Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Mon 08 Jun 2009 12:27:39 PM EDT:
(11:29:37 AM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:17:41 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/
(08:19:25 PM) Caelin: gm sign...yes...gm...big one.
(08:20:47 PM) dkap: Yep.
(08:20:49 PM) dkap: GM-sign.
(08:21:11 PM) Caelin: I have roughly 1:10 until show time
(08:21:48 PM) dkap: Cool ... Show!
(08:23:17 PM) Caelin: yes, the opening of porgy tonight.
(08:24:23 PM) Auricle [~chatzilla@c-71-233-204-173.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:25:40 PM) dkap: That sounds messy.
(08:25:48 PM) dkap: Does Bess know you are opening up Porgy?
(08:27:54 PM) Caelin: lol
(08:28:23 PM) Auricle: ???
(08:30:23 PM) dkap: Opening of Porgy ...
(08:30:34 PM) dkap: Ask the vivisectionist in your soul.
(08:32:08 PM) Cagliostro: much different from a birdhouse.
(08:33:12 PM) dkap: Or a windmill in your mind.
(08:33:15 PM) dkap: Typing of windmills ...
(08:33:31 PM) dkap: When last we left our Quixotic Heroes ...
(08:33:33 PM) Auricle: Did someone need a vivisectionist?
(08:35:20 PM) dkap: I believe Mike did, because he needed Porgy to open tonight.
(08:35:41 PM) Cagliostro: I dunno,are there any heroes in this group?
(08:35:54 PM) Auricle: HEroes? Don't they get dead?
(08:36:28 PM) Caelin: always
(08:36:41 PM) Caelin: better to be middle management.
(08:38:19 PM) dkap: Oh, Mike, I (well, we, I had someone, actually with me) tidy your room.
(08:38:28 PM) dkap: It's now organized.
(08:38:35 PM) dkap: So, if you need a key ...
(08:40:30 PM) Caelin: nope. still have a key
(08:40:51 PM) dkap: No, I mean a key, like a map key ...
(08:41:05 PM) Caelin: and also, I'll be back for the bulk of july, and I will be tidying even further. and thank you!
(08:41:28 PM) Caelin: map key? oh, as in the stuff!
(08:41:34 PM) dkap: Isn't there some quote from Firefly (just before eating a bug) about what Heroes are?
(08:41:34 PM) Caelin: sure!
(08:41:44 PM) Caelin: yep
(08:41:46 PM) Auricle: yes
(08:43:25 PM) dkap: Something about "Heroes are people who get other people killed" or something?
(08:43:56 PM) Auricle: yes that's it
(08:44:16 PM) Auricle: A hero's just someone gets other people killed...or something like that
(08:44:25 PM) Auricle: We don't get other people killed. We just kill them.
(08:44:28 PM) Auricle: Or toy with them.
(08:44:33 PM) Auricle: Or sometimes eat them.
(08:44:40 PM) Cagliostro: or behead them while keeping them alive.
(08:44:42 PM) Cagliostro: For Science!
(08:44:42 PM) dkap: MMmmm ... toy with them. Hit them around until food comes out.
(08:49:45 PM) dkap: So, where did we leave folks?
(08:49:58 PM) dkap: And has people heard from Julianna?
(08:50:17 PM) Caelin: I definitely haven't
(08:50:29 PM) Cagliostro: not I.
(08:50:43 PM) Auricle: I haven't
(08:52:46 PM) dkap: Ahh ... sad.
(08:53:12 PM) dkap: Oh, I have a message from beyond, The Great and All Powerful J.J. said to say "Hi" to someone named Kris?
(08:54:00 PM) Auricle: JJ!
(08:54:15 PM) ***Auricle dances around.
(08:54:55 PM) Caelin: O_O
(08:56:11 PM) Auricle: Please let J.J. know I say "Hi, and I want my title back, thank you."
(08:57:20 PM) dkap: JJ tackle-bombs you, and asks you what the hell you are talking about?
(08:58:11 PM) ***Auricle giggles.
(08:58:25 PM) Auricle: I'm the Great and All-Powerful one.
(09:01:47 PM) dkap: Ahh ... that title. Yes, she is happy to give it back.
(09:01:58 PM) Auricle: Good then.
(09:03:05 PM) dkap: So ... We have a few ticks of the clock, left Caelin, any actions?
(09:05:54 PM) Caelin: umm...lessee...
(09:06:30 PM) Caelin: I forget precisely where I left off. was it at the front desk of house moonlight?
(09:06:57 PM) Cagliostro: with a small boy at the desk, IIRC
(09:07:03 PM) Cagliostro: and everyone unaccounted for
(09:07:57 PM) Caelin: right.
(09:08:14 PM) Caelin: new destination from there: the assassin's guild.
(09:08:35 PM) dkap: Or most unaccounted for, and a dead, torn-up giant on your front lawn (the giant you just accepted into your house, and gave a task to ... in fact)
(09:12:57 PM) Caelin: yes. I remember. *sigh*
(09:13:22 PM) dkap: So ... you are simply leaving the state of your house, and heading to the Guild?
(09:14:04 PM) Caelin: take the list with me. the list of the missing house members.
(09:14:36 PM) dkap: Wilco.
(09:16:10 PM) Caelin: and let's see if I make it to the guild
(09:18:02 PM) dkap: Off you go, back to Chaos.
(09:18:08 PM) dkap: Across the atol.
(09:18:24 PM) dkap: And through the woods, to Grandmothers Guild you go.
(09:19:30 PM) Caelin: heading uptairs to the chorus room. there may be a brief disconnection.
(09:21:14 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:23:20 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:26:03 PM) Caelin [~arkhonii@m470536d0.tmodns.net] entered the room.
(09:26:33 PM) dkap: And several butchers aprons.
(09:26:42 PM) dkap: Meanwhile, in other news.
(09:29:57 PM) Caelin: now THERE'S and entrance quote...
(09:30:13 PM) dkap: *grin* Just for you.
(09:30:40 PM) dkap: So, off you go ... when you are starting to cross the land-bridge between the atol and Chaos, you find the way simply not there.
(09:30:59 PM) Caelin: trap?
(09:32:06 PM) Caelin: ask the ifrit if they can gate us there.
(09:32:24 PM) Caelin: "to within a decent proximity" that is...
(09:34:49 PM) dkap: There is some talk between them, and they decide they can get you to chaos, but not (necessarily) near the Guild, since they don't know where the Guild is. But they know where Thelbane is.
(09:35:25 PM) dkap: Not a trap, as much as there just is no connection there anymore. As if Ilk towed it deeper into the sea, for protection or something.
(09:36:20 PM) Caelin: protection. from. me.
(09:37:33 PM) dkap: Well ... except that, if you remember, the Logrus is on the atol, as well, as opposed to attached to Chaos at the moment.
(09:39:11 PM) Caelin: I don't think caelin would be swayed from his take upon considering this. in fact it might be bolstered.
(09:39:45 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:39:53 PM) dkap: So, off the Thelbane?
(09:41:03 PM) Caelin: yepper
(09:41:25 PM) dkap: Poof, you are at Thelbane.
(09:42:17 PM) Caelin: oh...hell.
(09:43:09 PM) Auricle: hhmm...that was quick. :P
(09:43:18 PM) dkap: Where you are assaulted by several folks, wearing the curfew badges.
(09:43:31 PM) dkap: Magical gates are like that, you see.
(09:44:44 PM) Caelin: the fake badges you mean?
(09:45:30 PM) dkap: No, the real ones.
(09:45:44 PM) Caelin: :-P
(09:46:14 PM) Caelin: who is presently in thelbane?
(09:46:26 PM) dkap: You don't know, you were pounced outside it.
(09:46:54 PM) dkap: They mention something about being retasked to test for Dopple-gangers, and since you are doing something obvious, and non-calamatous, you must not be you.
(09:50:32 PM) Caelin: lol
(09:51:07 PM) Caelin: "we have enough calamities...and you WANT me to add to the mess?"
(09:51:42 PM) dkap: Curfew police: "You _will_ be tested!"
(09:51:50 PM) dkap: (To the scales!)
(09:52:12 PM) Caelin: "okay. how do you plan on testing me"?
(09:53:20 PM) Caelin: "has princess chandra approved of the test? am I at risk in the event the test isn't satisfactory?"
(09:54:06 PM) dkap: Of course you aren't at risk, you will simply be incarcerated, until the council gets to the bottom of the issue.
(09:54:52 PM) Caelin: incarcerated? and in the event my services are immediately required, what then?
(09:55:49 PM) dkap: If you are a dopple-ganger, your services could not be trusted.
(09:56:24 PM) dkap: Besides, we would need the services of the real you, not the dopple-ganger you.
(09:57:07 PM) ***Cagliostro wonders how many Chaosians are staying quietly in the cells till someone else deals with the problem.
(09:57:46 PM) Auricle: I'll be back in an hour.
(09:57:48 PM) Caelin: fine. ill go down to the cells seeing as I am already familiar. but in the event I'm needed and YOU stand in the way, it's your political posterior.
(09:58:11 PM) Caelin: (turns into a yeti and proceeds down into the cell block area)
(09:58:50 PM) dkap: Before you turn into a Yeti, they say "Whoa. We have to test you first."
(09:58:54 PM) Caelin: (that's my last action...heading to the dressing room now)
(09:58:59 PM) dkap: Right then.
(09:59:01 PM) dkap: *grin*
(09:59:04 PM) Caelin: Argh
(09:59:16 PM) dkap: We can hang you before the testing. That works.
(10:02:04 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(10:23:00 PM) Cagliostro: hm. we wrapping early?
(10:23:50 PM) dkap: Ahh ... sorry, dealing with a side-plot with Mouseferatu.
(10:23:58 PM) dkap: Oh, have you seen the adds for G-Force?
(10:24:06 PM) Cagliostro: no worries
(10:24:08 PM) Cagliostro: I have not
(10:24:09 PM) dkap: Do you think they are based on my hamsterites?
(10:25:04 PM) Cagliostro: I will have to check it out
(10:25:30 PM) Cagliostro: I'd say from the blurb, unless they end up running the government at the end of the movie, no.
(10:29:11 PM) dkap: True, but ... it might be shadows of them ... *grin*
(10:34:09 PM) Cagliostro: well,one can't rule that out...
(10:34:27 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:34:56 PM) dkap: So ... Mouseferatu is part of the rescue squad for various shadows that are deemed important, by people, before the recent shadow-crash.
(10:35:00 PM) dkap: And reboot.
(10:35:31 PM) dkap: As you might recall.
(10:38:23 PM) dkap: He was in charge of much of the White-Wolf contingent, of which, I've now acquired several different people, all of whom I'm going to try to mix together ... in one way or another. One, especially might amuse you.
(10:39:15 PM) Cagliostro: ah,cool.
(10:39:20 PM) Cagliostro: and oh, really,I suppose.
(10:40:09 PM) dkap: I think I'm going to fling her in your direction, first ...
(10:40:18 PM) dkap: Just so she can get the feel of things.
(10:40:19 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(10:40:22 PM) Cagliostro: which me?
(10:40:29 PM) dkap: The Count.
(10:40:42 PM) Cagliostro: excellent,then.
(10:40:48 PM) Cagliostro: the Count is still in Arden
(10:41:34 PM) dkap: Indeed he is. It might involve some back-fill, though.
(10:41:43 PM) dkap: It's been some time since the Shadows have come back.
(10:41:59 PM) dkap: And that's the time-frame they all are entering, if you are willing to allow for a time-jump.
(10:43:01 PM) Cagliostro: sure
(10:43:19 PM) Cagliostro: it might be a littletricky because I don't remember where I was, though, or what I was doing
(10:44:10 PM) dkap: I can check the logs, but I believe it was just after the hand-prints went away from Kintani's back.
(10:44:48 PM) Cagliostro: We'll need to check the logs, I fear.
(10:44:55 PM) Cagliostro: but that's a good thing to search for.
(10:45:14 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:53:11 PM) ***Auricle is back
(10:54:07 PM) dkap: Welcome Back.
(10:54:23 PM) dkap: I'd ask you the memory problem, but ... that would be asking for trouble.
(10:55:11 PM) Cagliostro: We're talking 2006, I think
(10:55:37 PM) Cagliostro: September 2006 is where I have a note that we told kintani that his handprints had been removed when he was hanging out with max
(10:55:41 PM) dkap: Indeed, it seems to be looking that waya.
(10:55:55 PM) dkap: Or perhaps a bit earlier.
(10:59:12 PM) Cagliostro: well, there was the whole tangent into hell, too.
(10:59:19 PM) Cagliostro: so we could go pre-hell or post-hell
(10:59:20 PM) dkap: There was.
(10:59:26 PM) dkap: I believe, post hell.
(10:59:30 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(11:01:35 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro was in Chaos for a while, and then went to Darkover, I think.
(11:01:49 PM) Cagliostro: Chaos was overrun for a while when we came back from Hell
(11:01:54 PM) Cagliostro: with the Firefly crew
(11:02:23 PM) dkap: I believe that is correct, which is why I was trying to set things there. In Chaos you picked up some of the survivors, as, perhaps, a favor to the Council, and then, when you were setting things back into order in Darkover.
(11:02:36 PM) dkap: Indeed, the Firefly crew would be an excellent addition.
(11:05:27 PM) Cagliostro: hm. we went from defending the quasi-assassin's guild to invading Gwen's lab
(11:05:37 PM) Cagliostro: pre- or post-(this) invasion of pride's folly?
(11:07:10 PM) dkap: I'm not exactly sure, but the going back to Darkover, to check in, and make sure everything was set up properly.
(11:07:14 PM) dkap: That period.
(11:08:54 PM) Cagliostro: okay, that is i think post-invasion
(11:09:10 PM) Cagliostro: and after we lost Osric
(11:09:38 PM) Cagliostro: post-Dalkantyr...
(11:09:49 PM) dkap: Indeed. after Osric was gone.
(11:11:52 PM) dkap: So, mostly housekeeping things, and the interface with those who went out into Darkover, and the like.
(11:12:07 PM) dkap: The whole ongoing Chiere(sp?) plot.
(11:12:23 PM) Cagliostro: not sure what you mean about the Chiere plot
(11:12:39 PM) Cagliostro: post-Neville, too, of course.
(11:12:47 PM) Cagliostro: and after a black council attack on Kintani
(11:13:51 PM) Cagliostro: and after Caelin experimented with magic?
(11:13:53 PM) dkap: The redheaded aliens amongst the Darkovans.
(11:13:59 PM) Cagliostro: oh, okay.
(11:14:10 PM) Cagliostro: I haven't ever read any of the Darkover books with them. ;)
(11:15:03 PM) dkap: I thought, at one point, I mentioned them by name ...
(11:15:09 PM) dkap: But that might have just been in my head.
(11:15:11 PM) Cagliostro: you may have
(11:15:19 PM) Cagliostro: but I would not necessarily have remembered that
(11:15:21 PM) Cagliostro: even if I wrote it down ;)
(11:15:30 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:15:48 PM) dkap: And Auricle was recovering from the pattern draw.
(11:16:06 PM) dkap: Oh, typing of which. JJ said to wave madly at you, when she left, while you were AFK.
(11:18:34 PM) Cagliostro: ah yes, the tea party and the kidnapping thereof
(11:19:01 PM) Auricle: awww
(11:19:09 PM) Auricle: bye J.J. who's already gone.
(11:19:18 PM) dkap: Indeed. She might be back tomorrow.
(11:19:25 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:19:29 PM) dkap: That time-frame.
(11:20:35 PM) Cagliostro: sure, that's post-sword sister
(11:20:46 PM) dkap: Typing of time-frames, my evening companion just informed me of the time, and therefore, I should call game. Since we will be focusing on that time, Auricle if you want a walk-on from a White-Wolf world to be part of the interaction, and have one, I'd be happy to have that happen.
(11:20:56 PM) dkap: Either one of your own, or one we swot together ...
(11:21:20 PM) dkap: Just post sword-sister, yes.
(11:21:23 PM) Cagliostro: looks like we'reprobably mid-2007
(11:21:48 PM) Auricle: not quite sure I follow, dkap.
(11:21:52 PM) Cagliostro: I'd forgotten about the ninjettes.
(11:23:23 PM) dkap: Well ... we are doing some back-story, and I don't want you to sit bored, as we show some characters the stage, and see if they get stage-fright.
(11:23:50 PM) dkap: The best place to put them is in the Count's history, will make the least waves, regarardless of what they do.
(11:23:51 PM) Cagliostro: so we're probably talking march 2007
(11:24:15 PM) Cagliostro: when Cagliostro has just resolved the bedoin/drytowner issues, and has some downtime.
(11:24:37 PM) dkap: So, if you want to have a walk-on character, all the others are from white-wolf backgrounds, so if you have an old white-wolf character you want to toss into this campaign, as a walk on character, that would be wonderful.
(11:24:58 PM) dkap: If you and I want to create one, fairly quickly, so you could have a walk-on character ... that would work as well.
(11:25:09 PM) Cagliostro: don't forget that Bevan was around during the start of this mess
(11:25:12 PM) dkap: And that way, you aren't sitting bored, while gaming is going on.
(11:25:16 PM) Cagliostro: and they were also from a whitewolfy place
(11:25:23 PM) Auricle: oh goodness.
(11:25:34 PM) Auricle: is that going to be next week?
(11:25:42 PM) dkap: Yes, that's why I picked that insertion place.
(11:25:50 PM) dkap: Next little bit, yes.
(11:26:00 PM) Cagliostro: okay, pre- the arrival of Cagliostro's Heir or post-arrival?
(11:26:01 PM) Auricle: Okay
(11:26:20 PM) Auricle: I'll look for some old characters.
(11:26:21 PM) dkap: Some fresh blood, and I don't know that all will stick around, so throwing them into pretty much closed history is a good testing range.
(11:26:24 PM) Auricle: see what I have.
(11:26:31 PM) dkap: Excellent!
(11:26:49 PM) dkap: Umm ... let's just say pre.
(11:26:55 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(11:26:56 PM) dkap: He might get shifted a touch later ...
(11:27:07 PM) Cagliostro: there's some room there
(11:27:12 PM) dkap: There is enough stretch in the fabric to put in several chapters there.
(11:28:16 PM) Cagliostro: time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so
(11:28:53 PM) Cagliostro: so we are post-Ifrit, post-Neville, post-Shadow redraw, post-sword sister, post-Hell, still with Cagliostro's daughter around, and before the arrival of his heir.
(11:29:23 PM) Cagliostro: I can work with this.;)
(11:30:39 PM) Cagliostro: Is Cagliostro's daughter's player still playing? We could send her a note letting her know about the run.
(11:31:48 PM) dkap: I just did, than you for the reminder.
(11:37:19 PM) Cagliostro: http://www.rageboy.com/Stupidity.html
(11:38:19 PM) dkap: http://www.cold-moon.com/images/Motivators/GMs/Sacrifice.jpg
(11:40:46 PM) Auricle: rofl!
(11:45:23 PM) dkap: But, I must off to bed.
(11:45:46 PM) dkap: Auricle: email me if you find a character, or if you want to create one. We'll work on it during the week.
(11:46:00 PM) Auricle: All righty then
(11:46:02 PM) Auricle: night!
(11:46:10 PM) Auricle left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(11:46:38 PM) Cagliostro left the room.