Session 70

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 9

BethE: I'm looking forward to learning more about Eve.

• • • Sara-brb is now known as Sara.
      

Sara: RN doesn't get a welcome 'til he punctuates his name properly.
Random_nerd: Capitalizes, you mean?

• • • Random_nerd is now known as RaNdOm_NeRd.
      
    • RaNdOm_NeRd is now known as Random_Nerd.
      
• Sara laughs.
  

Sara: Dick.
Random_Nerd: Now, Laz said he might be late.
Sara: I'm a lemur?
BethE: What were we stuck in the middle of that Sara missed?
Sara: Oh yeah!

• • • Knockwood has joined #nobilis.
      

Knockwood: Hi guys
BethE: Hi Knock!
Random_Nerd: Okay, now, I suppose we can start now, right?
Sara: Hey Knock!
Sara: Sure!

• • • Sara is now known as Snow.
      

Etheric: Sure thing.

• • • Knockwood is now known as DanteE.
      
    • Etheric is now known as Eve.
      
    • You are now known as Theresa.
      

Eve: (Where were we last time? I'm having trouble recollecting...)
DanteE: doing a long Courage div right after we met.
Eve: (Ah, okay.)
DanteE: "You guys saw all that, right? No glitches on the screen?"
Eve: "Some of it. May I ask where you are going with this?"
DanteE: "Long story.

• Snow turns into a human, sits down on the floor, and listens.
  

Eve: : drums her fingers on the conference table idly, glancing back and forth between Dante and the screen.
DanteE: "This (taps blood drop) is apparently the blook of John the 18th, but we got it through a Shard who appeared in the Vault."
Eve: (Er, sorry about that. <.< )

• Eve drums her fingers on the conference table idly, glancing back and forth between Dante and the screen.
  

DanteE: "It was then given to me specifically by a manifestation which appeared after the Spear of Destiny killed her."
DanteE: "...what am I missing?"
Eve: "The reason for the slide show?"
Snow: "...the fun part?"
Eve: ( XD *likes Snow's answer better* )
DanteE: "To find the connection."
Eve: "What I am wondering about is the connection between the history of your Estate and this mystery of yours."
Snow: (*high fives!*)
Theresa: "Well, we did find out that it's possible to dissolve a Chancel without killing the Imperator. It's just really hard and possibly insane."

• Snow grumbles to herself, quietly, "They're both /boring/..."
  

DanteE: "Like I said, he gave it to _me_, specifically."

• Eve quirks an eyebrow and peers at Dante, expecting something more.
  

DanteE: "What, you want a full report? So do I."
Eve: "You haven't explained why you thought your Estate's history is connected to this gift you received."
DanteE: "Well, I certainly didn't know her."
DanteE: "Who's looking up the old Courage?"
Random_Nerd: (You are?)
DanteE: (I mean, which Aide)
Random_Nerd: (Samuel, I believe.)
Theresa: (Sam was talking to theresa about killing Chancels.)
Theresa: (I am wrong, then.  :) )
Random_Nerd: (I suppose it could be William. I just didn't think he was in last session.)
Theresa: (I had thought that Dante was talking to William while Theresa was talking to Sam via plant-note.)
DanteE: (Were there any indications that anyone else had a prior incarnation? Besides Eve, of course. :)
Random_Nerd: (Nothing that I can think of that's come up.)
Random_Nerd: (Okay, let's say it's William looking that up for Dante.)
Theresa: "I think you had William doing so, Dante."

• • • lazarus has joined #nobilis.
      

Theresa: (Hi laz. *HUG* Haven't missed much.)
DanteE: (HIya Laz)

• • • Mode change "+o DanteE" for channel #nobilis by Snow.
      
    • Mode change "+o lazarus" for channel #nobilis by Snow.
      
    • lazarus is now known as Brian.
      

Brian: (thx Snow)
DanteE: "So... now what?"
Snow: "Dinner?"
Brian: "Talk while we eat ... good idea, Snow!"

• Snow smiles lopsidedly.
  

Brian: (I don't remember, did Snow like the cheeseburger she had a while ago?)
Theresa: "Maybe this blood drop is just a mechanism to get into the Treasures' room, Dante. And you were the closest person the man in red could give it to?"
Snow: (She did! Though she ate a rock, before.)
DanteE: "That still leaves the question how did she get it?"
Snow: "You usually hurt someone to get their blood."
Brian: "I'm going to put in an order for some burgers and pizza ... anyone want anything in particular?" (:-P)
Snow: "Meat."
DanteE: "Yeah, but who holds it for 130 years?"
Theresa: *absentmindedly* "No, just some food would be fine."
Snow: "Whatcha thinkin', Theresa?"
Theresa: "What if this was the best time or the only time that they could get into Amyra?"
DanteE: "OK, get that carnivore-special pizza from that one place."

• Brian will phone in an order to the Official Pizza Place of the Nobles.
  

Theresa: "Well...just that, what if Amyra used to be a Chancel for someone else. We have always been different from the rest of the world with our history and resources. What if we stopped being a Chancel, became part of the Real World with new memories and everything...and then Kudzu enChanceled us again?"
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and I'd just like to say now, I'll probably be ready to stop in about forty-five minutes to an hour. Sorry, but I have stuff to do tomorrow that I want to be well-rested for.)

• Eve drums her fingers on the conference table absentmindedly. "I'll pass. I don't eat meat."
  

Theresa: "The defenses might have been different enough that this was the best time for that Strategist to break into the palace."
Snow: "So why's that bad?"
DanteE: "... if our defenses ... are based on Faith?"
Brian: (I can see it now ... "New this menu! The Snow Special! All the meat you can eat ... rabbit, deer ...)
Theresa: "And we had visitors...who would have noticed one more person?"
Eve: "This is the first I've heard of faith-based defense."

• Snow shrugs. "Faith's good. But somebody wants in, they're gonna get in, like ants. At least they left without eating our food."
  

Theresa: *to Snow* "I think it might be bad if we were a Chancel before because that previous Chancel may have made enemies that we don't know about. Or left behind things like the Treasures that we can't control."
Snow: "But...we can't do anything about that, can we?"

• Brian returns after food-ordering. "So ... you're worried that the previous Chancel may have an impact on this incarnation?"
  

DanteE: "Not really. I'll bet the standard faith was pretty shhok up by the enChanceling and our appearance...
DanteE: "could that be what allowed her in?"

• Theresa cradles the back of her head with her hands and tilts back in her chair, starting at the ceiling. "I think that things feel...off. Like there's all of this history that's somehow wrong or skewed. And I can't tell just what is off. But we just seem to have so many things that the rest of the world didn't. Unusual, other-worldly almost, things. And now we're a Chancel and that's _normal_.
  

Theresa: "

• Snow smiles at Theresa. "I think it's great."
  

DanteE: "Oh, speaking of which... what's the word on the transmogrifier?"
Theresa: (Realm people would know.  :) )
Snow: (If I should know, I do not. O.O)
Brian: "I haven't heard any update in a while"

• Theresa smiles at Snow. "I know. And a lot of it is to me too...but these little niggling feelings that something isn't _right_ wear on me."
  

Random_Nerd: (The realm point was shifted over to make it, but you haven't used it yet.)
DanteE: "Who was doing that? The College of Applied Lunacy? :)"
Random_Nerd: (You'd assigned Lesson and his crew to start working on figuring out who needs it to be used on them, and at least starting on building contacts with good shrinks.)
DanteE: (I mean the actual thingy)
Random_Nerd: (At least one has been made, I believe.)

• Snow shrugs.
  

Snow: "If you're worried about people being safe, then hide the Chancel."
DanteE: "Kudzu did that."
Snow: "He did?" Snow looks out the nearest window.
Snow: "Oh. Doesn't look like much."
DanteE: "He withdrew it from the world."
Brian: "The Chancel is hidden from the outside of the world"
Snow: "But people can still get in."
Brian: "It's kind of ... somplace else"
Theresa: "We're no longer directly connected to the outside world, like your former home, Snow. We can use the jungles and forests and cities to travel to other forests and cities out there, but you can't get there directly."

• Snow looks thoughtful, but placated.
  

Theresa: "People can use portals to get here, like the other Nobles we invites. The shard got in. And some of the local soldiers got out."
Theresa: (Oh, we still have to meet Snow's borderguard.  :) )
Brian: (we can do that after the Noble Dinner)
Snow: (Actually, I misunderstood how good a quality a BG Snow's points would get, so RN and I are switching what the points are being spent on.)
Snow: (Turns out she could spend a lot of points making a really sissy BG.)
Brian: (ah.)

• Snow sniffsniffs.
  

Snow: "Food here?"
Brian: (well, could we still have the dude, just not doing anything useful?)
DanteE: (could spend points on 'communications with outside world')
Brian: "They're usually fairly prompt, but it takes some time, Snowy one."
DanteE: "They're probably still cooking it."

• Theresa ponders a little bit. "Eve, could you tell us a bit more about yourself? Besides your alligence, what other viewpoints do you hold as different from the Hope we knew before?"
  

DanteE: (Oh, reminds me... you still have Glorious?)
Snow: (That's a thought, Knock. Maybe there could be a portal for only Chancel inhabitants, to let them in and out of the Chancel and the real world.)
Eve: (Yes. Not exactly sure how it will manifest yet, though.)

• Eve considers for a few moments. "I'm... Stil forming a lot of my opinions. I am new to this, you see."
  

DanteE: (I was thinking web connection. :)

• Theresa nods. "Know the feeling. Still do. Do you need a new place to stay?"
  

Snow: (The inhabitants might appreciate being able to visit family and stuff, though.)
Eve: (Knock, I have no idea how to parse what you just said.)
Eve: (A Glorious web connection?)
Random_Nerd: (Transcendant broadband!)
Random_Nerd: (IP over prayers!)
DanteE: (Oops... that was for what we could do with the realm points we got from Snoww)
Brian: (RN: VoIPoP :-P)
Eve: (Oh.)
Eve: (Well, with James gone we only have one more point, right?)
Eve: (Plus the free one from before.)
Brian: (Anyway, we've got Stuff IC to do, and that can be worked out later?)
Snow: (No problem.)
DanteE: (Right, we eat! :)

• Eve considers.
  
• Snow leans over toward Eve and stage-whispers, "I sleep with William!"
  

Random_Nerd: Pizza arrives.
Snow: "Pizza!"
Brian: "Ah, food's here!"
Snow: (With dutiful pizza boys?)
Random_Nerd: (Just one. And a nervous one.)

• Eve stares at Snow for a little bit, cslightly confused.
  

Random_Nerd: (As if he's not entirely sure if you won't give him an extra head as a tip.)
Random_Nerd: (Still, he's holding steaming boxes o' pizza.)
DanteE: (We would, but those tend to dissolve.)
Eve: (Lesser Div of pizza guy's hopes?)

• Snow bounds up to the pizza boy, hugs his arm, and plunges her face into the top of a box to breathe deeply.
  

Theresa: (Through the boxtop?)
Snow: (Yup.)

• Brian pays the pizza guy "Snow, take those boxes from him please?"
  

Theresa: (Hot cheese _hurts_...)
Snow: (Well, she'd have a face full of cardboard, not cheese.)
Brian: (from personal xp T?)
Random_Nerd: (He hopes that you'll give him a really gigantic tip. He hopes that he'll be able to fufill his dreams of being a movie star. He hopes that the girl who tosses pizza dough in what he considers to be a sexy way will agree to go out with him the /next/ time he asks her out.)|
Random_Nerd: (And so on.)
Theresa: (I think that the inside of my mouth and the front of my face can agree that just out of the oven stuff _hurts_ when applied.  :) )

• Snow flicks on her Adorable, and holds out her hands for the boxes.
  

Brian: (:D)
Theresa: (He needs to quit coming on to her with bad bread puns.)
Snow: ("Hey baby. You wanna toss me around for a bit?")
Random_Nerd: Pizza Boy hands Snow the boxes.
Brian: (*cough*)

• Snow beams and trots back to the table.
  

Random_Nerd: "There's no charge."

• Brian pays him anyway.
  

Random_Nerd: (Because Brian ordered, and he's got a Gift that makes everyone in-chancel love him.)
Brian: (he did want a gigantic tip, right? ;))
Eve: (Lesser Div of Hope again, to look at the possible paths he might take to become a movie star?)
Theresa: (Beloved means never having to say you're sorry for knocking over that building.)
Brian: (hee ^_^)
DanteE: "Let's see, if I remember... sausage, pepperoni, beef, salami, capicolla, chicken, veal, mutton, goat, rabbit ...
Random_Nerd: (He doesn't actually have much talent. His most plausible method would be to get a music album recorded due to a drunk executive signing him, and then get a small part in a teen movie.)
Eve: (Hmm. Further inquiry in PM.)

• Snow grabs her box o' meat...er, pizza...and begins to devour it messily.
  

DanteE: "They dropped the buffalo and the dog, I think."
Random_Nerd: "All out of... buffalo and dog, sir."

• Theresa munches on her extra cheese and pineapple pizza slice.
  

Snow: "Dog tastes like dog." Snow makes a face.
Random_Nerd: "And please don't ask me why we had goat and rabbit."

• Snow does a lesser div of realm to determine why they had goat and rabbit.
  

Brian: "You keep them around for the adorable one, over there."
Brian: "Of course."

• DanteE grabs one slice of the ultimeat and munches away.
  
• Snow does the old, folding the slice in half and shoving it in your face trick.
  
• Brian tries the carnivore special ... "Interesting blend here."
  

Brian: "Well done."
Random_Nerd: (Because two of the cooks were sent out with the orders to get a goat and a rabbit, fast. and cook them, and they managed to scrounge up a goat from a smalltime farmer, and a rabbit from a pet store.)
Snow: (*laugh*)
Brian: "Hey, Pizza guy, what's your name?"
Eve: (Keep in mind Eve's div doesn't actually show up to you guys IC.)

• Snow mumbles something through her mouthful of pizza. It's utterly incoherent.
  

Random_Nerd: "Mike?"
Brian: And who's the one who made the meat pizza?"

• Snow says something else. Still sounds like masticated meat.
  

Random_Nerd: "I don't know. They just handed it to me and told me to bring it here."

• Brian will sign a piece of paper "To Mike. Thanks for the fast delivery. Awesome job. Brian."
  
• Brian will give him that paper.
  

Random_Nerd: Mike reads it, and smiles. "Thanks."
Brian: "Too bad. I was going to write one for the guy who made it, too. I guess I can't do that. But I can do this!"
Eve: (RH) "Why don't you divine who made it?"

• Brian takes another piece of paper. "To John's Pizza, thanks for the good pizza and speedy delivery. You guys rock! Brian" ... "You guys [to the other Nobilis] want to sign, too?"
  

Brian: (RH) "Err ... good idea."
DanteE: "Treasure that, girls might just treat it like you had an autograph from the hot band-of-the-moment."
Brian: (Brian will do so. Realm Div of "Who made that pizza?")
Random_Nerd: (Pretty much everyone working the kitchen at the time dropped what they were doing to make it.)

• Snow shrugs, and Swallows the rest of the pizza boxes in one fell swoop.
  

DanteE: (box and all?)
Snow: (Yup.)
Brian: "No one else want to sign a note to the pizza place?"

• DanteE signs the notes with a Latin phrase.
  

DanteE: (Dominus... uh ... Dontmesswithus. That works. :)

• Eve will sign the note. Her handwriting is reminiscent of Carries, but not closely similar, and she signs it, "Eve Summers, Domina of Hope."
  
• Theresa signs the box and creates a small tomato picture to appear beside her name.
  

Brian: "Snow? Want to sign too?"

• Snow turns into a coyote and smacks a tomato-saucey paw down on the paper.
  
• Theresa blinks a moment. "Snow, did you just eat all of the food?"
  
• Snow looks at Theresa.
  

Snow: "I /asked/."

• Brian hands the note to the guy. "That one's for the shop."
  

Random_Nerd: He nods, and grins again.
Theresa: (Snow: Where?)
Snow: (Where'd she ask?)
Theresa: (Yep, where'd she ask?  :) )
Theresa: (It was the incoherent stuff, wasn't it?)
Snow: ([22:52] * Snow mumbles something through her mouthful of pizza. It's utterly incoherent.)
Snow: (Geez. Way to read.)
Eve: (That's what I assumed.)
Theresa: (I cannot translate Coyote Stuffing Her Face.  ;P )
Snow: (*grin*)

• Snow turns back into a human and burps.
  
• Brian shakes his hand. "I think your colleagues would like to see you again soon..."
  

DanteE: (Do what I did, use an Aspect Miracle to grab a slice.)
Snow: (*laugh*)
Theresa: (Well, Theresa did get one. Earlier. Cheese and pineapple.)

• Snow puts a hand back and sheepishly scratches the back of her head.
  

Brian: (I had a slice. Therefore, I have infinite slices! mwahahaha! ... what?)
Snow: "Hey Mike! You wanna bring more pizza?"

• Eve wasn't interested in the pizza anyway, being a vegetarian.
  

Brian: (that's why there ... was ... a salad in the mix)
Random_Nerd: "Sure, I can bring another as soon as they can make it? What kind?"
Eve: (No one mentioned that.)
Brian: (I was going to. Then Snow ate everything)
Snow: (*grin*)
Snow: "Every kind?"
DanteE: (Including the box, apparently)
Snow: "Also, more boxes."
Brian: " ... I'm surprised you haven't tried eating the /desk/ yet, Snow."
Random_Nerd: "We can do that. It'll take a little time, but I'll go get started on that."
DanteE: "In marinara sauce."
Eve: (softly, to Brian) "Is it really best to give her ideas?"

• Snow beams.
  

Brian: (aside, to Eve) "I suppose not."
Brian: "Thanks a lot Mike."
Random_Nerd: Mike heads back out.

• Brian wants a div of the pizza place when they get the note, and see Mike's note.
  

DanteE: "So, after we eat... what do we do?"
Brian: "Try to figure out why the Strategist wanted your attention diverted and occupied?"
Eve: "I would like to see the project James's Lesson has been working on, personally."
DanteE: "Sort out she got in there in the first place?
DanteE: *how
Brian: "I'm more interested in what she wanted to hide, than how she got here."
Brian: "It's not a particularly well-hidden Chancel, if you know where to look and how to find us."
Theresa: *to Eve* "The transmogrifier project?"
DanteE: "Yeah, but how did she get _into the vault_?
Eve: "Perhaps she wanted to divert our attention with useless barking up trees." *to Theresa* "Yes, that one."
Brian: "She's Excrucian. She operates on fundamentally different rules than we do."
Random_Nerd: (Oh, for a Strategist, that's easy. Lesser Destruction of the solidity of walls, say.)
Random_Nerd: (Worldbreaker's Hand is a swiss army lightsaber.)
DanteE: "If she had John's blood with her it's likely that the vault was her main target."
Brian: "I don't know how Excrucians work, so I'm assuming that she had a way in, and planned to have a way out other than death."
Random_Nerd: (Okay, Mike has driven quickly back to the pizza shop, and showed the second note to them. They're looking to see if they have a frame to put it up on the wall where it'll be visible to customers coming in.)
Random_Nerd: (The blood does, indeed, show premeditation.)
Brian: (how about that girl that Eve divined he was interested in, that the rest of us don't know about?)
Theresa: "The blood possibly would have allowed her to handle the relics without them exploding...as much."

• Theresa hmms. "I think I would like to see how Lesson is doing as well, Eve. Would you like some company when you go?"
  

Eve: (What about her?)
DanteE: "... we need to get back in there, see if she planted anything, and figure out a way to secure the place better."
Brian: "I still maintain that her objective was to keep Dante occupied. The method was probably some other secondary objective for them, but primarily they likely just wanted to say 'look over here!'"

• Eve smiles at Theresa. "I'd appreciate it."
  

Random_Nerd: (She's in back now, tossing dough, and giving Mike the occasional irritated glance.)
Random_Nerd: (Mike is lounging in the front of the shop, waiting as they get the pizzas started.)

• Snow fidgets, looking hopefully at Theresa.
  

Theresa: "Well, then, how about Brian and Dante go check out the palace again and Eve, Snow and I go check on Lesson?"
DanteE: "Then why meet me at the vault?"
Theresa: *looking at Snow* "With a note telling them to redirect the pizza to wherever we're going to be."
Brian: "They're making the second batch of pizzas now."

• Snow beams.
  

Eve: (Lesser Realm Div of Expectations, how soon would it be reasonable to expect the pizza to arrive?)
Brian: "Dante: They likely had something they were interested in at the Vault. On the other hand, even if they didn't ..."
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Pretty fast. Twenty-five minutes, say? They're working hard on getting them ready quickly, and they're close to the clock tower.)
DanteE: "Brian, you're contradicting yourself. Was she interested in me or the vault?"
Brian: "One does not preclude the other"
Eve: (And, if we walk to the Transmogrifier place, how long would it take us to get there?)
Brian: "I'm saying that if there was something they wanted in the Vault, it's not something critical, but keeping you occupied /is/."
Random_Nerd: (The transmorgrifier place, currently set up in the factory where Lesson & co. made their office, is in the industrial district. It'd be at least forty minutes walk, assuming you walked at a normal human pace.)
DanteE: "...
Brian: "Though it would be nice if the Excrucian plans fell apart, something tells me that hasn't happened"
DanteE: "That would mean... I'm tied to something in the vault."
Brian: "no. That would mean that the best way to keep you occupied is to give you a puzzle you can't solve in time for their Big Thing to happen."
Brian: "You've gotta think sneakier, man."
Theresa: (We could take the Hummer.  :) )
DanteE: "If that's true, why not just dump the puzzle on this table?"
Theresa: (Or Horse.)
Snow: (Woo, Horse!)
Brian: "Because, if that were the case, first, it would be 'oh, look, an unsolvable Excrucian puzzle' ... and secondly, the Vault has some Magic Items that, if recovered, could potentially be useful."
Eve: (Hey, I forgot that I still have Perfect Timing. Is it reasonable to ask that the pizza arrive at the factory just as we get there?)
Random_Nerd: (Yes it is.)
Eve: (In that case...)
Eve: (Bulletin Board to Mike) "We will want the pizza delivered to <address of factory> this time."
DanteE: (OK, so, Brian and I are headed to the vault in the palace while the others are chekcing out Lesson et al?)
Random_Nerd: (Cut to you guys, and the pizza, arriving at the former factory?)
Eve: (to Snow) "Well, let's get going. Pizza waits for no coyote."
Eve: (Works for me.)
Brian: (sure)
Random_Nerd: (Now, for the record, Lesson is actually in the same building as you guys right now.)
DanteE: "Not to mention those yummy bozes. We'll see you in a little while."
DanteE: *boxes
Random_Nerd: (Dante saw him about an hour ago in character, last session.)
DanteE: (Right, he can play pool without a bridge.)
Theresa: (Oh yeah.)
Theresa: (Would Perfect Timing have brought him back to the right place to talk with Eve, though?)
Random_Nerd: (Hmm... plausibly. He was going to go back there sooner or later anyway.)
Eve: (Maybe Perfect Timing means he meets us on the way out?)
Brian: ("Why do we have a pool table?" "Obviously, to play pool." "When'd it get here?" "Dunno." "don't you care some random thing popped up in our base?" "Nah. Happens all the time." "...")
Eve: (So can we cut to our talking about the project with him on the way instead?)
Random_Nerd: (Okay, yeah, that makes sense.)
DanteE: (/me looks up to see if there's a spinning diamond over his head... :)

• Theresa will walk along with Snow and Eve and Lesson...
  

Brian: (what's the diamond do?)
Theresa: (SIMNobilis)
Random_Nerd: Lesson looks at Eve. "You look different, Domina."

• Snow hugs Lesson's arm as they walk. Love love love!
  
• Eve will incline her head slightly on meeting Lesson. "Indeed. I would like to ask you about the transmogrifier project."
  

DanteE: "There's still a contradiction, though. If she was smart enough to create an elaborate plan to keep me occupied and do something with the artifacts, she should have been smart enough not to run into me at the vault, ne?"
Random_Nerd: L: "Okay. Let me see. We have the equipment set up and hooked up to the power supply. Told that the power will be sufficient. Began compiling a list of known mythical creatures."
Brian: "Ah, but running into you causes you to become occupied."
Random_Nerd: He waves a hand at the three-arm-gold-eyes guy following him, who pulls a notebook out of a tote bag.

• Snow waves cheerily at said guy.
  

Eve: "Has any testing been done?"
DanteE: "But running into me elsewhere would mean they could do their vault thing with impunity."
Random_Nerd: "Also, have began auditioning experts in human minds."
Random_Nerd: "Have tested the equipment on animals. Not on humans."
Random_Nerd: "Seemed to work."

• Eve grimaces slightly at "human minds."
  

Brian: "Remember - running into you elsewhere doesn't have the same sense of urgency as running into you at the vault"
Snow: "Tested what equipment?"
DanteE: "It's still an Excrucian."
Random_Nerd: "The machine. That makes things into other things."

• Snow looks doubtful.
  

Snow: "Do the animals wanna be tested?"
DanteE: "Reminds me, I was thinking of a way to defend against that wind thing they hit us with in Mexico..."
Random_Nerd: "Animals never told me they didn't want to be tested."
Eve: (Lesser Div of the hopes of the animals that were tesed upon?)

• DanteE tells Brian IC about that space-warp thing, since they culd use it on the walls of the vault...)
  

Random_Nerd: "Besides, I've been instructed to give humans priority over other creatures."
Random_Nerd: (There's a duck that was once a snake, a snake that used to be a duck, and a wyvern that was once a cow.)
Snow: "Oh."
Eve: "Remind me who that instruction was from? I cannot recall at the moment."

• Snow looks sad, and perplexed.
  

Random_Nerd: (All seem vaguely confused but are adapting decently, as the transmorgrifier was designed to convey the instincts of the new form.)
Random_Nerd: "From... from my Master, from Dominus Dante, and from Dominus Brian, I believe."
Theresa: (Poor cow.)
Random_Nerd: "Am I correct?"

• Snow looks at Theresa.
  

Snow: "Thereeessaaaa..."
Theresa: "Yes, Snow?"
Snow: "I don't want them to test on animals. But they've gotta test stuff."
Theresa: "I noticed."
Theresa: (Darn it, is Snow going to be our PETA representative?  :) )
Brian: (I doubt that Brian would've told him to give humans precedence. The whole purpose of that device is to change things into other things, to alter the form ... and Brian doesn't believe there's anything inherently /better/ or /different/ about humans. On the other hand, I don't remember)
Random_Nerd: "The machine is designed to work on humans and other animals, correct? Can't test on humans before it is known if it works. Cannot test on self, as the machine doesn't work to change me."
Random_Nerd: (I believe that Brian at least implicitly did so. You've given him several instructions to be sure to take care of humans and not hurt them, but no such directions for other species.)
Eve: "Lesson, you have performed as instructed as best you knew. Future testing should be done on sentient volunteers. Preferably human. And all test subjects will be given the option at the end of their tenure as to what form to adopt."future testing should be done on sentient volunteers. Preferably human. And all test subjects will be given the option at the end of their tenure as to what form to adopt."
Brian: (ah. That does sound like something I'd've said)
Eve: (Ignore the repeat, copy/paste mistake.)
Random_Nerd: "Very well, Domina Carrie."
Theresa: (Whoops... *duck and covers*)
Snow: "If that's not gonna work, tell me, okay?"

• Eve grimaces. "Do not call me by that name again."
  

Theresa: "Lesson, this is actually the new Domina of Hope. Her name is Eve."
Random_Nerd: Lesson bows his head deeply and exposes the back of his neck to Carrie.
Random_Nerd: "As you command, Domina Eve."
Theresa: (Hmm..a question. Did anyone in the Chancel turn into plant-stuff?)
Random_Nerd: "Your servant apologizes for any offense he may have caused."
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Probably, but if so, it'd be at least semi-animate plants. Dryads or whatnot.)
Snow: "Sorry, Lesson. You've got one hard job."
Theresa: (LDiv of suchness in the Chancel. I expect that Red will probably be pinged.)
Random_Nerd: "No. This is an easy job. Last job was hard job."
Random_Nerd: "Errr... I beg pardon. Please forgive me for seeming to correct you, Domina."
Random_Nerd: (What exactly are you looking for? Sentient plants?)

• Eve simply nods in recognition of Lesson's apology.
  

Theresa: (Yeppers. Or any plants that have become humanoid. Humans that have become dryads, talking trees, Swamp Thing...)
Random_Nerd: (There are some. Red, and perhaps two dozen more. Relatively few seem to have turned into plants.)
Theresa: (Poor Lesson...sounds like being snapped at by Hope has maybe broken his Courage buff...)
Eve: (Whoops?)
Random_Nerd: (He's just trying to tread very carefully, so as not to offend his bosses.)
Theresa: (Of those who have been changed, can I Div if they are happy that way? If so, make it so.)

• Snow beams.
  

Eve: (If it's not clear, Eve is more influenced by Entropy's Laws than Carrie is.)
Random_Nerd: (You can. Some are happy, some are indifferent, some are depressed.)
Snow: "It's okay. I like you."
Random_Nerd: Lesson looks confused.
Random_Nerd: "Why, Domina?"

• Snow smiles.
  
• Snow gets up and whispers in Lesson's ear...hole...thing.
  

Snow: "You're the only one who I get around here, sometimes."

• Theresa Domain-ghostwhispers to those that are depressed. "I feel your pain. Come to *Lesson's Factory's address* and I will help you."
  

Random_Nerd: (Now, whenever you guys want to have arrived, feel free to declare that it is so.)
Random_Nerd: (Not all the plants are fully mobile, and not all are near Kaerkoven.)
Eve: (Let's get there now, unless anyone objects.)
Theresa: (I'll commandeer some Three-Armers to go take a hummer/bus to pick up the plants. _carefully_.)
Theresa: (Sounds good to me.)
Random_Nerd: The factory looks moderately different. Big brass letters have been put up at the front that say Bureau Of Monstrosities Headquarters. Construction is clearly going on inside.
Random_Nerd: (Will you go in the business enterance or one of the service ones?)

• Eve lets lLEsson lead.
  

Theresa: "Lesson, do you have any of your people who are currently unoccupied at the moment? It appears that some people and plants have taken on each others' qualities as well, like the humans and animals. Some of them aren't happy about the change."
Random_Nerd: Lesson leads you guys in the front door.
Random_Nerd: There's a front desk, rather like in a doctor's office, and a second internal door that one needs to be buzzed in for.
Random_Nerd: A rather ordinary looking college-age woman is manning the desk, and farther back in that section you see one of the arm guys typing at two keyboards, adjusting their positions from time to time.
Eve: (Lesser Div on the hopes of the woman?)
Random_Nerd: Lesson waves at the woman manning the desk, and she reaches under the desk, causing the door to the factory interior to open.
Random_Nerd: Inside, the most prominent feature is the big transmorgrifier machine.
Theresa: (If she can handle this place, maybe we have an Aide in the making.  :) )
Random_Nerd: It's hooked to the wall with some heavy-duty-looking cables.
Eve: (We can't make Aides but we could make her a valued servant...)
DanteE: (check for marbles around the office. :)
Theresa: (Darn it, now I have the sudden urge to yell, "Live, my creation! LIIIIIIVE!")
Random_Nerd: L: "Have been assured that the building can supply the forces needed to power the device."

• Snow looks nervous.
  

Random_Nerd: Partition walls have been set up inside, and Ick is currently carrying a large roll of carpet, and is being directed by a man with goat horns and legs.
DanteE: (Oh.... remnds me, we need to throw a Preservation on Ick before he rots away)
Random_Nerd: L: "Should, soon, have offices for staff, and places to meet with humans and former humans being evaluated."
Theresa: (I think that Kudzu probably took care of that.)
Random_Nerd: In the background, a three-arm guy and one of the former Three Kings gangmembers seem to be sparring with some sort of bladed weapon.

• Eve thinks for a while. "How have you been handling recruiting for your Bureau?"
  

Random_Nerd: L, to Theresa: "As for the staff, have some that could probably spare time. Most are busy."
DanteE: (the pirate method.)
Eve: (I wouldn't be surprised, but I want to hear it from Lesson.)
Random_Nerd: L: "Depends on the individual. Most of the men of the Village of the Strange Arm have decided to work with us, as have a number of the other changed humans."

• Eve nods, seeming distracted.
  

Random_Nerd: L: "The former members of the street gang have been... encouraged to join, this with the encouragement of my Master shortly before he... left."
Eve: "Of course."
Random_Nerd: "Several humans have been hired with the funds you have placed at our disposal, mainly for skills that we don't have in our core group."
Eve: (Did I ever hear back from the Lesser Div of Hopes on the receptionist?)
Random_Nerd: "And no experts in human minds have been hired yet, but we have several applicants."
Brian: (I'm sorta half-afk. Doing site maintenance for Dante)
Random_Nerd: (Oh, one moment please.)
Eve: (It's not a big deal but I was curious what brought her to work there.)
Random_Nerd: (She hopes she'll get a raise. She hopes she'll be able to stop flinching every time she sees Lesson. She hopes that this will look good on her resume. She hopes that she'll manage to come to the attention of the Nobles by working here.)

• Theresa nods at Lesson. Concentrates for a moment, creating a sheet of paper with coordinates and lists of the plant-folks she would like brought to the factory. Also a second page of the more mobile ones that might be showing up. "Here's a list of the beings I would like picked up around the Chancel. Please be careful at moving them. And a list of the mobile folks who I have asked to come to the factory for help."
  

DanteE: (Remind me IC to take care of that second thing)
Theresa: (Yep, I see Aide material.  :) I wonder if they do scholarships.)

• Eve files the results of that Divination in a corner mentally and continues to idly scan the environs.
  

Random_Nerd: Lesson looks at the paper, and waves a hand at the arm guy who's been following him around. Arm-guy takes the paper, looks over it, and brings it to a few of his fellow arm guys who seem to be milling around.
Random_Nerd: Lesson's Assistant: "Okay, this is a list of people who've turned into plants. We're to bring them here, carefully. This comes down from the Boss's Bosses, so it's top priority."
Random_Nerd: (Looking for anything in particular, Eve?)
Eve: (Not really, trying to look interested but not too interested while I think of what to do next.)

• Theresa smiles at the guys working on her project. "I thank you for your upcoming work."
  

Random_Nerd: They salute with their central arms.
Random_Nerd: L: "Does the work we have done please you?"
Brian: (well, maintenance done. Sorta :-P Dante's now back on-wiki)

• Snow walks behind Lesson, trying to stay out of view.
  
• Theresa will take a closer look at the transmogrifier and environs.
  

DanteE: (yay)
Eve: "To an extent. It seems that progress has been rather slow, though."
Random_Nerd: (Eh, they've had what, two weeks since you set them up here?)
Eve: (Can a Div of Hope determine if the Duck, Snake, and Wyvern would, given full cognizance of the possibilities, opt to maintain their current forms or go back to their original ones?)
Eve: (I've never said Eve was reasonable.)
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. Yes, it can.)
Eve: (I've just made it appear that way. While plotting. <.< )
DanteE: (Welcome to Extreme Makeover, Reality Edition!)
Eve: (Okay, in that case I perform that Divination.)
Eve: (And Ghost the results to Snow as an emotional 'feeling.')
Random_Nerd: (Now, none of them are really smart enough to understand the idea. But if they were, the wyvern would be in favor of staying, the snake would be indifferent, and the duck would want to go back to being a snake.)
Random_Nerd: L: "Will try to speed things up."
Theresa: (Go cow!  :) )
Eve: "And Lesson, do change the duck that was a snake back into a snake again? You did the right thing in testing it, but the need is now past."
Random_Nerd: Lesson shouts: "Everyone, work faster! The Big Bosses are disappointed!"
Snow: "Theresa? Why isn't Lesson what that other guy was? Urbanization?"
Eve: ( *facepalms* )
Snow: "Oh! I'm not disappointed, Lesson!"

• Snow hurls herself onto lesson, gleefully hugging him from behind.
  

Random_Nerd: Lesson starts walking back to one of the partitioned-off rooms, and returns with a duck in a cage with a pool at the bottom.
Random_Nerd: (Tackling him before or after he comes back with it?)
Snow: (Before. She'll climb on for the ride, if he'll keep moving.)
Theresa: (Was the facepalm at the Urbanization quote or the disappointed?)
Eve: (I think that if James ever finally kicks the bucket, Lesson would be able to stay an Anchor. <.< )
Random_Nerd: Lesson almost, but not quite, falls down at the tackle. His center of gravity is pretty high, so he has to brace himself against a wall with his longer arm to stay up.
Eve: (The 'Everyone work faster' counterproductivity.)

• Snow hangs on like a monkey, rubbing her cheek into his chitinous flesh.
  

Brian: (snow is an odd one. Kinda like a little keetom, full of love. For anyone and everyone.)
Theresa: "We're not sure, Snow. We don't quite know what happened with James...and we're not sure what plans, if any, Kudzu has for Lesson. But I think he likes it here better than his original home, so he will probably stay here in the Chancel."
Theresa: (And she can swallow Monty.)
Random_Nerd: Lesson looks at the other PCs with a "You know, I'm a demon from Hell, and this girl is wigging me out" expression.
Theresa: (*laugh*)

• Eve will expend some energy in a Lesser Creation of Hope to coalesce the stres felt from Lesson's demand into real effective drive to get things moving faster.)
  

Brian: (and she probably would, too. With a big dumb grin on her face.  :-P)
Random_Nerd: (Monty, no. Her Gift isn't that powerful yet.)
Theresa: (Sanity is a crutch, Lesson!)
Snow: (Yet!)

• Theresa will resist the urge to pat Lesson on the shoulder in a 'there, there' gesture.
  

DanteE: (OK, wiki stuff's straightened out. RN, I've got 5 unspent points so far, right?)
Random_Nerd: (I'm not sure. It sounds high, but I haven't been keeping track.)
Random_Nerd: (Let's see. How many did you have after you bought the healing/resurrection gift?)
Snow: (Feel free to get the duck, RN. :) )
Brian: (remind me that I need to decrement the ETA until the next iteration of my Gift. 1 or 2 points?)
Eve: (I believe that we have earned a total of 7 points in play. 6 for me as I missed a story.)
DanteE: (I've been holding on to points until I can buy Greater Creation of Studliness with, ah, penetration. :)
Theresa: (*cough*)
Random_Nerd: Lesson returns with the duck as described earlier.
DanteE: (Yeah, I think that gift is all I've bought so far.)
Brian: (so, just 1 point from last Story, then?)
Random_Nerd: Lesson shouts: "Someone who's good with machines! Over here!"
Random_Nerd: (One point per story.)
Brian: (excellent. One story to go, until the Ultimate Beloved Gift! Mwahaha!)
Random_Nerd: A somewhat grease-stained woman with a toolbelt, who was over by the Device, comes over to Lesson.
DanteE: (which Beth has nicely divided into chapters in the logs. We're playing Chapter 8 now.)
Random_Nerd: Electrician: "Yeah, boss?"

• Snow beams at the lady from atop Lesson's shoulders.
  

Random_Nerd: Lesson: "Remember the duck? The one that used to be a snake, not the one that got turned into a snake."
Random_Nerd: She nods.
Brian: (Yachiru-chan!)
Random_Nerd: L: "We have to turn it back now. Orders from up top." He waves a hand at the PCs.
Random_Nerd: She looks oddly at Snow.
Random_Nerd: (Take a drink.)

• Snow waves.
  

Brian: (? Bleach drinking game?)
Snow: "Sorry about the duck."
Random_Nerd: Electrician, to Lesson: "Okay. I'll get started. It'll take a little while to get the settings right."
Brian: (or Nobilis drinking game?)
Random_Nerd: (Chancel Amyra Drinking Game.)
Brian: (ah :))
DanteE: (hm... once the place is completed we should intro ourselves to the workers...
Random_Nerd: (When Snow makes someone stare oddly, take a drink.)
DanteE: (and/or, maybe intro Snow to the rest of Amyra)
Random_Nerd: She takes the duck-cage.
DanteE: (when Snow makes someone lose it completely, chug.)
Random_Nerd: (Mind if we stop here? My brain is going melty.)
Snow: (*snerk*)
Eve: (Not at all.)
Snow: (Good by me.)
Brian: (oh, they should have pizza...)
DanteE: (Drink!)
Brian: (fine to end)
Snow: (So make more pizzas of the ones that arrive, and treat the whole place.)
DanteE: (OK)
Theresa: (Closing for the night is good for me. Sleepy...)
Brian: (when Snow makes a reference to food, or eats something, take a drink)
Random_Nerd: ___________STOP_______________
Random_Nerd: Okay, thoughts?

• • • Brian is now known as lazarus.
      

Snow: (When Snow eats something that's otherwise inedible, drink.)

• • • Snow is now known as Sara.
      
    • Eve is now known as Etheric.
      

Etheric: Very fun.
DanteE: (Do the rest of us have drinking-game tags?)

• • • DanteE is now known as Knockwood.
      

Sara: This was fun. I liked visiting the factory, and the pizza. Snow likes food.
Random_Nerd: (Yes. Yes you do.)
Random_Nerd: (Wait, Eve doesn't, yet.)
Random_Nerd: (But the rest do.)
Knockwood: should be a Wiki page
lazarus: of course we do. I'm not quite sure what we have, but we definitely do. I think Brian's got the "when Brian does something /completely random/, take a drink" thing covered.
Etheric: (Carrie throws a tantrum about something inconsequential, take a drink? <.< )
Etheric: Hmm, anyway...
Knockwood: Dante barges ahead while the others dither, drink.
Theresa: I thought tonight was interesting. It was good to see Eve out and about and although it took a bit to get moving and doing stuff, it ended well.
lazarus: I like it. I like the interaction with random Chancelfolk.
Random_Nerd: When Theresa feels guilty for no clear reason, take a drink. When Dante embarks on a complicated scheme with a hidden false assumption, take a drink.
lazarus: also, Snow. She's very much like Yachiru-chan from Bleach, in a way.
Random_Nerd: When James isn't existing... well, you'd run out of booze.
Random_Nerd: Oh? I'm not familiar with Bleach.
Knockwood: half hour of dithering... drink.
Random_Nerd: Demon-boxing is two drinks.
Knockwood: about nothing... chug/.
lazarus: (Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yachiru)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yachiru
Theresa: Hey, Theresa has reasons to feel guilty1
Random_Nerd: Sez her.
Theresa: _Monty_!
Knockwood: One of us accidentally insults another... both drink.
lazarus: "She is often seen latched onto the back of her captain, Kenpachi Zaraki, just over his left shoulder, and is somewhat territorial about this position."
lazarus: "Further reflecting her child-like nature, Yachiru likes to give people nicknames; she has given a total of four people formal nicknames, and often gives random people placeholder names (calling Orihime "big boobies" or Ikkaku "pachinko head," for instance)."
Knockwood: did they cut-and-paste that from the Dubya enbtry?
lazarus: heh. No, that's Yachiru. She's very childlike.
Random_Nerd: Anything you guys particularly liked or disliked about this session?
Sara: Snow doesn't give people nicknames though...?
lazarus: I enjoyed the glimpse into the pizza shop
Knockwood: ...like I said... did they cut-and-paste from Dubya?
Sara: I'
Sara: Bah
Sara: I'm with Laz in that I like meeting the Chancelfolk a lot.
lazarus: Snow doesn't, but I was showing what Yachiru is like.
Sara: Aaah
lazarus: she's also one of the more powerful characters in the show, despite all that.
Knockwood: I like how Snow scarfed the pizza when we weren't looking. :)
Theresa: I liked breaking up the scenes, even though I know it's more work for you with doing two scenes at once. Felt like we were demonboxing again with the blood but not sure what to do about it.
Sara: Heh.
Etheric: Liked the pizza and Snow's reaction, liked the transmogrifier. The biggest issues I've had tonight are IC ones, truthfully.
lazarus: heh, yes, agree with kwd.
Knockwood: then again, my list of ingredients was supposed to be a joke...
Random_Nerd: Which IC ones, Etheric?
Etheric: The one about Lesson now having done much. From the point of view of someone operating on an inhuman timetable, it would seem like he were dithering around and not getting much done.
Theresa: He still has to sleep?  :)
Random_Nerd: Well, it would make sense for your character to think that way. Especially since she has Perfect Timing.
Knockwood: does he?
Random_Nerd: Hmm. Lesson needs sleep, but not as much as a human.
Etheric: Right. I agreed it wasn't a reasonable expectation.
Random_Nerd: Yep. And it's a reasonable unreasonable expectation for her to have, if that makes sense.
Knockwood: actually... one of the selling points was that hew _could_ sleep.
Random_Nerd: In the box, you mean?
Knockwood: and Tpyo was kind to me tonight...
Knockwood: no, when we talked him into signing up with us. Granted, the main draw was the whole not-dying bit, but still...
lazarus: (by the way, kwd, that was about the same list of pizza toppings that I was going to write, too ;))
Etheric: Bewre tthe tyop kngi!
Random_Nerd: Well, I figure that demons in Hell probably have to catch quick naps whenever they can, when the bosses aren't looking.
Knockwood: yeah, but I forgot horse, cheeseburger, bratwurst, mayo and peanut butter.
Theresa: Masters of the Sleeping with Your Eyes Open.

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