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Der DWSage: (<_< >_> Who what where why how?)
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Mekta Satak Kai: (Nothing's happening yet. I just want to make sure things are together. Tai said he'd be here before nine.)
Der DWSage: Kay.
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MajorGeneralTso: (I have arrived!)
Der DWSage: (*Hums*)
Der DWSage: (*Pushes Tai back into his coffin, just for amusement*)
MajorGeneralTso: (*Is forced to lurk by Sage*)
Der DWSage: (Yay! I'm helping!)
Mekta Satak Kai: (Hey Tai.)
Mekta Satak Kai: (Background?)
CGNakibe: (BIZZARO I LOVE YOU)
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Der DWSage: (Apparently, I did too good a job.)
Mekta Satak Kai: (We get Taiar, maybe.)
MajorGeneralTso has entered the room.
MajorGeneralTso: (...It was Sage's fault.)
CGNakibe: (Good person to blame)
Der DWSage: (Indeed!)
Mekta Satak Kai: (I blame Sage for the extinction of the dinosaurs.)
Der DWSage: (Yes, yes indeed.)
Mekta Satak Kai: (The same reason Tai was booted was the same reason for that.)
Mekta Satak Kai: (Because Sage touches himself at night.)
Der DWSage: (Now we have fossil fuels to kill the planet!)
Mekta Satak Kai: (Yeah, way to go.)
Mekta Satak Kai: <RP>
Mekta Satak Kai: *When last we left our gallant heroes, they were escorting a wounded elf back to the Jade Dragon, hoping he would fulfill his promises to give to them the information Anwell had been after.*
Mekta Satak Kai: *Isaac is walking unassisted at this point, which is always good. Cardinal having healing spells? Good stuff. Everyone's excited about such things.*
Mekta Satak Kai: *Dia is free of postage stamps, Isaac is only bleeding a little now, and Karis managed to scare the shit out of some random gunman lovingly named Archie.*
Mekta Satak Kai: *What will happen next? Only you can decide! Oh, and me. But I'm the GM so that doesn't count. Anyway, I'll leave the fourth wall alone. Go ahead and play.*
Der DWSage: *You heard the lady. Start RPing, bastards. Lest Sher come and molest ye all.*
Arch mage144: *sits down at a table at the JD, presumably with the elf*
PapatymisonN: *has taken it upon himself to support Isaac*
Mekta Satak Kai: Many thanks, my good sir.
PapatymisonN: Least I can do.
Mekta Satak Kai: I do believe I owe you an apology as well. It's regrettable I was not able to lend you the regard you deserve.
Mekta Satak Kai: It had not seemed highly likely that you were working with that Chambers, but such things don't warrant risks.
PapatymisonN: I understand...
PapatymisonN: Just... trust me. If I'm not on the side of good, you'll be able to run me through without a moment's hesitation.
PapatymisonN: You'll know. I'll grow one of those twirly mustaches.
Arch mage144: He does wear his intentions on his sleeve...
pd Rydia: ::snorts::
PapatymisonN: It's a lovely accessory.
pd Rydia: ::grabs herself a sammich and positions herself behind the barcounter--it's up to you folks to get your own damn foods::
Mekta Satak Kai: Absolutely an honorable trait whose value I cannot verily dispute.
PapatymisonN: Sets off my eyes.
pd Rydia: ::though, the inn is still shut down from earlier::
PapatymisonN: So!
PapatymisonN: Anwell.
Mekta Satak Kai: (Hold on. I need to restart because my computer is being prohibitively awful.)
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Lithaladhwen: Ah. *rests his chin one palm* Forgive me friends for not finding myself in finest form for now.
Lithaladhwen: Anwell Chambers, correct.
Arch mage144: Yes...how did you meet him?
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PapatymisonN: (... nuts.)
Der DWSage: (Indeed.)
TaiarKino: (...Almonds?)
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CGNakibe: (Welcome back)
PapatymisonN: (Yes, you're back, right?)
Mekta Satak Kai: (I think so, yes.)
Mekta Satak Kai: (Now that I'm full of burning hatred for my computer and resentment for all things. Yes, I'm here.)
TaiarKino: (Just the way we want our GM!)
Mekta Satak Kai: I was sitting with some friends and he overheard me telling a story. That's about all, really. I've met dozens of people the same way.
Arch mage144: *nods* What was your first meeting like?
Mekta Satak Kai: *shrugs* As I said. I was sitting with a few friends and rambling on about this and that, and then he started asking questions. Quite direct, if I recall.
Arch mage144: About what?
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, you know. Odd things. Creation of the world and various versions thereof.
Arch mage144: *blinks* I see. What did you tell him?
Mekta Satak Kai: I was passing on a few legends and he started asking me very specific things.
Mekta Satak Kai: It was... well... recall I mentioned this may require something of a theology lesson.
Mekta Satak Kai: You ever skim any of the translations of various Ishtarite origin myths?
Arch mage144: Oh, certainly. *nods*
Arch mage144: It would be hard to have never read them, in my family, anyway...though I can't say I'm really that well-versed in theology.
Mekta Satak Kai: Well, Karis what do you remember? *encouraging sweeping hand gestures* You're on the spot now, you've got to pitch in. Anything come to mind?
Arch mage144: Er...
Arch mage144: Well, I guess...the basic gist is that...Ishtar is the mother of all things, but, like I said, I'm not really very well-versed in this. Primaer created things initially, and Ishtar filled in the gaps and created children, right?
Arch mage144: That's the story, anyway.
Mekta Satak Kai: One of several, yes. Yes, precisely.
Mekta Satak Kai: The idea being that there was a lot of jumbled up nonsense that wasn't doing anything important at the start. Chaos. Just a lot of... well.... a lot of cosmic rubbish.
TaiarKino: ...Reminds me of the Lord of Nightmares. Wonder if a lot of places start out like that.
Arch mage144: The who?
Mekta Satak Kai: You'll have to tell me about that sometime. It's not a legend with which I am familiar.
Mekta Satak Kai: But as for us.... Ishtar was the first to emerge from this chaos, and Primaer was next. They existed for a while, which is quite a feat considering the silly assorted bits of reality floating about.
TaiarKino: Oh. Er...It's from where I come from, Ayenee. Consider her to be...Ayenee's Ishtar. The top of the top of gods...
Mekta Satak Kai: Rather an odd and off-putting sort of nomenclature, I'd wager.
Mekta Satak Kai: Lord of Nightmares.
Mekta Satak Kai: Any particular reason for the name?
Arch mage144: It sounds like a strange name for a god that is to be revered rather than feared.
TaiarKino: *Shrugs* She's had that name since I can remember...I never questioned it.
Mekta Satak Kai: Hm.
Mekta Satak Kai: Intriguing. What a remarkable coincidence. Perhaps originating in chaos is simply a little easier to comprehend than creation ex nihilo, eh?
Arch mage144: IM: Probably because you're a demon. *mental shrug*
Mekta Satak Kai: Creating from nothing forces the question of a starting point, whereas you can't question chaos quite so much.
Mekta Satak Kai: Doesn't get you far.
Arch mage144: No, it tends to end precisely where it started.
Arch mage144: "What was the chaos like?"
Arch mage144: "Chaotic."
Arch mage144: "Oh."
Mekta Satak Kai: *laughs*
Mekta Satak Kai: Precisely!
Arch mage144: I don't get what Anwell would want with creation stories, though.
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, right. Anwell. Sorry.
Mekta Satak Kai: Ishtar and Primaer shared knowledge, and in general rather enjoyed not being the only things around. As I said. It must have been rather novel!
Mekta Satak Kai: They decided it would be an interesting experiment to increase the population.
Mekta Satak Kai: So they began to order the universe around them a bit.
Mekta Satak Kai: You get lesser gods, earth, seas, fire, etcetera. Various things for everyone to play with.
Mekta Satak Kai: Eventually mortals came around to hedge some of the limitations of immortal beings.
Mekta Satak Kai: That's the general common vein at least.
Mekta Satak Kai: Sound right to you, Karis? Mesh with your end of things?
Arch mage144: Well, yes, but...I told you I'm not a theologian, nor am I a storyteller like you are, not really...I read a lot, but I don't tell stories so often.
Arch mage144: And I certainly wasn't there.
Arch mage144: *laughs*
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, a lot of what's important to me wasn't written. Elves tend to be dreadfully concise in much of their writing when they aren't being hopelessly long-winded.
Mekta Satak Kai: Our philosophy is just dreadful to read.
Mekta Satak Kai: Even when it's interesting.
Arch mage144: It's true. >_>;
Mekta Satak Kai: I much prefer a lot of the oral traditions floating about. Not verifiable, but it's got a good bit more heart to it and no one's offended by a little embellishment because it doesn't have that official status.
Mekta Satak Kai: Much safer to enjoy as a storyteller than the old tomes.
Mekta Satak Kai: Anyway. There's been a lot of curiosity about how dragons learned things like... humanoid forms during the war between the lesser gods. I mean, it's not precisely the most intuitive thing ever, is it?
Mekta Satak Kai: You go from being a dragon to taking on two legs and hands and a face.
Arch mage144: Hmm...no, I guess not, unless you want to blend in with two-legged things.
Mekta Satak Kai: But there weren't any at that point. So you've really got to wonder.
Mekta Satak Kai: All sorts of muddled tellings.
Arch mage144: Maybe the gods have two legs, and some dragons met gods and decided to look like them?
PapatymisonN: ... you're going down a disturbing road...
Mekta Satak Kai: There is that, but there are still questions. So most people have sort of... opted out of the question and invoked magical or divine intervention.
Mekta Satak Kai: They often invoke the same intervention for this question as they do for the fact that elves and then all sorts of other races all developed things like fire and magic in their own time.
Mekta Satak Kai: The hypothesis has been that some agent of change has been passed through the races, altering things seemingly at random as it goes.
Mekta Satak Kai: But the really interesting part!
pd Rydia: ::cocks an eyebrow at Cardinal::
Mekta Satak Kai: It isn't random! Most things seem to happen exactly as they should or would have if given sufficient time!
Arch mage144: I...huh. Okay...
Arch mage144: ...so is Anwell trying to force specific things to happen, perhaps with magic?
Mekta Satak Kai: Brilliant boy! But we aren't there yet. Be patient a moment more.
Arch mage144: *nods*
PapatymisonN: *slightly worried at where this will wind up*
Mekta Satak Kai: Now, the term in old Elvish for that primordial chaos is not simply the word for "disorder," as you might infer from Common.
Mekta Satak Kai: A slight etymological difference.
Arch mage144: *thinks about this*
Mekta Satak Kai: Tohu is chaos, but it's also the intermediate state between potential and realization.
Mekta Satak Kai: It's the window between what must be and what is.
Mekta Satak Kai: One of my favorite odd little linguistic tricks.
Arch mage144: *rapid nodding* Yes, that's right! I hadn't really thought about it, to be honest, but that's an interesting way to think about things.
Mekta Satak Kai: Now, if you really think about it.... at the creation of the lesser gods, the universe was facing massive change, eh? It was about to have things in it instead of a couple of vague sort of... *directionless sweeping gestures*
Mekta Satak Kai: ...sort of ....vaguely anthropomorphic creative forces.
Arch mage144: Right...
Mekta Satak Kai: There were going to be things that thought, and valued and things that had matter.
Mekta Satak Kai: Primaer made a job lot of stuff and Ishtar gave it energy to be animate and dynamic.
PapatymisonN: IM: This is getting far bigger than some nutty child kidnapper...
Arch mage144: IM: This is an incredibly interesting bit of philosophy, but I'm waiting for him to connect it to Anwell kidnapping mage children.
Mekta Satak Kai: Anyway.
Mekta Satak Kai: I'm wandering off on terribly-interesting but not terribly-pressing tangents.
Mekta Satak Kai: You really must keep an eye on me when I get to talking. You know how I am, Cardinal.
Mekta Satak Kai: Anyway!
PapatymisonN: ... Yes, anyway!
Mekta Satak Kai: This tense moment between potential and actualization is tohu. And there is a theory that things in the history of civilization have jumped forward in their development through the influence of this force.
Mekta Satak Kai: Dragons suddenly had the epiphany that two legs might be interesting.
Mekta Satak Kai: Elves took it on themselves to echo the developments of draconic races they'd perhaps never encountered.
Mekta Satak Kai: The list goes on.
Arch mage144: IM: Four legs good, two legs better?
Mekta Satak Kai: Tohu also implies a.... a sort of... of brokenness, as opposed to its opposite, which means "rectification."
Mekta Satak Kai: So if it's a broken sort of piece of the timeline between potential and actual change, perhaps that means some fragment of that primordial energy is still floating about.
Mekta Satak Kai: The dragons had it, and they could no longer be anything but what they would someday be.
PapatymisonN: ... and you're driving at... what, Isaac?
PapatymisonN: I'm... in the dark. o.o
Mekta Satak Kai: At least... this is what I was speculating about when Anwell starting asking all sorts of impertinent and alarming questions.
Arch mage144: So you're saying that Anwell wants to gain some kind of control over the force of...let's call it...evolution?
Mekta Satak Kai: Perhaps, yes. Advancement. Change that may not be for the better, but is certainly going to happen come hell or high water.
Arch mage144: I see...
Arch mage144: ...wait!
Arch mage144: Maybe this has something to do with Earth! Maybe he wants to make it so that more people on Earth spontaneously develop magic?
Mekta Satak Kai: Perhaps. He wanted to know where such a thing was now, a common enough question. I told him there's no way to be certain of such things, and he seemed irritated and impatient.
Mekta Satak Kai: An odd reaction, and one that... well...
Mekta Satak Kai: I started to spout all sorts of nonsense to shut him up and send him off on some damned silly quest.
PapatymisonN: Oh?
Mekta Satak Kai: After all, he could never claim that I had promised him the truth. Only folklore.
Arch mage144: Yeah, you just told him a bunch of stories. You're a storyteller.
Arch mage144: I mean, that's not to say that you lied to him, exactly...
Mekta Satak Kai: *smirk*
Arch mage144: But you didn't tell him how to wield the powers of the universe, only that there were philosophical theories about them.
Mekta Satak Kai: I may have deliberately misled him a bit.
PapatymisonN: ... what DID you tell him?
Mekta Satak Kai: Well, he's an offworlder, and not versed in things like the obscurest of creation mythological speculation for Gaera.
Mekta Satak Kai: So I told him that such a power would belong only to Chaos, and that we do have a god for such things.
Mekta Satak Kai: Somehow we got on the subject of Nakibe, and I may have let him run along some incorrect logical paths for a while.
PapatymisonN: ... oh boy...
Mekta Satak Kai: *chuckles*
Arch mage144: You suggested that Nakibe was the way to control the force of evolution!?
Mekta Satak Kai: I suggested nothing. I merely... didn't correct his wildly uninformed speculations.
TaiarKino: *Chuckles at the notion of that*
Arch mage144: ......
Arch mage144: *facepalms*
PapatymisonN: ... if you were going to mislead him so, you should have fed him some OTHER deity... say... Shelby?
Arch mage144: Dia, I'm...going to get a drink. >_>;;;
Mekta Satak Kai: I also suggested that Nakibe was the force controlling and sustaining our cosmos. 9_9
PapatymisonN: ...
Arch mage144: *laughs a little, goes to the bar, and procures for himself a bit of gin, lime juice, and sugar, which he promptly mixes together and downs*
Mekta Satak Kai: *laughs*
Arch mage144: I needed that.
PapatymisonN: So what exactly is his plan, then?
pd Rydia: ...wow.
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, heavens. I can't even imagine. He probably marched right down to the local temple to Nakibe and demanded to know where they kept their personal shard of the primordial creative force.
pd Rydia: Help yourself, Karis
Mekta Satak Kai: I can't even imagine. *laugh*
Arch mage144: You want something while I'm up? o_O This is just getting to be a head-busting situation.
Mekta Satak Kai: *laughs into one hand, shaking his head*
TaiarKino: ...We have a local temple for him? I should visit someday. *Leans himself against the bar*
PapatymisonN: ... vodka and orange juice for me. o.o
pd Rydia: Amana is the high priest, priestess.
Arch mage144: They have to have a temple to Nakibe somewhere...
Arch mage144: ...but that just makes me wonder what their worship services are like.
pd Rydia: ::looks at Taiar, questioningly::
Mekta Satak Kai: Glossolalia. At least in some places.
Arch mage144: How do they know when they're going to hold them? Meeting on a schedule would be kind of anti-chaotic, wouldn't it?
Mekta Satak Kai: Quite fascinating to hear it.
Arch mage144: Do you just show up and if other people have also coincidentally shown up start praying?
Arch mage144: And by praying, I mean babbling as randomly as your tongue can manage?
TaiarKino: Maybe they just grab their members during the night in a sack and drag them to worship.
Arch mage144: By Tunare, that has to be an incredibly interesting thing to watch.
pd Rydia: ::coughs politely::
Mekta Satak Kai: Whatever they do, it must work for them. If it makes them happy, I'm not the elf to stop them.
Arch mage144: No, no, I don't mind, people can worship however they choose.
Arch mage144: ...I just can't imagine you would learn much asking questions of people at a church of Nakibe.
Mekta Satak Kai: *just laughs*
Mekta Satak Kai: *He is apparently quite proud of his handiwork, even if it did nearly get him killed.*
PapatymisonN: Well, thanks for throwing him off the path, Isaac. ... I think.
TaiarKino: Should we visit the temple ourselves and see what they said?
pd Rydia: ::grimaces::
Mekta Satak Kai: Yes, well. I'm not precisely the crusader for good some people might like me to be, but I can't honestly see myself blundering so badly as to hand information on a platter to such a man.
Arch mage144: ...I...don't know if we can even get reproducible results.
Mekta Satak Kai: *laughs*
Mekta Satak Kai: At any rate.
pd Rydia: You can do that, if you like, Tai.
TaiarKino: I'll keep considering it!
Mekta Satak Kai: I would not recommend attempting to follow in his footsteps. *Isaac touches his shirt, and his fingertips come away with blood on them*
Mekta Satak Kai: He would seem to have been... dissatisfied with his findings.
Arch mage144: Well, we're not going to let anyone kill you if we can help it. *nodnod*
pd Rydia: Well, the gods react differently to arrogance.
pd Rydia: Nakibe can be a little extra chaotic, sometimes
Mekta Satak Kai: I'm not certain it's all so powerful as Anwell Chambers may be hoping.
PapatymisonN: ... I don't like to think on that.
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Mekta Satak Kai: Even if it simply imposes that moment of realized potential, its power is limited.
Mekta Satak Kai: What was... Hm.
Mekta Satak Kai: It.... Ner-Tohu. That's right. I'm not certain that your uncle ever translated anything for that. In fact, it may not have been translated.
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Mekta Satak Kai: If I had the motivation, I'd consider it.
Mekta Satak Kai: But that will likely never happen.
Arch mage144: Light...chaos?
Mekta Satak Kai: Light of Chaos, precisely.
Arch mage144: That can't be right, though. It has to be figurative.
Arch mage144: So...productive chaos, then. Randomness that creates.
Mekta Satak Kai: Potentially. It would obviously be difficult to predict.
PapatymisonN: ... so what's our move?
Arch mage144: The spark of luck, the collision of just the right forces. How could you ever reproduce that intentionally without much greater knowledge than we have?
Mekta Satak Kai: *spreads his hands wide* Divine intervention *grins*
PapatymisonN: We stake out whatever temple is nearby?
Mekta Satak Kai: As I said. It's only speculation.
Mekta Satak Kai: If you really must be staking out anything, I would not suggest bothering poor Lord Nakibe.
Mekta Satak Kai: Honestly. Put yourself in the *fingerquotes* "shoes" of the First Two.
Mekta Satak Kai: Would you want Nakibe in charge of such a thing, even though it might fall under his domain?
PapatymisonN: ... NEVER. o.o
Arch mage144: I don't really think we'll learn anything by sitting around at the temple of Nakibe.
TaiarKino: ...''Poor'' Lord Nakibe.
Arch mage144: Nor do I think we will solve the great mystery of creation or the "light of chaos."
Arch mage144: No one's solved it yet, and while I'm usually really optimistic about things, that's just too much to hope for.
Mekta Satak Kai: It's unlikely that any one of us would track down such a thing, discern its precise nature, find out what it means to the gods and their purpose for allowing it to exist, and then learn of a way to use it safely.
Mekta Satak Kai: Highly doubtful.
Arch mage144: Yes, I don't think the gods would let mortals have that kind of power.
Arch mage144: The best we can hope for is to stop Anwell from causing any more harm in the meantime.
Arch mage144: Perhaps we can convince him that his quest is absolute madness...
Mekta Satak Kai: *smirks and says nothing*
PapatymisonN: Or do that AFTER we beat him senseless.
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, come now. You aren't thinking. If such a thing existed, they wouldn't give it to Nakibe of all deities.
Mekta Satak Kai: Dia Rai.
Mekta Satak Kai: Would you?
Arch mage144: Maybe we won't have to beat him senseless. He just needs to get some perspective. He's a scientist, isn't he?
pd Rydia: I wouldn't give it to any of the gods.
Arch mage144: Shouldn't he be willing to listen to reasonn and not ignore data?
Mekta Satak Kai: Ah, but I would.
Arch mage144: *reason
Mekta Satak Kai: And I think that perhaps some of you might.
Mekta Satak Kai: Such a thing could easily be used to generate unbridled chaos.
PapatymisonN: ... Isaac... get to the point...
Mekta Satak Kai: So lending it to the care of Chaos would be unwise.
Mekta Satak Kai: Cardinal! What is the opposite of chaos?
PapatymisonN: Order! ... o.o
Mekta Satak Kai: Yes. Precisely.
Arch mage144: So...the goddess of balance...?
Mekta Satak Kai: Phenomenal boy. Yes. Precisely!
pd Rydia: Oh, gods!
PapatymisonN: ... is that... Kalcya? I can't recall...
pd Rydia: Shamayu.
pd Rydia: ::nearly spits the name out::
Arch mage144: IM: Dia must be one of those weird anti-god people.
PapatymisonN: ... what's wrong, Dia?
Mekta Satak Kai: Not a friend of yours, Dia?
Arch mage144: IM: Antitheists, they call them.
pd Rydia: It's...ah, nevermind. Bad experience off-continent.
Mekta Satak Kai: What manner of experience?
pd Rydia: ::rests her chin on her palm:: Thelehassans, worshippers of Shamayu.
Mekta Satak Kai: *leans forward*
pd Rydia: They...let's see, don't have names, because it's unnecessary and such.
Mekta Satak Kai: *Dia now has his full attention!* Not a name I've heard.
Mekta Satak Kai: *tilts his head and listens*
pd Rydia: Emotional displays were punished. Because, you know, against Shamayu's will and all.
PapatymisonN: ... do we have time for another story? o.o
Mekta Satak Kai: Always.
pd Rydia: Basically, if it's worth doing, it's against the will of Shamayu and the cause of nastystuffs.
Mekta Satak Kai: *snorts a little*
Arch mage144: Wait, that doesn't make any sense!
PapatymisonN: Sounds like a wonderful people...
Mekta Satak Kai: And I thought elves got boring.
Arch mage144: Wouldn't it be more logical to punish people for not crying every time someone else was smiling, or something?
Mekta Satak Kai: Well, perhaps you can't count on such things.
Mekta Satak Kai: If every imbalance needs a counteracting force, maybe it's easier to avoid the issue entirely.
Mekta Satak Kai: I mean, rather than hoping for the balancing force.
Mekta Satak Kai: Which begs the question!
Mekta Satak Kai: If their faith in Shamayu is so strong, wouldn't they simply assume there was a balancing force and not worry?
Mekta Satak Kai: Fascinating./
Arch mage144: *shrugs* Some people get very into their own version of religious reality.
pd Rydia: Talk to Jeridan about when he was drugged sometime, or Paige about her jailing.
PapatymisonN: Indeed...
Mekta Satak Kai: Jeridan. Jeridan the guardsman?
pd Rydia: ::nods::
Mekta Satak Kai: *snorts* Gracious.
pd Rydia: IM: Turned him into a right ass.
PapatymisonN: ... man... Isaac, you know more people th- O.O
PapatymisonN: ... than him.
Mekta Satak Kai: Than who?
PapatymisonN: .... oh, his name will come up eventually. I don't need to say it.
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh.
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, no. Not the same at all. He knows people personally.
Mekta Satak Kai: I merely know of people.
Arch mage144: IM: ...what?
PapatymisonN: ... understood.
Mekta Satak Kai: I've not.... met Jeridan. I simply know the name.
TaiarKino: ...I'm slightly confused, but kind of interested. It's off topic though...
Mekta Satak Kai: What was our topic again?
pd Rydia: Anwell?
Mekta Satak Kai: Right!
Mekta Satak Kai: At any rate. Anwell. Ner-Tohu. Shamayu.
Mekta Satak Kai: The only explanation for the continuing existence and stability of the cosmos is that the object in question, should it exist, would be in her care.
Arch mage144: Yeah, but...there's no way he can steal that power from a goddess.
TaiarKino: We don't really need it, do we? We just have to make sure Anwell doesn't catch wind of it...
Mekta Satak Kai: Well. She does have followers who might care for such an artifact. Such things are eternally popping up and disappearing again.
PapatymisonN: ... gods need to hide their ancient artifacts better.
Mekta Satak Kai: (Karis, make an...well, a WIS roll.)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 1 20-sided die: 18
Arch mage144: (27)
Mekta Satak Kai: (Hey Karis. You know what's south of town?)
Mekta Satak Kai: (You should remember. You've been there.)
Mekta Satak Kai: (It's a big shiny temple to Shamayu.)
Arch mage144: (Oh, OK.)
Arch mage144: You know, there's a big temple to Shamayu south of town...
Arch mage144: ...you mean it's a physical artifact?
Mekta Satak Kai: That's the theory.
Arch mage144: Kept on this plane!? Whose theory!?
PapatymisonN: ...
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, theologians. Philosophers. Me.
Arch mage144: Couldn't that be falsified very easily, though?
Arch mage144: Just...go check.
TaiarKino: ...You guys and your religion get better and better every second.
Mekta Satak Kai: Do you see now why I lied to him?
PapatymisonN: ... do we know where Anwell is RIGHT NOW? o.o
Arch mage144: Oh dear.
Mekta Satak Kai: I don't want him verifying it.
Arch mage144: We...shouldn't we go see about that?
pd Rydia: ::to Cardinal:: I don't. You?
Mekta Satak Kai: Perhaps. Once I was certain that I wasn't being followed I was going to see about it myself, if only because it had come up and I'm dreadfully curious.
Arch mage144: Well, I don't think we're being followed, are we?
Mekta Satak Kai: I don't know.
Mekta Satak Kai: Nobody shot me until I ended up chased all over the marketplace by you fine folk.
Mekta Satak Kai: Not that it turned out so poorly in the end.
PapatymisonN: ... so we could have a tail.
Arch mage144: This is just crazy.
Arch mage144: Yeah, but if we don't go, we'll never find out if the power to shape the universe is being kept in Doma!
Mekta Satak Kai: It may simply be my own paranoia. *shrugs* I seem to have picked up a strain of it in the last several weeks.
Mekta Satak Kai: But I felt I ought to note that I was able to stay in public until I was accosted there by old friends.
Arch mage144: ...well...
PapatymisonN: ... we could bait the bugger. Go out to someplace isolated, catch him in the act...
Arch mage144: ...if we don't go, we'll never lead them to it. Though this assumes they're following at all.
Arch mage144: But maybe they'll figure it out on their own.
Arch mage144: And this, of course, assumes it's there in the first place.
pd Rydia: ::looks totally guilty, except not::
Mekta Satak Kai: I'm still not certain why they were after me. Perhaps they simply wanted to kill me, and perhaps they were hoping to press from me something a bit more accurate.
Mekta Satak Kai: Hm. Curious.
Mekta Satak Kai: But perhaps not terribly relevant at this juncture.
Arch mage144: o_o Yeah...uh....
TaiarKino: ...Hopefully something no one will follow up on.
Mekta Satak Kai: I should certainly hope that's the case.
Arch mage144: ...listen, we have to go find out if this is real or not. I don't care if no one else goes, I have to know!
Arch mage144: It'll bug me for the rest of my life otherwise.
TaiarKino: I've stuck around for this long, I don't see myself quitting now.
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, well. Off with you, then. I'll stay in town and I should be able to dodge them again if necessary. In fact.....
pd Rydia: ::oh!::
pd Rydia: ::gets papers from off the counter, and resumes writing::
Mekta Satak Kai: With careful use of a couple of illusion spells and some information management by our faithful guardsman here... *gestures at Card* ... I could easily just fake my damned death and no one would be the wiser.
Kelne2261 has left the room.
Mekta Satak Kai: Someone would have to tell Holly, though. She can keep it quiet, but I'd want her to know.
PapatymisonN: ... if it had to happen. I'd hope not, though...
Kelne2261 has entered the room.
Arch mage144: I'd find a way to tell her. *nods* If I could find her.
pd Rydia: I can send one of the goblins with the message--unless you want someone less obviously connected to me?
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, she's not in town. I had her leave weeks ago. Not certain precisely what she told that drow she drags around, but I'm sure she told him something.
Mekta Satak Kai: Perhaps.... hm. You know, perhaps Karis ought to arrange it. Do you know her? Little blonde thing by the name of Holly?
Arch mage144: I think I saw her once, here at the inn, when it was being rebuilt.
PapatymisonN: *smiles at the mention of her name...* ^_^
Arch mage144: But I can't say I've ever talked t oher.
Arch mage144: Wait, yes I have!
Arch mage144: We met at a haunted house.
Mekta Satak Kai: Ah! That's right. You were there with... with... I believe your lady friend. Holly mentioned that she was glad you were able to stay.
Mekta Satak Kai: At any rate. Not relevant.
Mekta Satak Kai: Perhaps if you sent her a message, she'd get it before news of my apparent death spread too far.
Mekta Satak Kai: What do you say, Cardinal? *grins and spreads his hands again* Care to see about killing me off?
PapatymisonN: ... ...
PapatymisonN: Are you sure this is NECESSARY? We can take CARE of Anwell! Probably easily...
TaiarKino: ...A death among friends. Wish I had more requests for those...Like Neil.
Mekta Satak Kai: Absolutely not without this step. We should invent some grand old fight scene. It would be fantastic.
Mekta Satak Kai: Everyone loves a good dramatic murder.
Mekta Satak Kai: The news would spread faster that way.
Mekta Satak Kai: And!
Mekta Satak Kai: When I began performing again, I'd be in quite high demand.
pd Rydia: ::grins::
PapatymisonN: ... it's not necessary. It's not.
Arch mage144: ...wh...wow.
Mekta Satak Kai: Is anything necessary, Cardinal?
Mekta Satak Kai: Let's do it.
TaiarKino: Hey...It sounds like you'd be doing him a favor, Card.
PapatymisonN: ... I am advising AGAINST this... but...
PapatymisonN: ... if it's your wish.
Mekta Satak Kai: Fantastic. It's decided then.
Mekta Satak Kai: Positively fabulous.
PapatymisonN: ... >< I suppose so.
TaiarKino: I guess we're all at liberty not to divulge the grand secret of your death then? >.>...
PapatymisonN: Do we have a stage for this play?
Arch mage144: That is an absolutely amazingly ridiculous idea.
Arch mage144: Are you two going to pretend to kill each other in the streets!?
PapatymisonN: ... Karis.
PapatymisonN: I know the importance of having people think you're dead.
Arch mage144: That's not my point!
Arch mage144: ...it's just...weird.
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, no. I'm certain that I can create a decent illusion of my own dead body somewhere in the city,
Mekta Satak Kai: at which point Cardinal can show up to shoo away the bystanders who'll have been attracted by the pyrotechnics and suchforth that must have come from the fight.
Mekta Satak Kai: It'll be a mystery!
Mekta Satak Kai: It will be a horror!
Arch mage144: Oh, okay...o_O
Mekta Satak Kai: It will be fantastic!
Arch mage144: IM: Wow.
PapatymisonN: ... It will be another murder investigation trained on a Messiah... >.<
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, we can always pin it on Anwell later.
PapatymisonN: ... fine.
Arch mage144: IM: This is amazing.
Mekta Satak Kai: What do you say? How about the rest of you?
Mekta Satak Kai: Do you want to be part of my grand murder staging?
Mekta Satak Kai: I'm sure there are available places for all of your diverse talents.
Arch mage144: No, no! I mean...I don't want to offend you, but...
Arch mage144: *mumble*...this isn't what I had in mind when I decided I was interested in acting.
Mekta Satak Kai: .....*elf hearing* Are you now?
PapatymisonN: ... *chuckle...*
Arch mage144: ...well, yes, but...not like this!
TaiarKino: ...I'll give you a hand. It sounds like a bag of fun. *Grins*
Mekta Satak Kai: Well, what do you want, then! Ah! Good man. Thank you, Taiar.
Mekta Satak Kai: Reliable fellow.
TaiarKino: *Thumbs up!*
Mekta Satak Kai: Glad someone else here is willing to be my murderer.
Mekta Satak Kai: Perhaps this will increase the value of my death as well. I actually had a conversation a while back with a mercenary about what my going rate should be.
Mekta Satak Kai: He wasn't really able to give me a satisfactory answer.
pd Rydia: I'm willing to be suspicious and shoo people away from the corpse with Cardinal.
Mekta Satak Kai: I simply must become more relevant or dangerous or something.
Mekta Satak Kai: Ah, thank you, Dia.
TaiarKino: I will do my best to kill you satisfactorily.
Mekta Satak Kai: Good fellow.
Arch mage144: o_o
Arch mage144: IM: I have never seen anyone get so excited about dying!
PapatymisonN: I'll let you know now,.
Arch mage144: IM: Even if it is a joke! ...sort of.
PapatymisonN: I cannot take the fall for this. If it falls apart, it falls apart. You'll have to live with that.
PapatymisonN: Understood?
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh, that's fine. I don't really expect you to take the fall for my death. It seems to me that you could simply tell your colleagues what's afoot and they can either accept it or not.
PapatymisonN: ... agreed.
PapatymisonN: Now... shall we get this over with?
TaiarKino: I guess we'll have to work extra hard to make it convincing then...
Mekta Satak Kai: Get it over with?
Mekta Satak Kai: Cardinal, I insist that you show a little more enthusiasm!
Mekta Satak Kai: Where shall we go?
Mekta Satak Kai: A seedy bar? A dark alley? The bed of a young woman who's in on the game?
Mekta Satak Kai: What shall we do?
PapatymisonN: ... there are alleys off of the plaza.
PapatymisonN: Secluded, plus a crowd will collect quickly.
Arch mage144: ...I am going to stay right here and...let Cardinal kill you without interruptions.
Mekta Satak Kai: Ah, always the practical one, you are. That's fine, I suppose.
PapatymisonN: *gets up* Let's go.
Mekta Satak Kai: Yes, let's.
Mekta Satak Kai: Are you planning to march me off and execute me, or shall I stealthily make my way over and at the intersection of our paths, we do battle and I fall dramatically in battle?
Mekta Satak Kai: *in combat
Mekta Satak Kai: (To eliminate repetitive word choice caused by gin.)
PapatymisonN: ... make your way there.
PapatymisonN: I'll meet you.
Mekta Satak Kai: *bows and casts a spell on himself*
TaiarKino: Aw...I thought I was doing the killing. *Stands up*
Mekta Satak Kai: *disappears*
Mekta Satak Kai: (I can't believe I talked Cardinal into this.)
PapatymisonN: (He's "dead" in Spain, remember?)
Mekta Satak Kai: (Taiar and Dia I figured would help. But Cardinal was an added bonus.)
PapatymisonN: (He understands.)
PapatymisonN: ... *heads for the plaza*
pd Rydia: I'll meet you up, partway through.
pd Rydia: 'path me.
Mekta Satak Kai: *Isaac presumably left sometime during his period of invisibility.*
PapatymisonN: T: You got it.
TaiarKino: *Gets off his arse and towards the scene of the crime as well*
PapatymisonN: *has his hands deep in his pockets again*
PapatymisonN: IM: Here's to being dead, Isaac... I hope we do this right...
PapatymisonN: *darts into a back alley to the north...*
PapatymisonN: ... *w* Isaac?
Mekta Satak Kai: *whispered* Hullo.
PapatymisonN: *w*... how exactly did you want to do this?
Mekta Satak Kai: *w* Perhaps you could come upon me, accuse me of some crime or other, I resist, a fight ensues, and the criminal is sadly killed?
Arch mage144: *meanwhile, Karis sits at the table in the inn, pulls a book out of his coat pocket, and decides to spend the time reading while Cardinal commits mock-murder*
PapatymisonN: *w* No one's watching... is all that necessary?
pd Rydia: ::looks over at Karis:: What book?
PapatymisonN: We could just as easily SHOUT something...
TaiarKino: *Appears next to Cardinal in a teleportation florish* And <me?>
Mekta Satak Kai: *stage-whisper* Oh, fine. Let's just let off a job lot of showy magic and while you do that I'll set about making a figure of my own corpse on the ground.
Arch mage144: Hm?
Mekta Satak Kai: *w* By the time anyone arrives, they won't know the difference.
TaiarKino: ...Flashy I can do.
Arch mage144: Oh, the book. *points to the cover* I decided I should brush up on my theology. *the title reads "Elvish Philosophical Writings, translated by Lambe Heru"*
PapatymisonN: ... Flashy is fine.
Mekta Satak Kai: Get on with it, then. *creates an illusory double of himself that silently grins, bows, and thumbs his nose at Cardinal*
PapatymisonN: Any requests? I have my Orion Strike... quite pretty...
TaiarKino: I think I know what I've got up my sleeve...*Prepares himself for a Scatter Night. Ooooo...*
pd Rydia: Looks delightful.
Mekta Satak Kai: Just go on, I'll manage the illusion. It'll do what I need it to do.
Mekta Satak Kai: *the double pulls a face at Card and Taiar*
PapatymisonN: ... alright...
PapatymisonN: *makes a fist with his left hand... the inside of it glows...*
PapatymisonN: *and when it opens, a 4 foot tall, thin pyramid, with a rounded, squarish base*
PapatymisonN: Just came up with this...
PapatymisonN: *its light illuminates the alley...*
Mekta Satak Kai: *the illusion points at Card and silently laughs with one hand on his midsection*
Arch mage144: It's actually very boring.
PapatymisonN: ... you make this easier, Isaac.
Arch mage144: But I want to make sure I know my stuff if we're going to a temple.
Mekta Satak Kai: I try.
TaiarKino: *With a bit of protection space from the group, the air in the alleyway is flooded with beautiful black twinkles, A little bit carefully spilling out into the road. Tai gets himself ready for a flick...* ...This is gonna look good
Mekta Satak Kai: It already does. Fine spell, sir.
pd Rydia: Yes, well, I was being sarcastic.
PapatymisonN: *flings the spire at faux-Isaac, it impaling him through said midsection...*
PapatymisonN: *it explodes in a bright yellow flash!*
Mekta Satak Kai: *the illusion falls backward, singed and bleeding, as Isaac provides the appropriate cries of pain*
Mekta Satak Kai: *the illusion is still standing, and Isaac yells curses at his "assailants" for effect*
TaiarKino: *Snap! The sparkles erupt into a mass of casscading black explosions, flowing its way from the road back towards the alleyway and eventually surrounding the Faux-Isaac*
PapatymisonN: Oh, SHUT UP! You're naught but a common thug!
PapatymisonN: ... *w2Isaac* Was that good? ^_^
Mekta Satak Kai: *There are a lot of cries of surprise from the street at the sudden displays of flashy magic.*
Mekta Satak Kai: *Cardinal's response is more cursing in Elvish, such as the language can accomodate.*
Arch mage144: >.> Oh, I see.
Mekta Satak Kai: *Some of those sound suspiciously like loanwords from Common, but who's taking notes....*
TaiarKino: T2Card: Common Thug? That doesn't sound so...enraged in the heat of battle.
Mekta Satak Kai: Come on! Stop trying to kill me and kill me!
PapatymisonN: T2Tai: Hey, I don't stage assassinations all the time, you know...
Mekta Satak Kai: You're all weak!
Mekta Satak Kai: *Isaac's voice is coming from closer to Card and Tai, suggesting he's moved himself out of the line of fire of all these spells. Isaac=not a moron.*
PapatymisonN: T2Tai: I'll try this...
PapatymisonN: ... SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP! ... JUST SHUT UP! *lets a Supernova fly! It lets off all sorts of pretty colors before colliding with the doppelganger*
PapatymisonN: T2Tai: Better?
Mekta Satak Kai: *Isaac screams like a nancy and the illusory double staggers back, his form seeming to smoke.*
TaiarKino: T2Card: ...A little.
Mekta Satak Kai: *w* Hm. I thought the smoke was a particularly nice touch.
PapatymisonN: T2Tai: I'll try better next person I have to pretend to kill.
Mekta Satak Kai: *People are starting to run away from the scene, except for a few of the bolder ones who, like true Domans, are more interested in the craziness than afraid of it.*
TaiarKino: T2Card: You should really kill people more often. Get in practice.
PapatymisonN: *whips around*
PapatymisonN: T2Tai: Just a second.
PapatymisonN: ... all of you clear out of here, NOW!
PapatymisonN: e_e
Mekta Satak Kai: *The double is staring out into the street, holding one wounded arm and leaning heavily on one leg.*
Mekta Satak Kai: People: .....
pd Rydia: I wonder how it's going?
PapatymisonN: NOW!
Mekta Satak Kai: *Some of them seem alarmed, a few filter away at the sight of Cardinal's apparent anger, and a few seem like they aren't so sure this isn't their business.*
Mekta Satak Kai: Random guy: Hey! What the hell is going on!
PapatymisonN: eVe
Mekta Satak Kai: Another guy: Dude. Just leave it alone, man.
PapatymisonN: *flashes his badge* Guard business! Now GET OUT OF HERE NOW before you get caught in the crossfire! Now MOVE!
Mekta Satak Kai: Random guy: .....fuck.
Mekta Satak Kai: *people start running away now*
PapatymisonN: *returns to business*
TaiarKino: ...Domans are way too bold for their own good. *Claps his hands together and brings them apart, fusing together an Icicle Lance and throwing it into the Double*
PapatymisonN: *... proud of himself for that little performance! ... sorry Taiar...*
Mekta Satak Kai: *Another preposterously loud scream from Isaac and the double is thrown backward by the impact.*
Mekta Satak Kai: *He skids along the ground for a while before going still.*
Mekta Satak Kai: *w* Quickly now, Cardinal. I can't sustain it indefinitely!
PapatymisonN: *w* Right.
Mekta Satak Kai: *w* Take it somewhere official. Where do you keep dead criminals in this city?
PapatymisonN: *w* There's a place...
Arch mage144: (A GRAVEYARD?)
PapatymisonN: ... *tosses the corpse over his shoulder*
TaiarKino: *w* ...I suppose I shall tell Dia that her turn is on. She's supposed to be shooing away curious onlookers. *Vanishes! In a second display of needless teleportation flourish!*
PapatymisonN: *puts on his best Catholic scowl* e__e
Mekta Satak Kai: *Cardinal can't actually feel anything, since it's only a visual illusion, but Isaac moves it where he needs it*
Mekta Satak Kai: *w* Don't let anyone touch it, and don't try to move it too much.
Mekta Satak Kai: Makes it more difficult to maneuver.
pd Rydia: ::Cardinal looks like a nun::
TaiarKino: *Pushes open the doors to the JD* Woo! I think you're on Dia. He's trying to make off with the body in his most guardly manner.
PapatymisonN: *is heading for the nearest guardhouse*
Mekta Satak Kai: Some dude: Highguard Cardinal! What happened?
PapatymisonN: NONE OF YOUR CONCERN. Now, out of my way. e_e
Mekta Satak Kai: *the guy stumbles back*
Mekta Satak Kai: Some woman: Hey, isn't that Horatio Somany?
Mekta Satak Kai: Another woman: Horatio? That's not the name he gave me.
PapatymisonN: His identity is yet to be verified.
PapatymisonN: Now MOVE. BACK.
Mekta Satak Kai: *now the women are bickering*
Mekta Satak Kai: *they eventually move out of the way and bicker privately*
pd Rydia: Ah, thanks. Where's he at?
TaiarKino: We did the thing near the plaza. Should be heading out from there. Follow the madness as he attempts to move a cadaver. *Smiles*
pd Rydia: ..moving an illusion?
pd Rydia: Ah, geeze.
pd Rydia: ::gets a'movin!::
PapatymisonN: IM: DIA... moooooooove...
pd Rydia: ::moooove oooover butter~!::
TaiarKino: *Takes a seat at a table and sighs with content* ...Missed a good time, Karis. >.>...
pd Rydia: ::coming up behind Cardinal:: Cardinal! Do you need help?
pd Rydia: T2Card: Nice telepathing, by the way.
PapatymisonN: T2Dia: Sorry...
pd Rydia: T2Card: S'alright. you did most the work!
pd Rydia: T2Card: How do you plan to wrap this up? You can't move an illusion well, at least, not if it's not moving itself.
PapatymisonN: Yes, PLEASE! Clear me a path, if you will...
pd Rydia: T2Card: It'd be easier to actually move--
pd Rydia: Right!
PapatymisonN: T2Dia: ... I plan to get to the guardhouse QUICKLY.
pd Rydia: ::whips out a wooden spoon in one hand, lays her hand on the hilt of her knife in the other::
Mekta Satak Kai: *People run from Dia faster than they ran from Cardinal, and that's saying something.*
Mekta Satak Kai: *Dia's one scary mofo by reputation.*
pd Rydia: ::looks around calculatingly::
Mekta Satak Kai: (Dia, make a CHA roll.)
pd Rydia: (kay)
OnlineHost: pd Rydia rolled 1 20-sided die: 19
PapatymisonN: IM: ... seriously, did NO ONE hear about the gang clearout? The incident on the boat with Brinala? I need to get a reputation...
PapatymisonN: (... that'll do.)
pd Rydia: (22)
Mekta Satak Kai: (You add CHA three times.)
Mekta Satak Kai: (Did you?)
pd Rydia: (CHA = 1)
Mekta Satak Kai: (Okay.)
Mekta Satak Kai: (That's still good enough.)
pd Rydia: (::thumbs up!::)
Mekta Satak Kai: *Dia+Cardinal=a big pile of angry hostile potential violence. People move. You get to the guardhouse!*
PapatymisonN: *does not even SPEAK to the officers present as he heads to the basement*
Mekta Satak Kai: *You find the basement. It's below the other floors.*
PapatymisonN: *opens the door to the Pit, where they store the corpses till they're claimed by the family, or until they're interred by the state...*
Arch mage144: *meanwhile, continues reading* IM: This really is terribly boring...but it might turn out to be useful if we have to bluff our way through followers of Shamayu or answer theology riddles or something.
PapatymisonN: *and YES, there are anti-smell charms on EVERY wall*
PapatymisonN: ... huh. They went with citrus this month. Interesting.
TaiarKino: *Sits quietly in the Jade Dragon, his arms crossed and a leg up on his other knee. Tai just stares blankly ahead...*
Mekta Satak Kai: *w* May I let it go, now?
Mekta Satak Kai: *w* It's a bit of an effort, you realize.
PapatymisonN: *w* Yep.
Mekta Satak Kai: *the image disappears*
pd Rydia: ::grossed out!::
PapatymisonN: *w*... well, you're dead.
PapatymisonN: *w* Happy?
Mekta Satak Kai: *Isaac appears, and then someone in a guard uniform is standing there instead.*
Mekta Satak Kai: *He coughs into one hand and wipes...something... off onto his pant leg.*
Mekta Satak Kai: No worries. Just a... a little tired after all this.
Mekta Satak Kai: I'd perhaps... better be heading somewhere less.... less... here.
PapatymisonN: ... are you going to be alright?
Mekta Satak Kai: *waves him off*
Mekta Satak Kai: Let's go.
PapatymisonN: *nods*
Mekta Satak Kai: *Cardinal heads out with a guardsman so nondistinct he must be a rookie and no one cares.*
Mekta Satak Kai: *Where does he go?*
PapatymisonN: *the JD, headquarters, of course!*
Mekta Satak Kai: *They go. At the speed of plot.*
PapatymisonN: *arrives, sits down at the bar, demanding a scotch*
pd Rydia: Get it yourself.
pd Rydia: The gobs have the day off.
PapatymisonN: *which he does by getting it himself, yes!*
TaiarKino: Welcome back.
Mekta Satak Kai: *Isaac dispels the disguising effect as soon as he gets in the door and slumps down into a booth.*
pd Rydia: ::waves::
Mekta Satak Kai: *deep breath* Well. *lets it out*
Mekta Satak Kai: That was... was successful, I think.
Arch mage144: *read, read...looks up* Oh, you're dead?
PapatymisonN: He's dead.
Mekta Satak Kai: Though I'm.... *coughs into a fist* I'm afraid I'll.... *ahem* ...have some explaining to do with... with Isabel. Ah well. Things... things happen.
Mekta Satak Kai: Sort it... out later.
Arch mage144: ...
PapatymisonN: Isabel?
Arch mage144: IM: Isabel?
Mekta Satak Kai: Yes, well. I wasn't awa-- *represses a cough* --aware that she and Christine would both be out.
Mekta Satak Kai: Now they'll likely.... compare notes or... or something. Whatever.
Mekta Satak Kai: It's ...a small price to pay for... for a dramatic death.
PapatymisonN: ... oh, the women...
Arch mage144: IM: This is what happens when you try to date multiple women at once. *laughing internally*
Mekta Satak Kai: *waves Cardinal off* I'll live. *abruptly laughs*
Mekta Satak Kai: Not that we can let anyone know that.
Arch mage144: No, not really.
PapatymisonN: ... did you want to write a note for Holly?
PapatymisonN: I'll deliver it personally.
Mekta Satak Kai: Our young lad has volunteered, so you two can... can fight over it if you like.
Arch mage144: Oh, uh...where could I find her, or do I have to do it the hard way?
PapatymisonN: ... mmm. Maybe I shouldn't.
Mekta Satak Kai: I sug... suggested Enchufa. Marvelous place.
PapatymisonN: Most likely, the rumor will be that I killed you, so she may not be initially happy with me...
Mekta Satak Kai: So she is likely there.
PapatymisonN: ... you WILL put in there that I'm still quite friendly, right?
Arch mage144: That's quite a way away. *blinks* I guess I can go there after we sort out this business with the light of chaos.
TaiarKino: Could blame it on Anwell as we initially said...
Mekta Satak Kai: Oh just... just send a letter. We do it all... all the time.
PapatymisonN: I thought we were telling her he WASN'T dead...
Arch mage144: Yes, but what if someone intercepts the letter?
Arch mage144: ...I guess your death isn't exactly a matter of high security.
Arch mage144: Unless Anwell gets his hands on it, and even then I don't know.
Mekta Satak Kai: You could... you should get that boy to send it.
Mekta Satak Kai: The hell was his name.
Mekta Satak Kai: Cardinal!
Mekta Satak Kai: Who was he? Ardam!
Mekta Satak Kai: Make him do it. She'll believe him.
PapatymisonN: Oh, him... I can arrange it.
Arch mage144: *blinks*
Mekta Satak Kai: Go threaten him or something. Tell him it's from me. I feel like I should do so periodically as some sort of... of paternal duty.
Mekta Satak Kai: *shrugs*
Mekta Satak Kai: At any rate.
pd Rydia: ::blinks::
Mekta Satak Kai: Miss Dia, I do believe I may be obliged to further impose upon your hospitality. Rest assured I will be able to compensate you for an occupied room and board and all that.
Mekta Satak Kai: I'll try to cause less trouble than I have so far. *smirk*
pd Rydia: ::frowns:: Uh-huh.
PapatymisonN: THAT would be nice.
Mekta Satak Kai: I also owe you some free entertainment in the near future. Perhaps we could split the revenue from my impending return from the dead.
Mekta Satak Kai: I'm quite certain my rates will rise ever so slightly, and I'd consider it a privelege to donate some of my earnings to the upkeep of the inn.
Arch mage144: "One time engagement at the Jade Dragon inn, tonight only...the one and only...resurrected bard!"
Mekta Satak Kai: *laughs and claps his hands*
Mekta Satak Kai: Precisely.
Arch mage144: You should start a rumor that you were animated by a necromancer and are the world's first undead performer.
PapatymisonN: ... I'll be here.
Mekta Satak Kai: Ha! *points at Karis* You're a brilliant boy. I will consider it.
pd Rydia: ::raises eyebrow:: I tend to rent my stage out, not pay for others to use it.
Mekta Satak Kai: Ah, yes. But I do perform in other areas that do pay their performers.
Mekta Satak Kai: And I do make a small bit of money.
Arch mage144: Yes, but if you charge for admission, you could both make a lot of money.
Arch mage144: "Bard rises from the dead to perform lute concert!"
Arch mage144: I bet you could sell a lot of tickets.
Mekta Satak Kai: I'll do my usual. We'll sort it out later.
Mekta Satak Kai: Anyway. Friends, I thank you most kindly for a phenomenal show.
TaiarKino: *Chuckles* This has gotten amusingly far.
Mekta Satak Kai: Would not have been possible without you all.
Mekta Satak Kai: You were positively indispensable.
PapatymisonN: I should hope.
PapatymisonN: ... now, go get lost. Quick.
Mekta Satak Kai: *stands and pulls a large gold coin from behind Cardinal's ear before laying it on a table*
Mekta Satak Kai: Enough for a day, after which I will be certain to make myself scarce.
PapatymisonN: ... heretic. :P
Mekta Satak Kai: I like to consider myself a free-range devotee.
Mekta Satak Kai: And with that, I will see you fine people another time.
Arch mage144: IM: Sleight of hand is heretical?
pd Rydia: ::sighs::
Mekta Satak Kai: *heads off to go find himself someplace quieter to sit down and rest in the inn*
Mekta Satak Kai: </Isaac>
PapatymisonN: ... well! That was... interesting.
Arch mage144: Very interesting.
TaiarKino: ...Hope to do more things like it in the future.
pd Rydia: You could start a business.
TaiarKino: Killing people, or pretending to kill people? <.<...
Arch mage144: I hope the latter!
pd Rydia: Well, honestly, in Doma you could start a business doing either.
pd Rydia: But the latter has less competition.
PapatymisonN: True.
PapatymisonN: ... not something I'm going to get in the habit of...
PapatymisonN: But I'm glad for him.
TaiarKino: I suppose I could do both...
pd Rydia: The former lending credibility to the latter!
TaiarKino: ...Would need some sort of disclaimer though. In case I accidently kill someone who wanted me to pretend.
TaiarKino: That'd probably drive off business as well...
PapatymisonN: Anyways, Anwell.
Arch mage144: We're going to that temple.
Arch mage144: And if worse comes to worse, maybe we'll find him there...
pd Rydia: Tomorrow?
Arch mage144: Tomorrow.
PapatymisonN: ... *sigh* I'll blow the place to kingdom come if he gets his hands on that thing...
pd Rydia: Oh, but will you NEED to?
PapatymisonN: God, I hope not.
TaiarKino: I wonder if it'll be that easy if he already has it.
pd Rydia: I'm going to get some food, and sleep.
pd Rydia: I've been much too social today.
pd Rydia: ::wavse, and heads off to the Back Room::
TaiarKino: Doesn't sound like a bad idea...*Pulls that apple he's had in his pocket since last session, still amazingly in tact!...and takes a bite*
PapatymisonN: ... food and sleep sounds good.
PapatymisonN: But HOME on top of that, too.
PapatymisonN: I'll meet you folks here in the morning, alright?
TaiarKino: I tend to avoid being home if I can. God knows what Miang has up her ace at this hour...
TaiarKino: See you then, Cardinal.
Arch mage144: *nods to Cardinal and goes back to his reading*
PapatymisonN: *waves, and heads out the door*
PapatymisonN: *... to what is sure to be a sound tonguelashing*
TaiarKino: ...*Tips his chair back and sits soundlessly except for the munching of his apple.*
TaiarKino: (<RP?>)
Mekta Satak Kai: </RP!>
Mekta Satak Kai: Hooray!
Mekta Satak Kai: Summary and EXP will probably be posted at the last minute.
Mekta Satak Kai: Charles isn't available Sunday, I think. So session may have to be on Friday.
Arch mage144: We get EXP for putting up with Isaac?
Mekta Satak Kai: What sayeth people?
Arch mage144: I say whatever.
TaiarKino: I have work until 9:30 on Friday.
PapatymisonN: ... rats.
Mekta Satak Kai: Okay. Can we stay up later to compensate?
Mekta Satak Kai: What sayeth people?
PapatymisonN: Like, right now?
Mekta Satak Kai: No!
Mekta Satak Kai: Friday.
PapatymisonN: I'm fine with it.
Mekta Satak Kai: If you could please post that to OOC, I would appreciate it.
Arch mage144: On Friday I can be up until whenever, likely.
Mekta Satak Kai: That way people could know things who aren't in chat.
PapatymisonN: Ken?
Mekta Satak Kai: Like Shaun.
Mekta Satak Kai: And Dia.
Mekta Satak Kai: And potentially Tai.
TaiarKino: ...I incidently have to be back into work at like...10:00 AM.
Mekta Satak Kai: Cripes. Okay.
PapatymisonN: ... RATS.
TaiarKino: ...But I could stay up anyways.
Mekta Satak Kai: So we may have to skip a week.
TaiarKino: I hate my work!
PapatymisonN: I hate it too.
TaiarKino: Making me less efficient is right up my alley.
Mekta Satak Kai: Tai: I won't ask you to do that. We'll try and think of something else.
Mekta Satak Kai: Hopefully it won't rest on you going to work on insufficient sleep or something.
TaiarKino: Are you sure? I don't mind and all. I could probably stay up until 3:00 or 4:00 with no ill effect.
Mekta Satak Kai: Hrm. Charles needs to post.
TaiarKino: I work at an EBGames. I don't need to be super awake. <.<;;...
Mekta Satak Kai: We'll see what works for everyone.
PapatymisonN: *posts*
Mekta Satak Kai: Thanks.
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