Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 27 Apr 2010 08:02:31 PM EDT:
(08:02:33 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:03:22 PM) Delna [~chatzilla@c-71-228-78-177.hsd1.fl.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:03:35 PM) dkap: Woot! One!
(08:03:56 PM) Delna: haha
(08:04:11 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-31-32-142.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:04:19 PM) Cagliostro: hello hello
(08:04:35 PM) dkap: Two!
(08:04:42 PM) dkap: Two players. Bwahahahahah!
(08:32:12 PM) Spot [~chatzilla@c-71-233-160-84.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:32:22 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@72.170.197.76] entered the room.
(08:32:30 PM) Spot: hi! sorry was out walking
(08:33:23 PM) Meiglan: made it in..and on the first time. Usually my computer is hinky.
(08:34:35 PM) Cagliostro: excellent
(08:34:45 PM) Cagliostro: I think some of the server aliases are broken
(08:35:06 PM) Cagliostro: so you may have to hit refresh or quit & restart the chat program to get a new alias to connect to
(08:35:13 PM) Cagliostro: (or connect straight to a server that works)
(08:36:23 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(08:36:53 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@72.170.197.76] entered the room.
(08:41:24 PM) dkap: That does work.
(08:41:25 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:41:33 PM) Delna: well, i managed to lock myself into my own house..woot!
(08:41:45 PM) dkap: Lock yourself in?
(08:41:51 PM) dkap: Firecodes?
(08:42:48 PM) Delna: nope. trying to change the locks on my doors. didn't open the door first : P
(08:42:55 PM) Delna: ...I'll be back
(08:43:09 PM) dkap: Ahh.
(08:45:42 PM) dkap: So ... where were we?
(08:46:44 PM) dkap: I believe it was with Delna and Meiglan, right?
(08:48:05 PM) Cagliostro: in the maze of mirrors
(08:48:50 PM) dkap: Right.
(08:48:58 PM) dkap: And Delna is trying to break into her house ... *grin*
(08:48:59 PM) Meiglan: I had a hand caught in the twisty moany ghosty thing.
(08:51:57 PM) Delna: Right. And I have a sword stuck in it
(08:52:21 PM) Delna: I don't believe I had tried slashing at the walls in here yet
(08:52:27 PM) Delna: And I think that was my next step
(08:53:09 PM) dkap: Right!
(08:59:16 PM) dkap: Slashing, with claw?
(09:00:11 PM) Delna: Yes. as before
(09:03:04 PM) Delna: Does this cause any change in the grey blob or the circling wailing
(09:03:49 PM) dkap: Again, you feel like you scored, but after the scoring there is no visible or touch difference.
(09:05:33 PM) dkap: The grey blob wails a bit more when you are checking the marks, afterward.
(09:06:50 PM) Meiglan: Does my engulfed hand feel any different when she strikes wht wall?
(09:07:08 PM) dkap: Nope.
(09:07:50 PM) Meiglan: I'll relay this information to Delna.
(09:16:48 PM) dkap: Delna?
(09:19:21 PM) caelin [~arkhonii@m470536d0.tmodns.net] entered the room.
(09:19:44 PM) dkap: So, next step?
(09:22:10 PM) caelin: listening. Rehearsal currently happening.
(09:22:13 PM) Meiglan: I'm going to see if she can strike at the wall again, and then I'm going to try to pull my hand out at the same moment.
(09:33:43 PM) dkap: Hrm ...
(09:40:19 PM) Meiglan: (yes?)
(09:44:33 PM) Delna: Sorry! My mom came to rescue me.
(09:44:48 PM) Delna: I will strike again and continue to try to do damage to it
(09:44:59 PM) Delna: Listening to the wails to see if they change again as well
(09:45:31 PM) dkap: Your hand, when you pull on it at that moment ... it squeezes more.
(09:47:28 PM) Meiglan: "Delna, it squeezed harder when I tried to pull away at the same time." Not a real painful squeeze, I'm figuring?
(09:47:58 PM) Delna: (trying to remember the rules for agg damage - can I burn potence to do aggravated damage with my claws or something like that?)
(09:49:00 PM) dkap: Ag-damage depends on the target, as well as what you burn.
(09:49:16 PM) Cagliostro: (I think claws generally do agg, at least against vampires)
(09:49:43 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:50:33 PM) Delna: If there is something I can burn to do more damage with my claws I will do so (may have to go get my character sheet..)
(09:50:47 PM) Delna: And I will keep slashing at the same spot
(09:52:38 PM) dkap: (Since the "thing" might not be something that can take ag"
(09:54:15 PM) dkap: The spot feels the same each time you hit it.
(09:55:08 PM) Delna: And nothing more with the blob..Is the wailing sound still circling the room by the walls?
(09:55:59 PM) dkap: Yes, it is.
(09:56:05 PM) dkap: The blob is slowly dissapating.
(09:56:09 PM) dkap: It is not long for the world.
(09:58:28 PM) Meiglan: As it dissipates can I pull my hand free?
(09:59:05 PM) dkap: Nope. It actually is pulling tighter.
(10:00:47 PM) Delna: "We need spot. I can't do anything with the spirit world. That's not my plane.."
(10:01:16 PM) Delna: gm: did the ifrit stay with us on this world?
(10:01:56 PM) Delna: I am going to try and contact the Count so as to speak with Spot
(10:02:57 PM) dkap: The Ifrit are outside the maze.
(10:03:15 PM) dkap: How are you going to contact the Count? I believe he gave you a radio ...
(10:03:53 PM) Meiglan: "I think that's a good idea. Besides, I'd hate to kill something that didn't deserve it."
(10:06:13 PM) Delna: I will try the radio. If that doesn't work I will have to try to get outside to the ifrit....which could be a little more than difficult
(10:07:45 PM) dkap: Cagliostro: your Radio crackles. It's just after you have gotten out of the umbra.
(10:10:35 PM) ***Cagliostro answers it
(10:10:48 PM) Cagliostro: "Hello?"
(10:11:46 PM) dkap: (Encrypted? Clear channel?)
(10:12:31 PM) Delna: "Count, we need yours and spot's help over here. Quickly. We have a spirit that seems to be trapped and dying and it is taking meiglan with it"
(10:12:51 PM) Delna: "Can you make it here with Spot?"
(10:12:57 PM) Meiglan: "I'm not dead yet." Muttered.
(10:14:09 PM) dkap: "I think I'll go for a walk ..."
(10:14:13 PM) Cagliostro: (standard encryption built in, not coded)
(10:14:20 PM) dkap: Good good.
(10:14:27 PM) Cagliostro: "Spot? Shall we go for a w... find Delna?"
(10:14:48 PM) Spot: "ahhh....Okay. I like her."
(10:15:28 PM) ***Cagliostro gates to near where I left Delna
(10:15:36 PM) Cagliostro: bringing Spot, a couple of swords, and a couple of Ifrit
(10:15:55 PM) dkap: There is an Ifrit, just about where you gate in.
(10:16:00 PM) dkap: He is waiting for you.
(10:16:25 PM) dkap: He points toward the "House Of Mirrors" with an ... unfortunate, but eloquent expression on his face.
(10:16:54 PM) Spot: Spot hmms.
(10:17:19 PM) ***Cagliostro raises an eyebrow.
(10:17:42 PM) Cagliostro: "Anything we should know, besides a trapped spirt?" he asks the Ifrit, as he walks toward the house of mirrors.
(10:18:35 PM) dkap: Ifrit: "Trapped spirit? They just went in there, and I figured you were here to rescue them."
(10:20:20 PM) Cagliostro: "Yes, but it got more complicated, apparently. Stay here, then, in case anyone comes along to rescue us."
(10:20:27 PM) Cagliostro: and the group will enter the house of mirrors.
(10:20:33 PM) Spot: "We;ll need rescuing?"
(10:20:41 PM) ***Spot looks derisive.
(10:21:58 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:23:08 PM) Cagliostro: so what's inside?
(10:23:16 PM) dkap: In you go. How close are you two? 4? etc are staying to each-other?
(10:23:27 PM) dkap: Are you getting intel (over the radio) before going in?
(10:26:17 PM) Delna: If the radio to the Count still works I will page him to tell him that we are in the house of mirrors, at the end of it
(10:26:20 PM) Cagliostro: probably fairly close, 3-5 feet
(10:26:30 PM) Cagliostro: we'll try to keep in touch over the radio
(10:26:36 PM) Cagliostro: things like "Entering the house now..."
(10:26:39 PM) Delna: And that the mirrors may or may not move...just keep going and follow the wailing sound
(10:27:13 PM) dkap: The radio has no problem working.
(10:27:16 PM) Cagliostro: gm: does Cagliostro know whether these vampires reflect in mirrors? He has been around them while Spot's been going into and out of shinies.
(10:27:34 PM) dkap: The vampires reflect, yes.
(10:27:56 PM) dkap: In the house of mirrors, the Ifrit and Spot don't reflect, but you do.
(10:29:14 PM) Cagliostro: "So... did you all reflect in these mirrors?"
(10:29:26 PM) Cagliostro: gm: do I hear a wailing sound?
(10:29:31 PM) Cagliostro: (or a whaling sound, just in case)
(10:30:31 PM) dkap: No Whaling.
(10:30:37 PM) dkap: And no you don't hear the wailing.
(10:30:54 PM) Delna: "no, we did not. The walls seemed to be tied to this spirit somehow. When I do damage to them the thing that has meiglan seems to dissipate more"
(10:30:59 PM) dkap: And you are now in the know that the mirrors might move ... are you doing anything to connect the people going in ...
(10:31:20 PM) dkap: And are you taking the other Ifrit in with you>
(10:31:31 PM) Cagliostro: I already told the resident Ifrit to stay put
(10:31:37 PM) Cagliostro: only bringing with us the two I brought originally
(10:31:53 PM) ***Cagliostro feels a bit singled out by the mirrors.
(10:32:43 PM) Meiglan: "Tell him it's also squeezing harder...ooh like it's trying to hold on. I wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing...."
(10:32:52 PM) Cagliostro: I can't think of anything that would work connection-wise that wouldn't be a huge liability
(10:32:58 PM) Cagliostro: so we'll stay really close
(10:33:00 PM) Cagliostro: and move in
(10:33:21 PM) Cagliostro: and get ready to push back if the mirrors rotate to block or separate us
(10:33:27 PM) dkap: Arms on shoulders? A bit of rope ...
(10:34:54 PM) Cagliostro: arms on shoulders removes hands from defense or balance
(10:35:07 PM) Cagliostro: rope can be trapped beneath or between mirrors
(10:35:28 PM) Cagliostro: if there's some sort of mechanical system in here, the -last- thing you want is to get some sort of rope caught in it that's attached to you
(10:36:18 PM) dkap: True.
(10:36:55 PM) dkap: So, in you go.
(10:37:30 PM) Spot: sorry had tp be afk for a moment there
(10:38:57 PM) dkap: S'ok.
(10:39:00 PM) dkap: So, in you go.
(10:39:16 PM) dkap: Count, there is a _lot_ of magic here.
(10:39:30 PM) dkap: Your magic-sucker buttons are quite happy.
(10:39:42 PM) Cagliostro: magic-detector, really
(10:39:51 PM) Cagliostro: it would be counterproductive to wear magic suckers
(10:39:54 PM) Cagliostro: as a mage
(10:40:08 PM) Cagliostro: so it's high but still on the scale, and nothing broke, detector-wise?
(10:41:30 PM) dkap: Nowhere near Caelin level.
(10:41:31 PM) Cagliostro: and does it seem high for my world, normal for the outside world, high for the outside world, or just high for anywhere Caelin isn't?
(10:42:01 PM) dkap: Not even you working full out.
(10:42:28 PM) dkap: High for your world, but not very high.
(10:42:34 PM) Cagliostro: Gotcha.
(10:42:42 PM) Cagliostro: Continue along toward the back, listening for wailing
(10:42:43 PM) Cagliostro: and whaling
(10:42:55 PM) Cagliostro: "Can you hear us at all?"
(10:43:03 PM) Cagliostro: "We don't hear any wailing."
(10:43:23 PM) Spot: "What are we supposed to hear?"
(10:43:26 PM) dkap: As you go, your image, as I said, is reflecting. Spot is not, neither is the Ifrit.
(10:43:33 PM) dkap: There is an occasional wail.
(10:43:39 PM) dkap: The radio is working.
(10:43:40 PM) Cagliostro: "That, I suppose."
(10:43:51 PM) Cagliostro: gm: the "Can you hear us at all?" was over the radio. sorry, unclear
(10:44:34 PM) Delna: gm, can we hear them in the maze, not over the radio?
(10:44:35 PM) Cagliostro: gm: move towards the wailing
(10:48:30 PM) dkap: Over the radio, not through the maze.
(10:48:35 PM) dkap: Inward works.
(10:48:53 PM) dkap: At one point the tail-most ifrit suddenly finds the way in front blocked.
(10:49:04 PM) dkap: Count, you notice immediately.
(10:50:37 PM) ***Cagliostro stops
(10:50:52 PM) Cagliostro: do I reflect in the thing blocking her?
(10:51:14 PM) dkap: Yes.
(10:52:01 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(10:52:22 PM) Cagliostro: is it possible to find a way for her to step around it and still follow us?
(10:53:58 PM) dkap: Rerouting is possible.
(10:54:21 PM) dkap: But the path no longer seems to connect.
(10:56:13 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(10:56:25 PM) Cagliostro: no longer seems to connect to the wailing?
(10:57:42 PM) dkap: Well ... you don't know, the Ifrit can't tell you.
(10:58:00 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(10:58:14 PM) Cagliostro: so the issue is that there may be a way to reroute, but that the Ifrit can't immediately find it?
(10:58:27 PM) Cagliostro: as in, it's not a matter of stepping a few feet to one side or the other?
(10:58:59 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:59:38 PM) Cagliostro: okay
(10:59:47 PM) Cagliostro: open a gate to the other side of the barrier
(10:59:50 PM) Cagliostro: so the Ifrit can step through
(11:00:11 PM) dkap: Done.
(11:00:20 PM) dkap: Ifrit steps through.
(11:00:58 PM) ***Cagliostro closes the gate, and we continue
(11:01:36 PM) dkap: This happens a few more times, on your way in. The hack continues to work.
(11:01:51 PM) Cagliostro: k
(11:01:56 PM) Cagliostro: (ha!)
(11:03:59 PM) ***Cagliostro continues.
(11:04:45 PM) dkap: You (eventually) get to the hexagonal room at the center.
(11:04:58 PM) dkap: Meiglan is stuck, arm first in something in the center.
(11:05:04 PM) dkap: Delna is ... what?
(11:05:14 PM) Spot left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(11:05:57 PM) ***Cagliostro examines the room and the 'something' with the lens
(11:06:04 PM) Delna: waiting mostly. ready to cut off meiglan's hand if need be to keep her from dying with this thing
(11:06:21 PM) Delna: I am not caught however. only my sword is
(11:07:21 PM) Meiglan: I'm feeling better!
(11:07:27 PM) dkap: Yes, but what are you doing Delna?
(11:08:03 PM) Spot [~chatzilla@c-71-233-160-84.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(11:08:44 PM) Delna: unless something changes with the condition of things I will have been waiting, not wanting to damage the spirit anymore for fear that I kill the spirit that has meiglan trapped
(11:08:48 PM) dkap: And, you have your lens to try and puzzle things out ...
(11:08:58 PM) dkap: Makes sense.
(11:13:20 PM) dkap: It's past 11, and we don't seem to be getting very far. Perhaps we should call it for the night, and try again tomorrow?
(11:13:46 PM) Spot: all sleepy
(11:13:52 PM) Spot: Calling is good
(11:14:01 PM) Meiglan: I second that thought.
(11:14:05 PM) Delna: yar
(11:14:11 PM) dkap: Right then. It's a game!
(11:14:19 PM) Delna: Night!
(11:14:45 PM) Meiglan: ngiht all, sleep sweet
(11:14:45 PM) Spot: night!
(11:14:49 PM) Spot left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(11:15:11 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.3/20100401080539]).
(11:15:19 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.5.2/20090729225027]).
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(08:08:10 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:08:10 PM) Delna: My vote goes to the one with the silly hat
(08:08:21 PM) Delna: woohoo, silly hat wins
(08:09:09 PM) Cagliostro: woo, silly hats it is.
(08:09:32 PM) dkap: Silly hats?
(08:09:51 PM) Cagliostro: I think Delna was voting for the Pope while we were waiting.
(08:09:54 PM) Cagliostro: so: game?
(08:10:08 PM) Spot: hat!
(08:11:12 PM) dkap: Which pope? The one from Niger, or the one who advocated eugenics in his youth, but apparently justifies that with the stance of the church by saying "they weren't Christian babies ..."
(08:11:28 PM) Cagliostro: probably Pope Berndatte
(08:11:32 PM) Cagliostro: or whoever has the silliest hat
(08:11:37 PM) Cagliostro: *Bernadette
(08:11:54 PM) dkap: Carol Burnadette?
(08:12:18 PM) dkap: "This, this is a bad plan. You might lose your hat." -some Jager.
(08:14:00 PM) Cagliostro: so, game?
(08:14:22 PM) dkap: Minion is making her way here ...
(08:14:41 PM) ***Spot misses Auricle and her Jaegers.
(08:14:47 PM) dkap: *grin* So too do I.
(08:15:20 PM) dkap: I know Bernadette Peters for Pope!
(08:15:52 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@72.170.197.76] entered the room.
(08:15:59 PM) dkap: Oh, wait, didn't she already play that in Into the Woods?
(08:16:15 PM) dkap: Aaaand we are back!
(08:17:16 PM) dkap: No shit, there we were, 2 ifrit, a Count, two Vamps and a woof, in a hexagonal room, a second hexagon in the center, trapping Meiglan's arm, and a smokey, possibly wailing spirit trapped within as well.
(08:17:45 PM) dkap: There is also a sword sticking out of the center hexagon.
(08:19:25 PM) Delna: hmm, perhaps a lady of the lake to save the day then?
(08:19:28 PM) Spot: "Haven't we seen this before?"
(08:19:42 PM) Cagliostro: "It does seem passing familiar."
(08:20:04 PM) Cagliostro: "Shall we see what things look like in the Umbra?"
(08:20:28 PM) Spot: "Let's." I look around for a shiny.
(08:20:37 PM) Spot: Oh wait, house of mirrors
(08:20:41 PM) Spot: right?
(08:21:10 PM) dkap: Indeed, house of mirrors. Shiny's galore.
(08:22:15 PM) Spot: I grab the count and dive through a convenient mirror.
(08:22:48 PM) dkap: As you step into the umbra, the house of mirrors isn't there, but so, too, aren't the reflections of the other 4 (or 5, if you count the smoky one.)
(08:23:16 PM) dkap: Bits of the rest of the carnival are there, though.
(08:23:23 PM) Spot: no wailing spirit
(08:23:24 PM) Spot: ?
(08:23:37 PM) Cagliostro: yeah, the spirit and the sword are the focuses of our attention?
(08:25:19 PM) dkap: No sword, no spirit, no house of mirrors, as if, none of that, nor the contents of it even exist.
(08:25:38 PM) dkap: Normally, Spot, you have seen the Vamps at least, reflected in the Umbra, but not now.
(08:25:56 PM) dkap: As if, the house of Mirrors holds them kept, in a different way.
(08:26:29 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(08:26:33 PM) ***Spot hmmmms.
(08:26:34 PM) Cagliostro: "Does this happen a lot?"
(08:26:50 PM) Spot: "Not often."
(08:27:02 PM) Spot: "Therefore something strange is at work."
(08:27:35 PM) dkap: Watson, the game is afoot?
(08:29:59 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(08:30:12 PM) Cagliostro: "Anything to look for here, or shall we head back?"
(08:30:41 PM) Spot: I will search around a little bit to see if there's anything worth seeing.
(08:31:41 PM) dkap: The houses outside the approximate area of the carnival are normal enough.
(08:32:12 PM) dkap: Tenanted, weaver trace through them, normal, several mirrors each, should you wish to peer/step through.
(08:32:23 PM) Spot: "Iiiiiiiinteresting."
(08:32:27 PM) Cagliostro: nothing else inside the carnival looks especially anomalous or ominous?
(08:32:39 PM) dkap: The space where the carnival is ... is ... uninhabited in the Umbra. Much of what should be there seems to be missing.
(08:32:56 PM) dkap: So not ominous, just ... not.
(08:33:17 PM) dkap: And the mirror you stepped through (and did, right enough) to get here, doesn't seem to exist here enough for you to step back.
(08:34:15 PM) Spot: "It seems the answer is in the tellurian. Shall we return?"
(08:34:42 PM) Cagliostro: "Let's."
(08:35:22 PM) Spot: I will go find a shiny and step back with the count
(08:35:57 PM) dkap: The house you step into, chosen because it is occupied or not?
(08:37:19 PM) Spot: not, is preferred]
(08:37:59 PM) dkap: You step through to an empty house.
(08:38:16 PM) dkap: The bedroom is unexceptional.
(08:38:34 PM) Cagliostro: "Shall we return to the house of mirrors?"
(08:38:38 PM) dkap: Chiffarobe, Bureau, Bed. Closet.
(08:38:49 PM) dkap: Area rug.
(08:39:02 PM) dkap: Bed is made.
(08:39:09 PM) dkap: It's tidy.
(08:40:03 PM) Spot: "Agreed, huse of mirrors."
(08:40:36 PM) dkap: Walk or gate?
(08:40:50 PM) Cagliostro: gate
(08:40:59 PM) Cagliostro: open, check, step through
(08:41:44 PM) dkap: You are back (comfortably) in the hexagon.
(08:42:22 PM) dkap: Any comment, Meiglan, Delna, on their disappearing act?
(08:42:29 PM) ***Spot is back to hmmmming.
(08:43:05 PM) Cagliostro: "So, there's no carnival-analog on the spiritual side of things."
(08:43:19 PM) Cagliostro: "I wonder if this means the spirit world has relocated to this side of things."
(08:43:30 PM) ***Spot startles.
(08:43:32 PM) Meiglan: Well, they did say what they were going to do. It was a bit startling that they disappeared so fast. Is there any reaction in the room when they disappeared?
(08:43:34 PM) ***Cagliostro examines the spirit and the sword with the lens
(08:43:41 PM) Spot: "That would be...very very very bad."
(08:44:16 PM) Delna: "If that is the case, what are our options"
(08:44:30 PM) dkap: The spirit is even more chaotic of form in the lens. The sword, well ... It's Delna's and has her aura resonating in it.
(08:44:59 PM) Meiglan: "Wait, wait, wait...very bad for whom?"
(08:45:05 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(08:45:15 PM) ***Cagliostro offers Delna and Spot the lens in turn.
(08:45:16 PM) Meiglan: "The spirit, or me?"
(08:45:40 PM) Spot: "Probably both."
(08:46:59 PM) Delna: "No matter what happens to this spirit, we have to find a way to get Meiglan out of this thing before the very bad things happen."
(08:47:50 PM) ***Delna takes the lens from the count and looks at the grey blob and the walls of the room
(08:48:05 PM) Meiglan: "Agreed."
(08:48:20 PM) dkap: The walls of the room seem to throb and pulse in the lens.
(08:49:05 PM) Cagliostro: "Don't worry, Meiglan, I have a few ideas we could use in an emergency."
(08:50:19 PM) Meiglan: "I'm not worried. Do I look worried?" It's rather hard to tell, actually.
(08:51:29 PM) ***Spot walks around and touches the walls, curiously.
(08:51:50 PM) dkap: They feel slick, glassy.
(08:51:51 PM) Delna: I will relay the information on the throbbing and pulsing walls
(08:52:23 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(08:52:35 PM) Cagliostro: "Well, there's always tradition to fall back on..."
(08:52:41 PM) Delna: I will also mention my previous discovery of seeming to hurt the walls, but that this seemed to make the grey blob decay faster without letting go of meiglan
(08:52:51 PM) Meiglan: "Is there a rhythm to the pulsing?"
(08:52:56 PM) ***Cagliostro creates a ouija board, planchette, and long pole
(08:53:08 PM) Cagliostro: and will push the ouija board + planchette over into the grey blob
(08:53:37 PM) dkap: The pole, once crossing the line, becomes held firm.
(08:53:51 PM) ***Cagliostro lets go of the pole
(08:54:06 PM) dkap: There is a rhythm to the pulsing, yes.
(08:54:12 PM) dkap: The pole stays where it is held.
(08:55:17 PM) Delna: to the Count, "Yeah, unfortunately that's what happened to my sword too"
(08:55:17 PM) Cagliostro: gm: the board and planchette also stay stuck and do not move, I presume?
(08:55:19 PM) dkap: The spirit moves over the board, and the letters rearrange themselves, writhing and rewriting the characters. Unfortunately, not into anything senscical.
(08:55:34 PM) Cagliostro: ah
(08:55:46 PM) Spot: Oooh I'm insane, does it make sense to me?
(08:55:50 PM) ***Spot grins.
(08:55:58 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(08:56:09 PM) dkap: The planchette gets picked up, spun around, knocked against the pole, sword and Meiglan hand a time or two, before bursting astunder, and leaving only flinders behind.
(08:56:16 PM) dkap: Spot, nope.
(08:56:21 PM) Meiglan: "Interesting...so the spirit is controlling what gets stuck in it."
(08:56:30 PM) dkap: Must be a different brand of insanity.
(08:57:01 PM) ***Spot looks at the sword he's carrying and wonders.
(08:57:03 PM) Meiglan: "That almost hurt...tetchy little spirit, isn't it?"
(08:57:32 PM) Spot: "Hey! Spirit! What're you after, then?"
(08:59:00 PM) dkap: The flinders fly up, and spell, in the common tongue a simple word. "Out"
(08:59:25 PM) dkap: They fall back to where they were lying on the floor.
(08:59:34 PM) Cagliostro: gm: does the sword seem to be pinning the spirit, the way the last sword & spirit were?
(08:59:48 PM) dkap: Nope.
(08:59:49 PM) Spot: "We get you out, you let her go?"
(09:00:17 PM) Delna: to the spirit "How? We can't help you if we don't know how. You have to give us a clue."
(09:02:37 PM) dkap: Everything swirls, and then is still again.
(09:02:49 PM) dkap: As if a message would have been created, if there was one to create.
(09:03:42 PM) ***Cagliostro reaches forward and offers a hand to Meiglan
(09:06:28 PM) Meiglan: *Grabs Cagliostro's hand, and tries to pull herself free of the spirit.*
(09:06:42 PM) ***Cagliostro also pulls, firmly but gradually
(09:06:57 PM) dkap: It holds.
(09:07:37 PM) Spot: GM: Can I see any bindings on the spirit itself?
(09:07:40 PM) Spot: Or the area?
(09:08:40 PM) Meiglan: "Maybe we find a way to dismantle the House of Mirrors."
(09:08:53 PM) dkap: Area there is a ... hint.
(09:09:13 PM) Spot: hint? of binding?
(09:09:40 PM) Cagliostro: "Possible. The spirit itself could be bound by all these mirrors."
(09:10:33 PM) Delna: "How do we do so without hurting the spirit which is holding onto meiglan?"
(09:11:04 PM) Spot: "Easy. Block the mirrors."
(09:11:18 PM) Spot: "Put drapes over them or something."
(09:11:31 PM) Meiglan: "that's just crazy enough to work."
(09:11:43 PM) ***Spot grins and bows.
(09:12:01 PM) ***Cagliostro starts conjuring black cloths and draping them over the mirrors
(09:12:13 PM) Cagliostro: "Worth a try."
(09:12:51 PM) dkap: How draping? They go floor to ceiling?
(09:13:10 PM) dkap: Sticky stuff, a la post-it notes?
(09:13:31 PM) Cagliostro: yeah, I'd say some mild stickum
(09:13:55 PM) dkap: They seem to ripple, and then fall.
(09:14:20 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(09:14:49 PM) ***Cagliostro conjures a yurt-style enclosure around the group, inside the mirrors
(09:16:07 PM) Cagliostro: (along with a small light on the inside ceiling - battery powered)
(09:17:07 PM) dkap: Is there a center-hole to allow for the center hexagon? Or are you going to occlude it?
(09:17:33 PM) Cagliostro: I think probably occlude, yes
(09:18:38 PM) dkap: It occurs.
(09:19:05 PM) Cagliostro: any visible aftereffects?
(09:20:13 PM) dkap: For a moment it gets really dark, the light is there ... but something draws all the power out of it.
(09:20:19 PM) dkap: Then, there is a snap.
(09:20:44 PM) dkap: Meiglan, you are liberated from the pillar, unfortunately, it appears to have decided to keep your hand.
(09:21:09 PM) dkap: There is a shattering noise and the yurt-top breaks to pieces.
(09:22:19 PM) Cagliostro: "Interesting."
(09:22:25 PM) Cagliostro: gm: deconjure the yurt remains
(09:22:38 PM) Cagliostro: and conjure Meiglan a new hand, matching levels of mystic inertia.
(09:22:49 PM) Meiglan: "Son of a Biscuit!!!"
(09:23:49 PM) dkap: In situ?
(09:24:05 PM) dkap: (I presumed the hand was conjured so.)
(09:24:27 PM) dkap: Meiglan: your hand, after a moment, seems to have grown back, all normal, and connected.
(09:24:33 PM) Cagliostro: Indeed.
(09:24:48 PM) Cagliostro: "That was my plan B, anyway."
(09:25:03 PM) Cagliostro: gm: is the spirit still there?
(09:25:15 PM) Meiglan: Wiggles the fingers, make sure they're working and all. "well, amputation just isn't the handicap it used to be, now is it?"
(09:25:17 PM) dkap: The spirit is still trapped, the sword is halved, and also on the floor.
(09:25:23 PM) dkap: It was the sword snapping that made the noise.
(09:25:40 PM) dkap: Meiglan: It seems everything is fine.
(09:26:16 PM) dkap: The pole is likewise snapped.
(09:26:59 PM) Cagliostro: "There's something here that doesn't like to be cut off from the mirrors."
(09:27:12 PM) Spot: "so it seems"
(09:28:58 PM) Delna: "hmm, is there a way for us to get rid of the mirrors entirely? Cut off whatever this thing's power is?"
(09:29:28 PM) Cagliostro: "We could try to break them, but something reacted pretty poorly to them just being covered..."
(09:31:28 PM) ***Spot hmmms.
(09:31:55 PM) Spot: "Well, I have a very angry sword here.... I could try to break one..."
(09:33:04 PM) Cagliostro: 'You can try it... I'll ward the rest of us.'
(09:33:13 PM) ***Cagliostro steps slightly away and brings up a ward
(09:33:52 PM) dkap: I presume away from the central pillar, now that Meiglan is no longer bound to it, right?
(09:34:41 PM) Spot: Oh yes
(09:34:50 PM) Spot: I don't want to be bound to it either
(09:35:14 PM) Spot: I'll find a nice, faraway mirror and try to crack it with the sword.
(09:35:28 PM) Cagliostro: yes
(09:36:41 PM) dkap: The sword really enjoys the strike and vibrates all the more The screaming moans from the center grow louder and more desperate, and then the mirrored surface is gone, a ... fleshy sort of torn thing hanging in it's place.
(09:37:12 PM) dkap: Black, oily blood dripping down the sword.
(09:37:23 PM) Cagliostro: "That was... not what I expected."
(09:37:42 PM) dkap: And then, a moment later, the mirror, back, as if nothing happened.
(09:39:05 PM) Spot: "Ooooooh. Cool."
(09:39:23 PM) Spot: I angle the sword down so as not to get that on me.
(09:40:07 PM) Cagliostro: gm: What can i tell about the blood?
(09:40:16 PM) dkap: Where the blood drips on the floor, it was as if the wood drank it, with no trace.
(09:41:09 PM) Meiglan: Is the blood affecting the sword? Corroding it or anything?
(09:41:10 PM) dkap: Viscous, a bit on the acidic side, high in protiens, complex cell pattern, high mystic inertia, but not overly high ...
(09:41:23 PM) Cagliostro: obviously human or inhuman?
(09:41:23 PM) dkap: The blood doesn't seem to be effecting the sword at all, no.
(09:41:34 PM) dkap: Not human by any stretch of the imagination.
(09:41:53 PM) Delna: what has happened to the thing in the center?
(09:41:55 PM) Cagliostro: nothing terrestrial?
(09:42:07 PM) dkap: Spot, in staring at the blood, it reminds you of tainted wyrm blood.
(09:42:32 PM) dkap: The thing in the center is much more disappated than it was before.
(09:42:39 PM) ***Spot hmms and looks at the mirrors again.
(09:42:47 PM) Spot: GM: Spiral?
(09:42:50 PM) dkap: The flinders are barely stirring, but they spell out "help"
(09:43:18 PM) dkap: It doesn't seem to have the taint in it, just ... resembles what tainted wyrm blood looks like.
(09:43:37 PM) Delna: "We have to find a way to get this thing out before we kill the house of mirrors."
(09:43:38 PM) dkap: Count: could be terrestrial, its made of the same carbon chains and all.
(09:43:54 PM) Cagliostro: okay, so perhaps once-human, but not currently-human.
(09:44:06 PM) Cagliostro: gm: take back the lens and examine that central octagonal panel
(09:44:21 PM) dkap: Or once whale, or other mammal, or even marsupial ...
(09:44:23 PM) Spot: "It kinda looks like wyrm-taint in the blood, but it sn't."
(09:44:27 PM) Spot: "Very weird."
(09:44:27 PM) Delna: I look at the blob and where the pole and my sword broke off. Is there anything visible trapping it, or any connection between where the other items broker earlier?
(09:44:42 PM) dkap: Hexagonal, and, in the lens, it's completely opaque.
(09:45:16 PM) dkap: In the lens the center area is most definitely there, and opaque, right where the things broke off.
(09:45:38 PM) dkap: Sort of the same pulsy-opaque as the walls.
(09:46:31 PM) Delna: "It seems like this might be where we should focus our efforts..but I worry about Spot's sword getting stuck like mine.."
(09:46:59 PM) Cagliostro: "The sword used to be that eviscerating thing. I wouldn't worry about it."
(09:48:20 PM) Delna: "...Oh...well then"
(09:48:22 PM) Spot: "Yes, but. We should be concerned should the sword break."
(09:48:35 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm. Good point."
(09:48:36 PM) dkap: Unless ... it does occur to you that if the sword breaks, the evicerator would be free, in these very close proximity.
(09:48:46 PM) dkap: Exactly.
(09:48:51 PM) Spot: GM: Waaaaaay ahead of you on that one. :P
(09:49:13 PM) Cagliostro: gm: Do the mirrors have that pulsy-opaque as well?
(09:50:00 PM) Delna: When the drapes were put up we covered the outer mirrors and the inner hexagon, correct?
(09:50:34 PM) Cagliostro: I think we just started to cover the outer mirrors, and they fell off
(09:50:36 PM) dkap: Just the outer mirrors.
(09:50:40 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:51:10 PM) Delna: "Should we try just covering the inner hexagon?"
(09:51:24 PM) Spot: We can
(09:51:34 PM) Spot: "It might accomplish something."
(09:51:57 PM) ***Cagliostro conjures drapes over the inner hexagon
(09:52:04 PM) Cagliostro: and keeps an eye on the spirit
(09:52:52 PM) dkap: The drapes go up, and stay up.
(09:53:06 PM) dkap: And get all stiff, where they touched the inner hexagon.
(09:53:16 PM) Delna: .
(09:53:42 PM) ***Spot watches the sprit.
(09:54:20 PM) Delna: (haha, my cat decided to play too)
(09:55:12 PM) dkap: You can no longer see the spirit thorough the curtains.
(09:55:29 PM) Spot: "I hope that means free..."
(09:56:01 PM) Cagliostro: "Doubt it, really."
(09:56:13 PM) Cagliostro: "But it may change things for the better somewhat."
(09:56:38 PM) Spot: "Well, I do not like being in here."
(09:56:41 PM) dkap: You can still hear the moans and wails, though.
(09:57:03 PM) Delna: "Should we try again with the covers on the outer mirrors?"
(09:57:39 PM) Cagliostro: "Sure."
(09:57:48 PM) ***Cagliostro recovers the outer mirrors, the same as before
(09:58:34 PM) dkap: Same as before, slides off before too many moments have passed.
(09:59:01 PM) Spot: Can we turn the mirrors?
(10:00:26 PM) dkap: How turn?
(10:00:44 PM) dkap: They seem to be built into the House, stretching from floor to ceiling.
(10:01:36 PM) Spot: hmmm
(10:01:46 PM) dkap: Even when they appeared between you or another member of the party, as you wended your way inward, it was an instant thing, one moment open, the next sealed, and the count's gate was all that kept you together as a party.
(10:02:03 PM) Cagliostro: I'll try conjuring more cloth walls between us andthe outer mirrors
(10:02:05 PM) dkap: Linking one side of the new mirror or glass to the other.
(10:02:09 PM) Cagliostro: meeting up with those top drapes
(10:02:27 PM) dkap: Sticking them to the ceiling?
(10:02:33 PM) dkap: Or with their own standing structure?
(10:03:55 PM) Cagliostro: own standing structure
(10:03:59 PM) Cagliostro: but up to the ceiling
(10:04:30 PM) dkap: They stay in place, unbothered, unshrugged.
(10:04:44 PM) Meiglan: There any change in the wailing?
(10:06:41 PM) dkap: Nope.
(10:07:20 PM) Cagliostro: "We could try the other way... bringing in light and not darkness."
(10:07:28 PM) dkap: No changes to circumstance, besides there is now a curtain up between you folks and the mirrors, and a solid thing-that-used-to-be-a-curtain up around the center pillar.
(10:07:39 PM) dkap: It _is_ dark.
(10:07:40 PM) Cagliostro: "Although that might not be the healthiest for everyone."
(10:08:30 PM) Spot: Spot nods.
(10:08:40 PM) Spot: "Pretties won't like it."
(10:08:51 PM) Meiglan: "Well, we don't seem to have the same pesky issues with light...however I'd rather not see how far that goes."
(10:09:20 PM) Cagliostro: "I could gate you elsewhere for a quick experiment."
(10:11:08 PM) Delna: "Probably worth a try. We don't have many other things to try right now."
(10:12:26 PM) Cagliostro: gm: gate them elsehwere (somewhere dark), close the gate, get rid of the drapes etc., put on some glare protectors (and hand same to Spot) and then gate in some serious light
(10:12:27 PM) dkap: Gate happens without a problem.
(10:12:44 PM) dkap: Light happens without a problem.
(10:12:46 PM) Cagliostro: I figure the Ifrit are definitely fine, but if I'm unsure, they'll get glare protectors too
(10:12:46 PM) ***Spot will wear the shades.
(10:12:50 PM) dkap: Doesn't seem to effect much.
(10:12:59 PM) dkap: The Ifrit are, indeed fine.
(10:13:02 PM) Spot: But we look cool.
(10:13:11 PM) dkap: Spot's shades add to the cool-ness factor.
(10:14:02 PM) Cagliostro: gm: any apparent change in the spirit?
(10:15:46 PM) dkap: Not really, no.
(10:16:01 PM) dkap: Visually hidden, but the wailing and moaning hasn't changed.
(10:16:17 PM) Cagliostro: hidden by what?
(10:16:21 PM) dkap: Are you going to up the light to coherent, columnated levels?
(10:16:33 PM) dkap: The inner set of things that are no longer drapes.
(10:16:43 PM) Cagliostro: can't I get rid of those too?
(10:16:49 PM) Cagliostro: or do they not deconjure anymore?
(10:17:07 PM) dkap: They do not deconjure anymore, no.
(10:18:24 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(10:18:34 PM) Cagliostro: okay, kick the light up three! more! triangles!
(10:18:44 PM) ***Spot tans.
(10:18:50 PM) Cagliostro: more coherent energy, maybe bringing in something closer to the darkoveran suns
(10:19:47 PM) dkap: It gets brighter and brighter. Spot, you are convinced you are going to have some ... interesting tan-lines.
(10:20:09 PM) dkap: There is a "POP" and then the mirrors/glass catches fire.
(10:20:29 PM) dkap: And it's conflaguration level, not just smoldering.
(10:20:44 PM) ***Cagliostro wards like crazy
(10:20:52 PM) Cagliostro: "Shall we watch this from outside?"
(10:20:59 PM) Cagliostro: "Or in?"
(10:21:03 PM) dkap: The floor is burning, the ceiling is burning, it might be best to step out, umbra-wards, or gate-wards.
(10:21:21 PM) dkap: Oh, and you probably have to create oxygen to keep breathing.
(10:21:38 PM) dkap: (not that you wouldn't do so, out of simple habit ...)
(10:22:24 PM) Cagliostro: (true, about the oxygen.)
(10:22:35 PM) Spot: "Out is good!"
(10:22:38 PM) ***Spot coughs.
(10:23:58 PM) ***Cagliostro gates outside the house
(10:24:08 PM) Cagliostro: and wards around the amusement park, so the fire doesn't spread
(10:24:20 PM) ***Cagliostro opens a gate back up for Delna and Meiglan
(10:24:33 PM) Cagliostro: "So, the good news is that a lot of light had an effect."
(10:25:00 PM) ***Spot coughs some more.
(10:25:03 PM) Cagliostro: "If your light allergy has gotten better, you can take a look at the other news."
(10:25:10 PM) Spot: "And that it /coughs/ burns well."
(10:25:44 PM) Delna: gm, I assume we are still able to walk around in this light?
(10:25:51 PM) dkap: Indeed, you are.
(10:26:02 PM) Meiglan: takes a look. Shudders and looks away. "Yeah, fire."
(10:26:16 PM) dkap: And it is going up, quite nicely. The heat doesn't really reach out of the house ...
(10:26:39 PM) dkap: (Somewhere, Frank is going. "Fire. Why does it always have to be fire ...")
(10:27:21 PM) Delna: gm, can I sense the spirit's life essence or anything, whether or not it was freed or is trapped in there?
(10:27:29 PM) dkap: After almost 10 minutes of intense heat, that smells ... well ... admittedly like burning flesh, there is left a single, dark column in the center.
(10:27:38 PM) dkap: The wailing is no more.
(10:28:39 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(10:28:47 PM) ***Spot sighs.
(10:29:24 PM) dkap: The ceiling and floor are gone. There is some ... carbon crispness on the ground, a bit deeper than the floor was, as if something was curled up in a hole, about as big as the House of Mirrors was.
(10:29:33 PM) Meiglan: Looks around to see if the spirit has somehow escaped.
(10:29:44 PM) dkap: No sign of it around.
(10:31:14 PM) Cagliostro: "Spot, what say you to a quick umbral check?"
(10:31:37 PM) Spot: "We can do that. Back to the house, and it's mirror?"
(10:32:25 PM) ***Cagliostro creates a mirror in what used to be the house
(10:32:26 PM) Cagliostro: "Sure."
(10:33:24 PM) dkap: Ahh ... I believe spot meant, in the house outside the carnival, not the House of Mirrors, here ...
(10:33:35 PM) dkap: But you created a mirror, regardless, and that should do .. I believe.
(10:33:49 PM) ***Spot shrugs and takes the Count through.
(10:35:29 PM) dkap: There is a very pretty ... medusa-like being coiling and uncoiling herself in the space that would correspond to the central column.
(10:35:39 PM) dkap: More snake than human.
(10:36:07 PM) ***Cagliostro bows politely.
(10:36:16 PM) Cagliostro: (and fails to meet her eyes)
(10:37:19 PM) ***Spot grins. "Hello pretty." Also avoids eyes.
(10:37:52 PM) dkap: She coils upward at spots greeting and hisses "Almost free .... almost free ...."
(10:38:15 PM) dkap: Her own reflection in Spot's mirrorshades doesn't seem to harm her.
(10:40:12 PM) Cagliostro: "Spot, do you want to get Delna and Meiglan so we can make introductions?"
(10:41:51 PM) Spot: "Almost?
(10:42:06 PM) Spot: "Sure count."
(10:42:38 PM) ***Spot will dive back through to get Meiglan and Delna. "Count wants you on the other side. Ready?"
(10:43:07 PM) dkap: You convey them through, any warning about what is on the other side?
(10:43:38 PM) Cagliostro: gm: to be on the safe side, spot will have two extra sets of mirrorshades when he finishes stepping through
(10:43:47 PM) Cagliostro: yay, conjuration on the far side of the gauntlet
(10:43:48 PM) Spot: "Don't look her in the eyes."
(10:45:10 PM) dkap: You can't actually conjur across the gauntlet, no.
(10:45:50 PM) Cagliostro: gm: I have in the past, when looking through the lens
(10:46:06 PM) Cagliostro: that's how we made it out of the Umbra near the edge, over the water
(10:46:13 PM) dkap: Hrm ... in that case, I guess you can.
(10:46:27 PM) dkap: Right, right. Then you can. Not a problem. I had forgotten.
(10:47:02 PM) Meiglan: Takes Spots advice. "Hey, you still look stuck."
(10:47:06 PM) Cagliostro: np ;)
(10:47:24 PM) Cagliostro: it's only important that one of us remember
(10:47:36 PM) dkap: Indeed. And the logs do, when we both fail.
(10:48:13 PM) dkap: Meiglan: She looks at you, and says "Your hand still pins me! Please ... let me go?"
(10:49:35 PM) Meiglan: Can I see my hand?
(10:49:50 PM) dkap: The ones attached? Yes.
(10:50:47 PM) Meiglan: I take it I can't see the unattached one.
(10:51:42 PM) dkap: Not here.
(10:54:40 PM) Meiglan: "I think I need to go back and see if my hand is still there."
(10:54:56 PM) Spot: "It should have burned."
(10:55:50 PM) dkap: The black column that was the center piece was still intact ...
(10:57:47 PM) Spot: "Well I can bring you all back over again."
(11:00:15 PM) Cagliostro: "Perhaps in a minute."
(11:00:26 PM) Cagliostro: to the medusa: "What is that central pillar?"
(11:00:35 PM) dkap: My prison.
(11:01:56 PM) Cagliostro: "Who created it?"
(11:03:08 PM) dkap: A wordless name.
(11:03:31 PM) dkap: As it flowed from multiple of her lips, and snakes lips, it ... well ... was chiling.
(11:03:57 PM) Cagliostro: gm: so, basically completely unfamiliar to me, in general or in particular?
(11:04:41 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:04:59 PM) Cagliostro: okay. "Damaging the pillar would not hurt you, then?"
(11:05:24 PM) dkap: "It might finish freeing me, at last. After 3 centuries."
(11:06:33 PM) Cagliostro: "Indeed."
(11:07:34 PM) Cagliostro: "If we do succeed in freeing you, you will be expected to treat others as you wish to be treated. I would not want to free you, only to see harm come to innocents."
(11:07:53 PM) Cagliostro: to Spot: "Shall we go get her hand back?"
(11:08:50 PM) dkap: "I do not wish to harm any, my taste for revenge is long since burnt from my tongue, and, my only lover perished years ago, in the self-same trap in which I've been kept."
(11:10:26 PM) Cagliostro: "My sympathies."
(11:11:33 PM) dkap: "My lifeforce has been fed upon for so long, I even doubt my immortality now.
(11:13:56 PM) Cagliostro: gm: you figure it's about time to wrap?
(11:15:27 PM) dkap: Sure ... That makes sense. Everyone is slowing. And you can puzzle the last bit out over the week.
(11:15:32 PM) Cagliostro: sure
(11:15:35 PM) Cagliostro: excellent
(11:15:38 PM) dkap: Any last actions?
(11:16:05 PM) Meiglan: snoring?
(11:16:08 PM) Cagliostro: heh
(11:16:11 PM) Cagliostro left the room.
(11:16:19 PM) dkap: That counts.
(11:17:03 PM) Delna: night
(11:17:08 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).