Conversation with #dkap_amber

(08:02:22 PM) The topic for #dkap_amber is: Game as usual, logs at: https://www.train-wreck.org/~dkap/Amber/logs/ ; wiki-wiki at: https://www.rebel.org/wiki/
(08:28:16 PM) dkap: Ahh ... enough to start running, excellent!
(08:28:17 PM) Cagliostro: hello
(08:28:22 PM) Delna: I noticed. Glad it was grin worthy.
(08:31:59 PM) Spot: Hi!
(08:32:12 PM) Spot: Sorry, I'm really here, just multitasked
(08:39:41 PM) Cagliostro: so where did we leave off?
(08:41:04 PM) dkap: Sorry ... I was distracted on the phone with Meiglan.
(08:41:12 PM) dkap: She's getting on in a moment or two.
(08:42:25 PM) dkap: I'll check the logs, give me a moment.
(08:47:56 PM) dkap: We broke heading back to the inner world.
(08:48:24 PM) dkap: Faythe is off with the illusions of the woofs, and will "visit" Simon.
(08:48:36 PM) dkap: You were down the stairs, and gating back to the Serenity Shack.
(08:49:04 PM) dkap: To Rest, Recoup, and possibly get back to what was being done.
(08:49:13 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@c-24-34-135-66.hsd1.vt.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:50:47 PM) Cagliostro: indeed
(08:50:53 PM) Cagliostro: time to check the list of things to do, I guess
(08:51:04 PM) Spot: We have things to do?
(08:51:05 PM) Cagliostro: but rest and recoup first
(08:51:53 PM) dkap: Well ... there was the negotiations about the placement of the woofs and vamps, the hunting down of the other loose spirits, the seeing how the Gorgon works with you folks, etc.
(08:54:37 PM) Cagliostro: true, true
(08:54:42 PM) Cagliostro: Gorgon scouting is probably the next step
(08:54:50 PM) Cagliostro: does she want to do that alone or in company?
(08:56:00 PM) dkap: Scouting?
(08:56:04 PM) dkap: I'm confused, sorry ...
(08:57:11 PM) Cagliostro: scouting for more loose spirits
(08:57:15 PM) Cagliostro: trapped spirits, I mean
(08:57:20 PM) Cagliostro: I don't know of any other loose spirits
(08:58:15 PM) dkap: Right then.
(08:58:21 PM) dkap: Rest first though?
(09:00:00 PM) dkap: Loose spirits, wouldn't they show up for Swing Dancing, or the like?
(09:00:06 PM) dkap: With the rest of the flappers?
(09:02:26 PM) Cagliostro: rest first
(09:03:15 PM) dkap: Good good.
(09:04:14 PM) dkap: And, unlike the rules from the Order of the Stick, there are no Wandering Monster encounters.
(09:04:26 PM) dkap: Time passes. Simon gets back to sleep.
(09:04:55 PM) dkap: Meiglan, Delna, neither of you are at all tired, still, and the day/night cycle seems to completely forgotten about you.
(09:05:15 PM) dkap: Spot, you barely have the strength to bat the flies away.
(09:05:22 PM) dkap: Count, you could use a nap.
(09:06:27 PM) Spot: "Hey pretties...I'm gonna sleep...make sure nothing comes near the sword, 'kay?'
(09:06:34 PM) dkap: Count, your check-in with all the usual places shows no high-enough-level report-worthy activity, although you have started the intelligence gathering on other soul-based strangeness.
(09:06:52 PM) Cagliostro: check
(09:06:58 PM) Cagliostro: a nap sounds good. back aat the castle.
(09:07:16 PM) Meiglan: Snickers a bit. "Pretties..." We'll play sword guards.
(09:07:34 PM) Delna: Might as well
(09:12:02 PM) dkap: Time passes, the sword still vibrates, more and more as time passes, but nothing else of note occurs. Well ... Simon _and_ Mal snore.
(09:13:08 PM) dkap: Inara doesn't
(09:14:18 PM) Meiglan: "Delna, should the sword be vibrating like that? It's acting like a big angry, stuck hornet."
(09:15:16 PM) Delna: "I imagine it's vibrating because of the big angry spirit inside of it. It might want to swing at something...I'm not sure."
(09:21:14 PM) Meiglan: "Maybe it's angry because of all the snoring."
(09:21:37 PM) Delna: "..Possible"
(09:24:22 PM) Meiglan: Is going to make sure the nothing that the nothing that has occured so far keeps occurring.
(09:25:14 PM) caelin [~arkhonii@m340536d0.tmodns.net] entered the room.
(09:26:33 PM) dkap: Despite Caelin's appearance, nothing continues to happen.
(09:28:01 PM) caelin: LOL
(09:29:07 PM) ***Spot giggles.
(09:31:13 PM) Meiglan: How much time has passed...and how much rest do these people need anyway?
(09:34:04 PM) dkap: Umm about 4 hours so far.
(09:36:14 PM) dkap: At the 6 hour mark ...
(09:37:56 PM) dkap: Mal suddenly wakes up, grabs his gun, rolls off of the gurney, pulls it over, as if it were cover and peers over it at the lot of you.
(09:38:10 PM) dkap: It doesn't wake the Count.
(09:38:31 PM) ***Spot twitches slightly.
(09:39:36 PM) Cagliostro: the count is not sleeping anywhere around Mal
(09:39:51 PM) Cagliostro: reference earlier "back at the castle", for the nap
(09:39:56 PM) dkap: Right.
(09:40:28 PM) dkap: Even so, you are not woken by it.
(09:41:41 PM) Spot: Well I will sleep by the sword in case I need to wake up suddenly to beat it into submission
(09:42:45 PM) dkap: Mal: "Where's my ship?" "Am I a prisoner?" "Are we allies?" "Where's the rest of my crew?"
(09:43:23 PM) ***Delna looks around, "Sleeping."
(09:43:38 PM) Meiglan: "Broken. No. Yes. Sleeping, which you should continue doing."
(09:44:15 PM) dkap: Mal: "What? Which? Who? Where did the large man with the sword go?"
(09:45:55 PM) Delna: "If you're referring to Spot, he is sleeping while we watch over the sword."
(09:46:24 PM) dkap: Mal: "Spot? That doesn't sound right. Where is Mr. Universe?"
(09:47:28 PM) Meiglan: "Who?"
(09:49:03 PM) caelin left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:50:23 PM) dkap: Mal: "Mr Universe. He's ... dead? No, that's not right. What's happening to my memory?"
(09:52:01 PM) Delna: To meiglan, "Maybe we should wake the doctor..or the count?"
(09:52:07 PM) dkap: Mal: "Serenity, she ... crashed? No longer works?"
(09:53:41 PM) Delna: "Some time ago. I think you better sit down for a bit. We'll get Simon, maybe he will know what is happening."
(09:53:51 PM) Meiglan: "good idea. Let's wake 'em both. " To Mal. "It's a long story. You need to calm down a little before you put holes in someone with that thing."
(09:54:31 PM) dkap: Mal looks at Meiglan, screams, pulls the trigger, nothing happens ... and screams again.
(09:54:45 PM) dkap: Mal covers his face with his hands.
(09:55:04 PM) dkap: Mal, muttering: "Am I dreaming, am I awake, is this a dagger I see before me?"
(09:56:14 PM) Meiglan: "I'll go get the Count." Since her pure NOS beauty seems to be disturbing Mal. And he's quoting...Shakespeare...?? Not a good thing.
(09:57:44 PM) dkap: Meiglan is ... gently? Waking you Count.
(09:58:31 PM) Meiglan: We'll go with that.
(09:58:32 PM) Cagliostro: "Yes?"
(09:59:05 PM) Meiglan: "Mal's freaking out and you're better with people than I am."
(10:01:36 PM) Cagliostro: "I'll go see who I need to fix now."
(10:01:45 PM) ***Cagliostro travels to the Serenity shack with Meiglan
(10:01:47 PM) dkap: 6 hours of sleep. Not bad.
(10:05:45 PM) dkap: Mal is sitting behind his improvised barricade muttering to himself, with his head in his hands.
(10:07:01 PM) dkap: He seems to be ... somewhat unhinged.
(10:07:27 PM) Cagliostro: how's his physical condition?
(10:07:35 PM) Cagliostro: is he feverish? drugged? just Mal?
(10:07:59 PM) dkap: Still not very good. He's bleeding from several of his wounds still, but it looks like his major organs have regenerated quite nicely.
(10:08:07 PM) dkap: His temperature is up.
(10:08:28 PM) dkap: He might be drugged, but that's hard to do to one with as high a mystic inertia as he has.
(10:08:38 PM) dkap: (It takes Random's touch ... usually)
(10:08:58 PM) dkap: There might be some brain damage, but that's hard to identify, from the outside.
(10:11:03 PM) Cagliostro: particuarly starting from the baseline
(10:11:10 PM) Cagliostro: can I start fixing him remotely?
(10:11:19 PM) Cagliostro: or should I give him a sedagiv?
(10:12:41 PM) dkap: Umm ... sedative would probably be a good thing, someone who can mindlink with him, and help him sort through would be better.
(10:15:10 PM) Cagliostro: I don't think I know anyone who does that sort of thing
(10:15:15 PM) Cagliostro: so it wouldn't occur to Cagliostro
(10:15:26 PM) dkap: True enough.
(10:15:29 PM) Cagliostro: but the sedagiv I can do. I'll conjure some knockout gas right in front of him.
(10:15:32 PM) Cagliostro: the heavy duty stuff.
(10:16:45 PM) dkap: Why right in front, and not sedative right into his blood-stream as you have many times before?
(10:17:23 PM) Cagliostro: because I can't conjure into real people
(10:17:28 PM) Cagliostro: and he's got a fair level of mystic intertia
(10:17:32 PM) Cagliostro: hm
(10:17:38 PM) Cagliostro: may just be patternish peopel I can't conjure into
(10:18:02 PM) Cagliostro: but he can't tell if I fail, so if I haven't tried before, I'll try now
(10:18:11 PM) dkap: Indeed, and it helps.
(10:18:17 PM) dkap: He does calm down.
(10:21:35 PM) dkap: He starts sobbing about not knowing what is going on, and that reality is slipping through his fingers.
(10:22:10 PM) Cagliostro: hm. pretty robust constitution.
(10:22:17 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:22:27 PM) Cagliostro: but this sounds like a job for someone who actually likes him. Like Inara.;)
(10:24:00 PM) dkap: You going to wake her?
(10:24:03 PM) Cagliostro: or perhaps a hamster.
(10:24:07 PM) Cagliostro: is there a hamster around?
(10:24:10 PM) Cagliostro: if not, then inara.
(10:24:56 PM) dkap: The hamster went back with your Daughter.
(10:25:03 PM) dkap: Inara is here.
(10:25:23 PM) dkap: Did anyone mention to the count that Mal's gun just didn't seem to work?
(10:26:13 PM) Cagliostro: I'll wake up Inara
(10:26:21 PM) Cagliostro: and let her know that Mal is distressed and confused
(10:26:24 PM) Cagliostro: More so than usual
(10:27:12 PM) dkap: Inara sits bolt upright screams, holds her hands like she expects them to be covered in a fluid, and says: "His blood, I can't stop his blood!"
(10:28:27 PM) Delna: Did it look like anything but him being out of ammo or something?
(10:29:29 PM) dkap: Spot, you are pretty sure you are awake, but, you are back, before the armageddon, and the Wyrm is telling you that it is your fault that he was penned by the Weaver, and your fault that everything failed. And Luna is turning away from you as the Wyrm is talking.
(10:31:02 PM) dkap: Nope, it just looked like it failed, miserably.
(10:31:30 PM) Cagliostro: gm: how's inara's physical state?
(10:32:32 PM) ***Spot snarls back at the Wyrm and starts shouting I didn't fail.
(10:33:38 PM) Delna: Then I probably didn't mention it
(10:34:09 PM) dkap: Fine. She is as well as you left her.
(10:34:51 PM) dkap: There is a sword easily to hand.
(10:35:42 PM) dkap: The last was to Spot, sorry.
(10:36:19 PM) ***Spot grabs the sword.
(10:37:08 PM) Meiglan: Yup, going bad very quickly. "SPOT! You're dreaming!"
(10:37:23 PM) Delna: Oh, this is next to us..forgot that
(10:37:47 PM) Spot: "No I'm not I'm wide awake, scuse me pretties, I need to kill something."
(10:37:51 PM) Delna: "Spot! Put down the sword, look at us."
(10:38:18 PM) ***Spot goes to swing at the Wyrm to make it shut up.
(10:39:04 PM) dkap: Spot is fairly wildly swinging the sword around, not _at_ anyone, directly, but ... swinging it as if the enemy is quite large.
(10:39:25 PM) dkap: Spot the Wyrm is bleeding all over you, and still mocking you, at the same time.
(10:39:39 PM) Cagliostro: okay, spot gets to be inside a ward
(10:39:46 PM) Cagliostro: gm: is spot awake?
(10:40:09 PM) dkap: Hard to tell.
(10:40:27 PM) dkap: Spot seems awake, and aware, but not responsive, similar to the way Inara and Mal are.
(10:41:42 PM) dkap: Spot, some pieces of the Wyrm are harder to carve than others, but ... beyond that you are pouring all your rage into your acts, and your sword seems up to the task. The blood seems to ignite as the sword touches it, now.
(10:42:08 PM) Spot: oooh that's kinda cool
(10:43:09 PM) dkap: The angrier you get, the more the flames crackle across the skin of the Wyrm.
(10:45:26 PM) Delna: "Ok, we need to figure out what is going on and why it is happening to multiple people. Their dreams seem to be following them.."
(10:46:47 PM) dkap: Delna, Meiglan, Count: you see a small spark leap from Spot on a trajectory toward Simon, and then bounce from the ward that the Count erected.
(10:47:08 PM) ***Spot howls.
(10:47:39 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: *.net *.split).
(10:47:41 PM) dkap: Spot, the Wyrm is dead, the you are covered in it's blood, and yet, you are dry. You _know_ Luna withdrew from you, and yet, you still feel her where you have always felt her, in your soul.
(10:48:00 PM) dkap: And we will pause for a moment for the net split to heal.
(10:53:02 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-31-32-142.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(10:53:16 PM) dkap: Welcome back, what was the last thing you saw?
(10:54:04 PM) Cagliostro: (10:43:09 PM) dkap: The angrier you get, the more the flames crackle across the skin of the Wyrm.
(10:55:01 PM) Spot: <Delna> "Ok, we need to figure out what is going on and why it is happening to multiple people. Their dreams seem to be following them.."
(10:55:02 PM) Spot: <dkap> Delna, Meiglan, Count: you see a small spark leap from Spot on a trajectory toward Simon, and then bounce from the ward that the Count erected.
(10:55:04 PM) Spot: * Spot howls.
(10:55:06 PM) Spot: |<-- Cagliostro has left irc.gamesurge.net (*.net *.split)
(10:55:07 PM) Spot: <dkap> Spot, the Wyrm is dead, the you are covered in it's blood, and yet, you are dry. You _know_ Luna withdrew from you, and yet, you still feel her where you have always felt her, in your soul.
(10:55:09 PM) Spot: <dkap> And we will pause for a moment for the net split to heal.
(10:57:09 PM) dkap: All caught up?
(10:57:23 PM) Cagliostr1 [~sgorton@c-66-31-32-142.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(10:57:34 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(10:57:36 PM) Cagliostr1: "Hm."
(10:57:41 PM) Cagliostr1 is now known as Cagliostro
(10:58:42 PM) Cagliostro: gm: is the gorgon around?
(10:58:45 PM) Cagliostro: or ammon?
(11:00:25 PM) dkap: Both are.
(11:00:51 PM) Cagliostro: wake them up/ask them if they know what's going on?
(11:01:08 PM) ***Spot looks around wondering if anything else needs killing as long as I'm on a roll.
(11:02:33 PM) dkap: It's not clear. There are strangers about, who somehow look vaguely familiar.
(11:03:06 PM) dkap: Neither the Gorgon nor Ammon know. The Gorgon wonders if the Umbra would help.
(11:04:04 PM) Cagliostro: which is why I asked Ammon
(11:04:09 PM) Cagliostro: because he can see that?
(11:04:20 PM) dkap: He doesn
(11:04:28 PM) dkap: 't really see anything on the other side.
(11:04:48 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(11:04:54 PM) Cagliostro: Can the Gorgon bring me across?
(11:05:44 PM) dkap: Gorgon can't but Ammon is happy to, if you would kindly give him a reflective surface, because he _really_ doesn't want to be tearing holes right now, in case it would let whatever out.
(11:05:50 PM) Cagliostro: actually, before that: I'll use the Lens
(11:05:54 PM) Cagliostro: and see if i see anything
(11:06:04 PM) Cagliostro: and if that fails, I'll conjure a mirror, pointing away from spot
(11:06:39 PM) dkap: The "spark" is much larger, in the lens.
(11:07:04 PM) Cagliostro: I don't think I'd seen a spark?
(11:07:17 PM) Cagliostro: can I focus in on the spark?
(11:09:21 PM) dkap: Delna, Meiglan, Count: you see a small spark leap from Spot on a trajectory toward Simon, and then bounce from the ward that the Count erected.
(11:09:44 PM) Spot: GM: No one is taunting me or such, yes?
(11:09:44 PM) Cagliostro: can I re-ward just the spark?
(11:10:25 PM) dkap: Spot, no one is taunting you, anymore, no.
(11:10:35 PM) Meiglan: Where exactly did the sword come from? Spot or the sword?
(11:10:40 PM) dkap: Spot is still waving the sword around.
(11:12:38 PM) dkap: The spark came from Spot.
(11:17:57 PM) Meiglan: "Spot, it's me, Meiglan. Meeeeiiiiggglllannn. Don't run the sword through me."
(11:18:23 PM) dkap: Spot, some Nos vamp is shouting at you.
(11:18:41 PM) dkap: Probably wants to embrace you or something.
(11:19:12 PM) Cagliostro: gm: was I able to bubble around the spark?
(11:19:41 PM) dkap: In a secondary ward? Yes.
(11:19:47 PM) dkap: Did you release Spot, though?
(11:20:09 PM) ***Spot growls at the Vamp.
(11:20:24 PM) Cagliostro: not initially, if I didn't need to
(11:20:34 PM) dkap: You don't need to, no.
(11:20:37 PM) Cagliostro: Inara and Mal are still affected, so....
(11:21:03 PM) Cagliostro: to Ammon: "Can you see anything on the other side of that spark?"
(11:21:19 PM) Meiglan: Time to step away from the irritated puppy.
(11:21:38 PM) dkap: Not a problem.
(11:21:48 PM) dkap: Ammon: Not, especially, no.
(11:24:21 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(11:24:42 PM) Cagliostro: "Shall we step across for a quick peek?"
(11:24:54 PM) Cagliostro: (anchor the spell to be sure it survives mys tepping otu)
(11:25:09 PM) dkap: Of course.
(11:25:22 PM) dkap: You do so automatically nowadays.
(11:26:57 PM) dkap: You step across, the spaces that Mal, Inara, and Spot occupy are somewhat larger than their normal bodies but not odd, much. There doesn't seem to be anything in particular corresponding to the space that the spark was.
(11:27:18 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm. Back?"
(11:27:44 PM) dkap: You successfully step back.
(11:28:01 PM) dkap: Perhaps we should hang here, so people can generate ideas, and sleep?
(11:28:49 PM) Cagliostro: perhaps so
(11:28:54 PM) Cagliostro: it is about that time
(11:28:54 PM) Delna: mmm, sleep
(11:28:58 PM) Cagliostro: until next week!
(11:29:08 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(11:30:17 PM) Spot: night!
(11:30:18 PM) Meiglan: night all
(11:30:25 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.5.2/20090729225027]).
(11:30:27 PM) Spot left the room.