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[10:46:41] <Butler> Hooray!
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[10:57:05] <KreenWarrior> hey
[10:57:37] <HG> Hi, getting food!
[10:57:59] <HG> Will be here for reals in ~2 min.
[11:06:03] <Butler> Kreen, do you have a link to the wiki kicking about?
[11:07:04] <KreenWarrior> afraid not
[11:07:48] <KreenWarrior> here we go: http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Nobilis_Hydrarch:MainPage
[11:07:53] <KreenWarrior> googled for "Nobilis Hydrarch"
[11:07:58] <Butler> Hah, beat me to it.
[11:08:13] <Butler> I had the link copied and everything. :(
[11:08:19] <KreenWarrior> heh
[11:08:58] <HG> Weird it wasn't letting me type.
[11:09:07] <HG> Hi all!
[11:09:11] <Butler> Hallo!
[11:09:16] <KreenWarrior> 'ello!
[11:09:29] <HG> Looks like it will just be you two today.
[11:09:39] <Butler> Ok.
[11:09:47] <KreenWarrior> ah well
[11:10:18] <HG> Never got anything from the other guy.
[11:10:40] <HG> Oh well thats online gatherings for you. :(
[11:10:57] <Butler> Like trying to herd cats.
[11:11:16] <HG> So where were we?
[11:11:28] <HG> ^^^ yes it is.
[11:11:46] <KreenWarrior> meaning online Nobilis is like trying to herd cats squared
[11:11:55] <KreenWarrior> Though square cats should be easier to herd I'd think
[11:12:28] <HG> You would think, but man they corner on a dime!
[11:12:35] <Butler> As I recall (vaguely) we had just accepted the invitation of a noble who was being accused of some crime, via her strange messenger boy. Not sure where we were going to meet, but it might have been Lord Entropy's house. (or whatever).
[11:13:12] <HG> Yeah my last log is while ago, but that matches up with my memories.
[11:13:15] <Butler> We'd also laid the righteous smackdown on an Excrucian who'd been meddling with the french transit system (?) and nettled him good.
[11:13:34] <KreenWarrior> Yeah, sounds right
[11:13:41] Nick KreenWarrior is now known as Mirrinae.
[11:14:02] <HG> Oh yeah. So whats the higher of you two's spirit?
[11:14:30] <Butler> Identical at 1, I think.
[11:14:31] <Mirrinae> Both equal, looks like
[11:14:38] <Mirrinae> bah, you beat me this time
[11:14:42] <Butler> But if it's a matter of precedence, Butler always defers.
[11:16:05] <HG> Okay so you guys have 4 xp (each) and a dynasty point saved up, just for the record.
[11:16:26] <Mirrinae> 4 character points?
[11:16:46] <HG> Yeah. (I think)
[11:17:10] <HG> Not sure if its 4 or 5 honestly.
[11:17:20] <Mirrinae> Awesome. I think I'll buy a point of Realm
[11:18:11] <Butler> Give me a second, still flipping through the rules.
[11:18:27] <HG> Cool. You get to change the chancell properties a little too if you want. (house rule.)
[11:18:43] <Mirrinae> Umm, lemme think on it
[11:18:50] <HG> Fair enough.
[11:20:47] <Butler> Can I upgrade Domain from 2 to 3 for (9-6) 3 Cp?
[11:21:03] <HG> So where do you want to pick up? I don't think the world is going to bother you guys much for now. Do your chars
[11:21:08] <HG> Yes.
[11:22:26] <HG> Are you chars going to do anything we should roleplay in the next 2 weeks? Or should we play out Emrald (Spring)'s Party?
[11:22:51] <HG> Sorry that ended up kind of grabled.
[11:23:03] <HG> Buttle: yes you can.
[11:23:03] <Butler> I suspect we could skip directly to the party.
[11:23:17] <Butler> And excellent: already done.
[11:24:31] <Mirrinae> Just skip to the party, I think
[11:24:59] <Butler> Butler will wear his finest suit... which is any of them, really. He doesn't "do" casual.
[11:25:39] <Mirrinae> Mirrinae will wear a formal dress of some sort
[11:25:39] <HG> Just before the Party both of you hear the cracking wave like voice of your Imperator.
[11:26:53] <HG> "Remember, I don't trust the graveling worm. Theres something wrong about her story of being poisened, find it."
[11:27:41] <Butler> "Of course, sir."
[11:27:48] <Mirrinae> "Interesting. Is there anything that makes you suspicious in particular, Imperator?"
[11:28:06] <HG> The quiet anger of the voice rings, and throbs. You can feel that it isnt at you but still.
[11:29:56] <HG> "I have seen poisned Serpents. She is too quiet."
[11:30:22] <Mirrinae> "Understood."
[11:30:50] <HG> "Good. Buttler, I have high hopes of you."
[11:31:56] <Butler> Butler turns to Mirrinae. "What would you have me do, your Grace? Should I accompany you openly at the party, or make my way amongst the servants of Emerald?"
[11:32:55] <Mirrinae> "As a Noble, I think you should accompany me. Your absence would be noted, otherwise."
[11:33:21] <Mirrinae> "Which would be suspicious even if you are not detected."
[11:33:32] <Butler> "Indeed, miss. Very well." Butler disliked parties he wasn't running. He always had the urge to serve drinks.
[11:39:27] <HG> The Graveling Worm's Chancell was deep with in the earth. Existing at the edge of the mantle and core, it was a maze of caverns growing with green newly budding trees, and spring flowers. Yet the rivers and streams were not of water but of flowing stone, that was though only warm to the touch.
[11:40:24] <Mirrinae> "Very impressive."
[11:40:57] <HG> A being looking like a child of say 8 or 10 years, though slightly small for there age comes up to the path through which you were directed.
[11:41:41] <Butler> Butler waits for the Duchess to speak, while standing quietly at her right shoulder.
[11:42:29] <HG> "Emerald Daiyousai is right this way. You are Mirriam, Lady of Higherachy and Buttler, power of Buttlers, correct?"
[11:43:21] <Butler> Butler nods politely.
[11:43:29] <Mirrinae> "That is correct."
[11:44:34] <HG> The child lifts gossermer wings and leads off, soon reaching her misstress.
[11:44:50] Nick You are now known as Emerald.
[11:45:29] <Emerald> "Hello, I am most joyus that you could make it."
[11:46:31] <Emerald> She is much as you saw her before, ecept that two or three of what you can only call fairies are trailing around her at all times.
[11:47:54] <Mirrinae> "Hello. It is good to see you are looking well."
[11:47:58] <Emerald> (That is a woman with great big butterfly wings in irridecent whites and green that bleend into her victorian dress.)
[11:48:55] <Butler> Butler, again, nods politely. A very careful observer would have noticed a slight eyebrow-raising at the "fairies".
[11:49:14] <Emerald> "I hope your first few weeks has gone well, Oh but I should introduce you:"
[11:51:10] <Emerald> "Shade, power of Smoke, and Strossman, power of Cement."
[11:51:59] <Mirrinae> *offers a polite bow to each*
[11:52:11] <Mirrinae> "Pleasure to meet you."
[11:52:50] <Emerald> She says pointing with her wineglass holding hand, at a man in greys and blues, tall and lanky, and then at a stocky man dressed as 19th centure business man.
[11:53:17] <Emerald> Shade bows and whispers something.
[11:53:46] <Butler> Bulter, again, bows.
[11:53:48] <Emerald> Strossman almost yells thrusting out his hand "Good to metchya."
[11:53:51] <Mirrinae> (aspect to overhear?)
[11:54:14] <Emerald> (3)
[11:54:34] <Emerald> (which you have right?)
[11:54:54] <Mirrinae> (eh, I'll save the mps)
[11:54:56] <Mirrinae> (only Aspect 1
[11:55:53] <Butler> Bulter shakes Strossman's hand with a very subtle raise of an eyebrow. "A pleasure, sir."
[11:56:49] <Emerald> "Dont mind Shade, he's a tad shy. Especialy around elegant young women such as your self." Emerald says with a teasing twinkel in her eye.
[11:57:46] <Mirrinae> *smiles neutrally* "Of course." Unsure of protocol, she gropes for a conversation topic. "And, ah, how are Smoke and Cement doing?"
[11:58:18] Nick You are now known as Cement.
[11:59:17] <Cement> "Not so well, a lot of buildings are going unfinished these days. But in the scheme of things its not a big deal."
[11:59:34] Nick You are now known as Smoke.
[12:00:16] <Smoke> "There was a beautyful bush fire this summer."
[12:00:39] Nick You are now known as Emerald.
[12:01:11] <Butler> Butler turns to Mirrinae and whispers, "The Australian fires, your Grace. Several dozen dead."
[12:01:41] <Emerald> "You two should try the mead. Its a new recipie!"
[12:01:58] <Mirrinae> "Ah, well I am glad your Estates are doing well. Organization is always threatened, of course."
[12:02:59] <Emerald> "It is a very prominant estate. Few are so powerful with out nobles promoting them."
[12:03:43] <Emerald> 'Well until recently, I mean." She adds blushing.
[12:03:52] <Butler> "I must admit, however, that servants are at an all-time high. The rise of what you might call "consumer culture" is certainly helpful. On the other hand, competent servants are in decline."
[12:04:53] <Mirrinae> "Well, it seems I have my work cut out for me. Do you have any advice in monitoring and promoting one's Estate?"
[12:05:10] <Emerald> "Really? I would have thought the decline of nobility would have greatly weekened them."
[12:06:12] <Butler> "However gauche it may seem, corporations are becoming the new temporal nobility, and they have many more servants than even the greatest house of antiquity."
[12:06:49] <Emerald> "In some ways it is any easy thing. Much of it comes from simply listening. The hard part is when to know to be agressive. I tried to push on Summer a while back, and we both ended up lossing ground to Winter."
[12:07:22] <Mirrinae> "how did that play out, if I may ask?"
[12:08:21] <Emerald> "Well the prosaic world remembers it as the "Year with out a Summer" that caused such famine."
[12:10:00] <Mirrinae> (this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer ?)
[12:10:07] <Butler> Butler whispers, "1816, by human dating conventions. Quite a troublesome year."
[12:10:20] <Emerald> "I had carefuly planed to move an battle to near that volcano, there by giving me an exscuse to release great plums of dust. At the time this would have resulted in more rain."
[12:11:27] <Emerald> "But winter called in some favores from some noble of wind or light. I still don't know who for sure. And well the rest is history."
[12:13:31] <Emerald> "On the other hand, I am get her back now. Her great strong hold of the north grows weaker every day!"
[12:14:10] <Butler> Butler whispers, "Surely, an alliance with the Power of Industrialization. Curious..."
[12:14:17] <Emerald> "And I have much of both the light and the dark supporting me."
[12:15:37] <Emerald> "They each think the are out witting the other. I don't truely care. Humans are just one more beast to me."
[12:15:45] Nick You are now known as Cement.
[12:15:58] <Mirrinae> Mirrinae notes that down with great interest
[12:16:51] <Butler> (I can see why the Big E might want her out of the way. Too much competition on the human-despising front)
[12:17:21] <Cement> "Ah my lady you wound me. Our great project is more then just esterminating some pest."
[12:18:29] <Cement> "It is poetry, and justice and restraint in one."
[12:18:40] Nick You are now known as Emerald.
[12:18:45] <Butler> Butler bristles slightly. "I would advise a little caution in your speech, sir. I have yet to see cement mix itself."
[12:19:31] <Emerald> "blaw, blaw, you organized factions have such high retoric. I don't trust your big words"
[12:19:37] Nick You are now known as Cement.
[12:20:01] <Mirrinae> (from the cement's perspective: Humans never do anything useful besides mix us! Why should we care about them?)
[12:21:11] <Butler> (unmixed cement is powder and rock and water and nothing at all.)
[12:21:45] <Cement> Buttler: "But that is the bueaty of it. My former contrymen build great traps, ropes around the earth herself, and in so doing slowly press out there own lives."
[12:23:58] <Mirrinae> "Ah yes, suicide before murder, correct?"
[12:24:06] <Butler> "What men choose is not my concern, but know that, in time, all things crumble, cement most of all. Even if the world should be paved level, in time, without the hand of mankind, it will be a sea of dust and you will be a fallen lord."
[12:25:59] <Cement> "True, Entropy's name sake is harsh force. But there have been creators before there were Men, and there shall be after. If we can win this damn war that is."
[12:28:51] Nick You are now known as Emerald.
[12:28:57] Nick You are now known as Smoke.
[12:29:01] <Butler> "But cement is so very human. It is as strong as them and as weak as them, and things built of cement are meant for today, not a hundred years hence."
[12:29:23] Nick You are now known as Cement.
[12:32:44] <Cement> "Yes, we Dark do not argue that we did not spring from the same force that makes humanity so vile. Indeed there are those that argue that we will have to turn our traps and seductions on our selves when Mankind is dead. However, until that day I fight to save each human death."
[12:33:44] <Butler> "In my opinion, you turned your artifices inwards long ago." Butler bows. "Good day."
[12:34:07] Nick You are now known as Emerald.
[12:36:13] <Mirrinae> *silently thanks Butler for doing that so she didn't have to*
[12:36:23] Nick You are now known as Cement.
[12:36:27] <Mirrinae> (She was trying to be diplomatic)
[12:36:41] <Cement> "Good day." he says gruffly.
[12:36:51] Nick You are now known as Emerald.
[12:36:51] <Butler> (Butler aims to serve. Just because he can't be rude doesn't mean he can't be factual... and terse.)
[12:37:05] <Mirrinae> (indeed)
[12:38:29] <Butler> (Now, you deal with the lady in charge. If you can steer the subject to Italy, we can work in a few poison references and see what happens. Or just bait her a bit about Excrucians. I'm sure you've got good ideas)
[12:38:52] <Mirrinae> "So, mentioning the war, have you had many dealigns with Excrucians?"
[12:40:20] <Emerald> "Ah, me. Well some of course. That battle at the volcano for example. Though I was really fighting on my sisters behaf there."
[12:41:07] <Emerald> "I heard that you had a bit of a fight on your hands in France? I hope it went well for you?"
[12:41:50] <Mirrinae> "Yes., we succeeded in defeating it. I delivered the killing blow myself, which was unpleasant. Though I understand it was just a shard of the larger being?"
[12:42:59] <Emerald> "Indeed, that is what they call them. Full excrusians are reasons to run away. But they have a hard time getting past the front lines."
[12:44:19] <Butler> (sorry, I've been called away on roommate wrangling duty. Back in 20 mins or so. Feel free to meddle without me. Butler is ever a loyal servant)
[12:44:48] <Emerald> "Truely I am lucky. They don't come after our estates nearly so much as they do poor Shade's."
[12:45:18] Nick You are now known as Smoke.
[12:45:42] <Smoke> "Ah, thats not, its not that bad."
[12:46:07] <Mirrinae> "Is there a reason they prefer that target?"
[12:49:40] <Smoke> "My Lord says that She is targeted because she fights ahead of the line. But She can be a little arogant. Doesn't exactly like admiting that other Imperators can beat her."
[12:50:04] <Mirrinae> "Ah, a delicate situation then."
[12:50:15] <Smoke> "Cement you get targeted fairly often right?"
[12:51:26] <Smoke> ^^^ "Yes, I mean She desurves to be on top, and I'll breakany one who says other wise, but we aren't there yet."
[12:51:45] <Mirrinae> "Of course."
[12:52:00] Nick You are now known as Cement.
[12:52:05] <Mirrinae> "Who is your Imperator? I don't think you mentioned."
[12:53:46] <Cement> "Yeah, the Horsemen come after us at Air Strip One."
[12:53:49] Nick You are now known as Smoke.
[12:56:54] <Smoke> "The Lady Belial, Devil of Smoke, Mirrors, Blue, and Desserts"
[12:58:25] <Mirrinae> *to Emerald* "I understand your Imperator has had some difficulties with Excrucians?"
[13:01:04] <Smoke> "She was poisened. She doesn't like to talk about it much." she sighs . . ."I wish I could help her more."
[13:01:28] <Smoke> --(Should have been Emerald)
[13:01:31] Nick You are now known as Emerald.
[13:03:06] <Mirrinae> "Do you know anything about the method/symptoms?"
[13:03:19] <Emerald> "I should take you to meet my Sister. I really should have brought you by her earlier. It's really her Chancel."
[13:03:46] <Mirrinae> "Excellent. Pleasure to meet you both." *bows again to the others*
[13:04:06] <Emerald> "Like I said She doesn't talk about it much."
[13:04:11] Nick You are now known as Cement.
[13:04:27] <Cement> "Good to meet you" he says a bit gruffly.
[13:04:30] Nick You are now known as Smoke.
[13:04:46] <Smoke> "Good to meet you"
[13:04:51] <Smoke> *bows
[13:04:58] Nick You are now known as Emerald.
[13:06:19] <Emerald> "Why do you want to know? I don't think you have to worry about it happening to the Hydriarch. Though I guess if She had had powers at the time, thats what they would have thought."
[13:06:36] <Mirrinae> "Mere curiousity, I suppose."
[13:07:37] <Emerald> "That can get you in hot watter, if you aren't careful." she says patting you on the shoulder.
[13:08:06] <Mirrinae> "Understood."
[13:12:10] <Emerald> "But it was something special I hear. You need the equivalent of an abhorent weapon to poisin an Imperator for long. It is said that that Seberlain, also known as Negligence is such a poison."
[13:14:29] <Emerald> "Abhorent weapons, they can be a dangerous pasttime, but when you need one, you need one." she says with a haunted look in her eyes.
[13:15:28] <Mirrinae> "Uh, I think I've heard of those. Soemthign the Excrucians make?"
[13:18:17] <Butler> (back, sorry)
[13:18:26] <Mirrinae> (np)
[13:18:27] <Emerald> "Though it is said that a few Imperators cant too. But I've never had time to track down if the rumors are true. There are People, Powers or Imperators. Some Spirits maybe. That simply can not be killed, or imprisoned. At least not with out great effort and for only a short time. But abhorent weapons, they kill."
[13:19:29] <Emerald> "Strife has one. She even shows it off. Its going to get her killed one of these days."
[13:19:36] Nick You are now known as Ruby.
[13:20:00] "Sister, guests. How are you finding our abode?"
[13:20:29] "Anything we can do?"
[13:21:04] <Butler> Butler bows. "It is a masterwork, madame. Exceptional in every way."
[13:21:36] <Mirrinae> "Indeed, very pleasant and beautiful."
[13:22:29] A woman who at first glanse looks like some nymph or river sprite, but her flesh is not water, or meat, but moltain glass, red-orenge.
[13:24:36] "Thank you. Your dress is very striking. As is *your* suit, a very fine silk."
[13:25:41] "It is only thanks to our servents, that we can host you so well." she continues to Butler.
[13:26:11] <Butler> "You are perceptive, madame. I have them tailored at Berwin and Berwin. And servants do as they are ordered, madame, no better and no worse."
[13:27:34] <Mirrinae> (I'm going to have to go pretty soon)
[13:27:41] <Butler> (dang)
[13:29:00] (Okay, honestly I need to work on some back-plot details too. )
[13:29:11] <Mirrinae> (same time next week?)
[13:29:21] (Works for me.)
[13:29:28] <Butler> (Should work for me: I'll let you know via PM if not)
[13:29:31] <Mirrinae> (cool)
[13:29:40] <Mirrinae> later folks!
[13:29:43] Part Mirrinae has left this channel.
[13:30:10] Sorry buttler..
[13:30:24] <Butler> No problem. We got some good plotting in. ;)
[13:30:43] <Butler> Best of luck with the metaplot and all that.
[13:31:04] I've never run a myster before, so If I seem to be doing something wrong, let me know.
[13:32:16] Error s/myster/mystery: Unknown command.
[13:32:37] See you around!
