Session 217

Chancel_Amyra
Chapter 31

=-= User mode for Angelo is now +ix
--»| YOU (Angelo) have joined #Nobilis
«Angelo» Hi guys!
«Random_Nerd» Hey.
«lazarus» hey
«Verithe» Hi, Angelo!
«Knockwood» Hiya Angelo
«Angelo» @laz: see? I put online all the logs! :-)
«BethE» Hi Angelo! *HUG*
«Angelo» Hi Bethish Beth! *hug*
«BethE» So how was the new species of Nobilis out in the wild, Knock? Did it grab some young person and drag it off under a dealer table?
«lazarus» I _had_ an iPad stand ... I /know/ I did!
«Verithe» Your living space probably borrowed it and replaced it with some previously-lost item.
«Knockwood» well, it was just sitting on the rack, so there's a good chance it was sated.
«Verithe» That's the way lost things work in my living spaces, anyway.
«Knockwood» 2 copies, actually
«Angelo» I'm... well I'm yet waiting my copy... (add a bit faded smile here)
«lazarus» (it was pretty much a couple wires with screws to hinge, so nothing fancy, but still!)
«Verithe» I hope it gets to you soon, Angelo! :(
«BethE» Maybe you should poke them, Angelo. For tracking records.
«Angelo» I too Verithe
«Angelo» yep T, already poked.
«Angelo» well, the pdf is already in my hands :-/ but I have refused to read all it until I receive a paper copy because a paper copy will be more easily read without my eyes exploding
«lazarus» found the stand!
«Angelo» @laz: yay!
=-= BethE is now known as Theresa
=-= lazarus is now known as Brian
=-= Knockwood is now known as DanteE
«Brian» (can someone remind me what I wanted to do? x_x I remember that there was something...)
«Angelo» warning/notice: if you see me disappear ... then morpheus had win against me
«Brian» morpheus - the dream lord?
«Random_Nerd» (You were trying to decide whether to make a deal with Jan ben Jan.)
=-= YOU are now known as FtiskAwayInTheSky
«Random_Nerd» (And... something about Entropy?)
«Verithe» The juxtaposition of the conversations broke my empathy, I think.
=-= Verithe is now known as Kite
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» yep Morpheus the dream lord threat to make me one of his mindless minion
«DanteE» or Morpheus, the black guy with the 2 pills?
«Brian» (I remember now that I was looking for Ftisk ... but there was something else. Should be in the logs, I think... but I'm not sure where those are x_x)
«Theresa» I have been asked to go and talk to Ftisk.
«Random_Nerd» The thing with your skeleton?
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» no Dante is alot less matrixish and moremoremoreDiscodanceishBeforeNobilis
«DanteE» ( http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Session_216 )
«Brian» not the skeleton one. Something else.
«Random_Nerd» Hmm...
«Random_Nerd» I'm looking at my log now.
«Kite» From last week or before?
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» I can remake you/laz skeleton!
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» and add a nice motor oil scent too!
«Kite» Kite can help!
«Random_Nerd» I don't see anything here near the end but the skeleton thing and the dante-ftisk thing.
«Random_Nerd» Are you sure you mentioned it in-character?
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» I remember Laz wanted to do something and he ask to remember him that
«Brian» not IC. OOC, in the post. It was about fetch stuff - ask to get the fetch brought to the meeting
«Random_Nerd» Oh, yes.
«Brian» ok. I'm set :)
«Random_Nerd» So, now, how many days later did you want to set this one?
«Kite» We have meetings scheduled for Ymir and [Angel of Mars], yes? Or at least pending?
«Random_Nerd» Yeah. If we jump ahead a few days, either of those can be ready.
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» day later? No one came to rescue Ftisk?
«Brian» and there's Drama to resolve, too?
«DanteE» also Jerren and Vassa, but we need to do other things first
«Theresa» I would like to have the talk with Ftisk first.
«Kite» Talk with Ftisk, then flash-forward?
«Random_Nerd» Okay.
«Random_Nerd» Let's see, who would go to see Ftisk?
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» haven't her a radar gift?
«Kite» Kite is obliviously watching all of the old Batman series at this time.
«DanteE» I asked Theresa, Team Mom.
«Random_Nerd» But would anyone go with her?
«Brian» Theresa was on her way, as Brian got back from JbJ and called out something like "Ftisk I have a favour to ... where is everyone?". So T's most likely to find him, I think.
«Theresa» I don't have my radar gift but if various plants are waving at Ftisk, would he notice?
«DanteE» not for this one.
«Brian» I think it's just a T/F scene.
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» he surely have no mind for the plant but they can see him and report where he is going
«Brian» (... slash does not imply slash ...)
«DanteE» Meanwhile you can tell me what JbJ wants for what
«Brian» right.
«Theresa» Okay, then, could Ftisk please fly by the Grove at some time in his moping?
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» let's say Ftisk run away in an isolated place, like the plateau or a Vulcan
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» or the grove, yes
«Brian» (blade-bones? I wonder what that would be like? Or courage-bones?)
«Kite» (Bones made of courage could be fun!)
«Theresa» Then Theresa shall go to the Grove.
«Random_Nerd» (I'm pretty sure having your bones replaced with blades would hurt.)
«Random_Nerd» (Although you could pretend to be Wolverine.)
«Random_Nerd» (But that would just be your bones slicing out of your skin. Which, ouch.)
«Random_Nerd» Ready?
«Brian» ("now you too can make snikt noises!")
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» and replaced with plant? broccoliMan?
«FtiskAwayInTheSky» yep ready!
«Kite» (No organics, I don't think)
«Theresa» Ready.
«Brian» ready.
«Kite» Ready!
«Random_Nerd» _____________START_________________
=-= YOU are now known as FtiskSad
«Random_Nerd» (rather, nothing alive.)

• FtiskSad fly in the groove
  
• Theresa walks into the Grove. "Thank you, Maple. *louder* Ftisk? Are you here?"
  

«Kite» (Oh, right!)
«FtiskSad» "... yes Theresa..."
«Theresa» *sigh* "I'm sorry that Dante broke your heart, Ftisk."
«DanteE» to Brian: "I just tried to Let Ftisk Down Easy, and he bolted off.
«Brian» *shakes his head* "never quite works that way, does it?"
«DanteE» "I asked Theresa to go after him."
«FtiskSad» "You? Dante talked to _someone_ of that???"
«DanteE» "You're limping."
«Random_Nerd» William, to Dante: "Oh, dear. Well, this has been coming."
«Brian» "Only barely. I talked with Jan ben Jan."
«Theresa» "Dante asked me to come and see if you are okay. He said that he had talked with you and that he is sorry for upsetting you. But he did not give details."
«Random_Nerd» The Maple sways in the breeze.
«DanteE» "What did you learn? And for what price?"
«Theresa» "But I would understand if you would prefer to be alone. Just like I would understand if you wanted to grab Kite and Gnomely and go home and not talk to any of us ever again."
«FtiskSad» "Ah, he have set his mind! Why o Cneph why he don't love me? what I have? what I can change?"
«Theresa» (Is the Maple saying something?)
«Brian» (... I can't even remember what I learned x_x)
«Random_Nerd» (It isn't saying something.)
«Random_Nerd» (The most important thing you learned, I think, is that Entropy A, doesn't know what's up with the prophecy about him, B, wants to know, and C, isn't willing to pay the price.)
«Brian» (true)
«DanteE» (Jan ben Jan: "My deepest fear which is grounded in reality is that I will not have enough body accumulated to make the sacrifice to determine what I should do to fix things. This is because I am still short, because the current rate of deals will not be enough before the end of the Age...")
«Random_Nerd» (Oh, yes. And that.)
«Theresa» "I don't know, Ftisk." *sits down under the Maple* "I don't know what Dante prefers in a mate. And I don't know if you can change into that which he likes. But on the other hand, would Dante be _worth_ change, especially _That Much_ change?"
«Random_Nerd» (That unless things change, Jan will not be able to implement his plan in time.
«Random_Nerd» (Besides, Dante is way too young for Ftisk, isn't he?)
«Brian» "The most useful thing I learned is that Entropy's hand is the price for knowing the result of his prophecy. He won't pay."
«Brian» "Then again, I also know that JbJ is afraid he can't save Creation."
«FtiskSad» "Are you kidding? I would mold all myself for him! I only need a shape he can love, but he said never, never ever!"
«DanteE» ironic: "How selfish of him."
«Theresa» (Maybe Ftisk likes them young. They can't all be into crones like you, dear.)
=-= YOU are now known as FtiskDetermined
«DanteE» "You'd think he didn't care."
«Theresa» "So he said he has no good feelings for you at all? None whatsoever?"
«Brian» "Entropy? Yeah."
«FtiskDetermined» "Theresa, only friend he said... you now, is like being on railroad, tied and the midday express is just passed on you"
«Brian» "JbJ did give me an offer - trade all my bones for knowing ... what was it ... the five worst things that we will be involved in? Something along those lines. Most threatening to Creation? Something. Seemed worth it - can replace by non-living things."
«DanteE» "All your bones?
«Theresa» "If you want, you can fight with my Acorn. Just no transformations, that wouldn't be fair. But you can wrestle with him."
«Brian» "all"
«Theresa» "And only friend...ouch." *sigh* "I honestly don't...oh...dear."
«DanteE» "... you realize, he's basically asking you for a big chunk of your humanity."
«Theresa» "You know how Dante is Honest, right, Ftisk?"
«Brian» "I figured I could ask Ftisk to cyborg me up temporarily."
«DanteE» "You sure that's temporary?"
«FtiskDetermined» "Thank you, that is really kind, You know what, probably he don't deserve me. Did you want to came with me for a walk? I Want to ask JbJ... pretty please?" *me grab expectantly her hands*
«Brian» "but... now I'm not so sure. And yeah - there's an end to the 'no living replacements'."
«Random_Nerd» (For, like, a year, tops!)
«DanteE» (Technically I said I could love him like a brother...)
«FtiskDetermined» "yep, that give _more_ weight to his only friends speech... he rreally meant it, no foreplay o like"
«DanteE» "... Brian, I've studied the effect of chronic pain on people.
«DanteE» "Which I have to assume is part of the deal.
«DanteE» "It's nowhere near pretty.

• Theresa looks at Ftisk in the eye. "Alright, Ftisk, I'll come with you. But if you're thinking of asking JBJ about what to do to make Dante love you, it'll probably involve mind-controlling Dante and thus not real love. But if you want company, I will go with you. And yes, Dante's Honesty means that what he said was true. No little white lies to make you feel better."
  

«Brian» "With Jan ben Jan, only the stated is part of the deal. There is no need for chronic pain or any of the other stuff - just nonliving things to replace the living tissue. Yeah, it'll suck, but also ... important."
«DanteE» "We _could_ just do what we've been doing, take things as they come.
«FtiskDetermined» "No I want a real love or nothing, I don't want a puppet, and yes I want company in this moment."
«Brian» "And then we'll be paralyzed by indecision and unsure how to move forward."
«Theresa» "Then you have my company, Ftisk."

• FtiskDetermined pray to JbJ *JbJ I have a question to ask and would like to be accompanied by my friend Theresa*
  

«DanteE» "Well... only if you take past behavior as an indicator of the future, sure."

• FtiskDetermined grin to Theresa
  
• DanteE is heavy on the irony today.
  

«Random_Nerd» Ftisk, it is clear to you that you may do so, and you feel a miracle taking hold of you. Do you resist it?
«FtiskDetermined» I don't resist
«Theresa» (Neither do I.)
«DanteE» "Think long and hard before you agree to it, Brian. We don't need it, and you'll be taking the brunt of the bad effects.
«DanteE» "Not to mention the chance that Ftisk will take his ball and go home."
«Random_Nerd» Ftisk, Theresa, you find yourselves floating near Jan ben Jan.
«Brian» "Yeah. I was counting on him to make this doable."
«FtiskDetermined» "Hi JbJ, what I have to ask for you to take all my piece that are not Warmain in me? I have nothing left in creation than tears and a broken heart..." *big sigh!*

• Theresa blinks.
  

«Theresa» "Uh, Ftisk. Wouldn't that take away all that's Data in you too?"
«DanteE» (aw, crap)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "Unacceptable. There must be fair exchange. This rule works in both directions. To violate it would make me less than myself."

• Theresa takes a breath again.
  

«FtiskDetermined» "Yep Data, da... Vulcan, all"
«Theresa» (I do have to say, though, awesome playing, Angelo.)
«FtiskDetermined» "JbJ and how can I ask that in an acceptable way?"
«FtiskDetermined» ( /me bow to the too kind word of Theresa )
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "In exchange for answering that question, I require the part of you that is in love with Dante, Power of Blades and Courage."
«DanteE» ( ... )
«Brian» (win to JbJ)
«Brian» (brb)
«FtiskDetermined» "Sure. I have no more use for it"
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "If the deal is accepted, you may not regenerate that part of yourself until after the end of the age."
«Theresa» (And this is why RN's the GM. ^^ )
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "And if anyone asks why you no longer love him, you are to tell them that it was the price of a deal with Jan ben Jan."
«FtiskDetermined» "Yep sure, same conditions as always"
«DanteE» (Should see if you can get more for it)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "It is necessary that you cut this part out yourself, as always. As this would be difficult under the circumstances..."
«Brian» (b)
«DanteE» (cuz, really, it's so much of your existence... :) )
«Random_Nerd» Several pieces of Jan shift and quake.
«FtiskDetermined» (I hoped for present love and past memories of love but still is acceptable that)
«FtiskDetermined» "can you or Theresa help me?"
«Random_Nerd» A knife with a blade that looks to be chipped from obsidian, with a bone handle and leather strips binding the two together flies out of Jan ben Jan, slowing as it moves through the space in which he turns, and comes to rest near Ftisk.
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "For this, you may use my soul-cutting knife."
«Theresa» (Does it feel like an Abhorrent weapon?)
«Random_Nerd» (Yes.)

• FtiskDetermined grab the knife
  

«Theresa» (*shudder*)
«Theresa» "You're sure, Ftisk?"
«FtiskDetermined» "yes I want to suffer no more, to no more log for one of his smile, for the thrill of be his pants"
«FtiskDetermined» "I want to put a stop to all!"
«Theresa» "Then perform your sacrifice."

• Kite doesn't quite know why, but a shiver goes down his spine.
  
• FtiskDetermined quickly (before fear or doubt can stop me) stab squarely on the mechanical's snail heart
  

«Random_Nerd» It hurts, but not in your chest. It hurts in your /mind/.
«FtiskDetermined» "ouch!"
«DanteE» to Brian: "What exactly is he offering in exchange?"
«Random_Nerd» You feel a chunk of your soul being ripped out by your own hand.
«FtiskDetermined» (cool!)
«Random_Nerd» Blood drips from your chest, and takes the form of the face of Dante, his false eye sparkling.
«Brian» "Information""
«Random_Nerd» And then it loses form and spirals away to join Jan ben Jan's form.
=-= YOU are now known as Ftisk
«Ftisk» "Wow!" *Ftisk tremble a bit*
«Random_Nerd» (Oh, and you now have an unassigned Bond point. Do you want to create a new Bond, or add it to one of your old ones?)

• Theresa bows to Ftisk. And gives JBJ a deeper bow.
  

«Random_Nerd» The blade tugs loose from your chest, and also drifts back down into Jan's turning form.
«Ftisk» can I decide later? like after the session?
«Random_Nerd» (Yes.)
«Ftisk» (cool!)

• DanteE feels a shiver himself...
  

«Ftisk» "Can I take the swo.. oh, nevermind"

• Ftisk jump up and down "uhm... now the idea of do all the drama just for Dante seem stupid!"
  

«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "The answer is, if you wish to still live afterwards, and as a Noble, you must ask me the best way to cause the Power of Wood to kill his own father. If you wish to live on as a Warmain, you must ask me what Ymera Gamaliel ought to do to preserve his life for the next three months."
«Random_Nerd» JbJ: "And if you wish to die, you mush ask me what the best possible reason to kill Theresa, Power of Plants is."
«Brian» (metagaming the Jan ben Jan!)
«Theresa» "Best possible _reason_?"
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "And if you wish to live on as you are now, you need ask nothing further."
«Brian» (... -_-;)
«DanteE» (?!)
«Ftisk» "that is a cool question JbJ!!!"
«Ftisk» "Theresa one I mean! Btw, Theresa, you know the answer???"
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "That is the answer to your question, as paid for. The things to ask me to get me to take all of your body save the Warmain parts."

• Theresa mutters, "Like you need a best possible reason to kill me, most people just use any old reason..."
  

«Ftisk» "Theresa I /like/ you!!!!"
«Theresa» "I do not know the answer, Ftisk. I would have to think more on the question, first."
«DanteE» (uhoh)

• Theresa smiles weakly. "Thank you, Ftisk. Shall we head back to Amyra now? JBJ is busy."
  

«Ftisk» "JbJ thank you, but now my previous reason are no more important! SO I won't ask any more!"

• Ftisk bow
  

«Ftisk» "Yep Theresa, back home is good! ^_^"
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "Yes, that is the correct path to take to gain that result."

• Ftisk grin to JbJ
  

«Kite» (I would be amused if this now means JbJ is in love with Dante.)
«Theresa» "Thank you, Ymera JBJ."
«Brian» (that would be hilarious)
«Ftisk» (that would be cooooooool!)
«Random_Nerd» (He does, in fact, make the parts he takes part of himself.)
«DanteE» (maybe I can flutter my lashes and get him to lower his prices?)
«Random_Nerd» (This has been established.)
«Ftisk» (is established that JbJ love Dante?)
«Brian» (I would also be amused if Kite came back going "nananananananananaBATMAN!")
«Kite» (Maybe Dante can use this a leverage in one of his projects)
«Kite» (You ruined his entrance!)
«Random_Nerd» (But Ftisk is far from the only person that he's made such a deal with. Jan ben Jan's emotional life is... conflicted.)
«Kite» (Oh my!)
«Ftisk» (poor JbJ)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "And, be aware, I will not pass on any information of any present or former loves. That is protected by client confidentiality."
«Brian» (... I wonder what question would be worth George Takei's "Oh my!")
«Ftisk» (so others ask JbJ he price to Warmain-dom?)
«Ftisk» "Thank you JbJ!!!!!!!!"
«Random_Nerd» (Different loves are the price for different information.)
«Theresa» (I think it's more a 'protection against Entropy')
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "No thanks are necessary. Service and price are balanced against each other. No obligation of gratitude attaches."
«Ftisk» "Keep my thank you as a gratis extra then"
«Brian» (I think that's why us wild-folks like JbJ so much)
«Theresa» (Well, let's go home, Ftisk.)
«Brian» (either there's no gifts, or if there are, they are equal)
«Ftisk» (Ftisk is not wild...)
«DanteE» (we beg to differ)
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah. In some ways, JbJ's code is similar to that of the Wild.)
«Ftisk» (yep skip to home/later)
«Brian» (Ftisk gone wild? meep?)
«Random_Nerd» And with that, you're back in the Grove.

• Ftisk hug Theresa, "thank you for coming with me to JbJ"
  

«Brian» (RH to T at some point) "Theresa, how is Ftisk? I'd like to ask him a favour at some point - would he still be willing to do things with us?"
«Theresa» "You're welcome, Ftisk. Shall we go back to the others and see what's going on? I'm sure Kite has questions about the Batman show."
«Ftisk» "sure! Let's go!"

• Ftisk fly around Theresa spurring at random times 'gosh Batman' or 'thund' or 'slenk' or like
  

«Theresa» *To Brian - "We're coming back to the Tower. You can ask him there."
«Theresa» (Fast forward?)
«Brian» (Can Ftisk turn himself into the POW! signs?)
«DanteE» (OK)
«Ftisk» (yes Brian he can)
«Kite» (Awesome!)
«Random_Nerd» *cut to Ftisk and Theresa arriving*
«Theresa» "So, what's been happening?"
«DanteE» "so if we talk to him, after we ... Ftisk."
«Brian» "Ftisk! How are you?"
«Ftisk» "Hi! Fine Brian"
«Brian» "Can I ask you a favor?"
«Ftisk» "sure!"
«DanteE» quietly, to Theresa: "What happened?"

• Kite swooshes into the room in a special-tailored batman costume.
  

«Brian» "I have a question of Jan ben Jan that I would like answered and holy crap is that Kite? .... anyway, I need to pay all my bones - could you set me up with a cybernetic replacement?"

• Kite runs circles around the room and then runs out.
  

«Theresa» *to Dante* "Ftisk is...calmer now. But I think that it's up to him to explain what happened. If he wants to."
«DanteE» (Which version of Batman, though?)
«Ftisk» "Coooool! batKite!!!"
«Kite» (old TV series)
«Brian» (Adam West, I assume - that's what Kite was watching :))
«Ftisk» "You are sooo material Brian!!! I just was rejected by Dante _minutes_ ago! And all you can think is _thaaaaat???? .... " *Ftisk start to giggle wildly!*
«Ftisk» "Aehm Sure Brian I can replace them, no problem"
«Brian» "You don't seem to worse for wear ... but thank you."
«Ftisk» (yes, humor sense for Ftisk is really really in need of help)
«Brian» (Ftisk is just kinda a weirdo. But he's our weirdo.)
«DanteE» "Huh. And here I thought it was something deep."

• Ftisk pout at Dante
  

«Brian» (I wonder what the price for "Can Brian save creation?" is? Not how, just can.)
«DanteE» "And Brian, I have to ask... Are You Sure?"
«Ftisk» "When you want the bone changed in mechanical ones? Now?"
«DanteE» "Don't forget that's also where your blood comes from."
«Random_Nerd» (Well, it would involve a lengthy digression on "What exactly do you mean by 'save creation'?")
«Random_Nerd» (Don't worry, you can become a vampire!)
«Random_Nerd» (Or get transfusions.)
«Brian» "As soon as possible, so I don't change my mind. I think I'm sure that I want the answer."
«Random_Nerd» (But the vampire thing is totally better. Chicks dig it.)
«Theresa» *(If you sparkle or wear a lot of hair gel.)
«Brian» (especially a certain blond one with a penchant for pointy sticks and fangs.)
«Random_Nerd» (Lesser Creation of Sparkle, Automatic When Appropriate.)
«DanteE» (Or, Ftisk can put in a blood maker. Y'know, the sensible option.)
«Kite» **(or are written by Anne Rice)
«Brian» ***(Or Kim Harrison)
«Brian» (whose Hollows novels are trashy, but still fun and pretty good. But trashy :p)
«Ftisk» (Blood is overrated! Motor oil is better! ... you can use it to fray too! :-P )
«Random_Nerd» (Ftisk, yes, you can make mechanical bones for Brian.)
«DanteE» (Would they make blood?)
«Random_Nerd» (That would be dangerously close to "living.")
«Brian» (and this doesn't get away from the Deadly Wound, just ... means Brian won't be a pile of goo.)
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah. With these, you can move around and so on without the "no bones" affliction preventing you.)
«Ftisk» (Nob3 mechanics are really cool in that way)
«Brian» (Affliction: dangerously anemic?)
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah, or "My Bones Are Not Actually Made of Bone.")
«Random_Nerd» (That way, you can treat the anemia, but not the root cause.)
«Random_Nerd» (So, let's see. Methods.)
«Random_Nerd» (Brian's bones count as Things of Amyra.)
«Random_Nerd» (If Ftisk makes the mechanical ones in-chancel, they will too.)
«Brian» (Affliction: I am a Cyborg. Could be cool for a Robocop type character :))
«DanteE» (Who has that domain again?)
«Random_Nerd» (Brian and Theresa.)
«Brian» (T, and Brian sorta)
«DanteE» (Hm, I'll have to consider getting it)
«Random_Nerd» (So, you could remove your current bones with a Summoning, and put the new ones in sans-trauma with a Motion.)
«Ftisk» ( /me nod nod )
«Random_Nerd» (If you used a summoning, rather than a motion, you would have to worry about immune complications and the like.)
«DanteE» (doesn't the fact that they're inside him screw things up?)
«Brian» (not anymore)
«Brian» (would have in GWB)
«Random_Nerd» (Not any more. Removing all his bones would, of course, cause a Wound.)
«Random_Nerd» (Because, I mean, OW.)
«Brian» (could a Motion swap them?)
«Ftisk» (and move out them cause no wounds?)
«Ftisk» (jinx)
«Random_Nerd» (Hmm...)
«DanteE» "I still say you don't have to do it, Brian."
«Random_Nerd» (Actually, you're right. A single motion would suffice.)
«DanteE» (Dante may be getting a bond to his humanity... hm...)

• Kite bursts back in, still in costume, and stays this time.
  

«Brian» (alternately, Kite or Ftisk could do something fancy)
«Brian» "Hi Kite. Enjoy the show?"

• Ftisk hug Kite "Wow! Cool costume!!!"
  

«Theresa» "Do what?"
«Brian» (I can see it now: Kite plucks a feather that looks suspiciously now like a batarang.)
«DanteE» to T: "Jan ben Jan offered Brian information in exchange for his bones."
«Random_Nerd» (Okay, so, to make sure we're on the same page for the deal.)
«Kite» (Kite can assemble a skeleton out of....well the list is pretty long)
«Random_Nerd» (JbJ will tell you of the five greatest threats you will face in the near future. He won't say how they'll turn out, just what the situations will be.)
«Kite» "Hello, Brian and yes I did!"
«Ftisk» "Cool! I wonder if JbJ can answer more call at the same time or peoples go in waiting ‘chambers’?"
«Random_Nerd» (These will not include threats caused by things JbJ is blind to, like things Outside, Excrucians in Creation, some adepts of High Summoning, and so on.)
«Brian» (that's what I asked for. And not the five greatest to me, but the five greatest to Creation that we will face.)
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah.)
«Brian» (which, as we all know, is a totally different list ... that happens to possibly be exactly the same)
«Random_Nerd» (Heh.)
«DanteE» (It's the whole being-PCs bit)
«Theresa» "Wha..why...wh...I hope it's a good deal?"
«Random_Nerd» (And after all five situations have occurred or been prevented from occurring, you can regrow your bones.)
«Brian» (right, that's what it was. I expect one of them, then, to be the turning of the Age)

• Ftisk blink to T. question
  

«Brian» "Ftisk, let's do this. I've wondered what cyberware would feel like for a while ... might as well see."
«DanteE» "Well, it's all about the 5 biggest threats to Creation we'll face.
«Ftisk» (so Ftisk restart love Dante and Brian regrow bones at new age? ... interesting!)
«DanteE» "So... it's great intel. But I really don't like that price."
«Ftisk» "OOOK!"
«DanteE» (you're letting him monkey with you? :) )
«Ftisk» (is Ftisk that do the motion or he make the cyberbones only?)
«Brian» (he makes the cyberbones, Brian can insert them.)
«Random_Nerd» (Ftisk /may/ begin to love Dante again, if he wants to.)
«DanteE» (Of course if you're doing it you can put things in the bones...
«Random_Nerd» (Make sure to include the little ones for in his ears.)
«Ftisk» (yep yep RN, not actually threat-ing Dante with that)
«Kite» "What, exactly, is going on?"
«Theresa» "Man, JBJ is getting a lot of business today."
«Brian» (I could see Dante seriously trying to stop the turning of the Age, otherwise :p)

• Ftisk make a full set of cyberbones for Brian, completes of monkey tail ones.
  

«Theresa» (He's not fond of apocalypse.)
«Random_Nerd» (Dangerous Situation #5: The age ends, Ftisk begins to love Dante again, and tries to make up for lost time. Hilarity ensues.)
«Brian» (hee)
«DanteE» (ack)
«Ftisk» (lol)
«Brian» Brian spends a bunch of MPs, but I'm not sure exactly what, to swap piles of bones.
«Ftisk» (you add the monkey tail too?)
«Brian» (no monkey tail.)
«Random_Nerd» (What's your Domain: Things of Amyra rating?)
«Ftisk» (sigh Brianmonkey would have been awesome!)
«Brian» (no skin for it :p) (Um. 1 or 2. Maybe 3? ... I can't remember, let me check.)
«DanteE» (What kind of accessories are you getting? claws? built-in iPod?)
«Random_Nerd» (You need a level 6 miracle to do this.)
«DanteE» (Wi-fi interface for your skull?)
«Random_Nerd» (But remember the discount for in-chancel miracles.)
«Theresa» (Can Theresa assist?)
«DanteE» (download porn anywhere?)
«Ftisk» (wifi was in the tail/antenna... :-P )
«Brian» (D: Amyra 2. So 4 DMPs - 3 for In-Chancel?)
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah. One DMP, then.)
«Ftisk» (laser fingers?)
«Brian» (if this works well, Brian may go full-conversion ...)
«DanteE» (More seriously... make it out of an ultra-tough polymer so you have effective +1 Aspect to resist damage)
«Random_Nerd» (Nah, a noble's more sturdy than inanimate matter.)
«Brian» (I don't know if we can do bone-lacing in this system :p)
«Random_Nerd» (You can, but it would probably count as a Wound, and make you easier to kill.)
«Random_Nerd» (As it turns out, Miracles » Plastic.)
«Random_Nerd» (So, do you do it, Brian?)
«Brian» (just simple replacement) (prays to JbJ) "I have the bones. I have another question, as well, which I will ask after. Which I hope wouldn't have cost bones."
«Random_Nerd» This feels exactly how you would expect it to if you magically ripped out every single bone in your body and then replaced them with mechanical forgeries made by a whimsical snail.
«Theresa» (Whimsy!)
«Random_Nerd» In other words... you've had better days, yeah.
«Brian» (so ... interesting?)
«Random_Nerd» (Memorable!)
«Ftisk» (lol)
«Random_Nerd» Now, you're a Noble, and you have Immutable. So you don't die from shock or anything. You don't even pass out.
«DanteE» (Think you should drink more.)

• Kite watches the proceedings through his Batman mask.
  

«Ftisk» (and whimsical is a good description of Ftisk)
«Random_Nerd» Brian, you feel Jan's miracle taking you.
«Theresa» (Does Brian become a pile of goo for a second?)
«Brian» (alcoblood. The vodka's there to make it taste good.)
«Random_Nerd» (No, because he uses a Motion to transpose the bones, rather than miracles that would remove one and then put in the other.)
«Brian» Brian will let it.
«Random_Nerd» You float in the cold space above Jan ben Jan, your bones next to you.
«Brian» (Goo balls! ... - the sign painter)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "Very well. You have done your part, and I will do mine. One moment as I make the necessary sacrifices so that I will know."
«Random_Nerd» Something slightly shifts in the arrangement of his cold moon made of severed body parts and frozen blood.
«Random_Nerd» Your bones float towards him, and connect where they land.
«Theresa» (I imagine RN like this: http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/funny-pictures-excellent.jpg )
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "These dangers are in no particular order. The timing on some of these is... unclear... to me. As are some of the causes. In some cases, I can see effects, but not the cause. In others, the reverse is true."
«DanteE» (You imagine he's a frog?)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "The Angel Barakiel will induce the Power of Shadows to summon a Lawbreaker, and will take council with it. From this point on, all his subsequent actions will be outside of morality, truth, and my own sight, and will be dominated by the madness that is a Lawbreaker's price."
«Brian» (... I remember that ... aw crap.)
«DanteE» (urk)
«Theresa» (A smug frog.)
«Theresa» (I don't remember that being a price of a Lawbreaker, but it's been awhile.)
«DanteE» (Wait, wouldn't that mean anyone who's already done that would be unseeable by JbJ?)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "Magister Ha Qadosh Berakha will discover something, which I cannot see, that will cause him to call into doubt his own loyalty to Creation. This will cause him to disavow all association with yourself and your associates, to renounce his position on the Council of Four, and to seclude himself. I cannot see who will take his place, which is itself disturbing."
«Ftisk» (Brian!)
«Brian» (Or Barakiel? Or Shirk...)
«DanteE» (Conrad? Or Shirk?)
«Ftisk» (Do you mean Vassa?)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "The Magisters of the Wild will come to believe that if they kill themselves, they will be able to reincarnate outside of reality. One in three will do so, causing the outright destruction of many Estates. They will not succeed in their ambition, for their theory will prove to be entirely backwards."
«Brian» (interesting wording.)
«DanteE» (That sounds a lot like Brian's theory about fetches. Or Shadows')
«Brian» (not really Brian's. Brian's is kind of the reverse of that one ...)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "Ymera Entropy, Lord of the Earth, will leave Creation and enter the Outside. If he returns, I do not see it. Unlike Berakha, his seat will remain unfilled."
«Kite» (If they give birth to themselves, they will....deincarnate inside reality?)
«DanteE» (and that's a _danger_?)
«Brian» (that's got the potential to be Very Bad)
«Theresa» (They died in Outside and reincarnated here?)
«Kite» (He will likely be taking his Estates with him)
«Theresa» (A power vacuum is not good.)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "The True God Jan ben Jan, lord of the Second Age, will in despair of achieving his goals decide to take the necessary body parts by force, retroactively stealing them from the Nobles and Gods of his age. This will break the rules that he operates by, and remove his abilities of prophecy. Following this, he will attempt to make the divination anyway. The result will be the death of Jan ben Jan, and no usable information."
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "...huh."
«Random_Nerd» He turns for a moment.
«Brian» "... huh."
«Ftisk» (Cool!)
«Brian» "Does this now mean that last will not come to pass?"
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "No. That's definitely going to happen unless factors I'm blind to, including people influenced by this prophecy, prevent it."
«Theresa» (Huh. I now expect him to tap/ping his globe as if to get a better reception.)
«Kite» (Unless JbJ is suicidal?)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "Still, it puzzles me. It does not seem like me. Still, that is the prophecy you have bought."
«Theresa» (Or desperate because Creation is ending.)
«Brian» "But you are now affected by this prophecy - would you not be able to prevent yourself from doing so?"
«DanteE» (So, if Brian says "Uh, don't do that."...)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "The prophecy is not a thing distinct from me. For me to attempt to prevent it once it has been made would break my rules no less than the situation described, with the same result."
«Brian» "So you literally cannot stop yourself from filling it."
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "Perhaps you see, now, why there are certain things I wish not to be asked."
«DanteE» (So... we need to help him get the parts?)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "I could stop myself, but the effect would be the same as if I had, as by stopping it I would do an act equivalent to that which I have seen."
«Brian» "I will find out how to prevent it."
«DanteE» (So, Brian could stop him?)
«Random_Nerd» (Potentially.)
«Brian» (yep, but not by convincing him to not. So ... ?)
«Random_Nerd» (But not with Jan ben Jan's complicity. He wouldn't be helping you.)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "You had said that there was another question. Ask it quickly, if you must. I would be alone."
«Brian» "If you are able to answer, what is the price for knowing how to transpose my perception onto that of my Fetch's, and be able to return it to Creation?"
«Kite» (We should advertise JbJ's services! Maybe with more lucrative body part economy, he will not despair!)
«Brian» (more likely: we could save Creation, and have him believe we will, so that he doesn't have to)
«Ftisk» (ads on all ysadrill!)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "I cannot answer such questions. Such an act, if possible, would be a thing I would be blind to."
«Brian» "I figured as much, but thought I would ask. I will leave you to your meditations"
«DanteE» (So, Theresa and Ftisk and Kite go around telling people about the answers they got and how useful they are?)
«Ftisk» (mine was really world changing!)
«DanteE» (Order now and get a genuine Lord-of-Blades body part remover!)
«Random_Nerd» (And I have to say with your question for him... I'm really glad that I've been plotting out the long-term agendas of various NPCs.)
«Random_Nerd» Jan ben Jan: "GO."
«Random_Nerd» His miracle grips you and hurls you back to Amyra.
«Brian» (That's part of why I knew I could ask such a question, RN :))
«Random_Nerd» (You can take a Wound to resist it, or oppose it with a miracle.)
«Brian» "That was ... interesting. And disturbing." (no, no opposition)
«Ftisk» (*Barbie voice* Poor JbJ Knowing of his demise is hard!)
«Random_Nerd» (I was awfully inclined to find a reason to say no... but it was a thing that JbJ would want to know himself, especially at that price.)
«Random_Nerd» (So I figured, hell, it's the same cost as a Word of Command. And those can get a /lot/ done.)
«DanteE» "Was it worth it?"
«Random_Nerd» (Oh, and you get a Revelation for your civil war planning project.)
«Ftisk» "Was it?"
«Brian» (neat. Can I get a Failure for Outside stuff, for not being able to learn how to switch into my Fetch, or will we put that off, and have him do things through practice?)
«Random_Nerd» (Eh... yes.)
«Brian» "It was, though I have work to do."
«Ftisk» "Work???"
«Brian» "We have to save Jan ben Jan."
«Brian» "From himself."
«Brian» "Without him knowing."
«Ftisk» "Ohhhhhhhhhh, I like him!"
«DanteE» "_Save_ him? ... Save _Him_?"
«Kite» "Is he being assaulted by villains!?"
«Ftisk» "from himself?"
«Brian» "He will end up destroying himself."
«Kite» "...."
«Ftisk» "oh, strangely I'm not so surprised.. he is sooo overweight!"
«Brian» "and he can't not, now."
«Random_Nerd» (Oh, and just so you know... none of those things there are fishing expeditions on my part. I have specific things in mind for all of them.)
«Kite» "That sounds stupid. We must stop him!"
«Brian» (I've seen hints at all of them, I just wanted to zero in on what was important :D)
«Ftisk» "he must eat more healthy things! Yes!"
«Brian» "He needs to believe that he does not need to save Creation."
«Brian» "... or that he will."
«Ftisk» "So is stress inducted fasting... uhm..."
«DanteE» (Or, gen enough that he can save Creation without going to extremes)
«DanteE» "Once more, with clarity?"
«Theresa» "Brian, maybe you should write everything down first. So we don't..intterrupt."
«Brian» "Right. I'll be in my office."
«Brian» Brian goes to his office. Prays to Shadows "Shadows, has Barakiel yet asked you to summon a Lawbreaker?"
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "I /told/ you about it the /last/ time we talked."
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "That's the /point/. Why did you think I was working on reaching my crown?"
«Ftisk» ( /me make popcorn for all)
«Brian» (... yes, Brian's keeping information from the other PCs. He thinks he has a reason, but really? He doesn't.) (pray) "Yeah. I thought you did. Have you summoned it? 'cause I have it from the highest authority of prophecy that doing so is one of the major threats to Creation."
«Kite» "We need bat-ropes to tie Jan ben Jan down and keep him from killing himself."

• Kite thinks.
  

«Kite» "Lots of bat-ropes."
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "It is currently confined to a circle. I haven't yet managed to tame it, but it is summoned and confined."
«Ftisk» "Did you make a batmobile Kite?"
«DanteE» "Before that, we need Brian to finish writing and tell us what Jan ben Jan said."
«Kite» "I couldn't figure out where all the functions would fit."
«Brian» (pray) "Jan ben Jan told me that the Lawbreaker will end up holding your Imperator in its thrall, that Barakiel's actions would no longer be governed by sanity. I don't know what to do about it, your Lord is stubborn, but I thought you should know."
«Ftisk» "Ah, but you can make one version and refine it progressively"
«Ftisk» "like..., like I did for Dollphaniel"
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "Don't worry, once the Lawbreaker is functional and being used, any of Jan ben Jan's prophecies will cease to apply to my boss."
«Brian» (pray) "That IS the problem, and the prophesy: that him removing himself like that is a threat to Creation." Brian's note: 1) Barakiel will be under the sway of a Lawbreaker. 2) HQB will step down from Creation. 3) Entropy. 4) Wildlords will have a Wrong Theory about Outside. 5) Jan ben Jan will (etc)
«Random_Nerd» (And here we have the beginning of the payoff for a plotline I started laying groundwork for on in 2008 when Unlikely Flowerings came out!)
«Brian» In the note, #3 is just the word "Entropy". 1 has some detail, 2 has no more detail, and 4 and 5 have all the detail JbJ provided.
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "But the thing is, he doesn't /know/ what my boss will do. He can't, I've done the math. And if he maybe hypothetically had some prophecy about some really bad stuff happening that involved him, that wouldn't apply any more either."
«Brian» (prays) "(verbatim quote of JbJ's prophesy w.r.t. Shadows et al)"
«DanteE» (Ask Shadows if he _really_ wants a mad angel, or one asking randomly.)
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "I thought you worked for a wildlord. Maybe I need to double-check that?"
«DanteE» (And you realize, if Entropy's departure is a danger to Creation it makes sense that his continued presence fixes things)
«Brian» (or if he dies before he leaves, that circumvents it)
«Brian» (pray) "Do as you will. If I have to oppose you, I will regret it, but I will do so."
«DanteE» (Wait... the prophecy is, he leaves and _isn't replaced_.
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "Because the fact that he'll be crazy will be A, great big news that totally changes everything, honest, B, not exactly something that we have no practice at dealing with, and C, something I'd expect you to cheer for ."
«Theresa» (Sanity, crutch.)
«Random_Nerd» (As opposed to HQB, who steps down, but is replaced by someone JbJ can't see.)
«DanteE» (Ask for his brother)
«Theresa» (Possibly, Barakiel.)
«Brian» (btw, has Shadows been looking more ornery to anyone else, as time goes on?)
«DanteE» (Run this by Consequences.)
«DanteE» (Or, ask him to run it by Consequences.)
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "I mean, as near as I can tell, you're trying to start a civil war and make a separate peace with the Excrucians. That's... I mean, you know that's crazy, right? I thought you were doing it on /purpose/."
«Ftisk» (yeah tell him Shadow!!!)
«Brian» Brian will exit his office, deliver the note, and ask Dante: "Dante, you've always been friendlier with Consequences than I have. Can you ask him about the Consequence of his boss being under total control of a Lawbreaker?"
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "So what, exactly, is the big deal?"

• DanteE reads the note. "What exactly did he say?"
  

«Brian» (prays to Shadows) "Prophecy is the big deal. And, thinking on it, it's not necessarily the fact that your boss gets under the sway of the Lawbreaker that's the threat, but other stuff that JbJ couldn't see. Still. Be careful."
«Brian» "Barakiel's actions will no longer be held by (somethingsomethingsomething, it's off my scrollbackbuffer :()"
«Random_Nerd» Shadows: "I spend six hours every day doing things Jan ben Jan can't see. He's not omniscient, just very well informed."
«Random_Nerd» (Jan ben Jan: "The Angel Barakiel will induce the Power of Shadows to summon a Lawbreaker, and will take council with it. From this point on, all his subsequent actions will be outside of morality, truth, and my own sight, and will be dominated by the madness that is a Lawbreaker's price.")

• DanteE heads for his office and grabs Conseq's flower
  

«Random_Nerd» You've got several fresh ones standing by.
«Brian» (then it would be: "After Barakiel talks with the Lawbreaker, all his actions will be outside of truth and morality.")

• DanteE hooks the flower up to his screen...
  

«DanteE» "Consequences. It's Dante. We need to talk, now."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Yes? This is a very busy time for me, so please make it quick."
«Brian» "I need to go be alone for a while." Brian heads to the Grove. Where he will attempt to move his perceptions onto his Fetch's, but doesn't know how to begin...
«DanteE» "OK. Your brother may be helping end the world. Want more details?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences, icy tone: "What. did. he. tell. you?"
«DanteE» "Not him, Jan ben Jan.
«Theresa» (Hmm..maybe he wasn't supposed to be talking to us...)

• DanteE reads off JbJ's prophecy about Shadows verbatim.
  

«Random_Nerd» Consequences relaxes, but only slightly: "Oh? What did he say, then?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "As a friend, and someone who I went out of my way to help when you were still learning the ropes of Nobility, I ask you to please keep that to yourself."
«DanteE» "Considering my brother traded his bones for that, I think it should be listened to."
«DanteE» "And that Lawbreaker is in a circle in Shadows' lab."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "It's under control, and you don't have to worry about it."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Again, you're telling me these things as if they are news."
«DanteE» "_Yes we do._ For the sake of Creation.
«Brian» (I believe based on the wording, technically we do have to worry about it :D)
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Why do you think we're doing this?"
«DanteE» "And considering who he told, we're obligated to worry about it.
«DanteE» "Because you're following orders you don't entirely understand."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "So, what you're telling me is, you think I haven't sufficiently considered the possible results of my plan?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Oh. Then you don't have to worry."
«DanteE» "You _can't_ consider the possible results, it involves a Lawbreaker!"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Who do you think you're talking to, Dante? Or should I say, Courage and Blades?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "I am not the Power of Bubble Gum and Ponies. I have been doing this for a very long time, longer than you've been alive. Things are under control."
«DanteE» "Consequences, step back a bit and look at the various entities involved.
«DanteE» "Jan ben Jan trumps even an angel.
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "In many areas. In some areas, he is blind, and knows no more than anyone else, and less than some. This is one of those areas."
«Brian» (d'oh. I forgot they don't know how JbJ's power works)
«Brian» (and I think Brian's the one JbJ has been most open about that)
«DanteE» "Do you really have a clear picture of what would happen if Barakiel was 'unfettered by morality and sanity'?"
«Brian» (and Truth!)
«DanteE» "... and Truth?"
«DanteE» (thanks)
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Yes. He would be directed entirely by one of his nobles, who knows his plans and is prepared for this situation."
«DanteE» "What would the Lawbreaker take first?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "We have some plans for that. Barakiel will remain biddable and sufficiently determined."
«DanteE» (biddable?)
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "And that will give him the opportunity to... well, you know what Shirk's doing to Creation? Eroding the rules that make it so Noble society functions?"
«DanteE» "We're very familiar, yes."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Well, two can play at /that/ game. Excrucian society also runs on certain rules. Warmains must be brave and never flee if they can avoid it. Mimics must conceal themselves."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "But what if they were to interact with someone to whom these rules didn't apply? Someone who they could tell was outside the scope of any moral order they use to order their lives?"
«Ftisk» (I like that plan!)
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "How would a Warmain react if, in a fight he was losing, he realized that it was /okay/ to run away, that it didn't /count/? And what would that do to his focus in all future fights?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "What would happen when a Mimic, sick and tired of the concealment, met someone who he realized that he could tell /everything/ and still not break the rules that the Enemy bound him to?"
«DanteE» "You just justified giving _them_ Lawbreakers. Not Barakiel."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Lawbreakers, on their own, pursue no agenda. They cannot be bound by any promises or oaths when they are outside your power."
«DanteE» (Somebody help me out here, I think I'm losing...)
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "But that invisibility to law, combined with focus and direction... it could be a weapon."
«Ftisk» (sorry, I like Cons. ideas)
«Brian» (I think we lost this one a while ago, Dante. Like, moons ago. Possibly years, real time)
«Theresa» (I can't think a way around it either.)
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "So, really. We know what we're doing here."
«Theresa» (We may have to let this one go and focus on the others.)
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Risky? Yes. But worth the risk."
«DanteE» "Tell me, have you ever seen someone stab an enemy with a sword... by first thrusting it through themselves?"
«Kite» (At least for the time being, I agree)
«DanteE» "That's what your boss is doing."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "And when it comes to managing the results of one's plans, believe me, I am quite as capable as Jan ben Jan. Indeed, he might want to think hard about what's going to happen to him if he keeps on with /his/ plans."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Yes, it is a move of desperation. But for all that, it's not an uncalculated one."
«DanteE» "He already did. Another prophecy he gave Brian involves his own death."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "See? And this is the guy you're trusting more than me when it comes to my plan and my estate."
«DanteE» "We may be able to stop that one, but I'd rather stop all five."
«DanteE» "Hold on...
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Don't try to stop this. It won't work out well for you if you do. I /assure/ you. It will not."
«DanteE» "This prophecy involves Barakiel himself taking counsel with the Lawbreaker.
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "I like you. I have since I met you. But this has been in the making for a long time. Do you know how many Powers of Shadows it took to get one who could do this?"
«DanteE» "That would also have him basically on the front lines, yes?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "In some situations, yes."
«DanteE» "Isn't that _your_ job?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "My job is to manage things so that my boss's plans work, in spite or because of his... various limitations."
«DanteE» "Barakiel shouldn't be taking counsel with the Lawbreaker, it should go through one of you."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Wouldn't work. We need me and Duty to direct it the afflicted person, Shadows to control the Lawbreaker, and Eclipses to remove obstacles."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Besides, many of these situations will involve direct and hostile contact with Excrucians. Barakiel is better able to survive such situations, and indeed thrive in them. My abilities lie elsewhere."
«DanteE» "... so, Barakiel won't be listening to it?"
«Brian» (BTW: who's to say that Barakiel, once removed from Truth, will believe who Duty and Consequences are?)
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "He will be listening to it. But he will also be listening to /me/. And I am much better at this than some creature from Outside that my brother's holding the leash of."
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah, this could go wrong.)
«Brian» (Since Brian left, I was hoping Dante might have that same thought :))
«DanteE» "If he's dealing with a Lawbreaker, what's to prevent him from throwing you away?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "I am."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "This is my job, and I am good at it."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "So, really. We're all going into this with our eyes open. Nobody was drafted, we all signed on for this job. There are risks, but we all think it's worth it. Don't mess this up for us, we're going to have enough balls in the air as it is."
«DanteE» "Look around at the world. Check how many people lost jobs and status because they believed themselves respected and irreplaceable withOUT the influence of a Lawbreaker. Then answer me again."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "So, you're working on saving the world, right? I think I heard that."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "You think you'll come up with a method that's utterly risk-free?"
«DanteE» "You honestly believe you _did_?"
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "Or will you end up with something that's the best you can manage, and you're going to have to make the best of it with preparation and a lot of hard work?"
«Theresa» (Dude has a point.)
«DanteE» (Not getting ideas...)
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "I know it's dangerous. We've spent years working on this plan, and it's the best we can come up with. If it works, we can throw the Enemy into serious disarray."
«Random_Nerd» Consequences: "So please. Don't do anything that will make it even harder."
«Ftisk» (brb)
«Random_Nerd» You feel the connection cut.
«Random_Nerd» (Any last words before we stop?)
«Brian» (nope)

• DanteE heads out of the office.
  

«Theresa» (Well, no one ever said that the end of the world would be easy.)
«Random_Nerd» _____________STOP_________________
«Random_Nerd» So, thoughts?
«Kite» "Nananananananana...."
=-= Brian is now known as lazarus
=-= Kite is now known as Verithe
«lazarus» I have no idea how to save JbJ.
«lazarus» I have multiple ideas on what to do about Entropy.
«DanteE» "Consequences believes the plan he and his brothers have been working on for years trumps Jan ben Jan's who-knows-where prophecy."
«Verithe» A project.
«Random_Nerd» Well, if anyone's in a position to save Jan ben Jan, it's Brian.
=-= Theresa is now known as BethE
«BethE» This is heavy stuff.
=-= DanteE is now known as Knockwood
«lazarus» I kinda get that Brian knows most about JbJ.
«lazarus» It's clear Consequences doesn't really know anything about JbJ
«Random_Nerd» He's been a lot more open with Brian than he has with most people who go to him.
«Knockwood» We should know more about Consequences, including how to persuade him...
«lazarus» for instance: few outside of us know that JbJ doesn't actually /know/ his prophecies.
«Knockwood» Right, which opens up the question of where are they coming from
«lazarus» (Yes, I am aware that going to peace talks with Excrucians lacking half of the top wound level is a bad idea. Still.)
«lazarus» by the way, Angelo: great play on Ftisk.
«Random_Nerd» Indeed.
«Knockwood» oh, worth noting:
«Ftisk» Thank you
«Knockwood» Dante doesn't know what Ftisk did...
«Ftisk» btw was 2 months ago that I prepared that
«Knockwood» which means, from his POV, Ftisk had a talk with Theresa and came back all bubbly...
«Ftisk» @RN: did you expect the question from Ftisk to JbJ?
«Knockwood» reinforcing the theory that his 'love' was just an infatuation
«lazarus» Brian's just assuming that Ftisk is being as fickle as always. ... which doesn't play well with how Ftisk treated that.
«Random_Nerd» I totally did not expect that question.
«Ftisk» :-)
«Random_Nerd» How was my response, for an off-the-cuff one?
«Ftisk» was the response I was expecting... or near spot on
«lazarus» It looked like you guys planned that one :)
«Random_Nerd» Heh. Sometimes stuff just works out.
«Random_Nerd» And I think /Angelo/ planned that, even if /I/ didn't./
«Ftisk» I was planning to have Theresa with Ftisk so he don't sell itself and ask as second question to give away only love but you asked first :-D
«Ftisk» anyway? personal destiny?
«Random_Nerd» Hmm.
«Random_Nerd» Did we do that last time, or did you tell me to put it off?
«lazarus» Bond: Batarang (1)
«Ftisk» last time we do that
«Ftisk» I put a free personal destiny balloon in my map then
«Random_Nerd» Okay.
«Ftisk» :-)
«lazarus» I should get laundry on, clean some dishes, and make Sara's lunch for tomorrow. Also, my lunch. I have a bunch of stuff to do still tonight x_x
«Random_Nerd» Hmm... let's take the 5 destiny struggle from last time, and upgrade it to a 10-destiny Change.
«Ftisk» Wow!!!
«Ftisk» Cool!
«Random_Nerd» So, a total of 10, not 15.
«Knockwood» who else gets points? Brian?
«Ftisk» I think so!
«Random_Nerd» But the Dante thing has been a big part of Ftisk's life for a while.
«lazarus» I'm not quite sure which part the Revelation is for for me.
«Ftisk» well I have to go. Was an awesome session!!!
«Ftisk» bye!
«Random_Nerd» The civil war one, I figure. Because your question was partially motivated by your plans there, right?
«BethE» Well, guys, I need to get to bed. *HUG* Angelo, again, _awesome_.
«lazarus» bye Ftisk!
«lazarus» and Beth!
«Knockwood» g'night Angelo, Beth
«lazarus» I mean, which part of the answer is the revelation?
«Verithe» Take care, Beth and Angelo!
«Knockwood» all of them! Have fun with your 50 points! :)
«Random_Nerd» I figure the whole general view of the future, taken as a whole, is a revelation.
«lazarus» ah, ok.
«Random_Nerd» Individually, the chunks probably wouldn't for that project.
«Random_Nerd» Maybe they would if you had a Figure Out What The Hell Is The Deal With Barakiel project or something.
«Knockwood» (And it just occurred to me what we can do...)
«lazarus» I was a little taken, because I've got the idea that a Revelation is a "how about now?" kind of escalation thing
«Random_Nerd» (Start a lemonade stand!)
«Random_Nerd» Well, this seems to me to be that kind of escalation. Doesn't it to you?
«Verithe» (Yes! Bat-lemonade!)
«Knockwood» (Show Consequences a prophecy.)
|«-- BethE has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: All shall love me and despair?)
«Random_Nerd» (Yeah, but he seems to have a "Yeah, I got your 'prophecy' right *here*!" attitude towards them.)
«lazarus» there were a couple surprises, but it was mostly kind-of-expected things. Even the Entropy one mostly got him thinking "Entropy must never leave Creation!" instead of whatever else.
«Knockwood» How many have come true?
«Random_Nerd» He and Barakiel are in the Cave Johnson school of what to do if life gives you lemons.
«lazarus» but, I suppose, 5 at 2 points each for information is the same amount of points, so :p
«Verithe» (I would rather have a "Prove Consequences right" project, but Barakiel's Nobles aren't as important to Kite.)
«Random_Nerd» (http://www . youtube . com/watch?v=g8ufRnf2Exc)
«Verithe» (But...I /like/ lemonade!)
«lazarus» (I was surprised that Barakiel was on the list. JbJ was a natural progression. Entropy would have been in some form or other. the Wildlords thing was the only total surprise. Something was bound to happen with HQB, but I wasn't sure what. So, now we know more about the plot threads, and which are the most possibly devastating)
«Random_Nerd» Well... the in-Creation plot threads.
«lazarus» true.
«Random_Nerd» You got some hints on other stuff, but not enough to know what's really going on yet, I don't think.
«Random_Nerd» Well, I'm not sure.
«lazarus» I was actually expecting a "During the Age change, Attaris Ebrot Appeka will reveal its true identity" or some such.
«lazarus» and I was silly to expect the Kings to be explicit there, given that he can't see them.
«Knockwood» OK.
«Knockwood» Here's the plan:
«Knockwood» Find a place to hide.
«Random_Nerd» Step #1: Combustible Lemons...
«Knockwood» Let everybody kill themselves.
«lazarus» ask Jan ben Jan: "where is C'neph?"
«Knockwood» Come out when the shouting stops and take whatever's left.
«Random_Nerd» I strongly suspect the answer is "Fucked if I know!"
«lazarus» or, alternately, "are you an aspect of C'neph?"
«Random_Nerd» If he is, he doesn't know it.
«Knockwood» (!) He isn't. The guy he's getting answers from is.
«lazarus» (kwd: the Fallout approach, I see)
«Random_Nerd» But he does have some... unusual traits for an Imperator.
«Random_Nerd» For one thing, he created himself. Most of them don't do that.
«lazarus» I suspect that he /could/ answer the question "are you an aspect of C'neph" with a yes or no, he just has to ask his information.
«lazarus» hm. What if C'neph can't be found because he fractured himself and turned himself into the Estates? ... not in this Creation, I believe, but it would be a neat explanation
«Random_Nerd» It would explain some stuff.
«Random_Nerd» For one thing, why Angels, back when they were practically the only Imperators, heard the "voice of Cneph."
«lazarus» anyway. I've gotta get stuff done. So, g'night!
«Random_Nerd» Later.
«Knockwood» g'night laz
«Random_Nerd» Good session, everyone.
|«-- lazarus has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: lazarus)
«Verithe» Take care!
«Random_Nerd» Okay, and I need to get up in seven hours, so I should probably go to bed.
«Knockwood» I should split too.
«Random_Nerd» Later, everyone.
|«-- Verithe has left irc2.magicstar.net (Disintegrated: ChatZilla 0.9.87 [Firefox 5.0/20110615151330])
«Knockwood» good night
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