Conversation with #dkap_amber

Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 24 Mar 2009 09:52:22 PM EDT:
(08:52:22 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/
(08:53:35 PM) Caelin: Aha!
(08:54:48 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:55:09 PM) dkap: Yes, I was here earlier, as well.
(08:55:14 PM) Caelin: I recall.
(08:55:20 PM) Caelin: And so does she.
(08:55:30 PM) dkap: Then, my phone cut out, and it was not worth the effort, until I just logged in.
(08:55:49 PM) Caelin: Gotcha.
(08:58:46 PM) dkap: But, I am now back.
(08:58:48 PM) dkap: Woot.
(09:06:26 PM) dkap: So, Auricle, where were you?
(09:09:58 PM) Caelin: *sigh*
(09:11:11 PM) dkap: *sigh*
(09:11:18 PM) dkap: Can't win for loosing.
(09:11:32 PM) Caelin: Indeed.
(09:29:06 PM) Caelin: Well, if I'm not hanging, you can still run me.
(09:33:50 PM) dkap: Hrm ... I thought you were hiding in the dungeon beneath Thelbane, waiting for the Situation to Change.
(09:34:15 PM) dkap: So, in fact, I can't until something shifts ... or you get bored, and wander into your bad stu... I mean certain peril.
(09:34:20 PM) Caelin: Yes. tried to get as deep into the dungeon as possible.
(09:34:23 PM) Caelin: Gotcha.
(09:34:28 PM) Caelin: LOL
(09:35:48 PM) KerrAvon: back!

(09:41:53 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/
(09:41:54 PM) Caelin: So I walk to dkap's room and say, "Hey Dkap, Auricle is back."
(09:42:02 PM) Caelin: and he replies, "And I'm hung"
(09:42:03 PM) Auricle: rofl
(09:42:09 PM) Auricle: It's just...talent.
(09:42:14 PM) Caelin: A gift.
(09:43:45 PM) Auricle: I know it *says* he's here..
(09:43:50 PM) Auricle: But I have a feeling.
(09:44:32 PM) Caelin: Might still be dealing with the hanging
(09:44:51 PM) Auricle: nod
(09:46:02 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(09:46:14 PM) Caelin: Are we alive? Do we live again?
(09:46:36 PM) Auricle: ....testing?
(09:48:02 PM) Auricle: This has been a test of the Gaming Amber Broadcast system. If this had not been a test, this signal would have been followed by actual Amber Gaming.
(09:48:16 PM) Caelin: LOL
(09:48:16 PM) dkap: AH CHOOO!
(09:48:24 PM) Caelin: ROFL
(09:48:31 PM) dkap: Sorry busy blowing away the SNOT that is this STUPID PROGRAM.
(09:48:34 PM) dkap: *grin*
(09:49:00 PM) dkap: It logs me in, but, until all my connections are established (which takes some time, even at the speed of the internet) it doesn't let me DO anything.
(09:49:15 PM) Caelin: Oh that is so freakishly lame.
(09:49:29 PM) Caelin: By the program.
(09:51:51 PM) dkap: It is.
(09:51:53 PM) dkap: *sigh*
(09:52:05 PM) dkap: So ... anyway. Auricle, where _did_ I leave you>
(09:52:36 PM) Auricle: Woods! Trees! Rangers! Armies!
(09:52:44 PM) Auricle: Auricle and Zach to the rescue!
(09:52:46 PM) Caelin: Oh my...
(09:52:59 PM) Auricle: I can't believe we are all here and capable of typing.
(09:53:06 PM) Caelin: SHHHHH!
(09:53:10 PM) Caelin: Don't jinx it!!
(09:53:12 PM) ***Auricle believes this is a precarious situation now.
(09:54:04 PM) Auricle: ....I jinxed it.
(09:54:06 PM) Auricle: :(
(09:54:11 PM) dkap: Right, but ... If I recall correctly, there was a distraction (Isn't there always) before taking a fairy gate somewhere ...
(09:54:19 PM) Auricle: YEs.
(09:54:20 PM) dkap: Not yet you haven't ...
(09:54:30 PM) Auricle: We were going to fairy gate to Kolvir.
(09:54:35 PM) dkap: And I can't seem to remember what it was, what your reaction was, or the like.
(09:54:35 PM) Auricle: But -- ifrit showed up
(09:54:46 PM) Auricle: told us of attacked
(09:54:51 PM) Auricle: and we went to ranger central
(09:54:59 PM) dkap: All I have is you, in the midst of a battle, in Chaos, and I'm kinda sure that's not happened yet.
(09:55:02 PM) Auricle: and now are off to protect trees.
(09:55:13 PM) Auricle: I don't think i'm there yet.
(09:55:35 PM) Auricle: We were heading towards an army on a road to stop them
(09:55:48 PM) dkap: Ahh ... that's right.
(09:55:49 PM) dkap: *sigh*
(09:55:54 PM) dkap: My memory, sometimes ...
(09:56:04 PM) Auricle: matches auricle's?
(09:56:39 PM) dkap: No, I retain too much sometimes ... stuff that isn't yet ...
(09:57:26 PM) Auricle: ah, opposite problem
(09:58:11 PM) dkap: Exactly. So, Auricle the Aardvark goes hippity hoping down the trail to go quantity surveying ...
(09:58:25 PM) Auricle: I'm not an aardvark.....am I?
(09:58:32 PM) Auricle: And Zach was with me.
(09:58:48 PM) Auricle: We decided nothing stands a chance against the two of us anyways...least he did
(09:58:53 PM) dkap: Why not?
(09:58:57 PM) Caelin: (You're in Arden. Not likely. If however you were in Chaos, you might be.)
(09:59:57 PM) Auricle: cause I was still in human Auricle form last I knew
(10:00:25 PM) Caelin: (You're not having a Caelin moment. You're likely still quite human.)
(10:00:30 PM) Auricle: oh good.
(10:00:36 PM) Auricle: So we're scouting?
(10:01:00 PM) dkap: Well ... more like heading that way, because, well ... it's you and Zach, scouting just often seems like a waste of time.
(10:01:18 PM) dkap: You can, most probably, simply deal with whatever is coming your way. Bang, Squish.
(10:01:43 PM) Auricle: All right. We head that way.
(10:02:53 PM) dkap: Off you go, after the Ifrit, toward where the scout was reported.
(10:03:04 PM) dkap: You get close, and, indeed, there is a large army encamped there.
(10:03:23 PM) Auricle: Does either Zach or my gargoyle recognize anything about them?
(10:03:24 PM) dkap: Well, to be precise, decamped there.
(10:03:30 PM) dkap: And rolling toward the two of you.
(10:03:36 PM) dkap: Well ... they seem to be well-armed.
(10:03:53 PM) dkap: With a large variety of both small weapons and siege engines.
(10:04:43 PM) Auricle: "Well...there is definately an army."
(10:04:58 PM) dkap: Zach: "Indeed there is."
(10:05:31 PM) Auricle: "Wasn't there something about...not getting hit?"
(10:06:59 PM) dkap: Zach becomes an Iron Golem.
(10:07:26 PM) Auricle: *blinks*
(10:08:39 PM) dkap: Zach: It hurts less to get hit this way.
(10:09:13 PM) ***Auricle grins.
(10:09:29 PM) ***Auricle just makes skin imperverious.
(10:09:48 PM) dkap: Zach nods.
(10:10:08 PM) Auricle: "The Jaegers will be so upset they've missed an army."
(10:10:27 PM) dkap: Zach shrugs: "So ... import some?"
(10:10:48 PM) Auricle: "There
(10:11:05 PM) dkap: Zach: "It might be interesting to see this devolve from an organized army to a panic-ridden mob.
(10:11:06 PM) Auricle: "There's the whole fast and easy travel problem right now? Remember?"
(10:11:29 PM) dkap: Zach: "You don't keep some sort of djinn bottle full of them lying about?"
(10:11:40 PM) Auricle: "What's a djinn bottle?"
(10:12:28 PM) dkap: Zach: "Never mind."
(10:13:43 PM) ***Auricle looks thoughtful. "Although you'd think some would be around, this close to Kolvir."
(10:14:07 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Any Jaegers around? That just haven't managed to home in on me yet?
(10:17:01 PM) dkap: Nope.
(10:17:09 PM) dkap: Not a jager in sight.
(10:17:13 PM) dkap: A few Ifrit though.
(10:17:24 PM) Auricle: "Hey! Ifrits!"
(10:17:43 PM) Auricle: "Can you guys transport stuff?"
(10:18:52 PM) dkap: The ifrit looks at you with a look of surprise.
(10:19:12 PM) dkap: Ifrit: We have been known, from time to time, to move things from one place to another.
(10:20:00 PM) Auricle: "How's about people....er...constructs?"
(10:20:29 PM) dkap: Ifrit "Are they capable of going through magical gates?"
(10:20:57 PM) ***Auricle grins "They have before!"
(10:22:21 PM) dkap: Ifrit: "Then, provided there isn't a reason that the gate can't exist both here and there, there is no reason they cannot be transported."
(10:24:00 PM) Auricle: "That shouldn't be a problem. I think." Gargoyle: Did we lock down magical gates?
(10:27:01 PM) dkap: On Kolvir? Yes.
(10:28:06 PM) Auricle: In the City under Kolvir?
(10:30:36 PM) dkap: G: Yes, there.
(10:31:54 PM) ***Auricle frowns "Or...not. We locked down Magical gating."
(10:32:08 PM) dkap: Zach: "Everywhere?"
(10:33:47 PM) Auricle: "In Kolvir, and the City. Hmmm. What about the decoy City?"
(10:35:03 PM) dkap: G: There as well.
(10:35:19 PM) dkap: Zach: "There is much more to reality and shadow than Kolvir alone ..."
(10:35:37 PM) Auricle: "Anything pretty much in the area, we'd have to gate outside of Kolvir proper...or...*
(10:35:51 PM) ***Auricle sighs. "Yes, grab them from someplace else."
(10:36:08 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle, do we have known shadow locations for Jaegers?
(10:37:38 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: Computing probabilities.
(10:37:50 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: Probable locations determined.
(10:38:59 PM) Auricle: Headsup display, please.
(10:39:16 PM) Auricle: And external display as well.
(10:39:37 PM) Auricle: "I have probable locations of Jaegers in Shadow."
(10:40:41 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: The ... way of describing the probable shadows needs to be transferred directly, please have one of the Ifrit come within touching distance?
(10:40:57 PM) ***Auricle gestures an Ifrit to come over.
(10:41:45 PM) dkap: She does.
(10:43:48 PM) ***Auricle reaches out and touches the Ifrit.
(10:45:26 PM) dkap: Gargoyle slides along your skin until he is touching the Ifrit as well. There is a rapid, one-way transfer of knowledge, and then Gargoyle slides home.
(10:45:49 PM) ***Auricle let's go of the ifrit.
(10:46:49 PM) dkap: She steps aside, opens a sight-only gate to the first location. No Jager in view.
(10:47:20 PM) dkap: She closes that gate, carefully, and opens a second gate, to a second location. There is a large Jager brawl going on.
(10:47:49 PM) Auricle: "Hey! Jaegers!"
(10:47:53 PM) dkap: She nods, and says: "I can allow your voice to pass, if you wish to call them to order, or I can just start scooping them up, and pulling them through.
(10:48:06 PM) Auricle: "Oh."
(10:48:12 PM) Auricle: "Er, let me call them?"
(10:49:01 PM) dkap: She modifies the gate, and bows to you.
(10:49:12 PM) Auricle: "Hey! Jaegers!"
(10:51:04 PM) dkap: (Somewhere, in shadow, a large, glass-like pitcher, crashes through a wall, followed by a hearty "Oh Yeah!")
(10:51:15 PM) Caelin: (LOL)
(10:52:18 PM) dkap: The Jagers stop fighting, and look up and around, somewhat confused.
(10:52:24 PM) Auricle: *laughs*
(10:52:45 PM) Auricle: "Can they see me?"
(10:52:54 PM) dkap: The folks that the Jagers are fighting do not, indeed, understand why their opponents have stopped, and most of them try to continue, and then learn the _real_ wrath of the Jagermonster.
(10:53:07 PM) dkap: Ifrit: "Not ... as such, no."
(10:53:56 PM) Auricle: "Maybe you'd better scoop them through, then. Jaegers! Prepare to be transported! "
(10:54:43 PM) dkap: A great maw opens on the other side, and the Jager throw their opponents away as they dive through the maw to be with their Auricle.
(10:54:58 PM) dkap: Hats are very carefully kept on heads, though.
(10:55:51 PM) Auricle: How many do we get?
(10:57:21 PM) dkap: About 50 or 60 or so. It's hard to tell.
(10:58:40 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Likely hood of this many Jaeger successfully winning against that army?
(10:59:21 PM) dkap: G: Odds are not favorable for a force below about 500.
(11:01:04 PM) Auricle: "We need some more, then."
(11:02:03 PM) dkap: The Ifrit nods, scoops up the last few remaining Jager, has the ones already scooped, throw the non-jager-combatants back, and closes the gate.
(11:02:21 PM) dkap: She then opens the next gate, visual only, finds Jager, and repeats the process.
(11:02:29 PM) dkap: This happens until you tell her to stop.
(11:02:49 PM) Auricle: I'll let her do so until we have around 500 or so Jaeger.
(11:03:11 PM) dkap: Right ... time passes.
(11:03:30 PM) Auricle: Or the army starts making serious movemnt.
(11:05:54 PM) dkap: You know ... i notice that it's 11:00, and, while we did not start on time, I do have to get up early tomorrow, so I can get home early, so I can teach ...
(11:06:02 PM) Caelin: *nod*
(11:06:58 PM) Caelin: Good night!
(11:07:01 PM) Caelin left the room.
(11:07:07 PM) Auricle: okay then...
(11:07:10 PM) Auricle: good night!
(11:07:34 PM) dkap: Until next week, Death, Destrcutions, and, of course, Boom Tomorrow!
(11:07:47 PM) Auricle: yay!
(11:07:53 PM) Auricle left the room.