Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 02 Jun 2009 12:56:44 PM EDT:
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(08:16:28 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/
(08:16:34 PM) Cagliostro: woo, gamesign.
(08:16:46 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:16:47 PM) Auricle: yay
(08:16:49 PM) Auricle: GM
(08:17:43 PM) Caelin_: excellent. I have until around9:30, then I have to be in the dressing room or wherever, and that means uncertain net connection...
(08:18:05 PM) Auricle: so Caelin first?
(08:18:39 PM) dkap: Caelin first. Sure. You were hiding, right?
(08:19:19 PM) Caelin_: trying to hide, and I believe co.plaining bitterly to Mandor, or someone.
(08:19:30 PM) Caelin_: er complaining.
(08:19:42 PM) dkap: Mandor isn't there, he went to investigate your mother.
(08:20:33 PM) Caelin_: Got it. Eek.
(08:22:38 PM) dkap: Something about giant hands?
(08:24:07 PM) Caelin_: Ahh, yes.
(08:26:59 PM) dkap: And you were hiding from it.
(08:27:36 PM) Caelin_: told someone higher up that benedict engaged and hasn't been heard from since.
(08:27:59 PM) Caelin_: and gave the lowdown on house infiltration in moonlight.
(08:28:01 PM) dkap: Indeed. and that's why Mandor went off to protect his Guild-Head.
(08:28:26 PM) Cagliostro: I think you'd heard from us that the same thing happened to Zach.
(08:28:42 PM) Caelin_: yes. I did.
(08:28:47 PM) dkap: Indeed you had.
(08:29:07 PM) Caelin_: yet more chits in the 'oh shit' column.
(08:30:04 PM) dkap: Yet more "shits" in the "oh chit" column?
(08:30:32 PM) Cagliostro: little from column a, little from column b...
(08:33:32 PM) Caelin_: house moonlight infiltrated and compromised, zach and benedict unaccounted for, wife-to-be taken. yes. 'oh shit' chits. :-)
(08:34:10 PM) dkap: And, apparently Auricle followed Zach.
(08:34:45 PM) Auricle: yup!
(08:34:47 PM) Caelin_: and caelin isn't even paying attention to them all. such as his earth-killer head people, the queue of challenges against house moonlight...etc..
(08:34:49 PM) Auricle: It's what Auricles do!
(08:34:55 PM) Caelin_: LOL
(08:38:23 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:45:36 PM) dkap: And?
(08:45:56 PM) Caelin_: You talking to me?
(08:46:09 PM) dkap: Indeed, what are you doing?
(08:47:30 PM) Caelin_: The prison doesn't go any farther back, does it?
(08:47:51 PM) Caelin_: Oh shit...what happened to the three marbles I took from the moat?
(08:48:14 PM) dkap: Absolutely nothing, they are with you.
(08:48:47 PM) Caelin_: But how are they being maintained if I'm in a magic null area?
(08:50:13 PM) dkap: They are lying right there, on the floor, waiting for someone to stumble across them.
(08:50:18 PM) dkap: Why, did you want to pick them up?
(08:50:44 PM) Caelin_: *grumble* "well, that's my sign, I guess."
(08:51:44 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:51:50 PM) Caelin_: March back the threshhold, reestablish my control with whatever magic is available, and start heading out, walking. no gating or teleport.
(08:51:50 PM) Auricle: changing computers
(08:51:55 PM) Caelin_: LOL
(08:52:10 PM) Auricle left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(08:52:36 PM) dkap: Are you leaving the marbles there?
(08:52:48 PM) Caelin_: HELL NO
(08:52:49 PM) dkap: Without even Saviour of Chaos tape around it?
(08:53:27 PM) Caelin_: they're revolving around me as soon as I sense I have my magic back.
(08:54:13 PM) dkap: How are you getting them back out of the magic null area?
(08:54:44 PM) Caelin_: they're at the edge of it, right?
(08:55:45 PM) dkap: Just past, yes.
(08:57:07 PM) Caelin_: Mage wind, leading away from the threshhold on my side. the suction should drag them back to this side.
(08:58:11 PM) dkap: Yeah, except the wind, being magical stops, right at that edge.
(08:58:35 PM) dkap: so the air is still, there is horrendous suction right at that edge, your ears pop, but ... nothing else.
(08:58:47 PM) dkap: Remember, those are little reality seeds, they are heavy.
(09:01:35 PM) Caelin_: Conjure a pair of appropriately sized tweezers, inscribe it with the true names of each marble. Reach across and grab them. The true name should bypass the problem, yes?
(09:02:02 PM) dkap: Caelin and his inscribed tweezers saves the day!
(09:03:06 PM) Caelin_: Deconjure the tweezers when done. I can haz moat marblez.
(09:03:32 PM) dkap: You can, and there are no tweezers to trip you up.
(09:03:48 PM) dkap: Although, some of the tweezer material did get eaten by the marbles.
(09:04:03 PM) Caelin_: And march back out of the prison area, thinking up new spell strategies on the way.
(09:04:26 PM) Caelin_: well, is that a problem, considering I deconjured them?
(09:04:55 PM) Caelin_: And since when did marbles start sucking in inorganic material?
(09:07:19 PM) dkap: It had their name on it, and if you held them, much longer with the tweezers, the tweezers would have become them, and therefore, so would have whatever held the tweezers.
(09:07:25 PM) dkap: Because that is the nature of their name.
(09:08:58 PM) Auricle [~chatzilla@c-71-233-204-173.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:09:42 PM) Caelin_: Huh. Interesting. Filing under, "important cogs" as I make my way out. Also wondering why I never noticed that before.
(09:10:08 PM) dkap: You never had to do something like that, before, as I recall.
(09:11:02 PM) Caelin_: Has the nature of the marbles shifted? that means that my moat is increasing even if no living things are attempting to traverse it.
(09:11:24 PM) dkap: The nature has not shifted.
(09:11:36 PM) dkap: Most of the moat doesn't have things with their name on it, in it.
(09:12:07 PM) Caelin_: ahh, got it. okay. that makes sense.
(09:12:44 PM) Caelin_: inverse logarithmic gain, as opposed to exponential. good...kind of...
(09:12:49 PM) Caelin_: Walk on...
(09:13:01 PM) dkap: Good good, where are you walking to?
(09:15:37 PM) Caelin_: Out into the main room of Thelbane. Who is there?
(09:16:40 PM) dkap: Currently? A bunch of folks trying to figure out which of them are dopple-gangers, because your guild-second (if you recall) was replaced by one ...
(09:19:15 PM) Caelin_: Oh, I very much recall it.
(09:20:53 PM) Caelin_: Any familiar?
(09:21:17 PM) Caelin_: familiar folks, that is?
(09:22:45 PM) dkap: Yes, and they all start looking at you, suspiciously, as if you might be a dopple-ganger yourself.
(09:23:50 PM) Caelin_: Point at the marbles. "how many dopple gangers would even TRY"
(09:24:57 PM) dkap: None of them get what the marbles are (remember, it's a close-held secret.)
(09:25:29 PM) Caelin_: *sigh* well, it's for the best.
(09:27:03 PM) Caelin_: "Paranoid or not, I'm sick of running. With one arm tied behind my back."
(09:27:49 PM) dkap: You want both arms tied?
(09:28:10 PM) dkap: That could be arranged.
(09:28:26 PM) Caelin_: I'm not sure that will make any difference, but no. :-)
(09:30:05 PM) Caelin_: are my Effreet with me?
(09:30:17 PM) Caelin_: Rather, Ifrit...
(09:31:08 PM) dkap: Yes. They are keeping tabs on you.
(09:32:05 PM) Caelin_: Did the hand that Benedict attcked appear to be coming for me?
(09:32:42 PM) dkap: The hand that Benedict flung himself upon and attacked, was, indeed, heading toward you.
(09:33:51 PM) dkap: Cagliostro's Ifrit are charged with keeping track of you, at the moment, by Benedict.
(09:37:17 PM) Caelin_: To the Ifrit: "It's probably a fool's ploy, but I'm going to stop running. Heading back to Moonlight to check and see if we have a record of who is left."
(09:37:53 PM) Caelin_: "Or if we can at least ascertain which house members are missing."
(09:38:44 PM) dkap: Ifrit: Right, sir, do you wish us to gate you there?
(09:40:18 PM) Caelin_: "A gate will be fine, yes."
(09:40:53 PM) Caelin_: network shift may happen in the next two minutes...
(09:42:04 PM) dkap: Shift happens?
(09:42:16 PM) dkap: You gate to Moonlight.
(09:42:29 PM) dkap: There is the giant, in front of moonlight, in pieces.
(09:44:38 PM) Caelin_ left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:45:24 PM) Caelin [~arkhonii@m470436d0.tmodns.net] entered the room.
(09:46:41 PM) Caelin: and we're back.
(09:47:05 PM) Caelin: for a limited time, of course.
(09:47:13 PM) dkap: Good good, Did you see the last post, about the Giant?
(09:48:00 PM) Caelin: that it appeared headed for me? the benedict one? or one right now?
(09:48:33 PM) dkap: You gate to Moonlight.
(09:48:38 PM) dkap: There is the giant, in front of moonlight, in pieces.
(09:49:38 PM) Caelin: yeesh. the nice giant, yes?
(09:49:59 PM) dkap: Yes.
(09:51:04 PM) dkap: Torn, not cut.
(09:51:06 PM) Caelin: Caelin's allies all seem to be going to pieces.
(09:51:49 PM) Caelin: Boneless ribs instead of prime cut?
(09:52:17 PM) dkap: Torn, as if facing a pack of wolves, or jackals, rather than cut up by a swordsman.
(09:53:39 PM) Caelin: Oy.
(09:54:32 PM) Caelin: Alright. Inside, with magic at the ready. To the front desk.
(09:56:41 PM) Caelin: Is someone manning the front desk? the door, anything?
(09:56:49 PM) dkap: The front desk is manned by a young boy.
(09:57:35 PM) Caelin: Not THE young boy, no?
(09:57:47 PM) Caelin: As in Zorro's assistant?
(09:57:55 PM) dkap: NOpe.
(09:57:59 PM) dkap: One you have never met.
(09:58:29 PM) Caelin: okay. who in the house isn't accounted for?
(10:01:00 PM) Cagliostro: everyone but you? :)
(10:01:23 PM) Caelin: lol...wouldn't be surprised.
(10:02:18 PM) dkap: Well ... not quite, but there are very few left, and the kid is very deferential, and mentions that everyone went into hiding.
(10:02:37 PM) Caelin: Well, I have to hang here, as I'm heading into the basement to the dressing room. I'll be on termittently if I find a connection, but not guaranteed.
(10:02:50 PM) Caelin: good night, all!
(10:03:31 PM) Cagliostro: good night, Caelin
(10:03:41 PM) dkap: Good night.
(10:03:53 PM) Auricle: night caelin
(10:07:20 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(10:08:19 PM) Caelin [~arkhonii@m370436d0.tmodns.net] entered the room.
(10:11:19 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(10:11:36 PM) Cagliostro: no Janice, alas.
(10:11:49 PM) dkap: Indeed, sad, I was expecting her.
(10:12:01 PM) dkap: I might have to hookify things.
(10:13:06 PM) Auricle: Janice?
(10:14:23 PM) Cagliostro: Julianna
(10:14:25 PM) Cagliostro: brain skip
(10:15:28 PM) dkap: Right. I knew what you ment.
(10:16:12 PM) Auricle: Ahh
(10:16:16 PM) Auricle: I am enlightened.
(10:23:21 PM) dkap: Shall we call game then? I'll get Julianna's actions from her this week, and then hang her on a hool.
(10:23:24 PM) dkap: Hook, even.
(10:23:34 PM) Cagliostro: sure, pretty reasonable.
(10:23:40 PM) Auricle: all righty
(10:24:42 PM) Auricle: nighty nighty
(10:25:00 PM) Auricle: go no
(10:25:06 PM) Auricle left the room.
(10:26:42 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).