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(08:03:36 PM) The topic for #dkap_amber is: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic
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(08:04:25 PM) Cagliostro: ahoyhoy
(08:04:32 PM) mode (+o dkap) by Cagliostro
(08:04:37 PM) dkap: I'm going to try and hook mike up with a computer, since he is currently without.
(08:05:47 PM) Cagliostro: how is that even possible, in your house?
(08:06:07 PM) current topic is: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic
(08:06:15 PM) dkap: Nice.
(08:08:48 PM) Auricle [~chatzilla@4.156.81.56] entered the room.
(08:08:56 PM) dkap: Greetings.
(08:08:56 PM) Cagliostro: hola, auricle
(08:09:07 PM) Auricle: Hello
(08:09:22 PM) ***Auricle is currently pulling out her hair over burning to CD in winamp.
(08:10:20 PM) Cagliostro: sorry, I haven't used winamp
(08:11:11 PM) Auricle: I've never had this problem with it before. I've used it for years, upgraded months ago, suddenly need to burn, and where's the burn button? Totally gone. Stupid winamp.
(08:12:22 PM) dkap: Sad for winamp. Can you dergade? Un-upgrade? Retrograde? What is the word for it? Revert, I guess?
(08:12:35 PM) dkap: Whatever everyone is doing from Vista to XP.
(08:12:47 PM) Cagliostro: "rightsize"
(08:12:48 PM) Auricle: I'm reinstalling it to see if I've missed something during install, seems possible from their support forms.
(08:14:25 PM) dkap: Rightsize? Isn't that what the Whopper is trying to become?
(08:14:41 PM) Cagliostro: http://www.winamp-faq.de/english/wa5/documentation/ripburn.htm#02
(08:14:50 PM) Cagliostro: but I do see hints that burning might be a winamp pro thing
(08:15:05 PM) Cagliostro: dunno, about the whopper. but vista is a whopper of a flopper.
(08:15:14 PM) Cagliostro: so did you manage to find a second computer for Mike?
(08:15:40 PM) Auricle: they moved it to pro? how annoying.
(08:15:43 PM) dkap: He's ... umm ... visiting the necessary at the moment.
(08:15:56 PM) Auricle: Of course, I've got the old versions. dum de dum...
(08:16:56 PM) dkap: News flash about a remote player, she figured out that Ilk is the secret power behind Chaos, and wants to ingratiate her character into his organization, so she has a better survival chance, and possibly move higher up in the food chain.
(08:17:10 PM) Cagliostro: wow, S-M-R-T.
(08:17:26 PM) Cagliostro: although Chaos has multiple secret powers behind it, some more mythical than others.
(08:18:13 PM) dkap: I asked her if she is laying an exit strategy, or plans on how to take him down, she was shocked, and replied that since he seems to always come out ahead, and flourish, she was simply going to join his band, and prove that she was loyal at any cost, and mean it, holding nothing back.
(08:18:45 PM) dkap: Isn't that how suicide bombers come into existence?
(08:18:59 PM) dkap: She also tagged either him or Rainbow as my favorite NPC.
(08:19:02 PM) Auricle: *giggle*
(08:19:28 PM) dkap: I love my players.
(08:19:33 PM) Cagliostro: maybe. but thanks to norton, we can have repeat suicide bombers. Like Eric I.
(08:19:45 PM) dkap: I know ... that's why I'm enjoying this.
(08:19:48 PM) Auricle: ALWAYS have an exit strategy.
(08:20:23 PM) dkap: Of course, she, being Amberite, has no real way to know who he "really" is or how to find him ... and she doesn't want to wander about saying his name out loud, because that got one of her companions killed ...
(08:20:40 PM) dkap: So, it's an interesting ride at the moment.
(08:20:54 PM) Cagliostro: huh. I wasn't aware that Ilk-calling could be fatal.
(08:21:01 PM) Cagliostro: it's an interesting world at the PC scale. ;)
(08:23:16 PM) Auricle: Indeed.
(08:23:47 PM) Auricle: Are they still calling themselves Amberites?
(08:23:56 PM) Auricle: I mean, technically we don't have a name.
(08:25:30 PM) dkap: Well ... if Ilk, being logrus, investigates his invocation during a self-blood-based pattern-ritual, to try and build up whatever residual pattern energy that existed ...
(08:26:06 PM) Cagliostro: Good question. I was going to suggest Dworkinites, but that could be confused with followers of Dworkinetics. Which should really be Dworkinologists.
(08:26:24 PM) Cagliostro: ah, self-inflicted boom.
(08:27:12 PM) Auricle: Boom!
(08:28:02 PM) Cagliostro: so, 8:30- shall we start?
(08:28:17 PM) dkap: Getting Caelin on line.
(08:28:54 PM) ***Auricle thacks winamp again.
(08:29:01 PM) Auricle: silly program.
(08:30:51 PM) caelin [~caelin@pool-71-184-105-219.bstnma.fios.verizon.net] entered the room.
(08:30:56 PM) Auricle: Yay!
(08:31:00 PM) caelin: Hah
(08:31:11 PM) caelin: Alive again, at last...or something.
(08:31:29 PM) dkap: Connection is a good thing.
(08:31:35 PM) dkap: Right then, onto the game.
(08:31:49 PM) dkap: When last we left our intrepid heros ...
(08:31:56 PM) Cagliostro: who they?
(08:32:52 PM) Auricle: Heroes?
(08:33:08 PM) dkap: Hey! Leave me my delusions.
(08:34:17 PM) dkap: I believe you all were not getting arrested on the way to Spring Random?
(08:34:27 PM) caelin: exact;y
(08:34:29 PM) caelin: +l
(08:34:48 PM) Auricle: We had successfully avoided being arrested
(08:34:51 PM) Cagliostro: yes
(08:34:56 PM) Cagliostro is now known as Jean
(08:35:04 PM) Jean: we had also failed to help the goon squad, but we're not highly motivated
(08:35:05 PM) dkap: And did you actually verify that they are in the holding area?
(08:35:23 PM) dkap: You did help the goon squad, by reporting the Impostors.
(08:35:55 PM) caelin: we did not offer combat assistance or magic assistance to thegoon squad.
(08:36:06 PM) caelin: Besides, some of us would just have made things worse. :)
(08:36:08 PM) dkap: Well ... they didn't deputize you either.
(08:36:13 PM) caelin: true
(08:36:31 PM) dkap: Matter of fact, since you are Respected Exceptions, they probably felt it was their duty to protect you, even.
(08:36:47 PM) Jean: we didn't make it to the holding area
(08:36:51 PM) caelin: Fine by Caelin. No complaints there
(08:36:56 PM) Auricle: I'm with Respected Exceptions! How cool.
(08:37:11 PM) Auricle: No, we'd just enlisted their escort, hadn't gotten any further.
(08:38:22 PM) dkap: Well, Jean is a former Realms Lord.
(08:38:34 PM) dkap: However Temporary or Probationary.
(08:39:05 PM) Jean: I prefer Realms Lord Emeritus
(08:39:46 PM) caelin: lol
(08:39:50 PM) Auricle: hee
(08:40:13 PM) dkap: Indeed. And not many beings can say that, so ...
(08:40:33 PM) dkap: It's off to prison, with you folks, with the gaolers on your side.
(08:41:06 PM) Auricle: What a nice change of pace.
(08:41:10 PM) Auricle: I mean...
(08:41:23 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:41:39 PM) dkap: Thelbane ahead (or here the whole time, for Jean)
(08:43:03 PM) Auricle: will follow the other folks' leads, they know more here than I.
(08:43:21 PM) caelin: You've never been?
(08:43:24 PM) Jean: might as well describe it for auricle
(08:44:10 PM) Auricle: nodnod
(08:44:55 PM) dkap: Big, sort of squarish building, maybe 4 stories tall, mostly block-like, with big entrance doors facing you. Doors that a large cat could fit through.
(08:45:23 PM) dkap: There are a number of spires pointing upward, and, if you listen really closely, you can hear at least one of them still screaming.
(08:45:54 PM) caelin: Caelin tries not to remember, but fails.
(08:45:58 PM) Auricle: That's cool.
(08:46:34 PM) dkap: In front of the building is a porch area, three Chandroid-sized steps up, but with a ramp instead of steps.
(08:47:18 PM) dkap: Hanging out on the porch, and near the doors are a few (3? 4?) floating Jean sedan chairs.
(08:48:23 PM) caelin: Caelin turns to the escort.
(08:48:23 PM) caelin: "Have we permission to enter?"
(08:48:32 PM) dkap: On the porch is a large comfortable chair, that could be somewhat throne like, suited for a large purple dinosaur to sit in, with a table and cigars next to it, with a few other chairs sort of haphasardly arranged around it.
(08:49:11 PM) caelin: Ee!!! Nobody cleaned those up? What, did we figure it was an honor for the late king?
(08:49:34 PM) dkap: Goon: You are a house-head, and entaurage, and there are no special circumstances at the moment, so Thelbane is open to you.
(08:50:10 PM) dkap: Do you say that out loud?
(08:50:50 PM) dkap: (GM reminds Caelin that the king being "late" is not common knowledge.)
(08:51:32 PM) caelin: (Could have sworn that it was, but if he knows it's not common knowledhe, then no, he wouldn't have said it)
(08:51:40 PM) dkap: Check.
(08:51:46 PM) caelin: (He would have th9ught it REALLY LOUDLY, however)
(08:52:13 PM) dkap: And, thankfully, Amberites (and Chaosians) are not (typically) telepaths.
(08:52:34 PM) Auricle: The Gargoyle, however could be.
(08:53:09 PM) dkap: Does the Gargoyle really want to know (and therefore be exposed to) what is going on in Caelin's thinking mechanisms?
(08:54:23 PM) Auricle: HEck no.
(08:54:31 PM) dkap: Good good,.
(08:54:32 PM) Auricle: We're still recovering from his roof.
(08:54:36 PM) Auricle: Never mind his HEAD.
(08:56:21 PM) Auricle: So, does the House Head lead forward inside?
(08:57:11 PM) caelin: lol
(08:59:14 PM) caelin: Caelin will ask again if he has been granted permission to proceed.
(09:00:07 PM) Jean: "oon: You are a house-head, and entaurage, and there are no special circumstances at the moment, so Thelbane is open to you."
(09:00:11 PM) dkap: "Of course, good Sir."
(09:00:29 PM) caelin: Caelin will proceed, then
(09:00:40 PM) dkap: Not that I can grant or deny you permission.
(09:01:02 PM) dkap: There is an entirely toneless voice that announces "Former Realms Lord of Information, Head of House Moonlight, Kolvir's Keeper, and Guests."
(09:01:28 PM) Jean: the Jean/s travelling with the group will continue, and the barca-jeans will remain outside
(09:01:48 PM) Jean: gm: does the voice have an obvious source?
(09:01:55 PM) dkap: The doors.
(09:02:02 PM) Auricle: *looks startled*
(09:02:49 PM) Jean: that's new, innit?
(09:02:49 PM) dkap: It is a large room, a few galleries off to the sides, with a large (familiar to those who have sat at it) table in front of you.
(09:03:20 PM) caelin: "Doors? Talking? that's not new."
(09:04:03 PM) caelin: "Titles announced by the door? THAT'S new."
(09:04:31 PM) Jean: "Hm. It seems like it is something the etiquette guild would do, were they here. And they aren
(09:04:36 PM) Jean: 't"
(09:04:40 PM) dkap: Oh, the GM made a mistake ... it would have been "Former Realms Lord of Information, Head of House Moonlight, Head of House Swaville, Kolvir's Keeper, and Guests."
(09:05:37 PM) dkap: Mandor looks up, grins, and waves you over to him. He is standing by a side table, with a cup of wine in his hand.
(09:05:39 PM) Auricle: "It's certainly informative."
(09:05:52 PM) dkap: There are a few folks over there with him.
(09:07:18 PM) caelin: heh
(09:07:37 PM) caelin: Walk over to them and bow properly.
(09:08:01 PM) dkap: Including Mouseferatu.
(09:08:57 PM) dkap: And a Hampsterite.
(09:10:28 PM) Auricle: will follow Caelin.
(09:11:04 PM) Jean: ditto
(09:11:34 PM) dkap: Mandor bows to both Jean and Caelin, appropriately, and comments that they are both timely in response to his invitation.
(09:11:52 PM) Auricle: gm: Can I sense if the Randoms are in here?
(09:12:17 PM) Jean: "Invitation?"
(09:12:34 PM) caelin: "YES, invitation."
(09:12:58 PM) dkap: Mandor grins and suggests that Jean check with himself elsewhere.
(09:13:13 PM) ***Jean checks for invitations
(09:14:47 PM) dkap: There is an invitation to council in the hands of someone dead on Swaville's doorstep.
(09:15:25 PM) Jean: someone not me?
(09:15:45 PM) caelin: huh
(09:16:01 PM) caelin: not that I know about that...
(09:16:43 PM) Jean: well, you might, once I find out ;)
(09:16:44 PM) dkap: Yes, someone not you.
(09:17:50 PM) Jean: okay. Look down and check to see which me has the ring.
(09:18:47 PM) dkap: One of the folks in Swayville.
(09:18:53 PM) dkap: He does tend to stay there, just in case.
(09:19:07 PM) Jean: excellent. That Jean will don his Frogdalorean armor and travel to Thelbane via chair
(09:19:19 PM) Jean: and I'll have some other Jeans bring the late messenger
(09:20:46 PM) dkap: Good good.
(09:21:59 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Do we have any references on these people?
(09:22:55 PM) Jean: so, presuming Jean arrives intact, a Chandroid figure wearing Frogdalorean armor will enter, bow to Mandor as House head to highest ranked house head, and report a dead messenger.
(09:23:02 PM) dkap: Mandor: Actually, we could use some of your expertise, if you will. Mouseforatu is having a bit of trouble trying to decant Norton.
(09:23:13 PM) dkap: Norton apparently enjoys the bottle and doesn't want to come out.
(09:24:47 PM) caelin: "Mouseferatu?"
(09:27:30 PM) Auricle: "Bottle?"
(09:27:55 PM) dkap: A fairly large mouse, dressed like he stepped out of the lead role in one of the early, black and white Dracula movies, bows in your general direction.
(09:28:04 PM) dkap: He is slightly larger than the hampsterite that is near him.
(09:28:35 PM) dkap: Mandor guestures to the purple bottle on the table that seems to be the center of everyone else's attention.
(09:29:20 PM) Ilkndacian [~dkern@c-24-63-163-46.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:29:26 PM) caelin: WOW
(09:29:32 PM) Ilkndacian: testing...
(09:29:44 PM) Auricle: Hello the Ilk!
(09:31:09 PM) dkap: YAY! you found us. Ignore my typing.
(09:33:07 PM) Jean: what typing?
(09:33:27 PM) Auricle: I was wondering about that too.
(09:35:32 PM) dkap: I was typing to him on another channel.
(09:35:57 PM) Auricle: ahhh
(09:36:47 PM) dkap: Ilk, to sum up, since you have tendrils in Thelbane ...
(09:39:24 PM) dkap: That should catch you up.
(09:42:27 PM) Auricle: afk
(09:43:48 PM) dkap: Ilk, Caelin, the purple bottle does, somewhat resemble the one that Cagliostro is particular about (and was rescued when the Torturer Guild's last recruiting drive happened.)
(09:44:21 PM) Auricle: bak
(09:45:33 PM) Auricle: GM: For my benefit, what does it look like?
(09:47:48 PM) dkap: A small, squat, bottle, apparently made of semi-translucent purple glass, with a stopper next to it. Or, it might be opaque, with the purple as a very interesting glaze, it's hard to tell.
(09:48:16 PM) dkap: Ilk, it is, indeed, wrapped in logrus, and if Norton is really in there ... he's probably bat-shit crazy at the moment.
(09:48:58 PM) Ilkndacian: Have I seen this bottle before?
(09:49:48 PM) dkap: It is _similar_ to the bottle that Cagliostro is particular about, and was part of the rescue operation at the last Torturer Guild Recruitment drive.
(09:50:11 PM) dkap: And allegedly contains a reluctant to leave Norton.
(09:51:41 PM) dkap: Jean: you arrive, again.
(09:51:47 PM) dkap: Door announces you again.
(09:51:53 PM) dkap: Mandor scowls at it.
(09:52:06 PM) dkap: Natasha waves at you.
(09:52:12 PM) dkap: The Jager wave at you.
(09:52:27 PM) Jean: bow, properly, to the people in the room as head of a major house
(09:52:52 PM) Jean: report to Mandor that the messenger bearing the invitation died on the doorstep of unknown causes
(09:52:57 PM) dkap: The people around the table bow back, in reverse order of prescidence, all appropriately.
(09:53:05 PM) Jean: then join the deliberations at the table, failing to get too near the bottle
(09:53:06 PM) Ilkndacian: Check out the bottle carefully.
(09:53:54 PM) dkap: (The unknown cause is that something did a shape-shifter melt spell on him, with a twist, but his spell protections almost managed to save him.
(09:54:11 PM) dkap: That is obvious to Ilk and Caelin)
(09:54:52 PM) caelin: Caelin frowns, because he can.
(09:56:27 PM) dkap: Do either of you two mention it? You are pretty sure, if you noticed, so did Mandor, though.
(09:58:17 PM) dkap: The bottle is structurally similar to the one Cagliostro has, except without the gate to a deamon house in the bottom, and the loyalty to Cagliostro spell on the mouth.
(09:59:18 PM) dkap: And it seems to have logrus (signature of a logrus master that has been around for quite some time, but just not up to managing even partial master level, his tendrils and conjuring are much more heavily biased in the magical direction, and they are a blunt tool, woven through the magic)
(09:59:58 PM) Auricle: "How sure are we that Norton is inside?"
(10:00:46 PM) caelin: How quickly could one contact count Cagliostro?
(10:00:47 PM) dkap: Mandor: Look for yourself.
(10:01:48 PM) Auricle: *peers inside the bottle*
(10:02:17 PM) dkap: A Norton, who seems to have set up a card table, and is dashing around it, playing cards with himself, seems to be in the bottle.
(10:03:44 PM) caelin: "Is there any means by which the logrus could be cleaned out or something? Sanity, at least some, is recommended."
(10:04:16 PM) dkap: Well ... Auricle is bubbling with Pattern ...
(10:04:32 PM) dkap: There might be an Ilk in the room ...
(10:05:04 PM) Auricle: "I suppose I can try, although I can't predict what will actually happen if I do."
(10:05:22 PM) Ilkndacian: An earth-shattering kaboom?
(10:05:29 PM) Auricle: "Quite possibly."
(10:06:45 PM) Ilkndacian: Does the bottle appear to be its own frame of reference or page?
(10:07:43 PM) caelin: ERmmm....you're a Pattern person. No offense, but I recommend and Ilk for this type of thing."
(10:09:11 PM) Auricle: *nods to Caelin* "Sure, but it's a possibility nevertheless. I ought to be able to affect it, just the effects could be dramatic."
(10:10:04 PM) caelin: "I'm very familiar with drama. Drama is a friend of mine. We don't want no drama in Thelbane."
(10:10:08 PM) Ilkndacian: Examine the bottle for traps, triggers, or hooks
(10:10:25 PM) Auricle: "As you wish."
(10:11:18 PM) dkap: No traps, or triggers, there is a hook about containing anything that passes through the neck, but that hook is currently disabled.
(10:11:37 PM) Ilkndacian: Is that hook currently embedded in Norton?
(10:12:10 PM) dkap: And there is a glamour, of recent nature, cast with Mandor's signature, that makes the outside of the bottle more attractive than the inside.
(10:14:08 PM) dkap: No, it's not.
(10:14:58 PM) Auricle: GM: Do we actually know Ilk is in the room?
(10:15:09 PM) dkap: It's currently deactivated.
(10:15:36 PM) dkap: Auricle, you do, you can feel him vibrating against your Pattern, therefore you presume that everyone perceives him.
(10:15:46 PM) Auricle: Kay
(10:15:51 PM) Ilkndacian: Ilk did state, "An Earth Shattering kaboom" out loud earlier
(10:16:27 PM) caelin: No, Caelin did not know implicitly. he just recommended.
(10:16:38 PM) dkap: True enough, but does everyone presume that a sourceless voice is Ilk, especially since the door was talking earlier?
(10:16:55 PM) Auricle: "Ilkandacian? Any ideas, then? Since I'm deemed potentially hazardous?"
(10:18:01 PM) Ilkndacian: What are we attempting to do here, exactly?
(10:18:15 PM) Auricle: "Decant Norton, I believe, was the request."
(10:18:59 PM) dkap: The voice is a different timbure from the door.
(10:20:05 PM) Ilkndacian: Can I tell why/how the door is talking? Shifter, magic, logrus, ...?
(10:20:08 PM) caelin: "Lord Mandor (Or whatever title suits him best), could we impinge on you to get us in touch with Ilkandacian?"
(10:20:37 PM) dkap: Norton's voice is currently arguing with himself about which hand is better, and it sounds like he is playing a variant of Dragon Poker.
(10:21:06 PM) Auricle: "Um, Caelin, Ilkandacian is actually already here."
(10:21:06 PM) dkap: You know from previous exposure, it's either Mandor or Lord Mandor.
(10:21:38 PM) caelin: "THat is NEVER a safe assumption."
(10:21:53 PM) caelin: "ilkandacian? Are you present?"
(10:21:57 PM) Auricle: "I'm not assuming."
(10:22:11 PM) Auricle: "I would never assume Ilkandacian."
(10:22:32 PM) dkap: (Besides, he has had some tendrils in your presence since you left Amber.)
(10:22:41 PM) ***Auricle is quite clear shapeshifting into Ilk would be a Bad Thing, without even needing experiential evidence.
(10:23:32 PM) Ilkndacian: Ilk will generate an Ilk-shaped logrus manifestation, and keep it tight enough to avoid impinging on Auricle.
(10:23:35 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:23:59 PM) dkap: and Poof! There is an Ilk.
(10:24:05 PM) Auricle: "See?
(10:24:17 PM) caelin: "Almost never is he visible."
(10:24:39 PM) dkap: The Jagers move between Auricle and the new Ilk manifestation, just in case.
(10:24:43 PM) Auricle: "Well, I don't see how you can miss him...he practically vibrates."
(10:25:04 PM) dkap: Natasha offers him a drink.
(10:25:16 PM) caelin: "Dear, no."
(10:25:58 PM) dkap: Natasha: "Why not? It can't POSSIBLY hurt him, he's one of the few that I can offer it to. It's not like it's a corn-dog or anything."
(10:26:01 PM) Ilkndacian: Ilk takes trhe drink.
(10:27:17 PM) dkap: It, while quite corrosive in nature, does not really effect logrus tendrils.
(10:27:38 PM) Ilkndacian: So, do I think that I could insulate Norton from the logrus of the bottle?
(10:28:36 PM) Ilkndacian: "Caelin - have you analyzed the magic of that bottle yet?
(10:28:36 PM) dkap: And the Honor of House Cara is maintained.
(10:29:02 PM) dkap: Well ... not really, he's been soaking in it for quite some time.
(10:29:21 PM) dkap: You would need to pattern-radiate him, which might cause the bottle-boom.
(10:29:48 PM) Ilkndacian: Ilk chugs the drink, destroying the fluid when it hits the "stomach" of his manifestation.
(10:30:17 PM) Ilkndacian: Is the bottle held together primarily by logrus, or by magic?
(10:30:40 PM) dkap: Magic.
(10:30:45 PM) caelin: "I have not, nor do I intend to."
(10:31:01 PM) Ilkndacian: What do I think would happen if I drained the power from the logrus in the bottle?
(10:31:13 PM) dkap: And yet, Mandor is right there, and he has done nothing about it's dismantling.
(10:31:34 PM) dkap: It would probably begin to slowly unravel.
(10:32:11 PM) Ilkndacian: ... so, who placed the initial request to decant Norton from the bottle?
(10:32:17 PM) dkap: And any of the magi present (from Natasha on up) with the exception of Jean, could probably contain the rest of it.
(10:32:51 PM) caelin: Caelin will contain the magic, if asked.
(10:32:51 PM) dkap: Mouseforatu slowly raises his hand. "I didn't realize that he was still a house-head.
(10:32:55 PM) dkap: He was a cat at the time.
(10:33:22 PM) dkap: " The Jean Exception " sounds like another band name.
(10:33:41 PM) dkap: Or maybe a bad Hollywood movie.
(10:33:52 PM) Ilkndacian: "Do we know who placed Norton in the bottle, and why?"
(10:34:23 PM) Auricle: "We were only told expertise was sought in getting him out."
(10:35:02 PM) dkap: MF: I captured him in it, when he chased me to my House.
(10:35:53 PM) Ilkndacian: "Okay - so he's not in there as an active preventive measure, then."
(10:35:54 PM) dkap: MF: And then just put it aside as a bad attempt to steal my House from me. When Mandor recently informed me that he was another House Head, and one can't be the Head of more than one house ...
(10:36:11 PM) dkap: MF: I did _try_ to decant him, he just won't leave.
(10:36:33 PM) Ilkndacian: "Would you mind if we disassembled the bottle?"
(10:36:38 PM) Auricle: "Has he said why he won't leave?"
(10:38:10 PM) dkap: MF: I was told at it's creation that trying to destroy the bottle would not only destroy it's current contents, but everything that had ever been associated with it, and I'm not skilled enough with the logrus obviously woven through it to be able to say, one way or the other.
(10:38:36 PM) dkap: MF: He just keeps repeating that he's never leaving his own head. It doesn't make any sense.
(10:39:22 PM) ***Auricle shudders, having been outside her own head.
(10:40:17 PM) Ilkndacian: Do I see any Logrus connections between the bottle and Norton, or between the bottle and anybody outside the bottle?
(10:40:32 PM) ***Jean shudders, having spent many months inside Norton's head.
(10:40:43 PM) Ilkndacian: Is there a barcalounger in the bottle?
(10:40:59 PM) dkap: There are logrus connections going to Norton from the bottle, and logrus connections going to MF from the bottle, and logrus connections going elsewhere, that are not obvious, unless you took the time to trace them down.
(10:41:25 PM) Ilkndacian: Same signature on the logrus connections as the bottle?
(10:42:11 PM) dkap: There is no barcalounger in the bottle, just a (deactivated) view screen, an (unconnected) wooden steering wheel, an 8 sided table, a Norton, and an indeterminant number of cards.
(10:42:16 PM) dkap: Yep.
(10:42:20 PM) dkap: Same vintage as well.
(10:42:47 PM) dkap: All of which would go away, were you to drain the logrus energy out of it, as you proposed.
(10:43:27 PM) Ilkndacian: So yanking on the connections might cause problems, or letting them unravel on their own might cause problems, but just draining them should defuse it?
(10:43:56 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:44:20 PM) dkap: It would take a partial master or better to drain it, though, thankfully, you are one. *grin*
(10:44:28 PM) Ilkndacian: "Okay - I'll shut down the Logrus - somebody else should catch the magic and keep it from running off or doing anything unfortunate."
(10:44:37 PM) Ilkndacian: Heh.
(10:44:53 PM) Auricle: If the bottle were destroyed, do I think I could hold the contents steady and kept them from being destroyed as well?
(10:45:19 PM) dkap: Auricle - not unless you were in the bottle.
(10:45:59 PM) dkap: (which might be a bad idea, with the logrus, and the boom, and the hurting of the head, Frau Labin)
(10:46:08 PM) Ilkndacian: "Ready?"
(10:46:50 PM) Jean: "I think I'll let Caelin catch the magic."
(10:47:11 PM) Auricle: *stands back*
(10:47:39 PM) dkap: Jagers stay interposed.
(10:48:05 PM) dkap: Natasha brings the spiral to mind, just in case. There are three balls whirling over Mandor's head.
(10:48:14 PM) dkap: The other house heads have stepped back.
(10:48:39 PM) dkap: The Hamsterite dives off the table.
(10:48:46 PM) Ilkndacian: Ilk will drain the logrus energy from the bottle, and damp logrus energies in the area as well, to deal with any logrus-powered magic present.
(10:48:54 PM) dkap: MF follows the Hamsterite.
(10:49:16 PM) dkap: The bottle becomes less substantial.
(10:49:35 PM) dkap: It all of a sudden looks like some very fragile smoked glass.
(10:49:37 PM) caelin: Caelin prepares as reserve only, to drain magic/deaden magic if requested.
(10:50:10 PM) dkap: One of Mandor's balls dips down, and touches it. It opens like a peeled orange, and melts away.
(10:50:28 PM) dkap: Norton looks around, shouts "NOOOO! Where did the BODY GO!"
(10:51:34 PM) Ilkndacian: "That wasn't a body, Norton - that was a bottle."
(10:52:11 PM) Auricle: "A pretty, purple bottle, but still a bottle."
(10:52:57 PM) dkap: But, I'm HEAD PEOPLE without a HEAD!
(10:53:18 PM) dkap: (Ilk, Auricle, he is radiating Logrus, like it's going out of style.
(10:53:36 PM) dkap: While you continue to damp it, it's now shifted over to your signature, Ilk.)
(10:53:55 PM) Jean: "Yep, that's crazy."
(10:54:03 PM) caelin: "Consider yourself BLESSED, Norton."
(10:54:03 PM) Jean: gm: how's faythe doing?
(10:54:41 PM) dkap: She's still sleeping it off. There is still a Norton there, and Titania is still guarding her dreams and her sleeping body.
(10:54:42 PM) Ilkndacian: Create a barca-lounger under Norton and pull the ejection handle.
(10:55:17 PM) Jean: gm: do I think that Faythe requires additional healing?
(10:55:19 PM) dkap: Norton flings himself out of the barca-lounger, decrying the rabbits for trying to trap him.
(10:55:39 PM) dkap: Only time. It was quite an effort on her part.
(10:55:47 PM) Jean: gm: K.
(10:55:52 PM) Auricle: try to sheild from the sheer amounts of logrus around
(10:56:01 PM) dkap: But, you could probably rouse her if you consider this an emergency.
(10:56:03 PM) Jean: "We should find something for him to do. He'll wear himself sane."
(10:56:20 PM) Jean: gm: no, not really, but if she were still broken he's crazy enough to fix her.
(10:56:24 PM) dkap: Ilk is handling the Logrus outpouring without breaking a sweat.
(10:56:31 PM) Auricle: k
(10:56:33 PM) Jean: "(er)."
(10:56:47 PM) caelin: "There anybody broken who needs monumental fixing? Now's probably the time."
(10:57:07 PM) dkap: True, he is, at the moment, and might be a real asset, being the Norton that left the reassembly of the squished Amberites, when MF showed up the first time.
(10:57:23 PM) Jean: "Oh, what about the G-person? "
(10:58:38 PM) Auricle: "Do you think he can fix her?"
(10:58:43 PM) dkap: Norton swings about, waving a spritz bottle of holy water (labeled in large letters HOLY WATER do not drink), and a cross that he apparently pulled from nowhere, shouting "Where? Where?"
(10:58:57 PM) Jean: "but good."
(10:59:10 PM) Auricle: "Do we WANT her fixed? Personally breaking her further seems much more pleasant an option."
(10:59:18 PM) Auricle: "Like, into tiny pieces."
(10:59:24 PM) Jean: "Same difference, really."
(10:59:33 PM) Auricle: "Very tiny pieces."
(10:59:41 PM) Ilkndacian: Can I damp the Logrus down to the point where I can start introducing pattern into the mix without a boom?
(10:59:46 PM) Jean: "Hey, Norton - there's a statue just outside of Chaos you should take a look at. It pretends to be a Verra statue. But it's not."
(11:01:40 PM) dkap: Yes, yes you can, Ilk.
(11:02:11 PM) Ilkndacian: Hmmm... should have Auricle do that part...
(11:02:54 PM) dkap: Norton wheels around and says "take that! and That" Spritzing the air.
(11:03:12 PM) Ilkndacian: "Auricle - could you gently introduce some Pattern near Norton? Not too much, mind you..."
(11:03:35 PM) Auricle: "Sure....what are you attempting to accomplish?"
(11:03:50 PM) Ilkndacian: (don't want to throw around too much pattern in public)
(11:04:12 PM) Ilkndacian: "Making Norton more sane,"
(11:04:33 PM) dkap: Where the water falls, there is a hissing noise.
(11:04:54 PM) Auricle: "Right."
(11:04:55 PM) Ilkndacian: Sigh... what's in the water?
(11:06:35 PM) dkap: You have no idea, but it's not Logrus, Magic or Pattern.
(11:06:44 PM) Auricle: *focus on the pattern, start to build up a small amount of Pattern around Norton, slowly and making sure it's fairly light.*
(11:06:51 PM) dkap: It might really be holy water, he is Bat Shit Crazy at the moment.
(11:07:06 PM) dkap: The air around Norton begins to heat up ...
(11:07:09 PM) Ilkndacian: Good thing I'm a Good Guy, then. :)
(11:07:15 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:07:50 PM) Ilkndacian: Keep an eye on anything explosive...
(11:08:52 PM) Auricle: keep the pattern energy low, warm is okay but hot is right out...
(11:09:03 PM) dkap: The amount of Logrus that he is radiating begins to dampen. You want to move away from the pattern that Auricle is using, it's nice and fresh, right from the source.
(11:10:05 PM) Ilkndacian: Yummy. Pull out the staff and stand in its shadow.
(11:11:07 PM) dkap: Much more comfortable.
(11:11:16 PM) Auricle: Is the Pattern having any positive affect on him?
(11:11:23 PM) dkap: Ilk has pulled out a ?magic? staff.
(11:11:35 PM) dkap: Yes, it seems to be, he's slowing down.
(11:12:27 PM) Auricle: increase the pattern energy slightly, taking care to avoid using too much on him.
(11:13:50 PM) dkap: It gets a touch warmer, and then starts cooling again.
(11:14:36 PM) Auricle: does cooling seem good? Aka cool because I'm no longer interacting against all that logrus energy?
(11:15:37 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:15:48 PM) Ilkndacian: If I have some spare cycles, take a look at the remaining bits of logrus going from the ex-vase to MF. Can I tell what it would have done, or is it gone by now?
(11:15:58 PM) Auricle: "Norton?"
(11:18:00 PM) dkap: Norton: "Norton is dead, his body is gone, I'm from his head. I've been done wrong."
(11:18:26 PM) dkap: Ilk, it is gone. You drained it. Poof, gone.
(11:18:35 PM) Ilkndacian: Good, good.
(11:18:46 PM) dkap: And as to what it would have done, probably simply tied him to the fate of the bottle,
(11:21:12 PM) Auricle: do I still think I need to keep the Pattern energy up? Or can I damp that back down again?
(11:21:26 PM) Auricle: "Norton's dead? How?"
(11:22:09 PM) dkap: "Like this!" and goes undead, and then peels himself like the bottle did.
(11:22:11 PM) Jean: "Norton dies professionally."
(11:22:33 PM) dkap: Jean, you know that that can't be good for him.
(11:22:34 PM) caelin: "Don
(11:22:48 PM) caelin: "Don't worry about him being dead. Really, with him it's just a fad."
(11:22:50 PM) Jean: Well, yes.
(11:23:16 PM) Jean: "Ilk - I think we might want to point him at a problem for a bit."
(11:23:31 PM) Ilkndacian: "Norton - put your skin back on!"
(11:24:07 PM) ***Auricle thinks that is the coolest thing EVER. How much easier could vivisecting people be if they'd peel off their own skins for her?
(11:24:18 PM) dkap: Norton: "I'm not Norton, I'm just from his head. Hey! Didn't you leave when the bunnies attacked? In that!" and points to the barcalounger.
(11:24:50 PM) dkap: Auricle, you can't vivisect him, he's dead. Only disect him.
(11:25:13 PM) Auricle: disection is sooo boring.
(11:25:44 PM) Ilkndacian: "Is there a difference?"
(11:26:05 PM) Auricle: "They scream less. And you don't get to see everything in action."
(11:26:48 PM) Auricle: start damping down the Pattern energy and see if he stays relatively...sane-like.
(11:27:16 PM) dkap: Norton's peeled skin starts turning into bunny rabbits, which he then sprays with the holy water, and they scream and melt.
(11:27:43 PM) Auricle: second thought, increase the pattern energy.
(11:27:43 PM) dkap: (aka, apparently not.)
(11:28:05 PM) dkap: Norton's skin starts regrowing on his body.
(11:28:13 PM) caelin: "PLease, Norton. Thelbane is a NO BUNNY zone."
(11:28:13 PM) Auricle: but since I don't have logrus interference anymore, go a abit faster this time.
(11:28:39 PM) dkap: The logrus interference is radiating from Norton himself, so it is still there.
(11:28:45 PM) dkap: And you would know that.
(11:29:32 PM) dkap: Norton: "See! Evil bunnies. The water meltses them, yes it does, my precious, and their evil flying monkeys as well!"
(11:29:57 PM) dkap: Jean? Any bunny reaction?
(11:30:23 PM) Auricle: kay, well, really, I can only keep up the pattern and increase it slowly.
(11:30:40 PM) dkap: Slowly it is, then.
(11:30:47 PM) dkap: No boom today.
(11:30:57 PM) Auricle: no one seems to want a boom.
(11:31:17 PM) Auricle: "So, how do we tell when he's sane?"
(11:31:40 PM) dkap: Ivanova is right. Ivanova is always right.
(11:31:47 PM) Ilkndacian: So, how many souls are in Norton's body, and are any of them familiar?
(11:32:53 PM) dkap: A Norton, a bit of Ilk, some Corwin, a bunch of other whole amberites, locked in the greswandir that is in him ...
(11:33:21 PM) dkap: (that might be the source of the Corwin ...)
(11:33:22 PM) ***Jean pumpkins
(11:33:22 PM) Jean left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving).
(11:33:29 PM) Ilkndacian: which amberites?
(11:33:34 PM) dkap: Jean is obviously paying attention elsewhere ...
(11:33:45 PM) Auricle: I have the same problem, I need to actually go to bed about now, too.
(11:34:25 PM) dkap: You aren't entirely sure, being that the seem to be in Greyswandir, jumbled together, and have ties to the Jewel, instead of to the Serpent, but probably those that he was putting back together from the Black Council Event.
(11:34:33 PM) dkap: This was the Norton that was doing that.
(11:34:55 PM) Ilkndacian: Got it.
(11:35:22 PM) dkap: We can hang it here, then ...
(11:35:27 PM) dkap: It's not that bad a stopping point.
(11:35:32 PM) Auricle: kay
(11:35:34 PM) Auricle: night all!
(11:35:40 PM) Ilkndacian: nite
(11:35:41 PM) Auricle left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(11:35:42 PM) dkap: Pumpkin well.
(11:36:35 PM) Ilkndacian left the room.
(11:36:46 PM) caelin left the room.
(11:36:53 PM) dkap: That's a wrap.
(11:36:59 PM) dkap: Damn ... too slow.