Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 11 May 2010 08:17:52 PM EDT:
(08:17:53 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:18:15 PM) Cagliostro: yay, gm sign
(08:18:21 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:18:40 PM) dkap: Sorry about that. The box insisted that it be upgraded before I could continue. Something about a kernel security patch ...
(08:19:35 PM) Cagliostro: it happens
(08:20:52 PM) dkap: And I just got a bunch of the logs onto the server.
(08:20:56 PM) dkap: So we can see where we were ...
(08:21:01 PM) Cagliostro: excellent
(08:36:56 PM) Caelin [~arkhon@adsl-75-36-186-197.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net] entered the room.
(08:36:59 PM) Cagliostro: so I think we were stepping sidways to get someone her hand back
(08:37:05 PM) Cagliostro: but there may be something going on in Caelinland
(08:37:20 PM) Cagliostro: meiglan. not her hand back for her, just jiggling the handle on the pillar
(08:37:22 PM) ***Caelin waves
(08:37:28 PM) dkap: Delna and Meiglan will join us soonest.
(08:37:35 PM) Caelin: Where the devil IS Caelinland?
(08:37:56 PM) dkap: Somewhere far away, often saturated by Circe ... not a pleasant place.
(08:38:01 PM) Auricle: Caelinland...is....yes
(08:38:10 PM) dkap: Although the Whagons were enjoying it for a while.
(08:38:24 PM) ***Caelin sticks his tongue out.
(08:38:43 PM) Delna [~chatzilla@c-71-228-78-177.hsd1.fl.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:39:20 PM) Cagliostro: hello, Delna
(08:39:47 PM) Delna: Hi
(08:42:26 PM) dkap: And then there were more ...
(08:42:44 PM) dkap: Meiglan should be by in a moment or three, but with three, we can begin.
(08:42:54 PM) dkap: I believe the hand was the last obstical?
(08:43:36 PM) Auricle is now known as Spot
(08:43:39 PM) Cagliostro: that is what we were told
(08:45:12 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(08:45:53 PM) Delna [~chatzilla@c-71-228-78-177.hsd1.fl.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:46:50 PM) Delna: hmm, strange. Not sure why the disconnect
(08:47:41 PM) dkap: It happens sometimes.
(08:52:24 PM) Caelin left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(08:53:00 PM) dkap: See, even to Caelin.
(08:53:51 PM) Delna: heheh, like a yawn, it spreads
(08:56:57 PM) Delna: "Does anyone have any ideas for destroying or dispersing the column? Physical damage seems to be somewhat out of the question.."
(08:58:25 PM) Spot: "I'm not even sure what it is."
(09:03:15 PM) Spot: "Or why it didn't burn."
(09:08:25 PM) Cagliostro: I think the thing to do is to step sideways and take a look at what's left
(09:08:36 PM) Cagliostro: it may be different than it was before
(09:08:36 PM) Spot: "Okay."
(09:08:44 PM) Spot: I can ferry folks over.
(09:10:25 PM) dkap: I believe you had stepped sideways, which is why you met the snake-lady ... who was trapped, and said revenge was dust.
(09:11:02 PM) Spot: I thought he meant, back to real world look at pillar now that it isn't on fire
(09:11:53 PM) dkap: Ahh ... right.
(09:11:58 PM) dkap: Sorry, I lost track.
(09:13:00 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@72.170.197.76] entered the room.
(09:14:10 PM) dkap: And then there was 4. *grin*
(09:15:26 PM) Cagliostro: I did mean that
(09:15:29 PM) Cagliostro: it's sideways bothw ays
(09:15:44 PM) Cagliostro: just a step to the right...
(09:15:54 PM) dkap: And bring your knees in tight?
(09:15:59 PM) ***Cagliostro keeps his hands off Spot's ... hips.
(09:16:04 PM) Cagliostro: indeed.
(09:16:16 PM) Spot: Very smart
(09:16:58 PM) dkap: I spent a good portion of this past Saturday with some of one of the Rocky Horror/Dr Horrible sing along/Repo the Genetic Opera casts.
(09:17:09 PM) Meiglan: no pelvic thrusting..not at least until I get chocolate!
(09:17:45 PM) dkap: On your pelvis?
(09:19:07 PM) Meiglan: hmmmm...interesting idea, that.
(09:19:50 PM) dkap: Might the spikes get in the way?
(09:20:04 PM) Cagliostro: so, not speaking of pelvic chocolate, how's the pillar faring?
(09:20:35 PM) dkap: Still there, still covered in the cloth-that-isn't-cloth.
(09:20:52 PM) dkap: Untouched, unscorched, and no one brave enough to lay (another) hand on it at the moment.
(09:21:06 PM) dkap: Still in the pit, around it, as well.
(09:21:08 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(09:21:14 PM) Spot: "Hmmmmmm."
(09:21:25 PM) Spot: (extra Mmmms give it more power.)
(09:21:53 PM) dkap: The Power of Ms compels you?
(09:22:57 PM) Delna: I would like to pick up a rock and chuck it at the pillar..does it get stuck in it?
(09:23:17 PM) dkap: Yep.
(09:24:17 PM) Delna: "Do you think we can get underneath or above the pillar? To see what's going on inside of it?"
(09:25:06 PM) Spot: GM: Is this a tent?
(09:25:10 PM) dkap: Above is easy.
(09:25:12 PM) dkap: No tent.
(09:25:17 PM) Spot: house of mirrors
(09:25:19 PM) Spot: right
(09:25:29 PM) dkap: House burned entirely away, pillar is all that's left.
(09:25:30 PM) Cagliostro: and the house burned down
(09:25:33 PM) Spot: I can fly up and get an angle on it.
(09:25:42 PM) Spot: but not over it
(09:25:45 PM) Cagliostro: "Digging is interesting... the trick is to avoid hitting it."
(09:25:51 PM) Cagliostro: gm: is the pillar a constant width?
(09:25:55 PM) Spot: that seems like a bad idea, over.
(09:26:41 PM) dkap: Yes, constant width.
(09:27:49 PM) Cagliostro: gm: what's the consistency of the ground?
(09:27:52 PM) Spot: Is there anything up on top of it?
(09:27:59 PM) Cagliostro: to spot: "We could throw a rock over it, and see what happens"
(09:28:12 PM) dkap: Dirt.
(09:28:14 PM) Meiglan: "That's just what I was thinking."
(09:28:25 PM) ***Spot shrugs and tosses a rock over the top of it.
(09:28:27 PM) dkap: Nothing ... easily seen, without going directly over it. It seems ... well ... clear.
(09:28:48 PM) dkap: It goes into the pillar space.
(09:29:10 PM) dkap: (I almost typed "Pilar" by old habit, thankfully Caelin has become disconnected ...)
(09:29:32 PM) Cagliostro: (old habits indeed.)
(09:30:14 PM) dkap: It does not stick at the top.
(09:30:27 PM) dkap: But it also doesn't make noise once it's passed the pillar edge.
(09:30:43 PM) Spot: "Oh that's weird."
(09:30:47 PM) Cagliostro: gm: does it come out the other side?
(09:30:48 PM) Spot: GM: Does it land?
(09:31:51 PM) dkap: It does not come out the other side, and, as for landing, you'd have to be above the pillar and looking down to see.
(09:33:18 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(09:33:24 PM) ***Cagliostro looks at the person with wings.
(09:33:32 PM) Spot: "I am so not flying above that."
(09:34:46 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(09:34:53 PM) Delna: "We would risk losing contact at the least with any person who attempted to fly over...any way to send a camera that could feed a picture back to us..?"
(09:35:16 PM) ***Cagliostro conjures a periscope three times the height of the tower, looking down.
(09:35:37 PM) Cagliostro: gm: how unusual is it that we didn't have to warn off any firefighters when the house burned down?
(09:35:43 PM) Cagliostro: (looking down at an angle)
(09:35:54 PM) Cagliostro: the periscope is built into a metal scaffolding frame
(09:36:09 PM) dkap: Come to think of it, being in this neighborhood, and the time of day, very unusual that no one called in an alarm.
(09:36:12 PM) dkap: But no one did.
(09:36:32 PM) dkap: True periscope, or just bent optics so you can look straight down into the space?
(09:36:58 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(09:37:06 PM) Cagliostro: I don't think Cagliostro has the tech for fiber optics.
(09:37:16 PM) Cagliostro: So yeah, a couple of mirrors and an eyepiece
(09:37:21 PM) dkap: The pillar is just about 12 feet tall, level with the ground, taller, of course, now that there is a ditch, to about 18 feet.
(09:37:53 PM) Cagliostro: so maybe 20' away, adjustable magnification, maybe 50' high
(09:38:05 PM) dkap: Not the fiber-optics, just good prisims, like in a periscope,but a periscope is simply bent twice, so your "forward" is up a few yards.
(09:38:27 PM) dkap: Whereas, you are trying to look down and in ... so I'm asking if it's bent appropriately ...
(09:38:49 PM) Cagliostro: I think so
(09:38:54 PM) Cagliostro: to look down and in
(09:38:58 PM) Cagliostro: but not directly over and down
(09:39:02 PM) dkap: And if you are using the equivalent of a pin-hole camera to project the image at the bottom-side, in case there really is a gorgon in there ...
(09:39:05 PM) Cagliostro: down at an angle, so we can see the top, if there is a top
(09:39:12 PM) Cagliostro: that does seem prudent
(09:39:21 PM) Cagliostro: my initial plan was to just let someone else look first ;)
(09:39:27 PM) dkap: There doesn't seem to be a top, but that was verified by Spot's fly-near.
(09:39:28 PM) Cagliostro: but the pinhole camera is also good
(09:39:36 PM) Cagliostro: and the mirror is also good
(09:40:21 PM) Cagliostro: gm: that wasnt' clear... probably set up the periscope + pinhole, and throw another rock over the pillar
(09:40:40 PM) dkap: You can see in the top. see the rock descend properly, under the influence of gravity.
(09:41:23 PM) dkap: Just as if you had thrown it into a giant (say 1200 gallon) drum.
(09:42:39 PM) Cagliostro: gm: can I throw a rock over the rock so it goes directly over the top of the pillar but not in?
(09:42:44 PM) Cagliostro: or does it always get drawn in?
(09:43:17 PM) Cagliostro: "I hope we're not ticking off a Gorgon by throwing rocks on her."
(09:44:37 PM) dkap: Sure, the rock sails right over the top of the pillar, no noticeable deviation from it's expected arc.
(09:45:18 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(09:46:22 PM) Spot: "Agreed. Hmmm is right."
(09:47:01 PM) Cagliostro: "Somehow going in there doesn't seem like it's going to help."
(09:47:08 PM) Delna: To the count, "Can you throw it over to the other side of the pillar while I am standing on the other side of it?"
(09:47:29 PM) ***Cagliostro shrugs, moves to the appropriate location, and throws the rock so.
(09:47:35 PM) Cagliostro: (gently)
(09:48:52 PM) dkap: It moves as expected, and lands (unless otherwise intereferred with) at Spot's feet.
(09:49:49 PM) Spot: "I have a rock."
(09:50:30 PM) Cagliostro: gm: did I throw it to Spot or to Delna?
(09:50:39 PM) dkap: Sorry, Delna's feet.
(09:50:44 PM) dkap: I lost track for the moment.
(09:50:49 PM) Spot: "I lied."
(09:50:52 PM) ***Spot grins.
(09:51:00 PM) Cagliostro: heh.
(09:51:09 PM) ***Cagliostro is not quite sure how you could confuse the two ;)
(09:51:14 PM) Cagliostro: so, okay.
(09:51:23 PM) Cagliostro: "Ideas that don't involve someone going in there?"
(09:51:31 PM) dkap: Or above there?
(09:52:57 PM) Cagliostro: well, not me, at least.
(09:53:27 PM) Cagliostro: if we have no alternatives, I may backup an Ifrit and ask them to climb over and take a look
(09:53:36 PM) Cagliostro: after creating the appropriate scaffolding
(09:53:42 PM) Cagliostro: "Anyone?"
(09:53:43 PM) Spot: "Ifrits seem like a good idea."
(09:55:26 PM) dkap: Perhaps, also with a pair of mirrored sunglasses?
(09:55:46 PM) Cagliostro: gm: mirrored sunglasses, and a mirror
(09:56:01 PM) Cagliostro: actually, probably not mirrored sunglasses, that would be antisocial
(09:56:13 PM) Cagliostro: buta mirror, so they can reflect looking down
(09:56:36 PM) Cagliostro: gm: so do I have a volunteer among the local Ifrit?
(09:57:20 PM) dkap: They do a complicated version of rock-paper-scissors, and one of them wins the right to volunteer for such service to You.
(09:57:39 PM) dkap: The Ongoing Creatrix.
(09:59:40 PM) Cagliostro: gm: set up some more scaffolding
(09:59:51 PM) Cagliostro: and send them up with a mirror strapped to their arm
(10:00:05 PM) dkap: Although, why not bend the optics such that you can have whatever is down, projected in your little box?
(10:00:26 PM) Cagliostro: and some sort of glasses that constrain their view to a limited forward area
(10:00:31 PM) Cagliostro: not quite blinders, but the same principles
(10:00:47 PM) dkap: That way you test the permeability of the air over the pillar, at the same time as you gather intel ...
(10:01:29 PM) Cagliostro: gm: because I'm using a minion ;)
(10:02:54 PM) dkap: True, I'm just suggesting what might be somewhat obvious to you not even risking an ifrit, or preperatory to risking the ifrit.
(10:04:45 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(10:05:09 PM) Cagliostro: I guess it is mirrored, isn't it?
(10:05:36 PM) Cagliostro: so okay, before the scaffolding, I can change the periscope
(10:05:41 PM) dkap: It is.
(10:05:56 PM) Cagliostro: so that it can be lowed down directly over the pillar, looking down
(10:06:03 PM) Cagliostro: since I don'twant to conjure directly over the pillar
(10:06:42 PM) dkap: Indeed, it can.
(10:06:44 PM) Cagliostro: then I'll lower the periscope - probably semi-automatically, with a ratchet to make it stop, so I'm not directly controlling it - and then get an Ifrit to look into the periscope and down the pillar
(10:07:41 PM) dkap: Good good.
(10:08:08 PM) dkap: The Ifrit sees the cloud of smoke.
(10:08:24 PM) Cagliostro: does she see a hand?
(10:08:29 PM) dkap: And the hand, and several rocks.
(10:08:44 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(10:08:48 PM) dkap: A bit of sword, the remains of the ouiji board ....
(10:09:09 PM) Cagliostro: gm: can I conjure one of those funhouse claws on the part of the periscope leaning over the pillar?
(10:09:16 PM) Cagliostro: with more of a scoop than just a claw
(10:10:29 PM) dkap: Not without conjuring over the pillar. But if you want to make a separate crane, and then swing it over ...
(10:11:06 PM) Cagliostro: yeah, that sounds good
(10:11:16 PM) Cagliostro: I will creat the control system while I'm at it
(10:11:24 PM) Cagliostro: joystick, down button, up button, the classics
(10:11:54 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:12:07 PM) dkap: One crane-machine, without the fun toys later ...
(10:13:34 PM) Cagliostro: so the Ifrit will try to get Meiglan's hand
(10:14:39 PM) dkap: Steered by the image in the periscope, the crane dips down, and plucks Meiglan's hand forth.
(10:15:02 PM) dkap: It gets near the top, begins whining at the pull, seems to get near to straining point, and then, pops clear.
(10:15:22 PM) Cagliostro: gm: with the hand?
(10:15:28 PM) dkap: The smoke all of a sudden is gone from the view in the periscope.
(10:15:32 PM) dkap: (yes, with the hand)
(10:15:42 PM) Cagliostro: "That was unexpectedly straightforward."
(10:16:38 PM) Meiglan: "My hand! Now I have three...."
(10:16:42 PM) dkap: A crane and a periscope, mirrored connections, and a tonne-and-a-half pull was straight-forward?
(10:16:53 PM) Cagliostro: don't forget the arson first
(10:16:53 PM) dkap: Right.
(10:16:54 PM) Cagliostro: but yes ;)
(10:16:59 PM) dkap: Arson first did help.
(10:17:00 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:17:20 PM) Cagliostro: "Souvenier?"
(10:17:24 PM) Spot: "Three hands is excellent."
(10:17:39 PM) Cagliostro: "Shall we step back across and see what effect we've had?"
(10:17:50 PM) Delna: "Good idea."
(10:17:55 PM) Cagliostro: (donning the protective glasses first)
(10:18:52 PM) dkap: Meiglan: now you can clap, and give someone the finger at the same time ... *grin*
(10:20:00 PM) dkap: As you step through, the snake-lady has definitely moved. She is meandering off ...
(10:20:26 PM) Spot: "Excellent...I hope."
(10:20:55 PM) dkap: Do you catch her attention?
(10:21:04 PM) dkap: Or endeavor to do so?
(10:21:34 PM) ***Cagliostro is fine not doing so
(10:23:13 PM) Delna: Same
(10:24:06 PM) dkap: Spot?
(10:24:11 PM) Spot: I have no need of it
(10:24:13 PM) dkap: And do you want to find out her plan?
(10:24:45 PM) Cagliostro: "We could follow her?"
(10:25:01 PM) dkap: What this unbound gorgon is going to do in the Umbra, in the Dreaming?
(10:25:24 PM) Spot: "And get stoned? There are easier ways."
(10:25:30 PM) Meiglan: "Perhaps we could simply ask..."
(10:26:26 PM) Delna: "It would probably be the prudent thing to do."
(10:27:04 PM) Cagliostro: "Apparently so."
(10:28:27 PM) ***Cagliostro fails to be the person who gets the gorgon's attention.
(10:29:36 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:29:49 PM) Spot: "Don't look at me."
(10:30:20 PM) Cagliostro: "My point exactly."
(10:30:21 PM) dkap: I think that's what everyone hopes for ... *grin*
(10:32:56 PM) Delna: to the gorgon, looking away, "Where will you go now?"
(10:33:42 PM) dkap: She swings around, and approaches you folks: "Are you the ones responsible for my freeing?"
(10:34:23 PM) Delna: Still looking away, "Yes."
(10:35:27 PM) dkap: She says: "Then your powers are much greater than mine, and I don't expect you'll ever need it, but I owe you each a service."
(10:36:35 PM) dkap: She sighs: "And, not that I _desire_ to ask another favor, but ... any of you know where an old lady can get a job in this day and age? I have a feeling I'm going to want food and the like, and one does hate having to take what might be exchanged honestly."
(10:36:59 PM) Spot: "...job?"
(10:37:55 PM) dkap: She says: "Work of some sort? For Barter for goods?"
(10:38:24 PM) ***Cagliostro is slightly surprised.
(10:38:48 PM) Cagliostro: "You are not a creature native to this magical dimension, this 'Umbra', then?"
(10:39:56 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Normally I fray between this place and the other ... but I'm somewhat out of practice, and wanted to put quite a bit of space between myself and the trap, before I even looked into the world again."
(10:40:50 PM) Cagliostro: "Reasonable."
(10:41:49 PM) Cagliostro: "I certainly do believe that an arrangement can be made, learning what we can about this place. You are not the first trapped spirit we have stumbled across recently."
(10:43:31 PM) ***Spot nods.
(10:43:41 PM) Spot: "There seems to be a lot of them, actually."
(10:43:48 PM) dkap: She says: "Excellent, shall I follow you then? Or ... go somewhere to meet you?"
(10:44:48 PM) dkap: She says: "Perhaps I can help you free the others so trapped? I know what it means to be trapped, and I'd be happy to do what I can, even if it is simply to talk to them until you can figure out how to work them free from their particular trap."
(10:45:24 PM) Cagliostro: "We have freed anyone else we have found that is trapped, but having stumbled across two so quickly, I am concerned that there are more."
(10:45:43 PM) Cagliostro: "Let us move further from the pillar, then step back, and I can bring you to a location where we can meet."
(10:46:11 PM) Cagliostro: "I do have to inquire... your appearance matches that of a mythological creature that can turn people to stone with her gaze. Is that accurate?"
(10:46:19 PM) dkap: She says: "Sure. Having a purpose and direction would be ... good."
(10:46:57 PM) dkap: She says: "I have that ability, but it is by will, not like a cocatrice, who just despoils all that goes before."
(10:47:26 PM) dkap: She says: "And it's not really stone, they are just ... outside of time for the moment, until restored, again, by will."
(10:48:00 PM) dkap: She says: "It's a family trait, taught to one of our ancestors by someone only know as "The Malk".
(10:48:04 PM) Cagliostro: "Excellent."
(10:48:12 PM) Cagliostro: "Outside of time? Interesting...."
(10:48:29 PM) Meiglan: "well that's a relief."
(10:48:36 PM) dkap: She says: "Although, I might be the last of my family to be alive ... so ... it might be a unique trait now."
(10:49:28 PM) Cagliostro: "Hopefully not."
(10:49:43 PM) Cagliostro: gm: one we reach a fair distance outsid eof the fairgrounds, we'll step back, contact the ifrit, and gate back to the castle
(10:50:55 PM) dkap: To step back, you need a mirror.
(10:51:17 PM) Spot: heh
(10:51:28 PM) Spot: Doesn't anyone have anything shiny?
(10:51:51 PM) dkap: There is the house mirror, you folks came through before ...
(10:53:06 PM) Cagliostro: that would work.
(10:54:34 PM) dkap: To the house ... you come through the mirror in the empty bedroom again. Although, this time, you hear noises coming from downstairs. Not loud, but ... noises of occupation.
(10:55:02 PM) dkap: Of course, you could probably gate out before whomever would investigate the new noises in the bedroom ...
(10:55:31 PM) Cagliostro: I think that sounds prudent
(10:55:51 PM) Spot: nodnod
(10:55:53 PM) ***Cagliostro has a reputation for mystery to maintain
(10:55:58 PM) dkap: Just as you are gating out, a little boy, no more than about 6 looks in the bedroom door, as you are walking through the gate.
(10:56:03 PM) ***Cagliostro gates to the castle
(10:56:08 PM) Cagliostro: (and waves)
(10:56:11 PM) Cagliostro: then closes the gate
(10:58:02 PM) dkap: (I love my gamers)
(10:58:39 PM) dkap: You arrive at the castle, just at the beginning of the day.
(10:59:17 PM) ***Cagliostro checks on Delna and Meiglan's temperature
(10:59:18 PM) dkap: The vamps have all bedded down, in the main room, uncertain if Sir Slice-and-Dice is still rampaging.
(10:59:31 PM) dkap: They are just fine.
(10:59:40 PM) dkap: And awake, still.
(11:00:06 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(11:00:11 PM) dkap: Simon is quite deeply asleep over the segmented folks.
(11:00:21 PM) Spot: And I'm falling asleep irl
(11:00:42 PM) dkap: Mal has finally dragged himself from the ship, seen that Inara is allright, and passed out, Perhaps on a gurney, or perhaps someone moved him to the gurney.
(11:01:08 PM) dkap: Inara is making breakfast.
(11:01:35 PM) dkap: Kaylee is still hugging the engine, although, there is a plate of strawberries that Inara might have the intent to lure her out with.
(11:01:44 PM) dkap: Inara's boy is still dead.
(11:02:04 PM) dkap: River is nowhere in sight.
(11:02:31 PM) dkap: The brain-burned woman is still alive.
(11:02:50 PM) dkap: The woofs are in the room with the vamps, standing guard.
(11:03:21 PM) dkap: Ammon is curled up in a ball, but opens one eye when you show up, and then closes it again.
(11:03:44 PM) dkap: Zoe is almost a body again, in the Bacta Tank.
(11:03:59 PM) ***Cagliostro will offer food and other refreshment to the gorgon
(11:03:59 PM) dkap: Jayne isn't in sight.
(11:04:03 PM) Cagliostro: (and Auricle can go sleep ;)
(11:04:23 PM) dkap: And I believe the next order of business is a visit to the ladies in the tower.
(11:04:39 PM) dkap: Yes, I'm just summing up, so we know where to start from, come next game.
(11:05:26 PM) Cagliostro: indeed
(11:05:29 PM) Cagliostro: next time, the tower!
(11:05:29 PM) dkap: The Count's Daughter, and the two Hamsterites are not in evidence.
(11:06:03 PM) dkap: And the Woof-party in the Urals is still going strong.
(11:06:13 PM) dkap: I think I've gotten everyone. Who'd I miss?
(11:06:36 PM) dkap: Inara is happy to cook more breakfast to include the Gorgon, although, she, also, doesn't seem willing to look directly at her.
(11:06:52 PM) dkap: And to include Spot and the Count.
(11:06:57 PM) Cagliostro: breakfast seems like a good place to wrap.
(11:07:21 PM) dkap: Indeed. But did I miss anyone?
(11:08:19 PM) Meiglan: I don't think so.
(11:08:32 PM) Spot: night, then!
(11:09:18 PM) Delna: Good night!
(11:09:46 PM) dkap: Until next week.
(11:09:55 PM) dkap: Will Chuck and Bob ever find each other again?
(11:09:59 PM) dkap: Oh, sorry, wrong series.
(11:10:00 PM) dkap: *grin*
(11:10:09 PM) Spot left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [SeaMonkey 2.0.4/20100317120533]).
(11:11:16 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.5.9/20100315083431]).
(11:11:26 PM) You have parted the channel: Leaving.
(08:15:52 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:16:00 PM) Spot: sinus issues
(08:16:57 PM) Cagliostro: bah, those aren't fun
(08:16:59 PM) dkap: That'snot pleasant.
(08:17:06 PM) Cagliostro: especially in spring, with the plants sexing
(08:17:24 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@72.170.197.76] entered the room.
(08:17:46 PM) Spot: no it's not
(08:18:12 PM) Spot: I've got a sore throat and can't talk and am very suffed up
(08:18:29 PM) dkap: Well past pleasant.
(08:18:44 PM) dkap: I do have some good news, though.
(08:19:07 PM) dkap: Stormy, unless things go horribly right for him in the next week, will be relocating back to Massachusetts.
(08:19:31 PM) Spot: Ooooh!
(08:19:35 PM) Spot: Really??
(08:19:37 PM) Spot: AWESOME
(08:19:40 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:20:07 PM) ***Spot would bounce, but that requires way much energy
(08:20:08 PM) dkap: He will find out if the last ray of hope for a job where he is will show up by this Friday, and, if it doesn't, away north he comes.
(08:20:33 PM) Cagliostro: oh, interesting
(08:20:44 PM) Cagliostro: we might have quorum for face to face players ;)
(08:22:08 PM) dkap: Might ... but not likely often. *grin*
(08:22:22 PM) dkap: With Gleep out west, and Meiglan north of here by a few hours ...
(08:22:35 PM) Cagliostro: yep. and I'm not even in the state tonight.
(08:22:40 PM) dkap: And Delna's still in Florida ...
(08:22:43 PM) Cagliostro: but it could happen. when the stars are right.
(08:23:03 PM) Cagliostro: so, where last did we leave these peoples?
(08:23:05 PM) Cagliostro: having breakfast?
(08:23:20 PM) Cagliostro: also - is Malcolm out in the breakfast crowd?
(08:23:31 PM) Cagliostro: or is he still bumping around Serenity with no one the wiser?
(08:24:15 PM) dkap: I believe he is (finally) passed out on a stretcher. Not clear if he passed out, and was placed there, or passed out there ... but ...
(08:25:18 PM) Cagliostro: but we don't care ;)
(08:25:28 PM) Cagliostro: good for him, though
(08:25:45 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:27:03 PM) dkap: There was a whole, lovely scene that involved him bemoaning to everyone that "I can't find her, ANYWHERE" and Inara, from behind him, saying "Can't find whom?" and him whipping around ... and shouting "YOU! You are lost and I can't find you!"
(08:29:59 PM) dkap: But, yes, I believe we stopped just before Breakfast.
(08:30:13 PM) Cagliostro: yep
(08:30:16 PM) Cagliostro: and we have the gorgon
(08:30:27 PM) Cagliostro: who has not yet introduced herself
(08:30:38 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:30:45 PM) Cagliostro: and did you say the other vampires were still active post-dawn?
(08:31:25 PM) dkap: Only the two with you.
(08:31:32 PM) dkap: And they don't seem fatigued at all.
(08:32:21 PM) dkap: Your guest is thinking of teaming up with one of the attackers of Neo-neo-neo^7 Tokyo.
(08:32:36 PM) dkap: They want to make cheese together.
(08:33:10 PM) Cagliostro: which guest is that
(08:33:11 PM) Cagliostro: ?
(08:34:03 PM) dkap: Yes, they are thinking of naming it after them. Gorgon-Zilla cheese.
(08:34:22 PM) Cagliostro: ah...
(08:34:25 PM) Cagliostro: run your game.
(08:39:00 PM) dkap: I was just checking the end of the log, in case there was anything I forgot.
(08:40:03 PM) Cagliostro: k
(08:40:05 PM) Cagliostro: was there? :)
(08:42:02 PM) dkap: Not that I can see.
(08:42:17 PM) dkap: It looks like Breakfast, before bearding the Tower Ladies again.
(08:44:00 PM) Cagliostro: it does indeed
(08:46:17 PM) Delna: If I remember my character correctly, she doesn't eat food..and has extremely heightened senses..so will be going far away from breakfast
(08:47:06 PM) dkap: And enjoying a "cuppa" with Meiglan some distance away?
(08:47:09 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:48:52 PM) Cagliostro: breakfast is at the Serenity shed around the impact crater, so the castle should be out of smell's reach
(08:49:01 PM) dkap: Good good.
(08:49:16 PM) Delna: Likely. Don't know when the last time I had nourishment was
(08:49:20 PM) dkap: It should be relatively quiet there.
(08:49:36 PM) dkap: And, yet, you carry the cup around with you ...
(08:49:46 PM) dkap: No reason not to take a sip every now and again.
(08:50:22 PM) Delna: Would think that, work always takes over my mind first though
(08:50:34 PM) Delna: and Delna's mind : P
(08:50:46 PM) dkap: Indeed. True enough.
(08:50:48 PM) Meiglan: a "cuppa" sounds absolutely delicious. But none of those little china fru-fru cups.
(08:51:26 PM) dkap: Nope the golden blood-goblet that Delna carries, that refills with good, tasty blood.
(08:55:35 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Read error: Connection reset by peer).
(08:56:25 PM) dkap: That's ... unfortunate.
(08:56:33 PM) Cagliostro: indeed.
(08:57:02 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@72.170.197.76] entered the room.
(08:57:55 PM) dkap: Ahh ... she is returnith to our conversation. Good good.
(08:58:46 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Read error: Connection reset by peer).
(08:59:26 PM) Cagliostro: bah
(08:59:45 PM) Cagliostro: we may need to find a more meiglan-friendly chat medium somehow
(09:00:02 PM) dkap: Possibly, although the google wave one really didn't inspire me.
(09:00:24 PM) dkap: And, her cranky connection might someday be solved, if Comcast ever does finish what it promised.
(09:03:06 PM) Cagliostro: yeah, not so much with google wave.
(09:05:09 PM) Cagliostro: so, chat a bit with the Gorgon and fill her in delicately on the fact that she's been imprisoned and missed the apocalypse
(09:05:27 PM) Cagliostro: but fortunately we have found shelter in the storm, as these have found shelter with us
(09:06:46 PM) dkap: She looks around at the folks gathered.
(09:07:11 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "What's so special about these folks, as opposed to any other folks?"
(09:07:34 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Looks like a standard Questing Pool of Talent to me."
(09:09:22 PM) Cagliostro: "These particular people used to be employees of the King of Chaos."
(09:09:39 PM) Cagliostro: "I was mostly referring to the vampires in the castle up on the hill, as well as the werewolves present here."
(09:10:01 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Not knowing the individual, for I've been out of circulation for a while, but that makes them good Questers, then?"
(09:11:02 PM) dkap: Some vampires, some werewolves, yourself a mage, all you need is a shiny Hero or two, and a bunch of assistants, squires, sidekicks, and mounts, and you are a perfect Questing Party.
(09:11:25 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Maybe a boat or two, as well, although, it seems you have the transportation thing licked ..."
(09:11:29 PM) Cagliostro: "It gave them access to a very special hamster, who brought them here when the universe imploded."
(09:12:04 PM) Cagliostro: "Well, that's a source of some trauma right now. They had a kind of boat that flew, and it doesn't work in this world. so it crashed."
(09:13:16 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Aside from the flyiing part, that sounds like the normal state of affairs, for a boat."
(09:13:27 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@72.170.197.76] entered the room.
(09:13:30 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "At least, by the time I usually hear about it."
(09:14:04 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Were the boat happy, and sailing about without problems, then, usually, there wouldn't be the Quest in the first place."
(09:15:08 PM) Cagliostro: "Fair point."
(09:15:25 PM) Cagliostro: re, Meiglan
(09:15:52 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "So, they are on Quest now? Do they need a Fellow Quester?"
(09:16:29 PM) Cagliostro: "Perhaps they do."
(09:17:18 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "What is their current Quest? My talents are ... well ... very focused, and I wouldn't want to be a drain, but if I can help ..."
(09:17:58 PM) Cagliostro: "They are currently trying to recover and repair their vehicle. I'm not sure what their quest was before that."
(09:18:13 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Nipping the Evildoer out of time does make the transport problem to the appropriate Court of Justice often much easier ..."
(09:18:15 PM) Cagliostro: "We do want to look around here for other trapped people in the spirit world, though."
(09:18:26 PM) ***Cagliostro looks thoughtful. "Good point."
(09:19:13 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Ahh ... I'm not very good at freeing the trapped, much. Were i, I probably wouldn't have been trapped so long, myself. But I have great sympathy for those who are, so ... if there is anything I can do to help, just ask."
(09:20:14 PM) Cagliostro: "Well, you can find them, perhaps."
(09:20:27 PM) Cagliostro: "Let us know the lay of the spirit realm, if you are willing and interested."
(09:21:50 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "I've got nothing else on my plate (except this delightful breakfast) so I'm happy to help.
(09:23:48 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Read error: Connection reset by peer).
(09:24:54 PM) dkap: Ahh ... just to add to the conversation, Inara's reaction to the Gorgon is completely urbane.
(09:25:17 PM) dkap: She's treating the Gorgon like she would treat another human being that isn't Mal.
(09:25:31 PM) Cagliostro: good for her.
(09:27:27 PM) dkap: It's a specific correction from the previous log entry about her.
(09:27:36 PM) Cagliostro: ah, okay
(09:27:40 PM) Cagliostro: innnteresting
(09:27:45 PM) Cagliostro: is Inara a PC now? :)
(09:28:49 PM) dkap: Not yet, but River's PC reminded me that her actions were contrary to what they normally would be.
(09:28:57 PM) Cagliostro: k
(09:29:07 PM) Cagliostro: so Cagliostro doesn't have anything in particular he planned to do
(09:29:16 PM) dkap: She wouldn't know from a Gorgon, and they had met several strange-shaped beings over the last little while, such that the Gorgon isn't that far from ordinary.
(09:29:21 PM) Cagliostro: so we can skip ahead to the gate to the tower women, if nothing else happens
(09:29:47 PM) dkap: Indeed, sounds like a plan. Are you taking Inara with you? Are you going to try and find River, and if so, are you taking her with you?
(09:31:20 PM) dkap: (By the way, Inara is apparently quite a talented cook, and understand food presentation, quite well ...)
(09:32:23 PM) Cagliostro: Inara would probably be a good person to bring along, yes
(09:32:34 PM) Cagliostro: River can seek her own path without my interference ;)
(09:32:42 PM) Cagliostro: but yes, I'd also rope in Delna and Meiglan
(09:33:34 PM) Cagliostro: "We need to make a trip back to the tower mages that were preserving the bodies of those ripped apart. The creature is contained, the bodies are repaired, so they can let those ripped apart heal naturally."
(09:35:49 PM) dkap: So, the party is Count Cagliostro, Inara, Delna, Meiglan, Spot? Anyone else? Your daughter and a hamsterite went along last time IIRC.
(09:38:19 PM) Cagliostro: I think so, but if they are unavailable, I'll go without them.
(09:38:26 PM) Cagliostro: I will check to see where they are before I go, though.
(09:38:31 PM) Cagliostro: Jodo should know.
(09:39:10 PM) Cagliostro: (at least about someone)
(09:43:07 PM) dkap: Jodo doesn't know where they are, but reminds you that they should be in phone/radio contact ...
(09:43:21 PM) ***Cagliostro calls his daughter
(09:45:02 PM) Cagliostro: (on a very 80s portable phone, I bet)
(09:46:39 PM) dkap: Indeed. Big chunky thing.
(09:46:54 PM) dkap: *ring, ring*
(09:47:11 PM) dkap: "Moshi, Moshi?"
(09:48:20 PM) ***Cagliostro says in Japanese, "Daughter, how are you?"
(09:49:56 PM) dkap: She replies in old Norse: "Fine, besides being evesdropped upon, yourself?"
(09:50:32 PM) ***Cagliostro in english, "Bother."
(09:51:15 PM) ***Cagliostro in High Gaelic, "Need a parental visit, or do you have things in hand?"
(09:51:37 PM) dkap: She replies in farsi: "The girls think they are being so secretive about it, as well."
(09:53:00 PM) dkap: In Thari: "Well within what I can cope with, what is up?"
(09:53:54 PM) Cagliostro: in finnish: "Getting ready to thank some women for doing us a favor during our recent time of separations."
(09:54:13 PM) Cagliostro: (Cagliostro, btw, does not speak Thari, but Ilk's translation spell still works on him)
(09:56:52 PM) dkap: In urdu: Ahh ... that's probably more important than the game these children are playing, I'll be along presently. The place of peace?"
(09:57:24 PM) Cagliostro: in latin: "Indubidably."
(09:57:38 PM) dkap: (I'm not sure Cagliostro speaks any or all of the languages, but Ilk's spell does work, and the Count is aware of when it's working, and when his native talents manage on their own.)
(09:58:10 PM) dkap: In Maori: "I'm on my way."
(09:59:26 PM) Cagliostro: (I wasn't sure if I was aware.)
(09:59:33 PM) dkap: It's magic. You are aware.
(10:01:26 PM) Cagliostro: k
(10:01:42 PM) Cagliostro: so I will hang up, and set up a gate to the tower
(10:01:46 PM) Cagliostro: and presumably meet Janice there
(10:03:30 PM) dkap: Mistress Janice is motorcycling down to you.
(10:03:40 PM) Cagliostro: ah, wait for her, then
(10:05:05 PM) dkap: She shows up in under 10 minutes.
(10:05:29 PM) Cagliostro: excellent
(10:05:30 PM) dkap: Mistress Janice: "Is there any breakfast left?"
(10:05:34 PM) Cagliostro: is everyone else collected?
(10:05:44 PM) ***Cagliostro waits for breakfast patiently
(10:05:48 PM) Cagliostro: probably serving tea
(10:05:58 PM) dkap: Everyone is (now) collected, yes.
(10:06:19 PM) dkap: Mistress Janice enjoys the bite of the crepes, strawberries and cream.
(10:06:37 PM) dkap: Seeing that that is the most portable of the breakfast food, and is happy to go while munching on it.
(10:07:10 PM) Cagliostro: excellent
(10:07:17 PM) dkap: Gate to just outside the tower, and go in through the umbra, and the mirror again?
(10:07:28 PM) Cagliostro: hmm...
(10:07:33 PM) Cagliostro: seems kind of antisocial
(10:07:42 PM) Cagliostro: and a hassle, with all the restitched crowd
(10:07:50 PM) Cagliostro: might as well gate outside the tower and go in through the door
(10:07:51 PM) dkap: Remember, the door is barred from the inside.
(10:07:54 PM) Cagliostro: or evne knock on the door
(10:08:23 PM) Cagliostro: gm: can I gate just -inside- the door?
(10:08:28 PM) Cagliostro: or is that part of the teleport-barred area?
(10:08:33 PM) dkap: And they were not paying much attention to the physical world, and there are wards (that you could get through) keeping people out, between the levels of the tower.
(10:09:07 PM) dkap: And they did seem just fine with you coming in through the mirror, the steps down, the lack of surprise when you appeared, and left that way ... if you recall.
(10:09:30 PM) dkap: And, yes, the whole tower is a "no fly" zone.
(10:09:41 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(10:10:00 PM) Cagliostro: okay, sure, I'll talk to Spot and we'll redo the whole rigamarole
(10:10:05 PM) Cagliostro: if that is OK with Spot
(10:10:10 PM) Spot: I'm good with it
(10:11:58 PM) Cagliostro: okay, we do so
(10:14:28 PM) dkap: My bad. Is the Gorgon with you, as well, or did she get left behind?
(10:15:02 PM) Cagliostro: up to her
(10:15:50 PM) Cagliostro: "We are going to meet with some locals who were quite helpful to us, but who can be difficult to deal with. They are mages, and you can come with, or not, as you choose."
(10:18:41 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Would my presence be a benefit to you, or a hinderance?
(10:20:20 PM) Cagliostro: "I cannot say. Likely, neutral."
(10:23:59 PM) dkap: Gorgon: "Then, if I am not an asset, I'd like to come along, to see how you folks Quest."
(10:24:21 PM) ***Cagliostro nods
(10:24:27 PM) Cagliostro: so - she is coming along
(10:24:35 PM) Cagliostro: we gate, umbra, and step out in the mirror again
(10:24:45 PM) Cagliostro: and Cagliostro lets someone else lead
(10:25:02 PM) Cagliostro: (and his player is falling asleep, as it was an early day today and will be again tomorrow)
(10:26:30 PM) dkap: Well ... unless anyone else wants to take the lead, we can hang here ...
(10:26:36 PM) dkap: It's been really quiet from the other players ...
(10:26:48 PM) dkap: And my Gorgon is falling asleep as well ...
(10:27:29 PM) Spot: sorry
(10:27:32 PM) Spot: I'm woozy
(10:28:28 PM) Cagliostro: we can call it a night, then
(10:30:03 PM) Spot: indeed
(10:30:47 PM) dkap: Until next time, where we get farther than Breakfast.
(10:31:23 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(10:31:44 PM) Spot left the room.