Conversation with #dkap_amber

Conversation with #dkap_amber on Mon 05 Apr 2010 12:43:39 PM EDT:
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(08:09:04 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:10:09 PM) dkap: Greetings, folks.
(08:10:24 PM) caelin: hey there.
(08:10:45 PM) dkap: Caelin! We missed you for Omega.
(08:11:09 PM) caelin: i know i'm sorry.
(08:11:36 PM) dkap: S'ok. You got to be the hero, regardless.
(08:11:43 PM) caelin: the kennedy center was blocking everything that day.
(08:11:49 PM) dkap: All hail the Healer!
(08:12:46 PM) Cagliostro: oh, good news/bad news.
(08:12:54 PM) dkap: Oh?
(08:13:01 PM) Cagliostro: good news: there is a company with the Amber DRPG rights. bad news: they aren't doing anything with them. http://www.dicelessbydesign.com/
(08:13:20 PM) dkap: I didn't know Eric ever gave them up?
(08:13:33 PM) dkap: Or Phage Press.
(08:13:37 PM) dkap: Did they go under?
(08:14:05 PM) Cagliostro: I'm not sure.
(08:14:16 PM) Cagliostro: the web site is shall we say not informative
(08:15:24 PM) Cagliostro: so, to the game
(08:16:54 PM) dkap: And seems to have been last touched in 2008 ...
(08:17:41 PM) Delna_ [~chatzilla@c-71-228-78-177.hsd1.fl.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:17:54 PM) Delna_: For some reason my computer has decided that some other network is going to be my preferred network at home, as opposed to the one that I own
(08:17:58 PM) Delna_: ..
(08:18:49 PM) dkap: That's ... strange, at best.
(08:19:03 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(08:19:10 PM) Delna_ is now known as Delna
(08:19:13 PM) dkap: It seems also to be a home network, rather than any real server somewhere, with a dynamic dns pointer.
(08:20:44 PM) Delna: yeah. Well, I changed the settings on my wireless preferred list. so that should maybe fix it
(08:21:13 PM) dkap: Good good.
(08:23:28 PM) dkap: So, we have Delna, but not Meiglan. And Cagliostro, but not Spot ...
(08:23:40 PM) dkap: Ammon is pokable, but still at work.
(08:23:58 PM) dkap: And we have Caelin, but not Auricle.
(08:24:09 PM) dkap: Anyone for a game of blaan?
(08:25:08 PM) Delna: meow?
(08:25:47 PM) Delna: I sense a reference I am missing, likely to a previous game in which I was not a part
(08:25:49 PM) Cagliostro: no crises for Caelin to deal with?
(08:25:50 PM) caelin: what's the game blaan?
(08:25:58 PM) Cagliostro: no, I think we all missed that one. ;)
(08:26:06 PM) dkap: Blaan is the (mythical, theoretical) game that is played to help young amberites get the hang of descriptions for where/when/how a shadow is, so they can become good at describing to family members where things are.
(08:26:08 PM) Delna: haha, ok, good to know then
(08:26:55 PM) Cagliostro: Spot is inbound.
(08:27:22 PM) dkap: Excellent!
(08:27:28 PM) caelin: i never would haveguessed
(08:28:21 PM) dkap: Caelin, you were around while it was being discussed, if I recall correctly. Stormy was often talking about it.
(08:28:23 PM) caelin: Pardon for a brief network switching.
(08:28:32 PM) caelin left the room (quit: Quit: 1.7.2).
(08:29:32 PM) Spot [~chatzilla@c-71-233-160-84.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:30:14 PM) dkap: Excellent. I spot a spot!
(08:31:40 PM) Spot: Actual the Count there found me
(08:31:58 PM) dkap: Even better.
(08:38:01 PM) Cagliostro: so where did we leave off?
(08:38:11 PM) Cagliostro: preparing to go paint sigils in the umbra?
(08:38:15 PM) Cagliostro: what prep is left to do?
(08:38:15 PM) dkap: Hm ... let me check the logs.
(08:38:29 PM) dkap: I think we left with Spot terrorizing Simon, and getting his blood.
(08:39:01 PM) Spot: I'd just gotten back from raiding the Serenity on the Doc's orders and now he owes me blood
(08:39:42 PM) Cagliostro: didn't you pick up a bloodbag as part of the gear?
(08:41:17 PM) Spot: Oh yeah
(08:41:19 PM) Spot: I did
(08:41:21 PM) Spot: That's right.
(08:41:48 PM) Spot: Well then I'll give the Doc back his stuff and head off to get blood from a nice red talon
(08:42:02 PM) Caelin [~arkhon@adsl-76-199-101-112.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net] entered the room.
(08:42:23 PM) dkap: Spot heads off to find a Red Talon, and Caelin appears. Auspicious.
(08:43:35 PM) Caelin: LOl
(08:44:42 PM) dkap: You have directions? Or a gate from the Count to where the party is?
(08:47:05 PM) Cagliostro: is the party local to the castle, or elsewhere?
(08:48:46 PM) dkap: Elsewhere, Urals, I believe, where there was a hunting problem IIRC?
(08:49:56 PM) Cagliostro: yes, the other location
(08:50:07 PM) Cagliostro: so no to directions, and a gate would be created on request
(08:50:31 PM) Cagliostro: and then probably torn down for 15 or 30 minutes till Spot is ready
(08:50:39 PM) dkap: Gotcha.
(08:51:41 PM) dkap: Ammon suggests that Spot makes sure it is a voluntary donation.
(08:52:04 PM) Spot: "All right."
(08:59:21 PM) Cagliostro: so how long would Spot estimate before Cagliostro should re-open the gate?
(09:00:50 PM) Spot: Ummmm
(09:01:08 PM) Spot: I can't imagine it'd take that long to get blood from a red talon
(09:01:20 PM) dkap: Especially a drunk one?
(09:01:26 PM) Spot: yeah
(09:02:11 PM) Spot: maybe a half hour at the most
(09:02:16 PM) Cagliostro: half an hour it is.
(09:02:34 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro will open the gate to the wild areas east of the Urals, and presumably Spot will go through.
(09:03:32 PM) Spot: yeah, once I've got all the blood I need
(09:04:02 PM) dkap: Through to the party Spot goes. What are you bringing to collect the blood in?
(09:04:30 PM) Spot: a nice bowl. But not silver. Yick.
(09:08:54 PM) dkap: And something to ... bring it forth from the Red Talon?
(09:08:58 PM) dkap: A needle, perhaps?
(09:09:22 PM) dkap: Hrm ... probably a stone bowl.
(09:13:21 PM) Spot: stone bowl
(09:13:23 PM) Spot: knife
(09:13:31 PM) Spot: we don't need needles
(09:13:35 PM) Spot: we're werewolves
(09:15:34 PM) Cagliostro: that does make it aggravated damage, though
(09:15:44 PM) Cagliostro: pointy sticks heal much more quickly
(09:15:50 PM) Cagliostro: which may be the point. agg heals too.
(09:16:13 PM) Caelin: Alright. Time to close up and run to rehearsal.
(09:16:15 PM) Spot: He can cut and bleed enough
(09:16:19 PM) Spot: and heal
(09:16:31 PM) Spot: doesn't have to be agg
(09:16:37 PM) Spot: not unless it's a silver knife
(09:16:45 PM) Caelin: You's guys take care! I may drop in.
(09:16:47 PM) Spot: why would I do that? That'd hurt
(09:16:49 PM) Spot: see ya!
(09:16:57 PM) Caelin: During breaks.
(09:16:58 PM) Delna: byes
(09:17:00 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: EOF from client).
(09:20:31 PM) dkap: Non-silver knife and bowl.
(09:20:53 PM) dkap: (how big a knife? and are you going to let the Red Talon do her own cutting?)
(09:21:08 PM) Spot: She can do her own cutting.
(09:21:11 PM) Spot: Willing blood.
(09:21:22 PM) Spot: Does knife size really matter?
(09:22:01 PM) dkap: Well ... Remember, she's been partying for ... several days now.
(09:22:34 PM) dkap: Too small, and she might not be able to manage the dexterity, too large and she might accidentally cut something off, not even necessarily of her own.
(09:23:41 PM) Spot: ....so a medium sized knife. lol. blade about 5 inches, maybe?
(09:24:15 PM) dkap: Sounds good.
(09:31:47 PM) Spot: Do I get blood from the Talon?
(09:34:12 PM) dkap: You go through, to a great party.
(09:34:23 PM) Spot: yay party
(09:34:37 PM) dkap: Lots of woofs, all drinking, dancing, playing loud music, running in the woods, and not stopping for anything.
(09:35:09 PM) Spot: good times
(09:35:58 PM) dkap: How do you determine which is a red talon? What do you do about joining/not joining the party?
(09:36:12 PM) Spot: Red talons won't be in homid
(09:36:17 PM) Spot: probably not in crinos
(09:36:24 PM) Spot: they prefer lupus
(09:39:20 PM) Spot: so i'll look for the lupus first
(09:41:30 PM) dkap: Right, in what form are you looking?
(09:41:47 PM) Spot: Crinos will do, I've got to carry this stuff
(09:43:36 PM) dkap: Makes sense.
(09:46:34 PM) Spot: So I traispe around looking for lupus talons
(09:47:30 PM) dkap: You find a whole bunch of them locked in ... possibly ... mock drunken combat.
(09:48:07 PM) Spot: Cool
(09:48:12 PM) Spot: I'll watch for a bit.
(09:48:19 PM) dkap: At least one is obviously either a Get or a ... whats the inbread ones who are very particular, and eastern european royalty?
(09:48:32 PM) Spot: Silver Fang
(09:48:32 PM) dkap: Silver-back, or something like that?
(09:48:37 PM) dkap: Right. Silver Fang.
(09:48:51 PM) dkap: And a bunch of the others are taking him on.
(09:50:22 PM) Spot: k
(09:50:27 PM) Spot: Who's winning?
(09:51:08 PM) dkap: Well ... the larger pack would be, except, apparently, some of them keep getting the giggles.
(09:52:48 PM) ***Spot grins
(09:53:01 PM) Spot: "Oi! Any of you lot a Red Talon?"
(09:54:13 PM) dkap: One of the giggling ones points to the Get, and barks meaningfully, and then falls over even harder laughing.
(09:54:39 PM) ***Spot rolls his eyes. "Get. Not Talon."
(09:55:08 PM) dkap: And one of the others practically snorts, they are laughing so hard at that.
(09:55:25 PM) dkap: The Get/SF roars a challenge at you, over that.
(09:57:32 PM) Spot: I laugh.
(09:58:40 PM) dkap: The Get/SF shakes off the few still clinging to him roars, and leaps at you. To be taken from the side by one of those not laughing so hard.
(09:58:53 PM) dkap: You wonder if some hyena blood got, somehow, mixed in to this group.
(09:59:05 PM) Spot: Bah.
(09:59:10 PM) Spot: I suspect serious drugs.
(09:59:18 PM) Spot: I am, after all, BSD.
(10:00:05 PM) Spot: "No really, I do need a Red Talon, if you've got one to spare."
(10:00:11 PM) dkap: Too much LDS in the 60s?
(10:00:17 PM) Spot: yeah prolly
(10:00:34 PM) dkap: That just gets them all laughing that much harder.
(10:01:18 PM) Spot: "And they all say we're weird."
(10:02:27 PM) dkap: Another woof walks up to you.
(10:02:38 PM) dkap: "They've been at this for hours, you know ..."
(10:04:14 PM) Spot: "I can tell."
(10:04:23 PM) Spot: "Not entirely helpful."
(10:04:41 PM) dkap: OW: "It's entertaining. What do you need help with?"
(10:06:17 PM) Spot: "I need someone of the Wyld willing to donate some blood. Red Talons would be best."
(10:08:58 PM) dkap: OW: "Umm ... right. I'm not sure there is a lot of blood in their alcohol stream at the moment ..."
(10:09:12 PM) dkap: OW: "But we can ask. I'm game."
(10:10:26 PM) Spot: "Great. 'Cept asking doesn't seem to be working."
(10:11:13 PM) dkap: OW: "How did you ask?"
(10:13:32 PM) Spot: I just asked. They giggled.
(10:14:17 PM) dkap: OW: "Well ... tickle one of them then, perhaps they will allow you to get your donation that way?"
(10:14:43 PM) dkap: OW: "By the way ... I believe I must vomit now. You'll excuse me a moment."
(10:15:12 PM) dkap: And the other woof is noisy-sick in the bushes not too far away.
(10:16:03 PM) Spot: Meh, I'll wade into the fight and shake some of them.
(10:18:06 PM) dkap: One of them turns to you, sniffs the "wrongness" in you and growls, deep in her throat.
(10:19:13 PM) Spot: "War's over. Ain't no matter to me any more."
(10:20:17 PM) Spot: "Just looking for some help"
(10:20:41 PM) dkap: Goes to bite you, misses, as if lunging at a second image of you, and manages to bite her own tongue, and is now whimpering pitiously.
(10:21:34 PM) Spot: I hunker down. "Tell you what, if you're a Red Talon and willing to donate a little blood the easy way, I'll happily go away so you never see me again."
(10:22:48 PM) dkap: She rubs her now-wounded head against you, leaving a trail of spit, Get-fur, speckles of blood, really good beer, and some grass.
(10:23:45 PM) Spot: I scritch her a bit behind the ears
(10:24:21 PM) dkap: She sighs and snuggles closer.
(10:24:31 PM) dkap: The hormones are really ... intense.
(10:24:55 PM) Spot: I'm suddenly no longer wrong?
(10:24:58 PM) Spot: Awesome.
(10:32:46 PM) dkap: Apparently.
(10:33:17 PM) dkap: (Oh, the wrongness, apparently, was you were male, not BSD, for the logs, so I don't forget the other conversation)
(10:33:33 PM) Spot: .....Black Fury?
(10:33:45 PM) Spot: That's just as good as a Red Talon
(10:33:54 PM) Spot: black Furies protect the Wyld
(10:34:07 PM) dkap: They do.
(10:34:54 PM) Spot: "Well, if you're perhsps willing to donate a little blood, that works too."
(10:35:33 PM) dkap: She lifts a paw toward your nose.
(10:36:33 PM) Spot: "Well actually I have a lovely knife. And bowl."
(10:40:15 PM) dkap: She seems complacent with it.
(10:40:42 PM) Spot: I'll gently bleed her, then, since she seems willing enough.
(10:43:51 PM) dkap: You have a bowl-full, and need to open the cut twice, since she seems very fast on the healing side.
(10:44:37 PM) Spot: I'll give her a bit of a nuzzle and then I'll get out of dodge as she'll be pisssssssed when she's not high
(10:48:11 PM) dkap: *grin* If she recalls it at all.
(10:49:20 PM) Spot: Black Fury
(10:49:25 PM) Spot: Not taking chances.
(10:50:01 PM) dkap: Some random Other Wolf on your way back to the gate: "Hey, man, is that, you know ... good to drink? My cup has gone all empty, and shit."
(10:50:39 PM) Spot: "No, tastes really bad."
(10:51:43 PM) dkap: SOW: "Dude, that's why it's in a bowl, instead of a cup. I'm hip." And staggers off.
(10:53:17 PM) dkap: And you make it back through the gate with little other interference.
(10:53:40 PM) Cagliostro: so then presumably Cagliostro and Spot step into the Umbra and begin their preparations...
(10:53:44 PM) Cagliostro: which leads to a natural place to hang
(10:53:46 PM) Cagliostro: ?
(10:55:48 PM) dkap: Sounds good to me.
(10:56:36 PM) dkap: One of the woofs followed you back through the gate, before it closed, looked around for a moment, and then went back through to the party.
(10:56:42 PM) Spot: lol
(10:56:45 PM) Spot: not surprising
(10:56:58 PM) Cagliostro: it does seem like a better offer.
(10:57:02 PM) Cagliostro: things are messier on this side.
(10:57:37 PM) dkap: And, well, there is no partying going on.
(10:57:39 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:57:46 PM) Spot: I'm good with the hang here
(10:58:03 PM) dkap: It is then, done. Game!
(10:58:12 PM) Cagliostro: excellent
(10:58:12 PM) dkap: Until next week.
(10:58:14 PM) Delna: Set
(10:58:24 PM) Delna: Ciao!