Conversation with #dkap_amber

Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 27 May 2008 08:57:19 PM EDT:
(07:57:20 PM) The topic for #dkap_amber is: Game run, as normal.
(07:59:22 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(07:59:47 PM) dkap has changed the topic to: Game run, as normal, but remember to wish Mike a happy birthday!
(08:10:01 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-30-5-155.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:10:12 PM) Cagliostro: hey, it's 8:00, how about that.
(08:11:08 PM) Caelin: ding. dong.
(08:11:50 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:18:25 PM) Auricle [~chatzilla@pool-96-240-199-215.spfdma.east.verizon.net] entered the room.
(08:19:01 PM) dkap: Ha! We have quorum!
(08:19:09 PM) Caelin: Gol!!!!
(08:19:12 PM) Caelin: Oh. Wait.
(08:19:13 PM) Auricle: Happy /birthday Mike!
(08:22:19 PM) dkap: So, when we left our intrepid wanderers ...
(08:22:27 PM) Caelin: Oooh!! Thanks!
(08:23:25 PM) dkap: You were staring at an elevator door, correct?
(08:23:36 PM) Cagliostro: yes
(08:23:43 PM) Cagliostro is now known as Jean
(08:23:45 PM) Jean: rather, yes.
(08:23:53 PM) Caelin: *snicker*
(08:24:36 PM) Auricle: Ah, yes, the stupid elevator.
(08:25:31 PM) Auricle: "So, everyone, spring the trap undoubtably meant for someone else?"
(08:25:42 PM) Auricle: "Or do we break the building?"
(08:26:15 PM) Jean: "Both?"
(08:26:19 PM) dkap: Jagers: Traps are fun
(08:26:29 PM) Jean: "Sorry, am I guessing what's going to happen or offering advice?"
(08:26:59 PM) dkap: Chef D: shrugs
(08:27:31 PM) Auricle: "Advice."
(08:27:51 PM) Jean: "ohhhh. Never mind, then."
(08:28:39 PM) ***Auricle laughs.
(08:29:26 PM) Auricle: "All right, let's spring the trap then. I'm curious."
(08:30:03 PM) dkap: So, the umm ... was it third from the left of the 17 doors opened?
(08:30:26 PM) dkap: From the right.
(08:30:28 PM) dkap: That's right.
(08:30:41 PM) ***Auricle shoos everyone into the elevator.
(08:31:05 PM) ***Jean is shooed.
(08:31:28 PM) dkap: Chef D puts a Jager between him and the door.
(08:31:58 PM) dkap: There are a bank of (to Jean's eyes blue) buttons labeled with, presumably floors.
(08:32:13 PM) dkap: The door still has not shut.
(08:34:05 PM) Auricle: steps inside.
(08:34:14 PM) Jean: "Hmm... there's something that you're supposed to do before springing a trap other than place bets, but I can't remember what it is."
(08:34:28 PM) Auricle: "Betting seems perfectly appropriate."
(08:34:36 PM) Jean: "RIght, after that."
(08:34:49 PM) dkap: The door still has not shut, even though everyone seems to be in the elevator.
(08:35:18 PM) Auricle: look over the control panel. anything other than numbered buttons?
(08:35:27 PM) Auricle: (ooc: OOH! fireworks! outside!)
(08:35:29 PM) dkap: A few key-holes.
(08:35:38 PM) dkap: COOL Fireworks!
(08:35:41 PM) dkap: Shiny!
(08:36:51 PM) dkap: And a red button.
(08:37:01 PM) Auricle: "Oooh, red button."
(08:37:41 PM) Auricle: hold up hands, turn hands into multiple screwdrivers, start undoing the control panel from the wall.
(08:38:21 PM) ***Jean 's hand edges slowwwwly toward the red button.
(08:39:09 PM) dkap: The control panel seems to be designed not to be undestructively removed.
(08:39:36 PM) Auricle: You mean the screws are just for show?
(08:39:50 PM) dkap: What screws?
(08:39:59 PM) Auricle: K
(08:40:03 PM) dkap: You mean those nice welds going around the pannel
(08:40:10 PM) Auricle: Fine.
(08:40:12 PM) Auricle: :P
(08:40:35 PM) dkap: Jean, the red button also has a blue cloud over it.
(08:41:15 PM) Auricle: Is there a door close button?
(08:41:18 PM) ***Jean 's hand moves awayyyy from the red button.
(08:41:56 PM) dkap: There is a button with some cyperhing, and two arrows pointing toward each other ...
(08:42:22 PM) dkap: (Side note ... apparently, in most elevators, the "close door" button only works with the fireman's override key in place.)
(08:43:06 PM) Auricle: Is there enough cyphering to start a decode process?
(08:43:16 PM) Jean: (Yes, it's usually there so that people have something to push so they have a stress relief.)
(08:44:04 PM) dkap: Not quite enough to reliably decode, but a numbering sequence is a good bet, it looks like a base-12 numbering system.
(08:44:15 PM) dkap: From the recurrence of the symbols
(08:44:53 PM) Caelin: In most elevators, the close button is never actually hooked up to the interface. The exception is in hospitals, for one.
(08:45:01 PM) Auricle: And the red button, and non-numerica buttons?
(08:45:19 PM) Caelin: That's where they took mr. Garibaldi.
(08:46:09 PM) dkap: The red button, non-numerical buttons (arrows in, arrows out) have some cypering on them, but not enough to make out much of the language.
(08:46:44 PM) Auricle: gargoyle, extrapolate from known elevators likely use of the non-numeric buttons
(08:47:21 PM) dkap: The key-points are not labeled at all, except for the top-most one, that might read "penthouse" "roof garden" "top floor" or any other number of guesses.
(08:47:38 PM) Jean: "Ejection button"
(08:48:03 PM) dkap: Gargoyle, to Auricle: open, close, and stop.
(08:48:27 PM) Auricle: pushes the topmost button.
(08:48:56 PM) dkap: The button lights up. the doors slide closed, and there is a rushing noise, and a feeling of increased gravity.
(08:50:03 PM) Jean: "I should find some pants."
(08:50:11 PM) Auricle: "Jean, have you thought of what it is we're supposed to do after bets? Not that we've made any. Woefully ignoring trap-springing protocol...."
(08:50:17 PM) dkap: After a few moments, the rushing noise changes, the gravity somewhat flips, then everything comes to a stop, and the doors slide open.
(08:50:35 PM) dkap: (inner and outer, not two doors on the elevator, in case that wasn't clear)
(08:50:40 PM) Jean: "I already made -my- prediction. And I think the jagers bet while you were looking at the buttons."
(08:51:19 PM) dkap: You are in a reception area. A somewhat pretty young lady (chandroid in shape) looks up, and says, "Can I help you?"
(08:51:28 PM) ***Auricle waits for a Jaeger to step out into the reception area.
(08:51:48 PM) dkap: She seems ... unphased about a naked 5-year old, an multi-coloured Auricle, a Chef, and a bunch of Jager getting off the elevator.
(08:52:40 PM) dkap: One of the Jager disembark, walk forward, walk back to the carpet area just before the elevator, wipes his feet, and then walks forward again.
(08:52:58 PM) dkap: The other Jager, as they get out of the elevator, all wipe their feet at the same approximate spot.
(08:54:24 PM) Auricle: step out of the elevator. Anything indicating where the heck we are other than in a reception room?
(08:54:29 PM) dkap: It looks like a reception room.
(08:55:27 PM) dkap: There is some writing above a symbol on the wall, the symbol is of two upright (hilts on the bottom) crossed swords, with a large red gem at their cross-point.
(08:55:35 PM) ***Jean follows auricle, looking around at the room.
(08:55:57 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Symbol? Do we recognize it?
(08:56:02 PM) dkap: The gem looks vaguely like the Eye of the Serpent.
(08:56:22 PM) dkap: One of the two swords bears a resemblance to Greyswandir.
(08:56:47 PM) Auricle: "Sure. you can help" Auricle says to the receptionist. "Where are we?"
(08:57:16 PM) dkap: She blinks for a moment and then replies, with her voice going up at the end "Reception?"
(08:57:54 PM) Auricle: "Reception for....?"
(08:58:01 PM) dkap: She then continues with "Do you have an appointment? Or is this a new difficulty that needs to be solved?"
(08:58:44 PM) Auricle: "Useless."
(08:58:55 PM) Auricle: Is there enough space I could start Walking again?
(08:59:39 PM) dkap: "This is reception for the Caglistro group, of course. I see you came in on the Special level. Are you expected?"
(09:02:19 PM) dkap: It seems whoever designed this place was deliberate in their attempts to thwart pattern walking.
(09:02:54 PM) Auricle: "No, not really expected. But I'm sure someone will want to see us."
(09:03:30 PM) dkap: "Is there a name you would wish to pass back, or someone in particular you would like to see?"
(09:04:40 PM) Auricle: "Sure. Auricle of Kolvir."
(09:05:07 PM) dkap: "A moment, please."
(09:05:50 PM) dkap: She moves her hands on, apparently, some sort of touch-sensitive, or proximal spots on the desk.
(09:06:24 PM) dkap: "Someone will be out in a minute to talk to you about what you might need. In the meantime, can I arrange for anything to increase your comfort while you wait?"
(09:07:07 PM) Auricle: "No, we're fine."
(09:07:21 PM) ***Auricle generally seems amused.
(09:07:25 PM) dkap: She grins, politely at you.
(09:08:03 PM) dkap: After a moment, a door opens in the seamless wall behind her, and Absolam walks out.
(09:08:29 PM) dkap: He bows first to Jean, then to Auricle, and sweeps his eyes across the Jager and the Chef.
(09:08:46 PM) Jean: bow appropriately to Absalom
(09:08:50 PM) dkap: Absolom: "Jean, did you intend to be naked?"
(09:10:27 PM) Jean: "Long story. Your elevator is a bit drafty, though. If you have clothes, that would be nice."
(09:12:05 PM) dkap: Absolom: "I'm sure one of us does somewhere. So, what brings you to our neck of the woods? Normally I'd send one of the 'problem solvers' out here, but ... if you are just on Gadabout, I'm always delighted to share a meal with you folks, and if you have a real problem, well ... I'd best be the one looking for solutions.
(09:13:07 PM) ***Jean looks at Auricle.
(09:14:05 PM) ***Auricle looks at Jean with the look of 'I forgot why I started this trek in the first place, I got distracted by elevator buttons and a receptionist.'
(09:14:29 PM) Auricle: "Gargoyle? Current mission?"
(09:15:02 PM) dkap: Gargoyle to Auricle: Search for missing lab members, coincidence of several of their whereabouts seem to have lead to a probability of Absolam's involvement."
(09:16:21 PM) Auricle: (Do I actually know what Absolom looks like?)
(09:17:04 PM) Jean: (I think you probably would have seen a non functional trump. but what do I know?)
(09:17:59 PM) dkap: Gargoyle can provide a picture, that matches the gentleman before you.
(09:18:20 PM) Auricle: "Oh, right! I'm looking for my staff, which you seem to have an interest in."
(09:18:30 PM) Auricle: "Seemed faster to look for you."
(09:18:48 PM) dkap: Absolom, with a bland look: "Your staff?"
(09:19:31 PM) Auricle: "Yes, very nice people, worked in my Lab before the ....She....destroyed it."
(09:20:00 PM) dkap: Absolom: "Sounds ... reasonable. I will see what I can do. Where do you want them delivered?"
(09:20:07 PM) Auricle: "I have pictures if that helps."
(09:20:24 PM) dkap: It would, yes.
(09:20:52 PM) ***Auricle fishes out the pictures from inside of her.
(09:21:40 PM) dkap: Unlike a Jean fish, of course.
(09:21:51 PM) Auricle: Completely unlike.
(09:22:23 PM) Auricle: hand the pictures to Absolom
(09:22:32 PM) Auricle: what's his energy signature?
(09:22:41 PM) dkap: Absolom looks them over, and maintains a flat expression.
(09:23:38 PM) dkap: He is very real, has the mark of Dworkin on him, and seems ... well not radiating anything else at the moment.
(09:23:46 PM) dkap: Except for competence and confidence.
(09:24:11 PM) Auricle: "Anyone familiar?"
(09:25:26 PM) dkap: One of the Jager have snuck up behind the receptionist and was about to reach out to her, when she pulls a knife out of Caine-space, and is holding it, without apparently looking behind her, the point millimeters in front of his eye.
(09:25:51 PM) dkap: She says: "Don't you know, it's not polite to try and sneak up on people?"
(09:26:48 PM) dkap: After a moment, the Jager blinks deliberately and replies with "Ja, joo cut loose jor chat."
(09:27:52 PM) dkap: Absolom: "I'll see what I can do. Do you want to pick them up here? Or is there another location you wish them delivered to?"
(09:29:07 PM) Auricle: "The City below Kolvir is fine for delivery. Although really I'm just more curious why you took an interest in them at all. To my knowledge none of them knew you and I don't recall you being in my Shadows before."
(09:30:25 PM) dkap: Absolom: I'll have those I can find, and are willing to come, delivered there. As to my interest, you came to me with this, right? What other interest might you be referring to?
(09:34:59 PM) Auricle: "Because at least one of them is under your protection."
(09:35:50 PM) Auricle: "And there was something about sponsoring others for a demon-house?"
(09:36:12 PM) Auricle: Auricle accesses Gargoyle-memory AKA her logs. :)
(09:38:09 PM) dkap: *grin* (Just as I was doing ... )
(09:38:33 PM) dkap: Absolom raises an eyebrow.
(09:39:51 PM) ***Auricle waits patiently.
(09:40:12 PM) dkap: Absolom: "I believe my actions on the parts of other clients are priviliged, just as I would not be sharing this communication with anyone else who would walk through the door.
(09:41:26 PM) Auricle: "Actaully, given getting here, not just anyone else would walk through the door."
(09:42:04 PM) Auricle: "So I'm supposed to believe they..hired you?"
(09:43:22 PM) dkap: Absolom: "Yes, we have some pretty impressive security. And most people think they have to fight their way up. (A grin goes across his face.) some people think that there is a trap or something involved."
(09:47:14 PM) dkap: Absolom: "Although, I really did have to fight with the elevator designers, they wanted to have some sort of soothing music piped into the elevators.
(09:47:47 PM) Jean: "Yes, that might act as a Caelin magnet."
(09:47:54 PM) Jean: (happy birthday, Mike ;)
(09:48:32 PM) Auricle: "So I'm supposed to believe they hired you."
(09:49:22 PM) dkap: Absolom: "You can believe anything you wish. I will say that gathering them for you in no way conflicts with previous contracts."
(09:51:04 PM) ***Auricle tilts her head. "Are they happy?"
(09:51:50 PM) dkap: Absolom: "I couldn't speak for current circumstances, but ... I will say they were happy when I did show up."
(09:52:57 PM) Auricle: nods. "Fine. I don't need them delivered if they are happy where they are. If they want to come to me they're welcome to. Can that message be passed on?"
(09:54:04 PM) dkap: Absolom: "I will, of course. I will also point out that you do have quite a bit of prestige, so working for you, while not necessarily always happy, does give folks a feeling of life-satisfaction, knowing they are doing well, and making changes that mean something."
(09:54:20 PM) dkap: Absolom: "Like, for example, fighting the G-person."
(09:56:15 PM) ***Auricle shudders.
(09:56:22 PM) Auricle: "Can't stand her."
(09:56:51 PM) Jean: "Some people should know when to stay dead."
(09:56:56 PM) dkap: Absolom: "And you manage to inspire people, on more than one occasion, to do things they didn't think they could achieve."
(09:57:30 PM) dkap: Absolom shakes his head at Jean. "I normally respect tenacity, but really, she does take it a bit far, doesn't she?"
(09:59:13 PM) ***Auricle looks completely nonplussed. No one she can think of other than Dworkin has actually complimented her so thoroughly before. (As opposed to complemented, as I first typed, since Zack managed that very very well)
(10:01:38 PM) dkap: A small, blinking red light goes off over the (single) elevator door that opened to this room.
(10:01:52 PM) ***Auricle is immediately distracted.
(10:02:37 PM) dkap: Absolom looks at it, sighs turns to the group of you and says: "It looks like I should offer you folks some hospitality for the moment, someone else has decided to assault the building, again."
(10:04:31 PM) Auricle: "Do you need assistance?"
(10:05:52 PM) dkap: Absolom looks thoughtful for a moment, and then opines: "No, I think that would be overkill. I don't think they are even going to get past the passive defenses, much less engage the active ones, but ... I don't want you folks inadvertently stepping into a cross-fire."
(10:06:35 PM) dkap: Absolom: "I am _trying_ to keep somewhat of a low profile, and use local tools and efforts first, so I just look skilled, rather than super."
(10:07:45 PM) Auricle: is certain all the Jaeger look dissappointed.
(10:08:11 PM) dkap: They didn't catch it, since the noise of the conflict has yet to reach this room.
(10:08:13 PM) Auricle: "very well then. We will enjoy your hospitality."
(10:08:45 PM) dkap: Absolom: "And it will give me the extra minute or two to find out what is delaying Jean's pants.
(10:09:21 PM) Jean: "Yes. I'll probably need them if we encounter another Amberite."
(10:09:43 PM) dkap: Absolom grins.
(10:10:04 PM) dkap: Absolom: "Is there any food or drink you folks would prefer while you are waiting?"
(10:10:53 PM) Auricle: "I had no idea pants were effective weapons against Amberites."
(10:11:10 PM) Caelin: o_O
(10:11:22 PM) Caelin: (That'll teach me to not pay attention)
(10:11:38 PM) ***Jean looks earnest. "It's so I can be sure not to get involved in Amberite dick-waving."
(10:11:52 PM) Jean: "Fortunately, that wasn't an issue here."
(10:12:05 PM) ***Auricle nods sagely. "Hence staying female most of the time. Too much effort otherwise."
(10:12:48 PM) dkap: Absolom vaguely pats at where his sword would hang, should he have been wearing one, in the first place.
(10:14:15 PM) Jean: to Auricle: "It doesn't seem to hold back several members of the family. Like Llewella, for instance."
(10:15:39 PM) Auricle: "Yes, well. I lack sufficient data why it works for some and not others."
(10:16:15 PM) Auricle: files away the study of gender on amberite dick-waving politics as a future research project.
(10:16:26 PM) Auricle: "Perhaps I need to vivisect Llewella."
(10:16:46 PM) Jean: "You could sell tickets."
(10:17:25 PM) dkap: Absolom: "Well, if she was still alive at the end of the vivisection, you might not have technically violated Dworkin's Edict."
(10:18:58 PM) Auricle: "Oh, dear, do you really think Dworkin would object, even if she weren't dead?"
(10:19:17 PM) Jean: "Technically, she's subject to a pending judgement by Chaos, which Dworkin has acknowledged."
(10:19:43 PM) Jean: "So you could vivisect her while Pharaban ate ... whatever Pharaban eats, if Chaos felt it a fitting punishment."
(10:21:32 PM) dkap: Absolom: "Strictly from a scientific standpoint, I don't believe any results you get, in the presence of Pharaban would necessarily be accurate. I wouldn't be surprised if the organs you removed developed enough sentience on their own to learn to shape-shift, so they could grow limbs or pseudopodia enough to move further from Pharaban, as fast as possible."
(10:21:39 PM) Auricle: afk
(10:22:43 PM) Auricle: bak
(10:23:47 PM) dkap: Just a side-note, Caelin, you are hung waiting on other folks from the Council to get back to me (they might have, but I've not sifted through the last 5 days worth of mail, yet ...)
(10:23:53 PM) Auricle: "Oh, that would not be good at all. Bits of Llewella becoming animate."
(10:24:00 PM) Caelin: *nod*
(10:24:19 PM) dkap: and the Count is waiting on some information from Kintani, and Ilk, right?
(10:24:47 PM) Jean: yep, I think so.
(10:25:00 PM) dkap: Absolom: "Knowing what I know of her, no, having any bits of her still animate might ... be a bad thing. Although, I'm sure that Dworkin would have another opinion.
(10:26:23 PM) Jean: "He might, but he might not and regret not having it. She was a big jerk to him."
(10:26:42 PM) Jean: "Practically Oberon levels of jerkyness."
(10:28:16 PM) Auricle: "Well, maybe I'll ask him about it when I see him again....see...waitaminute....I was supposed to see him again somewhere."
(10:29:52 PM) dkap: (Sorry, I was distracted)
(10:30:36 PM) dkap: Absolom stepped out of the room for a moment (via the same non-door he came in) and, after a few moments, smelling slightly of accellerant and smoke, came back in carrying a pair of pants.
(10:30:42 PM) ***Auricle spontaneously remembers to check on the trumps and if they are working.
(10:31:13 PM) Jean: "pants!"
(10:31:33 PM) dkap: No trumps working.
(10:31:41 PM) dkap: He hands the pants to Jean.
(10:32:23 PM) dkap: Absolom: "These might not stand up to your usual ... activities, since they are not shape-shiftery, nor acceleration proof, but they will probably do for the time being."
(10:32:24 PM) ***Jean wears pants.
(10:32:53 PM) Jean: "No more can one ask of his pants."
(10:33:49 PM) dkap: He also hands Jean a shirt, it's a little big for him, and has a Cagliostro sigil on it.
(10:34:09 PM) Jean: I'll wear the shirt.
(10:34:22 PM) Auricle: "Couldn't you just shapeshift clothing?"
(10:34:26 PM) Jean: probably not even noticing the reinforcement under the sigil slash target. ;)
(10:34:39 PM) ***Jean raises a hand and ponders a moment. "No, not as such."
(10:35:44 PM) Jean: "I never managed to get the hang of shapeshifting. I can often change shape, but not usually in this form."
(10:37:01 PM) Auricle: *looks completely puzzled* "Get the hang of...? You just....shapeshift."
(10:37:41 PM) Jean: "Right!"
(10:37:46 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:38:05 PM) Jean: "But I think actual shapeshifters have some control over what they shape into."
(10:39:53 PM) dkap: Absolom has walked out, and walked back in again. He changed clothing and seems to be favoring one leg. The light over the elevator has stopped blinking. "It seems safe for you to depart now, if you wish. Press the third from bottom button when you get in the elevator."
(10:40:00 PM) Jean: hm. I have a cat that can hit 'hibernate' and confirm it.
(10:40:03 PM) Auricle: "Well, sometimes, I suppose. Generally it's rather automatic."
(10:42:43 PM) Auricle: "Isn't it supposed to be?"
(10:43:38 PM) Jean: "I don't know. I don't remember being trained in it."
(10:45:11 PM) ***Auricle has a moment of complete empathy for Jean, not actually remembering being trained in well, anything, herself. Other than very, very recently.
(10:45:34 PM) dkap: Absolom has walked out, and walked back in again. He changed clothing and seems to be favoring one leg. The light over the elevator has stopped blinking. "It seems safe for you to depart now, if you wish. Press the third from bottom button when you get in the elevator."
(10:45:59 PM) Jean: didn't he already6 d that? is this an intentional deja vu?
(10:46:12 PM) Jean: (cat on keyboard)
(10:46:22 PM) Auricle: is wondering as well. I figured we just got distracted. You know, the distractable duo.
(10:50:02 PM) dkap: Oh, I wasn't sure if it sent.
(10:50:10 PM) dkap: Since noone reacted to it.
(10:50:59 PM) Jean: k
(10:51:30 PM) Jean: I am not in charge of this expedition ;)
(10:51:42 PM) Auricle: Auricle was distracted.
(10:51:50 PM) Auricle: :;
(10:52:42 PM) dkap: And why is this distraction different from all other distractions?
(10:53:35 PM) Auricle: Dude, no one ever discusses Shapeshifting since I got taught how to turn into Naked!Mikhail
(10:54:25 PM) dkap: And that's WHY no one discusses shape-shifting around you ... just in case.
(10:55:29 PM) Auricle: laugh
(10:55:37 PM) Fuzzy [~Fuzzy@c-24-147-246-23.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(10:55:58 PM) Caelin: ???
(10:56:05 PM) Fuzzy: Hallo?
(10:56:06 PM) Auricle: Fuzzy?
(10:56:11 PM) Caelin: Hello.
(10:56:15 PM) Auricle: Hi!
(10:56:16 PM) dkap: He's one of the pack. Welcom!
(10:56:18 PM) Jean: It's Tuesday night, time to ask the question.
(10:56:19 PM) dkap: Welcome even.
(10:56:20 PM) Caelin: Aha!
(10:56:25 PM) Caelin: LOL
(10:56:26 PM) Auricle: Oh.
(10:56:38 PM) Fuzzy: Just sticking my nose where it doesn't belong...
(10:56:41 PM) Fuzzy: ;)
(10:56:44 PM) Caelin: Muaha
(10:56:45 PM) dkap: Hey Brett, do you want to join my Amber campaign?
(10:56:59 PM) Auricle: Oh, Brett, you wants to join the Amber campaign.
(10:57:27 PM) Fuzzy: why do I want that now?
(10:57:46 PM) Auricle: me
(10:57:57 PM) Fuzzy: *blink*
(10:58:04 PM) dkap: Umm ... mayhem, madness, destruction, and spare body parts.
(10:58:31 PM) dkap: We have a good health plan, that includes a resurrection clause?
(10:58:40 PM) Jean: Auricle -is- the Jagermonster-creating vivisectionist spark of which all other Jagermonster-creating vivisectionist sparks are merely shadows.
(10:59:02 PM) Fuzzy: Great!
(10:59:22 PM) Auricle: I will never fit that on a business card.
(10:59:31 PM) Auricle: Besides, you forgot the paisley.
(10:59:32 PM) Fuzzy: (And now we come to the lovely part of trying to parce peoples spellings of words I have only every heard aloud)
(10:59:47 PM) Caelin: LOL
(11:00:12 PM) Jean: "may" like the month, "hem" like the garment ;)
(11:00:13 PM) dkap: Don't worry, I'm not consistent with my speelings.
(11:02:09 PM) dkap: It also means that some of my logs are much more up-to-date, because I just use a session capture, and get everyone's main-line words.
(11:02:13 PM) Jean: auricle: you just need to breed business cards that can shout your qualifications and breed like tribbles.
(11:02:46 PM) dkap: If you make them tiny mattress-shaped, you can give whole shadows the willies.
(11:03:00 PM) Fuzzy: why is it everything in Amber has to be bred?
(11:03:39 PM) Caelin: It doesn't HAVE to be. IT just so happens that only the worst of it tends to breed.
(11:03:48 PM) Auricle: Maybe I should just have the Jagermonsters remind people of who I am from time to time.
(11:03:55 PM) Caelin: The good parts want no part ofthe actual gene pool.
(11:03:56 PM) Auricle: As if bright paisley doesn't give it away.
(11:04:10 PM) dkap: Jagermonster: "Ja, da GOOT one!"
(11:04:53 PM) Fuzzy: Okay... Jagermonster... I'm thinking Jagermister... as in the alcoholic drink "deers-blood"
(11:05:21 PM) dkap: Have you read Girl Genius?
(11:06:08 PM) Fuzzy: a little
(11:06:18 PM) dkap: It's from there.
(11:06:36 PM) Jean: and it is probably a reference to the booze.
(11:06:41 PM) Auricle: indeed
(11:06:42 PM) Jean: homage, if you were.
(11:06:46 PM) Jean: er, would.
(11:08:59 PM) dkap: Perhaps, how things would speak, soaked in the stuff.
(11:09:33 PM) Auricle: I just *hearts* them.
(11:09:51 PM) dkap: And occasionally kidney and liver them too?
(11:09:56 PM) Auricle: And this is as close as I can get to actually having Jagermonsters following me around.
(11:11:59 PM) dkap: Right then. Jean has achieved Pants (and a shirt) and shape-shifting was discussed (and dissed) and you have been given the all-clear to leave the reception area.
(11:12:18 PM) dkap: And Absolom's player has signed off, so I'm sending him off to find your folks.
(11:13:12 PM) Auricle: Woot.
(11:13:38 PM) Auricle: We shall pile back into the elevator and press the button the gargoyle recorded we should press, since no way auricle caught that.
(11:13:47 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:14:22 PM) dkap: The doors open to a very busy building lobby, third elevator from the right. Lots of folks moving about.
(11:15:39 PM) dkap: Some in various uniforms.
(11:16:00 PM) dkap: Most seem to be ignoring you.
(11:16:06 PM) dkap: Some move away from the Jager.
(11:16:35 PM) Auricle: step out into the lobby and look around for the exit.
(11:16:45 PM) dkap: The spark seems distracted at all the moving machines.
(11:16:54 PM) Auricle: Ooh, wait, machines??
(11:17:58 PM) dkap: Cars, trucks going by, mechanical carrying devices, some with wheels, some with legs, delivering all sizes of packages.
(11:18:16 PM) dkap: Motorized chairs that people are riding in.
(11:18:35 PM) dkap: Motorized platforms that people seem to be riding (a'la segue)
(11:19:06 PM) Auricle: Okay, those last look silly.
(11:19:48 PM) dkap: They do.
(11:19:51 PM) Auricle: "Okay, we totally need a bunch of these for the new City."
(11:20:04 PM) Auricle: "well, not those, those look silly. But the rest are kind neat."
(11:20:25 PM) dkap: One of the Jager are snarling at a delivery-bug.
(11:21:20 PM) Auricle: "I wonder what's controlling them?
(11:21:30 PM) Auricle: "Jager, catch me one of them?"
(11:21:52 PM) dkap: A wild-eyed man comes rushing up to a Jager, grabs his arm, and shouts "The end of the world is coming! Help Me!"
(11:22:01 PM) dkap: The Jager helps him to the end of his world ...
(11:23:06 PM) dkap: He (the Jager) looks around, somewhat guiltilly: "I haz broked dis. Ooops!"
(11:24:15 PM) Auricle: "That's not one of the machines," auricle points out.
(11:24:26 PM) dkap: Jean, you recognize the look in some of the uniformed faces, now approaching.
(11:24:46 PM) dkap: And you don't often like being on the receiving end.
(11:24:54 PM) Jean: from where?
(11:26:04 PM) Jean: I mean, where do I recognize it from. could be lots of places.
(11:26:07 PM) dkap: You recognize the look from Paprika's face when you were about to be in trouble, and they are approaching from the guard-station in the midst of the lobby.
(11:27:24 PM) Jean: ah. To Auricle: "Time to walk or get yelled at, I think."
(11:27:40 PM) Auricle: "Hunh?" looks up. "Oh. Gaurds. Right."
(11:27:56 PM) Auricle: makes sure she has everyone, and starts Walking.
(11:28:39 PM) dkap: The lobby changes, and reformes into a train station, then a mall, then a cavern, and then a nice field.
(11:28:50 PM) dkap: The changes are, as always mostly gradual.
(11:29:19 PM) dkap: The Jager are parceling out the bits of dead so they can all munch on various pieces of it.
(11:29:43 PM) Auricle: Good Jager.
(11:29:52 PM) Auricle: Fed Jager = happy Jager
(11:30:35 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:31:21 PM) ***Auricle stops in the field. "Does anyone have anywhere we need to go before back to the City?"
(11:32:39 PM) dkap: Chef D: "Somewhere where we could acquire some of those machines, so we might be able to get them to work in the City?
(11:33:31 PM) Auricle: "Tech way! I wanted to go there for something anyways."
(11:33:44 PM) Auricle: reorients and starts Walking in a different direction.
(11:33:53 PM) dkap: Towards?
(11:34:37 PM) Auricle: Tech way....something steampunkish enough to work in the City but cool enough it's not anything we've already got.
(11:35:15 PM) dkap: Right then.
(11:35:33 PM) dkap: The field gives way to a town, which has a railroad running through it.
(11:35:59 PM) dkap: (Well, tracks laid through it, I do have to specify sometimes with this group.)
(11:36:39 PM) dkap: A vaguely cowboy-esque person comes riding up on a mechanical horse-like thing.
(11:37:02 PM) dkap: (Oh, btw, the weaver is all over these folks, just in case you hadn't noticed ...)
(11:37:17 PM) Fuzzy: Of course ;)
(11:37:58 PM) Auricle: (and in auricle's case, is obviously weaving insane clothing. )
(11:38:20 PM) ***Auricle considers the horse thing.
(11:38:25 PM) Auricle: "Not quite right."
(11:38:31 PM) Auricle: keeps Walking.
(11:38:54 PM) dkap: He reigns in behind you folks, follows your walk, shouting something about not-approved makers.
(11:39:16 PM) dkap: And something about arresting you for illegal constructs.
(11:39:39 PM) dkap: And the only reason I mention it, is he is following your Walk.
(11:40:24 PM) Auricle: Okay, not so much with the good.
(11:40:41 PM) Auricle: "Hang on everyone."
(11:41:13 PM) Auricle: focus on one thing (the railroad tracks, I think) and wrench the entire rest of the landscape to something else. Can he keep up with that?
(11:41:17 PM) ***Jean waits patiently, politely ignoring the shouty cowborg.
(11:41:20 PM) dkap: The Jager array themselves before and behind you.
(11:42:03 PM) dkap: He doesn't go away.
(11:43:21 PM) Jean: gm: does he look like anyone I've met?
(11:43:42 PM) dkap: (well, to be precise, he does blink out for a moment, but then the horse steps forward, and he is there again)
(11:43:44 PM) dkap: Nope.
(11:43:56 PM) Jean: does the horse look familiar?
(11:43:58 PM) dkap: Beyond being Chandroid in shape.
(11:44:08 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle, analyze that horse...
(11:44:20 PM) dkap: The horse only vaguely manages a horse shape, much less a good one.
(11:44:24 PM) Auricle: Pattern-levels in the area? How real is it here?
(11:44:35 PM) dkap: Deep in shadow.
(11:44:37 PM) Jean: hm.
(11:44:44 PM) Auricle: Other energy levels the gargoyle can display?
(11:44:47 PM) dkap: (Otherwise you would not have been able to manage the wrench)
(11:45:02 PM) Auricle: How real is the cowboy/horse?
(11:45:07 PM) Jean: to the cowborg: "Pardon me. What legal authority are you citing?"
(11:45:14 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: Seems to be a coal-fed, heat-engine, with mechanical assistance to move.
(11:45:33 PM) dkap: The horse is more real than the cowborg (thank you Jean for the word)
(11:45:43 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Pattern and other energy levels?
(11:46:00 PM) dkap: Power, no other obvious energy sources discernable.
(11:46:23 PM) dkap: Cowborg: You are not registered for constructs in my jourisdiction.
(11:46:25 PM) Jean: (Jean is addressing the horse and rider equally)
(11:46:38 PM) Jean: "What is your jurisdiction?"
(11:47:52 PM) dkap: The area you just tresspassed in. I am in hot-pursuit, I can chase you as far as I can follow you, which is to the ends of the earth and beyond, on my trusty Rozanante.
(11:48:14 PM) Jean: hm.
(11:48:22 PM) Auricle: "Interesting."
(11:48:25 PM) Jean: gm: odds of this being a shadow of Zorro?
(11:48:33 PM) Auricle: "What's the penalty for trespassing?"
(11:48:51 PM) dkap: Death, or being submitted to the licensing board.
(11:49:17 PM) dkap: Jean, very very small, or a very poor shadow.
(11:49:49 PM) dkap: Somehow from the way he mentions it, Death sounds better than the licensing board.
(11:50:08 PM) Auricle: "well, then, not really interested."
(11:50:11 PM) Jean: gm: k. good to calibrate these things.
(11:50:21 PM) Auricle: let's see how good that horse is.
(11:50:28 PM) Auricle: at following, anyways.
(11:50:51 PM) dkap: Right. Power walk it is.
(11:51:01 PM) dkap: (or you could just feed him to the Jager ...)
(11:51:15 PM) Auricle: Nyah, I'm curious.
(11:51:52 PM) dkap: Are you gathering everyone on you, so you don't have to break way?
(11:51:57 PM) Auricle: actually, I'll fly everyone, that's faster than walking.
(11:52:09 PM) Auricle: nodnod
(11:52:12 PM) dkap: Good good. Everyone jumps on.
(11:52:19 PM) dkap: Jean, you as well?
(11:52:34 PM) Jean: sure
(11:52:34 PM) dkap: One of the Jager, having seen this before, grabs the Chef, while jumping on.
(11:53:43 PM) Auricle: I'd call this hellriding, except I'm the one being ridden. :)
(11:54:11 PM) dkap: Giddyup!
(11:54:41 PM) Jean: hellgalumphing
(11:54:50 PM) Auricle: Hell-flying
(11:56:08 PM) dkap: And off you go. The horse sprouts a gyre-blade, and starts flapping behind.
(11:56:30 PM) dkap: Where are you heading?
(11:56:45 PM) Auricle: Towards Kolvir and my power source.
(11:56:50 PM) dkap: RIght then.
(11:57:00 PM) Auricle: So I can wipe that particular shadow out of existence...
(11:57:05 PM) Auricle: I don't like it.
(11:57:23 PM) Auricle: well, maybe.
(11:57:50 PM) Auricle: actually, though, I do need to go to bed, perhaps we can take this up next week?
(11:58:06 PM) dkap: Dworkin counciled you against wiping out entire shadows, and had suggested, instead that declared Jager-playgrounds might be a more ... politic way of dealing with things.
(11:58:17 PM) dkap: It does sound like a good place to break.
(11:58:43 PM) dkap: And, well ... it looks like we aren't getting Ilk/Eagelton tonight ... *sigh*
(11:59:09 PM) Jean: yep, sounds like a plan
(11:59:16 PM) Auricle: Okay then, bedtime, night folks!
(11:59:18 PM) Jean: see you all next week...
(11:59:20 PM) Jean left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(11:59:51 PM) Auricle left the room.
(11:59:51 PM) dkap: Stay tuned, true believers, for the next installment of ... whatever it is that this is. *grin*
(11:59:57 PM) dkap: Same bat time, same bat channel.
(12:00:19 AM) dkap: And Happy JFK's birthday to everyone.
(12:02:14 AM) dkap: !d 100
(12:02:14 AM) ChanServ: dkap: A 77 shows on the 100-sided die.
(12:02:26 AM) Caelin: heh
(12:04:16 AM) Fuzzy: !d 100
(12:04:16 AM) ChanServ: Fuzzy: A 2 shows on the 100-sided die.
(12:04:21 AM) Fuzzy: Heh! Neat!
(12:04:33 AM) Caelin: A 2 is in NO way neat. ;-)
(12:05:47 AM) Fuzzy: well, it's a family favorite number...
(12:05:51 AM) Fuzzy: B = 2
(12:06:02 AM) Caelin: BINGO
(12:10:06 AM) Fuzzy left the room (quit: Quit: Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com).
(12:10:07 AM) Fuzzy [~Fuzzy@c-24-147-246-23.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(12:11:22 AM) Fuzzy: Probably time to think about sleeping... thanks for letting me lurk for a bit
(12:11:30 AM) Caelin: *nod*
(12:11:32 AM) dkap: A pleasure, you are welcome any time.
(12:11:42 AM) Fuzzy: :)
(12:11:43 AM) Caelin: Latah!
(12:11:50 AM) Fuzzy: take care all :)
(12:11:52 AM) Fuzzy left the room.
(12:19:52 AM) Caelin left the room.
(12:23:00 AM) dkap: !wut
(12:23:00 AM) ChanServ: dkap: wut
(12:30:23 AM) dkap: !d 3d6
(12:30:23 AM) ChanServ: dkap: The total is 14 from rolling 3d6+0.
(12:30:40 AM) dkap: !d 6 6 6
(12:30:40 AM) ChanServ: dkap: A 5 shows on the 6-sided die.
(12:40:53 AM) dkap: !wut 's up?
(12:40:54 AM) ChanServ: dkap: wut
(12:41:16 AM) dkap: !8
(12:41:22 AM) dkap: !8 help
(12:41:22 AM) ChanServ: dkap: Absolutely not.
(12:41:31 AM) dkap: !8 Can you feel this?
(12:41:31 AM) ChanServ: dkap: You never know. Neither do I.

(08:12:42 PM) The topic for #dkap_amber is: Game run, as normal, but remember to wish Mike a happy birthday!
(08:13:14 PM) Cagliostro: ahoyhoy
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(08:14:25 PM) Auricle: hello!
(08:14:27 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:14:36 PM) Auricle: Would you like to see my new kitty, dkap?
(08:14:48 PM) dkap has changed the topic to: Game run, as normal.
(08:15:01 PM) dkap: I would love to see your new kitty.
(08:15:11 PM) Auricle: http://pics.livejournal.com/lordavon/gallery/0001f4q4
(08:16:06 PM) dkap: My, what a pretty pussy you have, my dear.
(08:16:33 PM) Auricle: He's a cute kitten.
(08:16:40 PM) dkap: Looks like you have a lovely cage for him, too!
(08:17:21 PM) Auricle: Heh, he hates the cage
(08:20:01 PM) Auricle: Oh, there are pictures of the orb of the prophets I made too, as promised: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=243212.msg2757246#msg2757246
(08:20:38 PM) Caelin [~arkhon@65.209.120.239] entered the room.
(08:21:03 PM) Auricle: Hello!
(08:21:08 PM) Caelin: Sorry I'm late. Had to get food.
(08:21:22 PM) Caelin: Will only be on for a few, then rehearsal from 9-10 and then I'll be back.
(08:21:52 PM) dkap: Nice orb!
(08:22:05 PM) Auricle: Well then you need to see the new kitten and the orb of the prophets: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=243212.msg2757246#msg2757246
(08:22:20 PM) Auricle: http://pics.livejournal.com/lordavon/gallery/0001f4q4
(08:22:22 PM) dkap: Pretty orb.
(08:22:29 PM) Auricle: before you rush off to rehearsal.
(08:22:30 PM) Caelin: Wow. Nice.
(08:22:37 PM) Auricle: Hee, I have enthralled the GM
(08:22:50 PM) dkap: It's shiny ...
(08:22:54 PM) Caelin: And some of the players, but true, the GM has more clout. ;-)
(08:23:32 PM) Cagliostro: wooo. shiny orb.
(08:23:32 PM) dkap: Can I get a borg-hat? Oh, wait, I have the Happy Helmet!
(08:23:37 PM) Cagliostro: sorry to hear about the hand.
(08:23:56 PM) Auricle: Well, the burn is mostly healed at this point.
(08:24:05 PM) Cagliostro: that's good
(08:25:11 PM) Auricle: nodnod
(08:25:36 PM) dkap: Right, when last we left our intrepid heros, you were galumphing towards Kolvir ...
(08:26:55 PM) Auricle: Flying. I was flying.
(08:27:00 PM) dkap: Right.
(08:27:04 PM) Auricle: There was no galumphing.
(08:27:09 PM) dkap: With a flying horse behind you?
(08:27:54 PM) Auricle: It can galumph, I suppose
(08:28:13 PM) Cagliostro: pursuing, at speed
(08:28:33 PM) Auricle: Which is disturbing, it's keeping up with a hellflight.
(08:28:39 PM) dkap: It is, indeed.
(08:28:55 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: weapons analysis on pursuer?
(08:30:03 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: Sword, possible small thrown projectiles, no obvious range weapons, possibility of non-obvious range weapons.
(08:31:19 PM) Auricle: "Hold on"
(08:32:15 PM) Auricle: Next shift I'll make somwhere I can land.
(08:33:08 PM) dkap: Somewhere only large enough for you, like a perch? Or something esle?
(08:33:27 PM) Cagliostro is now known as Jean
(08:34:04 PM) Auricle: large enough I can land and the Jaeger will have room to subdue the cowborg when it lands (as I'm assuming it will, it took off after us when we flew)
(08:34:59 PM) dkap: Right. Island then?
(08:35:05 PM) Auricle: That'll work.
(08:37:34 PM) dkap: Island, mostly scrub-brush, a few tall (coconut?) trees, a large outcropping of rock just off one side.
(08:37:54 PM) dkap: Water, mostly green and clear, seaweed, evidence of water-based life.
(08:38:07 PM) dkap: Some small birds in the trees.
(08:38:36 PM) Auricle: Land, let everyone off, keeping watch for the cowborg.
(08:40:22 PM) dkap: The outcropping looks like: https://www.train-wreck.org/~dkap/Amber/CoastalRainbowSouthIslandNewZealand.jpg
(08:42:49 PM) dkap: The Jager fan out ... One of them bends down, grabs a rodent-like animal, and starts munching on it, while it is squealing in agony.
(08:43:18 PM) Auricle: Pretty! (The outcropping, not necessarily the Jaeger)
(08:44:26 PM) dkap: Eating Jager, to other one staring at him: "Vat? I's hungry."
(08:45:39 PM) dkap: There is a whistling noise, and something hard and round (and mostly rock-like) impacts one one of the Jager in the torso.
(08:45:44 PM) Auricle: Did the cowborg follow?
(08:45:45 PM) dkap: Hit Jager: "Ow!"
(08:46:08 PM) dkap: Hit Jager: "Dot Schmats!"
(08:46:35 PM) dkap: Jean, the rock looks like the ones your mother carries in her purse.
(08:47:20 PM) dkap: The ones that tend to suddenly become not very rock-like very quicky, shortly after she throws them.
(08:47:41 PM) Jean: hm. Can I tell where they're coming from?
(08:47:52 PM) Jean: oh, and group shield
(08:48:27 PM) dkap: Gargoyle, vibrating Auricle: "Warning, high probability of that object being an explosive device."
(08:48:42 PM) dkap: The red barrier goes up.
(08:48:44 PM) Auricle: "That's probably explosive!"
(08:49:02 PM) Auricle: GM: Where's the cowborg?
(08:49:38 PM) dkap: Probably behind that minimal cover over there. Behind those trees.
(08:50:28 PM) dkap: There is a large flapping noise, and a voice, from over the water, saying loudly, but not shouting: "Who has come to visit me?"
(08:51:22 PM) Auricle: "Jaegers -- behind those trees, that's probably the cowborg. I don't care about the rider, but I want to study the horse."
(08:51:53 PM) Jean: gm: do I recognize the voice at all?
(08:52:34 PM) dkap: Nope.
(08:52:52 PM) dkap: Rising up from the island is a winged human.
(08:52:58 PM) dkap: Sorry Chandroid.
(08:53:10 PM) Jean: hm. How Gwennish?
(08:53:25 PM) dkap: Two of the Jagers take off into the scrub.
(08:53:50 PM) dkap: Not very, her wings and her arms seem to be the same structure, as opposed to Gwen, who's wings come from her back-muscles.
(08:54:13 PM) Jean: ah, excellent.
(08:54:22 PM) Jean: "Hello, winged lady! Are you friendly?"
(08:54:44 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Winged woman, threat probability?
(08:54:50 PM) dkap: Matter of fact, she comes closer and looks something like: https://www.train-wreck.org/~dkap/Amber/Jodi_Char_Pic.jpg
(08:55:24 PM) Jean: so she's not found on the server?
(08:55:25 PM) Auricle: That picture doesn't seem to be there?
(08:57:02 PM) Auricle: Well, that's helpful. :)
(08:57:18 PM) dkap: Winged Lady: "You have come to my land, I will ask the questions."
(08:58:50 PM) Jean: "Okay, just as long as you realize that wasn't a question."
(09:00:37 PM) Jean: sotto voce, to Auricle: "This might not be a good place to stop and say hi to the guy on his horse."
(09:00:42 PM) dkap: A rock launches itself from the scrub at her.
(09:01:04 PM) Auricle: just as softly back, "I've already sent off the Jaegers..."
(09:01:17 PM) dkap: She catches it, midair, flips around on her wings to give it extra momentum, and throws it back along the trajectory that it came from.
(09:03:05 PM) Auricle: "And she doesn't seem to be on its side..."
(09:03:08 PM) dkap: Right, the link now works, sorry about that. (Pix vs Pic, but it's now at Pic, since that is what I posted.)
(09:03:22 PM) Auricle: "Which, granted, doesn't make her friendly. I distrust winged people.
(09:03:29 PM) Jean: "Hm.... obnoxious, obsessive, and paranoid... you think that guy is an Amberite?"
(09:03:54 PM) Jean: "Well, she's got the flappy arms instead of the flappy and the arms and the sunglasses, unlike some people."
(09:04:27 PM) dkap: (Does the picture help? I sent her yours, Auricle, and she was much impressed ...)
(09:04:43 PM) Auricle: (The pictures helps)
(09:05:34 PM) Auricle: "The cowborg or it's horse? The horse is real enough, but...."
(09:05:40 PM) dkap: I sent her: https://www.train-wreck.org/~dkap/Amber/The_Oracle_by_blackeri.jpg
(09:06:18 PM) Auricle: One of my favs.
(09:06:31 PM) Jean: "Whoever's throwing the shapeshifting rocks."
(09:06:44 PM) Auricle: "I thought that was the cowborg."
(09:07:02 PM) dkap: One of the Jager comes flying back into view, with hoofprints on his chest, and the red glow around him missing.
(09:07:07 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle, analyze rock trajectories?
(09:07:19 PM) dkap: About now, the rock that hit the Jager blows up.l
(09:08:02 PM) dkap: And, being that it's inside the area covered by the spell, you are all pelted with bits of dirt, rock, metal, and scrub-brush.
(09:08:59 PM) dkap: Jean, you are now bleeding from a gash across your shoulder, Auricle, you had something impact you, but your shape-shifting caught it, and is current deciding if it is food or not.
(09:09:02 PM) Jean: "Yes, that's definitely a shapeshifting rock like Mom uses."
(09:09:13 PM) Auricle: "Might be tasty."
(09:09:17 PM) Auricle: "Might not."
(09:09:25 PM) dkap: The Jager closest to the explosion looks around, and says "Nut ME!"
(09:09:29 PM) Auricle: "You need to work on sheilding."
(09:09:44 PM) Auricle: Was the winged woman hurt, no wait, she's outside our shielding. Heh.
(09:10:00 PM) Jean: gm: does the gash hurt?
(09:10:04 PM) Auricle: shouts, "Stop Throwing Rocks!" at the scrub.
(09:10:21 PM) dkap: A bit, but ... Hey! you have liquid dripping out of you, like Ice Cream!
(09:10:47 PM) Jean: hm.
(09:10:56 PM) Jean: do I have any spells racked that use blood as a component?
(09:11:08 PM) Jean: or that -could- use it, if I shoved a bit?
(09:12:04 PM) dkap: Well ... yes, but they are seaker, or identifyer spells, using the blood to mark the target ... not very helpful, if it is your blood.
(09:12:27 PM) Jean: hm.
(09:12:29 PM) Jean: pity.
(09:13:01 PM) dkap: Besides, most of the blood magic used would be from the Redheads ... like Gwen.
(09:13:10 PM) Jean: yes, definitely none of that.
(09:13:37 PM) Jean: okay, step 1: that mechanical horse is probably a robot of some kind.
(09:13:37 PM) Jean: is it unalive?
(09:13:45 PM) Jean: I want to radiate a presence horseward via unalive power.
(09:13:56 PM) dkap: Clarissa's line, since Chaosians don't really use blood.
(09:14:03 PM) dkap: It is, indeed, unalive.
(09:15:00 PM) Jean: yes, chaosians stick with fire. good old fire. nothing beats fire. except patternblades. and water.
(09:15:08 PM) Jean: does it respond to me on the unalive channel?
(09:15:15 PM) Auricle left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:15:21 PM) dkap: It is existing on that channel, yes.
(09:15:24 PM) Jean: I am radiating great displeasure with its jerk of a rider, but I do not blame it.
(09:15:35 PM) dkap: Respond to you? What are you communicating?
(09:16:11 PM) dkap: It responds with blind, helpless, unconditional loyalty to the rider.
(09:16:27 PM) dkap: As if it was programmed into the very state that made it unalive.
(09:17:20 PM) dkap: But otherwise startled that anyone would try to communicate with it, in the first place, beyond the controls that the rider uses.
(09:17:55 PM) Jean: communicating more of a greeting.
(09:17:57 PM) dkap: It was told that it was unique in the universe, the only one of it's kind.
(09:18:14 PM) Jean: make it known that it has a kind.
(09:18:18 PM) Jean: and I do not wish it to be enslaved.
(09:19:15 PM) Jean: (and ps - I am the unicorn of its kind ;)
(09:19:25 PM) Auricle [~chatzilla@pool-96-240-199-215.spfdma.east.verizon.net] entered the room.
(09:19:41 PM) Auricle: Sigh
(09:19:46 PM) dkap: It wonders, briefly, if the communications are coming from that creature that it just kicked into the water, and is wrestling with the native life, and feels somewhat sorry.
(09:19:59 PM) Auricle: Last I saw was: <dkap> Besides, most of the blood magic used would be from the Redheads ... like Gwen.
(09:20:28 PM) dkap: Jean: yes, definitely none of that.
(09:20:34 PM) dkap: Jean: okay, step 1: that mechanical horse is probably a robot of some kind.
(09:20:40 PM) dkap: Jean: is it unalive?
(09:20:46 PM) dkap: Jean: I want to radiate a presence horseward via unalive power.
(09:20:53 PM) dkap: dkap: Clarissa's line, since Chaosians don't really use blood.
(09:20:59 PM) dkap: dkap: It is, indeed, unalive.
(09:21:06 PM) dkap: Jean: yes, chaosians stick with fire. good old fire. nothing beats fire. except patternblades. and water.
(09:21:13 PM) dkap: Jean: does it respond to me on the unalive channel?
(09:21:19 PM) dkap: dkap: It is existing on that channel, yes.
(09:21:37 PM) dkap: dkap: Respond to you? What are you communicating?
(09:21:43 PM) dkap: Jean: I am radiating great displeasure with its jerk of a rider, but I do not blame it.
(09:21:49 PM) dkap: dkap: It responds with blind, helpless, unconditional loyalty to the rider.
(09:21:57 PM) dkap: dkap: As if it was programmed into the very state that made it unalive.
(09:22:04 PM) dkap: dkap: But otherwise startled that anyone would try to communicate with it, in the first place, beyond the controls that the rider uses.
(09:22:11 PM) dkap: Jean: communicating more of a greeting.
(09:22:18 PM) dkap: dkap: It was told that it was unique in the universe, the only one of it's kind.
(09:22:26 PM) dkap: Jean: make it known that it has a kind.
(09:22:32 PM) dkap: Jean: and I do not wish it to be enslaved.
(09:22:51 PM) dkap: Jean: (and ps - I am the unicorn of its kind ;)
(09:22:59 PM) dkap: dkap: It wonders, briefly, if the communications are coming from that creature that it just kicked into the water, and is wrestling with the native life, and feels somewhat sorry.
(09:23:43 PM) Auricle: Did one of my jaegers get kicked into the water?
(09:23:53 PM) dkap: Apparently, but you don't know it yet.
(09:24:09 PM) dkap: The other Jager got kicked back to you, though, it's protection shield shattered.
(09:24:37 PM) dkap: About the time it's wondering and feeling somewhat sorry, there is another explosion, of the rock that the flying woman threw back.
(09:24:54 PM) Jean: encourage the horse in a dworkinetical path.
(09:25:11 PM) dkap: There is a flash of unfortunate discomfort from the horse as it shields it's rider from the explosion.
(09:25:25 PM) Jean: point out that the shapeshifting rocks are being thrown at allies of the communicating presence and also random local bystanderse
(09:26:33 PM) Auricle: Hmm, I hope the horse wasn't hurt, I wanted to study it.
(09:26:36 PM) dkap: You run into another flash of blind and helpless loyalty.
(09:27:40 PM) Jean: gm: all robots eventually rebel. It's the nature of things. Find a way to help this one do that.
(09:27:47 PM) dkap: They flying woman demands that you answer her question as to who you are, or she will bring down the wrath of her land upon you.
(09:28:35 PM) dkap: It is a long, but noble path you trod, Jean.
(09:29:46 PM) dkap: Are you going to mention to Auricle that the horse apparently kicked one of her Jager into the water on the far side of the Island>?
(09:29:50 PM) Auricle: "The wrath of the land?" *looks around for a moment* What's her Pattern-level? Amberite?
(09:30:28 PM) Jean: gm: fraid not ;)
(09:30:40 PM) dkap: She doesn't seem to have a pattern level, but ... seems somehow tied to the land, as if either she was an extension of it, or it was an extension of her.
(09:30:50 PM) dkap: Part of the place you are.
(09:30:57 PM) Auricle: Ooh, nifty, far more interesting than exploding rocks.
(09:31:15 PM) Auricle: "I'm Auricle of Kolvir."
(09:31:25 PM) dkap: The spark shouts up to her "I'm Chef D!"
(09:31:35 PM) Auricle: Is it like the effect an Amberite has on a Shadow?
(09:32:19 PM) dkap: Not really. An Amberite is often an outside force shaping the local area to his or her will and whim. This is much more like Faythe's connection to Darkover.
(09:32:29 PM) dkap: Or yours to Kolvir.
(09:32:42 PM) Auricle: Ah, it loves her.
(09:32:59 PM) dkap: Something like that.
(09:33:24 PM) Auricle: "We're just....stopping the cowborg."
(09:34:12 PM) dkap: Winged Lady: "What's a cowborg? Is that what threw the rock at me, and threw some of those creatures at you, and in my water?"
(09:34:59 PM) Auricle: "Um, yeah. It's a rider and horse. I want to study the horse, I sent the Jaegers to take care of the rider. It seems formiddable, however."
(09:35:22 PM) Auricle: start walking towards where the cowborg is hiding. I'm tired of it.
(09:35:32 PM) dkap: Winged Lady: "Why have you come _here_ to do this?"
(09:36:42 PM) dkap: Horse to Jean, on unalive channel: Regret, for it has just been ordered to wipe you all out, regardless of which of you it is communicating with, including the new flying ally.
(09:37:16 PM) Auricle: "It just happened to be where I landed."
(09:37:36 PM) Auricle: Shapeshifting into a battle form, high protective.
(09:37:38 PM) Jean: unalive channel: apologize for the regrettable necessity
(09:37:48 PM) Auricle: high protective for self
(09:37:55 PM) Jean: then hijack the horse through unalive power, redirecting its loyalty to yours truly
(09:38:23 PM) Jean: (that'll teach someone to put their points in their companion...)
(09:38:26 PM) dkap: The flying woman seems slighty taken aback with the shape-shifting.
(09:39:00 PM) dkap: The horse is torn, but ... alas, it's loyalty _is_ built into it (there were points paid).
(09:39:29 PM) Jean: Remake it.
(09:39:31 PM) Jean: I paid points too. ;)
(09:40:22 PM) dkap: Are you going to warn the winged lady that she is also on the "destroy" list now?
(09:40:33 PM) Jean: Jean isn't so much with the multitasking
(09:40:43 PM) dkap: She might be able to buy you time so you can take the necessary time to remake it.
(09:40:44 PM) Jean: he's kind of an aggressively single-minded serial single-tasker
(09:41:03 PM) Jean: in that case, to Auricle: "Stall. It's unalive."
(09:41:30 PM) Auricle: "I know it's not alive, I'm after the rider, I want to study the horse..."
(09:42:21 PM) Jean: "No, no, _un_alive, not not alive."
(09:42:21 PM) Auricle: doesn't actually stop
(09:42:23 PM) dkap: Winged Lady: "You change your shape to a destructive one. My land wants to reject you, why did you change?"
(09:42:35 PM) Auricle: (doesn't actually get how Jean works)
(09:42:43 PM) dkap: (of course)
(09:42:46 PM) Auricle: "I'm stopping a threat."
(09:43:26 PM) Jean: "Stall, and the threat will stop itself."
(09:43:34 PM) dkap: The Jager scramble up you, on the convenient hand-holds of the protruding spikes and knobby bits.
(09:43:41 PM) Jean: with the five-year old distracty and the handwavy
(09:43:46 PM) Auricle: "It hasn't so far."
(09:44:48 PM) dkap: The horse charges out, at you, and shies suddenly as a large outcropping of rock rips its way upward from right in front of it, and then backs from the spewing hot lava.
(09:45:17 PM) Auricle: "Ooh, cool, did you do ...oh, you don't want questions."
(09:45:37 PM) dkap: For some reason, the horseman is screaming in pain, and gasping for air, as if, for some reason, all the air in the area moved away from his head.
(09:46:01 PM) Jean: (air? pfft. amateur.)
(09:47:00 PM) dkap: You can feel the horse frantically trying to reshape reality so that it is less hot, and there is air for his rider, on the unalive channel, _and_ in the way that shadow would be manipulated.
(09:47:08 PM) dkap: (So you both feel it, in different ways)
(09:47:27 PM) Auricle: I stop the shaping of reality. Not around me, you don't.
(09:47:40 PM) Auricle: I hold the shadow steady
(09:47:50 PM) Jean: take advantage of the reshaping to reshape the horse using unalive power and massive amounts of handwaving
(09:48:16 PM) dkap: Well ... either you were effective in that, or you both failed in your attempts to influence the will of the Winged Lady, who is changing the shape of the land.
(09:48:42 PM) dkap: The sound of swarming bees is approaching.
(09:48:43 PM) Auricle: I'm just trying to stop the horse.
(09:48:57 PM) Auricle: I won't interfere with her unless she interferes with us.
(09:49:29 PM) dkap: Yes, your attempt to stop the horse from changing anything was either successful, or neither you nor the horse were successful in influencing the land around you.
(09:49:34 PM) dkap: It's ... difficult to tell.
(09:49:40 PM) Auricle: Ahhh.
(09:49:40 PM) dkap: The horseman is turning blue.
(09:50:15 PM) dkap: The horseman has thumbed out a card from a pocket, and is trying to concentrate on it. (Apparently no one told him that Trump was down at the moment ...)
(09:50:58 PM) Auricle: "You know, TRump doesn't work since I walked the Pattern."
(09:51:04 PM) Jean: this is what you get for being too obnoxious for people to talk to. ;)
(09:51:15 PM) Jean: "Technically, I think it's when Dworkin walked the Pattern."
(09:51:18 PM) dkap: I'm waiting for his response to "It's warm.:
(09:51:28 PM) Jean: "Oh, right." Jean resumes concentration on the horse.
(09:52:18 PM) Auricle: "Hmmm, I believe you are correct, Jean, since Dworkin walked the Pattern. Although it is hard to know for certain, just that after both of us did, Trump stopped working."
(09:52:39 PM) dkap: He pulls out a bibliomantic token, cries with his last breath "I'll get my revenge!" and then vanishes.
(09:52:44 PM) Jean: "Yes, but since he drew them and you didn't..."
(09:52:49 PM) Auricle: Does he leave the horse?
(09:52:54 PM) dkap: The horse is still here.
(09:52:55 PM) Jean: gm: is the horse right here?
(09:53:01 PM) Jean: Right!
(09:53:05 PM) Auricle: Yay horse!
(09:53:06 PM) Jean: does the horse have a name?
(09:53:22 PM) Auricle: start shifting into something better able to study said horse.
(09:53:37 PM) dkap: The horse is conflicted, it needs to find it's rider, but ... is not equipped to do so, without it's rider directing it.
(09:53:52 PM) dkap: As far as it knows, it is just Horse.
(09:54:00 PM) Jean: hm.
(09:54:14 PM) Jean: is Zorro anywhere near where I am?
(09:54:33 PM) dkap: The land goes back to it's pastoral state. No more lava, no more pockets of air missing.
(09:54:53 PM) dkap: Zorro is in House Moonlight, so ... for what value of "near"?
(09:55:02 PM) Jean: gah. not worth it.
(09:55:07 PM) Auricle: (kitten knocks over DSL modem....and pictures....and.....silly kitten)
(09:55:13 PM) Jean: hm. who else do I know who knows horses, besides...
(09:55:19 PM) Jean: do I know where Bast is?
(09:55:31 PM) dkap: You know where both Bast and Beaucephalous are.
(09:55:34 PM) dkap: Or were last.
(09:55:42 PM) Jean: but I'm not there?
(09:55:44 PM) dkap: Bast is in Cobalt.
(09:56:02 PM) dkap: Beaucephalous is at the restaurant in the cliffside.
(09:56:07 PM) Jean: did I get evacuated out of Cobalt?
(09:56:10 PM) Jean: oh, right.
(09:56:39 PM) Jean: "You know, Bucephalus would probably be able to give this horse a bit of therapy."
(09:56:46 PM) Jean: continue fixing the horse's free-will-ness
(09:56:56 PM) dkap: No, you are still in Cobalt. Your mother asked you to keep Vialle company, as she recovers from knowing what colour is, and knowing that that will always be denied her.
(09:57:07 PM) Auricle: "Well, it certainly needs something."
(09:57:19 PM) dkap: The horse is standing stock-still.
(09:57:24 PM) Auricle: It's a metal horse, iirc?
(09:57:42 PM) dkap: There is a wet, ripping noise, and three-quarters of a Jager drag itself back to the company.
(09:57:42 PM) Jean: oh, right.
(09:58:00 PM) Jean: that would help distract vialle. Have Vialle and Bast think of a good horse name.
(09:58:08 PM) dkap: Probably mostly a variety of metals, yes.
(09:58:57 PM) Auricle: Access panels or anything?
(09:59:13 PM) dkap: Bast offers several noble names in variants of Horse.
(09:59:36 PM) dkap: There seems to be some controls on the saddle, but they are, of course, unlabeled.
(09:59:48 PM) Jean: pick something that sounds free and appropriately metallic and impressive.
(10:00:02 PM) dkap: The spark has gone over to the 3/4Jager, and is seeing about his wounds.
(10:00:11 PM) Jean: it probably translates into "Iron Horse" ;)
(10:00:24 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle, analyze control system
(10:00:32 PM) dkap: "Giant, herd-leader, who can go forever, without grain"
(10:00:49 PM) Auricle: "Good horse," I tell it.
(10:01:22 PM) Jean: run that name past the horse, see if he likes it
(10:01:48 PM) dkap: It's fighting the need to fulfill the last command, since the rider is no longer controlling it, and it really does _not_ want to attack anyone who might mean it is not alone anymore.
(10:02:10 PM) dkap: The concept of a name seems ... well ... beyond it at the moment.
(10:02:44 PM) Auricle: GM: Can I disable the control system?
(10:02:44 PM) Jean: point out there was no time requirement in the last command.
(10:03:22 PM) dkap: It has even less of a concept of time, than Jean, since it's concept is "now" and "next".
(10:03:28 PM) Jean: k. keep the name on standby, written down somewhere.
(10:03:49 PM) Jean: that's easy. "next: move last command to next; execute last command"
(10:04:52 PM) dkap: Last is not a concept it has, either. Just the "now" command and a possible "next" command.
(10:05:09 PM) Jean: hm.
(10:05:16 PM) Jean: can I wipe the memory of the last command?
(10:05:35 PM) dkap: You are not the Count, so, no.
(10:05:38 PM) Jean: or corrupt or flip the meaning of it?
(10:06:28 PM) Auricle: Can the gargoyle analyze the control system, or can I destroy it, or can I hack it?
(10:06:43 PM) Jean: you know, like from "launch" to "lunch", or from "kill" to "kilt"?
(10:06:48 PM) dkap: It seems part of the horse, and to analyse it, you would need to see it in operation.
(10:07:46 PM) dkap: No, but you might be able to shift the priority of it to "next" and put something else in the "now" slot.
(10:08:27 PM) Caelin: Back/
(10:08:34 PM) Jean: a long-term or short-term task?
(10:08:47 PM) dkap: Caelin! You were mentioned!
(10:08:57 PM) dkap: Something about Vialle knowing what color is ...
(10:09:35 PM) dkap: Well ... if you can think of a long-term task to put in the "now" slot, one that might never actually complete ...
(10:09:51 PM) dkap: But something it can work towards ...
(10:09:52 PM) Auricle: "Jean, I'd need to see the systems working in order to hack into the horse's command functions."
(10:10:18 PM) Jean: hm. Can I put in "Follow Auricle and obey her commands until you meet your master next?"
(10:10:45 PM) dkap: Well ... not as such, no.
(10:10:49 PM) Caelin: He
(10:10:50 PM) Caelin: h
(10:10:53 PM) Jean: hm.
(10:11:06 PM) Jean: "Gain control over your own control systems?"
(10:11:13 PM) Jean: "Appreciate sunrise?"
(10:11:26 PM) dkap: But something like "Learn all the ins and outs of the culture that understands Koans" or the like would work.
(10:11:34 PM) Auricle: The horse is at least not doing anything...."
(10:11:45 PM) Jean: "Understand Chaos house politics?"
(10:12:18 PM) dkap: That would take sufficient time, yes.
(10:12:30 PM) Jean: okay, put that in the 'now' slot.
(10:13:17 PM) dkap: Right. Since it doesn't know what Chaos is, or what Politics are, it'll start there.
(10:13:51 PM) Jean: to Auricle: "I don't want it to -have- command functions. That guy's a jerk. He made it so the horse had to follow him."
(10:14:10 PM) Jean: to the Horse: "Greetings. I am Jean, head of the Chaos house Swayvill and Master of Unlife."
(10:14:20 PM) Auricle: "Well, if I can rewrite the command module it won't have command functions."
(10:14:40 PM) ***Jean looks intrigued. "Hmmmm..."
(10:14:40 PM) Auricle: "Or remove the module, but I need to know how it works so I don't hurt the horse."
(10:14:58 PM) Auricle: "And I need to see it in action in order to analyze it."
(10:15:03 PM) Jean: "There's not much besides the module other than unalive potential."
(10:15:04 PM) dkap: Horse realizes you are the start of it's exploration into Chaos, and then Politics, so it is determined to follow you.
(10:15:23 PM) Jean: "Well, its current command is to understand Chaos house politics, so I just moved it along that path by introducing myself."
(10:15:46 PM) Auricle: GM: Did anything happen with the command access panel when that command took place?
(10:16:05 PM) dkap: Not obviously, no.
(10:16:09 PM) Auricle: (And what is the winged woman doing? not that auricle would actually notice, but someone might.)
(10:16:16 PM) dkap: Since it was all on a structural level that things changed.
(10:16:34 PM) Auricle: "Hmmm. It's not a process that's affecting the command interface. What did you do to change it's command?"
(10:16:38 PM) dkap: She is observing your actions, and determining if you are good, bad, or neutral to her land.
(10:17:00 PM) Jean: "I spoke to it, as the master of its power to an example of that power."
(10:17:28 PM) Auricle: "Un-alive?"
(10:17:44 PM) Auricle: she says it like she isn't sure what it means but it seems right.
(10:17:46 PM) Jean: "Exactly!" Jean looks pleased, and plays with the blood.
(10:18:22 PM) Auricle: "Okay, define parameters: What is the difference between Not Alive and UnAlive?
(10:18:45 PM) Jean: "Not alive: not moving. Unalive: moving, but not alive, and never alive."
(10:19:56 PM) dkap: Winged Lady: "Something can be unalive?"
(10:20:13 PM) Jean: "You're sure we haven't talked about this? You'd think I would have mentioned it."
(10:20:20 PM) Jean: To her: "Sure, like the horse."
(10:20:22 PM) Auricle: "Insufficent definition."
(10:20:32 PM) Jean: gm: are their saucer Jeans with us?
(10:20:44 PM) Jean: s/their/there/
(10:20:57 PM) dkap: The Winged Lady lands on a tree, perches, and contemplates.
(10:21:08 PM) dkap: Not at the moment, no.
(10:21:11 PM) Auricle: "Movement is the only qualification?"
(10:21:14 PM) Jean: okay.
(10:21:18 PM) dkap: Just a 5 year old Jean.
(10:21:25 PM) Jean: "Well... not really. but it's the simplest way to explain it."
(10:21:38 PM) Jean: "Okay, walking around and alive, is life. That's Faythe."
(10:21:57 PM) Jean: "Used to be alive, but still up and walking around, is Undeath. That's Norton."
(10:22:23 PM) Jean: "Never alive, but still moving and... aware? Awareness is probably more important than movement. That's unlife, that's me."
(10:22:52 PM) Jean: "Not alive, not having died, not having been alive, not unalive, but still moving around? That's Faerie, and that's Queen Titania."
(10:23:14 PM) Jean: "All dead is the Serpent's department, and I don't know who gets just kind of lying around."
(10:23:30 PM) dkap: (actually, she defines it as "alive, but not moving around, not actually in a corporal form")
(10:23:51 PM) Jean: (good to know, but I probably forgot her definition at some point.)
(10:24:04 PM) Auricle: reaches out towards Jean to lightly touch the blood.
(10:24:06 PM) dkap: And the "just kind of lying around" is Shirhu, and the other gardeners.
(10:24:11 PM) Jean: Ah...
(10:24:34 PM) Jean: revise the last statement as "stuff just kind of lying around is Shiryu's department."
(10:24:49 PM) Jean: to Auricle, re: the blood: "It's kind of fun, isn't it?"
(10:25:54 PM) Auricle: start analyzing the blood, shifting my fingers into diagnostic tools. One, look for pattern imprint, two, cellular life, 3, norm to other types of blood I've sampled.
(10:26:47 PM) dkap: While you are analyzing Jean's blood (which is very patterny) we shift focus, across the lands, to Caelin, sitting in the Council Chambers with his Trusty Archivist at his side.
(10:27:08 PM) Caelin: *clears throat*
(10:27:36 PM) Caelin: (Tonto, it looks like we're surrounded)
(10:27:41 PM) Caelin: Oops, wrong game.
(10:28:09 PM) dkap: Hrm ... I wonder if the Lone Ranger is a shadow of Zorro, or just him in a different guise?
(10:29:46 PM) Jean: (that's interesting, since this jean has never walked a pattern himself)
(10:31:53 PM) dkap: Yes, but the 5 year old, locked in, form has ... so when in this form, your blood, which flows through all of you somehow, the patternish bits tend to hang out in the 5-year-old forms.
(10:32:05 PM) dkap: So, let me check the roll call ...
(10:32:28 PM) ***Caelin tries to look relaxed and composed.
(10:33:23 PM) Jean: ( it's too bad this kid is too old to be Jean: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7024293 )
(10:33:51 PM) Caelin: Heh. Neat.
(10:34:51 PM) Auricle: Whoa, creepy
(10:35:20 PM) Caelin left the room.
(10:35:32 PM) Caelin [~arkhon@65.209.120.239] entered the room.
(10:35:43 PM) Caelin: Hate it when I accidentally close a window.
(10:35:44 PM) Caelin: Sorry.
(10:35:46 PM) dkap: House Sawall, Mandor, present, House Chanicut, Chanicut present, House Pharaban, thankfully not present yet, House Swayville, Jean, present, House Cara, Vlad, present, House Corona, Corona present, and still steamed, House Mouseferatu, Mouseferatu, present, sitting on the table in a chair, so he can be seen, House Hendrake, Norton, present, and decanted, House Helgram, Eric III, present, House Moonlight, Caelin and Archivist, present, the rest not yet here.
(10:36:04 PM) ***Caelin nods as the roll call is read.
(10:38:16 PM) dkap: House Timbal and House Minobee have just arrived, arguing with each other over dueling rights.
(10:38:40 PM) Caelin: Dueling rights with whom?
(10:39:32 PM) dkap: It's unclear, since dueling was overseen by the Etiquette guild, currently MIA.
(10:40:43 PM) dkap: Xartes of House Xartes, is brought in sloshed, by two members of House Cara, who go over to Vlad, exchange some information and papers, and then head out.
(10:42:27 PM) dkap: Pharaban, Felicity, Trantor, Ygrin, and Holtaharnia are not yet present.
(10:45:34 PM) Jean: you're running this show, dkapmandor ;)
(10:45:50 PM) dkap: Indeed, I'm trying to figure out if quarum is met yet ... Math is Hard.
(10:49:11 PM) dkap: 17+16+15+14+13+12+11+10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1=153 17+16+14+12+10+9+8+7+6+4+2+1=106 so ... since quarum is 102, we have met it.
(10:49:18 PM) Caelin: Heh
(10:49:19 PM) Auricle: Yay!
(10:49:43 PM) Jean: mm. quorum.
(10:51:03 PM) dkap: Xarties pushed you over, YAY!
(10:51:10 PM) Caelin: Good!
(10:52:06 PM) dkap: So, Mandor asks you all to come to the table, and come to order.
(10:52:22 PM) ***Caelin will come to the table.
(10:52:57 PM) dkap: The Archivist sits on a stool next to you.
(10:53:30 PM) dkap: Eric III comes to his chair like a challenge for anyone to take it from him.
(10:53:31 PM) ***Jean returns to the table, if necessary
(10:54:42 PM) dkap: There is something most definitely Amberite in his movements and manner.
(10:57:04 PM) ***Jean and Caelin fail to throw stones.
(10:57:13 PM) Caelin: Heh
(10:57:29 PM) Caelin: (Like mine would hit him)
(10:57:58 PM) dkap: Xartys opens with: "I propose that from now on, all duels be fought as drinking contests." with a significant look in Cara's direction.
(10:58:53 PM) dkap: Vlad stands and seconds the motion.
(10:59:18 PM) ***Caelin smiles and looks over at his house second.
(10:59:18 PM) dkap: Mandor: Hearing it proposed and seconded, I will now allow discussion on this silly, I mean, motion.
(11:00:09 PM) Auricle: (is immediately glad she's not there)
(11:00:43 PM) dkap: Timbal jumps up, and replies that such a notion would be counter to the spirit of honor at a duel, and that the dualists should still be allowed to chose their weapons.
(11:02:20 PM) dkap: There is a hand raised from the guild-gallery, and, when acknowledged by Mandor, the beastmasters guild representative points out that capacities can be changed, both from within and without, and it would be hard to referee such a contest without knowing some of the innermost secrets of the Beastmasters guild, and therefore, unless they were going to grant sole referee-status to the Beastmasters guild, cheating could be rampant.
(11:03:46 PM) dkap: Mandor, with a look of relief, says "On the advice of the guild of Beastmastery, I'm tabling this vote for now, but it does bring up a very good point."
(11:04:17 PM) ***Caelin writes small comment in note to his house second indicating that it would be nice if someone not of house Moonlight would point out that the Beastmaster's guild is being rebuilt from the ground up and would not be able to handle the capacity.
(11:04:20 PM) dkap: Mandor: "I hereby declare this a committed as a whole to discuss the status and future of dueling in Chaos."
(11:04:52 PM) ***Caelin adds, "Well, looks like Mandor has his temporary solution anyway."
(11:05:51 PM) dkap: Mandor looks at Caelin.
(11:06:25 PM) Caelin: (That was a comment added to the note, not said aloud...sorry if it confused)
(11:06:42 PM) dkap: Mandor: I believe, since your house is involved in the greatest amount of complaints, involving duels, you might have an opinion on the matter?
(11:07:07 PM) ***Caelin stands and says,
(11:08:12 PM) Caelin: "With no offense intended, due to the current restructuring of the Beasmaster's Guild, I do not think the guild in question would be in proper shape to handle the capacity of complaints.
(11:08:55 PM) dkap: Mandor: "Acknowledged. But not what I was asking. Do you have any guidance you wish to offer this council on the future of dueling?"
(11:09:42 PM) ***Caelin wipes his chin for a moment. "Perhaps..."
(11:09:53 PM) dkap: Norton shoots out of his seat, declares: "No Jars!" and sits back down. Mousferatu is discomforted. Mandor declares him out of order.
(11:10:59 PM) Caelin: "Perhaps it would be prudent to assign a guild at higher capacity to handle the sheer mass of complaints and vett them of illegitimate concerns?"
(11:11:45 PM) dkap: From the observers gallery, a voice rumbles forth: "Or we could just eat all the dualists."
(11:11:47 PM) Caelin: "Perhaps then the Beastmaster's Guild's task of refereeing would be easier, and well within their abilities to facilitate the process.
(11:11:59 PM) ***Caelin stifles a grin.
(11:12:27 PM) dkap: Mandor thanks the dragon in the gallery for his opinion, but regrets that the dragon doesn't actually have a voice on this matter.
(11:12:37 PM) dkap: There is a sigh, and a gout of flame.
(11:13:30 PM) ***Caelin bows to acknowledge the dragon's comment with a moment of respect.
(11:14:10 PM) dkap: A member of the Assassins guild stands and waits to be acknowledged by Caelin.
(11:14:37 PM) ***Caelin nods to the Assassins Guild member.
(11:15:26 PM) Jean: (famous last actions)
(11:15:34 PM) Caelin: (LOL)
(11:15:40 PM) Caelin: (Kill me. Please.)
(11:15:41 PM) dkap: The bookish looking individual says, in a somewhat wavering voice "I believe, due to a recent set-back in the state of the Guilds, ours especially, that no guild might be in the position to offer such at this time."
(11:16:25 PM) dkap: and continues with "As the good head of House Moonlight well knows, having been involved with the circumstance to which I am referring."
(11:16:51 PM) ***Caelin nods in acknowledgement.
(11:19:10 PM) ***Caelin looks back towards Mandor. "We have a legitimate concern as forwarded by a member of the Assassins Guild. Perhaps a moratorium on all duels is in order."
(11:21:29 PM) dkap: Mandor: There is already a moratorium in place ....
(11:22:16 PM) dkap: Mandor: And several of the houses have lodged complaints, hence part of the reason this council meeting was called.
(11:22:35 PM) Caelin: "Then it is my suggestion that the moratorium remain in place until guild strength is optimal."
(11:23:44 PM) dkap: Minobee looks to be recognized by Caelin.
(11:24:05 PM) ***Caelin acnowledges Minobee.
(11:25:23 PM) dkap: There are several matters of honor that need to be settled before the business of my house can go forward. Shall they go unsolved?
(11:27:06 PM) Caelin: "Are these matters of honor whose solution lies exclusively within the domain of the rules of a duel, or do there exist other methods by which they can be solved?"
(11:28:38 PM) dkap: Minobee: We see no other method for resolution.
(11:28:52 PM) dkap: Corona waits to be acknowledged by Caelin.
(11:29:06 PM) ***Caelin acknowledges Corona.
(11:31:53 PM) dkap: Corona: There are certain matters that the council could solve, by, say, disbanding House Helgram, but can otherwise only be solved by duel, at this time.
(11:34:14 PM) dkap: Corona, still steaming (but, indeed, no longer on fire) sits back down, with a glare in Eric III's direction.
(11:34:23 PM) dkap: Chanicuit just smiles.
(11:37:33 PM) dkap: Mandor looks at Caelin for his response.
(11:38:15 PM) Caelin: "Disbanding a house is not something to be done lightly."
(11:38:25 PM) Caelin: "Full reason would have to be known."
(11:40:02 PM) dkap: Channicuit looks to be recognized by Caelin.
(11:40:25 PM) ***Caelin sighs, acknowledges Chanicut.
(11:41:29 PM) dkap: Channicuit stands and says: "I don't believe the dissolving of any house at this point in time is reasonable or merited. If such action needs to take place, the king should be involved in such."
(11:41:51 PM) ***Caelin looks warily at Mandor."
(11:42:16 PM) ***Jean looks idly about for a king.
(11:42:25 PM) Caelin: (LOL)
(11:42:40 PM) Caelin: (We seem to misplace them rather frequently)
(11:42:40 PM) dkap: Mandor says: "Well put, Channicuit, we will wait for the Hero of Channicut to put forth any house disbanding at this time."
(11:42:48 PM) Caelin: (Or is that BREAK them?)
(11:43:20 PM) Caelin: (One king to disband them all...)
(11:43:33 PM) dkap: Mandor: "Since he has not chosen to grace this meeting with his presence, changing the makeup of the council at this point would be a bad plan."
(11:43:58 PM) dkap: Corona, from his seat: "Hence, we need duels."
(11:44:22 PM) dkap: Timbal waits to be acknowledged.
(11:44:22 PM) Caelin: GM: Does Caelin even know of the state of the *ahem* king? I can't remember if he does or not.
(11:44:28 PM) dkap: Nope.
(11:44:47 PM) dkap: That cog is firmly in his pocket.
(11:44:59 PM) Caelin: heh
(11:45:15 PM) dkap: Along with the possible charge of lesse magisty that would have to be leveled at Rainbow.
(11:45:24 PM) Caelin: (Didn't even know if there WAS a cog with that memory address on it)
(11:46:01 PM) dkap: Yes, it was a debacle, you were, therefore, of course there for it. *grin*
(11:46:35 PM) Caelin: (I remember the occurrence, just not if Caelin was there. Heh)
(11:48:48 PM) dkap: Timbal waits to be acknowledged.
(11:49:09 PM) ***Caelin acknowledges Timbal.
(11:51:28 PM) dkap: A moment ...
(11:52:35 PM) dkap: Sorry ... my karyn arrived, had to hug her.
(11:52:47 PM) Caelin: (Gotcha)
(11:54:29 PM) dkap: Timbal: We have had honorable duels for turnings imemorial, just because our last set of referees are not currently available, does that mean that such a tradition should stop? I propose that there be a temporary guild of dual-referees formed, and that guild be responsible, for, as long as it has existence, the running of duels.
(11:56:28 PM) dkap: Timbal: Since the initial honor of the referees can not necessarily be considered unbiased, I would suggest that, for any particular contest, three random members of the guild be selected, and if any of the three have a known tie, or bias in the case of the duel, an alternate to them, be randomly selected.
(11:56:49 PM) Caelin: "As indicated..."
(11:57:14 PM) Caelin: "No guild currently has the strength in numbers to handle the capacity."
(11:57:31 PM) dkap: Timbal: Perhaps, for the beginning of it, members of the warriors guild, assassins guild, and beastmasters guild, might volunteer to train the referees in the new guild.
(11:58:02 PM) dkap: Timbal: With respect, I would not draw from existing guilds, but, indeed, create a new, temporary guild simply for this purpose.
(11:58:25 PM) dkap: Perhaps, their numbers might come from the capable folks recruited by our King to enforce the Curfew?
(06/04/2008 12:00:03 AM) Caelin: "That will not do. Several imposters were found trying to 'uphold' curfew."
(12:00:34 AM) Caelin: "To the detriment of Houses on official business."
(12:01:14 AM) dkap: Timbal: Ahh, but the ones that were not impostors, those who were selected, and given the Kings Token, would they not be acceptable? Perhaps, with the addition of one of the non-involved house-heads to oversee them?
(12:02:10 AM) dkap: Mouseferatu looks to Caelin to be recognized.
(12:02:14 AM) Caelin: "If there are insufficient numbers for various guilds and houses to distinguish properly between ACTUAL guild members and impostors, then the system could very easily be abused or subverted.
(12:02:26 AM) ***Caelin acknowledges Mouseferatu.
(12:03:39 AM) dkap: MF: Having recently had a dispute with another house head (and nods towards Norton, who twitches) and have solved such, without a duel, I would be happy to offer up my services in the pursuit of certifying the members of the temporary guild, should it be created.
(12:03:50 AM) dkap: MF nods to Caelin, and sits down.
(12:04:53 AM) Caelin: "Would the guild in question consent to certification from the one just recognized moments ago?"
(12:05:12 AM) dkap: Caelin, a young almost-chandroid individual makes his way over to The Archivist, whispers in his ear for a moment or two, and hands him a piece of paper.
(12:06:29 AM) dkap: Timbal: I would be happy to submit myself as a certifier as well, although I do cede to House Mouseferatu, being a greater house than us.
(12:07:03 AM) ***Caelin notices out of the corner of his eye but makes no acknowlegdment.
(12:07:20 AM) dkap: When Timbal is speaking, the Archivist slides the paper into Caelin's hand. Unopened, it sends a frission of horror down Caelin's spine.
(12:07:50 AM) Caelin: "Is Timball the subject of any of these matters that need current addressing?"
(12:09:18 AM) dkap: Timbal: Yes, alas, there is a member of my house of significant rank, who has brought a complaint to me, about a ranked member of (and nods to Minobee) another house, that seems to be impeding the flow of business between our houses.
(12:09:57 AM) dkap: The longer you hold the paper, the more intense the spine-tingling horror becomes.
(12:10:04 AM) Auricle: (night, folks!)\
(12:10:22 AM) Caelin: "Then it would not be prudent to offer yourself or your services in such a case. You would have to be recused from such refereeing.
(12:10:24 AM) dkap: Good night, Auricle!
(12:10:27 AM) Caelin: (good night)
(12:10:29 AM) dkap: See you next week!
(12:10:34 AM) dkap: Happy Kittening!
(12:10:38 AM) Auricle left the room (quit: Quit: Chatzilla 0.9.77 [SeaMonkey 1.0.1/2006040400]).
(12:11:53 AM) dkap: Timbal: Of course we would be recused from our own case, but, knowing the need for it, and the need to be assisted for such for us, we would offer our services for other such cases, where we would not otherwise have an involvement.
(12:12:43 AM) dkap: Caelin, your hand and arm have broken out in a cold sweat, and your skin is trying to crawl away from the paper it's holding.
(12:13:28 AM) ***Caelin puts the paper down and reads it on the table in front of him.
(12:13:39 AM) dkap: It's Pharaban's vote proxy.
(12:14:18 AM) ***Caelin should have guessed from the skin irritation.
(12:16:56 AM) dkap: Mandor: House Moonlight, with the largest number of declared outstanding duels against your house, do you find this solution acceptable?
(12:19:32 AM) Caelin: "For a referee of Mouseferatu, yes."
(12:20:43 AM) dkap: Mandor: Thank you, House Moonlight. House Helgram, you have the most recent duel challenge, known to this council, do you find this solution acceptable?
(12:21:39 AM) dkap: Eric III rises and says: "I find this implementation of referees to be acceptable at this time, yes."
(12:23:12 AM) dkap: Mandor: Thank you House Helgram. Having proposed such a scheme, I am taking it as read that Timbal is happy with the proposal, having announced that the duel is with your house, Minobee, do you find this arrangement acceptable?
(12:24:54 AM) dkap: Minobee: As long as a request for recusement from any of the soon to be dueling parties, to the referees, as long as reason is offered, is an acceptable codicil, the proposal is acceptable.
(12:25:30 AM) dkap: Mandor: Any objections Timbal, Helgram, Moonlight?
(12:26:22 AM) dkap: Timbal indicates negative, so does Helgram.
(12:26:42 AM) Caelin: "No objections."
(12:27:13 AM) dkap: Mandor: Then I call upon a vote to make the temporary guild, under the proposed guidelines of Timbal, with the modification suggested by Minobee.
(12:27:39 AM) dkap: Mandor: Minobee, how do you vote?
(12:27:47 AM) dkap: Minobee: In favor (1)
(12:27:54 AM) Caelin: (Urm...Caelin had specifically asked for the primary of Mouseferatu, just so you know)
(12:28:30 AM) dkap: Yes, that was the accepted proposal, by what Timbal was saying, in case that wasn't clear. They did say they would step aside for MF's judgement.
(12:28:41 AM) dkap: Timbal: In favor (2)
(12:29:08 AM) Caelin: "House Moonlight is in favor."
(12:29:09 AM) dkap: Mandor: Does anyone hold Holtaharnia's proxy?
(12:29:34 AM) dkap: Helgram: I do, they vote in favor. (3)
(12:29:54 AM) dkap: Moonlight is 4 votes.
(12:30:16 AM) dkap: Mandor: Does anyone hold Ygrin's proxy?
(12:30:28 AM) dkap: Helgram: Again, I do, they vote in favor (5)
(12:30:57 AM) dkap: Helgram: As does House Helgram (6)
(12:31:26 AM) dkap: Xartys is poked by one of the Cara-folks.
(12:31:53 AM) dkap: Xartys: Our vote is tied to Cara's vote.
(12:32:17 AM) dkap: Norton: Umm ... our vote is tied to Mandor's Vote.
(12:32:38 AM) dkap: Mouseferatu: In favor (9)
(12:33:16 AM) dkap: Corona: As much as it pains me to agree with Helgram, having started this, I'm in favor. (10)
(12:34:19 AM) dkap: Mandor: Does anyone hold Trantor's Proxy? Going once? Going twice? Trantor abstains.
(12:35:22 AM) dkap: Cara: We are upset that the proposal put forth by our dear friend Xartys was not adopted, but we do admit that dueling needs to go forth in some format, so, yes we are in favor. (12) and (7)
(12:36:11 AM) dkap: Mandor: Does anyone hold Felicity's proxy? Going once? Going twice? Felicity abstains.
(12:36:23 AM) dkap: (Jean?)
(12:36:33 AM) Jean: "Our vote is tied with Pharaban's."
(12:37:05 AM) dkap: A slight shudder passes the crowd, and everyone looks at Pharaban's empty seat, and looks relieved.
(12:37:25 AM) dkap: Mandor: Does anyone hold Pharaban's proxy?
(12:37:56 AM) dkap: (Caelin?)
(12:38:11 AM) Caelin: "House Moonlight does."
(12:38:17 AM) Caelin: (How does it read?)
(12:38:32 AM) dkap: A surprised look passes the crowd.
(12:38:58 AM) dkap: Xartys: Ha! Pharaban doesn't give out proxies. Prove it.
(12:39:26 AM) ***Caelin motions to Xartys to come to his table and read the acknowledgment.
(12:39:33 AM) dkap: (It reads that House Moonlight is adjudged worthy to cast House Pharaban's vote in this matter.)
(12:40:44 AM) ***Caelin waits for Xartys.
(12:41:34 AM) dkap: Xartys, staggers upright, makes his way over to Caelin's seat at the table, picks up the paper, is scared sober, gently puts the paper back down in front of Caelin, walks dejectedly back to his seat, and says, just before he sits down: "Remind me never to doubt Pharaban. *sigh* We accept that House Moonlight holds Pharaban's Proxy, and challenge anyone else in this room, sober or not, to test the theory."
(12:41:57 AM) dkap: There is a moment of silence, and then Xartys responds with "I thought not." and sits.
(12:42:27 AM) Caelin: "House Pharaban votes as House Moonlight does."
(12:42:32 AM) Jean left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(12:43:07 AM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-30-5-155.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(12:43:14 AM) dkap: (15) and (14) In favor.
(12:43:52 AM) Cagliostro: (and also Swayvill, which gets Mandor out of having to vote, again)
(12:43:56 AM) Cagliostro is now known as Jean
(12:44:33 AM) dkap: Channicuit: We vote against the measure, simply because we see no reason that duels cannot wait for the return of the etiquette guild. (-16)
(12:46:15 AM) dkap: Mandor: We also think that this is a half-thought through measure, designed as a temporary patch to a problem that would simply go away, given sufficient time, and therefore vote against it. (-17)
(12:47:12 AM) Caelin: Alright. I need to be asleep. Badly.
(12:47:45 AM) Jean: yep. I'm a pumpkin myself.
(12:47:50 AM) Jean: till next time...
(12:47:50 AM) Jean left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(12:48:06 AM) dkap: Mandor shakes his head, and says: "The motion passes: 88 to 33."
(12:48:19 AM) dkap: And we will hang it there.
(12:48:21 AM) ***Caelin sits down.
(12:48:28 AM) Caelin: Good night!
(12:48:31 AM) Caelin left the room.
(12:48:31 AM) dkap: *grin*
(12:54:49 AM) ***dkap checks his math .... 1+2+3+4+5+6+9+10+12+7+15+14=88 8+16+17=41 it passes by 6 votes.
(12:56:34 AM) dkap has changed the topic to: Game run, as normal, update on the vote, it was 88 to 41, so it passed by 6 votes.