood. 
*** Brian is now known as Lazarus. 
Lazarus: hee, fun, summoning up a god 
Knockwood: Damn, I need to study up on Samuel more before I do that 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
Random_Nerd: So, what do you think of Jan Ben Jan? 
BethE: Scary dude. 
Lazarus: "The stay puft marshmallow man?!" 
Lazarus: also, I wanna know how to do the trick where he bypasses Auctoritas without a seeming effort :p 
Random_Nerd: He's an Imperator. This was an Imperial miracle. 
BethE: And Theresa's fine with losing bits of herself. Plants grow back after pruning. 
Knockwood: comes with being a GOD, I think. :) 
Knockwood: Beth: Yeah, but she has to stick with it for a year and a day 
BethE: So, she stuck with a stick for an arm for more than a week. 
BethE: And if it's just a finger or two, that won't stop her doing about anything, unless there's a catch someone else is not mentioning. 
BethE: (And maybe she can get a t-shirt. "This is due to asking an Imperator of an Age questions. Ask me how!") 
Knockwood: depends on whether the stick counts as living flesh 
Random_Nerd: What did you guys like most and least about this session? 
Lazarus: getting stuff done is +! 
BethE: Which is why a finger might be a better choice for body part lost. Easier to do things with missing a finger than a stick for an arm, even a Durant stick. 
BethE: Liked least is my brain running around in circles making the murloc noises. 
BethE: Liked the descriptions of the god and the guard and the creepy.

Amyra:Chapter 10

2007-10-18T01:47:13Z

BethDragon:

[[Session 74]]

[[Session 75]]

[[Session 76]]

[[Session 76.5]] - OOC

[[Session 76.75]] - OOC

[[Session 77]]

[[Session 78]]

[[Session 79]]

[[Session 80]]

[[Session 81]]

[[Session 82]]

Session 74

2007-10-04T04:23:41Z

BethDragon:

BethE: Would it be polite to ask Eve what happened? Or would she be offended/mysteeeeerious? 
Sara: That's good. :) I like Eve. 
Etheric: Probably a little on the mysterious side. 
Etheric: Though she thinks she has explained things clearly already. 
BethE: "I'm Eve. I'm Dark. I'm Hope. What's for dinner?" 
Etheric: To be fair, she was a *little* more verbose than that. 
BethE: True. :) I was being forgetful. 
Random_Nerd: So, anything before we start? 
BethE: Are we considered done with this 'chapter'? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. What do you think? 
lazarus: 2.4s left in the sens game... 
Etheric: I don't think it's been a transition yet, personally. 
*** lazarus has changed the topic on channel #nobilis to . 
Sara: (Suck it, Jersey!) 
Etheric: Trying to remember -- how'd we end up last time? 
lazarus: woot :) 3-2 is the final score, Ottawa's leading the series 3-1 :) 
BethE: Not quite sure what we had left. We have Hope 2.0, Message is...in a holding pattern until he does something, Lesson's working on the plantpeople and theresa's given him orders to let her know when he needs one moved (the shrinks can go to the trees) and she's given a nice greenway for plantrest and a greenroad for Red when he consults. 
BethE: And Brian wants a particle accelerator. 
Sara: Why? 
BethE: We Don't Know. 
BethE: I've never heard of picking up chicks with a particle accelerator. 
lazarus: heh :-P 
Random_Nerd: Bah. Everyone knows that chicks dig a guy with a big precise linear accelerator. 
Etheric: There was an article by RSB that comes to mind... About the role of ambition in Nobilis. 
BethE: Who's he? :) 
Etheric: I think it was on RPG.net, but I'm not positive. 
Etheric: Who's who? 
BethE: Ambition. :) 
Etheric: Oh -- not quite what I meant. 
Etheric: But it's a decent question. :) 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. What point on ambition did it raise? 
*** Knockwood has joined #nobilis. 
Knockwood: Hello 
BethE: Hi Knock! 
Random_Nerd: Okay, the gang's all here. 
Random_Nerd: Start after the discussion of ambition? 
Knockwood: hm? 
Etheric: Well, since I doubt I could find it quickly, I'll go from memory. Basically it listed four "virtues" that players in a successful Nobilis game would have, one of which ws ambition, which they defined as the quality that would make a Noble use a wish on a daydream rater than fro something "useful." 
*** lazarus has changed the topic on channel #nobilis to "Hey, baby, wanna see my particle accelerator?". 
BethE: (I'm ready to start whenever. Couldn't find the thread using the forum search.) 
Etheric: I see Brian's particle accelerator as squarely falling into that rubric of ambition. 
Etheric: Wasn't a thread, Beth. 
Etheric: An article. 
BethE: Oh, in a 'That's cool, I want it, I have it!" sort of thing? 
*** Mode change "+o Knockwood" for channel #nobilis by lazarus. 
BethE: Ahhhh... 
Random_Nerd: Are the other three glory, imagination, and vanity? 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
Brian: and cows? 
BethE: I am...completely lacking in the important virtues. 
Brian: (remember, cows will outpopulate people 50:1!) 
Brian: (they're Important!) 
Brian: (or maybe I just have a cold) 
Random_Nerd: (And ambitious.) 
Knockwood: so, you want us to play complete jerks? 
BethE: (Define 'people'.) 
Random_Nerd: Complete jerks... no. 
Brian: Brian's getting less and less in touch with humanity as time goes on. 
Brian: it's kinda neat 
Random_Nerd: More... perhaps people like mythological heroes? 
Etheric: I don't recall what the other three were. Those might be it. 
Etheric: Was just looking through the archive of RSB's columns, but I couldn't find it. 
Random_Nerd: Well, those are the things hollyhock represents. 
Random_Nerd: Rigth? 
Random_Nerd: (Err, right.) 
Brian: that's why they're the HG's virtues :p 
Brian: gotta have all those to believe you can run a Nobilis game :-P 
Knockwood: and we know Tpyo is heavy on the ambition... :) 
Etheric: Hmm. Still can't find it. 
Random_Nerd: I'm ready to start if you are. 
Random_Nerd: If memory serves, you were standing outside of an empty warehouse, working on how best to convert it to a fertile field. 
Brian: I'm going to be in have-cold sick-space all night. May not impact the character, however :p ... maybe a bit more LSD-crazy than just weird-crazy though. 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
Theresa: Theresa was planning on LC the whole place and a road to it as proper for a tree rest-stop. 
*** Etheric is now known as Eve. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. If you remove the building, it'd just take a series of lesser creations to make it fertile. 
DanteE: though I wonder if you're not overthinking things. 
Theresa: Oh? 
DanteE: I mean, just move the plant to in front of the ray & slap a Preservation on it long enough for them to fire it. 
Theresa: Well, there's the thought that the shrinks can go to the trees instead of the trees coming here. But Red will have to come in to consult and the greenway gives him some room. 
Brian: but what are Nobilis, if not the Incredible Machine? 
Theresa: Plus, I'd think there'd be emotional trauma, but that's just my crazy. 
DanteE: they'd have had then when they found themselves a tree. 
DanteE: *that 
Random_Nerd: Okay, I have a question here. 
Theresa: Do you agree that Red would need some space? 
Random_Nerd: Is the specific mechanism by which the trees get moved and so on interesting to you guys as players? 
Brian: only insomuch as it's the Incredible Noble Machine 
Brian: (i.e. complex, convoluted, weird, something no one but Nobilis would think up, but it works) 
Theresa: I figured it is a part of what we called an equiv to LC, a Move. 
Random_Nerd: Because if it's interesting, it's fine to play it through. But if not, just tell your underlings to take care of it and give them a week. 
DanteE: which means Theresa can do it with a blink. 
Random_Nerd: So, show of hands. Who wants to work out the details of moving the plants to where the ray is? 
Theresa: Yep. Which is why Theresa told Lesson to just let her know when a treeperson is ready to be changed back and she'd move it to the warehouse. 
Snow: I'm ambivalent. Woo, ambivalence! 
Theresa: I'm not really all that interested. I was just poking at it a little. :) Plus I thought the idea of Red being a consultant was interesting. 
Brian: I'm with Snow 
Eve: I'm pretty ambivalent too. 
DanteE: I'm impatient. Just fire the thing already. 
Random_Nerd: So, everyone doesn't really care? 
Brian: I'd like to get the Story going to the next chapter, yes. 
Theresa: They have to go through therapy first, Knock. :) 
Random_Nerd: Okay, let's handle that stuff during downtime. We'll start the next chapter with the warehouse removed, a field put in, and those plant-people with a high degree of distress moved over. 
Theresa: I am willing to0 proceed. 
Random_Nerd: Any objection? 
Eve: Next chapter is fine with me, if that's what people want to do. 
DanteE: considering they started out as human, I'm thinking therapy would be more effective after they get zapped back 
Theresa: I'd like to have Holy Fire going, btw. 
Random_Nerd: Okay. What's your Spirit? 
Theresa: Therapy is to make sure they want to go back. (Spirit 1) 
DanteE: (Spirit 2) 
DanteE: (any word on barbermoose.net, BTW?) 
Brian: Assuming downtime, Brian will have hired some guys to go and renovate the office buildings and factories and stuff he built. 
Brian: (yeah - not happening until I get more cash. I can't afford the cost to make it go.) 
Snow: Snow would have lounged around. Probably ate some rabbits. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, now. The next chapter. There are two ways we can do this. One of you can give us an agenda and we can depict the PCs working to do that thing, or I can bring in some external motivating force. 
DanteE: OK, what's the next chapter gonna be? 
DanteE: ya beat me to it. :) 
Theresa: Snow can tell us what William's apartment is like.. *curious* 
Eve: I think that "External motivating force" would work well. Since otherwise we seem to flounder. 
DanteE: how about making progress on one of the numerous subplots we've collected? 
Random_Nerd: Sounds good to me. Do you have a favorite? 
Theresa: I don't have anything on my agenda. Theresa will have been pondering some of the motivation behind her View on Plants. And trying to decide if she is for or against Terminator Seeds. 
DanteE: hm... finding a lost Noble from Luc's group? 
Brian: Brian is going to be working on his "Build Up the Chancel Science Community" thing, when he's got the time. 
Theresa: Luc's Nobles is interesting. Oh, a question..do Dionyl ever Anchor a nonDionyl? 
DanteE: or takingsteps toward eliminating the Corrupt Cult 
Random_Nerd: About as often as humans anchor a non-human. 
Random_Nerd: Which is to say that it's not the default, but it happens sometimes. 
Theresa: Do we have any info at all on our Cult? 
Theresa: (Is it possible to deCorrupt a cult?) 
Random_Nerd: Okay, here's what I'm thinking. Last storyline is over. Everyone gets a character point or chancel point. 
Random_Nerd: (It is, but it'd probably involve conflict with Excrucians, given that corrupt cults are the ones they've influenced.) 
Theresa: (*blink* I didn't know that. I just thought that Entropy got involved somehow.) 
Random_Nerd: And for the next storyline, at the end, I'll give an extra character point to the PC who's most clearly and interestingly acted as a motivating force on the plot, as determined by having all of us vote at the end. 
Random_Nerd: (Entropy wouldn't make corrupt cults. They're too strong a tool for the Excrucians.) 
Random_Nerd: (Entropy may be a dick, but he still doesn't like the Scruchies.) 
Theresa: (I know that Snow has spent a chancel point to get a border guard. Can I add mine to hers to increase the # or strength of guard?) 
Random_Nerd: (Actually, I believe she decided not to. Correct, Sara?) 
Snow: (I think we changed the Border Guard to something else, but I odn't remember what the something else is.) 
Snow: (Yeah.) 
Eve: (Actually, we only get one Chancel point for the group if that's what we opt to do.) 
Random_Nerd: (No, I don't believe that's correct.) 
Random_Nerd: (But let me check.) 
Snow: (Because the Border Guard would have been too weak to do much.) 
Brian: I have a full backup of the wiki here on my local machine. If anyone needs to know anything, just let me know and I can look it up 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm.) 
Random_Nerd: (The wording is ambiguous.) 
Eve: (We get an additional Chancel Point per player, then? That's not what I remember, but if you think that that's the rule I don't object.) 
DanteE: (unless we all throw in points, then it's a 6-point Borderguard) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, I think that Etheric's reading is actually correct.) 
Theresa: Brian - can you send me an email of my stats/wikipage, please? I don't think I have them, otherwise. 
Brian: I'm going to be selfish and want to finish off my Gift that I've been working on for two years :p 
Brian: T: email? 
Brian: (addy, that is) 
Random_Nerd: Any response to my suggestion, with regard to the extra point vote thing? 
Theresa: (bethlong@advancenet.net) 
Theresa: I think it's a cool idea, as long as we can remember far enough back. 
DanteE: would a borderguard fight off shards coming through the vault? :) 
Brian: Survivor: Amyra? ;) (I do think it's a good thing) 
Random_Nerd: A borderguard is a quasi-noble thing that the chancel can use to cast miracles to defend itself. 
Eve: Okay, hmm. 
Eve: I could go with the group getting a Chancel Point, but if we go with each getting a character point, I can raise my Aspect. 
Theresa: Under that definiton, one could call the treasures that. 
Eve: The Treasures aren't On Our Side, though. 
Theresa: I'd be willing to hold off to benefit Eve. (The Chancel isn't on my side either, necessarily. Realm 0. <g>) 
Brian: I just need to re-calculate the costs of my Gift, make sure that it fits with the amount of CP we've got - I think my "need 1" from the last time we got xp is right. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, guys, honest question. Should I stop trying for PC-directed plotlines and go back to a more traditional "two guys with abhorrent guns kick down the door" storyline? 
DanteE: NO. 
DanteE: they hert. 
DanteE: *hurt 
Eve: I liked what you were doing before alternating between the two, personally. 
Theresa: No, I may still be healing from the last time. 
Eve: But it seems I'm in the minority. 
Random_Nerd: Well, that's my preferred approach too. 
Theresa: I don't mind alternating. 
Random_Nerd: Okay. So, near as I can tell, it seems like a majority of the players want this next one to be back to an NPC-instigated storyline. 
Brian: (GC of Love 7, Automatic Invocation 1, Global Effect 1, One Trick -3, Uncommon 1) = 7 points ... how many CPs have we got so far? 
Random_Nerd: (Beats me. I don't keep tracks of those for you.) 
Random_Nerd: Give me a moment to polish off an idea, and we can start. 
Eve: I could tell you if the Wiki were up. 
Brian: I'm expecting someone to say 6 + 1 for this past story. 
Eve: Let's see. 
Brian: Eve: where do you keep it? 
Eve: Keep what? 
Brian: the XP log? 
DanteE: I've got 5 + whatever from this story in reserve, and I've spent 2 so far. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, I've got the wiki on my PDA, let me check. 
Eve: There is no XP log. I would look at the Wiki, count how many stories there have been, look at your character sheet and see how many points were there, subtract the second number from 25 plus the first one, and that's your number of free points. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, you were indeed one CP from making it a Greater creation. 
DanteE: we just finished Chapter 8, IIRC 
Theresa: That sounds right. 
Brian: Numbers don't add up, 'cause my math says 7, and it looks like we've just finished Chapter 8, so I should have 1 more point somewhere. Unless my math is wrong. 
Eve: Maybe you spent one? 
Eve: I know we never spent any Chancel Points. At least not unless it happened during the period I was gone. 
Brian: (GC Love 7, Automatic Invocation +1, Global +1, One Trick -3, Uncommon +1) = (10 - 3) = 7. 
Random_Nerd: Is everyone ready to start? 
DanteE: we were just discussing whether to get Char or Chancel points 
Theresa: We spent some DP, I thought, while fighting in Mexico. 
Theresa: I think I'm ready. 
Brian: I think I missed a decrement for one story? 
Eve: DP are separate. 
Eve: We get one every session. 
Theresa: Okay. 
DanteE: right... so, what was the verdict on what to do? 
Brian: Anyway, I say CP, 'cause I'll mark this as finally done, and then figure out the math later :p 
Theresa: An NPC driven storyline this time? 
Random_Nerd: You guys seemed to want to get individual character points. 
Theresa: And individual CP so Eve And Brian can skillup. 
Eve: Both of those are good for me. 
Random_Nerd: And yes, that seemed to be the consensus. I have one almost ready, and I'll have the finishing touches on the situation as soon as you guys make up your minds. 
Brian: I've stolen my CP, so no more Chancel Point. Ha! 
Theresa: Ready, RN. 
DanteE: find one of Luc's Nobles? 
Brian: oh! I think I know what's up! I think I missed the crossing over of a chapter maybe? 
Brian: Anyway. I'm ready. 
Eve: I can go whenever. 
DanteE: ready... 
Snow: *nod!* 
Random_Nerd: __________________START____________________ 
Random_Nerd: In the presence of each of you, wherever in the chancel you are, some nearby pocket of air says in Kudzu's voice: "Meet me in the Realm's Heart. I have business for you." 
Brian: "So, just pick a colour for the walls. I don't particularly care. How about avocado? I've gotta go." (/cell phone to renovators) 
* Eve has been absent the past few days, and attempts to reach her via the Realm's Heart have failed. 
Brian: (To the Realm's Heartcave!) 
* Theresa looks up from her meditation near a quiet grave. She sighs and heads toward the Tower as fast as she can. 
* Snow uncurls herself from the discarded sheets of William's bed, yawns mightily, and heads toward the RH. 
* DanteE is in the tower, as usual, so he can head right up. 
*** Eve is now known as Carrie. 
Theresa: (*blink*) 
* Carrie strides into the Realm's Heart a few minutes after Dante does, like it's the most natural thing in the world. 
DanteE: "Where'd you come from?" 
* Brian likely shows up after Carrie 
* Theresa comes into the Heart and...stops, staring at Carrie. "This is...okay, did we go back in time again?" 
Carrie: "Hardly the welcome I'd hoped for... But that can wait. I believe our Lord has business for us." 
Brian: "Eve and Carrie switched places again. Happens all the time in fiction and games and stuff." (Brian doesn't react at all otherwise) 
Theresa: "We're still glad to see you, Carrie." 
* Snow trots in after Carrie, not looking too concerned. Sne snuffles at Carrie's leg. 
Snow: (Does Carrie smell the same as Eve?) 
* Brian tries to idly pet Snow. Possibly gets bit. 
Random_Nerd: All the clock workings of the Realm's Heart: "I have a slight errand I wish all of you to run." 
Brian: "More rabbits?" 
Carrie: (Hmm, the scent is similar, but with some distinct differences. Eve is after all not human, while Carrie is still human in biology.) 
Random_Nerd: The voice pauses. 
Theresa: "Yes, boss?" *slightly twitchy, given the last errands and also the secret of the Maple( 
Theresa: ( * ) 
Random_Nerd: "Okay, how did you know that?" 
Brian: "You like rabbits." 
Random_Nerd: "It does involve the rabbit, yes." 
Brian: "Hm. Wild guess ... we're to try to give him as a gift to some Angel or other?" 
Random_Nerd: "There is a matter that will pass before the Council of Four soon, regarding the stance to be taken to the next age. While I am in no particular favor in the Council, I still need to have a certain position advocated." 
Random_Nerd: "Stop that!" 
Theresa: "Which position?" 
Random_Nerd: "On whether to view it as hostile or benevolent." 
* Snow rolls over, sprawling on the floor, utterly unconcerned. 
Random_Nerd: "Which has certain... implications for Ananda." 
Brian: "Ananda ... second in command, essentially? Angel of ... ... . I should've done my homework." 
* Carrie listens, wondering at the implications with a slightly puzzled expression on her face. 
Random_Nerd: "But at any rate, while I have little influence with them, there is an Imperator who is well considered by two of the four members, and who by an odd coincidence, you have indirectly connected with." 
DanteE: (Damn, chief, if you'd told us you intended to have Monty eat Entropy we'd have helped you out more!) 
Random_Nerd: "I wish you to go to the Chancel of the Angel Barakiel, and persuade him to change his stance." 
Random_Nerd: "Take the rabbit and the demon." 
Random_Nerd: "Don't /igve/ him the rabbit. But make sure he sees it, and the demon that Urbanization anchored." 
Brian: "Will do." 
Snow: "Can I bring the Horse?" 
Random_Nerd: "Yes." 
Theresa: "What is the stance that he is professing?" 
Random_Nerd: "I don't know. But I know that he knows more about it than I do, and I know that whatever his first conclusion is, it's wrong." 
* Theresa parses this. 
Random_Nerd: "So whatever he's currently going to do, I want you to persuade him to change it." 
Theresa: "Does he have a high opinion of you, boss?" 
Random_Nerd: "Not as such." 
* Snow goes back to sleep, having secured Horseness. 
Brian: "Timeframe?" 
Random_Nerd: "You have a week." 
Theresa: "Where is his Chancel located, if you know?" 
Random_Nerd: "On his planet." 
DanteE: "Jupiter?" 
Random_Nerd: "Jupiter." 
* Theresa thinks of ways to transport Monty. 
Brian: "We're going to Jupiter!" 
DanteE: "...wild guess: right in the middle of teh Great Red Spot?" 
Random_Nerd: "That would be the place." 
Brian: "Hey, Snow ... if you swallow something, can you unswallow it?" 
Random_Nerd: "I suggest that you take the mythic world there. It's faster." 
Snow: "Why would I want to do that?" 
Brian: "We've got a very large rabbit that we need to transport there and back." 
* Snow stretches, in coyote form. 
Snow: "Oh. The rabbit on the moon?" 
Random_Nerd: (She can't swallow Monty with her current gift level.) 
Brian: "Yep. That one." 
Theresa: (Hmm, that is a thought. What does Monty look like in mythic form?) 
Snow: "Nah. I can't eat him. Not yet." 
Brian: (that's sad. Brian doesn't know it :-P) 
Random_Nerd: (RIght now, it has to be something that she can at least conceivably fit her mouth around.) 
Brian: "I like the way you think" *pet* 
* Snow snaps at Brian's hand. 
Snow: "No petting! Not a dog!" 
* Snow curls up more tightly, glowering. 
Random_Nerd: (So, a human head, yes. A rabbit the size of rhode island, no.) 
Snow: (Soon...soon!) 
DanteE: "So... let me get this straight: take Lesson from here and Monty from the new moon over to the Great Red Spot of Jupiter and try to convince an angel that his current opinion of the direction the Council should take after Y5K, no matter what it is, is wrong? 
Theresa: "Oaky, we can have William and Sam book us transportation or at least a route." 
Brian: "In a week." 
Brian: (to Dante) 
* Brian thinks real hard (Brian wants to talk to the Spirit of A Week From Now, convince it to wait another few days before arriving) 
Brian: (Probably can't figure out any way to do that) 
Random_Nerd: (Eh.. .you couldn't do it in such a way as to affect other Nobles.) 
Brian: "... can any of you talk to spirits? Specifically, the spirit of A Week From Now?" 
Random_Nerd: (You could make humans with calendars go absolutely nuts, but it wouldn't affect anyone immune to direct miracles.) 
Brian: (well, at least the spirit could tell us what might happen?) 
Theresa: "We can get it done in normal time, Brian. Plus, who says time runs the same on Jupiter?" 
DanteE: "Chief? How do you know his opinion's wrong?" 
Brian: RH call to William: "William, we need tickets to Jupiter, Stat!" 
Random_Nerd: "Because he's a dick. But you didn't hear that from me." 
Random_Nerd: "And that's a week /here/, not a jupiter week." 
Theresa: (Darn.) 
DanteE: "Which outcome _are_ you in favor of? There's always the possibility he favors the 'right' way for the wrong reason." 
Random_Nerd: "Just, you know, take the path there. Maybe ride the bunny or something. 
Random_Nerd: "I don't have a set opinion. But look at it this way. He's been around for all the changes of the ages. He's always been wrong." 
Carrie: (Lesser Divi8nation of Hope on whether riding Monty can hope to get there within a day's time.) 
Random_Nerd: "He fell before /Lucifer/ fell." 
Brian: "Last time someone 'rode' the bunny - well, in - Theresa lost a hand for a week." 
Random_Nerd: (Yes, if you do it mythically.) 
DanteE: "... isn't it possible that the reason he's been wrong is because, in the past, someone tried something like this?" 
Random_Nerd: "Could be. We'll see." 
* Theresa Creates a note on Lesson's desk (and Lesson's receptionist's) desks. "Lesson - you are needed for an expedition. Please clear your calendar for the next Chancel week. Pack for Jupiter. Meet at Tower." 
Theresa: "It was an arm. It grew back." 
Snow: "That sounds like fun!" 
DanteE: (and she had a spare.) 
Snow: (Whoa, uber lag.) 
Brian: (still kinda a funny spot to have that show up) 
Brian: "Any other words of wisdom?" 
Theresa: (Oh and Theresa's name at the bottom of the note, so he knows who it is from.) 
Random_Nerd: "Don't mention the whole Fall thing. He's touchy about that." 
Theresa: (Is there any Imperator who _doesn't_ have something to be touchy about?) 
Snow: "The fall happens every year. He should get used to it." 
Brian: "..." 
DanteE: "Wrong Fall, Snow." 
Theresa: "Okay, meet back at the conference room in two hours?" 
Brian: "Will do." 
Theresa: "But that's the only fall that's important to Snow, so it's the one she knows." *smile* 
* Snow trots off to the conference room, after summonning Horse to meet her there. 
* Snow winks at Theresa. 
Brian: RH to William: "Meet us at the Conference Room in two hours. Preferably with a route to Jupiter, and any information on Barakiel you can get, especially regarding his decisions around the changing of ages." 
DanteE: (Samuel too. Might as well go all out.) 
* Brian will head to the Library for a bit, and listen in to everything he can to gather information about the changes of ages, the Council of Four, Ananda, and Barakiel ... and Barakiel's Chancel and Nobilis 
Theresa: (I thought we had pretty much mined out all of the info possible on Barakiel when we were researching in the Library?) 
Carrie: (also to William) "While you're at it, find out how difficult it would be to quickly get an invitation to the Chancel of Barakiel. We wouldn't want to show up uninvited." 
Random_Nerd: (Most of it, at least.) 
Snow: RH: "And bring a lot of cheeseburgers!" 
Brian: (well, yeah, but best to do homework) 
Brian: (Snow: <3!) 
Random_Nerd: (You know his estates. You know that he's the angel of Jupiter. You know that he was one of the Watchers, who had some ambigious thing to do with the very early history of humanity.) 
Theresa: (*adds the two hour time limit to the bottom of Lesson's note, that way he's not standing there for an hour 45 with nothing to do.) 
Theresa: (We know he Fell. And was kinda forgiven.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah. His fall was temporary.) 
Random_Nerd: (And before the big one.) 
Theresa: (And that he kept Lesson in a box and that his feather + Lesson's heart = Trouble.) 
Snow: (He could snuggle with Snow.) 
Random_Nerd: (You know he spent some time in Hell, recently, but is not there now.) 
DanteE: (When did he enChancel & take Nobles?) 
Theresa: (I want a drawing of Snow and a chibiLesson snuggling. This may be sinus medication talking, however.) 
Snow: (I could do that!) 
Random_Nerd: (Some time ago. You don't have an exact date.) 
Random_Nerd: (But at least on the order of hundreds of years.) 
Random_Nerd: (And you know it happened while he was in Hell.) 
Theresa: (We know that some of his Nobles are a couple of hundred years old at the moment. And Shadows is the youngin'?) 
DanteE: "Anyone know how to get to the moon?" 
Snow: "We can pick him up on the way to the new place." 
Theresa: "Question is how to control him. Putting him into a box last time was difficult." 
Random_Nerd: (In the Mythic world, there are roads everywhere. Roads to planets. Roads to moons. Roads to different Ages.) 
* Brian shifts into Mythic. 
Brian: (what's the Mythic world look like?) 
Snow: "Did you ever ask him to come?" 
Random_Nerd: (It takes a little looking around, but you can locate the road to Amyra's moon. It's a new one. Greenish, and translucent.) 
DanteE: (I wonder why we're bringing the UberRabbit to Jupiter) 
Random_Nerd: (Depends what you're looking at in it, and what you're focusing on.) 
Random_Nerd: (The mythic world is fractal. Everything is a spirit, which is a person, and is made up of smaller spirits.) 
Random_Nerd: (So, what you see depends partly on what you're looking at, and on what scale.) 
* Brian will chat with the road spirit "So ... do you know the way to San Jose? I mean, Jupiter?" 
Theresa: (We're taking things connected to Barakiel. It has a part of him in it.) 
Random_Nerd: Road: "The road to Jupiter. Yeah, I know him. He's a jerk." 
Random_Nerd: "Just because he's been around forever and I'm new." 
Theresa: *to Snow* "We're not quite sure if he understands, Snow. We think that he just _looks_ like a rabbit. When he's actually a...lot of deadly bloodiron in a rabbit shape." *rubs arm* 
Brian: "Where is he? My companions and I have need to visit Jupiter, and must therefore probably make use of the road" 
Snow: "So you asked him already?" 
Random_Nerd: "He's over there." *points* "The one made of purple and gold." 
Theresa: *sheepish* "Actually, no. We haven't talked a lot to him. Dante stepped into him last time and Monty swallowed him." 
Brian: "Thanks. Actually, I've gotta get to the rabbit on the other end of ... well, you, as well." 
Random_Nerd: "Mister big shot 'duh duh I go to a place that represents kingly traits duh'." 
Snow: (Can Snow talk to the rabbit via the RH?) 
DanteE: (Hold on...) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. The message board could tell him.) 
Random_Nerd: (So, indirectly, yeah.) 
Brian: (question: does Brian's gift affect spirits, too?) 
DanteE: "Snow... why don't you come with me, and we'll both have a word with Monty." 
Random_Nerd: (No. It's One Trick, and covers humans.) 
Brian: "Will you permit me to cross, well, you?" 
Random_Nerd: (If you expanded the flexibility, it could later.) 
Brian: (ok) 
* Snow shrugs and follows Dante. 
Random_Nerd: (But right now, every human being in the chancel is more or less fanatically loyal to Brian, since you upped it to Major.) 
DanteE: (Anyone else want to see Ooki usagi no shin tsuki?) 
Random_Nerd: (I don't speak your crazy moon language?) 
* Brian will go up the road to the giant rabbit 
Theresa: (Usagi is rabbit...tsuki is moon...) 
Brian: (usagi = rabbit. no = 's. That much I know) 
Carrie: (The big rabbit of the true moon, I think. It's Japanese.) 
Random_Nerd: (Ah.) 
DanteE: (ooki=big and shin=new) 
Theresa: (Okay, so I read a little Sailor moon stuff...) 
Random_Nerd: (I speak absolutely no japanese. Just english and greek.) 
DanteE: (no Latin? :) 
Brian: (I know a little Japanese. Yay L5R!) 
Random_Nerd: (Only a few words of Latin. Not enough that I could sit down with a book in it and read it.) 
* DanteE grabs his cowboy hat before heading out... 
Random_Nerd: Snow and Dante arrive on the moon! 
* Snow looks around. 
DanteE: "If I'm not back in time for the meeting just assume I'm rabbit chow again." 
Snow: (With Aspect 0...can Snow breathe?) 
Brian: (what about Brian?) 
Brian: (He's going to the Mythic Moon!) 
Snow: (is there even air? I forget if the bunny needs to breathe.) 
Random_Nerd: (There's air. The bunny doesn't /have/ to breathe, but he doesn't know that.() 
Theresa: (He gets upset if there's not air to breathe. Not that he needs it.) 
DanteE: (I suspect there's an atmosphere...) 
Random_Nerd: (And this moon was made to order.) 
Theresa: (And plus, there are plants there! They make you oxygen.) 
* Snow breathes, then. 
* Theresa will stay behind to coordinate with Carrie and the Aides. 
Random_Nerd: The bunny stares at you with eyes like black lakes. 
* Snow beams up at the bunny. 
Snow: "Heeeey! You ever seen a lemur?" 
DanteE: (Div-Courage on the beastie...) 
Theresa: *to Carrie* "Sorry if we seem a bit disconcerted with the change. It's...I don't know what to say, actually." 
Random_Nerd: (On the bunny? Hmm. He's not afraid of anything in particular at the moment. But new or abrupt things would scare him.) 
Random_Nerd: (And he's not good at standing up to his fears.) 
Brian: (what's the moon and the bunny look like in Mythic view?) 
Carrie: "Eve was necessary. And she will be back. But for the moment, I'm more concerned with the task we have been given." 
Random_Nerd: (The bunny looks strange, in mythic view. Sometimes he looks like a rabbit. Sometimes he looks like a skeleton hunched over. Sometimes like the moon. And an awful lot like the red spot of jupiter.) 
DanteE: (what kind of skeleton?) 
Random_Nerd: (The moon looks like a large walrus curled up in a ball, smoking a pipe.) 
Brian: "Hey, Monty ... can you speak?" 
* Theresa nods at Carrie. "Agreed. And...no matter who you are at times, I'm glad that you're back home." 
Random_Nerd: (Unclear. Not human. A bit like the sort of skeleton a lobster would have, if lobsters had skeletons and were proportioned like linebackers.) 
Theresa: (Does the walrus want a bucket?) 
* Carrie frowns, looking slightly conflicted. 
Random_Nerd: (Is Brian mythic or prosaic?) 
Brian: (Mythic still) 
Snow: "Doesn't matter so much if he can't speak. Can he understand?" 
Random_Nerd: Mythic Monty: "Hmm. It seems that I can. Odd. I've never tried that before." 
Random_Nerd: "Are you edible?" 
Brian: "Um. No." 
Brian: "We've been told by the one who made us all as we are that we're to go to Jupiter. Do you want to come along?" 
Random_Nerd: (And when something mythical looks like different things, it's like if you had different images that each of your eyes could see, and you can focus on either.) 
Random_Nerd: (Or like seeing one side of a necker cube.) 
Carrie: (Sort of like seeing a picture with only one eye?) 
Brian: (Magic Eye!) 
Random_Nerd: (Rather like that, yeah.) 
Random_Nerd: (Like it's all of those things, depending on how exactly you squint.) 
Brian: (I can't see Magic Eye pictures :() 
Random_Nerd: "What's a Jupiter?" 
Brian: "It's a place." 
DanteE: "And it's the home of part of you." 
Random_Nerd: "Oh. Is Jupiter the box that broke?" 
Brian: "The what that what?" 
Theresa: (*ponders this*) 
Random_Nerd: "The box I was in. The one that broke, and made the bright light come in." 
Random_Nerd: "And then I had to go to the ocean." 
Brian: "No. It's a different place." 
Random_Nerd: "Is it like the box?" 
Theresa: (I take it Monty did not like the box. Understandable.) 
Brian: "I don't think so. I've never been to Jupiter" 
DanteE: "No, it's more like you, actually... 
DanteE: "Kinda stormy. 
Random_Nerd: "Oh, I know. Is it the dark place with all the blood, that was always too hot?" 
Brian: "Nope. There's a lot more places out there than that" 
DanteE: "No, that's a different place." 
Theresa: (That's Lesson. :) ) 
Theresa: (Or Hell, either one works.) 
Random_Nerd: "I didn't like that place. The box was much better." 
DanteE: (Wait... Monty knows Hell?) 
Brian: "Did you like the box?" 
Random_Nerd: (So it appears.) 
Random_Nerd: "The box was big enough to jump around in, and had lots of things to eat. It was like here, but I couldn't see as much." 
Random_Nerd: "And the food is the same in both." 
DanteE: "Remind Theresa to take care of the rabbit chow..." 
Theresa: (Oh, the box is the room in the tower!) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
Theresa: (Sorry, slow on the uptake tonight.) 
Random_Nerd: "So is the jupiter more like the box, or more like the dark hot place?" 
Brian: "It's like here. I think." 
Random_Nerd: "Oh, okay, I like it here. Let's go to the jupiter." 
Theresa: (Any word back from the Aides or Lesson?) 
Random_Nerd: (You told them to take two hours, I thought.) 
Random_Nerd: (The aides, at least. And Lesson has to cancel his meetings and such.) 
Brian: "Excellent." 
Random_Nerd: (But we can cut to their arrival if you want.) 
DanteE: "That's a little later... would you be upset if we rode you? We can all go to Jupiter together." 
* Snow climbs up onto Monty's shoulders, as long as it doesn't appear to bother him. 
Theresa: (Just thought I'd check.) 
Brian: RH to the Familia "Meet up on the moon ASAP. The bitter green road will take you there." 
Random_Nerd: "Why do bugs talk now? Bugs never used to talk, before I ate all the other ones and the bigger one ate me several times." 
Random_Nerd: "That was a really confusing time." 
DanteE: (What's he talking about?) 
Brian: "There is much in this world that is confusing. There's also much to learn." 
Theresa: (I'm guessing...Kudzu.) 
Random_Nerd: (He's not entirely sure himself.) 
Brian: (his origin.) 
Theresa: (Sounds like eating his siblings.) 
Theresa: (How much time has passed in the deadline? Because we should probably get info from the Aides and get Lesson before going to the moon.) 
DanteE: (yeah, but... getting eaten?) 
* Snow settles down around the rabbit's neck, burrowing happily into the warm fur. 
Snow: "Don't worry about it. How's the food here?" 
Random_Nerd: (It seems that Monty at least vaguely remembers being the rabbit that ate the others, being the rabbits that got eaten, and being Lesson's heart.) 
Theresa: (Mayeb he was both himself and his siblings. And plus, one of Kudzu's schticks is devouring himself.) 
Random_Nerd: "There's lots of food, and I don't have to run away from anything." 
Brian: (Brian will be nice and not say "watch out! You've got a coyote on your back!") 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and one other thing? Monty doesn't know how big he is.) 
DanteE: (Is there a route straight from the moon to Jupiter?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not really. You'd have to go down to the earth first.) 
DanteE: (you mean Amyra) 
Theresa: (Not necessarily.) 
Random_Nerd: (Amyra is on earth.) 
Random_Nerd: (And this moon is too new to have mythic paths anywhere but earth.) 
Theresa: (Where are you guys going to land at?) 
Random_Nerd: Monty hops over a few hundred meters, shaking the ground as he lands, and gouging the soil with his claws. 
Brian: (the other end of the road?) 
Theresa: (We should probably warn the chancel.) 
* DanteE calls Samuel. 
Brian: (eh. What's the worst a rabbit the size of rhode island can do) 
Carrie: (We don't want to start a panic, though.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, he's not quite /that/ big. He's the size of a small city, tops.) 
Theresa: (We've _seen_ what Monty can do. And he's been growing since.) 
Random_Nerd: (But for a rabbit, it's still pretty impressive.) 
DanteE: "Samuel? Courage. We need a route from the moon to Jupiter, that _doesn't_ go through populated areas." 
Random_Nerd: You feel the itch that indicates prayer, Dante. 
* DanteE answers the prayerline 
Snow: (I think I'm done for the night, guys. Sorry to bail, as usual. :-/ ) 
Random_Nerd: S: "You want a mythic route, right?" 
DanteE: "Yes... one that can accommodate Monty, though." 
Snow: (Snow will bring along Horse, of course.) 
Theresa: (Night Sara! *HUG*) 
Random_Nerd: S: "Can one of you realign my sight to the mythic?" 
DanteE: (G'night Snow) 
Theresa: (Hmm..we dont' know Lesson's opinion on Monty.() 
*** Snow has left #nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: S: "I don't have enough training in human shamanism to do it myself, and it's hard to understand the mythic references when I'm looking at things prosaically." 
Theresa: (Hey, we have that trouble too! ) 
Theresa: (Hmm, one would think that Sam would be a natural at it, given his heritage.) 
Random_Nerd: (He has practice at imposing and sustaining his own worldsight. But not much in deliberately realigning it to a specific alien one.) 
DanteE: "Hey, Snow... you wanna go help out Samuel?" 
DanteE: (He's got a frisbee! :) 
Brian: (actually, I'm feeling my brain go *screetch* too ... stupid cold :() 
Carrie: (Would a Lesser Creation of Sight do it, or would it take a Lesser Change of PErception?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Lesser creation of sight.) 
DanteE: (And didn't Samuel map out the route to Mexico 2 stories back?) 
Random_Nerd: (A lesser change could let him do it for himself at will.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes, he did. But that wasn't a mythic route.) 
Random_Nerd: (That was through the chancel passageways.) 
Theresa: (I think so. I think Will just took the Chancel-bus to Mexico City.) 
DanteE: to Samuel: "Hm... sort out where it should be via geomancy or whatever you use, then we'll help you localize it when we're ready to go." 
Random_Nerd: (And plotting a way to mexico city is /easy/. It's a magnet for urbanization-linked pathways.) 
* Carrie does the Lesser Creation of Sight with a hard miracle of Realm. Specifying that it fades a few minutes after Samuel finishes the job. 
Theresa: (Because it's huge, it's got millions and it's been a city for centuries?) 
Random_Nerd: S: "This isn't quite a matter of geomancy, but I'll do my best." 
Random_Nerd: (Yep.) 
Carrie: "That should do it." 
Random_Nerd: As you do your miracle, you feel Sam twitch a little and then stretch, yawn, and nod. 
Theresa: (Want some LSD, Sam?) 
Random_Nerd: A little later, you see a small car driving up the moon path. 
Random_Nerd: In it is Sam, driving, William, wearing a blindfold, and Lesson, closing his eyes tightly. 
Theresa: (Are Carrie and I already there?) 
Random_Nerd: Samuel seems to be having a conversation with the blindfold. 
Theresa: (Or are we on our way?) 
Random_Nerd: (Either way. Preferences?) 
Theresa: (I don't mind being in the back seat. Being amused.) 
Carrie: (Actually, I'm going to call Perfect Timing fiat and be in the car with them. Theresa can come along if she wants.) 
Theresa: (Sure. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (Works for me.) 
Carrie: (Hey, we had the same thought!) 
Random_Nerd: (So it's a big car!) 
Theresa: (Your Perfect Timing. :) ) 
Carrie: (Seems like it.) 
Theresa: *listens to the conversation* 
Random_Nerd: Lesson: "You're stopping. Means we're done?" 
Random_Nerd: Samuel: "You know, you're one of the few articles of clothing we don't have on Dionyl. We just don't have eyes, you know? So there wouldn't be much point." 
Random_Nerd: Blindfold: "No eyes? But how do you look?" 
Random_Nerd: S: "Stylish!" 
Theresa: (*facepalm*) 
DanteE: (rimshot) 
Random_Nerd: William sighs. 
Brian: (new rule: any time the GM makes a bad pun, we get a Chancel Point.) 
Random_Nerd: W: "That was the dog nose joke, wasn't it?" 
Theresa: (Ahh, Nobilis...where dogs with no noses become Dionyl...) 
Random_Nerd: S: "...maybe." 
Random_Nerd: W: "It really isn't funny." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Says you, meat-body." 
Theresa: (Yes, it is! Or maybe just because I live with the GM.) 
Carrie: (If bad puns were Chancel points, beggars would have borderguards, though!) 
Random_Nerd: Blindfold: "I liked it!" 
Theresa: (I like that line, Carrie. I may use it whenever I post this.) 
Random_Nerd: W: "Scarves are out of fashion." 
Random_Nerd: S: "... Okay, we're even." 
Theresa: (Snow doesn't think so...) 
DanteE: "Hi guys. 
* Theresa will get out of the car once it's stopped. "Hello. My...Monty, you've grown even more." 
* DanteE checks to see how Monty and Lesson interact on particular 
Random_Nerd: William steps out, and takes off his blindfold. 
Carrie: (Anything that really needs to be done tonight before we wind up? I'm getting pretty sleepy.) 
Random_Nerd: (No, now's a pretty good place to stop.) 
Random_Nerd: (You've got the gang together, and you're about to hit the road.) 
DanteE: (Ready to ride the rabbit?) 
Theresa: (I'm good with stopping soonish too.) 
DanteE: (...and for once that's not a euphemism) 
Carrie: (Did anyone bring one of those elephant seat things or should Theresa grow one?) 
Theresa: (Does Monty recognize people?) 
Random_Nerd: (He can hardly even see people.) 
Random_Nerd: (He hasn't figured out yet that you aren't really tiny ants.) 
Theresa: (ahh. Comforting.) 
DanteE: (you mean a howdah) 
DanteE: (and yes, I had to look that up) 
Random_Nerd: (Stop here?) 
DanteE: (OK.) 
* Theresa will LC a plant-elevator to grow everyone up to level with everyone on Monty. 
Theresa: (Okay.) 
Carrie: (Work for me.) 
Random_Nerd: ______________________STOP________________________ 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
*** Carrie is now known as Etheric. 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
BethE: You do wacky NPCness well, RN. 
*** Brian is now known as Lazarus. 
Random_Nerd: For some reason, comedy works well with this game. 
Etheric: Unexpectedly, I felt less creative wityh Carrie's return. 
Lazarus: I thought, last night, I was getting over my cold. Then today ... yano. 
Lazarus: hard to think when your head is filled with gunk. Sigh. 
BethE: Sorry we had such an off reaction to Carrie's return. 
Random_Nerd: Did anyone think this session had too much silliness? 
Random_Nerd: I wasn't sure if the dog nose joke was too much. 
BethE: It's late. And I liked it. But I'm Chaotic Silly. 
Etheric: I think it sort of filled a void, honestly. 
Knockwood: I'm OK with it. :) 
Random_Nerd: Anything you guys particularly didn't like about the GMing? 
Etheric: I also think that part of the thing with Carrie was that I brought her back right during a Momentous Event so there wasn't enough drama to go around. 
BethE: Do we demonbox too much? 
Etheric: If I could change anything, I'd change the timing of Carrie's return. Which was partly my fault, but the GMing affected it some. 
Lazarus: ... RN, how much of the plot idea was from my side comments? 
Random_Nerd: None! 
Knockwood: I have a feeling I inadvertently pulled the rug out from under Theresa, tho... 
Random_Nerd: Which made me surprised when you anticipated about two of the points ahead of time to some degree. 
Lazarus: I just happened to somewhat randomly hit upon them, then. Huh. 
Knockwood: Kudzu's become predictable 
Etheric: I thought Kudzu would ask us to get Monty a mate, when you said it was about rabbits....

Amyra:Chapter 10

2007-10-04T04:21:40Z

BethDragon:

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[[Session 76]]

[[Session 77]]

[[Session 78]]

[[Session 79]]

Chancel Amyra

2007-10-04T04:17:43Z

BethDragon: /* Game Logs */

==Chancel Amyra==

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

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

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

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

Theresa, Domina of [[Amyra:Plants|Plants]], played by Beth

===Non-Player Characters===
James, former Dominus of [[Amyra:Urbanization|Urbanization]], missing & presumed dead

Lesson, reformed demon, anchor of Urbanization

Samuel and William, Aides

===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.

===Amyra and Kaerkoven===

==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]]: Angels, Guns and Monty

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

Amyra:Chapter 9

2007-10-04T04:11:52Z

BethDragon:

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[[Session 69]]

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[[Session 73]]

Session 73

2007-10-04T04:07:23Z

BethDragon:

BethE: Yep. Hope Sara's up for it. She's been worn out from her work, lately. 
BethE: Hi Knock! 
Knockwood: Heya laz, Beth 
Knockwood: laz: what's the word on Barbermoose? 
lazarus: not going to happen. Can't afford to renew it at this time. 
BethE: Oh, got an email from Sara. (Teach me to read my email..) She can't make it tonight. 
lazarus: I have the wiki database 
Knockwood: careful, it'll get snatched up 
Knockwood: Beth: nuts, I got her a milkbone. 
Knockwood: and a frisbee. 
BethE: Bah, you're just upset because she won't curl up on your feet without you washing them first. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, so, let's see. 
Random_Nerd: Everyone's here who will be here. 
Random_Nerd: You guys ready to start? 
*** Mode change "+o Knockwood" for channel #Nobilis by Random_Nerd. 
Knockwood: arigato RN 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
*** Etheric is now known as Eve. 
Eve: Sure thing. 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
Theresa: I think so. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
Theresa: We had been talking to Message, right? 
DanteE: Right, I gave him the number for the BatPhone so he wouldn't have to threaten random citizens to contact us 
Theresa: And we couldn't get a handle on whether the trap thing was real, present or future? 
Random_Nerd: There was some difficulty there, but I believe you concluded that it probably wasn't real at the moment? 
Eve: Eve knows. Or thinks she does. Ask in-character. :) 
DanteE: if the transmogrifier is operational we should revisit the ogre-prof. 
*** Eve has changed the topic on channel #Nobilis to Random Nerd's Nobilis game. 
Random_Nerd: I'm ready to start when you guys are. 
DanteE: and don't forget the Holy Fire 
Brian: we're all ready I believe 
Random_Nerd: _______________________START________________________ 
Theresa: (I think we had already started doing the Holy Fire rites, once we were able to move around after we got home from Mexico.) 
Theresa: "The question is, then, where these traps are, if they even _exist_." 
Random_Nerd: Message shrugs. 
Brian: "I believe they exist. For Nobilis, traps are hidden in every conversation." 
Eve: "I believe I have seen the answer. The rumors of traps are decoys to lead us into a false sense of danger, than a sense of relative security as we realize the traps have not materialized, at which poiunt our foes will strike." 
DanteE: "Then again... if he didn't plant those traps, there's the question of who did." 
Theresa: *to Eve* "So these are traps in potentia?" 
Eve: "In a sense. They are decoys." 
Brian: *to Message* "You've given us information - we've given you something in kind. Thank you for your warning." 
Random_Nerd: He nods, and sits back down on his bench. 
* Eve ponders. 
DanteE: "That would also mean we can't do anything about them right now... right? 
DanteE: " 
Theresa: *To Message* "Is there anything else you need?" 
Random_Nerd: He ponders for a moment. 
Random_Nerd: "I don't think so." 
Theresa: "I think it means that we just wait. We're not in a false sense of danger and hopefully we won't let our guard down. But we should keep an eye on our friend here. The progression of his shade may be a red herring, but still..." 
DanteE: "Well, if it isn't... he'll be completely black in about 2 weeks." 
Theresa: "I feel like it's some sort of countdown." 
DanteE: "We've got 2, then. One in 2 weeks and one in a few months when the cosmic calendar changes." 
Brian: "To what, though?" 
Eve: Cosmic calendar? 
Eve: "" 
Theresa: (I forget if Eve was around when it was discussed that about every thousand years, the miles on the Earth roll over and a new Age starts up. And we're due soonish.) 
Eve: (I don't recall being around then.) 
Brian: (I don't even know if /I/ was around for that) 
DanteE: "Basically, the Noble calendar is about to experience a Y-5-K bug. And those are exceptionally nasty." 
Theresa: "Phoenixes bursting into flames, Entropy maybe getting replaced, death of the universe sorts of things." 
Theresa: "Mass hysteria." 
Brian: "That doesn't sound good." 
DanteE: "We're in year 4999 of the Age of Pain, by Heaven's Calendar." 
Eve: "Interesting..." 
* Theresa looks around. "Okay, so we've kind of dealt with this sort-of-crisis. The transmogrifier is working, but we didn't get a close look. How was the vault?" 
Brian: "Dante changed his mind." 
DanteE: "Still intact and empty, according to my divination. We didn't go in... 
Brian: /mutters "and they think /I'm/ the crazy one..." 
DanteE: "It occurred to me that if Brian's right, someone _wanted_ us to go in/" 
Theresa: "To cause the Artifacts to lay waste to the Chancel?" 
DanteE: "Or to let someone or something else in" 
Theresa: "Someone stealthy?": 
DanteE: "Possibly." 
Theresa: (Hmm..one of the Realm types could do a Div and see if anyone not of the Chancel is present besides the Aides (and Lesson, if he counts.) 
Theresa: (And Message.) 
Brian: (suggest it IC) 
Theresa: "Maybe we could search Amyra for anyone who isn't of the Chancel? We've already checked for anyone with an Auctoritas." 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, what do you mean by "anyone not of the chancel"?) 
Theresa: (The enChancelling made the place a Realm and everyone within it part of the Realm. People from outside would be Different.) 
DanteE: (Anyone who wasn't here upon enChanceling?) 
Random_Nerd: (So, people who aren't either people who were in-chancel at the time it closed, or people who have been born since?) 
Brian: (Realm Div of people who entered - and remained in - the Chancel within the past 2 months) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, let's see. It shows up... let's see. Red. Both Aides. The Cams, and their assistants, ogres, and nimblejacks, Brian.) 
Random_Nerd: (Lesson and Snow don't show up because of anchor/Noble immunity.) 
DanteE: (Wait up... weren't the Cams here when we got enChanceled?) 
Theresa: (Some of the Cams. They probably brought in more.) 
Random_Nerd: (Some of them.) 
Random_Nerd: (You gave them permission to bring in more.) 
DanteE: (ah.) 
Random_Nerd: (And some of those who were have been replaced.) 
Theresa: (And Message was brought into the Chancel within the Shard, so he doesn't count.) 
Random_Nerd: (Like the one who they thought you'd subverted.) 
Theresa: (*sniff*) 
Brian: (anyone we don't expect?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not unless someone on that list was a surprise.) 
Brian: ok 
Brian: () 
Theresa: (No surprises to me.) 
DanteE: (that list looks all right... though you might want to enumerate the Cams' assistants) 
* Brian will go through the list 
DanteE: (assuming the ogres & nimblejacks are off the suspect list as well) 
Random_Nerd: (I haven't worked out precisely how many they have. Shall we say between two and six each of humans, ogres, and nimblejacks?) 
Brian: (they're cam-brought I believe?) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct.) 
DanteE: (We've met their 2 goofiest ogres. :) 
Theresa: (The feeling of being looked down upon in intelligence from goofy ogres is not something easily forgotten. *sigh*) 
Brian: (I wasn't there :-P) 
Theresa: (Brian was elsewhere.) 
Random_Nerd: (Monty.) 
DanteE: (add to the list? :) 
DanteE: "So... we can't do anything but wait, can we." 
Brian: "We can take the initiative. How? I don't know. Declare the moon cheese?" 
Theresa: "Sounds like it. Although Lesson's group is making progress with the transmogrifier. I sent them out after some people who got changed into sentient plants who would like to be changed back." 
DanteE: "That I'd like to see." 
* Theresa smiles. "It's not that far away." 
DanteE: "And we should also locate our would-be ogre" 
Theresa: "I'm sure Lesson has done so already." 
* Eve stares at Message for a moment, then looks away. "I believe that this situation will solve itself. Should we check with Lesson?" 
Random_Nerd: (Before you did, actually. You originally found the ogre because Lesson was tracking him.) 
Eve: (I'm invoking the miracle we discussed in private message.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay.) 
DanteE: (uhoh) 
Theresa: (Yep. But it'll be cool.) 
Eve: (Might not show up for a while, though. <.< ) 
Eve: "Well? Shall we?" 
DanteE: (just as long as it's not a ... uh ... 'kender problem'? :) 
DanteE: "Sure." 
Eve: ('Scuse me?) 
Brian: "Let's witness the transmogrifier in action. Does it go *boink*? Inquiring minds want to know!" 
Theresa: (Dante probably has the transportation.) 
DanteE: (you know, where the kender player passes a note to the GM that says "While everyone's asleep I swipe all their stuff") 
* DanteE hops in the DanteMobile 
Random_Nerd: (And we agreed that the transmorgrifier was fairly large and ran on electricity, right?) 
Theresa: (Nah, Eve wouldn't take our stuff. Our souls, maybe, but not our stuff... <g>) 
* Theresa gets in as well. 
* Brian gets in 
Eve: (Nah, nothing like that.) 
Brian: "Or was it the duplicator that went *boink*?" 
DanteE: (It's a big ray, with loads of vacuum tubes and bizarre circuitry, surrounding a primary stage on which rests the original-form-factor cardboard box. :D ) 
* Eve enters the car also. 
Random_Nerd: (Cut to arriving at the Bureau?) 
Theresa: (Sounds good to me.) 
Eve: (Works for me.) 
Brian: (hai) 
*** DanteE has signed off IRC (Ping timeout). 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, you arrive.) 
* Brian gets out and stretches 
Brian: (does anyone remember /what/ scientific progress went *boink*?) 
*** DanteE has joined #Nobilis. 
Theresa: (Not off the top of my head. re Dante.) 
Random_Nerd: (The duplicator.) 
Random_Nerd: (I'm 85% sure.) 
DanteE: (Hiyo. Connection glitched on me. What did I miss?) 
Random_Nerd: (You arrived.) 
Brian: (as am I, now that I had thought of it) 
DanteE: (and I suspect it's scientific progress in general that goes 'Boink'. :) 
Random_Nerd: Things look more or less the same as they did an hour ago. Do you directly get Lesson's attention? 
Random_Nerd: (If that were true, Hobbes wouldn't have been so dubious over the noise!) 
DanteE: who all's around? 
Random_Nerd: (Lesson. Various subordinates. And there's a big whiteboard with "Known Locations Of Talking Pets" on it.) 
Random_Nerd: (Err, talking plants.) 
Brian: (I suspect there's also one for talking pets) 
DanteE: (Well, talking pets would be interesting as well. :) 
* Theresa checks the list against the one from her head/divinatiion earlier. 
* Brian whispers to Eve "Hey, can you find out if any cow wishes to be able to talk?" 
Random_Nerd: (It seems to be the one you gave them, with a few notes scrawled in.) 
* Theresa will head over to the whiteboard, asking quietly, "Any problems?" 
Random_Nerd: (Asking who, whoever's nearest?) 
DanteE: Where is Lesson & what's he doing? 
* Eve does a Lesser Divination of Hope to figure out if there are any cows, anywhere, that have hopes to be able to talk. 
Random_Nerd: (None of the cows in chancel have any hopes nearly that sophisticated.) 
Theresa: (whoever's nearest.) 
Random_Nerd: (Looking out of chancel as well?) 
DanteE: (Couldn't Eve find anyone who hopes to get back to normal?) 
Eve: (Yes, it's a Domain diviantion.) 
Brian: (I thought we did that, and got a list?) 
DanteE: (the list is several thousand people) 
Random_Nerd: (Which is why you had Lesson put together this group, so you won't have to spend weeks and weeks doing them all by hand.) 
Brian: (*that* was an unfortunate wording...) 
Random_Nerd: (As for outside... there are some that want to talk, depending on how broadly you define "cows.") 
Eve: (What's an example of one that might or might not qualify as a cow?) 
Theresa: (I hope we're not going to be bringing metacows into the Chancel...) 
Brian: (no, just quantum cows) 
Random_Nerd: (Minotaurs. People with cow horns on their heads. Robots in the shape of cows.) 
Random_Nerd: (And so on.) 
Random_Nerd: (Cows descended from gods.) 
Eve: (Okay.) 
Theresa: (Cows descended from...oh, yeah.) 
DanteE: (Hath not a cow horns? If you slice them, are they not beef? If you barbeque them, are they not delicious?) 
Brian: (deep fried cow!) 
Random_Nerd: (So... back to the narrative.) 
DanteE: (Where's Lesson?) 
Random_Nerd: The nearest person to Theresa, a vaguely secretarial-looking guy, says "Problems. Well, we have some. A lot of those talking plants are trees, you know?) 
Eve: "There are a few cows on Earth that are able to conceive of speech, and some of those want to be able to talk. None in the Chancel, though. Why?" 
Random_Nerd: (Lesson isn't immediately in sight. He has an office down the hall from the big open area with the machine.) 
Theresa: *to the person* "Please, go on." 
Brian: "Just wanted to know if that cow we chatted with wanted actual speech." 
Random_Nerd: (Baseline cows aren't really smart enough to tell the difference between language and cow noises.) 
Brian: (true) 
Random_Nerd: (So they don't know what they're missing.) 
Random_Nerd: "And trees... trees have roots." 
Random_Nerd: "We're working on how to dig up a tree and bring it here without hurting it." 
Random_Nerd: "And someone's in back explaining to the boss what a tree is." 
Theresa: "How many are trees?" 
Random_Nerd: "Not that you heard that from me." 
Random_Nerd: He looks at the list. 
DanteE: "How's Lesson doing, as a boss?" 
Random_Nerd: "More than half, I think. Most of the people who've been changed seem to have been changed into something at least two thirds as big as they were." 
Random_Nerd: "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." 
Theresa: (So about how many is that? And how long would it take for Theresa to go and give them mobility and bring them back here?) 
DanteE: (so this place is a little better than Dilbert's. :) 
Random_Nerd: (A few dozen trees.) 
Random_Nerd: (And she'd have to do a Lesser Change on each one to do that.) 
DanteE: (OH... you don't need to do a LChange... 
DanteE: (You can just do a move on each one) 
Random_Nerd: (True, but she asked about giving them mobility.) 
Random_Nerd: (And that takes a Change.) 
Brian: (giving them mobility is harder than setting up moving them) 
Theresa: (Move using what?) 
Random_Nerd: (We settled that it was the same cost as a lesser creation, correct?) 
Theresa: (It'd be changing where they are, right?) 
Brian: (trucks and stuff. Toss a Preservation on them - roots, specifically - and then dig them up) 
Theresa: (I believe so.) 
Brian: (remember, manual labour!) 
Theresa: (Depending on the size of the tree, the roots may reach out a few miles.) 
Random_Nerd: "Okay, I have a question. You're the boss's bosses, right?" 
Theresa: "Yep. Although we can only suggest raises." 
Random_Nerd: "What is he, really? And what's that weird rotting thing that follows him around a lot?" 
Brian: "... did we forget a preservation of freshness there? Damn!" 
Random_Nerd: "Because at first I thought they were both changed people, like the folks we're tracking down. But I've seen a lot of those now, and the boss and his rotting friend seem... different." 
DanteE: "We assumed Kudzu did that..." 
Theresa: "They're from outside of the Chancel. Your boss is from a different world. And Ick, well,...he's mostly homegrown, you could say." 
Brian: "Your boss is a demon, reformed, loyal, and working for us." 
Random_Nerd: "So... he's actually literally the boss from hell?" 
DanteE: "Ayep." 
DanteE: "His assistant's a zombie, by the way." 
Brian: "You could do worse, though. Lesson's a good man, all things considered." 
Random_Nerd: "Okay. Well, do you want me to get him?" 
Theresa: (How many plants/trees could I move at once with a Lesser Change/Move?) 
Random_Nerd: (A lesser change could make one mobile. A lesser creation could teleport one. A greater creation could teleport all.) 
DanteE: "No need, we'll just wait and see what's happening." 
Theresa: (How many of the trees could the warehouse handle at one time?) 
Brian: "I'd like to observe the Transmogrifier in action" 
Random_Nerd: (Well, that depends on what you mean by handle. Are you talking about storing them indoors?) 
Random_Nerd: (Because the warehouse is big, but it's not "toss in dozens of trees complete with root systems" big, and a lot of it is being filled up with offices and such.) 
DanteE: (They'd need to be zapped one at a time anyway, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah.) 
Theresa: (Well, if we move them to someplace that can't be hit (by a beam from the Transmogrifier), they'd have to be moved again. But if we can zap them X at a time, this would be helpful. But I don't want to bring them all in at once if it means that the warehouse gets demolished.) 
Random_Nerd: (Each individual transmute would take some charging of the transmuter, the settings being configured right, and so on.) 
DanteE: (Which means you might as well get them one at a time, for free) 
Random_Nerd: (And also, the policy you gave earlier involved some time spent with psychiatrsts to see whether they really want to go back.) 
Theresa: (So I would need to teleport them one at a time, for free. Yep. :) ) 
Theresa: (True. Although the shrinks may need to speak plant. Or can all of the transformed talk in their former and current native tongues?) 
Random_Nerd: (Most can.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not all.) 
DanteE: (Well, wait, if they came up on Hope's Div, wouldn't that mean you don't need to ask them whether they want to be changed?) 
Random_Nerd: (Part of that's that a fair number of them are uncertain what they want now.) 
Random_Nerd: (Take the ogre, for example.) 
* Theresa looks at the minion. "Do you know how to get in touch with me?" 
DanteE: (Then we get the one in whom the hope was strongest.) 
Random_Nerd: "I'm not sure. I know that the boss can, and he'd probably prefer that I go through him, I think." 
DanteE: ("Would you like to be hu... " "I'VE BEEN PIDDLED ON BY EVERY SUBSPECIES IN AMYRA! FIRE THAT THING UP!" 
Theresa: "Alright." *will head over to where Lesson is learning about trees* 
Random_Nerd: (A divination of Hope would find the ones that clearly want to be human again.) 
Theresa: (Arrgghh...now I've got the cartoon mascot for Arbor Day in my head...) 
Random_Nerd: Lesson is in his office. Photos and diagrams of trees and roots are spread out on a desk. 
Theresa: "Hello, Lesson. How is it going?" 
Random_Nerd: A nervous-looking man is pointing at various parts of a diagram, while Lesson digresses and talks about the roots of Yggdrasil that draw nutrition from Hell. 
Random_Nerd: L: "Seems to be going well. Learning how plants here work." 
Random_Nerd: L: "Seen them before, but never really studied them. In Hell we have only one tree." 
Random_Nerd: L: "And it's too big to really see properly." 
DanteE: "Yggdrasil?" 
Random_Nerd: L: "Yes." 
Theresa: "Wouldn't want to move it." 
Random_Nerd: Guy Talking To Lesson: "I'm still pretty sure that's just an old myth..." 
Theresa: *firmly* "No. It's Not." 
Brian: "nono, it's real" 
Random_Nerd: L: "Isn't. Seen it. Roots the size of nations." 
DanteE: "Makes sense, any other plant would be ashes in moments..." 
DanteE: to Guy: "You remember us, right?" 
Random_Nerd: L: "So, here's how I understand it. We need two big things. We need to work out a way to move the trees safely here. And we need a safe place to put them, with dirt for their roots and water and so on." 
Random_Nerd: Guy: "You're... you're the ones who took the country away from the Earth, right?" 
DanteE: "No, but we know the ... being who did." 
Theresa: *to Lesson* "I can move the trees whenever you need them to be moved. I would need a safe place to put them while they are evaluated." 
Random_Nerd: L: "Also, trying to work out if the trees will want privacy." 
Brian: "It wasn't our decision. We weren't even ... well, made, really ... by that point" 
Theresa: "One idea might be to send the psychiatrists to the individual trees for evaluation and then move them once it is determined that they want to be changed back." 
Random_Nerd: L: "Those few that staff have talked to seem difficult to communicate with. Some think very slowly. Some only care about sun and water and dirt." 
Random_Nerd: L: "Had a request." 
Random_Nerd: The guy nods to Brian and Dante. 
Random_Nerd: L: "The big tree. The one with the cows. Want to bring him in to consult." 
Random_Nerd: L: "Can maybe talk to the others, tree to tree? And knows what trees need." 
Random_Nerd: Guy: "Now you're going to tell me there really is a giant walking redwood with a cow collection." 
Brian: "Well, yeah." 
Brian: "He's sentient, too." 
DanteE: (aaaaaand what's the effect of mundanes if he's seen?) 
Theresa: "Hmm...Red could be very helpful. As long as he's interested and it doesn't distract from the duties Kudzu has given him. Although he might be more inclined to promote staying sentient." *smile* 
Random_Nerd: (Red is mundane, now.) 
Theresa: (What kind of miracle would it be to put on Red a miracle of "Doesn't cause DA."? ) 
Brian: (T: see Dante's question ;)) 
Random_Nerd: (Miracles, with time, fade to become natural parts of causality. This is the case with Red. He's still a giant talking tree, which is... unsettling, but he won't cause DA.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's no longer like when you'd just made him mobile.) 
DanteE: (There's the problem that he can't fit in the bleedin' door...) 
Theresa: (They can talk to him outside.) 
Theresa: "Would you like me to contact him?" 
Theresa: (Man...poor Red. He was so special as the only tree given sentience...and now there are dozens...) 
Random_Nerd: L: "Know where he is. Wanted permission to ask him to help." 
Random_Nerd: (Well, he still is.) 
Random_Nerd: (The rest aren't trees granted sentience. They 
Random_Nerd: 're sentients granted treeness.) 
Theresa: (Oh, I thought some of them were trees with human thinking and humans turned into trees but still thinking.) 
Brian: (I love this game :)) 
Random_Nerd: (All of the trees that can think were formerly human.) 
Random_Nerd: (Except Red.) 
Theresa: (Ahhh...that's a leaf of a different color.) 
Theresa: "Permission granted, although he has the right to refuse, of course. I hope he'll be willing to help. And once you have trees that have agreed to be changed back, just let me know and it shall be done." 
DanteE: (Theresa could create a swath of fertile land nearby if needed, right?) 
Random_Nerd: L:"Also... is there a way to get him here that won't knock down any buildings?" 
Brian: (sorry .... "Large ... tracts of land") 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, she could do that.) 
Random_Nerd: (She'd need a place to put it, though, unless it was magic hovering fertile land or something.) 
Brian: (like the 51st state? -- just read Nextwave this past weekend) 
Random_Nerd: (I keep meaning to pick up Nextwave.) 
Theresa: "Are there any roads near here that aren't used often and possibly some empty lots nearby?" 
Random_Nerd: L: "This part of city industrial. Heavily built up. Parking lots, but no real empty lots." 
Theresa: "Any abandoned factories, condemned buildings?" 
DanteE: how active is this area--besides what we're doing? 
Random_Nerd: (Was that out loud, or to me?) 
DanteE: to you 
Random_Nerd: (It's a warehouse in an industrial section of town, that's in a bit of a depression lately.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's been picking up a bit since the enchanceling, but there are still buildings for sale.) 
Random_Nerd: (Still, now Amyra has to be self-sufficient in terms of goods, so manufacturing is up.) 
Theresa: (What's next door and across the street? Anything specific or needed?) 
DanteE: (That floating land option is looking better and better...) 
Random_Nerd: (Undetermined.) 
Brian: (hm. Now that I think about it, Brian would want to get some of the real estate here) 
Random_Nerd: (It's your chancel, you tell me what's there.) 
Theresa: (Very well. This will be a lot of typing.) 
Random_Nerd: (The way I see it, the chancel is as much you guys' territory as it is mine, perhaps more. So, while as GM I think it's part of my job to describe things consistantly with how they've appeared before, feel free to just dictate that plausible things are there.) 
Theresa: (I'd like the place next door to be a former (but now very run-down) plant. No chemical residue pollution so maybe a small factory. Good sized parking lot as well. Has a road behind it leading to a frontage road/road out of town. But it got bypassed by the highway/interstate a while back and lead to the factory closing. (more)) 
Brian: (so, kind of like the Feng Shui of "state it to be, not ask it to be"?) 
Random_Nerd: (Pretty much.) 
Brian: "Hm... now that I think of it ... I'll be back guys." 
Random_Nerd: (Now, we don't want it contradicting earlier stuff or breaking the mood, but as long as it's not that, just give me new stuff and I'll work it in.) 
Theresa: (Theresa's idea is to make the factory land and parking lot into a spot of fertile land perfect for growing or for Red to rest at. The old frontage road will be changed into grasscovered for Red to use to move into and out of the area, without a lot of property damage.) 
* Brian will go take a look at the real estate around here. Brian is looking for some warehouses and office type buildings for sale, which he's interested in buying - he'll call up the realtors to negotiate sale terms 
Random_Nerd: (Such buildings are indeed for sale. That's a big part of why you set things up here.) 
DanteE: (Yeah, but what will the land be after the trees are either changed back to humans or comfortable being trees?) 
Random_Nerd: (That, and Lesson's more at ease in a highly urbanized setting.) 
Theresa: (A greenspace.) 
DanteE: (y'know what that sounds like ... a LDest of Urbanization) 
Theresa: (Greenspaces are part of urban areas. *shifty eyes*) 
Brian: (for the record: Brian's looking to set up a lab area) 
Random_Nerd: (If James minds, he can show up and complain?) 
Random_Nerd: (Interesting. Okay.) 
Theresa: (Theresa was planning on muttering an apology to James while she does it.) 
Theresa: *to Lesson* "I can take one of the nearby factories and their land, change it into a fertiile place for the trees to be kept. Also I can give a route for Red to come to you without wrecking the city. Is this acceptable for your needs?" 
DanteE: (I might say use a warehoiuse instead of a factory, just in case you need to make something later) 
Brian: (after getting the prospective "block" of buildings, Brian's going to come back, and make a note to research into getting some lab equipment - chemistry and physics equipment, mainly. He'd prefer to have a particle accelerator, but believes that's out of budget, both money and land wise) 
DanteE: (You're the Power of Numbers, there's no such thing as 'out of budget') 
Random_Nerd: L: "Sounds like that will work well." 
Random_Nerd: (Out of budget? He can make money by deciding to do so, and everyone in the country loves him.) 
Random_Nerd: (These are not conditions to which the term "budget" applies.) 
Brian: (in short, he wants to try to attract some high-theoretical scientists to the Chancel, and to the employ of the Nobilis) 
Theresa: (He could have them build him a pyramid.) 
Brian: (well, specifically that particle accelerators are /big/) 
Random_Nerd: (You can make more /space/.) 
Theresa: (How much of a cost for the landscaping, Hollyhock?) 
DanteE: (we met Physics last week, too. :) 
Theresa: "When would you like the landscaping done?" 
Theresa: (Maybe. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. How do you intend to take down the building?) 
Random_Nerd: (With miracles, or just asking Red to pull it down?) 
Theresa: (Explosives! No, wait, that's my usual answer... *thinks*) 
Theresa: (How big is Red again? 200 ft tall?) 
DanteE: (Use a Realm miracle to dissolve it, and you'll avoid a mess, as well as any harmful chemical releases) 
Brian: (Brian's not going to share it with the rest of the gang, but he wants to get some out-of-chancel scientists in here as well.) 
Random_Nerd: (Two, three hundred feet, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (About 250, I think.) 
Random_Nerd: (You picked a pretty big but not record-breaking tree, right?) 
Theresa: (*nod* It was more for his age too. :) No jailbait trees.) 
DanteE: (We picked the biggest one in that forest) 
Random_Nerd: (So at least close to two hundred.) 
Random_Nerd: (Err, three hundred.) 
* Theresa frowns, concentrating. "Dante or Eve? Could either one of you get rid of the factory across the road just north of here? I'm going to fix up that section there and it's a bit in the way. I would appreciate your help but if you don't feel the need to, that's okay.." 
* Brian walks up to the group, on the phone with some realtor or other. 
Eve: "What do you want us to do with it?" 
DanteE: (Hm... could Brian do a Dest of Dimensions, and shrink the factory to micro-size?) 
Brian: (would be Greater) 
Random_Nerd: (We've established, I believe, that spacewonkery takes Lesser Changes.) 
Eve: (The factory would be bigger than a lesser change, I'd guess... Or not?) 
Brian: (urm... yeah. Some amount of MPs I'm not willing to spend on it, anyway :p) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. It probably would be mroe like a greater dest.) 
Random_Nerd: (Alternatively, Theresa and Red could probably turn it into a field in an hour or so, with the use of force and lesser creations.) 
Eve: (If it's a lesser change, we can just Realm-miracle it underground.) 
Theresa: "Whatever you wanted, as long as it's not at that spot anymore..." *thinks a little* "And it doesn't hurt people or plants or end up in my bedroom or house." *smile* "Sorry, dealing with six-year olds makes one lay out ground rules in a hurry." 
Eve: (But unless it's a really small factory it's too big to do that to.) 
Random_Nerd: (You could use a lesser change of realm to make the ground there soft enough that it could fall through, I guess.) 
Eve: (That still doesn't make ground on top of it to plant trees in.) 
Random_Nerd: (True, but that can be done with a bunch of lesser creations or one greater one.) 
Eve: (Still pricey to do with Realm.) 
Theresa: (Hmm...lesser change to make the ground soft so the building falls through. Lesser change to make the soil fertile and good for plants/trees.) 
Eve: (And a Greater Creation of Realm would take a Word of Command.) 
Theresa: (Would the soil fall under Theresa's work?) 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, you can do it fast, or spend relatively few miracle points.) 
Eve: (Okay, I missed something... It's an *abandoned* factory?) 
Random_Nerd: (But not both.) 
Random_Nerd: (Abandoned.) 
Eve: (Okay, thanks.) 
Brian: (after the phone call ends:) Anchor-Speak: "Hey, could you do me a favour? I'd like to know who to get in contact with to commission a large particle accelerator, among other scientific devices - physics and chemistry equipment, high-grade stuff" 
Theresa: (If need be, I can call Red in and we can play in the dirt for a while. :) Anyone want to cow-sit?) 
Random_Nerd: (Jim: "When you say 'large', how large do you mean?") 
Random_Nerd: ("Big university physics department large, or International Linear Collider large?") 
Brian: ("Um. What's the largest and best out there? I want it bigger and larger.") 
Brian: (edit: "Bigger and better") 
Random_Nerd: ("The ILC is planned to be done in, like, eight years or so? And it's a few dozen kilometers long, or will be.") 
DanteE: (I was thinking you should trash a warehouse instead of a factory, mainly because the factory has machinery to make something, while a warehouse just has space) 
Random_Nerd: ("Biggest that actually exists is maybe three, I think.") 
Brian: ("Ok. Who do I talk to to get something like that?") 
Random_Nerd: ("There's this whole big group that's working on it. You could probably talk to them.") 
Theresa: (Okay, I retcon and amend to say warehouse instead of factory. Also less chance of remaining pollution.) 
Brian: ("Can you find out who they are and contact information, please?") 
Random_Nerd: ("I'll do that. Who shall I tell them you are?") 
Brian: ("Um. Someone with lots of money? Anonymous customer, for now.") 
Random_Nerd: ("Okay, you're 'an anonymous billionaire with an interest in physics.") 
Brian: ("That suits. Thanks.") 
DanteE: (Maybe to seal the deal you could have them meet Physics. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Mind if we stop about here?) 
Random_Nerd: (We seem to be slowing down a lot.) 
Theresa: (Brain think stopping good.) 
DanteE: (We can stop) 
Random_Nerd: ____________STOP___________ 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
*** Brian is now known as lazarus. 
Random_Nerd: So, a solution to Message was implemented, you're working on putting a field in for magic talking trees, and Brian wants a particle accelerator the size of a largish mountain range. 
lazarus: yep 
Theresa: And Red might need a cow-sitter. I'm glad to hear he's causing no (less?) DA. 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
Knockwood: OK, so... we checked on Lesson and the transmogrifier, then ghot to talking about people turned to plants, and spent the rest of the session discussing how to make the plants comfortable while they get counseling and wait in line to be transmogrified... 
*** Eve is now known as Etheric. 
Etheric: I'm off. Take care, all. 
Knockwood: who did the GCreation of Tangents? 
lazarus: later eth 
*** Etheric has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Destiny is choice.). 
Knockwood: g'night Eth 
BethE: We always tangent. :) 
Random_Nerd: You tangent when not in danger. 
lazarus: I figured I'd actually do something, rather than just observe, for the last bit :p 
Random_Nerd: But since the last storyline got most of you almost killed, this one is slower paced for variation. 
Random_Nerd: And it's an interesting thing to go about doing, too. And properly Noble-scale. 
lazarus: I'm /certain/ that the lab isn't going to backfire at some point. 
Knockwood: and you're still talking about making trees more comfortable while they get counseling 
lazarus: partly, this is Brian's effort to try getting information flow between the Chancel and the Real World again. 
lazarus: get the best scientists out here, and they'll figure out how to connect the internets. 
BethE: I was spending some time thinking about what would be necessary for plant shrinks... 
Knockwood: I should check on how people are coping 
Random_Nerd: Why would it backfire? 
Random_Nerd: I mean, this is hardly hubris territory. 
lazarus: because I specifically want people from out-of-chancel. 
Random_Nerd: Hubris would be trying to convert the Ash into a giant particle accelerator. 
BethE: *thinks* Ooo... 
Knockwood: Then again, we could do that with a TV show. "Tonight on Kaerkoven Talk, Nobles Brian and Dante answer your questions!" 
lazarus: Brian isn't satisfied with just the scientists that this one Chancel has developed - he wants to have a mingling of different mindsets and educations (like, British, US/Canada, Australian, etc) 
lazarus: and, like I said earlier, I'm /sure/ no enemy would think of planting a spy or other in those Brian would invite to work here... 
Random_Nerd: Great, now I'm imagining you guys making a machine that creates scientists from handy matter. 
Knockwood: I'd ring a mountain, and make sure the part most prone to explosions is pointed well away from populated areas 
BethE: What would be appropriate matter to make scientists from? 
lazarus: Beth: energy! 
Knockwood: Silicon. Brian could make an actual AI.

Session 72

2007-10-04T04:00:06Z

BethDragon:

Knockwood: Hope's missing 
BethE: Alas! 
*** Mode change "+o Sara" for channel #nobilis by lazarus. 
Sara: We're hopeless. 
BethE: Generally. 
Random_Nerd: Etheric is on AIM, I'll poke him. 
lazarus: nono: Beth, we always HOPE that our plan will succeed. 'cause that's the only way it ever would :p 
Knockwood: yeah, without Hope on our team we'd be utterly screwed... 
Knockwood: which reminds me, I think I may have figured out what's going on. 
lazarus: oh? 
*** Mode change "+o Random_Nerd" for channel #nobilis by Sara. 
Knockwood: yes. We'll need more macaroni, a pan flute, and about 60 cases of Triscuits. 
lazarus: oh, so standard Nobilis fare, then 
Knockwood: that's assuming we can convince the chicken to wear the nylons. 
lazarus: "Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "I think so, Brian, but how are we going to convince the chickens to wear the nylons? 
lazarus: ' 
Knockwood: pondering, not thinking 
lazarus: right 
Knockwood: in our case: "Lesson, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "I believe so, sir, but where in either here or hell could you find a rhino that knows the hula? 
Random_Nerd: Does the rhino just have to /know/ the hula, or actually be able to perform it? 
Random_Nerd: Because the former is way easier. 
*** Etheric has joined #nobilis. 
*** Mode change "+o Etheric" for channel #nobilis by Sara. 
Knockwood: Hi Hope 
Etheric: Hi, all. Sorry for the delay. 
BethE: Hi Etheric! 
Random_Nerd: So, you guys ready to start, or did you want to discuss your theory, Knock? 
Knockwood: OK, wild-ass speculation... I mean theory time: 
Random_Nerd: And don't worry about Rule Zero. 
Random_Nerd: The stuff I come up with is way more evil than the stuff you come up with. In your heart you know this to be true. 
Knockwood: If Brian's right, then what the shard wanted was for Dante to _enter_ the vault, even if it cost her her life. 
Knockwood: (The Chancel's full of nobles, she had to know she couldn't survive.) 
Knockwood: And now, it seems that there's another enemy in Kaerkoven. 
Knockwood: He may have been her partner. 
Knockwood: OK, so, what would it benefit if we entered? 
BethE: Tick off the Artifacts, could destroy some/all of the Chancel? 
Knockwood: ...unless what they wanted was the key? 
Knockwood: There's a possibility that her partner was watching King John when we coerced him into opening the vault... 
Knockwood: which means he now knows the prayers he'd need to safely enter! 
lazarus: how'd she get there, though? 
Knockwood: Getting past mundane defenses is no problem for a Noble-level entity, like a Shard. Getting past their _divine_ defenses is another story. 
Knockwood: Doesn't matter. All she had to do was get in and survive long enough to lure us in. 
lazarus: brb 
Knockwood: She was over in the corner, taking care not to touch the artifacts, and keeping as far away from them as she could while still being in the room. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, shall we start, now? 
lazarus: b 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
Knockwood: OK 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
Brian: (start with the girls?) 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
Theresa: (We can start with the reaction to the Dante-calling over the BB.) 
Brian: (remind?) 
*** Etheric is now known as Carrie. 
DanteE: I called ahead, said there was someone in the chancel with 6 traps 
*** Carrie is now known as Eve. 
Brian: ah 
Eve: (Sorry, habit.) 
Theresa: (*grin*) 
Random_Nerd: (So, now, any way we can get all the PCs close together fairly quickly?) 
Brian: (hai) 
Brian: (Brian and Dante move to meet up with the others) 
DanteE: (Hold on... 
DanteE: (Dante has that brainstorm first, then...) 
DanteE: "Oh, <Amyran Profanity>!!!" 
DanteE: "...I think I know what they want!" 
Brian: "Oh?" 
Snow: "Food?" 
Snow: (Assuming they've caught up.) 
DanteE: "They want a way _in_ the vault... and we showed it to them when we had John let us in!" 
Brian: "You think everyone always wants food, Snow..." 
Brian: "Um... huh." 
* Snow grumbles under her breath, "They do..." 
Brian: "Yes, but I'm saying you always think that. Your one constant." 
DanteE: "I'm out of juice for Realm Miracles... Brian, can you seal off this room, make sure nobody can get in?" 
Theresa: "I thought that you had thought that they were wanting you to come inside of the vault?" 
Theresa: "How about so just King John or his appointed successor? No need borrowing trouble." 
Brian: "Urm, I don't think I can fully seal it off, Dante. There's going to be a way around it." 
DanteE: "Yeah, but that by itself makes no sense, it just means she dies there instead of here. 
DanteE: "It only makes sense if getting _in_ the vault was the point... 
DanteE: "...possibly witnessed by her partner who is currently luring us away!" 
DanteE: (Does Eve have that Noble-spotting gift?) 
Random_Nerd: (That's Theresa.) 
DanteE: (oops) 
Theresa: (You could ask Theresa. :) ) 
Brian: "T, can we get a Noble Count?" 
DanteE: "Theresa, you still have that locating ability, right?" 
Theresa: "One moment..." (I'd like to play Spot the Actoritas, please.) 
DanteE: "That might also find the traps... if they're meant to hurt us they's almost have to be based on Miracles" 
DanteE: *they'd 
Snow: "What kinda traps?" 
Brian: "Dunno." 
DanteE: "He didn't elaborate." 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, let's see... no unexpected auctoriti in-chancel at the moment.) 
Theresa: "Is this guy Message or someone else, though?" 
* Snow does a realm div, to see if anything has a particularly strong inclination to trap her or her Familia. 
DanteE: "Depends, would you say Message looks Indian?" 
Theresa: "And there doesn't look like there are any unexpected auctoriti in the Chancel at the moment...unless someone's hiding in someone else's Auctoritas." 
Theresa: "I thought he looked red, in a hue sort of way, not a racial background.": 
Random_Nerd: (Snow, you don't find any significant intentions to trap you or the others.) 
DanteE: "Right, red hue, but he said the guy looked Indian." 
* Snow briefly turns into a red fox, then back into a girl. 
* Brian blinks. 
Brian: "Crap. We didn't help that guy out, did we?" 
DanteE: "We need to find Red Guy." 
Brian: "Dante: do you remember who that Chancelman was?" 
Eve: (Hmm, a thought.) 
DanteE: "Ah... Eve? Can you check on Carrie's parents?" 
Eve: (Six traps... Six gifts.) 
Theresa: "So, before we go running off, we have people who either want us to go into or not go into the vault, traps that may or may not exist and one or two guys with red coloration." 
Eve: "As you wish." 
DanteE: "Snow? ...How's Horse?" 
* Snow checks up on Horse. 
Random_Nerd: (Horse is vaguely puzzled why nobody's riding him into battle. It's been over a week!) 
Snow: (Is he unhappy to have not been ridden into battle?) 
Snow: "He's fine. Bored." 
* Eve reaches through the anchor bond to share the perceptions first of Helen Winters, then of Doctor Frank Winters. She does not send mental communication, but her presence may be somewhat tangible in their minds. 
Random_Nerd: (Perhaps slightly so.) 
Snow: (Snow summons Horse then, at his leisure.) 
Random_Nerd: (Horse starts moving towards where Snow is.) 
Snow: "If the trap is a person, Horse can make him disappear." She yawns. 
Random_Nerd: Somewhere in the chancel, Carrie's parents look up. 
* Theresa will check her Domain in the Chancel for anything out of sorts or just feeling wrong. 
Eve: (Mainly, I'm looking to see where they are and check that there's not anything obviously out of the ordinary in their vicinity.) 
Random_Nerd: (Nothing particular. Neither is doing anything particularly interesting, neither seems to be in danger.) 
Snow: "I don't like traps." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. What would count as "out of sorts"?) 
DanteE: (some nut in a red suit threatening to trap us?) 
Brian: "I know Snow. On the plus side, I think that the traps may not be targeting you - they may have been set before you showed up." 
Brian: "Of course, that doesn't help the /rest/ of us..." 
Theresa: (Hmm...obvious distress from them at a level unusual for that plant/area. Plants that are usually sedate and quiet now yelling and spaced out. Lemurs.) 
Snow: "Still, not good if they're after you guys." 
Snow: (*innocent*) 
* Eve opens her eyes and addresses Dante. "My Anchors are handling their assignments. Neither seems to be in need of assistance to accomplish their tasks." 
Theresa: "But six...why count James? And plus, are they attuned to one of us each? Or do they even exist." 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, the plants aren't suffering unusually. The odd tree getting cut down or lawn mowed, but no forest fires or anything.) 
Theresa: (That's good to hear. thank you.) 
Brian: "Well, I think the best we can do is be on our guard about anything coming at us, just in case. Traps have a habit of being stationary creatures" 
Theresa: "None of the plants of the Chancel seem to be in an unusal mood or state, Dante." 
Brian: (hm... Realm Div of traps?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Define what you mean by traps?) 
DanteE: (That may be the key right there) 
Brian: (um. Objects or plans to capture/tangle/harm-by-catching-unawares) 
Random_Nerd: (Lesser div or greater?) 
Brian: (I'll go for lesser right now) 
Brian: (*jeopardy theme*) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, you find mousetraps. Beartraps. Fine print on contracts. Whoopie cushions, none of them aimed at you.) 
Random_Nerd: (And a guy in a red three-piece suit.) 
Brian: (hm. Interesting) 
Theresa: (A _suit_. Oh crap, the Camms...) 
* Brian relays: "Just did a quickie Realm Div for traps ... there's a guy in a red three-piece suit who showed up." 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and the Maple vaguely shows up.) 
DanteE: (so, he _is_ a trap?) 
Brian: "And Maple." 
Theresa: "Huh." 
Theresa: (*innocent*) 
Brian: (RN: what kind of further information would the Greater Div provide?) 
Random_Nerd: (It'd show you all the things in the vicinities of these traps, give you more information about them, and show you specific things about their pasts if you're looking for those.) 
Brian: (ok) 
Random_Nerd: (But it wouldn't be likely to show something up as a trap that the lesser div wouldn't.) 
Brian: "I can call up more detail with a Greater Divination, but that would be some effort." 
Eve: (As long as we're doing Realm Divs, I'll try a Lesser Realm Divination of Gifts, to find out if any of the Familia have been given any significant gifts that we don't know about. <.< Although a gift *intended* as a trap would probably show up on Brian's Div... Still, might as well try.) 
Random_Nerd: (Unless there was a miracle in place for the specific purpose of concealing a trap, of a level between two and six.) 
DanteE: "Let's find red suit guy and ask him" 
Theresa: "We can search for more info while we travel?" 
Random_Nerd: (Gifts you don't /know/ about. Hmm.) 
Random_Nerd: (Would something that one PC knew about and another didn't count?) 
Eve: (I'd say if the Noble it was given to doesn't know about it, it counts. If not, it doesn't.) 
DanteE: "Where is he?" 
Random_Nerd: (None of you has been given a gift he doesn't know about. Except for Brian, who's been mailed a box of cookies that haven't arrived yet.) 
Eve: (Have a feeling I'm barking up some incorrect tree but at least I'm not spending MPs.) 
Brian: (LRD to find dude) 
Random_Nerd: (Sitting on a park bench two thirds of a mile north of you.) 
Eve: (Okay, that works then. I will refrain from mentioning the cookies.) 
Theresa: (Well, we'll know who did it if Brian never gets them. :) ) 
Brian: (and, I got cookies? ... also I need to give some advice to Chancel Guy who tipped us off.) 
Brian: "This way." 
Eve: ('Nother Lesser Divination. Will going to meet this Red Suit Guy trigger the trap?) 
* Brian heads that way 
* Theresa will follow, looking around cautiously. 
Random_Nerd: (Ambiguous. Divining futures that key off of actions of Nobles isn't really reliable.) 
Random_Nerd: (Best answer it produces is "Maybe, depending on what you do.) 
Eve: (Might as well follow the others just to stick together then.) 
Eve: (And I don't mention either Divination.) 
* Eve goes along with Brian and the others. 
DanteE: (Actually, what's the word on Lesson and his gang?) 
Random_Nerd: (They're working on the things they were recently assigned.) 
Random_Nerd: (Right now, their main task seems to be finding some really good gardeners.) 
Theresa: (*grin!*) 
Eve: (Remind me what the gardeners are for?) 
Theresa: (Turns out some of the plants of the Chancel went sentient. And some of the sentients went plant. Those who are unhappy with this are to be dug up carefully and brought to the transmogrifier.) 
Eve: (Ahh, that's right.) 
Eve: (My Lesser Creation of Hope two sessions ago -- does it seem to be helping them at all?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
Eve: (Okay. :) No further questions, honest.) 
Theresa: (So as we come into viewing distance of the guy (Aspect 2) what's he doing? 
Theresa: ) 
Random_Nerd: (Sitting on the bench. Staring off into space.) 
* DanteE checks him out with The Sight and Mythic. 
Random_Nerd: (He looks mostly like Message, but with different skin tone.) 
Random_Nerd: (To the sight, he's not himself miraculous, nor has he been recently effected by a major miracle.) 
Snow: (How close is Horse?) 
Random_Nerd: (Mythically, he's a red spider with web strands that come from his forehead.) 
Random_Nerd: (Horse is on his way, and will arrive in about two minutes.) 
DanteE: (...where do the strands go?) 
Random_Nerd: (The web strands from his head fade out into nothingness as they stretch out. Also, they're positioned in such a way as to be in the blind spot of all eight of his eyes.) 
Eve: (Should the strands fall under my Estate, I want to try and follow them with a Lesser Divination of Hope.) 
Brian: (obligatory movie quotes: "How do you know it's a trap?" "Did you see us fighting?" "No." *interrupting* "TRAP!" ... and, "Are we forgetting the part where this is a trap?") 
Theresa: (Huh. So, in metaphor, he probably doesn't even know of these 'strands'.) 
Snow: (Well, there were no traps that knew they were traps, in theory.) 
Random_Nerd: (The strands, prosaically, are thoughts in his head to the effect that he's waiting to do certain things as soon as he remembers what they are.) 
* DanteE moves to the front of the group as they approach... 
Theresa: (Quite like Message.) 
* Snow climbs onto Dante's shoulders as a bright-eyed raccoon. 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and mythically, they wave around some rather than constantly pointing i nthe same direction.) 
DanteE: quietly, to Brian: "Mind if I lead?" 
Random_Nerd: (I should have said that earlier.) 
Random_Nerd: (And basically, it looks like Message, but his skin has darkened.) 
Brian: "go ahead. This is, after all, your department" 
Random_Nerd: (Not really the same color as an Indian person's, either. But it's dark, and he's got straight hair and more or less caucasian features, so it's not too odd of a mistake to make in a hurry.) 
DanteE: "OK. Then again, you're the one that puts things together..." 
Eve: (Interesting.) 
* DanteE heads up behind Red Guy and lifts him up by his collar. 
DanteE: "Hello. Could we have a word with you?" 
Random_Nerd: "Oh, yes. You got my message?" 
Random_Nerd: "Certainly. Why else would I have sent for you?" 
* Snow sniffs at the man. 
DanteE: "Well... we're here. Now, what exactly is this about?" 
Random_Nerd: "I was doing what you said. You wanted me, if I remembered anything you'd want to know, to tell you." 
Random_Nerd: "Right?" 
Random_Nerd: "So I did." 
DanteE: "What was that about threatening that man's family, though?" 
Random_Nerd: "I didn't threaten them." 
Random_Nerd: "I told him that I thought that something bad might happen to them if he didn't do what I said. Because I was under the impression that something would." 
Random_Nerd: "Was I wrong?" 
Theresa: (... ) 
Theresa: "Some thing bad could have happened to him. Eventually. Or if the Chancel was harmed." 
DanteE: to others: "When we have time, remind me to put together some So-You're-Dealing-With-Mundanes lessons, would you?" 
* DanteE puts Message back on the bench. 
Random_Nerd: "Oh, so I was right? Good." 
* Eve laughs. "If you see the need, Brother." 
DanteE: "Now... what exactly is this about?" 
Random_Nerd: "Uh... It occurred to me that six traps are in place to harm you and your Family." 
Random_Nerd: "Am I right about that too?" 
Brian: "Do you know anything about that?" 
Random_Nerd: "Not yet." 
Theresa: "Are they here in the Chancel?" 
Random_Nerd: "I think so. Stands to reason, at least." 
Random_Nerd: "Because you're here most of the time, right? So where else would someone put a trap for you?" 
Eve: "How do you know about the traps?" 
* Snow peers, curious about all this trap talk. 
Random_Nerd: "I just knew. It seemed obvious." 
Brian: "What do you know about yourself?" 
Random_Nerd: "I'm a few weeks old. I'm supposed to wait until I remember what to do, and then do it." 
Random_Nerd: "My working theory is that I'm supposed to harm you guys in some way." 
Random_Nerd: "Not quite sure why. But I'm sure it'll make sense when the time comes." 
* DanteE mulls over spider threads. 
* Snow leans over to look at Message. "Do you know what a lemur is?" 
Random_Nerd: He thinks. 
Random_Nerd: "No. Should I? Does it have something to do with my job?" 
* Snow turns into a lemur, and stands on top of Dante's shoulder. 
Snow: "THIS is a lemur. Isn't it neat?" 
Random_Nerd: "I'm not sure. If you say so, I believe you." 
DanteE: (Hm... could lemur-Snow follow one of those threads?) 
Eve: (Believe the Adorableness!) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, if you've been watching the strands, it seems more like the ends of them fade off into not existing, rather than into invisibility.) 
Snow: "It totally is. Got nothing to do with your job though." *slyly* "I'd turn into a giraffe, but Dante gets /so/ annoyed when I try to crush him." 
Random_Nerd: He turns to Dante. "Do you know why my skin's getting darker? It seems like it should mean something." 
Brian: "Suntan?" 
Theresa: "Countdown?" 
Random_Nerd: He turns to Snow: "Oh? Thanks. I'll have to remember not to try to crush him." 
* Snow gives Message a lemur-thumbs-up. 
* DanteE does the math, trying to figure when Message would go completely black... 
* Eve walks over to a nearby bench, and as she sits, says, "A message has a purpose. A purpose is a hope. I will see what is to come of this." 
* Eve rolls her eyes back into her head as she performs a Greater Divination of Hope, with the intent of divining the Message's purpose. 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. His purpose for himself, or his... telos, I guess you'd call it? The thing he was made for?) 
Eve: (The latter. And you can be as cryptic as you need to be.) 
Random_Nerd: (At the current rate, he'd probably be utterly light-absorbing in about two more weeks.) 
Random_Nerd: (He was made with the purpose of distracting and eventually harming the PCs, and especially Dante.) 
Random_Nerd: (And also, to a lesser degree, the chancel.) 
Theresa: (... He's an eventual black hole?!?) 
Random_Nerd: (...I'd call that a radical interpretation of the text?) 
Brian: (you WOULD call that a radical interpretation of the text... doesn't mean it's wrong ;)) 
Random_Nerd: (His skin would be utterly light absorbing in the sense of not reflecting at all, not in the sense of gravitationally bending light paths.) 
Random_Nerd: (Less like a black hole, more like... Severian's cloak, in those Gene Wolfe books.) 
Theresa: (Oh, sorry. Imagination went a little wild for a moment.) 
DanteE: "I think you'll be completely black in about 2 weeks." 
DanteE: "Dunno what that means, just throwing it out." 
Theresa: "Black as, say, night?" 
Snow: "Maybe you're turning into a Raven!" The "r" in "Raven" even sounds capitalized. 
Eve: (Is that all the Greater Div gets me? I was hoping for some clues of some sort.) 
DanteE: (RN's composing linked haiku, give him a minute) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Is there some aspect of that that you want more detail on?) 
Eve: (Well, a series of questions I could do with a seies of Lesser Divs. A Greater Div as I understand it is for scrying or getting cryptic clues that are always important but might be unexpected.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, look at it this way. Say you've got a bomb. And you've got a city you want to mess with. So, every week, you say something vague to them and say that you hid the bomb in a place that would take a long time to search. Repeat it a few times. Then, one day, you actually plant the bomb, and maybe you tell them and maybe you don't. He's like that.) 
Random_Nerd: (Or like if the Boy Who Cried Wolf was planted in order to weaken his village's preparedness against wolves.) 
Eve: (That was surprisingly insightful. Thanks.) 
Random_Nerd: (I try.) 
DanteE: "Hey, Snow, you think you could make another 'stable' like the one in which Horse lives?" 
DanteE: "...once you let go of my nose?" 
* Eve opens her eyes, stands, and addresses Message. 
* Snow pulls away from Dante's nose. "It's a good nose," she says apologetically. 
Snow: "I didn't make Horse's stable. But yes, I could." 
Eve: "I have foreseen that you have within you the seeds of poison for ourselves and our Chancel. Would you consent to my altering your nature to remove this poison?" 
Theresa: (Brian made Monty's room.) 
Random_Nerd: (It would take a lesser change for the "bigger inside than out" aspect, but you could do it.) 
Random_Nerd: "Altering my nature? Please don't. I'm pretty sure I was created just for this one thing. If you take that away from me, I have nothing." 
* Eve frowns, and looks at Dante. "He means well, but his ultimate nature is to distract, confuse, and ultimately harm ourselves and Amyra." 
* Snow does a lesser divination to see if Message has ever considered doing anything else, besides finishing his mission and hurting them. 
Random_Nerd: "I was afraid of that. Sorry about all this." 
Theresa: "Did you learn anything else about yourself or the world in the time since we last saw you?" 
Eve: (Hmm. What would the difference be between a Lesser Change that changes his telos, and a Lesser Destruction with included Creation that replace his telos with a new one?) 
Random_Nerd: (A Lesser Change could give his intrinsic purpose qualities that such a purpose would not normally possess.) 
DanteE: (Hold on, Eve. At least this way we know where the screwage will be coming from.) 
Random_Nerd: (Like how you can use a lesser change on a tree to make it walk, whereas a lesser destruction with included creation could just make it into a different but ordinary tree.) 
Eve: (I'm not doing anything yet. Weighing options.) 
DanteE: (did Message ever answer Theresa?) 
Eve: (Sorry to be distracting from everyone else.) 
Snow: (Don't worry about it, you're making good points. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: Message thinks. 
Random_Nerd: "I remembered the thing about the traps. I remembered that if I said that thing about that man's family it would help convey the message. I noticed that I was changing color. I came up with the theory for my purpose that you say is correct." 
DanteE: "Ah, Message? Tell you what... next time you have a revelation for us, instead of grabbing some random citizen... just call?" 
* DanteE hands Message the number for the BatPhone. I mean the tower's phone. 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and Snow, your divination produces a fairly blank result. He's occasionally considered doing things like walking around, eating, watching people, and so on. But nothing on a scale larger than minute-to-minute that doesn't connect with his purpose.) 
Random_Nerd: He takes the number. 
* Snow climbs down from Dante's shoulder and turns into a human. 
Theresa: (Does Message track as human on the Noble-senses?) 
Random_Nerd: (He tracks as a non-Noble. So, like a human, or a rock, or a potato.) 
Snow: "I don't like this. Nobody ever gave him a choice. S'no fair, making a person outta something that's got no choices." 
Random_Nerd: "Given how much my decision-making is affected by factors I can't predict, I can't say for sure that I'll call next time.) 
Random_Nerd: " 
Random_Nerd: "But the number at least makes it more likely, I think." 
DanteE: "This would mean a better and quicker response." 
Theresa: (Well, if he was a potato, i could possibly do more about him. :) ) 
Brian: (He still may BE a potato) 
Brian: (never tried Planting him) 
DanteE: (NOw, now, we know what he is. A manifest plot point and/or bit of screwage. :) 
Theresa: (And thus not a potato.) 
Random_Nerd: "I'll remember that.) 
Random_Nerd: " 
Random_Nerd: (Wasn't that always obvious, though?) 
Snow: (I'm crashing guys, I think I'm going to head off.) 
Theresa: (I just thought I'd ask on the off chance. With no Realm, I feel a little helpless in helping at the moment.) 
Theresa: (night Sara! *HUG*) 
DanteE: (Oyasumi-nasai, Snow.) 
Brian: ('night Sara. *hug*) 
Snow: (Good night!) 
*** Snow has left #nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: (Actually, do you mind if we stop pretty soon? I'm feeling a little beat too.) 
Brian: (sure. Now's actually a reasonable spot, I think) 
Theresa: (It's fine with me. I get the urge to poke at Message but I'd probably pull back a bloody stump.) 
DanteE: (OK.) 
Eve: (Works for me.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, then.) 
Random_Nerd: _________________STOP_____________ 
Random_Nerd: Thoughts? 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
*** Brian is now known as Lazarus. 
Lazarus: I like Message. 
*** Eve is now known as Etheric. 
Lazarus: interesting character. 
Theresa: Feeling a little helpless and Theresa is confused by the trap-ness. Other thoughts are that I liked your thread about the game in Open. 
Etheric: Indeed. 
Knockwood: let's see... can we assume you already know where each of those strands lead 
Random_Nerd: Metaphorically, yes. 
Etheric: What I liked most this session: Moral dilemma with Message's inner nature, something sacred to the Wild, being intended to harm us. 
Random_Nerd: Insomuch as they correspond to the ways in which Message's creator would use and direct him. 
Knockwood: what thread is that? 
Random_Nerd: What do you mean, exactly? 
Knockwood: What do you think I mean? 
Random_Nerd: Oh, thread in Open. 
Random_Nerd: Thought you meant the strands from the mythic imager. 
Random_Nerd: Image, rather. 
Knockwood: well, hey, if you want to tell us alllll about those... :) 
Etheric: What I liked least: I thought the Major div could have been handled better. It seemed to me that I first got less than I thought was proper, and when I pushed a bit I got more than I thought I ought to have gotten. Which starkly illuminated the moral dilemma, true, but I wonder if maybe I shouldn't have pushed as much. 
Random_Nerd: No, it's okay. I just was less clear than I'd intended to be the first time. 
Random_Nerd: When I realized I was vaguer than I meant to be, I gave a few illustrations. 
Random_Nerd: ANd in truth, the fact that I was overly vague was one thing that made me think I was getting a bit too tired to run the game properly. 
Etheric: All right. And it's fine if you were tired. Just consider this an expression of a preference for cryptic clues of great import in Major Divs. 
Etheric: Also, I think I have a better idea of Eve's conception of Hope and how it differs from Carrie's. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, I'll keep that in mind. 
Knockwood: BTW, are we near the end of this 'adventure 
Random_Nerd: Oh? 
Random_Nerd: I think you are fairly close, yes, Knock. 
Etheric: Eve looks at Hope as roughly equivalent to Telos, while Carrie sees it as that which inspires and fills the heart of a person. 
Theresa: (Thread at (Link: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=320979)http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=320979 ) 
Knockwood: oh yeah, I did see that one 
Theresa: What is Telos, by the way? 
Etheric: Greek word for "purpose." 
Knockwood: I think the Enterprise went there once. 
Etheric: Means, roughly, the destined goal of a thing. 
Etheric: Am I right, RN? 
Random_Nerd: Pretty much. 
Random_Nerd: The end to which something was designed. 
Etheric: Anyway, it also gave me insightas to how Eve looks at humanity. 
Lazarus: I've got some questions, for after the Nobilis stuff has been dealt with (superheroes questions ;)) 
Knockwood: ...wouldn't that mean that Eve is not quite Hope? 
Etheric: No, it's still Hope. 
Etheric: Different Nobles can have different takes on an Estate. 
Etheric: And Eve is a different Noble, sort of. 
Etheric: I cleared with RN that her miracles might be slanted a different way than Carrie's. 
Etheric: Due to differing outlook. 
Knockwood: Laz: Yes, spanking a female supervillain does count as an evil act. However, it's more than made up for by the fun factore. :) 
Random_Nerd: Was my use of "telos" clear enough? Sometimes I revert to using words from philosophy, or greek... or, I guess, both. 
Etheric: It was clear to me, at least. 
Theresa: Hmm... Just pondering a little with how this Hope might intertwine with Theresa's feeling that Plants should have a Purpose. 
Theresa: It wasn't to me and hence the asking. :) 
Etheric: Anyway, Eve considers humanity to be analagous to the Message -- ultimately destructive, even if the individuals within are guiltless or well-meaning. 
Random_Nerd: Interesting! 
Etheric: Oh, also, that reminds me that Entropy's Laws certianly apply to Message. 
Random_Nerd: I'm glad this gave you new insight into your character. 
Knockwood: I've been wondering how Hope can be Dark, myself... 
Theresa: Hope can drive people to great amounts of destruction. 
Random_Nerd: Especially towards themselves at times. 
Etheric: Both the Light and Dark are about Hope, really. 
Etheric: The hope to survive, and the hope that death will bring freedom. 
Etheric: I don't endorse the Dark, personally. 
Random_Nerd: Yep. More so than most of the other Codes, the Light and Dark aren't just about a way of life. They're about a mission. 
Etheric: But I wanted to explore it. 
Random_Nerd: Splintering and Domination are the same way, incidentially. 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and full Codes for those are in the thread Beth mentioned. 
Knockwood: you need to keep adding to that thread, RN. 
Lazarus: (Link: http://roninarts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85)http://roninarts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85 <-- my questions are in there. 
Random_Nerd: I intend to. 
Theresa: I second that request. :) 
Random_Nerd: I'm thinking through how best to articulate certain things, at the moment. 
Knockwood: Including the revelation that the Dionyl are actually made from Humanity's lost socks. 
Lazarus: so that's where they go! 
Theresa: The Socks of Imperiority? 
Random_Nerd: No, they aren't /made/ of socks. They're wearers of clothing, rather than beings made of it. 
Random_Nerd: Rather, it's the Dionyl that are stealing the socks. 
Knockwood: Where do you think the Avatar of Argyle comes from? 
Lazarus: ha 
Random_Nerd: Well, them and the Angels. 
Random_Nerd: The Estate of Socks is an earthly one, so you just can't get good socks anywhere but Earth. 
Theresa: Socks, socks, socks, that's all you guys ever think about... 
Random_Nerd: And the Angels are stuck with the dual facets of being the fuddy-duddy faction and being depicted as wearing sandles. 
Random_Nerd: Sandals, even. 
Random_Nerd: And everyone knows that sticks-in-the-mud wear sandals only with socks. 
Random_Nerd: So, let's see. Laz's questions. 
Etheric: ...Wow 
Random_Nerd: What? 
Knockwood: well, RN has often called himself a socks machine, vene before you were married... :D 
Knockwood: *even 
Etheric: I am very struck by how the Splinter's and Domination's commonground is shared by the Wild. 
Lazarus: I'd appreciate if folks would look over what I wrote in that thread I linked in, and let me know what they think 
Random_Nerd: To be honest, I don't really use modules or adventures much. Usually only for oneshots. So I'm probably not the best perso nto ask. 
Etheric: I wonder if the Light and Dark have similar, less evident common ground? 
Lazarus: well, if you take a look at the "adcopy", you could let me know what you think about that? 
Random_Nerd: Two common grounds, in a way. 
Random_Nerd: First, humanity is really really important. They both agree about that. 
Random_Nerd: And there's a way for them to both "win," if you will. 
Etheric: Not talking about the compromises that can be made between Nobles, rather common ground in the basic assumptions. 
Random_Nerd: If humanity, as a whole, survives forever. But each individual human ends his life by his own hand. 
Etheric: ...That's intriguing, but not really what I was wondering about. Though it might point at something. 
Knockwood: "Yeah, I'm gonna go kill myself later. Hell, I'm 2630, I've seen everything." 
Random_Nerd: Oh? What, then? 
Random_Nerd: As for the ad copy bit... hmm. 
Etheric: I'm not sure yet what it points at. 
Random_Nerd: It seems like not my sort of thing. So I can't really judge well. 
Etheric: But it seems like there's something below the surface. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. 
Etheric: If it comes to me I'll let you guys know. :) 
Random_Nerd: Their... shapes, I guess you'd call them? Fit together in an interesting way. 
Random_Nerd: I know that "shapes" probably doesn't make sense. It's just part of how I conceptualize some things. 
Etheric: By the way, want to hear my theory about the Wildlords? Which I didn't share at first, because I didn't want to taint the game, but by now it's clear that RN has his own ideas of what a Wildlord is and my ideas aren't likely to change that. :) 
Knockwood: sure 
Random_Nerd: Sure! 
Random_Nerd: Sorry I'm not much more help, Laz. I generally only go for scenarios that are pretty sketchy and open starting situations with no real plot. But based on what sells, I think I'm pretty clear that I'm in the minority. 
Etheric: I've had this theory for a while, though -- not that I would think it's necessarily true in all Nobilis settings, just that it's neat. 
Etheric: The Angels, Celestial and Fallen both, are the children of heaven. 
Etheric: The Aaron's Serpents and the Children of the World Ash. 
Theresa: (Laz - I'm not a huge supers game fan and a lot of my tastes mirror RN's. I'm more likely to play a one-shot setup rather than do a campaign based on it. Players just seem to take things out into left field, especially when I think I have a plot thing going. :) ) 
Etheric: The Wildlords, the only Imperators who cannot leave Creation, are the Children of the Weirding Wall. 
Knockwood: (Am I this game's left fielder? :) 
Theresa: (*grin* You haven't seen my Buffy game. They fight with spatulas...and _win_.) 
Random_Nerd: Hmm! That's an interesting take on it. 
Lazarus: (T: I'm disappointed no one in my WotG game has used a spatula yet) 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
BethE: (Awww...) 
Random_Nerd: That's not what the WIldlords are in my game, but it's an interesting approach. 
BethE: And the universe is one big playground... 
Lazarus: I like the theory that Wildlords and Excrucians are two sides to the same coin 
Etheric: I got the idea from that creation story in the margins of the GWB, which I'm trying to locate now... 
Knockwood: (actually, fighting with spatulas isn't new... Ukyo.) 
Knockwood: (Is your game going to turn into Buffy nibunnoichi? :) 
Etheric: Where Cneph makes the Angels out of fire, and the Weirding Wall out of lightning. 
Random_Nerd: The answer to one of Vyasa's questions, right? 
Etheric: It's specifically noted as being apocryphal, but... 
Etheric: Three, actually. 
Random_Nerd: On the three things that existed first? 
BethE: (I don't think so. RN's character just has a thing for a spatula that he stopped an evil knife with.) 
Etheric: It was something like, "What fire once burned the unrighteous, but burns no more?" And the other two were equivalent. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. 
Random_Nerd: (That was partly because Beth thought that the reason for the successes that the character had was that his taser was overpowered. So, I switched to a spatula. Still works just as well, I'd say.) 
Random_Nerd: (Although the car keys are more powerful yet, it seems.) 
Random_Nerd: Anyway, anyone have anything else before I step out? 
BethE: (He threw his car keys last night in the middle of a fight. Pierced a guy's _skull_. *sigh* Good thing they were outside a hospital.) 
BethE: I think I'm good. Etheric's ideas on the various Imperators is cool and thought provoking. 
Lazarus: later RN 
Knockwood: I should split, grab some meds. 
Knockwood: oh... 
Knockwood: how can I get a lightsaber again? :D 
Random_Nerd: Depends on which sort of lightsaber you want. 
Knockwood: purple. :) 
Random_Nerd: Work out what you want your lightsaber to be able to do, and I'll wave a dead chicken and assign some numbers. 
Knockwood: Actually, I was thinking of getting that, and Noble Kung Fu. 
Random_Nerd: With the latter as an Aspect Gift vaguely similar to the Claw, right? 
Knockwood: (It occurred to me that I can save points by making it One Trick--Whack Dude.) 
Random_Nerd: Aspect Gifts are fun. Look at Snow's, for instance. 
Knockwood: maybe Limited Use if it can also deflect incoming blows 
Random_Nerd: Yeah, that sounds plausible. 
Random_Nerd: But now is not the time to stat it out, for my brain is made of those tapioca things you get in that bubble tea stuff. 
Knockwood: Snow has Munch Opponent, 6 Asp 3 Pen, right? 
Knockwood: can she bump up the Penetration with cheese dip? 
Lazarus: no. 
Lazarus: she needs French Onion for that. 
Lazarus: the Cheese dip increases the A rating ;) 
Random_Nerd: Currently her Swallow gift is this: 
Random_Nerd: Aspect 6 (Swallow Things) | Penetration 2 | Simple Miracle -1 | One Person -2 | One Trick (Swallow something) -3 | Uncommon +1. Three CPs.

Session 71

2007-10-04T03:54:58Z

BethDragon:

BethE: Hmm, so when we last left off, the girls were off talking to Lesson and looking at the Transmogrifier. While the boys were...I forget where. 
lazarus: heading off to the Vault, again. 
BethE: Ahhh. Do try not to bring Plague and Pestilance down upon the Chancel? :) 
BethE: Hmm, there's a thought. Does the Beloved Populace thing work on the Treasures? 
Random_Nerd: They aren't chancelfolk/ 
Random_Nerd: However, it might have some effect, if they have a reason to care that the chancelfolk love Brian. 
lazarus: 6-3 
BethE: So, we're missing a person from each scene...bummer. 
Random_Nerd: Yep. If it was just Sara or just Knock, we'd start. But we're a bit short with two missing. 
Etheric: Hmm. Well, in the meantime... Talk about how the game is going? 
*** Knockwood has joined #nobilis. 
Knockwood: Hi guys 
Etheric: Or not. Heya, Knock! 
BethE: Hi Knock! 
Knockwood: sorry I'm late... glitchy computer 
Random_Nerd: Okay, now, let's see. Carrie, Theresa, and Snow were checking up on Lesson, and Dante and Brian were... going to see the Treasures, I believe? 
Knockwood: yep. 
Random_Nerd: Start with Dante and Brian, since we ended with the girls seeing Lesson And Friends? 
BethE: Sounds good to me! 
lazarus: sure 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
DanteE: "So, you're saying she planned to meet me at the vault?" 
Random_Nerd: _______________START________________ 
Brian: "I believe so, yes" 
Brian: "I'm not quite sure what we're looking for, though..." 
DanteE: "Doesn't make much sense, that just means she wanted a sword in her gut." 
Brian: "Remember that Excrucians are not like us. They may not care if they die, if it helps them" 
BethE: (Then again, they may be bastards like the rest of us and value the safety of their own skin over some things.) 
Random_Nerd: (Depends on the type.) 
DanteE: "We should probably just put King John on speed-dial. 
Random_Nerd: (Warmains no. They're front-lines sorts. Strategists are more the rear-echelon sort.) 
Brian: (brb) 
DanteE: (are we at the palace yet?) 
Random_Nerd: (Sure. It's close.) 
DanteE: (and BTW Brian... what happened to barbermoose?) 
BethE: (*stares*) 
Brian: (b) 
Brian: (oh, FRAK. I thought I had another month on that ...) 
Brian: (domain registration is once per year) 
Brian: (and, I guess it just ran out) 
Etheric: (Evil, evil cybersquatters.) 
Brian: (... and I don't have the money to renew it currently ...) 
BethE: (Oh, reminds me. Last Friday was our 2 year anniversary of this game.) 
Etheric: (Just give us the IP of your server and we'll bookmark it.) 
DanteE: (Hello?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes?) 
DanteE: (went quiet) 
Brian: (... x_x ... I don't think I can get all the information I need ... x_x) 
Etheric: (Don't stress over it just yet.) 
Etheric: (Let's play. :) ) 
DanteE: (Then again, panicking is aerobic) 
Etheric: ( <.< ) 
Brian: (*sigh* ... the email switch never happened. *shakes fist at them*) 
DanteE: OK, we go in and see what John's doing 
BethE: (*popcorn*) 
Brian: (excuse me for a few minutes) 
Random_Nerd: When you show up, one of the symbolic guards in brightly colored archaic uniforms mentions, as an aside, that His Royal Majesty title title John title is not in at the moment. 
BethE: (A question about the transmogrifier. Did it look cardboard-based? :) ) 
DanteE: (huh?) 
BethE: (I'm just trying to think about what to do when it's our turn. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. That was with Carrie's Realm point, right?) 
BethE: ( I think so.) 
BethE: (Sorry to break into your stuff, Dante.) 
DanteE: (Not you, RN) 
DanteE: (what's with all the titles? 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, kings of countries that have been along tend to accumulate titles, and people whose sole job is to be a physical manifestation of archaic pomp like to pile them on.) 
Brian: (ok, back, I think...) 
Random_Nerd: (I'm just cutting them both because they're probably boring and I can't bother thinking of some.) 
DanteE: (Oh, shorthand for an actual title) 
BethE: (King John, Protector of the Faith, Keeper of the Keys, Prince of Wales, Shiner of the Gold, etc. etc.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah. Stuff like that.) 
DanteE: (I'm soooo tempted to say "Tell him Sovereign Noble Prince of the @#%$%# Universe Dante, He Who Can Make Thee Soil Thine Armor Purely for Amusement would like to see him, mmmmmkay?") 
DanteE: "Might I ask where he is?" 
BethE: (It could be that he's just not there. He may be returning Sam's books.) 
BethE: (And it's not like they'd lie to Bryan. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: Ceremonial Guard who's not quite so fancy-talking: "I believe he's out doing some sort of baby-kissing handshaking thing at some veteran's group." 
Random_Nerd: (True.) 
Brian: (weren't we just going to the Vault?) 
Brian: "Well, you can let him know when he's come back, that we're going to look at the Treasures in the Vault, see if we can figure some things out. 
Brian: " 
Random_Nerd: Fancier Talking Ceremonical Guard: "Which is to say, he's bestowing a knighthood on a highly decorated retired officer of our glorious army." 
Random_Nerd: Fancy Guard swallows hard when Brian mentions that. 
DanteE: (It's a protocol thing, don't want to barge into the vault without letting him know) 
Random_Nerd: Fancy: "Can you, err... aren't those supposed to be... but on the other hand it's you... but still." 
* Brian will leave and go toward the Vault 
Random_Nerd: Less Fancy: "We'll pass that along." 
DanteE: "Tell him we're investigating The Incident. He'll know what that means." 
BethE: (Knock - like I told Laz...don't cause Plague and Pestilance upon the land, please? :) ) 
Random_Nerd: The fancier talking guard seems vaguely more satisfied due to the Capital Letter. 
DanteE: (Good, cuz we've got Loads of Those) 
Random_Nerd: They open the door in a very well-practiced and stylish sort of way. 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and just for the record, if Brian didn't have Beloved they'd be a lot more uncertain about this.) 
Brian: (well, yes) 
* DanteE starts by checking what he can see from the doorway without going in 
BethE: (Is this the door to the Vault or just the palace?) 
DanteE: (d'oh...) 
Random_Nerd: (palace.) 
* Brian heads to the Vault. 
Random_Nerd: (But it's just a few hallways to the Vault.) 
* DanteE checks the place out with Sight and Mythic View 
Random_Nerd: (Which place, the exterior of the Vault or the hallway, or what?) 
DanteE: (the whole place. :) 
DanteE: "What did Theresa tell you about what happened?" 
Random_Nerd: It seems fairly empty. Only John and the serving staff live there full time, John's apparantly out, and the building is specifically designed so the people who work there can go from one place to another without being obvious. 
Random_Nerd: You can hear and smell vague signs of cooking from the kitchen, and someone's playing a musical instrument one floor up, but it's fairly empty-seeming. 
Random_Nerd: (Now, the kitchen isn't all that close, but Dante has some Aspect.) 
Brian: "Um, I don't remember" 
DanteE: "I'll walk you through it. 
Random_Nerd: Nothing around is visibly miraculous, other than you guys. 
DanteE: ("No, no, it's Anarchy in the _U.K._" :) 
BethE: (We were a little busy afterwards. I think that she mostly said that thank God it's dead. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: Someone slowly walks down a hall some ways away, dusting the frames of paintings. 
DanteE: "Let's see, right after you and the viositing Nobles left... 
DanteE: (are we alone here?) 
Random_Nerd: (Pretty much.) 
DanteE: "Theresa and I heard something _in_ the vault. 
DanteE: "We had to convince John to let us in, and only after donning ritual robes and praying." 
Random_Nerd: (Not that he could have actually stopped you, but still.) 
BethE: (Theresa is nice.) 
DanteE: (Which, here, is a character flaw) 
BethE: (I know. *sigh* It's just so _easy_ to play nice, though.) 
DanteE: "When we got in, she was on the other side of the vault... 
DanteE: "After the usual witty banter pulled straight from a Batman episode the spear animated and impaled her." 
Random_Nerd: (Holy relics, Batman!) 
Brian: "And, so, what are we looking for, and why are we waiting out here?" 
DanteE: "Whether there were any lasting effects... 
DanteE: "aaaaaand we're waiting out here because of years worth of conditioning. 
DanteE: (what kind of lock on the door?) 
Random_Nerd: (There's a big deadbolt, but on the other hand, the key is over in the room over to the left where John keeps his fancy robes and incense.) 
Random_Nerd: (You'd remember seeing it there from earlier.) 
Random_Nerd: (And you know that there's an inner door and an outer one, and you can't unlock the inner one without locking the other one.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, I mean, with miracles or trickery or a screwdriver and some time you could, but it's designed to stop you from doing so.) 
DanteE: (Brian, don't you have a miraculously tricky screwdriver?) 
Random_Nerd: (Is it... sonic?) 
* DanteE listens at the door. 
DanteE: (Later I'll check for traps while Brian polishes his longsword.) 
Random_Nerd: (No sounds of someone moving in. Or breathing, for that matter.) 
DanteE: "Can you tell if there are any wards or other strangeness in there?" 
Brian: "Not sure how I would" 
DanteE: (Realm Divs) 
Brian: (of what, though? I don't know what I'm looking for) 
DanteE: (Actually, I've got one RMP...) 
Random_Nerd: Dante, you hear someone running outside, towards the door. 
* DanteE does a Realm Div of the condition of the vault room. 
Random_Nerd: (The three major Treasures, as before, seem to have auctoriti of the usual size. Nothing other than them is there. The floor, where the Excrucian melted, seems to have been cleaned, scraped, and scoured at length.) 
Random_Nerd: Someone is arguing with the guards outside about how they have to let him in. 
DanteE: (any 'glitches' in the auctoriti--of the Spear in particular?) 
Random_Nerd: (Nothing you can detect.) 
DanteE: (and do we recognize the voice?) 
Random_Nerd: (No. A guy. Amyran accent, adult.) 
Random_Nerd: (Baritone.) 
Brian: (Do I hear this?) 
Random_Nerd: (No. Not high enough Aspect.) 
Brian: (ok) 
DanteE: "Hm. Someone wants in... 
DanteE: "er... not here, out front." 
Brian: "I'll check it out" *Brian heads to the door* 
DanteE: (Actually... Ithink back to 
DanteE: (Actually... I'll think back to the blessings and such that JOhn did when he let us in. What were they, essentially?) 
Random_Nerd: (Lot of chanting in Latin. Prayers, mainly.) 
Brian: (who's at the door?) 
Random_Nerd: There's a somewhat upset-looking man at the door arguing that they have to let him in. When he sees Brian, he stops talking for a moment. 
DanteE: (so, basically, 'Please Lord, we beseech thee not to kill us'?) 
Brian: "Can I help you?" 
Random_Nerd: "You're... you're that guy. Brian. One of those people that came and took the country away." 
Brian: "Who are you? And why do these men 'need' to let you in?" 
Random_Nerd: (Pretty much. And "We don't mean any disrespect, we're just here to make sure they're properly cared for, and so on.) 
Random_Nerd: "This guy, this weird guy, told me I had to come here and tell you guys something. He... I guess he sort of threatened me if I didn't?" 
Random_Nerd: "He said to say that he's..." 
Random_Nerd: The guy squints and concentrates. 
* DanteE suddenly thinks of something... 
BethE: (Uh-oh...) 
Random_Nerd: "That he's placed six traps in Amyra for you and yours. That he doesn't know where they were, but that you said that you wanted to know if he remembered anything like that." 
BethE: (*facepalm*) 
* DanteE heads out to Brian. 
Random_Nerd: "He said that if I didn't tell you that... he said that he thought that maybe something would happen to my family. He said he wasn't quite sure, but he thought that I still might want to do it." 
Brian: "Who told you this?" 
Random_Nerd: "That weird indian-looking guy with the red suit." 
Brian: (um?) 
DanteE: "Message." 
Random_Nerd: (And for the record, he didn't really look Indian to you guys.) 
Brian: "Well. Crap." 
DanteE: "Where did you find this guy?" 
Random_Nerd: "He found me. I was walking down the street, about two blocks up, and he stopped by me and said that." 
Random_Nerd: "I mean... is he going to hurt my kids?" 
* DanteE checks him over with the Sight,,, 
Random_Nerd: The guy's baseline human, near as you can tell. 
Random_Nerd: Just looks dark and vague to the Sight. So, he's not a Noble, Shard, Anchor, and he hasn't had a major miracle done to him recently. 
DanteE: "It's possible. 
Random_Nerd: He turns to Brian. "You guys have to do something about it, please." 
Random_Nerd: He's sweating, and looks like he's not used to sprinting two blocks. 
DanteE: "Go home, check with your kids. If you see this guy again, call <the number of Lesson's group>." 
DanteE: "Meanwhile, we'll go looking for that guy." 
Random_Nerd: He nods. 
Brian: "If you need help, just pray." 
Brian: "We'll hear you." 
Random_Nerd: He looks a little unnerved at that, but nods. 
DanteE: (Not necessarily...) 
Brian: (... flowers are just foci, right? Not needed?) 
DanteE: "Er... you'd need to pray to Numbers or Courage, not the usual destination." 
Random_Nerd: (Flowers are for if you want to block the Witch Hunt Rite a bit.) 
DanteE: "It takes practice." 
Random_Nerd: (They're not needed, they just make it harder to see who did the miracle and what they did.) 
Random_Nerd: "I'll... I guess I'll do that. I should go home now, see if my kids are okay." 
DanteE: "Which way was the guy?" 
Random_Nerd: "Up the street that way." 
Random_Nerd: He points. 
DanteE: "OK. Go home. We've got this." 
Random_Nerd: He nods, and starts running off, huffing and puffing. 
DanteE: to Brian: "I didn't go in. 
Brian: "So. I'll deal with the Vault, you handle the guy." 
DanteE: "Right after you left I realized what she may have wanted... 
DanteE: "... Access for her friends. 
DanteE: "She wanted someone to _go in_." 
Random_Nerd: (Interesting theory. Interesting indeed.) 
DanteE: (Beth, can you translate that?) 
BethE: (No, because he does that to me _all of the time_. :) You don't even have the steepled hands and smirk.) 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, whenever she suggests a theory about this sort of thing, I say "Hmm. Interesting." in exactly the same tone.) 
Random_Nerd: (At least, if it's an interesting theory.) 
DanteE: "Let's stick together and find the guy and those 6 traps." 
BethE: (No matter what I said! Whether I'm right or wrong. Well, if I'm completely off base, he tells me so, but...) 
DanteE: (You're lucky, then, cuz I suspect he lets me wander off track and right into a ditch) 
Random_Nerd: (I try to point it out when you're working from a false assumption.) 
Random_Nerd: (Put it this way. Your theory may or may not be the actual reason. But it's the sort of thing I'd be prone to think of for the reason.) 
DanteE: "I did a Divination. Room has 3 fields, a well-cleaned spot in the corner, and nothing else." 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and on a side note. Since John's the only one who goes in there, clearly he's spent hours scrubbing that spot.) 
DanteE: (Ah, almost forgot...) 
Random_Nerd: (At least, unless the Excrucians broke in again, just to clean the floor.) 
BethE: (I think Kudzu already used his one favor...) 
* DanteE ghosts a message to the Heart: "Warning, gang. There's a guy in a red suit here who's threatening people, saying he's set 6 traps for us. 
DanteE: "Watch your backs." 
DanteE: (Brian, you there?) 
Brian: (sort of. Not really.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Should we switch to Carrie and Theresa?) 
Random_Nerd: (Or have the party meet up? Preferences?) 
Brian: (switch is good) 
DanteE: (Is Sara awake?) 
BethE: (I think the Carrie/Theresa./Snow thing with Lesson might take a while, depending on what we find out about the transmogrifier.) 
Random_Nerd: (I suspect she isn't.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Or we could stop soon, I'm getting tired early tonight.) 
BethE: (I'm okay with stopping here. It's a good dramatic cliff-hanger.) 
DanteE: (Well, that'd mean the girls didn't play...) 
Random_Nerd: (True. That's why I was asking if we should switch to them now.) 
Random_Nerd: (What do you think, Etheric?) 
DanteE: (... is it me or is this session remarkably ... disconnected? :) 
BethE: (Feels that way. Like we're all lagged or not all there.) 
Random_Nerd: (Any objections to stopping here?) 
DanteE: (Looks liek we may have to) 
BethE: (No objections from me.) 
Random_Nerd: ______________STOP_______________ 
Random_Nerd: Okay, thoughts? 
*** Brian is now known as Lazarus. 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Knockwood: did you pull the guy and the traps out of your (censored)? 
BethE: The traps setup is interesting! Why six, though... 
Random_Nerd: Well, if I did, it was a while back. 
Random_Nerd: I planned that about... last friday? 
Random_Nerd: So, it wasn't a spontaneous thing, at least.

Session 70

2007-10-04T03:41:26Z

BethDragon:

BethE: I'm looking forward to learning more about Eve. 
*** Sara-brb is now known as Sara. 
Sara: RN doesn't get a welcome 'til he punctuates his name properly. 
Random_nerd: Capitalizes, you mean? 
*** Random_nerd is now known as RaNdOm_NeRd. 
*** RaNdOm_NeRd is now known as Random_Nerd. 
* Sara laughs. 
Sara: Dick. 
Random_Nerd: Now, Laz said he might be late. 
Sara: I'm a lemur? 
BethE: What were we stuck in the middle of that Sara missed? 
Sara: Oh yeah! 
*** Knockwood has joined #nobilis. 
Knockwood: Hi guys 
BethE: Hi Knock! 
Random_Nerd: Okay, now, I suppose we can start now, right? 
Sara: Hey Knock! 
Sara: Sure! 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
Etheric: Sure thing. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
*** Etheric is now known as Eve. 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
Eve: (Where were we last time? I'm having trouble recollecting...) 
DanteE: doing a long Courage div right after we met. 
Eve: (Ah, okay.) 
DanteE: "You guys saw all that, right? No glitches on the screen?" 
Eve: "Some of it. May I ask where you are going with this?" 
DanteE: "Long story. 
* Snow turns into a human, sits down on the floor, and listens. 
Eve: : drums her fingers on the conference table idly, glancing back and forth between Dante and the screen. 
DanteE: "This (taps blood drop) is apparently the blook of John the 18th, but we got it through a Shard who appeared in the Vault." 
Eve: (Er, sorry about that. <.< ) 
* Eve drums her fingers on the conference table idly, glancing back and forth between Dante and the screen. 
DanteE: "It was then given to me specifically by a manifestation which appeared after the Spear of Destiny killed her." 
DanteE: "...what am I missing?" 
Eve: "The reason for the slide show?" 
Snow: "...the fun part?" 
Eve: ( XD *likes Snow's answer better* ) 
DanteE: "To find the connection." 
Eve: "What I am wondering about is the connection between the history of your Estate and this mystery of yours." 
Snow: (*high fives!*) 
Theresa: "Well, we did find out that it's possible to dissolve a Chancel without killing the Imperator. It's just really hard and possibly insane." 
* Snow grumbles to herself, quietly, "They're both /boring/..." 
DanteE: "Like I said, he gave it to _me_, specifically." 
* Eve quirks an eyebrow and peers at Dante, expecting something more. 
DanteE: "What, you want a full report? So do I." 
Eve: "You haven't explained why you thought your Estate's history is connected to this gift you received." 
DanteE: "Well, I certainly didn't know her." 
DanteE: "Who's looking up the old Courage?" 
Random_Nerd: (You are?) 
DanteE: (I mean, which Aide) 
Random_Nerd: (Samuel, I believe.) 
Theresa: (Sam was talking to theresa about killing Chancels.) 
Theresa: (I am wrong, then. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (I suppose it could be William. I just didn't think he was in last session.) 
Theresa: (I had thought that Dante was talking to William while Theresa was talking to Sam via plant-note.) 
DanteE: (Were there any indications that anyone else had a prior incarnation? Besides Eve, of course. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Nothing that I can think of that's come up.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, let's say it's William looking that up for Dante.) 
Theresa: "I think you had William doing so, Dante." 
*** lazarus has joined #nobilis. 
Theresa: (Hi laz. *HUG* Haven't missed much.) 
DanteE: (HIya Laz) 
*** Mode change "+o DanteE" for channel #nobilis by Snow. 
*** Mode change "+o lazarus" for channel #nobilis by Snow. 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
Brian: (thx Snow) 
DanteE: "So... now what?" 
Snow: "Dinner?" 
Brian: "Talk while we eat ... good idea, Snow!" 
* Snow smiles lopsidedly. 
Brian: (I don't remember, did Snow like the cheeseburger she had a while ago?) 
Theresa: "Maybe this blood drop is just a mechanism to get into the Treasures' room, Dante. And you were the closest person the man in red could give it to?" 
Snow: (She did! Though she ate a rock, before.) 
DanteE: "That still leaves the question how did she get it?" 
Snow: "You usually hurt someone to get their blood." 
Brian: "I'm going to put in an order for some burgers and pizza ... anyone want anything in particular?" (:-P) 
Snow: "Meat." 
DanteE: "Yeah, but who holds it for 130 years?" 
Theresa: *absentmindedly* "No, just some food would be fine." 
Snow: "Whatcha thinkin', Theresa?" 
Theresa: "What if this was the best time or the only time that they could get into Amyra?" 
DanteE: "OK, get that carnivore-special pizza from that one place." 
* Brian will phone in an order to the Official Pizza Place of the Nobles. 
Theresa: "Well...just that, what if Amyra used to be a Chancel for someone else. We have always been different from the rest of the world with our history and resources. What if we stopped being a Chancel, became part of the Real World with new memories and everything...and then Kudzu enChanceled us again?" 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and I'd just like to say now, I'll probably be ready to stop in about forty-five minutes to an hour. Sorry, but I have stuff to do tomorrow that I want to be well-rested for.) 
* Eve drums her fingers on the conference table absentmindedly. "I'll pass. I don't eat meat." 
Theresa: "The defenses might have been different enough that this was the best time for that Strategist to break into the palace." 
Snow: "So why's that bad?" 
DanteE: "... if our defenses ... are based on Faith?" 
Brian: (I can see it now ... "New this menu! The Snow Special! All the meat you can eat ... rabbit, deer ...) 
Theresa: "And we had visitors...who would have noticed one more person?" 
Eve: "This is the first I've heard of faith-based defense." 
* Snow shrugs. "Faith's good. But somebody wants in, they're gonna get in, like ants. At least they left without eating our food." 
Theresa: *to Snow* "I think it might be bad if we were a Chancel before because that previous Chancel may have made enemies that we don't know about. Or left behind things like the Treasures that we can't control." 
Snow: "But...we can't do anything about that, can we?" 
* Brian returns after food-ordering. "So ... you're worried that the previous Chancel may have an impact on this incarnation?" 
DanteE: "Not really. I'll bet the standard faith was pretty shhok up by the enChanceling and our appearance... 
DanteE: "could that be what allowed her in?" 
* Theresa cradles the back of her head with her hands and tilts back in her chair, starting at the ceiling. "I think that things feel...off. Like there's all of this history that's somehow wrong or skewed. And I can't tell just what is off. But we just seem to have so many things that the rest of the world didn't. Unusual, other-worldly almost, things. And now we're a Chancel and that's _normal_. 
Theresa: " 
* Snow smiles at Theresa. "I think it's great." 
DanteE: "Oh, speaking of which... what's the word on the transmogrifier?" 
Theresa: (Realm people would know. :) ) 
Snow: (If I should know, I do not. O.O) 
Brian: "I haven't heard any update in a while" 
* Theresa smiles at Snow. "I know. And a lot of it is to me too...but these little niggling feelings that something isn't _right_ wear on me." 
Random_Nerd: (The realm point was shifted over to make it, but you haven't used it yet.) 
DanteE: "Who was doing that? The College of Applied Lunacy? :)" 
Random_Nerd: (You'd assigned Lesson and his crew to start working on figuring out who needs it to be used on them, and at least starting on building contacts with good shrinks.) 
DanteE: (I mean the actual thingy) 
Random_Nerd: (At least one has been made, I believe.) 
* Snow shrugs. 
Snow: "If you're worried about people being safe, then hide the Chancel." 
DanteE: "Kudzu did that." 
Snow: "He did?" Snow looks out the nearest window. 
Snow: "Oh. Doesn't look like much." 
DanteE: "He withdrew it from the world." 
Brian: "The Chancel is hidden from the outside of the world" 
Snow: "But people can still get in." 
Brian: "It's kind of ... somplace else" 
Theresa: "We're no longer directly connected to the outside world, like your former home, Snow. We can use the jungles and forests and cities to travel to other forests and cities out there, but you can't get there directly." 
* Snow looks thoughtful, but placated. 
Theresa: "People can use portals to get here, like the other Nobles we invites. The shard got in. And some of the local soldiers got out." 
Theresa: (Oh, we still have to meet Snow's borderguard. :) ) 
Brian: (we can do that after the Noble Dinner) 
Snow: (Actually, I misunderstood how good a quality a BG Snow's points would get, so RN and I are switching what the points are being spent on.) 
Snow: (Turns out she could spend a lot of points making a really sissy BG.) 
Brian: (ah.) 
* Snow sniffsniffs. 
Snow: "Food here?" 
Brian: (well, could we still have the dude, just not doing anything useful?) 
DanteE: (could spend points on 'communications with outside world') 
Brian: "They're usually fairly prompt, but it takes some time, Snowy one." 
DanteE: "They're probably still cooking it." 
* Theresa ponders a little bit. "Eve, could you tell us a bit more about yourself? Besides your alligence, what other viewpoints do you hold as different from the Hope we knew before?" 
DanteE: (Oh, reminds me... you still have Glorious?) 
Snow: (That's a thought, Knock. Maybe there could be a portal for only Chancel inhabitants, to let them in and out of the Chancel and the real world.) 
Eve: (Yes. Not exactly sure how it will manifest yet, though.) 
* Eve considers for a few moments. "I'm... Stil forming a lot of my opinions. I am new to this, you see." 
DanteE: (I was thinking web connection. :) 
* Theresa nods. "Know the feeling. Still do. Do you need a new place to stay?" 
Snow: (The inhabitants might appreciate being able to visit family and stuff, though.) 
Eve: (Knock, I have no idea how to parse what you just said.) 
Eve: (A Glorious web connection?) 
Random_Nerd: (Transcendant broadband!) 
Random_Nerd: (IP over prayers!) 
DanteE: (Oops... that was for what we could do with the realm points we got from Snoww) 
Brian: (RN: VoIPoP :-P) 
Eve: (Oh.) 
Eve: (Well, with James gone we only have one more point, right?) 
Eve: (Plus the free one from before.) 
Brian: (Anyway, we've got Stuff IC to do, and that can be worked out later?) 
Snow: (No problem.) 
DanteE: (Right, we eat! :) 
* Eve considers. 
* Snow leans over toward Eve and stage-whispers, "I sleep with William!" 
Random_Nerd: Pizza arrives. 
Snow: "Pizza!" 
Brian: "Ah, food's here!" 
Snow: (With dutiful pizza boys?) 
Random_Nerd: (Just one. And a nervous one.) 
* Eve stares at Snow for a little bit, cslightly confused. 
Random_Nerd: (As if he's not entirely sure if you won't give him an extra head as a tip.) 
Random_Nerd: (Still, he's holding steaming boxes o' pizza.) 
DanteE: (We would, but those tend to dissolve.) 
Eve: (Lesser Div of pizza guy's hopes?) 
* Snow bounds up to the pizza boy, hugs his arm, and plunges her face into the top of a box to breathe deeply. 
Theresa: (Through the boxtop?) 
Snow: (Yup.) 
* Brian pays the pizza guy "Snow, take those boxes from him please?" 
Theresa: (Hot cheese _hurts_...) 
Snow: (Well, she'd have a face full of cardboard, not cheese.) 
Brian: (from personal xp T?) 
Random_Nerd: (He hopes that you'll give him a really gigantic tip. He hopes that he'll be able to fufill his dreams of being a movie star. He hopes that the girl who tosses pizza dough in what he considers to be a sexy way will agree to go out with him the /next/ time he asks her out.)| 
Random_Nerd: (And so on.) 
Theresa: (I think that the inside of my mouth and the front of my face can agree that just out of the oven stuff _hurts_ when applied. :) ) 
* Snow flicks on her Adorable, and holds out her hands for the boxes. 
Brian: (:D) 
Theresa: (He needs to quit coming on to her with bad bread puns.) 
Snow: ("Hey baby. You wanna toss me around for a bit?") 
Random_Nerd: Pizza Boy hands Snow the boxes. 
Brian: (*cough*) 
* Snow beams and trots back to the table. 
Random_Nerd: "There's no charge." 
* Brian pays him anyway. 
Random_Nerd: (Because Brian ordered, and he's got a Gift that makes everyone in-chancel love him.) 
Brian: (he did want a gigantic tip, right? ;)) 
Eve: (Lesser Div of Hope again, to look at the possible paths he might take to become a movie star?) 
Theresa: (Beloved means never having to say you're sorry for knocking over that building.) 
Brian: (hee ^_^) 
DanteE: "Let's see, if I remember... sausage, pepperoni, beef, salami, capicolla, chicken, veal, mutton, goat, rabbit ... 
Random_Nerd: (He doesn't actually have much talent. His most plausible method would be to get a music album recorded due to a drunk executive signing him, and then get a small part in a teen movie.) 
Eve: (Hmm. Further inquiry in PM.) 
* Snow grabs her box o' meat...er, pizza...and begins to devour it messily. 
DanteE: "They dropped the buffalo and the dog, I think." 
Random_Nerd: "All out of... buffalo and dog, sir." 
* Theresa munches on her extra cheese and pineapple pizza slice. 
Snow: "Dog tastes like dog." Snow makes a face. 
Random_Nerd: "And please don't ask me why we had goat and rabbit." 
* Snow does a lesser div of realm to determine why they had goat and rabbit. 
Brian: "You keep them around for the adorable one, over there." 
Brian: "Of course." 
* DanteE grabs one slice of the ultimeat and munches away. 
* Snow does the old, folding the slice in half and shoving it in your face trick. 
* Brian tries the carnivore special ... "Interesting blend here." 
Brian: "Well done." 
Random_Nerd: (Because two of the cooks were sent out with the orders to get a goat and a rabbit, fast. and cook them, and they managed to scrounge up a goat from a smalltime farmer, and a rabbit from a pet store.) 
Snow: (*laugh*) 
Brian: "Hey, Pizza guy, what's your name?" 
Eve: (Keep in mind Eve's div doesn't actually show up to you guys IC.) 
* Snow mumbles something through her mouthful of pizza. It's utterly incoherent. 
Random_Nerd: "Mike?" 
Brian: And who's the one who made the meat pizza?" 
* Snow says something else. Still sounds like masticated meat. 
Random_Nerd: "I don't know. They just handed it to me and told me to bring it here." 
* Brian will sign a piece of paper "To Mike. Thanks for the fast delivery. Awesome job. Brian." 
* Brian will give him that paper. 
Random_Nerd: Mike reads it, and smiles. "Thanks." 
Brian: "Too bad. I was going to write one for the guy who made it, too. I guess I can't do that. But I can do this!" 
Eve: (RH) "Why don't you divine who made it?" 
* Brian takes another piece of paper. "To John's Pizza, thanks for the good pizza and speedy delivery. You guys rock! Brian" ... "You guys [to the other Nobilis] want to sign, too?" 
Brian: (RH) "Err ... good idea." 
DanteE: "Treasure that, girls might just treat it like you had an autograph from the hot band-of-the-moment." 
Brian: (Brian will do so. Realm Div of "Who made that pizza?") 
Random_Nerd: (Pretty much everyone working the kitchen at the time dropped what they were doing to make it.) 
* Snow shrugs, and Swallows the rest of the pizza boxes in one fell swoop. 
DanteE: (box and all?) 
Snow: (Yup.) 
Brian: "No one else want to sign a note to the pizza place?" 
* DanteE signs the notes with a Latin phrase. 
DanteE: (Dominus... uh ... Dontmesswithus. That works. :) 
* Eve will sign the note. Her handwriting is reminiscent of Carries, but not closely similar, and she signs it, "Eve Summers, Domina of Hope." 
* Theresa signs the box and creates a small tomato picture to appear beside her name. 
Brian: "Snow? Want to sign too?" 
* Snow turns into a coyote and smacks a tomato-saucey paw down on the paper. 
* Theresa blinks a moment. "Snow, did you just eat all of the food?" 
* Snow looks at Theresa. 
Snow: "I /asked/." 
* Brian hands the note to the guy. "That one's for the shop." 
Random_Nerd: He nods, and grins again. 
Theresa: (Snow: Where?) 
Snow: (Where'd she ask?) 
Theresa: (Yep, where'd she ask? :) ) 
Theresa: (It was the incoherent stuff, wasn't it?) 
Snow: ([22:52] * Snow mumbles something through her mouthful of pizza. It's utterly incoherent.) 
Snow: (Geez. Way to read.) 
Eve: (That's what I assumed.) 
Theresa: (I cannot translate Coyote Stuffing Her Face. ;P ) 
Snow: (*grin*) 
* Snow turns back into a human and burps. 
* Brian shakes his hand. "I think your colleagues would like to see you again soon..." 
DanteE: (Do what I did, use an Aspect Miracle to grab a slice.) 
Snow: (*laugh*) 
Theresa: (Well, Theresa did get one. Earlier. Cheese and pineapple.) 
* Snow puts a hand back and sheepishly scratches the back of her head. 
Brian: (I had a slice. Therefore, I have infinite slices! mwahahaha! ... what?) 
Snow: "Hey Mike! You wanna bring more pizza?" 
* Eve wasn't interested in the pizza anyway, being a vegetarian. 
Brian: (that's why there ... was ... a salad in the mix) 
Random_Nerd: "Sure, I can bring another as soon as they can make it? What kind?" 
Eve: (No one mentioned that.) 
Brian: (I was going to. Then Snow ate everything) 
Snow: (*grin*) 
Snow: "Every kind?" 
DanteE: (Including the box, apparently) 
Snow: "Also, more boxes." 
Brian: " ... I'm surprised you haven't tried eating the /desk/ yet, Snow." 
Random_Nerd: "We can do that. It'll take a little time, but I'll go get started on that." 
DanteE: "In marinara sauce." 
Eve: (softly, to Brian) "Is it really best to give her ideas?" 
* Snow beams. 
Brian: (aside, to Eve) "I suppose not." 
Brian: "Thanks a lot Mike." 
Random_Nerd: Mike heads back out. 
* Brian wants a div of the pizza place when they get the note, and see Mike's note. 
DanteE: "So, after we eat... what do we do?" 
Brian: "Try to figure out why the Strategist wanted your attention diverted and occupied?" 
Eve: "I would like to see the project James's Lesson has been working on, personally." 
DanteE: "Sort out she got in there in the first place? 
DanteE: *how 
Brian: "I'm more interested in what she wanted to hide, than how she got here." 
Brian: "It's not a particularly well-hidden Chancel, if you know where to look and how to find us." 
Theresa: *to Eve* "The transmogrifier project?" 
DanteE: "Yeah, but how did she get _into the vault_? 
Eve: "Perhaps she wanted to divert our attention with useless barking up trees." *to Theresa* "Yes, that one." 
Brian: "She's Excrucian. She operates on fundamentally different rules than we do." 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, for a Strategist, that's easy. Lesser Destruction of the solidity of walls, say.) 
Random_Nerd: (Worldbreaker's Hand is a swiss army lightsaber.) 
DanteE: "If she had John's blood with her it's likely that the vault was her main target." 
Brian: "I don't know how Excrucians work, so I'm assuming that she had a way in, and planned to have a way out other than death." 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, Mike has driven quickly back to the pizza shop, and showed the second note to them. They're looking to see if they have a frame to put it up on the wall where it'll be visible to customers coming in.) 
Random_Nerd: (The blood does, indeed, show premeditation.) 
Brian: (how about that girl that Eve divined he was interested in, that the rest of us don't know about?) 
Theresa: "The blood possibly would have allowed her to handle the relics without them exploding...as much." 
* Theresa hmms. "I think I would like to see how Lesson is doing as well, Eve. Would you like some company when you go?" 
Eve: (What about her?) 
DanteE: "... we need to get back in there, see if she planted anything, and figure out a way to secure the place better." 
Brian: "I still maintain that her objective was to keep Dante occupied. The method was probably some other secondary objective for them, but primarily they likely just wanted to say 'look over here!'" 
* Eve smiles at Theresa. "I'd appreciate it." 
Random_Nerd: (She's in back now, tossing dough, and giving Mike the occasional irritated glance.) 
Random_Nerd: (Mike is lounging in the front of the shop, waiting as they get the pizzas started.) 
* Snow fidgets, looking hopefully at Theresa. 
Theresa: "Well, then, how about Brian and Dante go check out the palace again and Eve, Snow and I go check on Lesson?" 
DanteE: "Then why meet me at the vault?" 
Theresa: *looking at Snow* "With a note telling them to redirect the pizza to wherever we're going to be." 
Brian: "They're making the second batch of pizzas now." 
* Snow beams. 
Eve: (Lesser Realm Div of Expectations, how soon would it be reasonable to expect the pizza to arrive?) 
Brian: "Dante: They likely had something they were interested in at the Vault. On the other hand, even if they didn't ..." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Pretty fast. Twenty-five minutes, say? They're working hard on getting them ready quickly, and they're close to the clock tower.) 
DanteE: "Brian, you're contradicting yourself. Was she interested in me or the vault?" 
Brian: "One does not preclude the other" 
Eve: (And, if we walk to the Transmogrifier place, how long would it take us to get there?) 
Brian: "I'm saying that if there was something they wanted in the Vault, it's not something critical, but keeping you occupied /is/." 
Random_Nerd: (The transmorgrifier place, currently set up in the factory where Lesson & co. made their office, is in the industrial district. It'd be at least forty minutes walk, assuming you walked at a normal human pace.) 
DanteE: "... 
Brian: "Though it would be nice if the Excrucian plans fell apart, something tells me that hasn't happened" 
DanteE: "That would mean... I'm tied to something in the vault." 
Brian: "no. That would mean that the best way to keep you occupied is to give you a puzzle you can't solve in time for their Big Thing to happen." 
Brian: "You've gotta think sneakier, man." 
Theresa: (We could take the Hummer. :) ) 
DanteE: "If that's true, why not just dump the puzzle on this table?" 
Theresa: (Or Horse.) 
Snow: (Woo, Horse!) 
Brian: "Because, if that were the case, first, it would be 'oh, look, an unsolvable Excrucian puzzle' ... and secondly, the Vault has some Magic Items that, if recovered, could potentially be useful." 
Eve: (Hey, I forgot that I still have Perfect Timing. Is it reasonable to ask that the pizza arrive at the factory just as we get there?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes it is.) 
Eve: (In that case...) 
Eve: (Bulletin Board to Mike) "We will want the pizza delivered to <address of factory> this time." 
DanteE: (OK, so, Brian and I are headed to the vault in the palace while the others are chekcing out Lesson et al?) 
Random_Nerd: (Cut to you guys, and the pizza, arriving at the former factory?) 
Eve: (to Snow) "Well, let's get going. Pizza waits for no coyote." 
Eve: (Works for me.) 
Brian: (sure) 
Random_Nerd: (Now, for the record, Lesson is actually in the same building as you guys right now.) 
DanteE: "Not to mention those yummy bozes. We'll see you in a little while." 
DanteE: *boxes 
Random_Nerd: (Dante saw him about an hour ago in character, last session.) 
DanteE: (Right, he can play pool without a bridge.) 
Theresa: (Oh yeah.) 
Theresa: (Would Perfect Timing have brought him back to the right place to talk with Eve, though?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... plausibly. He was going to go back there sooner or later anyway.) 
Eve: (Maybe Perfect Timing means he meets us on the way out?) 
Brian: ("Why do we have a pool table?" "Obviously, to play pool." "When'd it get here?" "Dunno." "don't you care some random thing popped up in our base?" "Nah. Happens all the time." "...") 
Eve: (So can we cut to our talking about the project with him on the way instead?) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, yeah, that makes sense.) 
DanteE: (/me looks up to see if there's a spinning diamond over his head... :) 
* Theresa will walk along with Snow and Eve and Lesson... 
Brian: (what's the diamond do?) 
Theresa: (SIMNobilis) 
Random_Nerd: Lesson looks at Eve. "You look different, Domina." 
* Snow hugs Lesson's arm as they walk. Love love love! 
* Eve will incline her head slightly on meeting Lesson. "Indeed. I would like to ask you about the transmogrifier project." 
DanteE: "There's still a contradiction, though. If she was smart enough to create an elaborate plan to keep me occupied and do something with the artifacts, she should have been smart enough not to run into me at the vault, ne?" 
Random_Nerd: L: "Okay. Let me see. We have the equipment set up and hooked up to the power supply. Told that the power will be sufficient. Began compiling a list of known mythical creatures." 
Brian: "Ah, but running into you causes you to become occupied." 
Random_Nerd: He waves a hand at the three-arm-gold-eyes guy following him, who pulls a notebook out of a tote bag. 
* Snow waves cheerily at said guy. 
Eve: "Has any testing been done?" 
DanteE: "But running into me elsewhere would mean they could do their vault thing with impunity." 
Random_Nerd: "Also, have began auditioning experts in human minds." 
Random_Nerd: "Have tested the equipment on animals. Not on humans." 
Random_Nerd: "Seemed to work." 
* Eve grimaces slightly at "human minds." 
Brian: "Remember - running into you elsewhere doesn't have the same sense of urgency as running into you at the vault" 
Snow: "Tested what equipment?" 
DanteE: "It's still an Excrucian." 
Random_Nerd: "The machine. That makes things into other things." 
* Snow looks doubtful. 
Snow: "Do the animals wanna be tested?" 
DanteE: "Reminds me, I was thinking of a way to defend against that wind thing they hit us with in Mexico..." 
Random_Nerd: "Animals never told me they didn't want to be tested." 
Eve: (Lesser Div of the hopes of the animals that were tesed upon?) 
* DanteE tells Brian IC about that space-warp thing, since they culd use it on the walls of the vault...) 
Random_Nerd: "Besides, I've been instructed to give humans priority over other creatures." 
Random_Nerd: (There's a duck that was once a snake, a snake that used to be a duck, and a wyvern that was once a cow.) 
Snow: "Oh." 
Eve: "Remind me who that instruction was from? I cannot recall at the moment." 
* Snow looks sad, and perplexed. 
Random_Nerd: (All seem vaguely confused but are adapting decently, as the transmorgrifier was designed to convey the instincts of the new form.) 
Random_Nerd: "From... from my Master, from Dominus Dante, and from Dominus Brian, I believe." 
Theresa: (Poor cow.) 
Random_Nerd: "Am I correct?" 
* Snow looks at Theresa. 
Snow: "Thereeessaaaa..." 
Theresa: "Yes, Snow?" 
Snow: "I don't want them to test on animals. But they've gotta test stuff." 
Theresa: "I noticed." 
Theresa: (Darn it, is Snow going to be our PETA representative? :) ) 
Brian: (I doubt that Brian would've told him to give humans precedence. The whole purpose of that device is to change things into other things, to alter the form ... and Brian doesn't believe there's anything inherently /better/ or /different/ about humans. On the other hand, I don't remember) 
Random_Nerd: "The machine is designed to work on humans and other animals, correct? Can't test on humans before it is known if it works. Cannot test on self, as the machine doesn't work to change me." 
Random_Nerd: (I believe that Brian at least implicitly did so. You've given him several instructions to be sure to take care of humans and not hurt them, but no such directions for other species.) 
Eve: "Lesson, you have performed as instructed as best you knew. Future testing should be done on sentient volunteers. Preferably human. And all test subjects will be given the option at the end of their tenure as to what form to adopt."future testing should be done on sentient volunteers. Preferably human. And all test subjects will be given the option at the end of their tenure as to what form to adopt." 
Brian: (ah. That does sound like something I'd've said) 
Eve: (Ignore the repeat, copy/paste mistake.) 
Random_Nerd: "Very well, Domina Carrie." 
Theresa: (Whoops... *duck and covers*) 
Snow: "If that's not gonna work, tell me, okay?" 
* Eve grimaces. "Do not call me by that name again." 
Theresa: "Lesson, this is actually the new Domina of Hope. Her name is Eve." 
Random_Nerd: Lesson bows his head deeply and exposes the back of his neck to Carrie. 
Random_Nerd: "As you command, Domina Eve." 
Theresa: (Hmm..a question. Did anyone in the Chancel turn into plant-stuff?) 
Random_Nerd: "Your servant apologizes for any offense he may have caused." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Probably, but if so, it'd be at least semi-animate plants. Dryads or whatnot.) 
Snow: "Sorry, Lesson. You've got one hard job." 
Theresa: (LDiv of suchness in the Chancel. I expect that Red will probably be pinged.) 
Random_Nerd: "No. This is an easy job. Last job was hard job." 
Random_Nerd: "Errr... I beg pardon. Please forgive me for seeming to correct you, Domina." 
Random_Nerd: (What exactly are you looking for? Sentient plants?) 
* Eve simply nods in recognition of Lesson's apology. 
Theresa: (Yeppers. Or any plants that have become humanoid. Humans that have become dryads, talking trees, Swamp Thing...) 
Random_Nerd: (There are some. Red, and perhaps two dozen more. Relatively few seem to have turned into plants.) 
Theresa: (Poor Lesson...sounds like being snapped at by Hope has maybe broken his Courage buff...) 
Eve: (Whoops?) 
Random_Nerd: (He's just trying to tread very carefully, so as not to offend his bosses.) 
Theresa: (Of those who have been changed, can I Div if they are happy that way? If so, make it so.) 
* Snow beams. 
Eve: (If it's not clear, Eve is more influenced by Entropy's Laws than Carrie is.) 
Random_Nerd: (You can. Some are happy, some are indifferent, some are depressed.) 
Snow: "It's okay. I like you." 
Random_Nerd: Lesson looks confused. 
Random_Nerd: "Why, Domina?" 
* Snow smiles. 
* Snow gets up and whispers in Lesson's ear...hole...thing. 
Snow: "You're the only one who I get around here, sometimes." 
* Theresa Domain-ghostwhispers to those that are depressed. "I feel your pain. Come to *Lesson's Factory's address* and I will help you." 
Random_Nerd: (Now, whenever you guys want to have arrived, feel free to declare that it is so.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not all the plants are fully mobile, and not all are near Kaerkoven.) 
Eve: (Let's get there now, unless anyone objects.) 
Theresa: (I'll commandeer some Three-Armers to go take a hummer/bus to pick up the plants. _carefully_.) 
Theresa: (Sounds good to me.) 
Random_Nerd: The factory looks moderately different. Big brass letters have been put up at the front that say Bureau Of Monstrosities Headquarters. Construction is clearly going on inside. 
Random_Nerd: (Will you go in the business enterance or one of the service ones?) 
* Eve lets lLEsson lead. 
Theresa: "Lesson, do you have any of your people who are currently unoccupied at the moment? It appears that some people and plants have taken on each others' qualities as well, like the humans and animals. Some of them aren't happy about the change." 
Random_Nerd: Lesson leads you guys in the front door. 
Random_Nerd: There's a front desk, rather like in a doctor's office, and a second internal door that one needs to be buzzed in for. 
Random_Nerd: A rather ordinary looking college-age woman is manning the desk, and farther back in that section you see one of the arm guys typing at two keyboards, adjusting their positions from time to time. 
Eve: (Lesser Div on the hopes of the woman?) 
Random_Nerd: Lesson waves at the woman manning the desk, and she reaches under the desk, causing the door to the factory interior to open. 
Random_Nerd: Inside, the most prominent feature is the big transmorgrifier machine. 
Theresa: (If she can handle this place, maybe we have an Aide in the making. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: It's hooked to the wall with some heavy-duty-looking cables. 
Eve: (We can't make Aides but we could make her a valued servant...) 
DanteE: (check for marbles around the office. :) 
Theresa: (Darn it, now I have the sudden urge to yell, "Live, my creation! LIIIIIIVE!") 
Random_Nerd: L: "Have been assured that the building can supply the forces needed to power the device." 
* Snow looks nervous. 
Random_Nerd: Partition walls have been set up inside, and Ick is currently carrying a large roll of carpet, and is being directed by a man with goat horns and legs. 
DanteE: (Oh.... remnds me, we need to throw a Preservation on Ick before he rots away) 
Random_Nerd: L: "Should, soon, have offices for staff, and places to meet with humans and former humans being evaluated." 
Theresa: (I think that Kudzu probably took care of that.) 
Random_Nerd: In the background, a three-arm guy and one of the former Three Kings gangmembers seem to be sparring with some sort of bladed weapon. 
* Eve thinks for a while. "How have you been handling recruiting for your Bureau?" 
Random_Nerd: L, to Theresa: "As for the staff, have some that could probably spare time. Most are busy." 
DanteE: (the pirate method.) 
Eve: (I wouldn't be surprised, but I want to hear it from Lesson.) 
Random_Nerd: L: "Depends on the individual. Most of the men of the Village of the Strange Arm have decided to work with us, as have a number of the other changed humans." 
* Eve nods, seeming distracted. 
Random_Nerd: L: "The former members of the street gang have been... encouraged to join, this with the encouragement of my Master shortly before he... left." 
Eve: "Of course." 
Random_Nerd: "Several humans have been hired with the funds you have placed at our disposal, mainly for skills that we don't have in our core group." 
Eve: (Did I ever hear back from the Lesser Div of Hopes on the receptionist?) 
Random_Nerd: "And no experts in human minds have been hired yet, but we have several applicants." 
Brian: (I'm sorta half-afk. Doing site maintenance for Dante) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, one moment please.) 
Eve: (It's not a big deal but I was curious what brought her to work there.) 
Random_Nerd: (She hopes she'll get a raise. She hopes she'll be able to stop flinching every time she sees Lesson. She hopes that this will look good on her resume. She hopes that she'll manage to come to the attention of the Nobles by working here.) 
* Theresa nods at Lesson. Concentrates for a moment, creating a sheet of paper with coordinates and lists of the plant-folks she would like brought to the factory. Also a second page of the more mobile ones that might be showing up. "Here's a list of the beings I would like picked up around the Chancel. Please be careful at moving them. And a list of the mobile folks who I have asked to come to the factory for help." 
DanteE: (Remind me IC to take care of that second thing) 
Theresa: (Yep, I see Aide material. :) I wonder if they do scholarships.) 
* Eve files the results of that Divination in a corner mentally and continues to idly scan the environs. 
Random_Nerd: Lesson looks at the paper, and waves a hand at the arm guy who's been following him around. Arm-guy takes the paper, looks over it, and brings it to a few of his fellow arm guys who seem to be milling around. 
Random_Nerd: Lesson's Assistant: "Okay, this is a list of people who've turned into plants. We're to bring them here, carefully. This comes down from the Boss's Bosses, so it's top priority." 
Random_Nerd: (Looking for anything in particular, Eve?) 
Eve: (Not really, trying to look interested but not too interested while I think of what to do next.) 
* Theresa smiles at the guys working on her project. "I thank you for your upcoming work." 
Random_Nerd: They salute with their central arms. 
Random_Nerd: L: "Does the work we have done please you?" 
Brian: (well, maintenance done. Sorta :-P Dante's now back on-wiki) 
* Snow walks behind Lesson, trying to stay out of view. 
* Theresa will take a closer look at the transmogrifier and environs. 
DanteE: (yay) 
Eve: "To an extent. It seems that progress has been rather slow, though." 
Random_Nerd: (Eh, they've had what, two weeks since you set them up here?) 
Eve: (Can a Div of Hope determine if the Duck, Snake, and Wyvern would, given full cognizance of the possibilities, opt to maintain their current forms or go back to their original ones?) 
Eve: (I've never said Eve was reasonable.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Yes, it can.) 
Eve: (I've just made it appear that way. While plotting. <.< ) 
DanteE: (Welcome to Extreme Makeover, Reality Edition!) 
Eve: (Okay, in that case I perform that Divination.) 
Eve: (And Ghost the results to Snow as an emotional 'feeling.') 
Random_Nerd: (Now, none of them are really smart enough to understand the idea. But if they were, the wyvern would be in favor of staying, the snake would be indifferent, and the duck would want to go back to being a snake.) 
Random_Nerd: L: "Will try to speed things up." 
Theresa: (Go cow! :) ) 
Eve: "And Lesson, do change the duck that was a snake back into a snake again? You did the right thing in testing it, but the need is now past." 
Random_Nerd: Lesson shouts: "Everyone, work faster! The Big Bosses are disappointed!" 
Snow: "Theresa? Why isn't Lesson what that other guy was? Urbanization?" 
Eve: ( *facepalms* ) 
Snow: "Oh! I'm not disappointed, Lesson!" 
* Snow hurls herself onto lesson, gleefully hugging him from behind. 
Random_Nerd: Lesson starts walking back to one of the partitioned-off rooms, and returns with a duck in a cage with a pool at the bottom. 
Random_Nerd: (Tackling him before or after he comes back with it?) 
Snow: (Before. She'll climb on for the ride, if he'll keep moving.) 
Theresa: (Was the facepalm at the Urbanization quote or the disappointed?) 
Eve: (I think that if James ever finally kicks the bucket, Lesson would be able to stay an Anchor. <.< ) 
Random_Nerd: Lesson almost, but not quite, falls down at the tackle. His center of gravity is pretty high, so he has to brace himself against a wall with his longer arm to stay up. 
Eve: (The 'Everyone work faster' counterproductivity.) 
* Snow hangs on like a monkey, rubbing her cheek into his chitinous flesh. 
Brian: (snow is an odd one. Kinda like a little keetom, full of love. For anyone and everyone.) 
Theresa: "We're not sure, Snow. We don't quite know what happened with James...and we're not sure what plans, if any, Kudzu has for Lesson. But I think he likes it here better than his original home, so he will probably stay here in the Chancel." 
Theresa: (And she can swallow Monty.) 
Random_Nerd: Lesson looks at the other PCs with a "You know, I'm a demon from Hell, and this girl is wigging me out" expression. 
Theresa: (*laugh*) 
* Eve will expend some energy in a Lesser Creation of Hope to coalesce the stres felt from Lesson's demand into real effective drive to get things moving faster.) 
Brian: (and she probably would, too. With a big dumb grin on her face. :-P) 
Random_Nerd: (Monty, no. Her Gift isn't that powerful yet.) 
Theresa: (Sanity is a crutch, Lesson!) 
Snow: (Yet!) 
* Theresa will resist the urge to pat Lesson on the shoulder in a 'there, there' gesture. 
DanteE: (OK, wiki stuff's straightened out. RN, I've got 5 unspent points so far, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (I'm not sure. It sounds high, but I haven't been keeping track.) 
Random_Nerd: (Let's see. How many did you have after you bought the healing/resurrection gift?) 
Snow: (Feel free to get the duck, RN. :) ) 
Brian: (remind me that I need to decrement the ETA until the next iteration of my Gift. 1 or 2 points?) 
Eve: (I believe that we have earned a total of 7 points in play. 6 for me as I missed a story.) 
DanteE: (I've been holding on to points until I can buy Greater Creation of Studliness with, ah, penetration. :) 
Theresa: (*cough*) 
Random_Nerd: Lesson returns with the duck as described earlier. 
DanteE: (Yeah, I think that gift is all I've bought so far.) 
Brian: (so, just 1 point from last Story, then?) 
Random_Nerd: Lesson shouts: "Someone who's good with machines! Over here!" 
Random_Nerd: (One point per story.) 
Brian: (excellent. One story to go, until the Ultimate Beloved Gift! Mwahaha!) 
Random_Nerd: A somewhat grease-stained woman with a toolbelt, who was over by the Device, comes over to Lesson. 
DanteE: (which Beth has nicely divided into chapters in the logs. We're playing Chapter 8 now.) 
Random_Nerd: Electrician: "Yeah, boss?" 
* Snow beams at the lady from atop Lesson's shoulders. 
Random_Nerd: Lesson: "Remember the duck? The one that used to be a snake, not the one that got turned into a snake." 
Random_Nerd: She nods. 
Brian: (Yachiru-chan!) 
Random_Nerd: L: "We have to turn it back now. Orders from up top." He waves a hand at the PCs. 
Random_Nerd: She looks oddly at Snow. 
Random_Nerd: (Take a drink.) 
* Snow waves. 
Brian: (? Bleach drinking game?) 
Snow: "Sorry about the duck." 
Random_Nerd: Electrician, to Lesson: "Okay. I'll get started. It'll take a little while to get the settings right." 
Brian: (or Nobilis drinking game?) 
Random_Nerd: (Chancel Amyra Drinking Game.) 
Brian: (ah :)) 
DanteE: (hm... once the place is completed we should intro ourselves to the workers... 
Random_Nerd: (When Snow makes someone stare oddly, take a drink.) 
DanteE: (and/or, maybe intro Snow to the rest of Amyra) 
Random_Nerd: She takes the duck-cage. 
DanteE: (when Snow makes someone lose it completely, chug.) 
Random_Nerd: (Mind if we stop here? My brain is going melty.) 
Snow: (*snerk*) 
Eve: (Not at all.) 
Snow: (Good by me.) 
Brian: (oh, they should have pizza...) 
DanteE: (Drink!) 
Brian: (fine to end) 
Snow: (So make more pizzas of the ones that arrive, and treat the whole place.) 
DanteE: (OK) 
Theresa: (Closing for the night is good for me. Sleepy...) 
Brian: (when Snow makes a reference to food, or eats something, take a drink) 
Random_Nerd: ___________STOP_______________ 
Random_Nerd: Okay, thoughts? 
*** Brian is now known as lazarus. 
Snow: (When Snow eats something that's otherwise inedible, drink.) 
*** Snow is now known as Sara. 
*** Eve is now known as Etheric. 
Etheric: Very fun. 
DanteE: (Do the rest of us have drinking-game tags?) 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Sara: This was fun. I liked visiting the factory, and the pizza. Snow likes food. 
Random_Nerd: (Yes. Yes you do.) 
Random_Nerd: (Wait, Eve doesn't, yet.) 
Random_Nerd: (But the rest do.) 
Knockwood: should be a Wiki page 
lazarus: of course we do. I'm not quite sure what we have, but we definitely do. I think Brian's got the "when Brian does something /completely random/, take a drink" thing covered. 
Etheric: (Carrie throws a tantrum about something inconsequential, take a drink? <.< ) 
Etheric: Hmm, anyway... 
Knockwood: Dante barges ahead while the others dither, drink. 
Theresa: I thought tonight was interesting. It was good to see Eve out and about and although it took a bit to get moving and doing stuff, it ended well. 
lazarus: I like it. I like the interaction with random Chancelfolk. 
Random_Nerd: When Theresa feels guilty for no clear reason, take a drink. When Dante embarks on a complicated scheme with a hidden false assumption, take a drink. 
lazarus: also, Snow. She's very much like Yachiru-chan from Bleach, in a way. 
Random_Nerd: When James isn't existing... well, you'd run out of booze. 
Random_Nerd: Oh? I'm not familiar with Bleach. 
Knockwood: half hour of dithering... drink. 
Random_Nerd: Demon-boxing is two drinks. 
Knockwood: about nothing... chug/. 
lazarus: (Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yachiru)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yachiru 
Theresa: Hey, Theresa has reasons to feel guilty1 
Random_Nerd: Sez her. 
Theresa: _Monty_! 
Knockwood: One of us accidentally insults another... both drink. 
lazarus: "She is often seen latched onto the back of her captain, Kenpachi Zaraki, just over his left shoulder, and is somewhat territorial about this position." 
lazarus: "Further reflecting her child-like nature, Yachiru likes to give people nicknames; she has given a total of four people formal nicknames, and often gives random people placeholder names (calling Orihime "big boobies" or Ikkaku "pachinko head," for instance)." 
Knockwood: did they cut-and-paste that from the Dubya enbtry? 
lazarus: heh. No, that's Yachiru. She's very childlike. 
Random_Nerd: Anything you guys particularly liked or disliked about this session? 
Sara: Snow doesn't give people nicknames though...? 
lazarus: I enjoyed the glimpse into the pizza shop 
Knockwood: ...like I said... did they cut-and-paste from Dubya? 
Sara: I' 
Sara: Bah 
Sara: I'm with Laz in that I like meeting the Chancelfolk a lot. 
lazarus: Snow doesn't, but I was showing what Yachiru is like. 
Sara: Aaah 
lazarus: she's also one of the more powerful characters in the show, despite all that. 
Knockwood: I like how Snow scarfed the pizza when we weren't looking. :) 
Theresa: I liked breaking up the scenes, even though I know it's more work for you with doing two scenes at once. Felt like we were demonboxing again with the blood but not sure what to do about it. 
Sara: Heh. 
Etheric: Liked the pizza and Snow's reaction, liked the transmogrifier. The biggest issues I've had tonight are IC ones, truthfully. 
lazarus: heh, yes, agree with kwd. 
Knockwood: then again, my list of ingredients was supposed to be a joke... 
Random_Nerd: Which IC ones, Etheric? 
Etheric: The one about Lesson now having done much. From the point of view of someone operating on an inhuman timetable, it would seem like he were dithering around and not getting much done. 
Theresa: He still has to sleep? :) 
Random_Nerd: Well, it would make sense for your character to think that way. Especially since she has Perfect Timing. 
Knockwood: does he? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Lesson needs sleep, but not as much as a human. 
Etheric: Right. I agreed it wasn't a reasonable expectation. 
Random_Nerd: Yep. And it's a reasonable unreasonable expectation for her to have, if that makes sense. 
Knockwood: actually... one of the selling points was that hew _could_ sleep. 
Random_Nerd: In the box, you mean? 
Knockwood: and Tpyo was kind to me tonight... 
Knockwood: no, when we talked him into signing up with us. Granted, the main draw was the whole not-dying bit, but still... 
lazarus: (by the way, kwd, that was about the same list of pizza toppings that I was going to write, too ;)) 
Etheric: Bewre tthe tyop kngi! 
Random_Nerd: Well, I figure that demons in Hell probably have to catch quick naps whenever they can, when the bosses aren't looking. 
Knockwood: yeah, but I forgot horse, cheeseburger, bratwurst, mayo and peanut butter. 
Theresa: Masters of the Sleeping with Your Eyes Open.

Amyra:Chapter 9

2007-10-04T03:39:53Z

BethDragon:

[[Session 65]]

[[Session 66]]

[[Session 67]]

[[Session 68]]

[[Session 69]]

[[Session 70]]

[[Session 71]]

[[Session 72]]

[[Session 73]]

[[Session 74]]

[[Session 75]]

Session 69

2007-10-04T03:39:21Z

BethDragon:

Theresa: And after you left last week, Sara, I realized something..I was completely wrong about John's ancestor being a Noble/Shard/Anchor/whatever. 
Etheric: Sorry for the delay, guys. 
Knockwood: Hi Eth 
Theresa: Hi Etheric! *HUG* 
* Etheric HUGs Beth! 
*** Mode change "+o Etheric" for channel #nobilis by lazarus. 
Etheric: Good to be back. Today is the day for Carrie's triumphant return, sort of. 
Knockwood: whee 
Knockwood: where have you been? 
Snow: Woot! 
Random_Nerd: Except for the triumphant part, and the return part, and the Carrie part? 
Theresa: The div said that the last person the blood drop was in was immune to divs. The last person the blood drop was in was...the Strat Shard in the treasure room. *facepalm* 
Etheric: Hush, don't give too much away! 
Etheric: Okay, so hmm. 
Etheric: I haven't had a chance to read up on the logs, but I don't mind learning in-character what's been going on. 
Knockwood: didn't we localize that to 1870? 
Etheric: Unless that poses problems for anyone. 
Snow: Carrie gets to meet Snow! 
Snow: *glee!* 
Etheric: Eventually, yes. 
Theresa: Oh bit of info, William has a fiancee'. How weird is that? 
Etheric: It's not as weird as if he was affianced to the Power of Matchmaking. <.< 
Random_Nerd: Localize what, Knock? 
Theresa: Well, that whole no love thing, true... 
Knockwood: hm... 
Random_Nerd: One thing concerned the last time John's ancestor was in Amyra, and the other concerned when the blood was last in a person in Amyra. 
Random_Nerd: The two proved not to be the same occurance. 
Knockwood: despite the fact that the blood drop was from John's ancestor. 
Etheric: Interesting! 
Random_Nerd: Yep. 
Theresa: Yep. Because the shard was carrying the blood drop inside of her (it?). 
Random_Nerd: Okay, so. Where should we start the session? 
Knockwood: despite it being 130 years old? 
Snow: Were we headed back to the tower? 
Theresa: Might not have been originally kept by that shard. Maybe it's an artifact specfically kept for getting into the Treasure room. 
Random_Nerd: Despite that, yes. 
Theresa: I think either the tower or the zoo. Fresh air and so forth. 
Knockwood: ... that's right, I've been assuming Message did the miracle.. 
Snow: Ah, right. Well, since Brian and Carrie need to be brought back in, how about the tower? 
Random_Nerd: There was discussion of the zoo, yes. 
Knockwood: Yeah, I wanted to show Snow some new animals she could turn into. 
Snow: Well, Snow could broadcast that they're going to the zoo. 
Etheric: Perhaps you went by the zoo offscreen, and are now headed back to the tower? 
Etheric: Unless you prefer to meet at the zoo. 
Theresa: Ooo, that could work. Snow walking along and flickering into different animals. 
Theresa: (The heading back part.) 
Random_Nerd: Starting at the tower works for me. 
Snow: Let's just head back to the tower, with Snow chatting away about her visit to the zoo? 
Knockwood: Question: could snow fly if she turned into a bird? 
Snow: RN? 
Etheric: Hmm. What Aspect level is flight for birds? Is it the same as flight for winged humans? 
Knockwood: 1 less if you have wings 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. 
Etheric: My mistake. I thought Aspect-flight was impossible without wings. 
Random_Nerd: You need to have wings to truly fly with Aspect, at least unless you do a really big miracle. 
Knockwood: GWB says it's a L5 Aspect Miracle if you have wings. 
Random_Nerd: I mean, if you can shoot down the moon, then you can literally fly by flapping your arms hard enough. 
Knockwood: p 118 
Etheric: Ah, that works. 
Random_Nerd: But it'd either take a gift or take a MP. 
Knockwood: I've been looking it over so I can buy Noble Kung Fu. :) 
Random_Nerd: Because it'd requite a stat above 5 to do free. 
Random_Nerd: So, start with the PCs arriving at the tower, and Snow talking about her trip to the zoo? 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and yes, she could fly with wings. Probably not quite as well or fast as a real bird, since she has less practice, but she could do it. 
Snow: Sure! And Snow has not yet met Carrie, correct? 
Etheric: No, she hasn't met Carrie. 
Snow: Let's do this. :) 
Theresa: Ready! 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
Random_Nerd: ___________________START________________________ 
Snow: "Oh my gosh, did you SEE that walrus, he was like--" 
* Snow turns into a walrus and roars. 
Snow: "And I was like--" 
* Theresa smiles indulgently. 
* Snow turns into a girl and squees! 
Theresa: (I wish I had a DP to give.) 
Snow: That was /awesome/! 
DanteE: "Yeah, but they can't move worth a damn on land. 
*** Etheric is now known as Eve. 
DanteE: (Eve?) 
Snow: (I just realised that I'm channelling Beast Boy with her.) 
Theresa: (*giggle*) 
Random_Nerd: (Eve.) 
DanteE: "There is this cartoon called "Teen Titans"..." 
Random_Nerd: (It's complicated.) 
Snow: "Yuh huh?" 
Brian: (Garfield! "Garfield?") 
DanteE: "Then again, different forms have different benefits... you remember the tortoise?" 
* Snow turns into a tortoise, who looks phlegmatically up at Dante. 
DanteE: "See, this is what you can go to of something's coming at you. 
* Eve is sitting in a chair in the conference table, a dark-skinned humanoid with long hair of a drab dark green. She turns as the others enter, and they see her face -- high cheekbones, slanted dark green eyes and pointed ears, visbily nonhuman. She looks close enough to Carrie to be her sister, despite the apparent species difference. As the others enter, she offers a thin smile. 
DanteE: "Most mundane stuff will bounce off this (knocks on shell)" 
Snow: "...huh. Like a rock!" 
DanteE: "...uh ... hello?" 
* Eve remains seated. "So you are the other Powers of Kudzu. I am Eve, Domina of Hope." 
* Snow turns into a coyote, so she can walk faster, and grins cheerily at Eve. 
* Brian is currently doing work in his office 
DanteE: "Uh... what happened to Carrie, Domina of Hope?" 
* Theresa blinks. "I'm sorry if this is rude, but wasn't Hope an American girl named Carrie earlier?" 
* DanteE checks Eve out with the Sight 
* Theresa prays to Brian. "Brian, please come to the conference room." 
* Eve responds with a tinge of bitterness. "My sister Dawn is around somewhere. I'm sure you'll see her in time." 
* Snow pipes up over the RH: "Hi Brian!" 
* Brian gets there as fast as possible. 
Theresa: "Dawn?" 
Brian: RH: "Hi Snow!" 
Random_Nerd: (To the Sight, Eve is clearly a miraculous being.) 
Brian: "So, guys, what's up? .... who's she?" 
Theresa: (Can we tell using Nobleknowledge what kind of humanoid Hope is?) 
Theresa: "Brian, this is...Hope. Apparently Carrie's trip was...interesting." 
Random_Nerd: (Also, she vaguely seem to have the same feel as Carrie. But not quite the same.) 
Brian: "Ah ... uh ... I ... see." 
* Eve turns to Brian. "Pleased to make your acquaintance. I'm Eve, Domina of Hope." 
* Snow bounds up to Eve, and leaps onto her in the form of a lemur. 
Snow: "Look, I'm a lee-muuur!" 
DanteE: (I've got it! Carrie spent her down time playing WoW and is now an Elf! :) 
Eve: (Nooot quite.) 
* Brian turns to T: "... visit the zoo?" 
Brian: "What happened to Carrie?" 
* Snow snuggles up to Eve's chest. 
* Eve strokes Snow gently. "You're the new one Lord Kudzu told me about, yes?" 
Snow: "That's me!" 
Theresa: "We went to see John and got frustrated with the whole blood drop thing. So we took Snow to the zoo. She's a quick learner. And then we came home and...yah." 
Theresa: "Brian, Hope is more connected to the Chancel than I am...can you look through the Heart for Eve's sister..Dawn?" 
Brian: "I can try" 
Brian: (Realm Div of Dawn?) 
Brian: (I assume it fails?) 
Theresa: (Hmm..if it does, I can use my Noble-finder. or Brian can just talk to her through the RH and ask her to come to the conference room.) 
* Eve giggles unnervingly. "We share an Estate and an icon in the Heart. I doubt you'll find her that way." 
Random_Nerd: (What exactly are you looking for, with the divination?) 
Brian: (Um... someone like Eve but not Eve) 
Snow: "You both one person? Or two different?" 
DanteE: "How exactly do you share an estate?" 
* Eve looks at Dante archly. "Perhaps Lord Kudzu saw no reason to limit himself to one Power of Hope. I did not ask." 
Random_Nerd: (Nothing shows up as particularly being similar to Eve without being her.) 
Brian: "I can't get her on my Realmdar." 
Brian: (ReDAR: Realm Detection And Ranging ;)) 
DanteE: "So where is Carrie? Her parents will be worrying." 
Brian: "T? Want to give your doohicky a try?" 
* Theresa concentrates, using the Scanning for Noble-spots gift. 
Eve: "Her parents, yes. Her parents are Anchors of the Estate of Hope. I'm sure they have more important things to worry about." 
Brian: "So, they're still Anchored? That means ... you're still Carrie, of a sort?" 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, on the gift, there are... *counts* Those of you in the room, including Eve. Horse, down in his new room. Three spots in Kaerkoven without auctoriti.) 
* Eve glares at Brian. "Don't compare me to that Light-obsessed twit of a sister!" 
Theresa: (That would be...Lesson...and Hope's anchors.) 
* Theresa blinks. Wow, the sibling rivalry is a bit heavy... 
Brian: "Well, things are just weird right now - normally when an Estate changes ownership, the Anchors are freed." 
* Snow wraps herself around Eve's shoulders in the form of a python. 
Theresa: "Well, if Dawn is part of Hope, she isn't Noble in a way that my talents can sense. But I think pleased to meet you, Eve." 
Random_Nerd: (Of course, there's prior weirdness with that. For instance, something odd has happened with James, and yet Lesson is still anchored.) 
Brian: (Brian's assumption is that James still exists somewhere) 
Theresa: (Wild Chancel. Weird is in our charter.) 
* Eve strokes the top of Snow's head slowly. 
* Snow snake-purrs. 
DanteE: (and don't forget I grabbed James' gear...) 
* Theresa sits down at the conference table. "So, Eve, care to tell us about yourself?" 
Brian: "So, tell us about yourself. If we're to have a new Sister, we ought to get to know her" 
Random_Nerd: (Indeed, Dante.) 
* DanteE puts the blood drop on the table 
* Eve smiles at Theresa, more relaxedly this time. "I'm not sure what there is to tell. I was created with some of Dawn's memories, which is how I know the rest of you. I'm the Domina of Hope. It's my hope to do service to Lord Kudzu, the Valde Bellum, and the Code of the Dark." 
* Eve glances at each of her Siblings in turn, wondering how they take that last. 
DanteE: (uhoh.) 
Theresa: "Dark? Okay. I've met at least one other under the code of the Dark. She was very passionate about her Estate." 
* Theresa is cool as a cucumber. 
Brian: "I don't remember what the Dark is all about." 
* Snow doesn't really appear to care, though she does tighten a bit around Eve in an attempt to gather more warmth. 
Brian: "Snow, hon, remember that fur is warm..." 
Snow: "So's people." 
Brian: "point." 
Eve: "I hardly mind." 
DanteE: "That's the philosophy that says everyone should burn all their stuff and kill themselves... 
* Eve strokes Snow's head a little more. 
DanteE: "How does that reconcile with Hope?" 
Brian: "Ah. That one. The one that even I consider insane." 
Theresa: (Oh, _that_'s a way to make friends with the new version of our Sister...) 
Theresa: (Although, Wild, insane, have a point.) 
* Eve glares at Dante a little. "I suppose that might be one way of putting it. We of the Dark believe that humans' hopes for self-destruction are their greatest path to fulfillment. Such as a human can be fulfilled." 
Brian: (remember the point in the Wild about sanity, though?) 
Theresa: (Whoever was Carrie's travel agent, I'm not flying with them ever.) 
Theresa: (I'll come out...I don't know what the opposite of Serpent is.) 
Brian: "Long as you keep the Chancelfolk safe, and away from harm, I don't particularly care what Code you follow, to be frank." 
Snow: "She's just Eve. No prooooblem." Snow slithers to the ground and turns into a girl, who leans up against Eve and hugs her. 
* Eve looks at Snow tolerantly, but with a certain amount of distaste for the form she's adopted. 
* Snow beams up at her. 
Brian: RH: "Snow ... she seemed to like the animal forms better" 
Theresa: (Eve would be able to hear that.) 
Snow: (Heh.) 
Brian: (whatever) 
* Snow looks at Brian, confused. 
Snow: "What else could I be?" 
Theresa: "I have no problems with your choice in Code, Sister. We'll have to get William to update your heraldry." 
Brian: RH: "You could be a ... komodo dragon!" 
* Snow grumbles and, sullenly, turns into a komodo dragon. "People's an animal too..." 
Eve: "You'll want to keep Dawn's heraldry as well. She'll be back eventually." 
* Eve doesn't sound particularly pleased with that. 
DanteE: "...Tell us about Dawn?" 
Theresa: "Eventually?" 
Brian: RH: "I know. Be who you want, of course, always." 
Brian: RH: "But be aware." 
* Snow makes a grump noise, and summons some rabbits to eat. 
Theresa: (*twitch* Rabbits!) 
Theresa: (Is it day outside still?) 
Brian: (heh :p_ 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
* Eve sighs. "Dawn is the one you call Carrie. She is my sister." She pauses, looking like she would really prefer to talk about something else. 
Random_Nerd: (Afternoon or early evening.) 
Theresa: (Hmm. *ponders possiblities*) 
* Snow waits for some rabbits to appear. 
Random_Nerd: They do! 
Brian: "When did you get here?" 
Random_Nerd: Two rabbits hop in the door, looking faintly puzzled. 
DanteE: "We do seem to have our share of questions about incarnations... (taps blood drop) 
* Snow stumps on over, after releasing the rabbits from their obligation to behave. 
Snow: "Rraaaawr!" 
Eve: "I was created yesterday evening." 
Brian: "Created?" 
DanteE: to Snow: "You know, we have a cafeteria." 
Random_Nerd: (But they don't serve rabbit.) 
Brian: "Leave her be. She's having fun." 
Eve: "By Lord Kudzu." 
Brian: "For what purpose?" 
* Snow watches as the rabbits flee in terror. 
DanteE: (to bug us. :) 
Random_Nerd: In the background, wind blows outside the window. A horse trots around a number of floors below. Billiard balls clack. Rabbits flee. 
* Snow turns into a coyote and chases after a rabbit. 
* Eve scowls. "Why don't you ask milord?" 
DanteE: (Who's playing pool?) 
Brian: "Just wondered if he told you why. He often has strange reasonings" 
Theresa: (Who's playing pool?) 
* Eve exhales dramatically. "Sorry. I'm not used to having my existence questioned." 
Random_Nerd: (Someone downstairs.) 
* Eve hasn't noticed the billiard balls. 
Brian: "That wasn't the purpose of the question - only to gather further information about our illustrious Imperator's motives" 
Theresa: (I didn't know we had a pool table.) 
DanteE: (Same here... 
Brian: (great physics demo table, of course we do!) 
Random_Nerd: (It's apparently new.) 
Random_Nerd: (Is the pool table going to be the new cow?) 
Theresa: "Would you consider yourself and your sister to be separate enties, Eve?" 
Brian: (no ... has Snow been introduced to "cows" yet?) 
Random_Nerd: (Depends on the cow.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not Red's cows, at least.) 
* Eve arches her eyebrows again. " 
Snow: (Hm. I'd say no...though she'd be familiar with buffalo and muskox.) 
Eve: "I would. We're not the same person by any means." 
Brian: (then that's a good one) 
Random_Nerd: (There were cattle in Mexico.) 
* Snow catches a rabbit and proceeds to eat it with delight. 
Brian: RH: "Snow, summon up a cow ... they're great for watching and eating" 
Random_Nerd: (On the background of some of the scenes set on the farm.) 
Theresa: "Okay. Then that's how I shall treat you both. What would you like to know about us, Eve?" 
Snow: "Can't--" *slurping noises* "--eating." 
DanteE: "Excuse me for one moment... 
Brian: RH: "Well, later, then. Cows are delightful creatures." 
* DanteE goes downstairs to see who's playing pool... 
Random_Nerd: Snow's eating is like Kudzu's thinking. Sloppy and unsettling. 
Snow: RH: "Okie dokie!" 
* Snow snerks. 
Snow: (Sorry, that was OOC.) 
Snow: (And it's Aspect 0 Eating, remember.) 
Random_Nerd: (One floor down, in one of the formerly empty offices, Samuel and one of Lesson's arm guys are playing billiards. Lesson, slouching in the corner, is unsuccessfully trying to cajole William into betting on the match.) 
* Eve looks at Theresa quizzically. "I can't think of much offhand... Snow is... Capriciousness, milord said... But what was she originally?" 
Theresa: (Where's Snow from again? Alaska?) 
Brian: "A coyote. I think." 
Snow: (Northwest Territories.) 
* Eve smiles. 
* DanteE goes back to the table... 
Brian: "Not that it really matters with her. She's whoever she wants to be at that moment in time" 
Theresa: "Snow is a coyote from the Northwest Territories of North America. She can shapeshift into any animal shape, we think. And she swallows things." 
DanteE: "So far, an Excrucian's head, and a rock." 
Snow: (NWT is a territory in Canada, but never mind. :) ) 
Theresa: (Well, Theresa's an Amyran. All those silly countries in North American, bah... :) ) 
Brian: (Can't expect people in Amyra to know that :-P) 
Eve: "I like her." 
* Snow coyote-grins. 
Snow: "Want some rabbit?" 
* Brian smiles 
Theresa: "After she was enNobled, her Estate got attacked and we went to Mexico to help her." 
Eve: "I'm not sure how it would agree with my digestion... Hmm. 
* Eve raises an eyebrow. "Attacked? By the Dark Horsemen?" 
Random_Nerd: (A whole rabbit would, indeed, disagree a bit with your stomach.) 
Theresa: "Three, actually. Warmains." 
DanteE: "YEs... as requested by our Imperator, apparently." 
* Eve looks shocked, hearing Dante. 
Eve: "Say that again... I must have heard you wrong." 
* Snow crunches bones. 
Brian: "Like I said ... our ... illustrious ... Imperator's motives are at times questionable and unfathomable" 
Random_Nerd: (Well, it was one Excrucian, or rather, the shards thereof.) 
DanteE: "I don't think so. Kudzu 'hired' the Excrucians to attack us." 
DanteE: "er... the Shards, rather." 
Theresa: "No, there was this thing about a Tempering and a favor that Kudzu called in to test Snow and us to see if we could keep her Estate safe." 
Eve: "A Tempering?" 
* Eve looks rather perplexed. 
Theresa: (Perplexed in a 'what's that' way or a 'holy crap' way?) 
Random_Nerd: (A thing Warmains do. Taking on the forms of honored fallen enemies.) 
Eve: (In reference to the Tempering thing, 'what's that,' though there's still a bit of 'holy crap' left over from before.) 
Theresa: "Apparently, the Excrucian who killed one of Kudzu's friends thought enough of that person to Temper or take on the personalities and qualities of that person. And somehow this included owing Kudzu a favor." 
* Eve looks rather more unnerved. Which is significantly so. 
* Snow mumbles quietly through her meal, "Food makes things way better... 
Snow: " 
DanteE: "Now I think you see why we're a bit suspicious of all this." 
Brian: "heart and soul of a coyote." 
DanteE: "Having an embodiment of chaos as a 'boss' makes sudden developments a bit more of a concern." 
Theresa: (And Theresa hasn't even told anyone else that the Maple is a spy planted to gather evidence to see if Kudzu is a Mimic...) 
Eve: "It doesn't make much sense... But Lord Kudzu's logic is above our own. I'm sure he has his reasons." 
Eve: (Wow. Wow. <.<; Wow.) 
Brian: "I'm sure he has his reasons, though thinking in terms of 'logic' is thinking in terms of a cage, and sanity. You must let go of that and experience as things come" 
Theresa: "Oh and by the way, our Brother James seems to have disappeared or been taken by Kudzu. So he called up Snow." 
Brian: (whee! Numbers rejecting logic and systems!) 
Eve: "Thank you for the reminder. The point stands, but only as a figure of speech." 
DanteE: "Yeah, his logic isn't above us as much as sideways. :)" 
Snow: The other rabbit, who had receded to a corner of the room given that the coyote was sated...explodes in a flurry of blood and fur. 
Theresa: (Etheric, I love your reactions, both IC and OOC. *grin*) 
Brian: "Well, he /has/ no logic ... that's the problem" 
Snow: *munch* "Like that." *munchmunch* 
DanteE: (Cleanup in aisle 3...) 
Random_Nerd: (Really, in this case I think it's less that Kudzu's logic is strange than that he works with a weird set of assumptions and priorities.) 
Brian: (I still maintain that he has no logic, thus being unfathomable to humans, who fundamentally use logic, even if they don't know it) 
* Theresa watches the destruction of the bunny and shudders, remembering the stuff with Monty. *rubs the arm that got hurt in that* 
* Brian gives T a comforting half-hug (at least, it's supposed to be comforting) 
DanteE: "Anyway, there was something else I was thinking of... 
* DanteE taps the blood drop. 
* Theresa smiles back half-heartedly. *turns back to Eve* "We hope that you'll like it here." 
Brian: "Dante? Blood drop? What've you found?" 
DanteE: "Now, this ... would seem to have to do with a prior Courage, yes?" 
* Eve smiles at Theresa. "Thank you, Sister." 
DanteE: to Brian: "Several strange assumptions and coincidences. In other words, the usual." 
DanteE: "Then again, there's things we should know... 
Brian: "Ah. Straight ahead, then?" 
* DanteE fires up the viewscreen. It has a view of the table, apparently from Dante's POV. 
Brian: "... not quite what I meant by that" 
Theresa: "Dante, I was thinking about that while we were at the zoo...i think I was wrong earlier. The divination said that the last person the blood was in was immune to divinations. In my haste, I assumed that John's ancestor was that person. But thinking it through, the last person would have been the _Shard_. The divination was specific but pointing in the wrong direction. 
Theresa: " 
* Eve glances at Brian, then at the viewscreen. 
DanteE: "OK... still think Courage is involved?" 
DanteE: "It was a gift specifically to me... 
* Snow finishes her meal, relatively tidily, and trots back to the others. 
* Brian gives Snow a quick pet. 
DanteE: (are you guys typing or stunned? :) 
Brian: (waiting :-P) 
Random_Nerd: (Likewise.) 
* Snow shrugs and sits. 
Theresa: (Awaiting the Powerpoint presentation. :) ) 
Brian: RH: "Hm... Snow, can you transform into half-creatures? That is, like, half-fox, half-rabbit" 
DanteE: "I'm thinking ... I'd like to do what Carrie did--try to get the history of the Estate of COurage., 
Random_Nerd: (She can't.) 
* Snow squints, and tries really hard. 
Random_Nerd: (Has to be a real terrestrial animal.) 
Brian: (that's sad. that would be amazingly fun) 
* Snow POOFS into an emu. 
Random_Nerd: (Another point or two into the gift and she could, of course.) 
Snow: "...nope." 
Brian: RH: "Aw. But cute emu." 
DanteE: "Hopefully I can do that and keep it together enough to display it on the screen there so we can all see it." 
Theresa: (She can probably turn into any Amyran creature that would be mythical in the real world.) 
Random_Nerd: (True. Amyra has "natural" animals that don't exist in real-world earth.) 
* Theresa looks concerned. "Are you sure, Dante? That was a high level vision and it took a lot out of Hope." 
DanteE: "There is, of course, one very important consideration. 
DanteE: "... 
DanteE: "...popcorn. 
Snow: "Food!" 
Brian: "... popcorn?" 
* Theresa blinks and then hands Dante a wooden bowl of popcorn. "Okay." 
Brian: "Ya know ... I miss KFC. They had these little ... popcorn chicken. Like popcorn, but chicken. That was awesome." 
DanteE: "For you guys. We'll all be seeing it." 
* Snow pecks at the popcorn. 
Snow: (I hate emus. I don't know why Snow is an emu.) 
DanteE: "Maybe you'll see details I miss." 
Snow: (They're freaky. Like the Dutch.) 
DanteE: "... ready?" 
Brian: (...) 
DanteE: (Er... remind me: GDivs are L6, right?) 
Eve: (5) 
Brian: (I'm speechless in laughter there, Sara.) 
Theresa: "Ready. I think." 
Snow: (*grin*) 
Random_Nerd: (5.) 
Random_Nerd: (Greater Divs and Lesser Destructions are 5.) 
Brian: "No hope I can get some popcorn chicken? ... Didn't think so." 
* Snow turns into a coyote for no apparent reason. *cough* 
DanteE: (So, RN: a Greater Div of the History of the Estate of Courage, shown on the screen, would show... ?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm...) 
Random_Nerd: (Give me a moment.) 
Brian: (that, Sara, would be worth Joss, if this system had it) 
* DanteE takes a minute to fine-tune the screen. 
Snow: (*grin*) 
Eve: (That's a Deep Miracle for you, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay. Now, courage first manifested itself in the world in the Second Age, some time around 450 AF.) 
* Brian provides "weee-ooo" noises of an old-style tv-land signal coming in focus. 
DanteE: (Yep, Courage 2, Deep Domain miracle) 
* DanteE dims the lights... 
Eve: (Okay, that's what I thought.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's a universal estate, not an earthly one, but it is more strongly manifest on Earth than in the average place.) 
Random_Nerd: (What sort of details are you looking for?) 
Brian: (a long drawn out image like the last one :D) 
Snow: (I'm sorry guys, I have to bail. I've got a headache, I'm so tired.) 
Eve: (Have a good night! Was good gaming with you.) 
DanteE: (Well, an overview of the whole thing--with a quick glance as to whether Kudzu was involved from the beginning--and then, a closer look at the years 1850 to now) 
Theresa: (Night Sara. Get better soon!) 
Random_Nerd: (Later, Sara.) 
Theresa: (*HUG*) 
Snow: (Sorry, thank you! I really like Eve!) 
Snow: (*hug!*) 
DanteE: (oyasumi-nasai) 
*** Snow has left #nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: (Okay. Now, it manifested itself in the world before Kudzu was openly present in Creation.) 
Random_Nerd: (Some of the issues involving how Kudzu came in show up very vaguely or not at all. The passing of the Wildlords into Creation is shrouded in mystery even to them.) 
DanteE: (Remember, there's still the is-he-a-Mimic question in our minds. :) 
Random_Nerd: (That makes aspects of this that tie into how Kudzu came to Creation, and how Courage became integrated to the world, hard to determine. Same factor as made the Hope one a while back vague.) 
Random_Nerd: (Now, you can't divine much at all about Kudzu through this. He's got a very strong auctoritas even for those things that aren't utterly undivinable.) 
* Theresa offers Eve some popcorn? 
Eve: (Word of advice here... Don't mention the Mimic thing to Carrie.) 
Theresa: (Oh? What would her reaction be? :) ) 
DanteE: (pretty much the same as the rabbit's... ) 
Random_Nerd: (It seems that the first time courage took root strongly on Earth was following the Deluge, and it got a lot more instantiated in the eleventh century AF after Kudzu became fully manifest.) 
Eve: (Remember how Carrie reacted to learning Hope didn't exist in the world from the start? Now envision how she'd react to a suspicion thaT Hope isn't a true Estate at all.) 
Random_Nerd: (From there on, Kudzu is visibly present, but you can't see the details because of how miraculous beings interact with divinations.) 
Theresa: (It's a true Estate. It's just that the person in charge of it would prefer that the Universe gets a Divide by Zero error at the end.) 
Random_Nerd: (But he shapes it, like a lead bowling ball on a rubber sheet.) 
Eve: (Mimics' Powers' estates are remnants of true estates. There's no Power of the Dry Salve.) 
Random_Nerd: (If he's a mimic, he's a mimic of some estate that died in or before the early Second Age.) 
Random_Nerd: (And you wouldn't be able to divine about that with Courage, because Courage as such would not exist that far back.) 
Theresa: (Ahh, okay, I was misunderstanding.) 
Random_Nerd: (But it's tough to tell the difference between "The early part of the Estate is vague because Wildlord estates manifest strangely" and "It's weird because Kudzu is a mimic.") 
Eve: (The Excrucians weren't even around in the Second Age, were they?) 
Random_Nerd: (They weren't invading Creation.) 
Eve: (Ahh, right.) 
Random_Nerd: (They did exist.) 
Theresa: (They had trouble finding parking.) 
Random_Nerd: (But basically, it would make some big questions if Kudzu was a mimic.) 
DanteE: (So, you're saying Kudzu is Definitely Not a Mimic?) 
Random_Nerd: (Such as, what sort of Imperator was he before, since there weren't Wildlords in Creation that far back. And, what killed that Imperator, and why?) 
Random_Nerd: (He is not /definitely/ not. It would be surprising and strange if he was.) 
Theresa: (Ow, my head.) 
Random_Nerd: (Of course, on the other hand, if he /is/ a mimic, then they picked the perfect time to slip him in.) 
Eve: (parking for Horses of the Apocalypse?) 
Brian: (since we seem to have moved OOC, is that it for the happenings of the session?) 
DanteE: (The Div is still going on) 
Random_Nerd: (He entered with the other Wildlords, or in other words, at the time of the enterance of a bunch of new Imperators governing things that were partly manifest in a different way before they came in.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, you need to give me more specifics on what you're trying to divine.) 
Random_Nerd: (Really big picture divinations will be really vague.) 
DanteE: (I did. Overview Beginning->1850, then a closer look... for reasons that should be obvious) 
Random_Nerd: (A closer look at /what/, though?) 
Random_Nerd: (Courage on Earth? Courage elsewhere? Kudzu?) 
DanteE: (Who/what was running the Estate at the time & what happened to them) 
Eve: (Nobles are immune to Divs right?) 
DanteE: (AH... Earth, please.) 
Brian: (I think he's asking this: what happened to the last Courage? Was Amyra a Chancel before? How was the Ex we killed related?) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay. Courage, on Earth, has been most strongly manifest in humanity, particularly after the Deluge.) 
DanteE: (We're the same bleedin' Domain, I ought to be able to see something) 
DanteE: (Brian's got it) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, the Amyra stuff won't really show up. The previous Courage, if there was one, would be immune to such divinations.) 
Random_Nerd: (On account of being Noble.) 
Random_Nerd: (At most, you'd be able to tell "A miracle of Courage was cast on such and such a date by... someone.") 
Eve: (That should be enough to give hints, though, right?) 
Theresa: (But that would still be info. That there was a previous someone to be Courage.) 
Eve: (Well, Kudzu's someone.) 
Theresa: (Very true.) 
DanteE: (something. :) 
Eve: (Some-many?) 
Random_Nerd: (It feels like there was. Either there was a previous Power of Courage, or Kudzu had a shard that he used to cast miracles through on a regular basis.) 
Brian: (Also, if the blood drop's path gets traced, that would be Important Information) 
DanteE: (OK, let's zero in on him, then) 
Random_Nerd: (There's no real way to tell more than that. But there were times that miracles of Courage have been cast in a time and place when Kudzu was clearly elsewhere.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, the period during which this happened the most was during the Third Age. Early third age.) 
Random_Nerd: (90% or more of the occasions were on Earth.) 
Random_Nerd: (They were not particularly localized in a particular place on earth, although they took place more often in Europe than elsewhere.) 
Eve: (We stalled, or what?) 
DanteE: (I think RN's typing....) 
Random_Nerd: (So, presumably either there wasn't a chancel, or it was a /big/ one somewhere in Europe, or the Power of Courage, if that's what he was, had more Realm than Domain and leaned on Realm more when in-chancel, or something else.) 
Random_Nerd: (Or the possibly-power had a reason not to spend much time in his Chancel, or it didn't require much miraculous maintanence...) 
Theresa: (They obviously didn't have Monty.) 
Random_Nerd: (I know I'm not providing a lot of information, but it's just that you're dealing in things that, for reasons of how Nobilis works, are pretty much intrinsically undivinable.) 
DanteE: (Or he was needed elsewhere fairly often... going by the book, early 3rd age is the building of the Roman Empire) 
Random_Nerd: (Yep. That's the basic timeframe. Late Greek/early Roman is when the Noble or Anchor started being active.) 
Brian: (Makes a lot of sense) 
Random_Nerd: (And they seem to have been active for a couple centuries.) 
DanteE: (OK, then, let's see if we can get something later... moving ahead to when the blood drop appeared) 
Random_Nerd: (So, if it was an anchor, it was a proto-Luc or something.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. When the blood drop appeared, nothing particularly unusual was happening with Courage other than stuff you yourself had been directly doing.) 
Random_Nerd: (The number of miracles of Courage had gone way up recently because of the PCs being ennobled, of course.) 
DanteE: (when it first appeared, from John's ancestor) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, hmm. Nothing unusual there. Perhaps Courage was more active than now, because there were more wars going on then than now, but nothing /supernaturally/ particularly active.) 
Random_Nerd: (He went down in a storm. You can tell that, because several people on the crew exhibited courage on the occasion. But after that, the blood doesn't show up.) 
DanteE: (Damn it, there's something I'm missing... where was Courage between Rome and Amyra?) 
Random_Nerd: (Presumably there was nobody being particularly brave on the ocean floor.) 
Random_Nerd: (An excellent question.) 
Random_Nerd: (But there's no clear answer. Now, there were /some/ miracles that don't seem to have been directly done by Kudzu then. But that's easily explained with anchors, and wouldn't require anything unusual.) 
Eve: (Answer something for me... How would an Anchor do a miracle?) 
Random_Nerd: (Their Noble or Imperator would do it through them.) 
Random_Nerd: (Or with a Focus.) 
DanteE: (This is turning into that photo-search scene from Blade Runner. "Enhance 1200 AD by Europe") 
Eve: (Or, wait. You're saying Kudzu did miracles through Anchors of his. Okay.) 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, you can't tell the difference, via such a divination, between a Noble or Imperator doing miracles through an anchor, and a Noble doing miracles himself. Both Nobles and Anchors are ineffable to divinations.) 
Brian: (He's saying it's a possibility) 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, the stuff around Rome would mean that either it was a Noble, or he /wanted/ a Noble but had a strong reason not to EnChancel, so he took an anchor or a string of them and used them in exactly the way most Imperators use Nobles.) 
Theresa: (So Kudzu could do miracles through Lesson now?) 
Random_Nerd: (So, depending on which it was, you have a question either way.) 
Random_Nerd: (No. But James could.) 
Random_Nerd: (If it was a Noble, then how did Kudzu come to be de-enchanceled?) 
DanteE: (Any such Courage miracles from 1500-1900?) 
Random_Nerd: (And if it was an Anchor, then why did Kudzu refrain from enchancelling and instead do things in an ass-backwards way?) 
Random_Nerd: (A few. But, like, a couple dozen during those centuries.) 
Brian: (Question: could we Divine previous Chancels?) 
Random_Nerd: (Whereas with the time of the possibly-Noble it was several orders of magnitude higher.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. You probably could, somehow. But I'm not sure how you would go about it.) 
Random_Nerd: (Give me a methodology, and I'll tell you if it'd work.) 
DanteE: (I'm looking at the Estate over time. If it suddenly has more protection, or seems to be located 'elsewhere' for a while, we might spot it.) 
Random_Nerd: (But a chancel wouldn't be undivinable the way a Noble or Anchor would.) 
Brian: (Divine: previous Chancel housing of Numbers?) 
Random_Nerd: (Like I said, the miracles didn't seem to localize in the way you would expect with a Chancel.) 
DanteE: (... or if the Courage miracles were co-located with 'miscellaneous' miracles form the same source.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. What are you looking for, with Numbers, in looking for a Chancel?) 
Random_Nerd: (Numbers miracles show up most often in Greece, or later on, in the middle east.) 
Brian: (Presumably, Numbers knows its "home". With a Chancel, I'm thinking I can look at the "source" in a manner of speaking.) 
Random_Nerd: (What do you mean by look at the "source"?) 
DanteE: (OK, refocus to the few years right before we were enChanceled. 
Brian: (and heh - I kind of expected that) 
Brian: (Um. Instead of looking at "where are the miracles used?" I want to look at ... "what feels more like Numbers and Growth than Earth") 
Random_Nerd: (Closest Noble canidate is Pythagoras, or at least, a guy in the Pythagorean sect.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, I don't think locations really "feel" that way.) 
Brian: (well, actually, I'm not /doing/ these yet, as I suspect they'd be Greater, but just want to know if that's possible) 
Random_Nerd: (Miraculous power doesn't move through the real world in space.) 
Random_Nerd: (Or, rather, it does so through the Spirit World, but not the prosaic or mythic ones.) 
Brian: (I do want to do this one: Realm Div on what makes our Chancel a Chancel) 
Random_Nerd: (The answer is a combination of "Kudzu" and "Divination within soul of an Imperator, divide by zero error.") 
Random_Nerd: (The thing that makes a chancel a chancel takes place entirely within the soul of an Imperator.) 
Random_Nerd: (At least, if you're talking about what the defining characteristic of a Chancel is, rather than how they come to be.) 
Brian: (That's what I'm talking about) 
Brian: (the fundamental "Is") 
DanteE: (Hm... could a Greater Div of Realm tell us if we were enChanceled before?) 
Random_Nerd: (No.) 
Random_Nerd: (You can't do Realm divinations farther back in time than Amyra was enchanceled.) 
Random_Nerd: (Beyond there, there isn't a thing that you can divine on.) 
DanteE: (OK, back to my ongoing Div... 
Random_Nerd: (It's like looking for things in the vicinity of a whale, in outer space.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, if you want to get anything more out of that, you're going to need to put in some more MPs.) 
Random_Nerd: (As it is, it's already like six divinations in a row.) 
DanteE: (There was one time when we know Kudzu was checking out the place... when I was in the fight where I lost the eye.) 
* Brian sends a message to William over the bbs "Can I get you or Sam to look into whether or not Kudzu's been enChancelled before?" 
Random_Nerd: You get the feeling of a nod back. 
Random_Nerd: (I believe you asked them about that before, and they said that if there was, they didn't know about it.) 
Random_Nerd: (But he'll look over their information again.) 
Brian: (I don't believe I was there for that, or if I was, I can't remember it) 
DanteE: (Div still going, or over? I'm not sure what to ask.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's over.) 
* Brian adds further information "We think that a Noble of Courage was active around when the Romans were expanding. Can you look into that as well?" 
Random_Nerd: (Really, it should have been over some time ago, but trying to figure out where one div would start and another end in that would melt my brain.) 
Random_Nerd: You get the tingle of an incoming prayer. 
Brian: (I'll listen) 
* DanteE Hellos 
Random_Nerd: William: "That's very interesting. Do you mind if I pass that information to our Oracle, so our research staff can also look into it?" 
DanteE: (Who got the prayer?) 
Random_Nerd: (Brian.) 
Brian: bbs: "Go ahead." 
DanteE: "So... what did you guys get from that?" 
Theresa: "Confusion." 
* DanteE turns up the lights. 
Brian: "I've asked William to look into things, giving him a bit of a target in time - the Roman expansion" 
Theresa: "That there was very possibly another Courage before you, Dante. Which would mean that Kudzu had a Chancel earlier than Amyra." 
DanteE: "Let me see if I remember my Roman history... 
Brian: "Which raises the question: what happened to it?" 
Random_Nerd: (Now, of course, the farther you go back before the founding of the Aides, the sketchier their information is, but they'll try.) 
Brian: "Also, I wonder how accurate the original myths about Rome were?" 
* Theresa will create a piece of handmade paper with the words on it to Samuel. "Do you know of any ways that can dis-Enchancel an Imperator without killing said Imperator?" 
DanteE: "Romans fought with Aegyptos... conquered it ... 1st century AD. 
DanteE: "Nubia was ... ahhhhh ... 
Brian: "If the Internet still worked, I'd say look it up on Wikipedia." 
DanteE: "... what would you say about hooking us up?" 
Brian: "Can't be done? Needs constant data transfers between Chancel and not-Chancel, and I don't know of a way yet to do that" 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and one other thing to point out. If it /wasn't/ a Noble, you can't tell whether it was one long-lived anchor, a string of them, or even several concurrently) 
Brian: "I mean, it's a lot of effort making sure my simple queries work - there's a /lot/ of traffic" 
Random_Nerd: (For that matter, even if it /was/ a Noble, some of those miracles may have been done through an Anchor.) 
Brian: (granted) 
* Theresa will wait a little bit and then do a LDiv on the paper to see if Sam's written anything back. 
Random_Nerd: (On the paper, Samuel has written "Impereal miracle, or some sort of Rite. Probably something involving sacrifice in large scales, if it's the latter.") 
DanteE: (How large? 
Theresa: *writes back* "Is there any history of such a thing happening before? And large scale as in what is needed to make a Chancel, plague, or genocide?" 
DanteE: (...the Romans were 'sacrificing' Christians by the boatload 3rd-4th centuries) 
Brian: (2nd-3rd, no?) 
Random_Nerd: Sam's writing: "If it's happened before, we don't know about it. And at least on the scale of the sacrifices needed to make a Chancel in the first place, possible more." 
DanteE: (Nero's reign, mainly) 
DanteE: (ah... 1st century & later) 
DanteE: (Wait... about what years did it look like there was a Chancel?) 
Brian: (but went up, and then sharply down, as they started genociding others) 
Random_Nerd: (Nero wasn't the only one, of course. They weren't big on minority religions with insurrectionist tendencies back then.) 
DanteE: (Neither was the Church... but that's a tangent.) 
Theresa: *to the others* "I asked Sam what it would take to deChancel a place. There's no solid evidence, but he thinks it would take a Rite or some Imperial miracle. And it would probably take a lot of deaths to do it, possibly even more than what was needed to make the Chancel in the first place." 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, of couse. For that matter they aren't too popular today.) 
Theresa: (Was the other time that you mentioned, the time in Europe..was it close to the Black Death?) 
Brian: "Roughly what I expected. Question results: did Kudzu do it himself? If so, why? If not, then who, and for what reason?" 
Brian: "For the final question of ... will he do that to us?" 
Random_Nerd: (This is partly connected to the fact that most of the rites that involve changing the soul of an imperator or a Noble involve death. The Enchanceling rite, the Redtooth rite, the RIte of Rescue, the lesser and greater forms of Excruciation, and so on.) 
Brian: "Hypothesis: Kudzu feels enChancelment is a form of cage - it ties him down to one spot, and to specific individuals" 
* Theresa shrugs. "He seems to be very fond of change." 
DanteE: "That makes sense. As much as anything involving Kudzu makes sense..." 
Brian: "If that is the case, then the reason that we are here now is that he needs us. Likely so he can divert his attention elsewhere." 
Random_Nerd: (Also, he tends to do violence to himself on occasion, and to think of you guys as extensions of himself.) 
Brian: (the great thing about Wild is that I can use my logic sometimes, when it befits me :p) 
Theresa: (Ow.) 
Brian: (for being unable to use logic is as caging as it is to only be able to use logic) 
Random_Nerd: (Do you mind if we stop here?) 
Random_Nerd: (It's getting late.) 
Brian: (I'm fine with stopping) 
Theresa: (Brain mush. Glad Etheric's back. Murloc-brainsounds.) 
Eve: (Stopping is fine with me.) 
DanteE: (OK.) 
Random_Nerd: ________________STOP___________________ 
Random_Nerd: Thoughts? 
*** Eve is now known as Etheric. 
Etheric: Remind me what a Murloc is? 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Random_Nerd: Warcraft thing. They make a particular gurgle. 
Etheric: Ah. 
Etheric: Oh, those. I remember now. 
Random_Nerd: (Link: http://www.owlboy.com/wowwiki/mMurlocAggroB.mp3)http://www.owlboy.com/wowwiki/mMurlocAggroB.mp3 
Theresa: Distinct enough that if you have it as a ringtone, you can see who plays Warcraft in a crowd by seeing who jumps. :) 
Etheric: LOL! 
Theresa: I am very interested in seeing more of this Eve and finding out what all happened while Hope was gone. 
Etheric: Eve is basically my response to Carrie feeling like a rut. Although there's more to it than that. 
Theresa: Oh? 
*** Brian is now known as Lazarus. 
Etheric: Well, the "more to it" is secret. 
Random_Nerd: Mysteeeeerious. 
Etheric: I still like Carrie and she will be back. How exactly is also a secret. 
Lazarus: how do you like my flipping between logic-is-good and logic-is-evil? 
Etheric: It's amusing. 
Etheric: Are you large enough to contain multitudes? 
Lazarus: hrm? 
Etheric: Walt Whitman reference. 
Lazarus: ah. 
Knockwood: Oscar Wilde, not Whitman. 
Knockwood: I think... 
Etheric: "Do I contradict myself? So I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes." 
Etheric: It is Whitman. 
Etheric: Song of Myself. 
Random_Nerd: Sounds more like Whitman to me. 
Etheric: I can get the exact line number if people care to wait for me to dig the book up. 
Random_Nerd: Besides, Wilde is one of those people, like Dennis Miller, that tend to accumulate quote attributations. 
Etheric: Who's Dennis Miller? 
Theresa: A sarcastic comedian who used to be on Saturday Night Live. Very caustic and ranty at times. But with a dry wit. 
Random_Nerd: Anything you guys particularly liked or disliked about the GMing this session? 
Lazarus: the Miracle wasn't as detailed and awesome as the Hope one :p 
Knockwood: Pixelbitching. 
Lazarus: (then again, I figure you had weeks to plan the previous one) 
Knockwood: Granted, there's IC reasons, but still... 
Lazarus: kwd: I don't particularly see that here. The problem is that we're trying to divine fundamentally undevinable stuff. 
Lazarus: one of the things about Nobilis is the figuring out how and what to ask and look for. 
Etheric: I'ding off... Have fun, all. 
Theresa: Well, all, my brain is fried and I have work tomorrow. Welcome back, Etheric! *HUG*

Session 68

2007-10-04T03:33:29Z

BethDragon:

BethE: I had had the OOC idea of doing a div on the blood drop to see the events around when it was shed. And that might show who shed it and where and so forth. 
lazarus: can people catch me up? 
Random_Nerd: That could be done, assuming it was shed in-chancel. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, what was the last session you were at? Trying to recall. 
BethE: *nod* And if it fails, we know it was shed out of chancel. But could a div be done of "Show us the last half hour of the time whomever shed this blood was in the place occupied by the chancel? 
lazarus: when Sara was in Toronto, and Etheric wasn't sure if he was coming back, it was a chatty session. 
BethE: Hi Scribe! *HUG* 
BethE: Whoops, wrong window. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm... yes, you could, as a greater divination. 
lazarus: I don't particularly know where we were in the plot - my memory is ... not there. 
*** Knockwood has joined #nobilis. 
BethE: Hi Knock! 
Knockwood: Hiya Beth 
Sara: Hey Knock! 
Knockwood: Hi Sara 
lazarus: hey kw 
*** Mode change "+o Knockwood" for channel #nobilis by lazarus. 
Random_Nerd: So, let's see. They found out some things about the drop of blood, and the maple. 
Knockwood: Hi laz 
BethE: Well, Will is getting married but has Snow sleeping in his bed, Sam thinks we're all nuts for having only two ways of seeing things, John's interested in religious books, the Maple is a spy to find out if Kudzu is a Mimic...did I miss anything? Oh and Horse got Monty's room. 
Random_Nerd: Also, that stuff. 
lazarus: who's Will? 
BethE: William. 
Random_Nerd: William. 
lazarus: oh, right. 
lazarus: Horse is another new name 
Random_Nerd: It's the horse. 
lazarus: (Will is "new" as in - never seen as "will" before, only "william") 
Sara: He's a horse. 
lazarus: and we have a horse? 
Knockwood: you know, the one that could kill everybody. 
Random_Nerd: Yep. Snow anchored a horse. 
lazarus: ah 
lazarus: that would explain it :p 
lazarus: I think last I was at, we were still in Mexico (or somewhere not-Chancel) 
BethE: Yeah, after Mexico, we came home and recovered for about a week. most of us have started doing Holy Fire rite. 
Knockwood: didn't we all agree to do Holy Fire? 
lazarus: what's Holy Fire? (Sorry, my memory's blanked out of a lot of Nobilis stuff recently, am getting back to normal, though :p) 
BethE: *nod* But I don't know if Brian would want to start it. :) Although seeing the beating we took was enough for me. 
BethE: The 'I do this rite once a week and no one can nuke me. An Imperator does it once a decade and no one can write nasty graffitti about him on the other side of the universe." 
Knockwood: laz: it's required if you want to roast Cosmic Marshmallows. 
lazarus: ah 
Sara: Snow won't do it. Too forward-thinking for her. 
Sara: She might do it the first time the others do, though. 
Knockwood: BTW, Sara, have you done anything with the char point you got from that last adventure? 
Sara: Yup! Made swallowing things free. Cost me 1 DMP before. 
BethE: Snow's at the level of Spirit that Holy Fire would just stop big-level things, like nukes, I think. 
Knockwood: I was gonna suggest Durant 
Random_Nerd: Durant's always good. 
Sara: *nods* Maybe next time. 
Random_Nerd: Durant just lacks the flair of eating a small tiger? 
Sara: Damn right. 
Sara: So! Shall we? 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
BethE: rstand. 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
Theresa: Brian would be able to tell where we are, right? John's library? 
DanteE: (BTW, I thought of a way we _might_ be able to defend ourselves against those damn Ex miracles) 
Random_Nerd: Correct. 
Brian: (question: what was Brian up to during this me-away time? Some way that getting caught up a bit better would work?) 
Random_Nerd: Now, I'm recovering from the flu, so if I'm behind on responding or gibber madly to cthonic gods, please, be patient 
Snow: (Guarding the horses.) 
Theresa: (Not _the_ Horse, but horses.) 
DanteE: (Income Taxes drained his time & energy. :) 
Theresa: (I can see Brian coming home from Mexico and just holing up, like after Monty.) 
Brian: (true) 
DanteE: (Then again, it could be income taxes. 
DanteE: (When else are Numbers going to be extremely important, yet need defending?) 
Brian: (we run the place. The money is ours. No income taxes for us :-P) 
Brian: (oh, true) 
DanteE: (OBTW: (Link: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=317765)http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=317765 ) 
DanteE: (RN, you should contribute to that) 
Theresa: (*looks*) 
Brian: (psst: Beth, there's a chance to show off your AP thread again ;) ) 
DanteE: (Also, tangent: I've finished putting up the first run of Navero on the Wiki.) 
Brian: (you were apparently going on about that last time I was around :-P My scrollback says so ;)) 
DanteE: (and my connection's a little slow, so if I suddenly disappear that may be why) 
Theresa: (Yeah, but I wouldn't put it as recommended reading. I scare a lot of people with my logs.) 
Random_Nerd: (I probably will contribute to it, once I figure out what to say.) 
Random_Nerd: (So, cut to the PCs still talking with John, or on their way back, or what?) 
Snow: (Hm...Snow was done with him. You guys?) 
DanteE: (We haven't decided what to do... 
DanteE: (He rejected the idea of cloning his ancestor, but we were trying to think of a way he could acfcess his memories) 
Theresa: (I think it might be helpful to have him around for the divs on the blood drop. Ghost miracles can make the div visible. Plus, he might like seeing his ancestor(s).) 
DanteE: (Tpyo! There you are!) 
DanteE: (Wasn't Snow doing a Div+Ghost to show him said ancestor?) 
Snow: (Ah, that's right!) 
Theresa: (*nod* We just hadn't fine-tuned it yet.) 
Random_Nerd: (Let's see, how exactly did you intend to do that?) 
Snow: (Based on the DNA in the blood drop?) 
DanteE: (That's where it bogged down, cuz we were trying to translate genetic theory 101 to coyote. :) 
Brian: (I'll save my questions about the blooddrop for when Brian gets back in the group) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay. You can do something that'd show you what the guy whose blood it was would look like physically, based on the genetics.) 
Theresa: (My idea was that we look at the Realm around the blood drop for about a half hour either way when the blood was shed if shed in Chancel or the last half-hour or so of time the person who shed the blood was in the Chancel.) 
Random_Nerd: (Start with Brian arriving to where the others are for some reason? 
Random_Nerd: ) 
Theresa: (Sounds good to me.) 
Brian: (I figured he'd be in the tower, in his office, and the group come in, or something ... group find him, rather than opposite. But whatever) 
Snow: (Snow'll try based on what the DNA makes him look like, unless someone suggests otherwise.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, then, cut to the group, with Brian off doing his thing.) 
Random_Nerd: _________________START________________ 
* Snow ghost-creates a three dimensional, life-size, anatomically correct version of what the adult blood donor looked like. 
Theresa: (With clothes?) 
Snow: (Clothes are for humans.) 
Snow: (Not coyotes.) 
DanteE: (Or... you could show him at the time he bled the drop) 
Snow: (Not if he bled it out of chancel.) 
DanteE: (Then it wouldn't be _in_ the chancel, would it?) 
Theresa: "Uh, Snow...some clothes might help John identify this person a little better..." 
Theresa: (It could have been brought in at a later date?) 
* Snow shrugs, and puts a copy of John's clothes on the ghost image. 
DanteE: (yeah, but why?) 
Snow: (*nod*) 
Random_Nerd: (Just tell me exactly what you're trying to do, and I'll tell you what happens.) 
Theresa: "Thank you, Snow. What do you think, John?" 
Snow: (For now, an image of what the DNA would have made an adult with that DNA looked like.) 
Snow: (If that makes sense.) 
DanteE: (Confuse you. How's it working? :D ) 
Snow: (You guys want something else, explain it to Snow. ;) ) 
DanteE: "I assume you have a portrait or daguerreotype of him... 
Random_Nerd: (Okay. The image looks like a man... say, twenty, assuming you'd create the image at early adulthood, of european descent. Vague similarity to John, enough that it's plausible that they be related.) 
Theresa: (Hmm..how coherent is the spirit of the blood drop?) 
Random_Nerd: (What do you mean?) 
Snow: (It's just a ghost image.) 
Snow: (She didn't make any brainses.) 
Snow: "You know this guy?" 
Theresa: (If I talk to the spirit of the blood drop, not Snow's image, in the Mythic way, can it answer questions?) 
Random_Nerd: J: "I'm not sure. He looks vaguely familiar." 
Random_Nerd: (It presumably could, if it knew the answers.) 
Random_Nerd: (And it wanted to.() 
* Theresa talks to the blood-drop spirit. "Blood-drop, do you know where you are?" 
Theresa: (Oh, there's the kicker. ;P ) 
* Snow will force the ghost image to mimic the mythic-speaker, so John can see it as well. 
Random_Nerd: Blood: "Here." 
Theresa: "Is this the same here as when you were first created?" 
DanteE: "Do you have an image of ... who was that, John the 19th?" 
Random_Nerd: "I don't think so." 
Random_Nerd: (That, the drop.) 
Random_Nerd: J: "Well, there are painting and so on. And a statue. But nothing that you might call photorealistic." 
Random_Nerd: J: "I'm fairly sure that some of the official ones of me have me riding a horse, with a lance under my arm." 
Theresa: *to bd* "Do you remember when you were created?" 
Snow: "I've got a horse. You should see it. It makes people disappear." 
Random_Nerd: John gives Theresa and Dante a worried look. 
* Snow looks chipper. 
Random_Nerd: J: "Horses don't do that much here. The only things we have here that make people disappear are organized crime, and they've been lying rather low lately." 
Random_Nerd: Blood drop: "I don't think so. What does being created feel like?" 
Snow: "Yeaaaah, we took care of them. That wasn't the horse though. The horse is new." 
Brian: (brb. cheese.) 
Random_Nerd: J: "So the horse is not a mobster. Good to know." 
Theresa: "You're suddenly aware of new surroundings. You can point at a moment and say that that is when you came to be." 
Snow: "Nope. Just a horse. Well. MY horse. But still a horse." 
Theresa: (I'm philosophizing with a bit of hemoglobin. Go me...) 
Theresa: *to John, absentmindedly* "Snow brought home a..friend from Mexico." 
Random_Nerd: J: "This is going to be one of /those/ conversations?" 
Random_Nerd: Samuel: "Yep." 
* Snow yawns widely. 
Theresa: *to the blooddrop* "We are trying to find out more about the human that you came from." 
Snow: "You wanna show me something interesting while these guys talk?" *stage-whispered* "They talk a LOT." 
Brian: (b) 
Random_Nerd: Blood Drop: "He's dead." 
DanteE: "Don't you guys get Official Portraits?" 
Theresa: *to bd* "Do you know his name?" 
Random_Nerd: John: "Yes. Generally several." 
Random_Nerd: BD: "What's a name?" 
DanteE: "Got one of him?" 
* Theresa frowns, a bit frustrated. "Snow, could you do another divination for me?" 
Random_Nerd: John: "Yes. We have those here in the palace, actually. At least, the recent ones." 
* Snow perks. "Sure!" 
Theresa: "Okay, I have just one more question for the drop here and then I have a different idea. Okay, blood drop...did the human you came from die around the same time that you left his body?" 
DanteE: "OK. Let's see, if this is the guy who died in 1870, he'd be ... JOhn the 19th? Or 18th?" 
Random_Nerd: (I honestly can't recall which number I gave earlier, but Dante would remember it.) 
Random_Nerd: (18th sounds right, though.) 
* Snow creates ghost images of the paintings and statues and other pieces of art of John the 18th around the room. 
Snow: (Sorry, the other pieces of art in the chancel.) 
Random_Nerd: (They look broadly similar to the image created, except for that they tend to be taller, more muscular, and sometimes to have a holy halo of light and divine authority.) 
DanteE: "Looks like we have a winner." 
Random_Nerd: (It's not conclusive proof, but at least it seems to fit.) 
Random_Nerd: Blood Drop: "No, he died a long time before." 
Theresa: *blink* 
DanteE: (OK, so... describe this blood drop's physical appearance again?) 
Random_Nerd: (It's a shiny teardrop-shaped translucent red thing.) 
Theresa: "Okay...so this drop was shed from a long dead body. Nice preservation, blood drop." 
Random_Nerd: BD: "Thanks." 
DanteE: (OK, how's this sound: 'expand' the drop into, say, a cube, and fix it so that someone touching it can access the memories of the drop's owner?) 
Theresa: "Snow, can you focus on this droplet...and divine the last half-hour or so of the time spent in the Chancel by the person whose blood this is?" 
Snow: (Can she, RN?) 
Random_Nerd: (She can try, but it won't work for a specific reason that she'll find out if she tries.) 
Theresa: (Still, no response is a response. :) ) 
* Snow tries! 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. How would you do that, exactly, Dante? Realm Lesser Change?) 
Random_Nerd: (It doesn't work, because the last time it was in-chancel in a person, said person had a noble-like immunity to direct miracles.) 
Random_Nerd: (But you can tell that fact.) 
DanteE: (RN: Realm GDiv with included LCh) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm...) 
Random_Nerd: (No, I don't think that would work with Realm.) 
Snow: "Can't do it. Last time he was in the chancel, he was like...regular miracles couldn't affect him." 
Random_Nerd: (Largely for the last reason given.) 
Random_Nerd: S: "That is so not a good thing." 
DanteE: "... John's descended from Noble nobles?" 
Theresa: "You mean he was a...Noble? That would make sense...you can't divine things about Nobles...or Anchors after they've been anchored. Or Excrucians...or descended from Imperators..." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Or his ancestor was Anchored by someone, or something like that." 
Random_Nerd: S: "But at any rate, it's gotten complicated." 
Random_Nerd: J, to Theresa: "I have basically no clue what you're talking about." 
Theresa: (Only _now_ complicated? :) ) 
Snow: "It means he was like us." 
Theresa: *to John* "Beings like us...or the people that are a part of us like Carrie's parents are to her. Or if you are the offspring of someone like Kudzu." 
Random_Nerd: J: "That's not good." 
Theresa: "It could explain why he left Amyra and died far away from here." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Although I don't precisely /dislike/ your god, I'd still rather that that wasn't the case." 
Theresa: (Would we be able to tell if John is descended from Imperator-ity?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Probably, unless it was a long time ago. And it doesn't seem that he is.) 
Random_Nerd: (John appears to be a baseline human, with only vaguely more Impereal blood than the average human.) 
* Theresa looks at Dante. "Dante, the messenger said that the drop was specifically for you?" 
DanteE: (We've looked him over with The Sight, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Also, the blood drop seems to have come from a likewise baseline human.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, if you haven't, you can now.) 
DanteE: "You were there, Theresa. He gave it specifically to me." 
* DanteE checks everything out with The Sight 
Theresa: "Yes, but I'm old and possibly my mind is going on me. What if this blood drop is from a former version of yourself? Or an anchor of Courage or Blades?" 
DanteE: "...if he was Noble at the time he bled I wouldn't have gotten squat when I did the Divination" 
DanteE: "oh, wait... 
DanteE: "...I _didn't_ get him... I just got similarity to John's DNA." 
Random_Nerd: (John is not Noble. Nor is the drop of blood.) 
DanteE: "Let's try this... we've been concentrating on the _person_... what if we try getting the _event_? 
DanteE: "Snow... can you give us a picture of when this drop was first shed? 
* Snow scrunches up her face and tries to do so. 
Random_Nerd: (The time when the drop of blood was first shed did not take place in-chancel. The time when it was most recently shed did.) 
Random_Nerd: (You can do the latter one, if you want.) 
Snow: (She'll do that, then.) 
Random_Nerd: (It was most recently shed when an Excrucian of the Strategists was stabbed by the Holy Lance.) 
Random_Nerd: (You can't tell what it was doing inside the body of the Excrucian, but outside of the body it's divinable without penetration due to the funkiness of Strategist auctoriti.) 
DanteE: (She ate him?!?" 
DanteE: ) 
Theresa: (Do Strategists have any honoring stuff like the Warmains do?) 
Random_Nerd: (In theory, one could perform the Tempering if they wanted to. For that matter, a Noble could. But it is not a thing that the Strategists tend to do.) 
* Snow looks pensive. "Okay, so...there was an Excrucian, and...well, here." She uses the RH to put the information in their minds. 
* Theresa nods, "Yes, that's what happened with the Strategist." 
DanteE: "John... your ancestor fought Excrucian Shards. And lost. And was considered enough of an opponent for her to use him in a Tempering." 
* Theresa eyeballs Dante. "That's a wild jump there..." 
Random_Nerd: J: "I'll just nod and pretend that I know what you mean, and then ask Will later." 
Random_Nerd: John nods. 
Theresa: "I mean, she could have just liked keeping trophies. We know that she didn't _look_ like Ancient-John." 
Random_Nerd: (And if she was tempered with him, she would, at least to some degree.) 
DanteE: "How else would she have _bled_ his blood?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "Blood transfusion?" 
Random_Nerd: J, to S: "Or is that a stupid idea?" 
Theresa: (Did the blood drop come out liquid or solid?) 
Random_Nerd: Samuel shrugs. 
Random_Nerd: (Came out liquid, then solidified.) 
Snow: (Could Snow use a ghost-div to put the information in John's head, without breaking him?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... yes. It'll be a bit vague, but it'll work fairly well.) 
Random_Nerd: (What information, specifically, are you putting in?) 
Snow: (Basically, what Will would explain to him later?) 
Theresa: "...okay, you have me there. But Temporing John's ancestor seems more of a stretch than trophy-blood-keeping. It could be that this Excrucian's veins were like very long pockets?" 
Snow: (Regarding the excrucians, tempering, stuff like that.) 
DanteE: (That's a Realm LCreate, isn't it?) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay.) 
DanteE: "Why would she do that?" 
Snow: (Is it a LC?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, she can make a fuzzy impression of it, like if you'd studied it the night before when tired and slightly drunk, with a ghost.) 
Snow: (That's probably the best Snow could do. She doesn't...think...very clearly.) 
Theresa: *thinks* "Maybe that's how she got into the Artifact room. The treasures recognized his blood as being of the keeping bloodline and let her pass?" 
* Snow goes over to John in her human form, snuffles his collar a bit, and puts this vague, drunken information in John's head. 
Random_Nerd: J: "If that was the idea, I don't think it worked perfectly." 
Random_Nerd: J: "What with the holy stabbing and the melting." 
DanteE: "Wait... that only happened when we went in." 
Theresa: "Well, we helped with that. She might not have gotten stabbed if we hadn't been there. Or it might have just taken longer for her to go acid-washed." 
Random_Nerd: John just shrugs. 
Random_Nerd: J: "Could be. I don't know. Holy relics don't come with an operator's manual." 
DanteE: "... any damage to the room or artifacts from ... that?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "As far as I can tell, the room is currently about the same as it was before. The arifacts seem more... restless, I guess. Aware, somehow." 
DanteE: "Restless?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "I don't know . Sometimes they just seem like inanimate objects. Since that thing got in, they seem like they're watching me." 
Theresa: "Has the Lance ever bled before?" 
DanteE: "We know it's _drawn_ blood..." 
Random_Nerd: John: "I've never seen it do so." 
Random_Nerd: J: "It's bloody in some of the old paintings, but that may be artistic license." 
Theresa: "I guess it depends on whether the blood came from the Lance or from the Shard." 
DanteE: "Let's analyze this. Whoever's blood this is is probably John the 18th, but we can't be 100% sure because he has the Noble protection against scrying. 
Theresa: "Check." 
DanteE: "We _do_ know that it reappeared X days ago, and apparently came from an Excrucian Shard who slipped into the Holy Vault and was skewered by the Holy Lance." 
* Snow curls up on the ground. 
DanteE: (what does Message look like?) 
Random_Nerd: (*steeples fingers*) 
Snow: "Aaaaaand why does this matter? Shouldn't we leave that stuff alone?" 
DanteE: "We would is we could, pup." 
Random_Nerd: (Message looked broadly human, other than a slightly metalic red skintone and a vaguely Excrucian look to his cheekbones.) 
DanteE: *if 
Snow: "Why can't we?" 
DanteE: (was Message from the Excrucian having the Sacrosanct curse?) 
DanteE: "Because they're involved, and under our care." 
Random_Nerd: (Maybe!) 
Theresa: "Because it's important to find out how the Shard got into the Chancel...into the Treasures room...without anyone finding out until almost too late. And plus, what does your heart (Code) tell you about getting a gift without giving something back?" 
Random_Nerd: (That's one theory that's consistant with the facts.) 
Snow: "Oh." 
DanteE: (... does he have that same Noble immunity?) 
Random_Nerd: (He does not.) 
Snow: "Well, I made a guy to guard the border. Won't that help?" 
DanteE: "You did?" 
Random_Nerd: (She spent her Chancel points on a borderguard.) 
DanteE: "The drop... may have been an attempt to screw with me specifically, since I'm the one that challenged her." 
Theresa: "Wouldn't be surprised." 
DanteE: "Wait a sec. Snow... can you trace this drop in between the two bodies it was apparently in?" 
Random_Nerd: (Nope. Wasn't in-chancel for that.) 
* Snow nods. 
Snow: (Oh, to the former question, sorry.) 
Snow: "It's big. Icy. It'll eat things." 
Theresa: "I'd...like to meet it, later." 
Snow: "Sure." *languid stretch* 
DanteE: "... got any diaries or similar papers from John the 18th?" 
Random_Nerd: John thinks. 
Random_Nerd: J: "I believe a few of his letters were collected by some historical society." 
DanteE: "Anything odd in those?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "I don't believe so. Nothing I'm aware of, at any rate." 
Brian: (couldn't a Realm Div of "stuff in the letters" work?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
* DanteE does a LRDiv of those letters. (1 RMP, IIRC) 
Random_Nerd: (Looking for what?) 
DanteE: (Language indicating something amazing yet unexplainable happened.) 
Random_Nerd: (Nothing like that, unless you deal with what he wrote on meeting the woman he would later have a torrid affair with.) 
Theresa: (Does the history books have much to say about the affair?) 
DanteE: (... you guys pondering what I'm pondering?) 
Brian: (we're dealing with spawn-of-king-and-excrucian?) 
Theresa: (I think so, Dante, but where would Snow get such a huuuuge olive?) 
Brian: (Joss to T) 
Snow: (Heh.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not much to say about the affair, no. Royal affairs are seen as something of an embarassment, and aren't focused on much.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's relevant only in that it produced a branch of minor nobility.) 
Random_Nerd: (At least, if you ask them.) 
Theresa: (Minor nobility? Are they still around?) 
DanteE: (Well, wait. If it was actually her blood we'd get images of her.) 
DanteE: (It looks like it's actually John-18's blood.) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct. The blood is male, and human.) 
Random_Nerd: (It seems, nonetheless, to have spent some time in the body of someone who was neither.) 
Random_Nerd: (And yes, they're still around.) 
DanteE: (in Amyra or on Earth?) 
Random_Nerd: (Amyra.) 
Theresa: "Actually...I'm feeling bogged down with the blood drop. How about we go meet Snow's border guard and come back to this with a fresh brain?" 
Snow: (Can Snow do a ghost-div of who that person is?) 
Theresa: (Oh, never mind. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (Really, could we stop here? We all seem a bit braindead.) 
Theresa: (It sounds okay with me.) 
DanteE: (But we haven't completely anatomized this goofy plot tangent like a frog in Bio class! :) 
Brian: (heh) 
Snow: (Works for me.) 
DanteE: (OK.) 
Brian: (I'm fine with it) 
Snow: Whoops, I meant to take some sleepy-pills before this. Gotta run, guys! *love!* 
*** Snow is now known as Sara. 
Random_Nerd: ________________STOP____________ 
*** Sara has left #nobilis. 
Theresa: (Everyone loves dirty laundry.) 
DanteE: g'night pup. :) 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
*** Brian is now known as Lazarus. 
Theresa: Darn, missed. 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
BethE: SOrry I was so off the ball tonight. 
Knockwood: OK, question: is this a thing where: a) we're not asking the right questions, b) we're heading down the wrong path, c) we won't be able to figure it out without more RPing, or d) you're pulling this out of your (bleep)? :) 
Random_Nerd: Well... 
Random_Nerd: I know what's going on here. 
Random_Nerd: And it seems to me like you've figured out most of it... and yet you still seem really puzzled. 
Random_Nerd: So I'm not sure. 
Random_Nerd: Could you tell me what you currently think is the case, and why you think it? 
Knockwood: Beth, you take it. 
Knockwood: or Laz. 
Lazarus: I don't remember the stabbing well enough, but my impression was that the blood was from the spear itself. 
Knockwood: nope, the Div says it was in her. 
Lazarus: did it? 
Knockwood: yep, it was in John-18, then it was shed again from the Shard 
BethE: Okay, from my end - it's that this is the blood of one of John's ancestors, who died away from the Chancel. The last time that that person was in the Chancel, they were protected from divs. This blood drop is important, possibly most important to Dante. This leads me to believe that the ancestor was either connected to the Shard we killed (as Dante is the one who killed her with the Lance) or it's possible that he was an Anchor/Noble involved (romantically?) with the Shard or maybe in a fight with her. 
Lazarus: h, ok. 
BethE: (Did any of that cut off?) 
Lazarus: (Anchor/Noble is last) 
BethE: Anchor/Noble involved (romantically?) with the Shard or maybe in a fight with her. 
Knockwood: Technically, I didn't kill her, the Lance animated and killed her. 
BethE: So, how's that, anyone? 
BethE: *scrolls up and rereads* 
Lazarus: I suspect Anchor romantically involved with the Shard 
Lazarus: likely, Anchor of former Blades 
Lazarus: er, Courage. 
Knockwood: hm... (Beth, what's RN's opinion of Romeo & Juliet?) 
Lazarus: I suspect, making a leap, that the Shard killed the former Courage. 
BethE: Oh, I see now...I asked about the person whose blood this is. The answer was that "the last time it was in-chancel in a person, said person had a noble-like immunity to direct miracles". The person the blood was in that was in the Chancel...was the Shard. So John's ancestor could have been just plain. 
BethE: (Knock - dunno, never asked.) 
Lazarus: This screwed up the Anchor, having to choose between his lover and his "master". 
Lazarus: He ended up foolishly challenging the Shard, and dying at her hand, as she weeped a tear. 
Knockwood: the Shard in the Vault was a Strategist, right? 
Random_Nerd: Correct. 
Lazarus: Thus why she would keep his blood around :p 
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Random_Nerd: (What'd I miss after "strategist, right?") 
Lazarus: (11:50:13 PM) Random_Nerd: Correct. 
Lazarus: (11:50:19 PM) Lazarus: Thus why she would keep his blood around :p 
Random_Nerd: (Okay.) 
Lazarus: (so, how close are my completely wild assertions? 
Lazarus: ) 
Random_Nerd: I'll just say it now, in order to cut off any wrong-tree-barking. The affair in John's ancestor's past means entirely nothing of relevance. 
Knockwood: OK, that could mean Kudzu tried making Amyra a chancel before. 
Knockwood: or ... 
Knockwood: (!) 
Lazarus: aw, but we like sordid affairs fraught with complications! 
Knockwood: The tree is here because a _Mimic_ of Kudzu made Amyra a chancel before! 
BethE: Wouldn't that mean that the real Kudzu is dead? 
Knockwood: There is the possibility that it's the other way around... 
Random_Nerd: And Kudzu is... alive? 
Knockwood: no, that John-18 was the Courage Noble of the actual Kudzu, and we're the "Nobles" of the Mimic-Kudzu. 
BethE: That our Kudzu killed off the mimic...but the mimic would have to be Kudzu because Mimic is just an outlook on the end of the Universe, not a mask? 
BethE: Huh. 
Random_Nerd: Well, okay, here's how a Mimic works. 
Random_Nerd: Let's say there's Bubbah, Imperator of Horses and Potatoes. 
Random_Nerd: An excrucian jumps out of the bushes and stabs Bubbah in the face, killing him, and then drags the body off somewhere. 
Random_Nerd: He starts with the whole Rite of Excruciation, which would turn Bubbah into a full Excrucian, but then something makes him think he doesn't have enough time, so he does the fast version. 
Random_Nerd: Tomorrow, Robert, Imperator of Transportation, Farming, Domesticated Animals, and Vodka shows up and pretends he's been around all along, or possibly has spent most of his time somewhere far away. Robert is a mimic, and although he's an Imperator in most ways, he's loyal to the Excrucians. 
Random_Nerd: Does that make sense? 
Lazarus: *nod* 
Knockwood: so, if John-18 and I were from different Kudzus, we probably wouldn't have the exact same Domain? 
BethE: I think so? 
Random_Nerd: Not exactly the same domain. Something close. 
Random_Nerd: But the exact domain is dead, because the Imperator who had it died. 
Random_Nerd: But it's similar, because that imperator's corpse was used as raw materials for a new one. 
Knockwood: therefore, if we find out that John-18 was the NOble of Audacity or somesuch, we'd know that 'our' Kudzu is a Mimic? 
Lazarus: Not necessarily? I believe that new Imperators are possible, with same or similar Domains to previous dead ones? 
Lazarus: (at least, not impossible as I understand it) 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. It'd at least be circumstantial evidence. 
Random_Nerd: Now, part of this is that you /do/ get Imperators with similar estates. 
BethE: LIke Night and Shadows? 
Knockwood: well, it'd also follow that if he was the Noble of COurage something else is happening. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. 
Lazarus: if he was Noble of Courage, that's not as big an issue: Nobles dying and being replaced happens. 
Random_Nerd: It'd be suggestive if he was the Power of Audacity, and if he was a Power of Courage it would mean that somehow Kudzu had been Enchanceled and then got de-enchanceled. 
Knockwood: you mean Amyra 
Random_Nerd: Which would be odd but not impossible. 
Random_Nerd: Both. 
Random_Nerd: Enchanceling changes an Imperator. 
Lazarus: it would be strange. 
Random_Nerd: Yes. It would mean something was up. 
Lazarus: but, it has happened before, right? 
Lazarus: (nevermind that the Something Being Up is more fun than Imperator's Not Really, so based on the "principle of most fun", the Something Being Up is what I vote for) 
Knockwood: of course, then we have to sort out what exactly we're going to do if it turns out Kudzu's a mimic. 
BethE: We had already pondered a little about Amyra having been Enchancled before... *thinks* 
Lazarus: didn't we have some evidence that that was the case? 
BethE: Well, apparently, we're not the first ones to have that thought, since the Maple was set to watch for Mimicry. 
Knockwood: mainly the tree, I think 
Random_Nerd: Well, there're signs that others are a little suspicious of him, and he's acted oddly at times. 
Random_Nerd: But on the other hand... wildlord. 
Lazarus: (nothing sufficient, by any means, but some kind of "effects of Enchancelment"?) 
Knockwood: Ah, but... there's Carrie's Vision to consider. 
BethE: Oh? 
Knockwood: Actually, not her Vision, but her Div of Hope's origin. 
Knockwood: Aha... 
Random_Nerd: *smile* 
Knockwood: if Kudzu was a Mimic, she wouldn't have seen Kudzu when she did her Div of Hope. 
Random_Nerd: Oh? Why's that? 
Knockwood: Because it wouldn't have been _Hope_. It would have been something close-but-not-quite Hope. 
Random_Nerd: There is that. 
Knockwood: Beth, Laz, what do you think of this line of reasoning? 
Lazarus: I don't remember the Div well enough 
BethE: It makes sense. And Carrie would have been able to tell the difference tween Hope and Can'tBelieveIt'sNotHope. 
Knockwood: Carrie did a GDiv of the origin of Hope, and saw Kudzu entering the universe. 
Lazarus: Therefore, based on the logic that we've got, that's likely then to be Real-Kudzu 
Random_Nerd: Well, I can think of at least one way that would be the case if he was a Mimic. 
Knockwood: (Beth, check and see if RN's frantically revising his notes... :) 
Random_Nerd: I'm not saying that that's the case... but I can think of at least one way. 
BethE: (Can't tell. He keeps them in his head. :) ) 
Knockwood: (Well, that'd mean you're the _only_ one who could tell. :) 
Random_Nerd: There's something that you aren't considering, here. If Kudzu /is/ a mimic, then the previous version wouldn't have been Hope, exactly. So Hope as such /would/ be new to Kudzu. 
Lazarus: correct. 
BethE: Would Carrie be able to do a divination of hope-like estates before Kudzu entered the Universe? 
Lazarus: which is the unstated corollary to my point above: if we look at the Origin of Hope, we're likely to see Kudzu. 
Knockwood: But if that were true why would Carrie have seen it? 
Random_Nerd: Because that's what she was looking for. 
Lazarus: on the other hand, if we see the origin of Creation in some way or other (I think we saw something like that), then we can be reasonably sure. 
Lazarus: (Like I said, I don't remember the div well enough) 
Random_Nerd: Well, it's in the logs; 
BethE: Hmm..would it help to pop this out into the barbermoose emails? 
Lazarus: we still have those? 
BethE: (For my brain is soft and squishy, like the jello.) 
Lazarus: have I even updated my email account? 
BethE: I get the notice on the first of the month. 
Lazarus: I forgot where I put it x_x 
Random_Nerd: I mean, really, you guys have done fairly well at figuring out some of this Mysterious Stuff. You just occasionally get an unspoken assumption that screws you up, like this time until you figured out that the blood had been inside of someone other than the person it originally came from. 
Knockwood: Aha! Amyra is actually the World of Darkness, and she's a Vampire! 
Lazarus: (I was thinking something like pregnancy, but that doesn't actually fit any of the facts at all) 
BethE: And we messed up about the Ancestor = Noble. Because I misread the reply. 
Random_Nerd: Do you guys like these Mysteries, or should I cut down on them? 
Lazarus: that's something to investigate further. 
Random_Nerd: I've been bringing in a fair number of them, since you guys seem to enjoy them, but if I'm wrong about that I can tone it down. 
Lazarus: I like Mysteries, but only if they're actually solvable (one of my L5R GMs has the habit of putting in a Mystery, but having the Actual Stuff happen after that, and we get bogged down in the Mystery, with no paths to continue doing /anything/ on) 
Knockwood: Depends on the payoff, really. 
Knockwood: if the Big Secret is that the World Really Sucks, it kinda dampens the enthusiasm, oui? :) 
BethE: SOmetimes I get frustrated before the payoff...but that's usually when I haven't been sleeping well. :) 
Random_Nerd: Do these ones seem solvable, in that sense? 
Lazarus: I also vote against the Kudzu-is-Mimic, 'cause that kinda screws with the fundamental concept a little bit. However, that's blatant meta-meta-gaming ;) 
Random_Nerd: And those ones that you've got payoffs for, have they sufficed? 
Knockwood: we got payoffs? 
Lazarus: and, yes, all of yours are solvable: if nothing else, you seem willing to nudge us to a path of investigation (even if it's the wrong one) 
Random_Nerd: Well, say, the blood thing. You've mostly figured out what was up with that one, yes? 
Lazarus: (contrary to my L5R GM, who when we told "we have no idea what to do next", basically didn't help out much - he did eventually make something happen anyway) 
Lazarus: the blood thing, I figure we've mostly got that figured out. 
Lazarus: there's several paths it might be, but we have paths, and that's a good thing. 
Random_Nerd: Maybe not all of why it was, but still, who it came from, how it got there, and a pretty plausible idea as to why. 
Knockwood: actually we don't have a direct connection between the drop and Courage 
Knockwood: we're just assuming 
Lazarus: the Maple thing, I guess was more-or-less solved in my absence, and it has interesting story implications. 
BethE: Maybe it's a connection between the drop and Dante as Dante? 
Random_Nerd: So, are these the sort of things that count as payoffs? 
Lazarus: as to Courage ... there is a definite connection, given that it was given to you. We don't necessarily know /why/ (we assume former Courage), but we know there's a link. 
Random_Nerd: Where you work out what's up, and it gives you a better idea of what the antagonists and so on are up to? 
Lazarus: (RN: what I'm saying is why I like your Mysteries) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, good.) 
Lazarus: (and sort of explaining what I mean by "solvable") 
Knockwood: Well, the connection is "This goes to you, and it's NOT meant to screw with you WHAT-SO-EVER. Really." 
Random_Nerd: Well, that's something to consider, too. The blood seems to have been given to you with the intent of screwing with your head. Why do you think that is? 
Lazarus: kwd: there's a reason it goes to /you/, and not any of the rest of us. 
BethE: We know who the drop is from (both of them), how it got there (Shard carried it in), why...well, don't know why the Shard was carrying it but we know it came out because Dante and the Lance stabbed her. 
Knockwood: except, technically, I didn't stab her. 
Lazarus: here's a thought: that the Blood was meant to completely distract and sidetrack us away from the machinations of some Ex Shard elsewhere (and thus the one in the room was expendable) ... like, a subtle attack on Courage or Blades that Dante hasn't noticed yet? 
Random_Nerd: That would be a very Strategist thing to do. 
Knockwood: (and a Rule Zero Violation) 
Random_Nerd: Anyway, my brain is now composed of a strange and subtle mixture of various kinds of wax, so I must go. 
Random_Nerd: See you guys next week. 
Knockwood: oh... 
Random_Nerd: Oh? 
Knockwood: there's that idea I had as to how to counter Ex attacks like that Wind of Hate 
Random_Nerd: Oh? What is it? 
Knockwood: ... then again, maybe I should have YOU wait for it, muah-hah-hah-hah. :) 
Knockwood: but seriously, folks... 
Knockwood: imagine if you will... something the opposite of Brian's quick-travel thing... 
Knockwood: a ring of warped space around the Ex in which the distance between the inside and the outside is a lot more than it 'should' be. 
Lazarus: hee, non-Euclidean space bubble! 
Random_Nerd: That would work. 
Knockwood: Could Laz do it as a tweak of Numbers, or would it be a Change of Space? 
Lazarus: that would take some significant mojo on Brian's part, wouldn't it? 
Lazarus: (I'm assuming Lesser Change of Numbers) 
Lazarus: (at least) 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. I think Brian probably couldn't do it easily. We agreed that his quick-travel thing didn't fit the new conception of numbers well, but was grandfathered in for continuity and because it was a good image, right? 
Lazarus: yep 
Knockwood: and if you do it right you can skirt around their Auctoritas and therefore save on Pen, right? 
Lazarus: that's why I'm thinking at least LChange. 
Lazarus: (Lesser, because of smallish area) 
Random_Nerd: It's lesser change territory, yes. 
Random_Nerd: Anyway, I'm out. 
Random_Nerd: Later. 
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Knockwood: Timing would be the trick... 
Lazarus: kwd: remember, the first rule of strategy is to make someone think they know what they see. 
Lazarus: thus why I fully believe that the blood drop is a complete red herring 
Knockwood: Really?

Session 67

2007-10-04T03:29:08Z

BethDragon:

Sara: I forget where we were last ep. 
Sara: Remind me? 
BethE: We were going to see King John. Snow is getting a Theresa-back ride. 
Sara: Ah, right! As a...mouse? 
Sara: I need to keep track of these things. 
BethE: She was a girl at the time. Theresa had suggested that Snow change into something a bit more carriable. I don't think Snow had yet. 
Sara: *nods* 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
Theresa: Ready! 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
DanteE: bak 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
Snow: Sorry, went to grab a coke. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, so, cut to Samuel and the PCs arriving to see John? 
DanteE: sure 
Random_Nerd: Ready? 
Theresa: Ready! 
Random_Nerd: __________________START_____________ 
* Theresa will carry a more-easily sized Snow. 
Random_Nerd: John looks up from a book in his library, as you arrive. 
* Snow turns into a red squirrel, and curls around Theresa's shoulders. 
DanteE: "Morning, your highness." 
* Theresa smiles warmly. 
Snow: "He's the king guy?" Snow asks from around Theresa's shoulders. 
DanteE: (I assume we can call him that...) 
DanteE: "There are a couple of new developments since I saw you last..." 
Theresa: "Yes, Snow. This is King John. You could say that he is the pack leader of all of the mortals here in the Chancel. He helps to placate the spirits as well." 
Random_Nerd: "Your mouse is talking, Theresa." 
Random_Nerd: (That, being John.) 
DanteE: "This is Snow, the new Noble of Capriciousness. 
Snow: "I am a squirrel right now." Snow turns into a mouse. "NOW I am a mouse." 
DanteE: "As you can see, she shapeshifts." 
* Snow looks dubiously at Theresa. "HE's the guy who placates the spirits?" 
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Don't think about the shapeshift thing too hard. It's not a good idea." 
DanteE: (Heh... try saying that out loud... :/ ) 
Random_Nerd: John: "I placate what, now?" 
Theresa: "Yes, Snow. It's been his family's job to placate them. Otherwise the spirits may lay waste to the land and kill everything. They are very...sensitive." 
Theresa: *to John* "Snow was born a coyote...and she's not quite used to Amyran culture yet." 
Snow: "...hmm." Snow leaps to the ground and turns into a human girl. 
Theresa: "And it's a little hard to translate the Grail and Lance and Ark into ways that she might be familiar with." 
Random_Nerd: John blinks, and looks a bit disoriented. 
DanteE: (John is inured to miracles, right?) 
Snow: RH: "Maybe a shaman would be a better king...?" 
Theresa: "Snow, please be careful with the shapeshifting. Remember what we said about the regular humans' minds snapping like thin ice in the spring?" 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Why would he be? He's not an Anchor, and I don't think any of you have put particular defenses on him.) 
Snow: me siiiighs. 
* Snow siiiighs, even. 
Snow: "Can't have ANY fun here." 
Random_Nerd: (The Aides have a combination of training and some lesser preservations to let them deal with Nobles, but I don't believe you've done such things for John.) 
DanteE: "You can, just ... not in front of normal people." 
DanteE: to John: "Still with us?" 
Random_Nerd: "Ah, yes. Sorry about that, my mind wandered." 
Random_Nerd: S: "When they do things like that, it's a good idea not to pay attention." 
Theresa: (I think we would get in trouble for preservations of Sanity. :) ) 
DanteE: (long as it doesn't run away screaming) 
Theresa: (Have we introduced Sam or is he in his disguise at the moment?) 
Random_Nerd: S, to the PCs: "Incidentially, this whole prosaic/mythic thing you have here? It's /weird/, you know that?" 
Theresa: "Weird in what particular way?" 
DanteE: (BTW, I almost forgot: what was the nature of the miracle on the blood drop?) 
Snow: (Can Snow create and preserve a sense of capriciousness in John to enable his brain to not break at minor sanity issues?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. The miracle on the blood drop was cast through a symbol. You can't tell exactly what it was.) 
DanteE: to John: "Have you met Samuel?" 
Theresa: Do we wanna increase the capriciousness in the guy keeping the Ark from going Indiana Jones on us?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Yes, Snow can do that.) 
Snow: "Hey King John! You want to not go crazy from seein' me change and stuff?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "Yes, we've met, although I know William better." 
DanteE: (If it stays specific...) 
Snow: (It would be specific to things that the nobles create and do. It would help John deal with them, actually.) 
Random_Nerd: S: "Still, I mean, the idea that there are exactly two worlds, which are objective, and which are so different..." 
Theresa: "What is the Dionyl preference?" 
Random_Nerd: S: "I realize that the way it is on my world is somewhat odd too, but the combination of the lack of that and the /other/ differences here takes time to adjust to." 
DanteE: (What would happen if John say Sam's non-disguised form?) 
Random_Nerd: S: "Ah, okay, you know how Splintering and Domination work?" 
DanteE: *saw 
Random_Nerd: (He's seen it before. Sam doesn't always wear the disguise. He isn't wearing it now.) 
Random_Nerd: John: "No?" 
Random_Nerd: S: "Them, I mean." 
DanteE: (where are we, BTW?) 
Theresa: "Not very well. Just that they exist as a different form of Imperator, like our Light and Darklords." 
Random_Nerd: (In the Palace, in John's private library.) 
Random_Nerd: S: "Okay, so, you know how you have two worlds? We have... billiions. Not one for everyone, but... say, one for every three, on average?" 
Snow: "Sounds fun." 
Random_Nerd: S: "It's complicated. People who spend time together tend to have their worlds overlap. People with strong will tend to impose their world on others by proximity." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Being around a really potent personality, like a Noble or a lunatic, can alter your world-sight for quite a while even when you're no longer near them." 
* Snow begins to rifle through John's desk drawers. 
Random_Nerd: John watches the others with a mixture of curiosity and confusement. 
DanteE: "Snow! 
Random_Nerd: J: "Is there something I can help you with? Ah, Snow?" 
* Snow looks up. 
Snow: "What?" 
* Snow looks at John, wide-eyed. "Not really, no." 
DanteE: "Snow, why don't you come here and sit on the couch. In human form." 
* Snow sighs dramatically, her shoulders slumping, and drags her feet on over to the couch. 
Random_Nerd: J: "So, you were asking why I'm not a shaman? Well, what would you say that the role of a shaman is?" 
DanteE: to John: "There was one other thing... 
Random_Nerd: J: "Yes?" 
* DanteE pulls out the blood drop. 
Random_Nerd: S: "Shiny." 
DanteE: "After the little ... incident last time, I met ... 
Theresa: *to Sam* "Does that force of personality still work on you away from your home?" 
* DanteE mulls over what to say about Message... 
Random_Nerd: S: "No. It's not a thing about /us/, it's the world. Being here is like being caught in the grip of a really, really strong-willed person, to the point where my own worldsight is utterly bent to match his." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Still, the role of a shaman is to know things that other people don't know, to lead the people in religious ceremonies, and to intercede for them with powerful and otherworldly spirits?" 
DanteE: to sam: "So, as you gaze into Amyra, Amyra gazes also into you?" 
Theresa: "Does it hurt being that way?" *privately wonders how Snow would feel being bent that way* 
Random_Nerd: S: "That's from the guy with the moustache and the syphilis, right?" 
DanteE: "That's a lot of people, but yes." 
DanteE: "well, paraphrased." 
Snow: (Sorry, just saw that comment of John's...) 
Random_Nerd: S: "It doesn't hurt, exactly. It's unsettling, but I've been trained for it." 
Snow: "Shamans don't break when they see the world. Dante and Theresa say you might. Want me to make it so you can see what we do and not go crazy?" 
Snow: (Actually, with Realm, Snow can just establish a Preservation of Sanity.) 
*** Random_Nerd has left #nobilis. 
Theresa: (He'll be back...) 
*** Random_Nerd has joined #nobilis. 
DanteE: (whoopsie.) 
Theresa: (re love. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (*aargh*) 
Snow: (Hey RN) 
DanteE: (What's the last thing you saw?) 
*** Mode change "+o Random_Nerd" for channel #nobilis by Theresa. 
Random_Nerd: (Beth pasted stuff to me.) 
Random_Nerd: J: "What makes you think shamans aren't crazy?" 
Theresa: "So we're weird for only having two worlds and for the personalities of the two worlds being so unchangeable?" 
Theresa: (Especially orc shamans! Oh, wait, sorry, Warcraft joke. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: S: "The unchangable part isn't unusual. Most places only have one world. But having two is odd, and the way your miracles work with them is very odd." 
Snow: "Because they're shaaaamaaaans." Snow looks doubtfully at John. 
Snow: "Shamans are the least crazy people ever." 
Random_Nerd: J: "How can you tell?" 
Snow: "Because they see the truth. Wekweeti shaman back home saw me for what I was. Everybody else wanted to shoot me." 
Theresa: "We didn't really get the choice in the breaking. An Imperator did it...by accident. That particular person must have been less knowledgeable of digestive systems than others." 
Random_Nerd: S, to John, whispered: "See, a dinosaur took a crap in front of an angel, and then the angel flipped out and broke the world." 
Theresa: "I'm realizing how normal it must be in our world to say 'It's magic. An Imperator did it.'" 
Random_Nerd: John: "Now you're just making stuff up." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Nope." 
Random_Nerd: S looks smug. 
Random_Nerd: At least, as smug as a scarf vortex in humanoid form can. 
Theresa: (Knowing you, love, that's pretty smug.) 
DanteE: "No, he's right, that's the story of First Impact from our point of view." 
Random_Nerd: J: "I thought First Impact was a thing from that japanese show the kids don't understand." 
DanteE: "Don't feel bad, I learned it the other way myself." 
Theresa: "Sam, if I may pry, how did your world break into the different kinds of Imperators and worlds?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "Please tell me the whiny japanese boy isn't real." 
Theresa: (Man, you made John watch Evangelion?!? You horrible GM!) 
* Snow drums her fingers impatiently. 
DanteE: (I am sooooo tempted to say Shinji==Entropy right now... :D ) 
Theresa: "No, John, he isn't. Not that we know of." 
Random_Nerd: (Evangelion causes DA!) 
Random_Nerd: S: "Well, see, that's the problem." 
Random_Nerd: S: "We don't know what the world was like before. We know it wasn't like that, but we don't know if anyone's worldsight is closer than another's to the old version. But it started at the same time when the First Age ended." 
Theresa: "The various Falls." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Yes " 
Random_Nerd: J, to Snow: "So, getting back to your shaman... he saw what you really were, you say? What were you?" 
* Snow beams. 
Snow: "I'm Snow." 
* Theresa ponders this and the vision we were given earlier in a different episode. 
Random_Nerd: J: "No, that's /who/ you are." 
DanteE: "She started out as a coyote." 
Random_Nerd: J: "What are you? What is your nature?" 
* Snow doesn't look disturbed. 
Snow: "Who am I, but what I am? Same thing. Who are you?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "See, that's the thing. Who I am is easy. I'm John. I'm a man who has a job to do, and does his best to do it, even when it's tricky." 
Random_Nerd: J: "But /what/ I am is a King. I'm in charge of this country, and for that matter the main Church in it." 
Snow: "If you weren't king though, you wouldn't be the same John, would you?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "I don't know. But I know that the part of me that's King and the part of me that isn't aren't the same at all." 
Snow: "Sure they are. All part of the same thing. Just because you think of them like separate things doesn't mean they ARE two separate things." 
Snow: "Listen to me. I'm a coyote, y'know." 
* Snow makes a point of looking knowledgeable. 
* Theresa ponders if Snow knows she's also arguing about the realities, perhaps. 
Snow: (Curses. Retcon the "two" in Snow's sentence. Just...it's important to who she is. She doesn't really get numbers.) 
Random_Nerd: J: "You're a coyote. And I'm a king." 
Random_Nerd: S: "So... anyway, yes. Worldsight. So, with the two worlds, you can just shift between them in an eyeblink, right?" 
* Snow brushes her hair back, looking quietly perplexed. 
Theresa: "Yes, Sam." *will look around at the Mythic view of the private library* 
DanteE: "Yes, we can see Mythic and Prosaic at will." 
Snow: RH to Theresa: "I'm still Snow, right?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "I'm not a great man. I'm just a person who happened to get born into this role. But I care about it. I think I'm a fairly good king. I don't make scandals or do anything to reduce our standard in the world. When I intecede with the Parliament with what remaining authority my role has, I do it only for the good of the people." 
* Theresa nods at John. "For what it is worth, John, I am glad that you are King of Amyra." 
Random_Nerd: J: "I love this country. I think you'll understand, because I think I can tell that you love it too." 
Snow: "How can you be lots of different things? You've gotta be ONE thing. One. You were made as one thing!" Snow looks tearful. 
Snow: "Everything's gotta be /one/ thing. It can be made uppa different parts, but it's ONE thing." 
Theresa: *prays to Snow* "Yes, Snow. But humans are a little different. We aren't as confident in our outlook of ourselves as you are. We spend a lot of time figuring out who we are...and we're not always happy with what we find. You are definitely Snow. And you couldn't be anyone else." 
Snow: "But I'm a noble now! Am I different now? Should I be more than one thing now?" 
Random_Nerd: John: "When I was born, I was one thing. I was one thing for most of my life. When I was twenty-two, my father had a heart attack and died. And from then on, I've been two things." 
Random_Nerd: J: "I've never been a Noble, so I can't tell you about that. I can only tell you about being a king." 
* Snow looks wildly at John. "But before, you were a person, and you were a puppy, and a student, and a lot of other things. Being king is just one big thing." 
* Snow 's eyes look distant, as if she's studying things she's never thought of before. Probably though Realm. 
Theresa: "You are Snow. You are Capriciousness. You are both and one. You couldn't separate the Capriciousness out of yourself, because you are completely Capriciousness." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Oh? Okay, I have a question for you. I've been talking with William about how these things work. As I understand this, you're a person here, but a part of your soul is in the heart of this nation, right?" 
Snow: "What?" Snow blinks at John. "I...I guess so." 
Random_Nerd: J: "So that thing... in the heart of Amyra. Is it you?" 
Random_Nerd: S: "It's a gear. It's in the clock tower." 
Snow: "I think so." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Okay, yes. That gear." 
DanteE: "Well, wait... isn't it more like, our Imperator has _his_ soul in both us and Amyra? 
Random_Nerd: J: "So are you a gear or a coyote?" 
Random_Nerd: S: "Imperator souls... look, I prefer to not even /go/ there." 
Snow: "I'm Snow. I'm here and I'm there. All Snow." 
Random_Nerd: J: "So, are a gear and a coyote the same thing?" 
Snow: "When it's me, yes." 
Random_Nerd: S: "There's stuff I know, and stuff I don't know... and then there's stuff like how Imperator souls work. That stuff's all /here there be dragons/." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Sometimes literally." 
* Snow appears to be regaining some of her previous philosophical footing. 
Random_Nerd: J: "So, what do you weigh, and what are you made of?" 
Theresa: "Would the term soul really actually imply?" 
Snow: "I weigh what I weigh. I am made up of me." 
DanteE: "John... you're asking a girl what she weighs?" 
Theresa: (sorry, apply.) 
Snow: (heh, Dante) 
Theresa: 9He's smart. Snow's a girl who's not used to being human. Asking Theresa would be tougher. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: John: "I really don't think there are social customs that cover talking to a mouse that is also a coyote, a gear, and an aspect of reality." 
DanteE: (That's a good teaser line right there!) 
Snow: (Hah! True!) 
Random_Nerd: J: "Okay... so, you're Capriciousness, right. And Capriciousness is immortal, but you aren't?" 
DanteE: "But, in any case... 
Random_Nerd: Samuel waves his hand- 
* Snow shrugs. 
Random_Nerd: area in a "kinda sorta" way. 
Snow: "I don't know." 
Random_Nerd: "So if you die, but the... Excrucians?... don't take your Estate, then there'll be another Noble after you, right?" 
Theresa: *to Sam* "Would that imply that Imperators can be reincarnated? Or enter Heaven?" *tries to imagine Kudzu in Heaven* 
Snow: "Sure." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Dunno. Here there be dragons." 
Random_Nerd: J: "So, the next Capriciousness. Will that be you, or not you?" 
* Snow looks thoughtful. 
Theresa: "What does your culture say about the Falls and so forth, Sam?" 
* Snow plucks a hair from her head, and holds it out. 
Snow: "This isn't me any more. It's sorta part of me, or it was, but now it's just a hair. I think Caprice is kinda like that." 
Random_Nerd: S, to Theresa and Dante: "See, this is a bit like what I was talking about. Currently, they're... they're in a thing a little like an epistemological struggle, although not a violent one." 
Snow: "It's me now. Maybe later, it won't be." 
Random_Nerd: J: "But Caprice is you now?" 
* Snow nods. "I am everything that Caprice is. 
Snow: " 
Random_Nerd: J: "But if there are two things, and one can die while the other lives, that shows that they weren't the same, right?" 
Theresa: "So, one is trying to bend the other to their world?" 
Snow: "Capriciousness doesn't live. It just is. Right now, we are the same thing." 
Snow: "I don't make the rules, y'know." 
Random_Nerd: S: "At least metaphorically. In my world, it's literal. A skilled or passionate person can literally change the way you see the world." 
* Snow smiles slyly at John. She's telling a joke. 
Random_Nerd: J: "Well, for me, it's a little like that. I'm an ordinary man. One day, I'll die. But the King never dies. Either my nephew, or my son if I've had one by then, will be King. And the King will live forever." 
* Snow looks pensive. 
Snow: "Kind of a sucky Estate." 
Theresa: "Storytellers must be particularly dangerous." 
Random_Nerd: J: "I don't make the rules." 
Theresa: (Hmm...maybe we should get John a girl. That might be interesting.) 
* Snow smiles slyly. 
Snow: "You talk a lot. I never talk this much. You're not boring. I understand you." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Well, it depends on what they want to do. Really, it's not always /bad/ to have your world changed. That's one of the reasons we have storytellers and musicians. The good ones can make your life more interesting, make you see things in a new way." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Thank you." 
* Snow gets up and carefully hugs John. 
Snow: RH: "See? I'm being human-like." 
Random_Nerd: (Is Snow a girl now?) 
Snow: (Yes.) 
Random_Nerd: (How old?) 
Snow: (18ish.) 
Random_Nerd: John looks pensive for a moment, then hugs her in an affectionate but vaguely distant way. 
Theresa: *prays to Snow* "You are doing a very good job, Snow. You've learned a lot about how to behave. And it's good that John feels good around you. He has a very hard job." 
* Snow holds onto John, looking happy to have someone to snuggle with. 
Theresa: (Uh, is Snow showing cleavage?) 
Snow: (She's attractive. But not anything other than Aspect 0 attractive. She's not showing undue cleavage.) 
Theresa: *to Sam* "Have you had bad storytellers?" 
DanteE: "Now, about that change she suggested, so that we can do our thing without you going mad if you see it..." 
Snow: (She IS holding on longer than would be socially acceptable, however.) 
Theresa: (Well, see, the Artifacts have this _thing_ about cleavage...) 
Random_Nerd: S: "Yes. Occasionaly they conquer a country or two before a champion is brought forth to stop them." 
Random_Nerd: John vaguely pats Snow's back. 
Random_Nerd: S: "Although you'd probably call those more gurus than storytellers. At the least, they tend to have the epistomological support of at least a small group of synoptics." 
Theresa: "Hmm...perhaps like cults?" 
* Snow looks up. "Want me to fix your brain. I think it's called a, uh...preservation of sanity." 
Random_Nerd: S: "I don't know. Do cult-people generally follow because they want to, or because they've been forced to?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "I don't think my brain is broken." 
Snow: "It isn't. I'll keep it from getting broken." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Seriously, you want to take her up on this." 
Snow: "It'll help you deal with that stress Theresa mentioned, I think. I don't know a lot about stress. I think you wear it when you want to look pretty." 
Theresa: *to Sam* "Could be either or both. Charismatic cult leaders here can rule through..charisma or fear." 
Theresa: "That's a dress, Snow." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Okay. If you think it's a good idea, I suppose I trust your judgement." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Then I suppose it's a lot like a cult. I really don't understand human religion." 
Snow: "Good! Though I think Dante would say that that's not a good idea." Snow blinks, and Preserves his Sanity in that moment. 
Random_Nerd: John perks up in a "can I tell you about my hobby" sort of way. 
* Snow lets go of John, and clasps her hands together cheerily. 
Snow: "That's good, right?" 
DanteE: "Not this time. It frees _us_ up for what we can do..." 
* Theresa smiles. "John is probably the resident expert on religion in the entire Chancel. He's not just an expert, he's the Church Leader!" 
Random_Nerd: (Lose two MPs, your choice of meters, Snow. Sanity and Mundanity are Shackles.) 
DanteE: (er, that's to her saying it's not a good idea...) 
Snow: (*laugh* Drat! Won't she be bothered by that until she fixes it?) 
Theresa: (Wrong kind of not a good idea...) 
Random_Nerd: S: "You know... I'd like to see the effect you'd have on Dionyl." 
Snow: (I should have thought of that. Bad player.) 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, as Snow can feel it, something in her rebels against what she just did.) 
Theresa: "Hmm..he's quite organized and very devoted to his causes and people. I think that he would be a great force in a reality that bent to his will. But the trick would be getting him to go on vacation." 
Snow: (But she'll function happily from now on and whatnot? She doesn't feel like she has to turn him back?) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct.) 
Snow: (Okay, that's good.) 
Random_Nerd: (It just took something out of her to act against her nature.) 
* Snow gives herself a little shake. 
DanteE: (long as he doesn't go on vacation _from Amyra_...) 
Snow: "Weird." 
Random_Nerd: S: "You do seem to have a strong worldsight, as I can tell. Or would you? I'm not sure. You don't have practice struggling against other wills..." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Clearly you're familiar with neither our Parliament nor our Church." 
Theresa: (Or the Artifacts.) 
Random_Nerd: (I don't think they struggle against John. Those of the bloodline of the king are protected as long as they stay within the bounds of their ritual and role.) 
DanteE: "Ah, reminds me. 
DanteE: "this right here... 
Snow: RH: "Hey Theresa, has John got a mate?" 
* DanteE hands over the drop 
Random_Nerd: (Nope.) 
DanteE: "Is, apparently, a preserved blood drop... 
DanteE: "from someone in your bloodline. 
Random_Nerd: J: "That's very odd." 
DanteE: "Possibly the one who was lost at sea in 1870?" 
Theresa: *prays to Snow* "No, Snow, John doesn't have a mate. He's never had a mate, although he may have courted some when he was younger. He's about my age." *thinks don'tdoitdon'tdoitdon'tdoit* 
Snow: RH: "But he needs someone to be king after him, right?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "That's very odd. Where did you get that?" 
Random_Nerd: (And yes, he repeated himself.) 
DanteE: "From someone who may have been a manifestation of a dilemma that I met outside after the little incident last time we spoke." 
Random_Nerd: J: "I have no idea what you mean, but okay." 
DanteE: "It is very hared to tell... 
Theresa: *prays to Snow* "Yes. At the moment, he has a nephew, his brother's son, who will be King after him. If he got married and had a son, that son would be King instead." 
DanteE: *hard 
Snow: "He's gotta get married to have a pup? Why does the pup have to be male? Why can't it be a girl king?" 
Snow: (RH, sorry) 
Theresa: (We just did a preservation of sanity...go ahead and try it. :) ) 
DanteE: "I'm assuming there's a reason I've been given this. As I understand it, his successor took the throne at 14?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "Yes. That's correct. That's younger than most, but not unheard of." 
DanteE: "...any chance some aspects of the rituals, or something else important to the throne, weren't passed on?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "Hmm. It's possible, but I don't think so. We've been very careful about that." 
Theresa: *prays* "Because of the rules of the pack that is all of Amyra. They set down the pack rules a long time ago...that the son has to be legitamate or that the King has to be married to his mate before the puppy is born. And the sacred objects that John's family guards and protects people from are weird about girls. The sacred stuff seems to be more powerful in the males of John's family's line." 
Random_Nerd: J: "We lost kings before. Several in the Crusades. We're aware of the possiblity of the death of the king." 
DanteE: (Tough translating important concepts intoi coyote, ain't it Theresa? :) 
Snow: (RH: "Hm. I don't think I want to marry him. But he sure would make some great pups." 
Snow: (Sorry, no bracket. It's getting late, I'm losing coherency.) 
Theresa: (A little bit. :) But I'm lucky that Snow has the concept of sacred.) 
Theresa: *prays* "I think so too." *very private prayer with a wink* "I used to have a crush on him when I was a little girl." 
Random_Nerd: J: "There are certain things that I've taught my nephew, and other things that I've written down in the event of my death. And he's gone through the initiations that are appropriate for one of his age in succession for the Crown." 
* Snow giggles. 
DanteE: "Were they from his time or before?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "I beg your pardon?" 
DanteE: "See, in case there is any question... 
DanteE: "I believe we can bring him back." 
Random_Nerd: J: "That's... rather alarming." 
Random_Nerd: S: "He wouldn't eat brains or anything, right?" 
DanteE: "No. Well, there is that one monkey-brain dish... :) 
Snow: "Brains are kinda yummy..." Snow says, very quietly. 
Theresa: (Do we have the technology?) 
DanteE: (I was thinking: GDiv+included LCre using the drop as a focus) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. I'm not sure. At the least, you could do it with miracles.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah.) 
Snow: "Are we gonna bring back the dead? That's a bad idea. Neck-row-man-sers. Bad news." 
Theresa: (Would the clone have a soul?) 
* Theresa is impressed that Snow knows the word. 
Random_Nerd: (You could at least create a physical clone, although his soul's probably reincarnated several times since.) 
* Snow looks rather impressed that she knows the word, too. 
DanteE: (I assume he'd have the knowledge?) 
Theresa: (Plus, how would said clone have the knowledge? It's not stored in...ah, you're asking.) 
Random_Nerd: J: "Yeah. That's... unclean. If you're going to do that, please, don't involve me, and don't do it anywhere near the Sanctum." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. That would depend how you do it.) 
DanteE: (from the GDiv) 
Random_Nerd: (With a Greater Divination, you could probably find out what he knew...) 
DanteE: (Ah... so we could get his knowledge from right before he left?) 
Random_Nerd: (Really, if all you wanted was to get the knowledge, you wouldn't even need to clone him.) 
DanteE: (That's what I was thinking. But what could we do with the knowledge?)( 
Theresa: (Write it down?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Yes, you could, unless something's been done to prevent it by someone with miraculous power, or he was in an Auctoritas at the time, or was himself Noble or Anchored.) 
DanteE: (What would happen if we put the knowledge into JOhn's head?) 
Theresa: (Hope that there's enough drive space...) 
DanteE: (Oooh... or, we could put it into the blood drop itself, and leave it with John) 
Random_Nerd: (That would produce interesting and unsettling effects.) 
Snow: (Wouldn't it be more useful in a computer, or searchable form?) 
Snow: (Or even in our windy library thing, and John could use it?) 
DanteE: (Depends on how much space RN assumes a lifetime's knowledge takes up.) 
Theresa: "John, does any of your family history state if this particular ancestor had any mishaps or incidents with the Treasures before leaving?" 
DanteE: (Remind me what specifically my last GDiv got?) 
Theresa: (Which one was that one?) 
DanteE: (The one that determined what this drop was) 
DanteE: (What's Theresa's Realm again?) 
Theresa: ( 0 :) So not important around here, it hurts.) 
Theresa: (Oh, one moment, RN had to step afk for a moment...) 
Snow: (Please leave a message after the Beth.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, back.) 
Random_Nerd: John: "Let me see... I don't believe so. If he did, it isn't recorded." 
Theresa: "Then how could the Lance have a drop of his blood?" 
DanteE: "This is from _someone_ in your bloodline." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Could you tell me again how you got it?" 
Random_Nerd: ([21:53] Random_Nerd: (The blood does not belong to anyone who is in the chancel now, nor anyone who has been in it since it has been a chancel.) 
Random_Nerd: [21:54] Random_Nerd: (The person whose blood it was is male, and is at least distantly related to a majority of the Amyrans who didn't immigrate within the last four generations.)) 
Random_Nerd: ([21:58] Random_Nerd: (Given the amount of similarity with John, it could be his great-grandfather's blood, assuming relatively center-of-the-bell-curve genetic distribution.)) 
DanteE: "That's a little tricky. Basically, after the incident with the Lance, we dashed outside to follow that bug, and found a guy there in a red suit." 
Random_Nerd: S: "Santa?" 
DanteE: "...well, he did give me a gift..."? 
Theresa: "You know about Santa, Sam?" 
Random_Nerd: "Well, yeah. What, you think that Earth is the only place with a Santa?" 
Random_Nerd: J: "Yes?" 
DanteE: "But, basically, assuming there's not much genetic drift, this may be from your great-granddad." 
Theresa: "I had thought he was an Earth-centrioc thing, yes." 
DanteE: (were there signs of a Y chromosome?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes. It's male blood.) 
Random_Nerd: J: "So... this man in the red suit. He said the blood was from the Lance?" 
DanteE: "Well, not in so many words. But you might call it circumstantial evidence... 
* Snow yaps, and Lesser Creates (with a DMP) a 3D image of what the blood drop's original creator looks like. 
Snow: (RMP. Sorry. >.<) 
Snow: "S'at help?" 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. What are you doing for information about what the original creator looks like?) 
Random_Nerd: (Just genetics?) 
Snow: (Hm. Would she be able to extrapolate what the guy looked like when he lost this drop of blood?) 
Theresa: (*imagines Snow poking at the image like those cly faces used in forensic shows* Now a bit bigger nose, _here_...and...") 
Random_Nerd: (No, because it happened outside the chancel, and it's not connected to her estate.) 
Snow: (Genetics, then.) 
DanteE: (if it's just a still image, could that be a Ghost Realm GDiv?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not for real information on how the genetics works.) 
DanteE: (I mean, an image of whoever lost the blood at the time he lost it) 
Snow: (She can't take the DNA and get it to show her an adult version of what it would create?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well... you can't just divine /anything/. You can use Realm to divine things in the Chancel, and you can use Domain to divine things connected to your estate.) 
Random_Nerd: (But I can't see an obvious way Snow can use Realm or Domain to see what he looked like when he died.) 
Snow: (*nods* Not when he died. Just as an adult.) 
Theresa: (Hmm..what about a Realm Div of how the guy looked when he left Amyra?) 
Snow: (Good idea, Beth.) 
DanteE: (Actually... 
Random_Nerd: (Actually, can we stop here? I'm tired.) 
DanteE: (If the drop came from here, that would imply he bled it here. 
Snow: (Sorry, I didn't expect that to be a problem. ^^;) 
Random_Nerd: (*steeples fingers*) 
DanteE: (So, if we get an image of that, we can get both what he looked like and how he lost it.) 
Snow: (I was trying to /help/...) 
Theresa: (You are helping, Sara.) 
Snow: (*sheepish*) 
DanteE: (Oh, we throw RN into a tizzy on a regular basis. :) 
DanteE: (Theresa's RN's wife, so she helps us with the major mindfucks. 
DanteE: (Whoops!) 
DanteE: ( :D ) 
Random_Nerd: (GM brain no make good thinks. Time is not friend of brain.) 
Theresa: (*pfft* You know me better than that...mindfucks are not on my skill-sheet.) 
Theresa: (An idea - a Div of the last ten minutes or so of the last time whosever blood's that it was in Amyra.) 
Theresa: (That can then narrow down for blood loss and possibly death and who it is.) 
DanteE: (Well, if it's who we think it is, they were lost at sea, so we probably wouldn't get his death. 
Random_Nerd: (That could actually work. Yeah, you could do what Theresa said.) 
Snow: (Save me a RMP too. Ftw.) 
DanteE: (But, if we get the incident where he bled, we may bet something better.( 
DanteE: (Damn it, Tpyo, lemme alone! :) 
Theresa: (I'm good for stopping here. Bethbrain go smush...) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, yes. But... well, that's not going to /happen/, unless you have a clever idea.) 
Theresa: (I figure let's see who this person is first, then work on the bleeding incident.) 
*** Snow is now known as Sara. 
Random_Nerd: ___________STOP________________ 
Random_Nerd: Thoughts on the session? 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Sara: S'where I was going, Beth. Since it's not TOO far back, I hoped that John might recognize the person in question. 
Sara: "Oh, that's Grampa Bob." 
Random_Nerd: The person is enough generations back that John would never have met him. 
Knockwood: then again, if we get the incident... maybe we'll get an image of somebody poking him with the Spear 
Random_Nerd: At least, not unless he was very young. 
Sara: Still, portraits of kings and whatnot. 
Knockwood: I'll bet there's a painting or photo (or daguerreotype) of him 
Random_Nerd: True... but those aren't always photorealistic depictions of the king's face. 
Random_Nerd: You know, Knock... your ideas here have an unspoken assumption... 
Knockwood: mine have several, the first of which is that this is 'worth it'. 
Random_Nerd: Did you guys like this session? It seemed slow, but on the other hand the character byplay was good. 
Random_Nerd: The drop is meaningful. It's not a red herring. 
Sara: *nods* It was nice that people spoke in Snow-terms. 
BethE: Theresa tries to speak in terms that she thinks the other person will understand. Comes from treating kindergardeners as people too. 
Sara: I didn't think about that. Good point. 
Knockwood: Then again, we're mainly doing it cuz Snow has the highest Realm. :) 
BethE: If you're stuck listening to someone use higher-than-your-level words and concepts all of the time, you tune them out very easily. 
Sara: Yeah, I'm glad I took that, in hindsight. 
Knockwood: translating genetics into coyote is _hard_. :) 
BethE: And I'm glad with tonight's work. Lots of insight of Dionyl stuff and into John. And I liked the thoguht of Snow and John perhaps mating. (Question - are we high enough tech to mate Snow and Sam? :) ) 
Sara: Yeah, I'm not even sure how to do that. 
Random_Nerd: Snow can shapeshift! 
Sara: It's true. 
BethE: True. I wonder how she'd like being a Dionyl. 
Sara: I'm gonna bail guys. I'm fried. 
Random_Nerd: Later, Sara. 
Knockwood: oyasumi-nasai 
Random_Nerd: Actually... 
BethE: Night Sara! *HUG* 
Random_Nerd: I don't think Snow could become a Dionyl. 
Random_Nerd: Sam's not really an animal in the conventional sense. 
Sara: I was just saying that to Beth, actually. The gift isn't big enough to really justify her being anything other than Earth-based animals. 
Sara: And I've been sticking to animals she knows even, thus far. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. You'd probably need to expand the Gift to make it work for becoming a Dionyl. 
Sara: *nods* 
Sara: Okay, I'm out. Good game guys! 
Random_Nerd: Also, Dionyl don't really have sex. 
Sara: See you all whenever I see you next. ;) 
Random_Nerd: Although, really, if you got both of them on Dionyl, you could circumvent the biological issue. 
*** Sara has left #nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: With the Triad. 
BethE: Very true. 
BethE: Well, I am going to have to bail as well. Night Knock! *HUG* 
Knockwood: g'night Beth. 
Knockwood: you too RN. 
Random_Nerd: For that matter, Triad seemed to like you, and he could probably rig a miracle that let them mate if you talked him into it. It's close enough to his Estate that he could do it with a Lesser Change.

Session 66

2007-10-04T03:21:54Z

BethDragon:

Theresa: So, let's see...we had found out something Important about the Maple and Snow has a bed buddy and Dante was examining the blood droplet? 
Snow: *nods* 
DanteE: right, William was saying it might be from a member of the royal line that was lost at sea in the 1870s... 
Snow: He also has a fiancee! Wtf! 
Theresa: Oh, reminds me, need to make Will an offer. 
Random_Nerd: I still don't get why you find William having an SO to be so baffling. 
Theresa: Because he's so straightlaced, we don't think he'd have sex? 
Snow: And he was a Potential Romantic Interest! 
DanteE: ...because his job requires him to be not only away but on alternate plains of existence for months at a time for reasons he can't explain? 
Snow: (note how the acronym rhymes with "pry 
Snow: ") 
Random_Nerd: Eh, why can't he explain it? 
Snow: And why do we need to make him an offer? 
Theresa: She must be very special to believe him. 
Theresa: Theresa needs to make an offer to do the wedding flowers, duh. :) 
Snow: Heh. 
Snow: Snow will make their wedding night...memorable. 
Theresa: *blink* With _which_ of your talents, dear? 
Snow: Capriciousness? 
Theresa: Oh, okay. I was having trouble with the Swallow Anything... 
DanteE: poking her ice-cold nose in at _just_ the right time? :D 
Snow: HAH! 
Random_Nerd: ... 
Snow: SO! 
Snow: On that note. 
DanteE: (Yeah, those lines would SO be stolen for the Topic in #rpgnet) 
Theresa: Ready! 
DanteE: ready... 
Snow: Ready! 
Theresa: (*imagines what a Noble decoration of a wedding would be like*) 
Random_Nerd: _________START___________ 
Theresa: "William...if it wouldn't be against your contract or you and your fiancee's wishes, I could create the flowers for your wedding..." 
Random_Nerd: (So, when we last left Our Intrepid Heroes, they'd investigated the blood drop further, found out more about the Maple, and talked to William.) 
DanteE: (How long has William been here?) 
Random_Nerd: (Here as in where?) 
Random_Nerd: (Amyra?) 
DanteE: (Yeah, under contract) 
Random_Nerd: (About two weeks by this point, I believe.) 
Random_Nerd: W: "We, ah, haven't made specific plans yet. But thank you." 
* Theresa smiles. "Sure." 
DanteE: "By the way, did anything of note happen while we were recovering?" 
Snow: (I think I'm a mouse on William's shoulder...) 
Theresa: (I think you are too....) 
* Snow goes to William's earlobe and explores it with her tiny paws. 
Random_Nerd: "Hmm. What would you consider notable?" 
Random_Nerd: William twitches at Snow's pawing. 
DanteE: "Oh, revolution formenting, monsters rampaging, world ending... you know, the usual. :)" 
DanteE: "By the way, I've been meaning to take little squirt there to the zoo." 
Random_Nerd: "None yet that I'm aware of. The Domina of Hope has not yet returned, Ymera Kudzu hasn't done anything odd..." 
Theresa: "We would have noticed the world ending, Dante." 
* Theresa raises an eyebrow in disbelief about the last part. 
DanteE: "Yeah, that last part is a little unusual right there. It should be raining cheese periodically." 
Snow: "Are we supposed to do anything?" 
Random_Nerd: "True. The world isn't due to end for close to a year." 
Theresa: "Pretty much just live our lives, I think, Snow. Take care of our Estates and the Chancels. That's pretty much it." 
Theresa: "Only a year? Huh." 
Random_Nerd: "Yes. For the celestial millenium." 
Random_Nerd: "Specifically, the third age of the world will be ending." 
Theresa: "The world comes back, right?" 
Random_Nerd: "Has each time so far." 
Random_Nerd: "First time, the various Falls happened." 
Random_Nerd: "Second time, the Excrucians came." 
* Snow looks mousily thoughtful. 
Random_Nerd: "I imagine something like that will be happening soon." 
Snow: "Think third time, Third Woman will land on the turtle?" 
Theresa: "I hadn't realized that the Falls and the world ending happened at the same time." 
Random_Nerd: "Well, that's what we call it. It's an immense change, at the very least." 
Theresa: "And that's when the Dionyl fell and the humans fell...such changes." 
Random_Nerd: "Yes. Also, the big Angelic fall." 
Random_Nerd: "And so on." 
DanteE: "Do they always plan _something_ for the millenium? 
Theresa: (It's in Dick Clark's contract. :) ) 
DanteE: "You'd think Nobles would be sitting in bunkers. 
Random_Nerd: "These things aren't planned. They just... happen." 
DanteE: (and we should tell Carrie she's got a deadline) 
Theresa: (Good point!) 
Snow: "Better start making human puppies, William." 
Theresa: *thinks* 
Random_Nerd: "As for the bunkers... well, there's a war on. Maybe it'll get worse due to people being afraid." 
Random_Nerd: "Making... human... puppies? That sounds more like the sort of thing a Wildlord would do." 
Theresa: (That _is_ what Kudzu did to Snow...) 
Snow: "Baaaaa-biiiies." 
Random_Nerd: "Ah. Well, we've decided not to start on that yet." 
Random_Nerd: (Someone who works with the Nobilis is prone to interpret metaphors as literal. They usually are.) 
Theresa: "The first Fall involved Angels and Serpents, with humans and Dionyl as more minor. The second millenium brought Excrucians and Wildlords...what will be this one..." 
Random_Nerd: "Something having to do with Murder and the Infinite, I imagine." 
Theresa: "Because of...who will be in charge?" 
DanteE: "Waaaait a minute... 
Random_Nerd: "Yes. That's the current theory, at least. Of course, my organization isn't nearly old enough to have seen another age of the world." 
Random_Nerd: "Yes, sir? 
Random_Nerd: " 
DanteE: "This one already happened." 
Random_Nerd: "Beg pardon, sir?" 
DanteE: "It was re-wound 500 years, but it already happened." 
Theresa: (Lost 500.) 
Random_Nerd: "No, those were just years of Earth time." 
Random_Nerd: "This is a lot bigger than just Earth." 
Theresa: "Is it like personal Chancel time?" 
DanteE: (<Barbie voice>"Nobility is _confusing!_</Barbie>) 
Random_Nerd: "How so, Domina?" 
Random_Nerd: "As I understand it, these things work in terms of Celestial time. Of how time runs in the place in Heaven where it was first invented." 
Theresa: "Well...time in a Chancel doesn't always work the same as out in the *air quotes* real world. It be move slower in here or go faster depending on the Imperator, right?" 
Random_Nerd: "I don't fully understand it." 
Theresa: "Oh, I see." 
Snow: "So when's our world gonna get eaten?" 
Random_Nerd: "I believe in six to eight months of Earth time, assuming that the ratio remains fairly constant." 
Random_Nerd: "My associate might be better informed on this, he's less Earth-specialized than I am." 
Theresa: "This would be the first world-end with the Excrucians firmly in place, isn't it?" 
Random_Nerd: "Correct, Domina. They first appeared at the end of the last world." 
Random_Nerd: "Or, rather, in the year before, in the chaos that sparked the change." 
Random_Nerd: "Of course, the Wildlords appeared before, as have other things from Outside." 
Random_Nerd: "And there are rumors that the Excrucians were bribed into attacking later, with the offering of what became Colbrand." 
Theresa: "So we could possibly be motivators to affect change and create the new world?" 
Theresa: "What's Colbrand?" 
Random_Nerd: "One of the seven great Abhorrent Weapons. Also called monsterousness." 
Random_Nerd: "Previously, it is said to have been the quality of spirit which makes death impossible, whatever that means. Presumably a lost estate." 
Theresa: "What does it look like? 
Theresa: " 
Random_Nerd: (Err, "monsterous", not "monsterousness.") 
Snow: (Capriciousness!) 
Snow: (*grin*) 
Random_Nerd: "As I understand, its shape is mutable, but is something like..." 
Random_Nerd: He thinks for a moment. 
Random_Nerd: " 'A precisely angled construct of time and meaning.' " 
DanteE: "... how many of those Abhorrent Weapons ... are Blades?" 
Random_Nerd: "But we've only had a few reports. Powers that come into conflict with the great seven tend not to survive." 
Theresa: "Ouch. How are they made?" 
Random_Nerd: "I believe... at least one is always a blade, and others sometimes are." 
Random_Nerd: "We don't know, Domina." 
Random_Nerd: "That is a secret our enemies have kept." 
* DanteE strokes the scar by his eye... 
Random_Nerd: "Colbrand is the only one we have any idea of the source material, which appears to have been an Estate, the first one Excruciated." 
Random_Nerd: "And it is, interestingly, an estate that matches with the function of an Abhorrent Weapon." 
DanteE: "Was there a Power of Blades before me?" 
Random_Nerd: "I do not know. We have no records of one." 
* Theresa gives a little gasp, at the thought of the very first Estate gone. Forever. And the panic that must have caused. 
Random_Nerd: "Much of Ymera Kudzu's past is mysterious, though. We know less about him than most Imperators." 
Random_Nerd: "Not unusual for a Wildlord, of course." 
* Snow doesn't look so concerned. 
Random_Nerd: "There... may have once been a /shard/ of Blades, of course. Before he came to Creation." 
Theresa: (So the estate is the "precisely angled construct of time and meaning" ?) 
Random_Nerd: (The estate was "The quality of spirit which makes death impossible.") 
Random_Nerd: "One of the major schools of thought involving the Magisters of the Wild says that, before they came through the Wall, their spiritual structure corresponded more to that of our enemies. Of course, we have no proof either way, but it is consistent with the other things that have been evoked with High Summonings." 
* Snow turns into a ferret, and winds around William's shoulders. 
Random_Nerd: William idly pets the ferret. 
Theresa: (Sorry to poke at something, but basically with this estate being Excruciated, it created the Estate of Death?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... not exactly.) 
Theresa: "What about Mimics, William?" 
Snow: (I was thinking the same thing, Beth.) 
Random_Nerd: (Rather, I think it produced the possibility that death could occur at haphazard times.) 
Random_Nerd: (Rather than in an innately meaningful way, when the person is ready for it.) 
DanteE: (I read that as making it possible to kill a _soul_) 
Random_Nerd: "Mimics. As I understand it, they're in structure identical to our own Imperators." 
Random_Nerd: "So, they would form Nobles, rather than Shards." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. That's a possible interpetation too.) 
Theresa: (Just kind of thinking that if an estate gets Ex-ed, whether it just gets reborn in a different way with a different name...weaker, but still there.) 
Theresa: "So...the only difference is their allegiance? Have Mimics ever decided to side with Creation?" 
DanteE: (Hm... you could argue that the'd be a 'ring' around the penumbra of whatever was removed that suddenly gets more definition...) 
Random_Nerd: "I believe that if a Mimic were to side with Creation, we would call it an Imperator." 
Random_Nerd: "That's all a Mimic is, really. An Imperator that the Other Side has turned." 
DanteE: "And it would be an Imperator-level manifestation of teh Dark." 
Random_Nerd: "The Dark? Hor so?" 
Random_Nerd: (Err, how.) 
Theresa: "So...we don't really know who a Mimic is...or even an Imperator really is...until they publicly pick a side?" 
Random_Nerd: "The only real way to know a Mimic is if you find them working against Creation." 
Random_Nerd: "As I understand it, they have some process that a group of Excrucians can perform on an incapacitated Imperator to convert them. Related, I believe, to the more elaborate way they can turn an Imperator into a full Excrucian." 
DanteE: "Well, assuming he's still interested in eliminating estates... one allied with 'our side' might try eliminating 'bad' estates 
DanteE: "Imagine Excruciating, say, Phyrric Victories." 
Random_Nerd: "Hmm. I suppose that's possible. It would still be treason, of course, but it would make sense if some of the original personality lingers." 
Random_Nerd: "Still, although doing so might make life more pleasant for some, it would also undermine the foundations of the world." 
Theresa: "What if they weren't converted by that ritual? What if an Imperator just _chooses_ to work against Creation?" 
Random_Nerd: "Then, I suppose they wouldn't technically be a mimic, merely a traitor. But the difference would be academic." 
Random_Nerd: "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." 
Theresa: "What's the punishment for treason?" 
DanteE: (All in all, we're just another brick in the wall? :) 
Random_Nerd: "Death, of course, by means of the choosing of the Locust Court." 
Theresa: (We don't need no...Excruciation...) 
Random_Nerd: "And although I am no supporter of the Lord with the Bloody Hands, in this, I agree with his policy." 
Theresa: "Have there been many..any? who have been convicted of this?" 
Random_Nerd: "Even the First of Four is a supporter of Creation. Anyone who turns against it is worse than Him." 
Random_Nerd: "Perhaps a dozen, if Mimics aren't counted." 
Theresa: "What happened to their Estates or their Nobles?" 
DanteE: "But anyway... who was this guy from 1870 you mentioned?" 
Random_Nerd: "They're ended. That's why it's so deadly when a traitor-Imperator is executed. It's almost like an Excruciation done by us." 
Random_Nerd: "Sometimes we can salvage some of their estates by the Rite of Rescue, if the Nobles aren't tainted as well.." 
Random_Nerd: "Guy from 1870? Oh, the king's ancestor?" 
DanteE: "Yeah, this guy. (shows blood drop)" 
Random_Nerd: "A previous King John. Or Johann, I believe, but the difference is academic. He was lost at sea, but fortunately his son was old enough to take over the duties." 
DanteE: "...how old was he? 
Random_Nerd: "The son?" 
DanteE: "Yes... 
Random_Nerd: William thinks for a moment, and then touches his ear. 
Random_Nerd: "One moment please." 
Random_Nerd: (rather, touching the silver ball.) 
Random_Nerd: "Ah. Fourteen, it seems." 
Snow: (Could Snow hear anything when he did that?) 
Random_Nerd: (No. It didn't produce any sound.) 
DanteE: "Hm. I wonder if some of the information about the artifacts and their rituals wasn't passed on properly.' 
Random_Nerd: "I don't know. I don't believe so, but then, if it were the case they'd hide it." 
* Snow snuffles at the silver ball. 
Random_Nerd: "Still, most of the things are written down, and the few deep secrets are orally transmitted from father to son for those of the blood of kings." 
Random_Nerd: "Please don't touch that, Domina." 
* Snow hesitates. "What is it?" 
Random_Nerd: "It is... let's call it the physical representation and substance of my commitment to my organization and their goals." 
Snow: "Why shouldn't I touch it? Why do you touch it?" 
DanteE: (Would it be rational to assume that this blood-drop-gift itself is important, or am I 'attacking a gazebo', as it were?" 
DanteE: )( 
DanteE: ) 
DanteE: (<- still kant tipe) 
Random_Nerd: (It's at least a representation of something important.) 
Random_Nerd: (You're not barking up the wrong tree. It's meaningful, and you've discovered a fair amount of the meaning.) 
Random_Nerd: "It serves a few functions, for those who're attuned to it. It's... I believe you would call it an oracle?" 
Theresa: (Why would William have an eye in his...oh, sorry. :) ) 
DanteE: "We've been assuming it's a radio. :)" 
Theresa: "Maybe your Message, Dante, wasn't meant for you specifically?" 
* Snow eyes it, looking at her own reflection. 
Random_Nerd: "It's a little more complicated than that. It connects me to things that others like myself have contributed, through the oath of our order." 
Snow: "I don't like it. Sounds too much like a leash." 
* Snow says this rather passively, however. Not like she's going to rip it out. 
* DanteE picks up Snow and transfers her to his shoulder. 
Random_Nerd: "If it is, it's a leash I've chosen to put on myself." 
Random_Nerd: "The freedom to make choices includes the freedom to commit oneself to a cause." 
* Snow whines as she is moved, but allows it anyway. 
Snow: "I wasn't gonna DO anything..." 
DanteE: "Riiiiight. 
Snow: "I like William!" 
DanteE: "Besides... I should introduce you to someone important." 
Theresa: "Maybe Snow would like to go to the zoo, Dante? I'm sure there are creatures there she's never seen before. I'm sure that some of our more historical animal bloodlines at the zoo probably don't exist outside of the Chancel anymore..." 
Snow: (I'm assuming that Snow can transform into animals that are mythical to you and me, but not mythical in Amyra?) 
DanteE: "After we talk to His Highness. William... would you call the Palace and let them know we're coming?" 
Random_Nerd: "Certainly. Would you like me to preceed you in person, to announce you?" 
DanteE: "No need, he king and I have met. 
* Snow curls up on Dante's shoulders. 
DanteE: "Then again... have you had a chance to take the Treasures Tour?" 
Random_Nerd: "Very well. I will call him and tell him to prepare for your arrival. I take it you would like your reception to be informal?" 
DanteE: "Yes. 
Snow: (Heh. Snow formal would be interesting.) 
DanteE: (She can turn into a penguin and pretend it's a tux. :) 
Random_Nerd: "Very welll, sir." 
Snow: (She doesn't know what a penguin is...yet!) 
* Theresa shrugs a little, transforming her dress into something a bit more king-visiting-ish. 
* Snow glances at Theresa. 
Random_Nerd: "Oh, one other thing, sir. You seemed interested in the greater Abhorrent Weapons?" 
Snow: "Should I be human?" 
DanteE: "Yes..." 
Random_Nerd: "There is a history of them, which is the basis of my knowledge of them. It was written by the founder of my Order. Would you like me to have a copy sent to you?" 
DanteE: "... yes I would. 
* Snow slips down Dante's clothing, and pops up again as a human. She smiles cheerfully at William. 
Random_Nerd: "I will make such arrangements." 
Theresa: "I would like a copy, if there is one available, William. Do you have any treatses on Excrucians or Mimics in particular?" 
Random_Nerd: "I believe there is a history of the Great War, which would address them to some degree." 
Random_Nerd: "Also written by the hand of Mister Ginneis. Do you wish a copy?" 
Theresa: "Please." 
Random_Nerd: "I will also arrange this." 
Theresa: "Thank you very much, William. I find that my knowledge of our enemies is...lacking." 
* Snow spins in her cotton dress, because she feels like it. 
Random_Nerd: "Bear in mind, these books contain relatively sparse information, which may not be entirely correct. Their author is a great man, who I myself respect very much, but still, he writes on issues that are clouded even to the Nobility." 
* Theresa nods slowly. "Still...a signpost on a barren field is better than heading in no direction at all." 
DanteE: (OK... now, for what I'm thinking of... GD+LC, which Snow could do for 2 RMPs?) 
Snow: (What am I doing?) 
Snow: (LCs are free for me. Not sure about GDs.) 
Snow: (Oh wait, not Domain. Nvm.) 
Random_Nerd: (Greater Divinations are Realm 5.) 
Random_Nerd: (Or Domain 5.) 
DanteE: (Guess. :) 
Snow: (a Greater Divination? Broader than finding where John is...) 
Snow: (And asking Snow what kind of LC is appropriate at the time is like asking the weather to be sunny, please.) 
DanteE: (GD finds the mind while LC creates the body.) 
Snow: (Making John be there?) 
DanteE: (Making John, from the drop. Think clone.) 
Theresa: (Won't that mess up the line of the throne?) 
Snow: (I don't think that would occur to Snow. She's of a more naturalistic mindset--conceptually, it wouldn't make sense to her.) 
Theresa: (Then again...we haven't tried talking to the spirit of the drop either.) 
DanteE: (No, his claim ends on death. He already did that. :) 
* DanteE checks out the drop's spirit... 
Random_Nerd: (The drop, mythically, looks like a reddish beetle, a little like a translucent ladybug, curled up in its shell.) 
DanteE: "William... what does it mean when a spirit resembles a beetle?" 
Snow: "Does it look like a beetle?" 
Random_Nerd: "A beetle? I don't understand the Mythic world, sir. I have never seen it." 
Snow: "Maaaaaybe it's a beeeeetle." 
Random_Nerd: "...please don't show it to me, sir. If you need someone to consult with, I believe my associate is better at tolerating perceptual shifts." 
DanteE: "All right..." 
DanteE: "Shall we head for the castle?" 
Theresa: "So, go bothering Sam or bothering a king?" 
* Snow bounces. 
DanteE: to Snow: "We'll hit the zoo after. :)" 
Snow: "Okay!" 
Random_Nerd: "Well, Samuel could go with you to see King John, I believe." 
Snow: (I forget, Snow can contact Samuel via the RH?) 
Random_Nerd: (She can. Or, rather, contact the message board through it, and have it contact him.) 
Random_Nerd: (Alternatively, he's probably down the hall.) 
* Snow sniffs out Samuel. 
Random_Nerd: (He's down the hall!) 
Random_Nerd: (In his office.) 
Snow: (Heh!) 
* Snow runs down the hall and bursts into Samuel's office. 
Snow: "Samuel!" 
Random_Nerd: He pokes his head-type-area-vortex out the door of his office. 
Random_Nerd: "Hey, Snow." 
Snow: (She interrupts him having wild Dionyl sex! Awkwardness ensues!) 
Snow: "Hi! Wanna go see the king?" 
Random_Nerd: (Well, they don't really have sex in the conventional sense. Or at least, that's not how they reproduce as such.) 
Theresa: (How could we tell? They'd be naked...and see-through!) 
Snow: (Hah!) 
Theresa: (Oh, yeah, they reproduce through the Triad method.) 
Random_Nerd: (They do do a thing where they interpose their vortices and... so on.) 
DanteE: "William, have I mentioned how much I appreciate your diplomatic skills?" 
Random_Nerd: "It's my job, sir." 
Theresa: (*laugh*) 
Snow: (He's so cute!) 
Random_Nerd: "The king? Sure, Snow." 
Random_Nerd: You hear him putting a book back on the shelf, and he streams out into the hall. 
* Snow follows. 
DanteE: "You'd better get on the phone." 
Random_Nerd: (That to William or Samuel?) 
DanteE: (William, to call the palace & tell him we're coming) 
* Snow tugs on Theresa's sleeve in a, "Moooom, let's goooo!" way. 
Random_Nerd: "I was going to call when you left, in case you had any other questions, sir." 
* Theresa smiles at Snow. "Do you want to run or ride there?" 
Snow: "Can I ride on you? You're fast." 
Random_Nerd: S, to Snow: "So, off to see the king?" 
* Snow nods eagerly at Snow. 
DanteE: (that sounds painful. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Have you been bilocating again?) 
Snow: (Sam. Sorry. Tired.) 
Snow: (^^;) 
Theresa: (I was going to say...Theresa isn't _that_ fast...) 
Random_Nerd: (And she wanted to ride Samuel?) 
Snow: (No, Theresa.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay.) 
Theresa: (Ah...okay.) 
* Theresa blinks at Snow. (How big is Snow as a human again?) 
DanteE: (Oh, wait... did we ever take care of that horse?) 
Snow: (The size of a scrawny 18 year old girl.) 
Random_Nerd: (Put it in Monty's old room, right?) 
Snow: (IIRC, we set him up grazing near the Maple.) 
Random_Nerd: (Ah, that's right. You went to Monty's old room, but didn't move him there yet.) 
DanteE: (Did we actually set him up, or just talk about it?) 
Theresa: (Talk, I think.) 
Snow: (Yeah.) 
Random_Nerd: (And fixed the hole.) 
* Theresa will nod slowly at Snow. "I'll carry you if you change into something a bit easier to carry, Snow. Have to be careful with these old bones, remember?" *smile* 
* Snow smiles and nods. She flicks into the form of a sparrow, and flits to Theresa's shoulder. 
DanteE: (Y'know, I'd feel a lot better about being responsible for fundamental building blocks of reality if we weren't so easily distracted. Or am I worrying too much? :P ) 
Theresa: (Maybe a bit. :) Snow's more easily distracted.) 
Random_Nerd: (Eh. You still beat Kudzu for attention span.) 
Random_Nerd: (And he /is/ a fundamental building block of reality.) 
Snow: (Hey, just because Snow's got the attention span of a retarded gnat doesn't mean that you can't still do your thang. :) ) 
* Theresa calls back to William. "If the copies of the books arrive before I see you again, William, can you have them sent to either the Conservatory or my desk here at the tower?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "I'll do that, Domina." 
DanteE: (Isn't William coming with us?) 
Theresa: "Thank you." 
Theresa: (No, we were going to drag Sam with us. So he can look at the beetle and not get broken.) 
Random_Nerd: (Because, being from Dionyl, he's more used to perceptual weirdness.) 
Theresa: "Do you want to drive Sam, Dante? It should give you a chance to talk about the beetle." 
DanteE: "OK." 
Snow: (I'm totally fried tonight, guys. You want to start the next game as we meet with John?) 
DanteE: (We're nearing the end of the session, aren't we?) 
DanteE: (Jinx!) 
Random_Nerd: (Stopping now works for me.) 
Random_Nerd: (And it seems like a good place.) 
Theresa: (Stopping now is fine with me.) 
DanteE: (Well, wait... can we take care of the horse of mass destruction first?) 
Snow: (Can Snow make the horse be in the room? Just...make it so?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... yes. For a Lesser Creation of Realm.) 
Snow: (And aren't you all glad I brought it home?!) 
Snow: (Bam! Horse in room. Hole blocked by glacier. Happy horse. Happy Amyra.) 
Theresa: (Yes, until the first important person is 'ded from hors'.) 
Snow: (*snork*) 
Theresa: (It will probably learn to look innocent from Snow...) 
Snow: (Oh, heck yeah. She can even teach it in Horse.) 
Theresa: ("No no no...again! With _feeling_!) 
Snow: (*eats horse's head*) 
Random_Nerd: (For that matter, it's an Anchor. She can pop into its head and say "Yo. Horse. Get over here.) 
DanteE: (Hm.;.. wouldn't that mean she can change it to another animal?) 
Snow: (Yeah, but the entrance is already blocked.) 
Random_Nerd: (She could, while she was inhabiting it.) 
DanteE: (OK, if she changes it to another animal and then leaves, what happens?) 
Snow: (Snow wouldn't be inclined to make a horse into something else. Not natural. She sees herself as a coyote/tricker/god so it's okay for /her/.) 
Theresa: (A very confused Horse.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... I think it turns back to a horse, as its anchor immunity returns?) 
Random_Nerd: (Because while she's inhabiting it, the horse is "her body" for the purposes of miracles, but afterward it's an anchor.) 
Snow: (Sorry guys, I'm dying here. Mind if I bail?) 
Random_Nerd: (Works for me.) 
DanteE: (I think we're ending the session anyway) 
Theresa: (Nah, I'm good. Sleep well, Sara. *HUG* Lots of sleep.) 
Snow: (*HUG!* Later guys! Fun game, as usual!) 
Random_Nerd: _______________STOP_________________ 
Random_Nerd: (Later, Sara.) 
*** Snow has left #nobilis. 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Knockwood: Damn, we talk a lot. :) 
Random_Nerd: Eh, that works. Besides, you just went through a "head-swallowing" story. 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
Knockwood: that power of hers is just a specific type of attack, right? 
Random_Nerd: Pretty much. 
Knockwood: that means hers is the most kick-butt 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. It makes her pretty good in a fight with Nobles who don't have really high spirit. 
BethE: Elemental is an Aspect attack possibly, right? 
Random_Nerd: Especially now that she can do it for free. 
Knockwood: sure, until I crunch the numbers for the Dragon Slave. :) 
Random_Nerd: Well, it at least enables Aspect attacks to do things they couldn't otherwise do. 
Random_Nerd: Dragon Slave? 
Knockwood: (anime 'Slayers') 
Random_Nerd: (Ah. I haven't seen that.) 
Knockwood: punch 'Dragon Slave' into the YouTube search box. :) 
Random_Nerd: What did you two particularly like and dislike about the session? 
BethE: I liked a bit more of the talking and that we've (I've?) gotten I think a better grip on what Mimics are and so forth. Makes the Kudzu thing even more confusing. :) 
BethE: Dislike...not sure. Brain not working gud. 
Knockwood: we're learning more and more about Nobility 
BethE: And we have a timeline for a showdown! :) 
Knockwood: I'm torn, though... technically we didn't _do_ much this session. Of course, when we do things we get our asses kicked... :) 
Random_Nerd: But so do the other side! 
Random_Nerd: But on the other hand, you've got some leads on some mysteries, yes? 
Random_Nerd: So, at least you accomplished something. 
BethE: And we have directions to go in. We Have a Plan. 
Knockwood: That's true. 
Knockwood: ANd a potential long-term plot... :) 
Random_Nerd: So, mind if I leave? 
Knockwood: then again, not sure how you'd feel about haning a major plot on me... :) 
BethE: I have confidence in you, Knock. And if all else fails, we'll go track down someone and beat them up.

Session 65

2007-10-04T03:19:55Z

BethDragon:

Random_Nerd: Now, in keeping with the Great Cycle of Nobilis, I was planning for the next storyline to be focused more on PC-driven goals, rather than external forces. 
Random_Nerd: After all, last one was pretty much a "You guys go there and fix this now" situation. 
Random_Nerd: Thoughts on this>? 
Sara: Having only been in one storyline, I'm utterly ambivalent. 
Knockwood: well, if we stay home, Sara can kick butt with her Realm. 
BethE: I'm okay with PC-driven goals. I don't have any in mind at the (oh, the Maple; and the Divine Fire thingy and...) 
Sara: Heh. 
Random_Nerd: Do you guys have any particular things that your characters want to work on? 
Knockwood: is Carrie returning? 
Sara: Snow would like a home/den, and a place nearby for her horse. Beyond that? Meh. She'll need to Harvest, I suppose. 
Knockwood: and Dante will need to see if there are (DELETED FOR RULE ZERO) from the (DELETED FOR RULE ZERO), in case we have to (DELETED FOR RULE ZERO), of course. 
BethE: Theresa was going to start doing the Holy Fire rite. I'd like to work on the Maple or else more on Sam/the Dionyl, I think? 
Knockwood: ah yeah, we should all do Holy Fire 
Sara: Oh! Incidentally, I'd like the Borderguard too. And what's Holy Fire? 
Knockwood: maybe ask Samuel what the /res/ is and why it's screwed up 
Random_Nerd: The Rite of Holy Fire is a spirit-based defense against mundane actions. 
BethE: ( /res/ ?) 
Random_Nerd: It works backwards, sort of, in that huge and impersonal attacks are easiest to block. 
Random_Nerd: What's Snow's spirit? 
Sara: That's right, he mentioned that and never explained it. 
Sara: 0 
Knockwood: Oh, minor RP thing: when he gets back, Dante would probably go up, grab James' gear, and stow it in his vault-o-weird-stuff 
Random_Nerd: Okay, Snow would have to renew hers weekly, and she'd be protected against really huge, deadly, and broad effects like nukes, but nothing smaller. 
Random_Nerd: Each time it's renewed takes a night-long ritual. 
Sara: Snow doesn't think that far ahead. 
Knockwood: Maybe we can all do it at once... 
Knockwood: we're on a college campus, we can disguise it as a beer bash. :) 
BethE: How about for a Spirit of 1? 
Random_Nerd: Comparatively, an Imperator with Spirit 7 has to do it every ten years, and it makes it physically impossible to start nasty rumors about him or be less than polite without a miracle. 
Sara: Dang. o.O 
Random_Nerd: Spirit 1 has to do it every two weeks, and is protected against large but not city-scale attacks. Like, bombs, missiles, etc. 
Random_Nerd: And not the miraculous versions of same, of course. 
Knockwood: and me? Sp 2 
BethE: *thinks* Given the way people feel about Entropy...he doesn't keep this rite going? 
Random_Nerd: Every month, and basically anything that a human would have absolutely no chance of surviving. Like, being shot by twenty guys at once, or being in a burning building. 
Random_Nerd: Well, Nobles can still get around this with miraculous actions. 
Random_Nerd: This is mostly just a protection against mundane force. 
Knockwood: and considering most Nobles have nonzero Aspect, that means they could just spread rumors _really impressively_ and get around it. :) 
Random_Nerd: Basically, it means that for really high-spirit Imperators, being mean to them is like water flowing uphill. 
BethE: Will we need to show Snow around Amyra together or just let her run around how she likes? 
Random_Nerd: Doable by Nobles, but not something that happens much. 
Random_Nerd: She's got Realm, what, 4? 
Knockwood: We can take her to the zoo! 
Random_Nerd: I take it that she knows her way around pretty well, then, and anything she doesn't instinctively know she can find out trivially. 
Sara: Oh, sorry, Realm 3. 
Sara: *nods* 
Random_Nerd: Still, she can trivially divine, and she's hooked into the realm's heart. 
Sara: Snow will probably lose interest in a long tour, but if you can think of a way to keep her interested, perhaps. 
Random_Nerd: She could show /you/ guys around. 
BethE: *grin* I think that would be fun..seeing the Chancel through Snow's eyes. 
Random_Nerd: Now, let's see, what do your characters want to get done? 
Sara: Heh. 
BethE: She could find Theresa's husband's grave or Red... 
BethE: (How many anchors can Snow have?) 
Knockwood: "That's a bengal tiger. About on par with your polar bear form, but more intimidating, I think." 
Sara: Snow wants a home, and a Borderguard, and someone to snuggle with at night. 
Random_Nerd: At Spirit 0? One. 
Random_Nerd: And she has it. 
Sara: Oh, I didn't know that. 
Sara: I thought it was based on Realm. Oh well. 
BethE: I wonder if Sam will think he dodged a bullet since Snow came home with an Anchor. 
Random_Nerd: It's a Rite, so it connects to Spirit. 
Sara: *nods* 
Sara: Later, can I spend a point in getting +1 Spirit? 
Random_Nerd: Spirit makes you better at all those little magics intrinsic to Nobility. 
Random_Nerd: Raising spirit takes three points. 
Random_Nerd: Same as any other attribute. 
Random_Nerd: If all you want is the effects of being able to have more anchors, we could probably work that out as a Gift of Spirit. 
Sara: Okie dokie. 
BethE: Things I want to get done: Start the Holy Fire rite, poke some more at the Maple or else do some research in the Library about the beginning of history. *thinks* 
Knockwood: I kinda wonder about her Swallowing power, actually. :) 
Knockwood: Let's see, I'll be healed after about 3 hours rest, right? 
Sara: What's that with the swallowing? 
Knockwood: at Aspect 6 Pen 3 it's our best offensive power that doesn't need miracles 
Knockwood: er, miracle points 
Random_Nerd: I'll check that, Knock. How many wounds are you down? 
Knockwood: 2 D and change 
Random_Nerd: Okay, you'll be fine in two days and a couple hours. 
Random_Nerd: Or less with a miracle. 
Sara: I spent an AMP to improve my healing skills, which are at Aspect 0. I think that means I'll be healed in a month or so? 
Random_Nerd: A few weeks, yes. 
Random_Nerd: And Dante can be healed in a few hours if he spends an AMP. 
Sara: Hm. Can we assume that we chill out in the Chancel for that time, so we're all healed? 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and remember that Durant, in addition to making you harder to hurt, makes you heal faster. 
Random_Nerd: Well, do you guys want a monthlong gap between storylines? 
BethE: (How long am I out for? I was down to one farther than Dante.) Yep, I remember that. 
Random_Nerd: *tells Beth out loud* 
BethE: I think that I will wait until we see how much 'downtime' there was before I decide on whether to spend an AMP on it? Because that would be an AMP wasted if we were going to be down that time anyhow. 
Sara: *nods* 
Sara: I'm with beth. 
Sara: Snow's gonna Harvest anyway. 
Knockwood: We could agree to spend some AMPs and have a in-chancel storyline 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. Even if she wasn't fully healed up, Snow'd be pretty hard to take on in-chancel anyway. 
Sara: *nods* 
Sara: You got enough to go on, RN? 
Random_Nerd: So, let's see. Beth, you want to investigate the Maple. How do you intend to go about that? 
BethE: I can't divine what Night said to him during the Party, right? 
Random_Nerd: Correct, at least not without a Realm greater div that also breaks Night's auctoritas. 
BethE: :P 
BethE: Given that I've got a Realm of 0, that's a high impossiblity. 
Random_Nerd: Because you need greater divs to see into the past, and it was something taking place in his bubble. 
Knockwood: I was thinking of getting a Realm gift based on a Greater Div to analyze stuff in the chancel. Think that'd be worth it? 
BethE: And the Maple was within the bubble zone... 
BethE: I can try poking at the Library about Amyra's past. What might have brought someone's interest to planting a secret there. Whether Amyra used to be someone else's Chancel. Stuff like that. 
Sara: With Plants, could you replicate the shiver of the Maple's leaves, caused by Night's words? 
Sara: Then play it back? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Yes, she could. 
* Sara curtseys. 
Random_Nerd: It'd still take a greater, and to beat his Spirit, for the aforementioned reason, but yes, you're right, she could do it with Domain. 
BethE: So we're looking at...4+ Domain MPs? 
Random_Nerd: Well, you have Domain 4, yes? 
BethE: Yes. 
Random_Nerd: So, 1 DMP for the miracle level, plus a number equal to his Spirit. 
BethE: Oh, I got confused as to how higher a Greater Div is. I must have been thinking Destruction. 
BethE: Do I know his Spirit? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. You spent a fair amount of time within a few feet of him, right? 
BethE: *nodnod* The social problem of making deals with the Camms, if I remember right. 
Random_Nerd: You could probably guess it, give or take one. 
BethE: Okay, then I'll go that route once we go 'live' and just hope that I can be creative with having less DMPs for the rest of the episode. :) 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, Night's spirit is "about two." 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
DanteE: (so, Beth could get Spirit 3 with a Hard miracle?) 
Random_Nerd: Adding levels of penetration doesn't invoke the Powers of Two rule. 
Random_Nerd: Just adding to the actual level of the miracle does. 
Theresa: (Hmm..so, 3 DMP on the block...let's hope this nets me something more than Night telling the Maple his mother's recipe for quiche.) 
Theresa: (So, while Theresa's communicating with nature..what's everyone else going to be up to?) 
Random_Nerd: So, shall we go to in-character, to Theresa divining around the Maple? 
Snow: *nodnod* 
DanteE: (are we assumed to be back home?) 
Random_Nerd: And say about a week has passed? 
Theresa: A week? Then Theresa will have spent her AMP to be able to move without grinding something broken. 
Snow: Snow will not have, but that's okay. 
Snow: She is gonna Harvest, then spend an AMP to heal faster. 
DanteE: Dante dropped an AMP... 
DanteE: then, went back and re-connected with his mortal family. 
Theresa: (Ooo...) 
DanteE: Unless that's something you'd rather RP? 
Random_Nerd: You can do it either offcamera or on, depending on your preferences. 
DanteE: (what do you guys think?) 
Theresa: (Either is fine with me. I'd just like to get some IC stuff tonight, even if I'm just watching. We could do two scenes at the same time?) 
Random_Nerd: Either works for me. It just depends how much detail you want to go into about this aspect of your character. 
DanteE: (Actually... doing the NPC theater thing would probably just take up time, so we'll say off-camera) 
Snow: (*nods*) 
Snow: If you can handle two scenes, RN, Dante could go back to his family, and Theresa and Snow could see the Maple. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Want to keep Dante's stuff off-camera for now, but if Dante's family becomes an important element later, we'll do a flashback and play it out? 
DanteE: (we'll say I saw them while you guys were recovering... spending 1 AMP means I heal in a few hours, IIRC) 
Theresa: Sounds okay to me. 
Random_Nerd: (Correct. Three hours and a few minutes and you'll be fine, with one AMP.) 
Theresa: (Okay, i think I'm ready to go.) 
Random_Nerd: So, cut to Theresa and the tree? 
DanteE: Well, I'll be back by then. :) 
Theresa: *nodnod* 
Snow: And Snow and the tree! 
* Theresa sits at the foot of the Maple, looking up at 'him'. And digging her bare toes into the earth. 
Random_Nerd: ________________START_____________ 
Random_Nerd: "One week later." 
DanteE: Meanwhile, I'll look over my artifact collection and analyze the most interesting one 
* Snow rolls around in the grass in human form. 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Do you think that's be the drop of blood, the copper pigeon veins, or what?) 
DanteE: (Depends. Any of them have a spirit sayng 'pick me! pick me! I'm a PLOT POINT!!!' :) 
* Theresa hmms. "Okay, so I'm a nosey person and you *to the Maple* are one of my favorite people, so I have to know what Night said to you. Because I get the feeling that he might have something to do with your secret. Maybe secrets is a subset of Nightlyness. I dunno. But still..." 
Theresa: *to the Maple* "Think back...back to when you were talking to Night..." 
Theresa: (Div me.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, the blood, since it's connected with the thing with the spear, is most recently involved with the plot. Alternatively, the pigeon veins are there to remind you that you didn't really follow up on that beyond pegging a likely suspect.) 
* Snow splays herself on the ground, face down in the grass. 
Random_Nerd: A shadowy image of Night, standing by the tree. "I was disconcerted when the place we were to meet them was here. Do you believe they know your purpose?" 
* DanteE grabs the blood drop and places it on his desk. 
Random_Nerd: Past-Maple *Ponders a minute, shakes head* 
Random_Nerd: Past-Night: "Good. Now, from what you've seen, /does/ Ymera Kudzu seem to be a Mimic?" 
Random_Nerd: Past-tree: *Unsure shrug* 
* Theresa feels a little down-and-out at the 'know your purpose'. Perks up at the later stuff... 
Random_Nerd: Night: "Vague suspicions, but no real proof yet?" 
Random_Nerd: Tree: *nod* 
Random_Nerd: Night: "And the Grail? Does it seem to be.." 
Random_Nerd: Past-Brian says something to Night, Night stops talking to the tree and goes off towards him. 
Theresa: (Arggh! Down in front!) 
Snow: "Theressaaaaaaa...whatcha dooooooiiiiin'?" 
* Theresa arrghs as the vision comes to an end. Flops back-side onto the grass. "Darn it...so..._close_..." 
* DanteE fires off a Greater Div of everything-about-this-drop. 
Theresa: *to Snow* "I was looking into the past. Someone from a party we threw right before you became part of the Family...he talked to my friend here. Which is amazing since I have a _lot_ of trouble talking with him. The Maple has a secret that he can't tell...until the time is right. And I'm just wondering if I've found a corner of the puzzle. 
Theresa: " 
* Snow waves vaguely at the Maple. 
* Theresa will look at the Maple to see his reaction to Theresa's Div and/or her words. 
Snow: "He'll tell you when he can. Don't worry about it." 
* Snow sits up and stretches. 
Theresa: "Oh, introductions, yes. Maple, this is Snow. She's a coyote with many forms and she is the Noble of Capriciousness. Snow, this is the Maple." (My Bond. Mine. Mineminemine.) 
Random_Nerd: Maple waves to Snow, and gives Theresa a worried look. 
Snow: "So who's your mate here?" Snow asks, after looking at the maple. 
Theresa: "But I do worry about it. Because it's a little weird that some other Noble happened to do something to him before this place became a Chancel. And plus, I worry if this whole secret thing has hurt him." 
DanteE: (we blew waaaay past weird a long time ago. :) 
Snow: "Meh. He looks okay. Worrying about it's no good." 
Theresa: "Mate? I just introdu...oh, wait. Mate as in...ah." *looks down* "I used to have a mate..when I was younger. He died, not too long after we were married..." *looks into the distance* "Never found anyone else that could connect with me like he could..." *looks at Snow with a small smile* "Maybe sometime I can show you where he's buried. It's one of my special places...I like the quiet there." 
Theresa: *to him* "Maple...do you know what would happen if someone found out your secret before the appropriate time?" 
* Snow looks thoughtful. 
Snow: "You should find another mate. You smell like you'd make good pups." 
Theresa: (You're having _fun_ with this, Sara... :P ) 
Snow: (*innocent*) 
Theresa: "I might be heading toward too old for that, Snow. And if I found someone that I wanted...well, we'd have to see. Any particular reason for this line of questioning?" *smile* 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, now, about the Divination of Stuff About The Drop.) 
DanteE: (4 RMPs at Realm 1, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct.) 
* Snow drops her hands into her lap, and smiles at Theresa. "/Well/. Just before Kudzu called me, I had this really strong, smart coyote lined up to make pups with me. But now I'm here, and there are all these smart People I can make pups with. 
Theresa: "Would they be pups or people or both?" 
Snow: "And really, a coyote with a People pup? That's not a pup. That's a /trickster/." 
Theresa: (That's a Nelson, dear. You don't wanna raise one of those... <g>) 
Snow: (*grin*) 
Snow: "It'd be a me-pup. I dunno. Doesn't matter." 
Random_Nerd: (It's made of apparantly human blood, hardened. It was affected by a greater miracle of some sort.) 
Theresa: "Is a trickster good or bad in this case?: 
Snow: "Pups are always good." 
Random_Nerd: (This means that either it's a drop that was generated by the spear in some way, it came from the Excrucian who for some reason contained human blood, or something else odd is going on.) 
Snow: "So! Who's smart here?" 
DanteE: (A Greater Div would stretch back in time, right? Where'd it come from?) 
Theresa: "Uh, well..." *thinks* "I can just name men-folk, as I'm not sure I'm the best judge on smartness. There's Dante and Brian, of course..." 
* Snow waves them off. "They talk too much." 
Theresa: "Samuel is male...I believe. I'm just not sure if you and he would...could...let's just say that there would be rug burns involved." 
* Snow giggles. 
Random_Nerd: (Well, it's a divination of Realm, right?) 
Snow: "Iiiii think that'd be hard, yeah. Though he is /really/ cool." 
Random_Nerd: (The first time it was in Chancel Amyra was during the Wacky Spear Hijinks.) 
Theresa: *smile* "Yes, yes he is." 
* Snow gets up. 
Snow: "I'll find someone. No problem." 
Snow: (Does Snow need to do anything to have a Borderguard?) 
Theresa: "Carrie's dad is already mated with Carrie's mom. Brian has an Anchor in California named Jim, who is a math teacher, very smart." 
DanteE: (OK, does it say whose blood it is?) 
Theresa: "And there's also the other Aide, William...he's quite intelligent." 
Random_Nerd: (You just need to spend the four chancel points you want for your Realm that way.) 
Snow: (*nods* I will do so, please.) 
Random_Nerd: (The blood does not belong to anyone who is in the chancel now, nor anyone who has been in it since it has been a chancel.) 
Random_Nerd: (The person whose blood it was is male, and is at least distantly related to a majority of the Amyrans who didn't immigrate within the last four generations.) 
Snow: "Hm? Hm. I remember him." (LDiv to find out where William is?) 
Theresa: (*gets popcorn*) 
Random_Nerd: (In his office, in the Tower.) 
Theresa: (Interesting blood drop. Sounds like blood from the Lance, in my opinion.) 
DanteE: (That's what I've been thinking....) 
Snow: "I think I'm gonna go find him. I need to find a den anyway. Maybe I can curl up with him." 
* Theresa looks at the Maple. Sighs. Pats his bark. "It'll be okay. If I figure out anything...well...I would not cause you harm intentially and I shall always do my best to protect you. This is my oath. By the stars above us all." 
Random_Nerd: (Yep. If it's from the Excrucian, something wierd is going on.) 
DanteE: (Assuming a few things, such as the Mary Magdalene connection...) 
* Snow looks up, at Theresa's oath. Glances at Theresa. Stage whispers, "The starts can't hear you." 
Snow: (Stars, even) 
DanteE: "...OK, why give this to _me_, then?" 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and it most closely resembles the bloodline of the Amyran royal family.) 
* Theresa stands up. "But I heard me. And I try to keep my promises. That is important to me." *smiles at Snow* "Would you like some company on your searching for a den?" 
Snow: "Sure!" 
DanteE: (WHat's the Amyran story on how the Lance got here?) 
Random_Nerd: (Given the amount of similarity with John, it could be his great-grandfather's blood, assuming relatively center-of-the-bell-curve genetic distribution.) 
* Snow flicks into the form of a snowshoe hare, and speeds off toward the offices. 
Random_Nerd: (It was brought to Amyra from Jerusalem, around the time of the First Crusade.) 
* Theresa will run to keep up with Snow. Will wave at the Maple on the way out of the Grove, hoping that this makes him feel a little better. 
DanteE: (Great-Grandfather would be ~100 years back) 
Snow: (I'm assuming nothing happens on the way to the offices?) 
Random_Nerd: (Nothing interesting.) 
Snow: (*nod*) 
Theresa: (Probably not, unless Snow goes up against a car or something.. <g>) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and the reason you can't check it against the Excrucian's blood is the whole melting thing.) 
* Snow pops back into human form when she reaches the office, and bounds into whatever room William is in. 
DanteE: (anything happen in the Kaer while we were gone?) 
* Theresa will follow, thinking that running after Snow is probably going to become a habit. 
Random_Nerd: (Nothing particularly out of the ordinary. No attacks, irate rabbits, etc.) 
Theresa: (Also thinking that she wants to see William's face when Snow starts her interrogation. *grin*) 
DanteE: (OK, when's the last time people saw King John?) 
Random_Nerd: (Which people? His staff, you guys, the public?) 
DanteE: (Him, though I'd also be interested in any press releases) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, he can currently see his arm right now, if you mean when the last time he saw himself was...) 
Theresa: (I'm guessing he meant His staff seeing the king?) 
* Snow stalks William, if he's otherwise occupied. 
DanteE: ( :/ ) 
Random_Nerd: (His staff saw him this morning.) 
Theresa: (Snow is stalking in human form? *imagines her hiding behind a stack of paperwork* *pounce* "Rawr! Wanna be my blanket?") 
Snow: (*innocent*) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, cut to Snow pouncing William?) 
DanteE: (Sure) 
Snow: (She wouldn't pounce him, but she would suddenly appear beside him, definitely within his personal space.) 
Random_Nerd: William: *is pounced* 
* Snow nuzzles her head against his chest. 
Random_Nerd: W: "Huh? Ah, Domina Snow." 
Snow: "Hi!" 
Theresa: (Darn, my bet was sniffing him...) 
Random_Nerd: W: "How can I help you?" 
* Theresa will be in the doorway, not intruding. But still, watching is fun... 
Snow: "Can I sleep with you?" 
Theresa: (*takes photo of William's face* Sam will pay big for this...) 
Random_Nerd: W: "That depends on exactly what you mean." 
* Snow looks up at William, rather sadly. 
DanteE: (They're in the tower, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah.) 
Theresa: (Yep. The Aides' office that is there.) 
Snow: "Got no mate any more. And I love my horse, but he doesn't fit in a bed or a den. It's lonely at night." 
* DanteE hears Snow, and reacts to her question my falling out of his chair. 
Random_Nerd: "If you want to sleep next to me at night, that would be fine. If you intend to mate with me, I believe you'll find that that's not in the contract.) 
Random_Nerd: " 
* Snow smiles happily. 
Random_Nerd: "Also, my fiancee would mind." 
Snow: "That'd be great. What's a fiancee?" 
Theresa: (He's got a girl? Whoa.) 
Random_Nerd: "My mate." 
* DanteE goes and joins the others... 
Snow: "Oh! Okay. No mating. I'll sleep with you 'til I find another mate, though?" 
Random_Nerd: "This is acceptable, I suppose, Domina." 
* Snow hugs William around his middle, burying her face in his shirt. 
Snow: "Thank you!" 
Theresa: (Aww...) 
Theresa: *softly* "Sorry to interupt your work, William." 
Random_Nerd: "Oh, and I hope you don't mind, but I lent John a few of my books the other day. You have no reason to keep out-of-chancel information from him, correct?" 
Random_Nerd: "Interrupt me? This sort of thing /is/ my work." 
* Snow pulls back and smiles at William, looking a little shy. 
Random_Nerd: "I work for you." 
DanteE: "No, we don't, I think. What books?" 
Random_Nerd: "A few on history, and contemporary religion." 
Random_Nerd: "He wanted to see some of the ways the world had changed with Amyra's absence." 
Theresa: (I didn't know that being a Noble's snugglebear fell under contract. Can I get Sam hooked up with electricity to be my electric blanket?) 
DanteE: (If John converts to Scientology we will NOT be happy... :) 
Random_Nerd: (I don't think he can. He's the head of the church here, correct?) 
Theresa: "I'm sure that much of religion has changed. Amyra was the main source of proven relics in the known world." 
* Snow turns into a butterfly, and flutters onto Theresa's hair. 
Random_Nerd: "He was amused by some of the changes in Rastafarianism." 
Theresa: *to Snow, quietly* "Have you picked out a den for other times, Snow?" *creates a nectar laden flower and places it in her hair in Snow's reach* 
Random_Nerd: "And a little relieved, I believe." 
* Snow drinks, and ghost miracles a response. 
Snow: "What other times?" 
DanteE: "Anyway... I've Divined that this blood drop I got from Message is apparently from an ancestor of John's." 
Random_Nerd: "That's unusual. Message was the gentleman you said was created at the death of the Excrucian?" 
Theresa: "Well, times when William's den might be occupied by other people. Or when you want to be alone." 
DanteE: "Apparently. He gave me this, I gave him a sword." 
Random_Nerd: "That's odd. Which ancestor?" 
* Snow is silent for a while, processing. 
DanteE: "3 generations back, maybe more if there's inbreeding." 
Random_Nerd: "That's... let me see something." 
Snow: "I...I'll sleep outside." 
Theresa: *to William* "What does a Jamaican religion have to do with John?" 
Theresa: *to Snow* "Okay, Snow. That's your choice. If there's any place in particular you would like, I could grow you something soft and sweet to sleep on. Or you could probably always relax in the gear room where we first met." 
Random_Nerd: "One moment, please, Domina." 
DanteE: "Or mke a bed in the basement." 
* Snow turns into a sparrow, and nuzzles Theresa's cheek. 
Snow: "Thanks. I will!" 
Theresa: "what do you think of Amyra, Snow?" 
Random_Nerd: William looks something up in a book. 
DanteE: ("The Big Book of Plot Points"? :) 
* Snow bird-shrugs. 
Random_Nerd: "So, it could be the blood of a great-great grandfather who was lost at sea in the eighteen seventies?" 
Snow: "It's nice. Kinda warm." 
DanteE: "... Maybe." 
Random_Nerd: "Oh, and on the Rastafarians. You know how they believed that Haile Selassie was God?" 
DanteE: "If there's a way his blood would get on the Spear" 
Theresa: "We are a bit warm. Used to have a fair bit of desert until we worked out some more irrigation. Still have some desert in the north." 
Random_Nerd: "Well... they used to be attached to the Amyran monarchy." 
Theresa: "Attached?" 
Random_Nerd: "In a quasi-worshipping sort of way." 
Random_Nerd: "The current line does, after all, claim to be descended from Solomon. Among many others." 
* Snow flits over to William's shoulder, turns into a mouse, and curls up for a nap. 
Random_Nerd: "As I understand it, they tended to see this as somewhat embarassing, but dealt with the group politely." 
Theresa: "Given the number of concubines, half of the Middle East could be descended from Solomon." 
Random_Nerd: "There is that." 
Random_Nerd: To Snow: "You wouldn't mind staying in a particular shape when sleeping with me? Say, that of a cat, or a small dog?" 
Theresa: "Did John discuss what his research was for? Or whether it was for pleasure or research?" 
Theresa: (I bet Snow hogs the blankets...sometimes literally. <g>) 
Random_Nerd: "As I understand it, he just likes to read, and since you no longer have contact with other countries, he's a lot less busy than he used to be." 
* Theresa looks a bit uncomfortable. "Well, yes, there would be that...." 
Snow: "I can be a human, if that helps." 
DanteE: "Well, that was a, uh, side effect..." 
Random_Nerd: "No, that would make it rather awkward, I'm afraid." 
DanteE: (Could we get media from the outside world? Maybe just one way?) 
Random_Nerd: (You could, if you set it up that way.) 
Theresa: (Weird Tech or something else? Big Realm miracle?) 
Snow: "I can be a coyote...?" 
Random_Nerd: "That could work. I'd need to have a new bed made, however." 
DanteE: "Heh... does your fiancee like pets? Maybe Snow could be a very special cocker spaniel. :) 
Snow: "I can make a new bed." 
Theresa: "I think that displaying Snow as anything but herself wouldn't be very Honest, Dante." *smile* 
Random_Nerd: "Ah... wouldn't Our Friend Who Has To Wear Gloves To Keep From Staining Things have a fit if she pretended to be a pet?" 
DanteE: "Excellent point." 
* Snow makes a "mrf?" questioning noise. 
Random_Nerd: "' Call no beast your lord.' Part of the laws of the Head Of The Council Of Four." 
Theresa: "We've been slowly working on rules with Snow. She's very independant." 
Snow: "Rules are for People." 
Theresa: "But you're kinda People now, Snow." 
Random_Nerd: "Well, okay, imagine you're in a pack. And the leader of the pack, who's seventeen feet tall and breathes fire, has these little things he'd rather you not do." 
* Snow arches a mousey eyebrow. 
Random_Nerd: "I mean, it's your own decision, of course. But I'd be remiss in my duties if I didn't mention that you should at least take efforts to make sure that Old Bloody Hands doesn't find out." 
Snow: "That is one awesome pack leader!" 
* Snow shrugs, and puts her head back down. "I guess. That's more Dante's thing." 
Theresa: (Which part? Telling Snow what to do?) 
DanteE: "If I recall from wolves, the pack leader asserts his dominance by fighting with his underlings periodically--but never lets the fight do real damage. 
Snow: (More keeping the rules sorted out.) 
Theresa: "Kudzu told us that it's up to us if we do or don't follow those particular rules, Snow. But he also said that if we don't and we get caught, it's our own trouble to get out of." 
DanteE: "17-foot fire-guy has no such qualms... right?" 
Snow: "Coyotes aren't like wolves. We don't run in packs. Well...not always. We got other coyotes who have territories beside ours. And then we got mates. But I don't think that's what you're really talking about... 
Random_Nerd: "I'm sorry. I'm not an expert in canine psychology." 
Snow: "I won't let the big bad guy catch me. Nobody can catch Snow." 
DanteE: "He CAN, Snow, trust us." 
Theresa: *small thought struck her* "Snow, on a different topic...where is your horse?" 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and by the way, /anyone/ riding the horse can use it. Even someone who doesn't otherwise have miraculous powers.) 
* Snow ponders, thinking. 
Snow: (Where's the horse?) 
Random_Nerd: (Wherever you left it. I assume in the grove, perhaps?) 
Theresa: (So anyone who pets the horse then gets snarked at could think "I wish that jerk was dead!" and bam?) 
DanteE: (Unless she's goofy enough to let him in the foyer?) 
Snow: (Snow would have let the horse roam freely once she got back, wherever the horse would be happiest.) 
Snow: (Random open field, I guess.) 
Random_Nerd: (They'd have to be riding the horse, but yes. And they'd have a feeling that they could do that, too.) 
Snow: "He's around. Why?" 
DanteE: "We'd better get him someplace safe, and quick" 
Theresa: "Well, I just didn't know whether I would be finding him in the tower hallways or if he would be sleeping at William's as well, or such. He's a special horse.": 
DanteE: (BTW: stallion, gelding, or mare?) 
Theresa: (How much would we have told William and Sam about the Mexico trip?) 
* Snow crawls down off William's shoulder and turns into human form. 
Snow: "What's wrong?" 
Random_Nerd: (Stallion.) 
Theresa: "I'm not sure if William's...den could hold a horse." 
Random_Nerd: (You're riding a horse into a fight, you want the horse to have all the testosterone that's available.) 
DanteE: "William's 'den' is a luxury apartment by the river. I don't think you could fit a horse in the elevator." 
DanteE: "How do you like your place, by the way?" 
Snow: "Why don't we put him in the little place that's big inside? 
Snow: " 
Random_Nerd: "It seems rather nice. And it's near where Samuel lives, which is convenient." 
Theresa: "Monty's old room could work." 
DanteE: (Didn't we unmake that place?) 
Random_Nerd: (Holes were knocked in, but it still exists.) 
Theresa: (We sent the plants to the moon, but we didn't destroy the room and its other miracles.) 
DanteE: "You'd have to make it smaller..." 
DanteE: "Come to think of it... is that room's growth still linked to MOnty's? 
Theresa: (Uh, Mr. Guy in Charge...is it? Because that's rather big.) 
Random_Nerd: (It wasn't directly linked, it was set to match the rate at which he was growing at the time.) 
Random_Nerd: (So, it's not so much linked to his growth as calibrated for it.) 
Theresa: (So it's the size it was when Monty left?) 
DanteE: (That woulda squished him, his growth rate accellerated right before his rampage) 
Random_Nerd: (It's still been growing.) 
Random_Nerd: (But yes, it's not been growing as fast as Monty.) 
* DanteE heads over to the split door... 
* DanteE opens the top and looks in. 
Random_Nerd: It's big. Really big. You could fit a smallish town in the room. 
Random_Nerd: There's still a big hole in the one wall, about the size of an office building from the inside. 
Random_Nerd: Looking inside from the outside makes for a slightly queasy feeling. 
Theresa: "We should probably repair the hole. It can't be good being exposed like that." 
DanteE: ... does that mean there's a rift in space hovering over the quad? 
Random_Nerd: (Not exactly. From the outside, the hole is about the size of a pickup truck.) 
Random_Nerd: (And it's on the ground floor.) 
Random_Nerd: (Like I said, it's a bit unpleasant to look at.) 
DanteE: "Hey, Snow, come here... 
* Snow comes there. 
DanteE: "You've got a good connection to Amyra, you can take care of this easily. 
Snow: (I forget--can Snow just create stuff without spending RMPs?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... not big or important stuff. She could make a pebble or a pencil or something.) 
Random_Nerd: (But she can't do full-on Lesser Creations for free.) 
Snow: (Could she move things?) 
DanteE: (I think she can make good-sized stuff for just 1 RMP, tho) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct.) 
DanteE: (...and by the house rule, she can move stuff for 1 RMP too) 
* Snow looks doubtful. 
Theresa: (Realm 4 would be the make lesser stuff for free level.) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct. As long as it's smaller than a truck.) 
Snow: "Can't Theresa just board it up?" 
Random_Nerd: (She can't move cities or so on for just one point.) 
Theresa: (The outside of the tower is brick, right?) 
DanteE: "Then that would be weird-looking boards rather than a weird-looking hole..." 
DanteE: "And you still have the growing room." 
Random_Nerd: (Right.) 
* Snow shrugs, and Lesser Creates a miniature glacier to block the hole. 
Random_Nerd: (One RMP. You want to include a lesser preservation for free, so it won't melt?) 
Snow: (Yup!) 
Random_Nerd: (Done.) 
Theresa: (The school kids are going to be sledding all of the time here now...) 
Theresa: "That...works." 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, now, from the outside it just looks like you've got a weird semi-translucent wall, and it doesn't cause SAN loss.) 
DanteE: (What all's in there?) 
Random_Nerd: (Inside? At the moment, you guys and a glacier. The plants were the other main thing, and they were moved.) 
Random_Nerd: (Mind if we stop soon?) 
Snow: (I'm fried, yeah.) 
Theresa: (So if we put the horse in here, we need more plants. That's do-able. And stopping soon is fine with me. I hadn't realized how late it was.) 
DanteE: (I just wonder how we're going to fix the room without a Greater Change... 
DanteE: (and we can stop soon.) 
Random_Nerd: (Just put a lock on the door, along with a note that says "If you break in here, I will be sad and might cry. -Brian") 
Snow: (Snow could even sign it. Do you really want to make something that Adorable cry?) 
Theresa: (I dunno...we may have a bunch of bastards in Chancel. <g>) 
DanteE: (I mean, fix the growing.) 
DanteE: (make it meadow size rather than city size) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. At this point, that's probably Greater Change territory. Or you could make it start shrinking with a Lesser Change.) 
Theresa: (We could say that we have Brian do it?) 
DanteE: (Hm... if you can make it shrink with a LC, then you could do a Dest of Space with a LD.) 
Random_Nerd: (Normally a Greater Destruction would be enough, but you can't create/destroy abstract stuff with Realm.) 
Snow: (I'm sorry guys, but I'm falling asleep here. Mind if I bail?) 
Random_Nerd: (Fine with me. Shall we just stop here?) 
DanteE: (or a Dest of Dimensions) 
DanteE: (Sure.) 
Snow: (If Snow can do it with a 3 Realm, please assume that she does it. Saves someone else using up RMPs.) 
Random_Nerd: __________________________STOP_____________________________ 
Random_Nerd: So, before you go, any quick comments? 
Snow: Good game guys. We'll do more next time, now that we have all the base stuff sorted out. :) 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Random_Nerd: Things you liked and disliked most about the session? 
Theresa: It's nice to get back into Nobilis again. :) 
*** Snow is now known as Sara. 
Knockwood: Don't forget to post to the Happy Birthday RSB thread before Saturday! 
Sara: I liked that William took Snow seriously. She really does have a set of personal rules. 
Sara: Thanks for the game! :) 
Theresa: I was expecting more of a reaction out of William. Then again, he is a professional. Sam would have had more of a reaction, right? 
Knockwood: well, figure anyone who freaked out wouldn't have made Aide. :) 
Theresa: Night Sara1 *HUG* 
Random_Nerd: Well, I don't see why he wouldn't take her seriously. 
Knockwood: g'night Sara! 
* Sara snugs all. 
Random_Nerd: G'night, Sara. 
*** Sara has left #nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Sam would have reacted differently, at least. But he relates differently to Nobles than William does. 
Theresa: How do you explain being an Aide to a SO? 
Random_Nerd: Depends how long you've been with them, and how likely they are to freak out. 
Knockwood: "Hey honey? I'm going to go and deal with the slightest whim and questions of fundamental forces of the universe. See you in a month!" 
Theresa: And I thought it was interesting that Will has a fiancee. Theresa would offer to do the flowers for the wedding, if he'd like it. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. I figure they're probably planning to marry within a year, but haven't set a date yet. 
Random_Nerd: Part of that's that he'd recently gone through some very intensive training, and he's currently on his first big assignment. 
Theresa: Hmm...we could get John to perform the ceremony. Or maybe one of us. Then again, it would probably be best if someone of the outside performed it for legal reasons. 
Knockwood: depends whether they intend to live 'there' or 'here' 
Knockwood: hm... their wedding might wind up looking like the 'Midsummer Night's Dream' issue of Sandman 
Theresa: Good point. Wonder who his best man is. <g> 
Random_Nerd: Probably either Samuel or someone who's not appeared in the game. 
Theresa: (Luc! Luc's his best man! *runs* <g>) 
Knockwood: (no, Luc's way to busy. It's Entropy. :D ) 
Theresa: (*giggle*) 
Random_Nerd: So, do you like seeing bits like that of the lives of the various supporting cast? 
Random_Nerd: The way I see it, it's mainly the story of the PCs, so I keep that stuff in the background, but I've worked out a fair amount of it, in order to understand how to play them. 
Theresa: Yes, I like seeing lives in the supporting cast. Like the little blessing bit for Sam and Will's complaining about Mexico and stuff. Gives depth. 
Knockwood: Certainly could add to the game. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, I'll try to bring in a bit more.

Amyra:Chapter 9

2007-10-04T03:17:19Z

BethDragon:

[[Session 65]]

[[Session 66]]

[[Session 67]]

[[Session 68]]

[[Session 69]]

[[Session 70]]

Amyra:Chapter 8

2007-10-04T03:16:31Z

BethDragon:

[[Session 59]]

[[Session 60]]

[[Session 60.5]] - OOC

[[Session 61]]

[[Session 62]]

[[Session 63]]

[[Session 63.5]] - OOC

[[Session 64]]

Session 64

2007-10-04T03:14:51Z

BethDragon:

Knockwood: so, we're missing ... hope and numbers. Anyone taking a trig test is boned. :) 
Sara: Heh. 
Sara: That's what Caprice is for. 
Sara: Suddenly, the fire alarm is pulled, and there is no test. 
Knockwood: and I'm at the kid's elbow saying "Do it!" 
Sara: Exactly! 
BethE: While I'm in the teacher's lounge, creating coffee with extra caffeine. 
Knockwood: you guys see my latest poster, BTW? 
Sara: Nope. On the wiki? 
BethE: Nope. Link, please? 
Knockwood: post #21178, I think. The pic was provided by someone else 
BethE: *looks* 
Knockwood: alternate caption: ASPECT 5: Go ahead, piss him off. 
Sara: (Link: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=21178)http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=21178 
Sara: That's not it, I assume. :) 
BethE: Almost have it loaded... 
Knockwood: yeah, that's thread, not post. :) 
BethE: (Link: http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6929982&postcount=21178)http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=6929982&postcount=21178 
Sara: Heh 
Knockwood: no one acknowledged its existence, tho 
BethE: Well, with a thread that big, it' 
BethE: s hard to tell what people think of some of them. 
Random_Nerd: So, we have no Laz for this session, but I do believe we have enough folks for a game. 
BethE: Indeedy! We shall send Brian to guard the horses. 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
Snow: No eating Brian's rocks, I suppose. 
DanteE: this horse would need guarding, that's for sure,,, 
Random_Nerd: So, anything before we start? 
Theresa: Oh, wait, do we want Brian guarding the horse of the 'Kill Humans'? <G> 
DanteE: (we know jack about the horse IC, right?) 
Theresa: Just a clarification...we were looking for the blightstone, we have a mom and daughter who have survived barely, and a nearby town. And the spirit of the ground who's currently getting waste...oh, good one, RN. 
* Snow claps. 
DanteE: (good one?) 
Theresa: The ground is a wasteland, thanks to the blight. The ground spirit is getting wasted. :P) 
* Snow GOLFclaps. 
Random_Nerd: All puns are in the eye of the beholded. 
Random_Nerd: Beholder. 
Random_Nerd: Whatever. 
Theresa: Okay, I'm ready, I think. 
DanteE: beheld. 
DanteE: (That's why I wanted to know what the booze meant. :) 
Snow: (Theresa was talking out loud to the ground spirit, yes?) 
DanteE: (Actually, that'd mean I had it backwards....) 
DanteE: (I thought the booze was the _cause_ of the blight rather than the result...) 
Theresa: (Yep, out loud to the spirit. And he had vague notions of where the stone is. And Dante and Snow (and Brian) had headed for it. 
Random_Nerd: Cut to Dante and Snow heading for where the spirit thought the blightstone was? 
DanteE: sure. 
Random_Nerd: _______________________START_______________ 
Snow: (*nodnod*) 
* DanteE guises up a cowboy outfit to fit in 
Theresa: (What was I up to? Was I told to take care of the humans?) 
* Snow rides her new horsey friend. 
DanteE: (o/~ ya see, I been through the desert on a horse with no soul... o/~ ) 
Theresa: (*snort*) 
Random_Nerd: (I'm not sure what you were up to, Beth. Shall we have you with the others?) 
Theresa: (I would appreciate it. I will walk alongside the horse. With guised clothing over the shredded tatters that are probably what I look like right now.) 
DanteE: (Did we manage to get any MPs from the dead Exs?) 
Snow: (Niet.) 
* Snow peers across the landscape from her perch, looking for something suspicious. 
Random_Nerd: (Using what method of sight?) 
Snow: (Regular, Mythic and I'm totally blanking on the third.) 
DanteE: (The Sight) 
DanteE: (I think Snow and I are both riding the horse, right?) 
Snow: (I thought I was mixing up Armageddon and this, when I thought that. Heh.) 
Random_Nerd: (That would make sense.) 
Snow: (*nod*) 
Random_Nerd: (In Nobilis, the Sight is the method of perception by which miraculous things are bright, and everything else is dim and vague. 
Random_Nerd: ) 
* Theresa walks along. She's a Noble, Nobles do not limp and Nobles do not slouch...but there is a hot tub in a house in a land that doesn't quite exist with her name on it at home... 
Snow: (I would be particularly interested in what she sees in the Sight, then.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, now, you're in the rough center of town, in the middle of the street.) 
DanteE: (Well, if the horse unloads, with you being plants... :) 
Snow: (Horse: *poot*) 
Theresa: (Eww...) 
Random_Nerd: (Everything looks dark and vague, except for you guys, and a faint glimmer from a scrap of paper in the gutter.) 
DanteE: (what's the town look like to normal sight? 
* Snow hops off the horse and goes to fetch the scrap of paper. 
* DanteE takes control of the horse... and checks it out with the Sight 
Random_Nerd: To normal sight, it looks fairly ordinary, except for the lack of people out. 
* Snow looks at the paper as she heads back to the others. 
DanteE: "Watch out for some guy with a cowboy hat and a grudge 
Theresa: "You mean you, Dante?" *(small smile* 
Random_Nerd: It's faded, and it seems like it's been kicked around a little, but it seems like a sheet of notebook paper rolled up into a ball. 
DanteE: "Black hat, not white. :) : 
* Snow sits down on the ground and flattens out the paper. 
Theresa: "But we've already killed the guy who rose in on this horse. I hope Snow doesn't get sick from eating him." *looks worried* 
Snow: *absently* "He tasted good." 
Theresa: "What did you find, Snow?" 
Random_Nerd: It's wrapped around a tiny black stone, shiny in an odd, almost glossy way. 
* Snow leans down and sniffs the stone, still in human form. 
Snow: "Pretty!" 
Random_Nerd: Also, the paper has, in copperplate handwriting, the sentence "Normally we'd hide this better, but we don't really have a horse in this race anyway. -The Excrucians" 
DanteE: "son of a bitch..." 
* DanteE dismounts and hands the reins to Theresa. 
* Theresa reads the note. "Well, isn't that...*sigh* Is the cornerstone of theuniverse snark?" 
Snow: (*laugh*) 
Snow: "Should I eat it?" 
DanteE: "Ah, no... 
Theresa: "It probably wouldn't be a good idea. How do we destroy it, i wonder..." 
DanteE: "That's Excrucian-stuff. 
Snow: "So? I'm me-stuff!" 
* Snow grins. 
* DanteE pulls out a dagger. 
Snow: "By the time I'm done with it, it'll be me stuff too. Then it'll be ground-stuff. Then plant stuff..." 
DanteE: "Put it on the sidewalk there." 
* Snow looks disappointed, but does so. 
Snow: "Hey horse! Wanna see something cool?" 
Theresa: "It might be poison to you, Snow. See how it's poisoned the land and the people here?" 
Random_Nerd: The horse looks at Snow in a disaffected equine way. 
* DanteE sets the dagger point-down on the stone... 
DanteE: "Theresa? Log-hammer time. :) 
* Snow positively beams at the horse. 
Theresa: (Is there a log or appropriate piece of wood nearby?) 
Theresa: "You think it won't explode, raining blight bits everywhere?" 
Snow: "If I ate it...!" 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. No random logs lying around loose, but various trees, wooden buildings, and so on.) 
DanteE: (Is there a section on blightstones in Nobility 101?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. "They're bad. Hit them with a rock.") 
DanteE: (Theresa... you could BE a log.) 
DanteE: (Turn your fist into one. :) 
Theresa: (Aspect miracle. Do I need to spend anything with being this hurt?) 
Theresa: "Snow, would you eat a rat that died by poison?" 
* Snow looks sly. 
Theresa: "A _lot_ of poison?" 
Snow: "Weeeeeeeeeeeeell...maybe nooooow." 
Snow: "With Kudzu and all." 
Theresa: "We'll let you try later once you're healed from all of the hurt the bad men did to you, then." 
DanteE: " 
* Snow pouts. 
Snow: "Okaaaay." 
* Snow flops onto her back and looks up at the horse. 
DanteE: "Yeah, I don't want to risk hurting you any further." 
DanteE: "When we get back to Amyra I'll get you some coyote chow... 
DanteE: "some fresh rabbit. :)" 
* Snow snickers. "ANYthing's coyote chow." 
Theresa: "Shield your eyes..." *transforms her right fist into a large caber above the dagger and slams it down hard* 
* Snow jumps onto her feet, startled by the noise, but watches anyway. 
Snow: (*claps for proper use of "caber"* Obscurity +1!) 
Random_Nerd: Kersmack. 
Random_Nerd: The daggerpoint passes through the stone, which breaks into a couple pieces. 
* Theresa will look around Mythicwise to see if anyone/thing is feeling better? 
Random_Nerd: (Mythically, things look generally but nonspecifically more vital.) 
DanteE: (How about the stone?) 
Random_Nerd: (Everything's moving around slightly faster, and the colors are less desaturated.) 
Random_Nerd: (Mythically, it looks like a broken piece of rock.) 
Snow: "So are we done?" 
DanteE: "Maybe... Snow, what's the local capriciousness look like?" 
* Snow has a look around. 
Theresa: "I think so. Should we bring the bits back with us? I don't want to poison home too." *will look for the ground spirit from earlier to see how he's doing* 
DanteE: "Personally, I want to study it." 
DanteE: "Along with everything else I've been collecting..." 
Random_Nerd: (The ground seems to be asleep.) 
Snow: "Sooooooooo..." Snow draws it out. "Kudzu sent this stuff?" 
Random_Nerd: (His coloring still seems a bit bad, but he seems to be healing.) 
Theresa: "From what I understand...Kudzu wanted to test you...and probably us...so he made a deal with these Excrucians...to hurt your Estate?" 
Theresa: "In a way, I guiess he won the deal...the people who sent the Excrucians lost two people...and a horse. We gained a horse." 
Theresa: (Thematically, Snow's anchor should be a cow, though. :) ) 
Snow: (Heh.0 
Snow: ) 
DanteE: "2 dead Warmains on their side and 1 forced to flee... and we're all still alive." 
Snow: (Does the local Capriciousness look okay?) 
DanteE: "...barely... 
Theresa: "Barely." 
Snow: "Kinda fun though. Except for the hurting." 
DanteE: (jinx) 
DanteE: "Of course, there's the damage they did to deal with..." 
Random_Nerd: (The whimsy seems to have corralled most of the whims in a barn, and is taking them one at a time out to put back in people.) 
Snow: "My whimsy's doin' good." 
Theresa: "Yeah. Although earthquake or mudslide or unstable land mass could explain the house collapsing. Err, marsh gas?" 
* DanteE grabs the stones. 
* Snow scrambles up onto her horse. 
Snow: "Who cares? I'm hungry! Let's go home." 
DanteE: "Snow, there's one girl whose caprice is gone" 
DanteE: "We should do something about that" 
Snow: "Can't. All outta stuff!" 
DanteE: "WE'll see..." 
* Snow tilts her head? 
DanteE: "Theresa, you ride, you're hurt worse." 
DanteE: "Plus, the helicopter's back there." 
* Theresa shakes her head. "No, that's okay, I can still walk. It feels good to have the ground under me." *returns her arm/hand to normal* 
* Snow nudges the horse back to the farmstead. 
Theresa: "We should probably either bring the mother and daughter back here to where the townsfolk can find them. Easier to transport that way." 
DanteE: "You mean the widow and the orphan?" 
DanteE: "Well... half-orphan. 
DanteE: "I must be tired if I'm not making sense..." 
Snow: "I can just make them not exist any more, if that's easier?" 
* Theresa blinks. "Snow, how would you make them not exist and that's not to mean that you should." 
DanteE: "It's easier but I doubt it's better." 
Snow: "What's better?" 
DanteE: "... let's check out how bad it is." 
* Snow shrugs and continues back. 
Theresa: "Can you tell me how you would make them not exist, Snow?" 
* Snow shrugs. 
Snow: "Get on horse. Make them go away. Poof." 
Theresa: "So...the..._horse_ makes them go poof?" 
Snow: "Well...I do. The horse just makes me able to do it." 
Theresa: "O-kay...that explains why the Excrucian could make all of the other people disappear. Does it kill everything or just people?" 
Snow: "Dunno. Want me to try?" 
DanteE: "NO." 
* Snow subsides a bit. 
Snow: "...okay." 
Theresa: "I..don't like killing things or people or like that, Snow. It makes my heart hurt." 
Snow: "Really?" Snow looks genuinely surprised. 
* Theresa slowly nods as she walks along. "Yes. Part of...well, _me_, is that I try to respect life. Not end it before its time, respect a life given freely, try not to take a life in vain...like that. When I act contrary to that, it hurts me." 
DanteE: "You... grew up with death all over, didn't you? 
Snow: (Snow or Theresa?) 
DanteE: "Catching rabbits for lunch, seeing pack members shot by ranchers... 
Snow: "Oh, sure. Not too many pack members got shot though. I made a deal with MY People." 
DanteE: "It's different when you're human." 
DanteE: "or Noble." 
Snow: "Noooo. I'm still me. I'm just Kudzu too, now." 
Snow: "YOU guys are human." 
DanteE: "As your new family, I guess it's up to us to give you the socialization that got bypassed when you were enNobled." 
DanteE: "Theresa, you were trained in that, sorta. :)" 
Theresa: "Maybe she doesn't want to live by human rules, Dante. She doesn't really have to." 
Theresa: "You want me to school Snow? At what? As a Noble, she can speak or read any language." 
Snow: "Seems to me like you guys need someone who can see things better." 
DanteE: (I presume we're walking back to the farmhouse while all this is going on, right?) 
Snow: (I assumed that, yup.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah.) 
Theresa: "Right now, I would like to go home and yell at our Imperator. If he doesn't erase me from the Universe, I'd like to take a long soak in a hot bath." 
DanteE: "Well, schooling isn't just about numbers and words, it's about dealing with other kids and learning how to be Amyran." 
Random_Nerd: (Who needs socialization when you can have mind control?) 
Snow: "I am Amyran. I am Amyra!" Snow puffs out her--admittedly human--chest a bit. 
Snow: "I'm Kudzu!" 
DanteE: "Ich ben ein Berliner?" 
Theresa: "What kind of filling, Mr. Jelly Donut?" 
Snow: (Snow would know what that means, but beyond the general sentiment, I'm not sure of the direct translation...?) 
DanteE: ("I an a Berliner." Speech by JFK.) 
Snow: (*nod*) 
Theresa: "Hmm...Snow...because of your strong connection with Amyra, the people there will try their best to help you and so on. But outside of the Chancel, you might have trouble communicating what you want people to know or do." 
Snow: "What's that gotta do with fixing these people?" 
DanteE: "We're talking about a woman who's going through the rest of her life without her husb... er, mate and a child who's missing one of the essential components of childhood. 
DanteE: "Both very bad things." 
* Snow gives Dante a distinctly "you're crazy" look. 
Snow: "I can...eat them, I guess...?" 
Snow: "More useful that way." 
Theresa: "It isn't the most horrible thing in the world to lose a husband. It can feel like it, but it isn't." 
DanteE: "yeesh, this is tough enough in Amyran without translating it to coyote. Theresa?" 
DanteE: "Anyway, we're here..." 
* Snow waits--and fidgets impatiently--for the others to do Something Cool. 
* Theresa is confused too as she isn't sure what Dante is thinking or wanting... 
Theresa: (Plus, Theresa's a little peeved as she's a widow herself. :) ) 
DanteE: (Trying to communicate that killing or eating the family would be a Bad Thing) 
Snow: (Well, says YOU...) 
Theresa: (Which family? Us? Or the mother and daughter?) 
DanteE: (the mom & daughter who got caught up in the battle.) 
DanteE: (and anyone else in the area) 
Theresa: (Ahh. I didn't think that she had be wanting to eat them until Dante asked what she should do with them.) 
* Snow siiiighs. 
Snow: (Snow is more thinking what she can do to make the problem go away.) 
* Theresa smiles up at Snow. "Come on, we'll finish this up, we'll ride the helicopter a...wait, Snow, how are we going to take your horse home?" 
DanteE: (How much damage did the Winds of Hate do?) 
Snow: (And if they're suffering all that much, she can just make them not exist...) 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, assume that each casting of it was equivilent to everything being hit by a wrecking ball.) 
DanteE: (and how many buildings were in the area?) 
Random_Nerd: (One. Fairly spread out, here.) 
DanteE: (How many people got disappeared?) 
Snow: "We could just take them home with us. Amyra's pretty neat. It's got a real god and everything." 
Theresa: "And we might be able to help their DA. The people here would think that they disappeared with the others. And they might be ostracized for surviving...all of this." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Probably about four to six.) 
Random_Nerd: (Let's see... *counts* Four.) 
* Snow drums her fingers on the horse's shoulders. 
Snow: "Hey, you want to ride in a helicopter?" *to the horse* 
Random_Nerd: The horse looks dubiously at Snow. 
Snow: "It's loud, but you get to fly like crazy." 
Theresa: "I can possibly rig a harness to carry him. You would have to keep him calm, though, Snow." 
Snow: "Oh, sure. We'll hang out." 
Theresa: "So, Dante, how about we take the mother and daughter with us? Maybe Carrie can help them as well?" 
Random_Nerd: Snow, you feel the tingle that indicates that someone is praying to you. 
* Snow pays attention. 
Random_Nerd: Horse to snow, via prayer: <horse-thought equivilent of "Going off the ground? Bugger that."> 
Snow: "You want wings instead? I heard a story about a horse with wings, once." 
Snow: "I think he fell into the ocean, though..." 
DanteE: "Well... depends on how attached they are to Mexico." 
DanteE: "You're mixing up Pegasus and Icarus" 
Snow: "Oh! Good. I've only got one horse." 
Theresa: (I like Snow's horse. :) ) 
Snow: (Ditto!) 
DanteE: "And we could just split up... you can easily get to Amyra via an alley in Mexico City" 
* Theresa talks to the horse. "If you'e worried about the flying part, we will make sure that you are okay. You are our Sister's Anchor now and thus part of us." 
Theresa: (Dibs on not taking Snow into a city of how many millions of people. <g>) 
Random_Nerd: (I figure the horse can understand Snow, because she anchored it, but only vaguely comprehends the rest of you.) 
DanteE: how's the animate caprice doing? 
Random_Nerd: You can't see it from there. 
DanteE: "Snow, how's that animate Caprice doing?" 
Theresa: (Well, Theresa wouldn't know that...) 
* Snow tries to sense it's actions. 
Random_Nerd: The horse looks at Theresa. 
Snow: (its, sorry) 
Random_Nerd: It's pretty much the look of a polite but monolingual tourist who just listened to a conversation on a specialized topic in a language he has no clue about. 
* Theresa raises an eyebrow. "Are you sure you're not an Excrucian in disguise?" 
Random_Nerd: The same look, amplified about 5%. 
* Theresa sighs. "Well, we will have to be deciding soon. The locals will be feeling better with that blight stone gone and they'll see us." 
Random_Nerd: The whimsy continues its one-by-one distribution of whims from the barn. 
* Snow straightens a bit. 
DanteE: "Well, let's see what we're dealing with..." What/How are the mom & daughter doing? 
Snow: "Okay. The two people, they come with us. I am hungry and I want to go home." 
DanteE: "Don't forget to restore the girl's caprice if you can't recover it." 
Snow: (Brainfart. The caprice was supposed to return to the girl after its job was done.) 
Random_Nerd: They're currently out in one of the corn fields, together. 
* DanteE goes over to them. 
Snow: (Still no dad, though.) 
DanteE: "Theresa, you're the diplomatic one..." 
Theresa: "In a way, perhaps." 
Random_Nerd: (Well, the father was outdoors when you had your fight.) 
Theresa: (The dad has gone to that great big NPC-halla in the sky.) 
DanteE: "Are you all right?" 
Theresa: (Is that to the humans?) 
* Snow shouts at the pair from behind Dante. "HEY! WANNA COME WITH US?" 
DanteE: (yes...) 
Snow: (*grin*) 
* Theresa sighs. "You two (the humans) can open your eyes now." 
DanteE: to Theresa: "See what I mean about socialization?" 
Theresa: "She's being Capriciousness, Dante. It would be like asking you to not play with anything sharp and pointy." 
DanteE: "good point." 
Theresa: *to the humans* "We know you've been through a traumatic time. We can take you to our facilities and try to help you there or you could stay here with your town." 
DanteE: "Er... no pun intended." 
* Snow confers with the horse, seeing that the others are now dealing with the humans. 
Snow: "You gotta come with me, back to Amyra. You're my pack now." 
Random_Nerd: (Stepping into the horse's brain, or just talking to it?) 
Snow: (Just talkin'.) 
Random_Nerd: The horse sniffs Snow and nods. 
* Snow snuggles the horse's nose, rubbing her face into the rough fur. 
Snow: (Hair, rather.) 
* Theresa waits to see what the mother at least will say.... 
Snow: "I'll make sure you get a really nice place, when we get back. Like, super nice." 
Random_Nerd: She looks at Theresa with a blank and rather frightened expression, and holds her daughter close. 
Random_Nerd: She shakes her head, and continues to hold onto her kid. 
* DanteE hits her with a Ghost-LC-Courage aimed at helping her hold it together. 
* Theresa crouches down besides her, soothing. "Please...we want to _help_ you..." 
Random_Nerd: She relaxes a bit when the miracle hits. 
Random_Nerd: "We live here. This is our /home/." 
Theresa: "Will your town take you in? Your other family?" 
Snow: Satisfied, Snow makes her way over to the others. 
Random_Nerd: "We... they..." She straightens up. "Yes, I think they will." 
Random_Nerd: "And I'd rather be... I'd rather /we/ be with them than with strangers, even helpful ones." 
DanteE: (OK, just to make sure: the people who got zapped are unrecoverable, right?) 
Snow: "Ground's nice and loose now. Good for growing," Snow offers. 
* Theresa nods. "Very well, then. We cannot promise that something like this will not happen again. But we are sorry for your loss." 
Theresa: (Man, is that ground loose...but his hangover is going to be bad...) 
Snow: (*snerk*) 
DanteE: (yeah, but it's being fertilized with dead Excrucian) 
Random_Nerd: (Well... I'm sure that if you came up with something clever, you could probably save them. But you'd need something bigger than a lesser destruction [since that was what removed them] as well as to find what happened to their souls.) 
DanteE: (speaking of which... I'm risking a R0V, but how much damage would their remains do?) 
Random_Nerd: (You have no reason to believe that they're particularly damaging.) 
Random_Nerd: (Let's say that I can't think of an easy way to get the humans back, although if you come up with something that makes sense and fits the limitations we have, I'll allow it.) 
Random_Nerd: (Excrucian corpses tend not to be intrinsically dangerous, unless they have something like Sancrosanct or the My Corpse Done Blown Up Good Strategist one.) 
DanteE: (There is, but it would require Snow having a knowledge of quantum physics. :) 
Random_Nerd: (And for those, the problems are less a matter of polluting the water table and more like the guy having had a bomb on a dead-man's switch.) 
Snow: (*snort* No. :) ) 
DanteE: (Come to think of it, she could be a living Infinite Improbability Drive. :) 
Theresa: (I can't think of a good way either. We had enough trouble with Dante rewiring himself to bring back people with corpses from the dead. We at least needed the bodies before.) 
Snow: (Brian could do it. Go back in time--number of days--duplicate the husband--bring him forward in time. Smack him down in front of the wife.) 
Random_Nerd: (If Dante added more points in his Gift, it might be able to handle something like this.) 
Random_Nerd: (But the current version can't.) 
DanteE: (...) 
Theresa: (Did we break Dante? :) ) 
DanteE: (debating whether to add points now or just write them off as casualties of war) 
* Snow looks frustrated. 
Snow: "KUDZU!" 
* Theresa looks at Snow, startled. 
Random_Nerd: The rubble of the destroyed house sits up. 
Random_Nerd: "What?" 
* Snow goes over to it. 
Snow: "Dante doesn't get what bein' you is!" 
DanteE: "ah... (to the woman) don't look. Just... don't." 
Random_Nerd: Vaguely Humanoid Rubble: "Oh, don't listen to him." 
* Theresa will hobble over toward the house after making sure the woman and daughter close their eyes. 
Snow: (who's he saying that to?) 
Random_Nerd: (That could have been to Snow or to the woman. Ambiguous.) 
Theresa: "We have taken care of Snow's Estate, Boss. Right, Snow?" 
Snow: "You wanna send stuff, that's neat--it's fun--but boy, you gotta show him how to be a Noble." 
Snow: "Oh, yeah. It's good now." 
Random_Nerd: "Yeah, seems fixed. Good work." 
Random_Nerd: "Think you learned anything in the process?" 
Snow: "I ate a guy." 
Snow: "He tasted good." 
DanteE: (We learned you're a bastard... oh, wait, we knew that. :) 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu nods to Snow. 
Random_Nerd: "A valuable lesson." 
Theresa: "We learned a few things. Most that can wait to be talked about once we get home. We survived." 
Random_Nerd: "Both humans and excrucians generally taste good." 
* Snow offers house-Kudzu a rock for eating. 
Snow: "Rocks, too. They just taste like rocks though." 
* Theresa has a look on her face that says that she's currently a bit sour at the moment. 
Random_Nerd: "How else should a rock taste?" 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu looks at the rock, and then waves it off in a "Nah, I'm good" way. 
DanteE: (and bitter, I'm guessing... right Theresa? :) 
* Snow licks it, then puts it down. 
Snow: "So, one of the bad guys got rid of these guys' (*motions to the women*) man. No big deal, right?" 
Theresa: (Just a little. But like she said, she'll wait till she gets home. Don't chew out the Imperator in front of the humans.) 
Random_Nerd: "Well, you saved the Estate of Capriciousness. A few humans died in the process. It /happens/." 
DanteE: (you missed the gag... sour & bitter means she wouldn't get eaten) 
Theresa: (Oh, no, I eat sour stuff. <g>) 
Random_Nerd: "It's regrettable, but still, there are higher priorities. Even the Light agrees with me on that, and they've got a whole weird thing with humans." 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu, to Dante: "What is up with that, anyway?" 
Snow: (Heh.) 
DanteE: "The Light believes in humanity's potential... 
Random_Nerd: "I mean, I like humans. They're interesting. But there are more important things out there." 
Snow: "Shiny things!" 
* Snow looks thoughtful. 
Snow: "Also, food." 
Random_Nerd: He looks again at the group of you. 
Random_Nerd: "So, I take it it came to a fight." 
* Theresa covers the hole in her chest, or at least tries to. "A little bit. Snow made a friend." 
DanteE: "Yes. Two Warmains dead, the third driven off. 
DanteE: "But we're hurt, and 4 humans were ... un-made." 
Random_Nerd: "Interesting. The horse... were you the one that killed its former owner?" 
Theresa: "Snow bit his head off." 
DanteE: "We worked together. 
Random_Nerd: "Not completely, Blades. Human souls are awfully durable." 
* Snow shrugs. 
Random_Nerd: "I mean, it's /possible/ to destroy one, but it takes some real doing." 
Theresa: "So, they're just dead, not destroyed like an Estate?" 
Random_Nerd: "Yes. When an Estate is destroyed, it is as if it never were, save as we remember it." 
Random_Nerd: "When a human dies, his essences separate and his soul passes up or down." 
Theresa: "So, they've just gone on like a normal death. Hmm...well, that's a bit comforting." 
Random_Nerd: "Well, well. You seem to have an interesting knack for Excrucian martial culture, Caprice. The master of these shards will appreciate that you didn't leave the horse unclaimed." 
* Snow shrugs again. 
Snow: "I wanted him." 
Theresa: "So..you made a deal with the Excrucians. I didn't know you could do that." 
Random_Nerd: "No, no. The Excrucians made a deal with /me/." 
Theresa: "Oh?" 
Random_Nerd: "Do you know what Tempering is?" 
Random_Nerd: (And all of you probably do if you want to.) 
Theresa: (I do, if you tell me what it is OOC.) 
DanteE: "... does that mean the survivor is a better Warmain now?" 
Random_Nerd: (It's when a Warmain kills someone and remakes himself in their image.) 
Random_Nerd: "Well, since none of you seem to be dead, I take it he hasn't tempered himself." 
Theresa: "I think I know what it is. So, you knew someone who was Tempered?" 
Random_Nerd: "It's... it's a funny thing. When someone you know dies, and then his killer... becomes him, in a way." 
Random_Nerd: "It's a very Warmain thing to do. That's probably why they're almost the only ones to do it." 
Random_Nerd: "But it's not just looks. They think like the old person with new priorities." 
* Theresa blinks. "Then...how do you know it happened? That the person didn't just change on their own?" 
Random_Nerd: "Believe me, when an Imperator dies, there are things that happen." 
Random_Nerd: "But what you have to understand is that the tempering is a gesture of profound /respect/. It's their way of showing us that, even as they kill us, they value us." 
* Snow , growing distracted with all this talk, turns into a rat and scampers around inside Kudzu's building-body. 
Random_Nerd: "So... I don't expect you to understand. But when a friend, an old friend you've known for more than an age of the world dies, and there's someone who looks like him and thinks like him... sometimes it's hard to just cast that person aside." 
DanteE: "Does that mean ... you were prepared ... to sacrifice one of _us_?!?" 
Random_Nerd: "You are, ultimately, expendible. I expected that you would deal with this without dying." 
Random_Nerd: "But if you died, perhaps your replacement would be better suited to the job." 
Random_Nerd: "I would suffer in the process..." 
Theresa: "If we died, wouldn't you have lost us? Had us lost from the rest of the world too?" 
Random_Nerd: "But there's a war, you see. Sometimes we have to do things we don't like, to make sure we don't lose." 
Theresa: "So...we're being tempered too, huh?" 
Random_Nerd: "In a way. I'm turning you into tools to fight a war with. The Excrucians may not be bad people, but ultimately, they must be stopped." 
DanteE: "Who was your friend?" 
Random_Nerd: "We can't let them even take any ground, because there's no way we can take it back. We must be more ruthless than they." 
Theresa: "Too bad we can't get the Estates tehy took when we kill them." 
Random_Nerd: "He was... he was one, like me, who came in from outside. He failed. And everything that he was was removed from the world, so that I couldn't even explain the concepts to you. All that remains is the one who killed him and became him." 
Snow: "Who's that?" 
Random_Nerd: "We talked earlier about what happens when a human dies. I don't know what happens when one of my kind dies." 
Random_Nerd: "I don't know if, somewhere in the outer darkness, something of him remains." 
Theresa: (That's something. That we wouldn't even recognize such an Excrucian because we couldn't recognize the Estates that they took out of the Universe.) 
Theresa: "Your memory of him lasts as long as you last." 
DanteE: (On a slight tangent... what would happen if we tried the Rite of Rescue on these dead Shards?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Rite of Rescue wouldn't do anything, they don't have estates. Also, they're dead.) 
Snow: "Everybody's gotta die, Theresa. Otherwise, we couldn't be alive." 
Random_Nerd: (Do you mean the Redtooth Rite?) 
* Snow looks rattily thoughtful, however briefly. 
DanteE: (That might be it) 
Random_Nerd: (What does the rite you want to do do?) 
* Theresa sighs. "I know, Snow. It's just that I lost someone close to me once. And the stuff I said about memory...that's how I was able to keep on without him. One of the few ways." 
DanteE: (Actually I know what would happen, the Power of Munchkins would plotz. :) 
* Snow sniffs. 
Snow: "Guess so." 
* DanteE looks over at the woman. 
Random_Nerd: She's watching, in a "I've decided that I'm dreaming" sort of way, and the kid is tucked under her arm. 
* Theresa looks over at the woman and looks back at Kudzu. "We're almost done here, boss. We'll be home soon." 
* Snow peers through one of Kudzu's eyeholes. 
DanteE: "It's the collateral damage we're dealing with now." 
Snow: "Let 'em go. They're good. Earth's good, growing's good. They'll find their man again." 
* Theresa puts a hand on Dante's shoulder. "We should probably just let them get back to their town. She wanted them to stay here rather than go with us." 
DanteE: "Still means a kid grows up without a dad." 
DanteE: "Maybe several kids." 
Snow: "Most things grow up without a dad," Snow offers. 
Random_Nerd: The woman's eyes are watering a bit, but she's managing to keep from crying. (Partly through the Courage.) 
Theresa: "Look at her and tell me if she isn't strong enough. Tell me that she doesn't have the courage to do this, then." 
DanteE: "We'll live, I guess." 
* Snow seems to think hard for a moment. 
Snow: (Any single, age appropriate men in the area who've ever entertained the notion of being a good, kind husband to this lady?) 
Theresa: "Because if losing a husband means that you're not strong enough to raise a child or do other things, well...maybe I shouldn't be Plants." 
Snow: "You're a good Plants, Theresa. They like you, lots." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. There are.) 
DanteE: "Yeah, but _you_ weren't responsible for his death, unless you went hog wild with the trans fats." 
Random_Nerd: (The men slightly outpopulate the women here, largely because more girls have met guys from out of town and moved away with them than vice versa here.) 
Snow: (LDiv for anyone who the wife's been interested in, besides her husband? And then match up the two respective lists and see if there are any common men?) 
Theresa: "No, it was something nasty and debilitating and painful. And I have had years of telling myself that it's not my fault. But this isn't her fault either. She's just having to do what probably millions of other women do all over the world. Lose the man they love...and still have to carry on." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm...) 
Snow: (*grin*) 
Random_Nerd: (One person tops both lists. Someone who'd been a close friend of her husband's, long before she got married. As things worked out, it was almost chance which of the two she ended up with. She isn't really interested in him romantically now, but he is unmarried, and the death of her husband is sure to bring her and him back into contact, and he'd at least try to help her through it and help out on the farm.) 
Theresa: (You matchmaker...) 
Snow: (Snow will do a...ah...drat. The thing where she changes her other MPs into--in this case--DMPs?) 
Snow: (Last Trump?) 
Random_Nerd: (Rite of the Last Trump?) 
Random_Nerd: (What's her Spirit?) 
DanteE: "I'm not trying to insult you, Theresa. I just can't help but think there are things we could have done that would let them and him see tomorrow. But there probably isn't." 
Snow: (That's the ticket. 0, but she has 5/5 left.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, so MPs convert at 4 to 1.) 
Snow: (In SMP, that is. She also has 5/5 left in RMP.) 
Snow: (If she converts 4/5 SMPs to 1DMP, and 4/5 RMPs to 1DMP...then she can cast a Lesser Creation of Caprice.) 
Random_Nerd: (That'd be enough to encourage the woman to look at her former friend in a romantic way again.) 
Snow: (That's what I'm going for. *nod* Consider it done, please.) 
Random_Nerd: (Done.) 
* Snow squints, obviously thinking really hard. 
* Snow suddenly relaxes. 
Snow: "There. Now things'll be okay." 
Random_Nerd: The woman has a slightly distant look, as if an odd thought just crossed her mind. 
Snow: RH: "There's a nice man in the village who likes her. And she likes him. She's gonna try to mate with him, if he wants to." 
DanteE: (How are the caprices coming?) 
Theresa: "Good idea, Snow." 
* Snow looks rather pleased with herself. 
DanteE: "See, _that's_ what I mean about socialization. We at least pretend it's about more than mating." 
* Snow gives Dante a funny look. 
Snow: ... *shrug* 
* Theresa tries to control her face the best she can. *to Kudzu* "I don't understand it all about your method for this, boss, but I understand a little more. We're coming home." 
Random_Nerd: (Caprices continue to do their thing, and Snow will probably be able to feel if they don't, given that that's currently directly tied to the attack on her estate.) 
Snow: "Can we go home now?" 
Theresa: "Dante, Snow is just more direct about mating in her speech than we are." 
DanteE: "Can't argue with that." 
Theresa: (Do coyotes mate for life?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hell if I know.) 
Snow: (I think so. It's late. I don't recall exactly.) 
DanteE: "Only loose end is, where are they going to live?" 
Theresa: "Their town will figure that out. If need be, we can donate some money to their town for the...surviors of the horrible house collapsing and so forth." 
Snow: "She can live with the nice man, anyway." 
DanteE: (Actually, one more loose end... how to explain the dead whatsits and the artifacts we're leaving behind, like the multitude of magic spears) 
Theresa: (Snow can eat them.) 
Random_Nerd: (Eh, you already know that you have cryptozoologists descending on the town.) 
Random_Nerd: (If you do nothing, they'll assume that it was the Chupacabra, and everyone else will laugh it off.) 
Theresa: (Let's give the Fordeans a headache!) 
DanteE: (Yeah, but they don't have tangible evidence) 
Snow: (So, shall we assume that we head back via helicopter?) 
Random_Nerd: (Works for me.) 
Random_Nerd: (Any objections?) 
DanteE: (Well... we could split up, have 2 people ride home while the rest of us fly) 
DanteE: (unless Snow is no longer afraid of the noisy flying thing. :) 
Theresa: (I can fly the helicopter and take Brian if need be.) 
Snow: (Snow is not happy about it, but she'll live.) 
Theresa: (Then we'll strap the horse in ingeniously and go home.) 
Random_Nerd: (Shall we call it quits here?) 
Snow: (And it is 12:37am here...I've gotta bail. :) ) 
DanteE: (Sure) 
DanteE: (Actually, is this the end of the story arc?) 
Theresa: (Sounds good to me. Will have to get up early tomorrow anyhow to dig out car.) 
DanteE: (Where are you guys IRL? 
Random_Nerd: (Illinois.) 
Random_Nerd: (And yes, this is the end of the story arc.) 
Snow: RN, let me sleep on things, and I will give you feedback about the episode. Right now, bed calls me. :) 
DanteE: (We just got a little rain here. Good for roads, but the ski resorts are suffering. So if you can pop some of that weather in a box and ship it here we'd appreciate it... :) 
Snow: Thanks for the game, guys! 
DanteE: g'night Snow 
*** Snow is now known as Sara. 
Sara: G'night! :) 
*** Sara has left #nobilis. 
Theresa: (We got about 14 inches of snow.) 
DanteE: (just handwave getting everybody home? ...and healed?) 
Random_Nerd: _________STOP_____ 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Theresa: (Hmm....need to remember to start up Holy Fire. And I think handwaving would work. A shot of the two groups riding off into the sunset.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, not healed. That'll remain an issue.) 
Theresa: (I'm liking Snow. She's a bit of mental whiplash, but she's fun.) 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
Knockwood: Dante's like... "hey, new sister... Ack!" :) 
Knockwood: Especially with all the talk about mating. :) 
Knockwood: BTW, what's the word on Etheric & lazarus? 
BethE: Well, Dante is one of her Bonds. <G> 
Random_Nerd: He's out, for the next six weeks. 
Random_Nerd: He didn't tell me why. 
Knockwood: Carrie back next week? 
Random_Nerd: Soon, at least. 
Random_Nerd: Possibly but not for sure next week. 
Knockwood: let's see... 5 points to play with... 
Random_Nerd: Anyway, I'm out. See you next week. 
Knockwood: .... and the possibility I screwed up my relationship with Theresa :/ ... 
Random_Nerd: There is that. 
Knockwood: oyasumi-nasai 
*** Random_Nerd has left #nobilis. 
BethE: Well, she is a bit ticked. She's lost her husband and so she's sensitive to people supposing that without her husband, she couldn't go on. 
Knockwood: Maybe the next story can take place in a bar. :) 
BethE: Because for a long time she felt like she _couldn't_ go on...she didn't want to go on...and it was only very gradually that she got back to where she is now. She misses him still very much. 
Knockwood: o/~ where everybody knows your estate... o/~ 
BethE: *snort* 
Knockwood: did you understand what I meant about socializing Snow? 
BethE: I guess Theresa never figured that we'd be able to bring them back. She was more numb and hurt and wanting to care for the survivors. 
BethE: Not quite. Can you try to explain it to me some more? 
Knockwood: it's cuz she was a teacher. 
BethE: Of kindergardeners. 
BethE: To make her have more human-like reactions? 
Knockwood: Schools are partially about education, but also about socialization (learning to deal with other people) and indoctrination (learning how to be an American) 
Knockwood: partially. Also so she can deal with people without them going 'Ack!' 
BethE: *grin* I don't think we'll ever get that out of her. That's Carpiciousness right there. 
Knockwood: true. :) 
Knockwood: besides, Snow's, what, 2? :) 
BethE: Hmm...dunno. Apparently of age for her kind if she's into mating with Dante already. 
Knockwood: well, the new thing for dog->human age is: 21 the first year, 3 each year after 
Knockwood: so the half-wolf we had that lived to 13 was the equivalent of ... 57.

Session 63.5

2007-10-04T03:12:28Z

BethDragon:

Random_Nerd: Okay, so, Sara is almost certainly not going to be able to be here, because she's away from her regular internet connection. 
Knockwood: That may be a wee bit problematic... 
Etheric: Ah, I see. 
Knockwood: anyway, Navero's at: (Link: http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Navero_Main)http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Navero_Main 
lazarus: guys: I think I'm going to have to go on hiatus for a bit, given how little time I can be around anyway 
Knockwood: urk. 
BethE: We're dwindling a bit...if we're not careful, it'll be just RN playing with myself. <g> 
lazarus: Beth, at least, knows the reason. I hope that about 6 or 7 weeks from now I'll be able to attend again, and for full sessions 
lazarus: also: we don't need to know the Beth/RN roleplay that goes on. 
Etheric: Hm. Well, I fully intend to return soon, but it's possible that tonight is not the night. I'm not really feeling very up to a game so far this week. 
Knockwood: ... 
Random_Nerd: So, hmm. Shall we say the game is called until next week? 
Knockwood: laz, what is your story? 
Knockwood: and game-wise, I've been wondering if I should just go ahead and use my points to become a Combat Monster 
Etheric: I have no objection to calling till next week, personally. But I wouldn't mind watching if you guys wanted to do a rump session, either. 
BethE: I'm okay with a called game. It would be hard to try and do the clean-up without Sara since we're still not sure we've fixed her Estate. 
Knockwood: rump session? 
BethE: (And I'm not sure how to yell at Kudzu for making a deal with the Excry.) 
BethE: (Etheric - side note: I'm about a third of the way through cleaning up the last 'episode' of Weapons. You and Joce are so _completely AWESOME_!) 
Etheric: Trying to even remember what happened last episode. ^^; 
BethE: All of the Feng and Tempest and Demon Scholar stuff. 
Random_Nerd: Hell Clan Guy In The Restaurant through Demon Scholar Agrees To Go Away. 
Random_Nerd: By way of intrigue, plots, violence, and infanticide. 
Knockwood: and fried rice. 
BethE: I'm a little bit past Feng confessing her teacher to the others and Jade standing up for her and Feng glaring at Steel and yelling "Why aren't you killing me yet!" 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and booze. 
Etheric: Oh, you mean the entire story arc. 
Etheric: Sorry, wasn't clicking. 
BethE: *nod* Not just a single session. The whole 'episode' or scroll. 
Random_Nerd: The part that forms a contained storyline. 
Etheric: *nods* 
Random_Nerd: Though if it were television it'd probably be at least four or five episodes worth of airtime. 
Knockwood: so, hold the IC until next week? 
BethE: It's over 300 pages of Word, still uncleaned. @.@ 
Random_Nerd: So it appears. We can't really resolve the attack on Snow's estate without her being present for it, I don't think. 
Etheric: I'm going to head out. *rubs temples* Something's come up. 
Knockwood: psychic attack? 
Etheric: No. 
Knockwood: think about FATAL and see who starts screaming. 
Etheric: I'm going to assume that's something I should be grateful that I don't know what it is. And leave now before you do something noxious like tell me. 
BethE: Good night, Etheric. Hope everything is okay. *HUG* 
Etheric: Take care all. 
Knockwood: (Of course, there's a fringe theory that says we're all under constant psychic attack by the secret masters...) 
*** Etheric has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Destiny is choice.). 
BethE: (Etheric knows us well.) 
Random_Nerd: Wise choice. 
Knockwood: anyhoo... 
Knockwood: so, I was thinking about putting some points into Cosmic Kung Fu 
BethE: Hey Knock... 
Knockwood: hm? 
BethE: (Side conversation - why the Navero Main stuff?) 
Knockwood: (what do you mean?) 
BethE: (I've never heard of it before. Is it a good read?) 
Knockwood: Pretty good... its main selling point is the character interactions, though there's also some setting elements you can swipe. :) 
BethE: Ooo, I love swiping... 
Knockwood: Not to mention it's a good view into how groups _really_ act. :D 
Knockwood: But, Nobilis... I'm debating whether to stay close to humanity or optimize Dante for combat. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. How are the two mutually exclusive? 
BethE: I thought he did pretty well against the warmains. 
Knockwood: The latter I could do with: Immortal; Blades gifts; Aspect gifts; bumping Aspect and/or Spirit. 
Knockwood: the more human route would be developing relations with PCs and NPCs, maybe reconnecting with his mortal family. 
Knockwood: and/or doing more in (and possibly to) Kaerkoven and Amyra. 
BethE: Hmm..thinking about getting an Anchor? 
Knockwood: was mulling over the kid from the wrecked farmhouse... 
BethE: *thinks* The one without any Capriciousness now? 
Knockwood: part of it's an RP thing, really. 
Knockwood: yep 
Knockwood: though Snow can restore that with a blink, right? 
BethE: Hate or love? 
Knockwood: it was just a thought 
Knockwood: "feel sorry for", really 
Knockwood: the kid's dad is probably gone, right? 
*** lazarus has left #Nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. 
BethE: I think he was one of the ones zapped. Hmm..probably along with the priest. 
Knockwood: wiped out of existence by the Exs? 
Random_Nerd: Yep. And incidentially, the gift that he used to do it was in a focus, which Snow has anchored. 
Knockwood: uhoh! 
Knockwood: nothing like an entirely in-character Cosmic fuckup... 
BethE: So Capriciousness can now kill humans atta whim. 
BethE: Can a Focus use itself? 
Random_Nerd: As a rule, no. 
Knockwood: ...what are the game effects? 
Random_Nerd: Of what, in particular? 
Knockwood: Caprice anchoring an Ex focus of kill-everyone 
Random_Nerd: Well, she has an anchor, and it's a focus usable by anyone touching it. 
Knockwood: but it's also alive, otherwise she couldn';t have anchored it, right? 
BethE: Oh, we could use it too? Huh... 
Random_Nerd: Correct. Having living foci is unusual, but Warmains often have their horses or swords as foci. 
Random_Nerd: It's a focus. Whoever has it can use it. 
Knockwood: what's the specific gift? 
Random_Nerd: It's a custom one. Does a Lesser Destruction of humanity, affecting all nearby humans, as a simple miracle. 
Random_Nerd: One-trick limitation of being only useful to destroy all nearby unmiraculous humans, but unable to selectively target or just harm rather than destroy. 
Knockwood: ...which it's doubtful we'd ever use... 
Random_Nerd: Still, now you can. 
BethE: *looks at her Respect Life* 
Knockwood: ...and would be a huge thing if we did 
Random_Nerd: Yep. 
Random_Nerd: Anyway, you guys mind if I head out now? 
BethE: Nope. I'll join you, if you wish. :) 
Knockwood: well, wait... 
Random_Nerd: Oh? 
Knockwood: how many points for Cosmic Kung-fu, with decent Pen? :) 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. As an Aspect gift? 
Knockwood: yeah (so the Cult can't screw with it) 
Random_Nerd: Well, it uses the usual rules. Work out how high an Aspect miracle it should be able to create, how much penetration, how easy to use, how broadly targetable and useful it is, and we'll cruch some numbers. 
Knockwood: there's the rub... 
Random_Nerd: Yep. So, how clear are you on that stuff? 
Knockwood: assuming I can fight only one guy at a time (for now), what's the Utility? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm./ 
Random_Nerd: Offensive, defensive, or both? 
Knockwood: Off 
Random_Nerd: But usable at various degrees of offensiveness, rather than having to use it to kill, or disarm, or whatever? 
Knockwood: hm... 
Random_Nerd: If it's just something that lets you rip out someone's throat with your eyebrow, it's one trick. 
Random_Nerd: But if it lets you kill, hurt, incapacitate, and so on, it's Limited. 
Knockwood: and a really bizarre visual. :) 
Random_Nerd: Really, I would expect a high-end martial arts style to look rather like Marstriglio's Claw. 
Knockwood: Invocation=Simple means it's my Miracle fdor the round, but doesn't cost, right? 
Random_Nerd: Correct. 
Knockwood: where the heck is the Claw detailed? I couldn't find it... 
Random_Nerd: Page... 58? 
Random_Nerd: Something like that. Late fifties. 
* Random_Nerd looks. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah, 58. 
Knockwood: what's its point cost? 
Knockwood: ...7? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Isn't totaled, but I can run it through the system... 
Random_Nerd: 9, I believe. 
Knockwood: isn't it 12-1-2-3+1? 
Knockwood: oh, 12-1-1-2+1, I goofed 
Knockwood: Either that or come up with a lightsaber focus... 
Random_Nerd: Well, a focus doesn't do anything to cost, just gives some extra MPs. 
Knockwood: I can maybe use the Focus MPs for Pen. :) 
Knockwood: but, hey, it's one of several options 
Random_Nerd: For normal miracles, yes, less so for the gift. 
Random_Nerd: Well, how about you think about what you want in a kung fu style, and we work out a gift version next week? 
Knockwood: which is more useful when fighting Exs: bumping Aspect or bumping Spirit? 
Random_Nerd: Eh... 
Random_Nerd: Depends a lot on the Excrucian. 
Knockwood: or maybe bumping Sacrosanct to Immortal 
Random_Nerd: Perhaps a slight bias in favor of Spirit. 
Random_Nerd: That would be useful. But remember, the type of Excrucian that is most likely to use physical violence against you can also have the Negative Gift. 
Knockwood: how many points can that annul? 
Random_Nerd: Depends on the version. 
Random_Nerd: The one that the rider-shard had last time would have sufficed for Immortal, if one of you had had it. 
Knockwood: aha. 
Random_Nerd: Fortunately for you guys, I didn't build them particularly to kill the PCs, just with what I thought a good mix of Warmain gifts would be. 
Knockwood: considering you almost _did_ kill PCs, that's a scary thought 
BethE: Oh, need to remember to start doing Holy Fire when we get back. 
Knockwood: Absolutely. 
*** dtsnht has joined #Nobilis. 
*** dtsnht has left #Nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: Well, being Warmains, they /did/ have some pretty scary offensive gifts, and two out three had defensive stuff too. 
Random_Nerd: But it's not like "Okay, this one will kill Dante, this one will do Snow and Brian..." 
BethE: It's more like "Okay, this one takes away protection, this one kills some, this one kills more..."

Amyra:Chapter 8

2007-10-04T03:12:11Z

BethDragon:

[[Session 59]]

[[Session 60]]

[[Session 60.5]] - OOC

[[Session 61]]

[[Session 62]]

[[Session 63]]

[[Session 63.5]] - OOC

[[Session 64]]

[[Session 65]]

[[Session 66]]

[[Session 67]]

[[Session 68]]

[[Session 69]]

[[Session 70]]

Session 63

2007-10-04T03:10:41Z

BethDragon:

BethE: RN will be in in just a moment. He's finishing something..or else killing a gnome, I'm not sure. 
Etheric: Heh. 
BethE: His main Warcraft character got a very very nice hammer the other day. He christened it properly by killing everyone in the Scarlet Monestary with it and then killed some gnomes in a battleground with it. 
Etheric: Would anyone object to one of the players in my Weapons of the Gods game also observing? He wanted to see what Nobilis game was crazy enough to have taken me originally as a player. ;) 
BethE: It's fine with me. :) 
Sara: Ditto! 
lazarus: I'm always fine with people watching ... 
Sara: Epic, Beth? 
*** Random_Nerd has joined #Nobilis. 
Etheric: Okay, I'll tell him where the game is then. :) 
Random_Nerd: Hey. 
lazarus: Epic Beth! 
lazarus: RN, howdy! 
*** Mode change "+o Random_Nerd" for channel #Nobilis by Sara. 
BethE: Sara -dunno. Ask him. It's his big hammer. :) 
Etheric: Hi, RN. Here to watch, as we discussed. 
Sara: Hey RN :) 
lazarus: no op powers for you... bah. There goes Sara ruining my fun :-P 
Sara: RN--new epic hammer? 
BethE: (One moment, he's getting something to drink...() 
Sara: When he showed it to you, was it purple? 
BethE: Hmm, and the commentary about people crazy and Nobilis reminds me that I haven't updated the Wiki in quite a while. 
BethE: No, it was a blue. 
Sara: That reminds me, I couldn't figure out how to get Snow's character sheet loaded there. It's uploaded, if anyone can link it to her name... 
Sara: Aaah. Still, cool! :) 
BethE: Oh, and I was going to fiz that too... 
BethE: fix even 
Random_Nerd: Just a blue from the Underbog, but it's really slow, so it does a very memorable windfury. 
lazarus: it occurred to me that it's funny that our Noble of Caprice changes forms. 
Sara: Funny, or apt? 
lazarus: both, really 
*** Knockwood has joined #Nobilis. 
BethE: Hi Knock! 
*** Mode change "+o Knockwood" for channel #Nobilis by lazarus. 
Sara: Hey Knock :) 
lazarus: that's who we're missing! 
Knockwood: Hi gang... 
Knockwood: hey, everyone's here. Kewl. :) 
lazarus: (*counts: 1,2,3,4,5 ... but something's not right ...*) 
Knockwood: WB Eth 
Random_Nerd: So, is everyone ready? 
BethE: (*reads* Good grief, Snow's Honest? We have two of them now?) 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
*** Mode change "-o Etheric" for channel #Nobilis by Etheric. 
Brian: (erm: where's Snow's sheet defined?) 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
Snow: Sec 
Theresa: Fixing SNow's sheet right now... 
Theresa: There! 
Snow: Ah, thanks Beth. 
Snow: Thanks! I'll edit it better later, but those're the bare bones. 
Random_Nerd: Now, when we last left our party, they'd killed two of the Excrucians, had one retreat, and everyone but Dante was down to surface wounds. 
Theresa: Sara - just need to remember that wiki html is not normal html. 
DanteE: (not that I'm much better...) 
Theresa: (I thought I wasn't down to surface wound yet...) 
Brian: oh, yeah - I forgot to ask if I can fiddle with Bonds (specifically to assign points off to Snow and Theresa) 
Random_Nerd: (Ah, you still had a serious wound too?) 
Theresa: (I thought so.) 
Theresa: (I hadn't quite gotten to squirrel cough death yet.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay. Anyone have any questions before we begin?) 
Brian: can I fiddle with bonds slightly? 
Random_Nerd: Oh, sure. 
DanteE: don't make 'em too tight. :) 
Theresa: Hey Dante is one of Snow's Bonds. <G> 
DanteE: can we get a damage report for the area? 
Snow: Sorry, mom just came in. Back. 
Snow: 'coz Dante has done stuff for Snow. :P 
Random_Nerd: Let's see. Snow and Brian were down to... one surface wound? 
DanteE: by that logic I should be on everyone's list... :) 
Brian: done. My unassigned points are now assigned, and 2 points dropped from Further Education. 
Brian: I was down to full Surface Wounds track for A0 
Random_Nerd: Okay. And Dante had the most, because they weren't expecting him to have sacrosanct. 
Snow: I thought I had two surface wounds left, but I didn't mention it last game. 
DanteE: (Been thinking of bumping that to Immortal, but that's for later) 
DanteE: and Snow _really_ needs Durant. 
Etheric: (But if you were Immortal how can you exhibit true courage?) 
Random_Nerd: Shall we say two Serious wounds left for Dante, one left for Theresa, two surface wounds left for the other two? 
Snow: *nodnod* Please. 
Brian: I thought that was the count, yes 
Theresa: I'm good with that. Mostly dead, but still good. 
Brian: good to go! 
DanteE: beats 'red smear' by a mile. 
Brian: unless it's a mile-long red smear 
Brian: or is it then just a further mile away? 
* Brian pounds that joke into the ground :-P 
Random_Nerd: Ready? 
Theresa: Ready! 
Brian: ready! 
DanteE: OK 
Random_Nerd: Oh, hold on... 
Snow: Tease. 
Random_Nerd: I need to make a phone call. Sorry, but it's my grandfather's birthday. 
DanteE: good excuse. :) 
Theresa: (It's my fault folks. i forgot to remind him earlier. *hangs head*) 
DanteE: I can grab some dinner real quick... 
Snow: Monster Smackdown just finished downloading. Swank. 
Theresa: Let's see...which one is that one? The Angel one? 
Snow: Nah, the monster compendium for Buffy. 
Snow: Angel's the only one I don't have now. 
Theresa: *thinks* I then have Monster Smackdown..._somewhere_ in this apartment. 
DanteE: coming soon... clutter smackdown! 
Theresa: Heh. :) Not in this apartment. 
Random_Nerd: Hey. Back. He was already in bed, but I talked to my grandmother, who passed it along. 
Random_Nerd: Ready? 
Snow: Ready! 
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Random_Nerd: The ground is littered with various types of blood, torn up from various miracles, and generally blown all to hell. 
* Theresa uggs. This hurts more than what the bunny did. 
Brian: "Snow? How are you feeling?" 
Random_Nerd: Also, apparantly the nearby house was knocked down in the middle of the fight, probably by one of the Winds of Hate. 
* Snow is curled into a girl-ball. She licks a gash on her arm. "Hurt," she mutters, then continues licking. 
DanteE: what happened to the people who disappeared at the beginning of the fight, 
Brian: (remind me how healing works?) 
Random_Nerd: (There's a slow automatic rate of healing. Healing faster is a Miracle of Aspect.) 
Random_Nerd: (The people who vanished... seem not to be here now.) 
Theresa: "What do we know about Warmains?" 
Theresa: "Besides the whole tough flahsy bastards part." 
Brian: "Not much? They hit people then die?" 
Etheric: (Too bad Dante's Destruction of Damage gift doesn't fix damage to Nobles.) 
DanteE: "... how many mortals are gone?" 
Theresa: "I think all of the ones that were here with us...I hope not the whole town, but..." 
DanteE: Div-Courage on the downed house 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. What are you looking for, exactly?) 
DanteE: (if there's anybody in the wreckage) 
Random_Nerd: (There is, actually. Two people, the woman and the girl, both of whom were indoors when things went down.) 
DanteE: "Mom and kid are still in there..." 
DanteE: "Theresa, can you help me get them out?" 
* Snow lounges on the ground, basking in the sun, unconcerned. 
* Theresa takes a few painful steps and shrugs her shoulders a little. "Yeah, just point me in the right direction...they're still alive?" 
* DanteE tries to dig the two out... 
Random_Nerd: (They're alive. Not /very alive, but they haven't actually died yet.) 
Brian: "Only the physical hurt now? Or does Caprice still hurt?" 
* Theresa helps. Talks to Dante while they are working. "You know, all of the crap that we're seeing Mythically, what if that stuff keeps going even though the Excrucians are (mostly) dead?" 
Snow: "Still hurt," Snow says. "Now I hurt both hurts." 
DanteE: "I think it's tied to the people... which means if we fix them we can help Caprice" 
Brian: "Anything I can do?" 
DanteE: "Brian, Snow, how badly hurt are you?" 
Brian: "I'm still alive" 
Snow: "Me too." 
Theresa: "Well, that's a start...Has anything changed in your Estate, Snow? Or in how everything looks around here?" 
Snow: "I can fix the people, but silver man'll make more sick people." 
Snow: (I think everything looks the same as before, right RN?) 
Random_Nerd: (The grey sickness is still there.) 
Snow: "Looks bad still." 
Random_Nerd: (But that's not, precisely, the same thing as the attack on Caprice, although it's related.) 
DanteE: (Did we dig them up yet?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, or at least, dug to them.) 
Random_Nerd: (From the way they look, it doesn't look like moving them would be a good idea.) 
Theresa: "At the moment, I think the silver man needs to worry about not falling over and dying. Plus, he knows that we're on to him and if he tries again, we will cause him hurt and shame." 
* Snow looks thoughtful. "Dunno. He almost killed us good." 
* DanteE pulls them out and heals them 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and all of you look like /hell/. Rather like Martyrs, really.) 
Brian: (ah well, can't be helped) 
* DanteE guises some skin back on... 
Brian: "He had friends there" 
Theresa: "Maybe try and keep them knocked out, Dante? We're not in the best of fashion at the moment." 
DanteE: "Don't know if they'll survive that..." 
Theresa: "And remind me never to take Warmains on almost-one-on-one. I will now prefer to deal with them by sniping at a long distance." 
DanteE: "Plus... the girl's caprice, we know where it is." 
Random_Nerd: (Also, Snow and Brian probably have at least a third of their bones broken. They can still walk, because they're Nobles, but... ow.) 
Snow: "It's dead now." 
* Snow doesn't seem inclined to move much. 
DanteE: "There's more, right?" 
Theresa: "Oh, wait..." *goes to the woman and girl and individually tells them to please keep their eyes shut until Theresa tells them it's okay.* 
Snow: "Everybody's got their own. This girl's is dead. So...no." 
Brian: "Can you give her more?" 
Brian: "Heal her?" 
* Snow sighs. "I'm tired. I can fix her, but I can't fix the others. Or I can make one more Whimsy, but if it gets killed again, I can't do more." 
DanteE: "Can you re-do what you tried before the attack?" 
* Snow nods. 
DanteE: "Come to think of it... 
Snow: "Gotta find a bit of me first though." 
DanteE: "Let me show you something Nobles do. 
DanteE: "A thing called a Nettle Rite." 
* Snow watches. 
DanteE: "Let's start with the guy whose head you ate..." 
* Snow licks her lips. 
Snow: "Tasted like head." 
Snow: (...*facepalm*) 
Theresa: (*pat pat pat*) 
DanteE: (In game terms: get a AMP, use it to heal. :) 
Snow: (Automatically?) 
Snow: (I don't have to do anything?) 
Random_Nerd: (The rules on healing are on page 165 of the white book.) 
* Theresa ponders. "I wonder what would happen if you ate his heart. Does it have to be fresh? Would you get some of his powers or whatever he has already destroyed from the Universe?" 
Snow: (*makes no-white-book-motions*) 
Random_Nerd: (Let me summarize Snow's situation.) 
Random_Nerd: (Now, she doesn't have Durant, right?) 
Snow: (Correct.) 
Random_Nerd: (So, she heals a surface wound in a day, a serious wound in a week, and a deadly wound in a month.) 
Random_Nerd: (For one AMP, she can heal at the rate of a Durant person, at a surface an hour, a serious a day, and a deadly a week.) 
Snow: (*nods* Nettle rite is easy? Fast? Slow?) 
Theresa: (We're Shiny that wayu.) 
Theresa: (way even. Okay, who forgot to spray the channel for Typo Fairies...) 
Random_Nerd: (For two, she can heal at the rate of a Sancrosanct person, with a surface a minute, a serious an hour, and a deadly a day.) 
DanteE: (she's protected.) 
DanteE: (The typo fairy is 
Random_Nerd: (Now, you heal surface, then serious, then deadly.) 
DanteE: (Immortal with Spirit 10) 
Snow: (*nod*) 
Random_Nerd: (And wounds from a Word of Command /always/ take a month or more to heal, even if you're an Aspect 5 Immortal.) 
DanteE: "Now... if you manage to unravel whatever they did to your estate, you can bite them back harder." 
Theresa: (Because those are Serious Business...Yo.) 
Snow: (So how does she do it?) 
DanteE: (Use the 1 AMP she's get from the dead Ex to do an Aspect miracle of put-your-ass-back-together?) 
Snow: (Sorry, I get that--she just automatically gets the 1 AMP?) 
Snow: (She doesn't have to do a jig or anything?) 
DanteE: (She gets 1 MP of her choice via Nettle Rite) 
Brian: (The Nettle Rite is a Thing. I believe it takes a Miraculous Action?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, if you're doing a Nettle Rite, tell me who you're doing it on, and what thing they cared about that you defiled.) 
DanteE: (which involves saying a few phrases while crushing nettles) 
Theresa: (And Snow knows it automatically. Hand her a nettle and she knows how to do it.) 
Snow: (AMP then, of course. Spent accordingly.) 
Theresa: (Hmm..I would say that we defiled their honor and their mission. Oh and she killed him too.) 
Snow: (She can automatically summon a nettle up?) 
Random_Nerd: (No, but Theresa can.) 
Random_Nerd: (Remember, destroying anything is, at most, trivial damage.) 
DanteE: (Theresa can pull them out of her ear. :) 
Snow: "Theresa? Can I have a nettle?" 
Theresa: (INot at the moment. I'll have to spend some of the stored DP for it. The penalty for being this hurt...) 
Random_Nerd: (You want serious nettling, you have to take something they love, and turn it against them with malicious glee.) 
* DanteE checks on the mom & girl (Div-Courage) 
Snow: (Hm. Any nettles around?) 
Random_Nerd: (She's dying, but not dead.) 
Theresa: (Ehh, I can spend it, if you want. i don't think nettles would be that plentiful in this part of Mexico.) 
Random_Nerd: (Also, remember that when you stop an Excrucian plan, it always counts as at least a 5 point Bond.) 
Snow: (*sheepish* Sorry.) 
Theresa: (A 5 point Bond of theirs? Sweet!) 
Theresa: (Oh, no, it's okay. :) You can look for them first and then ask for one if you don't fine one.) 
Theresa: (find even) 
Random_Nerd: (5-10, depending how elaborate the plan and how long they spent on the groundwork.) 
Random_Nerd: (This was a fairly simple smash-and-grab thrown together at short notice, so it's probably 5 or 6.) 
DanteE: (But we have to do more to get those points, right?) 
* Snow flicks into coyote form, and sniffs for some nettles. 
Random_Nerd: (Yes, you haven't stopped them /yet/.) 
Theresa: (Oh, wait....I just got clarified. I _can_ pull them out of my ear for free still. :) ) 
DanteE: (Considering we were specifically after an attack, I'd bet Theresa made some nettles beforehand. :) 
Snow: (Oh! Okay, yay!) 
* Theresa holds a hand out to Snow. "Here you go, Snow." 
Theresa: Nettles go *poof* in her hand. 
* Snow flicks back into human form, and proceeds to crush the nettles over the knight's corpse, muttering quietly as she does so. 
Snow: "Sorry for ruining your plan and stuff. Uh. So yeah. Make me feel better now." 
*** BingXian has joined #Nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: (So, you're doing a Nettling on the knight? He's, err, dead.) 
*** BingXian is now known as RiotGearEpsilon. 
Snow: (I'm sorry, I thought that was the point?) 
RiotGearEpsilon: (I'm observing alongside Etheric.) 
DanteE: (YEah, she can still use the 1 MP) 
Theresa: (Hello fellow member of the Wulin. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (But who is she nettling?) 
Snow: (Knight guy. Can she nettle Silver Guy?) 
DanteE: (DIdn't I nettle the first guy?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not as far as I know.) 
* DanteE heads for the funeral pyre... 
Snow: (This is getting crazy. Permission to just use a DP as an AMP for now? I'll restore it later with a Harvest.) 
Random_Nerd: (I know you talked about it, let me check.) 
DanteE: (I'm thinking: we can eash get 1 MP for the dead guys, and more if we wipe out their plan... as well as a bunch of DPs) 
Theresa: (But you can't Nettle the dead.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, a Nettling has to be done on a particular person.) 
Theresa: (Once they're dead, they don't exist, so to speak?) 
Random_Nerd: (And it has to be someone who has miracle points, and isn't, y'know, dead.) 
Snow: (Seriously, I'm fine with leaving this. Snow can still make another Whimsy.) 
DanteE: (Then, how'd I get an MP from the guy in my trunk?) 
Theresa: (Sidenote - all of the logs are current on the Wiki now up to tonight.) 
Theresa: (How about we table it for now and just spend the DP?) 
Brian: (Go ahead and use the DP) 
Snow: ('kay, thanks Beth.) 
Random_Nerd: (Which session do you think you nettled him in?) 
* Snow still flicks into coyote form, and uses an AMP to speed up her healing. 
Random_Nerd: (Still, if I did let you nettle him, either I misinterpreted what you were saying, or I was tired and made a wrong rules call.) 
* Snow then does a Lesser Div of Caprice in the area to see if she can sense where the nearest changed whim is. 
Random_Nerd: (Now, if the latter was the case, I'm not going to retroactively take the MP away, but neither will it be a precedent.) 
DanteE: (Session 15... and I was nettling the Ex who lost his precious Shard) 
DanteE: (I got confused. :) 
Etheric: (That's what I thought had happened too. Except I thought it had been Brian who Nettled the Excrucian.) 
DanteE: (I'm talking about the one that became Ick) 
Brian: (I'm all confused, zam) 
Etheric: (If I'm following, Dante is talking about the chaos-theory storyline.) 
DanteE: (Well, the point is to get a couple of MPs so Snow doesn't rattle when she walks and can unravel their main plot) 
DanteE: (Yeah, remember, the first Shard we faced?) 
DanteE: (I nettled the Ex for losing his Shard, but since we killed him it was Trivial damage. 
DanteE: (Then you undid their main plan for a bunch more points) 
Random_Nerd: (Plan isn't quite over yet. She's still suffering the pains of Domain In Trouble.) 
Random_Nerd: (As well as the pains of My Kneecaps Just Went Through My Lungs.) 
Snow: (Where's the nearest Caprice, Hollyhock dude?) 
DanteE: (If she can use the few MPs from the dead shard to mitigate the latter she can fix the Domain in Trouble thing and get a lot more. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Counting only animate ones?) 
Random_Nerd: (That's nice, Dante. But I don't think you've presented me with a way she can do that.) 
Snow: (Wait. Can she Greater Create the dead caprice back to life?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. She could probably return it to life with a lesser destruction with included creation.) 
Random_Nerd: (And that'd retain the effects of the Change you did to it.) 
DanteE: (can I bring it back with my Gift?) 
Random_Nerd: (Too different. Your gift works on people, maybe animals, but not whimsies.) 
Snow: (Hm! I originally have 4 Domain. I'm down to 2 Surface Wounds. How many DMPs would it cost me?) 
Brian: (sorry, not really conscious enough now to continue the playing. Brain no longer processing well) 
Random_Nerd: (Let me see, Sara.) 
Random_Nerd: (It would cost three DMPs, one to go up to a Lesser Dest, and two more for the penalty.) 
Random_Nerd: (G'night, Laz.) 
DanteE: (g'night Laz...) 
Snow: (May I use one Dynasty Point to bump up my 2 existing DMPs?) 
Brian: (I'll stick around some more, but I wont be contributing mroe tonight) 
DanteE: (I'm OK with it) 
Snow: (Thank you!) 
* Snow will proceed to do just that, then. Lesser destruction with included creation...and poof, alive Whimsy! 
Theresa: (Can we see the Whimsy with normal sight?) 
Random_Nerd: (You can. It's physically manifest.) 
Theresa: (Ooo...) 
Random_Nerd: (It looks a bit like a bird, and a bit like a bug, and a lot like a "I really need to stop drinking.") 
* Snow gives the Whimsy a few affectionate licks before it goes on its way. 
* Theresa stares a little. This is the first one that she's seen, since she was with the Burn the War-Main group earlier. 
DanteE: "That one will go and collect the others, right?" 
* Snow nods. 
Random_Nerd: The shiny red Whimsy flies off. 
Snow: "Fix 'em. Send 'em back to their owners. Then if they can't find them, they'll come back to me." 
DanteE: "That means you'll stop hurting... from that, anyway. 
* Snow nods. "'less someone kills it again." 
Snow: "I wanna go kill silver man, but I'm tired." 
DanteE: "If I remember right, coyotes hole up in a cave or something to heal. 
Theresa: "Let's wait a little bit before we go off killing other stuff. Now, what do you all think this...blah about everything is?" 
* Snow does a coyote-shrug. "I wanna go home, yeah. Find a nice den, with a nice warm mate to curl up with. But Theresa's right. Everything's still all wrong." 
DanteE: "When this is taken care of... come and stay with us in the clock tower. 
* Snow perks. 
Snow: "You wanna be my mate?" 
DanteE: "Think of it as a nice, warm den. With cable." 
DanteE: "Aaaahhhhhhh....." 
Random_Nerd: (There is still the greyness. Now, I mention because you may have forgotten, anyone who has at least Realm 2 can divine back to the Whispering Library without MPs.) 
Theresa: (I wish I had Joss. I wish I had DP...I wish I wish I wish...) 
Random_Nerd: (When the hot shapeshifting chick asks you to mate with her, you /say yes/.) 
Snow: "Maybe we should ask Kudzu why he wanted to take away parts of me." 
Theresa: (She'll be flexible once she mends all of those broken bones...) 
Snow: (*nods*) 
Theresa: "Snow...can you feel things at home right now?" 
DanteE: (Is the greyness going away?) 
Random_Nerd: (It is not.) 
* Snow thinks about home, feeling what she can, checking if things are okay. 
Random_Nerd: (The area is blighted. It's got the spiritual equivilent of radioactive fallout.) 
DanteE: (We automatically know what's covered in the GWB, right?) 
* Snow yips. "Not good! Not good in Amyra at all!" 
Random_Nerd: (As it is, humans could live here, but they'd be effectively very sick.) 
Snow: (Oh! I meant Amyra. It's blighted in Amyra?) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, no. Amyra is fine.) 
Snow: (Retcon, then, of course.) 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, I figure that you've had enough access to information that we can assume you know something in the GWB as long as it's something your character would be interested in.) 
Snow: "Home's okay." 
DanteE: "We need to find the center of this blight, I think.": 
Random_Nerd: (The "the area is blighted" was in response to Dante's "(Is the greyness going away?)".) 
Theresa: "Could you use that feeling to listen to the Library at home to see what we need to do to get rid of this blight?" 
* Snow proceeds to do so. 
Theresa: (Can Theresa use her Noble-seeker Gift to find the blightstone?) 
DanteE: How are the mom & kid doing, BTW? 
Random_Nerd: (She can't, because the blightstone is not a Noble.) 
Random_Nerd: (Did you heal them, Dante?) 
DanteE: (Yeah, then Theresa encouraged them to keep their eyes shut) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah. So they're doing okay, more or less. They're kinda catatonic, though.) 
Snow: (Does Snow hear anything of use in the library?) 
* Snow says absently, "So, why'd Kudzu wanna send people to hurt me, if I'm him?" 
Theresa: "I don't know, Snow. We'll have to ask him. Maybe he wanted to see how strong you are. And you are _very_ strong." 
Random_Nerd: (Snow, you hear about something called a blightstone, that Warmains use.) 
Theresa: (We have yet to introduce Snow to the "Kudzu is a dick" theory...) 
Random_Nerd: (It's a tiny stone that basically puts a curse on the place where it is.) 
Snow: (Any way to find out where one is?) 
Random_Nerd: (Lots of ways.) 
*** Brian has left #Nobilis. 
Theresa: (Cover the ground in people and wherever one dies first, bam! There it is!) 
Snow: (Snow will pick the one that she can do easiest, if that helps narrow things down...?) 
Random_Nerd: (The easiest one is having it get stuck in your shoe and give you a blister.) 
Random_Nerd: (Beyond that, well, it's in the "there are lots of ways to go about this, but it's not like there's a Top Ten Ways To Get Rid Of A Blightstone list.) 
Snow: (Aaah. Hrm.) 
Snow: "It's a blightstone. We gotta find it." 
Random_Nerd: (It's something tiny but miraculously powerful, radiating evil energy around it. You tell /me/ how your characters would deal with something like that.) 
DanteE: "Wait... 
DanteE: "You can control that whimsy you just revived, right?" 
Theresa: (Look in the Mythic Realm for badness.) 
Snow: (Can I?) 
Random_Nerd: (Also, you can remove the blight with big miracles of stuff like Health or whatever, or Realm miracles if it's in-chancel. But none of you are in much shape to do civic-scale miracles.) 
* Snow will look in the Mythic Realm to see what she sees. 
Random_Nerd: (The whimsy? Hmm. You could probably put thoughts in its head, that it may or may not act on. Or you could Change it into a whimsy that wants to do whatever you want it to do.) 
Snow: (Got no more DMPs. No more changes please.) 
DanteE: (Hm.... by instinct, it'd want to both find other whimseys and stay out of the blighted area... 
Random_Nerd: (Mythically, the ground is really bruised and is drinking a bottle of fortified wine. The house is a pile of severed limbs. What in particular do you look at?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, you can't do both. The blighted area is also where the other incarnate whimsies /are/.) 
DanteE: (If we analyze its flight path we might be able to get at least a vague guess as to where it's inclined to avoid) 
Snow: (She continues to look around to see if she can find something that looks like a blightstone. Evil. Malicious, maybe.) 
DanteE: (Hold on...) 
* Theresa talks to the spirit of the ground. "Sorry about the fight there. We're looking for what is poisoning you." 
DanteE: "Brian, Snow... hide for a minute. 
Random_Nerd: (Well, the whimsy can't see anything you can't, in terms of the blight. Less, really, because it doesn't have as many modes of perception.) 
Random_Nerd: (It just knows that it feels sick.) 
Snow: (Ask it where it hurts, Theresa?) 
DanteE: "Theresa, guise yourself... 
* DanteE goes to the kid and mom. 
* Snow flicks into the form of a mouse, and crawls into Dante's pocket. 
Random_Nerd: (Well, the pools of excrucian blood seem a bit... creepy.) 
Random_Nerd: (They're leering at you.) 
Snow: (Ew...) 
DanteE: "Hey... can you help us? 
Random_Nerd: (The horse remains standing by the hole in the ground, looking rather sad.) 
Random_Nerd: The kid shakes. 
DanteE: "We're looking for whatever's poisoning the area, kind of. 
* Theresa will guise, thinking. 
Snow: (The horse is visible in mundane sight?) 
DanteE: (is it an evil anti-horse? :) 
Random_Nerd: (It's not an evil anti-horse. It's like what the idea of a horse would look like, if you put skin and hooves and so on onto it.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, the horse is mundanely visible. But it looks more mopey in mythic sight.) 
Random_Nerd: (Horses don't have all that expressive faces, mundanely.) 
Random_Nerd: The ground looks at Theresa, shrugs, and takes another swig. 
DanteE: (Wait, what's the booze represent?) 
Theresa: *to ground* "Can you point to where it hurts the most?" 
Random_Nerd: The ground points to the huge gaping hole Theresa and Snow made. 
Random_Nerd: Then it gives Theresa a very dirty look. 
Snow: (*snicker*) 
Theresa: "Ahh. Yeah, that would make sense. How about where it hurt the most _before_ we arrived?" 
* Theresa will create roots to move the dirt back better into the holes that she and Snow created. 
Random_Nerd: The ground glares, and breaks the bottom off its bottle on a chunk of house. 
Random_Nerd: (That, before the roots.) 
Random_Nerd: Then it sighs, and puts the bottle down. 
Theresa: "It'll be okay. Really. We want to take away the poison and we're making sure that the holes we caused will be fixed as well. Once our job is finished here, we'll leave you alone." 
Random_Nerd: Ground, in drunk voice: "I dunno nothing about no poison." 
Random_Nerd: "Been feeling crappy, but eh, it happens." 
Theresa: "Okay. Change of topic...where'd you get the nice drink?" 
DanteE: (did the kid & mom respond to me?) 
Snow: (You didn't ask a question.) 
Random_Nerd: (As for what the booze represents, eh, it's a metaphor.) 
Random_Nerd: (Intepret it as you will.) 
Snow: (Ground is a lush!) 
DanteE: "You didn't happen to see a dark stone, or maybe somebody burying or hiding something odd right as all this started, did you?" 
Random_Nerd: (Mythically, it's booze. What it corresponds to in prosaic terms isn't fully clear.) 
Random_Nerd: The ground looks up at the mention of stones. 
Random_Nerd: "How dark?" 
* Snow pokes her head out of Dante's pocket and looks around. 
DanteE: "Real dark." 
Random_Nerd: "There are seven thousand three hundred and thirty eight really dark stones visible to me." 
DanteE: "Is there one that is painful to you, or just feels odd?" 
Random_Nerd: It scratches its chin. 
Snow: (How about a recent one, that was put into him in an abnormal way?) 
Random_Nerd: "Nothing particular seems to feel odd..." 
Random_Nerd: (And the stone's effect is spread out over a large area. It isn't significantly stronger at the center.) 
DanteE: "Did someone recently 'plant' a rock in you?" 
Theresa: (We just planted an Excrucian...) 
DanteE: (He's not a rock) 
Random_Nerd: "New rock. Got a few new rocks." 
Theresa: (True, but he's high on list of weird things planted recently. :) ) 
DanteE: "Can you tell us where?" 
Random_Nerd: "Mostly by the big thing that flew down a few hours ago. Got seven new rocks there." 
Theresa: "Hmm...anywhere else?" 
Theresa: (Because that would be rocks from Amyra.) 
Random_Nerd: "Hmm. Around my belly." 
Random_Nerd: He points over about five miles into town. 
* Snow scampers out of Dante's pocket, seemingly unconcerned by all this talk about rocks. 
Theresa: "Hmm..I'll go check it out...want to come with, Snow?" 
DanteE: "Hold on..." 
* Snow shakes her head, and flicks into human form. "One sec. I broke somethin', I forgot." 
DanteE: (Can you create without blowing MPs?) 
* Snow goes over to the horse, and peers at it. 
Theresa: (I can.) 
DanteE: (Can you make them a new house?) 
Random_Nerd: (It'd take her a series of miracles, but all of them would be free as long as it was just wood.) 
Theresa: (Yes, although everything will be wood. Might just be better to copter them into a town or something. *thinks* Did anyone else in the town survive?) 
DanteE: (What about just un-blowing-over the one they had?) 
* Snow presses her bloody arm into the horse's mouth. 
Theresa: (She's wha? ) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, the house wasn't just knocked over, it was smashed to rubble.) 
Theresa: "Snow, are you sure you want to do that?" 
* Snow nods. 
Snow: "Killed its herd. Needs a new one. So do I. We'll be our own herd." 
Snow: "...er, pack. This is confusing." 
DanteE: (Do you love or hate it?) 
Theresa: "O-kay." 
Snow: (Love. Snow is full of lurve.) 
Theresa: (Hence the wanting to boink Dante...) 
Snow: (Her love is quite freely given, yes.) 
Random_Nerd: (You've seen no signs that everyone else is dead.) 
Snow: (What does the horse do?) 
Random_Nerd: (Most of them have barricaded themselves indoors because of the Brain Eating Chupacabra.) 
Random_Nerd: The horse looks Snow in the eyes, in an oddly focused way. 
* Snow flicks into the form of a horse. 
Theresa: "Are you sure about the house, Dante? It's not going to look like it did before. The neighbors will notice." 
* Snow rubs her head against the horse's neck, happy. 
DanteE: "It doesn't look like it did before now." 
Snow: "I gotta friend!" 
DanteE: "It looks like splinters. 
* Theresa smiles. "That's good, Snow." 
Random_Nerd: The horse makes vaguely happy horsey noises. 
Theresa: "Okay, one house it is. It'll take a while. Do you and Snow want to go get the stone in town?" 
DanteE: "Well, wait... 
DanteE: to the mom: "Do you have someplace you can stay?" 
* Snow flicks into mouse form, climbs up the horse's leg, and turns back into human form once she's comfortably settled on its back. 
Snow: "Gonna go find the stone now?" 
Random_Nerd: The mom shivers, and doesn't respond. 
Theresa: (Hmm..does sound transmit DA too?) 
DanteE: Ghost-LC-Courage on mom 
Random_Nerd: (Perception does.) 
Random_Nerd: (When your body is being magically healed, you don't have to /see/ it happening to be affected.) 
Random_Nerd: (And it doesn't help if you're under a blight and your house just blew up with you in it.) 
RiotGearEpsilon: ( I'm outie. G'night folks. ) 
*** RiotGearEpsilon has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Leaving). 
Theresa: (Well, crap. Does the Courage help her? And can Irresistable combat DA?) 
Random_Nerd: (Irresistable doesn't really remove DA. I mean, you could tell people to act normal, and it'd kinda work, but still...) 
DanteE: (What's the status of those whimseys?) 
Random_Nerd: (You don't know.) 
Etheric: (Sounds like you guys need Carrie back... <.< ) 
Theresa: "How about we take care of the blightstone and then these folks and then head home?" 
Theresa: (We are low on hope, yes. <G> And does she tie a good bandage?) 
DanteE: "... all right. 
* Snow will do a LDiv on her whimsy while she waits for the others. 
DanteE: to the mom: "Hey... we're going to go and take care of the blight... but we'll be right back to help you out, all right?" 
Random_Nerd: She doesn't respond, but looks at Dante. 
DanteE: (Reminder: I'm guised at someone who's _not_ hurt. :) 
DanteE: *as 
Random_Nerd: (Snow, the whimsies are somewhat more gathered. The one you changed seems to be gathering them, a little like a sheepdog.) 
Snow: (Is it changing them as it meets them?) 
* Theresa will do some more comforting and soothing for the mother and child. 
Random_Nerd: (It seems to be doing the gathering part first.) 
Snow: (Okay.) 
Theresa: (I'll catch up with you guys once the comforting is done?) 
Random_Nerd: (Most likely because it's easier, and immaterial concepts given shape are lazy.) 
DanteE: "Guess we split up... 
DanteE: "Snow... let's you and I ride!" 
* Snow nodnods, and sets off once Dante is settled behind her. 
Theresa: (RN - because if they weren't lazy, they wouldn't be immaterial?) 
Random_Nerd: (Maybe!) 
Random_Nerd: (Now, how soon will people have to leave?) 
Theresa: (Not sure.) 
DanteE: (not for a while) 
Snow: (Sorry, I should really go. I've got a headache and a lot to do tomorrow. :() 
Snow: (S'almost midnight here.) 
Random_Nerd: (Stopping now seems good, then.) 
Random_Nerd: (Anything anyone wants to do before we stop?) 
DanteE: (guess not) 
Snow: (I'm good.) 
Theresa: (Darn it...typing...) 
* Theresa places some lavender and soothing herb compresses on the foreheads of the mother and child to help them relax. 
Theresa: (Sorry, typed the wrong first command and lost the whole thing I was typing... I'm done.) 
Random_Nerd: ____________________STOP_________________________ 
Random_Nerd: Thoughts? 
DanteE: damn it, we didn't _do_ anything... 
Snow: (Sorry to leave so quick, but I really want to go bury my head in a pillow right now. Thank you, everyone, and I'll see you later!) 
Theresa: Night Sara! *HUG* 
Snow: G'night! 
*** Snow has left #Nobilis. 
Theresa: We found otu about the blight. And we're working on it. 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Knockwood: well, we knew about the blight 
Theresa: Can I hear the stats of Snow's Horse? *suspicious* 
Random_Nerd: It's a horse. 0/0/0/0, no miracle points. 
Knockwood: is it actually a horse or an unreasonable simulation of one? 
Theresa: And anything for its rider? 
Random_Nerd: Yes. 
Random_Nerd: Ride it and see. 
Etheric: I'm thinking that I want to bring Carrie back at the beginning of the next story, if that works. 
Random_Nerd: Works for me. 
Random_Nerd: Should be in about two sessions. 
Random_Nerd: I imagine. 
Knockwood: excellent idea. You're the only one not mangled. 
Random_Nerd: Possibly 3. 
Theresa: I don't want that thing between my legs. :) 
Knockwood: afk for a minute... 
Etheric: Incidentally, would Theresa be able to make a magic plant that helps Nobles heal with a LEsser Change? 
Theresa: Man, i had thought that I had been hurt with the whole Monty thing. hah! Was I wrong... 
Random_Nerd: That... probably wouldn't work. 
Random_Nerd: Noble physiology runs almost entirely on miraculous power. 
Etheric: Ah, makes sense then. 
Random_Nerd: If you guys were just made of meat, you'd all be dead even if you had those defensive gifts. 
Theresa: I'm not sure how to ask the question when we get home of "You made deals with Excrucians _WHY_?" 
Theresa: At least in a way that doesn't end up with me on a cocktail toothpick. 
Etheric: He's Kudzu. He'd probably give you a medal. <.< And *then* put you on a cocktail toothpick. 
Theresa: Yep! *grin* 
Knockwood: bak... 
Knockwood: actually, can Carrie come to us next week? 
Theresa: To help haul our carcasses? 
Knockwood: and to get rid of DA 
Knockwood: and, arguably, to locate the stone with a Div-(lack of) Hope 
Etheric: Hmm. 
Etheric: RN, could Theresa's "letter" to Carrie that Beth showed me on Monday have been phrased in the form of a prayer? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. If Beth wants to handle it that way, and you do, then that's okay. 
Theresa: *grin* "Dear Carrie: Hi! Have new sister. Almost killed by Warmains. Hope you're doing well. Love, Theresa. P.S. Please send Neosporin." 
Random_Nerd: It wouldn't really damage the plot any to make such a change. 
Theresa: Sure, that's okay with me. :) And it would give a way for Carrie to come back next week. 
Theresa: It may have become a habit now to change thinking of Carrie into prayers, since that's the only way Theresa has to communicate with family at a distance. 
Knockwood: plus... we had Samuel looking for the quickest way from Amyra to us. 
Etheric: Okay... Give me time before I commit to next week for certain, but I think I can definitely say maybe at this point, if RN is willing to let me in then. 
Random_Nerd: That's fine. Just work out what you've been doing while Carrie was away. 
Random_Nerd: Unless you want to just tap your nose, look sly, and mouth the word "horses." 
Theresa: On that topic, I shall jump to the mating with Dante topic. <G> That was a surprise. 
Knockwood: to me too. :) 
Random_Nerd: Eh, capriciousness. 
Etheric: Horses? What's this? 
Etheric: Oh, "minding the horses." 
Etheric: I'll try and work out with you what Carrie's been up to before next week's game, then.

Session 62

2007-10-04T03:07:10Z

BethDragon:

BethE: RN will be in in a little bit. He's killing paladins. especially ones that laugh at his corpse. 
* Sara laughs. 
Sara: Damn skippy! 
* lazarus is delighting in the hand massager ^_^ 
lazarus: aaahhhh.... my neck and upper back aren't killing me quite as much anymore ^_^ 
*** Random_Nerd has joined #nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: Hey. 
*** Mode change "+o Random_Nerd" for channel #nobilis by lazarus. 
BethE: Hey love! 
lazarus: hey 
Sara: Hey, RN :) 
BethE: My poor troll is stuck among the pretty-elves. Bah. 
Sara: Heeeeere Knooooock... 
Sara: I wish I could afford WoW... :( And the expansion. 
*** Knockwood has joined #nobilis. 
lazarus: hey kwd. 
*** Mode change "+o Knockwood" for channel #nobilis by lazarus. 
Sara: Hey Knock! 
Knockwood: HI all, sorry I'm late 
lazarus: hey guys, is it possible to move the game earlier? I've been mandated by my doctor to get to bed sometime between 10 and 11 PM, so I can't play as late as I used to (this is the reason that I've been heading out early the past couple weeks). I don't think I'll be able to continue playing at this time of night, at least for a few months. 
BethE: Hi Knock! 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. What do you guys think? 
BethE: I'm free earlier Wednesday nights. 
Knockwood: I just got off work... 
Sara: Works better for me, being in the same time zone. But otherwise, whatever. 
Sara: Doesn't work for Knock, then. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. 
Sara: Let's start playing, before Laz has to leave, and think on it later. 
Random_Nerd: Well, I guess that doesn't work. We could try to get going faster so we have more to do before you have to sleep, though,. 
lazarus: can y'all quickly bring me up to speed from the last part of last session? 
BethE: Theresa was getting a new shirt and watching the body of the Warmain burn. 
Knockwood: we should be doing a nettle rite first, tho 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. You could do a little one, I guess. But destroying something doesn't tend to work well for nettle rites. 
Sara: Snow had transformed the Whim into something stronger and able to "infect" other whims with happy healthy capriciousness. 
Knockwood: ah, but ... his plans probably involved making the locals afraid. Considering they're about to torch his ass those plans are probably gone as well. :) 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
Random_Nerd: Well, if you're nettling the destruction of his plan... that'd actually be tricky, for a somewhat complicated reason that I'll get into later. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
Random_Nerd: But at any rate it'd have to be done when the plan was fully stopped. 
Snow: I've kinda stop-gapped it right now. 
Random_Nerd: That's entirely possible! 
* Snow smirks. 
DanteE: OK. 
Snow: What he means is, I've made it worse. And the world is gonna end. 
Random_Nerd: Not /yet/. 
Snow: Shall we? 
Random_Nerd: Fine by me. Ready, everyone? 
DanteE: IIRC, I'm giving Snow an impromptu piggyback ride... 
Theresa: (I'm ready. Can I have my shirt now? :) ) 
Brian: (*blinkblinkblinkblink*) 
Random_Nerd: (Sure.) 
Snow: (I don't think so. She'd just finished her Change...?) 
Brian: (RN, why is Beth asking for her shirt?) 
Random_Nerd: _____________________START_________________ 
Snow: (Theresa's shirt got damaged.) 
DanteE: (when Theresa did.) 
Random_Nerd: (Let's not get into that. But her character's shirt got a hole.) 
Snow: (That too.) 
Theresa: (Theresa got a hand through the middle of her chest. She asked a local for a new shirt.) 
DanteE: describe the scene? 
Random_Nerd: (And didn't the mother of the girl who Snow fixed the whim of go to get it?) 
* Theresa will get into the shirt without showing anything indecent in that manner through which women are taught in secret school sessions. 
Random_Nerd: You're outdoors, outside of a rather shabby farmhouse. 
Random_Nerd: There's a fair amount of blood around, from three sources. 
Theresa: (No, it was one of the burninating farmers who said he'd get one from his wife.) 
* Snow paces in human form. 
Random_Nerd: Several of the locals are around, a bit closer to the house. 
* Brian comforts Snow "Ssh, hon. It'll be alright. Your Changed Whim will fix things" 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, and his wife was the aforementioned mother.) 
* Snow 's brow is deeply furrowed. 
* DanteE checks the area with the Sight. 
* Snow continues pacing despite Brian's comforts. "No no no. Bad things'll still happen. Winter doesn't go away 'coz you make a fire. Still there." 
* DanteE grabs some nettles... 
Brian: "Sssh, sweetie. The Excrucian is dead, he can't hurt any more, and the problems he's caused are going to be fixed." 
* Theresa will sigh and head back toward the others. They should get out of here. The Warmain probably had friends or at least team-mates. 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, several things show up to the Sight.) 
* Snow shakes her head vigorously, and goes to Theresa. 
Snow: "You good now?" 
Random_Nerd: (The corpse of the Excrucian. You guys. The odd greyness of everything. And the two guys walking towards you.) 
DanteE: "Incoming..." 
* Theresa shrugs. "I'm not dead yet. I'm not _unhurt_ though, but I'm still moving around. How about you? Your Estate still...oh bother..." 
* Snow looks up and around, unsure of what she should be looking at. 
* Snow tugs on Theresa's sleeve. 
Brian: (those people visible to not-Sight, as well?) 
Random_Nerd: Two figures, in the background. One looks like an ordinary farmer, leading a horse, and the other one seems to have a weird silvery sheen to his body, and jagged angles of his arms. 
Snow: "Need me to be a bear?" 
DanteE: "Not yet..." 
Random_Nerd: (Visible, but kinda far off. Hard to spot as unusual without the Sight or high-aspect vision, and attention.) 
Brian: *nod* 
Theresa: "Let's wait and see what they do. If these are friends of the one we just killed, we will need the bear. And probably other things too." 
Brian: ( ()'s, sorry) 
Random_Nerd: The guy leading the horse mounts it, lifts a pitchfork with something on it, and starts to ride up. 
Random_Nerd: The silvery one on foot follows, and keeps up with the horse. 
Snow: "Is he seeing? He's seeing, isn't he?" Snow will look around with the Sight, to spot what the others already see. 
Theresa: (Can I see what's on the pitchfork?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes. It's the whimsy.) 
DanteE: "Hey, Snow... let's do a quick lesson in how to change without spooking people. 
Snow: (Oh no you di'in!) 
Snow: (Can Snow see that it's her whimsy?) 
Random_Nerd: (What's your Aspect?) 
Brian: (ah crap) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, he's a Warmain. He killed something. It's kind of what they do.) 
Random_Nerd: (There's a reason they aren't called Knitmains or Custardmains.) 
Snow: (0) 
Snow: ( 0 ) 
DanteE: "What you do, go somewhere where no one's looking, _then_ change. 
Theresa: (Would Theresa recognize that it's a whimsy?) 
DanteE: "Into, say, a war strider." 
Random_Nerd: (She saw it, earlier, when Snow was working on it.) 
Snow: "What's a war strider?" 
DanteE: "Big strong horse that a knight can ride." 
Theresa: "Oh no, the whimsy...that's on the pitchfork...is it..dead?" 
Brian: "Alternately, a big stompy robot." 
Brian: "Um, what? Ah, crap." 
* Snow looks doubtful. "I think the night's too big for a horse..." 
Theresa: "I don't think Snow can turn into an inorganic thing." 
* Snow blinks. 
Snow: "He killed my whimsy?!" 
Brian: "... Here comes halfling death!" (sorry) 
Random_Nerd: Knight-Excrucian: "It's what we do." 
Random_Nerd: Silvery Excrucian: "Still, that was clever." 
Theresa: "Which part?" 
Random_Nerd: *excrucianshrug* 
Brian: "Nothing's ever simple with you guys, is it?" 
* Snow will use a lesser creation to cause all regular humans in the area to blink at the same time. 
DanteE: (did I ever heal the priest?) 
Random_Nerd: (You did.) 
* Snow flicks into polar bear form in that moment. 
Random_Nerd: Knight-Excrucian: "Well, now we're going to kill you. Again, keeping with the whole violence theme." 
Brian: (ah crap) Brian flings a Lesser Creation of a 4 or something (something incarnate) at the knight 
Brian: (yes, I know it'll have no effect without Pen) 
* DanteE tells the locals: "Those guys are his (the ex's) friends. 
Random_Nerd: The knight looks oddly at Brian, but rides through it, and as he moves, he seems to shed scraps of fabric. 
Random_Nerd: Likewise, his horse sheds its hair, leaving it shiny, white, and hairless. 
DanteE: "You could fight, and we'll help. It may be better to run, though." 
Snow: "I will make them run!" 
Theresa: "Would you like to introduce yourselves?" 
Random_Nerd: Both look like featureless, smooth, and slightly translucent white figures. 
Random_Nerd: Silvery, crouching to leap. "Well, I'm a man of distinction and taste... wait, that's your guy." 
* Snow creates whimsy in the people nearby...and preserves it when it hits the idea, "Run like a little girl." 
Snow: (Temporary preservation. Mea culpa. A few minutes.) 
Brian: "Um, Dante, I think this would be your area of expertise..." 
Random_Nerd: The people run, indeed, like little girls. 
DanteE: (OK, have we established that the Cult is NOT involved in this storyline? I know Theresa was making flowers periodically to check...) 
Random_Nerd: (You've seen no sign of them so far.) 
Theresa: (The Excrucians know pop culture. Entirely no fair.) 
Random_Nerd: The silvery excrucian spits in the air. 
* DanteE draws a couple of the swords he had concealed... 
Brian: (They know pop culture from the 60s. They're old guys. Like Giles. Erm, bad...) 
Random_Nerd: (People who aren't Snow or Brian, your miracles please?) 
DanteE: (gonna wait on their move...) 
Random_Nerd: (Silvery guy is making his move.) 
DanteE: (Spitting? I levy a $50 fine and community service. :) 
Random_Nerd: Horse-Guy waves his spear, and all the humans on-scene cease to exist. 
Theresa: (*blink*) 
Snow: (Dang.) 
DanteE: (weren't they gone already?) 
Brian: (ah crap) 
Random_Nerd: (Now, do you have any miracles to do before the silvery guy's one gets resolved?) 
Brian: (now I just have to figure out how to fenagle Numbers into destroying one of those guys) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, they were running away already.) 
Random_Nerd: (Now they just... stopped being there at all.) 
Theresa: "Oh, thanks, that's helpful. Callous, but helpful." *Lesser Destruction of the roots for about 20 feet under the Excr, dropping them down into the ground.* 
Random_Nerd: (Clothes and everything.) 
DanteE: (how would you feel about a conjunctive miracle?) 
Random_Nerd: (That would depend on the miracle!) 
* DanteE pulls out about a bunch of knives... 
Theresa: (With which of us?) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and the silvery guy is using Winds of Hate, of course, with the spitting.) 
DanteE: "Dodge these." ::throws the knives!:: 
Random_Nerd: (Thrown at which one?) 
DanteE: (Silver.) 
DanteE: (And I'll make 'em Pen 2... Brian, wanna make 'em a lot harder to avoid? :) 
Random_Nerd: (What's the Aspect on those knives?) 
Brian: (How's that work?) 
DanteE: (Base aspect, 2. 
Random_Nerd: (Brian already did a miracle.) 
Random_Nerd: (His 4.) 
Brian: (sad, I'd love to do a Cascade of Cutting Terror for you) 
Random_Nerd: (So, spending two MPs, Dante?) 
DanteE: (Yeah, 2 SMPs, probably DPs) 
Random_Nerd: (Ooh, that would be an interesting trick to pull some time, and you could indeed do that with a LC.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, they have to be AMPs unless you're using Last Trump.) 
DanteE: (You could also do a shitload of ironwood spears, hint, hint) 
DanteE: (In fact, have you seen Hero?) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, so...) 
Random_Nerd: The air hits everyone with great force. "Like a quarterback dragon," to quote the book. (Who has Spirit 3 or less?) 
DanteE: (2) 
Snow: (I have 0. Hooray.) 
Brian: (2) 
Random_Nerd: The silvery guy is hit with Dante's knives, but they do only superficial damage. But on the other hand, they hit, so you know he has Spirit 2 or less. 
Theresa: (I have 1.) 
Random_Nerd: The ground collapses under the two, unhorsing the rider. 
Brian: (and then we go flying?) 
Random_Nerd: (Everyone who doesn't have Sancrosanct or above takes a deadly wound.) 
Theresa: (Hmm..so I'm at 2 Deadly Wounds?) 
DanteE: (uhoh....) 
Brian: (that would be me, I believe - Immutable is only the Domain, not the form, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Immutable doesn't protect you from direct physical trauma. It just makes you not need food and air and stuff, I believe.) 
Theresa: (Thank you for the spear thing, Dante. And I have a better idea now for the Pen.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, Beth, from here on out, all miracles that use MPs cost one extra.) 
* Snow tumbles head over paws backwards, yelping even in bear form. 
DanteE: (Screw that... RN, can we do a 3-way conjunctive effect?) 
Random_Nerd: (As long as you can work out a miracle that works with all three domains, somehow.) 
Random_Nerd: The horseman crawls out of the dirt, and helps his horse back up. 
DanteE: (Easy. Blades+Wood+NUmbers=execution scene in Hero.) 
Brian: "Snow, are you ok?" 
Random_Nerd: Silvery, to rider: "The one with the blades. Get him with the big gun." 
* Snow growls fiercely at Brian, then directs it at the Excrucians. 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Yes, a miracle done with a bunch of sharp pieces of wood would work as a conjunctive miracle.) 
Random_Nerd: (Clever.) 
DanteE: "Time we went all out." 
Random_Nerd: The white rider poses, and points at Dante, his hand held like a gun. "Bang." 
* Theresa is looking pale and drained and is perhaps bleeding again. "Completely." 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, that'll be resolved once you all work out your miracles.) 
Brian: "Ever play Exalted? They've got this neat thing ... a Cascade of Cutting Terror. I'll show you how it works, if you provide me with a thrown weapon..." 
Brian: (yay for playing a geek character!) 
Random_Nerd: (Brian /so/ would play Exalted.) 
* DanteE ghosts an extra-sharp arrowhead over his head as a guide for the others... 
* Snow lumbers forward, hurling her beary self in front of Dante. 
Theresa: (I'm in on the conjunctive, if we can pull it off. Take a whole forest if need be.) 
DanteE: "Cutting right there... 
Random_Nerd: (I'm looking up the rules for a Conjunctive. Anyone recall where the yare?) 
DanteE: (and the ghost isn't a whole miracle, just a guide for when we actually throw it. 
Brian: (and, even though Amyra doesn't have 2e yet, they definitely had 1e. Someone at White Wolf may be looking at the sales numbers and stuff, and wondering how it all makes sense) 
Random_Nerd: (Found it.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, so, all of you doing it need to do a miracle of the same level, and the resulting miracle is at that level plus the number of powers past the first, which here would be two.) 
DanteE: (LCs?) 
Random_Nerd: (So, if all of you did Lesser Creations, the resulting miracle would be level 6.) 
Snow: (Snow looked at these two guys with the Sight before the fight. What's the horse look like?) 
DanteE: (Let's add Pen, just in case...) 
Random_Nerd: (The horse is miraculous, but dimmer than the guy, and the same color as him. It's probably part of the rider in some odd way.) 
Brian: (2 Pen is apparently enough for one of them, at least) 
Theresa: (So we each add penetration to our miracles or does just one of us do so?) 
DanteE: (4 points for my LC, plus 1 SMP to bump it to Pen 2.) 
Random_Nerd: (You do penetration based on the level of the miracle.) 
Random_Nerd: (Dante, you can't do that.) 
Random_Nerd: (So, with a level 6, it could be Lesser Creation 2 Penetration, Lesser Div 4 Pen, or whatever.) 
DanteE: (Oh... 
Theresa: (Spirit MP ar efor doing miracles through your anchors.) 
Random_Nerd: (You cannot spend spirit MPs to add to penetration, save through last-trumping them into another sort and spending them on the miracle, or casting a miracle through an anchor and spending spirit MPs there.) 
Random_Nerd: Silvery Excrucian spits in the air again, and his drop of saliva seems to hang in the air.. 
DanteE: (Ah... can I immediately spend a character point to bump up Blades?) 
* Snow will seek any faults or weak spots in the ground below the pair, and encourage them to do what they do best: give way, or release, or shift in some way. 
Brian: (shall we CCT? Or do we need Dante in on that?) 
Random_Nerd: (I really would rather you not change your character sheet in the middle of resolving an action.) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and Sara, since you have Aspect 0, you're out of Deadly Wounds too, and have the same penalty as Beth.) 
Random_Nerd: (So... miracles?) 
Snow: (*nods* *refigures*) 
Brian: (erm, I suppose I'm out of Deadlies too? It's Asp + 1?) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh. Then yes.) 
Random_Nerd: (Dante, of course, is unharmed.) 
DanteE: (Not for long...) 
Random_Nerd: (There is that.) 
Random_Nerd: (I have Sara's miracle. But are the rest of you doing a conjunctive or not?) 
Snow: (I can make my miracle cost less, by simply preserving any give-way-ish-ness that Theresa's previous miracle made?) 
Theresa: (I'm good for the conjunctive.) 
Brian: (waiting on the others. My intention is to do so) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, that won't make it cost less, but it'll make the results more dramatic.) 
Snow: (Woo, drama!) 
DanteE: (OOH... how about, instead of Blades, the arrows are infused with raw COurage? Cuz I can do Courage 6 easily) 
Brian: (I think we only need to hit 4... right?) 
DanteE: (I've got Blades 1, unfirtunately.) 
Random_Nerd: (Depends what you want to do.) 
DanteE: (Not if we want to be sure to hit) 
Brian: (LC with 2 Pen, with 3 people?) 
Theresa: (What effect would the COurage have?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, with a Lesser Change of Courage you could give courage to spears.) 
DanteE: (Burn 'em straight to their souls, I hope) 
DanteE: (Out of range.) 
DanteE: (Wait... three L5 miracles would be a L7, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct.) 
* Snow sounds bewildered. "Why are we fighting?! Why did they kill my whimsy?!" 
DanteE: (So, if we each throw L4+1Pen, the result could be l5+2pen?) 
Brian: "Because they want to unravel Creation. They're the antithesis of being" 
Theresa: *pants* "These...are the people who are hurting you, Snow. They want to make sure you...Capriciousness, don't exist." 
Random_Nerd: (The miracles you throw are not with penetration, or at least, adding it would be wasting points.) 
Random_Nerd: (Penetration is done based on the final miracle, the one that's actually resolved.) 
Brian: "It's our job to stop them. And stop them we will" 
DanteE: (Well, if we use L5s...?) 
Brian: (if we each throw a Lesser Creation, it would be a 6th level Miracle, right?) 
Brian: (i.e. LC + 2Pen?) 
Random_Nerd: (If you each use level 5s, you can do a level 5 miracle with 2 penetration.) 
DanteE: (Let's do it...) 
Brian: (5s? Lesser Change? Sure) 
* DanteE forms the ultra-dsharp arrowhead... 
Theresa: (Okay. Isn't Level 5 a Lesser Destruction, though?) 
DanteE: (4 DMPs) 
Brian: (err, Dest, yes. Forgot that one) 
Brian: (we want Creation, don't we?) 
DanteE: (we mainly want to kill these fucks) 
Theresa: (*listens to explanation that you can do a lower miracle with a higher level.*) 
Brian: (you can?!) 
Random_Nerd: (Let's not get into that now.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, so, Theresa and Brian both have Domain 4 and no deadly wounds, right?) 
Brian: (I just want to know how many points to spend ... I guess 2) 
Theresa: (Okay, really big storm of ironwood spears, imbued with Courage and multiplied by Numbers, in a way as to make Hero look like a toddler crayon drawing.) 
Random_Nerd: (If so, spend two each.) 
DanteE: (L5, 3-way conjunctive, do it! And play some giant-robot-anime theme music. :) 
Random_Nerd: (And what's Dante's Domain of Courage?) 
DanteE: (2) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, four DMPs for Dante.) 
DanteE: (Can you guys pull off L6 miracles?) 
Random_Nerd: (Because of the Powers of Two law.) 
Theresa: (I can at the moment, but it'll wipe me pretty out.) 
Random_Nerd: (They can, at 3 DMPs each. (2 for hard miracle, +1 for no more deadly wounds)) 
Brian: (yes, but it would be ... 3 DMPs?) "THIS, this is a Cascade of Cutting Terror. Area of Effect, Undodgeable, hard to block, so many incoming spears you can't see the sky ... good luck crawling out of this one alive." 
Random_Nerd: (And Dante can do a level 6 for 4 DMPs.) 
DanteE: (Do it. Waste these guys before they hit you again.) 
Brian: (fine by me) 
Theresa: (Okay. I agree to it.) 
Random_Nerd: (And you're doing it at the whole area with both of them?) 
Theresa: (Yes. Both of them.) 
* DanteE forms a spearhead of pure courage as a guide... 
Brian: (Yes) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, so, the end miracle will be Domain 6, Pen 2?) 
Theresa: (Uh...we know the Pen of the second guy, right?) 
Brian: (yep) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, action resolution time.) 
Brian: (one is greater than 0. The other, less than or equal to 2) 
DanteE: (And if it doesn't stop these guys we're going to be mighty pissed) 
Brian: (I've still got lots of MPs... almost the whole compliment) 
Random_Nerd: When the guy does his "Bang" at Dante, Dante feels suddenly weakened. 
Random_Nerd: (How many points does your Sacrosanct cost?) 
DanteE: (3) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, for the rest of the fight, Dante has no particular miraculous protection.) 
Random_Nerd: (Negative Gift.) 
Theresa: (Urk.) 
DanteE: (uhoh) 
Brian: (we're screwed, aren't we?) 
Theresa: (So..he's like Snow now?) 
Random_Nerd: The Winds of Hate strike everyone, again, now costing Dante a Deadly and everyone else a Serious wound. 
DanteE: (Probably. Nice playing with you guys.) 
Random_Nerd: The Excrucians get hit by like a million screaming wooden shafts of death. 
* Snow yelps again. 
Theresa: (We love you too, but lets at least see how the Excrucians like the taste of our wood...) 
Brian: (...) 
Random_Nerd: Neither, it seems, has either the auctoritas or the protection to prevent this. 
Random_Nerd: The sound that they make is not to be described. 
Random_Nerd: Also, the ground under them collapses, leaving them buried, and you're pretty sure that the rider's horse fell on him. 
Snow: (*little flag wave*) 
Random_Nerd: That's the most likely explanation of the combined equine-human "URGKH!" noise. 
Random_Nerd: (Next round!) 
Brian: "Snow, are you ok?" 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and they both took a Deadly Wound, and horse-guy in particular seems to be as bad-off as you guys.) 
DanteE: "Urgh... so that's how it feels..." 
Theresa: "We...have to check on them... The first guy could move through dirt...might get away...and we still have to save Snow..." 
* Snow is making fierce animal noises that are not condusive to replying. 
Snow: (Can Snow see any part of them?) 
Brian: (Last Trump is ... 2 to 1? 3 to 1?) 
DanteE: (Depends on Spirit) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and incidentially, the horse guy took a serious wound on top of his deadly wound, from the whole "horse falling on him when he's got about a dozen spears through his body" thing.) 
Brian: (3 to 1 for me, apparently) 
Theresa: (Yay Snow! Did some _damage_!) 
Snow: (*sheepish*) 
Brian: (I'm planning on dropping a L6+2Pen brick-of-1000-tons on them both) 
Random_Nerd: (Snow, they're pretty much buried. Perhaps bits are sticking through. You can see where they are, but can't see them clearly.) 
DanteE: (Can we tell if they're dead, almost dead, or what? 
Theresa: (We can probably hear them breathing with Aspect 2.) 
Random_Nerd: (You can tell that they're alive but somewhat hurt, and that the rider in particular is badly hurt.) 
DanteE: "I think it's overwhelming-force time. How hurt are you guys?" 
Brian: (can I Last Trump 3AMP + 3 RMP + 3 SMP into 3 DMP?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Let me check.) 
Theresa: "If I had the brain power to do so, I would die. As it is, I'm still here. Can we get any info out of them or are we going to try to fix Snow's problem on our own?" 
Random_Nerd: (Yes, although it can't leave you with more than your max DMPs.) 
Random_Nerd: Voices from the dirt: "Tell Lord Kudzu that our progenitor's debt to him is paid in full." 
Brian: (it'll cost me 5 DMP, I believe, to drop a L6 + 2 Pen on the guys' heads, and 5 is what it'll get me) 
Random_Nerd: Other voice: "And that he's a dick." 
* Snow whines. 
DanteE: "Son of a... (to others) HOLD IT." 
Snow: "Can we stop hurting now?" 
* DanteE goes over to the hole. 
Random_Nerd: (And yes, from what we've worked out earlier, you can multiply some speck of sand or something into a huge weight.) 
Theresa: "Well, we already knew _that_ part." 
Brian: (done) 
DanteE: "What the HELL are you talking about?!?" 
Theresa: (Oh no...I think I...) 
Theresa: (What do you think that this is a test...like with the Lesson stuff?) 
Random_Nerd: Horseman's Voice: "What, he didn't even tell you?" 
Random_Nerd: Silvery guy's voice: "See? Told you so." 
* Brian picks up a hefty rock, Miracles it into a 1000-ton L6+2Pen Domain miracle, as he drops it on their heads, completely ignoring their talking 
DanteE: "He doesn't tell us SHIT. Explain yourselves.": 
Brian: "Don't you DARE harm Snow, or Theresa again." 
* Snow whimpers. "Stop! They're not bad!" 
Brian: (Brian even Limit Breaks o_o;) 
Random_Nerd: (Is anyone else doing a miracle?) 
Snow: (So this rock is still the same size, but crazy heavy?) 
Snow: (I might.) 
Brian: (yep) 
Snow: (*GRIN*) 
DanteE: (Lesser Creation of Not Blowing a Blood Vessel) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, if you want to do one at the same time as Brian, you have to do it now.) 
* Snow grunts in pain, but leaps after the rock, jaws wide. 
Random_Nerd: (Aiming for which one? 
Random_Nerd: ) 
Theresa: "So you're saying that our boss had your boss test all of us...and we're supposed to believe you?" 
Snow: (Hm. May I spent AMPs to get both, in a line?) 
Random_Nerd: (No, not with the current version of it.) 
Random_Nerd: Silvery: "No, I'm just saying he's a dick." 
Snow: (Dang. The...knight's one, then.) 
Theresa: "Tell us something _new_! I mean, fetching giants and so forth. I think it's part of the Wildlord Code or something. Maybe just Imperator Code." 
Random_Nerd: (One moment, miracle resolution.() 
Theresa: (Aha! We have found out why humans and Dionyls aren't Imperators. We haven't reached this level of superdickery.) 
Random_Nerd: You see movement from the dirt for a moment, and then Brian drops a big rock on the two. The dirt is now turning to mud with silvery-red blood. 
Random_Nerd: And then Snow leaps into the pit, her jaw opening far wider than seems possible, and seems to swallow about half of the horseman. 
Snow: (What?) 
Snow: (No!) 
Theresa: (She ate the horse?) 
Random_Nerd: (Wait, what?) 
Snow: (*laugh* The rock!) 
Snow: (I'm sorry!) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, the rock!) 
Snow: (I wondered. I was like, "Two rocks? Whatever...") 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, that makes sense. Let's step in the wayback machine!) 
Snow: (*dies laughing*) 
Brian: (and through the magic of logs, that little bit can never have actually happened!) 
Random_Nerd: Okay, Brian drops a big rock in the chasm... and Snow leaps in and swallows it whole, in a display of a mixture of panache and body-horror. 
Theresa: (Indeedy. :) ) 
Theresa: (Everyone needs minerals in their diet...) 
DanteE: (Lesser Creation of Noble Pepto) 
Brian: (erm... does Snow get harmed by the rock? 'cause that would totally cause Brian to angst) 
Random_Nerd: (Nope. She's fine.) 
Brian: (ah, good) 
* Theresa watches Snow, dumbfounded. "That's...that's wow..." 
Random_Nerd: Horseman, moaning: "The hell?" 
* Snow 's legs drop a bit, then she shakes her head, and licks her lips. 
Brian: "Snow, why did you do that?" 
Snow: "Tastes like rock." 
* Snow walks over to Brian and swats at him with one fur-covered paw. 
* DanteE checks out the 'bad guys' with the Sight again... 
Brian: "Of course, it WAS a rock. I'm not in control of how it TASTES, only how much it HURTS when I drop it on some Excrucian wannabe's head!" 
Snow: "No more trying to kill people! People killing stopped, then you try to drop a rock!" 
Theresa: *yells at the horseman* "See! She could swallow you whole and _then_ where would you be? Digested, that's right! Want to be the first Excrucian to go down a Noble's digestive tract?" 
Random_Nerd: (The horseman looks about the same, except for with the spears through him.) 
Random_Nerd: (The silvery guy is completely underground, and can't be seen.) 
Theresa: (So...are these guys Excrucians?) 
Brian: "Snow, their job is to try to kill us. Our job is to kill them first." 
Random_Nerd: (Well, they're clearly of the noble/shard scale. And they used typical Excrucian gifts, including one that can only be used by Excrucians and people with abhorrent weapons.) 
* Snow shakes her head. 
Theresa: (Okay, was just checking.) 
Snow: "Kudzu's like...like...a big crazy crow. He does what he wants. Tries to peck your eyes out, then gives you a feather 'coz you like it. (more) 
DanteE: to them: "All right, last chance. Who are you, and what are you doing?" 
Random_Nerd: (Either they're Shards, or somebody made an Abhorrent Pitchfork.() 
*** Redo has joined #nobilis. 
Snow: "He makes these guys do stuff to us. Then you fill them with wood. Then they stop. So we stop. Time to stop." 
*** Redo has left #nobilis. 
Theresa: (Yes, Redo?) 
Random_Nerd: Horseman: "We are, in the vulgar parlance, in ur Creation destroying ur estates." 
Random_Nerd: Silvery doesn't respond. 
Theresa: (Love, i adore you and share my life with you. That was bad.) 
Random_Nerd: (It was supposed to be.) 
Theresa: (I dare you to post it to Rebecca. <G>) 
Snow: (*facepalm*) 
DanteE: "All right, so how is Kudzu involved? 
Theresa: "And the deal with Kudzu was?" 
Random_Nerd: Horseman: "He asked us to." 
Theresa: "He has contact and deals with the Excrucians?" 
Random_Nerd: Horseman: "Well, our Progenitor was tempered through the death of someone Kudzu knew, as I understand it." 
Theresa: (Tempered? Does this make sense to a Noble-mind?) 
DanteE: "Tempered?" 
Random_Nerd: (It's a Warmain thing.) 
* Snow snorts at Brian, then goes back to the rest of the group. She leans down to lick at the knight's hand with a big black bear tongue. 
Theresa: (Bathed in blood and so forth?) 
Random_Nerd: (Page 200, for those with White Books.) 
DanteE: "Who died?" 
Random_Nerd: (When a Warmain kills an Imperator for the first time, he takes on his shape and something of his personality.) 
Random_Nerd: (It can happen again, if the Warmain kills someone he particularly respects.) 
Random_Nerd: (In theory, other Excrucians, and possibly even Nobles, could pull it off. But Warmains are the only ones who regularly do it.) 
Theresa: (RN, what was the list of the Nobles Luc was anchored to?) 
Random_Nerd: (I don't recall the whole list offhand, but, uh... the ocean, silver, the arts, the arts, bone, and some other stuff?) 
* Snow reaches into the ground, and attempts to gently remove the knight from his, uh, grave. 
Random_Nerd: (Is Snow still a bear?) 
Theresa: (So, Silver guy in the dirt there...could have been the one to kill Silver, but not take his estate?) 
Snow: (Yes.) 
DanteE: "Hold it, Snow." 
* Snow looks over at Dante. 
Random_Nerd: The guy clutches at Snow's paw and is pulled out, and then starts to dig his horse out. 
Random_Nerd: (From his digging, he's probably about Aspect 1 or 2.) 
Theresa: (Yeah, but any Aspect miracles are just going to make his hurts worse.) 
* Snow looks back at the knight. "Don't hurt us anymore, 'kay? I hurt lots." 
* DanteE checks out silver-guy 
Random_Nerd: (Silver guy is nowhere to be seen.) 
DanteE: (Does the area still look grey to the Sight?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
Random_Nerd: (Also, since you have the other Shard, the absence of Silver from sight means something.) 
Random_Nerd: White Horseman: "You do understand what's going to have to happen now, right?" 
Theresa: (... that Silver isn't a warmain because you don't let your buddies stay behind.) 
Snow: "Nuh uh." 
Random_Nerd: (Not exactly...) 
Theresa: (The knight's going to have to kill himself. Warmain Code.) 
Random_Nerd: Okay, freezeframe, nobody talk for a moment. 
Random_Nerd: A spear, one of the ones you guys created, is in midair flying at the back of Brian's neck. 
Random_Nerd: It's being propelled with the force of an Aspect 4 miracle. 
Random_Nerd: What Do You Do? 
Snow: (...dang.) 
Snow: (Do we /see/ it?) 
Brian: (die a horrible, horrible death?) 
Theresa: (Any of us or just Brian?) 
Random_Nerd: (You see it.) 
Random_Nerd: (Now, since in the game your characters have maybe a hundreth of a second to react, I'm going to give you guys three minutes to decide on your actions.) 
Snow: (Can you do anything about the wood, Beth?) 
Brian: (I'm going to have Brian be oblivious. Fits his currently Limit Broken condition. Sigh. Stupid wanna-be Exalted ...) 
DanteE: (OK... what did the Warmain mean by 'what has to happen now'?) 
Theresa: (Yes. A Lesser Creation level miracle.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well... the context does suggest at least one possible interpretation.) 
Brian: ("No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!") 
Theresa: (Well, one interpretation is that all of us have to die. Because we've witnessed their shame.) 
Random_Nerd: (Or, rather, that they have to fight to the death if the alternative is shame.) 
Theresa: (I can change the direction of the spear or Lesser Destroy it.) 
* Snow 's head snaps around to look at Brian, in that hundredth-of-a-second. 
DanteE: borrow some DPs to do an Asp 4 Pen 2 attenpt to cut the warmain;s head off. 
Random_Nerd: (Which one?) 
Theresa: (Silver's the one that threw the spear, I think. He moved through the dirt like the other Warmain, the first one.) 
Brian: (I'm basically tapped out of Miracle Points. I have one Last Trumpable thing. A L3 Dodge wouldn't help, would it?) 
Random_Nerd: (One minute left.) 
DanteE: (the 'knight'.) 
Theresa: (Theresa will control the spear, LC, and redirect it back the way it came. Can she add anything to it?) 
Random_Nerd: (If you haven't said "I'm doing this" by then, you don't do anything until next round.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not with a lesser creation.) 
Random_Nerd: (Time's up.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay.) 
Theresa: (Then just the redirecting. That's what Theresa does.) 
Random_Nerd: The Knight raises his pitchfork in a last-ditch parry, just barely blocking Dante's sword (And spending plenty of MPs to do it.) 
Random_Nerd: The spear is deflected, but glances off the auctoritas of the silvery shard. 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, what do you do now?) 
Random_Nerd: (Probably not time to talk out loud unless you use Aspect miracles to talk /very quickly/.) 
Brian: (I can't use a L2 to hurt someone, can I?) 
Snow: (Why are we killing knight guy? I'm sorry.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not unless they're already very, very hurt.) 
Random_Nerd: (And even horseman isn't that hurt.) 
DanteE: (Because, being a Warmain, he can't just walk away.( 
Random_Nerd: (Well, it'd be enough to hurt him if he wasn't Durant, but both are.) 
DanteE: (Snow, do us a favor and eat him. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, they can surrender...) 
Random_Nerd: (But only if they can do so without shaming themselves.) 
Brian: (No way to do Spirit Miracles to harm?) 
* Snow eats the knight's head. Or at least tries to. 
Random_Nerd: (There are no miracles of Spirit.) 
Theresa: (Knowing us, we would laugh at them.) 
Brian: (didn't think so. Well, I'm tapped out. Doesn't mean Brian won't do anything). 
Theresa: (*calculating*) 
* Brian turns and glares at the Silver one, with the fire of Superman's eyes. He takes a stick, and tosses it at him, altering its weight en-route (L4, no Pen, but combinable) 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, you guys and those guys are all very hurt, running very low on MPs, and generally feeling crummy.) 
Brian: (Last Trumping from 3 SMPs) 
Brian: "You hurt Snow. You hurt Theresa. You get smacked around. And then you try for some more. Well, that's the last mistake you'll make." 
Brian: (damn PCs, thinking they're better than they are...) 
Theresa: (Last Trump Aspect & Realm into Domain. Use the points to do a Level 6 Miracle (1 last Domain covers Deadly Woundness, +2 from Trump) 
Random_Nerd: SIlver: "It's what we do. It's who we are. If you can work out a way that we can stop here, without dishonoring ourselves, what is it?" 
* DanteE helps Snow take Knight down 
Brian: "Your mission is complete, as I understand it. You've no further business here. Leave now." 
Random_Nerd: Horseman calculates: "WIll you accept a truce, to last for two hours, void if you attack us, or we attack you or your estates?" 
Snow: (No head eating?) 
Random_Nerd: And then he gets his head et. 
Snow: (AHAHAHHAHAHAH!) 
Theresa: (That would be a 'no'.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, he's not quite dead, but he's halfway down a bear.) 
Snow: (Just his head. Snapped it clean off.) 
Random_Nerd: (And doesn't look too hot.) 
DanteE: (now THAT sounds bizarre...) 
Random_Nerd: (You don't have /quite/ enough to bite his head off. Just chew most of the way through his neck.) 
* Theresa lets loose another storm of spears into Silver. (Said Level 6 miracle.) "Die with your honor." 
DanteE: (Hey, I helped her!) 
* Snow gnaws, looking at the others like, "What?" 
Random_Nerd: (Now. please stop miracles, resolving now.)| 
Snow: "Ehn...rearry...srry...h'rse...guy..." 
Random_Nerd: Silver sees the spears flying at him, winces, says "Then die." and spits in the air once more. 
Random_Nerd: The explosion of air hits all of you at the same time as the amplified miracle impales him and pins him through the ground. 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, now, another wound of the highest level to everyone. That leaves Snow and Brian down to surface wounds, I believe.) 
DanteE: (I've got 1D left, right?) 
Brian: (yep. Ouch.) 
* Snow quivers, then collapses, even her adrenaline spent. 
Theresa: (I'm down to...I'm not sure?) 
Random_Nerd: (You just took your second deadly, Dante, but you still have all your Severe ones left.) 
Random_Nerd: (Theresa, I believe, has one Severe wound left.) 
Theresa: (Whoot! Sign me up for being the Black Knight at the next Holy Grail reinactment...) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and Horse guy is down to one surface.) 
Random_Nerd: (Silver is down to one Severe and two Surface.) 
Snow: RH: "I hurt..." 
Random_Nerd: Horseman says something, and anyone with Aspect 1 or better can make out "Do you accept my offer?" through the bear throat. 
Random_Nerd: (Nobilis is a strange game.) 
Theresa: (Indeed.) 
Snow: RH: "He hurts us a lot. He won't stop. I want him to die now." 
Brian: RH, to Snow: "Well, I tried earlier. I no longer have the power." 
Random_Nerd: (Well, if you want to kill him, Snow, you can do it with an Aspect 0 miracle of Head-Swallowing.) 
Brian: RH, tS: "I tried to protect you. I'm sorry." 
Theresa: (Can I break the Silver guy's neck with Aspect 2?) 
Random_Nerd: (Normally swallowing someone's head is more than Aspect 0, but these are special circumstances.) 
* Brian will toss L1 +2Pen Miracles at the Silver guy for the time being, though it won't do anything at all. (look at my shiny 4!) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, you need penetration still, Beth.) 
Snow: RH: "Protect me from bad people hurting me. Not from people in ground. I am going to eat him." 
* DanteE grabs a spear. 
Brian: RHtS: "Go ahead. Have a feast." 
* Snow chomps. 
Random_Nerd: Silver: "We have discharged our debt in full." 
DanteE: "Accept this." (Asp2 fling at Silver... Theresa, mess with it!) 
Random_Nerd: (Aspect doesn't go in Conjunctives.) 
Theresa: (Even if we both work on breaking his neck?) 
DanteE: (No, but it is a hunk of wood) 
Random_Nerd: (But I mean, you doing an Aspect 2 miracle, and her doing something with wood, would be two separate miracles.) 
DanteE: (Quick question: what would happen if I took another Deadly?) 
Random_Nerd: (You'd be down to one Severe and two Surface.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's... a lot prettier than what happens if Brian or Snow takes one deadly.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, now, the spear. Aspect 2 Pen 0?) 
DanteE: (OK, one question to the group: are we at all entertaining the possibility of accepting their offer?) 
Theresa: (Haven't. What with Snow eating the other guy and not trusting them.) 
Brian: (no) 
Snow: (Sorry. *sheepish*) 
Brian: (in fact, Brian will probably fight until he's dead, or they are, or they withdraw) 
Brian: (even though it'll be completely ineffectual.) 
DanteE: (OK... I think I'm damn near out of all MPs, so I'll grab 4 DPs and do a Asp 4 Pen 2 throw.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, I'm assuming the spearthrow is Aspect 2 Pen 0, unless told otherwise.) 
Brian: (and I'll ask that if he survive, that I can redistribute my Bonds some) 
Random_Nerd: (ah, okay.) 
DanteE: (Theresa... you go after, and make it grow. :) 
Theresa: (So that the roots tear his skull apart or what? :) ) 
DanteE: (Your choice) 
Theresa: (Okay. If he's dead, I won't need penetration. How many DP do we have, anyway?) 
Random_Nerd: (Beats me. Didn't Etheric track those?) 
Theresa: (Go for it, Dante. If it doesn't finish him off, I'll use some more. We have, I believe more than 12. RN - yep.) 
Snow: (This will get me to 0 AMPs left, btw. In case it matters.) 
DanteE: "GrrrrAAAARGH!" (fling!) 
* Snow grunts as she bites down. 
Random_Nerd: Snow swallows the head of the horseman. 
Brian: (any Crane in sight?) 
Brian: (or is it Crayne? I can never remember) 
Random_Nerd: (Crane, I think.) 
Theresa: Once the spear connects with Silver, Theresa will pour all of her heart (and 4 DP for a level...hmm..with four that's a 7 miracle. Since I'll be spending the DP for the power of 2 anyhow...) 
* Snow sighs and slumps to the ground. 
Theresa: into Creating roots that penetrate him and tear him limb from limb from limb... 
Random_Nerd: The spear hits the Exrcrucian shard, and sprouts roots. 
Random_Nerd: (He's down to 1 surface wound, and it's his miracle.) 
Random_Nerd: "I think... I think that I have just enough power to kill two of you, before you kill me." 
DanteE: (Brian hasn't gone...) 
Random_Nerd: "But you seem as ill-used here as I am. And my comrade is dead." 
Theresa: (He made a shiny 4, I thought.) 
Random_Nerd: (He did.) 
Brian: (Brian tossed a L1 + 2Pen at the guy. No way that's actually going to /hurt/ him) 
Random_Nerd: The Excrucian braces himself, and you can almost see the miraculous power rearranging itself around his body as he makes a great leap southward, carrying him perhaps a hundred yards. 
Random_Nerd: (He is /so/ last-trumping here.) 
* Brian yells after him "Coward. I'll get you back for harming Snow and Theresa, some day..." (L1 Aspect, for 2AMPs) 
Brian: (Brian's an idiot, it seems) 
Random_Nerd: (You do know that he could have killed you, just then, right?) 
Brian: (yes) 
Snow: (May I do a Miracle?) 
Theresa: "I just...want to help Snow's Estate...and then...go home." 
Brian: (Like I said, Brian's an idiot, it seems. Wait, do I have any more penalties for being out of Serious wounds? If so, I wouldn't be able to do the Aspect yelling) 
Random_Nerd: (Sure, Snow, but it'll be the round after he jumped, as your miracle that round was to eat the other one's head.) 
Snow: (Of course.) 
Random_Nerd: (Eh, it's dramatic, you can do it.) 
Brian: (... and down to 1 SMP left ...) 
Theresa: (Dante must feel left out from not being on Brian's Vengence list...) 
* Snow will NOW attempt to create caprice in the ground beneath where the Silver one landed, finding faults, air spaces, unstable rocks, and sending them wherever they most feel like moving. 
Brian: (Dante hasn't actually /hurt/ Theresa, or Snow, at least, not that I can remember) 
DanteE: (May have hurt their feelings at some point... :) 
* Snow will "feel" as deep in the ground as she can, growling as she does so. 
Theresa: (I meant having people be on the list for hurting Dante.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. He landed on pretty solid ground, and such a lesser creation would make it weaker, but wouldn't swallow him whole, since it hasn't been weakened by the destruction of roots.) 
Random_Nerd: (Snow would know this.) 
Random_Nerd: (Do you still do it?) 
Snow: (Hm. *checks points*) 
Brian: (T: ah) 
DanteE: (what about a Greater Creation?) 
Random_Nerd: (That'd do it.) 
Snow: (That's what I'm thinking. She has Domain 4. 2 DMPs?) 
DanteE: (+2 for Pen 2) 
Random_Nerd: (And remember the penalty from wounds.) 
Snow: (Drat. That's -2 by now? Or more?) 
DanteE: (DId you use any DMPs?) 
Random_Nerd: (-2.) 
Theresa: (So a total of 6 DMPs?) 
Random_Nerd: (Snow is down to one surface wound.) 
Random_Nerd: (If a squirrel coughs on her, she's in trouble.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, a Greater Creation is Domain 7.) 
Snow: (May I use one Dynasty point?) 
Brian: (go ahead) 
Random_Nerd: (Doing one now, with 2 pen, would take Snow eight DMPs. Also, she would die.) 
Theresa: (Hmm...I think you may need more than that, but it's okay with me. :) ) 
Brian: (don't die) 
Brian: (dying is bad) 
Random_Nerd: (That'd be a Word of Command. Those suckers take a Deadly Would level even if you're perfectly fine.) 
* Snow Last Trumps 4 of her SMPs into 1 DMP, and uses 1 Dynasty point, AND her 2 leftover DMPs...to make the ground consume him. 
DanteE: (Could risk just using 1 pen) 
Random_Nerd: (So, doing it as just a Lesser Creation?) 
Snow: (She already has 4 Domain Points. Wouldn't this all make it a Greater?) 
Random_Nerd: (A Greater Miracle, at Pen 2 is a Miracle Level 9.) 
Random_Nerd: (With the extra penalty for wounds, that raises it to eleven.) 
Random_Nerd: (She has Domain 4.) 
Snow: (Sorry! She has 4 Domain. Plus 1 from Last Trump, plus 2 from her existing DMPs, plus 1 Dynasty point...yeah. Can I use 2 Dynasty points?) 
DanteE: (I think we'll have to let him go) 
Random_Nerd: (Because of the Powers of Two rule, she can only do that with a Word of Command.) 
Random_Nerd: (That would, I'm really not kidding, kill your character right now.) 
Snow: (I'm sorry. I'll leave it then.) 
Random_Nerd: (You can do it... but I don't advise it.) 
Theresa: (With that thought, I vote we let him go. I don't want Snow to die and I can stand him getting away since Snow ate the other one and we killed one.) 
Snow: (*nodnod*) 
Brian: (I've already caused him to Recur at some point in the future :-P) 
Brian: (we'll have a chance to kill him eventually) 
DanteE: (Then again, he is down to Surface, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (As is Snow.) 
Snow: (Which is why I was trying, but he's right.) 
Random_Nerd: (And Brian. Both are down to one surface wound each.) 
Theresa: (We've come out ahead...none of us has died yet but two of them have.) 
Random_Nerd: (This is the exact worst possible time ever for a Word of Command.) 
Random_Nerd: (I've calculated that with SCIENCE!) 
Snow: (Unless Snow can do a Lesser Creation of Whimsy in the animals around her, and send them attacking him.) 
Snow: (But that wouldn't be any Pen.) 
Theresa: (Might want to save that to fix your Estate.) 
DanteE: (Hm... 
Brian: (agree) 
Random_Nerd: (He's still Aspect 2. Animals probably wouldn't be enough.) 
Snow: (Fair enough. I give. Uncle. ;) ) 
DanteE: (Is the grey still around?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
DanteE: (Would swatting him make the grey go away?) 
Snow: (That's what I was thinking.) 
Random_Nerd: (I don't believe it would.) 
Random_Nerd: (Let me check.) 
Brian: (I vote for session ending time) 
DanteE: (Well, quick vote: try something, or let him get away?) 
Brian: (let him get away) 
Snow: (I'm out of ideas...?) 
Brian: (it'll be good for us to have a recurring type villain. Even if he only comes back to be killed by us.) 
DanteE: "He'll be back." 
Theresa: (Get away.) 
Random_Nerd: (Thats exactly what recurring villians are for!) 
DanteE: "... We should be ready for it." 
* Snow sighs unhappily, and curls up in a ball in human form. 
* Theresa slumps to the ground. *holding at her chest wound, which is probably bleeding again. She looks around them... "Those people..we can't even bring them back..." 
Random_Nerd: _________STOP_______________________ 
*** Brian is now known as Lazarus. 
*** Snow is now known as Sara. 
Theresa: *HUG* 
Random_Nerd: Thoughts? 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Sara: Later Laz! 
Lazarus: combat! 
Random_Nerd: That was... that was interesting. 
Lazarus: g'night guys. 
Knockwood: g'night Laz 
Theresa: Night Laz 
Sara: Interesting good or interesting bad? 
Knockwood: so... can we throw down or what? 
Random_Nerd: Good, I think. 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
Lazarus: I'm kinda glad to be able to Cascade of Cutting Terror :-P 
BethE: Chinese curse interesting. :) 
Random_Nerd: That you guys and they were so perfectly matched. 
BethE: So, the four of us are a match for two or so Warmains... 
Sara: I was kind of disappointed about that, actually. 4 on 2, you think we'd bea ble to beat them easy. 
Random_Nerd: Perhaps a slight edge on you guys' part because of Dante's Sancrosanct, but pretty close. 
Knockwood: well, if we'd unleashed some Words of Command they'd be worse off. :) 
Random_Nerd: Warmains are the warriors of the Excrucians. 
Random_Nerd: They're all at least as combat-focused as Dante is. 
BethE: If we had unleashed some WoC, we'd be stuck healing for months. 
Knockwood: I thought about it... a WoC would be a GC Blades +2 pen for me. 
Random_Nerd: These were built on the same number of points as you guys, but they were built almost entirely to fight. 
Knockwood: That would HURT, damn it. 
Random_Nerd: Indeed. 
*** Lazarus has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Leaving.). 
Random_Nerd: Words of Command are the Big Mojo of the setting. 
Knockwood: Or, a L10 Courage miracle.... 
Knockwood: Which I thought about. 
Sara: I'm very disappointed that Snow seems so...useless. Her 3 Realm is useless, and so I'm stuck eating things. And now I can't even do that. 
BethE: If we had done WoC, Brian and Snow would be dead and Theresa would be in danger of death by squirrel-cough and Dante would be running the place. 
Random_Nerd: Useless? 
BethE: You _ate_ a guy! 
Random_Nerd: The way I see it, if Snow wasn't here, the Shards would have won. 
BethE: And you did the horse! 
Sara: Lucky bite. I had to eat the guy. 
Knockwood: It's useless on Earth, by definition. You can, however, kick considerable butt in Amyra. 
Sara: ;) 
BethE: Err, let me rephrase that... 
* Sara laughs. 
Random_Nerd: If nothing else, you killed the one, which made it possible for the other to retreat without breaking his Code. 
Sara: We do fight and stuff in Amyra, right? Eventually? *fret* 
Knockwood: You think we should have taken them up on their offer? 
BethE: More than in Chancel. 
Knockwood: (Don't give him ideas! Rule Zero! :) 
BethE: Sorry, brain tired. Meant more than out of Chancel. 
Sara: Thank goodness. 
Knockwood: Plus... we get +3 Chancel POints, right? 
Sara: Heh. Unless I got 7 Domain. In which case I could destroy entire planets with a sniff. 
Random_Nerd: For Snow's Realm, you mean? 
Knockwood: yep 
Random_Nerd: Yep. 
* Sara nods. 
Random_Nerd: Did you guys have fun? 
BethE: I don't think that we could have taken them up on it. We wouldn't have healed up that much and they know what's going on more than we do. 
Sara: I did! 
BethE: (Hmm..Can we get our Borderguard?) 
Sara: That's what I was afraid of. They'd go away and get the drop on us. 
Sara: (Can Snow define what the Borderguard looks like?) 
BethE: I had fun. I'm a bit stunned at the moment and Theresa's hurt more now than from the bunny, but I had fun. 
Random_Nerd: (She can!) 
Sara: A bad-thing eating glacier please. 
Knockwood: I doubt Dante had fun, but I liked it. :) 
Sara: Snow didn't have much fun. I had tons of fun showing off her mad eating skizzles. 
Knockwood: Of course, now we have a choice... 
Random_Nerd: This is the most fightyness we've had so far, definitely. 
Knockwood: should we gear our characters up for war? 
Random_Nerd: And I'm glad to see that Nobilis works well for drag-down miracle fights to the death. 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and by the way, now you guys have dealt with three of the four kinds of Excrucian. Which do you like best, and why? 
BethE: I think we're at a point where we go talk to our Imperator. 
Knockwood: talk to, or yell at? 
BethE: (We may be working for the fourth type...) 
Sara: I liked the thing with the bees...that was bad ass. 
Knockwood: (Oh... we should do 'traces' on silver's miracles so we can be prepped for his return) 
Knockwood: BTW, what's the word on Etheric? 
Sara: (I'm still pissed that he killed my whimsy!) 
Random_Nerd: Probably coming back soon. 
Knockwood: (Make more. :) 
BethE: That was probably the point of them killing your whimsy. And because they're bastards. 
Sara: (Still, he killed that one girl's whims. That's not good.) 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and incidentially, you found out the answer to the enigmatic question of a few sessions back. 
BethE: It's easier to think of Excrucians as more powerful Nelsons... 
Knockwood: he left because he was burnt out on RPGs, right? 
Random_Nerd: More of a time issue. 
Random_Nerd: And wanting to avoid getting to the burnout stage. 
Knockwood: what question? 
Random_Nerd: Why did Kudzu know that Snow's estate was going to be attacked before it happened? 
Sara: Oh yeah, even I got that, and I'm slow about stuff like that. :) Kudzu sent 'em. 
Sara: And it's past midnight here. I should go to bed. *yawn* 
Knockwood: oyasumi-nasai. And watch for indigestion. :) 
Sara: BTW, in case it matters, John Fiala, who lives in the Mountain time zone, is making a tentative return to online RPGs-ville. 
BethE: This was a draining session. :) 
BethE: *perks* oooo... 
* Sara pats her belly! 
Knockwood: who? 
BethE: (I miss the oldGreg...) 
Sara: Nothing for sure, but I think he'd do well here. A thought. *shrug* 
BethE: He's from Dan Davenport's Buffy game. 
Sara: And Armageddon. In which he rocked. 
BethE: He was having time issues as well. 
* Sara poofs. Thanks all! 
Random_Nerd: Before you go, was there anything about the session you guys particularly disliked? 
Sara: Oh! 
BethE: I felt helpless but I figured that was part of the situation. 
Sara: Well, one thing I liked was the time limit on actions. Makes things move faster. 
Knockwood: we really need to get the rules down 
Sara: Meant to mention that at the time. 
Knockwood: reread the miracle and combat chapters... 
Knockwood: we were bumbling around like FEMA workers. 
Sara: Also--and this is a personal thing--I don't think that we should be allowed to move character points around after going through a session. Add to them, with character points, whatever. But not just change them depending on what we want. 
* Sara hehs at Knock. 
Knockwood: well, that goes with new characters & new game 
Random_Nerd: Well, the thing I've done is that, since it's tricky to build characters, you can change things after your first storyline with the character, unless it requires a retcon. 
Sara: Oh, new characters is one thing. :) 
Random_Nerd: But from then on it's settled. 
Knockwood: I mean, don't tell me you wouldn't have traded in some Realm for Aspect, Snow. :)

Session 61

2007-10-04T03:02:17Z

BethDragon:

lazarus: catch me up on what I missed? 
BethE: Well, we took the helicopter to Mexico...and we investigated. 
Sara: Snow may have chased down small children. 
BethE: And turned into a polar bear. 
Sara: There was that. 
lazarus: snow is the best character ever. I commend you on your creation 
* Sara blushes. 
Sara: Oh! She can't create ice, as we'd planned. RN had another horrible, horrible, WONDERFUL idea for Snow's other gift 
BethE: And we talked to some mortals. But the whole polar bear thing brought out the local priest. And men with shotguns. 
BethE: What is this idea and why can I feel RN smiling from across the room? 
* Sara tries Adorable on Beth? 
Random_Nerd: It was more Sara's idea. I just put mechanics on it. 
lazarus: aww... adorable girl :) *melts* 
BethE: That doesn't work on me, missy! I spent points to be invunerable. Cute on the other hand, no stopping Cute. 
Sara: Heh. 
lazarus: (don't worry, this is just me being apparently quite loopy today. Not sure why) 
BethE: (Yeah and see, Snow has Cute as a power. Where is the justice in the universe? <g>) 
Random_Nerd: (Not Cute. Adorable. There's a difference.) 
* Sara grins adorably. 
Sara: S'a lot like cute though. 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, her Gift means that when the does the Sad Innocent Eyes on someone, it /actually works/.) 
BethE: (Oh yes, sorry. I typoed.) 
lazarus: ... 
lazarus: Snow can do Sad Puppy Eyes?! 
lazarus: squee ^_^ 
Sara: Yup! 
BethE: Litter-ally, yes... 
*** Mode change "+ooo Sara BethE Random_Nerd" for channel #nobilis by lazarus. 
BethE: (Man, that was bad even for me...) 
Sara: People're like, "ZOMG SO KEEYOOOTE!" Like. Yeah. 
lazarus: Beth, you get a *bop* for that ... 
lazarus: ... 
lazarus: I can't call it a pun. 
lazarus: that would be insulting puns. 
BethE: *grin* Dan Davenport would be proud. 
* Sara laughs. 
BethE: Can Snow's Adorable affect groups? I forget. And what's the new Gift? 
Sara: I'll keep the new gift secret, because it's hilarious. But as for groups, I don't know. Let me check. 
Sara: Local Things Only. Doesn't say it can't affect more guys. 
lazarus: Local would be in your area 
Random_Nerd: Local Things Only can affect multiple people. 
BethE: So it would be more than one person. 
Sara: Yup. 
BethE: So see, Theresa can be Irrestistable to one person, while Snow can just Adorable a whole town, if they could see her. 
Sara: Not sure how "local" that would be, but possibly, yes. 
BethE: Could be a small town. At least a village. 
Sara: I'm not sure what kind of gift it is, though. God forbid it got warped by the cult. 
BethE: *snort* 
lazarus: I interpret "local" as the absence of infinity. That is, it's not affecting a countable area of creation. 
lazarus: but I'm not RN. :-P 
Sara: Should we just start, since Laz'll have to leave early? 
Random_Nerd: I think I'll interpret it as "whatever Laz doesn't want it to mean in this particular situation." 
Sara: Heh. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. You guys didn't even tell him about the chupacabra? 
Sara: Oh yeah. Some chupacabra's taking away, then warping and releasing, people's capriciousness. 
BethE: Oh, yes. Chupacabra. And a Warmain, but yes, a chupacabra that I don't think we've seen yet. 
Sara: Once they're released, they look like bird-like things. 
BethE: And while the angry mob was confronting us, a Warmain reached through a wall and ripped the ribcage off of the local priest. Well, mostly off. 
Sara: I think they'd just killed the Warmain, and Theresa had taken a Deadly Wound? 
Sara: They weren't angry any more! 
Sara: Snow pinged Adorable. 
BethE: True, they had calmed down. Then the chest ripping. 
Sara: Yes. 
Sara: I think that was it...? 
BethE: And yeah, we all chased the Warmain, there was fighting and Theresa got the Warmain's arm through her chest. Deadly Wound. But the Warmain was killed. Odds are, though, he had friends. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. 
BethE: I'm ready. Although I'm not quite sure how Theresa is... How painful _is_ a Deadly Wound? This is her second one... 
*** Knockwood has joined #nobilis. 
Sara: Yay! 
BethE: Hi Knock! *HUG* 
Sara: Hey Knock! 
Random_Nerd: A deadly wound is... hmm. Comparison. 
Knockwood: sorry I'm late, got held up at work... 
lazarus: and have I been tagging along for this, or am I elsewhere? 
Sara: Can Brian "arrive"? 
Random_Nerd: You're presumably there, you'll just disengage from the Horses. 
BethE: Laz - we weren't really sure...we knew you came along in the helicopter, but it was hard to figure out what you would have done through the rest of it, unless you were guarding the heli or trying a different part of town... 
Knockwood: oh, we're all together. Me, Beth, Sara, you, Carrie, Lesson, a crate of tacnukes... 
Random_Nerd: And a deadly wound, in terms of pain, is equivilent to how being shot with machine guns would feel for a regular person. 
Sara: ...oh. 
Random_Nerd: Or set on fire for a while. 
* Sara fidgets. Wanna do something about it! 
*** Mode change "+o Knockwood" for channel #nobilis by Sara. 
Random_Nerd: I mean, Theresa can still function. She's a Noble, and a high-Aspect one. 
Random_Nerd: But it hurts. 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. It hurts about half as much as the Unmastered Pain gift did. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
Brian: (just to warn y'all, I've just taken my sleep pill, and will get progressively loopier until I have to head off to bed) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, it's Nobilis.) 
Brian: (I'll try to keep it under control :-P) 
Random_Nerd: Everyone ready? 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
Theresa: Yep! 
DanteE: probably not, but go. :) 
Random_Nerd: _________________START_________________ 
Theresa: "Urg...ruined my shirt, the reality-destroying bastard." *wince* 
Random_Nerd: The people in the vicinity poke their heads through the doorway, and look at the sliced-up corpse. 
Theresa: "Oh, crud...witnesses. Snow, can you tell them that everything's okay? With your specialness?" 
* Snow looks up at Theresa, worried. "Okaaay..." 
Random_Nerd: They conver inside. 
* Snow goes to the largest group of people. 
* Snow makes a point of being in coyote form, since she believes it to be her cutest form. 
Snow: "That was a bad thing. We killed it. You guys wanted us to kill the bad thing, right?" *adorable!* 
DanteE: what was that last hard thing I hit? 
Random_Nerd: They back up a bit. 
Theresa: (*facepalm*) 
Theresa: "Snow...people are scared of talking coyotes..." 
Snow: (Would they care, with Adorable?) 
DanteE: "Remind me to start with the not-driving-people-nuts lessons once we get back..." 
Random_Nerd: (Well, it's enough that they aren't shooting you...) 
Random_Nerd: (But a cute talking coyote is still a talking coyote.) 
* Brian turns the corner "um... I missed something, didn't I?" 
* Snow blinks, unsure as to why nobody is fawning over her. 
Snow: "What aren't they scared of, Theresa?" she calls. 
Theresa: *thinks* "Kittens." 
DanteE: "A human!" 
Random_Nerd: (And also... they're a southern North American farming community. Coyotes... probably aren't their favorite animal.) 
* Snow flicks into the form of a kitten...then into human. 
Theresa: *to Dante* "I think that is a lesson that Snow will find hard to understand, hard to follow and possibly an insult to her Estate." 
* Snow repeats what she said earlier, flashing Adorable. 
Random_Nerd: The people back up a bit more. 
* Snow gives them a trying-too-hard smile. 
* DanteE looks for the hard thing th his last sword blow... 
Theresa: "Sorry, brain not working very well. Blood going south...ish." *pressure* *uses other hand to wave at Brian* 
DanteE: *he hit with 
* Snow shrugs and goes back to the others. 
Random_Nerd: (Ah, in the thing's chest?) 
DanteE: (yep) 
Snow: (Presumably Snow still hurts like before, despite the Warmain?) 
Random_Nerd: It's vaguely blobby, like a cross between a heart and a jellyfish, and has a stiffness midway between bone and cartiledge. 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Was Snow hurt?) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, the domain thing.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, that's unchanged.) 
Snow: (Yeah--thanks!) 
* DanteE hands it to Theresa. "Can you find out what this is while I go and fix that (the group Snow's with)?" 
* Snow looks sad. 
Snow: "I still hurt." 
Snow: "Like Theresa, but only inside." 
Brian: "aw, poor snow" *hugs Snow* 
Theresa: *takes the hardthing* "Dammit, Dante, I'm a Noble, not a Doctor!" 
Theresa: *to Snow* "It'll get better, Snow. We just have to figure out how they're hurting your estate. Brian knows. He had to deal with something like this." 
DanteE: "I ... know .... Bones. Butwe ....... stillneedtofigureitout." 
Random_Nerd: The farmers, priest, etcetera look at Snow with a "I'm... going to ignore you so I don't have to think too much about this" expression, and step out. 
* Snow is hugged by Brian, and takes the opportunity to hug him back. 
* DanteE heads over to the group... 
* Theresa examines the thingy. Aspect braininess and such? Domain divs would not be helpful. 
DanteE: "It's all right...." (Ghost-LC-Courage on the lot) 
* Snow goes back into the house where the captured Caprice is/was. Is it still there? 
Random_Nerd: It appears to be an internal organ of some sort. Probably something that synthesizes something. 
Random_Nerd: The farmer with the shotgun shoots the corpse in the face with both barrels. 
DanteE: "You're cleaning that up." 
* DanteE checks out the priest... 
* Snow leaps straight up into the air at the shotgun blasts and sprints into the house, terrified. 
Snow: RH: "Ididn'tdoit!" 
* Brian will follow Snow 
Random_Nerd: (In what respect, Dante?) 
Brian: "Ssh, Snow. They're just scared. Humans have a funny way about them sometimes" 
Random_Nerd: (Let's see, did Dante heal him yet?) 
* Snow breathes quickly. 
DanteE: (as in, see how he's dealing with haviung his rib cage extracted by an it-from-hell) 
* Theresa squeezes the thingy. *looks into the mythic view for the thingy's spirit* 
Random_Nerd: He looks very faint, but not quite unconscious. 
Random_Nerd: The thingy's spirit is bulbous, squat, and appears to be in a coma. 
DanteE: "Father. I know this is outside of your experience, but for now you'll have to trust us... 
* Theresa pokes at the spirit. "Talk to me. What are you?" 
* DanteE heals the priest when no one's looking. 
* Snow approaches the mangled Caprice that is still in the house. 
DanteE: "We're here to deal with what's happening here. 
Snow: "Brian? This thing's me, right? Only changed?" 
DanteE: "Let's just say we're ... uniquely qualified to do so." 
DanteE: "Feeling better?" 
Brian: (mangled Caprice?) 
Random_Nerd: The farmer without a shotgun kicks the dead Shard in the chest. 
Random_Nerd: (A whim, given material form. She caught it earlier.) 
Brian: (whazzit look like?) 
Snow: (A bird-bug, IIRC?) 
Theresa: *to the farmer* "I would be careful about doing that. You never know what might bring such a monster...back." 
Theresa: *to farmer* "This town, other towns, they might be infested with other things like this..." 
Random_Nerd: (Correct. A shiny reddish bugbird.) 
* Snow swats it with her paw. 
Brian: "Um. Maybe. I don't know what this is, but if it feels Capricious to you, then it's probably under your command" 
Random_Nerd: Farmer #1: "That's why we aim to kick it a lot, chop it to bits, set it on fire, and bury it under consecrated ground." 
* Snow looks pensive. 
Brian: "Does it feel wrong?" 
Random_Nerd: The priest still looks faint, and as if he's not quite sure what to think. 
Random_Nerd: He has a glazed look in his eyes. 
DanteE: (/me gives him a doughnut. :) 
Snow: "Yeah. Super wrong, like the other people who lost the parts of them that is me. But... 
DanteE: "Rest now. We'll deal with this." 
Brian: "Can you make it right?" 
* Theresa actually smiles. "You might have trouble cutting it to bits, but setting it on fire sounds good to me. I would be careful about the consecrated ground. This thing could move through it like a ghost. Have there been any other strangers in the area besides us?" 
Snow: "One time, all the crows in the village died, super fast. One crow came in, and he talked to the other crows, and they all got sick. Chief said it was a disease. 
Theresa: (No answer from the coma-bodypart?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, it's in a coma. What do you expect?) 
Random_Nerd: (The Saint Crispin's Day Speech?) 
Snow: "Can I make this thing better, and make it talk to the other changed-me's, and it'll make them better? An opposite disease?" 
DanteE: (In Nobilis, that's a distinct possibility.) 
* Snow flicks into human form, and appears to be struggling with putting her idea into words. 
Theresa: (Hmm...actually, that would be rather impressive. Although not that suprising, given it was in a Warmain.) 
DanteE: (Who all's still in the house?) 
Snow: (I am, as is Brian...?) 
DanteE: (I mean NPCs) 
Random_Nerd: (There's the guy who lives there, his daughter, and his wife.) 
* Theresa prays to Dante. "Oh illustrious brother, who causes papercuts in others who offend him...offhand, I think this is some kinda heart or food synthesizer thingy. The locals want to burn the corpse. Sorry, kick a lot, cut into pieces, burn and bury in holy ground the corpse. Sound good?" 
Random_Nerd: (And the priest is sort of in the doorway.) 
Theresa: (Prays silently, btw.) 
Random_Nerd: (Propping himself up, at the moment._ 
Snow: (As a Snow-translation, she wants to Change the whim back to normal and let it loose. But the whim would then fix the other whims, by sheer proximity.) 
DanteE: to Theresa: "I'd go straight to the burning, and put the ashes in an urn, which we'll take." 
Snow: (Is that even possible?) 
Brian: (With a Change, anything is possible!) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Changing the whim to give it the ability to change other whims.) 
Snow: (Yes.) 
DanteE: (Oh... checking out the area with the Sight. Is it still dark?) 
Snow: (She'll add some other stuff to it, but that's the crux.) 
Random_Nerd: (She could do it, but it might not do a perfect job of locating all the other whims.) 
Random_Nerd: (It is still dark.) 
DanteE: (We'll help! :) 
Snow: RH: "Can you guys bring all the other changed-me things here?" 
Theresa: *to farmer* "Actually, I feel just like torching the *Spanish for s.o.b.* and watching him burn. Sound good to you?" 
Snow: RH: "I have...an idea." 
Theresa: (*makes sign against Nel..oh, wait, wrong game.*) 
Snow: (*grin*) 
DanteE: (Theresa: pendejo. :) 
Random_Nerd: (The Message Board relays her message to those without RH.) 
Theresa: *pryas to Snow* "Oh Capriciousness - sure, just as soon as myself and the locals burn our enemy into tiny little bits of whatever passes for carbon in an Excrucian Shard." 
Snow: RH: "Okay! I'm gonna do stuff now!" 
* Snow flicks back into coyote form and begins to snuffle at the wounded whim. 
DanteE: (Actually, would Shards start as Human?) 
Random_Nerd: (Nope.) 
DanteE: "Ah, Snow? Lesson one is, be careful about changing forms in front of mundanes?" 
Random_Nerd: (Shards aren't like Nobles in that respect. They don't start out as something else and then become Shards.) 
* Snow barks, but it's no bark like the locals would have heard before. It makes them feel funny, and reminds them of wild paths they've followed in their younger days. 
Random_Nerd: One of the farmers goes off in search of Tools Of Setting Stuff On Fire. 
DanteE: RH: "Stay alert, guys, the area's still dark to The Sight" 
* Snow pushes Caprice into the whim, making it more than it was before. What was once a whim is now a full-blown whimsy. When--or if--it goes back to the daughter, she will be quite the handful as a human being. 
* Theresa smiles at the remaining farmers. Would any of you or your wives have a shirt that could fit me?" 
Theresa: *prayer* "This guy probably had friends. They probably know that their buddy died" *squishes thingy in her hands a bit* "and are probably on their way toward us. Or fleeing, but when have we been so lucky?" 
* Snow also Changes the whim so that it will infect the other changed whims, making them normal again, as well as desperate to go back to their "owners" so that they can pursue their delights. 
Random_Nerd: The guy who lives here looks at Theresa, carefully ignoring the gaping chest wound, and then says "I... suppose. Be right back." 
Random_Nerd: (But in spanish, of course.) 
* DanteE helps the priest to a couch, if he's not there already... 
Theresa: "Gracias, senor" 
Theresa: (Yeah, yeah, I'll 'ignore _your_ gaping 'chest wound'...) 
* DanteE does a Div-Courage of the area, to see if anyone suddenly got real scared... 
Random_Nerd: (Just now?) 
DanteE: (ayep. 
Random_Nerd: (Nobody had a sudden big scare other than the stuff with the shard and the stuff with Snow. But people are very nervous and paranoid at the moment.) 
DanteE: (Trying an early-warning system for incoming Exs) 
* Snow looks perplexed still. 
Snow: "Brian? The other little me's aren't so smart. I can change them back, and I can make them go back to their people, but they might not be smart enough to find their way back in the first place." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. You can tell from the divination that most of the people, instead of doing their usual work, have stayed in their homes and kept their children in with them as well, and that a fair number have armed themselves.) 
Brian: "Hm." 
Snow: "Maybe...can you make two of these things? Once I finish Changing it?" 
Brian: "That might work" 
* Snow looks thoughtful. 
DanteE: "Or we can just corral these things and bring them here. 
Random_Nerd: The farmer returns with some matches and kerosene. 
Brian: (sorry guys, I'm almost out.) 
Snow: "That's a good idea, Dante!" 
Random_Nerd: He pours the latter on the dead Shard. 
DanteE: "Careful..." 
Brian: (Brian will help Snow, and basically continue to be protective of her.) 
Brian: (g'night) 
Snow: (G'night!) 
DanteE: (oyasumi) 
Theresa: (Night! *HUG*) 
*** Brian has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Leaving.). 
* Snow barks again, sealing her Change. 
* Theresa makes sure that she has stepped back enough from the corpse. No need to add 'on fire' to her list of problems. 
Random_Nerd: The reddish whimsy flies off. 
Random_Nerd: The guy tosses a lit match at the corpse, and then backs off. 
Snow: RH: "We should still find the changed me's, to make sure they get back to where they should be. But my one'll fix them, anyway." 
* Snow flings herself on Dante, in human form again. She smiles up at him, as if he's the best thing in the world to her. 
DanteE: "Snow, you're the one who can tell us where they are." 
Snow: "I won't change any more, Dante." 
DanteE: "Don't be so sure..." 
* Theresa watches the *fwhoomp*. 
Snow: "Well...if they can't find their people, they'll come back to me in a day. So...maybe we should wait, and find out what changed them funny in the first place?" 
* Snow looks sheepish. "I thought it was a good idea. A human people idea. They're hard." 
DanteE: "Let's do this... Brian, you and Theresa go that way, while Snow and I will go that way, and we'll herd the Caprices back here.": 
* Theresa looks for any change in the heart-thingy? 
* Snow tugs on Dante's sleeve. 
DanteE: "Snow, keep everybody apprised via the Realm's Heart." 
Snow: "They'll come to me, if they can't find their people. In a day. We don't have to find them." 
Snow: "I mean, we might, but we should maybe find the big bad thing first?" 
* Snow looks a little upset, as if she's worried she may have done things wrong. 
Random_Nerd: (It's not changing any.) 
DanteE: "I'm guessing the big bad and the caprices will be near each other" 
* Theresa watches the sucker burn, as she's not near the others to hear the plans. 
DanteE: "Not to mention, you can tell us if a new one appears." 
Snow: (Snow did a Greater Div regarding her caprices earlier. How far abroad were they?) 
Snow: (Were they spread, rather?) 
Random_Nerd: (They're all over.) 
Random_Nerd: (Spread around in about a ten-mile radius.) 
Snow: "They're all over, though." 
* Snow suddenly releases Dante, and begins to pace. 
DanteE: "Can you tell of anywhere where the capriciousness is particularly suppressed?" 
Snow: "I don't like this. It hurts, and it won't go away, and I tried to fix it, but it won't stay fixed, and I don't know what to do!" 
Snow: (I assume not, RN?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm.) 
DanteE: "um... where is it really bad?" 
Random_Nerd: (Let me think.) 
DanteE: (Suddenly dawned on me that coyotes aren't big on vocabulary. :) 
Random_Nerd: (It varies in degree of density of changed caprices.) 
Random_Nerd: (There's no single hotspot, but there're areas where it's close to normal, and areas where they're all over.) 
Snow: (Yeah, s'hard to explain things sometimes. I know what I'm talking about, but...) 
Snow: (Does this give them a direction to head, RN?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, you could pick the nearest area of heavy density.) 
Snow: (How many of these areas are there/) 
Theresa: *burn baby burn* 
Random_Nerd: (It's tough to tell, because they aren't discete distinctions, but about three to five. The area you're standing in now probably qualifies.) 
Snow: (Wait...does Snow have any command over them?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not really, except through what she can do with miracles.) 
Snow: (Can she miracle them to want to come to her?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm...) 
Snow: (Creation of Caprice?) 
DanteE: (She can probably miracle them here... house rule. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm, yeah, you could probably move them here...) 
Random_Nerd: (One moment, please.) 
Snow: (DMP expenditure?) 
Random_Nerd: (Guys, could we call the game finished, soon? I'm just feeling quite under the weather.) 
Snow: (Always!) 
DanteE: (Cold?) 
Theresa: (Sure, love.) 
Snow: (We can end it here, even, as they work on a plan for what to do next.) 
DanteE: (Well, we could just say Snow miracles the caprices here... 
Theresa: (That's a good idea. Sorry that I haven't been very productive tonight.) 
Random_Nerd: (Sorry. Either I'm coming down with a flu, or it's a bad cold that makes me feel sick to my stomach.) 
Random_Nerd: (Either way, bleh.) 
DanteE: (...except that RN triggered our Area Effect Danger Sense with that 'One moment'. :) 
Snow: (Don't be silly. Get offline, go feel better.) 
Snow: (Though he's right, I was worried. ;)) 
Theresa: (*laugh* He didn't mean to trigger it.)

Session 60.5

2007-10-04T02:59:31Z

BethDragon:

* Sara looks sheepish. 
Sara: I'm not very good at hurting things. I still need to work on putting those extra two (or three?) points into something offensive. 
BethE: *raspberry* We don't know all that Snow can do, yet. Except scare people with 'omgwtfpolarbear'/ 
Sara: Heh. Biggest land mammal I could think of...with claws. 
Random_Nerd: Two points could make an awfully good anti-regular-person offense, or a rather weak anti-Noble one. 
Sara: Hrm. 
Knockwood: I've been thinking of buying something offensive... 
Sara: I felt silly, in that last battle. I'm supposed to be the DPS, and I couldn't do anything. 
Knockwood: Lesser Creation of Howard Stern oughta do it. :) 
Random_Nerd: "Make humans cease to exist" could probably be done with a 2-pointer. But on the other hand, anything for use against noble-scale folks takes Penetration. 
Knockwood: DPS? 
BethE: Damage per second? 
Sara: Damage Per Second. In the WoW sense. 
Sara: Any ideas as to what I could do? 
BethE: I'm just surprised my idea worked. I got a hand through the chest, but it worked. 
Sara: Right now, I'm a big canon with no canon balls. 
Random_Nerd: Well, hmm. 
Random_Nerd: You have Domain at 4, right? 
Sara: Yup. 
BethE: One problem that will probably come up is that these guys probably communicate mentally like we do. Which means they know something happened. 
Random_Nerd: Domain 4, given sufficient ingenuity and a few points of penetration, is a pretty good weapon most of the time. 
Knockwood: being the Power of Blades is a big help... though I'm low on MPs now 
Random_Nerd: Not as good as if you had a 12-point offensive gift, of course, but Domain can do other stuff. 
Sara: Can I just say, "Snow has 2 points of Penetration"? 
Random_Nerd: No. 
Random_Nerd: But you can take those points as MPs, and spend them on penetration. 
Sara: Mm, good point. 
Knockwood: or a kick-butt mortal weapon... could Snow throw some Capriciousness into someone's brainwaves? 
Sara: Pah, Snow can throw Capriciousness into the MOLECULES of someone's brain. 
Sara: Or into their limbs. At different times. 
Sara: Or into their heart. 
Sara: Mortals are easy. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. If you can't think of how to deal with single humans, you aren't trying. 
Sara: It's the nobles and crap that are really hard. 
Sara: (Well, for me, right now.) 
Knockwood: well, do is on a 'grossd' level and she could give someone a grand mal seizure and spook his friends 
Random_Nerd: You know, instead of taking them as a direct offense, you could use them as a hinderance or distraction. 
Random_Nerd: Like, say, a Lesser Creation of Ninjas, or whatever. 
* Sara laughs. 
Knockwood: do it finer and she could have the power of Brainfartage. :) 
Sara: Hee hee...Snow IS a brainfart. 
Sara: Okay. Want to just do this, and I'll try to be creative? 
Random_Nerd: With that, you could make a mundane but competant ninja as a simple miracle. 
Random_Nerd: I'm just wondering if we should skip this week, since we're down two people. What do you guys prefer? 
Knockwood: well... not only that, but we're all under the weather 
Sara: I'm ambivalent. Of the people we have, I think we have three of the most "active". 
Sara: I wouldn't mind playing for a couple hours. I'm a little stir-crazy. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. 
Knockwood: we could have an OOC session, sort out how to spend Sara's points 
Sara: Your call though, boss man. You know how you feel. :) 
Random_Nerd: One thought I had was trying to do a UA oneshot instead. 
BethE: I can go either way. Theresa being a little out of it would make sense, with the blood loss/gaping chest wound. 
Random_Nerd: Would you be interested in that, Knock? 
BethE: I can do OOC or Jailbreak too. 
Knockwood: and maybe our accumulated points as well 
Sara: I'd be up for Jailbreak? 
Sara: I just figure I'll spend the extra points on Penetration, or Creation of Asskicking miracles or something. 
Knockwood: hm... possibly. I've seen Jailbreak, though. 
Random_Nerd: Well, hmm. You could be Uder. He already knows pretty much everything. 
Knockwood: Oh! 
Knockwood: Just thought of something for Snow... 
Sara: mm? 
Random_Nerd: Oh? 
Knockwood: what would it take for her to have the 'blink dog' effect, where her image is disconnected from her actual self? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm... 
Random_Nerd: Depend how flexible it is. 
Sara: Coooooooool! 
Sara: That would so be her. 
Knockwood: wait, that's not blink dog... that's displacer beast 
Sara: What's blink dog? 
Knockwood: but either one would be kewl, really. 
Knockwood: blink dog is instant teleportation 
* Sara snickers. That would also be very Snow. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, so, hmm. 
Random_Nerd: We'd want it to also make her real body invisible, right? 
Knockwood: yeah... could be a LC of Image Location 
Sara: Well, actually, Blink Dog would be just as useful if she can use it in defense. 
Random_Nerd: I'd do it as a lesser destruction of image, with an included lesser creation. 
Random_Nerd: Teleporting's easy. 
Random_Nerd: Line of sight teleportation is, like, one point, if it's not ridiculously long-range. 
Knockwood: actually... if you use your house rule, it's the cost of a LC to Move it. :) 
Sara: Let me think on it some more. After coming up with Adorable, I think I can figure out a way to use those extra MPs. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. 
Knockwood: then again, you got 2 points, get 'em both. :) 
Random_Nerd: Now, the image displacement thing wouldn't actually move your auctoritas around, and even if it could you wouldn't want it to. 
Random_Nerd: So, it'd be less useful against people using the Sight, who know what you're up to. 
Sara: Pretty easy for someone to see where I...yeah. 
Random_Nerd: But it'd be a handy dodge against Nobles using prosaic or mythic sight, who don't know what you're doing. 
Knockwood: ... I'm guessing she couldn't blink and attack a Noble, for similar reasons? 
Random_Nerd: Well, she couldn't blink to inside another Noble's auctoritas without penetration, I don't think. 
Random_Nerd: Although she could blink out of one. 
BethE: Hmm...so it wouldn't work against Theresa's Noble Spot Check 
BethE: ? 
Sara: Two points gets her Durant, doesn't it? Does that affect her getting tired after spending a lot of MPs, like Carrie does? 
Random_Nerd: Durant's a one-pointer. 
Sara: Mea culpa. 
Random_Nerd: Theresa's noble-sense would still find her, yes. 
Random_Nerd: Basically, for one point you can get something that's handy against mundane problems or unprepared people, but not an i-win button that works on someone who knows your tricks. 
BethE: Hmm...I thought that the low Aspect is what made Carrie get tire? 
BethE: tired even 
Knockwood: could she get a point break for Aspect Only When Transformed? 
Sara: I like that idea. :) 
Random_Nerd: Well, you can't make stats cost less points for stuff like that. 
Random_Nerd: That could count as a Restriction, but that'd just give MPs, not make it cost less. 
Knockwood: I'm still thinking in Hero/GURPS terms. :) 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. I like the fact that Nobilis doesn't work that way, myself. 
Sara: I think this is wrong, but there's nothing like, +3 Penetration for Claws and Teeth, only when in Animal form? 
BethE: Hmm...that would be interesting, but not sure...*looks for the White Book?* 
Knockwood: wouldn't do much with Aspect 0, tho 
Random_Nerd: You can't spend points just on penetration. 
Sara: Ah, okay. 
Random_Nerd: When you buy a gift, basically, it has a set miracle level, and set penetration. 
Random_Nerd: So, you could base a Gift of Aspect on a "Aspect 2, Penetration 3" miracle, for example. 
Sara: Costing how many MPs? 
Knockwood: she could buy an Aspect miracle, though, right? 
Knockwood: and you're way ahead of me. :) 
Random_Nerd: Correct. 
Random_Nerd: Well, hmm. You can take gifts cheaper if they cost MPs to use. 
Knockwood: well, wait... an attack is a specific act, and therefore cheap, right? 
Random_Nerd: Depends on the level of it. 
Knockwood: er, 'One Trick' 
Random_Nerd: Yeah, that makes it cheaper. 
Random_Nerd: But not all attacks have to be bought that way. You could, for instance, get something that can be used to restrain someone as well as rip their throat out. 
Knockwood: maybe we're overthinking it... the book has Fire-Breathing for 1 point, and Invisibility for 1 point. :) 
Random_Nerd: Or whatshisname's Claw, that can be used against people, but also to cut open doors or slice open the ocean. 
Random_Nerd: True, but notice that it's a Fire-Breathing without any Penetration. 
Sara: I like claws? 
Random_Nerd: Okay, so, let's see. 
Random_Nerd: The benchmark for an effective offensive gift, I think, is that it can hurt a Durant guy with Spirit 2. 
Knockwood: hm... I think Fire Breathing is 0 CP, so you could add a point of Pen for free. 
Random_Nerd: That wouldn't work on everyone, but it'd work on more than half of Nobles, I think. 
Random_Nerd: True, you could do that. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, let's see. 
* Sara listens? 
Random_Nerd: It takes a miracle of at least level 6 to do a Deadly Wound to a Durant person. 
Sara: Lucky Beth. 
Random_Nerd: Throw on two penetration, for a base level of 8. 
Random_Nerd: Make it accessible with a simple miracle for -1. 
BethE: Huh. The Warmain is a jerk. 
Random_Nerd: One person only, so minus -2. 
Random_Nerd: One single trick, for -3. 
Random_Nerd: And "Kill that guy over there" is probably pretty common, so no penalty for rarity. 
Knockwood: hold it.,. Self Only is -3 
Random_Nerd: Yes... 
Random_Nerd: But an offensive gift that only works against yourself is... 
Random_Nerd: ...suboptimal. 
* Sara snickers. 
Knockwood: tell that to the Power of Masochism. :) 
Random_Nerd: Still, for two points, you can get a gift that will deal a deadly wound to any Noble that isn't either better than Durant, or at least Spirit 3. 
Random_Nerd: But it only works on one target, and it can't be used to do anything other than an attack with deadly force against a person. 
Sara: Hm...that could work with Snow's mindset. 
Sara: She's a coyote, not a, say...polar bear. She'd be inclined to kill things before they could possibly kill her. 
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Knockwood: I'm still inclined to think a hit-avoidance thing would be better. :) 
Knockwood: At least for now. 
Random_Nerd: It'd be cheaper, at least. 
Random_Nerd: Same cost could buy you Durant and teleportation, for instance. 
Sara: It's frustrating, though. Not being able to hit things. They seem to fight things requiring Pentration more often than not. 
Sara: I'll burn through MPs like mad. 
Random_Nerd: If you did get the offensive version, you can either base this on a domain-type miracle, and create fire or katanas or whatever, or you can base it on aspect and bite their throat out or give them /such/ a pinch or whatever. 
Knockwood: well... up until recently she was a coyote. They tend to run from anything larger than a housecat. :) 
Sara: Hence the inclination to either be able to kill something right away, or run away. 
Sara: A coyote wouldn't last long in a dogfight, so to speak. 
Random_Nerd: For comparison... 
Random_Nerd: Sara, you have the sample of play chapter, right? 
Sara: Maybe? I'm sorry, I don't know. I don't think so. 
Knockwood: The one where they fight off a missile-shooting helicopter? 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. That one. 
Random_Nerd: Anyway, it's a pdf you can download freely, and one of the characters has what I'd call a high-end offensive gift. 
Sara: Ah, no. I've been told about it, but not read it. I don't think...sorry. Where is it? 
Random_Nerd: (Link: http://www.guardiansorder.com/pdfs/Nobilis_exampleofplay_sample.pdf)http://www.guardiansorder.com/pdfs/Nobilis_exampleofplay_sample.pdf 
Random_Nerd: Marsiglio's Claw does Aspect 7 clawing, with 5 penetration, and has a certain amount of flexibility. But on the other hand, it costs 8 points. 
Sara: No, I haven't seen this. *reads* I was told about the missile idea, however. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah, it's the basis of the Missile Game. 
Random_Nerd: And remember the house rule, where you can devote future character points to raising the level of an existing Gift. 
* Sara nods and reads. 
Random_Nerd: So, you could start with the Level 6 2 Penetration version for 2 points, and then raise it later if you fight a lot of warmains or something. 
Knockwood: actually... if she gets an offensive gift with no Pen, could she spend MPs to add Pen? 
Random_Nerd: No. 
Random_Nerd: But she could get a gift with Pen built in and a higher miracle level, but that she had to spend MPs to use 
Knockwood: OK, could she get a Simple Gift with 1 Pen and spend 2 MPs to make it 3 Pen? 
Random_Nerd: No. 
Knockwood: ah, so the Miracle level includes the Pen and is fixed at purchase 
Random_Nerd: Yes. 
Random_Nerd: But you can take a gift that costs MPs to use, which costs less character points. 
Sara: That's not a bad idea, given the situation. 
Random_Nerd: For instance, we could make that gift be a Miracle 7 Penetration 3 attack, but that you have to spend 2 MPs to use. 
Random_Nerd: True. If it's something you'll use only rarely, but you want to work really well when you use it, I suggest that. 
Sara: Are there any Freezing-type gifts? 
Knockwood: then again, each configuration would cost at least 1 point 
Random_Nerd: What do you mean by freezing? 
Random_Nerd: Surrounding someone in ice? Paralyzing them? 
Sara: More along the lines of ice and snow. 
Sara: Thematic, and all. 
Random_Nerd: Well, you could make the miracle this is based on be a creation of cold, or of ice. 
Sara: Hm. Can I put 2 points into buying a miracle related to that? Or is there nothing suitable? 
Knockwood: it'd need Pen to freeze up a Noble though, right? 
Sara: (Or I could do ice-breath, instead of fire-breath, and put an extra point of penetration in it, maybe) 
Sara: True, but I could use MPs to bump it up. Makes it cheaper, too. 
Random_Nerd: Yes. Or you could make a /big/ block of ice, and surround them even outside their auctoritas with it... 
Sara: Cheaper on the character point scale. 
Random_Nerd: But that wouldn't hurt them, and any Noble who can't get out of an icy shell just isn't trying. 
Sara: I'd rather do something that surrounds them with ice, even inside their Auctoritas. At least, I'd rather be able to reasonably try to do that. 
* BethE ponders how to get out of an ice cube. 
Random_Nerd: You'd need pen for tat. 
Sara: 1 point into Ice Breath, 1 point into Penetration for it, and then additional MPs for additional Penetration as needed? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. How about this. Change/Creation of Ice, level 6. 2 Penetration Costs two MP. One person only. One trick (Freezing people). 
Knockwood: Where does the Change come in? 
Random_Nerd: Well, for raising the level of the miracle to make it work better. 
Random_Nerd: Just look it as making ice that's in some way unnaturally effective. 
Sara: Works for me. 
Sara: Also works along the lines of hinderance/distraction, which someone mentioned before. 
Random_Nerd: Okay. That's a two-pointer. 
Knockwood: Alternatively, using the book's Fire-Breathing as a Template: 
Random_Nerd: Wait, a one-pointer. 
Sara: Two pointer with pen? 
Random_Nerd: You have another point for either level or penetration, if you make it cost 2 character points. 
Random_Nerd: It's a two-pointer with Pen 3. 
Sara: Hell, I take Pen 3 in that case. 
Knockwood: Ice-Breathing, Create Ice, +2 Pen, Simple, Local, One Trick, Uncommon, 2 points. 
Sara: So I have to spend 2 MP whenever I use this? 
Random_Nerd: Remove the Uncommon. This is a pretty straightforward offensive gift. 
Random_Nerd: And raise it to +3 pen. 
Random_Nerd: And yes, you have to spend two MPs, and they have to be of a particular sort. 
Random_Nerd: Do you want this to be a Gift of Aspect or a Gift of Domain? 
Sara: I assume it'll work better for snow if it's Domain? 
Random_Nerd: Either's fine. 
Sara: Hm. 
Knockwood: Or, keep 2 Pen, and go to Limited Uses to do more with it. :) 
Random_Nerd: That'd work too. 
Random_Nerd: Either would be good. 
Sara: Limited uses... *thinks* 
Random_Nerd: If it's Domain, then it's somehow connected to Capriciousness. If it's Aspect, then it's connected to the changes in your own body. 
Sara: I think I'll make it a Domain miracle. I follow that easier. 
Random_Nerd: Okay. So it'll cost two Domain MPs to use. 
* Sara nods. 
Sara: If I limit it in some way, and take 2 Pen, can I use it using only 1 DMP? 
Random_Nerd: If it's still One Trick, and Pen 2, then you can make it be a 1-DMP cost. 
Random_Nerd: That'd only cost one MP, but it'd still have to be used against people. 
Sara: So do I take the big gun or the little gun, that I can fire twice as often... 
Random_Nerd: Or the gun that also works as a fire extinguisher and hallway blocker. 
Sara: No, I'll stick with this. She won't use it often. That's what Theresa's for. 
Sara: ...oh yeah. 
BethE: Oh, sure, make _me_ the tank. :P 
Sara: Bah, I'll lower it then. 2 Pen, 1 DMP per use. 
Knockwood: you using mine or RNs? 
Random_Nerd: Okay. So, for the record... 
BethE: And we already know about its use as a hallway blocker. Our first Excrucian shard had ice powers. Hmm.. *peers at Snow* 
* Sara looks innocent. 
* Knockwood got froze by the bastard. 
* Sara looks very innocent. 
Knockwood: then again, he's now Ick, so we can abuse him at will. >:> 
Random_Nerd: Lesser Change/Creation (Ice) 6 | Penetration 2 | Normal Miracle (one DMP) -2 | One Person -2 | One Single Trick -3 | Uncommon +1, for a total of 2 points? 
Random_Nerd: (Wait, no, we agreed it was Common.) 
Random_Nerd: (So, do you raise penetration, or flexibility?) 
Sara: Annoying +1? 
Knockwood: if you want to do stuff like block hallways you need Limited USes 
Random_Nerd: Yeah, that's probably a good call. You'll probably find such situations more often than people with Spirit 3. 
Random_Nerd: But either works. 
Random_Nerd: Or for that matter making it just a one-pointer, or affecting multiple people. 
Sara: I'll take the more useful one. 
* Sara is a little lost. Probably the sinus stuff. 
Knockwood: and as a bonus you get an offensive power as well... 
Random_Nerd: Lesser Change/Creation (Ice) 6 | Penetration 2 | Normal Miracle (one DMP) -2 | One Person -2 | Limited Selection (throwing ice at stuff) -2 | Common +0, two character points. 
Knockwood: just create an iceberg over the guy's head & let it drop. :) 
* Sara laughs. 
BethE: "I dodge...better than the Titanic." 
* Sara copies and pastes into character sheet. 
Sara: I now have a real offensive skill! yay! 
Random_Nerd: That'll be good in a fight against anything short of a combat-specialist. 
BethE: Which Warmains are? 
Random_Nerd: And even with him, you can at least slow him down and make trouble for him with the alternate applications. 
Random_Nerd: Some Warmains are. 
Random_Nerd: Some are more specialized in smashing bits of reality. 
Sara: That's what Theresa's for. ;) 
Sara: Shall we call it a night there? 
Knockwood: don't forget me. :) 
BethE: Hello? Hole in my chest, thank you? 
Sara: Of course, I'm sorry. ;) 
BethE: ;P 
Random_Nerd: Okay. See you all next week? 
BethE: I think Blades would be a better combat guy. He's got Sacrosanct, after all. 
Sara: That is true. And up, next Wednesday! 
Random_Nerd: Well, except for Beth who lives with me, and Sara who's in my Tuesday game, I guess... 
BethE: I can call it a night. The meds make for a swirlybeth. 
Sara: Thanks for your help, both RN and Knockwood. You're a huge help given that I don't have the book. 
Knockwood: arigato 
BethE: I'll see you next week if you'll pay for the hotel room. I demand a hot tub. 
* Sara gurgles. Hot tuuub.... 
Sara: I should so gank my sister's tomorrow...I think I Tivo'd some Alton Brown, too... 
Random_Nerd: Mmm. Good Eats. 
Sara: Damn skippy. 
BethE: I would trade some of the Alton Brown DVDs we got for Christmas for your hot tub.

Amyra:Chapter 8

2007-10-04T02:59:17Z

BethDragon:

[[Session 59]]

[[Session 60]]

[[Session 60.5]] - OOC

[[Session 61]]

[[Session 62]]

[[Session 63]]

[[Session 64]]

[[Session 65]]

[[Session 66]]

[[Session 67]]

[[Session 68]]

[[Session 69]]

[[Session 70]]

Session 60

2007-10-04T02:55:07Z

BethDragon:

Theresa: Think so. What were we doing again? 
Snow: I'm going to be attacked! 
Random_Nerd: Just going to the Diplomacy Grove. 
Brian: right. 
Random_Nerd: Anything about the game you want to discuss first? 
Snow: I'm good, I think. 
DanteE: OK, who's got the chainsaws and the uzis? 
Random_Nerd: Lesson? 
Theresa: I'll just be this confused in character. Oh, wait. Can I ask my Dionyl question? 
Brian: not my department 
Random_Nerd: Oh? What question? 
Theresa: If Theresa's been working on understanding Dionyl and knows their language, what was the symbol of the blessing given to Sam? :) 
Random_Nerd: Let me check my notes. 
Theresa: Yes, Riff. 
Random_Nerd: The odd swirly mark, you mean? 
Theresa: Yeppers. That you said was a Dionyl symbol. 
Random_Nerd: It has connotations of patience, endurance, and the passage of time. 
Theresa: Hmm. Thank you. 
DanteE: can I assume I've got a buttload of blades on me? :) 
Theresa: I thought we were practicing with Snow for the hours before she gets the Ulcer of the Gods? 
Snow: Ah, that's right! They'd gotten to the Grove, and she'd filled it with rabbits. 
Random_Nerd: You can assume that. 
Snow: Then she made one immune to hurt. 
Random_Nerd: Ready? 
Snow: Always! 
DanteE: we'll see... 
Brian: Ulcer of the Gods: Class II Divine, +5 / +10 / +25. May spend 1 White Chi to cause someone's stomach to flare up in pain, giving them 1 round of Entanglement. 
Brian: now I'm ready. 
Theresa: Oh, one question. Hey Snow, did you take Durant? <G> 
Random_Nerd: ____________________START___________________ 
DanteE: how long do we have IC? 
Random_Nerd: __________________PAUSE________________ 
Snow: (Heh, no, not yet Beth.) 
Random_Nerd: (Kudzu didn't say exactly, but he said probably under 3 hours.) 
Random_Nerd: ______________START, FOR REAL THIS TIME______________________ 
Snow: (heh) 
Brian: "That's ... a lot of rabbits. Are they Australian?" 
Random_Nerd: (Amyran.) 
* Snow chases the remainder of the rabbits around in human form, ribbons trailing from her hair. 
Brian: (that was IC. Familia in-joke attempt.) 
Snow: "I dunno. They're rabbits." 
* Theresa creates a bit of a thicket to help corral the rabbits for now. Sorry to ruin Snow's fun. 
* Snow turns into a rabbit and mingles with the other rabbits. 
DanteE: (What does Snow look like to The Sight, BTW?) 
Random_Nerd: (Your own rabbit-orgy?) 
Brian: (lose d10 SAN) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, she actually changes shapes, it's not guising . But she clearly shows up as Noble.) 
Snow: (*facepalm*) 
* Snow has some fun running around the corral for a bit, then escapes in sparrow form. Apparently rabbits aren't much fun. 
Theresa: *wonders out loud* "If we took Snow to meet Monty and she turned into a rabbit, would she be Monty sized?" 
DanteE: "Brian, you should tell her what she's in for." 
Snow: "Who's in for what?" she asks, sprouting back up to human form. 
Theresa: "Apparently when your Estate gets attacked, it hurts you. A lot." 
Brian: "You'll be able to tell what it is when it happens. It hurts. Stupid Excrucians are able to stick a sword in you from somewhere not here." 
DanteE: "How exactly could someone attack Capriciousness, though?" 
* Snow frowns. "How do I kill them?" 
Random_Nerd: (With fire?) 
Brian: "Killing them won't help. You have to ... stop their attack somehow." 
* Snow tilts her head to one side. 
Snow: "Like...running away?" 
Theresa: "The pain follows." 
Brian: "Their attack comes by convincing the world that you don't exist. If you kill them, that doesn't help. Running away probably doesn't, either." 
Theresa: "Although if you touch an Excrucian or one of their Shards, they melt!" 
* Snow grins ferally at Theresa. "That's good, anyway!" 
Snow: "I do exist though." [to Brian] "Can't I just show up and tell them I do?" 
* Theresa nods. "Just did so myself a little while ago. Bad situation. The Shard made a friend's throat kind of...disappear." 
Brian: "That might work, Snow. It probably won't work quite that way." 
DanteE: (Where are our aides, BTW?) 
Snow: "But...we can't do anything about it right now?" 
Brian: "Each attack is different, though, and has its own solution set that's not necessarily intersecting with any others." 
Random_Nerd: (Let's see. You didn't specifically bring them, so they're probably in their offices.) 
DanteE: "Damn, you are a math geek. :)" 
Brian: "What? Set theory is universally applicable!" 
Theresa: "You checked on your estate earlier and didn't see anything obviously wrong. And you aren't hurting yet. So that makes it a lot harder to find where the problem is." 
* Snow nods thoughtfully. 
DanteE: "...any chance you, you know, feel funny?" 
Snow: "Whenever I feel trouble coming, I eat. 'coz I don't know when I'll be able to eat again. Maybe I should do stuff now, for when I can't do stuff later." 
* Snow shakes her head at Dante. 
Snow: "Or I could eat." 
* Theresa hands Snow a bowl of mixed fruit. 
Random_Nerd: (Another interesting question is... if the Estate hasn't been attacked yet, how does Kudzu know it will be?) 
Theresa: "Yes, I know, not filling, really, but it's what I can do." 
* Snow happily takes the fruit from Theresa and eats. 
Theresa: (A) Because he's going to be the one doing the attacking, B) He's got inside info/traitor in the ones attacking, C) it's that darn cult. D) Still thinking.) 
DanteE: "We're still home, we could introduce Snow to the Glory That Is the Cheeseburger. :)" 
Snow: "Not much fruit around Lake of the Long Dark. Fruit's great!" 
Theresa: "You'll have to Create your own cheeseburger, then." 
Brian: "Hm. Cheeseburgers. Sounds great. Haven't had one in ages." 
Random_Nerd: (At least two of your answers partially apply.) 
Snow: "So we're eating in case we can't eat again soon?" 
Snow: "I like that plan." 
DanteE: "Uh, hello? We run the place? We can ask any eatery for one?" 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, they could pretty much put up a plaque that says "The Nobles Ate Here" and get lots of business.) 
Brian: (I forget - do we have cell phones?) 
Snow: ("The Nobles Ate Here, and All I Got Was This Stupid Cthulhu") 
DanteE: (I'm sure we do, along with that one Very Special Phone) 
Random_Nerd: (You have cell phones if you want to.) 
* DanteE calls up Samuel. 
* Brian will call a food place "Hi, order for delivery, to [spot near grove] for lots of cheeseburgers. Um... call it 6. And fries." 
DanteE: "Hey, Samuel? Did you ever get a chance to check out that vehicle you were interested in?" 
Random_Nerd: (And since it's Brian saying it...) 
Random_Nerd: "Certainly. On the double." 
Snow: (Har har har) 
Brian: "Thanks :)" 
Random_Nerd: Samuel: "Done some looking, but haven't made any decisions yet. Is there something I can help you with?" 
* Snow watches Brian, curious. 
DanteE: "Yes... we may need to head for Earth before too long. Was thinking we could be more mobile from the air..." 
Random_Nerd: "And you want me to get you a helicopter?" 
Random_Nerd: "Did you have a particular sort in mind?" 
* Theresa stares at Dante. "Are you hoping Sam can get a 2 for 1 deal?" 
DanteE: (It occurred to me over the week that a helicopter would facilitate one hell of an entrance. :) 
Snow: (Jet packs!) 
DanteE: (only in Amyra. Don't want to hurt anyone's brain. :) 
Snow: (I dunno...Snow might be able to wrangle a leaf blower into thinking it's a jet pack...) 
DanteE: "Just look around to where we can get a fairly inconspicuous one, for now. 
Theresa: (Does not...think...snow blower...) 
Random_Nerd: "Ah. Civilian type?" 
DanteE: "For now." 
Snow: (Oh, that's not for flying around in, dahling.) 
Random_Nerd: "Give me... half an hour, perhaps a bit more." 
Snow: (Where's Lesson again?) 
Random_Nerd: (Lesson's with you, but currently in the background.) 
DanteE: "Excellent. I'll call back soon." 
Brian: (I'm missing something about snow blowers?) 
Snow: (What's he look like now, since he's no longer an Anchor?) 
Random_Nerd: (He is, actually, at the moment.) 
Theresa: "Hmm...while we're waiting on the food, maybe we should go over fighting tactics? We did kinda get messy last time." 
Random_Nerd: (James isn't exactly dead, as such.) 
Snow: (Ah, right-o.) 
* Snow looks over at Lesson. 
Snow: "He looks like he can fight real good." 
Random_Nerd: (Now, Snow has turned into a rabbit, right?) 
Snow: (Nope, back to human.) 
Theresa: (Brian - bad joke. Never mind. :) ) 
DanteE: "Too much so, though. He'd be targeted first." 
Snow: (I figure she can only talk in human form.) 
Random_Nerd: He tilts his hat to Snow. 
Random_Nerd: (Well, in-realm she can make conversational sounds with ghost miracles of Realm.) 
Brian: (obviously a bad joke ... I didn't get it ... oh, now I do, and ow my brain!) 
Snow: (Ah, good to know!) 
Random_Nerd: (And for that matter, with free realm miracles she can hear and talk from anywhere in-chancel, with divinations and ghosts.) 
DanteE: (Theresa has a dirty mind. But, we knew that. :) 
* Snow shifts into the form of a massive polar bear. 
Theresa: (Lesson draws agg and as to Theresa's mind, it is much cleaner than my own. <g>) 
Snow: "I can fight too!" Her girl-voice sounds odd, coming from the bear. 
Random_Nerd: (As does Beth.) 
Brian: (plus, she's hooked into the Message Board) 
DanteE: (Theresa: huhwah?) 
DanteE: (Oh, now I've got it. :/ ) 
Snow: (Lesson is totally a rogue. Not a tank.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, at her level of Realm, she doesn't need the Message Board.) 
Theresa: "Mind if I test that, Snow?" 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, but rogues draw agg, and does he seem likely to be a careful DPSer?) 
DanteE: "I don't think fighting per se is going to be a problem..." 
* Snow drops to her forepaws and bounds--as best she can--around Theresa excitedly. "Okay!" 
Random_Nerd: Lesson: "Should I get some weapons and some of my guys?" 
Brian: (but you don't really need to tank to do high DPS and draw aggro, so long as your tank knows what he's doing) 
Snow: (Lesson: *eye gouge* *backstab* *eye gouge* *backstab*) 
Brian: (too bad for us we don't HAVE a tank...) 
DanteE: (Yeah we do) 
Snow: (Theresa!) 
Random_Nerd: (Possibly Theresa. She's got good Aspect, Durant, and Elemental.) 
Brian: (Right. The one with yeah.) 
Brian: (the one folks would point at Druid) 
Theresa: "I think we're probably going to be going out from the Chancel, Lesson. It may be an attempt to distract us while they go after the Chancel." 
Snow: (Nah, shammy.) 
Random_Nerd: (Druids can tank, with the right gear and spec...) 
DanteE: (or the guy with Sacrosanct, similar Aspect, and a weapon domain?) 
* Theresa creates a thicket of thorny ironwood up and over Snow. (Yes, I know Auct, but it's at least a slowdown.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, Dante's clearly the healer.) 
Snow: (does it cover her all around?) 
Random_Nerd: (If she wants it to.) 
Theresa: (Problem with fixing things with Domain is that I'm suspecting Cult activity. And Domain goes wonky.) 
Theresa: (Yep. Like a little hutch or beehive or thick cage w/ no space.) 
DanteE: (Pretty much any of us could Leeroy Jenkins their way through a small army, though. :) 
* Snow shifts to mole form, and burrows underneath Theresa. 
DanteE: (That's part of why I'm loading up on blades) 
* Theresa listens (Aspect 2) for Snow. 
Random_Nerd: (Did anyone answer Lesson?) 
DanteE: (Oh.... I will) 
DanteE: "Lesson... get your group together and prepare yourselves. Something is going to happen involving our new sister in less than three hours, but we don't know what. 
Random_Nerd: L: "How many do you want, and how heavily armed?" 
Theresa: (RN: Can Theresa track Snow-mole?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes, with her Gift.) 
Random_Nerd: (But it counts as her miracle for the turn.) 
Theresa: (Oh, yeah. Noble-sensing Gift spent.) Theresa keeps lightfooting it around to avoid Snow. 
DanteE: "Dunno yet... go commandeer that bus you had, just in case you need to head for Earth, but be ready to defend the Chancel." 
Random_Nerd: L: "At once, sir." 
* Snow will burrow close to the surface, then burst from the ground in bear form, releasing a shower of dirt and stones. 
Random_Nerd: Lesson starts jogging towards town. 
DanteE: "Remind me that we have a chaos-squad on a short leash." 
Random_Nerd: He's hunched most of the way over, and when he runs, it's clear that his legs are different lengths. 
Random_Nerd: (At present, the Bureau of Monstrosities consists of Lesson, Ick, several arm-guys, a few assorted other mythical creatures, one or two gangs that Lesson and James co-opted, and a few therapists and psychologists.) 
* Snow roars, sending the rabbits fleeing in fear. 
Random_Nerd: Rabbits: *scatter* 
* Theresa Elementals an arm into a strong vine to wrap around Snow's muzzle. 
Theresa: (I had forgotten the shrinks in the Bureau.) 
DanteE: "I think we can wing a plan, but... they're there in case everything goes pear-shaped. 
Theresa: "Mmm, pears." 
DanteE: "We'll try to do it without much disruption. 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, you guys had them start recruiting people to handle psychologically evaluating the people who got turned into critters.) 
* Snow mrrfs! in frustration, then Domain miracles the air around Theresa, waiting until it decides to vacate the area before letting it go again. (Lesser Creation, free with 4 Domain?) 
Random_Nerd: (Needs Penetration.) 
Random_Nerd: (She's got Spirit.) 
Snow: (The air around her?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, Auctoritas.) 
Random_Nerd: (Covers the area near her.) 
Snow: (Mea culpa! Retcon that then.) 
Theresa: (You've got about a 5-foot by 5 by 5 cube that won't listen to you, around me.) 
DanteE: (Time?) 
Random_Nerd: (Beg pardon?) 
DanteE: (How long before the attack?) 
Random_Nerd: (You have something like 2 hours, based on what Kudzu said. 
Random_Nerd: ) 
Random_Nerd: (And the cheeseburgers should be arriving soon, as should a call from Samuel.) 
Brian: "I'll go over to wait for the food. Be back in a few." 
* Brian goes to [insert address here] 
* Theresa wiggles her eyebrows at Snow-bear. 
DanteE: "You two are acting goofier than my actual sister." 
Theresa: (A question...how well does Elemental work around cults and Auct.? Is it a Gift or a Miracle or Domain...) 
Theresa: "Aww, haven't met her yet, Dante. But this is kinda fun. No killer bees in this fight." 
Theresa: (Whoops...) 
DanteE: (Do we have a way to detect the Cult's presence before firing off a Miracle?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not really.) 
Random_Nerd: (Unless you have a Clever Idea.) 
Random_Nerd: (Or if you've been keeping track.) 
Snow: (Gah, sorry Bethy, thinking and working out what I can do for free.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, Brian ordered the food to be delivered, right?) 
Theresa: (No problem. And I wouldn't want you to spend points before a fight.) 
Brian: (yeah, but to a place near the grove, not to the grove itself) 
Random_Nerd: (Ah, okay. It should be arriving there just about now.) 
Theresa: (Although a reminder that we have DP that can be spent as Miracle Points.) 
* Snow flicks into the form of a deer, who promptly tries to eat the vine-Theresa-arm. 
* Theresa tastes yucky and she's Durant. Do you have deer-braces? :) 
Random_Nerd: (The vine is really hard to chew. Not impossible, but it's like chewing through hardwood.) 
Theresa: (Ooo, or I could be covered in poison ivy sap. That would be evil.) 
Random_Nerd: (You can do that with Elemental.) 
Snow: (Ech!) 
Random_Nerd: (Elemental is... let me see what it's a Gift of.) 
* Snow gnaws away at the vine regardless, rolling her eyes coyly at Theresa. 
Random_Nerd: (It's of Domain. It'd go somewhat haywire.) 
Theresa: (Crap! *sigh*) 
Random_Nerd: (But if you change into something planty when you're away, it won't suddenly go wrong when they show up.) 
DanteE: (Isn't it kinda always on in her case?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not really. She's normally a human.) 
Random_Nerd: (But she can turn part or all of her into animate plants with a simple miracle.) 
DanteE: (Then again maybe we should OBSERVE RULE ZERO and shut up... :) 
* Theresa creates a large stack of hay riiiiiight above Snow. "Hey Snow, look up!" *drops it* 
Random_Nerd: (Heh. We should tell Sara about the Rules.) 
* Brian returns with food. "Food's here!" 
Random_Nerd: (Rule Zero, don't give the GM any ideas.) 
Brian: (oh yeah. Rules.) 
Random_Nerd: (Rule 1, Entropy is a Dick.) 
Random_Nerd: (Rule 2, Sanity and Mundanity Are Shackles.) 
Snow: (*listens*) 
DanteE: (Rule Zero Prime, don't give your Imperator any ideas) 
Theresa: *smushes Snow with haybales/stacks* 
Snow: (Heh, goes without saying!) 
Random_Nerd: Anyone with Aspect 2 or better can hear the sound of a helicopter approaching about a mile away. 
Brian: "Time to stop playing and start eating!" 
Random_Nerd: (Well, Rule Zero Prime is in the book, actually.) 
* Snow appears to disappear under the haybales. As a dormouse, she works her way through the straw, back up to the top. She seems to grin at Theresa. 
DanteE: "Hm... Theresa, you could disguise some ironwood spears as, say, a cane." 
Snow: "Fun!" 
Theresa: "Hmm...ways to fight without creating plantstuff or even maybe without making myself into plantstuff... I guess I could hop around like those wuxia people." 
Random_Nerd: ("Don't tell your Imperator about a problem you can solve, or you'll have to. Don't tell your Imperator about a problem you /can't/ solve, or you'll have to.") 
* DanteE checks out the copter 
Random_Nerd: It's the Channel 17 traffic copter. 
* Theresa explains, "The last time we had an Attack on an Estate, there was a cult of feral mathematicians there and I tried to create honey to slow them down but it turned out to be _evil_ honey. And it ate through the floor and the mathematicians." 
* Snow looks up at the copter, and quickly hides behind Theresa in human form. 
Theresa: "Okay, timeout for cheeseburgers." 
* Brian hands Snow a cheeseburger and fries platter 
Random_Nerd: The cheeseburgers seem very carefully made and wrapped.) 
* Snow takes the cheeseburger and fries, despite the helicopter. ;) 
Theresa: "And yeah, I could make your cane into ironwood, Dante, if you wanted that." 
DanteE: "My cane's already a blade, remember." 
Theresa: "Oh, yeah. But why would the rest of us be carrying canes?" 
Brian: "Anyone else for food?" *hands out to the rest of the Familia* 
* DanteE grabs a burger & fries... 
* Theresa bites into her food. "Wow, this is delicious!" *eats some fries* "Even better than usual!" 
Random_Nerd: (Although, if she made the cane part Preserved, there'd be no danger of the wooden parts breaking.) 
DanteE: "Why would we be carrying ironwood spears?" 
* Snow presses herself to Theresa and quietly eats her food. She keeps glancing nervously at the helicopter. 
Random_Nerd: (At least, not unless you parried a missle or something with it.) 
DanteE: "We're more likely to be carrying canes. 
Random_Nerd: The chopper comes closer, and now everyone can hear it and see it. 
DanteE: "Which means you won't have to make one, just use it." 
Random_Nerd: Anyone with Aspect 1 or better, or who uses a Realm Div to check, can see Samuel and William in it, along with someone else at the controls. 
Theresa: "Ah" 
* Theresa waves hi at the Aides and rubs Snow's shoulder comfortingly. 
* Snow looks miserable. 
DanteE: "They're withj us, Snow.": 
Snow: "Loud..." 
DanteE: (and say hi to Tpyo, Power of Typos.) 
Random_Nerd: They land in the grassy clearing in the Grove, where the rabbits had been a while ago. 
Random_Nerd: Sam and William get out. 
Random_Nerd: S: "Will this do?" 
Snow: (Does the guy turn the helicopter off?) 
Random_Nerd: (It's idling.) 
DanteE: can it hold us all? 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
Snow: (Wouldn't it blow Sam away?) 
DanteE: (Hell, Sam probably wants to ride the rotor blades. :) 
Snow: (*laugh*) 
Random_Nerd: (Not really. The blades are moving slowly, and he can "eat" some of the air pressure.) 
* Snow looks at Sam. 
* Theresa creates some sound-dampening earmuffs for Snow. 
* Snow stops eating. 
DanteE: "I think it'll work... 
Random_Nerd: (Dionyl have ways of dealing with moderate amounts of momentum, although high amounts can cause serious damage.) 
Snow: "RIBBONS!" 
Theresa: (Oh no...bad Sara!) 
DanteE: "Samuel, William, our boss has given us a new Sister Celestis." 
Random_Nerd: Samuel looks at Snow. 
Random_Nerd: Sam and William both tap the silver globes in their ears for a moment. 
Brian: "She's ... young." 
* Snow takes off toward Samuel, her own ribbons trailing in her hair. 
* Theresa hugs Snow in a hurry! 
Theresa: (Aspect 2)_ 
Random_Nerd: William: "Ah. Well, we're at your service, Domina." 
Snow: (aspect 0. You so have her.) 
* Snow mrrfs! 
DanteE: "This is Snow, the Power of Capriciousness..." 
Snow: "Theresaaaa!" 
Random_Nerd: William's eyes glaze for a moment, and then he twitches and snaps out of it. 
DanteE: (did anyone ever come out and say that Snow was a coyote? :) 
Theresa: "Snow, this is Samuel. He's a Dionyl and you need to be careful with him. We protect him and William so they don't get hurt here in our home. They help us. His friend is William. He's a human." 
Snow: (That's a good question. She showed up as a coyote at first, I know.) 
Random_Nerd: W: "Will my services be needed designing a crest?" 
Theresa: *to the Aides* "Snow is also a coyote. She changes shape into about any animal she can think of." 
* Snow stops fighting. 
* Theresa lets go of Snow. 
Snow: "Oh! Not ribbons then." She grins at Sam. "You're just /awesome/ then!" 
DanteE: "Not just yet. The Boss also said she was about to be attacked... 
Random_Nerd: S: "I do what I can, ma'am." 
* Snow beams at William now, as well. 
DanteE: "In about 2 hours and counting. 
Random_Nerd: Sam, as always, is "dressed" in a variety of colorful scarves. He's tending towards blues and yellows, today. 
DanteE: "That's why I wanted the copter, in case we need to maneuver... 
Theresa: (*singsong* "Snow and Samuel, sittin' in a tree. A-n-c-h-o-r-ing..."*) 
Random_Nerd: William is in his usual three-piece suit. 
Brian: (T, that doesn't scan.) 
Theresa: (True, 'Samuel' is a bit hard to fit, but the Anchoring part works. If you pronounce it 'ing'...) 
Random_Nerd: S: "I thought, and William agreed, that one like this wouldn't attract as much attention as an unmarked or military one." 
DanteE: "And... what would you two say to another trip to Earth?" 
* Theresa hands Snow the earmuffs. "These might help for the pain of the loudness." 
Random_Nerd: W, startled: "An attack on your estate?" 
* Snow puts on the earmuffs. 
DanteE: "Assuming that';s where the attack comes from...." 
Random_Nerd: Samuel waves a scarf at the pilot, who turns off the copter. 
Theresa: "On Snow's estate, actually. Kudzu had...a premonition." 
Theresa: *small fib possibly* 
* Snow waves cheerily at William. 
Random_Nerd: Snow, you start to feel an... itch. 
Snow: "It's gonna hurt!" 
Random_Nerd: Not in your body, but somewhere else. 
* Snow frowns, then flicks to coyote form. She scratches madly at a spot behind her ear. 
Theresa: "Something wrong, Snow?" 
* Snow flicks back to human form, still scratching, though with her hand this time. 
Random_Nerd: It's a bit like phantom limb pain, if the phantom limb were hundreds of miles away. 
Snow: "I itch. But not me me. Me over there." 
Snow: (Can I sense in which direction?) 
Random_Nerd: (And yes, this is sooner than Kudzu said.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... West by northwest.) 
DanteE: (in Amyra?) 
* Theresa looks at the others. "Hmm. Maybe it's starting?" 
Random_Nerd: (Probably not.) 
Random_Nerd: (That, to Dante.) 
Brian: "Hold on ... you're in for a bit of a ride shortly ... just direct us to where" 
* Snow looks pitiful. 
Snow: She points in the appropriate direction. 
DanteE: "...the new mega-mall?" 
* Brian will carry Snow to the aerial rotor-based transportation device 
Theresa: "Hmm...Snow...can you concentrate and see if this itch is coming from inside the Chancel?" 
Snow: (Actually, Snow wouldn't allow that, I'm sorry. :( ) 
Random_Nerd: (Snow can tell that immediately. It's not in the area she can divine.) 
Random_Nerd: (And actually, let's change it to west by southwest, mentally reexamined where Amyra's located.) 
* Snow flicks into mouse form and scampers away from Brian, in favour of Theresa's shirt pocket (?). 
Snow: "I don't think it's in the place where we are. It's like...outside of where we are." 
DanteE: "Brian, can you help her figure out where?" 
* Snow peeks out at Brian. 
Brian: "Well, it seems to be roughly WSW, out on Earth. Hang on." 
Random_Nerd: (Well, if she can point, and walk a bit and point again, Brian can use lesser divinations of Numbers and basic geometry to narrow it down by triangulating.) 
DanteE: "South Africa?" 
Brian: (Anchorspeak to Jim) "Hey, Jim, got a minute? Can you search through the blogosphere for something that feels like an attack on Caprice?" 
Theresa: "No, I think more like South America..." 
Random_Nerd: (Jim: "Yeah. One moment, I'll get to a computer.") 
DanteE: "OK... Snow? 
* Snow looks at Dante. 
DanteE: "I know the machine here is big and scary-sounding... 
DanteE: "But it's just a way to get somewhere. 
DanteE: "And we need it to get to where that itch is coming from. 
Random_Nerd: Jim, to Brian: "I don't see anything yet, but I'll keep looking." 
DanteE: "We'll be safe inside it, and we can get there real quck!" 
* Snow sticks out her tongue at Dante and says, very clearly despite her mouse-age, "I know I've gotta go, I just don't wanna. It's loud and noisy." 
DanteE: *quick 
Brian: (anchorspeak) "Thanks" 
Theresa: "I was hoping the earmuffs would help with the noise." 
DanteE: "Well, so are you, kiddo! 
* Snow grins at Dante. 
Snow: "Of course I am! I'm coyote!" 
DanteE: "You roar and stomp stuff. 
DanteE: "So what are you doing being scared of something else that roars? 
Theresa: "Something's making you itch...let's go bite it." 
Random_Nerd: Snow, you can go somewhere quieter, and then reduce the noise by doing a Lesser Preservation of Quiet in your ears. 
DanteE: "This doesn't even stomp stuff, and it stays one shape! 
Snow: "S'not alive, though." 
DanteE: "So why are you afraid of it? 
* Snow will do a Lesser Preservation in her ears, as a matter of fact. Thank you! 
DanteE: "You don't need to be." 
DanteE: "Heck, you're with me. You don't need to be scared of anything ever again!" 
* Snow tilts her head at Dante. 
Theresa: (Uh, Noble. You can't affect her courage. <g>) 
DanteE: (Work with me here. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Dante's ego knows no logic!) 
Snow: "I won't be afraid of the helicopter. But I will still be scared of things. Not being scared is stupid." 
DanteE: "Hop in here, kiddo..." opens up his shirt pocket 
Random_Nerd: The itch grows to an ache, and you have a clearer idea of the direction. 
* Snow studies Dante for a moment, then goes to his pocket. 
* Snow whimpers a bit. 
DanteE: "There ya go snow... 
Snow: "Can we go bite it now?" 
DanteE: "All right... got a fix on where that itch is coming from? 
* Snow ghost miracles a fluffy cumulus cloud above them, which shapes itself into an arrow that points in the direction of the "itch". 
Snow: "That way." 
Brian: "Let's get going, then." 
Random_Nerd: (Between the direction and the distance, probably somewhere in Mexico.) 
Snow: (If she can make one arrow...triangulation?) 
Theresa: "Okay." *hops into helicopter* 
Brian: (Mexico loves us...) 
Theresa: (... Mexico. Is William allowed back into Mexico?" 
Random_Nerd: (Well, she can feel how far away it is, too.) 
Theresa: ) even) 
Snow: (That wouldn't be distance that she'd be able to conceive of, though. At least, not numerically.) 
DanteE: "William, Samuel, who wants to go to Earth?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "Wherever you want us." 
Snow: (brb, need a potty break) 
Random_Nerd: S: "Where on Earth?" 
DanteE: (not in my pocket you don't! :) 
Brian: Anchorspeak "Looking like it's roughly Mexico, if that can help you narrow things down?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "It /would/ be Mexico." 
Random_Nerd: S: "I... don't speak Spanish." 
Snow: (Sorry, back) 
Brian: (RN: that was to Jim) 
Theresa: *to William* "Are you allowed back into Mexico? It might be a different part of Mexico." 
Random_Nerd: Jim: "Mexico. How recent?" 
Brian: "Um... currently going on" 
Theresa: (Hmm...what kind of miracle would give Sam Spanish lessons?) 
Random_Nerd: (Uh... various sorts of ones.) 
Brian: (Realm Creation of Spanish Speaking?) 
DanteE: "Or you could stay here and coordinate potential defenses? Your choice." 
Theresa: (But it would cost to keep it going out of the Chancel.) 
Random_Nerd: Jim: "There's something going on there with a few small towns in the southern part. Rumors about some weird creature stealing thoughts out of people's heads." 
Random_Nerd: Jim: "Cryptozoologists are practically drooling. They think it's a chupacabra." 
Theresa: "A goat-sucker?" 
Random_Nerd: (You could give him Spanish with a Realm miracle, and spend an RMP a day to keep it in his head out of chancel.) 
Brian: (to Jim) "That sounds like it. Thanks. Can you post something that makes them sound crazy?" 
Random_Nerd: (Theresa can't hear Jim.) 
Random_Nerd: (He's on a different continent.) 
Brian: (This is the voice in Brian's head ;)) 
Snow: (Could we enhance his ability to learn Spanish quickly while in-Chancel, such that he can learn it in twenty minutes?) 
Theresa: (Oh, yeah, sorry. Hey, Aspect...no, not even that good.) 
Random_Nerd: (And her Aspect isn't /that/ good. That's at least Aspect 6. Probably 7.() 
Theresa: (Retcons the goatsucking thing.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. With a Lesser Change of Realm, and a bit of time, you could probably teach him Spanish in under an hour.) 
Brian: "Seems to be south Mexico. Some ... 'chupacabra' is stealing people's thoughts." 
DanteE: (and if it was that high she could hear a fly fart in Siberia) 
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Is this important?" 
Theresa: "Hmm, we need to find a forest that connects to a Mexican forest near where we wanna be." 
Snow: (Snow's not in a position to do much--she hurts. But if anyone else wants to. *shrug*) 
DanteE: "Hey Snow... you know where Mexico is?" 
Theresa: (I can't do Lesser Changes of Realm. I'm lucky to do Ghosts.) 
Random_Nerd: William: "They did say an Estate was under attack. And Spanish is an important language to have for Earth duty." 
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Okay, give me a moment. I'll requisition it." 
Theresa: "And if something happens to us, you guys get to keep the copter. True, you'll be in Mexico, but..." 
Random_Nerd: He touches the silver marble sticking out of his head-area, and goes still. 
DanteE: "While we're at it... 
Theresa: (oo, they have brain-uploading capabilities!) 
Random_Nerd: Only a few bits of him drift slightly in a breeze. 
DanteE: describe the pilot? 
Brian: "Have you seen the Matrix?" 
Snow: "Nuh uh," Snow replies to Dante. 
Random_Nerd: (He's about 27. Looks a bit bored. Wearing sunglasses and noise-cancelling headphones, the latter of which are off his ears at the moment.) 
DanteE: (he ain't gonna be bored for long...) 
Random_Nerd: Samuel shudders a bit. 
* DanteE goes to the pilot... 
DanteE: "Hi there. How do you feel about flying to Mexico? Don't worry, there's a shortcut." 
Random_Nerd: Samuel mutters to William in a Dionyl language: "Something seems odd about the /res/. Remind me to ask about that." 
DanteE: (what's /res/?) 
Random_Nerd: (You don't know.) 
Random_Nerd: (The /s are because he inflected that word oddly.) 
Brian: (I feel the need to point out that it's 11:27 PM) 
* Snow pokes her head out from Dante's pocket. "Can we go there fast pleeease?" 
Random_Nerd: Pilot: "A shortcut... to Mexico." 
DanteE: "That's what this thing's for." 
Random_Nerd: (For the record, anyone with at least Aspect 2 could pick up helicopter driving in a few minutes if he or she wanted to.) 
Random_Nerd: Samuel stops shuddering. 
DanteE: "Or, y'know, I could fly it. 
DanteE: "Up to you." 
Random_Nerd: Samuel, in spanish: "Okay, I'm ready." 
Random_Nerd: The Bureau bus pulls over at the nearest road. 
Theresa: "Bueno." 
* Snow goes quiet, thinking. 
Snow: (Could Snow do a Realm divination of the quickest Forest route to the place they want to be?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
Snow: (This idea courtesy of Beth. ;)) 
Snow: (She does so then, please. :)) 
Random_Nerd: (And you want a Forest path, not an alley or an elevator?) 
Snow: (Can they do Urban, without James?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes. He's AWOL, but the Chancel still works properly.) 
DanteE: (Can we find a passage we can fly through?) 
Theresa: (Can we fit the helicopter in an elevator?) 
Random_Nerd: (No. But some of the paths in the chancel boundery lead to cities.) 
Snow: (Maybe they could enter over a busy street? That'd be kinda Urban-y...) 
Theresa: (Plus, Jim said small towns in Mexico. Forest is likely to be closer.) 
DanteE: (maybe if we fly just so between the skyscrapers downtown) 
Snow: (Ah, good point. Forest is better then.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, now, the place where it's happening is /small/. A relatively poor place, and not too built up. No path leads directly there.) 
DanteE: to the pilot: "Know what, it would probably be better if we drove. 
Random_Nerd: (But on the other hand, the Chancel has all /kinds/ of paths to Mexico City. It's one of the biggest path-magnets in the world. And you could be at the site by helicopter in an hour and a half.) 
DanteE: (er, I mean flew...) 
Random_Nerd: (Probably an hour, with high-Aspect flying.) 
* DanteE does a Realm-Div on the copter to learn allllll about it. 
* Snow whispers to Dante her best guess as to how to get there. She then retreats to his pocket and curls up into a tight ball. 
Random_Nerd: (You know know what all the switches do, and how all of the bits of the helicopter work.) 
Theresa: (Okay, then Mexico City, then.) 
Brian: (reasonable spot to end for the night?) 
Random_Nerd: (Seems that way to me.) 
Snow: (Works for me.) 
DanteE: (But we won't to get to the warp-tunnel description and Snow going 'eek!' at it all! :D ) 
Theresa: (Nah, knowing RN, it'll be more like the ride in Willy Wonka.)_ 
Snow: (*laugh*) 
Snow: (less "eek!"y with the ache.) 
Random_Nerd: ________________STOP______________ 
DanteE: (no, the real 'eek' part is when I do a Kusanagi entrance later. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, wait.) 
Random_Nerd: (Did you want to talk to Lesson before we stop?) 
Snow: Not to bail, but I have a shitload of work to do on my white paper still. I have to scram, guys, but thanks for the game! 
* Snow waves and poofs! 
*** Snow has left #nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: S'fine. See you around. 
DanteE: We'll talk to LEsson first thing next week. :) 
Random_Nerd: Okay. 
Random_Nerd: Thoughts on this game? 
Theresa: We should at least tell him to take care of things while we're gone and if bad things happen, pray to us and Carrie and we zoom. 
Brian: Brian will do his best to take care of and protect both Theresa and Snow in the coming weeks 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Brian: but otherwise mostly stay passive, unless the players really need help from the GM :-P 
Knockwood: assuming we game at all... 
*** Brian is now known as Laz. 
Laz: true. 
Knockwood: I'll probably be MIA 20th and 27th 
Knockwood: maybe not, though... 
Random_Nerd: And that's fine. 
BethE: The mouse in shirt pocketting is cute. 
Random_Nerd: At worst, we'll start up agian in January. 
BethE: And it's fun seeing someone become a Noble brandnew. At least without the bumps that we went through. 
BethE: My fave part was probably the stopping of the Sam-tackling. That might have been...awkward. 
BethE: And the fight practice was interesting as I'm trying to stretch my thoughts in doing Noble-fights. 
Knockwood: and I should just do what I do best, barge through things. :) 
Laz: I enjoyed the food sidebar :-P 
Knockwood: well, she's supposedly a carnivore, remember. 
Laz: yep 
BethE: So the food people made the food with extra care for the Beloved Brian? 
Random_Nerd: Yeah, if you tried to tackle Sam, you'd probably pass /through/ him. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah, they did. Everyone in-chancel loves Brian. 
BethE: (And probably wanted autographs. Hmm...*considers saying 'Beloved Leader' in a Boris and Natasha voice* *As Fearless Leader would be Dante.*) 
Random_Nerd: Imagine if, when Elvis was big, he stopped by the restaraunt you work at and ordered a cheeseburger. You'd try to make the best damn cheeseburger you could. 
BethE: But also if you tackled Sam, not only would you pass through him, but it could possibly be considered an attack. 
Knockwood: Now that's just silly. He'd order triple-cheeses if anything. :) 
Knockwood: "Yeah, and just... fill that there container with fries." "That's the mop bucket, sir." 
Random_Nerd: What if it was the Thin Elvis? 
Laz: anyway, I'm going to say good night and head downstairs now. see y'all later 
Random_Nerd: G'night, Laz. 
Knockwood: g'night Laz 
Random_Nerd: See you week after nect. 
Random_Nerd: Next. 
*** Laz has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Leaving.). 
BethE: I can't think of anything I have a problem with in the game. 
BethE: Although fights are still a bit hard in my head, thinking of nonDomain stuff in case of Cult. 
Random_Nerd: You do have Aspect 2. 
BethE: True. What level is that like? Lightfoot? My own wirework crew? 
Random_Nerd: Jackie Chan. 
Knockwood: 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. 
Random_Nerd: If Jackie Chan could pull it off, with carefully pre-arranged fight coreography, multiple takes, and time to practice, you can do it off the top of your head. 
BethE: And you just had the best cheeseburger possible without magical means. 
Knockwood: ...I'm OK with it. You? 
BethE: The cheeseburger makes it all better. 
BethE: And hey, better shirt pocket than elsewhere. <g> 
Knockwood: maybe we should have gone really exotic and ordered poutine. :) 
BethE: And I'm not sure, but when this is eventually posted, your summary may be the teaser. 
Knockwood: with your tagline, sure. :) 
Random_Nerd: Nah... 
BethE: A good cheeseburger is worth its weight in MP. 
Random_Nerd: (Link: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=6658160)http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=6658160 
BethE: Hmm...how secretive is the Aides organization about their devices and SOP? 
Random_Nerd: Moderately? 
BethE: Glad you could get a thread from it, love. <G> 
Random_Nerd: They'd be willing to discuss something of how the devices work, and what they can do, but less so about the thing they tap into. 
Knockwood: maybe I should change my name to Captain Banzai. :) 
Random_Nerd: Basically, they're using a sort of tool normally used by cleaves of Nobles, but which I've decided that the Aides and the Camorra probably also have access to. 
Random_Nerd: Maybe the Botanists too, I'm not sure. 
BethE: Thing they tap into? I'm a little confused between that term and tapping the silver ball. 
Random_Nerd: The balls connect to another thing. 
BethE: Ahh. 
Knockwood: ooh... Theresa still needs to talk with the Cleave. 
Knockwood: And I should hope their balls.... naah, way too easy. 
BethE: *smile* Just said that off-screen, Knock. Followed with, "...That might be a bad idea."

Session 59

2007-10-04T02:48:24Z

BethDragon:

Knockwood: well, going by my handy-dandy thesaurus, one of the synonyms for capricious is cavalier. 
BethE: I think the Brian-plot of dealing with the transformed would help lead into the SaraPC. 
Random_Nerd: Well, cavalier is less like capriciousness and more... disregarding things, perhaps, in an airy way? 
Sara: Cavalier doesn't cover the actions per se, though. More the intent. Caprice is more the action. It's close to whimsy. 
Sara: If nothing else, cavalier is an adjective, and caprice is a noun...ish. 
Knockwood: true 
lazarus: nounish? 
* Sara checks to see if it's a proper noun. 
lazarus: how can something be sort of like a noun, without being a noun? Or a pronoun? 
Sara: Yes, yes it is. 
BethE: Sanity is a crutch. 
lazarus: yes, Beth. Brian thinks that. I don't ;) 
Random_Nerd: Well, ti is a proper noun in a way, but meaning something very different. 
Sara: Mundanity is shackles something something. 
Knockwood: I suspect Caprice is either archaic or poetic 
lazarus: go crazy? 
Sara: I use capriciousness as a word in regular use... 
Random_Nerd: Be the Power of French Knights! 
lazarus: Capricious - the adj form - is the normally used one now days. 
Sara: Yeah. 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. Caprice is borderline-archaic. 
lazarus: only because the noun-form isn't really used. 
lazarus: so people nounise the adjective 
Sara: I'm only using it because it's shorter than capriciousness, and more of a noun. 
lazarus: (nounalize?) 
Knockwood: en-noun-ificate. :) 
Random_Nerd: Works for me. 
Sara: Nominalize, actually. 
lazarus: so, RN, do we get points for the previous storyline? ;) 
Sara: And one sec, cat's making loud bangings happen... 
Random_Nerd: Yep. One character point each, and MPs refresh. 
lazarus: (ah yes, that's what it is. I was trying to verbalize the noun :p) 
BethE: *cuddles the MPs* So long since I've seen you, my DMPs... 
lazarus: bah! Should be 3! :-P (2 CP to next level of gift now) 
Sara: (back...she knocked over a glass in the sink so I gave her an impromptu bath) 
BethE: Hmm, RN, what would I need to spend to up Irresistable? 
* Knockwood tries to remember what he has... 
Random_Nerd: Up it in what way? 
Random_Nerd: Character sheets are all on the game wiki. 
Knockwood: oh, Beth, I put a copy of that dragon-girl drawing I mentioned once on the RPGnet Wiki... 
BethE: Well, at the moment, I think it's currently local and one-person only. Just thinking about what I can improve-on with my CP. 
Knockwood: which reminds me: RN, have you seen ShannonA around? 
Random_Nerd: Uh, no, not that I can think of. 
BethE: *looks at Wiki* 
Knockwood: Beth: (Link: http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Image:Tatiana.jpg)http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Image:Tatiana.jpg 
Knockwood: RN: I ask cuz the backdoor he put in so I can fix the @#$#%^^! wiki when the search index gets 'clogged' no longer works... 
Random_Nerd: Making it multi-person, but only people near you, would cost one point. 
BethE: Nice...sandwich. 
Random_Nerd: That... is an unusual picture! 
Knockwood: not mine, of course, I make shaky stick figures... 
Knockwood: one of my favorite artists on deviantArt did it. :) 
BethE: Why the leather belt around the leg or is that like the belts on Abyssals, one does not ask why... 
Random_Nerd: Okay, I'll use the random number generator. On an odd number, it'll be a PC-motivated plot, and on even it won't. This how you want to do it? 
Knockwood: good question. Artist's notes said she was a character for a comic set on a pirate ship, I think 
Knockwood: Hold on... 
Knockwood: I think we should tie up loose ends. 
BethE: Which ones? 
Random_Nerd: Bird, excrucian, Barakiel, Consequences, Maple, that kind of thing? 
Knockwood: any & all of them. Any signs of more Ex activity in the Chancel? Has King John forgiven me? Has the Lance? What happens when we look at my artifact collection under a heavy-duty microscope? 
Random_Nerd: Artifact collection? 
Random_Nerd: Oh, the drop? 
Knockwood: Kudzu's tear, the blood drop, the ash from the vision... 
BethE: Kudzu's tear, the pigeon circulatory system, the ash, the blood drop... 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and you guys still have the mythical creatures, and the otherkin. 
Knockwood: ah... reminds me, we should check with the Prof. 
Sara: I have yet to finish the logs, btw. Just in case that matters. 
Knockwood: logs are Beth's department. 
Knockwood: (and that statement can be interpreted 2 ways, both of which work, oddly enough.) 
Random_Nerd: Which Prof? Brian's anchor Jim? 
Knockwood: the one that's now an ogre. Literally rather than figuratively. 
Random_Nerd: Oh, yeah, him. 
BethE: I thought he was a werewolf. 
Random_Nerd: Potato, potato. 
BethE: There is a difference tween an ogre and a werewolf. For one thing, silver is an issue with only one. 
lazarus: only in some myths 
Random_Nerd: He's neither, really. 
Random_Nerd: Closer to ogre, perhaps, because that's a vague category. 
lazarus: oni. 
lazarus: there, done. 
Random_Nerd: But he's also a human who was turned into a creature with canine traits. So, werewolfish, too. 
lazarus: Oni. 
Knockwood: it-from-heck. 
Random_Nerd: Thingy. 
Random_Nerd: But! 
BethE: Well, we can deal with Dante's Preciouses and then go out to deal with otherpeople. 
Knockwood: he's a butt? 
Random_Nerd: So that's what you guys want to do? 
Random_Nerd: Have this one revolve around you doing such things? 
BethE: Siunds fine with me. 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
*** Sara is now known as Snow. 
Theresa: Ack! *makes many signs against evil!!!* 
Snow: (*raspberries*) 
Knockwood: works for me 
Knockwood: plus, we should intro Sara's char. 
Snow: (one sec, crazy heartburn here) 
Knockwood: hello? 
Knockwood: connection glitch. What did I miss? 
Theresa: No, see, snow is my current nemesis. And ice and sleet... 
Theresa: Didn't see you leave, Knock. What was the last you saw? 
Random_Nerd: I mean, I have two ways thought of to intro Sara's character. 
Knockwood: me saying 'plus, we should intro Sara's char.' 
Random_Nerd: One of them, however, only works in the context of something happening that would probably dominate the storyline. 
Snow: Back! 
Theresa: Knock - you didn't miss anything except Sara having heartburn. 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
Snow: Excitement abounds here in #nobilis. 
Theresa: It's out of bounds, actually. 
Knockwood: lemme guess--a lab accident involving the Transmogrifier greates a new being immediately enNobled by Kudzu. :) 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
Theresa: I can see some of the Tower being turned into a laboratory. 
Snow: I'm gonna go with a "no" there. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, dice time. 
*** -RPGServ- <Roll for Random_Nerd [1d10]: 8> 
Random_Nerd: Even! Okay, external forces intrude! 
Theresa: Set up the scenery, then? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. How does a week and a half of downtime before we start sound to you guys? 
Brian: sounds fine 
DanteE: OK, can we say I did a Harvest, like I said? 
Theresa: Sounds good. 
Theresa: The week and a half, I mean. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, you were going to drive out the gangs and scare them enough that they'll have less courage from now on? 
DanteE: yep. 
* DanteE is cleaning up this town, dammit... 
Random_Nerd: That works. Shall we start the first scene with you finishing that up, and then move from there? 
DanteE: OK... 
Random_Nerd: Very well. Could you describe the scene, and I'll take it from therE? 
Random_Nerd: There, even. 
Theresa: (Typo fairies! *smacks with racket over to Sara*) 
* Snow Caprices it. The typo fairies decide to fly to Argentina for fun. 
Random_Nerd: _______________START______________ 
DanteE: All right... the BureauMobile pulls up to the tower one fine afternoon. Oddly enough, Lesson is driving with Dante riding shotgun... 
DanteE: The reason is soon obvious when they get out. Dante is gingerly holding a softly glowing ball. 
DanteE: "Lesson, get the door... and this time, I mean 'open' as opposed to 'snap in half'." 
Random_Nerd: Lesson twists his body a bit, and gets out, and then opens the door for Dante. 
* Theresa sits in a pool of sun in her tower 'office', reading a book Sam has given her about Dionyls. She's still learning the language. 
Random_Nerd: L: "These things aren't really designed for anyone more than about six feet tall." 
DanteE: (ah, remember, the new Bureaumobile is a sort-of-Hummer) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, but even still, conventional vehicles aren't good for Lesson.) 
DanteE: "Few things are, Lesson. Except for basketball hoops." 
Random_Nerd: (He's about 7 feet tall, and oddly proportioned.) 
Theresa: (His chiropracter will be rich...) 
DanteE: "Maybe we could repurpose a city bus." 
Theresa: (... 'Speed' Amyra style...) 
DanteE: (OK, where's everybody else?) 
Random_Nerd: Lesson looks over at Theresa, and inclines his head. 
* Brian will be in the office, tapping away at a computer for some reason 
* Theresa looks up and smiles. "Hello, Lesson. Busy day out with Dante?" 
* DanteE heads up to his office. 
Random_Nerd: Lesson shrugs oddly. 
* DanteE sets the sphere in a receptacle on his desk. 
Random_Nerd: L: "Whatever did happen to my master? Did he just go away?" 
DanteE: "Let's see... remind me of who we scared off... gangs on 5th, 8th and 13th streets..." 
Random_Nerd: L: "Reminds me of working with him. Clearing up the gangs." 
DanteE: "Good question, actually. I haven't seen him in ... what, two weeks?" 
* Theresa blinks. "I'm...not sure, Lesson." *looks down* "I don't have the connection with the rest of the realm that I could see what he's up to. Can you feel a connection with him still?" 
Random_Nerd: L: "Believe so. Still feel loyal to this place. To the Wild. To humanity." 
Theresa: "Well, glad to know he hasn't disappeared on us. Maybe he's on a mission for Kudzu, like Carrie. She had to go to...I think Serpenthaven." 
* Theresa closes her eyes and uses her Gift to search the Chancel for Noble-spots. 
* DanteE looks over the blood drop. 
Random_Nerd: It glimmers a bit in the light, shiny and semi-translucent. 
Random_Nerd: Several spots show up. 
DanteE: (Several? Either the punch was stronger than we thought...) 
Random_Nerd: There's you guys, in the Tower. There's the "blank but smaller" marks of Lesson, and of Carrie's parents. And there's another Auctoritas in the Realm's Heart. 
DanteE: (gee, I wonder who that is... :) 
* Theresa frowns. "Okay, the only other Noble Auctoritas in the Chancel is in...the Heart. How about we go see how James is doing? He might like an update on the gangbusting." 
DanteE: "James came back and didn't say hello?" 
Brian: "Lead the way!" 
* Theresa gets up, stretches. "Could be. Might have just gotten back from somewhere or such. 
Theresa: " 
* DanteE goes up with the others. 
* Theresa heads toward the Heart, wondering if this time she would have a 'gear' in the workings yet. 
Theresa: (She won't, but Theresa wouldn't know that. :) ) 
DanteE: (no, just the usual monkey wrench. :) 
Brian: (rabbit bomb the city? :o) 
Random_Nerd: The gears associated with the characters seem mostly the same, but much of the mechanics of the clock seem to have been rearranged. 
Theresa: (In what way?) 
Theresa: "James? Are you in here?" 
Random_Nerd: There are gears and shafts that weren't there before, and some of the ones that were are differently placed. 
Random_Nerd: James' gear is still there, but it's in the back, and doesn't have much connecting to it. 
Theresa: *to the others* "Have one of you been redecorating?" 
Random_Nerd: And not too far from the place where it is, there's a new one. 
Random_Nerd: It's a bit larger, and it's got a silvery shine to it that seems a bit off given the amount of light in the inner workings. 
Brian: "Not much ... put up a new painting in my office ... why?" 
Random_Nerd: And it seems to bend, slightly, as it turns. 
DanteE: "Not me..." 
Random_Nerd: Also, there's a coyote resting on it. 
DanteE: "Not here, anyway" 
Random_Nerd: And a cinderblock. 
* Theresa goes up to the new gear and, oh, coyote. 
Theresa: "Uhh, because there's a new gear and someone on top of said gear?" 
* Snow looks up at Theresa...and grins. 
Brian: "Why do we have a trickster god in our Chancel?" 
* Snow leaps up and promptly begins to lick her face. 
Random_Nerd: Cinderblock: "Because I said so." 
Snow: (Her = Theresa, sorry) 
Theresa: "Uh, hello there. Pleased to meet...oh, hi Boss. How are you?" 
DanteE: "It's Kudzu's, why _don't_ we have a Trickster god in residence?" 
Random_Nerd: It doesn't open a mouth or anything, just... resonate, slightly, with the air. 
Theresa: (Oh, I thought Snow was licking her own face. <g>) 
Snow: (;)) 
Random_Nerd: "This is your new sibling, a part of myself that I'd not previously manifested physically. You'll need to show her the ropes, but do it quickly, so she knows what's going on before her estate is attacked by the Excrucians." 
DanteE: "Lord Kudzu... hello." 
Random_Nerd: The cinderblock splits in two, lengthwise, and falls apart. 
* Theresa blinks at the coyote. "A new..sister, I think? And what estate?" 
Random_Nerd: "I believe you should have at least three hours." 
Random_Nerd: "Capriciousness." 
* Snow flicks into another form...that of a human girl, somewhere in her late teens. She stops licking Theresa's face, but she's still grinning. 
DanteE: "Three hours?" 
Random_Nerd: "More or less." 
Theresa: "Three...crap. Well, at least there's a warning. Pleased to meet you, Capriciousness." 
Snow: "Hi!" 
DanteE: "... what's coming?" 
* Snow doesn't seem concerned about Kudzu at all. 
Random_Nerd: (And this rather unusual, for Kudzu to know about an attack ahead of time.) 
Random_Nerd: The brick crumbles to bits, and then draws together into a little pile. 
* Snow grabs Theresa's arm and snuggles up to her, rubbing her face against her shoulder. 
Random_Nerd: "I'm sure you can deal with it, whatever the details are." 
Theresa: (... Sara, is this revenge in some way for my Buffy game? <G>) 
DanteE: (time, IC?) 
Snow: "Kudzu says you're my new People and he smells funny kinda like you guys not like the old Chief at /all/ but that's okay he smells like smoke mostly and smoke's no good unless you're /that/ kind of People which I am /not/ --overwhelming sense of frigid wind being forced up your nostrils-- says I am but she's just a magpie but don't tell her I said that because then Chief will say --the sweet smell of melting snow in spring-- you s 
Snow: (Whoops. That's what I get for pre-writing something. And yes.) 
Theresa: (You cut off at spring you s) 
Snow: "...-- you shouldn't talk to --the cold wind again-- like that or she'll peck your eyes out and put them in the sky where you can't reach them." 
Random_Nerd: (It's late morning.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not quite noon.) 
Brian: "Pleased to meet you?" 
DanteE: (If the Excrucians interrupt Oprah there _will_ be hell to pay. :) 
* Theresa blinks at the overwhelming data upload. "What's your name?" 
* Snow gives Theresa one more affectionate nuzzle before bounding over to Brian. Flick, flick, flick...she's a coyote, briefly a porcupine, then a human again. She rubs her face into his shirt. 
* Snow ghost miracles the smell of snow melting in the spring back at Theresa. 
Brian: "um..." 
Random_Nerd: The mound of gravel starts growing. 
* Brian looks a little confused, but hugs her 
Snow: "You smell funny!" 
Snow: "Like rabbits. But LOTS of rabbits." 
Theresa: "Ahh, I think I recognize your name now. Mind if we call you Snow for short, since our sense of smell is probably weaker than water compared to yours?" 
Snow: (You're a kind lady, Beth. ;) Thank you.) 
Snow: "Okay," Snow says absently. 
Brian: "I'm Numbers, little one. I'm lots of lots of stuff." 
DanteE: "Dante, Blades and Courage..." 
DanteE: (did Lesson follow us?) 
Theresa: (How old is Snow compared to Carrie? Carrie's 17-18ish, I think?) 
* Snow glances at Dante, but doesn't bound over quite yet. "Blades like sharp steel? I don't like that." 
Snow: (About the same age, physically. In reality, she's about two, having originally been a coyote.) 
DanteE: (Kudzu enNobled a coyote?) 
Theresa: "And I'm Plants, but I'm also called Theresa. How did you come to be here, Snow?" 
Snow: (At least it's a mammal!) 
Brian: (why not?) 
* Snow scurries back to Theresa for a better sniff. 
Random_Nerd: (Just be glad he didn't EnNoble Monty yet.) 
Brian: (woot!) 
* DanteE mulls over shaking her hand vs. skritching her ears... 
Snow: "Plants, huh? That's pretty neat! Kudzu just kinda picked me up and dropped me off here. Do you have food?" 
Theresa: (Theresa probably smells of about anything plant-based you want to name. Mostly strawberries, vanilla and cinnamon, given a preference.) 
Theresa: "What do you like to eat?" 
Snow: (Mm!) 
Random_Nerd: (Cows, probably, knowing this game.) 
Brian: (/sentient/ cows) 
* Snow gives Theresa a Look. "I eat anything, sister Theresa." 
Brian: "I doubt you eat anything. Stone's pretty inedible, most of the time." 
Theresa: "Ahh, but there's a difference between eating something because you have to and eating something because you like it." 
DanteE: "I think there's still some roast beef in the fridge..." 
* Theresa will Create a bowl of strawberries for Snow and then turn toward the gravelmound. "Sir, a quick question, please?" 
* Snow rolls her eyes at Brian. "Moss is tasty!" 
Random_Nerd: (She reminds me of Red, a bit.) 
Random_Nerd: (Makes sense, they both have the "just made sentient a bit ago" thing.) 
Brian: "Moss can be. Stone can, but only rarely, and through the use of lots of magic" 
* Snow also regards Dante with increased interest...until she spies the strawberries. She plops herself on the ground and promptly goes to town. 
Snow: "So don't eat rocks." 
Brian: "So you don't eat anything" 
* Snow munches another strawberry. "You talk too much." 
Random_Nerd: Big Pile of Gravel: "Oh, yes, eating." 
Random_Nerd: It starts to pull itself into two roughly humanoid shapes. 
* Brian will toss in an Endless Bowl of Fruit Miracle onto that bowl of strawberries 
* Snow glees! and eats some more. "Want some, brother who talks too much?" 
Snow: She offers a handful to Brian. 
Brian: "Thank you, but I just ate." 
Theresa: "Sir, we were wondering how our Brother James is? We haven't seen him in quite a while." 
Random_Nerd: They crouch down a bit, and then one jerks to the left for a second but then dives at the other's legs. 
* Snow smiles cheerfully at him and stage-whispers, "Me too. But don't tell her that." She nods to Theresa. 
Brian: (Brother James had the misfortune to Anchor Luc... :p) 
Random_Nerd: "James. The dead one in the stone?" 
Random_Nerd: "I got tired of him." 
Brian: "Theresa will be happier not knowing ;)" 
Theresa: "Uh, yeah, Urbaniz...what?" 
Random_Nerd: The second figure takes a bite out of the first's shoulder. 
* Snow looks over at Dante. "You can have some too, if you don't bring any of those shiny knives around. They give me the --ghost miracle of the smell of frost-- shivers." 
* DanteE takes a few. "Thank ya ... Snow." 
Theresa: "Got..tired of him?" 
Random_Nerd: "Yeah. Didn't you?" 
* Snow will lean over to smell Dante's pant leg when he comes close, then go back to eating strawberries 
Theresa: (*sees her retirement plan flying out the window...*) 
Random_Nerd: First figure shaps off the second's right leg and devours it. 
Theresa: (You're blaming this on _us_? How can the Curse of James be our fault? I _married_ you to keep you around. ;) Just kidding.) 
Snow: (I thought it was because he was teh hawtness?) 
Random_Nerd: (That also!) 
Snow: (The old attractiveness+Influence roll again.) 
* Theresa 's face goes through some emotions. "But...I mean...we hardly ever _saw_ him or got to know him, okay, partially our fault, but still..." 
Theresa: (Well, yes, also because he's hawt, he's an awesome GM, and he was willing to drive 12 hours straight to see me...but still, I wanted the White Book!) 
Brian: (ok, this scene is hilarious in my mind. T and Kudzu are having a heavy discussion, while in the background, Brian and Dante are playing with Snow) 
DanteE: "Is he dead? ...again?" 
Brian: "So, Snow, what form do you like best? 
Brian: " 
* Theresa shakes her head. "Lesson would have felt it...right?" 
Random_Nerd: "Not... not dead in the conventional sense. But you won't be seeing him for some time, I don't think." 
Snow: (*shy!* I don't mean for her to be stupid. Uh. Bear with me.) 
* Snow looks thoughtful. 
Random_Nerd: "If you do... then perhaps you should tell me about it. Soon." 
Brian: (She's just ... young. And playful.) 
Random_Nerd: Second figure swallows the first's arm to the elbow, and strains to bite it off. 
Brian: (Coyote fits her flawlessly :-P) 
Snow: "Coyote form is best for being a coyote. Human form's best for being a human." 
* DanteE tries to interpret that... uhoh... 
* Snow looks as if she'll continue, if you like. 
Brian: "That's ... an interesting viewpoint. Never saw it that way before." 
Theresa: "Uh, okay, Boss. Sure. What about Lesson, thought?" 
Theresa: (though even.) 
Random_Nerd: "What about him? Would you prefer for me to make him the next Urbanization?" 
DanteE: (remind me to put up the charsheet for Tpyo, the Power of Typos.) 
* Theresa looks at Lesson to see if he feels anything about this idea. 
Snow: "Well, it would be silly to try to be a coyote if you were really a human." 
* DanteE tries not to belie the thought of 'REALLY BAD IDEA!' 
Brian: "What forms can you be?" 
* Snow shrugs. "I dunno. Things. People things. Not things to eat." 
Theresa: (She _was_ a hedgehog.) 
Random_Nerd: "Because, the demon was Urbanization's only anchor, it's not time for the rabbit yet, and I don't even think he had a heart." 
* Theresa perks up that there is at least some kind of a plan for Monty. Comments with "Lesson has a heart. Made of wood." 
Snow: (Wait, Lesson's there, right?) 
Brian: (waiting outside?) 
Theresa: (I thought he had come in with us.) 
Random_Nerd: He's there, but he's being quiet while his bosses speak, and Kudzu's talking about him like he isn't there. 
Random_Nerd: "Not him. The James." 
Snow: Given Kudzu and Theresa's conversation, Snow comes to realise that there's someone else in the room. She craaaaanes her neck around Brian to look at Lesson. 
Theresa: "Ahh. Didn't know that. Wasn't up on gargoyle physiology." *trying to think fast* 
Snow: "Ooooooo...I bet he smells WEIRD!" 
Brian: "He'd probably find it very odd if you went up and smelled him." 
* Snow flicks to coyote form and bounds over to twine around Lesson's legs. 
Random_Nerd: Lesson looks down, and adjusts the tilt of his hat. 
Random_Nerd: He looks at Dante and Theresa, with a "something is very wrong here" expression on his twisted-old-man-made-from-wrought-iron face. 
DanteE: "Lesson... meet your new boss. 
* Snow presses her nose to Lesson's leg, whuffling in every scent. 
DanteE: "Snow, power of Capriciousness, meet Lesson." 
* Brian starts laughing 
Theresa: (Would inner-Noble knowledge tell Theresa if someone can take over an Anchoring while the first Noble is still somewhat alive?) 
Random_Nerd: He pauses for a moment, and then bows his back down, and tilts his head far down, exposing the back of his neck to Snow. 
Theresa: (I want that picture of Lesson on a freeze-frame for my wall.) 
Random_Nerd: The position this requires, with her by his legs, looks really uncomfortable. 
Random_Nerd: (She'd know, and they can't.) 
* Snow looks at him, briefly confused, then falls back. In doing so, she turns back into a human who appears to be laughing hysterically. 
Random_Nerd: (At least, not without simple-rite technobabble and jiggery.) 
Snow: "You're weird!" 
Theresa: (Ahh. So Snow can't keep Lesson while James is....hmm.) 
Random_Nerd: L: "Do you have any new rules for me?" 
* Theresa facepalms. 
Snow: (Who's he asking?) 
Random_Nerd: The second Kudzu seems to be winning over the first. 
Random_Nerd: (He's asking Snow.) 
Theresa: (You. :) Dante just said that Snow is Lesson's new boss. ) 
Snow: "Um...what did you do before?" 
Random_Nerd: He counts on his fingers. 
DanteE: (We're watching out Imperator eat itself while a shapeshifting coyote Noble sniffs around, and _Lesson's_ weird?!? :D ) 
Random_Nerd: "I look after the chancel and those who live here. I follow specific requests of my masters. I don't harm human beings save to defend myself or the inhabitants of this chancel. I prepare the Bureau of Monstrosities to deal with the people who have been changed. I serve freedom, and act to prevent humanity from becoming extinct." 
Random_Nerd: He looks at Dante. 
Snow: "Hm...that's good. You do that then. Maybe we can go hunting together some time." 
DanteE: "Once we're done here... prep for action. We have an Excrucian attack coming in roughly (how long?) 
DanteE: "We may need you to evacuate people... maybe blunt their attack until we get there." 
Random_Nerd: "Hunting. Humans, like with my master or with Dante, or animals?" 
* Snow switches to porcupine form to get in a good itch behind her ear, then it's back to human. 
* Theresa notices that urbanization doesn't come up in Lesson's speech. 
Snow: "Humans aren't any fun to hunt. They make too much noise. We can hunt rabbits?" 
Random_Nerd: (That's not one of the Rules, to him. It's just something he feels like doing. But I believe he was specifically told by James to follow his Codes.) 
* Snow appears to think that this is a very generous offer on her part 
Random_Nerd: "Don't want to hunt rabbits." 
Random_Nerd: He looks at Theresa, in a nervous way. 
Random_Nerd: "That... does not seem like a good idea." 
Theresa: "Maybe it's a good thing Snow didn't meet Monty." 
* Snow appears to wilt a bit. 
Random_Nerd: "When rabbits are scared, they break the Chancel. Have to look after the Chancel." 
DanteE: "Lord Kudzu... are the Excrucians coming after Snow specifically? 
Snow: "Okay..." 
* Theresa flexes her newish arm unconsciously. 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu #2: "After her estate. And not yet." 
* Snow slinks...then walks...then bounds back to Theresa. She grabs her arm again and snuggles against it. 
Snow: "We're gonna have fun?" 
DanteE: (which means Snow will be hurting soon...) 
Theresa: "Maybe, Snow. What do you know about being a Noble? Or Excrucians?" 
Snow: "I'm a Noble. You guys are Nobles. Excrucians are like fleas, only they're big, like bears." 
Brian: "Surprisingly accurate description." 
Brian: "Except that they hurt from a distance. Oi." 
Theresa: "That..works. If we touch these fleas, they dissolve like..." *thinks* "Ice in a fire." 
Random_Nerd: Lesson bows to Kudzu in the same way as he did to Snow, but even more deeply: "Ymera Kudzu, is... there anything... you would require of me?" It sounds like he's translating on the fly. 
* Snow looks thoughtfully up at Theresa. "Like the big blue ice at the end of the world, or like little ice that falls from the sky?" 
DanteE: "Not always, remember": 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu #2 waves a hand dismissively at him. Kudzu #1 seizes the distraction and bites a chunk out of #2's torso. 
Snow: "It'd take a long time to melt all the blue ice." 
Theresa: "I'd say...little ice, then. It'd do-able. Sometimes hard to do, but doable." 
Snow: "That's good. No problem then." 
Theresa: "How does your Estate feel to you, Snow?" 
* Theresa keeps an eye on the Lesson thing too. Impressed with the bowing. 
* Snow thinks, and Divines if anything's funky with her estate? 
Random_Nerd: (Not at present.) 
Random_Nerd: (If it was being significantly attacked, you'd know about it, the same way you'd know if your leg was on fire.) 
Snow: "Pretty good. Like the sun when it's all warm." 
Theresa: "Okay..." *looks at the others* "What else is there in the Noble-crashcourse?" 
Theresa: (What's Snow's stats, if I may ask?) 
Snow: Aspect 0, Domain 4, Realm 3, Spirit 0. In RN's words, "Gank the mage." 
Snow: (Whoops, sorry, brackets there.) 
DanteE: (Realm _3_? Ooh...) 
Snow: (My gear's bigger than yours!) 
DanteE: "...how much can you feel of Amyra, Snow?" 
* Snow divines that as well, if possible. 
Random_Nerd: (All of it.) 
Brian: (can we wrap up soon?) 
Random_Nerd: (You can do free lesser divinations of anything in the Chancel.) 
Theresa: (She should be able to feel the atoms of Amyra with that stat...) 
DanteE: (of course A0 S0 means you're _fragile_, sort of...) 
Snow: "I dunno. Feels warm. What're all the hard things underground? They're shiny?" 
Theresa: (True. Her Auctoritas is tiny.) 
DanteE: "...gems?" 
Snow: (That's what you guys are for." 
Snow: (Bah, more brackets!) 
Theresa: "Are they orangish or white? Orange are topaz, white are pearls..." 
Random_Nerd: (That works for me, Laz.) 
* Snow blinks, then "looks" harder. 
Random_Nerd: (Amyra has lots of topaz.) 
DanteE: (Let's see, she can create anything for 1 RMP, right?) 
Snow: "I...I don't know. Not white, I guess." 
DanteE: (anything small) 
Random_Nerd: (And yes, Amyra has pearl mines.) 
Random_Nerd: (Ground oysters, you see.) 
DanteE: "How about green or red ones?) 
Snow: (Very popular, I imagine.) 
DanteE: (now I'M doing it! :) 
Snow: (*laugh*) 
* Snow looks perplexed. "I don't know..." 
Snow: (She was a coyote before, remember. No colours.) 
DanteE: (D'OH... right) 
Theresa: "This is not the time to go gem-diving. Do we wait the shorter-than-three hours until the Estate comes under attack or does Snow poke at her Estate until something shows as hurt? When Brian got attacked, it was...dramatic and sudden." 
DanteE: (Well, canines have deuteranopia, not complete color blindness...) 
Theresa: *sudden thought* "What if it's the cult again?!" 
Snow: (Bah, I was hoping someone wouldn't bring that up. I don't know much about deuteranopia.) 
DanteE: "Good point..." 
Brian: "I say she exercises, to know what she can do, first." 
DanteE: (We know about how specifically Cults screw with our miracles, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, either way, you can see colors with divinations.) 
Snow: (And with languages, she can probably name them too, actually. Good point.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes, you know that in the presence of the members of your cult, Domain and Realm miracles and gifts go... wrong.) 
Snow: (AHAHAHA...I am so screwed.) 
Random_Nerd: (They still work, but they have unintended side effects.) 
Snow: (Snow throws peanuts at the bad guys.) 
DanteE: (Domain and Realm?) 
Random_Nerd: (Domain and Realm!) 
Brian: have we experienced Realm? 
DanteE: "We need to prepare..." 
Brian: (bah! ()'s!) 
DanteE: "Lord Kudzu, you've told us when, can you tell us where?" 
Brian: "Part of preparing is not having a Sister who doesn't know what she can do" 
* Snow huffs a bit. "I know what I can do!" 
Brian: "Have you exercised with your new powers yet?" 
* Snow looks bashful. 
Snow: "Well, no..." 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Probably Earth." 
Brian: "Well, why don't you try something easy?" 
DanteE: "ah, can you be more specific?" 
Theresa: (So helpful.) 
Snow: (Hm...) 
DanteE: (Ghosts are a gimme) 
Theresa: "How about we practice at the Grove and keep an eye on Snow's Estate from there?" 
DanteE: (Then again, if it's on Earth, Realm won't help much.) 
Brian: "Sounds good." 
* Theresa will bow toward Kudzu if we're leaving then. 
Brian: (stop here, and introduce Snow to cars next session? :p) 
* Snow appears to think briefly. 
Snow: (Can we get to the enclave first?) 
Theresa: (Theresa has something to say to Lesson before we close...) 
DanteE: (and I have a little prep, too...) 
Snow: (Enclave = Grove, sorry) 
Brian: (well, really up to RN.) 
Random_Nerd: (A little longer, then.) 
Random_Nerd: (But you can leave now if you want, Laz.) 
Theresa: As they leave the room, Theresa tells Lesson that he's doing a correct and fantastic job on keeping his Rules and protecting the Chancel. 
Brian: (nah, I'd rather like to be around for Snow's introduction to vehicles :p) 
Snow: (And he gets a mug!) 
* DanteE debates bringing 'shock troops' to Earth... 
Random_Nerd: Lesson perhaps smiles a little, and tilts his hat to a more jaunty angle. 
Random_Nerd: (Cut to the Grove, or did you want to talk on the way there?) 
DanteE: (One thing first...) 
* DanteE heads into his office, where he's been collecting swords and knives... 
Brian: (We travel there by car, right?) 
Theresa: (It'd be quite a walk if we walk it, I thought.) 
* DanteE grabs a small arsenal. 
DanteE: "Theresa, Brian... some party favors for the upcoming gathering. 
Brian: "I don't need any, Dante. I come fully equipped with reality-bending magic." 
Brian: "Some might say reality-breaking, but they just can't reimagine what reality is on the fly. Shame, that." 
* Snow will stay close, but not too close to the pointy things. 
DanteE: "Reality-bending _Domain_ magic?" 
Brian: "Well, when you go around doing things like making pi exactly 3, reality starts kicking you in the face." 
DanteE: "Humor me, keep these handy. Remember, blades are 2 for 2 on the Shards we've met." 
Random_Nerd: (Not really. Brian could do that, and it wouldn't break the world. On the other hand, lots of mathematicians would, in layman's terms, "shit a brick.") 
Theresa: "Well, how about having a really athletic body?" 
Brian: (tends to break people looking at the world. Which is Brian's statement, really.) 
Theresa: (I think Dante is thinking about the mystery cult out there.) 
DanteE: "It's always good to have more than one way to defend yourself against beings that want to eat reality." 
DanteE: "Just on general principle, really..." 
DanteE: (Also means I can save some DMPs should worse come to worse) 
* Theresa takes a knife on general principle and to make Dante happy. Tucks it away somewhere. 
Random_Nerd: (Tell me when you want to have arrived.) 
Theresa: (I'm good with the fastforward.) 
Brian: (I'm fine with it) 
DanteE: (Me too... Brian, you taking a knife or sword?) 
Brian: (you can toss whatever you want into the trunk) 
DanteE: (ah yeah... remind me to take my old car so we don't need to sustain it) 
Random_Nerd: You arrive at the Grove, which is filled with rabbits. 
Random_Nerd: Conventional-size rabbits. 
* Snow beams. 
Snow: "Told you I knew what I could do!" 
* Theresa blinks with a slight twitch at the sight. 
Brian: "You can make rabbits?" 
Snow: (And for the record, that's all I wanted to do before ending tonight. ;)) 
DanteE: "Heh... OK.... 
DanteE: "Now what can you do with Domain?" 
* Brian opens the door and gets out of Snow's way ;) 
Snow: "Well, no. I can make them come. See?" She points at a trio of apparently pet rabbits who are running eagerly into the fray. 
* Theresa looks at them with the Sight, 
* Snow looks thoughtful. 
Brian: (I'm going to take off now. See you guys next week, or earlier) 
Snow: "That was my domain, I think." 
Snow: (G'night!) 
Random_Nerd: (G'night, Laz.) 
Theresa: (Night, Laz! *HUG*) 
*** Brian has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Leaving.). 
Snow: "I guess I could make all the rabbits /stay/..." 
Snow: (Lesser Preservation, if anyone wants a Realm example. ;)) 
Theresa: "They might not like it all here in the Grove, Snow." 
Snow: "Yeah, I didn't think it was a good idea." 
* Snow picks up a rabbit, gives it a close look, then puts it back down. 
Snow: (Lesser Preservation of Realm on the rabbit.) 
Snow: "There. Now he'll be all healthy, forever." 
Snow: "That's good, right?" 
DanteE: well... depends... 
Theresa: "Boy or Girl Bunny?" 
DanteE: "You know how much rabbits breed... right?" 
* Snow looks down at the milling rabbits. 
Snow: (Lesser Divination to find the rabbit again?) 
* DanteE tries to remember about Ecology and predator-prey relations... 
Random_Nerd: (You find the rabbit!) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, you guys did go get some rabbits from Australia. That's a good example of rabbit-induced trouble.) 
DanteE: "What do you remember from before you were enNobled?" 
Random_Nerd: (Rabbits basically screwed their ecology sideways with a shovel.) 
* Snow flicks into coyote form, terrorizing the other rabbits into a stampede. Her rabbit seems inclined to stay where he/she is, however. (Lesser Creation of Realm, taking away Capriciousness from the rabbit.) 
Random_Nerd: (Err... you can't take it away with a Creation. That's a Destruction.) 
* Snow picks up the rabbit in her teeth, then flicks back to human form. She transfers it to her hands. 
DanteE: (...is that why Kudzu specifically wanted Australian rabbits?) 
Random_Nerd: (It is!) 
DanteE: (that's a LD Domain miracle) 
Snow: "I remember the sun, and food, and winter, and the People," she tells Dante. 
Random_Nerd: (But you can make him stay where he is with a Preservation of Location.) 
Snow: (D'oh!) 
Snow: (Good idea, sorry.) 
Random_Nerd: (S'fine, it takes a while to get a handle on the system.) 
DanteE: (s'okay, we're stumbling through this too. :) 
* Snow checks the gender of the rabbit. GM's choice. 
Random_Nerd: (Male.) 
Snow: "He's a boy rabbit." 
Snow: "Is that okay?" 
DanteE: "Probably petrified, too..." 
* DanteE gently takes the rabbit and zaps it with a Ghost-LC-Courage 
Theresa: "Well, that means that we wouldn't have lots of baby bunnies continuously." 
Theresa: (What's Dante's Realm?) 
DanteE: (1) 
Snow: "Okay! Let him go, then. Maybe I can hunt him over and over again now." 
Theresa: (Hmm... Can he do a ghost of Monty for Snow?) 
DanteE: (or we can just look up. :) 
Snow: (Aspect 0) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, Monty's moon is part of the Chancel. You can do divinations on it.) 
Theresa: (Yeah, that low of Aspect wouldn't go far enough...) 
DanteE: "Snow... you see that green moon up there, with what looks like a big brown spot on it?" 
Theresa: "What can you tell us about that place?" 
Snow: (In that case, presumably Snow already knows about Monty, having taken a look-see around the Chancel already in Div form." 
Snow: (About the moon?) 
Snow: (You are not allowed to ask me questions about the one chapter I have yet to read at all. Sez me.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's a moon. It's much lower and smaller than the actual moon, but it's still pretty big and close to the ground.) 
Random_Nerd: (It has a rabbit the size of Godzilla, and a bunch of plants on it. It's greenish.) 
Random_Nerd: (I mean, still pretty big and far off the ground.) 
Snow: "It's a moon. I don't remember it from before though..." 
Theresa: "It's kinda new." 
DanteE: (our tides are probably interesting...) 
Snow: "It's got a big rabbit on it." 
DanteE: "How are you at judging size?" 
Snow: "Oh! Want me to turn into the big rabbit? I can be all, 'rrr!' and you guys can be all, 'eee!'" 
Snow: (With Divination, pretty good.) 
* Snow shrugs at Dante. 
Random_Nerd: (I think turning into Monty would be out of the scope of your Gift.) 
DanteE: "No, that's quite all right! The one is plenty. 
Random_Nerd: (He's... wierd. Probably doesn't even qualify as an animal in the conventional sense.) 
Snow: (Dang. Well, she doesn't know that. But thanks for mentioning it.) 
DanteE: "You can turn into any animal?" 
Random_Nerd: (He's largely a big storm of demon blood and shards of angel-feather that happens to be shaped like a rabbit. And that grows.) 
* Snow shrugs. "I think so." 
DanteE: "...ever hear of a Bengal Tiger?" 
Snow: (FYI, I have nothing more to add in particular this evening.) 
* Snow shakes her head. "Nuh uh." 
Theresa: (Brain fall down, go boom..) 
Random_Nerd: (Stopping now sound good?) 
Snow: (Just in case we're waiting for me or something.) 
Theresa: (*nod*) 
Snow: (*NOD*) 
DanteE: (Ok.) 
Snow: (One o'clock hurts my brain.) 
Random_Nerd: ____________STOP____________ 
Random_Nerd: Okay, thoughts on the game? 
Random_Nerd: And, the mandatory question, which things did you like most and least about it? 
Snow: It was fun! And I really appreciate everyone being tolerant to Snow. 
DanteE: we have a thing for clumsy starts... 
DanteE: and we know a) she's One Of Us, and b) she's about to hurt like hell. 
Theresa: Liked the introduction of Snow..a little disappointed by the disappearance of James, but then again, I've been thinking of Kudzu eating him at the party for possibly a year + now. 
DanteE: well, Kudzu went and intimated that he's not dead... but rather turned. 
Theresa: More disappointed in Kudzu-speak, I think. 
Snow: On this note, I am going to crawl into bed. Thursday is unfortunately the only early class day I have. 
Snow: G'night all! 
Random_Nerd: G'night, Sara. 
*** Snow has left #nobilis. 
Theresa: And plus the three-hour time limit puts a cramp in the 'scream and shout' mode. 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
BethE: I think the whole 'James disappeared' thing is one of the reasons why Theresa spoke nicely to Lesson before they left. 
Knockwood: not sure how I like how slow we're going... 
BethE: Slow we're going in what part? 
Knockwood: but that's partly my fault, damn it. 
Knockwood: why like Yoda you're talking now? :) 
BethE: Because when brain you get this tired, talk so well you will not? 
Random_Nerd: Well, I imagine you guys will jump into action when the Excrucians spring their Cunning Plan. 
Knockwood: Right. Then we'll _really_ look stupid. :)

Blacksky Instance Keys

2007-09-10T23:57:16Z

BethDragon: /* Karazhan Key (The Master's Key) */

This page serves as a way for members of the Blacksky Company to track who is attuned or keyed to what instances in the Burning Crusade.

==Chart==

[[Image:BCRaids.png|749px|Attunement Chart for Burning Crusade]]

==Attuned Member List==

Mark when you are ABLE TO ENTER the listed raid, not when you've completed it.

{| BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0
! colspan="4" |
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#99ff99" | Caverns of Time
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#9999ff" | Five-man instance keys
! colspan="4" bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Heroic dungeon keys
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ff9999" | Raid attunements

|-
! Name !! Class !! 70 !! Flight

! bgcolor="#99ff99" | Durn- holde !! bgcolor="#99ff99" | Dark Portal !! bgcolor="#99ff99" | Mt. Hyjal

! bgcolor="#9999ff" | Shattered Halls !! bgcolor="#9999ff" | Shadow Labyrinth !! bgcolor="#9999ff" | Arcatraz

! bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Hellfire Citadel !! bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Coilfang Reservoir
! bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Auchin- doun !! bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Tempest Keep

! bgcolor="#ff9999" | Khara- zan !! bgcolor="#ff9999" | Eye of the Storm !! bgcolor="#ff9999" | Serpent- shrine Cavern

|- align="center"
| Agar || Hunter || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Audamin || Mage || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Azixarid || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| X || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Blackbraid || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Brotagar || Hunter || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Chaasii || Hunter || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Dorahan || Druid || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Garvok || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Ghostheart || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| X || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Gaumr || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| || X || X
| || X || X ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Grimm || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Grubsnik || Rogue || X || X
| || ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| || ||

|- align="center"
| Hellforge || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| || X ||
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Hutch || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| X || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Jhest || Rogue || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Kaghash || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Karloff || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Kaylyn || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Liissaa || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Maresh || Mage || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Malcheza || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| || ||

|- align="center"
| Markom || Shaman || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Steeldancer || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Theomund || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| X || X || X ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Vaargul || Hunter || X || X
| X || X ||
| || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Valdi || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| || ||

|- align="center"
| Xowalaci || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| || ||

|- align="center"
| Ysshka || Shaman || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|}

==Karazhan Key (The Master's Key)==

Put your name here if you are 70 and have done the intro quests (two quests outside Karazhan, a trip to Dalaran, a trip to Shattrath), and remove it and update the above table when you have your key. This is meant to be for people who are working on the key chain only. Check what you need to run based on your current steps only (so if you need the Shadow Lab, put an X under Shadow Lab; when you get it, put a space there instead and put an X under Steamvault and Arcatraz).

{| BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0

|-
! Name !! Class !! Old Hillsbrad !! Shadow Lab !! Steamvaults !! Arcatraz !! Black Morass

|- align="center"
| Grubsnik || Rogue || || X || || ||

|- align="center"
| Malcheza || Priest || || || X || X ||

|- align="center"
| Valdi || Priest || || || X || X ||

|- align="center"
| Xowalaci || Warrior || || X || || ||

|}

Blacksky Instance Keys

2007-09-10T23:53:43Z

BethDragon: /* Attuned Member List */

This page serves as a way for members of the Blacksky Company to track who is attuned or keyed to what instances in the Burning Crusade.

==Chart==

[[Image:BCRaids.png|749px|Attunement Chart for Burning Crusade]]

==Attuned Member List==

Mark when you are ABLE TO ENTER the listed raid, not when you've completed it.

{| BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0
! colspan="4" |
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#99ff99" | Caverns of Time
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#9999ff" | Five-man instance keys
! colspan="4" bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Heroic dungeon keys
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ff9999" | Raid attunements

|-
! Name !! Class !! 70 !! Flight

! bgcolor="#99ff99" | Durn- holde !! bgcolor="#99ff99" | Dark Portal !! bgcolor="#99ff99" | Mt. Hyjal

! bgcolor="#9999ff" | Shattered Halls !! bgcolor="#9999ff" | Shadow Labyrinth !! bgcolor="#9999ff" | Arcatraz

! bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Hellfire Citadel !! bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Coilfang Reservoir
! bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Auchin- doun !! bgcolor="#ff99ff" | Tempest Keep

! bgcolor="#ff9999" | Khara- zan !! bgcolor="#ff9999" | Eye of the Storm !! bgcolor="#ff9999" | Serpent- shrine Cavern

|- align="center"
| Agar || Hunter || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Audamin || Mage || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Azixarid || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| X || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Blackbraid || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Brotagar || Hunter || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Chaasii || Hunter || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Dorahan || Druid || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Garvok || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Ghostheart || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| X || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Gaumr || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| || X || X
| || X || X ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Grimm || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Grubsnik || Rogue || X || X
| || ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| || ||

|- align="center"
| Hellforge || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| || X ||
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Hutch || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| X || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Jhest || Rogue || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Kaghash || Warlock || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Karloff || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Kaylyn || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Liissaa || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Maresh || Mage || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || X || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Malcheza || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| || ||

|- align="center"
| Markom || Shaman || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X || X
| || X || || X
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Steeldancer || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Theomund || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| X || X || X ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Vaargul || Hunter || X || X
| X || X ||
| || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|- align="center"
| Valdi || Priest || X || X
| X || X ||
| || ||
| || || ||
| || ||

|- align="center"
| Xowalaci || Warrior || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| || ||

|- align="center"
| Ysshka || Shaman || X || X
| X || X ||
| X || X ||
| || || ||
| X || ||

|}

==Karazhan Key (The Master's Key)==

Put your name here if you are 70 and have done the intro quests (two quests outside Karazhan, a trip to Dalaran, a trip to Shattrath), and remove it and update the above table when you have your key. This is meant to be for people who are working on the key chain only. Check what you need to run based on your current steps only (so if you need the Shadow Lab, put an X under Shadow Lab; when you get it, put a space there instead and put an X under Steamvault and Arcatraz).

{| BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0

|-
! Name !! Class !! Old Hillsbrad !! Shadow Lab !! Steamvaults !! Arcatraz !! Black Morass

|- align="center"
| Grubsnik || Rogue || || X || || ||

|- align="center"
| Valdi || Priest || || || X || X ||

|- align="center"
| Xowalaci || Warrior || || X || || ||

|}

Amyra:Chapter 8

2007-08-09T02:51:25Z

BethDragon:

[[Session 59]]

Session 58

2007-08-09T02:50:35Z

BethDragon:

lazarus: remind me what we were up to? 
Random_Nerd: Awarding a prize to the guest who won the miracle contest. 
lazarus: ah, yes 
BethE: We were sending William to get a calliope for Conceptual Tint. And getting together presents for the participants and favors for everyone. And we need to send someone who can _play_ a calliope. 
lazarus: yay Supertramp! *rocks out to piano* 
BethE: Unless we get a player-calliope and thus all is good. 
Random_Nerd: And that's the more common kind, I believe. 
BethE: Whew. I didn't know if I had enough points to make a houseplant that can play all sorts of music. 
Random_Nerd: That'd be two domain MPs./ 
BethE: But I think I'm down to only one DMP at the moment, thanks to putting the plants on the moon. 
Sarabot: You... 
Sarabot: ...nevermind. 
Random_Nerd: When you get to that part in the logs, you'll understand. 
Random_Nerd: Ties into the bunny thing. 
Sarabot: Bunny's on the moon now? How sad. 
Random_Nerd: It's a bit more complicated than that. 
Sarabot: Good! 
Random_Nerd: Partly depends on what you mean by "the moon." 
BethE: It was either that or Bunny gets worse. Now he has a whole moon to play on until he falls into orbit. 
Sarabot: Of course it does. 
*** Knockwood has joined #nobilis. 
Knockwood: Hi guys... 
BethE: Hi Knock! *HUG* 
Sarabot: Hey :) 
Knockwood: Hi Beth. Who's Sarabot? 
Random_Nerd: Potential new player. 
Knockwood: Hi 
Sarabot: Just Sara. A friend, interested in the game. 
Knockwood: kewl 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Either of you guys mind the idea of a new player coming in, but not taking over James, rather having a new estate? 
Random_Nerd: There would be an at least adequate reason given to explain this. 
lazarus: I'm fine with it 
*** Mode change "+o Knockwood" for channel #nobilis by lazarus. 
Knockwood: always strive for adequacy, I always say. :) 
Knockwood: what's the estate? 
Sarabot: He said /at least/ adequate. It'll probably be stellar. Epic in nature. 
BethE: I welcome someone who isn't subject to the Curse of James, but how would we keep Lesson? 
Random_Nerd: Have you settled on an estate, Sara? 
* Sarabot nods. 
Sarabot: Should I say? Dan's all secret-like, so I don't want to step on your toes. 
Random_Nerd: Nah. I'm pretty open about this stuff. 
Random_Nerd: There's backstory and setting stuff that the players don't know yet, but that's because they're mysteries connected with the storyline. 
lazarus: so, Sara comes in, kills James and takes his EnNoblement? 
Sarabot: Okie dokie. I was going to go with Capriciousness. 
Random_Nerd: Oh... I think it'll be slightly more complicated than that. 
Random_Nerd: Mystery's a tool that's sometimes useful, but not an end in itself. 
Sarabot: I've gotta kill someone? How perplexing. 
* Sarabot snorts. 
lazarus: don't forget to take his Anchor. 
lazarus: it's too bad that Luc isn't one of James' Anchors :( 
Random_Nerd: I have a few ideas for James. 
Random_Nerd: Luc's taken, at the moment. 
Random_Nerd: But if the past is any indication, he may not always remain so. 
Knockwood: Capriciousness makes perfect sense as a Noble of Kudzu. 
lazarus: Kudzu is capricious enough. 
Random_Nerd: Yep. Fits his concept awfully well. 
BethE: It's a very Wild concept. 
lazarus: Question, RN: what happens to Domains that currently don't have Nobles associated with them? 
Random_Nerd: They still have Imperators, and they still exist, but they don't have a particular non-Imperator person looking after them. 
Random_Nerd: Not all Imperators are enchanceled. 
Random_Nerd: Really, for Imperators not on worlds like Earth that're major fronts in the War, enchancelling is the exception rather than the rule. 
Random_Nerd: And there are even some on Earth that don't have chancels and nobles. 
lazarus: *nod* 
Random_Nerd: An attack on a Domain with no Noble would be a bigger problem. 
Knockwood: personally, I'm wondering what you could do with Domain Miracles of Capriciousness, tho 
Random_Nerd: After all, the Imperator would have to deal with it personally, which would distract them from the Spirit World side of the war. 
Sarabot: It would be very chaotic. *beams* 
BethE: How would you stop a missle? :) 
Random_Nerd: The current idea seems to involve getting things to act like themselves, but more so. 
lazarus: so, do you have stats yet? :-P 
Sarabot: The things inside the missile, as RN put it, would suddenly find it a better idea to act less like themselves. Like someone who decides to take a trip to Vegas on a whim. 
Sarabot: No stats yet. Just found out about this on Sunday night. ;) 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. 
Random_Nerd: Applying such a miracle to some of the components of a missile, but not all, would cause it to not be guided in a reliable way. 
* Sarabot looks innocent. 
Sarabot: Well, SHE would be safe. 
Sarabot: O:) 
Knockwood: could also increase the capriciousness of the missile's spirit, ne? 
Sarabot: As a whole, sure. Though it may decide that it likes what it's doing. Better to create a whole lot of capricious things that can conflict. 
Random_Nerd: Well, the missile's spirit and the missile are the same thing. 
Random_Nerd: It's not like it's inhabited by a spirit. The prosaic thing and the mythic spirit of the thing are two different ways of looking at the same thing. 
Sarabot: Couldn't you break it down into nuts and bolts, though? The spirits of those things? 
Random_Nerd: Yep. Mythic reality is fractal, in some ways. 
Random_Nerd: There's a basically infinite level of complexity, if you keep looking closer. 
Sarabot: Alternately, if there were a slightly defective part in the missile, she could remove its capriciousness and cause it to act more like itself. Increase its chance of failing. 
lazarus: nice. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm! I already have an idea for a Flower Rite on Capriciousness. 
Sarabot: Oh yeah! I need to know what her flower would be. 
* BethE points at RN. He'll do it. 
lazarus: GWB has a way to create them. And Theresa can make them real, if they aren't 
Random_Nerd: Well, we can make a flower for her later. Really, we could probably work that out in-character, since she's new. 
Sarabot: That's cool. In the meantime, I'll see if I can hunt down someone with a copy, or a used copy. 
lazarus: so, jump right into new gal walking into the award ceremony? ;) 
Random_Nerd: One of the people who works for the PCs, among other things, is trained in Noble heraldry. 
Sarabot: Cool! 
lazarus: (working on the Principle of Most Amusement, that's what should happen :p) 
Random_Nerd: Well, I figure that the current story is about to end. What do you think of bringing her in at the beginning of the next one? 
Sarabot: I'm not ready to play tonight anyway, with no stats. 
lazarus: bah. Trivialities for the Nobilis! 
Knockwood: we can observe the actual building of a Noble. 
Knockwood: which reminds me: who/what were you before enNobling? 
Sarabot: Hopefully it's not just a *BAMF!*. Noble. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Could we at least wait a week? I'd like to work a few things out myself on it first. 
Random_Nerd: Introducing a new character is important, so I want to do it right. 
lazarus: oo! Otherkin Nobilis! 
Sarabot: RN knows stuff, so I'll let him tell you what he will. 
Knockwood: the first test-firing of Kaerkoven U's new transmogrifier goes strangely wrong when a power surge turns an ordinary _______ into ... Capricious Girl! 
* Sarabot laughs. 
Random_Nerd: You can tell them whatever you want. 
Random_Nerd: You know your ideas better, so you can explain it better than I. 
* Sarabot rubs her hands together, all evil-like. 
Sarabot: Some secrecy's nice, if only so I can change my mind about things and not come off looking like an ass. 
Sarabot: Suffice it to say that Capriciousness will be very...capricious. As in, this won't be an accountant with capriciousness foisted upon her. 
Sarabot: And I hope everybody doesn't hate her off the bat and want to dump her troublesome self down a well. 
Random_Nerd: No, that's Theresa! 
Knockwood: naah, that's me. 
lazarus: don't worry. You can't come up with a worse plan than Theresa did, so you're good. 
Random_Nerd: Bet you a dollar? 
* Sarabot GRINS. 
Sarabot: I play with RN's Nelson character. I have a good teacher when it comes to bad plans. 
lazarus: hee ^_^ 
BethE: *stubs toes in the dirt* I _said_ I was sorry for the bunny crushing the city... 
Knockwood: hm... 
Knockwood: what are you considering for the character, Gift-wise? 
Sarabot: That's the Wild/Light/Dark thing? 
Random_Nerd: Gifts are the ideosyncratic powers Nobles can have. 
Knockwood: more like 'weird stuff you can do' 
lazarus: aw *hugs beth* don't worry about that. Everything turned out alright. 
Random_Nerd: Like, being able to breathe fire, or fly, or pull armies from behind your ear. 
Knockwood: or--might fit her--shapeshift 
Sarabot: I was leaning toward personal transformation, but I'm not certain yet. 
* Sarabot laughs. 
Sarabot: Oh, is that why Theresa has Irresistable and Carrie has...drat...not Impressive, but something like that? 
Knockwood: Inspiring 
Sarabot: That's it, sorry. 
BethE: *nodnod* Theresa has the Irresistable gift and now Where's Noble-Waldo. Dante has Raise the Dead. 
Sarabot: Swanky! 
BethE: Carrie also has Perfect Timing. 
lazarus: Brian has Beloved Populace. 
lazarus: Chancelfolk love him. 
Sarabot: Niiice! 
lazarus: no one's really sure why :-P 
Sarabot: Heh. I take...turning into a pigeon. 
Knockwood: and we all have preservations 
Knockwood: Sacrosanct in my case. 
Sarabot: Sacrosanct being? 
BethE: *shifty eyes* Pigeons...don't last long here... 
Sarabot: Copper blood, I saw. 
Random_Nerd: That was /one/ pigeon, and it wasn't even in-chancel. 
Sarabot: I would have kept the circulatory system. 
BethE: We did. I think it's in Dante's office. 
Random_Nerd: They did. 
Sarabot: Cool! 
Sarabot: ...she is so going to gank the pigeon... 
Knockwood: already ganked. 
Sarabot: Dang! 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. So, should we start, and finish this story? Or talk more about the new PC? 
Knockwood: And yeah, the copper pigeon circulatory system is in a bell jar in my office along with a small pile of curiousities I seem to be collecting. 
Sarabot: Please don't feel obliged to talk about me. I'm really here to watch 
BethE: I'm good with either one. We could finish the story and then drool some more over Sara. 
lazarus: let's talk more about the new PC! 
* Sarabot hides. 
lazarus: . o O(oo shiny!) 
Sarabot: I'm getting embarassed.... 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
Theresa: (Hmm...so we have party favors, yes?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
Random_Nerd: (Ready to start?) 
Brian: (yep) 
Theresa: (Ready.) 
DanteE: (IIRC, we were sending William out to grab a calliope from a circus so that we could clean & tune it up and give it as a prize to Conceptual Tint for impressing us with how he changed the tone and feeling of the music played by Theresa on her little flute. :) 
DanteE: (Meanwhile, back at the ranch... :) 
Theresa: (Out rocked Carradine, baby...) 
Random_Nerd: ______________START_____________________ 
Random_Nerd: The various guest Nobles chat with each other in the background as the Nobles of Locus Kudzu settle on the details of the prize. 
* Theresa prepares the bouquets of their personal flowers and the foods and trinkets that Carrie had prepared. 
DanteE: "So, are we agreed on Conceptual Tint?" 
Brian: "I believe so" 
Theresa: "I agree." 
DanteE: "And some other prizes for others... what do you think about a beehive for Martyrs?" 
Brian: "Sounds fun" 
DanteE: "... I just hope the other participants are okay with 'losing', if you know what I mean." 
Theresa: "If they aren't, well, the Grove should help contain the fallout..." 
Brian: "Well, we could give everyone something" 
Brian: (brb) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and for Sara's benefit, there's a group of other Nobles here in the Chancel, visiting at a social gathering the PCs thrown. Most of them look like normal people, one family of them have physical features that it's impossible to notice the details of, one group of them are disembodied spirits from another world, and one looks like a skinned woman.) 
Sarabot: (*nodnod* Thank you!) 
Theresa: "Well, Carrie collected some of the homemade delicacies and some souvineers of Amyra. Ooo, she even got some beanie plushy mine oysters!" *squishes one* 
Brian: (back) 
DanteE: "And I think a few of them got T-shirts from the tour as well..." 
Theresa: "Do you think it will take William long enough to get back?" 
DanteE: (#$%@^!! Hang on, have to log out for a minute because of an auto-update... BRB... ) 
*** DanteE has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: ). 
Random_Nerd: (Grabbing a calliope may take some time.) 
* Theresa asks Brian, "So, what did you and Night talk about while everyone else was on the tour or fighting you-know-whats?" 
Brian: "Nothing much. Mostly (he?) was looking at the Willow" 
Theresa: (Maple.) 
Theresa: (And yep, he.) 
Random_Nerd: (Dante, you feel the itching feeling that means that someone's praying to you. Do you pay attention to it?) 
*** DanteE has joined #nobilis. 
DanteE: (Bak) 
Theresa: "He was talking to the Maple?" *looks over at her tree* "Wonder what about." 
Random_Nerd: (Dante, you feel the itching feeling that means that someone's praying to you. Do you pay attention to it?) 
DanteE: (Yes. Can I get details?) 
Brian: "I don't think the Maple answered, though" 
Random_Nerd: William, to Dante. "I've located the calliope, and they're trying to contact someone with the authority to sell it. Would you like it to be delivered to you as soon as possible?" 
* Theresa feels a little better. Not going to admit that she was worried that the Maple would actually talk and not her... 
DanteE: (can I talk back the same way?) 
Random_Nerd: The Maple stands in the background, looking like a tree. 
Random_Nerd: (Using the Message Board, yes.) 
DanteE: (then it pulls its roots out of the ground, walks over and introduces itself as Sara! :D ) 
Random_Nerd: (You've got enough Realm to make a ghost miracle near it, to tell it to tell William.) 
Random_Nerd: (Right?) 
DanteE: MB: "Yes, bring it to us at the grove when you can." 
DanteE: (yep) 
Theresa: (How's the Maple looking mythic-wise? Any changes since lately?) 
Random_Nerd: W: "As soon as possible, sir." 
Random_Nerd: The Maple looks slightly pleased with himself. 
DanteE: (Who was talking to it?) 
Theresa: (Night.) 
* Theresa raises an eyebrow. Resolves to go talk to Maple later once the guests have left. 
* Theresa has small reed baskets now filled with variations of Amyran foods and trinkets. (Hmm, anyone want to throw in the 'original' DVDs of Raiders of the Lost Ark...oh, wait, that would be Realm, wouldn't work.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, but you could send Samuel to a nearby video store.) 
Brian: (point) 
Brian: "Samuel, can you go pick up a bunch of copies of the original Raiders?" 
Theresa: "Hmm...Raiders DVDs for everyone or just Shadows? He seemed the most interested." 
Random_Nerd: Samuel: "The Fountain Of Youth version?" 
Theresa: (Ahh, never mind.) 
Brian: "That's the one" 
Theresa: "With commentary, please." 
DanteE: "Get the deluxe version." 
Random_Nerd: (To explain the Indiana Jones thing to Sara, when Amyra was enchancelled, the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, and the Lance of Longinus were lost to the world. Previously, they had a known modern location, and so, when Amyra became a chancel, the first and third Indiana Jones movies changed.) 
Random_Nerd: Samuel: "I'll get a bunch of copies of the first and third ones." 
Brian: "Ah, heck, just go for the deluxe trilogy box" 
Random_Nerd: (Well, the second one didn't change.) 
Brian: (so what?) 
Random_Nerd: (Fair enough.) 
Random_Nerd: Samuel swirls off in a chaos of colored scarves. 
Brian: (infinite money, remember? Plus, everything belongs to us, anyway ;)) 
Theresa: "So, that about it? Or do we need anything along the lines of "I found Prester John's Kingdom, where's my Crusade?" shirts..." 
Brian: "I visited Amyra, and all I got was this stupid t-shirt ... for those who didn't enter ^_^" 
Brian: "Or, hell, in your bouquets, toss that in. But 'bouquet' and not 't-shirt', of course" 
DanteE: "I think one or two of them went and grabbed some stuff from the castle gift shop anyway. :) 
Theresa: "But they're our personal flowers...not quite on the side of stupid." 
Random_Nerd: A pickup truck towing a calliope pulls up to the road near the Grove. 
Random_Nerd: Right next to the bookstore. 
DanteE: "And there's WIlliam... 
Random_Nerd: William gets out of the passenger side and starts walking towards the PCs. 
* Theresa smiles. "Ah, our prize has arrived." 
DanteE: "Brian, think you can tune this thing, maybe clean it with some Realm work?" 
Brian: "Sure." (what'll it take?) 
Random_Nerd: (We've established that Brian can use Numbers divinations to have perfect pitch, I believe. And cleaning could be done with ghost miracles, most likely.) 
Random_Nerd: (It'll take a few minutes of fiddling with it. Not too much, because it's been kept in decent shape.) 
Brian: (very well. So, pretty much no MPs, then?) 
Random_Nerd: (No MPs.) 
* DanteE Ghosts the machine clean 
Random_Nerd: (And even though Realm is used to clean it, it'll still stay clean afterwards, since you're not making anything new and there're no lingering supernatural effects.) 
* Theresa makes sure the bouquets and baskets are all ready. 
* DanteE checks on the guests... 
Random_Nerd: The guests are doing fairly well. They seem largely to be networking with the other Families. 
DanteE: "Ready for the prizes and goodbyes?" 
Theresa: "I think so. I hope we've been good hosts. With the exception of the uninvited guest at the palace." 
Brian: "Dante, if you'll announce?" 
Random_Nerd: For instance, Night is whispering something to Consequences, who's nodding. 
Theresa: (Waaah! Quite conspiring about my tree!!! *paranoid*) 
DanteE: "Certainly..." 
Random_Nerd: (Ah, but what if they're conspiring /with/ your tree?) 
* DanteE heads for the group, clapping his hands. 
Theresa: (Then I am sad that my tree doesn't want to conspire with _me_.) 
DanteE: (Oh, is Samuel back with the DVDs?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not quite yet.) 
Brian: (ff to then?) 
Random_Nerd: (Works for me.) 
Random_Nerd: People look up when Dante claps. 
DanteE: "Thank you all for coming to our little get-together.... 
DanteE: "We hope to see each of you again soon. 
Random_Nerd: Samuel arrives, carrying a large box. 
DanteE: "That said... 
DanteE: "We loved each and every one of the miracles you showed us. 
DanteE: "The one that most surprised us, though, was ... 
DanteE: "... Conceptual Tint's. 
Random_Nerd: Shadows, to Eclipses, quietly: "You were robbed." 
DanteE: "We've procured something that I hope you'll like... 
DanteE: "An Earth instrument called a 'Calliope'. 
DanteE: "It uses the flow of air to produce music..." 
* DanteE shows off by playing something bouncy on it. 
Theresa: (And it plays music by itself.) 
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint's floating three-corner hat wanders over to next to the calliope. 
DanteE: "So, what do you think?" 
Random_Nerd: CT: "So, it works by steam?" 
DanteE: "It does indeed." 
Random_Nerd: CT: "Could you hold my hat for a moment, please?" 
DanteE: "Certainly." 
Random_Nerd: The hat is handed to Dante, leaving Conceptual Tint entirely invisible for a moment. 
Random_Nerd: CT's disembodied voice: "Ah, yes, I see." 
Random_Nerd: He takes the hat and puts it back on. 
Random_Nerd: CT: "I like it, and I think I already know where in my house to put it." 
* Theresa smiles, glad that he likes the prize! 
DanteE: "Wonderful. 
Random_Nerd: "I was already meaning to put in a steamboat one of these days." 
DanteE: "Not that we're leaving anybody out... 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock, in the background, makes a "Hrrmph" noise. 
DanteE: "Everyone gets bouquets of our flowers, should you wish to contact us... 
DanteE: "Those of you that want them can have DVD sets of the original Indiana Jones trilogy... 
DanteE: "And for a few of you... 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "Thanks. I always liked the Fountain of Youth one best." 
DanteE: (Theresa, you made the beehive, right?) 
Theresa: (The straw and wood one, yep. No bees in it, though.) 
Random_Nerd: "Connery was just off his game in the new one." 
* Theresa pulls the beehive from behind a corner where it had been hiding. No evil bees. *shifty look* 
DanteE: (Not a problem if it smells liek honey. :) 
DanteE: (...and can anyone think of appropriate gifts for some of the others?) 
Brian: (I hope we find one for Typoes...) 
Theresa: (Consequences' family is hard to shop for.) 
* DanteE heads over to Martyrs... 
DanteE: "Would you accept this, as apology for that little contretemps from earlier?" 
Random_Nerd: She nods, and reaches out to shake Dante's hand, and then hesitates. 
DanteE: (uhoh, had a connection glitch... did I miss anything?) 
Theresa: (Hmm, it didn't show you leaving, Dante.) 
Random_Nerd: ([22:39] * DanteE heads over to Martyrs... 
Random_Nerd: [22:39] DanteE: "Would you accept this, as apology for that little contretemps from earlier?" 
Random_Nerd: [22:40] Random_Nerd: She nods, and reaches out to shake Dante's hand, and then hesitates. 
Random_Nerd: [22:41] DanteE: (uhoh, had a connection glitch... did I miss anything?) 
Random_Nerd: [22:41] Theresa: (Hmm, it didn't show you leaving, Dante.)) 
DanteE: (it was a subtle glitch... bleeping dialup...) 
DanteE: (What's Martyrs doing?) 
Random_Nerd: (She's pausing after reaching out to shake Dante's hand.) 
DanteE: (Can I tell why she's pausing?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not really.) 
* DanteE shakes her hand. 
Random_Nerd: It feels a bit weird, with the bones and muscles and blood. 
Random_Nerd: She looks him in the face, and from the muscle twitching, she'd probably be smiling if she had, like, lips. 
* DanteE makes a point of not going ick or cleaning his hand off... in view, anyway. 
Theresa: (Aww...) 
DanteE: (You guys want to give gifts to some of the other Nobles?) 
Theresa: "We also have some baskets of some of the local favorite foods and some items made by folks of the Chancel." 
Theresa: (I don't know anything specific that might be helpful. Plus, we need to watch out with the gift thing so it doesn't become too much.) 
DanteE: (Well, they did entertain us with miracles) 
Random_Nerd: (Also, coming from a Wild chancel, giving out a lot of gifts has weird undertones.) 
Random_Nerd: (A little like a Moslem making BLT sandwiches for people, in some ways.) 
Random_Nerd: (It doesn't break the Code, but it comes across as a bit weird.) 
Theresa: (Yes, they entertained us, but we fed them and took them on tours and so forth. Let them fraternize with our flora.) 
DanteE: (Would it be OK with protocol if we stopped there, then?) 
Random_Nerd: (It would.) 
DanteE: "Once again, thank you all, it was very nice to meet you, and we hope to see you again!" 
Theresa: "Thank you so much for visiting us. We really enjoyed seeing all of you and getting to know more Nobles." *smiles at Physics* "And good joke before. Heart-attack inducing, but good." 
Random_Nerd: Physics: "You guys reacted to that one /way/ more gracefully than the last group I tried it on." 
Random_Nerd: Physics: "I was impressed." 
DanteE: "Comes from being around me. :)" 
Brian: "When you've dealt with giant bunnies of doom, a little Entropy is no problem..." 
* Theresa will _not_ facepalm at this, but will look a little...discomfited. 
DanteE: "In fact I'm sure Monty says Hi..." (looks up) 
Theresa: "How did the last group react, Physics?" 
Random_Nerd: Physics: "They were very very polite. And they gave me a horse made from diamonds." 
Random_Nerd: Physics: "Although, there is one thing. How do you know I'm actually the Power of Physics?" 
Brian: "All we have is your word. I see no reason why you would lie" 
Random_Nerd: P: "Well, if I were Entropy, would I have a problem with lying to people?" 
Theresa: "I can see all sorts of reasons why he would lie, but he did do the lightbulb trick." 
Random_Nerd: P: "But Entropy /does/ have that one weird Excrucian trick. He could do that, I'm pretty sure." 
Theresa: (Man, he's lucky...RN keeps asking for a pony and he never gets one...) 
Brian: (doesn't T keep asking for a pony?) 
Theresa: "Wouldn't you have busted the lightbulb too, though?" 
Random_Nerd: "Maybe. At any rate, I should be going." 
Theresa: "Okay. Thank you for coming, even if you're Entropy." *smile* 
DanteE: "Good night, whoever you are, then. :)" 
DanteE: "You and Brian did hash out any potential conflicts, right?" 
Random_Nerd: He nods, and slices a hole in the air with his hand. 
Random_Nerd: Then, he steps through. 
* Theresa does facepalm now. "So very not sure..." 
 
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "That was... unsettling. He was joking, right?" 
Random_Nerd: Night: "...you know, Entropy might actually do that. I /think/ he was joking, though." 
DanteE: (what did his body language &expression say?) 
Theresa: "Would Entropy go Chancel-hopping and partycrash?" 
Random_Nerd: (Well, it was consistant with him being joking. But that'd fit Entropy's probable mood on making everyone panic, too.) 
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "I hope not." 
DanteE: "Brian, you did talk Physics with him, right?" 
Brian: "Of course" 
DanteE: "e didn't blank on any fundamental constants, did he?" 
Sarabot: (Sorry to scamper, but it's past midnight and I have class early tomorrow. See you later!) 
Random_Nerd: (G'night, Sara.) 
DanteE: g'night! 
Theresa: "Well, if Brian gets hauled in by the Locust Court for crimes against physics, we'll have our answer?" 
Theresa: (Night, Sara! *HUG* Thanks for watching!) 
*** Sarabot has left #nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "If you don't mind... I think I'd rather step out too. You guys okay with that?" 
* DanteE heads over to Consequences... 
DanteE: quietly: "Actually, I wonder if you could look at something for me for just a moment... 
Theresa: "No, totally understandable." 
* DanteE makes sure he's out of view, then pulls out the blood drop. 
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "Yes?" 
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "Fuck." 
DanteE: "...mind elaborating?" 
Random_Nerd: C: "Err, that is to say..." 
Random_Nerd: C: "This had something to do with a major miracle, didn't it?" 
DanteE: "Yes. There was an incident during the party... 
DanteE: "A shard appeared in the vault after the tour. 
Random_Nerd: C: "Not good." 
DanteE: "This thing here may or may not have some rather serious Consequences associated with it... 
DanteE: "Can you tell us if you see anything?" 
Theresa: (Dante, you might wanna say that the shard is dead, ya know...just so as not to freak him out...) 
Random_Nerd: C: "The details are clouded by some sort of big miracle, but it's definitely in my estate." 
DanteE: (Thanks Theresa) 
DanteE: "The shard is dead, by the way. 
Random_Nerd: C: "Ah. Good. What kind was it?" 
DanteE: "I wish I could claim the victory, but the Holy Lance did it for me." 
Random_Nerd: He flinches a little when you mention the Lance. 
 
DanteE: "Well, she dissolved into ichor after death." 
Random_Nerd: C: "Didn't blow up or anything?" 
DanteE: "No, melted." 
Random_Nerd: C: "And it fought with you. Did it destroy anything you saw?" 
Theresa: (Strategist shard, I believe.) 
Theresa: (Destroyed King John's esophagus.) 
Random_Nerd: (No, his larynx.) 
DanteE: "It did hurt King John, but I was able to heal him after." 
Theresa: (Thank you.) 
Random_Nerd: C: "Sounds like a Warmain, I think. Could be worse." 
DanteE: "Something like the Darth Vader choke" 
DanteE: "This was a sort of leftover. See anything?" 
Random_Nerd: "Hmm..." 
Random_Nerd: He squints. 
Random_Nerd: "It's not a blightstone, I don't think. Or if it is, it's a different kind than I've seen." 
Random_Nerd: "If the land here gets poisoned or anything, though, destroy that." 
DanteE: "How?" 
Random_Nerd: "Physical force, miracles, whatever." 
Random_Nerd: "If it's a blightstone, the hard part's finding it, not breaking it." 
DanteE: "This may have been created by the blood of the Shard, by the way." 
Random_Nerd: C: "Before or after it died?" 
DanteE: "After." 
Random_Nerd: C: "Odd. That doesn't sound like a warmain trick." 
DanteE: "It actually came with a message... 
DanteE: "who is probably still wandering around somewhere..." 
* DanteE double checks that no one else is around. 
DanteE: "And it manifested after I picked up the spear." 
DanteE: (Can you guys say goodbyes to the others while we talk?) 
Random_Nerd: C: "Really, that sounds like a /Noble/ trick, if anything. Or something weird." 
Brian: (I sort of assume that's what we've been doing) 
Theresa: (Who arrived via boat? Or did everyone portal in?) 
* DanteE tells Conseq a short version of the encounter with Message. 
DanteE: "...and that was right before the Miracle contest. 
* Theresa will help hand out the gift baskets and make up doggie bags for anyone that wants some. 
DanteE: "By the way, thank you for reminding me about how much depends on us being circumspect." 
Random_Nerd: C: "That's important. Bad things can happen when peoplearen't circumspect." 
Random_Nerd: C: "Errr, that wasn't a threat, just... well, they /can/." 
DanteE: "I know. :)" 
Random_Nerd: C: "That's about a third of my job right there." 
DanteE: "Of course you damn near got Aspect-Heimliched, but that's another matter. :)" 
Random_Nerd: C: "Still, I have business to attend to, so if you don't mind, I'll rejoin my family and head out." 
DanteE: "Want a hunk of beef to take home?" 
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint, to Brian and Theresa: "Thanks for the calliope." 
Random_Nerd: C: "No, it's fine, we have cows at home too." 
Brian: "You deserve it. Glad you like it" 
Theresa: "We hope you like it. Your miracle was marvelous. Will you need any help transporting it?" 
DanteE: "Good night Consequences. 
Random_Nerd: CT looks at Blue Shock. 
Random_Nerd: BS: "No, it's fine, we can take it with us." 
DanteE: "Do you need help with the beehive?" 
Random_Nerd: Martyrs shrugs, picks it up, and carries it on one shoulder. 
Random_Nerd: Duty waves, smiles, and opens a glowing arch in the air. 
* DanteE waves! 
Theresa: "Thank you again for coming!" 
Random_Nerd: Duty: "Thank your for the invitation, and you're welcome in our chancel whenever you like, although please do call ahead." 
Brian: "Likewise" 
Random_Nerd: Shadows, Eclipses, and Consequences likewise make their goodbyes, and they leave together. 
Random_Nerd: The Dionyl, and the calliope, fade away. 
DanteE: "We should learn how to do that." 
Random_Nerd: (It's a fairly cheap gift.) 
Random_Nerd: (Most families have at least one person with some version of it.) 
DanteE: (That's everyone, right?) 
Theresa: "True, we can't use the Chancel portals all of the time." 
Brian: "Well, we got through that. And didn't insult anyone. too badly." 
Random_Nerd: (Night's family's still there.) 
Brian: (err, retract my statement then) 
Random_Nerd: Night's looking a bit thoughtful, Martyrs looks ready to go, and Angst is filling a basket with food. 
* DanteE goes over to Night... 
DanteE: "Thank you for coming." 
DanteE: (Martyrs is the only one that entered the contest, right?) 
Random_Nerd: "Thank you for having us here." 
Random_Nerd: (Correct.) 
Theresa: "Need any help with that?" *to Angst* 
Random_Nerd: "Nah, I'm good." 
Random_Nerd: Night: "I do believe we'll be going now. Goodbye." 
Brian: "Goodbye" 
DanteE: "Good ni... uh, bye. 
Random_Nerd: Angst and Night both raise a hand for a moment, they look at each other for a moment, and then Angst lowers his. 
Theresa: *to Night* "Hope you enjoyed the Maple tree." *smile* 
Random_Nerd: Night snaps his fingers, and all three vanish, with Martyrs waving for a moment right beforehand. 
Theresa: (Never mind. :) ) 
Random_Nerd: (retcon it in before?) 
Brian: (now, put in my comment) "Well, we got through that. Without insulting anyone. Too much" 
Theresa: (Sure, please. I hope there's a reply...) 
DanteE: "We're still new at this... 
Random_Nerd: (Right as she says that, he twitches a little and does the vanish trick.) 
DanteE: what time is it IC? 
Theresa: "Yeah, we handled a party and an invasion by a Stragegist shard at the same time." *rubs forehead* "If only I was more of a drinking person." 
DanteE: "Consequences was thinking Warmain." 
Random_Nerd: (Evening.) 
Brian: "... vodka is potato based. Potato's a plant." 
DanteE: "Want to have another look in that vault, see if we can tell how she got in there?" 
Brian: "Tomorrow?" 
Theresa: "Oh, I could make it. I could possibly maybe even form it, although rotting potatoes would be more likely. I'm just not the type to drown my after-slaughter jitters with alcohol." 
DanteE: to Brian: "You know me, I'm impatient on mundane matters. Now." 
Theresa: *to Dante* "I don't know...I'm still thinking Strategist. Destroying John's throat like that...and plus I would think a Warmain would be more...showy." 
Brian: "If you like..." 
Theresa: "If John will even let us near the place. He was _upset_." 
Random_Nerd: (Mind if we stop here?) 
DanteE: "That's why I'm asking you guys to lead instead of me." 
Brian: (no problems) 
Brian: "I'd prefer to wait at least until I've slept again." 
DanteE: "...all right, I guess everyone will calm down then." 
Theresa: "Maybe have Lesson keep an eye out for our guy in Red, though." 
DanteE: (I can stop here.) 
* Theresa also tells Sam and Will that they did excellent jobs. 
Theresa: (I'm ready to call it a night.) 
DanteE: "Oh... we should tell him shouldn't we?" 
Random_Nerd: ___________________________STOP_____________________ 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
*** Brian is now known as lazarus. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, thoughts? 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
BethE: Glad that we didn't make complete fools of ourselves. :) 
Knockwood: did I dominate? 
lazarus: kwd: if you dominated, it's in part because I let you. If I feel I want to say or do something, I will get it in :-P 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Well, a little, but it makes sense, because Dante had the most reason to be dealing with certain stuff. 
Knockwood: Am I over-stressing about what happened? 
Random_Nerd: With the blood thing, and the insect, and the message guy? 
Knockwood: yeah, and picking up the spear 
Random_Nerd: You're stressing out about the right amount. 
BethE: (I feel I am not stressing enough about the Maple, but it quite late and I am tired. <G>) 
Knockwood: ... 
BethE: Why the ... ? 
Knockwood: wondering about what RN said 
Knockwood: oh, hey, new player... next week? 
lazarus: oh, yay, I'm going to be Bubbled for the first part, most likely, and come in in the "oh, new James?" way partway through. 
Random_Nerd: Ah, yes, Sara. 
Random_Nerd: Starting next week, yes. 
Knockwood: laz: huh? 
Random_Nerd: Although she won't be playing James. 
BethE: Bubbled? 
lazarus: kwd: I may be missing the first part of next week 
lazarus: in the D&D game I play, people go into their own little bubble if the player's not there 
BethE: AhhhHHHhhh... 
Knockwood: y'know, that might work in Nobilis... 
Knockwood: Greater Preservation miracle gone slightly wrong. :) 
BethE: *snort* 
Knockwood: so, she'll be the Power of Capriciousness? 
BethE: *nod* 
Knockwood: guess I'll no longer be The Impulsive One... :) 
BethE: Well, all, I need to get to bed. Night! Good game! *HUGS* 
Random_Nerd: Well, perhaps one of the Impulsive Two.

Amyra:Chapter 7

2007-08-09T02:50:08Z

BethDragon: /* Chapter 7 */

== Chapter 7 ==

[[Session 43.5]] OOC

[[Session 43.75]] OOC

[[Session 44]]

<center>'''[[The Vision]]'''</center>

[[Session 45]]

[[Session 46]]

[[Session 47]]

[[Session 48]]

[[Session 49]]

[[Session 50]]

[[Session 51]]

[[Session 52]]

[[Session 53]]

[[Session 53.5]] OOC

[[Session 54]]

[[Session 55]]

[[Session 56]]

[[Session 57]]

[[Session 58]]

Session 57

2007-08-09T02:49:50Z

BethDragon:

Theresa: Dante and Theresa just got back to everyone. 
Random_Nerd: And Brian has already been there. 
* DanteE looks just a little tired. 
Theresa: All we have left is the miracles contest and prizes? 
Brian: this is after chatting with Message? 
DanteE: yep 
Random_Nerd: Yeah. 
DanteE: (screwing up the universe is _hard!_ :) 
Random_Nerd: It's Power of Blades Barbie! 
Random_Nerd: Comes with sword, glass eye, and a car with an unnaturally large trunk! 
DanteE: sword that looks like a cane, I might add. :) 
Random_Nerd: Not to be confused with your cane that looks like a sword. 
Random_Nerd: Ready to start? 
Theresa: Ready! I think. 
DanteE: suuuuuure... 
Brian: sure 
Random_Nerd: ________________START________________ 
Random_Nerd: The guests have arrived back at the Grove, as have the PCs. 
Random_Nerd: Guest Nobles: *mill about* 
* Theresa pats her hair back in place. 
DanteE: to his Familia: "So... any of you think up a miracle to show the guests?" 
Theresa: "I'm not sure if we're to impress or what." 
Brian: "most of my visible ones aren't too impressive. I mean ... tell time? Woo!" 
DanteE: "Well, to be fair, we can't enter the competition. :)" 
DanteE: "And we should probably ask them to stick to Ghosts..." 
Theresa: "We need to make sure we have prizes as well." 
Brian: "we have a Magic Badge Machine that can be used. with the minor alteration of "this is a trophy! this is a trophy!" being broadcast" 
DanteE: quietly: "Then we need to check out that breakthrough further. I do not like her timing." 
Random_Nerd: (Magic Badges only work on chancelfolk, though, and they only do one thing. You'd need to make something new for that.) 
* Theresa nods to Dante. "And I want to know if this is a first-visit or not." 
Theresa: "I know Carrie had some prizes lined up and I had gathered some of the finest foods Amyra produces." 
DanteE: (You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Kaerkoven? :) 
Theresa: (A john with cheese?) 
Brian: (first prize?) 
DanteE: (movie reference) 
DanteE: (they probably do call it a Royale with cheese) 
Random_Nerd: (Has it ever been settled whether Amyra is metric?) 
Theresa: (Uh...I don't think it had been settled. We're kinda European decent, though.) 
Brian: (I assume it is) 
Brian: (simply because I assume the Imperial System is an Excrucian infiltration on Measurements :p) 
* DanteE looks over the guests... 
Random_Nerd: The guests have mostly gone to talking to each other or eating food. 
Theresa: "You're the flashy person, Dante, you want to announce everything?" 
Brian: (I had a bit of a "spooner" moment, there, flipped the verbs in the two clauses :eek:) 
* DanteE discreetly listens in to see if anyone's talking about the Breakthrough... 
DanteE: "Huh? You want me to flash everyone? :) " 
Random_Nerd: (The only one who knows about the breakthrough at the moment is Night.) 
Random_Nerd: (Because Brian told him about it, whereas the rest of you rushed the others off and distracted them.) 
Random_Nerd: (Night is looking distinctly more jumpy than others.) 
Theresa: (We might wanna reassure him...) 
DanteE: "Theresa, you could 'demo' the contest with an instant floral float. :) 
* Theresa grins at Dante, "I'm not sure this is that kind of crowd. But I thought you might like to be master of ceremonies." 
Theresa: (The crowd comment is to the flash comment.) 
* DanteE takes a moment to straighten up... 
Theresa: "True. Be bad if anyone had hayfever. But I thought we were sticking to ghost miracles for the contest?" 
* Theresa nudges Brian. "How about you tell Night that the unwanted guest is taken care of?" 
DanteE: "We are. No sense having people discovering alligators in the sewers tomorrow... 
DanteE: "especially ones playing bridge in French..." 
DanteE: (What are we saying Carrie is doing?) 
Brian: (didn't I already tell Night that?) 
Random_Nerd: (You did.) 
Random_Nerd: (Carrie is on assignment to Kudzu or something.) 
Brian: to T: "Already done." 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, those are some /safe horses/.) 
DanteE: (Go ahead ... make my neigh. <rimshot>) 
Theresa: (Brian - is the stage set up?) 
Brian: (whatever prep needed doing is done) 
* DanteE gets up and heads to the stage... 
DanteE: "Theresa, you want to be first one up?" 
Theresa: "Well, then..." *cascades of rose petals fall just outside of Dante's Auct. as he climbs the stage. Instant petals to walk on.* 
Brian: (roll out the red carpet indeed :P) 
DanteE: "ahem... 
DanteE: "Ladies, gantlemen, and whatever else may be out there... 
* Theresa looks a little shocked and a bit shy about going first, especially before explanations. 
DanteE: *gentlemen 
DanteE: "Time to impress your friends, wow your neighbors, and hopfully not screw up our property values. 
Random_Nerd: (You have rabbits for that.) 
DanteE: (and it occurs to me I shoulda checked with our aides for protocol first... d'oh.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, shall we say that you did, and handling it this way is fine according to them?) 
Theresa: (Sounds delightful to me.) 
DanteE: (Kewl. Beats the hell out of 'Let's get er dooooooooooone!' anyway... :) 
DanteE: "It is time for ... the Miracle Contest! 
Random_Nerd: People perk up and start paying a bit more attention. 
DanteE: "Or, as you call it in private, your chance to show off. 
DanteE: "Basically, whoever impresses us the most with a Domain miracle--preferably a Ghost miracle, remember this is still a human country-- 
Random_Nerd: (Mostly, anyway.) 
DanteE: "wins a prize of our choosing, one which we will endeavor to match to the recipient. 
Random_Nerd: Shadows, to Duty: "Twenty bucks says it's a fruitcake." 
Random_Nerd: Duty: "No bet." 
DanteE: "Or, alternatively, this fine assortment of (whatever they collected beforehand)." 
Brian: (joss to the gm) 
DanteE: "And if it is a fruitcake, I assure you it will be an _excellent_ fruitcake. :)" 
DanteE: "The rules: 
Theresa: "Hey, the traditional Amyran fruitcake is highly flammable and not usually exported, thanks to various international weapon laws..." 
DanteE: "No hurting each other... 
DanteE: "No copying and tweaking someone else's miracle... 
DanteE: "No frightening the horses... 
Random_Nerd: Martyrs raises a hand. 
DanteE: "And please confine the effects to the grove. 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "Wait, you have horses here?" 
DanteE: "Yes, Martyrs?" 
Random_Nerd: "What about miracles that, rather than being a variation on a past miracle, work by playing off another miracle in some way?" 
* Theresa blinks at Shadows. "Is that...unusual?" 
DanteE: "Hmm... 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "Well, they crap all over and stuff." 
DanteE: "I'll ... allow it. As long as the result is original." 
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "I'm sure your horses are /perfectly fine/." 
DanteE: "Now, my Familia and I are'nt eligible to win, of course, but here with a quick demonstration... 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "*mumble*stupidhorses*mumble*" 
DanteE: "My Sister Celestis Theresa, Dominus Flora. 
DanteE: "Theresa?" 
Theresa: "Oh, Amyran's been a big mix of agricultural and urban for quite a while. Comes from transforming the desert into useable land. There are horse trails in many of the larger cities, even." 
Random_Nerd: (I'm sure Shadows has no lingering resentment over being assigned to Horse Guarding Duty.) 
DanteE: (Oops, that should have been Domina Flora) 
Theresa: (Sure, get my sex wrong... <G>) 
Random_Nerd: (Unless she has a secondary domain of Dude Looks Like A Lady.) 
Random_Nerd: (Which... actually ties in thematically with plants.) 
* Theresa steps up to the stage, worrying her lip between her teeth as she tries to think fast. 
DanteE: (your gander I remember, it's the Latin I glitched on) 
DanteE: *gender 
DanteE: (sheesh) 
* Theresa sits on the bare floor of the stage, tucking her legs under her dress and concentrating... 
DanteE: (Say hello to our new Sister Caelestis/mortal Enemy, Tpyo, Domina of Typos. (Ih!)) 
Theresa: (This is going to be a lot of typing, be warned.) 
Random_Nerd: (Who could forget about her gander? Dang bird gets into everything.) 
* Theresa hums to herself, as a sapling starts to 'grow' out of the stage floor. It reaches toward the light (if any above), spiralling out in fast forward. Its leaves show it is an ash... It grows and grows until it towers above the regular trees and silently shimmers... (more) 
Theresa: Little globes and cubes and pyramids and Klein bottles start to appear at various tips of the tree's branches, maybe above or near the guests' heads. If they look close, they might see fog and little tiny worlds... (more) 
Theresa: The sapling then starts to shrink in size, but still maintaining its tiny grandure, until it can fit easily in Theresa's hand. She picks it up and tosses it. An ash seed floats to the ground to start it again. 
* Theresa bows. 
Theresa: (How's that?) 
Random_Nerd: People applaud politely. 
* DanteE leads the applause. "Nice one, Theresa!" 
DanteE: "Now... who volunteers to be the first entry?" 
Brian: (sorry, tangent: best picture ever (Link: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y283/Puduface/bitchpunch1a.jpg)http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y283/Puduface/bitchpunch1a.jpg) 
Random_Nerd: Shadows raises a hand. "I think I'll be next." 
* Theresa smiles, leaves the stage and watches eagerly. 
Random_Nerd: Duty: "Thomas, if this has anything at all to do with ninjas, I swear to..." 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "No! Uh, I need a moment..." 
Theresa: (Good thing you said it was a tangent, Laz, or if I thought it was a response to my attempt... :P ) 
Theresa: (I would like to give a bennie to RN for the ninjas comment.) 
Brian: (also, it now has to deal with Pirates. Or maybe robot monkeys) 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "Okay, how about this. Do you have a light source I could borrow for a moment?" 
DanteE: (I presume we have portable 'party lamps' around, OK?) 
Theresa: "Bio, electrical or chemical?" 
Random_Nerd: "Shiny." 
* DanteE goes and grabs a lamp no one's using. 
DanteE: "How's this?" 
Random_Nerd: Shadows positions himself near it, and draws his rapier, which he puts in front of the light. 
Random_Nerd: The shadow of the blade stretches out across the ground, like a dark crack, far darker than the lighting would explain. 
Random_Nerd: It deepens, and widens, and he drops the sword into it, where it falls, a shiny silver line in the darkness. 
Random_Nerd: It falls slowly, like a gleam of a line in a dark triangle, and then it looks like a gleam on something made of a dark but polished material. 
Random_Nerd: Finally, he reaches over to the angular shadow, and picks it up, as a gleaming black sword. 
Random_Nerd: He puts it in his scabbard again. 
* DanteE claps. 
Theresa: "Oooo!" *claps* 
Theresa: (And if any Noble thinks less of me for being forward with my approve/applause, I could always take the Easily Amused limit!) 
* Brian nods impressedly 
DanteE: (are the guests clapping too, BTW? Brian can be a decibel meter and settle ties that way. :) 
Brian: (... Theresa as blonde schoolgirl stereotype? My brain now hurts...) 
Random_Nerd: (They are, to some degree. Shadows' family is the loudest. Physics is snapping his fingers, instead.) 
DanteE: "Thank you! Shadows, ladies and gentlemen. 
DanteE: "All right... who wants to go next?" 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "How about you?" 
Theresa: (Oooo, he'sa callin' you out! :) ) 
DanteE: "Wellll... if you in_sist_... :) 
DanteE: "Can I borrow that blade of yours a moment?" 
Random_Nerd: He shrugs, and hands it to Dante grip-first. 
* DanteE takes the blade, holds it point-up, concentrates a moment... 
DanteE: then tosses it upward with a somewhat odd spin... 
DanteE: When it hits about 15 feet up, it (seems to) BURST into a huge shower of daggers, stilettos and such, which fly outward... 
DanteE: Some of which >THUNK< into trees, posts and the ground, some of which miss guests by inches... one of which nails the roast... 
DanteE: and all of them seem to take a bit of light with them, until only a sliver of darkness is left above them... 
DanteE: ...which falls into Dante's outstreched hand as he catches Shadows' rapier by the blade. 
DanteE: "Yours, I believe?" (handing it back.) 
Random_Nerd: He takes it back, and smiles. 
DanteE: BTW, the ghost-blades have vanished, with nothing the worse for wear. 
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "Well done. In fact, that roast looks rather good, I think I'll have a slice." 
Random_Nerd: He goes over and cuts himself a slice of roast, and eats it. 
DanteE: "Certainly, there are several real blades floating around." 
Random_Nerd: Then, he begins to cough and choke. 
Random_Nerd: He falls to the ground, writhing in pain. 
* Theresa blinks. 
* DanteE checks out both Conseq and the roast with The Sight... 
Random_Nerd: After a few moments of this, he screams loudly, coughs convulsively, and a dark blade comes out through his skin and shirt. 
Random_Nerd: He lies on the ground, and bleeds. Then, shadowy figures take him up, and carry him to where suddenly there's a grave. 
Random_Nerd: They lower him in, and toss handfuls of dirt, while a vague widow and orphan cry. 
DanteE: (It's his entr, isn't it.) 
DanteE: *entry 
Random_Nerd: Then, he stands up, and all of this fades away. 
Random_Nerd: (Yep.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's all ghosts.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, the coughing and such were real.) 
Random_Nerd: (He was trying to sell it.) 
Random_Nerd: Eclipses punches Consequences in the arm, pretty hard. 
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "Jerk." 
* Theresa smiles. "Had me going for a while! Glad you weren't hurt." 
* DanteE claps good-naturedly. 
DanteE: "If I wasn't who I was you might have gone and spooked me. :)" 
Random_Nerd: (Let's just assume a moderate amount of applause each time, so I don't have to copypaste generic stuff in all the time.) 
DanteE: "Who's next?" 
Random_Nerd: Martyrs: "I believe I have an idea. I assume all of you are familiar with honeybees?" 
DanteE: "Oh lord yes..." 
Random_Nerd: She waves a flayed hand, and a bee appears. 
Random_Nerd: And then, around it, a slice of hive, teeming with bees. 
Random_Nerd: "When a wasp comes to such a hive, as they sometimes do, for the two are competing creatures..." 
Random_Nerd: Cue wasp, with ominous music, entering the enlarged hive. 
Random_Nerd: The bees swarm all over it and try to sting it, but fail. 
Random_Nerd: "Their stingers are just not enough to penetrate the wasp's thicker exoskeleton, you see. But it's come to invade their home, so they have to do something." 
Random_Nerd: The bees swarm all over the wasp, and rub it while wriggling madly. 
Random_Nerd: "You see, a wasp can't survive too much heat, and friction causes heat. Enough of that, and that's it. The wasp fights..." 
Random_Nerd: And it implales several bees on its stinger, in the mad moshing of death. 
Random_Nerd: "But ultimately, it falls, because the heat is too much for it. But the thing is, it's too much for the bees, too, the close ones around the wasp." 
Random_Nerd: And the wasp and the twenty bees pressed up against it closest slowly stop moving. 
Random_Nerd: A sad marching tune plays for a moment as it all fades out of view. 
Theresa: (Darn it, I have no comment that can outdo mad moshpit of insects...) 
DanteE: ("As the bees protect the hive from the wasp, so Mutual of Omaha protects you from the trials of life. Join us next week on Wild Kingdom!") 
* Theresa claps. "I never knew that before!" 
* DanteE claps. "I wondered where Martyrdom came into play. Nice one!" 
Random_Nerd: Martyrs shrugs, and says "I like bees." 
DanteE: "Who's next?" 
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint: "I have an idea, if someone could play a musical instrument for a short time." 
DanteE: (should give her a nice wooden beehive. :) 
DanteE: "Preference for instrument or music style?" 
Random_Nerd: "Doesn't matter. Something that can play a tune with some sort of emotional resonance, and keep it up without changing." 
Theresa: "Hmm, I think I can provide that." 
* Theresa lesser Creates a wooden flute and uses Aspect 2 to play better than David Carradine. 
Theresa: (I'm thinking playing something sad or calming...a ballad or lullaby or such.) 
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint moves an arm, and the tune's sadness amplifies. Vague images of tears, and half-filled bottles, and clouds drift around. 
DanteE: (alternatively, something from The Magic Flute) 
Random_Nerd: Then, without the tune changing, suddenly it seems bright, cheery. The sun breaks through the clouds. Things gleam. 
Random_Nerd: The gleaming takes on a red hue, and the tune begins to have a harsh, martial feel to it. Things look like they're seen by firelight, and a smell of hot iron fills the air. 
Random_Nerd: Finally, it moves to more of a melancholy tone, like the funeral of a king, with sadness and celebration of greatness combined. The red glow lightens to gold. 
Random_Nerd: Then, it fades, and the tune which never changed sounds sad again. 
* Theresa blows the final note and bows to CT. "Beautiful." 
* DanteE claps. "Excellent!" 
DanteE: "Who's next?" 
Random_Nerd: The Triad reaches down, and in an invisible hand holds a leaf, on which an ant walks. 
Random_Nerd: He waves a sleeve over it, and as it passes, suddenly there's a second ant, larger, slower, with green tufts at the places where its plates meet. 
Random_Nerd: He hums a note, and passes a sleeve across it again, and there's a third ant, but one that drifts in the air and vibrates, half translucent and shape wavering. 
Random_Nerd: Finally, he reaches for the light that Shadows used, waves it over the drifting green ant shape, and an even hazier green light appears, floating through the air like a will'o'wisp. 
Random_Nerd: He sets the light back down, but none of the things he created fade. 
Theresa: "Hmm, what do they eat, Triad?" 
DanteE: "Now that.. helps me understand you a bit more. Nice one." 
Random_Nerd: Triad: "Which ones?" 
DanteE: (who's left?) 
Random_Nerd: "Most of them should photosynthesize, and the last one can feed off his own light as long as the air's not fully still." 
Random_Nerd: (About half of them, perhaps a bit more.) 
DanteE: "All right, who's next?" 
Random_Nerd: (That seems to be most of the people who had something to contribute, though.) 
Random_Nerd: (Nobody else seems to be standing forth.) 
DanteE: "Anyone?" 
Theresa: "Interesting. I was wondering in case they would like to stay here and if here might be a good home for them." 
Random_Nerd: Triad: "Here should do. This place was a good place for all the things that made them up, at least." 
Random_Nerd: People shuffle around. 
Theresa: (A possibly stupid question...since they photozynthesize...are they Mine?) 
DanteE: "All right then... let me just confer with my Familia to decide who wins!" 
Theresa: "If there are no other contenders, then please feel free to munch and talk some more while the judges decide..." 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Probably some count to some degree.) 
Random_Nerd: The lamp, which Triad had most recently used, starts to shift color slightly. 
Random_Nerd: The air around it chills, and something about the way it flows seems off. 
DanteE: (uhoh) 
Random_Nerd: After a moment, it freezes, in a hard but still almost seethrough shell around the lamp. 
Random_Nerd: The light flickers, and then changes color back, and the air metls. 
Random_Nerd: (Err, melts.) 
Random_Nerd: Physics: "That was me." 
Brian: "Impressive." 
DanteE: "Nice subtle effect." 
Theresa: (Would it be rude to comment that his beverage must always be cold for him?) 
DanteE: "All right, really... any other entries?" 
Random_Nerd: No response. 
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "Well..." 
Random_Nerd: She holds her hand up, towards the sun, blocking it. 
Random_Nerd: In a way that seems dependant on camera trickey, it blocks it from everyone's point of view. 
Random_Nerd: The Grove is cast in shadow. 
Random_Nerd: Then, her hand starts to let light pass through, while remaining opaque. 
Random_Nerd: It's not like something translucent, but like if you look at a light with one eye and block it from your other one, where you see the light and the blocking at the same time. 
Random_Nerd: Then, the sun, too, suddenly can be seen through. And what's on the other side is nothing, not even the absence of light, but the absence of space, and shape. 
Random_Nerd: Then she lowers her hand and everything looks right again. 
Theresa: "Wow, that bit at the end..." 
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "That's what it looks behind the..." 
Random_Nerd: Consequences looks at her quickly. 
Random_Nerd: E: "Err, what I imagine it looks like behind the sky." 
DanteE: (hm!) 
Brian: "Behind the sky?" 
Random_Nerd: E: "Ah... on the other side, so to speak." 
Random_Nerd: E: "Not the atmosphere, I mean, the /sky/. Even the night sky." 
* Theresa looks down at her ash seed. "Out beyond...haven't been out there yet." 
DanteE: "Good one! Now, is that the last of the entries?" 
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "I don't recommend it." 
Random_Nerd: People look around, but nobody says anything. 
Random_Nerd: (And yes, that's the last.) 
* Theresa grins. "I'd like to get to see the Ash close up. A tree like that..." *happy shiver* 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "You've never even been up-Ash yet?" 
Brian: (.... o_O) 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "Two words. Road trip. Trust me on this one." 
DanteE: "All right! Folks, please have some more of Theresa's Delicious Miracle Pies while we determine the winner!" 
* Theresa smiles. "You've got years of being a Noble on me, Shadows. So far I've lived in Amyra all my life and visted California to help Brian with his problem. Oh and Australia for rabbits and Chicago for a little bit. Haven't left Earth yet, but I'm glad you give it such a recommendation!" 
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "You really should, when you have the time." 
* Theresa nods. "I hope to." *looks up at the sky* "Something like that..." *trails off* 
Brian: (ya know... I would try making a joke here, but it's all too easy. And kinda scary.) 
DanteE: (OK, shall we decide on the winner IC or OOC?) 
Brian: "My vote's on Physics." 
Random_Nerd: (Your call, although I'd prefer IC.) 
Brian: "Runner up Conceptual Tin, and 3rd Triad" 
Theresa: (OOC maybe since they can probably all hear us...) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, but your characters have to decide too, right?) 
Theresa: (True. Never mind. IC, then.) 
Theresa: "Hmm..." *thinks* 
DanteE: "Let's see... you could argue Eclipses' was too easy... she's Eclipses, after all. Was impressive, though. 
Theresa: "All of them were 'easy', though, Dante. That's what ghosts are." 
DanteE: "True. 
Theresa: "My votes would be Tint first, Shadows and....I think Triad." 
Brian: "Physics was unexpected. Tint was a view into a world we've never seen. And Triad was just plain cool." 
DanteE: "Tint seems to be in the lead... question is, what do we give him" 
* Theresa thinks. "How about we ask Sam what he thinks would be good?" 
DanteE: "Good idea..." 
Random_Nerd: (The Aides are standing a bit away, but you could easily catch their eye.) 
DanteE: (he's around, right?) 
* DanteE motions the Aides over. 
Random_Nerd: They come. 
DanteE: "By the way, Brian, who did they clap the loudest at?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "Is there something we can help you with?" 
Brian: (um, GM, can that question be answered?) 
Random_Nerd: (Applause, or fingersnapping in the case of Physics, was pretty comperable for most of them, with differences being mostly based on who had the loudest Familia.) 
Brian: "It was even all around." 
DanteE: "Sam, it looks like we were most impressed by Conceptual Tint, which opens up the question of what do we give him as a prize. Any ideas?" 
DanteE: (Hello?) 
Random_Nerd: (Thinking.) 
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Hell if I know." 
Random_Nerd: S: "A pony?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "Horses are... perhaps not the best gift. Some Nobles have unpleasant memories of them." 
Theresa: (Note to self - don't give Shadows a pony.) 
DanteE: "can we get our hands on a calliope?" 
Theresa: "There's probably at least one or two in Amyra." 
Theresa: (Question is, can we get it here _quick_.) 
Random_Nerd: (I'm sure you can, just tell me how you're doing it, if you want to do it.) 
Brian: (someone with aspect runs to get it?) 
Theresa: (Hmm, Realm div of calliopes, then send William to get it. Small speech about how Calliope is the muse of epic song and the leader of the inspirations and so forth.) 
DanteE: "William... as I recall, the Grand Amyran Spectacle was last on the south side of town. Medium-sized circus. I never heard anything about them packing up once the 'plague' hit. 
Theresa: (It might be a bit hard to carry...) 
DanteE: "Call them, see if they'll sell their calliope. 
DanteE: "Brian... can you miraculously tune it?" 
Brian: "Don't see why not" 
Theresa: "So, who are your votes for, Dante, and should we have any other prizes?" 
DanteE: "Might also give a few others prizes as well, though. 
DanteE: "Can you put together a beehive for Martyrs to smooth over the little contretemps we had?" 
Random_Nerd: (Could we finish in 15 minutes or less? I'm getting tired.) 
* Theresa thinks a little bit. "Yeees, I believe so. Straw, wood...would that be a gift, though?" 
Theresa: (Sure, RN.) 
DanteE: "... good point." 
Brian: "... they all deserve gifts, for they all gave us a gift of a miracle display" 
DanteE: "Would the bouquets of our flowers count?" 
Brian: "of course" 
Theresa: "Okay, that's easy to do." 
Random_Nerd: (Should we stop here and handle the gifts and send people on their way next week? You guys seem low on momentum.) 
Theresa: "So, anything for 2nd? Best in Show? Dominus Congeniality?" 
Theresa: (That might be best.) 
Brian: (agree) 
DanteE: (OK.) 
Random_Nerd: _____________STOP___________ 
Random_Nerd: Thoughts? 
*** Brian is now known as Lazarus. 
DanteE: Nice miracles, RN. 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
BethE: I agree. Very good job on the miracles and the number of them. 
Lazarus: neat 
Lazarus: but sorry for being a little low on energy 
 
Random_Nerd: I'm amused that somehow, by some twist of stupidity, it hadn't dawned on me until this session that the contest meant that I myself would have to come up with at least half a dozen creative miracles. 
Random_Nerd: I have no idea how I missed that. 
Knockwood: a-heh. :) 
BethE: I had figured that you had them planned out a long time ago... *looks at you* 
Knockwood: You've been improvising the whole game, HAVEN'T YOU? >:> 
BethE: What was your favorite miracle, RN? 
Lazarus: RN, how the hell did you miss that? 
Random_Nerd: *shrug* 
Random_Nerd: I can't really judge my work that way. For some reason it just doesn't work. 
Random_Nerd: I have no clue, Laz. 
Random_Nerd: No clue at all. 
BethE: Well, I've never found his notes, Knock... :) But I think he works things out more than I do with my GMing and I'm very "Ooops, gotta come up with this _now_." 
Lazarus: I mean, I'm at least aware that I have to think up some more God Weapons for Sunday :-P 
Lazarus: not that I /will/ but I oughta 
Knockwood: maybe I'll start something... once I figure out how to suck less :/ 
Lazarus: at least I know what they're going to need to do :-P "You must find that within yourself that you cannot give [? damnit, I knew the word I was looking for the other day] on your own" 
BethE: "to others" ? 
Random_Nerd: "Your mom." 
BethE: "consentually"? 
Lazarus: I meant that "give" isn't the word I wanted. 
BethE: Ah. 
BethE: (offer?) 
Lazarus: that might've been it. 
Lazarus: offer or provide. 
Lazarus: anyway. A puzzle meant to get them working as a group :p 
BethE: Knock - if my brain was working better, I would give you a line that was a parody of Yoda, involving GMing and sucking and so forth... 
Knockwood: "There is no suck, there is only roll or not roll"? 
Lazarus: and kwd, the style of GMing I've found fits me is "look! A thing attacking you!" 
Lazarus: and then let the players figure out what's going on. 
BethE: Knock - not quite that, but somewhat along those lines. "GM or not, there is no true suckage as long as there is game."

Session 56

2007-08-09T02:49:16Z

BethDragon:

BethE: Hey, Etheric, can Carrie find out the Hopes of the FlyGuy through her dad? 
Etheric: You mean Mr. "I am a message?" I wasn't aware that he was the fly. 
BethE: Oh, sorry, that's my guess, that he is the fly, since they both share the same coloring. 
Etheric: But I could. I have a limit that only lets me use miracles through an Anchor with their permission though. 
Etheric: That is, assuming he's not protected against divinations. 
Random_Nerd: He's not an Anchor or a Noble. He's not protected from divinations like that. 
Random_Nerd: However, he's got a fundamentally weird psychology, so results may not be as useful as they might for most people./ 
BethE: True. I'm mostly concerned on whether we have fulfilled the Gift rule enough for him. 
Random_Nerd: Think of him as being in the same category as stuff like Monty and Red and the Maple and so on, beings that aren't themselves miraculous, but have been created or changed with powerful miracles. 
Etheric: Okay. 
BethE: Hmm. I am slightly afraid at the moment of what would happen if Lesson found him. 
Etheric: I guess we're waiting on Knockwood? 
BethE: Yep. Ooo, no, we could go to Carrie and the guests. <EG> 
Etheric: Hey, there's a thought. 
*** Knockwood has joined #Nobilis. 
Knockwood: Hi all! 
Etheric: Greetings, Knock. 
*** Mode change "+o Knockwood" for channel #Nobilis by Etheric. 
lazarus: hey kwd 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. How about this, we go to Carrie and the guests, and I hand each of you one of the NPCs to play during the scene? 
BethE: Hi Knock! *HUG* 
Etheric: Works for me. 
lazarus: I think I'm actually going to call it a night in about 20 minutes, anyway. I'm fine with just reading until I disappear. 
BethE: Sure, I think I can handle that. 
Random_Nerd: Okay. For the rest of you, anyone want to call dibs on a particular Noble? 
Knockwood: hm... 
Knockwood: (the thing with the Lance is basically resolved, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Resolvedish, for the time being.) 
BethE: I'll take..Shadows. I think I can do moody teenager in a (slightly less dark than) black trenchcoat. 
Random_Nerd: (You can keep interrogating him, but he doesn't really know much.) 
Random_Nerd: Okay, Beth, you're Shadows. You're in the Familia of Consequences, Duty, and Eclipses. Your given name is Thomas, but you don't generally go by it. You're the youngest Noble in your family, both in terms of actual age and of time spent as a Noble. You follow the Code of Heaven. 
Knockwood: OK, remind us who all's here? 
Random_Nerd: Just about everybody, other than Night. 
Random_Nerd: Shall I go down the list? 
Knockwood: where's Night? 
Random_Nerd: By the Maple. 
Knockwood: please do go down the list 
Random_Nerd: Okay, there's Consequences' family, who I just named. 
Random_Nerd: There's the Dionyl, who consist of Conceptual Tint, Blue Shock, and the Triad. 
Random_Nerd: There's the really assorted family, that has Night, Martyrs, and Angst. And there's Physics. 
Random_Nerd: Physics is the one who came as Lord Entropy. 
Random_Nerd: Am I forgetting anyone? 
Knockwood: (don't remind me. :) 
Knockwood: William & Samuel... 
Random_Nerd: Oh, yes, but they aren't Nobles. 
Random_Nerd: But if you want to play them, you can. 
Knockwood: OK... so, Beth wants Shadows... and Laz will be AWOL in a few... 
Etheric: And Helen Winters (Carrie's mom) is also there. 
Knockwood: Eth? 
Etheric: I'm playing Carrie. 
Etheric: The chaperone. 
*** You are now known as Shadows. 
Shadows: *slouch* 
Etheric: Who just removed these guys from the palce on vague pretenses. 
Knockwood: (How exactly do you tell fundamental forces of reality to stop necking in the alley? :) 
Shadows: (Necking, who's necking? Oh, wait, is this the _other_ definition of necking?) 
Etheric: <.<; 
Knockwood: (whazzat?) 
Random_Nerd: You guys mind if I randomly assign you characters, then? 
Knockwood: I think I'll go with ... Physics. 
Random_Nerd: I somehow expected that. 
Shadows: (There's rubber-necking or gawking and then there's necking or making out.) 
Etheric: Randomly assign who characters? 
Random_Nerd: Oh, yes. 
Random_Nerd: I was thinking Laz. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, ready? 
*** Etheric is now known as Carrie. 
Knockwood: So, we'll be playing both ourselves and another Noble?] 
Shadows: Ready! 
Random_Nerd: ________________START____________________ 
Shadows: (No, we're just off with Carrie at the moment. ) 
*** Knockwood is now known as Physics. 
Physics: (Gimme a char desc?) 
Random_Nerd: (This is what was happening with Carrie during the time that you guys were messing with the relics and the maybe-fly-guy.) 
Random_Nerd: Triad, to Carrie: "I have the feeling that things were about to get interesting. Why the sudden change of plans?" 
* Carrie turns her head and smiles at Triad, still walking purposefully away from the palace. "Change of plans? Whatever do you mean?" 
* Shadows looks back at the hallway they left. *mutters to his sister Eclipse* "Kinda rude." 
Physics: "You do seem to be moving quicker than you were." 
Random_Nerd: "Well, we were just over there, by the room with the relics, and then most of your guys left and we got hurried over here." 
Random_Nerd: Concentual Tint makes a swooshy motion with his scarf in the direction of Triad's floating suit. 
*** Physics has changed the topic on channel #Nobilis to It's 7 pm. Do you know where your Reality is?. 
Physics: (where's Brian?) 
Random_Nerd: (He's by the Grove.) 
Carrie: "Oh, yes, of course. Something came up. I really can't go into all that much detail.. But I imagine things should be cleared up shortly." 
Physics: "But, in any case... what is the current plan? 
Shadows: (He'll be heading toward the palace a bit later, though.) 
Shadows: "What do you guys have for fun around this Chancel?" 
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint paces around a bit. 
Shadows: (Ahh, a Teenager who follows that lessers should respect their betters, how fun...) 
Random_Nerd: Consequences lights a cigarette in the near background. 
Random_Nerd: Eclipses looks at him for a moment, and he passes it over and lights another for himself. 
Shadows: Shadows perks up in the hope that he'll get one too? 
* Carrie is visibly nervous. "You know, that's a very good question. At the moment, we don't have much to cater to those of Noble station. We are working on improving that aspect." 
Random_Nerd: Consequences sighs, and just hands over his pack and lighter to Shadows. 
* Shadows has one and looks coooool... 
* Physics rolls his eyes. 
Shadows: "Then what do _you_ guys do for fun then? You must have done something in this Chancel since it was formed." 
* Carrie is angling the group in the direction of the Diplomacy Grove. 
*** lazarus has signed off IRC (Ping timeout). 
Random_Nerd: Consequences, to William: "How long have you been with them?" 
Random_Nerd: William: "Only a short time, at the moment. Is there any way I can help make you more comfortable here?" 
* Shadows notices something in the distance. "What's that?" *points to the Library* 
* Physics looks where Shadows pointed... 
Random_Nerd: Concetual Tint: "A giant anthill on drugs?" 
*** lazarus has joined #Nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: CT: "Why didn't you guys /tell/ me you had giant druggie ants here?" 
lazarus: (I apparnetly got kicked?) 
Shadows: (re Laz. *HUG*) 
* Carrie smiles at Shadows. "That building was created by our Ymera to serve as a repository of knowledge." 
Shadows: (It said ping timeout.) 
Physics: (you timed out) 
*** Oddsod has joined #Nobilis. 
Random_Nerd: CT: "Oh, yeah. Wildlord." 
Random_Nerd: CT: "Err... not that there's anything wrong with that." 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock: *sigh* 
Shadows: "It looks more like one of those...what do you call them...occarinas?" 
Physics: "Wildlords are fun sometimes... 
Shadows: (Why do I get the feeling that Blue Shock sighs a lot around CT and Triad? :) ) 
Physics: "Some of them like to play with fundqamental constants, like Gravity. 
Random_Nerd: BS, quietly, to CT: "And the correct term is 'Magister of the Wild,' as I'm sure you know already..." *sigh* 
Shadows: (Ours likes to play with Sanity. I _think_ it's just a hobby...) 
* Shadows wanders toward the Library. "Does it work for anyone?" 
Physics: "I've taken to checking those constants whenever I enter a Chancel..." 
Physics: (BTW, ours are the usual, right? :) 
Random_Nerd: (Physical constants? I think so.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, probably some complicated slight differences because you guys have a Weird Science, but only subtle stuff.) 
Random_Nerd: (And those changes are for SCIENCE, so I'm sure that Physics would approve.) 
Shadows: (After all, the real weird hasn't walked through lately. <g>) 
Physics: (OK.) 
Physics: (are we at the Grove?) 
Carrie: "I don't believe we've tested it... Do the rest of you want to see the Library? I should warn you, most of what's there is well-known among the Nobility, or so we're given to understand... So it likely wouldn't be that spectacular in its content... Though the method of delivery might be somewhat novel." 
Random_Nerd: (Carrie, you've been leading them, how far do you think you are at the moment?) 
Carrie: (We're on foot, so we won't have reached the Grove just yet. I figure it's been 10 minutes, game-time? I would expect getting to the Grove to take at least 30 minutes at a measured pace.) 
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, that sounds about right, especially since some of the group are Aspect 0.) 
Random_Nerd: Triad: "So, how exactly does it get delivered?" 
* Carrie wonders if Shadows is surprised at the odd vocabulary of the girl who seems to be about his age. 
Shadows: "Ehh, playing stump the Massive Wild Artifact can kill some time." *meander/slouches toward it* 
Random_Nerd: Triad: "And for that matter, does anyone know why Earth gets more Wildlords than we do? I mean, they're not an anthropogenic form of Imperator, so you'd think they'd be balanced more..." 
Random_Nerd: Various people shrug. 
Shadows: ( "Naaah, probably some college girl before she got enNobled...") 
Shadows: "Sanity's not their thing, right? Maybe Earth's crazier." 
Shadows: (*waits for Blue Shock to disagree* <G>) 
Random_Nerd: Triad: "Might have something to do with the War, I guess." 
Carrie: (to Triad) "I don't actually know. We could always ask the Library. Regarding the delivery... The knowledge is actually in the winds of the Chancel, but the Library allows it to be heard, in whispers." 
Random_Nerd: (Blue Shock doesn't mind this so much, as he's more asking odd questions rather than being an Ugly Dionyl.) 
Shadows: (Nah, I just figured that compared with his companions, at times a Wildlord might be considered sane. :) ) 
Shadows: (How common is it for the Excru to attack Nobles or a Chancel? The one attack against Numbers, would that be considered low for our 'age' or normal?) 
Random_Nerd: Triad: "That's an interesting trick, there. I wonder how he did it." 
Carrie: (I doubt Carrie was in college. She just read a lot. Of classical English literature. Or something like that.) 
Random_Nerd: (Depends a lot on the chancel.) 
Carrie: (I really should work on her backstory a bit.) 
Random_Nerd: (Some chancels are on the war front, and get regular attacks or infiltrations. Some, especially ones outside of Earth and other fronts, hardly ever get Excrucians.) 
*** Mode change "+o lazarus" for channel #Nobilis by Carrie. 
Random_Nerd: Samuel seems to be trying to catch Blue Shock's attention, but hasn't successfully done so yet. 
* Carrie -- assuming that no one speaks out against the detour -- leads the group toward the Library. 
Shadows: *slogs toward Library* "Exs would probably love to get their hands on something like this. Especially if it could be moveable. But if it's just Chancel gas, then guess you couldn't move it." 
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "Really, wouldn't they know most of this already? They've got Mimics and Deceivers and things." 
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "Really, it's a pain that they're so much better equipped for espionage than we are. I guess that's why we still don't know what they're up to." 
* Physics nudges BS and points out Samuel 
Random_Nerd: Martyrs and Angst glance at each other for a moment, and then one of them stares off blankly into space for a moment. 
* Shadows shrugs. "Ya never know what the Wildguys might know. Some great secret that one of them remembered or know and it's keeping away..." 
* Carrie smiles amusedly. "I truly doubt that there are sensitive secrets in the Library." 
Random_Nerd: Samuel, to Blue Shock: "I know this is a very different environment to what you're used to, and it takes a while to adapt. Is there anything I can do to make you or your Familia more at home?" 
Random_Nerd: (It was Martyrs that stared blankly. Sorry.) 
* Physics does a LDiv-Physics on the 'anthill' 
Random_Nerd: (It's interesting-looking. It's got air currents doing some really complicated chaotic-system type stuff.) 
Random_Nerd: (And for it to work properly, the person setting it up would either have to be continuously controlling the wind and air pressure outside, or would have to know it in advance.) 
Shadows: (Both of which are probably in realm of 'easy' for Kudzu.) 
Physics: (veeeeedy intereshtink...) 
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "Do you know how he keeps the various streams of sound from interfering with each other?" 
Physics: "Hm... interesting. I think your wildlord actively controls the winds around that. 
Random_Nerd: As near as can be determined given that her whole Familia has indiscernable features, she seems puzzled. 
* Carrie furrows her forehead. "I don't know the answer to that. All I know is that when you think of a question, the whispers that answer it immediately come forward above the rest." 
Physics: "Don't forget acoustics is in my domain as well." 
Physics: (think of, or say?) 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock: "Really, it's rather like a vibration sculpture on a much larger and more intricate scale, isn't it?" 
Shadows: "It's a Noblic Google?" 
Random_Nerd: The other Dionyl nod. 
Carrie: (It's never been required that you say the question.) 
Physics: (which means KudZu iz ReadInG yoUr MinD!!!) 
* Carrie grins, amused. "Something like that." 
Random_Nerd: (The information is already there, it's just that you happen to pay attention to the stuff relevant to what you're wondering about.) 
Shadows: "Vibration sculpture?" *thinks: ~"Sounds dirty."~* 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock, to Carrie: "Do you know if your Imperator has ever been to Dionyl? We have things a little like this there." 
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint: "Really, we /are/ things a little like that." 
* Carrie replies to Blue Shock. "I don't know. He's only talked about his past a few times, and never mentioned Dionyl." 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock turns to look at Triad for a moment.' 
Random_Nerd: Triad: "So your Imperator doesn't constantly talk about old War stories and myths featuring himself? Count yourself lucky." 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock: *sighs in a Oh No He Didn't Just Say That way* 
* Carrie laughs lightly. "I am sure we all have our points of good and bad luck." 
Physics: (Can you tell me about Physics' Imperator?) 
Random_Nerd: (One moment while I check something, and then I can.) 
Carrie: (If it's all right, I'd like to arrive at the Library fairly soon.) 
Physics: (and while we're at it, what's happening with Dante's storyline? :) 
Carrie: (I figure we're likely not quite caught up yet.) 
Random_Nerd: (We're currently about midway through the other PCs' conversation with the Pretty Fly For A Red Guy individual.) 
* Shadows keeps quiet on any stories Barakiel (sp) may have told. 
Random_Nerd: (Physics' Imperator is an Angel, unfallen, named Arkhas.) 
Random_Nerd: (He's rather distant, and doesn't interact much with his Nobles.) 
Physics: (ah, so he wouldn't have talked about Kudzu... or anything else?) 
Random_Nerd: (He's one of the older angels, dating from before the creation of Time.) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct. He's never mentioned Kudzu, which is hardly out of character.) 
Random_Nerd: (He's a bit distrustful of Wildlords in general, though.) 
Physics: "I suppose we're lucky... our Imperator barely speaks to us." 
Shadows: (Hmm...and he wouldn;t have talked, probably about Barakiel either.) 
Random_Nerd: (Mostly due to their unknown origins and that they came from outside of Creation.) 
Random_Nerd: (Fallen Angels are one of those things you Don't Talk About, in Heaven.) 
Shadows: (The fact that Sanity is a Crutch is one of the battlecries might also be a reason for not trusting...) 
Physics: (an ugly subject, I guess. 
Random_Nerd: (It'd be like casually bringing up the topic of the nephew who got himself thrown in jail for killing schoolgirls.) 
Physics: (afk for a minute...) 
Shadows: (Ah, so it's more like what the neighbors talk about when your back is turned.) 
Random_Nerd: (Barakiel wouldn't be /quite/ as taboo as some, because his fall was separate from the Big One, but the whole Watchers episode isn't mentioned much.) 
Random_Nerd: (Angels who lived through it might talk about it with each other, but not with their Nobles.) 
Shadows: (*snide angel voice* "I hear he even _copulated_ with one!" *gasps from others*) 
Random_Nerd: Martyrs: "Who is your Imperator? I don't think I quite caught that." 
Random_Nerd: (That, to Physics?) 
Carrie: (Are you asking yourself who Martyrs was talking to?) 
Random_Nerd: (Err, saying that that was to Physics.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not sure why I used the question mark.) 
Carrie: (Ah. I'm sure Knock will reply when he gets back from afk.) 
Random_Nerd: (*nod*) 
Carrie: (In the meantime, how's about we arrive at the Library?) 
Random_Nerd: (Works for me.) 
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint: "That's... that's interesting. Do you mind if I try something? It won't change anything other than what's perceived." 
Carrie: "If none of our guests has any objection, I do not object." 
Random_Nerd: Nobody says anything, and some of the human ones with discernable faces look interested. 
Carrie: "Go ahead, please." 
Random_Nerd: Suddenly, all the air in the Library looks like a constantly moving three-dimensional mandlebrot set, as viewed through a dose of something hallucinagenic. 
Shadows: "Trippy." 
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint, sounding a little stoned: "That's... that's beautiful. That's really something." 
Physics: (bak) 
* Carrie looks at the vision, intrigued. 
Random_Nerd: All four Dionyl seem to be swaying on their... well, where their feet would be, if they had them. Except Triad, who has invisible feet. 
Physics: "Arkhas." 
Shadows: (We don't need to charge to see the Treasures, we can just get people to watch this...) 
* Shadows looks curiously at the Dionyl. 
Physics: "Interesting. What is it?" 
Random_Nerd: Library: "The Angel Arkhas is one of the oldest angels, and involved in some of the earliest aspects of the Work of Heaven. He is the Imperator of Physics, Matter, and Aesthetic Discernment." 
Physics: (I wish my brother George was here...) 
Random_Nerd: Samuel, quietly, to Carrie: "I don't feel quite well. Do you mind if I take a walk outside?" 
Carrie: "Not at all, Samuel. If, at the conclusion of your walk, you could make preparations to receive our guests again at the Grove, I would appreciate it." 
* Carrie is curious whether the shifting mosaic of conceptual tint appears to change distinctly while the Library's message about Arkhas is distinct from the rest. 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock seems to coil in on himself for a moment, and then is surrounded by a sphere a few meters across of yellowness. 
Random_Nerd: CT and Triad have the body language of stoners. 
Random_Nerd: Samuel nods to Carrie, and then goes out of the Library. 
Shadows: (Munchies still back at the tent...) 
* Carrie turns to Blue Shock. "Are you well?" 
* Physics debates snapping them out of it... 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock: "I am, now. It's just that... well, you know how Dionyl work, physically speaking, right?" 
Random_Nerd: (You'd have to penetrate their Auctoritas to do so.) 
Carrie: (slightly flustered) "I'm afraid I don't. I've gathered the Library works on somewhat similar principles?" 
* Carrie glances worriedly at the other two Dionyl. 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock: "Well, we're constructs of vibration, motion, and intertia. And we feed on similar things. And this is.. I'm not sure what the biological analogue would be. Like a fish swimming around in a lake full of weird chemicals?" 
Physics: (Not if I just do a ghost-tweak that kills the wind speed outside the library) 
Random_Nerd: BS: "It's not physically harmful, but it is... unsettling." 
* Carrie shudders slightly. 
Random_Nerd: (Ah. You could do that, yes. But it would have significant effects on the dynamic systems working here.) 
Shadows: "So...you guys are getting high on all of this and it might not just be hallucinatory but meta-crack?" 
Physics: (just a ghost, and just for a moment) 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock: "I'm not. I'm able to keep this away, by projecting a constant area of yellow tones. But it seems to be affecting my siblings, not that they seem to mind. I don't even know why it's working on Triad, given the whole perverted body thing." 
Physics: "The what?" 
* Carrie twitches slightly. "Indeed." 
Random_Nerd: BS: "I mean, I mean no offense to people with bodies. It's just that putting one on just for a trip is very... insulting? Condescending?" 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and Physics, you can tell that the air around Blue Shock is vibrating at about a Middle D Natural.) 
Physics: (Ooh, I think I saw that on MST3K... :) 
Random_Nerd: (...) 
Random_Nerd: (You made me remember Mister B Natural. I hate you now.) 
Physics: ( :) ) 
* Carrie speaks to Helen Winters through the Anchor bond. "If I might, I'm going to need to use my powers with your assistance again. Hopefully it will snap these two out of their trance. I would hate for them to be hurt." 
Shadows: "So...it's like the loud Hawaiian shirt of Reality?" 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock, to Shadows: "I have no idea what in Creation you mean." 
Physics: to CT: "Are you two all right, or do we need to stage an intervention?" 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and to explain Blue Shock's perspective on Triad's body, he looks at it the way we'd look at someone who was going on a vacation to somewhere in Africa, so they went in blackface.) 
Shadows: "Well" *looks slightly embarassed* "There's this place on Earth called Hawaii and they sell these shirts that are the brightest, loudest, most nausiating color combinations imaginable...and tourists buy and wear them because they think that's what Hawaiians wear. But Hawaiians really just wear normal stuff, like the tourists when they are at home." 
Random_Nerd: CT: "Do you have any of those shirts here?" 
Random_Nerd: (CT is ignoring Physics.) 
Physics: "Indeed... I once 'amplified' the EM radiation being emitted from a Hawaiian shirt and burned a hole through steel." 
Carrie: (Somehow, that this Physics did that does not suprise me.) 
* Shadows looks at Carrie, implied look of "Do you have Hawaiian shirts here?" 
Physics: "Steel was pissed, I tell you what..." 
* Carrie starts. "Oh, shirts. I'm sure we could find some if you were interested... (Lesser Realm Div of Hawaiian Shirts!) 
Shadows: (*laugh*) 
Random_Nerd: (There are a few such shirts in Kaerkoven. Most are private property, but some are in clothing stores and such.) 
Physics: (Go for ridiculously garish, maybe they'll accept it as a contest prize. :) 
Shadows: (Or Helen could bring one with her.) 
Carrie: (again to CT) "Might I ask how long this display is going to last? It's quite beautiful, but it might get distracting if it stayed here." 
Random_Nerd: CT: "Oh, sure." 
Random_Nerd: The lightshow ends. 
Carrie: (She's already here.) 
* Carrie breathes a sigh of relief. 
Random_Nerd: But it doesn't seem to have too much effect on the disposition of those two Dionyl. 
Carrie: (to her mom, via Anchor-bond) "Never mind." 
Shadows: ("The Triad abides...") 
Random_Nerd: (Yes! Let's do a remake of The Big Lebowski, with an all-Dionyl cast!) 
Random_Nerd: (Not sure what the analogue of the toe would be, though.) 
Carrie: (By the way, I had been going to do an LCh of Conceptual Tint, via Realm, to make the conceptual tint have no effect on the mental processes of the Dionyl. Would that have done anything?) 
Random_Nerd: (It's not the miracle of Tint that's doing it. It's the vibrations of the library.) 
Random_Nerd: (Being a Dionyl in there is like having that freaky lightshow take place inside your body and brain.) 
Physics: (You'd run into Auctoritas anyway, wouldn't you?) 
Carrie: (Ah. I was fooled by the yellow light protecting Blue Shock.) 
Random_Nerd: (The yellow light was just the vibration he created being made visible by the Tint that CT put up.) 
Shadows: (Dibs on the rerun of the Pink Floyd concert...) 
Carrie: (And no, Knock. I wouldn't be changing the Nobles, I'd be changing the effect of the light on them.) 
Random_Nerd: (The Library is a place of really complicated air flow and sound.) 
* Physics can admire the place without the lightshow, thankyouverymuch. 
Physics: " 
Random_Nerd: (What he really did was set up an anti-blue soundwave in the air around him, to block out some of the rest of it.) 
Physics: "This place is ... amazing. 
Carrie: "Does anyone wish to inquire of the Library some more, or shall we head to our next destination?" 
Physics: "I'm tempted to make something like it for home, though I have no idea what I;d put in it. 
Random_Nerd: Consequences, speaking up for once: "That seems best, I think." 
Random_Nerd: CT, to Triad: "We have to get one of these for home." 
Random_Nerd: Triad nods. 
Physics: "Not as impressive when it just repeats your grocery list..." 
* Carrie leads the group toward the Grove, keeping a special eye on the two unshielded Dionyl. 
Shadows: (Ehh, couldn't think of a question.) 
* Shadows slouches along toward the Grove. 
* Physics lags a bit... 
Random_Nerd: Samuel waves his right-scarf-agglomeration at the group from the Grove. 
Carrie: (I'm inclined to cut here and go back to Dante, unless people have an idea for what's next.) 
Random_Nerd: Night looks up at the group and walks back over to the tables in a somewhat abrupt way. 
Random_Nerd: (That works for me. Anyone object?) 
Physics: (We're all headed for the Grove anyway, right?) 
Carrie: (Were you heading for the Grove? I hadn't realized.) 
Carrie: (Thought you were sticking with Message-guy.) 
Shadows: (I think that once we took care of the Red Guy, we would have been heading back. Might give Lesson a heads-up, though.) 
Physics: (Last time we left our heroes, we'd just 'taken care of' Message, but couldn't do much else.) 
Carrie: (Well, in that case, is it permissible to say that Dante's group and Carrie's group get to the Grove at the same time?) 
Shadows: (Sounds good to me, given Carrie's Timing.) 
Random_Nerd: (Works for me.) 
Physics: (OK...) 
* Carrie will send her mom off to get a Hawaiian shirt or two. Parents are good for errands. 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, so your actual PCs arrive, now. Red Guy wandered off. And you guys had Lesson somewhere out of sight, right?) 
Physics: (Shall we go back to our usual roles?) 
Physics: (We definitely have Lesson NOWHERE NEAR the party...) 
*** Physics is now known as DanteE. 
Shadows: (Then we need to bug one of the Realm people to get on the horn. :) ) 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
* DanteE arrives, looking oddly winded... 
* Theresa pats her hair back into place. 
Theresa: (And _there's_ an odd conjunction. <g>) 
DanteE: (Quick question: did we fight an Ex or a Shard?) 
Random_Nerd: (Brian will be jealous.) 
Random_Nerd: (A shard.) 
Random_Nerd: (If it'd been a full Excrucian, that would have gone rather differently.) 
DanteE: (I remember you did the whole starry-eyes thing, made me wonder...) 
Random_Nerd: (Fighting a full Excrucian is like fighting an Imperator.) 
Theresa: (So why did this one go fizzle when the last one didn't?) 
Random_Nerd: (Three of you versus an Excrucian would be likely to end badly unless you had a lot of a plan.) 
Theresa: (Retracting my question.) 
DanteE: (She knew how to Join with the Force? :) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, having weird things happen to their bodies when they die is partly a Strategist thing. Many of them go ACIDIC BOOM OF DEATH when they die.) 
DanteE: (Ha, that means picking up the spear was the right thing to do! :) 
Random_Nerd: (We'll see.) 
Random_Nerd: (Laz, you still there?) 
Theresa: (No, Knock, I am not looking to see if he's doing the GM Hand-tilt-thing of doom...) 
Carrie: (Do you guys feel like breaking here, actually? I hate to deny you your own characters to play, but I'm getting fairly tired and it also seems like a natural dividing line.) 
Theresa: (I'd be okay.) 
Random_Nerd: (It does seem like a good moment, yeah.) 
DanteE: (Guess so...) 
Carrie: (I'm just paranoid that if we keep going it'll last another hour.) 
Random_Nerd: (It probably will, yeah.) 
Random_Nerd: __________________________STOP____________________ 
Random_Nerd: Okay, thoughts on the game? 
*** Carrie is now known as Etheric. 
DanteE: comments from the Peanut Gallery? 
Theresa: Interesting stuff with the Dionyl. I like what you're doing with them. 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
Etheric: Was surprisingly easy herding cats, I mean Nobles. You could have made that much more difficult on Carrie, and you didn't, for which I'm grateful. 
BethE: And I like how Carrie handled everyone. I'm sure Shadows was thinking of some things to do/ask, but thought that Eclipses would smack him. 
DanteE: Oddsod what did you think? 
BethE: He's probably asleep. <G> 
BethE: I liked Blue Shock a lot. He reminds me of someone but I'm not sure who. 
DanteE: (and I wonder if you could use the 'Does anyone play' thread to recruit a new James. Maybe third gargoyle's the charm...) 
Random_Nerd: I'm going to see about it. Ideally, I'd like to go with someone who's already seen us play, and knows the style of the game. 
BethE: (At this point James might just be chunky salsa on Kudzu's tortilla chips.) 
Random_Nerd: Bah. I still maintain that he's Guarding The Horses. 
Etheric: We could have whoever's a candidate watch for a few sessions before taking over. 
BethE: Oh, reminds me, I have another chapter ready to post in the Actual Play thread. And I tried to post the next to last session again, Knock, and it wouldn't let me. 
DanteE: Gotta be vigilant against metaphysical horse thieves... 
BethE: (Post the last session to the wiki, I mean.) 
Random_Nerd: Anyone have any complaints about this session's GMing? 
DanteE: Beth: did you try renaming it? Maybe you're colliding with another page... 
DanteE: ...unless there's a limit as to the number of links you can have on a page. 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
Knockwood: oh... reminds me: we missed the Golden Session (#50) 
BethE: *blink* Maybe it's the limit of links. 
BethE: Yep, that was last week's session. :) I thought I had mentioned it. 
Knockwood: You may need to cut it up by chapter 
Etheric: Constructive criticism: A few times, some comments that needed a reply got lost, like Carrie's mental communication with Helen Winters. 
BethE: I tried renaming it but still fails. I'll try breaking up the page a bit. 
Knockwood: laz, you awake? 
Etheric: I am still impressed, though, at how smoothly you seem to be able to do a conversation with many participants. 
BethE: Hmm...a question...did the other Dionyl think less of Sam for leaving? 
Knockwood: BTW, I got a little distracted... right in the middle I got a call from my ex-stepdad with a computer problem. 
Knockwood: gomenasai. 
Etheric: I'm guessing they didn't think much about Sam tyo begin with. He is only an Aide. <.< 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Blue Shock didn't, and would have done the same thing himself if he couldn't think of a miracle. 
Random_Nerd: The others have hardly even noticed him. 
Knockwood: Beth: it's a protocol thing. He should have demanded everyone's car keys before they went in there. :) 
Random_Nerd: Even Blue Shock only really does when another Noble calls his attention to him. 
BethE: Hmm, I guess I'm thinking of seeing Sam as being like seeing a familiar 'face' in a land of strangers. 
BethE: I guess it's actually the other way around, given the blessing Sam asked for. 
Random_Nerd: More or less, yeah. 
Knockwood: "I don't care if you're a 3-piece business suit back home, you are NOT driving while stoned. Gimme the keys." :) 
Random_Nerd: Also, for him, it's nice having some familiar Estates around for a bit. 
Random_Nerd: Anything you guys particularly liked about the GMing? 
Etheric: It occurs to me that we've been playing this for about a year and a half now. 
BethE: Yeppers. And we haven't killed any of the PCs yet! 
Knockwood: and we've simlated, what, a whole month? :) 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. More or less, yeah. It's lasted longer than my previous Nobilis game, which fell apart due to scheduling around the twentyfifth session. 
BethE: I liked the personality on Blue Shock. Don't know why. And Physics was fun, Knock. :) 
Etheric: As I said earlier, the conversation seems well done, and I continue to be in awe regarding your ability to do dialogue between a whole bunch of different people. 
Knockwood: thank ya Beth. Luckily I took some classes. :) 
Random_Nerd: Well, this time, it was mostly NPCs talking with (temporary)PCs, with only a few NPC to NPC conversations. 
Random_Nerd: That makes it easier. 
BethE: I'm glad that there are some Hawaiian shirts in the Chancel. RN and I talked a little about them here and decided that such colors are not found in plant dyes. <G> 
Etheric: *nods* Just comenting that it seemed to go very smmoothly this time. 
Random_Nerd: And most of these characters have fairly simple personalities, which makes it easier to know how they'd react. 
Knockwood: you're lucky they're found on Earth. 
Random_Nerd: I'd flesh them more out if they became recurring characters, but for now, keeping them simple makes it easier. 
* Etheric nods. 
Random_Nerd: And you've probably noticed that I keep the established characters with more involved personalities, like William and Samuel, in the background. 
Random_Nerd: So mostly, I just get by by using various cheats like these. 
Knockwood: Tiny glitch though: I asked for a desc of Physics and never got it. 
Random_Nerd: Consequences, too. He hasn't said much. 
Random_Nerd: Oh? I guess I missed that. What kind of description? 
Knockwood: same thing you gave Beth about Shadows 
Random_Nerd: Ah, okay, sorry. Want one now? 
Knockwood: plus, possibly, what he thinks of the party so far 
Knockwood: well, too late NOW... :) 
BethE: Well, I couldn't remember Shadow's physical description anyhow. 
Random_Nerd: He's one of the one's who's enjoying himself more than average. 
Random_Nerd: Well, Shadows' hardly had a physical description. 
Random_Nerd: Remember, their Imperator has Unfathomable. 
BethE: (I would think so. :) He got the best reaction out of everyone when he came in.) 
BethE: True. 
Knockwood: as compared to ours, who has Incomprehensible. :) 
Random_Nerd: And Bastard. 
Etheric: No, we opted out of taking Cruel... 
Random_Nerd: But sometimes I think that all Imperators have at least a side order of Bastard. 
Random_Nerd: Well, sure, he's no worse than the next Imperator. 
Etheric: Ah. Well, that makes sense. 
Knockwood: and we toasted Demanding 
BethE: If the next Imperator is Entropy... 
Knockwood: Beth, any luck with the Wiki? 
Random_Nerd: Really, following almost any of the Codes to a high degree leads to being something of a jerk. 
Random_Nerd: Even the "good" ones. 
Random_Nerd: I think Serpents and some of the Divine ones are the only ones that don't lead to bastardry. 
Knockwood: not that there are really "good" ones... 
Random_Nerd: Hence the scare quotes. 
BethE: Not yet, one moment. 
Knockwood: anyone else kinda wonder what RSB would do with, say, supers? Or space opera? 
Random_Nerd: Nobilis arguably /is/ a Borgstromian take on supers. 
Random_Nerd: Space opera could be interesting. 
Knockwood: closer to 'classic', I mean 
Random_Nerd: Does anyone have any complaints about this session? 
Random_Nerd: Other than what's already been said, I mean. 
Knockwood: It was good.

Session 55

2007-08-09T02:47:58Z

BethDragon:

Etheric: Carrie was in the process of bringing the guests over to meet Brian in the Grove when we ended off last time. 
Knockwood: too bad, he could call an ecumenical Orkin man. :) 
BethE: You're the one with Realmness, yes? You find it, Theresa tells the nearest plant to hold it. 
Knockwood: no, that's Brian. I've got Realm 1. 
Etheric: I have Realm 2. 
Random_Nerd: Realm 2's enough for free divs. 
Knockwood: of course, how exactly you communicate its position to Theresa... 
BethE: Ah, then we need to borrow Carrie. :) How does Noble society take announcements of Excrucians 'in ur base'? 
Random_Nerd: "Omg! Stab!" 
Knockwood: first step is to determine what exactly that bug is 
Etheric: Where are William and Samuel at this time? With Carrie? 
BethE: Even if the Ex is dead? 
Knockwood: (afk a minute...) 
Random_Nerd: They were with the group, and so, went with Carrie. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Well, you'd look a bit worse, for having a Scruchie in your chancel, but you'd look better for having killed it. 
BethE: *nodnod* 
BethE: How much would it cost to give a message to Sam or Will via Realm? 
Random_Nerd: 1, if it's one-way. 
Random_Nerd: 2, if you wanted to be able to hear them, too. 
Random_Nerd: Anyway, are we ready to start? 
BethE: Hmm. *pondering* It might just be better to keep everyone else in the dark until we know more about the fly. 
Etheric: Honestly? I have some things I need to finish up... I wouldn't mind waiting for laz, but I'll go ahead if you guys want to. 
Random_Nerd: Well, I wanted to stop after two, two and a half hours at the most tonight. I'd rather not have it drag on until midnight tonight. 
BethE: I'm ready to go once Knock gets back. 
BethE: Would having the plants of the Chancel look for the fly be feasible? 
BethE: Laz is on his way... 
Random_Nerd: How? 
Random_Nerd: It's probably feasible, depending on how you do it. 
BethE: He's hurrying....oh, wait, you mean my question. 
*** lazarus has joined #Nobilis. 
BethE: Hi Laz! *HUG* 
lazarus: hey. 
lazarus: sorry, I missed my bus home. 
Knockwood: bak 
BethE: Ask any plants (LDiv?) if a red fly has flown by them and follow the trail? 
Knockwood: or use our amazing Aspect to spot it 
BethE: Hmm, that could work... 
Knockwood: Hiya Laz 
Random_Nerd: So, interview them by mythic perception, or use Greater Divinations, or what? 
Knockwood: how far away is the bug? 
Random_Nerd: You don't know. 
Random_Nerd: Shall we start? 
*** You are now known as Theresa. 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
*** lazarus is now known as Brian. 
DanteE: Eth? 
Theresa: I think he's finishing something up. We can probably go ahead. 
Etheric: Sorry. 
*** Etheric is now known as Carrie. 
Random_Nerd: Okay..... 
Random_Nerd: _____________________START________________ 
* Theresa will look around outside with Aspectness to see if she can see the fly... 
Random_Nerd: Most of the PCs have just vacated the Room Of Relics, Carrie is with the other Nobles, Brian is at the Grove. Go. 
* DanteE looks around as well. 
Carrie: (Point of Order. Carrie's not with the others, she had left the building.) 
Carrie: (With the guests.) 
* DanteE also blows a RMP on an LDiv of what-is-that-bug-exactly 
Brian: (the bugthing just left, and that's where we're rejoining the scene?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. What exactly are you doing the divination on?) 
Random_Nerd: (I meant the /other/ Nobles, the guests.) 
DanteE: (do we spot the bug?) 
Carrie: (Ohh, okay. Sorry.) 
Carrie: (not 100% tonight...) 
Random_Nerd: (The bug isn't visible in the room._ 
Random_Nerd: ) 
DanteE: (is the door open?) 
Theresa: (I had went outside.) 
Random_Nerd: (Which door?) 
DanteE: (the door leading out) 
Theresa: (Did the fly go through the walls?) 
Random_Nerd: (It flew through the door of the relic room, earlier.) 
DanteE: (which means it should be in this room...) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, I mean /through/ the door. Which was closed.) 
Theresa: (No, I think he means that we should be seeing a little hole, about fly-siz...yeah.) 
Random_Nerd: (So, it was probably in that room at one point, but is not there now.) 
Theresa: "This is reminding me of the bees at Jim's college. I didn't like them..." 
Brian: (I forget ... did anyone report to me what happened?) 
Random_Nerd: (You got a message that there was an Ex in the room, but not what happened since.) 
DanteE: (so, did it phase through the wall, or punch a little hole?) 
DanteE: (er, door) 
Brian: (thought so; in which case, I'd still be on the way there(Link: http://evanescencereference.info/music/)http://evanescencereference.info/music/)(Link: http://evanescencereference.info/music/http://evanescencereference.info/music/)http://evanescencereference.info/music/http://evanescencereference.info/music/ 
Random_Nerd: (There's no hole.) 
Brian: (bah, sorry for the badlinking) 
* DanteE bolts outside and looks for the bug... 
DanteE: (BTW, was the bug specifically from the excrucian blood, or the lance?) 
Random_Nerd: (Dante's Aspect 2 vision reveals various bugs, but none look unusual.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's tough to tell. The blood, dripping from the lance, turned into a bug.) 
Random_Nerd: (So it could be either or both.) 
* Theresa will do a LDiv of the Plants of the Chancel to see if any red flies have flown past them recently? 
DanteE: (is the door to the relic room still open?) 
Random_Nerd: (Lesser Div only tells you about plants themselves.) 
Random_Nerd: (Closed, it swings shut on its own.) 
* Theresa asks all of the plants in the area to speak up if a red fly just flew over them? 
DanteE: (...is John in there?) 
Random_Nerd: (John;s 
Random_Nerd: in his changing room at the moment.) 
DanteE: (did we determine that I could use the BB?) 
Brian: (Do you have Realm 2?) 
Theresa: (Takes Realm 2 to talk to it for free, I thought.) 
Carrie: (Well, Dante used it to tell us about the Excrucian attack. I'm still not sure how that happened.) 
Random_Nerd: (Anyone can hear from it, but to talk to it, it takes Realm 2 or being there physically in the Heart.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, it's possible to use miracles to use it, I guess.) 
DanteE: (oh, wait... I could use a Ghost of speech to talk directly to the Heart) 
Random_Nerd: (That would work, I guess.) 
DanteE: (Can we locate the bug with a LDiv?) 
Brian: (If it's immune to direct miracles... couldn't the Noble Locator Gift be used to find it?) 
Random_Nerd: (You can try. The results will depend on what exactly you're divining for.) 
Random_Nerd: (That could indeed be used to locate it, if it has anchor-like immunity to direct miracles.) 
DanteE: (blow an RMP on "where's that red bug that just flew through the castle walls") 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. One moment while I look up something about the Ldiv rules, please.) 
Theresa: (And if Dante can't find it with that, then I use my gift.) 
DanteE: (Actually it occurs to me that we never used The Sight while we were in there...)\ 
Theresa: (Mythic world viewing might have been hazardous.) 
Random_Nerd: (When you do the divination, there is nothing currently in the Chancel that meets that description, Dante.) 
Random_Nerd: (But that tells you something.) 
DanteE: OK, logic... it made a beeline out of the vault, and right through the wall... there's a good chance it went in a straight line from there. So, I look that way. 
* Theresa uses her Gift to see if she can play Spot the Fly. 
Random_Nerd: In a straight line, there's John's library, and then continuing in that line, a hallway, and then a wall where the hall ends. 
DanteE: any bugs in there? 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, Noble count. There's you guys, there's Carrie and the guests. There's someone Noble leaving the Grove towards you, there's Brian, and James is Guarding The Horses.) 
Random_Nerd: (Nothing of the proper size and coloring. There's a fruitfly.) 
DanteE: (where's a fruitfly?) 
Random_Nerd: (In the hall.) 
Random_Nerd: (Where Dante just looked.) 
* DanteE examines the fruitfly with The Sight 
Random_Nerd: (It's a fruitfly. Not Noble, not miraculous. Nor is it red, or as big as the insect you saw, which was the size of a large housefly.) 
Theresa: (Someone Noble leaving toward me...that I can't identify? Brian, did Night come with you?) 
* DanteE heads outside... 
Brian: (I asked him/her to, yes - I can't remember which one Night is, other than Night was around me >_>) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, that one was Night, and was with Brian, but has left the Grove towards Central Kaerkoven.) 
Random_Nerd: (Shadows, the one I always confuse him with, is with the others. Heck, let's call them Laurence and Tom from here on, so I can keep my brain working.) 
Theresa: "Dante, I can't find the fly...which means that it's not protected like a Noble is." 
DanteE: "So it's not miraculous... but it still may be 'holy' or 'unholy'." 
Random_Nerd: Dante, outside, along that path, is a man in a metallic-looking red suit. He smiles at you. 
DanteE: (uhoh.) 
* DanteE checks him out with the sight... 
Random_Nerd: "You're the one, aren't you?" 
*** Mode change "+o Brian" for channel #Nobilis by Carrie. 
DanteE: "Ah... what one?" 
Random_Nerd: (He doesn't look like a Noble. But he /does/ look like a Greater Miracle of some kind.) 
Random_Nerd: "Yes, I think you are." 
* Theresa follows Dante and sees the shiny man. 
Random_Nerd: He stretches a bit. 
DanteE: "You may be confusing me with Keanu Reeves." 
Brian: RH, to the Familia: "What's going on, guy and gals?" 
DanteE: "And... you are?" 
Random_Nerd: "Do you get that a lot? But no." 
Random_Nerd: "I'm a message, and a test. It's not time for either, yet." 
* Theresa blinks at the man. "Are you related to a maple tree, by the way?" 
Random_Nerd: "But I do have a gift for you, Dante." 
Random_Nerd: He looks oddly at Theresa. 
DanteE: "A ...; gift? 
DanteE: "From whom, exactly?" 
* Theresa is used to getting odd looks. 
Random_Nerd: He shrugs, and reaches out his closed right hand to Dante. 
* DanteE holds out his hand... 
* Theresa would answer Brian, but is of too low of Realm to connect with the BB. 
Random_Nerd: He drops what seems to be a hard red teardrop into it. 
Brian: (T: prayers!) 
Theresa: (To go with his Kudzu one? Is he a member of the Time Life Teardrop Club?) 
* DanteE examines it... with the Sight for starters... 
Theresa: (Ooo, good point.) 
Random_Nerd: (It feels glassy, but a bit warm. It, too, seems to have been recently touched with a Greater Miracle in the recent past.) 
Random_Nerd: "Look after it well." 
DanteE: "what is it?" 
Random_Nerd: He starts to turn away. 
Random_Nerd: "A gift." 
Theresa: "Dear O Effacious Brian and Carrie, from your sister of the greenleaves, greeting. We had Excru. It went slurp into a puddle. Something happened with a spear. Dante and I are speaking with a man who is visiting that we don't know. Love and kisses, Theresa." 
DanteE: "Wait... 
Theresa: (If she can send that silently, cool. If not, oh well.) 
DanteE: "Who are you? 
Random_Nerd: (She can.) 
Carrie: (RH, responding to Brian) "I'm taking the guests with me back to the Grove. We're on foot." 
Random_Nerd: "I told you. I'm a test, and a message." 
Brian: (Beth: are you sure you want to end like that ;)) 
Theresa: (It's how Theresa ends letters. She's worried about this guy. We don't accept gifts!!!) 
Theresa: "Who is the message from?" 
Random_Nerd: "I wouldn't know about that. You'd have to ask him, whoever he is." 
Theresa: (And maybe she's giving Carrie the kisses, who knows....) 
Random_Nerd: "I'm just the message." 
Random_Nerd: "And the test, of course." 
* DanteE Realm LDiv of What is this thing 
DanteE: (er, the teardrop) 
Theresa: "What can we give you in return, messenger?": 
Random_Nerd: (It's made of blood, seemingly human blood. It's hardened, but not transmuted, probably by some kind of miracle.) 
Random_Nerd: "I'm sure there are many things you could give me." 
DanteE: (would we be able to tell if it was Ex blood?) 
Random_Nerd: (You'd need Excrucian blood for a comparison, most likely.) 
Theresa: "What would you like? Would be worthy of that which you have given us?" 
Random_Nerd: (And quite possibly not.) 
Random_Nerd: (All of you would leak normal human blood, for example.) 
Random_Nerd: "I'm not a being of normal wants and desires. The only volition I have is tied to my functions." 
Random_Nerd: "I want to accomplish them. That's all I want." 
DanteE: "did you cone here from the Holy Lance?" 
Carrie: (If I may make an entirely OOC suggestion?) 
DanteE: *come 
Theresa: (Please!) 
Random_Nerd: "I came here from a room, near here." 
Carrie: (Give him Dante's flowers. That way he'll be able to get his message to Dante from anywhere. Assuming he can pray.) 
Theresa: (Ooo, good one!) 
DanteE: (Good idea...) 
* Theresa creates a bouquet of Dante's and her flowers together. Holds it out to the messenger. "Please take this. It can help you to deliver your message when you need to do so." 
Random_Nerd: He rubs the side of his face, which for a moment glimmers the same metallic red as his suit. 
DanteE: "Or whoever sent you can talk to me directly." 
Random_Nerd: "My message is /myself/. I believe I explained that." 
Random_Nerd: "I am not a messenger. I am a /message/." 
DanteE: is he having any effect on the area/ 
Random_Nerd: "And I have no idea who or what sent me." 
Random_Nerd: (Not that you can tell, either through mundane vision or the Sight.) 
Carrie: (He is also the Seventh Ward of Kevin's Lore.) 
DanteE: (hm?) 
Theresa: (*facepalm* And me without my white gold ring...) 
Random_Nerd: (Heh. Yes, I've borrowed a bit of his characterization from Amok.) 
Carrie: (Donaldson reference.) 
Theresa: "Do you need some place to stay?" 
Random_Nerd: "Why would I? There are many places here that I can be for the time being." 
DanteE: (someone fill me in?) 
Random_Nerd: (A character from a book by Stephen Donaldson.) 
DanteE: "you can _be_ places?" 
Random_Nerd: "That's an excellent question. I'm not quite sure, to be honest. If I can, it's not time for that yet, because I'm clearly not one now." 
Brian: (he sounds like a Diskworld creature) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh? How so?) 
Carrie: (That too.) 
Brian: (just kinda quirky like that) 
DanteE: (I was thinking Fiddler's Green from Sandman) 
Random_Nerd: (Also, in an obsure way, he's based a little bit on the Unclean Legacy stories in Hitherby Dragons.) 
Brian: (haven't actually read Sandman) 
DanteE: "Is there anything we can do for you now?" 
Theresa: (He's a smurf?) 
Random_Nerd: "I don't think so, unless you have a gift to give me." 
Random_Nerd: "Something tells me that you may want to do so. I'm not sure why. Does this request make sense to you?" 
Theresa: "Yes." 
* DanteE looks at Theresa 
Random_Nerd: "Ah, good." 
DanteE: "Ah, fill me in?" 
Theresa: "Just as it is in your nature to be your message, we have our own rules. One is to return a gift in kind." 
Random_Nerd: "Rules are important." 
Theresa: "Immensely so. It hurts more than one's self when one breaks a rule." 
Random_Nerd: :" 
Random_Nerd: "No, not because of that." 
Random_Nerd: "Not because of /anything/. As a basic truth. Rules are important." 
Random_Nerd: (Carrie, Brian, what're you doing?) 
Brian: (um. I'll return to set-up duty, now that I've been told that things are now under control) 
DanteE: (and think of a miracle for the contest. :) 
Theresa: "What else is important?" 
* Carrie is leading the group through the city streets, in the general direction of the Grove. 
DanteE: (quick question: could I determine if this is 'Ex-aligned' by comparing it to a Shard?) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Comparing it in what way?) 
Random_Nerd: "I don't know." 
DanteE: (my kingdom for a tricorder... 
DanteE: (I was thinking of comparing it to Ick.) 
DanteE: (Then again, the blood of two people that we know of was on the Lance. One new, one ... old.) 
DanteE: "Do you come to Amyra often?" 
Random_Nerd: "I'm not sure. How would I know?" 
Random_Nerd: "Do you know what a Dolorous Stroke is?" 
DanteE: "I was thinking, something that could help you if you did would be a nice, detailed map of Amyra... 
Random_Nerd: "I don't need a map. If I need to go somewhere, I'll know where to go and how." 
Brian: (... a Dolorous Stroke doesn't sound good ... but I can't remember what it is) 
Random_Nerd: (It's a reference to something in the Le Morte d'Arthur) 
DanteE: "... the stab in the side of Christ on the Cross." 
DanteE: (going by Wikipedia. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Which is in turn a reference to... yeah, that.) 
Theresa: "Can you tell us who sent you?" 
Random_Nerd: "No. I can't. I don't know that, so I assume it isn't something I need to know yet." 
* Theresa nods. 
DanteE: (let's see, Nobilis legend says that Jehovah==Cneph, who is absent, right?) 
* Theresa feels like she's dealing with a slightly more talkative Maple. 
Random_Nerd: (Some Nobles think that. It's a subject of some dispute.) 
DanteE: (did he take the flowers?) 
Random_Nerd: (Really, the similarity might tell you something about the Maple.) 
Theresa: "Is your message only for Dante?" 
Random_Nerd: (He didn't. He hasn't moved other than talking.) 
Theresa: (Nope, he didn't. He doesn't want them.) 
Random_Nerd: "I believe so. He's the one I'm to deliver it to, at least." 
Theresa: "Do you know why he is the only one you are to test and deliver to?" 
Random_Nerd: "No." 
DanteE: "Did he ask for anything in return?" 
Random_Nerd: "Who?" 
DanteE: "Whoever gave you the message." 
Random_Nerd: "Nobody gave me a message." 
DanteE: "Er, I mean whoever sent you. 
DanteE: "Momentarily forgot you _are_ the message." 
Random_Nerd: "I don't know who sent me right now." 
Random_Nerd: "Either that's not something I need to know, or I'll know it later when the time is right." 
DanteE: "When were you sent?" 
Random_Nerd: "Just now. A few minutes ago." 
DanteE: to Theresa: "I wonder if maybe the _Lance_ sent him: 
Brian: (I wonder if maybe he wants to see the Maple?) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, there is one thing you're forgetting, I just remembered.) 
Theresa: (What?) 
DanteE: (uhoh) 
Random_Nerd: (The Witchhunt Rite. It'd provide at least a little information here, based on what Dante saw with the Sight.) 
DanteE: (D'OH!) 
DanteE: (Theresa, what's your spirit?) 
Theresa: (2) 
DanteE: (Mine too...) 
Brian: (what's Witchhunt?) 
Theresa: (No, wait, just 1. I always get that wrong...) 
DanteE: "Hold on for one second, if you would..." 
Theresa: "I wouldn't doubt it." *to the Guy* "A few minutes ago, an artifact was treated differently than it should have been. A drop fell off of that artifact and the drop turned into a red fly, which flew _through_ the door to the outside. Then we found you." 
Random_Nerd: (Page 123, GWB.) 
* DanteE does the WitchHunt Rite on Message here." 
Random_Nerd: (You've got a Spirit of 2?) 
DanteE: (yep) 
Theresa: (Obviously the Chancel needs a spiritual Spam Filter.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, he's a Greater Miracle, and recent enough that the traces still linger. They've been masked through a symbol, though.) 
Theresa: (Or would it be Virus Protection...) 
DanteE: (and the symbol is...? (drumroll)) 
Random_Nerd: (In particular, that of Sir Balin taking the Lance and stabbing King Pellam.) 
Random_Nerd: (Who was, incidentially, an ancestor of the Amyran line of kings.) 
Random_Nerd: (Pellam, I mean, not Balin.) 
DanteE: "Arthurian legend... 
DanteE: "But we can't go on a Grail quest, the Grail's in there." 
DanteE: "Hardly a quest if we just knock..." 
Theresa: (So this means the person behind the message is like Sir Balin or he's represented by stabbing Pellam and causing famine/drought/pestilence throughout the land.) 
Theresa: "Do you have a name, message?" 
Random_Nerd: (ANON all the knights arose from the table for to set on Balin, and King Pellam himself arose up fiercely, and said, Knight, hast thou slain my brother? thou shalt die therefore or thou depart. Well, said Balin, do it yourself. Yes, said King Pellam, there shall no man have ado with thee but myself, for the love of my brother. Then King Pellam caught in his hand a grim weapon and smote eagerly at Balin; but Balin put the sword betwixt hi 
Random_Nerd: find, and always King Pellam after him. And at the last he entered into a chamber that was marvellously well dight and richly, and a bed arrayed with cloth of gold, the richest that 
Random_Nerd: might be thought, and one lying therein, and thereby stood a table of clean gold with four pillars of silver that bare up the table, and upon the table stood a marvellous spear strangely wrought. And when Balin saw that spear, he gat it in his hand and turned him to King Pellam, and smote him passingly sore with that spear, that King Pellam fell down in a swoon, and therewith the castle roof and walls brake and fell to the earth, and Balin 
Random_Nerd: the most part of the castle, that was fallen down through that dolorous stroke, lay upon Pellam and Balin three days.) 
Random_Nerd: (Where did that cut off?) 
Brian: (am, and smote him passingly sore with that spear, that King Pellam fell down in a swoon, and therewith the castle roof and walls brake and fell to the earth, and Balin) 
Random_Nerd: (Or, heck... (Link: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart041.htm)http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart041.htm) 
Brian: (wow, missed a few messages there) 
DanteE: (OK, killing an Excrucian _can't_ be a Dolorous Stroke.) 
DanteE: (not to mention that _I_ didn't actually do that...) 
Random_Nerd: (The relevance is im some ways obscure!) 
Random_Nerd: (In. In some ways.) 
Theresa: (Hmm, in this both Pellam and Balin got zapped.) 
Brian: (probably too much cleavage about) 
Carrie: (Heh. We know you want to be speaking German! >.> ) 
Theresa: (He haz vays of making us talk...) 
Random_Nerd: "I don't believe I have a name." 
DanteE: "... would you like one?" 
Random_Nerd: "I don't believe I need one. If I do, I'll find it out at the right time." 
DanteE: "When is this 'right time'? Any idea? 
Random_Nerd: "I don't know. But if I need to know things, or to be able to do things, I will get that capability or knowledge when I need it." 
Theresa: "Are you to stay in this particular place or can you move around?" 
Random_Nerd: "There are many things that I don't know. But that's okay, I don't need to know them." 
Random_Nerd: He thinks for a moment, and then walks a few feet forward. 
Random_Nerd: "It seems that I can move around." 
DanteE: ("Have you met a guy named Donald Rumsfeld?" :) 
Theresa: "Would you like to come with us? Do you need sustenence?" 
Theresa: (Duty would like this guy, I think.) 
DanteE: (... we have Duty ... and _Consequences_ here) 
Random_Nerd: "I don't think I need to eat. And I have no desire to go with you." 
Random_Nerd: (That's an interesting idea, whether he has anything to do with which Nobles happen to be here.) 
DanteE: (and Conseq was looking a little bored. :) 
Random_Nerd: (Really, there's not any magic question you guys are neglecting to ask. He just doesn't know very much.) 
DanteE: (would a Div of Conseqences be a minor favor?) 
Theresa: (Consequences of what, though.) 
Theresa: "Even if we say please?" 
DanteE: (Good question... buy this guy is the embodiment of the Consequences of something.) 
Random_Nerd: "Hmm." A pause. "No, it seems like I don't care what you want." 
Brian: (... joss to RN.) 
Random_Nerd: He starts to walk off. 
Random_Nerd: (Heh.) 
DanteE: (>ding!< Wait a second... 
DanteE: (what if this blood I'm holding is Pellam's blood? 
Random_Nerd: (That would be interesting.) 
DanteE: (and the message is 'Be very careful how you use the Spear, you Doof!') 
Theresa: "Can we ask you not to harm anyone in this Chancel>: 
Random_Nerd: "I see no reason why not. Are you too bound by unknown restrictions?" 
Theresa: "Yes. *recites the code of the Wild and her version of the Serpent code* Those are my restrictions." 
DanteE: "Those are _known_ restrictions." 
Random_Nerd: "Interesting. Does Dante still follow these restrictons?" 
Random_Nerd: "But by those, I see no reason you should not be able to ask me that." 
Brian: (damn literalists) 
Theresa: "Dante follows some of those restrictions. But we are also bound to protect this Chancel and its enhabitants. This is a charge given to us by our Lord." 
DanteE: "Can I ask you to take a message back to ... whoever sent you?" 
Random_Nerd: "Probably." 
Random_Nerd: "Is there a reason you cannot, or that you would be unsure of whether you can?" 
DanteE: "Well, would you take it back if I did?" 
Random_Nerd: "I don't know. I don't currently have that capability, but perhaps conditions would change if you asked me that." 
DanteE: (OK, throwing this to the group: 
Theresa: (Any variation of "Come and face me yourself, you coward" is gonna get a 'No' vote...)\ 
DanteE: (I'm thinking of asking him to take back my sincere apology for grabbing the spear. Whadjathink?) 
Random_Nerd: (Is there any way we can get Carrie or Brian together with the others?) 
Theresa: (RN - Prayer. We can trail Shiny here until they head over to us. Will and Sam can keep an eye on the visitors?) 
Random_Nerd: (That would probably work.) 
Brian: (asking Brian to go there would get Brian there. Not asking will cause him to have no clue what's going on.) 
DanteE: (do William and Samuel know 'Kumbaya'? :) 
Random_Nerd: (William would.) 
Carrie: (Ditto. And Carrie's currently leading the guests back to the Grove, as I said earlier. She has no reason to lead them back toward the Treasures.) 
DanteE: (could use the BB) 
* Theresa prays silently to the others. "Hey guys. There's been a side effect from the Spear, we think. Can you ditch the guests and get over here to the Palace? Our complication gave Dante a gift and we haven't been able to give him anything yet... Love, Theresa" 
Brian: (... what's the "act" command? /me is saying "no such command") 
DanteE: (OOC question to our benevolent (yeah right) HG: are we right in treating this like a potental cataclysm, or are we demonboxing again?) 
Random_Nerd: ( /me whatevers.) 
Carrie: (Try /action. If that doesn't work, your client hates yuo.) 
DanteE: (Brian: /me, right at the beginning of the line--no spaces) 
Random_Nerd: (There is good reason to see this as significant.) 
Random_Nerd: (At least, to Dante.) 
Brian: Brian turns to what'shisface (other Noble), asks "You'll be alright here? I have to go meet the others now" and will then leave. 
Random_Nerd: Laurence: "Is there still an Excrucian? Are we in danger?" 
Theresa: (Told Brian earlier that the Ex is dead, I think.) 
DanteE: (BTW, we should check out the timing of the Ex's appearance... extremely suspicious) 
Random_Nerd: (It is, indeed!) 
Theresa: (We don't really have Chancel Border protection, though.) 
Brian: "I don't think we're in danger anymore" 
Brian: "But the others requested my presence" 
Random_Nerd: (But as I mentioned before, it's possible that the Excrucian has been here before, but this was the time you /heard/ her.) 
Random_Nerd: Laurence: "Ah>" 
Random_Nerd: He goes back to where the Maple is. 
DanteE: (if that's true, why wasn't she run through before?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, the Lance didn't act until you guys did, and in some ways it mirrored your actions.) 
Random_Nerd: (It did the Warding thing along with Therea, and impaled the Excrucian where Dante had hit her.) 
Carrie: (Bulletin Board) "William, amuel... 
Carrie: (Ack, ignore. Wasn't done yet.) 
DanteE: (We're missing something. Probably something blatantly obvious. RN, you shoulda run this past the Woodlouse Test before throwing it to us. :D ) 
Random_Nerd: (Woodlouse Text?) 
Random_Nerd: (Err, Test?) 
DanteE: (Test for RPG plots. Collect 5 woodlice, up to 3 of whom may be dead. Explain your plot to them. If the woodlice get it, the players _might_.) 
Random_Nerd: (Heh.) 
Random_Nerd: (You haven't gotten the whole plot yet.) 
DanteE: (was I close?) 
Theresa: "We will walk with you, Message. While Dante thinks." 
Random_Nerd: (With which analysis?) 
DanteE: (the last one, where this blood comes from Pellam) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, that you were missing something obvious?) 
DanteE: (That too) 
Random_Nerd: (The blood does not come from Pellam. The blood is the same Excrucian blood that was dripping down the lance.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's also a trap, of a sort, by the one who sent your new friend.) 
DanteE: (Message is an Excrucian trap?!?) 
Carrie: (BB, to Theresa) "Would sending an Anchor suffice? I'm not sure if our guests would stick together if a Noble isn't there to escort them." 
Random_Nerd: (I didn't say that.) 
Random_Nerd: (But on the other hand, it is a plausible interpretation of the situation.) 
Theresa: (It's a trap because of the Gift. If we can't return in kind, we break the Wild Code.) 
Carrie: (Maybe that's one reason.) 
Random_Nerd: (But on the other hand, the nature of the gift is ambiguous.) 
Theresa: (Carrie - do you mean an Anchor to me and Dante or an Anchor to the guests?) 
DanteE: (But if Message won't accept anything, we can't reciprocate at all... that way/.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's the equivilent of setting up a power of the Dark in a situation where they have to kill a human.) 
Carrie: (I would send one of my Anchors to you and Dante.) 
Theresa: (Ahh.) 
Random_Nerd: (He probably would accept something. He even asked if you had anything to give him.) 
Carrie: (So far Dante hasn't tried to give him anything. Only Theresa has.) 
Theresa: Prayer: "Oh beautious hope that shines like the dawn: Sure. We're thinking this might be a devious backdoor trap of the Ex in case they snuffed it. Love, Theresa" 
Random_Nerd: (But the important message you should take from the blood right now is "Somebody who knows Dante follows the Code of the Wild is deliberately trying to screw with him.") 
Brian: (T, I love those prayers.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's not an impossible trap, but it is a trap.) 
DanteE: (RN: How much of that passage from lMdA did you take this from?) 
Random_Nerd: (I'm not quite sure what you're asking.) 
DanteE: (Hah! Now YOU'RE confused! Sppppht! :) 
Carrie: (Does anyone recall if I sent either of my Anchors away already? I remember intending to do something with Carrie's mom, but I'm not suree whether I did.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not everything in that bit of it is relevant.) 
Random_Nerd: (I don't recall where they are at the moment, so wherever you want them to be could be plausible.) 
Theresa: (I thought they were possibly at the lunch. Hadn't seen them since.) 
Brian: (I remember at least one at the lunch) 
Carrie: (They're in the tour group, then.) 
Theresa: (Oh, yeah, now I remember. Would we know by instinct that the Ex was a Strategist?) 
DanteE: (Throw this to the group: that story starts with someone trying to ward off a blow with a sword, and getting it broken. Ergo, would it be worthwhile to give him a sword?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes, unless you'd rather not for some characterization reason.) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and I would like to say that Strategists /are/ very fond of complicated traps.) 
Random_Nerd: (Basically, in terms of a gift matching the gift you received, my approach is "Well, give me a good argument why it passes, and I'll accept it.") 
Random_Nerd: (There's not a specific answer I'm looking for.) 
* DanteE creates a crusader-style sword--with a cross-shaped grip, usable in an impromptu object of worship, and a fancy scabbard 
* Carrie enters the mind of her father. "Would you be able to return to the palace? Something that may need checking up on is happening there." 
Theresa: *to others, Dante included, silently* "Oh and btw, o siblings of unestimated virtues, I think our Ex was a Strategist, which explains the pop-up ad after she got punctured by the Spear. Love, Theresa." 
Carrie: (You're using a Deep Miracle on this -- best make it spectacular.) 
Random_Nerd: (One other thing to say, this guy's not a meaningless plot device. I know who made him, and why, and how, and the last of these is possible with PC-scale powers.) 
Theresa: (Well, yeah, we've talked before how I could grow my own secretaries.) 
DanteE: "Message?" 
Random_Nerd: (Don't see this as "The GM is screwing with me." A particular in-setting individual is screwing with you.) 
Random_Nerd: "Was that said to me?" 
DanteE: (RN: someone we've already met?) 
Random_Nerd: (That would be telling. Someone you've already met, or who you otherwise have enough information to know something about, either directly or indirectly.) 
DanteE: (I am not a number, I am a FREE NOBLE! :) 
Random_Nerd: (Not an utterly faceless Mr. X who's never interacted causally in the game before.) 
* DanteE throws a preservation on the sword-and-scabbard as well. 
Brian: (evil thought: The reason John didn't accept enNoblement is because he's already an Excrucian Anchor O_O) 
Random_Nerd: (If he was, you'd be able to tell.) 
Brian: (yeah, but still...) 
* Carrie will continue leading the group toward the Grove, trying to make sure they all stay together, and filling in her father telepathically on the situation in between dialogue to the guests. 
DanteE: (OK, should I wait for the others and get their ideas, or barge ahead?) 
Carrie: (You're Courage. You tell me.) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Shall we cut to Carrie meeting Brian at the Grove, on the Carrie/Brian side of things, without stopping the stuff with the others?) 
Brian: (go ahead, if you want. 
Brian: (actually, it's midnight) 
Carrie: (Didn't Brian head to the palace?) 
Brian: (and yes, yes I did) 
DanteE: (There's the problem that, if I screw up, you'll be helping with the fallout.) 
Theresa: (Maybe Brian/Carrie's Dad stuff?) 
Theresa: (Dante - this is different from usual how? :) ) 
Carrie: (You don't get awards for Not Screwing Up. You get awards for Movbing Things Forward. :P ) 
DanteE: (Point.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, if you screw up with the Gift part, the only result will be you breaking the Wild Code.) 
Random_Nerd: (Dante's the only one whose neck's on the line for that part.) 
DanteE: "Yes, well, it's what we have for a name for you. 
DanteE: "Could we get you to take this (the sword) back to ... whoever sent you? 
DanteE: "And whoever gave me this (the blood)? 
DanteE: "Along with a message from me... 
Random_Nerd: "I was the one that gave you the blood, and I can accept the sword." 
DanteE: "Tell ... whoever ... I apologize for any mistreatment of the Holy Lance that I may have done. 
Random_Nerd: He thinks for a moment. 
Random_Nerd: "Okay, it doesn't seem like I can bring that message to whoever sent me." 
Random_Nerd: "But I will accept the sword." 
DanteE: "Hm... 
Random_Nerd: He takes it, and attaches it to his belt. 
DanteE: "How about... we ... mainly I ... promise to respect the integrity and the sanctity of the Johannite treasures... 
DanteE: "and only to disturb them in the most dire circumstances?" 
Random_Nerd: "What about that?" 
DanteE: "What do you mean?" 
Random_Nerd: "You said how about you do that. Well, that's nothing to me, so I'm not sure how to react." 
DanteE: (maybe we should _clean_ the spear...) 
DanteE: "Oh, of course... 
Theresa: "I...don't think he's from the Spear, Dante. I think he's from the Excrucian. A..time-delay effect or a 'if you are reading this, I must be dead' thing." 
Random_Nerd: (Either theory of his origin is plausible.) 
Random_Nerd: (You guys mind if we stop soon?) 
DanteE: "Just out of curiosity, how far would you have to go to give him the sword? 
Random_Nerd: "To give who the sword?" 
Theresa: (I'm okay with it.) 
Random_Nerd: "You said the sword was to be given to the one who gave you the blood." 
Brian: (sure) 
Random_Nerd: "That's me. So I wouldn't have to go anywhere. I'm here." 
DanteE: (OK, if he's from the Ex, the only appropriate message would be along the lines of "choke on my fuck") 
Random_Nerd: (Taken to who, the shard, or the full Excrucian?) 
Theresa: (Well, the shard is dead and the Excrucian could be on the other side of the Wall for all we know.) 
Random_Nerd: (But the thing is, he could /also/ be from the spear. In which case such a message would probably not be a good idea.) 
Random_Nerd: (I don't know quite what'd happen if you told that to the Spear, but I know it would be dramatic.) 
DanteE: (Ah... got it.) 
Random_Nerd: (Not that telling it to a full Excrucian wouldn't, of course.) 
DanteE: "Then tell him... that the Nobles of Amyra will do everything in their power to _protect_ the Johannite Treasures." 
Random_Nerd: "Hmm. Okay, I don't seem to be able to convey that message to whoever made me at the current time." 
Random_Nerd: "I was wondering about that." 
DanteE: (whattaya want, the ending to Lost? :) 
Random_Nerd: "Interesting." 
Theresa: (Nah, RN is more of a House fan...) 
Theresa: (Maybe call the session here and let our brains ooze out for the rest of the week?) 
DanteE: (I'm stumped. Ideas?) 
Carrie: (For what?) 
Brian: (seems like a good place to stop. My suspicion is that the events for Message to know what we want him to know haven't happened yet) 
Random_Nerd: (Stopping here works.) 
Random_Nerd: ___________________________STOP_________________________ 
DanteE: (OK, stop) 
Random_Nerd: Okay, thoughts? 
*** Carrie is now known as Etheric. 
*** Brian is now known as lazarus. 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
lazarus: only problem was the Message not knowing anything. 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
Etheric: Nice Macguffin to get the plot moving again. 
lazarus: I found out in my Serenity game that when characters don't know anything, the players will spend hours questioning them >_> 
Knockwood: and here I thought the lady in the vault was an Ex. 
Etheric: Things were starting to drag before he showed up. Then things started to drag toward the end because of Dante stalling for some unknown reason. But aside from that my only complaint is that Carrie doesn't have any action where she is. I'd expect at least some of th eguests to ask questions. 
BethE: It's the Excrucian equivalent of the Maple. Both with secrets and both like playing charades and 20 questions in Basque (?) . 
Etheric: Like "Where are we going?" etc. 
Random_Nerd: Sorry about that, this NPC took a fair amount of mental processing power, and I didn't have enough to spare to multitask. 
Knockwood: I'm talking to a metaphysical neutron bomb. I'm treading carefully, dammit. 
BethE: Ya know, in this game, might not even have to be metaphysical. :) 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and for the record, the gift of the sword worked to satisfy the Code of the Wild, but I'm pretty sure that the reason it worked isn't the reason you thought of it. 
Random_Nerd: What was your reason? 
Knockwood: It's from either a holy artifact that's known to devastate entire countrysides or a being that wants to eat reality. 
BethE: Both of which are known to squeal and go "ooo, shiny!"? 
Knockwood: RN: the legend of the second Dolorous Stroke. Balin tried to ward off the first blow with a sword... 
Knockwood: if he had a better sword he wouldn't have had to grab the Lance. 
Random_Nerd: No, that wasn't the reason it worked. 
Random_Nerd: Rather, the drop was given to you in an attempt to harm you, through getting you to break your Code. That makes it a weapon, of a sort, and a sword is a weapon, too. 
Knockwood: That's what I was asking earlier... I was wondering if that specific part of the story was part of why you put this particular puzzle here. :) 
Random_Nerd: Well, okay, his intent wasn't to hurt you. But he was following orders, so to speak. 
Knockwood: which means the guy who sent the Message... is Kudzu! 
Etheric: Of course. *facepalms* 
Random_Nerd: This /is/ the sort of thing Kudzu would do. 
Etheric: </sarcasm> 
Random_Nerd: Kudzu /loves/ this kind of thing. 
Etheric: Oh? 
Knockwood: who else would give a rat's ass if I break my code? 
Random_Nerd: Like, remember the whole thing with the cops? 
lazarus: I could believe it to be Kudzu. I could believe it to be an Excrucian (their reasons are their own). I could believe it to be a Test of Worthiness by the Spear. 
Random_Nerd: At present, any of those makes sense. 
lazarus: yep 
BethE: Sicilian reasoning... 
Knockwood: If it's an Ex, it's a test to see how smart we are (HAH) and/or how far we'll go to win 
Random_Nerd: If it's the Lance, it's one of those bizarre tests of virtues you see in lots of Arthurian legends. 
Random_Nerd: And if it's Kudzu, well, he's a dick. 
Knockwood: Beth: still having trouble u/ling Session 49? 
BethE: Yeppers. *sigh* 
BethE: So very very close...but hey, we made it now past Session 50. :) 
Knockwood: of course, I could have just said "Thanks", taken the hit, and gotten on with the game... 
Random_Nerd: Did you guys have fun tonight? 
lazarus: to be honest, I'm still a little out of it. 
lazarus: had a bad few weeks. 
BethE: I think so. Not ubertremendous fun but still fun. Felt frustrated but not useless. 
Knockwood: I'm OK, though I hate it when my brane duzunt werk.... 
BethE: Next week shall be Carrie and her babysitting. :) 
Etheric: I'm rather tired... I had fun for a bit -- that message-character was intriguing -- but my mind wasn't fully on the game, I'll admit. 
Knockwood: and possibly the Miracle Contest 
Knockwood: with me in the _background_ next time. :) 
Knockwood: ...oh, wait, he's still waiting on a message back 
Random_Nerd: No, not really. 
Random_Nerd: He said that he wasn't able to convey a message. 
Knockwood: so he's now part of our Rogues Gallery? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Arguably. 
Knockwood: "Lesson, Red, Ick, this here's Message. Say hi!" "Grr." "Hello!" 
Knockwood: "grunt" 
Random_Nerd: He's either in that, or in the same category as the Maple and the pigeon turned to copper. 
lazarus: oh, right, we have a pigeon turned to copper still. 
Random_Nerd: Although you at least used to have a theory on that. 
Knockwood: well, _blood_ turned to copper. So it's a pigeon-shaped circulatory system. 
BethE: Noble of Electricity, I think. 
Knockwood: Electricity & Copper 
Knockwood: and Consequences knows him but won't admit it. 
BethE: We do seem to collect people. 
Random_Nerd: Correct. 
lazarus: I wonder what our Relationship Chart would look like, if someone decided to draw it 
BethE: Because I'm masochistic...what would happen if you combine the blood of the Ex and the tear of Kudzu? 
Knockwood: the work of a schizophrenic spider on uppers. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm! That would be interesting, Laz. 
Knockwood: a bitchin' heavy metal band. 
lazarus: Relationship Charts are normally the jobs of GMs and Courtiers. 
lazarus: we have no Courtiers. 
lazarus: sorry, RN, it's up to you to figure it out :-P 
Random_Nerd: Well, /I/ know how you and everyone else connect together. 
Random_Nerd: I don't have it in relationship chart mode, but I do keep track. 
BethE: Hmm...on one hand, I don't think it would be that hard...and on the other hand, I shouldn't say such stuff out loud. <G> 
lazarus: Beth, you take a look at RN's notes, and.... ok, sorry :p 
Random_Nerd: Like I keep them somewhere she might find them? 
Knockwood: of course, John's still mad at me... 
Random_Nerd: No, no, she'd have to seduce the knowledge out of me. *cough cough* 
lazarus: RN: oh noes, poor you! 
BethE: Love, I know enough now to know you don't keep _physical_ notes. 
BethE: And I would have to say that you have yet to seduce me to get info for the Buffy game. *sniff* 
lazarus: I can see where this is going, and the Quantum Pr0n Theory is weeping. 
BethE: Besides, seducing RN might just get "The Maple is...actually Kane's sled." :P 
Knockwood: is there an actual connection between Message and the Maple? 
lazarus: possible. You think we'll get more out of RN than that? 
Knockwood: I think Theresa and I were both thinking of getting him over to the Grove and seeing if they talk... 
Random_Nerd: The connection is one of kind, and not of source. 
Knockwood: .... the Maple is Aaron's Rod? 
Random_Nerd: I'd call that a radical interpretation of the text. 
lazarus: kw: don't ever say Aaron's Rod again. >_> 
Knockwood: (Beth, did his eyes pop out of his head when he read my last line? :) 
BethE: (No, but he's laughing. :) ) 
Knockwood: Laz, I swing phallic symbols around for a living. :) 
BethE: In more than one way, Dante _is_ a phallic symbol... 
Knockwood: (and it is a possibility... one of the powers of Aaron's Rod is that it grew when planted. So, hey, leave it somewhere for a few thousand years...) 
Random_Nerd: Am I too obscure about this game? 
Random_Nerd: Do you want me to just reveal some of these secrets? 
Knockwood: We're used to "OK, Orc #3 bites the big one. Who's next?" 
Random_Nerd: Ah, that's what the game needs! Orcs! 
lazarus: RN: I like the game. The gradual reveal of secrets. 
Random_Nerd: But I know that I'd end up making orcs into obscure literary allusions or something, without even trying. 
Random_Nerd: I can't help it! 
BethE: I like earning my answers for the most part. 
lazarus: it's what Nobilis does. 
Etheric: Don't reveal the secrets. We like speculating. 
Random_Nerd: Fine. I'll keep it up with the secrets, and hope when they get revealed they're not anticlimaxes. 
lazarus: Nobilis: where Orcs are really analogues for the Book of Job. 
Knockwood: Rule Zero basically doesn't apply, right? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Well, I think the application is limited because I can think up perfectly servicable evil without help. 
Knockwood: well, promise not to switch gears if we come up with something "worse"? 
Knockwood: that's the main reason for Rule 0 in the first place 
lazarus: R0 is actually a good one for the GM to keep in mind, as slightly altering plans to incorporate what players throw out can improve a game :p 
Random_Nerd: On the established secrets and stuff? 
Knockwood: sure 
Random_Nerd: I mean, with stuff like the Maple and so on, I doubt I'd want to switch gears on the fly. I've already put a decent amount of planning and foreshadowing work in. 
lazarus: (that's completely how I run my Sunday games: "Here's a situation! Now, let's find out how the characters deal with it, and the OOC comments to figure out what caused it!") 
Random_Nerd: I prefer to keep my setting truths solid, and have the plot and events be what's developed on the fly. 
lazarus: it depends by what you mean by "setting truths". There's some things that I keep, and filter comments through. 
Knockwood: whoops, wait, that there as well. 
Random_Nerd: So, I know what the NPCs are like, and what they know, and what's happened in the past. And I'm not going to go back and change that. But I don't really know where the plot's going to go from here. I never do. 
lazarus: the Bandit Pei Li, for instance, has found out that the characters are the remnants of an old village that the guy whose army he wants to join destroyed years ago. Other motivations and additions to that happen. Apparently Pei Li had a connection to one of the characters, which I didn't know, until they suggested it. 
Knockwood: If we're in the 'world', in a situation without, say, our Corrupt Cult, and one of us remarks that we hope they don't show up ... would they show up? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. 
Random_Nerd: That's possible. 
Random_Nerd: If it makes sense. 
Random_Nerd: And it'd make things interesting. 
lazarus: if I were running, I would keep it in mind when figuring out what the event's all about (if I don't know already) 
Random_Nerd: So, in that way, yes, Rule 0 does apply. 
Knockwood: _There's_ the rationale for Rule Zero.

Session 54

2007-08-09T02:47:28Z

BethDragon:

Random_Nerd: Okay, now, thoughts before we begin? 
Knockwood: is it part of human nature to seek hierarchies, even imaginary ones? 
BethE: Brian's back at the grove, the rest of us are at the palace and Carrie's leading the way. Oh and what path is Contextual Tint? 
Random_Nerd: Probably. 
Random_Nerd: Heck, it's part of /mammal/ nature. 
Random_Nerd: What path? 
Etheric: I think she might mean Code. 
BethE: *nod* Sorry, brain not quite up to work-speed. 
Random_Nerd: I don't believe you guys know. 
Random_Nerd: But he's Domination, as is The Triad. Blue Shock is Heaven. 
Knockwood: who wants in to the artifacts room again? 
Etheric: Triad, if I recall. 
BethE: *blink* How'd A Dionyl get a Heaven code? Oh, wait, Dark/Light is Earth-based... 
Random_Nerd: Triad. 
BethE: I thought it was Tint. 
BethE: What are the rules of Domination again? 
* Knockwood deliberately ignores the potential meanings of Beth's statement... 
Random_Nerd: *snicker* 
Random_Nerd: One moment, let me check my notes. 
Random_Nerd: All Beings Should Share A Common Perceptual Universe. When Faced With Alternative Perspectives, Contest Against Them Until There Is A Victor. Remain Yourself. 
BethE: Hmm...not really much to spin-doctor "John knows Best about these things." with... 
Etheric: Here's a question (not an urgent one). Is the interpretation of Splintering/Domination as having to do with many worldviews/one worldview something that's in the book, that I missed? Or is it something you came up with on your own? 
Random_Nerd: The book just says "There are Nobles of Domination and Splintering. It's hard to explain what these mean." 
Etheric: Thought so.. 
Random_Nerd: The interpretation used in this game is of my own devising. 
Etheric: So you get the credit for coming up with a compelling take on that. :) 
Random_Nerd: Thanks. 
BethE: What kinda of trouble would we be in if the Ark throws down with the Triad? 
Random_Nerd: I needed something that tied into Earth, but in a different way, because of how I'm using Dionyl. So I put a spin on the mythic/prosaic divide, combined with a bit of borrowed Grant Morrison. 
Random_Nerd: There's only one way to find out! 
Knockwood: let's see, with that worldview letting them into a room with artifacts that could settle the Big Question one way or another would probably be a Very Bad Thing, ne? 
Random_Nerd: There are various possible reasons it could be a bad idea. 
Knockwood: then again, the Vision seemed to indicate both sides _need_ to be reconciled... 
lazarus: or, it COULD settle the Big Question, and that may herald us in as the Saviours of the Univers. 
lazarus: e 
lazarus: or Destroyers. Either way, really. 
Random_Nerd: Whatever would happen, it would probably be interesting! 
Etheric: You remember the last interesting thing that happened? 
Random_Nerd: ..the rabbit? 
Etheric: I doubt we'll be getting a deus ex Kudzu this time. 
lazarus: a rabbit freed a bunch of humans? 
Random_Nerd: Or what? 
Knockwood: the one that Interested the hell out of several city blocks? 
lazarus: and then got turned into a moon? 
lazarus: that was very interesting! 
lazarus: ^_^ 
Knockwood: no, he's _on_ the moon. 
Knockwood: Which means kids with backyard telescopes are checking him out. 
BethE: Were you still pondering James any, RN? 
Random_Nerd: I don't know what to do with James yet. 
Random_Nerd: If you guys don't mind, can we have him be Guarding The Horses until inspiration strikes? 
Etheric: Works for me. 
Knockwood: safest horses in the chancel. 
BethE: *nod* Sounds good to me. 
lazarus: kwd: he's guarding /all/ the horses of the Chancel. 
Random_Nerd: Any questions before we begin? 
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE. 
Random_Nerd: Or are we ready? 
DanteE: who's where now? 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and Etheric, did you decide how Carrie would interrupt John's comment? 
* Brian is setting up for the miracle competition 
Etheric: I'm thinking the Perfectly Times cleariung-of-throat idea, if it's allowable, would fit best. 
Etheric: *Timed 
Random_Nerd: That will work. 
Random_Nerd: Okay, everyone ready? 
Brian: I am 
DanteE: probably not. :) 
Theresa: Think so. 
Random_Nerd: Good enough! 
Random_Nerd: ___________________________START____________________ 
Random_Nerd: John, to Carrie: "Could you explain it to, err, " *CARRIE CLEARS HER THROAT* "communicating well." 
Random_Nerd: The Triad doesn't notice. 
DanteE: (OK, who wants to take the lead in getting Triad's lit match away from this big ol' fuse?) 
Carrie: (to Triad) "If you please, Dominus, only our Imperator has seen what lies beyond here. I have said before that we do not lightly restrict our guests. We in fact do so only when the safety of those in our charge is at stake. That is the case here. The reactions of the relics within this door are unpredictable, and to risk offending them simply to further our own curiosity, or that of our guests, would, I believe, be imprudent." 
Theresa: (I'm still trying to think what would be more interesting than shiny things that can go metaphysically BOOM....) 
DanteE: (no such thing Theresa) 
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock, to Triad: "My friend, we are guests here." 
DanteE: (Go Carrie!) 
Random_Nerd: Triad *sulky pose* "Oh, fine." 
* Theresa ponders what Triad would think of Red. 
* Carrie does a quick divination to discover the normal relicss most likely to interest Triad. "If you please, over here is..." 
DanteE: (Another crisis averted thanks to .... Dumb Luck! Tune in next week! :D ) 
Random_Nerd: (More to Perfect Timing. Blue Shock would have been much less helpful if he'd heard John's comment. Lesser Beings Should Respect Their Betters and all.) 
Random_Nerd: (Divinations can't reliably determine the preferences of anyone with an auctoritas.) 
Random_Nerd: (At best, you could find generically interestings ones. Or you could find the few ones that had minor effaciousness, as he'd mentioned an interest in "miracles" of human religion.) 
Carrie: (Ah, I was thinking that was a property of the relics, not of Triad himself. Well, anything relelvant to his Estate that he han't seen yet.) 
DanteE: (Any chance there's a relic in 3 pieces, of which 1 is missing? :) 
Theresa: (Hmm...we have the Three Kings already...) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, even if there was, he couldn't create the third with a Triad miracle. Rather, he could create a third piece that was a bit like the existing two, but it's not like it would fill in the gap or anything.) 
Random_Nerd: (Like, if you had a statue's head and a statue's legs, he could make a sort of head/leg thing, but not the torso. At least, not without Changes.) 
DanteE: (Ah.) 
Carrie: (Evil idea!) 
DanteE: (Theresa's got a point, tho, we could go to the section of the museum dealing with the Magi) 
Theresa: (*waits for Carrie's Evil Idea?*) 
Carrie: (What might a Major Creation of The Triad, done in the presence of a Darklord and a Lightlord, do? >.> ) 
Carrie: (I know, I'm digressing... But it just came to me.) 
DanteE: (Jack. Auctoritas of 6+) 
Carrie: (*sulks* Point.) 
Theresa: (*blink* Fusing a Darklord and a Lightlord together to get a whattheheck?) 
Random_Nerd: (It would do something interesting.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, toss in some Penetration...) 
Theresa: (*cough*) 
Random_Nerd: (And not all Imperators have Spirit of 6. It's just that they /can/.) 
Random_Nerd: (Some have 1 or even 0.) 
DanteE: (Wait... Miracles can affect Imperators?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not too many, since their Noble character sheets are build on more points than a starting Noble. But still, the possibility exists.) 
Random_Nerd: (Sure. Some types of miracles, at least.) 
DanteE: (... but not Nobles) 
Random_Nerd: (Like, if you were to do a Greater Creation Of I Stab You In The Face, that could work, with Penetration.) 
Theresa: (Miracles affect, if you hit them hard enough.) 
Random_Nerd: (But a "I Turn You Into A Newt" wouldn't ever work.) 
Random_Nerd: (Ditto for Nobles.) 
* DanteE drops this before he gets a migraine. 
Random_Nerd: (You can't do direct miracles on their minds, bodies, or spirits. But you can call up external forces directed at them.) 
DanteE: (Oh, just occurred to me: where's Consequences, & what's he doing?_) 
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Quick Aspect Check. Who has Aspect 2 or more and is standing by the door to the Ark and such.) 
Random_Nerd: (Consequences is with the group, and as near as you can tell, he's looking a bit bored.) 
DanteE: (Me) 
* Theresa will blather on about the reliquary that holds the bodies of the Three Magi, the time they were stolen during the Crusades, Frederick the Great bringing them back, etc. 
Theresa: (RN - myself too.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, you two think you heard a footstep on the /other/ side of the door.) 
* DanteE discreetly listens for more 
Theresa: *momentary eye-bulge and a quick count of everyone* (Anyone missing?) 
Theresa: (*makes mental guess*) 
Random_Nerd: (Night went off, earlier.) 
Random_Nerd: (Remember, Theresa, you have a Noble-locating power.) 
Theresa: (Oh, yeah. *blink* I activate said gift. Especially aimed behind the door, thank you...) 
Random_Nerd: (There's someone with an Auctoritas in there. But it's a weird-feeling one.) 
Theresa: (Weird feeling in any other kind of way that can be described? Or that we've felt before?) 
Random_Nerd: (You've not felt one like it before. Weird feeling as in like it's unstable, somehow.) 
DanteE: (We tried lookin in there with Realm Divs, right?) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct. Whoever's in there, went there recently.) 
Random_Nerd: (In the last ten minutes, probably.) 
* Theresa gives Dante a questioning look? 
DanteE: (Realm LDiv of whatever's in there, ! RMP) 
DanteE: (1) 
Random_Nerd: (Inside is the Ark, the Grail, the Spear (all of which have anchor-like effects) and something mobile with a full-blown auctoritas.) 
Random_Nerd: (Also, like, dust and floors and walls and stuff.) 
DanteE: (is the Ark zorching anybody a la Indiana Jones?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not that you can tell.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's closed.) 
Theresa: "Carrie, could you take everyone down toward the Kings, please?" 
DanteE: "Who's missing?" 
Random_Nerd: (The contents are blocked from detection, however. Could be there's ghosts of death in there.) 
* Carrie nods obliviously and takes the group down that direction. 
* Theresa will keep John with them, however. 
Random_Nerd: John waves at the departing group. 
Theresa: *whispers* "John, how easily disturbed are the Treasures, by the way? And are there any metaphysical equivalents of bombshelters?" 
* Carrie does Realm Divinations up the wazoo to aid her tour guide narration. 
DanteE: (You're divining your wazoo? :) 
Random_Nerd: John: "I've never seen them be upset, but I'm very careful to respect them properly. I've heard stories, but I don't know how true they are." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Is something wrong?" 
DanteE: (Once the others are gone) "Someone's in there." 
Theresa: "Someone's in there. Someone..kinda like us. I've never felt someone like this...it seems...off, somehow. Have you got a good bead on whoever it is, Dante?" 
DanteE: "One of our guests, apparently." 
Theresa: "Or someone uninvited." 
DanteE: "Someone Noble... or equivalent." 
Theresa: "Night left earlier, but it might not be him." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Okay... okay, I need to handle this. I'll get the things I need so I can go in there and check. If I hurry, I think I can get ready in half an hour." 
DanteE: (Would the Library know Night's real name?) 
Random_Nerd: (Possibly. Depends on whether it's common knowledge.) 
DanteE: (Blow another RMP to check.) 
Theresa: "I don't think we have a half-hour, John. Do you have an emergency proceedure in case of fire or nuclear attack?" 
Random_Nerd: (That may or may not be the case. For instance, Duty's name is well know, but Consequences' isn't.) 
DanteE: "Night?" 
DanteE: "Is that you in there?" 
Random_Nerd: (The current Power of Night is Thomas Sanford. His famila are...) 
Random_Nerd: There's no response, but the footsteps stop. 
Theresa: "Okay, we need in there _now_." 
Random_Nerd: John hurries off into an adjoining room. 
Carrie: (Wasn't it Laurence someone?) 
DanteE: "Night, that's a metaphysical time bomb with a will and a tendency to be touchy. 
Random_Nerd: (Laurence was... oh, wait. I gave you the name of Shadows.) 
Random_Nerd: (Sheesh, that's the second time I did that.) 
Theresa: (Nice little Tommy...) 
Random_Nerd: (I gave you the one in Consequences' family.) 
DanteE: (AFK for a few minutes...) 
Theresa: (Can I sneak a vine under the door and use that to 'see'?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes, the current power of /Night/ is Laurence. He's been a Noble a long time, he's Light-aligned, and so on.) 
Random_Nerd: John: "Please don't go in there. I mean, maybe it's just a superstition, but if it is, then my whole life's been a lie, and I'd rather not find that out today." 
Random_Nerd: (That, shouted through the door of the room he went into.) 
Theresa: (Which superstition is this?) 
Random_Nerd: (That, y'know, Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ark.) 
Random_Nerd: (And so on.) 
Theresa: (Just going into its presence? Crap. *thinks*) 
Random_Nerd: (Think of it as like the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle.) 
Theresa: (This is a room enclosed entirely by the palace, right? No windows, any other doors?) 
Theresa: (Which of our guests has gating abilities?) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct. There's the big heavy door, and inside there's sort of an airlock-like chamber, and inside /that/ is the three relics.) 
Random_Nerd: (Duty... and one other. Martyrs, I think?) 
Random_Nerd: (Not Night.) 
Random_Nerd: (At least, if he has it, you didn't see him use it.) 
Random_Nerd: (And Duty's variant has already been established to not work from point to point in a chancel.) 
Theresa: (Would you say that the person who is in there was there before we got there on the tour?) 
Theresa: (... I have too many 'there's in that sentence.) 
Random_Nerd: (You know, you can just do a quick Noble body-count of the Chancel and find out if Night is somewhere else...) 
Theresa: (Good point. I use my Noble-detector gift to count noses and Auctoritas.) 
Carrie: (Martyrs is with Carrie, correct?) 
Random_Nerd: (Correct.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, there's Carrie, and the group there. There's Kudzu, embedded in the Realm's Heart at the moment. There's a Noble by the Maple, and there's someone inside. There's one too many Nobles in-chancel.) 
Random_Nerd: (Now, you took the group to see the mummified remains of the Three Kings, right?) 
Carrie: (Correct.) 
DanteE: (Bak) 
Carrie: (And I'm using Realm Divs to come up with factually accurate tour guide narration.) 
Theresa: *to Dante, wide-eyed* "Sally Jesse Gabriel, we've got an extra. Everyone's accounted for..." 
Random_Nerd: (Brian's near the Maple, I believe.) 
Random_Nerd: (Right? So he can check that one.) 
Theresa: *eyes refocus* "And either Brian's doing something to the Maple or someone else is...crap, tell Brian, I can't talk through the BB..." 
Brian: (yes) 
Theresa: (My _Maple_. RN, you cad... *raspberry*) 
Brian: (err... well, the Maple's in the Grove, and that's where I'm doing stuff, yes?) 
Random_Nerd: Martys, with respect to the Three Kings: "Are those actually the real thing? They didn't get themselves killed off in a heroic way, so it's not in my Domain." 
Random_Nerd: (The one by the Maple is /not/ Brian.) 
Random_Nerd: (Brian's a bit off to the side, y'know.) 
Brian: (ah. So, Night, then?) 
Random_Nerd: (Are you checking?) 
DanteE: "Do it. If anything would be triggered it would have already been triggered." 
Carrie: (Can I tell if they're the real thing with a Realm Div? I assume I could if they died in-Chancel, but not otherwise.) 
Brian: (have I noticed? I haven't been asked yet to check) 
Random_Nerd: (You can indeed check with a Realm Div.) 
Random_Nerd: (Indeed, you'd have found out already with the ones you did. And they are.) 
Random_Nerd: (You haven't noticed yet unless you're looking over at the Maple, Brian.) 
* Theresa puts a hand on the thick door (are the doors wooden?). "I...I can't. John's entire life...I can't shatter him like a glass bowl..." 
DanteE: "You'd rather shatter Kaerkoven?" 
Random_Nerd: John, from his changing room: "Also, they might take it differently if it was the rulers of the kingdom, as opposed to an invading enemy." 
DanteE: quietly: "He's still mortal. We can shield him from effects if we have to." 
Brian: (I assume I'll look at some point? Or that Dante will actually send me a note to look...) 
Random_Nerd: (Let's just say that you glance over, and Night is talking quietly to the Maple.) 
DanteE: (Theresa, what's your Realm again?) 
Random_Nerd: (0, I believe.) 
Theresa: *to John* "Differently how, John? As in a not shattering your life way or what?" 
Carrie: "They are indeed." *launches into narration on the later lives of the Magi, or at least as much as the Realm Divs give her* 
Theresa: (Zippo.) 
Random_Nerd: John: "Well, the Ark's been taken by invaders before. And it generally sent plagues and stuff on /them/, but not on the faithful people." 
DanteE: "We're natives, we can negotiate with it. 
Random_Nerd: J: "But if /we/ disrespect it and the others, they might go away entirely. Or kill us all. Or I don't even /know/ what, because it's never happened in centuries." 
Brian: (Night seems to be doing alright? I'll keep an eye on him, but otherwise let him be for now) 
Random_Nerd: (He seems to be doing all right.) 
DanteE: (aside from talking to a tree. :) 
Theresa: "Good enough for me. If the Ark wishes to plague someone, let it be me. Us. So forth." *opens the door and looks in* 
Random_Nerd: John: "Okay, if you must go in, at least, will you come and put on the robes, and carry the incense, and repeat the words that I tell you to say?" 
Theresa: (Please with the retconning?) 
Random_Nerd: Inside, as previously mentioned, is another door. The "airlock" as I described it earlier... 
Theresa: (You type too fast, RN!) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh? How?) 
Theresa: (Oh, it's still safe to open the door? I thought I had doomed us just by looking into the airlock.( 
DanteE: (ah...was the door she just melted locked?) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, she's definitely not supposed to do that. But it's not quite the Door Of No Return.) 
Theresa: (And talking to a tree is _healthy_, I tell you...) 
Random_Nerd: (Sorry, I guess I described it wrong.) 
Random_Nerd: ("not supposed to do that" according to John, at least.) 
Theresa: "Robes and words are good. It needs to be quick, though..." 
Random_Nerd: John: "One moment, please." 
Random_Nerd: You hear him praying, in his little room, to know what the right thing to do is. 
Theresa: (*Kudzu voice to John: "Oh let them go ahead, I want to see what happens!" *munch of popcorn*) 
Random_Nerd: John: "Okay, I guess this has to be done." 
Random_Nerd: He comes out in a white robe with complicated blue and red embroidery on it. 
Random_Nerd: He's carrying a little censer of incense. 
* Theresa acts appropriately solemn and not impatient...much. 
Carrie: (Somehow I don't think he's praying to Kudzu...) 
DanteE: RH: "Brian, Carrie, do a head count of our guests and then brace yourselves. Theresa and I are going into the vault. 
Random_Nerd: John: "There are four spare robes in there. They're very old and completely irreplacable, so please, be careful with them." 
Brian: to Dante: "Night's here. And brace? for what?" 
Theresa: (Nah, I just figure Kudzu listens in on the Chancel prayers. ) 
DanteE: RH: "Oh, the world ending, all hell breaking loose. You know, the usual." 
Random_Nerd: J: "Don't touch them. Even I'm only allowed to do that after long, long preparation, and only on certain days of the year." 
Carrie: (Ahh.) 
Random_Nerd: "The relics, I mean. Not the robes." 
* DanteE Aspect-2 throws on a robe. 
Brian: RH: "Ah. Business as usual, then? What's gone wrong?" 
Random_Nerd: "Now, the way it normally works, you should have to spend hours on ritual baths and purifications. But these are special circumstances." 
* Theresa opens her mouth for a question, but is answered. Also throws on a robe carefully. "Pray for us, John?" 
DanteE: RH: "Someone's in there, and Theresa's counted one too many Nobles in town." 
Random_Nerd: John: "I already have, Theresa." 
Theresa: "Always a plus, in situations like this." 
Random_Nerd: "Okay, take one of the little incense dishes, and carry it with you. Please." 
DanteE: "Do it." 
Brian: RH: "Well... teh suck." 
Random_Nerd: He opens the first door and steps in. 
DanteE: (Go ahead and make up some fine Amyran swearwords) 
Theresa: *to Dante* "Tell Brian to keep an eye on whomever is talking to my Maple, please." 
Random_Nerd: He faces the inner door, and says a prayer in Latin that lasts several minutes. 
Random_Nerd: "Now, repeat after me as you come inside, please." 
* Theresa takes an incense plate and breathes in the frankencense. 
Random_Nerd: He shudders, and opens the inner door. 
* DanteE stifles the urge to tell John to skip to the Amen already... 
Theresa: (Yay for Aspect hear&repeat...) 
Random_Nerd: "I... we... come here only to make sure that the holy things are properly cared for. We intend no disrespect." 
Brian: (... holy things?! ... who WROTE that?) 
DanteE: (RN. :) 
Theresa: (Translation issues...) 
Theresa: (It sounds a lot better in Latin.) 
Random_Nerd: (Well, he's partly making it up in the spirit of what he's used to. There isn't really a set of rules for this.) 
DanteE: (Sounds better in Aramaic, I'll bet) 
* Theresa repeats the prayer and follows John in, looking for the Noble. 
Carrie: (I have a feeling you'll need that Aspect for something other than repetition soon..) 
* DanteE does the same. 
Random_Nerd: Inside is a large and elaborate table. Resting on are a wooden cup, a golden box with angel figures on the top, and a crude spear wrapped in silk. 
Random_Nerd: Also in the room is a tall, pale, and angular woman. 
Random_Nerd: Her skin's the color of porcelain, her eyes are dark save for the stars, and she's proportioned like a creature that bears the same relation to humanity as a hornet does to a bumblebee. 
Theresa: (_Crap_.) 
Random_Nerd: She smiles at the group coming in. 
DanteE: (oh fuck.) 
Random_Nerd: John looks at her, and his body language utterly shifts. 
Theresa: (Okay, yeah, I'd like to upgrade my response to Dante's...) 
Random_Nerd: "This is not a place for you. You must go, now. I do not know what you are, but these relics have been given to me to protect." 
Brian: (... I missed something?) 
Random_Nerd: (That, to her.) 
Theresa: (Star-eyes = Excrutians) 
Random_Nerd: Woman, to John: "I wouldn't even have to lift a finger to kill you, you know. I'd just have to decide that I don't want you to be here." 
DanteE: "John... you may want to retreat." 
Brian: (ah. Well, this isn't good. At all) 
DanteE: RH: "Excrucian in the Vault!" 
Random_Nerd: John: "That's not important. You are not allowed to be here." 
Theresa: *to the woman* "We have been charged to protect this place. You are not welcome here." 
Brian: RH: "Fuck. I'll be there in a bit." 
Brian: (Brian will begin moving to the Vault) 
Random_Nerd: John reaches into his robe, and draws out a vial of water. 
DanteE: RH: "Bring our new friends, too." 
Brian: RH: "You sure?" 
Random_Nerd: He looks at it with a "I wish we had Extra Special Anti-Demon Holy Water" look. 
* DanteE weilds hos sword-cane. 
DanteE: *his 
Random_Nerd: He uncaps it, pours some into his hand, and casts it in her direction. 
DanteE: "Explain yourself." 
Random_Nerd: About halfway on their way there, the drops cease to exist. 
Carrie: (RH) "As you wish, Dante." 
Random_Nerd: Woman: "...Did you actually think that saying that would work?" 
Brian: to Night: "It seems we have a little Excrucian problem at the Vault of the Relics. Would you be available to help if we need assistance?" 
Random_Nerd: W: "I mean, that I'd tell you why I'm here just to be polite?" 
Theresa: "It was worth a try. Politeness can be found in the strangest places." 
DanteE: "Not really. 
Carrie: (in a grave voice) "There's been a change of plans. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask all of your help in something that's not on the schedule." 
Random_Nerd: The relics are starting to /gleam/ a bit more than they did a moment ago. 
Random_Nerd: Especially the crude bronze point of the Spear. 
Brian: (frak. RN: does Night answer my query?) 
* Carrie starts walking briskly back toward the room with the Treasures, no longer concerned about keeping the group from straying. 
Random_Nerd: (Sorry, I missed it. Could you please repeat it?) 
Brian: ((11:08:53 PM) Brian: to Night: "It seems we have a little Excrucian problem at the Vault of the Relics. Would you be available to help if we need assistance?") 
Random_Nerd: John shudders. 
DanteE: "John. Run. Now." 
Random_Nerd: Night: "Excrucians? Here?" 
Random_Nerd: John: "No. I have to do this." 
Brian: "Apparently. This is Not Good. Especially with the Happy Fun Artifacts." 
Random_Nerd: He steps towards the angular woman. 
DanteE: (is John referring to whatever's happening to the relics?) 
Random_Nerd: (He's paying more attention to the Excrucian.) 
Random_Nerd: John: "Begone. Now. I can't stop you, but I know that no matter what sort of creature you are, these are not things to be trifled with." 
Random_Nerd: The Spear starts to rustle. 
Theresa: "And plus, lady, don't you want us to know who you are before you destroy us? I thought you guys were big into the drama." 
Random_Nerd: John turns towards it in a convulsive jerk. 
Brian: (Brian will head to the Vault, not going to worry about Night) 
Random_Nerd: Night says something to the tree, and then follows Brian. 
Brian: (John! Don't look at the pointy cleavage! ... sorry ...) 
Theresa: "Besides, you don't want these relics. We have a very nice gift shop down the hall." 
Random_Nerd: John, to the Spear: "We're just trying to protect you. We're showing proper respect. Don't go away!" 
Random_Nerd: The Spear rustles more, and continues to gleam in a way that doesn't match the lighting in the room. 
Random_Nerd: (Light, for reference, provided by an oil lamp, with an oil feed coming into the room from a tube passing into the wall. 
Random_Nerd: ) 
DanteE: (where is that lamp, relative to us?) 
Random_Nerd: Woman: "Pitiful little thing. You're not showing proper respect for your betters.) 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, the lamp is behind the table. The woman is to the left of the table, with John standing right by her. You guys are between the inner door and the table.) 
Random_Nerd: John: "Whatever you are, you aren't my better." 
Theresa: "You live with a live nuclear bomb in your family, you're not really impressed when a general shows up." 
Random_Nerd: She twitches, for a moment, and then he grabs at his throat with both hands and coughs in a very painful-sounding manner. 
DanteE: (Can I pop that lamp off the wall onto her head with a Ghost Miracle?) 
Random_Nerd: (It's not on the wall. It's free-standing on the ground. But you could reach over and grab it, with a quick lean, and your aspect would be high enough to assure not bumping the relics with it.) 
Random_Nerd: The Spear lifts up into the air. 
Carrie: (All you need to do is touch her, you know. :P ) 
Random_Nerd: The silk wrapping falls off the rough wooden pole of it. 
Random_Nerd: It turns in the air, its point facing the Excrucian 
DanteE: "You pitiful cowardly little thing. 
Carrie: (Assuming she's a shard and not a full Excrucian.) 
Brian: (is it wrong for me to want to stab her with the Spear?) 
Random_Nerd: She turns to face the rest of you. 
DanteE: "When you dare invade our world... 
Random_Nerd: "Which one of you is doing that? What, that's supposed to impress me?" 
* Theresa will try for a tackle on the Excr. Aspect 2. Trying for skin-contact. 
Theresa: "No, this is." 
* DanteE throws the fiery oil lamp at the Ex. 
Random_Nerd: (Any Penetration?) 
DanteE: +2 pen 
DanteE: "You ... Fight ... US!" 
Theresa: (+3 for the pen for the tackle.) 
Random_Nerd: The lamp smashes onto her face, but fortunately none of the oil hits the table. 
Random_Nerd: As Theresa tackles the Excrucian, both of them gleam with light for a moment. 
Random_Nerd: As they do, the three relics gleam the same noncolor. 
* DanteE follows up with an Aspect-2 Leap... 
Random_Nerd: (Not yet, Dante. You've already had your Miracle this round.) 
Theresa: (This is not a girl-fight dogpile, Dante... No tearing of clothes yet...) 
DanteE: (ah yeah. How long are Rounds again?) 
Random_Nerd: As the Warding flickers, the Spear flies through the air and impacts her forehead at the exact point where Dante's thrown lamp hit it. 
Theresa: (*blink*) 
Random_Nerd: It proceeds through to the other side, and then about three feet past that into the air. 
* DanteE blinks., 
Random_Nerd: John goes down on his knees, and says in a hoarse whisper "Don't go away. Please don't go away. It was her who invaded your sanctum, we just tried to protect you." 
Random_Nerd: John: "There's nowhere else in the world that can care for you properly. The Temple was never rebuilt. Nobody else knows the rites. Please, please don't go away, I've cared for you my whole life, just don't go away." 
Carrie: (Okay, did you all leave the outer door open when you opened the inner door?) 
Random_Nerd: The Excrucian starts to melt. 
DanteE: status of the Ex? 
* Theresa says to the spear. Very sincerely. "Thank you." 
Random_Nerd: (The outer door swings shut on its own. 
Random_Nerd: ) 
Random_Nerd: (It's designed to do so.) 
Theresa: (Can we hear the others showing up at the doors?) 
Random_Nerd: (You're probably a bit preoccupied.) 
* Theresa will keep a hand on the remains of the Ex. just to make sure... 
Theresa: (Melt in what sort of liquid way?) 
Random_Nerd: On contact with Theresa's hand, the remains /sizzle/ and melt faster. 
Random_Nerd: (Like a candle on a hot saucepan.) 
Carrie: (Assuming the door is closed when I get there, I will ask for status through the RH when we do.) 
Random_Nerd: John keeps whispering in the same broken-sounding way. 
DanteE: Replying to Carrie via RH: "Don't come in! 
DanteE: RH: "The spear got her!" 
* Carrie . o O ( Greeeeat... ) 
* DanteE reverently goes to the spear head. 
Random_Nerd: The spear continues to gleam, but goes down to the ground as the supporting corpse melts away. 
Brian: RH: "... the artifacts /work/? ... well, at least we've theoretically got weapons ..." 
DanteE: "John... do they talk to you? 
* Carrie will keep on walking right past the door to the Treasures as if it isn't there. She also will react if any of the others try to go in. 
* Theresa tries to clear her head a little and whispers a little free-form prayer that the relics will accept a little disturbance so that an invader can be repelled and that John can continue his life's work which he has done with great courage and honor. 
Random_Nerd: John, whispered: "No. They never have, not to me. But I still talk to /them/." 
* Theresa will not touch the Spear. Not _that_ stupid. 
* DanteE looks at the spear. 
Brian: (on the plus side, T probably won't get zapped for looking at the cleavage in the room :p) 
Carrie: (I mean to say, not opening the door, but going down the hall past it and not remarking on it.) 
Theresa: (The cleavage is covered by a robe.) 
Random_Nerd: John, to the Spear: "It is not the proper time, so I will not take you from where you are. But you will be cleaned and returned to your proper place soon, if you only stay." 
DanteE: "Theresa... get that ... scum there ... out of here." 
DanteE: (referring to whatever remains of the Ex.) 
Theresa: (So Night's the only guest who knows we had an Ex?) 
Random_Nerd: (I don't think Carrie told the others, right?) 
Carrie: (Correct.) 
Carrie: (I just said there was a change of plan.) 
Random_Nerd: (Then Night is the only one.) 
* DanteE kneels by the spear. 
* Theresa thinks for a moment and creates a wooden bucket and lots of plant sponges and starts to mop up the Ex. 
Random_Nerd: The spear settles to the ground. 
DanteE: "... you know I've heard about you for years? 
Random_Nerd: John, whispered: "Please, can I do the cleaning? It's my job." 
Random_Nerd: The spear doesn't respond. 
DanteE: "Not yet, John. 
DanteE: "We need to treat it like hazardous waste, for now." 
DanteE: (is it still glowing?) 
Random_Nerd: John: "Can you do that without touching the Lance, at least?" 
Random_Nerd: (Only a little.) 
Random_Nerd: (It's been dimming since when Theresa's warding touched the melting body.) 
DanteE: to spear: "and yet I never really understood how important you were until now. 
Theresa: "I'll do my utmost best, John. We don't want that offal touching the Spear anymore than it wants it." 
* Theresa will direct John to move the bucket closer if he can help. 
Random_Nerd: John, still whispered: "I know. It's just... this, the cleaning? I know how to do that. We have rites for it." 
DanteE: (actually you might keep it for study, if possible. Also to contain it.) 
Random_Nerd: John: "This isn't the first time it's killed someone. Someone eminently deserving, of course." 
DanteE: to the spear: "I'm sorry. 
* Theresa stands up and smiles at John. "Then, please. You know the best ways to convey respect." 
DanteE: "For every time I doubted your importance as a kid. 
DanteE: "For every time I wanted to disturb you for idle curiousity. 
DanteE: "and for whatever lapse let her in here." 
Random_Nerd: John, to Dante, still whispered: "Thank you for understanding." 
* Carrie is going to try to lead the guests back to the Grove, assuming they cooperate. 
DanteE: "John... go ahead and do the rituals needed to put it away." 
Random_Nerd: "I'll need to check some of the books, and assemble the right things. I won't be able to actually move it until about a week and a half from now. But I can at least begin the cleaning process." 
Theresa: "Do you need anything?{" 
DanteE: "It's going to lie on the floor for ten days?" 
Random_Nerd: John: "Could one of you please send a doctor here, as soon as possible?" 
Random_Nerd: John: "This is how the rules I know work. I'm only allowed to move them or touch them on certain days." 
* DanteE extends a hand and zap-heals John. 
Random_Nerd: (It'll take at least a Lesser Creation of Realm to replace his voicebox.) 
DanteE: (what about my Gift?) 
Random_Nerd: (Oh, yes! That'll work fine.) 
Random_Nerd: He massages his throat. 
Theresa: "We're sorry you got hurt in this, John." 
Random_Nerd: John, in a normal voice: "I had hoped that the Grail would heal me, but I guess I wasn't worthy." 
Carrie: (Will Perfect Timing suffice to have gotten the last of the guests out of sight of the door by the time Dante and Theresa come out?) 
Random_Nerd: (Yes.) 
DanteE: did the glow of the spear change at all while this was going on? 
* Theresa smiles. "I think that the Grail would know that Dante could heal you." 
Random_Nerd: (It's no longer glowing at all.) 
DanteE: (the other artifacts?) 
Random_Nerd: (Likewise.) 
DanteE: "Rituals... maybe. But this shouldn't be on the floor. 
Theresa: "Are there any other ceremonies we should observe, John? Like with the robes?" 
* DanteE reverently picks up the spear... carefully. 
Random_Nerd: John: "I don't know. There hasn't been a group of people in here in hundreds of years." 
Random_Nerd: He flinches when Dante does that in about the way someone would if you stuck an icepick in his chest. 
DanteE: "Your highness... would you prepare the silk?" 
Random_Nerd: John slaps Dante. 
Random_Nerd: "You may be a pillar of the world, but I'm still king here, and the things in this room are in my keeping. Put that down." 
Random_Nerd: (Yes, he's not Mister Intellegent Self Interest.) 
DanteE: "I will. On the table, in the silk, where it belongs." 
Random_Nerd: "That will be done in due time." 
Theresa: "Dante, John knows what he is doing. Would you want someone to tell you how to deal with Courage?" 
Random_Nerd: John shivers, but doesn't back down. 
DanteE: (aspect-2 to sound calming & rational) "It shouldn't be on the floor." 
 
Random_Nerd: "That's not for you to say." 
Theresa: "Would you move someone who had a trauma to the spine?" 
Random_Nerd: A drop of the blood dripping down from the spear turns into a blood-red flying insect, and buzzes around. 
* DanteE places the spear on the table... 
Random_Nerd: The fly flies towards the outer door, and passes through it. 
* Theresa watches the fly. "Not good... Dante, what will happen now?" 
Random_Nerd: John walks to the outer door. "I have work to do. Will you please leave the room, so I can begin?" 
Brian: (can we end soon?) 
DanteE: "Yes... yes." (grabs his incense) 
Random_Nerd: (Works for me.) 
* Theresa hangs her head. *to the Treasures* "Please, if we have offended, visit your wrath upon _us_. Harm not the innocents of this Chancel. They had no part in this battle and your servant John has gone beyond what has been expected of his faithfulness." *head-bows to the treasures* 
* Theresa will take her incense and head out too. 
* DanteE leaves. 
* Theresa will carefully return her robe and looks sadly at John before heading out too. 
* DanteE looks for the bug... 
Theresa: *to Dante* "That was possibly incredibly stupid. And given the last time, I know from stupid." 
* DanteE just returns the robe and incense. 
Random_Nerd: (Okay, let's stop here. Last words?) 
DanteE: (OK to stop) 
Theresa: (I think the stupid comment will stand for me.) 
Random_Nerd: _______________________________STOP________________________ 
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood. 
*** Brian is now known as lazarus. 
*** Carrie is now known as Etheric. 
*** You are now known as BethE. 
BethE: Whoof. 
Knockwood: well.... 
lazarus: at least we know the holy things work. 
lazarus: (sorry, RN, I'm gonna hafta bug you about that for a while...) 
Knockwood: yeah, there I go playing an impetuous jerk 
BethE: I'd say we don't have that much clearer of a vision of how they work. More like there are a lot of SOPs for handling the holy objects. Much like a nuclear fission core. 
Random_Nerd: For the record, the phrase "holy things" occurs several dozen times in the bible. 
Random_Nerd: Sometimes specifically in reference to the Ark of the Covenant, as it turns out. 
lazarus: ha! 
Random_Nerd: Like "After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites are to come to do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the Tent of Meeting. 
Random_Nerd: A rather relevant one. 
Knockwood: hey, I'm still here 
Random_Nerd: Didn't say they'd die /right then/. 
Random_Nerd: But one day Dante will walk down a dark alley, and the Holy Lance will break his kneecaps. 
Knockwood: well, that's why I was talking to it. We can negotiate. :) 
Random_Nerd: Everyone have a good time? 
BethE: I wish I had some sort of reward to give out, like a DP or Joss. I would give it to Etheric for remembering about the warding. 
Random_Nerd: (Also, for the record, don't assume that John is completely right about everything.) 
BethE: The bug worries me. I hate plague. 
BethE: We speak bug, right? 
Knockwood: that means Brian can shine, with his better Realm. 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Given the way it's been built up, was finally seeing the relics a letdown or anticlimax? 
lazarus: nope 
Knockwood: Certainly a surprise. Here I am, ready to fight, and the spear does it for me. :) 
BethE: Nope. I'm sure the Spear came as a complete surprise to the shard/whomever. 
Knockwood: it like totally ninjad my kill, d00d. :) 
Random_Nerd: But on the other hand, the Spear didn't actually act until you guys did. 
Random_Nerd: At least the spear didn't loot the body. 
BethE: There wasn't a body left! 
lazarus: d00d! Zam! 
lazarus: (ninja Prinny!) 
Knockwood: ...which would seem to mean the spear needed a way past her auc... 
Knockwood: I thought about levitating the spear with miracles... both before and after the fight. :) 
lazarus: if Brian made it in, he would totally have grabbed the spear and stuck her with it. And probably died in the process 
Random_Nerd: Oh, and the thing about the auctoritas being weird. There's a particular reason for that, which is found in the Nobilis book. 
Knockwood: How'd she get there, tho? 
Random_Nerd: Excellent question. 
lazarus: I can think of two reasons: 1) they're not From Here, and 2) they're kind of like Abyssals. The Excrucians versions of the Shiny Happy People 
Random_Nerd: Also, was this the first time she's been there, or the first time you've /heard/ her? 
BethE: (Oh the other person who had poked at John...) 
Knockwood: (that would mean Kudzu runs around with Exs) 
Random_Nerd: (Would you believe that the question about whether Kudzu runs around with Excrucians involves the Maple? Because it totally does, and I'm not even making that up.) 
BethE: (*facepalm*) 
Knockwood: ... 
Random_Nerd: (Well, I did make it up. But, like, a year ago.) 
BethE: Hmm...not a Warmain... 
Knockwood: too obvious to be a Deceiver 
Knockwood: (afk agan) 
Random_Nerd: You've seen a Deceiver-shard before. 
BethE: Umm...would causing a larayx(massive mispelling) and holy water to disappear...fall under World Breaker's? 
Random_Nerd: Worldbreaker's Hand can make /anything/ dissapear that isn't a Noble, an Anchor, or an Imperator. 
Etheric: Strategists have weird Auctorita because of the bathing in negative energy thing, right? 
Random_Nerd: Correct! 
lazarus: ... King John didn't seem to fried by the Miracles... 
Random_Nerd: Fried by which Miracles? 
lazarus: there was a Ghost ... ok, that doesn't fry too much, and whatever the Ex did. 
BethE: You mean having his voicebox turn to dust in his throat? 
lazarus: he seemed to be more reacting to the Things being moved. 
Random_Nerd: Which miracles should have fried him, by your reading? 
Random_Nerd: And why? 
lazarus: the Excrucian did weird messed up things /to him/ 
Random_Nerd: Yes. One such thing, at least. 
Random_Nerd: (Partly because Strategists are the most petty of Excrucians.) 
BethE: (Yep, Hell thinks they're almost human-ish. *reads more in GWB*) 
Knockwood: (bak) 
Knockwood: I just hope that, if I did screw up, it's something I can fix. 
BethE: I hope it's something we all can fix. :) 
Knockwood: of course, from Dante's POV, it's like, "Don't leave that on the floor! There's dust there! Pick it up gently, put it back where it belongs!" 
Knockwood: (should have got the Ex blood off it first, though... :/ ) 
Knockwood: Actually let me ask a hypothetical of you, RN: 
Random_Nerd: I reserve the right not to answer if I have a good reason to, but okay. 
Knockwood: Let's say, instead of picking it up ... and I was assuming a 2-handed pickup from below, as if presenting a sword or scepter to someone, but that doesn't matter ... 
Knockwood: if, instead, I use Ghosts of either Blades or Realm to levitate it. What changes? 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. 
Random_Nerd: You couldn't do that. 
Random_Nerd: The Lance, like the other two, are established as having anchor-like immunity to direct miracles. 
Random_Nerd: Now, I guess you could do something complicated with air molecules or gravity or something. But not just use a ghost on them. 
Knockwood: ah. 
Random_Nerd: And doing something like that would be the equivilent of picking it up with your hand, I think. 
Knockwood: OK. BTW, if it isn't obvoius: 
Knockwood: a) I kant tipe... 
Knockwood: b) any repercussions from this, and Dante takes the heat. 
BethE: Bah, we're family. Of course it's going to fall on all of us. <g> 
BethE: Possibly a bit less on Carrie and Brian because they weren't there and possibly less still on Brian for that whole beloved thing, but still... 
BethE: First locust I see, though, gets an Audrey II on its chitenous arse. 
Knockwood: well, at least RN's not the type to go "Jesus is mad at you! Gigantic rocks fall, everyone dies! MUAHHAHHAHHAH!" 
lazarus: well, he is. He'd just ask "So, what do you do about it?" after 
Random_Nerd: I prefer starting out subtle and having the doom be the direct fault of the PCs in a way that retroactively seems obvious. 
Random_Nerd: See also: Monty. 
BethE: Which part of Monty is our fault directly? At least at the beginning. 
lazarus: Beth: the letting him stomp on the houses? 
Random_Nerd: At the beginning, there wasn't anything to be anyone's fault. 
lazarus: although, I remember saying "I Object!" 
Knockwood: pissing him off? 
Random_Nerd: It was more the MONTY SMASH PUNY VILLAGES part. 
lazarus: he's got big giant teeth, and you wouldn't like him when he's angry. 
lazarus: worst. crossover. ever! 
Random_Nerd: Anyway, I'll head out now if nobody else has questions or comments. 
BethE: He's also got flesh-shredding blood, but that is neither here nor there. 
Knockwood: not really blood... he's a contained storm of metal fragments 
Knockwood: BTW, Beth and RN ... the Wiki? 
BethE: *rubs forehead* Urgh, I've got enough issues with the half-angel blood over in my Buffy game... 
BethE: Sorry, Knock. The logs will all be posted before next week's game. Honest. 
Random_Nerd: There's blood too. 
Random_Nerd: Blood and metal. 
Random_Nerd: Blood and metal and giant crushy rabbit feet. 
Random_Nerd: These are a few of my favorite things! 
Knockwood: alll rite D00D! RAWK AN ROLLLL!

Session 53.5

2007-08-09T02:47:07Z

BethDragon:

Etheric: I'm actually wondering if I want to play tonight... I'm extremely sleepy after staying up too late and getting only four hours of sleep. But if people want to play I can, just don't expect a stellar performance. 
lazarus: I altered my class schedule 'cause I didn't want to wake up today :-P 
Random_Nerd: If you're dead tired, you don't have to play. We can NPC Carrie, and I think we all know what sleep deprivation can be like. 
BethE: Darn, here I was hoping Carrie would be able to talk Tint away from blasting John into tiny molecules... 
BethE: *scrolls back in log from the moon plants* 
Random_Nerd: I don't think Tint can actually do that. 
Random_Nerd: Well, okay, maybe if he pulled a high-aspect smashing and spent some dynasty points. 
Etheric: If it's permissible, I want to do a Lesser Preservation of Silence *before* Tint hears what John said. I don't know if my perfect timing is good enough for such split-second reactions, though. 
Etheric: I have an RMP to do that with, and after that I'm out of RMPs. 
BethE: Hmm..when did we consider it a 'new chapter' or an MP restart? I'm having trouble seeing... 
Random_Nerd: Hmm... that would require penetration. John is standing within Martyr's Auctoritas so you can't block it at his end, and Tint has his own. 
Etheric: Last new chapter was after the thing with Monty, if I recall. 
Random_Nerd: So, you can do it that way, but there's probably a more efficient way if you care about that. 
Etheric: Well, I'm likely too tired to think of that more efficient way. 
Etheric: Therefore: I will let Brian and Theresa handle it. 
Etheric: Take care, folks. I'm off. 
BethE: *facepalm at the suggestion* 
BethE: Okay, Etheric! Sleep well! *HUG* 
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Shall we just have Carrie clear her throat at the exact right moment? 
Random_Nerd: G'night, Etheric. 
lazarus: g'night Ether 
Etheric: That works, RN. 
Etheric: Night. 
*** Etheric has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Destiny is choice.). 
BethE: Clear it to cover John's words or to draw attention to herself and away from John? 
Random_Nerd: Either way. 
BethE: Hmm, I can see that working. 
Random_Nerd: Tint's shown no signs of being particularly high aspect, and the fact that he seems to be able to do Domain Creations casually is suggestive in that direction. 
Random_Nerd: So he probably doesn't have all that superhuman hearing when he's not paying much attention. 
BethE: And Brian can't handle the stuff at the palace...he stayed behind to work on the contest area. So it's up to Theresa. We remember what happened the last time things were up to Theresa, yes? 
lazarus: last time things were up to T, we had the best example of the Wild Code ever! 
Random_Nerd: Woo! 
BethE: *facepalm* Yes, in the 'Sanity is a crutch' reasoning... 
lazarus: ^_^ 
lazarus: also, the releasing the big rabbit from its cage 
Random_Nerd: Great, now the tiny notional Kudzu on my shoulder just threw the horns. 
lazarus: ^_^ 
lazarus: \m/ 
BethE: *laughs at both of you* 
Random_Nerd: Okay, so... 
Random_Nerd: No Etheric, and apparantly no Knock. 
lazarus: *sigh*. 
BethE: Indeed. And Brian is in one place and Theresa is in another. 
lazarus: and tomorrow's an early day for me. 
Random_Nerd: And no James, of course. But that's because of the Curse. 
BethE: Indeed. We need to let Kudzu eat him. Hmm, floorshow for the party?

Amyra:Chapter 7

2007-08-09T02:46:46Z

BethDragon: /* Chapter 7 */