Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 29 Dec 2009 01:50:51 PM EST:
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(08:05:04 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/
(08:05:39 PM) Delna [~chatzilla@c-71-228-78-177.hsd1.fl.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:14:01 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:14:37 PM) dkap: Greetings.
(08:15:10 PM) Hegara: evening
(08:17:03 PM) Delna: Allo
(08:17:36 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-67-173-205-213.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:17:43 PM) dkap: So ... where did we leave things?
(08:17:43 PM) Cagliostro: hello
(08:17:54 PM) dkap: Hegara is one of the Nos rescued, Delna.
(08:18:10 PM) Delna: So I have read
(08:18:10 PM) Cagliostro: Inara had been sent to Kaylee
(08:18:17 PM) Cagliostro: and Cagliostro is still working on other people
(08:19:09 PM) dkap: Right.f
(08:19:29 PM) dkap: Right, even. And he raised the Mystic Inerta of Inara, so she might even survive this.
(08:19:31 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:19:34 PM) dkap: Poor Mal.
(08:19:54 PM) Hegara: lol
(08:19:58 PM) dkap: Ahh ... good good. I did publish the logs then. *grin* I do forget, sometimes ...
(08:21:35 PM) dkap: We just ordered from Joes ... *grin*
(08:22:43 PM) dkap: So, Count, you are working on the others?
(08:23:22 PM) dkap: With River, now that you've sent Cemen away.
(08:25:06 PM) Cagliostro: yes
(08:26:14 PM) Spot [~chatzilla@c-71-232-106-50.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:26:52 PM) dkap: So, what are you doing?
(08:28:46 PM) Cagliostro: hm. valid question.
(08:28:59 PM) Cagliostro: trying to read the mind of the man, and fixing what I can.
(08:30:54 PM) dkap: His recent memories, before the "bang-whistle-tumble-blackout" was of Inara, and the delights she was bringing his body.
(08:31:12 PM) Cagliostro: right
(08:31:14 PM) Cagliostro: roll back a bit
(08:31:19 PM) Cagliostro: try to figure out who the woman is
(08:32:48 PM) dkap: Before being with Inara, is his negotiations with Inara, for her time, the payment, which, he thought, was rather high, but worth it, and none of it in his local equivalent of money.
(08:34:56 PM) Cagliostro: continue working backwards.
(08:35:09 PM) Cagliostro: he may be the only survivor from his universe with memory, so be careful.
(08:36:26 PM) dkap: Before that, there were some interesting pieces of his anticipation, mixed with government business. He's apparently some sort of either prince, or grand visir.
(08:37:59 PM) Cagliostro: so the woman could be royalty, spy, assassin...
(08:38:03 PM) Cagliostro: bodyguard, etc.
(08:40:28 PM) dkap: Exactly.
(08:40:30 PM) Cagliostro: do I get a feeling for the tech level of where he came from, just out of curiousity?
(08:40:46 PM) Cagliostro: I should probably work backward long enough to be sure she isn't a relative
(08:40:52 PM) Cagliostro: if I can't just check that directly
(08:40:59 PM) dkap: Hrm ... high formal, possibly Edwardian equiv.
(08:41:55 PM) dkap: And, no, you can't tell.
(08:43:27 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(08:43:30 PM) Cagliostro: can I wake him up?
(08:44:04 PM) dkap: The farther back you get, the more you realize that he is a self-centered individual. The King's face is quite clear in his memory, but ... not many others, so probably more Prince than Visir.
(08:44:23 PM) Cagliostro: well, low chance of trauma anyway from what happened to other people
(08:44:28 PM) dkap: Very probably, now that his arm is reattached, and he has no memory of loosing it.
(08:44:36 PM) Cagliostro: he's likely to be in a bad way from being separated from his kingdom, though
(08:44:45 PM) Cagliostro: change plan about waking him up
(08:44:49 PM) Cagliostro: let's make this Mal's problem ;)
(08:44:53 PM) Hegara: lol
(08:45:06 PM) Cagliostro: have the Ifrit carry back the man
(08:45:17 PM) Cagliostro: and I'll see if I can make some progress on the woman
(08:45:23 PM) dkap: Are you sure? Mal didn't even know, apparently that Inara had company, if you remember. He thought she was alone, when they started shifting.
(08:45:50 PM) dkap: So it might become Inara's problem with Mal ... and Mal's solution might be at the end of a gun or blade ...
(08:47:31 PM) Cagliostro: hm, fair point.
(08:47:36 PM) Cagliostro: make a complete backup of the guy.
(08:47:40 PM) Cagliostro: -then- send him through.
(08:47:53 PM) Cagliostro: I doubt that Mal will get violent with Inara.
(08:48:10 PM) Cagliostro: if he does, then that solves the what to do with Mal problem, as soon as River finds out
(08:48:43 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:49:53 PM) dkap: There's this thing called "love" and "jealousy" that motivates Mal. I doubt he will vent it in Inara's direction directly, but the fellow might suffer, and he might be all that's left of his culture, however bad an example of it he is ...
(08:50:18 PM) dkap: And your complete backups haven't worked all that well without a contiguous piece ...
(08:50:30 PM) dkap: But ... that's a good plan.
(08:50:40 PM) Cagliostro: I'm not exactly risking Ghandi, here
(08:50:54 PM) dkap: True enough.
(08:51:42 PM) dkap: Although, and granted this might be from the filter in his memories, he seemed to be quite well liked, by everyone, even people he didn't seem to like.
(08:52:22 PM) dkap: But, onto the stowaway.
(08:53:03 PM) Cagliostro: yeah, I'm going to put that off to the filter.
(08:53:09 PM) Cagliostro: and a good propaganda artist.
(08:54:41 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro can work on the stowaway, but you might as well run the vamps and spot
(09:03:14 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:03:50 PM) dkap: So, dawn begins to happen. Delna you wake.
(09:04:43 PM) dkap: Hegara, you also wake ...
(09:04:53 PM) dkap: You are bunked down in a room with the other Nos, Hegara.
(09:05:02 PM) dkap: Spot, what have you done with yourself all day?
(09:05:48 PM) Spot: Well I hunted some food down, checked my wolves, took a nap for a while, then mosey'd on back to see what the leeches are up to, I suspect
(09:06:53 PM) Delna: When the sun sets again Delna will send out a request via her advisors for anyone who is opposed to sending the werewolf pack to another world to place a vote of opposition
(09:07:34 PM) dkap: You remember how sunrise/sunset works here?
(09:07:50 PM) dkap: Another place, not world.
(09:07:53 PM) dkap: Same world.
(09:08:05 PM) Hegara: ?
(09:08:36 PM) Delna: The light or darkness moves across the land...right?
(09:08:41 PM) dkap: It does.
(09:08:57 PM) dkap: Sort of a rolling line, rather than actual sunset or sunrise. Much more abrupt.
(09:09:05 PM) Delna: Just used to saying things in terms of having an actual sun
(09:09:27 PM) dkap: Of course. But it means you transition from sleep to awake, almost immediately.
(09:10:02 PM) Delna: Jolting
(09:10:42 PM) Delna: When Delna wakes then..
(09:11:21 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:12:19 PM) dkap: Hegara: The discussion was either to keep the woofs around, to make sure that strife was external to the vamps, rather than internal, or let them be sent elsewhere. You have no background for either answer really. The thought that there are actually werewolves probably dismays you on some level.
(09:12:58 PM) Hegara: ok
(09:13:01 PM) Spot: ((awww but I'm really cute!))
(09:13:35 PM) dkap: Maybe they don't want the competition, of your cuteness ... *Grin*
(09:14:53 PM) Spot: ((it's the wings, really))
(09:15:39 PM) dkap: Or your winning grin.
(09:16:06 PM) dkap: Delna: A few voice their opposition, but more are concerned about the individual who seems to have become ... rearranged, in his sleep.
(09:16:28 PM) dkap: He was one of the Toreadore.
(09:16:35 PM) dkap: You don't really remember more than his face.
(09:16:49 PM) dkap: And yet, he still lives on, as ... torn apart as he is.
(09:16:58 PM) dkap: In significant pain, but, not close to death.
(09:17:21 PM) Delna: ....Did I know about this before, or is this news to my character as well?
(09:18:01 PM) dkap: News to your character as well. Happened sometime during the sleep-cycle.
(09:18:16 PM) dkap: And no one else in his room was touched, is missing anything, or is even really hurt.
(09:19:53 PM) Delna: I go to check this out immediately
(09:23:56 PM) dkap: That's when you can see that he is not near death, but still "living" in the various cut up parts and displayed.
(09:24:05 PM) Delna: I will bring the chalice and feed him, then try to get other information from those around. Does he look like he could mend..?
(09:25:10 PM) dkap: He doesn't look like he should be showing sides of life at all.
(09:25:22 PM) dkap: His intestines are all over the place, his limbs are torn off.
(09:25:56 PM) dkap: And arranged around his resting-place.
(09:26:15 PM) Delna: Can he speak?
(09:26:31 PM) dkap: Not really. His chest is all cut open, and his lungs are not really connected.
(09:27:14 PM) dkap: And he seems very confused.
(09:27:29 PM) Delna: Does it look like the work of anything I might know? A wolf?
(09:28:26 PM) dkap: Well ... maybe, but it is cut, not torn. Most of the woofs are into the whole rending thing. And just him, none of the folks near him were disturbed at all.
(09:29:07 PM) dkap: A woof-hominid could have done it, but probably would have gone into bloodlust, and frenzied, rather than anything else.
(09:30:14 PM) Delna: Is the count's daughter still around here?
(09:30:24 PM) dkap: She should be findable, yes.
(09:30:44 PM) dkap: She's not immediately obvious, but she might be in the shed put up around the down-ed space-ship.
(09:30:48 PM) Spot: ((What was Auricle here??))
(09:31:10 PM) Delna: I go to find her and ask some of the Nos to stay and guard the place til I find out more about what is going on.
(09:31:12 PM) Cagliostro: ((Auricle may cast shadows ;) ))
(09:31:34 PM) Spot: ((That's a horrifying thought. One of her is bad enough, really))
(09:32:25 PM) dkap: ((I don't know, there are many mad vivisectionalists out there.))
(09:32:36 PM) Spot: ((true))
(09:32:45 PM) dkap: Hegara? You and Meg?
(09:33:46 PM) dkap: Are the two of you willing to guard for Delna?
(09:34:18 PM) dkap: Meiglan, of course ...
(09:34:37 PM) Hegara: I will
(09:34:48 PM) dkap: Good good.
(09:35:28 PM) dkap: The Toreodore pieces are somewhat twitching, either exploring their possible movement, or trying to pull themselves together, but ... they don't seem well-coordinated.
(09:35:50 PM) dkap: Delna: Mistress Janice is, indeed, out in the Serenity Shed.
(09:36:11 PM) Delna: I go to her swiftly
(09:36:22 PM) Delna: And explain the situation.
(09:36:29 PM) dkap: You find her there, and she is more than willing to come and see.
(09:37:30 PM) Delna: "This is beyond my skill to fix. And I do not know what might have done this, which is perhaps an even more concerning issue."
(09:37:37 PM) Delna: I take her to the toreadore
(09:39:57 PM) dkap: She takes a look, wonders at it for a few moments, and then suggests gathering up all the parts in, perhaps a blanket or a coat, and moving them out of sight of the others, to stem panic.
(09:40:12 PM) dkap: I mean, to be dismembered so, and yet, still live ...
(09:42:11 PM) Delna: "Is there any chance that you or your family may be able to mend him? If so, I worry that moving him might destroy what little chance we could have to help him..."
(09:42:18 PM) Delna: If there is any..
(09:42:49 PM) dkap: She looks at Delna's scar, and asks: "Is he going to die if we move him?"
(09:43:41 PM) Delna: ... "Do I see any death from this action?"
(09:43:57 PM) dkap: Nope.
(09:44:07 PM) dkap: You don't see his death for some time yet.
(09:44:16 PM) dkap: Decades, maybe longer.
(09:46:59 PM) ***Delna quite confused...
(09:47:24 PM) Delna: "No.."
(09:47:55 PM) Delna: Delna begins gathering the pieces of the Toreadore and putting them into a blanket or something similar that may be found close by
(09:48:45 PM) Cagliostro: ah,the number of times in this game we've needed a bucket...
(09:48:55 PM) Hegara: lol
(09:49:36 PM) dkap: Poor Ilkandacian.
(09:50:45 PM) Delna: When gathered, Delna will seek out an isolated place to bring the body
(09:50:53 PM) dkap: He's all gathered, and Mistress Janice suggests taking him to the Serenity Shed, so that he can puzzle Simon.
(09:51:30 PM) Delna: "Sounds like a plan.."
(09:52:06 PM) dkap: Upon receipt Simon asks: "What have we here."
(09:52:15 PM) dkap: Mistress Janice: "A puzzle for you, good doctor."
(09:53:27 PM) Delna: "We do not know what did this to him...or how to fix him...but he is most assuredly still alive and will be for sometime, despite his looks."
(09:56:44 PM) dkap: He begins to unfold the blanket, several pieces drop out, and twitch on impact.
(09:56:48 PM) dkap: He is quite taken aback.
(09:57:04 PM) dkap: And yet, fascinated at the same time.
(09:57:42 PM) dkap: Noticing that the throat is carefully discombobulated, he figures that, for the best feedback, that's where he should start, first.
(09:59:11 PM) Delna: "Do you know if you can do anything for him?"
(10:00:07 PM) dkap: Muttering to himself, he begins trying to reassemble pieces, and establish communications.
(10:03:10 PM) dkap: Hegara seems to be humming something to himself ...
(10:03:30 PM) Hegara: "the leg bones connected to the hip bone"
(10:03:42 PM) dkap: Simon looks up, and asks if he could move that arm a little closer, to see if the control has anything to do with proximity ...
(10:04:14 PM) Hegara: slides arm across the table
(10:04:37 PM) dkap: The twitching becomes more focused.
(10:04:46 PM) dkap: And more deterministic.
(10:06:46 PM) dkap: Simon: "Facinating"
(10:06:59 PM) dkap: Hand gives him the middle finger.
(10:07:13 PM) Hegara: start laughing
(10:07:21 PM) dkap: Simon: "Even more fascinating. Do you know sign-language?"
(10:07:38 PM) dkap: The hand becomes a fist.
(10:07:50 PM) dkap: Simon: "I take that for a 'No.'"
(10:09:00 PM) Hegara: I think dat means less talk more putting me back together
(10:09:30 PM) dkap: Simon: "If this hurts, give me a sign. One finger will do for 'Yes' nicely, I think."
(10:09:57 PM) dkap: Simon asks Hegara (who he hasn't stopped and looked at properly yet) to watch for the finger, if he would.
(10:10:17 PM) Hegara: looks down at the hand on the table
(10:11:00 PM) dkap: Simon is poking, occasionally the fist clenches, and, at one point gives the finger again.
(10:11:22 PM) Hegara: stop
(10:12:21 PM) Hegara: finger
(10:12:39 PM) dkap: Simon: "Right. Hang on a moment."
(10:14:34 PM) dkap: Looks around: "Does anyone have anything that can be used as a bladder for a moment?"
(10:15:54 PM) dkap: After a confused look Mistress Janice pulls out a latex glove.
(10:16:19 PM) dkap: Simon looks gratefully to her, inflates it, and sticks it against the Vamp's throat.
(10:16:45 PM) ***Delna cocks an eye quisically
(10:16:45 PM) dkap: Simon: "In a minute I'm going to let go of this. You might be able to say one or two words. Use them well."
(10:17:26 PM) dkap: He let's go of the air in the glove, and the voice box rattles for a moment, and then it spits out "It HURTS!"
(10:20:38 PM) dkap: Simon seems not surprised at this.
(10:20:42 PM) dkap: The rest of you?
(10:21:20 PM) Hegara: "We know."
(10:21:43 PM) dkap: Mistress Janice simply raises her eyebrows.
(10:22:07 PM) ***Delna thoroughly unsurprised, "I don't suppose we could give him some kind of anesthesia in this state..."
(10:22:11 PM) dkap: Simon reinflates the glove.
(10:22:33 PM) dkap: Simon: "Anywhere in particular?"
(10:22:53 PM) dkap: Viv-Vamp: "Everywhere!"
(10:22:57 PM) dkap: Simon nods.
(10:23:44 PM) dkap: Simon to Delna: "I don't know. His metabolic system seems necrotic, even if he _was_ together, I don't know that anesthetic would even work."
(10:23:57 PM) dkap: Simon, almost to himself: "Maybe a topical one ..."
(10:27:02 PM) dkap: Rummaging around in his bag, he pulls out a cream and rubs it on a section of the cut-open belly, where it's most raw.
(10:27:25 PM) dkap: He then reinflates the glove, and says: "How's that?"
(10:27:33 PM) dkap: Viv-Vamp: "No Change."
(10:28:44 PM) dkap: Simon, to the collected people: "I don't know if I can do anything to ease his pain, except get him back together. Come back in several hours, and I'll let you know how it's going.
(10:29:05 PM) Hegara: "Ok"
(10:29:07 PM) ***Delna Nods
(10:30:03 PM) dkap: When you get out, there is a delegation there of Vamps.
(10:31:41 PM) dkap: Spokes-Vamp: "We know there was a vote taken, but, in light of the new information, we would not only like to keep the woofs around, but would like to hire them to guard us, in our sleep."
(10:31:46 PM) dkap: Nods all around the delegation.
(10:32:16 PM) ***Delna nods
(10:32:21 PM) dkap: ((Spot, it looks like they want to keep you ...)
(10:32:34 PM) Delna: Is there one of my advisors who looks to have been a part of this delegation?
(10:32:49 PM) Spot: ((Arooooo!))
(10:33:36 PM) dkap: Nope.
(10:33:59 PM) Delna: To the gathered crowd: "All here are in agreement with this?"
(10:34:50 PM) dkap: Delegation: "Yep, Ah-huh, of course ... (et cetera)"
(10:36:41 PM) ***Delna nods again. "I will have to put word out of this to make sure there is no major opposition, and discuss whether this would be agreeable to the garou. This proposal will be seriously considered though."
(10:37:57 PM) dkap: Spokes-Vamp: "Good. We are going to start scouting around for clues ..."
(10:38:15 PM) dkap: Spokes-Vamp to Delegation: "And _no_ witch-hunts!"
(10:40:56 PM) Delna: "Agreed. Please bring any information to me so that we may address this as quickly as possible. I will be setting a watch over the castle immediately."
(10:42:50 PM) dkap: The vamps nod and go off in groups of 2s and 3s arguing amongst themselves if 2 is too small a group to break down to, vs how much ground they can cover. No one suggests splitting up entirely ...
(10:42:57 PM) dkap: Do you go and seek Spot?
(10:43:03 PM) dkap: And do you take Hegara with you?
(10:44:25 PM) Delna: I will take Hegara with me. Before seeking spot I will seek one of my advisors to set people to help find information and I will see if the other Nos will guard the castle currently.
(10:44:43 PM) Hegara: Follow Delna
(10:45:22 PM) dkap: The other Nos will.
(10:45:24 PM) Delna: Then I will seek out Spot.
(10:45:30 PM) dkap: Good good.
(10:45:52 PM) Spot: ((who is a bit sleepy at this point, irl))
(10:47:44 PM) dkap: Shall we call it here, and pick up from here next bat-week?
(10:48:13 PM) dkap: (It is 10 minutes to end of game ...)
(10:48:15 PM) Spot: sure
(10:48:21 PM) Delna: Probably
(10:48:44 PM) Cagliostro: sure
(10:48:58 PM) Cagliostro: unless you want to do something with the woman
(10:49:07 PM) dkap: Right then! Let's hang game!
(10:49:20 PM) Spot: night folks!
(10:49:25 PM) Spot left the room.
(10:49:25 PM) Hegara: ok, sleep well all
(10:49:27 PM) Delna: Good night!
(10:49:45 PM) Delna: And Happy New Year to everyone!
(10:49:58 PM) Hegara: Happy holidays to you all
(10:50:28 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.5.6/20091201220228]).
(10:51:46 PM) Hegara left the room (quit: Quit).
(10:55:17 PM) Cagliostro: (Watching Rebecca)