Session 118

VAE has connected.

TMG has connected.

Ghostwish has connected.

Meany has connected.

VAE:everyone can

Railock has connected.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yaaaay and the mouseovers are fixed. :D

TMG:<font color="#000000">frak, my map downloads are frozen. Gotta reboot.

<font color="#0000ff">TMG is disconnected.

</i><font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari has connected.

</i><font color="#0000ff">TMG has connected.

</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll say it explicitly, then, Ghost; please don't troll maps that are invisible to the players. You'll be spoiling yourself, and it could be taken as an abuse of host privelege. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So please, don't.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Okiedokie, I won't.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Thankee. :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">But, also? Remember the campaign file opens to the last map saved on. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Derp. ^^;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">I'd recommend going to the world map, and then saving. :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's my derp, sorry. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Okay, imma gona heed nature's call, and then we can start getting stuff out of the way.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and lynx is back

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Bleh.

</i><font color="#000000"> Must be shedding season again. I just petted Shadow and came away with a tennis-ball sized clump of fur. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">pfft.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Reminds me of one of our cats. He sheds fur like mad

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's also red fur

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also

VAE:<font color="#000000">Alica shows an unnatural talent for finding dead pigeons

VAE:<font color="#000000">found like, the third one this week

VAE:<font color="#000000">of course going OMNOMNOMCORPSE

TMG:<font color="#000000">alright, finally loaded up

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Don't suppose anybody knows if there are potted plants anywhere in mapping_objects? :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">...where's Serrierr?

VAE:<font color="#000000">where's the owl, though?

TMG:<font color="#000000">where's... -any- of my tokens?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Someone drag him from the arses of ass effect

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Glitch, you entered as TMG.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Your tokens are assigned to Glitch. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, whups.

<font color="#0000ff">TMG is disconnected.

</i><font color="#0000ff">Glitch has connected.

</i>Glitch:<font color="#000000">ach, I do not own Snarky.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...

Glitch:<font color="#000000">also, light must be on. Can't see Gnogglebolt if I put him into a closed room.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's on Day. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Though, I suppose I can turn if off now. :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...that's really weird.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ah, there we go.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">and could you be so kind as to fix Snarky ownership, too? :&gt;

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Ladymen.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Imma start supper now. :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Fix'd. :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">I shall be abouts.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">oh, that was what was wrong.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">For some reason &quot;has sight&quot; was unchecked on Gnogglebolt.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Fixed now.

* Dr. Hatari plays horror Dead Space OSTs for the Pelorite temple. |O

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Everyone else's tokens in order? :3

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;So, as I said. . . if we explain the situation to the troops, and if it's done right, Stanford will have to comply, and there are few here who'd start a fight with them. The problem becomes actually finding a time and place to do it.. but perhaps they'll suggest something clever by themselves.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah, all seems Ok

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I has no charsheets or books as they are all on the harddrive sitting next to me, but if absolutely necessary I can attempt to retrieve them.

GM:<font color="#000000">How's everybody else doing today? :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(yeah, I should've done this last night, but didn't. &gt;.&gt; )

VAE:<font color="#000000">OK

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Glad to be back!

Glitch:<font color="#000000">well, sortof.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Pretty shitty.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">trying to re-integrate after missing so much is gonna be a pain.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">One of those nights at work. I barely had time to get home and sleep for six hours.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">yikes.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ack

Liatai:<font color="#000000">SMILEEEEEY &gt;:O

Glitch:<font color="#000000">*ahem*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Yikes. :(

* Dr. Hatari sore.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; You have faced the criminal in combat, and have seen his tactics firsthand. How many men do you suppose we will require? &quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">So, um.

GM:<font color="#000000">While Miron and Gradia plot.... Roll call? :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">DM recap and opener--oh. :B

Railock:<font color="#000000">doom call

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Present. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">srtvhv

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">uiaefbdnuijasbfuijkas

GM:<font color="#000000">Last session on Akellon was mostly mucking about in the midst of various crises. :B But the summation of it is... Bolt from the heavens! Cavalry! The Leaden Mace and SEEDS!

GM:<font color="#000000">Also, drowtalk.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;That's the big problem. As you have seen yourself,by virtue of his wretched breed he is almost impervious to magic. Never mind. . . I have seen him run circles around osyluths without a major risk to himself.I'm afraid that all of us and three-four others might be needed, especially if he's with that horse of his, and that's throwing aside all the others.&quot;

Railock:<font color="#000000">what about failed recruitments!

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;There's at least one potent mage among them, goes by Viceth.. the tall one.His presence could screw the whole operation thrice over.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">GM halp, imma derp. Is Firali magical or not

VAE:<font color="#000000">Firaira, even

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I like how Viceth isn't even a criminal. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Firali was drayco's catgirl

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well. As soon as he attempts to obstruct carrying out of law, he will become one

VAE:<font color="#000000">but. .. such would be major trouble

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Firaira has not shown any magic.

VAE:<font color="#000000">*nod* For some reason I remembered her casting stuff, but seems unlikely, and yeah, my derp

Glitch whispers: Queeeestion, about the Radiant Trinity. They're a little less of a 'law enforcement' organization than they are a CIA in my mind, and while they have a few hidden safehouses in the Veld their main stomping grounds are south and east, but would you say it's reasonable for agents of the Radiant Trinity to take people into 'custody', to be reviewed by crown-approved investigative squads and/or handed over to official Crown judiciary systems?

Glitch whispers: Do you think that's too much power, or is that okay?

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; I recall. &quot; She frowns. &quot; He dispelled one of my attempts to capture the criminal in the livery stable, if you refer to the tattooed one. &quot;

You whisper to Glitch: Beilevable, but before you think of stepping in on this scene, Gradia and Miron have been noted to be discussing this in private.

Glitch whispers: Oh, I know.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Tall, and tattooed. That would fit. Of the others. . .Masabel, the drow woman,claims to be his daughter and is really more the same in a somewhat weaker make.&quot;

Glitch whispers: Wasn't planning on stepping in on the scene at all.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; Have you any evidence of crime she has committed? If we must take her into custody to remove her from the presence of the criminal, we must have charges. &quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;She's black!&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">At any rate... ah, where to start.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">I guess I'll start by getting Vonain and Gnogglebolt into the courtyard.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Oh yes, what exact timeframe is this, counting from returning to the temple after hitting the underground fortress?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's the dawn of a new day. :B

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Gotcha.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's about 9 or 10 AM o'pocketwatch by now.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Asides from hurling insults my way. . .I'm afraid there isn't much to go by, mainly due to the fact I haven't even met her before we ended up in this ars- er, mess.. Don't get me wrong, she'll likely end up the same sort of a flower from Asmodeus's garden as her father, but for now. . . &quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; Any charges for the magus, either, or are we poor in luck in that regard? &quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Anyway, Vonain approaches Katie and the Steel Shepherd commander, with Gnogglebolt close behind. Vonain's re-pinned his badge on the front of his vest over his mirthral breastplate.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Hail, Steel Shepherds! It is wonderful to see the Crown's Finest arrive to relieve the situation here. I'm sure it's already been said, but welcome.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Though, same for her as anyone - if she tries to obstruct while we're taking him into custody... Well, you did say he counterspelled your attempts to hold the criminal down.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">The commander, if he knows anything about how other organizations in Akellon work, probably also knows what it means that the bottom two triangles on Vonain's badge are ash-black, if he cares.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Obstruction of justice, clear as day.Well, clear enough for our magistrate&quot;

Railock:<font color="#000000">for a currupt one

Shepherd Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hail, Radiant!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">blarg afk

VAE:<font color="#000000">Let's guess. His buddies kicked the bucket?

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Which magistrate does Miron refer to? :V

* Gradia Thorngage writes it down. &quot; Yes... You are correct. &quot; :d &quot; ... This will need to be quite the large operation, should we attempt to capture all of them. Any other notes of their behavior or abilities that may aid us will be useful. &quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Braxton Falls one

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;We've been hard-pressed to gain ground until now, but with the primary source of the devils cut off and your arrival, it looks like we're surefooted once again. As presently the only Order of the Radiant Trinity liason around, I would like to be a part of further plans, operations, and cleaning up, if you'll have me.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Braxton, or, aha.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Well.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">VAE: Let's guess. His buddies kicked the bucket?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Yeah, but that came up ages ago when he first got his badge back.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">So it shouldn't be unknown to any of you guys. :B

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">From what Lia, I, and you have plotted, would it not be more apparent that such charges would be answered by a Yoriver magistrate?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Imma derp

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Yes, a Braxton inquisitor was invovled, but the crime happened on Yoriver territory.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It depends. For Altonor, unlikely. For the other ones.. .possibly, but that's short bones

VAE:<font color="#000000">They're side dish

VAE:<font color="#000000">he's the main course

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Also, I'm kinda amazed that Miron and/or Gradia haven't tried to arrest Sszeyl again.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">So much love I feel from you.

VAE:<font color="#000000">What for?

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Group hug!

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">All the better. They will be tied up in a diferent district. &gt;|

VAE:<font color="#000000">Besides. .. Sszeyl kinda won big points with Miron the last few times they interacted.

* Viceth has since lit his pipe; this corner knot of drow is becoming rather smoky, what with Sszeyl's draconic exhalations and the heady mysterious pipeweed.

Shepherd Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Captain Mackenzie's already making plans to speak with all faction leaders here, so of course. ... My condolences for your losses. Were they both here?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Anything else... The last one, the wolf of hers is probably more trouble than she is. She's a ranger of sorts, if I recall right.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain's shoulders tense slightly, and nods. &quot;Yes, they were. The higher Squads had been getting conflicting reports, my squad was meant to be reconnaissance. We had no idea how bad it had gotten, or that the devils had wards against teleportation up. They were on us before we knew what was going on.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Other than that .. . the criminal and his daughter are reckless fighters, disregarding own safety or common sense. The other two are more sensible.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;However, I have since informed the command squads of the true nature of the situation, and reinforcement squads are inbound. I don't know when they'll get here.&quot;

Firaira:<font color="#9900FF">Wait a second.. Firaira is the only one with a wolf???

VAE:<font color="#000000">Only one who's not a Steel Shepherd

* VAE recalls no other huge wolves prancing about. Though. . . VAE is known to be hyperderp

Firaira:<font color="#9900FF">Yeah, um, how does Miron know Firaria is a drow?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Simple

VAE:<font color="#000000">She hangs out with drow

VAE:<font color="#000000">She must be one.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Well, that was the basis of my guess. |D

Firaira:<font color="#9900FF">... yeah that's incredibly stupid. Hopefully Gradia points that out before Miron gets himself way, way over his head.

VAE:<font color="#000000">There's a bit more circumstantial evidence there, but that's the basis

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I can't help but admit that -is- in-character. :B

Shepherd Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excellent. Rest assured, justice will be done here.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; ... A second female? I have only seen the one. &quot;

Firaira:<font color="#9900FF">Of course I would find it hilarious if Miron got executed for that. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">Executed for what, making a mistake?

Firaira:<font color="#9900FF">For attempting to arrest someone outside of his jurisdiction, and making an affront to a high elven lord. The latter is a death sentence.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; The one with the scarred nose. &quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Over there.. see the wolf, and the blue-haired woman? She was there when we left the stables, even&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, if she's aiding known criminals, servant to a high elven lord or not, she's fair game

VAE:<font color="#000000">Unlike what Tathi seems to think, law isn't optional.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;All the factions? Excellent, and I would hope so, and can help ensure you don't miss any. There's been help from so many disparate sources here, some. One of which is apparently an adventuring party out of Castleton..&quot;

Firaira:<font color="#9900FF">Riiiiiiight. Miron, executed by politics. This'll be great.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose you could call me a liason for that group as well. We call ourselves the Vigilant Guardians, if you haven't already heard.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">We shall see, as the blind man said before he fell down a ditch.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Quite. XD

* Dr. Hatari still feels like he has been killed and revived by jumper cables.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Executing's going a bit far, and Miron is protected by Braxton Falls. Could you please try to dial back the trollmuse a bit? ^^;

* Liatai offers chicken soup.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah

* VAE offers tea

* VAE felt kinda that way last week.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Awwww! But, but, elven firing squad! So many arrows! Pincushion burial!!

VAE:<font color="#000000">The jumper cables overheated.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ghost, if you thought a little, you'd have noticed Lia said &quot;a bit far&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">which. . . looks worrying all on its own

VAE:<font color="#000000">i.e. come on, you can't even troll right today?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, folks, let's get in character.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Just roleplay it out instead of nitpicking hypotheticals like trekkies. :P

Kor:<font color="#000000">For example, I need feeding! &gt;:O

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well. .. I'm waiting for Lia's response ;3

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">From the open ceilling above, a great winged being floats down towards Thomas. &quot;And don't forget yourself, Thomas Lazarus, and the second of my requirements for aiding you. Make sure you are involved.&quot; Serrierr then looks around the temple, at the many holy symbols that have been imprinted on the walls with a reverent air. &quot;....And you have been very blessed. The gods, or at least their agents, have taken notice of what is going on here. This is a very uncommon occurrence. We are being watched, and encouraged. Victory is assuredly within our grasp now.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Well, I'll lay out the facts. 1. She's not an Akellon citizen, she's from the refuge. 2. She works for a high elven lord. So, there's a huge, political quicksand that Miron should -at least- know about.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; That is not a drow. &quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Not really.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Firaira's never really made it obvious she's working for a lord. Nor that she's a Vantir citizen.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Yes she has!

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">And if she is.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">WHERE IS HERE PASSPORT.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">*brick'd*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's an IC mistake to make. Please just get IC. ^^;

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">her*

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;She freely and if I'm to guess closely associates with them, and has many of their language patterns and mannerisms. I wouldn't be surprised if she were a disguised drow.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'll do my best..&quot; ^^; He pets the shoulder rat.

* Gamal-Junayd grumbles about being the first to the meeting he was told about last time, and sits down and waits

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">werent all the damn guardians being told to come to a meeting?

Kor:<font color="#9900FF">Kor starts nibbling on Thomas' ear. Feed me!!!

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; Unfortunately, we cannot make an arrest on 'ifs.' We will need to avoid her, unless she proves herself difficult. &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The best I can think of for now is completely excising the blight on this city. It remains to be seen where it truly originated from. I imagine -- ack ow quiddit --&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Understood. &quot;

* Thomas Lazarus fishes pockets for snacks. |3;;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;And to be honest... this is going to be a difficult operation even with the one target we have.. &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Don't you ever get full..?&quot; =w=;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr then looks at the Steel Shepherd commander. &quot;And it is good to see the stalwart defenders of this nation present, too. Well-met, humans. A fellow soldier of mine was once conjured by one of your units, he told me he was impressed with your fighting prowess. I look forward to seeing it myself, if events allow it.&quot;

Kor:<font color="#9900FF">He shakes his little head.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; Have you any further observations? Do they separate at any time? Any time when their defenses are routinely down.

* Thomas Lazarus provides a dried ration biscuit.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2+1 = 16 + 2 + 1 = 19&#160; <font color="#9900FF">&#187; listen!

* Thomas Lazarus rubs his ear. =w=;;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr looks back down at Thomas. &quot;Very true. We have yet to confront the real heart of the problem. I don't suppose I even have to ask you to be a part of that.&quot; He says with a wink.

Kor:<font color="#9900FF">It's gone. Seriously, it was, like, in Thomas' hand one second, and then there's crumbs on Kor's nose. What.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">The soldiers turn, and with a clank, kneel toward Serrierr. &quot;We had heard that there were sightings of a true angel over this town in the past few days. Thank you for the blessing of your presence, m'lord.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Hard to say. I am not a stealthy man myself, and over these days, I had my own duties to attend to.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;So.&quot; Sszeyl cuts through the smoke, making no attempt to hide the awkwardness. &quot;You aligned with a house?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Like I said.. it still isn't clear what came first; who instigated this plot, or what instigated who.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But I trust that will become clear when we confront Montclaire.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Though. . . we might have means of finding out..&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr turns back to the commanders and gestures softly with a hand. &quot;Rise, good fellows. You need not kneel to me. I am but a servant myself, here to assist in any way that I can, but I am glad my presence emboldens you.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Where the heck are the drow, anyway?

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Upstairs.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;A tricky question.&quot; Viceth idly toys with an amulet around his neck.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;I suspect I know just the person who could keep an eye, and do it quietly.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; Yes? &quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">The cavalrymen rise when indicated.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Swallowtail. The Amayan girl. She is smart, reliable, and stealthy, and has helped me out before. &quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Looks like Tathi passed the listen check to hear whispers by a longshot.. but does she do a good job of keeping everyone from noticing? Hrmmm. A wizard is being considered for the bluff skill. HALP.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 15 + 2 = 17&#160; <font color="#9900FF">&#187; bluff.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Merely keeping an eye should be a walk through a rosegarden. &quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">which whisper--oh, they're only ten feet away. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">who is she eavesdropping on?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I'm presuming you.

VAE:<font color="#000000">20 feet, actually

Glitch:<font color="#000000">She's like, right in front of you. :B

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; Hopefully. We should arrange contingencies, nonetheless. Are there any others you can trust to collect information? &quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">At any rate, Vonain seems to think of something, and heads back upstairs...

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">He looks for the black pegasus and his rider, and once found, approaches them, holding up one hand in greeting.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello again...Altonor, wasn't it?&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">HE FIRES HIS BLAST.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Not really.Anise Berilan is someone I'd trust with with my life. . . but she is about as stealthy as myself. And. .. all others, even Tom are .. . if not against, then not with us.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Nothing? Okay. Tathi slips away.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Shut up before I haymaker you, shoulder devil. -3-

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;|D

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Viceth.&quot; Tathi says, walking up.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">(Hey ghost, could you give me a minute or two to speak a few line to Alt about something different before you barge in? ^^; )

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Perhaps you have any contacts, Senior Analyst.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">They're way up on the roof, so Vonain might need to do a bit of climbing. &quot;Still is, last I checked. ....&quot; The red eyes search Vonain's face. &quot;Fraid you've got me at an advantage, Radiant.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">(oh, nevermind)

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Oh, roof.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, I'm sorry, I suppose we haven't been properly introduced. Name's Vonain Seldriot, or Goldeneye if you want my nickname.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;I know about Archivist Petersen, he's an astute fellow. Could his skills be of any use in our enterprise?&quot;

* Viceth looks up from where he's sitting on the floor; if Sszeyl has sharp eyes, he might notice that Viceth's cloak clasp bears an image of a displacer beast. &quot;? Lady Eyllisaearsithek.&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus still leans over on the railing by folded arms, watching those conversing below.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't know what kind of treatment you usually get, but I just want to say that I really appreciate the help you and your associate gave down in the tunnels. I particularly liked your speech about the Underdark. You're all right with me as far as I'm concerned.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;You and the other Raiders, especially Altonor, need to make yourselves very hard to find, soon. The Idiot downstairs is making plans to use the local cavalry to arrest all of you.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">For some reason, I just got hiccups.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh.. that reminds me. We should probably gather everyone up and get situated below soon.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;But I couldn't help but notice as soon as the steel shepherds arrived, you rabbited and your friends disguised. I...well, I can guess why, but.&quot;

Flynn Baker:<font color="#000000">The Bakers are the first to arrive below, after Gamal. Flynn waves hello.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;The Idiot even talked about trying to charge Lady Firaria. I mean, she's a high elf in service of Lord Angess! As much as I would love to see him killed for trying it, I don't want to endanger you all to his false authority.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I think Gamal and a few others are on the roof. Could you notify them for me?&quot; ^^; &quot; They make it look easy.. but I can't slip up there.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;They're going to be gathing the leaders from 'all' the factions soon to plan the next moves of the campaign. You guys count as a faction to me, and I would love to see you openly participate. I almost mentioned you indirectly, but thought better of it and that I should ask first.&quot;

Flynn Baker:<font color="#000000">&quot;Think we should tidy up this place any? It's about to host the king's men, and all.&quot; :3

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">I got notified last session. so I'm al;ready in the meeting room

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;If they don't like it, they could of gotten here sooner and spared us all the trouble&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;The Steel Shephers are generally upright folk, from what I've seen of them. If all our witness accounts say you helpeddrive off a devil incursion, I'm sure that would at l;east get them to tolerate you if you feared them.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">brb oven timer

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;What do you say?&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Also. why do we have an extra chair off by itself facing the corner? Is that where we'll put miron in time out so his ideas do'nt poison the kings men?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">*snrk*

VAE:<font color="#000000">You might as well go the whole nine yards and have him sit backwards with a dunce cap

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Dunce&quot; written in undercommon, just to rub it in.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">with steel woal.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">made of acid.

VAE:<font color="#000000">How would one say &quot;dunce&quot; in undercommon, even?

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;elf&quot; *brick'd*

VAE:<font color="#000000">ahahha

Masabel:<font color="#000000">Mal'ai. Now you know~

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl blinks.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">okay I need foods. semi-afk, will pop in from time to time.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Who is Lord Agness.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Also yeah, Sszeyl noticed that.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">But can't talk drow in front of elves.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Their knee-jerk reaction is to set us on fire.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">And she is -really good at that.-

* Glitch gently poke-reminds Viceth and Altonor, just in case. &gt;.&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi glances up. &quot;A high elven lord from the Vantir Refuge. He's the one who sent Firaria.&quot; She says to Sszeyl.

* VAE pokes Gradia?

* Altonor snorts, though he is wearing a grin. &quot;I say you've got the wrong idea if you think we fear them.&quot; He brushes some snow off his cloak. &quot;How much do they know? Any idea?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, fear's the wrong word, I admit.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; Unlikely, but he may know something about the criminal we've missed. I will speak with him. &quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm...not sure how much they know. I don't think they know about you yet, you guys hunkered down pretty quick before they could catch sight. Unless Sister Katie told them, they shouldn't know -yet-...&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;But, in my humble personal opinion, I think it wouldn't be a bad time for them to know.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Especially if you guys want to help take a shot at the Count himself, possibly.&quot;

* Viceth exhales some sweet-smelling smoke with a sigh. &quot;May I ask how you are familiar with Lord Angess, Lady Eyllisaearsithek?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You may have missed it in log, but, the Shepards did immediately spot Sszeyl. Tom placated them, and the commander said, &quot;Oh, don't worry, we know you have Drow fellows with you. Your report said so.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Then again Vonain wasn't standing there. But just to clarify.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ah yeah, I did catch that Sszeyl was going around undisguised... will bring that up, actually. Good point.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Besides. Sszeyl's been walking around, and they haven't tried sticking him with pitchforks yet.&quot; Vonain says with a wink.

Ennis Baker:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh? -- Oh, must've been a leftover.&quot;

* Ennis Baker turns it around. :3

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Excellent. May Saint Cuthbert himself clear our minds and steel our resolve. . . the filthy piece of criminal scum might well soon pay for all he has done to our fair city.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Erm, not terribly. I know his name.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Disregard national crisis. Persue petty criminal.

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( sorry for delayed posts. dishwasher flooded kitchen. :| ))

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">'So, what do you say. Would you and your band like to openly be a part of the meeting that will be convening soon?&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ghost; ouch, damn. Hate that. |x

Glitch:<font color="#000000">:x

Miron:<font color="#000000">The national crisis is almost over. When things will break, we want them breaking our way.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">He's still a petty criminal saving people during a crisis. It isn't gonna work~ |D

* Teeny Rin is cudgel'd.

VAE:<font color="#000000">He is not a petty criminal. He's been charged with releasing criminals from prisons, and causing bodily harm to inquisitors on duty.

* Altonor huffs. &quot;We'll see. ... Probably be best if they only see me and not the others.&quot; He billows his cloak to dislodge the snowfall, trying to look a bit more like a sentient being and less like an armored snowman.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Embellishment and propaganda. He's the god damn batman.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">I could use a utility belt, come to think of it. &gt;:9 *brick'd*

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, if you insist.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We know a guy. &gt;.&gt;

Miron:<font color="#000000">If he's Batman, Marty is Judge Dredd

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...Would you like me to announce you first, so you'll be expected?&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Should of hgad them all face the corner, so we could put all of the braxtons over there&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Or Robocop

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;I thought you were a Dynamic.&quot; :P

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">The part of Lucius Fox will be played by Gnogglebolt Sparkgear.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Am I reading that rune wrong?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Who said I'm not making this up as I go along?&quot; Vonain winks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">XD

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Response from viceth?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">What was Tathi's question?

* Altonor laughs, still brushing off snow. &quot;Nah, I'll let my face speak for itself.&quot; |3 &quot;Where's it, down in the meeting room?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;As far as I know, yep. I guess I'll see you there then.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain climbs off the roof and heads back down.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">It was an answer to Vic's question.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">When Gnogglebolt sees Vonain approaching again, he looks at Katie and the SS commander--oh god, unfortunate acronym.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ahaha

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom walks about and pages those interested in the meeting notice. Most folks probably heard it in the first place.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, anything we're waiting on in particular before we get the meeting started?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shall we start heading down?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus heads below, himself.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Oberstgruppenfuehrer von SS-Eisenschaeffern

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm sorry, I'm distracted by whinydog.

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr follows Thomas.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll be back in a few, talk amongst yourselves. ^^;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">aw, go take care of whinydog. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">one f, should be

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ten times a game, every game. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm sorry. It's just a foreign notion to me. All of my dogs have always sucked it up. |D

VAE:<font color="#000000">XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And just as I say that, little dog approaches and sticks The Face up in my business.

* Gamal-Junayd sacrifices whiney dog to the dark gods

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sacred canine duty.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm sorry... I think I've discovered why.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Once it gets dark, she starts whining. That's when some of the local cats come by to eat.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I just led her outside, and spooked poor Pepper, who was sitting -right outside the front door.- ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Poor kitty, just wanted out of the rain. And now Shadow's calm after spooking her away. :/

Glitch:<font color="#000000">:(

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It probably seems more frequent than usual, too, because before, Mom was there to help let Shadow out. Nowadays she's usually working on the weekends. ^^; Ah well. Lemme scroll up and get back IC.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; Indeed. &quot; She stands. &quot; Let us go to this meeting. &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas tried to invite Swallowtail, too..

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Let's see if he ever found her. &#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 7 - 1 = 6&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Search. |D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Possibly not.

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Of course, Senior Analyst&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl ponders.

* Ghostwish checks in. &quot;Viceth?&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anything more solid? If you refer to who I believe you're referring to, he has been trying to arrest us for days.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There wasn't really anything to respond to. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt also asked a question, probably unneeded, but eh. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Twas the source of my original confusion.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi blinks. &quot;The heck did you guys do out in the Refuge to earn that?&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Steelsprocket, not Lord Angess.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor takes his place next to Senior Analyst Thorngage, and seems to for now occupy himself attempting to pet Striga.

* Viceth chuckles a bit. &quot;Firaira would make a somewhat poor probation officer.&quot;

Shepherd Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Go ahead, erm. Mazian. We'll be along shortly.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Rhylinar tries to butt into scene to make a probation pun. The guards carry him away, awesomefacing.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain and Gnogglebolt head down.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;She's dour enough.&quot;

Merrash of the Stalking Claws:<font color="#000000">On your way down, you may notice that the giant pile of Olidamarran swag has mysteriously disappeared.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">She quirks an eyebrow in confusion and curiousity. &quot;Lady Firaira was involved? What happened?&quot;

* Viceth chuckles. &quot;Perhaps I'm not being clear, Lady Eyllisaearsithek.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">In Akellon, when you have goggles on, people just squint and assume you're Mazian. It's like if you were wearing a sombrero and poncho.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;We are not, as far as I'm aware, wanted in Lord Angess' domain. However, I was curious as to whether you had any more solid inklings of Steelsprocket's plans.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">is Gnogglebolt's familiar Sparky or Snarky?

VAE:<font color="#000000">because if it's the first, he's named wrong

Shepherd Mage:<font color="#000000">It's more the Mazian Sparker. And the gadgets. And the extraneous gears.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Snarky.

VAE:<font color="#000000">ahaha

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Cuz he's a snarky little bugger.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">Really, he couldn't be more Mazian if he tried, old bean. |3

VAE:<font color="#000000">So to continue the analogy, that's like a moustache, a ponytail and ten pounds of cocaine in a sack over the shoulder.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That describes me. :( *bricked*

VAE:<font color="#000000">ahahah

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;I apologize, I did not mean to confuse you.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; She glances aside after a while. &quot;You lot going down, too?&quot;

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't know.&quot; She shrugs.

* Ball of Light 1 settles on the table. Yay, globe light~ *brick'd*

* Ghostwish has smoked sausage, rice, and toasted raisen and cinnamon bread. Checkmate biatches.

VAE:<font color="#000000">nice

* Liatai pokes. &quot;Tathi?&quot; *brick'd* :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;This Angess, he is a sovereign?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">... okay upon review I found the confusion. Viceth has been refering to miron not angess. XP

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Minor nobility. An equivalent rank would be a baron, in human society.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;OH. Miron Rustedsprocket, yes. All I know is that he's getting all his warrants and evidence and what not, and planning on using his precious laws to round you all up.&quot;

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( and I missed some lines too. silly supper. ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">Did she listen to all that?

VAE:<font color="#000000">She started eavesdropping later

VAE:<font color="#000000">but, you know. Logic can be used

Viceth:<font color="#000000">A corner of the mage's mouth creeps upward, and he inhales a bit more smoke before letting it go slowly. &quot;He will be hard-pressed.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">The listen check was to see if she'd been listening.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fair enough.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;How so?&quot; She asks curiously.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I got sick of my usual ambience tracks and went back to the Dead Space OST compilation.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">This is the most dire and intense Pelorite temple ever.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;The wise say that many are the rewards of heroism.&quot;

* Altonor waves in passing. Clank clank clank -- drip drip drip, as snow melts off him. &quot;Strategy meeting. I'll report.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">back from unannounced afk

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi blinks, and then narrows her eyes in that playful, oh you style. &quot;You know, when you're up and staying at Erytherinu, I'll be privy to those little nuggets of yours.&quot; She says, smirking.

* Viceth waves a hand in the rider's direction. &quot;Not like that you won't, young man.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">She looks over at Altonor. &quot;Be there in a second, I'm giving your old man a shake-down.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#ff">(( Great grandpa returns. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#ff">(( Help me. ))

Altonor:<font color="#000000">A few blue sparks start dancing over Altonor's armor as he pulls to a dead stop momentarily. He looks at Tathi quizzically, then tugs on his (somewhat rounded-off) right ear. &quot;... Think my Common's gone rusty again. What?&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#ff">(( T3T ))

* VAE sigh

VAE:<font color="#000000">Poor owl

* VAE offers tea

Liatai:<font color="#000000">He returns? o.o Good gracious, after a brain bleed? Is he on hospice care?

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">She grins, pearly teeth flashing. &quot;Oh never you mind. You'll get him back in one piece. Maybe.&quot; She says teasingly.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Apparently he asked himself home

VAE:<font color="#000000">and some people are dumb enough to listen to someone clearly out of their mind

VAE:<font color="#000000">and owl is getting the shaft of it

Sszeyl: <font color="#ff">(( Hospice once a week. ))

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not that, plural or singular 'your?' Lle or llie?&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#ff">(( He was somehow competent enough to refuse nursing home care. ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I think I missed something.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Oh. Silly. Plural. Singular would have been implying that he's your father.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I thought I heard Tathi imply Drow would be living in her town.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's what I thought. Carry on.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Thought I would think it totally cute if he was your dad! Can't you just see your daughter calling him Grandpa?&quot; :3

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. He is young enough...&quot; |3c

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;And you're related to half of the territories.&quot; &gt;:P

* Viceth exhales a wisp of smoke contentedly and doesn't contest. |3 &quot;Go on, toror'amin.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right. Just remember she's taken.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I am missing something here.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I know that I am.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;But I cannot fathom what it is.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wouldn't dare. Unless, of course...&quot; |3c

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Right. Meeting time. I'm.. actually rather curious as what trap you're going to snap on that gnome's ugly nose.. But I suppose I will have to wait and see.&quot; She says, and smirks at Sszeyl. &quot;Yes, I'm offering the Raiders asylum.&quot;

* Altonor huffs as Viceth lets it hang, waving it off as he leaves.

* Viceth chuckles. &quot;Perhaps you'll understand when you're older.&quot; |3

Viceth:<font color="#000000">To Sszeyl, to clarify.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Perhaps.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl tilts his head oddly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Yet I am still banned.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I see how it is.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi heads off to the meeting.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">You would be parading your shit around in public causing instant political quagmires, to be fair.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">True.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Not acquainted with that particular stock phrase? Normally one your age would be insisting that they are quite old enough.&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#9900FF">Hi! Hi! Hi Ed! I'm just standing up and putting my paws on your shoulders so you can see me better! :3

* Edaric waves to Aelian -- and then is dogpiled. &quot;Umph!&quot; XD

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;He wasn't too much of a bother, was he?&quot; Tathi asks Thomas as she scoops up Kor.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I am not old enough to know everything. And I have two ancient spirits wandering my skull to try and pull information from if it is important enough.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">Aelian just snickers. &quot;Well, I think she likes you just a little.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Since it is an issue of learned experience, such is not applicable.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;No, not really. He would eat himself to death if he had enough food, though, wouldn't he?&quot; =w=;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">brb

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;He's tried before.&quot; Tathi says, rolling her eyes.

Kor:<font color="#9900FF">Lies and slander!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Looted cheesewheels.

* Viceth headtilts a bit. &quot;... And yet none of you have experience in such matters?&quot; He sighs. &quot;... Vargachixeniejir must have lived an infinitely more boring life than I have been lead to believe.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">*led

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;His spirit is heavily surpressed by the sanctification.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey there, girl.&quot; Ruffle ruffle. :3 -- Jerky! :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;It requires me and my oversoul to force the holy magic away to communicate with him, which is both difficult and time consuming.&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#9900FF">OH BOY JERKY!!

Amadre:<font color="#9900FF">JERKY!? :O

Draugrim:<font color="#9900FF">JERKY!? :O

Glitch:<font color="#000000">and back

Kor:<font color="#9900FF">JERKY- Ow!

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">No. &gt;:E

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">x3

Draugrim:<font color="#9900FF">Edaric has canine aggro. |D

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain turns his head as he hears more footsteps approaching. &quot;Ah, right on time.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thousands of years of memories... and none of the simplest pleasures of life?&quot; =3= &quot;....&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">He leans back leisurly in his chair and watches people settle in.

* Viceth gently reaches across the aisle and pats Sszeyl's shoulder. &quot;You have my deepest condolences, friend.&quot; He leans back into position.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, hey now, you gotta work for it.&quot; :3 &quot;Sit! Stay.&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 5 + 6 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; untrained Handle Animal check...

VAE:<font color="#000000">hahah

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming Viceth and Sszeyl for that

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;What the fuck was the dragon doing with his life, sheesh&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Viceth's new goal: actually getting Sszeyl set up with the Amayan chick. :U

* Glitch flees!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ahahahah

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is this everyone?&quot; :3

Katie:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where's Martin?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">was that enough handle animal? I think Draugrim gets a higher DC because of exotic and all that. XP

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain looks over his head and catches Altonor's eye again. &quot;Just about, I think.&quot;

Flynn Baker:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sleeping, ma'am. It's been a long day for them.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Does Miron see Altonor coming in from where he sits?

* Zachary Alfarson laughs. &quot;Had longer!&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">And at the mention of where is Martin, Vonain looks to the side at the Bakers.

* Altonor doesn't draw attention to himself, but is clearly there. Miron likely noticed.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl tilts his head.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Question answered, Vonain settles back in his chair and looks around the table.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;You were referring to coitus, then?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I have not delved into either of their memories on the subject. It is private to them.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Further, such things are closer to the dragon's core than are easily accessible. He would likely have an opening to try escape if I delved that deeply.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor bends over to Gradia. &quot;Look who's had the gall. Without a pinch of disguise, strutting like he owns the place.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks over. &quot;Sure you don't want to take a seat, Altonor?&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes.&quot; He picks up the signet ring again, looking over it. &quot;Something of an inside joke.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Ah, required mutual experience to fully understand.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">What's with you guys calling attention to me. :P *brick'd*

VAE:<font color="#000000">And let's face it. Would you want a full brain of fucking dragons, literally?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Everyone has a fetish.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Danman; ask any furry/scaley. :B

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Did someone say fetish??

VAE:<font color="#000000">Point taken &gt;:|

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I saw a dragon doing a schoolbus once.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Like.. it was just an ordinary bus.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Drayco would probably volunteer.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Everyone.

</i>Glitch:<font color="#000000">whoa. Hatari, I think we're getting some of your lines out of order.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Don't think so..

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;But yes. Vargie did live a very spartan life outside of his hoard from what memories I can piece together.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">my view: Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nah, I'm good.&quot; A quick look toward a whispering Miron is stolen before he takes up a position by the wall.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Dr. Hatari: Everyone has a fetish. Glitch: Danman; ask any furry/scaley. :B Tathi: Did someone say fetish?? VAE: Point taken &gt;:| Dr. Hatari: I saw a dragon doing a schoolbus once. Dr. Hatari: Like.. it was just an ordinary bus. VAE: Drayco would probably volunteer. Dr. Hatari: Everyone.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">testing

Glitch:<font color="#000000">aw, crap

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yeah, that's how I chose to express it. :22

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ah, there we go.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oh. Okay.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So! Commander of the Steel Shepherds, was it? May I ask what the first order of business shall be, or was there anything you wanted to say first?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Full debreifing, perhaps?&quot;

* Roy Stanford glances across the table to Gnogglebolt. Rude. :| *brick'd*

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Welcome.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">To.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">My life.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I hadn't caught your name yet, sir. Thomas Lazarus. May I ask who we owe our thanks to?&quot; :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Goddammit and I was -trying- specifically to be polite!

VAE:<font color="#000000">you are not the important dude there

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&quot;What can I say right now that would be polite? That sounds good.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">you shut up and wait until you're spoken to in such situations

Glitch:<font color="#000000">-_-

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, Gnogglebolt, not you you

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Doesn't matter. :P

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Scratch Gnogglebolt's lines then, I suppose. Doesn't matter anyway. :/

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's not like Roy is objective.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd hoped to go around the table and ask much the same, to determine who the people of Yoriver have to thank for their security thus far. But, first... The inquisitors have informed us that the enemy has scrying capability. Any objections to a ward, Mother Katherine?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">it'd perfevtly IC for gnogglebolt

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No one else thought it was especially rude.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We say shit like that all the time.

Katie:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh, just Sister, sir. No, by all means.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">and I can't tell the difference when it's real or just joshing, as it were. -_-

* Shepherd Commander nods aside to the mage to his right, who begins weaving a spell.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Bitten too many times to take chances.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Here's a hint; *brick'd* means we're joshing and fooling around. :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But, as Hatari said, Roy is also not objective.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Lia; no no, I get that when OOC.

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh Bast

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I'm talking about the IC roy funny glance.

VAE:<font color="#000000">let's get back IC

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh, yes.. a number of Hextorite priests are still at large. One of which has scried on us before. Given the situation.. it would be surprising if they did not try soon.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Some Roland Osmul, from what we know of him. In case he's a known firm 'round these parts.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;I'll know if they do, Thomas.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes! That was him.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods to Tathi.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And thank goodness for that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Do do de do.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Talkin' dragonthings.

Shepherd Mage:<font color="#000000">A few dim bolts of light dart from the mage to the corners of the room, up the walls, and crisscross over the ceiling. A screen of thin grey smoky magic spreads across the lines, encasing the room in a hazy box.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">She looks around at the table. &quot;On that note, if I suddenly call for everyone to be silent, please don't be offended. It merely means I've-&quot; She stops at the spellcasting, quirking an eyebrow.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 6 + 18 = 24&#160; <font color="#9900FF">&#187; spellcraft! -5 if its necromancy or illusion, +2 if it's evocation!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+20 = 3 + 20 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spellcraft

* Thomas Lazarus can only hope it's a ward. Spellderp. {:3

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">How about these shit rolls huh?

Shepherd Mage:<font color="#000000">Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum -- Tathi's seen Zairith cast it before.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Mmmm, that reminds me. I should give Zai-Zai an exploding chocolate cake.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">That Mordenkainen really gets around.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Mmmm.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Mordenkainen.

Kor:<font color="#9900FF">What do you think the sanctum spell was for? *BA-DUM-TISH*

* Altonor snorts, and quickly tries to stop the escaping snerk with a nosepinch. Professional, dammit! Professional!

* Teeny Rin has been out-Rin'd.

* Thomas Lazarus watches the spell.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks like he's pondering something. &gt;:. Something 'creative'...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">-- frack, help, I'm having a military title blank.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well.. I imagine that's everyone that's coming.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">What was under the captains again? Lieutenants?

* Thomas Lazarus looks around.

* Meany pushes Ghost forward.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Yep.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I believe so.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah

* Ghostwish snickers. &quot;Yes Liatai. Both of them.&quot; :D

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">2nd luey, 1st leuy, captain, major, lt col, 1 star, 2 star, 3 star, 4 star, political douchebag.

VAE:<font color="#000000">that's US army, but yeah, works in general

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">And then there are the five star ranks.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Usable only in war time.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">No it ain't. That's marines. ;)

VAE:<font color="#000000">Doesn't the army use the same rankings?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Where is that lazy sister of mine.&quot; =3=

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">holy fuck i forgot col. Oh well, fuck that bird brain.

VAE:<font color="#000000">well

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Col. is, for the record, the highest rank that sees combat.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">where there was a lt. col ... a colonel came in kinda obviously

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">this is true.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">well hell, us army is the same. Fucking copycat pussies. &gt;:P

VAE:<font color="#000000">see

VAE:<font color="#000000">and slovak, we have lieutenant, captain, major, sub-colonel, colonel, generalmajor, general lieutenant, and army general

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Military chat to irc, mebbe? :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/m/image/1266/26/1266263717923.jpg

* Shepherd Mage nods, and the Shepherd commander stands. &quot;Now that that's taken care of! I must thank all of you, from all that we have heard from this town, for your service to the county of Yoriver and its citizens. I am Captain Henry Mackenzie of the Steel Shepherds of Winterhold. The gentleman to my right is Lieutenant Keith Franklin, also of the Steel Shepherds of Winterhold. May we know the names of the heroes gathered here today?&quot;

Katie:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least, those who are here. There have been more heroes in these past few weeks than we can count.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt presume they'll go around a circle, and waits his turn.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Hey. Hey Hatari. Guess what? I still can't spell Tathi's last name from memory. I copy paste it everytime from her sheet. &gt;:3

* Thomas Lazarus introduced himself a short moment earlier.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That's random. Okay. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh, well. Might as well continue trend.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Tathi Eyllisaearsithek, of Erytherinu.&quot; Tathi says, inclining her head slightly.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I noticed you don't spell Sheythsanthi right either. |D *bricked*

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gamal-Junayd of the vigilant guardians.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sheythshanthi

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;You, sir, I remember. Lieutenant Roy Stanford of the Yoriver Leaden Mace. Your men, I assume?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sheythshanshi.

Sheythsanthi:<font color="#9900FF">HE WAS TOTALLY HERE THE ENTIRE TIME. HATARI DID NOT TRIGGER MY MEMORY. HONEST.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Say it while eating corn chips.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Screw it. Senior Inquisitor Simtherzairvin

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gnogglebolt Sparkgear, from Mazio, with the Vigilant Guardians including Tathi, Thomas, Gamal, Edaric, Swallowtail, and Aelian here. The rest will introduce themselves, I believe.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">that's the one that works.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Some of them. Senior Inquisitor Grant Warner, and Inquisitor Ansramil Hawkin --&quot; Jolt. =w=; &quot;.... And Senior Inquisitor Sheythsanthi Simtherzairvin, as well.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am Serrierr.&quot; The eladrin in the corner says simply.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">For the record.

Sheythsanthi:<font color="#9900FF">He adjusted his hat, busting his elven invisibility. XP

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">I would actually be there.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Serrierr's name always cracks me up

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">If this plot had been resolved already. :B

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Senior Analyst Gradia Thorngage, Braxton Falls branch of the Leaden Mace Society.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Vonain Seldriot, or Goldeneye, of the Radiant Trinity.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;Serie&quot; is the slovak verb for shitting, in third person

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Yes yesy, you've said before. :B

* Viceth looks aside at Sszeyl. &quot;... Not going to attend the meeting?&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">it

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Miron Steelsprocket, Braxton Falls branch of the Leaden Mace Society.&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Braxton Falls? Quite a trek.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">it's like us in english looking at japanese shittake mushrooms, we get it. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh Bast

VAE:<font color="#000000">cannot unsee now

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">OH MAN.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I would have gone sooner, but you are examining objects under my care, I cannot simply leave without it being resolved.&quot;

Zachary Alfarson:<font color="#000000">&quot;Zach --&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yes, and there's one or two of us Vigilant Guardians who are not present.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">And Sszeyl slowly turns to look at Viceth and looks at him unblinkingly.

Kelsey Alfarson:<font color="#000000">&quot;And Kelsey Alfarson! Priests of the Brawler.&quot; &gt;:3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Equally, there's Inquisitor Marty. . . Marty who isn't present here.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">There was a company newspaper on the break room table on Friday. The back page had a list of birthdays, childbirths, and marriages. Some girl married a man named Eric Butts.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Plus I do not know how much you resemble my cousin.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">This was important enough for me to immediately state in-game, yes.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I lost it.

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And ... Inquisitor Anise Berlian from Castleton Branch.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your cousin?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh man

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I don't know his name for public affairs.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh dear. Poor guy. Middle school must have been hell. XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Depends on his sense of humor I guess.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am Zeetha, daughter of Chump. A great warrior. And yes, I know what it means in your language.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Descriptors? Perhaps I know him.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl wipes a hand over his face, and when it passes, it is Rhylinar's face.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I remember there was a guy named Jebavy somewhere.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Then he puts his own face back on.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Personally I would have become an M.D. just because of that.

VAE:<font color="#000000">. ..

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah... so you know.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd: <font color="#0">(( paging dr butts ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">COLORECTAL SURGEON BUTTS MD

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;People are always surprised when I know things.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;But yes.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...wait, Sszeyl is -actually- related to Rhylinar??? o.o

Glitch:<font color="#000000">when did that come out??

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl is barely claddani

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">...About half a year ago, dude.

VAE:<font color="#000000">so is Rhylinar

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Dang. Missed that. :B Okay, carry on, sorry.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't blame you. His names are difficult to track.&quot; |3c His fingers find the way to his amulet again.

Flynn Baker:<font color="#000000">&quot;Flynn and Ennis Baker. Innkeepers.&quot; :3

Nils:<font color="#000000">Squeak!

Flynn Baker:<font color="#000000">&quot;And Nils.&quot; The rat gets a scritch. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt, meanwhile, tucks Snarky into his vest, where the lizard goes to sleep.

Firaira:<font color="#9900FF">The elf in the corner stays quiet.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;There are likewise seven other members of the Yoriver Leaden Mace within this temple.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Altonor, no house. Survivor of the Blacklight project.&quot; Altonor is watching the faces of the Shepherds.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... The Blacklight project is what produced the super-B.O.W. villain, Alex Mercer. :B *bricked*

Miron:<font color="#000000">What the fuck is Blacklight project. Appropriate knowledge rolls?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">OH GOD ALEX MERCER

* Shepherd Mage seems vaguely puzzled, as though it rings a faint bell.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">What, oh darn it. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">All the cool names are taken. XD

* Liatai is brick'd.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120523065853/prototype/images/7/7d/P2_Alex_Evolved.jpg

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">|D

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Quick, release Redlight! It's the only thing that will slow him down!

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor's hand slips from under his chin. Survivor of what the fuck

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I stayed away from Dark Lantern as well as I could. XD

Glitch:<font color="#000000">It's okay Lia, it's a good name. Keep with it. |3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It'd be History, likely. And very obscure.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">A little tentacle monster never hurt anyone.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">To put it in a nutshell--actually, taking to IRC.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 16 + 18 = 34&#160; <font color="#9900FF">&#187; Knowledge history!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So close! But no.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi closes her eyes briefly.. and opens her mind to the wealth of knowledge within. Loremaster check. &#171; &#160;1d20+10+5 = 19 + 10 + 5 = 34&#160; <font color="#9900FF">&#187; knoweldge check, much like bardic knowledge, on various topics.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 5 + 3 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Untrained history. . . come on, it's drow scum, I should remember.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Nope.

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor is as clueless as he was before. Still, the name sounds wrong. Like all drow do.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right then... Down to business.&quot; The commander looks around the table. &quot;... What in the Arch-Paladin's name has been happening here?&quot;

Sheythsanthi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;I believe that would be best for our acting commander to answer..&quot; Sheythsanthi says quietly.

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor silently nods.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's a good question...wonder who should talk first. Sister Katie, perhaps?

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl still does not blink.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Just looking at Viceth.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lieutenant Stanford should. It was within his district that the events took place.&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sister Katherine has informed me as to the basic situation; however, anything you may be able to add to the collective pool of information will be greatly appreciated.&quot;

* Shepherd Commander has opened the floor.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Well then, yes, I suppose the commander Roy would be best to speak first.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt nods to Roy.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Who the hell does he think he is

</i>Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Someone who's still trying to be polite, if you're referring to me. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">DO THE IMPOSSIBRU.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">SEE THE INVISIBRU.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;What we are aware of thus far; Count Montclaire has apparently gone mad with power, and has collaborated with diabolists to force the populace to serve his will, disguising them as malconvokers. This is a widespread conspiracy, with its fingers deep in the Leaden Mace, and the commander, Charles Whitaker, has also thrown in his lot with the Hextorian diabolists.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Being polite by interjecting yourself where people of import are speaking. Might as well try to smell nice by shovelling shit.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;The leader of this temple, Luanne Selaren, has been taken away by the offices of Montclaire to the fortress of Yoriver, where she remains as far as anyone is aware. The main conduit to the hells that was being used has been found, and summarily closed in a smashing crusade that the bards will likely be itching to get their fingers on.&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;I hope you all are prepared, there was quite the crowd outside the town gates.&quot;

* Flynn Baker raises a hand and steps forward. &quot;Captain Mackenzie, if I may...&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">brb, gonna do laundry

Flynn Baker:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our inn was attacked by diabolists under a pretense of searching for illegal activity. We've spent years building up a reputation as a haven for those of the bardic persuasion... And we would really love to go back home. Is there any way...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods affirmation to all of the statements.

Flynn Baker:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't mean to sound presumptuous, sir, and we'll wait if we have to, but even a small escort to the site so we can start rebuilding would be appreciated. The last we were aware, some summoners had decided to camp in it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus folds his hands. &quot;..Mr. and Mrs. Baker have already gone well above and beyond their civic duties in assisting with this ordeal.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's the least we could do to repay their efforts.&quot;

* Shepherd Commander nods. &quot;Once plans are arranged for the final push, sir, we'll see how many we can spare.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*frown, says nothing*

Flynn Baker:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you, Captain. That's all anyone could ask for.&quot; The innkeeper bows, and steps back.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Don't give me that look, I know what you're thinking. &gt;:|

Miron:<font color="#000000">Really now. &gt;:|

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">I back

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is all correct. Charles Whitaker and Count Cornelius Montclaire have also been crafting a defamation campaign against us while we have been repelling the attacks of the fiends. They have seized control of the papers and public bulletins.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks to Captain Mackenzie. &quot;There's a significant additional wrinkle, sir. Very nearly half of the alleged conspirators encountered thus far have been victims of diabolic possession. According to the testimony of one of the earliest rescued 'sanctioned summoners', Yoriver did not even host any true Malconvokers besides Archivist Petersen before this all went down. Every one we've managed to apprehend -- a student, possessed with magician fiends.&quot; He frowns hard.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It remains to be seen if this is truly a mortal plot or not.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Lazarus speaks the truth. He has exorcised most of them personally.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;To correct Inquisitor Lazarus, there was one other malconvoker, Paula Peyton, among the sanctioned summoners. She was promptly executed, presumably when it become clear she does not provide for a possession host.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr starts rubbing his chin in a thoughtful way.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*among the first class of the sanctioned summoners

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh.. ... ..I didn't know.&quot; {:.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our own malconvoker has also testified to the fact that the only other known malconvoker in Yoriver met her end at the hands of Montclaire's own sanctioned summoners. Guardsmen, and various members of the citizenry have also appeared possessed.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*batch, not class.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;The scales are forty years old, I cannot determine if that was from the dragon's age, or the age since the hide was obtained.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;But have you found anything else?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have interrogated Archivist Petersen, who testified to this, and to his knowledge of her purity under oath.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;If I may also interject, there have been several actual Hextorite clerics who are, as far as we can tell, unpossessed and acting of their own free will.&quot;

* Viceth shakes his head, handing them back. &quot;Nothing more than thoughts and hypotheses. Best not to be tardy.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Those, too.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. We have captured one of them - his interrogation might prove fruitful.

Zachary Alfarson:<font color="#000000">Some people might hear soft snoring coming from this corner.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;It is alright.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">|D;

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Kordites&quot;

* Kelsey Alfarson pats her husband's shoulder, and sits him down so he doesn't crash loudly to the ground.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I have learned, with mages, that thoughts and hypothesises produce amusing results.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">The corner of Vonain's mouth twitches slightly into a tiny smile.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Good day, Elder.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Zach crashes over unceremoniously in the middle of the meeting. Overturns weapons rack.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">And the drow just melts into the background.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000"><b>Still sleeping.

</b> Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good day, Sszeyl.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF"><b>WHEN SUDDENLY.

</b> Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl walks through a wall of opaque mist!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... only for the interior of the room to suddenly appear before his eyes.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#FF0000">What's going on in this thread?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;May I also injertect a suggestion? Captain Mackenzie, would it be useful for you for a timeline of events to be constructed, starting as far back as possible, from as many of the points of view present as possible? --Oh, hello Sszeyl. Was wondering where you went off to.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Business to attend to.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would it do us any good to be constructing timelines now, when we shall have the information we need as soon as the leaders of this heretical conspiracy are under arrest?&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, in time. However, for now... we must make a plan to act!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mm.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I believe that's why he asked specifically if it would be useful, my friend.&quot; Vonain says without looking at Miron.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Let's see..&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Of course, there's something odd in the way he said 'my friend', like sarcasm.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there are many inquisitive idiots, an old quip goes.&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;I heard that the main portal to the Hells beneath the town has been closed. Smashing job, everyone. Have you noticed any changes afterward?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Apparently, many of the devils present within the town's premises have lost their grip on the material plane, and disappeared.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As far as we know, the devils went into almost a full retreat after we destroyed the conjuring circle.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Beacuse of--indeed, some of them outright vanishing, apparently. Not all of them, though.&quot;

* Altonor nods to Sszeyl as he enters.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Without a doubt. Very nearly every devil crowding the temple was immediately unsummoned. I suspect not all of them, however..&quot; He rubs his chin. &quot;..My hypothesis is that the fiends bound here personally, by Montclaire's diabolists, have persisted. The legions brought by the gate have been pulled back to Hell.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Nod to Altonor.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;By His Fist. This... will indeed be a tale for the ages.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Frankly, that part confuses me. I would have thought they'd try a desperation attack when their ace was taken out, but apparently not. Personally, I am very concerned that they pulled back. I can only assume they're regrouping and planning some new unsavory business.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either that, or they have concluded their case is lost.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;Devils never give up a quarry.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe it wasn'ta full out retreat, but a strategic one. It is possible they are working on setting up another gate someplace else.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">The eladrin suddenly speaks up.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't know..&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;And are simply playing defensive untill this can be accomplished.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, they'll run away like cowards often. All the time. The moment anything turns against them, they run.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Devils don't, but men do.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;But they'll be back.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Regardless, they need to be brought to justice.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;They always come back, with twice as many plans as before.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I can only guess at what contingencies and schemes are going through their heads now.&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Likely, they have mostly fallen back to the fortress. Even if the town was taken, it could be some time before the fortress fell... or so they may be banking on. I wonder if they have accounted for mortals' need to eat.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..But they still hold Mother Selaren, and the city itself.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A couple able wizards can provide for a regiment.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Same goes with those favoured by the divine.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;And they have priests of hextor on their side&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our men are working on securing the city, as we speak.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Furthermore, there were purple mushrooms growing in the fortress under the town&quot;

* Shepherd Commander 's mustache twitches. &quot;... Purple mushrooms?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They are edible and nutritious, if I am to take the drow's word on it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs. ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed so. Some of us have even brought samples.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...yeah, the underground caverns went deep, into the borders of the Underdark.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I would doubt the castle has an underdark entrance. it's an extra route that would need defense.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..We had a shallow Underdark jaunt while we sought out the gate to hell.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Local flora.&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">The two shepherds exchange glances -- they might have a different image in their head that what you saw below. :B

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Did someone tell you the conjuring circle was inside a duergar fortress dug out of the underground stone?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Those could go a long way towards feeding even an army.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... The non-moving kind.&quot; =3=

Shepherd Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, there were a bunch of growths of the purple fungus down there.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...slightly fruity taste, but at the same time, a little bland.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">lolmyconids

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Would go nice with a decent sauce.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Taste is not the important property when feeding an army is concerned.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">God they're horrifying http://panzerleader.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/myconids2.jpg

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain keeps a neutral expression, but is smiling inside, as he knows how silly he just sounded.

Miron:<font color="#000000">I would know. Dwarven field rations, ugh.

</i>Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Anyways..&quot; ^^;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;... It's still somewhat hard to believe old Montclaire's gone around the bend. I met him once, some time ago. He seemed every bit the cordial gentleman, and had only the best interests of his people at heart.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">You can guess at how bad they were by me remembering the taste after a century

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps he has been possessed himself.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;It may not be him, if you speak truly. But we will not know until we have him captured.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;That one is a matter of speculation.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A substantial remaining force of the town guard and Leaden Mace Society is still fighting on Montclaire's side. Commander Whitaker himself has been conspicuously unaccounted for lately..&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Truthfully, no one really knows if the Count is subverted or is 'himself'.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods to Roy. &quot;..I have my doubts that he is possessed at all.. based on what I've heard.&quot;

* Roy Stanford nods. &quot;The Leaden Mace Society headquarters is also held within the grasp of the diabolists.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It wouldn't be a stretch.. The town has been having problems with devils back during my time, even. It wouldn't be a stretch to imagine him finding the portal, attempting to close it, and succumbing to the influence of the devils dwelling on the other side.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;... There was a Hextorian shrine hidden beneath the barracks, buried behind a set of renovations.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We'll see..&quot; He furrows his brows. &quot;..Some of the fiends we've fought.. they're not the likes of which average soldiers could hope to oppose. Old and dark powers have been called into play, here. I fear for what has infested the keep.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. When we took out the conjuring circle, there was a Gelugon Ice Devil calling the shots.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;We've encountered multiple Osyluths.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's one further thing.I remember back when only Tom's sister was present here. . . there were suspicious-looking dungeons freshly constructed beneath the town's tax offices and other, similar locales. These might serve as hideouts for the enemy.. and need to be cleansed.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">This is the in-character way of saying, &quot;omfg blasphemy is BS&quot;

* Teeny Rin is bricked away!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">it is soooo bs

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;It would not surprise me if there was a passage to the Underdark there... possibly even one to the keep itself. Montclaire and Whitaker, in addition to being co-conspirators, are cousins. They would seek easy communication avenues.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I understood it right, they might even connect different buildings together, in which case we might find ourselves playing a very stupid game if we don't go about it smartly.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Hey, speaking of which.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where's Raerarael?&quot; :.

* Edaric looks to Tathi.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;In the devil's arse. Who cares.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I thought he heard the meeting summons..&quot; He frowns briefly, but pays it little heed.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Done mumbling, inquisitor? Then I'll lay it out plain for you.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi looks up. &quot;He's probably in the main room.&quot; Tathi says.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Raerarael was raiding tax offices. He'd know better than anybody which ones are clean and which ones might give a strike team access to the fortress.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*Stares at Grant*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps so.&quot;

* Grant Warner glares back. Respect the rank, inquisitor.

Railock:<font color="#000000">heh. looked up pathfinders version just to be curious. it allows a will save for partial. will negates the daze, halves the weaken, reducezs paralyze to 1 round, and kill becomes 3d6+ caster level in damage instead. that..is a lot more balanced

* Ansramil Hawkin steps back away from the table. &quot;I'll go seek him. Where was he last seen?&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">rail; what is this for now?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">er, I mean

Railock:<font color="#000000">blasphemy

Glitch:<font color="#000000">what is this you looked up--ohhh

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">One of the sweeping design alterations in Path magic was, &quot;Yeah there's this upper 10% of unbeatable magic that all the optimization board posters use. We gotta nerf the edge off that bullshit.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">You are not my superior, and thanks Cudgel you aren't. Never mind I was in service longer.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh.. I noticed him sitting at a pew in the main hall.&quot; :.

* Ansramil Hawkin nods. &quot;Thank you, brother.&quot; He gone!

Malachite:<font color="#000000">A short time later... Whoa, sweet ward.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Welcome, sir, and you'd be...?&quot;

* Raerarael had entered looking a bit confused... but grins as soon as he's asked. &quot;Raerarael Eyllisaearsithek! You may know me better as, the Maelstrom!&quot;

* Malachite poses. |D

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi smirks. &quot;Still have that silly title, mm?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">|D;

Miron:<font color="#000000">You might know me better as the Pretentious Twat

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor is still frowning, though silent.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Quit Hatin'.

Railock:<font color="#000000">miron without hate is nothing

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">He's quickly apprised of the situation. &quot;-- Aha. No, no passages from the fortress from the tax offices, far as I know.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Shut up. There's also faith, friendship and booze.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hrmmm.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">http://data.whicdn.com/images/48322140/Yeah-haters-gonna-hate_thumb.jpg

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;... If I may, sir.&quot; Roy stands.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;The two central figures of this plot appear to be Montclaire and Whitaker, and for one, I have sworn an oath to see them both stand and face justice for their actions. The fortress is well-guarded and a difficult siege. The Leaden Mace headquarters, far less so.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000"> &quot;If we need a siege weapon, we've got tomi and her door&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmmm..&quot; He ponders.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;I also fear for the inquisitors who are still there. The closing of the portal may have removed the fiendish influence from some of them. There could be blood, and the sooner we come to their aid, the less there is likely to be.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lieutenant Stanford speaks truth. Furthermore, re-estabilishing the local Leaden Mace presence would go a long way towards maintaining order in the county.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;If we can take Whitaker in one swoop, he will give us information we may need to conduct the final assault.&quot; Note that there's no 'may' about giving up information.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Never mind that the arrest of Charles Whitaker might prove enligthening so as towards whatever further plo-&quot; *nods at Roy saying the same*

* Thomas Lazarus remains quiet, but attentive.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;At least three Squads of my Order should be arriving any time now, equipped with anti-fiend weapons and magic. They'll be able to help where they can when they get here.&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;True... In the meantime, we have begun setting up a perimeter around the fortress, to prevent escape. If Whitaker and Montclaire are indeed the lynchpins of this plan, they will be poised to support each other. We will be able to help keep them from attacking your people --&quot; CRACK. He's interrupted by Roy striking the table with his palm, leaving a small indent, after Vonain's statement.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;!&quot; He looks over.

Miron:<font color="#000000">No wonder. I don't like triples, either.

</i>Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;We don't have time to wait for the Radiant Trinity! I am finished waiting and skulking in the shadows while good men and women die at the hands of these hellions.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;....&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I didn't say anything about waiting, good sir.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. frontal assault them?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I was just saying, you can count on them soon.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot; Easy, sir. &quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A direct approach doesn't necessarily mean running your head against the wall.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sobers, and nods slowly.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;By all means, I agree, we sould proceed with an operation on the Leaden Mace building, as you suggest.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..We have the manpower to act, now.&quot;

* Gradia Thorngage is staring at the dent in the table. o.o;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does anyone have any idea about patrol schedules?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We should strike when the headquarters will be as empty as possible.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I still have the decrypted logbook!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As empty as possible, tonight.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Though.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;As of now..?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Let's not forget the band of adventurers we have right here. Truthfully, we probably have more precise and agile striking power than any standing army.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can't imagine the logbook is anything but out-of-date, at this point.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then, once Whitaker is under arrest, we can wait for the rest of them inside.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not tonight. Today. Every hour that ticks by could be another soul lost.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Take them as they come back, one by one.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If anything is to lead to wasted life, it is a careless approach. That said. . .&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They know the army is here. They're surrounded, and outgunned. There will never be a time that their guard is down, now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The soonest we can strike, the better. This disgusting heresy has gone on for far too long.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain raises an eyebrow at Roy, then looks to Mackenzie. &quot;...I'm all for acting immediately...if it's feasible. What do you say, Captain?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;As for us -- we're rested, now. We could spearhead it.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;As the man with military experience, and no doubt also knowing how adventurers work, you think we can handle this immediately?&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are tehy even still in either the headquarters or castle? Wouldn't it be smarter of them to ahve retreated toa single defensive point rather than stay split up?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We shall find out soon enough.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Who knows.. the cavalry did not exactly come in slowly. They could be cut off.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If the headquarters is empty, that much less work for all of us.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I hope I speak for the rest of the Vigilant Guardians when I say yes, our band is refreshed and ready for a new task.&quot;

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;We absolutely know they're in the fortress. We've seen patrols. Then, it's settled. The bulk of our forces will hedge in the fortress, and begin probing the defenses. In the meantime, the Leaden Mace will retake their headquarters.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">The drow idly looks at the Out of District Mace.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;All, or only residents?&quot;

* Roy Stanford takes a moment to recompose himself. &quot;...&quot; He nods to the captain, straightening and looking around the table. &quot;.... You have all gone far above and beyond the call of duty to aid the people of Yoriver here, and all of us. If you wished to withdraw, or focus instead of the heart of the district, none would hold it against you.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;However, if you are inclined to lend assistance, we would be fools to turn down the aid of capable allies. ... We have little knowledge of what has transpired within that building since our exile.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, we adventurers are certainly no strangers to wading into unknown territory.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're here to help. Not pull out half-way through. You can count on us.&quot; &gt;:|

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Enough of this prattle. We need a map of the place to mount a sensible plan of approach. Anything will help.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You know like a third of us worked there for years, right.

Miron:<font color="#000000">I do know that. Two thirds haven't, however.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Good point. Sir Standford, do you have a floorplan of the headquarters, or can you draw up one?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">And it makes a map that much easier to sketch.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll work on sweeping the streets. Kep's better suited for that than urban warfare...&quot; He looks across the table to Roy. &quot;But if you need a hand or you have a runner, don't hesitate to send up a silver flare.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thank you for the help.&quot;

* Roy Stanford nods.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt then looks over to Altonor. &quot;Oh yes, that's right. What do you think the...rest of your band will be doing? I don't suppose any would like to assist as they did with the underground fortress raid?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">I hope not. The last thing we need is that scum getting underfoot

</i>* Altonor 's face makes an odd twist, and he signs, low; (Nix on the band!)

* Liatai had to fight the urge to write ix-nay on the and-bay, but had no idea how Pig Latin would translate to DSL. *brick'd*

VAE:<font color="#000000">AAHAHA

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks confused, but at least notices Altonor's face and shrugs and shakes his head. &quot;Nevermind.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... Ghostwish, you here?

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Nope.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">what the

Glitch:<font color="#000000">did I just...accidentally move the lantern archon? o.O

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tathi probably would have noticed the signing and I'm typing up something for Sheyth.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No, I moved it. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">oh. I happened to be clicking there at the exact same time. :B

* Thomas Lazarus clicks on Latnern Archon a lot hoping for Blizzard easter egg lines. |D

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi can't think of a way to make it clearer without blowing it further, but she just shakes her head slightly at Gnogglebolt.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain clears his throat for attention. &quot;Anyway...&quot;

* Roy Stanford looks aside to Sheythsanthi as Grant begins to draw up a map. &quot;... Senior Inquisitor, I know you have plans for after Yoriver. This is likely to be a grinding battle. If you wish to stay here, none would hold it against you, and someone would remain to tell our tale should we fall --&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;So, the Vigilant Guardians and any of the Leaden Mace here who should be a part of it move on the headquarters?&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have a little faith, eh, Commander. We've come this far. We can knock some sense into our men. We've done it before.&quot;

* Ansramil Hawkin nods.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">At least in the Order, we never have to knock any sense into our men, we make sure they come in with it.

</i>Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Are we done?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Ahahahha

Miron:<font color="#000000">Triples and sense.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">Vonain could likely tell there was a bit of a joking tone at the end, there.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Like Otyughs and beauty

Miron:<font color="#000000">or Abishai and charity

Sheythsanthi:<font color="#9900FF">The Inquisitive has a small smile on his face.. &quot;I cannot say much is for certain.. except for just one thing.. The Yoriver branch will not end here. Not yet. And not for a while to come.&quot; He says, and looks sidelong at Roy. &quot;I'll see the branch liberated before I depart.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Words of a man.&quot; *nods*

* Roy Stanford glances back to the other two, and nods, before looking to Sheythsanthi. ... He nods once, solemnly.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#FF0000">Sheythsanthi protests. She was a woman all along. Elves.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then, Leaden Mace, Vigilant Guardians.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Even if he's a woman, he's got balls.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let us prepare to mobilize. We will meet in the southeastern quadrant of the basement to discuss strategy, and leave the large table to the army.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very well then.&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd nods, stands and leaves

* Roy Stanford steps aside, away from his chair. &quot;By your leave, captain.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus stands. &quot;Very good.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr takes a step forward.

Shepherd Commander:<font color="#000000">&quot;Go with luck and honor.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And you with the Cudgel's blessing.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">...actually, no, scratch that.

Railock:<font color="#000000">...bit of dirt on the monitor..made that l look like an f for a second

VAE:<font color="#000000">AHAHA

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Har. :P

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi stands as well. &quot;Let's go plan exactly how much hell we're going to give these devils.&quot; She says.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">That's more like something Miron would say. =w=;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Or an elf.

Miron:<font color="#000000">You lose your honor by doing that, actually.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right then, I'll get our last stragglers mobilized.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, Raerarael.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's heartening to know this is the last chapter. A book long overdue for closing.&quot; He cradles his chin in one hand.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lets hope there is no sequal.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Where do you think yourself and Tomiko are going to go? From what I've seen of her, she won't be letting up on the fighting herself just yet.&quot;

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot; Shhhhh. &quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain blinks and shrugs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I ought to find her..&quot; :.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Senior Analyst? Shall you join us, or take care of our business here? &quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot; I will remain. To catalogue the movements of our quarry. &quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">ah, different idea. Serrierr takes a step forward. &quot;And where shall the faithful of Kord be going next?&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">He speaks loud enough that it should probably wake Zach.

Kelsey Alfarson:<font color="#000000">&quot;This one's going to bed.&quot; Whock.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">^^;

Zachary Alfarson:<font color="#000000">&quot; Ow! &quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">'Probably' being the keyword.

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Very well then. May the Cudgel watch over your step.&quot;

Kelsey Alfarson:<font color="#000000">&quot;Depends where we're needed. Hell, we'd be able to batter down the whole fortress if we got enough of us together!&quot; &gt;:3 ... And then she grows more serious. &quot;But in the meantime. We might as well send a few folks to help the Bakers get their family business back up and running.&quot;

Kelsey Alfarson:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're all gonna need booze after this.&quot;

Flynn Baker:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hear hear.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;It would seem to me there's at least three different paths the followers of Kord could take; go with the Shepherds to probe the fortress, take to the streets for mopping up straggling fiends, or assisting in the headquarters takeback. But if you had other ideas of your own--taking back your own temple, for instance, that would be an excellent goal, too...&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">tech is in rare form tonight, forgetting about all the people who shouldn't be mentioned. =3=

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or that as well. Very well then.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">no one fukkin said so. -3-

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's not like those characters knew. :B

Sszeyl: <font color="#ff">(( Can we stop with this and get to murdering people? ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Act, don't worry about OOC objectives.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I kinda-sorta figured on the drow, which is why I had Gnogglebolt euphemize it a little, but no one said anything about Tomiko. -3-

Glitch:<font color="#000000">-why- shouldn't she be mentioned, anyway?

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl inspects his fingers through the gauntlets.

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">I'm still trying to get this guy on a same mission with her if an opening appears.

* Thomas Lazarus departs from the meeting room.

<font color="#0000ff">Railock is disconnected.

</i>Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">HALP IM BEIN TOKEN NAP'D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">....... Has Marty even actually spoken aloud?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">She's a wanted criminal and has made no effort to be seen or noticed?

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">I mean, if Tomiko goes with Guardians&amp;Mace, I'll keep Vonain elsewhere and bring him in, but if Tomiko doesn't, then this guy goes elsewhere and Vonain goes in. (I almost considered bringing all three of them, but that would be overkill and really hard)

Marty:<font color="#000000">No.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">|D

Glitch:<font color="#000000">and has made no effort to be seen or noticed?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">That I didn't know, either. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">At any rate, Gnogglebolt goes to get Shankfang off his ass and onto autopilot. :B

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Figures. I like that Vonain guy more than the Guardians. =3=

Tomiko Lazarus:<i><font color="#FF0000"><b>Welll

</b> </i><font color="#FF0000"> okay I guess the Drow one made me amazing paintings. Exception. =w=

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oh, there she is.

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr returns to the courtyard, and floats up to the top deck.

* Tomiko Lazarus is smoking, looking over the balcony, arms resting on the banister.

GM:<font color="#000000">Shall we get mid-session mons rolling while the DM spruces up the map for strategy talk?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Letsa get 'em rolling, mon.

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, hello again, Tomiko Lazarus. It would seem the various groups are getting ready to move out again. I still haven't forgotten about those wrestling matches all the Kordites and yourself challenged me to when this is over...but you know, I don't think I've seen you fight yet.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Miron for ALL ZE PLOTTIN

<i><font color="#0000ff">Railock has connected.

</i>* VAE gets all the mons rolling

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Seconding Miron.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Edaric for dog-antics. :3

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi for IMMA TEEEEEEELLLLLLL.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming Vonain for &quot;Who said I aren't making it up on the spot&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;There are a number of paths opening up, did you want to continue yourself in this town?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Altonor for Language Lessons.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tathi for Fucking Spy

* Tomiko Lazarus glances up, looking a little more dour than usual. &quot;...&quot;

Railock:<font color="#000000">okay.,..that was strange, walked away to use restroom, come back and maptools was gone

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">She sighs a smokestream. &quot;..Sorry. But it looks like that might never happen.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr tilts his head quizzically. &quot;Oh? And why not?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Finally, even the inquisitor stands up and walks off to the meeting room.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm debating leaving very soon. My work here has been long and hard -- and relatively solitary. It's different, now. We're suddenly not outnumbered.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Not before shooting a last, hateful glance at Altonor on the way.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..So.. my job is just about over.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Why can I see Cadamon?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because he was used at some point

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Scrying leftover presumably.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">he's haunting you

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Also the walls are made of Cadamon.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Increases tensil strength.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*nod to Lyle as he comes in*

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Ah, I see. Only like the fighting when it's actually a challenge, you versus the world, hmm?&quot; Serrierr smiles understandingly.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seems that if things go right, you lot are gonna sleep in your own beds pretty soon.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now that I think of it, cleaning up that tavern might not be a bad next step, we'll need somewhere to celebrate.&quot; *grin*

* Tomiko Lazarus frowns a bit. &quot; Well..&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It was still an honor meeting you. I apologize for pulling out of the 'bets'.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank the gods, these hospital beds are murder on the back.&quot; |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hah! I have slept better with a book under my chin. Though. . .possibly because most of the times I slept like that, I was younger.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl looks over to Alt.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Achieved what you set out to by joining the meeting?&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, if you choose to leave, nothing can stop you. It is certainly regrettable, though. There's...something about you. A strange color to your aura. Something about your power...I would have loved to see it. I'm convinced you must be an exemplary fighter.&quot;

* Altonor watches Miron go, before being jolted back to reality. &quot;-- Huh?&quot;

<i><font color="#0000ff">RAM has connected.

</i>Glitch:<font color="#000000">for when you load, Ram; Shankfang is in ye basement with everyone else, were' about to plan a new attack over a map.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">*we're

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ohey.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">er, an 'incharacter' map

Glitch:<font color="#000000">not a MapTool map. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">So, cliffnotes. Major events.

VAE:<font color="#000000">We're going to assault the Mace HQ

VAE:<font color="#000000">and arrest Whitaker

RAM:<font color="#990000">Cavalry arrived, stuff happened, profit?

* Tomiko Lazarus can't help but smirk at that. &quot;..I hear that now and again.. yes.&quot; |3 &quot;That's pretty high praise, coming from such a person, though. ..Thank you.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I said, did you achieve what you set out to by being here?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep

VAE:<font color="#000000">profit

VAE:<font color="#000000">we're tying up the odds and ends.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">I...just had to share this. http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/539590_568676849811009_38423674_n.jpg

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Achieve? This is just the beginning.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Talking and mucking about.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Mucking about, nothing important. Got it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">hahaha

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">This does not surprise me. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">rail, that's a good one

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Of what?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Nothing important? We settled on a plan. Then that elven pointy-eared cunt overheard it all.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">So, Lia, what was this about Shankfang and a cavalry charge or somesuch?

* Altonor shrugs. &quot;We'll see.&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">So, three sessions, and cavalry arrived and you made a plan.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Muckin' about.

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, yeah

VAE:<font color="#000000">Was stuff that should have been dealt last session

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ram, to be fair, for one of those sessions, there were health crises out the wazoo. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">If I wasn't sort of interrupted by ending up in hospital.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Mucking about.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That sort of puts the foot down on RPing

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;You are most welcome. Whatever you may do, wherever your travels may take you, I wish you luck. And even though I still haven't seen your actions firsthand, if no one else will, then allow me to personally thank you for all the assistance you have rendered in this town. Your actions against the devils have supported a great good and have protected many innocent lives. If no one else appreciates that, I do.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fuck you, you haven't bothered to get your arse here for any of it.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... Did you read any of the logs? ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">and you distracted Techy off.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Lia;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Ram never reads logs

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ever

RAM:<font color="#990000">^

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I've tried to make him do it before. He doesn't do that. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">....

GM:<font color="#000000">*facedesk*

VAE:<font color="#000000">ahahah

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ram only gives fucks about shooting things. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">He's all &quot;waaaaaah I hate reading about a game instead of actually plaaaaaaying it reading a log is boooooring&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">not waaah

RAM:<font color="#990000">I just have trouble immersing myself in log reading. My mind ends up kinda wanderi-SQUIRREL!

GM:<font color="#000000">Will someone not me give Ram a summary of the lightning bolt and wolf cavalry ride in?

VAE:<font color="#000000"> <b>WAAAGH!

</b> Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">it kicked ass and you should be ashamed you missed it

* Glitch holds hands up. &quot;Don't look at me, I read the logs and I still missed a few things...&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I know about the lightning bolt.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">that's all he needs to know

RAM:<font color="#990000">And the wolf cavalry.

GM:<font color="#000000">On the bright side this gives me time to finish the map a bit more. :B *brick'd*

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lightning bolt, bunch of holy symbols everywhere.

VAE:<font color="#000000">well.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I -did-, however, give Ram cliffnotes of lightingbolt and wolf cavalry when -I- was reading the log.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Imma gonna take antibiotic in two hours

RAM:<font color="#990000">Steel Shepherds cavalry rode in to help retake the city.

VAE:<font color="#000000">but wouldn't be overeager for the game to take much longer than that

* VAE still kinda pulled out of arse tired

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">yes we were saved by the ss calvary

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep. SS-Stahlschaefers

RAM:<font color="#990000">And you mentioned something about Shankfang cavalry-riding with them? :.

GM:<font color="#000000">You're too late for that, and for getting the Deffbike. ^^;

GM:<font color="#000000">Sorry, man.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Aww.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, was his choice

VAE:<font color="#000000">Not like anyone forced him to miss the game

GM:<font color="#000000">Anyway! Map's as good as I'm going to get it. There are a few empty rooms, but we have imaginations.

GM:<font color="#000000">Can everyone see Yoriver - Mace HQ?

* RAM was kinda excited about that. &gt;: RAM:<font color="#990000">Oh well.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You know, I think you're about the first person I've ever heard that from. ..It's nice to know someone hasn't just been nervously enduring me being around, risking my life and soul for two months, guerrilla fighting hordes of Hell's soldiers and madmen.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well so was I, but then plans changed. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's too late now.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Can see it. Gimme a bit to load, will go incommunicado...

* Tomiko Lazarus stands up properly and gives a respectful bow.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">I could be a dick to Ram.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">But no.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Fate is doing that already.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">So Imma give him some beer.

* Meany hands beer to Ram.

* Roy Stanford waits for everyone to assemble.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Can we still mini-session it? I remember you saying that was an option earlier this week. :.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Better go catch up with your group.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">We'll see. I was kind of hoping you'd be here for the planning which would allow Shankfang to make a concievable break to get to the Deffbike, but he missed it all. :/

* VAE sees map

VAE:<font color="#000000">it just loaded

RAM:<font color="#990000">I sorry.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Family. /shrug

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Just loaded, got chatsplosion. Reading up, getting back IC.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sadly, every freaking weekend this visit has been soaked up by events.

RAM:<font color="#990000">But, oh well.

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr smiles again. &quot;Which would be why I'm saying it. One of the greatest tragedies of this world is that too often, good deeds go unthanked. For the dangers that you have put yourself in to help others, someone should recognize it.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I only come visit, like, once a year.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sacrifices must be made.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">True.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Anyway!

VAE:<font color="#000000">!

VAE:<font color="#000000">CHAOS WORSHIPPER

VAE:<font color="#000000">SACRIFICES

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Ignoring RAM's skewed priorities for a gamer.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Let us murder people.

* VAE summons the =I=

GM:<font color="#000000">Lemme know when everyone can see the map. :3 Say bathtub when it's opened. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">SEIZE HIM

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">bathtub

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Bathtub.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">berfturb

VAE:<font color="#000000">bathtub

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Brb.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Bathtub. :B

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">tubbo bath

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Locking Great Grandpa in the bedroom.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">So he can't escape.

GM:<font color="#000000">Any red X's?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Bafftub.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">as of yet, no

VAE:<font color="#000000">not yet

RAM:<font color="#990000">Nope.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Not on objects.

GM:<font color="#000000">Good good, you should only see objects right now. Can you click doors?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Question, actually.

VAE:<font color="#000000">When I was in the hospital, there was some grandpa there with a similar cough. First thing he did was fall off the bed, I had to tell the nurse to go lift him up

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yes.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Why can't Shankfang make a run to grab his bike? :.

VAE:<font color="#000000">so then they had to raise the bed's sides.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Something about plans and such?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's presumably just a matter of opportunity and time.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">What Hatari said. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And being divebombed by a bunch of flying teleporting monsters if you were a derp and tried alone.

VAE:<font color="#000000">okay guys, shall we babble less and do more?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ah.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is this everyone?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks about.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Now it is!&quot; Vonain says as he comes trotting in.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I decided I'd like to participate in this one as well. That is, if you'll have me, of course.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Of course.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Um.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain looks at the others. &quot;I've got my eyes on these Guardians, truthfully. Want to keep watching them.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">I see no tokenz.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Also brb.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Pervert

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You shouldn't see any tokens. :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We're in the SE room in the basement.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... Not in the Mace HQ, in the temple.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">can we plop our own tokens down?

* Grant Warner hands the Guardian group a scrawled map, labeled. It's not as fancy as the Maptool map, but it'll do. One moment, Rail... I need to test something with your help.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Probably not. Let's see if the approach is that simple first.

* Dr. Hatari looks to the map. :.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#000000">Can you see any tokens aside from Rin?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">nope

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Sorry, moved back already.

* Miron looks at the map.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#000000">Okay, groovy! Then paste at will. :3

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Had to remind great grandpa why I locked him in the room.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">=3=

Tokens dropped onto map 'Yoriver - Mace HQ'Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. . . what's the plan?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Someone stole mah token!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;WE go in a door.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A pretty easy layout..&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...not that you don't have enough on your plate already meany, but isn't that dangerous if he wigs out again and falls on the floor and can't call for help or something? ._.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">It's part of his agreement, of release.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;If possible, all the doors, at the same time.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">He cannot wander at night.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">....oookay.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">And when I told him this, back to bed he went.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Yoriver Leaden Mace has three entrances. The main entrance, the forge door, and the fire escape near the barracks.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">I can still hear him, and there is always that risk when I need to sleep.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Glitch, shut up

VAE:<font color="#000000">Owl knows what he's doing

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">No I don't.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">VAE, shut up. No he doesn't.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">I have no medical training, or interest to get training.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain rubs his chin.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">I am following orders.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But it doesn't matter.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;My first idea: hit all three at once?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">He's doing it well enough, it'd appear.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">yeah the problem with this whole situation is that the git of a granpa needs real help, and meany is not that help. he's only doing what he's told

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl ponders.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is the plan, Radiant. Allow me to explain.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Split into three groups, go in silumtaneously?&quot; He then shrugs and looks around. &quot;Anyone else got ideas?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">...Strange that Vonain proposed an idea, then immediately asked for others...

VAE:<font color="#000000">Like we don't know that. Issue us, that situation isn't gonna be solved ,because there isn't will to do it.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">But, then he snaps his head back to Roy and listens.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Because it's SO unusual to ask for ideas.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;There are two places that Whitaker is likely to be hiding at any particular time; the Hextorian shrine in the basement, or his office.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl raises his hand.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then we should have a group storm each.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wheres the basement access?&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Shankfang the Deffrider: Because it's SO unusual to ask for ideas.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;There is an exit from the shrine into the regular basement, here...&quot; Follow Roy's token...

* Thomas Lazarus looks at those assembled. &quot;...&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">It was when I was brainstorming/explaining how the RT works.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">:B

Sszeyl: <font color="#ff">(( For the love of all that is evil and corrupt, CAN WE NOT DO THIS TODAY. ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">It still isn't strange.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Or so people told me.

VAE:<font color="#000000">And describing smething as &quot;strange&quot; is odd

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;... but the secondary entrance, which we discovered, lies under a bunk, here.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">Follow the token again!

VAE:<font color="#000000">if someone will find it strange, they will. But imposing such a description without basis for it is .. . I guess strange by itself

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Sorry, I missed the first token placement.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Could another rin be put there?

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">Thank you.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Danman; I'm rarely successful at getting people to see what I intend them to see, so I leave nothing to ambiguity to compensate.

VAE:<font color="#000000">you're kinda doing the opposite

VAE:<font color="#000000">but eh

RAM:<font color="#990000">No, what we said was strange is having three people who all subscribe to a different school of thought who are then pushed to think even more deeply in their school of thought be willing to just up and toss their plan at the drop of a hat is unusual.

GM:<font color="#000000">Can we do this in IRC, please?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">For real.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Right right, sorry.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;And where is his office?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;The main entrance is likely to be most strongly fortified. Vigilant Guardians, your group will accompany Inquisitor Hawkin, Inquisitor Forrest, and myself in taking the main entrance and staircase. His office...&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;... is on the second floor, here. Between us, we have a strong enough force to take the main entrance and the top floor.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus does his best to commit the plans to memory.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyls hand goes back down.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Grant, I assume you want to ensure the security of the forge and armory straight away.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Drats.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Vary's finally back, gonna be leaving soon.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ram's like a fart today.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, sir.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Comes in, raises a stink, and then gone

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Lieutenant Stanford, if I may..&quot; He quietly murmurs while looking at the drawings. &quot;..You yourself have done battle with former Commander Whitaker, and no doubt have a better account of who will be defending the building than anyone.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What can you tell us about the force we'll encounter? Any specific defenses we should have ready..?&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll take Clementine, Arianis, and Rosalyn with me. That should be enough firepower to take anything squatting there, and we'll secure the basement entrance.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl's hand goes back up.

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose that leaves the rest of us to take the mess hall and barracks.&quot;

* Roy Stanford considers.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They have swords. Wear armor.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;... It is difficult to say, without ascertaining how many people remain possessed and if any have broken free, to say nothing of casualties.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods. &quot; Fair enough.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Naturally, we'll be wanting to take everyone alive we possibly can.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Curses.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Right?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Foiled again.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are there any particulars to exceptionally watch out for?&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Watch out for Inquisitor Bombhands.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;When we departed, there were fourteen inquisitors, four analysts, and three archivists that remained, in addition to Whitaker.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">When can we fight people I don't have to worry about not killing again? :B

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Never. Welcome to Akellon.

Railock:<font color="#000000">no, inquisitor bombhands is on their side? we are DOOMED!

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Still hand raised. =3=

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Arisanro -- yes, drow?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nudges Sszeyl. ^^; &quot; It's okay, just ask.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Your hand's going up and down like a gelatinous cube on a trampoline.&quot; Vonain says as he looks over at Sszeyl.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I have a question. Why must we attack from the ground floor and work up?&quot; Sszeyl gestures broadly. &quot;If any of the neighboring structures are tall enough, could we not scale them, get to the roof, and break through to this man's office, taking them all by surprise, and possibly eliminating him right away?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">People very rarely look directly up. *_*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; o_o;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Probably.. probably not.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;... The neighboring buildings are not close enough to allow for such entrance, and the upper windows are barred to prevent such a thing.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I said roof, not windows.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...I can fly.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;But I concede the point.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I can also probably carry someone with me.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe two, if they're both light.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;We would also like the building to remain usable.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Vonain air-drops gnomes. Ceaselessly quotes SC dropship.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Aw, ceilings can be patched.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Did the LN and the CG just agree?

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">IT'S THE END TIMES.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">RUN.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;We do not know what lies within.&quot; :| &quot;No.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Actually, you just demonstrated why the RT works. :B

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Eh, alright. If you say so.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, let's not split out force. This will not be a pushover. These are LMS operatives -- some of which could still be possessed.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Let's engage together.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;As I was saying. Power players to watch out for.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed.. These folk would be a hard nut to crack even without the devil hosts.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Igor Dreschler... status, currently unaccounted for. Blood magus and wizard.&quot; He looks aside to Sheythsanthi.

* Dr. Hatari basically just thinks of the LMS as the fantasy FBI.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm..&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Human male, balding, somewhat squeaky voice, has a large dog.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We've met.&quot;

Miron:<i><font color="#000000">That names still sounds bloody familiar.

</i>Sheythsanthi:<font color="#9900FF">The Inquisitive sighs heavily. &quot;He was.. mindlessly following orders, with no regard to justice last I saw him. I.. cannot say for certain that he is untainted.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Threat level on a scale of one to ten?&quot;

Railock:<font color="#000000">threat level on a scale of gnogglebolt to gamal? which guardian is best suited to going one on one with him? :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Fatcat attack. Tail obscuring spacebar. &gt;:O

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Difficult to assess, depending on who he is surrounded by. He favors enchantment magic and other such indirect means.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Enchantment and conjuration :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">All I hear is 'person I can't just shoot.' :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">This is why we think you'll just shoot things. =w=;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">It's hard to try and not kill people when I shoot them!

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Rumariron Arisanaro.... Rum for short. High elf, white hair. A skillful warrior, despite his physical frailty. Weapon of choice, the rapier. ... Was most often seen in the entryway, as he enjoyed reception duty during his downtime, or in places where other inquisitors gather.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I killed the last person I tried that on anyway!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Anyway, gotta go!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Vargy's finally back!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Bai bai!

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is difficult to imagine him possessed, as he possesses uncanny strength of will... but we have all seen impossible things these days.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;CALL ME IF THERE ARE THINGS TO SHOOT&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack, gotta go let Shadow out. ^^;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">brb, dryer

<i><font color="#0000ff">RAM is disconnected.

</i>Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Stranger things have happened. Time is often on their side. Given enough, a devil could steal the bodies of some surprisingly stalwart minds.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus hides Resident Evil tentacles. 8| *bricked*

VAE:<font color="#000000">hahah

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">I only ever played the first level of the first game.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">NEVER.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">AGAIN.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl ponders.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Charles Whitaker, we know. He manifests divine power akin to that of a priest.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;If he was possessed, wouldn't he of lost that ability?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not necessarily.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Question.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Divine power can come from many sources. . .all the host would have to do is reattune the body.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;If we do capture the possessed people...could not we simply keep them bound here, while the fortress is stormed?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Especially with long-term possession, it isn't a long shot.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;That way, the devil's bodies are defenseless?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Or must they be purged right away?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The devils can leave of their own will.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Never mind them being destroyed once the exorcism is complete.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's what the celestials have been doing.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You'd be doing yourself a bear's service by keeping them possessed.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus doesn't understand the last expression, but seems to agree. |D;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Reminds me, I need to have a druid look at Fuzzy when we get back.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Anywa.y&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">-.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Analyst Silas Blackwater. Most experienced of the analysts currently in our employ. Half-elven male, blonde hair, green eyes, often hides his ears with wraps. He possesses potent sorcerous ability. Keep your eyes open for a green-eyed raven. That is his familiar, Rakka. If they are both possessed, the bird could spy on our actions and report them to the enemy.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's a slovak expression

VAE:<font color="#000000">A bear's service is usually one which does what you want, but not what you intend, and bites you in the arse.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Someone doing you a bear's service is trying to help hard, but fucks up worse than without him

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Falstaff Brushgather. Easiest of the group to identify, as he is our only halfling at the moment. Has one eye, and wears his hair long. Despite his size, a warrior not to be underestimated. Close-quarters fighting is his specialty, so he is likely to be stationed belowground if he is on the side of the diabolists.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods. &quot;..Any particular spells we should gird for? Lightning, or such..?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;From Analyst Blackwater?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;His strengths lie in detection and communication. He is, however, fond of sonics and cold.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Apparently, it comes from a fable by Krylov. A bear and a hermit were friends, helping each other out, until one day, the hermit was asleep and a fly sat on his face to sting him. The bear went to help out and whacked the fly, but he killed both it and the hermit.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'll keep that in mind. I prepared a prayer of mass defense from energy. Suppose I'll just have to be ready for anything.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Mordecai Cyral, however... Another spellcaster. I would not count him among these, were it not for the reports of those who were present at the livery stable.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I remember him.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;A mage, fond of illusion, enchantment, and necromancy.&quot;

Miron:<i><font color="#000000">Little whiny son of a luetic whore

</i>Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Bespectacled fellow. ... Fell back from the first encounter we crossed him in.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't think he even tried to fight.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot; Anything to get others to do his dirty work. &quot; :/

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Ah, knew that name was familiar.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">erk

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, knew that name was familiar.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He told us to fuck off. Despite having papers for a joint operation.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Cyral craves power. It would not surprise me if he was neck-deep in the conspiracy. Take him alive if at all possible for questioning.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes, well..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I will be glad to.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;... who else...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks to Gnogglebolt. &quot;Does that device you rigged up still work?&quot;

Ansramil Hawkin:<font color="#000000">&quot;The new hires, sir.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Would it work on mages?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which one? The anti-teleport generator?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...It should, unless mages use completely different paraphysics to effect teleportation...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;No idea.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;...&quot; The lieutenant frowns. &quot;... The new hires. Inquisitor Hruk Tremain and Inquisitor Jared Hanson.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If the method they use is the same as the devils, it should work.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">* &quot;...&quot; The lieutenant frowns. &quot;... The new hires. Inquisitor Hruk Tremain and Inquisitor Jared Hanson.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The ones present when you were detained. right?&quot;

* Roy Stanford nods.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sounds like bad news outright.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suspect they have been hiding their true capabilities from the beginning, as Hanson's grip was far stronger than I recall it ever being during sparring sessions that night.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, understood.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That, or a devil bringing out the body's reserves.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Formidable warriors, we can adapt to. Reasonably enough.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;More magicians than we usually tackle, but there's no helping it. Thank you, sir.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">back from short unnannoucned afk, ram and vargoth have arrived. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. Forewarned is forearmed.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;They are both warriors. Hanson, from what I recall, prefers to fight weaponless. Tremain prefers the axe. Hanson possesses short, dark red hair, and a distinct scar on his forehead. Tremain is the only half-orc we currently have employed.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, then.&quot; Thomas looks back to the group, and makes a few brief gestures for spellcasting. The usual pre-battle spells.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;There are several other stronger inquisitors and archivists, but none as strong as the aforementioned.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Sszeyl gets Shield Other, and Gamal gets Magic Vestment.

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excuse me, lieutenant. A short interjection.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Many spellcasters...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; I wonder...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mm.. if I hadn't leapt at curing the ritual casters..&quot; ^^;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;There were abishai in the prisons, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see devils mixed in with our men. If Whitaker or Montclaire have made pacts with abishai, we may very well be facing undead.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..But there's no sense in dwelling on could-haves.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is good to know.&quot;

* Grant Warner frowns. &quot;Steel yourselves, ladies and gentlemen. This is gonna be a bumpy ride. You know what to do if you see undead.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hm. &#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 19 + 10 = 29&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Knowledge Planes. Tom refreshes his knowledge on their ability.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Abishai can utilize Animate Dead as a spell-like ability as often as they please.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Undead?&quot; Vonain perks up a bit. &quot;I managed to shape some of my eldritch power in a way that should be effective against them...&quot;

* Leila Cooper clears her throat.

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Enemy undead, of course.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sheild Other at this level is +2 AC?

Leila Cooper:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you~.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you have questions, now is the time.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Just +1 deflection and +1 saves, as it always will be.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;How well warded against diviniation is the branch?&quot;

* Stephen Arianis raises his hand.

<i><font color="#0000ff">Railock is disconnected.

</i>Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Stephen?&quot;

<i><font color="#0000ff">Railock has connected.

</i>* Thomas Lazarus rubs his chin. &quot;... That spell ... it could only assemble lesser undead. If they've only had human remains to work with, it would mostly mean fodder.&quot;

Railock:<font color="#000000">and maptools just randomly closes on me fun

Stephen Arianis:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... No disrespect or anything. But do I have to go with him?&quot; =w=

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Hm, we gonna wrap it up soon? Lots of peeps downstairs itching for me to join them. :B

* Thomas Lazarus clutches his holy symbol. &quot;I can address that.&quot; &gt;:|

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, you're no peach either, but we need arcane firepower.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Suck it up, junior.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ram can quit Akellon for a month if he wants. Do what you want.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain tries to hide a small smug smirk.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I -want- to be here. -3-

VAE:<font color="#000000">you know

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sheythsanthi, I have not assigned you a group. Where do you believe your strengths would best be utilized?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I wouldn't be against wrpping up, as it's 4AM already

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We surely will soon.

VAE:<font color="#000000">*nod*

VAE:<font color="#000000">probably as we arrive to the HQ

* Roy Stanford looks to Tathi. &quot;That would depend on how much autonomy our analysts and archivists have been given.&quot;

Sheythsanthi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Direct combat is my greatest weakness, truth be told. I've honed my skills in the unbloodied battlefield. So, truthfully, whoever has the least people, and could use a bit of a boost.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Probably before we leave, actually. Or hopefully. Cuz I'm wondering about Gnogglebolt Cobbling something new... but eh, we'll see.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;If Silas is under the diabolists' sway, choice areas may be warded. The shrine is shrouded in an anti-scrying ward, in the basement.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">Back to Sheythsanthi. &quot;You'll be with the archivists, then.&quot;

Sheythsanthi:<font color="#9900FF">He nods. &quot;As you wish, sir.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sounds like this will be hard and fast. Keep behind us, then. It's no issue. No disrespect intended, Senior Inquisitor.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Although.. &quot; &gt;:. &quot; Where is she?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where is who&quot;

Sheythsanthi:<font color="#9900FF">Which senior? |D

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">Well, I'm a front-line fighter. So. =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The one he was addressing, of course. Sheythsanthi. :B

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any more questions?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I...hrm.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'm not gonna tell that guy to stay behind me. He's probably a better fighter than I am. |D;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">Damn right, castlerat. *brick'd*

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">...Does...the +1 deflect speciffically stack with other deflections? |D;;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No, that's why I specified the type.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Damn.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">No AC +.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I need a few minutes to think, but if needed, could I...ask for maybe an hour or two delay before we start? I might be able to whip up something that should help greatly..I just need five minutes to think it over.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I believe that would be all. And. .. No.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Still, that's a secondary effect to getting damage share with Tom.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We have seen what use your junk is in the field.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Specify.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;:\

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Something that might take spells away from spellcasters.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just need a few minutes to think if I can actually figure out the mechanism to do it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lieutenant, you have said yourself we have no time to wait.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*kill ,not wait

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, we won't be leaving for a few minutes, granted. An hour may not be happening.. perhaps you should begin brainstorming right away, friend.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Will do.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That sounds more sensible.'

* Roy Stanford nods to Thomas. &quot;Make haste. We leave within the hour. Meet by the front doors of the temple.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">and now, since even my mom's bugging me, I better head off now. Will write down the noms and exp and add it to tokens next session. Seeya folks.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Another session of pure mucking about in Yoriver.. :B *bricked*

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would this also take spells away from our own casters?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good question. We have seen the crap backfire.. my robe is still stained from it.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fight well and honorably, my friends. Today, we shall retake our home base from the heretics' grasp, and with it, the lives, honor, and souls of our comrades.&quot; He looks around. &quot;... Do not fall.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If it blows up in his face and ties mine or others' command of magic somewhere beyond this plane, we might as well lift our hands and submit to arrest.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus eyerolls. &quot;Pretty harsh.. that last device kept any of their scouts from escaping to report while we destroyed the Gate.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, sir.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl arches a brow.

* Ansramil Hawkin nods.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We shall not falter, for we fight in the Cudgel's name.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods and steps away. &quot;Please excuse me. I'll be at the entrance before long. I need to see what my sister has gotten into.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Shall we fade out and begin the nomming?

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Da.

VAE:<font color="#000000">So

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... I'm still kind of brain fried.

VAE:<font color="#000000">nomming Sszeyl and Viceth for sexually abstinent dragon

VAE:<font color="#000000">that was hillarious

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'll second Tathi for tattle. :B

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">lost all my log, and nothing really sticks out in my head as memorable sides ram's arguing

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And Serrierr for &quot;Good job! I don't hate you. |D&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">I feeel so blah.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... Neganom Raiders for consuming inordinate amounts of your attention and halting the meeting for like an hour. |D *bricked*

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">I have nothing to do for char development outside of paint.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">And talk to random strangers on topics I don't fully care about.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">Beg your pardon. Attention starts to drift when you get old, you know.

Sszeyl:<font color="#0000FF">You still have five hundred years on your life span.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">You're only 205. &gt;:P

Viceth:<font color="#000000">To a human or a housefly, that's ancient. |3

Altonor:<font color="#000000">... You've doctored your pipeweed again, haven't you.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You've deliberately locked the character into a holding pattern of not caring about anything. You don't have much business complaining about him being blas&#233;. =w=;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">A little. |3c

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He could just be active in things/the plot/etc.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Wll, owl has made his bed and now he must sleep in it

VAE:<font color="#000000">but, it's not like he's complaining to you about it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean .. . it's a period that he has to wait through where nothing Sszeyl cares about happens.. doesn't make it less boring.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It wouldn't be hard to inject a little passion and motive here or there, though.

Meany:<font color="#0000FF">...I'm going to let that go because you're tired.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It would, if Sszeyl's plain not like it

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Don't dance around saying something if you disagree. I'm not going to flip out and get all Hyuuint flustered. .-.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Yeah, except Hatari is right.. and it ain't just Sszeyl, you're doing the same thing with EA in Dorf Fortress. Really, why? Is there something you like about uncaring characters?

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 100 XP - Oh. You're referring to coitus. Tathi - 100 XP - Tattletale! Miron - 100 XP - Plotting. Altonor - 100 XP - Inside jokes. Viceth - 100 XP - ... Vargachixeniejir must have led a very boring life.

GM:<font color="#000000">Any more? We could take this discussion to IRC.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's just, it is a pretty artifically surreal thing. No character would ordinarily react to and care about that little. It must take an active effort to perform. So why complain about succeeding? &gt;_&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because the result is. . . pretty boring

VAE:<font color="#000000">To play, at least

* VAE remembers his time with Trofim.

* Dr. Hatari shrugs.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That's all I've got.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah. like I said. It has to be waited through

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Campaign file saved. :3

GM:<font color="#000000">Next session! BATTLE! DUNGEON! GLORY!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">and the people rejoice

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Server can go down anytime, Ghost. See you all next week! :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">ssee y'all

<i><font color="#0000ff">Meany is disconnected.

</i><i><font color="#0000ff">Railock is disconnected.

</i><i><font color="#0000ff">VAE is disconnected.

</i><i><font color="#0000ff">Ghostwish is disconnected.

</i><i> You have disconnected.

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