Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Mon 20 Sep 2010 11:07:40 AM EDT:
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(08:29:06 PM) Cagliostro: ahoy, there be GM
(08:29:47 PM) dkap: Sorry about that ... computer problems.
(08:29:51 PM) dkap: I'm better now, though.
(08:30:03 PM) dkap: Last week, game didn't run by common consent.
(08:31:22 PM) Cagliostro: and Stan Ridgway was very good.
(08:32:06 PM) Cagliostro: so where did we leave off?
(08:32:07 PM) dkap: That sounds like a mountain somewhere ...
(08:32:47 PM) dkap: When last we left off ... let me see ...
(08:33:28 PM) Mistress_Janice: Delna was strangling Meiglan while Janice was cavorting with the destructive entity, and Spot was taking pictures...
(08:34:38 PM) Mistress_Janice: ...Actually, I think the Count had just appeared while we were trying to incarcerate the entity, which tried to breach the warding circle.
(08:35:42 PM) Cagliostro: oh yes, -that- I recall
(08:35:49 PM) Cagliostro: and we'd trapped it back inside
(08:35:53 PM) Delna: Although that alternate reality sounds somewhat entertaining
(08:35:55 PM) Cagliostro: and it was dooming and destructioning at us
(08:36:06 PM) Auricle: And Meiglan has spot's sword, and Spot is snarling at the spirit, and Meiglan's preparing to skewer it while Spot rips it to shred.
(08:36:22 PM) Auricle: And other people were talking, but we're preocuppied with the thing
(08:38:50 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(08:38:54 PM) dkap: And I just got the log up.
(08:40:25 PM) dkap: And, there are bells at the monastery, they might be ringing, but you can't hear them, the scrying is visual, not auditory.
(08:40:56 PM) dkap: (And, in a note to Stormy, it's not the Cloister Bell ringing.)
(08:42:56 PM) Mistress_Janice: ...Cloister Bell?
(08:45:13 PM) Cagliostro: we did get the spirit constrained and warded, yes?
(08:45:45 PM) Auricle: no we're not entirely sure about thatcount
(08:45:53 PM) Auricle: leastways Meiglan and Spot aren't
(08:45:57 PM) Auricle is now known as Spot
(08:47:00 PM) Cagliostro: but for the nonce.
(08:47:10 PM) Cagliostro: and we were planning on binding it into yet another sword, yes?
(08:47:29 PM) Mistress_Janice: No, an iron ring.
(08:47:38 PM) dkap: I believe an iron ring ...
(08:47:40 PM) dkap: Yes, that.
(08:49:02 PM) Cagliostro: ah, excellent.
(08:49:07 PM) Cagliostro: so I guess we carry on?
(08:49:15 PM) Spot: 'kay
(08:49:20 PM) Cagliostro: unless there is a crisis immediately apparent, or an alternate plan to consider?
(08:49:22 PM) ***Spot snarls at the spirit.
(08:51:46 PM) dkap: Hearing none raised, why not continue?
(08:52:20 PM) Cagliostro: indeed
(08:53:15 PM) Mistress_Janice: Ah, the sticking point was Weaver blood. I believe the mage the Count brought was being considered as a source.
(08:55:56 PM) Cagliostro: oh yes
(08:56:06 PM) Cagliostro: since no one else weavery was volunteering
(08:56:14 PM) Cagliostro: though we could go back and bleed Simon again
(08:58:07 PM) dkap: And Someone was freaking out about the state of a BSP ...
(08:58:15 PM) dkap: Sorry BSD ...
(08:58:28 PM) dkap: Not the Berlin Science Police, but a Black Spiral Dancer.
(08:58:56 PM) ***Spot is growling at the spirit, with Meiglan.
(08:59:25 PM) Cagliostro: oh yes, the mage kind of freaked out iniitally, then was introduced around
(08:59:30 PM) Cagliostro: and either calmed down or quieted down
(09:05:18 PM) Spot: GM: Has the spirit which was trying to escape while everyone had pleasantries done anything about me and meiglan menancing it?
(09:05:58 PM) dkap: Not noticably, except trying to escape.
(09:06:27 PM) Spot: We'll continue ignoring everyone else and preparing to destroy it if it might manage escaping, then
(09:07:13 PM) dkap: And those preparations are ... what, exactly?
(09:07:48 PM) Spot: mostly posturing, snarling, and the waving of large angry swords.
(09:08:05 PM) Spot: that being what we have to hand
(09:08:29 PM) dkap: Those are the defensive measures, yes, but what about the preparations to contain it?
(09:09:13 PM) Spot: we both got more worried about immediate escape as that looked extremely likely
(09:09:14 PM) Mistress_Janice: It should still be contained, I thought the issue was now binding it.
(09:10:01 PM) dkap: Indeed, contain it, without having to menace it, and have a ward up.
(09:11:16 PM) dkap: Delna, who has been feeling ... something pulling on her, excuses herself to contact back those at the castle, it must be something fairly urgent, so she is there, but distracted.
(09:14:38 PM) ***Cagliostro can provide a gate (outside the ward), per Delna's preference, if radio contact is insufficient
(09:15:20 PM) dkap: And that way more of Simon's blood can be gotten, if the same conditions want to be met.
(09:15:59 PM) Delna: Thank you
(09:16:36 PM) Cagliostro: Simon is generally up for being talked into bleeding
(09:16:52 PM) dkap: Well ... you did get several of his blood-bags, and just used part of one.
(09:17:46 PM) Cagliostro: ah, I didn't recall that.
(09:17:55 PM) Cagliostro: if the rest is stored, then yes, Delna can pick it up.
(09:21:02 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:23:52 PM) dkap: And, after gating through, she passes back the blood-bag.
(09:24:41 PM) Cagliostro: which will be provided to Spot
(09:24:47 PM) Cagliostro: no doubt mid-snarl
(09:25:05 PM) ***Spot is still snarling.
(09:25:12 PM) dkap: Actually, if I recall, they are hoping the Count, and Spot were going to do it in concert, like last time.
(09:26:35 PM) Cagliostro: hm
(09:26:42 PM) Cagliostro: I thought I just warded last time
(09:26:50 PM) Cagliostro: but I can work with Spot the same way as last time, sure
(09:29:50 PM) Mistress_Janice: I've got the warding.
(09:30:30 PM) dkap: Does anyone remember what was done last time? Or should we start trolling through the logs?
(09:34:26 PM) Mistress_Janice: Done in what sense? I think we've covered it all. Nothing further got done, we broke down on blood.
(09:36:03 PM) dkap: No, I mean the ritual, and all.
(09:37:51 PM) Mistress_Janice: Oh, the previous one.
(09:38:59 PM) Cagliostro: as I recall, I warded it in and Spot did the binding ritual
(09:39:07 PM) Cagliostro: more details than that would probably mean the logs
(09:40:04 PM) dkap: So, if that's what we are doing again, who's going to explain that to Spot, and/or take over menacing the spirit?
(09:40:15 PM) Cagliostro: does the spirit need to be menaced?
(09:40:35 PM) Cagliostro: I know Spot's been doing it. But is there any sign of the menacing actually doing something meaningful?
(09:41:01 PM) Spot: well it hasn't escaped. therefore its working. imho
(09:41:36 PM) Cagliostro: I can use my tiger-eating rock to keep it under control, then.
(09:42:04 PM) ***Cagliostro produces a river-smoothed stone which he menaces the spirit with.
(09:42:26 PM) dkap: The menacing actually has had effect.
(09:45:24 PM) Mistress_Janice: Positive effect, or negative? Are they urging it on, or backing it off?
(09:49:48 PM) dkap: Having a positive effect, it seems to be aware, and cringing away from them.
(09:50:13 PM) Cagliostro: dkap: is it cringing away from me, now?
(09:50:28 PM) Cagliostro: (the rock is, of course, a charged energy weapon)
(09:51:34 PM) dkap: It's not cringing away from the rock, just Meiglan and Spot.
(09:52:06 PM) Cagliostro: dkap: focus my dislike at it.
(09:52:07 PM) Cagliostro: strongly.
(09:52:23 PM) dkap: How do you ... evidence your dislike?
(09:52:45 PM) ***Spot continues growling at it.
(09:53:42 PM) Cagliostro: hm. I'd rather not have to evidence it. I'm wondering if I can do it just psychically. Probably glaring at it.
(09:58:14 PM) dkap: It doesn't seem to pick up on your ire.
(09:59:11 PM) ***Cagliostro sighs.
(09:59:18 PM) Mistress_Janice: It seems to be quite lacking in subtlety, Father.
(09:59:20 PM) Cagliostro: I have a sword. If I menace it with the sword, does it cringe?
(10:01:07 PM) ***Spot is just happy it is menaceable.
(10:04:48 PM) dkap: Actually, the sword doesn't bother it. Spot and Meiglan seem to be snarling and gnashing at it, and that has checked it's behaviour, perhaps you are simply too civilized to have an impression?
(10:05:09 PM) dkap: Remember the two boys were very physical, and not very subtle.
(10:05:54 PM) ***Spot doesn't really do subtle.
(10:06:01 PM) Mistress_Janice: And the visuals we got show a definite lack of anything like subtlety. Mass destruction, aimless and pointless as far as we could tell.
(10:06:06 PM) dkap: But, the Count often does.
(10:06:10 PM) Cagliostro: probable.
(10:06:21 PM) Cagliostro: so what if Meiglan snarls at it solo while Spot preps for the ritual?
(10:06:38 PM) Cagliostro: I am, I fear, too refined to be effective.
(10:06:50 PM) ***Cagliostro sheathes his sword, looking vaguely embarassed at having drawn it.
(10:08:22 PM) Spot: (ooc are you asking others? the gm? me in the third person? )
(10:08:56 PM) ***Mistress_Janice schools her features into blandness, and concentrates on the warding circle.
(10:09:08 PM) Cagliostro: (I am asking the GM)
(10:09:29 PM) Spot: (kk)
(10:09:38 PM) dkap: Ahh ... And I thought you were talking out loud to the people gathered.
(10:09:56 PM) dkap: You think Meiglan is scary enough to hold it in check, at least, for long enough to ritually bind it.
(10:10:38 PM) Cagliostro: (whoops)
(10:10:42 PM) Cagliostro: that should work, then
(10:10:51 PM) Cagliostro: and I can probably make Meiglan scarier if I need to.
(10:11:40 PM) dkap: Meiglan is pretty scary.
(10:12:01 PM) Cagliostro: that is true.
(10:12:01 PM) ***Mistress_Janice rolls her eyes.
(10:12:13 PM) Spot: and she does have spot's very angry sword
(10:12:59 PM) dkap: Which, thankfully, hasn't registered as "what is going to happen next."
(10:14:10 PM) Mistress_Janice: Father, all this binding... The spark, the thing in that sword, this one... Are we... learning anything?
(10:14:18 PM) dkap: So, how is it communicated that this is going to be the plan, without tipping off the nasty spirit?
(10:14:56 PM) ***Mistress_Janice is still trying to figure out how it made this a two-way link. It *shouldn't* know what's going on out here.
(10:15:26 PM) Cagliostro: Ah, the sword. Yes, I probably can't top Meiglan plus the sword.
(10:15:38 PM) Cagliostro: "Well, we've learned what was going to manifest. Now we need to clean that up."
(10:16:02 PM) Cagliostro: I would say handing Spot the blood and saying "Same as last time?"
(10:16:18 PM) Cagliostro: then ask Meiglan to keep doing that.
(10:16:28 PM) Cagliostro: reasonable?
(10:18:28 PM) dkap: Sounds good to me. Spot?
(10:18:32 PM) ***Spot snarls at the spirit once more and takes the blood, looking fairly menancing even when not looking at the spirit at this point. "Last time..." he says, it coming out mostly like a growl, then snaps once at the spirit and nods to the Count.
(10:19:08 PM) ***Mistress_Janice blinks. "We have most certainly not learned what's going to manifest. We don't have a name, a history, anything. 'A destructive, personalized force' isn't specific enough. We know what we're *doing* with it... but not what it is, why it's here, or how it got locked up." She tips an eyebrow. "Would Faythe know?"
(10:19:48 PM) Cagliostro: "Possibly. But let's worry about that later."
(10:19:56 PM) Cagliostro: (and I need to head out... early day tomorrow.)
(10:20:31 PM) Mistress_Janice: Sleep well!
(10:20:37 PM) Spot: night!
(10:21:05 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(10:24:54 PM) Spot: Are we going to wait for the count for next week or keep onwards?
(10:26:42 PM) dkap: I'd say, onwards.
(10:26:50 PM) dkap: Unless ... you want specific imput.
(10:26:55 PM) dkap: It's already 10:30, though.
(10:27:45 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.9/20100824153629]).
(10:28:23 PM) Mistress_Janice: Bind it, bind it! :D
(10:28:49 PM) Spot: Or might need to bind the players here, lol.
(10:30:53 PM) dkap: Either way.
(10:33:08 PM) dkap: Right ... have we lost momentum?
(10:33:17 PM) Mistress_Janice: I guess so.
(10:33:20 PM) Spot: So the count strengthened up the warding so I could walk the binding circle, yes? Before I was menancing, i had wyld, weaver, and wyrm blood?
(10:33:47 PM) Spot: sorry was a long sentence
(10:34:00 PM) ***Mistress_Janice is still holding the warding. Father just closed the hole he made in it, I think.
(10:36:42 PM) ***Spot takes stock (hee) of the blood he has...his own..that's wyrm (snarl at the spirit) weaver from simon (growl at the spirit...) "I need wyld....still."
(10:40:55 PM) Mistress_Janice: I thought Spot was Wyld, Meiglan was Wyrm.
(10:41:04 PM) Spot: Oh no
(10:41:09 PM) Spot: Black Spiral Dancer
(10:41:20 PM) Spot: I'm so Wyrm it hurts. ... :D
(10:41:41 PM) Spot: Besides Vamp's blood isn't normal, it's stolen
(10:41:49 PM) Spot: No way to know what it really is
(10:42:22 PM) dkap: Right ... I believe the leftover Wyld blood from the woof in the Urals was also handed over when Simon's was ...
(10:42:36 PM) Spot: Oh good.
(10:43:18 PM) Mistress_Janice: Okay. I thought all Vitae counted as Wyrm, save for a very few 'pure' types.
(10:43:25 PM) Spot: Then I will step back a bit and start mixing up some more blood cocktail...a bit away from the leech, just to be sure
(10:43:58 PM) dkap: A good choice.
(10:44:06 PM) dkap: Meiglan shouldn't be tempted like that.
(10:44:28 PM) Spot: @Janice Maybe, but there's importance in the symbolism as well as the reality
(10:45:22 PM) Spot: And either way, a living BSD is a purer wyrm than a dead leech, since they freeze in ability to grow and have too much weaver to them. imho
(10:45:49 PM) Mistress_Janice: Silly Triat. :D
(10:47:09 PM) Spot: So I mix up the coctail
(10:48:08 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:49:33 PM) Spot: And with another growl at the spirit, I'll start to walk the binding circle, iirc Janice gave me the ring last session, yes?
(10:50:24 PM) dkap: Yes, you have the Iron Ring.
(10:53:14 PM) Spot: Okay, I'll get the ring placed and close up the circle of blood and start casting the binding
(10:55:50 PM) dkap: Binding cast.
(10:56:42 PM) Mistress_Janice: Can I feel that? Is there an absence of pressure against the warding now?
(10:58:06 PM) Spot: Does the ring suck up the spirit as expected?
(11:01:36 PM) dkap: Found it.
(11:01:38 PM) dkap: Sorry.
(11:02:26 PM) dkap: Yes, there is an implosive noise, as the spirit is captured into the iron ring. The iron ring heats, phenomenally, but does contain the spirit. The blood gets sucked into the binding.
(11:02:45 PM) dkap: The pressure against the ward is gone, so is the spirit, aparently.
(11:02:48 PM) dkap: apparently even.
(11:02:55 PM) dkap: (I dropped a pee ...)
(11:03:16 PM) dkap: You (Janice) can drop the ward.
(11:03:20 PM) Spot: (how hot is hot? like have to drop it can't wear it hot? does it start cooling?)
(11:03:29 PM) Spot: "There. Bound. Ow."
(11:05:37 PM) ***Mistress_Janice makes damned sure that circle's empty before it comes down.
(11:05:50 PM) dkap: It doesn't start cooling, and, probably, dropped in water, the water would start to boil.
(11:06:01 PM) dkap: The circle is empty.
(11:06:37 PM) Spot: "Unfortunately I don't think we can touch the ring. ....Possibly a little small for the spirit."
(11:07:05 PM) Spot: "and it's...a little unhappy, I think. Meiglan, can I have my sword back?"
(11:09:17 PM) Mistress_Janice: Then perhaps it's destined to become a cheap generator. Heat can be made useful...
(11:10:10 PM) ***Spot shrugs. "Right now the question is how to pick it up."
(11:11:14 PM) dkap: Meiglan hands Spot the sword back, hilt first, after a moment's hesitation.
(11:11:32 PM) dkap: (It could create ... STEAM!)
(11:11:38 PM) Spot: "Thank you, pretty."
(11:12:31 PM) Mistress_Janice: I think we can pause here for next week. I'm sure the Count can come up with something to do with it.
(11:12:34 PM) Spot: (Perhaps now is a decent break point given time?)
(11:12:55 PM) ***Mistress_Janice arches her eyebrows, and adds sotto voce, "*If* he's over his... inadequacy issues."
(11:16:33 PM) dkap: *grin*
(11:16:44 PM) dkap: It does sound like a good idea. See you folks next week!
(11:16:44 PM) Mistress_Janice: G'night, both!
(11:16:55 PM) Mistress_Janice left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.10/20100914125854]).
(11:17:22 PM) Spot: night!
(11:17:29 PM) Spot left the room.