Chuubo 2-3

<@Random_Nerd> So, it is once more time for a Chuubo session.
<Knockwood> You mean a Glass session
<@Random_Nerd> Chuubo's there. Somewhere.

• Knockwood is now known as Dulcinea
  
• Angelo is now known as Natalia
  

<lazarus> (... fuck, what's my character's name again? .... Lsomething ... Screw it.)

• lazarus is now known as TheSun
  

<Rinley> (Jasper.)
<Rinley> (Luthi was last time.)

• Verithe is now known as Hisui
  

<TheSun> (that's why it's not coming to mind ... it's a J, not an L!)
<Dulcinea> Remind me what happened last time?
<Hisui> Jaaaaasper!
<@Random_Nerd> You were talking to the Prince of Cats.
<TheSun> (I missed last Glass session, yeah? accidentally, I think, this one. Sorry :()
<@Random_Nerd> He's trying to invite all of you to some degree, but specifically Jasper, to a masked ball at his splendiforous zeppelin.
<Rinley> (You were there but not for long.)
<Dulcinea> Ah yes, I gave him my business card.
<Hisui> Oooh, him!
<@Random_Nerd> He appears to have a near-unlimited ability to produce objects and the like that confirm his status as Prince of Cats, and ones that don't actually do so, but he seems to think would.
<TheSun> (ah, ok. And yeah, I remember the Prince of Cats. That was a fun character !)
<TheSun> RN: izzat a pseudo-Domain as defined by N3?
<Rinley> (And Rinley has business cards! As a Knight of Prince Eduard!)
<Rinley> (Well, the dude is a Rider.)
<@Random_Nerd> It's actually a magical skill, similar to Senko's Summon Props.
<Dulcinea> I probably sent Alvin back with directions to create "Imperatrix Urbis" cards, because that did sound cool. :)
<TheSun> Empress of Town. Suitable :)
<Dulcinea> Now, how sincere is His Fuzziness?
<@Random_Nerd> Yes.
<@Random_Nerd> At the end of the last episode, a large number of cats (which Natalia observed moving in abnormally-coordinated unison) had just jumped into the central area of the Shrine of the Sun.

• Hisui screams!
  

<Natalia> (I was going to find a spot were one stayed)
<@Random_Nerd> So, any questions before we begin?
<TheSun> I don't remember where Jasper ended up last session. I remember giving him the card in the envelope, and ... not much else after that.
<Hisui> non
<Rinley> I'm good.
<Natalia> nope
<@Random_Nerd> _____________START________
<@Random_Nerd> Prince of Cats: "They got eaten, obviously. By cats."
<@Random_Nerd> And when he says that, several dozen cats leap out of the shadows and into the shrine.
<@Random_Nerd> Once in the presence of the Prince, the cats all bow their heads to the ground.
<Natalia> "wow, they aknowledge you"
<@Random_Nerd> They begin to purr. The sound of about three dozen cats in close proximity, purring in unison, is unpleasant and nearly painful.

• Hisui shrinks back in surprise.
  
• Rinley gives the proper bow as taught to the Yatskaya family. One is not prey, one does not fight unless pressed and one is not to be toyed with. In return, if asked politely, food and scritches may be exchanged.
  

<@Random_Nerd> As Rinley bows, one of the cats looks over at her.
<@Random_Nerd> Three seconds later, all of the cats are looking at her.

• Rinley waves!
  

<@Random_Nerd> For a moment, they all seem to be trying to climb onto each other's shounders.

• Natalia go close to Rinley
  

<Rinley> "Hi! I'm Rinley Yatskaya!"
<Rinley> (Let's see...do I have Talk with Cats yet...)
<@Random_Nerd> And then the seething pile of cats extends itself out onto a nine-foot-tall humanoid form made of cats, like a kitty Voltron only with more yowling.
<TheSun> (o_o?)
<Dulcinea> (Don't we all have that?)
<@Random_Nerd> Figure Made Of Cats, in a hissing voice: "Yatskaya."

• Hisui screams!
  

<Rinley> (Ah, yes. Superior Talk to Cats. ^^ )
<@Random_Nerd> It then falls to pieces, pieces which are, in fact, cats.
<Rinley> (Ah, but see, Cats can talk back to me and I understand.)
<Natalia> cat-Voltron!)
<@Random_Nerd> They all seem to be very confused, but trying very hard to seem too cool to be possibly confused.
<Rinley> "Yes, very good! I think even my friends understood that one! How clever!"
<@Random_Nerd> The Prince of Cats raises one eyebrow. Now, this makes no sense. He's wearing a mask. The eyebrows are painted on.
<@Random_Nerd> But he still raises one.

• Rinley smirks at him. "I told you that I was authorized to disagree about your landing. Even your friends show it."
  
• Dulcinea locates her Wolf Pack Chasing You sound maker...
  

<Rinley> *to the cats* "Hunters, I am sorry, but there is a treaty in effect for this land. Only one thousand hunters may exist here at one time at most. It has been signed in blood."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "No, they don't."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Do you?"
<@Random_Nerd> All the cats shake their heads from side to side.
<@Random_Nerd> (Remember, Dulcinea does not have a generic gadgeteer power.)
<Rinley> *to the cats* "Then why did you say my name?"
<@Random_Nerd> (All her inventions must be made in advance.)
<@Random_Nerd> All the cats tilt their heads to one side, puzzled.
<TheSun> (can I grow a doglike muzzle, or am I limited to limbs?)
<@Random_Nerd> (Hmm. Doglike doesn't seem to fit within your aesthetic.)
<@Random_Nerd> (At least unless it seemed like the kind of dog Apollo would own, all shiny and bright and so forth.)
<@Random_Nerd> (Which of your powers would you be using with it?)
<Dulcinea> (Ah, but packs of canines chasing you is probably common in nightmares.)
<Rinley> (Aw, crap. It wasn't actually the cats in that moment, was it?)
<TheSun> (um. my PDF is only on my iPad, due to lack of printer x_x ... I thought I had a shape-shift type power in addition to a grow limbs one, but I am not sure. I'm happy not doing it, just an interesting idea.)
<@Random_Nerd> (I think it's just the limb-oriented powers.)
<@Random_Nerd> (But I'm looking.)
<Dulcinea> (you get hosed by iBooks 3 too?)
<TheSun> (no, I get hosed by being on an iPad 1 - when I load especially the Glass PDFs, it forgets to stay logged in to IRC sometimes.)
<TheSun> (I haven't updated to the latest iBooks yet)
<@Random_Nerd> (Yeah, your only shapeshifting appears to be using the "Limbs")
<TheSun> (ok. Keep to the Darkness II type thing. I like that imagery of a Sun-version of the Darkness entity :D )
<@Random_Nerd> The cats start rolling around in a massive pile of Cat again.
<Dulcinea> (DON'T. It doesn't work.)
<@Random_Nerd> (Note that they don't have to be limbs, as such. They can be, like, halos, or tattoos, or articles of clothing, or the like.)
<@Random_Nerd> This time, the upper strata of cat forms into something like a giant cat head, formed of squirming limbs and faces.
<@Random_Nerd> Cat: "I smell kin. And rat. And light."
<@Random_Nerd> The Prince stares oddly at this.
<@Random_Nerd> The cats resume their previous positions, and begin cleaning themselves.
<Hisui> "What is going on?"
<Dulcinea> (can I conveniently have a laser pointer? :p )
<TheSun> "Oddness."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "I'm trying to invite you to a masquerade!"
<Rinley> "I am Yatskaya, elder one. These are my allies." *mentally thinking oh crap oh crap oh crap*
<Rinley> "At this time of day?!?"
<@Random_Nerd> The cats, again, are just cats, if oddly cooperative cats.

• Hisui takes a candy out of her pocket and experimentally nears a cat with it held out.
  

<TheSun> "I'm not sure if these cats are cats or a big giant cat made of cats."
<@Random_Nerd> (And not just during the day, in the Shrine of the Sun.)

• Natalia keep an eye on Hisui
  

<@Random_Nerd> A nearby tabby wanders over to Hisui and sniffs the candy, dubiously.
<@Random_Nerd> (Is it one that would appeal to cats?)
<Rinley> (Mmm, sushi candy. ^^ )

• Hisui rolls the candy outside (we are inside, right?)
  

<Rinley> (I think the Shrine is a big open place.)
<@Random_Nerd> (Sort of under a pavillion.)
<Natalia> (me too)
<@Random_Nerd> (But basically outdoors.)
<Hisui> (All Watanabe candies are the same...so far)

• Hisui rolls the candy a considerable distance away
  

<@Random_Nerd> The cat sniffs it, and licks it for a moment.
<@Random_Nerd> It makes a "Mmmph" noise at another cat. Two more cats come over to stare quizzically at it.
<@Random_Nerd> Prince of Cats: "So, who wishes to come to my ball?"
<TheSun> "You have my answer."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "But you would be the guest of honor, my dear Jasper!"
<TheSun> "Nevertheless."
<Rinley> "Any dress codes?"
<Dulcinea> "Who else is coming?"
<Hisui> (I forget, what age does the prince look?)
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "I ask you a third and final time. Will you, by your own choice, attend my masquerade, Jasper Irinka?"
<@Random_Nerd> (Tough to tell under the mask, and he's a Rider besides, so all bets are off.)
<@Random_Nerd> (He has the height and voice of a fully grown man, and moves like he is in good but not superhuman physical condition.)
<TheSun> (blast, can't come up with a more fun way of saying it a third time.) "No. I don't make it a point to go to places with creepy stalker guys who think they're cat royalty."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Very well. And the rest of you? Russian? Yatskya girl? Other two?"
<Hisui> "I have to agree, it is creepy for the adults to be hitting on school girls."

• Rinley looks at Prince Eduard. "I must, your grace. The treaty must be held."
  

<Rinley> (Must attend.)
<Rinley> (And she's talking to Eduard. Not the cat dude.)
<@Random_Nerd> Prince, to Hisui: "I am baffled, my dear. In my lands, all the young girls love a masked ball on a palatial airship. Possibly here, a tea party would be more in order?"
<Dulcinea> "I'm sure the personal invitation for me not being delivered was just an unfortunate oversight.
<Natalia> "I'll come ... to keep an eye on them all"
<@Random_Nerd> Prince, to Dulcinea: "You are most definitely and cordially invited, Taller Other One."
<Hisui> "I-I'll go. The more of us together the better, right?"
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Excellent! I shall have one of my courtiers meet you to conduct you by sky-yacht to my home!"
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Shall we say... three days hence, at this location?"
<Rinley> "For how long shall we be gone?"
<TheSun> "No we shall not. Not here."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "You shall be conducted to your homes no later than midnight, Yatskya Girl."
<Rinley> "Midnight here time."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Are... there other times? I am only familiar with the one."
<Rinley> "There are. Which is why I am being specific."
<@Random_Nerd> The cats appear to be beginning to wander off, except for the six or so who are staring at Hisui's candy as if preparing to write scholarly works on the topic of it.
<@Random_Nerd> Prince, to Rinley: "Fascinating!"
<Rinley> (Academic cat fight!)
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Then I shall send my servants to fetch you from here, at sunset in three days."
<Natalia> (we are going in the maw of the dev.. ehm cat?)
<@Random_Nerd> He sweeps his cape dramatically. "I must be off! May your days be pleasant, Jasper Irinka, Other Girls!"
<Dulcinea> "You don't mind if I bring some ... guests?"
<@Random_Nerd> He waves a hand as he goes, scattering several handfuls of calling cards.
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Are they of the finest moral character, sweetest aroma, and most skillful dancing skills?"
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Skills doesn't even sound like a word now."
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Curious."
<Dulcinea> "not really. But they should be amusing."
<Rinley> (Sweetest aroma? Hi, you're on that part.)
<Dulcinea> (Considering you're competing with cats...)
<Natalia> (me qualfy?)
<Hisui> (MAD SCIENCE! + Watanabe candies = Frankensteinian candy monster!_
<Hisui> )
<@Random_Nerd> Prince: "Very well, then."
<@Random_Nerd> He strides away, dramatically.
<Hisui> "He's...kinda off."
<Dulcinea> Once he's gone: "Soooo... Trap?"
<@Random_Nerd> Quiet music, which you're almost certain is an instrumental version of one of the songs from Cats, plays as he goes.
<TheSun> "Definitely."

• Rinley whispers to Hi. "The cape is rather silly, isn't it?"
  

<Natalia> "Trap .. probably"
<Rinley> "Oh, sure!"

• Rinley suddenly gasps in horror! "Oh no!"
  

<Hisui> "Yes. I'll buy us all some mace."
<Natalia> "I already have grace"
<Rinley> "I..don't know what kind of costume I'm going to wear!!!!!" *dejected look*
<Hisui> "Mace. For spraying in the faces of attackers."
<Dulcinea> "Mace is so mundane."
<Natalia> "ah, right"
<Natalia> "
<Hisui> "Mundane works if it keeps us from being murdered."
<Natalia> "seconded"
<Dulcinea> "I didn't say I wouldn't use it..."
<Rinley> "Water spray bottles."
<TheSun> (... I could make a prehensile dress made out of Sunstuff. That would be weird. I'm going to!) "You should wear one that looks like this!" (makes a sunstuff dress that looks good for Rinley. Based on the mind of a weird sun that doesn't quite understand society.)

• Rinley kneels down before Prince Eduard. "I'm sorry, your grace. I shall endevour to prevent harm coming to your people."
  

<@Random_Nerd> (Just remember that you can't give clothes you make that way to other people. They're part of you, even if they aren't physically connected.)
<Hisui> "If it's a prince's costume ball, doesn't that just mean you dress up? It's not actual costumes, right?"
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "We must be very close to the forbidden threshold, for the cats to act like that."
<Rinley> (Well, it would be on Rinley right now, but it would still be attached to Jasper.)
<TheSun> (granted. I just wanted to do something weird, because that's kind of the point of the character :))
<Hisui> "I could be wrong. I've only read about them in fantasy books... threshold?"
<TheSun> "You need a masque."
<Rinley> "ooo, that's pretty, Jasper! Not..quite my color, though. And it's still attached to your hands. You would have to come along and make me a cape or train and you'd have to hold it _all_ the time and no canapes or stuff."
<Natalia> Witch treshold?"

• Rinley looks nervous. "There's this treaty that the rats and the cats and the Yatskayas have."
  

<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "Of the cats. We may even be over it. If we are, it is only a matter of time."
<Rinley> "Cats are allowed to live in Town, but only if there are less than one thousand of them. More than that..bad things happen. Like really bad. Like Really Bad."
<Natalia> "Wow, is a weird treaty"
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "There is one thing, that would help, in the costume issue. The Prince is... uncertain of many things. Wear what you like, and tell him that it is considered appropriate clothing for a maskerade ball where you come from."
<Rinley> "Yeah, it's weird, but it lets everyone at least be all inconvenience and it really keeps the number of crazy cat ladies in my family down."
<Natalia> "so ermellin's fur and arm warmenrs is appropriate" *smirk*
<Hisui> "Oooh, that's a great idea!"
<Dulcinea> "Oh, costumes are not a problem. Assuming they're OK with the gothic Lo1ita look."
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "If too many cats are present at one time, a Mystery manifests. A deadly one."
<Rinley> (Do we know if this Mystery is only harmful to rats or to everyone?)
<Natalia> "Deadly for cats or for all?"

• Hisui gulps
  

<TheSun> "masques are small eyecover things. They look like this" (makes a sunmasque and holds it to her face. It's got a beaky nose.) "I can't do anything all different covered so it's not as fancy as actual ones, but it is what it is. The idea is you pretend you don't know who I am."
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard, to Dulcinea: "Please do not tell me what that is."
<Dulcinea> "Where is your sense of adventure?"
<TheSun> (I'm pretending part of Jasper's not quite understanding of culture is her culture is more medieval European rather than vaguely-Japanese in sense)
<Natalia> "Mine is safety at home"
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "Most of all, for rats. To a lesser degree, for humans and other animals. Somewhat, for cats, because a great many of them must be killed or set on tiny rafts and set out to sea, so that the Mystery does not manifest again once it is defeated."
<@Random_Nerd> (That works.)
<@Random_Nerd> (Fits with her use of calling-card manners to deliver a snub earlier.)
<Rinley> "Argh, my si...family will not be happy with me going to some strange party being thrown by an older man! Even if I do tell them that Mysteries are at stake!"
<Hisui> "Should we bring panic whistles?"
<Natalia> "Pepper spry"
<Hisui> "Will it matter on an airship?"
<Natalia> "And parachuter"
<@Random_Nerd> One of the cats that was sniffing the candy, earlier, wanders up to Rinley. Cat, in a sound comprehensible only to Rinley: "Huh?"
<Rinley> *to cat* "Hello! Want a scritch?"
<@Random_Nerd> It tugs at her pants-leg with its mouth. "Huh? That. Huh."
<@Random_Nerd> It goes over to sniff the candy for a moment, and then comes back to Rinley.
<@Random_Nerd> Cat: "Huh. That. Huh."

• Rinley goes over to the candy. (Is it in a wrapper, Hi?)
  

<Hisui> (Hmmm...no)
<@Random_Nerd> Cat: "Huh? What. Thing. Before. What? Talk."
<@Random_Nerd> (Rinley can talk with cats, but isn't exactly great at it.)

• Rinley thinks to herself. "Need to pay more attention to Catherine's cat lectures. *sigh*"
  

<Dulcinea> "You talk to cats?"

• Rinley will pick up the candy and break a small piece off of it to offer to the cat. "Yeah, my whole family does. It's part of our duties."
  

<@Random_Nerd> To the rest of you, it looks like the cat is staring at Rinley and making weird cat noises.
<Dulcinea> Unsaid: "And you think I'm weird?"
<Rinley> (Rinley goes adventuring on rat ships. Bah!)
<Hisui> "She's a Yatsukaya. Duh."
<Rinley> *to the cat* "Know you man here earlier?"
<Rinley> "And I've been told I have a horrible accent."
<@Random_Nerd> Cat: "Prince."
<@Random_Nerd> Cat: "Man prince. Prince."
<Rinley> "Prince for long?"
<@Random_Nerd> The cat seems to ponder that.
<Natalia> (prince like the artist or what :-P )
<@Random_Nerd> Cat: "Prince."
<@Random_Nerd> The cat looks at the small piece of candy for a moment, and then scarfs it down.
<@Random_Nerd> Cat: "Thing! Thing!"
<@Random_Nerd> It goes over and rubs itself on Hisui's legs.
<Dulcinea> (So, cats don't register time?)
<Rinley> (Or he's been rewritten to have always been their Prince.)

• Hisui tries to scritch the cat behind its ears
  

<Natalia> (cat have their how time)
<Rinley> (Is it time for food? Yes. If not, bother human.)
<@Random_Nerd> The cat purrs.
<Rinley> *to cat* "Why here?"
<@Random_Nerd> Then its body language changes for a moment, and it goes rigid.
<@Random_Nerd> The cat stares at Eduard, and says in a voice that all present can hear: "Soon."
<@Random_Nerd> Then it goes back to purring, as if nothing happened.

• Hisui yelps!
  
• Rinley facepalms. "Bad! Bad mystery!"
  

<@Random_Nerd> Eduard shivers, and puts a hand to his sword.
<Natalia> "wow!"
<Dulcinea> "... Oh yeah. We want to be here."
<TheSun> "doom? nuts."
<Rinley> "See?!? This is why there are treaties and things and why you should spay and neuter your pets!"
<Natalia> deatpan tone "This ball is more and more interesting"
<Rinley> "Crap. I'm going to have to talk to my family, aren't I...about whether there's any Lore about a Prince of Cats or what can stop that particular Mystery that I'm not going to name right now."
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "Right now it would be very useful to not be a pariah from rat society."
<Hisui> "So... we just... put cats on rafts and send them out to sea?"
<Rinley> "Indeed, your grace. And it would not go well if I were to tell them to be on watch... then again, we tell them, we get cat blood running through the streets."
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "If the Mystery has not yet manifested, then yes. If it has, that will not suffice to defeat it, merely to make it so that it does not spring forth again."

• Hisui makes a face.
  
• Rinley flops down carefully next to Eduard. "Where can we find out more about the lore behind this Mystery?"
  

<Natalia> "So any way cats will be slaughtered? That is sad"
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "I don't know! Your family, or the other rats."
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "It's his fault, for bringing so many cats here."
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "If you could get him to take them all back away with him, right now, it might be okay."
<Rinley> "Will three days be soon enough?"
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "I would not bet on it."
<Rinley> "I don't have an air ship to get to his air yacht!"
<Natalia> "and if he go away after ball? will the mistery manifest ?"
<@Random_Nerd> Eduard: "These things aren't... straightforward, like in one of your Russian fairy tales. There are... other factors. And we don't know what they are. We're not even sure about where the threshold is, except that a thousand seems to be safe."
<Hisui> "Let's talk to your family, Rinley."
<Natalia> "Yeah is the sound think to do"

• Rinley nods. "I might not be able to take all of you in to talk with them. Family secrets and stuff. But I can at least give you some tea and cookies while you wait."
  

<Dulcinea> "Indeed, I would love to know what His Fuzziness is really up to."
<Rinley> (Should we cut to there? Make a plan to meet up with Eduard at the Krakenhut afterwards?)
<Dulcinea> (OK)
<Hisui> (Fine with me)
<Natalia> (ok to cut)
<Hisui> (Kakeru Hut)
<@Random_Nerd> (Cut to the Yatskaya shrine.)
<Rinley> (Ah, yes. My mistake.)
<Rinley> The shrine is quiet, with mists of fog and incense wafting about. Sometimes a wisp that floats around a corner turns out to be the tail of a cat. You can feel eyes watching you from all sides and spots that have full sunlight are peppered with cat bodies.
<Natalia> "Nice place here"
<Rinley> *warns* "Don't breathe in a lot of the incense. It has Outside dust in it. You'll get weird dreams or worse."
<Natalia> "Weird place here"
<Rinley> "Thank you! We try."
<@Random_Nerd> From inside of one of the small buildings near the shine, voices are raised. There's at least four.

• Dulcinea is intrigued by the mention of weird dreams...
  

<@Random_Nerd> Two are easily recognizable, Goro and Kuroma Yatskaya, Rinley's father and brother.
<@Random_Nerd> Of the other two, one has a Fortitude accent, and one a Russian one.

• Rinley pokes her head into the building. "Father? Big brother? What's up?"
  

<Natalia> (did I know the russian one?)
<@Random_Nerd> (No.)

• Etheric has joined #nobilis
  
• Natalia is curious
  

<Natalia> (HI!)
<Rinley> (Hi Etheric!)
<Etheric> (Hi everyone. :) Don't mind me, just here to watch.)
<@Random_Nerd> Rinley, your father and brother are speaking to two rats. Rather than the rather renaissance look most of the rats favor, these are dressed like private detectives in a black and white movie. Both are female, one of them speaks with a distinct Russian accent.
<Dulcinea> (Hiya Eth)
<Rinley> (We've been invited to a masquerade by the Prince of Cats!)
<@Random_Nerd> Goro seems sleepy and confused, and Kuroma is growing angry.
<Rinley> "Hello, honored guests! To what do we owe the honor of your visit?"
<@Random_Nerd> Rat With Russian Accent: "You know the reason behind our treaty with Town. If they will not act against this foreigner, you must make them!"
<@Random_Nerd> Kuromoa: "We must, must we?"
<@Random_Nerd> Goro: "Foreigner?"
<Rinley> "The Prince of Cats?"

• Natalia nod to the russian rat "tovarish rat"
  

<@Random_Nerd> Rat with Fortitude Accent: "The one with the airship! The one full of cats! The one we've been TALKING ABOUT THIS WHOLE TIME?"
<@Random_Nerd> The russian rat nods respectfully to Natalia: "Aren't you the newcomer? The Koutolika girl?"
<@Random_Nerd> Goro: "But why would..."
<@Random_Nerd> Rat with Fortitude Accent: "I DON'T KNOW WHY HE WOULD."
<Natalia> "Yes, I am, name's Natalia. and you are?"
<@Random_Nerd> And with that, Kuroma looks angry, and stands up straight.

• Rinley waves and jumps up and down! "I've met him!"
  

<Natalia> (is Rinley the new Ftisk?)
<Rinley> (Quite possibly. Also Pinkie Pie.)
<@Random_Nerd> For a moment, his shadow on the wall behind him is replaced with the shadow of a cat the size of a hill. There's a smell of dust and of cats and of drying blood in the room.
<@Random_Nerd> Russian Rat: "Ithankyouforyourtimeandhopetospeakwithyouagain."

• Rinley leaps in between Kuroma and the rats! "Big Brother!"
  

<@Random_Nerd> She scurries out, frightened enough to do so on all fours.

• Hisui hides behind Rinley
  

<Natalia> "Wow! A sign!"
<@Random_Nerd> The Fortitude rat stands her ground for... let's call it three seconds. Then she steps out, very slowly and precisely, on her hind legs.
<Rinley> (She has spirit. ^^ )
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "I will not have Father disrespected in this way, in our own home."
<Dulcinea> "You must tell me how you did that. It would be very helpful for unwanted visitors."
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "Are you one of Rinley's friends?"
<@Random_Nerd> Goro seems to be falling asleep.
<Rinley> "They were not disrespecting him! They were checking to see that the treaty was upheld! The treaty on which our honor is based!"
<Natalia> "We are all Rinley's frineds"
<Dulcinea> "Those that haven't irritated me enough to get fed to the spiders, anyway."
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "Perhaps. But when they address the head of our family, in our home, they will speak with respect."
<Rinley> "Yes! These are some of my friends!" *introduces all of them* "And this is my big brother, Kuroma. If you see his best friend, push him into a pool."

• Rinley sighs. "Yes, big brother." *pause* "Did you at least listen to what they were saying?"
  

<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "A stranger, a Rider, has brought an airship full of cats. He refuses to abide by the Treaty."

• Natalia nod nod
  

<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "But I do not know what they expect me... us... to do about it. I am not prepared to leap onto his airship and slaughter Riders and cats alike until he leaves or all are dead. I might not even be able to do so, some Riders are skilled with a blade."

• Hisui whispers to Rinley: "Do we need to bring cat traps to the ball?"
  

<Rinley> "Yes! I have met him! I'm going to his party in three days! But there's a big problem.."
Rinley looks down, humbly. "The Mystery started to manifest, big brother. It talked to me. It called me kin."
<@Random_Nerd> to Rinley: "You met him? What did he say?"
<Hisui> "Soon!"
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "The Mystery? You are finally coming into yourself as a Yatskaya?"
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "Which have you manifested?"

• Rinley stares at him. O.O "You think I'm THAT?!?"
  

<Rinley> "The cats of the Prince of Cats made this big cat ball and it formed a Big Cat and it was the Mystery and it called me kin and why do you think I'd be such a thing as that Mystery which the treaty prevents?!?"

• Natalia is shocked! "You are ... will be the mystery manifestation?"
  

<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "I know that you are friends with some among the rats. I know that our family makes them... uncomfortable. But there is no shame in what we are..."
<Rinley> "I'm not ashamed!"
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma, disappointed: "Ah. It was not you, it was the cats. I am sorry, I misunderstood."
<Dulcinea> (Do I know about this Mystery they're talking about?)
<@Random_Nerd> (Probably, since you're the occult version of Nightmare's Angel.)
<@Random_Nerd> (It's Hedge the Fang, a Mystery that manifests when too many cats are brought together.)
<Rinley> "I don't want to be *whispers Unmindful but that's not the problem right now! The Prince of Cats floofed all around the Shrine of the Sun and flirted at Jasper and then invited us to his party but with the Mystery already manifesting, it may be too late!"
<Dulcinea> (Massive infighting and horrible smells?)
<@Random_Nerd> (It inhabits cats and ferrets, and occasionally the weather.)
<Rinley> *mutters* "And now my big brother is giving me even more of an inferiority complex because I haven't become some great Mystery of the rat people like my ubiquitous siblings..."
<@Random_Nerd> (To prevent its manifesting in Town, the number of cats is kept highly regulated.)
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "It's fine, Rinley. I was two years older than you when I found my Mystery."
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "But you will find one. I'm sure of it."

• Rinley pouts. "I'm not a late bloomer!"
  

<Natalia> (and the this new prince coming with a boat load of cats ir riuning the regulation)
<@Random_Nerd> (Yep.)
<Rinley> "I am a Yatskaya! And I will protect the treaty that we have sworn!"

• Natalia pat apologetically Rinley
  

<@Random_Nerd> (Basically... think of cats as uranium. To avoid a reaction, the amount of it in Town is kept at sub-critical levels. But the Prince just showed up in a car that set off every geiger counter in a quarter mile.)
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "But how? Go to war with the Riders?"
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "The real ones, I mean, not the ones here in Town."
<Rinley> "I don't know! I don't know enough about that Mystery! Maybe I can win a duel against him! Maybe Jasper can seduce him!"
<Hisui> "He is a prince. Princes get seduced a lot in stories."
<@Random_Nerd> Goro sits up, startled. "What?"
<TheSun> (... ... ...)
<Natalia> "Prices seduces not get sediced alot in stories"
<Rinley> (At least I didn't say I would seduce him.)
<TheSun> "I am not going to seduce him!"
<TheSun> "Wouldn't be much seduction anyway."
<Hisui> "Well, maybe one of us can do it....."
<@Random_Nerd> Goro: "Oh, good. Don't go around seducing anyone, honey, without talking to your mother about it first."
<TheSun> "He's seduced himself."
<Rinley> "Then I'm going to have to seduce him? To protect my family's honor? Who knew it would come to this..."
<@Random_Nerd> He goes back to sleep.

• Hisui considers Dulcinea.
  

<Natalia> "I... prefer a duel to seduction"
<Hisui> "..."
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "No, Rinley, you are not going to seduce any pirates. We have been over this."

• Dulcinea skritches her animated plush spider.
  

<Rinley> "It would have worked on that one! This one, he's a Rider, who knows how to seduce one of those, but that other one, I could have done it!"
<Natalia> (so the prince is really Jack Sparrow?)
<@Random_Nerd> (No. Not that much panache.)
<Hisui> "Maybe we should all dress up as Jasper!"
<@Random_Nerd> (He... he wants to be Jack Sparrow, but he isn't quite pulling it off.)
<TheSun> Jasper's expression: -_-;
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "No pirate-seducing, and that's final."
<Natalia> "approved!"
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to talk to Father about the situation."
<Rinley> *SIGH* "You're no fun." *more serious* "Do you have any ideas for how to save the treaty? I don't want to have the Fang destroying Town..."
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "I was going to work on that right now."
<Hisui> "Maybe you could chaperone us!"
<Natalia> "We can bring some molotov with us..."
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "Please, I need to work on this."
<Dulcinea> "Well, there is more than one way to skin a cat."
<Hisui> "Could we not do that part?"
<Hisui> "That's gross."

• Rinley makes big 'x-nay on the in-skay' motions.
  

<Rinley> "Okay, big brother. But you'd better not leave me out of this one! I've got the invitation!"
<@Random_Nerd> Kuroma: "Sure, sure. No pirate-seducing."
<Rinley> *sigh* "No pirate seducing by me. Fine. We'll be in the kitchen."
<@Random_Nerd> k: "See you later!"

• Natalia wave to Kuroma
  
• Rinley will lead everyone into the kitchen and serve them cookies and water.
  
• Hisui shuffles hurriedly after Rinley
  

<Rinley> "Bah."
<@Random_Nerd> Natalia, you can hear the rats arguing outside.
<Hisui> "We're only not allowed to seduce pirates. We can still seduce princes."

• Natalia lsiten to them
  
• Rinley brightens up! "You're right!"
  

<TheSun> (I am falling asleep unfortunately. I suspect this comes from having been fairly sick earlier in the week. So, I'm going to have to say good night folks! Great session :) and I hope to have nothing untoward happen to me next week .... >_> <_<)
<Dulcinea> "Can you honestly picture me seducing anyone? ... With less than eight legs?"
<Hisui> "But I think we need a backup plan."
<Hisui> (Take care, Laz!)
<Natalia> (night!)
<Dulcinea> (g'night Laz)
<Hisui> "Ew."
<Rinley> "...have you ever met Idril? My brother's best friend?"

• TheSun Quit
  

<Rinley> (Night, Laz! We won't sell you off as a ...darn.)
<Natalia> (giggle)
<Rinley> "Because, yes, he does have only have two legs at the moment but he swears he's an octopus spirit and thus, eight legs, wink wink nudge nudge say no more."
<Dulcinea> "Those aren't really legs."
<Rinley> "They provide movement!"
<Dulcinea> "Fair enough."
<@Random_Nerd> Natalia, you can hear: Fortitude Rat: "We have to do something." Russian Rat: "You saw him. If you want to go back in there, right now, and have an argument with Old King Death, I will not stop you, but nor will I join you."
<Rinley> "And plus, I never really took you for being a leg kind of girl, Dulc. I always figured you'd be the 'brains over body parts' sort, but hey, shows I can be wrong!"
<Hisui> (Is Eduard still with us?)

• Natalia bite my nails
  

<Rinley> (No, Rinley would have had him meet us elsewhere, given that rats aren't all that welcome at our shrine.)

• Hisui hides behind her pigtails. "
  

<Rinley> "How are you at seducing, Nata?"
<Hisui> "Rats are strange."
<Rinley> "Indeed! But they are so fascinating! And they've done so much!"
<@Random_Nerd> Yeah, Eduard would not have gone to anywhere Kuroma might be.
<Natalia> "Never had experice you know in Russia was always busy"
<Rinley> (Big Brother has kind of a..temper.)
<Rinley> (Big Sister too... let's just face it, Father is the only laid-back person in the family.)
<Rinley> "Well, now's your chance! Cut a swath through the handsome guys!"
<@Random_Nerd> (And that may be just fifty years worth of inhaling Yatskaya incense.)

• Rinley swishes her sword.
  

<Natalia> "You meand I have to cut him? ... ok is doable..."

• Rinley opens her mouth. Closes it. "Whichever works. Maybe he's into that."
  
• Natalia look at Rinley puzzled
  

<Rinley> (Hey, no one has done any studies about the use of incense over time! It doesn't even give you the munchies!)
<@Random_Nerd> Outside, audible only to Natalia: Fortitude Rat: "If they won't handle it, then there's only one thing to do. Go to the Rat Kingdoms, and tell them to prepare for war."
<Dulcinea> "I would point out that we still don't know why the Prince has suddenly appeared.
<Natalia> "Right! "
<Rinley> "To mess with my life! ...or to flirt with Jasper."
<Hisui> "We could find out while we're trying to send him away."
<Dulcinea> "though it would seem that someone wants this Mystery to occur."
<Natalia> "But if we .. I .. flirt with him doesn't that will be a reason to stay here?"
<Dulcinea> "You should really consider letting it happen and dealing with it immediately and decisively.
<Rinley> "Nah, you could break his heart into little tiny pieces and he'll have to leave in great sorrow!"
<Dulcinea> "That would mean it no longer influences your life and future."
<Hisui> "Ooooh!"

• Rinley stares at Dulc. "But think of all of the lives lost! Rats and cats!"
  

<Natalia> "uhm..." *bitenails*
<Hisui> "And humans! Humans too!"
<Dulcinea> "I'm considering the terms of that treaty.
<Rinley> (Cat traps - [facebook]/photo.php?fbid=380482742027227&set=a.177389062336597.43232.177387432336760&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf )
<Natalia> "Maybe there is a copy in the libray?"
<Rinley> (What terms of the treaty?)
<Dulcinea> "Many, many fewer cats would seem to be a good thing."
<Rinley> "How would you know?"
<@Random_Nerd> (Hmm. It's just about 11 local, and this scene seems to be coming to a close. Do you have anything you want to do before we call it a night?)
<Natalia> (nope, I'm fine with stopping here)
<Dulcinea> (content unavailable)
<Rinley> (I think I'm good?)

STOP

<Dulcinea> (oops, was that OOC?)
<Natalia> (burn your retina on that : [youtube]/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=prvA-qUptp0 )

• Natalia is now known as Angelo
  
• Hisui is now known as Verithe
  
• Rinley is now known as BethE
  

<BethE> Am I too over the top?

• Dulcinea is now known as Knockwood
  

<Angelo> I like Rinley
<Knockwood> Am I not OTT enough?
<Angelo> have some affinity with Ftisk but is ok
<@Random_Nerd> No, it works, Knock.
<Angelo> yep, me second RN
<BethE> I think that it's harder to get the XP expressions in this one.
<@Random_Nerd> So, how well do each of you like your characters?
<BethE> I think I like mine but I feel like I'm not quite getting into the tall-tales stuff.
<Angelo> I like Nat but mine is not as cooldbllod/heard as I think she must be
<@Random_Nerd> Eh, I think it works.
<Knockwood> Still working on getting into Dulcinea...
<Verithe> She seemed about right to me.
<Verithe> Natalia, that is.
<Angelo> oh, thank you. Then depict me happy
<Verithe> Dulcinea, I'm not exactly sure how she's supposed to come across.
<Angelo> btw I go, I grab 40 mins of sleep (the difference between a day with all peoples tha seem like zombies and one with them only slight weird)
<Knockwood> Well, she has the same broad traits as Leo...
<Knockwood> She's heartless and friendless. After all
<@Random_Nerd> Less obsessive, though.
<@Random_Nerd> The Glass version of Leo doesn't seem to have so much of a chip on his/her shoulder.
<Knockwood> Maybe not, RN, it doesn't say
<@Random_Nerd> Well, Glass-Leo's main goal is discovering what's going on with the weird Outside stuff.
<@Random_Nerd> Normal-Leo's is proving his superiority over Chuubo.
<Knockwood> I was thinking she could have constructs and homunculus
<@Random_Nerd> *nod*
<Knockwood> Where Leo had machines
<@Random_Nerd> With an organic feel to them?
<@Random_Nerd> Reminds me of Whispering Vault magic.
<Knockwood> I remember last time I swapped out a sensor for an eye-thing...
<Knockwood> Well, there's always UA style magic
<Knockwood> Also, IRL I like cats, BtW. :/
<@Random_Nerd> Yeah, but Dulcinea will tend towards rather... cold... approaches to things.
<@Random_Nerd> Heartless and so forth.
<Knockwood> Such as mass feline murder
<BethE> She would probably huff the incense.
<Knockwood> Well, if that stuff really gives you weird dreams she'd stick around for parts
<Knockwood> Reminds me...
<@Random_Nerd> Yeah?
<Knockwood> I know you don't want a gadgeteer, though there's that old stuff-from-nightmares thing. Where would the line be?
<@Random_Nerd> Well, the difference is...
<@Random_Nerd> You are very good at, on-screen, improvising minor gadgets, or creating major ones.
<Verithe> I would imagine she's getting body parts instead of pieces of machinery?
<@Random_Nerd> What you aren't good at is the "I did it thirty-five minutes ago" aspect of gadgeteering.
<@Random_Nerd> So, if you want to have Bat-Shark-Repellant on your belt, you need to have put it there earlier.
<@Random_Nerd> That's more Lillimund's style.
<Knockwood> Well, something like the baying of hounds chasing you would be very helpful here.
<@Random_Nerd> Well, you have Seethe-Hounds.
<@Random_Nerd> Four of them, right?
<Knockwood> I mean the sound of an approaching pack from a nightmare where they're CHASING YOU...
<@Random_Nerd> Oh, in terms of taking stuff from nightmares.
<@Random_Nerd> Yeah, you could certainly collect parts to make a portable cat-scarer.
<Knockwood> And both characters seem to have taken the spider affinity... :)
<Knockwood> Which makes sense, they're creepy
<@Random_Nerd> Indeed.
<BethE> Bah, the one that Rinley made was cute!
<@Random_Nerd> That was a psider.
<@Random_Nerd> Totally different.
<Knockwood> It still is, when looked at in a certain way.
<Knockwood> It just moves now
<Verithe> I'm going to head to bed. Take care!
<@Random_Nerd> Well, I had fun. See you guys next week for Amyra, where we discover Kudzu's tragic kitten-huffing addiction.
<Knockwood> Still, she would either make the cats Go Away permanently or encourage Rinley to actually face her Mystery
<Knockwood> Possibly both
<Verithe> Oh, my!

• Verithe Quit
  

<Knockwood> G'night RN, Verithe
<@Random_Nerd> Oh, Rinley doesn't have a Mystery. Not yet, maybe not ever. She has something else, instead.