Session 176

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 21

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[Random_Nerd] Sorry I'm late.
[Angelo] no problem, I'm more late that you!
[Random_Nerd] We had to get a wedding present for someone, and it took longer than we thought to get home afterwards.
[Knockwood] heh
[Angelo] Well, is a good/nice wedding p.? then is all ok! ^_^
[lazarus] I guess there IS a game tonight :p
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[BethE] Hi guys! Sorry about the late.
[BethE] *HUGS*
[Angelo] Hi Beth!
[Knockwood] Hiya Beth
[Angelo] *counter-HUG*
[BethE] Everything seems to take longer when you're running late.
[Angelo] ah, is alike a terroristic attack to drop in the new draft with so little time to read it!
[Angelo] :-P
[Random_Nerd] So, let's see. –REDACTED-
[Angelo] we are kite-less... is to be expected?
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian
[Brian] Angelo: yep
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
[DanteE] um... isn't Kite an important part of this storyline?
[Brian] Well, we can always tangent. we're good at that.
[Random_Nerd] I figure we already skipped one session due to Kitelesness.
[Ftisk] eh, true
[Random_Nerd] I'd rather have him be here, but I think we should keep going.
[Theresa] (For Ftisk http://cheezdailysquee.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/129168216694510535.jpg )
[Random_Nerd] Focus on the Patterns plot, have Kite and his new assistant be on Locus Vulcan or something.
[Ftisk] (oh my is tiiiiiiiny!)
[Ftisk] right, we can exile them on Vulcan!
[Theresa] Maybe timeskip to us back in Amyra while Kite takes the new guy home? And when Kite comes back, he fills in the hiring part?
[Random_Nerd] Or... better to keep it vague. Kite and his new friend are Guarding the Horses. We will cut ahead to you guys returning home to deal with the Patterns thing. Next session with Kite, we'll either go back to cover the earlier stuff, or just skip ahead on that part.
[DanteE] (What's happening with the Patterns Plot? Just kicking him out of our Aides?)
[Theresa] (Ftisk - also http://musthavecute.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/snail-measuring-tape.jpg?w=500&h=479 )
[Random_Nerd] (I thought you guys were going to do something about that. Were you not?)
[Brian] (Brian is thinking of doing something Extremely Stupid)
[Theresa] (We did kick him out of the Aides. Not sure what we should do in return.)
[Ftisk] (I feel like Theresa)
[Ftisk] (he have a gift to do this we can't do spirit surgery to remove it... or not?)
[Brian] (for the record, Brian's Extremely Stupid Plan is to say "Patterns, you're a jerk for living in the thoughts of your Estate in our minions!")
[Random_Nerd] (Shall we cut to you guys in the conference room, and have you debate the situation IC?)
[Ftisk] yep please!
[DanteE] (Oh... and we were still considering making a 'Command Center')
[Brian] (Do I have to –REDACTED-?)
[Random_Nerd] (If –REDACTED-.)
[Ftisk] (@Dante yep, is in the plans)
[Brian] (then –REDACTED-)
[Random_Nerd] Okay, let's go.
[Random_Nerd] ___________________START___________________________
[DanteE] (Aides with us?)
[Random_Nerd] (The usual two.)
[Ftisk] (why not!)
[DanteE] "Now, what was his experience again?"
[Random_Nerd] (If you want a more permanent solution than using Auct, you may want to consider what miracles you guys can do could cancel out the incarnation miracle.)
[Brian] (I was just thinking of bitching at him :D)
[Random_Nerd] (Who is Dante talking about?)
[DanteE] (the new Aide)
[Random_Nerd] William: "I haven't worked with him personally, but he should have all the same training as the two of us, specialties aside."
[DanteE] "Just checking.
[DanteE] "And now... hm ... we need to talk about...
[DanteE] "Heh... it's like that old trick, 'Whatever you do, don't think of a purple elephant'.
[Brian] "Patterns. It's ok, in the area at the moment, we should be fine saying his name. If not, then he'll know he's a big jerk."
[Ftisk] "oh! mr P!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Can we think about him?"
[Brian] "hopefully."
[DanteE] "I think he knows and doesn't _care_, Brian."
[DanteE] "Then again...
[Ftisk] "He care, he is so paranoid that care for what an ant will think!"
[DanteE] "We know he's paranoid. What specifically was he paranoid about?"

• Ftisk fell uncertain "... don’t remember... "
  

[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Hell. Lucifer. Luc. That kind of thing."
[Theresa] "I get the feeling that the personalities of a lot of Nobles is to act however you want, be as big of a pain as you want...as long as you don't get caught.
[Ftisk] "Ah, Jan bell Jan"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Us. You. Ymera Jan ben Jan. Ymera Attaris Ebrot Appeka."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Alien mind-control satellites."
[DanteE] "You forgot Mister Rogers."
[Random_Nerd] William: "No, those got taken out in the lost centuries."
[Ftisk] "Mister Roger?"
[Ftisk] (s)
[Brian] "Anyone know Paranoia?"
[DanteE] "Is there anything behind it?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "The guy with the sweaters, right?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Which part?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "That mysterious and powerful forces drive Noble society for their own sinister and mysterious ends?"
[Theresa] "Mister Rodgers has sweaters, not mind control satellites."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Everyone knows /that/."
[DanteE] "Does he actually have anything to be paranoid about besides the usual Noble stuff?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "You mean him, personally?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Because, I mean, there is the whole 'Hell' thing..."
[DanteE] "If you think about it, if there's any kind of Pattern to, say, the excrucians' latest attacks..."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Part of the problem is that he's not big on information-sharing."
[Random_Nerd] William: "If he had something big, that he wasn't sharing, he would act exactly like this."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "But if he has nothing other than the usual, he would /also/ act exactly like this."
[Brian] "If he had something small, that he wasn't sharing, he would also act like this."
[Brian] "Beaten to the punch by flying scarves."
[DanteE] "Do you have records of him acting rationally in the past?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Hmm. Define 'rationally'."
[Random_Nerd] William: "It could be argued that based on his priorities, he is acting rationally now."
[Ftisk] "less to no paranoic?"
[DanteE] "Ah, not threatening to have whoever he's talking to killed?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "He's been edgy since before he was a Noble."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Maybe even during his previous life. We don't know."
[DanteE] "Hm... if he was spotting patterns before becoming Patterns, that might make sense."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Well, spotting social patterns is something of a Hell specialty."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I mean, look at the demo... at Lesson."
[Theresa] "Figuring out who you can beat up vs who you need to suck up to?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "And, comparatively speaking, Lesson was on the top of his pile."
[DanteE] "Damn. If he was still human we could fix him with drugs."
[DanteE] "Patterns, not Lesson."
[Theresa] "I don't think they do clinical trials for Nobles, Dante."
[Random_Nerd] William: "For regular, human damned souls without much social pull, it's more 'Figuring out who to suck up to, who to run away from, and who to arrange to secretly kill by treachery.'"
[Theresa] "Is it often that the third comes to actually happen?"
[Theresa] "A sudden falling piece of rock or such?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Or telling the right secret to the right person. Putting tiny shards of glass in someone's food..."
[Random_Nerd] William: "But why are you asking us? You have an in-house expert on this kind of thing."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Two!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Sure, but one's not a useful source of information."
[DanteE] "Reminds me, what's the Imp been doing?"
[Ftisk] "And is a looot of time that I don't see Lesson!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Planning, I think. He's been quiet."
[Ftisk] "And he made any other statue?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Not that I'm aware of."
[DanteE] (anyone else thinking quiet demons==red alert?)
[Ftisk] (not me! :-P )
[DanteE] "Hm. If we could spot the same Patterns that Patterns sees maybe we would know what's happening."
[Brian] "So what do we do about Patterns?"
[Brian] "Anyone know how to pay him a visit?"

• Ftisk lc a toy car with remote and a camera on it
  

[Random_Nerd] William: "In /person/?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Not happening."
[DanteE] (... wouldn't that mean he could help us building the Command Center?)

• Ftisk put the car screen on the table
  

[DanteE] "We know we can talk to him at any time..."
[Random_Nerd] William: "The Aides have no pull to arrange that sort of thing. Negative pull, if anything."

• Ftisk drive the car to Imp office! But stumping on the walls many times while going there...
  

[DanteE] "I've been thinking maybe we could build something that could spot things we miss.
[Ftisk] "uhm.. how?"
[DanteE] "Of course, the only things that could really do that on the scale we need...
[Random_Nerd] The Imp is sitting on a tarp. Open in front of him is a package of cigars, a small pile of steaks, and a bottle of cheap rum.
[Brian] (... uh oh?)
[Random_Nerd] He is currently drawing on a piece of paper what appears to be a plan for an altar made from stuff in the clock tower, with a small statute of Dante on the top.
[Random_Nerd] The small statue of Dante sits next to him, its clay drying.
[DanteE] "would be either a battalion of clued-in Aides ... well, huh."
[Ftisk] "Hey the imp is acting normally.. like any mortal"

• Ftisk point to the screen
  

[DanteE] "I was the one who took the initiative in getting him here..."
[Ftisk] "and he is adapting well?"
[Random_Nerd] The imp finishes his drawing, and scuttles out into the hall.
[DanteE] "What's with the cigars, though?"
[Ftisk] "He takes a habit?"
[Random_Nerd] The imp returns, slowly dragging a folding table.
[Random_Nerd] He slowly sets it up, pushes a chair next to it, and then carefully climbs the chair and puts the clay Dante on the top. Then he scuttles back out of the room.
[Ftisk] "Dilettante, he needs a carpet or a linen towel on that table"
[DanteE] "Well, it's probably his first ... shrine ..."
[Random_Nerd] He returns with two mugs from the break room, which he sets up on the table.
[Random_Nerd] One, he pours some of the rum into. The other, he puts a cigar in.
[Random_Nerd] Then he leaves again.
[Ftisk] "oh, the cigars are offering... do you smoke DateE?"

• DanteE idly wonders how 'woshipped by demons' would play in his bio....
  

[DanteE] "Nope."
[Random_Nerd] A janitor walks into the room, carrying a cigarette lighter and followed by the imp, who is holding a shard of glass to the back of one of the janitor's ankles.
[Ftisk] "Well, at least you can start you personal cult"
[Random_Nerd] The janitor works the lighter, lights the cigar in the mug. The imp scampers up to the chair, and the janitor runs out.
[Theresa] "Dante, you should remind him not to terrorize the chancelfolk."
[Random_Nerd] The imp lies back on the chair and relaxes.
[Ftisk] "But was for a 'good' cause!"
[Theresa] "I'm not sure which is better, terrorizing or letting him use fire."
[Brian] "I don't think there IS a better in that equation, T..."
[DanteE] "I'll talk with him. (Dear.)"

• Theresa thinks about what she knows of vodoo offerings.
  

[Random_Nerd] William: "I'm just a little reassured that he didn't know how to work the lighter on his own."
[Theresa] "Thank you. (Dear boy.)"

• Ftisk lc a second car with audio recording broad cast setup and send that to the imp
  

[Brian] "But only a little - he knows how to operate a shard of glass to the achilles tendon"

• Ftisk trow the mic+speacker toward Dante
  

[Random_Nerd] William: "Still, nobody actually got maimed, and I don't think he's even killed any animals this time."
[Theresa] (And yet...the tarp.)
[Ftisk] (the sound will came out as a thunder from a dark cavern)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Can I have a copy of that imp stuff? The video, I mean?"
[Ftisk] "This mean he is following your stricture Dante"
[Ftisk] "Sure Sam!"
[Theresa] "Oh Sam...not YouTube..."
[Ftisk] "why not?"
[DanteE] "Gotta agree with Theresa, that would just raise too many questions."
[Random_Nerd] Sam, a little grumpy: "It's not like I can even /access/ Youtube here in Amyra..."

• Theresa gives a small smile. "No, but I'm sure you can send it out to other Aides."
  

[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Nonsense. I'd just put a title on the front and some credits on the end. Make it look like a student film."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Uh, if I were going to post it online. Which I am not."
[Brian] "Sam, I can get you hooked up with YouTube..."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Really? Cool."
[Brian] "It's pretty easy, actually."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Well, my internet connection only works for in-chancel stuff."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "The backbone cables don't go across the borderland."
[Theresa] (I would Sam read the comments!)
[Brian] (One of the things Brian's been working on - and retroactively will have spent Destiny on or something like that - is reconnecting Amyra to the wider world)
[Ftisk] (we wasn't planning to have internet incoming from the real world?)
[Random_Nerd] (At present, you haven't made it so it does so, Ftisk.)
[Random_Nerd] (But it's perfectly reasonable that Brian's been working on it.)
[Ftisk] (ok, good to have reminder)
[DanteE] "But, as I was saying... I wonder if
[Brian] (It's actually something I remember mentioning in the first dozen or so sessions :p)
[DanteE] "something like an AI could help us out...
[DanteE] "Spot whatever stuff we're missing."
[Random_Nerd] Sam coughs and points at Ftisk.
[Random_Nerd] William: "Sam, you don't even /have/ lungs."
[Ftisk] "For the internet? I don't know... but We can import one from Vulcan"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Still! It's a good sound!"
[DanteE] "I know, Sam, that was to the whole table."
[Random_Nerd] William: "It's probably a good thing that we don't have chancelfolk accessing the internet now..."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Why? I mean, a bunch of people posting crazy stuff from a country nobody's heard of... nobody would take them seriously!"
[Brian] "I dunno. It might be fun."
[Ftisk] "I like the idea"
[DanteE] "There's a lot of things it might help us with...
[Theresa] "A country-wide LARP? Or MUSH?"
[DanteE] "For instance, we can't forget this."

• DanteE points to the flower imprinted on his hand.
  

[Theresa] "We have busy schedules."
[Random_Nerd] Sam shivers.
[Brian] (what's that imprint again?)
[DanteE] (it's from Ha Qadosh Berakha)
[Random_Nerd] (I don't think Brian has one, does he?)
[Random_Nerd] (Nor Kite.)
[Brian] (I don't remember anything like that.)
[Ftisk] (we are agent of him... segret ones! :-P )
[Theresa] (It was from the last Council meeting we went to. I think it was the one that Ftisk said the L word at.)
[Brian] (oh, I was at that one)
[DanteE] "Hm. So, some kind of miraculous super-AI that we can use to monitor things and maybe help figure out the pile of puzzles we're dealing with?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "At any rate, let me go over the present issues. The Power of Patterns is doing something disconcerting. Aaron II is getting married. The little demon might burn down the building."
[Random_Nerd] William: "I... think you already have things that do that."
[DanteE] "Well, we preserved the building a long time ago..."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Yeah. Us."

• DanteE gathers up his index cards...
  

[DanteE] "OK, can you tell us which of these fit together?"

• Ftisk add to the index card
  

[Random_Nerd] William looks at the cards.
[Random_Nerd] (What's written on them?)
[Ftisk] (dante?)
[DanteE] (One set is the 'nouns' we're dealing with. Then there's a set of 'verbs' and/or 'conditions...
[Ftisk] (mine have "Dolphaniel", "Active Writing" "Gnomely" on them)
[DanteE] (like 'are allied' 'is acting against us', 'is from Outside', et cetera)
[Random_Nerd] (Could you explain how you see this working?)
[Random_Nerd] William arranges a few. "Dollphaniel" "is from Outside." He holds the "is acting against us" and thinks.
[DanteE] (It was conceived as part of a Data/Assembly miracle.)
[DanteE] (Fire that off with sufficient penetration and maybe something important will be revealed.)
[Brian] (I see this miracle as kind of sending all the cards flying in the air until all but three are face-down :p Or perhaps like punch cards in an oversized machine)
[Brian] (but like Prolog, telling it "these things are true", and then asking "so, what's left?")
[DanteE] (Maybe more like a Sculpture of Truth. :) )
[Ftisk] (we want to use the IA as a channel for the miracle, right?)
[Random_Nerd] (So, you want to do a Greater Divination, to use Assembly as a tool to make predictions?)
[Random_Nerd] (The IA?)
[DanteE] (You wind up with a 3-D thing in which you can read a bunch of things by following any line in the thing)
[Theresa] (Need to reboot real quick. Be right back.)
[DanteE] (your computer or brain? :) )
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[DanteE] (A computer could check all the connections faster than we could... well, except maybe Ftisk)
[Random_Nerd] (So, what you want to do is say "I don't know whether Gnomely is plotting against me, so I'll use a divination to check?)
[Random_Nerd] (Yes, but what do you /mean/ by checking all the connections? Doing Mad Libs with them?)
[Ftisk] (Ftisk have aspect 2 so Dante is faster than him)
[DanteE] (Check each set against what we know and/or can find out and go from there)
[Brian] (so, the Prolog thing of creating a database of facts, and then asking about the logical conclusions, then?)
[Random_Nerd] (So, it's just giving you a bunch of propositions "Gnomely is from Outside." "Dollphaniel is made of chocolate" and so on, to each do divinations on?)
[DanteE] (That might work...)
[DanteE] (Well, not including the ridiculous ones. We know Gnomely isn't chocolate, Theresa would have eaten him by now. :) )
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[Ftisk] (me too)
[DanteE] (Nice timing)
[Brian] (speaking of ;))
[Theresa] (There we go.)
[Random_Nerd] (So, if you aren't going to check all the permutations, how is this more effective than picking those things you wish you knew and doing divinations to check them?)
[Theresa] (I wouldn't eat Gnomely!...I don't like chocolate covered locusts.)
[Random_Nerd] (Well, anyway, does anyone understand the "card" scheme who can explain to me how it would work, if it was working?)
[Random_Nerd] (Because the versions I have of it seem to fall roughly equally into "I don't see how that could work" and "But why would that be a good idea?")
[Random_Nerd] (So I think I'm missing something.)
[Brian] (from what I understand, Dante wants to create a database of facts and go "well, what facts are deducible that we haven't seen yet?" ... on the other hand, perhaps he wants a machine that's sort of like a slot-machine-of-facts, where you put all the cards in, and then press a button, and a fact that is true appears)
[DanteE] (Hey, great idea! Though I meant the first one.)
[Random_Nerd] (So, you want to know what things, given the facts you know, would be reasonable conclusions?)
[DanteE] (Or at least worth checking.)
[Random_Nerd] (Like "Barakiel is probably not made of chocolate, because if he was, he would have melted" and so forth?)
[Random_Nerd] ("As Jan ben Jan is very cold, he may or may not be made of chocolate, as melting would not be an issue.")
[DanteE] (there is no 'chocolate' card, RN. :) )
[Random_Nerd] (Sez you.)
[Random_Nerd] (I think the main issue is that divinations aren't going to think for you.)
[Random_Nerd] (This seems too much like doing a Lesser Divination of What Should We Be Doing Right Now.)
[Ftisk] (the main issue is that Dante need/want a we are stumb trying to find a clue and we want a clue-o-matic machine)
[DanteE] (Great idea!)
[Random_Nerd] (I am not going to give you a clue-o-matic machine that will tell you what's up and what the questions you should be asking are.)
[Brian] (http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=12641454&postcount=523)
[Brian] (Right now, now that the imp thing has been taken care of...)
[DanteE] (We know what's up. It's ^ that way, unless Kudzu got drunk again. :) )
[Brian] "Anyone mind if I try asking Patterns to stay out of our Aides' heads?"
[Random_Nerd] (If you have specific things you want to find out, there are ways you can try to find them out. But I'm going to invoke the Hurbris Law if you try to use a miracle to figure out what you should be doing or what you should be trying to figure out.)
[Theresa] "What if he says no? Are you going to duel him?"
[Brian] "Well, then we'll have to do something about it. 'cause they're under our protection."
[Ftisk] "Or think dirty thought all time toward him?"
[DanteE] "We need to think long and hard before we attract his attention."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "You know that you /have/ his attention, right?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Hmm?"
[Brian] "Well, we don't really know much about him, though, do we?"
[Ftisk] "we can lower our noise/signal ratio to a point he will lost interest in us?"
[Brian] "Ftisk: what little we /do/ know shows he'd be /more/ interested in us ..."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Like with Superman. You want to make him wonder what you're up to? Build a secret lair out of lead, so he can't see inside."
[DanteE] "Then maybe we want to go the other way.
[Theresa] "I doubt that. I figure that he likes to keep poking at things that bother him. And I don't think that we could go _that_ far under the radar."
[Theresa] "Fireworks spelling out the size of Pattern's nether regions?"
[DanteE] "Let him in on something important, then maybe he'll understand we're on his side."
[Brian] "T: do you think we could take him if it came to it?"
[DanteE] "Or... help him out."
[Ftisk] "uhm... given the option I'm more to let him in "
[DanteE] "We may not be able to ease his mind about everything...
[DanteE] "But if we can help with a good part of it..."
[Theresa] "I don't think he'd believe that anyone is on 'his side'. We don't even like him."
[Brian] "Truth be told, I don't really like him. He's a paranoid jerk, interfering with the minds of our employees."
[Theresa] (Brian - jinx!)
[Brian] (:p Also, mine would be spoken with the venom that shows that "don't really like him" is an incredible understatement.)
[Random_Nerd] You guys hear a knocking on the door, about eight inches off the ground.
[DanteE] "The alternative is to have him looking in whenever we drop our guard."
[Brian] "Sam, who's his Imperator?"

• DanteE opens the door...
  

[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Hmm..."
[Ftisk] "I wonder, but this effect not humans? I mean if from a day anyone that thing of patterns will have a noble in his head that half humanity will be crazy... and they are not ... so that work on human?"
[Random_Nerd] The imp walks in, carrying a thermos.
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "Coffee?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Gamaliel. Patterns' boss, I mean."
[Brian] "It's not burning-cigar-rum-coffee, is it imp?"
[Brian] "What do we know about Gamaliel?"
[Brian] "And by 'we', I of course mean 'you'."
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "It's whatever kind of coffee the guy I bought it from had in his thermos."
[Random_Nerd] William: "We know that he's a Fallen Angel, and that he's the kind of person who would take someone like Patterns and give him the power of a god."
[Ftisk] "very little indeed"
[Brian] "Does our Boss know him at all?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Let's see. He's an Angel, so that probably means that Patterns was probably ennobled to serve a particular purpose. Information-gathering, I suspect."
[Random_Nerd] William: "If Ymera Kudzu does, he hasn't told me."
[DanteE] "Bought?"
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "He gave it to me in exchange for me not making that face any more."
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "Exchange of services for goods."
[DanteE] "Well, I ... guess that qualifies..."
[Ftisk] "what face Imp? .. and do you have a name?"

• DanteE checks out the thermos
  

[Random_Nerd] Imp: "If I made the face to show you, I'd have to give him the coffee back."
[Random_Nerd] Imp looks at Dante: "Right?"
[DanteE] "Probably."
[Brian] "Hm. Coffee does sound good. But I think I'll get my own coffee, thanks..." /me will phone up the local coffee shop (the one with the "Brian and the Nobilis drink here!" sign) and order a coffee of some kind - blended, and stuff.
[Random_Nerd] The thermos is filled with unexceptional but unpoisoned coffee. Pretty strong, cream, no sugar.
[Ftisk] "oh... right Imp"
[Brian] (in other news, Brian and the Nobilis would make for a good band name)
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "Bringing coffee to one's superiors who are in a meeting is an appropriate service and gesture of supplication, correct?"
[DanteE] "Remind me to give that one janitor danger pay, by the way."
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "I did not injure him. I am not allowed to injure him."
[Ftisk] "Dante, can I load some knowledge in Imp?"
[DanteE] "William, when you have time, show the Imp how to work the coffemaker, would you?"
[DanteE] (jinx)
[Ftisk] "I take this as a yes"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Yes, Dante."
[Ftisk] "Imp, do you want to know a bit better how things work here?"
[DanteE] (Careful, you'll load the wrong file and suddenly he'll know Kung Fu...)
[Brian] "I'm going down to the coffee shop to pick up my coffee ... anyone else want any? ... I guess I should've asked before I called."
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "Want me to get it?"
[Brian] "no, Imp, I'll get it myself."
[Ftisk] (to Dante or to me?)
[DanteE] "Gimme their special mocha."
[Random_Nerd] (That was to Brian.)
[Random_Nerd] (The Imp's comment, I mean.)
[Brian] (I wonder if they have a different "special" coffee for each of the Nobilis?)
[Ftisk] (and Brian you are paranoid, Imp is showing good will no anyone want to kill us!)
[Brian] (Brian also can walk Really Fast.)
[Random_Nerd] (Hmm. I bet the Theresa has cinnamon and nutmeg...)
[Ftisk] (uhm for the local one is possible no luck for the foreigners)
[Brian] (like, actually brain-meltingly fast)
[Random_Nerd] (Just say when you'd like to return with it.)
[Ftisk] (so green light to zap some knowledge in Imp?)
[DanteE] (Hm. Maybe if we got Patterns a bunch of Imps to help him out... :) )
[Random_Nerd] (Nobody's complained...)
[Brian] (a few minutes IC time? After the explosion from the Imp trying out the coffee maker...)
[DanteE] "Not too much, Ftisk..."
[Random_Nerd] (Yeah, that's the best thing to do to the guy who's messed up because of his time in Hell. Surround him with demons.)
[Ftisk] "ok Dante"
[DanteE] (Oddly enough, it might be... _If_ they're entirely subservient, and he knows it)
[Theresa] (I see Ftisk as being more...strongly alcoholic. ^^ )
[Random_Nerd] (I doubt they would last long, in that case.)
[DanteE] (Ftisk's is a 10W40 latte with a shot of neurotransmitters)

• Ftisk do a greater creation of Data on Imp to give him all the knowledge of a perfect butler, of a normal person and the one from a encyclopedia. and I preserve that so will persist
  

[Ftisk] (Ftisk is on the machine oil side of coffe)
[Random_Nerd] The Imp twitches for a moment, and then stands back up.
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "Excuse me, could I smell that coffee again, sir?"

• DanteE hands it back...
  

[Random_Nerd] The imp sniffs it.
[Ftisk] (btw is a level 6 miracle right?)
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "Clearly not up to the proper standard. I shall have to begin threatening a higher class of person."
[Brian] (by the way, if the coffee shop folks haven't yet met Ftisk and/or Kite, Brian would invite them to meet them. I hope my antecedents are clear.)
[Random_Nerd] (7, I think.)
[Random_Nerd] (Let me check.)
[Ftisk] (ok I update the expended MP)
[Random_Nerd] (Yes, 7.)
[Random_Nerd] (What's Ftisk's Domain?)
[Ftisk] (Data)
[Random_Nerd] (No, I mean, what level?)
[Ftisk] (ah Data level 4)
[Random_Nerd] (Oh, and this miracle will not change the imp's /personality/, but it is giving him additional /information/ to work with.)
[Random_Nerd] (Okay, this costs 4 MPs.)
[Ftisk] (sure)
[Random_Nerd] (So, if he uses threats and fear tactics to get coffee for Dante, it will at least be /good/ coffee!)
[DanteE] "Ah, it would be better if you _made_ the coffe rather than 'jacking' it."
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "It occurs to me that I've made certain assumptions. Dante, what are your favorite alcoholic spirits and brands of tobacco?"
[Theresa] "Oh, that reminds me. I need to check with my staff to see if anyone's wanted any other plants 'imported' yet."
[DanteE] "Don't indulge in either one."
[Random_Nerd] Imp: "I suppose. I shall have to acquire a stock of beans, a mill, and a brewing machine."
[Random_Nerd] The imp scuttles out the door with an excited expression on his face.
[Theresa] (Dante is clearly not a Proper Gentleman.)
[Random_Nerd] William: "I'll... get right on that."
[Ftisk] "but He like Swords and cutting thingies"
[Random_Nerd] William rapidly walks out the door.
[Theresa] "I can handle the beans if you tell me what kind, William."
[Ftisk] "And me the machinery"
[Random_Nerd] (William doesn't know what the imp will do if left alone, but suspects that it will eventually become his problem if he doesn't deal with it.)
[DanteE] (What did he do with the cards?)
[Random_Nerd] William: "If I may... the demon wishes to do a service for all of you. If he does it mainly with your help, I doubt it will be as emotionally satisfying."
[Random_Nerd] (Left them on the table.)
[Theresa] "Oh, I wouldn't have them roasted or such. It'd be more the dried beans. But I trust your judgement. Let us know if he wants a burro."
[Random_Nerd] William: "And I wish him to derive as much satisfaction from the making of coffee as possible, so he won't seek it in other areas. I can handle this, hopefully without having my ankles slashed."
[Random_Nerd] He walks back out.
[Brian] (sweet map: http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j128/iannoble/vladstudio_worldinversed_800x600.jpg)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "So, uh, what can I do?"
[Random_Nerd] (Oh, that's nicely done.)
[Ftisk] (really!)
[Brian] (I guess since there's not likely to be an explosion, Brian can return now.)
[Ftisk] (so he was not really so fast)
[DanteE] "Sam... gimme everything you know about Patterns."
[Theresa] "Do we have any pull to visit Pattern's Imperator?"
[Brian] (I said he /can/ be fast ;)) "Here's your coffees, everyone. And the staff wanted to meet Ftisk and Kite. I told them we'll make some time on the schedule for them."
[Ftisk] "ohhhh, I'm honored!"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Human. Noble. Good with his domain, no known exotic capabilities, physical ability unknown. I believe we currently /suspect/ that he has a physical body, but I forget why."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Code unknown. We do not believe he follows the Code of Hell, but he is strongly affected by it in some of his gut-level thinking."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Very dangerous. Smart, but unpredictable."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "That the sort of stuff you mean?"
[DanteE] "With his Imperator, not surprising."
[Theresa] "Yes, Sam. That's a good start."
[DanteE] "And as far as you know he's always been paranoid?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "We have no records of him prior to his Nobility. For his entire time as a Noble, he's acted as he does now."
[Brian] "Do we know he was Human?"
[Ftisk] "If we can know who he was before we can know how he act before..."
[DanteE] "Hm... if he was recruited from Hell..."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "To the limited extent he talks about his past, he claims to be a human who had been in Hell."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Given how well it matches his behavior, we see little reason to doubt it."
[Theresa] "I would think he would have wiped his human existence from records. Can't track him that way. Plus it explains why Sam thought he probably had had a body but wasn't sure."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Oh, and before you try to dig into it, expect him to meet attempts to dig into his background with a combination of carefully prepared defenses and murderous rage."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Oh, shit. I just thought of something."
[Ftisk] "what?"
[Theresa] "Carefully prepared rage?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Brian, you're the one that's keeping him out of our heads, right?"
[Brian] "Sam swearing?"
[Brian] "Yeah...?"
[Theresa] (Ah yes, Brian _left_.)
[Brian] (*grin*)
[DanteE] (oops)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Okay, so he knows everything that we're talking about, doesn't he?"
[Ftisk] (but now returned)
[Ftisk] "well, the piece without Brian at east"
[DanteE] "... did he come back, Sam?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I don't know. I wasn't paying attention. But even if he didn't, he can certainly hear it when we talk about him."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Let me think. We were mostly talking about coffee, but I was still thinking about him..."
[Theresa] "Think about him and that robot unicorn song. See if it will get stuck in his head."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "At least William's probably distracted..."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Is there some kind of more permanent solution you can implement, to keep him out of our heads?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Of course, that way he'd know we had something to hide, and expect the worst..."
[Brian] "Thinking about it. Can't really come up with much beyond actually talking to him."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I really don't like this guy very much."
[Theresa] "It appears you are not in the minority, Sam."
[DanteE] (Can we check and see if he's here?)
[Brian] (are we wrapping up soon? It's after midnight for me)
[Random_Nerd] (Stopping soon works for me. Anyone have anything to do before we end?)
[Random_Nerd] (You probably can. How are you trying?)
[Theresa] "We might be able to create something of a...thing that you could keep on you to keep him out. Would probably drive him more nuts, though."
[Brian] (Would–REDACTED-?)
[Random_Nerd] (Hmm...)
[Random_Nerd] (One moment, let me check –REDACTED-.)
[Random_Nerd] (Patterns is –REDACTED-.)
[Theresa] (Huh. Cool! It will be useful!)
[Random_Nerd] (Or if he is, he's concealing himself in some way that goes above and beyond that Gift.)
[Random_Nerd] (So, shall we stop?)
[Ftisk] (is fine for me)
[DanteE] (OK.)
[Random_Nerd] ______________STOP_______________
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
[Theresa] nick Beth
=-= Theresa is now known as Beth
[Angelo] btw you proposed for "scarf-face" the supplement on Dyonil?
[Random_Nerd] Nah.
[Angelo] you= RN
[Random_Nerd] But I should post a thread on them or something.
[Random_Nerd] I think I actually did, a year or two back.
[Angelo] really?
[Angelo] never see that one :-(
[Random_Nerd] I'll have to see if I can find it.
[Angelo] I'll appreciate if I can read it
[Random_Nerd] Yeah, it died pretty fast, but here it is:
[Random_Nerd] http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=320979
[Random_Nerd] Note that stuff there may not be canon, but probably is.
[Knockwood] Reminds me, I tried another thread that tanked
[Angelo] bookmarked! thank!
[Knockwood] http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=530511
[Beth] Well, guys, I need to check some laundry. See you next week! *HUGS*
[lazarus] gnight everyone
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[Angelo] night Beth, Laz
[Knockwood] basically it was about turning 'MindGuard' (http://zapatopi.net/mindguard/ ) into a campaign
[Knockwood] g'night Beth, Laz
[Angelo] what
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[Angelo] what is mindguard? a one shot?
[Angelo] a film?
[Knockwood] have a look
[Knockwood] short version: it's a program that finds and stops the thoughts THEY are beamiong into your brain!
[Angelo] oh!
[Random_Nerd] Anyway, I'm logging out.
[Random_Nerd] Good session, guys.
[Knockwood] g'night RN
[Angelo] Night RN!
[Random_Nerd] Sorry not much happened, but I didn't want to move things forward too much without Verithe.
[Knockwood] True.
[Knockwood] Angelo: check the left column
[Random_Nerd] Anyway, g'night.
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[Angelo] ok the left one
[Knockwood] note the testimonials from W, Pat Robertson and Bill Gates... :)
[Angelo] yes, just read
[Angelo] and the one that put on this site is crazy
[Knockwood] it's deliberate. Click the 'Lyle Zapato' link in the text.
[Angelo] lol
[Knockwood] elsewhere on the site you can learn how to make an aluminum foil deflector beanie
[Angelo] well not my cup of tea
[Angelo] sorry
[Knockwood] I was thinking it could be the core of an Unknown Armies campaign, or somesuch
[Knockwood] anyway... cya next week, Angelo
[Angelo] well is a starting trace, there is possibility for UA or another gritty system
[Angelo] well, night Knock
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