Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 17 Feb 2009 09:25:48 AM EST:
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(08:01:09 PM) The topic for #dkap_amber is: Game as usual, logs at https://www.train-wreck.org/~dkap/Amber/logs wiki-wiki at: https://www.rebel.org/wiki/
(08:02:55 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:05:28 PM) dkap: Hello?
(08:21:30 PM) Caelin: Here now.
(08:30:12 PM) dkap: Good good.
(08:32:11 PM) PennyAnte [~chatzilla@c-24-61-198-152.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:32:14 PM) PennyAnte is now known as Anise
(08:34:54 PM) dkap: Greetings.
(08:35:04 PM) dkap: Slow night so far.
(08:35:05 PM) Anise: Hello
(08:35:10 PM) Caelin: YO!
(08:35:23 PM) Caelin: INdeed.
(09:02:17 PM) Caelin: Fair warning. Dkap was warning me of some narcoleptic moments. I will go check on him.
(09:06:17 PM) dkap: I was just relocating from the kitchen.
(09:06:34 PM) dkap: Now, I am comfortably ensconced where I can run.
(09:06:40 PM) Caelin: yay
(09:08:12 PM) dkap: Indeed. Where did I leave the two of you?
(09:08:30 PM) dkap: Right, Anise searching the house for the Boy Hostage.
(09:08:34 PM) dkap: Caelin?
(09:08:41 PM) Caelin: Checking.
(09:09:45 PM) Caelin: We were just following the trail of the blob with Tate in it being dragged out of the house.
(09:11:32 PM) dkap: Right ... right.
(09:11:48 PM) dkap: !d 2
(09:11:48 PM) ChanServ: dkap: A 2 shows on the 2-sided die.
(09:11:55 PM) dkap: So we go with Anise first.
(09:12:01 PM) dkap: *grin*
(09:12:05 PM) Anise: kk
(09:12:14 PM) Caelin: Hahaha
(09:15:34 PM) dkap: What? It is just diceless from an operational point of view.
(09:17:36 PM) dkap: So ... Hostage Boy has become missing, you have asked the house-head, and he's not seen him, and you checked the lab, and Laetatio hadn't seen him.
(09:18:13 PM) Anise: Can I send my awareness out and look for his Ka?
(09:18:22 PM) Anise: to be more efficient?
(09:18:28 PM) Anise: and fast
(09:20:49 PM) dkap: It would be, if there wasn't so much loud Ka noise about.
(09:21:29 PM) dkap: Normally his particular Ka would scintilate like a jewel on velvet, but right now, it's a single rhinestone in a drag review just off of broadway.
(09:21:30 PM) Anise: hmmm
(09:21:53 PM) Anise: Well now ... that *is* the proverbial needle in a haystack
(09:22:03 PM) Anise: what if I had something of his to focus on?
(09:24:45 PM) dkap: That might help, but might not. It might simply be better to motivate the world to bring you toward him.
(09:24:52 PM) dkap: But even that would be hard.
(09:26:24 PM) Anise: How long would it take to search the whole house myself, and is there anyone not busy that I could draft into the task?
(09:26:42 PM) dkap: Well ... Natasha is already searching as well.
(09:26:56 PM) dkap: And I'm sure you could suborn many of the people you run into, if you wish.
(09:27:07 PM) Anise: Ok, let's give that a try
(09:27:17 PM) Anise: I'd at least like to rule out whether he's on the grounds or not
(09:27:32 PM) Anise: so, just so we don't run around like chickens with our heads cut off
(09:28:03 PM) Anise: I'd like to organize a decent search, with cleared areas and someone to monitor those areas should he show up
(09:28:16 PM) Anise: I want to avoid him showing up where we already looked and left
(09:28:57 PM) dkap: Right ... That should be easy, except every time you turn a corner, there is a new, or different part of the house, and you've not seen a map anywhere ... and you've already covered several times the volume of what you would have expected to be in the house, and you don't think you are half-done yet.
(09:29:27 PM) ***Anise wishes we were in a shadow that had a retail store with a PA system ...
(09:29:37 PM) ***Caelin snorts.
(09:30:21 PM) dkap: "Wet cleanup, Zorro's lab. Wet cleanup."
(09:30:37 PM) Anise: Does Natasha have a better idea on how to go about a search here, in this environment?
(09:32:41 PM) dkap: Nope. She's also running from room to room, checking, almost randomly.
(09:33:36 PM) Anise: Hmm
(09:33:38 PM) Anise: well
(09:34:03 PM) dkap: And she's gotten the gaggle of Bridesmades to help.
(09:34:38 PM) Anise: (I still don't understand quite how ka works, but if I can manipulate probability a little, and do things like influence someone's work product, maybe I can do something like an extended working to help the searchers?)
(09:35:06 PM) Anise: (or maybe they'd just search really really well but find nothing?)
(09:36:25 PM) dkap: Well ... it couldn't hurt ...
(09:36:53 PM) Anise: Let's try that then
(09:37:06 PM) Anise: At least to discover if he's in the vicinity or not
(09:37:12 PM) Anise: or to find clues
(09:39:14 PM) dkap: You find a nice, empty room, empty your mind, and begin to concentrate ... letting the events hang before your eyes, and trying to influence them to come out ... well.
(09:43:43 PM) dkap: After a passage of time, things, sort of "click" and you've done your working as well as you could.
(09:44:08 PM) dkap: There is a very heavy weight, pressing against the Ka, as if there was a particular doom scheduled against this house.
(09:44:32 PM) dkap: But, you seem to have worked that into your calculations, and your casting forth, and maybe, something good will come out of it.
(09:44:55 PM) Anise: Catch up with the searchers - see if they've found anything
(09:46:42 PM) dkap: You are chatting with them, to find out the areas searched, when one of them comes screaming into the room, shouting something about a giant hand that reached through nothing to grab Natasha.
(09:47:03 PM) Anise: w t f
(09:47:10 PM) Anise: go to wherever that happened
(09:47:22 PM) Anise: see if we can help
(09:48:26 PM) dkap: There is no sign of her.
(09:48:32 PM) dkap: And no sign of the hand or anything.
(09:49:00 PM) Anise: can I examine any resonance to get even a sense of where it came from, and try to go there?
(09:50:45 PM) dkap: No resonance, but deep and abiding frustration.
(09:50:53 PM) dkap: And it's not localized.
(09:51:09 PM) dkap: You might want to tell her husband-to-be, and traveling companion.
(09:51:15 PM) Anise: I was just about to ask
(09:51:20 PM) Anise: do I know where Caelin is?
(09:52:23 PM) dkap: He was heading to the lab, when you ran into him, after checking there for the Boy.
(09:52:56 PM) ***Anise goes to fill him in
(09:53:36 PM) dkap: Caelin, you are beginning your investigations of the mess in the stables.
(09:53:41 PM) dkap: The missing wall, and everything.
(09:53:44 PM) Caelin: Yes
(09:54:02 PM) Caelin: We were just about to head out and follow the trail through the stables, on foot.
(09:54:20 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:54:46 PM) dkap: Anise, the lab seems devoid of people, including the blob, Laetatio, and the horse, and there is a trail of wreakage heading off in a direction.
(09:55:10 PM) ***Anise follows the trail
(09:56:22 PM) dkap: You see Caelin and a group of others about to leave the ... stable, which really shouldn't be out here, somehow ... or, at least, not connected that way ... through the missing wall of the stable.
(09:57:12 PM) Anise: ei yei yei
(09:57:57 PM) Anise: Go over to Caelin with a sense of urgency and fill him in, asking if all this might be related
(09:58:09 PM) Anise: (also filling him on the missing boy)
(09:58:17 PM) Anise: (and the difficulty with the search)
(09:58:51 PM) dkap: Caelin?
(10:00:47 PM) Caelin: Do I see her?
(10:00:47 PM) Caelin: Yes?
(10:00:51 PM) Caelin: Do I get all that?
(10:01:18 PM) dkap: She comes out of the stables and ...
(10:01:22 PM) dkap: Go ahead, fill him in.
(10:02:53 PM) Anise: Your wife is missing - we were searching for the boy when one searcher reported that a giant hand appeared out of nothing and grabbed her - we also haven't found the boy ... and it looks like this isn't the only problem ...
(10:03:02 PM) Caelin: "DAMNIT!"
(10:03:32 PM) Anise: I couldn't tell where the hand came from or where she went
(10:03:35 PM) Caelin: "It's a good chance that's where the boy is too.
(10:04:21 PM) dkap: So, now your father, child-to-be, and wife-to-be are all missing ...
(10:04:44 PM) Caelin: "Ifrit, should we proceed at this point? It's clear they already have hostages. With me they'll just complete the set."
(10:05:41 PM) dkap: Ifrit: Are you not the target for this whole operation? We should inform your General.
(10:05:52 PM) Caelin: "Yes.
(10:06:02 PM) Caelin: "Immediately, if you have not already done so."
(10:06:20 PM) Caelin: "In fact, I would feel safer in the general's presence."
(10:06:29 PM) Caelin: "Natasha is hardly a pushover."
(10:06:30 PM) dkap: Ifrit: A wise plan.
(10:06:31 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-30-5-155.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(10:06:40 PM) Cagliostro: whoops, zoned.
(10:06:48 PM) dkap: Ifrit: You should probably proceed, at once, to his position.
(10:06:51 PM) Caelin: Heh. It happens.
(10:06:53 PM) dkap: Welcome, Count.
(10:06:58 PM) Caelin: I should have fired off a warning to you.
(10:07:25 PM) Caelin: "Okay. Anise, accompany me to the general, if you will...I hope we make it there."
(10:07:41 PM) Anise: I will
(10:07:48 PM) Caelin: "Back inside the house now, through to the front, where I saw the general last."
(10:07:55 PM) Anise: (Try to remain on guard against any sudden threats)
(10:08:05 PM) Caelin: "Unless you know where the general is, (turns to the Ifrit)"
(10:08:58 PM) dkap: Ifrit: My information does not include him leaving the position he was starting to bullwark.
(10:09:14 PM) Caelin: "Then that is where we will go. Now."
(10:09:37 PM) ***Caelin starts back in to the house via the stables/torn out wall.
(10:09:45 PM) ***Anise follows
(10:09:50 PM) Anise: (brb 1 sec)
(10:10:35 PM) dkap: Off the two of you go, in the direction of Benedict.
(10:10:53 PM) Caelin: THree. Hopefully the Ifrit comes along.
(10:10:55 PM) Anise: (back)
(10:12:11 PM) dkap: Well ... you had 2 Ifrit with you, so 4 ...
(10:14:38 PM) dkap: And there is Benedict, as expected, setting up defenses, and martialing the army, on both sides of the moat.
(10:16:21 PM) Caelin: Good. Away we go.
(10:16:44 PM) Caelin: "General! We bring unfortunate news!"
(10:17:27 PM) dkap: Benedict looks up. "What, did Laetatio get himself strangled or something?"
(10:17:46 PM) Caelin: "Well, captured, as far as we can perceive."
(10:17:47 PM) dkap: I notice the Ifrit I sent to guard him is still with you.
(10:18:02 PM) Caelin: "Yes."
(10:18:26 PM) dkap: Benedict *sighs* "From within our very defense perimitre.
(10:18:29 PM) Caelin: "But the blob in which he was held was dragged off, and the wall to the stables was physically overwhelmed."
(10:18:54 PM) Caelin: "Yes, in addition, I report the apparent capture of two others, among them..."
(10:19:00 PM) Caelin: "My betrothed."
(10:19:08 PM) dkap: Benedict: Sounds like large force being brought to bear. We will decamp a section and send them down there, not that it will do much good at this point.
(10:19:13 PM) Caelin: "Anise, you have details on her capture?"
(10:19:24 PM) dkap: Benedict looks to Anise for intel.
(10:19:48 PM) Anise: Just a report that "a giant hand reached out of nowhere and grabbed her"
(10:20:02 PM) Anise: I couldn't, using my abilities, tell where the hand came from or where it went
(10:20:11 PM) Anise: We also have a boy missing
(10:20:40 PM) dkap: Benedict: "Giant hand? Was it actually a giant's hand, or just a normal hand, out of scale?"
(10:20:56 PM) Anise: This I couldn't tell - we could seek out the witness
(10:21:09 PM) Anise: and bring her here
(10:22:22 PM) dkap: She's been following you.
(10:22:26 PM) dkap: Funny that. *grin*
(10:22:44 PM) ***Caelin sighs in slight relief.
(10:22:50 PM) dkap: Benedict asks her some penetrating questions, and figures out that it's a hand, out of scale, rather than a giant's hand.
(10:23:21 PM) Caelin: "We could search for magic traces in the area of occurrence.
(10:23:43 PM) Anise: lol
(10:23:50 PM) Anise: (sorry was away for a sec)
(10:23:51 PM) dkap: Benedict: "And why haven't you?"
(10:24:08 PM) Caelin: "Because I was just informed and we felt it necessary to inform you first."
(10:24:10 PM) Anise: I gave Caelin the report and we came straight to you
(10:24:14 PM) Caelin: "I was not present."
(10:25:06 PM) Anise: And I am not a magic user
(10:25:39 PM) dkap: Benedict: "Then, lets stop all this jibber-jabbing, and get there, and get some solid intel."
(10:26:43 PM) ***Anise goes back to the location
(10:26:57 PM) ***Caelin follows.
(10:27:12 PM) dkap: Benedict follows as well.
(10:27:45 PM) ***Anise will indicate when we arrive
(10:27:53 PM) Anise: (to the others I mean)
(10:27:59 PM) dkap: There, in the room, Benedict looks to Caelin.
(10:28:03 PM) Caelin: (*nod*)
(10:28:08 PM) Caelin: "Yes?"
(10:28:36 PM) ***Caelin brings up magic sight.
(10:29:44 PM) dkap: There is very little magic in the room, as if someone tried to wipe all traces of a spell away, by draining the spell, after it was cast, so there would be no evidence.
(10:30:24 PM) dkap: There is, however, just a few drops of ... something caustic that must have somehow got splashed, spelling out the word "her" in Thari.
(10:31:28 PM) ***Caelin sighs.
(10:31:44 PM) Caelin: "Natasha obviosuly is saying that it was her."
(10:31:46 PM) Caelin: "shit."
(10:32:15 PM) Caelin: "The magic is drained, thus spoiling hint of evidence."
(10:32:32 PM) dkap: Benedict: "Is she good, lucky, or both?"
(10:32:51 PM) Caelin: "Both."
(10:33:12 PM) Caelin: "But quite skilled, so this is very disquieting."
(10:33:54 PM) dkap: Benedict: Indeed it is. Do we even know where her base of operations might be? Or are we entirely in the dark.
(10:34:14 PM) Caelin: "If they are known, they have not been divulged to me."
(10:34:31 PM) Caelin: "Merely that she has reached this piece of fruit."
(10:34:50 PM) Anise: I still like the idea of sending in a small team to a location dear to her and extracting something of value as a bargaining chip
(10:35:20 PM) Anise: Now she has hostages and we still are empty handed.
(10:35:40 PM) dkap: Benedict: Where is dear to her?
(10:35:48 PM) dkap: Benedict: Do we even know?
(10:36:20 PM) Anise: If not her "base" maybe someplace else, Caelin?
(10:37:18 PM) Caelin: "_I_ am dear to her, and that is all I know. At least, dear to her plans."
(10:37:19 PM) Anise: It has the advantage of giving us an offensive option while not compromising the defenses here and it removes you from here as well
(10:37:23 PM) Anise: hmmm
(10:37:47 PM) Caelin: "Wait...
(10:38:07 PM) Caelin: "I am under the impression Princess Chandra and/or the Saviour of Chaos knew something more about her."
(10:38:19 PM) Caelin: "They are the only ones heretofore who have dealt with her.
(10:38:26 PM) ***Anise smiles
(10:38:29 PM) Caelin: "They might know."
(10:38:55 PM) Caelin: "I gather I've been kept largely in the dark about her entire existence."
(10:39:20 PM) Caelin: "But seeing as this concerns Princess Chandra now, I think she needs to know the gravity of the situation."
(10:41:17 PM) Anise: It would help us to know why she might want you, at least, so we might divine something of her plan
(10:41:42 PM) Anise: Maybe the Princess will be able to speculate about her motivations as well
(10:41:54 PM) Caelin: "I doubt the dragons would be willing to do anything in the way of defending the house, surprisingly."
(10:42:18 PM) Caelin: (note to GM...Caelin is 100% ignorant of the dragon-Circe link)
(10:43:58 PM) Anise: (I'm super sleepy and have to call game vis a vis myself here)
(10:44:11 PM) Anise: (night boys)
(10:44:13 PM) Caelin: (okay...happy trails)
(10:44:15 PM) Anise: (sleep well)
(10:44:30 PM) Anise left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.84 [Firefox 3.0.6/2009011913]).
(10:47:54 PM) dkap: RIght ...
(10:48:01 PM) dkap: That hangs that storyline for now ...
(10:48:08 PM) dkap: (Sorry about the interrupt.)
(10:48:09 PM) Caelin: Suck.
(10:48:13 PM) Caelin: No problem.
(10:50:18 PM) dkap: So, Count, when we last left you ...
(10:55:32 PM) Cagliostro: ...yes?
(10:55:58 PM) dkap: I believe you are just about to wake up from your sleep.
(10:56:06 PM) Cagliostro: Sounds reasonable.
(10:57:07 PM) dkap: Or do I have the place-holder in the wrong location again?
(10:57:24 PM) Cagliostro: no, I think that's right.
(10:57:35 PM) Cagliostro: From my perspective, I just went to bed, but these things happen fairly quickly.
(10:58:48 PM) dkap: Well ... your sleep was undisturbed, and you woke naturally, so ... unless you feel motivated to role-play it ... *grin*
(10:59:48 PM) Cagliostro: no, just remarkable that it was undisturbed.
(10:59:57 PM) Cagliostro: that's nice and rare. i'll have to remember this spot. :)
(11:00:19 PM) dkap: With all your Ifrit making sure that you were allowed to sleep, and your wards up, and your good stuff firmly in place?
(11:01:03 PM) Cagliostro: yes.
(11:01:07 PM) Cagliostro: I live in a world that has Caelin in it.
(11:01:10 PM) Cagliostro: and Titania.
(11:01:11 PM) Cagliostro: :)
(11:01:16 PM) dkap: Yes, you got your sleep. Matter of fact, except for the polite disturbance of the Ifrit, you've not been bothered by anything but the problem before you, and now ... the possibility that the author of this problem is focused, and actively working to take over control of Caelin.
(11:01:23 PM) ***Caelin (snorts)
(11:01:59 PM) dkap: Yes, and Tatiana is busy caring for, and guarding against certain dreams, but you don't know that. As for Caelin, he's the whole reason you have this project in the first place ...
(11:02:30 PM) Cagliostro: well, there is that.
(11:02:34 PM) Cagliostro: how long did I sleep for?
(11:02:56 PM) dkap: Hard to tell, here.
(11:03:32 PM) dkap: Could be a day, could be several days. The sun is approximately in the same position in it's cycle as when you went to sleep,
(11:04:00 PM) Cagliostro: I was just going to ask an Ifrit.
(11:04:15 PM) Cagliostro: and/or check in with Jodo.
(11:04:27 PM) dkap: Jodo's time might not run as yours does.
(11:04:38 PM) dkap: The Ifrit will tell you two sun-cycles.
(11:05:26 PM) Cagliostro: right, but I'll ask him the next time I talk to him. Another data point.
(11:05:35 PM) dkap: Right.
(11:05:43 PM) Cagliostro: Okay, am I one of those people who can reasonably conjure food?
(11:05:50 PM) Cagliostro: (more power from the food than for the food?)
(11:06:32 PM) dkap: You could, but you already arranged for your Ifrit to have a steady supply for you, while you were concentrating on your project, so you wouldn't either waste energy, nor have any extraneous energy activities around your workings.
(11:07:09 PM) Cagliostro: yay, me.
(11:07:15 PM) Cagliostro: get something to eat like a civilized person.
(11:07:22 PM) Cagliostro: then check in with Jodo, make sure there are no budding crises.
(11:08:37 PM) dkap: Jodo doesn't mention anything new, reminds you of your redheaded guest, mentions, again that there has been some activity reported by your outside information network. But nothing has really changed since your check-in just before you went to sleep, apparently 20 minutes ago.
(11:08:48 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(11:09:08 PM) Cagliostro: I think I can work with that time differential.
(11:09:38 PM) Cagliostro: Ask Jodo to convey polite delaying regrets to the redhead, and ask for a printout of the information from the outside information network.
(11:09:46 PM) Cagliostro: but I think mostly I will continue to work on the statue.
(11:10:59 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:11:11 PM) dkap: And I think that brings us over the 11:00 edge ...
(11:11:19 PM) Cagliostro: it does
(11:11:22 PM) Caelin: *nod*
(11:11:25 PM) dkap: And I should sleep. I've been plagued with Narcolepsy some, recently.
(11:11:32 PM) Cagliostro: *nod*
(11:11:33 PM) dkap: So ... perhaps more actual sleep will help.
(11:11:35 PM) Cagliostro: sleep well.
(11:12:32 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(02/18/2009 12:03:46 AM) Caelin left the room.