Session 129
Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 14
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<Random_Nerd> Hey.
<Angelo> Hi i
<Angelo> Hi RN
<Angelo> how is your university search going?
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<Knockwood> Hiyo
<Angelo> Hi Knock
<Random_Nerd> Working decently. Alarming number of applicants this year, one place I applied had 150 openings and 2500 applicants, and it wasn't the worst.
<Angelo> O_o !
<Knockwood> ack
<Angelo> really owercrowned
<Random_Nerd> Still, been accepted at several places.
<Angelo> so you are choosing wich one to accept... right?
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, pretty much.
<Angelo> Is nice that you can have options
<Knockwood> anyway, here's my latest literary masterpiece... I mean thread: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=451157
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<Angelo> Hi Beth
<BethE> Evening, guys!
<Knockwood> Hiya Beth
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<Random_Nerd> Every time I read 6-track my brain substitutes 8-track, and I imagine what virtual reality in the 70s would be like.
<BethE> SOrry about being late, I was grabbing some supper.
<Angelo> No problem Beth
<Knockwood> it would be very groovy, maaaaan.
<BethE> With LSD, how could you tell?
<Random_Nerd> Ha! Imagine if The Matrix used 70s styles instead of 90s styles!
<Knockwood> Morpheus would have a 'fro...
<BethE> Bellbottom pants instead of trenchcoats.
<Knockwood> would the wardrobe still be black?
<Random_Nerd> Nah. Much more colorful.
<BethE> Not quite tie-dye, though.
<Knockwood> you notice, tho, the first 3 responses were from foreign countries...
<Knockwood> (Beth: talking about http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=451157 )
<BethE> Huh?
<BethE> Ah.
<Random_Nerd> So, you guys ready to start?
<Angelo> I'm ready
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<Knockwood> sure
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<Random_Nerd> Well, you did post it at 4 AM or so.\
<Random_Nerd> That probably had some relation to which people were online at the time.
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<Theresa> And also the fact that the forum was down for most of the day.
<DanteE> it was?
<Random_Nerd> Looks like it to me. When was it?
<Random_Nerd> Could be some weirdness because of the forum crash, I suppose.
<Theresa> I have a notice on LJ that it was out about 8am this morning.
<Random_Nerd> So, let's see.
<Random_Nerd> You'd sent the Pigeon to pick up the thought record machine, and Sam's notes on a raccoon-derived communication script.
<Random_Nerd> Any qyestions before we start?
<Ftisk> no
<Theresa> Sam was saying hell no on stepping into the Pigeon?
<DanteE> are we still in communication with Sam?
<Random_Nerd> Presumably. Theresa can use plants to talk to him, and so on.
<Ftisk> or Dante was asking if the raccoon made some note on an updated transmission script. It (Raccon) do a new AW transmission script version?
<Ftisk> and not or
<Random_Nerd> It did a new script, and Sam is sending it over.
<DanteE> I thought Sam made a new script thing... though I certainly can.
<DanteE> ah.,
<Theresa> I remember a strawberry daquiri.
<Ftisk> yes, some olive oil on my side
<Theresa> What would it cost to make communication plants?
<Random_Nerd> Ready to go?
<Random_Nerd> "Communication plants" would just be you listening to what the plants near Sam can hear, and making ghost-miracle images of words made of wood.
<Random_Nerd> A little cumbersome, but it wouldn't cost MPs.
<Theresa> Okay. I'm ready.
<Ftisk> me too
<DanteE> Let's, like, do it.
<Random_Nerd> __________________START_______________
<Theresa> "Sam, make sure you have one of the tower plants nearby. We can communicate through it."
- Ftisk wait for the pigeon
<Theresa> "Oh, just be careful of the one in the cage on my desk. That one hasn't been...socialized yet."
<Random_Nerd> Three minutes later, there's a horrible sound as the Pigeon coughs up a Thought-Record Console through the far wall.
- Ftisk go and do a quick console check
<DanteE> "We really need to put together a Noble Fed-Ex, we'd make zillions.
<Random_Nerd> After a lighter cough, the sheets of paper are drifting in the breeze.
- DanteE grabs the papers
<Theresa> "We'd have the Camms down our throats within minutes."
<Random_Nerd> The machine isn't damaged, but it does have a light grey dust coating it.
<DanteE> "Still talking to Sam?"
<Random_Nerd> About the same consistancy as starch.
<DanteE> "Shadows, got an easel handy?
<Theresa> "Well, I told him to grab a plant for communication but I haven't heard anything else yet."
<Theresa> *lDiv of plants near Sam*
<Random_Nerd> Sam is sitting on the ground, next to a sunflower.
<Ftisk> "ok, there is this strange powder as on the other transported objects..."
<DanteE> "Something I forgot to ask him earlier...
<Ftisk> *aspect clean the console*
<Theresa> *ghostmiracle of wood letters, like you see in some children's nursery's* "Hi Sam."
<DanteE> "Ask him if Deodands and the Law of One's Nature were known Estates of Sakharoth."
<Random_Nerd> Sam waves at the sunflower.
<Theresa> *repeats question to Sam*
- Theresa has a sudden urge to write a children's book.
<Ftisk> (with clown and bear and flowers picture on the letters? how cute!)
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Deodands? Like, in the book with the sarcasm and the hats?"
<Theresa> (It would be called "Sam and the Sunflower" and it would follow Sam the Scarfman as he travels the land with his friend the sunflower...)
<Theresa> (Noble hats are _fabulous_.)
<DanteE> (You guys remember when maybe-Sak told us about his other estates?)
<Theresa> *wood* "No, not the Vance stuff."
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Okay, then. I don't know about those things. Hmm. Isn't the Law one a thing that Nobles still have?"
<DanteE> (... So, if you chat with Sam right when you get up, is that Morning Wood? :D )
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Like that Quality of Life that Makes Death Impossible thing that got sold to the Scruchies way back when."
<Theresa> (*smacks Dante*)
<DanteE> (aspect-dodges.)
<Theresa> (We have the same aspect.)
- DanteE examines the console...
<Theresa> "I..dunno." *looks at the others?*
<Theresa> *repeats Sam's question to the others*
<DanteE> (Can we hear Sam, or just Theresa?)
<Random_Nerd> (Are you making ghost-letters that spell this out to the others?)
<Random_Nerd> (If so, they can read it, but not otherwise.)
<DanteE> "You remember, Deodands were ... well, basically 'cursed' inanimate objects.
<Theresa> "Oh, yes, those things. Guns that kill more."
<Ftisk> "If a sword kill a king that sword have aliking to kill "
<Ftisk> "Yes that concept"
<Theresa> *explains the Deodand thing to Sam and that she doesn't know if the Law is something that we still have.*
<DanteE> "And the Law of One's Nature is basically character on steroids... makes it tough to change someone, but lets them impose their will on the world around them.
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "I wonder if that's why we don't see many legendary weapons, Excalibur and so on, any more."
<DanteE> "Very Domination, really."
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Huh. If that was one of his domains, I don't know much about it. But the Law thing does fit with how we do things on Dionyl."
- DanteE checks out the Gnome's thoughts.
<Ftisk> "Well, now that the estate returned in existence there will be more legendary weapons"
<DanteE> "That's the point... if it _was_ his, but has reappeared, it would be good evidence that he's actually Sakharoth."
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "But what are we going to do, kill some people and see what the weapons do?"
<Theresa> "I wonder if he would have contacts with Abborhent weapons."
<Random_Nerd> The Gnome is thinking about how retroactively brave those splintered memories have made him feel.
<Ftisk> "yes, but with _excalibur_ not a normal weapon"
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I've never really understood how those things work."
<Theresa> *to Sam* "Remind me to ask John how the Lance is doing lately. That might be a sign."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Hey, that's interesting."
<Theresa> *to Sam* "I think the first one was a rock."
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Oh, right. You know I think I met him, once? Or at least passed him in a crowd."
<Theresa> *to Sam* "Who, John? Yes, he sometimes heads out into the city. Or it may have been his ancestor whom we rescued from Hell."
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "You know. Cain. Looked like him, at least."
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "And this was years ago, not in Amyra."
<Ftisk> "Ohhh, would have be interesting to excange some words with him..."
<Theresa> "Cain, the Cain? Huh. Would have thought he would be dead of old age by now."
<DanteE> "No, he had a mark, remember"\
<DanteE> "He couldn't die."
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Nah. He's still around. As far as the Aides know, at least. He's not a vampire, though."
<Theresa> "He had a mark, yes, but that was to keep someone from killing him. Old age comes to about anyone."
<DanteE> (Right, that's that other game. :) )
<Theresa> (White Wold would be disappointed in us. :) )
<Theresa> (Wolf even.)
<DanteE> (DId I ever get an easel?)
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Besides, he was practically an imperator. All you guys were, back then."
<Random_Nerd> (If you asked for one, then let's say you did.)
- DanteE puts one sheet up on the easel...
<DanteE> "All, right, deciphering these raccoon scribblings...
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "But, anyway, I think the other Estates are tougher to test than Active Writing was."
<Random_Nerd> (The racoon has flawless penmanship!)
<Random_Nerd> (...penraccoonship?)
<DanteE> "The point is, those are the Estates he said he had.
<Theresa> "True. Let's work on the writing before we start testing weaponry."
<DanteE> "If they match up with what he had before crossing the Wall, it's probably Sakharoth."
<Theresa> (But is his calligraphy honored by Heaven? Oh, wait, different game.)
<Ftisk> (lol @RN epnraccoonship)
<DanteE> "Looks like what we write in this box is reproduced on the other paper in this box...
- DanteE writes in 'test'
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "But you need to have a person looking at each end."
<Ftisk> "ok, i look"
- Ftisk look at the other paper
<Random_Nerd> When Ftisk reads the "receive" side, the word transfers over.
- DanteE erases 'test'
<Random_Nerd> Little specks of ink drift over to form the word 'test', just as Dante wrote it.
<Random_Nerd> When you erase it, the other side remains.
- Ftisk wrote 'test2' on he other paper
<DanteE> "And probably the same in reverse, for this box and this box. Ftisk, try it out?"
<Random_Nerd> The "test2" moves over, just in the same way.
- DanteE checks his...
<DanteE> "Looking good..."
<Ftisk> "We can re send the gnome with one paper then"
<DanteE> "Yep... then we can communicate with alt-Shadows through this."
- Ftisk to Gnome "this time your thoughts wi'll be better shielded". PLace the paper inside gnome
<Ftisk> *preservation on the gnome*
<DanteE> "Theresa, you watch the easel while I keep an eye on the gnome's thoughts...
<DanteE> "Everyone ready?"
- Ftisk look at jeves then Shadow
<Theresa> "Ready."
<Random_Nerd> The gnome dusts himself off. "As ready as I'll ever be."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Okay, but this is the last one tonight."
<DanteE> "And start thinking up questions."
<DanteE> (Never mind there's a zillion ways this can go wrong...)
<Random_Nerd> This time he grabs two wands, one in each hand, and flails wildly in the direction of the gnome until it vanishes in a puff of smoke.
- Ftisk weave a sharf at gnome "good luck!"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Jeeves, did you do that puff of smoke?"
- DanteE writes a new note like the last one telling him where to go
<Random_Nerd> Jeeves: *green checkmark*
- DanteE watches his thoughts...
- Ftisk raise a eyebrown
<Ftisk> eyestalk even
- Ftisk too watches the console output
<Random_Nerd> "Here we go again. Okay, let's see if I can shaking shiny shiny sharp dark bright paper paper dark."
<DanteE> "Hold together little guy..."
<Random_Nerd> "Pointy edge tree metal dark garden smoke fire bright edge."
<Ftisk> "came on Gnome! you can made it..."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows is looking at the machine too.
<DanteE> "Hm... pointy things..."
<Ftisk> "now there is smoke and fire and metal..."
<Random_Nerd> "Sharp dark mind though cut sharp bright."
<DanteE> "Or something he thinks is close"
<DanteE> "mind?"
<Random_Nerd> And then it goes to the random hex dump.
- Ftisk try a *ldiv on point tree metal*
<DanteE> "Theresa, did the paper get delivered?"
<Theresa> "Nothing's been written on it yet."
- Theresa scribbles, "Hello?" on the easel.
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you get mental images of aluminum christmas trees, various sculptures and decorations, and so on. Nothing that seems directly relevant.
<DanteE> "Better pull the gnome back
<Random_Nerd> No images on the easel yet.
<DanteE> "Or at least get ready to... Theresa, can you locate the paper itself?"
- Theresa lDiv the paper.
<Random_Nerd> You cannot. It's outside the scope of your powers.
<Random_Nerd> It's like trying to smell something on the other side of the world.
<Random_Nerd> Except with less sniffing.
<Ftisk> (wasn't working to locate the gnome last time)
<Theresa> "It's where I can't reach it."
<DanteE> "Shadows, can you get a lock on the gnome's location?"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Okay, I'm going to try something. I'll open up a partial gate to the outside, and try to keep it open. If any really weird insects come in, please catch them in one of the jars."
<Random_Nerd> Jeeves scuttles over, and then holds out a jar with holes hoped in the lid.
<Ftisk> "sure!"
- DanteE grabs a jar...
<Random_Nerd> Shadows puts down the other one, and then reaches over with the other one.
<Random_Nerd> It seems to meet resistance in the air, and then to stop. He turns it, as though unlocking an invisible door.
<Random_Nerd> Then he pulls it back several inches.
<DanteE> (Ignore the 'INCOMING SCREWAGE' alarm...)
<Random_Nerd> At first, it seems like nothing's happened, but... okay, you know those ways that you can pinpoint your blind spot where the retina attaches, a little gap in your vision that you don't even notice.
<Ftisk> *ldiv for the gnome*
<Random_Nerd> It's like that.
<Random_Nerd> Then, you hear a scribbling sound.
- Theresa looks at the easel.
- DanteE tries tracking a 'blind spot'
<Random_Nerd> "Hello" appears, written in Angelic.
<Theresa> "Hey, we have mail!"
<Random_Nerd> The "blind spot" is about two inches long, and one wide, and is right ahead of the tip of Shadows' wand.
<Random_Nerd> He pulls with the wand, as if stretching something.
<DanteE> "From who?"
- Theresa writes back. "I'm Theresa. What's your name?"
<Ftisk> "ask who is on the other side"
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "We don't have those out here."
<DanteE> (Then what do you write on your jerseys? :) )
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "But some people say we'll get them in a year or two."
<Ftisk> "ask how they define theyself then"
<Theresa> "Oh, like that isn't ominous.."
<Theresa> *writes* "Then how are you adressed?"
<DanteE> "What exactly are you doing, Shadows?"
<Theresa> (And if you mention stamps, dear...)
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Making there be a way for your magic raccoon easel thing to connect."
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "As 'sir', please."
<DanteE> "try asking for his title"
<Ftisk> "And where he is"
<DanteE> "The big question is what do they want with Creation."
<Theresa> *writes* "I'm Plants' Regal and I'm visiting my friend Shadows. Where are you?"
<DanteE> "Shadows, how long can you keep that us?"
<DanteE> *up
<Theresa> "This is a question and answer session, Dante, not a PhD thesis defending..."
<DanteE> (And don't forget the gnome)
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Depends. Do you want the gnome back?"
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "Tell James that we miss him."
<Ftisk> "YES! I want"
<DanteE> "Eventually. He wanted a licensing deal."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Not long, then. I'
<Theresa> *writes* "We missed him too."
<Random_Nerd> m already running low on mojo, and I'll have to convert some other power to get him back at all at this point."
<DanteE> "What happened to James over there?"
<Theresa> "I'm not telling them the boss swallowed James....reminds me, we need to track him down."
<Random_Nerd> (Fortunately, he has a decent Spirit, so his Last Trump is reasonably efficient.)
<Theresa> *writes* "How do you know James?"
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "It's complicated."
<DanteE> "Cut to the chase, then. Ask them what they want with Creation."
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "I knew his... there isn't a word. The person his father had been before he died and turned into something else?"
<DanteE> "Kudzu?"
<Theresa> *writes* "You mean...Kudzu?"
<Ftisk> "ask if he would like to came here one time to take a tea"
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "Who's that?"
<Theresa> *writes8 "Powerful guy, leaves and bricks and growth and courage."
<Ftisk> (so we can speak without time restiction...)
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "We don't have those things here. I could get him over to talk to you, but he isn't... nearby."
<Theresa> *writes* "Oh and by the way, do you happen to know why you want Creation?"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "How much do you want this gnome back? Decide soon."
<DanteE> "JUst a little longer, Shadows..."
<Theresa> "Okay, I'm confused. Unless he means the guy who died to give James his soul..."
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "I don't want Creation."
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "But I'll ask the person that died and became James' father if he knows anything about bricks and leaves."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Keep talking, or get the gnome back. Last call."
<Theresa> *writes* "Thank you."
<DanteE> "... ask him to send the Gnome back?"
<Ftisk> weary voice... "Please, rescue the gnome...."
<Theresa> "Bring the gnome back, guys."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows puts both hands on the wand, and yanks hard, putting his back into it.
<Random_Nerd> Writing: "I believe this is yours."
<Random_Nerd> The gnome drops through the widened blind spot.
- Ftisk check the gnome
<Random_Nerd> Then Shadows releases the wand, which goes flying across the room.
<Random_Nerd> Dante, you can catch it if you want to.
- DanteE grabs the wand...
<Ftisk> *ldiv gnome stsuts*
<DanteE> "Shadows, you all right?"
<Random_Nerd> The gnome's body proportions seem to have been slightly changed. He's a little taller and more angular now.
- Theresa scribbles on the easel just in case. "Thank you..."
<Theresa> "Shadows, do you know how cool you are?"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Out of magic for today. Tired."
- DanteE checks out the wand...
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, one other thing about the blind spot. It looks a lot like Shadows himself, of course.)
<Ftisk> "WOOO! Shadow!!!! You rescued him!"
<Theresa> (Can we still see the blind spot?)
- DanteE checks out the thought machine...
<Random_Nerd> The wand is made of a polished dark wood. On one end, it feels like there are sharp and jagged extensions that you can't see.
<Random_Nerd> The blind spot is closed.
<Random_Nerd> The gnome look at the rest of you. "I'd better get my own TV show for this."
<Random_Nerd> He looks down at his body. "Hey! What happened?"
<Ftisk> "did this time you remember?"
<DanteE> (You were a toy for the Power of Bishonen.)
<Random_Nerd> Gnome: "I don't remember anything. But I assume that it happened again, since I again dropped about three feet onto the ground."
<Random_Nerd> Gnome: "Plus, I seem to have gotten liposuction."
<DanteE> Anything unusual coming from the thought recorder?
<Random_Nerd> Same sort of stuff as the last time.
<Theresa> "We wouldn't recommend going on the talk circuit for your new diet, though."
<Random_Nerd> It cut off into random 16-bit numbers, and then it has the gnome landing on the ground and being confused.
<DanteE> "Plus... we have a method of communication."
<Ftisk> "But work only with shadow help"
<DanteE> "DOesn't last long before smoke starts coming out Shadows' ears, though."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Just so you know, I can't do this every day, any more than you can eat more than a few mountains per month."
- DanteE gives back the wand.
<Ftisk> "BTW thatk you Shadow, for your help and for rescuing Gnome"
<Ftisk> thank even
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "I'm glad it worked. And if the changes are my fault, I'm sorry."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "So, were you really talking to my fetch?"
<DanteE> "
<DanteE> "Looks like it."
<Ftisk> "There is abig probability tat the other one was it"
<Theresa> "He kinda looked like you, if you were transparent and in a different plane of existance."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "How can you tell what I look like?"
<Random_Nerd> (And you can't, of course.)
- Ftisk quietly pat gnome on the shoulder
<DanteE> "Well, a similarly shaped blob."
<Random_Nerd> (Barakiel is Soul-Twisted, naturally.)
<Random_Nerd> Gnome: "I don't have stars in my eyes or anything, right?"
<Random_Nerd> (If he does, they're hiding very well.)
<Theresa> "He was the same general shape as yourself."
<DanteE> "So, let's review what we know..."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "So, he's not just an idea, or another bit of me. He's really a different person. What'd you talk about?"
<Ftisk> When Gnome turn toward me I aspect put a oil drop from an eyestalk into Gnome's mounth...
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and the easel was re-writing each thing as it came in, but any of you can remember perfectly well what was said.)
<DanteE> "Well, he has no name."
<Random_Nerd> Gnome: "Do I drink oil? I haven't been around long enough to know."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Is he... a horse, that has been through a desert with a guy on him?"
<DanteE> "He said something about getting a name in a year or two, though.
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Weird."
<Ftisk> (uhm... I try to anchor him... is the worng way)
<Theresa> "He wanted to be called 'sir'."
<Ftisk> (?)
<Random_Nerd> (No, that works. The gnome is just confused.)
<Ftisk> (ah, ok!)
<DanteE> "Well, if names are strictly on this side of the wall..."
<DanteE> "... big push coming?"
<Ftisk> to gnome "No, is a special 'effect'
<Ftisk> "
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Bet you a dollar that Names is an Angel. They get all the cool Estates, if I do say so myself."
<Random_Nerd> The gnome nods, and drinks the oil.\
<DanteE> "Come to think of it... he wrote back in Angelic script."
<Random_Nerd> And you feel the connection snap into place, as your mind and the gnome's attach to each other.
<Ftisk> (or arrived here as angelic script)
<Theresa> (Oh, stupid me. I thought it was Angelic as in English Angelic.)
<Theresa> "Or maybe it's something that you do on this side that gives him a name, Shadows."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Huh. I don't know enough about this Active Writing stuff to know what that means."
<Ftisk> to Gnome "How do you feel?"
<Random_Nerd> Gnome: "It just figures that the most awesome stuff I've ever done is something I don't get to remember."
<Theresa> "You don't get a hangover, though."
- Theresa writes to Sam, "Sam, is there any meaning to the font the Writing is written in?"
<Ftisk> "... we hane the memory records, I can try to paste these into your memory minus the hex bit"
<Theresa> "It could just be that, as the first written language, that's what the default is?"
<Ftisk> have even
<Random_Nerd> (Well, Angelic isn't just a font. It's a language.)
<Random_Nerd> (/The/ language, really. When the Angel of Language thinks, that's the one she uses.)
<Theresa> *Font, language, etc. We got a message in Angelic."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Huh. I see three possibilities."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "First, that it was written in Angelic."
<Random_Nerd> (Err, Sam.)
<Ftisk> (are agel excru?)
<Random_Nerd> (Sorry, my fingers are typing wrong.)
<Random_Nerd> (The "huh" and so forth is Sam, not Shadows.)
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Second, that it was written in a language that the person on the receiving end didn't know, but that Angelic was the closest equivalent to."
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Or third, that something weird happened that I have no clue about."
<DanteE> (Could ask the raccoon)
<Random_Nerd> (And angels are not Excrucians, in general. However, it is possible to convert a dead angel into an excrucian or a mimic.
<Random_Nerd> )
<Ftisk> (so angels and excru are "vista compatible" then)
<Theresa> *tells the possibilities to the others* *to Sam and others* "I think I like doors #2 and #3, please..."
<Random_Nerd> (No less than Excrucians and any other type of Imperator.)
<Ftisk> (k)
<DanteE> "Yeah, but you were on the other end.
<Ftisk> "I'm for number 2"
<Random_Nerd> (That said, dead angels don't show up very often. Angels tend to be very hard to kill even for Imperators.)
<DanteE> "That's saying, whatever he was writing you figured Angelic was the closest thing."
<DanteE> "Or he was writing Angelic..."
<DanteE> "Let's review...."
<Theresa> "I do like the 2nd one the most but #3 is a possiblity at all times. We cannot know everything...yet."
- DanteE puts what was written back and forth on a different paper.
<Random_Nerd> Shadows reads it.
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "So, do you think he was talking about Kudzu, or someone else?'
<Ftisk> "I can't say..."
<DanteE> "That's a good guess as to James' Father...
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "I mean, he talked as if it was someone who was still around, just not in the same room."
<Theresa> "But he talked about talking to this father."
<DanteE> "Wait, the note he sent last time mentioned Kudzu by name, didn't it?"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Hey, yeah. So, when he said he didn't know the name, either he was lying, or the note was from someone else."
<Ftisk> "Yes, but we used that name first"
<DanteE> "Not to him"
<Ftisk> "ohhh, uhm good point"
<DanteE> "Of course that means your fetch may not be an Excrucian after all, Shadows. :) "
<DanteE> "He just talks to th...
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "I think it's more likely that he's a jerk."
<DanteE> "... James' Father.
<DanteE> "James came back with starry eyes."
<Theresa> "Jerk in a specific way?"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Freaky."
<Ftisk> "But James wasn't a Gargoyle?... His father is the sculptor that made it? Kudzu?... Some one else?"
<DanteE> "All right, let's review.
<Theresa> "James had a soul before Kudzu enChancelled Amyra. That soul entered the gargoyle that was on top of the Tower at home."
<DanteE> "We know anyone going through the wall loses their memory...
<DanteE> "Though the gnome would seem to indicate they get it back when they return.
<DanteE> "... last time we saw James, he had holes in his memory on _this_ side of the wall."
<Random_Nerd> Gnome: "But he turned into some kind of weird semi-excrucian, right? I didn't do that."
<Ftisk> "Then Is James an anomaly?"
<Random_Nerd> Gnome: "Or /did/ I? Muhuhahahaha!"
<Ftisk> "Or a doublea gent?"
<DanteE> "Shadows, how do you get a fetch?"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Or someone on the other side thought monkeying with his mind was amusing."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "There are two schools of thought on that."
- Theresa looks at Ftisk. "Did you program an evil laugh?"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "According to one, you build one."
<Random_Nerd> Shdows: "According to the other, the fetch always was there. Two sub-sets of this one."
<Ftisk> "no, but he have self functioning AI routines"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Either you and the fetch were always the same person, you just didn't know how to talk, or it's someone vaguely like you that you build a connection with."
<DanteE> "I wonder if maybe we got back James' fetch...
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "But the simple answer is that you acquire a fetch by following the rituals and techniques involved in summmoning initiation."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Huh! I wonder how we'd be able to tell."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Or, I had another idea. If he practiced summoning, and he died, then he'd reincarnate out there."
<Theresa> "Starry eyes are at least a warning sign..."
<DanteE> "We can tell. If James has holes in his memory on this side, it means he came from that side."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "So, it could be James' external reincarnation, come back."
<Theresa> "I don't think he practiced summoning in the short time before he was over there. Unless he was like unto a god of summoning."
<Ftisk> "So Gnome can have starry eye outside?"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Dunno."
<DanteE> "Or the equivalent."
<DanteE> (Heh... maybe the 'stars' are actually external light sources going through the holes in their memory. :) )
- Ftisk chech the logs , there was some reflecting surface with gnome picture in it?
<DanteE> (Oddly enough, that means if we sent James through he'd remember everything)
<Theresa> (That would imply that if you shine a light into the ear of a stupid person, you would see a light on the other side.)
<Ftisk> (if he is from outside)
<Random_Nerd> Shadwos: "Mimics don't have the stars. Do Deceivers?"
<Random_Nerd> (Not when they have their Skins on, at least.)
<Theresa> "Don't know. We've met a couple of Stategists and a Warmain..."
<Ftisk> "don't know, never meet one"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "They have 'em, I know."
<Random_Nerd> (You met a Deceiver-shard, once.)
<Random_Nerd> (First storyline.)
<DanteE> "We met their Shards, not them."
<DanteE> (Ah yeah. Did the guy in Aniseed have starry eyes?)
<Ftisk> (Sakharot don't have stars for what matter)
<Random_Nerd> (No, but he had a skin on.)
<Theresa> "Well, if a Deceiver is walking around as someone else, they probably wouldn't have the give-away eyes and drop dead gorgeousness."
<DanteE> (Hm... maybe if we do another Realm-Div on Ick we might learn something.)
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "So, he's probably not one of the two kind of Excrucian that do the double-agent thing, but he has the stars, and... it gives me a headache."
<Random_Nerd> Jeeves scuttles off, and returns with a bottle of tylenol.
<DanteE> "We're speculating on minimal data. Let's review what we do know."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Speaking figuratively."
<Random_Nerd> Jeeves nods the front of his body, and puts the painkillers back on the shelf.
<DanteE> "The gnome went through and basically fell apart, mentally."
- DanteE rechecks the printout.
<Random_Nerd> Gnome: "If you say so."
<Ftisk> "Yes, but wasn't his fault..."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Jeeves, get me some tea, made the usual way."
<Random_Nerd> Jeeves heads off.
<DanteE> "Ftisk... what can you get from this part in between the initial 'launch' and losing telemetry?"
<Random_Nerd> Those of you with Aspect 1 or better can hear him filling a kettle with water.
<Ftisk> (What can I get RN?)
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, the word-salad stage of the memories falls under the domain of Data, unlike the random numbers later.
<Random_Nerd> You can tell that they are the recorded memories of an individual who is feverish, drugged, brain damaged, mentally ill, or suffering from some other condition which prevents the forming of coherent thoughts.
<Ftisk> *ldiv the w.salad* to interpret it
<Random_Nerd> You can also tell that any being who was thinking in this way would be unable to function even moderately effectively.
<Ftisk> (also the mirror surface thing... there is any recorded in the logs?)
<Random_Nerd> When you interpret it, you get two main concepts. One is a mental image of a garden or forest or sculpture made of bright lights and shining "trees" (although they aren't really very treelike at all.).
<Random_Nerd> The other is the feeling of having all the bits of one's mind yanked out one at a time, but very rapidly.
<Random_Nerd> (Which words are you thinking of the mirrored surface from?)
<Ftisk> (ouch!)
<Ftisk> (Came from a suggetion before
<Ftisk> )(To found if gnome have star eyes)
<Ftisk> (ANd I thing shiny can apply (maybe))
<DanteE> (The gnome lost his marbles pretty much immediately, didn't he?)
<Random_Nerd> (It seems that the gnome probably started losing marbles before he was even all the way through the Wall.)
<Ftisk> (The second time was preserved... he must endure a bit more)
<Random_Nerd> (The shiny things that the gnome saw were thin, and curved or angular. He couldn't see his reflection in them.)
<Ftisk> can not must
<Random_Nerd> (The preservation has made it so that he's a lot less shaken up by the experience, and he's not taken any psychological damage from it, nor any physical damage from the fall.)
<Ftisk> (ok...)
<Random_Nerd> (But he stil couldn't think, because... it's like trying to swim in no water. Even if you're a really good swimmer, if there's no water to be swam in, you can't do it.)
<DanteE> "OK... so, we have the answer for the big question Entropy gave us.
<DanteE> "Whenever someone goes through the wall... they lose their marbles. And memories."
<Theresa> "And...that's what we have to give. I don't see us getting the grant for research this year..."
- DanteE wonders how they're going to take that news...
<DanteE> (considering they've been fighting these guys and sometimes losing.)
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "I still wonder what happens if you send a Noble through."
<Random_Nerd> A brief pause.
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Not it!"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "...of course, not that I can do that yet anyway."
<DanteE> "When we catch James, we'll be able to tell you directly./"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "But a Noble wouldn't get those things happening, I don't think. He'd still have thoughts, and memory, and so on."
<DanteE> "How about an Anchor?"
<Ftisk> "A noble have autorictas"
- Ftisk look protectively on Gnome!
<Ftisk> (don't mess with my pet!)
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Not sure."
<Ftisk> (hisssssssssssssss)
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Do you still have that demon we sent you?"
<DanteE> "LEsson? Yes..."
<Theresa> "We have a demon and an imp...."
<Ftisk> (ND A HORSE)
<Theresa> (We are not sending Lesson! Who knows what we would get back!)
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "James anchored it, right?"
<DanteE> "Yeah, but James' status is up in the air."
<Theresa> "Yes, but then when he left, the Anchoring went...weird. Kudzu said Lesson was his now."
<Ftisk> "but last time Lesson was anchored"
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "If it's still an anchor, then in a week or so we could toss it through and see what happens. Of course, if he's not a regular anchor, it might not tell us anything."
<Ftisk> "There is an outside way to tell?)
<Ftisk> "
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Probably. Try to turn him into a goldfish and see what happens?"
<DanteE> "Well, there's a good chance your fetch will keep the paper, right?"
<Ftisk> (a Data div on lesson will fail due to James autorictas right?)
<Theresa> (The question then becomes not 'can we turn Lesson into a goldfish' but can we change him back.)
<Random_Nerd> (Due to the fact that, as an Anchor, he's immune to direct miracles.)
<Ftisk> (This can be a rude check to see if lesson is an achor
<Ftisk> )
<Random_Nerd> (Lesson seems to still be an Anchor.)
<Ftisk> (but a weird one)
<DanteE> "Well, next thing to do is probably locate James-or-whatever.
<DanteE> "And let Shadows recover."
<Theresa> "Is there anything we can do that would make your recovery easier, Shadows?"
<Ftisk> "Yes, I agree, He (shadow) was invaluable today. Let's found James!"
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, he's a weird one. He seems to be anchored by someone who isn't actually a Noble in the conventional sense.)
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "If I manage to get my crown, you guys will come to the party, right?"
<Ftisk> "Sure!"
<DanteE> "You bet."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Okay, I think I'm going to go to bed. Nice meeting you, Ftisk."
<Theresa> "We'll even bring munchies!"
<DanteE> "And you're probably closer to that crown just from doing this."
<Ftisk> (We need to start to think on a gift for him...)
<Random_Nerd> Jeeves comes back with a freshly brewed cup of tea.
<Ftisk> (so we leave and return to Amyra?)
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Please tell me that's decaf."
<Random_Nerd> Jeeves looks around at the rest of you.
<Random_Nerd> Jeeves: *big shiny image of a cup of tea* *question mark*
<Ftisk> "Meeting you was a pleasure shados"
<DanteE> "I think we'll leave the paper here on the easel... like I said, we'll probably be able to communicate again.
- Theresa makes the tea decaf.
<Ftisk> "No thanks Jeeves"
<DanteE> "Just need to figure out how to get the thought recorder home...
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "You can show yourselves out, right?"
<Ftisk> "On my shoulder?"
<Theresa> "Thank you for the offer, Jeeves, but we must be going."
<DanteE> (Then again, it's no longer receiving anything now that the gnome's been Anchored, right?)
<Random_Nerd> Jeeves: *arrow pointing at the tea* *person sleeping* *arrow pointing at Theresa* *smiley-face*
<Theresa> (How tough is it to carry out for an Aspect 3?)
<Ftisk> (is hand holdable with asp 2 right?)
<Random_Nerd> (No, actually. Thought Record Machines even work on Nobles, if they're willing to let them work.)
<Ftisk> (cool!!!)
- Theresa smiles. "You're welcome, Jeeves."
<Random_Nerd> (Carry what out?)
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, the recorder. Aspect 3 suffices.)
<Ftisk> (che though machine cabinet)
- DanteE picks up the recorder...
<Theresa> "I'll get the doors. Bye, Shadows. Thanks again! And bye, Jeeves."
<Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Nice seeing you again."
<Ftisk> "Bye Shadows. Bye Jeeves. Gnome, came on"
<Ftisk> Gnome " Tank you forrescuing me. Bye!"
<Theresa> (Fast forward to home and call it a night?)
<Random_Nerd> (That works. You guys okay with stopping here?0
<Random_Nerd> )
<Ftisk> (is ok for me)
<DanteE> (OK, so find James next week?)
<Theresa> (Sounds good. How are we going to find him, though?)
<Ftisk> (try to find James sound good)
<Random_Nerd> (Step 1: Get Kudzu to open his mouth.)
<Random_Nerd> _____________STOP_________________
<DanteE> (Start in the Heart)
<Ftisk> (look over some tower)
<Ftisk> nice session!
<Ftisk> I got an anchor :-D
<Theresa> Congrats!
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
<Ftisk> *bow*
<DanteE> WHere's Brian, BTW?
<Random_Nerd> I wish to reiterate my statement that I can never predict which NPCs you guys will adopt.
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
=-= YOU are now known as angelo
<Random_Nerd> Has Laz been online in the last week? I thought he might have lost his internet connection.
<BethE> Dear, we try to adopt almost every nonhuman NPC we come across.
<Knockwood> what did you figure we'd do with Lesson way back when?
<Random_Nerd> Cut out his heart, use it for the scavenger hunt.
<Random_Nerd> It's stuff like this that puts the lie to the idea of the GM planning out everything.
<angelo> I see laz online 22 day ago
<angelo> errr 2 day ago
<Random_Nerd> Not sure, then.
<angelo> well laz always say te his internet conenction is erratic...
<Random_Nerd> True. And he could just be too busy looking for new work to play the game.
<angelo> and last time we speack that he was going to replace the modem
<angelo> true, he can also be busy
<angelo> well, till I done it i was *really* not sure if anchor Gnome or not
<angelo> and Raccon came near being an anchor already 2 times
<Knockwood> so, you love the gnome? :)
<BethE> Well, you're metal and he's metal...I could anchor a tree probably.
<angelo> but was not mechanical...
<angelo> yes and duriong night we do kink data excange... :-P
<angelo> yes, you don'thave already red as an anchor?
<Knockwood> So now we just need to review all the loose ends we've acquired...
<Random_Nerd> Red isn't anchored, actually.
<Random_Nerd> Theresa has no anchors at present.
<angelo> and later go to speack with big bad Entropy
<Knockwood> Neither does Dante
<Random_Nerd> But, yeah, I could see it working. Nothing in the anchoring rules says it has to be romantic love, after all.
<angelo> oh, I miss remember .. sorry
<BethE> I pondered having Red as an Anchor but he has a bigger job of roaming the Chancel.
<Random_Nerd> If love for family works, I don't see why friendship wouldn't.
<angelo> thumbs up for RN!
<BethE> I thought Dante had been pondering anchoring his sister.
<Random_Nerd> Besides, Ftisk basically is the Gnome's parent.
<Knockwood> naah, it makes wedgies more complicated. :)
<angelo> wedgie?
<Knockwood> a classic method of expressing sibling affection.
<angelo> oh ok
<angelo> :-)
<Random_Nerd> Hmm! How does Ftisk see his relationship with the gnome.
<Random_Nerd> ?
<angelo> also I need a nome for the gnome now.... some idea?
<Knockwood> ever think of putting together a "Story So Far" document?
<Knockwood> the gnome Enclature?
<angelo> I need to think a bit on the relationship
<Random_Nerd> I mean, I could see Ftisk seeing it as a parent-child relationship, but I could also see him not looking at it that way.
<angelo> also this will go in a family rated wiki...
<angelo> this my pondering point
<Knockwood> Let's see, we also owe Sakharoth a little help with his place...
<BethE> End og the Age.
<Knockwood> we need to grab James and send him to the Council...
<Knockwood> How is the Valde Bellum going, in general?
<Knockwood> ....Hello?
<Random_Nerd> Sorry, talking to Angelo about the gnome.
<Random_Nerd> The Valde Bellum is currently rather stalemated. The Excrucians are slowly dripping away the minor estates, but they haven't taken one of the crucial ones in quite some time.
<Random_Nerd> But maintaining this takes a lot of effort from Imperators and Nobles.
<Random_Nerd> And there's no real way for Creation to Win, as opposed to just Not Lose, at present.
<Knockwood> OK... so how's this news going to be taken?
<BethE> Someone somewhere will use it as evidence that all of the Excrucians need to be destroyed.
<Knockwood> "BTW, those guys you're stalemated with? Turns out they've amnesiac and/or nuts."
<Random_Nerd> Differently by different people.
<Knockwood> and, OOC, we know something big is happening on their side
<Knockwood> ...what do we know IC?
<Random_Nerd> Even in character you can tell that something weird is happening.
<Random_Nerd> Stuff like Sakaroth and so on.
<Random_Nerd> Plus a full Excrucian coming through in the same week.
<Random_Nerd> Your characters will know that weird things are happening.
<Knockwood> where are we in the Cosmic Calendar?
<Random_Nerd> I'd have to look it up, but I think a month or two before the beginning of the end, and three quarters of a year before the End of the Age.
<angelo> The 4th aGE, THE AGE WHERE iMPS AND eXCRUS jOIN TOGHEDER TO FIGHT SOMETHNIG OTHER FROM FAAAAAAAR Outside!
<Knockwood> led by the Lord of Capslock?
<angelo> Ops.. sorry
<Knockwood> :)
<Random_Nerd> Heh, and now I'm imagining that you meant the little demon, and not imperators. Picturing a warmain with an imp on its shoulder shouting "Kill that one! Then that one!"
<angelo> Is there a capslock estate?
<angelo> (lol!)
<Knockwood> Well, yeah. It is, after all, Cruise Control for Cool.
<BethE> Well, guys, my brain is not present. Good game and see you next week! :)
<angelo> Ciao Beth!
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, I should go too.
<Random_Nerd> Good session, guys.
<angelo> I leave too . BYe
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Chapter 14
