Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 21 Apr 2009 12:34:32 PM EDT:
(11:36:31 AM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(05:04:03 PM) Julianna [~masscom@c-24-61-198-152.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:13:01 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/
(08:13:01 PM) Cagliostro: which has in past led to "I have an idea - *boom*." "I have an idea - *boom*". *boom* *boom* "Jean, stop doing that."
(08:13:04 PM) Julianna: That makes sense now
(08:13:13 PM) Cagliostro: I would say that Auricle is a Scientist!
(08:13:15 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:13:18 PM) Auricle: Indeed!
(08:13:19 PM) Cagliostro: the exclamation point is important.
(08:13:26 PM) Julianna: :)
(08:13:27 PM) Auricle: She probably forgot to add it.
(08:13:29 PM) Auricle: :D
(08:13:47 PM) Julianna: GM: If Corwin was successful bringing gunpoweder to amber, why don't we have cannon in Arden?
(08:13:55 PM) Julianna: I've been meaning to ask that for a while
(08:14:09 PM) Auricle: Wouldn't they have it now? With Pattern redraw?
(08:14:12 PM) Julianna: And maybe flintlocks or breechloaders
(08:14:24 PM) dkap: Because 1) Oberon changed things so that that particular mixture no longer works.
(08:14:41 PM) dkap: 2) Cannons are not elegant weapons, and Zach doesn't approve.
(08:15:02 PM) Auricle: oh well then.
(08:15:02 PM) Cagliostro: There were a lot of land mines in Arden for a while.
(08:15:06 PM) ***Julianna is very enthusiastic about guided missile technology ... just fyi :)
(08:15:08 PM) Julianna: I see
(08:15:21 PM) dkap: and 3) because it's much easier to remote-detonate a Jean, and he might even live through it.
(08:15:26 PM) ***Auricle sits down to design an elegent weapon that runs off of Pattern blends with the forest.
(08:15:38 PM) dkap: With his Wave Motion Gun and the tractor and pressor beams ...
(08:15:42 PM) Julianna: I remember reading about landmines now that you mention it
(08:15:55 PM) Cagliostro: well, those are just the gunships. there are only a few of those.
(08:16:04 PM) ***Auricle starts drawing schematics in the air.
(08:16:05 PM) Cagliostro: the end result of falling into the Sea of Chance while thinking about weapons.
(08:16:31 PM) ***Auricle stops, and wonders how to erase part of the air.
(08:16:37 PM) Julianna: GM: Is this "glass" bottle we're in totally sealed, or is there a proverbial cork in the top?
(08:16:42 PM) dkap: And there is always Mecka-Jean.
(08:16:49 PM) Auricle: game on?
(08:16:52 PM) Julianna: "Mecka-Jean" :)
(08:17:32 PM) dkap: Totally sealed, and you were in the midst of getting Auricle (who couldn't be sketching in the air, nothing to sketch with or on) to be the third so you could leaver it open, IIRC.
(08:17:48 PM) Auricle: I was pointing out pressure points
(08:18:03 PM) Auricle: and we'd just looked through to see the rest of the blue glowy room.
(08:18:13 PM) dkap: Right, and the two of them got it mostly open, but the next push needed a three-person stretch.
(08:18:23 PM) Auricle: (and since would having nothing to sketch on or with stop me?)
(08:18:42 PM) dkap: Well ... when the glowy lines didn't show up in your view, because Gargoyle couldn'
(08:18:57 PM) dkap: t keep track of them, you might have thought you were broken, in some way, again.
(08:19:03 PM) Auricle: oh
(08:19:04 PM) dkap: And since shape-shifting doesn't work ...
(08:19:05 PM) Auricle: point
(08:19:15 PM) Auricle: being stuck in shape is creeeeeeepy
(08:19:34 PM) Auricle: "Where do I need to push? Wait, why I am even asking that?"
(08:19:48 PM) ***Auricle gestures to the places we all need to push on.
(08:20:07 PM) dkap: It's not that you need to push, you need to be on Zach's shoulders, supporting Julianna, so they can push.
(08:20:07 PM) ***Julianna puts her back into it.
(08:20:24 PM) ***Auricle does as needed
(08:20:34 PM) Julianna: (streeeetch and ... ?)
(08:21:06 PM) dkap: It's a balancing act, and a moment of trust ...
(08:21:24 PM) dkap: Especially since you couldn't shape-shift to save yourself, if you fall.
(08:21:32 PM) dkap: But, then again, it _is_ Zach on the bottom ...
(08:21:37 PM) ***Auricle stays focused because this is Science! in action.
(08:21:59 PM) Auricle: "Proper application of force...."
(08:22:30 PM) dkap: There is a push ... then a pop. And the resonance of Zach and Julianna run through you.
(08:22:44 PM) Auricle: Power back?
(08:23:30 PM) dkap: Yes, a small trickle, through the breach in the glass jar.
(08:23:36 PM) ***Julianna wonders how we'll hold it up so the others can get out.
(08:24:01 PM) Julianna: Says ... "great, but, we can't let it fall back down ..."
(08:24:06 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Analyze location. Has anyone noticed?
(08:24:06 PM) dkap: Zach inhales the power available.
(08:24:10 PM) Auricle: Can I shift now?
(08:24:15 PM) dkap: You can shift now.
(08:24:31 PM) Auricle: Shift-- break it open.
(08:25:21 PM) dkap: Auricle pours upward, into the crack, forcing it wider and wider, until it's breached all the way down the side.
(08:25:44 PM) ***Julianna goes to the outside and holds it up so others can get out.
(08:25:47 PM) Auricle: "People keep putting me into cages and things. It never works for long."
(08:26:17 PM) ***Julianna when they're out, lets it down *quietly*
(08:26:43 PM) Auricle: So where are we, GM?
(08:27:43 PM) dkap: In a giant box, filled with jars.
(08:27:56 PM) dkap: Cloudy, smoky glass, so you can't see in.
(08:28:03 PM) Auricle: Well then!
(08:28:09 PM) Auricle: Obviously, they need to be opened.
(08:28:10 PM) Auricle: :D
(08:28:13 PM) dkap: One of them is bouncing around and vibrating like it has mexican jumping beans in it.
(08:28:30 PM) Auricle: "Let's open them up! Starting with that one!" points at the bouncing jar.
(08:28:52 PM) Auricle: Is there an obvious opening mechanism from this side?
(08:29:01 PM) ***Julianna Goes over
(08:29:06 PM) Julianna: (can I see inside?)
(08:29:26 PM) dkap: There is no obvious mechanism from this side to open them, either.
(08:30:04 PM) dkap: And you can't see into the bouncing one, for two reasons, one you can't get close enough and two, even if you did, it's too smoky to see in to ones that are not bouncing around.
(08:30:16 PM) ***Auricle rolls up sleeves.
(08:30:16 PM) Caelin [~Caelin@adsl-75-36-189-118.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net] entered the room.
(08:30:30 PM) Auricle: Can we pick them up? smash them into each other?
(08:30:39 PM) dkap: You can try.
(08:30:42 PM) Caelin: *waves*
(08:30:46 PM) dkap: You are still ... limited with power.
(08:30:51 PM) dkap: Hi Caelin!
(08:30:51 PM) ***Auricle frowns.
(08:30:57 PM) Julianna: Hi Caelin
(08:31:04 PM) dkap: It must be ... Debacle time!
(08:31:10 PM) Caelin: heh!
(08:31:17 PM) dkap: (Can't touch this ...)
(08:31:22 PM) Auricle: Hi Caelin! We're going to break stuff. Wish you were here, but then it'd go wrong. :P
(08:31:34 PM) Julianna: hehe
(08:32:11 PM) Caelin [~arkhon@adsl-75-36-189-118.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net] entered the room.
(08:32:12 PM) Julianna: Auricle, I have a question - have we shrunk or are we in a larger shadow?
(08:32:19 PM) Auricle: "Julianna, is your knife better on them from this side?"
(08:32:24 PM) Julianna: Can you tell?
(08:32:38 PM) Auricle: "Ummm.....Analyzing."
(08:32:48 PM) Auricle: GM: Can I tell?
(08:32:52 PM) dkap: Nope.
(08:32:52 PM) Caelin: (On until about 9:30, when a second rehearsal starts)
(08:32:54 PM) ***Julianna Tries the knife after asking, sees if she can crack the surface of the jumping one.
(08:33:14 PM) dkap: Caelin: They came, they ran, you stayed safe.
(08:34:18 PM) Auricle: "Insufficient data at this time to properly determine size as a cause of Shadow or malicious intent or mere happenstance."
(08:34:36 PM) Caelin: (Yes, I remember as much, barely. :) )
(08:35:25 PM) Julianna: "Hmmm."
(08:35:27 PM) dkap: Julianna, your knife does as little damage from this side. But, it doesn't dull, shatter, or nick, either, so ... a net neutral.
(08:36:03 PM) Julianna: Do I have a sense that raw strength can make a difference? Are we strong enough to crack them without hurting ourselves with a blunt-force blow?
(08:37:48 PM) dkap: You can try.
(08:38:29 PM) Julianna: Ask Zach's advice.
(08:38:36 PM) ***Julianna asks Zach's advice.
(08:39:21 PM) Cagliostro: Zach may know of at least one hammer that could crack these.
(08:39:37 PM) dkap: He does, but, not having a Jean handy ...
(08:39:42 PM) Cagliostro: alas.
(08:39:49 PM) Auricle: yeah, none of the jeans came with
(08:39:52 PM) ***Julianna looks at Cagliostro and asks "can you call it to us?"
(08:39:53 PM) Auricle: :(
(08:39:58 PM) Auricle: I need to put a Jean inside.
(08:40:00 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro stayed well behind
(08:40:04 PM) Julianna: oh
(08:40:07 PM) Julianna: right
(08:40:08 PM) Cagliostro: sorry ;)
(08:40:10 PM) Auricle: Just me you and Zach.
(08:40:12 PM) Julianna: my mistake
(08:40:13 PM) Julianna: yes
(08:40:20 PM) Cagliostro: and yet another lab.
(08:40:29 PM) dkap: And put a sticker on your forehead that reads 'Jean Inside"?
(08:40:34 PM) ***Auricle starts to grow larger.
(08:40:57 PM) Auricle: !
(08:41:08 PM) ***Auricle stops, shapeshifts back to normal size.
(08:41:13 PM) Julianna: Can we just shift out of the box now that we have access to some power?
(08:41:26 PM) dkap: Gargoyle does not change size with you.
(08:41:31 PM) Auricle: "Julianna. Tap on the jars. Try different codes."
(08:41:40 PM) Auricle: "See if anyone taps back."
(08:42:08 PM) Julianna: "Good idea."
(08:42:26 PM) dkap: Some of the jars tap back, others don't. None use the codes you know.
(08:42:29 PM) ***Julianna walks over to the moving one and gives three steady taps in an obvious rhythm.
(08:42:34 PM) Julianna: ah
(08:42:57 PM) Julianna: Are they magical?
(08:43:02 PM) Julianna: These jars?
(08:43:04 PM) ***Auricle hmmmms.
(08:43:36 PM) ***Julianna looks at Auricle
(08:43:43 PM) Julianna: "Can you generate heat?"
(08:43:46 PM) ***Auricle starts tapping on a jar that tapped back, getting it to tap back and synchronizing with the gargoyle for any known languages or cyphers.
(08:44:00 PM) Julianna: "Maybe these will respond better to heat than force.:
(08:44:08 PM) Auricle: And if I don't have any, I'll start codebreaking.
(08:44:08 PM) dkap: You can't catch up with the moving one.
(08:44:31 PM) dkap: One of the jars seems to be giving you fibanachi.
(08:45:42 PM) Julianna: As in 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 etc?
(08:45:45 PM) Auricle: oooooh
(08:45:59 PM) ***Auricle all my paisleys synch.
(08:46:02 PM) dkap: Gargoyle has you type back a section of Fibinachi numbers, in a section of fib-patterning.
(08:46:11 PM) dkap: Yes.
(08:46:23 PM) Auricle: (Julianna, do you have a desc of Auricle?)
(08:47:29 PM) Julianna: (no)
(08:47:32 PM) ***Auricle taps back as directed by the Gargoyle.
(08:48:18 PM) Auricle: http://codollaeytharis.deviantart.com/art/Auricle-of-Amber-60546867
(08:48:37 PM) Auricle: (usually. And is covered in paisleys -- including skin)
(08:49:14 PM) Julianna: :)
(08:50:22 PM) dkap: The rapidly bouncing one starts smashing into other glass jars, harder and harder, until it catches one against the corner, and they both shatter. The one in the corner lets out some nasty green goo, the one that was bouncing about lets out a Hamster Diedre.
(08:50:50 PM) dkap: Zach: Dierdre! Good to see you.
(08:51:04 PM) Cagliostro: (Cagliostro looks much like this marble bust of him: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathan_alderman/1429133605/ )
(08:52:29 PM) Julianna: (I'll search up a pic)
(08:52:30 PM) Auricle: GM: How is our math going over here?
(08:52:59 PM) dkap: It's getting complex, now Gargoyle is feeding you beat-patterns.
(08:54:02 PM) dkap: Julianna, Zach seems to be talking to the hamster as if it is a welcome, long-lost friend.
(08:55:13 PM) Julianna: understood ... I'm paying attention to the conversation ... I assume I don't know the hamster?
(08:55:16 PM) Auricle: Well, I'll continue to do as instructed. Am I understanding any of it?
(08:57:11 PM) dkap: Not as to yet, and Zach has not gone out of his way to introduce you.
(08:57:51 PM) dkap: The hamster is ... quite large, in fact. Almost your size, perhaps, about 4 foot, were you normal scaled.
(08:57:59 PM) Julianna: Strange.
(08:58:05 PM) Julianna: Does the hamster talk back?
(08:59:16 PM) dkap: She does.
(08:59:34 PM) dkap: She greets Zach in return. And is quite loud.
(09:00:05 PM) ***Julianna is watching.
(09:00:41 PM) dkap: Zach comments on her volume, she modulates, and wonders at Zach's apparent (lack of) size.
(09:02:47 PM) Julianna: Aloud, half to Auricle, though she's probably too involved to really pay attention: "It looks like we have, in fact, shrunk ..."
(09:02:47 PM) dkap: Zach wonders at it as well, and asks her how roomy her jar was. Her comment was a self evident wave of the paw at herself, and then at the other jars.
(09:02:52 PM) dkap: Zach hrms.
(09:03:19 PM) ***Auricle is still tapping on the jar, paisley probably swirling with the beat at this point.
(09:05:13 PM) ***Julianna moves closer to Zach and waits for a break in the conversation.
(09:05:37 PM) dkap: It occurs, as they are done catching up with each-other.
(09:07:37 PM) Julianna: Looks from Zach to the hamster: "I wonder how you arrived here, and if you know where we are?"
(09:09:17 PM) dkap: Dierdre: "Giant hand, and ... it looks like a box of jars ...
(09:11:02 PM) Julianna: To Zach: "I think we should see about freeing the others and leaving the box, sir."
(09:11:33 PM) dkap: Zach: Good Idea, captain. Got a jar-cracker on you?
(09:13:03 PM) Julianna: "Dierdre was able to smash one into another to make it happen - now we are many and free of our own ..."
(09:14:13 PM) dkap: Zach looks at the nearest jar; :You grab that end, I'll grab this, Dierdre, you add momentum, and we'll smash it against this one over here ...
(09:15:13 PM) Caelin left the room.
(09:15:15 PM) ***Julianna complies.
(09:15:20 PM) Auricle: Have I and the fibbonachi sequence made any progress?
(09:15:41 PM) Julianna: (A Juliana photo: http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/nn293/Sheloveschanel/Women%20warrior%20pictures/?action=view¤t=WarriorWoman.jpg)
(09:16:22 PM) Caelin: still here. just on phone now.
(09:17:12 PM) dkap: Well, whomever is in the jar and Gargoyle seem to be jaming, with you and the glass jar as instruments.
(09:17:39 PM) Auricle: Awesome, as long as it seems to be working well for us
(09:18:41 PM) dkap: The glass jars seem both resistant to move, and somewhat more than just resistant to breaking, in the exact way a soap-bubble isn't.
(09:19:06 PM) Julianna: (Altho maybe I like this photo better: http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/nn293/Sheloveschanel/Women%20warrior%20pictures/?action=view¤t=VikingWomanWarrior.jpg ... I can't decide.)
(09:19:41 PM) Julianna: So we can't get them to rock back and forth?
(09:19:45 PM) Cagliostro: (the first one seems younger... the latter more mature. You can always change.)
(09:21:24 PM) Julianna: (I'll go with the second ... seems more amberish)
(09:21:26 PM) dkap: You can, but it's ... effort.
(09:21:54 PM) Julianna: It seems like the only way to crack them open.
(09:21:57 PM) Caelin: next rehearsal starting. might peek in from time to time...
(09:22:58 PM) dkap: Check.
(09:23:06 PM) dkap: So far, yes.
(09:23:25 PM) Julianna: Well, wait.
(09:23:36 PM) dkap: Especially, if whomever is imprisioning more than one individual in a jar at a time.
(09:23:50 PM) Julianna: Before we go all out with this, let me carefully inspect one ... ours did unseal at the bottom.
(09:25:04 PM) ***Auricle continues jamming.
(09:25:20 PM) dkap: Actually, it pulled and shatttered across the side, in a weak seam.
(09:25:41 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: "Martin! That's one of Martin's signature beats."
(09:26:06 PM) Julianna: ah.
(09:26:27 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:26:34 PM) Julianna: Still, maybe we can target a seam, which might be ... less traumatic ... for the occupants.
(09:26:35 PM) Auricle: "We have a Martin."
(09:26:49 PM) Julianna: (does Julianna know martin?)
(09:26:53 PM) dkap: Nope.
(09:26:57 PM) dkap: Except by picture ...
(09:27:35 PM) dkap: The same way she knew Auricle, and was surprised that this hamster has the same name as your great-aunt Dierdre.
(09:28:00 PM) Julianna: Huh.
(09:28:11 PM) dkap: (Sorry, Queen Dierdre, in fact.)
(09:31:16 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: Let's set up a resonance and break open this jar.
(09:32:10 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: The glass is a viscuous fluid (which is why it stretched and snapped, instead of shattering)
(09:32:55 PM) Julianna: Hearing that, I go back to my previous suggestion of heat, if anyone has a way to generate a meaningful amount of it (i.e. more than power words)
(09:34:03 PM) Auricle: Is gargoyle out loud? Normally it's just to me.
(09:34:25 PM) dkap: Just to you, sorry if that wasn't clear.
(09:35:11 PM) Auricle: Can I shapeshift enough to 'grip' into the 'glass' and pull?
(09:35:15 PM) Julianna: Sorry
(09:35:27 PM) Auricle: It's okay Julianna, it's hard to tell.
(09:35:33 PM) dkap: Well ... you could grip the glass, but pulling just moves the whole jar.
(09:36:09 PM) dkap: Zach get's a wild look in his eyes.
(09:36:23 PM) Auricle: I'm more trying to pushinto a bit of glass and then pull.
(09:36:25 PM) dkap: Zach:"Auricle, could you borrow the Great Sword of State?"
(09:36:41 PM) Auricle: "The Great Sword of What?"
(09:36:46 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: ???
(09:37:20 PM) dkap: Zach: The big sharpened stick that the Grey guy anointed King Dierdre with, at that ceremony thingy."
(09:37:33 PM) dkap: Gargoyle brings up an image before your eyes.
(09:38:21 PM) Auricle: "Borrow from here?"
(09:38:41 PM) Auricle: "I'm missing something, aren't I.
(09:39:34 PM) dkap: Zach says: Just try. You might need to make an appointment first, though.
(09:40:06 PM) Auricle: "Oookay. I would like to borrow the Great Sword of State" she says to the air.
(09:40:54 PM) dkap: There is a ... tearing sound in the air, and the grey guy comes forward, with the sword held out.
(09:41:10 PM) Auricle: "Ah. Excellent."
(09:42:04 PM) ***Julianna raises an eyebrow.
(09:42:09 PM) Auricle: "Apparently no appointment needed?"
(09:42:44 PM) dkap: The grey guy bows to you, low servant to ultimate authority.
(09:42:50 PM) dkap: Grey Guy: Not for you, no.
(09:43:07 PM) ***Auricle is pretty oblivious to the etiquette of the bows.
(09:43:15 PM) Auricle: "Thank you."
(09:43:22 PM) ***Auricle takes the Sword.
(09:44:04 PM) dkap: It is warm, and very heavy in your hands. It feels ... well ... it feels like it was forged out of the heart of Kolvir.
(09:44:30 PM) Auricle: Ooooooooh.
(09:44:34 PM) ***Auricle is in love.
(09:44:48 PM) dkap: Not a sword that you would wish to let fall into anyone else's hands, though.
(09:44:54 PM) Auricle: Oh, no.
(09:44:59 PM) Auricle: Definately not.
(09:45:06 PM) Auricle: "All right."
(09:45:29 PM) Auricle: Does it like me?
(09:46:19 PM) dkap: It does seem to ... accept you. It's not big on like. It's big on quiet existence.
(09:46:54 PM) dkap: Menacing power, without the real need of action.
(09:47:11 PM) Auricle: Okay.
(09:47:16 PM) dkap: This is a sword that would quell rebellion, before it's even waved, in the right hands.
(09:47:29 PM) Auricle: ....which are probably not mine.
(09:47:43 PM) Auricle: Now, if it were a test tube of state..... :D
(09:47:52 PM) dkap: Indeed, not, that's why Dierdre is King, and you (and Dworkin) are (were) not.
(09:48:02 PM) Auricle: But.
(09:48:04 PM) dkap: Oh, indeed.
(09:48:10 PM) Auricle: I can probably manage to open some jars with it?
(09:48:25 PM) dkap: It might make a handy can-opener, yes.
(09:48:53 PM) Auricle: Slice into Martin's jar.
(09:49:28 PM) dkap: The jar rings, then bends then snaps off where you cut.
(09:49:50 PM) dkap: the edges that are still touching try to re-fuse, but there is a twist to the sword, and they pop back appart.
(09:49:57 PM) dkap: apart, even.
(09:50:10 PM) Auricle: "Awesome."
(09:50:24 PM) ***Auricle grins and starts opening the rest of the jars.
(09:51:48 PM) dkap: Martin puts his hands on the edge, and starts to heave, trying to separate them further, once he ascertained that the blade is not, in fact, going to decapitate him.
(09:53:33 PM) ***Julianna helps.
(09:55:53 PM) dkap: Dierdre helps, so does Zach.
(09:56:04 PM) dkap: It slowly bends apart enough for Martin to escape.
(09:56:18 PM) dkap: Martin makes some comment about reliving a womb moment.
(09:56:47 PM) dkap: And, I think I should hang things here ... the GM is doing the long-blink thing, and falling asleep at the keyboard.
(09:57:06 PM) dkap: But, you folks have a can-opener, and time to use it, and more and more hands to help ...
(09:57:08 PM) dkap: So ...
(09:57:14 PM) dkap: This looks like a good place to hang.
(09:57:17 PM) Auricle: yay!
(09:58:07 PM) Julianna: Sleep well :)
(09:58:10 PM) dkap: Thanks!
(09:58:17 PM) ***dkap *ylawns*
(09:58:27 PM) Auricle: night!
(09:58:33 PM) Auricle left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(09:58:43 PM) Julianna: night
(09:58:48 PM) Julianna left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(09:59:09 PM) Cagliostro left the room.