Session 175

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 21

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[Angelo] HI knock
[Verithe] How's everyone doing?
[Angelo] Fine, thank you.
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[Angelo] Hi Beth, hug!
[BethE] Hi guys! *HUGS*
[Knockwood] Hiya Beth
[Angelo] I have a question from last session
[Random_Nerd] Yes?
[Angelo] Why Brian using his autorictas ban Patterns from ever reenter in Will heads?
[Random_Nerd] It doesn't forever ban it.
[Random_Nerd] But it was enough to shake him out for the time being.
[BethE] It just smacks Pattern's metaphorical hands with a ruler.
[Angelo] oh, ok, but you in the transcript you say that will not return
[Random_Nerd] I did?
[Random_Nerd] If so, I misspoke.
[Random_Nerd] What did I say?
[Angelo] wait, I search for the line
[Angelo] found!
[Angelo] [Random_Nerd] William: "Okay, did you just come up with a way to fix what was just happening?"
[Angelo] [Brian] "Yes. You need to stay near me."
[Angelo] [Brian] "I'm fairly sure we can mention his name for the time being, as well."
[Angelo] and was Brian not you, sorry, miss remembered
=-= laz-backat10orso is now known as laz-soontobeaway
[Angelo] PichaBanana I choose you!
[Angelo] (returned! :-) )
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
[Kite] ﾋﾟｹﾊﾞﾅﾅ?
[Ftisk] what? Kite?
[Random_Nerd] Hmm.
[Kite] Pikabanana?
[Ftisk] picha chu from pokemon? =] pika-banana
[Kite] *nodnod*
[DanteE] (Did that come across as katakana to anyone else?)
[Ftisk] ( http://pikachuandpals.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/pikachu21.gif )
[Brian] (yay)
[Brian] (yah*)
[Random_Nerd] Okay. When we last stopped, you were getting a report about Aaron II, and Sam was talking about Aliens.
[Random_Nerd] Or Alien. I forget which.
[Brian] Aliens.
[Brian] the Power Loader.
[Brian] which Ftisk made for him
[Random_Nerd] Oh, true, he mentioned that, so it had to be Aliens.
[DanteE] (Reminds me, do you have edited logs up?)
[Random_Nerd] Ready?
[Random_Nerd] (Not yet. Sorry.)
[Theresa] Ready!
[Kite] http://www.serebii.net/blackwhite/gochiruzeru.png
[Ftisk] ready!
[Brian] Ready (with the caveat that once Sara's out of the shower, I'll be disappearing for a bit!)
[Kite] Ready!
[Random_Nerd] ___________________START______________
[Brian] "Nice power loader"
[DanteE] (We'll listen for the 'bow-chika-bow-bow' sounds, Brian. :) )

• Ftisk poke at Will, "Do a ride came on!"
  

[Brian] (... she's going to work, Dante ... :p)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Don't make any of the slavering alien things, please. They creep me out."
[Ftisk] (was for Sam? ops!)
[Theresa] (Yeah, if it was that kind of shower, Laz would not be online with us.)
[Kite] "So, about this fascinating prospective employee?"
[DanteE] (What's he planning with the power loader?)
[Ftisk] (keep away dollP?)
[Brian] (he just thought it was cool)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Any particular details you need?"
[DanteE] "Well, it is a power _loader_. You have anything heavy you want moved?
[Brian] "When can we meet ... him?"
[Kite] "When do we meet it?"
[Theresa] (How can a power loader work for a Dionyl? Wouldn't it be too static inside?)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Depends if you want him to come here, or to go to see him. The former would take longer, as it takes a while to requisition a way into Chancels."
[Brian] "Then my vote is to go see him."
[Brian] "It's always fun when we go outside the Chancel"
[Brian] "And by fun I mean the kind with explosions and death and pestilence"
[Kite] "I love to see new places. Where is it?"
[DanteE] "We haven't done pestilence yet, Brian, don't jinx us."
[Random_Nerd] William shuffles through his papers.
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "What about the thing with the bees? I heard about that."
[Theresa] "That wasn't quite pestilence, I think."
[Theresa] "Maybe slightly pollution."
[DanteE] "It's close, not not quite."
[Ftisk] "what? I /need/ to know more on these bees!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Ah, yes, he's currently on Dionyl, at the City of Brass Spires."
[Ftisk] " a path to there then!"
[DanteE] "Have you seen 'Ick', the zombie, yet?"
[Kite] "Oooh! I've never been to Dionyl before!"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Should be in my standard pathway list."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Dozens of times. It creeps me out."
[Ftisk] "Under back to home?"
[Kite] "It sounds like a wonderful place."
[Brian] (ok, I should be leaving for a bit. Hopefully not overly long. See you in a short while!)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I've never been there myself."
=-= Brian is now known as Brian-afk
[DanteE] (mine was to Ftisk, not Sam)
[Theresa] "The bees that were affected by a bad mystical cult were turned into part of a...Chancel guardian that is somewhat undead."
[Ftisk] ((oh, dont get it)
[Ftisk] "Nope? Who/what is this Ick?"

• Theresa LDivs where Ick is in the Chancel.
  
• Ftisk jump around while wait....
  

[Random_Nerd] William: "A sort of assistant to the demon. Ymera Kudzu made it, I understand, out of some dead people, giant dead bees encased in wood, that kind of thing."

• Ftisk land on DanteE shoulder
  

[Theresa] (So what do we use instead of ghost miracles now for viewing pleasure?)
[DanteE] (Actually... that could be –REDACTED-, couldn't it?)
[Ftisk] "ohhh, and you hide this all this time? Bad Dante!" *snap on the ass*
[Theresa] (For clarification, I'm LDiving the wood inside Ick.)
[Random_Nerd] (Yep. –REDACTED-)
[DanteE] (Aren't we in the conference room?)
[Random_Nerd] (Ick is in the Bureau warehouse, carrying a half-dozen water cooler tanks.)
[Ftisk] (or a machinery on)
[Random_Nerd] (I believe so.)

• Theresa then LCs a Treasure miracle of Ick onto the screen. "This is Ick."
  

[DanteE] "Hang on... "

• DanteE fires up the viewscreen
  

[DanteE] (Oops, Theresa beat me to it. :) )
[Ftisk] "oh! interesting!, Later I can go and met him????"
[Theresa] (Actually, Plants doesn't work for that. Maybe I should get a secondary domain.)
[Ftisk] "Kite you'll will come?"
[Kite] (It was an amazing feat, showing an image on the screen before it was turned on. :P)
[DanteE] "Not much to meet, actually. I think he's basically mindless."
[Theresa] ( ;P )
[Kite] "Of course!"
[Kite] "Brass towers..."
[Random_Nerd] (He's about seven feet tall, and five feet wide. He looks like something out of slightly-more-unusual-than-average horror film.)
[Kite] "I wonder if they're polished..."
[DanteE] "You see those wooden spheres that are basically his arm joints?
[Ftisk] "oh.... uhm... well... I'm not a so good conversationist anyway"

• Kite is oblivious to the discussion of Ick.
  

[Random_Nerd] William: "I understand that they're very shiny."
[DanteE] "Those have mutant bees inside."
[Kite] "I wonder how big they are...."
[Random_Nerd] William shuffles through his folder.
[Ftisk] "And one can be reopened? "
[Theresa] "No, please. Evil bees inside."
[Ftisk] "well, just for a peek?"
[DanteE] "Aren't they long dead?"
[Random_Nerd] He pulls out a picture of a guy in slacks and a dress shirt, but no tie. Those parts of him that show outside the clothes seem to be filled with a swirling red-and-black mist.
[Random_Nerd] (Yes, the bees are dead.)
[Ftisk] "Right! We *must* see if the bees are death or not!!!"
[Random_Nerd] He's standing in front of a very shiny brass tower.
[Kite] "Oooooh!"

• DanteE idly wonders if Kite is going to try and bring a tower home...
  

[Theresa] "The bees are dead, but the evil may not be."
[Theresa] (And can't we just get Ftisk a box and a kitten and he'd be happy?)

• Kite wonders how easy it would be to bring a tower home.
  

[Ftisk] to Will: "Please can you take a note about remembering to remember me that I must sneak away and go to meet Ick? Thank you"
[Random_Nerd] William: "The story you're about to hear is true. The evil bees have been killed to protect the innocent."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I don't get it."
[DanteE] (Can I get Div of Incoming Disaster, Auto When Appropriate?)
[Random_Nerd] (Yes, but it would always be going off.)

• Theresa Lc's a note on William's notepad that Lesson and the Bur. should be warned _before_ Ftisk heads over there, please.
  

[Random_Nerd] (Like the car up the street with the aftermarket car alarm.)
[Ftisk] (hey! I'm not so dangerous!)
[DanteE] (riiiiiiiight)
[Theresa] (Ftisk, you want to bed an Angel. You do not have a good idea of how dangerous you are. ^^ Oh and you use the L word in front of Entropy.)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Do you want me to get the pathway data for the Spires?"
[Kite] "Yes! Immediately!"
[Ftisk] (okok but I can explain everything aaand all that was for a good cause!)
[DanteE] "Yes, let's meet him."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Be right back."
[Ftisk] "yeppa!"
[Random_Nerd] Sam walks out of the conference room.

• Ftisk fly a bit in circles in expectation...
  

[Kite] "I wonder how they're assembled..."
[Ftisk] "We can poke them and see them and caroting them Kite!"
[Theresa] "We should let Kite do the talking, since it will be his assistant."
[Random_Nerd] Sam returns carrying a rather large three-ring binder, with some visible exertion.
[Ftisk] "Right Theresa, I can poke them and I can... :-P"
[Random_Nerd] He sets it down on the table, sits down, and flips through the pages.
[Random_Nerd] (Which are written in his habitual shorthand.)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Ah, here we go."
[Theresa] "Ftisk, you know that the Aides have a list of the stuff you _can't_ do to them, right?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "It's a little out of the way from Kaerkoven, we'll have to go to a part of the borderland that's a bit out of town to get the closest connection I've found."

• Ftisk ldiv Data to get the binder’s content and lCreation of a ftiskPad where to flush the datas
  

[Ftisk] "What Theresa? A list?"
[Ftisk] "Why?"
[Kite] "Is poking them on that list?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "It's proven to be a good idea."
[Theresa] (Great, now I'm imagining: What Mr. Noble Can't Do to an Aide....)
[Theresa] "Well, one is no direct miracles without permission. If I remember correctly."
[Kite] (It's more "Highly suggested that he not do to an Aide if he ever wants to have an Aide again.)

• Ftisk give the pad to Sam "... is less heavy and can wrote on it the same way"
  

[Kite] "Oh, that's easy then."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I prefer paper."
[Ftisk] "And slip in hid bed is here ?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Those things don't register my touch."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Or does that one work for me?"
[Ftisk] "oh, well nevermind Sam"
[Ftisk] "was a standard one, don't remember this .. problem..."
[Random_Nerd] (Basically, since Sam's hands don't conduct electricity any more than the air does, devices that work like an iPad won't be able to register his touch.)
[Ftisk] (can I do one with a lCreation that register Sam touch?)
[Random_Nerd] (Yep.)

• Ftisk lCreat a ftiskPad Sam compatible
  

[Ftisk] "This one will work for you Sam!"
[Theresa] "I think that each Aide has their own set list, Ftisk. And I think our Sister Snow had dibs on William's bed."
=-= YOU are now known as ftisk_with_a_pad_shell
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Cool. I'll have to try it out."
[Random_Nerd] Sam picks it up, and carries it under his arm.
[ftisk_with_a_pad_shell] "but.. but... she is not here! And I can be the bed!"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Certainly /lighter/ than my usual reference."
[Random_Nerd] (For the record, not /all/ dionyl are weaker than the average human, but Sam's a desk-job sort of guy.)
[Theresa] "Very true, that you can be the bed."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Do you want me with you, or to stay here?"
[ftisk_with_a_pad_shell] (RN, my gift of bodies let Ftisk be a bed?)
[Random_Nerd] (Yep.)
[Kite] "So long as we have any relevant notes, you can stay."
[Theresa] "Do you feel that you will be okay in case of other...mental visitors?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "If it happens again, I'll just engage in low-secrecy tasks until it goes away."
[ftisk_with_a_pad_shell] "Lets came with us Will!"

• ftisk_with_a_pad_shell lCreate a pokeball for William.. more o like 2mt diameter
  

[Kite] (I'm imagining an electric fighting banana as a Treasure, now...)
[Random_Nerd] William seems to be trying to ignore the pokeball.
[ftisk_with_a_pad_shell] (can work Kite!!!)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Very well. Let me gather a few things, and I'll be ready to go."
[Theresa] (It would be unique...)
[DanteE] (Can you make an elite squad of electric ninja fruit to do border patrols?)

• ftisk_with_a_pad_shell scratch his head "Why? In tv I see an educational show where humans travel with aids in balls like this all time"
  

[Kite] (I can, but if it's your border, I leave it up to you.)
=-= YOU are now known as questionmarkFtisk
[Random_Nerd] (Shall we cut to Dionyl?)
[DanteE] "I don't think that was a documentary, Ftisk."
[DanteE] (Sure.)
[questionmarkFtisk] (sure!)
[questionmarkFtisk] "Really Dante?"
[Theresa] (On the way there, Theresa will explain that it's a show and that they are animated. She will get a headache.)
[Kite] "I thought Anchors were kept in those balls, Ftisk."
[questionmarkFtisk] "me too, when they sleep a least... bah, this is strange"
[Random_Nerd] Sam, as you're nearly through the borderland: "Dante, I forgot to ask. Can your car, uh, float?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "In mercury, I mean."
[DanteE] "Not sure, Sam....
[Theresa] (Nice clarification, dear...)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Let's find out, then."
[Random_Nerd] And you're through.
[Random_Nerd] Several things are immediately apparent.
[questionmarkFtisk] "I can make alternative transportation if needed"
[Kite] *_*
[Random_Nerd] First, that the city has a large system of canals filled with quicksilver. Second, that the answer to Sam's question appears to be "yes."
[DanteE] (whew)
[Random_Nerd] Third, that while the Dantemobile can float, it lacks paddlewheels or propellors.

• questionmarkFtisk lC some sails with straps for the danteMobile
  

[DanteE] "Ah, Ftisk? Can you give us a propulsion system?

• Kite stares at his reflection in the mercury.
  

[Random_Nerd] The whole city is almost painfully bright. Almost everything in sight is made of polished metal of one sort or another, with brass as the most common.

• DanteE has sunglasses...
  
• questionmarkFtisk make some sunglasses
  
• Kite splashes!
  

[DanteE] (We live in an equatorial country, we damn well better have sunglasses)
[Random_Nerd] For anyone with human-equivalent eyes, no eye protection, and without Durant, it's actually physically painful to look at.
[Random_Nerd] (It's reasonable for you to have 'em, yeah.)
[questionmarkFtisk] (btw Kite that can fly is with us and not running against one tower?)

• Theresa LC some oars. (Is this a convertible?  :) )
  
• questionmarkFtisk give the glasses around to everyone
  

[Kite] (Quicksilver is shiny too)
[DanteE] (Didn't specify...
[Random_Nerd] The mercury beneath you hums in a yellowish-green A Flat.
[Kite] "!!!"
[DanteE] (But, even if we don't we can row via the windows)
[Random_Nerd] The gondolier behind you gives you what would almost certainly be a dirty look if he actually had visible eyes.
[Kite] "What's that?!"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "What?"
[Kite] "That!
[questionmarkFtisk] "Where?"
[DanteE] "Which way, Sam?"

• Kite tries to point at the A-Flat.
  

[Random_Nerd] It's all around you.
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
[Kite] It's an awkward attempt.
[Random_Nerd] The area of the canal ahead of you is more of a yellowish D natural.

• Theresa will hand out an oar to whomever is on the opposite of her in the car.
  

[Random_Nerd] (Both are a bit out of tune)

• Theresa will seat herself in the rolled-down window and paddle.
  

[Ftisk] (there is no wind?)

• Ftisk paddle too
  

[Random_Nerd] (Only a very slight wind.)
[Theresa] "Well, we've met the Dionyl Noble Blue Shift. I suspect that this might be related to his estate."

• DanteE helps steer with his flight ability...
  

[Random_Nerd] William pulls a map out of his folder, and starts to give directions.
[Ftisk] (I'm the only to find the danteboat with oars fashinating?)
[DanteE] (We have sails, oars, and 3 fliers. I think we can get there now.)

• Kite leaves the vehicle and plays in the mercury.
  

[Theresa] (Fascinating, not to me. But Theresa isn't minding paddling. At least there aren't any rapids...)
[Ftisk] (don't call for them!)
[Random_Nerd] Shortly, you pull up to a dock, and Sam jumps out and ties off the car.

• Ftisk land on Dante shoulder
  

[Random_Nerd] As he walks onto the steel-and-copper-tiled street, his feet leave cheerful bluish-brown prints.
=-= YOU are now known as parrotFtisk
[parrotFtisk] "Polly want a cracker!"
[DanteE] "Everybody remember where we parked..."
[Kite] "..."
[DanteE] "er, moored."

• parrotFtisk look around a loooot!
  
• Theresa follows, looking at the footprints she leaves.
  

[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Great, I've spent too much time on Earth, I was going to leave a note about who we are and why not to tow the car."

• Kite stares at everything. Hugs a tower.
  

[parrotFtisk] "Do you need a ball for the tower Kite?"
[Kite] "If it works, yes."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Can any of you do something... miraculous, to the car, to make it clear that you're Nobles?"
[DanteE] "How many floating Hummers are there on Dionyl?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Dunno."

• parrotFtisk add a diplay with a sign "Nobles property! Don't touch!"
  
• Theresa will gesture at the Hummer and cover the car in poinsetta flowers, roses, basil and a single blue iris.
  

[Random_Nerd] (What language is the sign in, Ftisk?)
[parrotFtisk] (Vulcan)
[Random_Nerd] (Many Dionyl languages lack a written form. That's why Sam takes his notes using a phonetic alphabet designed by humans.)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "That should get the idea across."
[parrotFtisk] (yep, but Ftisk is more familiar with Vulcan spoked ones)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Let's see, the branch office should be this way."

• Kite wanders off in the wrong direction.
  

[Random_Nerd] The rest of your feet leave imprints of the same color, but Sam's are more prominent than the rest of yours.
[Random_Nerd] (On a tangent, Sam generally goes barefoot, when he's dressed in his usual outfit.)
[DanteE] "Where exactly are we, Sam?"

• parrotFtisk point to the imprints: "Sam your are different!"
  

[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I don't know. I've never been here before."
[Random_Nerd] William points at a map.
[Random_Nerd] William: "There, I think. Just off the Avenue of Spice."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Should we try to catch a rickshaw, or walk?"
[Theresa] "I would like to walk, if that's okay. I like looking at Dionyl architecture."
[parrotFtisk] "IS the same, I'm Dante transported" *Smile*
[Random_Nerd] The general style seems to be "Middle-Eastern as filtered through the eyes of a 19th-century british artist."

• Kite tugs on a tower.
  

[Random_Nerd] Kite, a few pigeons stare at you with beady eyes from the tops of buildings.

• Kite ignores the pigeons.
  

=-= Brian-afk is now known as Brian
[Theresa] (Bah, they're just jealous!)
[Random_Nerd] The walkways are filled with dionyl on foot, bicycle, or rickshaw.
[DanteE] "Kite, let go of the tower. Sam, how far away is he?"
[Kite] "But I want it."
[Brian] (back now. Can someone give me a precis of what I missed please? I've got the full log, but it takes some time to read through. I saw the FtiskPad, though)
[Random_Nerd] They don't seem to have pre-arranged sides of the walkway for people going a particular direction to go, but the street isn't very crowded, so it's not quite dangerous.
[Random_Nerd] (You guys have gone to a city on Dionyl to interview Kite's potential employee.)
[Brian] (figures that we wouldn't have got much farther than that, being us and all :p)
[parrotFtisk] (lChange to warp the tower in a ball?)
[Random_Nerd] The people walking by stare at all of you, but avoid eye contact.
[Theresa] (And Ftisk wants to meet Ick.)
[Random_Nerd] William points at a sign with a picture of a stylized human face on it.

• Theresa tries not to feel ashamed for being meaty.
  

[Random_Nerd] William: "I think that's our stop."
[parrotFtisk] "You know Theresa, you can be plant-y if you like more"
[Random_Nerd] William makes his way through the foot-traffic, aided by the fact that the dionyl seem to step aside to avoid contact with his meat-body.
[Theresa] "I know, but I'm feeling human at the moment. And I'm not sure how much better it would be to be writhing along on roots."
[Random_Nerd] Sam quickly follows behind, before the traffic closes again.

• Theresa Aspect follows, tempted to play hopscotch or say 'Boo!'
  

[Brian] "One of these days I'm going to live as a six for a week. See what it's like."
[Random_Nerd] In a moment, you've all made it through to the doorway.
[parrotFtisk] "Well nevermind"
[Brian] (hm. Are the Human Cylons part of the Numbers domain? What about ... certain sexual acts?)
[Random_Nerd] (I can kill you with my brain.)
[DanteE] (well, keyboard)
[Brian] (no, I'm sure River isn't a Number. She's a free woman?)
[Random_Nerd] Inside, a dionyl in a colorful robe is sitting at a desk and writing something on a piece of paper with a yellow #2 pencil.

• Kite has a tower-in-a-pokeball?
  

[parrotFtisk] (RN, can I do –REDACTED-?)
[Random_Nerd] William: "William and Samuel, Aides on assignment to Locus Amyra, here on behalf of Dominus Chytosideron of Locus Vulcan."
[Random_Nerd] Desk-Dionyl: "Please wait here, I'll tell them you're ready."
[DanteE] "Oh, is this an Aides office?"
[Random_Nerd] She waves at a set of... presumably they're supposed to be chairs, or possibly perches. They look pretty much like shiny metal hurdles.
[Random_Nerd] William: "Yes, why?"

• Kite perches.
  

[DanteE] "Just wondering."
[Random_Nerd] She looks at the flesh-bodied human-shaped Nobles.
[parrotFtisk] "polly want a cracker!"
[Random_Nerd] Desk-Dionyl: "I think we have some chairs for people made of meat in the back. Shall I have some sent over?"
[DanteE] "No real need..."
[Random_Nerd] She returns to her writing.
[Brian] "I can stand just fine"
[Random_Nerd] Then she folds the paper into a bird, and tosses it into the air. It flutters off down the hall.

• parrotFtisk float around a bit
  

[Random_Nerd] They keep you waiting very nearly long enough to feel impolite.
[Theresa] (Aww, your origami made it in...)
[parrotFtisk] "polly want a cracker!"
[Random_Nerd] Then a female-shaped dionyl wearing a rather old-fashioned-looking three-piece suit and a skinny tie comes into the room carrying a clipboard.
[Brian] (RN: Now I want to see a writeup of the Estate of Manners. Specifically about the "just long enough to not quite be impolite" type)

• Theresa will give Ftisk a lime instead.
  

[Random_Nerd] Clipboard: "Dominus Chytosideron, you and your colleagues can come this way."
[Kite] "Thank you."

• Brian will follow
  

=-= YOU are now known as parrotFtiskWithManipulator

• Kite follows
  
• DanteE goes along...
  
• parrotFtiskWithManipulator take the lime and don't bother to answer but land on Dante shoulder again
  

[Random_Nerd] She leads you into an office that seems almost normal, except that it's made of metal rather than wood and fabric, and there's no computer.
[Random_Nerd] There are seats for the human-shaped Nobles, and two perches for Kite and Ftisk, on one end of it. On the other is sitting a guy who looks like the dionyl from the picture.

• parrotFtiskWithManipulator bow to Theresa for the lime
  

[Random_Nerd] In person, the mist is less opaque-looking, and you can see what looks like a floating system of blood vessels in places where it's thinner.

• parrotFtiskWithManipulator fly to the Dyonil
  

[Random_Nerd] He's wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt and black pants, and his sleeves are rolled up to the elbow.

• Theresa will take a seat.
  

[DanteE] "Hello."

• parrotFtiskWithManipulator look at him with mythic and the Sight too
  

[Random_Nerd] (No mythic here to look through.)
[parrotFtiskWithManipulator] (ok, only the sight then)
[Random_Nerd] (To the Sight, he looks the dull grey vague of a mundane person who's not recently been the target of miracles.)
[Random_Nerd] He stands up as you walk in, and reaches over to shake Kite's hand, and then hesitates.
=-= YOU are now known as conradDragon
[conradDragon] "Hi!"

• DanteE sits
  

[Kite] "Hello and...OH! What is that?!" *points in a random direction*
[Brian] "Kite, the walls are shiny. No, you can't have them."
[Random_Nerd] Suit-Dionyl: "This is, ah, Gilbert. He has all the usual Aide training, and additionally specializes in dionyl-human-style psychology, management, and meal service."

• Kite pouts.
  

[Random_Nerd] Suit: "He can have them, actually. Would you like these walls, or another similar set fit to your own office?"

• conradDragon sit next to Theresa
  

[Random_Nerd] (That last bit, to Kite.)
[Brian] (... sensory overloading the bird? Not fighting fair :p)
[Kite] "I like the ones I see."
[Brian] "You'd like any metal walls you see."
[Random_Nerd] Suit: "Very well. After we're done here, I'll have them taken down and shipped to your chancel."
[DanteE] "So, what have they told you so far?"
[Kite] "Thank you very much."

• conradDragon create the usual popcorn machine and pass popcorn to Dante, Brian, Theresa and whoever want them. With salt and butter too!
  

[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "Let's see. Dominus Chytosideron is the Power of Assembly, a concept I'm still trying to wrap my head around. He lives on Earth, in the chancel of the true god Vulcan."
[conradDragon] "He is on Vacation on Amyra now"
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "As I understand, he's been a Noble for a long time, but has not yet built up much of a personal staff, and wished to start doing so."

• Theresa will politely decline the popcorn as she is not hungry at the moment. She is looking forward to seeing Kite negotiate.
  

[Random_Nerd] Suit, to Kite: "Which chancel do you wish the walls sent to, Dominus?"
[Kite] "Hrmmm..."
[Random_Nerd] Sam relaxes on a chair in the back of the room. William sits straight, and seems to be carefully taking mental notes on all of Gilbert's actions.

• Kite turns to Brian, "Do you think it will be alright if I have them sent to Amyra?"
  

[Brian] "There's plenty of space in the Clock Tower."
[Brian] "And if there isn't, we can always make more"
[DanteE] (Does Kite actually have an office in Amyra?)
[Brian] (That should be Nobilis' Tagline: We Can Always Make More)
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "This will be my first assignment as a primary Aide, and I'm excited for the chance to work with a Noble of an Estate we don't have here."
[Kite] "Alright. Please send the walls to Amyra."
[Theresa] (We were talking about making one for him and another room for Ftisk.)
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "And before you ask, I have been on Entropy's Earth before, but most of my time was spent studying."
[Theresa] "Oh, where did you study?"
[Kite] (Kite was commandeering a bathroom in the philosophy department of the university as his "nest")
[conradDragon] (Ftisk take a carGravejard as home for him, Gnomely and DollP many session ago)
[conradDragon] (is the places with the may failed doll attempts)
[conradDragon] (attempts that are in a secret room)
[DanteE] "Just to be sure... Kite's actual home is in Chancel Vulcan, which I believe is inside a volcano...
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "I spent a year and a half at the original Academy."
[DanteE] "You all right with being in a place that's the temperature of molten rock?"
[Theresa] "There are multiple Academies?"
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "Well, we have several here now, but I mean the original one Mr. Ginneis set up."
[Random_Nerd] William whispers: "Same place Samuel and I studied."
[Theresa] "Ah."
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert starts to sit back down, but hesitates.
[Brian] "Gilbert, you would have no problems working with the rest of us?"

• Kite perches.
  

[Random_Nerd] He sits back down.
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "I see no reason why I would, sir. Based on the reports, it's a fairly easy chancel to work in."

• Brian snorts
  

[Random_Nerd] He glances nervously at William and Sam.
[Brian] (just like I did IRL)
=-= YOU are now known as spiderFtisk

• spiderFtisk crawl on the ceiling
  

[Random_Nerd] For a moment, you see dark red "eyes" take form, and then dissipate.
[Random_Nerd] (For the record, William's original request specified "Competent and serious, but visually interesting.")
[Theresa] (Ooo.)
[spiderFtisk] (Nice!)
[Random_Nerd] (Because, I mean, /Kite/.)
[Theresa] (But is he William serious? How serious is serious, seriously?)
[spiderFtisk] (Kite will love to play with it!)
[Kite] (Of course!)
[DanteE] "What specifically did they train you in?

• spiderFtisk start to wave (slowly) around Gilbert in a sphere staying more o less 5 foots away
  

[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "Well, I got all the general-requirement stuff. How to act around Nobles, Imperators. How to spot things they might consider to be important. Managing subordinate staff. All the usuals. And in addition, I've been trained extensively as both a butler and a valet. Finally, from before I got recruited by the Aides, I did my undergraduate work in psychology."
[Theresa] (Oh dear...he and Dante can talk shop.  :) )
[Brian] "Have you ever studied Alfred Pennyworth?"
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "Also, I've been told that I'm a pretty decent cook, and I'm pretty good at working with wood and metal. If that matters."
[Theresa] "Not everyone is as up to date as Sam, Brian."
[Kite] "Excellent!"
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "I'm sorry, I don't know the gentleman in question."
[Brian] "You should look him up, and read his various works."
[Kite] "Do you fish?"
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "No, but I could learn."

• spiderFtisk stop weaving .. because Gilbert don't react
  

[Kite] "That's not necessary."
[Kite] "Do you dance?"
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "I used to take tap-dancing classes, when I was younger. Wasn't much good at it."
[Kite] "Hmmm...."
[Random_Nerd] Suit: "Now, if Gilbert doesn't fit your needs, we have various other applicants who'd be glad to interview with you."

• spiderFtisk lc a LOUD speacker
  

[Kite] "What are your opinions on glue, puzzles and clay?"
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert seems to think.
[Brian] "and shells and buttons and string."
[DanteE] "What do you know about birds?"
[Random_Nerd] G: "Glue has no strong associations for me. Puzzles... I've always liked those bent-wire ones. Used to make them, actually. Clay I could take or leave. Shells I'm not very familiar with. We don't have many creatures that have them."
[Brian] (And do you have a ball of red stuff hiding anywhere on your person?) (... random questions time!)
[Random_Nerd] G: "Let's see. Birds. Organic flying creatures. Hollow bones, feathered wings. Pretty common on various place in the Ash."
[Random_Nerd] G: "Warm-blooded. They use sight, not sonar."
[Random_Nerd] He looks nervous, like he's screwing up the interview.
[DanteE] "Anyway, if you're hired, you'd be assisting these two constructs here...

• Kite nods thoughtfully.
  

[Kite] "I am not a construct."
[DanteE] "Ftisk, think you could go back to your original form?"

• spiderFtisk trow some silk at him
  

[Kite] "At least so far as I'm aware."
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
[Brian] "Do you do well with bees? Demons? Zombies made from bees and wood? How about giants? Furries? Otaku? Other-kin?"
[Ftisk] "Otaku?"
[Brian] (no, I'm not really sure why Otaku is on that list)
[Brian] "It's ... an interesting word with an interesting background. You'd know an Otaku if you saw one."
[Random_Nerd] G: "Let's see. Bees I'm quite fond of. Demons... I saw some in a zoo, once. Giants... do you mean giant humans, giant dionyl, or something else?"
[Ftisk] "uhm"
[Random_Nerd] G: "I don't know what the other things are."

• Theresa ponders if the Aides would like to have them be part of their training in 'How to Interview with a Noble'.  :)
  

[Kite] "Giant anything. There's several flavors."
[Theresa] "There are giant Dionyl?"
[Random_Nerd] G: "Sure."
[Random_Nerd] G: "Well, depends what you'd call 'giant.' Twenty, thirty feet tops."
[Random_Nerd] G: "Don't see them much these days, the old gods seem to collect them for some reason."
[Kite] "We'll try to avoid making you deal with the giant rabbit I have yet to see."
[Brian] "We should find a giant Dionyl. I'm sure the boss would love to have one."
[DanteE] "Let's see... their Ymera is a True God, while ours is a Wildlord. Did you get specific training in dealing with those?"
[Random_Nerd] The suited dionyl: "If height is a desired characteristic, I believe we have a candidate who's about twice average height..."
[Theresa] "I don't think that we can just transport another giant into the Chancel. We've already brought two, Brian."
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "Working with all the various sorts of Noble and Imperator is part of the standard training we all get, sir."
[Ftisk] "Well, is not like you don't have space..."
[Kite] To Suit: "No, no. Maybe if my Amyran friends would like to hire another Aide, but I'd rather not have a giant."
[Brian] "We could ask a giant to come with ... I'm not sure who'd be able to stop us, if the Dionyl in question would want to come with"
[Random_Nerd] She makes a note on her pad of paper.
[Ftisk] "I can make a BIG sphere for him!"
[Random_Nerd] (On a side note, all the paper and writing utensils on display here look like they were made on Earth.)
[Kite] "How comfortable do you feel with the prospect of working with any of us in here?"
[DanteE] "Just out of curiosity, what is included in Wildlord training?"
[Random_Nerd] G: "Let's see. None of you are sworn to Splintering or Hell, correct?"
[Kite] "Not as far as I'm aware."
[Ftisk] "none"
[DanteE] "No."
[Theresa] "Correct, although we have a demon in the Chancel who is an Anchor."
[Theresa] (And Dante's imp.)
[Random_Nerd] G: "Oh, let's see. How to deal with, and immediately recognize, gifts. How to spot changing moods. Various definitions of freedom and slavery. Stuff like that."
[Ftisk] (and DollP)
[Random_Nerd] He looks a little uneasy at that.
[Random_Nerd] G: "Really? That's... interesting. You don't often see that outside Hell."
[Ftisk] "Various definiton of slavery?"
[Kite] "From what I'm told, the demon is not acting very Hell-bent, if that's any consolation."
[Brian] "The demon is interesting. His former box, moreso"
[Random_Nerd] G: "Different Wildlords can be different in terms of what upsets them. Some only care about the freedom of people. Some also care about animals, objects, concepts, and so on."
[Random_Nerd] G: "I understand your Ymera to be something of a moderate, easygoing Magister of the Wild. Is that correct?"
[Kite] "Kudzu seems fairly mellow, in my opinion."
[Brian] "I don't really know any others, so can't compare."
[DanteE] "Well, the Chancel is still intact..."
[Ftisk] "Hey, Kudzu is cool! He give Dante to me!"
[Brian] "I mean, he /does/ have us as Nobilis."
[Theresa] "We've met the Wildlord of the Council. I would say Kudzu is moderate in comparison."
[Random_Nerd] He shifts in his chair.
[Ftisk] (really Kudzu give me permission to mate with Dante)
[Kite] "Well, if you feel comfortable working for me, then I'm ready to discuss terms."
[DanteE] (I'd say 'my ass', but that has unfortunate implications...)
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "Certainly."
[Ftisk] (lol DAnte!)
[Random_Nerd] Suited Dionyl: "How long were you wishing to hire him for?"
[Brian] "Indefinitely, I believe?"
[DanteE] "Well, let's try a provisional period first...
[Kite] "Indefinitely, but perhaps a one-month trial period for both of our sakes?"
[DanteE] "Make sure we can all work together."
[Random_Nerd] Suited: "That should be acceptable."
[DanteE] (Actually... Sam is a 'country Dionyl', right?)
[Random_Nerd] (No, they're both city-raised.)
[Random_Nerd] (The one you brought in to deal with the DA-bartender was a country dionyl.)
[DanteE] (ah yeah)
[Random_Nerd] Suited: "How dangerous did you expect the assignment to be?"
[Theresa] "Uh...well, we have been dealing with Excrucians lately."
[Theresa] "But our Aides are not usually on the battlefield."

• Ftisk look to see if anyone is eyeing his eye
  

[Random_Nerd] Suited: "It's expected that Nobles on Earth will have to deal with Excrucian situations with some frequency. But, Dominus, would you expect Gilbert to frequently, rarely, or never be present in life-threatening circumstances?"
[Kite] "Ideally, not dangerous at all."
[Random_Nerd] She writes more on her pad.
[DanteE] "I'm going to say 'rarely'... are you aware of the celestial calendar?"
[Random_Nerd] Suit: "And, just to confirm for our records, you do not currently have any Anchors, correct?"
[Kite] "This is correct."
[Random_Nerd] She makes a checkmark.
[DanteE] "You do know that you'd be, ah, helping out with Ftisk as well, right?"

• Ftisk wave
  

[DanteE] "Just by virtue of the two of them being in the same Familia."
[Ftisk] "I'm not the easiest noble to stay with..."
[Random_Nerd] Gilbert: "As I understand the nature of the position, my primary duties would be to Chytosideron, but I would additionally assist his family to the extent that time allows."
[Kite] "It's good that you're aware of that, Ftisk."
[Random_Nerd] G: "Is that correct?"
[Ftisk] "lol, I'm 3 not dumb!"
[Kite] "Of course not. Just young."

• Ftisk poke Kite
  

[DanteE] "I believe so."
[Random_Nerd] G: "If I can ask, what would the main tasks you'd have me working on be?"
[Ftisk] (that Ftisk is young or that is hard to stay with? Dante)
[Theresa] (The 'is this correct' part.)
[DanteE] (That was to Gilbert)
[Ftisk] (ok)
[Kite] "Are there any conditions that are dangerous to you that we might not be aware of, Gilbert?"
[Random_Nerd] G: "Well, anything that could kill a human, or a dionyl, basically."
[Random_Nerd] G: "You know, you can ask about it. It's okay, I get it a lot."
[Ftisk] "too much wind"
[DanteE] "Kite, isn't your Chancel very hot and loaded with sulphur fumes?"
[Theresa] "But one of the payments could be protection from the Chancel extremes."
[Random_Nerd] G: "Wind, I'm more resistant to than most dionyl. I've got the, you know, meaty substrate."
[Ftisk] (is inside a cavern in a volcano)
[Random_Nerd] The suited dionyl shifts uncomfortably.
[Kite] "It's hot and there are often sulphur fumes, but it is not savagely either."
[Ftisk] "So you don't are at risk like Sam was in the incident I caused time ago? Great!"
[Random_Nerd] Suited: "Ah, yes, payment. We generally have that done in two ways. First, he would receive a salary equivalent to a highly skilled professional working comperable hours. Secondly, he would periodically receive miraculous gifts, enhancements, or favors of a type that you and he could work out the details of."
[Theresa] (Are half-breeds forbidden or shunned or such?)
[Kite] "Do you have a preference, Gilbert?"
[Random_Nerd] Suited: "Well, some sort of visual guising would be highly desirable. As it is..."
[Kite] "Of course."
[Random_Nerd] G: "Yeah. I currently have difficulty when working both with humans and with dionyl."
[Theresa] "Do you have a preference of how you appear?"
[Random_Nerd] G: "To be clear, I'm not wishing to have my actual form changed. Just... something to help me not draw attention, sometimes."
[Random_Nerd] G: "Let's see. Locus Vulcan and Locus Kudzu are both populated mainly by humans, correct?"
[Ftisk] "Too bad... I can change your body if need arise"
[Kite] "Locus Kudzu is learning to get used to stranger things, from what I've observed."
[DanteE] "But still mainly human. :) "
[Random_Nerd] Suited: "That brings me to one of our standard clauses. You would, of course, agree to make no changes to Gilbert's body, mind, or soul without his informed consent."

• Theresa mentally thinks, "Seee!"
  

[Ftisk] "I don't like this clause..."
[Kite] "I find this clause reasonable."
[Random_Nerd] The suited dionyl makes another note on her pad.
[DanteE] (Hang on, he's not hired yet. And Dante is still a little concerned because Gilbert is new.)
[Random_Nerd] Suited: "Did you have any additional questions or requirements?"
[DanteE] "I think we'd like to confer about this..."
[Theresa] (New in what way?)
[Kite] (Shiny!)
[DanteE] (He said this would be his first assignment, remember?)
[Ftisk] (warped in a gift box?)
[Brian] (first as primary aide)
[Theresa] (Ah, had missed that. But wasn't that the same that we had with Will and Sam?)
[Random_Nerd] (He's done a few internships before, but that's it.)
[Random_Nerd] (I believe Sam and Will had dome some temporary assignments as primaries, but nothing long-term, just filling in.)
[Ftisk] (and is alive after the internships.. is a good reference)
[Random_Nerd] (Should we stop soon?)
[Ftisk] (ok)
[Random_Nerd] (I think we're slowing down.)
[Theresa] (Braaains.)
[Brian] (soonish, I'd like to get the negotiations done with ... seems a shame to end in the middle of that)
[DanteE] (OK. That'd be Dante's main objection... after all, he'd be dealing with Ftisk. And, oh yeah, Kite. :) )
[Ftisk] (well I had written too much .. mainly unedded things :-P )
[Kite] (Hehe)
[Ftisk] (dante ... are you biased a bit?)
[Random_Nerd] (I think we'll stop, then.)
[Random_Nerd] _____________STOP_____________
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo
=-= Brian is now known as lazaurs
=-= lazaurs is now known as lazarus
[DanteE] heh
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
[Theresa] Now, now, Will and Sam kinda handled them.  :)
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
[Angelo] well, newNob fell a lot like oldNob
[Random_Nerd] Sorry it was a slow session.
[Random_Nerd] I feel a bit off my game this week.
[Verithe] 'Salright.
[Knockwood] Angelo: Well, we haven't done much with the new rules yet
[lazarus] two weeks from now, I will not be here.
[Angelo] well was you vs Kite
[Angelo] and us as the decorations
[Knockwood] ah yeah, a few of you have things to do in August
[Angelo] oh August...
[Verithe] Yeah. I'm gone for the first two weeks in August.
[Knockwood] hm.
[Random_Nerd] I probably will be gone for a week in August, but I'm not sure which week yet.
[Angelo] well, if a week we are at -2 we can skip that week
[lazarus] I guess I should say feel free to have Brian around even if I'm not there - he does have that –REDACTED-
[Angelo] well next weeek? are all here?
[Verithe] Next week I'll be here.
[Angelo] me too
[lazarus] I'm here next week.
[Knockwood] I should be here next week.
[lazarus] it's Sara's second last night at the McDonald's next week.
[Random_Nerd] What'd you think of the Dionyl stuff this time?
[Angelo] unrelated question: someone of us know server side JavaScript?
[lazarus] I always like the Dionyl.
[Verithe] Second last night?
[Verithe] I liked it. :)
[Angelo] oh, I think that you /definitely/ must write a Nob supplement on them
[lazarus] (she's quitting her job, finally got a security job again :)) Angelo: I only know client-side, and at that, before AJAX and stuff like that came out
[Knockwood] Interesting. :)
[BethE] For Ftisk: http://cheezdailysquee.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/9f5ed04b-a0ba-454a-9093-f5d681324774.jpg
[Angelo] awwww!
[Knockwood] purple & green?
[Angelo] but the colors are retouched?
[BethE] I don't think so... http://dailysquee.com/2010/07/21/cute-baby-animals-bright-summer-snail/
[BethE] AH, okay, it is a photoshop. Sorry.
[Angelo] nopro
[Knockwood] is it?
[Knockwood] They accuse the submitter of using photoshop, but they don't have proof
[Angelo] toLaz: good to hear for her!
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[Knockwood] laz: is she planning of regaling her now former coworkers with a rendition of either "Take This Job and Shove It" or "Shove This J-O-B"?
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[BethE_] Weeeird.
[lazarus] kwd: not so much. But she is scheduled to work on the day after her letter of resignation gave as her last possible shift.
[lazarus] So, she's thinking of basically saying to the restaurant manager "why do you have someone scheduled for that shift who's not an employee?"
[Angelo] and the management know that she will be not here?
[BethE_] Well, RN and I got dc-ed. I'm going to go ahead and head off to bed. Good night, guys! *HUGS*
[Angelo] toBeth: power utage?
[lazarus] yep. They say it's her responsibility to find someone. I'm not sure how they can think that.
[lazarus] Beth: *HUG!*
[lazarus] g'night!
[Angelo] Night Beth!
[Knockwood] g;night Beth
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[Verithe] She doesn't have to if she's quitting.
[Angelo] no way! she is no more an employee after the x date. Is the guy that do the shift responsibility
[Verithe] If they really want to screw themselves over and not schedule someone for that position at that time that will actually be their employee at that time, that's their prerogative, but it's not her problem.
[Angelo] as Verithe said.
[Knockwood] No, no, that's the best time to do the Shove It medley. :)
[lazarus] well, it's also the night before I fly to Missouri, so she doesn't want to be out of the house :p
[Knockwood] or just read http://www.cracked.com/article/18362_the-7-ballsiest-ways-anyone-ever-quit-their-job/ first
[Verithe] I'm going to go eat lunch. Take care, guys!
[Angelo] bye V!
[lazarus] later everyone. Enjoy your lunch V
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[Angelo] I go too K.
[Angelo] Night!
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Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 21