Session 138

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 15

• • • Log by BethE ***

Lazarus1: do we know what's up with Angelo? He's normally here by now. He's on Facebook, I know.
Random_Nerd: Last week he was in late.
Random_Nerd: After we left, in fact.
Random_Nerd: So, I'm assuming that he may be so here, too.
Lazarus1: ok.
Random_Nerd: While we wait, anything you guys want to talk about?
Lazarus1: not really. I still haven't gone through to see how many CPs I should have, so how many I could have spent on HSMPs.
Knockwood: Was thinking... do we want to spend a CP to make the Chancel HS-friendly?
Random_Nerd: As we did the math earlier, it would be worthwhile if two or more of you wanted to get HS, but not otherwise.
Knockwood: you know, if we each forego a CP
Random_Nerd: It's more than one, though.
Lazarus1: The math turned out that since I was the one really interested, that it wasn't really worth it.
Random_Nerd: You need to buy magic, or fae magic, first.
Random_Nerd: Oh, it's also worth it if you want that.
Knockwood: I think we have enough DP to tweak Kudzu again
Lazarus1: That's always fun.
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Which area would you want to add to?
BethE: I don't suppose we can buy his memories back, can we?
Random_Nerd: Not really.
Knockwood: oh, did you find that missing log?
BethE: Nope, no word back from Sara.
Random_Nerd: Not yet. I take it you weren't logging at the time?
Knockwood: urk, we'd need 2 or 3 Chancel Points to get High Summoning...
BethE: (Hmm, interesting link http://sciencetattoo.com/
Knockwood: er, an extra 2 or 3
Random_Nerd: Yeah. So, given the number of PCs, that'd be the equivalent of 6 to 9 character points.
Random_Nerd: Since Ftisk wouldn't benefit from the chancel quality, I wouldn't require him to contribute.
Knockwood: well, he wouldn't directly benefit, but maybe indirectly
Random_Nerd: Feel free to persuade me otherwise, but I must remind you that you are invoking rule zero.
Knockwood: ...OOOOOO-Kay, we'll be leaving the High Summoning alone... :)
Knockwood: BTW, does this arc represent a major change in the direction of the game?
Random_Nerd: Hmm. How so?
Random_Nerd: I mean, there are changes, but I see them as starting around when James came back.
Knockwood: well, suddenly we have an over-arching mission, it would seem.
Random_Nerd: But it just formalizes what you had already made your unofficial mission.
BethE: We had one before about the End of the Age.
Random_Nerd: Since Angelo isn't here yet, but we're only down one player, I'm going to suggest that we start now.
BethE: Back home or Jupiter?

• • • You are now known as Theresa.
      

Random_Nerd: Either works for me.
Random_Nerd: Which would you prefer?

• • • Knockwood is now known as DanteE.
      

Theresa: Dunno. Jupiter is fine with me since we have to go there anyhow to talk to Barakiel.
DanteE: now, how dangerous is it really to send Gnomely across the Wall with the Locusts riding shotgun?
Random_Nerd: Well, Imperators that have gone across don't always make it back.
Random_Nerd: But he's less conspicuous than them.
Random_Nerd: Let's say that it's not /safe/, and it's not /certain doom/, but you're unsure of where in that range it falls.
Random_Nerd: Let's start with you guys in Locus Barakiel, then.
DanteE: how safe is it for Alt-Shadows, tho?
Random_Nerd: Doing what?
Theresa: Being around Gnomely?
DanteE: interacting with Gnomely. Would the Locusts eat him?
Random_Nerd: Probably not.
Random_Nerd: At least, if these are normal locusts.
Random_Nerd: Well, Locusts.
Random_Nerd: If Entropy cooked up something special for these ones, it could be different.
DanteE: Laz?
Random_Nerd: Okay, are you guys going to see Shadows first, or Barakiel?
Lazarus1: Sorry guys, been a little out of it a bit. I've talked to RN briefly, and I'm going to be taking a short break from the game - a month or so. Hopefully I'll be a little better by the time I'm back...
DanteE: will be easier to see Shadows, I think
Random_Nerd: Okay, let's start with that.
Random_Nerd: Ready?
Theresa: Sorry to hear you're doing poorly, Laz. *HUG*
DanteE: urk
Random_Nerd: Oh, hey. I won't be able to run the game next weekend. I'll be out of town. After that should be on, though.
Random_Nerd: The 20th will also be off.
Random_Nerd: That okay?
DanteE: hm... Maybe you won't miss much, Laz
Theresa: No, I demand more snuggles!  :)
Random_Nerd: Heh. True, good timing.
Random_Nerd: Anyway, shall we begin?
DanteE: (Hm... from Laz's site: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/?nggpage=6&pid=172
DanteE: OK
Theresa: Ready. And I think talk to Shadows first in case the Angel kicks us out.)
Random_Nerd: ______________START_______________
Random_Nerd: Shadows, since you've seen him last, has acquired a new piece of jewelry.
Random_Nerd: Specifically, a small circlet-style crown.
DanteE: "Does that mean what I think it means?"
Random_Nerd: And it looks... well, it looks Photoshopped. Like the lighting on it doesn't match the room, and how it seems to hover an inch or two in front of his head if you see it from the front, but if you look from the side it isn't.
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "Yep."
Random_Nerd: S: "Finally made it."
Theresa: "Congratulations!"
Random_Nerd: Also, Shadows seems to be blind, and using Jeeves as a seeing-eye-thing.
DanteE: "What happened with the, um, messenger from the Council?"
Random_Nerd: He waves a hand at Jeeves. Jeeves points at a messy stain on the floor.
Random_Nerd: It looks like about half of it has been cleaned up.
Theresa: "What happened to your eyes, Shadows?"
Random_Nerd: And what isn't clean looks like what you'd get if you filled a blender with wasps, turned it on, and then took the lid off while it was still running.
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "My eyes are fine, I'm using a creature I summoned to cut off the pathway between them and my conscious vision. Don't worry its reversible."
DanteE: "That sounds dangerous."
Theresa: "Do I...want to know why you're doing that?"
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "Show the nice people what you look like, Sparky."
Random_Nerd: Something that seems to be made of light, glitter, and disco balls reaches a pseudopod out of the front of Shadows' forehead, and then pulls it back in.
DanteE: (Ignore the ominous background music...)
Random_Nerd: S: "It's for practice. To help me get a feel for the other me."
Random_Nerd: S: "You want one?"
Theresa: "Using feel, a tentacle and a glitter tentacle at that....How does it help?":
DanteE: "I don't think any of us have other mes yet."
Random_Nerd: S: "Well, part of me can see. Like, if a car were about to hit me, I'd probably be able to duck. It's just... like hysterical blindness, kind of. I'm trying to practice being aware of things that I have senses for, but not the right brain hookups to make sense of them."
Random_Nerd: S: "Well, if you're ever going to be initiated in summoning, you already have fetches out there. You just haven't been introduced to your doubles yet."
DanteE: "You could have just lowered the blast shield on your helmet."
Random_Nerd: S: "I have a superstitious fear that Han Solo would appear and make fun of me."
Random_Nerd: Jeeves: *picture of eyes* *red crossmarks through eyes* *frowny face* *question mark*
Random_Nerd: S: "Oh, something weird. I can still see Jeeves' pictures. Not certain why."
Random_Nerd: Jeeves: *?*
DanteE: "Telepathic connection?"
Theresa: "Because that's how he talks. He talks that way on either side."
Random_Nerd: S: "I don't think so, at least not exactly. But I could be wrong."
Random_Nerd: S: "Yeah, that's what I think. That his 'pictures' aren't really visual images, that's just how we interpret them. Huh! I wonder what'd happen if I brought a blind guy in, who never had working eyes, and had Jeeves talk to him."
DanteE: "He'd freak."
Random_Nerd: S: "Anyway, enough about me. What's up with you?"
DanteE: "Well, as you know, we met the Council again.
Random_Nerd: S: "And you couldn't have waited for that until /after/ I shut my vision down."
Theresa: "Sorry about the visit into your lab. Had no idea Ananda would do that but apparently the Council was in a bad mood."
Random_Nerd: S: "Ananda's stuff is supposed to be oddly beautiful. That was just crude and messy."
Random_Nerd: S: "That, or he just hates me."
Theresa: "I've never seen nimblejack origami before, though."
Random_Nerd: S: "It just sounds more like Entropy. Disturbingly organic miracles are more his style."
Theresa: "We got that too! One of his eyes vomited up the remains of...someone?"
Random_Nerd: S: "Please do not tell me how that could even work. Sparky, can you shut down the bit of my brain that is imagining that?"
Random_Nerd: S: "Huh! It worked!"
Theresa: "Apparently there was a big fight with the Excrucians before the Council Meeting and a lot of dead cows.
Random_Nerd: S: "Figuratively?"
Theresa: "No, real dead cows. The decor was all polished cowbone. We missed out on supper."
Random_Nerd: S: "No, no, give me my visual imagination back. Goooood sightdrinker."
Random_Nerd: S: "Now, see, if I'd summoned one of these up a few hours ago, I wouldn't have as much control over it. And you do not let a sulky creature dabble around in your brain."
Theresa: "That is a good rule for life."

• Theresa ponders if it would be like letting a teenager control your brain but does not bring this up as it could be offensive.
  

Random_Nerd: S: "So, what can I do for you?"
Theresa: (Uh, why are we talking to Shadows again?)
Random_Nerd: (Because you said you should?)
Theresa: (Uh, I thought it was a choice of stuff that we had left off from doing earlier, not a 'oh, while you're in the neighborhood...')
Theresa: "Well, we have to talk to your boss. We have a...mission."
Theresa: "We wanted to make sure that you were okay. Did you hear about the locusts?"
Random_Nerd: Shadows flinches.
Random_Nerd: S: "Locusts?"
DanteE: "Yeah, we have a few new items...
DanteE: "Ftisk slipped up and used the L word, so Entropy put locusts in Gnomely."
Random_Nerd: S: "Are these new items, by chance, hunger-maddened god-eating locusts?"
DanteE: "Not yet"
Random_Nerd: S: "Crap. I liked the little guy. Was there enough left to bury?"
DanteE: "He's right here...
DanteE: "Entropy was relatively lenient... he put them in, but didn't release them."
Random_Nerd: S: "Ah. I thought you'd made another one."
DanteE: "We did. The locusts followed."
Theresa: "If Ftisk shows l-ness toward Gnomely, the locusts can devour him, the gnome and probably anyone else in the area."
Random_Nerd: S: "Oh, he was in a /playful/ mood. So if they do come out, maybe they'll just eat the gnome, maybe they'll eat everyone, and maybe they'll dance a Charleston and then sit around drinking rye whiskey?"
DanteE: "Strange that he was both playful and recovering, though..."
Random_Nerd: S: "If you're lucky, he'd just got to burn out all his aggression in a good fight."
Theresa: "Remind me to keep the whiskey on hand, though."
DanteE: "Also... we got deputized by Ha'Qadosh."
Random_Nerd: S: "Always a good idea when dealing with Entropy's jokes, I hear."
Random_Nerd: S: "Deputized?"
DanteE: "Can you see our new tattoos?"
Random_Nerd: S: "Jeeves?"
Random_Nerd: Jeeves: *reasonably accurate picture of the tattoos*
Random_Nerd: S: "Huh."
Random_Nerd: S: "For a bunch of mostly humans, you guys are the weirdest Nobles I've met all year."
Theresa: *bow* "Thank you."
DanteE: "We're to investigate the Wall-effect, and we have the authority of Ha'Qadosh in doing so."
Random_Nerd: S: "Like, for real? He's, like, the second most important person on Earth."
DanteE: "Oh yeah. Of course, if we abuse this new authority, we're screwed in interesting and entertaining ways... but still."
Theresa: "We have to get results too."
Random_Nerd: S: "Still, if you milk that well, that's worth a lot."
Random_Nerd: S: "Results on how the Wall works?"
Random_Nerd: S: "Sucks to be you."
Random_Nerd: S: Next, find out how electric fences taste, and which type of piercing is preferred by unicorns?"
DanteE: "Speaking of which, he also asked us to deliver a message to your boss. Directly, no intermediaries."
Random_Nerd: S: "I'll send someone to set up an appointment, then."
Random_Nerd: He waves a hand in the air, and Pigeon appears in a wall.
DanteE: "You might tell him it's about That Thing He Asked Us To Ask Him About."
Random_Nerd: S: "Jeeves, write up a request."
Theresa: (I'm sure Jeeves can hear all of the capitals."
Theresa: )
Random_Nerd: Jeeves tugs the leash out of Shadows' hands, and then scuttles over to the desk.
Random_Nerd: Balancing a pen in three of his legs, he carefully writes out a note, rolls it up, and wraps a ribbon around it.
Random_Nerd: Jeeves walks over to the Pigeon, and tosses the note in.
Random_Nerd: Pigeon vanishes.
Random_Nerd: S: "Handy, aren't they?"
Random_Nerd: Jeeves: *arrow pointing at Jeeves* *hand in the thumb's up gesture*
Theresa: "Nice handwriting, Jeeves."
Random_Nerd: S: "The Big Boss will probably wait a bit, and then try to call you up when he thinks you least expect it. Acting surprised is the best approach, I find."
DanteE: "Now, did the sight thing help you get the crown, or was it after?"
Random_Nerd: S: "After. I wouldn't have felt safe doing this if I didn't have the crown yet."
Random_Nerd: (In game terms, as the sightdrinker is of the Orthoptera, summoning one with full cooperation takes a miracle of level 7.)
DanteE: (So, Shadows has HS 3?)
Random_Nerd: (So, four MPs with HS 3, but it'd take eight with HS 2 because of the powers of two rule.)
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, he just went from HS 2 to HS 3.)
DanteE: "What's the rest of your Familia been doing?"
Random_Nerd: S: "Consequences I haven't seen in days. Eclipses... I think she's writing a novel."
Theresa: "Oh? On what?"
Random_Nerd: S: "She doesn't let us see them until they're done. Probably a mystery, though. Most of the other ones have been."
DanteE: "Does Consequences leave often?"
Random_Nerd: S: "Every day or two. He has to do a lot of stuff in person."
Random_Nerd: S: "Between you and me, the Boss uses him almost like an anchor, it seems to me."
DanteE: "Well, that does make sense."
DanteE: (BTW, what happened to James?)
Random_Nerd: (Back at home, I assume.)
Random_Nerd: You hear a knock on the door of Shadows' lab.
Random_Nerd: A hideous demon/handsome courtier opens the door and steps in.
Random_Nerd: "The master will see you now," he says in a musical/growling tone.
DanteE: (demon does musical?)
Random_Nerd: (Heh, no. Depends which world you see, and yes I did invert the tones.)
Random_Nerd: (Furthermore, shut up.)
DanteE: ( :P )
Theresa: (Dear, that phrase only works on me, in person.  :) )
DanteE: to Shadows: "Pardon us. And sorry about the messenger, again."
Theresa: "It was nice visiting with you again, Shadows. And good to see you again, Jeeves."
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "It's fine. It's not like you're going to receive a sanity-shattering message from me in revenge, after all."
Random_Nerd: Jeeves: *a pair of hands, fingers steepled*

• Theresa smiles. "Try not to freak out Sam and William. Their contract states we're supposed to protect them from such stuff."
  

DanteE: "Oh, the stuff you send us doesn't affect us as all. Our Aides are another story..."
Random_Nerd: S: "Tell the dionyl that I'm about three-quarters certain that the Pigeon would not have eaten his tasty, succulent life essence."
Random_Nerd: The messenger clears his throat.
Random_Nerd: S: "Fine, fine. See you later, guys."
DanteE: "Coming."

• Theresa waves.
  

Random_Nerd: He leads you through the elegant or hellish hallways into the same room you met Barakiel in the last time.
Random_Nerd: He is as he was. Immense multiply-winged body, eyes of varying sizes and colors coating him. You feel a gentle breeze from his eyelashes as his eyes rhythmically close and open.
Random_Nerd: Barakiel, in a whispering tone: "You spoke to Ha'Qadosh Berakha about my plan?"
Theresa: "Yes, sir."
Random_Nerd: B: "And?"
DanteE: (Checking the log now...)
DanteE: (Here we go: "Tell him... that I will take this under advisement, but have not yet made up my mind. Imply, if you can, that I favor it, but will turn against him if he pressures me.")

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Theresa: "He will take your plan under advisement but has not yet made up his mind."
Random_Nerd: (And basically, he wants you to stall for time.)
Random_Nerd: B: "So you got me nothing, in spite of the fact that I hear he's appointed you as his agents?"
Theresa: "We were not killed on the spot."
DanteE: "Well, we did tell him your plan. And his tone implied... well, what she said, and not to bug him about this."
Random_Nerd: B: "Does he not know the time-critical nature of our circumstances?"
DanteE: "We also told him about our talk with Attaris."
DanteE: "He should know the deadlines."
DanteE: ".... OK, bad choice of words.... "
Random_Nerd: B: "Did you get a feel for what he thought of Attaris? I've always suspected that he distrusts her."
Theresa: "He is suspicious of her origins."
Random_Nerd: B: "Odd, as they're both Magisters of the Wild, as is your master. And after all, we Angels never quarrel!"
Random_Nerd: He smiles at his own joke, with a mouth six feet across and made of eyes.
Random_Nerd: B: "But not suspicious enough to actually join the plan."
Theresa: "If she could kill off a Fallen, what could she do to a Wildlord?"
DanteE: "Not nearly as much... plans wouldn't work at all"
Random_Nerd: B: "It is true. My kind, the Angelic kind, are notoriously difficult to kill."
Random_Nerd: B: "Won't work at all?"
DanteE: "Rather like studying all the great chess defenses only to find you opponent's playing Calvinball."
Random_Nerd: B: "Ah, but you see, that is why I have elected the one undefeatable gambit, this being when you have your opponent grabbed by the secret police, shot by a firing squad, and tossed in a mass grave."
DanteE: (Should we mention that HQ wants us to investigate Attaris?)
Random_Nerd: B: "That reminds me. Did Entropy's Ogres really persuade him that the ancient Greeks were 'a bunch of pussies' and that a real god would have at least a hundred /million/ cows sacrificed to him?"
Theresa: "We came in after that part. The entire Council chamber _was_ made out of cowbones, however."
Random_Nerd: "Ah, yes. Gotta love those ogres. Just as durable and creative as the demons, but so much more reliable."
Random_Nerd: B: "You still using my demon as an Anchor?"
Theresa: "Yes, he is still Anchored."
Random_Nerd: B: "See, that I don't get. You give them a tiny bit of power, it goes straight to their gnarled little heads."
Theresa: "We improved him somewhat before Anchoring him."
DanteE: "It's an act of Faith, really."
Random_Nerd: B: "Oh? My Consequences does much the same thing, although he prefers humans."
Random_Nerd: B: "You should compare technique with him some time. I hear he's rather good."
Theresa: "I believe that we got a chance to see that the first time we met him."
DanteE: "We met him in mid-adjustment."
Random_Nerd: B: "Ah. He never lets me see them when he's halfway done. What did the human look like?"
DanteE: "Barely there. Parts of him were translucent."
Theresa: "A blank. A canvas."
Random_Nerd: B: "Odd. I wonder if he was applying destruction to the human first. Seems almost cheating, though."
Random_Nerd: B: "But I'm the sort who'd rather build a new one from scratch anyway."
DanteE: "Where is he, by the way?"
DanteE: (and I almost typed BTW there... :/ )
Random_Nerd: B: "Let me see... he's in his office."
DanteE: "... and he hasn't talked to Shadows in days, even when he got his crown... that seems odd."
Random_Nerd: B: "Think he might have an idea of how to help get Ha'Qadosh on board?"
Random_Nerd: B: "Well, Consequences is busy on the main plan, like you. Shadows is on the backup, or at least the prep for it."
Random_Nerd: B: "Just the first crown, so far, right?"
Theresa: "Yes, but it's amazing."
Random_Nerd: B: "Well, he's making steady progress, if we end up needing him he may actually be ready in time."
Random_Nerd: B: "His predecessor wasn't nearly so apt, and was showing signs of disloyalty."
DanteE: "Didn't his predecessor Anchor Luc Ginneis?"
Random_Nerd: B: "And that /still/ wasn't enough for him."
Random_Nerd: B: "The anchor did a good job, though. No complaints there."
Random_Nerd: B: "I'd have made him the replacement if he wasn't so sure he'd have no talent for the job."
DanteE: "... Luc turned down Nobility?"
Random_Nerd: B: "I was a bit offended at that, but I hear it's not the first time."
Theresa: *to Dante* "Well, John did too."
Random_Nerd: B: "Eccentric talents must be given a certain amount of latitude if they're to work properly."
Random_Nerd: B: "Just like you guys. I ask you to get in good with Ha'Qadosh, and next thing I know, you're his own little scouts. I'm sure you'll get him to turn around."
Random_Nerd: B: "Good work, just remember we need to move fast. After all, there's a War on."
Random_Nerd: Barakiel rolls his eyes, and seems to forget that you're in his presence.
Theresa: (That's a lot of rolling.)
Random_Nerd: (You can hear it from across the room!)
Theresa: (I dare someone to make an eye-rolling icon of Barakiel. I have no skills.)
Random_Nerd: Barakiel starts closing his eyes, one at a time, and with a sound like a butterfly orgy, all of them are soon shut.
DanteE: (Sounds like that scene from Raiders, I'll bet...)
Random_Nerd: The messenger shows up at the doorway, and puts a finger to his lips.

• Theresa tiptoes out.
  
• DanteE slips out...
  

DanteE: "Want to drop in on Consequences, or just go home?"
Random_Nerd: Messenger, after you've walked about a hundred yards with him, in a whisper: "I will convey you wherever you want, or if you know where you're going, you're on the list permitted freedom of the public grounds."
Theresa: "We might catch Consequences, but it's hard to bet on it if he's bouncing in and out."
DanteE: "Well, let's try it... Consequences' office, please."
Random_Nerd: Messenger: "Excellent. I'll bring you there at once."
Random_Nerd: He walks with you along long halls of metaphysically varying splendor, until you come to an imposing iron door.
Random_Nerd: The messenger knocks on a panel of wood next to it, and steps in quickly as it's opened, closing it behind him.
Random_Nerd: Then, two strong men/demons pull the big door open for you.
Random_Nerd: Messenger: "The Dominae of Plants and Courage, to see the Dominus of Consequences."
Random_Nerd: Consequences' voice from down the hall: "Come in, please."

• DanteE goes in...
  

Random_Nerd: The messenger leads you to the door, and holds it open, but does not go in himself.

• Theresa tells the messenger thank you.
  

Random_Nerd: He nods, and scurries off.
Random_Nerd: Consequences is pacing around in his office. His desk is covered with varying flowers with little notes pinned to them, and he's cleared a path on the floor that's free of books or petals.
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "Theresa, if you don't mind, would you see to these? I haven't gotten around to putting them in water."
Theresa: "Sure." *LPreserve all of them*

• DanteE looks over the place...
  

Random_Nerd: C: "Thanks. They haven't wilted enough to not function, but it bugs me."
Random_Nerd: C: "So, what's up?"
DanteE: "We were in town.... having just come from the Council."
Random_Nerd: (Should we stop soon?)

• DanteE shows Consequences HQ's symbol."
  

Random_Nerd: C: "I heard about that. Could I see the marks?"
Theresa: (I think my brain is off somewhere playing cards with Sparky.)
Random_Nerd: Consequences' eyes flick from the image on Dante's hand to one of the flowers on the desk.
Random_Nerd: Consequences gives a long low whistle.
DanteE: Whose flowers are on the desk?
DanteE: "Also... now, Barakiel's Plan A is to kill Attaris, right?"
Random_Nerd: From the look of it, the flowers of every major Imperator, and most of the significant Nobles.
Theresa: (Holy crap.)
Random_Nerd: A focus on Hell, Heaven, the Light, and the Dark.
Random_Nerd: One significant omission, no floral reference to Attaris.
Theresa: (Well, if Wildlords aren't in the focus, not surprising. Although 'major'...)
DanteE: (Jan Ben Jan's?)
Random_Nerd: (Yep.)

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DanteE: "Among other things, Ha'Qadosh asked us to investigate her."
DanteE: (And Hiya Angelo....)
Angelo_ITA: hi, I'm laaateeeee! :-(
Theresa: (Hi Angelo!)
Random_Nerd: (Hey. We were just wrapping up.)
Angelo_ITA: (well, I hope the session was good for you)
DanteE: (Why so late, Angelo?)
Random_Nerd: (Oh, good thing you're here. No session next week, as Beth and I will be out of town. Next week is back on, but the 20th of August is also out. That's the day after classes start for me.)
Angelo_ITA: (alarm set in the wrong way :-( .. just my stupidity)
Random_Nerd: (I've been there.)
Theresa: (It's okay. Just glad to see that you're okay.  :) )
DanteE: (It's the little things that get ya. :) )
Random_Nerd: C: "So Ha'Qadosh and we are thinking in a similar direction?"
Angelo_ITA: (well.. ok is a big word.. I'm sun bursted)
DanteE: "His interest is more in finding out about her than killing her..."
Theresa: (Ugh. Sun burns wipe me out.)
Random_Nerd: C: "Have you suggested that he might find out a lot through the informative and gristly arts of dissection?"
DanteE: "Of course, part of that's to make sure she's not a Mimic. I think I spooked him..."
Random_Nerd: C: "Well, turnabout's fair play. What kind of body was he using this time?"
Angelo_ITA: (C is consequences?)
DanteE: "Huge rotting dog"
Random_Nerd: (Yep)
DanteE: (Yep. We went from the Council to Jupiter.)
Random_Nerd: C: "Sounds like he was trying to get you on your toes, a little confused."
Random_Nerd: C: "Surolam's always the same, and who can tell with Ananda, but Qadosh and Entropy, you can tell a lot from their bodies."
Theresa: "One of Entropy's eyes vomited on us."
DanteE: "Well, not _on_ us...

• • • Angelo_ITA is now known as Ftisk.
      

DanteE: "Apparently he'd just come back from a conflict with an Excrucian."
Random_Nerd: C: "Strategist, right? I swear to you that they have a running bet to see who can do something more horrible to Entropy than the last thing he did to them."
DanteE: (and boy, was his middle finger tired... (rimshot))
Ftisk: (am I here?)
Random_Nerd: (If you want.)
DanteE: (Are any of us really here? :) )
Ftisk: (@Dante:  :-P )
Random_Nerd: (Deep, man!)
Ftisk: (with Gnomely?)
DanteE: (Sure.)
Theresa: "I don't know if I want to see the end of that bet or not."
Random_Nerd: (Gnomely, we know, is there. Shadows commented on him.)
DanteE: "Considering that we seem to be working on the same thing, we can help each other."
Random_Nerd: C: "It's warfare by inventive supernatural cruelty. Not my favorite sort, but... well, if that's going to be how it's going to be done, isn't it good to know that our guy is number one?"
DanteE: "What have you found out about Attaris?
Random_Nerd: C: "Not a lot to reassure us. We're pretty sure she wasn't the Imperator of the Third Age before... whatever happened, happened."
DanteE: "You're missing her flower."
Random_Nerd: C: "There are ways you can tell. You know how Ananda, you can't tell what kind of Ymera he is? They all had that, except her. In her case, Ebrot Appeka had it."
Random_Nerd: C: "I have no interest in talking with Attaris."
DanteE: (Is that Soul-Twisted, when you can't tell?)
Random_Nerd: C: "And we have something else. You know the thing that Excrucians do to dead Imperators to turn them into Mimics?"
Random_Nerd: (It's similar, but not exactly the same thing.)
Random_Nerd: (A cousin to that, say.)
DanteE: "Sort of."
Random_Nerd: C: "We think we've worked out, or nearly, how to do the reverse."
Ftisk: "Really interesting!"
Random_Nerd: C: "Going to test it out before Attaris, the next time we get a dead Warmain or Mimic."
Random_Nerd: C: "Deceivers and Strategists are too weird, we don't think it'd work on them. Not yet, at least."
Random_Nerd: C: "And if we can make it work on a dead Warmain, we can probably make it work on Attaris."
DanteE: "Did you hear your brother got his crown?"
Random_Nerd: C: "He did? Great!"
Random_Nerd: C: "Okay, I'm going to have to go down and visit with him. Why am I always the last to know?"
Ftisk: G: "Really? AWESOME!!!!"
Ftisk: "I'm glad to him!"
DanteE: "Because you've been nose-deep in flowers and notes."
Random_Nerd: C: "Okay, that's fair. We've both been busy."
DanteE: "You should remember to look up periodically."
Random_Nerd: C: "But this can wait. Is there anything else you wanted to tell me?"
Random_Nerd: C: "Did you know that the previous Shadows never got /near/ the first crown, and he had years to work on it?"
DanteE: "Yes. We told Ha'Qadosh about Barakiel's plan, as he asked."
DanteE: "He is considering it...
DanteE: "but he doesn't want Barakiel to disturb him about it."
Random_Nerd: C: "Ha'Qadosh, I do not get. You seem to be making progress, so I'll leave that angle to you."
DanteE: "Can you rein him in if he wants to do that?”
Random_Nerd: C: "Still, everything seems to be coming together. Yeah, I can work Barakiel if you work H-Q."
Random_Nerd: C: "I really think we may have a shot at making this work, guys. Good work."
DanteE: "And would you promise to share any info you get on either Attaris or the Wall...
DanteE: "...and, ah, not do anything rash without running it by us?"
Theresa: (Hey, I said earlier how I was doing. I think Sparky's won a handful of M&M's off of me, though...)
Random_Nerd: C: "The Wall's Shadow's job. You'll have to ask him about that."
Random_Nerd: C: "But I'll forward anything I get on Attaris."
Random_Nerd: (Err, Shadows', not Shadow's.)
DanteE: "He did tell you about Active Writing?"
Random_Nerd: C: "Yeah. I don't think I can use it on my side of things, though. And you checked the maybe-Warmain to see if he was dangerous, right?"
DanteE: "Sakharoth? He seems to be ... contained."
Random_Nerd: C: "Good. He could even be useful. Wish there was a way to speed up his Enchanceling without crippling him."
Random_Nerd: C: "Anyway, if you guys don't mind, I have a brother to go visit. Was there anything else?"
DanteE: (Anything from you guys?)
Ftisk: (not for me)
Random_Nerd: (Let's call it a night, then.)
Random_Nerd: __________STOP_______________

• • • DanteE is now known as Knockwood.
      
    • Ftisk is now known as Angelo.
      

Knockwood: OK, how many Plot Points were in that session? :)
Random_Nerd: Let me see.
Random_Nerd: Shadows has reached his first crown. Barakiel out and out states that Shadows' job is related to a backup plan, and that the first crown isn't quite enough for it.
Angelo: ohhh plot!
Random_Nerd: Hey, kids! Try at home to see what sort of summonings would require HS 4 or 5!
Angelo: so dense we can make a toast with it ;-P
Random_Nerd: And, let's see. Consequences has told you that they're on the verge of testing counter-excruciation...
Knockwood: so, Shadows has a decent chance of getting eaten?



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