Chuubo 2-2

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<Knockwood> Just to check, what's the absolute latest version of Nightmare's Angel?
<@Random_Nerd> Let me check if there's been an update.
<@Random_Nerd> The Nine Characters Update version.
<@Random_Nerd> Which you have.
<Knockwood> yep
<lazarus> hey
<lazarus> Is it Glass tonight?
<Knockwood> as an aside, anyone else miss Google Scribe?
<lazarus> dunno what that is

  • Verithe (~chatzilla@MagicStar-846EFD68.lightspeed.livnmi.sbcglobal.net) has joined #nobilis

<Knockwood> Hiya V
<BethE> It is Glass tonight. Hi V! And I don't remember what that is, either, Knock.
<Knockwood> That's that thing they had which would suggest completions as you type
<Verithe> Hi!
<Verithe> My paper with Hisui's stats is currently lost in the cardboard forest that is my home. :(
<BethE> Huh.
<BethE> Awww.
<BethE> How's the moving?
<Verithe> I'm looking, but it might be a lost cause for the night.
<lazarus> (Anyone else miss Eden Studios' non-ConX games? :p I've got Armageddon in front of me, and wishing I'd been able to pick up a copy of WitchCraft. That was a fun game)
<Verithe> The moving itself is done. Getting things out of boxes and put away....is neither my wife nor my strong suit.
<Knockwood> well, we are supposed to be evaluating Glass' suitability as a low-prep game
<@Random_Nerd> Indeed!
<@Random_Nerd> So, since we're just about all here, let's go over a few things.
<@Random_Nerd> Here's my proposals for the current state of affairs.
<@Random_Nerd> Dulcinea has recently gone to, and returned from, the Bleak Academy. Nobody much knows this, save that she seems even weirder now.

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<Angelo> Hi all!
<BethE> Hi Angelo!
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper is the Sun, but is still learning how to be the sun, and does not yet have easy transportation to and from Celestia.
<lazarus> Hey Angelo.
<Verithe> Hi, Angelo
<BethE> (How old are we?)
<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo
<@Random_Nerd> Default age.
<@Random_Nerd> 14-15 or so.
<Knockwood> So, DdA has just had the Red World installed, and then sent home?
<Angelo> So is Chuubo time
<@Random_Nerd> It's not the Red World in this version!
<@Random_Nerd> It's a different corrupt evil!
<Verithe> OoooooOoooh!
<Verithe> *!
<lazarus> (just putting this out there: I like the idea that I got from one version of Jasper's booklet that she grew up in Celestia, and is now in Town, and doesn't quite get that becoming a Cthulhoid monster is something that others find disturbing)
<@Random_Nerd> Natalia is a relatively recent immigrant from Russia. It's generally known that she's good at school and athletics, and tends to be a bit paranoid. It is not known to those other than her that she's flat-out superhuman in many respects.
<BethE> It's the Crimson Expanse?
<Knockwood> Angelo: Glass this week

  • Angelo nod at Knock

<@Random_Nerd> Rinley is... normal, by comparison. It is generally known that she has a mythic name, like Jack the Giantkiller or Pecos Bill or Chuck Norris, and that she comes from the kinda-mythical Yatskaya family. It is not generally known that she can do mythic feats of her own.
<@Random_Nerd> V... tell us what we know about Hsui!
<Angelo> chuck n a mythic name ? <_<
<BethE> (Her best mythical feat is to be best friends with a rat prince!)
<Verithe> Hisui is a priestess of the Watanabe family shrine, which makes candy from Outside Dust.
<@Random_Nerd> (In the sense of Chuck Norris Facts.)
<@Random_Nerd> (Rinley Yatskya Fact #472: Rinley doesn't sleep. She waits.)
<Angelo> Ahhhhhh!
<BethE> (Pecos Bill is an American folk hero. He was said to wear a rattlesnake for a tie, ride a tornado instead of a horse, dug the Rio Grande to get a drink, etc.)
<Verithe> The family was a lot bigger before the sun died. Now its just her, her sister, her two grandfathers and a (great?) aunt.
<@Random_Nerd> (Oh, and I have decided that in Town, Chuck Norris the mythic figure exists, but there is only the vaguest knowledge that he's also an actor.)
<Angelo> (that is cool!)
<Verithe> There are a few things Hisui doesn't know about herself just yet.
<@Random_Nerd> Oh?
<Verithe> Like that she's got a shard of the Glass Dragon.
<Verithe> She doesn't know that.
<@Random_Nerd> Ah. A lot of people do!
<Verithe> Yes!
<@Random_Nerd> Let's see. Other state of the world stuff.
<@Random_Nerd> Principal Entropy I handed his son his own bloodstained clothes with knife-holes in them, and then vanished mysteriously. Or, at least, that's what Entropy II says.
<@Random_Nerd> Chuubo has a best friend, Seizhi. Who has, of course, always existed.
<@Random_Nerd> The wish-granting engine is not yet sapient.
<@Random_Nerd> But does exist.
<@Random_Nerd> Knock... what does Dulcinea have in place of the Incomperable Nightmare Engine?
<Knockwood> Oh, do I still have my Nightmare Whatever?
<Knockwood> way ahead of me. Hm...
<@Random_Nerd> You have something that makes Nightmare Magic, which shouldn't exist, actually work.
<@Random_Nerd> But what?
<lazarus> (Cauldron and pentagram? Complete with bubbling green things?)
<Knockwood> I've haven't seen squat of Full Metal Alchemist, but I'm thinking something like a transformation circle
<Angelo> a what?
<@Random_Nerd> Okay. So, inside your Circle, when it's ready, you can conjure Nightmare Magic and it actually works.
<@Random_Nerd> Outside of that... you can improvise basically mundane but nonetheless freaky results with stuff stolen from people's nightmares.
<@Random_Nerd> That work?
<Verithe> (which, Angelo?)
<Knockwood> And I've got constructs rather than machines
<Verithe> Like golems?
<Knockwood> Disturbingly fleshy ones
<@Random_Nerd> Homunculi, then? Like, not the FMA ones, but the "historical" ones?
<Knockwood> more like homunculi, but the difference is academic
<Knockwood> And we've established that I've animated the toy Rinley made
<Knockwood> (wait, Rinley?)
<BethE> (Yes.)
<BethE> (Plushy psider.  :) )
<@Random_Nerd> So. All of you know each other to some degree, but I don't think any of you are close, except maybe through Eduardo the Exile Rat Prince.
<@Random_Nerd> Or is it Eduard?
<BethE> I thought no o.
<@Random_Nerd> Yes. You're right.
<@Random_Nerd> Now, which of you think your PCs will have kept close with others.
<@Random_Nerd> ?
<@Random_Nerd> (Presumably not Dulcinea, because she's been... busy.)
<Angelo> Natalia was close to no one others
<BethE> Rinley would have!
<Knockwood> (And she's not the close type anymore)
<BethE> Because she knows that they are Special!
<BethE> And Someone has to do the Gandalfing.
<@Random_Nerd> Hmm. This version of Dulcinea has Oh You Fool, right?
<lazarus> Jasper sees herself as alone, but probably sort of casually kept in touch thing. (sort of mostly 15-year-old self-centredness)
<Verithe> Hisui...may have kept in contact with Rinley, because shrine families, and maybe observing Jasper from afar because she thinks that shiny lady is pretty darn cool.
<Knockwood> there it is
<Verithe> She's kinda afraid of Dulcinea
<BethE> Has Dulci gone goth?

  • BethE is now known as Rinley

<@Random_Nerd> Okay. So, since she doesn't really hang out with any of the others, it might make sense for her to show up with that at some moment when a PC or NPC does something foolish.
<@Random_Nerd> As for the rest... okay, how many of you know Eduard? Rinley, Natalia... does Jasper?
<lazarus> no, I don't think so.

  • lazarus is now known as Jasper

<Verithe> Hisui only knew him from the one meeting before Hisui's family and the sun died.

  • Verithe is now known as Hisui

<Angelo> That could work, Nat is not actively searching friends and Rinley will be a annoyance that is self-labelled (?)
<Angelo> That could work, Nat is not actively searching friends and Rinley will be a annoyance that is self labeled Nat friend

  • Angelo is now known as Natalia

<@Random_Nerd> Okay... hmm. I've got something. Something that relates directly to Jasper, and that Eduard would be concerned about.
<@Random_Nerd> One moment.

  • Knockwood is now known as Dulcinea

<@Random_Nerd> Okay! Side issue handled!
<@Random_Nerd> Now! Scene one will begin with Rinley and Natalia having been called to meet with Eduard. Hsui, I figure, can tag along with Rinley because this sounds cool.
<Natalia> (earned xp? :-P )
<@Random_Nerd> And this scene will take place in Kakeru Hut, because TRADITON.
<Rinley> (Plus, she has candy.)
<@Random_Nerd> Also, tradition.
<@Random_Nerd> This sound good?
<Rinley> Bring on the food.
<Natalia> good!
<Hisui> "I need to get away from the shrine! My grandfathers are fighting again!"
<@Random_Nerd> Dulcinea may turn up any time that is appropriate, and there are already plans to integrate Jasper.
<Dulcinea> (Oh, do I have Alvin?)
<@Random_Nerd> (Yes, but he mostly hangs out in Old Moulder.)

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<Natalia> And I will be rather suspicious of Rinley
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard stands on the table and paces, hand to his rapier.

  • Rinley pokes at her food. "It feels like I've been staring at this plate for years."

<@Random_Nerd> E: "I suppose you're wondering why I've called you here."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "So, you two are the most heroic sorts I know, and you have delicious candy."
<Hisui> "Why, thank you!" *beams*
<@Random_Nerd> E: "And I have a problem. Well, it's not my problem, but it's definitely a problem that I have. And I can't go to the other rats, because of Reasons."
<Natalia> "Thanky you for the food Eduard, but... what are the issues at hand?"
<@Random_Nerd> E: "So, here I am. And I have to ask... what are you going to do about all those cats?"

  • Dulcinea is considering what manner of poison and spinnerettes to put on Ariadne...

<Natalia> "Why? All these cats? What did you mean?"
<@Random_Nerd> E: "The ones on the airship."

  • Rinley makes a gesure like, 'who, me?'?

<@Random_Nerd> E: "I mean, it's in clear violation of the treaty."
<Hisui> "Airship?"
<@Random_Nerd> You have no idea what he is talking about.
<Rinley> "Wait, airship?"
<Natalia> "treaty?"
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Yes. The one with the cats."
<Rinley> (Thank you. I was wondering if my shrine had an airship...)
<Jasper> (*smirk*)
<@Random_Nerd> He paces more.
<Natalia> "Wait, there is an airship full of cats?"
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Yes! And that's a problem."
<Hisui> "I'm really confused..."
<Rinley> *offhandedly to Nat* "As long as there are less than one thousand cats in all of Fortitude, the great demon horror will not re-emerge."
<Rinley> "My family's kind of in charge of the cats..."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "And this 'Prince of Cats' fellow, who isn't even actually a cat, appears to be ignoring the treaty."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Yes! Hedge the Fang!"
<Rinley> "Well, then, as a member of the Yatskaya clan, it's my Duty to investigate!"
<Natalia> "Oh, that is weirdly NOT strange here..."
<Rinley> (Rinley wasn't going to name Hedge, you fool!)

  • Dulcinea lets Ariadne climb up her arm...

<@Random_Nerd> (Eduard did!)
<Rinley> (Yes! And he's a fool!)
<Rinley> "How many are estimated to be on the ship? And do you know more of this Prince of Cats?"
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Hundreds of them. Far too many."

  • Rinley is trying to think if any of her cousins have gotten out of hand, or has gone missing or been sniffing the dream incense too much lately...

<Hisui> "Well...uhm....do we just get some milk and catnip and lure the cats off the airship?"
<Dulcinea> "Alvin. Heading out. Kill the heat once the cauldron has boiled for 66 seconds."
<Natalia> "And how big is that ship?"
<@Random_Nerd> E: "So, since you can talk to cats, and you're the sister of Old Death and the Witch, I figure that this is the kind of problem that you should be looking into."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "I don't know, I didn't get close enough to measure it. Because there are HUNDREDS OF CATS."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "I can practically smell them from here."
<@Random_Nerd> Alvin nods to Dulcinea.

  • Hisui gives an experimental sniff

<@Random_Nerd> E: "Oh! And the Prince? He's a Rider."

  • Rinley is working on going through more cousins and..wait, don't have a Rider cousin.

<Hisui> "I thought he was a cat."
<Rinley> "Well, you can be given a rank of nobility by a group, if necessary. I'm a knight, myself, but exiled."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "No! He isn't! He just has this little mask with cat ears on it. Like Zorro, if he was really into cats."
<Hisui> "I think I should be taking notes..."
<Natalia> "Wait, isn't a relative to Rinley? Rinley you are half rider?"
<Rinley> (Do the ears move on their own?)
<Hisui> "Rinley! There is no way you are a knight!"

  • Dulcinea smells udon...

<Rinley> "No, we aren't any nobility of cats. I'm a knight of Eduard. He made me one of his knights. Battlefield promotion and everything."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "So, obviously, this is a problem that I cannot solve. I mean, I'm pretty good with a sword, but not slay hundreds of cats at once good."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "So, uh... help?"
<Hisui> "I....okay.....notes. Taking notes."

  • Hisui pulls a notebook out of her bag and takes notes.

<Dulcinea> (Mind if I stroll in here?)
<Rinley> "I save the ship by diving overboard and dragging it back home with a rope made of my own backhair to tow it by. And so Eduard made me his knight."
<@Random_Nerd> (Whenever seems appropriate.)
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Just a knight-bachelor, naturally. I don't yet have lands to bestow."
<Rinley> "Well, I'm not married yet anyhow." *blush*

  • Dulcinea strolls down the street toward Kakeru Hut.

<@Random_Nerd> E: "I told you that that's not what it... never mind."
<@Random_Nerd> He pulls a picture out of his pocket. Problem is, it's really tiny, because it fit in a rat's pocket.
<@Random_Nerd> About one and a half centimeters at a side.

  • Rinley pulls out a magnifying glass, powerful, out of habit of dealing with rat things.

<@Random_Nerd> It's a picture of a man who is unironically wearing an opera cloak and waistcoat, along with a top-face masquerade mask with cat ears.

  • Natalia use really good eyesight to see clearly the picture :-)

<Rinley> (Look like anyone I know, even thought hey are wearing a tiny mask?)
<@Random_Nerd> (No. But he has the Rider eyes.)

  • Hisui peers at the picture while still jotting down notes
  • Dulcinea sneaks up on the others...

<Rinley> "Any signs of them being pirates?"
<@Random_Nerd> E: "I can't say for sure. But, I mean, he has a saber and an airship. You gotta wonder."

  • Rinley cries aloud. "But where can we get an airship?"

<Rinley> (*coughDulcicough*)
<@Random_Nerd> (Sorry, free airships are one-per-customer.)
<Rinley> (Hah! *points at you* Rinley was not in the other campaign! And Hi is completely new!)
<Dulcinea> "Depends on whether you mind bat-wings."
<Rinley> "Hi Dulci! Do you have an airship?"
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard jumps.
<Dulcinea> "Also, Boo."

  • Hisui hides behind her notes.

<Rinley> "Prince Eduard, this is Dul-cin-e-a deAvion."
<Rinley> "Dulcina, may I present Prince Eduard, rat Prince in exile."
<Dulcinea> "Hm. I believe I can create runes of flight..."
<Rinley> "And this is my friend Hisui and my friend Natalia who is from 'Russia'."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "I mean, the airship is parked over at the docks. That's half the problem!"

  • Natalia think is Dulcinea a goofy KGB spy?

<Hisui> "Hinicetomeetyoupleasedon'thurtme!"

  • Natalia do a formal salutation to Dulcinea "Nice to meet you"

<Dulcinea> "Hello."
<Rinley> "They haven't set foot on Fortitude, yet, right? You haven't heard of rat demon terrors happening yet, right?"
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "Ah... hello. That 'de', is that a nobilary particle, or just part of your name?"
<Natalia> "But are they a real problem? I mean, untill they stay alone in the ship are not a problem for anyone.!
<Natalia> "
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Not rat demon terrors. Cat demon terrors!"
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Which you of all people should know are worse."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "...filthy cat-sympathizer."
<Rinley> "Yes, but they would be terrrorizing your people, so thus rat/cat terrors. But we agree they are terrible?"
<@Random_Nerd> (Err, nobiliary)
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Yes. Terrible terrible terrors."
<Dulcinea> "I ... make my own nobility."

  • Rinley sniffs. "My family has their ways and their duties. At least you're not blood related to them."

<@Random_Nerd> E: "The Mystery kind, which is the worst. Uh... no offense, Rinley."

  • Hisui writes down a note to research Dulcinea's family

<Dulcinea> "So, someone needs an airship?"
<Hisui> I think we need to...just get some cats off an airship.
<@Random_Nerd> E: "And send them back where they belong! Which is, specifically, ANYWHERE FAR AWAY FROM ME."
<Rinley> "None taken. It probably wouldn't help the rats to think of the Witch painting her nails and stuff like that. There'd have to be like rat blood or skulls or tiny little designs painted on them with bedazzled rat teeth involved."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "I mean, don't involve your family in this, I don't want the presence of one Mystery drawing out another."
<Dulcinea> "Scaring things away? For some reason I do that well."

  • Hisui shivers

<Dulcinea> Ariadne probably crawls on my shoulder to peek right about now.

  • Natalia looks carefully at Dulcinea

<Rinley> "Well, we probably won't need an airship. Unless it becomes a grand battle, which would be awesome. But we need to stop an invasion of Fortitude by a Rider with a cat army."
<Rinley> (Is Ariadne the remade psider?  :) )
<Dulcinea> (Yep)

  • Rinley waves and grins at Ariadne!

<Jasper> (I just noticed - Jasper seems to be a registered nick here - suggestions on a variation?)

  • Natalia poke uncertainly at Ariadne

<Rinley> (Jasper-Sun ?)
<Dulcinea> (JIrinka?)
<Rinley> (Jasper-I?)

  • Jasper is now known as Jasper-Sun

<Rinley> "Okay, so, none of my family. Check." *looks around* "Would all of you mind coming and defending Fortitude from invasion?" *looks at the food* "Uh, I'll buy lunch afterwards?"
<Hisui> "We're just shooing some cats away, right?"
<Natalia> "Can come but I don't promise nothing"
<Rinley> "Well..have you ever tired to bathe a cat?"
<Dulcinea> "Ah. I think I can create some canine voice boxes for Ari here..."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "So, at this time of day the 'Prince' is often hanging around at the Sun Shrine."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "And since you two are all shrine-ey..."
<@Random_Nerd> E: "I... don't really know how these things work with humans."
<Dulcinea> (Do shrines mess with me at all?)
<Hisui> "We're not bathing cats."
<Hisui> (which is the Sun Shrine?)
<Rinley> "But see if you try to bathe a cat, you have to be ready if the cat does not want it."
<Natalia> "that is wisdom"
<Rinley> "And we have to be ready in case we have a lot of cats that want to come into Fortitude, which Would Be Bad."
<@Random_Nerd> (Jasper, could you describe it OOC?)
<Hisui> "I....oh."
<Rinley> "I've bathed cats before. Used duct tape. Took them three days to get me off of the ceiling."
<Hisui> "Well, maybe they're all adorable kittens!"
<Jasper-Sun> (sure)
<Rinley> "Ack! Even worse!"
<Rinley> "Then they use their eyes on you and make you into their slaves! I've seen it!"
<Hisui> "Why did you bathe cats with duct tape?"
<Natalia> "Why worse?"
<Rinley> (See?!? http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/50-kittens-giving-you-kitty-cat-eyes )
<Hisui> (You can see the madness right through their pupils!)
<Rinley> *to Hi* "Well, see, I was going to wrap them and then bathe them but then...I ended all tied up. They used a whole roll of the stuff on me."
<Jasper-Sun> The sun shrine is on the Island. The shrine itself is not very big, but given that in years past there was a big festival and ritual where most of the population attended, there's a fair amount of space. The island is connected by bridges to the main part of Town (I really don't know where I got the island in my head from, btw. May not be 'canonical')
<Dulcinea> "Tell me, have you ever dreamt of swimming along, and suddenly a riptide of extraordinary strength takes you away?"
<Rinley> (#4, man, #4!!!!)
<Dulcinea> (Hm?)
<Rinley> (That's a Rider cat, right there!)
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Swimming's for sailors. I am distinctly a land-rat."
<Dulcinea> "Because a few people have.
<@Random_Nerd> (Err, retcon that.)
<@Random_Nerd> (Duh. He has a ship. Silly GM.)
<Rinley> "Nope! I like the water!"
<@Random_Nerd> E: "Swimming? Bah, why would I swim, I have a ship."
<Dulcinea> "Makes for a very good water spout when extracted."
<Hisui> "Do we need to pack some things first?'
<@Random_Nerd> E: "I have my sword right here!"
<Rinley> "I probably would need my rapier. I'm not supposed to walk armed around town." *sulk* "Father has 'issues' about it."
<Jasper-Sun> (I also just realized that the part in the book talking to Jasper's player about the Sun Ritual is describing it through Jasper's eyes, a bit, so that "most of Town attended" is quite possibly just how it felt to Jasper at the time ^_^)
<Rinley> "But we can all meet up near the bridge to the Sun Shrine!"
<Natalia> "could work"
<Hisui> "You have a sword?"

  • Rinley looks a little embarassed. "It was a present. From one of the outer islands. They said I saved their shaman and... well... one thing led to the other, and... sword!"

<Natalia> (is to me?)
<Dulcinea> (You're thinking of Dante. :) )
<Natalia> "nope, really never needed one"
<@Random_Nerd> He draws his rapier.
<Hisui> (to Rinley, but Natalia can assume it was to her too)
<@Random_Nerd> He waves it. It's shiny!
<Hisui> (also Eduard)
<@Random_Nerd> It's a bit over a quarter of a foot long, and looks well-made for a sword smaller than a dinner knife.
<Jasper-Sun> (BTW, Rinley, "That's the best part! You can't 'yadda yadda yadda' the best part!")
<@Random_Nerd> He sheathes it.
<@Random_Nerd> E: "So... to the shrine! Dramatically!"
<@Random_Nerd> He hops off the table.
<Rinley> (Yes, I can! Jenna said I can!)
<Jasper-Sun> (what's that tvtropes.com thing about overly dramatic statements?)

  • Rinley whines. "But I don't have my cape!"

<@Random_Nerd> It's unlikely that any of you have been to the Sun Shrine much when it wasn't a major celebration day or school trip or something like that. It looks empty with only a few people there.
<Hisui> " You have a cape?"
<@Random_Nerd> One of them, paying his respects at the brass statue that represents the Sun (an idealized and semi-abstract female form that just happens to look rather like that nice Jade Irinka, shame about what happened to her), has to be the Prince of Cats.

  • Rinley bounces up and down. "Yep! It's black on one side and red on the other and it swooshes really well."

<@Random_Nerd> Or, at least, if he isn't there are two sword-wearing nuts in opera capes and cat masks.
<@Random_Nerd> And that would be just too disturbing.

  • Rinley will have picked up her own cape and sword! *swoosh*

<@Random_Nerd> His is at least 20% swooshier.
<@Random_Nerd> Cheater.
<Dulcinea> "Why, having a cape is de rigeur"
<@Random_Nerd> It's swooshing dramatically in the wind as he stands there, and there isn't even any wind.
<Rinley> (The cat mask detracts, really. So...1990s.)
<@Random_Nerd> Also, Jasper's there, and she seems to be trying to ignore the Prince.
<Jasper-Sun> (she's not succeeding very well)

  • Hisui , if given time, will have picked up cat-handling books at the library

<Jasper-Sun> (she also looks like she's crying a bit)
<@Random_Nerd> (Well, he's so swooshy.)
<@Random_Nerd> Sure, you can have stopped by the library.
<@Random_Nerd> Swooshy Dude: "Hello, various and sundry citizens of Town! Well met! Ah, and I see that you happen to be here, Jasper!"
<@Random_Nerd> SD: "Have all of you come to pay respects to the Sun with me?"
<Hisui> "Er...."
<Rinley> "What do you mean by paying respects to the Sun? And may we have your name, stranger?"

  • Natalia look shyly at Jasper

<@Random_Nerd> SD: "Ah, I cannot tell you my name, for I am currently... incognito!" He gestures at the mask. "Yet I can tell you that I have the honor to be Prince of Cats!"
<Rinley> "Okay, Mr. Incognito."
<Rinley> "By whose authority do you claim to be Prince of Cats? And which Cats?"
<Dulcinea> (So who's this guy who's 20% cooler? :) )
Jasper-Sun will stand up in a huff and put her hands on her hips. "Mr. Prince of Creeps, more like it!" *grabs her books and stuff and huffs out*
<@Random_Nerd> SD: "By my own authority!"
<@Random_Nerd> SD: "Cats! In general! But most particularly, those in my most splendid airship."
<Dulcinea> "May I ask where they are going?
<Hisui> "Wait! Jasper!"
<@Random_Nerd> SD: "Going? They're sleeping. They're cats."
<Dulcinea> "Assuming they're in the ship for a reason."
<@Random_Nerd> SD: "Well, I imagine some are roaming around or eating or something. They do that sometimes."

  • Rinley smirks and then looks mock-sorrowful. "Ah, so you only think you're the Prince of the Cats. It's okay, I live with a lot of them too."

<Jasper-Sun> (Jasper mostly wants to see Mr. Incognito's reaction. Whether he'll break talking to people to follow her.)
<@Random_Nerd> SD: "I have a signet ring with a cat on it, and an airship full of cats. I have official Prince of Cats letterhead."
<@Random_Nerd> SD: "Ah, perhaps this will help!"
<@Random_Nerd> He reaches into a pocket in his waistcoat, and withdraws a small white rectangle, handing it to Rinley."
<Dulcinea> "I have an animate plush spider and innumerable webs. Am I the Queen of Spiders?"
<@Random_Nerd> It feels like it's made of ivory, and says "The Prince of Cats" on it.
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "See?"
<Dulcinea> quietly, to the others: "In case it's not obvious the answer's no."

  • Hisui looks over Riley's shoulder.

<Rinley> "You had...a business card made? Well, I shall have to give you mine."
<Hisui> "Where do you get something like that made?"
<Hisui> *Rinley
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Made? I don't understand. It's mine. It was in my pocket."

  • Rinley gives him her business card, which states her name, her Shrine, and various things such as perveyor of strange goods, seeker of lost things, finder of the Soul of Treskia, King of the Illianas and more.
  • Dulcinea pulls out a brochure for the Bleak Academy.

<Rinley> *to Hi* "Oh, some of the stores can make you business cards. Mr. Wu made me some after the Prince and I removed some ghosts from his pigments."

  • Hisui gives the Prince of Cats an incredulous look.

<Rinley> *glares at PoC* "My Prince, of course."
<Dulcinea> (Can I talk to Alvin from here?)
<@Random_Nerd> (Maybe, but he can't talk to you.)
<Dulcinea> "Give me a few minutes I can show you my card as Lord of All I Survey."
<Rinley> "Well, your cats cannot land here. There is a strict treaty involved and as a member of the Yataskya Clan, I forbid you to deploy any of your cats into Fortitude."
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard inspects the business card quizzically.
<Rinley> (*pst* You're a girl.)
<Dulcinea> (Yeah, but 'Lady of All I Survey' doesn't sound right)
<Hisui> to Rinley: "I should really get one of my own made, then. Keep the shrine up with the times, you know?"
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Ah, but I am not a party to that treaty. Besides, any treaty limiting cats which was negotiated without the consent or presence of the Prince of Cats must perforce be considered void."
<@Random_Nerd> He puts Rinley's card in his pocket.
<Jasper-Sun> (sorry, I just realized a funny thing and thus am laughing)
<Dulcinea> to Edouard: "Your lands are strictly within the city, right?"
<Hisui> whispers to Rinley: "By his logic, he'll be thinking he's you next."
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "So, I have seen Rinley's credentials, and I believe I may have met the delightful Jasper Irinka before. But what of the rest of you? Where are your cards?"
<Rinley> *to Hi* "Ooo, you can draw candy on it!"
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard, to Hsui: "Well, in the Roofs."
<Hisui> "Oooh!"
<Rinley> *to PoC* "How old are you?"
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Old enough to know better, young enough not to care."
<Hisui> "In the roofs?"
<Natalia> "damn... no card only an ordinary citizen here"
<@Random_Nerd> He bows, and flourishes his cape.
<Rinley> "So, young enough to think you know everything, old enough to sass your elders?"
<Dulcinea> "So, you have no stake in the fates of, say, the field mice and birds of the forest?"
<@Random_Nerd> Natalia, it is clear to you that his cape is animate in some fashion. The way it moves cannot be explained with reference to ordinary laws of motion.
<@Random_Nerd> (Which Prince was that to, Dulcinea?)
<Rinley> "Well, if you are truly the PoC, then it was your subjects duty to inform you of the treaty or to speak in your stead. So, tough."
<Dulcinea> (Edward)
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "Well, such mice and birds that happen to be on my ancestral lands, should I claim them. But they're certainly not citizens."
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "I mean, they're mice. And birds. They can't even talk. They don't wear pants."
<@Random_Nerd> (Fortitude rats view mice about the way humans view chimps.)
<Dulcinea> (You said I can talk to Alvin, right?)
<Rinley> *whispers to Hi* "I don't think he'd want to be me. He'd have to wash Kuroma's robes after exercise time. Blech!"
<@Random_Nerd> (I'll say that he can hear you, but can't respond.)
<@Random_Nerd> (At least, until you can contrive some method by which he can, which you've not yet gotten around to.)
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard shivers when Rinley mentions Kuroma.
<Dulcinea> to Alvin: "Alvin. I'm at (wherever). Would you bring my business cards for my position as Lord of All Town?"
<Dulcinea> (Again, 'Lady of All Town' doesn't have the right cachet.)
<@Random_Nerd> (So, is Jasper gone, or did she slow down and stop?)
<Rinley> (Yeah, that's something to work on. You need a good title.)
<Jasper-Sun> (she's slowed down and stopped. She's actually just outside, eavesdropping)
<Dulcinea> (Queen of Nightmares?)

  • Hisui offers some candy, "Right now, this is all I have as credentials. I don't have anything other made up just yet."

<@Random_Nerd> Prince of Cats: "So, would any of you wish to visit me soon on my splendid airship? I shall be throwing a Masked Ball of the Cats! Jasper, for instance! Do you wish to attend?"
<@Random_Nerd> He takes it, and pops it into his mouth.
<@Random_Nerd> A moment later, he removes the wrapper.
<@Random_Nerd> Prince of Cats: "Delicious! Reminds me of home."
<Hisui> "Eh?"

  • Rinley nudges her. *whispers* "Rider".

<Hisui> "Wha- oh!"
<Rinley> "You're actually going to put masks on cats?" *looks with horror* "You put little sweaters on them too, don't you?"
<Hisui> "It sounds kinda cute, actually...."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince of Cats: "Of course! They're ever so comfortable."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "The masks, that is."
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Sweaters, whether on cats or otherwise, are an abomination. You know, like her." He points at Dulcinea.
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Not that there's anything wrong with that! Some of my best friends are abominations!"
<Dulcinea> "Abomination? Nicest thing I've been called all week."
<Jasper-Sun> (Jasper will burst back in) "Dulcinea is not an ABERRATION!"
<Jasper-Sun> (err, abomination.)
<Jasper-Sun> (Jasper said the right thing!)
<Rinley> "Bah, she's just sophisticated and stuff."
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Sure she is. But it's fine!"
<Dulcinea> "I am no abomination. I command abominations. Right, Ariadne?"
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "I'm part abomination too, on my father's side."
<Rinley> "But I must insist than your cats cannot land and/or stay in Fortitude. The treaty demands it."
<Rinley> (Crap, Jasper, is this your brother?)
<Jasper-Sun> (... possibly ...)
<Jasper-Sun> ( ... GM shifty eyes ... )
<@Random_Nerd> With a distinct lack of noise or motion, Alvin is standing immediately behind and to the left of Dulcinea.
<Jasper-Sun> (Just 'cause I'm not GMing this game doesn't mean I don't have those eyes!)

  • Dulcinea checks out the scene with his Eye of Outside Taint

<@Random_Nerd> He opens a long narrow box that he's holding, something like a card file at an old-fashioned library, and looks through it for a moment and then hands Dulcinea a card.
<@Random_Nerd> (What's the page reference for that?)
<Jasper-Sun> "Dulcinea was my friend and loved my mom. She can't be an abomination!" *looks kind of hurt*
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Ah, yes, your mother. She is a very dear friend of mine, and wishes you would visit."
<Dulcinea> (Variant of the Outside-Measuring Caliper)
<Dulcinea> "Ah, thank you Alvin."
<Dulcinea> "This is my butler, by the way.
<Dulcinea> "My card."
<Jasper-Sun> *blinks, not quite comprehending*

  • Hisui looks aghast at the prince of cats.

<@Random_Nerd> To your tainted eye, the level of Outside corruption in the area is significant. You've not seen this much since you returned from the Academy.
<@Random_Nerd> The Prince of Cats accepts Dulcinea's card.
<@Random_Nerd> He scrutinizes it. "Hmm!"
<Dulcinea> "Note the fine engraved typography.

  • Rinley moves over to Jasper and supports her. "Now you are being cruel."

<Dulcinea> "So you know it's real."
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Ah, yes, movable type. Acceptable, I suppose, for those with no other option."
<Rinley> (Ooo! Does the fine print read 'I prepared explosive runes this morning'?!?)
<@Random_Nerd> He sniffs condescendingly.
<Rinley> (Darn.)
<@Random_Nerd> Prince of Cats, to Rinley: "No, it's true!"
<Dulcinea> "Movable type? Please, that's fine hand-engraving."
<Dulcinea> "It's even gilded."
<@Random_Nerd> He reaches into one of his pockets and removes a sealed letter that cannot possibly have fit in there. The sealing wax is marked with a symbol of the sun, all but covered by an eclipsing moon.
<@Random_Nerd> He hands this letter to Jasper.
<Dulcinea> (Those are the cards I have prepared for when I've Shown Them All, after all)
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Yes, I suppose it is acceptable."
<@Random_Nerd> PoC, to Jasper: "Read it!"
<Jasper-Sun> Jasper didn't actually take it yet.
<@Random_Nerd> He waves it in the air.
<Jasper-Sun> (she doesn't trust taking anything from him...)
<@Random_Nerd> Looks a bit impatient, for the first time.
<Hisui> "You're going a bit far for a bad joke."
<Rinley> "Say 'please'. It might help."
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "Oh, yes, that! Please!"
<Rinley> (...am I allowed to facepalm for someone else?)
<@Random_Nerd> There's an odd sound coming from all directions, outside. A sort of low-pitched humming noise.
<Jasper-Sun> Jasper reluctantly takes it, and hands it to Rinley: "can you read it for me please?"

  • Natalia run out to look

<Rinley> (Can I open it?)

  • Hisui looks around

<@Random_Nerd> (...can in what sense?)
<Jasper-Sun> *Jasper takes out an envelope of her own and hands it to PoC* "This one's for you" (it's stamped with the seal of the Sun)
<@Random_Nerd> The sound outside deepens and grows louder.

  • Dulcinea tries to locate the sound...

<@Random_Nerd> He takes it gleefully.
<Rinley> (As in break the seals.)
<@Random_Nerd> The seals are made of mundane sealing wax.
<Rinley> (...oh.)
<@Random_Nerd> I mean, shiny. But mundane.

  • Dulcinea puts on a set of claws just in case...

<@Random_Nerd> Dulcinea, you can't specifically locate the sound.
<Rinley> (But this in Rinley! She totally believes in sealing wax that can only be opened by the daughter of the writer!)
<@Random_Nerd> Natalia, the sound is coming from sixty-eight sources, each approximately four and one half centimeter above ground level, each quite quiet.

  • Rinley opens up the letter from Jade-in-theory.

<Natalia> (what these sources look like?)

  • Hisui is getting rather nervous

<Rinley> (If I get mauled by cats, I'm going to kick my brother to death. Again.)
<@Random_Nerd> The letter reads: "Dearest daughter. You can fully trust the bearer of this letter, who is definitely the actual Prince of Cats, in all things. I look forward to being reunited with you. Signed, Jade Irinka. PS, this letter is not a fake."
<@Random_Nerd> Jasper, it looks exactly like your mother's handwriting.
<@Random_Nerd> (You can't see them, they're out of your line of sight at present.)
<@Random_Nerd> (From the distribution, they seem to be arranged exactly so that none will be visible from inside the Shrine.)
<@Random_Nerd> The Prince of Cats opens Jasper's envelope.
<@Random_Nerd> He withdraws a card with her name on it, and looks oddly disappointed.
<Jasper-Sun> (Jasper would figure that he wouldn't present her with a badly forged letter, so obviously it looks exactly like her writing)
<@Random_Nerd> The Prince waves a kid-gloved hand at the letter.
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "But surely you trust me now."
<Rinley> "This...seems very fake. Like, I mean, really really fake. Like, note from my dad to let me out of school early fake."

  • Natalia cautiously and trying to maintain cover go the nearest one

<Rinley> "It could only be more fake if it was signed 'Me'."
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "But, surely, if I were to make a fake, it would be less obvious than that."
<Jasper-Sun> "Why would I? You've been following me around leaving cards everywhere - even places where you can't go - and you give me an obviously forged letter - so obviously that it's in my mother's own handwriting - I mean, why wouldn't it be if you were forging it?"
<Jasper-Sun> (this comes out a little ... stumbled into itself)
<@Random_Nerd> Natalia, when you move toward the outside of the shrine, the sources of the sound move, away from you.
<Dulcinea> "This letter pretty much proves you're no prince... 'prince'."
<@Random_Nerd> From the way they move, you can tell that they can sense where you are very precisely.
<@Random_Nerd> You hear soft footfalls as they move. Definitely quadraped.
<Dulcinea> "An actual prince could get better intel and a better forgery."

  • Natalia think "uhm.. can be possibly cats..."

<@Random_Nerd> Prince of Cats, aghast: "But surely you would not accuse a prince of stooping to... forgery!"

  • Rinley grins. "You'd be amazed what I can accuse princes of! I've had practice!"

<Dulcinea> "That's right. An actual prince wouldn't.
<@Random_Nerd> If it's cats, it's cats that are perfectly communicating with each other and acting in concert, with absolutely no audible indications of communication.
<Dulcinea> "That fact that you did means you're no prince. QEB."
<Jasper-Sun> "Oh, I'm not accusing you of forging it yourself. You wouldn't be able to. But present a forged letter? That I believe you could do."
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "To be fair, I wouldn't resort to forgery either. I mean, that's hard."
<Hisui> "QEB?"
<Dulcinea> "Quite Elementary Bullshit."
<Hisui> "Ah."
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "But if I were no prince, why would I have all of the trappings and accoutrements of one?"
<Hisui> "A costume?"
<Hisui> "Lies?"
<Dulcinea> "Because trappings and accoutrements can be faked. Actual nobility can't."
<Jasper-Sun> ("Quod Erat, Bitch"?) "I can do that too!" *grows a shimmery cape which billows on its own - and is made of sun-stuff*
<@Random_Nerd> Poc: "But my airship! The appointments are most surely of princely quality."
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "My subjects!"

  • Natalia reach a roof and try to sneack to one of the hidden ones

<@Random_Nerd> He reaches into a pocket and pulls out a paperback: "Behold! I carry a copy of The Prince with me at all times!"
<Hisui> "I never heard of airships being a prince thing."
<Rinley> "I am a member of a clan that treats with a thousand cats. Your numbers are meaningless to that."
<@Random_Nerd> He sniffs. "Who else could afford them?"
<Hisui> "And really....cats as subjects?"
<Hisui> "Rich businessmen."
<Dulcinea> "That's the copy the library lost."

  • Rinley rummages in her bag. *hands him a copy of a Prince CD* "I'll want that back."

<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "It would be rather suspicious if the Prince of Cats did not have cats as subjects, my young friend."
<@Random_Nerd> Was it from before or after his name change?
<Rinley> "Before. My sister...nevermind."
<Rinley> (Uh, Before.)
<@Random_Nerd> He looks to have had a moment of inspiration.
<@Random_Nerd> He sings a few bars of When The Doves Cry. "Surely this proves my credentials!"

  • Rinley looks around. "But..where are the doves?"

<Hisui> "Why?"
<@Random_Nerd> PoC: "They got eaten, obviously. By cats."
<Random_Nerd> And when he says that, several dozen cats leap out of the shadows and into the shrine.

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<Dulcinea> "OK, so where's your raspberry beret?"
<Jasper-Sun> "If you really are the Prince of Cats, then why must you wear a mask to look like one?" (... nuts, missed the deadline on that :p)

  • Natalia is now known as Angelo

<Dulcinea> heh

  • Jasper-Sun is now known as lazarus
  • Hisui is now known as Verithe
  • Rinley is now known as BethE
  • Dulcinea is now known as Knockwood

<BethE> Was I too much?
<@Random_Nerd> No, it was good Rinleying.
<lazarus> I like that the Prince of Cats seemed genuinely hurt that we didn't believe him
<Angelo> RN, you didn't answer if the thing moven while I tried to reach it/him/she on rooftops
<@Random_Nerd> Yes, they did succesfully avoid being seen by Natalia when she tried that.
<@Random_Nerd> Which mundane cats should not be able to do.
<@Random_Nerd> They're fast, but not that fast.
<Angelo> ok was trying first mundane way. Next Glass session is show times for supeNat
<@Random_Nerd> *nod*
<@Random_Nerd> So, what did you think of the Prince of Cats?
<Knockwood> Hey, I'm Lord of Town Now. :)
<@Random_Nerd> For all he knows, at least!
<Angelo> I believe is a scam
<lazarus> I think it's a scam, but he doesn't know it
<Knockwood> At least until someone comes up with a good female title that conveys a feeling of rulership
<@Random_Nerd> Imperatrix!
<lazarus> "Queen of Everything"?
<Verithe> He's a fun character
<Angelo> Queen Elizabeth II?
<BethE> Imperatrix works. Ask Celestia.
<@Random_Nerd> So, next time we do Glass, let's try to use the XP emotions.
<@Random_Nerd> For this session, I will assume that each of you earned one XP.
<lazarus> I also felt during the session that I haven't really figured out who Jasper is at this point, and all of that. I don't really yet have a good feel for her.
<Angelo> woot!
<@Random_Nerd> Please record these on character sheets, scraps of paper, or nearby pigeons.
<BethE> I didn't make anyone roll their eyes.. *pout*
<lazarus> I'm supposed to be helpful!
<@Random_Nerd> Well, that helps in that Jasper is currently trying to figure out who she is.
<Verithe> I have them on Hisui's sheet, which I hope to find by next time.
<@Random_Nerd> I mean, she's the Sun, but she doesn't know how to be the Sun.
<Knockwood> I'm not sure I'm playing the just-came-from-hell vibe, tho...
<Verithe> It was on a small stack of papers I didn't want to lose in the move.
<Angelo> me also not although the feeling is compassion for Nat
<Verithe> Of course, they got lost.
<@Random_Nerd> Before next Glass session, let's review everyone's emotions.
<@Random_Nerd> So, what do you guys think of these characters, compared to your previous ones?
<Verithe> (Hisui's is worry, since that one won't be in the file)
<Angelo> I like Natalia, she is different that Soun (that I miss a bit)
<lazarus> I like Jasper - she was a possible pick in Full Chuubo for me too! - but I miss Luthien. I like Luthi's name a bit more, and the character for Luthi is really just about having a lot of fun. (Not that it's not fun as Jasper, but that Jasper's "story" is a more serious thing)
<Knockwood> trying to differentiate Leo and Dulc
<BethE> I think that Lili and Rin would like each other.
<Verithe> I enjoy that Hisui (and the custom character option in general) offers exploration to other aspects of the setting.