Session 160

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 19

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{Angelo} Hi Verithe, RN
{Verithe} Hi, Angelo
{Random_Nerd} Beth will be here in a moment.
{Verithe} Alright.
{Verithe} How is everyone?
{Angelo} ok
{Angelo} I'm fine :-) And you?
{Verithe} Good. :)
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{BethE} Hi all! *HUGS* Sorry I'm late!
{Verithe} 'Allo!
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{Knockwood} Hi all
{Verithe} Hi, Knock!
{Angelo} Hi Beth!
{Angelo} Hi Knock!
{Angelo} How are you? (B,K)
{BethE} Hi Knock!
{BethE} Tired.  :)
{Knockwood} so-so
{Angelo} oh, both a bit off, maybe is better to stay short this session, time wise?
{Knockwood} we'll see
{Random_Nerd} That's fine with me.
{Random_Nerd} Anything before we start?
{Verithe} I don't think so.
{BethE} Oh, I found more pictures for Ftisk!
{Angelo} uhm.... *ponders*
{Angelo} really?????
{Angelo} where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where??? where???
{Random_Nerd} Okay. When we last left Our Heroes, William was working on following orders, the Bureau shrink was talking with the bartender, and Ftisk was making Dante very uncomfortable.
{Verithe} Heh
{BethE} http://www.flickr.com/photos/33344030@N02/4258051642/
{BethE} http://www.motivatedphotos.com/?id=35878
{Knockwood} oh yeah... that rose bush that was dissing Theresa in Maine. Anything to that, or just color?
{Random_Nerd} Some mythic spirits are jerks.
{Random_Nerd} Nothing deeper than that.
{BethE} http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/332/0/a/Snailbot_by_Veromorte.png
{Random_Nerd} And while most of your Estate will like you, some of it will see you as The Man.
{BethE} Ahem. Woman, thank you.
{BethE} *faceplam*
{BethE} The motivated photo is not the one I had...
{Verithe} Snailjet!
{Random_Nerd} The Man may, or may not, be a woman.
{Angelo} (I was pointing to that Beth)
{Angelo} but the last link is really nice!
{Random_Nerd} So, shall we go?
{Knockwood} oddly enough the middle one fits...
{Random_Nerd} Heh.
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite
{Random_Nerd} By that reasoning, you just caused Dante/Ftisk slash to exist, by quantum fetishdynamics.
{Angelo} ahahah. This is an Dante situation allusion Knock?
{DanteE} ick. ick. ickickick.
{Angelo} rotfl
{Kite} The Noble of Fan-slash demands it.
{Random_Nerd} So, let's see. Ftisk was gently rubbing lavender-scented massage oil into Dante's back with his manipulator-tentacles...
{Random_Nerd} Or is that next scene?
{DanteE} only if the world ends this scene
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
{Ftisk} this scene!!!!!!
{Kite} Hehe
{Ftisk} and not lavanda scented... rose scented! :-P
{Random_Nerd} _______________START________________
{Kite} Rose scent makes me hungry. :|
{BethE} ( http://www.motivatedphotos.com/?id=27893 There, how about this one...)
{Random_Nerd} Okay, you're in the main room of a bar, which has a bunch of vine-entangled office supplies and furniture in a pile on one wall.
{DanteE} So, how much progress is the doc making?
{Ftisk} (well, some whipped cream to xxx can be add to the setup ;-) )
{Kite} (Cute, Beth. :))
{Random_Nerd} The doctor is keeping him calm, and helping keep things from getting worse, but cannot cure it by the methods he's using.
{Random_Nerd} William is trying to wrangle a DA-specialist from the Aides to come, and will contact you when he has one lined up.
{Ftisk} (second Kite)
{Kite} (I think I'll just eat my eel and rice, then. :P)
{Random_Nerd} (Now, are you going to wait for a call back, or start doing something?)
{Ftisk} (Me, Kite, Dante are together, while Beth is with the shrink?)
{DanteE} "While you're at it, William, put together everything the Aides have on Shirk. We may be meeting him soon."
{Random_Nerd} (You already have him doing about three things at once. It might be best to delegate some of that to Sam.)
{Ftisk} (We need more Aides)
{Ftisk} (like one for Verithe?)
{DanteE} "Come to think of it, change that 'you' to you and Sam. Might as well get everybody involved."
{DanteE} (Yeah, right, for _Kite_. Sure. :) )
{Random_Nerd} William: "Okay. I'll tell him that. Will call back when I have progress."
{Random_Nerd} William hangs up.
{Ftisk} "Speaking of involvements Dante..."
=-= YOU are now known as CapriceFtisk
{CapriceFtisk} "Remember that..."
=-= YOU are now known as HopeFtisk
{HopeFtisk} "I can be..."
{BethE} (Does that mean you're a coyote, Ftisk?  :)
=-= YOU are now known as PlantFtisk
{PlantFtisk} "Everything for you..."
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk

• Ftisk winck "remember, dear..."
  

{BethE} (I have the sudden urge to leave the room to give some privacy...  :) )
{Ftisk} (lol)
{DanteE} (Hm... how accurate are his versions of Caprice and Hope? He might be a decoy...)
{Kite} (But then you wouldn't be able to take blackmail photos)
{Ftisk} (as accurate as any photos with them?)
{Random_Nerd} Dante's phone rings.

• DanteE answers...
  

{Ftisk} (ah, was all human versions of them)
{DanteE} "Madness central."
{Ftisk} (love this opening!)
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Update. We've located a DA-expert, and I'm working out the closest portal. I should have it ready by the time one of you can get to the Tower to pick me up. Can one of you bring the vehicle?"
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=-= YOU are now known as girlFtisk
{lazarus} (hi, I'm finally here x_x)
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian
{girlFtisk} (that one: http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/angelopampalone/Nobilis%20Game/20090318210342130.jpg )
{Random_Nerd} (Hey.)
{girlFtisk} (HI Laz/Brian!!!)
{Random_Nerd} (Oh, one question. These forms you've been doing, are you having one eye missing, or not?)
{BethE} (Hi laz)
{DanteE} (Hiya Laz)
{girlFtisk} (yep. an hole with a pirate eye patch)
{BethE} (You've been missing all of the flirting.)
{girlFtisk} (yep :-( )
{girlFtisk} (do you want some Ftisk love to came to speed? :-P )
{DanteE} (Was Brian with us in the bar?)
{Random_Nerd} (I think so.)
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "We need a fast but enclosed vehicle that can handle off-roading, so the Dantemobile would probably be best."
{DanteE} "I'll be right there, Sam."
{girlFtisk} "I can made one on the spot"
{Brian} (Brian was in the bar. Was shooed out of the room with broken bartender)
{DanteE} "Ftisk, you really need to learn to be circumspect with your miracles, especially when people are around."
{DanteE} "I'll just take my car."

• DanteE heads out...
  

{Brian} (where are we right now?)
{girlFtisk} "1 Here we are alone. 2) uhm... yeah right"
{Random_Nerd} You're in the main room of a bar, which has a bunch of vine-entangled office supplies and furniture in a pile on one wall.
{girlFtisk} (We are in to one of the Amyra capitol's bar)
{Brian} (same one?)
{Random_Nerd} (Same one.)
{Random_Nerd} (Okay, we can cut Dante's scene ahead to picking up Sam...)
{Brian} (ok)
{girlFtisk} (yep, not bar tour)
{Kite} (Future episode idea: Amyra bar tour!)
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Okay, this guy may be a bit... weird. Not fond of cities much, that kind of thing. But he was the only one on hand with some experience treating this kind of thing."
{BethE} (College kids call it bar crawling. )
{DanteE} (Should be quick considering 1) I help run the place and 2) I thought speed limits were for sissies _before_ this...)
{Random_Nerd} (Besides, Aspect driving.)
{girlFtisk} (beside who dare Stop Dante-Mobile?)
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "I found a path pretty near Kaerkoven, which was a bit lucky given that this guy's pretty far out."
{DanteE} "Is he still human?"
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Still?"
{girlFtisk} ( girlFtisk eye patch: http://craftsuppliesforless.com/images/pirate%20eye%20patch.jpg )
{BethE} (Good point made by Sam.)
{Random_Nerd} Dantemobile: *vroom*
{DanteE} "... my mistake. What's his, um, species?"
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Dionyl. Like I said, it's a bit of a far trip."

• girlFtisk put an hand on T shoulder: "Mans... Do you think he _understand_ that he _need_ to love me?"
  

{DanteE} "And while we're at it... we might consider getting another Aide, to, um, help out our Vulcan visitors."
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "I think Luc's busy."
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "For... some reason I just thought of him."
{BethE} "Pardon me for asking, Ftisk, but why would he _need_ to love you? And watch the l word. Gnomely could be nearby."
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "But we can set up a meeting. Would you be hiring, or would they?"
{DanteE} "means you understand the scope of the help needed."
{girlFtisk} "Why not? Do you want him all for you?"
{BethE} (Which would Sam be thinking of...the Ftisk needs Luc-level handling or Luc's....'other' talent?)
{girlFtisk} (what "other" talent? ^___^ )

• Kite ghosts an assembly of a sphinx crafted from sugar crystals by ants.
  

{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Okay, good, there are the borderlands. Left at that tree /there/, right at... you know, I bet I could program your GPS to have some of the more common routes... right! Turn right!"

• BethE smiles. "No, I'm not interested in Dante in that way. I used to have a husband and I..." *quietly* "Never really let go of him."
  

{Brian} (I still think it would be incredibly fun to have Luc as an Anchor for one of the Familia)
{DanteE} "Well, we could assist with hiring someone for the Vulcan Nobles as a ... gesture of goodwill."
{BethE} (His talent of being the Anchor of Nobles who die...frequently.)
{Brian} (Beth: that can have SERIOUSLY creepy overtones, that...)
{girlFtisk} toT: "Well then the Dante-cake is all mine!"
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Human, Dionyl, or an exotic?"
{Theresa} "True, but you also have to respect his wishes, Ftisk. He hasn't been a Noble for very long and he's still from a very human background."
{DanteE} "Whichever one can handle him. Them."
{Random_Nerd} The vehicle drives through the junglelike borderlands, and some of the trees are starting to have yellow or light blue trunks.
{Theresa} "But one thing you can count on. He will always be honest with you."
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Okay, here we go..."

• girlFtisk take the I'm doing you a favor tone: "Sure. I hope so... also. If you want I can be your ex.. for a bit Theresa. No problem to me"
  

{DanteE} "Then again he'd have to live here..."
{DanteE} "Er, in Amyra."
{Random_Nerd} The dantemobile pulls through a grove of vaguely treelike (but oddly colored and strangely angular) plants/structures.
{Random_Nerd} From a different angle, they look like marble fountains painted bright colors, or tall skeletons of strange birds, wired together.
{girlFtisk} (T. Ftisk is not flirting with you. She want to be nice... in a odd way)
{DanteE} "Is this Dionyl?"
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Yep. Outside a city, so... see it how you like."
{Theresa} "Aww, thank you, Ftisk. But it's okay. I've been thinking a lot about him lately but I don't need him at the moment. And besides, I'm probably twice Dante's age. It just wouldn't feel right, right now."
{Theresa} (I know.  :) )
{Random_Nerd} Standing at the tree/skeleton/fountains is a dull brownish animal-hair coat, open in the front, and containing a pair of tattered brown shorts.
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Are you the guy?"

• girlFtisk pat Theresa and caress her hairs "as you wish madam"
  
• DanteE pulls up to the coat...
  

{Random_Nerd} Coat-and-shorts: "Yes. Locus Amyra?"
{DanteE} "Yes indeed."
{DanteE} "Hop in the back."
{Random_Nerd} He hops onto the back of the Dantemobile, and pets its shaggy side. Or, he opens the door and gets in. It's not quite clear which.

• girlFtisk lCreate a video bug and try to slip it under the door to the DA barkeeper
  

{Theresa} "Just be careful, Ftisk. You could get your heart broken and then have Entropy dance on the remains. And no one wants to see that."
{Random_Nerd} The dantemobie snorts, and waves its fractal tentacles, itching to gallop.
{girlFtisk} "But can be worth to try. Dante is... well, is Dante"
{Brian} "..." (that's the sound of Brian not wishing to restrain himself)

• Kite shudders at the thought of Entropy dancing.
  

{DanteE} "So, what kind of experience have you had with humans gone off the deep end?"
{DanteE} "Sam, same way back?"
{girlFtisk} to T, Kite and Brian: "Then what is worth a life without passion in it?"
{Random_Nerd} The dionyl in the camelhair robe and brown linen loincloth says: "I've treated several humans afflicted with disorders of worldsight, both of the kinds native to your own world and those intrinsic to my own."
{DanteE} "By the way, we have a special plant whose pollen can make you look human, if you want it."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl in a trenchcoat and khaki pants, but no shirt: "If they want to see me as human, that's their business."
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Yes. Yes, same way back."
{Random_Nerd} Sam shivers.

• DanteE heads back...
  

{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Describe the patient's symptoms, in the context of both worlds."
{girlFtisk} "Take Gnomely, he burn with passion's fire. Is always astonishing to look at him and fell all this fire in his heart... all for me..."
{Kite} "Without all passion? I sure like fishing, you know."
{Random_Nerd} The dantemobile revs its propellor, and speeds along the river.
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "I hate the wilderness, I really do."
{Brian} "Life is the sum total of the events that happen. No more, no less."
{Theresa} "Depends on your passions. It's good to use moderation, especially when not doing so keeps locusts from being born from your insides. It's not a sign of less passion but a sign that you care about the well-being of that person to keep them from danger."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "It's perfectly safe and understandable, if you just learn to live with it."
{DanteE} "Well, we have a visiting Noble with, ah, no real 'social filters'. He turned a guy into a spider and back right in front of the bartender."
{DanteE} "Said bartender seems to have a nice view of all the spirits around him."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Can people normally turn into spiders in the paradigm that the Noble was viewing at the time?"
{DanteE} "Not even close."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "So, not merely rare, but unprecedented, and not explainable?"
{DanteE} "Correct."
{Random_Nerd} He adjusts his jacket.
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "And he already sees the living world entirely, not merely partially?"
{Random_Nerd} Brian's phone rings.
{DanteE} "Seems to. He was talking about 'little people' in the curtains."

• Brian will answer.
  

{girlFtisk} toB: "then life is worth if you life it as you want to live it. Events that matter to you are positive under your assumptions"
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Were there any?"
{Brian} "Brian."
{Random_Nerd} William, on Brian's phone: "Dante's not picking up, but he wanted me to contact him when I had an answer on something."
{DanteE} "I think he was seeing spirits."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "But was he seeing them in the same way that you saw them?"
{DanteE} (trans-dimensional roaming's a bitch)
{DanteE} "I didn't look, he was in another room at the time."
{Brian} @phone "He's away picking up Sam. Can I take a message? ... actually, I'll relay it right to him." (will do so via Realm's Heart, whatever William wanted to say to Dante)
{Random_Nerd} William: "He asked about 'the Power of Dedication'. There is none going by that name, and the two most likely close estates are unlikely."
{Theresa} "Not all events that matter to me are positive. My husband's death mattered to me, but it wasn't positive. Events happen but it's what you do with the results that matter."
{Random_Nerd} William: "The nearest Estate to Dedication, by my reckoning, is Immanuel, the Power of Duty. In second place is, ah... Dante, the Power of Courage."
{Random_Nerd} (Dante, you get that via RH.)
{DanteE} "Also... he said something which may be Oracular. Mentioned the name of an Excrucian we've tangled with before, even though he had no reason to know the name."
{girlFtisk} toT "Yes the locust are negative... An example that feeling can be tested. But our passion is not reduced by this. We had to call love sex but we can go on... like you say... it's what you do with the results that matter. "
{Random_Nerd} William: "Finally, a message for Ftisk. I have a somewhat solid invitation for him, and any of the rest of you who wish to participate, to join a Warmain-Shard Hunt in six hours."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "That is odd. His words seemed to bear on reality, but he could not see anything which would have known about them?"
{Random_Nerd} The vehicle drives through the borderlands, and now looks like it normally does.

• Theresa nods.
  

{DanteE} "We kept the name to ourselves, so there should be no way he could have heard it, and certainly not from spirits in a bar office."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "This was on Earth?"
{Brian} (Brian would have relayed the message to Ftisk to him by RH ... if possible?)
{DanteE} "Well, an Earth chancel."
{Random_Nerd} (to Ftisk?)
{girlFtisk} (Brian, you are few paces from me)
{Random_Nerd} He waves a sleeve dismissively.
{Brian} (yeah ... I suppose a Realm Ghost would create sound if the RH doesn't work)
{Random_Nerd} (That, you can do. Ftisk is not connected to the Realm's Heart of Amyra.)
{Theresa} (Ftisk isn't part of our Heart.)
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Did he undergo any other symptoms at the same time as the prophecy?"
{Theresa} "Might I suggest talking to Dante in private about dating, Ftisk? That way he can speak more freely."
{DanteE} "Speaking in tongues?"
{girlFtisk} (I'm not in Vulcan's one ever ... :-( too few realm :-P )
{DanteE} "We're almost there, you'll be able to see for yourself."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Unintelligible even to Nobles?"
{DanteE} "I didn't get anything coherent out of it."
{girlFtisk} "uhm, is a good tip Theresa. I must meet he next time he wash!"
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "And no previous history of prophecy, either in him or his family?"
{Kite} (The Grotto could be burning and we'd never know.)
{Kite} (Wait...it's a volcano. It's always burning.)
{DanteE} "We'd probably have heard if there was a psychic barkeep in town."
{girlFtisk} (me have a picture of Dante into an hot tub talking with Ftisk...)
{DanteE} (We there yet?)
{Random_Nerd} (Nearly.)
{girlFtisk} (lol kiye!)
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "And has either your chancel or any of the people on-scene at the time any contact with the Ymera of the Second Age?"
{girlFtisk} kite even
{DanteE} "Jan ben Jan? We've met him..."
{DanteE} "... Theresa's finger?"
{Theresa} "Just remember that humans prefer to be by themselves when using the bathroom, usually, Ftisk. It would go better if you knock first and get his permission to come in."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Offerings have been made to him, by those who the afflicted human interacted with in his madness?"
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Okay, here we are."
{girlFtisk} "awww you suck all the fun out... :-( "
{DanteE} "Yes."

• Theresa smiles. "I know, Ftisk, but do know that I want this to go as smoothly as possible for both of you."
  

{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Okay, we likely have two conditions here. Ordinary Dementia Animus, with a secondary state of oracular madness incident to a known vector."
{DanteE} "I'll introduce you to the dramatis personae..."
{girlFtisk} "Yep, you are truly dear to take to your heart our relationship"
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "We will have to see if the latter condition is recurring. It is not curable in the traditional sense, but many only experience it on rare occasions. Do you have corporeal medical information on the afflicted human?"

• girlFtisk kiss T on a cheek
  

{DanteE} "Not yet, but there were no obvious problems."
{Random_Nerd} When in Amyra, the Dionyl expert's clothing seems to have resolved into a shabby brown coat, and a pair of brown denim jeans.
{Theresa} (Ftisk could LDiv the info on the dude.)
{DanteE} "Here are my Brother Celestis Numbers and my Sister Celestis Plants, and Ftisk and Kite of Chancel Vulcan.
{DanteE} "The barkeep is in the back room there."
{Brian} (btw, Brian would probably have an IC version of Dante's Who's Who wiki on the Noble-only Amyran intranet)

• girlFtisk weave "Hiiiii!"
  

{DanteE} (Oops, Theresa's in back...)
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Which of you have made offerings to Jan ben Jan, or been enlightened by him spontaneously?"
{Theresa} (Nah, I'm up front.)

• DanteE points to Theresa. "She actually got part of a previous sacrificed digit back."
  

{girlFtisk} "What? I had ask some question to him one time"
{Theresa} "Ftisk and I have made offerings and I have received one back."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "City-Dionyl, get me his records, and a human who can interpret them."
{DanteE} "Theresa, any chance your finger feels funny?"
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "We have a human mental doctor here already."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Just the records, then. Him and his immediate ancestors."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Received one back?"
{DanteE} "Part of one."
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Fine. Dante, can I have the keys to your car?"
{girlFtisk} (Brian did you ghost to me the message on the hunt in 6hours?)
{Brian} (yep)
{DanteE} "No need, Sam... Ftisk? Would you be so kind as to get the Data he wants?"
{Theresa} "I gave him proper respect and he returned a piece of my original offering back." *shows hands* "These are the price I paid to J.B.J. for knowledge."
{Random_Nerd} (He ghost-whispered it while on the phone.)
{girlFtisk} "ok no problem"

• girlFtisk div as necessary and then write all on a dvd
  
• girlFtisk point to pirate patch "and this is what I paid for my question"
  

{DanteE} "He... She is the Noble of Machinery and Data."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Have there been any cases of spontaneous prophecy or [white shocks], no... [mental structural tremors]...seizures or aphasia in your presence before?"
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Sensory apparatus. Traditional."
{DanteE} "Not for me..."

• girlFtisk with soft voice tone "She, Dante she..." *blink*
  

{Brian} "Ftisk can be whatever you want in a floating snail."
{girlFtisk} "I'm what _I_ am..."
{DanteE} (How long has it been since Theresa got her finger back?)
{Theresa} "One of our Sisters once had a Vision. That brought us to Imperator Ben Jan's attention. But other than that, no."
{Random_Nerd} (A week and a half or so.)
{DanteE} "Theresa, anything weirder than usual happen while you were out and about?"
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Okay. We'll set that aside for the time being, and treat the flaw of worldsight."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Is he experienced with interacting with dionyl?"
{Theresa} "Than usual, no. We have been busy."
{DanteE} "No. No one here is except for us and a small group of grad students."
{girlFtisk} "But a Dionyl exposure can worse the barkeeper problem?"
{Theresa} "No, the human doctor is not. He is more experienced with demons. But we can ask him to step out here for a moment, if you'd like."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "Unfortunate. Still, adequate."
{girlFtisk} ( brb )
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "You misunderstand. My body and appearance are mundane. It might merely produce greater emotional confusion in one who is already uncertain."
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl: "In there?"
{DanteE} "Hold on one second..."

• DanteE goes in the back room to see what's happening.
  

{Theresa} (He's right, though. There's nothing miraculous about Dionyl, they just look weird to us.)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. Jenrik is talking to the patient about sports teams. It seems that both are fans of polo, of all things./
{DanteE} "Doc?"
{Random_Nerd} Jenrik: "Yes?"

• DanteE motions him over by the door.
  

{Random_Nerd} He looks to the bartender for a moment. Dr. J: "I'll be right back."
{Random_Nerd} He follows Dante.
{DanteE} "How's he doing?"
{Random_Nerd} Jenrik: "Stable. His hallucinations are consistent, at least, and the magical thinking and delusions are getting no worse."
{DanteE} "Technically those aren't hallucinations...
{Random_Nerd} Jenrik: "When he looks only at me, he talks more or less rationally as long as it's about things that happened before today."
{DanteE} "We brought in a specialist."
{Random_Nerd} Jenrik: "Excuse me, but he sees the curtains of the room as tall men in dark robes."

• DanteE checks the curtains out in Mythic...
  

{Random_Nerd} (To Dante, they look like tall men made of dark fabric, with featureless faces.)
{Brian} "You're just used to seeing the Prosaic world." (Brian pronounces the uppercase)
{Random_Nerd} (But it's established that not all see the Mythic in exactly the same way, and even the same individual sees it differently depending on what they're focusing on.)

• DanteE motions coatguy over to the office.
  

{Random_Nerd} Dr. J glances over at the new Dionyl nervously.
{DanteE} "Specialist."
{Random_Nerd} New Dionyl: "Do not be alarmed. You are not hallucinating, and I am not a supernatural being."
{Theresa} "What may we call you?" *to the new Dionyl*
{girlFtisk} (back)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "You're a doctor?"
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl, to Theresa: "That is a point of complete indifference to me."
{DanteE} (Doctor No... body? :) )
{Random_Nerd} Dionyl, to Dr. J: "Some of my own people would consider me to be so."
{Kite} (I like Dr. Nobody. :))
{Theresa} *to Dr. J* "He has experience on his world dealing with viewpoint misalignment."
{girlFtisk} (me too)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. Nobody: "You are an expert in human corporeal medicine?"
{Brian} (Doctor who? Nobody!)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "I... uh... I'm specialized in mental disorders, but I am a doctor, yes."
{Random_Nerd} Dr. Nobody hands him the CD that Ftisk made: "You can read this, and answer questions about it?"
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J glances at Theresa.

• girlFtisk give that roboPlant to Theresa. "...Cadò..."
  

{Random_Nerd} J: "Uh... does someone have a computer I can use?"
{DanteE} (any CD readers around?)
{girlFtisk} "please don't look here Drs"
{Random_Nerd} Dr N immediately turns away from Ftisk. J follows quickly.
{Kite} * Kite spreads a wing in front of Ftisk.
{DanteE} "You're learning, Ftisk..."
{Random_Nerd} Dr. N: "I mention, for no particular reason, that it is entirely likely that they possessed the tool you mentioned all along, and are merely asking us to turn because the gods are strange and willfull beings."
{DanteE} "... which is amazing..."
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J looks at him oddly.
{girlFtisk} *** girlFtisk has signed off IRC (No route to host).
{DanteE} (...)
{Theresa} (Ftisk erased himself!)
{Kite} (The miracle was a dud?)
{Random_Nerd} (I think we can assume that Ftisk made a laptop computer or the like, before vanishing.)
{Theresa} (So that's what a crit failure on a LC looks like...)
{Kite} (heh)
{girlFtisk} *** girlFtisk has joined #Nobilis.
{Random_Nerd} (Welcome back.)
{DanteE} (WB Ftisk)
{girlFtisk} (holly cow my laptop decided to self power off !___! )
{Random_Nerd} Dr. N: "It is entirely possible that, due to the patient's status as an involuntary vessel of prophecy, he will again suffer oracular fits. In beings like humans or dionyl, this may lead to physical damage to the mechanisms of thought and action, which would be worse in the presence of family history of [white shocks]"
{DanteE} (any chance you bopped the power switch by mistake?)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. N: "Pardon me... very bad fits? Chaotic mental activity leading to physical convulsions?"
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "I... know what you mean."
{Kite} "Epilepsy."
{girlFtisk} (no Dante, the power cable is miss working on this old pile of crap)
{DanteE} (Don't be so hard on yourself, Ftisk.... :D )
{Random_Nerd} Dr. N: "How much time will it take you to perceive the structure of this information?"
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "Perhaps... half an hour."
{girlFtisk} (@DAnte: lol!)
{DanteE} "Can you get a quick assessment of the patient?"
{Random_Nerd} N: "Very well. First, come with me to see the afflicted human, and tell him that I am a real being, that I am not supernatural, and that if he were mentally as he was yesterday, he would see me in exactly the way that he does now. That you see me as he does."
{Random_Nerd} J: "O...kay. Yes. I can do that."
{Random_Nerd} (Who was that to, Dante?)
{Random_Nerd} (Sorry that so much of this is two NPCs talking to each other. Would you like me to summarize more of this, or skip past it?
{DanteE} (Dr. J. Hopefully he can check the patient's file on the CD and see if he had any problems.)
{Theresa} (I like seeing the interaction. He's kinda like a coatrack House.)
{girlFtisk} (me like too. Sorry for the double work RN)
{Kite} (Maybe his full name can be Dr. Coatrack House Nobody?)
{Random_Nerd} (Heh.)
{DanteE} (There's a fun image... coat held up by a coatrack hobbling along... with flames painted on it... :) )
{girlFtisk} (When Cuddy will show up? ...I like Cuddy!!!)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. Coatrack follows Dr. Jenrik into the curtained office.
{Random_Nerd} You hear the bartender sit up sharply.
{Brian} (it's always fun to watch you pl^H^Htalk with yourself, RN)
{DanteE} (Is William here?)
{Kite} (I'm pretty sure he's not.)
{Theresa} (Nope.)
{Brian} (he's been phoning every once in a while)
{Random_Nerd} Dr. Jenrik: "This man is not a hallucination. This is not a symptom of your madness. I see him as a coat and pants, hanging in mid-air. This man is a friend of the Nobles."
{girlFtisk} "Guys, later I'll go shard hunting with others Nobles... Who want to come with me?"
{Random_Nerd} (He's in his office, calling in when he has more information on the stuff you have him working on.)
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "Like... like the tree guy?"
{Random_Nerd} J: "...which one?"
{Random_Nerd} Bartender: "The little one. The one that's on TV."
{Random_Nerd} J: "Yes. A little like that."
{DanteE} "I'll go Ftisk, we might wind up needing that info...
{girlFtisk} (Damn! Triffin boy show is going on sir?)
{DanteE} "Sam, have other Chancels had any luck with getting their populations inured to Noble shenanigans?"
{Kite} "I can't let my little Brother-Sister go alone."
{Random_Nerd} Dr. Coatrack: "Thank you, doctor, that will be sufficient. Read the information, as we discussed, and tell me when you know more."
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Inured in what way?"
{Random_Nerd} Jenrik scowls for a moment, but leaves the curtained room.

• girlFtisk singing bird tone: "oh, Dante! I know you will not leave a damsel in distress"
  

{girlFtisk} bird even
{Random_Nerd} Dr. Coatrack: "Now, I must tell you about the perceptual structure of your world, and how you have come misaligned in it..."
{girlFtisk} "Thank you Kite"
{DanteE} "So that this doesn't happen."
{Theresa} "How is it going, Doctor?"
{Random_Nerd} (Who was that to?)
{Theresa} (Doc J.)
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Let's see... some chancels don't have a mythic world, or don't have a prosaic world, or both. Some chancels are socially accepting of perceptual abnormalities."
{DanteE} "Maybe you (Dr. J) should listen to him (Dr. Nobody)"
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Some have performed miraculous changes on the humans, changing the ways their minds function to prevent world-changes."
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "You mean that kind of thing?"
{DanteE} "How well did that work?"
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Which one?"
{Theresa} "Dante, Dr. J was going to go over the patient's file. There might be a history of seizures that could make him become worse."
{Random_Nerd} Dr. J: "I guess..."
{DanteE} "The latter. Any problems in those Chancels?"
{Random_Nerd} He reads through the medical documents.
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Depends what you'd consider 'problems.'"
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Bear in mind, many of those are chancels strongly aligned with the Transformationist faction of the Dark."
{DanteE} "I"
{girlFtisk} "Well ,you can't realm remade his (barkeeper) brain? isn't simpler that all this fuss?
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "So the degree to which you would call the inhabitants of the chancels 'human' would be open for debate."
{DanteE} "m guessing that's the faction that wants humans to become non-human?"
{girlFtisk} (I see something pulling Ftisk toward this faction or the not caring of the humans one)
{Kite} "Any chancels associated with the Light in the minority?"
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Yes. Humans have to kill themselves, but we have people who we want to stay alive for the time being, so let's make sure that they don't count as 'human' by whatever definition we use."
{Random_Nerd} Jenrik: "And I thought my /regular/ boss was creepy."
{DanteE} to Jenrik: "Side effect of turning the country into a magical fairyland."
{Random_Nerd} Sam: "Several of those are Light-aspected to some degree. It works best if the Light Powers consider the modified humans to be 'human', but the Dark ones do not."
{girlFtisk} "Eh, doctor J... we are wonderful, strange , creepy..."
{DanteE} "You meet the most interesting 'people'."
{DanteE} (sounds like Eclipse Phase, kinda)
{girlFtisk} (more kinda that not)
{Random_Nerd} From the other room, you can hear Dr. Coatrack Nobody leading the bartender through a simple meditation procedure.
{Random_Nerd} (Well, there are transhumanist tendencies to many of the Dark and some of the Light, yes.)
{girlFtisk} (also channel Vulcan will transuhumanize sooner or later)
{Random_Nerd} (Does Ftisk have a cellular phone that William would have the number for?)
{girlFtisk} (yep Ftisk have the full options)
{Random_Nerd} Ftisk's phone rings.

• girlFtisk answer "Hello? Machinery power here!"
  

{Random_Nerd} W: "William here. Details on the hunting expedition. You are requested to use no machines or weapons which make a loud noise, except those that could be reasonably mistaken for thunder. You are requested to use no methods of transportation not intrinsic to your own body, other than those pulled by living creatures. Is this acceptable?"
{Random_Nerd} (Now, some of you had mentioned that you wanted to end early. How early do you wish to end this session?)
{DanteE} (That means no Dantemobile)
{girlFtisk} "Uhm... can I use some vehicles?"
{Theresa} (I wouldn't mind ending now. This might be a good spot for us to think about what we want to bring to the hunting party.)
{girlFtisk} (me too . We can stop here)
{Brian} (I've been braaaaains for a while now. Comes from not really having much sleep)
{DanteE} (any way we can help the docs?)
{girlFtisk} (We can start some blatant miracles before them...)
{Random_Nerd} William: "Horses, chariots pulled by living creatures, and the like."
{Random_Nerd} (I'll finish the call, and then we can stop.)
{DanteE} (Could Ftisk use his mecha form?)
{Random_Nerd} (That would be his own body, so it would be fine.)
{girlFtisk} "ah, uhm.. and a thunder hammer is usable? "
{Random_Nerd} William: "He said that as long as it sounds like thunder, that it's fine."
{girlFtisk} "Ok, is feasible then!!!"

• girlFtisk put on a happy face
  

{Random_Nerd} William: "Excellent. I will pass this along."
{Random_Nerd} He hangs up.
{Random_Nerd} ______________STOP________________________
{DanteE} (We're all invited, right?)
{Theresa} (Yep.)
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe
{Angelo} (YEP!)
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
{Random_Nerd} (If you want to come along, and you go along with the strictures, yes.)
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
{BethE} I kinda wanted to smack Dr. Coatrack.
{Random_Nerd} Oh? For which part?
{Angelo} why?
{lazarus} He reminds me a lot of Krauss from Hellboy 2.
{Angelo} I kinda want to give the robo plant to Theresa...
{Knockwood} Actually, does Theresa's recovered finger joint have any actual effect?
{Angelo} but can't came with a line good enough... :-(
{Angelo} good question D.
{BethE} It works like a finger joint?
{Angelo} err K
{Random_Nerd} Any actual effect in what sense?
{Random_Nerd} It... bends her finger...
{BethE} I just wanted to smack him because he was being rude to Sam and Dr. J.
{Knockwood} is Doc N right in that it prompts Oracular visions?
{Knockwood} Beth: That may be kind of a Winston Wolf thing.
{Random_Nerd} The finger itself, no.
{Random_Nerd} Being around Theresa and Ftisk was about... 20% of what caused him to have the oracular fit.
{Knockwood} funny how being around Ftisk causes fits... :)
{Angelo} Theresa?
{Verithe} Since the two of them had made sacrifices to Jan ben Jan?
{Random_Nerd} Yeah. It doesn't work quite how Dr. Coatrack thinks it does, though.
{BethE} But Winston Wolf was _cool_.
{Random_Nerd} It isn't a matter of contagion, as such.
{Angelo} ah, I as trying to recall blatant miracles by Theresa
{Knockwood} she does hers when people aren't looking
{Random_Nerd} It's that Jan ben Jan thinks they're /interesting/, and is a little more likely to be paying attention to them at any given moment, see someone nearby, and decide to send him a vision or a speech.
{Angelo} right, so my puzzlement
{Random_Nerd} But Dr. Coatrack is unaware of that aspect of it. He just knows that there's a correlation.
{Knockwood} so, what he said came straight from JbJ?
{Verithe} Ftisk is being watched...all the more danger when the L-word is mentioned.
{Angelo} no Verithe... all more FUN
{Verithe} Hehe
{Angelo} and now you can say love without problems
{Random_Nerd} Yes. The bartender, in his fit of madness, was the subject of a Lesser Creation of Prophecy by Jan ben Jan.
{Random_Nerd} This caused him to speak the words that you heard.
{Random_Nerd} So... well... Jan didn't specify the /words/.
{Angelo} ohhh nice+fun+nice!
{Random_Nerd} But he specified that the bartender speak a prophecy, and specified the topic.
{Knockwood} which was?
{Angelo} the one with maybe Duty maybe Dante
{Random_Nerd} The coming of the First King, clearly.
{Angelo} seem a metal song title
{Knockwood} linked to the Age change?
{Random_Nerd} The timing, at least, is suggestive.
{Angelo} too many coincidences?
{Knockwood} hmm... some of us are sure to have looked at the barkeep with either the Sight or Mythic. We should have seen the recent miracle.
{lazarus} I'm going to log. g'night.
{Random_Nerd} Lesser miracles are not seen with the Sight.
{Angelo} night Laz
{Random_Nerd} Only greater miracles.
{Knockwood} g'night Laz
{--| lazarus has left #Nobilis
{Angelo} *** Angelo has signed off IRC.
{Verithe} ._.
{Knockwood} who's logging?
{Verithe} Not me...
{Knockwood} Angelo's logs would be too broken up...
{Random_Nerd} I am.
{Knockwood} reminds me: Beth, don't forget to put up a log of the last session
{Random_Nerd} Oh, and for the record, Dr. Coatrack is a country Dionyl, while Sam is a city Dionyl.
{Random_Nerd} That is the cause of some of the tension between the two.
{Random_Nerd} As for some of the disrespect for Dr. J... it's that, as Dr. Coatrack sees him as mainly a doctor for physical problems of humans, he falls into the same basic category as a dionyl veterinarian.
{Random_Nerd} Because on Dionyl, only /animals/ are made of meat.
--}| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis
{Knockwood} WB Angelo...
{Random_Nerd} Also, Dr. Coatrack sees himself as more of a... spiritual guide, rather than a doctor as such.
{Knockwood} power cord, right?
{Angelo} this ##### power cable plug is driving me insane!
{Angelo} yep the plug will not stay into the laptop... :-(
{Verithe} :(
{Knockwood} if it's 'special', grab a new one off eBay. If not, local electronics store.
{Verithe} So maybe we should give him a priestly/clerical title instead of "Dr."?
{Angelo} well this laptop is from 96 more o less
{Verithe} Friar Coatrack, maybe.
{Angelo} father C?
{Angelo} candle holder?
{Angelo} altar boy?
{Random_Nerd} Well, he's non-god-worshipping. That is, he knows that gods /exist/, he's even met some, but they aren't very important to his beliefs.
{Knockwood} Reverend Gone?
{Verithe} Rabbi C. H. Nobody
{Angelo} and in this ladder nobles are like angels into Christianity? Good work force?
{BethE} Philosopher Coatrack?
{Angelo} btw for the logs, kindly, Beth is supplying the part I mess er miss
{Random_Nerd} Yeah. Nobles are pretty spiritually important to some Dionyl.
{Knockwood} Philosopher Pantsless
{Random_Nerd} Remember Sam asking for Blue Shock's blessing, for instance.
{Angelo} I need to ask Sam if he _want_ to be Ftisk anchor
{Angelo} not that I want him as anchor
{Knockwood} ...
{Angelo} ah Knock, is this good as pressure level on Dante?
{Angelo} Knock even
{Knockwood} hm... well, could just keep it there and see how it goes...
{Angelo} OK!
{Angelo} ah, Ftisk start to address herself as female
{Angelo} :-P (Dante, you are a BAAAD influence on it!)
{Verithe} Ftisk's a brother-lady. :P
{Angelo} yepp
{Angelo} lol
{Angelo} let's call her sister and simplify the matter :-P
{BethE} Well, guys, I need to get to bed. *HUGS* Good game and have a good weekend!  :)
{Random_Nerd} So, you guys want to hire another Aide.
{Angelo} not me!
{Random_Nerd} Any more thoughts on what you want him/her/it to be like?
{Knockwood} I'm thinking it would be a, um, good idea...
{Verithe} good night!
{Verithe} Yes, RN.
{Angelo} a tentacle monster!
{Verithe} D:
{Angelo} night Verithe!
{Knockwood} (,,, OK, why am I suddenly picturing Ilsa of the SS?)
{Angelo} who?
{Verithe} (Not me, I was saying good night to Beth)
{Knockwood} Ftisk needs a) an outlet for his, um, exuberance and b) SOME DISCIPLINE! :D
{Angelo} this ilsa? http://www.horror-movies.ca/albums/userpics/Ilsa_Wolf.jpg
|{-- BethE has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?)
{Angelo} Dante can be the outlet, Dante can give the discipline to Ftisk!
{Verithe} Definitely someone who can handle an occasional Ftisking.
{Angelo} you want to Spank Ftisk? ... he is happy!
{Random_Nerd} Anyway!
{Random_Nerd} Good session, guys. Sorry it was too NPC-talky.
{Random_Nerd} See you next week.
{Verithe} 'Salright, RN. Take care!
{Angelo} bye RN
{Knockwood} that might work! :)
{Angelo} no pro RN, I like the session
{Angelo} then you can do this next session ;-)
|{-- Random_Nerd has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: )
{Knockwood} good night guys. :)
{Angelo} well, night guys!
|{-- Knockwood has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6/20100115144158])
{Verithe} Goodnight!
{--| YOU (Angelo) have left #Nobilis


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Chapter 19