DM_Hallu: Session BEGIN! The seven of you are hanging out discussing what you have seen.

*** Aunirak is now known as Healer_Lina

Glru drops a pin.

Tobias picks up pin. "I think you dropped this."

Glru puts it back in the grenade "Thank you."

DM_Hallu: Akavi says somewhat sarcastically, "So, do you want to meet the guy we're working for now, or is there more sleuthing to be done?"

Glru: (have we shared our observations at the end of the last session?)

Tobias: ((I think so, yes))

DM_Hallu: (yes, you have.)

Healer_Lina: "Sounds good, Akavi. Shall we?"

Tobias nods. "Let's go."

Glru: "indubitably. let's shall."

Healer_Lina enters.

DM_Hallu: Some of the DMPCs look over at Glru curiously wondering where he learned a word like "indubitably", but they go along.

Tobias: ((enters what?))

Glru: (she hit the L shape key on the right side of her keyboard)

DM_Hallu: Lord Mannington Schopler's residence is a large and fancy (but still nature-compatible) building on the more upscale side of town.

DM_Hallu: A strange species of butler opens the door, more like a Rattakin than anything else, but not really a Rattakin either (Know Nature 15 to remember the word "agouti"). He sniffs at you and says "May I help you?"

Glru is almost as impressed as he would be if there were things that went whirr and clank.

Healer_Lina: ((Know Nature 22 - do I gain one extra useful fact about these guys?))

DM_Hallu: (statwise, they're exactly like rattakin, but without the disease)

Healer_Lina: "Yes, we are here from House [insert-house-name] for the Master."

DM_Hallu: (Aletheia! Aletheia!)

Glru sniffs politely back at the agouti.

Glru: (atticka atticka)

Glru: (Glru rolls a one on knowledge nature, so iz a rat.)

Tobias: ((every time I read 'rattakin' I think of the character from The Great Mouse Detective))

DM_Hallu: (ratigan! :D)

Tobias: ((I rolled a three, so I probably think he's just a rat too...))

DM_Hallu: "Ah. Lord Schopler, you mean?" He takes the papers from Akavi and examines them. "Very well. This way."

Healer_Lina follows.

Glru trundles along behind, looking curiously at things,(is ika moving under her own power or still doing a parrot impression?)

DM_Hallu: He deposits you in an elegant and plant-filled sitting room and exits. After a moment, a tall, well-dressed human enters and shakes your hands.

DM_Hallu: (Ika has fallen back asleep, poor thing)

Tobias carries Ika in with them.

DM_Hallu: "My name is Lord Mannington Schopler," he introduces himself, to both the humans and Wildlings (and Akavi) in the party. "Welcome to Haith. I trust your journey was successful?"

DM_Hallu: (I meant to say something like "pleasant" instead of "successful")

Glru ponders the question "Group is here, here is where it should be. Glru would consider arrival successful, yes, thank you."

Healer_Lina: "Indeed, and we are glad to be here."

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler nods, mildly amused, but mostly simply relieved that the adventurers are here. "Sit down and make yourselves at home," he instructs. "Are any of you in need of beverages?" He adds, "I suppose your superiors at House Aletheia have informed you of the nature of your job here."

Healer_Lina: "They have told us a little. I was hoping you would tell us more."

DM_Hallu: "Yes." Lord Schopler nods. "As you are no doubt aware, the day after tomorrow is our celebration of the autumnal equinox. Our problem is that a group of grugach living further into the jungle have threatened to disrupt these celebrations, destroying property or perhaps injuring or killing people."

Glru lets the amusing concept of superiors go and instead, taking the lord at his word, investigates one of the chairs, seeing if it does anything interesting or comes apart easily before sitting upon it. "Glru was told someone wishes you killed and you do not wish this. Glru was not told who."

Glru slots that in a spot above.

Glru: ((types slower than the mighty gm))

DM_Hallu: The chair does not do anything interesting or come apart easily. However, it is very comfortable and ergonomic.

DM_Hallu: (except when the mighty gm has chocolate. *takes some*)

Tobias looks slightly confused. "What are grugach?" he asks.

Glru: ((wazza grugach?)

Glru: (yeah, that)

DM_Hallu: "A grugach is a type of elf indigenous to the jungle. You might know them as 'wild elves'."

DM_Hallu: "Not indigenous to *this* jungle, of course, but you see what I mean."

Tobias: "If they're not from here, then where did they come from?"

Glru lifts his cap, scratches under it, replaces cap "why do wild elves wish you killed?"

Healer_Lina: "Not particularly. Why would these Grugach object to your celebrations?"

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler spreads his hands in a dignified shrug. "Roughly the same place as the rest of us, I assume. As for the grugach, from their limited communications I have gathered that they blame us for certain events in the weather that have occurred in their part of the jungle, causing minor property damage."

DM_Hallu: "We do not, of course, venture anywhere near their territory, and have attempted to explain this to them, but to no avail."

Tobias: "What kind of weather events?"

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler waves a hand uncertainly. "A couple of mudslides, bad storms, things like that. Nothing that does not occur naturally in the jungle... with the exception of the freak snowstorm. I can't explain that one myself."

Tobias blinks in befuddlement at the idea of snow in the jungle, but doesn't seem to have any more questions.

Healer_Lina: ((Know Nature 22 to guess how surprising that should be? :P)) Healer_Lina: ((Like "woah weird" vs "wtf hax"))

DM_Hallu: (Lina, it's unlikely to have happened without magical involvement... but a mild snowstorm would be more of a "woah weird".)

Glru ponders this (knowledge nature 8, knowledge mechanika 24: possibility of a weather-working machine?)

DM_Hallu: (And it *could* have happened, it's just unlikely.)

DM_Hallu: (Glru, weather working machines exist, but they are very large, expensive, and industrial. If they had one here, they would want to use it for making the weather calm and the trees fruitful, not for making snow. And, while there are occasional dramatic malfunctions with such machines, the signs of such an event would have been obvious to the workers. Plus, such a blending of nature and mechanika would be a bit strange to see here in such a segregated town.)

Healer_Lina: "Hmm. Do you mind if we talk with the Grugach as well, and attempt to resolve some of these tensions? We will of course offer full protection during the festival either way."

DM_Hallu: "That would be an excellent idea, provided you can get any information out of them," says Lord Schopler. "I am eager to resolve this without any violence if such a thing is possible. However, I should mention that several of our workers were attacked by grugach over the last month or so."

Glru waggles fingers in sort of a 'bibbity-bobbity-boo" sort of gesture "no one here is experimenting with new kinds of machines or magic?"

Tobias: ((I should have brought my sketchbook today XD ))

DM_Hallu: "New magic, yes," says Lord Schopler. "And new machines as well, although not machines that would have effects on the weather... but all our new magic is tested well away from the grugach settlement under high security. I can't fathom how effects could have migrated to their territory strongly enough to cause damage without any of our casters noticing."

DM_Hallu: (because you want to draw this scene, or because you're really bored? :P)

Healer_Lina: "May we visit those facilities as well? It always pays to have a complete picture of the situation."

Tobias: ((because I want to draw Glru making a 'bibity-bobbity-boo' gesture ^^ ))

DM_Hallu: (oh, I see :D)

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler nods. "I am not certain if they would be in use today, but you may certainly visit."

Glru gestures, making walking fingers of one hand on the other "Sometimes complicated machines do not what you mean to do, you start with walking stew pot *bam* you have machine that knocks hole in wall and smells slightly of gravy."

Glru completes the gesture with a punching fist into the palm of his other hand. DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler smiles thinly. "I assure you our mechanika are confined strictly to manufacturing and would not be causing snowstorms." Something about Glru's wrench and mechanical fixations seems (unsurprisingly) to be unnerving him slightly, but he manages it gracefully.

Healer_Lina: "Thank you. Do you have directions for the Grugach and the mages?"

Glru clacks the jaws of his wrench thoughtfully, perhaps considering the beef-and-potato wall-breacher MK II.

DM_Hallu: "I do, certainly." He hands you a map of Haith and the surrounding area and indicates where you should go. The mages are close, but the grugach are a couple hours' journey away.

Glru: "is secret, things mechanics are working on?�

Healer_Lina accepts the map gracefully.

Glru: "because Glru would see them, if is allowed..."

Glru peers over lina's shoulder at the map.

DM_Hallu: "Our mechanics *and* mages are intelligent enough to explain their work to interested parties without giving away trade secrets," says Lord Schopler.

Healer_Lina offers the map to Glru.

Healer_Lina: "Where will you be throughout the festival?

Glru peers at the map "mechanics are where? and we are where?" he looks for landmarks on the map.

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler shrugs again. "As the highest official in this city, I will be carrying out administrative duties and overseeing the festivities. If I am not at my home and not celebrating openly in the town square, my butler Dalan will instruct you on where to find me.

DM_Hallu: "We are here," says Lord Schopler, pointing to a certain place on the map, "and our mechanics work in the steam mill, here." He goes on, if you are interested, to explain many other interesting sites of the city, including ones that would seem not to need explanation because they are written quite concisely and clearly on the map.

Glru considers, then requests clarification "we are to stop wild elves from disrupting festival, or we are here to stop anyone from killing you?

DM_Hallu: This gets you another thin smile. "Preferably both. But it is the festival, rather than my own self, that is a target. I have my own bodyguards as far as personal protection goes."

Glru nodnods and asides to akavi, quietly "your house, she is not so very good at relaying customer requests."

DM_Hallu: "What do you mean?" says Akavi, with a warning tone in his voice.

Glru: "house says we are here because people want to make Lord Schopler dead before equinox, Lord Schopler says we are here to save festival...�

DM_Hallu: Akavi shrugs.

Glru rocks his hand side to side then says for akavi's ears alone "then there is thing with copper..."

DM_Hallu: Akavi gives you a poisonous but silent look.

Glru taptaps his wrench on the floor and suggests "magicy types should speak to magicy types, and Glru will talk to mechanics, then we go find elves and tell them it is not us who make snow."

Glru asks the lord "you have quarters for us where?"

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler presses his fingertips together. "I think it would be wise if you brought a human along to talk to the mechaniks," he says to Glru. "But yes, your plan sounds acceptable. We have quarters for you three" (pointing to Lina, Tobias, and Akavi) "just outside the building. The rest of you, I will send someone to find appropriate quarters. I apologize for the spontaneity, but the House did not inform us that we would need to prepare Wildling accommodations."

Healer_Lina: (("I can has reel bed nao pls?"))

Glru cocks his head slightly and asks "Wilding accomodations"?

DM_Hallu: "Well, yes. I am told they are very comfortable and well-suited to a nature-focused lifestyle."

Glru repeats " 'nature focussed lifestyle'? "

Tobias snerks slightly at the idea of Glru being 'nature-focused', but does his best to hide it.

Glru: ((/me wonders if he needs rainbow coloured beads))

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler eyes you all, obviously aware that you are from foreign parts where things are done differently.

DM_Hallu: "Yes," he repeats. "nature-focused. Very similar to indiginous Wildling homes."

Healer_Lina attempts to smile reassuringly for him, encourage him to play along at least.

Glru leans towards tobias and taptaps Ika , when she blinks awake he inquired "does bunny have nature focused lifestyle?"

DM_Hallu: "I'll take three," says Ika, yawning and rubbing her eyes.

Glru AHAHS knowledgabley to Lord Schopler "camping!" he summarizes.

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler givs a genuine smile this time, amused. "Yes, much like camping," he says.

DM_Hallu: "Is there anything further you require?"

Glru nods "Glru has camped when there is not inn when it is time to stop walking. Glru prefers solid matress and squooshy pillows.

Healer_Lina: "Around Beachhead there are many wildlings who have adopted colonial lifestyles...."

DM_Hallu: "I am aware of this," says Lord Schopler. "I ask, however, that while you are guests in the city of Haith you respect our customs. You may find that they suit you better than you think. Or, even if they do not, better to camp for a few days and be polite and concern yourselves with the real issues at hand, yes?"

Glru: "glru is still wilding, still attuned, glru just like poofy pillows and machines that go �clank�...�

Glru: "but Glru will settle for poofy pillows.�

Healer_Lina: "On that note, Lord Schopler, do you have any Attuned colonials in this place? I myself was studying for my attunement at one point, but had to leave to follow the call of Eir."

DM_Hallu: "Ah," says Lord Schopler, "you are fortunate to still be attuned." He evidently does not want to argue about this. He turns to Lina. "I have heard of Attuned colonials, but there have not been adequate scientific studies done. I am not convinced that such colonials are not simply fooling themselves. I, for one, would never be so arrogant as to presume I could forge an equal connection with the earth to that of a Wildling. Now, then, is there anything else you require before you speak to the mages, mechaniks, and grugach?"

DM_Hallu: �anything else you require before you speak to the mages, mechaniks, and grugach?�

Healer_Lina: "Can you give us a brief rundown of the festivities?"

DM_Hallu: He nods and hands you a schedule. The festivities are one day long and include the usual festive stuff like parades and speeches and dancing and stuff.

Glru points out "glru is attuned because he understands bones of earth," he spins his wrench, "Dwarves understand metal, not so much rest of earth, but wildings can learn meatal, because it is part of earth's gifts.�

Glru ooos at the schedule, making a mental note to participate in the stuff.

Tobias also looks at the schedule, trying not to move too much lest he wake up Ika again.

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler looks at Glru curiously, as if he does not understand the point the cougar is trying to make. "Are you here to have a philosophical debate," he asks, quite calmly, "or to protect the city?"

Glru shrugs "Glru feels it is important to share information with ..." he hastily swaps out the planned 'ignorant' with "those who do not know these important things."

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler nods impatiently.

Tobias looks up from the schedule. "Well, we should get started, right? What's the plan? Are we splitting up again?"

Healer_Lina prepares to activate Calm at any sign of tempers flaring on either side.

Healer_Lina: "Perhaps we should leave... Glru?"

Glru: "Also, Glru was speaking with Oscelot earlier, perhaps he will be coming to speak more with glru, glru would like him to be told where Glru will be staying. Also, Glru would like to know where Glru will be staying.�

Glru: "Glru has luggage...�

DM_Hallu: Lord Schopler nods and rings a small bell. To Lina, Tobias, and Akavi, it appears to be silent. However, the rest of you can hear a rather shrill, high-pitched ringing sound.

DM_Hallu: After a moment, the butler you saw earlier steps into the room.

DM_Hallu: "Please show these beings to their quarters, Dalan," says Lord Schopler.

DM_Hallu: "This way," says the butler, and starts down a corridor.

Glru nods to Tobias "Since you are not magicy, perhaps you should come along and bring bunny, humans may pretend that Glru does not know machines, so he will speek through you if the pretend this.

Tobias nods back. "Alright."

DM_Hallu: Lunos, Akavi, and Markas go with Lina.

Glru: ((glru startles at the sudden appearance of Lunos "whoa, ninja."))

Healer_Lina: "I admit, I'm very curious about this magical experimentation, especially if it is connected with nature magic, having doing some work in the field myself..."

Healer_Lina heads off with Team Not-A-PC.

DM_Hallu: The butler first shows Lina, Akavi, and Tobias to three small but comfortable rooms in a building across the street and allows them to unload their luggage, or just make a note of the location, whichever they prefer.

Healer_Lina: ((Note - apparently the beer my bro asked me to taste is ludicrously alcoholic, so this may get interesting.... O=D))

DM_Hallu: (yeah, zeal, I'll believe that when I see it)

Healer_Lina: ((Innis & Gunn... VERY nice stuff, finished the glass before I realized how strong it is...))

DM_Hallu: Glru and Ika are taken to the more Wildling-rich part of town and, after much hemming and hawing, assigned to two rooms - if you could call them rooms. They are about room sized (Small room sized for Ika) and actually very pretty, with vines and branches and bushes and leaves giving shelter, and soft grasses on the ground, and a curtain of ivy for privacy... the thing is, they are not rooms. And not furnished. At all.

Healer_Lina unloads her luggage, spends a few minutes feeding her birds and tending to her bonsai, before heading back out (leaving bonsai here).

DM_Hallu: Markas and Lunos get similar non-rooms, only up in a tree.

Glru prods at the ground with the pointy part of his wrench "there is perhaps secred door to tunnels?"

DM_Hallu: "No sir. No secret door," says the butler.

Glru prods at the ivy "Invisible cabinets?"

DM_Hallu: "No sir. No invisible cabinets."

Glru: "but poofley pillows, they are being delivered by serving girls soon?"

Tobias notes his room's location, then goes to wait wherever he's supposed to meet back up with Glru and Ika ((assuming Ika's going with them to the steam mill)).

Glru has a slight note of desperation in his voice.

DM_Hallu: The butler's lip curls. "And is sir normally serviced by serving girls where sir comes from?"

DM_Hallu: (yes, Ika is going with you to the steam mill)

Glru: "Glru is when Glru is working for lords. or medium-or-better merchants..."

DM_Hallu: "Perhaps sir should have stayed there then," says the butler. He goes off to argue with Markas about roughly the same stuff."

Glru somehow misses the 'serviced' euphemism.

Glru pokes the ground a little more, disconsolately. "Camping," he sighs.

DM_Hallu: Okay, soooooooooo Glru and Ika and Tobias go to the steam mill. (and Lina gets drunk by herself I guess)

Glru pulls out his gunkit and gets out paper and pen and leaves a note "Likely at an inn. Glru." and pins it to the ground with a U of wire, then heads for the meeting place.

Healer_Lina: ((Lina's staying sober for now, but Zeal is finding it more difficult to spell correctly =P))

DM_Hallu: The steam mill person greets Tobias, having seen him before, and allows Glru and Ika in after making Tobias promise to supervise them.

Glru nudges tobias and whispers "Ask for foreman, or perhaps his is called supervisor or (he provided the dwarvish words for these two positions)

Tobias feels slightly awkward about making such a promise, but does so for the sake of not causing trouble.

Tobias: "I... have no idea what those last two words were, but I'll try."

Glru repeats them again slowly and clearly.

DM_Hallu: The foreman, after a brief interval, appears and greets Tobias.

Glru: "sometimes mechaniks use dwarf works for things and positions..."

Tobias repeats the words to himself in an attempt to remember them. He then greets the foreman when he appears. "Hey, we were wondering if you could tell us about the machines... and... um..." He looks back to Glru for specifics.

Glru supplies helpfully "experimental mechanika."

DM_Hallu: The foreman shakes his head. "No experimental mechanika here. Were you looking for the R&D section? We're working on some interesting new designs for processing equipment, although they don't happen to involve new kinds of mechanika."

Glru casually grasps the back of tobias's helm and nods his head a little. Tobias: "Er... yes. I think that's where we want to go," he says, head moving of its own accord.

Glru: "new things, especially prototypes, new mixtures of older designs"

DM_Hallu: The foreman is very excited about the new developments and spends quite a while showing you new band saws, new funnels, new conveyor belts, and other stuff that has jack-all to do with the weather.

Tobias: (( funny, I never imagined him wearing a helmet, but I guess that's part of the fullplate, huh? ))

DM_Hallu: ((usually yes.))

Healer_Lina: ((You can, of course, take it off if you want to...))

Glru is mildly interested, but not truly impressed by most of it, though he closely inspects some of the niftier stuff, pressing the little button in his brain marked 'record'.

Glru asks "do you work with accumulators or energy manipulation or storage?"

DM_Hallu: "We use the standard accumulators," says the foreman, and goes into some technical jargon about the specifications of, well, standard accumulators.

Tobias: ((I think Toby's helmet is going to end up being like Lina's two doves and a raven...))

DM_Hallu: (yeah.)

Glru finishes enough of the next few sentences to make it clear that unless they're doing something brand new, he already knows it, but by sharing jargon he's doing it in a companionable sort of way rather than a know-it-all sort of way.

DM_Hallu: The foreman raises his eyebrows at the surprisingly knowledgeable Wildling, but accepts the companionable use of jargon with good humor and makes it clear that there is nothing brand new here that Glru would not know about. He then asks "Who taught you so much about accumulators? You must not be from here."

Tobias looks relieved that he won't have to be the middle-man for these two.

Glru stands proudly, puffing his chest up a bit "Glru was taught smithing and gunworks by master Grumlar, and magical devices, by master Eldar, together they taught Glru steamworks and mechanica." (a dwarf and elf partnership of bodger and arcane mechanic might even be noteworthy enough to be heard of this far from home)

Tobias: (( what does bodger mean, exactly?))

DM_Hallu: The foreman nods, he clearly likes the idea of what Glru is describing, but cautions him "You won't want to go around waving that mechanikal knowledge in people's faces around here. Not saying there's anything wrong with it, just people are a little funny about it here, it could cause trouble." However, he affably engages you in further technical conversation if (and only if) you are interested.

DM_Hallu: aaaaaand Lina's turn!

Healer_Lina: (("Bodge" = "Jerry-rig"?))

Glru: (a bodger is a sort of mechanic who can improvise, not only can they make the pretty machines with all the right parts, but they also know how to make substitutions and are experts on field repairs. sometimes 'proper mechanics' look down on them for doing things 'the wrong way' but they can often make things work that have been declared a complete loss.)

Tobias: ((ah. cool))

Healer_Lina heads off with Team Not-A-PC.

Glru: ((pretty much, yep))

Healer_Lina: ((I'm suddenly very curious about the etymology of "Jerry-rig"... *googles*))

Tobias: ((me too... XD ))

Glru: (although I think it's 'jury-rig')

Healer_Lina: ((I've heard and seen both... although wikipedia seems to go with Jury))

DM_Hallu: Team Not-A-PC goes to the place where the mages are! Which, like, is out in the farmy part of the jungle. The place where new magic is tested is in a specially fenced-off portion of the jungle about a quarter of a mile in diameter.

Glru: (The phrase "jury rigged" has been in use since at least 1788.[1] However, the adjectival use of "jury" in the sense of makeshift or temporary dates from at least 1616, when it appeared in John Smith's A Description of New England.[1] It appeared again, in a similar passage, in Smith's more extensive The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles published in 1624)

Healer_Lina: ((And apparently it's from people bodging sailing ships back in the day, hence "rig". Huh.))

Tobias: ((yeah, I think that's pretty cool))

Healer_Lina continues until she finds someone magical- or important-looking.

Tobias: (( *is a researching nifty details geek... along with many other kinds* ))

Glru: (the english are fantastic bodgers, mainly from having to make do with what was available when the wars cause shortages and new parts could not be acquired, they even made a gameshow called 'junkyard wars' where teams take crap from the junkyard and build machines out of it with a specific task in mind.)

Glru: (potty break for GM)

DM_Hallu: You find a leopard girl who appears to be a cleric! Yay!

Healer_Lina: ((Cleric of....?))

Glru shoulda gone with the magic users.

DM_Hallu: (Some kind of jungle deity you haven't heard of.)

Healer_Lina extends her hands and greets the girl warmly, explaining their reason for visiting and her own interest, and asking to see what's being done.

DM_Hallu: (does that include explaining about the weird weather events with the grugach?)

Healer_Lina: ((Not in the intro, but I'll raise it when tactfully appropriate))

DM_Hallu: "Not much is being done at the moment," says the cleric. "We do our research pretty slowly. But what we're currently working on is a spell to make plants more pest-resistant." She shows you two sets of plants in pots with jungle aphids crawling over them, with a marginally visible difference in intactness.

Healer_Lina: "Hmm... would not a 'Honeypot' spell be easier to develop, a spell to lure them to a different location?"

DM_Hallu: The cleric shrugs, looking mildly nonplussed at the human healer from nowhere trying to tell her how to do her job, but will humor you and discuss various tactics for a few minutes at least.

Glru: ((humans doing nature magic, pfah!))

Tobias: (( huzzah! I have chocolate! ))

Glru: ((Glru welcomes tobias to the land of happiness))

Tobias: (( Tobias thanks Glru for the kind welcome and then proceeds to frolic ))

Healer_Lina talks about this and the other research going on, and finds an appropriate point in the conversation to cast one of her nature spells (possibly Purify Food/Drink)

DM_Hallu: (whoah, whoah, what sort of point in the conversation are you going for?)

DM_Hallu: (and, what are you casting it ON?)

Glru: (i am amused by the mental picture of a warrior in plate armor frolicking)

Tobias: (( I am too XD ))

Glru: (with little bunnies and raccoons and woodland creatures handing him chocolate and flowers)

Healer_Lina: ((Well, say I cast it on a plant and see if it changes Aphid eating patterns around it, whether it attracts or repels them))

DM_Hallu: (one of the plants in the pots, you mean?)

Healer_Lina: ((Yes))

Glru: (fires chocolate out of his nose)

DM_Hallu: The leopard girl's eyes widen in horror as you cast a human spell into her carefully prepared magical experiment, completely destroying the validity of six months of magical work. "What the hell are you doing?" she demands. "Get out!"

DM_Hallu: She calls for some guards.

Tobias: ((... what I find amusing is that I saw this coming...))

Glru: ((we'll file this under "bad idea".))

Healer_Lina: ((Erp... I was kind of assuming I'd... I dunno... be asking permission first, or something. o.0))

Tobias: (( Is it possible that as zeal's blood-alcohol level goes up, Lina's diplomancer skill goes down? ^^; ))

Glru: ((Lina has been taking a correspondence course from the Anthony school of thinking before you act))

DM_Hallu: (lina, why on earth would I assume that??)

Glru: (being a botanical area, the guards are armed with sacks of potatoes, the perfect weapon for beating lina senseless))

Tobias: (( THIS is how Lina leaves the campaign IC XDDD ))

Healer_Lina: ((I'm just saying that I was, not that you were... but, possibly because this sort of test would require at least two untreated and otherwise similar plants, which Lina would probably ask for specially))

DM_Hallu: ((but you didn't, and that's WAY too complicated a request for me to have assumed you made.))

Glru: ((house haurvat hires the drow to find out what happened to the healer whose corpse showed up on the steps of their house, bearing potato-shaped welts))

DM_Hallu: (no, no, they're not going to kill her, they're just cranky.)

Healer_Lina: ((I was just filing something along those lines under "appropriate", which random spellcasting in a research laboratory is NOT.))

Healer_Lina: ((And I DID say appropriate. :P))

DM_Hallu: ((the fact that you thought there was ANY appropriate time to cast random spells into someone else's six-month research project seals your doom.))

Glru: ((Shiro fires reeses pieces out of his nose like a gattling gun))

Glru: ((clutches nose with both paws, still laughing))

Healer_Lina: ((Well, "appropriate" surely covers asking permission first, doesn't it? D=))

Tobias: (( ... perhaps an 'oops, may we retcon that?' would be appropriate for this situation?))

DM_Hallu: Okay. Let's retcon.

DM_Hallu: Lina asks permission to fuck with the leopard girl's research project. Leopard girl says "WTF no you can not do that!" and has Lina escorted out.

Healer_Lina: (( xDDDD yeah that's what I thought. :P))

Glru: (no potato beating?)

DM_Hallu: (no, no potato beating.)

Glru: (pouts, and puts away his camera)

Glru: (woulda won the 10,000 gold piece prize on 'shuteye's funniest home videos� for sure)

Healer_Lina: ((heee.... *imagines potatoes asploding EVERYWHERE*))

DM_Hallu: ((potatos would not asplode, they are not manufactured weapons.)

Tobias: ((I do find it amusing that our group was technically the more successful, despite having Glru and exploring a place we'd already been))

Glru: ((Glru: where have you been, flower eater? Lina, holding up sack: "obtaining provender. mashed potatoes anyone?"

Glru is not subtle, but then, glru is not a detective.

Healer_Lina shrugs it off, makes a mental note that there doesn't seem to be any weather-magic, and heads to the meeting place.

DM_Hallu: Aaaaand session end!