Session 265

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 37

=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix

-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis

<Angelo> Hi guys!

<lazarus> at the 11th hour!

<Random_Nerd> Hey, we have an Angelo.

<lazarus> (*looks at clock* ... well, 10th)

<Knockwood> Hiya Angelo

<Random_Nerd> Beth has snail pictures to show you when she gets back to the keyboard.

<Angelo> ?_? what at 11th hour mean?

<Angelo> ohhh sweet!

<lazarus> at the last minute. I don't know why.

<BethE> Hi Angelo! For you! http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?710244-IMAGES-NSFW-A-New-Image-Thread-Already&p=17538481#post17538481

<Angelo> well, I have alarm at xx:45

<lazarus> Beth: I saw the "NSFW" and was wondering why you were sending Angelo a Rule 34 Snail thread.

<BethE> It's easier to say eleventh hour than eleven fifty-nine.

<BethE> Laz - ah, but that's because the images have the possibility to be NSFW, so the entire thread is labeled that, just in case.

<lazarus> so we're finding who was on the wall on breach day

<Angelo> and I'm sending a message!

<Random_Nerd> Or, since that's gonna be a lot of Imperators, probably "who, that we already know, was on the wall?"

<lazarus> anyone sending a "massage"?

<lazarus> I ... quoted for emphasis. I are ashame

<Angelo> Ftisk will want one after the message, thank you :-P

<Random_Nerd> It's okay. We will tell your clan that you honorably disemboweled yourself to keep from shaming them.

<Knockwood> Rather than the truth, that you mixed up the blender and the vibrator in... Oh, hey, Nobilis time.

<lazarus> kkwd: that wouldn't be out of the question in Nobilis.

<lazarus> or Unknown Armies.

<Random_Nerd> Okay, so, shall we begin?

=-= BethE is now known as Theresa

=-= YOU are now known as Conrad

=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE

<Conrad> (last time we were at clocktower with me and Kite just outside, right?)

=-= lazarus is now known as Brian

<Theresa> (I think so?)

<Random_Nerd> Let's say you're all there to start with.

<DanteE> (Yeah, what were we doing?)

<Random_Nerd> Returning from the Whispering Library.

<Random_Nerd> Having developed a working theory about Breach Day.

<Conrad> (asking Kite kinky questions :-P )

<DanteE> OK, so, conference room?

<Random_Nerd> Sounds good.

<Conrad> Ftisk is just outside

<Random_Nerd> ______________START_________________

<Random_Nerd> Sam is putting the finishing touches on a sketch of Barakiel portrayed as a small yappy dog covered in eyes when you walk in.

<Brian> (How do we know it's Barakiel?)

<Theresa> (It's labelled?)

<Random_Nerd> (If you've seen Barakiel, it's obvious that this is supposed to be him.)

<DanteE> "Playing with fire there, Sam.

<DanteE> "Then again you're here with us."

<Theresa> "Do we have any information on who was on Wall duty on Breech Day?"

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Lemme think... historical records like that should be available. It's going to be a lot of Imperators. Do you want me to winnow it to the ones with some connection to you?"

<Conrad> (RN, I want to spend 2MP? or 3? How we set last time? To send a message from Conrad in Ftisk to Conrad)

<Brian> "Connections, or at least friendly?"

<Random_Nerd> (I think we settled on 2.)

<Conrad> (ok!)

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Your call."

<Random_Nerd> (What do you want it to say?)

<Conrad> (The message is:

<Conrad> Conrad?

<Conrad> Is Conrad here, please relay to my other brothers.

<Conrad> I set my puppet, F-shit, to excruciate Foxes.

<Conrad> I’m thorn and weak now and want yours help.

<Conrad> Help me with this excruciation ... or help me and retake machinery for Vassa.

<Conrad> )

<Theresa> "Yes, someone we know or that would talk to us."

<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.)

<DanteE> (Ack.)

<DanteE> (I assume we have no idea this is happening IC?)

<Random_Nerd> (You're pretty sure the message went through.)

<Random_Nerd> (Correct.)

<Conrad> (good!)

<Brian> (that's not good)

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Okay, submitting the request through the Aides' Oracle."

<Conrad> (shush Brian! )

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "You're hot stuff with them right now, so it should be quick."

<Theresa> (I forget, why are we on the Oracle's nice list at the moment?)

<Brian> (We're famous and don't use the Cammorae?)

=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk

<Random_Nerd> (A Project thing.)

• Ftisk stroll around aimlessly
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Okay. Just defenders on Earth?"

<Brian> "Sure. Narrow list"

<DanteE> "Well, we can travel..."

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Kudzu was supposed to be, but Ophaniel was filling in for him. Barakiel. Gamaliel. Ha-Qadosh Berakha."

<Brian> "I don't like that set of names. Actually. I don't think I know Gamaliel"

• Ftisk look around for my spiderJack
  
  

<Theresa> "HQ wasn't getting out of it? And who's Garnaliel?"

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "You know one of his Nobles. Patterns."

<Ftisk> (HQ did it!)

<Brian> "Ofuck."

<DanteE> "That... is a very interesting list.

<Brian> "Actually, aren't those all the list of People Who Are Associated With Us?"

<DanteE> "You'd almost think we were protagonists in something."

<Ftisk> (we are PC!)

<Random_Nerd> (Oh, by the way. Ftisk, you know one other thing about Gamaliel.)

<Theresa> "How many Imperators are usually on wall duty, including ones that aren't connected or known to us?"

<Ftisk> (What?)

<Random_Nerd> (Remember when you made a deal with Jan ben Jan, sacrificing your love for Dante to know the questions that could free you of your non-excrucian nature?)

<Ftisk> (sure!)

<Random_Nerd> Jan ben Jan: "The answer is, if you wish to still live afterwards, and as a Noble, you must ask me the best way to cause the Power of Wood to kill his own father. If you wish to live on as a Warmain, you must ask me what Ymera Gamaliel ought to do to preserve his life for the next three months."

<Random_Nerd> JbJ: "And if you wish to die, you mush ask me what the best possible reason to kill Theresa, Power of Plants is."

<Random_Nerd> Jan ben Jan: "And if you wish to live on as you are now, you need ask nothing further."

<Random_Nerd> That's what he told you.

<Brian> (what did Ftisk do in response? I don't remember)

<Random_Nerd> (He asked nothing further.)

<Theresa> (I...don't think I remember that last question.)

<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and Gamaliel also came up in Theresa's question a while further back, about how patterns could be healed.)

<Brian> (I remember that. There was a debate.)

<Random_Nerd> ( "He must kill, personally and by his own hand, Ymera Gamaliel, the Power of Inevitability, the three demons who owned him at one time. He must then put all of his hearts back into his own body, and learn to deal with people through physical presence rather than miracles at a distance.")

<Brian> (and how long ago was this?)

<Brian> (in-game, I mean)

<Ftisk> (I need to re-ask to him that very question)

<DanteE> (Any word on JbJ, BTW?)

<Random_Nerd> (Month and a half, month and three quarters.)

<Theresa> (Was there a decision as to the best possible reason to kill Theresa?)

<Brian> (nope! Nobody asked)

<Random_Nerd> (JbJ is currently not answering questions from anyone.)

<Brian> (Month and a half or so to the meeting?)

<Theresa> (I think he's still drinking over Brian missing killing Entropy and the whole Barakiel thing.)

<Ftisk> (but we are special snowflackes et all! )

<Random_Nerd> (That conversation was about a month and a half ago in character. Maybe more like two months.)

<Random_Nerd> (Gamaliel is still alive.)

<Ftisk> (also we broke him! Is us that must fix him!)

<Brian> (I broke him, I seem to recall)

<DanteE> "Did Kudzu say why he didn't do it?"

<Theresa> "Wasn't he still recovering from James stuff?"

• Ftisk run around the clocktower on spiderJack! "Weeeeeeeeeee!"
  
  

<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, he said something nonspecific when you asked, I believe, and when you saw him later that day he was pretty much on the Imperator equivalent of a heavy fever and a cough-syrup buzz.)

<Random_Nerd> (How much of that was the /result/ of Breach Day is unclear.)

<Random_Nerd> (Or, for that matter, if the effects started in slow.)

<DanteE> "... we could ask him."

<Theresa> (Great, Breech Day is like norovirus or bird flu for Wildlords.)

<Theresa> "He wasn't very forthcoming about much that happened that day."

• Ftisk run in horse room (cloppete cloppete? or Skitter skitter? does the spiderJack's galop sound)
  
  

<DanteE> "Well, let's see... we could ask Ophaniel, as long as one of us watches Ftisk...

<Theresa> "We..did rather just tick off HQ."

<DanteE> "Barakiel... (to Aides) any word on what he's doing lately?

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "No idea."

<Theresa> (I think it's skitter.)

<DanteE> "Visit Shadows and Consequences again?"

<Theresa> "How about Ophaniel, since we haven't ticked her off recently and we were just talking with Shadows and Consequences?"

<Brian> "Sounds good"

<Brian> "We could always stand to remind people of our antagonism."

<Random_Nerd> (Hmm?)

<DanteE> "OK, we'll go to the moon. Say Hi to Ophaniel, James and Walter. :) "

<Theresa> "Do we really need to have people ringing bells and calling out to close the gates whenever we get near, though?"

• Ftisk try to outrun the horse in the horse room with spiderJack
  
  

<Theresa> "We'll need to go get Ftisk. He wouldn't forgive us if we didn't take him along."

<Brian> (T can probably make her voice reverberate throughout the entire clocktower"

<Brian> (So could Brian, come to think of it, thanks to discount)

=-= YOU are now known as Conrad

<DanteE> "How would Ophaniel feel if we took him, though?"

• Conrad aspect takes horse heart and feed it to spiderJack
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "The gate-signaler is already in the car. Will you need any maps?"

<Random_Nerd> (Wait, hold on.)

<Random_Nerd> (You kill the Excrucian horse?)

<Theresa> (..I was just wondering that too. Wha?)

<Conrad> (I feed the heart of that horse to my anchored nimblejack)

<Theresa> (V is going to be in trouble!)

<Conrad> (hoping to transfer death power to the anchor)

<Random_Nerd> (...Kite is falling down on the job!)

<Theresa> (He was supposed to be guarding that horse!)

<Random_Nerd> You stick your forelimb into the horse's chest to remove its heart.

<Random_Nerd> Huh.

<Random_Nerd> It doesn't have one.

<DanteE> (As was half our cast...)

<Conrad> (you know better have a good excru siderJack for my business)

=-= Etheric is now known as Carrie

<Random_Nerd> It has a skeleton, and muscles... but no organs that you can find.

• Carrie enters the room with a confident stride. She smiles to Dante. "I have not yet had the opportunity to make Ophaniel's acquaintance. Might I accompany the rest of you?"
  
  

<Conrad> then try for the brain

<Carrie> ((There, I think that qualifies as Perfect Timing.))

<Conrad> (ah!)

<Random_Nerd> Enters which room?

<Theresa> (I'm imagining Ftisk rummaging around in the horse, even sticking his head in to look around.)

<Theresa> (The conference room.)

<Carrie> ((Yes.))

<DanteE> "Certainly... wait, where'd you come from?"

• Conrad resize spiderJack to max dimensions I can manage
  
  

<Carrie> "I have been conducting research of my own in my sanctum on the college grounds."

<Conrad> and feed him pieces of horse

<Random_Nerd> Inside its skull is the nexus-point of a system of silvery wiring that seems to run through all its bones.

<Theresa> "Hi Carrie! I think that you will enjoy seeing the lost things on the Moon. It's quite amazing."

<Random_Nerd> So... whatever this is, it isn't a horse.

<Random_Nerd> Do you start feeding the nimblejack the silver wiring?

<Conrad> SURE!

<Random_Nerd> It's nibbling on it.

<Theresa> (Needs salt.)

<Random_Nerd> As soon as you take out a piece, the horse-creature starts thrashing wildly with the limbs on its left side.

<Random_Nerd> This is audible two floors up to anyone with Aspect 2 or above.

<Carrie> "I would like that very much."

• Carrie smiles to Theresa.
  
  

<DanteE> "You guys planned something and not tell us?"

<Theresa> "What..was that?"

• DanteE checks out the noise...
  
  

<Brian> "What was what?"

• Conrad rope the horse tightly
  
  

<Random_Nerd> The horse isn't making any vocal sounds, just twitching as bits of its mental structure get removed.

<Theresa> "It sounded like something writhing. And usually the boss is louder about his writhing than this."

• Carrie is quite visibly perplexed by the others' reactions.
  
  

<Conrad> (ah, then I ignore him)

<Random_Nerd> Human-shaped shadows start appearing and then vanishing again in the Horse Room.

<Carrie> "I will admit, I did not hear anything."

<Conrad> (cool!)

• DanteE walks in the horse room...
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Dante, you see Ftisk-Conrad and the Nimblejack crouching over a twitching horse, and the humanoid shadow things.

<Theresa> "Well, it came from downstairs. Shall we see?" *heads out*

<Theresa> "And Carrie, we transferred a dog from here in Amyra to the Moon to help with organization structures up there."

<DanteE> "Ftisk? What the hell are you doing?"

• Conrad throw Ftiskness on Dante
  
  

<Random_Nerd> And just then, there is the sound of the border of Amyra being tapped, the Chancel equivalent of knocking on a door.

<Carrie> (Would a Lesser Realm Div suffice to check who's doing the knocking?)

<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. No, because whatever's doing it is outside the realm.)

<Conrad> (did you, Dante, resist?)

<DanteE> (yes)

• Carrie walks with Theresa. "A dog? One with superior organizational skills?"
  
  
• Theresa projects her voice toward the knocking. "Who is it?"
  
  

<Random_Nerd> There's the "knock" again, a sound like a cross between a gong, and a damp finger being run along a wineglass.

<Theresa> *to Carrie* "Yes, quite! He's apparently quite good at finding things."

<Conrad> (what wound Dante take to resist?)

<Random_Nerd> You feel pressure on the border, as if someone's trying to create a gate.

<Brian> "Should we let them in?"

<Random_Nerd> (He could use a miracle to resist.)

<Theresa> (Where on the border?)

<Brian> "They haven't told us who they are"

<Conrad> (righto!)

<Brian> "Sam, are we expecting anyone?"

<Theresa> "I guess, but if it's invaders, you get to be in their way first."

<Random_Nerd> (Courage can probably do it, it lets you act like yourself when opposed with emotions and stuff.)

<DanteE> (I'll do that, then.)

<Random_Nerd> The part of the border that corresponds to a place a bit outside the clocktower.

<DanteE> "I say again: What the hell are you doing?"

<Conrad> (and the 3 strike?)

<DanteE> what are the shadowy figures?

<Random_Nerd> (The shadowy figures are the horse trying to do Destructions of Humans on places where there aren't any humans.)

• Theresa goes out to where the possible gate will be.
  
  

<Brian> "Let's close the borders."

<Random_Nerd> That is true, you need to beat Ftisk's miracle level, Dante.

<Random_Nerd> Does anyone do anything to strengthen the borders of Amyra?

<Random_Nerd> Or to lower them?

<Theresa> "They were already closed, Brian. This is something knocking."

• Conrad try throwing Silver at Dante (will not work but habit is habit)
  
  

<Theresa> (I think we should lower them at this spot.)

<Brian> (I'll strengthen them. I don't remember the Rules for that)

<Random_Nerd> (Things of Amyra could strengthen or weaken them.)

<Random_Nerd> (As the borders are a Thing Of Amyra.)

<Random_Nerd> (So, like, preservations, destructions, that kind of thing.)

<DanteE> (Hold on, an invader would either sneak in or bash through.)

<Conrad> (Why all that fuss on someone knocking? Go to see who is, an invader will not knock)

<Brian> (He is trying to bash through, it seems)

<Random_Nerd> (Brian, Dante, what do you do?)

<Random_Nerd> (I figure this is definitely a Flurry.)

<Theresa> (Because we didn't answer the door.)

• DanteE fires off a L6 Courage to Remain True (1 point right?)
  
  

<Random_Nerd> (Your Domain is 5?)

<DanteE> "Ah, Conrad? Can I talk to Ftisk?"

<Random_Nerd> (Remember the 3-point discount.)

<DanteE> (it's 3, but there's that 3-point break in-Chancel)

<Random_Nerd> (Then it's free.)

<DanteE> (Well, there's the powers-of-two rule...)

<Random_Nerd> (Theresa, Brian?)

<Brian> (I'll go to where T is, and fire off a Preservation of Amyra.)

• Conrad grin to Dante and show the finger *I'm busy, go away"
  
  

<Brian> (Frell, I forgot to find where I put my cheat sheet ... what level is the Preservation?)

<DanteE> "Hm.

<Random_Nerd> (Intended to strengthen the borders, Brian?)

<Brian> (Yes)

<DanteE> "I'll be right back. Don't destroy... um ... any more."

<Random_Nerd> (And Ftisk, the silver will be resolved next Flurry.)

<Random_Nerd> (This one is while you projected Ftiskness.)

<Random_Nerd> When the preservation goes in, the gate pressure stops.

• DanteE leaves to go see who's knocking...
  
  

<Random_Nerd> It isn't just beaten, whoever it is stops trying.

<Conrad> (ok, my bad)

<Random_Nerd> How do you do so, Dante?

<Random_Nerd> Whoever's doing the gate and the knocking is using a Gift, not the normal borderland.

<DanteE> (OK, so, it's just outside the tower?)

<Theresa> "It would be nice if someone would just pray or text or call if they want to visit."

<Random_Nerd> Yes.

<DanteE> (Or do you mean the silver?)

<Random_Nerd> (I meant the gate, just then.)

<Brian> "It would be."

<Random_Nerd> (Someone is trying to create a gate out on the sidewalk, about twenty meters from the clock tower.)

<DanteE> (I'll just go there and look. Got the latest rules for that? :) )

<Theresa> (Would the gate be considered things of Amyra?)

<Random_Nerd> (Except they just stopped.)

<Brian> "Shall we open the border here?"

<Random_Nerd> (Well, right now nobody is trying to make a gate.)

<Conrad> (in the mean time Conrad is feeding horse to spiderJ)

<Theresa> "We might as well."

<Carrie> "It seems the courteous thing to do."

<Random_Nerd> The "knocking" happens again, but in a pattern. Three rapidly together, then three spaced out, then three rapidly together.

<Theresa> "SOS."

• Theresa will weaken the borders there.
  
  

<Brian> (I'll drop my preservation)

<Random_Nerd> When this happens, the gate opens.

<Theresa> (I guess Conrad. Other Conrad.)

<DanteE> (Can I assume the miracle I fired off is still up?)

<Random_Nerd> A hole is sliced in the air by the bonelike arm of an Excrucian you've met before. Conrad's brother, the one who dresses like a musketeer.

<Theresa> (The one that was hanging form a chandelier by his feet?)

<Conrad> (Yay Bro!)

<Random_Nerd> Conrad, and the Shard in a white robe, are standing a bit back.

<Random_Nerd> Yes.

<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "I understand if you do not believe me, but you are in danger."

<Conrad> (Damn traitor!)

<Carrie> (Is he speaking to us?)

<Brian> "Um."

<DanteE> "Hm. Ftisk is acting stranger than usual and you guys appear. Tell me that's a coincidence."

<Theresa> "We usually are. What is it this time and does it make thrashing sounds?"

<Brian> *doubletake*

<Random_Nerd> C, to Brian and Theresa: "Is the Power of Machinery in this chancel?"

<Random_Nerd> C: "He was not in Locus Vulcan. I have reason to believe that he may currently be a danger to himself and others."

<Theresa> "Ftisk? He was around here a little bit ago."

<DanteE> "More than usual, you mean?"

<DanteE> "Horse room."

<Conrad> (did spider finished with horse?)

<DanteE> "Follow me."

<Carrie> Greater Divination of Things of Amyra. Anybody seen Ftisk?

<Theresa> "We were about to go get him for a journey. And...horse room? Why would he be in there? He's more likely to play with Monty."

<Random_Nerd> C: "Yes. His Tempering may be damaged in some way. It is a thing that happens, that can cause erratic behavior."

<Theresa> (Yes, Dante did!  :) )

<Random_Nerd> C: "Can you lead the way?"

• DanteE leads them to the Horse room...
  
  

<Brian> "This can't be good."

<Theresa> "How can you tell if a Tempering is damaged?"

• Carrie follows, gritting her teeth. That darn horse...
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Spooky Excrucian magic."

<Random_Nerd> C: "Does it matter?"

<DanteE> "I'd guess because the guy he Tempered is right there..."

<Conrad> (is Ftisk involved -> The tempering IS damaged!)

<Theresa> (Unspoken - 'especially if it involves Ftisk? How can you _tell_?')

<Carrie> (Rochefort is the musketeer?)

<Theresa> (Yep.)

<Random_Nerd> (Yes. And Elias is the one in the robe.)

<DanteE> "Sam. Code Yellow."

<Theresa> "It matters to me because it gives us something to talk about and with Ftisk, _how could we tell_?"

<Random_Nerd> (Conrad is the one in the metallic blue-green suit with the unusual eyes.)

<Brian> (The cheese is the musketeer)

• DanteE shows our guests what Ftisk/Conrad is doing...
  
  

<Brian> (Anchor speak to Sam) "It's actually code red. Well, beyond code red. But keep it to yourself."

<Random_Nerd> Elias, loudly, when they enter: "Vassa forbids this."

• Conrad pat spiderJack "good, good, eat all"
  
  

<Brian> (AstS) "Come to the horse room. Arm yourself, mystically."

<Theresa> "Ftisk..Conrad..what are you doing to that horse and I hope it's not something you learned from the tv."

<Conrad> (who enter first the room?)

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "You act wrongly. It is forbidden to do harm on this visit to Creation. You may not know this, lacking the message we were sent with."

<DanteE> to T: "That's what the thrashing was."

<Brian> (not me!)

<Theresa> (I will! *steps in*)

<DanteE> "... what message?"

<DanteE> (Probably me)

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "It is natural to follow your inclinations. But you act wrongly."

<Conrad> (Magic missile to T!)

<Random_Nerd> Actual Conrad: "To try to arrange for talks with Creation>"

<Theresa> (Which is what, spitting silver?)

<Random_Nerd> (Remember, these guys represent the Warmain side of the Summit.)

<Conrad> "Why! Message? ... Damn!"

<Brian> (It's more that I don't trust Ftisk)

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Whose horse is that? The lines look familiar."

<DanteE> to Elias: "Technically, he Tempered Conrad before the Summit was an idea."

<Theresa> "Our Sister Capriciousness gained it from a warmain we fought."

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Ah. So, if the tempering was done improperly, and has hatched, he is as a Shard brought freshly across the Wall."

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Ah. I thought it looked to be from one of our herds."

<Conrad> "But I'm just trying to enhance spideJack, nothing against creation at all"

<Theresa> "Temperings..hatch?"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Not if executed properly."

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "But it's harder than it might look."

<DanteE> "... which no one on this side would know how to do."

• Theresa can feel a headache coming on, mostly with the thought of little Ftisk-like facehuggers involved.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Something in you spoke out to me, requesting assistance for some form of attack. The message I received was garbled, but caused concern."

<Conrad> "Foxes"! Yes was getting ready to move against him"

<Theresa> *flat* "..what?"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "We called on Locus Vulcan first, but Machinery was not there."

<Brian> "...."

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "/Is/ there a Power of Foxes?"

<Random_Nerd> Conrad shrugs.

<Theresa> (What does the Fox say?)

• Conrad shrugs
  
  

<Theresa> (Brian, ask Sam.)

<DanteE> "Ftisk? What do you intend to do?"

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Stop that, you two!"

<Random_Nerd> R: "It's creepy!"

<Theresa> (*snort*)

<Conrad> "a) get a horse, b get a sword (Dante one) c get Fox"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "This is why it's a bad idea to let someone kill your brother. It produces no end of awkwardness."

<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "I got better."

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "And yet."

<Brian> (AstS) "Sam, is there a power of Foxes? Or Foxiness?"

<DanteE> (Don't _help_ him! :p )

<Theresa> "We have had..similar problems with the Noble of Urbanization."

<Conrad> "_I_ got better"

<Theresa> (Well, if there isn't a Power of Foxes, then FtiskConrad has nothing to do.)

<Conrad> (THAT would be awkward!)

<Theresa> "And why would you need a horse? Isn't your spiderjack enough?"

<Random_Nerd> Sam, leafing through William's books. "There's a Power of Foxes."

<Random_Nerd> (And Kite... this is kinda your fault.)

<DanteE> (not here)

<Random_Nerd> (...Except he isn't here.)

<Brian> (AstS) "That's not good. Bring the Ftisk-restraints to the horse room please?"

<Theresa> (Oh, wait, Kite hates the Power of Foxes, doesn't he?)

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Which set?"

<Random_Nerd> (More that he hates foxes in general.)

<Brian> (AstS) "The set for when he's gone crazy"

<Theresa> "Why do you want to hurt the Power of Foxes?"

<Random_Nerd> (And he once suggested to non-Ftisk Conrad that he kill Foxes.)

<Theresa> (Which level of crazy?)

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Ah, the chains and concrete, and get them warming up the steel?"

<Carrie> (All of them?)

<Theresa> (Carrie - indeed!  :) )

<DanteE> (to Ftisk/Conrad) "Conrad? Can we talk to Ftisk?"

<Brian> (AstS) "That's the one."

<Random_Nerd> (The Noble.)

<Random_Nerd> (Conrad: "For the next time I'm over here... is there anyone you'd suggest that I make a go at killing? I need a new Tempering.")

<Conrad> "I need to excruciate someone once in a while"

<Random_Nerd> (<Kite> "Foxes.")

<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Not today."

<Theresa> (And not tomorrow either!)

<Conrad> (to Conrad. Dante, or Brian, but more Dante please)

<Random_Nerd> Sam comes down, leading two janitors who're carrying a bunch of chains and padlocks.

<Theresa> (Argh, I must be tired. I read 'padlocks' as 'pickles'.)

<Carrie> (The two are not mutually exclusive.)

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "If you give him into our care, we can try to help him. But I understand if you cannot trust us to do that."

<DanteE> (You’re thinking Kite->bird->stork->Vlasic. :) )

<Theresa> "What will you do with him?"

<Theresa> (I was having a craving for sweet pickles, because we don't have any at the moment and I'm trying to avoid sweets.)

<Conrad> "I'll came with you Elias"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "We would try to restrain the Tempering. Ah... there is an awkwardness. The normal method would involve, after it is restrained, having him kill a Noble he respects."

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Hmm."

<Conrad> "Dante!"

<DanteE> "No."

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "I suppose killing one of us would be the equivalent, but... I would rather he didn't."

<Theresa> "I thought that the 'kill a Noble he respects' _was_ Tempering."

• Carrie looks at Conrad, then at Dante, then back at Conrad.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Well, there are sequences. First kill. First Noble. First Noble he respects."

<Theresa> (Carrie - which Conrad?  :) )

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "To replace a tempering, the new one must have greater importance."

<Carrie> (The not-Ftisk Conrad.)

<DanteE> "Can you un-do a Tempering?"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Only to replace it with another."

<DanteE> to the others: "I think we need to split them up."

<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "If there's another way, we don't know it."

<Conrad> "uhm.. maybe Jbj is a better target?"

<Random_Nerd> (...although, funny thing? You know who does.)

<Random_Nerd> (Yeah.)

<Carrie> (Whoops, I meant the Ftisk Conrad. Misread who had what lines.)

<Theresa> "How much worse does something like this get?"

<Brian> (RN: do we know we know who does?)

<Conrad> "Conrad, how we choose a target?"

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort sighs and says "Hold on..." and puts his feathered cap on Non-Ftisk-Conrad.

<DanteE> (Or, have Vulcan make a new one and restore from backup... :p )

<Theresa> (Wouldn't the Triad be able to split such up?)

<Random_Nerd> Conrad With A Hat: "Does that help?"

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "...yeah, it does."

<Random_Nerd> (That'd be tampering with the soul of a Noble.)

<Random_Nerd> (That's really super tricky.)

<Random_Nerd> (It could work if Ftisk /wanted/ it to.)

<Random_Nerd> (But he could always take Wounds to stop it.)

<DanteE> "Kite? Call your 'dad', quick." (Too bad he's not here...)

<Conrad> (wait)

<Random_Nerd> Kite totally goes and does that.

<Conrad> (what would work if Ftisk want to? I get lost...)

<Theresa> "Wait, we do know how to do split them up."

<Random_Nerd> Hatrad: "Oh? How?"

• DanteE dashes to his vault...
  
  
• Theresa looks at Ftisk-Conrad. "You had said that Jan Ben Jan had questions that you could ask. And for one of them, the price would be your Warmain-ness."
  
  

<Theresa> "He can split them apart."

• DanteE grabs the cut-everything sword and dashes back.
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Do you do anything to stop it from cutting space open as you bring it back?

<Random_Nerd> (It's still not anchored, right?)

<Conrad> "No for one of that the price is my NONwarmainness"

<Theresa> (And then he absorbs or takes in a part of a Warmain and we See What Happens. Yay, Fourth Age!)

<Theresa> "There were multiple questions."

<DanteE> (Can I do that without spending MPs I'll need?)

<Conrad> "pfff!"

<Theresa> "You just have to ask...the one to get you to who you want to be."

<Theresa> (I don't remember if Theresa knows about the Theresa question.)

<Random_Nerd> (You know different questions.)

<Random_Nerd> (One has as its price your warmainness, one has your non-warmainness.)

<Random_Nerd> (One kills you.)

<Conrad> (ack!)

<DanteE> (The latter involving killing Theresa, right?)

<Theresa> (The latter is the best possible reason for killing me, yes.)

<Theresa> (Lovely thought, dear.)

• DanteE tries his best to not slice up anything important while bringing the sword back to the Horse room...
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Dante, you leave a trail of sundered space behind you.

<Carrie> (I wonder if Theresa is a noble this personality of Ftisk respects.)

<Theresa> (You're not going to Solomon Ftisk, are you, Dante?)

<Random_Nerd> You also, by intersecting the correct invisible line, sever a grudge between a mailman and a dog.

<Theresa> (Carrie - I..had been wondering that.)

<DanteE> (Well, you're talking about splitting him. I may be able to do a heavy Miracle and do that metaphorically.)

<Conrad> "The sword. Good , you save my searching for it"

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Hey, watch how you're swinging that thing!"

<Brian> "Ftisk? Chains? You like that, remember? Being tied up?"

<Theresa> *to the Excrucians* "Have any of you every tried dealing with the Tempering problems using a very sharp sword? The Noble killing thing might be easier, though."

<Conrad> "Later Brian, bed playtoys can wait"

<Random_Nerd> (Okay, so. You can swing the sword at Ftisk, and it will probably do /something/. How are you going to go about making sure you sever the right thing?)

=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk

<Ftisk> "Chain me presto!"

<DanteE> "Ftisk. I think you and Conrad need to ... split up."

<Brian> "Sam? T? Guys?"

<Random_Nerd> Everyone turns to look at Ftisk.

=-= YOU are now known as aRandomOrdinaryCow

<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Do you know who you are?"

<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Ah."

<aRandomOrdinaryCow> "mooooo!"

<DanteE> (Theresa, you've got Aspect like mine, you need to dash in and chain him. I need to control this sword.)

=-= YOU are now known as squishyOctopus

<squishyOctopus> *can't breath ... help!*

<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Ah. A Proteus Scenario."

• squishyOctopus flails
  
  

<DanteE> "Got an idea...

• Theresa will be grab the chains and will chain up Ftisk. "Hold still and I'll get you some water."
  
  

<DanteE> "Ftisk! Tell me what the last digit of pi is!"

<Random_Nerd> (Ftisk: "Your mom.")

• squishyOctopus flails some more
  
  
• Theresa will Move a kiddy pool with water to the horse room.
  
  

<Theresa> (How do we know this is Ftisk? It could be a couple of Mimic Octopuses.)

<Random_Nerd> (That's Cneph's great secret.)

<DanteE> "(Hat)Conrad... see if you can, I don't know, get the attention of your Tempered counterpart."

<Random_Nerd> (All of Creation is one mimic octopus on LSD.)

=-= YOU are now known as toad

<Theresa> (Oh come on, everyone knows that Jan Ben Jan is actually a mimic octopus.)

<Random_Nerd> Conrad In A Hat: "Hmm. Lemme think."

<DanteE> "There may be a way to get the bond between them stretched right across here."

<Brian> (but on LSD?)

• DanteE wields the sword...
  
  

<Theresa> (Do toads like water? I thought that was more frogs.)

<DanteE> (OK, RN what do I need to do to 'claim' this thing as a Treasure so I can control it?)

<Random_Nerd> (A Treasure miracle.)

<Brian> ("Toad" as in mushroom person?)

<Random_Nerd> (This is specifically a Miraculous Anchor, because it has character points.)

• DanteE is watching for that bond...
  
  

<toad> (yep that toad)

<Random_Nerd> (So that's a miracle of level... lemme think...)

• toad faint
  
  

=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk

<Theresa> (Ftisk...do you have a princess in another castle?)

<Random_Nerd> (Ophaniel is totally in a castle.)

<Ftisk> (sure her name is Gnomely)

<Random_Nerd> (Miracle level Treasure 6.)

<Random_Nerd> (And I'll let you claim it and invoke its power at the same time, if you like, instead of requiring two Treasure 6 miracles.)

<DanteE> (Got Treasure 2 IIRC...

<Random_Nerd> (Okay, with the in-chancel discount, it's 1 MP.)

<DanteE> (So, 1 DMP, once I spot the bond between them.)

<Random_Nerd> (Okay. How do you plan do you that?)

<DanteE> "OK... Ftisk needs to be extra-Ftisk which Conrad needs to be extra-Conrad.

<Random_Nerd> (Oh, and the sword will be your anchor from now on, so its power will be dormant except when you invoke it.)

<DanteE> "You obviously have some sort of active bond going."

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "It's not a bond. That's the thing. It's a way of changing part of yourself."

<DanteE> "Then you need to take that part that Ftisk took _back_.

• Ftisk wake
  
  

<Ftisk> *yawn*

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Hmm. It's also a part of him, is the problem. Your friend would be in some measure diminished."

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Less than he was before he tempered."

• Ftisk fly on T. shoulder
  
  

<Ftisk> "who will be diminished?"

<DanteE> "You would, Ftisk.

<Ftisk> "oh!" *wave to excruBrothers

<Ftisk> "ME?"

<DanteE> "I think you need to give up Conrad."

<Ftisk> "What?!? is crazy! No way I give up, what do you mean as give up?"

<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "Hmm. Elias! Lecture him about proper Tempering technique. Your lectures always work on /me/..."

<DanteE> "Ftisk, _look what you were doing!_"

• Ftisk looks around
  
  

<Theresa> (And what did the horse stuff do to the nimblejack?)

<DanteE> "You were talking about killing Foxes!"

<Random_Nerd> Elias starts using the Drill Sergeant Voice on Ftisk, yelling at him about being a sloppy excuse for a Warmain shard."

<Ftisk> (lol)

<Random_Nerd> (ONLY TWO THINGS THAT COME FROM CREATION ARE ESTATES AND PIZZAS! AND I DON'T SEE PEPPERONI AND CHEESE ON TOP OF YOU SO THAT KINDA NARROWS IT DOWN!)

<Theresa> (*laugh*)

=-= YOU are now known as theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm

<DanteE> (Private Pyle? :) )

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "...AND YOU KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR USING IMPROPER TEMPERING TECHNIQUE! I'M EMBARASSED TO BE PART OF THE SAME SOUL AS YOU!"

<theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm> (yep that one!)

<Brian> (Impressive)

<Theresa> (There are many war films. I was thinking either Kurtz from Apocalypse Now or Winstin Churchhill...)

<DanteE> (Whoops, did he just give something away?)

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "YOU ARE ENDANGERING THE MISSION! YOU NEED TO PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER AND HOLD YOUR BARRIERS TIGHT OR I WILL REARRANGE YOUR SOUL MYSELF!"

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<theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm> "Sir. YES SIR!"

<Theresa> (Give away what? We already knew that Ftisk had fly by the seat of his shell tempering techniques.)

<theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm> "

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<theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm> (mistery!)

<Random_Nerd> Conrad In A Hat seems to have to resist doing so.

<DanteE> (We didn't know that all shards of the same Warmain share a soul, tho... did we?)

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Can you hold yourself properly apart and keep your tempering where it belongs?"

<Theresa> (I thought we did. They're all bits/Shards off of the same big Excrucian.)

<theFatGuyFromThatWarFilm> "Yes sergeant, I’ll behave properly!"

<DanteE> (OK, is this helping or not?)

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Then drop the tempered form and assume your natural shape and personality at once."

=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk

<Theresa> (I'd say so.  :) )

<Theresa> "How do you feel, Ftisk?"

<DanteE> (Still waiting for an opportunity to separate them...)

• Ftisk hug Elias "THANK Youuuuuhuuu!"
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Elias awkwardly hugs back.

<Ftisk> (aw!)

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Warmains and Nobles shouldn't hug. It's weird."

• Ftisk jump and hug Rochefort too
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "What if they're drunk?"

<DanteE> "That's what I was thinking..."

<Theresa> "It's kind of cute, though."

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Maybe then... oof."

<Ftisk> "shush is all right!"

<Brian> "I wasn't sure if warmains hugged to begin with."

<Theresa> "They have arms."

• Ftisk jump to Conrad .. then awkwardly stop
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Cousin, you're in some trouble. Do you know what's going on?"

<Ftisk> "nope, what going on?"

<Theresa> (The 4th Age is coming, we have that meeting coming up and Ftisk has _nothing_ to wear.)

<Ftisk> (Oh dear!)

<DanteE> (Oh, and your brain's being eaten by the bad guys. No big.)

<Brian> (Rarity to the rescue!)

<Ftisk> "4th age stuff?"

<Brian> (let's see. Ftisk is clearly Pinkie. T is Fluttershy. Dante is 'dash. V as Rarity?)

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "I think that when you killed and tempered me, either you did it wrong, or you've been poking at the barrier."

<DanteE> (Eh, temperament's wrong for Dash...)

<Brian> (Brash, doesn't lie, overconfident ... ;) )

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "I don't know if anybody told you, but you're really not supposed to do that. It can cause problems, especially if the person you tempered has a strong personality. Which, apparently, I do."

<Ftisk> "Poking at the barrier?"

<DanteE> "So does Ftisk, though."

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Where the rest of you and the part of you that you shaped to be like me meet."

<Theresa> (Ah, thank you for the clarification. I thought you meant the Wall.)

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "The more you push at that, try to draw things across, the more danger there is that it will begin to grow."

<Ftisk> (me too was thinking at the wall)

<DanteE> "You realize that sounds like a tumor."

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Tempering is a gesture of respect, and a useful tool, but it is not supposed to take over your personality to any great extent. That is a sign that something is wrong."

<Ftisk> "Wait you are giving me advise against being more warmainlike?"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Yes. A tumor. One of the odd ones with hair and teeth inside."

<Ftisk> "Uhm... "

<Brian> "... I didn't need that."

<Theresa> "Oh, I had one of those. It looked like it had a nose."

<DanteE> "It means they're committed to the peace talks."

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "It's... hmm. You shouldn't push it. Let the knowledge and attitudes come across naturally."

<Ftisk> "and if I binge in my Ftiskness the other will happen? Will Conrad in me shrink?"

• Ftisk is worried!
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "And especially don't force it when you're on the wrong side of the Wall. Here in Creation, you shouldn't be getting much from the other me at all."

• Ftisk nod nod
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Does it ever talk to you?"

<Ftisk> "But .. but .. can I return 'home' with you after the peace talks?"

<Ftisk> "YES! it talk to me sometimes! :-)"

<Brian> "I just had a thought about neat metaphysical concepts that completely don't involve the topic at hand, except that they triggered the though."

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "We can discuss that at the peace talks. Between worlds, there may even be a way to separate you without either part dying."

<DanteE> (If he does that what happens to Data & Machinery?)

<Ftisk> (will work on auto)

<Ftisk> (and Data is my Secondary estate, the issues can came from machinery mainly)

<Ftisk> "But I DON'T want to be separated!"

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "But right now, both Ftisk and Conrad should have the same goal, to get the peace talk to take place. You're in Creation, so let Conrad sleep while Ftisk acts. Outside, it will wake up, and you can let Ftisk start to dream a little."

<Ftisk> "Cool!"

<Ftisk> "now we do the warmainhandshake?"

<Random_Nerd> Hat-Conrad: "Yes. Now we shake hands, and salute."

<DanteE> "If the Conrad in you is screwing with Ftisk to this extent (indicating the Horse) you may have to be separated."

<Ftisk> "nah! I always wanted a mount that can kill humans" *pout*

<Theresa> (Me: *flipping the bird* Isn't that the warmain salute?" RN: "No, that's the Strategist's salute.)

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Have you ever tried riding a bear?"

<DanteE> "Is that Ftisk or Conrad talking?"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "I HAVE HAD IT WITH YOU AND BEARS!"

<Ftisk> "woow!"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Ah... sorry."

<DanteE> (don't bears come from Outside anyway?)

<Ftisk> "must try!"

<Brian> (drop bears, certainly)

<Ftisk> (peregrine surely)

<Theresa> "Dante, probably both sides wouldn't mind having a ride that kills people. The thing is, they've got a spidernimblejack. Who has probably killed plenty of people already."

<Random_Nerd> (Yep.)

<Random_Nerd> (Bears are from Outside.)

<Ftisk> "they? me"

<Theresa> (And I have a sudden urge to give Rochefort a teddy bear.)

<Ftisk> (you can make a natural cotton one!)

<DanteE> (You could...)

<Brian> (It would be funnier to give one to Elias)

<Random_Nerd> (Which, yes, /does/ mean that riding a magic bear that can cancel miracles /is/ a thing there are rules for.)

<Ftisk> (I love Nobilis!)

<Theresa> "Actually.." *Moves four teddy bears to the horse room. Gives one to each Shard and Ftisk.*

• DanteE takes a moment to take proper control of the sword...
  
  

<Ftisk> (don't behead the teddys!)

<DanteE> (I won't, I just don't want to sunder space by mistake...)

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "You have these here, too?"

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Weird."

<DanteE> (Speaking of which, T, or Brian, don't forget to fix the tears before something Cthulhoid comes through...)

<Brian> "Leftover from an attack, I'm lead to believe"

<Theresa> "It's nice to have toys, sometimes."

<DanteE> "Maybe that's another shared Estate."

<Brian> (T's better at that, I think. Brian's better at the Persona side, and this isn't really embodying Amyra, but the things it contains)

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "The Wanderers aren't an Estate, I don't think. They're just the Wanderers."

• Ftisk go on HatConrad shoulder
  
  

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "And you have to get one to /really/ respect you to get him to let you ride him."

<Ftisk> "Wow!!!"

<DanteE> "Probably a silly question, but just to check: Vassa isn't, well, engaging in any 'active campaigns', is he?"

<Theresa> "Over here, these are a toy version of an animal that lives in the woods. Children sleep with the toys and feel better and safe in their dreaming."

<Ftisk> "campaign! camp... disturbing thought!"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Our mission is as we told you."

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "I do not believe he has sent us through twice in the same place."

<DanteE> "Just checking.

<DanteE> "Let's do this...

<Theresa> (Wait, you're going ahead and cutting them apart?)

<DanteE> "Ftisk, you can't do anything with Conrad until ... well, further notice.

<Theresa> (Aren't they more integrated now?)

<Theresa> (Ah, I misunderstood.)

<DanteE> "You need to stay Ftisk for a while.

<Ftisk> "I can’t believe you are grounding me, dadDante?"

<DanteE> "After this 'party', you bet I am."

<Random_Nerd> Conrad: "At least, while you're in here. Outside the Wall, you should feel your Tempering waking up, just as we do when we cross over. But if it wakes up on its own in here, that is a sign that something is very wrong."

• Ftisk put a tantrum
  
  

<Theresa> (Is the horse dead?)

<Ftisk> "oh, I wanna go outside asap!"

<DanteE> "You guys (the Shards), get us an agenda of the questions Vassa wants to ask. We'll try to find the answers you're looking for."

<Theresa> "Ftisk, you still need to take care of your nimblejack too. You don't want it to get hurt, do you?"

<Ftisk> "I'll port him with me! And some feeding for him too, and a place where to poop "

<DanteE> "They're probably the same questions we want answers for."

<DanteE> to Ftisk: "How about you put him back together first?"

<Theresa> (Do nimblejacks poop? In the woods?)

<Ftisk> (is important for the well being of your nimbleSpiderThing to have a place where to pop even outside creation!)

<Random_Nerd> (Nimblejacks cannot be stopped from pooping. It is inevitable.)

<Ftisk> "he is healthy and good looking, he just feed on horse, remember?"

<DanteE> (I meant the horse... is it dead or saveable?)

<Random_Nerd> The horse is alive, but damaged.

<Ftisk> (I hope is eated by now)

<DanteE> "I mean the Horse."

<Random_Nerd> It was clearly designed to be able to take a lot of damage and remain functional.

<Random_Nerd> The Nimblejack has eaten a fair bit.

<Ftisk> (old school building way!)

<DanteE> to the Shards: "You said you recognized the horse?"

<Brian> (past midnight, I'm fading now)

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "The craftsmanship. This was almost definitely created by... dammit... the knowledge of who made it isn't something I know on this side."

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "But I recognize it."

<DanteE> "Created for Vassa?"

<Ftisk> "maybe a Vassa allied warmain"

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "It's a good horse. Look at that redundant design!"

<DanteE> "What about this sword? You recognize it?"

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Damage to the torso and brain, and it's still alive."

<Theresa> (We've smacked a lot of warmains. I don't think this belonged to the guy was owed Kudzu a favor.)

<Random_Nerd> Rochefort: "Hmm. No."

<DanteE> "Just checking."

<DanteE> to T: "Means Vassa has been coming after us for a while."

<Ftisk> "can we check if horse or nimbleSpider can kill humans?" *sparkle in the eye*

<Theresa> (Or I may be wrong and this _is_ the guy that Kudzu called in a favor. Bah.)

<Random_Nerd> He gestures with the bone-blade that ends his left arm. "But I don't use other people's swords."

<DanteE> to Ftisk: "NO, Ftisk."

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Of course it can kill humans. It's a nimblejack."

<Ftisk> "SCIENCE have to know!"

<Brian> "The main feature of a nimblejack is its ability to kill humans."

<Ftisk> "The horse had the power to disintegrate humans, I wanted to transfer it to the nimblejack..."

<Theresa> "I don't know about that theory, Dante. Didn't this come from the warmain that owed the boss a favor? And it could just be that horses can be traded around, just like around here."

<DanteE> (Honestly, always with the 'let's kill humans'. Don't you ever want to just say hi?)

<DanteE> (And where's this level of enthusiasm when it comes to homework?)

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "It did? That is an /odd/ power to grant to one's mount. I wonder what he had in mind for it?"

<Ftisk> "don't know"

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Horses like that can't be traded around. You receive one as a gift, or take it from a defeated enemy. But you can't /buy/ one."

<Theresa> "Hmm, interesting."

<DanteE> "That would mean the guy in Mexico was sent by Vassa."

<Random_Nerd> (Wait, what?)

<Random_Nerd> (No he wasn't. Honest.)

<Random_Nerd> (What makes you think that?)

<Ftisk> "I don't see the link Dante"

<Brian> (There's rampant leaping to conclusions happening)

<DanteE> (Because they pretty much said it was Vassa's horse and that they don't get traded around.)

<Random_Nerd> (...they didn't.)

<Random_Nerd> (I mean, they don't /remember/ the name of the horsesmith who made it.)

<Random_Nerd> (And they clearly remember Vassa's name.)

<Random_Nerd> (It's come up like a dozen times tonight.)

<Ftisk> (nope they say they recognize the creator, but don't remember the name this side of creation)

<DanteE> (Oh, so, it's a different Warmain?)

<Random_Nerd> (Yes.)

<DanteE> (OK... rewind a bit?)

<Ftisk> (k)

<Random_Nerd> (Okay, let's retcon out that last line.)

<Random_Nerd> (Hmm. This seems to be winding up. Should we call it a night soon?)

<DanteE> "You'd remember if Vassa made this horse, right?"

<Theresa> (I think my brain is fried.)

<DanteE> (Just a sec...)

<Random_Nerd> Elias: "Yes. But he doesn't. Make horses, I mean."

<Ftisk> (yes RN, stopping here is good)

<Brian> (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzombie)

<Random_Nerd> E: "It's a special talent that most people don't have. I'd know it if he did."

<DanteE> "Apparently we're popular with Warmains. How... nice."

<Random_Nerd> (You know why that warmain attacked, though.)

<Random_Nerd> (Kudzu put him up to it.)

• Ftisk thumbs up Dante
  
  

<DanteE> (Ah yeah)

<Theresa> "I would rather be popular with them than Strategists."

<Random_Nerd> E: "Me too."

<Random_Nerd> (Mind if we stop here?)

<DanteE> to the Shards, friendly tone: "Come on, I'll show you out."

<Theresa> (I'm good.)

<Random_Nerd> (Ah, that's a good last line.)

<Random_Nerd> ____________________STOP_________________________

=-= YOU are now known as Angelo

=-= Brian is now known as lazarus

<Random_Nerd> So, interesting idea, Angelo. What made you think of it?

<DanteE> OOps, my misread. :p

=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood

<Angelo> booo! boooo! Warmains that help Nobles?

=-= Theresa is now known as BethE

<Angelo> kidding. Was fun, interesting and strange!

<lazarus> (at least twice this week, I fell asleep before 2200 ... and it's now 0018, so ... )

<BethE> Neat scene, Angelo! Was this all you?

<Random_Nerd> You happened to pick the three Warmain shards who /aren't/ here to kill people and break things!

<Angelo> night laz!

<lazarus> and yeah, that was great Angelo!!

<Knockwood> g'night laz

<lazarus> g'night

<Angelo> eh, always my bad luck!

<Angelo> Ftisk - Conrad struggle. That is all

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<Knockwood> Would my plan with the sword have worked?

<Angelo> also inspired by one of chuubo path/arc/whathever a bit

<Knockwood> I do basically have 'cut things' as a Persona thing.

<Random_Nerd> Yeah, it probably would have worked.

<Knockwood> at how much damage to Ftisk, tho?

<Random_Nerd> The details would depend on what wound Ftisk chose to take.

<Random_Nerd> He'd probably be down a Divine health level.

<Random_Nerd> Not permanently, but at least until it healed.

<Random_Nerd> Conrad's a big chunk of him.

<Knockwood> aren't most of us missing a Divine? Mainly due to JbJ?

<Random_Nerd> Hmm.

<Random_Nerd> Brian is.

<Angelo> But I want Conrad! Make thing funnier

<Random_Nerd> I don't think the rest of you are, are you?

<Knockwood> I'm down a kidney IIRC

<Random_Nerd> I thought that was a Tough. I'll have to check the log.

<Angelo> I'm down a eyestalk

<Knockwood> Oh, OK

<Random_Nerd> But I don't /think/ you're down a Divine.

<Random_Nerd> Remember, health levels and levels of wound are related but distinct.

<Knockwood> Considering I'm the 'fighter' that's probably a good thing. :)

<Angelo> no, nope, health levels are at top

<Random_Nerd> So, what'd you guys think about the stuff on how Tempering works?

<Angelo> was great to know

<Knockwood> Speaking of which, what's the story with my 'new' sword, rules-wise?

<Angelo> btw struggle points? Revelations points for my projects?

<Random_Nerd> It is a miraculous anchor.

<Knockwood> D'oh, completely forgot about Projects...

<Random_Nerd> When invoked, it has the power to cut almost anything, if its miracle level is not beaten.

<Angelo> well that mean, Dante, that you were enjoying the game!

<Angelo> ^_^

<Random_Nerd> Heh.

<Random_Nerd> And you guys did get stuff done.

<Knockwood> Just not the stuff we expected

<BethE> I think that the Tempering stuff was interesting. Does the nuts happen to any warmain that comes through the Wall, just the ones that have tempered others and does it happen every time they come through?

<Knockwood> (Actually at some point I should make a scabbard and start carrying it around)

<Random_Nerd> I did not expect /any/ of this!

<Random_Nerd> I was planning on you guys talking to Imperators, probably Ophaniel!

<Random_Nerd> But hey, Player Characters.

<Angelo> this is my second RN don't expect any of this in this game :-D *beam*

<BethE> What was the first one?

<Knockwood> Well, I might suggest the plot "Dante visits the Playboy Mansion"... :p

<BethE> And yes, it's a high honor!

<BethE> If you want to see bunnies, visit Monty.

<Angelo> btw cool way you coped with my message

<Random_Nerd> If GMing this game has taught me anything, it's how to cope with the unexpected.

<Knockwood> of course, I've also become 'team dad'...

<Angelo> for Ftisk surely

<Random_Nerd> For all of you!

<Angelo> any points for my project "Win Conrad on who is in control outside"?

<Random_Nerd> (That was assuming that the "for Ftisk surely" was "how to cope with the unexpected.")

<Knockwood> (That might have been for 'team dad')

<Angelo> was for team dad

<Random_Nerd> Oh, huh. Yeah, that's gotta be a revelation. We had a whole session about that issue and some major stuff went down.

<Angelo> YAY!

<Random_Nerd> Oh, I had a thought, by the way.

<Angelo> Revelation = 150423 points, right? right?

<Random_Nerd> Which do you guys prefer, Projects like in Nobilis 3rd, or Quests, like in Chuubo?

<Random_Nerd> 10 destiny, and you get... let's say 3 MP, if you spent any.

<Random_Nerd> Everyone gets the MP.

<Knockwood> Projects have the advantage that we say what they are

<Angelo> being too little familiar with quests ... but seem cool from what I know

<BethE> I kind of like Quests in Chuubo but I'm not sure.

<Random_Nerd> But Quests have the advantage that we actually seem to like interacting with the system.

<Random_Nerd> Rather than, at the end saying "Oh, shit! Projects!"

<Knockwood> What we need then is Projects that look like the Quests

<Random_Nerd> Yeah, I was considering, if everyone likes Quests more, just working with you guys to make Quests for your characters' main stuff.

<Random_Nerd> It'd be a little extra work, but if it works better it may be worth it.

<Angelo> I would try Quests

<Knockwood> BTW, Angelo, why did you bow out of the Chuubo game?

<Angelo> but beware, wild and crazier ones are expected from Ftisk!

<Random_Nerd> Naturally.

<Angelo> Was unable to get the character feeling. Was looping what would him do and unable to choose what to do

<Random_Nerd> Ah.

<Knockwood> My current Projects: "How Dante and his friends found the truth about the past", "How the Nobles of Amyra (and their friends) Saved the World" and "How Dante Became a True Lord of Amyra"

<Random_Nerd> Would you want to try another character?

<Knockwood> (Tempted to say Viktoria...)

<Angelo> well yes

<Knockwood> Oh, reminds me. Any word on posting the Chuubo stuff on the RPG.net Wiki?

<Angelo> RN, look here http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/317455729

<Random_Nerd> ...I have totally not checked the NDA.

<Random_Nerd> Like, at /all/.

<Random_Nerd> Sorry, I've just had stuff going on and I forgot.

<Random_Nerd> Beth, please remind me to do so!

<Knockwood> Well, there were those Holidays. :)

<Angelo> I have a question on the branch

<Random_Nerd> One moment.

<BethE> And RN has been sick recently. Him being on cold medicine is quite hilarious.

<Random_Nerd> Which branch?

<Angelo> the project "win Conrad on ..." have a branch "investigate tempering with 9 points.

<Angelo> Then I made a new branch for the points of today

<Angelo> but neither of these singularly reach 15

=-= Carrie is now known as Etheric

<Random_Nerd> Don't make a new branch for today.

<Angelo> ah, ok

<Random_Nerd> This is under "investigate tempering."

<Knockwood> does that mean he has a Stone?

<Random_Nerd> It does, yes.

<Angelo> yay!

<Knockwood> OK, so what'll Ftisk do with it? :)

<Angelo> hell if I know!

<Random_Nerd> Spend it on cotton candy and plush unicorns!

<Angelo> I think one stone is not enough to keep Ftisk in control outside, right?

<BethE> Unicorns made of cotton candy?

<Random_Nerd> Hmm.

<Angelo> Or is a one stone project and let’s no talk more of it?

<Random_Nerd> Actually, I think it'd be enough for that.

<Angelo> Cool!

<Angelo> last question the overflowing 4 point get lost or recycled?

<Random_Nerd> And if you want to develop the project further, it'd have to extend into weirder stuff.

<Knockwood> IC, now that he knows what happens if he loses control...

<Random_Nerd> They go into the next project in that branch, if there is one.

<Angelo> Can gain out of the wall estate be linked to it?

<Knockwood> I think that makes sense.

<Random_Nerd> Sure.

<Random_Nerd> It's tapping into stuff from outside and so on.

<Random_Nerd> I'll allow it.

<Angelo> Cooler and cooler!

<Random_Nerd> So, it's nearly midnight and I have things I need to do tomorrow.

<Random_Nerd> But this was a pretty good session, wasn't it?

<Knockwood> That it was.

<Angelo> was fantastic!

<Knockwood> .. you did log it, right?

<Etheric> I think it was a good session.

<Random_Nerd> I always log the game.

<Random_Nerd> As does Beth.

<Etheric> I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to contribute, myself.

<Knockwood> Just checking. :)

<Angelo> logged

<Random_Nerd> I think Angelo logs too.

<Angelo> nos

<Etheric> But I enjoyed watching it.

<Angelo> nod

<Random_Nerd> So we have multiple redundant logging systems.

<Angelo> is good to have multiples

<Knockwood> Welp, good night all.

<Random_Nerd> I don't think we've lost a session yet, unless it was one of the ones on my hard drive that died.

<Angelo> night Knock!

<Random_Nerd> But anyway, g'night.

<Angelo> I have to go too

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<BethE> Night, guys!

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<Angelo> night Beth

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