Session 96

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 11

lazarus: typo fairy strieks agian
Snow: *busy, sorry. ^^;
Knockwood: you mean our sister Caelestis Tpyo? :)
Snow: We good to go?

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

Theresa: I think I'm ready.
Random_Nerd: Okay, now, let's see...
Random_Nerd: When we last left you, you were trying to figure out if the cultist was a lost cause, and Lesson had been taken over by James for a bit.
Snow: (Snow Preserved Sanity on the cultist! She's helping!)
Theresa: (We are so doomed. So many Realm and Domain miracles...)
Random_Nerd: Any questions before we start?
Snow: (Pretty much)
Snow: (Just to confirm, we're in-chancel, yes?)
Theresa: (Yes. Desert region.)
Brian_: (yes)
Brian_: (Horse just brought us hamburgers)
DanteE: (the fringes specifically)
Random_Nerd: In chancel, but a fair distance away from Kaerkoven.
Random_Nerd: And, yes, Horse got there fast. He used to be an Excrucian's mount.
Theresa: *cough*
DanteE: (uhoh)
Brian_: I don't really want to think about how Horse ordered. Though I get the fun image of Horse going up to the drive through, and whinnying.
Snow: (Knowing Snow, that probably is what happened. They'd be used to it by now.)
Theresa: "What's that, Ed? Timmy wants curly fries?"
Random_Nerd: So, ready?
Snow: (oh god, the Giant was flirting with Snow!!)
Brian_: (... just realized? -_-;)
DanteE: (so, us part-animals are contemptible, but an uplifted coyote is OK?)
Snow: (Just remembered!)
Snow: (Damn skippy.)
Brian_: (yep - Snow doesn't have any illusions about anything else)
Brian_: (or, so the Giant believes)
Brian_: (... also, he wants in her pants)
Brian_: (or closest analogue)
Theresa: (Ready!)
Snow: (She wears a dress, but okay.)
DanteE: what form is Snow in, BTW?
Snow: (Currently, human)
Snow: (Start?)
Random_Nerd: ____________________________START________________________
DanteE: Is the cultist's mind holding together?

• Snow continues to lounge against the side of the car, talking to the giant via the rolled-down window.
  

Random_Nerd: It isn't crumbling any more than it was previously...
Random_Nerd: It's rather been locked in the current state, more or less.
Snow: (It's preserved crazy!)
Snow: "So you're not comin' out, huh?"
Theresa: *to Lesson* "Any messsages from our brother except that he is coming?"
Random_Nerd: L: "That's all that said. But rather..."
Random_Nerd: L: "Know he's my boss. Know I'm still loyal to him. But now scares me."
Theresa: *blinks*
DanteE: "What did Kudzu say about James?
Theresa: "That if we see him, tell the boss _now_.
Theresa: "
Brian_: "Something about going away? I don't remember"
Brian_: "Think this counts?"

• Theresa wonders on what scale Lesson measures scared.
  

Theresa: "I would rather be safe than sorry."
Brian_: "Go ahead, then, Sister"
DanteE: "Ah... we do still have aCultist right here."
Snow: Little white ghost flowers pop up from the desert sand.
Brian_: "He'll remain sane for now"
Brian_: "I think"

• Theresa prays to Kudzu. "Dear Sir. We have had a form of contact with our Brother James. He took over his Anchor while we were all escorting a giant for experimentation. Just thought to let you know. Love, Theresa."
  

Theresa: (*silently*)
DanteE: "I'm thinking of his effects on us and the boss, given his connections to the you-know-what"
Random_Nerd: One of the hamburgers not yet eaten wiggles a bit, and then rips itself to shreds and forms the shreds into a vaguely humanoid form
Snow: "Hey Kudzu!"
Random_Nerd: Shredded Hamburger: "Hey, that's the giant!"

• Snow flicks into coyote form and bounds around the hamburger.
  

Snow: "Brought--you--a giant--and--hamburgers!"
DanteE: "Snow, don't eat the boss. Yet."
Snow: "He'll eat himself. It's okay."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "But he's smaller than I thought he was."
Random_Nerd: Giant: "Hey! At least I'm not a hamburger."
Brian_: "... Sir, about the Giant?"
DanteE: "Hey yourself, this hamburger is a pillar of the universe."
Theresa: "This isn't the giant we brought you earlier, sir. That was the redwood tree. This is a different giant."
Random_Nerd: The giant mutters something along the lines of "isn't even a quarter pount of beef anyway"
Theresa: (Did I forget to mention that RN is currently on the drugs?)

• Snow sits and wiggles impatiently.
  

Random_Nerd: William, slightly sarcastically: "That's pre-cooked weight."

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Snow: (Oh hey, hon!)
DanteE: (Hello)
Random_Nerd: (I take it that this is your guy?)
Brian_: (hi)
Nemesis: (Hello)
Theresa: (Hi Francis.  :) Pleased to meet you. )
Snow: (Yup!)
Random_Nerd: (Hey, nice to have you stop by and take a look at the game.)
Snow: (Theresa is Beth, Random_Nerd is other-Eric, Brian is Lazarus, and Dante is Knockwood...and...you won't remember all that.)
Nemesis: (Pleased to meet you all as well :-) Don't mind me, I'm not really here *hand wave*)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu-burger: "Yeah, but this is more the kind of giant I was wanting. Not that your tree isn't good too."
Snow: "Want me to make a bigger giant?"
Brian_: "This giant was captured by the Cult. Which had a dream. Claimed we wanted to eat it or something."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Yeah, he does look rather tasty."
DanteE: "He also may be Azazel's son."
Random_Nerd: Giant: "...says the hamburger."

• Snow turns into the biggest polar bear she can think of, and flops over with her nose to hamburger-Kudzu.
  

Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Oh, then he's almost surely tasty. Azazel was /delicious/."
Snow: "You probably taste better Kudzu."
Theresa: *facepalm of Noble proportions*
DanteE: ".... you tasted Azazel?"
Random_Nerd: The giant sits up.
Snow: ("Who hasn't?")
Random_Nerd: Giant: "Wait, hold on a moment..."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Yep. What, you think that the estate of Blades just /happened/?"
Brian_: (brian reacts appropriately. My brain is frazzled and has no response)

• Theresa knew that we were going to be bit on the behind by that promise.
  
• Snow 's big black bear tongue licks the hamburger.
  

Theresa: (Actually, does anyone remember the 'exact' promise?)
Random_Nerd: Giant: "So, this is Kudzu? You guys work for /him/?"
DanteE: (I said we'd help him find who did this and tear him/her/it a new one)
Brian_: (hm?)
Snow: "He's yummy..."
DanteE: "This is a projection of Kudzu."
Brian_: "Hon, no eating the boss."
Brian_: "Unless he tells you to."
Random_Nerd: (With "this" being capturing him and torturing him.)

• Snow siiiiiiighs.
  

Theresa: "Snow, the last time eating and the form of the Boss was involved, we got Monty. You wouldn't want to be stuck up there with him all the time, right?"
Random_Nerd: Giant: "Do you know what this guy is like? He's in with the /Moon/."

• Snow blinks, then suddenly bolts upright. "Is...I think there's something hurting Amyra!"
  

Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Quiet. Grownups are talking, junior. Shut up or you're dinner."
DanteE: "Yeah, they play tennis. We toldd you this./"
Brian_: "Snow?"
Random_Nerd: Giant: "Well, not when I was paying attention you didn't..."

• Snow points in the direction of Kaerkoven
  

Brian_: (ah hell, Lassie routine >_<)
Random_Nerd: The giant looks at Kudzu and then closes his mouth.
Snow: "See?"
Brian_: (Realm Div around Kaerkoven? RD of, well, Chancel Health)

• DanteE looks toward town...
  
• Snow eats Kudzu.
  
• Snow lays down.
  

Snow: "It was nothing after all, oops."
Brian_: ...
Theresa: "Snow, do I need to create a newspaper?"
Brian_: (quotes around that, please)
Brian_: "You ... ate ... the boss?"
Random_Nerd: (The chancel, in general, is doing okay. But the part around you feels weird.)
Theresa: (If this game had DP, Snow would get one from me.  :) )
Snow: (*grin*)

• Snow burps.
  

Brian_: (Point of corrupt Joss to Snow)
Random_Nerd: William: "This is one of those things I have to pretend I didn't see, or else I go crazy."
Theresa: "Seems appropriate. Now, what are we going to do about Blades."
DanteE: "Hang on..."
Theresa: "If you would like, William, you and/or Sam can go and see if anything important has been happening in the Chancel while we were out.
Random_Nerd: Sam: "Yeah, watching meatbodies eat is pretty gross..."
Theresa: "

• DanteE puts an ear to Snow's gut...
  

Random_Nerd: Snow's gut: "Hey."

• Snow rolls over to let Dante do this. She also flicks back into Coyote form while she's at it.
  

DanteE: "Boss, still with us?"
Theresa: (Is Snow durant?)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu In Snow's Belly, Slightly Muffled: "Yeah."
Snow: (Ummm...you know, I think that's where I spent her last point, yes.)
Snow: (She had a spare still.)
Theresa: "Snow, you're going to need a lot of fiber. And it's probably going to hurt."

• Snow snorts.
  

Brian_: (lolbreak: (Link: http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-lolcat-office-assistant1.jpg)http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-lolcat-office-assistant1.jpg)
Snow: "Kudzu? He's not really a hamburger. He's a god and He's in the hamburger and He won't be in a bit."
DanteE: "OK, chief, we've got a lead on your Corrupt Cult, they were bleeding the giant.
Snow: "So it's a good thing I didn't let that go to waste."
DanteE: "This giant."
Theresa: "But he may never have seen a digestive tract from the inside before. It's something new to see."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Hmm. Did they show signs of being directly operated by an Excrucian?"
Brian_: "... you could have waited until it was not the boss..."
DanteE: "Then we heard from James, via Lesson."
Random_Nerd: Snow, your belly suddenly feels like it did a backflip.

• Snow burps.
  

Random_Nerd: Snow's belly quiets, and a man-sized pile of dirt sits up.
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Okay, this is serious. What did he say?"

• Snow siiiiighs happily and snoozes with her full belly.
  

Theresa: "That he's coming."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Okay. And he did this right around the same time as when you started interacting with my cult?"
DanteE: "yeeeeeessssss...."
Brian_: "Just now"
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "The cult... were there signs of the involvement of Excrucians? Or, for that matter, other things from Outside?"
Theresa: "Once we were taking the giant out of his imprisonment."
DanteE: "They are screwing up our miracles."
Snow: "Mine're good!"
Brian_: "..."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Well, yes, but I mean direct involvement. Was an anchor leading them?"
Brian_: "No, just the Cultists"
Theresa: "The plants around the area they were working loathed me."
Brian_: "That we saw, anyway."
DanteE: "Didn't see one"
DanteE: (We checked the scene with the Sight and nothing big showed up, right?)
Random_Nerd: (Correct.)
Random_Nerd: (But you did find signs of miracles having been performed that looked like their style.)
DanteE: "There are signs of Excrucian miracles, though..."

• DanteE grabs the pointy rods
  

Random_Nerd: Kudzu looks at the rods.
DanteE: "Someone made these by removing the rest of a truck."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Either those things were made by a Strategist, or someone worked very hard to make it look like they were, then. That trick's really easy for them, and really hard for anyone else."

• Snow gets up and shakes herself.
  

Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "And I don't like them. They aren't like the rest. Most of the Other Side, they're basically okay. Sure, they're monsters from outside reality, but who isn't?"
Random_Nerd: William raises his hand for a moment, and then puts it down.

• Snow scampers over to Horse, leaps up, flicks into girl form, and they take off across the desert.
  

Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "There are even a few Warmains that I actually like. But Strategists are... mean."
Theresa: (I love Kudzu and William.)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Okay, let's see. They were doing something with the giant's blood. And the giant... was he born recently, or is he really old?"
Theresa: "The dreams the cult received had people who were similar to us but not exactly. Could they have been Decievers?"
DanteE: to giant: "You said Babylon, right?"
Brian_: "He comes from Babylon.
Brian_: "
Theresa: "Old. Babylon, if that helps."
Random_Nerd: Giant: "Yeah. But this was before they called it that."
DanteE: "... isn't Babylon around 10,000 years old?"
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "So... from before Azazel and I... had our little misunderstanding. So, that means he's connected to me. I'm like his one-third stepfather or something."
Random_Nerd: Giant gives Kudzu a "You're not my real dad!" look.
DanteE: (Reserve that one softball field for next weekend... :) )
Theresa: "Maybe godfather might be appropriate, boss?"

• Theresa will listen in to the plants around her and see if she can track Snow using them too.
  

Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Something like that. But, okay. They're drawing on a connection with me, but one from an Estate that wasn't originally mine. What were they doing with the blood?"
Theresa: "Making bricks."
DanteE: (Did we bring a brick?)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "And bricks mean Urbanization, and Urbanization and I are... estranged."
Random_Nerd: (I believe you grabbed one.)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Okay, this is some kind of weird Excrucian symbolic magic, the kind that never really made any sense to me."

• DanteE shows a special brick to Kudzu
  

Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Magic giant-blood bricks. Does that make sense to /you/?"
Random_Nerd: Brick: "Brick. Brick brick brick!"
Theresa: "They made happy brick sounds. Like that one."
Brian_: (... is that happy or sad brick noises?)
Random_Nerd: (Fairly happy.)
Theresa: (Exclamation point. Happy.)
Brian_: (or mad)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "And the cultists... were they friendly, or hostile?"
DanteE: "Homicidal."
Brian_: "Friendly. Then hostile. Then friendly. Then hostile."
DanteE: "Well, some."
Brian_: "Couldn't decide."
Theresa: "One dissolved."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "And you brought one here, to the chancel. So, maybe they wanted you to take them here, so you'd be weaker. Or maybe they wanted you to /think/ that so you'd leave them all behind or kill them, or..."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Okay, second-guessing the Strategists just doesn't work."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Wait, dissolved?"
DanteE: "One guy melted, yes. One of the formerly friendly ones."
Theresa: "Healing went kablooy."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Okay, that doesn't fit."
Brian_: "... I think we've got him in a baggie."
Theresa: (I was possibly wrong. i thought the guy that Dante was healing went all bloody mist.)
DanteE: (No, he's still intact, just with one really big femur.)
Random_Nerd: (It was a different one, wasn't it? The leader melted, and then later Dante tried to heal another one.)
Brian_: (it was yeah, the leader. He said he'd help us, then disintegrated)
DanteE: (Then I tried to heal someone who got hurt in the attack and screwed his leg up)
Snow: A cloud begins to turn dark, a little ways off.
Theresa: (Ah, then feel free to retcon me.)
Snow: A cold breeze sweeps into the area.
Brian_: "I wonder if it'll start snowing?"
Snow: Snow, the coyote, can be seen off in the distance, riding hard towards you all.
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Okay, if this is a puzzle, I'm not smart enough to figure it out. I think some of these pieces are missing, and some are from a different puzzle."

• Brian_ calls out "Snow? What's up?"
  

Theresa: "How much more powerful is the giant's blood than a modern human's blood?"
Snow: "aaaaaaiiiiiIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"
Brian_: "Boss, I've found when counter-strategising against someone who can plan your entire course of action before you do ... the best bet is to act randomly"
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "A lot. Regular human blood's not worth much. This one's got Imperator genes... well, not genes, it doesn't really work that way, but blood. Hereditary."

• Snow , on Horse, tears through the area. A cloud, filled with snow and wind, follows her. It passes briefly over you all, then moves on.
  

Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Oh, I have no doubt that if the Strategists try to second-guess /me/ ahead of time, I drive them just as crazy as they do me."
Brian_: "... I don't think I'll ever understand her."
Random_Nerd: W: "I know the feeling."
DanteE: "So, the secret to fighting Strategists is to be as random as Snow?"
Snow: (And HE has to sleep with her!)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "I find the secret to fighting them is to find them and hit them a bunch of times until they die or run away. That's the one good thing about them, they're easier to kill than the other types."
Snow: The cloud suddenly drops to the ground a little ways off.
Theresa: "True, those Warmains were...bothersome."
Random_Nerd: K: "Hit them enough times, and their auctoritas stops working."
Brian_: "Yeah, I vote Snow come up with our plan."
Snow: (Sweet jesus, is that ever a bad idea.)
Snow: (You guys ARE desperate.)
Snow: (It'll probably involve eating them.)
Theresa: "Would our blood be as powerful now that we're enNobled?"
Brian_: (... if it works... *shrug*)
Snow: (True.)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Hmm... maybe. Probably not. You guys are fresh, and not much of your power is in your bodies yet. You might have blood as strong. Or Blades might."
DanteE: "I have to ask, chief: How did you get Blades?"
Theresa: (Nom nom nom nom.)
Snow: Those of you with particularly good hearing can hear Snow counting to ten. Or nine maybe. Or...you're not sure what "sixty-twelve" is.
Brian_: ("sixty-twelve" looks like this! *poof*)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Azazel. It used to be his. But he was... damaged. All his lot were, but he was worse than most. I think they made a deal with something Outside for what they tried to give the humans. But I had a hunch I could make something better with it."
Snow: (Francis just pointed out the french translation. That's "72" in french.)
Nemesis: (I'm rubbing off on her and she's not even realising it)
DanteE: (You're thinking of 92, which would be quatre-vingt-douze)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "So, I got help. She blinded him, confused him, and I... absorbed part of him. And I made you with it, eventually. It got a bit diminished in itself, but I made Courage with the leftovers."
Brian_: (60 + 12 = 72)
Snow: (And in french it's soixante-douze. :))
DanteE: (oh yeah)
Snow: (Crazy frenchies.)
Brian_: (THAT'S how it's spelled! Damn my not having used French in ... holy crap about 6 or so years >_>)
DanteE: "Courage is a leftover?"
Snow: (Parents are home, brb!)
Theresa: "The moon...she was in on it. Makes sense."
DanteE: "... and who's She? The moon?"
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Oh, and the tennis thing? That was a metaphor. Or maybe a euphemism. Or something."
Random_Nerd: The giant glares at Kudzu.
Theresa: "She might still have a good backhand."
Brian_: "..."
Brian_: "I'm ... not sure I want to know"
Random_Nerd: (Wink wink nudge nudge say no more?)
Theresa: "So that's why the moon followed us on the way here?"
Random_Nerd: K: "She did? Oh, that's interesting."
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and the sun/moon cosmology from the Great White Book doesn't apply to this game. I went a different way with it.)
Snow: (back)
Theresa: "Is it safe for the giant to get out of the car while he's in the Chancel?"
Random_Nerd: K: "I've been thinking something. When you talked with Barakiel, did he strike you as... crazy? I don't mean like crazy plans or anything, or even like the sort of divinely awesome way I am, I just mean... mentally ill. Cognitively damaged."
DanteE: (So... was there enmity between Azazel and the moon, or did this cause it?)
Random_Nerd: K: "The way a human would be crazy, I mean, not a god."
Brian_: "A little."
Brian_: "Kind of ... narrow focused."
DanteE: "It is really hard to tell. Different, uh, culture."
Brian_: "Tunnel-visioned"
Random_Nerd: (Well, if there wasn't bad blood beforehand, then it makes you wonder why she helped Kudzu maim Azazel.)
Random_Nerd: K: "Huh."
Theresa: "He was very focused on his one solution. Got the feeling that it would take heavy persuasion and tons of evidence to make him switch gears."
Theresa: (How goes hide and seek, Snow?)
Snow: The cloud in the distance leaps back into the air, reverts to its naturally fluffy happy form, and begins moving along with the other clouds.
DanteE: "You know, we never did follow up on whether Consequences actually managed to sell the new solution."
Brian_: "... I don't even remember what the new solution /was/ anymore."
Theresa: "We haven't been attacked yet. That works for me."
Snow: Snow and Horse come tearing back, Snow giggling madly.
Brian_: "other than 'no longer our problem', I mean"
Theresa: "That he should try thinking about the Imperator of the Third Age instead."
Snow: (So out of curiosity, how does Horse respond to being ridden all over the place and playing hide and seek with Snow? I know you said before he was a bit sad...)
DanteE: "Right, he was going to advocate executing At... miss 3rd age."
Random_Nerd: (Hmm. He liked it. But I'm afraid that, since I'm having to play a couple NPCs in conversations with multiple PCs, I don't have many brain cells to spare for the horse. Sorry.)
Snow: (S'all good, just curious.)
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "I would pay good money to watch him try."
Random_Nerd: (What the horse really wants most of all, I think, is for someone to ride him into battle. From his perspective, that's what he's /for/.)
DanteE: (We might wind up doing that...)

• Snow dismounts, Capriciousness-es up some water from deep in the ground to make a little pond, and rolls around in it.
  

Brian_: "I think we were asked to try to convince you to go with that plan."
Snow: (*nod* No battles to ride into yet though.)
DanteE: "Barakiel seems mainly desperate. The turning of the calendar and the associated cataclysm has him on edge trying to figure out a solution to The War."
DanteE: "His initial plan was to advocate the 4th age's execution, as we told you."
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "And did he seem to be working any other angles?"
DanteE: "No, though he said he'd considered others, I think..."
Theresa: "That anything we could think of, he had already thought of it, was the impression."
Random_Nerd: K: "You know what? I don't know what's going on. I leave it in your hands. I'm not testing you any more, this situation isn't something I engineered to see what you're made of."
Random_Nerd: K: "But we have problems, and I don't know what to do, so I hope you can figure it out."
Snow: "Byyyyyye Kudzu!"
DanteE: "Any chance the Moon and Azazel have worked things out?"
Theresa: (What would happen if we just killed off the entire cult?)
Random_Nerd: (Then they would be dead.)
Theresa: (What would happen to the corruptness?)
DanteE: (If we're really clever, maybe we can 'turn' them so we wind up with a non-corrupt cult on our side...
Brian_: (*poof* ... I'll stay for another few, but I'm basically gone now. Sorry guys -_-)
DanteE: (soooooo.... yeah, we might wind up killing them. :) )
Random_Nerd: (If you could turn them, you'd have an empowered mystery cult that was loyal to you.)
Random_Nerd: (In some ways, that's a lot like having a bunch of expendible mini-anchors.)
Theresa: (Does being empowered make them less or more likely to be noticed and corrupted?)
DanteE: (we have a mini-ex-anchor here?)
Random_Nerd: (All corrupted cults are empowered. But they don't have to have been empowered beforehand.)
Random_Nerd: (So, shall we stop soon?)
Snow: (Someone say something, poof, Snow'll make it happen. *feral grin*)
DanteE: (Come to think of it, that'd be a good way to corrupt a cult--offer them power)
DanteE: (what's the moon doing?)
Random_Nerd: (Yep. "Your god doesn't love you, not the way I can! Let me teach you miraculous powers that will really impress the kids who made fun of you in school!")
DanteE: (or the giant?)
Random_Nerd: (The only moon you can see is Monty's moon.)
Theresa: (I'd be okay with stopping. I'm not sure how to 'cleanse' this cultist without basically killing the whole lot. And that's not a good thing by Entropy's rules.)
Random_Nerd: (The giant
Random_Nerd: 's been keeping quiet, since being threatened by Kudzu.)
DanteE: "Chief... when you said Azazel was...
Theresa: (Good for him.)
DanteE: "Well, not sure what you said. Was Azazel injured fighting Excrucians, or ... something else?"
Random_Nerd: The Kudzu-figure sits back up.
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "I think... and this is just me guessing, mind. I wasn't around then, I don't know. But I think him and the rest of his lot did /something/ that had something to do with rushing the speed of human development. And that whatever it was made the other Angels freak out and banish them for a long time. And that they've never been the same since."
DanteE: "the rest of his lot?"
Theresa: (Az is a watcher too, right?)
Random_Nerd: (Yes.)
Random_Nerd: K: "The Watchers. Him and Barakiel and half a dozen others."
Theresa: "Would you say that Barakiel is acting like how Azazel did before you took Blades?"
DanteE: "Hrm...
Random_Nerd: K: "Yes and no. The details are different, but the broad outline is the same. But to be honest, if I was going to act directly against Barakiel at this point, it'd probably be to put him down, all the way."
Snow: (Actually guys, since this isn't involving Snow much, I'm going to bow out and go to bed "early". :) )
Brian_: (So much for "10:30-11" for me >_>)
DanteE: "Chief? ... Don't."
DanteE: "Something just occurred to me.
Random_Nerd: K: "Yes?"
Snow: (Good luck, all. See you next Thursday!)
Theresa: "They were working on some High Summoning stuff when we visited."
Random_Nerd: (Later, Sara. Good to have you back, sorry there wasn't more for you to do.)

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Theresa: (Night, Sara! *HUG* And probably good night, Nemesis.)
Brian_: (night)
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, I hope you like what you saw, althought I doubt it made any sense without context.)
Brian_: (see you guys next week)
Theresa: (Night, Laz.)

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DanteE: "Setting the Watchers against all the other Imperators--whether a generational thing or a series of slights, like, say, taking domains--would be a huge help to the Excrucians
Random_Nerd: (Yeah, see you next week.)
Nemesis: (Heh, yeah. Lots of "what... who...?", but not bad. More talking than I'm used to, but looks interesting. Anyway, I'm out. Later.)
DanteE: "And might even be enough of a rift to make a new era."
DanteE: (g'night)

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

Random_Nerd: K: "Yeah, but it'd be a problem if Barakiel did something to undermine the foundations of reality too... oh, and High Summonings? Lovely."
Random_Nerd: K: "That stuff makes me nervous, and I /am/ a creature from Out There."
DanteE: "Undermine the foundations? You mean like... kill an Imperator of an Age?"
Random_Nerd: K: "You know what I hate most? The things they can bring across... some of them look at me like they /know/ what I am, what I was, but there's no way I can force them to explain."
Theresa: "Even asking nicely?"
Random_Nerd: Kudzu: "Plants... if all it took for the Magisters of the Wild to rediscover our true nature was asking nicely, we'd have managed it at some point over the last few thousand years."
Random_Nerd: K: "We're not /Angels/."
DanteE: (so what was Kudzu before becoming a Wildlord? A pizza delivery guy? :) )
Random_Nerd: (He was a catgirl, obviously.)
Random_Nerd: (But don't tell him.)
Random_Nerd: (So, shall we stop soon, or did you have more to do?)
Theresa: "Good point, Boss."
DanteE: (OK, since half the players are gone, let's stop. :) )
Theresa: (I think I'm good for tonight. Too bad Theresa doesn't 'know' about the Charitable Beings from Flowerings or she'd ask about them. i figure those _really_ get on a Wild nerve.)
Random_Nerd: _____________________STOP_________________
Random_Nerd: So, what did you think?

• • • DanteE is now known as Knockwood.
      

Knockwood: Interesting
Random_Nerd: (I, myself, feel like I'm a bit off my form. And the plot has gotten /too/ complicated, I rather fear.)
Theresa: Too complicated?
Theresa: And I like it when Kudzu is chatty.
Random_Nerd: Yeah, I think when even the gods are going "How the hell should I know what's going on?" I've probably gone too far.
Theresa: Perhaps. Either that or powerful forces at work.
Knockwood: well, one of the Rules of PCs is that there's no problem that can't be solved (or at least helped) by finding the right guy and beating the hell out of him
Random_Nerd: Yeah.
Random_Nerd: Like Kudzu, I have no clue how you guys will solve all this stuff, but I'm sure you'll think of something.
Random_Nerd: You always have in the past.
Knockwood: it's the genre that determines who the 'right guy' is...
Knockwood: demon lord, corporate bigwig, alien leader, bishonen prettyboy, et cetera. :)
Theresa: In the past, the answer has become 'open up the bunny'.
Random_Nerd: This isn't anime, so you can't just find the white-haired prettyboy with the sword.
Random_Nerd: I guess I just feel like there are too many mysteries in this game, great and small, and I'm not giving you guys enough to work with.
Random_Nerd: Does this match what you think?
Knockwood: no, but pounding hikm would help us feel better. P:)
Knockwood: Remember how Alexander 'solved' the Gordian Knot.
Knockwood: (AFK a minute)
Random_Nerd: Indeed.
Random_Nerd: There is a divine grace which has been bestowed upon player characters, enabling them to solve complicated problems with simple solutions and sufficient moxie.
Theresa: I think that it's hard in this game to tell what is an overall secret and what is a GM specific secret. And that it can be easy to ask a question just for knowledge sake and sionce it is intertwined with important secret, can't get the first answer.
Random_Nerd: So, you guys think I'm giving you enough to go on?
Theresa: That, I don't know. I'm having trouble with overthinking and trying to sift clues from chaff.
Knockwood: (BAK)
Knockwood: I think we need to implement the Snow solution...
Knockwood: go get some percentile dice and a big 'what to do next' table, and use that. :)
Knockwood: "Ha! What will you do now, foolish Nobles?" "We'll... (roll)... go bowling!"
Theresa: I prefer conga.
Random_Nerd: Heh.
Knockwood: so... the Giant was the son of Azazel before the Moon helped Kudzu steal Blades from him due to his apparently losing some marbles?
Random_Nerd: Correct.
Knockwood: When was he kidnapped by the Cult?
Theresa: 6 months ago.
Random_Nerd: He was kidnapped by the cult half a year ago.
Random_Nerd: Oh, and remember, that's Kudzu's side of that story.
Random_Nerd: He's not entirely unbiased.
Knockwood: I'll just assume my newest 'plan' is what's going on:
Knockwood: that the ultimate Ex plan is to drive a generational wedge between the old Imperators like the Watchers and relatively 'new' ones like the Moon, Kudzu... Entropy...
Knockwood: which means they'll be too busy fighting among themselves to give any real resistance to the Excrucians.
Random_Nerd: Hmm. One slight comment. You might not want to take the assumption that there /is/ an "ultimate Excrucian plan."
Random_Nerd: Excrucians are no more united than Imperators are.
Knockwood: but if some Strategist manages to pull it off he can assume the Entropy position in the Ex forces. :)
Knockwood: In fact, that also means we could have a plan... to 'unite' the disparate Imperators...
Random_Nerd: This is also true.
Random_Nerd: (Thta, to the "but if some")
Random_Nerd: (Err, that.)
Knockwood: or at least some of the biggest factions among them.
Knockwood: Which could be done with Carrie's plan.
Random_Nerd: Of course, if Carrie's plan fully worked, it'd create a new division of Imperators.
Knockwood: yeah, but it'd be filled by 4+ existing factions
Random_Nerd: True, there are four that currently are connected to that.
Random_Nerd: Interestingly, each one of the four hates one of the others and totally ignores the other two.
Theresa: Plus it's probably not a good idea to cheese humans into Imperatorhood. They won't know how to run a proper Universe once they ding.
Random_Nerd: That's the mistake that the Watchers made!
Random_Nerd: Plus, they were using explots.
Random_Nerd: Err, exploits.
Knockwood: Exs have wallhacks?
Knockwood: That would explain some of their gains in the war...\
Knockwood: been spending a lot of time on CoX lately
Theresa: Warcraft for us.  :)

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