Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Thu 04 Sep 2008 01:15:53 PM EDT:
(12:15:53 PM) The topic for #dkap_amber is: Game as Usual
(08:02:15 PM) The topic for #dkap_amber is: Game as Usual
(08:03:00 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:03:31 PM) dkap: It looks like we are the only timely ones here ... *grin*
(08:03:42 PM) Caelin: Dang
(08:22:39 PM) Auricle [~chatzilla@pool-96-240-203-32.spfdma.east.verizon.net] entered the room.
(08:24:22 PM) Auricle: Greetings?
(08:24:25 PM) dkap: Yay.
(08:24:37 PM) dkap: But ... still no Jean.
(08:24:54 PM) dkap: Will he show? The order of randomness says:
(08:24:57 PM) dkap: !d 100
(08:24:57 PM) ChanServ: dkap: A 95 shows on the 100-sided die.
(08:24:59 PM) Auricle: I thought he said he was off for two weeks?
(08:25:04 PM) dkap: Ahh ..
(08:25:12 PM) Caelin: !d 100
(08:25:12 PM) ChanServ: arkhonII: A 10 shows on the 100-sided die.
(08:25:13 PM) dkap: I missed that. I thought it was one week.
(08:25:23 PM) dkap: !d 3d6
(08:25:24 PM) ChanServ: dkap: The total is 11 from rolling 3d6+0.
(08:26:05 PM) Auricle: lemme check my logs
(08:26:33 PM) Caelin: Yeah, don't remind me.
(08:26:57 PM) dkap: Don't remind you, what?
(08:28:54 PM) Caelin: Just a remark about the dice rolling. :)
(08:30:07 PM) dkap: Even the dice know your good-stuff score?
(08:30:34 PM) Caelin: So it appears. And like I said, don't remind me. ;-)
(08:30:44 PM) Auricle: Nope, nothing.
(08:31:03 PM) Auricle: Got no idea.
(08:31:40 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-30-5-155.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:31:51 PM) dkap: Yay!
(08:31:53 PM) dkap: Welcome!
(08:32:00 PM) dkap: And then there is game.
(08:32:04 PM) Cagliostro: heya
(08:32:07 PM) Caelin: hell-o!
(08:32:09 PM) Cagliostro: apologies; lost track of time
(08:32:16 PM) Auricle: Yay I was wrong
(08:33:06 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:36:26 PM) dkap: So, when last we left our confused adventurers ... Caelin had just left Cagliostro, gating back to Jean, Auricle, Chef D, Horse, and some Jager, and Auricle's new property, named Pip.
(08:36:52 PM) Auricle: No, I'm renting him from himself.
(08:37:05 PM) Caelin: Heh
(08:37:24 PM) Cagliostro: yes
(08:37:44 PM) Cagliostro: Once Caelin has left, I will set up some wards and contingencies and start puzzling out the figure
(08:37:55 PM) Caelin: Heh
(08:38:28 PM) dkap: Well ... you could only rent him from himself, if the person who killed his previous master was ... well ... him.
(08:38:56 PM) dkap: The wards seem to fluxuate and waver, and not hold well at all. Power seems to be being drawn into the figurine.
(08:39:26 PM) Auricle: What kind of power?
(08:39:29 PM) dkap: In a very similar method as when Caelin drains the magic around him to power his own workings.
(08:39:34 PM) dkap: Magical.
(08:39:38 PM) Auricle: (I'm hiring the guy. If he wants to consider it owned, whatever.)
(08:39:42 PM) dkap: Sorry, that was to Cagliostro.
(08:41:43 PM) Auricle: NP
(08:42:46 PM) Cagliostro: oh, gotcha
(08:42:47 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(08:43:00 PM) dkap: So, you have Olim at a disadvantage, Gargoyle is talking about a vivisection of him, both before and after a test-pattern-walk ... Pip theoretically rented from himself ... a Deputy Mayor hanging out on a shoulder, and Cagliostro is dealing with, a small amount of magical turmoil.
(08:43:10 PM) dkap: Oh and Caelin is back with Olim, Pip, and crew.
(08:43:15 PM) Cagliostro: ick. if I can import a couple of Ifrit as guards, I will. I know I need to concentrate.
(08:43:56 PM) dkap: It's not a matter of lack of concentration, it's simply that the power seems to be being sucked into the totem.
(08:44:13 PM) dkap: So your wards are created perfectly, it's just that they don't seem to be able to stay up.
(08:44:29 PM) dkap: And yes, you can import some of the Ifrit as guards. A squad?
(08:44:51 PM) Cagliostro: just a couple, I think.
(08:44:58 PM) dkap: Easily done.
(08:45:06 PM) Cagliostro: anything that they can't deal with will probalby get my attention ;)
(08:45:10 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:45:18 PM) dkap: Or they will, diffidently, of course.
(08:45:28 PM) Cagliostro: indeed
(08:45:30 PM) ***Cagliostro Jean
(08:45:38 PM) Cagliostro: so, how is laughing boy taking the freeing of his lackey?
(08:46:57 PM) dkap: Caelin ... Olim seems to have taken a bit of displeasure to you, as evidenced by, as soon as you appear, he charges you with his sword, shouting something about "Robbers" or "Highwaymen" or something. He apparently didn't learn from last time.
(08:47:02 PM) Cagliostro is now known as Jean
(08:47:21 PM) Caelin: Er...shield.
(08:47:28 PM) dkap: Chef D has begun to scribble in his notebooks.
(08:47:30 PM) Caelin: Physical, see-through.
(08:47:48 PM) Caelin: Actually...did I ever take those down?
(08:48:18 PM) dkap: Yes, you did, to gate to Cagliostro, and deal with him.
(08:48:45 PM) Caelin: Right. Put them back up.
(08:49:18 PM) dkap: As you shield, Olim seems to trip on something, lose his balance, flip up in the air, and land, awkwardly, on top of Chef D.
(08:49:32 PM) Auricle: Not that the rest of us don't have sheilds...HEY.
(08:50:01 PM) Auricle: "Off my chef, sword-wavey-Olim thing."
(08:50:53 PM) dkap: (Olim was already inside your shields, because the blue men have yet to stop throwing metal bits at you.)
(08:51:03 PM) Caelin: Oh, right.
(08:51:18 PM) Caelin: Er...levitate him and turn him upside down.
(08:51:19 PM) ***Auricle tries to pull Olim off Chef.
(08:52:05 PM) Jean: (and Auricle's still got shields inside the magic shields, which blocked some of Olim's thrown bits.)
(08:52:20 PM) dkap: There is Chef D's pencil sticking out of the small of his back, just missed his spine, but he's bleeding a lot.
(08:52:40 PM) dkap: Caelin manages to levitate Auricle, Olim, and Chef D all at the same time.
(08:53:12 PM) ***Caelin frowns. "Three for one wasn't what I had in mind."
(08:53:30 PM) ***Auricle doesn't seem to care as long as Olim's off Chef D. About levitating. Pencil, however.
(08:53:31 PM) dkap: Chef D is currently pumelling Olim on the head with a rolling pin, shouting something about dripping an unacceptable fluid on his notes.
(08:53:56 PM) dkap: Chef D doesn't seem to notice that he's left the ground, either.
(08:53:59 PM) Auricle: "Hit him here, should knock him out"
(08:54:06 PM) ***Caelin is fine with Olim taking the beating.
(08:54:09 PM) ***Auricle points to a spot on Olim's head.
(08:54:53 PM) dkap: Chef D _is_ hitting him there, and a few other places as well. Olim is thrashing about, and groaning in pain.
(08:55:27 PM) dkap: And is flailing his hands wildly, until his sword slips from his fingers and ...
(08:55:28 PM) Caelin: Can I bind Olim's arms?
(08:55:34 PM) Auricle: "Oh, for...."
(08:55:49 PM) dkap: Starts heading straight for the blue men. Skewering two of them.
(08:55:59 PM) dkap: Caelin, with what?
(08:56:05 PM) ***Caelin shakes his head.
(08:56:26 PM) Caelin: Magic.
(08:56:30 PM) Caelin: Too late though.
(08:56:34 PM) Caelin: The sword is down.
(08:56:55 PM) Caelin: How are the blue men?
(08:56:58 PM) Caelin: Dead?
(08:57:09 PM) Caelin: Or are their wounds healable?
(08:57:10 PM) dkap: The two skewerd ones are, indeed, terminal, if not already dead.
(08:57:18 PM) dkap: Clove in twain.
(08:57:20 PM) ***Auricle looks at Jean. "You're right. Caelin's....an interesting influence on events."
(08:58:46 PM) dkap: There is a pause in the metal throwing, then they start in again, with bigger pieces of metal, some of which reach some phenomonal speeds before harmlessly impacting with your shields, and some of them make pretty light-up effects, that briefly resemble the half of the sky that has the dancing stars in it, over Chaos.
(08:59:54 PM) dkap: Chef D finally manages to shift Olim off of him, so Olim is floating on his own, so is Chef D, and Auricle.
(09:00:39 PM) dkap: Chef D looks around, and declaims "Hrm ... I don't remember drinking any of the Fizzy Lifting Drink ... " and starts burping and looking puzzled.
(09:01:41 PM) ***Caelin looks confused..."Has anyone been observing weird effects like the ones we're observing?"
(09:01:43 PM) Auricle: Is Olim unconcious?
(09:02:27 PM) Auricle: "This whole promontory is all weird. And full of very rude people. And I'm an *Amberite*, theoretically, and I say that."
(09:03:12 PM) ***Caelin sighs.
(09:03:21 PM) dkap: Olim is rapidly trying to swim in the air away from Chef D, and not succeeding (something about Caelin's spell, one would guess.)
(09:04:36 PM) Auricle: That's it. Bind him with Pattern Energy.
(09:04:41 PM) ***Caelin slowly lowers Olim to the ground. Upon arrival however, conjure a pair of ropes and bind his feet and hands.
(09:04:56 PM) Caelin: Crap. Crack heads, but fortunately, you're faster.
(09:04:59 PM) dkap: There is a cessation of the firing, and a small group of people are forcing themselves to the front lines.
(09:05:25 PM) dkap: Caelin, you don't notice the pattern energy, so your ropes happen too.
(09:06:03 PM) Caelin: How do I NOT notice Pattern Energy? I'm attuned.
(09:06:11 PM) Caelin: True, not to the NEW Pattern.
(09:06:28 PM) Jean: to Auricle: "This is mild."
(09:06:49 PM) dkap: There is a female, dressed ... provocatively, with her face all done up in an outlandish manner, and someone pointing something at her, and at you folks. It looks like another thing that sends metal at you, but it's end is plugged with what looks like a glass plug.
(09:07:27 PM) dkap: Olim is struggling, more quietly against his ... wait, when you lowered him, did you do it face up, or face down?
(09:07:59 PM) Jean: I'll sidle over to the newcomer.
(09:08:01 PM) Caelin: Face up.
(09:08:06 PM) Jean: To her: "Hello, non blue lady."
(09:08:14 PM) Auricle: "I don't want to see non-mild."
(09:08:27 PM) dkap: All of a sudden the blue man with the artificial big voice is standing next to the under-dressed lady, and also starts babbeling inanely with her, facing the metal thrower plugged with glass.
(09:08:49 PM) dkap: When he lands, the pencil drives all the way into him. He stops struggling immediately.
(09:09:10 PM) Auricle: to Olim: "Okay, listen up. Do you, little Amberite, have any idea where Kolvir is? And if you do, do you have any idea who's Keeper it is? Hey, now what did you?"
(09:09:31 PM) ***Auricle looks puzzled that it stopped struggling.
(09:09:54 PM) dkap: Olim seems unresponsive.
(09:10:12 PM) dkap: Perhaps, being on the ground was so much of a relief that he passed out?
(09:10:23 PM) Caelin: "Is he still breathing?"
(09:11:11 PM) Auricle: IS he?
(09:11:25 PM) dkap: Jean, the non-blue lady spins, pushes the blue man with the loud voice device away from her, and shouts something to the effect "And now for breaking news, an exclusive interview, by Camille Takanawa, with the Aliens From Outer Space!"
(09:11:48 PM) dkap: Well ... he seems to be still breathing, but there is a bubbling noise when he does, which wasn't there before.
(09:12:24 PM) ***Auricle forms diagnostic equipment from hands and starts trying to figure out the problem.
(09:13:08 PM) Caelin: Hrm...
(09:13:12 PM) dkap: The problem seems to be a new connection between his circulatory system and his lungs. The former is leaking into the latter. It might have something to do with the puncture wound in his back, that includes a pencil.
(09:13:50 PM) Caelin: "Can any of you extend protection around us? I'm not trusting my shields anymore. Or magic."
(09:13:51 PM) Jean: gm: wait for either a chance in the blue man behavior or a question from her.
(09:13:54 PM) Jean: (politely)
(09:14:55 PM) dkap: Jean, she turns halfway to you, making sure her profile is still facing the metal thrower plugged with glass, and says, really loudly and slowly, but not quite good enough to be whale "Are you hear to enslave and ravish our women? Do you want to be taken to our leader?"
(09:15:19 PM) ***Auricle yanks out the pencil, and looks around. "Sure, you heal the idiot here, and...I've already got sheilds up.
(09:15:22 PM) ***Jean pauses.
(09:15:58 PM) Jean: "No. And yes, that is what we asked for. I believe your leader is currently calming down before we consult with him."
(09:16:44 PM) Jean: "I don't mean to be impolite, about the women. But we're kind of busy."
(09:17:12 PM) ***Auricle looks at Caelin.
(09:17:18 PM) dkap: There is a large spurt of blood from Olim when Auricle yanks out the pencil. (Oh, Caelin, did you put Auricle and Chef D down, or did Auricle simply overcome your spell with Pattern energy, when she went into diagnostic mode?)
(09:18:18 PM) dkap: The woman says "Cut!" turns to Jean and says "You've got to be more menacing, no one will believe you or help you unless you are more menacing on camera. Sheesh. Who ever heard of a polite alien?"
(09:18:25 PM) Auricle: (Or I may have just elongated. Who knows if I paid attention?)
(09:19:10 PM) Jean: "Oh. Thanks."
(09:19:12 PM) dkap: Auricle, elongation would have ended up in a plane, because of the way Caelin's magic works ...
(09:19:15 PM) Caelin: I don't think Caelin was paying attention to how his magic was overcome.
(09:19:19 PM) Jean: "Auricle, can I borrow a Jager?"
(09:19:30 PM) dkap: So Chef D is still floating, good good. Thank you.
(09:19:32 PM) Auricle: "Sure."
(09:20:08 PM) Jean: to the Jager: "Okay, try and convince them to stop throwing pieces of metal at us. It's loud and annoying. And be menacing." To the woman: "Talk to him. He should be what you want."
(09:20:22 PM) dkap: One of the Jager comes over to Jean.
(09:20:41 PM) Caelin: "YEah...I don't want to employ any more magic than I have to."
(09:20:42 PM) dkap: Lady: "Nah, they are old news, you guys are the fresh thing."
(09:21:09 PM) ***Jean hm.s
(09:21:20 PM) ***Caelin sighs.
(09:21:48 PM) Jean: "Can you tell me why these blue men are throwing pieces of metal at us?"
(09:22:00 PM) Auricle: GM: If no one seems to be healing the annoying Olim, do I think I can do anything?
(09:22:24 PM) Caelin: "I sure can't. I was called in to help my apprentice."
(09:22:33 PM) dkap: The Jager strolls over to the big-voiced blue man, grabs him, holds him by his neck so his feet are almost, but not quite touching the ground, and shouts. "Enough vis za Metal Welcome. Iz noizy. Ve vant QVIET!"
(09:22:33 PM) Caelin: "And that's all I know."
(09:23:10 PM) dkap: The loud blue man squeaks out "Cease Fire, men!"
(09:23:20 PM) dkap: It gets much quieter.
(09:23:48 PM) ***Caelin smiles.
(09:24:00 PM) dkap: Well ... with your background on bodies, and the general schematics provided by Gargoyle, you could at least provide field medicine.
(09:24:13 PM) Auricle: Good, I medicine him up.
(09:24:31 PM) ***Jean does a happy dance and thanks the Jager.
(09:24:40 PM) dkap: And there is still some left-over duct-tape and wood-glue that was used on the Deputy Mayor, from before.
(09:25:21 PM) dkap: As Jean begins to dance, the lady shouts "Quick, a native dance of welcome! ROLL!"
(09:26:05 PM) Jean: vamp from the happy dance into the snoopy dance.
(09:26:13 PM) dkap: Caelin, there is a tremble in your magical sight, and a gate forms near (but not within the bounds of all the shielding) you.
(09:26:46 PM) dkap: Jean, are you grabbing her hands? I seem to remember the snoopy dance is not a solo.
(09:26:54 PM) Caelin: "Gate forming, and not one of mine"
(09:27:07 PM) ***Caelin motions to everyone the direction.
(09:27:17 PM) Caelin: Is the signature familiar?
(09:27:33 PM) dkap: Vaguely. You've seen it before but ...
(09:27:41 PM) Jean: hm, let me check
(09:27:49 PM) Caelin: Enemy? Friend?
(09:28:06 PM) dkap: Nothing that has attacked you before.
(09:28:33 PM) dkap: You don't think they have supported you before either. Perhaps, just another note in the tapestry that is the Magic in Chaos.
(09:29:22 PM) Caelin: Got it.
(09:29:34 PM) Jean: looks like you're right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTOoLr26pXw
(09:29:37 PM) Jean: so perhaps so.
(09:29:48 PM) Jean: perhaps try to include the annoying blue people as well.
(09:30:28 PM) dkap: Yay internet.
(09:30:44 PM) Caelin: Heh
(09:30:49 PM) Jean: Google is mother. Google is father.
(09:31:43 PM) dkap: You can, there is a startled look on the blue men's faces, by the lady seems to be trying to go with it, while saying "This is Camille Takanawa, possibly going to her death, to report on the activities of the Evil Aliens from Space!"
(09:31:45 PM) Auricle: GM: Is Olim stable?
(09:32:17 PM) Jean: actually, not the blue guys. they might shoot me if I let them inside the shields.
(09:32:25 PM) Jean: and since they -did- last time, they don't get in the shields this time.
(09:32:28 PM) dkap: Not yet, but moving in that direction. Given another 10 or 15 minutes your emergency surgery measures will have him in a condition where he can be monitored or moved.
(09:32:43 PM) Jean: it sounds like i can tell she hasn't concealed any weapons other than the glass-plugged cannon.
(09:33:14 PM) dkap: Well ... if she has, she hasn't "greeted" you with them, yet.
(09:33:55 PM) Jean: I'll take that chance.
(09:34:04 PM) Jean: but let me know if she whips something out.
(09:34:14 PM) dkap: Caelin, an individual walks through the gate, leaving it open behind him. He stares, for a moment at the activity around him, and then slams his shields in place.
(09:34:46 PM) Caelin: Do I recognize him?
(09:34:49 PM) dkap: Nope.
(09:35:10 PM) ***Auricle isn't even paying attention to him.
(09:35:36 PM) dkap: But he is definitely either Chaosian, or some other native shape-shifter by his shape, and the speed in which he both shifted, and put his shields in place.
(09:36:41 PM) dkap: He is strong in magic, probably a guild member, from the shape and complexity of his shields.
(09:36:53 PM) Caelin: Okay.
(09:37:02 PM) Caelin: No guild insignia?
(09:37:21 PM) dkap: No obvious one, but ... then, you aren't wearing an obvious insignia either, outside of Chaos.
(09:39:08 PM) dkap: Leaving the gate open, possibly as an act of arrogance, or possibly as an escape route, he turns and bows to you (Caelin) as a ranked guild member to a head of house.
(09:39:23 PM) Caelin: return the bow.
(09:39:40 PM) Caelin: "May any of us be of assistance to you?"
(09:40:56 PM) dkap: Shifter: "Moonlight, I have been searching for you. There is ... an Urgency, that you might wish to attend to."
(09:41:46 PM) ***Caelin sighs. "May I inquire as to the specifics?"
(09:42:13 PM) dkap: He looks around for a moment and says "Here?"
(09:44:34 PM) ***Caelin sighs. "I don't know that there IS a better venue. As is, I have major obligations to the Saviour of Chaos, then to the Courts themselves as befalls recent politics..."
(09:45:29 PM) dkap: Shifter: "This is House business, and might directly be ... an outcome of the recent politics."
(09:46:00 PM) dkap: Jean, she begins to gasp for breath, apparently tiring.
(09:46:46 PM) Jean: okay, finish things up.
(09:47:10 PM) Caelin: "House business regarding the recent politics, has yet to be resolved."
(09:47:42 PM) Auricle: GM: Let me know when Olim's stable.
(09:48:01 PM) dkap: Shifter: "Indeed, and directly to that ... lack of current resolution ... is why you are sought, my humble self as a messenger."
(09:48:05 PM) dkap: Auricle, check.
(09:49:24 PM) ***Caelin furrows his brow. "Has court been called back to session? I have received no summons."
(09:49:59 PM) dkap: Shifter: "And therein lies part of the problem."
(09:50:34 PM) Caelin: "There's a problem?"
(09:50:41 PM) Jean: "You should go. Either you are needed or it's a trap, and either situation can lead to an improvement."
(09:51:18 PM) dkap: The shifter look quickly at Jean, and then, looks again, more closely.
(09:51:33 PM) dkap: He bows quite low, ranked guild member to guild head.
(09:51:46 PM) Caelin: "Jean...any way you can confirm my presence is required in Thelbane?"
(09:51:56 PM) dkap: Shifter: "Lord Rainbow, I did not notice you. I humbly and abjectly apologize."
(09:52:05 PM) Caelin: "My earlier obligation is to the Saviour of Chaos."
(09:52:47 PM) Jean: acknowledge the shifter in the sort of purposely vague manner to which I've been practicing
(09:52:52 PM) Jean: gm: am I in Thelbane?
(09:54:16 PM) dkap: Yes, you are in Thelbane.
(09:54:56 PM) Jean: gm: who's in charge there? is Mandor there?
(09:55:34 PM) dkap: Mandor is not there.
(09:56:04 PM) Jean: gm: Am I where Mandor is?
(09:56:07 PM) dkap: No one seems to be "in charge" There are several house heads milling about, chatting politics at each other, waiting for the return of the committee to appoint those who will referee duels.
(09:56:17 PM) dkap: You do not see Mandor anywhere.
(09:57:28 PM) Jean: hm.
(09:57:54 PM) Jean: to Caelin: "Not obviously. That may mean the problem is outside my purview."
(09:58:31 PM) ***Caelin turns to the shifter. "Where has my presence been requested?"
(09:58:38 PM) dkap: Jean, the woman you were dancing with is now grasping her knees, breathing really hard, and producing used food.
(09:59:33 PM) dkap: Shifter: "My guild." And flashes the badge of the mages guild.
(09:59:49 PM) Jean: gm: can I tell if he's producing toxins?
(10:00:01 PM) Caelin: "What services does the Mages Guild require of Moonlight?"
(10:00:02 PM) Jean: and am I around my half-sister?
(10:00:20 PM) dkap: Your half-sister is, also, nowhere in sight.
(10:00:35 PM) Jean: hm.
(10:01:09 PM) dkap: Jean, he doesn't seem to be, and if he was, his shields seem to be keeping in everything but light and sound, as well as keeping everything but light and sound out.
(10:01:37 PM) Jean: hm.
(10:01:53 PM) dkap: Lady: "This is Camille Takanawa, giving what might be her last broadcast. The Evil Aliens from Outer Space are poisoning us. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
(10:02:13 PM) Jean: "Auricle? I think the sensible one needs a tune-up."
(10:02:39 PM) ***Auricle seems very intent on Olim.
(10:03:06 PM) ***Jean will wait.
(10:03:29 PM) dkap: When she starts to shout, her skin starts to peel away from her flesh, she bursts into flame, and collapses.
(10:03:37 PM) ***Caelin nodes to the shifter. "As soon as I have received proper confirmation from the Dancer's Guild of a request for my presence, I will appear at your guild."
(10:04:51 PM) ***Jean huh.
(10:04:59 PM) Jean: to Auricle: "I think we have a problem."
(10:05:18 PM) dkap: Shifter: "The Dancers Guild knows nothing of this ... difficulty."
(10:05:40 PM) ***Caelin raises an eyebrow. "Really?"
(10:06:28 PM) dkap: The blue men start throwing up now.
(10:07:03 PM) ***Caelin turns and observes.
(10:07:10 PM) ***Auricle continues to mutter about Olim and needing a real hospital and hoping she's patched things correctly and hmmm, maybe I can make him more pliable as long as I'm here, and...
(10:07:31 PM) ***Caelin reinstitutes his shields, only now hermetically seals them. He opens an audio gate.
(10:07:55 PM) dkap: Caelin, who are your shields covering?
(10:08:01 PM) Caelin: Erm...audio gate to and from the Shifter.
(10:08:20 PM) dkap: The skin does not see to be pealing of of the blue men, though.
(10:08:38 PM) Caelin: Cover Jean, Auricle, and those involved in the most recent scuffle.
(10:08:52 PM) ***Jean continues to look concerned.
(10:09:15 PM) dkap: Olim, Horse, Chef D (who is still in the air, burping), Pip, Jager?
(10:09:34 PM) Caelin: Yes, include JAger as Caelin knows they're with Auricle and Jean
(10:10:06 PM) dkap: Good good.
(10:13:05 PM) dkap: Some of the blue men, at the back of the gathering, break and run.
(10:14:29 PM) ***Auricle starts writing out biological compounds and stuff on the ground with the pencil that had been in Olim's back.
(10:15:55 PM) dkap: The guy with the glass-covered welcoming stick, has withdrawn to his van.
(10:16:14 PM) dkap: The blue men have now all broken and run, except for the loud-voiced one that the Jager is holding onto.
(10:16:45 PM) dkap: Chef D has succeeded in pulling all the blood out of his notes, while absentmindedly still burping, in mid air.
(10:17:30 PM) ***Caelin begins to cycle in clean conjured air and cycle out the old air from the enclosure.
(10:18:06 PM) dkap: So far, the only one who seems to have been effected is the lady.
(10:18:58 PM) Auricle: GM: SO, do I think I can make improvements on Olim?
(10:21:07 PM) dkap: For what value of improvements?
(10:22:00 PM) Auricle: GM: Make him less sword-wavey and more possibly going to listen?
(10:22:27 PM) dkap: Nope. You don't know how to do that.
(10:22:52 PM) Auricle: GM: How's about implant a chip in his head to make him do what I want?
(10:23:52 PM) dkap: Chips tend to get rejected by (potential) Amberites, and he did survive having a pencil jammed through his lungs, so he might not do well with a chip in him. Also, how would you create a cross-shadow chip like that?
(10:24:35 PM) Auricle: GM: The same way I create anything, I just make it from me.
(10:25:00 PM) dkap: Yes, indeed, and then the Auricle virus might take over his system, and he might become another you.
(10:25:29 PM) Jean: that would stop him waving a sword ;)
(10:25:38 PM) Auricle: GM: Oh, damn, right, I don't need competition from me.
(10:25:55 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:26:08 PM) ***Auricle starts drawing lines through the stuff she's written on the ground.
(10:26:15 PM) dkap: So, Caelin, what are you going to do?
(10:26:22 PM) Auricle: GM: I could chop off his hands, he'd be much less sword-wavey.
(10:26:32 PM) Caelin: Just as I said, wait for confirmation from the Dancer's Guild."
(10:26:37 PM) Caelin: sans quotes.
(10:27:17 PM) dkap: Olin blinks his eyes open, and looks at Auricle. "No enemy of mine has ever tried to save my life before."
(10:27:35 PM) Caelin: "Define enemy, sir."
(10:27:43 PM) dkap: Olin: "Perhaps, if you have an opening in your organization, I might come to work for you, once I'm healed?"
(10:28:18 PM) ***Auricle looks at Olin, starts to say something, stops, tilts her head, grins very widely, and says, "Oh, I'm SURE I can find a use for you."
(10:28:49 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Note, vivisection, Pattern, revivisection for comparision.
(10:28:51 PM) Jean: gm: of course, Jean doesn't think that caelin is referring to him, having already passed along his advice and then gotten distracted by SHC. ;)
(10:29:59 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:30:01 PM) ***Caelin says to the shapeshifter, "Unless we can confirm it is a critical matter concerning the Mages Guild, considering recent political issues and the knowledge that impostors are about trying to get edges on major houses politically, I am deciding to stay put. My apologies."
(10:30:49 PM) dkap: The shifter bows to you, signaling the end of the conversation. "As you wish." Then bows to Lord Rainbow "With your leave, sir, I withdraw,"
(10:31:30 PM) Caelin: Eh? Didn't even realize Lord Rainbow was present.
(10:31:54 PM) dkap: He, according to his bows, thinks Jean is Lord Rainbow.
(10:32:03 PM) ***Jean acknowledges the statement in the same maddeningly vague fashion
(10:32:10 PM) Jean: which could be jean being Jean or Rainbow being Rainbow
(10:32:19 PM) Jean: (and is probably precisely how Rainbow would respond)
(10:32:27 PM) dkap: He turns, walks through his gates, and allows the power to slowly drain out of his shields in his wake.
(10:32:30 PM) Caelin: (heh)
(10:33:48 PM) Auricle: "So, Olim, do you have any idea who I am?"
(10:34:49 PM) dkap: Leaving Caelin, Pip and cart, Horse, and horse, Olim, Chef D, Deputy Mayor, Police Negotiator, Auricle, Jean, some Jager ...
(10:34:56 PM) dkap: Anyone I'm missing?
(10:35:34 PM) dkap: Olim: "No, except and honest enemy, who is the first to have defeated me in battle since time out of mind."
(10:35:48 PM) dkap: Pip: Sniggers, then snorts, and gets a hold of himself.
(10:36:20 PM) Jean: reporter flambe.
(10:36:57 PM) dkap: Right, she's not still alive, by any stretch of the imagination, so ... I wasn't counting her.
(10:38:30 PM) Jean: still worth mentioning as someone Auricle might notice. ;)
(10:39:40 PM) Auricle: Olim: "Right. I'm Auricle. Of Kolvir. That's Caelin. That's Jean, those are my Jagers, that's Pip, who apparently I'm now renting, that's the Horse, this is the Gargoyle, that's my Chef D, and what the heck is that?" noticing reporter flambe.
(10:40:23 PM) Jean: "Combustion a little while after that guy came through the gate."
(10:40:40 PM) Jean: "It doesn't seem to have spread, but it strikes me as a bad sign."
(10:41:31 PM) Auricle: "Spontaneous? Gargoyle, what did I miss?"
(10:43:32 PM) dkap: Gargoyle plays back the bit with the dance, the shot that hit the back of her head, the blue man pulling down his welcome-tool quickly and pulling out a different one while looking around at the blue men around him to see if any of them noticed, and then the backing away, and spontaneous rout of all those left.
(10:45:22 PM) Auricle: "ooooh. There's a bad guy."
(10:47:36 PM) Jean: (you're talking to Gargoyle again. We don't know if we can hear that. Or what you're talking about. ;)
(10:48:17 PM) dkap: Nope, you can't hear what Gargoyle said, but you heard her parts of it.
(10:48:33 PM) Auricle: (Anything I say in "" is out loud)
(10:53:36 PM) ***Auricle looks around for the bad guy.
(10:53:58 PM) dkap: He is long gone.
(10:54:18 PM) Auricle: "Damn, he's already gone. Didn't any of you see him?"
(10:54:30 PM) Caelin: "See whom?"
(10:54:42 PM) Auricle: "The bad guy!"
(10:55:00 PM) Caelin: "THE bad guy? There's only one?"
(10:58:49 PM) Auricle: "Well, there was one here. He was in the blue men, I think he shot the woman Jean danced with, and then he ...got away.
(10:59:46 PM) Caelin: "I'd have paid more attention were I not approached by that 'Mages Guild member'."
(11:00:25 PM) Auricle: "D, gimme your notepad for a moment."
(11:01:31 PM) dkap: Chef D is still scribbling away a few meters in the air.
(11:02:17 PM) Caelin: "Chef, would you like to be lowered? I have to apologize for levitating you...only Olim was the intended target at the time."
(11:02:58 PM) dkap: Chef D is still busy with his writing with his emergency backup pencil.
(11:03:15 PM) Jean: "Hm. Can you identify him? Like, magic style or something? That's bad form."
(11:03:16 PM) ***Caelin fails to disturb Chef D any more.
(11:03:25 PM) dkap: (actually, his second emergency backup pencil, his primary is in his bag, which is outside his reach.)
(11:03:29 PM) Caelin: "Who, me?"
(11:03:40 PM) Jean: "Anyone, really. But preferably Auricle."
(11:03:44 PM) ***Auricle reaches up and grabs the notepad out of his hands.
(11:03:56 PM) dkap: Chef D: "Wha!?"
(11:03:58 PM) Caelin: "Good, because I don't trust my own magic at this point."
(11:04:08 PM) Auricle: "Thank you, needed to borrow."
(11:04:33 PM) ***Auricle flips to a new page, and lets Gargoyle direct so she can draw out a likeness of the Bad Guy.
(11:04:41 PM) dkap: Chef D: "Umm ... couldn't you use my spare pad? I was writing on that one."
(11:05:31 PM) dkap: Her arm moves back and forth across the page, dipping the Olim-covered pencil down sometimes, and sometimes not, until a line drawing of the individual begins to appear.
(11:06:14 PM) Auricle: "Didn't know you had one."
(11:07:36 PM) Jean: gm: wait till she finishes.
(11:08:32 PM) dkap: In remarkable short time she finished.
(11:08:46 PM) Jean: gm: is there a saucer jean present?
(11:08:56 PM) dkap: It's as if a black and white photo of the individual was transferred to the paper.
(11:09:01 PM) dkap: There is.
(11:10:03 PM) Jean: the saucer Jean will track down that individual.
(11:10:04 PM) dkap: It is nowhere near as efficient as a view-screen, but, efficient enough.
(11:10:14 PM) Jean: while the person Jean will keep an eye on the picture.
(11:11:06 PM) ***Auricle rips out the page, hands the notepad back to D."
(11:11:11 PM) Auricle: "Here we are."
(11:11:23 PM) Jean: to Auricle: "Thank you."
(11:12:30 PM) Auricle: "Of course."
(11:12:37 PM) dkap: Chef D: "Thanks."
(11:12:57 PM) dkap: Jean, you do not see the individual in any gathering of blue men you can see.
(11:13:05 PM) dkap: Perhaps, he is inside somewhere?
(11:13:14 PM) Jean: I'll start checking inside places.
(11:13:19 PM) Jean: like the building we were just in.
(11:13:59 PM) dkap: Lots of buildings.
(11:15:01 PM) Jean: it's me. I'm fast.
(11:15:26 PM) Auricle: "Caelin: figure out what did that to ....the combustion...thing. Or How."
(11:17:47 PM) Caelin: "The combustion? I know the cause."
(11:18:12 PM) Caelin: "after theceasefire, one of the men hit the woman in the back of the head with some sort of incendiary device."
(11:18:29 PM) Caelin: "Completely nonmagical in origin."
(11:19:18 PM) Auricle: "I saw the shot, hadn't been sure what it was."
(11:19:46 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Probability this promonatory is set up to be a huge distraction for me and mine?
(11:20:40 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: Probability high. Between 81.335726 and 81.33718 %
(11:21:18 PM) Auricle: GN: CAn I sense the path we travelled through shadow from here?
(11:22:02 PM) Auricle: Er, GM.
(11:23:15 PM) dkap: Nope.
(11:24:08 PM) Auricle: pattern lens, check on Kolvir.
(11:24:57 PM) dkap: Hard to see Kolvir from here.
(11:25:04 PM) dkap: You are quite a ways out into shadow.
(11:25:24 PM) dkap: Almost as if whomever set up this distraction would have known that.
(11:25:29 PM) Auricle: Walk the pattern in my own head, power up, pattern lens, check kolvir
(11:26:44 PM) dkap: Yes, that's what I expected you would do, with what you said.
(11:27:04 PM) Auricle: Yank Pattern energy from the Amberites nearby
(11:27:06 PM) dkap: And you still have some power-up left after doing that to bring up your pattern shields.
(11:27:20 PM) dkap: It's not a matter of lack of power, it's a matter of distance.
(11:27:37 PM) dkap: There just is too much of it between here and where you want to see. Too close to Chaos, as it were.
(11:27:55 PM) Auricle: "Jean or Caelin, I need a gate to the City."
(11:28:00 PM) dkap: (you are well past Ygg)
(11:28:08 PM) Caelin: "I recommend Jean..."
(11:28:16 PM) Jean: "Which the City?"
(11:28:19 PM) Caelin: "If he cannot, then I can."
(11:28:35 PM) Auricle: "The City under Kolvir that Deirdre hasn't named yet to my knowledge."
(11:28:43 PM) Jean: "Oh, that the City."
(11:28:50 PM) Jean: gm: can I open a gate there? I am there.
(11:28:58 PM) Jean: or am I still not so good at the gatey gatey.
(11:30:58 PM) dkap: Not so good at the Gatey Gatey, last time you tried, you got a gate that went to the same place as the wolf-head, remember?
(11:31:18 PM) Jean: not really. ;)
(11:31:33 PM) Jean: "Auricle, you can fit in a fish, right?"
(11:31:38 PM) ***Jean produces a fish.
(11:31:39 PM) dkap: Right. Feneris, or however you spell it.
(11:31:53 PM) Jean: Fenris
(11:31:54 PM) Auricle: "I don't think the Gargoyle can"
(11:32:03 PM) dkap: Auricle has ridden in the Fish before, but the Gargoyle can't fit.
(11:32:06 PM) Auricle: "Didn't we have that problem before??"
(11:32:18 PM) dkap: Caelin?
(11:32:20 PM) Jean: Fenrisulfr ("Famous Wolf")
(11:32:30 PM) Caelin: "Jean, I don't think I should travel via you.
(11:32:34 PM) Jean: "It does sound familiar."
(11:32:38 PM) Jean: "No kidding, caelin."
(11:33:29 PM) Auricle: "Caelin, a gate, as close to Kolvir as you can get me."
(11:34:02 PM) ***Caelin GM, how close can I open one?
(11:35:11 PM) dkap: Right by the reflecting pool, you've been there.
(11:37:07 PM) Caelin: Okay. Open one there.
(11:37:20 PM) ***Caelin will follow once everyone is through.
(11:37:35 PM) ***Caelin will then shut the gate.
(11:37:37 PM) ***Auricle steps through without hesitation.
(11:38:06 PM) dkap: Caelin opens the gate, people pile though it, one of the Jager tows Chef D. Pip looks to Auricle, and then goes through it, cart and all, leading the horse. Horse seems somewhat reluctant at first, but then goes through.
(11:38:25 PM) Auricle: (And....I indeed need to go to bed...ugh work in morning.)
(11:38:35 PM) Auricle: (This seems a good stopping place for me.)
(11:38:37 PM) dkap: So does Mike.
(11:38:41 PM) Caelin: Yeah, I have a coaching at 9AM in Portsmouth
(11:38:42 PM) dkap: So we should probably hang here.
(11:38:49 PM) Caelin: Good night
(11:38:53 PM) Jean: k
(11:38:54 PM) Auricle: Night folks
(11:38:57 PM) dkap: Until next week , true believers.
(11:38:59 PM) Jean: night, all!
(11:39:04 PM) Auricle left the room (quit: Quit: Chatzilla 0.9.77 [SeaMonkey 1.0.1/2006040400]).
(11:39:06 PM) Jean left the room.
(11:39:27 PM) Caelin left the room.