Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Thu 30 Sep 2010 10:38:26 AM EDT:
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(08:28:16 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/
(08:28:53 PM) Delna: Hellos
(08:29:18 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:29:35 PM) dkap: HA! Fixed the bugger.
(08:29:40 PM) percyhaven left the room.
(08:30:24 PM) Delna: What happened?
(08:31:00 PM) dkap: Don't know ... bloody machine was ... being difficult.
(08:31:40 PM) Delna: Alright then.
(08:31:55 PM) dkap: Right then ... Where were we?
(08:32:22 PM) Mistress_Janice: Arguing over what to do with the ring.
(08:33:10 PM) Delna: I suggested we give it to a hobbit
(08:33:17 PM) Delna: Though not in earnest.
(08:34:06 PM) Mistress_Janice: The rringgg... it burnnnnns usssss!
(08:36:25 PM) Delna: People were on the way
(08:36:36 PM) Delna: From the southwest
(08:36:43 PM) Cagliostro: Our planet is in the yard of the person who generated the hobbit gun. But still best not to go there.
(08:39:49 PM) Cagliostro: so we were also thinking about trying to find what the ring and the sword had in common
(08:39:54 PM) Cagliostro: and looking for other, similar spirits
(08:40:29 PM) dkap: Right ... and the warning about the incoming ...
(08:42:25 PM) Cagliostro: and similar warnings - or was there another warning about more incoming?
(08:42:39 PM) Mistress_Janice: Can we get some better eyes on the incoming, perhaps identify them?
(08:42:39 PM) dkap: I believe two of the party heard them, and warned the rest of you.
(08:47:34 PM) dkap: Was there a reaction to prepare?
(08:47:47 PM) Mistress_Janice: How much time until they arrive, any estimate?
(08:48:01 PM) dkap: I believe it was 3-5 minutes, approaching rapidly.
(08:48:23 PM) Mistress_Janice: Can I scry them in less than two minutes?
(08:48:40 PM) Cagliostro: oh, right, the non-magical incoming.
(08:48:46 PM) Cagliostro: is there a building we can hide in?
(08:48:54 PM) Cagliostro: it was some sort of schoolyard, wasn't it?
(08:48:54 PM) dkap: You would need to know what it was you were scrying for.
(08:49:25 PM) Mistress_Janice: Can't I just hit direction and distance? That way, that far, and open a window I could see through?
(08:49:35 PM) dkap: Playground, no buildings around, except, possibly for the hidden ruins of the chapel-like place that was destroyed.
(08:50:06 PM) dkap: You might be able to, but by the time you do, a good pair of binox would do you better, and you have a set or two of those in your kit.
(08:50:59 PM) ***Mistress_Janice pulls binoculars, trains them that direction, and plays with the focus wheel.
(08:52:10 PM) dkap: Group, on motorcycles, GPs, and dune-buggies, armed for bear, in some sort of standardized uniform.
(08:53:03 PM) Mistress_Janice: Any flags? I presume insignia's too small to get a bead on.
(08:53:43 PM) dkap: No flags, if there is an insignia, it's hidden, and they are only standarized, not so much military.
(08:54:24 PM) dkap: They aren't in formation, more mob-like in their travel.
(08:54:36 PM) dkap: Some racing ahead, some falling behind.
(08:55:01 PM) dkap: All of them closing.
(08:55:26 PM) dkap: Not as ragged as, say crips or bloods, especially not as ragged as the Mad Max gangs ...
(08:55:44 PM) dkap: But not as nice as, say first-line forces, marines, or the like.
(08:56:11 PM) ***Mistress_Janice mmms, putting the binoculars away. "I don't know, they look... odd to me. I think we had best make for some cover, if not outright hiding. They do seem to be converging on this spot..."
(08:57:09 PM) dkap: And, remember, they might not be used to seeing Spot, or Meiglan, or the Ifrit ...
(08:57:47 PM) dkap: Delna _might_ pass. The Count and Mistress Janice would, without a doubt.
(08:58:13 PM) dkap: The mage might pass as well, but his dress is a bit ... odd.
(08:58:26 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@c-24-128-225-7.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(08:58:39 PM) dkap: And I can't remember if the Gorgon has come back from the far-size, or not.
(08:58:48 PM) Cagliostro: Gorgon is still on the far side.
(08:59:00 PM) dkap: Good good.
(08:59:22 PM) dkap: The umbra might be a place to "duck into cover somewhere".
(08:59:23 PM) Mistress_Janice: I presume the incoming folk look human?
(08:59:28 PM) dkap: Very.
(09:00:13 PM) Mistress_Janice: Welcome, Meiglan. We are about to hide from the incoming... humans.
(09:01:43 PM) Cagliostro: "Well, it would be more subtle if some people did. But I am quite curious who those people are."
(09:01:54 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:03:04 PM) Mistress_Janice: So maybe we move over, and observe them? They must be coming here with a purpose, they seem in quite a hurry.
(09:03:42 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@c-24-128-225-7.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:04:35 PM) dkap: So, who stays, who hides, and where is the hiding taking place? Under illusion? Under the playground equipment? In the possibility of the ruins-basement? In the Umbra?
(09:06:02 PM) Cagliostro: I would say: Ifrit, at least.
(09:06:12 PM) Cagliostro: Can Meiglan be disguised somewhat?
(09:06:21 PM) Cagliostro: trenchcoat, broad hat, sort of thing?
(09:06:36 PM) dkap: Meiglan?
(09:06:44 PM) Spot: So sorry I'm here and caught up
(09:07:06 PM) Spot: Just very sick irl
(09:07:15 PM) Mistress_Janice: Awww!
(09:07:25 PM) ***Mistress_Janice makes the Spot some chicken soup.
(09:07:42 PM) Spot: I'm vegetarian, that will make me sicker
(09:07:56 PM) dkap: Makes spot some vegitarian chicken soup?
(09:07:58 PM) Spot: but it's a nice thought thnk you
(09:08:01 PM) ***Mistress_Janice sighs, "The best intentions..."
(09:08:04 PM) dkap: The same stuff I eat.
(09:08:32 PM) ***Spot shifts to homid.
(09:08:49 PM) Spot: "I can loan meiglan my trench but then I can't hide my wings.
(09:08:49 PM) dkap: Don't you still have wings in homid?
(09:08:55 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:09:09 PM) ***Cagliostro can create arbitrary numbers of trenchcoats
(09:09:22 PM) Cagliostro: I'll create a trench and broad floppy hat for Meiglan
(09:09:33 PM) Cagliostro: something rip-proof
(09:09:43 PM) ***Spot folds his wings tightly and puts on the trenchcoat, loosely.
(09:10:24 PM) Delna: I can stand in the back of some people. I would like to see them and see what my sight and senses can tell about them.
(09:11:37 PM) Mistress_Janice: Oh - did observation seem to indicate they were doing anything of the sort back in our direction? Or is it likely we don't have eyes on us yet?
(09:11:39 PM) Delna: But being obscured would not be a bad thing
(09:11:42 PM) dkap: So, no one actually hiding, except the Ifrit, who Spot (possibly?) is ferrying into the Umbra? Or are they hiding elsewhere, so they can be called upon as necessary? They could hide in the tree-tops ...
(09:11:52 PM) arkhonI1 [~arkhon@c-98-234-88-12.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:12:12 PM) Spot: [agh afk]
(09:13:28 PM) dkap: Meiglan can disguise herself since there's incoming. She has Mask of 1000 Faces (Obfuscate 3) and will make herself a nondescript, though somewhat disreputable street thug.
(09:16:53 PM) Cagliostro: sure. trenchcoat will help with that.
(09:16:58 PM) Cagliostro: trenchcoat is also bulletproof, just in case.
(09:17:11 PM) Cagliostro: ifrit in the tree-tops sounds quite sensible
(09:17:32 PM) Cagliostro: we could handwave a spot into the Umbra, but the Ifrit would probably object
(09:17:35 PM) Mistress_Janice: Make another coat for your mage.
(09:17:38 PM) Cagliostro: to being separated by the count.
(09:18:16 PM) Cagliostro: to Janice: "I'll ward us, so we should be fine. I know Meiglan well enough to know she might go free range."
(09:19:04 PM) ***Mistress_Janice just seems to think we might be better off appearing even somewhat uniform, rather than the motley crew we presently are.
(09:19:09 PM) dkap: Indeed. Ifrit in the trees, everyone else in bullet-proof trench-coats.
(09:19:38 PM) arkhonI1 left the room (quit: EOF from client).
(09:19:50 PM) Cagliostro: Point about the uniforms. Trenchcoat brigade all round.
(09:19:55 PM) Cagliostro: Ifrit gets a trenchcoat up in the tree.
(09:20:19 PM) dkap: Good good.
(09:20:29 PM) Delna: yay trenchcoats
(09:21:24 PM) dkap: So, warded in trenchcoats, in any particular formation? Paying obvious attention?
(09:21:58 PM) Cagliostro: sure, about paying obvious attention.
(09:23:08 PM) Delna: In the back
(09:23:09 PM) Cagliostro: I'll go ahead and set up a flying metal objects reflection ward, protecting from the outside
(09:23:34 PM) Cagliostro: hm, wait. I'm being polite.
(09:23:45 PM) Cagliostro: Don't reflect the flying metal bits, just absorb their energy and drop them.
(09:24:20 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:25:40 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@c-24-128-225-7.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:26:58 PM) dkap: State of things. Incoming hostiles, mounted on mechanical mounts, semi-uniform, everyone here, in trenchcoats, Ifrit in the trees.
(09:28:02 PM) dkap: Meiglan, you caught up?
(09:29:03 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:31:06 PM) dkap: Or not ...
(09:31:08 PM) dkap: *sigh*
(09:31:12 PM) dkap: Networking sucks sometimes.
(09:31:25 PM) Cagliostro: indeed.
(09:31:42 PM) Cagliostro: it does seem to go better if you pick a specific gamesurge host instead of the generic map
(09:31:43 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@c-24-128-225-7.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:32:41 PM) Cagliostro: meiglan - you can try Gigenet.IL.US.GameSurge.net directly if you are having problems
(09:32:47 PM) Cagliostro: or Krypt.CA.US.GameSurge.net
(09:32:54 PM) Mistress_Janice: We don't know yet that they're hostiles. Just... fast.
(09:32:56 PM) Cagliostro: unless the problems are with comcat, in which cas,e join the club ;)
(09:33:12 PM) Meiglan: (I think it's just my computer acting up...it's old and cranky...like me.)
(09:33:43 PM) dkap: You aren't cranky, you are just particular. You want things done in a particular way ...
(09:35:13 PM) Cagliostro: okay, so clad in trenchcoats and in a ward, we wait for something to happen.
(09:35:57 PM) dkap: Any last actions before the incoming?
(09:36:10 PM) Mistress_Janice: Where's the ring?
(09:36:12 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(09:36:24 PM) Spot: on the ground
(09:36:27 PM) Spot: I have the sword.
(09:36:35 PM) Spot: I'll stick to the back.
(09:37:01 PM) Cagliostro: it's a trench coat made for white wolf people. I'm sure there's a katana pocket on one side that would probably fit the sword.
(09:37:10 PM) Cagliostro: ;)
(09:37:15 PM) ***Mistress_Janice wraps the ring in that kevlar glove, and sticks it in a trench coat pocket.
(09:37:17 PM) Cagliostro: or you could just put the sword unde rthe coat.
(09:37:38 PM) dkap: Katana space?
(09:38:43 PM) ***Mistress_Janice murmurs to Father, "They *could* just be coming for us, but I'd bet this has something to do with either the fight that used to be going on here, or the entity we just bound."
(09:39:10 PM) Cagliostro: "Which does make this a potential way of finding out what was going on here."
(09:39:13 PM) Cagliostro: so: we wait.
(09:39:51 PM) dkap: They arrive.
(09:40:03 PM) dkap: It's obvious that this is their destination, by the way they arrive.
(09:40:14 PM) Spot: (too late to hide the sword now(
(09:40:16 PM) Meiglan [~chatzilla@c-24-128-225-7.hsd1.nh.comcast.net] entered the room.
(09:40:43 PM) ***Mistress_Janice waves jauntily as they approach.
(09:42:03 PM) dkap: They establish an outer perimeter, and have their weapons pointing outward.
(09:42:41 PM) ***Spot snarls softly, tensing.
(09:42:52 PM) Delna: as in outside of their perimeter, or as in toward us
(09:42:57 PM) Mistress_Janice: They're protecting us! I *knew* they were friendly...
(09:43:16 PM) dkap: Not toward you, toward anyone else approaching.
(09:44:59 PM) Meiglan: "Makes one wonder who sent 'em. Just idle curiosity is all."
(09:45:25 PM) Cagliostro: "Indeed."
(09:46:25 PM) dkap: None of them seem to have noticed you especially, except to leave you space in their circle.
(09:47:35 PM) dkap: The outer perimeter seem to be passing around binoculars, looking for something specific.
(09:47:52 PM) Cagliostro: "This is somewhat unexpected."
(09:48:31 PM) Cagliostro: "I wonder if there was an enchantment somewhere to keep people from noticing where we are..."
(09:49:05 PM) Mistress_Janice: It would explain why the fight went on so long, uninterrupted... but I didn't notice any such effect, and we found this spot easily enough.
(09:49:23 PM) Cagliostro: "True."
(09:50:09 PM) Spot: "Interesting."
(09:50:12 PM) dkap: After a few moments, one of them comes over to you folks and asks "Civilian observers, or the military experts we were told to expect?"
(09:50:16 PM) Mistress_Janice: GM, is there anyone of them who might be in charge?
(09:50:40 PM) ***Mistress_Janice lets Dad handle that one.
(09:51:08 PM) Cagliostro: "Civilian observers."
(09:51:14 PM) Cagliostro: "But experts in our own way."
(09:52:08 PM) Cagliostro: "Possibly we can cooperate?"
(09:52:20 PM) dkap: He sticks his hand out, and says: "Good to meet you, I'm Jhack. We are expecting incoming at any moment, you might want to move toward the center of the defensive ring."
(09:52:51 PM) ***Mistress_Janice speaks up to ask, "Incoming what?"
(09:52:56 PM) ***Cagliostro shakes Jhack's hand.
(09:53:21 PM) Cagliostro: (and quietly checks for poisons, attempted magical influence, etc.)
(09:53:24 PM) dkap: Jhack: "Incoming hostiles, ma'am."
(09:54:07 PM) ***Mistress_Janice looks puzzled. "Hostile to what? Until you got here, we were the only ones around. Hostile toward us?"
(09:54:22 PM) dkap: Count: no attempts to influence, besides his apparently genuine concern.
(09:56:01 PM) Cagliostro: gm: download his recent memory, if possible.
(09:56:43 PM) dkap: Jhack: "Hostile to many things. I don't know more."
(09:58:28 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(10:00:39 PM) Cagliostro: "I suppose we'll wait for your experts and consult with them, and we'll follow your advice until then."
(10:00:44 PM) ***Cagliostro returns to the center of the ring
(10:01:33 PM) Cagliostro: once out of earshot: "It appears that they are members of a hereditary secret society, that never expected to be called upon - but here they are. Most have not met before today."
(10:01:44 PM) Spot: "Cooool."
(10:01:46 PM) dkap: Some of them are setting up cots, and camp stoves, some are looking for spots to dig latrines.
(10:01:53 PM) dkap: They might be setting up for a long siege.
(10:02:01 PM) Cagliostro: "And the Church may be involved - they are supposed to be more people arriving here. The 'military experts' is, I suspect, wishful thinking."
(10:02:11 PM) ***Cagliostro sighs.
(10:02:20 PM) ***Cagliostro checks in with Jodo, and lets him know what the situation is.
(10:02:27 PM) dkap: How checks in?
(10:02:32 PM) Cagliostro: definitely using a communications protocol they can't eavesdrop on.
(10:02:42 PM) Cagliostro: probably encrypted frequency-hopping radio.
(10:03:28 PM) dkap: Radio is all snow and interference.
(10:03:47 PM) ***Mistress_Janice sighs. "This is what comes of letting contacts in the Vatican slip away."
(10:04:47 PM) Cagliostro: "I prefer the word 'escape', and it was the other way around, as I recall."
(10:05:00 PM) Meiglan: "Looks like they think they're going to be here a while."
(10:05:01 PM) Cagliostro: hm.
(10:05:15 PM) Cagliostro: gm: do I have a magical communications path to Jodo?
(10:05:18 PM) Cagliostro: or a Trump of him?
(10:05:34 PM) Mistress_Janice: How were they called up? What triggered this?
(10:06:01 PM) Cagliostro: Okay, I do not have a Trump of jodo. Checked my files.
(10:06:24 PM) Cagliostro: I have a full Darkstar family set, plus a few.
(10:06:30 PM) Meiglan: "Beats the snot out of me."
(10:06:41 PM) Cagliostro: "Eloquently put."
(10:07:00 PM) dkap: Indeed, no trump for Jodo.
(10:07:12 PM) ***Mistress_Janice thought Father night know, given his other insights.
(10:09:57 PM) Cagliostro: "The one I spoke to was called on the phone, and called the others, which means that the actual trigger happened somewhere else."
(10:10:18 PM) Cagliostro: "It wouldn't be difficult to bind a token to the ward, so that when the spirit was freed, the ward would show it."
(10:13:01 PM) Mistress_Janice: "So, they're likely here to try to deal with the thing we've bound already."
(10:13:55 PM) Cagliostro: "Probably."
(10:14:04 PM) Spot: "likely"
(10:18:33 PM) Cagliostro: "One second."
(10:18:46 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro approaches the man he spoke to earlier.
(10:19:14 PM) dkap: Jhack turns to you, as soon as he finishes the conversation he is in.
(10:19:15 PM) Cagliostro: "Excuse me - we were told that someone here would have a copy of the Book. We've never seen it, and I suspect it may shed some light on the situation."
(10:19:28 PM) Cagliostro: (I did wait for him to finish, naturally)
(10:19:47 PM) dkap: Jhack: "Ahh ... you know about The Book. Excellent. I have it here."
(10:20:25 PM) dkap: Jhack walks over to one of the GPs and pulls out The Book.
(10:21:17 PM) Cagliostro: gm: Cagliostro pulls out spotless white gloves from a pocket (where they may not have existed before) and pulls them on
(10:21:31 PM) dkap: It's an old book, obviously laborously copied by hand.
(10:22:08 PM) ***Mistress_Janice peers curiously over Father's shoulder.
(10:22:33 PM) ***Cagliostro bows to Jhack and carefull brings the book back to show to the others.
(10:22:34 PM) dkap: The manufacture is not that old.
(10:23:07 PM) dkap: But there are "blotches" and "smudges" that are obviously very carefully drawn in.
(10:24:14 PM) Cagliostro: so: we read
(10:24:26 PM) dkap: It's an operations manual.
(10:24:30 PM) ***Spot peers curiously at it
(10:25:03 PM) Mistress_Janice: For?
(10:26:10 PM) Cagliostro: what language is it in?
(10:26:55 PM) dkap: Latin.
(10:27:48 PM) Cagliostro: point in favor of the Church.
(10:28:05 PM) Mistress_Janice: Operations Manual for what?
(10:28:47 PM) dkap: Military operations, for rescue, and defense of this particular spot.
(10:29:09 PM) ***Spot shrugs, unable to read it
(10:30:57 PM) dkap: The latin is a bit stilted, apparently it was vernacular at the time it was written, as opposed to either church latin, or classical latin.
(10:31:10 PM) dkap: But only you would notice the verb shifts, Mistress_Janice.
(10:31:46 PM) Mistress_Janice: Wouldn't classical have been the vernacular at the time?
(10:32:12 PM) dkap: Classical was used in courts, formal documents and the like, this is, apparently not one of them.
(10:32:26 PM) Cagliostro: "Our friend there has read this, or had it read to him, every week of his life. He's the only one with a full copy."
(10:32:32 PM) Mistress_Janice: Does it mention rescue of whom, or defense of what, from what?
(10:32:40 PM) dkap: Nope. Just how to.
(10:33:20 PM) Cagliostro: gm: what can I speculate about the person who wrote this? An adequate military mind? me levels of good? Hamster levels of good?
(10:34:22 PM) dkap: Reasonable for the time period, not extraordinary even for then, and the art of war has progressed quite far from that point.
(10:34:56 PM) Cagliostro: yeah, that was what I was wondering.
(10:35:04 PM) Cagliostro: What can I tell about the technology in use at the time?
(10:37:04 PM) dkap: Balistas might not have been invented yet.
(10:40:06 PM) Cagliostro: "definitely several centuries old."
(10:41:23 PM) Cagliostro: "Well, we can take some time here, and continue to figure out how to search for others of these trapped evil spirits."
(10:43:27 PM) dkap: And ... you know ... this might be a good place to hang, and let Spot recover ...
(10:43:33 PM) dkap: (well ... Gleep recover)
(10:43:38 PM) Cagliostro: true enough
(10:43:43 PM) Spot: (kk)
(10:44:23 PM) Delna: yar
(10:44:28 PM) dkap: Any last actions for the night?
(10:44:50 PM) Cagliostro: nope
(10:44:59 PM) Mistress_Janice: Wishing Gleep get better soon!
(10:46:07 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(10:46:11 PM) Delna: night
(10:46:29 PM) Delna left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.10/20100914125854]).
(10:47:06 PM) Mistress_Janice: G'night! Feel better, Gleep!
(10:48:57 PM) Meiglan left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.8/20100722155716]).
(10:49:52 PM) Spot left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [SeaMonkey 2.0.8/20100914140239]).
(10:51:36 PM) Mistress_Janice left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86 [Firefox 3.6.10/20100914125854]).