Session Start: Sat Sep 13 19:34:19 2003
Session Ident: #pvpexaltedrp
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[19:34] * GoldenH is now known as Storyteller
[19:58] * GoldenH changes topic to '"You are... rrreally good at... pretending yer drunk, y'knowww..." [BARF!] "Mebbe a lil'... Too good." "Nnnot rrrreally." "But you wez suppossd to see... dot we didn' make any pornos..." "Das wuz befffore Diana dumt me."'
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[21:09] [*test*]  test
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[21:10] * Storyteller sets mode: +s
[21:10] [Storyteller] it's a sect!
[21:10] * Werlynn is now known as Tala
[21:10] [Storyteller] h phone]?
[21:11] * DarthTom is now known as Vanal
[21:11] [Storyteller] silly roomate phone
[21:12] [Storyteller] ok
[21:12] [Storyteller] everyone meets in the park.....
[21:12] [Storyteller] little kids are running around everywhere, building snowmen and the like....'
[21:13] [Storyteller] cherry blossoms litter the snow, the remnanats of the magic l'Eaves was using to some unkown purpose..
[21:13] [Storyteller] mysteriously, all the parents are inside, only the children running around to play unobservered.
[21:14] [Jynaru] Alright, where's the Dowager?
[21:14] [Jynaru] Do I at least get to shoot her?
[21:14] [Storyteller] in the southeast
[21:14] [Storyteller] and no
[21:14] [Storyteller] you may not shoot the Dowager
[21:14] * Vanal inhales the fresh air deeply...and lights up a cigarette
[21:15] * Jynaru watches the children suspiciously He just doesn't get the snowman thing. They're not even hitting them.
[21:15] [Vanal] "Oh come on, even *you* must've been five at some point, Jyn."
[21:16] [Tala] [can i have a quick recap? no log on website]
[21:16] [Storyteller] eh... let them explain it. the group split up.
[21:16] [Jynaru] I pissed off the lunar of doom, Cicada pissed off the lunar of doom, the other two didn't.
[21:16] [Storyteller] the children, in their innocence, seem oblivious to the exalts, a snowball fight starting up at one end of the park
[21:17] [Vanal] Tabs and I met with the lunar, who led us to zenioth girl...who sent the ninjas after us
[21:17] [Jynaru] Thus those two went and saw the zenith person and Cicada and I started up a Infallible Messenger Dating Service.
[21:17] [Vanal] zenith girl wants us to sneak her in the realm to pull some relativ eof hers out
[21:18] [Vanal] oh, and van hates ships, water, mnemon, and the North
[21:18] [Storyteller] one of the kids botches and a snowball hits Jynaru in the chest.
[21:18] [Tala] i hope tala wasn't there
[21:18] [Storyteller] no
[21:18] [Storyteller] she wasn't
[21:18] [Tala] so wouldn't deal with any kind of sneaking anathema into the Realm
[21:19] [Jynaru] Eh, she's Bloombait.
[21:20] * Jynaru brushes the snow off, chuckling. "You see? I NEVER had that bad of an aim."
[21:20] [Vanal] "That's right. You weren't born. You were torn from the thigh of Sextes fully-grown."
[21:20] [Storyteller] this is probably the first time you guys have seen each other in weeks.
[21:21] * Vanal exhales the smoke
[21:21] [Vanal] "I'm getting too old for this shit."
[21:21] [Jynaru] "You should ask her when we get back."
[21:21] * Tabius broods a bit that he also hasn't seen Cicada in weeks.
[21:21] [Storyteller] Cicada is mysteriously not here...
[21:22] [Vanal] "Sextes ?!"
[21:22] [Vanal] "I don't think I'm on a first-name basis with him..her...it."
[21:23] * Vanal pinches the bridge of his nose
[21:23] [Tabius] "Jynaru, where is Cicada?"
[21:23] [Jynaru] "Vanal? You've seen Sextes Jylis naked."
[21:23] [Jynaru] "I think taking liberties with a name is the least of your worries."
[21:23] [Vanal] (I have ?)
[21:23] [Jynaru] (Juniper is Pasiap, and V'neef Aliset i Sextes.)
[21:23] [Vanal] (representations thereof)
[21:24] [Jynaru] (Re-incarnations. Like tala there is danaa'd.)
[21:24] [Storyteller] (Reincarnations, Avatara... whatever)
[21:24] [Vanal] (errr...I see)
[21:24] [Jynaru] "I suspect she's with Sanyet."
[21:24] [Vanal] "Anyways...when the fuck did I become a goddamned Anathema smuggler ?"
[21:24] [Tabius] "And they went off where?"
[21:25] [Jynaru] "When you agreed to this crazy plan? The hell you do that for, anyway?"
[21:25] [Vanal] "Is there a sign above my dad's manor that says' Anathema smuggler...all solars, Lunars and othert apply within? "
[21:25] [Jynaru] "She seemed interested in privacy. Compensation, I suppose."
[21:25] [Vanal] "Well I wa skind of out of genius ideas, Jyn."
[21:26] [Tabius] "thanks"
[21:26] [Vanal] "And you don't piss off someone when her, her angry husband, and ten thousand pissed-off and hungry wolves are all around me."
[21:26] [Jynaru] "Did you hit on her?"
[21:26] [Vanal] "I gave a polite greeting."
[21:26] [Tala] "Anathema what?"
[21:27] [Jynaru] "He hit on her."
[21:27] [Vanal] "No, I didn't."
[21:27] [Vanal] "and I resent the implication."
[21:27] [Tabius] "He kissed her hand and the wolfman got all huffy for a little bit, but it passed.
[21:27] [Jynaru] "Vanal seems to have agreed to use the Zenith as bait to draw Bloom out of his castle."
[21:28] [Vanal] "See ? A polite greeting, nothing more."
[21:28] [Vanal] "Unlike some *others* in this little group, I don't think primarily with my groin."
[21:29] [Jynaru] "You shouldn't insult Tabius like that, Vanal. It's uncouth."
[21:29] * Tabius just smiles a little bit and winks at Jessica.
[21:29] * Vanal inhales deeply on his cigarette
[21:30] [Vanal] "Unlike the *rest* of you...I stand to lose far, far more if I fuck up here."
[21:30] [Vanal] "They don't exile generals."
[21:31] [Vanal] "They execute them."
[21:31] [Jynaru] "You could always attempt a coup or rebellion. The Roseblack did pretty well."
[21:31] [Vanal] "The roseblakc has disappeared off the fac eof creation alogn with her band and the red-piss legion."
[21:32] [Storyteller] [mmm... rumors]
[21:32] [Jynaru] "You think they'd report if she was doing wonderfully?"
[21:32] [Jynaru] "She's probably got a bandit kingdom somewhere with a few pirate ships and some cowed mortals.
[21:32] [Vanal] "I'd think they lie their asses off if she was kicking legion afte rlegion's ass, which if I know her at ALL...she's doing."
[21:33] [Vanal] "Say what you want about the Red Piss...they're the most unkillable force I've ever seen."
[21:33] [Tabius] "Besides us I take it?"
[21:34] [Jynaru] "Now there's a scary thought. An entire legion of Vanals."
[21:34] [Storyteller] you hear the crunching of snow from the eastern entrance of the park
[21:34] [Tala] "You seem to have glossed over something. What is this about Anathema smuggling?"
[21:34] [Vanal] "'the 1000 correct legions of the upright solider, page 113, verse 5, line 2: 'never beleive stories of your own invulnerability.'"
[21:34] [Vanal] "she wants in the Realm."
[21:35] [Vanal] "We bring her in, she extracts a relative, they leave forever."
[21:35] [Jynaru] "I want her to draw out Bloom. Castle assaults suck."
[21:35] [Tala] "Who is the relative? Did she tell you?"
[21:37] [Tabius] "The 100 correct idiocies of the uptight soldier what.....?"
[21:37] [Vanal] (Did she ? I can't recall)
[21:37] [Storyteller]  (daughter)
[21:37] [Vanal] "Her daughter."
[21:38] [Vanal] "And Tabius...that book has lasted hundreds of years because it WORKS."
[21:40] [Tabius] "There is a book you pull all that crap from, amazing!" he says with dripping sarcasm.
[21:40] [Vanal] "do you have a problem with it, *Fanglord* ?"
[21:40] * Vanal emphasizes just how *low* that rank is, with a twisted grin
[21:40] [Jynaru] "Rule one: Hit them. Rule Two: If that doesn't work, do it harder. Rule Three: If that doesn't work, find something new to hit them with. Rule Four: Don't get hit. The Correct Actions in a nutshell."
[21:41] [Vanal] "That's the combat section, yes."
[21:41] [Tala] "And how does that bring Bloom out?"
[21:41] * Tabius comes to attention so fast his robes swirl, "NO GENERAL, SIR!"
[21:41] [Vanal] "But that thing you hit them with has to be FED. And rested..."
[21:41] [Vanal] "and trained, and have good morale..."
[21:41] * Vanal begins rattling off minutae
[21:41] [Storyteller] Vanal knows what he's talking about
[21:42] * Jynaru raises a hand.
[21:42] [Jynaru] "In the last fights that have mattered, when have we used any troops other than ourselves?"
[21:42] [Vanal] "your little ambush on the island ?"
[21:43] [Vanal] "The entire CAMPAIGN on the island ?"
[21:43] [Vanal] "And our eventual assault on Bloom ?"
[21:43] [Jynaru] "Point. However, it's been a long time since the island. And the troops are there to get us to bloom."
[21:43] [Jynaru] "I would bet on ten million troops against an anathema that old."
[21:43] [Vanal] "Well, we can't get to bloom if *his* army kills us first, can we ?"
[21:44] [Vanal] "Anyways, shall we investigate the newcomer ?"
[21:44] * Vanal gestures east
[21:45] [Tabius] "I wouldn't put money on any number of unExalted troops against an Anathema of that practiced nature.
[21:45] * Jynaru nods to him. "Probably her, though. Try not to hit on her again."
[21:45] * Jynaru stands and will head off to check on crunchy-snow newcomer.
[21:45] * Tala coughs
[21:45] [Storyteller] there is a woman on a white horse, wrapped in a yellow blanket and holding a packet against her chest.
[21:45] [Vanal] "Oh, he will pay for that."
[21:45] * Tabius follows Jynaru a bit back kinda reluctant to move.
[21:45] * Vanal walks up, his gray coat swishing in the breeze
[21:46] [Tala] "How exactly does smuggling an Anathema on to the Blessed Isle bring Bloom out?"
[21:46] [Storyteller] She stays on the horse, watching Vanal approach
[21:46] [Jynaru] "She is part of his circle. He wants her back."
[21:46] [Vanal] "Yo."
[21:46] [Jynaru] "He's got to come get her if he expects to succeed."
[21:47] [Tala] "So we give her back and strengthen our opposition?"
[21:47] [Storyteller] She reaches up, unwrapping part of the blanket from around her face. She is smiling.
[21:47] * Vanal grinds out his cigarette under his boot, and lights up a fresh one
[21:48] [Storyteller] Her snow-white skin is barely visible against the snow-covered fence behind her, even her eyes and lips faded away....
[21:48] * Tala looks at the woman
[21:48] [Jynaru] "I take it you're the Zenith?"
[21:48] [Tala] "Who is this?"
[21:48] * Vanal adjusts his gloves
[21:49] [Vanal] "Take a wild flippin' guess."
[21:49] [Storyteller] She just watches Vanal; it is her though.
[21:50] * Tala glares with unveiled disgust, but not at the woman.
[21:50] * Vanal ignores Tala's disgust...he's seen too much shit on this trip to really be phased
[21:50] [Storyteller] "Have you considered my offer?"
[21:51] [Vanal] "I have..."
[21:51] [Vanal] "Might I inquire why we could not simply go over and extract her ourselves ?"
[21:51] [Tala] "Don't"
[21:51] [Storyteller] "You could.... But you would never find the hidden mountain without me."
[21:52] * Vanal nods
[21:52] [Vanal] "May I have a few moments to confer with my comradeS ?"
[21:52] [Vanal] (I had totally forgotten about the mountain)
[21:53] [Storyteller] "My daughter is precious to me.... and I do not think you could make her understand. Please, take all the time you need. I have lived for hundreds of years... what is a few more minutes to me?"
[21:53] [Jynaru] "Mountain?"
[21:53] [Vanal] (GH wanna take this one ? I've forgotten)
[21:53] [Storyteller] (Bloom has a secret fortress)
[21:54] [Storyteller] "There is a mountain in the eastern wing of the Realm... Even if you did drive him out of Sion, he would only flee there. If you hope to defeat him, you will need to cut off that avenue of escape."
[21:55] [Jynaru] "Hell."
[21:55] [Storyteller] "I have offered entrance to that stronghold in exchange for your help."
[21:55] [Jynaru] "Take the offer. She's got to be easier to kill than Bloom."
[21:56] [Tala] "She has been around for centuries, didn't you hear her?"
[21:56] [Vanal] "...son of a bitch...why am I always the goddamned sympathizer ?"
[21:57] [Jynaru] "Do you want to piss her, her husband, and his ten-thousand wolves off on their turf?"
[21:57] [Tala] "
[21:57] [Tala] "Rather than let them into the Realm?"
[21:58] [Vanal] "The Realm is where I have my army, and my father's...and my contact's."
[21:58] [Vanal] "If worse comes to worse, we come down on her like the wrath of Hesiesh herself."
[21:58] [Jynaru] "Bigger things to hit with."
[21:58] [Storyteller] "My husband will stay behind to watch my flock and his children. Please, I mean you no harm... I only wish to be reuinited with what is left of my family."
[21:58] [Tala] "I would rather not provoke the worst."
[21:59] [Vanal] "Look, this is our one shot at this. LEt's not throw it away."
[22:00] [Jynaru] "You heard my vote."
[22:00] [Tabius] "Tacticaly speaking it looks like the one shot we have to taking down Bloom. If he runs we know where he will go and he will find no succer ther 
[22:00] [Tabius] "There and we can defeat him on top of his debilitated fortress."
[22:00] [Vanal] "I'm in."
[22:01] [Vanal] "We're going to need to keep this hush-hush, of course."
[22:01] [Tala] "And if the Deciever persuades her to join him?"
[22:01] [Storyteller] she looks at tala....
[22:01] [Tabius] "She is one herself, no? Perhaps their tricks do not work on each other?"
[22:02] [Jynaru] "That would be bad, true."
[22:02] [Storyteller] the look she gives you tells you that she will never join him... again.
[22:02] [Vanal] "Tala...if you have another suggestion, I'm all ears."
[22:03] [Tabius] "As long as Bloom has this hidden fortress we will n e v e r be able to root him out of the realm!"
[22:03] [Tala] "You do not care. You are determined to compromise the security of the Realm. You know my vote just as well as i know my vote is irrelevant to you."
[22:04] [Vanal] "EXCUSE ME ?!"
[22:04] * Vanal looks at Tala
[22:04] * Tala looks back
[22:05] [Vanal] "How *DARE* you imply I intend to do ANYTHING to intentionally jeopariodze the Realm ?"
[22:05] [Vanal] "I've devoted my *LIFE* to keeping it and its inhabitants safe."
[22:05] [Tala] "Then you plan to refuse her offer to bring her into the Realm?"
[22:05] [Vanal] "No, I don't."
[22:05] [Vanal] "Because frankly, Bloom is a larger threat than she will EVER be."
[22:05] [Tala] "Then you plan to bring an Anathema on to the Blessed Isle?"
[22:06] [Tala] "Then you plan to compromise its safety further than it already has been."
[22:07] [Vanal] "At least I'm TRYING !"
[22:07] [Jynaru] "Neither option is good."
[22:08] [Jynaru] "This one, however, stands a better chance of eliminating the current threat.
[22:08] [Tala] "You break your oath to safeguard the security of the Realm out of your passionate hatred of Red Bloom."
[22:08] [Jynaru] "It requires less than digging Bloom out of a hidden fortress."
[22:08] [Vanal] "*Hatred*? You think I hate Bloom ?"
[22:08] [Vanal] "Woman, you've got a *lot* to learn about me, then."
[22:11] [Storyteller] The woman on the horse removes the rest of the cowl from her head, revealing the sun-bleached white hair streaming down from her forehead. The sun seems to shift in the sky, so as to hover behind her, displaying her true radiance for but a moment. In that moment, it seems as if your heart will fall apart to tears.. but it passes, and when you look at it, the sun is where it rightfully belongs.
[22:12] [Vanal] "Listen. Right now we are fuckin' low on options."
[22:12] [Vanal] "I'm putting my life and career on the line here."
[22:13] [Storyteller] "If you truly do not believe the truth of what I speak, go and find bloom.... I will still be here when he is locked within his fortress of stone.
[22:14] [Vanal] "We're doing it."
[22:15] [Storyteller] she nods
[22:17] [Vanal] "If I'm wrong on this Tala, feel free to flay me alive then. But right now, I have a job to do to the bes tof my ability."
[22:18] [Jynaru] Apparently, we're doing the madness.
[22:20] [Tala] "I won't be your judge. However i will not defend you when your judgement comes."
[22:21] [Vanal] "I'll defend MYSELF when the judgement comes. I made my decision and I stand by it, for right or for wrong."
[22:23] [Storyteller] [want to move on?]
[22:23] [Vanal] [yes, please]
[22:23] [Storyteller] The boat home is very uneventful...
[22:24] [Storyteller] You make port at some nameless city on the north coast of the serpentine river
[22:25] [Storyteller] Do you want to do anything before she leads you to the hidden mountain?
[22:25] [Vanal] not really
[22:25] [Tabius] (*make a few artifacts? ;-) *)
[22:26] [Storyteller] well, you realyl can't do that effectively when you're on the move
[22:26] [Jynaru] Kill her?
[22:26] [Storyteller] already? she's on realm soil now.. ;)
[22:27] [Jynaru] True.
[22:27] [Jynaru] Kill her in front of the daughter.
[22:27] * Jynaru can wait.... yessss....
[22:27] [Storyteller] everyone roll conviction
[22:27] * Tabius enjoys the boat ride back to the little island that is said to be blessed and is more than ready to get going.
[22:27] [Vanal] !ex 3
[22:27] [Storyteller] Vanal (3), 2, 5, 10, Successes : 2
[22:27] [Tabius] !ex 4
[22:27] [Storyteller] Tabius (4), 4, 9, 7, 8, Successes : 3
[22:27] [Jynaru] !ex 3
[22:27] [Storyteller] Jynaru (3), 3, 7, 7, Successes : 2
[22:28] [Tala] !ex 4
[22:28] [Storyteller] Tala (4), 3, 5, 3, 8, Successes : 1
[22:29] [Storyteller] if anyone finds out that she is an anathema or she tries something you have to kill her and make it look like you intended to kill her all along.
[22:29] [Jynaru] Huzzah!
[22:29] [Storyteller] otherwise Tala will be ostracized from within the order, which will cause her a great deal of harm
[22:30] [Tabius] (*Is more than happy to do it! *)
[22:30] [Jynaru] Which is bad.
[22:30] [Vanal] (...oh joy...)
[22:30] [Tabius] (*Nobody will get a chance cause we are Clouding out of this populated area ASAP! *)
[22:30] [Storyteller] heh, ok i guess you can get off outside the city and avoid civilzation then?
[22:32] [Storyteller] the cloud floats through the uninhabited lands of the imperial mountains...
[22:32] [Vanal] that sounds fine
[22:32] [Storyteller] here and there are cities lost in the valleys and on top the highest peaks, for devotion and for profit, but these are isolated communities and nobody ever travels between them.
[22:33] [Storyteller] She is not used to such travel, however, and you find yourselves trailing one road, seeing where it goes
[22:34] [Jynaru] sigh. Pansy ancient anathema.
[22:34] [Storyteller] Eventually you come to a great plain
[22:35] [Storyteller] surrounded by massive mountains, nonetheless this plain is perfectly flat and level, shrubs and stunted grass covered with an endless level of glistening snow.
[22:35] [Storyteller] She has tabius put you down on the road.
[22:35] [Storyteller] "We're here..."
[22:36] [Tabius] "Oh good......."
[22:36] [Storyteller] "Is anyone coming?"
[22:36] [Storyteller] She steps off the cloud, adjusting her robes around her.
[22:37] * Vanal checks the area around him
[22:37] [Storyteller] you don't see anyone, but it's hard to tell in the mountains.. there could be someone just around the next bend.
[22:37] * Tabius waits for everybody to get off the cloud before releasing the spell.
[22:37] [Storyteller] You remember a party coming north, but they probably won't be here for several days.
[22:37] [Vanal] "We'd best hustle."
[22:38] * Jynaru is ready, although pretty unhappy about being here with the damned zenith bitch.
[22:39] [Storyteller] She closes her eyes and kneels on the ground in front of the vast clearing, slowly beginning to radiate with golden light....
[22:39] * Tala has not spoken a word since the decision to bring the Anathema into the Realm was made.
[22:39] [Storyteller] a disc of solar essence burns on her forehead, forcing you to look away from her face....
[22:41] [Storyteller] lines of golden essence swirl around her, as she seems to do nothing but kneel in that position, envoloped in changing threads of brilliant light
[22:43] [Storyteller] Suddenly, with no warning, a mountain pops into view where the field once was, a monsterous mountain, easily the highest for miles around... not a touch of snow. A few feet away, twin golden doors with a sunburst incribed upon it stand closed.
[22:43] [Vanal] "Holy shit..."
[22:44] [Storyteller] The solar princess wipes her face and slowly stands, eyes downcast.... you still don't know what she did...
[22:45] * Jynaru sigh. "How the fuck do you hide a mountain in the middle of the Blessed Isle?"
[22:45] [Tabius] "Solar magic"
[22:45] [Vanal] "Very carefully ?"
[22:45] [Jynaru] "You'd think there'd be someone in the population who could deal with something of that order of magnitude."
[22:47] * Tabius just looks at Jynaru with something that looks close to pitty.
[22:47] [Storyteller] She remains silent, eyes looking over the twin blocks of orichalcum that bar your passage.
[22:48] [Tabius] "Your thoughts madam?"
[22:48] [Storyteller] She doesn't say anything...
[22:48] * Tala stands there, arms crossed
[22:48] [Storyteller] she is looking straight down.
[22:49] * Vanal scowls
[22:49] [Vanal] "Okay there's the mountain...now what ?"
[22:49] [Storyteller] ...........
[22:49] [Storyteller] "Once the doors are open, we will have to hurry...."
[22:50] [Storyteller] "Once they close behind us... there will be no way out."
[22:50] [Tabius] "How long will that be? Also, is this a Manse?"
[22:50] [Vanal] "Right."
[22:50] [Storyteller] "I don't know. And yes, it probably is a manse... though it has never been in creation long enough to operate."
[22:51] [Vanal] "Shall we hustle, then ?"
[22:51] [Jynaru] "I hate shit like this... but it has to be done."
[22:51] [Storyteller] She nods
[22:51] * Jynaru busts out the form, and the frenzy, and the fast running for this litle op.
[22:52] [Tabius] "And suggestions on how best to remove the Fortress from the flower mans arsonel?
[22:52] * Tala slides on a pair of fingerless leather gloves which each have 3 dark blue jade blades, etched with rolling waves along their sides, extending from the knuckles
[22:53] [Vanal] "hit it hard ?"
[22:53] [Storyteller] "I don't know... I've never been here for any length of time..."
[22:53] [Jynaru] "Real hard."
[22:53] [Vanal] "Shall we ?"
[22:54] * Tala ties the strip of embroidered white cloth over her eyes.
[22:55] * Jynaru bows. "After you, fearless leader."
[22:56] * Vanal shoulders his sheild and hustles off
[22:56] [Storyteller] Slowly, she steps forwards, placing one hand in the middle of the sunburst... and then, gives it a slight nudge. The door opens seamlessly, coming to a stop without a sound.
[22:56] [Vanal] "Spiffy."
[22:57] [Storyteller] Vanal enters a room with a thousand swords, each hanging on the wall for display. A ring of red carpet surrounds a open space in the room, showing an almost translucent marble floor
[22:57] [Vanal] "...swanky."
[22:58] * Tala walks with the others, keeping a defensive Rolling Seas Stance, essence channeled into her form, giving her entire body a liquidity to its movements
[22:58] [Tala] [water form + 5 dragon blocking]
[22:58] [Storyteller] Three doors open up spontaneously in each direction, opening upon more rooms.
[22:59] * Tabius walks in and instantly starts looking for structural weakness's or areas to exploit with his keen senses and architectureal education.
[22:59] * Vanal cues up 5d blocking and aura of invulnerability
[22:59] [Jynaru] "Follow the white rabbit..."
[22:59] [Vanal] "What ?"
[23:00] [Storyteller] The voice of a young woman emenates from above, "A childrens story, dating from before the first age. Symbolizing the mysteries of the wyld, and the discoveries taht can be found by attaining purity and following truth to the closest attainable goal."
[23:01] [Vanal] "Riiiiight."
[23:01] [Vanal] "I'll take waht's behind door number two, Alex."
[23:01] [Storyteller] the first and second doors slam shut, leaving only the middle one open
[23:01] [Storyteller] er, third doors
[23:02] [Vanal] "..."
[23:02] [Vanal] "This is just fucked-up."
[23:03] [Jynaru] "Then get moving."
[23:03] [Jynaru] "We don't have long."
[23:03] * Tabius moves through the remaining open door looking for more points to lay a smack down to remove this place fom being effective.
[23:03] * Vanal shrugs
[23:03] * Jynaru heads towards the door carefully, ready to dash back out.
[23:03] [Vanal] "Open the other two doors."
[23:04] [Storyteller] all the doors shut, and then open again.
[23:04] [Vanal] "split up, or one room at a time ?"
[23:04] [Jynaru] "Split up."
[23:04] [Storyteller] Jynaru, you can see that behind the middle door, there isn't really much more but a balcony overlooking a vast gulf...
[23:04] [Vanal] "right."
[23:04] [Jynaru] "That's always what the heroes do, right?"
[23:04] * Vanal takes the right door."
[23:04] [Vanal] "I guess so."
[23:05] [Storyteller] Vanal, there is a curving staircase that goes up and to the left
[23:05] * Tala follows the others slowly
[23:05] [Storyteller] red tapestries hang from the walls
[23:05] [Jynaru] I'll check the left door now.
[23:05] [Storyteller] a curving staircase, seemingly the twin of theo ther, that curves up and to the right
[23:05] [Jynaru] "Got stairway. you?"
[23:06] [Vanal] (you had the balcony)
[23:06] [Vanal] "Curving stairwell."
[23:06] [Storyteller] (he chose again!)
[23:06] [Vanal] (oh)
[23:06] [Vanal] "Let's keep going."
[23:06] [Jynaru] "See you up there."
[23:07] * Tabius goes and checks out the middle door and the void beyond wondering if  its a gateway to the nothingness.
[23:08] [Storyteller] it seems like it... it's not lit, so you have difficulty seeing beyond a certain distance, which is just an empty void.
[23:08] * Vanal climbs the stairs
[23:08] [Jynaru] Ditto.
[23:08] * Tala takes the other stairway
[23:09] [Storyteller] If you both go up the stairs you come to twin, but seperated dining rooms, each with five other rooms connecting to it on on side.
[23:09] [Jynaru] I make with checking the doors as usual.
[23:09] * Vanal checks the rooms
[23:09] [Storyteller] five suites, probably bedrooms
[23:09] [Vanal] "Well, one thing's for sure about Bloom.
[23:10] [Vanal] "He's got good taste in housing."
[23:10] * Tabius takes out a small coin and flings it as far as he can to see what happens when it hits for floor or a row of books.
[23:10] [Storyteller] you don't hear anything tabius
[23:11] * Tabius looks over the edge of the balchony seeing what is down or if there is a ladder next to it or some such way to get down.
[23:11] [Storyteller] the suites are all fabulously decorated, each having severall smaller anterooms, some of which seem to be smaller bedrooms themselves.
[23:11] [Storyteller] you don't see any such device, Tabius.
[23:11] [Storyteller] the solar princess walks up behind you....
[23:11] * Jynaru moves around, checking for the infamous hidden passages.
[23:11] [Vanal] "Right."
[23:11] [Storyteller] "You have to ask for something."
[23:11] [Vanal] "GYAH !"
[23:12] [Vanal] "Don't *do* that !"
[23:12] * @Storyteller meant tabius, sorry ^_^
[23:12] [Storyteller] Jynaru, amazingly there are no secret passages here.
[23:12] [Jynaru] Whaaaat? No secret passages?
[23:12] [Storyteller] no secret passages
[23:12] [Jynaru] There are always secret passages...
[23:12] [Jynaru] I check the stairs.
[23:12] [Storyteller] the stairs don't have any secret passages either
[23:12] [Vanal] "Hmmm..."
[23:13] [Vanal] "How many people are in here ?"
[23:13] * Tabius holds out his hand and says, "The Mantle of Brigid".
[23:13] [Storyteller] hmmmmm~~~~`
[23:13] [Storyteller] "Not Found"
[23:14] [Storyteller] Vanal - "Searching... Five identities verified."
[23:14] * Tala studies the building with her essence sight
[23:14] [Tabius] "Copy of the spell book used by the creater of this place."
[23:14] [Vanal] "Are you a manse ?"
[23:16] [Storyteller] "Yes, this place was once a manse."
[23:16] [Vanal] "Once ?"
[23:17] [Storyteller] "After being converted to this fortress, I was no longer able to function properly as a manse. Now all energy is necessary to perform the secondary functions necessary for survival in Elsewhere."
[23:18] [Vanal] "I see."
[23:18] [Vanal] "And who sent to elsewhere ?"
[23:18] [Storyteller] "This facility is not equipped to copy items held in storage."
[23:18] [Storyteller] "Sorcereress Uthela Kull, who is also my creator."
[23:19] [Storyteller] you note that the two voices are slightly different
[23:19] * Tala watches the Zenith
[23:19] [Vanal] "Who is your current owner ?"
[23:19] [Storyteller] "Red Bloom."
[23:20] [Tabius] "May I please take a look at or have the structural design specs for this Fortress, barring that the design nots of Uthela Kull for this fantastic creation.
[23:21] [Vanal] "Right."
[23:21] [Storyteller] Out in the void, essence shimmers and sparks. Eventually, you are shown a three dimensional model of the entire mountain, which you can see has been hollowed out.
[23:22] [Storyteller] it does indeed seem empty, except for the lower level of this void, and the two rooms above this one
[23:23] * Tabius starts doing mental gymnastics with essence flows pertaining to the function of the mountain and its general existance in a different pplane.
[23:23] [Storyteller] actually, it exists in creation now.
[23:23] [Storyteller] for a while, at least...
[23:24] [Storyteller] any ideas? ^_^
[23:25] [Tabius] (*Offlining to you now ;-) *)
[23:25] [Storyteller] roll int + occult +2, tabius
[23:26] [Tabius] !ex 14 +wp
[23:26] [Storyteller] Tabius (14), 6, 9, 6, 8, 3, 9, 4, 6, 10, 6, 5, 9, 1, 1, Successes : 7
[23:26] [Storyteller] you can do it!!
[23:27] [Storyteller] but it will take several days...
[23:27] [Storyteller] The Solar Zenith Princess is wandering around, looking at the swords...
[23:27] [Tabius] "Ok everybody huddle up, I have a plan."
[23:27] [Tabius] "ARGH!"
[23:27] * Tala watches her carefully
[23:28] [Storyteller] she seems to be picking out a sword
[23:28] [Vanal] "Ma'am..."
[23:28] [Storyteller] "?"
[23:28] [Storyteller] she turns
[23:28] [Vanal] "Please, with all due respect...keep away from the swords."
[23:29] [Storyteller] She smiles apologetically and moves into the center of the room, off the carpet and away from all the swords
[23:30] [Vanal] "Thank you."
[23:30] [Vanal] "Tabius, what's the plan ?"
[23:32] [Tabius] "Well we could divert the flow of essence in the building so that it can't go elsewhere again. Or we could divert it upon itself and make it blow up next time it comes ouft of EWlsewhere.....
[23:32] [Jynaru] "And how do we do that?"
[23:33] * Tala listens to Tabius' plan peripherally. Her attention remains on the Zenith.
[23:33] [Tabius] "well it would take three days of us doing work, which I do not think we have.
[23:33] * Vanal looks at the zenith
[23:33] [Vanal] "do we ?"
[23:33] [Tabius] That is to make it blow up."
[23:33] [Tabius] "To make it stay put would take a solid few hours."
[23:34] [Vanal] "Stay put ?"
[23:34] [Jynaru] "Staying put is good enough. We can chuck the ECE'd Bloom into elsewhere and then send this into elsewhere, right?"
[23:35] [Tabius] (*GH is explaining...... erm a rather difficult concept.......*)
[23:35] [Tala] [ECE?]
[23:36] [Jynaru] (Eternal Crystaline Encasement.}
[23:36] [Tabius] "It seems that to destroy this it would take 3 days to effect the changes. To make it not be able to leave creation nexct time it comes back would take 3 hours.
[23:38] [Vanal] "I like that idea."
[23:38] [Jynaru] "Good. We make it stay and deal with this later."
[23:39] * Tala removes her blindfold suddenly, and holds it out to Tabius with one hand, pointing below the Solar with her other hand, very serious looking
[23:39] * Tabius starts giving instructions very rapidly to everybody but the solar lady.
[23:39] * Tabius puts the blindfold on but keeps telling people what to do and looks below.
[23:40] [Storyteller] the princess blinks, oblivious
[23:40] [Tabius] "Jump left Princess, NOW!"
[23:40] [Storyteller] "What?"
[23:41] * Tabius points down and then ducks and covers.
[23:41] * Vanal scowls and tackles her out of the way
[23:42] [Storyteller] she loooks down, confused, and falls underneath vanal as the two roll across the floor. Several dozen swords rock back and forth on their hooks as they slam into the wall underneath them
[23:42] [Vanal] "Sonofabitch"
[23:42] [Vanal] "Sorry ma'am...but when those two tell me to jump..."
[23:43] [Jynaru] Aw, shit.
[23:43] [Jynaru] Totema numbah three.
[23:43] [Vanal] "Well, I don't ask questions."
[23:43] [Storyteller] Quickly she removes herself from Vanal's grip, annoyingly brushing off the dust
[23:43] * Tala gets out of the way
[23:43] * Vanal stands up and dusts himself off, too
[23:44] [Storyteller] "You realize I could rip off a sword and run you through right now, don't you?"
[23:44] [Vanal] "Yes, you could."
[23:44] [Vanal] "But i jsut saved your life."
[23:44] [Storyteller] "From what?"
[23:45] * Vanal points to the holes in the ground
[23:45] [Vanal] oh
[23:45] [Storyteller] she looks down, confused
[23:45] [Vanal] sorry
[23:45] [Vanal] misread that
[23:45] * Vanal misread what happened
[23:45] [Storyteller] ah, ok
[23:45] [Tabius] "There is a huge ball energy gathered in the middle of the room and the Icons on the door or glowing. Explain."
[23:45] [Vanal] "Ma'am...look. If I wanted to hurt you, like fuck I'm going to use something like a tackle to do so."
[23:46] [Storyteller] "I..." she nods at Vanal, accepting the apology. "I'm not sure what you mean...."
[23:46] * Tabius describes the ball of energy and the Icons.
[23:46] [Storyteller] The solar symbol glints suddenly...
[23:47] * Tabius starts thinking how to use this energy to make the fortress blow a fuse.
[23:47] [Storyteller] and the door beings to swing shut
[23:47] * Tabius runs for the door, assumably with everybody else?
[23:48] [Storyteller] Dex + Ath!
[23:48] [Jynaru] !ex 14
[23:48] [Storyteller] Jynaru (14), 7, 5, 5, 3, 8, 10, 7, 8, 1, 3, 10, 8, 8, 2, Successes : 10
[23:48] [Storyteller] Storyteller (7), 6, 4, 5, 4, 8, 9, 4, Successes : 2
[23:48] [Storyteller] !ex 7
[23:48] [Jynaru] I hold the fucking doors open.
[23:48] [Storyteller] Roll Strength + Ath jynaru
[23:48] [Jynaru] Don't make me hit the manse a bajillion times.
[23:48] [Storyteller] heh
[23:48] [Jynaru] !ex 13 +wp
[23:48] [Storyteller] Jynaru (13), 1, 6, 4, 10, 7, 9, 3, 9, 1, 7, 6, 4, 2, Successes : 7
[23:49] * Tala rushes towards the door
[23:49] [Tabius] !ex 11
[23:49] [Storyteller] Tabius (11), 5, 9, 6, 5, 6, 3, 10, 6, 9, 2, 6, Successes : 4
[23:49] [Tala] !ex 8
[23:49] [Storyteller] Tala (8), 1, 6, 5, 10, 9, 10, 5, 7, Successes : 6
[23:50] [Storyteller] You hold it open long enough for everyone to get out... and then it slips out of your hands, and crashes shut behind you... before you hear the echo of that sound, the entire mountain has dissapeared once again.
[23:50] [Tabius] (*oh goody, next to last! *)
[23:50] [Vanal] "Holy fuck..."
[23:51] [Storyteller] it was roughly 15 minutes
[23:51] [Vanal] "If you've got any ideas on how to keep it in this world, now is the time."
[23:51] [Storyteller] She shakes her head no...
[23:51] [Tabius] "Hrmmmm is there a time limit between times you can summon it?"
[23:51] [Storyteller] "No...... but... i'd rather not."
[23:52] * Jynaru shrugs.
[23:52] [Jynaru] "Well, that was fun."
[23:52] [Vanal] "So now what ?"
[23:52] [Jynaru] "Next time we go into a mountain that wants to swallows us into elsewhere, remind me to sleep in."
[23:52] [Tabius] "The only way we are going to negate its usefulness is if we can destroy it or get it to stay in creation where Flower Power can get rootedd out by the Wyld Hunt.
[23:52] [Storyteller] "Do you know how to destroy it?"
[23:53] [Tabius] "Yes/
[23:53] [Tabius] "Conditional that I have 3 days to work at it."
[23:53] [Storyteller] "Well, you can work on it for three days..."
[23:53] [Tabius] "oh"
[23:54] [Tabius] "Do tell?"
[23:54] [Storyteller] "Time passes in elsewhere, too..."
[23:54] [Tabius] ".......oh.......I........see......."
[23:55] [Storyteller] she nods
[23:55] [Vanal] "Why the FUCK did we sprint out of there, then ?"
[23:55] [Tabius] "So you summon, I enter, start working, and then 3 days from now you summon again and we see if I walk out.
[23:55] [Vanal] "Tabs, here's an idea."
[23:56] [Storyteller] "Becaues I can't bring it back from the inside...."
[23:56] * Disconnected
[23:56] * Attempting to rejoin channel #pvpexaltedrp
[23:56] * Rejoined channel #pvpexaltedrp
[23:56] * Topic is '"You are... rrreally good at... pretending yer drunk, y'knowww..." [BARF!] "Mebbe a lil'... Too good." "Nnnot rrrreally." "But you wez suppossd to see... dot we didn' make any pornos..." "Das wuz befffore Diana dumt me."'
[23:56] * Set by GoldenH on Sat Sep 13 19:59:49
[23:56] [Vanal] "She summons, you rout it in place, she summons it again, THEN we blast it ?"
[23:56] * Tabius looks at Vanal like he has an echo.
[23:57] * Vanal shrugs
[23:57] [Vanal] "Look, I just want the retreat gone."
[23:57] [Tabius] "Well I am up for the risk."
[23:57] [Vanal] "Do what it takes."
[23:58] [Tabius] "Tala can I keep the blindfold for the time being, I think it will help in the endeaver."
[23:58] * Tala nods
[23:59] * Jynaru twitches.
[23:59] [Jynaru] "We have to trust HER?! She couldn't even dodge when you said!"
Session Close: Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 2003


Session Start: Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 2003
Session Ident: #pvpexaltedrp
[00:00] * Vanal pinches the bridge of his nosew
[00:00] [Vanal] "Jyn..."
[00:01] [Tala] [I have to get up fairly early and it's 1 am here]
[00:01] [Storyteller] [well, if you don't want to see the end...]
[00:02] [Tabius] "Its my life and she will just have to be trusted."
[00:02] [Storyteller] [it's ok]
[00:02] [Storyteller] [probably won't be more than an hour tho]
[00:03] [Tabius] "Miren will of course join me to watch my back for any defenses the Manse thing has sitting about to stop things like what I am going to try.
[00:03] [*Miren*]  "...! I will?"
[00:04] [Vanal] "You will."
[00:04] [Storyteller] "......"
[00:04] [Tabius] "Of course you will, for the good of the realm."
[00:04] * Jynaru sighs.
[00:04] [Jynaru] "Fine. Just don't blame me if she gets you killed."
[00:04] * *Miren*  looks untrustingly at the solar
[00:04] [Tala] [I haven't been getting alot of sleep during the week.]
[00:05] [Storyteller] [sa'llright then]
[00:05] [Storyteller] [i assume you are staying out of the manse?]
[00:05] [Storyteller] [of doooom!]
[00:06] [Vanal] {You assume right]
[00:06] [Storyteller] allright...
[00:06] [Storyteller] Zenith girl does the thing again.... she just seems to kneel there...
[00:07] [Storyteller] Once it's back, Tabius practically pulls miren in behind him and slams the door shut.
[00:07] [Tabius] "Come on Miren it will be an adventure to tell your children, and their children and their childrens children bout.
[00:07] [Vanal] "You okay ?
[00:07] [Vanal] "
[00:07] [*Miren*]  "But. .but... but..." [mountain dissapears]
[00:07] * Tabius gets hard to work getting done what needs to get done and getting Miren doing what she needs to do.
[00:08] [*Zenith*]  takes a deeeep breath. "I'm fine."
[00:08] [Vanal] "You're sure ?"
[00:09] [*Zenith*]  [sigh] "I'll be fine."
[00:09] * Tala (~Werlynn@ool-182dcdb4.dyn.optonline.net) Quit (Quit: )
[00:09] [Storyteller] you realize that her anima is making the colors of your clothes fade
[00:09] * Vanal blinks
[00:09] [Vanal] "Shit."
[00:10] [Storyteller] "I'm sorry..."
[00:10] [Vanal] "I liked this shirt."
[00:10] [Storyteller] she pulls away from you
[00:10] * Vanal shrugs
[00:10] [Vanal] "I light things on fire when that happens. No big."
[00:11] [Storyteller] well, now you have a nice, pastel colored shirt...
[00:11] * Vanal lights up a cigarette
[00:11] [Storyteller] suddenly, there is a shout from beyond!
[00:11] * Vanal blinks
[00:11] [Storyteller] there's someone on the north pass!
[00:11] [Vanal] "Oh FUCK."
[00:11] [Vanal] "Ma'am...HIDE."
[00:12] [Storyteller] She looks around helplessly, then dives behind a pile of rocks
[00:12] * Dark_Regent_Hawke (Fiat@dsc01-ati-ga-206-215-222-112.rasserver.net) has joined #pvpexaltedrp
[00:12] [Dark_Regent_Hawke] "Damn well is a big if you're the one being lit on fire."  
[00:13] [Vanal] "Jyn...I don't suppose you could rockslide a barrier in front of the folks on the north pass ?"
[00:13] [Storyteller] you realize it's a whole group of people... probably aruond a scale. Three advanced guards are sliding down the mountainside, too fast for the path that they have taken.
[00:13] [Vanal] "Oh, wonderful."
[00:13] [Storyteller] Tala glares at everybody~ glareglare
[00:14] * Jynaru (Fiat@dsc03-ati-ga-204-30-143-55.rasserver.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
[00:15] * Dark_Regent_Hawke is now known as Jynaru
[00:15] [Jynaru] "How big do you want it?"
[00:15] [Vanal] "Big enough to have them go back and take the long way."
[00:16] [Jynaru] I hit the mountain lots.
[00:17] [Jynaru] Enough to make them have to go back and take the long way.
[00:17] [Storyteller] hmmm...
[00:17] [Jynaru] How many rolls is that?
[00:17] [Storyteller] make one really good dex + Ath roll
[00:17] [Storyteller] er
[00:17] [Storyteller] archery
[00:18] [Storyteller] unless you want to use ma
[00:18] [Jynaru] !ex 23 +wp
[00:18] [Storyteller] Jynaru (23), 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 9, 8, 10, 10, 2, 9, 9, 5, 4, 9, 7, 2, 9, 7, 6, 6, Successes : 13
[00:18] [Storyteller] hmm ok
[00:18] [Storyteller] there is a huge rockslide and the mountain falls down almost crushing them
[00:18] [Storyteller] there are a few shouts of general unhappiness and it gets quieter
[00:18] * Jynaru holds up a finger and blows the metaphorical smoke off of it.
[00:18] [Vanal] "You are the wind beneath my wings."
[00:19] [Vanal] They turning back ?
[00:19] [Storyteller] you can't see them, they are obscured by the rubble
[00:19] [Storyteller] it's really big rockslide
[00:20] [Storyteller] anyhow, time passes
[00:20] [Storyteller] a fire is made to keep warm
[00:20] [Vanal] Has her anima faded ?
[00:20] * Storyteller thinks i'll end it there....
[00:20] [Storyteller] it does with time, yea
[00:20] [Vanal] that's cool
[00:21] [Vanal] and cool
[00:21] [Tabius] Good with me to.
[00:21] * Tabius is now known as Thanos2
[00:21] * Storyteller is now known as GoldenH
[00:21] [Thanos2] I am one dang tired boy, for no appearant reason
[00:21] [GoldenH] heh
[00:21] * GoldenH slept for 10 hours today
[00:21] [GoldenH] think everyone else wants sleep too ^_6
[00:21] [Thanos2] oh yeah, never mind I uprooted half my apt today getting it preped for new furnature!
[00:22] [GoldenH] heh
[00:22] * Vanal is now known as DarthTom
[00:22] [GoldenH] that would do it, yeap
[00:22] * DarthTom worked 7-5:30 today
[00:22] [Thanos2] dropped $1200 for some nice nice stuff........hope we can get it moved without smacking it up to much
[00:22] * GoldenH imagines DT wants some sleep so g'night :)
[00:22] [Thanos2] acht, thats not a fun shift DT!
[00:22] [Thanos2] night
[00:22] * Thanos2 (~web-Guest@ip68-108-130-149.lv.lv.cox.net) Quit (Quit: Leaving)
[00:23] [DarthTom] 'night
[00:23] * DarthTom (~ltermac@HSE-QuebecCity-ppp3497117.sympatico.ca) Quit (Quit: "Locusts and honey... not since John the Baptist has there been a voice like that crying in the wilderness. Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash. -- Bono"')
[00:23] [GoldenH] cya
[00:23] * Jynaru is now known as Fiat
Session Close: Sun Sep 14 00:23:28 2003