Editing Session 254

[[Chancel_Amyra]]<br>
[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]<br><br>
=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix<br><br>
-->| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis<br><br>
<Angelo> Hi guys!<br><br>
<Verithe> Hi, Angelo!<br><br>
<Angelo> Is everyone fine?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Yeah, more or less.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Nearly done moving.<br><br>
<Angelo> Good!<br><br>
<BethE> Hi Angelo!  *HUG*<br><br>
<Angelo> Btw the old and the new apartment are near each other?<br><br>
<Angelo> Hug Beth!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Hmm?<br><br>
<BethE> They're about a mile apart from each other.  Maybe more.<br><br>
<Angelo> you are moving so you have old place and new place. Did them are one near the other or like in two different cities?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> They're pretty close together.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> It's just that this one doesn't have a feral landlord.<br><br>
<BethE> Same city.<br><br>
<BethE> .. landlord wasn't feral, dear.  Just..predatory.  especially toward college students and people who are on study abroad.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Not just her.  The whole CPM structure.<br><br>
<Knockwood> Hm, let me look up feral landlords in the Monster Manual...<br><br>
<Angelo> eh, I remember you talked of that landlord.<br><br>
<BethE> Well, when you told her that some of their stuff was illegal and she only replied, "It's our policy.'...that's at least Lawful Evil.<br><br>
<Verithe> "It's our policy" does not excuse illegal.<br><br>
<Knockwood> Yes, because Policy can _never_ be wrong...<br><br>
<BethE> They are used to dealing with college students and people who do not speak or read English very well.  <br><br>
<BethE> So they prey on them, who do not know their rights.<br><br>
<BethE> I am sure that they will be happy to see Eric go away.  :)<br><br>
<Angelo> eh, a people that stand to his right? a PITA!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Yeah.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> I'm just glad that we live in the half of this city that actually has decent landlord-tenant laws.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> If we lived a mile and a half west of here, we'd have practically no rights.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Cities are weird.<br><br>
<Verithe> For serious<br><br>
<BethE> Yeah, our landlords could come in any time they wanted..instead of having to give at least 24 hours notice.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> For serious.  See, this city is technically two cities stuck together.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Mostly, that doesn't matter.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> But for some stuff, it does.<br><br>
<Knockwood> You could argue Reno and Sparks are the same way<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> It's just weird when people talk like this stuff is universal across the whole country, and I have to say "Dude, there's places with different laws on this within jogging distance of me."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> So!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Nobilis!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> We were doing... uh... things!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> With... stuff?<br><br>
* Random_Nerd checks some stuff.<br><br>
<Knockwood> For the guy?<br><br>
<Angelo> yeah last session was so long ago that I cannot remember a thing<br><br>
<BethE> For Ftisk!  Who has his nimblespider.  Spiderjack?<br><br>
<Verithe> We had just.....convinced a bunch of people that the [not Google] devices caused hallucinations and brain damage.<br><br>
<Knockwood> We had just "taken care of" the attack on Ftisk by our usual Precision Bumbling.<br><br>
<Angelo> Nimblespider <br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Oh, you haven't taken care of the attack yet.<br><br>
<BethE> We had kind of stopped the attack but Ftisk was still hurting.<br><br>
<Knockwood> ah.<br><br>
<Angelo> a new mount for my loved Ftisk<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> You've stopped it from getting worse, perhaps.<br><br>
<Knockwood> We're becoming awesome at being less-than-awesome.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> But you haven't really resolved the contradiction.<br><br>
<Knockwood> Maybe that's our thing.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> So!  You have a nimblejack in spider form!  You've put out damaging news reports about the AR technology!<br><br>
<Angelo> we find the/one excru followed him a bit and get a nimblejack shaped like a spider<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Speaking of... do any of you follow Questionable Content?)<br><br>
<Knockwood> not lately<br><br>
<Angelo> (nope just started homestuck)<br><br>
<Verithe> (not for some time)<br><br>
<Verithe> (I'm surprised you have time for us, Angelo!)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> However, Ftisk is still hurting, and you haven't grabbed the Excrucian.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Nobody is, at the moment, trying to kill you.<br><br>
<Angelo> (why Verithe? The timeslot from 03:30 am to 07 am seem like is usually free)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> ____________________________START_________________________<br><br>
<BethE> ( Today's current Questionable Content has a Google glasses thing that RN thought that right afterwards, the nimblejack and us would run by..)<br><br>
=-= Verithe is now known as Human_Kite<br><br>
<Angelo> "We can ride *point to the spider* to the factory and stuck our finger around a bit. I believe the excru will show up if we mess stuffs enough..."<br><br>
<BethE> (I..Change my name!)<br><br>
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa<br><br>
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk<br><br>
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE<br><br>
* Human_Kite collects disposed devices.<br><br>
<DanteE> The authorities are there<br><br>
<Theresa> "Will your new friend be able to live in Vulcan?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (So, since you guys have a moment of relative peace, now might be a good idea to come up with a plan more structured than "Mess with things until the problem resolves itself.")<br><br>
<DanteE> (Why? It's worked so well so far.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (That's one opinion!)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Well, Kite is planning to assemble a mecha with the disposed devices.)<br><br>
<Theresa> (So, what about all of this messes with Ftisk?  What is the contradiction that has to be fixed?)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (I have a plan! With a greater Animation I can make Machinery *hurt* anyone that try to assemble machine and flesh all the messing around we still are doing is for flavor :-P )<br><br>
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (I'm not quite sure how it will fix the problem, but that's Kite's current plan.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (What do you guys think is the problem?)<br><br>
<DanteE> (We can use the gathered devices and the thing they were talking to check the hypothesis)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (I think the problem is that the devices are "thinking".)<br><br>
<Brian> (sorry, had to go AFK for a bit without warning ... but I'm back now)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Or that one attribute of machines that I am associating with thinking.)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (I believe the issue is that a machine cannot be sentient and that a -device- that is made my human + tech toys will contraddict that machinery property)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Kite amasses a pile of those devices that have been discarded in your vicinity.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> It's not a huge pile.  Most people, even seeing the news, seem to want to keep theirs.<br><br>
* Human_Kite wonders where the nearest jewelry store....I mean parts shop....is.<br><br>
<DanteE> "We should decide if these things will still be here... maybe just a bit less capable so they don't hurt Ftisk."<br><br>
<Theresa> (I..don't think you can make a good mecha out of diamonds..)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Two blocks south, one block west, Kite.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> You saw it earlier when you were running around.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> And I assume you would remember it.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Kite will make it happen!)<br><br>
* Human_Kite runs off to the jewelry store with his devices.<br><br>
<Theresa> "Is there a central computer or system that runs all of the devices?"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Weren't they talking to something in the building we demolished?"<br><br>
<Ftisk> "I believe most of the calculation is done outside of the device" (right RN?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Well, there isn't a central place that /runs/ the devices.  There's a certain amount of cloud computing, but that's distributed.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> And most of the actual computation is, as Ftisk said, internal.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> However, there is a central database that keeps the information the devices report.<br><br>
<DanteE> "Wait, can't you trace where the signals are going?"<br><br>
<Ftisk> "we can make a virus to destroy the database"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (It has backups, mind.  !Google isn't /stupid/.)<br><br>
<Ftisk> "yes I can find the place"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (How do you expect destroying the database to help?)<br><br>
* Human_Kite makes sure no one is watching after he arrives at the jewelry store.<br><br>
<DanteE> "Wait. Once you find it, you should figure out what they're _doing_ with the data."<br><br>
<Ftisk> (it will delay the excru effort, in the long run will simply be rebuilt but when done will cause some disruptions)<br><br>
<DanteE> "That will tell us what’s happening."<br><br>
<Theresa> (What do nimblejacks eat?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Your tears.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Well, not canonically.  But maybe.)<br><br>
<Theresa> (No, that's what they drink.)<br><br>
<DanteE> (Too bad none of us ever cry.)<br><br>
* Ftisk use persona to be the data and follow them to the central database<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (They put them in a bottle and wait for them to crystalize.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you are a bit of data about movements and eye tracking!  You are, even now, being transmitted home to a big database!<br><br>
<Theresa> (Do you let us know that's what you're doing, Ftisk, or do you just disappear?)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (doh, forget to explain, you see Ftisk poof away! sorry!)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> You're stored and archived and indexed!<br><br>
<DanteE> (Do we get a bad feeling about that?)<br><br>
* Human_Kite Assembles a mecha from all the available jewelry in the store, the store's alarm system and the disposed devices....when no one is looking.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Using Domain?)<br><br>
<DanteE> (Ah, considering those are Ex-touched, do you really want to do that?)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Ja)<br><br>
* Ftisk exit the server and look around to find where is the server place<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Dante has had a bad feeling about things for, I figure, about the last nine months of his life.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> That sound right?<br><br>
<Theresa> (Hmm...Affliction:  I have a Bad Feeling About This. ?)<br><br>
<DanteE> yeah it does<br><br>
<Ftisk> (lol hard at RN joke)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you feel that you and all the data like you is being collected and prepared for some great purpose.  You feel the program looking through you for relevant facts.<br><br>
* Theresa looks around.  "So, no Ftisk.  Kite is making a mecha who knows where.  And Ftisk left his nimblespider.  There's a thought.  Nimble, can you find Ftisk?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (Relevant Fact:  This is the Noble of Data.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Facts about where people walked, but even more than that, what they looked at.<br><br>
<Brian> "Ftisk would never leave his nimblespider."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Would that be a L. Motion or L. Animation?)<br><br>
<Theresa> "He would if he was not moving in the physical world."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> And there's something in particular that they seem to be looking at in the eye tracking data.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider tries to sniff the air, and then realizes that as a spider he doesn't have a nose.<br><br>
<Brian> "true, but."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Or...er....Creation. Creation of Assembly)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> He sulks, dejected.<br><br>
<Ftisk> what are they looking for in eyes?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.  I could see an argument for creation.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> They appear to be looking for... when people look at commercial products and advertisements.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> And then, the company's evil plan is clear.<br><br>
<Brian> "He'd do his best to take it with him, wouldn't he?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> They're collecting and studying all of this data... to sell it to advertisers!<br><br>
<DanteE> (BTW... Whose Line returns Tuesday.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Thundercrash sound!)<br><br>
<Brian> (!)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (With Aisha Tyler hosting, right?)<br><br>
<DanteE> (KILL THEM.)<br><br>
<DanteE> RN: yep<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Good.  She's hilarious.)<br><br>
* Human_Kite rides his ShinyMecha back to the group.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you see no attempts to use the data for anti-Noble purposes or anything like that.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider touches the front of his head where a nose would be if he had one.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> He vaguely suspects that he smells terrible.<br><br>
<Theresa>  ( ...  Can I go live somewhere else, now?)<br><br>
<Ftisk> Weird, I would have bet that these data would have been used for Nobles related stuff"<br><br>
<Brian> (I thought you just made that happen? :p)<br><br>
<DanteE> (Hm... could the Exs have just taken an existing thing for their own ends?)<br><br>
<Theresa> (But I'm still living with _him_.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Well, from the documentation you read, the company was working on this for years.)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Yeah, sounds like the Excrucians found this and decided to poke it into more funding.)<br><br>
* Ftisk pray to Theresa "Ftisk here, I'm in the central evil computer, but seem like it is not evil as I believed first, they process gathered data ... for advertisements  .. what a letdown!"<br><br>
<Theresa> (Work smarter, not harder.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you feel your info-belly tingle as you are assessed for indicators of customer interest in Mountain Dew Code Red.<br><br>
<DanteE> (Which arguably means destroying it would be against the rules...)<br><br>
<Theresa> ( Umm.  I like Code Red.)<br><br>
<Brian> (oh god, Baby Weeping Angels ... -_-; )<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (:C)<br><br>
<Theresa> Theresa, to the others:  "Ftisk just prayed....apparently the glasses..are to determine data for advertisers."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Ah, Kite, what are you doing with this?"<br><br>
<Ftisk> (for not US peoples, is a kind of beverage?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Are you watching a Dr. Who, Laz?)<br><br>
<Brian> "What else would they be for?"<br><br>
<Brian> (I am.  The Angels Take New York.)<br><br>
<Theresa> (It is a cherry-ish flavor of Mountain Dew.)<br><br>
<DanteE> "Something less mundane..."<br><br>
<Brian> (Code Red Mt. Dew is delicious)<br><br>
<Brian> (Wish I could still get it here)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Ah.  Know what happens in it, but haven't seen it.)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "I'm riding it.<br><br>
* Ftisk give them all kind of fake data usage on mountain dew code red .. for fun!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> You feel the intense scrutiny of intricate search engines.<br><br>
* Ftisk put on some solar screen with uva+b filters :-P<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> And then... you are discarded from the database as an outlier that looks faked!<br><br>
<Theresa> "Well, data scavenging isn't truly Evil, but it's not all that nice."<br><br>
<Ftisk> Outrageous!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> And instead listed with a bunch of fake data.<br><br>
<DanteE> "Can we check out the remains of the distribution center?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (Ah, in with I.P. Freely's data.  And Elvis.)<br><br>
* Ftisk can find the physical server location?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> You only knocked down, like, half of its walls.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> You can.<br><br>
<Theresa> "Sure.  Let's head that way. "  *holds out a hand to Nimble*  "You can ride on me, if you like."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> It's in-state, but about fifty miles away.<br><br>
* Ftisk get  the physical address, look up it against fake places and then pray to Theresa the place location<br><br>
<DanteE> (I forget, do we have the Dantemobile here?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Yes.<br><br>
<Brian> (wanna go for a drive?)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (isn't Dante mobile anchored? You can summon it if you need it)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The location is at a notGoogle facility, that's outside of any big cities but right along a fiberoptic backbone cable.<br><br>
<Brian> (actually, Brian will say that aloud) "Wanna go for a drive?"<br><br>
<DanteE> (Yeah, let's just have a whip pan and say we're there.)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "May my mecha drive?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Which there?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The distribution center, or the physical server location?<br><br>
<DanteE> (Want to grind some mobs or skip straight to the boss fight)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Boss fight!)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (skip ahead Dante)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "I promise I'll stay off the sidewalks this time!<br><br>
<Brian> (Pathfinder game I was playing in - Kingmaker path - we generally went in a beeline for the boss.  Always accidentally or randomly.)<br><br>
<Brian> (I believe once we didn't.  When we were actually trying to get to the boss fast.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (But who's the boss here?)<br><br>
<DanteE> "Does your mecha have driving ability?"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (No idea!)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Tony Danza.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (NotGoogle, the Shard that ran away from you, or someone else?)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "I want to test it and see if it does!"<br><br>
<Theresa> (Noble of Commerce or Advertising?)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (the shard for me)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "I also want to see if it has a sitting-in-the-car ability."<br><br>
<DanteE> (Let's go to the !Google place and try to stop the attack)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (what is the mecha look kite?)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (It looks too big for a car, mostly made of jewelry.)<br><br>
* Ftisk ?apparate? in the real world near the server that stored me (is apparate a word?)<br><br>
<DanteE> (Ftisk: manifests)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (I believe it is a word, but an archaic one.)<br><br>
<DanteE> (means 'becomes real')<br><br>
<Ftisk> (ty)<br><br>
<DanteE> "I'm not sure your mecha can fit in the driver's seat.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (An archaic one? I should stop using it, then...)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Okay!  You're in a car, driving to the NotGoogle Server Farm.<br><br>
<Theresa> (Let's go to the NotGoogle Place.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Is there anything you want to do while along the way?<br><br>
<DanteE> (Didn't we get SUVs at one point?)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (anyway what I see around? a datacenter or what? Peoples?)<br><br>
* Human_Kite follows in the mecha<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Mostly, it's just a group of three large buildings and a couple smaller ones.<br><br>
<DanteE> (ah, how would seeing that mecha affect mundanes?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (DA, yeah. It's an active Noble miracle, that can't be easily rationalized.)<br><br>
<DanteE> (Maybe it should ride in the trunk)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> It mostly just looks like a somewhat artsy-looking industrial park, that happens to be in what looks like the middle of nowhere off a highway.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "I'm an engineering student."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and the mecha can totally drive.  Just not... well.  Still, nobody died.<br><br>
* Human_Kite flips his hair out of his face in a not-very-engineering-student sort of way.<br><br>
<DanteE> (Hey, did I ever get that 'Jedi Mind Trick' thing, or was that in limbo?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (I don't recall you actually completing that project.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Okay, so.  Big parking lot.  Three major buildings, plus a few storage buildings and so on.  NotGoogle logos on everything.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> High-status nerds walking between buildings, or talking on benches next to the lake.  Of which there is one.<br><br>
<DanteE> "OK, Ftisk, where is... whoops, not here.<br><br>
<DanteE> "Kite, can you localize the attack on your brother?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you feel some twinges of the attack, but it's weaker here than at the place you were at last.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Maybe 60% as strong here.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "I.....don't think that is a thing I can do, but I can ask Ftisk."<br><br>
<Theresa> *to the nimblespider*  "I'm sure that he can set you up with a nose or a sense of smell once this problem is dealt with."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> prayer to Ftisk: "Ftisk! I have a mecha! It's shiny!"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Nimblespider nods its body.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you're in a server room.<br><br>
<Ftisk> pray back "Kite! Is wonderfull! Came here! We have to throw a party!"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Lots of computers.  Lots of fans.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Very few people.<br><br>
<Theresa> *to Nimble*  "Do you use other senses to find your prey?"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> to Ftisk: "Also, Dante wants to know if you can localize the attack on you."<br><br>
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> So far, nobody's noticed you, probably due to noise from the cooling systems.<br><br>
<Conrad> (changed shape to Conrad shape)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The computer with the main copy of the AR database is #37, out of more than three hundred.<br><br>
* Conrad quietly exit the room and start looking around<br><br>
<Conrad> (forget it)<br><br>
<Conrad> (can I use a treasure miracle to guide spiderJack to me?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm.  How's Conrad dressed?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Yes, you can.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Do you want him to start coming toward you, instantly appear there, or what?)<br><br>
<Conrad> (as Conrad is usually dressed. yellow and blue color)<br><br>
<Conrad> (I want to guide the other to me following the spiderJack)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> A few people whisper as ConradFtisk walks past them in the hall.  "Who's that guy?" "Investor, I think.  Yeah, we met the day before yesterday."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (!!!)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Ftisk/Conrad just has that kind of face.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (You can guide him to you with Treasure 2.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Or possess him and puppet him with Treasure 1.)<br><br>
<Conrad> (ok I spend 2 mp then to guide the others to me)<br><br>
<Conrad> (wait puppet him is more fun)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Everyone else, the spiderjack suddenly stands still.<br><br>
<Theresa> (What's that, Lassie?  Ftisk feel down a data well?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, do you just have the nimblespider run straight to you, or what?<br><br>
* Conrad scramble forward a bit silly and point toward the building were Ftisk is<br><br>
<Brian> "Spiderjack?"<br><br>
<DanteE> (Are we going to adopt this guy? :) )<br><br>
* Conrad run straight to were I'm<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (I think Ftisk already did.)<br><br>
<Brian> (already did, I believe :p)<br><br>
<Conrad> (I anchored the spiderJack, is already adopted)<br><br>
<Brian> (ninjas!)<br><br>
<DanteE> (ah)<br><br>
<Conrad> (Mine mine mine mine)<br><br>
<DanteE> "Follow that spider, then..."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The nimblespider runs with fast but mundane speed.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> You can keep up as long as you run.<br><br>
* Theresa runs.<br><br>
<Conrad> (actually anchoring a miraculous creature *DEPOWER* it!)<br><br>
<DanteE> "Oh, Kite? Can you keep the thing you built under wraps so that people's brains don't explode?"<br><br>
* Human_Kite follows in the mecha!<br><br>
<Brian> *runs!*<br><br>
* DanteE follows the spider<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "What are you talking about? Just tell them it's my engineering project."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Well, it does when you don't spend MPs.  When you do, it powers it up.)<br><br>
<DanteE> "Of course, considering we're following a giant spider that's probably a moot point anyway."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Like, a nimblejack on its own is never ever gonna use an Imperial miracle.  An anchored one might.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Well, not a /giant/ spider.<br><br>
<Conrad> (yeah RN but anchor and treasure 0 don't mingle well together :-P )<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Tarantula-sized, say.<br><br>
<Theresa> (It isn't that big.  Ftisk shrank to ride it.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Spiderskitter.<br><br>
<DanteE> (Then why are we running?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The spider comes to a locked door at the outside of one of the buildings!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Because the spider is running!)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Because it's a very fast skitter.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (And it's still, mundanely speaking, fast.)<br><br>
* Human_Kite unlocks the door with his mecha!<br><br>
<Brian> (with your mecha's face?  Fist?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Unlocked!<br><br>
<Theresa> "Let's try not to break this building too much, right, guys?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Skitter!<br><br>
<Human_Kite> And by "unlocks" I mean "smashes"!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (No, no.  "Performed a manual override.")<br><br>
<Brian> ("Percussive Maintenance")<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Yessss.....)<br><br>
<Theresa> *sigh*<br><br>
<DanteE> "Remind me to acquaint you and Ftisk with the concept of 'subtlety'"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> When you do /that/, a guy in slacks and a polo shirt, but with rather more muscles and about four inches of height more than the rest of the guys here, starts walking toward you.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Do you respond, or keep chasing the spider?<br><br>
<Conrad> (why I'm totally fine with leaving a smoking mess of the building)<br><br>
<Theresa> *calls out*  "Sorry, research and development issue!  We'll be on our way, soon!"<br><br>
* Human_Kite makes sure the guy has more important things to do, like Assembling a bookcase.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> ...how?<br><br>
<Brian> (keep chasing the spider)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Which is a L. Animation/Creation of Assembly?)<br><br>
<DanteE> (or, Assembling a comprehensive report on the current state of security)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Involving the guy)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Still chasing spider.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (A creation would make things assemble.  An animation would create a self-perpetuating process of assembly that does what you want.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Hmm...  motion of assembly?  To take a particular assembly, and put it in his mind?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The guy starts jogging after you.  "You can't just smash down doors with your robot, we have rules here!"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (That works. I want Assembly to be happening and him to be involved in making it happen.)<br><br>
<Theresa> "Do we have to use your robot?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.  Level 6 miracle.)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Oh! Well we didn't know. We'll obey that rule the next time!"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Send us a rules summary!"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "That's not... oh well, bookshelf isn't gonna make itself."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> He turns back.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Mecha!"<br><br>
<Brian> (awesome)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (1 DMP spent!)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Ftisk has probably heard us coming.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Everyone else looks at you oddly.  The shiny ambulatory robot suits weren't supposed to begin alpha testing for another seven and a half months.<br><br>
<Brian> (!)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Well, Ftisk's senses are currently in the spider.<br><br>
<Brian> (surprisingly ambulatory robot suits)<br><br>
<DanteE> (We should consider talking to these guys later...)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The spider leads you to where Ftisk is standing.<br><br>
<Conrad> (I'm busy running to myself!)<br><br>
* Theresa keeps following the spider.<br><br>
* Human_Kite follows!<br><br>
* Conrad returns into myself<br><br>
<DanteE> "Hey, Ftisk. What did you find?"<br><br>
<Conrad> "NimbleSpider!" *hug*<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Two engineers are standing hear him, trying to figure out why the investor-guy suddenly stopped in the middle of the hallway, and if it would be rude to flick pieces of paper at him, and then about the scoring rules for a game of flicking paper at Ftisk they are in the process of inventing.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Female Engineer: "No, no.  Nose /has/ to be more points than ears.  There's just one of it!"<br><br>
<Theresa> (Instead...big spider out of nowhere!)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Male Engineer: "But the ears aren't near each other, so either individual ear is a comparably hard target to the nose..."<br><br>
<Theresa> (Sure, taunt the poor nimblespider with Conrad's nose!)<br><br>
<Conrad> "yeah yeah, noes and nostrills, I'll look at them at onc-... oh, guys, I find the server, would you like to follow me?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Female Engineer: "They're testing the mobile robot suits already?  I thought they weren't even done prototyping!"<br><br>
* Conrad lead to the server #37<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Male Engineer, suspicious: "What's the power source on that?"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Yes! Server!"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Magic."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "It's confidential.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Male Engineer: "Fine, fine, not my department."<br><br>
<Brian> "You want to know what's worth the most points?  He's got a small bald spot right on the top of his hair, right where his hair spirals out.  It's invisible to the naked eye, but if you hit it?  Must be a win."<br><br>
<Human_Kite>  "But not magic, because you humans don't believe in it anymore."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Server #37 is... a server.  A big computer with a lot of hard drives, a lot of cables attaching to it, and no interface devices to speak of.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The label "#37" is handwritten on a sticky note.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Okay, so... I'm really not sure what the plan is.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Care to let me in?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk, you feel no twinges of pain from the server.<br><br>
<DanteE> "Hm. You'd think there'd be a note saying this is the glasses project server."<br><br>
<Brian> (I'm assuming unplug it)<br><br>
<DanteE> (Hold on.)<br><br>
<DanteE> "Now, is this the source of the attack?"<br><br>
<Conrad> (I wanna Kite to unAssemble the server database so that is impossible to assemble it again)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> It is not.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The pain seems connected with the devices themselves, not with the server.<br><br>
<DanteE> "Hang on. The glasses may not have been from Outside.<br><br>
<Conrad> "This server process data from the glasses. If we make it unusable the glasses will stop to work. Maybe"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Let's zero in on the attack itself."<br><br>
<DanteE> "and _then_ figure out what we can do."<br><br>
<Brian> "But what is it about the glasses that's the problem?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The attack is weaker here than at the university town you came from, but it's still partially here.<br><br>
<Brian> "Because if the server doesn't hurt, then it's not the data."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Ftisk is the only one who can tell."<br><br>
<Conrad> "See I wanna disrupt the glasses in more that one way. In that way no one would resume that idea again"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Well, it is an advertising database...<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "It is?<br><br>
<Conrad> "The attack is partially from here, the other place is more directly involved Dante, but it send info here to be processed"<br><br>
<DanteE> "...can you set it up so that it says none of the annoying ads around work worth a damn?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (So..Ftisk is going to create a miraculous version of AdBlock?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> A combination of Data and Assembly could do that.<br><br>
<Brian> (:D with fairy dust, pixies, and unicorns?  Nevermind the oxford commas.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Hmm.  It'd take an animation of Assembly to make it /keep/ doing that as new data comes in.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Lesser Animations are trivial for me!)<br><br>
<DanteE> (Or, he can write-lock it so that it no longer accepts new data, which would screw with the attack)<br><br>
<Conrad> "here there is the central database that process all the glasses data, it is also an ad database but that is secondary to being the central database for glasses anyway"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (That'd be easier to do.)<br><br>
<DanteE> (You sure the _glasses_ are the primary? :p )<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Well, it processes the data that the glasses send /out/.)<br><br>
<DanteE> (Business, remember. Ads first, everything else second.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (It isn't what sends data /to/ them.  That's a bunch of other places, not really centralized.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (I mean, the incoming data is mostly ordinary searches.)<br><br>
<DanteE> (OK, so where's the NSA tap? :p )<br><br>
<Conrad> (well if investor see not returning data the project will be seen as a failure no matter how much users love it)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Not in place yet.  This is new.)<br><br>
<Conrad> "Se Kite, a combined miracle , I believe can take care of that database, right?"<br><br>
<Conrad> (combined machinery + assembly Animation will work, rightRN?)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Sure thing!"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Yes.  So, what do you want to accomplish?)<br><br>
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<Theresa> (So, once this is taken care of, we head back to the place that was causing more pain to Ftisk than here?)<br><br>
<Knockwood> (sorry about that)<br><br>
<Conrad> (I want to use a Data animation to redirect the glasses data from this database to another one kite will make with assembly)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Ah.  Do you just want to make a copy, or to prevent it from going here at all?)<br><br>
<Conrad> (prevent to go in that central database, instead they go in our one)<br><br>
<Conrad> like on the road they find a miraculous deviation sign)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Okay.  Yeah, you can do that.)<br><br>
|<-- DanteE has left irc.magicstar.net (Ping timeout)<br><br>
<Conrad> (cool!)<br><br>
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Done.<br><br>
<Conrad> "Ok guys, now that the miraculous side is done, who want to make this place a smoking mess?!?!"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Well, wait. It might be better to have it available as a resource."<br><br>
<Brian> "There's a fun thing to do with changing the speeds of hard drives.  Releases the magic smoke really quickly."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Plus, destroying it would hurt the people here."<br><br>
<Conrad> "woot Brian!"<br><br>
<Theresa> "Do you feel any better, Ftisk?  Does this take care of the attack?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> This doesn't affect how Ftisk feels.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "I'm fine with no smoking mess."<br><br>
<Conrad> "Dante Dante, we have a _tradition_ did you think you can go against them? WE go in a place; that place go Boom!"<br><br>
<DanteE> "In fact, if they think we're investors they'll be inclined to tell us all about this project."<br><br>
<DanteE> "When we _intend_ to, sure.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> One of the people in the room starts walking quickly out of it.<br><br>
<Conrad> (We were not alone in the server room?)<br><br>
<DanteE> "I say we try a not-as-destructive strategy this time."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (I mentioned that there were other people in there earlier.  Not a lot of people, but it's a big room.)<br><br>
<DanteE> to the guy walking out: "Stop!"<br><br>
<Theresa> (There were at least the two engineers.)<br><br>
<Conrad> "fine fine, ok. My Estate still hurt, can we go back to the other place and fix it there also?"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (We certainly have a better track record of not leaving a trail of smoke and corpses than the campaign I HGed....)<br><br>
<Brian> "Ftisk, when they're looking at you, change form."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The guy: *starts walking faster*<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> He leaves the server room.<br><br>
=-= YOU are now known as dragonTisk<br><br>
* dragonTisk fly to the guy and eat him!<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Ah......"<br><br>
<dragonTisk> (aspect 2)<br><br>
<Brian> "I ... didn't suggest eating him ..."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Does anyone wish to intervene?<br><br>
<DanteE> "Damn it, we're not _supposed_ to be homicidal lunatics unless it's warranted..."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> And if so, what do you do?<br><br>
<Theresa> (I expect the nimblejack to applaud.)<br><br>
* Human_Kite tries to catch Conrad with the Mecha.<br><br>
* DanteE tackles the guy first. (Aspect 3)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Dragontackle.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Oh, wait, the guy.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Uh, you're trying to stop him, but not trying to stop Ftisk from eating him?<br><br>
<dragonTisk> "roar! Well you want to stop him! roar!" *outrage for the tasty humansnack negated!*<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> _____Pause________<br><br>
<dragonTisk> flurry?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Looks like!<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> What are each of you doing?<br><br>
<dragonTisk> ^_^<br><br>
<DanteE> A3 first?<br><br>
<Brian> nada.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Dante is trying to tackle the guy.<br><br>
<Theresa> I'm not doing anything.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk is trying to eat the guy.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Theresa and Brian are doing nothing.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> V?<br><br>
<dragonTisk> me is going dragonTisk and aspect fly to the guy and eat him. Head first<br><br>
<Human_Kite> Trying to catch Conrad with the intent of not letting him eat the guy.<br><br>
<Theresa> (I'll just be over here with Nimble and a bucket of popcorn.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> What miracle level?<br><br>
<dragonTisk> my aspect is 2<br><br>
<DanteE> Create-Popcorn is 4, right? :)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> And Kite?<br><br>
<Human_Kite> Does Aspect apply to the Mecha?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Well, it applies to you.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> I figure, if you have to, you can just overpower the mecha with your superior noble muscles, or hop out of it on your way, or what have you.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> So... what do you do?<br><br>
<Theresa> Dante - and I have Domain 5.  :)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> Hmmm....does my Mecha count as part of my collection of shiny things?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> It could.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Doing something with Treasure?<br><br>
<dragonTisk> (is the mecha made, also, of diamond, right?)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> Treasure miracle of guidance?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> To do what?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Partially, yes.)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> I mean "Getting Some Help" to grab Conrad and stop him from eating Guy.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Okay.  Ftisk is using Aspect 2 to eat the guy, Kite using Treasure 2 to stop him from eating the guy, Dante using Aspect 3 to tackle the guy.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (So Treasure 4)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Oh, Getting Some Help.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Sorry, thought you meant Guidance.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Okay.  Treasure 4, then.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (If it's more appropriate.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Does anyone wish to change their action?<br><br>
<DanteE> I'll change 'tackle' to 'grab', I think.<br><br>
<dragonTisk> nope mine are fine<br><br>
<Human_Kite> I'm good with mine<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> ____________UNPAUSE_________<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Dante tackles the guy.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Ftisk is caught in mid-lunge by Kite And His Mecha.<br><br>
<DanteE> "Ftisk, no! No eating people!"<br><br>
<dragonTisk> "Ahh, Rules rules! Are you sure your imperator is a wild one?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The Guy doesn't actually shit himself yet.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Our Imperator is not!"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Yes. And he doesn't like unnecessary death, remember."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> But he looks like he's thinking about it.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Since a dragon tried to eat him and was stopped by a shiny mecha.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> I mean, yeah.<br><br>
<dragonTisk> "I was talking to Mr. Rules here *point to Dante* not to you Kite"<br><br>
<Theresa> (He is going to have the best facebook post ever later...)<br><br>
<DanteE> to the guy: "You. Whatever's in Server 37 is Really Important to people who can do _this_.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Uh... I have twenty bucks.  You want it?"<br><br>
<Brian> "What do you do here?" *loom*<br><br>
<DanteE> "No, I want you to tell me all about the glasses project.<br><br>
<dragonTisk> "are them tasty?" *pout*<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "We don't need money in YouDidn'tSeeThisLand!"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "I dunno!  I'm not on that!  I'm fine-tuning the thing that can tell if you have the flu by how you search for porn!"<br><br>
<Brian> "ok, you've gotta tell me how that works."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "...computers are involved."<br><br>
<Theresa> (Search for porn? )<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "It's complicated."<br><br>
* dragonTisk grab spiderJack<br><br>
<DanteE> "That's easy, if you're doing it instead of working and really slowly, you're ill."<br><br>
<Brian> "I don't think you can do that."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "I can totally do that."<br><br>
<Brian> "How."<br><br>
* dragonTisk muzzle, cuddle and give popcorn stealed from Theresa and Dante to him<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Google actually does have a thing that spots flu epidemics based on people's internet activity.)<br><br>
<DanteE> "_Anyway_. Who's on the glasses thing?"<br><br>
<Brian> (I know.  It's insane :D)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "That's the Gadish lab, I think.  Wait, you want the physical device stuff, or the stuff on correlating the advertising data?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (But I didn't think that it was from seeing if you're searching for porn.  It's searching for flu symptoms and doctors...)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Physical device stuff."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (I'm not sure that it is.)<br><br>
<Theresa> (I can be wrong.)<br><br>
<DanteE> "Ftisk, which one? ... And can you un-dragon yourself before you knock over something important?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (I think it may also be stuff like searching from home when they think you'd be at work.)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Ah.)<br><br>
=-= YOU are now known as Conrad<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Guy: "Yeah, that's Gadish.  Down the hall, take a right, third door on the left."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Good to know.<br><br>
<Theresa> "Thank you!"  *heads that way*<br><br>
* Conrad follow<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Thank you. Would you like to work for us? You might get your own mecha one day."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Oh, and for your own sake... you've probably been playing too many video games. Figure that's what you saw here."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Guy, as you leave: "So I can keep my lunch money, then?"<br><br>
<Conrad> to spiderJack: "nose uhm.. did you have any preferences on the type?"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "You eat money?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Spiderjack: "...pointy!"<br><br>
<Conrad> "to Kite: "if tasty sure!"<br><br>
* Theresa knocks on Gadish's door.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Spiderjack gestures with three limbs.<br><br>
<DanteE> "Yeah, we don't need it."<br><br>
* Conrad add an eagle nose to spiderJack<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Okay, there's two doors that seem relevant.  The one he mentioned is to the Augmented Reality Development Lab. The next one down the hall is Alice Gadish's personal office.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (YES! EAGLE NOSE!)<br><br>
* Theresa listens at each door before knocking, then.<br><br>
<Conrad> to sJ: "is this one ok?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (*facepalm*  Eagle-eagle or aquiline eagle?)<br><br>
<Theresa> (I listen for any people in each lab, Aspect 3.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The former door has at least nine people working in it.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The latter has one person, sitting quietly.<br><br>
<Conrad> (eagle eagle , a beak)<br><br>
* DanteE checks out the place with The Sight<br><br>
* Theresa will go and knock on the personal office door.  <br><br>
* Human_Kite mecha-knocks on Ms. Gadish's door.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Spiderjack With A Beak: "That'll do."<br><br>
* Conrad pat him happily<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Dante, nothing particularly related to Blades or Courage, other than the fact that all but one person in the lab have multitools with at least one blade.<br><br>
* Human_Kite scratch my action 'cause Theresa totally knocked first.<br><br>
<DanteE> (what size is the spider?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> And someone nearby is scared.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Tarantula-sized.)<br><br>
<DanteE> (Where we came from?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (No,  Not counting that.  In the office next to the lab.)<br><br>
<DanteE> "...someone's scared in here."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> A voice from in the Gadish office: "Who is it?"<br><br>
<Theresa> "Visitor!"  *goes on in*  "Hello!  We were wanting to talk to you about one of your projects!"<br><br>
<DanteE> to T: "They think we're investors..."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> As you come in, you see a frightened-looking woman in T-shirt and jeans.  She's middle-eastern looking, could easily pass for Amyran.<br><br>
<DanteE> to Ftisk: "Anything in here?"<br><br>
* Human_Kite follows Theresa<br><br>
<Conrad> (normal eyes?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She presses a button on a handmade-looking device on her desk, and stuff falls from the ceiling onto you.<br><br>
<DanteE> stuff?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> A bunch of stuff.  Silver jewelry pieces, holy symbols of seven different religions, rowan wood, and an iron horseshoe.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and garlic.<br><br>
<Theresa> (...well, darn, we've lost Kite.  :) )<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "OH BOY!"<br><br>
* Theresa blinks.  "I prefer balloons."<br><br>
<Conrad> "stop it!"<br><br>
* Human_Kite starts collecting all of the shiny bits.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Well, it was worth a try.  So, now it's time to shut us down, now that we did whatever you wanted?"<br><br>
<Brian> "... I'm not a vampire, but I'm honored."<br><br>
<Conrad> "you'll scare my pet spider!"<br><br>
<DanteE> "OK, so, I'm guessing you've had dealings with interesting people?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She looks interestedly at Kite.<br><br>
* Conrad look at her with the sight<br><br>
<Theresa> "We are not..vampires or fae...although our colleague here likes shiny things."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I'm not stupid.  I know that the technology wouldn't be there for these for at least five more years, maybe ten.  The miniaturization, see.  Can't get that much sensory and computing hardware in a device that size."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Huh.<br><br>
* DanteE grabs a chair and sits.<br><br>
* Conrad nod "spot on my timeline "<br><br>
<Theresa> "And you expected vampires or fairies to do miniaturization of silicon chips?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "So, when we worked out how to do it, I checked.  And as near as I can tell, someone actually made some slight but noticeable changes to the laws of physics, relating to electron flows in impure silicon."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Would you kindly tell us about the people who started this project?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Uh... that would be me.  It's my project.  Has been for years."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Physics?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "The... system of physical laws that..." <br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She gestures vaguely.<br><br>
<DanteE> "I mean, whoever seems to have tweaked physics."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "PHYSICS."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "It wasn't you?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (*shifty look*)<br><br>
* Conrad look at Brian<br><br>
<DanteE> "No, we know Physics. She's still finding her feet."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Are you still a dragon, Ftisk?<br><br>
<Theresa> "This will probably sound strange but..we know the person who is in charge of setting the laws of physics."<br><br>
<Conrad> "We can pray and ask"<br><br>
<DanteE> "... long story. Tell us about Mr. Supernatural you were expecting."<br><br>
<DanteE> (Any miraculous influence here?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I don't know.  I knew that something impossible had been done.  And there seemed to be other... signs of manipulation.  Problems just disappeared.  So I got paranoid.  I put a camera in the server room, some in the lab... and whatever happened to the data collection server triggered one of my alerts."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> You don't see any signs of miraculous influence.<br><br>
<DanteE> "Just now?"<br><br>
<Theresa> "Ah, that would be our friend over there.  He traced your servers.  What is so special about your data glasses?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "A couple minutes ago.  So I looked at my camera feed.  And then you" *turns to Conrad* "turned into a dragon while you" *turns to Kite* "chased him in a robot suit.  And those won't be ready for... ah!  You're switching your patronage to a different project?"<br><br>
<Brian> "I haven't altered the laws of physics since that one time.  How long has your project been going on?"<br><br>
<DanteE> "We're different people."<br><br>
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I don't know!  I mean, it's a really cool project, but I didn't expect it to attract the attention of, like, supernatural forces."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "really different"<br><br>
<Theresa> "Well, see, there's sometimes no line between natural and supernatural."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "This happened... months ago?  It's tough to tell when the actual changes happened."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Let's try this:<br><br>
<Brian> "Well, do you have your source commits?"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Where did the physics-tweaking stuff come from?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "And, yes.  We went from a prototype the size of a laptop, to all those devices made, in three and a half months.  That does not /happen/ if something hinky isn't up."<br><br>
<Brian> (how long has New Physics been Physics?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I don't know how I'd be able to tell how changes in the laws of physics happened, or from where."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (A little longer than that.)<br><br>
<Ftisk> "There is a ... faction .. that is taking advantage of these devices to attach me"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Are they made next door?"<br><br>
<Brian> (can I pray to New Physics?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "No, there are factories or something.  That's just where we're working on developing them."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (You can.)<br><br>
<DanteE> "Ftisk, where's the attack?"<br><br>
<Brian> *prays to New Physics* "Did you make any changes to the miniaturization abilities of silicon and such about three and a half months back?"<br><br>
<Theresa> "Did you ever meet any of the investors or patrons as you call them?"<br><br>
<Ftisk> "The place where it is stronger is the other one, the one from where we came"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I guess?  They were, y'know, suits."<br><br>
<DanteE> to Ftisk: "Here, or next door?"<br><br>
<Ftisk> "The place where we find the excru"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> New Physics: "Oh!  Hey!  You're... Mathematics, right?  Yeah, I totally did.  Near as I can figure, Moore's Law should now have transistor density doubling every /nine/ months.  You're welcome."<br><br>
<Theresa> ( O.O )<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Well, that settles that....)<br><br>
<DanteE> (That may be coming from RL, actually)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "And there was weird stuff going on with the interface, too."<br><br>
<Theresa> (So...can that affect Data as an attack?)<br><br>
<Theresa> "How so?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "It shouldn't work this well.  Not this fast.  And it doesn't... in /some/ places."<br><br>
<Brian> *to NP* "Numbers, actually.  Math is sort of a side effect.  Anyway.  Good to know.  We think some Excrucians piggybacked on that to attack our fellow, Ftisk - Data, that is.  We've got a woman here who probably wants to thank you for her success, too.  Unrelated, mostly, to the attack, anyway."<br><br>
<Ftisk> (I believe it will just change the time factor of the attack ie now instead that in some years but not that the attach is unfeasible)<br><br>
<Theresa> "What kind of places?"<br><br>
<Brian> *to NP* "and to see if you can help her work out how to fix bits."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "As near as I can tell, some of the places we're beta-testing, it takes weeks to get even a decent interface.  But in others, it's always perfect by the time the first recalibration is done."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Do you have a map?"<br><br>
<Brian> "Well, yeah.  Physics went and rewrote the laws of silicon miniaturization, about three and a half months back."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She pulls out a tablet computer, and looks around on it for a moment.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> AG: "Here.  There, there, and there."<br><br>
<Brian> "So, that explains that."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She points out three towns, one of them the one you just came from.<br><br>
<DanteE> "These are where it works better or doesn't work?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (Hmm.  Could it be that Excrucians are 'helping' in those sites?)<br><br>
<Ftisk> "we have targets, let's nuclear strike them!"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Those are where they mysterious work perfectly."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Ftisk. Collateral damage _bad_."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Mysteriously, rather.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "So he's, what, Ftisk the Nuke-Happy Dragon?"<br><br>
<Ftisk> "le sigh!"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "No, Ftisk."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Dammit, I should write a children's book about that.  Kids would love that."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "also was figurative, I have no nuke atm"<br><br>
<Theresa> "When we saw an Excrucian, he was messing with the recalibrations on someone.  Those three places may each have their own Excrucian or a well-travelled one.  Heck, the one we were tracking could be at the other ones."<br><br>
<DanteE> "OK, where _don't_ they work?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish, speculating: "Would have to change the name, though."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Everywhere else.  And, I mean, they /work/.  But they don't, y'know, instantly automatically figure out what you want before you do."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "I would love to be in a book!"<br><br>
<Brian> "I could make a nuke."<br><br>
<Theresa> "We are not nuking the United States.  Please."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "nah, anyone can make a nuke, what's the point?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> The places are close enough together that a single Excrucian could be commuting between them.<br><br>
<Ftisk> Exp with world breaking hand<br><br>
<Brian> "I could cause a cascading fission explosion from Hydrogen.  I won't, but I could."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Could be one industrious Excrucian."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Lesser destruction of traffic problems!  Lesser destruction of that guy who didn't use his turn signal!  Lesser destruction of my car's need for gasoline!)<br><br>
* Ftisk pat Brian, "way to go man!"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "So, you guys.  What are you?"<br><br>
<Brian> "I was going to say Oxygen, but exploding the subatomic particles in Hydrogen is more impressive.  For the very short amount of time you get to experience it."<br><br>
<Brian> "Oh.  I'm Numbers."<br><br>
<Brian> "She's plants, he's Data, Assembly there, and Blades.  Err, Courage, I mean."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "I'm machinery and data but you can call me Ftisk, this is my ride, my spiderJack!"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish, to Brian: "Do it with iron, and I'll be impressed."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Guys. When we're at DefCon 1, then you can screw with megadamage. _Not until then_."<br><br>
<Brian> "To be fair, Physics would be quite mad at me.  And she's crazier than I am, right now."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "So you're, what, magic gods of random shit?"<br><br>
<DanteE> (oops, that was a USism...)<br><br>
<DanteE> "... close enough."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "/me nod and wink<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Okay.  Where do I sign up?"<br><br>
<Ftisk> "uhm.. you have to ask our boss"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Not that simple."<br><br>
<Theresa> "We're the physical manifestations of..stuff.  Depends.  What do you want to do?"<br><br>
<Brian> "Could be that simple."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I'm really smart, smoking hot, and I smell rather nice.  What more do I need in the way of qualifications?"<br><br>
<Brian> "Probably not, though."<br><br>
<Brian> "um.  A Domain?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She's actually only a bit above average-looking. But she /does/ smell rather nice.<br><br>
<Brian> "and all the good ones are taken."<br><br>
<Theresa> "Hmm.  She could be an Aide."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "an anchor?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (She's got _confidence!_)<br><br>
<DanteE> (or the Power of Ego)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Well, that depends on who's hiring. Some would prefer to hire a tree."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Racists."<br><br>
<Theresa> "Hey, Red is a guard!:<br><br>
* Human_Kite shrugs.<br><br>
<Ftisk> "or a magma stream"<br><br>
<Ftisk> '"perhaps are you a magma stream?2<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Maybe she should talk to the Aides. Some of them become Nobles, yes?""<br><br>
<Brian> "Sometimes."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "I'm 1/32 magma stream.  On my mother's side."<br><br>
<Brian> "The Cleave is also sometimes hiring.  How are you with plants?"<br><br>
<Theresa> "Okay, so we don't give out megapowers.  We can anchor someone, that connects them to us in a magical way, and if we kick the bucket, if you know the job well, you might get it.  Or we can set you up in contact with a group that does consulting work with lots of people like us."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Consulting work as in highly paid and trusted, or as in sent out on beer runs?"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Both."<br><br>
<Theresa> "yes."<br><br>
<Theresa> "But this would be beer of the gods."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "The system by which you're organized and trained... it's rather a mess, isn't it?"<br><br>
<Brian> "Yep."<br><br>
<Theresa> "Yes.  Because the people who do it aren't human."<br><br>
<DanteE> (She seems to both know and not know about us...)<br><br>
<Brian> "But hey, immortality is often part of the pay."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "Yeah, I'm pretty sure I could do better.  Put me in touch with whoever's in charge.  God, or whoever.  Don't worry, I'll put in a good word for you."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Hold on. How did you hear about all that?""<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Hmm?"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Most people can't wrap their minds around us at all."<br><br>
<Theresa> (..yeah, let's give her to Luc.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "I mentioned that I'm really smart, right?"<br><br>
<Brian> (:D)<br><br>
<DanteE> "You're not panicking. Why not?"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "There's not....really....one entity in charge...."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Should I be?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Ah, that's why it's such a mess."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Yeah, pretty much."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Also, there's a War."<br><br>
<Brian> "C'neph apparently buggered off."<br><br>
<Theresa> "We're part of a giant war with beings from elsewhere that could mean that existence itself will end."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "That screws with the order a bit."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Yeah, so maybe you should bother doing it properly?"<br><br>
<Brian> "Also: Heaven and Hell are things."<br><br>
* Theresa will call William.<br><br>
<Brian> "Also dicks.  But things."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "The universe... tell it to me straight, we're in trouble, right?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Figurative dicks?"<br><br>
<Brian> "Not really."<br><br>
<Brian> "And yes, figurative.  Some literal, but those guys are weird."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> William picks up: "Yes, Theresa?"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Earth may or may not be. But right now we're dealing with a minor skirmish."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Okay.  What's the problem, and what's your plan?"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "I hope it's a minor skirmish anyway."<br><br>
<DanteE> "OK, here's the short version:<br><br>
<Theresa> "We have a potential Aide candidate.  Where do we send her and I have a bet on how soon she will be rising in the ranks."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> William: "Human?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (Oh, crap, we don't tell her our plan.  I don't have Snark armor right now.)<br><br>
<DanteE> "Whatever you're doing with the glasses and the adjustments in those towns is hurting dragon-boy here.<br><br>
<Theresa> "Think so."<br><br>
<DanteE> "We want to stop that, of course.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Recalibrating augmented reality devices hurts dragons."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "...please don't tell me the thing about God killing kittens is true."<br><br>
<DanteE> "I just want to do it with less violence than he does."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "Violence is fine"<br><br>
<Theresa> (No, but using the word Love around a god could get you killed...if you're lucky.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> William: "Okay.  Normally we recruit out of universities and graduate programs.  Does she have at least a bachelor's degree?"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "I know of at least two who kill kittens."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "No, I mean... never mind.  Internet thing."<br><br>
<DanteE> (Do we know the Power of Cats?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (No.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (I... think?  The Power of Cats was a major NPC in my /last/ Nobilis game.)<br><br>
<DanteE> (We've met Hounds.)<br><br>
<Theresa> "She's a major research developer in a search engine facility that created augmented reality glasses that hurt Ftisk and was savvy enough to be prepared if someone came after her."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Laugh at William. I demand it)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (and the power of lolcat? exist here?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> William: "Okay.  And she's not an Excrucian anchor?"<br><br>
<Brian> (We've met the Prince of Cats, in another life)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Kite's got enough former lives without adding Hisui to it. D: )<br><br>
<Theresa> "Uh, didn't check.  She hasn't mentioned anything about them.  One moment.."  *to G: "Have you ever seen people with stars falling in their eyes?  They'd be really hot."<br><br>
<DanteE> "Ftisk, you See anything weird here?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (For the record, William was recruited during his pre-doctoral studies in medieval literature.)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Like Ftisk but not Ftisk."<br><br>
<Ftisk> (I asked when we entered if there was anything with the sight)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Stars?  Eyes?"<br><br>
* Human_Kite points to Ftisk's eyes.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "What would it look like?  Would it be obvious, or would they just have unusually shiny eyes?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She looks.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "No.  Not like that."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "like mine but 2"<br><br>
<Ftisk> (uhm..."<br><br>
* Ftisk add 4 other eyes on my head<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Hmm.  I did meet a guy with full-eye contact lenses."<br><br>
<Ftisk> (did them have falling stars in them?)<br><br>
<Theresa> "What did his eyes look like?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Two weeks ago.  Just before the rollout of closed beta testing."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "I don't know.  He was WEARING FULL-EYE CONTACT LENSES."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Is that a normal thing or not a normal thing?"<br><br>
<Theresa> "..what did the contact lenses look like?"<br><br>
<DanteE> "Hm... Ftisk, how about a picture of the guy we were chasing earlier?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G: "Pretty realistic.  But the veins didn't quite look right, and the pupil width never changed.  Brown eyes."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "sure"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Just going to put a copy on her tablet, Ftisk?<br><br>
<Theresa> *to William*  "Don't think so, but she may have met one.  She's got confidence and snark like Mt. Everest."<br><br>
* Ftisk lCreate a picture of the excru on her pc<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> William: "Oh.  That may not be good.  Like... how many tenths of a Samuel?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She looks at it. "Yes.  Him."<br><br>
<Theresa> "Hmm..ah, I know.  Hey Brian, as Numbers and Sam's boss, you should know:  how many Samuel's is this lady in confidence and snark?"<br><br>
<DanteE> "There's the link. Who was he with?"<br><br>
<Brian> "I should know.  Let me see."  (*pinging LDiv!*)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Gadish: "He was just... I don't know, some executive vice president in charge of bullshit and things I don't care about."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> How many significant digits you want, Brian?<br><br>
<Brian> (scientific notation :p)<br><br>
<Brian> (4 will be plenty :))<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Well, then let's say 1.579 * 10^0.<br><br>
<Brian> "Over one and a half Samuels."<br><br>
<Brian> "Impressive."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> To G: "Did he give you a business card?"<br><br>
<Brian> *anchorspeak to Sam* "Hey Sam, I know you won't believe it, but we've just met a woman who's over one and a half times as snarky as you are."<br><br>
<Theresa> *to William*  "Uh-oh.  Brian says she's at about 1.5 full Samuels."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> William: "And she's human?  That's not good.  I don't think Sam would have made it through recruitment at the Earth Branch."<br><br>
<Theresa> "Because snark gets you killed?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "A... dionyl woman?"<br><br>
<Brian> "Human.  Sorry to disappoint."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> William: "Or turned into something nasty.  Or you get in an argument with your Noble and neither of you notices the Warmain with the big axe."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Tease."<br><br>
<DanteE> (Business card?)<br><br>
<Theresa> "Hmm.  Good point.  Where would you recommend that we send her?  As she wishes to join the cause...but is more than likely going to take our place over our corpses."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> William: "...hmm.  Call Luc?"<br><br>
<Brian> (Always my favorite response.  Hey, Luc, remember us?  Too crazy to be anchored by?  We've got a new recruit for you!)<br><br>
<Theresa> "Could you transfer me, please?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "By the way, boss, it's not a /big/ deal if a human breaks his leg, right?  Those heal?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> William: "Just a moment..."<br><br>
<Brian> "Eventually, if set right.  If set wrong, they heal in a very interesting manner.  I recommend setting it correctly if you like them."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (I was about to say that I'm glad things seem to have calmed down with our Anchors....but then Sam had to go and ask that.)<br><br>
<Theresa> (As long as Sam knows what a leg is...)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "And if a human doctor has already set it, it's pretty much okay and not something for someone to be really upset about or anything?"<br><br>
<Brian> "Depends on the story of how it got broke."<br><br>
<Theresa> (This is why we can't have nice people...)<br><br>
<Brian> "If it's a good story, there's nothing to be upset about."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Sam: "Uh... okay.  Then it's fine.  Thanks!"<br><br>
<Brian> "... ok, then."<br><br>
<Brian> *worried look to the rest of the group*<br><br>
<Ftisk> "What happen Brian?"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, a groggy Luc picks up the phone. "Luc Ginneis, butler to the gods and best anchor ever.  Is Lord Entropy on fire?"<br><br>
<Brian> (Laugh Point to the GM)<br><br>
<Brian> "Nothing that I care to know about."<br><br>
<DanteE> (and if not, WHY NOT?)<br><br>
<Theresa> "Not that we have done so, Luc.  This is Theresa, Plant's Regal, and we have a person here with a snark of at least 1.5 Samuels who wants in on the cause."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "One moment, please."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Theresa, your high-Aspect hearing catches the sound of him putting the phone down, opening a window, sticking his head out that window, and yelling "AAAAAAARGH!" very loudly.  Then he returns, and sounds more awake.<br><br>
<DanteE> (and Luc mutes the phone to laugh and/or scream...)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Talented?"<br><br>
<Ftisk> (lol to RN!)<br><br>
<DanteE> (called it_)<br><br>
<Theresa> "She notices things and she is the head researcher on a search engine aug realty device that attacked Data."<br><br>
<Brian> (Our game is weird, btw.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Hmm.  Notices things?"<br><br>
* Theresa will Move a bag of Amyra's best coffee beans to Luc's nearest table?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> You don't know where he is.<br><br>
<Theresa> "I can send you some coffee beans from Amyra, if you don't mind."<br><br>
<Brian> (does she know where his night table is?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Oh, and Alice looks /really/ bored and annoyed by now.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Nor that.)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "So no business cards?"<br><br>
<DanteE> "What was the name he gave?"<br><br>
<Theresa> "She noticed that one of her visitors wore all eye contact lenses and was savvy enough to be ready when a server check by weird things pinged."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Alice: "Don't remember.  Didn't think it was a big deal at the time, so I wasn't paying attention to that.  Just those weird contacts."<br><br>
<Brian> *whispers* "Don't forget the realization that physics itself had changed."<br><br>
<Theresa> "And she noticed that Physics changed a few things about transistors and silicon stuff."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Ah.  I was /afraid/ you'd say something that would actually merit my attention.  Have your Aide send me what you have on her, and I'll look it over."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Not that I actually run the Aides or anything.  But I can put a word in if she's good."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "T. say to luc that I don't forget and that a year pass quickly, please"<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Did you tell him about her organization? <br><br>
<DanteE> "And if you could let us have your card, we can pass that on to him (points to phone) and talk about _maybe_ getting you onto our side."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> *organization plans/skills<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Now, if at least one of the Council of Four is not on fire, I need to go back to sleep. I am sorry, Domina, but my new mistress keeps me very busy."<br><br>
<Theresa> "Okay.  I'll let her know that you think that she's not that hot of stuff.  She also claims to be hot and smells nice.  Good sleep to you, Luc."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Luc: "Thank you, Domina.  Good night."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "tell him T."<br><br>
* Theresa will hang up.  "Ftisk, don't set any of the Council on fire."<br><br>
<Ftisk> "Why?"<br><br>
<Theresa> (I seem to have misinterpreted.)<br><br>
<Brian> "Luc will never love you if you do."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "You'll lose everything you love."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "Both of those things. At once."<br><br>
<Theresa> (Take out the 'hot of stuff' bit.  I thought he was being sarcastic about being afraid.  I thought that he was being snarky.)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (I asked Theresa to remind Luc of our agreement that if I'm alive after a year I meet Luc, he will agree to become my anchor (once he is free))<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Usually he's not that blunt, but he's running on very little sleep, and does not currently have a Preservation of Wakefulness on, since he finds they make him get a bit weird after more than a week.)<br><br>
<Theresa> "Because Luc needs his sleep.  His current boss is keeping him busy and you don't want to get Luc hurt by him being low on sleep at a crucial moment."<br><br>
<Theresa> "Alice, good news!"<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Alice: "So... what do we do now?"<br><br>
<Ftisk> "bah, ok ok"<br><br>
<Theresa> "I need all data that you would present for an interview with a man who could hire you to work for your President while having the personal power to order every person in your state to do the lambada on pain of death."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Alice fiddles with her tablet for a moment. "What format do you need it in?"<br><br>
<DanteE> "That, and everything you know about your mystery backer."<br><br>
<Ftisk> (can we stop soon? like when finished with her?)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She reaches into her desk: "That, I keep in hard copy.  Longhand.  Don't want people seeing it and thinking I'm crazy.  I checked.  I'm not."<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> (Yeah, I figure at the end of this scene.)<br><br>
<Theresa> "Scannable .pdf right now is fine for your data.  Please send it to *writes down William's public email address*.  Please add to it 'per Theresa's request.'"<br><br>
* DanteE grabs one of her business cards and her notes<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She taps on her screen for a bit.  "Sent."<br><br>
* DanteE skims the notes...<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She then opens the notebook, where she has notes on changes in physics, improbable removals of delays, and the weird recalibration thing going on in the three towns.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Looking for anything particular, Dante?<br><br>
<DanteE> on first glance, interactions with the Ex.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> There's very little about that.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She hadn't linked the guy with the contacts with the one making the changes.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> She also made the false assumption that the same force was behind the physics stuff and the calibration stuff.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> So, should we stop here?<br><br>
<Ftisk> (is ok)<br><br>
<Theresa> "Thank you, and you will be hearing from them, hopefully shortly."<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Sounds good)<br><br>
<Theresa> (Sounds good.)<br><br>
<Brian> (please :))<br><br>
<DanteE> Any specific guidance she got re: building the glasses?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Alice: "Don't blow up the world by mistake until I'm able to help you fix it."<br><br>
<DanteE> (And I'm OK with stopping after the answer. :)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> On the glasses, it's mostly that the way it's working in the three towns is exactly how she'd hypothesized a fourth-generation version of this technology might work, a decade and a half from now.<br><br>
<Human_Kite> "We look forward to having someone help keep it from blowing up."<br><br>
<Brian> (have we had a session where we don't recruit an NPC?)<br><br>
<DanteE> (A few...)<br><br>
<Ftisk> (single session of course yes, single adventures, maybe yes)<br><br>
<Human_Kite> (Maybe. Then again, we recruited an acorn.)<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> ______________STOP_______________<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> So... thoughts?<br><br>
<Ftisk> guys, I'm deep fried!<br><br>
=-= Human_Kite is now known as Verithe<br><br>
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> That one didn't really go the way I planned.<br><br>
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood<br><br>
<Angelo> how did you planned it?<br><br>
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE<br><br>
<BethE> A Scottish acorn.<br><br>
<Verithe> Dr. Alice is fun.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Like, at the beginning of the night, I wasn't even sure Alice would /appear/, and I hadn't bothered to come up with a personality for her yet.<br><br>
<Knockwood> should I be suspicious about how well she's handling things?<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Dunno.  It is weird.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> But on the other hand, she was already pretty sure supernatural stuff was up when you walked into her office.<br><br>
<Verithe> Kite likes Dr. Alice. She gave him gifts.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> So she was more prepared than most civilians.<br><br>
<Brian> gnight.  (I'm already on 3.5h of overtime this week, looking at more tomorrow.  And then more next week!)<br><br>
<Angelo> I don't like her<br><br>
<Angelo> night Beth<br><br>
<Verithe> G'night, Brian!<br><br>
<Angelo> !<br><br>
<Angelo> ops Brian<br><br>
<Knockwood> g'night Beth<br><br>
<Knockwood> oh, Brian. Sheesh<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> I'm going to bed too.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> G'night, all.<br><br>
<Random_Nerd> Good session.<br><br>
<Verithe> G'night!<br><br>
<Brian> Failed to nick change it seems<br><br>
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<BethE> Does Kite need another anchor?  On the other hand, I don't think she'd be okay with being just an anchor for long.<br><br>
<Angelo> she is aiming to be next C'Neph<br><br>
<Verithe> Kite doesn't need another Anchor. He could easily take one, but I'd rather work on boosting his Treasure first.<br><br>
<Knockwood> Dante may consider getting an anchor...<br><br>
<Verithe> He'll probably like her less once he finds out that the gifts were a one-time thing.<br><br>
<Angelo> I already have too much<br><br>
<Knockwood> Though I might get that Jedi Mind Trick thing. Speaking of which, Destiny?<br><br>
<Angelo> ah, Destiny!<br><br>
<Angelo> I keep thinking that this attack will bootstrap my new estate Cybernetics but...<br><br>
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<Angelo> wb RN!<br><br>
<RN> Ah.  Irony.<br><br>
<Angelo> ah, Destiny!<br><br>
<Angelo> I keep thinking that this attack will bootstrap my new estate Cybernetics but...<br><br>
<Knockwood> oops<br><br>
<BethE> I am going to bed.  Night, guys!<br><br>
<BethE> *HUGS*<br><br>
<Knockwood> g'night Beth<br><br>
<Verithe> g'night, Beth!<br><br>
<RN> Anyway, I am going to bed.  Goodnight, all.<br><br>
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<Angelo> night B.!<br><br>
<Verithe> G'night, RN!<br><br>
<Knockwood> g'night RN<br><br>
<Angelo> night RN!<br><br>
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<Verithe> I'm out too. Take care!<br><br>
<Angelo> night V!<br><br>
<Knockwood> g'night V<br><br>
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<Knockwood> cya Angelo<br><br>
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<Angelo> night KnockWood<br><br>
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[[Amyra:Chapter_35|Chapter 35]]