Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 06 Apr 2010 08:09:01 PM EDT:
(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!
(10:58:50 PM) dkap: Logged.
(10:58:52 PM) Spot left the room.
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(08:01:28 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:02:22 PM) dkap: Greetings.
(08:02:25 PM) Raziel: Hey
(08:02:26 PM) Caelin: Hallo!
(08:02:36 PM) Raziel: Sorry I missed last week, RL and all
(08:03:03 PM) Caelin: Here until 9:10 or so...rehearsal starts, and I have to drop a few things off.
(08:03:17 PM) dkap: Right.
(08:04:24 PM) dkap: Oh, and Mike, if there is a time-table for your room ... there was some leakage in the wall, and, while it hasn't reoccurred, we might need to replace/repair a chunk of it.
(08:04:40 PM) dkap: Of course, it's in the hardest to reach corner, above the water heater, but ...
(08:05:10 PM) Delna [~chatzilla@c-71-228-78-177.hsd1.fl.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:05:13 PM) Caelin: Eep! I will be back this weekend to move some stuff! Likely Monday. Was going to be there this time around, but I got tied up with other errands.
(08:05:34 PM) dkap: MMmmm ... tied up. I mean ... sure. This weekend works.
(08:05:38 PM) Caelin: LOL
(08:06:49 PM) Delna: Speaking of tied up..I may be tying and flogging at a fetish event next weekend : )
(08:07:15 PM) Caelin: Nice! Which event, if I may ask?
(08:07:49 PM) Delna: It is a fetish event that one of the college's down here holds, so probably not something anyone would have heard of besides those here
(08:08:14 PM) Caelin: Ahh.
(08:08:20 PM) Delna: I think it's pretty novel that the college actually has a fetish event, and the school even funds it
(08:08:27 PM) Caelin: !!
(08:09:11 PM) Delna: They run into quite a bit of push back from the student government sometimes, but they have been doing it for a few years now at least, something like 8 or so?
(08:09:14 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-31-32-142.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:09:23 PM) Cagliostro: hello hello
(08:09:48 PM) Caelin: That's pretty impressive. I wonder aloud what they did to get the funding in the first place.
(08:09:51 PM) Caelin: yo!
(08:10:05 PM) Delna: Also, Also, I just landed a full season asm position with a professional theatre down here! : D
(08:12:15 PM) Cagliostro: congrats!
(08:12:23 PM) Caelin: WOO!
(08:12:29 PM) Caelin: Wow! Congratulations!
(08:12:52 PM) Delna: *giant grin and bouncing* Thankses
(08:13:25 PM) dkap: Excellent!
(08:13:48 PM) dkap: Stage managing is an art I know you excel at.
(08:15:44 PM) Delna: Woot!
(08:15:54 PM) Raziel: Where at?
(08:16:43 PM) Delna: The Asolo Repertory Theatre
(08:20:41 PM) Delna_ [~chatzilla@c-71-228-78-177.hsd1.fl.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:20:48 PM) Delna_: ugh, stupid interwebs
(08:20:53 PM) Caelin: Oops.
(08:20:57 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(08:21:09 PM) Delna_ is now known as Delna
(08:29:46 PM) dkap: Well ... normally it's not a game until Auricle drops in and out of it ...
(08:29:54 PM) dkap: So maybe Delna is the new indicator?
(08:29:58 PM) Caelin: *snort*
(08:30:37 PM) Delna: Heh, well, if we're going by the last few games..
(08:30:43 PM) dkap: Let's see ... good, new housemates, good new job, that just leaves the relationship front as a stressor, so the intertubes is adding stress ...
(08:31:51 PM) Spot [~chatzilla@c-71-233-160-84.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:32:08 PM) Spot: No really I'm here, I'm not exhausted and forgot to open the room, reaally!
(08:32:10 PM) dkap: And then there were six.
(08:32:17 PM) dkap: S'ok.
(08:32:29 PM) Caelin: heh
(08:32:41 PM) dkap: Good exhausted or bad exhausted?
(08:32:53 PM) Spot: somewhere in between
(08:34:01 PM) dkap: Ahh ... balance in all things.
(08:37:19 PM) dkap: Typing of balance, I believe Spot is returned with the appropriate blood ...
(08:38:33 PM) Spot: Yes.
(08:38:46 PM) Spot: So all we need is the count and the umbra iirc
(08:39:04 PM) Cagliostro: and I think that's where we were heading
(08:39:52 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:41:39 PM) Spot: so there we head
(08:42:02 PM) Cagliostro: indeed
(08:42:06 PM) Cagliostro: probably the two of us, and two Ifrit
(08:42:13 PM) Cagliostro: so there's someone keeping an eye on us and each other
(08:42:20 PM) Cagliostro: so we don't get turned into shredded wheat
(08:42:51 PM) dkap: A wise choice.
(08:43:12 PM) dkap: although, it should probably be 4 ifrit, so that each can watch all of you.
(08:44:04 PM) Caelin: .
(08:47:26 PM) Caelin: Alright. Time to get lost. May pop in during intermission!
(08:47:41 PM) Spot: Excellent
(08:47:46 PM) dkap: Enjoy the show!
(08:47:51 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(08:48:43 PM) Cagliostro: wouldn't two be able to do it, facing each other?
(08:49:02 PM) Cagliostro: as long as we're both standing between them both? ifrit bookends.
(08:49:36 PM) dkap: Not necessarily, what happens if there is an occlusion at just the in-oppertune moment?
(08:50:03 PM) Cagliostro: hm, a fair point.
(08:50:15 PM) Cagliostro: but Spot can only take people in or out of the Umbra one at a time, yes?
(08:50:48 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:50:48 PM) Spot: Anyone I can hold
(08:51:01 PM) Spot: I should be able to take more than one
(08:51:07 PM) dkap: Chancy, no?
(08:51:10 PM) Spot: Although I've got a sword at the moment, and blood
(08:51:14 PM) Spot: might be hard
(08:51:23 PM) Spot: Could get a few of the pack to help
(08:51:44 PM) Cagliostro: that might be useful. a coupleof ifrit, a couple of pack
(08:51:47 PM) Cagliostro: quick clearout if necessary
(08:51:57 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:52:02 PM) dkap: Perhaps, a wiser plan.
(08:52:05 PM) Spot: I'll have a few from the pack help out then.
(08:53:43 PM) Cagliostro: excellent.
(08:55:14 PM) dkap: So, pack, Spot, Count, and 4 ifrit?
(08:55:35 PM) Spot: nod
(08:55:41 PM) Spot: works
(08:55:50 PM) Cagliostro: no more than 1 ifrit per pack
(08:55:59 PM) Cagliostro: two pack members and two ifrit would be optimal, I think
(08:56:05 PM) Cagliostro: but if more pack are coming, four ifrit can come
(08:56:35 PM) Spot: at least two pack
(08:56:48 PM) dkap: So pack, Ifrit, pack, Ifrit, Spot, Count?
(08:56:53 PM) dkap: So everyone has their own ride home?
(08:57:19 PM) Spot: sure
(08:58:01 PM) dkap: Gotcha.
(08:58:05 PM) dkap: Any last changes?
(08:58:35 PM) Cagliostro: can't think of any.
(08:58:44 PM) Spot: nor me
(08:58:45 PM) Cagliostro: bringing the Ifrit was the last change I had.
(08:58:49 PM) dkap: Good good. Shinys set up?
(08:59:06 PM) Spot: shiny yay
(09:00:23 PM) Spot: into the umbra we go
(09:00:37 PM) dkap: What is your shiny?
(09:01:25 PM) Spot: the count had them before didn't he?
(09:01:55 PM) Cagliostro: I created the shiny at the edge of the world
(09:02:05 PM) Hegara [~Hegara@c-98-217-233-122.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:02:15 PM) dkap: Hegara? I though you'd be at work!
(09:02:17 PM) Cagliostro: and could create shiny if necessary again
(09:02:26 PM) dkap: Probably would need another shiny here.
(09:02:46 PM) dkap: Something large, and comfortable, that people could step in and out of, without a drop, or crouching over, or the like.
(09:03:16 PM) Spot: "count? Shiny?"
(09:05:34 PM) Cagliostro: "What would you prefer? Hand mirrors?"
(09:06:23 PM) Spot: "Mirrors are fine."
(09:07:42 PM) ***Cagliostro creates some hand mirrors that strap to the wrist
(09:08:13 PM) Cagliostro: maybe 5"x3"
(09:08:27 PM) Cagliostro: steel, probably. something that won't fragment.
(09:09:42 PM) Spot: "Excellent"
(09:11:17 PM) dkap: I don't remember, can you step through something smaller than you?
(09:11:26 PM) Spot: yes
(09:11:31 PM) Spot: absolutely
(09:11:33 PM) dkap: And can you bring the shiny with you? I thought both of those were a "no".
(09:11:44 PM) Spot: werewolves can pop in and out of watches or windows or silverware
(09:12:03 PM) Spot: it just needs to be reflective
(09:12:13 PM) Spot: on the other side, you don't need a shiny
(09:12:26 PM) Spot: you just step through an available shiny on the 'real' world side
(09:12:52 PM) dkap: Right, so you probably don't want it strapped to a wrist, otherwise, you have no portal back.
(09:12:57 PM) Spot: right
(09:13:04 PM) Spot: we can just put them on the floor
(09:13:08 PM) Spot: er ground
(09:16:35 PM) ***Cagliostro is OK with this.
(09:16:52 PM) Spot: and then we can all step through
(09:16:55 PM) dkap: Good good.
(09:17:05 PM) dkap: 4 mirrors, 4 sets of folks, and through you go.
(09:17:59 PM) dkap: The distance between you, on the Umbra side is greater than it is on the non-umbra side.
(09:18:10 PM) dkap: You are all meters and meters apart.
(09:18:21 PM) dkap: Even though the mirrors, on the other side are quite proximate.
(09:19:13 PM) Spot: Well they ought to find us again.
(09:19:25 PM) Kintani [~Kintani@c-75-67-240-124.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:19:33 PM) Spot: "Here good, Count? Or we heading somewhere else for this?
(09:19:40 PM) Spot: ((waves at Kintani))
(09:19:47 PM) Kintani is now known as Ammon
(09:19:57 PM) Cagliostro: "Someplace outside the castle, I think, within its usual wanderings."
(09:20:00 PM) ***Ammon waves to everyone
(09:20:04 PM) Cagliostro: "But not too close."
(09:20:10 PM) Ammon: ((Sorry I'm late))
(09:20:23 PM) dkap: (S'ok, you are right on time, in fact ...)
(09:21:15 PM) dkap: To sum up: The Count, Spot, and 4 others (two woofs, two Ifrit) are going to be doing some blood-painting, and balancing of the three elements, to see if they can further constrain cutty.
(09:21:29 PM) dkap: They've stepped into the Umbra to do so.
(09:21:39 PM) Ammon: Get popcorn.
(09:22:12 PM) Spot: Ooooh popcorn
(09:23:11 PM) dkap: An extra pair of eyes, watching would be a good thing, and Ammon can see both sides.
(09:23:32 PM) Ammon: Yup.
(09:24:01 PM) dkap: So, you 6 travel toward each other, or, home in on the Count?
(09:25:03 PM) Spot: Well I'm with the count
(09:25:10 PM) Spot: they therefore can home in on us
(09:25:15 PM) dkap: Gotcha.
(09:25:18 PM) dkap: So they will.
(09:25:31 PM) dkap: You've got your spot picked out. How are you going to go about this?
(09:26:38 PM) Cagliostro: first step is to paint a binding sigil
(09:26:48 PM) Cagliostro: with the paint already conjured and brought with
(09:27:02 PM) Cagliostro: everyone can help, with the Count supervising,and a couple of people on overwatch
(09:27:07 PM) Cagliostro: to get it done quickly
(09:27:09 PM) dkap: Right. Sword involved with that?
(09:27:23 PM) Cagliostro: I would say not, but it's up to Spot
(09:27:44 PM) Spot: I don't think so
(09:27:55 PM) Spot: We just want the blood on the sword.
(09:28:06 PM) Spot: I need to mix the blood, actually
(09:28:21 PM) Cagliostro: should we put a little blood in the paint?
(09:28:26 PM) dkap: So, while everyone else is painting, you are assembling the blood?
(09:28:29 PM) Cagliostro: as a connecting bridge between the sigil and the sword?
(09:30:01 PM) Spot: Good idea
(09:30:08 PM) Spot: We'll add a little blood into the paint
(09:30:25 PM) Cagliostro: probably mixingthe blood into the paint and the blood into the blood at the same time
(09:30:31 PM) Cagliostro: then painting
(09:30:39 PM) Spot: nod
(09:31:26 PM) dkap: What are you using as a bridge, between the three bloods?
(09:31:49 PM) Spot: Spot will take a small blade and slice open his arm, a few times to get some blood into the bowl, and then will add in Simon's blood
(09:32:57 PM) dkap: The blood seems to want to stay separate, and here, Simon's blood has a bluish tinge, the blood in the bowl has a greenish tinge, and your blood is very bright red.
(09:33:28 PM) Spot: I will use the blade to mix the blood together.
(09:35:11 PM) dkap: The blade takes to the red, but not the green or blue, almost like soap on a finger, in a bowl of pepper.
(09:35:33 PM) Spot: i growl at the blood.
(09:36:03 PM) dkap: It doesn't seem to react to your growl.
(09:36:11 PM) dkap: Although the red turns a touch darker.
(09:37:17 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(09:37:28 PM) Cagliostro: "Do we need other tokens, or a base medium?"
(09:38:37 PM) Spot: "I think a base."
(09:39:32 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(09:39:51 PM) Cagliostro: "Can I get a quick lift out of the Umbra? Probably not from you, Spot, since you've started."
(09:40:19 PM) Ammon: Ammon will rip a hole and pin it open.
(09:40:33 PM) Spot: ......crazy
(09:40:48 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(09:40:50 PM) Cagliostro: step out.
(09:40:55 PM) Cagliostro: GM: some quick gates.
(09:40:59 PM) Cagliostro: Closing them behind me.
(09:41:12 PM) Ammon: Oh, Spot willl prolly notice that Ammon growls in Bear when he opens the hole
(09:41:28 PM) Spot: you are weird. just saying. :P
(09:41:45 PM) Ammon: Hehehehe
(09:42:06 PM) Cagliostro: I want to get: some 20-year old port, some sand from Darkover, and some sea water from someplace appropriate.
(09:42:16 PM) dkap: Ahh ... learned a trick or two, from our Bear, hmmm ... *grin*
(09:42:18 PM) Cagliostro: the Red Sea, perhaps.
(09:42:30 PM) Cagliostro: boost up the mystic inertia, come back, and enter the chamber
(09:42:41 PM) dkap: More salt than water? The sea of reeds is very appropriate for that.
(09:42:59 PM) Cagliostro: I'll create glass cordials for the sand and for the water, but the objects themselves will be real
(09:43:01 PM) dkap: Any place, in particular, you want darkoven sand from?
(09:43:14 PM) Cagliostro: well, that's symbolically associated with parting, not merging
(09:43:17 PM) Cagliostro: base of the ramp
(09:43:21 PM) Cagliostro: the edge of this world and the next
(09:43:25 PM) dkap: Right.
(09:44:03 PM) dkap: And the young port, just on the verge of becoming drinkable?
(09:45:07 PM) Cagliostro: not really ;)
(09:45:18 PM) Cagliostro: this is more along the lines of the best port Cagliostro can stand sacrificing to the cause
(09:46:01 PM) dkap: Ahh ... then you probably want at least a 40 year old, if not a 60. The good ports start at 80 and go up.
(09:46:31 PM) Cagliostro: you realize that you are insulting my taste in booze, right?
(09:46:46 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro will grab what is appropriate
(09:47:12 PM) dkap: This is the Count we are talking about. There are monasteries devoted to preserving port for him.
(09:47:35 PM) Cagliostro: but the idea is alcohol, for the symbolism of destruction and creativity, but also something that requires tinkering and preservation
(09:47:53 PM) Cagliostro: so something good from the cellars, but not something that is too good to part with
(09:48:20 PM) dkap: Indeed. A "suitably aged" port, then. We'll leave my time-sense out of it.
(09:49:32 PM) Cagliostro: I just don't see Cagliostro as a snob. ;)
(09:50:21 PM) dkap: It's not snobbishness, it's simply that port really does tend to reach it's stride as a human of that span is dying off ...
(09:51:14 PM) dkap: The port that was brought up from the sea-bed, from the 1700's pirate ship, was, according to all reports, absolutely impressive.
(09:51:15 PM) Cagliostro: there are reasons for the younger ports, as well.
(09:51:23 PM) Cagliostro: I would imagine so.
(09:51:28 PM) dkap: There are. I guess, any port in a storm.
(09:51:35 PM) Cagliostro: ow.
(09:52:05 PM) dkap: Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.
(09:52:20 PM) Cagliostro: game, run
(09:53:07 PM) dkap: Right. Umm ... sand, salt-water, and port, all gathered.
(09:53:15 PM) dkap: And back into the Bear-torn umbra.
(09:53:26 PM) Cagliostro: yes
(09:53:32 PM) Cagliostro: to Ammon: "you can close that, right?"
(09:53:49 PM) Ammon: .
(09:53:59 PM) Ammon: Of course
(09:54:35 PM) Cagliostro: "Excellent. That could be handy, later."
(09:54:37 PM) Ammon: I just pull this stick out of the tear, and once it's clear, it closes on its own.
(09:54:54 PM) ***Cagliostro hands sand, saltwater, and booze to Spot.
(09:54:58 PM) Ammon: So, just kick out the stick on the way by if you're fleeing something
(09:55:02 PM) Cagliostro: "One of these should suffice as a bond. But I hope."
(09:55:09 PM) Cagliostro: to Ammon: "Good to know."
(09:55:11 PM) ***Spot hummms.
(09:55:20 PM) Spot: GM: Which do I think is best?
(09:55:31 PM) dkap: One moment, I got confused. Did you use the sand and the salt-water to create the cordials?
(09:55:40 PM) Hegara left the room (quit: Quit).
(09:55:53 PM) Cagliostro: no, I just created the cordials
(09:55:55 PM) dkap: Or are you keeping them in created vessels of glass?
(09:56:01 PM) Cagliostro: created vessels of glass
(09:56:03 PM) dkap: Gotcha. I was confused for a moment, sorry.
(09:56:04 PM) Cagliostro: with boosted inertia
(09:56:13 PM) Cagliostro: the medium should be meaningful, not the container
(09:57:03 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:57:30 PM) dkap: I wasn't sure if you were going to forge the elements into the vessel to hold the port, and use that to mix the drops of blood within.
(09:57:42 PM) Cagliostro: nah
(09:57:51 PM) ***Cagliostro is not familiar enough with the rules to know what will work
(09:58:03 PM) Cagliostro: so I brought Spot options
(09:58:42 PM) dkap: Ahh ... so, spot, which shall you try first?
(09:58:47 PM) dkap: Port, salt-water, or sand?
(09:59:04 PM) dkap: (And Count, did you explain where each came from, and the symbolism of each?)
(09:59:21 PM) Cagliostro: No, but I will, if asked.
(10:00:04 PM) Spot: I wanted to know what I though twas best first
(10:03:21 PM) dkap: Hrm ... not knowing the difference, the sea-water is closest to blood.
(10:03:46 PM) Spot: I will try the saltwater first then
(10:04:23 PM) dkap: The sea-water comes out sparkling white.
(10:04:39 PM) dkap: And as it touches the various bloods it actually begins to glow.
(10:04:45 PM) dkap: But they are not, yet, mixing.
(10:05:12 PM) ***Spot hmms and tries the sand.
(10:06:52 PM) dkap: The sand absorbs some of each of the blood, and then, the blood and the seawater just mix.
(10:07:09 PM) dkap: The seawater is white swirls amongst the black of the blood.
(10:07:22 PM) Spot: But I haven't got a true mixture?
(10:08:55 PM) dkap: The blood is well and truly mixed, with each other, and has turned black. The sea-water is still separate, swirling about amongst the blood.
(10:09:31 PM) Spot: Hmmmm.
(10:10:24 PM) ***Ammon munches popcorn and 'hmmmms'.
(10:10:33 PM) Spot: "Now I need the water out. This usually isn't this ....complicated. Unless adding the port will help."
(10:11:11 PM) dkap: You could try just pulling the water out ...
(10:11:23 PM) dkap: You still have the vessel it was poured from.
(10:11:48 PM) Spot: Very well, I'll try separating the water from the blood
(10:12:07 PM) dkap: It has yet to mix, so you can separate it quite well.
(10:12:26 PM) Spot: excellent
(10:12:50 PM) dkap: The blood is dark and potent, seething with power, balance, and unity.
(10:13:45 PM) dkap: And there is the paint, just waiting to be charged.
(10:16:46 PM) ***Spot puts a few drops of the mixed blood into the paint.
(10:18:07 PM) dkap: The paint, over it's entire volume, turns darker, and, Count, you feel the surge of power into it.
(10:19:28 PM) ***Cagliostro nods.
(10:19:35 PM) Cagliostro: "I believe we are ready."
(10:20:18 PM) Cagliostro: and then we'll paint a binding sigil
(10:21:33 PM) Spot: "I agree."
(10:21:40 PM) dkap: Is it binding from the inside, but permeable from the outside? Or are you leaving a gateway/door open to be closed once you have your quarry trapped?
(10:22:01 PM) Cagliostro: I think it moves too fast for a gateway
(10:22:18 PM) Cagliostro: so probably some things to urge it in, and then go for the binding inside/permeable outside
(10:22:54 PM) dkap: Good good.
(10:23:24 PM) dkap: So you have to paint it from the inside, out. Not that hard for you, since you most-often compose first, and then act upon a thought-out plan.
(10:23:41 PM) Cagliostro: yes, one would not want to paint oneself into a binding corner
(10:24:02 PM) dkap: Indeed. *grin*
(10:24:28 PM) Cagliostro: and there should be a place that Spot can work from near the center
(10:24:39 PM) Cagliostro: so it's probably a somewhat elaborate diagram with a whorl near the center
(10:24:46 PM) Cagliostro: so lots of reinforcing
(10:25:02 PM) dkap: And a path back out?
(10:25:10 PM) dkap: Or will Spot be trapped as well?
(10:25:18 PM) Cagliostro: we can break the circle if we need to
(10:25:24 PM) Spot: I prefer a not trapped me
(10:25:25 PM) Cagliostro: hm....
(10:25:30 PM) Cagliostro: but that might be bad
(10:25:32 PM) Cagliostro: so yes, path out
(10:26:07 PM) dkap: Here your observations come well into play, noticing that the entity seems to move more in straight lines, than curves.
(10:26:15 PM) Cagliostro: indeed
(10:26:19 PM) dkap: Especially reversing curves.
(10:26:23 PM) Cagliostro: so lots of gradual twining curves to get out
(10:26:33 PM) Cagliostro: patternish, in a way. not htat Cagliostro would know that.
(10:26:40 PM) Cagliostro: consciously. ;)
(10:26:58 PM) dkap: *grin* Funny, that.
(10:27:11 PM) dkap: Almost as if the designer of the one had something similar in mind.
(10:27:19 PM) dkap: Somewhere ... Auricle is gently smiling.
(10:27:36 PM) dkap: And petting a paisely or two.
(10:27:57 PM) Spot: Somewhere Auricle is wondering who's drawing partial patterns and the HELL they think they are messing with
(10:28:20 PM) Spot: ....and probably smiling and petting paisleys.
(10:28:21 PM) Cagliostro: I figured Dworkin was just staggering because he was low on blood with poor depth perception.
(10:28:57 PM) Cagliostro: and thinking "Oh well, at least I didn't get rogered by a unicorn this time."
(10:29:52 PM) dkap: Nope, he was being forced along by the insanity that Oberon generated within him, more than any other mitigating factor.
(10:30:32 PM) dkap: But, as I recall, none here would know that, so ... look, Elvis! Game, run.
(10:30:34 PM) Cagliostro: so: we paint a pretty sigil
(10:31:06 PM) Spot: I paint pretty sigils on the nice sword in blood to bind that which is summoned, aka mr slashy
(10:31:28 PM) dkap: Indeed, and the watching of the sigil, and the watching of each other, keeps the entity veering off, until it is done.
(10:31:47 PM) dkap: Trapped, rather than summoned, I believe.
(10:32:22 PM) Cagliostro: I think Spot was planning on a summoning
(10:32:25 PM) Cagliostro: ...which may not work
(10:32:35 PM) Cagliostro: but hey, if it gets the attention, then we're all set
(10:33:57 PM) dkap: So, sigils drawn, without let or hinder.
(10:34:35 PM) Cagliostro: excellent.
(10:34:43 PM) ***Cagliostro looks expectantly at Spot.
(10:35:38 PM) ***Spot plants the sword in the center of the circle and starts a summoning for the spirit that's been plaguing them
(10:35:55 PM) dkap: Summoning is done, no spirit.
(10:37:50 PM) Cagliostro: "Do we have another scheme,or is it time to look away from someone?"
(10:38:18 PM) dkap: Or, perhaps, just moving away from the spot, or Spot.
(10:41:05 PM) dkap: Any thoughts?
(10:42:12 PM) Cagliostro: "Ammon, can you see the creature nearby?"
(10:42:19 PM) ***Spot hmms.
(10:48:47 PM) dkap: Any ideas?
(10:49:49 PM) Cagliostro: I have one, which is looking away from someone
(10:49:55 PM) Cagliostro: but I'd prefer to find an intermediate step
(10:50:08 PM) Cagliostro: perhaps all looking away from the sigil, but still watching each other
(10:50:24 PM) Spot: that might work
(10:55:04 PM) Cagliostro: gm?
(10:55:12 PM) Ammon left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(10:56:10 PM) dkap: Sorry.
(10:56:19 PM) dkap: Answering someone.
(10:56:44 PM) dkap: Are you moving a distance off? Or just looking in different directions.
(10:57:59 PM) Cagliostro: neither
(10:58:07 PM) Cagliostro: staying very close to the sigil, so it's at our backs
(10:58:13 PM) Cagliostro: and all looking away from the sigil
(10:58:19 PM) Cagliostro: but keeping each other in an eyeline
(10:58:25 PM) Cagliostro: so the sigil area is unobserved
(10:58:39 PM) Cagliostro: but there's sigil in the entire unobserved quarter
(10:59:19 PM) dkap: Good good.
(10:59:47 PM) ***Delna will quietly sneak off to bed and whisper good night to all
(11:00:00 PM) Raziel left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(11:00:03 PM) dkap: Good night.
(11:00:30 PM) Spot: I'm actually a bit zoned myself
(11:00:31 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.5.9/20100315083431]).
(11:01:52 PM) dkap: Then, perhaps we should hang at this cusp?
(11:02:04 PM) Cagliostro: sure
(11:02:09 PM) Spot: sounds good
(11:02:13 PM) Spot: night!
(11:02:15 PM) Spot left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [SeaMonkey 2.0.4/20100317120533]).
(11:04:16 PM) Cagliostro: night!
(11:04:18 PM) Cagliostro left the room.
(04/14/2010 12:00:12 AM) Day changed to 14 Apr 2010