(9:49:55 PM) You have just entered room "AND."
(9:49:59 PM) AndrewRogue has entered the room.
(9:50:01 PM) Adm H Sopko has entered the room.
(9:50:03 PM) coughingpuppy has entered the room.
AndrewRogue (9:50:08 PM): Waaait, dog walking necessary!
coughingpuppy (9:50:11 PM): Kirk has a fire alarm, he'll be a couple of minutes.
SirAlexTheFirst (9:50:44 PM): All righty then.
AndrewRogue (9:50:53 PM): And I need to dog waaaalky!
Adm H Sopko (9:51:28 PM): ::Continues watching RahXephon::
AndrewRogue (9:51:49 PM): So ya'll made it back okay?
coughingpuppy (9:52:32 PM): Yep, just fine. Made it back very sleepily and crashed.
AndrewRogue (9:52:54 PM): Yay! Good to hear!
AndrewRogue (9:53:43 PM): Need to wait a minute or three for a phone call, then dog walky. Grr...
(9:58:53 PM) blaine077713770 has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst (9:59:09 PM): We're waiting because Kirk has a fire alarm and Andrew is dog walking
blaine077713770 (9:59:20 PM): aha
blaine077713770 (9:59:26 PM): I hate fire alarms
coughingpuppy (10:00:43 PM): I hate it when people burn popcorn.
blaine077713770 (10:01:10 PM): That's why you guys have fire alarms in the HC...elsewhere its usually because someone pulls it.
blaine077713770 (10:03:42 PM): I have to read to my little sister, be back in a few.
Adm H Sopko (10:04:28 PM): I've forgotten how wierd this show is
SirAlexTheFirst (10:09:32 PM): RX?
(10:09:35 PM) Sarcazmo47 has entered the room.
Sarcazmo47 (10:09:41 PM): ZONK!
SirAlexTheFirst (10:09:47 PM): I watched about 6 episodes of that one time.
Sarcazmo47 (10:10:06 PM): Thank Jesus, we have just been saved from smelling someone else's burnt chicken nuggets/
Adm H Sopko (10:10:10 PM): It's a shameless ripoff of Eva... and Bones doesn't deny this
SirAlexTheFirst (10:10:12 PM): It was.... very, very odd. And felt really heavily like an Eva ripoff.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:10:33 PM): It was also extremely boring, but maybe the movie is different.
Adm H Sopko (10:10:34 PM): It succeeds in being much, much more creepy and atmospheric than Eva
Sarcazmo47 (10:11:11 PM): Use the Force.
Sarcazmo47 (10:11:15 PM): Pull your nine.
Sarcazmo47 (10:11:18 PM): Kick some ass.
Adm H Sopko (10:11:26 PM): It's not quite as good though... replacing the cool strategies and plans are weapons that the RahXephon pulls out of it's ass...
blaine077713770 (10:11:35 PM): Back, yo.
Sarcazmo47 (10:11:47 PM): Okay, so. Everyone here?
Sarcazmo47 (10:11:52 PM): Stay on target?
Adm H Sopko (10:11:59 PM): You're too close!
Sarcazmo47 (10:12:06 PM): Stay on target!
Adm H Sopko (10:12:07 PM): Loosen up!
Sarcazmo47 (10:12:17 PM): Almost there...
SirAlexTheFirst (10:12:23 PM): Waiting on Andrew.
Adm H Sopko (10:12:37 PM): Andy sent me a PrC already...
Sarcazmo47 (10:12:37 PM): Paunch.
blaine077713770 (10:12:39 PM): Pull out
Sarcazmo47 (10:12:42 PM): Oh?
Sarcazmo47 (10:13:00 PM): Lemme see this bugger.
*OnlineHost* (10:14:18 PM): blaine077713770 rolled 1 999-sided die: 706
blaine077713770 (10:14:41 PM): does a 12 hit?
blaine077713770 (10:14:46 PM): *chuckle*
Sarcazmo47 (10:16:27 PM): Hmm.
Sarcazmo47 (10:16:44 PM): I'd say 4+ instead of 6+....or at least, I'd suggest it.
Adm H Sopko (10:19:41 PM): This would take some massive roleplaying not only to play, but just to justify getting as well.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:20:21 PM): I think you all are talking about something that I am totally missing out on here.
Adm H Sopko (10:20:47 PM): Andy wrote up that PrC idea on the plane
Sarcazmo47 (10:20:48 PM): Yes.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:20:52 PM): May I see it?
Sarcazmo47 (10:20:54 PM): It's a plot to kill you.
blaine077713770 (10:23:00 PM): How about a plot to get on with the dice rolling....err...the roleplaying.
Adm H Sopko (10:23:27 PM): Bah... it's not sending
SirAlexTheFirst (10:23:32 PM): No, it's not
Sarcazmo47 (10:24:37 PM): There we go.
AndrewRogue (10:24:44 PM): Back'd
Sarcazmo47 (10:24:48 PM): I got the hook-up.
Sarcazmo47 (10:25:14 PM): Andew will now be forevermore known as the Newark Petitioner.
AndrewRogue (10:25:19 PM): Six hour plane trips equal productiveness!
Adm H Sopko (10:25:30 PM): BAH
Adm H Sopko (10:25:43 PM): Just when I buy Blazing Saddles they come out with an awesome special edition
Sarcazmo47 (10:25:55 PM): You know what that is, Sopko?
Sarcazmo47 (10:26:00 PM): That is God fisting you.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:26:16 PM): You are aware that this PrC is abbreviated "Moan", right?
Adm H Sopko (10:26:27 PM): Yes... I thought that rather humorous
AndrewRogue (10:26:59 PM): ...mrr on you! Abbreviate it TMoAaN :p
Adm H Sopko (10:27:09 PM): Where is Puumba?
Sarcazmo47 (10:27:28 PM): Where is the level 6 Archmage?
SirAlexTheFirst (10:27:44 PM): People use Archmage?
SirAlexTheFirst (10:27:53 PM): To level 6?
AndrewRogue (10:27:53 PM): MK > AM
Sarcazmo47 (10:27:54 PM): Where, oh where, is my level 8 Blademaster?
Sarcazmo47 (10:28:06 PM): WHERE IS MY PANDARAN BREWMASTER?
SirAlexTheFirst (10:28:08 PM): Paladin or MK, my friends, Paladin or MK.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:28:21 PM): Where is my Warden?
AndrewRogue (10:28:30 PM): Paladin + MK = Sexy
SirAlexTheFirst (10:28:33 PM): Blink.
blaine077713770 (10:28:34 PM): where is the D&D?
Adm H Sopko (10:28:36 PM): Screw you Wardens! WE ARE THE CRUSADERS!
SirAlexTheFirst (10:28:38 PM): Flurry of Knives.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:28:45 PM): Oh look, your worker line is gone.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:28:51 PM): Anyways.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:28:53 PM): Game!
Adm H Sopko (10:28:56 PM): INVADE THE INNER SPHERE
Sarcazmo47 (10:28:56 PM): GAME
Sarcazmo47 (10:29:06 PM): I call the Daishi.
Adm H Sopko (10:29:08 PM): KILL THE PERVERTERS OF PARADISE!
SirAlexTheFirst (10:29:11 PM): ~~~~~~BEGIN~~~~~~
AndrewRogue (10:29:54 PM): (BEGUN!)
SirAlexTheFirst (10:29:54 PM): Whittyre or Verity's House?
SirAlexTheFirst (10:29:59 PM): Pick a spot.
Sarcazmo47 (10:30:01 PM): *says nothing*
*OnlineHost* (10:30:11 PM): AndrewRogue rolled 1 2-sided die: 2
AndrewRogue (10:30:15 PM): Verity's!
blaine077713770 (10:30:16 PM): Whittyre
AndrewRogue (10:30:42 PM): Fine. Whittyre!
Adm H Sopko (10:30:46 PM): Whittyre
SirAlexTheFirst (10:31:10 PM): 3 for Whittyre, 2 for Verity's, and no word from Stacmistress....
coughingpuppy (10:31:48 PM): I'm okay with whatever.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:32:13 PM): Whittyre, then.
AndrewRogue (10:33:14 PM): Whittyre!
SirAlexTheFirst (10:33:29 PM): Anytime
AndrewRogue (10:33:44 PM): We just discovered we were being covered by the church for our meal. Suit dude got up and left. We were doing the same.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:34:01 PM): Aye. Going out of the restaurant.
Adm H Sopko (10:34:08 PM): ::Pretty much now they are heading down the road back to the hotel::
Sarcazmo47 (10:34:26 PM): Enhanced Potato was good.
AndrewRogue (10:35:27 PM): Indeed. Porridge was yummy too! *Aria is actually attempting to use the teleporter panel thingies... but taking it slow*
Adm H Sopko (10:35:59 PM): ::As is Hunter, he seems to be having fun with it though::
SirAlexTheFirst (10:36:03 PM): Rather disorienting, I'd think
SirAlexTheFirst (10:36:28 PM): Where are you going?
Adm H Sopko (10:36:50 PM): Back to the hotel to dissolve our culture shock
AndrewRogue (10:36:55 PM): To the church/hotel
SirAlexTheFirst (10:36:56 PM): Hotel?
SirAlexTheFirst (10:37:02 PM): Church.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:37:11 PM): Do you know where it is from here?
Adm H Sopko (10:37:26 PM): Can't we just take the same way back?
*OnlineHost* (10:37:33 PM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
Sarcazmo47 (10:37:37 PM): Yes.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:38:16 PM): All right then.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:38:24 PM): So you get back to your rooms, and?
AndrewRogue (10:38:44 PM): "Mmm... how do people manage to do this..." *more to herself than anything* (I thought we were going to try and speak with the priests...)
Adm H Sopko (10:38:52 PM): (Yeah...)
AndrewRogue (10:39:21 PM): (Then we are! We enter the church through the front door to seek priests to speak about this account coverage thing.)
Sarcazmo47 (10:40:08 PM): ((Bandon begins to regain physical solidity again as he develops a character sheet))
SirAlexTheFirst (10:40:22 PM): All right. It seems to be empty; the stained glass windows and pews are as beautiful as before, but there's nobody around.
Adm H Sopko (10:42:00 PM): ::Hunter walks through the church area slowly:: "Odd... the temples are usually busier than this..."
AndrewRogue (10:42:26 PM): (Yay for character sheets and physical solidities!) *she looks over to Hunter* "Maybe they don't have evening prayers?"
blaine077713770 (10:43:21 PM): (only evil people pray at night...because darkness and evil are really schweet.....)
AndrewRogue (10:45:09 PM): *She looks around to see if there's a door or something that might lead elsewhere* "Do you suppose they have offices like Father Joe?"
Adm H Sopko (10:45:53 PM): "Maybe... but barging into them wouldn't make the best impression."
SirAlexTheFirst (10:45:59 PM): You don't see any doors around this area. There seemed to be some when you were passing the second floor in those tubes, though.
AndrewRogue (10:47:16 PM): "You have a point... but they must have somewhere to recieve guests." *she smiles weakly* "Besides, I don't think they'll be happy to know we're using their... account-thing."
Sarcazmo47 (10:48:32 PM): "We could knock."
SirAlexTheFirst (10:49:28 PM): You could.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:49:30 PM): Will you?
AndrewRogue (10:49:44 PM): *she nods* "They couldn't really fault us for trying to set this straight. But we should try before it gets much later." *and begins walking towards the neat tube thing*
SirAlexTheFirst (10:50:53 PM): How far up are you going?
SirAlexTheFirst (10:51:20 PM): Second floor is a hallway full of doors; it doesn't look like the room doors on the third floor. The tube does continue up after 3, though.
AndrewRogue (10:51:27 PM): Floor 2, Priest Offices. Or waiting for Soppy.
Adm H Sopko (10:51:36 PM): I'm here.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:52:01 PM): Well then.
AndrewRogue (10:52:25 PM): (Be louder then Soppy ^_^)
SirAlexTheFirst (10:52:44 PM): The doors on the second floor aren't labeled. There are six of them along the sides, and one at the end of the hall.
Adm H Sopko (10:53:58 PM): ::Hunter moves about halfway down the hallway, looking at all the doors in thought::
AndrewRogue (10:54:01 PM): *she'll walk up to the first door and... looking hesitant... knock-knowck*
SirAlexTheFirst (10:56:16 PM): At Aria's knock, the door spirals outwards into its frame, leaving the doorway empty. The priest you saw earlier is standing at the back of this room, which looks like an office with several unidentifiable implements in it.
SirAlexTheFirst (10:56:31 PM): He's looking out the windows on the back wall, and still wearing the black glasses.
AndrewRogue (10:56:59 PM): "Gyee..." *steps back, startled by the door's unusual movement*
Adm H Sopko (10:57:21 PM): ::Turns around to face Aria as he hears the knock on the door, stepping up beside her::
AndrewRogue (10:58:48 PM): *hesitantly* "Uh... excuse me? Sir?"
SirAlexTheFirst (10:59:33 PM): His head lowers. "Yes?"
AndrewRogue (11:00:46 PM): "We're really sorry to bother you but... ah... when we tried to pay for our meal it said that it was... that it was already paid for by the Church of Gabriel, right Hunter?"
Adm H Sopko (11:00:56 PM): "Yes, it was."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:02:02 PM): "What?" He turns around now, wearing an expression of concern, and maybe anger. "Who put you on that account?"
AndrewRogue (11:02:43 PM): "I... we have no idea. We didn't even know about these account things..."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:04:32 PM): He doesn't let her finish. "Look, I wanted as little to do with you... people... as possible, but if you got put on the account, that's siphoning funds we need. Just what the hell ARE you doing here, and why?"
Sarcazmo47 (11:05:12 PM): Bandon quirks his head slightly to the side. "What do you mean, brother?"
Sarcazmo47 (11:05:40 PM): "Has a reputation preceeded us?"
SirAlexTheFirst (11:06:19 PM): "You're the... you killed Called."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:06:25 PM): He seems to be restraining himself.
Adm H Sopko (11:06:46 PM): ::Hunter wouldn't be surprised if one has, but he IS surprised he doesn't know why they're here... Brother Joe knew, the church in Penobscot did... why not here?::
Sarcazmo47 (11:06:56 PM): Bandon is totally not understanding that one.
AndrewRogue (11:07:30 PM): "Called... wasn't he..." *trails off and goes quiet*
Adm H Sopko (11:07:46 PM): ::At the mentioning of Called, the realization hits him:: "Called... yes... he is dead... but we did not kill him." ::He steps forward:: "Leave them out this... I was the only one present when that occured"
SirAlexTheFirst (11:08:47 PM): "Really. Get the hell out of my office. And the rest of you tell me why you're here."
Adm H Sopko (11:09:06 PM): ::He stays standing there:: "No."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:09:45 PM): "..." You can hear the dots.
Adm H Sopko (11:10:12 PM): "Are you even aware of what happened, sir?"
AndrewRogue (11:10:51 PM): *stands quietly behind Hunter*
SirAlexTheFirst (11:12:45 PM): "Called hired a group of mercenaries to guard him during travel. They didn't guard him, enemies attacked, Called died. Now tell me why you're here, aside from being my own personal missionary of whining justification:
SirAlexTheFirst (11:12:46 PM): "
Sarcazmo47 (11:13:12 PM): This man can make a will save against Calm Emotions.
Adm H Sopko (11:13:29 PM): "So you know what happened. Why, then, should I justify my actions to you?"
*OnlineHost* (11:13:33 PM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 6
Sarcazmo47 (11:13:57 PM): DC 22.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:14:03 PM): Some of the starch metal rodness goes out of his spine. "It doesn't matter. Just tell me what you're doing here."
Adm H Sopko (11:15:49 PM): "What we were told to do by both Lester and Nellix. Search the world for the pillars, see how they connect, and pursue them. This is why Called brought the original group together, and both Bandon and Arianna here have
Adm H Sopko (11:16:13 PM): come on board since then."
AndrewRogue (11:17:01 PM): *nods in assent* "Right."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:17:52 PM): "And you are here, and using our money, why?" *bland frown*
AndrewRogue (11:19:15 PM): "That's why we came up here to see someone. We... well, I'm positive the church shouldn't be covering our meal expenses."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:20:21 PM): He starts nodding. "To see who, exactly?"
AndrewRogue (11:22:24 PM): "Er... we... don't know whose in charge here. We just thought someone here needed to know it was happening..." *she smiles weakly* "I didn't even know you needed these accounts to pay for things."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:24:10 PM): "Well, how else are you going to pay for things? With hammered out pieces of rock containing virtual value? Really, now. I'll take you off the account... but you still haven't told me why you're here."
AndrewRogue (11:25:19 PM): *she turns a bit red at him describing money and defers to Hunter* "Er... you explain it..."
Adm H Sopko (11:27:23 PM): ::He nods:: "We're here because we need help in our search. We obviously don't know much about this country, and you would know more about the local goings-on than we do. W investigating into any major, strange occurances
Adm H Sopko (11:28:34 PM): that've happened lately. If you choose to help us, it would speed our stay here, which at the time seems preferable to you. We still intend to carry on our business anyway."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:30:37 PM): "Fine. I don't know anything about unusual goings on, unless you want a description of what happened at the last fundraiser dinner. Go ask around at the National Labs. They cover all the investigation stuff."
AndrewRogue (11:32:13 PM): "...what happened at the last fundraiser dinner?" *she fails to stop the stupid question*
SirAlexTheFirst (11:34:04 PM): He almost laughs, but stops himself. "A few homonculi got loose, and ate all the cake, so when we dropped the veil, there they were sitting on the platter. I think the guests thought it was funny, though."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:34:11 PM): "We never told them we had cake, anyways.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:34:13 PM): "
Sarcazmo47 (11:35:19 PM): "Will we be needing guest passes of some sort at the National Labs?"
AndrewRogue (11:35:29 PM): *she stifles a giggle*
SirAlexTheFirst (11:36:23 PM): "Oh, no. Just walk in and tell them that you're looking for pillars because the gods told you to."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:36:30 PM): This advice is accompanied by a sage nod.
AndrewRogue (11:37:10 PM): ...detect sarcasm!
SirAlexTheFirst (11:37:29 PM): Going to roll for that, or using a spell?
Sarcazmo47 (11:37:30 PM): Bandon smiles, walks over to him, and hands him a large cookie.
*OnlineHost* (11:37:34 PM): AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
SirAlexTheFirst (11:37:52 PM): He's perfectly serious. And he takes the cookie. "Thanks!"
Sarcazmo47 (11:39:08 PM): Bandon nods. "Anytime, Brother. I must say, you seem very restrained for one of Gabriel's."
*OnlineHost* (11:39:20 PM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 7
SirAlexTheFirst (11:39:49 PM): "Thank you. Thank you very much. Did I mention I loved Called?"
AndrewRogue (11:40:36 PM): *all sense of mirth fades from her face*
AndrewRogue (11:43:50 PM): *she turns away slightly, not quite meeting his gaze* "I think I'm going... going to head up to my room. Thank you Sir."
SirAlexTheFirst (11:45:57 PM): He nods.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:47:06 PM): And waits for people to clear out, or say something.
Adm H Sopko (11:47:11 PM): ::Hunter looks down a bit, still a bit disappointed in himself over Called's death:: "For what it is worth, I am sorry."
Sarcazmo47 (11:47:22 PM): Bandon shakes the man's hand and follows Aria.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:48:27 PM): To the rooms?
Sarcazmo47 (11:48:33 PM): Yep.
Adm H Sopko (11:48:43 PM): Unless the man has anything else to say, yep
SirAlexTheFirst (11:49:12 PM): He doesn't. So.
blaine077713770 (11:49:28 PM): night guys...gotta sleep
(11:49:40 PM) blaine077713770 has left the room.
AndrewRogue (11:50:07 PM): So to the tubes and the third floor.
Adm H Sopko (11:50:11 PM): Yep
SirAlexTheFirst (11:50:13 PM): Indeed.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:51:18 PM): Anyone saying anything, or just going to sleep?
Adm H Sopko (11:51:51 PM): Guilty sleepage
SirAlexTheFirst (11:52:41 PM): Okay.
AndrewRogue (11:52:48 PM): (Unless Bandon is feeling particularly Sappy, Aria is subdued enough to just go to bed)
SirAlexTheFirst (11:53:51 PM): Bandon?
Sarcazmo47 (11:54:13 PM): Bandon is going to go to bed.
AndrewRogue (11:54:18 PM): Bed!
Sarcazmo47 (11:54:20 PM): And wake up with a completed character sheet.
AndrewRogue (11:54:30 PM): Send that to me when you're done.
AndrewRogue (11:54:52 PM): (Ahem, anyway, to morning! And better playing!)
SirAlexTheFirst (11:55:00 PM): Yes please.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:55:10 PM): Do we want to cut to the Liadon household, or continue here?
Sarcazmo47 (11:55:17 PM): Ooo!
Sarcazmo47 (11:55:18 PM): Ooo!
SirAlexTheFirst (11:55:57 PM): Oo oo ooo?
SirAlexTheFirst (11:56:00 PM): Okay then.
AndrewRogue (11:56:05 PM): I'll defer to the others. I'm personally for switching so we can like, gather our thoughts on this side and quit sucking.
AndrewRogue (11:56:11 PM): Or I can at least <_<
Adm H Sopko (11:56:12 PM): Go ahead and cut
SirAlexTheFirst (11:56:16 PM): So.
Sarcazmo47 (11:56:22 PM): So.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:56:24 PM): Back at the ranch.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:56:30 PM): One mob has been disposed of.
Sarcazmo47 (11:56:41 PM): Where the deer and the antelope play.
Sarcazmo47 (11:56:51 PM): Are there any antelope, by the way?
SirAlexTheFirst (11:56:56 PM): There are.
Sarcazmo47 (11:57:02 PM): Outstanding.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:57:07 PM): When do people go to bed that evening?
Sarcazmo47 (11:57:32 PM): Yes, Verity is pulling the grass-stains + dirty + apron + straw hat look.
Sarcazmo47 (11:57:39 PM): It works quite well.
coughingpuppy (11:58:09 PM): Aurelia is reordering anything the woman who went into the house might have misplaced.
Sarcazmo47 (11:58:24 PM): Sleep happens when it's too dark to work.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:58:32 PM): She threw a couple of chairs around, nothing more.
SirAlexTheFirst (11:59:33 PM): After it's dark, and people have eaten and gone to bed, it should be about midnight, then?
coughingpuppy (12:00:03 AM): Probably more like ten/eleven-ish, but sure.
Sarcazmo47 (12:00:32 AM): Sounds good to me.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:00:54 AM): All right.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:00:57 AM): Listen checks, please.
*OnlineHost* (12:01:08 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
coughingpuppy (12:01:17 AM): Damn. 16.
*OnlineHost* (12:01:23 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
Sarcazmo47 (12:01:44 AM): 15.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:02:16 AM): Neither of you hear anything.
Sarcazmo47 (12:02:25 AM): Good. I keep sleeping.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:02:38 AM): Yep.
*OnlineHost* (12:02:38 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 11
SirAlexTheFirst (12:03:09 AM): There'll be a knock at the door, that continues until someone does something.
Sarcazmo47 (12:03:16 AM): Yeah.
Sarcazmo47 (12:03:22 AM): Verity gets up for that one.
Adm H Sopko (12:03:41 AM): ("Who is it?" "An angry mob" "Do you have an appointment?" "...Yes." "I phoned ahead!")
Sarcazmo47 (12:03:50 AM): He even puts on some pants before opening the door.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:04:11 AM): Fantastic.
coughingpuppy (12:04:16 AM): Aurelia wakes up too and follows him to the door.
Sarcazmo47 (12:04:19 AM): Oh yes.
Sarcazmo47 (12:04:41 AM): The hoe is resting on the side of the door opposite the sword.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:04:45 AM): There's a gnome there, which you probably don't see at first. He's short, even for a gnome, maybe two feet tall.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:05:03 AM): And he's wearing a helmet that covers most of his face. Or hers, come to think.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:05:18 AM): The gnome squeaks, "Are you Verity Dalliant?"
Adm H Sopko (12:05:19 AM): (My name is Indignome Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die)
Sarcazmo47 (12:05:23 AM): "What..." he yawns "What do you want?"
coughingpuppy (12:05:25 AM): ((Would this be the same gnome Aurelia remembers from the other night?))
SirAlexTheFirst (12:05:32 AM): (No.)
SirAlexTheFirst (12:05:46 AM): (Soppy, that is considerably funnier than it should be.)
AndrewRogue (12:06:09 AM): (Yeah... I don't know why but that is almost hilarious)
SirAlexTheFirst (12:06:34 AM): "Are you interested in purchasing a long distance communications network hookup?"
Sarcazmo47 (12:06:56 AM): Verity stares at her for a good long time.
Sarcazmo47 (12:07:04 AM): "......what?"
coughingpuppy (12:07:35 AM): Aurelia comes pretty close to shutting the door in the gnome's face.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:08:06 AM): "SKT1 Telepathcom is offering a special deal, which you have been chosen to recieve. We can give you by far the best rate of any service, especially out here. You'll have a head start on business in New Begres!"
Sarcazmo47 (12:09:07 AM): Verity blinks.
Sarcazmo47 (12:09:21 AM): "Why are you at my doorstep in the middle of the night?"
coughingpuppy (12:10:18 AM): Aurelia stares at the gnome for a minute and then goes back to bed.
coughingpuppy (12:10:19 AM): ((Urgh. Lag.))
SirAlexTheFirst (12:10:21 AM): "Why, to offer you this fantastic opportunity! All you need to do is sign here, and your system will be delivered in hours!"
SirAlexTheFirst (12:10:33 AM): The gnome offers Verity a large sheet of paper and a pen.
Sarcazmo47 (12:10:38 AM): What does it say?
AndrewRogue (12:11:00 AM): (That is so painfully gnomish...)
SirAlexTheFirst (12:11:22 AM): The paper has a large legal agreement written in painfully small text.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:11:47 AM): Make me a Knowledge: Law or similar check to understand, if you want to read the whole thing.
Sarcazmo47 (12:11:57 AM): I just want to know what it is I owe them.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:12:01 AM): Of course, Verity doesn't have that, so.
Sarcazmo47 (12:12:22 AM): Am I giving them money, or what?
SirAlexTheFirst (12:12:23 AM): "A sum to be determined by SKT1, subject to contractual liscense..."
Sarcazmo47 (12:12:43 AM): Verity shakes his head. "We have no money."
Sarcazmo47 (12:13:07 AM): "By the way....how did you know my name?"
SirAlexTheFirst (12:13:39 AM): The gnome is not dissuaded. "You can pay on an installment plan, too. That merely requires this form - " *hands it to you* "- and you can be on your way to success with a mere twenty-four easy payments!"
SirAlexTheFirst (12:14:00 AM): "I'm sorry, sir, we can't divulge our methods. Company policy."
Sarcazmo47 (12:15:57 AM): Verity blinks. "If I decline, will you be back tomorrow?"
SirAlexTheFirst (12:17:08 AM): "Oh, no, sir. We try not to irritate our clients."
coughingpuppy (12:17:39 AM): ((Yet she came to the doorstep in the middle of the night...))
Sarcazmo47 (12:18:51 AM): Verity nods. "Then I'll look these over. Come back tomorrow. During the day."
Sarcazmo47 (12:19:03 AM): He then closes the door and goes back to bed.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:19:28 AM): You hear a "THANK YOU, SIR!" in a loud, shrill voice as the gnome leaves.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:19:42 AM): Five minutes pass.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:19:47 AM): Then there's a knock on the door.
coughingpuppy (12:20:52 AM): Aurelia gets up to answer it, silently vowing to ward the door if another person knocks.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:21:22 AM): It's a gnome, looking exactly the same as the first one.
Sarcazmo47 (12:21:35 AM): Verity is a bit slower to get up this time.
coughingpuppy (12:21:44 AM): She frowns at the gnome. "Yes?"
SirAlexTheFirst (12:22:03 AM): "Good evening, Miss Aurelia! Can I interest you in a Plow Plus One?"
Adm H Sopko (12:22:29 AM): (::Heartclutch:: SPAMBUSTERS, BITCH!)
AndrewRogue (12:22:38 AM): (Slaughtering Door-to-Door marketers should be a good deed anyway...)
coughingpuppy (12:22:40 AM): "Weren't you just here?"
coughingpuppy (12:23:01 AM): ((They come expecting to sell something and instead encounter a Symbol of Death. Fun all around!))
Sarcazmo47 (12:23:03 AM): This is the work of the devil.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:24:20 AM): The gnome seems puzzled. "No, ma'am. The Plow Plus One is a perfect tool for those new to the farming lifestyle. It can both plow, furrow, till, aerate, oxygenate, collate, and staple soil at once."
SirAlexTheFirst (12:24:52 AM): "In addition to planting the seeds of your choice, of course, and blessing them for a good harvest. Plow Plus One: It's a tractor! Want one?"
coughingpuppy (12:25:08 AM): "With all that, I'm sure you can go to a different house and find someone who is actually interested. Good night."
Sarcazmo47 (12:25:42 AM): ((*is dying of laughter*))
Sarcazmo47 (12:25:48 AM): ((Collated and stapled!))
AndrewRogue (12:26:09 AM): (I am speechless.)
SirAlexTheFirst (12:26:37 AM): "But... but... it can help you grow your crops, and take care of bills!"
SirAlexTheFirst (12:26:53 AM): "Especially useful for the expectant mother!"
coughingpuppy (12:27:49 AM): Aurelia immediately looks wary. "I'm sure it is. But I'm a bit more interested in knowing where you're getting your information than in your product."
Adm H Sopko (12:28:07 AM): (This is OBVIOUSLY a pillar)
Adm H Sopko (12:28:18 AM): (Deadly Telemarketing Gnomes)
AndrewRogue (12:28:27 AM): (Sounds like a pyramid to me... *horridly inaccurate Rimshot*)
Sarcazmo47 (12:29:08 AM): Verity looks kind of interested at this point, as well.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:29:14 AM): "Our client list is carefully selected and formulated to match the products being sold to those who need them the most. Whittyrian technology and magic, only the very best!"
coughingpuppy (12:30:05 AM): Sense motive.
*OnlineHost* (12:30:05 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
coughingpuppy (12:30:14 AM): Grrrrrrrrr. 14.
*OnlineHost* (12:30:23 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 11
*OnlineHost* (12:30:26 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
Sarcazmo47 (12:30:29 AM): 23.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:30:36 AM): The gnome seems very sincere.
Sarcazmo47 (12:31:20 AM): Oh good. "I'm very curious as to how we got on this list, my friend. Who would I need to talk to about it? Your supervisor, perhaps?"
SirAlexTheFirst (12:32:38 AM): "I'm sorry, sir, you'd have to go through channels to do that. I can give you a phone number if you're a registered customer, though!"
SirAlexTheFirst (12:32:52 AM): And the gnomish hand with the paper and pen extends.
Sarcazmo47 (12:33:23 AM): "A what?"
coughingpuppy (12:33:32 AM): Aurelia's looking slightly confused too.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:34:17 AM): "A registered customer, who has purchased a Plow Plus One, and filled out the registration sheet to provide the company with important demographic information!"
Sarcazmo47 (12:35:50 AM): "Go away and don't come back until the sun has come up."
Sarcazmo47 (12:35:58 AM): He pushes the door closed.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:36:18 AM): *knock knock knock*
Sarcazmo47 (12:37:25 AM): Verity calls for Karn.
coughingpuppy (12:37:27 AM): Aurelia seems torn somewhere between tears and violence, and pulls the door back open.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:37:47 AM): Karn appears at Verity's side. "I thought you would never ask, Master Verity." He's grinning.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:38:48 AM): The gnome is there.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:39:10 AM): "Are you certain that you don't want a Plow Plus One? We have a special offer at this very mome-"
Sarcazmo47 (12:39:13 AM): "Aurelia and I are going to bed. Don't kill anyone."
SirAlexTheFirst (12:39:21 AM): Karn picks the gnome up and throws it.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:39:28 AM): "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
*OnlineHost* (12:39:30 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
SirAlexTheFirst (12:39:37 AM): *crunch*
SirAlexTheFirst (12:39:43 AM): *whimper*
Sarcazmo47 (12:39:53 AM): Verity goes to bed.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:39:57 AM): Karn bows. "I will try, Master Verity."
coughingpuppy (12:40:56 AM): Aurelia frowns and glances out the door to make sure that the gnome isn't seriously hurt or dead or anything.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:41:25 AM): It's hobbling away. When it sees Aurelia's head, it shouts "But it's practically a tractor! I'll be back tomorrow!"
coughingpuppy (12:42:24 AM): Aurelia casts Cause Fear on it.
*OnlineHost* (12:42:39 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
SirAlexTheFirst (12:42:50 AM): "AAAHHHHHHHHH!!!"
SirAlexTheFirst (12:43:32 AM): Karn nods silently.
coughingpuppy (12:44:21 AM): "You won't be back." And rather hoping that the sudden sense of panic makes somewhat of a lasting impression on the gnome, Aurelia goes to bed too.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:44:39 AM): Five minutes pass.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:44:47 AM): There's a knock at the door.
Sarcazmo47 (12:45:05 AM): Verity calls for Karn to answer the door.
coughingpuppy (12:45:11 AM): ((Alex, you are so tempting me to slide back into Lawful Evil.))
SirAlexTheFirst (12:45:13 AM): Karn does.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:45:26 AM): (You left your notebook in the car)
Sarcazmo47 (12:45:33 AM): Does another Gnome get tossed?
coughingpuppy (12:45:33 AM): ((It's Kirk's.))
Sarcazmo47 (12:45:38 AM): And that's my notebook.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:46:08 AM): After the door clicks open, there is a pause, a squeaky voice, and then "aaaahhhhh!" and some thuds.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:47:00 AM): Five minutes pass.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:47:07 AM): There's a knock at the door.
Adm H Sopko (12:47:40 AM): (DwarfKarn1. Amaryllis' Most Trusted Pop-up Blocker)
SirAlexTheFirst (12:48:42 AM): Do Verity or Aurelia do anything?
Sarcazmo47 (12:48:45 AM): No.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:49:00 AM): Then the above noises repeat.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:49:11 AM): You can make Listen checks to hear the sales pitches if you want.
coughingpuppy (12:49:33 AM): Aurelia is trying to ignore the knocking and sales pitches.
Sarcazmo47 (12:49:37 AM): Yeah.
Sarcazmo47 (12:49:39 AM): A lot.
Sarcazmo47 (12:49:52 AM): Actually, Verity asks Karn if he can keep watch all night.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:50:04 AM): He can and will.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:50:29 AM): Five minutes pass.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:50:36 AM): Knock.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:50:38 AM): Pause.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:50:41 AM): Squeaks.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:50:45 AM): Scream.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:50:48 AM): Thud.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:51:15 AM): Five minutes pass.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:51:19 AM): Knock knock.
Sarcazmo47 (12:51:22 AM): Verity eventually gets back to sleep.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:51:38 AM): No squeaks, immediate scream and thud.
Sarcazmo47 (12:51:52 AM): To the clockwork sounds of gome-tossing.
coughingpuppy (12:52:04 AM): Aurelia tries to sleep and might not be successful given the screams every five minutes.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:52:06 AM): Make a Listen check, Verity. And Aurelia too if she wants to sleep.
*OnlineHost* (12:52:23 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
coughingpuppy (12:52:29 AM): Yay. 29.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:52:33 AM): http://www.queenofwands.net/
SirAlexTheFirst (12:52:36 AM): Grammer Spork'd
SirAlexTheFirst (12:52:58 AM): Aurelia is able to not listen and sleep.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:53:15 AM): Verity?
*OnlineHost* (12:53:20 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
Sarcazmo47 (12:53:25 AM): 18.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:53:26 AM): Him too.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:54:37 AM): After half an hour or so, Karn bellows "MASTER VERITY!", which may or may not wake people up.
coughingpuppy (12:55:28 AM): ((Listen checks?))
SirAlexTheFirst (12:55:31 AM): Sure.
*OnlineHost* (12:55:34 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 11
coughingpuppy (12:55:38 AM): 24.
Sarcazmo47 (12:55:53 AM): Verity wakes up, thanks to it being his own name.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:55:55 AM): Aurelia hears it.
Sarcazmo47 (12:56:01 AM): And makes haste for the door.
coughingpuppy (12:56:21 AM): Aurelia gets up and follows him.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:56:30 AM): Karn is standing there. The door is open, but nothing is there.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:56:59 AM): "Master Verity, there was a knock, but as you can see, naught is present. I feel... cold, however."
SirAlexTheFirst (12:57:20 AM): As do Verity and Aurelia.
Sarcazmo47 (12:57:26 AM): Verity looks at Karn, then at the door, then narrows his eyes slowly.
Sarcazmo47 (12:57:47 AM): Then he goes and builds up the fire in the fireplace.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:58:23 AM): All right.
coughingpuppy (12:58:36 AM): Aurelia takes a good look around the room and then shuts the door.
SirAlexTheFirst (12:58:36 AM): It gets colder while you're doing that, however.
Sarcazmo47 (12:59:06 AM): Verity gets the thing to a nice big blaze
SirAlexTheFirst (12:59:54 AM): You're still cold.
coughingpuppy (1:00:00 AM): ((*wishing she had Detect Invisibility right now*))
Adm H Sopko (1:00:17 AM): ((It's probably that damn Harry Potter again)
SirAlexTheFirst (1:01:23 AM): The cold intensifies into bone-numbing chillyness.
coughingpuppy (1:01:43 AM): Aurelia doesn't seem all that comforted by the fire. "There's probably a mage outside." If not in here.
Sarcazmo47 (1:02:42 AM): Verity nods slowly. "This is not my realm."
SirAlexTheFirst (1:03:10 AM): Karn is just sitting by the door, trying to be as alert as possible.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:04:47 AM): Either of you doing anything?
Sarcazmo47 (1:04:51 AM): Yes.
coughingpuppy (1:05:01 AM): "It's only going to get colder, and they could cast other spells if they get close enough. We may want to go look."
Sarcazmo47 (1:06:53 AM): Verity nods and fetches his weapon and equipment.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:07:16 AM): Righto.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:07:25 AM): And?
Sarcazmo47 (1:07:34 AM): And goes outside to take a look around.
coughingpuppy (1:07:36 AM): Aurelia will at least get armor, since her sword is currently just about useless, and heads outside.
coughingpuppy (1:07:57 AM): She's going to take a look around first before casting Light on anything.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:08:08 AM): Spot check.
*OnlineHost* (1:08:13 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 20
Adm H Sopko (1:08:23 AM): Booya
coughingpuppy (1:08:23 AM): Rock. 44.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:09:28 AM): The stars above the forest are winking out, one by one, and reappearing shortly thereafter, as if something was covering them up and moving.
Sarcazmo47 (1:09:45 AM): Almost as if, eh?
coughingpuppy (1:10:15 AM): ((Might she be able to tell how big it is based on how many are winking out at once?))
SirAlexTheFirst (1:10:49 AM): Not really, as you have no idea how high up it is.
Sarcazmo47 (1:11:02 AM): Verity does not appear to be noticing it.
coughingpuppy (1:11:10 AM): "Go back inside."
Sarcazmo47 (1:11:21 AM): Veriy blinks. "You first."
SirAlexTheFirst (1:11:59 AM): Give me initiatives.
coughingpuppy (1:12:26 AM): She shakes her head. "The sky's very clear tonight. I'm going to stay outside and look for a while."
*OnlineHost* (1:12:26 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
*OnlineHost* (1:13:10 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
*OnlineHost* (1:13:15 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
*OnlineHost* (1:13:17 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
SirAlexTheFirst (1:13:55 AM): Verity?
coughingpuppy (1:14:17 AM): Aurelia...7. Because the dice hate her today.
*OnlineHost* (1:14:31 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 5
Sarcazmo47 (1:14:45 AM): 7.
Sarcazmo47 (1:14:52 AM): We go last.
Sarcazmo47 (1:14:56 AM): A lot.
AndrewRogue (1:15:15 AM): (They could have severe dex penalties... <_<)
SirAlexTheFirst (1:15:29 AM): Xavix 16, Aurelia/Verity/Karn 7
Sarcazmo47 (1:15:34 AM): Ninjas have high dex.
Adm H Sopko (1:16:01 AM): (Oh boy...)
AndrewRogue (1:16:06 AM): (Lucky 7's!)
Sarcazmo47 (1:16:20 AM): 7 7 7! That means JACKPOT!
SirAlexTheFirst (1:16:57 AM): Who wants to play Xavix?
AndrewRogue (1:17:47 AM): (Soppy does! ^_~)
Adm H Sopko (1:17:59 AM): (I knew someone would say that)
SirAlexTheFirst (1:18:10 AM): ....
SirAlexTheFirst (1:18:14 AM): Well, anyways.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:18:19 AM): Xavix has the first action here.
Sarcazmo47 (1:18:37 AM): He sure does.
AndrewRogue (1:19:47 AM): (Need Nightmare-y stats Soppy or whoever is playing Xavix?)
Adm H Sopko (1:19:55 AM): (Oh why not...)
SirAlexTheFirst (1:20:29 AM): Sorry about the not having things to do. So play a Nightmare.
AndrewRogue (1:21:54 AM): (*reclines* Mmm... I should work on the website while I have this free time...)
SirAlexTheFirst (1:22:02 AM): Nightmares are simple. You have Astral Projection, Etherealness, and can blow out smoke, and batter things with hooves and bite things. You also have good skills.
Sarcazmo47 (1:22:22 AM): Yep.
Sarcazmo47 (1:22:55 AM): The smoke is good for concealment when charging into combat. Not so good when your allies are in melee.
Sarcazmo47 (1:25:07 AM): ...
Sarcazmo47 (1:25:15 AM): Trot outside the house?
Adm H Sopko (1:25:23 AM): ::Xavix eventually lands, cantering over to Verity and stopping short of the house. It stands there proud and solid, looking at Verity::
coughingpuppy (1:26:03 AM): ((Do the stars stop winking when Xavix does that?))
Sarcazmo47 (1:26:15 AM): Hell no.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:27:15 AM): Karn isn't doing anything yet, unless told to
Adm H Sopko (1:28:41 AM): ::He seems to be waiting for something::
Sarcazmo47 (1:29:33 AM): Verity gives an acknowledging bow to Xavix, then looks back at Aurelia. "Why do you want to be by yourself at a time like this?"
coughingpuppy (1:31:23 AM): "I just told you." She inclines her head toward the area in the sky where the stars are winking out.
coughingpuppy (1:31:27 AM): ((Hint, hint, Verity.))
Sarcazmo47 (1:32:07 AM): He doesn't like this at all, but goes back inside the door.
Sarcazmo47 (1:32:25 AM): As in, right inside the doorway.
coughingpuppy (1:32:26 AM): ((He was supposed to look.))
Sarcazmo47 (1:32:31 AM): Ah.
coughingpuppy (1:32:36 AM): ((Oh well.))
Adm H Sopko (1:33:22 AM): ::Xavix snorts, taking a few steps closer to the house:: ~You called for me, Verity.~ ::This isn't a question::
*OnlineHost* (1:33:37 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 10-sided die: 9
SirAlexTheFirst (1:34:33 AM): Spot checks, please
*OnlineHost* (1:34:53 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
*OnlineHost* (1:34:54 AM): Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
Adm H Sopko (1:35:00 AM): 27
coughingpuppy (1:35:01 AM): 24.
*OnlineHost* (1:35:16 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 5
Sarcazmo47 (1:35:19 AM): 10.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:36:54 AM): Aurelia and Xavix notice a nearly transparent human figure gliding out of the forest, straight towards y'all. Aurelia will also notice that it looks like Zane.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:37:14 AM): That's about, oh, 70 feet away.
coughingpuppy (1:37:21 AM): ((Is he holding his sword staff?))
SirAlexTheFirst (1:37:41 AM): Yes.
Sarcazmo47 (1:37:45 AM): Oh good god.
AndrewRogue (1:38:11 AM): (*vaguely thinks about slapping the ghost template on Zane* ... *cries*)
Sarcazmo47 (1:40:01 AM): Who next?
coughingpuppy (1:40:02 AM): ((Whose turn is it?))
SirAlexTheFirst (1:40:12 AM): Xavix.
Adm H Sopko (1:41:59 AM): ::Xavix turns his head to look at the glimmer in the corner in his eye, then turns to face him:: ~It's him.~ ::He stands at the ready, wanting to study this before doing anything. He does ready one of his spells, though::
SirAlexTheFirst (1:42:24 AM): Which one, Astral or Etherealness?
Adm H Sopko (1:43:43 AM): (One moment, reading up on them)
Adm H Sopko (1:45:30 AM): (Astral)
SirAlexTheFirst (1:46:55 AM): 7's, go.
coughingpuppy (1:48:02 AM): "Stay where you are, Zane." Aurelia remains nonaggressive - she seems like she just wants to talk - but she's readying Phantasmal Killer in the event he attacks.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:48:40 AM): A familiar voice floats to you. "I won't stab you in the back, Aurelia."
Sarcazmo47 (1:49:01 AM): Verity hears this?
SirAlexTheFirst (1:49:39 AM): Yes.
Sarcazmo47 (1:49:58 AM): He's almost unbelieving but dashes back up to be next to Aurelia.
Sarcazmo47 (1:50:08 AM): "Zane? You're alive?"
SirAlexTheFirst (1:51:15 AM): "Long time no see, Verity."
Sarcazmo47 (1:52:33 AM): He draws his weapon.
Sarcazmo47 (1:52:53 AM): Do we need to wait for the initiatives to loop around again?
SirAlexTheFirst (1:52:59 AM): Not really.
coughingpuppy (1:53:07 AM): "Why are you here, Zane?"
SirAlexTheFirst (1:53:08 AM): It looks like nobody's doing fighting stuff after all.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:53:25 AM): "To kill you."
Sarcazmo47 (1:53:31 AM): ...
Sarcazmo47 (1:54:13 AM): Verity steps between Aurelia and Zane and says "Go back inside. Quickly."
AndrewRogue (1:54:17 AM): (That's rather... not good.)
coughingpuppy (1:54:54 AM): Aurelia shakes her head and casts the spell she readied.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:55:25 AM): Okay.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:55:31 AM): Heartclutch?
coughingpuppy (1:55:38 AM): ((No, Phantasmal Killer.))
SirAlexTheFirst (1:55:42 AM): h.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:55:44 AM): Ah.
*OnlineHost* (1:55:49 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 20
Sarcazmo47 (1:55:54 AM): *cries*
coughingpuppy (1:55:55 AM): ((Oh God.))
AndrewRogue (1:55:57 AM): (Stuff'd)
SirAlexTheFirst (1:55:59 AM): Zane shrugs it off.
Sarcazmo47 (1:56:31 AM): Does he continue in Verity's direction?
SirAlexTheFirst (1:56:37 AM): Yes.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:56:46 AM): He's running forward now, and attacking.
Sarcazmo47 (1:56:50 AM): Ah.
Sarcazmo47 (1:56:52 AM): Yeah.
Sarcazmo47 (1:57:07 AM): Any way to prepare an attack while he's running forward?
SirAlexTheFirst (1:57:17 AM): You can ready to recieve a charge.
Sarcazmo47 (1:57:23 AM): yeah, that.
SirAlexTheFirst (1:57:51 AM): 'kay. So that's'll be an AC bonus.
*OnlineHost* (1:58:05 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 2 20-sided dice: 9 6
SirAlexTheFirst (1:58:14 AM): AC?
Sarcazmo47 (1:59:49 AM): 20.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:00:28 AM): Both hit.
Sarcazmo47 (2:00:34 AM): Owie.
*OnlineHost* (2:00:43 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 2 8-sided dice: 7 8
Sarcazmo47 (2:00:44 AM): This thing...looks like Zane?
SirAlexTheFirst (2:00:49 AM): That it does.'
Sarcazmo47 (2:00:50 AM): Down to a T?
SirAlexTheFirst (2:01:06 AM): Take 15 damage and roll me four Fort saves.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:01:08 AM): Yes.
*OnlineHost* (2:01:20 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 5 4 2
*OnlineHost* (2:01:28 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 4 20-sided dice: 20 2 19 12
Sarcazmo47 (2:01:50 AM): The 2 is an 18.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:02:09 AM): Wow.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:02:12 AM): Nice.
Sarcazmo47 (2:02:16 AM): Yeah.
Sarcazmo47 (2:02:46 AM): Burning poison? Or something else?
SirAlexTheFirst (2:03:09 AM): You feel his staff flying through your nightshirt or armor or whatnot and a numbing cold where it hit, but you can ignore it. For now.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:03:17 AM): Moving on...
Sarcazmo47 (2:03:19 AM): No armor.
Sarcazmo47 (2:03:54 AM): Does Zane here look completely...there? As in, the physically present and not ethereal sense?
SirAlexTheFirst (2:04:06 AM): I mentioned he's nearly transparent
AndrewRogue (2:04:43 AM): (Not that it matters, but I'll be back in a few minutes)
SirAlexTheFirst (2:05:05 AM): Aurelia
SirAlexTheFirst (2:05:33 AM): Make me a Will save and a Fort save, as your greatest fear appears before your eyes.
Sarcazmo47 (2:05:57 AM): Live My Nightmare, woman!
SirAlexTheFirst (2:06:07 AM): And describe to the DM and others what that is, if you are so inclined.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:06:46 AM): (Nobody's actually seeing it but her, in character)
Adm H Sopko (2:07:04 AM): (Aria singing karaeoke is Aurelia's worst fear!)
*OnlineHost* (2:07:51 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
coughingpuppy (2:07:56 AM): ((...))
AndrewRogue (2:07:59 AM): (...oh my...)
Sarcazmo47 (2:08:09 AM): *cries*
SirAlexTheFirst (2:08:28 AM): FAIl on the will save....
SirAlexTheFirst (2:08:34 AM): PHAILE, even
*OnlineHost* (2:08:37 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
AndrewRogue (2:08:40 AM): ...
Sarcazmo47 (2:08:42 AM): Oh christ.
coughingpuppy (2:08:44 AM): ...And 12 on the Fort save.
Sarcazmo47 (2:09:04 AM): Mmm.
Sarcazmo47 (2:09:07 AM): GREAT.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:09:17 AM): Congratulations.
Sarcazmo47 (2:09:20 AM): You die.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:09:29 AM): You're the first PC to legitimately die.
Sarcazmo47 (2:09:52 AM): Fuckity fuckity fuck fuck.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:10:18 AM): So what'd she see?
coughingpuppy (2:10:36 AM): I'd need a minute or two to figure that out.
Sarcazmo47 (2:11:49 AM): So. What's next.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:12:39 AM): PC's turn.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:12:42 AM): Xavix is first.
Adm H Sopko (2:13:50 AM): ::Disregarding the spell, Xavix takes to the skies and swoops down on Zane with his front hooves, taking off again to safety in a fly-by attack::
*OnlineHost* (2:14:40 AM): Adm H Sopko rolled 2 20-sided dice: 9 10
SirAlexTheFirst (2:14:50 AM): Lessee.
Adm H Sopko (2:14:55 AM): 18 and 19...
Sarcazmo47 (2:15:09 AM): Wrong.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:15:17 AM): Do you have any spells going on?
Sarcazmo47 (2:15:19 AM): 21 and 23.
Adm H Sopko (2:15:21 AM): (I'm going by what Alex sent me)
Sarcazmo47 (2:15:39 AM): Ah.
coughingpuppy (2:16:01 AM): She probably felt like she was in a tiny dark locked airless space with no way of getting out.
Adm H Sopko (2:16:07 AM): (No. I readied Astral, but that turned out to be useless)
Adm H Sopko (2:16:21 AM): (::Doesn't know spells:: )
SirAlexTheFirst (2:16:49 AM): Your hooves are quite on target, and fly striaght through Zane, who spares the nightmare a chuckle.
Adm H Sopko (2:17:17 AM): (Okay, maybe I should have used Astral)
SirAlexTheFirst (2:17:32 AM): Verity and Karn.
Sarcazmo47 (2:18:02 AM): Verity's weapon, already dancing with Zane's, suddenly falters completely as Aurelia falls. He drops his guard and his eyes go dark, and he begins to crumple.
Sarcazmo47 (2:18:07 AM): Zane can take an AoO if he desires.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:18:47 AM): He will. Because he's a heartless bastard.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:18:54 AM): And he's laughing.
*OnlineHost* (2:18:57 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 7
*OnlineHost* (2:19:04 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 8-sided die: 6
SirAlexTheFirst (2:19:10 AM): 6 damage. And a Fort save.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:19:13 AM): Don't roll a 1.
*OnlineHost* (2:19:16 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
SirAlexTheFirst (2:20:18 AM): Karn runs in and engages in cutting the heck out of Zane.
Sarcazmo47 (2:20:23 AM): Hey, wait.
Sarcazmo47 (2:20:26 AM): I'm not done.
Sarcazmo47 (2:20:37 AM): Meanie!
SirAlexTheFirst (2:21:43 AM): Go
SirAlexTheFirst (2:21:47 AM): I need to find his sheet anyways.
Sarcazmo47 (2:24:21 AM): Verity starts to crumble - and then a low roar, a demented howl filled with loss and rage, pain and horror, bursts out of him, filling the night, the forest, the town below. He screams, and screams, and his mind,
Adm H Sopko (2:24:25 AM): (Oh yeah... Damn you, Curse of Chrome!)
Sarcazmo47 (2:24:27 AM): boiling past thought and plan, calls out, to the void, to his blade, to the night and the stars, to the ground, to the blood in his body, to anything that will rend what stands before him from existance. Almost unitelligably,
Sarcazmo47 (2:24:34 AM): he screams thickly, "Wisp! Shade! GO BACK TO THE SHADOWS!"
Sarcazmo47 (2:25:01 AM): Then lunges directly through Zane, blade first, to the other side of him.
AndrewRogue (2:25:49 AM): (*gentle applause*)
SirAlexTheFirst (2:27:42 AM): I await rolls.
*OnlineHost* (2:27:51 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 8
*OnlineHost* (2:28:09 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 12
*OnlineHost* (2:28:16 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
SirAlexTheFirst (2:28:50 AM): ...
Sarcazmo47 (2:28:52 AM): 25, 24, 11.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:29:06 AM): First two hit.
*OnlineHost* (2:29:28 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 2 8-sided dice: 2 6
Sarcazmo47 (2:29:47 AM): 26 damage, then.
*OnlineHost* (2:29:50 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 19
SirAlexTheFirst (2:30:42 AM): Zane ignores the glowing marks the blade leaves in his form, and just keeps laughing.
Sarcazmo47 (2:31:40 AM): Excellent.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:34:27 AM): So.
AndrewRogue (2:35:19 AM): (Karn's up, no?)
SirAlexTheFirst (2:35:45 AM): Whoa. Yes. Sorry.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:36:12 AM): Karn doesn't even bother bowing. He's had it with this chump constantly causing dischord.
Sarcazmo47 (2:36:25 AM): Verity phailes to do anything particularly cool.
*OnlineHost* (2:37:35 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 3 20-sided dice: 14 14 7
*OnlineHost* (2:37:47 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 8-sided die: 1
*OnlineHost* (2:37:54 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 8-sided die: 5
SirAlexTheFirst (2:38:28 AM): The katanas tear at Zane, too, but he sneers at the dwarf and refuses to fall down or anything.
Sarcazmo47 (2:40:08 AM): Nextly?
SirAlexTheFirst (2:40:34 AM): Nextly.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:40:35 AM): Zane.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:40:47 AM): Sorry, I'm being Tressied
SirAlexTheFirst (2:41:04 AM): Zane is laughing so dang hard.
Sarcazmo47 (2:42:01 AM): He really shouldn't laugh until after he's won.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:42:05 AM): "After all this time, she simply goes down like that? I have my revenge now, Verity. You'll join her soon. You'll join me soon. It'll be fun.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:44:28 AM): And then you'll work for me, and things will be as they should have been."
SirAlexTheFirst (2:44:42 AM): Staffing time.
*OnlineHost* (2:44:45 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 3 20-sided dice: 11 10 19
Sarcazmo47 (2:44:58 AM): Hmmph.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:45:00 AM): I think all three hit Verity.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:45:05 AM): Karn feels sad.
Sarcazmo47 (2:45:07 AM): Oh, they sure do.
*OnlineHost* (2:45:11 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 3 8-sided dice: 1 2 8
SirAlexTheFirst (2:45:18 AM): 6 fort saves and 11 damage.
*OnlineHost* (2:45:27 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 6 20-sided dice: 1 13 20 1 11 1
Adm H Sopko (2:45:31 AM): ...
AndrewRogue (2:45:34 AM): (...)
Adm H Sopko (2:45:37 AM): Damn you Curse of Chrome!
coughingpuppy (2:45:41 AM): ((Wow, Kirk, we are sucking it up tonight.))
AndrewRogue (2:45:43 AM): Wow.
Sarcazmo47 (2:45:44 AM): I invoke Curse Of Chrome.
Sarcazmo47 (2:45:50 AM): And call in my Luck reroll.
Sarcazmo47 (2:45:55 AM): And..uh...cry.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:46:02 AM): There's a 20 in that batch. CoC won't help you.
Sarcazmo47 (2:46:08 AM): I cry.
Sarcazmo47 (2:46:12 AM): I cry a LOT.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:46:16 AM): It's only 3 negative levels.
Sarcazmo47 (2:46:21 AM): Wow, this is the most suck ever/
SirAlexTheFirst (2:46:40 AM): Geez.
Sarcazmo47 (2:46:43 AM): What do 3 negative levels do?
SirAlexTheFirst (2:46:49 AM): Zane is going to solo the evil party after all.
Sarcazmo47 (2:47:06 AM): To avoid that, you should stop rolling 20s.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:47:08 AM): Each negative level gives:
Adm H Sopko (2:47:11 AM): (Great... we're next)
SirAlexTheFirst (2:47:15 AM): -5 to current and maximum hit points
SirAlexTheFirst (2:47:29 AM): -1 on attack rolls, saves, and skill checks (and rolls of that nature)
SirAlexTheFirst (2:47:38 AM): -1 effective level
SirAlexTheFirst (2:47:51 AM): And spellcasters lose 1 of their highest remaining spell slots.
Sarcazmo47 (2:47:57 AM): Oh, fantastic.
Sarcazmo47 (2:48:01 AM): Who's next?
AndrewRogue (2:48:18 AM): (Xav)
SirAlexTheFirst (2:48:21 AM): Yes.
Sarcazmo47 (2:48:23 AM): Why would you be next? Zane doesn't care about you at all.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:48:28 AM): No!
SirAlexTheFirst (2:48:35 AM): It's the enemie's turn.
Sarcazmo47 (2:48:44 AM): OH JESUS CHRIST
Adm H Sopko (2:48:46 AM): (Not necessarily. It was told to us that it was Zane who killed Bigsbie, supposedly)
Adm H Sopko (2:49:13 AM): (Zane would care even less about him than us.)
SirAlexTheFirst (2:49:15 AM): Verity, make a Fort save and a Will save.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:49:22 AM): DON'T ROLL 1'S
*OnlineHost* (2:50:23 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 2 20-sided dice: 16 2
SirAlexTheFirst (2:50:36 AM): So what's YOUR worst nightmare?
Sarcazmo47 (2:50:48 AM): Is that Fort and Will, or Will and Fort?
Sarcazmo47 (2:50:58 AM): Verity's worst Nightmare?
SirAlexTheFirst (2:51:19 AM): Sure.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:51:25 AM): What do you see when you get PK'd?
Sarcazmo47 (2:51:43 AM): He sees a fiendish hand emerge from a red crack in the earth and drag Aurelia's body into Hell.
Sarcazmo47 (2:51:55 AM): Is that Fort and Will, or Will and Fort?
SirAlexTheFirst (2:52:15 AM): It doesn't matter.
Sarcazmo47 (2:52:19 AM): Okay.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:52:20 AM): You successfully saved
Sarcazmo47 (2:52:24 AM): Good.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:53:14 AM): Now Xavix.
Adm H Sopko (2:54:24 AM): ::Xavix lands on the side of the house, casting Astral Projection now to see if he can search out Zane on the other plane::
SirAlexTheFirst (2:55:05 AM): Indeed, Zane is there on the astral realm, still laughing.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:55:11 AM): Verity.
Sarcazmo47 (2:55:54 AM): Verity will repeat his previous maneuver.
Sarcazmo47 (2:56:09 AM): Winding up on the other side of Zane again.
*OnlineHost* (2:56:14 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 3 20-sided dice: 17 13 1
*OnlineHost* (2:56:29 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 9
Sarcazmo47 (2:56:43 AM): No crit phaile?
SirAlexTheFirst (2:56:57 AM): No crit phaile
*OnlineHost* (2:57:05 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 2 8-sided dice: 1 4
Sarcazmo47 (2:57:16 AM): 23 damage.
SirAlexTheFirst (2:57:53 AM): Zane is dropped mid-laugh.
Sarcazmo47 (2:59:05 AM): Dropped like falls over, or dropped like discorporates?
Sarcazmo47 (3:00:45 AM): Dot dot dot?
SirAlexTheFirst (3:00:50 AM): Thinking.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:00:56 AM): Argh. Now I'm being slow.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:01:03 AM): Zane is DROPPED.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:01:14 AM): He stops laughing and gets a sword through his chest.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:01:35 AM): You don't hear his last words, because his body explodes into many ethereal slivers.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:01:39 AM): No more Zane.
Sarcazmo47 (3:01:41 AM): So we get the anime screenshot of Verity extended at the end of a lunge blade thrust straight forward, off hand on the pommel of the blade, while behind him Zane noiselessly disintigrates.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:01:41 AM): Zane is gone.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:01:46 AM): Yes.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:02:19 AM): Karn runs to Aurelia and attempts to revive her.
*OnlineHost* (3:02:20 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 18
SirAlexTheFirst (3:02:26 AM): Alas, he cannot.
Sarcazmo47 (3:02:29 AM): Alas.
Adm H Sopko (3:02:36 AM): Alas.
AndrewRogue (3:02:49 AM): *cries*
Sarcazmo47 (3:03:29 AM): Nextly?
SirAlexTheFirst (3:03:29 AM): Spot checks.
*OnlineHost* (3:03:35 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 2 20-sided dice: 6 19
Sarcazmo47 (3:03:37 AM): Ack.
*OnlineHost* (3:03:47 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
Sarcazmo47 (3:03:50 AM): 20.
Adm H Sopko (3:03:54 AM): (Thirty more Zanes come running out of the woods!)
SirAlexTheFirst (3:04:59 AM): The stars are still blinking out, and you can now barely see a dark form dropping towards you out of the sky.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:05:04 AM): Listen checks.
*OnlineHost* (3:07:01 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
Sarcazmo47 (3:07:06 AM): 20.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:07:37 AM): You hear nothing.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:07:40 AM): Nothing at all.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:08:36 AM): Make a Fort save.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:08:43 AM): Verity.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:08:46 AM): Don't roll a 1.
*OnlineHost* (3:09:51 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
Sarcazmo47 (3:10:01 AM): 32.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:10:03 AM): You feel like you're about to die.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:10:27 AM): But you don't.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:10:36 AM): And then... it's gone.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:10:53 AM): Karn is looking around, but can't find anything to do.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:11:00 AM): Xavix can go
Sarcazmo47 (3:11:06 AM): Verity's heart jerks and his flesh goes pale like a corpse's for a moment. Karn actually recognizes the look quite well.
Adm H Sopko (3:11:38 AM): ::Xavix returns from the Astral plane and canters around to the front, seeing the scene, he bows as well as a horse can, and takes off once more::
SirAlexTheFirst (3:12:34 AM): Is Xavix chasing the black shape?
Adm H Sopko (3:13:28 AM): Yes
SirAlexTheFirst (3:13:41 AM): Mr..
*OnlineHost* (3:13:43 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 5
SirAlexTheFirst (3:13:49 AM): Aight.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:13:52 AM): Combat's over.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:14:04 AM): Aurelia lies on the ground. Dead-ish.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:14:10 AM): Karn keeps trying to revive her.
*OnlineHost* (3:14:10 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 20
SirAlexTheFirst (3:14:15 AM): And fails.
Sarcazmo47 (3:14:21 AM): Uh.
Sarcazmo47 (3:14:38 AM): Verity is tossing out rather frantic psychic calls for Xavix to get his ass back here.
Adm H Sopko (3:15:02 AM): Do I see anything more of the figure?
SirAlexTheFirst (3:15:47 AM): Yes, you do. And you wish you hadn't.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:16:19 AM): On the Astral Plane, it appears as a seething mass of pure blackness, flying about. Vaguely in the shape of a bat.
Sarcazmo47 (3:16:26 AM): Then he goes down and kneels next to Aurelia, resting the sword point-first in the ground.
coughingpuppy (3:17:22 AM): Aurelia probably still looks vaguely terrified.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:17:30 AM): This is unusual; normally things don't even appear in the Astral plane, certainly not as dark shapes.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:17:35 AM): They also don't attack you.
*OnlineHost* (3:17:40 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 2 20-sided dice: 20 1
AndrewRogue (3:17:46 AM): ...wow.
Sarcazmo47 (3:17:51 AM): Alex?
Sarcazmo47 (3:17:55 AM): Radscorpions.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:18:10 AM): No, really? :P
*OnlineHost* (3:18:15 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 18
*OnlineHost* (3:18:19 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
SirAlexTheFirst (3:18:24 AM): Crit, no crit fail.
*OnlineHost* (3:18:34 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 6
SirAlexTheFirst (3:19:06 AM): ...that's....
SirAlexTheFirst (3:19:14 AM): 84 damage....
AndrewRogue (3:19:23 AM): ........................
coughingpuppy (3:19:29 AM): ((Poor Xavix.))
Sarcazmo47 (3:19:31 AM): ...
Sarcazmo47 (3:19:34 AM): Well.
Sarcazmo47 (3:19:39 AM): To be fair.
Sarcazmo47 (3:19:47 AM): That's not his death HP.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:19:52 AM): True.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:20:11 AM): It does savage the poor thing into death next turn, though.
Sarcazmo47 (3:20:16 AM): Great.
Sarcazmo47 (3:20:28 AM): That's a pretty big thermos, Alex.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:20:39 AM): ....?
Sarcazmo47 (3:20:43 AM): Nothing.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:20:51 AM): No, what?
SirAlexTheFirst (3:20:54 AM): Thermos?
Sarcazmo47 (3:21:01 AM): Any response to your IMs?
Adm H Sopko (3:21:09 AM): ...
SirAlexTheFirst (3:21:21 AM): I'm thinkin.
Adm H Sopko (3:21:41 AM): (Does it help to mention he returned from the Astral plane?)
SirAlexTheFirst (3:22:35 AM): Ah... not really, aside from changing the description. I don't really think there's anything Karn and Verity can do to help.
Adm H Sopko (3:22:54 AM): Right
Adm H Sopko (3:25:51 AM): ::This time, Xavix is the one who falls and doesn't survive. Irony takes a holiday.::
Sarcazmo47 (3:26:20 AM): Mmm.
Sarcazmo47 (3:26:26 AM): No, he survives the falling.
Sarcazmo47 (3:26:36 AM): It's the clawing or biting or whatever that does him in.
Adm H Sopko (3:27:50 AM): Point
AndrewRogue (3:28:32 AM): *sighs* Well... are we continuing, quitting, or is IM stuff happening?
SirAlexTheFirst (3:29:11 AM): IM stuff is happening.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:29:20 AM): Other than that, I think we're mostly done.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:29:33 AM): I apologize. Lot more tired than I thought I'd be.
AndrewRogue (3:30:29 AM): No problem. It happens. Annoyingly, I'm a lot more awake then I should be.
Adm H Sopko (3:31:22 AM): Ditto
SirAlexTheFirst (3:39:40 AM): Mmm.
AndrewRogue (3:39:46 AM): Mmm?
SirAlexTheFirst (3:40:25 AM): Thinking.
Sarcazmo47 (3:41:49 AM): Am I being difficult, Alex?
SirAlexTheFirst (3:42:05 AM): YES
Sarcazmo47 (3:42:11 AM): Verity - Harder to kill than he looks.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:42:17 AM): Poor Excalibur,'
SirAlexTheFirst (3:42:27 AM): Here you go pulling out the Rebirth ending on it.
Sarcazmo47 (3:42:34 AM): ...
AndrewRogue (3:42:36 AM): *chuckles*
Sarcazmo47 (3:42:42 AM): What the hell does that mean?
Sarcazmo47 (3:42:48 AM): Oh.
Sarcazmo47 (3:42:49 AM): Wait.
Sarcazmo47 (3:42:53 AM): I ge it.
SirAlexTheFirst (3:43:08 AM): I don't mean to be making references like that.... but it's so dang similar.
Sarcazmo47 (3:43:14 AM): But you already destroyed my canoe.
Sarcazmo47 (3:48:08 AM): And I don't have all the occult items.
AndrewRogue (3:49:00 AM): You must have missed on in Verity's Cave.
Sarcazmo47 (3:50:08 AM): Verity leans forward slowly until his head is pressed against the dirt.
Sarcazmo47 (3:50:35 AM): He doesn't appear to be doing anything pansy like sobbing or somesuch.
Sarcazmo47 (3:50:49 AM): Just kind of sitting there.
*OnlineHost* (3:51:44 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 8
Sarcazmo47 (3:51:55 AM): 24
SirAlexTheFirst (3:58:03 AM): Pasting for entertainment value of the non-Kirk people
SirAlexTheFirst (3:58:21 AM): Sarcazmo47 (3:16:07 AM): <You. You pulled me out of the darkness once. Was it for this that you brought me back? For this that you tempted me with the light?>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:58:28 AM): SirAlexTheFirst (3:23:47 AM): <We mourn. Fate frowns, and fate smiles. Light is not light only in times of happiness. Light exists to endure in the darkness.>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:58:38 AM): Sarcazmo47 (3:26:06 AM): <My light lies is gone from me, and I see nothing. I will not let this be. I am nothing, now. If you cannot help me...then be silent. I curse Fate. Who has the power to help me?"
SirAlexTheFirst (3:58:48 AM): SirAlexTheFirst (3:30:37 AM): <Do you need help?>Sarcazmo47 (3:30:55 AM): <I do.>SirAlexTheFirst (3:32:53 AM): <What help do you need?>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:58:56 AM): Sarcazmo47 (3:33:42 AM): <I need my light back. I need my child to live. I need my wife to live. I need to have a purpose.>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:06 AM): SirAlexTheFirst (3:35:31 AM): <You seek immortality for them?>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:11 AM): Sarcazmo47 (3:36:08 AM): <Immortality? My child has not even yet lived.>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:17 AM): SirAlexTheFirst (3:36:54 AM): <Your child was not dead. It has lived.>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:21 AM): Sarcazmo47 (3:37:39 AM): <And now you mock me. But you will not help me.>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:27 AM): SirAlexTheFirst (3:38:53 AM): <We do not mock you. Your child has lived. And we cannot grant life to whomever, whenever. Our power is not that great that we may guide life and death.>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:32 AM): Sarcazmo47 (3:39:40 AM): <I see only one of you. If you cannot help me, then guide me. Who, or what, can help me? And where must I go to find them?>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:38 AM): SirAlexTheFirst (3:45:19 AM): <It is dangerous to control such things.>SirAlexTheFirst (3:46:16 AM): <If the forces who can wish Aurelia to come back, then she will return. If not... death comes to all eventually.>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:45 AM): Sarcazmo47 (3:46:48 AM): <What care do I have for danger? I am nothing, now.>Sarcazmo47 (3:47:07 AM): <And you can offer me no comfort.>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:51 AM): SirAlexTheFirst (3:48:20 AM): <If the only comfort you will accept is your loved ones being raised from death and kept alive despite everything.... we cannot offer you that.>
SirAlexTheFirst (3:59:56 AM): Sarcazmo47 (3:49:15 AM): <Mock me, then. I have nothing, and can see no hope.>
SirAlexTheFirst (4:00:03 AM): SirAlexTheFirst (3:49:56 AM): <Then....>
SirAlexTheFirst (4:00:09 AM): Sarcazmo47 (3:54:48 AM): <Then what?>
SirAlexTheFirst (4:00:15 AM): SirAlexTheFirst (3:55:38 AM): <You don't wish to follow her?>
SirAlexTheFirst (4:00:40 AM): <...unless immortality is mine, I will regardless. I will not surrender. If you cannot help me, nor lead me to one who can...then I will search. Alone, if I must.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:00:46 AM): I will not surrender because you warn me of danger or pain.>
SirAlexTheFirst (4:02:00 AM): <Search, then.>
Sarcazmo47 (4:02:31 AM): Verity stands up.
Sarcazmo47 (4:02:44 AM): Sheathes the weapon, unless it jumps out of his hand.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:03:12 AM): It doesn't.
Sarcazmo47 (4:03:13 AM): Goes to the door and closes and locks it.
Sarcazmo47 (4:03:26 AM): Says, "We're leaving, Karn."
Sarcazmo47 (4:03:38 AM): Picks up Aurelia's body in his arms.
Sarcazmo47 (4:03:44 AM): And starts walking toward Gelendar.
Sarcazmo47 (4:05:05 AM): You find a Liadon House Key. Do you take it?
SirAlexTheFirst (4:05:18 AM): No.
Sarcazmo47 (4:05:31 AM): You suck.
Sarcazmo47 (4:05:34 AM): Anyhoo.
Sarcazmo47 (4:05:38 AM): Stopping point?
SirAlexTheFirst (4:05:41 AM): Yes.
Sarcazmo47 (4:06:56 AM): XP/Points/Criticisms?
SirAlexTheFirst (4:07:07 AM): That was bad and I'm sorry.
Adm H Sopko (4:07:49 AM): That was bad? No, the Whittyre section was pretty bad... we bumbled through it.
Adm H Sopko (4:08:21 AM): Bad by us, not you, I mean
AndrewRogue (4:08:22 AM): Yeah. That was, how do you say, suckiness. I enjoyed watching this, except for the naughty bad AIM rolling.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:08:43 AM): I.... did not expect the 1-2 roll there.
coughingpuppy (4:08:50 AM): Neither did I. It happens.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:08:53 AM): Which was literally the only possible way for Aurelia to die to that.
Adm H Sopko (4:08:58 AM): You, who played with the CoC?
SirAlexTheFirst (4:11:08 AM): Aye.
Adm H Sopko (4:11:24 AM): Heh
Sarcazmo47 (4:12:21 AM): I have no idea where I'm going from here.
Sarcazmo47 (4:12:24 AM): But that's cool.
Sarcazmo47 (4:12:32 AM): No, I lie. I have some idea.
Sarcazmo47 (4:12:56 AM): That probably involves getting top approval from the high priestess of Luthien.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:13:24 AM): If Staci is awake, we could go on somewhat
AndrewRogue (4:13:28 AM): Jerri will have to give us a call about this though. Or something.
coughingpuppy (4:13:46 AM): I'm awake.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:13:54 AM): Up for continuing?
coughingpuppy (4:13:58 AM): Sure, why not.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:14:06 AM): Okay.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:14:52 AM): So, Aurelia is suddenly trapped, in a very tiny, completely black box. And the walls are converging, slowly.
coughingpuppy (4:15:52 AM): And for some reason she's unusually open to panic. And then dies.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:16:22 AM): The walls keep on closing in, getting painful. And then a little bit further.
coughingpuppy (4:17:40 AM): Aurelia, deciding to try to calm down and think pragmatically, casts Gaseous Form and attempts to find any sort of opening in the box.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:18:18 AM): There are no openings. It closes further, and you can't go back to human form.
coughingpuppy (4:18:40 AM): She panics more.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:19:36 AM): The walls keep closing. And then a little bit further.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:19:39 AM): And further.
coughingpuppy (4:20:00 AM): She tries to yell for help and continues to sweep the edges and corners of the box.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:20:44 AM): You can't yell when you're a gas.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:21:05 AM): As for sweeping the corners, the corners are going to meet each other in a couple seconds.
coughingpuppy (4:22:21 AM): She tries, regardless. And regrets not trying to smash the box open.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:23:11 AM): Roll me a Will save.
*OnlineHost* (4:23:22 AM): coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
coughingpuppy (4:23:28 AM): 32.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:23:35 AM): Not enough.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:23:40 AM): The walls keep closing.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:23:56 AM): And then they meet, and you can't feel anything.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:25:11 AM): You awaken some time afterwards lying in sand.
coughingpuppy (4:25:30 AM): She actually feels some relief at the sudden numbness, and sits up once she wakes and has a look around.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:27:05 AM): About 50 feet away from you is what seems to be an ocean - but there are no waves, and no wind.
coughingpuppy (4:28:24 AM): She gets up and scans the rest of the area to see if there's anything else around.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:29:00 AM): Nellix is sitting on the sand behind you, quietly. Other than that, nothing.
coughingpuppy (4:29:20 AM): She turns around to face him and sits down in front of him.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:30:54 AM): Yup.
coughingpuppy (4:31:02 AM): She takes another look around, and then looks back at him. "Where are we?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:32:01 AM): "This is the beach. Here, there is sand. There, there is ocean. There is little more to be said about it, save that you are dead."
coughingpuppy (4:33:11 AM): "Dead?" Aurelia looks as though she isn't sure whether or not to be surprised. "I can't be...nothing happened." Well, that and a box suddenly closing around her out of nowhere seems pretty implausible.
SirAlexTheFirst (4:34:22 AM): "The phenomenon is termed 'Phantasmal Killer'. I believe you are familiar with it yourself. The box crushed you, and you died."
coughingpuppy (4:35:11 AM): "I didn't think Zane was able to produce a spell like that."
SirAlexTheFirst (4:36:19 AM): "He did not. Zane, too, is dead. You saw his corrupted spirit."
coughingpuppy (4:38:43 AM): "Something else made a tool of him? He's probably rolling in his grave." She takes another look around the rather desolate beach. "Why am I here, and am I going to remain here?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:39:27 AM): "You're dead. You'll stay here until you decide what to do."
coughingpuppy (4:39:52 AM): "And what decision has to be made?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:40:57 AM): "Do you want to return to life, or not?"
coughingpuppy (4:41:52 AM): Aurelia frowns. "You would simply return me?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:43:25 AM): "Not simply. There would be a cost. But... yes, I could. There is no reason to waste much time."
coughingpuppy (4:43:44 AM): "What sort of cost?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:44:55 AM): "Your physiology will be changed, as you will be an inhabitant of this world rather than your original."
coughingpuppy (4:45:24 AM): She just looks at him for a short time, confused. "And what does that entail?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:46:16 AM): Nellix frowns. "I should mention that should you not choose to return, you will not return to the afterlife you are familiar with. It is rather more pleasant, from what I gather of your memories."
SirAlexTheFirst (4:46:33 AM): "The changes will be unpredictable, but probably not fatal."
coughingpuppy (4:47:19 AM): "And why should I be granted a more pleasant one? I haven't earned it. And what sort of changes do you mean?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:49:06 AM): "If the door is opened to toss you out, then it is opened to allow Asmodeus, or whomever is out there, in. And... changes. Your body will alter."
Sarcazmo47 (4:49:09 AM): No more outsider status for you!
coughingpuppy (4:49:49 AM): "In what way?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:50:36 AM): He gives her an exasperated look. "I don't know."
coughingpuppy (4:51:33 AM): She just nods. "And what would happen to my child?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:52:22 AM): "Nothing. It is safe."
coughingpuppy (4:52:34 AM): "Safe? Where?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:53:37 AM): "Inside you!"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:53:43 AM): (ITH lore +1)
coughingpuppy (4:54:13 AM): "So it would be brought back with me."
SirAlexTheFirst (4:54:30 AM): *nod*
Sarcazmo47 (4:55:43 AM): http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20030328.html
coughingpuppy (4:55:50 AM): She frowns and seems to mull things over before looking up at Nellix. "I'll go back."
SirAlexTheFirst (4:56:32 AM): "Yes. You will." He seems almost sad.
Adm H Sopko (4:56:55 AM): ("I wanted you for myself...")
coughingpuppy (4:57:01 AM): "What is it?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:57:16 AM): "Hm?"
coughingpuppy (4:57:45 AM): "You don't seem to agree with the decision."
SirAlexTheFirst (4:59:00 AM): "I agree with it. I knew you would make it. Your child will be born in a month."
coughingpuppy (4:59:22 AM): "A month?"
SirAlexTheFirst (4:59:47 AM): "Yes. Perhaps a bit less."
coughingpuppy (5:00:10 AM): "Why so soon?"
SirAlexTheFirst (5:02:23 AM): "It is not a normal child. Surely you must have expected this."
coughingpuppy (5:03:15 AM): "Well...no. Not normal in what sense?"
Adm H Sopko (5:03:56 AM): (IT'S GREEEEEEL)
coughingpuppy (5:04:04 AM): ((For reference, she ended up in hell almost immediately after she got pregnant, so it probably never really occurred to her that that would warp it.))
SirAlexTheFirst (5:04:53 AM): "It has survived a plethora of horrors in its home world, and been brought to another, killed and will be resurrected, and is a product of yourself and Verity."
coughingpuppy (5:05:54 AM): "You're explaining why it won't be normal. In what way won't it be?"
Adm H Sopko (5:06:54 AM): (Sleepage for me... I have work. Later all. I'll leave the window open so I can get the log)
SirAlexTheFirst (5:07:03 AM): (Night.)
AndrewRogue (5:07:21 AM): (Night)
coughingpuppy (5:07:30 AM): (('Night.))
SirAlexTheFirst (5:07:47 AM): "It will have three eyes, travel backwards in time, continually resurrect itself, and kill me."
Adm H Sopko (5:07:52 AM): (Andy fights like a girl. ::Runs!:: )
Sarcazmo47 (5:08:04 AM): ...
Sarcazmo47 (5:08:18 AM): Nellix, you're so funny.
coughingpuppy (5:08:30 AM): She stares at him. "And you're willing to let me go back with the knowledge of what it will do."
SirAlexTheFirst (5:09:30 AM): "Of course. The trinocular youth has already gone back and killed me, so it must."
coughingpuppy (5:10:10 AM): "Why will it kill you?"
SirAlexTheFirst (5:11:00 AM): "That's something I plan on enjoying finding the answer to."
coughingpuppy (5:11:23 AM): "And if I decide not to go back?"
SirAlexTheFirst (5:11:53 AM): "You won't. I told you - I knew your decision before you made it."
coughingpuppy (5:15:38 AM): She sighs. "I simply...feel a certain responsibility now. If my child will kill you, and possibly destroy other things, it may be better for me to remain here."
SirAlexTheFirst (5:16:21 AM): Nellix starts laughing.
coughingpuppy (5:16:52 AM): Aurelia frowns at him and for a moment or two seems almost offended. "Is there something funny in what I said?"
SirAlexTheFirst (5:17:47 AM): "Does it seem to you that I am the worse for being killed?"
coughingpuppy (5:18:44 AM): "The ways in which your death might affect other things is what concerns me."
SirAlexTheFirst (5:19:41 AM): "It happened in the past. Your concern is touching, but unneccessary."
coughingpuppy (5:21:36 AM): "How can it be past if the child isn't even born yet?"
SirAlexTheFirst (5:22:30 AM): "I don't know. We'll find out."
coughingpuppy (5:23:09 AM): She just looks confused for a long time, but finally, she nods. "I suppose we will."
SirAlexTheFirst (5:23:44 AM): "So. Will you go back, or not?"
coughingpuppy (5:25:35 AM): "I'll go back. It appears I have to."
SirAlexTheFirst (5:26:15 AM): Nellix starts laughing again, and the beach fades from your vision.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:26:18 AM): We'll stop there.
coughingpuppy (5:26:22 AM): Okay.
coughingpuppy (5:26:34 AM): Now I want to see how she changes.
coughingpuppy (5:27:59 AM): Do we get XP? :-D
SirAlexTheFirst (5:28:08 AM): Thinking about it.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:28:46 AM): Aurelia's physical stats are changing as follows.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:28:54 AM): +3 Strength
SirAlexTheFirst (5:29:02 AM): +6 Dex
SirAlexTheFirst (5:29:07 AM): -2 Con.
coughingpuppy (5:29:09 AM): Whoa.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:29:46 AM): Yep.
AndrewRogue (5:29:47 AM): That's a hell of a change.
coughingpuppy (5:29:48 AM): Aurelia is a badass.
coughingpuppy (5:29:51 AM): Does she look different?
SirAlexTheFirst (5:29:57 AM): Up to you.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:30:04 AM): I'd say probably, slightly.
coughingpuppy (5:30:11 AM): In what way?
SirAlexTheFirst (5:30:16 AM): ...up to you.
Sarcazmo47 (5:30:21 AM): Uh..
Sarcazmo47 (5:30:24 AM): What happened?
Sarcazmo47 (5:30:44 AM): I mean, like, what changed in her to cause those changes to her stats?
coughingpuppy (5:30:55 AM): Aurelia has 16 strength and 23 dexterity now.
Sarcazmo47 (5:31:28 AM): We should give her Verity's equipment.
Sarcazmo47 (5:31:38 AM): She would rock all over the place.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:31:53 AM): Comments and questions welcome.
AndrewRogue (5:32:32 AM): Mmm... I got nothing tonight.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:33:05 AM): I'm beating myself up because I think the DMing sucked tonight.
Sarcazmo47 (5:33:09 AM): Why?
Sarcazmo47 (5:33:15 AM): I think it was fine.
coughingpuppy (5:33:20 AM): I think it was okay too.
AndrewRogue (5:35:39 AM): Anyway... I'm feeling weird, so I think I'm going to sleep for a bit.
Sarcazmo47 (5:35:50 AM): I'm curious about what this references to in Old Amaryllis.
coughingpuppy (5:35:55 AM): Me, too.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:36:23 AM): Ah?
SirAlexTheFirst (5:36:24 AM): Oh.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:36:28 AM): Aight.
AndrewRogue (5:36:41 AM): So blah blah Thanks for Game Alex! It was great fun! *logs and sleeps*
SirAlexTheFirst (5:36:44 AM): There was this chick that Gorth kept bringing in at random places.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:36:49 AM): Called The Oracle.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:36:57 AM): She had three eyes and did random crazy stuff.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:37:05 AM): How she looked and what she did changed from time to time.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:37:12 AM): On occasion, she killed Nellix.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:37:27 AM): Supposedly she lived backwards in time, like Merlin.
(5:37:55 AM) AndrewRogue has left the room.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:38:10 AM): Of all the plot inconsistancies in Old Amaryllis, the Oracle was by far the most insane one. There's completely no coherence to her at all.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:38:48 AM): I suspect her actual function was to be a random plot hook when Gorth was too lazy or uninspired to make something actually cool.
coughingpuppy (5:38:48 AM): So they're having a CN kid in the most convoluted sense of the term.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:39:28 AM): You have no idea if Nellix was even telling you the truth or just screwing with your head because you saw returning to life as a foregone conclusion.
coughingpuppy (5:39:49 AM): Hm.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:40:09 AM): She could probably beat him on Sense Motive vs his Bluff.
coughingpuppy (5:40:40 AM): She didn't at first, actually. She wanted to go back because of the kid, so she could have it. Or at least that was part of her reasoning.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:41:05 AM): I do find it rather funny how both Verity and Aurelia were like "NO NO NO I CAN'T DIE YET"
Sarcazmo47 (5:41:19 AM): Verity isn't a quitter!
coughingpuppy (5:41:37 AM): Yeah, Aurelia saw just dying when she was being offered a chance to come back as quitting.
coughingpuppy (5:41:53 AM): Besides, she's actually happy for once. She might as well take advantage of it.
coughingpuppy (5:45:43 AM): Well, that was fun. I think I'm going to go to sleep now. 'Night, guys.
SirAlexTheFirst (5:45:51 AM): Good night.
(5:46:10 AM) coughingpuppy has left the room.