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[[Chancel_Amyra]]<br> [[Amyra:Chapter_31|Chapter 31]]<br><br> =-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix<br> -->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis<br> <Angelo> HI guys! ^_^<br> <Lazarus> ... wow, I just found out down arrow in this IRC client kills your message x_x<br> <Random_Nerd> Okay, we have a quorum.<br> <Angelo> yay!<br> <Verithe> Hi, Angelo!<br> <Lazarus> (was going to ask whether anyone knew whether Chrome's download can be throttled.)<br> <Knockwood> amazing<br> <Angelo> a quorum for what?<br> <Random_Nerd> The game.<br> <Random_Nerd> We were short people, last time.<br> <Angelo> ahhh!<br> <Knockwood> damn it, we just lost The Game!<br> <BethE> Hi Angelo! *HUG*<br> <Random_Nerd> Actually, the Imperator of Thinking About The Game got ganked.<br> <Random_Nerd> Everyone won.<br> <Verithe> Angelo, I'm sorry! I just finished Rubi a minute ago!<br> <Angelo> ok, no pro :-)<br> <Knockwood> (uhoh, my virus checker is doing an 'important' autoupdate)<br> <Random_Nerd> Oh, and do you guys mind if the game ends in one and a half hour or so? Sooner than usual, I realize, but I need to get up a bit sooner than usual.<br> <Angelo> no pro, I don't mind<br> <Knockwood> 8-8:30 here... no big deal<br> <Lazarus> sure.<br> <Lazarus> (the high def texture package for Dragon Age that I'm downloading ought to be done by then :D)<br> <Verithe> That's fine.<br> <Random_Nerd> Okay. Since we'll end earlier than usual, shall we try to get started?<br> =-= Lazarus is now known as Brian<br> <Brian> (seeing Mars?)<br> <Verithe> Yes!<br> =-= Verithe is now known as Kite<br> =-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE<br> =-= YOU are now known as Ftisk<br> =-= BethE is now known as Theresa<br> <Random_Nerd> ___________START______________<br> <Random_Nerd> Dante, you feel a prayer-itch.<br> <DanteE> "Someone's calling me..." <br> * DanteE answers<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Okay, how did you do it?"<br> <Brian> (ohcrap?)<br> <Theresa> (Who did what in the huh now?)<br> * Kite builds a box from stolen jewelry.<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "I understand why. But I want to know /how/."<br> |<-- DanteE has left irc2.magicstar.net (Ping timeout)<br> <Theresa> (There's your answer!)<br> <Ftisk> (Bye Dante!)<br> <Brian> (d'oh)<br> <Kite> (Awww. :( )<br> <Kite> (Attack of the virus-scanner, then?)<br> <Brian> (speaking of, mine just popped up with a virus database updated :D)<br> <Theresa> (Probably.)<br> -->| DanteE (~chatzilla@MagicStar-E048CE2B.dhcp.reno.nv.charter.com) has joined #Nobilis<br> <DanteE> (Dang anti-virus, killed my browser right as I was answering the prayer)<br> <Kite> (Thank heavens the virus scanner didn't eat you!)<br> <Theresa> (Welcome back!)<br> <DanteE> (What happened after /me answers?)<br> <Brian> (I see, once again, we failed to get a quick start ;) )<br> <DanteE> (ah)<br> <DanteE> to C: "Do what?"<br> * Ftisk put in Dante's hand a dvd with a label: 'JbJ - Ftisk deal'<br> * Ftisk return to Theresa shoulder<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "It wasn't you? Making the lawbreaker thing not work? It wasn't you?"<br> <Brian> (ok, that's an even more "ohcrap" moment)<br> <DanteE> "Not work? We were still putting our money on diplomacy... what happened?"<br> <Brian> "Dante, what is it?"<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "I know how you are. Tell me, straight out, that you didn't do it, and I'll believe you."<br> <DanteE> to T: "Consequences. Something about the lawbreaker 'not working'."<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "But I want an answer."<br> <Brian> "That's ... fucked up."<br> <Ftisk> "Yay! Brian!"<br> <DanteE> "Consequences, I assure you we didn't do anything to your familia or the lawbreaker except talk.<br> <DanteE> "And I don't know how we'd screw up a lawbreaker doing anything anyway.<br> <Theresa> "What could make it not work? Especially if that's Shadow's speciality?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "And did you, by talking, do anything that you have reason to believe would make the process not work?"<br> <DanteE> "... plant enough doubt in Shadows' mind, maybe?"<br> <Brian> "Lawbreakers are outside the Rules. That's just how it is. The only thing I could think of that would break it would be ... something like Shirk?"<br> <DanteE> "We certainly didn't do anything deliberately...<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Well, fuck."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "If it wasn't you, then I'm stumped."<br> <DanteE> "What exactly happened?"<br> <Theresa> "Consequences would have to believe that talking to us alone would mess it up. Which I would think is highly doubtful since Shadows is loyal to his family."<br> <Kite> "Who all knows about the prophecy or the lawbreaker?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequencees: "Shadows summoned the Lawbreaker, bound it to a circle, and confirmed that it was what it was supposed to be. The boss went in to talk with it, worked out an arrangement, and... nothing happened."<br> <DanteE> to T: "He's still learning summoning, and we were telling him that would be a bad idea.<br> <DanteE> to C: "Are you sure nothing happened?<br> <DanteE> "Or maybe just nothing you could see?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "This isn't that, a failed summoning. I know what /that/ looks like."<br> <Theresa> "We've told plenty of people that stuff that they are doing are bad ideas. That doesn't make it a guarantee that it works."<br> <DanteE> to C: "Is the Lawbreaker still there?"<br> <Theresa> (Uh...could it be that since Shirk came through, anything else that comes through right now gets affected? Like passing through a tainted waterfall? And if we have another Excrucian come through - *plonk*)<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "Yes, it is."<br> <DanteE> "Sounds like it may be ... Shirking its duties.<br> <DanteE> "Which means it's Excrucian-tainted. Worse than usual.<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "It seems at least as surprised as we do."<br> <Brian> "Also, it could just be a liar."<br> <DanteE> "You need to convince Barakiel that his plan would be a Bad Idea, <br> <Random_Nerd> C: "It's definitely a lawbreaker. We brought in a pacifist to punch it in the face, and he didn't feel even slightly bad."<br> <DanteE> "with a capital B and a capital I and a capital OH FUCK."<br> <DanteE> (We could go there, but I'm not sure how we could help.<br> <DanteE> (... but has that ever stopped us?)<br> <Kite> "Dante. Do we need to go help investigate this thing?"<br> <Ftisk> (go there!!!!)<br> <Theresa> (I wouldn't let us anywhere near it. :) )<br> <Theresa> (And I didn't know lawbreakers had personalities.)<br> <Ftisk> (lol I'll let you but Ftisk ... :-P)<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "I knew the plan would be difficult, and risky, and all that. I don't think any of us considered that we would pull it off and /nothing would happen/."<br> <DanteE> to Kite: "How could we help? Brian's the most experienced in our group, <br> <DanteE> "and he's about halfway through Summoning For Dummies."<br> <DanteE> (Does C know about Shirk?)<br> <Kite> "We could hunt down a saboteur, maybe."<br> <DanteE> (We're still on the airship, right?)<br> <Ftisk> (right)<br> <DanteE> "Sam, can you steer us to Jupiter?"<br> <Theresa> (Wasn't one of the other kings Failure?)<br> <Kite> "And maybe try to find a road to Mars from Jupiter-Hell."<br> <Random_Nerd> Sam: "Easier than Mars. There are cities on Jupiter."<br> <DanteE> to C: "You heard about Shirk, right?"<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "Sure. Duty's pretty sure this isn't that."<br> <DanteE> (Any chance he's lying to us?)<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "But it's difficult to know for sure, because Lawbreakers are... morally neutral, and the Boss has always been very hard to get a reading on."<br> <Random_Nerd> (Any chance? Yes. But you don't /think/ he is.)<br> <DanteE> "Any chance the boss did make a deal and isn't telling you the details?"<br> <DanteE> (we're headed there, right?)<br> <Random_Nerd> (Sam's getting the map.)<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "With the Lawbreaker? We'd be able to tell."<br> <DanteE> (Time for my alter ego Winston Wolf to come through...)<br> <DanteE> to C: "We're heading there. Don't screw with the lawbreaker AT ALL.<br> <DanteE> "Have Shadows double check the summoning circle to see if there's a glitch in it.<br> <Ftisk> (and Ftisk came with you... so WE carry screwage!)<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "Already on that..."<br> <Random_Nerd> (Cut to you guys arriving?)<br> <DanteE> "You and Duty, check to see if one of your locals is acting weird... er than usual.<br> <Ftisk> (yes sir)<br> <Brian> (sure)<br> <Kite> (After Dante fills us in?)<br> <Theresa> (Sure.)<br> <Kite> (During the cut, I mean.)<br> <DanteE> "Assuming you can mollify Barakiel..."<br> * DanteE fills everyone in during the 10-minute ride. :)<br> <Random_Nerd> Okay, you're in Shadows' lab.<br> <Random_Nerd> In a big space, that previously was unoccupied, is a large summoning circle made of various kinds of metal.<br> <Random_Nerd> In it are Barakiel and an indeterminate but probably humanoid shape.<br> =-= YOU are now known as Conrad<br> <Random_Nerd> It's probably either the Lawbreaker, or Consequences without his pants on.<br> * DanteE makes sure none of us cross the circle...<br> <DanteE> (Shadows and Consequences?)<br> * Kite inspects unrelated shiny things.<br> <Random_Nerd> Two people who are dressed like Shadows and Consequences stand on the outside.<br> <Theresa> (Oh come on, like we needed that indeterminate picture in our heads...)<br> * Conrad wave "Hi Shadows, Hi Cons!"<br> <Random_Nerd> Probably-Shadows is looking at various magical tools that look like vintage surveying equipment.<br> <DanteE> to Shadows: "What happened?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Probably-Consequences is pacing.<br> * Brian looks at the circle. Normal, analytical, and mythic<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "It all went okay. I summoned it, I bound it, the boss started to confer with it, we waited for the weird to take hold... and, nothing."<br> <DanteE> "the weird?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Normally, it's not exactly a /circle/. It's a polygon with so many sides that it looked like a circle until you saw it up close.<br> <DanteE> "Brian, feel up to telling Barakiel what Jan ben Jan said?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "The... the thing they do. Trade madness for immunity."<br> <Brian> "Dante, you can report it if you wish."<br> <Theresa> "This may be a weird question but...does your boss have enough madness?"<br> <DanteE> to B: "You're the one he told."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Yes, yes, the 'how would we be able to tell.' But surely there would be /some/ difference..."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Dante, would you mind lying to the Lawbreaker?"<br> <Random_Nerd> (It feels like it would be perfectly okay to do so.)<br> <Kite> "Does Lord Barakiel himself believes that nothing happened?"<br> <DanteE> to the lawbreaker: "Don't worry, we know exactly what we're doing."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "How did that feel?"<br> <Random_Nerd> (About the same as lying to a rock.)<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "Well, that's reassuring. I'm glad /someone/ here does."<br> <DanteE> "Surprisingly neutral."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "So that confirms it. We have the real deal here."<br> <Brian> "Lord Barakiel will confer with a Lawbreaker. After that point, none of his actions will be based in truth or reality."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Hmm. And what was the /question/?"<br> <Brian> "What are the five biggest threats to Creation that I will face."<br> <DanteE> to L: "You know of Shirk?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "That wimp? Sure, he's got breadth, but no depth."<br> <DanteE> "... what about Sakharoth? Or Suebi?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "Far better to have an individual piece of art with some real complexity to it."<br> <Random_Nerd> L: "Who?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel paces within the confines of the circle.<br> <DanteE> (I'd like to ask him what happened on Breach Day, but I don't know how to specify when that was<br> <DanteE> (considering time is on our side. Literally.)<br> <DanteE> (What's the best form of address to an Angel?)<br> <Random_Nerd> (Depends how much time you have.)<br> <Random_Nerd> (Also, fallen or non?)<br> <DanteE> (Barakiel)<br> <DanteE> (so, both)<br> <Theresa> (Heh. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. :) )<br> <Random_Nerd> (Hmm. "Sir"? He'd be insulted by the idea that you though that any grandiose title was actually sufficient.)<br> <DanteE> "Lord Barakiel. I know this is part of a great plan to save Creation.<br> <DanteE> "But I can't help but think that a course of action that scared the Lord of an Age is a bad idea."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "If it's any consolation, he scares me, too."<br> <DanteE> to L: "Have you been to Creation before?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "He used to be /reasonable/."<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "To where?"<br> <DanteE> "... good point. Let me rephrase. Been on this side of the Wall before?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "Not sure. It didn't make that much of an impression on me. Could have seen it before and forgotten about it>"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel, to Shadows: "So, this creature is definitely what you were instructed to conjure?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Definitely. We even used Dante to double-check it."<br> <DanteE> to C: "That doesn't make much sense, considering the Valde Bellum..."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "And the procedure we're using is what's done?"<br> <Random_Nerd> C: "Hmm?"<br> <Random_Nerd> L: "I try to stay out of internal squabbles like that."<br> <DanteE> "If they're fighting over Creation it should impress them."<br> <DanteE> "Internal squabbles?"<br> <Random_Nerd> L: "Civil wars. Whatever. You guys, those guys, you all look the same to me."<br> <DanteE> "What is the war all about, anyway?"<br> <Random_Nerd> L: "I thought /you/ knew."<br> <DanteE> "We're a little confused.<br> <Random_Nerd> L: "You mean you guys don't even /know/ what you're fighting over?"<br> <Random_Nerd> L: "That's idiotic."<br> <DanteE> "From our point of view you guys just charged in and started slaying people."<br> <Random_Nerd> L: "S'gotta be religion, am I right?"<br> <Kite> "We know that we're trying to defend ourselves."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Okay, there's one more test we can perform. But we need a volunteer."<br> <Theresa> "Yeah, pretty much religion. That and property."<br> <DanteE> "We've been fighting to prevent you from stealing our stuff ever since."<br> <Brian> "Yo?"<br> <Kite> "What do you need, Shadows?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Hey, anyone want to be temporarily insane and severed from morality?"<br> <Theresa> (Oh...dear.)<br> <Conrad> "MEEEEEEEE!"<br> <Theresa> "Don't ask that, you'll get too many volunteers from this group..."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Uh... should I flip a coin?"<br> <Kite> "I request, on behalf of my Imperator, that you do not choose my brother."<br> <DanteE> to Conrad: "Who isn't already?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows turns to Brian: "Okay, you want a go?"<br> <Brian> "Not Conrad."<br> <Conrad> "Shush Kite! You always draw away all the fun!"<br> <Brian> "I'll take it. I'm probably the least damaging."<br> <DanteE> to Shadows: "What do you have in mind?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Something small and brief."<br> <Theresa> (I love Kite. ^^ )<br> <DanteE> to S: "What do I do?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Okay... give me a moment..."<br> <Theresa> ("Let's not talk about Brian's sex habits here in front of Ftisk..")<br> <Random_Nerd> He rummages around on his desk, and pulls out a pendant which looks to have been whittled out of a lump of plastic, on a piece of string."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Wear this when you cross the circle."<br> <Brian> (I suspect that the "lack of sex habits" is what Ftisk would want to fix :p)<br> <Conrad> "... I don't need a babysitter Kite"<br> * Brian puts on the "amulet" and steps over.<br> <Theresa> (Ftisk is a helpful being.)<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Okay, now, talk with the Lawbreaker about something you want to do, but that's against the law, morally wrong, or whatever."<br> <Conrad> (always T.)<br> <Kite> "Of course not. You need a whatever-body-your-using-at-the-moment sitter."<br> <Kite> (*you're)<br> <Theresa> ("I want to kill Lord Entropy! With a rock!")<br> <Brian> (...) "I want to kill Lord Entropy."<br> <Conrad> "TOTALLY not true!"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "...okay, or you could go big."<br> <DanteE> (more like "I want to kiss Lord Entropy! With tongue!")<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "And that would be wrong, for you?"<br> <Brian> (That's Ftisk)<br> <Brian> "It's against Entropy's Laws, anyway."<br> <DanteE> (Not really...)<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "Ah. Which do you value more, your ability to distinguish people's faces, to be aware that you are alive, or to be able to see the left half of rooms?"<br> <Theresa> "Uh oh."<br> <Brian> "I like being able to see all of rooms."<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "How about the one with faces, then?"<br> <Theresa> "Uh, Shadows, that's a, uh, bad sign, right? That this is kinda working and should we pull him out of there?"<br> <DanteE> to Barakiel: "Did your deal get to the bargaining stage?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "Yeah. But when we made it... nothing happened."<br> <Kite> (I'm curious now...from Brian's perspective or from the room's perspective?)<br> <Brian> "I'm wondering what awareness of being alive would be like. Or lack thereof, anyway. Would be interesting."<br> <Theresa> (Aw crap. Brian's the connection. He'll enable Barakiel to make the deal.)<br> <Conrad> (but why Brian is the connection?)<br> <Brian> (I have no idea what's going on with the Big Prophecies)<br> <Random_Nerd> The Lawbreaker flows apart and swirls around Brian. For a moment, it comes together in a humanoid form that overlays him entirely.<br> <Random_Nerd> Brian and the Lawbreaker, together: "I Want to kill Lord Entropy."<br> <Random_Nerd> Then it flows away.<br> <Random_Nerd> And takes its form where it had stood.<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "That certainly /looked/ like it worked."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Now, to test it... aw, shit."<br> <Brian> (how do I feel?)<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Brian, would you mind trying to assassinate Lord Entropy? For science?"<br> <DanteE> (Quote page!)<br> <Random_Nerd> (It feels like killing Entropy would be okay.)<br> <Conrad> "Go Brian go!"<br> <Kite> "'Aw, shit?' As in...something went wrong?"<br> <Brian> (Brian focusses on "aliveness")<br> <Kite> "Or...oh...."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "I just realized that if it /didn't/ work, this could get complicated."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "But I'm, like, /90%/ sure it did."<br> <Random_Nerd> Also, Brian, you know how you can't make out the faces of Consequences and Shadows? It's like that for everyone now.<br> <Theresa> "So..if Entropy dies or at least doesn't care that Brian takes a potshot at him...we're...I think I need to sit down."<br> <Random_Nerd> Except the Lawbreaker. He now appears to have your face.<br> <DanteE> "It worked with Brian, but not with Barakiel?"<br> <Theresa> "Wait a moment. If Brian has been Lawbroken...doesn't that mean that anything that Ymera Ben Jan prophized...is null and void?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Certainly looks that way."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "And we're sure that these things can work with Imperators."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Sure. Happens lots of times."<br> <Brian> "Well, I've certainly got the madness effect."<br> <Conrad> "... I want try...."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Brian is only severed from law in one respect, an attempt on the life of Lord Entropy."<br> <Kite> "So, Brian. Ready to grab a rock and kill the Lord of Earth?"<br> <DanteE> to Barakiel: "What exactly did you ask for?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Our plans for the boss were more..."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "Extensive."<br> <Brian> "Not yet. But I'll be good when I am. And I can recognize his bloody hands."<br> * Conrad jump in the circle<br> <Kite> "Though, I guess the rock part is moot now, I guess."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "The moral irrelevance of myself with respect to love, murder, surrender, treason, retreat..."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "Lots of things."<br> <Theresa> "Indeed."<br> <Brian> "Don't break the circle, idiot."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "None of them did anything."<br> <DanteE> to Bar: "You want to act like the Excrucian Kings?<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Oh, and fair warning, this should only be good for one try on Entropy."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "But better."<br> <Kite> "Fti-....Con-....whoever you are now, get back here!"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "They want to come in here and mess with our morals? I'm going to show them what an Angel can do when he sets his mind to it."<br> <DanteE> "How would you know? Those are absolutes."<br> <Brian> "Not until I succeed or die trying?"<br> * Conrad pout at Kite<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "AT LEAST, THAT WAS THE PLAN!"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Once a lawbreaker is involved, absolutes become... less so."<br> <DanteE> (I wonder if Theresa hit it, this facilitated Brian becoming Barakiel's tool)<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "And you're sure it's not just that this one is broken?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Sure."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel closes his eyes.<br> * Conrad ponders "... uhm...."<br> <Random_Nerd> This is a lengthy and elaborate process that takes some time and actually produces a mild breeze.<br> <DanteE> to Theresa: "There is one other possibility as to who is interfering."<br> <Kite> "Just one?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "And it's not that it is unwilling. It cannot."<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "Hey, it was a shock to me too, buddy."<br> <Theresa> "And that has never happened to you?" *will not make soul-Viagra jokes*<br> <DanteE> to the L: "Know anything about 'Breach Day', when a bunch of Excrucians came over?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Lawbreaker: "Not how it works. With him, it was like I tried to impose my nature on one of my own kind."<br> <DanteE> (oh crap)<br> <Random_Nerd> L: "Don't they do that all the time?"<br> <Random_Nerd> L: "Or is that some other ones?"<br> <DanteE> "Usually only one at a time.<br> <DanteE> "One day a bunch came in at once."<br> <Brian> (Is Lord Barakiel a Wildlord?)<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel, opening his eyes: "There's more than one way to get what I want."<br> <Random_Nerd> (No. He's been in Creation too long, and all the angels recognize him as one of their own kind.)<br> <Random_Nerd> (A crazy one, but an angel.)<br> <Brian> (ah)<br> <Kite> "It sounds like you already possess the nature of a Lawbreaker, Lord Barakiel."<br> <Random_Nerd> (He's always been kinda weird, mind...)<br> <Theresa> (I have the urge to back away...like from a nuclear countdown.)<br> <Brian> (If I wanted to slay Lord Barakiel, now's the time to try. I wouldn't succeed, though)<br> <DanteE> reply to Kite: "That... actually makes sense."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel takes the lawbreaker between two immense fingers, eyes all over them staring at it, and squeezes.<br> <Random_Nerd> At first, it seems like he's crushing it.<br> <Random_Nerd> But it's more... absorbing.<br> <Random_Nerd> The substance of the lawbreaker flows into the eyes, and unravels its form as it does so.<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "I... feel..."<br> <Brian> "That's ... um."<br> <DanteE> (I repeat: oh crap.)<br> <Theresa> (Brian - don't you mean Entropy?)<br> <Brian> "That's the thing we were supposed to stop."<br> <Conrad> "Hey! And my turn to be weird?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "EXACTLY THE SAME! NO DIFFERENCE! I ABSORBED THIS CREATURE AND MADE IT PART OF MYSELF, AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED!"<br> <Brian> (Nope. Barakiel. Would make our lives easier.)<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Boss? This was not part of the plan..."<br> <Brian> "Nope. You are no longer working from truth."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "We need a new plan. This one didn't work."<br> <DanteE> to Brian: "But Jan ben Jan was able to see him.<br> <DanteE> "If nothing's changed...<br> <Theresa> "I think we have a severe world change here."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "But we know that Jan ben Jan could see the future him that had become severed from law. He /told/ you about him."<br> <Brian> "He's not From Outside. And the prophecy was about him being severed from sanity and truth, not law."<br> <DanteE> "Right. But something threw a monkey wrench into that future."<br> <DanteE> "... oh."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Uh... I have a question."<br> <Kite> "Yes?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Okay, so, the Lawbreaker's now part of him. He shares in its essence, right?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "But it's... timeless. It's like the fetch thing. If you have one, you've always had one."<br> <DanteE> "Maybe... but I'd think that would qualify as a change/<br> <Theresa> (You're the Imperator!)<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Where are you going with this?"<br> <DanteE> to Barakiel: "When did I lie to you?"<br> <Theresa> "Oh. Uh-oh. And uh, would you guys also be affected by being part of your Imperator?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "I was thinking about what Kite said."<br> <Kite> "This would mean that you are already immune to law, Lord Barakiel."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "Did you?"<br> <Kite> "And morality and...."<br> * Kite waves his wings.<br> <Kite> "Stuff."<br> <Conrad> "Awesome!"<br> <Theresa> (Huh, I wonder if that would explain the Indeterminate gift.)<br> <DanteE> (Barakiel didn't answer me...)<br> <Kite> "No. He's immune to awesome too."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "If Barakiel had... /always/ been part Lawbreaker, because of this. And he shared in its nature. How would that work? What would that look like?"<br> <Random_Nerd> (Didn't he?)<br> <Theresa> (Yeah, he did. He asked if you did lie to him.)<br> <DanteE> "I'm asking you."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "If you lied to me?"<br> <Theresa> "Maybe he becomes outside of prophecy once he realizes his nature?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Stop me if I'm wrong, but he'd... he'd be seen by others as acting insane, unpredictable."<br> <Brian> "... perhaps."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "He'd be immune to law. Maybe he could misbehave in Heaven, and still not get sent to Hell."<br> * Conrad nod nod<br> <Kite> "That sounds right, from what I've heard of Lawbreaker things."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "And... like, those that shared his soul would have these same traits to a lesser degree..."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Kite, I almost wish you hadn't said that."<br> <Brian> "Barakiel, what's your history? Have you ever done anything and got away with it?"<br> <Random_Nerd> S: "Earlier, I mean."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "I'm still around, aren't I?"<br> <DanteE> (Barakiel's outside of time?)<br> <Random_Nerd> (Not all of him. But the part of him that used to be part of the lawbreaker is.)<br> <Theresa> (Barakiel is _the_ angel that can get around stuff, get away with stuff.)<br> <DanteE> (He's a Lawbreaker on our side?)<br> <Theresa> (He's on his own side.)<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "...my life's work is either entirely futile, or a time-shattering thing of impossible genius."<br> <Theresa> "Uh, so that may give the idea as to the Familia resemblence comes in."<br> <Conrad> toS "I hope the second"<br> <Theresa> "Go with the latter. Looks better on your resume."<br> <Kite> "Believe in the latter, Shadows."<br> <DanteE> "Wait. Jan ben Jan saw what he was doing until some future point where he makes a deal with a lawbreaker.<br> <Random_Nerd> (Besides, Barakiel was around before time.)<br> <Random_Nerd> (All the older angels were.)<br> <DanteE> "If he was always part lawbreaker what did Jan ben Jan see?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "I just summoned and bound a creature of Noble power-level, and did so well that the effects took place before the beginning of time!"<br> <Kite> "Jan ben Jan's prophecies are moot now, since they were focused on Brian and Brian is...well..."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "What was the exact question again?"<br> <DanteE> to Kite: "Only with regard to one thing, killing Entropy.<br> <Brian> "What are the five greatest threats to Creation that _I_ will face."<br> <DanteE> "Everything else should still be the old Brian."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "I am a mighty badass of magic! Fuck you, Hermes Trismegistus! Up yours, Papa Legba!"<br> <Kite> "Anyway, I think this one is taken care of. No threat."<br> <Brian> "Shadows, you know it only retroactively happened because an Imperator did it, yeah? *wink*"\<br> <DanteE> "Maybe."<br> <Theresa> "Okay, okay, we'll get you your cult later. And a beer."<br> <Kite> "Hermes Trismegistus? What does Papa Legba have to do with this?"<br> <DanteE> "We'd have to ask Jan ben Jan."<br> =-= YOU are now known as Ftisk<br> <Random_Nerd> (And Brian's question was about /events/ which took place in the future, and the results of them weren't part of the deal.)<br> * Ftisk fly on Theresa shoulder<br> <Random_Nerd> (As an event, this is one that just happened.)<br> <Random_Nerd> (It's just that the results... seem to have gotten a head start.)<br> <DanteE> (Wait, the prophecy came true?)<br> <Brian> "One down, four to go. Who the Hell knows if we fixed this."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Oh, he does esoteric magic. BUT NOT AS WELL AS I DO! THIS WAS ESOTERIC AS *FUCK*!"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "This was more esoteric than a witch's secret pornography collection behind the iron curtain!"<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Yes, yes."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows, sulkily: "Well, it /was/."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "We know. We were there."<br> <Brian> "Remind me to learn dream weaving."<br> <Brian> "That's even more esoteric."<br> * Kite Assembles a mechanical, victory-dancing figuring of roughly Shadows' build and outfit.<br> <Kite> "Here, Shadows. A gift."<br> <DanteE> (Still can't tell is this is really good or really really bad)<br> <Random_Nerd> (Oh, and Jan ben Jan previously said, about the events, "The timing on some of these is... unclear... to me")<br> <Kite> (It's as good or as bad as we make it.)<br> <DanteE> (JbJ had a prophecy about something that always was?)<br> <Random_Nerd> (Or about how it came to be that it always was.)<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "So, this nature has been mine all along. All my life, to do with as I wished, if I only knew?"<br> <Brian> "Sort of. It now always was."<br> <Brian> "But it wasn't always was until now."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Does it matter? You /have/ done as you wished. You have ignored law and custom."<br> <Brian> "I have a feeling this would be easier Outside... Tensing is weird."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "True, true. But now... now I know what I'm /doing/."<br> <DanteE> (Ever read the Hitchhiker's Guide?)<br> <DanteE> "... would you fill us in?"<br> <Kite> "Good luck in your endeavors, Lord Barakiel!"<br> <Random_Nerd> ("The 'future perfect' tense was discarded, as it was discovered not to be.")<br> <Brian> (I got to that point and it destroyed my mind.)<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "I'm going to go play some games with the Excrucians. I don't think they will enjoy these games very much."<br> <Ftisk> "Hey, not all the excrucians are bad! Keep that in mind!"<br> <DanteE> (now he's the Joker?)<br> <Theresa> "I hope that no one loses Creation in a poker game."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "And the wall can't stop me! I don't have to maintain it, because that doesn't apply to me! They don't have to keep me from crossing it, because that doesn't matter either!"<br> <Brian> "well ... shit."<br> <DanteE> "Uh... you do know crossing it screws with your memory, right?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "Oh, Kings of the Unforgivable Dominions, it is ON!"<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel's seventy-seven wings unfurl themselves, and begin to beat.<br> <Kite> (Barakiel is about to play the most dangerous game of Calvinball ever.)<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "My memory, yes. But not my /purpose/."<br> <DanteE> "Not necessarily.<br> <DanteE> "Ask the Excrucian on our moon."<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "I will remain as I am. My nature, my goals, my desires... those will remain the same."<br> <Random_Nerd> He isn't listening.<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel: "That, I think, will be enough.<br> <Random_Nerd> His wings beat again, and he flies off through the roof.<br> * Kite waves.<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Hey! That was mine! Uh, unknowable god-monster dad."<br> <Brian> "Barakiel, come with us to the meeting with Vassa."<br> <DanteE> (When did Attaris say the end-game would start?)<br> <Kite> "Do you want me to fix it?"<br> <Brian> "Please don't do anything until then."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows, to Brian: "Hey, remember when my most complicated problem was a Summer Glau penangalan that lived in my mind? I... kinda miss those days."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows, to Kite: "Would you?"<br> <Brian> "Those were good days."<br> <Kite> "And I don't think bringing Lord Barakiel to the meeting with Vassa would be wise."<br> <Random_Nerd> (Lesser Creation of Assembly. Totally trivial for you.)<br> * Kite re-Assembles the ceiling.<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Sweet."<br> <DanteE> "Did we just accidentally unleash hell?"<br> <Kite> "No. It was never leashed."<br> <Theresa> "Um, what if...and this is a big if...what if your Imperator goes through the wall, plays with Time and becomes a King of the end times?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Maybe you did. I just /deliberately/ unleashed hell."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Sure, some of the details were different... but yeah. I think this counts as 'all according to plan.'"<br> <Brian> "um."<br> <Kite> "So, do you guys know how to get to Mars from here?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "For certain values of 'all', 'plan', and 'according', at least."<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows points off vaguely up and to the left.<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Thataway?"<br> <Brian> "Ha Qadosh Berakha will despair and retire from the Council and go Outside. His replacement is unseen by Jan ben Jan, but that there is a replacement is."<br> <DanteE> "Silly question, Consequences... can you see what he's going to wreak?"<br> <Random_Nerd> Shadows: "Or you could just borrow the pigeon. I've been enhancing it, and I'm pretty sure it can carry living things now."<br> <Ftisk> "I volunteer for a ride!"<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Barakiel may be erratic, but he /really/ doesn't like the Excrucians. Or Entropy. Or... well, a lot of things."<br> <DanteE> to Shadows: "We've got an airship now."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "He's pretty fond of me, though. So I'm fine. You guys probably are too."<br> <Brian> "What are the Consequences of Barakiel replacing HQB on the Council?"<br> <DanteE> (He's screwing with our vocabulary! The bastard!)<br> <Kite> "Could travel by pigeon? That would be fascinating!"<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Hmm... depends how he did it. If it was willing on Berakha's part... not actually all that dramatic."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Much more so if it's a coup."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "Wait... I see something interesting. If he was on the Council, Ananda could side with him against Entropy."<br> <Brian> "HQB retires out of despair. Retires out of Creation altogether. Given that, and Barakiel stepping in..."<br> <Brian> (was Ananda involved in one of the prophecies?)<br> <Random_Nerd> (Not directly.)<br> <Random_Nerd> (HQB and Entropy were, Ananda and Surolam were not.)<br> <DanteE> to Consequences: "What does Entropy do if the Council starts voting against him?"<br> <Theresa> "But I thought your boss hated Ananda as much as he hates Entropy?"<br> <Brian> "Entropy's seat will be vacant."<br> <Random_Nerd> Consequences: "'Answer hazy, try again later'. Or, in other words, that's a big one, and I don't have much power left at the moment for big ones."<br> <Ftisk> (crap FF is shutting down!)<br> <Random_Nerd> (Okay, mind if we stop here?)<br> <DanteE> "We just witnessed the start of an avalanche."<br> <Brian> (sure)<br> <Dante> (OK.)<br> <Random_Nerd> _________STOP__________<br> <Kite> (Sounds good)<br> *** Ftisk has signed off IRC (Client exited).<br> *** DanteE is now known as Knockwood.<br> *** Kite is now known as Verithe.<br> <Random_Nerd> Sorry that this one was largely you guys watching NPCs do things.<br> <Random_Nerd> I try to avoid that whenever possible.<br> <Knockwood> Well, the extra Drama Points will be worth it. Oh, wait...<br> <Verithe> We got to interact, which was still good. <br> <Verithe> And, wow!<br> <Knockwood> so, did JbJ's prophecy come true, or not?<br> *** Brian is now known as lazarus.<br> <Verithe> Barakiel is, and always has been, Lawbreaker infused!<br> <Random_Nerd> Knockwood... hmm. "Arguably."<br> <lazarus> I am not sure how to quantify what I did in terms of prophecy and stuff.<br> <Theresa> I think that this....6 year setup...should be presented to the Nobilis Tabletop Open thread.<br> <Random_Nerd> I didn't have all this planned back when the game started.<br> <Random_Nerd> Didn't even know about lawbreakers until...<br> <lazarus> but you wrote enough ambiguity to collapse the waveform.<br> <Knockwood> Who gets Destiny? We might need it.<br> <Random_Nerd> Until 2008.<br> <lazarus> so only 3 years.<br> <Random_Nerd> But I did know that there was /something/ up with Barakiel as of session 1.<br> <Random_Nerd> And the details filled in later.<br> <Knockwood> (Hm... info to trade to JbJ)<br> <Ftisk> no too early<br> <lazarus> if we can get him out of his depression<br> <Random_Nerd> Yeah, this probably counts as... /something/, project-wise.<br> <lazarus> finding about imperators and wildlords for ... kwd?<br> <Random_Nerd> Who's got stuff relating to Barakiel, Jan's prophecies, that kind of thing?<br> <Random_Nerd> Well, this wasn't Wildlord stuff.<br> <Knockwood> hm...<br> <Random_Nerd> Okay, now. Honest question. Given how much of the game has involved the Locus Barakiel crew... do you guys feel overshadowed?<br> <Random_Nerd> Because if you want them to drop into the background for a while, now's a good time for it.<br> <Random_Nerd> Their big plan's done.<br> <Random_Nerd> Or, at least, implemented.<br> <Knockwood> (Damn, I'm not sure where I could get points...)<br> <Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Let me see.)<br> <Verithe> Not really. They are major NPCs, but I don't feel like their machinations are taking over our plans or anything.<br> <lazarus> I think their plans and machinations are orthogonal to ours<br> <Knockwood> well, did you just introduce a Big Sorta-Bad?<br> <Random_Nerd> A Big Neutral?<br> <Random_Nerd> Huh. Dante has several "find out about or deal with" esoteric stuff projects, but none are really about this.<br> <Knockwood> a Complication From Hell?<br> <Random_Ner> Brian, do you have a link to your thing?<br> <lazarus> no, I don't. I have to log into Mind Meister again, to see if that's where things are.<br> <Random_Nerd> Because Barakiel's powerful and dangerous, but he sees you as vaguely allied to him.<br> <Knockwood> maybe 'Dante, Defender of the Universe'? :)<br> <Random_Nerd> Eh...<br> <lazarus> I /do/ have a find out about Outside.<br> <Random_Nerd> I don't see how this changes how Dante sees himself.<br> <Random_Nerd> Could you explain?<br> <Random_Nerd> Hmm. Do you have one about high summoning, Laz?<br> <lazarus> yeah. Give me a minute to see if I can find it.<br> -->| YOU (Ftisk) have joined #Nobilis<br> <Verithe> (welcome back!)<br> <Ftisk> (what I lost?)<br> <Random_Nerd> That's probably relevant here.<br> <lazarus> I haven't updated that one in ages, though. But I haven't done anything on it, so there youg o.<br> <Random_Nerd> When did you drop out, Angelo?<br> <Knockwood> 'Bring Nobles together/Encourage cooperation'?<br> <Ftisk> one sec I check the log<br> <Random_Nerd> Hmm. How does this either help or hurt that, Knock?<br> <Random_Nerd> You guys are on friendly terms with Locus Barakiel, but you have been for forever.<br> <Ftisk> last thing seen:<br> <Ftisk> [2011-09-30 05:28:09] <DanteE> to Consequences: "What does Entropy do if the Council starts voting against him?"<br> <Knockwood> Depends on 1) how we're seen in the eyes of Barakiel's group and/or 2) how everyone else feels about unleashing Barakiel<br> <Knockwood> ack<br> <Verithe> I think this may have eased the tensions that were possibly building due to the prophecy. So maybe this helped with Nobles Working Together?<br> <Random_Nerd> Oh, hey! Brian has a thing about his revolution against Entropy, right?<br> <Random_Nerd> He's gotta have a success for that.<br> <lazarus> I apparently have a Learn About High Summoning and Learn the Properties of Outside. But that was on pre-release stuff.<br> <lazarus> I should probably re-do that project into one more proper.<br> =-= YOU are now known as Angelo<br> <Knockwood> Maybe 'Deal with the Age End'... by starting it.<br> <Random_Nerd> I'll give you a success for Learn About High Summoning here.<br> <Random_Nerd> That could work.<br> <Random_Nerd> Oh, and the face thing won't last forever.<br> <Random_Nerd> It'll wear off in time.<br> <Knockwood> What could work?<br> <Random_Nerd> As will the correlative immunity to law.<br> <lazarus> and yeah, I do have that one. I think that one's on my iPad. (Damn me for not finding a mind mapper I like)<br> <lazarus> success is (2), yeah?<br> <Random_Nerd> 3?<br> <Knockwood> I think it's 3<br> <Random_Nerd> Lemme check.<br> <lazarus> I thought 3 was failure?<br> <Knockwood> I remember failure is 5<br> <Angelo> success 2 failure 3<br> <lazarus> or 2 for statement, 3 for success, 5 for failure?<br> <Random_Nerd> Failure is 5, I think...<br> * Random_Nerd checks.<br> <Random_Nerd> Yeah. A non-trivial victory is 3.<br> <Knockwood> going by my map: Minor victory=2, Victory=3, Failure=5, Revelation=10<br> <Knockwood> so, you add up everything I failed at this time, I get... 200. Kewl. :)<br> <lazarus> oh yeah. I wanted to work on getting Internet connected between Amyra and the Earth, on a wide scale.<br> <Random_Nerd> Sadly, you failed at failing.<br> <Knockwood> so, 5 points? <br> <Knockwood> :D<br> <Random_Nerd> But they're imaginary points.<br> <Random_Nerd> You have to square them for them to count.<br> <Knockwood> They all are!<br> <Random_Nerd> And then they count backwards.<br> <Angelo> well, I go, *hug*<br> <Knockwood> cya Angelo<br> <lazarus> RN: nah, just rotate your worldview 90 degrees.<br> <lazarus> see ya Angelo<br> <Random_Nerd> I think rotating your worldview into the complex plane is what Barakiel just did, actually.<br> <lazarus> I thought that was going Outside?<br> <Verithe> Take care, Angelo!<br> <lazarus> either way, it's certainly not Numbers!<br> <Theresa> Night, Angelo! *HUG*<br> <Knockwood> and think about what we could be telling HQB<br> <Random_Nerd> The weird thing, and I didn't really plan this...<br> <Random_Nerd> Barakiel /would/ make a good replacement for him.<br> <Random_Nerd> They have a similar approach in some ways.<br> <Knockwood> "Yeah Barakiel just realized he was part lawbreaker for all of history, so he may be going after your job. But _don't panic_. Jan ben Jan said you would and that would be a bad thing."<br> <Verithe> We should take HQB on a sightseeing tour to show him how awesome Creation is.<br> <Knockwood> ... and then he asks us if we're drunk.<br> <lazarus> oh great.<br> <lazarus> we're boned.<br> <Random_Nerd> "The only thing you have to fear is fear itself. And a crazy angel for whom it is legally and morally okay to toss you in the woodchipper."<br> <Random_Nerd> Of course, that goes both ways.<br> <Random_Nerd> Murdering Barakiel is /also/ okay.<br> <Knockwood> laz: when were we not boned?<br> <Random_Nerd> Brian isn't!<br> <Random_Nerd> Ba-dum-tish.<br> <Random_Nerd> Anyway, g'night.<br> <lazarus> g'night<br> <Verithe> G'night!<br> <Knockwood> g'night RN<br> <lazarus> (should we register the channel again?)<br> <Random_Nerd> Thanks for tolerating a NPCs-do-things session.<br> <Random_Nerd> I'll try to not make them happen too often.<br> <lazarus> I like watching them do things time to time<br> <lazarus> but. g'night.<br> <Knockwood> gotta set the scenes sometime<br> <Random_Nerd> It works best when used sparingly.<br> |<-- lazarus has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: Pull the pin and count to what?)<br> <Random_Nerd> But sometimes, yeah, gotta have the set-piece.<br> |<-- Random_Nerd has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: )<br> <Verithe> Take care, Knock!<br> <Knockwood> g'night Verithe<br> |<-- Knockwood has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.87 [Firefox 7.0/20110922153450])<br> |<-- Verithe has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.87 [Firefox 6.0.2/20110902133214])<br> |<-- Theresa has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?)<br> <--| YOU (Angelo) have left #Nobilis<br> <br><br>[[Chancel_Amyra]]<br> [[Amyra:Chapter_31|Chapter 31]
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