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[[Chancel_Amyra]]<br> [[Amyra:Chapter_19|Chapter 19]]<br><br> [INFO] Now logging to {file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Angelo/Dati%20applicazioni/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/demuhaee.default/chatzilla/logs/irc2.magicstar.net/channels/%23Nobilis.2010-03-26.log}.<br> [INFO] Channel view for ``#Nobilis'' opened.<br> =-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix<br> --}| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis<br> {Random_Nerd} Hey.<br> {Angelo} Hi all!<br> {BethE} Hi Angelo! *HUG*<br> {Random_Nerd} Laz, I know, will be late or not here. Not sure about the others.<br> {Angelo} Well, we can wait a bit and see<br> --}| Knockwood (~chatzilla@24.205.206.IP) has joined #Nobilis<br> {Knockwood} Hi guys<br> {Angelo} Hi Knock<br> {Knockwood} sorry I'm late, work again<br> {Random_Nerd} Hey, Knock.<br> {BethE} Hi Knock! <br> {Angelo} work? what work?<br> {BethE} Well, I know Laz emailed and said he couldn't make it tonight. But if V isn't here either, that would invoke the two-player rule.<br> {Knockwood} hm.<br> {BethE} Oh and Knock, have you been letting Dante out again? http://pugetsoundblogs.com/bainbridge-conversation/2010/03/23/police-detain-sword-waving-knife-throwing-werewolf-hunter/<br> {Random_Nerd} Hmm.<br> {Knockwood} yeah, those CHUDs are a bitch<br> {Angelo} what is a chud?<br> {Knockwood} Cannibalistic Underground Humanoid Dweller<br> {Knockwood} er, swap the middle 2<br> {BethE} (It's from a movie.)<br> {Angelo} oh I see<br> {Random_Nerd} Not... not a good movie.<br> {BethE} (If I remember right, it wasn't...yeah.)<br> {Random_Nerd} Hmm. I'm inclined to wait a bit, but if Kite doesn't show up, start anyway.<br> {Random_Nerd} What do you guys think?<br> {Angelo} and the 2 player rule?<br> {Random_Nerd} *shrug*<br> {Knockwood} hm...<br> {Random_Nerd} I mean, Laz wasn't really going to have Brian go on this anyway.<br> {Knockwood} well, we were prepping the Captain for his foray with us into Wyoming, right?<br> {Knockwood} yeah, but Kite was...<br> {Random_Nerd} Shall we start with that, and see about going or not?<br> {Angelo} yes, right Knock<br> =-= BethE is now known as Theresa<br> =-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE<br> =-= YOU are now known as Ftisk<br> {Random_Nerd} _______START__________<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson sits down at the table.<br> {DanteE} (Did he ever elaborate on what he heard about us?)<br> {Ftisk} (is a interesting question)<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Also, I hear there's a big magic tree. Not, uh, the big magic tree that lives around here."<br> {Theresa} (He said that we run the place, and the king is okay with that...)<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Or the small one. Different tree. Very big."<br> {Theresa} "With a bunch of different worlds on it?"<br> {DanteE} "You mean the tree on TV, the tree in the park, or the tree that supports the world?"<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "The third one."<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "And I've heard that it isn't a metaphor."<br> {DanteE} "Theresa, you want to field that one?"<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Does this have anything to do with the way that jungle appeared at the borders?"<br> * Theresa reaches under the table, LCs a cardboard box and lifts it onto the table. "It does. Inside this box is...an image projector. It will show an image of the tree in question."<br> * Theresa undoes the box. *ghost of the Ash*<br> {Theresa} "We...are here." *points*<br> {Ftisk} (really useful that trick ;-) )<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Okay, so where's Earth?"<br> {Theresa} "There are many worlds that exist, each hanging like ornaments on the Ash. Earth is one and Amyra was moved a little away from Earth when Kudzu took over. The jungles are now the way that one can travel from here to Earth or to other places."<br> {DanteE} "Do you know who Kudzu is?"<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Only vaguely."<br> {Theresa} "And as for other trees, the one on tv used to be a human but he's enjoying himself at the moment. The big redwood tree is part of the protectors of Amyra and he likes cows as pets."<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Big giant made of traffic lights and cars that shows up sometimes and appears in the tabloids, and secretly runs the country."<br> {DanteE} "That's him."<br> {Theresa} "Kudzu is what is called an Imperator. He is as beyond us as we are beyond regular humans."<br> * DanteE pulls out a dagger...(not threateningly)<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "I kinda thought it was a bunch of lies until when the Inspector was running a bunch of Kudzu-sightings, and he showed up and gave an interview."<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "Wait, I missed that?"<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "Damn."<br> * Ftisk a mass of tentacle, like human's guts, squeeze to enter the conference room door. From the center of that mass you can hear "HI!!! Who is the new one? a visiting Noble?"<br> {DanteE} (Kudzu gave an interview?)<br> =-= YOU are now known as tentacleFtisk<br> {Random_Nerd} (This is the first time it's been mentioned in-game.)<br> * Theresa blinks. "The Boss gave an interview? Wow. How'd it go?"<br> {DanteE} to Sam: "I did too... find us a video of it, ASAP."<br> {Random_Nerd} (But chronologically, it happened around when you guys were hunting shards in Mexico.)<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "I will do that right now."<br> {Theresa} "Hi Ftisk! This is Captain Davidson, who is hopefully going to come along on our hunt."<br> * tentacleFtisk wave a couple of tentacle<br> {Random_Nerd} He practically scuttles across the room to get to the door, holding his new hat on with one hand.<br> {DanteE} (Sam, or Davidson?)<br> {tentacleFtisk} "Hi Captain davidson... Noble of...?"<br> {Random_Nerd} (Sam.)<br> {DanteE} (How does Davidson react to the tentacle monster?)<br> {Random_Nerd} He starts to hold up a hand, looks nervously at Ftisk's tentacles, and then pulls his hand back.<br> * tentacleFtisk try the difficulty task of leaving enough space to Sam to pass without being covered in slime/blood fluids<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Ah..."<br> {Theresa} "Captain Davidson is normal, Ftisk. Davidson, this is Ftisk, a visiting Noble. He is the Noble of machinery and data."<br> {DanteE} "Not Noble, Ftisk. Can you change to something less sanity-breaking?<br> {tentacleFtisk} "ok"<br> {Random_Nerd} (Note that this won't cause DA... but it is unsettling.)<br> {Theresa} "Preferably, not in front of him?"<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Look at the window!"<br> {DanteE} "Oh, wait..."<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson does so.<br> =-= YOU are now known as girlFtisk<br> {DanteE} "Thanks, William."<br> {Random_Nerd} (Same one as earlier?)<br> {Theresa} ( http://somefield.com/posted/sketch-241-final.jpg )<br> {DanteE} (Nice)<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson looks back, and seems somewhat confused.<br> {girlFtisk} this one: http://www.dress4sale.com/p-lace-up-sexy-dress-469.html<br> {Random_Nerd} William, opening his eyes: "It's probably best not to think about it."<br> {DanteE} "Yeah, we can do some interesting things..."<br> {girlFtisk} "well, I can change form..."<br> {Random_Nerd} William fumbles around in his pocket for a piece of paper, unfolds it, and looks down the list.<br> {girlFtisk} (@T nice!)<br> {Random_Nerd} W: "Ah, yes. 'It's magic, a wizard did it.'"<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Wait, there are actual wizards?"<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "I don't know. I imagine so.:"<br> {DanteE} "Sort of."<br> {DanteE} "Let me see if I can throw some light on things..."<br> {Theresa} "Ftisk comes from a different chancel, under the command of a different Imperator."<br> {girlFtisk} "My one is Vulcan the one the Greek took near right"<br> {DanteE} "See, each Noble is given dominion over one or more parts of Creation."<br> {DanteE} "And by 'dominion' I mean we can create it, control it, or do whatever is needed to it."<br> {girlFtisk} "Or near wrong.. is all in the beholder eye this point"<br> * DanteE holds up the dagger by the tip.<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Wait, like, Hephaestus? Zeus's kid?"<br> {Random_Nerd} (In this game setting, there kinda is a Zeus, but he goes by Indra, and he's not related to Vulcan.)<br> {DanteE} (Copper & Electricity's Ymera?)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Yep.)<br> {girlFtisk} "near... we are not associate"<br> {Random_Nerd} (And C&E's predecessor was the Dominus of Bronze and Lightning, but Indra wanted someone with a more modern take on it.)<br> {Theresa} "Earth's mythologies are somewhat connected to the Imperators but some things humans got wrong."<br> {Random_Nerd} (So he totally ripped off the plans for Ftisk 1.0.)<br> {girlFtisk} (that was a nice, nice touch)<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "And what about, uh... other deities? The kind with a capital letter on the front?"<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Shall I take this one?"<br> {Theresa} "Go for it, William."<br> {DanteE} "... why not."<br> {girlFtisk} "go Will"<br> {Theresa} (We don't know if God exists, Jesus was divine or the Buddha laughs.)<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "As near as we can tell, there /probably/ is a big-G God, but he doesn't hang out with us, and we don't really know more about him than you do."<br> {DanteE} (Cneph, right?)<br> {Random_Nerd} (There are some indications that there's at least a gnostic/deistic distant creator-figure, but nobody really knows more other than maybe some senior angels.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Yeah.)<br> * girlFtisk walk to Dante and curl his hairs (if he permit)<br> {Random_Nerd} (His connections to human religions, if any, are unknown.)<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "If he's out there, he's probably the one that made the Tree."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Although there are a lot of stories about that."<br> {Random_Nerd} (So, should we try to start the hunting trip today, or delay it another week?)<br> {Theresa} "A common thread that runs through Imperators is the 'thou wilt not take any crap from mortals' thought."<br> {Theresa} (Dunno.)<br> {girlFtisk} "We can give the major Davidson a trip on the tree so he can see"<br> {DanteE} "One step at a time, Ftisk."<br> {girlFtisk} (we can postpone at will I think we are good at this! :-P )<br> {DanteE} (In fact, considering we're going to Wyoming, do we even need to talk about the Tree?)<br> {girlFtisk} "oh, bad Dante! Let's play a bit"<br> {Random_Nerd} (Not really.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (This trip is strictly an Earthly one.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Not surprisingly, as Earth is one of the best places to find Warmain-shards.)<br> {girlFtisk} (they sell them in family packs?)<br> {DanteE} "Anyway... there are Nobles that started out human, like Theresa and me, and there are Nobles that didn't, like Ftisk here.<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam comes in the door, waving a DVD.<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "Got it."<br> {girlFtisk} "Yes, Vulcan made me 3years ago"<br> {DanteE} to Sam: "Pop it in the screen there, I'd like to see it before we head out..."<br> {girlFtisk} "And then make me a Noble"<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam goes over to the computer and pops it in.<br> {DanteE} "Don't play it yet, we're still explaining things."<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "Sure."<br> {Theresa} (But we talked about the Tree to the military and Davidson is gathering info, so, whatever he wants to ask, Theresa will answer.)<br> {girlFtisk} "colonel, how old are you?"<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Uh, captain, actually. Twenty-eight."<br> {Theresa} (Bad Ftisk! You're underage!)<br> {girlFtisk} (lol! A jailbait?)<br> {DanteE} "OK, what do you know... actually, make that what have you heard ... about Nobles?"<br> * girlFtisk came to look better to the captain "oh... so how is being so old for an human?"<br> {Theresa} "Ftisk, _I'm_ older than that."<br> {girlFtisk} "Yes but you are Noble, don't count"<br> {Theresa} "But I was a human before I was a Noble, Ftisk."<br> {girlFtisk} "he is a plain one that must carry on with his cross on everyday... is interesting..."<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson seems unsure how to answer the question.<br> {Theresa} (Asnwering Dante's question is easier than answering Ftisk's? :) )<br> * DanteE ghosts a sign saying "Completely inhuman despite appearances" with an arrow pointing to Ftisk, and shows it to Davidson discreetly. :)<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Well, I'm in a job where there isn't really that much room for advancement, because the number of higher-ranking people is fixed by the size of the army, and the army isn't growing and we aren't going to war, so people just hang on to their jobs."<br> * girlFtisk poke him one time on an arm<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Still, I did get a promotion over the Mexico incident, so things are looking up a little."<br> {girlFtisk} "I can remove some of them *blink*<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "Uh, does anyone want to see the video now?"<br> {Theresa} "Ftisk, please don't 'remove' anyone from our Chancel?"<br> {DanteE} "_No_, Ftisk."<br> {girlFtisk} "But Theresa! They are few and _human_"<br> {Theresa} "I'm ready for the video, if everyone else is. Anyone want popcorn?"<br> {girlFtisk} "ME! I like popcorn!"<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "Okay, let me see here..."<br> {Theresa} "Yes, Ftisk, but the Chancel will be upset if important military people are suddenly removed. There was a lot of panic just over the deaths to create the Chancel alone."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "I can get it, Sam."<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "Thanks."<br> {DanteE} "Why not. Davidson, we can help clarify whatever he, um, isn't clear on..."<br> * Theresa reaches under the table and LCs a bag of fresh popcorn for Ftisk.<br> * Theresa hands it over.<br> {Random_Nerd} William goes over to the presentation computer in the corner, fiddles with it for a moment, and the video starts playing.<br> * girlFtisk nod nod at the pop corn<br> {Random_Nerd} Female Newscaster, Outside The Clock Tower: "And here we see the footprints left by the clanking giant."<br> {girlFtisk} "well, right Dante, your chanchell your (stupid) rules"<br> {Random_Nerd} Newscaster: "According to witness reports, the creature formed itself out of various street signs and unoccupied cars, and..."<br> {Random_Nerd} Clank! Clank!<br> {Random_Nerd} Newscaster: "And proceeded to walk six blocks in this direction, stopping outside the Kaerkoven University Clock Tower, a building strongly associated with the enigmatic..."<br> {DanteE} (So, this is when we were in Mexico fighting the Shards his buddy sent?)<br> {Random_Nerd} Kudzu appears in the frame, outside her field of vision.<br> {Random_Nerd} (Yes.)<br> {Theresa} "Oh dear..."<br> {Random_Nerd} Newscaster: "And there you see the deep prints left by his heavy feet on the..."<br> {Random_Nerd} She turns a bit to gesture.<br> {girlFtisk} "uhm"<br> {Random_Nerd} There is a bout of profanity that lasts seventeen seconds.<br> {Theresa} (What is the Imperator equivalent of 'Hi mom! *wave wave wave*' ?)<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "I asked for the unedited version."<br> {Theresa} "Impressive vocabulary."<br> {girlFtisk} (Kudzu say profanity ?)<br> {Random_Nerd} Kudzu walks over to the camera.<br> {Random_Nerd} (No, she did.)<br> {DanteE} "That's what we want. Sam."<br> {Random_Nerd} He squats down, his head about twice the height of her body.<br> {Random_Nerd} You hear the cameraman whispering "Run with it! Run with it!"<br> {DanteE} "We should send her a bouquet..."<br> {Theresa} (Knock, have you ever seen Soul Eater?)<br> {Theresa} "We should send her chocolate."<br> {DanteE} (Nope)<br> {Random_Nerd} She straightens her blazer, shrugs, and says: "So, you're the mysterious Kudzu that we've heard so much about?"<br> {Theresa} (Darn. I was just imagining Kudzu with a certain character's voice.)<br> {girlFtisk} "oh, in tv Kudzu appear fatter"<br> * Theresa gives Ftisk a 'oh _no_ you _didn't_!' look.<br> {Random_Nerd} She points the microphone at Kudzu, and he says "YES." in a voice that makes the speaker buzz a little.<br> * girlFtisk pout toward Theresa general direction<br> {Random_Nerd} Newscaster: "And, uh... what are you doing here?"<br> {Random_Nerd} This time, she doesn't point the microphone at Kudzu.<br> {girlFtisk} "easy trick"<br> {Random_Nerd} Kudzu: "Heard you were doing a story. Wanted to stop by."<br> {Random_Nerd} Kudzu: "Do you like my giant rabbit?"<br> {Random_Nerd} "Giant... rabbit?"<br> {girlFtisk} (a sexual allusion?)<br> {Random_Nerd} K: "On the moon. The new one."<br> {Random_Nerd} N: "Uh, yes. We did a story on him a bit ago."<br> {Random_Nerd} K: "I thought that worked out well."<br> {Theresa} (In Amyra, giant rabbit is not an innuendo. ^^ )<br> {Random_Nerd} N: "So, do you really run Amyra from the shadows, secretly dictating all policy?"<br> {Random_Nerd} K: "No."<br> {Random_Nerd} K: "I have people to do that."<br> {Random_Nerd} K: "I'm far too busy to handle it all myself."<br> {girlFtisk} (lol love that line)<br> {Random_Nerd} N: "Oh? Then why do you have the time for this?"<br> {Random_Nerd} K: "Good point."<br> {Random_Nerd} Kudzu collapses to a pile of random bits of buildings and street signs.<br> {Random_Nerd} She jumps back.<br> {girlFtisk} (rotfl)<br> {Random_Nerd} N: "And there you have it. The mysterious giant Kudzu claims to not rule Amyra, but only because he doesn't have the time."<br> {Random_Nerd} The video ends.<br> {Theresa} (But that's logic! Sanity!)<br> {DanteE} "So, he can do that but Ftisk can't without people going nuts..."<br> {girlFtisk} "true!"<br> {DanteE} "Huh."<br> {Theresa} "Well, he _is_ and Imperator. If they stuff they did caused insanity, they'd never get anything done."<br> {DanteE} to Davidson: "OK, short version: We're his people."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Yes. They can, you can't. We don't really know why."<br> {girlFtisk} "But I can mess with Dante" *send a kiss with the hand* "With Kudzu permission" *Blink*<br> {Random_Nerd} (It's because Imperators' miracles function equally on both the mythic and the prosaic worlds, while Noble ones act directly on only which world the Noble was seeing at the time.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (So, Noble miracles put stress on the differing perceptions, while Imperator ones don't.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (But the Aides don't really understand that.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (It's, like, if an Imperator eats a moon, then it will seem like a perfectly natural lunar eclipse which was predicted in advance.)<br> {DanteE} "Somewhat longer version: He is a godlike being, specifically over a select few parts of Creation."<br> {Random_Nerd} (If a Noble eats the moon, everyone will run around shrieking "Holy shit! No moon!")<br> {DanteE} "To help him out, he empowers people--and other things (points to Ftisk)--with power over parts of that...<br> * girlFtisk bow<br> {DanteE} "And, if necessary, creates a little bit of reality to 'live' in, and serve as a base. That's Amyra."<br> {girlFtisk} "this is kudzu turf"<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "And Earth is, like, a battlefront? Contested territory?"<br> {DanteE} "Well, he pulled it away from the rest of Earth and claimed it as his own."<br> {girlFtisk} "with 101 kills"<br> {DanteE} "Sort of...<br> {DanteE} "Let me borrow Theresa's 'Image Projector' here...<br> {Theresa} "Quite contested."<br> {girlFtisk} "Do you want one all for you?"<br> {DanteE} "If you remember your Norse mythology, you remember Yggdrasil... and what they called the Weirding Wall surrounding it."<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "And this is a base in enemy territory, with a fence around it to keep invaders out, but from which you can go to a bunch of different places? Like in the middle of Mexico City?"<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Unfortunately, yes."<br> * girlFtisk lc one after her shoulder "<br> * DanteE ghosts a cross-section of it over the box.<br> * girlFtisk pass to Dante the projector<br> {Theresa} "William, just because you don't like Mexico..."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Not /all/ of Mexico."<br> {girlFtisk} "an exciting place to stay a bit!"<br> * DanteE tries the same thing with Ftisk's gizmo...<br> {Random_Nerd} (Holographic projectors are expensive but mundane. Ftisk can make a quite functional one with a lesser creation.)<br> {DanteE} "... anyway. Here's the spooky part...<br> * DanteE checks Davidson's reaction...<br> {Random_Nerd} (And with Data, he can easily have it come programmed with plenty of images to work with, and software to run it.)<br> * girlFtisk one of these holographic, already programmed, even café doing, one<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "And you're going to be going on a raid in contested territory, and you want me to come along as an observer."<br> {DanteE} "Not really. <br> {girlFtisk} "and to return mostly sane if not all in a piece"<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson is already trying not to look at Ftisk, so he didn't notice the projector at all.<br> {DanteE} "See, there are 'big bad guys' on the other side of the wall...<br> {DanteE} "But, the wall and the beings guarding it keep them out. Usually."<br> {girlFtisk} "Imperators"<br> {DanteE} "They can, however, send 'Shards'... <br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson nods.<br> {DanteE} "Which are the other-side equivalent of, well, us.<br> {girlFtisk} "like kudzu an Vulcan protect the wall"<br> {DanteE} "They're relatively small, so they can slip through.<br> {girlFtisk} "small in mythical size, they slip in the wall cracks"<br> {DanteE} "So, they'd be kind of like a scouting party, I think."<br> {girlFtisk} "or some kamikaze"<br> {DanteE} "We're going on a hunt...<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "And they're in here checking our defenses, sabotaging our resources, that kind of thing?"<br> {DanteE} "'We' being us, and the other Nobles that invited us, and a few other Nobles and their retinues."<br> {DanteE} "Yep."<br> {girlFtisk} "quite. They want to destroy pieces of creation. Or gain advantage to destroy pieces of creation. Or visit wife and loved ones"<br> {DanteE} "William, who called this hunt again?"<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Okay. That, I can understand. The stuff with trees and angels, and so on, it's interesting, but it's not really anything I can work with. But this, I think I can get."<br> {girlFtisk} "me?"<br> {girlFtisk} "I want to go hunting a warmaind's shard and all of you was: Ok! Ok! We go with the defenseless lady!?!"<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "That's... slightly a complicated question."<br> {Theresa} "You're not defenseless, Ftisk."<br> {girlFtisk} "But I'm a lady is in the nature description of lady to be defenseless and in need of a savior" Wink to Dante<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "It would probably be better if he explained it to you himself, when we get there."<br> {girlFtisk} "ah, I forgot"<br> {DanteE} "OK...<br> * girlFtisk ghost a sun shield’s umbrella<br> {Theresa} (I think I may be insulted. ;P )<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "But the short answer is, 'Ken Duncan, Master of the Wild Hunt.' "<br> {DanteE} "Anyway. Davidson, I think you would find a lot of the answers you and your superiors want is you came along...<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Should I bring a gun? Body armor?"<br> {DanteE} "But... we need to protect you."<br> {girlFtisk} (was not my intention but I can play with this)<br> {Theresa} "Wild Hunt...that wounds familiar. Was Luc Guinness an anchor of the Wild Hunt?"<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Do not bring any weapons. If you are seen as a non-combatant, you'll be a lot safer."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "No."<br> {DanteE} "Hm... I'd go with armor, though, just in case."<br> {Random_Nerd} (Note that you've met the Noble of The Chase. This isn't him.)<br> {Theresa} (When did we meet said person?)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Locus Ophaniel.)<br> {DanteE} (He's a Demon, remember?)<br> {DanteE} "But the main thing is, well, imagine a platoon of beings like Ftisk."<br> {Random_Nerd} (With angelic-style wings, just to flip off the Fallen?)<br> {Random_Nerd} William twitches.<br> {DanteE} "Easy, William."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Sorry, sir. Reflex."<br> {girlFtisk} "I'll bring a "A platoon of me? where?"<br> {DanteE} "We can, at least temporarily, steel you against, well, going crazy when they do things like Shapeshift."<br> {Theresa} "We're imagining them, Ftisk."<br> * girlFtisk pat Will<br> {girlFtisk} "ah, a breathtaking picture..."<br> {DanteE} "Are you ready, Davidson?"<br> {Random_Nerd} William gives Ftisk a somewhat sheepish look.<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson takes his gun belt off and sets it on the table.<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Do you mind if I leave my sidearm here?"<br> * girlFtisk kiss Will on a cheek<br> {DanteE} "That's fine."<br> {girlFtisk} "easy Will"<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "Okay, I have directions through the borderlands for you. Want me or Will to come along?"<br> {girlFtisk} "none of the 2?"<br> {DanteE} "Hm... you could stay and get caught up on what has to be a backlog of stuff that needs to be dealt with..."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "I do have a fair amount of work to do, yes."<br> {Random_Nerd} Sam: "I can either go with you, or spend some time with my research group. Either works for me."<br> {DanteE} "Then again, you are the main bulwark against our bumbling when it comes to interacting with other Nobles."<br> {girlFtisk} "Ah, Will, can you return the dolls he ask me to make in your bed at my place?"<br> {DanteE} "We'll need a briefing on protocol for a hunt."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "I knew it."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Ah, I mean, yes."<br> {Theresa} (Poor William. ^^ )<br> {girlFtisk} (loool)<br> {DanteE} "One second..."<br> {Random_Nerd} (He had previously suspected that Ftisk and Sam were behind those, but now he has confirmation.)<br> {girlFtisk} (yep Sam ask me nicely)<br> * DanteE zaps Davidson with that Courage miracle to hold him together...<br> {Random_Nerd} (Which version?)<br> {Random_Nerd} (The lesser change with special sanity-preserving effects?)<br> {DanteE} (I think that's it. How long/how strong?)<br> {girlFtisk} (with Ftisk around the stronger the better)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Let's say that it'll last one storyline, and it'll make him able to withstand lesser miracles unless they're constant, and have at least a decent shot at withstanding greater ones.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (And that you can later extend it with preservations.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Once the initial modified-courage is in his system.)<br> {girlFtisk} (So I can change before him at will!)<br> {DanteE} (Hm, maybe I should put it in a talisman...)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Pretty much, yeah, I just wouldn't do it twenty times in a row.)<br> {DanteE} (Don't tempt Ftisk)<br> {girlFtisk} (bad RN! 20 are too little for my expressivity to run free :-P )<br> {Random_Nerd} (Hmm... a lesser change could do that, yes. Probably best to make it something associated with courage in some way, like a medal or something.)<br> {girlFtisk} (preserve him with the change too)<br> {Theresa} (I thought you said he's already too old for you? :) )<br> {DanteE} (In that case, pair the Change-Courage with a Create-Courage to make a miniature version of the medal I gave him. :) )<br> {girlFtisk} (please keep separated me and Ftisk! :-P )<br> {Random_Nerd} (Theresa, a lot of his uniform is made of cotton. A lesser preservation could give it kevlar-like bulletproof capabilities.)<br> {girlFtisk} (can I lc a mechanical exoskeleton for him?)<br> {DanteE} "Here you go... this should keep your head straight once the Miracles start flying."<br> {Random_Nerd} (Depends what you want it to do. If it's something that couldn't be created with mundane technology, it would take a Change.)<br> {Theresa} (Oh, true. Thank you, dear.)<br> {girlFtisk} (like the alien movie elevators but armored?)<br> {DanteE} (Well, wait...<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Fair enough." He pins it to his shirt.<br> {Random_Nerd} (Those would take a Change.)<br> {Theresa} "Would you like to change clothing before we go?"<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "Should I?"<br> {DanteE} (The fact that they're going with no vehicles and weapons that sound like thunder seems to indicate they want a low profile.)<br> {DanteE} (Relatively speaking)<br> {DanteE} "Should probably get in fatigues, and possibly body armor.<br> {DanteE} (How long before the hunt starts?)<br> {Random_Nerd} (That is determined by the plot. I'm leaving the exact timing vague deliberately.)<br> * girlFtisk lc a dozen of axes with an amp and an accelerometer and a loud speaker so that can sound a thunder sound when swinged<br> {DanteE} "Make sure you're still wearing that medal I just made, though, you'll need it."<br> {Random_Nerd} Davidson: "I suppose it wouldn't be ideal for me to be wearing my dress uniform on a battlefield."<br> {girlFtisk} "is done in kevlar?"<br> {Random_Nerd} D: "Okay, I had them send a spare set with me, since I didn't know what you'd want me for. I can change."<br> {Random_Nerd} D: "Shall I go do so now?"<br> {girlFtisk} "want help with the suit?"<br> {DanteE} "I think we have a few minutes. We all need to prep..."<br> {Theresa} "If you wear anything that is of plant material, I can preserve it in such a way that it won't ever tear or break."<br> {Random_Nerd} D: "Uh, no. I'm going with 'no.'"<br> {Random_Nerd} (That was to Ftisk.)<br> * girlFtisk shrugs<br> {girlFtisk} (I know)<br> {Random_Nerd} He steps out of the room.<br> {Random_Nerd} (Okay. What preparations do you make?)<br> {DanteE} (Should we come up with attack powers?)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Up to you.)<br> * DanteE loads up on blades...<br> {girlFtisk} (I return to tentacle monster form and take one dozen axes with thunder device attached)<br> {DanteE} (Preserved blades, of course.)<br> =-= YOU are now known as tentacleFtisk<br> {Random_Nerd} (I figured.)<br> {DanteE} "Ftisk, they didn't say you _had_ to sound like thunder...<br> {Random_Nerd} (Theresa?)<br> {tentacleFtisk} "me? not the weapon?"<br> {Random_Nerd} (But they can if he wants them to...)<br> {tentacleFtisk} "Oh!"<br> {DanteE} "They said it just should if it would normally sound like something else."<br> {DanteE} "You think the battleaxe is too much? :) "<br> {tentacleFtisk} "naaa Dante"<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "You're fighting a Warmain-shard, sir."<br> {Random_Nerd} William: "Possibly several."<br> {Theresa} (Theresa will wear preserved cotton clothing for protection, performed the Inner Fire ceremony and I may talk to you later about an attack power.)<br> {DanteE} (And I think I might just take that thing we talked about some time back... Change-Courage to give the local spirits the ability to fight a bad guy, Pen 3. Cost?)<br> {DanteE} (Ah yes, can we assume we've all got Holy Fire up?)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Yes. You had time to prepare.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (So, you want this to be a single attack per miracle direct attack, that throws spirits at someone and only works for attacking?)<br> {tentacleFtisk} uhm Gnomely is preserved. If I inhabit him and change his boy I end up with a preserved tentacle monster?<br> {DanteE} (I think so.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Simple miracle?)<br> {DanteE} (... yes.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Single target?)<br> {DanteE} (yes)<br> {Random_Nerd} ((Okay, let's see. 6-1-2-2+0+3. Four points.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Counts as common because it's a miracle of Courage, as per house rules.)<br> {DanteE} (OK.)<br> {DanteE} (Let me put it on my sheet...)<br> {Random_Nerd} (And by the damage chart, it will deal a Deadly wound to a Durant foe.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (But Sacrosanct and up will only get a Serious wound.)<br> {tentacleFtisk} ( https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtC3luGT-QW2cE5ZN3JyOS1EVjEzeHgzUlFVOWZJTEE&hl=it )<br> {Random_Nerd} (Anything else?)<br> {DanteE} (Hm... I may bump that up later, then, in case we meet someone Sac or Immortal)<br> {tentacleFtisk} (my question?)<br> {DanteE} (And this may be a good place to end this session, so Kite & Brian can get in on the action?)<br> {tentacleFtisk} (second Dante)<br> {Random_Nerd} (That works.)<br> {DanteE} (BTW: 7 points free for me. :) )<br> {Random_Nerd} (If bumped up to a Greater Creation or better, it will also do a deadly wound to Sacrosanct.)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Immortal... you generally have to deal with more indirectly.)<br> {tentacleFtisk} (thank you Dante, corrected)<br> {Random_Nerd} (Say, fire them into the heart of the Sun. Even if it doesn't kill them, it keeps them busy.)<br> {tentacleFtisk} (till the sun will freeze)<br> {Random_Nerd} ___________STOP_____________________<br> =-= YOU are now known as Angelo<br> {Random_Nerd} Oh, and Immortal explicitly prevents someone from being imprisoned eternally, but temporary confinement's still on the menu.<br> {Angelo} yep but is boring to have immortal<br> {DanteE} Then again there's the Negative Gift...<br> {Random_Nerd} Yeah.<br> {Random_Nerd} Just gotta get your hands on a high-end abhorrent weapon.<br> =-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood<br> {Theresa} I hear there's a rock out there...<br> =-= Theresa is now known as BethE<br> {Knockwood} We could 'research' the known Abhorrent weapons...<br> {Angelo} but we have enough time to do he research now?<br> {Random_Nerd} Probably not.<br> {Knockwood} Then again, that assumes a specific type of conflict which means other conflicts would still get us...<br> {Random_Nerd} But between stories, you could work on that. You could probably at least get a list of which notable abhorrent weapons are associated with which Excrucians or Excrucian-shards.<br> {Knockwood} BTW, while we were playing they did that last bleedin' vote on Health Care.<br> {Random_Nerd} The reconciliation?<br> {Angelo} some usa stuff?<br> {Random_Nerd} How did it go?<br> {Random_Nerd} Yeah.<br> {Knockwood} It passed. I think it heads for the president's desk.<br> {Random_Nerd} Good.<br> {Knockwood} Oddly enough the last House vote was pretty much without drama...<br> {Random_Nerd} Well, things were pretty much settled by this point.<br> {Random_Nerd} It was just ironing out the Byrd Rule bit, right?<br> {Knockwood} Yeah, I think so.<br> {Knockwood} Angelo: means our health system is better... a few halting steps toward universal health care. :_<br> {Knockwood} How is this Health Care ruckus viewed by Italians?<br> {Angelo} ah, ok good for you then<br> {Angelo} ^^<br> {Knockwood} oh, look, Orly Taitz has cropped back up.<br> {Random_Nerd} But of course.<br> {Random_Nerd} If Orly Taitz did not exist, it would be necessary to invent her.<br> {Knockwood} hm... Orly, Noble of ...?<br> {BethE} Nuts.<br> {Knockwood} Cluelessness? Hopeless Causes? <br> {Random_Nerd} Eye Makeup, after having eaten the heart of Tammy Fay Baker?<br> {Knockwood} Angelo, you know the name Orly Taitz?<br> {Angelo} no, was wikipedia.ing to know more<br> {Random_Nerd} Basically, a crazy dentist/lawyer with an inexplicable vendetta against the American President.<br> {Knockwood} She's the sort-of-leader of the 'Birthers', the people trying to get Obama and everything he's done thrown out on the basis that he wasn't born in the US. <br> {Random_Nerd} She brings incomprehensible lawsuits, often in ways that make her "clients" really mad at the crap that's being pushed out in their name.<br> {Knockwood} Which is crap, he was born in Honolulu. But the Birthers say there's some huge conspiracy that faked that, that he was actually born in Kenya and that it's all a plot to put a Muslim in the white House and ... uh ...<br> {Random_Nerd} And now she's bringing suit on the grounds that the new health care administration is unconstitutional. With nonsensical and often misspelled arguments.<br> {BethE} I apologize for our nutcases, Angelo.<br> {Knockwood} well, if you're not near them they're at least entertaining...<br> {Angelo} well<br> {Angelo} is strange from outside<br> {BethE} It's strange from the inside too.<br> {Angelo} but who will help him?<br> {Knockwood} Orly?<br> {Knockwood} Well, the right wing, especially the extreme right wing.<br> {Angelo} yep. HE alone can create all this fuss ?<br> {Knockwood} She, actually<br> {Random_Nerd} Well, it's absurd and entertaining, and connected to hot political issues.<br> {Random_Nerd} So, she gets a fair bit of news coverage.<br> {Angelo} ok, but the population ah, is a she an is a media case then<br> {Knockwood} Our extreme right wing is racist, warlike, supposedly hardcore Christian...<br> {Random_Nerd} Pretty much. She's a random nobody with a degree from an online law school, but who got into the news by filing some absolutely insane lawsuits against the President.<br> {Angelo} but theoretically racist and warlike don't blend well whit christianity<br> {Random_Nerd} Yeah. That's what we said.<br> {Knockwood} Tell them that. :D<br> {Knockwood} They're the worst of the 'ugly Americans'. <br> {Angelo} eh, we have a right wing more o less like this.. but with a fascist root plus<br> {Random_Nerd} Yeah, that's the type.<br> {Angelo} allied with the current Italian ruler ^k^k president<br> {Random_Nerd} Ours are currently out of power, which only makes them crazier.<br> {Knockwood} There was that article some time back about how both parties have the 'government as father' thing...<br> {Knockwood} Trouble is, the Democrats version is the nurturing caring father while the Republicans version is the stern bastard type.<br> {Angelo} what?<br> {Angelo} ah<br> {Random_Nerd} That, basically, people think of how a president or political party acts by metaphors about how a family works.<br> {Random_Nerd} (Atticus Finch for president!)<br> {Angelo} who is this atticus f?<br> {Random_Nerd} A fictional character from a book called To Kill A Mockingbird.<br> {Angelo} doh<br> {Angelo} well I wonder on Verithe... I hope he just forgot tonight<br> {Random_Nerd} Yeah. I didn't get an email or anything. I hope nothing's wrong.<br> {Angelo} we'll see<br> {Knockwood} I do wonder if he kinda feels marginalized<br> {Knockwood} being the quiet new guy<br> {Random_Nerd} Yeah. I'm planning on trying for a Kite-centric story arc soon, once I have a better idea of what that would be like.<br> {Angelo} he can be true knock<br> {BethE} Well, guys, I'm going to get to bed. Good game and good night! *HUGS* :)<br> {Knockwood} g'night Beth<br> {Angelo} just found that he have a blog<br> {Angelo} night Beth! *hug*<br> {Angelo} http://nihonekos (dot) blogspot.com/<br> |{-- BethE has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?)<br> {Knockwood} ah... he's prepping for his brother's visit<br> {Angelo} day 23 wrote that day 24 his brother is visiting... can be this ?<br> {Random_Nerd} Ah, okay.<br> {Angelo} jinks<br> {Random_Nerd} Glad it's nothing bad.<br> {Knockwood} well, on the 23rd he said his bro is coming in 76 hours. That's roughly tomorrow.<br> {Angelo} eh, but for me 25 is yesterday<br> {Angelo} now is 26 at 5.09am<br> {Random_Nerd} It's still the 25th for us.<br> {Angelo} and he is further forward in time that me or you<br> {Random_Nerd} For, like, an hour.<br> {Angelo} he play in what is 26 morning if my calculation are right<br> {Knockwood} that's right, he's on the other side of the date line<br> {Random_Nerd} Anyway, I'm logging out.<br> {Random_Nerd} See you next week, guys,.<br> {Angelo} so is a reasonable reason<br> {Knockwood} good night RN<br> {Knockwood} you too Angelo<br> {Angelo} ok, good night RN<br> {Angelo} night Knock<br> |{-- Knockwood has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.2/20100316074819])<br> {--| YOU (Angelo) have left #Nobilis<br> <br><br>[[Chancel_Amyra]]<br> [[Amyra:Chapter_19|Chapter 19]]
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