GoldenH's IRC Campaign

the log: game 13

[20:16] * Topic is 'Exalted: "Oh no, not me, we never lost control; You're face to face with the man who sold the world"'
[20:16] [GoldenH] hey everybody
[20:16] [DarthTom] yo
[20:16] [Fiat] 'ello, GH.
[20:17] [Hikari] Good morning, GoldenH.
[20:17] [GoldenH] so tell me, Hikari. how many hours do I have to live?
[20:17] * DarthTom blinks
[20:17] * DarthTom turns an...interesting shade of red
[20:17] [Hikari] Until I remember what I was supposed to do to you. I am a bit too tired to think right now.
[20:17] [GoldenH] ah
[20:17] * Fiat really needs to figure out something better than clapping. His hands hurt.
[20:17] * GoldenH steeples his fingers
[20:18] [GoldenH] very well
[20:18] [GoldenH] I think we're all here
[20:18] * Jydan sighs.
[20:18] * Hikari sighs.
[20:19] [Hikari] Well, to make things short. I am VERY happy.
[20:19] [DarthTom] I'll bet
[20:19] [GoldenH] glad to hear
[20:20] [Fiat] Indeed. I rather expect he is, too.
[20:20] [GoldenH] that's what you said, right?
[20:20] * Hikari eyes her array of kitchen knives.
[20:20] [Jydan] Obviously.
[20:20] [Fiat] Of course it is obvious! I am master of the understatement and the overstatement. It's the stuff in the middle I have trouble with.
[20:21] [Hikari] He expressed happiness when I (finally) let him out the door 30 minutes ago.
[20:21] [GoldenH] heh
[20:21] [DarthTom] a good coupla days, in other words
[20:21] [Hikari] Maybe he just wanted to GET AWAY!!! :)
[20:21] [DarthTom] Heh
[20:21] * DarthTom hums RBF's 'Suckers'
[20:21] [Fiat] good?
[20:21] * Fiat hands over his crown as king of understatement to DT.
[20:21] [Hikari] Oh, one note.
[20:21] [GoldenH] I FINALLY managed to watch unbreakable. I think it's the most brilliant movie ever. There wasn't any climax!
[20:21] [Fiat] Treasure it well.
[20:22] [DarthTom] Ah
[20:22] [GoldenH] Hmm, I see
[20:22] * DarthTom dons the crown
[20:22] [DarthTom] and now, I finally get to say it:
[20:22] [DarthTom] Hail to the king, baby !
[20:22] [Jydan] I see, but still, it's sweet.
[20:23] [DarthTom] Ahhhhhh
[20:23] [GoldenH] make a necklace out of hemp
[20:23] [Fiat] That's roughly the same thing, yeah.
[20:23] [DarthTom] ...then smoke it
[20:23] [Fiat] Still, the manner in which he presented it was EXCELLENT.
[20:23] [GoldenH] not if it's made out of HEMP
[20:23] [DarthTom] ayup, dis is true, fiat
[20:23] [Hikari] Indeed.
[20:23] [DarthTom] GH: Actually, hemp did used to be smoked
[20:24] * Fiat wonders if he hired guys to stock the clearing with fireflies.
[20:24] [DarthTom] in like, the middle ages
[20:24] [Hikari] But it was so close to failing.
[20:24] [GoldenH] doesn't it give you a really nasty buzz?
[20:24] [Fiat] Really?
[20:24] [DarthTom] GH: it was the middle ages, I'm not Duncan MaCLeod, don't ask me
[20:24] [Hikari] Now that I think about it
[20:24] [Hikari] If that rain had continued...
[20:24] [DarthTom] God was on your side
[20:24] [Hikari] Indeed.
[20:24] [GoldenH] god's one badass motherfucker
[20:25] * Fiat laughs.
[20:25] [Jydan] Now Tom, you do know that it would take a joint the size of a telephone pole to get the same high from a joint of mary jane.
[20:26] [DarthTom] Jyd: No, I don't...I've never smoked weed
[20:26] * Jydan tries to remember how he knows that.
[20:26] * Jydan can't.
[20:26] [Maris] hmm
[20:26] [GoldenH] Maris, ask your character ;)
[20:26] [Jydan] Me neither.
[20:26] [Hikari] (unfortunately)
[20:26] * Jydan blinks.
[20:26] [Fiat] Ah. I guess I’ll have to drop him down to a 9.7 for that.
[20:27] [DarthTom] Jyd: Maybe you could remember, if you weren't...
[20:27] [DarthTom] (Matt Foley) ROLLING DOOBIES !
[20:27] [DarthTom] ......
[20:27] [GoldenH] but Fiat is an AMERICAN
[20:28] [GoldenH] remember the joke?
[20:28] [DarthTom] Jesus Christ folks, are you TRYING to make me go into a fetal position and sob ?
[20:28] [GoldenH] no, they're trying to break my mind
[20:28] [GoldenH] they still think they can do it. the fools!
[20:28] [DarthTom] well, they're starting to crack mine
[20:28] * Jydan adopts his very proper British accent "I do believe I have never, as you AMERICANS say" *ahem* "rolled a doobie."
[20:28] * Fiat ponders.
[20:29] [GoldenH] I find it mildly disturbing that I had a English accent when I was young
[20:29] [Fiat] Yeah, baby, who da MAN?
[20:29] * Fiat does the seated version of the dance of victory.
[20:29] * DarthTom hums "This one's for all the suckers who still believe in Love...this one's for youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu."
[20:30] [Hikari] I will defeat you yet!
[20:30] [DarthTom] Fiat: dunno, but not you
[20:30] [Jydan] I have one that mysteriously comes and goes.
[20:30] * DarthTom once had someone claim that he sounded like he had an IRISH accent
[20:30] [Fiat] Hmmm..... DT?
[20:30] [DarthTom] I'm kidding, man
[20:30] [DarthTom] yak
[20:30] [DarthTom] yak
[20:30] [DarthTom] yak
[20:30] [DarthTom] talk to the hand
[20:31] * Fiat thumps his chest.
[20:31] * Jydan growls.
[20:31] [Fiat] Ow.
[20:31] [DarthTom] Tuesday
[20:31] [DarthTom] I swear it, upon my ancestors !
[20:31] * DarthTom stands tall, as lightning strikes behind him
[20:32] [Fiat] If lightning was striking behind me, I think I'd be a little less worried about being TALL.
[20:32] [DarthTom] it's a dramatic effect....ass
[20:33] * Jydan wonders if the lighting was a little off target.
[20:33] [DarthTom] you know, like a dude's trench coat billowing dramatically behind him
[20:33] [Fiat] It's all dramatic effects until someone's turned into a humanburger.
[20:33] [DarthTom] as I said before:
[20:33] * Jydan then realizes that the "ancestors" would be a little more devious and... vengeful.
[20:33] [DarthTom] Hand, your face....talk to it
[20:33] [Fiat] And stop running with scissors! You'll put your eye out!
[20:34] [GoldenH] my hand may be my woman, but that doesn't mean I have to talk to it.
[20:34] [Jydan] Not devious enough.
[20:34] [DarthTom] ......
[20:34] [Fiat] Mistress Palm and her five sisters?
[20:34] [DarthTom] you like torturing the nice, sweet, Catholic Canadian, don't you ?
[20:34] [DarthTom] That's okay
[20:34] * Fiat nods.
[20:34] [DarthTom] I'll be your lightning rod of hate !
[20:34] [Fiat] It's just so much fun!
[20:35] [Fiat] It's somewhere around number 10 on my list.
[20:35] [DarthTom] Tabernouche...
[20:35] [GoldenH] but then the hate won't build up enough! and it gets boring if it only hits one spot. :[
[20:35] [DarthTom] showdown ?
[20:35] [Hikari] Oh yeah, Fiat, I went to Kyoto a bit early to say a few prayers in a shrine an buy an amulet for 'true love'. But I could for obvious reasons not get the amulet to its recipient in time so I just put it on top of my cable modem, as that is the closest I could get it to you. I thought you could need a little extra spiritual aid for your showdown. Now, do you want me to send you the amulet?
[20:35] * Fiat blinks.
[20:35] [DarthTom] what ? like 6-guns at 20 paces ?
[20:36] [Fiat] Oh, that it was.
[20:36] [DarthTom] if you get shot...can I have your car ?
[20:36] [Fiat] More like "Guy standing above me while people lean on my arms while I try valiantly not to rip his throat out."
[20:36] * Jydan said thirty or forty prayers. He's rather religious.
[20:36] [Jydan] Okay, insanely religious.
[20:37] [Fiat] As for the amulet, it can't hurt, I suppose. I'll figure out my address later.
[20:37] [Hikari] Ok.
[20:37] [GoldenH] So is Rebecca standing behind you?
[20:37] [Fiat] Being in an apartment building with one number and with my mailbox having a different number, I am confused.
[20:37] [GoldenH] heh
[20:37] [Jydan] Or sitting on your lap?
[20:38] [Fiat] Currently sitting in one of my 4 chairs slightly to the left of me.
[20:38] [DarthTom] Ohhh
[20:38] * GoldenH waves
[20:38] [DarthTom] Fiat, there's this dude in Edmonton, think you could do the same to him ?
[20:38] [Jydan] Hi Rebecca!
[20:38] * Hikari waves too.
[20:38] [DarthTom] Yo Rebecca
[20:38] * Fiat is sadly literally too tired for that.
[20:38] [GoldenH] so are the other three chairs filled too?
[20:38] [DarthTom] Rest up, THEN kick his ass
[20:38] [Fiat] She says hello.
[20:38] [GoldenH] t-20
[20:38] [GoldenH] coo
[20:39] [Fiat] No, just one. Chris is also here.
[20:39] [Fiat] He's busy watching TV.
[20:39] [Hikari] Hello, both of you.
[20:39] [Hikari] Awww... men.
[20:39] * Fiat sighs.
[20:39] * DarthTom chews on a toothpick
[20:39] [Hikari] Well, I suppose he don't want to 'intrude'.
[20:39] [Fiat] Can the game run long? I really don't want to get into explaining some of the stories her dad brought up.
[20:40] [DarthTom] Heh, I've got the day off tomorrow...let's kick ass and chew bubblegum
[20:40] [DarthTom] but yet, sadly
[20:40] [Hikari] You are going to explain them sooner or later anyway.
[20:40] [DarthTom] I'm all out of gum
[20:40] [Fiat] Speaking of which, the blazing glare of death reminds me I should tell the story now.
[20:40] [DarthTom] story ?
[20:40] [Hikari] Indeed. You better.
[20:40] * Fiat hadn't planned on it....
[20:40] * Jydan pats Tom on the back. "Good addition of the gum."
[20:41] [Jydan] Story?
[20:41] [GoldenH] the story of the fro
[20:41] [DarthTom] Naw, chewed it all when I made keys, Maria got a good chuckle
[20:41] [Fiat] Due to specific request, I wear something that looks semi-important. Even shined my big boots.
[20:42] [Hikari] (impressive..)
[20:42] * Jydan has found his hair easier to tame, lately.
[20:42] [DarthTom] wow
[20:42] * DarthTom has had to break out the uber-gel for his hair
[20:42] [DarthTom] need a hair cut
[20:43] [DarthTom] specific request ?
[20:43] [Fiat] Hold on, I'll get Chris. He may have insight as well on this.
[20:43] [DarthTom] Ah
[20:43] [Hikari] DT: Rebecca would have strangled him, if he had not looked his finest.
[20:43] * DarthTom scratches his beard
[20:43] [DarthTom] Ahhhhhhh
[20:43] [Fiat] Chris will be here momentarily. I take the remaining seat, co-incidentally between her and Chris. I suspect this is planned, and am correct.
[20:44] * Jydan wonders when the flaming death ninjas will appear. Every story needs flaming death ninjas.
[20:44] [DarthTom] ...and for some reason, that reminds me :get stats for new system
[20:44] [DarthTom] Jyd: naw...in this case it's the Pink Power Ranger
[20:45] [GoldenH] mmmm, pink ranger
[20:45] [Jydan] That Pink Power Ranger was something...
[20:47] [DarthTom] jyd: Which one ?
[20:47] [Jydan] Uh.. the only one I can think of.. the first one..
[20:47] [DarthTom] uh-oh
[20:47] [Hikari] (oh gods, no..)
[20:47] [Fiat] Amy Jo Johnson was the actresses name.
[20:48] [Fiat] EXACTLY!
[20:48] [GoldenH] yeap
[20:48] [Jydan] That's right. Thank you.
[20:48] [Jydan] Meep!
[20:48] [DarthTom] ...and yes, her
[20:48] [DarthTom] to quote a Mike Myers char...
[20:48] [DarthTom] Schwing
[20:48] [Hikari] (PLAY STUPID IN THAT SORT OF SITUATION!! YOU MEN CAN ACT STUPID IN ANY OTHER SITUATION! WHY NOT THEN?!!)
[20:48] [Fiat] SO I'm there with my cat-ate-canary grin, and he goes on with "And I assume she was wearing something small and revealing?"
[20:49] [Jydan] And the color is just soooo evocative.
[20:49] [DarthTom] oh, wonderful
[20:49] [Fiat] (Because if I had, I wouldn't have had nearly so much FRIGGING FUN, EH?!?!?!)
[20:49] [Hikari] (point..)
[20:49] [DarthTom] dude....I'm like, mr.clean-cut-and-shaven...and *I* know to play dumb
[20:50] * Jydan always plays dumb.
[20:50] [Jydan] With girls!
[20:50] [Jydan] Either that or sweet...
[20:50] * Jydan raises eyebrows.
[20:50] [Hikari] (urgh.)
[20:52] [DarthTom] ooooooooooh boy
[20:53] * Hikari sighs.
[20:53] * DarthTom is suddenly reminded of that Mello Yello commercial
[20:54] [DarthTom] uh-oh
[20:55] [Hikari] Okay, if I did the romantic chick-flick, then you sure did the sit-com...
[20:57] * Jydan wonders if he could have better self-control in the same situation. He doubts it.
[20:59] [Hikari] (good point)
[20:59] [DarthTom] oy vey
[20:59] [Jydan] Not only still here, but HERE.
[21:04] * Fiat shrugs.
[21:04] * GoldenH is now known as Storyteller
[21:05] * Fiat rubs his shoulder. OK, joke in bad taste, whatever.
[21:06] [Fiat] Meanwhile, I believe it is game time!
[21:06] * Hikari nods.
[21:06] * Fiat is now known as Jynaru
[21:06] [Storyteller] good 'ol movie-vision
[21:06] * Hikari is now known as Cicada
[21:06] [Jynaru] Indeed.
[21:07] [Storyteller] I think I could get away with running the game with just you four, seems like you're the only ones I can trust to actually show up
[21:07] * Jynaru shrugs. WE were the ones actually here when the combat started, anyway.
[21:07] [Storyteller] DT?
[21:07] * Werlynn (~Werlynn@ool-182ded4e.dyn.optonline.net) has joined #pvpexalted
[21:08] * Jynaru starts to hate we. He always seems to doublecap it accidentally.
[21:08] [Storyteller] heyyy
[21:08] [Storyteller] you made it
[21:08] [Jynaru] 'ello, Wer.
[21:08] [Maris] hey
[21:08] * DarthTom is now known as Vanal
[21:08] [Cicada] Hello, Werlyn.
[21:08] * Werlynn does the Sand-people victory bellow waving his EQRPG Players guide
[21:08] * Storyteller 's angst meter reduces by one
[21:08] * Jynaru 'll be right back. Need a drink.
[21:08] * Maris is eating dinner but he'll be back in a few minutes
[21:09] [Storyteller] how'd you get back so soon?
[21:09] [Storyteller] Maris how long exactly
[21:09] [Storyteller] I've got a fight here
[21:09] [Storyteller] come roll init at least
[21:09] [Werlynn] [Actually I just walked in the door. Need to unpack and eat (we skipped the dinner/prizes) please continue to npc me while I eat and unpack. I logged in to observe]
[21:09] [Storyteller] ah
[21:09] [Vanal] (Michael Buffer) Ladies and gentlemen....are you ready ?
[21:09] [Vanal] Are you rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrready ?
[21:09] * Storyteller 's angst meter increases by one fifteenth
[21:09] [Storyteller] playtime
[21:10] * Jynaru tries to remember.
[21:10] [Vanal] And now, for the thousands in attendance, and the *millions* watching at home aorund the world, ladies and gentlemen....
[21:10] [Jynaru] Probably not, but hell, let's do this.
[21:10] [Vanal] Llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllet's get ready to RUMBLE !
[21:11] * Jydan wonders if ALL Solars are "evil" in this game.
[21:11] * Jynaru pounds his boxing gloves together, and tosses a quick jab at His opponent, Iselsi "The Ghost" Romera.
[21:11] * Werlynn is now known as Werlynn_afk
[21:12] [Jynaru] Come on! Mama said knock you out!
[21:12] [Jynaru] I'm gonna knock you out!
[21:12] [Vanal] "In the blue corner, hailing from the Juche prefecture and house Cathak, Lord Cathak "Blademaster' Vanal !
[21:12] [Storyteller] As you put your torches to the pyre, something rips itself out of the ground and lunges. It misses completely, and bounces to the ground beside it. It is definitely material, it's form decayed and rotten, yet somehow clean. It looks like the body lying on the pyre, but instead a ghostly parody of it
[21:12] * Vanal scowls
[21:12] [Vanal] "Aw FUCK."
[21:12] [Storyteller] roll initiative
[21:13] * Cicada is standing at Tabius back guarding him, after she has dragged him away from the light.
[21:13] [Cicada] !roll 1d10 +8
[21:13] [Storyteller] Cicada : 1d10 +8, 8 , Total: 16
[21:13] [Vanal] !roll 1d10 + 6
[21:13] [Storyteller] Vanal : 1d10 + 6, 5 , Total: 5 +
[21:13] [Vanal] 11
[21:14] [Vanal] well, at least it wasn't 14, for once
[21:14] [Jynaru] !roll 1d10 +8
[21:14] [Storyteller] Jynaru : 1d10 +8, 6 , Total: 14
[21:14] [Storyteller] Tabius looks at Cicada, nods, and starts chanting
[21:14] [Vanal] ...me and my big mouth
[21:14] [Jynaru] (Damn jinx.)
[21:15] [Jydan] I know how you feel Vanal, I'm always getting the SAME initiative roll.
[21:15] [Storyteller] Storyteller : 1d10 +8 Tabius, 1 , Total: 9
[21:15] [Storyteller] ?roll 1d10 +8 Tabius
[21:15] [Jydan] Except mine's never good.
[21:15] [Storyteller] goddamn it, I'll never figure out these init bonuses
[21:15] [Jynaru] (Ouch! OUCH!!!!)
[21:16] [Storyteller] Cicada, Jynaru, Vanal, Maris, Tabius, Tala, Tei
[21:16] * Vanal blinks
[21:16] [Vanal] wait...who’s is jydan playing ?
[21:17] [Storyteller] they're not playing
[21:17] [Jydan] No one. I am merely here.
[21:17] [Vanal] oh, alright
[21:17] * Storyteller sets mode: +v Werlynn_afk
[21:18] [Storyteller] that above's the order
[21:18] * Jydan would like to however, remain in the background and chronicle your adventures, since he has nothing better to do besides sit in that musty old library.
[21:18] [Vanal] (great, so we've got a hungry ghost...should've SALTED THE FUCKING GROUND !)
[21:19] * Cicada hears her lord start a spell and tries to make extra sure that nothing gets close to him. Closing her eyes she concentrates on the sounds around them, hearing even the slightest brushing of the reeds she forms a mental picture of what is going on sharper that anything her eyes could have told her in the darkness. (She has Feeling the Air Technique active. and saves her actions for parries to protect Tabius. Lets say three parries)
[21:19] [Jynaru] (When? We just started the frigging funeral!)
[21:19] [Storyteller] +1
[21:19] [Cicada] Stunt?
[21:19] [Storyteller] -2 -3 -4
[21:19] [Storyteller] yes
[21:19] [Cicada] Ok.
[21:20] [Maris] !ex 1 +12
[21:20] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 1 +12, 1, Successes : 12
[21:20] [Storyteller] Okay Maris, you can go before Vanal if you're really done eating
[21:21] * Maris is done
[21:21] [Storyteller] ok
[21:22] * Maris waits for Jynaru then
[21:22] [Storyteller] Jynaru is looking up essence costs
[21:23] [Storyteller] start typing your action Maris, doubt it'll be ruined.
[21:23] * Jynaru flips backwards in a high arc, sliding over the top of his horse, grabbing his bow and quiver.
[21:23] [Storyteller] alright Maris go
[21:23] [Jynaru] (Anima activated on that as well.)
[21:23] [Storyteller] [athletics + dexterity +1]
[21:23] [Maris] ((is it immaterial?))
[21:24] [Storyteller] ((Hungry ghosts are ALWAYS material during the night
[21:24] [Storyteller] ((so yes)
[21:24] [Vanal] ((So we *can* kill it....again)
[21:24] [Storyteller] ((.... and again, and again))
[21:25] [Jynaru] !ex 11
[21:25] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 11, 1, 7, 9, 1, 1, 10, 9, 4, 6, 1, 8, Successes : 6
[21:25] [Storyteller] ok Jynaru mounts his horse and readies his bow for the next turn
[21:25] [Storyteller] Maris now
[21:25] [Jynaru] (Actually, I'm on the ground standing behind the horse. It's hurt to jump that high and land on the horse ;)
[21:26] [Storyteller] ((very well...)
[21:26] * Maris slams his fist into the damn things head, arms and body for 4 successive punches and prepares to block a counterattack.
[21:26] * Jydan notes that the next Unofficial Exalted CharGen should be up today... but isn't. ^_^
[21:26] [Storyteller] okay +1 so -3 -4 -5 -6
[21:26] [Maris] ((pounding surf style for each attack.))
[21:26] [Maris] !ex 9
[21:26] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 9, 4, 7, 4, 7, 9, 5, 2, 3, 10, Successes : 5
[21:27] [Storyteller] 4 extra
[21:27] [Storyteller] (exm for damage)
[21:27] [Maris] !ex 8 -1 soak
[21:27] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 8 -1 soak, 2, 10, 1, 10, 3, 2, 5, 10, Successes : 6
[21:27] [Maris] ((this is bashing by the way unfortunately))
[21:28] [Storyteller] (EXM. EX counts 10's twice.)
[21:28] [Maris] ((my bad))
[21:28] [Maris] !exm 8
[21:28] [Storyteller] Maris : !exm 8, 9, 7, 3, 3, 8, 4, 2, 3, Successes : 3
[21:28] [Jynaru] (Amusing. Same amount of successes either way.)
[21:29] [Storyteller] okay your fists pound into the ghost's back. It howls a unearthly howl, and makes other strange noises
[21:29] [Storyteller] next attack
[21:29] [Maris] !ex 8
[21:29] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 8, 1, 10, 1, 5, 8, 1, 9, 4, Successes : 4
[21:29] [Storyteller] 3 extra
[21:29] [Maris] !exm 7 -2 soak now
[21:29] [Storyteller] Maris : !exm 7 -2 soak now, 9, 9, 8, 5, 6, 1, 2, Successes : 3
[21:30] [Storyteller] The ghost's aura flickers and shimmers as your punches wreck it's corporeal form
[21:30] [Storyteller] next attack Maris
[21:30] [Maris] !ex 7
[21:30] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 7, 3, 7, 6, 1, 1, 6, 5, Successes : 1
[21:30] [Storyteller] no extra successes
[21:30] [Vanal] (dammit, leave some ghost for me !)
[21:30] [Maris] !exm 4
[21:30] [Storyteller] Maris : !exm 4, 8, 9, 4, 7, Successes : 3
[21:30] [Maris] _3 this time
[21:31] [Maris] -3 even
[21:31] [Jynaru] (He can have all the ghost for all I care.)
[21:31] [Storyteller] The ghost's body crunches some more but ceases it's moaning and stops writhing under your blows.
[21:31] [Cicada] (seems like we will have very little ghost left to question..)
[21:31] [Vanal] (Hey, I want my daiklaive to taste some more blood, dammit...one demon ape isn't enough)
[21:32] * Maris groans as he looks at his flesh covered hands, "Damn ghosts."
[21:32] [Storyteller] The pyre seems well lit now, a breeze from the north fanning the flames
[21:32] * Maris heads to the river to wash off his hands
[21:32] [Storyteller] everyone's night vision is ruined, though
[21:32] [Jynaru] (Go whack yourself in the head with it, then. Besides, hungry ghosts aren't that intelligent anyway. Be like trying to question the ape.)
[21:32] * Maris checks for watchers
[21:33] [Maris] !ex 5
[21:33] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 3, 1, 7, 6, 3, Successes : 1
[21:33] * Vanal lets go of his daiklaive's handle and stands up form his drawing stance
[21:33] [Storyteller] Tala and Tei look at each other, lift the body, and throw it into the flames. Tabius stops chanting.
[21:33] * Maris splashes into the water and precedes to wash the ghost gunk off his hands
[21:33] * Vanal sneers "Nice to see good deeds go rewarded."
[21:34] [Storyteller] Maris, you easily get the ghost gunk off
[21:34] * Jynaru walks back over to the pyre.
[21:34] * Maris gets back to the fire, "Well let's get going."
[21:34] * Vanal makes a small show of dusting off his cape and nods
[21:34] * Maris looks around.
[21:34] * Jynaru nods, and tosses the rest of the torch on the pyre.
[21:35] * Maris saddles up on his horse, "Be alert."
[21:35] [Storyteller] Tala nods to Cicada, and starts to help her onto her horse
[21:35] [Storyteller] Tala = Tabius
[21:35] [Storyteller] [arghy]
[21:35] [Vanal] "We just got jumped by a Hungry Ghost Maris, I don't think any of us will be dozing off on the ride."
[21:35] * Vanal saddles up
[21:35] [Storyteller] Tala and Tei walk over to Maris and Jynaru.
[21:36] * Jynaru saddles up , and looks down at the Immaculates.
[21:36] * Cicada gives Tabius a stare. One that tells him that he better let her help him.
[21:36] * Maris reaches down into his saddlebag and pulls out a cloak wrapped package. He tosses it to Jynaru.
[21:36] [Maris] "Remember the deal then."
[21:36] [Storyteller] Tala grabs it in midair
[21:36] * Jynaru catches it with his off hand, and nods.
[21:36] [Jynaru] (Doh!)
[21:37] [Storyteller] "The immaculate order will want these when you have finished with them."
[21:37] * Maris looks to Tala, "What are you doing?"
[21:37] * Vanal keeps an eye on the surrounding area looking for any unwelcome guests
[21:37] [Maris] "I'm pretty sure that's who he intends to give them to."
[21:37] [Storyteller] Vanal, perception + awareness
[21:37] [Jynaru] "They will get them when I am finished with them. But only when I am finished with them."
[21:37] [Vanal] !ex 4
[21:37] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 4, 1, 10, 4, 7, Successes : 3
[21:37] [Storyteller] Tala nods and hands the bag to Jynaru
[21:38] * Maris rolls his eyes and starts down the road with a casual look at the surroundings.
[21:38] [Storyteller] Vanal, you see nothing different. Besides the pyre, there is nothing - or noone here.
[21:38] * Jynaru places it in a saddlebag with a simple lock.
[21:38] * Cicada helps Tabius mount and then whispers to him "My lord, we should make haste away from here. The pyre will have told everybody within many miles where we are and what we have found."
[21:39] * Vanal needs a smoke....but it's a damned dumb idea to light up whilst riding at night
[21:39] [Storyteller] Tabius nods. "We will come back this way.... and have time to clean up any mess we find. The Prefect's troops should still be at the quarry, and we will arrive there shortly. Our appearance will simply not be.. unannounced.
[21:40] [Storyteller] Tala and Tei mount their horses as well
[21:40] * Cicada mounts her own horse, after she has made a quick check of the baggage.
[21:40] * Jynaru chuckles dryly at this.
[21:40] [Maris] !ex 5
[21:40] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 8, 10, 2, 3, 7, Successes : 4
[21:40] [Storyteller] you ride into the darkness. Slowly but surely, your night vision returns; unless that is, you keep looking back at the pyre.
[21:41] * Jynaru has been in deep thought, merely following the others.
[21:42] [Storyteller] everyone who has night vision roll awareness + perception
[21:42] * Vanal scratches at his goatee, his thoughts their usual negative selves
[21:42] [Maris] !ex 5
[21:42] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 3, 9, 1, 2, 7, Successes : 2
[21:42] [Vanal] !ex 4
[21:42] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 4, 1, 6, 5, 5, Successes : 0, Botch
[21:42] [Vanal] ...FUCK
[21:42] [Jynaru] !ex 5
[21:42] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 5, 4, 7, 6, 8, 7, Successes : 3
[21:43] [Storyteller] Maris, you see nothing unusual in the lands ahead. Jynaru, you think we will be coming up to a forest
[21:43] [Jynaru] (I've got to let Rebecca "roll" these dice more often!)
[21:43] [Storyteller] Vanal, you think you see movement to the north.
[21:43] * Vanal jerks his head over to the north
[21:43] [Vanal] "What the *Hell* is that ?!"
[21:43] [Storyteller] definitely movement.
[21:43] [Vanal] "There's something moving out there !"
[21:44] [Jydan] Duh Fiat! It's always the RPG nerd's girlfriend that's the lucky one. We always loose our dice mojo then.
[21:44] * Jynaru looks around.
[21:44] [Jynaru] "Maybe a scout drawn by the pyre?"
[21:44] * Maris turns his head to look out over the river, "I wonder how many boats have gone over this river in years past?" His eyes sweep the river seemingly wistfully.
[21:44] [Vanal] "could be his killer."
[21:44] * Vanal unsheathes his sword
[21:44] [Jynaru] (Me ponders. This is so, so true. She’s got my mojo!)
[21:44] [Storyteller] Vanal, you think you see something darting away
[21:45] [Vanal] "He's bolting !"
[21:45] [Storyteller] The rest of you see some kind of movement in that area as well
[21:45] [Maris] "Vanal we'll be there momentarily."
[21:45] [Vanal] "He *won't* be."
[21:45] * Jynaru nocks an arrow.
[21:45] * Cicada rides up beside Tabius. "My lord..?"
[21:45] [Jynaru] (We're not in the forest yet, right?)
[21:45] [Storyteller] Tabius looks to the north, rubbing his eyes
[21:45] [Storyteller] (not yet, it's coming up)
[21:45] [Storyteller] "Something's out there, but I can't tell what it is."
[21:46] [Vanal] "I'm gonna find out !"
[21:46] * Maris looks to the approaching ground and frowns, "Well let's check it out then."
[21:46] * Vanal gallops his horse over
[21:46] * Maris moves his horse to ghost Vanal's forward.
[21:46] [Jynaru] "Vanal, don't be stupid!"
[21:46] [Storyteller] To the north is a cornfield. You have been running between it on the river on this road.
[21:46] [Storyteller] Vanal, ride check
[21:46] * Jynaru charges after them.
[21:46] [Storyteller] Jynaru, ride check
[21:46] [Vanal] (I swear to god...if there's an alien in the field, I’m gonna kill you)
[21:46] [Vanal] (ride + what ?)
[21:47] [Storyteller] Tabius points towards the field and nods to cicada. "follow them"
[21:47] [Maris] ((so are we galloping toward the field or the forest?))
[21:47] [Storyteller] (your choice, remember ride is a funny check. it's based on your personal style.)
[21:47] [Cicada] "Yes, my lord. Your wish is my command."
[21:47] [Storyteller] you are galloping into the field
[21:47] [Vanal] !ex 5
[21:47] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 5, 10, 1, 9, 9, 2, Successes : 4
[21:47] [Storyteller] Tabius follows behind
[21:47] [Jynaru] !ex 7
[21:47] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 7, 10, 10, 3, 10, 2, 5, 1, Successes : 6
[21:47] * Cicada speeds after the others.
[21:47] [Storyteller] Tala and Tei slowly bring up the rear
[21:47] * Maris is following the two of them.
[21:48] [Storyteller] Everyone roll ride checks
[21:48] [Vanal] (Hoo-ah ! I'm leading everyone on a wild goose chase ! Van's gonna be REALLY bitter and resentful in a few minutes)
[21:48] [Storyteller] unless you haven't already
[21:48] [Jynaru] (SHE DOES HAVE MY MOJO!!!!!)
[21:48] [Storyteller] (better get it back!)
[21:48] [Maris] !ex 5
[21:48] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 2, 3, 3, 7, 10, Successes : 3
[21:48] [Jynaru] (Love is never again rolling multiple tens with virtual dice ;)
[21:48] [Jydan] Told you so.
[21:48] * Cicada 's player snickers.
[21:48] [Cicada] (dexterity + ride?)
[21:49] [Storyteller] (no, it's a social or strength, depending on how you treat your mount.)
[21:49] [Cicada] ok.
[21:49] [Cicada] !ex 3 (cha + ride) Cicada is a gentle and somewhat incompetent rider.
[21:49] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 3 (cha + ride), 6, 5, 10, Successes : 2
[21:49] [Storyteller] you gallop into the cornfield. It is difficult to keep up, but not so hard. Whatever is moving is moving just as fast as you.
[21:50] [Storyteller] You can see the swaying field ahead of you
[21:50] [Storyteller] Jynaru, perception + awareness check
[21:50] * Maris tries to get a glimpse of it
[21:50] [Jynaru] (Can I see it well enough to shoot an arrow at it?)
[21:50] [Storyteller] Maris, you're too far back
[21:50] [Storyteller] You could try, but it'd be very difficult
[21:50] [Maris] mkay
[21:50] [Storyteller] as in 3 or 4
[21:51] [Jynaru] !ex 5
[21:51] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 5, 3, 1, 7, 3, 7, Successes : 2
[21:51] [Storyteller] what's that for?
[21:51] [Storyteller] perception + awareness?
[21:51] [Jynaru] Yah.
[21:51] [Storyteller] Whatever it is, you can't see well enough, but it certainly exists.
[21:51] [Vanal] (Betcha it's a bunny)
[21:52] [Cicada] (then at least we can eat well. I say it is a toad)
[21:52] * Jynaru 's player blinks. (Literal goose. Got to be.)
[21:52] [Storyteller] Jynaru and Vanal are in the lead, then Maris & Cicada, and Tabius, and Tala and Tei taking up the rear.
[21:52] [Vanal] (one rabbit for what ? 6 DBs? not much food)
[21:52] [Maris] ((horse))
[21:52] [Storyteller] Roll ride checks again
[21:52] [Maris] !ex 5
[21:52] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 4, 6, 6, 10, 5, Successes : 2
[21:52] [Vanal] !ex 5
[21:52] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 5, 9, 5, 8, 3, 3, Successes : 2
[21:53] [Jynaru] (Or the alien thingie from signs.)
[21:53] [Vanal] (Naw, it's got to be...Bruce Campbell)
[21:53] [Jynaru] !ex 7
[21:53] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 7, 4, 7, 2, 3, 10, 7, 7, Successes : 5
[21:53] [Cicada] (so what are we? The army of darkness?)
[21:53] [Storyteller] Maris and Vanal, you barely are able to keep your horse moving at a full gallop
[21:53] [Jynaru] (Who got Ride? I got Ride! Sign me up for the Juche Derby!)
[21:54] [Vanal] (Oh shut up, or I’ll let you scheme on your own)
[21:54] [Vanal] (We're his witless minions)
[21:54] [Storyteller] The cornfield's ground is rugged and hard to navigate, but Jynaru's horse seems to fly over it.
[21:54] [Jynaru] (Awwwww....... I sowwwy.)
[21:54] [Storyteller] Maris, your crappy piece of shit horse rears and slows to a walk.
[21:55] [Storyteller] Jynaru, you are again in the lead. perception + awareness
[21:55] [Jynaru] !ex 5
[21:55] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 5, 6, 9, 1, 8, 2, Successes : 2
[21:55] * Maris growls at it and spurs it to a gallop.
[21:55] [Storyteller] It is very hard to see, but whatever it is is certainly bigger than a horse. You can see the area well enough to make a shot
[21:55] [Vanal] (it's the bone lion, I betcha)
[21:56] [Jynaru] (Numerology. 5+2 is seven, and seven minus two is 5, and note the multiple occurances of 7 within the role of seven... Is it humanoid?
[21:56] [Cicada] (a TerrorSaurus!)
[21:57] [Jynaru] (As in more vertical looking than horizontal.)
[21:57] [Vanal] (You mean Tyranosaurus ?)
[21:57] [Cicada] (no, those are too small. TerrorSaurus! Fictional lizard)
[21:58] [Storyteller] (lol. you wanna try to shoot it Jynaru? Difficulty 3)
[21:58] [Vanal] (Thank you Calvin)
[21:58] [Cicada] (you are welcome, Hobbes)
[21:58] [Jynaru] (Hmmm.... is it going to deduct on my ride roll?)
[21:58] [Storyteller] (no)
[21:58] [Vanal] (shoot the motherfuckin thing !)
[21:59] [Storyteller] (5 is good enough, what big deal)
[21:59] [Maris] ((it's big bird!! don't shoot. he's got kids on his back!!))
[21:59] [Vanal] ((It's big bird ?! GIMME THAT BOW !))
[21:59] * Jynaru carefully leads the leaping shadow, and fires an arrow at it. Brodhead.
[22:00] [Storyteller] roll
[22:00] [Jynaru] (I don't LIKE kids, nor big bird. I wonder if he tastes like chicken?)
[22:00] [Storyteller] archery + dexterity eh
[22:00] [Jynaru] !ex 10
[22:00] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 10, 2, 4, 4, 1, 2, 4, 9, 5, 7, 7, Successes : 3
[22:00] [Storyteller] no extra successes, damage
[22:00] [Jynaru] (Yep, plus acc bonus.)
[22:00] [Maris] ((isn't that 5 successes?))
[22:01] [Storyteller] (no, the 10 doesn't count
[22:01] [Maris] ((ah. my bad))
[22:01] [Storyteller] (he rolled !ex 10, it's merely repeating it)
[22:01] [Jynaru] !ex 9
[22:01] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 9, 7, 1, 6, 8, 4, 5, 2, 4, 5, Successes : 2
[22:02] * Maris hopes there's a good horse he can get at the camp. He really wants to snap this one's neck.
[22:02] [Jynaru] (She has all my mojo... even my killing things mojo! I weep with shame.)
[22:02] [Storyteller] A scream comes from ahead, seeming like it is some kind of canine beast. A howl comes, but it keeps running.
[22:03] [Jynaru] (I die. My body rots and becomes a breeding ground for plague-infested rats. They spread vile disease and the city dies.)
[22:03] [Vanal] "It sounds like a dog."
[22:03] [Jynaru] (A dog fucking bigger than a HORSE?)
[22:03] [Vanal] (...a beastman ?)
[22:04] [Maris] "Why are we terrorizing someone's terrier?" And Jyn's the only one who can see it right?"
[22:04] [Vanal] (maybe our dear ex-Lunar got a little frisky ?)
[22:04] [Storyteller] yeap
[22:04] [Jynaru] (Wait.. Canine howl, really big... Lunar?)
[22:04] [Storyteller] (who knows?)
[22:04] [Vanal] (oh, for fun....that'd be JUST our luck)
[22:04] [Jynaru] (How far are we from the road?)
[22:05] [Storyteller] about two football fields. you're surrounded completely by corn.
[22:05] [Vanal] and me without my microwave
[22:05] [Jynaru] (wonderfragginful.)
[22:06] * Vanal idly wonders if anyone has a spare bow and some arrows)
[22:06] [Storyteller] ride checks?
[22:06] [Vanal] !ex 5
[22:06] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 5, 10, 8, 1, 3, 3, Successes : 3
[22:06] [Storyteller] what do you do?
[22:06] [Maris] !ex 5
[22:06] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 9, 2, 10, 7, 3, Successes : 4
[22:06] [Storyteller] still following it?
[22:06] [Vanal] it seems like a false alarm, maybe we should turn back ?
[22:06] [Cicada] !ex 3 (cha + Ride) "Now sweet horsie, please don't throw little Cicada."
[22:06] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 3 (cha + Ride) "Now, 8, 6, 2, Successes : 1 +
[22:07] * Jynaru angles off to the side as he stops to avoid collisions.
[22:07] [Jynaru] !ex 7
[22:07] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 7, 6, 5, 10, 10, 8, 10, 3, Successes : 7
[22:07] [Storyteller] Cicada, your horse doesn't throw you, but it does slow down to a walk abruptly. You seem to have guided your horse into a particularly well tilled clump of soil.
[22:08] [Jynaru] (That's it. I'm dating a mojo vampire. She's even stealing Hikari's mojo over the net!)
[22:08] [Storyteller] Maris, you are able to get your horse moving again.
[22:08] [Jynaru] "It's not worth it! We have other concerns right now."
[22:08] * Maris sees Jyn stopped and pulls up his horse to where Jyn is.
[22:08] * Maris turns his horse around and heads back to the road.
[22:09] * Cicada dismounts and tries to help her horse out of the mud.
[22:09] [Storyteller] Jynaru, your horse flies under you, as you expertly guide it around the evil, fell fertilized soil. You pull up next to whatever it is, and... perception + awareness
[22:09] [Jynaru] !ex 5
[22:09] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 5, 10, 2, 1, 7, 3, Successes : 3
[22:09] [Vanal] (I'm breathless with anticipation)
[22:10] [Storyteller] .. There is a large dog, considerably smaller than you thought before, but still of impressive size. It is tearing through the cornfield, snarling, a arrow jutting out of it's back.
[22:10] [Jynaru] (Omen, or just really big farking dog?)
[22:11] [Cicada] ( it is ..... THE DOG OF BASKERVILL! Run for your lives!)
[22:11] [Storyteller] (really big farking dog, like a cocker spaniel.
[22:11] [Jydan] Oh my. I don't believe that dog is happy. Well, you could always give it a Beggin' Strip.
[22:11] [Jydan] It's BACON!
[22:11] [Vanal] (never mention that doggie treat again, I looked for a box of thos things for 20 minutes at work today)
[22:11] [Jydan] Sorry.
[22:12] [Storyteller] talk in ()'s
[22:12] [Jynaru] (It's BACON!)
[22:12] * Storyteller slaps Jydan around a bit with a blue herring
[22:12] [Jydan] (Pardon!)
[22:12] * Jynaru 's player blinks. Damn jydan for beating me to the catchphrase.
[22:12] * Maris sidles his horse next to Tei's and says quietly, "I think there's a spirit to the south watching us. I can't spot it but I know it's there."
[22:12] [Storyteller] Tei looks up
[22:13] [Storyteller] Tei slows his horse and looks behind him
[22:13] * Jynaru ponders.
[22:13] [Jynaru] (Go ahead and put the thing out of it's misery?)
[22:13] [Storyteller] He squints for a moment, but then shakes his head.
[22:13] [Maris] ((I did mean towards the river by to teh south.
[22:13] * Vanal scowls
[22:13] [Storyteller] "I don't see any spirits."
[22:13] [Vanal] "Let's get back to the road."
[22:13] [Maris] "Alright. Thanks for looking.'
[22:13] * Maris heads back to the road
[22:13] [Storyteller] Tei nods
[22:14] [Maris] !ex 5
[22:14] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 8, 2, 6, 1, 8, Successes : 2
[22:14] * Jynaru shrugs. Wasn't one of his special arrows anyway.
[22:14] * Cicada struggles to pull and shove her horse out of the mud. Getting 'pleasantly' dirty herself.
[22:14] [Storyteller] Tala continues following Tabius, but both seem to slow down when Maris comes by. "Did you find it?"
[22:14] [Cicada] (to pull, that is)
[22:14] [Vanal] "Dragon-damned mutt."
[22:14] [Maris] "It was a dog."
[22:14] * Jynaru heads back towards the road, raising an eyebrow at Vanal as he passes.
[22:15] * Vanal gives Jyn The Look Of Death
[22:15] * Vanal heads back to the road
[22:15] [Storyteller] Cicada, you are able to lead your horse out of the mud. Tabius rides up and stops, looking down at you from his mount. "This way, the soil should be hard enough."
[22:16] [Cicada] "Thank you my lord." (Cicada leads her horse that way)
[22:16] [Storyteller] after a few more minutes of prodding and pushing, you think you can get on
[22:17] * Vanal seethes as he rides back, once again in a pissy mood
[22:17] * Cicada remounts and follows her lord back to the road.
[22:17] * Maris rides onward occasionally glancing at the river.
[22:18] [Storyteller] Tabius returns with Cicada, and Tala and Tei finally follow up behind you. Tei looks up to Maris.
[22:19] [Storyteller] "Maris, There was a spirit, but not in the direction you suggested."
[22:19] [Maris] "I still think it's there" He says quietly
[22:19] [Maris] "Where?"
[22:19] [Storyteller] "A farm spirit, in the field, I suspect."
[22:20] [Maris] "You think it'll know anything about the murder?'
[22:20] [Storyteller] Tala shakes her head. "Such spirits rarely care for events outside their domain."
[22:20] [Storyteller] perception + awareness, as you resume your ride
[22:21] * Maris sighs and keeps going on then.
[22:21] [Vanal] !ex 4
[22:21] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 4, 4, 4, 1, 7, Successes : 1
[22:21] [Jynaru] !ex 5
[22:21] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 5, 10, 10, 4, 6, 1, Successes : 4
[22:21] [Maris] !ex 5
[22:21] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 1, 4, 8, 6, 10, Successes : 3
[22:21] * Cicada tires to get the worst dirt off her. Her sandals most certainly are discartable.
[22:21] [Storyteller] Tabius pulls his horse up next to Vanal. He doesn't seem to say anything, but then again, he's there
[22:21] [Jydan] (I wonder how you do the bold thing.)
[22:21] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 12, 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, 10, 2, 10, 9, 4, 1, 7, Successes : 9
[22:21] [Storyteller] ?ex 12
[22:22] * Vanal GLARES at Tabius "Just shut up."
[22:22] [Storyteller] "Anyone else see that?" Tabius asks, pointing to the northeast. "A light?"
[22:22] * Maris looks northeast
[22:22] * Werlynn_afk is now known as Tala
[22:22] [Cicada] !ex 6
[22:22] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 6, 4, 10, 2, 1, 2, 6, Successes : 2
[22:22] * Maris focuses in that direction.
[22:23] [Maris] "I don't see anything."
[22:23] * Vanal looks northeast, skeptically
[22:23] * Jynaru looks northeast. (I assume that's not the remains of the pyre starting a forest fire)
[22:23] [Vanal] "Probably another damned mutt"
[22:23] [Storyteller] (no, that would be due west)
[22:23] * Jynaru looks at Vanal.
[22:23] [Maris] "Well we could chase it and even you two up on wild goose hunts.'
[22:24] [Tala] !ex 5
[22:24] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 5, 4, 5, 4, 10, 3, Successes : 2
[22:24] [Storyteller] "A little bit off the sky, a whole bunch of them.
[22:24] * Maris says sardonically.
[22:24] [Storyteller] sky = ground
[22:24] [Jynaru] "If someone has a glowing dog, I'd like to know."
[22:24] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 5, 1, 9, 9, 5, Successes : 2
[22:24] [Storyteller] ?ex 5
[22:24] [Storyteller] Tala nor Tei see anything.
[22:24] [Maris] "What's in that direction?"
[22:24] [Cicada] (it is .... THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLE! Run for your lives!)
[22:24] [Storyteller] Tabius frowns and considers.
[22:24] [Jynaru] (Trust the ocular one.)
[22:25] [Storyteller] "Nothing but plains until about a half day's travel, then there should be the foothills of the imperial mountains."
[22:25] [Jynaru] (Bah. You run, I'll ride like the wind.)
[22:25] [Maris] "How far away was the light?
[22:25] * Cicada leans over to her lord. "My lord, any instructions? Do you wish me to investigate?"
[22:25] [Storyteller] "Seems like that far"
[22:25] * Jynaru considers.
[22:25] [Jynaru] "Campfires?"
[22:25] [Storyteller] Tabius shakes his head. "Too far away. Just keep an eye on it."
[22:26] [Storyteller] Tabius ponders.
[22:26] [Maris] "Half day is pretty far away."
[22:26] [Cicada] "Yes, my lord. I understand."
[22:26] * Maris says as he rides the road toward the mine
[22:26] [Jydan] (Woooooooooo! Bebop!)
[22:26] * Vanal scowls and rides in silence, fuming and so red he's almost glowing
[22:26] [Storyteller] "Could be. The whole hillside seems to be littered with it.)
[22:26] [Storyteller] Jynaru's anima dissipates
[22:26] [Storyteller] (I've never SEEN Bebop, I can't be ripping it off)
[22:26] * Maris thinks and frowns."
[22:27] [Jydan] (no, Bebop on CN)
[22:27] * Jynaru stretches his back.
[22:27] [Storyteller] (same difference)
[22:27] [Cicada] (whispers to Tabius) "My lord, that many campfires. Would that not indicate an army?"
[22:27] [Maris] "you think it might be the bandits?"
[22:27] [Storyteller] Tabius shakes his head. "I can't tell."
[22:27] [Maris] "Well let's see what's left of the force at the mines.
[22:27] [Vanal] "Low-life, opportunistic bastards. If they *are*, I hope damned spirits kill them to a man."
[22:27] [Jynaru] (Which way are we traveling? Towards, away, parallel to the campfires?)
[22:27] [Maris] "And check out the murder site."
[22:28] [Storyteller] somewhat towards, but on an angle.
[22:28] [Cicada] (Whispers) I doubt that it could be bandits. Bandits know to maintain light discipline
[22:28] [Storyteller] maybe 15 degrees south of it
[22:28] [Cicada] "
[22:28] [Storyteller] Tabius nods to cicada.
[22:28] [Jynaru] "We're heading the right way, at least. We can check it out after the mines."
[22:28] [Storyteller] (whispers) "Whoever it is, there is a lot of them, but they won't be able to reach us before dawn. If they are campfires, then they're probably camping."
[22:29] [Maris] "The lights still there Tabius?"
[22:29] [Storyteller] Tabius nods
[22:29] * Maris sighs and continues on.
[22:29] [Storyteller] 30 minutes pass as you ride on. Another hour till you arrive at the quarry
[22:29] * Maris takes another glance at the river and sighs again.
[22:30] [Tala] "It could be the Order."
[22:30] [Maris] "Well let's hope so."
[22:30] * Vanal nods
[22:30] [Maris] "How many you think Tabius?"
[22:30] [Tala] "That is where they would be traveling from."
[22:30] [Storyteller] Tabius looks and seems to count
[22:30] * Vanal tubs on his gloves
[22:30] [Vanal] *tugs
[22:30] [Cicada] (whispers to Tabius) "My lord if that is an enemy army, maybe spirits, marching on the mine or the city, then we need advance warning. Please let me investigate."
[22:30] [Storyteller] "scores of them, maybe more... it is hard to see."
[22:31] * Jynaru blinks.
[22:31] [Maris] "Alright."
[22:31] [Cicada] (whispering on) "And if it is the Immaculate army, you might want warning as well."
[22:31] [Jynaru] "How many Immaculates would be coming, Tala?"
[22:31] [Storyteller] Tabius shakes his head, whispering back to Cicada. "I will need you with me when we arrive at the quarry, whatever assassinated Tammanah may still be there, or around there. It would not be safe for you to travel alone.)
[22:32] * Cicada is about to protest that she would be more than safe, then stops and mutters "Yes, my lord. I understand."
[22:32] [Tala] "An army."
[22:33] [Storyteller] the minutes pass on
[22:33] [Tala] "But I cannot say for certain how many."
[22:33] * Vanal tries to makes an estimate of the amount of troops there could be
[22:33] [Storyteller] the ground slopes upwards, and becomes harder and more rockey.
[22:33] [Jynaru] (Are we still riding along, or did we stop?)
[22:33] [Jydan] (Mushroom Samba!)
[22:33] [Storyteller] (still riding)
[22:34] [Jynaru] (Gotcha.)
[22:34] [Storyteller] you think you see the guard fires ahead, maybe 20 minutes away.
[22:35] [Storyteller] the ground becomes unsuitable for farming, and the corn is greatly stunted, but still you see the occasional farmhouse as you ride by
[22:35] [Vanal] (Mutter) "What I would give to be back in Juche right now. where it's warm, and nice...and I get sleep...and people aren't trying to kill me."
[22:36] * Jynaru drinks from a small canteen, and replaces it in his belongings.
[22:36] * Maris keeps going and hopes there will be some food left over when he gets there.
[22:36] * Vanal lights up a cigarello
[22:37] * Vanal inhales deeply, trying to calm frazzled nerves
[22:37] [Cicada] !ex 5 (man + soc)
[22:37] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 5 (man + soc), 5, 7, 8, 6, 4, Successes : 2
[22:38] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 6, Successes : 0, Botch
[22:38] [Storyteller] ?ex 5
[22:38] [Jynaru] (Whoa....)
[22:39] [Vanal] (Hik...BOTCHED ?! Dear GOD ! Rebecca is a damned mojo vampire !)
[22:39] [Storyteller] (no, I botched)
[22:39] [Vanal] (oh, okay)
[22:39] [Storyteller] (I botch ALL the time)
[22:39] * Vanal mis-read that
[22:39] [Jynaru] (GH botches a lot anyway ;)
[22:39] * Cicada listens to Tabius whispered instructions for a while. Then dismounts.
[22:39] [Vanal] (I withdraw my remark)
[22:39] [Storyteller] (right ghada?)
[22:39] [Vanal] (sure thing, Terrin)
[22:39] [Storyteller] (*picks up his bow*)
[22:40] [Vanal] (And point that fucking bow at Ghada this time, and you'll get a lightning chain where the sun don't shine)
[22:40] [Storyteller] (*bah*)
[22:40] [Storyteller] Cicada leaves after her whispered conversation with Tabius, and the party goes on without her.
[22:40] * Cicada then looks a little confused standing there with the reins of her horse in her hand, before she gives then to Tei (if he does not refuse leading and extra horse, that is).
[22:40] [Maris] "Where's she going then?"
[22:40] [Storyteller] Tei manages to take the reins with some grace
[22:40] * Maris asks Maris idly.
[22:41] * Maris asks Tabius even
[22:41] * Jynaru watches her leave.
[22:41] [Storyteller] [Tabius] "She is going to check on the fires."
[22:41] [Storyteller] about 20 minutes later you arrive. A couple of guards shout down from towers, and there seems to be a large camp spread out before you.
[22:41] * Cicada runs off towards the fires, happy that her now very dirty clothes forms a bit of camouflage and that she is used to running barefooted.
[22:41] [Maris] "Ahoy!"
[22:41] [Storyteller] "Who goes there?" comes a light man's voice.
[22:42] * Vanal sits tall in his saddle
[22:42] [Maris] "A number of Dragon Blooded. Who's in charge here?"
[22:43] [Storyteller] A few guards rouse themselves to their posts, looking at you warily
[22:43] * Maris walks his horse on towards the camp unconcerned.
[22:44] [Storyteller] One of them steps forward from the line which has formed between you and the camp
[22:44] * Vanal goes into full military mode
[22:44] [Storyteller] "I am the supervisor of this shift."
[22:44] [Vanal] "Who is your commanding officer, soldier ?"
[22:44] * Jynaru casts an appraising eye at him.
[22:45] [Storyteller] "Scalemaster Francais. He is not available at this time." A few more troops seem to drift into the line
[22:46] [Maris] "We're here to investigate Prefect Tammanah's Death. You mind waking your commander so we can talk to him about it?"
[22:46] [Vanal] (Francais ? They've got a FRENCH CO ? Welp, don't count on them in a fight)
[22:46] * Tala looks around
[22:46] * Maris says from his horse.
[22:46] * Vanal nods
[22:46] [Storyteller] "Our commander has had a long day. he is not to be disturbed until morning. If you like, you may camp outside our perimeter until then."
[22:47] * Jynaru narrows his eyes at this.
[22:47] * Maris raises an eyebrow in the dark and looks at the soldier, "What's your rank and name then?"
[22:47] [Vanal] "*Scalemasdter* Francais. Does your commander know whom *I* am ?"
[22:48] [Storyteller] "No sir"
[22:48] [Vanal] "*Talon Commander* Cathak Vanal."
[22:49] [Storyteller] The man nods.
[22:49] [Vanal] "We have had a long ride. Now, I think waiting until morning won't be a problem, but we *are* tired and hungry...and would enjoy access to some of your facilities."
[22:50] [Storyteller] "I am Fangmaster Bitto, and I will need proof that you are who you say you are before I allow you to pass. We have had bandits here, you may have noticed them?"
[22:51] * Vanal points to the mon on his shoulder...and the unit insignia on his OTHER shoulder"
[22:51] [Storyteller] "Those are easy enough to fake."
[22:51] * Vanal spends a mote to prove his DB-hood
[22:51] [Storyteller] The fangmaster is within throttling distance now.
[22:52] * Vanal 's skin takes on a glowing red tinge
[22:52] [Storyteller] He looks at you, considering. "All your names then? We will still require you to be watched."
[22:53] * Maris looks at his black jade armor and then looks at the man, "Cynis Maris. And I could snap your neck if you want proof.'
[22:53] * Maris says to the man
[22:53] [Storyteller] He looks up at you, defiantly
[22:54] * Maris says this in a nonchalant but threatening voice.
[22:54] [Storyteller] (presence + charisma)
[22:54] [Maris] !ex 7
[22:54] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 7, 1, 10, 10, 4, 1, 10, 4, Successes : 6
[22:56] [Storyteller] the man looks suitably cowed by your threat, maris.
[22:57] [Maris] "I've been riding 6 hours on a thrice damned nag of a horse. I'm in no mood to deal with some idiot soldier who can't tell the sky form a hole in the ground." He growls out.
[22:57] [Storyteller] He looks at you unhappily
[22:57] * Maris rides through the soldiers daring a one of them to try and stop him.
[22:57] [Storyteller] but does not return comment
[22:57] [Storyteller] "This way," he says, leading you all through the camp
[22:57] [Maris] ((the last was to Vanal by the way))
[22:57] [Storyteller] The camp looks like it has been set up well enough; tents and wagons set up so that it will be easily defensible
[22:58] * Vanal nods approvingly
[22:58] [Tala] "I am Tala, Second Coil acolyte of the Order of the Immaculate Dragons." Tala says to the man politely, with a slight incline of her head. The fact that she is a dragonblooded exalt is ni impossible to disguise.
[22:59] [Storyteller] To either side of the camp, large cliff walls rise up. Scaffolding covers them, allowing for them to be quickly scaled, and you see that a guard has been erected on the tops of the walls
[22:59] * Maris examines the place as he goes.
[22:59] [Storyteller] One of the guards are following you and recording your names as you go.
[22:59] * Jynaru looks around, mentally critiquing the setup.
[23:00] [Maris] How many soldiers here?
[23:00] [Storyteller] At the middle of the camp, he veers off to one side. The tents slowly begin to thin out
[23:00] [Jynaru] "Usual Cathak efficiency. I'm Ledaal Jynaru."
[23:00] [Storyteller] ~250-400 soldiers.
[23:01] * Vanal rubs at his shoulder underneath his armor
[23:01] [Storyteller] Eventually you find yourself at a clearing, surrounded on three sides by tents, and the fourth side by the cliff wall
[23:01] [Storyteller] You're not right up against it, but there are few tents between you and it.
[23:01] [Storyteller] The fangmaster stops
[23:02] * Maris waits
[23:03] * Vanal eyes the area, face still showing displeasure
[23:03] [Storyteller] "You can make tent here. There is a river due south, simply follow the main road through camp. The water comes from a spring higher in these hills, and you can drink it safetly. We have stores, but they are closed until morning, as are the kitchens."
[23:03] [Vanal] "Excellent, fanglord."
[23:03] [Storyteller] He nods
[23:03] [Storyteller] He points to a fang of troops which have just arrived.
[23:03] * Vanal dismounts
[23:04] * Maris dismounts and looks to the troops.
[23:04] [Maris] What time is it?
[23:04] [Storyteller] "These will observe you. I would not recommend trying to trick them, they have been ordered to raise an alarm if you try to evade them.
[23:04] [Storyteller] It is just before midnight.
[23:04] [Storyteller] It is very dark here
[23:04] [Tala] "Thank you, that will be all."
[23:05] * Tala says before anyone can complain
[23:05] * Vanal GLARES at Tala
[23:05] [Storyteller] He nods, and the fangmaster starts to leave, the fang staying where it is.
[23:05] [Maris] "We're not gonna have time to check out the other campfire if we sleep here."
[23:05] * Jynaru swings easily off his horse, and sends a look at the fang. He chuckles.
[23:05] [Jynaru] "Apparently, Tabius has taken care of that, right Tabius?"
[23:06] [Maris] "You really want to trust that to a mortal?"
[23:06] * Maris asks to the group.
[23:06] [Storyteller] The fang seem well disciplined, they stand, taking up positions that effectively wall you against the cliff wall.
[23:06] [Cicada] (well excuse ME! ;) )
[23:06] [Storyteller] Tabis looks at Maris. "She has proven quite effective in the past."
[23:06] [Maris] "I'd like to investigate the death now and then head out there."
[23:07] [Maris] "And yeah she has but I feel like waking up the damn commander here."
[23:07] * Vanal 's lip twists in disgust at their treatment "I will be having a word with their commanding officer in the morning."
[23:07] * manxcat (manxcat@wv-mltn-ubr-c-024-159-089-167.charterwv.net) has joined #pvpexalted
[23:08] [Jydan] (I'm thinking about making a bard to follow you around and sing songs. That would be fun.)
[23:08] [Storyteller] you haven’t slept in a day or so
[23:08] [Storyteller] hey manx
[23:08] * Maris sighs
[23:08] * manxcat is now known as Tei
[23:08] [Maris] "Ah well. I could use the sleep."
[23:08] [Jynaru] "As it is, we have been very busy, and rest would be welcome. I'm sure the servant knows well enough to remain out of sight."
[23:08] [Cicada] (Hi Manx, welcome)
[23:08] * Vanal scowls and sets up
[23:08] * Maris gets the tent and starts setting his up.
[23:08] [Storyteller] )catch him up, I have to load the dishwasher)
[23:08] [Tei] hello all)
[23:09] [Jynaru] ('ello, manx)
[23:09] [Maris] (hey)
[23:09] * Maris then goes about dealing with his damn horse. He then goes to get some rest.
[23:10] [Jydan] (Heh hee, what do you all think about me being your bard??)
[23:10] * Jynaru sets up carefully, and prepares for a nap.
[23:10] [Jynaru] (Frightening thought. You wouldn't last an episode, someone would off you.)
[23:10] * Maris is too tired to contemplate it. Though he'd most likely take whatever instrument you use and make a necklace of it for you.
[23:11] [Vanal] (me, most likely)
[23:11] [Tala] (can't stay that much longer. Had awful night's sleep in hotel and busy all day walking around Boston)
[23:11] [Jydan] (Well, that's the fun of being a bard)
[23:11] [Maris] (Is someone telling Tei what happened?))
[23:12] [Jydan] (I haven't been paying much attention. Somebody better be.)
[23:12] [Vanal] We fought the iselsi's hungry ghost, chased a dog through a cornfield, saw some campfire lights on the way to the quarry (and cic is off investigating), blustered our way into a VERY paranoid encampment, and are currently setting up camp ourselves
[23:12] [Cicada] (not me. Anyone?)
[23:13] [Tei] got it
[23:13] [Jynaru] (Not too much to relates. Maris squishes ghost, we ride, see campfires, get here. Oh, and Vanal decides a cocker spaniel was the murderer.)
[23:13] * Maris is currently sleeping in his tent with his hobbled horse next to him.
[23:13] [Jydan] (Well, that was very good Vanal. That's what I had understood.)
[23:14] [Cicada] (oh, and Cicada asked Tei to take care of her horse, as she is faster on foot)
[23:14] [Vanal] (ah, young love)
[23:14] [Cicada] (* Cicada punched Vanal, concaving his face. "Is NOT!")
[23:15] [Maris] ((ah kindergarden love))
[23:15] * Storyteller finishes it
[23:15] [Storyteller] sleeping dynasts?
[23:15] [Cicada] ("AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHH!")
[23:15] * Maris is sleeping currently.
[23:15] [Storyteller] do you set up a guard?
[23:15] [Jynaru] Sleeping dynasts.
[23:15] [Storyteller] or watch?
[23:15] [Tei] Tei'll do it
[23:15] [Maris] We got one all set up already.
[23:15] [Tei] or not
[23:15] [Vanal] they kill us in our sleep, *my* hungry ghost will rip them a new one
[23:16] [Storyteller] who is the watch then?
[23:16] * Maris sleeps in his armor again not feeling very trusting.
[23:16] [Maris] The fang the idiot sent to watch us.
[23:16] [Storyteller] ah
[23:16] [Storyteller] okay then
[23:17] * Jynaru 's a light sleeper anyway, and in armor. Paranoia is the watchword for Dynasts.
[23:17] [Storyteller] you all pitch your sleeping equipment, that is, if you were wise enough to bring some
[23:17] [Storyteller] sleeping you are....
[23:17] [Storyteller] and sleeping....
[23:17] [Storyteller] sleeping...
[23:18] [Storyteller] everyone roll willpower
[23:18] [Maris] !ex 7
[23:18] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 7, 4, 8, 2, 1, 4, 9, 10, Successes : 4
[23:18] [Jynaru] !ex 6
[23:18] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 6, 6, 4, 8, 3, 7, 1, Successes : 2
[23:18] [Vanal] !ex 6
[23:18] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 6, 8, 8, 9, 3, 9, 6, Successes : 4
[23:18] [Tei] !ex 5
[23:18] [Storyteller] Tei : !ex 5, 9, 5, 2, 10, 9, Successes : 4
[23:18] [Tala] !ex 6
[23:18] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 6, 1, 8, 5, 7, 6, 1, Successes : 2
[23:19] [Cicada] (me too?)
[23:20] [Storyteller] no
[23:20] [Cicada] (okay)
[23:21] [Storyteller] Maris, you wake up to the sunrise.
[23:21] * Maris wakes and gets out of the tent to get a look at the camp in daylight
[23:21] [Storyteller] you feel like going back to sleep
[23:21] * Maris fights the urge and gets out anyway.
[23:22] [Storyteller] You are the first one up. You go outside your tent and find that many of the troops here are already up, cooking breakfast. The smell makes you hungry
[23:22] * Maris heads for the troops watching them.
[23:23] [Maris] "Where's you commander's tent then?"
[23:23] [Storyteller] The original scale is there, and you notice that there is a second scale, and one more; a total of 12 troops
[23:23] [Maris] your even
[23:24] [Vanal] (this bodes poorly)
[23:24] * Maris looks at them arms crossed still not impressed and waiting for an answer.
[23:24] [Storyteller] One man looks up as you approach and nods to you. "I am Scalemaster Francais, I must apologize for your treatment last night, but we were not aware that you were coming."
[23:24] [Vanal] (Hey, um, I rolled the same as Maris, don't I wake up, too ?)
[23:24] [Storyteller] (no)
[23:24] [Vanal] (just checking)
[23:24] [Jynaru] (I don't think I have enough arrows for the whole camp, so I guess you get some if they attack this time. Aren’t you lucky, Van?)
[23:25] [Vanal] (Just bring it, jabronie)
[23:25] [Storyteller] everyone can roll conviction to regain WP
[23:25] * Maris nods to him, "Well we're here now aren't we. Send someone to wake my companions and then show me the murder site. I want to know everything that happened."
[23:25] [Jynaru] !ex 3
[23:25] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 3, 1, 3, 10, Successes : 2
[23:25] [Maris] "And if you don't mind you think I can get some food."
[23:26] [Tei] !ex 2
[23:26] [Storyteller] Tei : !ex 2, 8, 6, Successes : 1
[23:26] [Storyteller] he smiles. "Of course, the kitchen tents will be open soon."
[23:26] * Maris nods and motions for him to lead the way to the murder scene.
[23:27] [Tala] !ex 2
[23:27] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 2, 10, 8, Successes : 3
[23:27] [Tala] [score]
[23:27] [Storyteller] He looks surprised. "Don't you want to wake your comrades?"
[23:28] [Jynaru] (Comrades? GODLESS COMMIE PINKO!!! IT'S A TRAP!!!!)
[23:28] [Cicada] (Heh.)
[23:28] [Vanal] (He's FRENCH, not a commie)
[23:28] [Maris] "Like I said send someone to do it. I don't feel like doing it myself."
[23:28] [Maris] "Besides they get rather ornery when they're woken suddenly.
[23:28] [Storyteller] (french commies?)
[23:28] * Maris says with a smile
[23:28] [Storyteller] He looks at you oddly.
[23:28] [Maris] ((there's plenty of french commies))
[23:29] [Storyteller] "The trumpeters will be going soon."
[23:29] [Jynaru] (Indeed.)
[23:29] * Maris smirks, "Then we'll just wait for that. They need their sleep."
[23:29] [Maris] "Now tell me what happened."
[23:31] [Storyteller] "When our lordship Prefect Tammanah was traveling down to the quarry with his private guard, the cliff wall broke off and buried him and his men. We managed to uncover them, but they were already dead. suffocated."
[23:31] [Maris] "You find all of them?"
[23:31] [Storyteller] he nods
[23:32] [Jynaru] (Lying godless french commie pinko.)
[23:32] [Maris] "You check the cliff face for signs of sabotage?"
[23:32] [Storyteller] The trumpets sound. Lord Vanal and Tei awake.
[23:32] * Tei begins morning exercise
[23:32] * Jynaru rolls over, and goes back to his pleasant dreams.
[23:32] [Storyteller] He nods. "We found nothing out of the ordinary on either cliff face, or in the rubble."
[23:33] [Maris] "What about the mine? Is the entrance still open?"
[23:33] [Storyteller] Storyteller : 1d10 + 8, 8 , Total: 8
[23:33] [Storyteller] ?roll 1d10 + 8
[23:33] * Vanal arises, takes a minutes to arrange everything, and strides out
[23:35] [Storyteller] "The quarry is an open quarry, there are no mines."
[23:35] [Maris] "Ah. How far off is the site where the cliff face came down?"
[23:36] [Storyteller] "It is about 10 minutes walk from here
[23:36] [Jynaru] (It's official. Rebecca is a mojo vampire. Kenshiro! Flee while you still can!!!)
[23:36] [Storyteller] [hello]
[23:36] [Maris] "How many men do you have here?"
[23:36] [Kenshiro] (well, I already gave my mojo to FoxFire, don't think it's gonna work on me :P )
[23:37] * Vanal walks up behind Maris, not saying a thing
[23:37] [Storyteller] "About 300 soldiers, four times that number in miners."
[23:37] [Maris] "They all accounted for?"
[23:37] [Storyteller] He nods
[23:37] [Maris] "You sure of that?"
[23:37] [Storyteller] "We did a check last night."
[23:38] [Maris] "Alright we'll check out the quarry next. You got a head miner here?"
[23:38] [Storyteller] "Everyone is accounted for. Mining resumes today."
[23:39] [Storyteller] "No, I am the master of my scale. The head miner is down in the village, that is about a 20 minute walk.
[23:40] [Maris] "Could you send someone to get him then. We'll meet him at the spot."
[23:40] [Storyteller] He looks at you in consideration, and nods.
[23:40] [Maris] "And about breakfast?'
[23:41] * Maris says the last hopefully.
[23:41] [Storyteller] "The kitchens opened with the trumpet call. Help yourself, you'll find the closest one to the south."
[23:41] * Maris nods and goes over to Jynaru's tent and opens the flap, "Hey!!! Chow time!!!"
[23:42] * Maris yells into the tent
[23:42] [Storyteller] Jynaru you wake up
[23:42] [Vanal] "Very subtle, Maris. I like it."
[23:42] * Maris sighs and looks to Tei, "You think you could get Tala?"
[23:42] [Tala] [ZZzzz...Falling asleep...Boston Plaza may be a swanky hotel but the beds are rockhard. Tough to sleep on when you're used to water.]
[23:42] * Tala (~Werlynn@ool-182ded4e.dyn.optonline.net) Quit (Connection reset by peer)
[23:42] * Jynaru sits bolt upright and grabs for his axe.
[23:42] * Jynaru sees Maris, and blinks. "Damn, Maris, don't do that!"
[23:42] [Maris] "Just thought you'd like to eat."
[23:43] [Maris] "Breakfast is to the south."
[23:43] [Jynaru] "Food?"
[23:43] * Maris heads to the south for food.
[23:43] [Vanal] "No, shoe polish. Of course food."
[23:43] [Storyteller] letting Tala sleep in?
[23:43] * Maris asked Tei to deal with that.
[23:43] * Tei takes about 15 more minutes practicing then heads off to find some food
[23:44] * Vanal follows Maris
[23:44] * Maris doesn't think Tala would appreciate him yelling into her tent.
[23:44] * Tala (~Werlynn@ool-182ded4e.dyn.optonline.net) has joined #pvpexalted
[23:44] * Jynaru gets up, grabs the canteen out of his belongings, and gets ready. He will then head to the kitchens.
[23:44] [Tala] [hmm...don't know if you saw my last message, I sent it and got disconnected]
[23:44] * Maris strides to the kitchen and get's a large amount of food.
[23:44] [Storyteller] (wb tala)
[23:44] [Maris] ((Tei's supposed to wake you up))
[23:44] [Jynaru] (About the beds?)
[23:45] [Storyteller] The kitchens have a bunch of food
[23:45] [Tala] [was just letting you know I was going
[23:45] [Storyteller] [yeap water bed man?]
[23:45] [Tala] [was just letting you know I was leaving then I got dropped]
[23:45] [Storyteller] Tabius wakes up and goes to get some food
[23:46] * Vanal gets some grub
[23:46] * Maris sits down and inhales his food fairly fast.
[23:46] [Vanal] "Maris, friend. Breathe between bites."
[23:46] * Vanal says as he sits down
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[23:46] * Maris looks at his newly finished tray, "But then i wouldn't get seconds.
[23:47] * Jynaru looks over to Vanal. "So, a fan of military food?"
[23:47] * Maris gets up to get more.
[23:47] [Storyteller] Maris is right. Seconds, and especially thirds are going to be hard to get.
[23:47] [Vanal] "I've eaten it for the past 5 years. I can make do."
[23:47] [Storyteller] The food isn't that bad. apparently they brought over some cooks from the miner village.
[23:47] * Maris then comes back with his plate filled and comes back to the table yet again this time eating at a more civilized pace.
[23:47] * Jynaru gets a fairly normal amount of food, and digs in.
[23:48] * Maris eventually finishes and heads back to the campsite to pack up.
[23:48] [Storyteller] Tabius joins you at the table with a plateful
[23:49] [Storyteller] He eats slowly but says less
[23:49] * Vanal hides a smirk and keeps eating
[23:49] * Tei has filled his bowl with rice and finds a nice place to sit out of the way
[23:49] [Storyteller] He doesn't seem to be bronzed today, but is wearing the breastplate you so graciously surrendered to him
[23:49] [Maris] You didnt' wake Tala?
[23:49] [Storyteller] Tala's asleeping
[23:49] * Jynaru wishes fondly for some freshly killed deer as he finishes.
[23:50] * Maris sighs and goes to the tent and opens the flap, "Hey Tala wake up. It's morning.
[23:50] [Tei] (monks should be able to get themselves up)
[23:50] [Storyteller] Tala wakes up, and kicks you out of her tent politely
[23:50] [Vanal] "what's the matter ?feel naked without a skin of bronze ?"
[23:50] * Maris continues packing his stuff then.
[23:51] * Jynaru re-fills his canteen with some fresh water.
[23:51] * Vanal finishes his meal and gets his gear together
[23:51] * Maris waits for everyone to get everything together.
[23:52] * Jynaru quickly repacks and re-loads his horse.
[23:52] * Tei washes his bowl and is ready to go
[23:52] [Cicada] (Fiat! Break up with that girl! NOW!)
[23:52] * Maris saddles up and heads toward the spot then.
[23:53] [Jynaru] (What, I am supposed to throw her out the window? Besides, she is so alluring.....yes.....give of your mojo to the Lady of Luck...)
[23:54] [Cicada] (My char is getting KILLED here! Just get rid of her! :) )
[23:54] [Jynaru] (Shouldnae have been all silly and ran off alone, then, eh?)
[23:54] * Vanal follows, appraising the camp in the daylight
[23:54] * Tabius (~web-Guest@cm079.148.120.24.lvcm.com) has joined #pvpexalted
[23:55] * Maris 's player tries not to will I told you so to the others as he goes along.
[23:55] [Jynaru] (Och, but hold on, the cavalry be a comin, me lassie.)
[23:55] [Cicada] (So now it is MY fault?! ;) )
[23:55] [Tabius] (*Cavarly is here ;-)
[23:55] [Vanal] (your dreams, goldenrod)
[23:55] [Jynaru] (Here being not where he needs to be, of course)
[23:55] [Storyteller] [wb. tell him what's up]
[23:55] [Jynaru] (Cavalry needs to be there...)
[23:56] * Jynaru checks with the others. "How are things going?"
[23:56] [Maris] (we're traveling down the canyon road to look at Tammannah's death site.))
[23:56] [Tabius] (*Has horse and sword and swanky breastplate ;-)
[23:57] [Jynaru] (See, Cic? We'll be there by the end of the game night."
[23:57] [Maris] "Tired. And this damn horse still hasn't learned it's lessons. But besides that I'm fine."
[23:57] [Jynaru] ) even.
[23:57] [Jynaru] (I'm sure you cna handle the hundreds upon hundreds of bandits or whatevers they are until then.)
[23:57] [Cicada] (my hammering my foe with blows will only last as long as I keep winning initiative, when that stops the Daiklave will come flying into my face! And I just lost initiative!!)
[23:58] [Vanal] (betcha you wish you had someone with a daiklaive of his OWN with you)
[23:58] [Vanal] (*whistles and twirls his RD around*)
[23:58] * Maris whistles benignly as he rides down the quarry road.
[23:58] [Jynaru] (Dodge well, young Cicada, dodge well.)
[23:58] [Jydan] (Give you my blessings)
[23:59] [Tabius] (*Ummmmm what else is going on?)
[23:59] * Vanal rides around a camp, feeling oddly...distant without the familiar sound of his unit's piper around
[23:59] [Vanal] *the
[00:00] [Maris] ((we left the pyre, Vanal had us chase a dog, we got to the camp with a rude welcome. Cicada is off checking out a bunch of campfires you spotted on the way to the quarry.))
[00:00] [Maris] ((oh yeah and I had to beat up a hungry ghost))
[00:00] [Jynaru] (You botched, and sent Cic there off to check on the unknown army about half a day from here.)
[00:01] [Jynaru] (That's the else.)
[00:01] [Tabius] (*I must have botched real bad :-P
[00:01] [Storyteller] (yeap)
[00:01] [Maris] ((well it was the roll to resist her convincing you it was a good idea))
[00:02] * Maris rides as he whistles
[00:02] [Tabius] (*hehehehe, yeah, one of those dice pools that I suck at, at least apparently.)
[00:02] * Tei rides and worries about cicada
[00:02] [Storyteller] so are you all going to the collapse
[00:02] [Storyteller] ?
[00:03] [Maris] Except for Cicada I believe so.
[00:03] [Storyteller] Tala joins you after meditating, not having eaten in front of you
[00:03] [Storyteller] okay
[00:04] * Tabius rides off obliviously.
[00:04] * Jynaru scans the cliff walls as he rides, humming contentedly.
[00:04] [Storyteller] You ride through the camp with escort back into the middle of the tent city, and then out towards the east
[00:05] [Maris] ((we still have an escort?))
[00:05] [Storyteller] yeap
[00:05] [Storyteller] the scalemaster is there with you
[00:05] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 7, 2, 5, 10, 10, 4, 6, 8, Successes : 5
[00:05] [Storyteller] ?ex 7
[00:06] [Cicada] (I am dead...)
[00:06] [Tabius] (*Uh oH)
[00:06] [Jydan] (/me dances a prayer for Cicada)
[00:06] [Tei] (Tei will have to go on a vendetta now)
[00:06] [Vanal] (Cic is DEAD ?!)
[00:06] * Vanal gapes
[00:06] [Storyteller] (nope)
[00:07] [Storyteller] (not yet)
[00:07] [Vanal] (*phew*)
[00:07] [Vanal] (Erk)
[00:07] [Vanal] (Girl...run your ASS off)
[00:07] [Jynaru] (This is what comes of martyrdom. Cut your losses and run like the windy-type mortal you are.)
[00:10] [Storyteller] okay
[00:10] * Maris hates being right sometimes
[00:10] [Storyteller] You arrive at a large amount of dirt
[00:10] [Maris] The head miner there?
[00:10] [Cicada] (daaaaaaamn...)
[00:11] [Storyteller] yeap
[00:11] [Jynaru] (Should I call her back in?)
[00:11] [Storyteller] The dirt has been drawn off to the side
[00:11] * Maris dismounts and looks at the dirt.
[00:11] [Storyteller] (no breaking the fourth wall)
[00:11] [Jynaru] (Maybe she can drain the ST's luck this time....)
[00:11] [Storyteller] there is a lot of dirt, and a lot of rocks
[00:11] [Storyteller] (no she can't)
[00:11] [Jydan] (Wow! Dirt! :P)
[00:12] [Storyteller] the side of the cliff has obviously been broken down
[00:12] [Maris] "I'm Cynis Maris. I'm here to investigate this collapse. You think you could fill me in on what you think happened."
[00:12] * Maris says to the man
[00:12] [Storyteller] He nods
[00:13] * Maris waits
[00:13] * Vanal looks at the rocks
[00:13] [Storyteller] the head miner says "I wasn't actually there at the time, I was waiting for him down in the village. But when I heard there had been a collapse I got here as soon as I could with my men. Unfortunately, by the time we had dug him out, they were all already dead.
[00:13] [Maris] "This sort of thing happen before?"
[00:13] * Jynaru reaches over, and juggles a few pebbles as he waits.
[00:13] [Storyteller] He shakes his head no
[00:14] [Maris] "You have any idea what could have caused a collapse like this?"
[00:14] [Storyteller] "I had inspected the entire route a week earlier to make sure something like this wouldn't happen. Bad luck, it must have been. It couldn't have been sabotage, because there was no evidence that the cliff walls had been tampered with."
[00:14] [Maris] "A week ago that is."
[00:15] [Maris] "So it was sturdy a week ago."
[00:16] [Storyteller] he nods
[00:16] [Jydan] (Besides Sesus Nagezzer???)
[00:16] [Maris] "How did you know the wall had collapsed?"
[00:16] [Vanal] "Aside from the noise, you mean ?"
[00:16] [Maris] "Well how did you both find out about it."
[00:16] [Maris] "I'm not sure how much noise it would be really.'
[00:17] [Maris] "But I'd still like to know.
[00:17] * Jynaru swaps to a slightly more complicated pattern with the pebbles.
[00:18] * Maris waits
[00:19] * Tabius swats at a horse fly.
[00:20] [Maris] "Also have you gone over this area yourself since the accident? To see if there were any signs of sabotage now?"
[00:21] [Storyteller] The miner nods. "I was told via messenger, and came as soon as I could. The others were similarly informed. The crash brought additional observers, but there was no witness to the actual event.
[00:21] [Storyteller] "I have went over the wreckage since and still find no evidence of any foul play."
[00:21] [Vanal] "Not a single person witnessed it ?"
[00:21] [Storyteller] "None that lived, they were all buried in the rubble."
[00:21] [Tei] "Any Idea what caused it?"
[00:21] * Vanal nods "Still seems odd."
[00:22] [Storyteller] he nods
[00:22] [Tei] "It seems to have been a very thorough natural disaster." he adds suspiciously
[00:23] * Tabius begins wondering why they have asked the guy 3 times what he thinks caused it and have gotten the same answer 3 times.
[00:23] [Vanal] (kick his ass, sea bass !)
[00:23] [Storyteller] He shrugs no
[00:23] [Maris] "You checked up there?"
[00:23] * Maris motions to the top of the canyon.
[00:23] [Vanal] "Somehow, I doubt anyone wishes to venture up there."
[00:24] * Jynaru looks up there.
[00:24] [Jynaru] (How high is it?
[00:24] [Storyteller] "Yes, we have scaled the entire area where the collapse occured. We searched the area for a 20 yard radius immediately after and found no evidence of anybody having been there
[00:25] [Storyteller] (it's 15-20 feet high)
[00:25] * Jynaru is now known as Jynaru
[00:25] [Vanal] "and you searched for both natural and magical forms of tampering ?"
[00:26] [Tei] "if a spirit caused it I doubt it would leave any clues."
[00:26] * Tabius tries to think back to some of the magics he has heard rumors of, those more powerful than he can cast, but perhaps the Empress might be able to.
[00:26] [Vanal] "I didn't say it was a spirit. there Are others who can harness essence."
[00:26] [Maris] !ex 5
[00:26] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 8, 9, 4, 5, 6, Successes : 2
[00:26] [Storyteller] He nods. "We didn't have an expert occultist here but there were a few who knows a bit about it."
[00:26] [Tei] "An earth elemental could cause it and make it look natural."
[00:26] * Jynaru swaps directions on the double-loop, and ponders.
[00:27] [Vanal] "And let's not venture into a certain OTHER being we're pursuing."
[00:27] [Maris] "How many people you have in your town?"
[00:27] * Maris asks the miner
[00:27] [Storyteller] "about 1200 people."
[00:28] [Maris] "How many have descendants from the city?"
[00:28] [Cicada] (YEAH! AT LAST!!)
[00:28] [Vanal] (You got what you came for...bug out !)
[00:29] [Jynaru] (Now that was interesting... I may need a warding amulet instead of that aid to love.....)
[00:30] [Vanal] (you're a cruel man, GH)
[00:30] [Storyteller] (very)
[00:30] [Storyteller] (can't hate my own mojo)
[00:30] [Maris] "Anyone check the other side?"
[00:30] [Storyteller] (oooooooooooo)
[00:31] * Maris motions to the other side of the cavern that didn't collapse.
[00:31] [Storyteller] The miner nods
[00:31] [Storyteller] "We checked both sides."
[00:32] [Jynaru] (Rebecca is keeping the keyboard. I'll just tell her what to type......)
[00:32] [Maris] "Do you use firedust or any similar materials in your mining?'
[00:32] [Maris] ((still waiting for the answer to the descendant’s question))
[00:33] [Storyteller] He shakes his head
[00:33] [Maris] "And how does the mining go?"
[00:34] [Storyteller] "Nearly everyone from this place is from the city, and firedust is considered far too volatile to use for mining."
[00:34] [Maris] "Anyone missing?"
[00:34] [Storyteller] He shakes his head no
[00:35] [Tabius] (*YOU GO GIRL!)
[00:35] * Vanal is beginning to this this was a Wyld Spaniel chase
[00:35] [Vanal] (KILL HIM ! KILL HIM !)
[00:35] * Maris sighs and looks to the Tabius and the priests, "Can you check for supernatural effects?"
[00:35] [Cicada] (MY MOJO IS BAAAACK!! LOOK OUT WORLD!!)
[00:37] [Jynaru] (Maybe I'm the mojo vampire after all... still, go Cicada!)
[00:37] * Tabius mentally whips out the ULTRA mystical detection spell and then looks at Maris, "If an elemental did it, there would be little trace left after a week, let alone a trace when it happened."
[00:37] [Storyteller] (points out that dice rolls are completely random)
[00:37] [Maris] ((it's been a day I thought))
[00:38] [Maris] "Well see what you can find."
[00:38] [Jynaru] (So YOU think.)
[00:38] * Maris looks back to the head miner, "Did the prefect get a chance to inspect the vein yet?"
[00:38] [Tabius] 'If another spirit of some kind weakened a hinge point it would be all but undetectable."
[00:38] [Maris] "I still think it's worth checking out if you can."
[00:38] [Storyteller] He looks strangely at you Maris
[00:39] [Storyteller] "The prefect is seriously wounded, is he not?"
[00:39] [Maris] "If you can't detect it fine. But this is strange. And maybe you can talk to the local spirits see if anything’s up with them."
[00:39] * Jynaru starts banking pebbles off the walls in his quest for juggling excellence, working them into the double-loop.
[00:39] [Maris] "I'm sorry I meant Tammanah."
[00:39] [Storyteller] He looks at you even stranger
[00:39] * Tabius starts riding off looking for possible clues around the crash sight, hoping beyond hope.
[00:40] [Storyteller] "Tammanah is DEAD."
[00:40] * Vanal lights up a stogie
[00:40] [Maris] "He came here to inspect a vein of metal found here did he not?"
[00:40] [Tei] (I'm gonna check it out with spirit sight 5 personal)
[00:40] [Storyteller] "He died on his way to the quarry."
[00:40] [Vanal] "Wait...a vein of metal. What KIND of metal ?"
[00:40] [Maris] "I'm wondering if he's had a chance before he died to see it."
[00:40] [Maris] "Well I'd like to see it then."
[00:40] [Maris] "I should inspect it before I leave."
[00:40] * Tei 's eyes go faintly misty as he pierces the veil
[00:41] * Vanal blows a smoke ring
[00:41] [Storyteller] Tei, roll perception + occult
[00:41] * Jynaru leans, and starts looping the pebbles through the smoke ring.
[00:41] [Tei] !exa 6
[00:41] [Storyteller] Tei : !exa 6, 10, 8, 8, 5, 5, 1, Successes : 4
[00:42] [Maris] "Can you lead us down to it?"
[00:42] * Vanal catches one inches from hitting his face
[00:42] [Storyteller] Tei, you see a sliiiiiight residue of essence
[00:42] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 9, 5, 9, 8, 5, Successes : 3
[00:42] [Storyteller] ?ex 5
[00:42] [Vanal] "Stop that. Act like a mature adult."
[00:42] * Jynaru looks at Vanal, and shrugs.
[00:42] [Tei] "something was here."
[00:42] [Vanal] "What *kind* of metal was the vein ?"
[00:42] [Maris] "You got something Tei?"
[00:42] [Maris] "We went over it didn't we Vanal?"
[00:42] * Jynaru looks at Tei, and sighs. "Always, always spirits."
[00:43] [Vanal] (maybe, refresh my memory)
[00:43] [Tei] "very faint, no way to tell when it happened."
[00:43] * Maris says looking at Vanal hoping he remembers without having to see it."
[00:43] [Storyteller] The head miner nods. "We've been trying to keep it quiet."
[00:43] [Maris] "Well study it as best as you can.'
[00:43] * Maris says to Tei.
[00:43] [Vanal] (Hey, dude...it's 1:30, my memory has gone bye-bye...what kind of bloody metal ?)
[00:44] [Storyteller] (It's Orichulum)
[00:44] * Maris looks to the miner, "I understand why. But it still needs to be inspected."
[00:44] [Vanal] (Thank you)
[00:44] [Jynaru] (Oirchalcum, IIRC)
[00:44] [Jynaru] (Ori, even.)
[00:44] [Maris] ((sorry thought you knew ooc))
[00:44] [Vanal] ((I didn't)
[00:44] * Maris waits for the Miner to lead the way.
[00:45] [Vanal] "Essence trails...and a...vein of a certain metal. These are NOT two things I want together."
[00:45] * Jynaru tosses the pebbles on the ground.
[00:45] [Storyteller] The miner nods
[00:45] [Maris] "No one does."
[00:45] [Storyteller] "If you are done here?"
[00:45] [Maris] "Tei you think you and Tala and Tabius need to study what's left anymore?"
[00:46] [Tei] "it's no good, if anything was here it's long gone now."
[00:46] [Maris] "Alright."
[00:46] [Maris] "Well I guess we're done here for now."
[00:46] [Maris] "Lead the way.'
[00:47] [Storyteller] He nods and motions for you to follow him
[00:47] * Maris follows
[00:47] * Vanal follows
[00:47] * Jynaru follows.
[00:47] * Tabius Tabius catches up and follows.
[00:47] [Storyteller] You are led down, deeper and deeeeeeper you go
[00:48] [Storyteller] into the open quarry
[00:48] * Tei does the following thing
[00:48] [Vanal] ((Mike Nelson) Down down down....)
[00:48] [Storyteller] You go through a small town, apparently carved out of the quarry itself
[00:48] [Jynaru] ((Devo) Working in a gold mine going down down down working in a gold mine whoops, about to slip down)
[00:49] [Storyteller] ((don't botch)
[00:49] [Storyteller] You don't stop in the town
[00:49] [Vanal] ((GH, that line is the kiss of DEATH)
[00:50] [Storyteller] (and I’m the godfather)
[00:50] [Vanal] ((Naw, more like the second cousin *rimshot*))
[00:50] [Storyteller] you go through it, and then around the ridge
[00:50] [Storyteller] The side of the quarry on this side towers over you. Hundreds of feet high
[00:50] [Jynaru] (Booooo! me throws rotten tomatoes)
[00:51] [Storyteller] You look up and wonder what would happen if a pebble falls down
[00:51] [Storyteller] fortunately, none do
[00:51] [Storyteller] There are a large number of cracks in the wall
[00:51] * Vanal scowls
[00:51] [Storyteller] but they don't seem to be threatening
[00:52] [Jynaru] (Not threatening? Lots of cracks in a rock wall where we just had a frigging avalanche, and we're not threatened?)
[00:52] [Storyteller] You travel around until a new part of the quarry
[00:52] * Tabius merrily follows along riding his wonderfully tempered horse.
[00:52] [Storyteller] (well they're small cracks, like you see in any large wall of rock
[00:53] [Storyteller] the stone here is lighter in color, obviously a new part
[00:53] [Storyteller] "Just a little farther"
[00:53] * Vanal wonders what his wife is doing now
[00:53] [Storyteller] He says. You see a large tarp over part of the wall
[00:53] * Tabius doesn't wonder what Juniper is doing now.
[00:54] [Storyteller] up ahead. You walk towards it, and your escort look around unhappily
[00:54] [Storyteller] "Under that tarp." he says
[00:54] * Maris lifts the tarp and looks at it.
[00:54] * Tei wonders if cicada is allright
[00:55] * Cicada has not made any dice rolls lately, so either she is fine or she is dead.
[00:55] [Storyteller] Maris, underneath the tarp is the most brilliant vein of red-gold ore you've ever seen in your life. The only difference is that the ore is glowing
[00:55] * Maris whistles
[00:55] [Maris] "And your sure it's real?"
[00:55] * Tabius oohs and ahhs.
[00:55] [Maris] Natural even
[00:56] * Jynaru does not look pleased.
[00:56] * Maris feels it and tries to see if it's real.
[00:57] * Maris frowns when he finishes
[00:57] [Storyteller] The mining guy nods. "It was like that, and from what we can tell, it goes deep. If we mined it, it wouldn't run out anytime soon."
[00:58] * Maris sighs
[00:58] * Jynaru looks around, and curses under his breath.
[00:58] [Storyteller] "If we may?"
[00:58] * Maris lowers the tarp.
[00:58] [Vanal] "This bloody mine is anathema-bait."
[00:58] * Tabius looks to the miner, "Have you been ordered to mine it?"
[00:58] [Maris] ((hmm?))
[00:58] [Storyteller] he asks, holding what looks like a kaleidoscope covered with string
[00:58] [Maris] "What's that for?"
[00:59] [Storyteller] "The hue color the bulb at the end glows tells you how deep the vein goes. It's an old trick," he says, holding the cylinder.
[01:00] [Storyteller] "red is short, blue is long."
[01:00] * Maris nods and let's him
[01:01] [Storyteller] He holds the end to the tarp, and it glows a brilliant sapphire blue
[01:01] * Maris sighs
[01:01] * Tei whistles
[01:01] [Storyteller] "It works on every other metal vein I've run across."
[01:01] [Storyteller] "Never found a vein of orichulum before though."
[01:01] * Maris nods
[01:02] [Maris] "I can understand that. But it probably works here too."
[01:02] [Storyteller] He takes the device away, nodding
[01:02] [Maris] "Well I think we're done here."
[01:02] * Jynaru idly wonders how long they have before the Anathema swarm this place.
[01:02] [Maris] "You had any troubles with bandits so far?"
[01:03] [Storyteller] "We hope to cover it up, if we collapse this area, then we'll have to work in a completely new section of the mine. This was probably the worst place it could go at this point. We might need a new quarry.
[01:03] [Maris] "You don't need to cover it up.'
[01:04] [Maris] "Just set up some sort of thing that let's you collapse the walls if you can."
[01:04] [Storyteller] Down at the bottom of the quarry, which you are not at - you see that there is a river that runs out of one side. You realize that you've actually climbed up this distance from the water level without realizing it.
[01:04] * Jynaru looks sharply at Maris.
[01:04] [Storyteller] he shakes his head
[01:04] [Storyteller] "It would be very difficult to rig it so that it couldn't be excavated again
[01:05] [Storyteller] "It's possible, but not in short notice."
[01:05] [Maris] "Not impossible though?"
[01:05] [Storyteller] "We've been able to keep the bandits away. A few have tried to sneak in, but we've caught them all so far.
[01:05] [Maris] "Well I think you should set it up as best you can. Then start mining out the orichalchum."
[01:05] [Tabius] "Making the metal from the ore is not all that simple.
[01:06] [Maris] "I'm not sure what it can be used for yet but it's probably worth a lot."
[01:06] [Maris] "It's a resource the Realm shouldn't waste."
[01:06] * Jynaru does some rough calculations.
[01:06] [Maris] "Especially if it will destroy the quarry to do it."
[01:07] [Storyteller] He shakes his head
[01:07] [Storyteller] "We'll have to excavate around the vein at this point."
[01:07] * Tabius mutters something about, 'All very interesting'
[01:08] [Maris] "So it's useless for anything but Orichalchum then?'
[01:08] [Storyteller] He shakes his head no
[01:09] [Storyteller] "There are still massive quantities of stone to be removed from this part of the quarry, but we cannot be sure how much of that stone is actually displaced by the orichulum vein. If we try to cut around it, we may inadvertently come up to a bend
[01:11] [Maris] "Well I think for now you should up for it to be destroyed but wait for word from your prefect before you do it.
[01:11] [Maris] "Destroying it immediately is a bad idea."
[01:12] [Storyteller] Destroying orichulum isn't the easiest thing to do," he says
[01:12] [Tei] "exactly how will you destroy it? no matter how deep it's buried the metal will still be there."
[01:12] [Maris] "I meant collapsing the quarry."
[01:12] [Maris] "Anyways let's get going and check out the encampment you spotted Tabius."
[01:13] [Maris] "This place is safe enough for the moment."
[01:14] * Jynaru mutters as they ride back.
[01:14] * Maris rides back out of the quarry then.
[01:14] [Jydan] (Yeah, in the world of Exalted.)
[01:14] * Tabius takes one last look around at his surroundings and heads off with the rest.
[01:14] [Storyteller] perception + awareness
[01:14] [Maris] !ex 5
[01:14] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 8, 7, 7, 9, 7, Successes : 5
[01:14] [Jynaru] (All of us?)
[01:14] [Tabius] !ex 11
[01:14] [Storyteller] Tabius : !ex 11, 3, 6, 1, 6, 3, 5, 6, 8, 7, 8, 9, Successes : 4
[01:14] [Jydan] (WOW!)
[01:14] [Storyteller] (yep all of you)
[01:14] [Tei] !ex 5
[01:14] [Storyteller] Tei : !ex 5, 1, 9, 5, 8, 8, Successes : 3
[01:14] [Tabius] (*Oh just look at my mojo :-P)
[01:15] [Jynaru] !ex 5
[01:15] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 5, 5, 6, 10, 7, 7, Successes : 4
[01:15] [Jydan] (Maris, you're one lucky person!!)
[01:15] [Jydan] (That ain't that bad either Fiat)
[01:15] * Vanal follows
[01:15] [Vanal] !ex 4
[01:15] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 4, 7, 8, 2, 4, Successes : 2
[01:15] [Jydan] (Was that you, or Rebecca?)
[01:16] [Jynaru] (Fiat's just observing, not typing at this point.)
[01:16] [Jynaru] (I think he's the mojo vampire.... I am frightened. ;)
[01:16] [Jydan] (Ah!)
[01:16] [Vanal] (Hm, he needs to be staked)
[01:16] * Maris shades his eyes and looks up at the sun
[01:16] [Vanal] (Hand me that crucifix)
[01:16] * Vanal grimaces
[01:16] [Vanal] "I hate sunny days."
[01:16] [Maris] "Something's Falling."
[01:17] * Maris dismounts and gets up against the wall
[01:17] [Vanal] "Something is WHAT ?!"
[01:17] [Storyteller] 4's see it now too
[01:17] * Maris watches the thin
[01:17] * Jynaru squints, and looks up.
[01:17] [Maris] "Fast/
[01:17] * Tabius spurs his horse forward fast/
[01:17] [Storyteller] something is fallllling
[01:17] [Storyteller] roll dodge
[01:17] [Vanal] (Blackhawk Down ! We've got a Blackhawk Down !)
[01:17] [Maris] Everyone?
[01:17] [Storyteller] yeap
[01:17] [Vanal] !ex 7
[01:17] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 7, 9, 8, 3, 6, 3, 6, 8, Successes : 3
[01:17] [Tei] ex! 8
[01:17] [Maris] !ex 4
[01:17] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 4, 8, 9, 4, 5, Successes : 2
[01:17] [Tabius] !ex 11
[01:17] [Storyteller] Tabius : !ex 11, 3, 5, 9, 8, 4, 7, 9, 4, 9, 3, 2, Successes : 5
[01:18] [Tei] !ex 8
[01:18] [Storyteller] Tei : !ex 8, 10, 8, 7, 2, 4, 3, 3, 8, Successes : 5
[01:18] [Jydan] (It's Roswell! Roswell! Conspiracy!)
[01:18] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 20, 2, 1, 7, 6, 5, 7, 2, 8, 6, 7, 5, 3, 10, 1, 9, 10, 5, 5, 9, 4, Successes : 10
[01:18] [Storyteller] ?ex 20
[01:18] [Vanal] (Nah, it's just the St's momma)
[01:18] * Maris hopes he gets a bonus due to spotting it.
[01:18] [Vanal] WTF ?!
[01:18] [Storyteller] dodge your asses off!
[01:18] [Tabius] (*OUCH)
[01:19] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 8, 10, 10, 7, 1, 1, 5, 8, 6, Successes : 6
[01:19] [Storyteller] ?ex 8
[01:19] [Jydan] (dances a moogle good luck dance for ya'll)
[01:19] [Jynaru] !ex 15
[01:19] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 15, 1, 10, 6, 4, 2, 9, 3, 3, 1, 9, 2, 3, 6, 3, 9, Successes : 5
[01:19] [Storyteller] Whatever it is, it's big. It's so big, it's a boulder
[01:19] [Tabius] (*Can we use a charm if we want? Reflexive?)
[01:19] [Storyteller] yeap
[01:19] [Jynaru] (DAMMIT!!!!! NEVER AGAIN TOUCH THE KEYBOARD!! LET THE GIRLFRIEND DO IT!!!!!)
[01:19] [Tabius] (*Great, Tabs adds in 4 more dice from the charm)
[01:20] * Maris does his best to get out of the way.
[01:20] [Tabius] !ex 4
[01:20] [Storyteller] Tabius : !ex 4, 9, 2, 5, 9, Successes : 2
[01:20] [Tabius] (*Yeah, Tabs total is 7, which does not make 10 :-( *)
[01:20] [Jynaru] (Someone slap me after I get myself squished, mmmkay?)
[01:20] [Storyteller] Is that all of you?
[01:20] * Tei scurries out of harms way (I hope)
[01:20] * Maris thinks
[01:20] * Maris thinks so even
[01:20] [Storyteller] Okay
[01:20] [Jydan] (I'm gonna turn into a moogle now so I can do magic dances for everyone, anyway, it's fun to say kupo!)
[01:21] * Jydan is now known as Dancing_Moogle
[01:21] [Dancing_Moogle] (Kupo!)
[01:21] [Jynaru] (Where has all the mojo gone?)
[01:22] [Tabius] (*wonders where all the 10 have gone, rolled 25+ dice and not a single 10*)
[01:22] [Dancing_Moogle] (I'm going to do a special magic mojo luck dance for Fiat & Rebecca!)
[01:22] [Storyteller] The boulder falls from the sky and lands smack where you were standing before. You run out of the way, trying to avoid the huge boulder, and it explodes into the ledge where the orichulum vein had been. The cliff face starts crumbling and starts to fall apart under your very feet
[01:22] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?exm 7 Vanal, 8, 3, 9, 5, 7, 3, 8, Successes : 4
[01:22] [Storyteller] ?exm 7 Vanal
[01:22] * Maris runs like hell his horse trailing behind him.
[01:22] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?exm 7 Maris, 9, 1, 3, 5, 4, 3, 4, Successes : 1
[01:22] [Storyteller] ?exm 7 Maris
[01:22] [Vanal] "MELA'S TITS ?! WHAT WAS THAT ?!"
[01:22] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?exm 3 Tabius, 10, 4, 10, Successes : 2
[01:22] [Storyteller] ?exm 3 Tabius
[01:22] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?exm 5 Tei, 2, 5, 4, 3, 2, Successes : 0
[01:22] [Storyteller] ?exm 5 Tei
[01:22] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?exm 5 Jynaru, 8, 4, 9, 8, 4, Successes : 3
[01:22] [Storyteller] ?exm 5 Jynaru 01:23] [Tabius] (*oh look, there’s the 10's :-P)
[01:23] [Storyteller] what’s your soak guys
[01:23] [SoulDreamer] !!!
[01:23] [Storyteller] [hey in game, please spec]
[01:23] [Maris] ((13 bashing soak))
[01:23] [Storyteller] [lethal]
[01:23] [Tei] 8
[01:23] [Maris] ((12 lethal))
[01:24] [Tabius] (*In unbronzed form with a breastplate, I think 5l 4b)
[01:24] [Vanal] (11 lethal)
[01:24] [Jynaru] (11L.)
[01:25] [Tabius] (*I can not remember if I had Bronzed up or not 2 weeks ago)
[01:25] * Jynaru 's player is still stunned. 15 farking dice!!!! 15!!!!!!!! 5 successes!!!!!!)
[01:26] [Tabius] (*Looks at Jynaru's character, I don’t want to hear it, I had 11 dice and got 0 success's once :-P
[01:26] [Dancing_Moogle] (I'm gonna do a magic moogle mojo dance for everyone!)
[01:26] [Jynaru] (BUT I AM SUPPOSED TO HAVE MOJO!!!!!!!!)
[01:27] [Dancing_Moogle] (Well, Dr. Evil Must have stolen it!)
[01:27] [Storyteller] A huge piece explodes from the boulder flying up and smacking Vanal in the chest. He is thrown across the place and pinned under the fragment. 2L. Maris squeezes up against the ledge, and is bombarded with thousands of tiny fragments of stone covering him in dust and pebbles being stuck in his clothes. Fortunately, he also only takes 2L. Tabius is thrown from his horse, a the horse falling down as the ledge starts to decay. He holds onto the ground, and is knocked sideways by the dust and large pieces of rock, doing 3L

[01:28] [Jynaru] Don't even THINK about offing my horse, dammit.
[01:28] [Jynaru] This is the horse. THE horse. This horse has more mojo than me.

[01:28] [Cicada] (Oh gods... no ... please, no...)
[01:28] [Storyteller] Tei miraculously dodges the whole thing, flying through the air as rocks and shrapnel fly around him, and Jynaru gets smacked to the ground, doing 2L
[01:29] [Storyteller] The ground begins to shake as the ledge deteriorates rapidly
[01:29] * Maris runs for it his horse trailing behind him.
[01:29] [Dancing_Moogle] (I'm going to do a special dance for Cicada)
[01:29] * Jynaru lets out a curse as he rolls to his feet.
[01:29] * Tabius gets up and books to solid ground pulling up anybody on the way.
[01:29] [Storyteller] roll athletics + dexterity
[01:29] [Vanal] "HELP !"
[01:29] [Cicada] (NO THANKS! Not after seeing how much good it did my lord! ;) )
[01:30] * Vanal is PINNED, he CAN'T mover
[01:30] [Maris] !ex 2
[01:30] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 2, 1, 4, Successes : 0, Botch
[01:30] [Dancing_Moogle] (Very well then. :) I'll still pray, though)
[01:30] [Maris] !ex 2
[01:30] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 2, 5, 10, Successes : 2
[01:30] [Tabius] !ex 8
[01:30] [Storyteller] Tabius : !ex 8, 7, 6, 6, 5, 7, 9, 3, 10, Successes : 5
[01:30] * Tei will try to free Vanal
[01:30] [Tabius] (*there is that 10, finally ;-), hope that helps Vanal)
[01:30] [Maris] (I have four dice for it. Well it was 6 but I'm at negative 2)
[01:31] * Jynaru will slam into the rock at high speed, trying to knock it loose.
[01:31] [Storyteller] oh
[01:31] [Storyteller] Vanal you roll too
[01:31] [Storyteller] maybe you can lift the rock off you or something
[01:31] [Jynaru] !ex 10.
[01:31] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 10., 10, 3, 10, 1, 6, 3, 7, 4, 7, 4, Successes : 6
[01:31] [Storyteller] strength instead of Dex
[01:31] [Vanal] !ex 7
[01:31] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 7, 3, 1, 7, 3, 5, 3, 7, Successes : 2
[01:31] [Vanal] oh
[01:31] [Vanal] er
[01:32] [Vanal] uno momento,
[01:32] [Jynaru] (And then I probably get to jump freaking good like I'm in a movie and a bomb just went off.)
[01:32] [Vanal] !ex 6
[01:32] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 6, 9, 1, 10, 1, 9, 1, Successes : 4
[01:32] [Vanal] ....
[01:32] [Vanal] less dice, more successes
[01:32] [Storyteller] okay
[01:32] [Vanal] figure THAT out ?
[01:32] [Tei] !ex 7
[01:32] [Storyteller] Tei : !ex 7, 2, 7, 10, 3, 10, 8, 8, Successes : 7
[01:33] [Tabius] (*And the 10's come rolling out on the players side, WOOO WOOO)
[01:33] [Jynaru] (Go heroic Tei!)
[01:33] [Storyteller] Maris runs across the twisting rock face, but unfortunately for him, a piece of rock shatters under his feet, and he is thrown to the ground
[01:33] [Jynaru] (Oh when the tens come marching in, oh when the tens come marching in, oh how I'd like to look at that number, when the tens come marching iiiiiin)
[01:33] [Storyteller] Tabius runs after Maris, leaping over the piece of rock that shattered beneath maris' feet
[01:33] [Storyteller] damn I’ll be right back
[01:33] [Vanal] .......
[01:34] * Jynaru 's player blinks.
[01:34] * Maris scrambles to keep going onto safe ground
[01:34] [Jynaru] WHAT?
[01:34] [Vanal] your timing is incredible, boss-man
[01:34] [Tabius] (*LMAO, everybody is waiting to die and the ST will be back..... what drama, what suspense!)
[01:34] * Jynaru 's player strangles the monitor.
[01:34] [Storyteller] parents
[01:34] [Vanal] (Shut up, sorcery-boy...you weren't pinned under a giant fucking rock ! *g*)
[01:35] [Jynaru] (Neither are you for long, bucko. 17 total successes?)
[01:35] [Tabius] (* WHAT PARENTS!! I tell you ,there has never been a story so heroic, so full of insignificant quips from over inflated ego's, Come one, COME ALL, the GREATEST show on EARTH.
[01:33] [GoldenH] bloody parents
[01:33] [Jynaru] (That's rather what I thought was going to happen. Had to go off and require the cavalry, didn't ya? Mass combat.... JOY.)
[01:33] * Cicada jumps up on the dance floor as well, and combos with Moogle to ParaPara!
[01:33] [Tabius] (*The Thread?
[01:33] [GoldenH] repeat your successes for me, please
[01:33] [Dancing_Moogle] (Kupo!)
[01:33] [Tei] 7
[01:33] [Vanal] I got 10 *g* (seriously, 4)
[01:33] [Jynaru] 17 total. I had 6, Van had 4, Tei had 7.
[01:33] [Maris] (2)
[01:34] [GoldenH] Ok
[01:34] * Vanal yawns...need sleep...soon
[01:35] [Jynaru] (Yes, just take a nap under that rock.)
[01:35] [GoldenH] As I already said, Maris fell to the ground, his bloody horse falls into the chasm forming behind him. Tabius was going the same way, and he manages to jump over the ever growing chasm, grab Maris' arm, and pull him to relative safety. Maris' nag falls faaaaaaar down into the chasm, with a beautiful spash in the pool at the very bottom.
[01:36] [GoldenH] Jynaru leaps across a literal sea of stones, each falling, yet somehow, impossibly, him jumping up
[01:36] * Maris allows himself some joy at the horses painful death and then goes about saving his own ass.
[01:36] [GoldenH] Tei runs to Vanal, and with their combined efforts, roll the rock off, get Vanal to his feet, and run away, a huge crack nipping at their feet
[01:36] [GoldenH] okay roll again happy people
[01:37] [Vanal] !ex 7
[01:37] [GoldenH] stunts allowed
[01:37] [Vanal] oh, um
[01:37] [GoldenH] stuntme
[01:37] [Vanal] lesse
[01:37] [GoldenH] let me turn it on
[01:37] [GoldenH] GoldenH : ?ex 5, 1, 5, 9, 1, 10, Successes : 3
[01:37] [GoldenH] ?ex 5
[01:37] [GoldenH] ok
[01:37] [Tabius] !ex 8
[01:37] [GoldenH] Tabius : !ex 8, 7, 9, 6, 7, 6, 9, 9, 7, Successes : 6
[01:37] [Vanal] !ex 7
[01:37] [GoldenH] Vanal : !ex 7, 10, 5, 8, 2, 3, 6, 10, Successes : 5
[01:38] [Tei] !ex 7
[01:38] [GoldenH] Tei : !ex 7, 1, 10, 7, 3, 3, 2, 7, Successes : 4
[01:38] *** GoldenH is now known as Storyteller
[01:38] [Storyteller] Jynaru, Maris?
[01:38] * Jynaru continues leaping form stone to stone, climbing ever upwards, hoping to see what the hell started this.
[01:38] [Storyteller] +1
[01:39] [Jynaru] !ex 13 (ERF)
[01:39] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 13 (ERF), 9, 5, 2, 9, 6, 8, 7, 5, 6, 3, 8, 6, 10, Successes : 7
[01:39] [Jynaru] (Run, horse, run!)
[01:39] * Maris pulls himself up and sprints at high pace towards the safest place keeping one hand over his head to deflect falling stones and the other used as an almost third leg tell he's all the way up and it trails the wall ready to grab onto something should he start falling. He screams at himself as he goes, "I will not die here!" Spending a will to add conviction to the roll.
[01:39] [Storyteller] Tabius, you leap forwards again, leaving Maris to run on his own now that you've got him back to his feet
[01:39] [Storyteller] Maris +3
[01:40] [Maris] !ex 11
[01:40] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 11, 8, 3, 10, 3, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6, 9, 1, Successes : 5
[01:40] [Dancing_Moogle] (Kupo!!)
[01:42] [Storyteller] Vanal runs side by side with Tei, the crack ever gaining, ever wider
[01:42] [Storyteller] but fortunately, not much faster
[01:43] [Storyteller] Jynaru leaps upwards, but cannot see very much happening. Unfortunately, his leaping doesn't get him very far, but does protect him from the god-awful drop below as he sees his horse running into a dead end in the quarry
[01:43] [Storyteller] Maris does what he says he does, crawling incredibly quickly alongside the wall.
[01:43] [Storyteller] okay again
[01:44] [Tabius] !ex 8
[01:44] [Storyteller] Tabius : !ex 8, 10, 9, 2, 2, 10, 1, 8, 8, Successes : 7
[01:44] [Tei] !ex 7
[01:44] [Storyteller] Tei : !ex 7, 8, 4, 8, 9, 7, 9, 7, Successes : 6
[01:44] [Tabius] (*WOW....... MOJO!(
[01:44] [Storyteller] [and you complained about my dice roller.....]
[01:44] * Jynaru moves from leaping along the falling rocks to leaping up the wall, leaving a green blur behind him as he soars ever higher.
[01:44] [Storyteller] +1
[01:45] [Tabius] (*Its about time for my character to have some ;-)
[01:45] * Vanal runs ever faster pumping every ounce of energy he can into he strides and then....he jumps, as far as he bloody can, trailing a fiery streak of essence behind him as he triggers effortlessly rising flame
[01:45] [Jynaru] !ex 13
[01:45] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 13, 8, 1, 9, 9, 5, 3, 5, 9, 10, 3, 7, 3, 8, Successes : 8
[01:45] [Storyteller] +1 Vanal
[01:46] [Vanal] !ex 10
[01:46] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 10, 2, 3, 5, 3, 4, 7, 8, 6, 2, 9, Successes : 3
[01:46] * Maris flies forward his feet flying underneath him as he pants. He leaps gaps in the passageway with gritted teeth. His hands remain where they were.
[01:46] [Storyteller] +1 Maris
[01:46] [Maris] !ex 5
[01:46] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 9, 10, 2, 8, 9, Successes : 5
[01:46] [Tabius] (*NICE MARIS!)
[01:47] [Jynaru] (Whooooo!!!! MOJO!!!!!!!!!! I do the seated dance of victory.)
[01:47] [Maris] ((is glad for mojo))
[01:47] [Storyteller] Tabius runs ever faster away, managing to stay ahead of the crumbling rocks
[01:48] [Dancing_Moogle] (Oh... My...... God! I got the eyes, head, face, mouth, ears, and most amazingly HAIR right!! I'm practically orgasmic!! I haven't been this surprised and happy in a long time! WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!)
[01:48] [Storyteller] Tei runs as well, managing to put a bit of distance between himself and the encroaching crack of doom
[01:48] [Storyteller] Jynaru leaps mightily into the air, and as he looks up, things he sees a blaze of essence across the sky... but doesn't have time to look, as he is too busy looking where his feet are going to land.
[01:49] [Storyteller] Vanal trips and falls, rolling to the side just as the crack passes him. The ledge he is on rattles and shatters, and he knows he does not have much time left
[01:49] [Storyteller] roll again
[01:49] [Jynaru] (I am amazed.)
[01:49] [Dancing_Moogle] (It's gotta be either the Dancing Moogle or Superman)
[01:50] [Tei] !ex 7
[01:50] [Storyteller] Tei : !ex 7, 6, 10, 10, 8, 4, 1, 5, Successes : 5
[01:50] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 8, 7, 9, 8, 6, 9, 4, 2, 5, Successes : 4
[01:50] [Storyteller] ?ex 8
[01:50] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 8, 7, 7, 9, 9, 4, 1, 9, 6, Successes : 5
[01:50] [Storyteller] ?ex 8
[01:50] * Jynaru shouts vile insults at the blaze of Essence as he continues to bound from crag to crag.
[01:51] [Storyteller] Tala climbs up the side of the rock, managing to find a piece that isn't going to fall off immediately
[01:51] * Vanal roars and LEAPS forward again, triggering his charm a second time (and spending willpower to activate valor [it's a gutsy jump] fire erupting from under his feet and spreading twin streamer of s smoke as he leaves the ground
[01:51] [Jynaru] (I could give examples, if you like ;)
[01:51] * Maris runs his mightiest and uses both hands to risk putting on his claws. Then with a grunt of effort he uses his wall hand to propel himself up and then he twists and slams his left claws into the wall trying to get a good grip. He then starts pulling himself up hand over hand trying to climb his way to safety. Activating Strength of Stone Technique.
[01:51] [Dancing_Moogle] (KUPO!!!)
[01:51] * Tabius eyes a series of ledges and handholds on the side of the quarry up ahead and heads towards them. Once there he throws a leg up onto a ledge, propelling himself across a small chasm to a handhold which he swings on doing a summersault in the air to land on loose gravel which he slides along till he hits a rock which he uses to pop himself back upright and continues running.
[01:52] [Storyteller] mmm +1 for Vanal, none for Jynaru, insults aren't stunts ;)
[01:52] [Maris] ((can I activate strength of stone technique now?))
[01:52] [Vanal] !ex 13
[01:52] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 13, 4, 7, 7, 7, 4, 10, 7, 4, 5, 6, 8, 8, 6, Successes : 8
[01:52] [Vanal] BOOM
[01:52] [Jynaru] (Darn. I'll pop off Valor to make it an even fifteen dice then.)
[01:52] [Maris] ((and do that action even))
[01:52] [Jynaru] !ex 15
[01:52] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 15, 7, 8, 7, 2, 5, 4, 4, 4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 4, 6, 4, Successes : 3
[01:53] [Storyteller] +2 for Maris, +3 for Tabius
[01:53] [Storyteller] )yes you can activate your chamses)
[01:53] [Tabius] (*uh oh, no mojo for Jynaru :-P
[01:53] [Maris] !ex 6
[01:53] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 6, 5, 4, 7, 10, 6, 1, Successes : 3
[01:53] * Jynaru 's player blinks. What.....the......HELL?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
[01:53] [Vanal] .....
[01:53] [Tabius] !ex 11
[01:53] [Storyteller] Tabius : !ex 11, 6, 7, 5, 5, 9, 9, 8, 1, 5, 3, 9, Successes : 5
[01:53] [Jynaru] (15 is officially the number I never touch again.)
[01:53] [Dancing_Moogle] (I'd write that down!)
[01:54] [Jynaru] (Should have spent more time jumping from spur to spur, less time insulting the thingie.)
[01:54] [Storyteller] (14 is your lucky number, jynaru. 14)
[01:54] [Dancing_Moogle] (Yeah, you don't want to insult Superman.)
[01:54] [Jynaru] (This is true. Going above 14 insults the fates. Hubris, and such.)
[01:55] [Maris] ((oh I get the +2 dice for climbing on this roll or do I need to wait?))
[01:56] [Maris] ((and I mean the dice added for using the claws.))
[01:57] * Storyteller does the math
[01:57] [Storyteller] yes you get the dice for the claws
[01:57] [Maris] !ex 2
[01:57] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 2, 4, 5, Successes : 0
[01:58] [Dancing_Moogle] ( :( )
[01:59] [Storyteller] Okay
[02:00] [Storyteller] Jynaru leaps into the air, but strangely enough, doesn't find anything under his feet. He looks towards the ground after doing a cartoon feet-spin, and falls. UnFortunately, he falls on his face. Fortunately, the shaking is very minimal at this point.
[02:00] [Jynaru] (Now I'm free.......free-fallin.)
[02:01] [Dancing_Moogle] (Kupo?? ?_?)
[02:01] [Jynaru] (How high up am I?)
[02:01] [Storyteller] Maris tries climbing the rocks, but even with the razor sharp blades of his claws, he is unable to find a good hold. He gives up on that approach, realizing he needs a new plan, as he runs alongside the cliff face
[02:01] [Storyteller] (you were maybe 6-8' above ground level
[02:02] [Storyteller] Tabius continues running running running, looking backwards at Maris and telling him to get his feet-ass moving
[02:02] [Jynaru] (Ah. Feared I had managed to make it almost to the top and THEN fallen.)
[02:03] [Vanal] (it's....3:30 here...no offense, but is the scene almost done ? I gotta go to bed)
[02:03] [Storyteller] Vanal leaps forwards , managing to reach the very tip of the crevice, it snaking under his feet as he runs
[02:03] [Vanal] (almost, anyways)
[02:03] [Storyteller] and Tei runs on, barely keeping his advantage on the crevice
[02:03] [Storyteller] soon, except for maris.
[02:03] [Vanal] you need 20 successes ?
[02:03] [Storyteller] roll your dice. stunts remain goodness
[02:04] [Storyteller] 25
[02:04] [Vanal] Ahhhh
[02:04] [Tei] !ex 7
[02:04] [Storyteller] Tei : !ex 7, 2, 2, 7, 7, 3, 7, 8, Successes : 4
[02:04] [Dancing_Moogle] (Holy crap! It is 3:00!! That's late in Moogle land!)
[02:05] [Storyteller] anyone else gonna roll?
[02:05] * Tabius seeing the end in sight Tabius makes a final leap, but goes in feet first towards safety allowing him to reach out a hand to anybody behind him that might be just short.
[02:05] * Vanal risks a glace behind him at the crevice, and runs his ass off some more, sweat dripping down his now fire-red face from the exertion. With a quick move he pulls out his sword and literally uses it to pole-vault forwards, launching himself hopefully far enough away from the crack
[02:05] * Maris gives up on that approach and runs his ass off up the cliff. He huffs and puffs and curses and spits and hopes to the dragons he can make it. He watches the side of the wall though and looks to see if there's any way he can go up it anytime soon.
[02:05] * Jynaru rubs his face and makes one last high-arcing leap to safety, rolling to a stop with puffs of dust and pebbles skittering over the edge.
[02:06] [Storyteller] Tabius +1 Maris +1 Vanal +2 Jynaru +1
[02:06] [Maris] !ex 5
[02:06] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 7, 1, 6, 5, 4, Successes : 1
[02:06] [Vanal] !ex 9
[02:06] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 9, 8, 8, 9, 5, 7, 2, 9, 4, 6, Successes : 5
[02:06] [Vanal] YO !
[02:06] [Tabius] !ex 9
[02:06] [Storyteller] Tabius : !ex 9, 9, 4, 9, 8, 5, 6, 10, 8, 3, Successes : 6
[02:06] [Jynaru] !ex 13
[02:06] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 13, 4, 5, 5, 1, 10, 9, 10, 10, 5, 5, 10, 3, 9, Successes : 10
[02:06] [Tabius] (*Laughs at Jynaru :-)
[02:07] [Dancing_Moogle] (Looks like you've got your mojo back!)
[02:07] [Jynaru] (Amateurs. I am the Realm's Olympic gold medallist in the long jump ;)
[02:07] [Vanal] (Well, I’m the champion at the pole-vault-with-reaver-daiklaive)
[02:07] * Cicada 'player laughs.
[02:08] [Storyteller] heh
[02:08] [Dancing_Moogle] (I'm a big nerd with a whole lotta books. Well, now I'm a dancing moogle.. but... Yeah!)
[02:08] [Tei] (if Tei is in the clear I'm gonna go)
[02:08] [Storyteller] Jynaru flies through the air, almost a bit TOO far, leaping such a distance that he has to make a perfect landing, or else fall off the edge. He does it.
[02:08] [Jynaru] (Indeed. A sport I'm sure is catching on like wildfire.)
[02:09] [Storyteller] The ground disappears under Maris in a puff of smoke, and he starts falling, falling, he has one chance, and that is to somehow stop his fall with the wall....
[02:09] * Jynaru lands, and bows elaborately.
[02:09] [Storyteller] Maris roll to attack the wall
[02:09] [Storyteller] cliff whatever
[02:09] [Maris] !ex 11
[02:09] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 11, 3, 5, 3, 2, 10, 1, 9, 6, 7, 7, 6, Successes : 5
[02:09] [Vanal] I think he hit it
[02:09] [Jynaru] (How in the world am I going to get to my horse now?)
[02:09] [Dancing_Moogle] (Kupo! *claps*)
[02:09] [Storyteller] roll damage
[02:09] [Vanal] Jun: very carefully
[02:10] [Dancing_Moogle] (holds up sign 9.8)
[02:10] [Maris] !exm 14
[02:10] [Storyteller] Maris : !exm 14, 2, 2, 10, 6, 2, 10, 6, 1, 10, 2, 7, 4, 5, 10, Successes : 5
[02:10] [Storyteller] Maris your claws sink into the rockbed and they slowly, slooowly stop your fall. You look up at the ten feet sheer climb you have in front of you and swallow. Then you look to your side and realize you'll have to climb sideways hella far too. But at least you're alive...
[02:11] [Storyteller] Tabius, you run to safety, looking at Jynaru bowing and thinking how tempting it would be to just not stop running and plow him over the edge
[02:11] * Jynaru 's player laughs.
[02:11] [Vanal] and Van lands on top of Tab ? *g*
[02:11] [Tabius] (*Contemplates this, would he get a dodge?)
[02:11] [Storyteller] )no(
[02:12] [Jynaru] (You know I'd take you down with me...)
[02:12] [Tabius] (*goes to contemplate this some more)
[02:12] [Storyteller] )but you'd never stop yourself in time(
[02:12] [Vanal] (and even if you survived, Van WOULD kill you)
[02:12] [Storyteller] Tei, you run, and look behind you to see Vanal leaping behind you. He lands, and you realize that the cracks have slowed considerably in their rate of growth.
[02:12] * Tabius seem to twinkle a bit, but he stops, drops and pears over the side at Maris.
[02:12] * Jynaru 's player prepares the stunt where he leaps off of the falling Tabius back up to the ledge.
[02:13] [Jynaru] (Awwww.......)
[02:13] [Vanal] (anyways, now that van is safe...I'm going to bed)
[02:13] [Storyteller] Though you are now relatively safe, you realize that that safety is an illusion. You can't stay here long. And looking back, on the way you came, you see that not only did the
[02:13] [Tabius] (*I was actually just thinking of Jynaru blowing over a ledge and how sweet a shot the nuts from behind would be ;-)
[02:14] [Jynaru] (I was bowing towards you guys, to piss you off ;)
[02:15] [Tabius] (*Oh, still thought you were 'landing' when I got there since it was the same round of dicing)
[02:15] [Storyteller] cliff face fall down, but that when it fell down, it cleared a lot of rubble from the face where the orcihhulum had been uncovered. And as you look there, you are horrified to see that it was not just any vein, but a vein carved in the likeness of a man. An androgynously handsome man, who looks at you with cold, powerful eyes, and unfortunately for you, seems to be alive. Even so you notice that the rubble at his feet have nearly completely filled the river duct to the side
[02:15] [Storyteller] and with that cliffhanger [killed by the pun] I leave you for tonight.
[02:16] [Vanal] ....yikes
[02:16] * Maris hangs on the cliff then
[02:16] [Vanal] anyways, I'm outta here
[02:16] [Tabius] DOH!!!!!!!!
[02:16] [Tei] well I'm going to bed see you next week
[02:16] [Storyteller] l8r DT
[02:16] *** Vanal has quit IRC (Quit: Why do the Sith always take the saying 'strike me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine' as a dare ?)
[02:16] [Storyteller] Tei
[02:16] [Tabius] complete the sentence at least!
[02:16] [Cicada] Good night Manx. At least you got some action today.
[02:16] [Jynaru] Son....of.....a.....BITCH!!!
[02:16] *** Tei has quit IRC (Quit: )
[02:16] [Storyteller] yeap
[02:16] [Storyteller] oh yeas I am
[02:17] [Maris] night
[02:17] [Storyteller] l8r Maris
[02:17] [Maris] how big is the dude?
[02:17] [Dancing_Moogle] (Kupo Maris!)
[02:17] [Storyteller] he's as big as the goddamn cliff face. we're talking a few thousands of feet tall
[02:17] * Maris whistles
[02:17] [Maris] night
[02:17] *** Maris has quit IRC (Quit: )
[02:18] [Jynaru] Giant Orichalcum living statue, some bandit army who's snagged Cicada, spirits planning genocide, and I don't have my horse.....
[02:18] * Jynaru shakes his head.
[02:18] [Tabius] (*And guess who has him by his nut sack with razor sharp claws? Looks over at Maris. *)
[02:18] [Storyteller] gotta keep you guys on your toes... gotta keep you guys on your toes... gotta keep you guys on your toes....
[02:18] [Storyteller] I’m sure it'll all come out well in the end
[02:18] [Tabius] Ah, but is his neck more than 1500 feet away?
[02:19] [Storyteller] but now I know you bastards can survive anything, so I’m going to be playing with you
[02:19] [Storyteller] nope
[02:19] [Storyteller] ot
[02:19] [Storyteller] it's maybe 800 feet
[02:19] [Tabius] Ah, GOOD ;-)
[02:19] * Dancing_Moogle dances in front of the statue.
[02:19] * Jynaru hopes he can roll about 20 successes on a to-hit roll so he can make the statue fall backwards. I want Glorious Seed back ;)
[02:19] [Storyteller] the statue eats the dancing moogle.
[02:19] [Cicada] I know I shouldn't say this. But I am almost happy to be somewhere else.
[02:20] [Storyteller] lol
[02:20] * Jynaru laughs.
[02:20] [Dancing_Moogle] NOOOOOO!
[02:21] [Dancing_Moogle] What a horrible un-cute fate for the dancing moogle!
[02:21] *** Tabius is now known as Thanos
[02:21] *** Storyteller is now known as GoldenH
[02:21] [Jynaru] Poor Dancing Moogle. He never even got to the grand finale!
[02:21] *** Jynaru is now known as FiatForNow
[02:21] [Thanos] This is going to be ouchy.
[02:22] [Dancing_Moogle] Yeah! I wanted to dance everybody's exp to them.
[02:22] [Thanos] !ex 4
[02:22] [Storyteller] Thanos : !ex 4, 7, 6, 6, 2, Successes : 1
[02:22] [Storyteller] Did I mention all the mortals died?
[02:22] [FiatForNow] There’s no size limit on how big a flying guillotine can be, right?
[02:22] [Storyteller] All the mortals died, Tala and Maris are cliffhanging
[02:22] [FiatForNow] All the mortals? Oh well, what a shame.
[02:22] [Storyteller] and you guys can't stay cuz you'll die too...
[02:22] [Cicada] (Yeah, I am all dead...)
[02:23] [Storyteller] and Cicada is captured by the bandito
[02:23] [Thanos] Dang......
[02:23] [Storyteller] bandito queen, she shall become
[02:23] * FiatForNow sighs.
[02:23] * FiatForNow laughs.
[02:23] [FiatForNow] Sable Cicada, Queen of the Bandits!
[02:23] [Thanos] our heroes look like their going to be down for the count.
[02:24] * Cicada 's player laughs too.
[02:24] * FiatForNow wonders if the bandit leader will botch and Cic can bring THEM the cavalry.
[02:24] [Cicada] Now I can kidnap Juniper and MAKE her marry my lord!
[02:24] [FiatForNow] "Hey, there's a big vein of orichalcum in that poorly defended mind! Let's go steal it!"
[02:24] * FiatForNow chuckles.
[02:25] [Thanos] LoL
[02:25] [FiatForNow] Mine. I have a poorly defended mind, the game is set at a poorly defended mine.
[02:25] * FiatForNow ponders.
[02:25] [Cicada] * Bandit horde carry off very large Anathema statue and become the richest beings in all of creation.
[02:25] [FiatForNow] There sure is a lot of marriage stuff going on in the Exalted stuff I'm involved in.
[02:26] [Storyteller] boobies
[02:26] [Storyteller] boooooobies rule
[02:26] [Storyteller] anyhow I am sorry I was so slow earlier
[02:26] [FiatForNow] The Thread's got 2 coming eventually, there was one already in my face-to-face game, Cic's probably got the mojo to pull of said forced marriage....
[02:26] [Storyteller] Is it just me or was I dragging it out somehow
[02:26] [Thanos] No problem ;-) heheheh
[02:26] [Storyteller] Anyhow I didn't mean to
[02:27] [Storyteller] I just kept getting interrupted
[02:27] * FiatForNow feels your pain, GH. Now just never do it again or I will set your internal organs on fire.
[02:28] [Dancing_Moogle] BRB
[02:28] *** Dancing_Moogle has quit IRC (Quit: )
[02:28] [Thanos] Hehehe Tabs finally did a 3 die stunt WOOOOOO WOOOOOOO
[02:29] [Storyteller] lol
[02:29] [FiatForNow] This is true. There was much stuntage.
[02:29] [Storyteller] I gotta hand it to you guys, those were probably some of the best stunts i've seen yet.
[02:29] * FiatForNow still needs to find himself in a position where he can unleash a 3 dice stunt... all his revolve around shooting things.
[02:29] * Thanos bows.
[02:30] [FiatForNow] We were in dire peril. It stimulates the mind.
[02:31] [Thanos] I still like Tabs putting double T's in the Blood Apes chest, killing it, was the best stunt ;-)
[02:31] [Thanos] Course I have a little bias on that point.
[02:31] [Storyteller] no, I thought todays were better
[02:32] [FiatForNow] That one was good, I must admit, but Maris had good ones, Vanal had good ones....
[02:32] [FiatForNow] They were longer, more involved.
[02:32] [FiatForNow] Paragraphic stunts.
[02:32] [Thanos] It helps when there is more than one round you can think up a stunt with, I will tell you that much.
[02:32] * FiatForNow just has to remember to never again roll 15 dice.
[02:33] [Thanos] Well the Double T's was the sheer audacity, ferocity, and grande COOLNESS of doing that to a DEMON.... you know, crossing it, twice ;-)
[02:33] [Cicada] me would so have liked to see Tabius save Vanal's life. It would have been sooo sweet. But maybe her lord can make it yet. :)
[02:33] [FiatForNow] Yeah, you could do some interesting stuff since you had both time to think and you could set up stunts.
[02:34] [Thanos] Exactly Fiat, more than 1 round of combat ;-)
[02:34] * FiatForNow laughs.
[02:34] [Thanos] and not having all the cool stuff taken ;-)
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[02:34] [FiatForNow] Indeed. I wonder how many rounds it will take to off this warstrider type thingie..... 4, 5?
[02:34] [Thanos] Well I got Maris's but out of a fine jam ;-) that has to count for something Hikari.
[02:34] [Dancing_Moogle] Growl! Who knows how to use trillian?
[02:34] [FiatForNow] Yeah, but you LIKE Maris...
[02:35] [Storyteller] I thought about it, but it would ruin too many things.
[02:35] [FiatForNow] Which version, and what are you trying to do with it? IRC?
[02:35] [Dancing_Moogle] Yes.
[02:35] [Storyteller] trillian suxx0r
[02:35] [Dancing_Moogle] .73
[02:35] * Thanos looks at Fiat
[02:35] [Storyteller] for IRC anyhow
[02:35] [Storyteller] makes me sick
[02:35] [Thanos] uh.... well, perhaps Tabs likes Maris, they don't bump heads a lot.
[02:35] [FiatForNow] Well, more than Vanal, anyway.
[02:36] [FiatForNow] Yeah, it's really best to use a dedicated IRC platform for IRC.
[02:36] [Dancing_Moogle] Well, I didn't like using all those programs for Yahoo, AIM and MSN Crap.
[02:36] [FiatForNow] Trill's good for ICQ and AIM, but not IRC.
[02:36] [Dancing_Moogle] Understood!
[02:36] [Thanos] Its more a matter of trust with Maris. Tabs knows he can't trust him farther than he can throw him. At least with Vanal Tabs can trust him to do what is right by Cathak.
[02:36] [Dancing_Moogle] Anyhoo, I can't figure that out.
[02:37] [FiatForNow] I'm almost afraid to ask about myself ;)
[02:38] [Thanos] ;-) hehehehe.....soon enough J will find out what’s up ;-)
[02:38] [Thanos] Good or bad, he will find out. Lets just take it one step at a time and see if we can't survive for another 5 minutes OK/
[02:38] * FiatForNow laughs.
[02:39] [FiatForNow] Sure, why not.
[02:39] [Dancing_Moogle] If only Jydan were watching ya'll he'd be so bloody fascinated, the thing would step on him.
[02:39] [Thanos] ;-)
[02:39] [Thanos] 5 minutes can't be that hard, can it?
[02:40] * Thanos looks all naive and innocent.
[02:40] [Thanos] (*Scratches his many mosquito bites.
[02:40] [Thanos] DOH!!...... perhaps Exp should be posted :-)
[02:40] * FiatForNow ponders.
[02:40] [FiatForNow] Yes, probably it can.

[02:38] [FiatForNow] Is there any way I can at least have the starmetal stuff and axe off the horse? I expect the horse to die horribly soon, but I do need my stuff.
[02:39] [Storyteller] everything's on the horse, unless you left stuff back at camp
[02:39] * FiatForNow sighs.
[02:40] [FiatForNow] I know I would have grabbed the bow and quiver off the horse in case of an ambush, but the rest is all on said horse.
[02:40] * FiatForNow figures if he can jump 60 yards, he can run over, jump and roll down, jump up, and apologize to the horse somewhere in the middle.

[02:41] * FiatForNow ponders. I've still got 21 exp kicking around pre-end-of-this-game!
[02:42] * FiatForNow wishes for an ED style Karma pool...
[02:42] [Thanos] *is sitting with 20, and has missed 2 game sessions already and is very unhappy to have missed them, but does not foresee missing any more any time soon, well unless he looses his job and has to move.
[02:43] [Storyteller] suckage
[02:43] [Storyteller] well the loosing a job would
[02:44] [Storyteller] the you not loosing a job would be great
[02:45] [Thanos] Thanks. I am going to start looking for a new one post hast, like tomorrow the day after I get back from vacation. Why you should ask, cause the people at work are being asses, certain of them in different departments were made to look like idiots (unintentionally) and want their petty revenge and are making shit up.
[02:45] [Storyteller] try temp work, you get like $50 a day
[02:45] [FiatForNow] In-office politics suck.
[02:46] [Thanos] SO I can't get a promotion or even a transfer to a different department/job for 6 months due to 'disciplinary action', Which can include a warning note :-P
[02:46] [Storyteller] not steady though
[02:47] [Thanos] I could be a substitute teacher and make $80-100 a day in Vegas, but it to is unsteady
[02:47] * FiatForNow ponders.
[02:47] [Storyteller] yae
[02:47] [FiatForNow] You could always practice and go work three-card monte or the casinos.
[02:48] [Thanos] hehehee..... I could, had a friend in highschool that made about a grand a week playing blackjack ;-)
[02:48] [Thanos] until he got blackbooked at 3 Casino's on the same day :-{ then he was hosed
[02:49] [FiatForNow] Ah.
[02:49] * FiatForNow never went that far, but he did alright.
[02:50] [FiatForNow] I wonder if the different look would let me run wild for a day or three in Vegas.
[02:51] [Thanos] If you can change your jaw line, the mass of the area around your eyes, and your head shape then you might make it.
[02:51] * FiatForNow ponders.
[02:52] [FiatForNow] Grow a beard, my hair's different anyway, and I'm sure the bags under my eyes form non-stop gambling would help.
[02:53] [FiatForNow] Find the red queen, find the red queen....
[02:53] [Storyteller] the red queen is in my pants
[02:53] * FiatForNow shrugs. That's actually a trick cheating monte guys use.
[02:54] [Dancing_Moogle] Of course she is ;) You can always dream....
[02:54] [Thanos] Ah, thats about the time the monte guy gets kicked in the balls ;-)
[02:54] [Storyteller] WAIT
[02:54] [Storyteller] I was supposed to ASK you something
[02:54] [Storyteller] Thanos, are your troops legion?
[02:55] * Dancing_Moogle Jydan
[02:55] *** Dancing_Moogle is now known as Jydan
[02:55] [Jydan] My brain doesn't work right.
[02:55] [Thanos] Not part of any legion, they are the equivalent of special ops.
[02:55] [Storyteller] ok
[02:55] [Jydan] Damn it! Israel bus bomb kills 8! Those fucking idiots.
[02:56] [Storyteller] so basically the legion has no power over your troops.
[02:56] [Storyteller] they're private house troops
[02:56] [Thanos] That’s all they have been used for and have beefed-up/light armor and swords and shields and stuff through Tabs Sorcery.
[02:56] [Thanos] Yes, private house troops.
[02:56] * Storyteller nods
[02:56] [Storyteller] okay
[02:56] [Storyteller] Inquiring dark, evil, plotting minds wanted to know
[02:57] [Storyteller] mainly mine
[02:57] [Thanos] Of course ;-)
[02:57] * FiatForNow really will have to snag a copy of Bo3C someday.
[02:57] [Thanos] RoEE is very sweet, I must tell you.
[02:57] [Jydan] That has to be my favorite sourcebook.
[02:58] [Jydan] Not to mention the only one I've got.
[02:58] [FiatForNow] For now I've been working the GM Fiat angle, this is what it is, don't give a damn about the book, but I'm running out of stuff.
[02:59] * FiatForNow only has so much insane creativity.
[03:00] [Storyteller] noooo
[03:00] [Storyteller] just pull things out of your ass
[03:01] [FiatForNow] Yeah, but there's only so much ass to tap!
[03:01] [Thanos] hehehee.... I was thinking of a Magic Missle Equivolent ;-)
[03:01] [Thanos] (*get a bigger ass ;-)
[03:01] * FiatForNow chuckles.
[03:03] [Storyteller] Tap other people's ass :looks at becky evilly:
[03:03] * Jydan is about to be on ICQ, AGAIN. Well, maybe I won't get more IMs about porn...
[03:03] [Storyteller] don't count on it
[03:03] [Storyteller] count on more......
[03:03] [Storyteller] what I hate about free porn is that it never is really free
[03:03] [Thanos] ICQ is cool, and I only ever get commercials or something weird every 2 weeks or s.
[03:04] * FiatForNow chuckles.
[03:04] [Jydan] Geez, the horrors of being 19...
[03:04] [FiatForNow] The horror, the horror.
[03:04] [Storyteller] w00t
[03:05] [Thanos] No, the psychological damage can be immense. No joke.
[03:05] [Jydan] Oh, Fiat, how old are you, if I may ask?
[03:05] [Storyteller] Fiat is 973
[03:05] [Storyteller] what you really wanna ask is how old Eric is
[03:05] [Jydan] Oh yeah.
[03:05] * FiatForNow laughs.
[03:06] [FiatForNow] Yes, Fiat is older than old. YOu want to know about the man BEHIND the monitor, eh?
[03:06] [Jydan] Yes.
[03:06] [Storyteller] SIR, Yes PLEASE, SIR
[03:06] *** FiatForNow is now known as Erik
[03:06] *** Jydan is now known as King-David
[03:07] [Erik] I'm almost afraid to try for my first name ;)
[03:07] [Storyteller] Ok Joe
[03:07] [King-David] I had to add a king on to mine...
[03:07] [Erik] AS it is I'm going all Viking spelling.
[03:07] * Erik humms along. (Erik the awful, the brutal and tenacious.)
[03:07] [King-David] Not too shabby.
[03:07] [Storyteller] 4 xp
[03:07] [Storyteller] I’m gonna have to figure out stunt xp
[03:08] [Thanos] Thanks
[03:08] [Storyteller] np
[03:08] [Thanos] DOH..... DB's need 10*current to increase Essence!!!!
[03:08] [Storyteller] soooooooo
[03:08] [Cicada] We still get stunt XP?
[03:08] [Storyteller] a little
[03:08] [Erik] 25 total XP, eh?
[03:09] [Storyteller] my standards increase constantly
[03:09] [Cicada] Ok.
[03:09] [Erik] I assume we're allowed to buy combat shiznit before we go after the pigeon king over in the wall?
[03:09] [King-David] Man, I'm getting sick. All that mojo channeling....
[03:09] [Storyteller] well, only no-downtime stuff
[03:09] [Erik] Yeah, I know.
[03:10] *** Cicada is now known as Hikari
[03:10] *** Hikari is on IRC
[03:10] [Storyteller] you think YOU had mojo channeling? I was getting better rolls than cicada occasionally. How's THAT for mojo channeling.
[03:10] *** Storyteller is now known as GoldenH
[03:10] * Erik ponders what would be more useful. Yet more Dodge, more Jump, or something that lets him actually hurt people.
[03:10] [GoldenH] so now Cicada is the queen of a bandito army
[03:10] [Thanos] DODGE!
[03:10] [GoldenH] better hope she likes you
[03:11] [Thanos] Ok.... that was Cicada I was talking about ;-)
[03:11] [GoldenH] dodge doesn't help you on a cliff face.
[03:11] [Hikari] Forward my Minions! Take that city!
[03:11] [Thanos] No, but it does when the big ass 1000 foot tall guy tries to stomp on you ;-)
[03:11] [GoldenH] [city falls under your vast power]
[03:11] [Hikari] Never send spirits to do am Bandit Queens job!
[03:11] [GoldenH] heh
[03:11] [GoldenH] can't parry that
[03:12] [King-David] I thought you said 800!!
[03:12] * Erik thinks... that sounds like a song to him.
[03:12] [GoldenH] 800 AWAY
[03:12] [GoldenH] thousands tall
[03:12] [GoldenH] maybe 2-3
[03:12] [King-David] Ah!
[03:12] [Thanos] that is BIG!
[03:12] [GoldenH] yea
[03:12] [GoldenH] half a mile?
[03:12] [GoldenH] a kilometer
[03:13] [Erik] See that girl, young and sweet on the mortal scene....See her fight, see her fight, killing and spilling red blood...
[03:13] [GoldenH] see wjat O havem
[03:13] [Hikari] ...Only 17.... Oh Yeaah!
[03:13] [GoldenH] See what I haven't told you is that the statue is actually an automaton... powered by sex!
[03:13] [GoldenH] j/k
[03:13] [Erik] Nooooooo!!!!!!!
[03:14] [Thanos] erm..... no sex going on there....... guess it don't work to well ;'-)
[03:14] [Erik] SEX-POWERED LASER BEAM EYES!!!!!!!!
[03:14] [GoldenH] yea[
[03:14] [Thanos] Now if it worked on a LACK of sex, then it would be VERY POWERFUL!
[03:14] [GoldenH] well it does live across the moat from a miner's town
[03:14] * King-David thought that was the most hilarious idea.
[03:14] [Hikari] Ehm, Thanos, how do you think I managed to become Queen of the bandit army. That thing is VERY powerful...
[03:14] [Thanos] Yeah, how many miners do you know that have big families that live at the mine?
[03:14] [GoldenH] all of 'em
[03:15] [Thanos] DOH!
[03:15] [Thanos] Well I guess we are going to get pummeled.
[03:15] [GoldenH] cept the ones whose kids died
[03:15] [GoldenH] but they just seem to make more
[03:15] [Erik] But all the miners and families are dead, jim.
[03:15] [King-David] Speaking of minors....
[03:16] [Erik] Segue alert!
[03:16] * Erik does a computer-top rimshot.
[03:16] [GoldenH] sssssegwah
[03:16] [Erik] Not the rolling scooter but the conversation mover~
[03:16] [GoldenH] I've never actually used the word segue in real life
[03:16] [GoldenH] now I think I should kill everyone who ever used that word
[03:17] [GoldenH] bandito-queen, lend me a sword?
[03:17] [Thanos] SEQUE to another topic please.
[03:17] [Hikari] There you go GM.
[03:17] [GoldenH] which reminds me. Do women compensate, and for what?
[03:18] [GoldenH] thanks
[03:18] [Thanos] ooops SEGUE EVEN
[03:18] [Hikari] Just make sure Juniper winds up in my lord's or my bed. Maybe both.
[03:18] [GoldenH] ok
[03:18] [Erik] It's called penis envy in women, compensation in men.
[03:18] [Thanos] NICE!
[03:18] [GoldenH] but if Jynaru's in it too, don't blame me. he's such a handsome rouge.
[03:19] [Hikari] Jynaru will die.
[03:19] * Erik hasn't heard the term penis envy kicked about since reading the old feminist.....WHAT?
[03:19] * Erik blinks.
[03:19] [GoldenH] how many banditos does it take to kill a jumpin' DB?
[03:19] [GoldenH] jumpin' dragon-beans. gotta market those.
[03:19] [Erik] Yeah, that's right, I got intelligence NEGATIVE MILLION!!!!
[03:19] [Hikari] MANY! But I have got plenty.
[03:20] [GoldenH] true
[03:20] [Thanos] later gaters
[03:20] [GoldenH] how many wings did I give you again?
[03:20] [GoldenH] later thanos
[03:20] [Hikari] Good night.
[03:20] *** Thanos has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving)
[03:20] * Erik sighs. Yes, that's all he needs, the wrath of a bandit queen, a sorceror, and probably his house.
[03:21] [Erik] I mean, Juniper'd have to have some App 10 or me roll all ones on a 10 dice pool for that to happen.
[03:21] [Hikari] Yea, your house too! I have got 5 in thrown I can throw your house at you as well.
[03:21] * Erik laughs.
[03:22] [Hikari] With a skill that high I can probably get throw together a great party when you are dead.
[03:22] [Erik] Talk about an epic moment, naked dynast zooming down the street 60 yards at a jump fleeing a woman carrying a house and throwing passing horses at him.
[03:22] * King-David could see her throwing the house, but the house members, no... those old d-bs can get pretty fat.
[03:22] [GoldenH] lol
[03:23] [Erik] Oh yes they call him the streak, the faster thing on two feet!
[03:23] [King-David] Oh, Erik, how old are you, if I may ask?
[03:23] * Erik tries to contemplate dealing with a Mnemon... but just can't.
[03:23] * Erik ponders.
[03:24] [Erik] You can ask. I can answer....
[03:24] [Erik] Hrmmmm.......
[03:24] * King-David is curious by how many years he broke the law.
[03:24] [Erik] YOu want the days and months, too?
[03:24] [King-David] Eh, nahh.
[03:24] [Erik] Oh, it doesn't matter about years. It's not like if I was 40 the penalty would be worse, the dividing line's eighteen, IIRC.
[03:25] [GoldenH] heh
[03:25] [King-David] Oh yeah, I know that. But still... there's a greater social stigma if you're 40 than at 21
[03:25] * Erik thinks if you can pull that off at 40 you deserve an award, not jail time.
[03:26] [Erik] This is true. Nice guess, by the way.
[03:26] [Erik] ONe year off.
[03:26] [GoldenH] not really hard. what would a 15 year old girl do for a mercades?
[03:26] [King-David] Duh. Wreck it.
[03:26] [Hikari] 21.....?
[03:26] * Erik laughs.
[03:26] [Hikari] DAMN!
[03:26] [GoldenH] for, not with ;)
[03:26] [Hikari] DAMN!
[03:26] [Hikari] DAMN!
[03:27] [Hikari] I AM the oldest!
[03:27] [Hikari] DAMN!
[03:27] [GoldenH] Fiat could just be saying that. Actually, I think fiat is sean connery.
[03:27] [GoldenH] isn't that right, sean connery.
[03:27] * Erik blinks.
[03:27] [Erik] Whoa, whoa, chill....
[03:27] [Erik] Well, yeah
[03:27] [Erik] Except for TSJ, but he's not often here.
[03:27] * Hikari gets ready to assassinate Rebecca and take over her hero.
[03:28] [Erik] Yes, my boy.
[03:28] [Erik] I'm playing this trick on all of you for my next movie.
[03:28] [GoldenH] excellent. I always wanted to be in a movie with you man
[03:28] [Hikari] I AM GONNA BE IN A SEAN CONNERY MOVIE!!!
[03:28] [Erik] They've finally come to their senses and letting me play Bond again.
[03:28] [GoldenH] BOOYA
[03:28] [GoldenH] I'm gonna be in a sean connery movie with him as james bond!
[03:29] * Hikari 's heart stops and she slumps over her keyboard, dead.
[03:29] [Erik] Research, you understand.
[03:29] [King-David] You know, if I put a pencil in between my teeth, I sound like Sean Connery.
[03:29] [GoldenH] I’ll probably get shot
[03:29] [GoldenH] hikari would have sex, but it'd be kinky and might still get shot
[03:29] [GoldenH] King-David would be shot right away
[03:29] [GoldenH] in the credits.
[03:29] [Erik] No, I think they could use him as one of the hapless scientists making my toys.
[03:30] [GoldenH] ah
[03:30] [King-David] Yeah, but not before having an orgy with all the ladies in the opening acid trip.
[03:30] [Hikari] King David is that poor guy in the start who holds the camera.
[03:30] [GoldenH] exactly
[03:30] * Erik laughs.
[03:30] * King-David cries
[03:30] [Erik] Indeed, a painful fate.
[03:31] [King-David] HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! I've got to go to bed!
[03:31] * Hikari gives King David a napkin.
[03:31] [King-David] Thanks Hik.
[03:31] [GoldenH] l8r ye of the weak staying awakened
[03:31] [GoldenH] GOD DAMNIT
[03:31] [GoldenH] WHY DO MY POSTS KEEP DISSAPEARING
[03:31] [Hikari] Good night, your majesty.
[03:31] [GoldenH] DAMN YOU YOSHI
[03:31] *** King-David has quit IRC (Quit: )
[03:31] * Erik sighs. Excuse me, my secretary wishes to OW speak with you.
[03:31] [GoldenH] ok
[03:32] *** Erik is now known as Rapunzel
[03:32] [Hikari] Fine with me.
[03:32] [GoldenH] remember for each minute she speaks with us she has to have wild girl [knocked on the head with a mallet]
[03:32] [Hikari] Hello, Rapunzel. Are you feeling well?
[03:32] [Rapunzel] He says that Yoshi needs good dirty food after dealing with Super Mario Sunshine.
[03:33] [GoldenH] makes sense, my posts are pretty full of vitamins
[03:33] [Rapunzel] I'm fairly tired. I didn't believe it when he said he spent all night, but he does. How do you do it?
[03:33] [Rapunzel] Vanilla coke by the gallon?
[03:33] [GoldenH] I don't need no sleep
[03:33] [GoldenH] I haven't had caffeine yet tonight
[03:33] [Hikari] Not so difficult for me. It is half past five in the afternoon here. :)
[03:33] [GoldenH] What time do you wake up Rapunzel?
[03:34] [Rapunzel] Usually around 7 or so in the morning, sometimes 6:30.
[03:34] [GoldenH] I woke up at 1 pm, but I have ran games when I woke up at 5 am. It's a world of difference in caffine intake.
[03:34] [Rapunzel] I think I'll miss that mark today, since it's 4:41.
[03:34] [GoldenH] for the record it is 4 am right now
[03:34] [Hikari] You better miss it.
[03:35] [GoldenH] so I have only been up... 14 hours
[03:35] [GoldenH] Still Hikari knows I go without sleeping. How long did I keep you up that night? 9 am here is... what... 11 pm there? not that late.
[03:35] [Rapunzel] You say it's 4, the computer says it's 4:34, and the clock says it's 4:42 now.
[03:36] [Rapunzel] Either way, it's way too late.
[03:36] [GoldenH] Not really
[03:36] [GoldenH] 70 hours is pushing it
[03:38] [GoldenH] So Rapunzel, what do you think?] Am I an insane bastard?
[03:39] [Hikari] You are indeed...
[03:39] [Hikari] Not that I was the one being asked.
[03:39] [GoldenH] but in a good way right?
[03:39] [Hikari] A little insanity is good spice in a person.
[03:39] [Rapunzel] Uh..... Erik advises me to take the 5th.
[03:40] [GoldenH] oh
[03:40] [GoldenH] he must still think he's more insane than me
[03:40] * GoldenH rolls his eyes
[03:40] [Rapunzel] SO the answer's probably yes, only more emphatic on his part.
[03:40] [Rapunzel] Not being experienced, I think it's shaping up fairly well.
[03:41] [GoldenH] yea I like where it's going. not how I originally planned it, but I like how it's going.
[03:41] [GoldenH] I was supposed to have downtime for you people months ago
[03:41] * GoldenH sighs
[03:42] [Rapunzel] One would think that after the statue, the bandit army, and such that there would be some time before the spirits show up.
[03:42] [Hikari] Rapunzel.... You are naive...
[03:42] * Hikari smiles.
[03:43] [GoldenH] you forget, the IOs are coming and they're going to fight the bandit army and statue and spirits all at once.
[03:43] [Rapunzel] This is true. However, I do have mojo ;)
[03:44] [GoldenH] So do I
[03:44] * GoldenH grabs his dice
[03:44] [GoldenH] roll for it?
[03:44] [Hikari] It would appear so... (shudders)
[03:44] [Rapunzel] It's better to be lucky than good.
[03:44] * GoldenH knows that's true
[03:44] [Rapunzel] How many dice?
[03:45] [GoldenH] your call
[03:45] [Rapunzel] Best of 15.
[03:45] [GoldenH] ok
[03:45] [GoldenH] you first
[03:45] [Rapunzel] !ex 15
[03:45] [GoldenH] Rapunzel : !ex 15, 3, 6, 8, 3, 3, 6, 10, 8, 7, 2, 8, 6, 8, 10, 6, Successes : 9
[03:45] [GoldenH] GoldenH : ?ex 15, 2, 5, 7, 1, 4, 5, 4, 7, 10, 10, 7, 3, 3, 5, 3, Successes : 7
[03:45] [GoldenH] ?ex 15
[03:45] [GoldenH] not bad, not bad
[03:46] [GoldenH] but I still got mojo
[03:46] [GoldenH] fiat should be screaming about the number 15. is he?
[03:46] [GoldenH] GoldenH : ?ex 10, 10, 2, 2, 3, 5, 1, 7, 9, 8, 8, Successes : 6
[03:46] [GoldenH] ?ex 10
[03:47] * GoldenH shrugs
[03:47] [GoldenH] GoldenH : ?exb 50, 4, 2, 1, 3, 2, 4, 1, 5, 3, 6, 1, 3, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 5, 1, 2, 5, 5, 2, 5, 2, 3, 2, 3, 6, 4, 4, 6, 5, 6, 5, 3, 2, 1, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 6, 6, 5, 4, 6, 1, Successes : 0, Botch
[03:47] [GoldenH] ?exb 50
[03:48] * GoldenH shrugs
[03:49] [GoldenH] GoldenH : ?exam 5, 10, 4, 9, 5, 1, Successes : 2
[03:49] [GoldenH] ?exam 5
[03:49] [Rapunzel] I didn't tell him. He's sort of passed out on the futon thing.
[03:49] [GoldenH] ah he's asleep?
[03:50] [GoldenH] and your brother?
[03:50] [Rapunzel] Not literally, just sprawled out. Not asleep quite yet.
[03:50] [GoldenH] ah
[03:51] [GoldenH] well
[03:52] [GoldenH] I think it's time for me to go, unless I can think of something truly witty to say
[03:53] [GoldenH] nope
[03:53] [GoldenH] later
[03:53] [Rapunzel] Chris spent a lot of time playing basketball earlier today, he was tired before he got here.
[03:53] [Hikari] Good night.
[03:53] [Rapunzel] Goodnight, GOldenH.
[03:53] *** Disconnected

Session Ident: Cicada
[22:18] Session Ident: Cicada (Hikari@zaqd378a7de.zaq.ne.jp)
[22:18] [Cicada] I forgot to say before we started that Cicada would like to spend 3 XP to get one dot in Medicine.
[22:18] [Cicada] For some reason I have gotten a reputation as a medic. Might as well have the skills to support it.
[22:19] [Storyteller] ok
[22:33] [Cicada] I wouldn't mind being cut out of the main action for a short while. I am half asleep anyway..
[22:34] [Cicada] Just so that you don7t keep me for MY sake.
[22:34] [Storyteller] eeh, you want to sleepy?
[22:35] [Cicada] No, no. Just that I wouldn't get all annoyed if I got cheated from side heavy duty roleplaying at the mine. Cicada can run all night, remember, she shouldn't get all that far behind.
[22:35] [Storyteller] well is this a _you don't mind_ think or a _subtle hint hint poke_ thing
[22:36] [Cicada] I guessed that much...
[22:36] [Storyteller] because it doesn't matter much either way
[22:36] [Storyteller] Tabius still won't let you go unless... eh make a socialize + manipulation check
[22:37] [Cicada] 1 personal mote to add 2 to socialize.
[22:37] [Storyteller] ok
[22:38] [Storyteller] okay you can do whatever you want with Tabius
[22:38] [Cicada] So I completely surprise and over power him?
[22:38] [Storyteller] would you like a limo?
[22:39] [Storyteller] pretty much
[22:41] [Storyteller] it really is going to take you half a day to get there, you know.
[22:42] [Cicada] That will mean a lot of running...
[22:42] [Storyteller] yeap
[22:42] * Cicada will not care how much she runs herself into the ground and how much she makes her feet bleed.
[22:43] [Storyteller] hrm, really? well that's going to be a lots of bleeding. Still, you manage to find a road that seems to go in that direction
[22:43] [Cicada] 1 Peripheral mote will be spent to stay awake if no-one is around, 1 Personal if there are observers.
[22:43] [Cicada] I assume it is dark.
[22:44] [Storyteller] very dark
[22:44] [Storyteller] you'll be glowin'
[22:44] [Storyteller] there is the occasional farmhouse
[22:44] [Storyteller] but you don't actually see anyone
[22:44] [Cicada] After only one point? Then I definitely use Personal.
[22:45] [Cicada] (two points, Earth ability)
[22:45] * Storyteller checks anima effects
[22:47] * Cicada gets a thin layer of frost on her skin and a little ice on her clothing as her first stage.
[22:48] [Cicada] (and it only lasts for an hour, Cicada will activate it on the way there or back to avoid the need for sleep)
[22:50] [Storyteller] ok
[22:54] [Cicada] Hmmm, maybe all the poor Dynasts will be captured by the E-vil mine guards, and I will have to come to the rescue.. :)
[22:54] [Storyteller] heh

[22:54] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 4, 1, 7, 8, 5, Successes : 2
[22:54] [Storyteller] ?ex 4

[23:18] [Storyteller] You arrive during the night
[23:19] * Cicada sneaks close to the camp, looking out for sentries.
[23:20] * Cicada , being already dirty, takes some time to rub more dirt over her skin, clothes and hair.
[23:21] [Cicada] (being already, that is. Damn! I am out of balance!)
[23:25] [Storyteller] okay
[23:25] [Storyteller] roll wits + stealth
[23:26] [Storyteller] you can't regain WP, no sleep, no WP
[23:26] [Cicada] I will activate Feeling-the-Air technique to make sure I know what is happening around me.

[23:26] [Cicada] !ex 6 (wits + Stealth)
[23:26] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 6 (wits + Stealth), 4, 7, 4, 6, 6, 5, Successes : 1 +

[23:27] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 10, 6, 6, 6, 8, Successes : 3
[23:27] [Storyteller] ?ex 5

[23:29] [Storyteller] okay
[23:29] [Cicada] (What is happening in the material world, that is..)
[23:30] [Storyteller] You sneak around and examine the group while it is still dark. The tents are small and simple, but you don't see any guards

[23:30] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 4, 4, 3, 2, 10, Successes : 2
[23:30] [Storyteller] ?ex 4

[23:30] * Cicada will crawl in close to a tent. She needs to ascertain the identity of this group.
[23:32] [Storyteller] The camp is huge, it seems to cover the entirety of the hill. Hundreds of campfires, not dozens.
[23:33] [Cicada] Urgh...
[23:33] [Storyteller] As you sneak towards the camp, you feel something twisting in the air behind you
[23:33] [Storyteller] roll init
[23:33] [Cicada] Well my mission remains the same...

[23:33] [Cicada] !roll 1d10 +8
[23:33] [Storyteller] : 1d10 +8, 9 , Total: 17

[23:33] [Storyteller] okay
[23:34] [Storyteller] behind you is a man wearing a blackish-gray cloak, holding a small knife. He is practically on top of you.
[23:34] [Storyteller] roll awareness + perception

[23:35] [Cicada] !ex 6 (Per + awe)
[23:35] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 6 (Per + awe), 1, 5, 7, 6, 3, 2, Successes : 1 +

[23:36] [Storyteller] the cloak has some kind of embroidery but it's too dark to see
[23:36] [Storyteller] you go first
[23:37] [Cicada] Well, with his identity unsure I cannot kill him..
[23:37] [Storyteller] so whatcha gonna do?
[23:39] * Cicada lifts herself up from where she lies on one hand, bringing her legs up in a circle, kicking at hin chin once with each leg, and then continues her summersault to land on her feet facing him.
[23:39] [Storyteller] okay +1
[23:39] [Cicada] (at his chin, that is)
[23:39] * Storyteller nods
[23:39] [Cicada] (kick has acc -1)
[23:40] [Storyteller] cancels it out then
[23:40] [Cicada] It is two or three actions?
[23:40] [Storyteller] two actions
[23:40] [Cicada] Ok.

[23:41] [Cicada] !exa 6 (Dex + MA)
[23:41] [Storyteller] Cicada : !exa 6 (Dex + MA), 6, 5, 9, 9, 10, 7, Successes : 5 +

[23:42] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 7, 5, 8, 3, 9, Successes : 3
[23:42] [Storyteller] ?ex 5

[23:42] [Storyteller] your first kick connects well. Roll for damage, one extra success

[23:42] [Cicada] !exm 5 (dam)
[23:42] [Storyteller] Cicada : !exm 5 (dam), 8, 6, 6, 6, 8, Successes : 2

[23:43] [Storyteller] ok
[23:43] [Cicada] Next kick?
[23:43] [Storyteller] yeap

[23:43] [Cicada] !exa 5 (Dex + MA)
[23:43] [Storyteller] Cicada : !exa 5 (Dex + MA), 6, 4, 9, 3, 2, Successes : 1 +

[23:44] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 1, 7, 2, 7, 6, Successes : 2
[23:44] [Storyteller] ?ex 5

[23:44] [Storyteller] your first kick connects with his head, bruising his face somewhat. Your second kick barely misses
[23:44] [Cicada] His turn, I suppose...
[23:45] [Storyteller] no, he dodged.
[23:45] [Storyteller] roll again
[23:45] [Storyteller] for init

[23:45] [Cicada] !roll 1d10 +8
[23:45] [Storyteller] Cicada : 1d10 +8, 8 , Total: 16

[23:45] [Storyteller] Storyteller : 1d10 +8, 1 , Total: 9
[23:45] [Storyteller] ?roll 1d10 +8

[23:46] [Storyteller] you go again
[23:46] * Cicada does not recognize his style?
[23:47] [Storyteller] some martial arts you suppose
[23:47] [Cicada] ok.
[23:50] [Storyteller] you go again first
[23:50] * Cicada is going to rush him, feint a jump kick at his head by juuust starting the jump with he left ankle, then suddenly drop to the ground and make a sweeping kick to his legs followed up up a backwards flip to get some distance combined with a kick to his face.
[23:50] [Cicada] (two kicks)
[23:50] [Storyteller] coo, another +1
[23:51] [Cicada] Ok, same as before.

[23:51] [Cicada] !ex 6 (dex + MA)
[23:51] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 6 (dex + MA), 3, 3, 2, 1, 10, 7, Successes : 3 +

[23:51] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 10, 9, 7, 3, 2, Successes : 4
[23:51] [Storyteller] ?ex 5

[23:51] [Storyteller] eya
[23:51] [Storyteller] Your feint fails, and he quickly dodges out of the way
[23:51] [Storyteller] of your real strike
[23:52] [Cicada] Hope he don't expect the real jump kick, then.
[23:52] [Storyteller] never know

[23:52] [Cicada] !ex 5 (dex + MA)
[23:52] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 5 (dex + MA), 10, 4, 6, 5, 3, Successes : 2 +

[23:52] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 4, 6, 6, 8, 1, Successes : 1
[23:52] [Storyteller] ?ex 4

[23:52] [Storyteller] damage, one success

[23:52] [Cicada] !exm 5 (dam)
[23:52] [Storyteller] Cicada : !exm 5 (dam), 3, 9, 7, 6, 1, Successes : 2

[23:53] [Storyteller] your second kick misses his face, and instead hits his chest. He is knocked back, but quickly gets back up
[23:53] [Storyteller] roll init again

[23:53] [Storyteller] Storyteller : 1d10 +8, 7 , Total: 15
[23:53] [Storyteller] ?roll 1d10 +8

[23:54] [Cicada] !1d10 +8
[23:54] [Cicada] !roll 1d10 +8
[23:54] [Storyteller] Cicada : 1d10 +8, 5 , Total: 13

[23:56] [Cicada] I got a 13.
[23:56] [Storyteller] oops
[23:56] [Storyteller] The strange robed man levels a quick spin kick to your side, before thrusting his blade at your neck, and finally spreading his hand and shoving it into your gut
[23:57] [Storyteller] what's your soak now?
[23:58] [Cicada] Bashing 7 Lethal 6
[23:58] [Storyteller] ok
[23:58] [Storyteller] what do you do
[23:58] [Storyteller] ?
[23:58] [Cicada] Can I parry?
[23:58] * Storyteller opens up his copy of the errata and scrolls down
[23:59] [Storyteller] yes, you may abort to parry
[23:59] [Cicada] Three parries. Remember I have a tower shield, ignores the first attack success in melee.
[23:59] [Storyteller] you can only make one parry
[23:59] [Cicada] Urgh!
[23:59] [Storyteller] says the errata
[00:00] [Cicada] Well then I will combine that parry with activating Five-Dragon Blocking Technique when my turn comes around.
[00:00] [Storyteller] is that reflexive?
[00:00] [Cicada] No, but instant.
[00:01] [Storyteller] won't help then
[00:01] [Storyteller] says the errata
[00:01] [Cicada] Maybe later. It is a simple charm.
[00:01] [Storyteller] ok
[00:02] [Storyteller] you can dodge
[00:02] [Cicada] I have Five Dragon Fortitude for extra soak.
[00:02] [Storyteller] yes but the soak is instant you said?
[00:02] [Storyteller] so it won't help unless it's on your turn
[00:02] [Cicada] The soak one is reflexive.
[00:03] [Cicada] On second thought I won't use the blocking charm it costs willpower and i only have one left.
[00:03] [Storyteller] oh
[00:03] [Cicada] Just the soak one will be used, along with a parry of his stab.
[00:03] * Storyteller rubs his chin, thinking that would probably be bad
[00:03] [Storyteller] okay then
[00:03] [Storyteller] what's your new soak
[00:04] [Cicada] I decide how much essence to spend after I know how many damage dice will be rolled. 1 essence soaks 2 bashing or 1 lethal.
[00:04] [Storyteller] okay
[00:05] -] *Storyteller* : ?ex 7, 8, 3, 10, 1, 7, 2, 6, Successes : 4
[00:05] [Storyteller] ?ex 7
[00:05] [Storyteller] eh did you see that? I'll do it in the main room
[00:05] [Cicada] Maybe works better there...

[00:06] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 8, 6, 1, 2, 3, 10, 8, 9, 6, Successes : 4
[00:06] [Storyteller] ?ex 8

[00:06] [Cicada] Indeed it worked MUCH BETTER...
[00:06] [Storyteller] whoop
[00:06] [Storyteller] 8 damage dice
[00:06] [Storyteller] don't look ;)
[00:06] [Cicada] I soak until he only rolls one damage dice.
[00:06] [Storyteller] ok
[00:06] [Storyteller] that's 7 dice then
[00:07] [Storyteller] take one bashing
[00:07] [Cicada] Wait a minute I have 7 bashing soak. I don't need to use essence on that attack!
[00:07] [Storyteller] oh
[00:07] [Storyteller] okay :)

[00:07] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 6, 10, 8, 4, 10, 2, 5, Successes : 5
[00:07] [Storyteller] ?ex 6

[00:07] [Storyteller] take one bashing
[00:07] [Storyteller] roll parry
[00:07] [Cicada] (since he will always roll one dice no matter what)
[00:07] [Storyteller] yeap
[00:08] [Cicada] One bashing taken.

[00:08] [Cicada] !ex 8 (Dex+MA)
[00:08] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 8 (Dex+MA), 3, 1, 8, 9, 9, 3, 6, 2, Successes : 3 + Dex+MA)

[00:08] [Cicada] Okay, how much Lethal?
[00:08] [Storyteller] The knifeblade reflects off your chain mail and he sets himself up for his final kick

[00:08] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 6, 6, 4, 10, 10, 7, 4, Successes : 5
[00:08] [Storyteller] ?ex 6

[00:08] [Storyteller] no lethal
[00:09] [Cicada] ok.

[00:09] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 8, 6, 5, 9, 2, Successes : 2
[00:09] [Storyteller] ?ex 5
[00:09] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 6, 3, 9, 1, 8, 10, 10, Successes : 6
[00:09] [Storyteller] ?ex 6

[00:10] [Storyteller] His hand plunges into your gut, but the chain shirt brings the damage down to nil
[00:10] [Cicada] Phew...
[00:10] [Storyteller] roll init

[00:10] [Cicada] !roll 1d10 +8
[00:10] [Storyteller] Cicada : 1d10 +8, 1 , Total: 9

[00:10] [Storyteller] Storyteller : 1d10 +8, 9 , Total: 17
[00:10] [Storyteller] ?roll 1d10 +8

[00:11] [Cicada] I am going to concentrate on parrying now.
[00:11] [Storyteller] guy won init again
[00:12] [Cicada] No wait.
[00:14] [Cicada] I am going to let him rip, trusting my soak to take care of the damage. Then when I get my turn I will rush him and feint a series of low punches to his gut, but instead leap over him tear his cloak off him and then try to escape with my prize. The others might be able to identify it.
[00:14] [Storyteller] okay
[00:15] [Storyteller] He drops his knife to the ground, and quickly levels a barrage of hits [4] down the right side of your body
[00:16] [Cicada] okay, roll away...
[00:16] * Cicada trusts out her chin in defiance.

[00:16] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 7, 10, 8, 1, 5, Successes : 4
[00:16] [Storyteller] ?ex 5
[00:16] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 8, 10, 3, 9, 4, 4, 4, 1, 5, Successes : 3
[00:16] [Storyteller] ?ex 8
[00:16] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 4, 1, 3, 9, 3, Successes : 1
[00:16] [Storyteller] ?ex 4
[00:16] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 4, 7, 3, 8, 2, Successes : 2
[00:16] [Storyteller] ?ex 4
[00:16] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 3, 6, 7, 2, Successes : 1
[00:16] [Storyteller] ?ex 3
[00:16] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 4, 4, 7, 2, 4, Successes : 1
[00:16] [Storyteller] ?ex 4
[00:16] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 2, 2, 10, Successes : 2
[00:16] [Storyteller] ?ex 2
[00:16] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 5, 2, 3, 6, 3, 7, Successes : 1
[00:16] [Storyteller] ?ex 5

[00:17] [Cicada] Remember I ignore first success.
[00:18] [Storyteller] His first hit plunges into your neck, taking two bashing from the hit, the rest all hit but your chain mail protects against them
[00:18] [Storyteller] "Yield!" he says in high realm
[00:18] [Cicada] Hey! My soak charm!
[00:18] [Storyteller] yeap
[00:18] [Storyteller] always roll one dice
[00:18] [Cicada] Urgh...
[00:18] [Storyteller] And if that one dice rolls a 10
[00:19] [Cicada] Urgh..
[00:19] [Cicada] Well, I am still only at -1 and so will proceed.
[00:20] [Storyteller] yeao
[00:20] [Storyteller] roll init
[00:20] [Cicada] Isn't it my turn now, or did he so faze me?
[00:21] [Storyteller] oh right
[00:21] [Storyteller] sorry about that
[00:22] [Cicada] So, Acrobatics and then Larceny?
[00:22] [Storyteller] hmm
[00:22] [Storyteller] normal martial arts attack
[00:22] [Cicada] ok.

[00:23] [Cicada] !ex 7 (Dex + MA)
[00:23] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 7 (Dex + MA), 10, 5, 3, 7, 4, 3, 3, Successes : 3 +

[00:23] [Storyteller] roll damage
[00:24] [Cicada] How much extra?
[00:24] [Cicada] Punch?
[00:25] [Storyteller] two extra
[00:25] [Storyteller] yeap
[00:25] [Storyteller] strength + 2 right?

[00:25] [Cicada] !exm 4 (dam)
[00:25] [Storyteller] Cicada : !exm 4 (dam), 3, 1, 10, 7, Successes : 2

[00:25] [Storyteller] okay
[00:26] [Storyteller] you managed to rip part of his cloak off. Underneath is a similar, but tighter fitting cloak, but this one is white
[00:27] [Storyteller] roll perception + awareness
[00:27] [Cicada] With minus from wounds, I suppose?
[00:28] [Storyteller] yea

[00:28] [Cicada] !ex 5 (Per + Awe)
[00:28] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 5 (Per + Awe), 4, 8, 10, 7, 8, Successes : 5 +

[00:28] [Storyteller] okay you recognize the design on the white cloak as one venerating the immaculate dragons in battle.
[00:29] [Cicada] Hmmm, that is good... And bad...
[00:29] [Cicada] Initiative?
[00:29] [Storyteller] yeap

[00:30] [Storyteller] Storyteller : 1d10 +8, 10 , Total: 18
[00:30] [Storyteller] ?roll 1d10 +8

[00:30] [Cicada] !roll 1d10 +8
[00:30] [Storyteller] Cicada : 1d10 +8, 9 , Total: 17

[00:32] [Storyteller] Anyhow he will call for help and drop all his effort into a single roundhouse kick to your head
[00:33] * Cicada will make a halfhearted attempt to parry, being slightly surprised.
[00:34] [Cicada] And then gasps; "Sir, you are the Immaculate reinforcements?" in High Realm, if she is still conscious.
[00:34] [Storyteller] okay roll for parry

[00:34] [Storyteller] Storyteller : ?ex 9, 3, 3, 9, 4, 8, 1, 4, 5, 2, Successes : 2
[00:34] [Storyteller] ?ex 9

[00:35] [Cicada] !ex 7 (Dex + MA)
[00:35] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 7 (Dex + MA), 1, 6, 10, 7, 9, 5, 9, Successes : 5 +

[00:35] [Cicada] Half hearted..? Yeah right...
[00:35] [Storyteller] You easily grab his leg and knock it out of his way. He looks surprised.
[00:35] [Storyteller] He sets himself up for another attack but says "Yes"
[00:35] [Storyteller] he sounds kinda irritated
[00:37] * Cicada prostates herself before him. "Forgive me Sir Dynast, I was sent to make sure of your identity and intentions. I had no idea that the Immaculate forces would arrive so quickly."
[00:38] [Storyteller] He retrieves his knife and looks at you
[00:38] [Storyteller] "Get up."
[00:38] * Cicada stands up and waits with adverted eyes.
[00:39] [Storyteller] He says "Walk towards the camp, but not quickly." and follows behind you, knife in hand
[00:40] * Cicada does so, head bowed, but still alert for sudden betrayal.
[00:40] [Storyteller] Three more similarly dressed men arrive silently out from the bushes
[00:42] [Storyteller] They look at Cicada, nod, and escort you to the camp
[00:42] * Cicada follows.
[00:46] * Cicada is still alert but assumes the form and role of a well trained servant.
[00:46] [Storyteller] you are led to a large tent on the outskirts of the camp
[00:47] [Storyteller] The sun is just rising
[00:48] * Cicada waits for permission to enter.
[00:48] [Storyteller] you are pretty much ordered in
[00:48] * Cicada enters.
[00:55] [Storyteller] You are left to yourself for a while
[00:56] * Cicada sits down formally on the floor facing whatever place it seems likely that a figure of authority will sit in and waits.
[00:57] * Cicada is suddenly VERY aware of just how tired, dirty, bleeding and bruised she is.
[01:06] [Storyteller] The inside of the tent is completely bare of any furnishings, but does have a small fire. You sit opposite from the entrance. In a half an hour, a man walks in. His anima is flaring, obviously a fire exalt, and he looks very displeased. He is wearing the robes of an immaculate monk, and looks silently down at you where you sit
[01:07] * Cicada prostates herself, and awaits permission to speak.
[01:07] [Storyteller] The question comes in a while. "Who are you and why did you attempt to sneak into our camp?"
[01:11] [Cicada] "Immaculate Sir, I am a servant of House Cathak sent out to ascertain the identity of this force. Fearing you to be hostile I decided to make my approach as unnoticed as possible."
[01:12] [Storyteller] He looks at you unhappily
[01:12] [Storyteller] "hostile? can you not recognize a wyld hunt?"
[01:13] [Storyteller] "Who is your master?"
[01:13] [Cicada] "Immaculate Sir, in the darkness the skills of this useless mortal failed. I beg you consider appropriate punishment."
[01:15] [Cicada] "My lord is Cathak Tabius, who along with his allies is overseeing the defense of the city. I am sure my lord would highly appreciate the opportunity to confer with the Immaculate sir.
[01:19] [Cicada] (oh dear, wouldn't it be 'interesting' if my lord get hurt while I am away..)

[01:38] [Storyteller] anyhow, where were we?
[01:39] [Cicada] Ehm, I had asked for appropriate punishment for sneaking into the camp and introduced my lord as Tabius, who just happen to command the defenses of the city.
[01:40] [Storyteller] ah
[01:41] [Storyteller] "You will be interred here until we reach Malkor's Guard, at which point your lord will be contacted and you dealt with appropriately. In the meantime, you will have a chance to prove your claim by cooperating fully with any demands given to you by the monks in this procession. Do you understand?"
[01:42] [Cicada] "Yes, Immaculate sir. I understand fully."
[01:42] [Cicada] But, Immaculate sir, can I beg a single favor?"
[01:44] [Storyteller] He looks at you unhappily. "You will also remain silent for the duration of your service to us."
[01:45] * Cicada starts to speak, then thinks better of it and just prostate herself again.
[01:46] [Storyteller] He looks at you, appeased, takes on the calmer aspect more befitting a monk.
[01:46] * Cicada does not worry too much. There should be no danger at the mine and she will meet Tabius just fine back in the city.
[01:46] [Storyteller] "What is your request."
[01:46] * Cicada pantomimes some gestures in the direction of the mine.
[01:46] * Cicada does so while looking as respectful as she can.
[01:46] [Storyteller] he nods. "You may answer questions directed to you."
[01:48] [Cicada] "Immaculate sir. My lord is presently at the quarry some distance from here. I would like very much to convey a message to him."
[01:49] [Storyteller] He shakes his head no
[01:49] [Storyteller] "He will return to Malkor's Guard in due time."
[01:49] [Storyteller] "If he does not, then you will remain with us."
[01:50] * Cicada looks about to protest, then grits her teeth and bows her head again. "Yes, Immaculate sir. I understand and will obey."
[01:51] [Storyteller] He nods, and leaves the tent, closing the entrance behind him again
[01:52] * Cicada stretches a little where she sits. Hoping that she could bathe and maybe get a change of clothes, maybe even some salve and bandages for her feet.
[01:52] [Cicada] (wishing that, that is)
[01:53] [Storyteller] you are left to yourself. You still have all your possessions, save your weapons.
[01:54] [Cicada] The chakram was fairly well hidden under the sash. Have they also taken that?
[01:54] [Cicada] And I was not exactly carrying a backpack of camping gear and stuff, so there is very little I can do.
[01:56] * Cicada lets Puuhda out for some air and to have somebody to talk with and keep back her nervousness.
[01:58] [Storyteller] Yes they took the chakram
[01:58] [Storyteller] But you probably have a few effects
[01:58] [Storyteller] Puuhda looks at you, picking up on your subtle emotions
[02:00] [Cicada] * Puuhda first jumps about chirping cheerfully, and then when that only makes Cicada fake a smile he jumps up on her shoulder and gently puts a paw on her cheek with a low "puuuh.."
[02:01] * Cicada sees that her little friends hurts does her best to clear away her negative thoughts and play with him, throwing him up in the air and catching him again.
[02:05] [Storyteller] per + awe

[02:05] [Cicada] !ex 5 (Per + Awe)
[02:05] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 5 (Per + Awe), 7, 4, 7, 3, 1, Successes : 2 +

[02:06] [Cicada] Got two successes.
[02:06] [Storyteller] ok
[02:06] [Storyteller] you notice nothing
[02:08] [Cicada] Hey, busy playing and Puuhda makes a bit of noise.
[02:10] [Storyteller] yeap
[02:17] [Storyteller] anyhow I can keep going with you if you want
[02:19] [Cicada] Okay, I have no problem with that. Do you have this entire log or should I save it?
[02:19] [Storyteller] I should have the entire log
[02:19] [Storyteller] it will be split in two but I can recombine it
[02:20] [Cicada] Okay.
[02:21] [Storyteller] Anyhow, you hear the tent being opened while Puuhda is in midair
[02:21] * Cicada catches him quickly, stuffs him back inside the tunic and close it.
[02:21] [Storyteller] dexterity + larceny

[02:22] [Cicada] !ex 7 (dex + Larceny)
[02:22] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 7 (dex + Larceny), 7, 9, 7, 9, 6, 4, 7, Successes : 5 +

[02:23] [Cicada] I got five successes.
[02:25] [Storyteller] ok Puuhda gives a shocked "puu" before he is snatched out of midair and hidden away before he even realizes what is happening. You manage to get back to being seated on the floor as the door finishes opening and a bald, middle aged white man walks in. He looks at you for a moment, then waves for you to come to him.
[02:26] * Cicada gets up and goes over to him, head respectfully lowered.
[02:28] [Storyteller] He takes you gently by the arm and leads you into the camp. You see hundreds of monks, each meditating silently in front of campfires, simple foods being served by lower coil members, some of whom do not even look to have been accepted yet
[02:29] * Cicada looks around out of the corner of her eyes.
[02:30] [Storyteller] You are brought to a tent that is less of a tent, and more of, you realize, a sauna. smoke billows from the thick cavern walls. The Immaculate Monk looks at you, points to the tent, and says "bathe"
[02:31] [Storyteller] cavern = canvas
[02:31] * Cicada bows respectfully to the monk and then enters the tent.
[02:34] [Storyteller] You enter the tent to find a fire floating in a small pool; 10 meters wide, a third that long. Half a dozen other women also are using this pool for cleansing, slowly wiping the dirt and grime from their bodies. Even considering your extreme dirtiness, there is almost as much on them
[02:35] * Cicada undresses and joins them, carefully cleaning her skin and hair. Then winces a bit as she goes about cleaning the wounds on her feet.
[02:36] [Storyteller] While you do so your clothes are removed and replaced with clean featureless robes of the novice
[02:36] [Cicada] Sandals? How about sandals?
[02:36] [Storyteller] roll medical + perception
[02:36] * Cicada almost begs.
[02:36] [Storyteller] the whole thing
[02:37] [Storyteller] I don't have my DB book right now, left it in the other room
[02:37] [Storyteller] but you know how applicants look

[02:37] [Cicada] !ex 5 (per + Medicine)
[02:37] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 5 (per + Medicine), 4, 9, 3, 3, 1, Successes : 1 +

[02:37] [Storyteller] anyhow you think your bruises will heal, but your feet will be sore for a while.
[02:37] [Storyteller] nothing worse than bruises, fortunately for you.
[02:38] [Storyteller] like I said earlier, if you can explain to me convincingly why this fits your nature I’ll give you an WP
[02:39] [Cicada] Again she has been running and even fighting without concern for her own safety, just to serve her lord and assure his safety.
[02:40] [Storyteller] well I guess you're following your nature, but I wanna be convinced here by your awesome convincing skills. Work on 'em ;) give you a WP now
[02:41] [Cicada] Yeah! Now I have TWO points left!
[02:41] [Storyteller] you gain the WP as you cleanse yourself, thinking over the wounds inflected upon yourself for being a martyr
[02:41] [Storyteller] now tell me. What happened to Puuhda?
[02:41] [Cicada] Good point...
[02:42] [Storyteller] did you hide the little guy in your clothes?
[02:42] [Cicada] I suppose he jumped out of the tunic and is now hogging a large part of the tub, completely unheeding that people stare at him.
[02:42] [Storyteller] lol
[02:42] [Storyteller] okay
[02:43] [Cicada] Well, he is a rather 'straightforward' personality.
[02:43] [Storyteller] yea
[02:43] [Cicada] Kind of mirrors Cicada's formality.
[02:43] * Storyteller nods
[02:45] [Cicada] So how do the female monks react to the long eared rascal?
[02:45] [Storyteller] Anyhow you finish cleansing yourself. Puuhda gets splashed a bit for drifting too near, but that is all. You get strange looks as well, not looking like any of the other status-quo for the realm women. Maybe a few repressed emotions. But nothing comes of it. You finish cleaning yourself.
[02:47] * Cicada carefully braids her hair, puts on the clothes and steps outside. AFTER she has pulled Puuhda out of the tub and swung him dry like washed salad, muttering "stinker" with a smile on her lips.
[02:47] [Cicada] * Puuhda squeals with delight as he gets swung around by the ears.
[02:48] [Storyteller] One of the female monks meditates for a while and gets dressed. She follows you out as you leave.
[02:49] [Storyteller] The man who brought you here is waiting for you outside. The woman gives him a nod, and he looks at you unhappily, like only a monk can.
[02:49] [Storyteller] "You were told not to speak, except in reply. Do not speak again. It will be more than a warning."
[02:49] * Cicada gulps.
[02:49] [Storyteller] He nods
[02:49] [Storyteller] "Follow me"
[02:50] * Cicada is just about to say "Yes, Immaculate sir" Then stops herself and follows, redfaced.
[02:50] [Storyteller] he turns and walks into the tent farm. The Immaculates are helping pack up, and from your directions, your job is to help as well.
[02:50] [Storyteller] roll dexterity + craft
[02:51] [Cicada] (damn, no vacation for lil' ol' Cicada... Right now the other are likely drinking tea and eating cakes at the mine (sigh))
[02:51] [Storyteller] ((horrible lazy bastards they are))

[02:51] [Cicada] !ex 6 (Dex + Craft)
[02:51] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 6 (Dex + Craft), 7, 2, 10, 10, 5, 9, Successes : 6 +

[02:52] [Cicada] Six successes!
[02:52] [Cicada] Am I the best porter servant?! Or am I the best porter servant?!
[02:53] [Storyteller] your mad skillz at packing up tents impress everyone around you, at least, you think you do. It's hard to tell with all these stonefaced immaculate monks. But the other novices have to work harder, to keep up with you, and they're not so good at hiding emotion.
[02:54] * Cicada does have plenty of experience from marching with the Cathak Legions. They DEMAND speed and order.
[02:54] * Cicada also has the marks on her back from the beatings she got when she was not speedy and orderly enough...
[02:55] [Storyteller] Lets just say that you've just convinced them to never run away from the IO and join the Legions. After two hours of picking up camp and loading them onto horses and yeddim, the walk begins, and so, you begin marching, marching, marching to the city.
[02:56] * Cicada 's player laughs.
[02:59] [Cicada] (so do we cut here to allow for the other player's actions?)
[02:59] [Storyteller] Anyhow, after marching for three hours, you realize that the sandals get all that nasty dust in them, and they start hurting again, but you march on. You recognize the place that you left Tabius & co, and that it's another five to the city. You come to the part where the pyre was, and some of them look at it, but what happens of it, you do not know
[03:00] [Storyteller] [I doubt they're going to be going straight back to the place anyhow
[03:00] * Cicada makes sure not to inquire.
[03:02] [Storyteller] Anyhow, you make it to the city of Malkors Guard, and you are immediately set to work setting up camp outside the walls of the city. You don't have any opportunity to slack off, but by midday, you're quite worn out, and this will be a good cutoff point
[03:02] [Storyteller] So that's that, really, unless you wanna be a bad girl and get punished.
[03:03] [Cicada] Okay.
[03:03] [Cicada] Lets see, so now Cicada has been awake for some 65 or so hours. Oh dear...
[03:04] [Storyteller] yeap
[03:04] [Storyteller] hey she's only 15-20 or so away from my record
[03:04] [Storyteller] what's the limit on using that charm?
[03:05] [Storyteller] eh never mind it don't matter
[03:05] [Cicada] Essence + Endurance days. 5 days in Cicada's case. Then she will start loosing willpower.
[03:05] * Storyteller nods
[03:06] [Cicada] So we cut here?
[03:07] [Storyteller] yeap
[03:07] [Cicada] Good.
[03:07] [Storyteller] I could get really descriptive but there's nothing for you to do
[03:07] [Cicada] How much XP do we get, BTW?
Session Close: Sat Aug 03 03:39:26 2002