Session 58

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 7

lazarus: remind me what we were up to?
Random_Nerd: Awarding a prize to the guest who won the miracle contest.
lazarus: ah, yes
BethE: We were sending William to get a calliope for Conceptual Tint. And getting together presents for the participants and favors for everyone. And we need to send someone who can _play_ a calliope.
lazarus: yay Supertramp! *rocks out to piano*
BethE: Unless we get a player-calliope and thus all is good.
Random_Nerd: And that's the more common kind, I believe.
BethE: Whew. I didn't know if I had enough points to make a houseplant that can play all sorts of music.
Random_Nerd: That'd be two domain MPs./
BethE: But I think I'm down to only one DMP at the moment, thanks to putting the plants on the moon.
Sarabot: You...
Sarabot: ...nevermind.
Random_Nerd: When you get to that part in the logs, you'll understand.
Random_Nerd: Ties into the bunny thing.
Sarabot: Bunny's on the moon now? How sad.
Random_Nerd: It's a bit more complicated than that.
Sarabot: Good!
Random_Nerd: Partly depends on what you mean by "the moon."
BethE: It was either that or Bunny gets worse. Now he has a whole moon to play on until he falls into orbit.
Sarabot: Of course it does.

• • • Knockwood has joined #nobilis.
      

Knockwood: Hi guys...
BethE: Hi Knock! *HUG*
Sarabot: Hey :)
Knockwood: Hi Beth. Who's Sarabot?
Random_Nerd: Potential new player.
Knockwood: Hi
Sarabot: Just Sara. A friend, interested in the game.
Knockwood: kewl
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Either of you guys mind the idea of a new player coming in, but not taking over James, rather having a new estate?
Random_Nerd: There would be an at least adequate reason given to explain this.
lazarus: I'm fine with it

• • • Mode change "+o Knockwood" for channel #nobilis by lazarus.
      

Knockwood: always strive for adequacy, I always say. :)
Knockwood: what's the estate?
Sarabot: He said /at least/ adequate. It'll probably be stellar. Epic in nature.
BethE: I welcome someone who isn't subject to the Curse of James, but how would we keep Lesson?
Random_Nerd: Have you settled on an estate, Sara?

• Sarabot nods.
  

Sarabot: Should I say? Dan's all secret-like, so I don't want to step on your toes.
Random_Nerd: Nah. I'm pretty open about this stuff.
Random_Nerd: There's backstory and setting stuff that the players don't know yet, but that's because they're mysteries connected with the storyline.
lazarus: so, Sara comes in, kills James and takes his EnNoblement?
Sarabot: Okie dokie. I was going to go with Capriciousness.
Random_Nerd: Oh... I think it'll be slightly more complicated than that.
Random_Nerd: Mystery's a tool that's sometimes useful, but not an end in itself.
Sarabot: I've gotta kill someone? How perplexing.

• Sarabot snorts.
  

lazarus: don't forget to take his Anchor.
lazarus: it's too bad that Luc isn't one of James' Anchors :(
Random_Nerd: I have a few ideas for James.
Random_Nerd: Luc's taken, at the moment.
Random_Nerd: But if the past is any indication, he may not always remain so.
Knockwood: Capriciousness makes perfect sense as a Noble of Kudzu.
lazarus: Kudzu is capricious enough.
Random_Nerd: Yep. Fits his concept awfully well.
BethE: It's a very Wild concept.
lazarus: Question, RN: what happens to Domains that currently don't have Nobles associated with them?
Random_Nerd: They still have Imperators, and they still exist, but they don't have a particular non-Imperator person looking after them.
Random_Nerd: Not all Imperators are enchanceled.
Random_Nerd: Really, for Imperators not on worlds like Earth that're major fronts in the War, enchancelling is the exception rather than the rule.
Random_Nerd: And there are even some on Earth that don't have chancels and nobles.
lazarus: *nod*
Random_Nerd: An attack on a Domain with no Noble would be a bigger problem.
Knockwood: personally, I'm wondering what you could do with Domain Miracles of Capriciousness, tho
Random_Nerd: After all, the Imperator would have to deal with it personally, which would distract them from the Spirit World side of the war.
Sarabot: It would be very chaotic. *beams*
BethE: How would you stop a missle?  :)
Random_Nerd: The current idea seems to involve getting things to act like themselves, but more so.
lazarus: so, do you have stats yet?  :-P
Sarabot: The things inside the missile, as RN put it, would suddenly find it a better idea to act less like themselves. Like someone who decides to take a trip to Vegas on a whim.
Sarabot: No stats yet. Just found out about this on Sunday night. ;)
Random_Nerd: Hmm.
Random_Nerd: Applying such a miracle to some of the components of a missile, but not all, would cause it to not be guided in a reliable way.

• Sarabot looks innocent.
  

Sarabot: Well, SHE would be safe.
Sarabot: O:)
Knockwood: could also increase the capriciousness of the missile's spirit, ne?
Sarabot: As a whole, sure. Though it may decide that it likes what it's doing. Better to create a whole lot of capricious things that can conflict.
Random_Nerd: Well, the missile's spirit and the missile are the same thing.
Random_Nerd: It's not like it's inhabited by a spirit. The prosaic thing and the mythic spirit of the thing are two different ways of looking at the same thing.
Sarabot: Couldn't you break it down into nuts and bolts, though? The spirits of those things?
Random_Nerd: Yep. Mythic reality is fractal, in some ways.
Random_Nerd: There's a basically infinite level of complexity, if you keep looking closer.
Sarabot: Alternately, if there were a slightly defective part in the missile, she could remove its capriciousness and cause it to act more like itself. Increase its chance of failing.
lazarus: nice.
Random_Nerd: Hmm! I already have an idea for a Flower Rite on Capriciousness.
Sarabot: Oh yeah! I need to know what her flower would be.

• BethE points at RN. He'll do it.
  

lazarus: GWB has a way to create them. And Theresa can make them real, if they aren't
Random_Nerd: Well, we can make a flower for her later. Really, we could probably work that out in-character, since she's new.
Sarabot: That's cool. In the meantime, I'll see if I can hunt down someone with a copy, or a used copy.
lazarus: so, jump right into new gal walking into the award ceremony?  ;)
Random_Nerd: One of the people who works for the PCs, among other things, is trained in Noble heraldry.
Sarabot: Cool!
lazarus: (working on the Principle of Most Amusement, that's what should happen :p)
Random_Nerd: Well, I figure that the current story is about to end. What do you think of bringing her in at the beginning of the next one?
Sarabot: I'm not ready to play tonight anyway, with no stats.
lazarus: bah. Trivialities for the Nobilis!
Knockwood: we can observe the actual building of a Noble.
Knockwood: which reminds me: who/what were you before enNobling?
Sarabot: Hopefully it's not just a *BAMF!*. Noble.
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Could we at least wait a week? I'd like to work a few things out myself on it first.
Random_Nerd: Introducing a new character is important, so I want to do it right.
lazarus: oo! Otherkin Nobilis!
Sarabot: RN knows stuff, so I'll let him tell you what he will.
Knockwood: the first test-firing of Kaerkoven U's new transmogrifier goes strangely wrong when a power surge turns an ordinary _______ into ... Capricious Girl!

• Sarabot laughs.
  

Random_Nerd: You can tell them whatever you want.
Random_Nerd: You know your ideas better, so you can explain it better than I.

• Sarabot rubs her hands together, all evil-like.
  

Sarabot: Some secrecy's nice, if only so I can change my mind about things and not come off looking like an ass.
Sarabot: Suffice it to say that Capriciousness will be very...capricious. As in, this won't be an accountant with capriciousness foisted upon her.
Sarabot: And I hope everybody doesn't hate her off the bat and want to dump her troublesome self down a well.
Random_Nerd: No, that's Theresa!
Knockwood: naah, that's me.
lazarus: don't worry. You can't come up with a worse plan than Theresa did, so you're good.
Random_Nerd: Bet you a dollar?

• Sarabot GRINS.
  

Sarabot: I play with RN's Nelson character. I have a good teacher when it comes to bad plans.
lazarus: hee ^_^
BethE: *stubs toes in the dirt* I _said_ I was sorry for the bunny crushing the city...
Knockwood: hm...
Knockwood: what are you considering for the character, Gift-wise?
Sarabot: That's the Wild/Light/Dark thing?
Random_Nerd: Gifts are the ideosyncratic powers Nobles can have.
Knockwood: more like 'weird stuff you can do'
lazarus: aw *hugs beth* don't worry about that. Everything turned out alright.
Random_Nerd: Like, being able to breathe fire, or fly, or pull armies from behind your ear.
Knockwood: or--might fit her--shapeshift
Sarabot: I was leaning toward personal transformation, but I'm not certain yet.

• Sarabot laughs.
  

Sarabot: Oh, is that why Theresa has Irresistable and Carrie has...drat...not Impressive, but something like that?
Knockwood: Inspiring
Sarabot: That's it, sorry.
BethE: *nodnod* Theresa has the Irresistable gift and now Where's Noble-Waldo. Dante has Raise the Dead.
Sarabot: Swanky!
BethE: Carrie also has Perfect Timing.
lazarus: Brian has Beloved Populace.
lazarus: Chancelfolk love him.
Sarabot: Niiice!
lazarus: no one's really sure why :-P
Sarabot: Heh. I take...turning into a pigeon.
Knockwood: and we all have preservations
Knockwood: Sacrosanct in my case.
Sarabot: Sacrosanct being?
BethE: *shifty eyes* Pigeons...don't last long here...
Sarabot: Copper blood, I saw.
Random_Nerd: That was /one/ pigeon, and it wasn't even in-chancel.
Sarabot: I would have kept the circulatory system.
BethE: We did. I think it's in Dante's office.
Random_Nerd: They did.
Sarabot: Cool!
Sarabot: ...she is so going to gank the pigeon...
Knockwood: already ganked.
Sarabot: Dang!
Random_Nerd: Hmm. So, should we start, and finish this story? Or talk more about the new PC?
Knockwood: And yeah, the copper pigeon circulatory system is in a bell jar in my office along with a small pile of curiousities I seem to be collecting.
Sarabot: Please don't feel obliged to talk about me. I'm really here to watch
BethE: I'm good with either one. We could finish the story and then drool some more over Sara.
lazarus: let's talk more about the new PC!

• Sarabot hides.
  

lazarus: . o O(oo shiny!)
Sarabot: I'm getting embarassed....

• • • You are now known as Theresa.
      
    • Knockwood is now known as DanteE.
      
    • lazarus is now known as Brian.
      

Theresa: (Hmm...so we have party favors, yes?)
Random_Nerd: (Yes.)
Random_Nerd: (Ready to start?)
Brian: (yep)
Theresa: (Ready.)
DanteE: (IIRC, we were sending William out to grab a calliope from a circus so that we could clean & tune it up and give it as a prize to Conceptual Tint for impressing us with how he changed the tone and feeling of the music played by Theresa on her little flute. :)
DanteE: (Meanwhile, back at the ranch... :)
Theresa: (Out rocked Carradine, baby...)
Random_Nerd: ______________START_____________________
Random_Nerd: The various guest Nobles chat with each other in the background as the Nobles of Locus Kudzu settle on the details of the prize.

• Theresa prepares the bouquets of their personal flowers and the foods and trinkets that Carrie had prepared.
  

DanteE: "So, are we agreed on Conceptual Tint?"
Brian: "I believe so"
Theresa: "I agree."
DanteE: "And some other prizes for others... what do you think about a beehive for Martyrs?"
Brian: "Sounds fun"
DanteE: "... I just hope the other participants are okay with 'losing', if you know what I mean."
Theresa: "If they aren't, well, the Grove should help contain the fallout..."
Brian: "Well, we could give everyone something"
Brian: (brb)
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and for Sara's benefit, there's a group of other Nobles here in the Chancel, visiting at a social gathering the PCs thrown. Most of them look like normal people, one family of them have physical features that it's impossible to notice the details of, one group of them are disembodied spirits from another world, and one looks like a skinned woman.)
Sarabot: (*nodnod* Thank you!)
Theresa: "Well, Carrie collected some of the homemade delicacies and some souvineers of Amyra. Ooo, she even got some beanie plushy mine oysters!" *squishes one*
Brian: (back)
DanteE: "And I think a few of them got T-shirts from the tour as well..."
Theresa: "Do you think it will take William long enough to get back?"
DanteE: (#$%@^!! Hang on, have to log out for a minute because of an auto-update... BRB... )

• • • DanteE has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: ).
      

Random_Nerd: (Grabbing a calliope may take some time.)

• Theresa asks Brian, "So, what did you and Night talk about while everyone else was on the tour or fighting you-know-whats?"
  

Brian: "Nothing much. Mostly (he?) was looking at the Willow"
Theresa: (Maple.)
Theresa: (And yep, he.)
Random_Nerd: (Dante, you feel the itching feeling that means that someone's praying to you. Do you pay attention to it?)

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DanteE: (Bak)
Theresa: "He was talking to the Maple?" *looks over at her tree* "Wonder what about."
Random_Nerd: (Dante, you feel the itching feeling that means that someone's praying to you. Do you pay attention to it?)
DanteE: (Yes. Can I get details?)
Brian: "I don't think the Maple answered, though"
Random_Nerd: William, to Dante. "I've located the calliope, and they're trying to contact someone with the authority to sell it. Would you like it to be delivered to you as soon as possible?"

• Theresa feels a little better. Not going to admit that she was worried that the Maple would actually talk and not her...
  

DanteE: (can I talk back the same way?)
Random_Nerd: The Maple stands in the background, looking like a tree.
Random_Nerd: (Using the Message Board, yes.)
DanteE: (then it pulls its roots out of the ground, walks over and introduces itself as Sara! :D )
Random_Nerd: (You've got enough Realm to make a ghost miracle near it, to tell it to tell William.)
Random_Nerd: (Right?)
DanteE: MB: "Yes, bring it to us at the grove when you can."
DanteE: (yep)
Theresa: (How's the Maple looking mythic-wise? Any changes since lately?)
Random_Nerd: W: "As soon as possible, sir."
Random_Nerd: The Maple looks slightly pleased with himself.
DanteE: (Who was talking to it?)
Theresa: (Night.)

• Theresa raises an eyebrow. Resolves to go talk to Maple later once the guests have left.
  
• Theresa has small reed baskets now filled with variations of Amyran foods and trinkets. (Hmm, anyone want to throw in the 'original' DVDs of Raiders of the Lost Ark...oh, wait, that would be Realm, wouldn't work.)
  

Random_Nerd: (Yeah, but you could send Samuel to a nearby video store.)
Brian: (point)
Brian: "Samuel, can you go pick up a bunch of copies of the original Raiders?"
Theresa: "Hmm...Raiders DVDs for everyone or just Shadows? He seemed the most interested."
Random_Nerd: Samuel: "The Fountain Of Youth version?"
Theresa: (Ahh, never mind.)
Brian: "That's the one"
Theresa: "With commentary, please."
DanteE: "Get the deluxe version."
Random_Nerd: (To explain the Indiana Jones thing to Sara, when Amyra was enchancelled, the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, and the Lance of Longinus were lost to the world. Previously, they had a known modern location, and so, when Amyra became a chancel, the first and third Indiana Jones movies changed.)
Random_Nerd: Samuel: "I'll get a bunch of copies of the first and third ones."
Brian: "Ah, heck, just go for the deluxe trilogy box"
Random_Nerd: (Well, the second one didn't change.)
Brian: (so what?)
Random_Nerd: (Fair enough.)
Random_Nerd: Samuel swirls off in a chaos of colored scarves.
Brian: (infinite money, remember? Plus, everything belongs to us, anyway ;))
Theresa: "So, that about it? Or do we need anything along the lines of "I found Prester John's Kingdom, where's my Crusade?" shirts..."
Brian: "I visited Amyra, and all I got was this stupid t-shirt ... for those who didn't enter ^_^"
Brian: "Or, hell, in your bouquets, toss that in. But 'bouquet' and not 't-shirt', of course"
DanteE: "I think one or two of them went and grabbed some stuff from the castle gift shop anyway. :)
Theresa: "But they're our personal flowers...not quite on the side of stupid."
Random_Nerd: A pickup truck towing a calliope pulls up to the road near the Grove.
Random_Nerd: Right next to the bookstore.
DanteE: "And there's WIlliam...
Random_Nerd: William gets out of the passenger side and starts walking towards the PCs.

• Theresa smiles. "Ah, our prize has arrived."
  

DanteE: "Brian, think you can tune this thing, maybe clean it with some Realm work?"
Brian: "Sure." (what'll it take?)
Random_Nerd: (We've established that Brian can use Numbers divinations to have perfect pitch, I believe. And cleaning could be done with ghost miracles, most likely.)
Random_Nerd: (It'll take a few minutes of fiddling with it. Not too much, because it's been kept in decent shape.)
Brian: (very well. So, pretty much no MPs, then?)
Random_Nerd: (No MPs.)

• DanteE Ghosts the machine clean
  

Random_Nerd: (And even though Realm is used to clean it, it'll still stay clean afterwards, since you're not making anything new and there're no lingering supernatural effects.)

• Theresa makes sure the bouquets and baskets are all ready.
  
• DanteE checks on the guests...
  

Random_Nerd: The guests are doing fairly well. They seem largely to be networking with the other Families.
DanteE: "Ready for the prizes and goodbyes?"
Theresa: "I think so. I hope we've been good hosts. With the exception of the uninvited guest at the palace."
Brian: "Dante, if you'll announce?"
Random_Nerd: For instance, Night is whispering something to Consequences, who's nodding.
Theresa: (Waaah! Quite conspiring about my tree!!! *paranoid*)
DanteE: "Certainly..."
Random_Nerd: (Ah, but what if they're conspiring /with/ your tree?)

• DanteE heads for the group, clapping his hands.
  

Theresa: (Then I am sad that my tree doesn't want to conspire with _me_.)
DanteE: (Oh, is Samuel back with the DVDs?)
Random_Nerd: (Not quite yet.)
Brian: (ff to then?)
Random_Nerd: (Works for me.)
Random_Nerd: People look up when Dante claps.
DanteE: "Thank you all for coming to our little get-together....
DanteE: "We hope to see each of you again soon.
Random_Nerd: Samuel arrives, carrying a large box.
DanteE: "That said...
DanteE: "We loved each and every one of the miracles you showed us.
DanteE: "The one that most surprised us, though, was ...
DanteE: "... Conceptual Tint's.
Random_Nerd: Shadows, to Eclipses, quietly: "You were robbed."
DanteE: "We've procured something that I hope you'll like...
DanteE: "An Earth instrument called a 'Calliope'.
DanteE: "It uses the flow of air to produce music..."

• DanteE shows off by playing something bouncy on it.
  

Theresa: (And it plays music by itself.)
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint's floating three-corner hat wanders over to next to the calliope.
DanteE: "So, what do you think?"
Random_Nerd: CT: "So, it works by steam?"
DanteE: "It does indeed."
Random_Nerd: CT: "Could you hold my hat for a moment, please?"
DanteE: "Certainly."
Random_Nerd: The hat is handed to Dante, leaving Conceptual Tint entirely invisible for a moment.
Random_Nerd: CT's disembodied voice: "Ah, yes, I see."
Random_Nerd: He takes the hat and puts it back on.
Random_Nerd: CT: "I like it, and I think I already know where in my house to put it."

• Theresa smiles, glad that he likes the prize!
  

DanteE: "Wonderful.
Random_Nerd: "I was already meaning to put in a steamboat one of these days."
DanteE: "Not that we're leaving anybody out...
Random_Nerd: Blue Shock, in the background, makes a "Hrrmph" noise.
DanteE: "Everyone gets bouquets of our flowers, should you wish to contact us...
DanteE: "Those of you that want them can have DVD sets of the original Indiana Jones trilogy...
DanteE: "And for a few of you...
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "Thanks. I always liked the Fountain of Youth one best."
DanteE: (Theresa, you made the beehive, right?)
Theresa: (The straw and wood one, yep. No bees in it, though.)
Random_Nerd: "Connery was just off his game in the new one."

• Theresa pulls the beehive from behind a corner where it had been hiding. No evil bees. *shifty look*
  

DanteE: (Not a problem if it smells liek honey. :)
DanteE: (...and can anyone think of appropriate gifts for some of the others?)
Brian: (I hope we find one for Typoes...)
Theresa: (Consequences' family is hard to shop for.)

• DanteE heads over to Martyrs...
  

DanteE: "Would you accept this, as apology for that little contretemps from earlier?"
Random_Nerd: She nods, and reaches out to shake Dante's hand, and then hesitates.
DanteE: (uhoh, had a connection glitch... did I miss anything?)
Theresa: (Hmm, it didn't show you leaving, Dante.)
Random_Nerd: ([22:39] * DanteE heads over to Martyrs...
Random_Nerd: [22:39] DanteE: "Would you accept this, as apology for that little contretemps from earlier?"
Random_Nerd: [22:40] Random_Nerd: She nods, and reaches out to shake Dante's hand, and then hesitates.
Random_Nerd: [22:41] DanteE: (uhoh, had a connection glitch... did I miss anything?)
Random_Nerd: [22:41] Theresa: (Hmm, it didn't show you leaving, Dante.))
DanteE: (it was a subtle glitch... bleeping dialup...)
DanteE: (What's Martyrs doing?)
Random_Nerd: (She's pausing after reaching out to shake Dante's hand.)
DanteE: (Can I tell why she's pausing?)
Random_Nerd: (Not really.)

• DanteE shakes her hand.
  

Random_Nerd: It feels a bit weird, with the bones and muscles and blood.
Random_Nerd: She looks him in the face, and from the muscle twitching, she'd probably be smiling if she had, like, lips.

• DanteE makes a point of not going ick or cleaning his hand off... in view, anyway.
  

Theresa: (Aww...)
DanteE: (You guys want to give gifts to some of the other Nobles?)
Theresa: "We also have some baskets of some of the local favorite foods and some items made by folks of the Chancel."
Theresa: (I don't know anything specific that might be helpful. Plus, we need to watch out with the gift thing so it doesn't become too much.)
DanteE: (Well, they did entertain us with miracles)
Random_Nerd: (Also, coming from a Wild chancel, giving out a lot of gifts has weird undertones.)
Random_Nerd: (A little like a Moslem making BLT sandwiches for people, in some ways.)
Random_Nerd: (It doesn't break the Code, but it comes across as a bit weird.)
Theresa: (Yes, they entertained us, but we fed them and took them on tours and so forth. Let them fraternize with our flora.)
DanteE: (Would it be OK with protocol if we stopped there, then?)
Random_Nerd: (It would.)
DanteE: "Once again, thank you all, it was very nice to meet you, and we hope to see you again!"
Theresa: "Thank you so much for visiting us. We really enjoyed seeing all of you and getting to know more Nobles." *smiles at Physics* "And good joke before. Heart-attack inducing, but good."
Random_Nerd: Physics: "You guys reacted to that one /way/ more gracefully than the last group I tried it on."
Random_Nerd: Physics: "I was impressed."
DanteE: "Comes from being around me. :)"
Brian: "When you've dealt with giant bunnies of doom, a little Entropy is no problem..."

• Theresa will _not_ facepalm at this, but will look a little...discomfited.
  

DanteE: "In fact I'm sure Monty says Hi..." (looks up)
Theresa: "How did the last group react, Physics?"
Random_Nerd: Physics: "They were very very polite. And they gave me a horse made from diamonds."
Random_Nerd: Physics: "Although, there is one thing. How do you know I'm actually the Power of Physics?"
Brian: "All we have is your word. I see no reason why you would lie"
Random_Nerd: P: "Well, if I were Entropy, would I have a problem with lying to people?"
Theresa: "I can see all sorts of reasons why he would lie, but he did do the lightbulb trick."
Random_Nerd: P: "But Entropy /does/ have that one weird Excrucian trick. He could do that, I'm pretty sure."
Theresa: (Man, he's lucky...RN keeps asking for a pony and he never gets one...)
Brian: (doesn't T keep asking for a pony?)
Theresa: "Wouldn't you have busted the lightbulb too, though?"
Random_Nerd: "Maybe. At any rate, I should be going."
Theresa: "Okay. Thank you for coming, even if you're Entropy." *smile*
DanteE: "Good night, whoever you are, then. :)"
DanteE: "You and Brian did hash out any potential conflicts, right?"
Random_Nerd: He nods, and slices a hole in the air with his hand.
Random_Nerd: Then, he steps through.

• Theresa does facepalm now. "So very not sure..."
  

Random_Nerd: Consequences: "That was... unsettling. He was joking, right?"
Random_Nerd: Night: "...you know, Entropy might actually do that. I /think/ he was joking, though."
DanteE: (what did his body language &expression say?)
Theresa: "Would Entropy go Chancel-hopping and partycrash?"
Random_Nerd: (Well, it was consistant with him being joking. But that'd fit Entropy's probable mood on making everyone panic, too.)
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "I hope not."
DanteE: "Brian, you did talk Physics with him, right?"
Brian: "Of course"
DanteE: "e didn't blank on any fundamental constants, did he?"
Sarabot: (Sorry to scamper, but it's past midnight and I have class early tomorrow. See you later!)
Random_Nerd: (G'night, Sara.)
DanteE: g'night!
Theresa: "Well, if Brian gets hauled in by the Locust Court for crimes against physics, we'll have our answer?"
Theresa: (Night, Sara! *HUG* Thanks for watching!)

• • • Sarabot has left #nobilis.
      

Random_Nerd: Consequences: "If you don't mind... I think I'd rather step out too. You guys okay with that?"

• DanteE heads over to Consequences...
  

DanteE: quietly: "Actually, I wonder if you could look at something for me for just a moment...
Theresa: "No, totally understandable."

• DanteE makes sure he's out of view, then pulls out the blood drop.
  

Random_Nerd: Consequences: "Yes?"
Random_Nerd: Consequences: "Fuck."
DanteE: "...mind elaborating?"
Random_Nerd: C: "Err, that is to say..."
Random_Nerd: C: "This had something to do with a major miracle, didn't it?"
DanteE: "Yes. There was an incident during the party...
DanteE: "A shard appeared in the vault after the tour.
Random_Nerd: C: "Not good."
DanteE: "This thing here may or may not have some rather serious Consequences associated with it...
DanteE: "Can you tell us if you see anything?"
Theresa: (Dante, you might wanna say that the shard is dead, ya know...just so as not to freak him out...)
Random_Nerd: C: "The details are clouded by some sort of big miracle, but it's definitely in my estate."
DanteE: (Thanks Theresa)
DanteE: "The shard is dead, by the way.
Random_Nerd: C: "Ah. Good. What kind was it?"
DanteE: "I wish I could claim the victory, but the Holy Lance did it for me."
Random_Nerd: He flinches a little when you mention the Lance.

DanteE: "Well, she dissolved into ichor after death."
Random_Nerd: C: "Didn't blow up or anything?"
DanteE: "No, melted."
Random_Nerd: C: "And it fought with you. Did it destroy anything you saw?"
Theresa: (Strategist shard, I believe.)
Theresa: (Destroyed King John's esophagus.)
Random_Nerd: (No, his larynx.)
DanteE: "It did hurt King John, but I was able to heal him after."
Theresa: (Thank you.)
Random_Nerd: C: "Sounds like a Warmain, I think. Could be worse."
DanteE: "Something like the Darth Vader choke"
DanteE: "This was a sort of leftover. See anything?"
Random_Nerd: "Hmm..."
Random_Nerd: He squints.
Random_Nerd: "It's not a blightstone, I don't think. Or if it is, it's a different kind than I've seen."
Random_Nerd: "If the land here gets poisoned or anything, though, destroy that."
DanteE: "How?"
Random_Nerd: "Physical force, miracles, whatever."
Random_Nerd: "If it's a blightstone, the hard part's finding it, not breaking it."
DanteE: "This may have been created by the blood of the Shard, by the way."
Random_Nerd: C: "Before or after it died?"
DanteE: "After."
Random_Nerd: C: "Odd. That doesn't sound like a warmain trick."
DanteE: "It actually came with a message...
DanteE: "who is probably still wandering around somewhere..."

• DanteE double checks that no one else is around.
  

DanteE: "And it manifested after I picked up the spear."
DanteE: (Can you guys say goodbyes to the others while we talk?)
Random_Nerd: C: "Really, that sounds like a /Noble/ trick, if anything. Or something weird."
Brian: (I sort of assume that's what we've been doing)
Theresa: (Who arrived via boat? Or did everyone portal in?)

• DanteE tells Conseq a short version of the encounter with Message.
  

DanteE: "...and that was right before the Miracle contest.

• Theresa will help hand out the gift baskets and make up doggie bags for anyone that wants some.
  

DanteE: "By the way, thank you for reminding me about how much depends on us being circumspect."
Random_Nerd: C: "That's important. Bad things can happen when peoplearen't circumspect."
Random_Nerd: C: "Errr, that wasn't a threat, just... well, they /can/."
DanteE: "I know. :)"
Random_Nerd: C: "That's about a third of my job right there."
DanteE: "Of course you damn near got Aspect-Heimliched, but that's another matter. :)"
Random_Nerd: C: "Still, I have business to attend to, so if you don't mind, I'll rejoin my family and head out."
DanteE: "Want a hunk of beef to take home?"
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint, to Brian and Theresa: "Thanks for the calliope."
Random_Nerd: C: "No, it's fine, we have cows at home too."
Brian: "You deserve it. Glad you like it"
Theresa: "We hope you like it. Your miracle was marvelous. Will you need any help transporting it?"
DanteE: "Good night Consequences.
Random_Nerd: CT looks at Blue Shock.
Random_Nerd: BS: "No, it's fine, we can take it with us."
DanteE: "Do you need help with the beehive?"
Random_Nerd: Martyrs shrugs, picks it up, and carries it on one shoulder.
Random_Nerd: Duty waves, smiles, and opens a glowing arch in the air.

• DanteE waves!
  

Theresa: "Thank you again for coming!"
Random_Nerd: Duty: "Thank your for the invitation, and you're welcome in our chancel whenever you like, although please do call ahead."
Brian: "Likewise"
Random_Nerd: Shadows, Eclipses, and Consequences likewise make their goodbyes, and they leave together.
Random_Nerd: The Dionyl, and the calliope, fade away.
DanteE: "We should learn how to do that."
Random_Nerd: (It's a fairly cheap gift.)
Random_Nerd: (Most families have at least one person with some version of it.)
DanteE: (That's everyone, right?)
Theresa: "True, we can't use the Chancel portals all of the time."
Brian: "Well, we got through that. And didn't insult anyone. too badly."
Random_Nerd: (Night's family's still there.)
Brian: (err, retract my statement then)
Random_Nerd: Night's looking a bit thoughtful, Martyrs looks ready to go, and Angst is filling a basket with food.

• DanteE goes over to Night...
  

DanteE: "Thank you for coming."
DanteE: (Martyrs is the only one that entered the contest, right?)
Random_Nerd: "Thank you for having us here."
Random_Nerd: (Correct.)
Theresa: "Need any help with that?" *to Angst*
Random_Nerd: "Nah, I'm good."
Random_Nerd: Night: "I do believe we'll be going now. Goodbye."
Brian: "Goodbye"
DanteE: "Good ni... uh, bye.
Random_Nerd: Angst and Night both raise a hand for a moment, they look at each other for a moment, and then Angst lowers his.
Theresa: *to Night* "Hope you enjoyed the Maple tree." *smile*
Random_Nerd: Night snaps his fingers, and all three vanish, with Martyrs waving for a moment right beforehand.
Theresa: (Never mind.  :) )
Random_Nerd: (retcon it in before?)
Brian: (now, put in my comment) "Well, we got through that. Without insulting anyone. Too much"
Theresa: (Sure, please. I hope there's a reply...)
DanteE: "We're still new at this...
Random_Nerd: (Right as she says that, he twitches a little and does the vanish trick.)
DanteE: what time is it IC?
Theresa: "Yeah, we handled a party and an invasion by a Stragegist shard at the same time." *rubs forehead* "If only I was more of a drinking person."
DanteE: "Consequences was thinking Warmain."
Random_Nerd: (Evening.)
Brian: "... vodka is potato based. Potato's a plant."
DanteE: "Want to have another look in that vault, see if we can tell how she got in there?"
Brian: "Tomorrow?"
Theresa: "Oh, I could make it. I could possibly maybe even form it, although rotting potatoes would be more likely. I'm just not the type to drown my after-slaughter jitters with alcohol."
DanteE: to Brian: "You know me, I'm impatient on mundane matters. Now."
Theresa: *to Dante* "I don't know...I'm still thinking Strategist. Destroying John's throat like that...and plus I would think a Warmain would be more...showy."
Brian: "If you like..."
Theresa: "If John will even let us near the place. He was _upset_."
Random_Nerd: (Mind if we stop here?)
DanteE: "That's why I'm asking you guys to lead instead of me."
Brian: (no problems)
Brian: "I'd prefer to wait at least until I've slept again."
DanteE: "...all right, I guess everyone will calm down then."
Theresa: "Maybe have Lesson keep an eye out for our guy in Red, though."
DanteE: (I can stop here.)

• Theresa also tells Sam and Will that they did excellent jobs.
  

Theresa: (I'm ready to call it a night.)
DanteE: "Oh... we should tell him shouldn't we?"
Random_Nerd: ___________________________STOP_____________________

• • • DanteE is now known as Knockwood.
      
    • Brian is now known as lazarus.
      

Random_Nerd: Okay, thoughts?

• • • You are now known as BethE.
      

BethE: Glad that we didn't make complete fools of ourselves.  :)
Knockwood: did I dominate?
lazarus: kwd: if you dominated, it's in part because I let you. If I feel I want to say or do something, I will get it in :-P
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Well, a little, but it makes sense, because Dante had the most reason to be dealing with certain stuff.
Knockwood: Am I over-stressing about what happened?
Random_Nerd: With the blood thing, and the insect, and the message guy?
Knockwood: yeah, and picking up the spear
Random_Nerd: You're stressing out about the right amount.
BethE: (I feel I am not stressing enough about the Maple, but it quite late and I am tired. <G>)
Knockwood: ...
BethE: Why the ... ?
Knockwood: wondering about what RN said
Knockwood: oh, hey, new player... next week?
lazarus: oh, yay, I'm going to be Bubbled for the first part, most likely, and come in in the "oh, new James?" way partway through.
Random_Nerd: Ah, yes, Sara.
Random_Nerd: Starting next week, yes.
Knockwood: laz: huh?
Random_Nerd: Although she won't be playing James.
BethE: Bubbled?
lazarus: kwd: I may be missing the first part of next week
lazarus: in the D&D game I play, people go into their own little bubble if the player's not there
BethE: AhhhHHHhhh...
Knockwood: y'know, that might work in Nobilis...
Knockwood: Greater Preservation miracle gone slightly wrong. :)
BethE: *snort*
Knockwood: so, she'll be the Power of Capriciousness?
BethE: *nod*
Knockwood: guess I'll no longer be The Impulsive One... :)
BethE: Well, all, I need to get to bed. Night! Good game! *HUGS*
Random_Nerd: Well, perhaps one of the Impulsive Two.


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