Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Thu 12 Aug 2010 04:48:31 PM EDT:
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(09:09:50 PM) percyhaven [~percy@dynamic-acs-24-101-96-114.zoominternet.net] entered the room.
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(08:15:49 PM) dkap: Hello?
(08:16:03 PM) dkap: Neither Meiglan, nor Delna will be making it tonight.
(08:16:18 PM) dkap: If the Count can't either, I'm hoping his Daughter can.
(08:16:51 PM) Spot: ahhh
(08:16:55 PM) Spot: okay
(08:21:01 PM) Cagliostro [~sgorton@c-66-31-32-142.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:21:12 PM) Cagliostro: hello hello
(08:22:34 PM) Spot: hi there
(08:25:39 PM) Cagliostro: how was pennsic?
(08:25:59 PM) dkap: It was not in my top 10 Pennsics, but I've had worse.
(08:26:18 PM) dkap: I'm trying to recall where we left off ...
(08:26:45 PM) Spot: I'm rather lost on that too
(08:28:24 PM) Cagliostro: we were trying to revive the blue boy for a conversation
(08:28:31 PM) Cagliostro: since the brown boy is having a solid nap
(08:29:04 PM) Cagliostro: we were going to do something with the dragonfly
(08:29:16 PM) Spot: oh yeah
(08:29:26 PM) Spot: but I have no idea what
(08:29:51 PM) Cagliostro: put it on the other side of the gauntlet for one
(08:29:55 PM) Cagliostro: back where we found it
(08:30:28 PM) Spot: Oh I can do that
(08:31:31 PM) dkap: Indeed, IIRC it involved stepping through a gate somewhere ...
(08:32:03 PM) Cagliostro: I think so, yes
(08:33:04 PM) Cagliostro: but I am not sure how or why
(08:36:44 PM) dkap: Nerd porn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkRTyP86Jcg
(08:37:03 PM) Cagliostro: (10:53:45 PM) Cagliostro: so we'll start off next episode with Spot stepping into the Umbra with the dragonfly.
(08:37:15 PM) Cagliostro: so I think the gate idea was rejected
(08:37:26 PM) Cagliostro: ...or has already happened
(08:37:26 PM) Spot: All righty then
(08:37:37 PM) Cagliostro: oh, wait, no
(08:37:45 PM) Cagliostro: we did move them out of sight of the sleeping brown kid
(08:38:06 PM) Cagliostro: Aha
(08:38:14 PM) Cagliostro: (10:26:56 PM) ***Cagliostro opens a gate to the top of the ramp to the outer desert.
(08:38:23 PM) Cagliostro: and then carried through the kid and the dragonfly at the same time
(08:38:27 PM) Cagliostro: then gave Spot back the dragonfly
(08:38:34 PM) Cagliostro: but itw as important to Cagliostro that the kid gate through as a unit
(08:38:50 PM) Spot: ahhh
(08:38:58 PM) Spot: so now I can go put the dragonfly back
(08:38:59 PM) dkap: Indeed. That matches my memory more ...
(08:39:14 PM) dkap: And you were going to test to see if that woke him up?
(08:39:16 PM) Cagliostro: right, yes
(08:39:18 PM) Cagliostro: we were
(08:39:20 PM) Cagliostro: that was step 1.
(08:40:14 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:40:31 PM) dkap: Mistress Janice was suitably poked.
(08:41:24 PM) Spot: OMG I think Mothra just flew through my living room chased by a cat
(08:42:35 PM) Cagliostro: Mothra meet Catra
(08:42:41 PM) Mistress_Janice [~chatzilla@pool-98-110-171-21.bstnma.fios.verizon.net] entered the room.
(08:43:11 PM) Mistress_Janice: Sorry I'se late. When there was no movie night, I didn't realize there *was* going to be an Amber game.
(08:44:04 PM) Cagliostro: s'okay. we started late and then had to recall context.
(08:44:18 PM) Cagliostro: We've gated to the top of the ramp between the inner Earth and outer Darkover
(08:44:32 PM) Cagliostro: (ramp is 12 miles long, 2 miles high, and fairly well defended. At least monitored.)
(08:44:42 PM) Cagliostro: And Spot is going to bring the blue kid's spirit dragonfly back into the Umbra
(08:44:45 PM) Cagliostro: and we'll see what happens then
(08:45:42 PM) Spot: Stepping sideways anyone but me and the bug coming?
(08:49:03 PM) dkap: Bug?
(08:49:11 PM) dkap: Oh, the Dragonfly.
(08:49:12 PM) dkap: Right.
(08:49:13 PM) Mistress_Janice: Dragonfly, I presume.
(08:49:15 PM) dkap: Mirror?
(08:49:50 PM) Spot: We have one, count always has one these days
(08:52:07 PM) Cagliostro: indeed.
(08:55:05 PM) Spot: So if no one else is, I'll step sideways with the bug
(08:55:51 PM) Cagliostro: probably best solo so you aren't distracted
(08:56:01 PM) Cagliostro: and can run if the dragonfly turns into Mothra ;0
(08:56:08 PM) Spot: lol
(08:56:54 PM) dkap: Indeed, you step through. The bug doesn't wake up, but the blue boy does, looks around and triumphantly starts shouting that he won.
(08:58:25 PM) Spot: I'll release the bug and step back to the other side then
(08:58:43 PM) dkap: Don't you want to babysit it? Just in case?
(08:59:58 PM) ***Cagliostro conjures a non-alcoholic victory drink for the blue boy
(09:00:02 PM) Spot: mmmm I can poke my head through then
(09:00:12 PM) Spot: see what's going on
(09:01:08 PM) Mistress_Janice: (Where is brown boy at this point?)
(09:01:27 PM) Cagliostro: (asleep in a chair back east of the Urals)
(09:05:55 PM) Cagliostro: So after giving a congratulatory drink, I'll ask the blue guy what he won.
(09:06:06 PM) Cagliostro: (a root beer float sounds nice and festive)
(09:06:30 PM) dkap: BB: The fight! I finally beat him!
(09:06:48 PM) dkap: After all this time, I'm finally victorious!
(09:07:01 PM) Cagliostro: "Beat who?"
(09:08:11 PM) dkap: The other boy!
(09:08:42 PM) Mistress_Janice: "What other boy?"
(09:09:17 PM) dkap: The other one, the one I stamped to smithereens, since there is no evidence of him left.
(09:13:20 PM) Cagliostro: "Well congratulations, then. Why were you fighting?"
(09:13:56 PM) dkap: Because, I'm the good one, and he's the bad one.
(09:14:24 PM) Mistress_Janice: "Good at what?"
(09:14:36 PM) dkap: No, good, as in not evil.
(09:17:14 PM) Mistress_Janice: "Such a vague term. What constitutes good, then, in your opinion?"
(09:17:31 PM) ***Spot checks on the dragonflyu
(09:18:00 PM) dkap: I am good. He was evil. And good always triumphs over evil.
(09:18:21 PM) ***Spot smirks.
(09:19:10 PM) Spot: GM: What's the dragonfly doing?
(09:20:44 PM) dkap: Not moving.
(09:21:16 PM) ***Spot pokes his head back through the gauntlet. "The bug ain't moving."
(09:22:06 PM) Cagliostro: "The kid is, so I think we're fine."
(09:22:35 PM) Cagliostro: "Well, you're probably going to want to rest after your victory. Let me show you somewhere you can sleep."
(09:22:48 PM) ***Mistress_Janice hushes again.
(09:22:52 PM) dkap: BB: Umm ... sure. That sounds good.
(09:23:07 PM) Spot: "Hey kid, what's your name?"
(09:23:48 PM) dkap: BB: I'm ... Umm ... umm ... it's a secret!
(09:26:34 PM) ***Cagliostro nods
(09:26:41 PM) ***Mistress_Janice ahhhhs. "So, 'it's a secret' can be translated as 'I don't know'..."
(09:26:48 PM) Cagliostro: and brings the kid to a bunker/apartment at the base
(09:27:06 PM) Cagliostro: where he is given a room with a bed & comfy chair
(09:27:48 PM) dkap: He lies down in the bed, mutters his thanks, sits up, takes off his shoes, and then is asleep before he lay all the way back down.
(09:28:49 PM) Spot: Does the dragonfly follow him?
(09:29:13 PM) dkap: Nope.
(09:31:14 PM) Cagliostro: huh.
(09:31:16 PM) Spot: I'll poke my head through again when they started to move. "The dragonfly isn't following the kid."
(09:31:22 PM) Cagliostro: "That's unexpected."
(09:31:25 PM) Spot: Does it seem dead?
(09:31:40 PM) dkap: How can you tell?
(09:33:18 PM) Spot: I'm a garou theurge, does it have any life energy to it? it's some sort of spirit, any gnosis?
(09:33:57 PM) dkap: Yes, it has life energy.
(09:34:14 PM) dkap: It's not quite a spirit. And I don't recall what gnosis is.
(09:35:06 PM) Spot: gnosis is like energy spirit points from spirits
(09:35:13 PM) Spot: garou and mages can tap them
(09:35:17 PM) Spot: cast spells
(09:35:26 PM) Spot: the more gnosis, the more powerful
(09:35:50 PM) ***Spot does a very bad description lol
(09:36:22 PM) Spot: "Well it seems to be alive, sorta, but not moving. Anyone else wanna look at it? Again?"
(09:36:46 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm. Sure."
(09:36:51 PM) Cagliostro: "Can we communicate it?"
(09:36:54 PM) Cagliostro: *with it
(09:37:33 PM) Spot: Oh is it weaver, wyrm, or wyld?
(09:37:37 PM) dkap: How? It's not very responsive at the moment. Are you bringing it back, or joining it in the umbra?
(09:37:47 PM) Spot: I can pull them through to me
(09:37:47 PM) dkap: It doesn't seem to have an affiliation.
(09:41:42 PM) ***Spot pulls The count and his daughter through to look over the bug.
(09:41:54 PM) Spot: "Communicate...heh, maybe?"
(09:47:23 PM) Cagliostro: "Any ideas?"
(09:47:44 PM) Cagliostro: gm: telepathy seems out, because it's a weird insect spirit
(09:47:50 PM) ***Mistress_Janice shakes her head. "I've been pretty much at a loss since we started this sojourn."
(09:47:52 PM) Cagliostro: but Mistress Janice does believe in communicating with things
(09:48:00 PM) Cagliostro: without much success.
(09:48:19 PM) Cagliostro: You did once communicate with a giant world-plant that had never seen a creature separate from it
(09:48:34 PM) Cagliostro: granted, it freaked right out when you managed to convince it we were real, but that's another story.
(09:48:35 PM) Spot: Hey then she can try
(09:48:40 PM) Spot: miight as well
(09:50:34 PM) ***Mistress_Janice isn't a telepath, and it doesn't seem to be awake. What do you suggest?
(09:51:05 PM) dkap: Vulcan mind meld?
(09:52:11 PM) Spot: "Hey Bug?"
(09:52:32 PM) ***Mistress_Janice isn't a Vulcan, either. :p
(09:52:36 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm. Insects seem to communicate through dancing. But he's not moving."
(09:52:55 PM) Spot: "I do not dance."
(09:53:10 PM) dkap: Meiglan does. *grin* Well ... Moshes anyway.
(09:56:59 PM) Cagliostro: "I am surprised that the dragonfly and the boy do not appear to be linked."
(09:57:10 PM) ***Spot hmmms.
(09:57:31 PM) Spot: "I could try summoning another dragonfly spirit to talk to this one. This one is...weird."
(09:58:43 PM) Cagliostro: "Sure. Hopefully it'll either talk with it, have sex with it, or fight it."
(09:58:51 PM) dkap: Although, you might need to be in the world for that, for that's where the Bat spirit came to, and the Bat spirit didn't know about the Umbra.
(09:59:18 PM) Spot: Spirits live in the umbra though
(09:59:28 PM) Spot: and this one was here to start with
(09:59:32 PM) Spot: not the real world
(09:59:54 PM) ***Mistress_Janice hmmms. "I wonder if the spirits aren't theirs, but were instead the driving force behind the conflict, the chess players. Now that the conflict's resolved, they're finished, and the pieces can rest..."
(10:03:02 PM) Cagliostro: "I would like to who know set this conflict in motion, whether spirits or boys."
(10:03:48 PM) Mistress_Janice: "Can you see through time to when it started? Because the spirits aren't communicative, and the boys either don't know, or are keeping secrets."
(10:04:09 PM) Spot: "Maybe we ought to brng the bug back to the rock and see what happens
(10:05:08 PM) Cagliostro: "If we have no other ideas, that will work."
(10:08:37 PM) Spot left the room (quit: Read error: EOF from client).
(10:09:38 PM) dkap: And it's truely a game, Spot's connection dropped. *grin*
(10:10:11 PM) Cagliostro: heh
(10:11:06 PM) Mistress_Janice: Holding comment 'til Spot is back.
(10:11:42 PM) Spot [~chatzilla@c-98-217-48-4.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] entered the room.
(10:11:54 PM) dkap: And ... we're back.
(10:11:54 PM) Mistress_Janice: "I've got nothing. Maybe, if there were some context, but both the spirits and the boys were alone. Uninterested in anything except killing each other."
(10:12:26 PM) Spot: "I say we put the rocks and the dragonfly together"
(10:12:28 PM) Cagliostro: "There was also an impending magical working."
(10:12:32 PM) Cagliostro: "All right, we'll try that."
(10:12:40 PM) Cagliostro: gm: gate back, go into the umbra, see what happens.
(10:12:55 PM) dkap: With the Dragonfly? Or without?
(10:13:30 PM) Cagliostro: with
(10:13:49 PM) Cagliostro: presuming - "Is the dragonfly as near to death as it was before?"
(10:15:51 PM) dkap: The Dragonfly, before you take it through, seems to have a long life in front of it, according to Delna.
(10:18:50 PM) dkap: Are you taking it through?
(10:20:05 PM) Cagliostro: I say yes
(10:20:08 PM) Cagliostro: we can always take it back again
(10:20:09 PM) Cagliostro: or ward it
(10:20:17 PM) ***Spot shrugs.
(10:20:23 PM) Spot: "I'm just the taxi."
(10:20:29 PM) ***Spot grins wolfishly
(10:26:05 PM) Cagliostro: "We can decide when we get there. But first, we'll check on that working."
(10:26:15 PM) Cagliostro: gm: return to the schoolyard, check to see how that working is moving along
(10:29:09 PM) dkap: The working?
(10:33:09 PM) Cagliostro: yep
(10:33:16 PM) Cagliostro: there was some sort of effect gearing up to happen on the battleground
(10:33:26 PM) Cagliostro: we haven't ruled out the possibility that the fight was a cork in something
(10:33:30 PM) Cagliostro: and now we've let it loose
(10:35:40 PM) Mistress_Janice: But said working was also apparently taking it's own sweet time.
(10:36:48 PM) Mistress_Janice: Felt like something was trying to emerge, on the playground?
(10:37:17 PM) Spot: Oh yeah right
(10:37:23 PM) dkap: Ahh ... right. That. Not a working, but ...
(10:37:34 PM) dkap: The spirit coalessing.
(10:38:42 PM) Cagliostro: sure
(10:38:54 PM) Cagliostro: can we tell more?
(10:39:02 PM) dkap: Not yet.
(10:39:22 PM) dkap: This seems to be moving, not quite on old-lord time, but ... close.
(10:41:21 PM) Cagliostro: "Hm."
(10:41:30 PM) Cagliostro: "To the Umbra, then."
(10:41:31 PM) Spot: "Agreed."
(10:41:40 PM) Spot: "All aboard"
(10:41:41 PM) Mistress_Janice: Can Delna look at *its* line?
(10:41:47 PM) dkap: To the Umbra, and Beyond!
(10:42:06 PM) dkap: And noticing that it's just before 11, do we want to pause here, and pick up next week?
(10:42:27 PM) Spot: dsounds good, I'm fading out
(10:42:41 PM) dkap: Delna will also not be available next week, but, we should be able to do email with her, before-hand, if such is desired.
(10:44:08 PM) Cagliostro: sounds good
(10:44:10 PM) Mistress_Janice: If she can look up the line and see what's coming, that'd be info we could use.
(10:44:11 PM) Cagliostro: also a good plan
(10:44:21 PM) Cagliostro: and also monitor the lifelines of the umbral creatures
(10:44:38 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:47:37 PM) Spot: I need to go fall over asleep now
(10:47:38 PM) Spot: night!
(10:47:46 PM) Spot left the room.
(10:49:46 PM) dkap: So, I think it's a game. Same Bat time, same Count channel. *grin*
(10:54:02 PM) Cagliostro: heh
(10:54:16 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).