Session 60

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 8

Theresa: Think so. What were we doing again?
Snow: I'm going to be attacked!
Random_Nerd: Just going to the Diplomacy Grove.
Brian: right.
Random_Nerd: Anything about the game you want to discuss first?
Snow: I'm good, I think.
DanteE: OK, who's got the chainsaws and the uzis?
Random_Nerd: Lesson?
Theresa: I'll just be this confused in character. Oh, wait. Can I ask my Dionyl question?
Brian: not my department
Random_Nerd: Oh? What question?
Theresa: If Theresa's been working on understanding Dionyl and knows their language, what was the symbol of the blessing given to Sam?  :)
Random_Nerd: Let me check my notes.
Theresa: Yes, Riff.
Random_Nerd: The odd swirly mark, you mean?
Theresa: Yeppers. That you said was a Dionyl symbol.
Random_Nerd: It has connotations of patience, endurance, and the passage of time.
Theresa: Hmm. Thank you.
DanteE: can I assume I've got a buttload of blades on me? :)
Theresa: I thought we were practicing with Snow for the hours before she gets the Ulcer of the Gods?
Snow: Ah, that's right! They'd gotten to the Grove, and she'd filled it with rabbits.
Random_Nerd: You can assume that.
Snow: Then she made one immune to hurt.
Random_Nerd: Ready?
Snow: Always!
DanteE: we'll see...
Brian: Ulcer of the Gods: Class II Divine, +5 / +10 / +25. May spend 1 White Chi to cause someone's stomach to flare up in pain, giving them 1 round of Entanglement.
Brian: now I'm ready.
Theresa: Oh, one question. Hey Snow, did you take Durant? <G>
Random_Nerd: ____________________START___________________
DanteE: how long do we have IC?
Random_Nerd: __________________PAUSE________________
Snow: (Heh, no, not yet Beth.)
Random_Nerd: (Kudzu didn't say exactly, but he said probably under 3 hours.)
Random_Nerd: ______________START, FOR REAL THIS TIME______________________
Snow: (heh)
Brian: "That's ... a lot of rabbits. Are they Australian?"
Random_Nerd: (Amyran.)

• Snow chases the remainder of the rabbits around in human form, ribbons trailing from her hair.
  

Brian: (that was IC. Familia in-joke attempt.)
Snow: "I dunno. They're rabbits."

• Theresa creates a bit of a thicket to help corral the rabbits for now. Sorry to ruin Snow's fun.
  
• Snow turns into a rabbit and mingles with the other rabbits.
  

DanteE: (What does Snow look like to The Sight, BTW?)
Random_Nerd: (Your own rabbit-orgy?)
Brian: (lose d10 SAN)
Random_Nerd: (Well, she actually changes shapes, it's not guising . But she clearly shows up as Noble.)
Snow: (*facepalm*)

• Snow has some fun running around the corral for a bit, then escapes in sparrow form. Apparently rabbits aren't much fun.
  

Theresa: *wonders out loud* "If we took Snow to meet Monty and she turned into a rabbit, would she be Monty sized?"
DanteE: "Brian, you should tell her what she's in for."
Snow: "Who's in for what?" she asks, sprouting back up to human form.
Theresa: "Apparently when your Estate gets attacked, it hurts you. A lot."
Brian: "You'll be able to tell what it is when it happens. It hurts. Stupid Excrucians are able to stick a sword in you from somewhere not here."
DanteE: "How exactly could someone attack Capriciousness, though?"

• Snow frowns. "How do I kill them?"
  

Random_Nerd: (With fire?)
Brian: "Killing them won't help. You have to ... stop their attack somehow."

• Snow tilts her head to one side.
  

Snow: "Like...running away?"
Theresa: "The pain follows."
Brian: "Their attack comes by convincing the world that you don't exist. If you kill them, that doesn't help. Running away probably doesn't, either."
Theresa: "Although if you touch an Excrucian or one of their Shards, they melt!"

• Snow grins ferally at Theresa. "That's good, anyway!"
  

Snow: "I do exist though." [to Brian] "Can't I just show up and tell them I do?"

• Theresa nods. "Just did so myself a little while ago. Bad situation. The Shard made a friend's throat kind of...disappear."
  

Brian: "That might work, Snow. It probably won't work quite that way."
DanteE: (Where are our aides, BTW?)
Snow: "But...we can't do anything about it right now?"
Brian: "Each attack is different, though, and has its own solution set that's not necessarily intersecting with any others."
Random_Nerd: (Let's see. You didn't specifically bring them, so they're probably in their offices.)
DanteE: "Damn, you are a math geek. :)"
Brian: "What? Set theory is universally applicable!"
Theresa: "You checked on your estate earlier and didn't see anything obviously wrong. And you aren't hurting yet. So that makes it a lot harder to find where the problem is."

• Snow nods thoughtfully.
  

DanteE: "...any chance you, you know, feel funny?"
Snow: "Whenever I feel trouble coming, I eat. 'coz I don't know when I'll be able to eat again. Maybe I should do stuff now, for when I can't do stuff later."

• Snow shakes her head at Dante.
  

Snow: "Or I could eat."

• Theresa hands Snow a bowl of mixed fruit.
  

Random_Nerd: (Another interesting question is... if the Estate hasn't been attacked yet, how does Kudzu know it will be?)
Theresa: "Yes, I know, not filling, really, but it's what I can do."

• Snow happily takes the fruit from Theresa and eats.
  

Theresa: (A) Because he's going to be the one doing the attacking, B) He's got inside info/traitor in the ones attacking, C) it's that darn cult. D) Still thinking.)
DanteE: "We're still home, we could introduce Snow to the Glory That Is the Cheeseburger. :)"
Snow: "Not much fruit around Lake of the Long Dark. Fruit's great!"
Theresa: "You'll have to Create your own cheeseburger, then."
Brian: "Hm. Cheeseburgers. Sounds great. Haven't had one in ages."
Random_Nerd: (At least two of your answers partially apply.)
Snow: "So we're eating in case we can't eat again soon?"
Snow: "I like that plan."
DanteE: "Uh, hello? We run the place? We can ask any eatery for one?"
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, they could pretty much put up a plaque that says "The Nobles Ate Here" and get lots of business.)
Brian: (I forget - do we have cell phones?)
Snow: ("The Nobles Ate Here, and All I Got Was This Stupid Cthulhu")
DanteE: (I'm sure we do, along with that one Very Special Phone)
Random_Nerd: (You have cell phones if you want to.)

• DanteE calls up Samuel.
  
• Brian will call a food place "Hi, order for delivery, to [spot near grove] for lots of cheeseburgers. Um... call it 6. And fries."
  

DanteE: "Hey, Samuel? Did you ever get a chance to check out that vehicle you were interested in?"
Random_Nerd: (And since it's Brian saying it...)
Random_Nerd: "Certainly. On the double."
Snow: (Har har har)
Brian: "Thanks :)"
Random_Nerd: Samuel: "Done some looking, but haven't made any decisions yet. Is there something I can help you with?"

• Snow watches Brian, curious.
  

DanteE: "Yes... we may need to head for Earth before too long. Was thinking we could be more mobile from the air..."
Random_Nerd: "And you want me to get you a helicopter?"
Random_Nerd: "Did you have a particular sort in mind?"

• Theresa stares at Dante. "Are you hoping Sam can get a 2 for 1 deal?"
  

DanteE: (It occurred to me over the week that a helicopter would facilitate one hell of an entrance. :)
Snow: (Jet packs!)
DanteE: (only in Amyra. Don't want to hurt anyone's brain. :)
Snow: (I dunno...Snow might be able to wrangle a leaf blower into thinking it's a jet pack...)
DanteE: "Just look around to where we can get a fairly inconspicuous one, for now.
Theresa: (Does not...think...snow blower...)
Random_Nerd: "Ah. Civilian type?"
DanteE: "For now."
Snow: (Oh, that's not for flying around in, dahling.)
Random_Nerd: "Give me... half an hour, perhaps a bit more."
Snow: (Where's Lesson again?)
Random_Nerd: (Lesson's with you, but currently in the background.)
DanteE: "Excellent. I'll call back soon."
Brian: (I'm missing something about snow blowers?)
Snow: (What's he look like now, since he's no longer an Anchor?)
Random_Nerd: (He is, actually, at the moment.)
Theresa: "Hmm...while we're waiting on the food, maybe we should go over fighting tactics? We did kinda get messy last time."
Random_Nerd: (James isn't exactly dead, as such.)
Snow: (Ah, right-o.)

• Snow looks over at Lesson.
  

Snow: "He looks like he can fight real good."
Random_Nerd: (Now, Snow has turned into a rabbit, right?)
Snow: (Nope, back to human.)
Theresa: (Brian - bad joke. Never mind.  :) )
DanteE: "Too much so, though. He'd be targeted first."
Snow: (I figure she can only talk in human form.)
Random_Nerd: He tilts his hat to Snow.
Random_Nerd: (Well, in-realm she can make conversational sounds with ghost miracles of Realm.)
Brian: (obviously a bad joke ... I didn't get it ... oh, now I do, and ow my brain!)
Snow: (Ah, good to know!)
Random_Nerd: (And for that matter, with free realm miracles she can hear and talk from anywhere in-chancel, with divinations and ghosts.)
DanteE: (Theresa has a dirty mind. But, we knew that. :)

• Snow shifts into the form of a massive polar bear.
  

Theresa: (Lesson draws agg and as to Theresa's mind, it is much cleaner than my own. <g>)
Snow: "I can fight too!" Her girl-voice sounds odd, coming from the bear.
Random_Nerd: (As does Beth.)
Brian: (plus, she's hooked into the Message Board)
DanteE: (Theresa: huhwah?)
DanteE: (Oh, now I've got it. :/ )
Snow: (Lesson is totally a rogue. Not a tank.)
Random_Nerd: (Well, at her level of Realm, she doesn't need the Message Board.)
Theresa: "Mind if I test that, Snow?"
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, but rogues draw agg, and does he seem likely to be a careful DPSer?)
DanteE: "I don't think fighting per se is going to be a problem..."

• Snow drops to her forepaws and bounds--as best she can--around Theresa excitedly. "Okay!"
  

Random_Nerd: Lesson: "Should I get some weapons and some of my guys?"
Brian: (but you don't really need to tank to do high DPS and draw aggro, so long as your tank knows what he's doing)
Snow: (Lesson: *eye gouge* *backstab* *eye gouge* *backstab*)
Brian: (too bad for us we don't HAVE a tank...)
DanteE: (Yeah we do)
Snow: (Theresa!)
Random_Nerd: (Possibly Theresa. She's got good Aspect, Durant, and Elemental.)
Brian: (Right. The one with yeah.)
Brian: (the one folks would point at Druid)
Theresa: "I think we're probably going to be going out from the Chancel, Lesson. It may be an attempt to distract us while they go after the Chancel."
Snow: (Nah, shammy.)
Random_Nerd: (Druids can tank, with the right gear and spec...)
DanteE: (or the guy with Sacrosanct, similar Aspect, and a weapon domain?)

• Theresa creates a thicket of thorny ironwood up and over Snow. (Yes, I know Auct, but it's at least a slowdown.)
  

Random_Nerd: (Well, Dante's clearly the healer.)
Snow: (does it cover her all around?)
Random_Nerd: (If she wants it to.)
Theresa: (Problem with fixing things with Domain is that I'm suspecting Cult activity. And Domain goes wonky.)
Theresa: (Yep. Like a little hutch or beehive or thick cage w/ no space.)
DanteE: (Pretty much any of us could Leeroy Jenkins their way through a small army, though. :)

• Snow shifts to mole form, and burrows underneath Theresa.
  

DanteE: (That's part of why I'm loading up on blades)

• Theresa listens (Aspect 2) for Snow.
  

Random_Nerd: (Did anyone answer Lesson?)
DanteE: (Oh.... I will)
DanteE: "Lesson... get your group together and prepare yourselves. Something is going to happen involving our new sister in less than three hours, but we don't know what.
Random_Nerd: L: "How many do you want, and how heavily armed?"
Theresa: (RN: Can Theresa track Snow-mole?)
Random_Nerd: (Yes, with her Gift.)
Random_Nerd: (But it counts as her miracle for the turn.)
Theresa: (Oh, yeah. Noble-sensing Gift spent.) Theresa keeps lightfooting it around to avoid Snow.
DanteE: "Dunno yet... go commandeer that bus you had, just in case you need to head for Earth, but be ready to defend the Chancel."
Random_Nerd: L: "At once, sir."

• Snow will burrow close to the surface, then burst from the ground in bear form, releasing a shower of dirt and stones.
  

Random_Nerd: Lesson starts jogging towards town.
DanteE: "Remind me that we have a chaos-squad on a short leash."
Random_Nerd: He's hunched most of the way over, and when he runs, it's clear that his legs are different lengths.
Random_Nerd: (At present, the Bureau of Monstrosities consists of Lesson, Ick, several arm-guys, a few assorted other mythical creatures, one or two gangs that Lesson and James co-opted, and a few therapists and psychologists.)

• Snow roars, sending the rabbits fleeing in fear.
  

Random_Nerd: Rabbits: *scatter*

• Theresa Elementals an arm into a strong vine to wrap around Snow's muzzle.
  

Theresa: (I had forgotten the shrinks in the Bureau.)
DanteE: "I think we can wing a plan, but... they're there in case everything goes pear-shaped.
Theresa: "Mmm, pears."
DanteE: "We'll try to do it without much disruption.
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, you guys had them start recruiting people to handle psychologically evaluating the people who got turned into critters.)

• Snow mrrfs! in frustration, then Domain miracles the air around Theresa, waiting until it decides to vacate the area before letting it go again. (Lesser Creation, free with 4 Domain?)
  

Random_Nerd: (Needs Penetration.)
Random_Nerd: (She's got Spirit.)
Snow: (The air around her?)
Random_Nerd: (Well, Auctoritas.)
Random_Nerd: (Covers the area near her.)
Snow: (Mea culpa! Retcon that then.)
Theresa: (You've got about a 5-foot by 5 by 5 cube that won't listen to you, around me.)
DanteE: (Time?)
Random_Nerd: (Beg pardon?)
DanteE: (How long before the attack?)
Random_Nerd: (You have something like 2 hours, based on what Kudzu said.
Random_Nerd: )
Random_Nerd: (And the cheeseburgers should be arriving soon, as should a call from Samuel.)
Brian: "I'll go over to wait for the food. Be back in a few."

• Brian goes to [insert address here]
  
• Theresa wiggles her eyebrows at Snow-bear.
  

DanteE: "You two are acting goofier than my actual sister."
Theresa: (A question...how well does Elemental work around cults and Auct.? Is it a Gift or a Miracle or Domain...)
Theresa: "Aww, haven't met her yet, Dante. But this is kinda fun. No killer bees in this fight."
Theresa: (Whoops...)
DanteE: (Do we have a way to detect the Cult's presence before firing off a Miracle?)
Random_Nerd: (Not really.)
Random_Nerd: (Unless you have a Clever Idea.)
Random_Nerd: (Or if you've been keeping track.)
Snow: (Gah, sorry Bethy, thinking and working out what I can do for free.)
Random_Nerd: (Well, Brian ordered the food to be delivered, right?)
Theresa: (No problem. And I wouldn't want you to spend points before a fight.)
Brian: (yeah, but to a place near the grove, not to the grove itself)
Random_Nerd: (Ah, okay. It should be arriving there just about now.)
Theresa: (Although a reminder that we have DP that can be spent as Miracle Points.)

• Snow flicks into the form of a deer, who promptly tries to eat the vine-Theresa-arm.
  
• Theresa tastes yucky and she's Durant. Do you have deer-braces?  :)
  

Random_Nerd: (The vine is really hard to chew. Not impossible, but it's like chewing through hardwood.)
Theresa: (Ooo, or I could be covered in poison ivy sap. That would be evil.)
Random_Nerd: (You can do that with Elemental.)
Snow: (Ech!)
Random_Nerd: (Elemental is... let me see what it's a Gift of.)

• Snow gnaws away at the vine regardless, rolling her eyes coyly at Theresa.
  

Random_Nerd: (It's of Domain. It'd go somewhat haywire.)
Theresa: (Crap! *sigh*)
Random_Nerd: (But if you change into something planty when you're away, it won't suddenly go wrong when they show up.)
DanteE: (Isn't it kinda always on in her case?)
Random_Nerd: (Not really. She's normally a human.)
Random_Nerd: (But she can turn part or all of her into animate plants with a simple miracle.)
DanteE: (Then again maybe we should OBSERVE RULE ZERO and shut up... :)

• Theresa creates a large stack of hay riiiiiight above Snow. "Hey Snow, look up!" *drops it*
  

Random_Nerd: (Heh. We should tell Sara about the Rules.)

• Brian returns with food. "Food's here!"
  

Random_Nerd: (Rule Zero, don't give the GM any ideas.)
Brian: (oh yeah. Rules.)
Random_Nerd: (Rule 1, Entropy is a Dick.)
Random_Nerd: (Rule 2, Sanity and Mundanity Are Shackles.)
Snow: (*listens*)
DanteE: (Rule Zero Prime, don't give your Imperator any ideas)
Theresa: *smushes Snow with haybales/stacks*
Snow: (Heh, goes without saying!)
Random_Nerd: Anyone with Aspect 2 or better can hear the sound of a helicopter approaching about a mile away.
Brian: "Time to stop playing and start eating!"
Random_Nerd: (Well, Rule Zero Prime is in the book, actually.)

• Snow appears to disappear under the haybales. As a dormouse, she works her way through the straw, back up to the top. She seems to grin at Theresa.
  

DanteE: "Hm... Theresa, you could disguise some ironwood spears as, say, a cane."
Snow: "Fun!"
Theresa: "Hmm...ways to fight without creating plantstuff or even maybe without making myself into plantstuff... I guess I could hop around like those wuxia people."
Random_Nerd: ("Don't tell your Imperator about a problem you can solve, or you'll have to. Don't tell your Imperator about a problem you /can't/ solve, or you'll have to.")

• DanteE checks out the copter
  

Random_Nerd: It's the Channel 17 traffic copter.

• Theresa explains, "The last time we had an Attack on an Estate, there was a cult of feral mathematicians there and I tried to create honey to slow them down but it turned out to be _evil_ honey. And it ate through the floor and the mathematicians."
  
• Snow looks up at the copter, and quickly hides behind Theresa in human form.
  

Theresa: "Okay, timeout for cheeseburgers."

• Brian hands Snow a cheeseburger and fries platter
  

Random_Nerd: The cheeseburgers seem very carefully made and wrapped.)

• Snow takes the cheeseburger and fries, despite the helicopter. ;)
  

Theresa: "And yeah, I could make your cane into ironwood, Dante, if you wanted that."
DanteE: "My cane's already a blade, remember."
Theresa: "Oh, yeah. But why would the rest of us be carrying canes?"
Brian: "Anyone else for food?" *hands out to the rest of the Familia*

• DanteE grabs a burger & fries...
  
• Theresa bites into her food. "Wow, this is delicious!" *eats some fries* "Even better than usual!"
  

Random_Nerd: (Although, if she made the cane part Preserved, there'd be no danger of the wooden parts breaking.)
DanteE: "Why would we be carrying ironwood spears?"

• Snow presses herself to Theresa and quietly eats her food. She keeps glancing nervously at the helicopter.
  

Random_Nerd: (At least, not unless you parried a missle or something with it.)
DanteE: "We're more likely to be carrying canes.
Random_Nerd: The chopper comes closer, and now everyone can hear it and see it.
DanteE: "Which means you won't have to make one, just use it."
Random_Nerd: Anyone with Aspect 1 or better, or who uses a Realm Div to check, can see Samuel and William in it, along with someone else at the controls.
Theresa: "Ah"

• Theresa waves hi at the Aides and rubs Snow's shoulder comfortingly.
  
• Snow looks miserable.
  

DanteE: "They're withj us, Snow.":
Snow: "Loud..."
DanteE: (and say hi to Tpyo, Power of Typos.)
Random_Nerd: They land in the grassy clearing in the Grove, where the rabbits had been a while ago.
Random_Nerd: Sam and William get out.
Random_Nerd: S: "Will this do?"
Snow: (Does the guy turn the helicopter off?)
Random_Nerd: (It's idling.)
DanteE: can it hold us all?
Random_Nerd: (Yes.)
Snow: (Wouldn't it blow Sam away?)
DanteE: (Hell, Sam probably wants to ride the rotor blades. :)
Snow: (*laugh*)
Random_Nerd: (Not really. The blades are moving slowly, and he can "eat" some of the air pressure.)

• Snow looks at Sam.
  
• Theresa creates some sound-dampening earmuffs for Snow.
  
• Snow stops eating.
  

DanteE: "I think it'll work...
Random_Nerd: (Dionyl have ways of dealing with moderate amounts of momentum, although high amounts can cause serious damage.)
Snow: "RIBBONS!"
Theresa: (Oh no...bad Sara!)
DanteE: "Samuel, William, our boss has given us a new Sister Celestis."
Random_Nerd: Samuel looks at Snow.
Random_Nerd: Sam and William both tap the silver globes in their ears for a moment.
Brian: "She's ... young."

• Snow takes off toward Samuel, her own ribbons trailing in her hair.
  
• Theresa hugs Snow in a hurry!
  

Theresa: (Aspect 2)_
Random_Nerd: William: "Ah. Well, we're at your service, Domina."
Snow: (aspect 0. You so have her.)

• Snow mrrfs!
  

DanteE: "This is Snow, the Power of Capriciousness..."
Snow: "Theresaaaa!"
Random_Nerd: William's eyes glaze for a moment, and then he twitches and snaps out of it.
DanteE: (did anyone ever come out and say that Snow was a coyote? :)
Theresa: "Snow, this is Samuel. He's a Dionyl and you need to be careful with him. We protect him and William so they don't get hurt here in our home. They help us. His friend is William. He's a human."
Snow: (That's a good question. She showed up as a coyote at first, I know.)
Random_Nerd: W: "Will my services be needed designing a crest?"
Theresa: *to the Aides* "Snow is also a coyote. She changes shape into about any animal she can think of."

• Snow stops fighting.
  
• Theresa lets go of Snow.
  

Snow: "Oh! Not ribbons then." She grins at Sam. "You're just /awesome/ then!"
DanteE: "Not just yet. The Boss also said she was about to be attacked...
Random_Nerd: S: "I do what I can, ma'am."

• Snow beams at William now, as well.
  

DanteE: "In about 2 hours and counting.
Random_Nerd: Sam, as always, is "dressed" in a variety of colorful scarves. He's tending towards blues and yellows, today.
DanteE: "That's why I wanted the copter, in case we need to maneuver...
Theresa: (*singsong* "Snow and Samuel, sittin' in a tree. A-n-c-h-o-r-ing..."*)
Random_Nerd: William is in his usual three-piece suit.
Brian: (T, that doesn't scan.)
Theresa: (True, 'Samuel' is a bit hard to fit, but the Anchoring part works. If you pronounce it 'ing'...)
Random_Nerd: S: "I thought, and William agreed, that one like this wouldn't attract as much attention as an unmarked or military one."
DanteE: "And... what would you two say to another trip to Earth?"

• Theresa hands Snow the earmuffs. "These might help for the pain of the loudness."
  

Random_Nerd: W, startled: "An attack on your estate?"

• Snow puts on the earmuffs.
  

DanteE: "Assuming that';s where the attack comes from...."
Random_Nerd: Samuel waves a scarf at the pilot, who turns off the copter.
Theresa: "On Snow's estate, actually. Kudzu had...a premonition."
Theresa: *small fib possibly*

• Snow waves cheerily at William.
  

Random_Nerd: Snow, you start to feel an... itch.
Snow: "It's gonna hurt!"
Random_Nerd: Not in your body, but somewhere else.

• Snow frowns, then flicks to coyote form. She scratches madly at a spot behind her ear.
  

Theresa: "Something wrong, Snow?"

• Snow flicks back to human form, still scratching, though with her hand this time.
  

Random_Nerd: It's a bit like phantom limb pain, if the phantom limb were hundreds of miles away.
Snow: "I itch. But not me me. Me over there."
Snow: (Can I sense in which direction?)
Random_Nerd: (And yes, this is sooner than Kudzu said.)
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... West by northwest.)
DanteE: (in Amyra?)

• Theresa looks at the others. "Hmm. Maybe it's starting?"
  

Random_Nerd: (Probably not.)
Random_Nerd: (That, to Dante.)
Brian: "Hold on ... you're in for a bit of a ride shortly ... just direct us to where"

• Snow looks pitiful.
  

Snow: She points in the appropriate direction.
DanteE: "...the new mega-mall?"

• Brian will carry Snow to the aerial rotor-based transportation device
  

Theresa: "Hmm...Snow...can you concentrate and see if this itch is coming from inside the Chancel?"
Snow: (Actually, Snow wouldn't allow that, I'm sorry. :( )
Random_Nerd: (Snow can tell that immediately. It's not in the area she can divine.)
Random_Nerd: (And actually, let's change it to west by southwest, mentally reexamined where Amyra's located.)

• Snow flicks into mouse form and scampers away from Brian, in favour of Theresa's shirt pocket (?).
  

Snow: "I don't think it's in the place where we are. It's like...outside of where we are."
DanteE: "Brian, can you help her figure out where?"

• Snow peeks out at Brian.
  

Brian: "Well, it seems to be roughly WSW, out on Earth. Hang on."
Random_Nerd: (Well, if she can point, and walk a bit and point again, Brian can use lesser divinations of Numbers and basic geometry to narrow it down by triangulating.)
DanteE: "South Africa?"
Brian: (Anchorspeak to Jim) "Hey, Jim, got a minute? Can you search through the blogosphere for something that feels like an attack on Caprice?"
Theresa: "No, I think more like South America..."
Random_Nerd: (Jim: "Yeah. One moment, I'll get to a computer.")
DanteE: "OK... Snow?

• Snow looks at Dante.
  

DanteE: "I know the machine here is big and scary-sounding...
DanteE: "But it's just a way to get somewhere.
DanteE: "And we need it to get to where that itch is coming from.
Random_Nerd: Jim, to Brian: "I don't see anything yet, but I'll keep looking."
DanteE: "We'll be safe inside it, and we can get there real quck!"

• Snow sticks out her tongue at Dante and says, very clearly despite her mouse-age, "I know I've gotta go, I just don't wanna. It's loud and noisy."
  

DanteE: *quick
Brian: (anchorspeak) "Thanks"
Theresa: "I was hoping the earmuffs would help with the noise."
DanteE: "Well, so are you, kiddo!

• Snow grins at Dante.
  

Snow: "Of course I am! I'm coyote!"
DanteE: "You roar and stomp stuff.
DanteE: "So what are you doing being scared of something else that roars?
Theresa: "Something's making you itch...let's go bite it."
Random_Nerd: Snow, you can go somewhere quieter, and then reduce the noise by doing a Lesser Preservation of Quiet in your ears.
DanteE: "This doesn't even stomp stuff, and it stays one shape!
Snow: "S'not alive, though."
DanteE: "So why are you afraid of it?

• Snow will do a Lesser Preservation in her ears, as a matter of fact. Thank you!
  

DanteE: "You don't need to be."
DanteE: "Heck, you're with me. You don't need to be scared of anything ever again!"

• Snow tilts her head at Dante.
  

Theresa: (Uh, Noble. You can't affect her courage. <g>)
DanteE: (Work with me here. :)
Random_Nerd: (Dante's ego knows no logic!)
Snow: "I won't be afraid of the helicopter. But I will still be scared of things. Not being scared is stupid."
DanteE: "Hop in here, kiddo..." opens up his shirt pocket
Random_Nerd: The itch grows to an ache, and you have a clearer idea of the direction.

• Snow studies Dante for a moment, then goes to his pocket.
  
• Snow whimpers a bit.
  

DanteE: "There ya go snow...
Snow: "Can we go bite it now?"
DanteE: "All right... got a fix on where that itch is coming from?

• Snow ghost miracles a fluffy cumulus cloud above them, which shapes itself into an arrow that points in the direction of the "itch".
  

Snow: "That way."
Brian: "Let's get going, then."
Random_Nerd: (Between the direction and the distance, probably somewhere in Mexico.)
Snow: (If she can make one arrow...triangulation?)
Theresa: "Okay." *hops into helicopter*
Brian: (Mexico loves us...)
Theresa: (... Mexico. Is William allowed back into Mexico?"
Random_Nerd: (Well, she can feel how far away it is, too.)
Theresa: ) even)
Snow: (That wouldn't be distance that she'd be able to conceive of, though. At least, not numerically.)
DanteE: "William, Samuel, who wants to go to Earth?"
Random_Nerd: W: "Wherever you want us."
Snow: (brb, need a potty break)
Random_Nerd: S: "Where on Earth?"
DanteE: (not in my pocket you don't! :)
Brian: Anchorspeak "Looking like it's roughly Mexico, if that can help you narrow things down?"
Random_Nerd: W: "It /would/ be Mexico."
Random_Nerd: S: "I... don't speak Spanish."
Snow: (Sorry, back)
Brian: (RN: that was to Jim)
Theresa: *to William* "Are you allowed back into Mexico? It might be a different part of Mexico."
Random_Nerd: Jim: "Mexico. How recent?"
Brian: "Um... currently going on"
Theresa: (Hmm...what kind of miracle would give Sam Spanish lessons?)
Random_Nerd: (Uh... various sorts of ones.)
Brian: (Realm Creation of Spanish Speaking?)
DanteE: "Or you could stay here and coordinate potential defenses? Your choice."
Theresa: (But it would cost to keep it going out of the Chancel.)
Random_Nerd: Jim: "There's something going on there with a few small towns in the southern part. Rumors about some weird creature stealing thoughts out of people's heads."
Random_Nerd: Jim: "Cryptozoologists are practically drooling. They think it's a chupacabra."
Theresa: "A goat-sucker?"
Random_Nerd: (You could give him Spanish with a Realm miracle, and spend an RMP a day to keep it in his head out of chancel.)
Brian: (to Jim) "That sounds like it. Thanks. Can you post something that makes them sound crazy?"
Random_Nerd: (Theresa can't hear Jim.)
Random_Nerd: (He's on a different continent.)
Brian: (This is the voice in Brian's head ;))
Snow: (Could we enhance his ability to learn Spanish quickly while in-Chancel, such that he can learn it in twenty minutes?)
Theresa: (Oh, yeah, sorry. Hey, Aspect...no, not even that good.)
Random_Nerd: (And her Aspect isn't /that/ good. That's at least Aspect 6. Probably 7.()
Theresa: (Retcons the goatsucking thing.)
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. With a Lesser Change of Realm, and a bit of time, you could probably teach him Spanish in under an hour.)
Brian: "Seems to be south Mexico. Some ... 'chupacabra' is stealing people's thoughts."
DanteE: (and if it was that high she could hear a fly fart in Siberia)
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Is this important?"
Theresa: "Hmm, we need to find a forest that connects to a Mexican forest near where we wanna be."
Snow: (Snow's not in a position to do much--she hurts. But if anyone else wants to. *shrug*)
DanteE: "Hey Snow... you know where Mexico is?"
Theresa: (I can't do Lesser Changes of Realm. I'm lucky to do Ghosts.)
Random_Nerd: William: "They did say an Estate was under attack. And Spanish is an important language to have for Earth duty."
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Okay, give me a moment. I'll requisition it."
Theresa: "And if something happens to us, you guys get to keep the copter. True, you'll be in Mexico, but..."
Random_Nerd: He touches the silver marble sticking out of his head-area, and goes still.
DanteE: "While we're at it...
Theresa: (oo, they have brain-uploading capabilities!)
Random_Nerd: Only a few bits of him drift slightly in a breeze.
DanteE: describe the pilot?
Brian: "Have you seen the Matrix?"
Snow: "Nuh uh," Snow replies to Dante.
Random_Nerd: (He's about 27. Looks a bit bored. Wearing sunglasses and noise-cancelling headphones, the latter of which are off his ears at the moment.)
DanteE: (he ain't gonna be bored for long...)
Random_Nerd: Samuel shudders a bit.

• DanteE goes to the pilot...
  

DanteE: "Hi there. How do you feel about flying to Mexico? Don't worry, there's a shortcut."
Random_Nerd: Samuel mutters to William in a Dionyl language: "Something seems odd about the /res/. Remind me to ask about that."
DanteE: (what's /res/?)
Random_Nerd: (You don't know.)
Random_Nerd: (The /s are because he inflected that word oddly.)
Brian: (I feel the need to point out that it's 11:27 PM)

• Snow pokes her head out from Dante's pocket. "Can we go there fast pleeease?"
  

Random_Nerd: Pilot: "A shortcut... to Mexico."
DanteE: "That's what this thing's for."
Random_Nerd: (For the record, anyone with at least Aspect 2 could pick up helicopter driving in a few minutes if he or she wanted to.)
Random_Nerd: Samuel stops shuddering.
DanteE: "Or, y'know, I could fly it.
DanteE: "Up to you."
Random_Nerd: Samuel, in spanish: "Okay, I'm ready."
Random_Nerd: The Bureau bus pulls over at the nearest road.
Theresa: "Bueno."

• Snow goes quiet, thinking.
  

Snow: (Could Snow do a Realm divination of the quickest Forest route to the place they want to be?)
Random_Nerd: (Yes.)
Snow: (This idea courtesy of Beth. ;))
Snow: (She does so then, please. :))
Random_Nerd: (And you want a Forest path, not an alley or an elevator?)
Snow: (Can they do Urban, without James?)
Random_Nerd: (Yes. He's AWOL, but the Chancel still works properly.)
DanteE: (Can we find a passage we can fly through?)
Theresa: (Can we fit the helicopter in an elevator?)
Random_Nerd: (No. But some of the paths in the chancel boundery lead to cities.)
Snow: (Maybe they could enter over a busy street? That'd be kinda Urban-y...)
Theresa: (Plus, Jim said small towns in Mexico. Forest is likely to be closer.)
DanteE: (maybe if we fly just so between the skyscrapers downtown)
Snow: (Ah, good point. Forest is better then.)
Random_Nerd: (Okay, now, the place where it's happening is /small/. A relatively poor place, and not too built up. No path leads directly there.)
DanteE: to the pilot: "Know what, it would probably be better if we drove.
Random_Nerd: (But on the other hand, the Chancel has all /kinds/ of paths to Mexico City. It's one of the biggest path-magnets in the world. And you could be at the site by helicopter in an hour and a half.)
DanteE: (er, I mean flew...)
Random_Nerd: (Probably an hour, with high-Aspect flying.)

• DanteE does a Realm-Div on the copter to learn allllll about it.
  
• Snow whispers to Dante her best guess as to how to get there. She then retreats to his pocket and curls up into a tight ball.
  

Random_Nerd: (You know know what all the switches do, and how all of the bits of the helicopter work.)
Theresa: (Okay, then Mexico City, then.)
Brian: (reasonable spot to end for the night?)
Random_Nerd: (Seems that way to me.)
Snow: (Works for me.)
DanteE: (But we won't to get to the warp-tunnel description and Snow going 'eek!' at it all!  :D )
Theresa: (Nah, knowing RN, it'll be more like the ride in Willy Wonka.)_
Snow: (*laugh*)
Snow: (less "eek!"y with the ache.)
Random_Nerd: ________________STOP______________
DanteE: (no, the real 'eek' part is when I do a Kusanagi entrance later. :)
Random_Nerd: (Oh, wait.)
Random_Nerd: (Did you want to talk to Lesson before we stop?)
Snow: Not to bail, but I have a shitload of work to do on my white paper still. I have to scram, guys, but thanks for the game!

• Snow waves and poofs!
  
  • • Snow has left #nobilis.
      

Random_Nerd: S'fine. See you around.
DanteE: We'll talk to LEsson first thing next week. :)
Random_Nerd: Okay.
Random_Nerd: Thoughts on this game?
Theresa: We should at least tell him to take care of things while we're gone and if bad things happen, pray to us and Carrie and we zoom.
Brian: Brian will do his best to take care of and protect both Theresa and Snow in the coming weeks

• • • You are now known as BethE.
      
    • DanteE is now known as Knockwood.
      

Brian: but otherwise mostly stay passive, unless the players really need help from the GM :-P
Knockwood: assuming we game at all...

• • • Brian is now known as Laz.
      

Laz: true.
Knockwood: I'll probably be MIA 20th and 27th
Knockwood: maybe not, though...
Random_Nerd: And that's fine.
BethE: The mouse in shirt pocketting is cute.
Random_Nerd: At worst, we'll start up agian in January.
BethE: And it's fun seeing someone become a Noble brandnew. At least without the bumps that we went through.
BethE: My fave part was probably the stopping of the Sam-tackling. That might have been...awkward.
BethE: And the fight practice was interesting as I'm trying to stretch my thoughts in doing Noble-fights.
Knockwood: and I should just do what I do best, barge through things. :)
Laz: I enjoyed the food sidebar :-P
Knockwood: well, she's supposedly a carnivore, remember.
Laz: yep
BethE: So the food people made the food with extra care for the Beloved Brian?
Random_Nerd: Yeah, if you tried to tackle Sam, you'd probably pass /through/ him.
Random_Nerd: Yeah, they did. Everyone in-chancel loves Brian.
BethE: (And probably wanted autographs. Hmm...*considers saying 'Beloved Leader' in a Boris and Natasha voice* *As Fearless Leader would be Dante.*)
Random_Nerd: Imagine if, when Elvis was big, he stopped by the restaraunt you work at and ordered a cheeseburger. You'd try to make the best damn cheeseburger you could.
BethE: But also if you tackled Sam, not only would you pass through him, but it could possibly be considered an attack.
Knockwood: Now that's just silly. He'd order triple-cheeses if anything. :)
Knockwood: "Yeah, and just... fill that there container with fries." "That's the mop bucket, sir."
Random_Nerd: What if it was the Thin Elvis?
Laz: anyway, I'm going to say good night and head downstairs now. see y'all later
Random_Nerd: G'night, Laz.
Knockwood: g'night Laz
Random_Nerd: See you week after nect.
Random_Nerd: Next.

• • • Laz has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Leaving.).
      

BethE: I can't think of anything I have a problem with in the game.
BethE: Although fights are still a bit hard in my head, thinking of nonDomain stuff in case of Cult.
Random_Nerd: You do have Aspect 2.
BethE: True. What level is that like? Lightfoot? My own wirework crew?
Random_Nerd: Jackie Chan.
Knockwood: OK, let's review: my fellow Noble--the one being attacked--is cowering in my shirt pocket because of the noisy helicopter we just appropriated which I'll probably wind up flying with no prior experience into a dimensional vortex heading for Mexico to hunt down what may or may not be an excrucian chupacabra.
Random_Nerd: If Jackie Chan could pull it off, with carefully pre-arranged fight coreography, multiple takes, and time to practice, you can do it off the top of your head.
BethE: And you just had the best cheeseburger possible without magical means.
Knockwood: ...I'm OK with it. You?
BethE: The cheeseburger makes it all better.
BethE: And hey, better shirt pocket than elsewhere. <g>
Knockwood: maybe we should have gone really exotic and ordered poutine. :)
BethE: And I'm not sure, but when this is eventually posted, your summary may be the teaser.
Knockwood: with your tagline, sure. :)
Random_Nerd: Nah...
BethE: A good cheeseburger is worth its weight in MP.
Random_Nerd: (Link: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=6658160)http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=6658160
BethE: Hmm...how secretive is the Aides organization about their devices and SOP?
Random_Nerd: Moderately?
BethE: Glad you could get a thread from it, love. <G>
Random_Nerd: They'd be willing to discuss something of how the devices work, and what they can do, but less so about the thing they tap into.
Knockwood: maybe I should change my name to Captain Banzai. :)
Random_Nerd: Basically, they're using a sort of tool normally used by cleaves of Nobles, but which I've decided that the Aides and the Camorra probably also have access to.
Random_Nerd: Maybe the Botanists too, I'm not sure.
BethE: Thing they tap into? I'm a little confused between that term and tapping the silver ball.
Random_Nerd: The balls connect to another thing.
BethE: Ahh.
Knockwood: ooh... Theresa still needs to talk with the Cleave.
Knockwood: And I should hope their balls.... naah, way too easy.
BethE: *smile* Just said that off-screen, Knock. Followed with, "...That might be a bad idea."

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