Session 185

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 24

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[Random_Nerd] (That almost ended up being a good thing, because after everything got messed up, I did get him to give a signed and dated statement that the computer worked before I turned it over to him, and didn't afterward...)
[Angelo] HO!
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[Random_Nerd] Oh, and there was the whole thing where at first he put on the wrong resolution of screen...
[Random_Nerd] But at least it works now.
[Angelo] HI Beth, hug
[BethE] *gets popcorn for the telling of the story*
[BethE] Hi guys! *HUGS*
[Random_Nerd] And turns out that as a professional/grad student, I can get copies of Windows 7 and Office for /ridiculously/ cheap.
[Random_Nerd] As in five bucks each, legally.
[Verithe] Nice!
[lazarus] hey Beth, Angelo
[lazarus] I'm glad for my freebie Windows 7 (Pro), but saddened that I don't get Office.
[lazarus] would make some things lots easier.
[Angelo] doh, I much time ago get Win Nt and Visual Studio cheaply as student
[Angelo] hi Laz
[lazarus] in other news, had perhaps the second-toughest (behind the Physics course I had) mid-term today that I've ever taken. I think everyone agreed it was tough. It was also really quite fair, and perfect for the course, but still. 10 listenening examples (to identify title, composer, year +/- 5, and answer a short question about), some short answer, some multiple choice, and /2 essays/.
[Random_Nerd] At least you /have/ mid-terms.
[Angelo] , make more sense that usual you fair warning I'm ill, (seasonal maladies like kindergarten) so If my game, strangely make more sense that usual ... you know the cause :-P
[lazarus] I guess ... I have another tomorrow night
[lazarus] um. I look at the date and am suddenly very worried I got the day of the next midterm wrong...
[Verithe] ?
[Random_Nerd] Wrong as in you have more time than you thought, or wrong as in you missed it?
[lazarus] as in it might've been tonight ... that would be _bad_
[Verithe] Did you not have class tonight or does your university not keep mid-terms during class time?
[BethE] O.O
[lazarus] recorded for tv, so done at a different time
[lazarus] oh good. tomorrow. phew
[Verithe] Ah...
[BethE] Heart attacks are not good.
[Random_Nerd] Yeah, I've had a few of those.
[Random_Nerd] Misreading a schedule, and then freaking out for about fifty seconds.
[lazarus] I'd remembered "Friday, October 28th"
[lazarus] looked at the date "28th? um..."
[Random_Nerd] Ah, and you weren't sure if you had the day or the date wrong?
[lazarus] then figured out that I remembered the music being the 28th, and the business being the Friday.
[Random_Nerd] While we wait for Knock, any questions?
[lazarus] why the hell did I take a business course?
[Random_Nerd] Same reason I took a music theory class when I could neither sightread nor play the piano?
[Verithe] I've come to realize, maybe Kite's definition of his Estate may not be adequate. May I make some alterations? I still need to think about them...
[Random_Nerd] In other words, "blind purposeless space madness."
[Random_Nerd] Inadequate in what way?
[Verithe] Well, just the statements which define the Estate. I misunderstood the assignment at the time, which is why I only had three, but felt it was good enough and went with it, but now I have doubts.
[Random_Nerd] Feel free to change them.
[Verithe] Alright.
[lazarus] According to Dr. Moran, Estate Properties are only what they are /right now/, and may mean different things, or be changed altogether, pretty much between sessions when it's discussed. (the "This isn't working for me" "then change it!" principle)
[Random_Nerd] Yeah. I'm open to those changing, if you have a better idea of how your Estate works.
[Random_Nerd] Does anyone else have any issues with theirs?
[BethE] Not at the moment.
[Angelo] I would like to rethinks mine
[Angelo] but not now
[lazarus] I'm very happy with mine, so far. I'm considering some rewords or whatever - I'm not sure Numbers should be able to instantiate a catgirl that way, but still. (also: Motion –REDACTED- of catgirls there are...)
[Random_Nerd] Well, bear in mind, you don't know where the catgirl will /be/.
[Random_Nerd] Just that there's one out there.
[lazarus] (ooo, NASLite-M2 looks like exactly what I want to have ... fileserver + media streaming, and that's pretty much all it does ...)
[lazarus] true.
[lazarus] either way.
[Verithe] Can Numbers mess with location via latitude and longitude?
[Random_Nerd] Because, I mean, making a catgirl with a level 4-6 miracle is not really outside the range of what should be possible.
[Random_Nerd] Yes, with Motions.
[Verithe] Fun. :)
[Random_Nerd] If you came up with a way to do it with a level 2 miracle, then I'd find it to be a problem.
[lazarus] (bah! 35$ to download the ISO? I wonder if FreeNAS has the same stuff?)
[BethE] (Schrodinger's Catgirl?)
[Random_Nerd] Well, should we start without Knock?
[BethE] Braaaaains.
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian
[Brian] (brb, getting a dr. pepper)
[Kite] Sure.
[Kite] What were we doing?
[Random_Nerd] You've just engaged in some unorthodox summoning shenanigans.
[Ftisk] we make Shadows run away
[Random_Nerd] And Ftisk fed part of himself to the pigeon.
[Kite] Marvelous!
[Kite] That's right.
[Ftisk] oh, right! I wasn’t remembering that
[Kite] Kite says, "Ftisk! Stop crippling yourself!"
[Random_Nerd] So, where shall we start our scene?
[Ftisk] Hey, with the right set of assumption that seem like a reasonable action.. for SCIENCE!
[Kite] He also fears that pigeon ate everyone's memory of the incident.
[Random_Nerd] Oh, and you found out that Shadows has a flying scooter.
[Theresa] It goes putt-putt.
[Ftisk] a slow one!
[Kite] Ftisk: Indeed. :)
[Random_Nerd] Unless Brian makes it go faster.
[Theresa] Oh and we met William's fiancee!
[Brian] it goes "putt-putt-putt-putt"
[Kite] Does this mean Shadows is still leaving?
[Random_Nerd] He was going to try to recover the missing bit of Ftisk.
[Ftisk] oh dear what a sweet idea!
[Kite] Last time, we were standing outside William's apartment, yes?
[Random_Nerd] Yeah.
[Random_Nerd] We can start there, in the conference room, or elsewhere, as people prefer.
[Kite] Kite votes we adjourn to a restaurant that serves raw fish.
[Ftisk] dinner with William + will's fiance?
[Random_Nerd] That works. Cut to all of you at a sushi place?
[Ftisk] (what cloud possibly go wrong?)
[Kite] (Everything. :P )
[Theresa] Kite will decide that the fish isn't raw enough.
[Kite] Probably.
[Theresa] Sushi is fine.
[Random_Nerd] _______________START________________
[Kite] Humans don't know how to not cook their fish.
[Ftisk] Eh, they are spoiled by their civilization...
[Brian] (nuts, ran out of outlets and power bars ...)
[Random_Nerd] This is the day after the last conversation, after William has had his fiancee-enforced afternoon off.
[Brian] sushi place is ok

• Ftisk sip from a motor oil glass
  

[Random_Nerd] Your table is by the balcony on the second floor. The fish is almost ridiculously fresh. Good thing the Chancel extends some distance out into the ocean before the boundry.
[Kite] "Mmmm!"
[Random_Nerd] William picks at his plate distractedly.
[Theresa] (And good thing that no one tries to catch the fishpeople.)
[Ftisk] "I wonder how fishpeople taste?"
[Theresa] "The fishpeople are our guests."
[Kite] "Me too..."
[Ftisk] "Well, one... one of the little.. can't ever notice..."

• Ftisk does a grab motion
  

[Random_Nerd] William: "You might be able to get a volunteer, if you ask a few weeks ahead of time."
[Kite] "That /would/ be a faux pas, eating another guest."
[Theresa] "One of their Chancel's Nobles is of the Dark."
[Ftisk] "well I like to compare to human taste... just that"
[Kite] "A volunteer would be nice."
[Random_Nerd] Liz seems to be trying to fade into the background. However, she has neither supernatural powers nor ninjalike stealth, so it isn't actually working all that well.
[Random_Nerd] William, to Liz: "It... makes sense in context. Really."
[Random_Nerd] (Err, Lisa, not Liz.)
[Random_Nerd] (Durr.)
[Brian] (does she have a Skill/thing for "I don't want to be in this conversation..."?)
[Random_Nerd] (Turns out that the answer is no.)
[Theresa] (That's a wife skill...)
[Ftisk] (or a long time fiancee one)
[Random_Nerd] (But she's laying groundwork for a Passion of "I don't want to be in this conversation.")
[Ftisk] (long time = 5+ years)
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[Theresa] (Hi Knock!)
[Knockwood] moshimoshi guys
[Ftisk] Hi Knock!)
[Brian] (hey kwd)
[Knockwood] sorry I'm late, but here it's the last day before a 3-day weekend and the boss wanted to get some arbitrary amount of work done
[Kite] ohisashiburi, Knock!
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "I remember you telling me about the Dark, but they just sounded... creepy."
[DanteE] (What'd I miss?)
[Ftisk] (Dinner with will+fiancee)
[Ftisk] (+raw fish meat)
[Theresa] (Haven't missed really anything. Ftisk and Kite want to eat fishpeople.)
[Ftisk] (Yep!)
[Kite] "Some people think the Dark is fun."
[Random_Nerd] William: "They're not... well, /some/ of them are... okay, they're all /creepy/. But some are still decent folks."
[Ftisk] "well, look intently to a dark people and you discover that there is not one Dark but one people interpretation of The Dark"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Like... okay, you met John. He's penpals with a Power of the Dark."
[Kite] "He is?"
[DanteE] (Which John?)
[Ftisk] "really?"
[Random_Nerd] (The King one.)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Uh, yeah. You guys didn't know that?"
[Theresa] "Nyooooo...I did not know that the King of our Chancel, high priest of the Treasures was penpals with a Dark power."
[Kite] "I don't think I ever met him, myself."
[Brian] "Why shouldn't he be?"
[Theresa] (Then again, we hang out with someone who tempered an Excrucian and uses the L word.)
[Random_Nerd] William: "You introduced them."
[Ftisk] "who?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, you guys, I'm not sure if it was you personally, Theresa."
[Theresa] "Martyrs?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Martyrs. They met at the party."
[Theresa] "Ah, okay. She's cool. I remember that she was going to identify which of the relics in the cathedral storage were real or fake."
[Random_Nerd] William: "I gather that a surprising number of them turned out to be real."
[Ftisk] "we are a matchmaking agency without knowing it?"

• Theresa is firmly _not_ thinking of matchmaking John and Martyrs.
  

[DanteE] "Shouldn't be much of a surprise, with the nation's history."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, I don't know if it's /that/ kind of thing. I'm... Powers of the Dark tend not to be romatically interested in, you know, humans."
[Ftisk] "nonsense who don't want to marry a _king_?"
[Kite] "And, from what I hear, isn't John celibate?"
[Random_Nerd] At Ftisk's words, Lisa rolls her eyes.
[Theresa] "The relic section of the cathedral is probably second in importance to the Treasures."

• Ftisk pout at her (Lisa)
  

[Random_Nerd] William: "As far as I know. If he has romantic entanglements, he's /very/ discreet."
[Theresa] "John isn't celibate. He should have had an heir by now, it worries the parliament, but he hasn't found the right girl. And for a Noble, John is still..'just' a human."
[Random_Nerd] William, to Ftisk: "I think that's about the whole situation yesterday."
[Kite] "Ah. Impotent, not celibate. My mistake."
[Theresa] (*facepalm*)

• Ftisk lol!
  

[Theresa] "That's...a different thing. That I am glad you did not ask him to his face."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Now him, the Aaron one? He's definitely creepy. Can they really be related?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, not closely."
[Ftisk] "Well one is the descendent of the other in a strange tree of parentage way"
[Random_Nerd] William: "And, to be fair, he did spent quite a while in Hell. That has an effect on a person."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "I think I see the flaw in that reasoning."
[Ftisk] "can you point to it then?"
[DanteE] "I think Aaron and John are related via cousins."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "I mean, it's not as though he was a perfectly ordinary guy who fed stray kittens in the park, and then tripped and fell in a hole that happened to end up in, you know, /Hell/."
[Theresa] "Aaron is a multiple-times-great uncle of John. There has been a lot of change in the world since Aaron was...alive last time."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Stray kittens in the park?"
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "You know what I mean."

• Theresa imagines Ftisk and Kite digging a hole in the park down to Hell...'
  
• Ftisk zap a fly into a stray kitten "like this one?"
  

[Kite] (We'd do it, too...given the instigation)
[Theresa] (Just a note...these are not conversations that RN and I have. At least that I've seen.)
[Random_Nerd] Lisa and William both look at the floor suddenly.
[Ftisk] "Doh! Sorry!"
[Brian] "Ftisk..."
[Random_Nerd] William: "I'm just saying, from what I've seen, Hell isn't very nice."
[Kite] "Oh, Brother of mine..."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "William... when have you been to Hell?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, it wasn't /technically/ Hell. It was also kinda on Jupiter."
[Ftisk] "I...." *Put kitten in Will lip*
[DanteE] (Somebody reads Sinfest)
[Random_Nerd] (Isn't me...)
[Theresa] (I do!)
[Random_Nerd] (Was there a reference there?)
[Theresa] (They have a hole in a park that leads to Hell.)
[Kite] (I am imagining a kitten with the mind of a fly and there isn't much difference...)
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Hell. Hell on Jupiter."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, you know, Hell On Earth has been done to death..."
[Brian] "well, only kinda."
[Brian] "It's also a magnificent palace."
[Theresa] "Do you know how in kaballah and alchemy, there are angels in charge of the planets?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Remember the nice nondescript kid on the flying scooter?" He lives there."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Jupiter? Or Hell?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "It's /complicated/."
[Brian] "Yes."
[Ftisk] "and is super cute too!"
[Kite] "Both."
[Kite] "If you visit, you don't have to look at Hell.:
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Sorry, sorry. I'm just trying to adjust to all this stuff. I'd thought that Will was exaggering about all of this, and it turns out that he was actually downplaying it."
[Kite] "Unless it works different for humans..."
[Ftisk] "She is human .. can't switch view so easily Kite"
[Brian] "I don't know how Prosaic-locked folks view Jupiter..."
[Ftisk] "Well, we can try. "
[Theresa] "As a gas giant and oh no, I'm out in vacuum?"
[Brian] "You really should take some of those classes that what's-his-name is setting up."
[Ftisk] "Who?"
[Kite] "Gil!"
[Brian] "Well, the Jupiter Chancel isn't really Jupiter. Sorta. Kinda. There's a rainbow road."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Sam's active writing thing? Oh, yeah, the military/emergency services one?"
[Brian] "Gil's classes on Mythic viewpoint."
[DanteE] "We don't want to break your mind just yet, Lisa, I'm sure William would like to do that in his own time..."
[Random_Nerd] William: "I was planning on auditing that myself, actually. I barely managed to pass those courses, back during my training."
[Kite] "I highly suggest it!"
[Brian] "Should be a required course for any program at the University here."
[Brian] "Enough ... Stuff ... happens."

• Ftisk take a bit of fish, cover it with the motor oil and ru182 and garlic sauce and eat it
  

[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, we have very few people able to teach that."
[Random_Nerd] William: "I hardly know enough to get by on my own, and Sam has the Writing and Geomancy classes to teach."
[Theresa] "Yeah, a large lecture wouldn't be a good choice for that kind of work, Brian."
[DanteE] "Ftisk here is the final exam for that Mythic View course, I think.
[Random_Nerd] William: "Besides, shamanism's tricky. Some people just aren't any good at it."
[Ftisk] "why I?"
[DanteE] "Basically he does the Banana Sketch and if your brain doesn't explode you pass.  :) "
[Ftisk] "Banan Sketch?"
[Ftisk] Dante your Banana?"
[DanteE] (old Muppet Show ref)

• Ftisk suddently is _very_ interested!
  

[Ftisk] (I don't know that sketch :-( )
[DanteE] to Lisa: "So, you're slowly learning about what William does?"
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "I suppose."
[Ftisk] "summary: keeeeeeeeping a bay some crazy god!"
[Kite] (They never actually /did/ the sketch, right? Just mentioned it a lot as the best sketch ever.)
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "It's... not the usual thing you'd go into with a degree in medieval literature."
[DanteE] (Kite: yep)
[Random_Nerd] William: "I got a degree from the Society, too..."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "That's not even accredited!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "That's because they're the only ones who even teach some of that stuff."
[Brian] ("You start with a banana, and then peel it" /magician does so, sees two bananas now, puts one away/ "as I was saying, you start with one banana, and then peel it" /repeat/ /eventually/ "My mother used to say never start a trick you can't finish" /puts bananas away, moves onto something else/. I saw that once. It was odd and amazing.)
[Theresa] (It's like the noodle incident in Calvin and Hobbes.)
[DanteE] (No, this one starts with 'Two bananas are walking down the street and one says to the other...")
[Theresa] "The diploma is probably very fancy.
[Random_Nerd] William's cellular phone rings.
[Random_Nerd] William: "It's Sam. Give me a moment."
[Theresa] (Does he have a ringtone for Sam?)
[Kite] "If not, we should make it so."

• Ftisk play with the sauced fish
  

[Random_Nerd] (Yes. "Joseph's Coat" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.)
[Random_Nerd] William talks on the phone for a bit, and then puts it away.
[Random_Nerd] William: "Let's see. Several of you met the Power of Bone, right? At least, by proxy?"
[DanteE] "You should know, considering who his Anchor is."
[Theresa] (I prefer Caanan Days.)
[Theresa] "Yes, we have."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well... he's dead. Excrucian attack. Strategist shards, actually, not warmain."
[Theresa] "Holy crap. Who had the book on it?"
[Ftisk] "oh, my condolences"
[DanteE] "... which means once again Luc is free."
[Kite] "Will there be a funeral?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, this does mean that, as far as Noble society goes, it's that time again, yes."
[Random_Nerd] William: "A private one, I believe."
[Theresa] "Dante, you are _not_ going to Anchor Luc."
[Brian] "Bone? Oh, Luc's ... now former Noble?"
[Ftisk] "uhm I want him"
[DanteE] "Just making an observation. Luc's streak of odd luck continues."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Yes, Luc is currently 'up for grabs' to whatever family can entice him."
[Ftisk] "mine, mine!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "If you wish to put in a bid for his services, I'd suggest that you act promptly."
[Kite] "...
[DanteE] "Did they at least repel the attack?"
[Ftisk] "like now?"
[Theresa] "Yes, what happened?"
[Random_Nerd] William taps his arm for a moment, and discovers that there are still rigid structures in there. "Guess so."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Wait, what?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, if it had gone more badly, uh... people would no longer have bones."

• Theresa thinks that one will not be able to claim Luc as an Anchor just by going up to him and yelling "DIBS!".
  

[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "I repeat. Wait, what?"
[Kite] "I do not see anyone falling into fleshy blobs."
[Brian] "Bone still exists as a concept in this universe."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Bones. They wouldn't exist. They'd be like phaesates."
[Brian] "That's important for some of us."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Like what?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Exactly."
[Brian] "Exactly!"
[Ftisk] "So not dessert-ized humans"
[Theresa] "The man in charge of the Society that William works for? He was working for the Power of Bone. Said Power has now died, but his Estate, Bone, was not destroyed."
[Kite] "Has a new Bones been chosen?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, okay, I made that one up, but only because I couldn't come up with one in time."
[Brian] "Or like that great drink. I remember having it once. But I can no longer remember anything about it. I hate how non-causality works with Nobles."
[Random_Nerd] William: "That will be going on now, too. Normally, of course, they'd pick his primary anchor."
[DanteE] "William never told you what the stakes are, did he?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "But, obviously, that's out in this case."

• Ftisk call Sam
  

[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "I'm just trying to figure out how that would even /work/."
[Theresa] "William...you do know that doing something like that _will_ lead to you being murdered by your wife, right?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam picks up.
[DanteE] "Luc has turned it down every time?"
[Kite] "Is Luc immune to becoming Noble?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "If she was going to kill me, she'd have done so by now."
[Ftisk] "Herllo, I want Luc, I badly want him"
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Keep telling yourself that, smart boy."
[Theresa] "Why be a Noble when you can work with any Noble?"
[Brian] "Lisa, don't worry, you'd never remember having had bones, anyway."
[Random_Nerd] William: "He isn't immune, he just... doesn't want to."
[Random_Nerd] William: "And Imperators tend not to pick unwilling Nobles. They're less reliable."
[Kite] "I guess so..."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I'll put in a bid on your behalf."
[Ftisk] "Thank you, what can be a proper bid?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I... may happen to already have the paperwork filled out. I'll just need you to sign it."
[DanteE] "Anyone else just now start smelling disaster coming?"
[Theresa] (And plus, I can see various Imperators looking askance at Luc and saying nuh-uh, pull the other psuedopod, it has bells on.)
[Kite] "Nope. Just delicious fish."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Well, right now, we're just wrangling an invitation to meet with him to discuss the matter."
[Ftisk] "Ok, I fly there, where you are?"
[Theresa] "I don't think Luc's Noble dying is a sign of the End of the Age, Dante."
[DanteE] "Hold on, we don't want to look like ghouls.
[Brian] (Brian would like to have Luc as an Anchor as well, but he's afraid of the implications :p)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "My office. I can meet you there, if you want."
[DanteE] "No, but Ftisk anchoring him just might be..."
[Ftisk] "ok, I'll be there quickly"
[Theresa] "Hey Ftisk, ask Sam who won the bets on Luc's Noble dying? I'm figuring that they wouldn't let Patterns play."
[Random_Nerd] William: "And there is the whole, you know, Lucifer thing."

• Ftisk hangup
  

[DanteE] (Come to think of it... he's got 2 anchors, how many can he have?)
[Random_Nerd] William: "That's an outside chance, of course, but it worries some Imperators."
[Random_Nerd] (Under the new rules? Hmm. Let me check.)
[Brian] (can I –REDACTED- Ftisk to Sam's office?)
[Kite] (It's –REDACTED- under the new rules, yes?)
[Ftisk] (-REDACTED)
[Brian] (and you can have as –REDACTED- as you have -REDACTED- points, no?)
[Random_Nerd] (With –REDACTED-? I don't think so.)
[Brian] (something like that?)
[Random_Nerd] (Ftisk isn't a –REDACTED-.)
[Brian] (with Numbers? I guess, -REDACTED- in Sam's office?)
[DanteE] (Ftisk can fly anyway)
[Ftisk] (I can fly and aspect run /fast/)
[Random_Nerd] (Yeah, he can probably fly there in the time it would take Brian to work out how to do it.)
[Random_Nerd] (And it seems that you can have as many Anchors as –REDACTED-.)
[Ftisk] (I can –REDACTED- to make space for Luc!)
[Random_Nerd] (Yeah.)
[Ftisk] "Well, I had to fly to place my bid. Fareweel"
[DanteE] "Ahem. Anyway... William, what's proper protocol for paying our respects to Bone?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam, once Ftisk arrives: "Now, part of this is a bit... delicate. As you know, you'll need to love him or hate him."

• Ftisk fly at Aspect 2 to Sam
  

[Random_Nerd] Sam: "But talking about the L word is dangerous, and Luc has enough clout to keep from getting anchored by someone who hates him."
[Kite] "Should we bring gifts to his Familia?"
[Ftisk] "I don't hate him .. for love, you know I'm open to that with everyone"
[Ftisk] (yep peace & love to anyone from your bro Ftisk! )
[Kite] (Ftisk loves Luc for his fame.)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Let's see. He died in the line of service, so... I know this one..."
[Ftisk] (Good one Kite!)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Flowers, of course, but also handmade weapons or pieces of jewelry would be accepted as gifts by those who had met him but didn't know him well."
[DanteE] (You just can't _say it out loud_...)
[Ftisk] "well, how do you will proceed Sam?"
[Kite] "/Personal/ flowers or thematically significant flowers?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Well, once you sign this letter I've taken the liberty of drafting, and I send it in, you'll get an invitation to meet him."
[Theresa] "Jewelry? Like what are we talking about here? Something kinda nice or are we talking world's largest emerald thing?
[Random_Nerd] William: "The latter. Personal flowers would only be appropriate if you knew him."
[Ftisk] "Ok, gimme the letter I sign it"
[Random_Nerd] William: "And something small and tasteful."
[Theresa] "Rue, perhaps."
[Random_Nerd] Sam hands it over.

• Ftisk sign
  

[Ftisk] (with blood/oil)
[Ftisk] (just in case...)
[Theresa] (*imagines Ftisk as a funeral. Eyestalks flailing as he throws himself upon the grave, wailing...*)
[DanteE] "Would a bone blade be appropriate or morbid?"
[Kite] "Are daffodils small and tasteful?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "And while we wait for the response, try to think of a way to discuss reasons why you think you might have 'harmonious personal interactions' with him, without mentioning any forbidden topics."
[Ftisk] (you are accurate Damn you Theresa!)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Hmm. Well, it's the family of the Power of Bone. I imagine their standards for 'morbid' are different from mine."
[Brian] (does Ftisk have Affliction: wears his heart on his sleeve?)
[Brian] "Who else is in the familia?"
[Ftisk] "This is tough Sam! "
[Kite] "What do you know about the Familia?
[Random_Nerd] Lisa is just watching all of this with an expression of concern and confusion.
[DanteE] affliction
[Brian] "Lisa, what's wrong? Anything I can help explain?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Not much. Bone I only knew about because of his connections with Electricty and Copper, and of course the whole Luc thing."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Just... a lot to absorb."
[DanteE] (Yes, right next to 'Affliction: Entropy's Chew Toy')
[Random_Nerd] (No, that's Dante.)
[Brian] "oh. We get that a lot. From other Nobles."
[DanteE] (That's all PCs)
[Brian] "We seem to be more unusual than most, to hear them speak of it."

• Kite nudges a dish of sashimi toward Lisa. "Try eating. It's easier than absorbing."
  

[Ftisk] (hey, Ftisk is normality made people!)
[Theresa] "The jewelry should be small and tasteful, Kite. The flowers can vary, but they should be meaningful."
[DanteE] "Pardon me a moment..."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa eats some slices of tuna.

• Ftisk start flyinh in circles thinking "Why Luc will harmonize with me? uhm..."
  
• DanteE heads into his office and selects an ornate metal (Preserved) sword with a bone handle
  

[Kite] "I always thought that daffodils represented the land of the dead, but I can't quite remember why..."
[Random_Nerd] Sam takes the letter from Ftisk, folds it, and places it in an envelope.
[Random_Nerd] Sam then holds the envelope in the air, and says "For delivery to Luc Ginneis."
[Random_Nerd] It vanishes.
[DanteE] (Bet that's handy)
[Ftisk] "uhm... maybe I can ask Dante... He have a so _balanced_ view on things..."
[Random_Nerd] (Luc has connections.)
[Random_Nerd] (In terms of actual Gifts and the like, he's probably only got the equivalent of five or ten CPs, but that's pretty good for a human.)
[Brian] (I bet he has Bonds and Afflictions, though)
[Theresa] "They are associated with spring and the return of a fertility goddess from the underworld. White flowers, especially white lilac mean death."

• DanteE comes back.
  

[Random_Nerd] (Yeah, he's had a lot of various Enchantments and Preservations and the like put on him over the years.)
[DanteE] "This may stretch the definition of 'hand-made' a bit..."
[Kite] "Hmmm..."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, I think the idea is that it be made by the giver, without just waving it out of nowhere."
[Theresa] (*cough*)
[Theresa] (What does Will think of flowers waved out of nowhere?)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Because any Noble has the power to make stuff by 'magic', but the time to do it the old-fashioned way... that's rarer."
[Ftisk] "Sam, now how proceed?" Luc will give me a ticket and speak with me when he like or what?"
[Random_Nerd] (Probably not quite as appropriate as flowers grown in one's garden.)
[Theresa] (Ftisk is one of those people who asked how long until we get there on long car trips, isn't he?)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "He'll send a letter or a messenger to you, and we'll proceed from there. Since you're a Noble with more prestige than most of his applicants, you'll certainly at least get a meeting."
[Ftisk] (yep T!)
[DanteE] "Hm."

• Theresa Ldivs the amount of white roses in the Chancel which are blooming.
  

[DanteE] (He is?)
[Random_Nerd] (A lot.)
[Random_Nerd] (That was to Theresa.)
[Random_Nerd] (And for Dante's question, Luc is mostly sought after by new Nobles.)
[Kite] "I think I'll choose lily-of-the-valley, then."
[Random_Nerd] (Ftisk's been around for a while, and he's been in several confrontations with Excrucians and meetings with Entropy, and has survived both.)
[Brian] "T, can you get me some lengths of flax threads?"
[Ftisk] "Well, then I return to my dinner with the other.. want to came with me Sam?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I always feel awkward at restaurants."
[Ftisk] "Well, there is Theresa, and Dante and Will and Lisa and Dante and Brian And Dante! Came on!"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Oh, very well."
[Random_Nerd] (Oh, and Gilbert isn't there not because he doesn't eat, but because William doesn't know him very well yet.)
[Theresa] "How long, Brian?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Now, there has to be some way we can use this situation to our advantage..."
[Ftisk] "turn around a moment I change in a sport car"
[Brian] "Um. Enough to weave a necklace."

• Ftisk turn into a Nascar car once Sam turn
  

[Random_Nerd] William's phone chirps, and he looks at it for a moment and then puts it away.
[Random_Nerd] William: "Apparently I owe Samuel twenty dollars."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Oh?"
[Theresa] (Hee! I have a guess!)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Yes. He'd had the 'zero to five minutes' slot on our office pool."
[Theresa] (Oh, I thought the pool was on whom.)
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "For what the snail would do when... that one guy died?"
[Brian] "Was that for any of us or Ftisk specifically?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Yes, pretty much."

• Theresa concentrates for a moment and then hands Brian a long skein of flax thread.
  

[DanteE] "Makes sense, he knows Ftisk, and why we call him Captain Protocol. :) "
[Brian] "Thanks T. Now, to learn how to weave! by hand, anyway. Not with a loom. Those are large."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Let me remember... I think one of Lesson's guys had a long shot on Brian for two to four hours."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "How did you know he was going to die?"
[Kite] "Weaving's easy!"
[Brian] (to Will) "Sounds about right."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Oh, Luc's Nobles rarely last long."
[Kite] "A dodo could do it...if it weren't extinct, the poor things."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "And yet everyone tramples each other when the slot opens up?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Yes. A bit of a puzzler, that."
[Ftisk] (true! there is a terrific turnover !)
[Theresa] "Prestige. And maybe a thought that they will be The One to Survive."
[Brian] "He's known as the Perfect Anchor."
[Ftisk] (curiosity for Ftisk)
[Brian] "Besides, it would be fun."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Dodos aren't really extinct. They just don't live on earth any more."
[DanteE] "It would be ... interesting to see what happens to Luc and his Noble when the Age turns..."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Oh /really/?"
[Ftisk] (like for the excru tempering)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Yes. They live on the moon."
[Brian] "Makes sense. The rabbit lives on the moon."
[Kite] "Oh? The moon? We'll have to re-visit there!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Not that moon. The other one."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "The /other/ moon."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Yes. The normal one."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "The 'normal' moon that has dodos living on it."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Hey, /I/ didn't move them there."
[Kite] (Though, according to the Japanese, a rabbit lives on the normal moon, too...)
[Brian] "Of course. The Earth one. Just making a connection." (so much of this game could be used as passphrases. "The rabbit lives on the moon." "But the dodos are on the other.")
[Random_Nerd] (That's what gave Kudzu the idea.)
[DanteE] "So, extinct counts as 'lost'?"
[Kite] (Wonderous!)
[Random_Nerd] William: "No, I don't think so. I think Ophaniel just likes dodos."
[Brian] "Because we still remember them, they can't have been destroyed."
[DanteE] "Ah."
[Theresa] "So, Lisa, can you try to let us know a day or so ahead of when you decide to kill William? We want to make sure that his contract will be in order."

• Ftisk and Sam arrive to the restaurant
  

[Random_Nerd] William reaches into his wallet and fumbles around for a moment before pulling out a twenty and handing it to Sam.
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "I think I'm going to get this framed."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Yeah, yeah."
[Brian] "One of the few bets that you've won so far, Sam?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam puts it away in one of his various pockets.

• Ftisk giggle "... why?"
  

[Random_Nerd] Sam: "William usually wins."
[Ftisk] "oh"
[Ftisk] "And your bet was on Luc?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "It didn't hurt that when Sam was introduced to the idea of sports betting, he wasn't quite clear on the idea of replays of famous games."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Don't remind me."
[DanteE] "You do realize that's a blonde joke, ne?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Well, his bet was on zero to five minutes. I think I had six to fifteen."
[Brian] "Both on Ftisk, no doubt."
[Brian] "The rest of us aren't that quick. Even Kite."
[Ftisk] "on what? on me?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Look, on Dionyl, the only Earth media I got was recorded. I wasn't quite clear on how the actual broadcasting worked."
[Brian] "Oh, THAT's why you had the documents already prepared for him, Sam! You were hoping you'd win!"

• Kite looks up, mid-swallow, "Hmm?"
  

[Random_Nerd] Sam: "And you have no idea how hard it is to get a DVD player with the right region setting to play movies from Earth."
[Ftisk] "Doh! on that!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Wait, they have region settings on Dionyl?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "/Duh/."
[Random_Nerd] William: "That's just /weird/."
[Theresa] (Yeah, Unity or Splintered. ^^ )
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "We also have television, William."
[Ftisk] "I bet are _different_ that our ones"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Sure, but... region settings? That's just really specific."
[Kite] "And DVD players?"
[Ftisk] "well, they made eMails..."
[Brian] (Flipped open the current Nobilis thread on social attributes, and woah did I encounter how different Nob3 and Nob2 are. You wouldn't think it, but well ...)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Well, not all that different. The City-State of Carena has the same region setting as Russia."
[Random_Nerd] (Oh? How so?)
[Random_Nerd] William: "Now you're just messing with me."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Wanna make a bet?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "...no."
[Brian] (Thinking about Realm again is weird)
[Random_Nerd] (Ah.)
[Ftisk] (I can't wait that my rpol game move to 3ed)
[DanteE] "I think Sam just knows the extent to which Ftisk doesn't have social filters."
[Random_Nerd] William: "So, let's see. There'll be a new Bone, and Luc will have a new Noble."
[Ftisk] "hey! I'm direct and nice! Not what you say!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Hmm. I wonder what Patterns is... we can talk about him now, right?"
[Random_Nerd] Lisa looks at him.
[DanteE] "Well, Luc is one of the very few people who get to choose that...
[Brian] "He agreed for a year and a day, from ... two days ago? Something like that. Time passes weirdly here."
[DanteE] "I am a little surprised the succession isn't more ... violent."
[DanteE] "William: Yes, he agreed to leave the Chancel alone."
[Ftisk] "we are civilized... grunt!"
[Brian] "So it's possible he'd be monitoring, but he won't harm you"
[Random_Nerd] William: "Okay, good. Anyway, I know he'll be active now, but I'm not sure what he'll actually be doing."
[Kite] "Monitoring is fine, I think."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Hmm?"
[Ftisk] "Anyway I have _nothing_ to hide!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "A... supernaturally powerful crazy guy who thinks the guy who founded the Society is, uh, the devil. Not, uh, /figuratively/ the devil."
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Is he?"
[Ftisk] "Maybe?"
[Theresa] "Nobody knows."
[Random_Nerd] William: "...I've got forty bucks on 'no.'"
[Brian] "Probably not."
[Ftisk] "See he is interesting!"
[DanteE] "Ftisk, you sure you still want to be on the short list?"
[Kite] "He didn't seem like the devil."
[Ftisk] "Yep!"
[Brian] "tempting, but I'm not gonna take you up on that. Except perhaps at 40-to-one against you ..."
[Theresa] "Do you know anyone that likes to steeple their hands and just smile mysteriously at you when you ask a question? Think of Luc as someone who does that as a profession."

• DanteE takes a moment to improve his sword-gift...
  

[Ftisk] "Why the sword Dante?"
[Brian] (as in, one dollar from Brian is 40 dollars of Will's. I might've got that backwards again. I'm not well known for being able to express odds)
[Ftisk] "A too much alive tuna?"
[DanteE] "Seemed easiest, since swords are an accepted gift."
[Random_Nerd] William: "Oh, there are already bets in the 'yes' column of /that/ board."
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "Fifty!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "And that's just Sam."
[DanteE] "Are we part of any other bets?"
[Random_Nerd] William: "I... cannot tell you about any standing bets that might be interfered with by me telling you about them."
[Brian] "Seems fair, but I'm going to take that as a yes."
[Ftisk] "And me Will?"
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "What do /you/ think?"
[Ftisk] "Are me in any bet? You can tell, the answer will not affect my behavior I'm too lunatic for that :-P "
[DanteE] "Ftisk get eaten by Entropy, even money?"
[Ftisk] "I'll bet on Entropy against me!"
[Random_Nerd] William: "And that's why we can't tell you about the standing bets."
[Brian] "Besides, a result of 'a Wizard Did It' isn't really valid in most bets."
[Ftisk] "honest, if I get a waxed mustache I can bet against me?"
[Random_Nerd] Lisa: "Is 'the snail places himself in deadly danger to affect the course of a bet' itself one of the bets."

• Brian whispers to Ftisk "Their betting tables are probably not guarded against Data miracles ..."
  

[Random_Nerd] William and Sam glance at each other.
[Random_Nerd] William: "I can neither confirm nor deny."
[Brian] "That's just a given."
[DanteE] (Actually... what's that site where people buy 'stock' in things happening, like politics?)
[Brian] "Besides, if it is, I'll put 50$ down on it."
[Theresa] (Like the death-pools?)

• Ftisk start to jump high and down after Brian revelation
  

[DanteE] "That bet paid off when he used the L word in front of Entropy."
[Theresa] (I like Lisa, by the way.)
[Random_Nerd] Sam: "No, it didn't. Uh, hypothetically. Because he didn't do it on purpose."

• Ftisk lol
  

[Brian] (RN, your NPCs are awesome.)
[Random_Nerd] (You guys mind if I call it a night here? I'm running a bit low on brain juice, and I need to do some reading before tomorrow morning.)
[Ftisk] (is ok for me)
[DanteE] (One sec...)
[Brian] (and actually a good example of one of the big advantages of IRC over face to face: the GM can talk to himself, and it doesn't sound funny)
[Theresa] (Braaains.)
[Kite] (I think this is a good place)
[Random_Nerd] (Sorry for the short session.)
[Random_Nerd] ___________STOP_________________
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus
[DanteE] "I do wonder... do the Aides use those bets as a warning system for Noble actions?"
[lazarus] that's ok, I'm brainfried as well.
[Ftisk] me too
=-= YOU are now known as Angelo
[DanteE] "You'd think that would be a huge advantage..."
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
[Random_Nerd] ________RE-STOP_________
[lazarus] ok, now, how did I burn a CD ISO to DVD before?
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe
[Angelo] with imgburn?
[Angelo] (is free!)
[Verithe] magic?
[lazarus] Burn4Free is in the list at about the right place! (most burners hate burning CD ISOs to DVD. I hate that they hate it - I don't generally have CD-Rs on hand, but TONS of DVD-Rs!)
[Random_Nerd] So, what do you guys like and dislike about Lisa?
[Angelo] I like her humor
[Verithe] So, are Dionyl TVs and DVD players /not/ machines?
[Knockwood] She's right on the edge of 'we need to be careful' and 'no we don't'
[lazarus] she points out the absurdity of our situation.
[Verithe] She's a fun character.
[Angelo] I don't see the absurdity
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
[Knockwood] ou _are_ the absurdity. :)
[Angelo] naa Knock we have different assumptions
[Random_Nerd] Yeah. Dionyl DVD players are living creatures.
[Random_Nerd] But they still have region codes.
[BethE] She's fun. It's close to but not quite to the point of watching characters based on how you and I talk.
[Knockwood] So,Dionyl is like the Flintstones?
[Random_Nerd] In some ways.
[lazarus] so, where's my sharpies, and where's my extra power bars? *hunts*
[Angelo] sharpies? cookies?
[Knockwood] We should take time to review the various prophecies...
[Verithe] The sharpies are under the sofa and the power bar has been borrowed by a friend. (?)
[BethE] Sharpies as in markers?
[lazarus] yah
[Knockwood] power bar: the kind you plug in or the kind you eat?
[Random_Nerd] Okay.
[Random_Nerd] Anything else before I head out?
[Knockwood] (I'm actually using my bro-in-law's computer in between messing with their dog. :) )
[Angelo] nope
[Random_Nerd] Okay, see you all next week.
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[Knockwood] Do we get Destiny points for our 'Bumble around like idiots' –REDACTED-? :)
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[Angelo] we get them as RN fell fit
[Verithe] We barely even bumbled around like idiots, this time.
[Verithe] Take care!
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[Angelo] well I go too maybe can catch some rest.
[Verithe] Take care and rest well. :)
[Angelo] I was writing thesame!
[Angelo] bye V.!
[Verithe] Bye!
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Chapter 24