April 12, 2003
Logfile from Malakai
Eclipse puts on his dragon medallion. "When last we left Hell's Errand Children, they had just regrouped following an unpleasant encounter involving a few brigands. They had also brutally vanquished a bag of shackles, but that's another matter entirely... At the end of the session, Tsharing had appeared in the camp and collapsed in a cloud of feathers a sparks, katana in hand."
Valyros rushes over to see if Tsharing is hurt in any way.
Typheous glances around to make sure nothing else just hopped out of nowhere.
Plax instinctively extends his claws and stares. "What the hell?" he utters. Then he realizes who it is and retracts the claws, but still hovers up in the air, shaking his head.
Tsharing gets up slowly and carefully. "I apologise for that."
Valyros says, "Are you alright Tsharing?"
Rade stares at Tsharing in supprise, then happiness. "Your back!" followed by instant concerned. "Are you okay?"
Psyche jumps, then jumps out of the tree. "What happened?"
Tsharing says, "I am well. And what have I missed while I was otherwise engaged?"
Typheous is still looking around for something that might kill them, or at least try. "
Typheous says, "Is there anyone following you?"
Tsharing says, "I do not think so."
Valyros says, "Not much really, we were bedding down for the night, when you appeared."
Tsharing pages: "Where is Gama?"
Psyche gestures at the bag. "Shackles tried to imprison us. Not much else."
Plax nods. "Annoying shackles, really". He just hovers there, waiting to see what happens.
Typheous relaxes, his music losing it's tension. "So... what happened?"
Rade smiles softly, happy to hear she
[OOC] Rade bahs
Rade smiles softly, happy to hear she's okay, waiting, hoping to hear the story of what happened to her.
Tsharing says, "I have been elsewhere, meeting people I have known in other lives. I am now closer to the divine."
Psyche . o O ( Other... )
Tsharing has received your page: "He went back to Theusleh."
Psyche steps forward "Other lives? "
Typheous eyes Tsharing, studying her. "I see..."
Plax wrinkles his nose. Now that just sounds strange. "Other lives?" he questions, curious. And he thought he was messed up.
Valyros says, "Ah, divinity the old fashioned way. Why would others settle for the Ultimatum."
Psyche . o O ( Okay, -now- I have to know. )
Rade's face falls into sudden confusion. "You've....what?"
Tsharing says, "Yes, when I was an empress of a world now dead."
Valyros says, "Good Empress or Evil Empress?"
[OOC] Eclipse shakes his head. "It only took 26 sessions for anyone to ask about this. Unbelieveable..."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Hey, like 5 for me!"
Psyche sighs. "I've heard a lot of strange things from you, Tsharing - most iof them I've just chalked up to your training. Obviously I shoiuldn't have. What the hell -is- your story?"
Tsharing says, "That is too simplistic. I have mentioned these things before, you know, but I assumed you were not interested. And that is understandable, for I still know little of your origins."
[OOC] Tsharing says, "The first comment, in reply to Valyros."
[OOC] Psyche has it in journals from the last 5 or 10 that you haven't seen as to -why- she hasn't asked.
[OOC] Psyche says, "Summarised in that pose."
Rade's eyes widen at Tsharing, mouthing the word to herself. "Empress...?" Then speaking up. "What world...where?"
Valyros says, "Well one must ask the simple questions first because they are usually the most important."
Plax shakes his head. "Empress?" He shrugs. "You know enough about my origins. We've kind of been here for awhile now, really".
Tsharing says, "A world now dead. It was a place of wonders you are unlikely to fully imagine. I could describe them, but words would serve no better than a map of a city would tell you the colour of the streets nor the character of the inhabitants. It was a wise and civilised empire. The enlightened ruled the unenlightened, and the rule of law was unquestioned. At the heart were two rulers, each foresworn to a powerful spirit. I was one of those."
[OOC] Valyros says, "W00T TO THE MOTHER FRICKEN NOOC7HAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
[OOC] Eclipse raises an eyebrow.
Psyche . o O ( I think I trust her even less, now. )
Psyche arches a brow. "Go on..."
[OOC] Valyros says, "I GOT A SUBBED VERSION OF Z GUNDAM 45!!!!! I've been downloading this son of a bitch for months!"
[OOC] You say, "Ah. I see."
[OOC] Rade says, "whoot :)"
Plax listens silently, still hovering. That little display is enough to keep him interested.
Valyros stands there, listening to her story, not really surprised, and not really impressed.
Rade's expression shifts to one of slight wonder. "What was it's name?"
Tsharing says, "Chasain. There was a corrosion at the heart of the world, in the heart of my consort, whose name I will not utter any more. He sought to exceed his limits ordained by Heaven, to destroy the realms of demons that were ruled by our counterparts. He failed, and in doing so caused the destrcution of the wrong world. I was blinded at the hands of the one with flayed skin and the touch of ice, and exiled. Years later, I came to this place."
Typheous . o O ( Right.... )
Psyche frowns slightly. "Why and how? By what vehicle?"
Typheous listens, his expression curious.
Rade bites her lip, frowning slightly and shivering. "Flayed one...?" She shakes her head. "A demon?"
Tsharing says, "I walked. For all I knew, or indeed, know, this is all that is left of order, anywhere. I did what I could to stablise it. In time, I....the word is imperfect, but it will do....grew tired of memories, and created a successor. That is me. I am my predecessor, Min-Rai, but I am also me. I will have to be one or the other one day, but that will not be yet."
Tsharing says, "A demon, that is correct."
Valyros says, "A tragic story worthy to be sung by bards the world round."
Plax rubs his head, trying to sort out this multiple-time thing. "You created a successor? But how does one...". He just shakes his head. That just makes his head hurt.
Psyche says, "You -had=- more powerful magic, then?"
Psyche . o O ( No wonder she's such a tight-ass sometimes. )
Tsharing says, "In a sense, I was also that woman, but in another sense, not. I am her reincarnation, as close as she could come to reproducing herself without the weight of regrets and tears that impaired her enlightenment."
Typheous nods slowly. "Yes.... Very tragic..." He listens, his hands moving from his blades finally, the last of the tension leaving him. . o O ( You think? )
Tsharing says, "I was the best of a world, save one other, the one of whom I will not speak. That is why I was the ruler."
[OOC] Tsharing says, "And an infodump right back atcha."
Valyros says, "Well this does explain what you said at dinner the other night. Sorry for being versnickity with you. With your past self, I'm sure I would only be a little baby not even off the teat compared to you."
[OOC] You say, "That was much longer than mine. *grin*"
Plax nods quietly. "So, you're a reincarnated ruler from another time and another place," he says, trying to get this through his head.
Tsharing says, "Yes."
Psyche says, ""And your intention -now- is...."
Tsharing says, "To maintain this world. As is yours, I presume?"
Rade shakes her head. "But...why are you remembering...?"
Typheous nods. "Yes.... and the sword?"
Tsharing says, "I always remembered. Though they are dimmed, with the quality of a recalled dream. The beauty does not move as much, nor the horror repel, because it is not quite real."
Psyche inclines her head slightly in Tsharing's direction. . o O ( Ironic...she enters on me telling Valyros that I want to change the world... )
Typheous . o O ( Yes.... Quite ironic. )
Rade's gaze softens, stepping toward Tsharing slightly. "I hope it doesn't hurt as much as it did before, to remember..."
Plax just hovers there. "That must be a bit strange to experience," he says.
Tsharing says, "The sword....the meaning is hard to translate, but it is an old weapon, forged from a memory of one now destroyed by great cold. It can be called Bitterglass."
Typheous nods slowly. "I appears to be a marvelous blade, though a bit... exotic, I must say."
[OOC] Eclipse grins. "Too much Exalted for you."
[OOC] Rade says, "heh"
[OOC] You say, "If a weapon doesn't have a cool name, it's not a cool weapon."
Psyche nods slowly, retreating into her own thoughts as she leans against a tree.
Psyche . o O ( I wonder... )
Typheous . o O ( Wonder? )
[OOC] Tsharing says, "Actually, the name comes from a different source. The original wasn't a weapon, but I thought it sounded neat."
[OOC] You say, "It does."
Valyros says, "Quite a shame, but one sort of has to wonder if your husband did not also do something similar to keep his spirit alive. Unless the demons Gugilled his soul that is..."
Psyche . o O ( What it's like. )
Typheous . o O ( To die and come back? I'd imagine it's not pleasant. )
Plax nods. "Who knows?" he questions, yawning a little. Well, he'd been fighting magical shackles and stuff.
Tsharing says, "Either is possible, indeed, likely. It would be a cruel, but predictable, tactic."
Psyche . o O ( To have the memories and look for your own identity. )
Typheous settles himself against a tree to take up his watch again. "In the mean time, we should get some rest. I'm still up for first watch."
Psyche says, "Go on to bed, Plax..."
Typheous . o O ( It would be facinating.... )
Plax looks to Psyche. "Well, one of you wake me for my watch," he says before landing and getting ready to sleep.
Psyche . o O ( It would be hard, I think. )
Rade nods, eyes contemplative as she moves off to one side to find a place to snuggle up to the wolf. "Long day tommorrow."
Valyros says, "I will Plax."
Typheous . o O ( Very easy to lose oneself, yes... )
Psyche says, "Tsharing, you're probably tired too..."
Tsharing says, "Yes, I am."
Valyros flutters up to her perch in the tree, and gets in a comfortable position, writing the day's events in her journal.
Typheous takes up his watch again.
Psyche gestures. "Get some rest." . o O ( I'll ask sometime else, though.)
Typheous . o O ( Ask? Me or Tsharing? )
Psyche . o O ( Her. I want to know. )
User Conn Idle RP-Stat `@my tag is ...`
Eclipse 1h 0s IC Wiz Causing players confusion and trouble since '90
Psyche 1h 3s IC Wiz I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just -right-...
Typheous 1h 21s IC Wiz Well I'm terribly sorry, but I don't care...
Valyros 59m 1m OOC PC
Tsharing 49m 1m IC PC
Rade 3m 2m OOC Tec
Plax 2h 2m IC PC Being made crazy by Caine, page for lessons!
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Rade lets Halda settle, before carefully laying out her cloak and lying on it, using the wolf for a pillow.
[OOC] Plax wants a wolfskin pillow...
[OOC] Typheous had first watch... Then Val then Plax?
[OOC] Plax nods. Think so.
Psyche folds herself up at the base of Valyros's tree.
[OOC] Rade says, "Plax can try to share.... :0"
[OOC] Plax doesn't wanna get bitten.
[OOC] Eclipse grins.
[OOC] Rade hehs.
[OOC] Valyros says, "Yep."
[OOC] Rade says, "Thinks next character....a chiuaua familiar...."
[OOC] Valyros smiles.
[OOC] You say, "Whether he shares the wolf or the tree, he's likely to get hurt..."
[OOC] Plax would share the claws. ;)
Typheous does his watch
[OOC] Typheous says, "+?"
You say, "The night passes without incident. The sun rises on (if my reckoning of days is correct) Sunday, the 19th of Entropy."
[OOC] Rade says, "Que FF stay at the inn music."
Psyche writes in her journal, then sleeps and wakes early.
Valyros gets up, stretching vigrously, and strightening up herself a bit, then with a short little whoop, launches herself from her perch and flies around the clearing laughing all the way, welcoming the morning.
Tsharing wakes up unusually late, and joins the others downstairs.
[OOC] Rade says, "down....stairs? "
[OOC] Psyche says, "we're outside."
[OOC] Rade says, "we're in hell!"
[OOC] Rade says, "oh, wait...nm"
Plax writes in his journal during his watch, and is the one awake when the others are up. He's stretching a bit when the others start getting up, having dealt with his wound already.
Psyche says, "Plax, do you need..."
Plax pages: "Going to make an Arete roll for Heart's Blood."
Typheous stands up from his tree, probably the last awake.
Plax makes a few gestures with his hands quietly.
Plax has received your page: "You know. It's not really fair to heal magically from Heart's Blood. Kind of defeats the penalty, don't you think?"
Rade wakes with the rising sun, yawn-streaching and smiling at the colorful sky, patting Halda on the head.
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 7, 6 ** 3 successes (diff 4) **
Plax pages: "Sacrificing 3 HL for 3 Quint, burning 2 for the Vampire thing, letting it heal naturally."
(to Plax) Eclipse nods.
Plax winces as some nasty, bloody wounds appear to cover his entire body, then they close up as he stretches. "That's better," he says.
Valyros slows down and begins to circle Plax, occasionally touching him briefly with a wing tip then backing off. "Fly with me Plax!"
Rade does a double take at Plax, eyes wide...but says nothing.
Psyche nods quietly. "If you need anything, let me know." And then hunts down something simple for be\reakfast.
Plax looks over at Rade. "I sacrificed my blood to feed my Quintessence hunger, Rade," he explains. He then hovers upwards and circles a bit with Valyros, also scanning the area for anything bad.
Typheous rubs his eyes groggily, looking for something that resembles breakfast, if no one's made/making any. His music sounds dark and upset, as if 'Why do I have to get up now?' were a song by Metallica played on an orchestra.
Psyche is making :) "Good morning, Sunshine."
Rade wraps her arms around herself, shivering and saying softly. "Hope that never happens to me..."
Valyros backs of and procedes to circle Plax, buzzing rather close to him, whipping above the trees, and turning loops in the air,.
Tsharing says, "What are we doing today?"
Plax flies a little more purposefully, then goes to land, having stretched his metaphorical wings. "We keep moving?" he suggests.
Psyche says, "Continuing toward Wyzdin."
[OOC] Psyche says, "Do we have any idea how far?"
Typheous eyes Psyche as if she's just sprouted horns. "Isn't it, sweetheart?"
Rade pages: "didn't...what's his name...go in after Tsharing?"
Valyros veers off towards Plax, landing on the ground and tackling him at the same time, "Well you're no fun :P"
[OOC] You say, "If you walk until an hour or so after dark, you can make it today."
Rade has received your page: "Yes, Gama did go after Tsharing, didn't he..."
Psyche tenses, glaring at Typheous before returning her attention to breakfast. . o O ( Don't get ideas. )
[OOC] Typheous says, "PRoviding nothign weird happens..."
Typheous . o O ( Well, I thought if you were going to call me "Sunshine"... )
[OOC] You say, "True."
Plax looks over at Rade and sighs a bit, reminded by her shiver of what happened, and turns away before being tackled. "Bah, I'm an old eagle, Valyros," he says. He rolls out from underneath her and stands.
Rade finishes streaching out tightened muscles, watching the group. Her eyes slowly grow confused as she remembers something. "Wait..." She turns to find Tsharing. "Didn't you see Gama...?"
Psyche . o O ( Merely a reference to your mood. )
Valyros says, "How old are you anyway?"
Plax shrugs. "Older than my body wants to admit," he says quietly.
Typheous . o O ( And mine isn't one for yours? )
Psyche . o O ( I don't -like- it. )
Tsharing says, "He is elsewhere. And not in danger."
Psyche mutters under her breath an attempts to finish making breakfast without deep-freezing it.
Psyche says, "We should be able toi reach Wyzdin today if we push."
Rade frowns slightly, nodding. "I hope he's safe....wasn't he comming with us?"
Valyros humphs a bit, and backs off, "Alright, but I'd think it'd might do you good to enjoy flying a little bit more..."
Typheous shakes his head. "He has an engagement in Theuseleh, I believe." . o O ( I'm sorry. I'll not do it again. )
Plax nods to Psyche. "Alright, sounds like a good enough plan to me," he suggests. "The lady and I can do some scouting". He looks at Valyros. "Oh, I do enjoy it, but I'm horrible in the mornings. Something about having a fair amount of wounds to tend to as soon as I get up puts me in a bad mood. Ask me in the afternoon or evening. I'm just not a morning person".
Psyche says, "I'm more than willing to help, Plax...""
Valyros says, "Alright, it's just I'm used to taking a morning flight with Ultavium, and that's when I have the most energy."
Rade nods again as she's reminded. "Oh...right..." She sighs, but perks up slightly as people start to talk about the walk. Hiking through the woods, fun, fun.
Plax looks to Psyche. "Well, I can do it easily enough. I know how to take Quintessence from my body, so it isn't a huge worry. It just results with me nearly incapacitated in the mornings at times, so I'm just a tad bit sore, even after the healing".
Tsharing says, "I suggest that we set off soon."
[OOC] You say, "So, take the road to Wyzdin, passing through Eapond, or travel overland directly to the town? Both routes should take about the same amount of time."
Valyros says, "Yes, I would agree."
Psyche nods. "If it would help to drain blood - if you can - ..." She nods. "Breakfast is ready, now."
[OOC] Typheous would vote the road, if they take the same amount of time...
Rade smiles, nodding thankfully at Psyche as she sits down to eat a hasty breakfast.
Psyche pages: "Is there a skill in cooking, or is that a minor thing? :)"
Typheous takes his food, his first smile of the morning. "Thank you, Psyche."
Plax nods to Psyche. "Again, thank you. And if I'm already badly hurt, I may have to take you up on that offer, though I try to store Quintessence in my pattern just in case it's needed". He walks over to have some breakfast.
Rade shivers again at all this talk of taking blood, shaking her head.
Psyche has received your page: "That would technically be under Craft, but it's a really minor thing unless you're cooking for an army or trying to cook a meal fit for a king."
Valyros eats the food.
[OOC] Plax can take Halda's blood?
[OOC] Typheous says, "Hey, that works. :)"
(remotely) Psyche noddles.
[OOC] You say, "In theory, yes. She is intelligent and a warm-blooded creature."
[OOC] Rade says, "ooohhh no :)"
[OOC] Plax says, "Then I can have a wolfskin coat!"
[OOC] Typheous chuckles.
[OOC] Rade eyes.
Psyche at least quits scowling.
[OOC] Valyros says, "Um, I hope that because of my unique parentage, I wouln't have a higher amount of Quint in my blood?"
[OOC] Typheous says, "So... we start down the road?"
[OOC] Tsharing says, "I hope so."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Yep, that's my vote."
[OOC] Psyche says, "Yep."
[OOC] Plax votes Road.
[OOC] Rade says, "I'm up for anything."
[OOC] Tsharing says, "I think it's a given that we have breakfast."
[OOC] Psyche says, "Yep."
Plax has breakfast and looks around. "So, down the road?" he asks.
You say, "You reach Eapond a little bit before noon, skirt around it to avoid raising eyebrows (unless someone objects?), and continue following the river road south toward Wyzdin. You continue less than an hour into the night before the road splits and enters the forest. This is not normal. Usually, you wouldn't reach the woods for another mile, and there would be a kind of penninsula clearing where the academy is. There is no penninsula clearing, no sign of the village of Wyzdin, either."
Typheous nods to Plax. "That's what I'd vote."
Psyche says, "And....here it is. The vanishing piont."
Plax frowns. "Well, this is a bit strange," he comments, looking around.
Tsharing says, "The space has been overwritten by something, it seems."
Typheous frowns. "This would be where the test begins." He studies the split in the road and the forest for any oddities, besides the fact that they shouldn't be here.
Rade nods as she peers at the forest in the dark. "Strange..."
Psyche does likewise.
Valyros looks around the area for anything strange.
Valyros pages: "How's the Umbra like?"
Plax focuses on his ring for a moment, then looks around.
Plax pages: "Darksight"
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 1, 3, 2, 9 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 6, 5, 1 ** 1 success (diff 4) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 1, 8, 1, 7 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
You say, "From what you can tell, it is as though the road just outside of Wyzdin and the roads on the far side of Wyzdin have been bent so that they touch. It doesn't take a genius to figure out a spatial distortion is at work, especially since a casual survey of the area notes that the river has a point where the flow of water doesn't quite match up."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 10, 5, 2 ** 2 successes (diff 4) **
Typheous frowns slightly. "Where is that book we found at Plax's?"
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 3, 1, 10, 4 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
Plax pages: "Activated"
Psyche makes her way to the precise point of alignment.
Plax has received your page: "Noted."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Damn it."
Plax pulls it out and hands it to Typheous. "Here you are," he says. He follows Psyche then.
Psyche pages: "Corr scan is Corr 1?"
Psyche has received your page: "Yes."
Typheous flips to the page they found it on and scans the page.
[OOC] You say, "You're welcome to try again, Val"
[OOC] Typheous says, "Anything interesting in it?"
Psyche kneels, drawing an array of lines across the point, murmuring to herself.
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 6, 6, 8 ** 3 successes (diff 3) **
Rade wanders off path slightly, just studying the trees for any clues of any sort.
Psyche pages: "Looking for -how- the bend was made."
Typheous has received your page: "Aside from the spatial anomally, the book does not appear to directly refer to anything here."
Rade has received your page: "Give me a Per + Alertness, dif 8"
(remotely) Typheous nodsnods.
Psyche has received your page: "It was made with very powerful Cor magic. It was folded from within the "lost" space, not from outside of it."
Rade pages: "sensory based?"
Typheous frowns at the book, looking up again. "How to knock on the door." He walks over to just before the line that marks the edge.
Psyche pages: "Sop we're looking at the outside of the fold. Any way to make one's way in?"
Rade has received your page: "yes"
Psyche says, "You're right, Typh. It was folded from within..."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 2, 5, 3, 9 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 4, 7, 1, 1 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
From Rade: [Private Roll]: Rade rolled Perception (2) and Alertness (2) (4d10): 8, 9, 8, 7 ** 4 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 10, 3, 4, 5 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
Plax watches, thinking this all through. "So, now the question is, how do /we/ get in, or unfold it?"
Rade pages: "holy snikies, 4"
[OOC] Valyros says, "I'm ending it there."
Psyche has received your page: "None. It appears locked tight."
Typheous looks down to the book. A hint of revelation is in his music as he slowly smirks. "We knock."
Tsharing says, "How do we do that?"
Psyche gestures at the line of junction. "He's your master..."
Typheous pages: "Use the book for sympathetic magic to use Corr 2/Mind 3 to talk to drapheous."
Typheous pages: "Would that work?"
Rade has received your page: "On the west side of the spatial warp, you find a smaller version of Dina Ithil's ant farm."
Typheous has received your page: "Would need Cor 3 to talk via Mind 3."
(remotely) Typheous nodsnods.
Rade's eyes scan the area, blinking as she notices something and walks over to examine it more closely.
Valyros pages: "Do I see something?"
Typheous pages: "Could I send a message? Or perhaps knock on his door with forces? Or use forces to carry my voice to him?"
Tsharing pages: "Spirit 'sight', having a look at this."
[Roll]: Tsharing rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 8, 3 ** 3 successes (diff 3) **
[Roll]: Tsharing rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 10, 6 ** 3 successes (diff 3) **
Typheous frowns slightly. "I'm trying to think of something..." . o O ( The book is his... perhaps that could help...)
Tsharing pages: "6"
Valyros has received your page: "There is an owl spirit watching all of you with interest. The other minor spirits do not seem interested. The spatial warp doesn't seem to permeate the Umbra, but it is warded against entry or scanning via Spirit."
Rade pages: "anything odd around it, or in it itself? Besides being small that is. :) Oh, and how small?"
Plax looks down. "Knocking on a folded place," he mutters.
Typheous has received your page: "You could use Forces 2 in a way to get his attention."
Tsharing has received your page: "There is an owl spirit watching all of you with interest. The other minor spirits do not seem interested. The spatial warp doesn't seem to permeate the Umbra, but it is warded against entry or scanning via Spirit."
Typheous pages: "By sending my voice or just without a message, sort of a knock?"
Tsharing says, "The division exists in the spirit world as well."
Rade has received your page: "Nothing odd about it, though it appears to have been created in haste."
Valyros goes over to the tree and asks, "Excuse me friend, but may I ask what you could tell us about this area, expecially with the wards over there?"
Valyros pages: "Talking to the Owl spirit."
Typheous has received your page: "You could send your voice."
Typheous pulls his main gauche out slowly. "I have an idea...." . o O ( I'm going to try to tell him we're back. )
Plax sighs. "If I had more skill with Time, I could try and look back into the past, but I can't, I'm afraid".
Rade eyes the spot, shaking her head as why it's there escapes her. She looks around. "This is...odd."
Psyche stands up, examining the water. . o O ( Need any help? )
Typheous . o O ( I shouldn't.... )
Valyros and Tsharing have received your page: "The owl spirit speaks to Val, "The guardians of the area have determined that it is in the best interests of its occupants that unauthorized outsiders not be allowed to enter it for the time being.""
Psyche . o O ( All right. )
Typheous holds the book and his dagger together, the blade laying on the book's cover pointed toward the edge. His eyes concentrate down the blade.
Typheous pages: "Diff 4 with foci?"
Typheous has received your page: "Yes."
Tsharing says, "Ask who the guardians are."
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 8, 1, 3 ** 0 successes (diff 4) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 1, 5, 2 ** 0 successes (diff 4) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[OOC] Rade says, "hrm, what did the book say?"
[OOC] Rade lags
[OOC] Typheous says, "Well, the dice hate us today..."
[OOC] Typheous says, "The book didn't really say anything important, just it's Drapheous's book."
Typheous pages: "The book doesn't do anything for symp magic, does it?"
Valyros says, "Pray tell friend, who are these guardians? Are they the deans and professors of the academy? Are there any people who could enter Wizdyn's hallowed halls in this dark time?"
Psyche turns. "What's odd, Rade?"
Typheous pages: "And does this backlash me?"
Rade points at the spot, looking back at Psyche. "My mistresses ant farm...well...sort of..."
Psyche bends to examine it.
Plax sighs. "That ant farm again?" he asks. "I wonder...is is shrunken?"
Rade blinks at Plax. "How'd you know?"
[OOC] You say, "The title of the book was "Secrets Woven in Steel Thread"."
Plax shrugs. "By the way you looked at it and figuring it out through common sense".
[OOC] Valyros says, "Ooh, very Technocratic..."
[OOC] Psyche says, "So what do I see? :)"
Typheous has received your page: "It can be used for symp. It just means you need to get fewer successes."
Typheous has received your page: "And no."
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 4, 7 ** 3 successes (diff 4) **
Tsharing says, "Those things again?"
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 9, 7, 10 ** 3 successes (diff 4) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 1, 10, 2 ** 0 successes (diff 4) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 4, 9 ** 3 successes (diff 4) **
Typheous pages: "9 enough to get through? Or would I know?"
Valyros and Tsharing have received your page: "Owl, "The guardians are the not-Spirits who protect this clearing, of course.""
Rade pages (to Eclipse, Psyche): "Dina's ant farm, a smaller version. Not unusual, but hastily placed."
Rade blushes at Plax, nodding. "Oh."
Valyros says, "They have not been about lately, have they?"
Psyche's lips quirk. "Clever. That was the first clue..."
Psyche has received your page: "The west bank of the river and the nearby trees are not formed right. You have a couple trees of different species that have their trunks touching, trees whose trunks and branches stop halfway through, and other signs of serious spatial tampering."
Psyche . o O ( Typh... )
Typheous has received your page: "If it gets through, you don't seem to be getting a response, yet."
Psyche pages: "But this bank none of that?"
Rade raises an eyebrow at Psyche...
Typheous releases the spell. "Master Drapheous, we've returned. Would you be so kind as to let us back in?" . o O (Sorry... concentrating.)
Psyche has received your page: "That is this bank. The opposite bank shows no such signs of tampering. "
Plax listens quietly and smiles at Rade. "Remember, I've got sharp eyes, Rade". They don't call him Eagle for nothing, really.
Psyche pages: "K."
Psyche says, "This bank is flawed...the other isn't. Would Drapheous be that clumsy?"
[OOC] You say, "Remember that Wyzdin was only on this side of the river."
Typheous frowns, glancing between the banks as he sheaths his blade. "I don't know.... I wouldn't think so..."
Rade says, "Maybe he didn't put it here?"
Psyche says, "Or..."
[OOC] Psyche says, "Is the river crossable?"
[OOC] Plax can fly or toss you over, if need be. ;)
[OOC] You say, "It is not particularly swift, but it would require some swimming."
Psyche says, "Plax, cross the river, tell me what you see?"
Plax nods. "Alright". He flies over the river and looks down and around, trying to find anything out of the ordinary.
Plax pages: "Scanning area for magic use, all spheres except Matter."
Psyche says, "Look back toward us..."
[OOC] Eclipse wonders if we lost the spirit talkers...
[OOC] Valyros says, "Waiting for the Owl's response."
Tsharing says, "OOC Valyros is the one talking."
[OOC] Psyche says, "You've got the ghost hearer still :)"
[OOC] You say, "Gave it, but will repost..."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 9, 1, 5 ** 1 success (diff 4) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 1, 8 ** 1 success (diff 4) **
Tsharing and Valyros have received your page: ""Owl, "The guardians are the not-Spirits who protect this clearing, of course.""
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 6, 7, 1 ** 1 success (diff 4) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[OOC] Tsharing says, "BRB"
[OOC] Plax kicks the 1's.
[OOC] Valyros says, "Yes, then I asked if they've been around recently?"
[OOC] Plax stops it there, Eric.
[OOC] Typheous says, "It's past noon, So I can see normally and hear again, righT?"
Tsharing has lost her link.
Rade's eyes follow Plax as he crosses, shaking her head and murmuring to Psyche. "What are you doing?"
[OOC] You say, "Yes. And Psy isn't crying blood anymore."
[OOC] Typheous says, "And would Medium let me here anything?"
[OOC] You say, "Doh."
[OOC] Typheous says, "Err, hear."
[OOC] You say, "Actually, yes."
Tsharing has connected.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Woot! The randomly useful merit!"
Psyche says, "Wyzdin's only on this side of the river...I'm trying to see how it looks from over there...the fold's missing."
Valyros, Tsharing, and Typheous have received your page: "Owl spirit nods sagely, "Very recently. It can't have been a year since I saw them last. They asked me to watch the area just a little while ago.""
Typheous frons in thought. "That should get to him. Unless the wards are entirely too powerful. And that's not a bad idea, Psyche.
Typheous pages: "Might I get the previous pages too? :)"
Plax has received your page: "Correspondence out the ass, as well as lesser amounts of Time and Spirit. All in all, it's really powerful spell."
(remotely) Typheous is a bit lost in conversation midway ;)
Rade nods, eyes scaning the woods again, and the other side from where she stands. "Hmmm..."
Plax nods. "Correspondence like a madman, a bit of Time and Spirit. Very, very powerful spell".
Typheous has received your page: ""The owl spirit speaks to Val, "The guardians of the area have determined that it is in the best interests of its occupants that unauthorized outsiders not be allowed to enter it for the time being." (repost)"
Typheous has received your page: "Owl, "The guardians are the not-Spirits who protect this clearing, of course."
Valyros says, "And are you to report what you have seen when they return or do you have a way to contact them regularly?"
Tsharing says, "A madman?"
Psyche "Anything else?
Psyche says, "Anything else?"
Plax says, "A lot"
Typheous chuckles softly. "That would be Master Drapheous. Or someone as powerful as he."
Plax says, "Just an expression."
Plax pages: "(Could I discern what it's supposed to do?)"
Valyros, Tsharing, and Typheous have received your page: "Owl, "Actually, I'm supposed to watch for a few lost students. Something about a library far from here and remembering a clock.""
Typheous pages: "Right. Clock. Hmmm...."
Rade ponders the farm, trying to remember the riddle earlier.
Plax has received your page: "It has sequestered a fairly large amount of space from the rest of the world, blocking entry or scrying of all kinds."
Psyche murmurs softly to herself.
Typheous frowns toward the tree Valyros has been talking to. . o O ( Remembering a clock.... What would that mean to you? )
Tsharing says, "Ask if the libary has a name."
Valyros says, "Well good friend owl, I come with such wayward students trying to restablish ties with the guardians and protect other forests in this area. What is this library of which you speak? Where is it and what is it called?"
Plax considers the spell. "It's sequestered a large amount of space from the rest of the world. It's blocking scrying and entry of all types".
Psyche says, " {#413, "p", #2, #6, #413, 47}}}}"
[OOC] Rade says, "oopsie"
[OOC] Typheous chuckles.
[OOC] Psyche says, "Whooops."
Psyche says, "How many students attend the academy? How many ants are in Master Ithl's ant farm? The archer's target points the way, but not as much as the clock at a quarter past three. The secret is woven in steel thread"
Psyche . o O ( That clock? )
Typheous frowns slightly, glancing to the sky. "What time is it?"
Tsharing says, "From the scavenger hunt."
Plax pauses. "I can tell you". He looks upwards, as though reading something.
Psyche nods. "The ant farm, the clock...?" She glances at Typheous. "The book's title..."
Plax pages: "Perfect time"
From Plax: [Private Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 1, 5 ** 1 success (diff 4) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
From Plax: [Private Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 4, 9 ** 3 successes (diff 4) **
Plax pages: "4 for Perfect time"
Typheous nods to Psyche. "Exactly."
Valyros, Tsharing, and Typheous have received your page: "Owl, "Well, it's a big secret, I guess, so I can only give a clue. The library is in the place where the secrets woven in steel threads was found. And yes, I know there's no subject-verb agreement, there, but Master Nilrem insisted.""
Typheous pages: "Do I recognise that name?"
Typheous has received your page: "The other Druana professor at the academy."
(remotely) Typheous nodsnods. Thanks.
Typheous . o O ( The library is in the place where the secrets woven in steel threads was found.... )
Plax has received your page: "It is 8:37:23:94 pm."
Plax says, "It is 8:37:23:94 pm."
Valyros turns to the others and says, "Excuse me, this Owl guardian says that a Master Nilrem said that there is a library in the place where secrets woven in steel threads was found.
Tsharing says, "We are playing a game of riddles again,."
Valyros turns back to the owl, "Is that all you've been told, or do you need more proof before saying any more?"
Plax says, "Likely to keep those who don't know how to play them out."
[OOC] Psyche says, "Nilrem. Cute."
[OOC] You say, "Even _I_ had forgotten about that, actually..."
Psyche says, "The field...?"
Rade bites her lip, pondering the farm. "That place was in the middle of a field...didn't we have to take paces in the number of students, and ants to find it?"
Psyche says, "I remember where it was..."
Typheous offers the book to Valyros. "This would be the proof from the library our guardian friend wants, I imagine.":
Valyros, Tsharing, and Typheous have received your page: "Owl, "That is all I can tell you. Apparently, the lost students will know what it means and how to do what needs done. Mistress Spinwind, I understand, has the utmost confidence."
Typheous . o O ( We're doing what we did during the hunt. Don't combine these clues with the other ones. )
Psyche . o O ( Right. I follow. )
Rade pages: "this owl is spiritual? :)"
Plax rubs his head. "I hated that hunt before, and I'm still hating it," he mutters.
Valyros nods to Typheous, and holds up the book, allowing the owl to see it clearly, "This would not help in any way?"
[OOC] You say, "This is either going to be really cool or really, really messy..."
[OOC] Rade uh ohs.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Yep. :)"
[OOC] Plax votes we stomp on the place.
Rade has received your page: "Yes."
Psyche grins at Plax. "It's good for you to think."
[OOC] Rade says, "noo...this'd better not be a smurf village...."
[OOC] Typheous says, "Lalalalala?"
Rade sighs, watching the ants play for a moment while they talk to the spirit owl...
Typheous, Valyros, and Tsharing have received your page: "The owl looks at the book sideways. "It might. Curious title. But I'm not supposed to speculate. The real students will know what it all means, he said.""
Plax grins at Psyche. "I do have some intelligence. I still hate the hunt though".
Valyros turns to the others, "The Watcher says that you would know that this would be, and Mistress Spinwind has utter confidence in you."
Typheous sighs softly. "Then what do we do with the book?"
Valyros says, "He does not know. He is mostly here to watch what happens to this area."
Psyche says, "Do we try to find the field...?"
Typheous says, "Could the secrets of woven steel be the manacles?"
[OOC] Eclipse points to the lack of subject-verb agreement in the sentence the owl said...
Plax considers that. "Possible, but would Drapheous have made attacking manacles?"
Psyche says, "Wait. What did the owl say?"
[OOC] Valyros sort of figured the orginal speaker was going Yoda.
[OOC] Typheous says, "The place was found where the secrets of woven threads ?"
Valyros says, "He said 'The library is in the place where the secrets woven in steel threads was found.'"
Typheous shakes his head. "I think our bandit friends made the manacles attack, not him. Or possibly Caine."
Psyche says, "Where the book itself was found...?"
[OOC] Tsharing says, "BRB"
Psyche says, "Plax...your family has a library?"
Tsharing has lost her link.
Plax nods. "Yes," he says. "Why?"
Valyros says, "Or is there a place where they do a lot of metal work?"
Valyros says, "Expecially wire or chain?"
Psyche says, "No, no, Lady Del'zenivras. "There is a library in the place where 'Secrets woven in steel threads' -was- found""
Typheous shakes his head. "No, the grammer is correct. The subject is the place, not the secrets." He glances to Psyche.
Psyche sounds disgusted with herself. "Even Drapheous wouldn't make a grammar mistake that simple."
Valyros says, "Hmm, true, so we should head back to Plax's manor?"
[OOC] Rade says, "oh good heavens"
[OOC] Eclipse grins.
[OOC] Psyche cries.
Rade frowns. "That's a long way...what if we're wrong?"
Psyche shakes her head. "It makes sense.
[OOC] Eclipse didn't expect you to come here, actually.
Psyche "
Typheous chuckles softly. "So it seems, though tonight we may want to stay here, so we don't have to walk all night..." He turns to Rade. "Then we have to walk back."
Plax says, "Maybe not...what if I can scry the place and affect it with magic?"
Psyche arches a brow at Plax.
Typheous frowns. "That might work... Then we wouldn't have to go all the way back."
[OOC] Typheous says, "Should have figured. If we were supposed to come here, we would have been ambushed. ;)"
[OOC] Rade says, "the easy path is -always- the wrong one :)"
Plax nods. "Alright. I'll scry and see if I can shift my vision around. I'll tell you what I see and you direct me on those clues. I'm horrible with them". He squints his eyes for a moment, concentrating.
[OOC] Rade says, "rule 26 in the Gamer's code"
Plax pages: "Diff 4 - 2 for being his home for diff 2?"
The resolution of Tsharing fades. With a hiss of static her disconnected body implodes into a single point of light, then blinks out of existence.
Plax has received your page: "Fewer successes, not lower difficulty, actually."
Rade sighs, hoping Plax can do it. Might not be enough time to wander half the countryside.
Typheous nods slowly. "Do that. If you need help, I may be able to let others see what you're seeing."
(remotely) Plax nods. Burning 2 quint to drop it to diff 2.
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 1, 5 ** 1 success (diff 2) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 9, 8, 6 ** 3 successes (diff 2) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 4, 3 ** 3 successes (diff 2) **
Plax pages: "7 succs, that should do nicely."
Plax glows, his eagle-features shining out, as he peers off to his home.
Psyche waits.
Valyros stands to the side, simply watching Plax work.
Plax has received your page: "You find your way to the library. There is a table in the center of the room with a chair, a candle, a cobweb-covered bowl of apples, a glass of water, and a small, unopened book that bears the title 'Wyzdin Alumni'. There is also a tiny, unlit fireplace in one corner, though it obviously hasn't been cleaned out in quite some time and is almost choked with ashes. There is a clock on the wall that says the time is a quarter past three. Next to it is a painting of an archer with a watermill in the background. Caine and several of the Knights come into the room and begin ripping books off the shelves. Caine looks up at you. "Ah, there you are. I was meaning to tie up that particular loose end." He smiles. "See you soon.""
Eclipse pages: "The Caine part is a backlash effect from the Madness."
Eclipse has received your page: "The Caine part is a backlash effect from the Madness."
Plax frowns and cuts the connection quickly, muttering "Fuck you". He then flies around and starts hover-pacing.
Typheous glances up to Plax. "What is it?"
Valyros says, "What's the matter Plax?"
Psyche blinks. "Something go wrong?"
Plax says, "Caine. Guess who is at my manor ripping books off the shelves?"
Plax says, "And the bastard saw me"
Typheous frowns. "Damn. I think that shoots that idea.... How to get home... Any interesting books?"
Plax glances to their book. "Want to bet that's the one he's looking for?"
Rade's eyes widen slightly, touch of fear entering them. "He might realize we have it if it is..."
Plax starts squinting around. "I'm going to put a ward up around us. Anyone care to help?"
[OOC] Eclipse was wondering when someone would finally get around to doing that...
[OOC] Typheous says, "Bah."
[OOC] Plax says, "Wards? We don't need no stinking wards!"
[OOC] Rade says, "Psh...who needs wards... :)"
Typheous nods his head. "I'll help as much as I can."
[OOC] Typheous forgets this whole group casting thing...
Psyche's string of curses blisters the air. "I'll help."
Valyros says, "I'll help if you need invisibility, physical shielding, or spirit warding."
Plax nods. "Alright, try warding yourselves against Correspondence primarily. I can ward against almost anything, save for Matter".
[OOC] Eclipse hasn't ever had the occasion to deal with a group casting...
Typheous . o O ( I'm going to have to teach you the art of creative cursing, rather than just stings of explitives. )
Rade winces at Psyches cursing, shooting her a dissapproving glance before nodding. "I'll do whatever I can..."
[OOC] Plax nods. "So, what are the rule structures for that, Eric?" ;)
[OOC] Eclipse loves embarrassing bouts of Madness, don't you?
Typheous nods to Plax. "I will do what I can."
[OOC] Eclipse hmms...
[OOC] Typheous says, "Bah."
Valyros takes out her book of spirits and prisim and does her best to keep out spirits and living things from the little camp area they're staying in for the night along with Plax.
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 1, 1, 4, 8 ** 0 successes (diff 6) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 9, 7, 5, 6 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 9, 9, 2, 6 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
Plax squints around and starts to work on the large ward.
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 7, 6, 1, 7 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 10, 4, 2, 5 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
[OOC] Plax thinks we need to hear how to do a group casting first, Valyros...
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 7, 4, 1, 2 ** 0 successes (diff 6) **
Psyche . o O ( You'll be better at it than I am... )
[OOC] Valyros says, "Sorry about that :P"
[OOC] Valyros says, "Trying to move things along a bit."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 2, 10, 5, 4 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
Typheous . o O ( At some of it, yes. Do you want to try this together? )
[OOC] You say, "How about this - Primary caster makes the Arete checks to build the Effect. Those who are trying to help roll Arete for each roll. As long as they get one success each, the primary check succeeds. If one fails, that primary Arete check loses 1 success. If one botches, that Arete check is an automatic 0 suc that roll. If the primary botches, well, don't botch."
[OOC] You say, "Workable / reasonably simple?"
Psyche nods at Typheous, moving to take his hand.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Right. So we make Val the primary and the rest of us just pray."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Works for me. "
[OOC] Plax says, "Does it require all casters to have a dot in each sphere?"
[OOC] Rade says, "we all end up mindless zomvies for the ants"
[OOC] Valyros says, "Tell me when to roll for what then."
Typheous takes Psyche's hand, almost absentmindedly. "So... Are we doing this as one large group then?"
Valyros says, "I would think."
[OOC] You say, "No. It allows them to contribute a dot in a Sphere that the primary might not have. So if the primary has Cor 3, but no Mind, someone can help him create a Mind ban by contributing Mind 1 to the effort. This is a quick rule I just now invented. We'll see how it handles under pressure before adopting it permanently, okay?"
[OOC] Plax nods.
Plax nods. "I can contribute everything but Matter," he says. Versitile, he is. He gets ready for the ritual.
[OOC] Rade hrms
[OOC] Typheous says, "Sure. :) And I can add Corr 2, Life 1, Forces 2 and Mind 3 to the mix."
Valyros says, "If you wish, I will chant in 'common' so we can be on a same page."
Valyros has received your page: "Fine by me."
[OOC] Plax says, "Corr/Life/Prime 2, Matter 0, all others at 1."
Valyros says, "I can contribute quite a bit, if you need some high level Spirit, Life, or Forces."
Typheous smiles. "As you like. Though not all of us use chants."
Valyros pages: "What is fine?"
[OOC] Psyche says, "Cor/Mind/Spirit 1, Forces 2, Life 3."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Forces/Prime/Spirit/Life 3."
Rade purses her lips. "I have practiced matter....if you need it..."
Plax nods. "I think it's best for us all to partake of this, Rade," he says with a smile. "Make it stronger".
[OOC] Rade says, "Life/Matter 3, Prime/Forces 1"
Valyros has received your page: "Well, to be honest, I don't think I understood your implied question. If it is purely a matter of magical style, I leave it to you to decide what your character does. Am I interpreting it correctly, or did you mean something else?"
Valyros says, "Of course dear Rade."
Psyche says "W-I can help with Forces and Life, some Correspondance, Mind and Spirit..."
Valyros pages: "Alright."
[OOC] Typheous says, "Well, all of us but Psyche, as it will blow up on us. :)"
Rade smiles a bit, glad to be useful for once.
[OOC] Plax smirks.
[OOC] Rade grins
Valyros says, "Alright so everybody gather around in a circle and we shall begin the ritual."
Typheous says, "And I can add in Forces, Mind, Correspondence and Life."
Plax does as so, cutting his arm slightly and preparing for the ritual.
Typheous moves when Psyche does, still absentmindly clasping her hand.
[OOC] Rade had better not end up crying blood :)
[OOC] Eclipse already owes you a Witchwalk...
[OOC] Eclipse grins.
[OOC] Rade erms...
[OOC] Plax hmms. Now, do we roll, Z?
[OOC] You say, "I still owe Plax another 4 bouts of Madness, too..."
[OOC] You say, "Yes."
Rade kneels next to Halda, petting the wolf's fur and watching, ready to help when needed.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Who's #1?"
[OOC] Plax thinks Eclipse is saving them up.
Valyros raises her book high, ready to start, "Now focus on the flows of reality around us. If you need a focus point, I shall volenteer to be it."
[OOC] You say, "Primary caster first."
[OOC] Typheous says, "And what's diff?"
[OOC] You say, "Then alphabetically. Dif 5 if everyone is using specialty foci, dif 6 if anyone is not."
Valyros starts to chant, reading from her book, in 'common' but having a bit of difficulty with it.
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 3, 3, 7, 9 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 5, 8 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
User Conn Idle RP-Stat `@my tag is ...`
Eclipse 3h 0s IC Wiz Causing players confusion and trouble since '90
Typheous 3h 2s IC Wiz Well I'm terribly sorry, but I don't care...
Valyros 3h 9s OOC PC
Plax 4h 1m IC PC Being made crazy by Caine, page for lessons!
Rade 2h 1m OOC Tec
Psyche 3h 3m IC Wiz I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just -right-...
--[Sat Apr 12 21:48:46 2003]--------------------------------[6 users; 0s lag]--
[OOC] Rade says, "I don't think Ty read the alphabetically part :)"
[OOC] Plax bahs. No biggie.
[OOC] Typheous oopies.
[OOC] You say, "Don't worry about it. Just roll."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 8, 5, 6 [Spent 1 WP for a success] ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
[OOC] Rade giggles.
[OOC] Typheous misread it somehow.
[OOC] Plax has +1 diff due to standing effects.
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 6, 9 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 1, 9, 9 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[OOC] Eclipse will just penalize Plax, this time, then.
[OOC] Plax says, "Well, it'd make sense for his diff to be higher then. Harder for him to help. *shrug*"
User Conn Idle RP-Stat `@my tag is ...`
Eclipse 3h 0s IC Wiz Causing players confusion and trouble since '90
Plax 4h 20s IC PC Being made crazy by Caine, page for lessons!
Psyche 3h 2m IC Wiz I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just -right-...
Rade 2h 2m OOC Tec
Typheous 3h 2m IC Wiz Well I'm terribly sorry, but I don't care...
Valyros 3h 2m OOC PC
--[Sat Apr 12 21:51:33 2003]--------------------------------[6 users; 0s lag]--
[OOC] Eclipse thinks we lost El, for the moment.
[OOC] Plax nods.
[OOC] Plax says, "Hey, Eric, if I spend Quint, does it help everyone?"
[OOC] You say, "Just you, Plax. 2 suc so far. Val, roll."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 10, 5, 1, 7 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[OOC] Valyros shoots Backlash die!
[OOC] You say, "No auto Backlash on this. Everyone else roll."
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 1, 4, 1 ** BOTCH 2 (diff 5) **
[OOC] Valyros says, "Ew..."
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 8, 1, 8 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[OOC] Plax baps Psyche.
[OOC] Psyche says, "Bound to happen :)"
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 4, 1 ** BOTCH 1 (diff 6) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[OOC] You say, "Shall we just move onto the next Val roll, then?"
[OOC] Plax says, "Psyche..."
[OOC] Plax says, "You're spreading..."
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 1, 6 No diff given.
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[OOC] You say, "The telepathic battle mind continues operating..."
[OOC] Rade says, "0"
[OOC] Plax says, "So. Is that now 5 bouts of Madness you owe me, Eric? ;)"
[OOC] You say, "Still at 2 suc. Val roll."
[OOC] You say, "Nope. Madness is the Backlash for Perception Magic of all kinds."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 6, 9, 4, 3 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 2, 3 ** 0 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 1, 4 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 3, 5 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 4, 6 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 8, 4, 6, 8 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 8, 10, 8 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 10, 5 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 7, 6 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 5, 2 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Plax gasps!
[OOC] You say, "5 sucs so far."
[OOC] Rade says, "whoot"
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 10, 3, 8, 5 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 9, 3 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 6, 9 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Typheous says, "How does targetting work? Are we all targets? Are all of us but Val targets? And do PSyche and I counht as one or 2?"
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 2, 6 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Rade cackles.
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 2, 4 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 1, 4, 8, 1 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[OOC] Rade whew
[OOC] Rade says, "wait..."
[OOC] Typheous says, "So we're at 8 pre Val's last roll, right?"
[OOC] You say, "Up to 8, now. Val is the "caster". Everyone else counts as a target. This is certainly an...interesting way of running group castings, I think. Hard to get successes, but easy to make really complex combinations of Spheres."
[OOC] Plax nods.
[OOC] Plax thinks Val just rerolls now?
[OOC] You say, "Might as well just have Val roll again."
[OOC] Rade says, "With our spheres combined....we are an Archmage!"
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 2, 8, 2, 3 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 1, 7, 4 ** 0 successes (diff 6) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 10, 9, 2 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 9, 3, 1 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Rade says, "doh"
[OOC] Plax introduces the failure dice.
[OOC] Rade bats Plax
[OOC] You say, "Still at 8. Val."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 10, 1, 9, 8 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 1, 7 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Rade says, "son of a"
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 10, 2, 1 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 3, 6 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[OOC] You say, "Still at 8. Val."
[OOC] Typheous says, "Well, poo."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 3, 6, 3, 3 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[OOC] Rade says, "plax, see what you did!?!"
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 6, 7 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Plax notes to just let Val go after someone gets a 0.
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 6, 10, 3 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 1, 1 ** BOTCH 2 (diff 5) **
[OOC] You say, "Yeah. So you're an Archmage with issues..."
[OOC] Rade facepalms
[OOC] You say, "Still at 8. Val."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 6, 7, 4, 7 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 8, 8 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 1, 6 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 8, 5, 2 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
[OOC] Rade says, "is psyche gonna explode? :)"
[OOC] You say, "At 10. Val."
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 8, 2, 10 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Valyros says, "How far we going to go?"
[OOC] Typheous says, "We might still pull 2 out of that.... Woot! did."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 1, 6, 3, 5 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[OOC] Typheous says, "Up to you? How nasty of a ward do we want? :)"
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 8, 8, 2 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 6, 4, 4 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 5, 1 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 3, 7 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Valyros says, "12"
[OOC] Plax votes for Big Ward.
[OOC] Valyros says, "15?"
[OOC] Rade says, "well we have like...6 targets? 7 targets?"
[OOC] Valyros says, "15 then."
[OOC] Typheous says, "5 + any animals."
[OOC] Rade says, "that'd eat half our successes right there"
[OOC] Rade says, "6 then"
[OOC] Plax says, "Roll, we'll figure it out. ;)"
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 6, 10, 10, 10 ** 4 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 10, 6, 1 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
[OOC] Rade says, "nice"
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 6, 1, 10 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 10, 5, 7 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Typheous says, "Because Val doesn't eat a target"
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 10, 3, 5 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Valyros says, "Can I reroll those 10's?"
[OOC] Plax doesn't think you reroll arete.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Can you spec. in arete?"
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 7, 2, 9, 3 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Rade says, "you can spec in a sphere"
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 6, 8, 7 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 1, 9, 4 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 9, 6 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] You say, "Val doesn't count as a target. Halda is part of Rade for purposes of target. 5 targets. Now at 15."
[OOC] Rade says, "oh, nifty *makes mental note*"
[OOC] Valyros says, "I think that is a good number to stop at."
[OOC] Plax says, "With duration and Str?"
[OOC] Rade hrms
[OOC] Plax says, "Only 10 to split each way"
[OOC] Valyros says, "Hmm, well how long do we need it for?"
[OOC] Valyros says, "Thought only a few hours."
[OOC] Typheous says, "Um, until we kill Caine would be nice."
[OOC] Plax thinks having a big ward on ourselves for awhile would be useful himself.
[OOC] Valyros says, "If it's something like overnight, then we should keep going."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Okay, let the roll fest continue!"
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 7, 7, 10, 6 ** 4 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 6, 8 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 8, 2, 9 ** 2 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] Valyros says, "Kneel before mey L33T AR3T3!"
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 9, 9, 1 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 3, 6 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[OOC] You say, "Up to 19, now."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 4, 10, 6, 9 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 7, 8 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 7, 1 ** 0 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 6, 7, 6 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 6, 3 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 10, 2, 8, 9 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] You say, "Up to 21, now."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 9, 4, 7 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Rade rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 10, 6 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Psyche rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 3, 10 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 6, 7 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[OOC] You say, "That's 24. What's Val's WP x Arete?"
[OOC] Typheous says, "Would group casting up that limit any?"
[OOC] Valyros says, "24"
[OOC] Plax says, "Look at that precision casting. ;)"
[OOC] Valyros says, "So I don't blow up, yay!"
[OOC] Typheous says, "We coudl stop... 5 into targets, 5 into duration and the rest into effect? Or do we want to hide it any?"
[OOC] You say, "Probably not."
[OOC] Plax likes Typh's breakdown.
[OOC] Valyros says, "Naw, straight forward, "Stay on your side!" thing."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Make it happen #1!"
You say, "So, for quite some time, Caine can't find you with Cor and a really, really good map."
[OOC] Typheous grins.
Plax hovers around. "Well, that was tiring," he says.
You say, "It is now quite late (about midnight)."
Typheous relaxes, his hand letting go of Psyche's. "Yes... very tiring..."
Valyros says, "Yes, but nought but the gods will be able to find us."
Psyche nods, letting go of Typheous's hand. "I'll sit up...."
[OOC] Valyros says, "First but should be 'all."
Rade slowly stands up, swaying dangerously on her feet, trying to use the wolf for support. "I...hope not..."
Plax chuckles. "So, who wants the first watch?" he asks.
Typheous glances to Psyche. "Shall I take a second watch or do you want some company?"
Valyros says, "I'll take third if you don't mind."
Psyche shrugs. "I have some writing to do."
Typheous nods. "I'll take second then." He sits down under a tree, trying to get comfortable.
Plax finds himself a spot to rest for the evening, since he apparently gets out of watch duty, and rests.
Rade stumbles over to a soft patch of grass, not even waiting for Halda to settle in before curling up and falling instantly asleep.
[Roll]: Eclipse rolled dice (1d10): 7 No diff given.
Valyros flutters off into the trees to converse with the spirits and resting.
[OOC] Valyros says, "What would the Elven equivilent of peyote/ganja be?"
[OOC] Valyros says, "Just out of curiosity."
[OOC] You say, "I dunno. Want to invent something, or shall I?"
[OOC] Valyros says, "Well is there a D&D version out there?"
[OOC] Rade says, "it's called, oregano...."
[OOC] Valyros says, "But otherwise, I'll make it up."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Come on, they're tree huggers to the extreme, they must be on SOMETHING!"
[OOC] You say, "Not that I know of..."
[OOC] Valyros will invent Light Elven Ganja and Dark Elven Shrooms, oh yes, she will...
[OOC] You say, "Having spent the last two years in Boulder, Colorado, I'm inclined to agree with you on that point, at least."
[OOC] Rade says, "I think most of the literature I've seen with herbs for D&D list it as just that"
You say, "The night passes with no outward sign of trouble. The sun rises on Nodesday, Entropy the 20th."
Plax wakes up, his neck covered in that ugly scab. He sighs a little and makes a few gestures with his hand.
Plax pages: "Heart's Blood, obviously. Afterwards is the Life roll to heal it."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 1, 5, 5 ** 1 success (diff 4) **
Rade sleeps a little past her normal time, waking upgrogily and definatly stiff.
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 9, 1, 6 ** 1 success (diff 4) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
Plax pages: "Well, now it is (that was the second one)."
Valyros wakes up, stretching with a loud crack issuing from her back, and takes a very brief flight, then landing, "So is there anything for breakfast?"
Plax has received your page: "Was that Backlash for HB or healing? And you can't heal wounds inflicted with Heart's Blood, remember..."
Psyche gets up at the crack of dawn and cooks :)
(remotely) Plax knows. They're lethal wounds that heal naturally.
Rade helps belatedly with breakfast in an attempt to wake her self up more.
Plax pages: "And HB"
Typheous wakes up late again, though a bit less grumpy. He frowns slightly, his music again, dark and sort of 'I-don't-want-to-be-awake'-ish
Plax goes to cut himself as he appears to be nearly dead this morning, a little pool of blood on his stomach growing.
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 8, 5 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
Plax stands as his natural healing takes effect and he stretches, the wounds disappearing. "Morning," he says.
[OOC] Psyche says, "...What -did- happen to Tsh...?"
[OOC] Plax is guessing dead connection.
Psyche repeats her "Good morning, Sunshine" comment with a birt of an edge.
Typheous eyes Psyche, silent this morning. . o O ( What? Just because I can't be all chipper like you, do you have to rub it in? )
Psyche . o O ( I'd say you're cute when you're grumpy, but that would be an outright lie. )
Valyros says, "Morning!"
Valyros stomach growls, "Excuse me..."
[OOC] You say, "In this corner, the Morning People! In this corner, the Night People!"
Typheous . o O ( Ah, so I should be cheerful then so I'm cute. I see. )
[OOC] Valyros says, "Hey, I'm a Night People, I'm just... chipper."
Rade helps with breakfast, tossing Halda the occasional scrap. She seems to perk up again quickly, just needing to get going after the long, hard night of casting.
[OOC] Plax says, "The Morning People have Psyche. We, by default, win. ;)"
[OOC] Typheous girns.
Psyche serves breakfast and tea.
Psyche . o O ( I pity the girl unlucky enough to have to wake up next to you. )
Valyros eats breakfast like she hasn't eaten for days, "Thank you Psyche, remind me to treat you to something once we get back to civilization.
Plax eats breakfast. "Alright, now, what do we do?" He pauses. "I saw some clues in the scrying, but I think it points back to my manor, and you know what that means".
Typheous eats his, nodding his thanks to Psyche. . o O ( Look, if I woke up next to a girl, I might be in a better mood. Trees don't make for good bed company. )
[OOC] Eclipse chortles. "Morning wood."
Typheous nods slowly. "Yes, Caine will be waiting for us."
[OOC] Rade smacks Eclipse!
[OOC] Psyche sniggers.
Rade says, "Well at least he won't see us comming hopefully."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Sauron: "I HAVE A QUESTION." Wayne: "Yes?..." Sauron: "DO ENTS GET MORNING WOOD?" *rimshot*"
Psyche . o O ( I woke up next to one every morning until I came to Wyzdin. *beat* Tree, that is. )
Typheous . o O ( I was going to say you told me you didn't like women.... )
Plax nods. "Well, off we go then?" he asks, finishing his breakfast quickly.
Psyche's cheeks pale, and she turns an icy gaze on Typheous. She breaks the frost off her tea and stands. "Back we go."
Rade finishes off her food, feeding the rest to the wolf before helping to clean up. "Let's get going then."
[OOC] You say, "By the road, again?"
Valyros says "Alright," TUrns to the tree she talked to earlier, "Good by Friend Spirit! Please keep this glen safe, and good fortune to you." Sets off after the others.
[OOC] Plax sings, "On the road again..."
[OOC] Typheous says, "On the road again... Just can't wait to get on the road again..."
[OOC] Plax peers at Typh.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Great, I'm slowly picking up twin souls."
[OOC] Valyros says, "^_^"
[OOC] Typheous must be the soul-whore.
Plax follows.
[OOC] Plax says, "Because you can't eat just one!"
[OOC] Valyros says, "You generally want to marinade your soul for a few days in a nice wine sauce, then sautae it for about an hour, tossing in spices and sauces as need be for your best results."
You say, "It takes you about two days, but you eventually reach Theusleh, lugging your bag of bondage devices with you. It is late afternoon on Magiday, Entropy 22nd."
[OOC] Typheous says, "At least I provide my own dinner music."
[OOC] Eclipse lol.
Psyche says, "Now..."
Plax says, "We do what?"
Typheous frowns. "Shall we just walk up to the manor?"
Valyros says, "I couldn't offer you lunch?"
Plax is walking now, to avoid attracting attention.
Plax says, "We have more important things to deal with than lunch."
Valyros says, "Alright. Just throwing it out there."
[Roll]: Eclipse rolled dice (1d10): 3 No diff given.
Rade wanders along with the group, wolf at her side. "Maybe we should just go up to it...might not be expecting that."
Psyche shakes her head. "Walking up is almost our only choice.
Plax nods. "May as well," he says. "I can't think of many other options".
Typheous nods. His music is a bit dramatic. "Let's go then."
Valyros follows the others to the manor.
[OOC] Rade says, "Whoot, balsy approach is always best :)"
You say, "You reach the Terz estate, which looks to be in the same condition as when you left it."
[Roll]: Eclipse rolled dice (1d10): 3 No diff given.
Plax walks up to the door and opens it.
Typheous stops outside the manor. "Probably best to scan it. Make sure Caine hasn't left any surprises."
You say, "Nothing explodes."
Valyros nods and looks around the mansion for anything suspicious.
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 4, 9, 8, 8 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
[Roll]: Eclipse rolled dice (1d10): 3 No diff given.
[OOC] Plax swears Z likes rolling to get a 3 each time...
[OOC] Eclipse noticed that, too.
[OOC] Valyros says, "Fortunately 3 is good."
[OOC] Typheous says, "Or at least neutral."
[OOC] You say, "It is neither 1 nor 10, which are generally the trigger numbers."
Plax squints at the house and does a scan as well.
Plax pages: "All but Matter"
You say, "It looks exactly the way you left it, less a bit more dust, perhaps."
[OOC] You say, "As in it was less dusty before than it is now."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 3, 1 ** BOTCH 1 (diff 5) **
[OOC] Plax sighs.
[OOC] You say, "This could be interesting..."
[OOC] Typheous would prefer a boring backlash, personally.
[OOC] Rade says, "uh oh"
[OOC] Plax says, "So, how many bouts of Madness at once now?"
[OOC] Rade says, "but, a boring one would be something like...you implode..."
Plax has received your page: "The building doesn't actually exist. You are in an illusion created by an outside entity to prevent you from attempting to escape in the real world. It is also the intention of your captor that this illusion convince you to give away the secret of how the academy has been hidden, a secret you don't consciously know but which you could piece together for your enemy from the information available to you."
[OOC] Plax is glad for player stupidity right now. ;)
[OOC] You say, "Poor, poor insane mages..."
[OOC] Valyros says, "LICK THE TOAD!"
[OOC] You say, "The drug on the toad would be less likely to make him paranoid, right now..."
Plax starts looking around frantically, then flies straight into a tree at high speed, dropping to the ground. He sits there, dazed, stands up, and looks around. "Okay, how the hell do I get out of this mess now?"
[OOC] You say, "That was 2 points of Madness and a botch I just spent..."
Rade whirls around to see Plax fly into the tree. "PLAX!!"
[OOC] Valyros says, "Well that depends on which sort of toad. Probably won't be worse if you lick a spadefoot..."
Valyros says, "Are you alright Plax!"
Plax has received your page: "The landscape does not have that empty quality that the other one did. Someone obviously thought of this."
Psyche blinks, whipping around. "What's going on?"
Typheous's gaze snaps to follow Plax. "What happened?'
Valyros keeps her wings close to her back just in case there's like a big updraft or something.
Plax scowls. "Someone thought of this. I wish the landscape would be quiet though". He continues looking at the tree. "I know I can figure this out. I could figure it out. I just don't know it".
Plax hovers, extends a claw, and cuts the tree with it, making an 'X' on it.
[OOC] Rade says, "I can seee the muuuusic...."
Psyche arches a brow. "The ninjas?"
Valyros says, "Ninjas?"
Typheous watches Plax carefully. "What is it?"
Rade says, "Plax....what are you doing...?"
[OOC] You say, "Oh hell. This is nasty enough to warrant it being worth all 4 points of Madness, especially given the circumstances..."
Plax looks at the tree. "Now, let's see. The secret to Wyzdin. I can figure it out, but should I? My captor wants it". He continues clawing lightly at the tree. "Maybe it has to do with, well, could I use it against him? Maybe trap him here?"
Psyche steps forward. "PLax. Would you -tell- us what's going on?"
Valyros says, "Plax, I think Caine would be able to excape from a tree..."
Plax looks over. "Ah, yes. The actors my captor has. Or are you illusions, too?" He goes out to pinch Psyche's nose.
Typheous shakes his head. "We're not illusions, Plax. We're your friends."
Psyche goes to grab his hand.
Typheous pages: "Mind 3 let me see what he's thinking/what's wrong with him?"
Rade reaches out to try to stop Plax. "Plax...snap out of it...."
Psyche says, "Remember the ninjas, Plax?"
Plax wasn't moving quickly, so his hand gets grabbed. "Very convincing illusions. They even feel real. But, then again, this whole place feels real. The only real things here were the ninjas. His special agents".
Typheous has received your page: "Didn't you guys ward against Mind effects?"
Typheous pages: "Well, damn."
Valyros says, "What were these ninjas like?"
(to Typheous) Eclipse thought so...
Plax says, "Your worst nightmare, illusion bird."
Psyche shakes her head. "You're forgetting..." She doesn't let go of his hand. "Now explain what you're talking about."
Typheous sighs. "Plax, calm down." . o O ( And I can't do jack to fix him with that damned ward there. )
Valyros says, "I think he might think he's still back in the cell and this is but an illusion Caine did to torment him."
Plax says, "You know as well as I. Or maybe you don't? Since he created you. Are you being subjected to captivity as well?"
Psyche . o O ( Fuuuck. Do we send someone in to see about the library? )
Psyche says, "I don't know anything about your dream. Tell me."
Rade frowns, shaking her head. "I don't think he's going to be too useful..."
Plax shrugs. "Why am I talking to an illusion, anyway?" He goes to pull his hand free. "I need to figure that secret out, so I can use it against my captor and trap him in the hell he trapped me in".
Psyche doesn't let go. "You can't figure it out without using us, illusions or not."
Plax shrugs. "Sure I can". He hovers towards his home, trying to pull Psyche along if she resists (str 4).
Typheous sighs, shaking his head. "Will you need help taking care of him? If not, someone needs to go check out the library before we're discovered.
Valyros follows Plax to make sure he doesn't freak out any further.
Plax looks at the bird. "Why did he make such a stupid looking illusion, I wonder?"
Rade follows as well, confused look becomming a common expression for her.
[OOC] Rade rofls.
Valyros says, "Excuse me? Stupid looking?"
User Conn Idle RP-Stat `@my tag is ...`
Eclipse 4h 0s IC Wiz Causing players confusion and trouble since '90
Typheous 4h 3s IC Wiz Well I'm terribly sorry, but I don't care...
Valyros 4h 49s OOC PC
Rade 3h 1m OOC Tec
Plax 5h 1m IC PC Being made crazy by Caine, page for lessons!
Psyche 4h 2m IC Wiz I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just -right-...
--[Sat Apr 12 23:02:23 2003]--------------------------------[6 users; 0s lag]--
Plax nods. "Well, it isn't your fault. Some things we just can't change. But, you're just an illusion, so it isn't like you really have feelings. Just predetermined reactions to certain words and phrasings".
Valyros puts hands on her hops and gives a rather disatisfied humph.
Plax says, "A slightly advanced illusion, I guess."
Valyros whaps Plax in the back of his head with a wing.
[OOC] You say, "The lesson, kids, is myshar shouldn't be allowed to smoke elven weed."
Plax shrugs. "That didn't hurt. See?" He cuts himself and heals. "Obviously, injury isn't possible here".
[OOC] You say, "Oh...fuck..."
[OOC] Plax bows.
Typheous sighs. "Plax? What the hell are you doing?"
[OOC] You say, "You know it's bad when the _GM_ is having an Oh Fuck moment..."
Valyros says, "Alright, do you feel something when I do this?"
Psyche follows. "And we're illusions, so we don't count, right?"
Plax says, "Finding a way to return the favor to my captor. He wants me to give him the secret to Wyzdin. But I'll find out what it is and turn it against him."
[OOC] Rade erms
Psyche . o O ( Go check out the library before he gets there.... )
Plax pages: "(Would you smack me if I told them to start calling me my real name, Ahab?) ;)"
Valyros grabs Plax, stopping him and having him let go of Psyche, bending him back, givin him a deep kiss, masausing his back with the tips of her wings, for a minute or two.
Rade eyes Plax, frowning. "Someone take that knife away?"
[OOC] Rade says, "err...ignore that completly"
[OOC] Rade says, "he doesn't need knives...*baps self*"
Rade eyes Plax, frowning. "Someone stop him from doingthat?" She gasps as Val jumps Plax...
Plax has received your page: "Yes. I think I would."
Typheous slips into the house, heading straight to where he thinks the library is. . o O ( On it. Do you know where it is? )
Plax shrugs. "It didn't mean anything. He's obviously created you to be illusions that I can feel. Not only making me see them, but feel them, also. So, I can ignore pain, as it isn't real. Just a fake sensation".
Plax says, "And I've had much better in reality, I'm afraid"
Psyche . o O ( I remember from before... *directs* )
Plax continues towards the library.
[Roll]: Valyros rolled dice (6d10): 5, 3, 4, 9, 10, 1 ** 1 success (diff 7) **
Psyche snickers at that. "Age isn't everything...
Valyros says, "I am so tempted to throw you into a side room, locking the door behind me and showing you just how wrong you are..."
[OOC] Typheous heads straight for the library, then.
Typheous has received your page: "You find your way to the library. There is a table in the center of the room with a chair, a candle, a cobweb-covered bowl of apples, a glass of water, and a small, unopened book'. There is also a tiny, unlit fireplace in one corner, though it obviously hasn't been cleaned out in quite some time and is almost choked with ashes. There is a clock on the wall that says the time is a quarter past three. Next to it is a painting of an archer with a watermill in the background. There is no sign that it has been disturbed."
Plax shrugs. "The wall is fake. I'd just walk right through it".
Valyros follows Plax, scowling.
Rade frowns at Val, not understanding. "Don't hurt him...just...try to keep him from hurting himself.."
Psyche says, "Try it."
(remotely) Typheous scans the room quickly, following the path of the clock's hands and the archer's target.
[OOC] Plax sighs as Eclipse vetos his latest Evil Madness Plan. :(
Valyros says, "I will Rade, do not worry."
Psyche . o O ( Find it? )
Plax starts babbling about how he knows the secret and can figure it out, if only he sits and thinks on it.
Typheous has received your page: "Both point directly to the bookshelves on the right side of the room. There must be a good thousand books there."
[OOC] Rade hrms, has to go
Plax pages: "(Can I make an Enigmas roll to get a Madness-induced clue or 2?)"
[OOC] Plax was about to do things to the wolf, too. ;) Oh well. Night.
Psyche says, "So sit and think. I've got all the time in the world if I'm an illusion."
[OOC] Rade pouts.
[OOC] Rade says, "I might be back quick, if your still crazy and people are playing :)"
[OOC] You say, "Later, Rade. I'll post the logs after the session ends."
(remotely to Eclipse, Psyche) Typheous . o O ( There's a bowl of apples, a glass of water, a small book, a clock stuck at 3:15, a painting of an archer, some spiderwebs, and it doesn't look like it's been disturbed. ) He heads to the bookshelves, quickly scanning for anything related to Wizdin, Drapheous, or the like.
Plax has received your page: "Int + Enigmas, dif 8"
[OOC] Rade waves, poofs
Rade has disconnected.
[Roll]: Plax rolled Intelligence (3) and Enigmas (2) (5d10): 5, 5, 3, 4, 3 ** 0 successes (diff 8) **
[OOC] Plax dangs.
The resolution of Rade fades. With a hiss of static her disconnected body implodes into a single point of light, then blinks out of existence.
Plax shrugs. "Well, I may as well see what other illusions there are, right? I think it has something to do with that library". He starts moving at a quicker pace towards the library.
(remotely to Eclipse, Typheous) Psyche . o O ( Any steel thread? The spiderwebs, that's it. A mill anywhere? Apples were in one of them )
Valyros follows.
Psyche glances at Valyros, mouthing "Hold him back" at her.
Psyche says, "The library? Why that?"
Typheous has received your page: "There don't appear to be any books on the shelf directly related to Wyzdin, though the book on the table is called Wyzdin Alumni. (Give me a Per + Alertness, dif 9)"
Plax says, "Because it holds The Truth"
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O ( There's a windmill in the painting with the archer. It's all here. )
[Roll]: Typheous rolled percp (0) and Alertness (2) (2d10): 3, 5 ** 0 successes (diff 9) **
Valyros pages: "Going to try and bump up my strength for this."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 10, 3, 6, 8 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Typheous rolled Perception (3) (3d10): 10, 9, 2 ** 2 successes (diff 9) **
Typheous pages: "2 successes. :)"
Valyros nods, passing her red gloved hand over herself, becoming a tad firmer.
[OOC] Typheous coughs.
Plax keeps moving towards the library.
Typheous has received your page: "There aren't any books by Drapheous on the shelf, but you notice a book by Dina Ithil there."
Typheous pages: "Title?"
Valyros goes to restrain Plax while his back is turned.
Plax tries to pull free.
[OOC] Valyros says, "Str 7 baby!"
Typheous has received your page: "The History of the Tybil Monastary Ant Farm"
[OOC] Plax gives you fair warning. Claws may come out in this scene.
You say, "Plax and company are now almost in the doorway of the library."
Plax keeps pulling against her. "Let me go, illusion!"
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O ( And they all point to a book. 'The History of the Tybil Monastary Ant Farm' by Dina Ithil. )
[OOC] You say, "As long as the damage isn't permanent or fatal, I don't think that will be a problem..."
Valyros keeps hold, restraining Plax's arms.
Psyche pages (to Eclipse, Typheous): ". o O ( He's heading your way. Work faster. The last riddle... Shadow reveals the place. Paper reveals the person.)"
Plax extends his claws threateningly. "Don't make me tear your arms off, illusion. It'd make you more silly looking".
Psyche pages (to Eclipse, Typheous): ". o O ( Get it? )"
Plax says, "I MUST find the secret!"
Typheous pages: "The book of Alumni? It's unopened, right?"
Typheous has received your page: "Yes."
Psyche turns around "Plax, if I didn't like you I'd so fucking beat you senseless for being an idiot."
(remotely) Typheous takes the book by Dina and heads back over to the table with the Wizdin alumni directory.
Valyros says, "You'll find the secret eventually. Just relax and things will go easier on you."
Plax says, "Who are you to say what the secret is? And I doubt an illusion could be me senseless. I'm already, really, senseless, since all these senses are fake."
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O ( Got it. How much time do I have? I might almost have it figured out... )
[OOC] Plax says, "beat me senseless even"
Valyros says, "We can beat sense to you?"
Plax blinks. "Maybe that's work? After all, the pain is fake, right?"
Typheous has received your page: "The leather front cover of the alumni book has a silouhette of the Wyzdin Library burned into the cover. The ant farm book has a silouhette of the Tybil Monastary burned into the cover."
Valyros says, "Maybe..."
Psyche pages (to Eclipse, Typheous): ". o O ( I'll give you what I can. )"
Psyche says, "Maybe. Shall we try it?"
Plax shrugs. "Give it a try".
Psyche [to Valyros]: First swing's yours.
[OOC] You say, "Never a wooden stake around when you need one, is there?"
Valyros slams Plax into the nearest wall.
[OOC] Plax says, "Wouldn't that be the door?"
[OOC] Valyros says, "No, not the door, the wall beside the door."
[OOC] Eclipse imagines there's a wall nearby.
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous frowns at the books. . o O (Ok, there's a book of Wizdin Alumni here as well as this book by Dina. Both have things burned into them, Wizdin's library and the Monastary... Wait.. the owl said soemthing about the libaray, didn't he?)
Plax takes it and doesn't comment, going a little limp at the slamming.
Typheous pages: "What year is the alumni book?"
[OOC] Valyros says, "Roll or anything?"
Psyche pages (to Eclipse, Typheous): ". o O ( a Master Nilrem said that there is a library in the place where secrets woven in steel threads was found. )"
Typheous has received your page: "Last year's."
[OOC] You say, "Up to you. Drama is good. Rolling works, too."
(remotely) Typheous will set the book by Dina down and pick up the Alumni book to leaf through it.
[Roll]: Valyros rolled dice (7d10): 6, 3, 1, 5, 1, 5, 5 ** 0 successes (diff 6) **
[OOC] Valyros says, "Spoot."
(remotely to Eclipse, Psyche) Typheous . o O ( So the alumni book.... )
Plax comes back. "Wussy bird," he says, snickering. "Right through the fake wall, see?"
Typheous has received your page: "There is just a list and brief biography of each of the 12 students who graduated last year."
Typheous pages: "Anyone interesting?"
Valyros's eye twitches as she slams him into the NEXT nearest wall.
Plax says, "Illusions can't beat sense into me. They're fake, so they don't have any mass."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled dice (7d10): 3, 6, 2, 9, 5, 8, 7 ** 4 successes (diff 6) **
Psyche lets Val handle the fighting.
Typheous has received your page: "No one remarkable, as far as you can tell."
[OOC] Plax has Stamina 3, btw.
[OOC] You say, "So, 1 bashing."
(remotely) Typheous will shut the book and tap on the burned emblem, scanning the room again. (dang it's hard to keep this straigth through a fight :)
[OOC] Plax says, "Which heals in like 2 seconds..."
[OOC] You say, "Pretty much."
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O ( I've got last year's alumni directory, a book on Ant farms, all the clues from the test.. What the hell am I supposed to do here? )
Plax is slammed into the wall. A bruise appears for a brief second, and it disappears. "See, the wounds are fake! They go away right afterwards if I realize it! I am REAL and you are imaginary illusions. So, I do have power over the reality here. Because nobody can heal like that unless they're some kind of freak".
Valyros puts Plax through the Elven Back Breaker, the Bow Thrust, and the Dritzian Driver.
Psyche pages (to Eclipse, Typheous): ". o O ( no Master Nilrem and no shadows? Val )"
[OOC] Eclipse visualizes this whole situation and laughs uncontrolably.
[OOC] Valyros says, "Can you smell what the Drow is cooking!?!?!"
Plax just keeps healing right afterwards. "Enough of this. You waste my time. Release me, I command it, illusion birdwoman".
[OOC] You say, "Eagle?"
Valyros says, "That's because you are a freak!"
Psyche pages (to Eclipse, Typheous): ". o O ( no Master Nilrem and no shadows? Val's making a go at entertaining bird-brain, here. )"
[OOC] Valyros says, "Pretty much."
Plax says, "I'm just special, that's all."
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O ( Well, the books have shadow-like images burned onto them... ) He looks around the room for anything else shadowy.
Valyros says, "Tell me, do you fell hungry, or slightly empty inside?"
Typheous has received your page: "Given that the room is currently lit only by a narrow window near the ceiling, there are a lot of shadows here, but none of them seem particularly significant."
Plax says, "Another illusion placed on me. The feeling of hunger."
(remotely) Typheous will also look at the cobwebs mentioned earlier.
(remotely to Eclipse, Psyche) Typheous . o O ( The whole room's fairly dark... )
Typheous has received your page: "They appear to be ordinary cobwebs."
Plax says, "Tell me, illusion known as Psyche, is your birdwoman illusion usually this dense?"
(remotely) Typheous will check out the place were the book by Dina was on the shelf.
Valyros draws her sword, and slightly cuts her finger and waves it in front of Plax's face, "Feel anything now? Little ravashed?"
[OOC] Plax says, "Clippy?"
[OOC] Valyros says, "BLOOD!!!!!!!!!"
Typheous has received your page: "There are a few more books on herbs, animals, and other nature lore, but nothing remarkable."
Psyche grins. "Valyros is exceedingly old, but even she realisees that the kind of illusiton you're talking about is out of the norm. If I'm an illusion, I know a lot for one, don' I?"
Plax has received your page: "That does look strangely tasty, actually."
Typheous pages: "Nothing cute like a switch where the book was... And the fireplace?"
Plax looks to Psyche. "That's because you all have very advanced...". He looks at the blood and seems entranced by it. His hand starts to glow a pale red as he licks his lips.
[OOC] Plax says, "You know what I'm doing now..."
Typheous has received your page: "Just an empty fireplace. And no switch, no. Give me Int + Enigmas, dif 6."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 6, 6 ** 0 successes (diff 8) **
[OOC] Plax sighs.
From Typheous: [Private Roll]: Typheous rolled Intelligence (3) and Enigmas (0) (3d10): 3, 7, 7 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
Plax tries to pull the blood to him, but fails.
Valyros says, "Odd, it seems you are genuinely craving my blood. COme on, it's nice and aged, good vintage..."
Psyche pages (to Eclipse, Typheous): ". o O ( Sorry...this is distracting... )"
[OOC] Plax says, "You realize you're bringing this on yourself with the taunts, Joe?"
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 10, 10 ** 2 successes (diff 8) **
Typheous has received your page: "If there had been a switch or other device or triggered spell in this room, Caine could have easily found it while you were gone. The clues are things only the five of you would recognize as clues."
[OOC] Valyros says, "Yep."
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O ( I'm working on it... it has to be something only the 5 of us would recognise..... Wait...)
Plax holds out his hand, and the blood starts pulling out of Valyros' body and infusing itself into Plax's, entering through the skin and mouth.
[OOC] Plax says, "4L, -4 Quint"
[OOC] Plax thinks it's L. Or is it Agg?
[OOC] You say, "Just lethal, actually. Drink of Life."
Typheous pages: "And I take it the bookshelf that the book was on is fairly solid, right. Can't just walk through it? :)"
Typheous has received your page: "Nope."
Plax considers this. "So you have the essence of life. That must be why you know so much...so I can quiet you by drinking your power away. Interesting".
Valyros pounces on to Plax, bringing out his Red glove, chanting and placing her hand on his mouth.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Don't we have a Life ward up? Or will that help?"
[OOC] Plax says, "Only for Corr attacks."
Valyros pages: "Doing the Anti vamp rote on Plax."
[OOC] Typheous thought we had everything.....
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 10, 8, 7, 4 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 7, 4, 3, 3 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
[OOC] Plax says, "Corr Wards against all 9 spheres"
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 5, 6, 8, 2 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 3, 8, 9, 4 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 5, 1, 7, 10 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 4, 7, 4, 7 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
Typheous pages: "How are the clue-items arranged? Are they in the layout that Wizdin would have been in?"
Valyros pages: "That should do her."
[OOC] Typheous says, "Hmm... Well dang. I would have Mind 3'd you by now then :)"
Typheous has received your page: "Not that you can tell."
Typheous pages: "And is the painting of the archer attached to the wall, or could I pull it down? He's not going to, just looking at options."
[OOC] Plax dangs. Lots of rolls for a 2 second move...
[OOC] You say, "Mind is different. It's much easier to ward against Mind, Time 2, Spirit, and Forces. Matter and Life are a bigger pain."
Typheous has received your page: "It is simply hung on the wall. It could be removed."
Typheous pages: "Glancing behind it there's nothing there, right?"
Typheous has received your page: "Nothing."
[OOC] Plax last saw "[OOC] Eclipse says, "Mind is different. It's much easier to ward against
[OOC] Psyche says, "Y'good."
[OOC] Plax got dropped.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Nothing else happened, save me playing mind games with Clippy in pages."
[OOC] You say, "And losing."
[OOC] Typheous says, "Bah. "
Plax ducks away from Valyros now and heads directly for the library. "I waste time with you fools".
[OOC] Valyros wait for Plax to call her mummy.
[OOC] You say, "So bloody close, but the painting is more interesting, apparently. *smirk*"
Typheous pages: "What were the items we ended up chasing down in the scavenger hunt?"
Valyros stays on her hanches, breathing heavily, passing her focus over her wounds.
[OOC] Typheous has an idea....
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 7, 6, 8, 7 ** 4 successes (diff 6) **
[OOC] Valyros says, "And in one roll."
Psyche pages (to Eclipse, Typheous): ". o O ( Closing my eyes. Let me see? )"
Typheous has received your page: "Well, all of them are here in one form or another. The one that seems particularly relevant, at this point, is 'shadow reveals place. paper reveals person.'"
Plax goes in the library if not stopped.
You say, "Plax enters the library."
Psyche is standing in the doorway, he'll have to go through her.
(remotely) Typheous takes the book by Dina and goes to the fireplace, seeing if he could get a better look inside of it.
Plax has received your page: "The room is in shambles. Typheous stands up to his knees in discarded books."
Valyros stands up like nothing happened.
Plax pages: "Retcon that?"
(remotely to Eclipse, Psyche) Typheous *sends all he's seen* Give me a sec and I'll paste it to her
[OOC] Psyche says, "Hold on a sec."
Valyros takes out her prims and chants a demanding command at Plax.
Typheous has received your page: "It appears to give a detailed description of the history of the ant farm at the Tybil Monastary, as well as mentioning how extensive their library is."
Valyros pages: "Putting Plax in a Mime's invisible box."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 4, 3, 2, 5 ** 0 successes (diff 6) **
[OOC] You say, "Okay. Psyche can get in the way."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 5, 1, 5, 9 ** 0 successes (diff 6) **
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 7, 4, 9, 4 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
[OOC] You say, "Psyche is about to get buried..."
Plax extends his claws at Psyche as though to cut his way past. "Out of my way".
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 10, 9, 2, 10 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
User Conn Idle RP-Stat `@my tag is ...`
Eclipse 5h 0s IC Wiz Causing players confusion and trouble since '90
Typheous 5h 4s IC Wiz Well I'm terribly sorry, but I don't care...
Valyros 4h 1m OOC PC
Plax 6m 1m IC PC Being made crazy by Caine, page for lessons!
Psyche 5h 2m IC Wiz I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just -right-...
--[Sat Apr 12 23:45:46 2003]--------------------------------[5 users; 0s lag]--
Psyche holds her arms out to her sides, eyes still half-closed. "No." Her attention is obviously half-elsewhere.
[OOC] Psyche says, "Wait, I need to get something."
[OOC] Plax nods, waits on next pose.
[OOC] Valyros says, "Waits for an effect"
[OOC] Typheous sorries. Was info-dumping.
Plax pages: "(Tell me if I take this too far and I'll pull back)"
Typheous pages: "Where are all the items from the scavenger hunt? All in the center of the room at that table?"
Valyros has received your page: "Is that one of your standard rotes? If not, which Spheres are involved."
Valyros pages: "Mostly forces 3, basiclly a reverse of the standard force field rote."
Typheous has received your page: "Other than the clock and painting on the wall, the ashes in the hearth, and the book about ants (and one of the two shadows) on the shelf."
Typheous pages: "And taking the book to the fireplace didn't do anything?"
Typheous has received your page: "Nope."
Valyros has received your page: "Okay."
Typheous pages: "Hmm... Wait... Poo... Gama's not here, is he?"
[OOC] Psyche says, "Oksy, good to move."
Plax has received your page: "Okay so far. Val just hit you with a paralyzing Forces 3 Effect. Pose accordingly."
(remotely to Eclipse, Typheous) Psyche . o O ( Paper reveals the person. Tybil monastery - Tsharing or Gama, perhaps. Brace yourself. I'm about to get hurt. )
Psyche has received your page: "Other than the clock and painting on the wall, the ashes in the hearth, and the book about ants (and one of the two shadows) on the shelf. (reposted from Typh.)"
Plax pages: "(Can I make an attempt to counter it, or at least weaken it?)"
Typheous pages: "What's out of place if the items from Wizdin were theorhetically placed in relatively the smae places as they would be if this was some sort of sick model?"
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O ( What? Is Plax getting violent? )
(remotely to Eclipse, Typheous) Psyche . o O ( Spirit on the shadow? )
Plax gets frozen as he slashes with his claw, stopping just inches short of Psyche's neck. Unable to move or speak, he just hovers there.
Plax has received your page: "Yes. It's Forces 3 or you can use the rules for breaking down effects given in the website for Prime 1."
(remotely to Eclipse, Typheous) Psyche . o O ( Mmm, yes, but Val stopped him. )
Plax pages: "Prime 1 then"
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 4, 2, 5 ** 0 successes (diff 8) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 2, 6, 8 ** 1 success (diff 8) **
Plax has received your page: "At https://www.angelfire.com/d20/caligo/Mage/Rules/Spheres/Pri.html"
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 1, 1, 2 ** BOTCH 2 (diff 8) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O (Remind me to thank her... )
Valyros says, "I have now turned you into the lowest entertaineer of Dark Elf Circles, a Mime."
(remotely) Plax printed them out and put them in the binder.
[OOC] Plax botches a Prime roll...
[OOC] Typheous says, "Suck."
Plax has received your page: "Smart man."
Psyche says, "Yes, well, he's a clawed one."
Valyros says, "Yes, but he's trapped with an invisible blox."
[OOC] Eclipse hmms...
[OOC] Plax says, "So, what'd I just add to my collection?"
[OOC] Psyche says, "Can I get an enigmas for a clue, clippy? :)"
Plax has received your page: "It actually strengthens the Forces Effect to the point where you can't even move enough to manipulate your foci."
Psyche has received your page: "Int + Enigmas, dif 6"
(remotely) Plax will just have to fight it w/o the foci. Diff 9?
Plax just hovers there.
Typheous pages: "So... what's out of whack for placement?"
From Psyche: [Private Roll]: Psyche rolled int (0) and Enigmas (2) (2d10): 4, 10 ** 1 success (diff 6) **
Plax has received your page: "And WP, of course."
From Psyche: [Private Roll]: Psyche rolled Intelligence (4) (4d10): 10, 10, 9, 4 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
Psyche pages: "4 :)"
Plax manages to actually strengthen the ward.
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 10, 8, 6 ** 1 success (diff 9) **
(remotely) Plax spends the WP to be allowed to try.
Valyros says, "Well thank you Plax for seeing the light."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 1, 10, 9 ** 1 success (diff 9) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 3, 2, 2 ** 0 successes (diff 9) **
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 7, 5, 1 ** BOTCH 1 (diff 9) **
[OOC] Valyros says, "I think reality is telling Plax something."
Plax gives up trying to break the paralyzation.
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous will put the book about ants on the table and stare clock, the ashes, and the painting for a moment. . o O ( Wait... if it's a scavenger hunt... we need to collect them all, right? )
Psyche has received your page: "There are two sillouhettes - shadows. One is of a library. The other is of the monastary. If shadow reveals the place and both shadows are valid, it would mean that the two shadows are, in some way, synonymous. Maybe a library at the monastary?"
(remotely) Plax wonders if I could use Corr 2/Life 2 to start teleporting Valyros' feathers off her wings? ;)
Plax has received your page: "Um, no..."
Valyros says, "Is this silly looking illusion stopped your will effectively? Em?"
(remotely) Plax dangs (thought they might count as Life, but probably Matter).
Plax can't answer, as he's completely immobilized.
(remotely to Eclipse, Typheous) Psyche . o O ( Wait. Does the monastery have a library? )
Typheous pages: "Does it? :)"
Plax has received your page: "Actually, they're tough because they are a part of her body, so it would take Life 4 and a lot of successes to pull them off with Cor."
Valyros says, "Alright, so he's immobilized. Now what?"
(remotely to Eclipse, Typheous) Psyche . o O ( Gama, the person of the paper. The monastery and the library, the shadows. )
Typheous pages: "And did you see my page about the placement of the items vs where they were found in Wizdin?"
Typheous has received your page: "It might. You've only been there once."
Plax pages: "Does this stop my Blood Sucking ability, or can I activate that?"
Psyche says, "Give us a few minutes more..."
Plax has received your page: "Not as long as they are within range of it."
(remotely to Eclipse, Psyche) Typheous . o O ( It might. Why are you asking me? Tsharing and Gama would know. )
Plax hovers there, stuck, but his hands and claws glow that pale red.
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 6, 6, 10 ** 1 success (diff 8) **
Valyros says, "Well that field isn't going anywhere any time soon..."
Plax starts pulling blood from Valyros again.
Psyche pages: "Do I remember one there?"
Valyros says, "HEY!"
[OOC] Plax says, "2L, -2Q"
Psyche says, "Fucking..."
Psyche has received your page: "You don't remember one, no, but you were only there for a very short while."
[OOC] You say, "Caine's Knights really suck."
Psyche says, "Valyros, stop his regeneration for a while..."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Arete (3d10): 5, 10, 2 ** 1 success (diff 8) **
[OOC] Typheous says, "Especailly when the botch..."
Plax pulls some from Psyche now.
Valyros passes her glove over herself, giving her body a boost to heal.
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 8, 10, 2, 1 ** 1 success (diff 5) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
Psyche would ask Tsharing if there is one...but...
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 8, 4, 7, 7 ** 3 successes (diff 5) **
Eclipse [to Psyche]: Tsh could tell you that there is.
(remotely to Eclipse, Typheous) Psyche . o O ( There is one. I thnk that's where we need to go. )
Valyros takes out her glove and holds it out, grasping her medalion, halting the bloodlust and healing effect on Plax.
Plax gathers the blood, hoping he can use it to fuel his escape.
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 7, 4, 10, 7 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
[OOC] You say, "Okay, gentlemen. We're going to have to start taking turns on Arete checks or this is just going to be a matter of who rolls dice the fastes."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 7, 1, 9, 9 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
*** Scourge die is a 1: Backlash Triggered ***
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 6, 6, 2, 7 ** 3 successes (diff 6) **
[OOC] Typheous says, "I did notive that...."
[Roll]: Valyros rolled Arete (4d10): 3, 2, 8, 8 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
[OOC] Typheous says, "Notice, rather."
[OOC] Plax is fulling willing to be knocked out ICly or something.
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O ( So we head to the monastary again? Great... Need me to come out and help with Plax? )
[OOC] Valyros says, "I'm pulling your fangs, does that count?"
Valyros pages: "10 successes, that should do it."
Valyros has received your page: "Pose it."
Psyche turns to Valyros. Quietly: "Okay, Valyros, we got it. You can let him go." . o O ( Yes. Come out, come out. )
(remotely to Psyche, Eclipse) Typheous . o O ( ... Gama said something... something about crossing from their node along the catwalks or some such to Wizdin... didn't he? )
Plax has received your page: "Per + Enigmas, dif 6."
[Roll]: Plax rolled Perception (3) and Enigmas (2) (5d10): 8, 8, 4, 1, 9 ** 2 successes (diff 6) **
(remotely) Typheous leaves the books in the room, putting Dina'
(remotely to Eclipse, Typheous) Psyche . o O ( Fuck! Catwalks! The part we forgot of the prophecy... )
Valyros hand has an odd blue mana flow from her glove, enrapping it and penetrating Plax, causing an odd effect to the part Knight.
(remotely) Typheous leaves the books in the room, putting Dina's back on the shelf before heading out to the others.
Typheous pages: "When did that catwalk open in the monastary?"
Valyros she then takes her prism out, and waves it in Plax's direction, saying a command word, dispelling her shield around him.
Typheous has received your page: "The one that led to Theusleh opened earlier this month."
Psyche steps out of the way.
Plax has received your page: "Madness passes."
Typheous pages: "Was there one to Wizdin mentioned?"
Plax pages: "(And what's the effect Val did to Plax?)"
Typheous has received your page: "Not at the time, no."
Typheous pages: "And let me know when I can enter."
Plax has received your page: "Temporarily doesn't heal."
Plax seems to recover as he lands, holding his head. "Ow. What the fuck? Who hit me over the head wit ha few dozen hammers?"
Valyros says, "I did, as you started to suck my blood."
Plax says, "And why do I feel like I've stuffed myself with about five meals?"
Psyche says, "That would be the blood-sucking. Next question?"
Plax blinks. "Why did I start sucking blood?"
Valyros says, "That might be my Anti-Knight rote, if you hurt yourself, you won't heal it back automatically."
Plax says, "And why are we up here? When'd we come here?"
Psyche says, "Because you were convinced we were illusions. She raises her voice. "Typh, he's better, come out, will you?""
[OOC] Psyche insertsd "
Plax shakes his head. "Illusions?" He pauses. "Damn. I think I backlashed pretty bad there".
Plax says, "Hope I didn't hurt anyone too badly."
Typheous comes out from the library. "I was working on it. I didn't really want to leave the clues spelled out for Caine back there."
Psyche nods. "Yeah. But we've got the next clue."
Valyros says, "But I think you pretty much sucked me dry Plax. Thankfully I'm pretty proficent in healding."
[OOC] Typheous coughs'
Psyche says, "I'd offer to help, but I don't know about the Quintessence..."
Plax winces. "Sorry about that. Don't know what came over me. I don't suppose you'd dispel that spell? It's the one useful thing about this state of being".
Valyros says, "DOn't worry, it'll wear off in a little while..."
Plax says, "How long is a little while?"
Valyros says, "A few hours I think. How long until Veronica stopped screaming?"
[OOC] You say, "Go ahead and share info. We'll be ending soon, I think."
Plax says, "How bad did I drain your Quintessence Reserves? I feel like I've got some extra."
Valyros says, "I'm dry on Quintessence pretty much."
[OOC] You say, "Actually, I was wondering about that. Your blood drain turns other people's blood INTO Quintessence. It doesn't actually drain Quint..."
[OOC] Plax ohs. Cool.
[OOC] Plax got a bunch of Quint. *cheers*
Psyche moves over to stand beside Typheous. , o O ( See? Not hurt a bit. )
[OOC] Valyros says, "Oh, so If I get the regen rote, he can just suck off me all he wants? Cool."
Typheous frowns at the scene he walks in on. His music seems slightly... annoyed. "I hope no one wanted to stay here very long. We need to head to north. Preferably as soon as we can." . o O ( Good to hear... )
[OOC] Typheous says, "Great. Then he needs to learn enough Prime to share. :)"
Psyche says, "Like, oh, nowish."
[OOC] You say, "That gets kind of touchy..."
Plax looks to Typheous. "Well, let's go that way, and you can tell us on the way?" He pauses. "I thought you were illusions? Like the Ninjas?"
[OOC] Plax can share.
[OOC] Plax says, "Actually, that takes Prime 3. I can't."
Typheous nods to Plax. "I'll fill in the details somewhere I trust that Caine hasn't bugged six ways from nowhere."
Valyros says, "Yes and you said that you've had a LOT better kissers."
Plax looks at Valyros. "Sorry about that".
[OOC] Valyros says, "I can suck Quint!"
Psyche nods at Plax. "Pretty much. " One hand goes briefly to her throat. "Valyros...thanks, by the way."
Valyros shrugs, "It's alright, nothing irrepaceable was lost."
Plax watches the interaction and sighs. "Tell me I didn't attack any of you?"
Valyros says, "Me and almost Psyche."
Plax just kind of sighs and floats out of the house, away from the bugged place.
Typheous looks around, a bit impatient. "I know this is important to you, Plax, but I'd like to spend the night outside of the city and preferably as far away as we can."
Psyche says, "Well, technically, I invited it, but my throat is glad you didn't."
Psyche follows.
[OOC] You say, "Heading out of the city?"
Typheous heads out too.
Valyros pages: "I can suck Quint out of a willing target, correct?"
[OOC] Typheous says, "What time is it?"
Valyros has received your page: "Yes."
[OOC] Valyros is falling asleep at the keyboard.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Yeah, there's that time too :)"
[OOC] You say, "Evening. Not quite sunset. We'll be stopping very soon, now."
[OOC] Plax is perky tonight.
[OOC] Plax is proud though. He scared the ST tonight. :)
[OOC] Eclipse is just waiting for Psyche and Typh to explain where the hell the cabal is going, first...
[OOC] You say, "Actually, you just burned off 2 more points of Madness than I originally intended to smack you with."
Plax heads out of the city, finds a secluded spot, and perches on a branch quietly.
After they get out of town, Typheous turns to the others. "We need to head to the library in the Tybil Monastary." [Typheous]
Psyche says, "Once the cabal is outside the city, Psyche glances at Typpheous. . o O ( Your turn to talk. )"
[OOC] Psyche says, "Gah."
Valyros follow everybody out.
[OOC] Psyche says, "Too used to pages :P"
[OOC] You say, "Since it doesn't look like anyone is about to ask them why, I think we'll stop there for tonight."
[OOC] You say, "Vote for RP point."
Typheous takes adeep breath. "All of the clues from the scavenger hunt, that first day of our cabal class, were in the room. And since 'shadow reveals the place and paper the person', there were 2 hints that lead Psyche and I to that library. Two of the books had things burned to them to make almost shadows, the Wizdin library and the Tybil Monastary. Since they're both shadows, they both have to be the place we need to go to." He takes a breath. "Hence the Monastary Library."
User Conn Idle RP-Stat `@my tag is ...`
Eclipse 5h 0s IC Wiz Causing players confusion and trouble since '90
Typheous 6h 2s IC Wiz Well I'm terribly sorry, but I don't care...
Plax 46m 35s IC PC Being made crazy by Caine, page for lessons!
Valyros 5h 1m OOC PC
Psyche 6h 2m IC Wiz I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just -right-...
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Plax watches from the tree, saying "Why?" Then he listens.
[OOC] Typheous needed to type all that, sorry :)
Valyros pages: "Plax."
[OOC] Plax was lagging.
Plax pages: "Psyche"
[OOC] Typheous mkoves his to post-Plax.
Typheous pages: "Plax"
*** Added 4 XP to Typheous's Experience ***
*** Added 4 XP to Plax's Experience ***
*** Added 4 XP to Valyros's Experience ***
*** Added 4 XP to Psyche's Experience ***
[OOC] Plax apologizes for beating up the cabal during this session as well.
*** Added 4 XP to Rade's Experience ***
*** Added 4 XP to Tsharing's Experience ***
[OOC] Typheous says, "Bah. It's ok. Although, I was safe from harm, so I'm not sure I count :)"
Psyche pages: "Plax"
[OOC] Valyros says, "It's alright, you just sucked Lethal."
[OOC] Plax nods, needs to find a way to make it to Agg.
*** Added 1 XP to Plax's Experience ***
[OOC] Valyros says, "Well good night everybody, good game!"
[OOC] You say, "Plax gets the RP point."
Valyros has disconnected.
[OOC] Plax thanks everyone.
[OOC] Eclipse hopes the riddles haven't been too frustrating.
[OOC] Typheous says, "Only frustrating because I was alone in them and lost them in spam :)"
[OOC] Plax looks at the character sheet. Currently at 15 Quint. Yummy.
The resolution of Valyros fades. With a hiss of static their disconnected body implodes into a single point of light, then blinks out of existence.
[OOC] Typheous hmms... And I have... 1. :p
[OOC] Psyche has lots :)
[OOC] Plax grins, is the group's battery. Except I'm an evil battery, who sucks power away and stores it for my own evil use.
[OOC] Typheous thinks we may have found an abuse here with this Awakened vampire.... Life 3 and suddenly, endless Quint. :)
[OOC] Plax says, "Or Prime 3"
[OOC] Eclipse actually meant the riddle of the last few sessions - trying to get you to Wyzdin.
[OOC] Typheous says, "That? Not really. Not sure how we'd figure it out without the owl, though :)"
[OOC] You say, "Yeah, well, the original rote said lethal to make Quint, and I didn't quite consider the full ramifications for abuse..."
[OOC] You say, "In my defense, that rote requires Prime 5, so..."
[OOC] Typheous says, "True. Which would make it ok, since at that level you can pull it out of plants, rocks, etc."
Plax pages: "If you want to hammer a few things out with the vampire thing, that's cool. Managed to find a bunch of things to do with it tonight that might require being addressed."
[OOC] You say, "Well, it looks like we'll reach a good stopping point next session for the hiatus. There's a good chance we'll be ending a bit early. I can't remember when Easter vigil Mass is, right off, but I doubt it starts at 10pm..."
[OOC] Typheous nodsnods.
[OOC] Psyche nods.
[OOC] Plax says, "Hey, Eric? How many more sessions of Exalted you going to make? Just this coming Monday, or the one after it, too?"
[OOC] Plax nods.
[OOC] Psyche just...one question about next week.
[OOC] Plax is kind of sorry Rade was gone for the Madness, though. I'd have loved to of seen her reaction to Plax. ;)
Plax has received your page: "The big concerns I have are related to the damage being lethal and the regen healing Heart's Blood. I thought the lethal damage would limit the magic over agg, but it actually seems to be having the opposite effect. You shouldn't ever be allowed to get infinite Quint. Probably should make it agg damage and make the regen count as 'magical healing' (since it is) for purposes of Heart's Blood."
[OOC] You say, "Just this week's. Going to be on the road by Monday afternoon."
[OOC] You say, "Yes, Psyche?"
Psyche pages: "Spoiler Q, but I need the psychological preparation. Will it be possible to end back in Wyzdin, or do you plan to hang us outside it?"
(remotely) Plax agrees. I didn't realize that until during this session, and I figured the only way to test it out was to run it and see what happened. ICly, explain it as a 'maturing' of the curse?
Psyche has received your page: "It is my intention to get you back into Wyzdin next session. Hiatus is likely to be too long for a serious cliffhanger."
Psyche pages: "Okay, thanks."
Psyche has received your page: "Were you worried I'd hang you for a month or more?"
[OOC] You say, "Anyway, I think I'm going to get some sleep. I'll let you know what's going on with Easter vigil times via GCP. Maybe we'll have to stop early. Maybe we'll have to pause for an hour or so. Maybe we'll have to run earlier in the day. I'll find out tomorrow."