Conversation with #dkap_amber at Tue 06 May 2008 07:43:33 PM EDT on dkap@irc.gamesurge.net (irc)
(07:51:51 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-30-5-155.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(07:52:07 PM) Cagliostro: ahoyhoy
(07:56:09 PM) Caelin [~arkhon@pool-71-184-105-219.bstnma.fios.verizon.net] entered the room.
(07:59:41 PM) Cagliostro: heya
(07:59:50 PM) Caelin: Yo!
(08:00:03 PM) dkap: Sorry ... distracted.
(08:00:08 PM) dkap: Auricle might not make it.
(08:00:09 PM) Cagliostro: s'okay.
(08:00:30 PM) dkap: Trying to get linux installed by jumping through several hoops ... *sigh*
(08:00:40 PM) Caelin: Gotcha
(08:00:48 PM) Cagliostro: These things happen; it's good that she is now part of the regular game.
(08:00:55 PM) Cagliostro: Yeah, I need to do that in a bit.
(08:01:11 PM) dkap: It is wonderful.
(08:01:25 PM) dkap: She's having DSL/Cable/modem problems.
(08:01:47 PM) Caelin: Eek
(08:02:00 PM) Caelin: Truly awesome, actually.
(08:02:03 PM) dkap: They were supposed to be installed on Friday, but ...
(08:02:12 PM) Caelin: Erg. It's always something.
(08:02:16 PM) Cagliostro: well, she had dialup before, didn't she?
(08:02:27 PM) ***Cagliostro is being nice and decadent,now that I have wireless.
(08:02:27 PM) Caelin: Allow me to fix myself some dessert, and I'll be right back.
(08:02:34 PM) Cagliostro: and a new laptop, as of this afternoon.
(08:02:43 PM) dkap: Delightful!
(08:02:50 PM) Caelin: Excellent!
(08:02:53 PM) dkap: I'm building a "movie box" for Gudrun.
(08:02:59 PM) Caelin: Aha!
(08:03:30 PM) Cagliostro: cool.
(08:03:33 PM) dkap: The box has no net, so the drive is external to another laptop, which seems to not want to find the wireless, so my wired connection is strung across the bottom of the stairs, Mike, don't trip.
(08:03:49 PM) Cagliostro: hm. interesting.
(08:04:08 PM) Caelin: So noted.
(08:09:34 PM) dkap: And I don't know if Zorg is going to join us again, tonight ...
(08:09:44 PM) dkap: But I have high hopes.
(08:11:01 PM) Cagliostro: pineapple pie in the sky hopes.
(08:11:21 PM) dkap: Hey! Who put this rubber-tree plant in my way?
(08:11:45 PM) Cagliostro: call osha!
(08:12:06 PM) dkap: Because it doesn't have proper right-of-access for partially crippled ants?
(08:12:37 PM) dkap: So, my Omega game is the 10th ... and I know we probably don't have Mike ... but ...
(08:12:39 PM) Caelin: Here now.
(08:12:47 PM) Cagliostro: well, more that the rubber tree plant is a safety hazard.
(08:13:19 PM) dkap: It does have a large carbon footprint. A whole manufacturing facility to make trees out of rubber. Whoda thunk?
(08:13:20 PM) Cagliostro: so and but?
(08:13:34 PM) Cagliostro: yep. should have a rubber plant to make them out of carbon.
(08:14:12 PM) dkap: They have an interesting plot-line going, and might ... well ... end up bumping into Jean again, so ... if I let you know ... will that suffice?
(08:14:23 PM) Cagliostro: sure, that is fine
(08:14:27 PM) Cagliostro: you can play Jean as well as I can ;)
(08:14:31 PM) Caelin: Heh
(08:14:48 PM) dkap: As you say, but ... Jean should know what Jean does ...
(08:15:10 PM) Cagliostro: well, that's true. exigent circumstances aside.
(08:15:18 PM) Auricle [~chatzilla@4.156.81.99] entered the room.
(08:15:32 PM) Caelin: Dude!
(08:15:41 PM) dkap: YAY!
(08:15:52 PM) Auricle: Sadly, there is no DSL.
(08:15:58 PM) dkap: Through trials untold and miles of DSL unnumberered?
(08:16:19 PM) Auricle: However, it turns out they were testing it and that's why my dialup wasn't working.
(08:16:26 PM) Auricle: So, dialup, still, but, internets, yay.
(08:16:37 PM) Cagliostro: yay game, yay internets, boo dialup.
(08:17:09 PM) Caelin: Indeed!
(08:17:14 PM) Auricle: Only a few more days of dialup and then I can get rid of it.
(08:18:00 PM) dkap: YAY!
(08:18:15 PM) dkap: Should we ask what happened? Or just leave it as "a bad job, and a need for change"
(08:19:49 PM) Auricle: *shrug* DSL finally got cheap enough that I can afford it.
(08:20:28 PM) dkap: Ahh ...
(08:21:13 PM) dkap: Fios is currently almost half the price of cable, and works better, faster, and more relyably, and I've negotiated with them about open ports, which ones are reasonable and which ones are not.
(08:21:29 PM) Auricle: Fios?
(08:21:34 PM) Caelin: Verizon.
(08:21:42 PM) Auricle: Ah.
(08:21:49 PM) Auricle: Tis who I am having for DSL.
(08:22:33 PM) Cagliostro: resistance is futile.
(08:23:13 PM) dkap: Verizon is actually trying to get out of the telephone business, apparently.
(08:23:29 PM) dkap: And Cable has stooped to lying about them in commercials.
(08:24:07 PM) Cagliostro: there's a lot of that going on in advertising.
(08:24:17 PM) Auricle: it's advertizing.
(08:25:22 PM) dkap: Another reason I hate Regan for repealing the "Truth in advertising" laws, just before he ran for President the second time.
(08:26:29 PM) Caelin: *nod*
(08:27:47 PM) Auricle left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(08:27:51 PM) Auricle_ [~chatzilla@4.156.81.154] entered the room.
(08:27:52 PM) Auricle_ is now known as Auricle
(08:28:08 PM) Auricle: And, well, you can see why I hate dialup. :(
(08:28:49 PM) Caelin: :-/
(08:28:53 PM) Caelin: I hear ya.
(08:29:25 PM) Cagliostro: oh, I've been there.
(08:29:39 PM) Cagliostro: using Outlook over a VPN, via dialup
(08:29:47 PM) Caelin: Ewww
(08:30:26 PM) Auricle: eeek
(08:31:18 PM) dkap: Right then ... "So Auricle, her pet Gargoyle, Jean the Straw Man, and Zorg, with a Tin Badge, start skipping down the Yellow Brick Shadow Path? We're taking Toto the Spark and some Jaegers, too."
(08:31:33 PM) Cagliostro: I think that is the plan, frighteningly enough.
(08:31:44 PM) Cagliostro: "If I only had some braiiiiiiins...."
(08:31:46 PM) Cagliostro is now known as Jean
(08:32:15 PM) Auricle: OOC: Auricle: I can give you brains....mwuahahahaha
(08:32:32 PM) dkap: And, meanwhile, in the Courts of Chaos ... a business meeting of titanic proportions is still being built.
(08:32:33 PM) Jean: ooc: well, I'm trying to cut back...
(08:33:12 PM) Jean: with only one duel so far. That we know of.
(08:35:28 PM) Auricle: right
(08:35:52 PM) dkap: One scheduled.
(08:38:44 PM) Jean: yes, one scheduled.
(08:38:52 PM) Jean: important to keep that distinction, in Chaos.
(08:39:56 PM) dkap: Indeed. And let me check my tally.
(08:40:26 PM) dkap: House Sawall, Mandor, present.
(08:40:49 PM) dkap: House Chanicut, Chanicut present.
(08:41:03 PM) dkap: House Pharaban, thankfully not present yet.
(08:41:23 PM) dkap: House Swayville, Jean, present.
(08:42:08 PM) dkap: House Felicity, not yet present.
(08:44:19 PM) dkap: House Cara, presumed present, due to Yuri's signature being about.
(08:44:41 PM) dkap: House Trantor, not yet present
(08:44:54 PM) dkap: House Corona, present, and still steamed.
(08:45:14 PM) dkap: Sorry, House Corona, Corona, present and still steamed.
(08:45:33 PM) Auricle: (OOC: but hopefully no longer on fire.)
(08:45:45 PM) dkap: House Mouseferatu, Mouseferatu, present, sitting on the table in a chair, so he can be seen.
(08:47:29 PM) dkap: House Hendrake, Norton, present, and decanted.
(08:47:58 PM) dkap: House Xartys, not present, presumed drunk at Cara.
(08:49:10 PM) dkap: House Helgram, Eric III, present.
(08:50:11 PM) dkap: House Yigrin, not present
(08:50:30 PM) dkap: House Moonlight, Caelin and Archivist, present.
(08:51:07 PM) dkap: House Holtiharnia, not present.
(08:51:18 PM) dkap: House Timbal, not present
(08:51:27 PM) dkap: House Minobee, not present.
(08:51:37 PM) dkap: Does that match with people's recolection?
(08:51:48 PM) Jean: I had some idea that Vlad was present
(08:51:52 PM) Jean: but that's about it
(08:52:05 PM) Caelin: Yes.
(08:52:11 PM) dkap: Vlad?
(08:52:27 PM) Jean: the usually-pickled head of Cara
(08:52:32 PM) dkap: From Cara? Let me check my notes.
(08:53:44 PM) dkap: Yep, you are right. Vlad was fetched, last time we had an Ilk, because he didn't want to have to Yuri it.
(08:54:17 PM) dkap: So, House Cara, Vlad, present.
(08:54:20 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: Read error: Operation timed out).
(08:54:32 PM) Auricle: (giggle)
(08:55:16 PM) dkap: 9 out of 17, not yet quorum. Four more to go.
(08:58:11 PM) Auricle: (Sheesh, there are a lot of houses in Chaos)
(08:59:49 PM) Jean: (as many as there are houses in Drageara...)
(09:00:55 PM) dkap: Well ... major ones, and where do you think your Aunt got the idea from, Jean?
(09:01:39 PM) Jean: no comment
(09:02:14 PM) dkap: *grin*
(09:02:19 PM) Auricle: heh
(09:02:54 PM) dkap: Right, Caelin seems to be struggling with things, so ... onto the other major center of activity ... the Quest for Staff.
(09:03:47 PM) Auricle: Off to tech way and my old shadows, then.
(09:04:28 PM) dkap: Hi ho! Oh, right, wrong group ... We're off to see the shadows ...
(09:05:00 PM) dkap: Let's see, there was a woman lab-manager that you liked a lot.
(09:05:08 PM) dkap: She seemed pretty durable.
(09:06:45 PM) Auricle: She did? Okay.
(09:07:01 PM) Auricle: They always seemed somewhat interchangeable.
(09:07:18 PM) dkap: Yes, but she kept coming back.
(09:08:09 PM) Auricle: I did like that part.
(09:08:12 PM) dkap: There was a family, who were very fecund, and you had worked on the mother a bit, so she could continue to do what she loved best, produce babies, so you always had one or another of their family about.
(09:09:04 PM) Auricle: Ah, smart of me.
(09:10:06 PM) Auricle: "All right, so, everyone ready for another walk?"
(09:10:38 PM) Jean: "Sure."
(09:13:02 PM) dkap: Spark, Zorg, and Jagers, various forms of "sure".
(09:13:39 PM) Auricle: "Okay, follow me, then."
(09:14:10 PM) ***Auricle heads out of the lab and sets out across the City.
(09:14:56 PM) dkap: Who are you heading for/walking to first?
(09:16:11 PM) Auricle: Hmm.
(09:16:24 PM) Auricle: My old labs in the Angel City.
(09:16:51 PM) dkap: Not for the people, but for the Lab? Even though, last time you checked, it was fully destroyed?
(09:17:09 PM) Auricle: All twelve of them?
(09:17:18 PM) Auricle: I thought she'd only gotten some of them.
(09:17:41 PM) dkap: Could be, but, with the shadow shift ... it's your choice.
(09:18:22 PM) Auricle: True.
(09:18:36 PM) Auricle: I don't want to chance her, and if the Labs are intact, she could be there.
(09:19:01 PM) Auricle: The people, then....I'll start with the lab-manager.
(09:19:39 PM) dkap: Excellent.
(09:20:40 PM) dkap: You could also have gargoyle produce a likeness, and use Jean to see if he has seen her anywhere.
(09:20:45 PM) dkap: Or is seeing her anywhere.
(09:21:14 PM) Auricle: "Gargoyle, can you produce an external likeness of the lab manager?"
(09:21:45 PM) Auricle: "Gargoyle, plus, pull up staff records and list those who had high survival rates/performance reviews."
(09:22:51 PM) dkap: A whirling bot comes out of it's wall niche, and in somewhat coordinated arm-movements, causes paper to have marks on it, which, after a while raster into likenesses of the staff members who had the highest survival rates and performance reviews.
(09:23:25 PM) Auricle: "Great."
(09:23:37 PM) Auricle: show the paper to Jean.
(09:23:46 PM) Auricle: "Know where any of these are?"
(09:24:31 PM) Jean: gm: does that count as writing, and is therefore blue?
(09:25:31 PM) dkap: Nope, pictures, so not blue.
(09:25:35 PM) dkap: Same as trumps.
(09:26:39 PM) Jean: k
(09:26:46 PM) Jean: do I know where any of them are?
(09:26:55 PM) Jean: or, since it's me, do I recall seeing any of them?
(09:27:00 PM) dkap: And you have seen her recently, in fact, you saw her heading to Moonlight (across the moat) when shadow was crumbling.
(09:28:01 PM) dkap: As for the family, they resemble a recent house that applied for demon-house standing at Thelbane, when court was being held on the porch, by The Hero of Channicut.
(09:28:57 PM) Jean: I will pass that information along.
(09:29:16 PM) Jean: but - "Moonlight is the place we just were, with the marbles. Not safe."
(09:30:03 PM) Auricle: "Lovely. Across the moat? Via bridge or....is she a marble now?"
(09:30:27 PM) dkap: She was successfully past the moat when you stopped noticing her.
(09:31:24 PM) dkap: You tend to notice when people marbleize.
(09:32:32 PM) Jean: "She's not a marble, unless she got marbled in the house. She might have been eaten by dragons. Or Caelin."
(09:33:19 PM) Auricle: "I don't suppose you could ask Caelin if he's seen her. And what's a demon-house and why is it standing at Thelbane?"
(09:34:53 PM) Jean: "I -could- ask Caelin. The meeting hasn't started yet."
(09:35:15 PM) Jean: "A demon house is a Chaos house populated by Demons. There were more of them until Ilk's demon melt spell became widely distributed."
(09:35:31 PM) Jean: I will fish in a ziplock bag.
(09:35:50 PM) Jean: "Can you cut out the part of the drawing with the woman?"
(09:35:59 PM) Auricle: looks puzzled. "Why would that family become a demon house? No, wrong, question. What's a demon?"
(09:36:36 PM) Auricle: turn hand into a pair of scissors and cut out the woman.
(09:37:22 PM) Jean: "Ilk is probably a better person to answer that question. Being a demon means that someone else knows your true name, like maybe they pulled you out of the Sea of Chance."
(09:38:03 PM) Auricle: "Who could pull someone out of the Sea of Chance?"
(09:38:28 PM) Jean: "Good question."
(09:38:38 PM) dkap: Jean: their "non-demon sponsor" probably the person who pulled them out, would have been on the forms they filled out.
(09:39:13 PM) dkap: Which means, someone in the Dancers Guild would know.
(09:39:14 PM) Jean: gm: oh, okay. I'll ask the Dancer's guild about that, since I won't be able to read the forms.
(09:39:16 PM) Jean: "Ilk can."
(09:39:33 PM) Auricle: "Gargoyle? Who else could?"
(09:39:51 PM) Auricle: can't think of a reason Ilk would pull those particular people from the Sea.
(09:40:27 PM) Jean: "Remind me to tell you something later about Ilk and the Sea. And demons. And the you know who." Jean nods sagely.
(09:40:51 PM) Auricle: "Gargoyle, remember that."
(09:42:47 PM) dkap: Jean, the Archivist might be a better bet, he seems to be more ... in touch with what is going on in his house.
(09:43:01 PM) Auricle: "All right, but I can't imagine why Ilk would want those particular people. Plus, I knew them before I ever met anyone...real."
(09:43:29 PM) Jean: gm: hm. is the archivist reachable and not-in-moonlight?
(09:43:40 PM) Auricle: "So, unless Ilk had a reason to watch me then -- which is not out of the realm of possibility -- hmmm."
(09:43:52 PM) Jean: "It might not have been Ilk. I think he was trolling for real stuff in the sea after Shadow went boom."
(09:44:06 PM) Auricle: "Ah. Reasonable."
(09:44:11 PM) Jean: "So there may not be any new reason to be paranoid."
(09:44:22 PM) dkap: The archivist is next to Caelin in Thelbane.
(09:44:40 PM) Auricle: "Correct."
(09:44:42 PM) dkap: See previous list.
(09:45:05 PM) Jean: ah, okay.
(09:45:11 PM) Jean: so, re: my query of the dancer's guild?
(09:45:24 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Who else could pull someone or someones from the Sea of Chance?
(09:46:22 PM) dkap: Roland.
(09:47:13 PM) Auricle: "Jean, have you seen any of my people NOT in Chaos?"
(09:47:51 PM) dkap: No, but those are the only ones who you have seen in chaos.
(09:47:58 PM) dkap: The rest, you don't recall seeing.
(09:51:15 PM) Jean: "Well, Moonlight isn't technically in Chaos."
(09:51:28 PM) dkap: True, but you don't recall seeing anywhere.
(09:52:48 PM) Auricle: GM: Can I scan Moonlight via pattern lens like I could scan a shadow looking for her?
(09:53:02 PM) dkap: From here? No.
(09:53:07 PM) dkap: From there? Probably.
(09:53:22 PM) dkap: But there, the amount of logrus might just start fires.
(09:53:57 PM) Auricle: Bleh.
(09:54:01 PM) Auricle: K.
(09:54:36 PM) Auricle: "Well, I just left Chaos, so going back seems particularly ...inefficient.
(09:55:02 PM) dkap: There was just a gate there ... so you know it's short-cutable.
(09:55:14 PM) Auricle: That assumes I can make gates.
(09:55:25 PM) Auricle: Well, actually, why can't I make a gate?
(09:55:37 PM) dkap: Not sufficiently experienced in Magic, I guess ...
(09:55:42 PM) Auricle: They can't ONLY be magical.
(09:55:53 PM) dkap: But, you could also have Jean, who was there, pass a message that she should get herself gated to you ...
(09:56:00 PM) Auricle: I'm sure with a sufficient expenditure of Pattern and actually thought...
(09:56:15 PM) ***Auricle starts scribbling on the back of the paper.
(09:57:06 PM) dkap: Actually, your knowledge of the pattern, and your discussions with Dworken have let you know that the closest to gate, is a permanent shadow path.
(09:57:11 PM) dkap: And that still needs to be walked.
(09:57:27 PM) Auricle: Bah, insufficient creativity.
(09:58:09 PM) Auricle: Create the shadow path and then shortcut the path.
(09:58:26 PM) Auricle: Somehow.
(09:58:58 PM) Auricle: And I've already walked a path to Moonlight...
(09:58:59 PM) dkap: The more it's walked with _intent_ by someone capable of intent, the shorter it gets, when it is between real and not real places.
(09:59:05 PM) dkap: Otherwise ... it's just a path.
(09:59:17 PM) Auricle: Okay.
(09:59:34 PM) Auricle: "Did you ask Caelin if he's seen her?"
(10:00:12 PM) Jean: "I don't think he'll know, I'm going to ask the archivist."
(10:00:22 PM) Jean: gm: so, dancer's guild, asking about the sponsor?
(10:01:47 PM) dkap: Roland, I thought I had already said? Did I not?
(10:01:49 PM) dkap: Sorry.
(10:02:16 PM) Auricle: I'd thought that was the Gargoyle telling me who else could yank someone from the sea.
(10:02:36 PM) dkap: It was in answer to Jean, sorry. I should have been more clear.
(10:03:21 PM) Jean: I thought that was that, too
(10:03:27 PM) Jean: hm.
(10:03:42 PM) Jean: "The person who dragged those people from the Sea is Roland, one of Corwin's."
(10:03:49 PM) Jean: (I did think that was a little random)
(10:04:12 PM) Jean: so, have a saucer jean far away from thelbane fish in th epicture of the woman
(10:04:31 PM) Jean: thank the fish, get the fish out of chaos, and tractor the picture over to Thelbane
(10:04:38 PM) Jean: and ask the Archivist if he's seen this woman
(10:04:41 PM) Auricle_ [~chatzilla@dialup-4.157.86.123.Dial1.Boston1.Level3.net] entered the room.
(10:05:11 PM) Auricle_: Okay....
(10:05:15 PM) Auricle left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(10:05:30 PM) Auricle_ is now known as Auricle
(10:05:33 PM) dkap: The Archivist replies that Roland asked if she could be protected, for now, under his auspices in the house, as a member.
(10:06:00 PM) Jean: "Auricle would like to meet with her about an offer that she may not want to refuse."
(10:08:56 PM) Auricle: (OOC: OOh, I'm a mob boss now)
(10:09:02 PM) Jean: to Auricle: "Roland asked the Archivist to keep her under the protection of House Moonlight. We can probably arrange for a meeting after the House Meeting."
(10:09:15 PM) Auricle: "That would be good."
(10:09:18 PM) Jean: "I don't think the Archivist will want to leave Caelin unsupervised, though."
(10:09:30 PM) Auricle: "Is Caelin that dangerous?"
(10:09:33 PM) Jean: "So I guess you should be directing your paranoia Roland-ward."
(10:09:36 PM) dkap: That's Roland in both instantces, in case that wasn't clear.
(10:09:37 PM) Jean: "Yes."
(10:10:57 PM) Auricle: "Paranoia implies an irrationality about the subject."
(10:11:21 PM) Auricle: "It would help if I knew who Roland was. Do I?"
(10:12:08 PM) Jean: "Does it? I did not know that."
(10:12:39 PM) Auricle: "Paranoia is generally considered an unreasonable fear that someone is out to get you."
(10:12:41 PM) Jean: "He's one of Corwin's, he's been working for Cagliostro for a bit. He dropped out of sight after the Black Council pulped several Amberites, but I guess he's back."
(10:12:44 PM) dkap: I think you have been introduced to Roland ... checking the archive.
(10:13:08 PM) Auricle: "I'm Kolvir's Keeper. SOMEONE is most certainly out to get me. Eventually. That's just logic."
(10:13:33 PM) Jean: "Hm. I thought it was the third person variant of 'prudent'. I am prudent, you are cautious, he/she/it/they/ze is paranoid'"
(10:15:11 PM) Auricle: "Hmm. I'd never run into that rule of grammar."
(10:16:31 PM) Jean: "You don't spend a lot of time around Chaos. Or Ilk. Or Corwin, really."
(10:16:48 PM) Auricle: "The whole fire bit."
(10:16:52 PM) Auricle: "You know."
(10:17:14 PM) Jean: "Yes, it's all fun and games until the pattern/logrus explosions start."
(10:17:19 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:17:24 PM) Jean: "Like magic and bibliomancy, but without Caelin."
(10:18:42 PM) dkap: So, has anyone noticed how much of a jinx that must be, with two opposing powers as head and second in a house?
(10:18:43 PM) Auricle: "So no, not much time in Chaos. I admit to the curiosity. I can shapeshift, I obviously have a closer tie than most Amberites...Then again, I don't really consider myself Amberite, either. Not remembering anything about your family makes everything easier. Maybe."
(10:18:44 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:21:36 PM) Auricle: "All right. We know where some of my people are. Let's find the rest."
(10:22:41 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: "Perhaps, having Roland show up in two of the instances, indicates that he might have a working knowledge of the rest."
(10:22:43 PM) Jean: is there anything that outjinxes caelin as head?
(10:24:18 PM) Auricle: "Perhaps, Gargoyle, but that's not necessarily true."
(10:25:04 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: "Trends can only indicate, they are not necessarily true."
(10:25:31 PM) Auricle: "Besides, we need three instances for enemy action. We have only two."
(10:27:13 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: "Statistics show that significant effort was put forth by Roland to safeguard individuals connected to you on more than one occasion. This should be investigated."
(10:27:46 PM) Auricle: "Who else besides the manager and the family?"
(10:28:31 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: "He is also on record for opposing the Winged Angel. That is three."
(10:29:24 PM) Auricle: "Anyone reasonable opposes Her."
(10:30:51 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: "True, but that is three."
(10:31:56 PM) Auricle: "Truth." look at Jean. "Okay, so why would Roland take an interest in me and mine?"
(10:32:46 PM) Jean: "I don't know, actually."
(10:33:00 PM) Jean: "Maybe his interest was in the G person."
(10:34:26 PM) Auricle: "Reasonable hypothesis."
(10:34:39 PM) dkap: It could be ... you could always ask ...
(10:35:17 PM) Jean: ...if he wasn't on gwenabout
(10:36:48 PM) Auricle: "So now I'm confused. Are we going or staying?"
(10:37:12 PM) Jean: "well, you still need staff."
(10:37:42 PM) dkap: I thought it was the other one who was on Gwenabout?
(10:37:57 PM) dkap: (Starts with an "A" ... I never remember ...)
(10:38:25 PM) Jean: Absalom
(10:38:37 PM) Jean: i thought it was both of them
(10:39:19 PM) Jean: but I wasn't paying attention and cagliostro doesn't know
(10:39:49 PM) Auricle: "Yes, I do, he's not enough." gesture at the Spark. "All right, let's go find some others of my staff."
(10:40:29 PM) dkap: One is on Gwenabout with the "younger folk" and one was leading whomever was attacking Cagliostro's improved forces on a gadabout in shadow. The second one is the one who did the rescuing (with Cagliostro's army in backup), and now I can't remember which one is which.
(10:40:54 PM) Jean: oh, that was absalom, right
(10:41:28 PM) Jean: who is someone else's. He's one of Gil's, and also hangs out with Cagliostro, and I don't know why he would be following either.
(10:41:40 PM) Jean: but yes, Absalom is the one running around
(10:42:12 PM) Jean: or pinned down by cagliostro's presumed enemies
(10:43:14 PM) dkap: Indeed. So the names given earlier tonight should have been "Absolom", not "Roland"
(10:43:17 PM) dkap: Sorry.
(10:44:50 PM) Auricle: Wait, confused. Insert Absolom every time there's a Roland mentioned?
(10:44:59 PM) Jean: well, it doesn't change much, except that I don't know if Auricle met Absalom.
(10:45:03 PM) Jean: yes.
(10:46:02 PM) Auricle: Neither would Auricle. Have I?
(10:46:18 PM) dkap: Yes.
(10:46:24 PM) dkap: And Yes.
(10:48:25 PM) Auricle: Okay, clearish, then.
(10:49:13 PM) Jean: "Absalom is contactable. He might need rescuing, or he might be lulling his enemies into a false sense of security."
(10:50:03 PM) Auricle: "If you can contact him, then? And find out what he knows about my staff?"
(10:50:08 PM) dkap: Jean, you have seen him a time or two in shadow.
(10:50:38 PM) Jean: "He isn't where I am, someone would have to walk to him."
(10:51:08 PM) dkap: Given a little effort, you could probably find him. He's not trying to hide that much.
(10:51:56 PM) Auricle: "Well, we can certainly Walk."
(10:53:01 PM) Jean: well, only if he's in a shadow that I'm in. And if he is, then I blow his cover, and accomplish not much for Auricle.
(10:53:40 PM) dkap: True.
(10:53:45 PM) dkap: Walk it is then ...
(10:55:01 PM) dkap: Hi HO!
(10:55:06 PM) Auricle: "So, who's coming?"
(10:55:32 PM) Jean: "Well, me."
(10:55:40 PM) dkap: Jagers, Spark, Zorg.
(10:55:47 PM) dkap: Not the Randoms.
(10:56:05 PM) Auricle: "All right. Let's try getting outside. Before we're distracted again."
(10:56:07 PM) Auricle: *grins*
(10:57:32 PM) Jean: "Good luck with that."
(10:57:50 PM) Auricle: "I know."
(10:58:01 PM) Auricle: open door.....step outside...does everyone else make it?
(11:01:03 PM) Jean: For Jean, that's a question for the GM. ;)
(11:05:00 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-30-5-155.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(11:05:15 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(11:05:19 PM) Auricle: Hmm.
(11:05:25 PM) Auricle: We've lost dkap.
(11:05:34 PM) Auricle: Maybe?
(11:05:39 PM) Cagliostro: maybe.
(11:05:48 PM) dkap: Sorry ... machine hung.
(11:05:49 PM) Auricle: Apparently we are doomed to never get out of my lab.
(11:05:56 PM) Cagliostro: shall we go ahead and call game?
(11:06:06 PM) Jean left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(11:06:31 PM) dkap: Yes, they all follow you out of the lab.
(11:07:56 PM) Auricle: Huzzah! We're in a STREET!
(11:08:29 PM) Auricle: I consider this a major victory.
(11:08:53 PM) Cagliostro: ah, Amberite standards.
(11:08:59 PM) Cagliostro is now known as Jean
(11:09:17 PM) dkap: *grin*
(11:09:29 PM) dkap: Now where? O Fearless Leader?
(11:10:46 PM) Auricle: I think I'm walking after Absalom, now, if I recall correctly from the conversation.
(11:11:05 PM) dkap: Right. Absolom-ho.
(11:11:12 PM) dkap: And shall we hang it here?
(11:11:40 PM) Jean: sure
(11:12:30 PM) dkap: Hung it is then, I declair, GAME!
(11:12:38 PM) dkap: Good night folks.