Session 159

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Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 19

-- From Beth’s log (btw thank you Beth):
{Random_Nerd} _______________START_________________
{Random_Nerd} Barkeep: "The other spider has /baby hands/."
{DanteE} who is logging?
{Random_Nerd} I am, if nobody else is.
{DanteE} "Ah crap...
{DanteE} (Also, I've got William on the phone, remember)
{Brian} (I have logging on, but I'm not quite sure where to find the logs when I'm done...)
{Random_Nerd} William: "So, do you have a full-blown DA case, or just someone on the edge?"
{DanteE} "Sounds like he can see the Mythic world."
{Theresa} * Theresa walks over to the bartender. "Is there somewhere in here that's private?"
{Random_Nerd} William: "Is he dangerous to himself or others?"
{DanteE} "He's got a bat..."
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "Your words are made of little people. Did you know that? I never saw the little people before."
{Kite} "I've always thought they looked like little birds."
{Theresa} *waves a hand near the bartender's face* "A back room?"
{Theresa} (Anyone else still left in the bar except Message and us?)
{Random_Nerd} He waves his bat at a door behind the bar.
{DanteE}"We're trying to contain him."
{Random_Nerd} (Nope. The rest of them filed out in "no sudden movements" mode.)
{Kite} "We should get the rest of the customers out."
{Theresa} "Will you come back into the back room? We will make sure that nothing will happen to your bar."

--From my log
[INFO] Now logging to {file:///C:/Users/Angelo/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/jp1xrpq3.default/chatzilla/logs/irc.magicstar.net/channels/%23Nobilis.2010-02-19.log}.
[INFO] Channel view for ``#Nobilis opened.
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix
--}| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis
{Brian} (Hey Angelo!)
{DanteE} (Hiya Angelo)
{Angelo} Yeppa yuppa!
{Angelo} Hi all!
{Theresa} (Hi Angelo! *HUG*)
{Kite} (Hi!)
{Brian} "Things are going to be ok, don't worry. You can trust us."
{Angelo} (I'm without internet... Now I’m on my phone 2g network :-( )
{Random_Nerd} William: "Okay. Containment. You guys can keep him from hurting himself or anyone else. I'll get a shrink to come over on this end, and can one of you make a phone connection with the outside world?"
{Angelo} (What is going not ok? is in character or ooc?)
{DanteE} (Hm... will you be able to stay, Angelo?)
{Random_Nerd} (DA mangement.)
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
{Theresa} (In character. We just started. Are you okay to play tonight?)
{DanteE} (Can we connect to Earth?)
{Ftisk} (I don't know if connection will drop or not... let's try!)
{Theresa} (It's your cell phone.  :) 'Can you hear me now?' *runs*)
{Ftisk} (Yep, I *WANT* to play!)
{Ftisk} (@T: lol)
{Ftisk} (so what I lost?)
{Random_Nerd} (Not much, they're just trying to work out how to deal with the bartender.)
{DanteE} (The one YOU freaked out... :P )
{Random_Nerd} William: "I'm switching to another line. Hold, please."
{Random_Nerd} A muzak version of the Amyran national anthem plays.
{Ftisk} (where is Theresa? I'm on her shoulder)
{Theresa} (Dear, dear Amyra....always in our hearts...)
{Random_Nerd} William: "Back. One of the shrinks that works with the Bureau is on his way. I thought they'd be less likely to freak out over weird stuff."
{Theresa} (Theresa is near the bartender.)
{DanteE} "Oh and Ftisk? When we get back, you and I are going to have words, young.... snail..."
{Kite} (How many people are still in the bar?)
{Random_Nerd} Message finishes his bottle.
{Random_Nerd} (Bartender, you guys, Message.)
{Random_Nerd} (Not many were in to begin with, and the rest left by the time the bartender started waving a bat around and yelling about spiders.)
{DanteE} "William, when we get back we should talk about getting Bertie Wooster here a titanium Jeeves..."
{Ftisk} When the bartender is not looking at me I change into a fashion fox skin
{Kite} (Ah, alright)
=-= YOU are now known as foxSkinFtisk
{Random_Nerd} William: "Okay, hold again, please."
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "Do... you want another drink?"
{Theresa} (Are his hands legal to drink?  :) )
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "You have broken pieces of string on your head."
{DanteE} ( ::choral version of Anarchy in the UK:: ... :) )
{Random_Nerd} William: "Okay, when the shrink gets there, call me and hand the cellphone to him. I'll have one of our DA people passing me information through the Oracle, and I can pass it on to him."

  • Brian will look at Mythic, just to see if what the bartender says he sees matches with that. Also, he hasn't "lived" in Mythic for a while.

{Random_Nerd} Message: "I'll take care of my own drinks. And my own... string."
{Random_Nerd} The bartender nods at Theresa.
{DanteE} "Will do, William..."
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "If he doesn't need a drink, I can go."
{Theresa} "Okay. Let's go into the back room. You can tell me some more about what you see, if you want." *hands toward the back*
{DanteE} to the Barkeep: "How about if I tend the bar while you take five?"
{Random_Nerd} When you look for them around Message's head, he has six frayed ends of pieces of string coming out of his forehead.
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "The bottles have little people in them. Be sure not to drink them!"
{Random_Nerd} He follows.
{Random_Nerd} William: "Okay, call me back when he gets there."

  • DanteE looks around in Mythic
  • Brian will go with the bartender.

{foxSkinFtisk} (you found a naked dancing Ftisk in mythic)

  • Theresa looks around the back room. "Is there anything you'd like? I can make you a herbal tea, if you'd like?"

{DanteE} to Message: "Remind me what, ah, directives you got when you first appeared? And have a brew on me while you do..."
{Random_Nerd} The Bartender takes one more look at Message as he goes, and his hands start to shake.

  • DanteE pours Message a beer

{foxSkinFtisk} "T, can you make some oil?"
{Random_Nerd} The Bartender sits down, and his face starts twitching.

  • Theresa says soothingly, "It's okay..."

{Random_Nerd} He starts mumbling nonsense syllables, while he twitches in place.
{Theresa} *to Ftisk* "No, I'm sorry, Ftisk. Oil is too far away from the plants it used to be."
{DanteE} (We could just do a Realm LC of Marbles, ne?)
{Theresa} (And get little round glass things?)
{Random_Nerd} (You could. If you want to, tell me what you're doing.)

  • Theresa LCs a small packet with lavender, mint and other soothing smelly things in it. She holds it near the bartender's nose.

{DanteE} (I mean replacing the ones he lost)
{DanteE} (RN: Who's twitching, the barkeep or Message?)
{Random_Nerd} (The barkeep.)
{DanteE} to Message: "Drink up... I think I have some bad news."
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "hanfananajijijakaiealala. These are the signs of the coming of the First King. Duty turns to affection and pride. Dedication turns to the seeking after pleasure. The will to live becomes the fear of death. Nananrihihihlanamape."
{Theresa} (Dear, get out of Bridge of Birds...)
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "Ananlalailililhahanata."
{Kite} ("Duty would do no such thing and we haven't met Dedication yet.")
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "Sueridus. Shirk. Laininanaina."
{Theresa} "Do you see the spirits of the herbs...aren't they graaaaaceful...aren't they sooooothing..."
{Random_Nerd} He slumps onto the ground.
{Theresa} (Oh, no, I get it. These are the sounds RN makes after his 6 hours straight of law classes!)
{Theresa} "Oh..._drat_."
{DanteE} "Uhoh."

  • Theresa picks up the bartender and slumps him into a chair. "Well, hopefully he's in a calmer place at the moment."
  • foxSkinFtisk lc a reanimation unit

{Random_Nerd} He's alive, just unconscious or asleep.
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk

  • DanteE LRealmDiv of what he's seeing...

{DanteE} er, what he saw
{DanteE} (And... Ftisk, if you do a LDiv Data you might get more data on that too)

  • Kite peeks in "Should we clear out the room a bit? Fewer...er...distractions."

{Brian} "This doesn't look too good ..." (in Mythic, how does he look?)
{Ftisk} (ok Dante)
{Random_Nerd} (It doesn't seem like he was /seeing/ anything. Rather, words were coming out of his mouth without his mind being engaged in the process.)
{Ftisk} *lc Data* on the Barkeep what is he seeing
{DanteE} "If he's a conduit to out there do we want to 'cure' him?"
{Random_Nerd} Mythically, he looks from certain angles like one of his eyes is missing, and the other (shut in the prosaic world) is staring ahead with bloodshot veins.)
{Ftisk} "uhm.. .interesting..."
{Random_Nerd} You hear a police siren outside.

  • Ftisk run outside

{DanteE} (aw, crap)
{DanteE} "Ftisk, don't do anything where people can see!"

  • Ftisk lc a traffic sign with write over: "Nobles in action here please keep away"

{Random_Nerd} A police car pulls to a stop. A skinny man with wire-rim glasses gets out, and looks around in a somewhat puzzled way.
{Random_Nerd} Skinny Man: "Is this where the problem is?"

  • Ftisk float to the policeman
  • DanteE waves him in...

{Random_Nerd} The car, about to pull away, stops when Ftisk floats up to it.
{Ftisk} "HI!, we are taking care of the problem here, you can leave! *smile*"
{Random_Nerd} The man follows Dante in.
{DanteE} "So, you've dealt with Dementia Animus?"
{Random_Nerd} (Who are you talking to, the cop at the wheel of the car, or the man who just got out?)
{Ftisk} (I at the cops in general from outside the bar)
{Random_Nerd} Shrink: "I have only the vaguest idea what that is, but your guy said that he could help talk me through it."
{DanteE} "Ah yes. Speaking of which..."
{Random_Nerd} The cop looks at Ftisk with an odd expression, shrugs, and drives off.

  • DanteE gets William on the phone

{Random_Nerd} William: "Did he get there?"
=-= YOU are now known as SpiderFtisk
{DanteE} "Right here, sending him back now."

  • DanteE hands his phone to the shrink.
  • SpiderFtisk crawl inside

{DanteE} (What's Message doing?)
{Random_Nerd} William, over the phone: "Now, I've never done this either, but I'm going to be relaying information from someone who has. We should at least be able to do some mental first aid to keep him from getting worse."
{Random_Nerd} (Message has taken one of the better bottles of Scotch from behind the bar, and a large shot glass, and is setting forth to empty the former by means of the latter and his mouth.)
{Theresa} (Does he even have a liver?)
{DanteE} (not for long)
{SpiderFtisk} (can I lc a teleconferencing system for Will?)
{Random_Nerd} Shrink: "Okay, he says to say that nobody is to do anything miraculous where the guy can see it."
{Random_Nerd} Shrink: "He says you'll know what he means."
{DanteE} "Yep"

  • DanteE pulls Ftisk out of the back room...

{SpiderFtisk} (Hey!)
{Random_Nerd} Shrink: "Okay, he guy's asleep."
{Random_Nerd} Shrink: "Okay, he says that's good. We're to move him to 'as simple a room as possible.' Not many objects in it, and 'nothing interesting'."
{Theresa} (How plain is the back room?)
{SpiderFtisk} (Is the one where Ftisk was put by Dante)
{DanteE} (probably not...)
{DanteE} (hm... men's room?)
{Random_Nerd} (It's got his office in it, filing cabinets, a mini-fridge, a bed.)
{Random_Nerd} (It doesn't look like he lives here full time, but it does seem like he sleeps here some of the time.)
{Kite} "Perhaps I can whip up something."
{Theresa} "Okay, a little spring cleaning is in order. Doctor...I'm afraid I didn't catch your name?"

  • Kite goes to check out the back door.

{Random_Nerd} Shrink: "Jenik. John Jenik."
{Theresa} "Doctor Jenik, please make sure that the bartender's eyes are shut and please shut your own."
{Random_Nerd} The bartender stirs and mumbles.
{Random_Nerd} Jenik does so, and says: "They're telling me to close my eyes now. Oh? Okay."
{Random_Nerd} He walks back out into the main bar.
{DanteE} "So, Doc, are you a local?"

  • Theresa turns hands into vines, wraps them around the office stuff, files, fridge and pulls everything but the guy and his bed out into the rest of the bar.

{Random_Nerd} Doctor Jenik: "Well, I'm from down south, but I did my residency up here, and decided to stay."
=-= YOU are now known as plainNondescriptGuy
{Random_Nerd} (He's got a typical Amyran look, with his features blending elements of arabic, european, and african looks. Not quite a Kaerkoven accent, but close to one.)
{Theresa} (Also, a LC of a linen hat for nondescriptFtisk.)
{DanteE} "We've actually been wondering how our, um, takeover went over..."

  • Kite transforms into human form while he's out of sight.

{plainNondescriptGuy} "Yep, how do you fell to have Dante as your Lord?"
{plainNondescriptGuy} (And Theresa as the only mother? /me run!)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. Jenik: "I don't really follow politics much. The boss thinks an awful lot of you guys, though."
{Theresa} (We love Lesson too! {3 )
{DanteE} "Yeah. Anyway, let me see if I can give you a short version of what happened...
{Random_Nerd} Shrink: "Weird magic things happened, and this guy saw them, and now he's seeing everything through a weird hallucinatory filter that makes everything seem alive?"
{Random_Nerd} Shrink: "Can I open my eyes yet?"
{DanteE} "Close...

  • Theresa rearranges the bed and the room and creates a dark curtain to hang over any windows and doorways. "There."
  • Kite returns.

{DanteE} "You familiar with animistic worldviews?"
{Kite} "Close enough."
{plainNondescriptGuy} "Theresa can you make some dress for me? red please?"
{Random_Nerd} Shrink: "Pretty much. I can open my eyes now?"
{DanteE} "He's seeing a version of the world in which everything has a spirit."
{DanteE} "And going further would screw things up worse..."
{Theresa} *to Ftisk* "A dress or a suit?"
{DanteE} (Theresa done?)
{Theresa} (Yep.)
{plainNondescriptGuy} "A dress with a skirt please"
{plainNondescriptGuy} (my appearance is female)
{DanteE} "One second..."
{Theresa} (You're a Guy, though...)
=-= YOU are now known as plainNondescriptGuyette
{plainNondescriptGuyette} (my intention was to be a female when I do the change)

  • Theresa reaches under the bar and 'pulls out' a nice black blouse with a flowing red skirt.

{Theresa} (Ah.)
{Kite} (Mechanical snails don't get human fashion.)
{Theresa} "Here you go, Ftisk."

  • plainNondescriptGuyette bow to Theresa and dress up

{DanteE} "And... Ftisk, don't do anything weird... and Doc, go ahead and open your eyes."
{Theresa} (And yet, he's going to help Sam make a fashion machine.)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (on Sam direction only!)
{Random_Nerd} (He was going to have Sam give him the specifications for it.)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (is more Sam fashion machine that my)
{DanteE} "We went ahead and moved most of the stuff out of the back room. Go ahead and head back in."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "Yep Dante! ... BUT! I dont' _ever_ do anything weird..."
{Kite} (Besides, that's dionyl fashion.)
{Theresa} (I almost just signed up for a video interview as a ninja...bad me...)
{Kite} (Mechanical snails TOTALLY understand dionyl fashion.)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. Jenrik goes back in.
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (well, better that mechanical spider)
{Random_Nerd} J: "Okay, your guy said that when he wakes up, he'll interpret everything he sees as living people, talking to him. Anything he pays attention to, at least. So we need there to be a human being here, to talk to, to keep him thinking about that. One of the 'points of congruity' between the two worlds."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "CAN I do this?!?!?!"
{Theresa} "Human human or looks human?"
{Random_Nerd} J: "Someone who 'isn't a magic snail.'"
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "I'm uman!-ish a least"
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "Will say that?"
{Random_Nerd} J: "Yes."
{Kite} "I think it would be best, Ftisk, if we have that talk with Dante right now."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "Ah, my wrath will know no bound!"
{Kite} "Does this mean William's getting another gift in his bed?"
{Theresa} "If you guys are going to have a heart to snail talk, then I can stay here and talk with the bartender."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "One? One is not enough!"
{DanteE} "Theresa and the Doc are in there..."
{DanteE} "Ftisk? Sit on this stool here and we'll talk...
{Random_Nerd} J: "Okay, he says that there are 'magical' ways to deal with this, but he doesn't know what they are, or 'mundane' ways. He says to ask which one you're going to try."

  • plainNondescriptGuyette refuse to sit

{DanteE} to Theresa: "We could do it, but he seems to have an oracular connection..."
{DanteE} "Which we'd probably squash."
{Brian} "It's probably best to attempt a mundane solution.
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "Ok, roger!, mundane solution"
{DanteE} (OK, now, can people see him float around or change forms without losing it?)
{DanteE} (er, him=Ftisk)
{Theresa} "Mundane sounds fine. Sensory deprivation?"
{Random_Nerd} (They can see him float around. It's weird, but not earth-shattering.)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (I'm in a girl form now.. I'm not floating)
{Random_Nerd} (But if they see him change forms, and they're paying attention when he does it, it's dangerous.)
{Random_Nerd} (And just seeing him after he changes forms is fine.)
{DanteE} "OK... Ftisk? You really can't go around firing off miracles where people can see them.
{Brian} "Shall I stay with the bartender and company?"

  • plainNondescriptGuyette sad "... oh, I'll try to resist the urge... "

{Random_Nerd} (Basically, it's seeing the moment of miraculous change that does it, and when it's something that can't be explained, it's much more likely to cause DA.)
{DanteE} "When anyone who isn't prepared sees something flashy, that tends to have ::points to the back room:: bad effects."
{Random_Nerd} The bartender stirs again, and then sits up.
{Random_Nerd} (Okay, who all is in the back room with him?")
{DanteE} "I think just the Doc and Theresa is enough stimulation for what they're trying to do, Brian."
{Kite} (Not me)
{Brian} "Sure."
{Theresa} (Me and the doctor?)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (CAN I be in?)
{DanteE} (Kite and I are having a heart to central-pump talk with Ftisk... :) )
{DanteE} (And we're still not really dealing with Message)
{Random_Nerd} Doctor Jenik turns off the phone and says: "Hello, my name is Doctor Jenik. I'm here because I heard you saw some things that upset you. I want to help you."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (but I want to sneak into the room if I can... ;-) )
{Random_Nerd} (He's dealing with himself, in a way. He's drank enough that he's slumped down over the bar. Not unconscious, but at that stage when sitting up straight just seems too complicated and difficult.)
{Kite} "Ftisk, please remember we are guests here."
{Random_Nerd} Bartender, woozily: "He was putting things in my head. But they're gone now."
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "Who was?"

  • plainNondescriptGuyette mocking voice "Ok, Kite, brother of mine, dear and respected I'll commit"
  • Kite rolls eyes.

{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "Said he was making me a prophet, a one-hit-wonder one. That he needed someone connected to the right things, and who'd already 'paid the price', and I had."
{DanteE} (I can probably hear that, but what about Kite & Ftisk?)
{Random_Nerd} (If they have Aspect 1 or better, they can hear it.)
{Brian} (not me, then)
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "Doctor, I've been seeing things that aren't there. Spiders. That curtain is made of people."
{Kite} (Hurrah! Aspect 1!)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (then I can hear this Asp 2)
{Theresa} (Aww, crap. And who do we know connected to prophecy? *facepalm*)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "Don't look at the curtain. Look at me. I'm really here, so as long as you're looking at me, you're only seeing what's real."
{DanteE} "Really, Ftisk. Flashy miracles tend to unhinge people."
{Theresa} (Or else, Kudzu.)
{DanteE} (And the 'people putting things in my head' reminds you of.... who?  :) )
{Brian} (heh. I told you guys last week that the DA was one of the traps! ... ok, it probably was only a spur of the moment doing by the GM, but then ... RN may have plotted for this all along ...)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "Ok, but them are _people_ you have as many as you want of them... you can even do a _pudding_ with them!"
{Random_Nerd} (It's not so simple as /that/...)
{DanteE} (But Message has 6 frayed strands coming out of his forehead in Mythic. That seems to indicate the traps are gone)
{Brian} (or that he's been cut loose. Either way)
{DanteE} "That would be harming them, which neither Kudzu or the harpy like.
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "I need you to understand that while you're seeing things wrong, it doesn't mean you're crazy. Nothing has gone wrong with your brain that can't be fixed. It's just that something happened to you, and it has you confused, a little like someone who has a fever."
{DanteE} "Except on their terms, of course..."
{Theresa} (I can't think of who specifically would be involved with putting things in heads.)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "the harpy?"
{DanteE} (Ja Phon, remember?)
{Theresa} (Entropy, when last we saw her.)
{Random_Nerd} Bartender nods.
{Theresa} (Ah, true, things in heads with Ja Phon.)
{DanteE} "Entropy. I'm sure someone told you he 'hit on me' in harpy form."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "Yep, Will recount me one day"
{Brian} "I still kinda wish I'd been there. If my head has to have the images in there, might as well have had the experience too ..."
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "If you want to talk to any of your friends or family, we can get them, but it's important that you stay in here right now. We'll be bringing in someone to help you more soon, but until he's helped you, you need to stay here. Is that okay?"
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "I... I guess?"
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "But while you're waiting, I want you to tell me about a day you had... last week. Tell me in all the detail you can."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "But we are over..., we are superior to them. What one or two little humans matter in a place where they are by the millions?"
{DanteE} "Ftisk, we're trying to minimize the damage we do. It's a personal thing, but ...
{Random_Nerd} J, to Theresa: "You can go. I'll keep talking with him, and I'll call you at the number your guy gave me if anything comes up."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "yep is a your personal thing.. but we are guess here .... "
{Random_Nerd} Brian's cell phone rings.
{DanteE} "It makes things a _whole_ lot easier in a human-dominated Chancel.

  • Brian will answer "Brian."

{Theresa} "Thank you very much, Doctor."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "So you do a date with me and I'll try to stay quiet and not flashy ? Deal Dante?"
{Random_Nerd} Phone: "This is William. Are things going okay on your end?"

  • Theresa leaves the back room, being careful not to let much of the outside be seen.

{Brian} "I haven't heard any screams of pain, or mindless gibbering, or seen any cthulhoid horrors in the past few minutes. I think we're good."
{Brian} "so far, anyway"
{Theresa} (Plus, it's our Chancel and our humans, so _there_!  ;P )
{Random_Nerd} William: "Okay. Do you think you guys can fix him miraculously, or should I try to get a mundane expert in?"
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "so Dante?"
{DanteE} "a _date_?"
{Random_Nerd} William: "Wait, there was mindless gibbering? That's unusual."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "yep, I will put an irresistible dress, you put your smile .. we dinner together somewhere..."
{Random_Nerd} William: "Not just confused speech, but actual nonsense?"
{Brian} "We're thinking it's probably best just to go through the mundane route. The doctor is trying to do what he can right now. There was a touch of mindless gibbering for a moment, and then something oddly prophetic sounding."
{Random_Nerd} William: "That... hold on a moment... that isn't normal."
{Random_Nerd} Message looks at his watch.
{Random_Nerd} Message: "I'm on shift soon. Does any of you have any magical coffee powers that could sober me up in a hurry?"
{DanteE} to Brian: "Might mention the 'gibberish' included Sueridus and Shirk."
{Brian} "William, Dante tells me to mention that the gibberish included Sueridus and Shirk."
{Random_Nerd} William: "So, you think it was actual prophecy, not just confused ramblings?"
{DanteE} (Theresa, you can create UberCoffee, ne? :) )
{Theresa} "How much do you want, Message?"
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (or I can create a ubercofee machine)
{Theresa} (Oh, yeah. I've done decaff before too and that's harder.)
{Theresa} "And how sweet do you like it?"
{Random_Nerd} Message: "I don't know... wait, you have literal magic coffee?"
{Random_Nerd} Message: "How much do you have?"
{Theresa} "I'm _Plants_."
{Brian} "He mentioned something about 'These are the signs of the coming of the First King', and some results of that."
{Brian} "Or related things. Whatever."
{Random_Nerd} Message: "Oh. Right. Uh... enough to wake me up?"
{Brian} "Sounded ominous and warning-like."
{Random_Nerd} William: "Yeah, that sounds like the real thing."
{Theresa} "Do you have any heart problems?"
{Brian} "What is this First King?"
{Random_Nerd} Message: "Beats me."

  • Kite scribbles the prophecy on a napkin.

{Random_Nerd} William: "I've heard something about this. Some sort of... Strategist, I think? Goes around corrupting things to make them worse at their jobs. Some Nobles are really paranoid about him."
{DanteE} "You do remember Sueridus and Shirk were connected to our corrupted cult, right?"
{Theresa} "Well, don't have a heart attack until you get to work, then." *LC an expresso coffee made with beans with quintuple the caffeine of normal coffee. And enough sugar to cover the bitter of the caffeine.*
{Random_Nerd} William: "Was I there for that part?"
{Theresa} (They were?)
{DanteE} (Yeah... when that one cultist melted his last word was Sueridus)
{Random_Nerd} William: "I think they're the same person. And Shirk is what's used by people too paranoid to use the longer name."
{Brian} "The other things he said are 'Duty turns to affection and pride', 'Dedication turns to the seeking after pleasure', and 'the will to live becomes the fear of death'. And some gibberish. And 'Sueridus' and 'Shirk'. I think 'Duty' and 'Dedication' are capitalized."
{DanteE} "And you were there, William. Remember California, where we met the Giant?"
{Random_Nerd} William: "Duty I know. We've met. I don't think there's a Power of Dedication."
{Brian} (I don't remember the Shirk/Sueridus thing.)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (me too)
{Random_Nerd} William: "Oh, with the cultists and the bricks and the furnace and James coming back? I... try not to think too much about that day."
{DanteE} "Bad news, William, you might have to."
{Random_Nerd} William: "Joy."
{Random_Nerd} Message drinks his coffee.
{Brian} "Would Duty be the kind of person to, well, leave their duty and look toward pleasure? ... or what would after pleasure mean? Anyway. With prophecies I tend not to worry about it much, just kind of get a gist of it, and whatever happens happens. Unless time travel happens, then whatever happens might not happen."
{Brian} (!!! The Doctor as the Power of Time and Space?)
{Theresa} (Does Kant even know what pleasure is?)
{Random_Nerd} Message stares off into space for a moment, as if to indicate that a colorful Bollywood musical number with dancing coffee beans is going on in his head.
{Random_Nerd} ("Morally suspect.")
{Brian} (oh, _Kant_ is Duty in this world? That throws that statement all weirdly)
{Random_Nerd} (Yeah. I think you've met him.)
{Random_Nerd} (At the party.)
{DanteE} (See, my Who's Who list is useful!)
{Random_Nerd} Message: "Have you considered selling that stuff?"
{Theresa} (Is Sayid from Heros part of the Bollywood dance?)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (yay is really useful, but I want your answer Dante!)
{Theresa} "Not yet. This is the first time I've made ubercoffee. I've made decaff before."
{Random_Nerd} William: "All of that Family are really dedicated to their jobs. Not just Duty, the rest, too."
{Brian} "The T-decaf tastes actually like coffee."
{DanteE} to Ftisk: "What exactly would happen on this 'date' that couldn't happen in the tower?"
{Brian} "Hm. And they don't have a Dedication on board?"
{Theresa} "Don't get addicted to it. I get the feeling that coming down off of the high will be painful."
{Random_Nerd} Message: "Well, if the 'running the universe' thing doesn't work out, you can always be a barista."
{Random_Nerd} He goes over to the phone and starts calling a cab.
{Brian} "Or could Dedication represent the whole Familia?"
{Random_Nerd} William: "If there's a Dedication who isn't Duty... uh... give me a moment."
{DanteE} "Dedication... persistence...
{plainNondescriptGuyette } to Dante: giggle "I don't know... let's the flow drive us" *wink*
{Random_Nerd} William: "If there is, he isn't in my books under that name."
{DanteE} "(!) Dedication to a _cause_"
{Brian} "Is there a possibly more complete listing of Nobles elsewhere? Or complementary, anyway?"
{Theresa} (Dude, I think you just insulted them.)
{Random_Nerd} William: "The Camorra may have one. If we did, I would have a copy."
{DanteE} "... Dedication in the face of opposition. Uhoh."
{Random_Nerd} William: "This is my specialty, or a big part of it at least."
{Brian} (*shrug*)
{DanteE} "... it might be _me_."
{Brian} "I'm well inclined to believe that if you don't know of one, there isn't one, but we should try to be as sure as we can, right?"
{Random_Nerd} William: "I'll put it on the Open Questions List, then."
{Brian} "Dante, you're Courage and Blades. Dedication doesn't really fit into that. Not really."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "Noo, Dante, you are too nice to be "
{Brian} (it's part of his job description to not care about being insulted by Nobles :p)
{Theresa} (The man has pride in his group, though.)
{Random_Nerd} (Besides, he knows enough about Nobles to know how much he /doesn't/ know about Nobles.)
{Random_Nerd} William: "I can say this. If there is one, he's probably not on Earth, or near it."
{Random_Nerd} William: "Our records on the Nobles of Earth are pretty good."
{DanteE} "... Loyalty?"
{Brian} "That takes it out of the realm of 'our issue' for now, anyway, I think."
{DanteE} "or allegiance?"
{Random_Nerd} William: "Anyway, before I forget. If I can get an expert from the Aides to help with the Dementia Animus, can I have you owe them one consulting visit from a non-Noble expert?"
{Brian} "Keep it in mind if news comes up that could fit, but trying to worry about what it might mean will just drive us more thoroughly insane. Some sanity is an asset with attempting to deal with others."
{Brian} "Yes, that would be acceptable."
{DanteE} "Point."
{Random_Nerd} William: "I'll have it done. If their expert can get to a city or forest, can you provide transportation?"
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "I can provide transportation"
{Brian} "We can."
{Theresa} "So, Message, is the coffee satisfactory?"
{Random_Nerd} Message is currently standing by the street, waiting for his cab.
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (was massage gone with a cab?)
{Random_Nerd} William: "I'll get it done, and start looking into the Dedication question. Might be under a different name."
{Brian} "Worth also looking at whether any Excrucians go by that name, or similar."
{Random_Nerd} William: "Our records are much worse on them, but I can try."
{Theresa} (Ah, sorry. I had missed the barista comment. And here I was, going to offer him a share in my coffee empire...)
{DanteE} "Excrucians wouldn't even have the concept."
{Theresa} (Although I'm sure that such a coffee is an attack against Sleep.  :) )
{Random_Nerd} William: "Anything else?"
{Brian} "Not that I can think of at the moment."
{Random_Nerd} William: "Okay, I'll get on those things, and call you when I have something new."
{DanteE} "William... put the complete text of what the Barkeep said down under 'TBD', and
{DanteE} "see if you can find more info on Shirk."
{Random_Nerd} (TBD?)
{Random_Nerd} William: "I'll try."
{DanteE} (To Be Determined)
{Random_Nerd} William: "Order of priority?"
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (determine if Dante goes out with me?)
{DanteE} "We know a little about Shirk...
{DanteE} "and the barkeep didn't just pull those names out of his ass."
{DanteE} to Kite: "You have any idea what he (Ftisk) wants?"
{Kite} "That would have been amusing, if indecent."
{Kite} "A first date?"
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex ?)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "yep Kite"
{Random_Nerd} William: "Okay, I'll just try to make some progress on all three."
{DanteE} (I don't like you in THAT way! :P )
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (I like you in _that_ way!)
{Theresa} (Okay, who slipped Ftisk the Viagra spam?)
{Random_Nerd} William hangs up.
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (Ftisk make the cialis spam :-P )
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "So? You have _fear_ of a date with me, Dante?"
{Random_Nerd} (Okay, now. If we want to cut ahead to a later time, this is a decent place to do it. It's also a decent place to end the session, if you guys are running low on awakeners or inspiration.)
{Brian} (running low on steam here)
{Brian} (not overly bad, but low)
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (is ok to stop for me, but I want a Dante-answer)
{Theresa} (brick?)
{Kite} (I'm fine with cutting ahead or stopping)
{DanteE} "I just don't see what a 'date' would accomplish, Ftisk."
{Kite} "The snail wants romance."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "Is because I'm a snail? I can be whatever you want for you!"
{plainNondescriptGuyette } (great kite!")
{DanteE} "... we'll talk later."
{plainNondescriptGuyette } "Is not postponing the answer..."
{DanteE} (and part of that talk might involve hiring a third Aide to keep him on a leash)
{Random_Nerd} _______________STOP__________________

  • Brian has that "I'm intentionally not listening to this" face

=-= YOU are now known as Angelo
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus

  • Kite Verithe

{Theresa} Interesting...
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
{lazarus} ubercoffee for the win

  • Angelo sad, I have not done the ldiv I want to do...

=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
{Angelo} and good session!
{Angelo} I enjoy it
{Knockwood} Well, that was... strange. :)
{Angelo} ah, Knock, too heavy on Dante?
{Knockwood} maybe a little
{Random_Nerd} Your milkshake brings all the shapeshifters to the yard, Dante.
{Angelo} okok, I'll tune things down then
{Knockwood} I'll have to remember that...
{Angelo} well all brain death?
{Random_Nerd} So, does anyone want to register a theory as to what's going on?
{BethE} Yeah, I possibly exceeded the recommended dose of caffeine in that drink. *sigh*
{Knockwood} OK, how much attention should we be giving to this 'prophecy'?
{Random_Nerd} (I'm not rule-zero fishing, /I/ know what's going on, and indeed have been planting seeds for some of this for a while.)
{BethE} *pfft* I know better than to guess.
{lazarus} you know my MO: "what's going on" only matters in so much as it inconveniences us :p
{Random_Nerd} It's not irrelevant, or a red-herring.
{Random_Nerd} And you pretty much have sufficient information to know who's responsible.
{lazarus} it looked actual-prophecy-like, and quite possibly related to the turn of Ages (however, not directly: only through a Byzantine web of cause-and-effect that those originating the prophecy don't even realize)
{Angelo} uhm... I have to reread all to give a meaning to this session
{Knockwood} does it actually involve Duty, or is that a metaphor?
{Random_Nerd} Unclear.
{lazarus} We haven't yet met the First King, right?
{Knockwood} Speaking of which don't forget to post the log
{Random_Nerd} You have not.
{Angelo} I bet on the metaphor
{BethE} First King is rather ambiguous.
{Angelo} wait, The logs are on the wiki
{Knockwood} Well, don't forget Sueridus is Lord Sueridus...
{Angelo} http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Session_158
{Knockwood} Aha.... Sueridus has the title King, and is one of the 'Four Kings'
{Knockwood} well, may be one of the 4
{Random_Nerd} Ties into the "first king" bit, at least.
{Kite} What are the Four Kings?
{Kite} As far as what's currently known.
{Random_Nerd} Sam seemed to think that they were a group of specific Excrucians, that had something to do with corruption, and that some Nobles have a grudge against.
{Kite} Ah
{Random_Nerd} William thought that Sueridus, at least, was at least possibly a Strategist.
{lazarus} I'm calling it a night now. I want to get a few other things in before bed. so, g'night, and see y'all next week.
{Angelo} Strategist, nice peoples...
{Knockwood} Session 101. freezing mentioned him.
{Random_Nerd} And you've heard a couple times that their formal names are avoided, but it's unclear why./
{Kite} Take care, Lazarus.
{Angelo} night Laz
{Knockwood} g'night Laz
{BethE} Night, Laz! *HUG*
{Random_Nerd} G'night, Laz.
{--| lazarus has left #Nobilis
{Angelo} Maybe for a pattern like gift?
{BethE} I should try to get to bed too. Good night, all! *HUGS* Good game!  :)
{Random_Nerd} Oh, for the bonus no-prize, how do the events of this session tie into Patterns' paranoia?
{Angelo} Night Beth
{Knockwood} They don't!
{Kite} Night, Beth!
{Knockwood} g’night Beth
{Random_Nerd} They do!
{Kite} Unless that's why most people don't speak Sueridus's name.
{Random_Nerd} Not that, something else
{Random_Nerd} One of Patterns' worries is of the involuntary prophecy thing that happened to the bartender happening to him.
|{-- BethE has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?)
{Random_Nerd} It's currently unclear whether he's correct to worry about this, or just insane.
{Random_Nerd} Just thought I'd mention that, to tie this back into that.
{Knockwood} of course, that may mean that subjecting someone to DA sends part of their minds across the Wall
{Angelo} uhm...
{Knockwood} Either that or ... they're HERE.
{Angelo} need some test!
{Random_Nerd} Well, depends where the prophecy is from.
{Knockwood} The first part would mean the Doc probably can't help
{Random_Nerd} Bear in mind, the prophecy thing is not something that is normal in DA.
{Random_Nerd} William was surprised and confused by it, even though he'd just been talking with an expert on DA.
{Angelo} well, we can give the barkeeper to the ones curing the transmogrified peoples.... they had psychological experience
{Knockwood} careful about word getting out, Nobles will be breaking people's brains just to get hints/
{Angelo} well, can become a nice past-time
{Angelo} for Nobilis a least
{Random_Nerd} Anyway, I'm heading out. Good session, guys.
{Knockwood} good night RN
{Kite} Good night
{Angelo} Night RN
{Knockwood} and I think I'll split too
|{-- Random_Nerd has left irc.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: )
{Knockwood} good night guys
{Angelo} Knock, if Ftisk was a female, not a snail... will thing have been different?
{Kite} G'night, KW
{Knockwood} dunno, Angelo
{Angelo} uhm
{Angelo} racist! (Snailist?) :-P
{Kite} Perhaps Ftisk should add the imp's sculpture to his list of lovers. :P
{Angelo} well, I go. Was a nice session.
{Knockwood} Dante's trying to avoid irritating anyone powerful and keep himself and his image together while saving the world. :)
{Knockwood} g'night Angelo, Kite.
{Angelo} uhm... is a worth idea... I'll think on it a bit
{Kite} G'night!
{--| YOU (Angelo) have left #Nobilis


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