Session 145

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Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 16

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[Angelo] HI!
[Verithe] Hi!
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[Knockwood] Hiyo
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[BethE] Hi guys! *HUGS*
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[Verithe] 'Allo!
[Random_Nerd] Hey.
[Knockwood] Oh, Angelo, I did get your email...
[Angelo] Hi all!!!
[Angelo] I was afk because my son was crying...
[Knockwood] First: don't go changing on my account!
[Angelo] so expect sudden disapparition from me
[Angelo] ok, ok I was asking because I get the doubt there was a possible problem.
[Knockwood] Second, the times when it seems there's a problem between us are probably jokes or exaggerations, like last session
[Angelo] roger! :-)
[Random_Nerd] Oh... and just for the record? Nobilis picky concept-defining has nothing on the law.
[Random_Nerd] One of the cases for Contracts today was basically six pages of dispute over what the word "chicken" means.
[Verithe] ._.
[Knockwood] ...someone's defining chicken in a contract?
[Angelo] 6 pages? is crazy!
[Random_Nerd] No... no. The contract did not define "chicken."
[BethE] (Also tell them about the scary clowns?)
[Verithe] What sort of chicken? Culinary? Cowardly? Zoologically?
[Random_Nerd] If it had, much time and effort could have been saved.
[Knockwood] How'd they decide that turkey of a case?
[Random_Nerd] One company agreed to provide... twenty thousand tons of "chickens" of a certain weight.
[Verithe] ._.
[Random_Nerd] When they got there, many of them turned out to be stewing chickens, not broiling chickens. The recipient flipped out and sued.
[Verithe] Fun
[Random_Nerd] You kinda get the subtle impression through the whole thing that the judge is trying to take it seriously despite it being the dumbest thing to ever cross his desk.
[Angelo] like headchance
[Knockwood] does sound like the kind of thing that should have been specified at the outset, tho
[Random_Nerd] Very, very true.
[Random_Nerd] And yet.
[Random_Nerd] Anyway, Nobilis.
[Random_Nerd] I don't have to worry about the Chicken Case again for another twelve hours.
[Angelo] Nobi-what? :-P
[Knockwood] what's the word on Brian, BTW?
[Angelo] Alive on FB
[Knockwood] posted to a thread in Tang earlier
[Random_Nerd] I haven't heard from him in months.
[Angelo] Well I know of his movement 'cause he is my facebook friend and his activity show up there ...
[BethE] His birthday was on Monday.
[Random_Nerd] Huh. Didn't even know.
[Angelo] true, send a message but got no reply
[Random_Nerd] Well, if he wants to come back to the game, he's welcome, but I get the impression that he isn't interested or else he's a bit busy.
[Random_Nerd] Anyway, shall we get started?
[Angelo] yay!
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE
[Theresa] Are we going to rope V's character in tonight?
[Random_Nerd] We'll see how long the thing with Ja Phon takes.
[Random_Nerd] Should probably get started, though.
[Verithe] Until then... *eats popcorn*
[Random_Nerd] _________________START_____________
[Random_Nerd] Now, when we last left Our Heroes, they'd stepped through a gate made by a Power of the Light, in the hopes that they can do something to help Ja Phon (who is currently in an Undisclosed Location) get a bit of his sanity back.
[Theresa] (Asking Wilds to help regain sanity, yeah, there's a good one...)
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: look around
[Random_Nerd] As you step through the shiny patch of wall, you find yourselves in a generic-looking small office. There's a rather cluttered desk facing you.
[Random_Nerd] Nobody's sitting at it, but there's a shiny transparent bell, and a little plaque that says "Ring bell for service."

  • DanteE shrugs, and rings the bell.

[Random_Nerd] The bell continues to make a ringing sound until a humanoid shadow walks into the room.
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: "Hello!"
[Random_Nerd] Shadowy Figure: "Ah, you would be the visitors. I was told that you believe you can help my Imperator to some degree?"
[DanteE] "Possibly, assuming you mean Ja Phon.
[Theresa] "We have helped what may be a similar case on Dionyl."
[Random_Nerd] SF: "I heard about that. Okay, come with me. Please don't say anything to Ymera Ja Phon until I nod at you."
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: roger!
[Random_Nerd] SF: "Are all of you, to some degree, protected from miraculous harm?"
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: "Yes ... I'm not here!"
[Random_Nerd] SF: "That should work. Should something happen to your proxy, do you wish its remains to be returned to you?"
[DanteE] (What did they tell us about Ja Phon?)
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: "No thank you, it is disposable !"
[Random_Nerd] (Imperator. Magister of the Light. Damaged.)
[Random_Nerd] SF: "I have only the one body, but the Light have seen fit to render it safe against most harm. The side effects are relatively mild."
[Theresa] "What side effects have you experienced?"
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: "Yay, what one???"
[Random_Nerd] SF: "My current appearance. And at certain times, physical objects I try to manipulate go... elsewhere. But these are tolerable."
[Random_Nerd] He leads you out through the hall.
[Random_Nerd] The hall is more or less matching with the office. Standard office building, if a bit poorly-lit and maintained.
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: "If I ask nicely he can do this to me?"
[ Ftisk_robot ] (become a shadow thingie)
[Random_Nerd] In the distance, it seems to suddenly turn into what looks like the throat of a living creature, glowing with pinkish-purplish light.
[Random_Nerd] SF: "Well, you are a Noble, are you not?"
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: "I not, my controller yes"
[DanteE] "Well, this brings back memories..."
[Random_Nerd] SF: "Well, he should be able to arrange such things directly. In my own case, it took external intervention. But in the light of what happened to the previous caretaker, it was considered necessary."
[DanteE] "... whaaaaaat happened to the previous caretaker?"
[Random_Nerd] "There. Please stop in that room there, and any of you that are actually here, take one of the amulets on the table and wear it around your neck."
[Random_Nerd] No response, Dante.
[Theresa] "Alright." *does so*
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: "uhm interesting... but I was interested in feeling the change on the robot not on myself"

  • DanteE examines the place... (Sight & Mythic)

[Random_Nerd] That room consists only of a desk lamp, a scratched wooden table, and on the table, a stack of necklaces. Around each one is a dull-iron-colored medallion, with what look like random scratches on it.
[Random_Nerd] (Mythically, you appear to be walking around in an immense brain, which happens to have a bit of it that looks like an office.)
[Random_Nerd] (To the Sight... everything directly near you looks dull, but the living-looking "corridor" appears to be part of the body of a being infused with the Spiritus Dei.)
[DanteE] (OK, what about the amulets specifically?)
[Ftisk_robot] (I like the mythical view more. I stay in it)
[Random_Nerd] (They aren't Nobles, nor Anchors, nor have they recently been the target of a Greater Miracle.)
[Random_Nerd] (As for the Sight, each of them is a tiny grey-colored man, curled up in a ball and occasionally sobbing.)
[Random_Nerd] (Err, as for the Mythic.)

  • DanteE puts on an amulet...

[Ftisk_robot] Robot: flip one around in it's hand
[Random_Nerd] "Okay, please come this way."

  • Theresa will follow.

[Random_Nerd] He leads you down the seemingly-alive corridor.
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: follow too

  • DanteE too...

[Random_Nerd] "Please use no miracles, and make no sudden movements, particularly in the presence of anything that looks like an eye."
[Theresa] "Oh, right, Angel."
[Random_Nerd] "We haven't had any Angels here in quite some time."
[Random_Nerd] An eye opens in the glowing flesh of the hallway. The iris is a milky green color.
[Theresa] "Oh, my mistake."
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: "I exist on a ongoing miracle..."
[Random_Nerd] Your guide turns to it, and bows.
[Theresa] "Greetings."
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "I am your faithful servant. These are servants of the Wild, and the proxy of a servant of a New God, come to visit you. Do we have permission to go to your face, Lord?"
[Random_Nerd] The eye closes.
[Ftisk_robot] Robot: "Hallo"
[Random_Nerd] "I believe that was consent. Once we get to where we're going, you should be safe."
[DanteE] "Are we actually _in_ Ja Phon?"
[Random_Nerd] "And don't mention... anything that used to be part of anybody, but isn't now."
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Depends how you define your terms."
[Random_Nerd] He leads you past several branches off the main path that look more like veins than throats.
[Random_Nerd] He stops.
[Theresa] *to guide* "Do you mean don't mention people that have very pretty and very distinct eyes?"
[Random_Nerd] "Okay, let me see..."
[Random_Nerd] "I don't know what you mean, but if you even think it might be a thing you shouldn't talk about, don't talk about it."
[DanteE] "If we followed that rule we'd never leave our bedrooms."
[DanteE] to Theresa: "Maybe if you wore gloves?"
[Random_Nerd] He makes a decision, and starts to crawl into one of the vein-like passages. It's not incredibly small, but he has to duck his head to not scrape the ceiling with each step.
[Theresa] *to Dante* "I don't think my hands would cause a reaction, but we're past the point I would create some gloves for myself."
[Random_Nerd] He passes through it until he gets into a wider room, which is roughly spherical and glows with a deep red light.
[Random_Nerd] Vein-tunnels lead away from it in many directions.
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Do any of you carry human blood in your veins?"
[Ftisk_robot] R: Move cautiously in the thigh passage
[DanteE] "Ah... Theresa and I both started out as human..."
[Ftisk_robot] R: "no"
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Has to be human blood. There are other things we could do if you can't, but this would be easier."
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Okay, I can handle this."
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "You're Blades, right? Do you have anything sharp I could use?"
[DanteE] "Always..."

  • DanteE hands over a dagger

[Random_Nerd] The guide says a few short words that sound vaguely like Angelic but don't make any sense in that language, and pulls at his left hand.
[Random_Nerd] The shadow peels away, leaving a tanned-looking human hand. He slashes at the palm with the knife, and lets the blood drop on the ground.
[Random_Nerd] As soon as a few drops have landed, he smooths the shadow back over his skin.
[Random_Nerd] Then he bends down, and watches the blood.
[Ftisk_robot] R: "oh is a cover"
[Random_Nerd] The blood starts flowing in one direction, and he seems to eyeball it to see what exact angle it's going at.
[Random_Nerd] Then he starts walking in the exact opposite direction, into one of the veins.
[Random_Nerd] "Come with me. The blood will find its own way out."
[Theresa] "Interesting. And only human blood does this?"
[Random_Nerd] "Other blood might do /something/, but it wouldn't be a good idea for other reasons. Dionyl blood might work, if there was such a thing."
[Ftisk_robot] R: follow the blood
[DanteE] (Other way, Ftisk)
[Random_Nerd] (Separating yourself from the rest of the group?)
[Random_Nerd] He continues up the vein that the blood flowed away from.
[Random_Nerd] The few drops of blood continue to recede in the opposite direction.
[Ftisk_robot] (ops no miss read)
[Ftisk_robot] R: "ops I was going into the wrong direction..." follow the others
[Random_Nerd] The vein that your in suddenly shudders.
[Random_Nerd] "Almost there..."
[Random_Nerd] The vein opens out into a room that seems made of bone. It's rounded and mottled in the way that the rest of the organic section has been, but the colors are only tones shading the whitish-brown, not deeply glowing tints.
[Random_Nerd] On one side of the room is what looks like the face of a giant, cut off his head and nailed to the wall.
[Ftisk_robot] R: "Hi! I'm Ftisk.. well his proxy"
[Random_Nerd] Near the face is a scuffed chalk circle, a cardboard box of white chalk, and what looks like a chunk of a human legbone.
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Ymera, I am your faithful servant. These are your visitors."
[Random_Nerd] The guide walks over to the chalk, and draws another circle on the ground in white chalk.
[DanteE] (Does Ja Phon have that thing from Memento?)
[Random_Nerd] Guide, to you: "Stand in here, visitors."
[Random_Nerd] (What thing?)
[DanteE] (The way-too-short memory?)
[Random_Nerd] (That is not exactly Ja Phon's problem.)

  • DanteE steps into the circle...
  • Theresa walks over and into the circle.

[Ftisk_robot] R: walk into the circle
[Random_Nerd] (It's not the memory, precisely. More that he lacks the mental clearness to understand things. Hmm... have you ever had a really severe fever? And then you got up from bed and started walking around, but common objects and situations had a weird and incomprehensible significance to you?)
[Random_Nerd] (It's like that.)
[Ftisk_robot] (fun!)
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Whichever of you wishes to speak to him, hold that" *he points at the shard of bone* "He won't be willing to listen to anyone who isn't either me or the one holding that."
[Random_Nerd] The guide pauses: "Or a god. He'd listen to a god."
[DanteE] to the others: "Who wants to start?"
[Ftisk_robot] R: take the shard and launch it to Dante "you?"
[DanteE] to the Guide: "What's the term of address he likes?"
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Any term of respect, used unironically."

  • DanteE picks up the bone...

[Theresa] (Unironic...ooo....)
[DanteE] (Did the Guide give us the go-ahead signal?)
[Ftisk_robot] (I can't speak to this imp then.... :-( )
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "With a very few exceptions, the gods do not like irony."
[Random_Nerd] And with that, he nods.
[DanteE] "Ymera Ja Phon. Greetings from the Nobles of Amyra, and friend."
[Random_Nerd] Dante, it is suddenly obvious that your hands are insufficiently sharp.
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Please, sir, use words. These are the ones I was telling you about on the day that you made everything look greenish."
[Random_Nerd] The face tacked to the wall speaks: "Tell me about yourself?"
[Random_Nerd] (And, yes, with a questioning tone, as if he's not sure if that's what he means.)
[Random_Nerd] (Or as if he's quoting something someone else said, but he doesn't get.)
[DanteE] "Dante, Lord of Blades and Courage. Originally from Earth."
[DanteE] (Also, a Scorpio with a bad moon rising.)
[Theresa] "Theresa, Noble of Plants. Of Chancel Amyra of Lord Kudzu."
[Ftisk_robot] R: "robot a proxy for Ftisk Machinery’s noble, made by Vulcan"
[Random_Nerd] There is no response to Theresa.

  • DanteE hands Theresa the bone...

[Random_Nerd] The bone clinks on Theresa's wooden fingers.
[Ftisk_robot] (cover!)
[DanteE] (What do the bone and face look like to Sight and Mythic?)

  • Theresa repeats "Theresa, Noble of Plants. Of Chancel Amyra of Lord Kudzu."

[Random_Nerd] (To the Sight, the face is almost too bright to look at.)
[Random_Nerd] (When you look at it mythically, you see nothing, hear nothing, feel nothing. You feel as though you're falling through an abyss.)
[DanteE] (uhoh)
[Ftisk_robot] R: wait for the bone shard
[Random_Nerd] The face: "Is Jan still alive?"
[Theresa] "Yes, he is, sir. He made his usual requests of me for information."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "He is one of the things that vanished from my awareness when."
[Random_Nerd] The face stops talking.

  • Theresa hands the bone over to the robot.

[Ftisk_robot] R: "re: robot a proxy for Ftisk Machinery’s noble, made by Vulcan"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Vulcan is not in a place that is lost to me."
[Random_Nerd] (Dante, do you stay in the mythic perspective?)
[DanteE] (I am keeping an eye on it...)
[Ftisk_robot] (yes)
[Random_Nerd] Everyone, Dante collapses to the floor.
[Ftisk_robot] (everyone but Dante?)
[Random_Nerd] (Dante, you can no longer feel even your own body. You don't feel your heart beating, anything.)
[Theresa] (*blink*)
[DanteE] (If this is a Noble Blue Bolt from Heaven, I will not be happy...)
[Random_Nerd] (It will only remain as long as you stay in the mythic world.)

  • Ftisk_robot aspect hear for the heart pulse

[DanteE] (What do I see, then?)
[Ftisk_robot] (and Ftisk? is not affected?)
[Random_Nerd] (You... don't see anything. Or sense anything in any way.)

  • DanteE goes back to the 'real' world...

[Random_Nerd] (To the mythic world, it seems as though nothing exists but your own thoughts)
[Random_Nerd] (Ftisk, you can't use Aspect here.)
[Random_Nerd] (Only the robot's senses, whatever you built in.)
[Ftisk_robot] (then I switch to prosaic view)

  • Ftisk_robot look at Dante on the floor "What happen Dante?)

[Random_Nerd] Dante, you seem to be on the floor.
[Ftisk_robot] "
[DanteE] "Mythic view isn't very scenic."

  • DanteE gets up.

[Random_Nerd] Face: "I couldn't see you. Where did you go?"

  • DanteE takes back the bone...

[DanteE] "Not sure. For a moment I didn't see anything."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "You went into one of those places that I don't see."
[DanteE] "... the Mythic World?"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "I don't know what you mean."
[DanteE] "Where Spirits live?"

  • Ftisk_robot murmur "Well my idea of a controlled estate excrucianization suddenly is less appealing"

[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Sir! Do you remember when I was telling you about the god who came back from somewhere else, and who chose to name himself after a human military leader? These ones were there when he did that."
[Random_Nerd] Face, to Dante: "We are in my mind, at present. There are very few spirits in my mind."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Unless they are in one of the places I don't see."
[DanteE] "Ah, yes... anyway: we dealt with the returned Domination Sakharoth when he re-appeared on Dionyl."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "He had gone into a place he could not see?"
[DanteE] "They believe he was Excruciated... ah ... (how long ago?)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "When you go into such a place, you can't see yourself, after a while. Sometimes not all of you comes back. Someone told me that, once, but I can't see him."
[Random_Nerd] For a moment, the light in the room which comes from the glowing fleshy corridors dims and turns out, but it returns.
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Do you know the little brass man? I saw him in a place I sometimes but don't always see. He was lost."

  • Theresa blinks.

[Theresa] (Does robot looks like Gnomely?)
[DanteE] "Not offhand..."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "I don't like it when things are lost in places they can't find."
[Ftisk] back at home Ftisk bring out the hdd with the nude snails.. lCreate a giant screen and start to broadcast the contents (before itself, Sam, Will and Dollphaniel

  • Theresa whispers to the guide. "Can we make a picture appear?"

[Random_Nerd] William looks away.
[Ftisk_robot] (no there is not a resemblance)
[Random_Nerd] Sam nods, as if he expected no better from fleshy-bodied creatures.
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Only if you do it by strictly mundane means."
[DanteE] (Ftisk, does your robot include a display screen?)

  • Theresa thinks. "Do you have a pencil or some place for me to draw a picture?"

[Ftisk_robot] (yes, )
[Ftisk_robot] (but each of us can aspect draw)
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Use the chalk."
[Theresa] "And stay inside the circle..." *picks up the chalk and draws an approximate Gnomely.
[Theresa] *
[DanteE] "Can we draw there?" (pointing in front of our circle)
[Random_Nerd] The Guide walks over, grabs a piece of chalk, and draws a much larger circle.
[Random_Nerd] Guide: "That should give you enough room to draw."

  • DanteE hands the bone to Theresa when she's done

[Random_Nerd] The chalk picture of Gnomely rises up from the floor, and hangs suspended in the air.
[Ftisk_robot] "This is my beloved son. He was send outside ... ops I'm without the bone..."
[Theresa] "Does the lost brass man look like this?"

  • Theresa hands the robot the bone.

[Random_Nerd] Face: "Servant! Fetch my thought of the little brass man. You remember it, I showed it to you. And it's not in a lost place."
[Ftisk_robot] "re: This is my beloved son. He was send outside two times."
[Random_Nerd] The guide whispers: "I'll be right back" and runs off, hitting his head against the ceiling of a vein. When he does so, there is absolutely no sound, and his body-language doesn't change at all.
[Ftisk] (strange and creepy as all the place! )
[Ftisk_robot] "When you meet the brass man?"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "That part of my mind is rarely visible. Do you know where it is?"
[DanteE] (According to the Nobilis worldview, do we have spirits inside us besides our own?)
[DanteE] "Bone, Ftisk."
[DanteE] (Oh, he's got it. Retcon?)

  • Ftisk_robot give the bone to Dante

[Ftisk_robot] (if you want to go on is ok for me. Otherwise retcon)
[Random_Nerd] (That... depends on how you mean "spirits inside you". And... "your own.")
[Random_Nerd] (First, mythic spirits are not "the spirit of an object", they're the object itself, looked at in a different way. And most such spirits are made up of simpler spirits, and a man-spirit is made up of blood-spirits and bone-spirits and thought-spirits and so on.)
[Random_Nerd] (Does that answer your question?)
[Random_Nerd] Ja Phon's servant returns, carrying a metal statue that looks a bit like Gnomely.
[Ftisk_robot] (is a fractal universe perspective there is something always inside something other)
[Random_Nerd] Servant: "This?"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Yes. Put it next to the other thought."
[Random_Nerd] The servant puts the statue next to the hovering chalk drawing.
[DanteE] (original Gnomely, or twisted by the trip Gnomely?)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Yeah, they could be the same."
[Ftisk_robot] "Seem my Gnomely!"
[Random_Nerd] (It's too vague to tell. It's more... like, Cubist Gnomely.)

  • DanteE hands the bone back to Ftisk-bot

[Ftisk_robot] (good question)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "I was thinking about that thing for a while. It is part of you?"
[Ftisk_robot] "Is my son I made it and infused with existence"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "What were you doing, putting your thoughts in my mind?"
[Ftisk_robot] "He have go two times outside creation.. where seem that some of your thought reside. I was not putting my thought into your mind. they.. shared the same space for a bit"
[DanteE] to Theresa: "His mind must still be partially Out There.
[Random_Nerd] Face: "It's just rude. A man's thoughts are his own, and strangers have no right to put things in them."
[Random_Nerd] Ftisk, in the place where your body is, you can suddenly see a brownish cube, hovering in mid-air. Neither Sam nor William react in any way to its presence.
[Ftisk_robot] "I concord. But your thought where not in their usual place."
[Ftisk_robot] (uhoh)
[Ftisk_robot] I raise and try to touch it.
[Random_Nerd] Hovering Cube: "How do you like it?"
[Ftisk_robot] Ftisk raise and try to touch the cube
[Random_Nerd] You can feel it. It's warm to the touch.
[Ftisk_robot] "Is warm"
[Random_Nerd] The cube vanishes.
[Random_Nerd] Face: "See?"
[Ftisk_robot] "I see. But is not rude"
[DanteE] "Wait... even so, we didn't send Gnomely to Ja Phon, we sent him to alt-Shadows."
[Theresa] "Makes sense. You leave something behind when you go through the Wall and when you come back."
[Theresa] "We sent him across the Wall. For all we knew, the other Shadows was having a party or was at the equivalent of a Council meeting."
[Ftisk_robot] "Now we are interacting in the same way the cube was interacting with my self"

  • DanteE gestures for the bone...

[Ftisk_robot] "He was not in my thought as Gnomely was not in your one. That thing that happen to you seem to have dislocated ..."
[DanteE] (not a euphemism)

  • Ftisk_robot give the bone to Dante

[Random_Nerd] Face: "Yes. You put a thing in my mind for a time. I have placed one in yours, and then removed it. Perfectly even."
[Ftisk_robot] (LOL!!!)
[DanteE] "Ymera Ja Phon... we didn't send Gnomely to your mind, we sent him across the Weirding Wall.
[Theresa] (Wow, he didn't even ask for dinner and a movie...)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Bring him the cube. It is in the same context that the brass man was in."
[Random_Nerd] The servant goes out again.
[DanteE] "...do you know Shadows?"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "I do not see a wall. Many things are hidden from me."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Shadows are the thing you get when a source of light is blocked by an opaque object."
[DanteE] (What kind of Ymera is Ja Phon again?)
[Random_Nerd] (Lightlord.)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Shadows are gaps in the light. Places of darkness, where the light is blocked. I know them well."
[Ftisk] Ftsik to William "Did you see the cube that was here a moment ago?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "I'm afraid that I was too busy not looking at the snails, Dominus."
[DanteE] "I mean the Noble of Shadows."
[Ftisk] FtW: "Oh them bother you?"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Is he not identical with the concept which I have described?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "They are not to my taste, sir."
[DanteE] "Well, he's also a person."
[Ftisk] Ftisk to Sam "And you have see the cube?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Which cube?"
[Ftisk] FtW point "The one that hovered for a bit here "
[Random_Nerd] The servant of Ja Phon runs back in, carrying a brownish cube. Servant: "Is this the one you meant, sir?"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Yes. Ask the robot if it would like to keep it."
[DanteE] "That would mean... you probably saw Gnomely from a point of view outside the Wall."
[Ftisk_robot] "Hey that's the cube you send before me!"
[Random_Nerd] Servant, to Ftisk's proxy: "Would you like this?"
[Ftisk_robot] "why, yes"
[Random_Nerd] The servant hands it to Ftisk's robot.
[Ftisk] FtW "Nevermind was Ja Phon projeecting"

  • Ftisk_robot take the cube

[Ftisk] Ftisk destroy the giant screen then wink to Wil
[DanteE] (Hm... either Ja Phon is large and contains multitudes--literally--or he's our mimic.)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Thank you, Dominus. I apologize for not seeing your cube."
[Ftisk] FtW "Don't apologize, and next time say to me that something unsettle you"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Do any of the rest of you wish for any of your thoughts to be brought to you?"
[Ftisk] * Ftisk go to cuddle and hug Dollphaniel

  • Theresa touches the bone. "No, thank you, sir. Is there anything that we can do for you?"

[Random_Nerd] Face: "Can you see into the places that are hidden to me?"
[DanteE] (Don't forget we're here to help Ja Phon)
[Ftisk_robot] (we can see with a high summone help)
[DanteE] "I think we can, for some of them."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Well, if you find any of my thoughts, put them in a place where I can see them, and tell me where you've put them."
[DanteE] "How can we spot them?"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "I don't know. I don't know what they look like any more. They're hidden to me."

  • Ftisk_robot touch the bone "And if we suspect of one you can say it is a your thought if we place it where you can see it?"

[DanteE] "Can you point us in a good direction?"
[Random_Nerd] The face says "Ask the servant over there, if you find one you think is mine."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "If I knew how to go and find my thoughts, I WOULD HAVE THEM ALREADY."
[Random_Nerd] The shout comes from every bony surface in the room.
[Verithe] (*jumps and spills popcorn*)

  • Theresa shakes her head a little to get rid of the echoes.

[Theresa] (You should see RN do that effect when he can't find his shoes...)
[Ftisk] (lol)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "I'm not /stupid/. Human beings don't even have the mental hardware to be as smart as me on a bad day. Nobody with a brain that's still made of meat should act like I'm stupid. I have had pieces of my thoughts taken and put in places that I cannot see. I have had pieces of my world... obscured."
[Ftisk_robot] "But I was asking if we found a thought that we believe is your in a place you can't see. You can see if this is your if we put that though into a place you can see"
[Ftisk_robot] "Never stating that you are stupid!"
[DanteE] (But he's the only one who can tell what's missing)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "It's simple. If you see a thing that you think is one of my thoughts, move it, and put it somewhere where I can see. If you can't find somewhere that I can see, ask the servant. It would know."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "The servant always knows how to move into places that aren't lost."
[Ftisk_robot] "well I had to ask... do you know the sing I'm a little tea pot?"
[DanteE] to the Servant: "Can you tell us where you can't get to?"
[Random_Nerd] Servant: "Hmm?"
[Theresa] (A possibility is that this may be the only Imperator who understands sneezing.)
[Ftisk_robot] (I'm going to ask by the power of name to sing that son to JP)
[Ftisk_robot] (is not a sneezing)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "I know of that song."
[Ftisk_robot] "Then... by the power of names I demand that you sing I'm a little tea pot"
[Random_Nerd] Ftisk's robot isn't there any more. The bit of bone clatters to the ground.

  • Theresa facepalms.

[Ftisk_robot] (well is not a excru...)
[DanteE] "aha..."
[Random_Nerd] (First off, to make that work, you have to say the name you're using.)
[Random_Nerd] (Second, that's Deceivers, not Mimics.)
[Ftisk_robot] (oh sorry)
[DanteE] (Want to let him retract that?)
[Ftisk_robot] (no no leave this as is now)
[Random_Nerd] (...I can totally see Ftisk doing that, and forgetting how it works. Can't you?)
[Ftisk_robot] (me too)
[DanteE] (...actually yeah.)
[Theresa] (I also saw William facepalming across the Universe.)

  • DanteE picks up the bone

[Random_Nerd] Face: "I have suddenly forgotten what I was talking about. Servant!"
[DanteE] "Sorry about that... he's new."
[Random_Nerd] Servant: "It was about something that has nothing to do with robots or teapots."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "I thought as much."
[Ftisk] (was irony?)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Who's new?"
[Random_Nerd] (Arguably, but I think the irony was aimed at Ftisk if there was some.)

  • Theresa touches the bone. "We both are. We haven't been enNobled for very long but we're trying to learn as much as we can."

[Random_Nerd] (Oh, and for reference, he did that by being so annoyed with Ftisk that he forgot that the robot was there. And then it wasn't.)
[Random_Nerd] (It... wasn't actually deliberate.)
[DanteE] to Theresa: "We need to know where and how to look for his thoughts. Any ideas?"
[Ftisk] "Sam, Will can you check if Beth anchors are ok. I was using the power of name on Ja Phon and BAM my proxy was destroyed..."

  • Theresa shrugs. "It might help to see other thoughts so if the outside thoughts are similar, we'd see the likeness. But the thoughts of an Imperator can be _anything_."

[Random_Nerd] Servant: "For no reason in particular, due to my strange human ways, I feel the urge to speak the following words. 'It is important to remember one's servant, and important to remember the things that are inside circles.' "
[Random_Nerd] Servant: "Please pardon my whimsical human strangeness, Lord."
[DanteE] (Is the cube still here?)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Look around you. My thoughts are everywhere."
[Random_Nerd] (Yes.)

  • DanteE picks up and examines the cube.

[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Sure."
[Random_Nerd] William: "I... don't think he's a Deceiver. Someone would have noticed that by now, Dominus."

  • Ftisk wait and cuddle Dollphanien in the waiting time

[Random_Nerd] Face: "There is a line from a book. 'Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it.' Well, these are my thoughts, and at the moment, you are not only surrounded by them, but are one of them."
[Random_Nerd] Servant, whispering: "Red King, sir."
[Ftisk] "Sure but... my proxy destruction.. reason... why he would do this?"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Ah, yes. Like the Red King, in a different book. Only I am not dreaming. If you wish to see my thoughts, walk around."

  • DanteE looks around... anything obviously missing?

[Random_Nerd] W: "Don't get in a punching match with gods. Your arms are too short."
[DanteE] "You remember how that book starts?"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Someone falls down a hole, for a long time, and forgots who they really are."
[Ftisk] "There is wisdom in these word Will"
[Random_Nerd] Servant: "No, sir, that was the first book."

  • Theresa lets go of the bone. *to the guide* "Is it safe to walk outside of the circle?"

[Random_Nerd] Guide: "Draw circles wherever you want to walk. It's inconvenient, but he remembers things that are in circles. I don't know why, but it works."
[DanteE] "Those books... do you remember their names?"

  • Theresa scribbles circles in an expanding way across the floor toward one of the 'walls'.

[Random_Nerd] Face: "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "The other one was actually a play."

  • Ftisk remote control the lC-ed black widow to sabotage triffid boy show

[Random_Nerd] (What are you having the spider-machine do?)
[DanteE] "What would happen if we reminded you of something you can't access?
[Ftisk] (stole left shoes and intoxicate buffet)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "It wouldn't work. It would be somewhere I can't see, and I wouldn't see the thing you meant."
[Random_Nerd] The Face mutters: "I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!"
[Random_Nerd] Face: "Although I don't expect I'll just get songs wrong, and so on."

  • Theresa looks at the walls and anything that might be nearby.

[DanteE] "Heraclitus. 'You cannot step in the same river twice.'"
[Theresa] (And he's quoting more Alice.  :) )
[DanteE] (Oh yeah.)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "The gods can. Many of them, at least. It is not their nature to be changeable. It is mine, however, or so I suspect."
[DanteE] "What is this, exactly?" (the cube I'm holding)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "A cube."
[DanteE] "Isn't this a thought of yours?"
[Ftisk] (stole some of Verithe's popcorn and munch it)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "I don't know why it's here. The servant is supposed to keep this part clean, and only bring the things he needs, or the things I have him bring me."
[Random_Nerd] Face: "It must be his."
[Verithe] (Hey!)
[Random_Nerd] Face: "But I would remember if I'd given permission..."
[Random_Nerd] The face starts to sink into the wall.
[Theresa] "He's forgotten Ftisk, Dante."
[Random_Nerd] The servant dashes with very fast speed for a human, grabs the chalk, and draws a circle on the wall around where the face is tacked up.
[Random_Nerd] The face stops sinking into the wall.
[Random_Nerd] Servant: "Perhaps you have other things to talk about with my Ymera."
[Ftisk] (you can propose the HS experiment: open a passage see if JP memories return)
[Random_Nerd] (Shall we stop here?)
[Random_Nerd] (I'm getting a little tired, at least.)
[Ftisk] (k )
[Theresa] (I'm good with that.)
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
[DanteE] "We were able to talk with the Other Side...
[DanteE] (OK, I'll propose what Ftisk said next week. :) )
[BethE] (I don't think that we could open up a passage to the other side...and I doubt they would let Shadows come and visit or take this guy there.)
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo
[Random_Nerd] _______STOP__________________

  • Angelo grin at Verithe "thank you for the popcorn :-P"

[DanteE] (They probably have their own Summoners)
[Random_Nerd] What'd you guys think?
[Angelo] was *FUN*
[Random_Nerd] I worry that you'll grow tired of /this/ week's new flavor of inscrutable possibly-crazy Imperator/Noble.
[Verithe] You're welcome, Angelo. :-P
[Angelo] and the botched power of names was roftlastic
[Angelo] no no ,I like Ja Phon
[DanteE] Angelo: See, the problem isn't between me and you, it's Dante reacting when Fisk pulls stuff like _that_. :D
[Random_Nerd] Yeah, that was a classic Ftisk moment.
[Random_Nerd] A good idea, done on the spur of the moment, and executed poorly.
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
[BethE] We haven't grown crazy of all of the other weeks.
[Angelo] very Ftisk-an
[Knockwood] who said a mediocre idea executed now is better than a great idea executed too late?
[Angelo] I'm sorry for Verithe because our pace is so slow he can join next month instead of next week
[Verithe] Oh, I don't mind. ^^
[Angelo] Until you came with popcorn me too ^^
[Angelo] btw we don't know if he is a deceiver 'cause Ftisk poor execution right?
[Random_Nerd] I figure that next session should be viable. Ftisk is now in a separate scene, so it's a decent time for a relative to come visit.
[BethE] Sorry to run, guys, but I need to get some stuff done before bed. *HUGS* Good game!
[Random_Nerd] I forget, does your character have Worldwalker or Gatemaker or any of the "visit-a-chancel" Gifts?
[Angelo] if is no too stressing to you to multitask then yess!
[Verithe] Take care, Beth!
[Knockwood] That works.
[Knockwood] g'night Beth
[Angelo] mine not. our family..., night Beth!
|[-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?)
[Verithe] No, but I think our other Brother has Gatemaker or something...
[Angelo] well Vulcan familia have Brewnyr that have gatemaker gift
[Angelo] Brewnyr is the magma flow noble
[Verithe] Right.
[Random_Nerd] That works.
[Random_Nerd] You can have him make you a gate, then.
[Verithe] Okay. :D
[Angelo] that is the same system Ftisk came in Amyra
[Random_Nerd] Anyway, I must go.
[Random_Nerd] See you guys next week.
[Verithe] Take care!
[Knockwood] g'night RN
[Angelo] night RN!
[Random_Nerd] Good game, guys.
[Knockwood] Verithe, Hope to see you playing next week. :)
|[-- Random_Nerd has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: )
[Angelo] really
[Verithe] :)
[Knockwood] good night guys
[Angelo] Ciao Knockwood
[Verithe] Take care!
|[-- Knockwood has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.85 [Firefox 3.5.3/20090824101458])
[Angelo] night Verithe. Ciao!!
[Verithe] Sleep well!
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