Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 13 Jul 2010 08:31:23 PM EDT:
(08:31:23 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:31:51 PM) dkap: Ok ... let's see how well that works ...
(08:31:56 PM) Mistress_Janice [~chatzilla@pool-98-110-171-21.bstnma.fios.verizon.net] entered the room.
(08:32:18 PM) Mistress_Janice: Sorry I'm late.
(08:32:25 PM) dkap: S'ok. We were just getting started.
(08:32:39 PM) dkap: My disk keeps cutting out, so ... hopefully it will keep working for now.
(08:32:51 PM) dkap: Oh, and game won't run the first two weeks of August, just FYI.
(08:33:04 PM) dkap: (Well ... it will run, just in person, at Pennsic ...
(08:33:09 PM) Mistress_Janice: Gotcha. I didn't get the job. Been a bad day.
(08:33:31 PM) dkap: Bleah!
(08:33:40 PM) dkap: Very sad. Did they say why?
(08:33:53 PM) Mistress_Janice: Nope. I'm lucky they said anything at all.
(08:33:57 PM) dkap: Oh?
(08:34:27 PM) Cagliostro: back
(08:35:18 PM) Mistress_Janice: These days, usually only the winners are notified.
(08:35:30 PM) dkap: Oh. I hadn't known.
(08:36:09 PM) Cagliostro: suck.
(08:36:31 PM) Cagliostro: minor correction - I'm running a Savage Worlds game using my conversion of a 3.5 module.
(08:36:38 PM) Cagliostro: A city built in a dormant volcano! What could go wrong?
(08:37:05 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:38:31 PM) dkap: Right. This game, run.
(08:38:42 PM) dkap: We were about to ... embark into the unknown, right?
(08:39:01 PM) Cagliostro: I believe that was the plan, yes
(08:39:05 PM) Delna: correct
(08:39:45 PM) dkap: Excellent.
(08:39:57 PM) dkap: How far, with the dragons and the mice had we gotten?
(08:40:56 PM) Spot: Um. well, there'd been a chasing game
(08:41:23 PM) Cagliostro: the dragons had begun to speak with a creepy unified voice
(08:41:42 PM) Cagliostro: "Who seeks?"
(08:41:45 PM) Cagliostro: that sort of thing.
(08:42:09 PM) dkap: Right.
(08:44:02 PM) dkap: I believe they were singing, and the modulation came from them, right.
(08:45:03 PM) Cagliostro: ok
(08:48:19 PM) Cagliostro: I believe we are waiting for something to happen
(08:48:23 PM) Cagliostro: with some trepidation
(08:48:25 PM) Spot: yeah
(08:48:50 PM) dkap: They seem to be asking you folks a question.
(08:50:38 PM) Cagliostro: hm. I thought they were asking us. ;)
(08:50:48 PM) Cagliostro: after a pause, and presumably an expectant look from the dragons...
(08:50:57 PM) Cagliostro: "Oh! I, Count Cagliostro, seek."
(08:51:51 PM) dkap: There is more rumbling and then ... "The Count who holds Princess Chandra's esteem?"
(08:52:32 PM) Cagliostro: "I believe I am so honored, yes."
(08:55:19 PM) dkap: Rumbling: "Then, what do you seek, oh honored one."
(08:55:57 PM) Cagliostro: "I wish to know who seeks us in the Umbra, and whether they are fey."
(08:57:24 PM) dkap: Rumbling: "The fey always seek you, for there is a common bond and a debt ..."
(08:59:35 PM) Cagliostro: "Whose debt?"
(09:00:35 PM) dkap: Rumbling: "The debt of the Fey."
(09:00:55 PM) ***Cagliostro looks slightly relieved.
(09:01:15 PM) Cagliostro: "There is no current need for the fey to call upon my services?"
(09:02:01 PM) dkap: Rumbling: "The fey waits to be called upon to help you in whatever you endeavor in the realms that touch us."
(09:03:08 PM) ***Cagliostro hmms.
(09:04:27 PM) Cagliostro: to the crowd: "I think that answers our questions?"
(09:04:45 PM) ***Spot scratches the back of his head.
(09:04:48 PM) Spot: "It does?"
(09:06:05 PM) Cagliostro: "About why Faerie was bleeding into the Umbra."
(09:08:25 PM) Cagliostro: "Was there anything else we needed to know before returning to our search?"
(09:08:57 PM) dkap: Rumbling: "Know that, should you need us, you just have to call us, where we can hear it."
(09:09:25 PM) Delna: "Could they help us find what we are looking for?.."
(09:10:07 PM) Cagliostro: "Perhaps, but we are discovering what is out there, not searching for something in particular."
(09:10:19 PM) Cagliostro: to the dragons: "Excellent. You have done me a service."
(09:10:37 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro concentrates a moment, then conjures a castle, set up for dragons and mice to chase each other.
(09:10:46 PM) Cagliostro: perhaps 50' or so across
(09:11:20 PM) dkap: Rumbling: "The service is yours for the asking."
(09:11:45 PM) ***Mistress_Janice wasn't aware the dragons were so small.
(09:11:49 PM) dkap: Sand castle?
(09:12:04 PM) dkap: (Faery dragons, not real dragons ... fyi)
(09:12:05 PM) Cagliostro: good idea, but solidly built
(09:12:18 PM) Cagliostro: (I believe their size varies)
(09:12:49 PM) ***Mistress_Janice just thought 50' seemed rather small for dragons.
(09:12:59 PM) dkap: Their size varies at whimsy, and, when caught the mice turn into dragons, and the dragons, mice.
(09:13:10 PM) dkap: They are chasing mice, after all.
(09:13:54 PM) dkap: That's 5 10x10 rooms tall, not bad for a dungeon. *grin*
(09:14:20 PM) Mistress_Janice: I knew about the swaps in the chasing game. Just getting accustomed to the scale.
(09:14:57 PM) dkap: Why, are you worried about the 100' of rope, or the 10' pole?
(09:15:13 PM) Mistress_Janice: This is NOT the AD&D run.
(09:15:18 PM) Cagliostro: heh.
(09:15:30 PM) Spot: giggle
(09:15:39 PM) Mistress_Janice: Which, as I recall, you got rather wroth with us about calling it in the first place...
(09:15:52 PM) Cagliostro: Some labrynths at variable sizes. With movable walls, of course.
(09:16:00 PM) Cagliostro: I recall reading about the AD&D run.
(09:16:19 PM) Mistress_Janice: We even brought dice once. He got annoyed at us.
(09:16:57 PM) ***Mistress_Janice hushes again.
(09:17:20 PM) Cagliostro: so yes, we will return to the Umbra
(09:18:02 PM) dkap: Yes, yes I did. But it was all in good fun.
(09:18:03 PM) dkap: *grin*
(09:18:11 PM) dkap: Spot, you are up.
(09:18:12 PM) Spot: Ferrying everyone back into the Umbra?
(09:18:48 PM) ***Spot sighs and steps everyone sideways, thinking there has to be an easier way to do this
(09:19:50 PM) dkap: Ask a Bear.
(09:20:09 PM) Spot: Bears. Meh.
(09:20:22 PM) dkap: They can tear a hole and let people wander back and forth ...
(09:21:22 PM) dkap: So, into the woods we go tonight ... I mean umbra ...
(09:21:26 PM) Spot: Yeah yeah, bears. :P
(09:22:53 PM) dkap: You have ferried the chicken, the fox, and the seeds over to the other side.
(09:23:03 PM) dkap: With a minimum of fuss.
(09:23:13 PM) Spot: Fortunately
(09:25:17 PM) dkap: And then ... what is the plan of attack?
(09:26:08 PM) Cagliostro: I'm at "walk till we find something interesting"
(09:26:37 PM) dkap: Pick a direction and go?
(09:26:39 PM) Cagliostro: "Unless the experts have a different opinion?"
(09:26:41 PM) dkap: Cool
(09:27:55 PM) dkap: Experts?
(09:28:01 PM) dkap: Bueler?
(09:28:17 PM) ***Mistress_Janice keeps her mouth shut.
(09:29:13 PM) Spot: "I'm good with....whichever directions feel right."
(09:29:25 PM) Delna: no other suggestion currently
(09:29:48 PM) ***Spot spins in a circle, then an extra one after his own tail, then bounds off thataway.
(09:29:56 PM) dkap: Thataway it is.
(09:30:41 PM) dkap: The terrain is somewhat more varied than the corresponding land, for there is just dunes below, whereas here there are hills, valleys, grottos, glens, etc.
(09:32:15 PM) ***Cagliostro hmms.
(09:32:53 PM) dkap: Just to be clear, there are no carnivorous Gazebos in any of the glades.
(09:33:00 PM) ***Spot is relieved.
(09:33:13 PM) Mistress_Janice: Damn, so these are the omnivorous kind?
(09:34:10 PM) Delna: They're actually pescatarians
(09:35:43 PM) dkap: I think the whole thing is fishy.
(09:35:45 PM) dkap: *grin*
(09:36:07 PM) dkap: There is a dragonfly-like sound in the distance.
(09:36:30 PM) ***Spot stops bounding with such enthusiasm
(09:39:32 PM) dkap: But continue in that direction?
(09:39:59 PM) Spot: well, of course
(09:42:27 PM) dkap: Excellent, as you approach, it seems to be coming from the valley in front of you all.
(09:44:34 PM) dkap: What's the plan?
(09:45:38 PM) Delna: any way to get a peak without necessarily being seen first?
(09:46:28 PM) dkap: Possibly, depending on what you are peeking at. You could wander up to just about the point of the valley, and gently peer over the other side ... maybe with an improvised periscope or the like ...
(09:49:54 PM) Delna: I suggest the stealthy version of checking out the sound. and see what the others think.
(09:50:06 PM) dkap: Others?
(09:50:12 PM) ***Cagliostro concurs
(09:50:16 PM) dkap: Excellent.
(09:50:23 PM) dkap: Spot? Mistress_Janice?
(09:54:29 PM) Spot: I'm good with it
(09:55:25 PM) dkap: Excellent. Do we have a plan for what stealth comprises of?
(09:55:33 PM) Mistress_Janice: Works for me. Aerial's probably out, if that *is* a flying sound.
(09:55:51 PM) Spot: "I'm not flying into it blind."
(09:57:26 PM) dkap: Right. Ground? Under-ground (if that is even possible in the umbra?)
(09:57:39 PM) dkap: Water seems to be out, since there doesn't seem to be any around ...
(09:58:48 PM) Mistress_Janice: Be vewy, vewy quiet.... We're wandewing aimwesswy..... Hehehehehehe...
(10:00:11 PM) ***Spot hunkers down low to the ground.
(10:01:10 PM) ***Cagliostro is up to a walk then an elbow-crawl up to a vantage point
(10:02:40 PM) Delna: Delna will hunker and get closer the the edge as well
(10:08:10 PM) dkap: In the vale there is, apparently, a contest going on. The buzzing is from the large, winged thing dive-bombing the large rock-like thing that keeps ripping pieces of itself off, throwing them at the buzzing thing, and then they roll back to become part of it again.
(10:08:26 PM) ***Spot hmmms.
(10:09:27 PM) Mistress_Janice: Local mating ritual?
(10:10:30 PM) dkap: Looks more like the rock thing is trying to escape the flying thing, rather than anything even vaguely amicable
(10:11:24 PM) ***Cagliostro also hmms.
(10:11:28 PM) Mistress_Janice: Ripping pieces of itself off... with what? Has it got arms, legs, any visible source of locomotion?
(10:13:09 PM) Delna: Do I see anything in the aura of the one that is being attacked?
(10:13:15 PM) dkap: It's a vague collection of rocks, that seem to be working in concert.
(10:13:31 PM) dkap: They seem to both be attacking each other, which one?
(10:13:37 PM) ***Mistress_Janice ahhhs, and continues to observe.
(10:13:39 PM) dkap: And their auras are all ... messed up.
(10:14:02 PM) ***Spot whispers, "Could just be rock and bug spirits, but..."
(10:14:28 PM) Delna: The rocks. How are they messed up?
(10:15:02 PM) dkap: It seems to be fluxuatng, either could die at any moment.
(10:15:58 PM) dkap: And their actions toward each other increase or decrease the likely hood over and over again.
(10:16:07 PM) dkap: This is, apparently a fight to the death.
(10:16:39 PM) dkap: Or the cease of movement for something unalive, against something that is quite alive ...but being battered to death by rocks.
(10:18:17 PM) Delna: "This fight is going to be deadly for one of them. I think we should intervene."
(10:19:07 PM) Spot: "But on whose side?"
(10:20:15 PM) Delna: "I don't know. Nor do I know how to do so effectively. But we need to do something before one of them dies"
(10:20:29 PM) Cagliostro: "Neither, if possible. At least until we know what is going on. But we may be able to stop this conflict. If this is a spirit realm, they may have been doing this for a while"
(10:22:09 PM) Cagliostro: gm: conjuration is out, how is spellcasting in the umbra? warding possible?
(10:23:32 PM) dkap: Very hard, to do even the most trivial of things.
(10:23:41 PM) Cagliostro: then that's out.
(10:23:45 PM) dkap: Which is why you keep stepping out to do anything, and bringing it back in.
(10:24:25 PM) Cagliostro: to conjure, yes
(10:24:35 PM) Cagliostro: and I could do that, I suppose, if no one has any better ideas
(10:24:52 PM) Delna: Do we have the lens still? I would be curious as to if that sheds any light on this fight.
(10:25:21 PM) ***Cagliostro gives Delna the lens
(10:25:28 PM) Mistress_Janice: Is there any way to... translate? To determine what the forms here are representing from more concrete reality?
(10:25:55 PM) Delna: I look at the fight through the lens
(10:25:58 PM) ***Cagliostro could create something that creates a ward when thrown
(10:26:04 PM) Cagliostro: so we could ward around us and around the rock creature
(10:26:12 PM) dkap: The lens shows nothing in the umbra.
(10:26:35 PM) dkap: You could step out of the Umbra and see what's on the other side.
(10:26:38 PM) ***Mistress_Janice qualifies, "Rock collective - it may not be a single discrete creature."
(10:27:13 PM) ***Mistress_Janice doesn't want to inconvenience Spot, who seems to be required to get one back and forth.
(10:30:38 PM) ***Spot shrugs.
(10:30:39 PM) dkap: Spot might have problems popping out here, if there are no reflective surfaces ...
(10:30:52 PM) Spot: "It's just hard to get everyone back and forth."
(10:31:16 PM) Spot: "But I can peek through to the other side."
(10:31:31 PM) Mistress_Janice: A peek might give us some insight into this conflict.
(10:32:32 PM) dkap: How do you peek without a shiny surface on the other side?
(10:33:43 PM) Spot: I've got a sword.
(10:33:47 PM) Spot: Swords are shiny
(10:34:00 PM) Spot: Heck, I've an umbraphone, the display is shiny
(10:34:20 PM) Spot: It just needs to be reflective. A belt buckle will do
(10:35:14 PM) dkap: But they are all on this side.
(10:35:48 PM) Cagliostro: http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/fair_and_handsome_white_as_vaseline_skin_whitener_facebook_tool_markets_col/
(10:35:52 PM) Cagliostro: whoops, wrong window
(10:36:03 PM) Cagliostro: Meant to say: I conjure a mirror on the other side.
(10:36:15 PM) Cagliostro: small sandwich board, maybe 2' high.
(10:37:00 PM) ***Spot pokes his head out of the umbra to see what's going on.
(10:37:36 PM) dkap: There are twins, locked at each other's throat, one looks blue, the other brown.
(10:37:44 PM) dkap: Vaguely amberoid in shape.
(10:37:53 PM) dkap: (Or Chandroid, if you prefer the term.)
(10:38:04 PM) ***Spot pokes his head back into the umbra. "Twins, fighting."
(10:38:26 PM) Spot: "Humanoid." (Not knowing a thing about amber, chandroids, etc as spot)
(10:39:16 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:40:35 PM) Mistress_Janice: Setting? Fighting physically, verbally? Any apparent source of the conflict?
(10:40:50 PM) Spot: "Trying to choke each other."
(10:40:58 PM) Spot: "no words."
(10:41:26 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(10:41:29 PM) Cagliostro: "Redheads?"
(10:41:45 PM) Spot: "Ahhhh blue and brown?"
(10:41:59 PM) Cagliostro: "Huh."
(10:42:01 PM) ***Spot takes another look to look at hair color.
(10:42:04 PM) Cagliostro: "Shall we go take a look?"
(10:42:34 PM) dkap: No hair, just ... forms, blue and brown.
(10:43:21 PM) ***Mistress_Janice opines, "This is only the first thing we've seen. Is there a reason to get bogged down here? It seems... somewhat petty."
(10:43:49 PM) Cagliostro: "I don't think any of the natives have blue coloration."
(10:44:08 PM) Mistress_Janice: Natives of...?
(10:44:22 PM) Cagliostro: "Darkover."
(10:44:26 PM) Cagliostro: "Or our world."
(10:44:28 PM) ***Spot pops back.
(10:44:34 PM) Spot: "Nope, just blue and brown."
(10:45:09 PM) Cagliostro: "I would like to take a look."
(10:46:04 PM) Spot: "Ferry express, then?"
(10:46:26 PM) Cagliostro: "Indeed."
(10:46:54 PM) Mistress_Janice: Spot, would it be easier to get back and forth if one of us were to remain on either side?
(10:47:32 PM) Mistress_Janice: To either relay, or anchor... or carry something shiny?
(10:47:37 PM) Spot: "Nope, not really." *shrugs and starts ferrying people, starting with the count.
(10:48:11 PM) Cagliostro: "I can create a shiny on the other side, so as long as that works, we should be fine."
(10:48:28 PM) dkap: You only need the shiny in the non-umbral side.
(10:51:55 PM) dkap: Shall we hang here? It's just before 11 ...
(10:52:51 PM) Delna: I'm good for that
(10:52:57 PM) Mistress_Janice: 'sfine by me.
(10:53:40 PM) dkap: Then, I declare it a game. I'm off to go make some food, so I'll leave this open if folks want to chat more ... but ... I'm going to feed the GM.
(10:54:01 PM) Mistress_Janice: Feed the GM!
(10:54:42 PM) Spot: bye!
(10:54:44 PM) Cagliostro: should, that works
(10:54:50 PM) Cagliostro: you can puppet me next week if I don't make the game
(10:55:06 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(10:55:21 PM) Delna: night!
(10:55:21 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:55:26 PM) dkap: Good night!
(10:55:36 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.6/20100625231939]).
(10:55:44 PM) Mistress_Janice: G'night, DKap.
(10:55:53 PM) dkap: Good night moon.
(10:56:06 PM) Spot left the room.
(10:56:16 PM) Mistress_Janice left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.6/20100625231939]).
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(08:18:07 PM) ***Mistress_Janice tracks his spoor!
(08:18:08 PM) Mistress_Janice: Do you know anything of Mistress Janice? Any hooks, any character traits... any hints might help.
(08:18:11 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:18:12 PM) Mistress_Janice: You summoned him!
(08:18:29 PM) Auricle: I am that good, really
(08:18:39 PM) Auricle: And I don't know anything about Mistress Janice, I'm sorry
(08:18:57 PM) dkap: Summoned, I obey.
(08:18:59 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:19:02 PM) Auricle: Of course it's not true GM sign til he speaks.
(08:19:05 PM) Auricle: He speaks!!
(08:19:13 PM) dkap: I'm actually cooking at the moment ... so I'll be back in a few moments.
(08:19:19 PM) Auricle: no problem
(08:19:31 PM) Auricle: I merely rewrote reality to get you here :P
(08:20:05 PM) dkap: Thank you!
(08:20:33 PM) Auricle: My pleasure
(08:23:19 PM) ***Mistress_Janice wanders off for a smoke while DKap cooks.
(08:32:09 PM) ***Mistress_Janice returns!
(08:32:23 PM) Mistress_Janice: DKAp is downstairs, having just finished making food, and should be on shortly.
(08:32:57 PM) Auricle: nodnod
(08:33:11 PM) Auricle: is all fine
(08:35:14 PM) Mistress_Janice: In the meantime, I'm trying to fill out Jet's latest survey.
(08:36:52 PM) Auricle: i did that already
(08:37:13 PM) Aedan [~chatzilla@100-71.97-97.tampabay.res.rr.com] entered the room.
(08:37:20 PM) Mistress_Janice: I'm slow - and some of the questions require thought on days long past. Not much of a TV watcher...
(08:37:26 PM) Mistress_Janice: Hello, Aedan!
(08:37:43 PM) Aedan: Is Amanda. Using other computer
(08:37:49 PM) Aedan: hi :)
(08:38:21 PM) Auricle: hi there
(08:41:03 PM) Aedan is now known as Delna
(08:43:59 PM) Auricle: hey
(08:44:07 PM) Auricle: now I know you, lol
(08:44:42 PM) Delna: :D
(08:45:01 PM) Delna: :P
(08:47:35 PM) Mistress_Janice: I still don't know anybody! Not even me...
(08:51:36 PM) ***Auricle giggles
(08:51:39 PM) Auricle: you know me
(08:51:40 PM) Auricle: :P
(08:53:16 PM) Mistress_Janice: I was never that familiar with yer char when I was playing way back when... :D
(08:53:43 PM) Auricle: heh
(08:53:47 PM) Auricle: yes well
(08:53:53 PM) Auricle: there's not too much to Auricle
(08:54:12 PM) Auricle: no, really, she doesn't remember much of it.
(08:54:14 PM) Auricle: :P
(08:55:04 PM) dkap: Except, of course, her experiments.
(08:55:08 PM) dkap: She has notes on those.
(08:55:15 PM) dkap: Oh, and his gargoyle.
(08:55:20 PM) Auricle: Well I have a gargoyle
(08:55:24 PM) dkap: Of course her gender is somewhat ... forgotten as well ...
(08:55:26 PM) Auricle: he remembers
(08:55:32 PM) Auricle: i just do
(08:55:34 PM) Auricle: :)
(08:56:59 PM) Auricle: I'm usually female though.
(08:57:23 PM) dkap: Usually. *grin*
(08:57:43 PM) dkap: That way you are distinguishable from Gargoyle.
(08:58:03 PM) dkap: Oh, Stormy, did you ever follow up on those links I sent you, to the appropriate log files
(08:58:05 PM) ***Mistress_Janice seems to recall Auricle as female.
(08:58:35 PM) Mistress_Janice: Yah, though I'd been through a few of them already, and still have more to go. It's... hard. Not really a narrative.
(09:02:24 PM) dkap: Indeed, not.
(09:02:34 PM) dkap: If you want to try and make narrative out of it ... *grin*
(09:02:39 PM) dkap: I wouldn't object.
(09:04:20 PM) Mistress_Janice: *snorts* The problem is, I have no grasp of the narrative. I suppose the first thing I really need is a dramatis personae with details, so when I see things like 'Jean' I have some referent. I know way too much about the NPCs and not enough about the PCs... :D
(09:06:02 PM) Auricle: heee
(09:06:11 PM) Auricle: Did you give him the wiki?
(09:06:18 PM) Auricle: it has some...stuff
(09:10:34 PM) Mistress_Janice: Yah, I've gotten that link.
(09:11:40 PM) dkap: There is a (sadly, outdated) Dramatus Personae there ...
(09:21:58 PM) Mistress_Janice: When did Stormy get unmade by Melchizedik? More importantly, why? :D
(09:23:46 PM) dkap: Now, that's a story.
(09:23:55 PM) Mistress_Janice: I also have no background on the whole 'kraken' thing, and tend to get lost when it comes up.
(09:24:10 PM) dkap: Kraken are much easier.
(09:24:28 PM) dkap: They are the dragon's food, and the only other thing native to the Sea.
(09:24:32 PM) Auricle: having amnesia is so easy
(09:26:09 PM) dkap: I'm also trying to help Meiglan set up her connection.
(09:26:37 PM) Mistress_Janice: Clearly I need to know more of Dragons then, as well.
(09:27:09 PM) dkap: Probably.
(09:27:51 PM) ***Mistress_Janice snickers. "Last it says of Janice... Hunting Gwen."
(09:28:25 PM) dkap: Indeed. *grin*
(09:28:28 PM) dkap: You remember Gwen?
(09:28:41 PM) dkap: But, we are back in time from that.
(09:31:59 PM) dkap: That was the hook that her player and I agreed to hang her on, until future notice, since her player was no longer available for gaming ...
(09:32:09 PM) dkap: Hence why she was ripe for you to take her over.
(09:32:38 PM) Mistress_Janice: I created Gwen - based on a Ruth Thompson print I have in my room.
(09:32:56 PM) dkap: Do any of you use mirc? Meiglan needs some serious help ... and I don't know the software very well.
(09:33:04 PM) dkap: I know ... *grin*
(09:33:09 PM) dkap: Hence my question.
(09:33:47 PM) Mistress_Janice: Not I.
(09:34:12 PM) Auricle: not me
(09:34:24 PM) dkap: Me neither ... *sigh*
(09:39:17 PM) Delna: don't know what it is
(09:39:22 PM) Delna: so, no
(09:40:11 PM) dkap: Alas.
(09:40:20 PM) dkap: She might be puzzling it out, though.
(09:41:16 PM) Meiglan [Minion@c-24-147-4-243.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:41:21 PM) dkap: YAY!
(09:41:41 PM) Meiglan: wow...I actually figured it...you have no idea how much of a feat that is!
(09:41:45 PM) dkap: Men cheered, woman swooned, children waved multi-coloured banners, and the band played appropriate music!
(09:41:52 PM) dkap: Welcome home!
(09:41:58 PM) Meiglan: danke!
(09:42:02 PM) Auricle: wooo
(09:42:14 PM) dkap: So, no shit, there we were.
(09:42:16 PM) Delna: yays!
(09:43:44 PM) dkap: About to deal, possibly, with the wrestling forms below.
(09:44:05 PM) Meiglan: wrestling forms?
(09:44:16 PM) dkap: Stone, and dragonfly.
(09:45:25 PM) Auricle: oh right
(09:45:28 PM) Auricle is now known as Spot
(09:45:30 PM) Mistress_Janice: I think I had speculated that we were getting too bogged down in the first thing we saw...
(09:49:14 PM) Spot: i seem to recall we were uncertain what to do but they were dying
(09:50:06 PM) dkap: And since you were deliberately going out, to try and find trapped, or discommoded spirits, and see if you could establish a pattern ... this might not be a bad place to continue ...
(09:50:15 PM) dkap: Nothing more pressing on the docket at the moment, either ...
(09:51:21 PM) Spot: Do they seem like trapped spirits or just like two people killing each other?
(09:51:37 PM) Mistress_Janice: Ah, I had no idea why we were out here. So noted.
(09:53:21 PM) dkap: Hard to say ... one might be trapping the other ...
(09:54:27 PM) Spot: "We gonna try and stop this or not?"
(09:55:18 PM) Meiglan: Well, we can pull 'em apart and see how they behave.
(09:56:15 PM) ***Spot looks at them again.
(09:56:28 PM) ***Spot shrugs.
(09:56:34 PM) Spot: "I'm game if someone else is."
(09:56:35 PM) dkap: Large, they are, and the rock one keeps pulling bits off to throw at the dragonfly.
(09:56:55 PM) Mistress_Janice: This Umbra is a... spiritual realm? Is there any 'feel' we can get for the conflict?
(09:57:30 PM) dkap: Feel, as in what?
(09:57:36 PM) Meiglan: Is the dragonfly being more defensive or offensive in it's actions?
(09:59:24 PM) dkap: Dragonfly is attacking
(09:59:29 PM) dkap: Most definitely.
(10:01:37 PM) Meiglan: "I'm willing to wade into the fray." Answering Spot after getting a better idea of the situation.
(10:02:10 PM) ***Spot grins. "All right, I'll take one, you take the other. On this side or the 'real' side?"
(10:02:10 PM) Delna: Then if we hold off the dragonfly for a time...
(10:02:43 PM) ***Spot shifts into full crinos, unfurls the bat wings
(10:03:20 PM) Mistress_Janice: Psychically. Can we get an idea of what might be driving this, instead of just watching?
(10:03:38 PM) dkap: And yay, into the valley of the battle they strode ...
(10:03:57 PM) dkap: Psychically, I will remind you that Amberites are not telepaths ... *grin*
(10:04:01 PM) Meiglan: "Impressive...this side me thinks. I'll take the rock, you the scissors...errr dragonfly?"
(10:04:16 PM) dkap: But there is a lot going on, on the physical level, even though Delna can see they are both close to death, repeatedly.
(10:05:21 PM) Mistress_Janice: I know - but from what I understand, this is a psychically active realm. Repeatedly? Are they recovering from the brink, then?
(10:06:16 PM) dkap: Each of their actions shift it, moment to moment.
(10:08:55 PM) Spot: "I got the...sharpish...insect...thing."
(10:11:15 PM) dkap: There is much struggle.
(10:11:29 PM) Meiglan: "Rock,Paper,Scissors,Lizard....SPOCK!" Wading into the fray, going to wedge her way between the combatants and PUSH the Stone away.
(10:12:02 PM) dkap: It's wings cut you, it's legs cut you, but, you laugh at being cut, and no aggravated damage.
(10:12:08 PM) Mistress_Janice: Watching, turning once in a while to see if anything else is headed this way/going to interfere.
(10:12:22 PM) ***Spot follows right in with a howl and grabs the dragonfly thing
(10:13:10 PM) dkap: Nothing is approaching.
(10:13:51 PM) dkap: The rock thing is ... loosely attached at best. It's like being in the midst of an avalanche, just it never goes past you.
(10:15:15 PM) Meiglan: Funky...I'll try to talk to it, get it to listen to reason, above all, keep it away from the other in the hopes that distance will calm it down.
(10:17:11 PM) Spot: Do I make headway on the dragonfly?
(10:18:38 PM) dkap: It's a grand wrestle.
(10:19:06 PM) dkap: You've got claws and teeth, and a brain, and are used to back-alley fighting, it's got edges everywhere, and you both have wings.
(10:20:03 PM) Spot: Wheeee!
(10:20:48 PM) Meiglan: Is anyone getting an upper hand or are we at a stalemate?
(10:22:46 PM) dkap: So far, at stale-mate.
(10:22:58 PM) dkap: Delna? Mistress_Janice? Do either of you want to step in?
(10:23:05 PM) dkap: Or, lend a hand?
(10:24:23 PM) Mistress_Janice: From what I understand, this is NOT my specialty.
(10:24:52 PM) Spot: "Perhaps we should try this on the physical plane?"
(10:25:39 PM) dkap: Indeed, not, especially since it's really hard to use your magic here, in this plane.
(10:25:42 PM) Delna: I'm not sure how much help I can be..but I will try to help meiglan with the rock entity
(10:26:09 PM) Mistress_Janice: Shouldn't we be represented on both sides? I mean, if we try to stop this on the physical plane, won't our spiritual counterparts be here, trying to stop it in some metaphysical way?
(10:26:23 PM) Meiglan: "Can we get back? Are we bringing them.." Spits out a pebble. "With us?" Has no idea how this whole Umbra thing works.
(10:27:06 PM) ***Spot hmms for a moment and shrugs. "Well the mirror's still there, I can ferry us apart" then grabs hold of the dragonfly again
(10:27:14 PM) dkap: With the two of you flinging down at the rocks, you seem to be getting a better hold of things ...
(10:27:37 PM) dkap: Do you take the dragonfly with you into the physical plane?
(10:27:48 PM) Meiglan: "Hey, can anyone put something between them so they don't see each other?"
(10:28:55 PM) Spot: "ummmm"
(10:29:11 PM) Mistress_Janice: Dad's still here, right? And can conjure in here? He can prolly manage some sort of divider...
(10:30:25 PM) Delna: I believe conjuring here was extremely difficult for him
(10:30:35 PM) Delna: if possible..
(10:31:01 PM) dkap: He can conjure up something on the other side ...
(10:31:04 PM) dkap: But not here.
(10:31:47 PM) Spot: "Well make up your minds, here or there, this dragonfly thing has sharp edges."
(10:31:59 PM) Meiglan: "Maybe if they can't see each other they'll stop fighting."
(10:32:47 PM) Delna: The easiest and fastest would be to bring the dragonfly to the other side...and risk the consequences
(10:32:54 PM) Spot: GM: Can I absorb some of the gnosis from the dragonfly?
(10:33:09 PM) Mistress_Janice: Aren't they already on the other side, in their physical forms?
(10:33:17 PM) Spot: Yeah they are
(10:33:18 PM) Delna: gm, Can I see the lifespan of the dragonfly with that future in mind?
(10:34:29 PM) dkap: Yes, you can absorb some of the Gnosis.
(10:35:16 PM) Spot: Does is make the dragonfly stop attacking or back off any?
(10:35:43 PM) dkap: Nope.
(10:36:32 PM) Delna: What if we try to stop them in the 'real' realm, where they are kids fighting?
(10:36:37 PM) dkap: But the Gnosis does feel good to you.
(10:36:46 PM) Spot: mmm tasty
(10:36:49 PM) dkap: You could try that.
(10:37:36 PM) Spot: "All right the Spot Express, coming right up!"
(10:39:36 PM) dkap: With or without the Dragonfly?
(10:39:50 PM) Spot: Mmm with I think
(10:40:31 PM) Delna: Does everyone train over?
(10:40:37 PM) Mistress_Janice: Paying careful attention as we move then, because I expect the dragonfly's 'source' to expire when we get there. Or go crazy, or whatever...
(10:41:11 PM) Meiglan: "are we keeping the rock on this side or taking them both over?"
(10:41:34 PM) Spot: "Rock stays here"
(10:42:16 PM) dkap: The kids stop fighting immediately when you go over, for the blue/green one falls to the ground, completely listlislty.
(10:42:30 PM) ***Mistress_Janice nods.
(10:43:19 PM) Delna: Alive?
(10:43:40 PM) Mistress_Janice: Stop fighting? Or does the brown one sieze the opportunity and kill?
(10:44:02 PM) Spot: "
(10:44:11 PM) Spot: "Well that kinda worked."
(10:44:28 PM) dkap: Delna: Alive.
(10:44:36 PM) dkap: And now has a much longer span of it.
(10:44:46 PM) Delna: Good
(10:44:46 PM) dkap: The brown one relaxes.
(10:44:59 PM) Meiglan: What's happening to Rocky on this side?
(10:45:07 PM) dkap: And, on the other side, as soon as the dragonfly is gone, the rocks stop struggling.
(10:46:58 PM) Delna: To the brown one, "We thought you might need help.. Can you tell us who you are and what was happening just now?"
(10:49:00 PM) dkap: Brown Boy: I don't know ... I was just ... here and then I was attacked.
(10:49:26 PM) Mistress_Janice: Where is here? Are we still out in the middle of nowhere?
(10:50:12 PM) Spot: "You don't know who you are?"
(10:52:14 PM) dkap: You are in the middle of a sub-urban playground.
(10:52:31 PM) dkap: Brown Boy: Of course I know who I am.
(10:52:52 PM) dkap: Brown Boy: But I'm certainly not going to tell you.
(10:53:08 PM) Spot: "Why not?"
(10:53:28 PM) dkap: Brown Boy: 'Cuz it's a secret.
(10:53:43 PM) ***Mistress_Janice looks around, trying to spot the boys' parents, supervision, any such thing.
(10:57:00 PM) dkap: No parents' no supervision.
(10:57:18 PM) dkap: No signs of actual living beings beyond you lot.
(10:57:58 PM) Delna: (I must get going..)
(10:58:19 PM) dkap: Ahh ... shall we call game then?
(10:58:26 PM) Spot: Oh yeah it's 11
(10:58:28 PM) Spot: kk
(10:58:35 PM) dkap: You've at least stopped the fight, and can begin the unraveling now ...
(10:58:38 PM) Mistress_Janice: Some playground. Where are we, worldwise? Is there a reason this place is/should be deserted? Ah, I'll ask next week.
(10:58:56 PM) dkap: You are somewhere within the world in the world.
(10:59:00 PM) Delna: night everyone!
(10:59:09 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.6/20100625231939]).
(10:59:13 PM) dkap: And the place is old. No iron in use anywhere ... everything wood.
(10:59:19 PM) dkap: Good night!
(10:59:23 PM) dkap: Damn, too slow.
(10:59:32 PM) dkap: Something to think on.
(10:59:48 PM) Spot left the room.
(11:01:18 PM) Mistress_Janice: If I had any clue what that meant. Mebbe someone else will.
(11:01:23 PM) Mistress_Janice: G'night!
(11:02:34 PM) Mistress_Janice left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.6/20100625231939]).
(11:05:14 PM) Meiglan left the room.