Session 63

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 8

BethE: RN will be in in just a moment. He's finishing something..or else killing a gnome, I'm not sure.
Etheric: Heh.
BethE: His main Warcraft character got a very very nice hammer the other day. He christened it properly by killing everyone in the Scarlet Monestary with it and then killed some gnomes in a battleground with it.
Etheric: Would anyone object to one of the players in my Weapons of the Gods game also observing? He wanted to see what Nobilis game was crazy enough to have taken me originally as a player.  ;)
BethE: It's fine with me.  :)
Sara: Ditto!
lazarus: I'm always fine with people watching ...
Sara: Epic, Beth?

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Etheric: Okay, I'll tell him where the game is then.  :)
Random_Nerd: Hey.
lazarus: Epic Beth!
lazarus: RN, howdy!

• • • Mode change "+o Random_Nerd" for channel #Nobilis by Sara.
      

BethE: Sara -dunno. Ask him. It's his big hammer.  :)
Etheric: Hi, RN. Here to watch, as we discussed.
Sara: Hey RN :)
lazarus: no op powers for you... bah. There goes Sara ruining my fun :-P
Sara: RN--new epic hammer?
BethE: (One moment, he's getting something to drink...()
Sara: When he showed it to you, was it purple?
BethE: Hmm, and the commentary about people crazy and Nobilis reminds me that I haven't updated the Wiki in quite a while.
BethE: No, it was a blue.
Sara: That reminds me, I couldn't figure out how to get Snow's character sheet loaded there. It's uploaded, if anyone can link it to her name...
Sara: Aaah. Still, cool!  :)
BethE: Oh, and I was going to fiz that too...
BethE: fix even
Random_Nerd: Just a blue from the Underbog, but it's really slow, so it does a very memorable windfury.
lazarus: it occurred to me that it's funny that our Noble of Caprice changes forms.
Sara: Funny, or apt?
lazarus: both, really

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BethE: Hi Knock!

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

Sara: Hey Knock :)
lazarus: that's who we're missing!
Knockwood: Hi gang...
Knockwood: hey, everyone's here. Kewl. :)
lazarus: (*counts: 1,2,3,4,5 ... but something's not right ...*)
Knockwood: WB Eth
Random_Nerd: So, is everyone ready?
BethE: (*reads* Good grief, Snow's Honest? We have two of them now?)

• • • You are now known as Theresa.
      
    • lazarus is now known as Brian.
      
    • Knockwood is now known as DanteE.
      
    • Mode change "-o Etheric" for channel #Nobilis by Etheric.
      

Brian: (erm: where's Snow's sheet defined?)

• • • Sara is now known as Snow.
      

Snow: Sec
Theresa: Fixing SNow's sheet right now...
Theresa: There!
Snow: Ah, thanks Beth.
Snow: Thanks! I'll edit it better later, but those're the bare bones.
Random_Nerd: Now, when we last left our party, they'd killed two of the Excrucians, had one retreat, and everyone but Dante was down to surface wounds.
Theresa: Sara - just need to remember that wiki html is not normal html.
DanteE: (not that I'm much better...)
Theresa: (I thought I wasn't down to surface wound yet...)
Brian: oh, yeah - I forgot to ask if I can fiddle with Bonds (specifically to assign points off to Snow and Theresa)
Random_Nerd: (Ah, you still had a serious wound too?)
Theresa: (I thought so.)
Theresa: (I hadn't quite gotten to squirrel cough death yet.)
Random_Nerd: (Okay. Anyone have any questions before we begin?)
Brian: can I fiddle with bonds slightly?
Random_Nerd: Oh, sure.
DanteE: don't make 'em too tight. :)
Theresa: Hey Dante is one of Snow's Bonds. <G>
DanteE: can we get a damage report for the area?
Snow: Sorry, mom just came in. Back.
Snow: 'coz Dante has done stuff for Snow.  :P
Random_Nerd: Let's see. Snow and Brian were down to... one surface wound?
DanteE: by that logic I should be on everyone's list... :)
Brian: done. My unassigned points are now assigned, and 2 points dropped from Further Education.
Brian: I was down to full Surface Wounds track for A0
Random_Nerd: Okay. And Dante had the most, because they weren't expecting him to have sacrosanct.
Snow: I thought I had two surface wounds left, but I didn't mention it last game.
DanteE: (Been thinking of bumping that to Immortal, but that's for later)
DanteE: and Snow _really_ needs Durant.
Etheric: (But if you were Immortal how can you exhibit true courage?)
Random_Nerd: Shall we say two Serious wounds left for Dante, one left for Theresa, two surface wounds left for the other two?
Snow: *nodnod* Please.
Brian: I thought that was the count, yes
Theresa: I'm good with that. Mostly dead, but still good.
Brian: good to go!
DanteE: beats 'red smear' by a mile.
Brian: unless it's a mile-long red smear
Brian: or is it then just a further mile away?

• Brian pounds that joke into the ground :-P
  

Random_Nerd: Ready?
Theresa: Ready!
Brian: ready!
DanteE: OK
Random_Nerd: Oh, hold on...
Snow: Tease.
Random_Nerd: I need to make a phone call. Sorry, but it's my grandfather's birthday.
DanteE: good excuse. :)
Theresa: (It's my fault folks. i forgot to remind him earlier. *hangs head*)
DanteE: I can grab some dinner real quick...
Snow: Monster Smackdown just finished downloading. Swank.
Theresa: Let's see...which one is that one? The Angel one?
Snow: Nah, the monster compendium for Buffy.
Snow: Angel's the only one I don't have now.
Theresa: *thinks* I then have Monster Smackdown..._somewhere_ in this apartment.
DanteE: coming soon... clutter smackdown!
Theresa: Heh.  :) Not in this apartment.
Random_Nerd: Hey. Back. He was already in bed, but I talked to my grandmother, who passed it along.
Random_Nerd: Ready?
Snow: Ready!
Random_Nerd: __________________START_________________
Random_Nerd: The ground is littered with various types of blood, torn up from various miracles, and generally blown all to hell.

• Theresa uggs. This hurts more than what the bunny did.
  

Brian: "Snow? How are you feeling?"
Random_Nerd: Also, apparantly the nearby house was knocked down in the middle of the fight, probably by one of the Winds of Hate.

• Snow is curled into a girl-ball. She licks a gash on her arm. "Hurt," she mutters, then continues licking.
  

DanteE: what happened to the people who disappeared at the beginning of the fight,
Brian: (remind me how healing works?)
Random_Nerd: (There's a slow automatic rate of healing. Healing faster is a Miracle of Aspect.)
Random_Nerd: (The people who vanished... seem not to be here now.)
Theresa: "What do we know about Warmains?"
Theresa: "Besides the whole tough flahsy bastards part."
Brian: "Not much? They hit people then die?"
Etheric: (Too bad Dante's Destruction of Damage gift doesn't fix damage to Nobles.)
DanteE: "... how many mortals are gone?"
Theresa: "I think all of the ones that were here with us...I hope not the whole town, but..."
DanteE: Div-Courage on the downed house
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. What are you looking for, exactly?)
DanteE: (if there's anybody in the wreckage)
Random_Nerd: (There is, actually. Two people, the woman and the girl, both of whom were indoors when things went down.)
DanteE: "Mom and kid are still in there..."
DanteE: "Theresa, can you help me get them out?"

• Snow lounges on the ground, basking in the sun, unconcerned.
  
• Theresa takes a few painful steps and shrugs her shoulders a little. "Yeah, just point me in the right direction...they're still alive?"
  
• DanteE tries to dig the two out...
  

Random_Nerd: (They're alive. Not /very alive, but they haven't actually died yet.)
Brian: "Only the physical hurt now? Or does Caprice still hurt?"

• Theresa helps. Talks to Dante while they are working. "You know, all of the crap that we're seeing Mythically, what if that stuff keeps going even though the Excrucians are (mostly) dead?"
  

Snow: "Still hurt," Snow says. "Now I hurt both hurts."
DanteE: "I think it's tied to the people... which means if we fix them we can help Caprice"
Brian: "Anything I can do?"
DanteE: "Brian, Snow, how badly hurt are you?"
Brian: "I'm still alive"
Snow: "Me too."
Theresa: "Well, that's a start...Has anything changed in your Estate, Snow? Or in how everything looks around here?"
Snow: "I can fix the people, but silver man'll make more sick people."
Snow: (I think everything looks the same as before, right RN?)
Random_Nerd: (The grey sickness is still there.)
Snow: "Looks bad still."
Random_Nerd: (But that's not, precisely, the same thing as the attack on Caprice, although it's related.)
DanteE: (Did we dig them up yet?)
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, or at least, dug to them.)
Random_Nerd: (From the way they look, it doesn't look like moving them would be a good idea.)
Theresa: "At the moment, I think the silver man needs to worry about not falling over and dying. Plus, he knows that we're on to him and if he tries again, we will cause him hurt and shame."

• Snow looks thoughtful. "Dunno. He almost killed us good."
  
• DanteE pulls them out and heals them
  

Random_Nerd: (Oh, and all of you look like /hell/. Rather like Martyrs, really.)
Brian: (ah well, can't be helped)

• DanteE guises some skin back on...
  

Brian: "He had friends there"
Theresa: "Maybe try and keep them knocked out, Dante? We're not in the best of fashion at the moment."
DanteE: "Don't know if they'll survive that..."
Theresa: "And remind me never to take Warmains on almost-one-on-one. I will now prefer to deal with them by sniping at a long distance."
DanteE: "Plus... the girl's caprice, we know where it is."
Random_Nerd: (Also, Snow and Brian probably have at least a third of their bones broken. They can still walk, because they're Nobles, but... ow.)
Snow: "It's dead now."

• Snow doesn't seem inclined to move much.
  

DanteE: "There's more, right?"
Theresa: "Oh, wait..." *goes to the woman and girl and individually tells them to please keep their eyes shut until Theresa tells them it's okay.*
Snow: "Everybody's got their own. This girl's is dead. So...no."
Brian: "Can you give her more?"
Brian: "Heal her?"

• Snow sighs. "I'm tired. I can fix her, but I can't fix the others. Or I can make one more Whimsy, but if it gets killed again, I can't do more."
  

DanteE: "Can you re-do what you tried before the attack?"

• Snow nods.
  

DanteE: "Come to think of it...
Snow: "Gotta find a bit of me first though."
DanteE: "Let me show you something Nobles do.
DanteE: "A thing called a Nettle Rite."

• Snow watches.
  

DanteE: "Let's start with the guy whose head you ate..."

• Snow licks her lips.
  

Snow: "Tasted like head."
Snow: (...*facepalm*)
Theresa: (*pat pat pat*)
DanteE: (In game terms: get a AMP, use it to heal. :)
Snow: (Automatically?)
Snow: (I don't have to do anything?)
Random_Nerd: (The rules on healing are on page 165 of the white book.)

• Theresa ponders. "I wonder what would happen if you ate his heart. Does it have to be fresh? Would you get some of his powers or whatever he has already destroyed from the Universe?"
  

Snow: (*makes no-white-book-motions*)
Random_Nerd: (Let me summarize Snow's situation.)
Random_Nerd: (Now, she doesn't have Durant, right?)
Snow: (Correct.)
Random_Nerd: (So, she heals a surface wound in a day, a serious wound in a week, and a deadly wound in a month.)
Random_Nerd: (For one AMP, she can heal at the rate of a Durant person, at a surface an hour, a serious a day, and a deadly a week.)
Snow: (*nods* Nettle rite is easy? Fast? Slow?)
Theresa: (We're Shiny that wayu.)
Theresa: (way even. Okay, who forgot to spray the channel for Typo Fairies...)
Random_Nerd: (For two, she can heal at the rate of a Sancrosanct person, with a surface a minute, a serious an hour, and a deadly a day.)
DanteE: (she's protected.)
DanteE: (The typo fairy is
Random_Nerd: (Now, you heal surface, then serious, then deadly.)
DanteE: (Immortal with Spirit 10)
Snow: (*nod*)
Random_Nerd: (And wounds from a Word of Command /always/ take a month or more to heal, even if you're an Aspect 5 Immortal.)
DanteE: "Now... if you manage to unravel whatever they did to your estate, you can bite them back harder."
Theresa: (Because those are Serious Business...Yo.)
Snow: (So how does she do it?)
DanteE: (Use the 1 AMP she's get from the dead Ex to do an Aspect miracle of put-your-ass-back-together?)
Snow: (Sorry, I get that--she just automatically gets the 1 AMP?)
Snow: (She doesn't have to do a jig or anything?)
DanteE: (She gets 1 MP of her choice via Nettle Rite)
Brian: (The Nettle Rite is a Thing. I believe it takes a Miraculous Action?)
Random_Nerd: (Well, if you're doing a Nettle Rite, tell me who you're doing it on, and what thing they cared about that you defiled.)
DanteE: (which involves saying a few phrases while crushing nettles)
Theresa: (And Snow knows it automatically. Hand her a nettle and she knows how to do it.)
Snow: (AMP then, of course. Spent accordingly.)
Theresa: (Hmm..I would say that we defiled their honor and their mission. Oh and she killed him too.)
Snow: (She can automatically summon a nettle up?)
Random_Nerd: (No, but Theresa can.)
Random_Nerd: (Remember, destroying anything is, at most, trivial damage.)
DanteE: (Theresa can pull them out of her ear. :)
Snow: "Theresa? Can I have a nettle?"
Theresa: (INot at the moment. I'll have to spend some of the stored DP for it. The penalty for being this hurt...)
Random_Nerd: (You want serious nettling, you have to take something they love, and turn it against them with malicious glee.)

• DanteE checks on the mom & girl (Div-Courage)
  

Snow: (Hm. Any nettles around?)
Random_Nerd: (She's dying, but not dead.)
Theresa: (Ehh, I can spend it, if you want. i don't think nettles would be that plentiful in this part of Mexico.)
Random_Nerd: (Also, remember that when you stop an Excrucian plan, it always counts as at least a 5 point Bond.)
Snow: (*sheepish* Sorry.)
Theresa: (A 5 point Bond of theirs? Sweet!)
Theresa: (Oh, no, it's okay.  :) You can look for them first and then ask for one if you don't fine one.)
Theresa: (find even)
Random_Nerd: (5-10, depending how elaborate the plan and how long they spent on the groundwork.)
Random_Nerd: (This was a fairly simple smash-and-grab thrown together at short notice, so it's probably 5 or 6.)
DanteE: (But we have to do more to get those points, right?)

• Snow flicks into coyote form, and sniffs for some nettles.
  

Random_Nerd: (Yes, you haven't stopped them /yet/.)
Theresa: (Oh, wait....I just got clarified. I _can_ pull them out of my ear for free still.  :) )
DanteE: (Considering we were specifically after an attack, I'd bet Theresa made some nettles beforehand. :)
Snow: (Oh! Okay, yay!)

• Theresa holds a hand out to Snow. "Here you go, Snow."
  

Theresa: Nettles go *poof* in her hand.

• Snow flicks back into human form, and proceeds to crush the nettles over the knight's corpse, muttering quietly as she does so.
  

Snow: "Sorry for ruining your plan and stuff. Uh. So yeah. Make me feel better now."

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Random_Nerd: (So, you're doing a Nettling on the knight? He's, err, dead.)

• • • BingXian is now known as RiotGearEpsilon.
      

Snow: (I'm sorry, I thought that was the point?)
RiotGearEpsilon: (I'm observing alongside Etheric.)
DanteE: (YEah, she can still use the 1 MP)
Theresa: (Hello fellow member of the Wulin.  :) )
Random_Nerd: (But who is she nettling?)
Snow: (Knight guy. Can she nettle Silver Guy?)
DanteE: (DIdn't I nettle the first guy?)
Random_Nerd: (Not as far as I know.)

• DanteE heads for the funeral pyre...
  

Snow: (This is getting crazy. Permission to just use a DP as an AMP for now? I'll restore it later with a Harvest.)
Random_Nerd: (I know you talked about it, let me check.)
DanteE: (I'm thinking: we can eash get 1 MP for the dead guys, and more if we wipe out their plan... as well as a bunch of DPs)
Theresa: (But you can't Nettle the dead.)
Random_Nerd: (Well, a Nettling has to be done on a particular person.)
Theresa: (Once they're dead, they don't exist, so to speak?)
Random_Nerd: (And it has to be someone who has miracle points, and isn't, y'know, dead.)
Snow: (Seriously, I'm fine with leaving this. Snow can still make another Whimsy.)
DanteE: (Then, how'd I get an MP from the guy in my trunk?)
Theresa: (Sidenote - all of the logs are current on the Wiki now up to tonight.)
Theresa: (How about we table it for now and just spend the DP?)
Brian: (Go ahead and use the DP)
Snow: ('kay, thanks Beth.)
Random_Nerd: (Which session do you think you nettled him in?)

• Snow still flicks into coyote form, and uses an AMP to speed up her healing.
  

Random_Nerd: (Still, if I did let you nettle him, either I misinterpreted what you were saying, or I was tired and made a wrong rules call.)

• Snow then does a Lesser Div of Caprice in the area to see if she can sense where the nearest changed whim is.
  

Random_Nerd: (Now, if the latter was the case, I'm not going to retroactively take the MP away, but neither will it be a precedent.)
DanteE: (Session 15... and I was nettling the Ex who lost his precious Shard)
DanteE: (I got confused. :)
Etheric: (That's what I thought had happened too. Except I thought it had been Brian who Nettled the Excrucian.)
DanteE: (I'm talking about the one that became Ick)
Brian: (I'm all confused, zam)
Etheric: (If I'm following, Dante is talking about the chaos-theory storyline.)
DanteE: (Well, the point is to get a couple of MPs so Snow doesn't rattle when she walks and can unravel their main plot)
DanteE: (Yeah, remember, the first Shard we faced?)
DanteE: (I nettled the Ex for losing his Shard, but since we killed him it was Trivial damage.
DanteE: (Then you undid their main plan for a bunch more points)
Random_Nerd: (Plan isn't quite over yet. She's still suffering the pains of Domain In Trouble.)
Random_Nerd: (As well as the pains of My Kneecaps Just Went Through My Lungs.)
Snow: (Where's the nearest Caprice, Hollyhock dude?)
DanteE: (If she can use the few MPs from the dead shard to mitigate the latter she can fix the Domain in Trouble thing and get a lot more. :)
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Counting only animate ones?)
Random_Nerd: (That's nice, Dante. But I don't think you've presented me with a way she can do that.)
Snow: (Wait. Can she Greater Create the dead caprice back to life?)
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. She could probably return it to life with a lesser destruction with included creation.)
Random_Nerd: (And that'd retain the effects of the Change you did to it.)
DanteE: (can I bring it back with my Gift?)
Random_Nerd: (Too different. Your gift works on people, maybe animals, but not whimsies.)
Snow: (Hm! I originally have 4 Domain. I'm down to 2 Surface Wounds. How many DMPs would it cost me?)
Brian: (sorry, not really conscious enough now to continue the playing. Brain no longer processing well)
Random_Nerd: (Let me see, Sara.)
Random_Nerd: (It would cost three DMPs, one to go up to a Lesser Dest, and two more for the penalty.)
Random_Nerd: (G'night, Laz.)
DanteE: (g'night Laz...)
Snow: (May I use one Dynasty Point to bump up my 2 existing DMPs?)
Brian: (I'll stick around some more, but I wont be contributing mroe tonight)
DanteE: (I'm OK with it)
Snow: (Thank you!)

• Snow will proceed to do just that, then. Lesser destruction with included creation...and poof, alive Whimsy!
  

Theresa: (Can we see the Whimsy with normal sight?)
Random_Nerd: (You can. It's physically manifest.)
Theresa: (Ooo...)
Random_Nerd: (It looks a bit like a bird, and a bit like a bug, and a lot like a "I really need to stop drinking.")

• Snow gives the Whimsy a few affectionate licks before it goes on its way.
  
• Theresa stares a little. This is the first one that she's seen, since she was with the Burn the War-Main group earlier.
  

DanteE: "That one will go and collect the others, right?"

• Snow nods.
  

Random_Nerd: The shiny red Whimsy flies off.
Snow: "Fix 'em. Send 'em back to their owners. Then if they can't find them, they'll come back to me."
DanteE: "That means you'll stop hurting... from that, anyway.

• Snow nods. "'less someone kills it again."
  

Snow: "I wanna go kill silver man, but I'm tired."
DanteE: "If I remember right, coyotes hole up in a cave or something to heal.
Theresa: "Let's wait a little bit before we go off killing other stuff. Now, what do you all think this...blah about everything is?"

• Snow does a coyote-shrug. "I wanna go home, yeah. Find a nice den, with a nice warm mate to curl up with. But Theresa's right. Everything's still all wrong."
  

DanteE: "When this is taken care of... come and stay with us in the clock tower.

• Snow perks.
  

Snow: "You wanna be my mate?"
DanteE: "Think of it as a nice, warm den. With cable."
DanteE: "Aaaahhhhhhh....."
Random_Nerd: (There is still the greyness. Now, I mention because you may have forgotten, anyone who has at least Realm 2 can divine back to the Whispering Library without MPs.)
Theresa: (I wish I had Joss. I wish I had DP...I wish I wish I wish...)
Random_Nerd: (When the hot shapeshifting chick asks you to mate with her, you /say yes/.)
Snow: "Maybe we should ask Kudzu why he wanted to take away parts of me."
Theresa: (She'll be flexible once she mends all of those broken bones...)
Snow: (*nods*)
Theresa: "Snow...can you feel things at home right now?"
DanteE: (Is the greyness going away?)
Random_Nerd: (It is not.)

• Snow thinks about home, feeling what she can, checking if things are okay.
  

Random_Nerd: (The area is blighted. It's got the spiritual equivilent of radioactive fallout.)
DanteE: (We automatically know what's covered in the GWB, right?)

• Snow yips. "Not good! Not good in Amyra at all!"
  

Random_Nerd: (As it is, humans could live here, but they'd be effectively very sick.)
Snow: (Oh! I meant Amyra. It's blighted in Amyra?)
Random_Nerd: (Oh, no. Amyra is fine.)
Snow: (Retcon, then, of course.)
Random_Nerd: (Basically, I figure that you've had enough access to information that we can assume you know something in the GWB as long as it's something your character would be interested in.)
Snow: "Home's okay."
DanteE: "We need to find the center of this blight, I think.":
Random_Nerd: (The "the area is blighted" was in response to Dante's "(Is the greyness going away?)".)
Theresa: "Could you use that feeling to listen to the Library at home to see what we need to do to get rid of this blight?"

• Snow proceeds to do so.
  

Theresa: (Can Theresa use her Noble-seeker Gift to find the blightstone?)
DanteE: How are the mom & kid doing, BTW?
Random_Nerd: (She can't, because the blightstone is not a Noble.)
Random_Nerd: (Did you heal them, Dante?)
DanteE: (Yeah, then Theresa encouraged them to keep their eyes shut)
Random_Nerd: (Yeah. So they're doing okay, more or less. They're kinda catatonic, though.)
Snow: (Does Snow hear anything of use in the library?)

• Snow says absently, "So, why'd Kudzu wanna send people to hurt me, if I'm him?"
  

Theresa: "I don't know, Snow. We'll have to ask him. Maybe he wanted to see how strong you are. And you are _very_ strong."
Random_Nerd: (Snow, you hear about something called a blightstone, that Warmains use.)
Theresa: (We have yet to introduce Snow to the "Kudzu is a dick" theory...)
Random_Nerd: (It's a tiny stone that basically puts a curse on the place where it is.)
Snow: (Any way to find out where one is?)
Random_Nerd: (Lots of ways.)

• • • Brian has left #Nobilis.
      

Theresa: (Cover the ground in people and wherever one dies first, bam! There it is!)
Snow: (Snow will pick the one that she can do easiest, if that helps narrow things down...?)
Random_Nerd: (The easiest one is having it get stuck in your shoe and give you a blister.)
Random_Nerd: (Beyond that, well, it's in the "there are lots of ways to go about this, but it's not like there's a Top Ten Ways To Get Rid Of A Blightstone list.)
Snow: (Aaah. Hrm.)
Snow: "It's a blightstone. We gotta find it."
Random_Nerd: (It's something tiny but miraculously powerful, radiating evil energy around it. You tell /me/ how your characters would deal with something like that.)
DanteE: "Wait...
DanteE: "You can control that whimsy you just revived, right?"
Theresa: (Look in the Mythic Realm for badness.)
Snow: (Can I?)
Random_Nerd: (Also, you can remove the blight with big miracles of stuff like Health or whatever, or Realm miracles if it's in-chancel. But none of you are in much shape to do civic-scale miracles.)

• Snow will look in the Mythic Realm to see what she sees.
  

Random_Nerd: (The whimsy? Hmm. You could probably put thoughts in its head, that it may or may not act on. Or you could Change it into a whimsy that wants to do whatever you want it to do.)
Snow: (Got no more DMPs. No more changes please.)
DanteE: (Hm.... by instinct, it'd want to both find other whimseys and stay out of the blighted area...
Random_Nerd: (Mythically, the ground is really bruised and is drinking a bottle of fortified wine. The house is a pile of severed limbs. What in particular do you look at?)
Random_Nerd: (Well, you can't do both. The blighted area is also where the other incarnate whimsies /are/.)
DanteE: (If we analyze its flight path we might be able to get at least a vague guess as to where it's inclined to avoid)
Snow: (She continues to look around to see if she can find something that looks like a blightstone. Evil. Malicious, maybe.)
DanteE: (Hold on...)

• Theresa talks to the spirit of the ground. "Sorry about the fight there. We're looking for what is poisoning you."
  

DanteE: "Brian, Snow... hide for a minute.
Random_Nerd: (Well, the whimsy can't see anything you can't, in terms of the blight. Less, really, because it doesn't have as many modes of perception.)
Random_Nerd: (It just knows that it feels sick.)
Snow: (Ask it where it hurts, Theresa?)
DanteE: "Theresa, guise yourself...

• DanteE goes to the kid and mom.
  
• Snow flicks into the form of a mouse, and crawls into Dante's pocket.
  

Random_Nerd: (Well, the pools of excrucian blood seem a bit... creepy.)
Random_Nerd: (They're leering at you.)
Snow: (Ew...)
DanteE: "Hey... can you help us?
Random_Nerd: (The horse remains standing by the hole in the ground, looking rather sad.)
Random_Nerd: The kid shakes.
DanteE: "We're looking for whatever's poisoning the area, kind of.

• Theresa will guise, thinking.
  

Snow: (The horse is visible in mundane sight?)
DanteE: (is it an evil anti-horse? :)
Random_Nerd: (It's not an evil anti-horse. It's like what the idea of a horse would look like, if you put skin and hooves and so on onto it.)
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, the horse is mundanely visible. But it looks more mopey in mythic sight.)
Random_Nerd: (Horses don't have all that expressive faces, mundanely.)
Random_Nerd: The ground looks at Theresa, shrugs, and takes another swig.
DanteE: (Wait, what's the booze represent?)
Theresa: *to ground* "Can you point to where it hurts the most?"
Random_Nerd: The ground points to the huge gaping hole Theresa and Snow made.
Random_Nerd: Then it gives Theresa a very dirty look.
Snow: (*snicker*)
Theresa: "Ahh. Yeah, that would make sense. How about where it hurt the most _before_ we arrived?"

• Theresa will create roots to move the dirt back better into the holes that she and Snow created.
  

Random_Nerd: The ground glares, and breaks the bottom off its bottle on a chunk of house.
Random_Nerd: (That, before the roots.)
Random_Nerd: Then it sighs, and puts the bottle down.
Theresa: "It'll be okay. Really. We want to take away the poison and we're making sure that the holes we caused will be fixed as well. Once our job is finished here, we'll leave you alone."
Random_Nerd: Ground, in drunk voice: "I dunno nothing about no poison."
Random_Nerd: "Been feeling crappy, but eh, it happens."
Theresa: "Okay. Change of topic...where'd you get the nice drink?"
DanteE: (did the kid & mom respond to me?)
Snow: (You didn't ask a question.)
Random_Nerd: (As for what the booze represents, eh, it's a metaphor.)
Random_Nerd: (Intepret it as you will.)
Snow: (Ground is a lush!)
DanteE: "You didn't happen to see a dark stone, or maybe somebody burying or hiding something odd right as all this started, did you?"
Random_Nerd: (Mythically, it's booze. What it corresponds to in prosaic terms isn't fully clear.)
Random_Nerd: The ground looks up at the mention of stones.
Random_Nerd: "How dark?"

• Snow pokes her head out of Dante's pocket and looks around.
  

DanteE: "Real dark."
Random_Nerd: "There are seven thousand three hundred and thirty eight really dark stones visible to me."
DanteE: "Is there one that is painful to you, or just feels odd?"
Random_Nerd: It scratches its chin.
Snow: (How about a recent one, that was put into him in an abnormal way?)
Random_Nerd: "Nothing particular seems to feel odd..."
Random_Nerd: (And the stone's effect is spread out over a large area. It isn't significantly stronger at the center.)
DanteE: "Did someone recently 'plant' a rock in you?"
Theresa: (We just planted an Excrucian...)
DanteE: (He's not a rock)
Random_Nerd: "New rock. Got a few new rocks."
Theresa: (True, but he's high on list of weird things planted recently.  :) )
DanteE: "Can you tell us where?"
Random_Nerd: "Mostly by the big thing that flew down a few hours ago. Got seven new rocks there."
Theresa: "Hmm...anywhere else?"
Theresa: (Because that would be rocks from Amyra.)
Random_Nerd: "Hmm. Around my belly."
Random_Nerd: He points over about five miles into town.

• Snow scampers out of Dante's pocket, seemingly unconcerned by all this talk about rocks.
  

Theresa: "Hmm..I'll go check it out...want to come with, Snow?"
DanteE: "Hold on..."

• Snow shakes her head, and flicks into human form. "One sec. I broke somethin', I forgot."
  

DanteE: (Can you create without blowing MPs?)

• Snow goes over to the horse, and peers at it.
  

Theresa: (I can.)
DanteE: (Can you make them a new house?)
Random_Nerd: (It'd take her a series of miracles, but all of them would be free as long as it was just wood.)
Theresa: (Yes, although everything will be wood. Might just be better to copter them into a town or something. *thinks* Did anyone else in the town survive?)
DanteE: (What about just un-blowing-over the one they had?)

• Snow presses her bloody arm into the horse's mouth.
  

Theresa: (She's wha? )
Random_Nerd: (Well, the house wasn't just knocked over, it was smashed to rubble.)
Theresa: "Snow, are you sure you want to do that?"

• Snow nods.
  

Snow: "Killed its herd. Needs a new one. So do I. We'll be our own herd."
Snow: "...er, pack. This is confusing."
DanteE: (Do you love or hate it?)
Theresa: "O-kay."
Snow: (Love. Snow is full of lurve.)
Theresa: (Hence the wanting to boink Dante...)
Snow: (Her love is quite freely given, yes.)
Random_Nerd: (You've seen no signs that everyone else is dead.)
Snow: (What does the horse do?)
Random_Nerd: (Most of them have barricaded themselves indoors because of the Brain Eating Chupacabra.)
Random_Nerd: The horse looks Snow in the eyes, in an oddly focused way.

• Snow flicks into the form of a horse.
  

Theresa: "Are you sure about the house, Dante? It's not going to look like it did before. The neighbors will notice."

• Snow rubs her head against the horse's neck, happy.
  

DanteE: "It doesn't look like it did before now."
Snow: "I gotta friend!"
DanteE: "It looks like splinters.

• Theresa smiles. "That's good, Snow."
  

Random_Nerd: The horse makes vaguely happy horsey noises.
Theresa: "Okay, one house it is. It'll take a while. Do you and Snow want to go get the stone in town?"
DanteE: "Well, wait...
DanteE: to the mom: "Do you have someplace you can stay?"

• Snow flicks into mouse form, climbs up the horse's leg, and turns back into human form once she's comfortably settled on its back.
  

Snow: "Gonna go find the stone now?"
Random_Nerd: The mom shivers, and doesn't respond.
Theresa: (Hmm..does sound transmit DA too?)
DanteE: Ghost-LC-Courage on mom
Random_Nerd: (Perception does.)
Random_Nerd: (When your body is being magically healed, you don't have to /see/ it happening to be affected.)
Random_Nerd: (And it doesn't help if you're under a blight and your house just blew up with you in it.)
RiotGearEpsilon: ( I'm outie. G'night folks. )

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

Theresa: (Well, crap. Does the Courage help her? And can Irresistable combat DA?)
Random_Nerd: (Irresistable doesn't really remove DA. I mean, you could tell people to act normal, and it'd kinda work, but still...)
DanteE: (What's the status of those whimseys?)
Random_Nerd: (You don't know.)
Etheric: (Sounds like you guys need Carrie back... <.< )
Theresa: "How about we take care of the blightstone and then these folks and then head home?"
Theresa: (We are low on hope, yes. <G> And does she tie a good bandage?)
DanteE: "... all right.

• Snow will do a LDiv on her whimsy while she waits for the others.
  

DanteE: to the mom: "Hey... we're going to go and take care of the blight... but we'll be right back to help you out, all right?"
Random_Nerd: She doesn't respond, but looks at Dante.
DanteE: (Reminder: I'm guised at someone who's _not_ hurt. :)
DanteE: *as
Random_Nerd: (Snow, the whimsies are somewhat more gathered. The one you changed seems to be gathering them, a little like a sheepdog.)
Snow: (Is it changing them as it meets them?)

• Theresa will do some more comforting and soothing for the mother and child.
  

Random_Nerd: (It seems to be doing the gathering part first.)
Snow: (Okay.)
Theresa: (I'll catch up with you guys once the comforting is done?)
Random_Nerd: (Most likely because it's easier, and immaterial concepts given shape are lazy.)
DanteE: "Guess we split up...
DanteE: "Snow... let's you and I ride!"

• Snow nodnods, and sets off once Dante is settled behind her.
  

Theresa: (RN - because if they weren't lazy, they wouldn't be immaterial?)
Random_Nerd: (Maybe!)
Random_Nerd: (Now, how soon will people have to leave?)
Theresa: (Not sure.)
DanteE: (not for a while)
Snow: (Sorry, I should really go. I've got a headache and a lot to do tomorrow. :()
Snow: (S'almost midnight here.)
Random_Nerd: (Stopping now seems good, then.)
Random_Nerd: (Anything anyone wants to do before we stop?)
DanteE: (guess not)
Snow: (I'm good.)
Theresa: (Darn it...typing...)

• Theresa places some lavender and soothing herb compresses on the foreheads of the mother and child to help them relax.
  

Theresa: (Sorry, typed the wrong first command and lost the whole thing I was typing... I'm done.)
Random_Nerd: ____________________STOP_________________________
Random_Nerd: Thoughts?
DanteE: damn it, we didn't _do_ anything...
Snow: (Sorry to leave so quick, but I really want to go bury my head in a pillow right now. Thank you, everyone, and I'll see you later!)
Theresa: Night Sara! *HUG*
Snow: G'night!

• • • Snow has left #Nobilis.
      

Theresa: We found otu about the blight. And we're working on it.

• • • DanteE is now known as Knockwood.
      

Knockwood: well, we knew about the blight
Theresa: Can I hear the stats of Snow's Horse? *suspicious*
Random_Nerd: It's a horse. 0/0/0/0, no miracle points.
Knockwood: is it actually a horse or an unreasonable simulation of one?
Theresa: And anything for its rider?
Random_Nerd: Yes.
Random_Nerd: Ride it and see.
Etheric: I'm thinking that I want to bring Carrie back at the beginning of the next story, if that works.
Random_Nerd: Works for me.
Random_Nerd: Should be in about two sessions.
Random_Nerd: I imagine.
Knockwood: excellent idea. You're the only one not mangled.
Random_Nerd: Possibly 3.
Theresa: I don't want that thing between my legs.  :)
Knockwood: afk for a minute...
Etheric: Incidentally, would Theresa be able to make a magic plant that helps Nobles heal with a LEsser Change?
Theresa: Man, i had thought that I had been hurt with the whole Monty thing. hah! Was I wrong...
Random_Nerd: That... probably wouldn't work.
Random_Nerd: Noble physiology runs almost entirely on miraculous power.
Etheric: Ah, makes sense then.
Random_Nerd: If you guys were just made of meat, you'd all be dead even if you had those defensive gifts.
Theresa: I'm not sure how to ask the question when we get home of "You made deals with Excrucians _WHY_?"
Theresa: At least in a way that doesn't end up with me on a cocktail toothpick.
Etheric: He's Kudzu. He'd probably give you a medal. <.< And *then* put you on a cocktail toothpick.
Theresa: Yep! *grin*
Knockwood: bak...
Knockwood: actually, can Carrie come to us next week?
Theresa: To help haul our carcasses?
Knockwood: and to get rid of DA
Knockwood: and, arguably, to locate the stone with a Div-(lack of) Hope
Etheric: Hmm.
Etheric: RN, could Theresa's "letter" to Carrie that Beth showed me on Monday have been phrased in the form of a prayer?
Random_Nerd: Hmm. If Beth wants to handle it that way, and you do, then that's okay.
Theresa: *grin* "Dear Carrie: Hi! Have new sister. Almost killed by Warmains. Hope you're doing well. Love, Theresa. P.S. Please send Neosporin."
Random_Nerd: It wouldn't really damage the plot any to make such a change.
Theresa: Sure, that's okay with me.  :) And it would give a way for Carrie to come back next week.
Theresa: It may have become a habit now to change thinking of Carrie into prayers, since that's the only way Theresa has to communicate with family at a distance.
Knockwood: plus... we had Samuel looking for the quickest way from Amyra to us.
Etheric: Okay... Give me time before I commit to next week for certain, but I think I can definitely say maybe at this point, if RN is willing to let me in then.
Random_Nerd: That's fine. Just work out what you've been doing while Carrie was away.
Random_Nerd: Unless you want to just tap your nose, look sly, and mouth the word "horses."
Theresa: On that topic, I shall jump to the mating with Dante topic. <G> That was a surprise.
Knockwood: to me too. :)
Random_Nerd: Eh, capriciousness.
Etheric: Horses? What's this?
Etheric: Oh, "minding the horses."
Etheric: I'll try and work out with you what Carrie's been up to before next week's game, then.

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