Session 207

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 28

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«Random_Nerd» Ah, the Abhorrent Blades part?
«Angelo» Hi guys!
=-= Mode #Nobilis +o Angelo by Verithe
«Knockwood» and a few other minor things on the other branches
«BethE» Hi Angelo! *HUG*
«Knockwood» Hiya Angelo
«Random_Nerd» Okay. Laz is going to be late, and while the email went out to Etheric, I'm not sure if he'll be coming,.
«Random_Nerd» So, I'll want another five minutes and then start, if there are no objections.
«Knockwood» OK. Did we get enough rest to recharge our spells and hit points?
«Angelo» good question
«Random_Nerd» Well, did you guys have any more investigating to do while you were with Vulcan?
«Knockwood» ... would he know anything about Malambruno?
«Random_Nerd» Who in the what now?
«Knockwood» "Mal" Ambruno, renegade shoe salesman
«BethE» I have no recollection of who that is.
«Angelo» (I second Beth)
«Knockwood» a/k/a Hatred, the Abhorrent weapon that may be in Creation
«Random_Nerd» Ah!
«Verithe» Kite wanted to check up on Jonathan and the Spear, but that can be off-screen.
«Verithe» Especially since I can't think of anything specific he wanted to say.
«Random_Nerd» He would probably know /something/ about it, but would you mind waiting to ask him until I have a bit more time to think about what's up with the major abhorrent weapons in the game?
«Knockwood» What, you don't want to ad lib an entire section of plot? That's no fun.
«BethE» A shoe salesman is an Abhorrent Weapon? What, is he in stillettos?
«Angelo» And Ftisk will take a day off to recharge batteries
«BethE» Be gentle, Knock, he only just got his brain back a couple of days ago...
«Knockwood» that means it's still under warranty!
«Angelo» right! How the finals go?
«Random_Nerd» I won't have my grades for a bit under a month.
«Random_Nerd» But they could have gone worse.
«Knockwood» Well, the world will be ending on Saturday anyway, no biggie
«Random_Nerd» Still, if I see another international framework agreement or federal preemption issue, there will be blood.
«Knockwood» (You have those guys where you are?)
«Angelo» what?
«Knockwood» (the ones who claim their leader did the bible math and determined the world will end on the 21st?)
«Verithe» Saturday is closer for me than you. I can be your litmus test.
«Knockwood» ah yeah, what time is it there?
«BethE» Apparently, he says the Rapture will be happening at 6pm in each time zone, so at least we'll have some warning.
«Random_Nerd» What gets me is the idea that it happens in each time zone, on the dot.
«Verithe» 10:57 Friday morning.
«Random_Nerd» I mean... that is the most bureaucratic apocalypse I've ever heard of.
«Knockwood» so, Verithe has 31 hours to confirm or deny.
«Verithe» *nod* Shall I send out an email report?
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«Verithe» Yay!
«Knockwood» Hiya laz
«BethE» Angelo - a sect of Christians who believe in an interpretation of the Book of Revelation that true believers will be taken up to heaven in a 'Rapture' at a certain time before the world is taken over by Satan.
«BethE» Hi Laz!
«BethE» V - sure! "10pm..still not Raptured yet..."
«Angelo» Hola Laz!
«Verithe» Alright!
«lazarus» Managed to get to the 20 minutes earlier bus thanks to class letting out early.
«Angelo» thank you Beth! Surely the weirdest sect are there in USA...
«Knockwood» I've been meaning to get a bumper sticker that says "In Case Of Rapture... Dibs On Your Stuff!"
«lazarus» Isn't that Rapture Date supposed to be this Saturday? The 21st?
«Knockwood» just talking about that
«Verithe» Yes!
«BethE» (Bunnies! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381464/Bunny-rabbits-compete-jumping-course-Dressage-set-world-storm.html )
«Random_Nerd» For that matter... if you're standing precisely on the line between time zones, is there a chance of tragic accidents?
«Random_Nerd» Or, for that matter, if you're tethered so that if you start to rise, you'll rise to the other side of the line... do you start to fall?
«Angelo» or double rapture?
«Verithe» Oh, god! Bunnies!
«Random_Nerd» Double /secret/ rapture.
«Knockwood» alternatively, couldn't you avoid it by going to the next time zone at, say, 5:30?
«Random_Nerd» Just the way this guy set up the rules indicates to me that he knows /no/ rules lawyers.
«Verithe» If you really want to avoid the rapture.
«lazarus» If you go around the Earth backwards really fast, what happens?
«lazarus» (for my midterm next week, I need to remember that not not-A is not-not-A, which turns into A, but isn't identically equal to A)
«Random_Nerd» For that matter, if you don't think you're rapture-worthy, can you kidnap a bunch of fundie evangelicals and fasten them to some kind of harness?
«Verithe» You...probably bump into a lot of people and things and drown in the ocean.
«BethE» I won’t be raptured anyway, so if you have any stuff you want sent to me... ^^
«Random_Nerd» (What class is this? Can't be formal logic, unless it's some weird flavor...)
«BethE» RN - use them as a space elevator?
«Knockwood» Can you form some kind of rudimentary lathe? (Name that line)
«lazarus» (symbolic logic)
«lazarus» (with validity proofs of the flavour of "justify EVERYTHING")
«Random_Nerd» (Huh. Propositional or first-order?)
«lazarus» (not really aware of the difference. It's called "Symbolic Logic" and Wiki hasn't been helpful in letting me figure out which of the two flavours it is.)
«lazarus» (It's also in the Philosophy department)
«Knockwood» I don't see how not-not-A is not A. Did they throw in a 'maybe' value?
«Random_Nerd» (Because in both, you can infer Q from --Q... or is what you mean that you can infer it, but it's not the same term?)
«Random_Nerd» Does it use "there exists an A such that" and "for all A" or not?
«lazarus» no backwards-E or upside-down-A.
«Random_Nerd» Okay. Then it's propositional logic.
«lazarus» kwd: ~~A is equivalent to A, but is not the same term (because the symbols are different!)
«Random_Nerd» Assuming you don't have the weird modality symbols or something, at least.
«Random_Nerd» Anyway... Nobilis?
«Knockwood» "This is an amazing theorem on symbolic logic! How did you come up with it?" "Sneezed on the keyboard, sorry..."
«Knockwood» Let's whomp that orc camp!
«Random_Nerd» So! Continue with Vulcan, or skip ahead a bit?
«lazarus» (I've seen some awesome logic in Verilog or VHDL with a "maybe" form :))
«Angelo» ok what treasure is inhabit a thing of your estate for x time?
«lazarus» (in hardware, you have high, low, middle, alternating voltage ...)
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa
«Knockwood» oh, I've been meaning to a) finish my char map and b) allocate those last points...
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite
«Brian» what were we doing, btw?
«Knockwood» what can I do with 2 Treasure?
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
«Kite» I don't think we have anything else going on in Vulcan, right now.
«Ftisk» me too
«DanteE» prepping for the big meeting
«Brian» Right, I talked with JbJ and Shadows.
«Brian» I think Brian's done driving things for the moment.
«Random_Nerd» Okay. So, the Shards will be staying in Vulcan while you guys try to set up the politics for the bargaining session with their parent-Excrucian, right?
«DanteE» we need approval from Imperators we know to do the meeting, right?
«DanteE» who's with us so far?
«Kite» Were we talking with Jeris next?
«Ftisk» yep on shard remaining in Vulcan
«Kite» Because Kite is really excited about the prospect of visiting Locus Jeris.
«Random_Nerd» Let's see. You have Barakiel, right?
«Random_Nerd» And Kudzu, Vulcan.
«Random_Nerd» And HQB?
«DanteE» did we have Barakiel?
«Kite» I think Barakiel's Nobles were going to work on him.
«Random_Nerd» You have his nobles working on him, at least.
«Kite» We have Caesar also, yes?
«Random_Nerd» True, for what he's worth.
«Kite» True
«Ftisk» well an imp is a imp
«Random_Nerd» So, you have a fair number, but all but Vulcan are shaky in one way or another, politically speaking.
«DanteE» we have an imp
«DanteE» even HQB?
«Random_Nerd» Oh, and other than HQB.
«Random_Nerd» He's eccentric, but he has pull.
«Ftisk» so 2 bigs names and a lots of lunatics
«Kite» I think Ophaniel and Jeris were our next candidates.
«DanteE» how about the Imperators of the Nobles we invited to the party?
«Theresa» Well, the Dionyl are out of jurisdiction anyhow.
«Random_Nerd» Hmm. You've never met them, but you could at least sound out their Nobles.
«Random_Nerd» Dionyl's close enough that there's political crossover.
«DanteE» (And at some point I'd like opinions on the other game I've been mulling over...)
«Random_Nerd» So, will all of you stay in Locus Vulcan, or will the Amyra crowd go back home?
«DanteE» Let's see... who are the Imps of Night and Physics?
«Brian» Brian will head home, at least for a bit. Check up on things in-Chancel.
«Random_Nerd» I'd have to dig back.
«Kite» Night's was a Darklord, yes? Martyrs was in the same family?
«DanteE» Dante will make sure the Shards are comfortable (and secure) and then head home to figure out a plan
«Random_Nerd» Night and Martyrs are family, yes.
«DanteE» Plus, we can ask our Aides for names
«Random_Nerd» Okay. Sounds like a plan.
«Ftisk» If time is enough Ftisk will use Treasure 1 Possession for a 24 hours vacation
«Random_Nerd» Which Anchor?
«Ftisk» I need an anchor? not an object?
«Ftisk» like Patterns do?
«DanteE» Patterns doesn't _do_ vacations...
«Random_Nerd» He wasn't using Treasure.
«Random_Nerd» He was using Persona Incarnation.
«Random_Nerd» Different trick.
«Ftisk» ok Persona trick then
«Random_Nerd» Okay. What will you incarnate as?
«Ftisk» as electric vibrator, of course!
«DanteE» ...
«Random_Nerd» Okay. This will take place off-screen, for the sake of my sanity.
«DanteE» (Who had this session in the Ftisk-Went-THERE pool?)
«Ftisk» yes, definitely!
«Random_Nerd» Ready to start?
«Kite» Ready!
«Ftisk» yep!
«Brian» (I'm afraid to ask: "whose?")
«DanteE» Ready.
«Theresa» (Darn, I had September.)
«Brian» ready!
«Theresa» I ..think so?
«Ftisk» ready!
«DanteE» Everybody warm up your d20s!
«Random_Nerd» _________START___________________
«Brian» I thought we were using d35s!
«Random_Nerd» Okay. This session begins... let's say two days after the previous one. And it begins with Brian receiving a phone call from an outside number.
«Random_Nerd» This is a bit odd, since you aren't supposed to be able to directly call Brian.
«Brian» "Hello?"
«Random_Nerd» Sam had to set that up, because he really did get quite a few calls.
«Kite» ((What am I to do with these d7s!?))
«Ftisk» (outside like out of Amyra or creation?)

• DanteE has his index cards again, with new ones naming each Abhorrent Weapon...
  

«Random_Nerd» (Out of Amyra.)
«DanteE» "William, any word from Barakiel's Familia?"
«Random_Nerd» Woman's voice, in english, not familiar. "Excuse me, but is this the" *brief pause* "'Power of Numbers'?"
«Random_Nerd» William: "I talked to Consequences, briefly. The short version is 'The boss is already working on some crazy plan, but that doesn’t mean he isn't willing to do /your/ crazy plan, too, at the same time. I need a vacation.' That's a paraphrase, but that was the gist of it."

• Theresa is rooted in the Grove, pondering urban farming, living walls and hydroponics.
  

«Brian» "You have dialed the correct number. Please let me know who is calling, and I'll see if he's available."
«Random_Nerd» Woman's voice: "'Brian' something? Did you know Jacob?"
«DanteE» "If we get to January 2 on the calendar I think everyone gets a vacation."
«Theresa» (Jacob...was this the shard that was a Warmain who tested us?)
«Random_Nerd» (Nope.)
«Brian» "Jacob who?"
«Ftisk» "Kite, my vacation was the awesomest thing in the world! Better that the Dante's pant trick!!!"
«Random_Nerd» Woman: "Campbell. He was the 'Powner of Physics'?"
«Theresa» (If this is another 'therewolf' trick, dear...)
«Kite» "Where did you go for vacation? I like visiting the seaside nests."
«Brian» (That name is vaguely familiar.)
«Brian» "That name is familiar to me."
«Theresa» (Oh crap. 'Did you know' is not a good sign.)
«DanteE» (You're thinking of Joseph Campbell)
«Random_Nerd» Woman: "So you knew him? You were friends with him or something?"
«Brian» (We knew someone had died)
«Kite» (/him?/)
«Ftisk» I was possessing (vibrators) two days ago for a full day. Was soooo refreshing!!!"
«Theresa» (Crap.)
«Brian» "Haven't talked to him in a while"
«Kite» "Vibrators?"
«Brian» (I can't actually remember who this character is x_x)
«Random_Nerd» Woman: "Yeah. You, uh, wouldn't have. Not for a few weeks, at least."
«Kite» "The ones that shake bags of lentils so that more lentils can fit?"
«DanteE» (Physics is dead?)
«Random_Nerd» (Remember the whole thing with the spirit of PHYSICS and the alterations to various important mathematical constants and stuff?)
«DanteE» (Hell, I played him...)

• Ftisk lc show a video on a conveniently created monitor for Kite to explain
  

«Brian» (yeah, but there's a lot of details around that that I don't remember. Like names of characters. I'm bad with names x_x)
«Theresa» (That you completely insulted with your change to math and who showed up as Entropy to our party?)
«Kite» "How odd."
«Theresa» (Who had a giant spirit of gravity go nuts, mess with your office door and we fixed it?)
«Kite» "Theresa, is this normal human behavior?"
«Theresa» (That you were going to have him visit your particle accelerator?)

• Kite points to video.
  

«Random_Nerd» (His first name hasn't come up in years, since the second storyline in this session. But he's shown up since then.)

• Theresa is so totally not anywhere _near_ that conversation, Kite, for which she is thankful.
  

«DanteE» "Ah... for certain values of 'normal', yes."
«Theresa» (I'm in the Grove. Hee! )
«Theresa» (Let Dante explain sex and orgasms to you!)
«Ftisk» "Yes! Absolutely! You never tried one? , Keep this one " *lc a vibrator*
«DanteE» (I'm in the thick of it and with a psych degree in my background. :/ )

• Ftisk give one to kite
  
• Kite realizes Theresa is not around.
  

«Kite» "It is rather shiny."
«Ftisk» "and you had to see how shine with some gel"
«Theresa» (Beware the steam-powered ones.)
«Brian» (Apparently the Dominus of Physics introduced himself as "Jack" once.)
«Kite» "Dante, is this normal human behavior?
«Random_Nerd» Woman: "Anyway. Your name was on a piece of paper in his desk, so I thought you should know. He got killed by a...'warmain shard' And I got dumped into the job."
«DanteE» "Ah... for certain values of 'normal', yes."
«Brian» "Ah. I see. In which case, you should probably come here. Do you have an Aide yet?"
«DanteE» "Not to mention many, many websites... can you put the images and Steely Dan here away?"
«Ftisk» "Yes Dante!"
«Kite» "Steely Dan?"

• Ftisk put these images up
  

«DanteE» (The band named themselves after a vibrator in Naked Lunch.)
«Random_Nerd» Woman: "They gave me a pamphlet and a gun, and told me that creatures from outside reality would probably try to destroy the earth soon, and it was my job to stop them."
«Brian» "Yeah. Where are you? Probably easier for me to get there."
«DanteE» "Who are you inviting here Brian?"
«Theresa» (Poor thing.)
«Ftisk» (a pamphlet? Ftisk never had a pamphlet! I'm envious!!!)
«Brian» (Brian is probably in his office for those who wish to overhear)
«Brian» "New Physics."
«DanteE» "_New_ Physics?"
«Ftisk» "Dante do you want to give Kite a live demonstration?"
«Brian» (that was called out to Dante, covering the receiver)
«Brian» "Yeah. New. Thought we'd show her some ropes. ... THE ropes."
«Ftisk» "New ... oh my!"
«Random_Nerd» Woman: "I'm in his office. Not the regular one, the one that's in some weird pocket dimension."
«DanteE» "What happened to the guy we know?"
«Brian» "Warmain. Someone let T know?"
«DanteE» "When?"
«Brian» (to the woman) "I'll be there soon ... I think. Um. Hang on a sec." (to Sam) "Sam, can we get from here to Physics' Real Office?"

• Kite flies off to inform Theresa whilst stopping off at his Amyra nest to drop off his newest shiny object."
  

«Random_Nerd» Woman: "I get the feeling that this whole 'new Physics' thing kinda happens a lot."

• DanteE dials up Theresa on our magic cellphones.
  

«Brian» "Dante, I'm still on the phone! We'll get details in a bit!"
«Kite» except he walks.
«Kite» Slowly.
«Brian» "Yeah, Physics is one of those that the Excrucians would love."
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "Um... I'll have to look up his chancel."

• DanteE grabs the cards corresponding to events...
  

«Brian» "Just try to imagine reality without for a second. Then you'll see /why/."
«Theresa» (Kite is walking slowly?)

• DanteE writes a new card "Physics + Warmain"
  

«Brian» (to Sam) "And who's in the same familia?"

• Theresa is enjoying sunshine. *answers* "Hmmm?"
  

«Kite» (Compared to flying, anyway. He still needs to mend.)
«Random_Nerd» Woman: "I /also/ get the impression that they'd assumed that he'd told me all about this stuff. All I knew was that for a student he seemed to have a lot of money and stuff. But I assumed 'trust fund', not 'magical guardian of reality.'"
«DanteE» "Theresa... Brian just got a phone call... there's a new Physics.
«DanteE» "Said something about a Warmain."

• Ftisk float on Dante shoulder
  

«Brian» "I can't remember if I set him up with a magic bank account or not. I think not. We'd decided that would break Economics and get her really really annoyed."
«Theresa» (Ah.)
«DanteE» to William: "Can we sort these out as to _when_ everything happened?"
«Theresa» "Oh...oh dear. And a warmain? Do we have more details?"
«Random_Nerd» William: "I'll try. This'll take some time. I don't think Physics really had a support structure documenting things."
«Brian» (oh hey, the Voice is still in Sam's head, isn't it?)
«DanteE» "Brian's still on the phone. Sounds like he's arranging a meeting."
«Random_Nerd» William: "Oh, that reminds me. I need to get you guys to approve your Successor Messages and add in anything I left out."
«Random_Nerd» (Not at the moment, but it may show up there again.)
«DanteE» "There's subtext in 'You're completely screwed?'"
«Brian» (damn multidimensional beings!)
«Brian» (Can we assume that Brian sets up an appropriate meeting site? If not in her Chancel, in a cafe in ... oh, let's say Paris?)
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "Okay, I can work out a way to do this, but it'll be easier if she meets us somewhere neutral."
«DanteE» (We don't know if she knows how to travel, though.)
«Ftisk» "Warmain who? There is a name? a description? Is like me ehrm Conrad, Ronchefort or «insert last name I never remember»?"
«Theresa» (As Physics, it may be instinct.)
«DanteE» to T: "I'll let you know what's happening once Brian gets back to me."
«Theresa» "Okay, I'll pull myself up and meet you guys at the Tower."
«Brian» "How's your ability to get to Paris? There's some nice cafes there we can sit and talk in."
«DanteE» "See you in a few. (click)"
«Random_Nerd» Woman: "I... yeah, I can get there."
«Brian» "Then let's meet at [insert cafe name here]. I'll be the one with the Dionyl."
«DanteE» to William: "OK, a lot of things happened on this day (Breach Day)... Entropy made his big announcement on this day...

• Theresa stretches her branches and reforms into a human-form. Pats the Maple on the trunk and the Acorn on the cap. "Thanks for the rest, guys. I needed it. And it looks like something new has come up."
  

«DanteE» "The attacks on Duty were... these days...
«Random_Nerd» Woman: "Apparently I have a flying motorcycle now."

• Kite is still headed toward Theresa.
  
• DanteE is making a calendar in case it isn't blatantly obvious
  

«Theresa» (Oh, I think I remember that motorcycle. It was cool.)
«Brian» "Oh that thing. That thing is AWESOME. Except it doesn't go very fast... you should fix that."
«DanteE» (And you shouldn't fly it in public, right?)
«Brian» "Anyway, we will likely be there first, since that's kind of our thing, so get there when you can, please?"
«Random_Nerd» "Okay. I'll meet you there."
«Random_Nerd» (Cut to that scene?)
«Ftisk» (yes RN!)
«Brian» *hangs up the phone* "K guys, I'm going to [cafe name] to meet her. Anyone who wants to come along please do. Sam, if you would?"
«Brian» (cut ok!)
«DanteE» (Hold on, do we have an idea of when everything happened?)
«Kite» (Okay! Kite will have figured out that he could have just prayed to Theresa by then.)

• Theresa will meet up with Kite. "Hello, Kite! Come to fetch me?"
  

«Kite» "Why, yes! Brian said something about a new Physics."
«Random_Nerd» (Physics died about two weeks ago. He wasn't killed by any warmain shards that you've met.)
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "Sure. I've got Paris bookmarked."
«DanteE» (What else happened around then?)
«Ftisk» "I want to come! I want to know if one of my brothers was the warmain that killed Physic"
«DanteE» "I'm definitely coming. I want to know what happened."
«Theresa» "So Dante whispered to me. Shall we go and visit?"
«Ftisk» (and we meet quite a lot of warmains shard!)
«Random_Nerd» (It was a few days before the whole Shirk thing.)
«Kite» "I should have thought of that! Yes, let us visit."
«DanteE» (But in the middle of the attack on Duty?)

• Theresa and Kite will head back to the Tower to go to Paris with everyone.
  

«Kite» (Ftisk can be an object lesson in what Excrucians look like....if you don't pay any details whatsoever to the shape.)
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah, during the time that the earlier Shirk effects were taking place.)
«DanteE» (Assuming he doesn't become Ultimate Escargot)
«Ftisk» ( /me look innocent? )
«Random_Nerd» (So, who are you bringing, and what forms will everyone be in?)
=-= Kite is now known as Human-Kite
«Human-Kite» (human)
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad
«Theresa» (Human.  :) )
«Brian» (taking Sam)
«DanteE» (Does William want to see Paris? :) )
«Conrad» (mostly human)
«Human-Kite» (We are a horribly dismembered group for walking around in public. :) )
«DanteE» (Just hope I don't have to go through any metal detectors.)
«Conrad» (blades can be not metallic)
«Random_Nerd» In the designated cafe, at an otherwise open table, is sitting someone who's almost certainly the new Physics. She is, after all, wearing the old Physics' railgun/rifle thing, and there's a copy of "So You've Been Ennobled" on the table with a bunch of notes in the margins.
«Random_Nerd» Oddly, nobody seems to be noticing the sci-fi-ish gun or bike.
«Human-Kite» How enviable!

• Conrad smile and wave :-)
  

«Brian» "oh, hey! You beat us! ... I guess that makes sense, actually"
«Random_Nerd» She's kinda short, about college age or a little older, and dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. Her skin's dark, a little lighter than Theresa's, and she has frizzy hair and vaguely hipsterish glasses.
«Random_Nerd» She looks at the group of you.
«Random_Nerd» "You're the Kudzu guys?"
«Conrad» *low tone* "I came to take you! see the star in my eye?" *giggle*
«Brian» "Yup. And some Vulcans. Who don't ever say 'Live Long and Prosper'. Last one who asked them to do that became part of a machine through a process of assembly. It wasn't pretty."
«Human-Kite» "Please ignore my brother's misguided sense of humor."

• Theresa smiles. "Hello. I'm Theresa. And you are?"
  
• Conrad stares at Kite
  

«Brian» "I'm Numbers, that's Plants, Courage/Blades, and from Vulcan, Machinery/Data and Assembly."
«Random_Nerd» "Miriam Balch. Power of Physics. Apparently."
«DanteE» "Heh... feels funny to be the voice of experience for once. Dante."
«Conrad» "Dante is really a wise old man" *nod nod*
«Conrad» "Ah, before misconception arise, he is mine!"
«Theresa» "Welcome to the other side of the curtain."
«Random_Nerd» M: "I've been doing this for all of a week. Apparently my dead boyfriend's 'family' are all very busy, but are sure I'll pick it up in a hurry."
«Random_Nerd» She looks at Conrad for a moment, and then backs up out of her chair and draws the gun.
«Human-Kite» "They're your family now, yes?"
«Random_Nerd» It makes a little electronic whine that you're 90% certain that Physics just built in to sound cool.
«Brian» "Don't worry about him. He won't kill you." *Glares at Ftisk*
«Random_Nerd» M: "Stars. Eyes. On the list."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Is this some kind of trap?"
«Brian» "Ftisk, be Ftisk."
«DanteE» "There are a few exceptions. Not many, though.

• Conrad shroud
  

=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
«Human-Kite» "Ah...my brother performed an experiment on a Warmain and got starry eyes as a result."
«Theresa» (*salutes the dead Physics*)
«DanteE» "He does that because he beat one of the bad guys and did this thing called 'Tempering'."
«Random_Nerd» M: "It's on his list. Never say the 'L' word, not that he was the type that was all that likely to /anyway/, never trust anyone with stars in their eyes, and never pretend to be Lord Entropy at a party."
«Brian» "Sam, are there any spare Aides in need of awesome steampunky sci-fi Nobles?"
«Ftisk» "Hey don't have prejudices I'm a nobles or a least 50% of it!"
«Theresa» "Huh, interesting. Were you an Anchor for your boyfriend before or is all of this completely new?"
«Human-Kite» "Never pretend to be Lord Entropy at a party? That's oddly specific."
«Ftisk» "aaand I don't say the L word"
«Random_Nerd» M: "Apparently so. Which means that apparently he'd been reading my mind for months."
«Theresa» "Oh, we know about the party thing! He pulled that on us. We think. It was hopefully Physics..."
«DanteE» to Kite: "He did that at our party."
«Human-Kite» "Oh!"
«Theresa» "It's not an 'always reading your mind' thing, I think. Otherwise Brian would be constantly distracted by reading Sam's mind."
«Ftisk» "yes yes he was the fake Entropy"
«Random_Nerd» M: "We weren't even living together or anything. We'd just been going out a few months. Now he dies and I guess I have a new job."
«Human-Kite» "Haha! Was that when you guys were still new?"
«DanteE» "What did he tell you about someone called 'Lord Entropy'?"
«Theresa» (...I don't want to know how he Anchored her...)
«Random_Nerd» She looks at the pamphlet.
«Theresa» ("If someone has red hands, run.)
«Random_Nerd» M: "He runs the earth, he's a colossal douchebag, he'll feed you to magic brain-eating locusts if you piss him off, don't say the L word or he'll do that locust thing."
«DanteE» "That works."
«Random_Nerd» M: "And apparently everyone has hushed conversations about him in the hallways but shuts up when I walk by."
«DanteE» "Add to that 'he may be actively betraying Creation' and underline 'Don't piss him off' a few times."
«Ftisk» "I say the L word and he put some locusts in my Gnomely! Sad, sad day that one!"
«Brian» "Yeah, um, Politics."
«Random_Nerd» M: "So, sorry to bug you guys, but I get the feeling that Jacob didn't really have a lot of friends who're part of this whole magical secret world you have going here."
«Brian» "Yeah ... he and I had a kind of rivalry."
«Brian» "He didn't like that his Estate as defined in the modern sense depends on mine."

• DanteE looks around...
  

«Brian» "Though I guess it's your Estate now."
«Theresa» "It can be hard to make friends as a Noble. Or even just knowing about Nobles."
«Random_Nerd» M: "So, when you guys got picked... what was it like? Lengthy aptitude tests and essays on Why I Want To Be A Noble and stuff?"
«DanteE» "How much of an orientation did you get?"
«Brian» "Nah. Just kinda became one."
«Random_Nerd» She points at "So You've Been Ennobled."
«DanteE» "Our Imperator is the capricious type.
«DanteE» "He is capriciousness, in fact."
«Random_Nerd» M: "There's a book, too, by some french guy, but I haven't had time to read it yet."
«Ftisk» "My dad constructed me to be the awesomest snail in the creation!"
«Brian» "Caprice, Dante, the word is 'caprice'."
«Brian» "LUC! Man, Luc would LOVE you!"
«DanteE» "Can go either way."
«Random_Nerd» M: "You're not a snail. I'm not making this up, right, he isn't a snail? Two legs, two arms, zero shells?"
«Brian» "He's not a Noble, so it's ok."
«Brian» "He's a shapeshifter. Originally snail. Kite there is originally metal bird."
«DanteE» (Ftisk turned back to his normal form a while ago)
«Random_Nerd» M: "Magic snail. Check."

• Ftisk bow
  

«Random_Nerd» (In public? I guess I missed that pat.)

• Human-Kite nods
  

«DanteE» "We have some fun tricks we can do."
«Ftisk» (yes when she stared at my star full eye with the gun ready)
«Theresa» "Becoming a Noble was different for us. It happened after our city had 100 nights of people dying in a special way."
«DanteE» (Can we get a bead on her ability scores?)
«Random_Nerd» (From when you saw her draw the gun, she's probably got Aspect 2. From the fact that she's toting around a few of previous-Physics' toys, she probably has a decent treasure rating.)

• DanteE makes sure nobody mundane is watching...
  

«Random_Nerd» (Also, she almost certainly has some sort of gift, affliction, or standing miracle that makes people not notice the fact that she's toting a railgun around.)
«Random_Nerd» (Beyond that, you're not sure.)
«DanteE» "Let me make sure you have a thorough understanding of one thing...
«DanteE» "You _control_ Physics now.
«Brian» "We're the good guys.?"
«Random_Nerd» M: "I took a physics class once. Sophomore year. It was a general requirement."
«DanteE» "Stretch yourself a little and you could screw up every textbook out there... but there would definitely be repercussions."
«Ftisk» "Well, /I'm/ a good snail!"
«Random_Nerd» M: "Like, springs, and diagrams, and coefficients of static friction and stuff. I got a B."
«Brian» "And Newton and Einstein were caretakers before you."
«DanteE» "Please, sit down. We are on your side, I assure you."

• Human-Kite orders a glass of water
  

«DanteE» "What did his notes say about us, by the way?"
«Brian» "By the way, can you explain to me the theory of general relativity, being specific about it?"
«Random_Nerd» M: "Were they actual Powers of Physics? Or just, like, college professors?"
«Random_Nerd» M: "Going faster than the speed of light doesn't work, because magic. Gravity bends space, because magic."
«Brian» "Powers. They _redefined_ Physics."
«Brian» "... you can do better than that. Ask your inner mind."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Oh, and I went faster than the speed of light, day before yesterday. Worked fine."
«DanteE» "Replace 'magic' with 'you' now."
«Random_Nerd» M: "I always thought that whole part was stupid, though."

• DanteE debates ordering a big plate of escargot... :)
  

«Random_Nerd» (You'll only encourage him.)
«Human-Kite» "You could probably change it, if you think it's stupid."
«Ftisk» (true)
«Brian» "Lorentz gave a reason. You divide by the square root of 1 minus v over c-squared. I think. The Lorentz factor doesn't quite stick in my mind"
«DanteE» "But you'd screw up the universe.
«Human-Kite» "Though, you might upset some people."
«DanteE» "Actually...
«Theresa» "Well, if that's what you feel about speed of light travelling, then some scientist out there will be able to make it possible."
«Human-Kite» "Bah. Things get changed a lot."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Well, I know there's an equation that says how it works. Or a bunch of them. But I don't really get the reason /why/ it's that way."
«DanteE» "You're Physics now, so you could tell exactly what would happen...
«Brian» "Hitting c is undefined, and exceeding c goes into imaginary-space, which is NOT a part of my Estate!"
«Human-Kite» "Like....like.....the things...that got changed."
«Random_Nerd» M: "And when I try to feel it out through my spooky magic powers, I really don't get an answer that's better than 'because that's how it's set up right now'."
«Brian» "that's pretty much it. Remember when I said Newton and Einstein redefined Physics? You can do that now."

• Ftisk nod nod
  

«DanteE» "But, uh, don't. We don't need surprises right now..."
«Random_Nerd» M: "I mean, this stuff doesn't really even reach very far past, like, Pluto or something. Most of those stars don't even really run on these rules. They're just, like, a big complicated simulation."
«Random_Nerd» M: "And according to what notes I was able to find, the reason that it's like this is because a dinosaur crapped on an angel."
«DanteE» "Did they show you Yggdrasil?"
«Random_Nerd» M: "You can't make this stuff up, guys."
«Random_Nerd» She points to the pamphlet.
«Brian» "Not on. By."
«Random_Nerd» (For the record, she has a copy of http://07nobiliscampaign.wikispaces.com/file/view/So+You%27ve+Been+enNobled... )
«DanteE» (Page not found on that)
«Random_Nerd» M: "The version I heard said it was on the angel's foot."
«Brian» "I've heard of a new book co-authored by Ianthe Falls-Short that explains more about things."
«Theresa» (Angels have feet?)
«Random_Nerd» (Include the trailing periods.)
«Human-Kite» (Perhaps when they aren't made of wheels-within-wheels)
«Random_Nerd» M: "At least it isn't because an angel crapped on a dinosaur. That would just be /too/ much to handle."
«Brian» "Angels don't crap, as far as I can figure out."
«DanteE» "Who's your Impe... new boss?"
«Random_Nerd» M: "Maybe that's just what they /want/ you to think."
«Theresa» "Let's move along..."
«Brian» (Brian will look to see if there's a reaction to Sam)
«Random_Nerd» M: "He's called Marduk, but he isn't really that much like the babylonian one at all. More like Cthulhu's nerdy socially-awkward little brother."
«Human-Kite» "I haven't met Cthulhu."
«DanteE» (Which Aides did we bring?)
«Ftisk» (I believe Sam & Will)
«DanteE» (We'll look in Chancel Jaris. :) )
«Random_Nerd» (Sam but not Will, I think.)
«DanteE» to Sam: "Marduk... what do you know about him?"
«Random_Nerd» M: "There isn't actually a Cthulhu, right?"
«Human-Kite» "There isn't?"
«Theresa» (And Sam is probably wearing his guise pollen.)
«Ftisk» ""uhm... don't know..." *shrug*
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "Uh... true god of Earth. New God. Covers, uh, agriculture, physics, and clay."
«Human-Kite» "Oooh! A New God!"
«Random_Nerd» (Uh, you guys work for a new god.)
«Theresa» (So..bricks?)
«DanteE» "What are the rest of your familia doing?"
«Ftisk_» (you Vulcanites?)
«DanteE» "You know, agriculture and clay."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Big important things that look suspiciously like playing foosball."
«Human-Kite» (Kite was excited about the connection)
«Random_Nerd» M: "I feel like the Intern Of The Gods or something."
«DanteE» "Part of that will pass... not all of it, but part of it."
«Theresa» "That can sometimes be accurate. Sometimes you're saving all of Creation. Othertimes, you're going down to the store in Australia to pick up a rabbit."
«DanteE» to the others: "We could invite her to our place and do a more measured intro to Nobility."
«Human-Kite» "Is 'intern' a permanent thing? Because I was under the impression that it was not."
«Random_Nerd» M: "By being helped by you, am I, like, undertaking some sort of magical obligation like in some kind of fairy tale? Because I'm still trying to work out how much of that stuff is real."
«DanteE» "One thing you should know... don't do anything showy in front of ordinary people. Their brains may break."
«Brian» "A current intro to Nobility includes 'we're gearing up for a civil war'"

• DanteE checks for onlookers again...
  

«Ftisk» "Let's say we become friends"
«Theresa» "Umm, there is no way that I, right now, cannot prove that this is part of prophecy. At least that I would pay for."
«Random_Nerd» M: "No, they don't. Look."
«Random_Nerd» She takes her coffee cup, throws it up into the air, and shoots it with a steel spike going at a relativistic velocity.
«Random_Nerd» The closests to a reaction is the waiter bringing her another cup of coffee.
«Random_Nerd» M: "See?"
«Brian» "... I like your gun."
«Human-Kite» "I....I think you are a special case."

• DanteE looks around with The Sight
  

«Brian» "And that's special to you. When others do it, like Ftisk changing shape, then others break."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Jacob made it."
«Brian» "Much to Ftisk's chagrin. And my occasional delight."
«Theresa» "It's probably related to your gun. When you do stuff with it, normal people can't see."
«Random_Nerd» M: "He didn't have it with him when he died. Maybe if he hadn't left it at home... oh, doesn't matter now."
«DanteE» "I know it's painful, but what exactly happened to him?"
«Brian» "Sam, what happens if you go back in time and change the past?"
«Ftisk» "Wouldn't be handy that ability?"
«Human-Kite» "I wonder how it works."
«Ftisk» "creation of altered sensations?"
«Random_Nerd» M: "He went out to get a burger. Then, based on what I've heard, magic people with stars in their eyes rode down from the sky on magic horses that may or may not have had stars in /their/ eyes, and cut his head off."
«DanteE» "When was this?"
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "If /I/ go back in time and change the past? How am I doing it?"
«Brian» "... general you."

• Theresa covers her eyes. "Oh great, there goes the burger industry in Amyra."
  

«Random_Nerd» Miriam: "Two weeks before Tuesday."
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "I think it depends who's doing it, though."
«Theresa» "And Brian, I would think that trying to change history would tick off the Third Age."

• Ftisk produce pictures of my 3 brothers "Was one of these?"
  

«Brian» "Like, we step out of time, and go back and save Old Physics from dying. What happens to New Physics here?"
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "If an Imperator does it, then it's part of how it always was all along. If a Power does it... could go either way."
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "Dunno. Can you do that?"
«DanteE» "We've seen magic horses... in Mexico."
«Brian» "I've heard tell that time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so."
«Human-Kite» "You guys /have/ a magic horse. I've seen it!"
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "That's... that book. The one that they made into the radio series and the shitty movie."
«DanteE» "Who saw it happen?"
«Human-Kite» "In that room of giant plants!"
«DanteE» (and we just had the 10th anniversary of his death, I think)
«Brian» "From the radio series. Into a tv series. Then into a movie, many years later. Yes. But still, time is a strange concept to Nobilis"
«Ftisk» "Yeah my bro is right you have horse-of-death"
«Brian» (yes, yes we did.  :( )
«Brian» "Horse is a good horse."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Some drunk girls, and some guy who's in a mental hospital now. So, you know, exactly the sort of people you tend to believe when they tell you about how your boyfriend got killed by something that looked like it belonged on a Trapper Keeper folder from the early nineties."
«DanteE» "... a silver guy?"
«Ftisk» "Not one in these pictures?"
«Random_Nerd» M: "Hmm? They said shiny, but I don't think they said /silver/."
«Human-Kite» "Well...miraculous battle can put mortals into mental hospitals."
«Brian» "You know, I've never even seen a Trapper Keeper. And then, all of a sudden, there's this big TK nostalgic revival."
«Random_Nerd» M: "You didn't miss much."
«Human-Kite» "We could try taking them to Amyra and fixing them to see what they know."
«DanteE» (Hm... Theresa can create pictures on paper of the guys we fought in Mexico.)
«Theresa» "Oh dear. Not Trapper Keepers. The glitter alone..."
«Human-Kite» "Shiny!"
«DanteE» (Or... Kite's idea is better.)
«Random_Nerd» M: "So, you have a magic horse?"
«Random_Nerd» M: "Well, I guess I have a magic bike. Same thing, really."
«Theresa» "At home. He belongs to one of our Sisters. This isn't the whole family."
«Ftisk» "From a fight with excrus"
«DanteE» "Well, your bike probably became magical on this side of the wall."
«Brian» "Your magic bike is more like Dante's magic car. Which is like a TARDIS."
«Random_Nerd» (Oh, and incidentially, her belief that most of physics is a mix of magic and bullshit was actually /increased/ by her becoming the Power of Physics.)
«Brian» (... makes sense.)
«Random_Nerd» (In a "See how the sausage is made" sort of way.)
«DanteE» "I'll ... bet you have a pile of questions."
«Brian» (Old Physics seemed more like a "rules and regulations" kind of guy, though, but her? MAGIC!)
«Brian» (the world's about to get a lot cooler :))
«Theresa» (...is she going to make her own Tardis?)
«Human-Kite» (I don't understand the analogy, but I understand the sentiment.)
«Random_Nerd» (The idea is that it's a lot easier to enjoy eating hot dogs if you've never worked at a place that actually made them.)
«DanteE» (Kite: old quote, "People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either one being made.")
«Human-Kite» (Ah.)
«Random_Nerd» (Ain't that the truth.)
«Brian» (I guess it should really be TaRDiS if you use the lower-case for and and in.)
«DanteE» "Have you actually done anything with Physics yet?"
«Ftisk» (and in my young my family actually make their sausages)
«DanteE» "aside from using Jacob's stuff."
«Human-Kite» (I like making sausages.)
«Brian» (I would love to make my own sausages.)
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah, old Physics was more "I don't really get why all these rules are here, but I may as well keep them working." He didn't question the point of the whole thing the way she does.)
«Theresa» (I've only picked up Doctor Who stuff by geek-osmosis. I'm lucky to get any name right.)
«Ftisk» (never seen Dr Who)
«Brian» (T: awww! Watch some! The current set of actors are quite good looking, too!)
«DanteE» (same with here)
«Random_Nerd» M: "Well, here's the weird thing... from what people tell me, Jacob's stuff works better for me than it did for him. Well, not all of it. The diamond armor doesn't fit me, and the giant robot was never even finished. But the bike and the gun? Yeah."
«DanteE» (she has higher Treasure than Jacob?)
«Random_Nerd» (Yep.)
«Brian» "You seem more like the kind of girl who appreciates magic stuff."
«Ftisk» "Giant Robot? Seem a worthy cause! Wanna help?"
«DanteE» (but I'm guessing lower Domain and/or Persona?)
«Brian» "I'm sure we can resize the armor, and finish the robot with you!"
«Random_Nerd» M: "I gather that the bike used to be able to fly, but it was only, like, airplane-fast. But now it seems to go somewhere from spaceship-fast to light-fast, and faster than that if I really push it."
«Brian» "Used to only do that when I fiddled with how it worked."
«Random_Nerd» (Her Domain is really low, and her persona's decent but not great.)
«Theresa» *to Brian* "I think she's like someone who can appreciate both science _and_ magic."
«Theresa» "Kind of like an Asgardian."
«Random_Nerd» (I would like the record to reflect that I'd already killed off Physics before I even /saw/ Thor.)
«Random_Nerd» M: "Wait, is there an actual Thor?"
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "Used to be. He died."
«Brian» "maybe"
«Random_Nerd» M: "Lame."
«Ftisk» "There is a Thor to be "
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "Current guy with the job's kind of a steampunk computer."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Okay, somewhat less lame."
«Theresa» (Hee!)
«DanteE» to Sam: "the job being, what, Power of Lightning?"
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "That's what it used to be called. Current one calls it Power of Electricity. Same thing, really."
«Theresa» "Huh..I think we met him? Or was it Copper..."
«Random_Nerd» (You've met him! Well, kinda, at least. By miracle-animated proxy.)
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah, that guy. Power of Electricity and Copper.)
«Ftisk» "The pigeon with strange veins!"
«DanteE» (I'd like to see her place, to check out the stuff, properly say goodbye to Jacob and maybe recruit Marduk to our cause.)
«Random_Nerd» M: "So, what can you guys do? The snail can change shapes, you said..."
«Brian» "I control Numbers. That's pretty much my thing."
«DanteE» "He can also make your bike do the hula. (to Ftisk) Don't, though."
«Ftisk» "I'm Ftsk, son of Vulcan, power of Machinery"
«Ftisk» "Ftisk, I mean Ftisk"

• DanteE ghosts a few daggers into existence.
  

«Random_Nerd» M, to Brian: "That sounds either really useful or really lame. Which is it"

• Ftisk pout "Names are sooooo blasé"
  

«Theresa» "And I'm Plants."
«Brian» "Sometimes really useful and sometimes really lame. I have to be careful, because sometimes I screw up other people's Estates. You'd be surprised the number of things that depend on me."

• DanteE makes his ghost-daggers float.
  

«Human-Kite» "I'm Chytosideron, in charge of Assembly."
«Brian» "Economics, for one. I mean, I have an infinite bank account, but not everyone can. Well, technically, arbitrarily large, that I have to refresh from time to time, but anyway."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Kind of the opposite of being me, then. I get the feeling that being Power of Physics is like being the Minister of Running Water and Sewers in Eastern Formersovietrepublicastan. Really important in a place that is, itself, not all that important."
«Brian» "But you get to control the formula for gravity!"
«DanteE» "Yeah, you could change things so the sun eats the earth."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Whoop-de-doo."
«Theresa» (We met gravity, didn't we?)
«Brian» "And things like shearing equations, and momentum and stuff!"
«Random_Nerd» (You've seen gravity-spirits.)
«Random_Nerd» (But not a Power of Gravity.)
«Theresa» "You can mess up the LH collider."
«Random_Nerd» M: "I don't really seem to be able to do that kind of thing, though. I tried, and it didn't really work."
«DanteE» "Granted, so can birds..."
«Human-Kite» "Though we worked hard on the LH collider thing, so please don't mess it up."
«DanteE» "It may take more effort for you than it did for Jacob.
«Brian» "Try in your Chancel. There's different rules in there."
«Theresa» "Amazing what a piece of garlic bread can do..."
«Random_Nerd» M: "But if I figure out how to do it, that whole Dark Matter thing is going, first thing."
«DanteE» "Careful... see, if you do that, and the Milky Way flies apart, a lot of people would be mad at you.
«DanteE» "People as powerful as you are now or greater.
«Brian» "Um. Dark Matter is there because someone before you went 'um, guys, this doesn't quite line up!' and had to invent a why."
«Theresa» "What would you replace it with?"
«Human-Kite» "She's Physics. She can decide that everything stays together without Dark Matter."
«Random_Nerd» M: "I'm not entirely certain that there /is/ a Milky Way."
«Ftisk» "Or with pinky or rose one!"
«Human-Kite» "Unless we're talking about a different sort of Dark Matter..."
«Human-Kite» "Sparkle Matter....hmmm...."
«DanteE» "Well, there is and there isn't...
«Ftisk» "Fish Mater"

• Human-Kite drools
  
• Ftisk giggle
  

«DanteE» "Theresa, can you show her a mini-Yggdrasil?"

• Theresa clears a space on the table and Ghost-pictures the Ash.
  

«Random_Nerd» M: "It's not a /galaxy/, at least."
«Theresa» (Happy glowing worlds, all spinning round...)
«Brian» "Sparklefish."
«DanteE» "See, we're right about ... there/
«Human-Kite» "Where? I want one! Now!"
«Theresa» (Just like it says on the pamphlet.)
«Random_Nerd» She nods, and looks at her pamphlet. "Your version's more realistic."
«Theresa» "Easier to do in 3D."
«DanteE» "She's Plants."
«DanteE» "Sam here is from (points) there."
«Random_Nerd» M: "I've actually seen some of these places already, when I took the bike out for a spin. I really need to find or make some kind of celestial GPS, though."
«Random_Nerd» M: "It is /unbelievably/ easy to get lost."
«Brian» "That's probably easy enough for you to do."
«Ftisk» "Creation is /big/ !"
«Random_Nerd» M, to Sam: "Oh, you're one of the invisible guys?"
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "That's not exactly how it..."
«Random_Nerd» Sam: "But yes."
«DanteE» "Now let's talk about the big conflict...
«Human-Kite» "Current events."

• Theresa pats Sam on the shoulder. Sometimes it's just easier to take the simple route.
  

«Random_Nerd» M: "Guys with stars in eyes bad. Reality good. Shoot them in the face."
«Random_Nerd» M: "But make sure you see them do something bad first."
«Ftisk» "Not the unrest against the L word edict the other big one"
«DanteE» "See, surrounding Creation--which is this--is the Weirding Wall.
«DanteE» (Now, how can we show her the Wall?)
«Brian» *wraps a napkin around the Tree*

• Ftisk lc a monitor and put on some pictures of the wall
  

«DanteE» "That works. Except it's electric blue."
«Ftisk» or a 3d rendering if pictures lack
«DanteE» "OK... the bad guys are from Outside. (indicates)
«DanteE» "Short version is, they want our stuff...
«Random_Nerd» M: "The tough part is figuring out how this all connects to me. They told me that if somebody attacks Physics, I'll know. How? 'You'll just know.' And that hasn't happened yet."
«Ftisk» "But outside are not _only_ bad guys!"
«DanteE» "'stuff' being 'all of Creation', one concept at a time."
«Random_Nerd» M: "So, do I just sit around eating steak dinners and upgrading my bike, or what?"
«Random_Nerd» M, to Ftisk: "Watch it, buddy, I've got my eye on you."

• Human-Kite props menus up to hide all of the little miracles from passing wait staff.
  

«Ftisk» "LOL Entropy got his eye on me and I'm there..."

• Ftisk pout
  

«Brian» "Pretty much, you do. I got hurt in the 'set theory' once. That felt odd. It wasn't even really mine!"
«DanteE» "Well, in my experience... becoming Noble frees you up to do potentially amazing things.
«Random_Nerd» M: "Hmm! If you do funky stuff, and I'm sitting here, does that make people not notice it?"
«Random_Nerd» (No.)
«Theresa» "Believe me, you'll know when someone makes a big move on your estate. Think kidney stone pain."
«Random_Nerd» (But she could develop her Gift to do that, with a Project.)
«Human-Kite» "I'm not willing to test it. The repercussions could be bad."

• Ftisk nod nod
  

«DanteE» "There are some fun side effects, as well... have you noticed the people here in France seem to be speaking your language?"
«Human-Kite» "What /is/ your language, by the way?"
«Brian» "The right answer now is 'every'."
«Random_Nerd» M: "I noticed that. Although I actually do speak a little French."
«Ftisk» "and you can switch view and chat a bit with spirits of ... things and concepts... like physics"
«Random_Nerd» M: "But when I got to Joutenheim I could understand all the people /there/, so I figured it was more magic."
«DanteE» "That will be true everywhere you go."
«Random_Nerd» M: "That still gives me headaches. It doesn't really make sense, yet."
«Human-Kite» "You visited Joutenheim? Lucky!"
«Random_Nerd» M: "The other world, I mean, where everything's made of, like, muppets."
«DanteE» "Spirits, actually."
«Random_Nerd» (While she has lame Domain and Persona stats, and an average Aspect, that bike can do pretty impressive things with a major Treasure miracle behind it.)
«Random_Nerd» M: "Spirits, sure, but spirits that look like muppets."
«DanteE» (Remind me to read through the Voynich Manuscript when I have a chance. :) )
«Human-Kite» (Thinking of Spirit View as MuppetVision amuses me.)
«Theresa» (I'm trying to figure out what spirits are like Kermit the Frog...)
«Random_Nerd» (And this ties into the "everyone sees the spirit world a little different" thing we've played up a few times before. Most of you see humans, Kite sees everything as birds, and for some reason she sees most mythic spirits as muppets.)
«Ftisk» (frog spirits?)
«Random_Nerd» (Whether this means she is secretly Muppet-Blooded is as yet undetermined.)
«DanteE» (Looking in Mythic, theres a little grav-spirit holding the table down, right?)
«Random_Nerd» (So, it's getting latish, and it's about time for a scene change. Mind if we stop here?)
«Random_Nerd» (Yes, there is.)
«DanteE» (Hang on...)
«Ftisk» (Ok for stop here)
«DanteE» "You realize, some of those guys do what you say, right?"
«Human-Kite» (Fine with me.)
«DanteE» "In fact, you can test that now...
«Random_Nerd» M: "Some of the time, anyway."
«Random_Nerd» M: "They don't always go along with it."
«Theresa» (Blaaargh.)
«DanteE» "Do your cross-eye thing and look at the gravity-sp... um, muppet holding the table down."
«Theresa» "Trees would look at me funny if I told them to grow upside down. Except for the one I physically planted that way. Rude fellow."
«Random_Nerd» (Which is because she can't do miracles of Conversation without spending MPs, so her words to physics-spirits have no more weight than anyone else's.)
«DanteE» (Nuts, I was going to encourage her to tell the spirit to bug off for a minute)
«Random_Nerd» She looks under the table, and does so.
«Ftisk» (that is domain covered)
«Random_Nerd» She pokes her head back up.
«Random_Nerd» M: "He flipped me off! Bad muppet!"
«Random_Nerd» M: "In fact..."
«Human-Kite» "Kick him."
«DanteE» "With a little effort, you can tell him to bugger off."
«Human-Kite» "He's not allowed to get away with that."
«Random_Nerd» She pokes her head back under. There are thumping noises."

• DanteE makes damn sure nobody's looking...
  

«Random_Nerd» The table rocks slightly on its legs.
«Random_Nerd» She gets back up.
«Random_Nerd» M: "I may not be all that much of a big deal, but I don't have to take shit from imaginary gravity muppets."
«Theresa» "Kicked him in the fork?"

• DanteE gently pushes the table up.
  

«Theresa» (Okay, that one needs to go on the quote page...)
«Random_Nerd» The table starts to float into the air slowly.
«Random_Nerd» (Mind if we stop here, Knock?)
«Human-Kite» "Ahh...err...haunted! Oh no!"
«DanteE» "That had the effect of telling this table to ignore gravity for a moment.

• DanteE stops the table before it gets too far.
  

«DanteE» (OK.)
«Random_Nerd» M: "No, it made /gravity/ ignore the /table/."
«Random_Nerd» M: "Huh. How did I know that?"
«DanteE» "Well, same effect."
«Random_Nerd» ________________STOP__________________________
«DanteE» "That's your Domain talking to you."
«DanteE» (oops)
=-= Human-Kite is now known as Verithe
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo
«Verithe» Table just wanted some freedom.
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
«BethE» Does the spirit look like one of the yipp-yipp muppets?
«Random_Nerd» Obviously, what this game needed was /even more/ NPCs. So here's one! Although I guess this is zero-sum.
«Knockwood» Maybe we can have temporary Projects about helping her.
«Random_Nerd» More like one of the dancing things from Manah Manah.
«Random_Nerd» And it didn't look like a muppet to you guys.
«Knockwood» So, let's see...
«Verithe» I think gravity looks like wrought iron kiwis to Kite.
«BethE» You ship in the NPCs by weight, bot volume, right, RN?
«Knockwood» she's been Physics for a week despite having no experience with Physics except for dating him
«Random_Nerd» Great, now I'm remembering the description of the bulldog in Kite-vision.
«Random_Nerd» Correct. And Physics was dead for a week when they picked her.
«Knockwood» She's got decent Aspect, better Treasure than Jacob...
«Random_Nerd» Also, when you met Physics, it was implied that he'd been picked kinda haphazardly too.
«Knockwood» OK Persona but not so good Domain.
«Angelo» and was him the friend that was killed?
«Random_Nerd» Yeah.
«Knockwood» (Though, I'm not sure how you'd make something 'Physics-y')
«Random_Nerd» Yes.
«Random_Nerd» (Part of why she hasn't learned to use it yet is that I haven't decided on her Estate Properties yet.)
«Knockwood» and this may tie back to our Mexican adventure.
«Random_Nerd» No comment.
«Knockwood» We'll see soon.
«Angelo» @RN: :-P
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus
«Knockwood» Also, I'm trying to straighten out when everything happened so I can link things to causes.
«Knockwood» Also do the 'Figure out what happened on Breach Day' and 'Deal with Shirk' branches on my map.
«Random_Nerd» Just so you don't go too connection-mad, this isn't really tied in with you guys' stuff.
«Knockwood» Speaking of which...
«Angelo» cause-»effect is overrated
«Knockwood» don't OD on apophenia, got it
«Knockwood» Destiny?
«Random_Nerd» Physics got killed pretty much because he was out for a walk and a Warmain who he'd fought before happened to see him, and decided it was ganking time.
«Random_Nerd» (Well, Warmain-shard.)
«Random_Nerd» And Physics' combat and defensive stuff was largely tied up in foci that he didn't have on him at the time.
«Random_Nerd» (Now they're Anchors, obviously.)\
«BethE» Dude shouldn't have been flagged.
«lazarus» (man, and I had to be AFK to watch the table go up for a moment :p)
«lazarus» I like this girl :)
«Knockwood» it'll still be floating next week
«Verithe» He probably accidentally stumbled upon a PVP enemy.
«Verithe» Happens all the time.
«Random_Nerd» Let's see. Destiny-wise, what connections are you seeing?
«Random_Nerd» (And this is why you don't have your Durant bound up in a showy-but-impractical suit of diamond armor.)
«Angelo» me? no one!
«Random_Nerd» (Sometimes, the shards take the fight to /you/.)
«Knockwood» hm, maybe 'Bring Nobles together/Encourage cooperation'?
«Random_Nerd» I can see a Victory there.
«Random_Nerd» Okay, three points.
«Random_Nerd» Oh, and before I forget, no game next week, as Beth and I will both be out of state then.
«lazarus» Brian's now planning to bring the new girl over to his side of the war - but hasn't happened yet, so I won't ask for Destiny for that.
«lazarus» Ah! Next week is the night that I almost certainly could have made it on time :p (midterm)
«Random_Nerd» I don't like having to have a cancelled one right after two other cancelled ones, but some of this scheduling stuff is out of my hands.
«Knockwood» hm, I can't edit my map
«Verithe» It happens.
«BethE» And I wouldn't have recommended trying to GM during finals, dear.
«lazarus» g'night everyone!
«Angelo» night laz!
«Knockwood» g'night laz
«Knockwood» There we go, edited
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«Random_Nerd» I logged out of your map, did that....
«BethE» I'm going to head out too. Good game and good night, all! *HUGS*
«Random_Nerd» Okay, good.
«Knockwood» That might be it
«Verithe» Take care, everyone! :)
«Angelo» Nighy Beth!
«Knockwood» Also, I put up another map
«Knockwood» of That Game I've Been Meaning To Run But Probably Won't
«Angelo» another?
«Knockwood» different game
«Knockwood» basically I've been working on cleanly combining CPunk and Supers
«Angelo» ah, I was thinking that the first one was soooo BIG that you had to split in two! :-P
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«Random_Nerd» What style of supers?
«Knockwood» Still deciding. Want to see the map?
«Random_Nerd» Sure.
«Angelo» not now but later yes
«Knockwood» sent invite
«Random_Nerd» Hmm. I'd need to upgrade my membership.
«Random_Nerd» So, not now, at least.
«Knockwood» oops
«Random_Nerd» *shrug*
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«Knockwood» then again, I've been thinking of a RPOpen thread, "Grade my campaign idea!"
«Random_Nerd» Heh. Not a bad idea.
«Knockwood» (AFK for a minute...)
«Angelo» well, I go. Was a good game ^^.
«Angelo» RN (& Beth) have a nice travel/vacation/whatever
«Random_Nerd» Thanks.
«Knockwood» BAK
«Knockwood» Well, I was going to set it in 'CalSprawl', if you've seen my 2 threads on that
«Knockwood» oh... cya in 2 weeks Angelo
«Random_Nerd» On rpg open?
«Knockwood» yep. Been a while, tho.
«Random_Nerd» I'll google it, then.
«Random_Nerd» Okay, see you guys in two weeks.
«Knockwood» http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?451157-game-Create-a-Setting-with-In-Game-Slang and http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?510685-create-a-setting-CalSprawl-%28sorta-cpunk%29
«Knockwood» ha! my google-fu is stronger!
«Random_Nerd» I think I saw the slang one. Would this have been about the same time as the last session?
«Random_Nerd» No, way older. Then what am I thinking of?
«Knockwood» that was 2 years ago
«Knockwood» I was trying to drum up support for a Lexicon game
«Random_Nerd» Ah, that might be it.
«Random_Nerd» Anyway, see you later.
«Random_Nerd» Good session.
«Knockwood» good night RN
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