Conversation with #dkap_amber
Conversation with #dkap_amber on Tue 11 Jan 2011 08:15:30 PM EST:
(08:15:30 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:16:22 PM) dkap: Sorry about that ... they needed Katherine to stay late at the Studio, and she was my ride.
(08:16:26 PM) dkap: I'm here, now, though.
(08:16:35 PM) Cagliostro: excellent, then
(08:16:36 PM) Mistress_Janice: I am looking forward to snow.
(08:17:14 PM) Auricle: hi dkap
(08:17:24 PM) Auricle: sorry about missing last week, if there was game
(08:17:44 PM) dkap: There was.
(08:17:48 PM) dkap: Logs have been posted.
(08:17:49 PM) dkap: *grin*
(08:17:52 PM) Mistress_Janice: We traveled vast distances!
(08:17:55 PM) dkap: At least ... I think they have.
(08:17:57 PM) dkap: I'll check.
(08:19:57 PM) dkap: It is posted.
(08:19:59 PM) dkap: Yay!
(08:21:50 PM) Auricle: yay!
(08:22:18 PM) Auricle: But anyway, I apologize, massive drugs had me mostly unconscious. New drugs do not knock me out and are much preferred.
(08:22:40 PM) dkap: Yay more preferred drugs.
(08:22:42 PM) dkap: How is your jaw?
(08:22:58 PM) Cagliostro: we figured it was heath-related, and hoped you were OK.
(08:23:45 PM) Auricle: the jaw is okay, had a root canal today. Surgery for the jaw is end of the month. What took me out this past week was my gall bladder decided to be painful and landed me in the hospital for most of New Year's Eve, and I have surgery for THAT now to get done too.
(08:24:06 PM) Cagliostro: yick.
(08:25:42 PM) Auricle: I'm having a very fun set of medical issues.
(08:27:01 PM) dkap: Bleah. When did the warranty on your body run out?
(08:27:10 PM) Cagliostro: 40, I hear
(08:27:22 PM) Auricle: lol
(08:27:23 PM) Cagliostro: there is some variance, though
(08:27:29 PM) Auricle: Mom says I need a tune-up
(08:28:03 PM) dkap: Oh, I shared veggie-tails with someone recently.
(08:28:54 PM) dkap: Your influence continues.
(08:28:57 PM) Cagliostro: is that like sharing water?
(08:29:02 PM) dkap: Although I can't find my copy of "Silly Songs"
(08:29:11 PM) dkap: Umm ... no?
(08:29:12 PM) Auricle: Yay Veggie Tales!
(08:29:17 PM) Cagliostro: that's good.
(08:34:49 PM) Mistress_Janice: Are we waiting on anyone else, or is it just us these days?
(08:39:17 PM) dkap: I believe we are a go.
(08:39:23 PM) dkap: Mike hasn't gotten back to me in a while.
(08:40:03 PM) dkap: And the few other folks I've invited by, seem to have either lost interest, or gotten busy elsewhere.
(08:41:24 PM) dkap: So, where did we leave our intrepid middle management?
(08:41:41 PM) dkap: About to ... chase down the lead-individual, right?
(08:43:36 PM) Auricle: I was opening bottles, dunno what they are doing. ;)
(08:44:52 PM) dkap: You were a good church-key.
(08:44:53 PM) Mistress_Janice: We were going to try to turn around, I believe ifrit were being left in place to investigate the bivouac, negotiations on how many were ongoing when we hung it up last time.
(08:45:23 PM) Cagliostro: yes, that's true
(08:45:29 PM) dkap: I thought you were hopping over a few shadows, gating in some additional Ifrit Backup, and then heading in the other direction?
(08:45:32 PM) Cagliostro: Cagliostro is not in the habit of creating new Ifrit without a real purpose
(08:45:39 PM) Cagliostro: and doesn't carry the real generators aroudn with him
(08:45:43 PM) Cagliostro: yes, that is the plan
(08:45:55 PM) Cagliostro: hopping over a few shadows, gating in some ifrit backup, and then heading in the other direction
(08:47:08 PM) mode (+o dkap) by ChanServ
(08:47:53 PM) dkap: Hrm ... I think I just crashed. Did I miss anything after: Cagliostro: hopping over a few shadows, gating in some ifrit backup, and then heading in the other direction
(08:48:53 PM) Mistress_Janice: Nothing important. Nothing to see there, move along, move along...
(08:49:08 PM) dkap: What?
(08:49:09 PM) dkap: What?
(08:49:33 PM) Cagliostro: moving right along...
(08:49:38 PM) Cagliostro: in the opposite direction.
(08:50:07 PM) Auricle: Yup moving along
(08:50:18 PM) Mistress_Janice: Yes. On the move. Tracking, even.
(08:54:43 PM) dkap: Grr ... I'm going to have to reboot.
(08:54:47 PM) dkap: My machine is freaking out.
(08:54:49 PM) dkap: A moment.
(08:55:47 PM) dkap: Or ... not.
(08:55:53 PM) dkap: Hrm ... another moment if you please.
(08:56:10 PM) Mistress_Janice: Hokay.
(08:57:27 PM) Auricle: I have a very warm cat.
(08:57:42 PM) Mistress_Janice: Hello, cat.
(08:58:07 PM) Auricle: he won't get out of my lap
(08:58:12 PM) Auricle: i have to type over him
(08:59:20 PM) dkap: A warm cat is a good thing?
(08:59:29 PM) dkap: I think I've gotten my machine under control.
(08:59:33 PM) Auricle: oh yes the house is cold
(08:59:42 PM) Auricle: legs falling asleep, not so much
(08:59:44 PM) dkap: Does anyone know what Pulseaudio is, and why it started taking over?
(08:59:55 PM) dkap: I killed it. Brutally. With Malice afore-thought.
(08:59:57 PM) Mistress_Janice: Not I.
(09:00:11 PM) dkap: So I think I'm good.
(09:00:16 PM) dkap: Where were we? Petting cats?
(09:00:45 PM) dkap: How do you know what "several Magical Realms over" is?
(09:00:51 PM) Mistress_Janice: Tracking. In reverse for a while.
(09:00:54 PM) dkap: Or are you just going to ask your Daughter to take you there?
(09:01:13 PM) dkap: I thought you were going to move off the line of travel to get the Ifrit?
(09:05:37 PM) dkap: Right?
(09:05:46 PM) dkap: Or am I confused?
(09:07:07 PM) Mistress_Janice: I would presume those questions are to the Count.
(09:07:41 PM) Mistress_Janice: And can the Ifrit travel Shadow on their own?
(09:08:50 PM) dkap: I don't believe they can.
(09:08:55 PM) dkap: I think he got distracted.
(09:09:40 PM) Mistress_Janice: I hope he's feeling better.
(09:09:54 PM) Cagliostro: back
(09:10:00 PM) Cagliostro: sorry, was helping make dinner
(09:10:09 PM) Cagliostro: yes, daughter to take me there
(09:10:14 PM) dkap: Indeed, what we expected.
(09:10:30 PM) Cagliostro: I think the Ifrit can open gates, but there is much less margin of error if we take the Ifrit back ourselves
(09:10:45 PM) Cagliostro: but definitely gating in off the line of tracking
(09:11:21 PM) dkap: So you are going walk off the line of tracking, or gate there?
(09:11:22 PM) Mistress_Janice: I was more worried that they couldn't get to where you wanted them without the ability to travel from where we were going to summon them. Janice is, of course, willing to detour so we can accomplish this.
(09:11:26 PM) dkap: I'm confused.
(09:14:28 PM) Mistress_Janice: We could walk sideways a bit, bring the ifrit, then gate back to Greater Arden and try to pick up the *other* trail from there. If there is one.
(09:16:24 PM) Cagliostro: walk off the line of tracking, gate in ifrit, destroy presence of the gate, walk back
(09:16:36 PM) Cagliostro: and then return to greater arden - by gate seems like a good idea
(09:16:49 PM) Cagliostro: but probably gate there from off-line place, not directly from biovac place
(09:18:06 PM) dkap: So ... walk left ... gate in Ifrit, walk back to bivoac place, walk right, gate to Greater Arden?
(09:19:53 PM) Cagliostro: yes, good plan
(09:20:21 PM) Cagliostro: levels of paranoia that are common in polite society
(09:20:36 PM) dkap: Good good.
(09:21:23 PM) Mistress_Janice: Wait, why are we walking back to the bivouac to gate back?
(09:21:41 PM) Mistress_Janice: Wouldn't it be safer (less traces) to go back from whatever sideways locale we pick?
(09:21:49 PM) Cagliostro: walk back to biovac, drop off Ifrit, then drop to other sideways location
(09:21:57 PM) Cagliostro: we're making sure the Ifrit end up in the right biovac place
(09:22:04 PM) Cagliostro: and it's not, say, warded against magic or something
(09:23:03 PM) Mistress_Janice: Ahh. Hokay.
(09:23:12 PM) ***Mistress_Janice plays tour guide.
(09:27:19 PM) dkap: Cool ... this then happens. Surprisingly without incident.
(09:28:00 PM) Mistress_Janice: Any trace of a 'forward' trail (or trails, we've postulated more than one trailblazer) from Arden?
(09:29:58 PM) dkap: You reach Greater Arden.
(09:30:01 PM) dkap: Who was left behind?
(09:30:09 PM) dkap: (In Arden) besides the Jager?
(09:31:08 PM) Mistress_Janice: Rangers?
(09:32:06 PM) Cagliostro: yeah, jager and almost all the rangers
(09:32:09 PM) Auricle: rangers and jager
(09:32:23 PM) Auricle: unless jager followed them b/c of their hats
(09:32:44 PM) dkap: Nope.
(09:32:52 PM) dkap: The Jager thought they would stay behind.
(09:33:01 PM) dkap: Because they might lose their hats.
(09:33:04 PM) Cagliostro: the jagers figured what we were doing was dangerous, so they stayed behind to wait for auricle.
(09:33:12 PM) Auricle: ahh nod
(09:33:12 PM) dkap: Even the thought of nailing them in place didn't entice them.
(09:35:32 PM) Mistress_Janice: Scaredy-cats.
(09:35:52 PM) dkap: Possibly.
(09:36:00 PM) dkap: Or a healthy respect for Princess Chandra.
(09:38:38 PM) Auricle: So they are traveling?
(09:38:46 PM) Auricle: Janice and Count?
(09:38:49 PM) Mistress_Janice: I would expect she wouldn't kill them unless she intended to. Anyway... trails?
(09:39:03 PM) Cagliostro: Janice, Count, and Princess Chandra
(09:39:10 PM) Cagliostro: who we brought in to take a look at the thorns
(09:39:13 PM) Cagliostro: she's quite upset with them
(09:43:15 PM) Cagliostro: th ethorns, that is. and their creator.
(09:43:33 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(09:44:00 PM) dkap: So, you are re-arrived in Greater Arden, when the Jager says "Didn't you just come through here?"
(09:44:09 PM) dkap: Seemingly at the Count.
(09:47:53 PM) ***Cagliostro hms.
(09:47:58 PM) Cagliostro: "Explain, please?"
(09:48:13 PM) ***Mistress_Janice goes looking for trails while they dither. :)
(09:50:21 PM) dkap: Jager: You zaw it. (to the nearby ranger)
(09:51:36 PM) dkap: Ranger: Indeed. Someone very much resembling you just ran through here, at pretty much top speed, in that direction (points in the direction that the troops were moving in) shouting something along the lines of "The others will be by soon, I've got to get there first!"
(09:56:09 PM) Cagliostro: "Well, -that- is annoying."
(09:56:46 PM) Cagliostro: "If you know who she is" indicating Princess Chandra, "Then you know I am no impostor."
(09:57:03 PM) Cagliostro: and then I'll set up some recognition codes, but really just informatively, since they don't work for me anyway
(09:57:08 PM) Mistress_Janice: "Was it all of us? Or just the Count?"
(10:08:38 PM) dkap: Ranger: Just the Count, or someone resembling him. I was wondering at the clothing shift.
(10:10:46 PM) Cagliostro: "Can you describe the clothing?"
(10:11:28 PM) dkap: Ranger: More like Zack usually wears, the cloak, tights and tunic look.
(10:13:06 PM) Cagliostro: gm: can I find out how close of a match in appearance they were to me?
(10:13:12 PM) ***Mistress_Janice looks for trails in the direction they pointed.
(10:13:53 PM) dkap: Count, you can pull his memories.
(10:14:02 PM) dkap: There are now two trails going in that direction.
(10:16:57 PM) Mistress_Janice: Is one fresher than the other? Can I tell?
(10:19:06 PM) dkap: Oh, yes, it's obvious.
(10:19:12 PM) dkap: They look different.
(10:20:48 PM) ***Mistress_Janice asks, "Father, shall we follow the older trail or the newer one?" A glance at Chandra, and then, "I... worry that this new development might be a trap. Or some sort of time loop... but you can't *travel* that way on your own." The 'can you?' that follows is strictly to herself.
(10:23:01 PM) Cagliostro: I will indeed pull his memories, but I'll ask first. Indirectly. Hmm... "Please concentrate on what the person who looked like me looked like."
(10:23:20 PM) Cagliostro: and then download the recent memories.
(10:23:43 PM) Cagliostro: emphatically fail to contradict Janice's rhetorical question.
(10:25:44 PM) dkap: Count, you think the Ranger needs to be better trained. He doesn't move like you, really look like you, or even sound like you, except in the most general terms.
(10:26:38 PM) Cagliostro: make a note to find a polite way to let Zach know this.
(10:26:44 PM) Cagliostro: Thank him for his time, and suggest that we move on.
(10:27:18 PM) Mistress_Janice: Which trail?
(10:28:57 PM) Cagliostro: "The fresher trail will be easier to follow, but could lead into a trap. Then again, we don't know who he's trapping."
(10:29:01 PM) Cagliostro: "Either would be interesting."
(10:30:22 PM) Cagliostro: "It depends on whether we're trying to trace the trailblazer or where he was leading us to - I suspect that either one will eventually lead to the other."
(10:30:54 PM) Mistress_Janice: "Well, if it's my choice, I say we try the older trail."
(10:32:17 PM) ***Cagliostro gestures to her to lead and we will follow.
(10:33:00 PM) ***Mistress_Janice sets off to try and follow the older trail.
(10:35:22 PM) dkap: You are familiar with following it up through now.
(10:35:33 PM) dkap: And can still find it's ... flavor, and it's much stronger in this direction.
(10:37:38 PM) ***Mistress_Janice tries to be ready for trouble. This is not a holiday excursion.
(10:38:42 PM) dkap: Always a good thing.
(10:39:35 PM) Cagliostro: once we're in a different shadow...
(10:39:49 PM) dkap: Yes?
(10:39:59 PM) Cagliostro: "I didn't want to say anything when we were there, but that person really didn't look much like me."
(10:40:18 PM) ***Cagliostro conjures a 4" high ceramic figurine that accurately represents the person who came through the rangers.
(10:40:45 PM) Cagliostro: "A fortunate coincidence that his bluff was successful."
(10:41:31 PM) dkap: Princess Chandra does comment that there _is_ a family resemblance ...
(10:41:48 PM) Mistress_Janice: "They did mention he was moving at high speed, as well. And the Jager concurred..."
(10:42:09 PM) Cagliostro: gm: how much does he look like the brother-ish type that Oberon threw in the sandstorm?
(10:42:27 PM) dkap: And if there was a glamour, convincing people that he was someone familiar ... their memory might be accurate, but their impressions of their memory might be clouded ...
(10:42:47 PM) dkap: Somewhat, but not a lot.
(10:42:52 PM) Cagliostro: possible, regarding the glamour.
(10:43:29 PM) Mistress_Janice: We will press on during discussion.
(10:43:41 PM) dkap: Once you are two shadows along the trail, a Jager there approaches you. He's wounded.
(10:43:42 PM) Cagliostro: to Princess Chandra and Janice: "If ... family is involved, and since Colin is not here, I will have to rely on the two of you to keep me on the correct side of my parole."
(10:45:18 PM) Mistress_Janice: OOC: Who's Colin?
(10:45:24 PM) Cagliostro: ooc: Darkstar
(10:46:28 PM) Mistress_Janice: Check the Jager for a glamour.
(10:46:45 PM) dkap: There isn't one.
(10:46:49 PM) dkap: Just a wound.
(10:48:26 PM) Cagliostro: ("Colin" is how he introduced himself to Cagliostro; it appears that he has some awareness of Cagliostro's life and context before his current incarnation.)
(10:48:42 PM) Cagliostro: gm: how serious is the wound?
(10:49:03 PM) Cagliostro: to the jager: "Greetings. What quarry have you found?"
(10:49:32 PM) dkap: Umm ... on anyone else, it would be at least fatal.
(10:49:44 PM) Mistress_Janice: Are the Jager not confined to Arden? How far out do they range? Is it unusual to find him here?
(10:50:41 PM) dkap: The closer to Amber you get, the more Jager there are, but they are Ubiquitus through Shadow now that Auricle redrew it.
(10:51:02 PM) Cagliostro: and Greater Arden is golden circle-ish?
(10:52:01 PM) dkap: Jager: Zere vas no Qvarry, Chust a shop stick.
(10:52:18 PM) Mistress_Janice: Ah, okay.
(10:52:41 PM) dkap: Jager: Zis vun vuz jhust sitting on Auricle's Path avaiting ze return.
(10:53:42 PM) dkap: Jager: Den a shop stick gut schtook into zees pots huff me.
(10:55:17 PM) Cagliostro: gm: try to download the jager's recent memories.
(10:55:32 PM) Cagliostro: "That's very unusual."
(10:56:17 PM) dkap: You've never been successful at getting at Jager memories, their minds don't work right.
(10:57:36 PM) dkap: Jager: Unt I mot chust need schom vixin, schoon.
(10:58:19 PM) Cagliostro: I wasn't sure if I'd tried. I figured it wouldn't work.
(10:58:32 PM) Cagliostro: gm: do I have any idea how to fix him?
(10:59:21 PM) Mistress_Janice: Would standard doctoring work?
(10:59:54 PM) dkap: Not usually. Usually Auricle needs to do something.
(11:00:04 PM) dkap: It's more like a machine-shop, than doctoring.
(11:00:37 PM) Cagliostro: okay.
(11:00:40 PM) Mistress_Janice: Gotcha.
(11:00:56 PM) Cagliostro: "If we see Auricle, we tell her that you are in need of repair."
(11:01:09 PM) Cagliostro: to Janice: "let us continue."
(11:01:17 PM) ***Mistress_Janice continues.
(11:01:41 PM) dkap: Are you taking the Jager in toe? Making sure there is someone to look after him, in case he does become unoperational?
(11:03:03 PM) Cagliostro: No
(11:03:05 PM) Cagliostro: it could be a trap
(11:03:26 PM) Mistress_Janice: Also, we're headed into presumed danger, and he's already badly damaged.
(11:04:46 PM) Cagliostro: speed is important
(11:05:12 PM) Mistress_Janice: Especially at this hour. :/
(11:05:17 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:06:11 PM) Cagliostro: so, yes
(11:06:14 PM) Cagliostro: break till next week?
(11:06:25 PM) Auricle: Okays
(11:06:29 PM) Mistress_Janice: When I think Gleep should get some play time.
(11:06:34 PM) Auricle: lol
(11:06:49 PM) Cagliostro: heh
(11:06:56 PM) dkap: If you are up to it.
(11:07:08 PM) Auricle: We shall see how I'm doing :)
(11:07:12 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(11:07:31 PM) Mistress_Janice: See people at Arisia?
(11:09:23 PM) dkap: Indeed!
(11:09:38 PM) Auricle: I won't be there, but have fun at Arisia!
(11:09:46 PM) Cagliostro: hm, Arisia.
(11:09:49 PM) Cagliostro: no idea.
(11:10:10 PM) dkap: Didn't I used to do a game-run at Arisia?
(11:10:32 PM) ***Mistress_Janice has no idea.
(11:10:47 PM) Mistress_Janice: "I can't give any answer to that that I can recall, Senator."
(11:10:50 PM) dkap: (That's how I got Sam as a player ...)
(11:12:04 PM) Mistress_Janice: Well, feel better, both Sam and Gleep!
(11:12:33 PM) Cagliostro left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).