Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Sat 11 Apr 2009 03:10:45 PM EDT:
(02:10:45 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/
(08:03:32 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/
(08:04:06 PM) Cagliostro: excellent, gm sign.
(08:05:35 PM) dkap: Nope ... nothing to see here ... move along ...
(08:05:37 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:06:02 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:06:33 PM) dkap: Welcome, one and all ... to the Extravaganza that is my Game.
(08:09:26 PM) Cagliostro: woo.
(08:14:27 PM) ***Cagliostro waits for extravagance.
(08:15:25 PM) dkap: Not extravagance, Extravaganza! As in Circus.
(08:16:11 PM) dkap: I've not heard that Auricle is not going to be here ... so I'm hoping.
(08:16:19 PM) dkap: And I have email from Zach ... so we are good on that.
(08:17:58 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(08:18:28 PM) Cagliostro: the thing that occurred to me between games is - what does someone with that level of magical ability need with an army?
(08:18:39 PM) Cagliostro: ps - are there any survivors to interrogate?
(08:21:06 PM) dkap: Probably to protect them from the Jhereg adage?
(08:21:15 PM) dkap: There are, if you want to keep the Jager from eating them.
(08:22:22 PM) caelin [~fircuser@m395336d0.tmodns.net] entered the room.
(08:22:35 PM) Cagliostro: I will suggest that tracking the army to its source could help understand what's going on, and that not eating them will make them easier to interrogate.
(08:22:47 PM) caelin: yo
(08:23:13 PM) Cagliostro: ahoyhoy, Caelin
(08:24:19 PM) dkap: Suggest away.
(08:24:40 PM) caelin: walking the streets of downtown, waiting for break to end at 6:30 pst
(08:25:11 PM) Cagliostro: so hopefully Auricle agrees. Otherwise, I could stand to back off a bit.
(08:25:58 PM) dkap: Somehow ... the image of you wandering the streets of San Fran is very ... fitting.
(08:26:55 PM) caelin: (not unless sf is a prison ;-)
(08:28:16 PM) dkap: Really?
(08:28:37 PM) dkap: What have you done recently that would have you at the rock?
(08:29:01 PM) Auricle [~chatzilla@c-71-192-210-192.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:29:26 PM) Auricle: hello
(08:30:15 PM) Cagliostro: hello, Auricle
(08:30:45 PM) Auricle: I am not asleep
(08:30:45 PM) dkap: Greetings! Now, the war can proceed (or the cleanup thereuntu)
(08:30:52 PM) ***Julianna the idea was to take no prisoners, and now that the army is overrun, I'd be guiding the rangers to kill every last man
(08:30:56 PM) dkap: Is that an unusual state?
(08:31:07 PM) Auricle: I almost was
(08:31:11 PM) Julianna: (sorry for the purple)
(08:31:11 PM) Cagliostro: I will suggest that tracking the army to its source could help understand what's going on, and that not eating them will make them easier to interrogate.
(08:31:48 PM) Auricle: I care only about Zach now that the army seems mostly settled.
(08:31:56 PM) dkap: Purple?
(08:32:48 PM) Julianna: Never mind ... whatever the /me color shows up as for you ... just saying it was an accident
(08:33:19 PM) dkap: Oh, black, like all the other text.
(08:33:19 PM) Cagliostro: "It's possible that wherever he is has some relationship to where the army is from."
(08:34:00 PM) Julianna: Is the slaughter in hand well enough to go report to Zach?
(08:34:23 PM) Cagliostro: erm. about that...
(08:34:40 PM) Cagliostro: Zach asked to get teleported as close as possible to the threat at the center of the army.
(08:34:46 PM) ***Auricle takes a moment to parse what Cagliostro says.
(08:35:01 PM) Cagliostro: and, well, he vanished very shortly after that.
(08:35:11 PM) Cagliostro: and Auricle can't find him, and is growing increasingly distressed.
(08:35:11 PM) Julianna: Vanished.
(08:35:22 PM) Cagliostro: I forget the special effect. lemme look that up.
(08:35:23 PM) Julianna: Just winked away?
(08:35:36 PM) Auricle: "No, a big hand, I think"
(08:35:49 PM) Julianna: What!?
(08:36:21 PM) Julianna: Well, there have been stranger things I suppose ... not by much though
(08:36:31 PM) Julianna: I will need to find him
(08:36:39 PM) Julianna: We are almost done here
(08:36:44 PM) Julianna: and he wanted no prisoners.
(08:36:50 PM) Cagliostro: okay, summary of last week's game:
(08:36:57 PM) dkap: (Log is up ...)
(08:37:02 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro wandered further into the army during the battle, which the opposing force was losing badly
(08:37:18 PM) Cagliostro: he teleported back, reported a nasty magical working growing in power and draining any power source that got near it
(08:37:18 PM) Julianna: I read it
(08:37:23 PM) Cagliostro: ah, ne'er mind
(08:38:22 PM) Auricle: "The Jager are eating them. Prisoners aren't a problem. Zach is the problem. He's always getting lost."
(08:39:13 PM) Julianna: I can track him. Nothing eludes me for long.
(08:39:48 PM) ***Auricle looks very impressed.
(08:40:09 PM) admin_ [~chatzilla@ip24-250-18-92.ri.ri.cox.net] entered the room.
(08:40:26 PM) Auricle: "You can track Zach? Really? How? Is it inate? Some sort of inborn ability? Spell? "
(08:40:44 PM) ***Auricle is looking at Julianna as if to dissect her on the spot.
(08:41:17 PM) admin_: nick/Satoriasis
(08:41:43 PM) Julianna: I will hunt him through shadow. What I seek I find.
(08:41:45 PM) admin_ is now known as Satoriasis
(08:41:59 PM) ***Julianna shrugs
(08:42:23 PM) ***Auricle hmmms.
(08:42:24 PM) Julianna: And, he is my father.
(08:42:36 PM) ***Auricle hmmms again.
(08:42:37 PM) Julianna: I'm sure that bond will help me find the way.
(08:43:28 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Likelihood of dissection of child upsetting parent?
(08:43:58 PM) Auricle: (Juliana, if I don't use "", it's not out loud. just so you know)
(08:44:51 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: Quite high.
(08:45:30 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Flag Julianna as only under extreme need.
(08:45:39 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: Flagged.
(08:46:32 PM) Auricle: "Very well."
(08:46:45 PM) Auricle: "If you can find him, then that's a priority."
(08:46:54 PM) dkap: The hunt is afoot!
(08:47:18 PM) Julianna: There is also this.
(08:47:26 PM) ***Julianna shows a ring she's wearing
(08:48:24 PM) ***Auricle looks momentarily confused.
(08:48:30 PM) Auricle: "A ring?
(08:48:30 PM) caelin left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(08:48:31 PM) Julianna: It will make it easier to find him while pattern searching
(08:49:02 PM) Auricle: "Ah. Okay."
(08:49:04 PM) Julianna: You clearly are a pattern master ... surely you are familiar ...
(08:49:06 PM) Julianna: yes
(08:49:19 PM) Julianna: ok then
(08:49:28 PM) Julianna: While we dally, he may be in danger.
(08:49:39 PM) Julianna: Or rather, that seems a certainty.
(08:49:45 PM) dkap: Auricle, you can see, through the ring, the path you want to take to Zach. It stands out clear, like a highway.
(08:50:02 PM) dkap: Do you trust someone you just met to navigate for you?
(08:50:19 PM) Auricle: Can I map that onto Gargoyle?
(08:50:24 PM) Auricle: Or will we lose it?
(08:50:57 PM) dkap: You need to see it through the ring.
(08:52:22 PM) ***Auricle nods. "Lead on, then."
(08:52:28 PM) caelin [~fircuser@m395336d0.tmodns.net] entered the room.
(08:52:50 PM) Julianna: Good then.
(08:52:58 PM) dkap: Cagliostro, are you going as well? Or are you staying here to make sure nothing ... untoward happens?
(08:53:13 PM) ***Julianna cleans her long dagger and sheaths it and sets off ...
(08:53:23 PM) dkap: Not that, with Auricle involved, the journey is not going to be all kinds of untoward ... but ... that's one of the beauties of Auricle.
(08:53:33 PM) Cagliostro: I am staying here, but not to supervise, but to get back to my problem
(08:53:42 PM) dkap: Good good.
(08:53:57 PM) ***Auricle follows after Julianna, vaguely thinking there's something else other than Zach she's lost but not sure what.
(08:54:16 PM) Auricle: GM: Do any Jager follow? I'm sure at least a couple do.
(08:54:47 PM) dkap: Indeed, and probably a Jean or two as well.
(08:55:28 PM) Auricle: Oh, goody, I'd definately lost a Jean somewhere...
(08:57:16 PM) Julianna: So ... Auricle is it? We may be together for a while ... Let's see ... oh, this is a good one -
(08:57:25 PM) Julianna: Two guys walk into a bar. The third one ducks.
(08:57:30 PM) ***Julianna grins and laughs out loud
(08:57:38 PM) Auricle: "I...yes...what?"
(08:57:48 PM) ***Auricle looks completely lost.
(08:57:57 PM) ***Julianna shakes her head ...
(08:58:04 PM) caelin: (*snort*)
(08:58:05 PM) Julianna: Don't worry
(08:58:18 PM) Julianna: I'll shadow search you up a sense of humor soon enough
(08:58:21 PM) ***Julianna grins
(08:58:29 PM) Auricle: "Do I need one?"
(08:58:43 PM) Julianna: I have a feeling I will.
(08:58:49 PM) Auricle: "Or will it be one more thing I'll lose track of and need to find?"
(08:58:57 PM) ***Auricle grins.
(08:59:14 PM) ***Julianna smiles.
(09:00:58 PM) dkap: Julianna, you find you don't need the pattern-power stored in the ring to walk to Zach, you can use it to draw on Auricle, and walk with that.
(09:01:25 PM) Auricle: Hey!
(09:01:38 PM) Julianna: sounds wonderful ;)
(09:01:39 PM) Auricle: I am not a Pattern-battery...okay, well, yes, I suppose I am, but...
(09:01:45 PM) Auricle: I might need that!
(09:01:55 PM) ***Auricle doesn't let her pull off of me.
(09:02:05 PM) dkap: You wouldn't even notice the trickle, and it's got Zach's fingerprints on it.
(09:02:12 PM) Auricle: Oh
(09:02:14 PM) Auricle: Okay then.
(09:02:18 PM) Auricle: I guess so.
(09:02:31 PM) dkap: *grin*
(09:03:06 PM) Julianna: GM: What can I tell at this point about what it's going to take to get there?
(09:03:35 PM) dkap: You can vaguely see the path, but you know where to start walking.
(09:03:38 PM) dkap: It ... draws you.
(09:04:00 PM) dkap: (and, I presumed that you started walking while telling the joke ...)
(09:04:06 PM) Julianna: (yes)
(09:04:14 PM) dkap: And Auricle is walking with you, so ... you are following the path.
(09:04:36 PM) Auricle: And I'm sure having me along makes the path easier to walk.
(09:06:29 PM) dkap: It does. Significantly.
(09:06:52 PM) dkap: Although, Auricle, you wonder why she is moving so slowly along the path. You could ... push it faster, if she holds out the ring for you ...
(09:07:10 PM) Auricle: "Do you know you're slow at this?"
(09:07:54 PM) Julianna: If you're up for providing a solution, and not merely pointing to the problem, I'm all ears ...
(09:07:58 PM) dkap: Caelin ... there is a pressure in your head ...
(09:08:20 PM) Auricle: "Hold out the ring."
(09:08:55 PM) ***Julianna Holds out the ring.
(09:09:20 PM) caelin: again? must be the tenants...
(09:10:15 PM) dkap: As if you are on an airplane, and the pressure suddenly changed. And, being in the dungeons under Thelbane, that is ... unusual, to say the least.
(09:10:46 PM) dkap: Auricle, you can see, through the ring, the fastest path to Zach, although you can't, quite yet, see the end of the path.
(09:11:27 PM) ***Auricle grins, takes hold of Julianna's hand...and starts Walking.
(09:11:49 PM) Julianna: Impressive.
(09:11:54 PM) ***Julianna smiles.
(09:12:01 PM) Julianna: Maybe at some point you'll share a trick or two.
(09:12:32 PM) caelin: to whoever is with me, "i sense pressure. that's probably bad news, all things considereed..."
(09:12:39 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: "Computational probability that this individual would make a good test-bed for the Zach/pattern test."
(09:13:19 PM) dkap: With you is a few folks, including the Fairie Dragon ... and the Dungeon Keeper.
(09:14:29 PM) dkap: Sorry, the last was to Caelin.
(09:15:02 PM) Auricle: "Trick? Sure. Study under Dworkin for .....however long I did."
(09:15:20 PM) ***Auricle smiles at Julianna.
(09:15:21 PM) caelin: "in my head, i might add. the natives are getting restless.
(09:15:33 PM) ***Julianna raises an eyebrow.
(09:15:35 PM) Julianna: Interesting.
(09:15:57 PM) dkap: Caelin: The Dungeon Keeper nods and replies "I feel it too."
(09:16:47 PM) caelin: "Oh good. i was worried it was just me."
(09:17:34 PM) dkap: Auricle, you find that the path is ... more and more difficult, as if something was trying to push you away from your goal.
(09:17:49 PM) dkap: Julianna: This path is ... much harsher than any you have walked before.
(09:18:22 PM) dkap: Julianna: Matter of fact, if it weren't for your companion, you aren't sure you would have survived walking through some of the distant and scary things that have flashed passed.
(09:18:36 PM) Julianna: Hmm.
(09:18:40 PM) dkap: Julianna: (Welcome to your first hellride.)
(09:18:52 PM) Auricle: (Yay Hellrides!)
(09:19:08 PM) Auricle: *mutters* Oh no you don't keep me out.
(09:19:19 PM) ***Auricle pushes forward. Let it try to stop me.
(09:19:57 PM) ***Julianna Is maintaining a sharp, battle-level of awareness and readiness.
(09:20:02 PM) dkap: There is a "POP" and the hellride gets derailed.
(09:20:17 PM) ***Auricle stops very very quickly, assess location.
(09:20:31 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: What was THAT?
(09:20:34 PM) dkap: You are ... in a dark and cavernous place, with a dragon, that isn't a dragon, and a few Chandroid life-forms.
(09:21:02 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: Uncertain, I seem to have been severed from all external inputs.
(09:21:28 PM) dkap: Caelin. Auricle and some ranger, a brace of Jeans, and a troop of Jager just came through.
(09:21:31 PM) dkap: Facing you.
(09:21:58 PM) ***Julianna Shifts into a fighting stance, ready for a battle with these strange creatures if necessary.
(09:22:02 PM) Auricle: GM: Do I recognize Caelin?
(09:22:26 PM) dkap: After a moment you do, but there is a ghostly hand that is behind him, giving you the finger, before fading away.
(09:23:28 PM) Auricle: GM: Can I get a power signature off the hand?
(09:24:06 PM) dkap: Auricle: Yes, but only vaguely. And it most definitely pushed you _off_ the path.
(09:25:11 PM) Julianna: GM: Do I recognize Caelin?
(09:25:24 PM) Auricle: File the signature into Gargoyle, start a cross-matching programm.
(09:25:28 PM) dkap: Julianna: yes, he's on the "stay the fuck away from" list.
(09:25:36 PM) Auricle: "Great. So. Where am I now?"
(09:25:43 PM) Auricle: "Caelin?"
(09:25:50 PM) dkap: Auricle: Caelin is familiar, but since Gargoyle cannot see, he cannot prompt you.
(09:26:03 PM) caelin: "you have no idea?"
(09:26:09 PM) Auricle: Okay, scratch the name then.
(09:26:30 PM) Auricle: "I was hellriding and that hand" gestures at the wall "Pushed. I'm very angry at it now."
(09:26:32 PM) dkap: No, as to the where, you recognized Caelin. The debacle field would stay in your brain.
(09:27:42 PM) Auricle: "And I have no idea where we are."
(09:27:42 PM) caelin left the room (quit: Read error: Connection reset by peer).
(09:27:53 PM) Cagliostro: stupid peerage.
(09:27:58 PM) Auricle: ....and that might be safer all around, it is caelin, after all.
(09:27:58 PM) dkap: And of course, now Caelin doesn't either ... *grin*
(09:28:06 PM) Julianna: Ending up here with him is singularly unlucky.
(09:28:22 PM) Auricle: "That wasn't luck. That was enemy action."
(09:30:03 PM) Auricle: "Luck would be if the hellride *took* us here."
(09:30:20 PM) Auricle: "Assuming you believe in such things."
(09:30:34 PM) dkap: Give him a moment to see if he rejoins?
(09:30:38 PM) Julianna: Semantics. What I do believe in is his reputation.
(09:30:52 PM) Julianna: (brb)
(09:32:38 PM) Auricle: Well, given I'm alone...start analyzing the place.
(09:33:31 PM) dkap: Not much to see here, because your pattern sight went down as well.
(09:33:43 PM) dkap: It appears that all you have are your own eyes. And those don't even shift.
(09:34:06 PM) Auricle: ...I can't shift?
(09:34:14 PM) dkap: Nope.
(09:34:15 PM) ***Auricle panics.
(09:34:18 PM) dkap: Very disconcerting.
(09:34:23 PM) Auricle: I have contact with Gargoyle, right?
(09:36:00 PM) dkap: Skin-to-skin, yes.
(09:36:31 PM) Julianna: (almost back)
(09:36:32 PM) ***Auricle stops panicking quite so much.
(09:38:45 PM) Julianna: (back)
(09:39:19 PM) Julianna: does anyone know where we are?
(09:39:54 PM) Auricle: "I can't tell."
(09:40:09 PM) Auricle: "I haven't got normal access to power sources."
(09:40:14 PM) Auricle: "Nor is shifting possible."
(09:40:23 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Has this happened before?
(09:40:28 PM) ***Julianna tries using the ring to get a sense of where Zach is.
(09:41:15 PM) dkap: Gargoyle, yes, in the caverns below Thelbane, when we Rescued Random.
(09:41:27 PM) dkap: The ring seems to be simply some jewelry.
(09:41:46 PM) Julianna: Disconcerting. The ring is of no help either.
(09:42:05 PM) Auricle: "I have experienced this before, in the caverns below Thelbane. However. I'm not sure this is where we are now."
(09:42:17 PM) Auricle: "Jeans? Do you have any external communication?"
(09:42:24 PM) Julianna: GM: Have I heard of Thelbane?
(09:43:31 PM) Cagliostro is now known as Jean
(09:43:35 PM) Jean: "The usual amount."
(09:44:26 PM) dkap: Julianna: No.
(09:44:59 PM) Auricle: "Well, that's something, then. Do you have any idea where we are? It doesn't look like the Dungeons although it feels like it."
(09:45:10 PM) Jean: "You are under Thelbane; there are some stairs up in the second alcove to the left."
(09:46:42 PM) Auricle: "Awesome."
(09:46:50 PM) Auricle: Starts towards the stairs.
(09:46:52 PM) dkap: (You are in a maze of passageways, no two alike.
(09:47:23 PM) dkap: You reach the stairs, after you reach the top, there is a hallway, going in one direction, away from the stairs.
(09:47:30 PM) dkap: Caelin does _not_ go with you.
(09:47:35 PM) Auricle: "which way, Jean?"
(09:47:53 PM) ***Jean leads you
(09:48:00 PM) Jean: (hopefully he actually knows the way)
(09:48:04 PM) Julianna: Auricle, what should I know about Thelbane?
(09:48:05 PM) dkap: He does.
(09:48:42 PM) Julianna: This place is not familiar to me, and I dislike fighting on unknown territory.
(09:49:04 PM) ***Auricle follows Jean.
(09:49:14 PM) dkap: The Jager follow Auricle.
(09:49:24 PM) dkap: Julianna follows Auricle and Jean.
(09:49:33 PM) Auricle: "Um...."
(09:49:43 PM) dkap: After you get halfway down the hallway, everything snaps back to normal.
(09:49:48 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle? What do I know about Thelbane that Julianna needs to know?
(09:49:52 PM) Jean: "Thelbane is the center of government for the Courts of Chaos, and its newest tower is constructed from the last person to attack Chaos. So, hopefully fighting will not be an issue."
(09:50:00 PM) dkap: The ring is active again, the shifting comes back, etc.
(09:50:15 PM) Auricle: "Aha!"
(09:51:43 PM) Julianna: Huh.
(09:51:49 PM) Julianna: Interesting.
(09:53:58 PM) Auricle: "Well. Now we need to get out of here. Everyone ready?"
(09:54:03 PM) Julianna: Ready here.
(09:54:09 PM) ***Jean shrugs as best a saucer can
(09:55:12 PM) ***Auricle just snakes an eyestalk around Julianna's hand to stare at the ring, that's probably easier than her having to hold it up...and start finding the path again. I'll hellride once we're back out of Chaos.
(09:56:07 PM) ***Julianna raises an eyebrow again.
(09:56:21 PM) Julianna: I would rather that I suppose, than taking it off
(09:56:35 PM) Auricle: "Hunh?"
(09:57:06 PM) Julianna: The eyestalk ... I'd rather than than take the ring off
(09:57:07 PM) Auricle: "Oh. I figured."
(09:57:23 PM) Julianna: that than*
(09:58:19 PM) dkap: And off you go on your hellride again.
(09:58:31 PM) dkap: And you reach the point where the pressure begins to increase ...
(09:59:22 PM) ***Auricle stops.
(09:59:33 PM) ***Julianna looks around, ready for anything.
(09:59:41 PM) Auricle: "Be prepared."
(10:00:05 PM) ***Auricle starts analyzing the pressure. What seems to be the source? Power signature? Location? Anything?
(10:00:32 PM) dkap: Currently you stopped in a place with gouts of flame rushing from the ground, rocky, barren, with shining lizards darting about.
(10:00:54 PM) dkap: Same power signature, source, probably protecting whatever is at the end of the hellride.
(10:00:59 PM) dkap: Location unknown.
(10:01:11 PM) Auricle: "Jean? Are you feeling that too?"
(10:01:14 PM) Auricle: "Julianna, do you?"
(10:01:44 PM) dkap: Nope, only you, who is doing the hellride.
(10:01:48 PM) Jean: "....mmmmmaybe."
(10:01:53 PM) Jean: "What is 'that'?"
(10:01:54 PM) Auricle: "The pressure?"
(10:01:54 PM) Jean: gm?
(10:02:01 PM) Julianna: Nothing but heat, here.
(10:02:22 PM) Jean: "Nope."
(10:02:26 PM) dkap: Nothing of notice.
(10:02:34 PM) Julianna: GM: How much of an imminent danger are the gouts of flame?
(10:03:26 PM) dkap: Well ... if a new vent opened up under your feet, you might be slightly scorched before you had the presence to jump away. Otherwise? Very little, unless you wandered over to one, and put, say, your hand in.
(10:03:42 PM) dkap: And it doesn't look like they are coming out of spontaneous places.
(10:03:54 PM) Julianna: (ok)
(10:05:44 PM) Auricle: GM: Can I see the end of the path through the ring?
(10:06:24 PM) dkap: No, there seems to be ... an obstruction, and it's much closer here, than it was when you started, and thought the end might simply be ... distant.
(10:07:17 PM) Julianna: Auricle, perhaps this is an opponent we'd be best to approach from an unexpected direction?
(10:07:59 PM) Julianna: You are far more pattern skilled than I ... is an alternative path possible? One the enemy will not have forseen?
(10:08:02 PM) Auricle: GM: Can I see how the ring itself works? Is it tweakable? Can I improve on it?
(10:08:41 PM) dkap: The ring seems simply to contain a piece of Zach, and is calling out to be with him. Nothing really to improve.
(10:09:33 PM) ***Auricle seems lost in thought, although she hasn't started muttering or drawing yet.
(10:10:42 PM) Auricle: What kind of a piece of Zach?
(10:11:21 PM) ***Julianna flips/tosses her dagger in the air a little while passing the time, catching it by the hilt on the downward arc, passing the time
(10:12:11 PM) Julianna: (just noticed the duplicate passing the time ... lol ... nap time approaches)
(10:12:14 PM) ***Jean parks a saucer on top of a fire vent.
(10:14:12 PM) Auricle: Is it blood? Flesh? Some weird magic-y thing?
(10:19:19 PM) dkap: Not clear.
(10:19:29 PM) dkap: Probably some fleshy piece.
(10:20:43 PM) ***Auricle hmmms.
(10:22:05 PM) ***Auricle snakes out attachments to everyone.
(10:22:14 PM) Auricle: I can still see the path, right?
(10:22:19 PM) dkap: Yep.
(10:23:06 PM) Auricle: Well, let's try this trick again and see if it works any better. Walk the Pattern in my head, teleport as far along the path as I can see.
(10:23:45 PM) dkap: Julianna: There is a ... thrumming inside you that resonates with whatever Auricle is doing.
(10:24:23 PM) dkap: Julianna and Auricle disappear from Jean's sight.
(10:24:37 PM) Auricle: Hey, I snaked out to everyone.
(10:24:43 PM) Auricle: I didn't get Jagers or Jeans?
(10:25:06 PM) dkap: I know you did, but you only got Julianna.
(10:25:24 PM) ***Jean hms.
(10:25:27 PM) dkap: You are ... in what looks a lot like a butterfly jar.
(10:25:44 PM) Julianna: ...
(10:25:48 PM) dkap: Smooth curving walls, nothing to grab onto, no power.
(10:25:54 PM) ***Auricle looks at Juliana and is terribly pleased.
(10:26:01 PM) Auricle: "Oh this worked much....better."
(10:26:12 PM) Jean: in the tree: "Ilk? I lost Auricle. Or she lost me."
(10:26:14 PM) dkap: The three of you in space that should be ample for one, but ... slightly too cramped for all three of you.
(10:26:32 PM) Auricle: Three?
(10:26:36 PM) dkap: Zach looks at Julianna and says: "Hello, captain, I take it we won?
(10:26:37 PM) Auricle: Me, Julianna, and?
(10:26:44 PM) Julianna: So this is literally a jar, that extends several feet to one side and several feet above?
(10:26:49 PM) Auricle: "Ah, excellent."
(10:26:55 PM) Auricle: "You're not lost any more."
(10:27:26 PM) Julianna: To Zach: That or we found you on the loosing side ...
(10:27:36 PM) Julianna: losing*
(10:27:36 PM) dkap: Except it's "glass" all over.
(10:27:41 PM) dkap: Oh, and your shifting is gone again.
(10:27:55 PM) Julianna: To Zach: You've tried to break out, I'm sure?
(10:28:25 PM) ***Auricle is unconcerned, Zach is here.
(10:28:51 PM) dkap: Zach: Of course. Unfortunately, it's somewhat ... resistant to such.
(10:29:36 PM) ***Julianna pulls out her dagger and tests whether it could shatter this enclosure, given it's power
(10:29:47 PM) Julianna: (not a full blow, but a test)
(10:29:50 PM) dkap: "Clink ... clink '''
(10:29:53 PM) Julianna: (can I score the surface, etc.)
(10:30:19 PM) Julianna: GM: I take that as a no ...
(10:30:28 PM) ***Auricle sits down and watches.
(10:30:35 PM) dkap: Nope.
(10:30:43 PM) ***Julianna frowns.
(10:30:52 PM) dkap: Auricle, you sit, and find that, well ... you don't conform to the surface.
(10:30:54 PM) dkap: Strange.
(10:31:03 PM) Julianna: I should be able to stab anything with this.
(10:31:13 PM) Julianna: damn.
(10:31:18 PM) ***Julianna sheaths it.
(10:31:22 PM) dkap: Zach: If I boost you up, Captain, do you think you could press away from me, while I press away from you, with enough force to shatter it?
(10:32:07 PM) Julianna: I like the idea. It will bring a lot more strength to the attempt than either of us could bring to bear alone.
(10:32:25 PM) ***Julianna works with Zach on the attempt.
(10:33:00 PM) Auricle: "Wait."
(10:33:21 PM) ***Auricle sizes up the jar and calculates the best position for such an attempt to work.
(10:33:41 PM) Auricle: "Re-arrange and try here and here."
(10:34:31 PM) ***Julianna moves to give it a shot from those spots.
(10:37:00 PM) dkap: Zach nods, and also acommodates.
(10:37:24 PM) dkap: There is a push ... a strain, and the "glass" is now ... well ... thinner in places.
(10:38:26 PM) Auricle: Does thinner = more porous?
(10:38:30 PM) Julianna: Intresting ... so it's malleable to some extent
(10:38:30 PM) Auricle: AKA, can power seep through?
(10:38:36 PM) Julianna: Or maybe if we thin it enough we can break through with a blow.
(10:38:44 PM) Auricle: "That's might work."
(10:39:36 PM) caelin [~fircuser@m495336d0.tmodns.net] entered the room.
(10:39:53 PM) caelin: damnit...i hate getting disconnected.
(10:40:54 PM) Jean: Caelin: Auricle, a ranger, and some Jeans showed up under Thelbane. There was a ghostly hand that gave them the finger. They looked confused, asked where they were, and Jean led them out of Thelbane.
(10:43:17 PM) caelin left the room (quit: Read error: Connection reset by peer).
(10:43:23 PM) Jean: feh.
(10:43:34 PM) dkap: Apparently he can't stay connected. He'll read it in the log, probably.
(10:43:41 PM) dkap: Since we wrap soon, anyway.
(10:45:49 PM) Auricle: nod
(10:46:29 PM) dkap: Julianna: do you readjust and try again? Or are you going to beat on the thin spot?
(10:47:21 PM) Julianna: Let's see if we can thin it more
(10:47:53 PM) Julianna: As we continue this, do we have any sense what kind of material this might be?
(10:47:59 PM) dkap: You readjust ... and .... PUSH!
(10:48:20 PM) dkap: No idea. It might not even be a material, as much as a curdled into being manefestation of a force.
(10:48:39 PM) dkap: It creaks some more, and ... stretch!
(10:48:56 PM) Julianna: I try to get my dagger through it now - can I pierce it?
(10:49:44 PM) ***Auricle watches with interest.
(10:51:13 PM) dkap: No, but, through the thin spot, you can actually now see around. There are a few (7) other jars on the outside, and the outside is gridded off with glowing blue crystals.
(10:51:49 PM) Julianna: Interesting.
(10:51:55 PM) Auricle: GM: Can I calculate a new spot for them to push against?
(10:52:00 PM) ***Julianna backs away and gestures to Auricle and Zach to have a look.
(10:52:16 PM) dkap: Yes, unfortunately it would involve the three of you, and you aren't sure if this form is up to that much strain.
(10:52:36 PM) ***Auricle peers through. Ooh. Gargoyle? Anything we know?
(10:53:08 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: My external sensors are not currently functioning. Please, provide input.
(10:53:31 PM) ***Auricle thinks the image at the Gargoyle.
(10:53:34 PM) dkap: Of course, that might be a nice cliff-hanger to hang on ...
(10:53:49 PM) Julianna: It reminds me of the "our universe could be one atom in one giant's thumb" theory I heard once in a shadow ...
(10:54:13 PM) Julianna: I agree though, good cliffhanger
(10:54:15 PM) dkap: Will Julianna, Zach and Auricle become unjarred? Who is in the other jars? Why is evil so often associated with the colour blue?
(10:54:20 PM) Auricle: Agreed!
(10:54:25 PM) Auricle: Cliffhanger spot.
(10:54:33 PM) Satoriasis left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.84 [Firefox 3.0.8/2009032609]).
(10:54:37 PM) dkap: Will Caelin be able to maintain a connection?
(10:54:42 PM) Julianna: I wonder if we've been shrunk or this world is larger
(10:54:43 PM) Julianna: lol
(10:54:46 PM) Auricle: That's the true question/
(10:54:48 PM) Julianna: poor caelin
(10:54:49 PM) dkap: Who really _is_ Satoriasis?
(10:54:51 PM) Auricle: right there.
(10:55:04 PM) dkap: Where?
(10:55:15 PM) Auricle: And will Auricle ever remember who she is supposed to be looking for?
(10:55:33 PM) Auricle: Bye!
(10:55:40 PM) Auricle left the room.
(10:55:50 PM) Julianna: night
(10:55:56 PM) Julianna left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(10:56:12 PM) Jean left the room.