Session 253

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 35

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<Angelo> Hi guys!

<BethE> Hi Angelo!

<Verithe> Hi!

<lazarus> hey Angelo

<BethE> So, need your opinion: Should I have strawberries with goat cheese, strawberries with sweetened condensed milk or strawberries infused with balsamic/apple cider vinegar?

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<Angelo> first and last one Bet

<Angelo> Hi Knock

<Verithe> That broke me, Beth.

<BethE> Hi Knock!

<BethE> V - which part?  :)

<lazarus> hey kwd

<Verithe> The deciding

<Knockwood> Hi all

<BethE> Ah

<Knockwood> May Be a little distracted, I've got family over.

<Random_Nerd> So, anything before we start?

<Angelo> YES! My last project finished now?

<Random_Nerd> Hmm?

<Angelo> I mean the project to project Ftiskness obtained 15points for it step2 add strike!

<Random_Nerd> Ah. Okay. Then yes!

<Verithe> Woo!

<Random_Nerd> That's based on a Persona miracle, or a Domain one?

<Angelo> I don't remember :-/

=-= BethE is now known as Theresa

=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE

=-= lazarus is now known as Brian

<Random_Nerd> Shall we call it an Enchantment of Ftiskness, then?

=-= Verithe is now known as human-Kite

<Angelo> I'm ok calling it an enchantment

<DanteE> It sounds like persona

<Angelo> yes was persona based, right Dante

<Random_Nerd> Then, some time, could you come up with some properties for the pseudoestate of Ftisk?

<Angelo> sure!

<Random_Nerd> Doesn't have to be right now.

<Angelo> better!

<Random_Nerd> But that way we have a clearer mutual understanding of what it does.

<Theresa> (The vinegar strawberries are pretty good.)

<human-Kite> (Yay!)

<Angelo> well quickly it project Ftisk personality onto someone overriding that that one had

<Brian> (mozzarella, tomato, and fresh Basil is a thing I have been having recently)

<Theresa> (Strawberries with goat cheese, not too bad. The goat cheese is from a local farm that also makes gelato out of the goat's milk.)

<DanteE> Sounds exotic

<Angelo> and now this gift have strike attached! :-) ... how much strike? 3 points?

<Random_Nerd> Hmm... one moment.

<Random_Nerd> You've just completed the second Stone in it, right?

<Angelo> ah, here is called an Ftiskness enchantment http://www.mindmeister.com/61277752

<Theresa> Aww, the gelato is _awesome_. So many flavors. So tasty...

<Angelo> yes, the first one gave me the base gift

<Random_Nerd> Then, yeah, three Strike.

<Angelo> Cooolooo! :-D

<DanteE> Careful, that may mean you're out :)

<Random_Nerd> That was not a good pun, but I did laugh.

<Brian> that makes it a good pun :)

<Random_Nerd> No. It does not meet my rigorously defined Good Pun Guidelines.

<Angelo> ok my actual project now is get a new estate: Cybernetic from that excrucian attack

<Theresa> (And he does have them. Because he's married to me.)

<Angelo> _is_ a good pun

<Brian> (alternately: There Are No Good Puns)

<Random_Nerd> Okay.

<Theresa> So when we last left off, we had just let a nimblejack loose on the city and it has a pair of sunglasses now?

<Angelo> and was running in circles

<Brian> that sounds bad :)

<Theresa> Oh yeah, did you miss last time, Laz?

<Brian> I think I did. Wasn't feeling well.

<Theresa> We kind of lost the Excrucian. Gained a nimblejack, who likes Dante's fingers.

<Angelo> brb, making some nutella's panini

<Random_Nerd> Dante's were the third tastiest fingers he had ever chewed on.

<DanteE> Only third?

<Random_Nerd> Yeah.

<Random_Nerd> But you try harder.

<Random_Nerd> There's a hurts-hertz joke in there somewhere.

<Random_Nerd> But I don't really care to work out the details.

<Random_Nerd> Left as an exercise to the listener.

<Brian> academic jokes are best left as an exercise for the reader :)

<Random_Nerd> So, are we ready to go?

<DanteE> Please. Did anyone actually do the exercises?

<Brian> (ooo, Charmed is on Netflix! Got my background noise!)

<Random_Nerd> Depends if it was an interesting textbook.

<Brian> I'm ready

<human-Kite> Ready!

<DanteE> Ready.

<Theresa> I'm ready, but only if the nimblejack gets some sort of theme song from The Who.

<Brian> YEAAAAAAH!

<DanteE> "His name is Bill and he's a head case"

<Random_Nerd> Nah. The Nimblejack is currently hunting to the tune of Eye Of The Tiger.

<Angelo> back, chomp, ready, chomp

=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk

<Random_Nerd> ______________START__________________

<DanteE> As I recall, I'm floating over the city looking for him, right?

<Random_Nerd> So! You chased an Excrucian into a bathroom! A nimblejack is now hunting him, but with little idea of where to look! The Estate of Machinery is still under attack!

<Random_Nerd> Yes!

<Theresa> I am running to keep up with the nimblejack.

<Random_Nerd> What miracle level are you using, Theresa?

<Ftisk> I'm over T. shoulder as usual

<DanteE> Now, what's a nimblejack's tracking skill?

<Theresa> Aspect 3.

<Brian> (where's Brian been Guarding The Horses?)

<Random_Nerd> Nimblejacks are not very good at tracking.

<Theresa> (And can I do a GDiv of the plants in the area for signs of the Excrucian?)

<Brian> (they're more good at hurting, aren't they?)

<Random_Nerd> Yeah.

<DanteE> Pray to the others: "Maybe we should help him find it."

<Random_Nerd> Once they see the thing they're chasing, they can usually catch it.

<Random_Nerd> But if they don't really even know where to start, it's not their strong suit.

<Brian> (Just like Every PC Ever, actually)

<Random_Nerd> I mean, they're not /bad/ at tracking. They have a bit of skill in it. They have Aspect 1 or so.

<DanteE> (He's a PC? That explains everything!)

<Random_Nerd> They're better than /I/ am.

<Random_Nerd> But he doesn't seem to be finding the Excrucian's trail.

<human-Kite> (The excrucian sank into the floor of the bathroom, right? Did we check for a basement?)

<Random_Nerd> Possibly because the excrucian can do Lesser Destruction of Signs Of Where I've Been at will!

<Random_Nerd> (You did. There isn't one.)

<Random_Nerd> (At least, not immediately below the bathroom.)

<DanteE> (No, we followed the nimble jack.)

<human-Kite> (Kite followed the clumsy jack.)

<Ftisk> (I lookend around and asked the vicinity's camera)

<DanteE> (AutoCorrect.)

<DanteE> (Connecting via my iPad.)

<Brian> (...)

<DanteE> (On the other hand, it does have voice recognition.)

<Random_Nerd> (Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack work for Lord Entropy and then get kidnapped by a Strategist.)

<Random_Nerd> So! What Do You Do?

• DanteE flies down to the nimblejack.
  
  

<Theresa> (I do a GDiv of area plants, looking for the Excrucian.)

<Ftisk> (Follow hurting to the NOTGoogle glass plant?)

<DanteE> "Do you actually know where he is?"

<Random_Nerd> The Excrucian hasn't gone anywhere near plants, since he went underground.

<Random_Nerd> Although, that says something. Plants are in lots of places.

<human-Kite> No roots?

<Random_Nerd> None that got a good look at him.

<Random_Nerd> But roots can't see through dirt.

<DanteE> And we are in the city.

<Random_Nerd> Yes.

<Random_Nerd> But it's a college town, with a fair number of trees and the like.

<Random_Nerd> If he was above ground and on the streets, plants would have seen him.

<Theresa> "I'm not seeing him and my plants can't either. He's underground and I can't see through dirt."

<DanteE> (Are we together?)

<Theresa> (Probably, given time to catch up.)

<Random_Nerd> (Brian and Kite are near the bathroom, you, Ftisk, and Theresa are following the nimblejack.)

<Brian> (then I might as well be in-scene too?)

<Brian> (sure, ok :))

<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack is getting outside Theresa's ability to keep up, anyway.

<human-Kite> "Brian. Where did they go?"

<DanteE> "Maybe he made like in every FPS ever and went to the sewers."

<Theresa> "Probably. Do you want to lose the nimblejack down there?"

<Random_Nerd> The sewers aren't big enough for a human being of normal size to run through.

<Brian> "Um. Which they?"

<Ftisk> And machines, machines are everywhere, he is in a place with a switch? a light? Something made of 2 or more pieces? (Greater machinery divination)

<DanteE> "We definitely don't want him loose here."

<Random_Nerd> He is not.

<Random_Nerd> So that seriously narrows down where he is. No machines, no plants.

<DanteE> A cave?

<Random_Nerd> (It also implies that he knows what you guys' estates are.)

<Theresa> "Should we just let him go? We need to make sure Ftisk is fixed up."

<Ftisk> (is still hurting)

<Theresa> (And he knows that we are highly susceptible to something weird running across our paths.)

<Ftisk> "I still feel the pain Theresa, is not over"

<Brian> "The Excrucian went that way *points* but I don't know where it is, and the rest of the Team is over there *points*"

<Random_Nerd> You still haven't really done anything to stop the damage or rectify the harm that's been done.

<Theresa> (And here's a thought to ponder...how are we going to send the nimblejack back?)

<DanteE> (You talking about the attack or the nimble Jack?)

<Theresa> "Let's bring the nimblejack back to the Glass place and fix both him and Ftisk."

<DanteE> ( Glass place?)

<Ftisk> "I approve!"

<Random_Nerd> The Ungoogle place is currently roped off and being evacuated by firemen.

• DanteE flies off to grab the nimblejack
  
  

<human-Kite> "Let's go back to the....the....oh molt."

<Random_Nerd> How?

<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack is currently moving very fast indeed.

<Theresa> (The place where the google glasses were from.)

<Random_Nerd> Your flying gift is fast, but not Aspect 7 fast.

<DanteE> He's going in circles, right?

• Theresa will do a LAnimation of plants around or near the Nimblejack to tell him to return to Plant's Regal.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Spiral, more.

<Random_Nerd> So you can keep him in sight.

<Random_Nerd> But catching him is a little trickier. Just stopping him, for one thing.

• human-Kite looks around for the closest person with the ungoogle device.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> And he's moving erratically enough, leaping from building to telephone pole to power cables, that it's hard to predict where exactly he /will/ be in twenty seconds.

<Random_Nerd> I'm not saying you can't do it. But I am asking how.

<Random_Nerd> What are you having the plants say?

<Random_Nerd> Theresa.

<DanteE> Because I didn't put anything into parkour skill

<Theresa> They will say "Nimblejack. Nimblejack. Nimblejack. Return to Plant's Regal."

<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack stops in mid-leap, tilts his head for a moment, and then races back toward Theresa like a grim and gritty reimagining of Sonic the Hedgehog.

<human-Kite> (Scratch previous action. Kite is going to find a place to discretely transform into a bird.)

• DanteE rejoins the others.
  
  
• Theresa will head back to the others as well.
  
  

<DanteE> (Too bad you don't have phonebooths anymore.)

<Random_Nerd> Duck back into the bathroom!

<DanteE> Or go through a revolving door really fast!

• human-Kite ducks back into the bathroom.
  
  

<human-Kite> (Sadly, Kite doesn't have superspeed without cost.)

<DanteE> (Name that reference.)

=-= human-Kite is now known as Kite

<Theresa> (Hmm, forget the revolving door.)

<Brian> "welcome to your true form again Kite. Where are we off to?"

<Theresa> (Have we gotten back to Brian and Kite?)

<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack leaps down from a roof and lands at Therea's feet.

<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack, bellowing in a loud but high-pitched and scratchy voice: "VOILA!"

<DanteE> Remind me what they look like?

<Theresa> (...)

<Theresa> (Damn it. GM point.)

• Ftisk spill some oils/blood in a conjured cup
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Hmm. Like half-human-half-monkeys with really long arms and legs, and demonic traits in their faces and hands.

<Brian> (so not quite like the Thin Men from XCom?)

<Theresa> "Hello! The Excrucian is in a place where there are no plants and no machinery, so he is probably in the sewers. We can return you to the place you were resting before the Excrucian moved you to the bathroom, if you wish."

<Random_Nerd> (Haven't played the new one. *googles*)

<Random_Nerd> (No, not really.)

<Random_Nerd> (More like what you'd get if you crossed Lesson, a monkey, and the Slenderman.)

<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack: "...Hunting!"

<Random_Nerd> It skitters back and forth. "Hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt."

<DanteE> "So, we're going to deal with the attack and deal with the attacker later?"

<Random_Nerd> It sniffs Theresa's feet.

<Brian> (brick brick brick brick brick?)

<DanteE> "Well, we know he went down from the bathroom."

<Theresa> (Crap, I've got the Huntsman theme in my head now...)

<Kite> "Can we make it so that lengthy use of the device can cause hallucinations?

<Theresa> "Yes, but we can't pass through solid ground into the sewers." *to Kite, Brian and everyone* "Should we let the nimblejack loose in the sewers?"

<Ftisk> "yay, wanna be super"

<Random_Nerd> (How can that possibly go wrong?)

<Brian> "There's so very many worse places to let loose a nimblejack."

• Kite shrugs. "It's better there than up here."
  
  

<DanteE> "Including where we're standing."

<Brian> "And few better."

<Brian> "on the other hand, it is best not to let loose a nimblejack."

<DanteE> Who's around?

<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack looks up at you, puzzled. You have gone close to a /minute/ without telling it to hunt something or trying to kick it.

<Brian> "If you care about things like civilians and the scenery."

<Random_Nerd> You're in the storage room at the florist's. The clerk appears to have gone somewhere else.

<DanteE> "Theresa, can I get a backpack?"

<Ftisk> (the clerk was Ftisk-ed last session)

<DanteE> "Student style."

<Brian> (you like hunting, don't you, nimblejack. Well, see the Excrucian? See him? You want him? Go! Hunt! ... */talking to puppy voice*)

• Theresa will look around for a way down into the sewers.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> (Yep. You don't know where she ran off after that.)

<Random_Nerd> Well, there's plumbing.

<Theresa> "How big of a backpack, Ftisk?"

<Ftisk> (but are tiny real like tubes or like film ones?)

<Ftisk> "uh? bigger is Better T!"

<Theresa> (Brian - small problem. He (and we) doesn’t know where the Excrucian went to. And he can pass through solid matter.)

<DanteE> "Big enough to hold our friend here discreetly."

<Brian> (yeah. No telling it to hunt :))

<DanteE> (Me, not Ftisk)

<Theresa> (The Excrucian can pass through the solid matter, not the nimblejack. I think.)

<Random_Nerd> (The nimblejack is much faster, but can't pass through walls.)

• Theresa makes a backpack that can hold three Ftisks. And a can of energy drink.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> (At least, without a sledgehammer and some time.)

<Ftisk> (I can resize the njack)

<DanteE> To the nimblejack: "Tell you what – we'll go look for something you can hunt and then we'll let you after it.

• Theresa will go outside to look for a manhole cover.
  
  

<DanteE> "But first you have to hide, so" you can sneak up on it.

<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack nods. About thirteen times, in under a second.

<Random_Nerd> He looks like a very affirmative woodpecker.

• Ftisk change nimblejack shape to a rat size Spider
  
  

<Brian> (wow :))

<DanteE> "Okay, Hide in this backpack."

<Random_Nerd> It leaps in.

• DanteE puts on the backpack. Just your average college student.
  
  

<Theresa> (... Guys, we are not going to keep him. No one is going to look at Theresa and explain how it followed us back home...)

<Random_Nerd> Then it starts chewing on the interior of the backpack. But not trying to gnaw a hole through, just for something to do.

<Random_Nerd> Theresa finds a manhole cover!

<Brian> (... stop denying it :D)

<Ftisk> "T. can you make a saddle for MY nimbleSpider?

<Theresa> (Someone has to get a nimblejack chew toy. Or something for it to cuddle.)

<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider Chew!

<Brian> (Ariadne! ... but the not alive ariadne)

• Ftisk give my oil to the nimble spider
  
  

<Theresa> (Oh guys, this is hilarious here in real life, listening to RN.  :D )

<Random_Nerd> (The nimblejack has wound levels, it could resist with one. But it doesn't bother.)

<DanteE> "What's your name, by the way?"

• Kite Assembles a toy cat from floral wire
  
  

<Brian> (what's he saying IRL?)

<Kite> "Here."

<Random_Nerd> The Nimblespider?

<Random_Nerd> "Hunt hunt hunt hunt ambush jump hunt rawwwr!" Very softly.

<Theresa> ("What is _with_ you guys?!? It keeps _happening_!!!)

<Random_Nerd> (Oh, me.)

<Ftisk> (yep, I'll anchor my new mount)

<Brian> (that's hilarious. And I think it's Nobilis, not us)

<Theresa> "Ftisk, I can't make a saddle. Those are made out of leather."

<Random_Nerd> (Quick! Kill a cow!)

• Theresa will pull up the manhole cover and call for the others to come over.
  
  

<DanteE> "Do you have a nickname?"

<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack doesn't seem to respond.

<Theresa> (_Can_ you anchor a nimblejack?)

<Random_Nerd> (What bond to the nimblejack do you have?)

<Ftisk> "Wery well , I'll ride him nature"

<Random_Nerd> (Also, be aware that it would count as a miraculous anchor, because it has character points and so on in its own right.)

<Ftisk> (no bond at the moment, will change mine to add one like I really like my new mount!)

<Random_Nerd> (Okay, the "take a wound to get a bond" trick. What's your new bond?)

<DanteE> (Careful, you're about to fight !)

<Ftisk> (no, the reshuffle your bonds and make space for this new one trick, I believe is doable, right?)

<Random_Nerd> (Let me see.)

<DanteE> (You want to respec on the fly?)

<Random_Nerd> (You can do that during downtime.)

<Ftisk> (IF Possible I'll lower my to gnomely 4 to Gomely3 and add to my nimbleSpider 1)

<Random_Nerd> (But on the fly, you have to take a wound.)

<Random_Nerd> (Page 209.)

<Ftisk> (ah, then I take a wound)

<Random_Nerd> (And page 176.)

<Random_Nerd> (Okay. What's your new Bond?)

<Random_Nerd> (Does Ftisk have any Surface wound levels left?)

<Random_Nerd> (Err, Normal health levels.)

<Random_Nerd> (Sorry, mixing up wound levels and health levels for a moment.)

<Ftisk> (I real ... yes I have one normal left)

<Random_Nerd> (Okay. Bond!)

<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider skitter!

<Ftisk> (new bond: my nimbleSpider)

<Random_Nerd> Okay! Ftisk anchored a nimblejack! Theresa found a manhole!

<Ftisk> (woot!)

• Kite steals some scissors and colorful foil from the florist
  
  

<Theresa> (Hey V, you're the artist...can you picture in your head a snail with one Excrucian eye riding a spider-sized nimblejack?)

<DanteE> (I have a nimblejack in my backpack! Life is weird!)

<Theresa> "Come on, guys, I have a way down into the sewers!"

<Ftisk> (the spider is rat size! don't forget!)

<Brian> "Life is the way it is every day"

<Kite> (I thought the nimblejack was turned into a rat-sized spider....but yeah.)

<Random_Nerd> (It /so/ should have.)

• DanteE makes sure he knows which direction he went
  
  

<Random_Nerd> How?

<Ftisk> to Theresa: "Ok, no saddle, but bridles? Spider the size of a rat fitting ones?"

<DanteE> Well, he ran Into the bathroom and then went down through the floor. So, that way.

<Random_Nerd> (But presumably there's two ways he could have gone from there...)

<DanteE> Let's just say I keep track of where we are starting.

<Kite> "Do I need to assemble a drill?"

<Theresa> "Right now, I think that he would chew through them, Ftisk. You would need to figure out a way to communicate with him until we can find something he won't chew through."

<Theresa> "Kite, I hope not. We'd probably hit a gas or water main."

• Theresa will go down the manhole into the sewers!
  
  

<Kite> "Meh."

<Random_Nerd> Okay.

<Ftisk> "uhm... well .. yeah.. communicate, right!"

<Random_Nerd> It doesn't smell very good down there!

<Brian> "..."

<DanteE> "Oh, this will end well."

<Random_Nerd> As for the actual sewers, you could crawl through them, or really hunch your shoulders, but not move quickly on foot.

<DanteE> "Anyway, right underneath the bathroom is over here."

<Kite> "Give him the manhole cover to gnaw on."

<Random_Nerd> Unless you're a nimblejack.

<Kite> Bird Kite is shorter than human Kite!

<Random_Nerd> Kite can do it.

<DanteE> "Come on out, Muncher."

<Ftisk> "Free my mount! We will check the place in no time!"

• DanteE lets the nimblejack out
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Nimblejack skitter!

• Kite descends.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> It's even creepier now, somehow.

<Random_Nerd> Imagine a really big spider, moving at ten times normal spider speed.

<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider: "Screee!"

• Ftisk jump on the spider back "Joho! Silver! Hunt the excrucian!"
  
  

<Brian> "..."

<Random_Nerd> (Okay! So... you're doing a Treasure miracle now, I presume.)

<DanteE> Okay, how can us human-sized folks get through there?

<Brian> "wow."

<Random_Nerd> Stop being human-sized, stop being human-shaped, turn immaterial, uh... lie on your stomach and hover?

<Ftisk> (nope with treasure 0 I will not do a treasure miracle atm. just fluff)

<Kite> "Its name is Silver, now?"

• Theresa will Elemental turn into a walking tree of appropriate size!
  
  

<Random_Nerd> (Then it's not going to be very fast.)

<Ftisk> "Isn't Silver the lone ranger's horse name?"

<Kite> (It is! Kite has never watched the Lone Ranger.)

<Kite> "Is it?"

<Ftisk> "IT IS!"

<Random_Nerd> (When it's a miraculous anchor of yours, unless you trigger the Treasure 6 miracle, it isn't going to help you out.)

<Kite> "Why is your spider named after a horse named after a metal?"

<Kite> "No wait. I don't have time to know this."

<Ftisk> "Is a nick name, later will came to a good name for him"

• Kite proceeds through the sewers.
  
  

<Ftisk> "like why all cats are called here here lil kitten?"

<DanteE> "Why is a metal snail writing a nimble Jack morphed into a rat-sized spider?

<Random_Nerd> The nimblespider runs, but at normal spider speed.

<Ftisk> "Because is cool?"

• DanteE tries floating through the corridor horizontally
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Okay.

• Theresa will Ent her way through the tunnel.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> I'm going to just skip past the logistics of you guys searching the sewer, and cut to the part where you find something interesting.

<Random_Nerd> A hole, going straight down, carved into the bottom of the pipe.

<Ftisk> (this is a case were dimension count!)

<DanteE> (Thank you.)

<Ftisk> "Anyone? who want to be miniaturized? I can do it!"

<Theresa> (May I, using roots that grab into any crevice and can hold, climb down the side of the hole?)

<Brian> "nope. nope nope nope. Not with that thing."

<Kite> "I'm not certain, but I think this hole will disrupt how the water should flow."

<Random_Nerd> It totally is.

<Random_Nerd> Stuff's draining down that isn't supposed to.

<Random_Nerd> Hmm... yes, Theresa can.

<Random_Nerd> The hole is about big enough for an adult human.

<Random_Nerd> If it's an adult human who doesn't have to worry about being splattered.

<Kite> (Is the hole large enough for Kite to glide down?)

<Random_Nerd> It's about a meter wide.

<Ftisk> I'll and my spider will walk on one hole's side and descend

<Random_Nerd> What kind of bird is Kite?

<Kite> He's most similar to a great blue heron....with metal feathers.

<DanteE> Can I carry someone while flying?

<Random_Nerd> Sure.

<Random_Nerd> Eh. I can't really envision a heron gliding down a meter-wide hole without it ending badly.

<Random_Nerd> So, you'd have to use Aspect or a flight skill.

<DanteE> "Brian, Hop on my back."

<Kite> Makes sense.

<Ftisk> (I can reshape Kite for free)

<Brian> "I still don't quite like the idea of being around a spiderjack."

<Random_Nerd> Spiderjack: "Scree!"

<Ftisk> (like miniKite)

<Random_Nerd> Kite, what's your Aspect?

<Brian> "see?" *shudders*

<Kite> "Ftisk! Please make me a..."

<Kite> (1)

• Ftisk pat spiderJack
  
  

<Brian> (afk)

<DanteE> "The spiderjack wouldn't like being around us if he knew our reputation."

<Kite> (I have Heron-like Bird as a skill...)

<Random_Nerd> (Mmm. You can do it, but it's gonnna be really awkward-looking, Kite.)

<Random_Nerd> (Ah. Then only moderately awkward-looking!)

<Kite> (Does his Passion of "I like to explore" (1) help?)

<Random_Nerd> (Not at the same time as the skill.)

• Ftisk reshape Kite into a heron big like a robin
  
  

<Random_Nerd> (But this'll suffice, and you won't look quite like a duck in a tumble-dryer on the way down.)

<Kite> (Yay!)

<Random_Nerd> So! You guys reach the bottom of the hole!

<Random_Nerd> It goes all the way down to bedrock, and some distance into that.

<Random_Nerd> No water seeping into it, though, other than that from the sewer.

<Kite> "Hmmm..."

<Random_Nerd> Possibly he did something to cause that.

• Theresa will Entwalk down the hole.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> At the bottom, it turns into a smooth-walled tunnel, tall enough for an adult human to run in.

<Brian> (b)

<Ftisk> "Weird tube... Silver did you smell it?"

<DanteE> "Well, this isn't ominous."

• Theresa will go back to human.
  
  

<Kite> "Shall we run?"

• Ftisk reshape back Kite to kite shape
  
  

<Ftisk> "Run I say!"

<Kite> "Thank you, Ftisk."

• Ftisk smile at Kite
  
  

<DanteE> "Should make your mount bigger first."

=-= Kite is now known as human-Kite

• human-Kite runs down the corridor.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> There aren't any footprints, but there's only one way he could have gone...

<Random_Nerd> Until you get to the point where the tunnel forks.

<Random_Nerd> The nimblejack shakes its head as much as a spider can.

<Random_Nerd> In response to ftisk's comment.

<Ftisk> (with treasure 0 can I communicate with my anchor?)

<Ftisk> (always skipped treasure sections on the rules :-/)

<DanteE> "We need to be careful, we'll be on his turf."

<Random_Nerd> (Yes, you can.)

<Theresa> "Yeah, but he has a head start!"

<Ftisk> "Spider, let's split! We can stay in contact and follow each one a led. Who go with me and who go with him?"

<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider skitter.

<DanteE> "You want to split the party?"

<Ftisk> "why not, this is real life not D&D"

<human-Kite> "Ftisk can communicate with his spiders."

• human-Kite follows Silver
  
  

<Brian> "Remember, Dante plays D&D every Tuesday with Lesson and company. He knows Tunnel Etiquette"

<Ftisk> "And we can pray to each other if we need/wish"

<Ftisk> "Dante, who have the tank? Lesson? The Imp? Nah, the imp is the trickster, uhm..."

<Theresa> (Yes. Tunnel Etiquette calls for the expendable one to go first. ^^ )

<Random_Nerd> Down the Ftisk tunnel, about a hundred meters in, one of the walls is flat rather than rounded, and letters are carved into it. "DISTRACTION"

<Random_Nerd> Same distance down the other one. "YES. I CAME THIS WAY."

<Theresa> (I will be going the way opposite of Ftisk.)

<Ftisk> "Distraction ... well, that leave the other one" to Silver "Your tunnel is the right one. RUN and catch the excrucian!"

<Brian> (I'll go with Ftisk)

<Brian> "Ftisk, it's the distraction that's the distraction

<human-Kite> "This....what? Silver, please relay this carving to Ftisk."

<Theresa> How's the other tunnel?

<DanteE> (I'll have gone with Silver...)

<Theresa> (Oh, never mind.)

<Random_Nerd> Other than that, and that they go off at 90 degree angles from each other, the two tunnels are identical.

<Ftisk> "The distraction tunnel, finish there ? or continue?)

<Random_Nerd> Both continue onward.

<DanteE> "I'm thinking this is way too obvious."

<Theresa> "Probably, but all we can do is follow. Although he could have gone through the walls at any time."

<human-Kite> "I don't know how many levels of deceit this Excrucian is working with."

<DanteE> (And I guess I'm with Theresa)

<Ftisk> "return back or is that a bogus signal?

<DanteE> "Still think this guy knows Ftisk's associates?"

<Ftisk> "the other tunnel have also a message Brian that say that the excru was there"

• human-Kite slips into border mythic
  
  

<Random_Nerd> In the border-mythic, you are... in a tunnel! But it's a slightly more dungeony tunnel.

<Brian> "'s a bogus symbol Ftisk."

<Random_Nerd> It's still not exactly exciting.

<Ftisk> "well, let's continue then"

<Random_Nerd> Looking for anything in particular, Kite?

<Theresa> "Dante, can you tell in which direction we're heading in?"

<human-Kite> Looking for the attitude of the tunnel....unless I'd have to go full mythic for that.

<DanteE> "You're confusing me with a dwarf."

<Random_Nerd> Neither tunnel has any particular history to it. They both got carved out less than an hour ago.

<Random_Nerd> Mmm... the bedrock /hurts/.

<Random_Nerd> Having Worldbreaker's Hand used on you doesn't feel very nice.

<human-Kite> "Hmmm..."

<Theresa> "Pshaw. I haven't asked you about gold _once_."

<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you get to the end of your tunnel.

<Random_Nerd> It stops abruptly and then goes straight up.

<Random_Nerd> Kite, yours does the same.

<Ftisk> "Brian did you have a mean to climb?"

<DanteE> "I wondered where the exit was..."

<Brian> "Um. No?"

• human-Kite sighs.
  
  
• Ftisk resize Brian so he can ride my spider too
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Oh, and at the end of the "distraction" tunnel, in small letters "BY THE WAY, I WAS TELLING THE TRUTH EARLIER."

<Random_Nerd> At the end of the other one, "BY THE WAY, I WAS LYING EARLIER."

<DanteE> "I think this leads to either a trap-filled lair or the surface.

<Brian> "Ack!"

<Theresa> "Could be both."

• Theresa will change back into Entness and climb up.
  
  
• DanteE picks up T and the spider and flies up
  
  

<Ftisk> I let the spider climb carring me and Brian

<DanteE> Spider's with us, Ftisk

<Random_Nerd> Dante, it opens out in the middle of the street. You don't actually get hit by a car, because you have superhuman timing and hearing.

<Ftisk> (damn, you are right Dante)

<Random_Nerd> The other one... same thing. Just, a different street.

• DanteE drops the others
  
  

<Random_Nerd> (Kite has the spider.)

<Random_Nerd> (Ftisk doesn't.)

<human-Kite> (Right)

• Ftisk fly up and then reshape into a ladder for Brian
  
  

<human-Kite> (I thought Dante came with me and the spider.)

<human-Kite> (Oh....wait.)

<human-Kite> (nevermind)

<DanteE> Pray: Ftisk, where are you?

<Brian> (erm. That's odd.)

<Ftisk> to Dante: Yo Dante, I'm climbing a tunnel upward

<Theresa> "We _were_ quite distracted after this guy went into the bathroom."

<DanteE> Pray back: We did the same thing, wound up in the street. Don't get run over.

<Random_Nerd> Everyone makes it out. Nobody gets hit by a car.

<Random_Nerd> You're about a mile away from the original location, and a third of a mile apart.

<human-Kite> "I don't like this town. When this is over, may we try to convince a Fallen Angel to enChancel it"

<human-Kite> ?

<Ftisk> "ahah, nah, never liked to become roadkill, Me are better steamed and then served in a plate! arr arr!"

<DanteE> "No need for that, it's just the bad guys are making it bad."

<DanteE> "Speaking of which... Muncher? Any sign of the Excrucian?"

<Random_Nerd> Oh, and of course, a fair few people in the area have their notgoogle glasses on.

<human-Kite> "Then maybe we can get a Fallen Angel to enChancel the bad guys."

<Ftisk> (I can let the spiderJack grab that town as his lair)

<DanteE> "They are trying to."

<Random_Nerd> (You guys have better senses than the nimblejack does.)

• human-Kite waves to the people with the glasses on.
  
  

<Brian> (Noogle?)

• Theresa will GDiv plants in the area for the Excru.
  
  

<Brian> (Nugle?)

<Random_Nerd> (Eh... Moogle.)

<human-Kite> (Name get!)

<Random_Nerd> What are you checking to see if they've seen?

<human-Kite> "Haven't you heard? The Moogle center went under lockdown just after they discovered that the Moogle glasses cause hallucinations and brain damage!"

<human-Kite> "I was there when it happened!"

<Random_Nerd> They look at you strangely.

<Theresa> To see if they've seen the Excrucian/someone with stars in their eyes/someone who came out of this tunnel (or the other one) besides us...

<Random_Nerd> Some seem to subvocalize a bit.

<Random_Nerd> No plants saw someone come out of the hole.

<Random_Nerd> No plants saw someone with stars in their eyes.

<Random_Nerd> No plants saw someone meeting the description of the Excrucian.

<Ftisk> (say that to Ftisk, I can fill the net with that true story!)

• human-Kite prayerphones to Ftisk: "Can you make a news story on a news website about the Moogle device causing hallucinations and brain damage?"
  
  

<Ftisk> prayback "Sure!"

<human-Kite> F: "Thanks! Let me know the site!"

<Theresa> "Crud. No plants saw the Excrucian. We may have to just take care of Ftisk and go home."

<DanteE> "Obviously kite has something in mind."

• Ftisk do 12 lesser Data Creation on the 12 most popular news sites with the report that Moogle glass cause hallucinations and fits on the users
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Done.

<DanteE> Question: could Theresa make that stuff that grows on rye and causes hallucinations?

<DanteE> Ergot

<human-Kite> F: "We may have to fabricate some data from scientific tests to back it up later."

<human-Kite> (The fungus?)

<Theresa> (Hmm..it's a fungus. No chlorophyll.)

<Random_Nerd> (Theresa can only make stuff that photosynthesizes.)

<Ftisk> "Yep, that is not a problem K"

<DanteE> "Maybe not, if we can cause some symptoms..."

<human-Kite> to the Moogle users: "Seriously! Check the major news sites!"

<DanteE> Quietly, to T: "Maybe something that causes symptoms but won't stay?"

<Random_Nerd> Some of them seem to be checking it.

<Random_Nerd> One guy reaches up to take his off, hesitates for a moment, and then does so.

<human-Kite> "Or don't, because the device will wreck your brain."

<Random_Nerd> He seems a bit disoriented afterward.

<DanteE> "Hit one or to people with it in very public settings..."

<human-Kite> "You alright, guy?"

<Theresa> "Or could just have them see a flying snail and then their data-playback doesn't show said snail..."

<Ftisk> (I record the difference in that peoples hat remove Moogle glass for future uses)

<Ftisk> *that

<human-Kite> "You aren't seeing any giant spiders or talking birds or anything?"

<DanteE> To Kite: "I think we'll need to hit their infrastructure, just in case."

<human-Kite> "Agreed, Dante."

<Random_Nerd> (Record what difference?)

<Random_Nerd> The guy appears mildly confused, and increasingly agitated.

<DanteE> "Wait, you can do that."

<Random_Nerd> He keeps starting to whisper things to himself, and then stopping.

<Random_Nerd> Guy: "I... need to go home."

<Ftisk> (the difference in brain work from a normal not moogle glass wearing people and one that just removed one)

<Random_Nerd> He looks around confusedly.

<Theresa> "Could it be possible that they become addicted? Or that it becomes like DA?"

<human-Kite> "Drink some chamomile tea. I hear it helps with things."

<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. How are you checking brain activity?)

<DanteE> "You can become addicted to anything pleasurable.

<Ftisk> (with Data?)

<DanteE> "That's how humans... How _we're_ wired."

<Random_Nerd> (Mmm... let me look at the estate properties.)

<Random_Nerd> (Eh, it's not really stored information, and it is "live." I don't think it really counts.)

<DanteE> (OBTW don't forget my ongoing struggle with keeping my humanity. :p )

<Ftisk> (ok, nevermind then)

<Ftisk> "addiction, that have potentia Theresa"

<Ftisk> "Erm, I mean Dante, sorry"

<human-Kite> (Kite thinks it's a silly struggle, Dante. :P)

<DanteE> "Do you really want them to go through withdrawal, though?"

<Theresa> (Well, if they start seeing spiders crawling all over them...)

<human-Kite> "They have organizations for that, right? Like Alcoholizers Omnibus?"

<Ftisk> "Sure why not, is for the better of my estate"

<human-Kite> "But we can deal with the withdrawal later."

<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.)

<Random_Nerd> (We're pretty much on the transition between the "chase the Excrucian" scene and the "figure out what to do" one.)

<DanteE> "Alcoholics Anonymous. And those 12-step things don't work long-term."

<Random_Nerd> (Should we keep going, or call it a night soon?)

<Brian> (call it a night, I suggest)

<Ftisk> "I can make so that wearing a Moogle glass will cause peoples to see spiders crawling on them."

<DanteE> (Well, what we're doing is screwing with him.)

<Theresa> (Call it a night soon. I'm out of brain juice and strawberries. (I recommend the sweetened condensed milk.))

<Ftisk> "Better nibleSpiders! I have the perfect model!"

<Ftisk> (call it a night!)

<Random_Nerd> (Okay. Anything before we stop?)

<Brian> (I want strawberries and sweetened condensed milk, now, Beth. >_<)

<DanteE> (Okay, we can call it a night.)

<human-Kite> (I don't have anything to add.)

<DanteE> (OOC I can advise them on the "best" symptoms)

<DanteE> (Er, off-screen, not OOC)

<Theresa> (Brian - *pat pat pat*)

<human-Kite> (sounds good to me if Dante advises on symptoms)

<Random_Nerd> ____________STOP_______________

<Theresa> So once again we take a background character and drag them into the front and love them and hug them and call them George?

<human-Kite> (sounds good to me if we stop :P)

=-= Theresa is now known as BethE

=-= human-Kite is now known as Verithe

=-= YOU are now known as Angelo

<DanteE> You mean Muncher? :)

<Angelo> 1) playing ill is hard

<Verithe> and Silver

=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood

<Angelo> 2 the nimblespider is not programmed

<Knockwood> Same char

=-= Brian is now known as lazarus

<Angelo> 3 never read a line on how treasure work

<BethE> Oh I'm sorry to hear that you're not feeling well, Angelo.

<Random_Nerd> Well, now that you have a miraculous anchor, it may be useful to do so!

<Knockwood> Severe pasta deficiency. :p

<Random_Nerd> Unless we'd rather just treat him as a wondrous anchor.

<Angelo> nah, I really want the spider for coolness, that is a miraculous anchor is something like a side effect.

<lazarus> so, what were you muttering about, exactly, earlier, RN? :p

<Angelo> but reading a bit on treasure is in order now

<Angelo> yes, we want to know!

<Random_Nerd> Muttering about when?

<Random_Nerd> I mutter a lot.

• Random_Nerd mutters.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Oh, right.

<Angelo> when Beth write that you was muttering

<Random_Nerd> That whenever I introduce an NPC that's moderately evil, you adopt it as a pet.

<Knockwood> That part about traveling cross-country and murdering your players

<Random_Nerd> No, that was last session.

<lazarus> :D ^_^. Admit it, you enjoy it, RN, making them cute and such?

<Angelo> seconded

<BethE> He doesn't have to travel that far to kill all of them...

<Knockwood> Hello?

<Random_Nerd> It just kinda happens!

<Angelo> yes knock

<Random_Nerd> Really, you guys are oddly kinda close to the new version of Hell.

<Knockwood> No rep she

<Knockwood> No response for a while.

<Knockwood> And what do you mean?

<Verithe> For serious!

<Verithe> We love all the painful things

<lazarus> well, we don't hurt them, unlike the Hellites.

<Random_Nerd> New Hell is about loving the things that are screwed up.

<Random_Nerd> Just as they are.

<Angelo> don't tell to Ftisk .. he may even convert to try it for a bit

<Verithe> I really like New Hell.

<Verithe> I actually really like most of the new versions of the factions.

<Knockwood> Oh yeah

<lazarus> going to log out now. good game guys, see you next week.

<Random_Nerd> G'night.

<Knockwood> Cya laz

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<Angelo> nigfht L

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<Verithe> G'night!

<Knockwood> G'night guys

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<Angelo> nn all

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<BethE> Night, guys! *HUG*

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