Editing Session 52

Knockwood: hm... what time is it IC?<br>
Random_Nerd: When last we left the group, Dante, Theresa, and Carrie were interacting with Martyrs, and Brian was talking music with Conceptual Tint, correct?<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs had just stomped off, and Carrie had used Perfect Timing to intercept her.<br>
BethE: Theresa was between talking with Night and Martyrs ran off.<br>
Knockwood: describe Martyrs now?<br>
Random_Nerd: A human, minus the skin and part of the muscle.<br>
Random_Nerd: Her eyes are still intact, although minus lids.<br>
Random_Nerd: Technically, she mostly looked like that before, but she was guising and nobody used the Sight.<br>
Knockwood: ...so, looks like that anatomy poster you keep seeing in doctors' offices?<br>
Random_Nerd: Pretty much.  But MAD!<br>
BethE: Not good.  <br>
lazarus: why's she mad, again?<br>
Etheric: Best as I could gather, she's furious at the Familia for not appreciating the sacrifices she was making by adopting a human aesthetic.<br>
lazarus: ?_?<br>
lazarus: Nobilis are weird.<br>
Etheric: You know she follows the Code of the Dark, right?<br>
lazarus: what's the Dark, again?<br>
Random_Nerd: Humans should kill themselves, individually.<br>
Etheric: It's a tenet of that Code.  "Ugliness to Human Eyes Shows that One is Worthy."<br>
Random_Nerd: Humanity should destroy itself except for a few toys.<br>
Random_Nerd: Ugliness to human eyes... yeah.<br>
Knockwood: A pathological commitment to saving electricity. <br>
Knockwood: :)<br>
Etheric: She's a guest, so I'm not about to deliberately offend her, or restrict her movement, but I'm also not going to let her harm the people of the Chancel.<br>
Etheric: Well, that's Carrie's thinking at least.<br>
Random_Nerd: Well, why would she harm them?<br>
Random_Nerd: Heck, the Dark has the single strongest motivation of any Noble faction not to kill humans, and no strong reason to hurt them.<br>
Random_Nerd: Entropy's Law still applies to them, too.<br>
Random_Nerd: Well, the Nobles, at least.<br>
Etheric: I'm counting "inciting suicide" as harm, personally.  Though likely she has the prudence not to try that on another's turf.<br>
lazarus: I don't believe they go around actually inciting suicide.<br>
Random_Nerd: Some do.<br>
Random_Nerd: They have varying approaches to that.<br>
Knockwood: we are talking about Martyrs, remember.<br>
Etheric: Hmm.  You all want to take this IC, and see what happens for ourselves?<br>
Random_Nerd: I'm ready.<br>
Knockwood: which can be torture or execution victims on one hand and dramatic suicides on the other...<br>
*** lazarus is now known as Brian.<br>
*** Etheric is now known as Carrie.<br>
Knockwood: offhand, you know the name of that monk who famously immolated himself to protest the Vietnam war?<br>
Brian: ... I just noticed that I go IC, and adopt a "real" name, whereas my non-IC is not that kind of name :p<br>
*** Knockwood is now known as DanteE.<br>
*** You are now known as Theresa.<br>
Random_Nerd: I don't know his name, but I'll look it up.<br>
Random_Nerd: Wasn't about the vietnam war, though.<br>
Random_Nerd: You mean (Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c , right?<br>
Random_Nerd: That's the sort of thing that the Dark in general, and Martyrs in particular, support.<br>
Random_Nerd: Anyway, ready>?<br>
Random_Nerd: (*glares at keyboard and fingers*)<br>
Carrie: (Ready.)<br>
Theresa: (ready.)<br>
Brian: ready<br>
DanteE: ready, I think<br>
Random_Nerd: ________________START_______________________<br>
Random_Nerd: As Martyrs stomps off, she finds that Carrie seems to have conveniently stepped over there just a moment before.<br>
Random_Nerd: (Please pardon any typoes.)<br>
DanteE: (did we invite Typos?  Cuz the competition hasn't started yet...)<br>
* DanteE follows Martyrs.<br>
* Theresa will remain and be hostess-y.  And not the fruit pies.<br>
* Carrie smiles at Martyrs politely. "I must apologize if anything we have done has offended you."<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs: "Courtesy, from the Light?  Truly we live in an age of wonders.  I thought that a Wyld chancel would at least not be so obsessed with properiety."<br>
Theresa: (We're still new at it.  And we don't want blood all over the grass.)<br>
Brian: (who said anything about properiety? O_o)<br>
DanteE: "There is no reason for us to fight among ourselves."<br>
Random_Nerd: (That's how she's interpreting Dante's reaction.)<br>
Brian: (ah.  Oh yeah - Brian's the only one who would look at that and go "whatever floats your boat...")<br>
Random_Nerd: "And why not?  If you were invited to our chancel, at least we wouldn't plot about the destruction of humanity around the dinner table, the way you probably think we do."<br>
Random_Nerd: Two of the Dionyl watch in an interested way, and all the human Nobles seem to have suddenly become very interested in their food.<br>
* Carrie glances at Dante, then looks back at Martyrs. "We make no demands on our guests, beyond the simple courtesy of not doing harm to our charges, the people of this Chancel, while you are here. If we have seemed to make further demands, it is, I am sure, an error of implication on our part."<br>
Random_Nerd: She sits down on the grass.<br>
Theresa: (Ah, the wonders of Aspect hearing...)<br>
* Theresa will bustle about, keeping everyone's plates as full as they want.  Including Triad.<br>
Random_Nerd: (Triad's one of the two watching, at the moment.)<br>
* Carrie follows suit, crossing her legs beneath her gown (which isn't made for that, but allows some amount of freedom of movement).<br>
DanteE: (I'm trying to remember what I said to Martyrs before she stormed off...)<br>
Random_Nerd: (I'll get it in the logs.)<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs. "So, I believe I heard that you have a great number of assorted holy relics in this city."<br>
Brian: ((00:59:56) DanteE: "What are you doing?!?" seems to be the thing you said as she transformed)<br>
Random_Nerd: (She is, to be fair to Dante here, being rather touchy.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (She's overreacting.)<br>
DanteE: (Brian: before that...)<br>
* DanteE looks at Carrie with an expression that says 'Can you handle this?'<br>
Carrie: "We do.  Some of them are believed to be quite dangerous -- perhaps not for ourselves, but certainly for others."<br>
Brian: ((00:58:29) DanteE: "And... if I have my cosmology right... he goes back and gets a new life, which means maybe he'll get it right.")<br>
Random_Nerd: During a lull in the conversation, Samuel goes over to Blue Shock and says something quietly to him.  (Anyone with Aspect 2, or who does a Realm Divination, can hear what it is.)<br>
DanteE: (me!)<br>
Brian: (not me!)<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs: "In what respect?  I did not generally understand human religion to be...effacious in such ways."<br>
Carrie: (I'll do a divination, and if Brian does as well that's all of us.)<br>
Theresa: (I can hear it...)<br>
DanteE: ("Oh, it fries Nazis.")<br>
Random_Nerd: (It's in one of the Dionyl languages, and more or less he's asking for Blue Shock's blessing or favor or patronage.  It doesn't quite translate well to english.)<br>
DanteE: (He's not thinking of jumping ship, is he?)<br>
Theresa: (Don't tell her it fries Nazis, she may be still hungry...)<br>
* Carrie looks momentarily distracted, but fixes her eyes on Martyrs. "I believe their origin may be Imperial in nature. Our Ymera has not vouchsafed to us the nature of these artifacts, or their origins."<br>
Random_Nerd: (Probably not.)<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs: "Interesting.  I was mainly fascinated by the connection to my estate.  I have quite a collection of relics of my own, for that matter."<br>
* Theresa smiles inwardly over Sam's request and waits to see what happens.<br>
DanteE: (OK, I'm going to abandon the 'southern fried Nazi! Yum!' line before I hurt my brain. :)<br>
* Carrie is going to after the last divination do a Lesser Realm Divination on the Ark of the Covenant to tell what special properties it has. She is honestly expecting it to come back empty, but is open to being surprised.<br>
Brian: (now with chipotle sauce!)<br>
Theresa: (Do you know what it would cost to fly in Nazis special for supper?)<br>
Brian: (only a couple RMPs?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (The Ark is immune to direct divination in the same manner as an anchor, although it doesn't have a Noble auctoritas.)<br>
Carrie: (As I thought.)<br>
Carrie: (Just wanted to confirm that before I go telling Martyrs we don't know.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Of the relics, only the Ark (and contents), the Spear, and the Grail so qualify.)<br>
DanteE: (we have all 3?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Correct.)<br>
Brian: (so they're probably the only ones that Do Stuff)<br>
Theresa: (There's possibly lots of stuff in the Ark.)<br>
Random_Nerd: It appears for a moment, from the movements of Samuel's scarves, that an invisible hand has been placed on his head-area.<br>
Carrie: (I'm going to in that case do a Divination on the number of relics other than those three that would be considered "holy relics."<br>
Carrie: (And the Ark is empty, I tell you!  It's all a sham!  >.> )<br>
* DanteE goes back and helps with the serving.<br>
Carrie: (This OOC comment brought to you by Atheists Anonymous.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Including all the minor ones?  Between one and three hundred, depending on where one draws the line.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Others, of course, exist elsewhere in Kaerkoven.  That's just the collection that John maintains.)<br>
Theresa: (Must take lots of dusting.)<br>
DanteE: (hm... how many of those could be said to be relics of Martyrs?)<br>
Carrie: (Lesser Realm Div of Magic -- Do any of these 300 have what might be considered magical properties?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Two thirds, at least.  An awful lot of saints, especially medieval ones, were martyrs.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Hmm.  Some have minor sub-miraculous effects.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (One or two may have been foci at one point.)<br>
Carrie: (Okay.  Any that have effects that would cause problems for the people of the Chancel if they were provoked in some way, or is that limited to the Grail, Lance, and Ark?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (But a few of them can actually cure diseases, or increase the odds of conceiving a child, and things along those lines.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (None other than the big three possess volition of their own.)<br>
DanteE: (ah, Magical but not Miraculous?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Yep.  That's correct.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Within the range of effects that human science can produce.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Same class of things as the badges you've given to some of your servants.)<br>
* Carrie looks at Martyrs. "Apologies for my distraction. Were you interested in seeing some of the relics?"<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs: "If I can take your away from your gathering here."<br>
Carrie: "I would ask that you either have one of us accompany you, or consent to an escort.  Aside from that, I see no problem with your seeing some of the minor ones.  Those with true miraculous energy -- well, I have not seen those, either.  We thought it best not to play with fire until we should have definite reason to."<br>
Theresa:  /me will watch through the Sight at the blessing/advice/giving to Sam, to see if it's something interesting.<br>
Random_Nerd: (Using the Witchhunt Rite?)<br>
DanteE: "Oh... that and restore your guise, of course.<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs turns to look at Dante.<br>
* Carrie glances at Dante. "I was thinking we might have Lesson accompany her. In that situation... It would likely not be necessary."<br>
Random_Nerd: Her flayed face stares at him in the way that only a high-aspect person with no skin and a parttially exposed skull can.<br>
DanteE: "The place is guarded by humans."<br>
Brian: "No reason to cause DA if it can be avoided, I beleive is what my Brother is saying."<br>
Brian: "Such a silly thing, DA..."<br>
Random_Nerd: She looks at them.<br>
DanteE: "Exactly."<br>
Carrie: "Who I'm sure can deal with seeing a little flesh and bone.  The general populace, it's true, aren't used to seeing such things aside from Lesson's Bureau of Monstrosities."<br>
Theresa: (I'll use the Witchhunt Rite if it is unobtrusive.  I don't want to seem nosy or spying.  Okay, so I _am_ nosy...)<br>
Random_Nerd: "My body isn't a miracle.  It is merely my body.”<br>
Random_Nerd: (What's your Spirit?)<br>
Theresa: (1)<br>
Brian: "Some humans would freak out."<br>
Brian: (unstated: "so, go right ahead and relieve them of that cage they're used to living in!" for Dante's benefit ;))<br>
Random_Nerd: "Have you looked at your floral emblem lately, Numbers?"<br>
Random_Nerd: (That was Martyrs, of course.)<br>
* Theresa senses that the Diplomatic Time of the night might be fraying...<br>
Brian: "My Brother has an ... aversion to opening the cage of sanity."<br>
DanteE: "It's a target thing.  The innocent shouldn't be overly taxed."<br>
Random_Nerd: "Is that crescent moon in your Designs there as an artistic choice, perhaps?"<br>
Brian: (remind me 1) who has the crescent moon and 2) what it signifies?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (It's the Wyld emblem.)<br>
Brian: (ah)<br>
Random_Nerd: (When designing your Designs, you guys told me you wanted a combination background with your primary affilations and the Wild.<br>
Random_Nerd: (Err, switch a I for the Y above.)<br>
Brian: (*nod*)<br>
DanteE: (our Desygns? :)<br>
Brian: (Wyld?)<br>
Brian: (you wrote Wild :-P)<br>
Random_Nerd: ([21:27] Random_Nerd: (It's the Wyld emblem.))<br>
Brian: (AH! that one)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Too much Exalted on the brain.)<br>
Brian: "Some of us are less attached to the Wild than others.  We've found that not offending the sensibilities of those who are ... /sane/ ... helps our cohesion as a group."<br>
Random_Nerd: The power of Duty says something to William, and points to Martyrs.<br>
Theresa: (on a scale of one to ten, how bad does Martyrs look and how bad does Lesson look?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Hmm.  With 1 being Johnny Depp and 10 being Azathoth?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Or how shall we calibrate this?)<br>
Brian: (If not for Dante objecting, I would say "go right ahead - we'll give you a guide to help you get where you want to, but go right ahead" ... but... supporting Dante comes before making humans insane :-P)<br>
Random_Nerd: (She wouldn't actually cause DA unless she did miracles in front of them.)<br>
Theresa: (Ehh, go with that calibration, I guess.  )<br>
Brian: (well.  Still, they'd freak out anyway)<br>
Theresa: (She doesn't cause crazy just queasy.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Freaky stuff is unsettling, but it takes Noble miracles to actually resonate with the flaws in the Earth.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Okay, Lesson would be about a seven, and she'd be seven and a half to eight.)<br>
Theresa: (So not much worse than Lesson, who people of the capital, at least, have seen walking around since the Parliament gig?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Lesson in full suit and so on might be as low as a five or six, with most of him covered.)<br>
DanteE: (different kind of ick, though... she looks badly injured.  Might trrigger a weird empathy)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Depending on the cut of the suit, really.)<br>
Random_Nerd: William walks over to near where Martyrs and the PCs are standing.<br>
Carrie: (What about Ick?)<br>
DanteE: (...good point...)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Ick is a bit worse than her.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Ick's an eight easy.)<br>
DanteE: (yeah, but him we keep covered up.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (He's /multiple/ corpses walking around, horribly melted into one shambling creature.  She looks like just /one/ skinless person.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (And for some odd reason, my brain has assigned her the voice of Felicity Huffman. I don't know why.)<br>
Theresa: (Have Ick and Lesson escort her and one of us goes along for fun and pointing out stuff.  No problem.)<br>
Brian: (Brian will be keeping eye contact with her, and basically ignoring her appearance - she might notice that.  Not in the avoiding her appearance, but in the not caring at all sense)<br>
Random_Nerd: William raises an index finger, as if asking permission to speak.<br>
* Brian will nod to W<br>
Random_Nerd: W, to Martyrs: "Domina, when you have the time, the Power of Duty would like to speak with you briefly."<br>
Theresa: (*snort*)<br>
Theresa: (So how's the blessing going?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Oh, yes.  The Power of Blue Shock has cast a minor miracle on Samuel, using a particular odd swirly mark as a symbol to focus it through.)<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs nods to William.  "Tell him I'll see him in a while, either here or at his home chancel."<br>
DanteE: (remind me: what is Blue Shock?)<br>
Theresa: (Hmm...can I divine the miracle or just that there is one?)<br>
Random_Nerd: As he starts to walk away, she says "You're from Luc's organization, aren't you?"<br>
Random_Nerd: (Blue Shock is the tendency of the world to react away from too high a concentration of "blue" ideas or objects in one place, rebounding towards another shade.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (He used a miracle of it, earlier, to dampen the sound of conversation about Plato.)<br>
Theresa: (Like some music or emotions or colors or language and such?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (The Socratics are blue.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Correct, Beth.)<br>
DanteE: (What time is it IC again?<br>
Random_Nerd: (Evening.)<br>
DanteE: (hm... tour, or Miracle competition?)<br>
Theresa: (Go for a tour.  We might be able to get some oohs and ahhs out of it and that way, if people get miffed by the competition, they can just go home.)<br>
Brian: (Competition!  Then tour, then dessert, then done ^_^)<br>
Carrie: (Whichever works.)<br>
Theresa: (Looks like you're tie-breaking, Dante.)<br>
DanteE: (hm... the competition and the cleanup might take a while.  The tour would be relatively short.  So, tour first.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Besides, Carrie has perfect timing.  If she goes on the tour, they'll be back just in time for the competition!)<br>
Carrie: (Oh, good point!)<br>
DanteE: (OK then...<br>
Carrie: (What did we decide was the prize for the competition?)<br>
DanteE: (and I kind of wonder what's in there myself.)<br>
DanteE: (...we didn't)<br>
Random_Nerd: (You can do so retroactively!)<br>
DanteE: (then again, the respect of your peers is pretty good)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Or just give them the Ark!)<br>
Theresa: (We are _not_ giving them the Ark!)<br>
Random_Nerd: (That /can't/ end badly!)<br>
Theresa: (Nor the Lance and a dancing girl.)<br>
Carrie: (Do I want to know?)<br>
Brian: (we could give them a Building Seed...)<br>
Random_Nerd: (I thought you guys dumped those.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Didn't you?)<br>
Carrie: (I don't think we did.  Not positive, though.)<br>
Theresa: (Hmm...would William or Sam know if our guests prefer the handmade over the miraculously made or vice-versa?)<br>
Carrie: (I think we used the extra Chancel point we had from Carrie retroactively taking Realm 2 for the transmogrifier.)<br>
DanteE: (They ought to...)<br>
Random_Nerd: (It'd probably vary from Noble to Noble.)<br>
Carrie: (Neither Building Seeds nor Transmogrifier has really made an appearance though.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (They could make an educated guess, but wouldn't be able to be sure.)<br>
Carrie: (Let's cover this next time befor the session?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (The Transmorgrifier is at least implicitly in existence, based on your current assignment to the Bureau of Monstrosities.)<br>
Carrie: (The prize stuff, I mean.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Works for me.)<br>
Carrie: (What is that assignment, though, again?  I forget things, it seems.)<br>
Theresa: (Figuring out the prize later works for me.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Making arrangements to handle the people who got depeoplified by the enchancelement, as well as possible species reassignments for Otherkin.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Oh, and furries.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (...and conversation grinds to a halt.)<br>
Brian: (tour time!)<br>
Carrie: (Okay, let's kickstart it again<br>
* Brian will stay behind to set up for the Miracle Contest<br>
DanteE: (depeoplified... RN, the Power of Dictionaries would like a word with you.  Speifically an obscene one. :)<br>
Random_Nerd: William nods to Martyrs.<br>
* Theresa will check and see if people are done with plates and so forth.<br>
Random_Nerd: (Remind the Power of Dictionaries, as per our previous conversation, that he is flammable.)<br>
Random_Nerd: People are mostly done eating, at least, those of them that ate.<br>
DanteE: (Who wants to lead the tour group?)_<br>
Brian: (I say Carrie should)<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs, to William: "Do say hello to Luc for me when you see him, please."<br>
Carrie: (I can, sure, but I'll defer to one of the native Amyran nobles if one of them wants to.)<br>
Random_Nerd: William: "Very well, Domina."<br>
Theresa: *to the other guests who aren't outside*  "Hmm...that reminds me...would any of you like a tour of the city and some of our various knick-knacks of the Chancel?  I'm afraid that our giant rabbit is a bit out of reach at the moment."<br>
Random_Nerd: (Anyone who can do Realm divinations knows Amyra far better than anyone short of Kudzu.)<br>
DanteE: (um... did anybody clear the tour with King John?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Not as such.)<br>
Theresa: (Retroactive permission?)<br>
Brian: (I thought we sent him a note?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (It's fine if you guys want to retcon it in.  It wouldn't cause any continuity problems.)<br>
Brian: (yeah - put it in.  I don't want to shock the King)<br>
Theresa: (Let's retcon it in.  Better than ticking off the Happy Fun Artifacts.)<br>
DanteE: (agreed.)<br>
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "Giant... rabbit?"<br>
Carrie: (*nods*  Makes sense.)<br>
* Brian points up<br>
Random_Nerd: Shadows is smug.  *He* knows about the giant rabbit.<br>
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "Ah.  How... quaint?"<br>
Brian: "Just a day in the life of a Wild Noble..."<br>
Theresa: *tidies*  "Yes, a project from our Imperator.  After it ingested various items, it had a few growth problems.  He later got out of his infinity room and squashed a bit of the town.  You can still see some of the scars where Urbanization harvested the destruction."<br>
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "Interesting."<br>
DanteE: "Where is our gargoyle brother, anyway?"<br>
Random_Nerd: (Dante broke Rule Two!)<br>
DanteE: (Hm?)<br>
Brian: "You know James ... he's prone to hibernation."<br>
Random_Nerd: (Don't Talk About Urbanization Club.)<br>
Theresa: "I kind of lost an arm...but oh yes, back to Monty.  He got sent up to our second, greener moon, which is rising.  Or is risen, it doesn't quite follow a cycle as of yet, I think."<br>
DanteE: (ah.)<br>
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "I can't really see him, but I'll take your word for it."<br>
Brian: (Realm Divinitation of Giant Rabbit + included Ghost Miracle to project the image)<br>
Brian: a "fuzzy tv" image of Monty hopping on the new moon will appear<br>
Theresa: "We're waiting to see if he becomes bigger than the moon and develop his own gravity.  Some of the schoolchildren are casting votes this semester as to what to name the moon."<br>
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "What's the growth fueled by?  I mean, if you don't know, I assume you didn't do it with a direct miracle..."<br>
Brian: "I assume our Imperator did it."<br>
Theresa: (You sneaky so and so of a GM...)<br>
Brian: "Never thought to ask, really."<br>
Theresa: (Yeah, sure, let's say in front of the donators that we combined a demon heart and an angel feather and it blew Monty up like a balloon...)<br>
Random_Nerd: Eclipses:  "Ah, yes.  A magister of the Wild.  I forgot."<br>
Theresa: "For the most part, as growth is one of the key interests of Kudzu, we just thought it was part of his interest in the fuzzy guy."<br>
DanteE: "So... gentlemen, ladies ... others ... shall we go and see the Treasures of Kaerkoven?"<br>
Random_Nerd: The Triad: "Treasures?"<br>
Theresa: "A few items of the Prosaic World were removed with the removal of Amyra from it."<br>
Theresa: (And Steven Spielburg was one of our greatest directors!)<br>
Theresa: (And my IC sentence was not the best ever constructed.  *frown at brain*)<br>
Brian: (don't worry, T, you're just succumbing to the temptations of the Wild!)<br>
Theresa: (Hmm..my bad.  I meant the real world instead of 'Prosaic world' but I had a hard time putting it since really, Amyra and the Chancels are the _real_ worlds.)<br>
Random_Nerd: Conceptual Tint, in a stage whisper: "This is one of those Earth religion things, I think."<br>
DanteE: "It is.  Actually, it's several of those Earth religion things. :)"<br>
Theresa: (If all else fails, we could show the topaz mines and the burrowing mole-clams...)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Mole-clams?)<br>
DanteE: (hm... do we grab a bus, or just have a parade there? :)<br>
Random_Nerd: (From the pearl mines?)<br>
Theresa: (An earlier session where our clams in Amyra were tunnelling, like moles, and quite unusual.  Because we said so.   And possibly from the pearl mines, yes.  :) )<br>
Theresa: (How far of a walk is it to the palace from the Grove?  Or someone could order or Realm up the best limos in the Chancel.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (It's a few miles.)<br>
Brian: (it's an arbitrarily short distance! ^_^)<br>
Random_Nerd: (But if there's nobody in the group that can expedite travel with a miracle, I'll eat my notional hat.)<br>
Brian: (remember, we have Numbers and Physics here!)<br>
Brian: (also, how blue are miles?)<br>
DanteE: (...Brian, you can make the distance a few feet, ne? :)<br>
Brian: (I could.  And routinely /do/)<br>
Brian: (though I suspect doing it for other people would cost me DMPs)<br>
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "So, this tour..."<br>
DanteE: (Brian: what, you're saving 'em for a rainy day? :)<br>
Brian: (I don't know how much is the big problem ^_^)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Well, just suggest it to the group, get some showoff to do it for you.)<br>
Brian: "The tour's a couple miles off, and I'm afraid y'all will have to walk there..."<br>
Random_Nerd: Consequences, to Duty: "That gatemaker thing only works across realms, right?"<br>
Random_Nerd: Duty: "I'm afraid so."<br>
DanteE: "Not a problem, Numbers has his own version."<br>
Random_Nerd: Eclipses: "I can remove obstacles, if someone can arrange for transit."<br>
Brian: (aside, to Dante) "Shh... I want to see what they've got for transportive abilities"<br>
Theresa: (But Dante's _honest_.)<br>
Brian: (doesn't mean he has to say things...)<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs looks intently for a moment, and then jumps far, far out of sight from a standing start.<br>
Brian: (unlike my L5R character ^_^)<br>
DanteE: "...nice."<br>
Random_Nerd: Shadows: "Ah, it's that way?" *vaults in same direction*<br>
Random_Nerd: (And she knew where you were going by finding the relics with a Divination of Martyrs.)<br>
Carrie: (Sorry, I'm fading...  Would you all be able to handle the tour if I left early?)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Hmm.  How many of the rest of you are tired?)<br>
Brian: (it's 11:23PM ... we could stop now)<br>
Theresa: (I'm tired but willing.)<br>
DanteE: (eh.)<br>
Theresa: (I thought we got off to a quicker start than usual tonight.)<br>
DanteE: (actually... won't the 'tour' mainly be you telling us what we see, RN?)<br>
Carrie: (I've got an early doctor's appointment tomorrow is the thing.)<br>
Random_Nerd: (The tour indeed would pretty much be you guys telling me where to go, and me describing it.)<br>
DanteE: (That could just be done asyncronously. :)<br>
DanteE: (and I dropped an h.  Anyone see it? :)<br>
Carrie: (Yes, but not before you mentioned it.)<br>
Brian: (not until you pointed it out)<br>
Random_Nerd: (Stopping here's as good a place as any.)<br>
Brian: (I agree.  It's a good spot)<br>
Theresa: (I'm missing the h....my brain must be farther out than I thought.)<br>
Carrie: (If Squaresoft gets away with dropping the h in chrono, I say Dante should get away with it too.)<br>
Brian: (we didn't frak anything up /too/ badly yet :-P)<br>
DanteE: (ayep.)<br>
Theresa: (ahhh...)<br>
Random_Nerd: ____________STOP_____________<br>
Random_Nerd: Thoughts?<br>
*** Brian is now known as Lazarus.<br>
*** You are now known as BethE.<br>
*** Carrie is now known as Etheric.<br>
Lazarus: a welcome break from the chaos of last week :p<br>
Etheric: Fun session.  I was drifting off toward the end, for which I apologize.<br>
*** DanteE is now known as Knockwood.<br>
BethE: I'm glad we didn't cause Martyrs to explode.  And she did bring up the interesting question as to just how Wild are we.<br>
Lazarus: Dante seems to be the least so<br>
Knockwood: you could argue we didn't _do_ much, but we still accomplished stuff. <br>
Lazarus: Brian is mostly so, I think - or, so I've been trying to play.<br>
Random_Nerd: Brian's one of the closer ones, to my mind.<br>
Random_Nerd: The rest of you don't tend to actually break the rules of the Code, but you bend them a lot.<br>
BethE: I'm curious about the miracle Sam got.  :)  For some reason, the Dionyl just make me smile.<br>
Knockwood: and the rest of us are various degrees of ambivalence about Wild.<br>
Etheric: Carrie's internalized the Wild Code to her view of the Code of the Light.<br>
Etheric: She views transgressing the Wild Code as handling a situation less than "cleanly."<br>
Random_Nerd: Interesting.<br>
Etheric: It's a convenient mental shorthand.<br>
Lazarus: I love my whole "miracles in front of mortals is a bad thing, you say?" schtick for Brian.  It's fun ^_^<br>
Knockwood: and our guests apparently have Icaran Flight... :)<br>
Etheric: Hmm, is that what it was?<br>
Knockwood: (that's from Morrowind.)<br>
Random_Nerd: Ah.  But with Nobilis, you can stick the landing and not, y'know, die.<br>
BethE: *snort*<br>
Knockwood: I combine it with Slow Fall, myself...<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs has a couple Gifts of Aspect, and Shadows is just high Aspect.<br>
Knockwood: only thing is, how do they know where to go?<br>
Random_Nerd: Martyrs did a divination of Martyrs to find the relics.<br>
BethE: And Shadows follows with high Aspect?<br>
Random_Nerd: Shadows used high-aspect sight to see where Martyrs jumped to.<br>
Lazarus: of course :)<br>
Knockwood: of course. <br>
Knockwood: ...of course, she might land on the battlements...<br>
Random_Nerd: True.  And she might be spotted.<br>
BethE: I hate international incidents...<br>
Knockwood: you mean inter-reality<br>
Random_Nerd: By the ways, I had a thought earlier in this week.<br>
BethE: *tamps down snark at RN*<br>
Random_Nerd: I've been trying to urge you guys to be more proactive, but have I been giving you enough useful setting details and ways to approach things to really give you what you need to do so?<br>
BethE: Knock - true.<br>
Knockwood: (but he _asked_ for it... :)<br>
Knockwood: well, we're N00bilis.<br>
Knockwood: In a way it works.<br>
BethE: And some of the things we might want to poke at as players take a while to bring into the fore.  I can't just say, "Tell me the Maple's secret _now_." and have it happen.<br>
Etheric: Hmm, I think the threads are there, but they may be hard to think of on short notice.  Maybe we should do a bit more metagame chatter about where we want to take the story?<br>
Random_Nerd: I mean, in character your PCs are fairly new, but I've tried to supply you with methods of rapidly gaining information you need.<br>
Random_Nerd: I mean, am I doing a good enough job of this, or do you guys need more options presented?<br>
Lazarus: I like how you're going RN<br>
Knockwood: (mulling it over)...<br>
Etheric: I wouldn't mind more options presented, but I think as is we have a fairly freeform system that seems to be working.<br>
Etheric: Well, I'll be logging off now...  Take care all.<br>
Lazarus: later ETh<br>
Random_Nerd: Farewell, Etheric.<br>
Knockwood: g'night Hope<br>
*** Etheric has signed off IRC (Disintegrated: Destiny is choice.).<br>
BethE: I occasionally feel frustrated, but I think that's mostly a lack of brainjuice late at night than anything you aren't doing, RN.  More options, like Etheric says, are always welcome, but we're doing fairly decent so far.<br>
BethE: Ni...darn.<br>
Knockwood: We're still getting used to how powerful we are and what we've gotten ourselves into...<br>
Knockwood: both IC and OOC.<br>
BethE: How bad do you all think we are at foot-in-mouth-itis?<br>
Knockwood: And since my monday game just bit it I'm a little skittish about giving GM advice...<br>
Knockwood: afk a minute<br>
Random_Nerd: Remember, it's not a conversation gaffe if you can pass it off as something you did on purpose!<br>
Random_Nerd: And Martyrs /was/ overreacting.<br>
BethE: I just figured she was uncomfortable.<br>
Knockwood: bak<br>
Knockwood: Martyrs and I ... she relies so much on Courage, going both ways.<br>
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 Knockwood: hm... what time is it IC?<br>
 Random_Nerd: When last we left the group, Dante, Theresa, and Carrie were interacting with Martyrs, and Brian was talking music with Conceptual Tint, correct?<br>
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 Knockwood: bak<br>
 Knockwood: Martyrs and I ... she relies so much on Courage, going both ways.<br>
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