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Nix says:
Did you get a sex change and not tell me?
Danielle Croft says:
heh
Danielle Croft says:
Would you prefer Allison Crowley?
Nix says:
That's just scary
Danielle Croft says:
heh
Danielle Croft says:
Hey, you up to running a Seeking?
Nix says:
Thae last time I ran a seeking, it turned real ugly.
Danielle Croft says:
how so?
Nix says:
My seekings end up looking like the WoD version of Yellow Submarine. 
Danielle Croft says:
that's okay
Nix says:
or Naked Lunch
Danielle Croft says:
As long as you can teach Allison that Violence Is Not The Answer
Danielle Croft says:
And anything else you think she needs to learn
Nix says:
Some Humility
Danielle Croft says:
I'm thinking of having her start to petition for Akashic Brotherhood
Danielle Croft says:
But she needs something to give her a Zen kick in the arse
Nix says:
Maybe I could have Buddah sit on her head for a COUPLE OF DAYS.
Danielle Croft says:
heh
Danielle Croft says:
but seriously, you up to it?
Danielle Croft says:
Like....now?
Nix says:
sure
Nix says:
To review: what events have lead to this point?
Allison Crowley says:
Why is she in a Seeking?
Nix says:
That's the million doller question, yes.
Allison Crowley says:
Because her Avatar, whom she has always fought head on, has merged peacefully with Traci
Allison Crowley says:
And although Traci is unconcsious, Allison is experiencing a duality that has driven her into a Quiet, where her Avatar (who has newly found 'The Way'...I'm gonna try to buy off his nasty possession habit) is trying to get her to see the light
Allison Crowley says:
Of course, he's still Fallen.....but he's working on it
Allison Crowley says:
I was gonna buy it down to just 'annoying voices' in her head
Nix says:
Alrighty
Allison Crowley says:
Ever watch Farscape?
Nix says:
Allison is wandering around downtown new york in a hit of a haze. Not surprisingly, no on earound her is paying any attention.
Allison Crowley says:
<goes up to someone, waves hand in front of eyes> HELLO!
Nix says:
They don't notice you
Allison Crowley says:
I grab someone
Nix says:
Your hand passes through them as if they don't really exist.
Allison Crowley says:
FUCK!
Allison Crowley says:
Hey Sammael, where the fuck are you!
Allison Crowley says:
What the hell is going on?
Nix says:
You hear a voice very close behind you. Very close. "You don't have to yell vulgarities. That won't get you anywhere."
Allison Crowley says:
<spins around>
Allison Crowley says:
(what do I see?)
Nix says:
You see (of all people) Buddah.
Allison Crowley says:
Buddah?
Nix says:
Fat smiling and 6 stories tall.
Allison Crowley says:
<bows> I bow before your, uh...oh fuck it. What are you doing here?
Nix says:
"I'm here to show you the path of peace and humility child"
Allison Crowley says:
Ok. Why?
Nix says:
"Well, child I wouldn't even be here if your violent nature hadn't put you here."
Allison Crowley says:
So? What's wrong with violence?
Allison Crowley says:
Solves everything, violence.
Nix says:
"This is what happens when you fight, you become alienated from the people around you." (he's shrunk down now about 4 ft tall cuz he's sitting in the lotus flower position.)
Allison Crowley says:
What do you mean? I saved Wu's bacon, and Traci and I are getting along just fine since we got out differences out in the open!
Allison Crowley says:
(heh...yeah right)
Nix says:
"And what have you got to show for it? where are your companions now?"
Allison Crowley says:
Uh,,,unconscious and with a broken arm...
Allison Crowley says:
But that's NOT my.....
Allison Crowley says:
hmm....
Allison Crowley says:
I suppose it is, from one point of view
Allison Crowley says:
If I'd been able to control that sphere better, Wu wouldn't have fallen
Allison Crowley says:
And broken her arm
Allison Crowley says:
And Traci wouldn't have fallen to the werewolves
Allison Crowley says:
And Gemini wouldn't be unconscious, because she wouldn't have had to overexert herself to save Traci
Allison Crowley says:
Hmm...
Allison Crowley says:
Okay, you've got a point.
Allison Crowley says:
I need to learn control
Allison Crowley says:
Just one question: where's Sammael?
Nix says:
" He wishes not to speak with you right now."
Allison Crowley says:
WHAT??
Allison Crowley says:
He's the one who's been driving me INSANE for the past year
Allison Crowley says:
HE'S the one who needs to learn CONTROL
Allison Crowley says:
!
Nix says:
"Is he?"
Allison Crowley says:
He keeps possessing me!
Nix says:
" Then why do you wish to speak with him?"
Allison Crowley says:
Uh.....
Allison Crowley says:
Force of habit, I guess
Allison Crowley says:
So, you're his replacement, huh?
Allison Crowley says:
Okay. Teach me.
Nix says:
"I am not his replacement, you will have to deal with him when the time comes. I am here to teach you what you need to learn so that you will not fall as he has."
Allison Crowley says:
Fair enough
Allison Crowley says:
Although, you have to admit, Lucifer DID have a point
Allison Crowley says:
But as I've said before...arguing with anyone more powerful than yourself is stupid
Allison Crowley says:
So....lead on, MacDuff
Nix says:
"You have noticed that you cannot intereact with anyone here. yes?"
Allison Crowley says:
yeah
Nix says:
"Why do you suppose that is?"
Allison Crowley says:
Hmm...gimme a sec
Allison Crowley says:
Because I'm not really here, or because they don't want to interact with me because I'm a violent magical psycopath who lives outside of normal society and has a lot of trouble interacting normally with anyone, even my friends?
Nix says:
"Both are true, but is is the latter which you must learn."
Allison Crowley says:
ok
Allison Crowley says:
So....how do I learn social skills from a fat, reclusive monk?
Nix says:
"Already you have failed to grasp what I have to teach."
Nix says:
"Insults are not a good way to make friends"
Allison Crowley says:
I wasn't insulting you, sir
Allison Crowley says:
I was merely attempting subtlety
Allison Crowley says:
To point out that you yourself do not interact with people normally
Allison Crowley says:
Nor did you in life
Nix says:
"that is because, I am dead."
Nix says:
"I sought self-communion in order to understand the universe."
Allison Crowley says:
In other words, you were a reclusive monk.
Allison Crowley says:
So how can you teach me social skills when we have the same fu..err...problems?
Nix says:
"Yes, that much is true, but the term 'fat' needed not to be applied in your statement."
Allison Crowley says:
sorry
Allison Crowley says:
I just have a bad tendency for blunt honesty, I suppose
Nix says:
"Honesty is a noble quality, but ther is a time and place for all things."
Allison Crowley says:
Yeah, well....why lie?
Allison Crowley says:
After all, do not lies distort the truth, which is the highest order of things?
Nix says:
"I'm not here to teach you 'social skills' I am here to teach you peace, and humility so that you can better interact with the rest of the world. No person is an island."
Allison Crowley says:
okay
Nix says:
"although you seem determined to be one."
Allison Crowley says:
Rather, some are, but they shouldn't be, or at least have a boat to reach other islands/people, right?
Allison Crowley says:
Nevermind me, I'm just babbling
Allison Crowley says:
I think the stress is kicking in
Allison Crowley says:
Do you ever get stressed, Buddha?
Allison Crowley says:
I do...a lot....and I take it out with violence
Allison Crowley says:
Very cathartic, violence, but as you noted, it causes even more problems, and therefore stress.....
Allison Crowley says:
<deep breath> Okay. I'm better.
Nix says:
"More can be learned in silence than can be in constant noise."
Allison Crowley says:
<nods>
Allison Crowley says:
<listens to her surroundings>
Allison Crowley says:
(what do I hear...I'm closing my eyes and concentrating
Allison Crowley says:
)
Nix says:
You don't hear anything, and for the first time you realize that you havn't heard any background noise since you arrived here.
Allison Crowley says:
(BTW we only have another hour and a bit)
Allison Crowley says:
I sit in the lotus and meditate
Nix says:
Just the sound of your own voice and that of Buddah.
Allison Crowley says:
I try to listen to myself
Allison Crowley says:
To my inner self
Nix says:
Who is Allison on the inside?
Nix says:
The ST can't define that, only tweak the players definition.
Allison Crowley says:
okay
Allison Crowley says:
what do you mean?
Nix says:
"What do you hear child?"
Allison Crowley says:
(ah, ok)
Allison Crowley says:
I hear...rushing water
Allison Crowley says:
powerful, yet deep
Allison Crowley says:
endless mysteries, older than time itself
Allison Crowley says:
I sense...a presence...Sammael...running through the water
Allison Crowley says:
Like....
Allison Crowley says:
hmm....
Allison Crowley says:
(listens some more)
Allison Crowley says:
Like some primal elemental.....
Allison Crowley says:
at one with the water, and able to exert control, yet.....
Allison Crowley says:
(reaches out a finger, hooks it on something imaginary)
Nix says:
" The river is mighty, but it stays a set course, constant and un erring."
Allison Crowley says:
Yet still, the water is in control of it, for it must obey its element
Allison Crowley says:
<mutters> "so that's how I can control him"
Allison Crowley says:
(doesn't appear to be listening to Buddha anymore)
Allison Crowley says:
And...
Allison Crowley says:
There is a malleability to the water....yes.....
Allison Crowley says:
Now the water is fire, racing across a forest
Allison Crowley says:
flexible, mercurial, swift, and destructive
Allison Crowley says:
Yet, when a fire runs out of things to burn, it dies
Nix says:
You hear a voice from the fire: "Hello Allison."
Allison Crowley says:
Hmm....that's no good....."Hello?"
Allison Crowley says:
(is it Sammael, or Buddha?)
Nix says:
You she the shadowed figure of Sammael in the fire."
Allison Crowley says:
"Sammael....I don't want to die."
Allison Crowley says:
"What should we become? Not water, not fire....
Allison Crowley says:
Not stagnant earth....
Allison Crowley says:
NO! We shall become the wind, my friend
Allison Crowley says:
(exerts mental muscles, fails)
Allison Crowley says:
Help me become the wind, old friend, and let us join in harmony
Nix says:
"Stop trying so hard Allison, just let it happen"
Allison Crowley says:
Teach me control, the joyous song of har...what?
Allison Crowley says:
But....the Will....
Nix says:
"Why do you fight?"
Nix says:
"Is it because I am Fallen?"
Allison Crowley says:
No....it is because of the Will
Allison Crowley says:
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law. Love under will."
Allison Crowley says:
Wait....I see
Allison Crowley says:
Of course. I feel so stupid
Allison Crowley says:
(she embraces Sammael, having realized that it is LOVE, not Will, which is above all....Love under Will, not Will without love)
Allison Crowley says:
Sammael?
Nix says:
"Yes?"
Allison Crowley says:
I love you, Sammael
Nix says:
(You're gonna have to fill me in on this whole buisness)
Allison Crowley says:
(what do you mean? The Will stuff?)
Allison Crowley says:
(Okay. Her Nature is Competitor, and that quote is the rule that Aleister Crowley lived by. She tries to emulate him, the only member of the family who respects what he accomplished)
Nix says:
(She's joining with Sammael, who is her Fallen lover?)
Allison Crowley says:
(not her lover......her Avatar)
Allison Crowley says:
(and he is, in turn, joined with Traci's Avatar)
Allison Crowley says:
(You might want to run a Seeking for Alicia if she gets on before I do)
Nix says:
(That's the wiredest menage a trois I've ever heard of.
Nix says:
)
Allison Crowley says:
(yeah)
Allison Crowley says:
(and it's a menage a quatre)
Nix says:
(oh geez)
Nix says:
(Is Alicia in Quiet?)
Allison Crowley says:
(not yet....)
Nix says:
(Ok then she needs to get there if I'm running a Seeking for her.)
Allison Crowley says:
(She's too unconscious to be in Quiet...as soon as she regains consciousness, though......)
Nix says:
(ok)
Nix says:
(Back to the game)
Allison Crowley says:
(I plan on opening the game with Gemini and Allison coming around, finally, and Gemini--presumably--healing Wu and Trace, whereupon Traci goes into Quiet)
Nix says:
(ok)
Nix says:
(Well, we'll see how the roll comes out)
Allison Crowley says:
(So....when she embraces Sammael, does she become the wind?)
Nix says:
(yeah I think that'd work)
Allison Crowley says:
She opens her eyes, staring blankly, with only white showing
Allison Crowley says:
And says, to Buddha
Allison Crowley says:
"I am the wind. I am patience. The wind is eternal. The wind never dies, merely rests. The wind does not destroy, except when the time is right. The wind caresses all. It is everwhere, and loved by all."
Allison Crowley says:
"I am the wind, and the fire, and the water. I am not yet the earth. I am the wind."
Nix says:
"Becareful my child, the path you are now on is strange to you and as with all things is frought with peril, but you have learned well." And with that, Buddah disappears and you find yourself sitting at a table outside of the Cafe Metropolitan out side of the MET.
Nix says:
A Cafe Mocha in your hand and a waiter staring at you asking you if you want anything else
Allison Crowley says:
Yes. I would like a rasberry strudel.
Nix says:
"Very well madame" and he disappears into the kicthen
Allison Crowley says:
I push the Mocha away, not being a coffee drinker
Nix says:
You hear the echoing voice of Sammeal in your head: "We are the wind"
Allison Crowley says:
And sit, waiting patiently
Allison Crowley says:
(OOC: WHATTHEFUCK???!!!)
Nix says:
(what?)
Allison Crowley says:
(the whole cafe thing)
Nix says:
(Just because you're in Quiet dosn't mean that you don't function in the outside world) 
Nix says:
(albiet mindlessly)
Allison Crowley says:
(Ah
Allison Crowley says:
)
Allison Crowley says:
(gonna be a bitch to find her)
Allison Crowley says:
When the waiter returns, I order a tea, raspberry if they have it, and wait. They will arrive.
Nix says:
The waiter reappears with your tea and studel
Nix says:
strudel
Allison Crowley says:
(So, does that wrap things up?)
Nix says:
Yeah, you fee like you've done what neede to be done/
Nix says:
?
Nix says:
Of course, now you have to find your friends
Allison Crowley says:
yeah
Allison Crowley says:
heh
Nix says:
But we'll take care of that tonight hopefuly
Allison Crowley says:
Wu has spybots
Allison Crowley says:
I'm not worried
Allison Crowley says:
So, xp, great and mighty Storyteller?
Nix says:
Since you pretty much figured out what you had to do without much coaxing I'll give you 1d10 for the whole thing. Roll and record.
Allison Crowley says:
sweet
Allison Crowley says:
8
Nix says:
I don't like assigning a set amout of XP, I like to see what the dice say.
Nix says:
cool
Allison Crowley says:
That leaves me at only -3
Allison Crowley says:
Which I'll gain tonight
Nix says:
It's a big step in the right direction.
Allison Crowley says:
yep
Allison Crowley says:
EVENTUALLY she'll be able to buy up things like her Charisma, too
Allison Crowley says:
 
Nix says:
Now, as for alicia's character, I think I will hyave Buddah sit on her head
Allison Crowley says:
heheheh
Nix says:
So, are we going to record this for posterior?
Allison Crowley says:
oh, yeah
Nix says:
ok, you do that