Session 162

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Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 19

LOG By Beth

BethE: It's a blarg night for me...been that sort of day. But there are Girl Scout cookies! ^^
BethE: Made from the finest of coconut girl scouts...
Verithe: Yay, Girl Scout cookies!

      • Knockwood has joined #nobilis.

Knockwood: Hi guys, sorry I'm late
BethE: H Knock! It's okay. Angelo's not here yet, which isn't like him.
Knockwood: it's the time change
Random_Nerd: Oh, that is possible.

  • Verithe nods

BethE: *nod*
BethE: Sorry for taking so much time with the meeting last week.
Knockwood: so, who's playing the Noble of Spectacle? :)
BethE: Oh and did you guys here that more things have gone wrong with the Haydron Collider? ^^
Knockwood: hadn't heard...
BethE: They're suspecting time travelers, possibly in shiny metal suits.
BethE: Or that it breaks itself to keep from creating the particles it wants.
Verithe: I enjoyed the meeting, but I hadn't heard about the Collider incidents.
Knockwood: so, is this the week we'll be going on the hunting trip?
Random_Nerd: Yeah.
Random_Nerd: At least, if Angelo shows up. I figure, it's his character motivation, so I've got an alternative planned if he doesn't show.
lazarus: ok, I'm back with food.
lazarus: I've decided that Brian doesn't much like the thought of going off hunting Shards or whatever. Instead, he's likely to be either co-ordinating the collider project again, or experimenting with summoning. Or Summoning. Whichever.
Random_Nerd: Okay, is there an NPC who would go along, that you want to play instead?
Knockwood: If we come back to find that half the populace has been eaten we will NOT be happy...
Random_Nerd: Lesson or the Aides are the most obvious choices, at least.
lazarus: I've sort of been thinking of an NPC who as far as I know hasn't shown up yet. A Head of Security type - not Lesson and his Bureau, but more ... head of CSIS or CIA, maybe? Just a plain mortal, but someone whose job may involve being around the Nobles.
lazarus: Nothing has really solidified past that, but it's a thought and an aspect I don't think we've delved into yet.
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Someone Amyran, or a foreigner?
lazarus: Amyran.
Knockwood: And why would he be along on a shard hunt?
BethE: True, bringing a mortal to a shard hunt is...well, unless they're bait...
lazarus: Not really "secret agent" but that sort of template. The thought I had was that the civilian government would want more information on the Shards, and on the hunt they'd be protected by the Nobles. In theory.
lazarus: It would likely have been worded as a "polite request".
Knockwood: and would have been replied to with a 'hell no'
Knockwood: Shards are dangerous to _us_.
Random_Nerd: Well, there are ways to protect a mortal, short-term at least.
Knockwood: hm... maybe the government has appointed a liaison?
Random_Nerd: It would tie in well to the last session.
lazarus: someone highly skilled (for a mortal, at least) in Not Being Seen.
Knockwood: ... Herb's Ninja?
BethE: "We get to send our guy that we want killed off and if you don't take him, we won't play with your demon?"
Random_Nerd: Herb's Ninja has been with you at all times. You just never noticed.
Random_Nerd: It's like the story with the two sets of footprints, only with extra shurikens.
Knockwood: y'know, maybe somebody should be playing our ex-PCs. :/
lazarus: there's probably a whole game universe devoted to our ex-PCs
Random_Nerd: As, what, a sort of Nobilis version of Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are DeaD?
lazarus: :D
Knockwood: There is. Why do you think Entropy looks different every time we see him? :)
BethE: We could play Red's cows? ^^
lazarus: We need a suitably EPIC! name for this mortal who's to hang out with Nobles. And perhaps even survive!
Knockwood: (just occurred to me... if Angelo got the direction of the time change confused, he might not be here until _2_ hours after session start.)
Verithe: What would be considered "epic" as far as this sort of name goes?
lazarus: (aye. We were worried about that last week, IIRC.)
Knockwood: Max Fightmaster.
lazarus: I'm thinking along the lines of "Johnny Storm", "James Bond" or other classic sounding spy names.
Verithe: Heh
Knockwood: (Link: http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_the-9-manliest-names-in-world.html
Knockwood: Slightly more seriously:
lazarus: ... John Doe the Power of Anonymity and the Spy? (sometimes confused with Jane Doe)
Knockwood: If someone in the military has a brainwave, they might send someone from their Special Forces to see just what we're talking about when we talk about fighting Shards.
BethE: Anatolie McSkirt. Anna, if you want to make him angry.
Knockwood: so, imagine a SEAL Major or Colonel.
Random_Nerd: (A wordle of a random session, PC-names removed: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1802743/Amyra_113
Verithe: Cain Stone
lazarus: "wordle"?
lazarus: looks like a tag cloud ... of words from the session?
Random_Nerd: Just follow the link, it should be self-explanatory.
Random_Nerd: Pretty much, yeah.
Knockwood: Someone mortal, but with ... (How the hell does 'think' get so big with _this_ group? :) )
Knockwood: ... exceptional Attributes
lazarus: (we keep trying to remind ourselves to do it?)
Random_Nerd: Okay, still no Angelo. Should we do a non-hunting mini-arc, or do it without him?
Random_Nerd: (Or wait ten minutes and see if he shows then)
lazarus: mini-arc, I think.
Random_Nerd: Everyone else?

BethE: (We keepsaying that we think this might work?)
lazarus: (Doctor Steel sounds like an awesome supervillain name)
Random_Nerd: If there are no other opinions, I'll start the sesson, and the lead-in to the mini-arc.

      • Verithe has joined #nobilis.

Verithe: <.<

      • lazarus is now known as Brian.

Knockwood: We could create this liaison

      • Knockwood is now known as DanteE.
      • Verithe is now known as Kite.

Random_Nerd: That works. Which do you guys want to do?
Brian: might be worth doing, if we expect Angelo to show sometime soonish
BethE: Your nonFtisk thing is fine with me.
Random_Nerd: Okay, then we'll start in Amyra, with you guys doing that.

      • You are now known as Theresa.

Random_Nerd: Start in the clock-tower office, or where?
Theresa: (Would they have mentioned this to me at the meeting?)
Kite: (What are we doing?)
DanteE: Well, what's the word on the barkeep?
Random_Nerd: He's currently being treated.
Random_Nerd: He's showing signs of improvement already, as while he still sees the mythic, he's able to do so in a more functional rather than pathological sense.
Theresa: (I feel bad about the humanshrink. I know that to Dionyl, people who treat bodies aren't important but still...)
Random_Nerd: No more seemingly-oracular outbursts.
DanteE: Bummer, I was about to head to the casino... :)
Random_Nerd: Okay, we'll start with you guys in your office, trying to set a liason up.
Random_Nerd: ___________________START___________________
Random_Nerd: (This is you guys' plot idea, so I'll let you take the initiative until you get the ball rolling.)

  • Kite finishes eating a fish.

Theresa: "So, they're willing to work with Lesson and everything but...we have to babysit."
Brian: "How so?"

  • DanteE comes in from the bar...

DanteE: "Well, they're treating the guy."
Theresa: "That's good." *smile* "Although random prophecies out of nowhere will take getting used to."
Random_Nerd: (From what you've heard, the Dionyl guy is philosophically weird, like a cross between a Stoic and a solopsist, but he's getting some results.)
Theresa: "And babysit in that...they want to watch us work. In battle. To see how things...happen, around Nobles. So we have to take someone they specify."
Random_Nerd: William: "That might actually work. You'll have to make sure he survives, so he can tell them what it's really like."
Theresa: "Although I warned them that the mind of their person may end up as a green colored goo on the floor. They started suggesting a Marine, then..."
Random_Nerd: William: "Hmm. I doubt they'd be persuaded by a thought-record, even if we could wrangle a machine..."
Brian: "Making sure that they survive is likely the hard part..."
Random_Nerd: William: "Make sure the fight's with a Warmain shard. Some of them actually go out of their way not to kill non-combatants."
DanteE: "Who's this you're talking about?"
Brian: "The generals T met with want someone to watch us."
Theresa: "I had a talk with some of the military about cooperating with Lesson and his men in cases of the Chancel coming under attack.:
Theresa: "We'll have to make sure that he doesn't go nuts being exposed to miracles."
DanteE: "Hm.... William, how exactly did the Aides train you so that your brain doesn't explode?"
Kite: "That sounds like a pain."
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Slight bit of meta-gaming. Just to prevent needless complications, I'll say that due to certain specific traits of the individual running the shard-hunt, keeping a human alive in a fight would be distinctly easier than it normally would.)
Random_Nerd: William: "Poorly. You saw how badly I handled Locus Barakiel."
DanteE: (Is Sam here?)
Random_Nerd: (Yes.)
DanteE: "Sam, how about you?"
Random_Nerd: William: "And a lot of it's just looking the other way when miracles are being thrown around."
Random_Nerd: William: "But, yeah. Four-month course, five hours a week."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Didn't have to take it."
Random_Nerd: William: "You're /Dionyl/. That's /cheating/."
DanteE: "Hm."
Theresa: "True, Dionyl are used to differences in the world. Humans have a hard time with mixing regular with Mythic."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "I hear splinter eremites don't even have to take the short 'look away when there's a miracle' course. But I bet that's because nobody can /tell/ if they go crazy."
Brian: (... I forgot about DA entirely when coming up with this idea. Though Dante's been able to temporarily reduce it with a ... direct miracle ... of courage)
Theresa: "Is that what the doctor you brought back is?"
DanteE: (That's what I'm thinking. Would a Miracle of Courage help hold a mortal together?)
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Yeah. A moderate, he's at least willing to talk with city-dionyl like me, but yeah."
Kite: (I forgot, what were the requested restrictions during the hunt?)
Theresa: (Don't have loud flashy miracles.)
Random_Nerd: (It'd help. A Change of Courage, done pre-emptively, would protect quite well indeed for at least a storyline worth of time.)
DanteE: (unless they can be disguised as Thunder)
Random_Nerd: (No weapons that make sounds that could not be mistaken for thunder. No vehicles that are not pulled by living creatures.)
Theresa: "Are there a lot of conflicts between the two types? As much as between Light and Dark folks?"
Theresa: (No SUV.)
Random_Nerd: Sam: "As much as between communists and capitalists."
Random_Nerd: William: "As much as between Catholics and Hugenots. During the French Religous Wars."

  • Kite wonders if he should be human or avian for the hunt.

Random_Nerd: Sam: "The main difference is that Nobles and Imperators aren't hidden, on Dionyl. We don't have an Entropy enforcing that."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "So these aren't just disputes between Nobles, they're between the actual normal people."
Brian: "... I should've expected that." (sound of Brian's lightbulb going on)
DanteE: (uhoh)
DanteE: "Let's see... figure the government's liaison will want to see everything we do in order to assess what's happening...
Random_Nerd: William: "Could it actually have some persuasive power if he came back suffering some symptoms?"
DanteE: "and, well, we want him to see something, after all."
Brian: "Possibly, though I'm not sure that symptoms would persuade in a manner amenable to us."
DanteE: "If that happened some people might blame us."
Theresa: "I don't want to freak out the military...with undue reason."
DanteE: "I think it would be better if someone they trusted told them, yes, it is dangerous, and here's what we can do."
DanteE: (ding! Remember the guy I gave a medal to?)
Random_Nerd: William: "Then the best thing I can think of is all of you come up with the best pre-emptive miraculous protection for him that you can figure out."
Brian: "the problem is someone they trust"
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... which guy?)
DanteE: (He was the one who prevented the troops in Mexico from getting shot)
Theresa: (Ooo, the cool dude!)
Random_Nerd: (Oh, hmm. Let me review the log for that one, it's been a while.)
DanteE: (Then again, he might not be awesome enough. :) )
Random_Nerd: (Then make him /more/ awesome.)
Brian: (awesome can always be added. I've got a syringe of it right here. *points*)
Theresa: (We can do it. We have the miracle points.)
Random_Nerd: (Make like you're the Unconquered Sun, and tell him to go kick ass in your name.)
Brian: (I wonder what the power of Awesome would be like?)
Theresa: (The dude from Chuck?)
Brian: (snort point to the gm)
Brian: (Captain Awesome or Chuck?)
DanteE: (Chuck Norris.)
Theresa: (Captain Awesome.)
DanteE: (Come to think of it, what's a good name for the Amyran Special Forces?)
Brian: (ASF works for me)
Theresa: (Kings of the Air.)
DanteE: (Kings of the Water for their SEALs...)
Random_Nerd: (So, should we get Lieutenant Davidson in here?)
DanteE: "Hm... what do we know about that guy Davidson, who got that medal for saving those troops in Mexico?"
Kite: (sounds good to me)
Kite: "Nothing."
Random_Nerd: Williams: "Not a bad idea. He's seen unusual situations before, and kept his head. That's the personality type that does well with this stuff."
Brian: "Remind me about him?"
DanteE: "Actually, right now William knows more about him than we do..."
Theresa: "He's the guy that kept the Amyran soldiers who went travelling right after the Chancel was formed from being shot in Mexico. William brought them back."
Random_Nerd: William: "Back when you first hired me and Sam. Some Amyran troops ended up in Mexico City, due to wacky miraculous hijinks of some kind that I was never quite clear on at the time."
Kite: "Fascinating."
Random_Nerd: William: "When a bunch of strangers in foreign military uniform and with weapons showed up, most of whom didn't speak Spanish at all, and none of whom spoke it well, he was able to talk both them and the Mexican police down enough that nobody got shot."
Theresa: "Basically, we didn't say quick enough 'Don't go into the jungle, we don't know where that goes.'"
Random_Nerd: William: "Ah. More Sam's area than mine, then."
Random_Nerd: William: "I still don't understand how that stuff works."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "But I never would have known that reference about French people killing each other for religious reasons..."
DanteE: "Not just French, Sam.
Random_Nerd: Sam: "I know basically nothing about France that I didn't see in that one movie with the killer rabbit."
Random_Nerd: William sighs.
DanteE: "The, ah, 'philosopher' George Carlin liked to point out how God was the leading cause of death."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Oh, right, this was before Entropy set up the current program. Which god?"
Random_Nerd: William mouths the word "metaphor."
DanteE: "Most of them, really..."
Theresa: (Wait, Sam's idea of French people is based on the French in the Holy Grail? Oh...dear.)

  • Kite ponders the proverb.

DanteE: "Anyway. Can we get a hold of the lieutenant's dossier?"
Brian: (I was expecting a recent Amyran movie featuring the Giant Rabbit as Godzilla analogue)
Kite: (we should take Sam on a tour of France)
Random_Nerd: (In many ways, Sam knows earth about as well as that guy in the comic store who adds japanese honorifics to words at random actually knows about Japan.)
Random_Nerd: William: "I still have it in my office, from when you gave him the medal. One moment."
Random_Nerd: William steps out.
DanteE: "Assuming he didn't react to what happened by deciding to call it a career..."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Going to Mexico and not quite being shot?"
DanteE: "For no rational reason."
Theresa: (He would wear a beret and insult everyone with a John Cleese accent.)
Brian: (that would be awesome)
Theresa: "I hope he gave his high school Spanish teacher a boquet of flowers."
DanteE: (I can't imagine "Go away or I will taunt you a second time!" working on, say, a Shard)
Random_Nerd: William comes back in. "Captain Roland Davidson. Twenty-six years old, Amyran born, not particular notable experience in the military before the occasion that brought him to your notice."
Brian: (Dante: it can if you're the Noble of John Cleese, or the Power of Awesome. With enough Penetration, of course)
DanteE: (or ... Scorn.)
Kite: (or Taunts?)
Random_Nerd: William: "Nice guy. Joined the army after college. Hasn't seen combat, other than the situation in Mexico."
DanteE: (Think, Kite: /Scorn/.)
Random_Nerd: He leafs through the folder.
Random_Nerd: William: "Midly pro-Noble in his political leanings."
Random_Nerd: William: "Need any more details?"
Brian: (Big E?)
DanteE: "That helps, though I wonder if we shouldn't find someone with more experience..."
Brian: "How much experience has he had with the supernatural, other than the pathways?"
Random_Nerd: William: "Amyra... didn't really go to war all that often, as near as I can tell."
DanteE: (Then again, what's the last war Amyra was in?)
DanteE: (jinx)
Random_Nerd: (World War 2.)
Theresa: (We are like a sandy Switzerland...)
Random_Nerd: (Didn't do a whole lot there, either.)
DanteE: (Veterns would be ~90, so scratch that...)
Brian: (not the Korean or Vietnam? I would've expected Amyra to have been part of NATO and later the UN)
Brian: (err, maybe not NATO)
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. You might have sent troops over to help, but Amyra was not formally at war, and wouldn't have sent many.)
DanteE: (And we're assuming Amyra doesn't have its finger in several places like the US...)
Random_Nerd: (You haven't had a war on your own soil in /forever/. While Amyra isn't quite as hard to access as it was in the days of Prestor John, it's still very defensible, given how many potential bottlenecks there would be to stop invaders.)
Random_Nerd: (Amyra's a lot smaller than the US, and less internationally active.)
Random_Nerd: (Most of your international influence was economic, rather than military.)
DanteE: (Then again, there's no reason to assume we don't have some kind of Special Forces...)
Random_Nerd: (You do, just in case. But I'd say that the main Amyran Army functions in some ways more like the US National Guard, in terms of what they actually do most of the time.)
Theresa: (This. Is. Amyra?)
Random_Nerd: (Or, rather, the pre 9/11 national guard.)
DanteE: (If that's true, that would mean someone who's 'active' is already Special Forces...)
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. The most obvious type of "special forces" types are more likely police SWAT-equivalents, rather than soldiers as such.)
Random_Nerd: William: "Should I notify the Army that we'd like to see him? He's..." *leafs through pages* "Currently stationed near Kaerkoven."
Brian: "Sounds like a plan."
DanteE: "Depends. Can you 'sell' him as a liaison?"
Random_Nerd: William: "I think so. He's respected for his age, and we can point to the Mexico situation to show that he's good at dealing with the unusual."
DanteE: (And, at 26, isn't he older than most of us goofy Nobles?)
Brian: (all but Brian and T, I believe?)
Random_Nerd: William: "A bit low-ranking, but I think once the higher-ups get a good description of what you guys actually do, they won't want to butt in."
Kite: "Sounds like a good idea."
Random_Nerd: William: "If you want, I can try to get them to get him here in an hour or two, so he'll be ready in time for your hunting trip."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Ooh, can I come, and wear a linen suit and a pith helmet?"
DanteE: "Let's make sure we're together on this...
Random_Nerd: William: "Wrong hat. That's for archaeologists."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "So, what, a fedora? A stetson?"
Brian: "A tricorn."
DanteE: "I may be able to use a miracle of Courage to inure him to what we do while we all go on the hunting trip.
Random_Nerd: Sam: "But those are /so/ two years ago."
DanteE: "... actually, William, would our hosts be OK with his presence?"
Brian: "Bandannas are always classy"
Random_Nerd: William: "Hmm... I don't think they specified that you couldn't bring any human servants."
DanteE: (Hunters? Trucker caps, or possibly beer hats. :) )
Brian: (... heh. My D&D character - a Warforged - enjoys wearing different hats. As a warforged, he believes that a hat makes a disguise. The idea is that it's not "a warforged in a HAT!" it's "a warforged in a TRICORN!" or "... BANDANNA!" or the like)
DanteE: "Can you check that, just in case?"
Theresa: "For hunting? Depends on the culture. Cowboy hat, baseball hat, bright orange vest..."
Theresa: "Perhaps one of those white panama hats?"
DanteE: "Oh, reminds me... who all wants to go on the hunt?"
Brian: "A bowler is classy. Old-style."
Random_Nerd: WIlliam: "Sam, you check that, I'll get Davidson over here."
Brian: "I'm staying back. Not really my thing."

  • Kite raises his wing.

Random_Nerd: Sam: "Okay. Contact information on your desk?"
DanteE: "I'll go..."
Random_Nerd: William: "In the Oracle. Remember, can't just use prayers, so have to communicate through the Society."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Got it."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "And then, where can I get a white panama hat?"
DanteE: "Theresa, you coming on the hunt?"
Random_Nerd: William: "I'll see if I can get Davidson here, and at least provisionally approved as a liason."
Random_Nerd: William: "Anything else?"
Theresa: "Might as well. I'm still waiting on the feedback from the Doomsday vault and on the rooftop gardens in Detroit."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "You have a doomsday vault?"
DanteE: "Oh... did you ever get the clay for the Imp?"
Random_Nerd: William: "Yes. I didn't know what particular type to get, but I got a bunch of different types."
DanteE: "Uh... where is he?"
Theresa: "Not me personally. I't s a vault in Norway for holding seeds in case of global emergency. They just hit half a million samples."
Random_Nerd: William: "When I last saw him, he was in one of the rooms on floor two."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Awww..."
Random_Nerd: (Disappointed Sam. He wanted Theresa to have a vault full of death rays and nuclear zepplins.)
Brian: (T is, sadly, not the Power of Awesome)
DanteE: (Commission a zeppelin for our use immediately!)
Random_Nerd: (Weird Science: NUCLEAR ZEPPLINS!)
Brian: (:D)
Brian: (This is not helping my urge to run a Spirit of the Century or Slipstream game.)
Random_Nerd: William steps out.
Brian: (Despite not having SotC)
Kite: "So, what sort of travel were you guys planning on, since you can't use the Dantemobile?"
Random_Nerd: Sam sits in a chair, and stares off into space.
DanteE: "Good question, actually...
DanteE: "I figured they'd have a carriage or cart or something."
DanteE: (Then again, 3 of us can fly)
Kite: "They're picking us up?"
Theresa: (Does Theresa seem like the type to have a death ray vault?)
Random_Nerd: (Hope springs eternal.)
Kite: (She /is/ the Noble of a Wildlord.)
Brian: (hence, it's not a vault of death rays. It's a vault that IS a death ray)
DanteE: (Hope has a death ray?)
Random_Nerd: (Now face the might of this /fully operational/ doomsday vault!)
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Okay. Didn't say anything ruling out human retainers."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "And I get the impression that if you're trying to come up with transportation, horses or chariots would be ideal."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Hey, don't you have that one really good horse?"
DanteE: "Come to think of it, where is this hunt? We can try to blend in..."
DanteE: "The one that kills everything around it?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "It doesn't /automatically/ kill everyone..."
Theresa: "You mean the one that Snow kept off of an Excrucian?"
Kite: "That sounds like a really /bad/ horse
Random_Nerd: (The horse is a focus for "Lesser Destruction of Humans, Simple Miracle, Local Only, One Person, Limited Selection, Uncommon.)
Random_Nerd: (Wait, not One Person.)
Random_Nerd: (But otherwise, yes.)
Random_Nerd: (It's also an Anchor of Snow.)
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Besides, it's a trophy taken from a defeated Shard."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Gives you more street cred."
DanteE: "Only thing left is a wooden cart, then... Theresa?"
Theresa: "They can tell it automatically or do we have to announce it, like waving someone's decapitated head around?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "That thing is so obviously one of Their horses, you won't need to say it."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Okay, William's busy, so I need to be Organization Guy. Chariot for those of you who can't fly, flying for those who can?"
Theresa: "Should we ask Snow before we just take off with one of her Anchors?"
Brian: "If they don't want to upset the local mortals - my impression of the weapons thing - then perhaps flying may not be the best mode of transportation?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Just guise it while you're flying, and you'll fit in."
DanteE: "If that was a concern they wouldn't have invited the floating snail..."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Wait, can you fly? I forget."
Kite: "If it's upsetting that a bird can fly, I must wonder as to the nature of the locals."
DanteE: "I just learned, actually."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "It is characteristic of my life that keeping track of which people I know can fly is a work in progress."
Brian: "I don't fly, well, not really. I just jump really weirdly. Anyway, I'm staying back, too, remember"
Random_Nerd: (He says that in a pretty good impression of William's voice.)
Theresa: "I'll at least need the chariot. Running around on my own might not be the best way nor is it usual for one at my age to be able to Batman my way around."
DanteE: "Reminds me. If we get another aide for the Nobles from Vulcan... (to Kite) you know, if you feel it necessary...
DanteE: "(to Sam) You think the three of you would be able to work together without too much trouble?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "If they're from the Society?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Aides work well with other Aides, unless they're working for hostile Families. It's in the job description."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Professionalism, you know?"
DanteE: "Of course.
Kite: "Wonderful. I certainly would like to look into that sometime after we get back."
DanteE: "The real trick is finding something that can handle Ftisk..."
DanteE: (I asked where the hunt was some time back...)
Random_Nerd: (Sam didn't answer. He got distracted.)
Random_Nerd: (Theresa had just mentioned a doomsday vault.)
Random_Nerd: (And... Sam.)
DanteE: "Sam? Where's the hunt taking place?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "I think somewhere in Wyoming?"
Theresa: "Why oming?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "I have enough details on a nearby forest that I can get you a path to there, at least."
Theresa: (I couldn't resist...)
Kite: "Wyoming? They don't have cars in Wyoming?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "I thought they did. I can check if you want."
DanteE: "Yeah, what's with the restrictions?"
DanteE: "Unless we're going back in time..."
Theresa: "Their hunt, their rules."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "I think it's more a matter of personal eccentricity than practical concerns."
DanteE: "... again..."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "That, or some sort of weird geas or something."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Huh. Can Excrucians attack the past?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Just running around, stomping on butterflies..."
Kite: "I never really thought about it..."
Theresa: "I think it would be considering unsporting by Warmains and too easy by Strats?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "I guess that wouldn't really give them that much advantage."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "I mean, the Noble being attacked could still feel it."
Brian: "And Time would probably get pissed"
Random_Nerd: William steps back in.
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Messing with Time might get the /angels/ pissed. I mean, they made it."
Random_Nerd: William: "Please tell me you guys aren't building a time machine."
Brian: "Not this time"
Random_Nerd: William immediately looks at Sam, who stifles a giggle.
Random_Nerd: William: "We've got them to approve Davidson as a provisional liason, and he's being sent up in a helicopter."
Theresa: "Thank you, William."

  • Theresa reaches under a table and pulls out a perfect white panama hat for Sam. "Here you are, Sam."

Random_Nerd: Sam: "Hey, cool.
Random_Nerd: Sam seems to think for a moment, and unwraps some of the colorful scarves wrapped around his head, leaving his empty headlessness completely exposed. Then he puts the hat on.
Random_Nerd: William: "That always creeps me out."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Whatever, fleshbody."
Random_Nerd: Sam folds his removed scarves carefully, and puts them on the table.
Brian: "Hey Sam, have you ever read Star Wars comics?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "I've seen the movies."
Theresa: (We are not going to paint him like Yoda.)
Brian: "There's one droid in there - I forget which - who always refers to non-droids as 'fleshbags'"
Brian: "err, meatbags. Sorry."
Brian: "Or was that KOTOR?"
Brian: "Star Wars, anyway"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Fleshbag. I like that."
Random_Nerd: William gives Brian the "Oh, thank you so /very/ much" look.
DanteE: "I've played that. meatbags."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Hmm. Fleshbag or meatbag?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Which sounds better?"
DanteE: "ah... HK-47, I think."
Brian: "Fleshbag would be a bag of flesh. Meatbag is a bag for meat."
Random_Nerd: (Cut ahead to Davidson's arrival?)
DanteE: (better than the 'ugly bags of mostly water' from that one TNG episode...)
Kite: (Sure thing)
Brian: (sure)
DanteE: (OK)
Random_Nerd: You hear a knock on the door.
Brian: "Come in"

  • Kite begins building a house out of cards.

Random_Nerd: Davidson steps in, holding his hat under one arm.
Brian: (what rank is he, again?)
DanteE: (lieutenant)
Random_Nerd: (Captain. He got promoted after the Mexico Incident.)
Brian: "Welcome Captain. Please, have a seat if you'd like"
Random_Nerd: He's a little short, but on the stocky side. Wearing an Amyran Army uniform, unflattering glasses, and a short military haircut. Racially, he looks mostly white with a slight middle-eastern influence. He looks nervous.
Random_Nerd: Davidson: "The little monkey-thing downstairs said this was the place."
Random_Nerd: (Dante, you've probably met him before, if you gave him the medal personally.)
Random_Nerd: He remains standing.

  • DanteE stands up...

DanteE: "Good to meet you again, Captain."
Random_Nerd: Davidson: "I understand you want me to accompany you on an engagement with enemies from, uh, outside reality. So I can tell my bosses what it's like."

  • DanteE hold out his hand

Random_Nerd: He hesitates for a moment, and then shakes Dante's hand.
Brian: "not outside reality. Outside _Creation_."
Brian: (there's a pronounced uppercase on Creation)
Random_Nerd: Davidson: "I don't really understand the distinction."
DanteE: "What exactly have you heard about us?"
Random_Nerd: Sam: "To be fair, neither do we."
Brian: "It appears as though what's outside of Creation is still real ... of a sort, at least. Anyway."
Random_Nerd: Davidson: "Uh, you're the people who run the country now. I mean, parliament's still there, but they answer to you in some way I don't really get. And the King's agreed, too."
DanteE: "Hold on, we're not going outside Creation, just to another part of it."
Random_Nerd: Davidson: "I understand that you're some sort of... deputy angel, or something. And that sounds weird, but I've seen some weird stuff since that jungle showed up."
Brian: "Dante, he said the enemies from Outside, not that we were going Outside."
DanteE: "Ah yes. Subtle distinction..."
Random_Nerd: Davidson: "I understand that I'm just watching, not participating on this."
DanteE: "Sit down. This is going to take some exp-laining."
Random_Nerd: He stands for one more moment, and then pulls out a chair and sits down, setting his hat on the table.
Random_Nerd: (Shall we cut here? It's getting late.)
DanteE: (Now there's the question of just how much do we tell him...)
Kite: (Fine with me.)
Brian: (I haven't been able to see straight for a couple hours by now :p)
Random_Nerd: __________________STOP___________________
Theresa: Brains?

      • You are now known as BethE.
      • Brian is now known as lazarus.
      • DanteE is now known as Knockwood.
      • Kite is now known as Verithe.

Knockwood: wonder where Angelo went
Verithe: Maybe he forgot to set his alarm.
Random_Nerd: So, Laz, will you want to use Davidson as a proxy-PC for the hunt, or who?
BethE: He's been having a rough wekk, I hear.
lazarus: I think that Davidson's an ok character.
Knockwood: yeah, those wekks are a bitch... :)
Random_Nerd: Gnaw your face clean /off/.
Random_Nerd: So... should I put the Power of Spectacle in the game as some point?
lazarus: *sigh* when I'm in an almost-asleep state, I see things like that, and think "that would be an awesome monster!" and then it shows up when I next DM a game of D&D and everyone goes "wtf?" and I'm left going "I dunno, man..."
Knockwood: But... again, there's the question of how much he needs to know.
Knockwood: Well, would she be able to keep it down to just thunder? :)
Random_Nerd: Heh.
Knockwood: I do remember one poster wanted to play her...
Knockwood: you guys saw what we're talking about, right?
Verithe: I don't think so...
lazarus: no?
Knockwood: Link: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=504671
Random_Nerd: Post 20 or something.
Knockwood: 18
lazarus: oh, yeah. That.
lazarus: her.
lazarus: whatever.
lazarus: the suit!
Knockwood: Ax_ was the one who wanted to play her, in #20
Random_Nerd: Ah, that must be what I was thinking of.
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and the Creation of WTF includes making costumes. Not /any/ costume, but certainly any one that she'd actually wear.)
Knockwood: You'd have to stat up exactly what Lesser Creation of WTF does, tho. :)
Knockwood: jinx
Verithe: Hah
Random_Nerd: But, in general, it covers whatever a Wide Variety of WTF includes.
Random_Nerd: And the rule that "Any Nobilis Gift should scare the GM just a little" applies.
Random_Nerd: Anyway, I'm heading out.
Random_Nerd: Good session, guys.
lazarus: g'ngiht.
BethE: You should find that picture of Gaga that you said looked like Entropy, dear.
Knockwood: ... OK, now I both want and don't want to see that pic
Verithe: I think I've seen it and don't want to see it again. :(
Verithe: Take care!
Knockwood: do you have it handy?
Random_Nerd: I think....
Random_Nerd: Link: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/JonasAlbrecht/1264495897448.jpg
Knockwood: (and I'm making Wordles of the last few sessions...)
Knockwood: Ack!
lazarus: hee.
Random_Nerd: She's totally a Wildlord. And not a deep-cover one, either.


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