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Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 12 May 2009 10:31:03 PM EDT:
#dkap_amber Conversation with #dkap_amber Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 12 May 2009 09:24:26 PM EDT:
(08:24:26 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/
(08:27:02 PM) dkap: Hey! I thought you were traveling?
(08:27:24 PM) Cagliostro: I am
(08:27:30 PM) dkap: Ahh ...
(08:27:31 PM) Cagliostro: I'm doing work stuff in a hotel room
(08:27:32 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:27:37 PM) Cagliostro: did you cancel the game or something?
(08:27:44 PM) dkap: Although noone else seems to be present while you are traveling.
(08:27:46 PM) dkap: I did not.
(08:28:25 PM) Cagliostro: was wondering. next week's game is the one that was scheduled cancelled, right?
(08:29:01 PM) dkap: Indeed. The 19th.
(08:30:16 PM) Cagliostro: thought so.
(08:30:39 PM) Cagliostro: so, did you give any thought as to whether Cagliostro might have been non-local, or am I not cleared for that information?
(08:31:20 PM) Cagliostro: I had an image of him being involved with a Serpent-like amphisbaena in his former life.
(08:31:23 PM) dkap: I've given it a lot of though, and concluded that you are, indeed, local.
(08:31:42 PM) dkap: amphisbaena?
(08:31:47 PM) Cagliostro: interesting.
(08:31:51 PM) Cagliostro: a serpent with a head at both ends.
(08:34:34 PM) dkap: Thats ... strange.
(08:34:51 PM) dkap: And not, entirely, impossible, either.
(08:36:57 PM) Cagliostro: I thought so too.
(08:37:11 PM) Cagliostro: And I was pondering on the relationship of a boy named Alexander, the Gordian Knot, and the Logrus.
(08:38:03 PM) dkap: Ahh ... Alexander just cut a "signature knot". Nothing all that exciting. Many low-class thieves stole that way.
(08:38:55 PM) Cagliostro: so where the heck is Cemen?
(08:39:50 PM) dkap: Cemen should still be in the Pink, fleshy place.
(08:42:01 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:42:14 PM) dkap: Bloody hell that was a pita.
(08:42:34 PM) Kerravon [~chatzilla@c-71-233-204-173.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:42:48 PM) Kerravon is now known as Auricle
(08:42:52 PM) Auricle: hi!
(08:43:11 PM) Cagliostro: yay, pink fleshy place.
(08:43:21 PM) dkap: Hi!
(08:43:24 PM) Cagliostro: princess chandra et al should still be there.
(08:43:39 PM) dkap: She is, along with Marial (sp?) Warlord.
(08:43:48 PM) Cagliostro: Hm. I wonder if the fact that so many muckey mucks are in the PFP keeping a low profile is keeping Circe from being a Chaosian problem.
(08:43:56 PM) Cagliostro: Wow, that totally resolves my Cemen worries, thanks.
(08:44:10 PM) dkap: Not a problem... *grin*
(08:44:14 PM) dkap: Glad I could help.
(08:45:48 PM) dkap: And so is Rainbow, and ... umm ... Pharaban is a few nodes away.
(08:46:57 PM) Cagliostro: I knew there was a reason I forgot about him.
(08:46:57 PM) Cagliostro: and hello, Auricle
(08:46:57 PM) Auricle: hi there
(08:47:27 PM) Cagliostro: so shall we go ahead with Hamster Corwin?
(08:47:29 PM) Cagliostro: or will that upset the timeflow?
(08:47:38 PM) Cagliostro: (that was to dkap, sorry)
(08:47:54 PM) Auricle: I'm not even sure what I missed last week
(08:47:58 PM) Auricle: I totally spaced out
(08:48:31 PM) dkap: I can understand. Oh, and no game, next week.
(08:50:20 PM) Auricle: nod
(08:50:25 PM) Auricle: I got that email.
(08:50:41 PM) Cagliostro: last week dkap got screwed over by the MBTA bus schedule (or lack thereof)
(08:50:47 PM) Cagliostro: so you didn't miss anything
(08:52:21 PM) dkap: Well ... not much, anyway.
(08:53:00 PM) dkap: When Julianna got back on, we did some more back-story with her, and she's (apparently) not available tonight ... nor (apparently) is Mike.
(08:54:43 PM) Auricle: ah
(08:54:46 PM) Auricle: okay
(08:56:53 PM) dkap: But, Auricle is kinda hung up on Julianna, so ... were you hung Cagliostro?
(08:58:01 PM) Cagliostro: let me check
(08:59:36 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro was waiting for assistance which does not seem to be inbound.
(08:59:53 PM) Cagliostro: do I think that dalkontyr-scale shields will do anything around the working?
(09:01:45 PM) dkap: Dalkontyr-scale shields will stop just about everything, yes.
(09:02:13 PM) dkap: Or at least, contain it, it might actually magnify the damage within the destructive area, though.
(09:02:32 PM) dkap: And maybe, depending on the power, tear holes through shadow, which might get you yelled at.
(09:02:54 PM) dkap: Of course, Dalkontyr itself would more than likely simply stop what is going on ...
(09:03:13 PM) dkap: Or, really anything that can connect the destructive power to the Sea of Chance ground ...
(09:07:51 PM) Cagliostro: I don't think that Cagliostro knows about anyof that stuff.
(09:08:02 PM) Cagliostro: including the ripping holesin shadow part.
(09:09:29 PM) Cagliostro: do you recall any reason he would know that ripping holes in shadow is possible?
(09:09:31 PM) Cagliostro: or bad?
(09:09:56 PM) Cagliostro: I think it's going to be Dalkontyr-scale shields around the magical area, with the jagers and rangers warned out of the shielded area before the shields going up.
(09:11:33 PM) dkap: What about the prisoners?
(09:11:50 PM) Cagliostro: are there any left uneaten?
(09:12:11 PM) Cagliostro: if so, they could be what the attack's targeting on. or they could be the target for the -next- attack.
(09:12:15 PM) Cagliostro: so sorry, charlie.
(09:20:05 PM) dkap: Into the morass they go.
(09:20:34 PM) dkap: There is an earth-shattering kaboom. Apparently illodium 238 was used ...
(09:34:24 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/
(09:38:11 PM) dkap: That was ... unfortunate at best ...
(09:41:42 PM) dkap: Right then.
(09:41:44 PM) dkap: Umm ...
(09:41:49 PM) dkap: Did you see my last?
(09:42:14 PM) dkap: Or, more precisely, what went across and what got et?
(09:45:27 PM) dkap: Hello?
(09:47:16 PM) Auricle: hello
(09:47:19 PM) Auricle: I'm here
(09:47:27 PM) Auricle: I don't know about cagliostro
(09:47:28 PM) Cagliostro: (9:26:16 PM) dkap: Shilelds holding (and I'm waiting on someone else's repsonse, sorry ...
(09:47:35 PM) Cagliostro: sorry, working in another window
(09:47:52 PM) dkap: Not a problem.
(09:48:53 PM) dkap: Then you didn't get the cut and paste, and I lost it, in the crash ... *sigh* The gist of it was, the feedback got higher and higher, your magic-eating crystals energy was -re-released as part of the malestrum, and then, just as suddenly, everything went away, and was quiet.
(09:49:02 PM) dkap: It was much more lyrical, but ... that's the gist.
(09:49:26 PM) dkap: There is nothing left alive in the burnt-out circle, but there is still dirt and rocks.
(09:49:35 PM) dkap: And not a hint of power, either.
(09:52:27 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(09:52:35 PM) Cagliostro: and all the magic eaters were in the circle?
(09:58:13 PM) dkap: You had moved them all there, to try and contain the destructive magic.
(09:59:02 PM) Cagliostro: ah, so warfare, not good stuff.
(09:59:07 PM) Cagliostro: Just wondering. :)
(09:59:08 PM) Cagliostro: okay.
(09:59:14 PM) Cagliostro: any new workings?
(10:00:12 PM) Cagliostro: magical type, I mean.
(10:01:05 PM) dkap: Nope. Quiet on the home front, inside the Dalk-shields.
(10:01:12 PM) dkap: Oh, btw, where did you pick up that trick?
(10:01:24 PM) Cagliostro: my daughter, I think
(10:01:33 PM) dkap: I presumed (because you asked) that you had done that before ... but ... I don't remember the circumstances.
(10:01:59 PM) Cagliostro: when Dalktantyr tried to crust me we warded it - I thought it was me, but might have been my daughter
(10:02:02 PM) Cagliostro: we should probably check that
(10:02:03 PM) Cagliostro: ;)
(10:03:15 PM) dkap: Indeed, but for now, let's leave it at read that you got it covered.
(10:03:34 PM) dkap: You could have learned the spell from her, in the down-time in the Pink place. A very useful spell, so ...
(10:03:38 PM) Cagliostro: I think Cagliostro taught the Ifrit magic so that they could take over the job of warding Dalkantyr so it didn't crush Gil
(10:03:43 PM) dkap: And you have the skill and ability to do so.
(10:04:03 PM) Cagliostro: or maybe I always had wards, and never needed to -really- use them till Dalk.
(10:04:06 PM) dkap: That makes sense.
(10:04:11 PM) Cagliostro: I know she taught me the two-ward trick.
(10:04:20 PM) dkap: That also makes sense.
(10:04:28 PM) Cagliostro: I did put a ward around Colin, you'll recall, when he came by a-spying.
(10:04:36 PM) dkap: Indeed, you did.
(10:06:04 PM) Cagliostro: Good lord. I just ran across the part in my notes where Cagliostro decline to walk the Spiral.
(10:06:09 PM) Cagliostro: 2004. And this is my -new- character.
(10:08:02 PM) dkap: Indeed. *grin*
(10:08:20 PM) dkap: 3 years ago.
(10:08:30 PM) dkap: (checks)
(10:08:34 PM) dkap: 5 ... 5 years ago.
(10:08:35 PM) dkap: *sigh*
(10:09:00 PM) dkap: And I wonder why the players I invite to join are terrified of the game, after being exposed to the history.
(10:11:28 PM) Auricle: lol
(10:13:02 PM) dkap: Typing of which, Ilk said he'd be back, only if we were face to face ... so ...
(10:13:21 PM) dkap: I am recruiting, and hard, at this point.
(10:20:57 PM) Cagliostro: good luck
(10:21:07 PM) dkap: I don't think we are getting anywhere in terms of run being done ... you both seem distracted, and my computer seems to be ... reluctant to cooperate with me.
(10:22:06 PM) Cagliostro: sounds reasonable
(10:22:15 PM) Cagliostro: that we don't seem to bemaking a lot of progress, that is
(10:22:19 PM) dkap: Indeed, not.
(10:22:20 PM) Cagliostro: remeet in two weeks?
(10:22:34 PM) Auricle: nod
(10:22:50 PM) dkap: Remeet in 2 weeks, hopefully with some fresh paths, Julianna should be back, so Auricle, that can go forward.
(10:23:00 PM) Auricle: sounds good
(10:23:09 PM) Auricle: bye!
(10:23:12 PM) Auricle left the room.
(08:33:12 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/
(08:33:12 PM) Auricle: too many is bad though
(08:33:16 PM) Auricle: lookit!
(08:33:18 PM) Auricle: A GM!
(08:33:42 PM) dkap: Indeed. GM Sign.
(08:33:53 PM) dkap: GM took a nap and slept through his alarm.
(08:33:58 PM) dkap: So missed his stop on the bus.
(08:34:06 PM) dkap: Took a touch longer to get home than should have.
(08:35:24 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:35:44 PM) Cagliostro: yay gm sign
(08:35:47 PM) Cagliostro: yes, that would do it
(08:36:15 PM) dkap: So, no shit, there I was ...
(08:37:16 PM) Cagliostro: so, yeah, we missed last week, and auricle was blocked the week before...
(08:37:39 PM) Auricle: and I'm with a group not present...
(08:40:33 PM) Cagliostro: so I don't envy you figuring out what we're doing ;)
(08:41:20 PM) Auricle: I had a sword....I think.
(08:41:35 PM) Auricle: What worse, is figuring out what we're not doing.
(08:41:43 PM) Auricle: Which is sometimes more important.
(08:41:58 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:42:27 PM) dkap: I have some actions from people. You send me speculations, others, actions. Interesting how that balances.
(08:42:56 PM) Cagliostro: that is ironical.
(08:43:12 PM) Cagliostro: so how do your actions affect us? :)
(08:43:28 PM) dkap: Well ... I log in, and you say "GM Sign" ... *grin*
(08:43:50 PM) dkap: Actually, they are only somewhat effecting you, but the tangents are ... interesting.
(08:43:53 PM) Cagliostro: "what was that?" "French horns."
(08:44:04 PM) Auricle: lol
(08:44:14 PM) dkap: No, there in your hand.
(08:44:57 PM) Cagliostro: interesting tangents are fun.
(08:45:16 PM) Cagliostro: auricle, the backstory is that I was speculating whether Cagliostro was actually local
(08:46:03 PM) Auricle: ah?
(08:46:23 PM) Cagliostro: some parts of Cagliostro's backstory are unclear
(08:46:38 PM) Cagliostro: I was running around wiping people's memories in order to rehabilitate them
(08:47:01 PM) Cagliostro: ...and then certain parts of Cagliostro's backstory started to look like they had certain familiar fingerprints on them
(08:48:21 PM) Auricle: It's you!
(08:48:26 PM) Auricle: You wiped my mind!
(08:48:49 PM) ***Auricle erases Caligostro from the Pattern and promptly forgets why --- ONLY KIDDING
(08:49:27 PM) Auricle: ...that was funnier in my head
(08:49:58 PM) Cagliostro: heheh
(08:50:15 PM) dkap: Except it would be erased ...
(08:51:07 PM) Auricle: I'm joking I don't realy do that
(08:51:35 PM) dkap: You'd have to remember to do that, and Gargoyle _likes_ the Count.
(08:52:57 PM) Auricle: very true
(08:53:07 PM) Auricle: plus, we know he didn't erase us.
(08:53:46 PM) Cagliostro: I'm sure it would be tempting. But that's a gateway drug to unmaking. ;)
(08:55:32 PM) dkap: Indeed, it is.
(08:55:43 PM) dkap: And Caeman is being _really_ good.
(08:55:51 PM) Cagliostro: yes, he is.
(08:56:12 PM) Cagliostro: So I think Cagliostro's pretty much set too.
(08:58:15 PM) Cagliostro: since he's probably fixing Caelin's apprentice again
(08:58:59 PM) dkap: The Big Bada Boom happened, right?
(08:59:38 PM) Cagliostro: yep, shielded
(08:59:46 PM) Cagliostro: and Cagliostro is ignorant of any environmental affects
(09:00:00 PM) Cagliostro: (other than the destruction of the anti-magic crystals)
(09:00:16 PM) dkap: And all the native magic in the area, right?
(09:00:33 PM) dkap: And all the prisoners.
(09:00:47 PM) dkap: (well ... all the non-eaten ones.)
(09:01:23 PM) Cagliostro: you hadn't mentioned thenative magic.
(09:01:56 PM) dkap: Oh, yes, after your explosion, all the native magic, and every living thing inside your shields is dead.
(09:02:00 PM) dkap: Gone.
(09:02:07 PM) dkap: Blasted to it's component atoms.
(09:02:26 PM) dkap: There was a major disruption in the force, gone.
(09:03:54 PM) dkap: Look you finally found a way to get rid of the vermin that follow humanity everywhere, gone.
(09:04:10 PM) Auricle: niiiiice
(09:04:11 PM) Cagliostro: I think showering is probably less environmentally destructive.
(09:04:12 PM) dkap: There's not even enough trace left that could be vaguely considered even a virus, gone.
(09:04:18 PM) Cagliostro: so, um, how much Magic does cagliostro have left?
(09:04:30 PM) dkap: Oh, he's fine. He was outside of the shields.
(09:04:59 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(09:04:59 PM) dkap: He's not up to thumb-wrestling with anyone at the moment, but ... well ... he _was_ backed up by his Ifrit.
(09:05:08 PM) Cagliostro: do I know that there's a voidinside the shields?
(09:05:13 PM) Cagliostro: of life and magic, that is
(09:05:38 PM) dkap: They wouldn't let him deplete himself, without them checking with him that that was his choice, first.
(09:05:47 PM) dkap: Oh, yeah, it's kinda obvious to you.
(09:06:09 PM) Cagliostro: okay, just checking.
(09:06:23 PM) Cagliostro: okay, leave the shields up and move away from the debacle
(09:06:52 PM) dkap: The shields collapsed at the end of it.
(09:07:03 PM) dkap: But it's not spreading.
(09:07:51 PM) Auricle: ...did he just kill my jager?
(09:08:06 PM) Cagliostro: nooooo, no no, no, nope.
(09:08:17 PM) Cagliostro: there was a giant magical boom centered on the bad guys.
(09:08:22 PM) Cagliostro: so I shielded, with the army in it.
(09:08:33 PM) Auricle: okay then
(09:08:41 PM) Cagliostro: their army, I mean.
(09:10:11 PM) dkap: The Jager (all the ones still alive) got out.
(09:10:22 PM) dkap: The ones dead, most of their heads got out.
(09:10:52 PM) Auricle: oh they may be fixible
(09:10:53 PM) Auricle: cool
(09:12:13 PM) dkap: Indeed, that's why standard protocol is to, at least, rescue their heads.
(09:12:30 PM) Cagliostro: so, if I can monitor the boom remotely, time to go back to fixing Caelin's apprentice
(09:13:18 PM) dkap: How monitor?
(09:13:25 PM) dkap: Leave an Ifrit?
(09:13:43 PM) Cagliostro: sure, for starters
(09:13:57 PM) Cagliostro: but I was figuring I could sense another earthshaking kaboom on the way, even from a few miles away. true?
(09:14:05 PM) Cagliostro: if not, I'll need to build some wards.
(09:14:13 PM) Cagliostro: (detection wards)
(09:15:47 PM) dkap: Oh you would most definitely detect, simply with all the magic flowing in that direction, with simple wards up, another boom coming.
(09:16:24 PM) dkap: I thought you wanted to detect any spread or side-effects ... which needs more intelegence, than just a spell.
(09:17:24 PM) Cagliostro: yes.
(09:17:28 PM) Cagliostro: so that's also a good idea.
(09:17:49 PM) Cagliostro: but while I was at it, I wanted to make sure that I could detect the attack.
(09:19:00 PM) dkap: Oh, now that you know the opening moves, you can detect the same attack by any basic ward.
(09:19:04 PM) dkap: Or stronger.
(09:23:31 PM) Cagliostro: ah, excellent.
(09:23:49 PM) Cagliostro: so yes,I do want to make sure I can detect that attack where I am.
(09:24:20 PM) dkap: You can.
(09:24:50 PM) dkap: So, you carefully double-reward. (sounds like a coupon) and begin the next set of probes into the mask.
(09:24:51 PM) Cagliostro: excellent.
(09:24:56 PM) Cagliostro: sure
(09:25:01 PM) Cagliostro: mask? I thought it was a statue.
(09:26:23 PM) dkap: Statue, right.
(09:26:33 PM) dkap: Masque was from another conversation. A talking Masque.
(09:28:17 PM) Cagliostro: ah, k.
(09:29:35 PM) Cagliostro: so back to a another fun day of figuring out an incredibly intricate trap made by someone who really,relaly hates caelin
(09:29:51 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:29:58 PM) dkap: So, Auricle, where did I leave you off?
(09:30:35 PM) Auricle: I'm hacking bottles open with the Sword of State
(09:30:42 PM) Auricle: Juliana is talking to hamsters
(09:30:47 PM) Auricle: with Zack
(09:31:01 PM) Auricle: And we found a ......frak, forgot his name
(09:31:13 PM) Auricle: fractal boy
(09:31:19 PM) Auricle: by drumming
(09:31:25 PM) Cagliostro: Martin, right?
(09:31:28 PM) Cagliostro: and Hamster Deirdre
(09:31:28 PM) Auricle: Yes!
(09:31:29 PM) dkap: Not fractal boy, Martin.
(09:32:39 PM) dkap: Right, but now that you are can-opening the jars ... are you picking which jars, or simply going in some order?
(09:32:58 PM) Auricle: Whatever catches my eyes
(09:33:36 PM) dkap: They are in ordered rows, except for the ones that were knocked over.
(09:34:25 PM) Auricle: then down the rows
(09:34:28 PM) Auricle: I guess
(09:34:36 PM) Auricle: starting with whatever is closest
(09:35:36 PM) dkap: Whatever is closest is the jars around Martin.
(09:36:10 PM) Auricle: then there
(09:37:13 PM) dkap: Now, this is one of the times I would like a white-board.
(09:37:54 PM) Cagliostro: heh
(09:38:02 PM) Cagliostro: you mean a net one or a real one?
(09:38:49 PM) Auricle: oooh net whiteboard
(09:39:38 PM) dkap: Well ... I have a real one, it's just not visible to my players, so if I draw a bunch of circles, and start labeling them ... It's not useful as a short-hand informational system.
(09:41:19 PM) Auricle: http://www.imaginationcubed.com/index.php
(09:41:23 PM) Cagliostro: well, we aren't terribly systematic anyway
(09:41:23 PM) Auricle: the internet
(09:41:28 PM) Auricle: it has everything
(09:43:15 PM) dkap: Wow, am I shitty at drawing on that thing.
(09:43:27 PM) Auricle: but!
(09:43:32 PM) Auricle: internet whiteboard!
(09:43:33 PM) dkap: The demo made straight lines and reasonable curves seem easy.
(09:43:48 PM) dkap: Indeed, it is.
(09:47:23 PM) Auricle: ....I have accidently distracted the GM?
(09:47:59 PM) dkap: All right ... that's enough of that time-sink. *sigh*
(09:48:17 PM) dkap: I found circles, and I can _almost_ make a row of them, but my columns don't line up ... *sigh*
(09:48:29 PM) dkap: And I can't seem to get them to be labeled.
(09:49:04 PM) dkap: Maybe I need a tablet or something similar, so I can use my actual motor skills, as opposed to trying to manipulate the clit-mouse on my keyboard.
(09:49:42 PM) Cagliostro: why not just describe it and we can sketch itout on paper or just wing it?
(09:49:49 PM) Auricle: let's wing it
(09:49:52 PM) Auricle: I'm good with that
(09:50:09 PM) dkap: We can wing it, but I wanted to keep track, and make sure I knew what was where, and the like.
(09:50:29 PM) Auricle: well, then
(09:50:33 PM) Auricle: you get paper?
(09:50:41 PM) Auricle: and we'll wing it from here? :D
(09:51:34 PM) dkap: Indeed. Just let me try one more time on the white board you found me, in case I can pull it off ...
(09:53:56 PM) Auricle: okay
(10:00:13 PM) Cagliostro: doesn't sound too plausible?
(10:04:57 PM) dkap: Umm ... ok, so that's a huge shiny, I shouldn't be playing with. *sigh*
(10:05:02 PM) dkap: Right, where was I?
(10:05:14 PM) dkap: Jars. You were going to be opening jars.
(10:05:27 PM) Auricle: I am chopping open jars
(10:05:31 PM) Auricle: Wheeee!
(10:05:54 PM) dkap: Whakadoodle. Umm ... those shards are really sharp.
(10:06:20 PM) dkap: And you are more whittling away, rather than cracking open, even with the Sword of State.
(10:06:55 PM) Auricle: hmmmm
(10:07:08 PM) ***Auricle stops and studies the jars.
(10:07:42 PM) ***Auricle starts calculating the correct place to properly strike so as to cause enough damage to open them faster
(10:09:19 PM) dkap: You already did that.
(10:09:49 PM) dkap: That's why you aren't just skittering off their smooth, designed to be impregnable surfaces.
(10:10:12 PM) Auricle: Ah very well, back as I was
(10:10:34 PM) Auricle: No, wait, liquid. Martin's free?
(10:10:49 PM) Auricle: we freed him
(10:12:25 PM) dkap: liquid?
(10:12:42 PM) dkap: Yes, Martin is out, you were working on whatever jar was handy next, right?
(10:12:50 PM) Auricle: is it possible to have martin drum up on the liquid containers and use the vribrations to either harden them -- making them easier to crack -- or soften them, making them easier to slice through?
(10:13:05 PM) Auricle: they are some kind of elastic solid fluid thing as I recall
(10:13:40 PM) dkap: Sort of. But the viscose fluid was not really effected by sound, but it did transmit it, somewhat dimly.
(10:14:49 PM) Auricle: Heck, anything that helps.
(10:16:16 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:16:30 PM) Auricle: So, ask Martin to do that....
(10:16:35 PM) Auricle: And see what happens.
(10:16:36 PM) Auricle: :D
(10:17:11 PM) dkap: Still ... chips are flying.
(10:18:16 PM) Auricle: Didn't I manage a hole and Juliana stick her dagger in to help pry open last time? Let's work on that tactic again, too
(10:20:43 PM) dkap: That makes sense.
(10:21:53 PM) Auricle: Do i manage to open another jar?
(10:24:09 PM) dkap: You have managed to. The one right next to Martin's.
(10:24:29 PM) Auricle: What toy surprise is in side?
(10:24:43 PM) dkap: And of course, in that particular jar, there is a tall, thin individual, sitting in a tailor seat, apparently meditating.
(10:24:58 PM) Auricle: Hello!
(10:25:35 PM) dkap: He vaguely looks up at the hole in the jar, and then snaps his attention to you, like someone woken from a bad dream.
(10:26:03 PM) Auricle: You can come out now...
(10:26:09 PM) dkap: unjugged rabbit-fish: "umm ... hello? Are you another vision, or are you real?"
(10:26:24 PM) Auricle: "I'm real."
(10:28:06 PM) Auricle: "Please come out of the jar..."
(10:28:30 PM) dkap: He looks up at the hole, and looks at where he is standing, and says "Unfortunately" I don't believe I could get there, or fit through the hole. Is there a chance at widening it?
(10:30:46 PM) Auricle: "Yeah. Hang on." *motions Juliana to help peel back the hole with the dagger as she tries to do the same with the sword
(10:31:26 PM) dkap: The sword goes into the hole, the individual backs away, screaming, from it.
(10:31:48 PM) Auricle: "Don't worry! I'm just making the hole larger!"
(10:32:42 PM) dkap: In a really shaky voice "with THAT?!?!"
(10:34:17 PM) Auricle: "It's what I have!"
(10:34:27 PM) Auricle: Do I manage to widen the hole any?
(10:34:33 PM) dkap: "It's trying to eat all that I am."
(10:34:39 PM) dkap: You are widening the hole, yes.
(10:35:43 PM) ***Auricle pauses.
(10:35:46 PM) Auricle: "Eat?
(10:36:10 PM) ***Auricle looks at the sword.
(10:36:20 PM) dkap: "Yes, Take that which I am, and make it no more."
(10:36:32 PM) Auricle: "Zack!"
(10:36:40 PM) dkap: The sword is shiny.
(10:36:55 PM) dkap: Zack: "Umm ... yes?"
(10:37:08 PM) Auricle: "Why is the sword eating him?"
(10:37:40 PM) dkap: Zack: "What? Are you sticking him with it? Which him?"
(10:38:13 PM) Auricle: "No I'm widening this hole, and he's panicking." *points inside*
(10:38:55 PM) dkap: Zack: "The guy in whatever jar you have? Tell him we are from the government, and we are here to help. That should distract him."
(10:39:36 PM) Auricle: "Hey, in the jar. We're from the government, and here to help." *goes back to working on the hole*
(10:39:57 PM) dkap: There is a plaintive wail from the jar.
(10:40:45 PM) Auricle: "Well, what would" widens hole "You prefer? I'm a shapeshifter and going to eat you? Shut up and let me rescue you already."
(10:41:57 PM) dkap: Rabbit-fish: "I _am_ a shape-shifter, and you are trying to eat me with that sword.
(10:42:51 PM) Auricle: "Well, I'm a shapeshifter too, and this sword is the only thing really working in here, as opposed to shifting. So deal."
(10:43:37 PM) dkap: Rabbit-fish: "I'm working on it. Chop away, and ignore me, please."
(10:44:15 PM) dkap: the occupant goes back to whimpering quietly and crewling if the sword gets too close.
(10:44:21 PM) Auricle: "Good." Continues widening the hole.
(10:47:09 PM) dkap: You've got the hole wide enough you can use the sword as a pry-bar, and split open the jar.
(10:47:18 PM) dkap: It splits messily, spewing shards everwhere.
(10:47:42 PM) dkap: Normally you would just shift away the damage, but ... these shards hurt, and can't be shifted away.
(10:47:57 PM) Auricle: "There we ...ow! ...ow? OW!"
(10:48:21 PM) dkap: Zach: What?
(10:48:37 PM) Auricle: "I hate this place."
(10:49:09 PM) dkap: Zack: So do I. What's "Ow"?
(10:50:13 PM) Auricle: "I got hurt."
(10:51:48 PM) dkap: Zack, looking up from his conversation with Dierdre: "Really? How?"
(10:53:00 PM) Auricle: "Couldn't shift away from the shards." frowns "Although I could shift earrlier...what's wrong with my automatic defenses?"
(10:53:15 PM) Auricle: Gargoyle: any ideas?
(10:54:02 PM) dkap: Gargoyle: scanning ... shifter function at 95+- 5% Shards seem to have effected the base-you, not just the form you are wearing.
(10:55:47 PM) Auricle: GM: Are they in me??
(10:57:59 PM) dkap: They are.
(10:58:42 PM) Auricle: Ack! Get them out....
(10:59:04 PM) Auricle: Start trying to find where-ever they are and pull them free.
(11:00:03 PM) dkap: They are well and truly in you, you might need surgery to get them out. You might want Zack's help, and fast.
(11:01:15 PM) Auricle: "Zack!! They're in me!"
(11:02:22 PM) dkap: Zack: "What is?"
(11:02:47 PM) Auricle: "The shards! I can't get them out, I can't shift, I..."
(11:04:04 PM) dkap: Zack hurries over, with Dierdre.
(11:04:04 PM) Auricle: "Do something?"
(11:04:34 PM) dkap: He starts trying to dig them out with his hands, Dierdre pushes him aside, and goes in after them.
(11:04:53 PM) dkap: You have the odd sensation of being burrowed by a determined hamster ...
(11:05:59 PM) Auricle: ...that's a new one, even for me.
(11:06:14 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:07:16 PM) Auricle: Is it working?
(11:08:34 PM) dkap: She is burrowing into you, after the pieces, she then asks to borrow Julianna's knife.
(11:08:58 PM) dkap: It's ... somewhat large for her, but ... she seems to be able to lever the first one out.
(11:09:03 PM) dkap: one down 6 to go.
(11:09:47 PM) Auricle: okay
(11:09:52 PM) Auricle: I'll try to be still
(11:10:14 PM) dkap: They seem to also be burrowing into you, as if seeking out your core.
(11:10:40 PM) Auricle: eeeeew
(11:12:33 PM) dkap: Indeed. She's cut/clawed her way to the second shard, and has that one out.
(11:12:37 PM) Auricle: Can I hold them off at all ?
(11:12:53 PM) dkap: You can shift your "center" around, and see if that helps.
(11:13:01 PM) Auricle: I'll do that.
(11:14:06 PM) dkap: They do change their course.
(11:14:16 PM) dkap: But that does keep them from it more.
(11:16:15 PM) Auricle: try to lead them across Deirdre's path?
(11:16:21 PM) Auricle: So she can get them faster
(11:16:27 PM) dkap: Good plan!
(11:16:34 PM) dkap: She does get to them, easier that way.
(11:17:06 PM) Caelin [~arkhonii@m460436d0.tmodns.net] entered the room.
(11:17:29 PM) Caelin: yo!
(11:17:58 PM) Auricle: hi!
(11:18:49 PM) Caelin: Tosca let me out way early.
(11:19:49 PM) Auricle: cool
(11:19:59 PM) Auricle: Dkap, I'm kinda fading out here
(11:20:18 PM) dkap: Hey Caeln!
(11:20:26 PM) dkap: We are, unfortunately about to wrap.
(11:20:37 PM) dkap: We'll dig the rest out of you next week.
(11:20:45 PM) Caelin: Yeah, I know. Such is my luck. :-)
(11:20:47 PM) dkap: How's Tosca going!
(11:21:13 PM) Caelin: opens in early june, and WOW is the cast strong!
(11:22:38 PM) Auricle: Nice to see you Caelin, and goodnight all.
(11:22:45 PM) Caelin: alreight. I'll let y'all wrap. good to touch base, though.
(11:23:06 PM) Auricle left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(11:23:08 PM) dkap: Excellent. I'll send my father to it, and get reports on your excellence.
(11:23:46 PM) Caelin: Haha! Take care then!
(11:23:49 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: Quit: 1.2.0).