Session 238

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 33

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<Angelo> Ciao guys!
<lazarus> how's the rest of y'all?
<Verithe> 'Allo, Angelo!
<Angelo> Halo? the game :-P
<Random_Nerd> Oh, yeah, the thing that was sort of a proto-Tyrian?
<BethE> Hi Angelo! *HUG*

• Angelo Hug tight-tight Beth
  

<Angelo> proto Tyrian? what?
<lazarus> yep - proto-Tyrian :)
<lazarus> I liked it better, actually.
<lazarus> though never actually had the full version of either
<Angelo> ok, but proto Tyrian what?
<lazarus> computer game called Raptor: Call of the Shadows
<lazarus> from way back in 1994, apparently
<Angelo> Wow!
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<Knockwood> Hiyo
<Angelo> Hi knock!
<BethE> Hiyas Knock
<Verithe> 'Allo, Knock!
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian
<Brian> (I am watching Season 1, Episode 2 of Xena. It has painfully Star Wars-esque scripting. "I have completed my training and am ready to take your place" "Strike me down" ... ...)
<Theresa> Ehh, such is Xena.
<Random_Nerd> Was that back when Xena still took itself seriously?
<Ftisk> I added a new project to my tree
<Random_Nerd> Oh? What is it?
<Brian> I'm not sure it ever took itself seriously, looking at it.
<Ftisk> spit acid like Conrad did
<Kite> Molten silver, you mean?
<Ftisk> is a little piece in the return to my Conradness and sell all my exfriends :-P
<Ftisk> was molten silver?
<Ftisk> I remember was >something< made up by thoughts
<Random_Nerd> Silver, yes.
<Random_Nerd> And it was from his eyes, he didn't spit it.
<Ftisk> ok, silver will be then!
<Kite> He shoots beams of molten silver from his eyes!
<DanteE> and you only have the one eye
<Kite> And he'll shoot a beam of molten silver from it.
<Ftisk> :-)
<Ftisk> better that laser?
<DanteE> OK, should we take a moment to figure out what we're about to do fits into our projects?
<Random_Nerd> So, before we start off, an announcement. Due to oncoming bar exam, the next two sessions are cancelled. The one after that may or may not be, depending on circumstances.
<Brian> luck on the exam RN!
<Brian> what are we about to do, btw?
<DanteE> Aspect Riverdancing.
<Kite> While we're on the subject, I may or may not be available on Aug 2 & 10
<Ftisk> wait! Day 27 and day 3 I'll be unable to attend
<Theresa> You guys were wanting Theresa to move the demon box out of the containment unit. Theresa was not going to do that because a) this thing is _designed_ to keep stuff inside from going out and b) it would ruin the work of who knows how many centuries!
<Random_Nerd> Well... you guys found some demons, in boxes. As could be expected, it's becoming a thing.
<Theresa> We don't _know_ it's a demon. It just wiggled a little when Theresa spoke Hellish.
<Kite> Kite has a place ready to move the box.
<Kite> Maybe not as well-protected, but it's a start.
<Ftisk> and Ftisk didn't was there to grab some boxes! Sigh, sob!
<Kite> Maybe the King can get some preliminary wards in place.
<DanteE> Fortunately I added some new projects "Become Power of Dithering" and "Bumble around like an idiot"
<Ftisk> don't give too much weight to the king's power, we are noble, we are better at making ward the him
<lazarus> oh right! I remember what we were up to... trying new and hilarious ways to kill ourselves again!
<Theresa> I want at least John to remove the box from his containment place and _then_ Theresa will move it.
<Ftisk> ah, Dante, last time you put a link to your map I followed it to an error page... :-(
<Kite> Yeah.
<DanteE> https://www.mindmeister.com/59293182
<Theresa> Should probably also ask John if he wants us to take notes on what happens and such. For science, you know.
<DanteE> while we're at it, what would happen if we properly buried Aaron?
<Theresa> I don't think he'd feel anything. That's my guess.
<Theresa> He wasn't sent to Hell only because he wasn't buried in consecrated ground.
<Kite> He'd just be properly buried, I imagine. No reason to effect formerly-in-Hell Aaron.
<Kite> Spellings and grammars be damned.
<Random_Nerd> Well, there's only six or seven ways to find out!
<Ftisk> I say let's try!
<Kite> Kill Hell-Aaron and properly bury him!
<Theresa> One box of weirdness at a time, please? Maybe Ftisk can help Kite decorate the new ward zone.
<Random_Nerd> Perfect! You kill the current him, so you have /two/ corpses, so one can be the /control group/...
<Kite> Yessss!
<Kite> Also, a machine-themed set of wards would be awesome.
<Theresa> But he would have been killed in different ways, dear. Bad science.
<Kite> Give him a heart attack the way other Amyrans get heart attacks?
<Ftisk> with french friend and pork?
<Random_Nerd> So, are we ready to start?
<Theresa> (For Kite: http://mandolinmosaics . com/installations.php )
<Theresa> Ready!
<lazarus> ready!
<Ftisk> yep ready to run in after a session skip!
<Random_Nerd> _______________START___________
<DanteE> ready
<Kite> (That floor is a Kite-trap)
<Theresa> (Shiny! ^^ )
<Random_Nerd> Okay, so you basically know what you want to do. You have boxes, at least one of which appears to contain a living thing that speaks Helltongue. Kite has located a pearl mine that he wanted to build the new and improved Theological Waste Dump in.
<Random_Nerd> William, while not himself a magician, is looking up what they do have on mortal-magic wards.

• Ftisk slam the door open and fly at full speed in "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
  

<Random_Nerd> So... how are you going to go about this? Are Lesson and Puck going to be involved, or not? What preparations are being made?
<Random_Nerd> ("Puck" was what you named the imp, right?)
<Theresa> (Well, if it is his name by Dante, his first name is probably Hockey...)
<Ftisk> (I remember Puck too)
<lazarus> (anchor-speak to ... um. Our other Aide... grr!) "Please prepare for possible demon. Please meet us at (location of Pearl Mine) - or outside, anyway - with spells for warding."
<DanteE> (Well, I don't think we formally agreed on a name)
<Theresa> I hope that we are outside of the war room and John is getting ready to move it out to us. And that the guards will not shoot Ftisk.
<Kite> (It's Dante's choice. The rest of us don't matter.)
<Ftisk> (I don't care if they shoot)
<DanteE> "Has any of this stuff ever done anything interesting or just sat there?"
<Theresa> (I know he doesn't care if they shoot, I just think that they shouldn't be stressed out.  :) They are stuck guarding the demon room.)
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "What kind of demon are we talking here?"
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "And do you want the tame ones involved?"
<lazarus> "The kind locked in a Vault for a forgotten age. Tame ones probably should not be involved right now"
<Kite> "Kite calling Ftisk! Come in, Ftisk!"

• Ftisk tries to look at everything all at one time flying dangerously from here to there like a crazy mosquito
  

<DanteE> (Did we get any accounts of what that demon did and how they got it in the box?)

• Ftisk ignore Kite call
  

<Kite> (hah!)
<Random_Nerd> (No. The ones that John thought were maybe actual legit demons are old enough that the records are copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy that boils down to "Demon in there, do not touch.")
<DanteE> "John, are you on board with the plan?
<DanteE> "I think we'll probably move these boxes to a more secure facility one at a time.
<Random_Nerd> J: "You know demons better than I do. I've concluded that if I hand these off to someone who I trust to take better care of them, I've done my duty."
<DanteE> "And being both powerful and insatiably curious we'll be opening them as well"
<Theresa> (That's...a lot of responsibility and I would ask if he _knew_ us...but oh well.)
<Ftisk> (there is a thing that stand out from the others here RN?)
<Theresa> "Kite is working on the wards at a different place far from anyone. And Ftisk, please don't try to open anything. They are not yours."
<Random_Nerd> J: "Well, are you telling me that you're ready and able to deal with whatever happens, and that it's your problem, not mine?"
<DanteE> to Sam: "Hm. Lesson might have a ... different insight on this."
<Random_Nerd> (The alleged dragon heart, the corpse of Aaron II, the old demonboxes and particularly the one that made a sound...)
<Kite> "...."
<DanteE> "That's what we're trying to do by moving things far far away."
<Kite> "Ftisk! Halp! Aaaaaaaaagh!"
<Theresa> "I don't think we should have Lesson along. For one thing, it could trigger him about his time before us and ruin the progress he's made. Second, there's the status thing that he's been working on."
<Random_Nerd> Samuel: "Boss, does Lesson get involved in the planning, or not?"
<Ftisk> (Ok dragon<3 )
<lazarus> "um." "Guys, should Lesson be in on the planning?"
<DanteE> "Just to be sure, do you know of any rites for removing stuff from here?"
<DanteE> (Where's Kite?)

• Ftisk stop for a moment "Yep Theresa yep, don't worry Theresa, I'll be a gooooood boy Theresa"
  

<Kite> (Brainphoning from the pearl mine.)
<Random_Nerd> (Are you asking Sam that, Knock?)

• Ftisk fly to the dragonheart
  
• Theresa would not trust Ftisk in a room full of shiny boxes even if he had a halo.  :)
  

<DanteE> (No, John)
<DanteE> (We're in the middle of town, after all)
<Ftisk> (Kite, are you praying to me?)
<Kite> (Ja)
<Random_Nerd> John: "Not as such. Plenty for putting new things /in/. But I'll try to come up with something."
<Theresa> (I thought we were right outside the demon room, since Ftisk is currently in there...)
<Ftisk> toKite: "Kite whazApp?"
<Theresa> (Oh, yeah, _under_ the middle of the city. Gotcha.)
<Ftisk> (I flied in ignoring guard and all)
<Kite> to Ftisk: "I need to make some wards to move some boxes full of demons and things. Do you want to help?"
<DanteE> "Well, you may not need it... is the destination ready?
<lazarus> (to Sam) "No, no Lesson involved, I think is the consensus."
<DanteE> "We can try moving another box there.
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Okay, boss."
<Ftisk> toK: "Sure, let me grab one thing and I'll come ... where I have to go btw?"
<DanteE> "I'm morbidly curious about the Dragon Heart, myself."

• Ftisk hovers inside the salt circle, near touching the dragonheart
  

<Theresa> (Psst. Laz. Put your funny hat on.  :) )
<lazarus> (Hm?)
<Kite> to Ftisk: "The pearl mine just past [enter the rest of the directions here]."
<Theresa> (Being Brian.  :) )
<Ftisk> toK: "ook I'll be there ASAP"
<Random_Nerd> Given how big Serpents are, it probably isn't from one of them. Box just isn't big enough. Maaaybe Jerren, at his very tiniest when he first showed up. Raises the question of what it is from, of course.
<Theresa> "We are not going to feed the heart to Monty."
<Random_Nerd> ("Challenge accepted")
<DanteE> "I still want to know what it is."
<lazarus> "Aw."
<Ftisk> "No If one will feed ... will be me!"
<DanteE> Anything around here look weird to the Sight or Mythic?
=-= YOU are now known as crowbarTisk
<Random_Nerd> Here being the Basement or the Pearl Mine?
<DanteE> Basement
<crowbarTisk> (anyone want to stop me from opening the dH box here?)
<lazarus> (not I ... )
<Theresa> "He's already part Lawbreaker, Brian! If it is somehow a heart of something powerful, I don't want to see it interacting with Lawbreakerness."
<Random_Nerd> (To the Sight, it looks even darker and greyer than it actually is. There may be faint sparks of miraculous power, but they're old, weak, shielded from sight, or all three.)
<lazarus> "But, how would we know what happens?!"
<Kite> (blissfully oblivious Kite is blissfully oblivious)
<Random_Nerd> (Mythically, it looks like a crumbling inside-out fortress made of people.)

• crowbarTisk open the dragonHeart box
  

<DanteE> (And I'm talking with John, and I figure it would be amusing if Ftisk does it...)
<Random_Nerd> There are a few dull sparks of light when the wards are breached.
<crowbarTisk> ( :-D )
=-= YOU are now known as dragonConradTisk
<Random_Nerd> Inside is a heart, or at least a piece of rock that's shaped like one. Definitely not mammalian.
<Theresa> "We would know. Probably, Monty would grow wings and bounce onto the Chancel like some sort of jackalope. And plus, that Excrucian is still up there too."
<DanteE> (Sight?)
<Random_Nerd> (Nothing significant.)
<Theresa> "Ftisk!"

• Theresa looks very disappointed.
  
• dragonConradTisk take the rock and gulp it *quick!*
  

<dragonConradTisk> "Wasn't me!"
<DanteE> "I was going to analyze that..."
<Theresa> (Nobles that tell lies...probably don't have anything happen to them. *sigh* Small children were easier to deal with.)
<Kite> ('Tis merely an stegosaurus heart)
<Theresa> (The heart of a Nephilim maybe?)
<Theresa> "John..do you get hazard pay?"
<DanteE> to John: "We really wouldn't blame you if you ran screaming into the night."
<Random_Nerd> John: "No. But I do get a free palace, so..." He holds out a hand levelly, and wiggles it a bit.

• dragonConradTisk drop to the ground
  

<dragonConradTisk> "Wow!"
<DanteE> "Ftisk, are you all right?"
<Theresa> (John is too dignified to run screaming. He'd just run.)

• dragonConradTisk giggle
  

<dragonConradTisk> "Sure Dante!"
<Theresa> (Great! It got Ftisk drunk! It was probably preserved in brandy or something!)
<DanteE> "OK. Do you know what you ate?"
<dragonConradTisk> "There is another? Was gnammy!"
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and for Ftisk's new project involving learning to use Conrad's Gift, he gets a Victory. He knows why.)
<dragonConradTisk> "An excru heart? I feel it pulse inside. Way way way way cool!"
<DanteE> "....a _what_?

• Theresa blinks.
  

<Kite> (It tastes like unthought of things!)
<lazarus> "Someone owes me 10$."
<Theresa> "For what?"
<Random_Nerd> John: "So... what just happened?"
<lazarus> "I'm sure I had 10$ on Excrucian Heart."
<dragonConradTisk> "Look D. I don't know what it was but now beat inside me"
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I /knew/ that no odds were good enough to put money on 'the Snail won't eat it'."
<DanteE> "... Ftisk, get to the new containment site. _Now._"
<dragonConradTisk> "And I feel funnyiling better"
<dragonConradTisk> toDante: "fun spoiler! *pout*
<dragonConradTisk> "Ah! I have to go help Kite! Later!"
<Random_Nerd> Sam leans over to Ftisk, and whispers "Don't let any of them tell you otherwise, that was great."
<DanteE> (With the tone of "Marines, we are LEAVING!")
<Theresa> "John...Ftisk ate what was labeled as dragon heart. As Ftisk is kind of part Excrucian at the moment, he has identified said heart as the heart of an Excrucian. And that may be a cause for slowly backing away."
<lazarus> (William was here, Sam was back at base, btw :))

• dragonConradTisk stop, reach Sam and kiss one of his scarf cheek height "thank you Sam"
  

<lazarus> (or did I get it backwards again?)
<Random_Nerd> John: "Good to know. My descendants will never believe any of the things written in my journals."
<Theresa> (Yeah, but that was earlier. They could have switched in the time frame.)
<Random_Nerd> (I'm saying everyone's here at the moment that Ftisk eats it, because that works better for the scene. That okay?)
<Theresa> "Make sure to get them published. I bet they will be a great, if confusing, read."
<lazarus> (sure!)
<dragonConradTisk> (sure!)
<DanteE> (Yeah, I'm sure we have standing bets on when Ftisk is going to eat it. Oh, you mean the heart...)
<Theresa> "Do you know what kind of Excrucian, Ftisk?" *will pray this info of gourmet dining to Kite*
<Theresa> (Ftisk wasn't here last time, so we couldn't have had bets up. It was more a bet on who would try to open a box first without Ftisk being here.)
<dragonConradTisk> "Ah, king John, was an awesome snack! *shake his hand*
<Kite> to Theresa: "He _what_??"
<Random_Nerd> John, to Dante: "Remember what I said earlier, about how this stuff is now your problems rather than mine?"
<Random_Nerd> John: "Sucker."
<DanteE> "Our cross to bear.
<dragonConradTisk> "well I go, Kite need help"

• Theresa will _not_ think at Kite "He's _your_ brother!" Will just repeat the news. And that Ftisk is fine at the moment...
  

<DanteE> "Been debating asking you for a duchy anyway..."

• dragonConradTisk fly to Kite place
  

<Random_Nerd> John: "I don't think I'm allowed to create Dukes without an act of Parliament."
<Theresa> (I love John, dear. Very few mortals would call a Noble a sucker.)
<DanteE> (And I have 'Dante, Lord of Amyra' on my Destiny map. Maybe it can be both figurative and literal.)
<Random_Nerd> John: "Uh, want one of my spare titles, though? Some of them don't see much use."

• Theresa lets Kite know that Ftisk is incoming...
  

<lazarus> (I love how Dante, Lord of Amyra is one of your Destiny Tree things and you don't have any secondary Domain or Realm of Amyra :))
<DanteE> "Spare titles?"
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad
<Kite> to Theresa: "Well, at least he's fine."
<Theresa> *to Kite* "We dont' know that! What if he gets heartburn?!"
<Random_Nerd> John: "Under the Amyran system, whenever a hereditary peer dies without a living relative to pass the title to, it passes back to the monarch."
<Conrad> (or, gasp! more excrucian!)
<Random_Nerd> (This is somewhat different from many European systems, by the way.)
<Conrad> (so if the count of placeshireX die the title will fly back to John?)
<DanteE> "That's right, every year there's that goofy trivia thing where someone tries to name them all."
<Kite> to Theresa: "Then Lord Vulcan will punish me severely for taking my eyes off of him."
<Random_Nerd> (Potentially, if he doesn't have a brother or nephew or whatever who's still alive.)
<Random_Nerd> So, Kite. How have you set up the pearl mine?
<DanteE> "Any chance one of those includes the lands by (wherever the pearl mine is)?"
<Theresa> *to Kite* "Ah. My condolences."
<Random_Nerd> John: "The pearl mines have always been Crown property. By the way, I had a question about them."
<Kite> Mostly in a way that's visually similar to the Vault in order to include at least the visual aspect of the wards, if not the magical aspect.
<Kite> Components for the assembly were shinier, however.
<DanteE> "Ask away."

• Conrad reach the mine Kite is preparing "knock knock, who is here at the door?"
  

<Random_Nerd> John: "See, back before you guys showed up, pearl mines didn't sound unusual. I mean, the rock is limestone from aeons-dead oyster shells and whatnot, and the fossilized pearls were left there too by the same ancient shellfish-die-off."
<Kite> "It's me! Ftisk, I heard you ate something that belonged to the king."
<Random_Nerd> John: "And, I mean, Amyra had the /best/ pearl mines, because of where we were by the north African coast, but they weren't unheard of elsewhere."
<Conrad> "Yep! Was gnammy!"
<Random_Nerd> John: "But now, when I talk to people from outside Amyra, they look at me like I'm crazy when I mention them."
<Random_Nerd> John: "What's up with that?"
<Kite> "I see..."
<Theresa> "Well...you know how Amyra was kind of erased from Earth when it became a Chancel?"
<DanteE> "I suspect that means the lore of pearl mines was tied to Amyra...
<Kite> "Well, we'll have to inspect you later."
<Conrad> "Why? I feel better than ever!"
<Kite> "For science!"
<Kite> "Or maybe for the safety of Creation."
<Random_Nerd> John: "But, I mean, they just make sense. Limestone's still made from the shells of long-dead sea creatures, right?"
<Kite> "Or maybe both."
<Conrad> "ohhh, sure! For SCIENCE!!!"
<Theresa> "Yes. They just don't have pearls in them."
<Kite> "Yes. Science."
<Random_Nerd> John: "But then what /happens/ to the pearls, now?"
<Theresa> "The pearls come from sea creatures that are still in the sea."
<Random_Nerd> John: "It's not like they're going to just rot. They're /pearls/."
<Conrad> "Ah, what are you doing here? ?A new party hall?"
<DanteE> "That's ... a good question.
<Kite> "But for now, we need to work on some wards so we can move boxes filled with potential doom."
<Theresa> "They never existed in the limestone back on Earth. It's just more petrified sea critters. Maybe an air bubble."
<Conrad> "ook Kite!"
<Kite> "Maybe we can convert it to a party hall, if the others decide we should open all the boxes."
<DanteE> "It's possible the pearls from our mines that were outside the Cha.... country magically acquired different histories."
<Kite> "It could be a box-opening party."
<Conrad> "would be cool!"
<Random_Nerd> Near Kite, in one of the walls glimmers a fist-sized pearl from a prehistoric giant oyster. It's been turned an opalescent grey shade by the fossilization process.
<DanteE> to Theresa: "It might be illuminating to check on that."
<Conrad> "I wonder if there will be a pony in one of these boxes"

• Kite promptly turns to the pearl and tries to pull it out of the wall.
  

=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
<Random_Nerd> (No, but there is a warhorse who threw and kicked to death a king!)

• Ftisk help Kite! (I'm here for help him :-) )
  

<Theresa> (Would that be one of those man-eating oysters?)
<Random_Nerd> It's in there pretty tight. To pull it out undamaged would take miracles or else careful work with chisels and brushes. That's why it's still there, the good ones are worth taking months of proper extraction.
<Ftisk> (I'll let it be enough!)
<DanteE> to John: "You remember any in particular? We can check on them next trip back to Earth."

• Kite chisels at the stone around the pearl with his feathers.
  

<DanteE> (Let's see, who's where?)
<Theresa> (John probably has given some big ones as presents to other countries.)

• Ftisk lCreate some tools
  

<DanteE> (Right, they might even be in someone's Crown Jewels)
<Random_Nerd> John: "Elsewhere? I think there were a few in Sri Lanka..."

• Ftisk aspect (2) work the pearl out the stone
  

<Random_Nerd> After some precise tapping with his brass claws, Ftisk successfully extracts the fossil pearl.

• Ftisk give the pearl to Kite *giggle*
  

<Kite> "Thank you."

• Ftisk elaborately bow
  

<Random_Nerd> John: "Okay. So I can work out the details of the removal procedure... how were you going to take the boxes out? Just pick them up and carry them out, or something fancier?"

• DanteE prays to Kite: "So, what happened with Ftisk?"
  

<Ftisk> "for ward ... is good enough if I made a Shelob at the entrance?"
<Kite> "A what?"
<DanteE> "I think Theresa can basically 'magic' them away...
<Theresa> "Once they are out of the room and its wards, I will move them into the new place."
<Ftisk> "think a giant man eater spider... but a mechanical one!"
<DanteE> "... actually, we can check now. Theresa, can you move that empty box there? We can check for interference with the wards."
<Ftisk> "the important part is -man eater- will keep stranger away" *blink*
<Kite> to Dante: "He arrived in one piece, so far as I can tell. We'll have to study what effects eating the heart may have caused later."

• Theresa looks at the box. (The heart one?) "Even though it still has wards on it?"
  

<Random_Nerd> John: "Is the plan to move all the boxes, or just the more interesting and less delicious ones?"
<Kite> to Ftisk: "We want these wards to keep things in."
<Theresa> "First the possible demons one. Then we'll see."
<Ftisk> "ohhhh! _That_ is different!"
<Kite> "But guards to keep things out are also good, but not as important."
<Ftisk> "understood Kite!"
<DanteE> to Theresa: "Well, this way we can test it without risking anything."
<Kite> "So...hmmm....what do people use for wards? Words? Computers use firewalls, right?"
<Random_Nerd> John: "Well, on /that/ one, your friend broke whatever wards were there on the box itself, although the circles still stand."
<Kite> "Maybe a firewall?"
<Theresa> "Alright, then. I'll test with that one. I just don't want to undo your ancestors' hard work, John."
<Ftisk> "uhm.. firewall is ok for me!"
<DanteE> to John: "If she can move it there without the Wards interfering either way then we could just pop the boxes to the safe location at will...

• Theresa will Move the empty box to Kite's place.
  

<Kite> "And salt. A lot of people use salt."
<Ftisk> "a circle of fire? All thingies inside and who pass in each direction will be toasted?"
<Kite> "That sounds like a firewall to me."
<Ftisk> "better! A _sphere_ of fire so thingies can't dig they way out!"
<Kite> "An amazing idea!"
<Theresa> (Amyra already has a burning wall!)
<Random_Nerd> When Theresa uses a Motion, a few things happen. The ring of iron dust (no fancy concentric rings for the dragon heart box) makes a fizzling noise. Symbols on the door, and on the ceiling, flare bright and then go to a dim red, like a lightbulb burning out. Also, the box disappears in one place and appears in another.
<Theresa> (Burning river. Whatever.)
<Theresa> "Crap."
<DanteE> "Hm. That's interesting."
<Theresa> "Blew a fuse."
<lazarus> "Wow."
<Ftisk> (did we hear a pop when the box arrive?)
<Kite> (is it possible for us to notice the appearance of the box?)
<lazarus> "Oh right. I'm going to go to the Pearl Mine."
<Random_Nerd> Yep. Bam! Box!
<Theresa> (*sticks Ftisk into the fuse box like a penny...*)
<DanteE> (Wait, the _door_?)
<Random_Nerd> No more delicious dragons hearts inside, however.
<Random_Nerd> (Yep. The door.)
<Kite> "There's the first box! Let's ward it!"
<Theresa> (Yeah, the door. We were inside the room. They want to keep stuff from leaving the room. Therefore, there are wards on the door out.)
<DanteE> "Ah, John? What exactly were those symbols that just disappeared?"
<Random_Nerd> John shrugs. "Hope they weren't important ones."

• Ftisk starts to lit the box with fire "Sure let's start the fire for the sphere!"
  

<lazarus> (I'll do a teleport step over to the Pearl Mine.)
<Kite> (I...salt.... I wish to Assemble a condiments stand and use the salt from it to make a ring of salt around the box.)
<DanteE> "... Hm. You're ceding everything in here to us, right?"
<Random_Nerd> John: "Guess so!"
<Ftisk> (I like John reasoning!)
<Kite> (Conceivably, I don't need to bother with the condiment stand, but it's more fun to do it this way.)
<DanteE> to Theresa: "We'd better just take the risk and move everything. You up to it?"
<lazarus> (I can't remember - did we resolve whether T can move it to a spot I make not-Amyra?)
<Random_Nerd> John: "Imagine me as a guy who inherited a house with an electrical system that got put in somewhere along the time of Charlemagne. Many of the fuses aren't labelled, the ones that are are in cryptic mixes of french and latin, and most of them appear to be made from bits of gold and pieces of the true cross and bones of saints instead of actual fuses."
<lazarus> (and also what happens when I make something not-Amyra?)
<Random_Nerd> John: "If some of them burn out, I'll only know what they do if something stops working afterwards."
<Theresa> (I have Things of Amyra. These are all part of Amyra. I can move them.)
<lazarus> (so the "to" end doesn't need to be Amyran. Excellent :))
<Random_Nerd> (Depends what you intend to do by making it not-Amyran.)
<Random_Nerd> (Sacrifices have a fair bit of flexibility.)
<lazarus> (I intend to make this Pearl Mine not share any borders with Amyra.)
<lazarus> (Remove its having-ness of "Paths to Places")
<Theresa> "That is a very cool analogy. And we have just plugged a metallic sentient snail-god into your fusebox."
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm... yeah. You can do that. How will you get to there later on, then?)
<lazarus> (No clue!)
<Theresa> (Then don't do it!)
<Kite> (Move yourself there?)
<lazarus> (We're Things of Amyra and T can Move us?)
<lazarus> (I was mostly wanting it to be a Last Resort. Or possibly making it a "tomb" esque vault storage where no one can go there ever)
<Theresa> (But _we_ will want to go there.)
<DanteE> "Well, let's start with the really dangerous stuff...
<DanteE> "Number one being the demon box, I think."
<Random_Nerd> (The ome that made the sound?)
<Theresa> (Yeah.)
<DanteE> to Kite: "Prep a spot for the Demon Box, guys."
<Ftisk> (can I eat that box too?)
<lazarus> (to Kite and Ftisk) "Hey guys, did I get the right place?"
<Ftisk> toLaz: was your the box? Send others I need them lo lit a biiig fire!"
<Kite> "The next box is on its way, Ftisk. Let's put another set of wards over here."
<lazarus> "The first one was the dragon heart box."
<Theresa> (Question: How many of the hundreds of boxes are magically important?)
<lazarus> "Live demon box is next, I think."
<Random_Nerd> (So, Brian's doing a Motion on the intact Demon Box #1?)
<Kite> to Laz: "Yeah, we got that."

• Kite salt salt salt
  

<Ftisk> "liver demon? I hope that is a least cooked!"
<lazarus> (I thought T was doing the Motion to move it?)
<Kite> "Now remember, Ftisk. It's not a proper box-opening party if we don't wait for the others."
<Theresa> (I don't have enough miracle points to do it in one big shot.)
<Random_Nerd> (What's your Domain: Amyra?)
<Theresa> (I _can_, though, go there and Summon stuff a bit at a time, though.)
<Theresa> (Delete second though.)
<lazarus> (I need to find my character sheet)

• Ftisk put the box in the fire circle
  

<Random_Nerd> (Lesser Motion's a level 6 miracle.)
<lazarus> (D2 P1 on Amyra. Although I /do/ have 10 MPs in each.)
<lazarus> (err, less, because I didn't record a refresh so we may not have had one. But enough.)
<Theresa> (I have one miracle point left. I can't move anything really at the moment.)
<Random_Nerd> (Okay. 4 DMPs for a Lesser Motion of the Greater Demonbox.)
<lazarus> (Done. I'm at the receiving end :) ... and this doesn't stop my "OHSHIT" Sacrifice, which lives under Persona.)
<Random_Nerd> (Wait, 2. Because of the in-chancel discount.)
<DanteE> (isn't it 1?)
<DanteE> (And Theresa, did you include that discount in your calculations?
<lazarus> (2 MP discount or 2 level discount? I thought it was MP?)
<Random_Nerd> (Wait, it's a 3-point discount, isn't it?)
<lazarus> (wow. We're rusty.)
<Random_Nerd> (Let me look up the rules to make sure now.)
<Theresa> (I did not. I'm only down one point, but that's still 4 MPs and not enough for the whole room.)
<DanteE> (We've been concentrating on Chuubo)
<Ftisk> (is -3 in channel discount)
<lazarus> (then I have 7 or 8 "castings" available, too :) )
<Random_Nerd> (It's a 3 MP discount.)
<Random_Nerd> (But doesn't override the powers-of-two rule.)
<DanteE> (OK, so, what would it take to move all these boxes to the new place?)
<DanteE> (and 1 is a power of two. :) )
<Random_Nerd> (Greaters Summoning or Greater Motion.)
<Theresa> (Okay, so I can do it, spending all of my points and taking a Wound.)
<DanteE> (Don't do that!)
<lazarus> (What level is Greater Motion?)
<Random_Nerd> (Nine.)
<Ftisk> (big stuff)
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, so you Lesser-Moved the demonbox?)
<lazarus> (so 8 levels higher than what I have.)
<lazarus> (yeah, LMove the demonbox.)
<lazarus> (can I throw in "the PCs and John &c" as well?)
<Theresa> (And Sam.)
<DanteE> (So, Laz can pop the boxes to his location for, what, 1 MP each?)
<Random_Nerd> Okay. In the pearl mine, the most intimidating of the boxes appears, in concentric rings of powdered iron, silver, and salt.

• Ftisk add a firewall around all the protections already here
  

<Kite> "Oooh! This one came with its wards!"
<Random_Nerd> In the basement, the box dissappears. However, there's still something there, afterwards, that looks like a dessicated corpse of a demon.
<Ftisk> "probably is a solitary one, an hermit perhaps?"
<DanteE> "oops."
<Kite> (Uh oh)
<Random_Nerd> And then, several things become apparent! First, the demon in the box does /not/ seem to have counted as a Thing of Amyra, despite all the time he spent there!

• DanteE draws sword
  

<Theresa> (Aaand, their wards are gone on him.)

• Theresa will push John behind her.
  

<lazarus> (oops. And those of us on the receiving end, here, don't see that :p)
<Ftisk> (You are a bad! I love that demon thing!)
<Random_Nerd> Second, this demon is a bigger deal than Lesson, as becomes apparent when every insect in the basement instantly drops dead. Sam is protected by his Anchoring. Some of the symbols on the Holy Hazardous Materials Hander outfit that John's wearing flare, so he doesn't die.
<Random_Nerd> But everything that is alive in the basement, that is not John, Sam, or a noble dies.
<Random_Nerd> Third, apparently the dessicated demon corpse can hover.
<Theresa> (Good thing Ftisk got his heart out.)
<Ftisk> (and Will?)
<lazarus> (Realm's Heart speak to the rest) "We got the box here." (just for the dramatic irony)
<Random_Nerd> (He hasn't said anything there the whole session, so I'm going to say he stepped out.)
<Ftisk> (conveniently too)
<Theresa> *to Brian* "You Left the Demon _HERE_."
<Random_Nerd> Little dead bacteria precipitate out of the air.
<DanteE> "John. Out. Now."
<lazarus> (RH) "... what."
<Random_Nerd> John: "That would involve opening the door. If you say that's what I should do, I'll do it."
<Kite> (Send Sam out too?)
<Theresa> *Demon not of Amyra. Demon did not move. Demon killing anything not protected here.*
<Random_Nerd> John: "But I wanted to mention that."
<lazarus> "Kite, Ftisk, Emergency teleport back to the Vault ... seems the Demon didn't actually come with its box ..."
<Theresa> "Do _not_ open the door. Just stay still. If you're not dead now, just stay still."
<Random_Nerd> The other boxes that John marked as possibly holding real demons shake slightly, and then cease moving again.
<DanteE> (John is a Thing of Amyra, ne?)
<Kite> "Oh. Well, that's a shame."
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.)
<Ftisk> (You need a decompression door, like in the submarines)
<Theresa> "Do you have any quick banishment protocols, John?"
<Kite> "Let's go, then."
<lazarus> (Motions the three of us to the Vault?)
<Ftisk> "where Kite?"
<Random_Nerd> John: "Quick? The quickest one is like two hours, plus the prepwork."
<Random_Nerd> John: "And it's not gonna cut it with this thing."
<Kite> "To the Vaaaauuuu....."
<Ftisk> (I can eat the demon ... :-) pretty please T)
<Random_Nerd> The glowing latin words on John's shiny jewelry and robes are continuing to glow, about the color that the runes on the ceiling and door did right before they burned out.
<Theresa> "How blessed can you make something?"
<Random_Nerd> John: "Right now?"
<Theresa> "Yep."
<DanteE> Is the demon actually doing anything?
<Theresa> (Killing.)
<DanteE> (Active)
<Random_Nerd> He reaches into a pocket and pulls out a big bottle. On it is a piece of masking tape that says "Holy water" and today's date in John's handwriting.
<Theresa> (I have an Idea...)
<Random_Nerd> Hovering. Killing all non-Nobles.
<Random_Nerd> Other than that, nothing.
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and it still looks dead.
<Theresa> "Bless me. I have an idea."
<lazarus> (uh oh.)
<lazarus> (last time, you lost an arm or something like that.)
<DanteE> (It spoke earlier.)
<Theresa> (Yeah, but I got the skin and muscles back..)
<Kite> (Did it speak or just move?)
<Ftisk> ( who want popcorns? )

• DanteE approaches it, careful not to disrupt remaining wards
  

<Random_Nerd> John takes the water, splashes it on Theresa, and says in Greek "The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord lift his countenance upon you, the Lord make his face to shine upon you and give you peace" as fast as he can keep the words straight.
<lazarus> (RN: do Kite, Brian, and Ftisk appear back in the Vault, or?)
<Kite> (I would love to chomp my teeth into some buttery popped corn)
<DanteE> (Demonic) "Who are you and why are you here?"
<Theresa> Once blessed, Theresa will tackle the demon with Aspect 3 and Move herself and the demon she is holding onto into the ward circles at the pearl mine.
<Random_Nerd> Dante, it opens one eye, and you feel a miraculous attack.
<Random_Nerd> What do you do?
<DanteE> (Assuming we have Auc up...)
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad
<Random_Nerd> (That might be a good thing to do right now.)
<Random_Nerd> (That, or a counter-miracle. Which do you do?)
<Conrad> (are we in the vault?)
<DanteE> (Shields up! :) )
<DanteE> LC Courage to survive and fight?
<Random_Nerd> Okay, Theresa's miracle! It appears that when Theresa grabs the thing and holds it close to herself, it counts closely enough for the miracle to work.
<Theresa> (Mundane tackle and then the Move.)
<Random_Nerd> Dante, you are the target of a Lesser Destruction of Life, 3 Strike. It trumps the level of your Lesser Creation of Courage.
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, Kite, Theresa appears, holding an emaciated dead-looking demon.
<Kite> "Perhaps we shouldn't leave just yet."
<Random_Nerd> Take a Serious Wound, Dante.
<Theresa> (Oh, duh, Kite and Ftisk aren't Things of Amyra.)
<Conrad> "right Kite!"
<DanteE> (Ow. A nasty boo-boo.)
<Kite> "Ftisk! Let's open the box!"

• Conrad hurry to open the box "why?"
  

<Theresa> "Stay back!"
<Random_Nerd> John's jewelry and robe stop glowing, and the smell of demon blood in the air diminishes.
<Theresa> "You'll break the wards!"
<Kite> "So we can put the demon in it until we can think of a better idea."
<Random_Nerd> Dante, what does it look like when you take the wound?

• Conrad step back
  

<Kite> "Oh..."
<Kite> "Can you get the demon back inside without breaking the wards?"
<Kite> "I might be able to if you can't..."
<DanteE> (Hm... I'll say, parts of my skin look distinctly zombie-like for a little while)
<Random_Nerd> It's a good thing that the pearl mine isn't too close to Amyra, because every living creature within a quarter mile drops dead. It's also a good thing that William and John had the location cleared, just in case.
<Theresa> "Make more wards! Strong!"
<Random_Nerd> John turns to Dante, and splashes water from the still-open bottle on him. It does nothing.
<DanteE> (Do I IC know the nature of what hit me?)
<lazarus> (the water, it does nothing?)
<Random_Nerd> (You know that it was a noble-scale miracle, and that it was a destruction of life.)
<DanteE> "I'm all right, this looks worse than it is."

• Kite starts making salt circles everywhere
  
• Theresa will feel all of the plants in that area die. "You bastard!"
  

<Random_Nerd> (You've taken harder hits, but it was definitely more than most demons can do.)
<Conrad> "I say beat him into a pulp and drink his blood and .. right wards" *me start making them*
<DanteE> "But that was definitely stronger than it looks."
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, are you still holding the demon?

• Kite Assembles torii gates with added anti-demon protections (what would that be, exactly?)
  

<Theresa> (Yep.)
<Random_Nerd> The open eye swivels to look at Theresa with a pupil the color of rust.

• DanteE fires off another LC Courage to clear any lingering effects
  
• Theresa will shake holy water into the eye!
  

<Random_Nerd> Lesser Destruction of Life, 3 Strike. What do you do?

• Conrad try to spit silver on the demon
  

<DanteE> "John, better get that robe re-charged just in case. I'm going after that demon."
<Theresa> (I hit Pause on the fight and look at my character sheet...)
<Random_Nerd> Silver does not spray forth from Conrad's eyes, but he does get a Trivial Failure toward it.
<DanteE> "... got more Holy Water?"
<Random_Nerd> John pulls out another large bottle from his other pocket, followed by a smaller bottle and a bag.
<Random_Nerd> John: "Water. Holy oil. Blessed salt."
<Random_Nerd> He rummages around a bit more, and pulls out a small metal object with holes in it and a lighter. "Incense."

• DanteE grabs the stuff.
  

<Random_Nerd> A bit more rummaging. "Duct tape. There isn't actually a ritual for this, but I prayed over it a lot."
<DanteE> "Thanks. Wish me luck..."
<Kite> (Actually, no. I take back my Assembly if I can. Could I get a greater motion of Assembly to put the demon in the box?)
<Random_Nerd> (...yes. Yes you can.)
<Random_Nerd> John: "Go kick some ass."
<DanteE> (Can I Treasure-miracle up a Holy Avenger? :) )
<Random_Nerd> (Probably. What bond are you using?)
<Theresa> (...Have I mentioned this hour how much I love John, dear?)

• Kite uses Assembly to put the demon in the box.
  

<DanteE> (to Amyra)

• DanteE flies out the door.
  

<Random_Nerd> Okay. Theresa takes a Serious Wound.
<Random_Nerd> Kite's miracle moves the demon into the box.
<Random_Nerd> All the wards flare bright and burn out as it does so... but as this happens, the demon screams like you just shoved it through a razorwire fence.
<DanteE> I'm flying there full speed.
<Kite> "Everyone still alive? No broken wings?"
<Conrad> "Me ok"

• Theresa will wring the holy water out of her hair onto the box. Saying the Lord's Prayer and St. Patrick's Breastplate while doing so.
  

<Kite> "Let's repair these wards."
<Random_Nerd> It sizzles as it contacts the box.

• Kite blinks
  

<Theresa> "No, I'm not okay, but can I get out without breaking the wards? I don't want this bastard getting out."
<Conrad> "I say bring the demon out and finish him!"
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, the set of wards /does/ count as an Assembly. It's a bunch of little pieces designed to fit together into a greater whole.)
<Theresa> (Can Ftisk grab Theresa out while Kite reAssembles the wards?)
<Conrad> (can I?)
<DanteE> (How long before I get there?)
<Random_Nerd> The box appears to be dessicating and smoking.
<Random_Nerd> (Let's say three miracles worth of time, Dante.)
<Random_Nerd> It's beginning to shrivel and crumple up on itself.

• Theresa can feel the skin on her face...or more acurately _can't_ feel her face. If she looked into a mirror, she could see the skin peeling and falling away from dead tissue and leaving just bone.
  

<Random_Nerd> (Fortunately, the demon from the box does not have as /broad/ a set of miraculous abilities as you guys do. No transportation, no Lesser Destruction of Annoying Boxes.)

• DanteE cell-phones William on the way.
  

<Random_Nerd> William: "Yes?"
<Kite> "We need to work fast. I'll repair the wards as soon as you get out, Theresa."
<Random_Nerd> (Ftisk can mundanely yank Theresa away from the box while Kite does a miracle.)
<DanteE> "William, the demon in that box just did a kill-everything-in-the-area effect.

• Conrad run in grabs Theresa and bring her out
  

<Random_Nerd> William: "Holy fuck, on central Kaerkoven?"

• Kite re-Assembles the wards
  

<Conrad> (at aspect 2)
<DanteE> "John's all right, and we've got it in the mine, but I want to know what we're dealing with."
<DanteE> "I think it was contained by the vault."
<DanteE> (right?)
<Random_Nerd> The symbols in various languages each glow for a moment as they're woven back together.
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, the one in the basement was.)
<Random_Nerd> (And then the pearl-mine one was wider, but not in the city.)
<Theresa> As Conrad pulls her out, the flesh drops from half of Theresa's face, along with the flesh from her arm. "Darn it! That was my arm that I hadn't defleshed already!"
<Random_Nerd> William: "Tell me what you've seen."

• Conrad project Ftiskness on the demon when I see a piece of it to aim
  

<Theresa> (Will and John had had the pearl area cleared. Only plants and animals died.)
<lazarus> (Every time T has an idea, she loses an arm.)
<Conrad> "Theresa! Your face!"

• DanteE describes the demon to William and details the Dest-Life effect
  

<Kite> "Do you want a prosthetic, Theresa?"
<Random_Nerd> (The demon is currently in the box, and Kite is warding it back up. Do you still project your miracle at the box?)
<Random_Nerd> William: "Can't be a Noble. If there was a noble who'd been missing for hundreds of years on Earth, we'd know about it."
<Conrad> (no I wait to see him I was under the impression that the box was crumpling to bits)

• Theresa feels her face. "Well...maybe I should take Martyrs up on that make-over session she offered one time..."
  

<Random_Nerd> William: "So... child of an Imperator, maybe?"
<DanteE> "Legends said Demon."
<DanteE> "They're not clear on much else...."
<Conrad> (legends are not _Accurate_)
<Random_Nerd> The box continues to crumple, but the wards stay bright.
<Random_Nerd> William: "Demons, the regular ones, can't do that."
<Theresa> "Thank you, Kite. I don't know yet. I'm...he killed my _plants_! What if we hadn't gotten him out of the city?!?"
<DanteE> "At the mine site now. Make sure nothing alive winds up in the area until further notice."
<Random_Nerd> William: "I mean, they're long-lived, athletic, really hard to kill... but they can't do /that/."
<Kite> "This box thing....it's disconcerting."
<Theresa> (Unless they got a Gift from someone.)

• DanteE pulls up to the mine entrance.
  

<Theresa> "Which part? The shrinking? The sizzling? The screaming?"
<Kite> "The impending implosion?"
<DanteE> to the others: "What's happening?"
<Random_Nerd> The box crumbles to dust... but the demon-body is chained by Latin and Egyptian and Greek characters binding it like gold chains
<Random_Nerd> it thrashes.
<Random_Nerd> (And Dante arrives.)

• Conrad fire the project Ftiskness on the demon
  

<Kite> "..."

• Theresa waves at Dante.
  
• DanteE has the magic stuff in one hand and a Holy Avenger in the other.
  

<Kite> "The box broke, but it seems to be bound for the moment."
<Random_Nerd> The demon twists and grows, sprouting a brass snail eye on a stalk from one side of its chitinous skull.
<Random_Nerd> (What Bond are you using for it?)
<Theresa> "_Thank you_, Kite for binding it."
<Conrad> (yay!)
<Kite> "Shall I go fetch a thing to.....what just happened?"
<Random_Nerd> (That was the Demon taking a Wound, by the way.)
<DanteE> (The HA? My Bond to the land and people of Amyra.)

• Theresa would facepalm but is afraid of losing the rest of the flesh from her skull if she does so.
  

<Conrad> (lol to T)

• DanteE sees Theresa.
  

<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Okay, what object represents that bond to Dante?)
<DanteE> (Huh?)
<Kite> "This thing....it tells me a mechanical snail is involved."
<Theresa> *slowly* "Ftisk...are you possessing that demon?"
<Random_Nerd> (...okay, what miracle are you using, Dante?)

• Conrad nod "Yep Teresa, my last trick, finally, work!"
  

<Random_Nerd> The ward characters start crumbling, one at a time, until the demon falls to the ground, and starts to come to one knee
<DanteE> (Treasure miracle of Blessing an existing sword?)
<Random_Nerd> (That was his miracle the same "round" as Ftisk's one.)
<Random_Nerd> (The level 1 kind?)
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.)
<DanteE> (Hm. Can a GC of Courage to Go On bounce its attacks, and can I pull it off?)
<Conrad> (he take a wound so he is not controlled, right?)

• Kite sighs
  

<Random_Nerd> (Correct. He took a wound rather than be controlled.)
<Theresa> "Ftisk...you know that by possessing him, you're breaking the wards keeping him from killing people, right?"
<Random_Nerd> (No, that's not what's breaking them.)
<Random_Nerd> (The demon's doing that with his miracle, instead of defending against Ftisk's attack.)
<DanteE> (Fortunately I've got the Holy Duct Tape)
<Theresa> "I do not want to have to deal with this demon _again_ and lose the other part of my face! *Ftisk's whole name* Please come out of there, as we can see that you have succeeded!"
<Conrad> "Damn, he resisted!"
<Random_Nerd> The demon throws one clawed limb out, casting dust off its skin at Ftisk.
<Random_Nerd> (Ftisk is the target of a Lesser Sacrifice of Life, 2 strike.)
<Conrad> (is an attach?)
<Random_Nerd> (That's something the Courage miracle could trump, for instance. He's removing the "Living things can move and think" quality from you, or trying to.)
<Conrad> (my auto fly gift can move me out of reach?)

• Kite raises auctoritas.
  

<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Is that Automatic When Appropriate?)
<Conrad> (yep)
<Random_Nerd> (Then yes.)
<DanteE> (Would the effect stick around, tho?)

• Conrad pout at the demon and project again my Ftiskness on him
  

<Random_Nerd> (Eh, the way I described it was linked to the dust he was throwing, so it's fair.)
<Random_Nerd> The demon meets that miracle with the Lesser Destruction of Life, trying to cut down the personality-energy you're throwing at him.
<Random_Nerd> (What level is your miracle?)
<DanteE> (It's been so long since we were firing off Miracles I'm having trouble remembering the rules...)
<Conrad> (you never told me/don't know)
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. I'm going to handwave it as five until we work out the details, then.)
<Conrad> (ok)
<Random_Nerd> The demon's miracle stops Ftisk's attack on him, but does no further damage to anything.
<Random_Nerd> Okay, who does what?
<Theresa> "Ftisk, will you please come back out here! I want to go home and we can all do that once this guy is locked back up and I will grow the box myself!"
<DanteE> "YOU SHALL STAIN OUR LAND NO FURTHER!" (GC Courage-to-go-on)
<Random_Nerd> (On yourself, or who?)
<lazarus> "This ... feels like a time to retreat and make this place nowhere."

• Conrad back to Theresa place
  

<Random_Nerd> (Well, Greater could be all of you.)
<lazarus> (what miracle level is a Greater Sacrifice?)
<DanteE> (Can I cast it on the area, so it surrounds him?)
<Random_Nerd> The demon glares at Ftisk. Lesser Sacrifice of Life, Strike 2, to remove "Living creatures have agendas and purposes." It fizzles against the GC of Courage.
<Random_Nerd> Greater Sacrifice is 8.
<Conrad> "bravo Dante!"
<DanteE> (I may be out of DMPs, tho)
<Random_Nerd> (Even if you are, the GC not only stopped that miracle, but is still up.)
<lazarus> (I want to Sacrifice the area contained within the Wards to no longer have Paths to Places (specifically, here, or anywhere we can reach, but still))
<Kite> (May I lesser enchant the demon's heart to make it manufacture car engines?)
<Random_Nerd> The demon lifts one finger. A huge windstorm swirls out of nowhere.
<Conrad> "Theresa, we have to pulp the demon, what if one day he will break free?"
<Random_Nerd> (You can do that with a Greater Sacrifice of Amyra)
<Random_Nerd> (Do you?)
<lazarus> (I have P1 and 8 MPs, plus an in-chancel discount. Sounds like I do.)
<Random_Nerd> Then the place where the demon lay is replaced by a featureless black sphere.
<DanteE> (Oh yeah, I forgot that discount. :)
<DanteE> (In that case it only cost me 1 DMP. Nyah.)
<Random_Nerd> Soon the blackness fades out, leaving only a hemispherical cut-out in the ground.
<Theresa> (Was Brian there? )
<Kite> "Aww....I was going to make his heart pump car engines."
<Theresa> "What..just happened and when are we going to hear the screams from whomever it is killing next?"
<Random_Nerd> Brian also takes a Deadly Wound from his Word of Command.
<Random_Nerd> (He doesn't have to be there to do it.)
<lazarus> (RH?) "It's now not attached to anywhere. ... what that means, I'm not quite sure."
<Kite> (So I can try anyway?)
<Random_Nerd> (What do you mean by RH?)
<Conrad> (realm heart?)
<DanteE> (No real point to it now, Kite)
<lazarus> (Realm's Heart speak? I thought we kept that in?)
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, yes.)
<Conrad> (but Kite and me don't hear RH)
<Random_Nerd> Between that and the Wound taken with the Jan ben Jan deal, Brian is now out of Divine Health Levels.
<lazarus> (oh yeah. Forgot that x_x. Worth it, though.)
<Random_Nerd> (So, what do you want the Wound you took from this to be like?)

• Theresa creates herself a smooth bark eyelid to at least be able to close both of her eyes. "So...we have no idea _where_ we just sent a powerful demon who can apparently kill with a thought?"
  

<lazarus> (cost me 6 PMPs and 1 Deadly? And I haven't decided yet, but some kind of void would be appropriate)
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.)
<DanteE> (Wouldn't that be 3 with the Discount?)
<DanteE> (And potentially no wound?)
<Random_Nerd> (Doesn't override the Powers of 2 rule.)
<lazarus> (um. I can't math right now. +7 miracle levels = how much MPs? I'm all confused at the moment.)
<DanteE> (Yeah, but that means a 4-point Miracle rather than 8)
<Random_Nerd> (Can't do +7. It's either 0, 1, 2, 4, or 8.)
<Random_Nerd> (So, since you needed more than 4, you did a Word of Command, and then got a 3-point discount.)
<Theresa> (You know, having no Divine Health levels left, if you _did_ try to kill Entropy again, he'd probably pat you on the head like a puppy growling at him. A little chiuahua.)
<lazarus> (so, then 5 PMPs and a Deadly total.)
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.)
<DanteE> (Ah.)
<Random_Nerd> (But, I mean, it settled the problem. The demon is now in a state of Can't Get There From Here with regard to everywhere else in the world. If it had Immortal, rather than Eternal, this would be a trivial problem. However, it doesn't.)
<Conrad> (man I'm rusty at fights!)
<Random_Nerd> William, on Dante's phone: "What's the situation?"

• Theresa sighs and Greater Creates the plants that got killed back. "There, the plants of the area are restored. The bastard."
  

<DanteE> (Reception here is amazing, for one thing...)
<DanteE> "Demon's gone, but Theresa and Brian are hurt."
<Theresa> *Pray to Brian* "Brian, are Sam and John okay?"
<Kite> "Do we think this is contained? Shall I go bring something living into the blast radius to see if it dies?"
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and the demon's powers do not include any kind of movement or escape powers that would let him out of the Nowhere Hole that Brian dumped him in.)
<lazarus> "Sam, John, you ok?"
<Theresa> "My plants haven't died again, Kite. Wherever the demon is, it's not here."
<Random_Nerd> John: "I have a splitting headache, and most of the gold embroidery in this robe appears to have heated to red-hot and set the rest on fire, but I'm not dead."
<DanteE> (I thought Brian was at the mine)
<Conrad> "Meh, I remain of the idea that we had to finish it"
<Theresa> (Heh. _He_ has a splitting headache?)
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "I didn't even feel it."
<Theresa> (Nope, he didn't move from the ward room. He went to the city room when we yelled...and stayed there.)
<DanteE> (Any casualties besides the plants and bacteria?)
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, he did his miracle by telepresence.)
<Theresa> (Obviously Sam has to help John replace his wardrobe.)
<Theresa> (Animals.)
<lazarus> (Brian has a Magical Hole in his torso. It's magical because it doesn't really affect his day to day life other than, well, having a big hole in himself and no longer having any Divine Wound Levels.)
<DanteE> "William, any idea what we were dealing with?"
<lazarus> (to the others) "Sam and John appear to be fine."
<Conrad> "cool!"
<Random_Nerd> William: "Of the two guards who were posted immediately outside the door, one had a stroke and the other appears to have a concussion without any apparent head impact. Seventeen staff on the upper floors had headaches, one had a minor heart attack, and three passed out. All are receiving medical treatment."
<Theresa> "*sigh* Thank goodness." *tries to stand up*
<Random_Nerd> William: "And no clue. So, it looked like a demon?"
<DanteE> (Can I heal them from here? :) )
<Random_Nerd> (You have to do it in person.)
<Kite> (What did it look like?)

• Theresa motions the others together. "Join hands, all, I'll move us back to outside of the ward room."
  
• DanteE describes it to William in detail.
  
• Conrad do as T. told
  
• Kite joins wings.
  
• DanteE joins T
  

<Random_Nerd> It didn't look exactly like Lesson, but... say, about as much alike as a gazelle looks like a moose.
<Random_Nerd> This one appeared to have insect-like exoskeletal material on its head and body, rather than Lesson's leathery skin.

• Theresa will LMove everyone back to outside of the ward room, where the guards were, making sure to keep a firm grip on Ftisk and Kite.
  

<Random_Nerd> Oddly, the smell of injured demon was stronger in the basement than in the pearl mine, even after the transfer.
<Kite> (We could try showing Lesson a photo)
<Kite> ("Ow....Theresa....my neck!")
<DanteE> ("Oh, that's Bob! Fucker still owes me 10 souls! :p )
<Theresa> ( I would not wring Kite's neck. ^^ )
<Kite> (Hehe)
<Random_Nerd> William: "Definitely wasn't a nimblejack, then, or a halfbreed there. So... some old anchor or miraculous being? A demom magician? Or the child of a Noble or an Imperator. I'm not sure, but something more than a demon and less than a Noble."
<Conrad> (but wings are razorsharp!)

• Theresa slumps a little. *knocks on the door* "John, Sam, Brian? We're back."
  

<Theresa> (Fallen Angel and demon child.)
<Kite> "I wonder if there are True Gods of Hell...."
<Conrad> "Was not honorable, we had to fight to the end"
<DanteE> to Kite: "If it was it wouldn't have been in the box."
<Kite> "We'll get to that later, Brother."
<Random_Nerd> William: "Yes, there are. They're... hardly even sapient, but filled with malice. Even the Fallen are, deep down, Angels with a weird philosophy of life."

• DanteE goes to see to the casualties
  

<Random_Nerd> William: "But the True Gods of Hell are... take a demon, remove anything that's remotely human about it, give it the power of a god."
<Kite> "That sounds nasty."
<DanteE> "I seriously doubt that was a True God of Hell."
<Conrad> (I keep thinking of amalgam but the process of merge Ftisk and conrad was an ...?)
<Random_Nerd> William: "Good news is, they don't tend to leave Hell. Not because they're bound there like the Fallen, but because they /like/ it there."
<Kite> "I didn't think it was. I was just wondering if they exist."
<DanteE> "Maybe an archdemon?"
<Theresa> "What is after that, Cardinal demons?"
<DanteE> (John there?)
<Random_Nerd> William: "I don't know. Get the... get Lesson in here. He's our resident Hell expert."
<Random_Nerd> John, after Dante heals his headache, is taking off his robe.
<Kite> "Hierodemons?"
<Theresa> (Pope demons with really big hats.)
<Random_Nerd> John: "I think that, by the usual rules, I need to prepare a box for this and put it in... I guess the /new/ vault."
<Theresa> "This is going to take a lot of writing up."
<Kite> (The demon papa!)
<DanteE> "Whatever that was it's gone from the kingdom."
<DanteE> "Do you have _any_ accounts of that thing and how it got there?"
<Random_Nerd> John: "So, how did you kill it?"
<Theresa> (Next on Demon Hoarders: The king of Amyra must reduce the number of possible demon boxes in his secret vault and we know just the Nobles to do it!)
<DanteE> "Not sure, really. Who did that last miracle?"
<lazarus> "I made it nowhere."
<Kite> "I guess that's what happened at the end, then."
<DanteE> "Brian, you don't look so good."
<Random_Nerd> John: "That is the oldest thing we had in the vault. Everything I have written on it is 'Don't go nearer to it than you have to, check the wards once a month, it's a demon, and something about an Egyptian sorceror who bound it there."
<Kite> "Brian killed it by making it nowhere."
<DanteE> (Technically he didn't kill it...)
<Random_Nerd> John: "Huh. That's rather scary."
<Kite> "Egyptian! We should look up Egyptian spells, then."
<Kite> (Kite lies.)
<DanteE> "Can we borrow your copy of the Book of the Dead?"
<lazarus> "If it could get out of the box, it could possibly make its way back. But I doubt it would want to. It was in a box the whole time it was here."
<lazarus> "Demons don't like boxes. Or where they were in boxes. I have it on good authority."
<Random_Nerd> John: "Jannes, it's supposed to have been, although it happened quite a while after he was supposed to have lived."
<DanteE> to Brian: "Except for whatever it did when it first arrived..."

• Theresa LMoves a small mirror from somewhere in Amyra to her hand. "Looks this way and that at herself.
  

<Random_Nerd> John: "You know, from Exodus."

• Kite shakes his head at John.
  

<Random_Nerd> John: "The oldest books on the place are in the Rare Books Room, stored in pressurized tanks of inert gasses."
<lazarus> "But there's no /easy/ way to get from there to anywhere. Even Outside."
<DanteE> "Hm... wasn't that still when people from the Bible had ridiculously long lifespans, though?"
<Random_Nerd> John: "No. Later than that. This would have been around the Exodus."
<Theresa> "It was out of the box when you nowhered it, Brian. The box disintegrated. Then the bonds holding it bound started breaking because someone decided to drive the demon around from the inside. And then Ftisk popped out, then you nowhered it."
<lazarus> "... oh."
<lazarus> "well, then. I suspect if it couldn't get out of the box, then it doesn't have the ability to somewhere itself, at least?"
<DanteE> "Serves me right for concentrating on secular history in school."
<Random_Nerd> John: "This stuff comes with the turf."

• DanteE borrows T's mirror and checks himself out.
  

<Kite> "So...should we work on making more wards?"
<Random_Nerd> John: "I mean, we have the actual /Ark of the Covenant/. It's over /there/." He points "In light of that, yes, I try to keep up on that stuff."
<lazarus> (I should be off to bed, btw. Half past midnight!)
<lazarus> (good luck on the Exam, RN!)
<Kite> (Sleep well, Laz!)
<DanteE> "Hm. Ftisk, you sure that thing you ate was Excrucian?"
<DanteE> (g'night Laz)
<Random_Nerd> John: "The staff of Aaron? The one that turned into a snake and ate Jannes' staff when /it/ turned into a snake? We /have/ that."
<Conrad> (night Lz)
<Conrad> "I, sure! I fell it pump in me"
<Kite> (May I add a project to learn a Gift which makes anti-demon/Hell/Excrucian wards?)
<DanteE> "Remind me what's in the Ark? Commandments tablets, Aaron's Rod, jar of Manna...
<Theresa> "It won't talk to me, though." *small pout*
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<DanteE> "And I wonder if that was related to the Lady in the Vault."
<Random_Nerd> "Yeah, that's the stuff. Plus, the Ark itself."
<Kite> "You keep a lady in the vault?"
<DanteE> "No, the Excrucian Shard we encountered in the Vault."
<Random_Nerd> (And yes, you may add such a project.)
<Theresa> "We had an Excrucian try to break into the Vault of Artifacts. She destroyed John's throat for a bit."
<Random_Nerd> William: "So, the things this demon did... did they feel like Excrucian miracles?"
<DanteE> (Ex or Noble miracles?)
<Random_Nerd> (They did not. It appeared to use miracles based on both Domain and Persona of the same Estate. Excrucians don't tend to do that.)
<Random_Nerd> (And it used no distinctive Excrucian tricks. No Soul-cutting Sword, no Worldbreaker's Hand, etc.)
<DanteE> "It felt like this side of the Wall, William."
<DanteE> (Wanna bet RN's going to come up with a reason we'll want him back? :p )
<Random_Nerd> William: "That's a relief. I would not have wanted to have an Excrucian have been waiting under us for the last year or so."
<Random_Nerd> William: "I mean, who knows what it could have heard?"
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, one other thing. It did not at any point manifest an auctoritas.)
<Random_Nerd> (Even when under repeated miraculous attack.)
<Theresa> (If it had heard us, it would have been beating its head inside the box, screaming, "Just _do_ something already!!!")
<DanteE> (Hm, does William know what an Auc is IC?)
<Random_Nerd> (Not the details, but that there's a thing Nobles and some others can do that makes them harder to affect with miracles, yes.)
<DanteE> to Will: "It didn't start up the Noble protections we have even when we started beating on it, though."
<Random_Nerd> John: "Theresa... do you want me to ask Martyrs if she has any tips for dealing with, uh, shredded and mutilated flesh?"
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Yeah. You look like something out of Hellraiser, lady-dude."
<Random_Nerd> William winces at 'lady-dude'
<Random_Nerd> William: "So, are there other things down there as dangerous as this?"
<DanteE> "I think we got the most dangerous box, right?"
<Conrad> "and survived! Yay!"
<Theresa> "That's Regal-lady, thank you." *tries to smile but can feel her lips shred more* "I would greatly appreciate that, John. She was actually the first person I thought of when I saw my new look. Although I don't think I want to start a trend."
<Random_Nerd> John: "Yeah. Although I do wonder what happened to the other ones when that thing went active. There was certainly something going on."
<DanteE> "... for certain values of 'survived'..."
<Kite> "There were two similar boxes, weren't there? This is just the only one that responded when you spoke in Hellspeak."
<Random_Nerd> John: "Yes. Shall we go have a look at them?"
<DanteE> "Good idea.
<Kite> "That would be wise."
<Conrad> "Sure!"
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<DanteE> "Plus, the protection I put on the new site is still up. Anything else directly death-dealing shows up we're covered."
<Random_Nerd> The floor outside the door still smells faintly of vomit and soap, and the door looks like someone went at it with a flamethrower.
<Theresa> "Given the amount of death causes near the pearl mine, I think that anything that's still alive in here would have to be pretty strong."
<Random_Nerd> John waits for all to be in, closes the door, and then walks to the back with the electric lantern.
<crowbarTisk> "We can make an arena and let them fight!"
<Random_Nerd> The two other boxes that were near it smell of smoke and demon-blood.
<Kite> (Do they look otherwise undisturbed?)
<crowbarTisk> "Ok, I'll open the left one"
<Kite> "WAIT!"
<Random_Nerd> (Yes. But they did shake back and forth when the other one was released.)
<DanteE> "Not _here_, Ftisk!"
<crowbarTisk> "What?"
<crowbarTisk> "oh! Sigh, ok ok ..."
<crowbarTisk> "I forgot... you know a shiny lil box here..." *point*
<Theresa> (...Divination, Things of Amyra, those two boxes.)
<DanteE> "Theresa, you up to moving these boxes to the mine?"
<DanteE> "Considering they may also have Something Interesting in them?"
<Random_Nerd> (You can tell that the wards were designed to hold demons. You can tell that there were Lesser Preservations cast on both of them. They're not as /old/ as the other one, and the writing on them is much less eclectic.)
<Random_Nerd> (You can tell that the wood on the inside of them is soaked with fresh demon blood.)
<DanteE> (Can you check the ward that was on the big box?)
<Theresa> "I'm looking very carefully at these two boxes. The insides are soaked with demon blood. The wood cried out."
<DanteE> "_Fresh_ demon blood?"
<Random_Nerd> (The big box is now a pile of dust located in a place that is no longer connected to the rest of the universe.)
<Random_Nerd> (Uh.. there probably is a way you could check it, but I'm not sure what it is.)
<Theresa> "Fresh. But I don't know if it's still bleeding or dead. Given the power oomph of our dearly departed and the fact that his work was pretty confined to this room, I would hope that whatever is inside is dead because we probably wouldn't be able to kill it."
<DanteE> "That would mean the big demon killed the little demons when it got out."
<DanteE> "Or almost did.
<crowbarTisk> "how unfortunate!! *pout*
<Theresa> "The boxes are much younger than the big demon one. But the wards were designed to hold in demons."
<Random_Nerd> (So, call it a night?)
<Theresa> (Yes, please. Braaaains.)
<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and Dante gets a Victory for his Protector of Amyra thing.)
<DanteE> (OK)
<Random_Nerd> __________STOP_______________
<Theresa> (At least I won't have to wait a year and a day to regrow stuff.)
<DanteE> Kewl. What session number is it?
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
<crowbarTisk> (Gio call, want to be picked up at work because rain oh, never mind we stop anyway)
<Verithe> π
<Verithe> Session number π
<BethE> Well, all, I need to get to sleep. *HUGS* Good game! And see you after the bar!  :)
<Verithe> Sleep well!
<Knockwood> g'night Beth
<crowbarTisk> (ssn number? 237)
<crowbarTisk> night Beth!
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo
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<Angelo> great session!
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and just as to not leave a cliffhanger, there were live demons in the other boxes, but the Big One killed them both within seconds of being released.
<Angelo> a trivia failure is 1pt right?
<Verithe> So we can open them off-camera?
<Knockwood> Dang, we could have our own mini demon horde.
<Knockwood> Actually, we still can...
<Angelo> well I have to go
<Verithe> Take care, Angelo!
<Knockwood> cya next week Angelo
<Knockwood> oh, wait...
<Knockwood> 3 weeks, not next
<Angelo> no not next week in a month probably
<Verithe> July 26? or will you be gone that week, Angelo?
<Random_Nerd> Hmm... Dante's healing gift /does/ work on nonhumans now, doesn't it?
<Knockwood> yep
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, they're fresh enough that you could bring 'em back if you want.
<Knockwood> Let's see, how long until T and I heal our Serious Wounds?
<Knockwood> Hello?
<Verithe> (I gotta go. Take care!)
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<Knockwood> cya V
<Knockwood> well, see you in 3 weeks, RN, and good luck.
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Chapter 33