Session 101

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Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 11

BethE: In setting terms, how irresponsible would we be to call the cult stuff (at least in that area) done with?
Random_Nerd: Not incredibly.
Random_Nerd: The cult is a tool that the Excrucians can use against you, true. But it's not an incredibly potent one, just a moderately useful one.
Knockwood: we started this so that we wouldn't have to worry about our miracles fritzing
Random_Nerd: And you did get rid of the branch that was actively causing trouble.
Knockwood: yeah, but it's still out there
Random_Nerd: True, but on the other hand, it's come up twice over three years of real time.
Random_Nerd: So it's not like it's a pressing danger.
BethE: Twice in about 2 months of game time.  :)
Knockwood: yeah, depends on the scale...
Random_Nerd: And, if you want to take a Rule 0 approach, if you leave the cult as it is, you at least /know/ one likely avenue of Excrucian attack.
Random_Nerd: Without them, it'll probably be communist bricks with laser eyes or something.
BethE: In Soviet Russia, the bricks break you!
BethE: I think I would want to deal with newJames (is he like new Coke?) in Chancel while not worrying about the cult. And Theresa wants to go out and seduce Santana.
BethE: I don't know why. He's just cool and her age-ish and she has this sudden urge to have someone be fascinated by her that might immortalize her in song.
BethE: And Cab Calloway isn't around any more.
BethE: I would be okay with just leaving the remains of the cult as it is and have Jim keep an eye out for weirdness.
Knockwood: remind me what we did?
Knockwood: oh...
Random_Nerd: You grabbed some of the remainder of the cult, the ones that didn't just run away in terror, and moved them to an uninhabited part of Amyra.
Knockwood: we got a couple names from a divination on Ick
Random_Nerd: Also not couting the ones who got killed, a group which included any of them that had personal powers.
Knockwood: let's see... Lord Cimbri and King Sueridus, right?
Random_Nerd: Correct.
Knockwood: Either of those names ring a bell with our Aides' ear-things?
Random_Nerd: The former being the Deciver's parent Excrucian, and the latter being someone, probably another Excrucian, whose name he mentioned.
Random_Nerd: The latter doesn't. The former is just in there as "Full Excrucian of the Deceiver caste."
Random_Nerd: Should we switch to IC?
Knockwood: oh... and should we warn the guy who he impersonated?
Random_Nerd: Hmm. He's probably not in immediate danger, but he may wish to know that Excrucian-shards have been using his mojo.

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

Theresa: (Be back at home?)
Random_Nerd: __________________START____________

  • Theresa finishes her email to Jim about keeping an eye out on the remainder of the cult.

Theresa: (to Dante) "Do you want to let Ice know about the Deceiver?"
DanteE: "We probably should...
Random_Nerd: (It was the Power of Freezing, actually.)
Theresa: (Ah, thank you.)

  • Theresa asks Sam for info on the Power of Freezing, such as name, flower and so forth.

DanteE: "William, Samuel, do you have a link to the Power of Freezing?"
DanteE: (jinx)
Random_Nerd: William thinks for a moment. "Lives in California, outside of her chancel for some reason. Relatively recently Ennobled. We don't have anything working for her, but I can look up her insignia if you want it."
DanteE: "How recently?"
Random_Nerd: William: "Under a year, I don't know exactly."
Theresa: "Interesting if she's as new as we are. Also makes me wonder if anyone has been walking around as us, besides in the cult's dreams."
DanteE: "Before or after our little adventure in Aniseed?"
Random_Nerd: W: "Certainly before that. Six months, something in that range."
DanteE: so, a brand new Noble was impersonated by a deceiver...
DanteE: (oops, forgot the "")
Theresa: *to Dante* "Would you like to be the one to do the call, Dante? You're honest as the day is long and I'm not sure how much I would trust someone telling me that a Deceiver's been walking around with my skills."
Theresa: "And it makes sense to mess with a new Noble'
Theresa: s reputation."
DanteE: "You're right... William, find her in the Noble Yellow Pages yet?"
Random_Nerd: W: "I'll have to go get a book, one moment, please."
Theresa: "Identity theft on a universal scale..."
DanteE: "Let's make sure we have the story straight...
Random_Nerd: William returns in a moment with a three-ring binder, flips through it, and shows you a picture of the background of the Light, crossed with a rose and a willow bough.
DanteE: "was I able to keep the ghost going when I did the divination?
Random_Nerd: (Yeah.)
Theresa: "Yep."
DanteE: "All right... so, about 2-3 months back the guy we killed was impersonating Freezing in order to contact the corrupt cult established ...
DanteE: "How old is this cult again?"
Random_Nerd: S: "Beats me. But it has to go back at least a few years. Your Imperator would have to know."
DanteE: "Kudzu doesn't tell..."
Theresa: "He seemed a bit vague the first time we brought it up. Probably didn't matter much in his view. Let's say a few years."
Theresa: "And the Shard uses the cult and the Freezing powers to attack Numbers."
DanteE: "Technically, the freezinbg attacked us...
Random_Nerd: (You know, I'm starting to wonder if the game wouldn't be better off dead. My GMing's been lackluster lately, and you guys don't seem to have the heart for it either these days.)
Theresa: "True. He just made the mathematicians feral."
DanteE: "But in any case... Freezing needs to know she's got a double
DanteE: (hm.)
Theresa: (I seem to be rather slow while gaming for a while now. I enjoy playing but I feel frustrated with my actions or lack of action. I don't know where to go from here, with this game, but I dont' know how to play it better.)
Random_Nerd: (And right now we're stuck in a really slow two-person conversation, but, eh, it's in the chancel and you're planning, so I can't even bring "Suddenly, ninjas attack!" from the Sloppy Tricks Bag.)
Random_Nerd: (And I have some ideas for after this storyline if you guys don't, but the Cult thing just seems to be dragging on and on.)
Theresa: (If you have ideas for after, we can just call Freezing, give her the message and go on. Or just handwave that we talked to her and go on, if that would get things going.)
Random_Nerd: (Knock?)
DanteE: (You've got new people coming in, and maybe more of the original players, right?)
Random_Nerd: (We have one new person coming in, and maybe one old person.)
Random_Nerd: (But, really, the late start time is a big problem in both getting and keeping people. And there's no blame in that, but it is a factor.)
DanteE: (Well, the problem is that I'm in the Pacific time zone with an office job...)
Theresa: (*nod* Completely understandable.)
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, and there's just no good way around that.)
DanteE: (What's Freezing's reaction?)
Random_Nerd: (Uh... have you tried to contact her?)
Theresa: (Dante was getting our story straight before calling her. We hadn't called yet.)
DanteE: (Maybe the problem is that there's only 2 players who both suck at typing)

  • Theresa creates the rose and willow branches as seen in the coat of arms.

Theresa: "Here you go, Dante."
DanteE: "All right... William, what's protocol here?"
Random_Nerd: William: "Let me see... you're just offering a brief prayer to inform her of a minor matter that she may wish to know about. She's a new Noble, so she likely answers all of her prayers."
Random_Nerd: W: "So, it should be fairly straightforward."
DanteE: "Got it...
Theresa: "Good luck and hopefully we won't scare her too much."
DanteE: "Freezing? Courage and Blades. I would ask for a moment of your time."
Random_Nerd: A short pause, then "Another Noble? Do I know you?"
DanteE: "No... but our paths have indirectly crossed.
Theresa: ("No, but we've been smacked around by your Estate...does that count?")
DanteE: "I have information about a deceiver impersonating you...
DanteE: (when, again?)
Random_Nerd: (A month, month and a half ago?)
Theresa: (Sounds right.)
DanteE: "Deceiver-shard. 6 weeks ago. Little town of Aniseed, in California."
Random_Nerd: F: "I think I've driven past there. Huh. I feel so... insufficiently violated? If they're going to steal my very essence and power for foul deeds, they should at least have the courtesy to make them foul deeds directed at /me/."
Random_Nerd: F: "But instead, it's all about some complete stranger? How annoying."
DanteE: "If it helps, it was directed at our Imperator."
DanteE: "Oh... and we got him. And a half."
Random_Nerd: F: "Well, that's good. Too late to have his head mounted on my wall, I suppose?"
DanteE: ("Yo, Ick! Dance, monkey, dance! :D )
Random_Nerd: F: "Not that I really /have/ heads on my wall, but it'd be a good conversation started."
Random_Nerd: (Err, starter.)
DanteE: "no, you actually could. It's a little smelly, though."
Random_Nerd: F: "I'm not even going to ask you why you still have a rotting corpse around. I'm sure that they're perfectly good reasons. Perfectly good, icky reasons, that you will never tell me if I'm lucky."
DanteE: "Our Wildlord Imperator turned him into a zombie-slave on a whim"
Random_Nerd: F: "Yeah, that counts."
Theresa: (She's not lucky.)
Random_Nerd: F: "You can keep it, then. If I wanted zombie heads mounted on my wall, I'd buy them retail."
DanteE: "You haven't experienced anything odd... erm, odder than usual, have you?"
Random_Nerd: F: "In the last six months, I have had armadillos flirt with me, and my dog turned into some kind of prehistoric mammal. I sprouted wings, and then the wings turned evil and I had to kill them. I do not have a standard for odder than usual."
Theresa: (She should work for a Wildlord. We have _Monty_.)
DanteE: (OK, gotta get her a player and have her join us now. :) )
Theresa: (Plus, how do armadillos flirt?)
Random_Nerd: (Surprisingly well.)
Theresa: (Come on, one-up her, Dante! <g>)
Random_Nerd: F: "Okay, technically it wasn't a real armadillo. But I didn't know that at the time."
DanteE: "Want to come over sometime and see our 20-story Australian rabbit with a hurricane inside? We'll have to head up to his own private moon..."
Random_Nerd: F: "I once saw a man get pulled completely inside his own saxaphone, and he at no point during this process stopped playing."
Theresa: (She watches Trigun?)
DanteE: "Our Imperator periodically eats himself.'
Random_Nerd: F: "The East Wind was stalking me for over a month."
DanteE: "We met an Angel on Jupiter! ha!"
Theresa: (Don't we know someone else getting stalked by the East Wind? I may be misremembering. We also have Red and the fact that a) I gave away body parts to an Age Imperator and b) we know when the end of the Age is.)
Random_Nerd: F: "Jupiter? Not even outside our own Ash World?"
Random_Nerd: F: "Bah. How provicial."
Theresa: (Our Imperator threw one of our Siblings Outside.)
DanteE: "Anyway... let us know if you hear about any of the following:
DanteE: "An Excrucian named Lord Cimbri or his minion King Sueridus...
DanteE: "Plots against Courage, Blades, Plants, Numbers, Hope or Urbanization...
DanteE: "Or a decent Mongolian Barbeque that takes Amyran Express."
Random_Nerd: F: "I've heard of Shirk, but not of Cimbri."
DanteE: "Shirk?"
Random_Nerd: F: "Yeah. One of the Four Kings. It's bad manners to use his name. I don't know if it's because they can hear when you do, or just one of those things about the other guy losing face by your not using his real name."

  • Theresa whispers to Sam. "Four Kings?"

Random_Nerd: He shrugs.
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Context?"
Theresa: *to Sam* "Don't know. Possibly someone important. One of them is called or at least addressed as Shirk."
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and, err, it's Sueridus. Sorry about the typo earlier.)
Random_Nerd: Sam's silvery sphere spins into sight for a moment, and then back into his swirling depths.
DanteE: (hm?)
Random_Nerd: S: "He's just mentioned in the unconfirmed rumors section. Some Excrucian, right, that some Nobles and Imperators have a weird grudge against?"
Random_Nerd: (The character's name. Sueridus, not Sueridas.)
Theresa: "Huh..that would make sense. Any info on the grudge?"
DanteE: "All right, Freezing... good talking to you."
Random_Nerd: S: "Something about corruption, but it didn't seem to have to do with Hell. And we have the impression that most Nobles don't talk about him in front of the help."
Theresa: "Hmm, interesting...perhaps he's trying to corrupt Nobles and their Imperators into working for the other side. If Mimics are made and not born..."

  • DanteE says the proper good-byes to Freezing

Random_Nerd: S: "I don't know. Maybe people are evasive because they're afraid, maybe because they're embarassed."
Random_Nerd: Freezing, likewise, says goodbye to Dante.
Theresa: "Why embarassed?"
Random_Nerd: S: "I don't know. It's just something somebody put in the oracle."
Theresa: *to Dante* "You should have asked her out. She sounds like she'd handle weird well."
DanteE: "Maybe later, once we sort out what's happening with the cult.
DanteE: "...; assuming you-know-who wasn't listening..."
Theresa: "The law is against love, not against dating. Plus, you could always disguise it as a scavenger hunt for the boss."
Random_Nerd: (And now my brain is going "There's a fine line between 'retrieving rare objects for your Imperator' and 'panty raid.' "
Random_Nerd: )
Theresa: (Depends on the Imperator. TOGA!)
DanteE: (Depends on how rare the panties are...
DanteE: (Mount Olympus probably only has the one pair... :) )
Theresa: (Statue of Liberty probably isn't wearing any.)
Random_Nerd: (Well, she is french.)
DanteE: (Anything else to accomplish this week?
DanteE: )
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. I think this seems to have worked out okay.)
Theresa: (I don't have anything on my end. Theresa would probably go home and rearrange the Conservatory, go seduce Santana and then design a type of strawberry that produces serotonin.)
DanteE: (Well, next week we can welcome our new guy, ne?)
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, I figure.)
Random_Nerd: _____________________STOP____________
Theresa: Sorry that I'm slow, RN.
DanteE: heh...
DanteE: it's the medium.
DanteE: If we were face-to-face we'd communicate a lot quicker.
Theresa: Or just look at each other awkward silence-wise...

      • DanteE is now known as Knockwood.
      • You are now known as BethE.

BethE: And you can't really have a shot-clock on talking. But we do weird well.
Random_Nerd: What'd you guys think of what little GMing there was?
BethE: Interesting plot hooks and a new friend. And it's nice to see that other Nobles have the weird as well. What is her Imperator?
Random_Nerd: Light. Haven't decided much about the Imperator personality.
Knockwood: Already know a little about her personality just from a little bit of interaction, which is interesting in itself. :O)
Knockwood: Hi Tpyo!
BethE: She's a popular person. She's got armadillos flirting with her and she's being stalked by the East Wind. Not many people can say that.
Knockwood: what's that called... Aphrodite's Curse?
BethE: Not sure. It kinda sounds like a Bane to me.

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