Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 02 Feb 2010 08:10:24 PM EST:
(08:14:58 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:18:05 PM) dkap: Ping?
(08:18:45 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@12-50-194-194.att-inc.com] entered the room.
(08:19:04 PM) dkap: Ahh ... excellent.
(08:19:22 PM) Cagliostro: I will probably turn into a pumpkin around 10 or so.
(08:19:38 PM) dkap: Good to know.
(08:19:39 PM) Spot [~chatzilla@c-71-232-106-50.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:19:46 PM) dkap: Then there were three.
(08:20:31 PM) ***Spot is pretty zoned
(08:20:38 PM) Spot is now known as Auricle
(08:21:00 PM) dkap: There are spots on Auricle?
(08:21:40 PM) Auricle: paisleys
(08:21:53 PM) Auricle: hmm
(08:23:11 PM) Cagliostro: spot the Auricle
(08:24:12 PM) Auricle: I'm right here.
(08:24:14 PM) Auricle: Sorta
(08:24:58 PM) Amanda [~chatzilla@pool-72-91-0-141.tampfl.fios.verizon.net] entered the room.
(08:27:19 PM) Amanda is now known as Delna
(08:28:38 PM) dkap: Right then. When last we left our intrepid heros ...
(08:28:48 PM) dkap: Ammon was in pieces.
(08:28:53 PM) dkap: Or that was the bet.
(08:32:00 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Read error: Connection reset by peer).
(08:32:01 PM) Cagliostr1 [~sgorton@12-50-194-194.att-inc.com] entered the room.
(08:32:10 PM) dkap: TImeouts suck?
(08:32:13 PM) Cagliostr1 is now known as Cagliostro
(08:32:30 PM) Cagliostro: re-authenticating onself to the hotel wireless every 24 hours is annoying.
(08:32:54 PM) dkap: Completely understandable.
(08:33:06 PM) dkap: Hotel wireless? Hotels have wireless? What year is this?
(08:33:28 PM) Cagliostro: 2010, I think
(08:33:35 PM) Cagliostro: so I don't know if you're ahead or behind
(08:33:41 PM) Cagliostro: ("wireless? How quaint.")
(08:34:02 PM) dkap: Usually it's part of the broadcast power-wave ... right?
(08:35:13 PM) Hegara [~Hegara@c-66-31-5-197.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:35:38 PM) Hegara: greetings all
(08:35:39 PM) dkap: Typing of broadcast, Hello Hegara!
(08:36:10 PM) Cagliostro: hmm... you may have moved sideways from a more Teslaish universe this time.
(08:36:32 PM) dkap: When last we left our intrepid heroes, We were gathered around the Doc, looking at why things weren't healing, and Ammon was about to try and fetch the Count, to get his opinion of the circumstance.
(08:38:25 PM) dkap: Right?
(08:39:10 PM) dkap: This is a Tesla-ish universe, isn't it? We have radio, lights, and robots, right?
(08:40:22 PM) Cagliostro: radio, lights, and robot-ish.
(08:40:40 PM) Cagliostro: apparently they've stopped even calling AI "AI". It's not knowledge capture and other junk.
(08:40:52 PM) Cagliostro: we are Teslaesque, not ish. No death rays.
(08:40:59 PM) Cagliostro: not even Famous Death Ray's Pizza.
(08:41:09 PM) ***Auricle builds a death ray.
(08:41:14 PM) Cagliostro: (Which alas does not fit as a superhero name in City of Heroes, or I would have used it.)
(08:44:38 PM) dkap: We have death rays. I'm sure of it. Even invisible ones. In the "micro" range. Right?
(08:45:20 PM) dkap: We use the "death rays" to ignite the missiles that the Reds were throwing at us, Right?
(08:45:27 PM) dkap: Hrm ...
(08:45:41 PM) dkap: That's what the I-Ching said ...
(08:45:56 PM) Cagliostro: game comma run
(08:46:51 PM) ***Auricle rewrites reality to make game happen.
(08:47:00 PM) Hegara: lol
(08:47:38 PM) Delna: woot
(08:48:59 PM) dkap: When last we left our intrepid heroes, We were gathered around the Doc, looking at why things weren't healing, and Ammon was about to try and fetch the Count, to get his opinion of the circumstance.
(08:49:50 PM) Delna: I am in agreement with the idea of getting the count
(08:50:29 PM) Cagliostro: the Count is gettable. I forget what he is doing, but I think it is interruptible.
(08:51:05 PM) dkap: He was investigating the crash site.
(08:51:19 PM) dkap: Hrm ... I'm having a "Man in the High Castle" moment.
(08:51:53 PM) Cagliostro: oh yes
(08:52:01 PM) Cagliostro: I needed a retcon on aisle five, speaking of which
(08:52:17 PM) Cagliostro: because I brought Cemen in to make the looping woman's memory return
(08:52:23 PM) Cagliostro: not to make it go away
(08:53:11 PM) ***Auricle rewrites the reality again.
(08:54:33 PM) dkap: Indeed, you did, but it had the opposite effect, if I recall correctly?
(08:54:50 PM) dkap: Which is why you had him stop as soon as you did.
(08:55:47 PM) Cagliostro: it was unclear
(08:55:49 PM) Delna: (may be a lag from me as I will soon be in transit, fyi)
(08:55:59 PM) Cagliostro: from what you said, it sounded like you thought I had brought him in to do the opposite
(08:56:08 PM) Delna: Please shake the 8 ball again
(08:57:36 PM) Cagliostro: I can accept that the results were counter-intuitive, though, but then I just need feedback on what Cagliostro was able to do before Cemen was involved
(09:03:35 PM) Delna: (will be back)
(09:05:55 PM) dkap: Checking my notes, Cagliostro got the loop she was stuck in.
(09:06:53 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:07:00 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(09:07:05 PM) Cagliostro: and what happened when he erased the loop?
(09:09:17 PM) dkap: He got the loop gone, but it didn't help with bringing the memories back.
(09:09:35 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(09:09:53 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro sent the man back to Malcolm et al, yes?
(09:10:03 PM) Cagliostro: after making a backup
(09:10:30 PM) dkap: To the Doc, not to Mal.
(09:11:01 PM) Cagliostro: sure
(09:11:30 PM) dkap: Simply because you didn't _want_ to bloody him, but didn't mind if you did.
(09:12:13 PM) Delna [~chatzilla@c-71-228-78-177.hsd1.fl.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:12:57 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(09:13:13 PM) Cagliostro: so I guess Cagliostro will be trying to figure out how to fix the woman when Ammon comes to find him
(09:14:02 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:19:16 PM) Cagliostro: so what does Ammon say?
(09:23:59 PM) dkap: Ammon comes to find you, in the desert.
(09:24:19 PM) Cagliostro: which is where he finds me.
(09:24:39 PM) dkap: And pants, to catch his breath.
(09:24:48 PM) ***Cagliostro waits politely
(09:25:27 PM) dkap: Then, shifts to human, and fills the Count in, on what was going on.
(09:29:45 PM) dkap: Does the Count return to deal?
(09:32:27 PM) ***Cagliostro has no idea what was going on
(09:33:17 PM) dkap: Ahh ... There is some ... unknown entity, cutting into the vamps and the woofs, and, while they _should_ be fatal wounds, they aren't dying.
(09:33:49 PM) Cagliostro: "That is... bad. Have the hamsters been informed?"
(09:36:38 PM) Delna: (probably not since Delna hasn't seen them for a while)
(09:37:28 PM) dkap: Ammon would not know.
(09:37:35 PM) Cagliostro: in that case, Cagliostro would try to check in with them
(09:37:49 PM) Cagliostro: presumably through radio, since the cards are counter-recommended
(09:38:20 PM) dkap: The hamsterites don't have radio at the moment.
(09:39:56 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(09:40:07 PM) Cagliostro: I guess I need to go get in trouble ;)
(09:40:21 PM) Cagliostro: return via an indirect gate hop with Ammon
(09:40:27 PM) Cagliostro: naturally, Cemen will be tucked away safely
(09:40:47 PM) dkap: I believe you tucked Cemen away safely before Ammon showed up.
(09:41:04 PM) dkap: Simply because, when he found he wasn't helping, he wanted to go and meditate on that, for a bit.
(09:41:23 PM) Cagliostro: I thought so
(09:41:27 PM) Cagliostro: but wanted to be doubly sure
(09:42:11 PM) Cagliostro: the Count will return to a place where Ammon directs him, bow, and request to be shown someone who suffers from the mystery ailments
(09:42:18 PM) Cagliostro: after first setting up some additional wards and sensors
(09:43:11 PM) dkap: They are on Simon's tables.
(09:43:32 PM) dkap: Just outside the Serenity Hut.
(09:46:51 PM) ***Cagliostro examines Simon's victims.
(09:47:42 PM) dkap: On this plane, they are cut open, really badly.
(09:47:47 PM) dkap: Normally they should be dead.
(09:48:19 PM) dkap: But, things seem to be transmitting, both blood, and nervine messages.
(09:48:35 PM) Cagliostro: does the lens illuminate?
(09:48:59 PM) Cagliostro: (Cagliostro pulls out a delicate and ornate magnifying glass and peers through it at the wounds and the wounded)
(09:49:47 PM) dkap: There seem to be some bluish filaments connecting both the pieces to themselves, and running off, into the distance.
(09:54:41 PM) Cagliostro: into the same distance?
(09:55:12 PM) dkap: Yes, far distance.
(09:55:17 PM) dkap: Two vamps, one woof.
(09:57:40 PM) Cagliostro: can I trace it from where I am, or do I need to go haring after it?
(09:58:00 PM) dkap: Too far a distance.
(09:58:24 PM) dkap: If you need to trace it, you probably can, but it will be ... non-trivial.
(09:58:35 PM) Cagliostro: easier to follow it?
(09:59:10 PM) Cagliostro: and can I tell the manner of the connection?
(09:59:17 PM) dkap: Indeed, but following something that only shows up in the lens ...
(09:59:23 PM) dkap: Nope.
(10:00:01 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(10:00:35 PM) Cagliostro: estimate for the non-trivial trace? Minutes, hours, days...
(10:01:25 PM) dkap: Hours, definitely, possibly days.
(10:01:40 PM) dkap: But, you have other resources available to you, should you think it.
(10:04:21 PM) Cagliostro: probably Mistress Janice would be good for a consult
(10:04:23 PM) Cagliostro: is she around?
(10:04:34 PM) dkap: She is available, but I was thinking Spot ...
(10:04:55 PM) Cagliostro: why would I know that Spot wouldbe helpful? I'm open, but missing the leap.
(10:05:43 PM) dkap: Hrm ... maybe it wasn't in the briefing, but they mentioned the tendrils as well.
(10:06:48 PM) Cagliostro: aha.
(10:07:00 PM) Cagliostro: "Interesting. Who noticed the tendrils?"
(10:08:01 PM) Delna: Spot did, looking through to the Umbra
(10:08:10 PM) dkap: Spot, and Ammon, in the Umbra.
(10:08:38 PM) Cagliostro: "The what now?"
(10:08:57 PM) Auricle is now known as Spot
(10:09:00 PM) Spot: The Umbra.
(10:09:03 PM) ***Cagliostro would actually phrase it more delicately, but the player is tired.
(10:09:21 PM) Cagliostro: "That repeats but does not clarify. What is the Umbra?"
(10:10:59 PM) ***Spot thinks for a moment.
(10:11:23 PM) Spot: "The world of spirits and dreams just on the other side of this physical reality."
(10:12:06 PM) Cagliostro: "Perhaps the 'Overworld', then."
(10:12:14 PM) Cagliostro: gm: can I open a gate to the overworld?
(10:13:19 PM) dkap: Umm ... I really don't think so.
(10:13:48 PM) Cagliostro: I can accept that.
(10:13:58 PM) Cagliostro: "Can you bring me over there to look at the trail?"
(10:16:26 PM) Spot: "Sure."
(10:16:34 PM) Spot: ((sorry, bit zoned from meds))
(10:17:19 PM) Spot: "Who has the bauble?"
(10:19:57 PM) Delna: Hegara
(10:20:11 PM) Spot: "Or really anything shiny will do."
(10:22:48 PM) Delna: I offer the chalice
(10:24:01 PM) ***Spot grabs Cagliostro and dives through the chalice into the Umbra
(10:25:50 PM) dkap: The umbra is, of course, yet another mystical realm, but, you can see the representation of everything on the other side ... here ... sort of.
(10:26:01 PM) dkap: Like another overworld, just ... sideways.
(10:26:39 PM) Cagliostro: "Huh. Not the Overworld. Somewhere else. Interesting."
(10:26:42 PM) Spot: "The Umbra."
(10:26:54 PM) Cagliostro: gm: can I see the threads with or without the lens?
(10:27:06 PM) dkap: Without, and yes.
(10:27:32 PM) Cagliostro: does the lens improve things beyong the naked eye?
(10:28:26 PM) dkap: Nope. The lens actually looks back into the "other" world from here.
(10:29:13 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(10:29:25 PM) Cagliostro: is it easier to trace the threads here?
(10:29:32 PM) Cagliostro: and are there more threads visible than the original three?
(10:33:41 PM) dkap: This is Katherine
(10:33:48 PM) dkap: Percival is helping me out with a computer problem
(10:33:53 PM) dkap: I mean, DKap is helping me out
(10:33:57 PM) dkap: He will be back online ASAP
(10:34:34 PM) Cagliostro: thanks for the update
(10:37:46 PM) Spot: I must go collapse from exhaustion
(10:37:49 PM) Spot: goodnight
(10:38:00 PM) Spot left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(10:38:02 PM) Cagliostro: yes, probably a good place to wrap for me. I have an early AM tomorrow.
(10:38:18 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(10:38:36 PM) Delna: moi aussi
(10:38:46 PM) Hegara: I guess that is it?
(10:39:35 PM) Caelin [~arkhon@pool-71-174-18-125.bstnma.east.verizon.net] entered the room.
(10:39:55 PM) Caelin: BLeh. Sorry. Dinner at gf's parents.
(10:40:14 PM) Hegara: np, I think we are wrapping it up
(10:40:20 PM) Caelin: *nod*
(10:41:37 PM) Hegara: so I guess, be well everyone and see you next week
(10:42:48 PM) Delna: see you next week
(10:42:52 PM) Delna: night
(10:43:01 PM) Hegara left the room (quit: Quit).
(10:43:03 PM) Delna left the room.
(10:45:30 PM) Caelin left the room.
(08:30:16 PM) Caelin: All rise, for the honorable GM...
(08:30:24 PM) Hegara: *stands
(08:32:00 PM) ***Auricle waits to see if there is really a GM
(08:32:26 PM) Meiglan: aren't we supposed to pledge allegiance or curtsy or something?
(08:32:47 PM) Caelin: Only in times of war.
(08:36:18 PM) Hegara: lol
(08:36:19 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:37:04 PM) Caelin: Dkap, your session active?
(08:37:05 PM) dkap: I really hope no pledging goes on.
(08:37:09 PM) Caelin: LOl
(08:37:11 PM) dkap: I'd have to call myself "Julian"
(08:37:16 PM) dkap: You know ... King Julian.
(08:37:20 PM) dkap: (Of the lemurs?)
(08:37:25 PM) Caelin: Lemme give you a small warning...
(08:37:25 PM) Hegara: lol
(08:37:56 PM) Caelin: I'll be in town Sunday evening until Tuesday, and I'll need to crash in my old room, if that's okay.
(08:39:35 PM) dkap: Just fine!
(08:39:58 PM) dkap: It's your room still, my friend. Up until I need to rescue someone else ... *grin*
(08:40:25 PM) ***Caelin bows. "Thank you!"
(08:41:07 PM) Auricle: Aha!
(08:41:10 PM) Auricle: There he is!
(08:41:32 PM) dkap: Where? Where?
(08:41:48 PM) Caelin: Boba Fett?! Boba Fett?! WHERE?!
(08:42:57 PM) dkap: Exactly!
(08:46:35 PM) dkap: Right then.
(08:46:41 PM) dkap: Where did we leave off?
(08:46:58 PM) dkap: The count hairing off, following spot into the Umbra, right?
(08:47:18 PM) Hegara: i think so
(08:47:26 PM) Delna: yeah, that sounds about right
(08:47:49 PM) Auricle: I think so
(08:47:53 PM) Auricle is now known as Spot
(08:48:19 PM) dkap: So, Spot, you've now dragged a mundane into the Umbra.
(08:48:33 PM) Spot: Yup
(08:49:16 PM) Spot: Behold, the Umbra
(08:49:40 PM) dkap: (slugs go "OOOOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOOhhhhhh")
(08:54:33 PM) Spot: And there's no count.
(08:54:38 PM) Spot: making this hard to do
(08:55:05 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-31-32-142.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:55:18 PM) Cagliostro: right, it's Tuesday
(08:55:21 PM) Spot: aha
(08:55:24 PM) Caelin: LOL
(08:55:25 PM) Hegara: lol
(08:55:47 PM) Spot: Speak, and he appears
(08:56:05 PM) Cagliostro: Summoned, I arrive.
(08:56:09 PM) Caelin: Right. What's an Umbra? ;-)
(08:56:14 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:56:28 PM) dkap: It's about the length of your middle finger down to your elbow.
(08:58:51 PM) Cagliostro: So IIRC Cagliostro is in the Umbra trying to follow the tracks
(08:58:54 PM) ***Spot coughs. "So, behold, the Umbra."
(09:00:16 PM) Cagliostro: "Yes, it's not the Overworld. Haven't been here before. The trails are more prominent here."
(09:01:08 PM) dkap: Mmm ... and the relationship to the world beyond is mappable by your lens.
(09:01:20 PM) dkap: So this could actually _be_ the magic side of the magical plane?
(09:02:20 PM) Cagliostro: I don't think Cagliostro thinks in those terms
(09:02:24 PM) Cagliostro: alas for you ;)
(09:02:41 PM) Cagliostro: so, are the tracks trackable?
(09:02:44 PM) Spot: "It's the spirit world, the world beyond mundane senses."
(09:04:00 PM) dkap: The lines, that look somewhat like a little thick spider-silk, with a bluish tinge, are leading away, like an untwisted rope ...
(09:04:07 PM) dkap: All in approximately the same direction.
(09:05:24 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(09:05:31 PM) Cagliostro: gm: I go thataway.
(09:05:41 PM) dkap: Spot?
(09:05:42 PM) ***Spot rolls his eyes and follows.
(09:05:55 PM) dkap: Spot heads in a weaver-like direction.
(09:05:56 PM) Spot: "You realize you can't get out of here without me..."
(09:06:16 PM) Spot: "And you're heading towards a Weaver spot. "
(09:06:46 PM) Cagliostro: "Maybe. What's this Weaver you speak of?"
(09:08:05 PM) ***Spot grins a little.
(09:09:31 PM) ***Cagliostro continues
(09:09:43 PM) Spot: "The Wyld is pure chaos, pure creativeness, pure growth, pure everything. The Weaver takes the Wyld and changes it, turns it to static, to form, to function, to a neverchanging world. And the Wyrm, we break down her makings, destroying all, returning the circle."
(09:10:56 PM) Spot: "She will wrap you in webs and hold you in her neverchanging embrace unless you are careful."
(09:11:23 PM) Cagliostro: "Interesting."
(09:13:00 PM) dkap: Somewhere, I'm sure, Delna is twitching.
(09:14:14 PM) Cagliostro: gm: any feel for how far away the destination is?
(09:14:21 PM) Cagliostro: and any new threads joining the mass?
(09:14:24 PM) Delna: heheh
(09:14:38 PM) dkap: No new threads, joining the mass, yet.
(09:14:50 PM) dkap: And the destination is "far".
(09:15:53 PM) dkap: Far enough that it converges on the horizon.
(09:16:28 PM) Cagliostro: can I open a gate here to here on the horizon?
(09:16:34 PM) Cagliostro: threadishway?
(09:16:54 PM) dkap: Umm ... actually, you are having real trouble creating a gate here.
(09:17:11 PM) Cagliostro: can you describe the trouble?
(09:17:14 PM) Spot: Where in the Umbra are the strands headed? What realms? Or area?
(09:17:36 PM) dkap: All the magic is very flow-y
(09:17:51 PM) Cagliostro: and the flows are disrupting gate formation?
(09:17:54 PM) dkap: Not deeper in the Umbra, but ... a distance away.
(09:17:57 PM) Cagliostro: or the magic is too dense to move?
(09:18:02 PM) Kintani [~Kintani@c-75-67-240-124.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:18:14 PM) dkap: The magic doesn't seem to want to be bound into form, here.
(09:18:17 PM) Kintani: Apologies for the delay
(09:18:18 PM) dkap: Ammon!
(09:18:24 PM) Kintani is now known as Ammon
(09:18:27 PM) dkap: Just the being we were looking for.
(09:18:51 PM) dkap: So, the count has stepped into the Umbra with Spot, to investigate the weaver-threads.
(09:18:54 PM) Ammon: Today has been the day of extra driving.
(09:19:01 PM) dkap: Bleah?
(09:19:14 PM) Ammon: Logged about 200 mi. today.
(09:19:37 PM) Caelin: Heh. I put in my insane driving day yesterday.
(09:19:57 PM) Ammon: So, what did I miss?
(09:20:00 PM) dkap: Wow!
(09:20:06 PM) Cagliostro: gm: so conjuration is also affected?
(09:20:23 PM) dkap: Try it?
(09:20:41 PM) Spot: Gm: Can I sense what he's trying to do?
(09:21:30 PM) Cagliostro: sure. something small. perhaps a meat-flavored apple.
(09:21:31 PM) dkap: Umm ... there is a gathering of the weaver-intent around him for a moment, constraining the wyld ...
(09:21:47 PM) ***Spot eyes Cagliostro.
(09:22:22 PM) Spot: "What are you trying to do there?"
(09:22:30 PM) Cagliostro: "Conjure something."
(09:22:34 PM) dkap: There is a pop, and a ham-smelling giant apple appears, suddenly.
(09:22:41 PM) Cagliostro: "My."
(09:22:47 PM) ***Spot hmms.
(09:22:54 PM) Spot: "Hungry?"
(09:22:59 PM) Cagliostro: gm: how giant is giant? fist? head? staypuff marshmellow?
(09:23:08 PM) dkap: It seems to be bursting with porcine-goodness.
(09:23:27 PM) dkap: About body-sized (maybe roughly 6' in diameter.)
(09:23:37 PM) Cagliostro: "Not currently. If you want to snack, feel free. I was shooting for a somewhat smaller scale."
(09:23:55 PM) dkap: And smells very much like the spam that Gerard was made up of, for a while.
(09:24:59 PM) Spot: "I'm not eating in here if I can avoid it.
(09:25:01 PM) Cagliostro: gm: conjure a small, controllable flying carpet. Aim for around 1 foot by 1 foot.
(09:25:08 PM) Cagliostro: "Prudent."
(09:25:26 PM) Spot: "You realize doing what you're doing is going to attract attention."
(09:26:12 PM) Cagliostro: "I admit the possibility."
(09:26:22 PM) Cagliostro: "But you can take me back out, right?"
(09:26:44 PM) ***Spot ponders that this is why they eat mages, but doesn't say that one aloud.
(09:26:59 PM) Spot: "I can."
(09:27:05 PM) Spot: "If we have time."
(09:27:05 PM) Caelin: (*snicker*)
(09:27:09 PM) ***Spot grins again.
(09:27:22 PM) Spot: "And depending on what attention you attract."
(09:28:42 PM) dkap: Are you still conjuring the carpet?
(09:29:18 PM) Cagliostro: gm: sure
(09:29:26 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro, alas, does not lack for confidence.
(09:29:46 PM) Cagliostro: and a bit of stomping around counts as recon.
(09:30:23 PM) Ammon: (Not a high-Warfare party.)
(09:31:00 PM) ***Spot doesn't remember his stats, but this is par for the course for this game. ;)
(09:31:14 PM) Spot: (at least I know who i am as Spot.)
(09:31:31 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:31:50 PM) dkap: Ammon, you, last I checked, was watching this, in the Umbra, while talking with the folks not in the Umbra.
(09:32:27 PM) Ammon: ((I seem to recall a lot of stats in the 'Chaos' level, and a really high Shapeshifting and Psyche, but I don't have my stats in front of me or remember them fully.))
(09:32:54 PM) dkap: I know.
(09:33:15 PM) Cagliostro: (declines to mention his warfare.)
(09:33:22 PM) Ammon: Hey, if there about to provide a dangerous, high-level distraction, take the opportunity to reassemble the Bat and seal him back up with some Rage, Willpower and Gnosis.
(09:35:11 PM) dkap: When Ammon starts sealing up the Bat-Spirt, the weaver-threads start melting away.
(09:35:34 PM) ***Spot hmmms.
(09:35:43 PM) Ammon: Does Ammon notice this?
(09:36:05 PM) dkap: Ammon does not, but Cagliostro and Spot do.
(09:36:07 PM) Spot: "Interesting. Someone's playing around on the telariun. (or however it is spelled)
(09:36:11 PM) dkap: And Cagliostro can't see why.
(09:36:14 PM) Ammon: Carry on then
(09:36:25 PM) Cagliostro: so it looks like there's counter-conjuration?
(09:36:48 PM) Spot: "Not....quite. Someone back where we were is being interesting."
(09:37:01 PM) Cagliostro: (sorry, that was to the GM)
(09:37:12 PM) Cagliostro: so substitute in a "That was unexpected" out loud
(09:37:12 PM) Spot: ((ah))
(09:37:27 PM) dkap: No, just as if the threads just ... melted.
(09:37:32 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(09:37:48 PM) Cagliostro: "Can you take me back across for a moment?"
(09:39:14 PM) Spot: "Hang on." Spot grabs the Count and steps sideways again.
(09:40:09 PM) dkap: There is Ammon, healing the Bat Spirit, while Simon is experimenting with the newest chopped up vampire.
(09:40:23 PM) Cagliostro: gm: so we didn't move at all?
(09:41:06 PM) Spot: gm: yeah we should have moved *some*
(09:41:41 PM) dkap: Of course you moved, sideways.
(09:42:18 PM) Cagliostro: but not in darkover-space.
(09:42:45 PM) Cagliostro: "Interesting. So I can't gate on the other side, and I can't see in which direction the threads go in this world." *pause* "Any ideas?"
(09:45:54 PM) Spot: "We ask the spirits."
(09:46:11 PM) Ammon: "I can see the threads from this side.
(09:47:17 PM) Cagliostro: "I can sort of see them from this side, but not well enough to follow. Can you see them from a distance?"
(09:47:34 PM) Cagliostro: to Spot: "If not, we can ask the spirits."
(09:47:43 PM) Ammon: Take a look around.
(09:48:07 PM) Ammon: To Spot, gesturing at the Bat Spirit, "He'll be back to his old self shortly."
(09:49:11 PM) ***Spot nods. "Do you need any help with him?"
(09:49:42 PM) Ammon: Not sure how much juice he'll need to fully reform yet.
(09:49:54 PM) Ammon: He may need a bit more Gnosis
(09:50:44 PM) Ammon: (Any threads left to see?)
(09:50:54 PM) dkap: Yes, but less of them.
(09:51:04 PM) dkap: The bat-spirit is really confused.
(09:51:14 PM) Ammon: (How's my range/clarity here?)
(09:51:23 PM) Spot: gm: I can sink some gnosis into the bat-spirit
(09:52:31 PM) dkap: There is a ... shiny, sort of woosh-noise, and the guy who crash-landed with Inara, gets sliced open. He, on the other hand, does not continue to move, much, except for the blood spirting out of him, and the death-rattle.
(09:52:37 PM) dkap: Ammon, there are no threads on him.
(09:52:54 PM) dkap: Your range is shorter than you would like, your clarity high.
(09:53:09 PM) Cagliostro: gm: anything obvious watching the situation with the lens?
(09:54:19 PM) Ammon: GM: Anything Umbra-side during the attack?
(09:54:30 PM) dkap: He's pretty much dead, although you might be able to save the brain if you work fast. His spine was cut, from the base of his scull,all the way down to his tailbone, as deep as the front of his sternum.
(09:55:40 PM) Cagliostro: gm: physical? magical? not magical?
(09:55:59 PM) dkap: Physical, not magical.
(09:56:14 PM) dkap: There was a flash on the umbra side, but nothing when you looked that way.
(09:56:26 PM) dkap: As it turns out, no one was looking at him at that specific moment.
(09:56:38 PM) Cagliostro: gm: save the brain
(09:56:43 PM) dkap: In fact, every time this happens, it happens in a moment that no one is looking.
(09:56:53 PM) Ammon: GM: Any loose soul flitting away?
(09:56:54 PM) dkap: Cagliostro, you can do that.
(09:57:02 PM) dkap: Ammon, not yet.
(09:57:30 PM) dkap: Hasn't left the body ... it's a few seconds into the spurting, and the count just shattered his skull and pulled the brain out.
(09:57:38 PM) dkap: And the soul seems to be staying with the brain.
(09:57:54 PM) Ammon: So, it's like an anti-mummification?
(09:57:56 PM) dkap: As the count drops it into a jar, that he seemingly pulled from beneath his cloak.
(09:58:06 PM) Cagliostro: gm: beat me to it. ;)
(09:58:35 PM) ***Spot is currently quite impressed with the count.
(09:58:42 PM) dkap: Exactly in that the body isn't being preserved, but the life is.
(09:58:51 PM) Spot: "There'd have been way more blood if I'd done that. Nice job."
(09:59:28 PM) Cagliostro: "So it's an ongoing problem, and still seems to be clustered here."
(09:59:44 PM) Cagliostro: "And no one saw anything? It does seem physical..."
(10:00:51 PM) Delna: "We're going to have to catch it if we want to learn anything about what is going on."
(10:02:07 PM) Spot: "We'll need a box. And bait."
(10:02:14 PM) Ammon: "Think it's a matter of speed, camoflage, or both?"
(10:02:26 PM) dkap: And you now have someone who the weaver didn't ?bother? saving.
(10:03:47 PM) Hegara: good night all, I am off
(10:03:57 PM) Ammon: ((G'night))
(10:04:06 PM) Caelin: (Goodnight)
(10:04:10 PM) Hegara left the room (quit: Quit).
(10:04:59 PM) dkap: Which is different from the Bat Spirit (native) Woof (non-native) and 2 Vamps (one sleeping, one awake).
(10:05:21 PM) Delna: "I don't know, but I think everyone needs to have someone watching them. We need to pair up."
(10:06:14 PM) Spot: "We have the little bats, they'll help watch everyone....did they see anything?"
(10:07:00 PM) dkap: The bats were watching Ammon work on their head-spirit.
(10:07:10 PM) dkap: And, besides, their eyes aren't very good.
(10:07:16 PM) dkap: (to begin with).
(10:08:01 PM) Spot: yeah but their radar might have picked something up
(10:08:15 PM) dkap: Nope.
(10:08:33 PM) dkap: They were concentrating on their Bat Spirit, and, well ... it _is_ dark.
(10:09:01 PM) Cagliostro: gm: Contact a couple of Ifrit and ask them to participate in a bit of problem solving.
(10:10:26 PM) dkap: They would be proud to turn their minds to such an endeavor.
(10:11:02 PM) ***Cagliostro silently ponders whether Jean counts as observation. Unfortunately Cagliostro doesn't realize how easily Jean is distracted...
(10:11:58 PM) Delna: "Ok. Have them try to keep an eye out, but everyone else should still pair up. I want to check in with the others near the castle. Meiglan, will you come with me?"
(10:12:21 PM) Ammon: (Ammon quietly checks if he still has an Assassin following him. Probably by subvocally asking.)
(10:12:26 PM) Spot: "And we should get the pack to the castle on guard."
(10:12:34 PM) Meiglan: Sure thing.
(10:13:06 PM) ***Delna nods. "good idea."
(10:14:00 PM) Cagliostro: gm: examine the wound. see if I can get a feel for the sort of object that caused it.
(10:14:23 PM) Cagliostro: Are we talking sword, claw, monomolecular whip, two-dimensional plane of badness...
(10:14:40 PM) Delna: Delna will head toward the castle with Meiglan
(10:16:13 PM) dkap: Ammon, the assassins were recalled.
(10:16:23 PM) Meiglan: Keeps a watchful eye out as they head to the castle.
(10:17:03 PM) Ammon: (Listens to the silence for a moment, then recalls he's talking to someone who left much earlier)
(10:17:04 PM) dkap: Very sharp, tapered, left scrapes of a softer metal (like silver) behind on the bones.
(10:17:07 PM) Delna: Delna will keep a watchful eye on Meiglan as we make our way
(10:17:26 PM) Meiglan: Meiglan is NOT getting any prettier.
(10:17:29 PM) dkap: Did not tear, but cut, almost surgically, with surgical precision.
(10:18:12 PM) Cagliostro: gm: take samples of metal, put in small container.
(10:18:24 PM) Cagliostro: gm: how much like silver?
(10:18:59 PM) Ammon: (Make sure the Bat Spirit is up and functional, then head over to Cagliostro.)
(10:18:59 PM) dkap: Under the lens? It's colloidal silver, perhaps used on the blade as a lubricant?
(10:19:07 PM) Cagliostro: hmmm.
(10:19:18 PM) dkap: But more liquid than solid.
(10:19:18 PM) Cagliostro: can I put together a colloidal silver detector?
(10:19:21 PM) Cagliostro: magic-type?
(10:19:30 PM) Cagliostro: gm: "Hm. Silver."
(10:19:33 PM) dkap: Sure, not a problem. It might take you all of 30 seconds.
(10:19:40 PM) Cagliostro: er, that lastshouldn't be gm, just out loud.
(10:19:52 PM) Spot: "Silver?"
(10:20:26 PM) Cagliostro: Okay, can I do that and link a sudden increase in the amount of silver in the area to 1) a localized ward 2) high taser levels of electricity 3) unconciousness gas?
(10:20:29 PM) Ammon: GM: Ammon will call the Lune out of his Klaive, and ask it if it senses any sort of impressions on the silver the Count found.
(10:20:45 PM) Cagliostro: "Yes, the blade seems to be lubricated with liquid colloidal silver."
(10:23:50 PM) Ammon: For visual edification: Ammon pulls out a fetish-bound Silver Klaive, covered in Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Garou Sigils, mostly focused around prayers for destroying Setites.
(10:24:15 PM) Ammon: Blade itself is a oversized Khopesh
(10:25:35 PM) dkap: Yes, all that is doable. Do you want to do a spotlight as well, so it attracts eyes?
(10:25:52 PM) Cagliostro: and if I could throw in a trumpet flourish.
(10:25:54 PM) dkap: Lune? Klaive?
(10:25:56 PM) Cagliostro: I do have standards to maintain.
(10:26:16 PM) dkap: The bird?
(10:26:37 PM) Cagliostro: klaive: garou ritual silver knife. Lune: moon spirit, bound into the knife to make it a fetish.
(10:26:44 PM) Ammon: Ammon's Eagleton-forged Khopesh, that he made into a Klaive.
(10:26:46 PM) dkap: You can throw in a trumpet flourish. How many of these detectors are you making, being that they are simply physical objects, and take you little to no energy to gen.
(10:26:56 PM) dkap: Ahh ... not the bird.
(10:26:59 PM) Cagliostro: one for everyone.
(10:27:03 PM) dkap: Good good. I had ... odd imiages.
(10:27:38 PM) Ammon: Translator: Ammon's sword Artifact, with the moon spirit in it.
(10:27:51 PM) dkap: The moon spirit will not leave the blade.
(10:28:19 PM) Ammon: Does it give an impression as to why?
(10:28:40 PM) dkap: For it is not a local moon, and would disuncorporate? immediately.
(10:29:00 PM) Ammon: Got it. Good reason.
(10:30:44 PM) dkap: It thought so.
(10:30:45 PM) ***Cagliostro starts handing out small octagonal, reflective tokens.
(10:31:00 PM) ***Spot takes a token and examines it.
(10:31:13 PM) Ammon: "What's this?"
(10:31:29 PM) Cagliostro: shiny, surprisingly sturdy, some sort of metallic thing.
(10:31:47 PM) Cagliostro: "A detector for sudden influxes of silver."
(10:32:24 PM) dkap: Is there a particular side toward the holder that is obvious? Like a pin on the back they can pin it to clothing with?
(10:32:34 PM) Ammon: "Ooooh!" Dedicate it as a Fetish.
(10:32:36 PM) dkap: Or a strap, where they can string it around their neck?
(10:32:39 PM) Cagliostro: gm: it should be omnidirectional, right?
(10:32:57 PM) Cagliostro: gm: probably half with pins, half with straps.
(10:33:18 PM) dkap: Detection omni, but the light should have a direction, unless you are simply going to "flashcube" everyone.
(10:33:22 PM) Spot: "Ohhhhhh."
(10:33:31 PM) ***Spot immediately dedicates it as well.
(10:33:49 PM) Ammon: Add it to the chain with my Ankh, and grab one for Beibhinn.
(10:33:54 PM) dkap: Dedications work. Although, there is a bit of friction between the dedicated things.
(10:34:11 PM) dkap: And you should test your shape-shifting with it, for it "feels" funny.
(10:34:21 PM) dkap: A good choice.
(10:34:35 PM) Cagliostro: gm: the light's more of a spotlight than a blinding light.
(10:34:44 PM) Cagliostro: top down.
(10:35:08 PM) Ammon: Shift a bit, pop wings, etc.
(10:35:18 PM) Cagliostro: gm: send a few handfuls with an Ifrit for Delna and meiglan
(10:35:19 PM) ***Spot shifts and also pops wings.
(10:35:31 PM) ***Spot giggles slightly at Ammon.
(10:36:12 PM) Spot: ((The whole pack had followed, as i recall, so they can all get their shineys))
(10:36:31 PM) Ammon: Ammon's wings, in a fit of "not natural", are black, purple and metallic gold bird wings.
(10:37:24 PM) ***Spot has giant bat wings
(10:38:12 PM) Ammon: "We should race later. I haven't gotten to try to race another Garou in the air yet."
(10:38:32 PM) ***Spot nods. "That sounds like fun, I've never gotten to do that either."
(10:39:22 PM) Ammon: "As soon as the present situation is ended, I'm good for a run or three." ;-)
(10:40:39 PM) Spot: "Agreed."
(10:40:40 PM) dkap: The shiny shifts with you, appropriate to your size and shape.
Meiglan meiglan
(10:44:46 PM) dkap: Delna has taken Meiglan off to help spread the Octagons of Warning.
(10:45:06 PM) Delna: Indeed
(10:45:16 PM) dkap: Are the Ifrit (and is it amongst the skills of the Ifrit that you asked for assistance) to also help in the production of them?
(10:45:31 PM) Cagliostro: it is not; these are not magically rated Ifrit, just Ifrit Ifrit.
(10:46:00 PM) Delna: So, only enough shinies for us then?
(10:47:55 PM) dkap: No, the count can produce one every 30 or so seconds, so lots are being handed out of the box that the count is apparently pulling them out of.
(10:49:45 PM) Delna: Ok. Are the Ifrit able to explain what these things are for when they are delivered to us? Or is there a note of any kind?
(10:51:17 PM) Cagliostro: I would imagine they would describe them as detectors that may work to ward against the intruder's attacks.
(10:52:13 PM) dkap: Or at least warn that an attack is immanent.
(10:52:40 PM) dkap: And ... this would probably be a good place to call for final actions for the night?
(10:52:48 PM) Cagliostro: sure
(10:53:35 PM) Ammon: Follow Count to Castle, and give Beibhinn the update, the disk, and get her to stay close.
(10:54:00 PM) Ammon: I'll update Samantha tomorrow.
(10:54:18 PM) Cagliostro: Count is staying where he is, and dispatching boxes of goodies to Castle.
(10:54:24 PM) Ammon: Though she'll have to poke you for whatever she's been up to unsupervised
(10:54:24 PM) Delna: no final actions other than my previous stated path
(10:55:44 PM) Ammon: Then send a note to go with the Ifrit telling her to look out for invisible attackers with silver weapons, and to wear a octagon.
(10:56:04 PM) Ammon: She can get details later.
(10:56:15 PM) Spot: Getting the pack organized on patrols and stuff
(10:57:23 PM) Ammon: And then keep an eye on the Count.
(10:57:34 PM) dkap: I'd love an email update from her, when she has the chance.
(10:57:41 PM) Ammon: (Don't want the Princess or Vera mad at me.)
(10:57:42 PM) dkap: Pack organized. Check.
(10:58:02 PM) dkap: The Nos and Delna passing out octagons, and telling people to keep eyes on each other.
(10:58:13 PM) dkap: Ammon eyes on count.
(10:58:20 PM) dkap: What about your Daughter, Cagliostro?
(10:58:33 PM) ***Spot is going to sleep then. Night!
(10:58:43 PM) Ammon: I believe the last action Bebhinn took was the conga-line, so she's prolly still drinking.
(10:58:49 PM) dkap: And what about plans for daylight?
(10:58:52 PM) Delna: (night!)
(10:58:54 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:58:57 PM) Spot left the room.
(10:58:59 PM) dkap: Good night Gleep.
(10:59:01 PM) Ammon: (G'night)
(10:59:04 PM) dkap: Damn, too slow.
(10:59:12 PM) Ammon: Same herew
(10:59:14 PM) Caelin: Happens.
(10:59:16 PM) Ammon: here, even
(10:59:18 PM) Caelin: Good night!
(10:59:25 PM) Caelin left the room.
(10:59:25 PM) Ammon: G'night!
(10:59:26 PM) dkap: Ahh ... but an update would be good.
(10:59:26 PM) Cagliostro: I would prefer that she monitor the situation from outside of slicing distance
(10:59:34 PM) Cagliostro: so if she doesn't know about it, I won't tell her
(10:59:40 PM) Cagliostro: and if she does know, she will have a couple of Ifrit
(10:59:46 PM) dkap: What _is_ slicing distance? Are you soliciting reports?
(10:59:58 PM) Cagliostro: I'm figuring the local country.
(11:00:15 PM) Cagliostro: Probably just the local square mile. because I would have heard otherwise.
(11:01:58 PM) dkap: Usually they don't bother you with such things, until they are digested, and then, it might be a footnote, unless there is something expressed in the interest in that direction.
(11:02:24 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(11:02:35 PM) Cagliostro: I'll continue with my hopeful delusion until informed otherwise.
(11:04:25 PM) dkap: Right. Good good.
(11:04:29 PM) dkap: That sounds like a game!
(11:04:56 PM) Cagliostro: excellent
(11:04:57 PM) Ammon: G'night all
(11:04:58 PM) Cagliostro left the room.
(11:05:04 PM) Ammon left the room (quit: Quit: ~ Trillian Astra - www.trillian.im ~).
(11:05:51 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.5.7/20091221164558]).